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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

 the First Me@hodlst church hcl4 their December family night.
 Mere than 200 persons attended, many of them attired in traditional Eirglish cost~mes. Rev. and Mfs. Theodore c. Bobilin acted as lord and lady of thc manor. Other roles were played by members Of the parish.
 The bringing in of the Yllle log was done in accordance with the old English custom, and the ola fainiliar carols were sung. s& The story of the FlrSt Wnits Gifts service was told by MISS Dorothy Gates, who arranged iass nights program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

open to the public and that after the aldermen have completed their business Monday night citizens have the usual prerogative of addressing the board. The meeting Monday night will be strictly a business meeting, it was remarked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

ton at the Ritz. Dancing until the early hours, souvenirs, favors and a rollicking mardi gras to usher in the New Year are treats of the evening. There is dancing every Thursday and Saturday at the Ritz with the Casa Ritz orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
THExLL GFT AROUND

Columbus, Ohio Ohio States basketball team plays seven games in 10 days this wInIer. During the Christmas holidays the Buckeyes perform six times on the west coast and once at West Point.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

! MORE DAYS-DO your Christ mas Shopping in Waterbury and patronize the stores that patrOnize your newspaper-Buy Democrat ad- vertised merchandise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
EDGAR HAYES TO
 PLAY PARK CITY
Blue Rhythm" Orchestra Leader Makes Bridgeport
 Debut Sunday Night

Edgar (Blue Rl1ythm) Hayes comes to the Ritz ballrom in Bridge port Sunday, December 18th, with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

Detroit -- Joe Green, Detroit Y. M. c. A. boxing instructor, is a former lightweight champion ot Rumania.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
ALDERMEN MEET
 MONDAY EVENING
To Study IO30 Budget; Adoption Scheduled
 for Tuesday

A regular meeting of the board of aldermen will be held Monday night to consider the budget which will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
CHRISTMAS TIME
 IN OLD ENGLAND
Traditional Costumes Are Worn at YuIe Log Cere=
 monies at First M. E.

The atmosphere of an old English manor at Christmas time was re- produced last night as members of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16

Youth clubs are being organized in Ireland.
Evening star., 1938-03-13

Il see," she nodded to herself without turn
ing. "A young man of definite purpose"
1T is true am young" he said, land that
l have definite purpose"
SO much for so much, " Josephine told him.
Nov suppose you tell me the whole story
because the troops are on naneuvers further
east and we shall very likely be stopped.
That will be embarrassing for you, without
a passport and for me, because you are in
my car"
II 60 to Domm. am not a criminal"
What do you want to 60 to Domm for?"
Il have friends in Domm, he said proudly.
Il see POLITICAL"
Political if you will, he said. 1T is light
word - political. Destiny is better. Friends
of destiny"
She was slowing for tight curve. FORUM
ately, when her right rear tire blew.
Get down." the youngster screamed in
her ear.
Tire - you fool!' He was oouched there
behind her, frightened in every muscle, still
breathing through his clenched teeth when
she brought the car down and stopped it.
you're fine. man to have gun," she told
him. You'll blow off somebody's head if you
don't watch your nerves. Can you change
tires?" She opened the door and got out. He
stood there in the car above her, his gaunt
machine pistol dangling from his hand. look
ing down at her, a pathetically thin figure,
but with certain nobility.
Show me, ," he bowed slightly to her. you
are lady; you must not soil your hands,"
She laughed sharply. why do you say
that?"
He stiffened and turned his face to the east.
Because, he said, Il believe still in chivalry
to ladies. am not mad dog of those noun
tains!'
She showed him where the tool kit was.
He put his gun carefully on the running board
and took off his coat. He was awkward with
his hands, but there was an inner fire to him
that made him bludgeon the job through He
lacked up the right rear wheel and removed
it. He got her spare off and unbooted and
lifted it to the axle. He clamped it in place.
Get in." she said
1T would not be right. You have been
too kind"
Nonsense Get in I'll take you to Domm.
can talk people out of anything if I'm
stopped"
perhaps if could get in that, he pointed
to her rear trunk.
Nonsense, you can't ride in that You'd
smother"
II have not starved; will not smother"
''You young fool - what on your mind?"
Evening star., 1938-03-13
Aoouzjns Section

MY country" he said with gesture.
Come now What are you running
away from?"
Il am not running away. am going home"
"Your family lives in Domm?"
MY family is in Domm." ne said, but it
does not live. My father he was trembling
suddenly all over - they shot in the Putsch
of the Nineteenth of October - after forty
years of service to his country. He died saying,
is it possible! Because of that, my mother
died. My sisters killed themselves - for other
causes. They were gentlewomen!' He flung
it out at Josephine like challenge. MY two
brothers died - when the men of the Preo-
bregan Regiment revolted at St. Beloise and
assassinated their officers. - am my family.
l am the Chevalier Johnfritz Ohe der Asche."
For a long moment his words seemed to
echo down the mountainside. There was no
defiance in them - rather the simplicity of
bronze. Josephine said. Il don't care what
happens. l shall take you to Domm. Get into
the trunk"
He unstrapped it and opened it. Il shall
keep the top open for air - with the barrel of
my pistol. Madame -" he reached suddenly
for her hand, bent over it and touched his lips
to the back of it. He got into the trunk,
doubled his slight body, and lowered the cover
onto the muzzle of his pistol.
She walked forward and climbed in behind
the wheel. This is the most ridiculous thing,
she thought. What if they do stop me? Well -
if they do they do-but the present point
is that he's frightened and hungry and he has
friends in Domm who will take care of him.
So he goes to Domm.
Three kilometers from Saint Beloise she
had to slow down and turn out for a long line
of military lonies, those gray covered lorries
with the humpbacked canvas tops. They let
her through at reduced speed and she came
into Saint Beloise. The Square was silent in
the moonlight, with Carriotti's bronze Virgin
bending over her pool which is the public
watering trough of Saint Beloise. There was
Command Post set up in the basement of the
Town Hall, with sleepy oouiers on motor
cycles outside and staff car and field radio
square, down past Santa Maria Maggiore and
turned into the Saint Beloise - Domm -
San Carlo Arterial road, the military road
That road winds up through the hills for
almost twenty klometers. The early morning
was cold on her face now, wet cold with
mountain mist, and her enthusiasm for the
drive was gone.
She hoped the boy in back wasn't too
bruised and shaken by the drive, but she was
(Coafisvsd On pses 10)
Evening star., 1938-03-13
Moreh 13, 1888


Bale - so had myself rowed over on the off,
chance" He looked up at the hotel. Nice
place you have here. suppose it has a bar -
it's ten kilometers by water from Bale - I'm
cold"
She said, "You were right, Lathrop."
About what was right?"
Michael"
How'd it all work out?''
He wanted four million"
Lathrop just looked at her for a moment.
Then he grabbed her face in both his fine
hands and looked closely into her eyes for
what he would find there. He found it. 1T
hurt you but not too much," he said.
Look - I've got one little job to do that
I've got to do right away. Will you wait for
me here? 1t won't take ten minutes"
"Of course"
Lathrop was Behan's correspondent for
Central Europe. Lathrop is the man who said
to Mussolini's What do you want?" ~
don't want anything, but the American read
ing public wants to know what your troops
are doing in Spain" because he was too scared
to say anything else And Mussolini smiled.
Latfrop had loved Josephine Wayne for
years. She didn't know how she knew it, for
Lathrop had never said 50, but she knew it.
Some day Lathrop would say it, and when
she told him that he could only be friend,
Lathrop would bow and step out forever.
Lathrop wasn't man you could dangle.
Years ago in high school he had said, You're
pretty good job. Josephine - for a rich
girl Remind me to look you up in few years,
if need dime, will you?"
In the ten minutes he was gone, Lathrop
MacAfee found Treddingdon-G Gore, called
him quietly out of name, took his left in one
eye, almost lost his own upper front teeth
and broke Teddingdon-G Cores jaw just under
his ear When Lathrop came back to the dock
Josephine was as angry as she had ever been
in her life.
What do you mean by brawling publicly
over me - like sophomore? That's the last
time - the very last time ever treat you as
a very old. very personal friend"
I've half a mind to throw you in the lake,
Josephine, he said. Don't be angry with me.
I've had such a good time"
BE angry with you?" she storned. You've
made public spectacle of me. Do you think
I'm silly jenne file - that men have to fight
over me? Do you think I'm some swooning
relic who must have Victorian chivalry to
protect her? You're impossible. Go back to
Bale"
watch me- He called a boatman, got into
his boat and said, ROW me back to Bale"
He said Good night Josephine and nuis!'
Evening star., 1938-03-13
THIS WEEK

She turned and went up toward the hotel.
Instead of going in, she walked around the
north wing and down to the garages. She or
dered her car out and filled with petrol. She
went in the back way and went upstairs. She
chucked half dozen things into three bags
left her trunks to be forwarded, paid her bill
and picked up telegraph blank. She wrote
out telegram to her agents, Usttenhove ct
Gle in Paris:
ARRIVE MUNCASZY DAY AFTER TOMOR-
ROW STOP HAVE PLACE FIT TO LIVE IN
JOSEPHINE WAYNE.
She crossed the Frontier at Ober, got her
car papers stamped and her passport stamped,
stared the Customs men down and stepped up
the Mercedes-Benz again. There were ma
neuver notices up on the boardings at the
Duane in Ober. and the immigration man on
the Lago Alto side of the Line warned her of
the roads south of Saint Beloise They were
working night tactical problems down there
he said. Far off to the left she could see gun
flashes high up the broad flank of the Dussel-
horn - those little barking mountain guns
you see eternally on fiat cars at every railway
station, during maneuvers, whose gunners
sing, The Boy Laughed Twice at Marietta
and throw flowers at the nk-cheeked noun
tain girls
She was about four minutes on her way
when hand appeared suddenly on the top
of the left hand door of her car - four fingers
of hand - dark head of hair and the
rather complicated muzzle of LIE Bros
Braggiotti machine pistol The man holding it
stood up on her running board, the wind in
his hair, and stared back the way they had
come.
Her throat closed with quick fear, but the
fear never reached the pit of her stomach to
become compelling, for there was something
so young about the mans hair so pathetically
intellectual about the way he held his pistol,
50 ingenious if you will, about the way he
stood on her running board looking back for
possible pursuers that none of it held any real
menace.
She was amused by it suddenly.
''Well?" she said.
mo harm to you, " his English was aca-
demic He spoke it formally mo stealing"
Il see; hitchhiker?"
Il do not understand. Do not slow the
car"
"How did you get on it,"
AT Ober. 1t is too easy" he said. "On the
other side came from the shadows to the
running board. On the Lago Alto side rolled
under the car while they finished measuring
the petrol have no passport"
Evening star., 1938-01-02

RED STAR OVER CHINA. BY Ed
gar Snow. New York: Random
House.
FIRST ACT IN CHINA. BY James
M. Bertram. New York: Viking
Press.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

was to be deposited, provided the in
telligent G-men of the F. B. I. with
sufficient evidence to secure Reds ar
rest and conviction. Other stories
run the gamut Of illegal activities
from crooked optical statesmen to ex-
press train robbers, in which the va
rlous G-men ALMOST always get their
quarry.
There is no doubt that the authors
engaged in extensive research to pro-
vide authentic material for these
stories. The scientifically minded boy
will be attracted by laboratory and
other scientific work done by the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation. How
ever, the average upper-grade high
school lad may feel that this aspect
has been given too superficial treat
ment
AS indicated above, the book is con-
cerned only with the problem Of ap-
prehension Of criminals. This grim
business is written up almost as a
sporting affair, with the Oman as the
hero. All in all, however. the brief
presentations will meet with the ap-
proval Of readers young and old. if
only for the abundance of exciting
elements provided by the authors.
j. B.
PETER, PETER, PUMPKIN GROW
Err. BY Florence Bourgeois. Il
lustrated with autographs by the
author. Garden City, N. Y:
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
THIS is one of the best books, for a
small boy who likes the country,
have at hand as soon as planting be-
gins. that 1 have lately seen 1t is
sensible, slightly but not too noticeably
funny, full of small and useful details,
and in the right spirit both for farm
ing and for merchandising as both
of these may be practiced by a small
boy.
Peter is small boy who likes pump
kin pie so we'll that he asks his father,
a farmer, to plant plenty of these
succulent vegetables so that the pie
crop may be immense Father means
to, but pumpkins come late in the
planting season and the little boy
grows impatient. At length. when
school has closed and they are not
yet in the ground Peter takes ad-
vantage of his fathers being on two
week visit elsewhere to lay out a
patch Of his own. He plants all the
seed he finds; it provides IL long
rows, and father on his return as
sures him that there will be pumpkins
enough to have six pies day for an
indefinite period. The boy works
honestly, the crop thrives, and at last
there is enough produce for q way
side stand. The management Of this
is amusingly described, from the first
customer who goes away mad because
Peter won't sell his biggest specimen
put on show as an advertisement. to
the breakdown of a bus near by that
results in sale to practically every
one in it. The business is wound up
when truck merchant takes all that
is left, and the money which Peter
has been carefully keeping to buy a
bicycle-goes off in a money order
and comes back in the shape of the
cycle of his dearest dreams.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
The Public Library
illustration by Wiltred S. Bronson
from "The Wonder World of Ants"

PROBLEMS OF CHILD WELFARE.
BY G. B. Mangold. 1885. IGB.
M3l4p2.
A popular summary OF available
material on number of problems
connected with children.
HOUSING MANAGEMENT, PRINCI-
PILES AND PRACTICES. BY B.
G. Rosahn and others. 1897. HFZ.
R712h.
"The first book to be devoted to
the pioneer field Of public housing
in this country
HEALTH AND HUMAN PROGRESS;
an Essay in Sociological Medicine.
BY Rene Sand. 1886 QISa43
"A review of social progress In the
principal countries Of the world"
PUBLIC HEALTH ADM1NIsTRA-
TON IN THE UNITED STATES.
BY w. G. Smillie 1886. QI.SM46.
THE functions. organization and
costs Of rural. county and district,
city, State and Federal health ad-
ministration."
Agriculture and Industry.
WAGES, HOURS AND EMPLOY
MENT IN THE UNITED STATES,
l9l4-l936. BY M. A. Beney. 1886.
HIS N2l7wa2.
A history Of industrial gains and
losses.
AGRARIANISM; a Program for
Formers. BY T. J. Cauley. 1885.
HE83.C
A study of the nature and philosophy
Of an agrarian economy. and plea
for its adoption by the United States
as an alternative to capitalism or So
cialism
THREE YEARS OF THE AGRICUL-
TURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMIN
ISTRAT1ON. BY E. G. Nourse
and others. 1887. HEs3 .Ns57t.
The Brookings Institution studies
agriculture under the New Deal.
DESERTS ON THE MARCH. BY P.
B. Sears. 1885. RGs3 Seq.
A dramatic story Of the duststorm
menace In the West.
STRIKES. BY J. J. senturia. 1885
HGSSe5.
Graphic presentation OF the &C.
cumulative effect of strikes.
HUNGRY WATERS; the Story Of the
Great Flood, Together With an
Account Of Famous Floods Of His
tory and Plans for Flood Control
and Prevention. BY Lowell Thomas.
1897. G894T36.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
DAYS IN RED CHINA
Two Books on Sections of That Nation Con.
tribute to knowledge of Events
and Stru9ales.
and Stru99les.

they made their first serious ATTEMPT
to assume the responsibilities Of gov
ernment. As the result of a series
Of strategic retreats into the remote
northwest Of China, they are now
concentrated in miserably poor. thinly
populated parts of Shensi. Kansu and
Ninghsia Provinces. where they have
10000 seasoned fighters under arms.
besides much greater force of poorly
armed rustic militia. The average age
Of the veterans" is 19 years Some
of the old fellows of "a or Is have
been through eight years of incessant
guerrilla warfare.
With few exceptions, the command
ers and commissars are young men who
were students between 1919 and 1927
the period during which Russian So
Wet propaganda was omnipresent in
China-and had official patronage
over great areas. Some have been to
Russia to become letter perfect in the
MARKHAM patter. Others acquired it
in European universities Others
learned it from their colleagues in
China. Some came into the move
ment naturally from families that long
have had standing in the Ko Lao Hui,
a revolutionary society centuries old,
which always contributes desperate
men to every desperate undertaking.
THE direct Russian influence upon
their operations. which is ques-
ton that has been moot for years, has
been for a long while trifling. Mr..
Snow found no Russians among them,
The only other foreigner in their whole
bailiwick during his sojourn was a
former German army officer, turned
Bolshevik, whose advice had cost the
Reds such heavy losses in South China
that he was carried along as discred-
tied pensioner.
The Communists impose no taxes on
ordinary farmers or small merchants.
which is an all-sufficient explanation
Of their popularity in country of the
most fantastic direct taxes on the
poor. They support themselves by the
confiscation of the property of alb
sentee landlords, usurers and officials
and by some state trading in raw ma
terials. Soldiers get no pay and no
loot and the highest officials mere pit
tances. Mr.. Snow found Mao Tsetung,
(See RED CHINA, Page F-5.)
Evening star., 1938-01-02
'BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
Ant World Motor Science Government Officers Other Va
able Subjects Are Covered in Volumes for Instruc
ton and Pleasure.

station leads him, largely by accident,
into a summers work that is not only
Informative but formative. He gets as
interested in the care and repair of
motors as a mechanically-minded
small boy Is likely to be, and when a
dere'ict car Is offered to him and his
friend If they will put it in order,
throws himself into the business with
lasting enthusiasm. The filling station
man, a youth not enough older than
Tod to have lost touch with the ambi-
tions Of boys, shows him how to deal
with his problems one by one, and
large clear photographs show the
parts concerned. BY the time the car
runs, and the town turns out to cele-
brate, Tod's character has developed
in the direction 81 manliness and the
cheerful acceptance Of responsibility.
He has learned by doing.
OUR G-MEN. BY Irving Crump and
John w. Newton. Illustrated with
photographs. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Our G-MEN," companion volume
to Our Air-Men" and Our
Police" describes in lively fashion the
activities Of the various law-enforce-
ment agencies of the United States
Government.
Gangland, in the prohibition era,
dubbed the revenue agents "G-men."
With the more recently publicized
activities OF the agents Of the Federal
Bureau OF Investigation under j Edgar
Hoover, the public has come to think
OF "G-men" as referring almost ex-
clusively to this group. However, the
authors believe that the operatives of
the other Federal agencies engaged in
law enforcement are as much entitled
to that designation, and thus enumer-
ate and define the functions of IA
different Federal agencies, from
Secret Service to the Federal Bureau
OF investigation, taking in Forest
Rangers, Customs Service, the Once
OF Indian Affairs and other depart
ments. Brief descriptions Of the
operation Of each Of these and the
character Of their personnel are given
with accounts Of some OF the more
spectacular exploits; these occupy the
major portion of the book. The
stories OF the Urschel kidnapers,
George r. Kelly and Albert Bates;
John Dillinger, public enemy No. u;
Baby Face Nelson, the Barker-Karpis
Gang, the Tri-State Gang are already
well known to most of this books
prospective audience.
Among the less known stories is
that OF Red Boyle. who called himself
The Four Musketeers" Red, who
had served four years in a North
Carolina penitentiary at Raleigh and
was employed as a parachute rigger
and airplane mechanic at an airport
near Atlanta, planned what he
thought was perfect extortion
crime. He wrote a series Of threaten
ing letters; a slight error in the
middle initial of the victims name
and Reds use Of green ink, plus mod
ern scientific techniques, which in
cluded the installation OF the latest
scientific sound-detection apparatus
! in the house where the ransom money