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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
TRAIN YIELDS
$4,000 LOOT

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 QN.S0
In spite of secrecy by Pennsyl-
vania railroad detectives, it was
learned that a robber gang had
stopped 71-car freight train at
Metuchen, N. j., yesterday and
robbed a box car of $4,000 in
cigarettes while the crew was
seeking bursted air hose.
Running in heavy fog, accord
ing to Police Chief w. B. Huchin-
son of Metuchen, who confirmed
the report, the train was brought
to a stop by one member of the
gang who slit an air hose. which
automatically halted the train.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
$4,000 FOR CATALOGUE

Morgan's contribution brought
$4,000. Bought after spirited bid.
ding by Leasing j. Rosenwald, o.
Philadelphia, it was a catalogue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
Wife CHARGES
MOULTON SNUB
TO SOC|AL|TES
Millionaire Drank Too
Much, She Says

NEW YORK, Dec. 9-The snub-
bing of some of society's best PEG,
pie for a highball and a low life
was recorded yesterday in Supreme
Court, Manhattan, where Mrs.
Olga Scholnirowsky Moulton, RIs-
sian emigre, is suing Arthur Julian
Moulton, socialite expatriate with
a fortune reckoned at $5,000,00O
plus.
1t was lonely life she led
among kin of the AstorS and the
VanderbiltS, Mrs. Moulton com
planned, while her millionaire huS-
band passed out from one too
many drinks or fitted off with
women of uncertain antecedents.
RESIDENCE ISSUE
Mrs. Moulton is asking a separa-
ton, with $50, 000-a-year alimony,
while the master, sojourning at
his 100000 Chateau de la Yer
riere near Paris, has already sued
for divorce in the French courts.
He contends she was cruel and in
human, but she sets forth that
was not the half of it.
The present issue before Justice
Philip J. McCook is whether Moul-
ton is a resident of New York and,
as such, can be sued here. Sol
Rosenblatt of $50 Fifth Ave-, coun-
sci for Mrs. Moulton, says the
Union Club at 701 Park Ave. is his
legal residence. Coudert Bros,
acting for him, contend it is
merely a blind to escape French
taxes.
The only blindness cited by
Mrs. Moulton was her husbands
from drinking. He beat her,
he called her names, he even
threatened to kill her, she charged
and she went off alone to
parties of the smart set.
Wed in Paris on July "a, 1884,
his abuse began the next Febru-
airy, she recited. They were at
Palm Beach, Fla, on his yacht,
and Mrs. Louis Jacques Balsan,
the former Consuelo Vanderbilt.
was invited ABOARD.
He told me-" she said, "he
was DESTROYS of showing his guests
he was madly in love with me.
He showered me with kisses 1
advised him to behave in public
He became very angry. He
was completely intoxicated for
the next two days. He indicated
was no longer physically at
tractive to him."
ASSAILS CONDUCT
In March, 1885, they had &C.
copied an invitation to the Ever
glades Club. Palm Beach. At the
dinner hour. she said, he was
drunk and told her:
II don't care to go out. Go
to hell"
Later, she charged, his conduct
with Lady Helen Reeves, visit
ing Englishwoman, was grossly
unbecoming married man"
In the summer of 1886 they
took a 20-room mansion at New
port, R. l., where "he entered a
life of continuous intoxication, p"
according to the complaint. That
August they accepted an invitation
of the Amos Tuck Trenches, par
ents of Mrs. John Jacob Aston, Sd,
and when the time came
HE came home drunk and
called me names and retired to
his room, locking the door in
my face. I went alone
Justice McCook reserved deci-
sion on the move to dismiss the
suit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
Pheasant Bdgged;
lis lis Own Fault

PALMER, Mass, Dec. 9 GN.SD
Unsuccessful with a shotgun,
Dwight C. Holbrook finally
bagged a hen pheasant after a
days hunting when the bird flew
into his automobile windshield,
breaking its neck.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

All American IuncheOns. Another
Striking page Of sketches of American
impressions by the brilliant artist.
Alastair X. Macdonald, in which he
pOrtrayS his dainty, elf.like girls
with some favOrite American dishes.
See it in The American Weekly, the
magazine distributed with next Sun
days Washington Herald Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

of the financier's famous collec
ton Of miniatures, bound in
crushed red morocco with watereo
silk panels. The catalogue was
printed for private circulation
and the copy offered was the first
ever placed on sale.
One of the outstanding feature;
of the event, attended by 1,00(
men and women. was the auction
GERS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

Don't listen for Jingle bells this year
santa isn't working Christmas Eve. No
body cares. though. The Herald Times
Christmas Gift Directory takes Santa's
place makes shopping easy. See It,,
and you'll understand why.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
CELEBRITIES SERVE

They were chosen from among
the Nations stage, screen and
writing personalities and included
Frederic March, film star: Doro.
thy Thompson, columnist; Eddie
Cantor. George S. kaufman, play
wright; Clifton Fadiman, writer
and conductor of the radio pro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

"I'm Teaching My Youngsters How
interesting and instructive article In
the New Housewives Food :Almana"k.
You will also find in this interesting
feature prize-winning recipes sent In
by readers and unusual facts about
food. Do not miss 1t. In The American
Weekly, the magazine distributed with
next Sundays Washington Herald
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
WELFARE AIDES
OPEN SESSIONS

Representatives of city, county
and State welfare departments
gathered at the Wardman Park
Hotel today for opening meetings
of the American Public Welfare
Associations round-table confer
ence.
After a series of group discus
sions today, the first general get
together" will be the banquet
tonight, with Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt as toastmistress and
with an address on Public Wei
fare-A Cooperative Program" by
Frank Bane, of Chicago, execu
tive director of the council Of
State governments of the Amerl
can Public Welfare Association.
Among the sessions scheduled
earlier in the. day was a conference
of State public welfare admins
traitors, presided over by Charlie:
F.. Ernst, of Olympia, Wash, presi
dent of the American Public Wei
fare Association.
A meeting on migration Prob
lens" will be held at 10 a. m. to
morrow with DR.. Ellen c. Potter
of Trenton, N. j., presiding. Join
ing in the discussion will be N
Gregory Silvermaster, Frank Lori
mer and Mary SWitzer, of Wash
ington.
The conference, bringing to
gether several hundred persons
will continue through Sunday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

NEW YORK, December 8.
With a contribution by j. Pier
pont Morgan drawing the highest
price, a book auction dinner for
the benefit of the joint distribu-
ton committee and the committee
for Christian German refugees
proved a unique success last night.
More than $4,000 had been
taken in when less than half
the rare volumes listed for sale
had been offered. 1t was esti-
mated the auction would bring at
least $4,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
You are being assailed by Q hostile influence within your own ranks!

You are being assailed by Q hostile influence within your own ranks!
 The attack has its headquarters in Washington and not In our own good state, but there are few willing con. spirators in our midst
 Connecticut will not tolerate purge or any attempted purge of its conscientious, and capable senators and representatives. This is government "by the people" in Connecticut.
 Yours is a record of practical, humani.. tartan legislation, always on the side Of the laboring man and Of the pubic generally.
 You have not and we know you never will play bali with the "crackpots" to deceive the people of your state with false promises and false issues for political consumption only ,.t a
 Yours is an honest record of sound leg islation and you can stand on 1t proudly and fearlessly.
 You have supported without exception every Humanitarian law enacted during your service in Washington.
 You have acted always with clear and a clean conscience
 You have always been ''liberal", as that word is honestly defined but never, mo never-a radical.
 You stand and have always stood for the American form of government, for equality of opportunity and the protec- ton of religious freedom and free speech.
 You have opposed and always will oppose those Un-American practices of foreign origin which are trying to creep into our American government.
 You have fought and always will fight to keep this nation government "of and by the people" and you are willing to have the people of Connecticut and not a few scheming Washington politicians decide your future service to the State and Nation.
 BUT-Beware, Senatorll
 Your political enemies are subtle and are still trying to undermine you.
 It is reliably reported that you were on the original purge list of Thomas Tommy the Cork" Corcoran, who works only behind the scenes and In the dark in Washington.
 It was he who schemed and would have wrecked our Supreme Court and with 1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Stand By Your Guns, Senator Lonergan!!
oi's'sAs ISsA SzK '

every guarantee of personal and religious freedom.
 He doesn't want you in Washington solely because you opposed this destruc- ton of American liberty, because you were with the majority at that time, and because you earned the undying gratitude of every true American in Connecticut and in the nation by your courageous and conscientious stand for what was right.
 Your opponent, MT. Kopplemann, is in league with your Washington enemies and they are prompting, aiding and abetting his campaign,-let him deny 1t If he can or dare
 Witness his all too sudden willingness and readiness to withdraw for compro- mise candidate, as long as he can get you out of the way for Washington, which Is all that he or they want.
 He can withdraw or thinks he can to his present candidacy as Representative, although by all the rules of party loyalty he has forfeited any right to run for any office.
 He raises and will continue to raise false issues such as "100e6 New Deal" and "Liberal" which neither he nor any one else can or will even attempt to define, being just Smoke-screen.
 Your own record of legislation in Wash ington is as "liberal" as his or more so and as near "l00% New Deal" as his on all hu- manitarian legislation, too.
 He Is splitting and Is willing to split the Democratic party in Connecticut on false issues just to serve his own selfish ends and to satisfy the Washington boys who turned the smear guns on you.
 He is playing "dog in the manager" politically He knows no party loyalty and Is entitled to none
 So-we say to you!
 Connecticut says to you'll
 Stand by your gunsl!
 There Is no need for compromisel
 The great majority of Connecticut citi- zens and voters are with you---they be- lieve and trust you-they know you.
 Connecticut will not stand for any Washington or outside interference.
 Connecticut voters cannot be purged!
 Connecticut will re-elect you--a true Democrat-a true Anerican-to the United States Senate to represent Con- necticut and its people--by their own choice and not by outside dictation.
 Stand by your Gunsl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Boys in Blue

If you care to get mildly sentimental about the United States Army, you might be interested to know that Uncle Sam'S soldiers are once more going to be "boys in blue" The olive-drab service uniform familiar to this generation is soon to be discarded. Army experts have decided to give 1t up for uniform of blue -. not the deep, navy-blue tint of Civil War days, to be sure, but lighter, hazier blue which will look nattier at close range and, at the same time, have lower visibility at ordinary shooting distance.
 It is principally matter of economies and military efficiency that causes the change The War Department explains that the regulation olive-drab khaki IS hard to get in hurry. If the need for uniforms suddenly increases overnight hundredfold - as it did early Tn 1917-- the new recruits are more than likely to find themselves wearing outfits of subtly differing shades ranging from an almost green to an almost-yellow. This irritates colonels and top-sergeants and is apt to confuse the rookie So the army will presently be going back to blue, and the soldier will cut more dashing figure on parade.
 All of this, to anyone of a sentimental turn of mind, is good thing. By all our old traditions the American soldier is a fellow dressed in blue. It was so in the Revolution - when he was dressed m any sort of uniform at all -- and 1t was SO in the Civil War; 1t was the blue coated trooper who sWeated across the plains in pursuit of the Indian, and even in the war with Spain the blue shirt was still regulation. But if mere civilian may have opinions on army efficiency, one might wonder why the War Depart ment didn't go bit farther when 1t was making the change.
 A retired general of the U. s. Army re-. gently wrote book in which he suggested that the army throw away all of its pres ent uniforms and simply clothe its sol diers in blue dungarees, of the kind familiar to doughboy working parties. First of all, said the general, blue denim can always be bought in quantity without difficulty. It is cheap and 1t Is durable; expand your army overnight, and you can have the whole gang in uniforms at once
 Secondly, continued the general, to- days soldier spends a good part of his time scrouging around in the dirt and mud. No matter what you put on him, he's going to be well-soiled as soon as he gets into action; why not give him the kind of clothing that is suited to that sort of work. Whether the army will ever get that far is a question. Given the brass hats love for parade-ground trimness, It probably won't Meanwhile, 1t Is rather pleasantly interesting to know that the "boyS in blue" are coming back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Congratulations to the Victor

To Attorney Patrick Healey all praise is due today on his splendid victory at the probate convention of the local Democratic party last night. Not until eight ballots had been taken was the popular local attorney seen to have won Q majority of the delegates present and voting at last nights session. In field in which there were so many candidates, however, from the very outset 1t was per- leader in the race. He maintained this lead until the point when other candi- dates started to release their candidates in his favor.
 It was a remarkably well-conducted convention that the Democrats held last night, one which Waterbury has not wit. messed in many years. Certainly the Democratic party revealed itself In a new guise. That perennial favorite, the Hon- orable D. J. Slavin, Judge of Probate for so many years, retired by his own inclina- tion, wide-open field naturally makes one think of a bitter fight to pick a sue. ceSsor, Democrats concluding that their nominee has a more than even chance of defeating the Republican choice. But there was no bitterness manifest last right either among the delegates or the candidates
 There was fight to be won and we must say that in this first instance of Q wide-open fight for nomination the Democratic party survived the test with flying colors. It was victory all-around and the party and its new nominee, At torney Healey, should benefit tremend- ously. There can be no doubt about the calibre of the probate candidate. From such strong field as sought the nomina- ton he emerges with fresh laurels to add to those he has captured In his most suc- cessful legal career in this, his native city.
 Attorney Patrick Healey needs no en- comiums now that he is the avowed can- didate of the Democratic party for Pro- bate Judge. His achievements, and they have been many, speak for themselves. The high regard in which his fellow lawyers hold him has too often been shown. We rather imagine that this feel- ing of the profession towards him will be transferred at the polls to the voting public. We can feel that an eminently worthy successor to Judge Slavin has beer, chosen by the Democratic party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Might Hasten Our Project

Naugatuck has again taken the stand that 1t is foolish for the borough to con- struct sewage disposal plant to elim- mate pollution of the Naugatuck River until Waterbury puts similar method of sewage control into operation. A few years ago Naugatuck was all ready to launch its new sewage system, but baked when 1t came to the disposal plant In way you can't blame the borough officials for the stand they take, but If all com. munities were to do the same little or no progress towards cleaner rivers would be made.
 It's hard telling when Waterbury will complete the gigantic project 1t set in motion several years ago and which ulti- mately will find the entire city serviced by modern disposal plant on the receiving end to neutralize sewage and prevent the same being poured directly into the river as happens now. Much has been accom- plished locally and our program continues space with sewers being laid in many streets and plans well underway for the second of the trunk lines, this one up the Mad River, thus guaranteeing a direct outlet to lateral sewers in the southern and eastern sections of the town.
 After that comes the third major phase of the problem, constructing dis posal plant that was first mentioned and even started some thirty odd years ago, later the subject of litigation and discus sion both. This is indeed major prob- lem, but the city is prepared to face 1t when it arrives at the point where the plant must be put into operation If our ileighbor to the south, however, is ready and waiting to act on the same problem, 1t might be expedient, as well as wise, for 1t to proceed with it's own plant. year or two gain on Waterbury won't make any material difference in the purity of the stream, but 1t remains to be proved, too, whether the watercourse will imme- diately teenn with fish life when Water bury ceases polluting 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
QUESTIONS And ANSWERS
BY FREDERICK M. KERRY

sun being 50 nearly in the center of Venus orbit that the whole varia- ton of the distance between the two bodies is less than Q million miles The distance of Venus from the earth, however, varies from 26 inil- lion miles to l60 million miles. No other body in the Universe, except the moon, an occasional comet, and few asteroids, comes as close to the earth as 20 million miles.
 c. Who was the author of the following quotation: Men do not make laws. They do but discover them2"
 A. Calvin Coolidge.
 c. Is there Q book giving illus- trations of optical illusions?
 A. "The Mystery and Lore of Alp. partitions" by Charles J. 6. Thomp- son. London, 1880. last section of book. Another work IS Visual 1llu- sions" by Matthew Luckiesh, New York City, 1929.
 Q. Where and what are the Fad Lands?"
 A. This Is the name of an exten- sive region lying between the White River and the South Fork of the Cheyenne in southwestern South Dakota. Among the Dakota Indians the area was known as "Maka 6i- cha, and the French Canadian trappers and hunters called it "Ter~ res Maiivsises" Literally translated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Selected Poem
PIPPA OF THE SWITCHBOARD (Phoebe Smith in the New York eun)

She should Do running out to meet the dawn, To see blue haze Adrift in distant valleys: Instead the light still burns when night is gone, She watches dirt collect in dim old alleys. She sits before 6 board, six stories up, Bright threads of commerce spin between her
 fingers; Her heart upheld to beauty, as . cup, She glanceS toward the hill The vision fingers: Here is no earth no maze of brick and stone In ordered pathways crossing and recrossins: Only the maple trees and elms, wind blown, With squares Of colored roofs beneath their
 tossing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10

For the first time since 1t went into the business of building bigger and better pathways the Westchester County Board of Supervisors has recommended con- struction of toll road. None of the existing parkways in Westchester County are toll roads today. Tolls would be used to defray the cost of completing the Cross County Parkway. Borrowing of $l, ,800,- 900 from the Federal Government Is pro- posed as the means of financing imme- diate construction. This money would be sought from the REC. Tolls would be collected near Fleetwood small settle. ment about midway between Mount Yer non and Yonkers. At the present time the Cross County Parkway deviates into bottleneck overpass at this point which on Labor Day proved 6 trap for thous- ards of motorists. A new approach to the Saw Mill River Parkway would also be created in the extension of the present thoroughfare, whose southern terminus is Yonker Avenue. The ostensible pur- pose of straightening out the route is to provide fine express route between the new Henry Hudson Parkway (via Saw Mill River Parkway and the Hutchin- son River Parkway. The latter in turn gives free access to Connecticut's new parkway, the Merritt. There's merit iY1 the idea, but the tolls may find opposi- tion in view of the nearby one on the Harlem River bridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10

Atlantic seemed Q remote prin- cipallty ten miles away has give en way before the machine age. The automobile, the movies, and farm machinery have come to Turkey Creek, but gone is the abundant life of kindliness which Wilson felt among his neighbors when he was e boy.
 Hand has become of second- ary importance. Land and the home have given ground before the movies, the radio, the five. and-dime stores and the Susie
 0. Our civilization has made tremendous mechanical advances but these have grown in the last quarter century from an In. fant to an Obseesion, We are dependent on the machine rather than on ourselves"
 This might be the plaint of sentimentalist who could not keep pace with the times. But M. L. Wilson is looking ahead, not behind. He has Q contribution to make to the machine age-namely life without stomach ulcers.
 -"Farmers don't suffer from nervous diseases" he says. "Agri- culture, according to the anthro- biologists, is the type of life best suited to homo sapiens. We like 1t. We take to 1t. We are strong CT and happier with our hands in the soil. We don't throw stones and gas bombs if we live on Q farm.
 "If democracy ls to survive In the United States, Che farm Is the saving element But it must be agriculture under . new life pattern.
 "There must be c combination of industry and agriculture. The industrial age is here to stay. But it brings diseases economic diseases of oil sorts. We've got to modify it, decentraliSe 1t, with subsistence homesteads supple mented by the cash income from industry
 "New Life"
 This is the "new life pattern" which made trouble for Tugwell three or four years ago. But the pattern is still here, and the cloth has already been cut from it. Last week the Farm Security Ad- ministration successor to Tug. wells Resettlement Administra- tion--announcc that a private hosiery company would operate silk-throwing plants and hosiery mills at Cumberland Homesteads, Skyline Homesteads, and Red House Farms. ..
 This is . victory for the new life pattern cutters. If this part of the pattern were left unfinished, the homesteads would collapse in insolvency. There would be plenty of corn and tomatoes, but no cash for the baby's shoes. This was the burning question about Arthur. dale would any industry set. tic there to give jobs that the mines had taken away
 M. L. Wilson Is pleased with the victory, but he is keeping quiet about it. He does not want the limelight or the role of q prima donna. for his plans reach far ahead, 90 far that he can- not see them fulfilled in his life. time. But ct least he will keep on pushing them.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl