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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-20

State Police" an exciting drama featuring John King. King rises to dramatic heights as he did in his leading role in Uniyersal's postwar epic, 'The Road Back. Larry Blake, as a racketeer killer gives realistic menace to his role.
 Every Wednesday evening, Loew's Poli presents for one performance only, five big acts Of headline Broadway vaudeville, featuring the leading names of the entertainment world today
Evening star., 1938-12-20

ton of recent years wherein en-
forced collection Of international
debts has become dead letter, this
does not mean that any government
or any nation will look indiffer-
emily upon confiscatory policies
which break down commerce, in
tensify friction and produce i'll
feeling. Both political parties in the
United States are committed to
policies of neighborliness and good
will with Latin America and along
with this goes a deep recognition
that mutual respect can only rest
upon mutually fair consideration
Arbitrary, one-sided action, cannot
induce permanently good relations.
So it may be said that the prob
lens for the Lima conference are
to establish mutual trust and the
first evidence of this is the Wiling
ness of the United States, after
more than 100 years, to consider the
Monroe Doctrine a mutilateral affair
rather than the policy of a single
nation-an advance which must
inevitably remove all suspicion Of
selfishness or so-called imperialism
and replace previous misunder-
standings with new era of honest
friendship toward Pan-America on
the part of the people and the
Government of the United States.
Copyright, 193sD
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formation about the Government
Mr.. Mercy feels. First examples
OF this method appeared in the
"PloW That Broke the Plains" and
The River" They set an all-time
high for documentary films" hav.
ing been shown by Paramount Pic.
lures In 4,400 theaters, and are now
touring the world to the advantage
OF the United States Treasury. Mr.
Mercey's first interest in this type
OF movie was when he was a staff
member OF the Resettlement Admin.
ltration when Pare Lorentz, pres.
ent director of the United States
rum service, in charge of produc-
ton in New York, conceived and
carried out those trail blazing pic.
lures that the world wants to see.
There are no pictures of Greta
Carlo or Joan Crawford on Mr.
Mercey's Office walls. Three wealth.
er-beaten oldsters meet the eve
along with other remarkable eyi.
dences OF the new documentary art
High pressure work is under vav
The volume of mail is heavy. The
flm service has already distributed
1000 Government film directories tc
schools. colleges and other interested
groups. Every conceivable question
regarding the use Of motion pictures
has been asked and answered.
He came to Washington, as have
many others, via Indiana news
papering. Born in Mercer, KY, he
was educated at the University of
Illinois. He has been a tutor, ditch.
digger, librarian, truck driver. re-
porter, radio columnist, coal miner
movie reviewer, college teacher. He
wrote an article in 1885 predicting
that radio would elect the nexi
President" He thinks that Govern.
ment service could be greatly helped
by more interdepartmental cooper.
alton. He feels that the new report
now In the Presidents hands, is theil
most important job. It is a $176,0
budget to make films in South
America for use in the United tate,
and vice versa, to act as consultant.
to the committee on cooperation
with American republics, rescore
existing South American Aims, set
up film exchange and place movie
projection sets in leading American
Embassies in South America.
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league of which he is chairman.
Just what place nonpartisan
league. whether labor's or not. has
in distinctly partisan Democratic
National Convention was one ques-
ton Democrats are asking. The
answer is that the league has never
been nonpartisan; it was organized
in the first place to aid in the re-
election of President Roosevelt in
1896. At its head when it was Or
ganized was Senator George Berry
of Tennessee-although he was not
a Senator at the time the league was
launched. After Berry was ap-
pointed to the Senate, he ceased to
be the head of the league.
Possibly the purpose of the league
now is to bring about third-term
nomination of President Roosevelt,
although that is not contained in
the statement issued by Chairman
Lewis. Mr.. Lewis merely said that
ut Is essential that all the liberal
and progressive forces of the coun-
try unite to maintain and extend
the economic and political gains of
recent years for the preservation of
Democracy" If Mr.. Lewis and his
league have the same opinion now
held by Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. 1ckes, that means the re-
nomination and reelection Of
President Roosevelt.
Mid-1939 Meeting Forecast,
Chairman Lewis also said that
Sin midyear of 1882 a national
convention of the league would be
held and that the purposes of the
convention would be to authorize
the league to work within the
framework of the Democratic party
in the selection of delegates to that
party's national convention in 1910.
Presumably the leagues convention
will do what Mr. Lewis says it
should do. 1t might easily be used
also to sound a call for the re-
nomination of President Roosevelt.
There have been many rumors
in the past that Mr.. Lewis himself
might like to take a shot at the
Democratic presidential nomination
in the event a liberal candidate
was needed. If he and his follow
ers had been more successful in
the recent elections, if PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats had agreed to support
1t. Gov. Thomas Kennedy, one of
Lewis rght-hand men, for Gov
ernor, and Kennedy had been
elected Governor. Mr.. Lewis would
be in better political case today.
Also if the c. I. O.-supported Gov.
Frank Murphy of Michigan had
been reelected, the same would
have been true
But unfortunately for Mr.. Lewis.
his candidates in major elections
failed last November. Although the
Democrats, with Lewis aid, de-
feated Gov. Martin L. Davey for
denomination in Ohio, another piv-
otal State, it was the dislike of Ohio
voters for Mr.. Lewis and his C. 10.
that helped the Republicans to
carry the Buckeye State in a big
way. Out in Montana the C. I. o.
and Labor'S Nonpartisan League
and Mr.. Lewis-sought to re-elect
Representative Jerry O'Connell.
But Mr.. O'Connell failed dismally
at the polls. The same combina-
ton sought to defeat Representa-
tive O'Connor in the same State,
but lost again.
Guffey May Again Join Lewis.
Delegates to the next Democratic
National Convention. except in
States which hold presidential pref
Evening star., 1938-12-20
The Political Mill
Democratic Resentment Rises Against Lewis
Attempt to Control National Convention

erential primaries-and even In
them also IN many cases-are likely
to be the selection Of the Demo-
cratic organizations. It may be that
in Pennsylvania Senator Guf1ey will
align himself again with Mr.. Lewis
and his C. I. o. and work together
for the selection of delegates to the
Democratic convention. Guffey and
Lewis stood together In the Demo-
cratic primary elections this year
seeking to nominate 1t. Gov. Ken
nedy, secretary-treasurer Of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Senator Guffey remains the sole
Democrat Of Pennsylvania in major
office-since the elections. He may
choose Lewis again as an ally, If
he is to oppose Dave Lawrence,
Democratic State chairman, and
other party leaders. in the effort to
control the selection of a delegation
to the national convention. Or he
may prefer to make some other
combination and still have a major
part in the election of the dele
gates. Mr.. Guffey himself will
have to stand for denomination and
reelection in Pennsylvania in 1910.
Unless there is great change Of
heart in Pennsylvania, Senator
Guffey's hopes of reelection look
pretty slim.
Senator Guffey and other more
ardent New Deal Democrats are for
the denomination Of President
Roosevelt, feeling that the Presi-
dents personal popularity will be q
great assistance to them.
Hints Struggle for Control.
The Lewis proposal that Labor's
Nonpartisan League shall play a
dominating part in the selection Of
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention and the choice of a
presidential nominee is merely in
dicative OF the tremendous struggle
now in the making for control Of
that convention. Democrats in
Washington understand that very
clearly.
Apparently Mr.. Lewis has passed
over any idea of establishing a new
third party if he had such an idea.
His plan to work within the frame
work of the Democratic party indi-
Gates that. On the other hand, if
Mr.. Lewis and his league fail to
bring about the nomination of a
presidential candidate satisfactory
to them, they could join in some
third party movement if they see fit.
However, it will be pretty late in
the day to establish effectively a new
party If the movement is post
poned until after the Democratic
convention. which will be held the
last part of June in 1910.
There is a growing feeling-even
II something is not done this year
to heal the already wide breach in
the Democratic party. 1910 will see
the election of a Republican Presi-
dent. Some of them believe that the
present efforts OF Mr.. Lewis to have
Labor's Nonpartisan League play an
important part in the Democratic
primaries and selection Of conven-
ton delegates will tend to widen the
breach. Very frankly they say that
the one man now in position to bring
party harmony. Is President Roose-
welt.
However, If President Roosevelt
continues to play politics with Mr..
Lewis: if he persists in attempting
to ride roughshod over the more
conservative wing of his party, the
chance for party solidarity will grow
less and less. And without party
solidarity, the jig may be up.
Evening star., 1938-12-20
Prison Guard Dismissed

JACKSON, Mich, Dec. 20.-War-
den Joel Moore announced last
night the dismissal of Sergt. John
Malaney from guard service at the
State prison of Southern Michigan
because he had "lost' prisoner
whom he was transferring from Nc
Alester, Okla.
The prisoner, Walter r. Arm
strong, disappeared after he and
Malaney had put up at hotel in
st. Louis last week. Later Arm
strong was rearrested at clifton. ILL.,,
where he was taken from a train.
Evening star., 1938-12-20
$10O,996 Fire Welcome

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Dec. 20
R.-A $100,996 fire occurred yes
terday in the city hall at suburban
Ventnor-and no one tried to put
it out.
Scrip once worth that much was
burned in the furnace by order Of
the City Council. Issued in darker
days, it had been redeemed in pay
ment Of taxes, license fees and other
municipal charges.
Evening star., 1938-12-20

the aim OF the
league to pick
the delegates to
the Democratic
National Con-
vention in 1910,
he stepped on a
lot of Demo-
cratic toes. In
fact, a number
Of Democratic
Senators were
openly resentful
Of the plan of
Mr.. Lewis to
dominate their
party conven-
fi0n fhrnllpl1 the
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tor of the bureau. In the receiving
line with Secretary and Mrs. Roper
were DR.. and Mrs. Briggs, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce johnson and
Mrs. johnson and the two assistant
directors of the bureau, DR.. z. G.
Crittenden and DR.. A. 8. McAllister
and their wives.
The employees were introduced to
Secretary Roper by the heads of the
bureaus ~ divisions.
Evening star., 1938-12-20


week He Is odine Southern
aen great share OF the burden OF the
the Roosevelt coalition.
The and the split party Roper
position
IN Mr. is understood
ne would be glad to resign but post
not by W. P. A. Administrator
roosevelt wants Harry Hopkins in the cabinet
oral rider to his resignation painful than
Take again the Miss Labor
here clear need Tor energetic drive achieve unity
MISS Perkins line to the
OF ner cabnetand
IS DONG superb job in managing the
department. OF Labor Despite
department. to the first OF efficiency
Roosevelt ask his cabinet
because Frank Murphy
since November ~ ~
There other put some live
wires IN the cabne-a backed four
Hopkins and Frank Murphy
IN person on every play Attorney General
but will the Senate confirm Solicitor
mngs place? For that matter will
ment above the level Of coorless hack politicians?
Suppose Secretary decided prop
oslon for Mayor Chicago national politics
be wise Tor the New Dealers control of
city but would have removed the cabinet officer
OF the series between the New
And finally there Is the question whether
compel loyal and efficient cabinet officer
Legally yes! But personally NM There
OF New Deal officials who
Evening star., 1938-12-20
Standards Employees Bid
Furewell to Roper

Secretary Of Commerce Roper, who
is resigning his cabinet post, was
given farewell reception yesterday
by the 900 staff members OF the Bu-
reau OF Standards.
The reception took place in the
Office of DR.. Lyman J. Briggs, direc-
Evening star., 1938-12-20

agency's nlm
stock on hand
with authorize.
ton to release
these "docu.
mentary films
for education
public informa.
ton, and dem
onstration. Al.
ready the re.
sponse is world.
wide.
"Streamlined"
educational hlms
are the answer
to the countryi
Evening star., 1938-12-20
Former Publisher
In South Dies
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.-Daniel
Decatur Moore, SO, former news
paper executive here and at Fort
Worth, Tex, died at his home yes
terday. He had been i'll for some
time.
Mr.. Moore at one time was editor
and manager of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune and later editor
and publisher of the Fort Worth
Record. While serving as editor of
Times-Picayune he was elected a
director of the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1938-12-20
An American
You Should
Know
Federal Film Service
OfficiuI Tackles Job
In Dynamic Way
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

Short, stocky, young Arch Mercy
is on location as assistant director
Of the United States Film Service,
created three months ago, an arm OF
the National Emergency Council to
act as clearing house for all Gov.
ernment films. Ever since 1911 the
Government has been filming 1ts
activities. A new chart gives com.
plete Government picture Of each
Evening star., 1938-12-20

cautious State question was too
late assist Chang problem studied
with length
Burma would be practicable for the supplies
900 is expected be
Chiang materials the Burma
Tor such
greatest passive resistance
(Copyrigh 1898 Ame 1nc)
Evening star., 1938-12-20
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

When John L. Lewis, head of
the G. I. o. and also of Labor's
(so-calleO Nonpartisan League. an
nounced Saturday that 1t would be
Evening star., 1938-12-20

eQu1VoIe11O 01 dPP011lUIl1c11U anu
who are still waiting, months and
years later, for the earmarked
jobs to become vacant.
The task Of remaking the
New Deal cabinet, therefore, can
not be handled with plane and
,auger. 1t calls at the least for
rubber gloves, monkey wrenches,
luck and courage. However, since
the New Deal is due to swing
somewhat to the conservative
Evening star., 1938-12-20

delegation to the
Pan = American
Con ference at
Lima, Peru. it
was remarked in
S o m e quarters
t h a t the ap-
pointment W a S
a personal COM
plinent to the
former Governor
Of Kansas be-
c a u S e of his
broad - minded
and non = partl-
san stand when
the sinking OF
the PauaY BY the
Evening star., 1938-12-20
We, the People
Roosevelt Said to Desire Jackson, Ickes, Hopkins
And Murphy as His -Four Horsemen'
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

The great indoor sport III Washington these
constructing Mr. Rooevelts cabinet for him. The administration
usually follows the returns and anyhow the coalition that
the 1882 campaign not the
the fire Of prolonged national responsibility Changes
due and will made
Cabinet making hardly the for the
suggestion OF neatly dovealed joints timber
Evening star., 1938-12-20

spoke. The truth Is, however,
that the charter of the Export
Import Bank and the statute
setting up the stabilization fund
now contain authorizations which
would permit other types OF
credit. The credits would have
to be extended in complex and
roundabout ways. There might
be some difficulty in permitting
private banks to participate, as
Secretary Morgenthau wisely de-
Evening star., 1938-12-20

HE opinions OF the 0ers this page their o,p
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented IN
the Stars eDor to gtDe all sides questions interest
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-12-20
Real Reason
For Naming
OfLundon
Roosevelt Is Seen
Trying to Impress
lotin Americans
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

When President Roosevelt select
ed Alfred M. Landon, the Repub-
ican presidential nominee of 1886,
to be a member of the American
Evening star., 1938-12-20

right polite representatives of the liberal left in the
mighty
finishes his Job he
equipment employ will consist
choroform a polished knuckes.
Copyrgh
Evening star., 1938-12-20
is that the Treasury is satisfied

STeS TO But
the credits
Under the circumstances the President Mogenhau
y
new pocys Both realize that Congress in the end
approves resort to Congress
row. The question s therefore,
up TO Capitol Hill for approval AS has been
means the use OF Americas best the supply
open attack on the authoritarian nations departure
from the ancient traditions OF 1soatonis
past therefore whether not they have adequate
dent and Secretary Mogenthau likely policy
Congress- To make approval too
dangerous
Ihy have already prepared three effective arguments
make 10 the lawmakers
ideal and principle endangered by
Munich has left no else to defend ideals principles
We must ourselves
chance of winning
here the economic argument which that world
uaue roughly dVlded
erg bloc nations and the authoritarian nations
spp The authorizations gaining
10 guard its position and its
must beat the auhoritarian their game finally
the argument OF economy that it's
lew hundreds OF millions in loans
Evening star., 1938-12-20
The Capital Parade
Treasury Hos Power to Initiate Foreign Loon Policy,
But Approval by Congress Is Due to Be Asked

By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
the general impression
enough initiate policy
credits elbowing
OF the trade Of this hemisphere begin apparently
the President directs.
directions
Treasury Henry Mogenhau disclosed the polcy
First he said that being studied Second
governmental loans could be
While doubts of polcys wisdom at
the State Department. the
stage officials Secretary ardenly
the policy At Mogenhaus direction administrative seup
give the policy effect being rapidly improved Assistant
Secretary Wayne Chaed Taylor has already been chosen
the official primarily in charge Always excepting the possibility
OF congressional the policy is in fact here to
Evening star., 1938-12-20

our strength, than it would be to
build battleships enough to take
on Japan and Germany.
There need be no doubt that
the new policy is the kind OF
break with the isolationist past
which is described above. The
S25,000,000 Chinese credit, which
must be taken together with the
plans for South America, shows
that Il the discussions leading
up t. the Chinese credit the
Evening star., 1938-12-20

mortlces or fine VeneerS. The job
seems to call for the services Of q
good plumber or an expert elec-
trician rather than a carpenter.
This is particularly true be-
cause the cabinet is no presi-
Dental picture puzzle. The dead
wood" Is not wood at all. It Is a
conduit for patronage, for re-
gional sentiment, q political pipe
line to the electorate. Take, for
instance the casn 0f Mr. no,io1
Evening star., 1938-12-20

AS for the need authorization It's quite
legislation would be
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-02-11
GOVERNOR MILLER PUTS
WATER PROBLEM UP TO
SOUTHEASTERN MONTANA

On January 18th in a speech al
Sheridan, wyoming, according to
the Sheridan Press Governor Miller
spoke as follows: We have been
70 years developing irrigable lands
in Wyoming. In that time 2y000,-
600 acres have been placed under
water. but there are probably L.
500 900 more acres in the state
which can be reclaimed for agri-
cultural purposes if We are given
sufficient time.
Now our problem is to make
some effort to store Jul water
and to make use of it in wyoming
before it is tied down by priority
rights of our neighbor states, never
again to become available for
Wyoming development"
Wyoming's unique position and
Importance as a state where the
major water sheds of the west
are located was sketched by the
executive before he made a plea
for support in efforts to obtain
interstate compacts for water dis
tribution and expressed his strong
opposition to bills now before Con-
gress which would place all con-
troll of wyoming water under re-
e:onal authorities.
Stressing the need for interstate
compacts to safeguard the waters
of interstate streams which or
ieinate in Wyoming, the Governor
cited the Tongue river dam now
under construction north of Sher-
idan, and a proposed dam in the
Big Horn river as instances in
which wyoming stands to lose ad-
ditional water resources.
The Governor stated. Unless VIC
make agreements with other states
we're not going to have any water
in the future. If the people OF
Montana get into action first
therell be no water left for Wyom-
ing"
The Governors statements so fal
as the Big Horn water shed IL
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-02-11

1935-335 second feet per day; for
the last half of August, 1937-242
second feet per day.
Kane, wyoming is just a short
distance from the Montana-Wy-
oming line.
The Lower Yellowstone and Big
Horn Valley in Montana have, dur
ing the past five years, been ex-
shortage of water. The irrigation
districts have been paying out
large sums of money for diversion
dams, S15O.O0o for a dam on the
Crow Indian project, $50, 600 by
our second project and a large
sum by the Lower project in our
county. In the Lower Yellowstone
valley the same conditions prevail
and in the face of it all Wyoming
is developing irrigation projects
without thought of the lower users
and their rights through prior use,
Indian rights and Interstate flow
to a maintained flow. This is all
being done with the apparent idea
in mind of using all the flow of
the Big Horn and it's tributaries
and securing storage when the lack
VI ou411IlC1lU AVO" SO11APC2o. Nv
these conditions sustain the state
ment of the Governor-or is he
eating the pie and complaining
that we are after it?
It is time that southeastern
Montana woke up. If not the Big
Horn river in Montana will become
only a flood water stream and
southeastern Montana will truly be
an arid area.
It would appear that it is the
hope of wyoming to put to a ben
eficial use all the water that rises
in Wyoming. Be this as it may,
certainly a dam in the Big Horn
Canyon at the north side of the
Big Horn mountains in Montana
would not injure Wyoming's pro-
gram. That dam would retain in
the Big Horn Canyon the runoff
of the fifty miles of the Big Horn
mountain area in Montana, which
at the present time leaves this
arid area before it can be bene-
ficially used. To the extent that that
water is conserved it would seem
that it possibly might be as bene-
fetal to wyoming as Montana.
BIG HORN DAM ASSN.