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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
BY RUTH MILLETT

For years wives have been warned that they must com- plete in looks, charm and efficien-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

 
  Al names nre held In confidence Write
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Latest Styles
-RATsTNG A FAMILY - Wives Must Ever Be the 

DEAR MRS. YOUNG:
 Your letter is an exact counter. part of many others I have had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Caroline Chatfield
Young Wife Should Stay at Home with Babies If
 Husbands Salary Can Be Made to Feed, Clothe, {. and Cover the Family
Says To-day
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DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

DEAR MISS CHATF1ELD: question working individual you 5000 week which four of us vewo children man. the but of all than all
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

Manila, P. l., expects building boom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

UNASSIMABLEs: An unpaid bill drawer disturb of mind undgested bit of portion of the anatomy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

So advice to discouraged budget and pare until the spending pattern will fit well inside
 CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
ANSWER:

ANSWER:
 My young wife sO 8 you exactly nothing consider the where things left to hired h the feeding another mouth Then why little children wild chase which will be before What making may 1t will write welfare noted five could live well $l25 month Then should be able your income to your necessities
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

Now why make a budgetng income? surprised how much fun trying which has the most dabola of disappearing The harder at the skill acquire until finally will have reached the mine has rcached Says he I Now tell my money where go"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

It's perfectly natural for young pair to wish to keep with their
 automobiles radios But this the trouble with today willing to undergo praton hardship oo Of living on small income when credit put payday We aren't satisfied with primitive doing things when friends doing pensive
Evening star., 1939-03-26
200 Field B|uzes in Two Dovs
Keep Firemen on the Run

The first warm days of spring
might be enjoyable for most people
but for firefighters there is little time
to look for flowers.
Nearly 200 field fires have kept
firemen of the District and nearby
Maryland and Virginia on the run
almost continuously for the last two
days.
Warm weather, unreasonable dry
ness and human carelessness have
been blamed for the unusually large
number of grass and brush fires.
beglnning early yesterday, Dis
trict nremen were kept busy extin-
gushing blazes on vacant lots, the
majority OF them in Southeast and
Northeast Washington. A total of
20 mad been reported late last night.
In Arlington County alone, there
were Al brush fires ,extinguished YES
terday and Friday. Fairfax reported
13 field fires, while Vienna and
Herndon each reported 10.
Maryland flremen Jared much bet
ter, with the largest number OF
alarms-l0-reported by the Blad-
ensburg Fire Department.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Rx IRA WQLFERT.

NEW YORK, March Is N.AN.A).
Because the human mind simply
has not the space to absorb and
understand what the words in the
newspapers mean-those enormous
words that tell of refugees being
created every time Adolf Hitler
walks across a border line-Klaus
Mann was asked today If he would
bring the thing down to size.
Klaus Mann is the author Of sew
eral books and novels and a son of
Thomas Mann, the German author,
who is generally described as the
greatest of all living novelists. He
is a slender, blue-eyed, very vital
looking man, 80 years old, and, since
March IL, 1888, has lived as a ref
ugee among refugees. His family Is
Aryan and voluntarily chose exile.
Now he and his sister, Erika, who
was once married to a man who has
become prominent Nazi, have writ
ten a book about refugees-"Escape
to Life"-which will be published
April II.
He tries for q while to scale the
picture down to where a human
brain can see it and then he says
NO." helplessly. 1T is like bat
tlefield," he says. TOO huge"
"The refugees themselves-1 am
personally acquainted with hundreds
of them and have met thousands-
are like the soldiers. They see what
is happening to them and to those
around them. And those who read
about them, they are like the gen.
erals In their comfortable headquar-
tiers. They see the maps and read
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Man Admits Takinq
$1,800,000 in Bonds
AtHormel Home
Movie Stars Residences
Also Looted Regularly
In Lost Five Years
Ey the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES. March 25.-Con-
fesSion came today from Ralph
Graham, 40. that for five years he
Systematically looted the exclusive
Bel-Air homes of movie stars and
others. including that Of George A
HORNED. millionaire meat packer
from which $1,000. 900 in bonds were
taken in September. 1885, Detective
Capt. Harry Seager reported.
Seager quoted Graham as saying
he stole the non-negotiable HORNED
securities and returned them later
on payment Of s2500 through, q
lawyer Intermediary.
c. H. Hartke. attorney for Horned
confirmed that $2,50O was paid for
return of the bonds in January
1886, through secret negotiations
and cachings like those Of a kid
naping case. He said he did not
know whether the man he dealt
with by telephone was Graham.
Previous Figures Smaller.
This was the first time police
placed a $1,80O,OOO value on the
bonds. All previous official figures
were s500,OO0 to 100000.
The securities were stolen two
nights after HORNED and Mrs
HORNED left for Austin, Mimi, where
Horned is board chairman of a
packing company employing some
1000 persons. Hartke eventually ad-
vertised a reward for return of the
securities after he and HORNED de-
cided police efforts to recover them
would fail.
He said parts of the bonds and
parts of the recovery money were
traded" in four separate instances
by leaving them in appointed places
until the deal was completed
Capt. Seager said Graham con-
fessed he had committed about sc
burglaries in the Bel-Air area.
Movie Stars Victimized.
Losses of jewelry, clothing ano
furnishings in the area for a 5-yea,
period have been estimated by police
at about 81 100000, but Graham de.
clared practically all of his victims
greatly exaggerated their losses.
Burglary victims in the Bel-Ail
region include Barbara Stanwyck
Carole Lombard, Miriam Hopkins
Fred MacMurray, Alice Faye, Gary
Cooper, Ann Dvorak, Ken Murray
Lii Damita, Lila Lee and Fanny
Brice.
Police said nothing definite had
developed in a requested check to
determine whether Graham might
be Willard Jersey DeviD Borton
wanted in connection with the slay.
ing OF Ethel Allen, 10, near Eau
Gallie, Fla, in 1884.
Evening star., 1939-03-26

While firemen were battling q
two-alarm warehouse fire at
Twelfth and E streets S.W, last
night, three brush fires were extin.
guished in the Southeast section OF
the city.
At the time of the two-alarm
blaze, total of rs companies were
on the street, according to the Dis
trict Fire Board.
Firef1ghters of No. 10 Engine
House, located at Twenty eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue Sc
were taking much-needed rest last
night after putting out nine such
fires yesterday.
The peak of local alarms occurred
yesterday when 16 calls were an
swered between 1890 and 2 pm
Between 7 pm. and $50 pm. IL
calls were received by District
firemen.
Nearby firemen requested home
owners to be particularly cautious
in burning trash. Attention was
called to the loss Of game from field
fires,
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Body Of Youth Missing
Since Feb. Is Is Found

Finding last night of the body OF
Lawrence w. Carr, 81, missing since
February IS, in the water at the
edge Of the Anacostia River near
the railroad trestle launched an in
vestigation by the police homicide
squad to determine the cause of his
death.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid announced that an autopsy
would be performed this morning on
the body, which was found by Har-
land chatham of 113 Maryland ave-
nue. N. E.
Edward Davis of 141s1a East Cap
ttol street, brother-in-law of the
dead youth and with whom he lived,
identified the body at the District
Morgue.
The young man was first reported
missing by Wilbur Lenz, %, Of HOO
East Capitol street, who told police
that the two had been forced to
jump of the trestle to avoid being
struck by a train, had fallen into a
mud hole while making their way
along the tracks on the west side of
the bridge and had been helped to
their feet by two railroad employees
At the time Lenz told police he
became exhausted and was forced
to leave his companion after they
had continued short distance.
Police of the harbor precinct
patrolled the Anacostia River up to
the trestle on the night Of the acci-
dent and on succeeding days with
out result.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Export or Die
Klaus Mann Finds Sworms Of His
Unwonted Countymen ROAMING World

the dispatches and In sheer self
defense a wall grows around their
brains. People must become 'effec-
tives' to them or 'replacements,' or
else they would go crazy and be
unable to do their work"
The facts enter an Americans
mind as pain enters it or the emotion
OF horror or excitement. They are
just general confusion. First, there
was Germany itself, into which Hit
Ter walked from his native Austria.
Then there was the Saar, then Aus
tria, then the Sudetenland, then
in less than a week-Bohemia, Mo-
ravia, Slovakia, Memelland. And
always the next day, inevitable as
death, there were the newspaper
stories of human beings exploded out
Of their homes, vast swarms of them,
rising from Hitler as dust rises when
a boot stamps into it.
Suicides graves filled with the cas-
ualties of Hitler's "bloodless" war OF
conquest. A maternity hospital for
German Aryans married to German
non-Aryans Is established in Paris
because too many women have died
Of trying to hide violations of Nazi
racial laws by giving birth in caves
and fields, out Of sight of German
doctors. And everywhere the lines
form, before frontiers and railroad
trains and steamship piers and for
eign consulates. From on high this
line Of humanity must look like a
welt across the face of Central Eu-
rope.
This exodus" says Mr.. Mann, "is
different from any other, In my life-
IS>~ n = 4 111f 49,
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Pittman Committee
Will Grapp|e With
Neutrality Program
Senate Unit to Decide
First if Change Is
Wise at Present
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee will wrestle with the neu-
trality program this week. When it
meets Wednesday it will determine
whether to take up the question of
amending or repeating the existing
Neutrality Act, or whether to let
matters ride along as they are.
If the committee decides to open
up discussion it will arrange for
hearings on the five measures pro-
posing to amend or repeal the Neu-
trality Act now pending before the
committee, and any others that may
be introduced.
Decidedly there is grave doubt
that the committee will do any,
thing just now-and if anything is
attempted, that it will be possible
for majority to unite on any piece
of legislation.
Chairman Pittman said yesterday
he was firmly convinced that if
there are to be changes made in
the neutrality laws they should be
accomplished while most of the
nations of the world" are not at
war. To undertake to amend these
laws after war in Europe breaks
out, if it does, would, in the opinion
of the Nevada Senator, cause i'll
feeling, and might be regarded in
some nations as an unneutral act.
OF the five measures now before
the Foreign Relations Committee,
Senator Pittman's own bill provides
for repeal of the existing laws and
for substitution of the Peace Act
of 1889" the proposed title of his
bill. This has been dubbed the
'cash-and-carry bill"
Under the Pittman proposal, the
existing law providing for embargoes
against sale and shipment of arms
and munitions to warning nations
would be repealed, along with the
"cash-and-carry" provision of the
present law which makes it compul-
sorry for warning nations to pay cash
for supplies other than munitions
and arms and convey them from the
United States in ships not carrying
the American flag.
In place of these provisions, the
(see NEUTRALITY, Page A-30
Evening star., 1939-03-26
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Congress could postpone next
years scheduled increase in social
security pay roll taxes for old-age
insurance and still move up the
date for beginning annuity pay
ments from l942 to 1910. Chairman
Byrnes of the Senate Unemploy-
ment Committee said last night.
His statement came after the
proposal to ease up on this phase of
social security taxation, made to
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee Friday by Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau, had gained
numerous supporters both in and
out of Congress.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee, which
has been holding hearings on social
security revision plans, said that
from what he has heard of the Nor
genthau proposal, he is in accord with
1t. Unless Congress amends exist
ing law, the pay roll tax for old
age insurance would go up next
January from l to IL per cent on
both the employer and the employe.
Meanwhile, special committee
OF the United States Chamber of
Commerce issued a report last
night recommending a series of So
cial security changes.
Pay-As-Y0u-GO Basis.
The chamber committee placed
first switch to the pay-as-you-go
basis for old-age insurance, in
stead of the present accumulated
reserve system adhered to by private
insurance companies on actuarial
principles, which, the committee
contended. "are inconsistent with a
government operated, compulsory
system of benefits, supported by
taxation"
Senator Byrnes, in indorsing post
ponement of the increase in old-age
tax rates, expressed confidence it
would not interfere with beginning
annuity payments to persons reach
ing IS in 1910, instead of 1912 This
Is one of the features of his pending
bill for permanent solution of the
unemployment problem. The earlier
(see SOCIAL SECURITY, Page A-30
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Magistrate Removed
On Bribe Charge
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Magis-
trate Mark Rudich. accused by Spe-
cial Assistant Attorney General John
Harlan Amen of having accepted
bribes from Louis Kassman, a pro-
fessional bail bondsman, was re-
moved from Office today by the
Brooklyn appellate division.
The decision was unanimous. A
spokesman for Amen said, Our in
quiry into the judiciary in Brooklyn
will continue
Rudich said the court had found
him not corrupt, but delinquent. and
remarked: Unfortunately the law
provides for no appeal"
He asserted, too, that he had been
assured there would be no criminal
proceedings against him, but this
was not corroborated by the prose-
cution.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Conci|iotory Speech Expected
To Be Given by Duce Today
MussoIini Receives Strongly Worded
Message Of Support From Hitler

Among those Fascists who were
familiar with the tenor of Hitler's
communication which expressed
solidarity with Mussolini against at
tempts to restrict the justified will
for living" of their two nations
the fact that it was not published
was considered a clear indication
that Mussolinis remarks would not
be bellicose.
A brief communique said only
that the Prince of Hesse, son-in-law
OF King Victor Emmanuel, had
brought II Duce an anniversary
message from Hitler in which the
Fuehrer joins in the ceremonies in
the name of the German people.
The opinion was expressed that
(See MUSSOLINI, Page A-l5D
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Serious Crimes 34% Fewer
In D. c. 1888, Report Shows
Efficiency Of Police Department
Increased Meanwhile, Dr.. Nolan Soys

Serious crimes decreased by 34.3
per cent in 1888, while efficiency of
the Police Department increased, it
was reported last night by DR.. James
A. Nolan, director of the Washing
ton Criminal Justice Association.
Pointing to number of factors
which he said entered into the crime
slump" DR.. Nolan declared that
generally the administration of
criminal justice in the District of
Columbia has become more efficient,
because Washingtonians are now
keenly interested in that adminis-
tration."
Despite the fact that crimes such
as burglary and larceny increased
throughout the United States in
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Brilliant Assemb|aqe
Views Corcoran
18th Biennial
Exhibit Of Contemporary
American Paintings
Opens to Public Today

The Sixteenth Biennial Exhibition
OF Contemporary American Oil
Paintings. regarded nationally as
one of the best displays OF work by
living American artists, opened last
night at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
with preview attended by a bril-
liant assemblage of invited guests.
The exhibition, which includes 369
pictures by 358 artists from many
States, will be thrown open to the
general public at pm. today and
will be available to the public daily
thereafter up to and including
May 7.
The company which thronged the
spacious galleries of the Corcoran
for first view of the paintings Sc
lected by a group Of eminent artists
acting as jury of award included
leaders from official, diplomatic, So
cial and artistic circles. A number
OF visitors came from out of town.
Greeted informally by members
OF the Board of Trustees of the
gallery and by c. Powell Minnige-
rode, director of the gallery, the
guests leisurely enjoyed their stroll
through the attractively decorated
institution. Music from an orches-
ira on the main floor mingled with
the comments of guests.
Drawings by Sterne.
Upon entering the gallery visitors
proceeded through the lobby colon
made of laurel-entwined pillars to
the grand staircase flanked by palms
and evergreens, and mounted to the
second floor, where the paintings
were distributed through nine GAL
leries and the central exhibition
hall. Laurel roping was used deco
ratively throughout.
Prominently displayed at the head
of the grand stairway in the main
hallway, second floor. is a special
exhibit of % drawings by Maurice
Sterne, chairman of the jury.
OF particular interest to the pre-
view company were the paintings
chosen by the jury of award for the
w. A. Clark prizes and the Cor
coran awards.
The painting which won first
prize of $4,000 and the Corcoran
Gold Medal-"Summer Fragrance" /"
by Franklin G. Watkins of Phila-
delphia-is in Gallery D. It is a
handsome still life painting of fruits
and flowers, considered an unusual
(see CORCORAN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1939-03-26
One Is Frustrated
In Record 81 Heat;
Showers Due Todav
Summer Brings Out
Thousands; Flowers
In Full Bloom
pictures on Pa1e BIZ

Showers this afternoon and TO-
morrow are expected to keep the
Capital area slightly cooler than
yesterday, when record heat pros
trated a furniture mover and stimu-
lated colorful signs of spring
throughout the District.
With bright sun shooting the
temperature up to 844, the highest
ever recorded here on March Is,
thousands of Washingtonians crowd
ed the golf courses, parks, the Zoo
and nearby highways to enjoy a
summerlike Saturday afternoon.
Tlnges of pink about the tops OF
some of the Japanese cherry trees
around the Tidal Basin heralded
rapid approach of natures most
famous annual display of beauteous
color in the Capital. The plentiful
buds are expected to burst into full
bloom before Friday. when Cherry
Blossom Festival Week opens off,
cially.
The heat record was set shortly
after 2 pm. yesterday. The ther-
mometer fell back at pm. and was
down to a comfortable 10 by 9:3O
pm. The temperature is expected
to range only slightly lower today
with little change tomorrow. The
Weather Bureau predicted occa-
sional showers this afternoon and
tomorrow.
First Heat Prostration.
The previous record high tempera-
ture for March Is was SO degrees
set In 1910. The all-time high fol
March was SO on March %, 1907.
Washington's first heat prostra-
ton victim of the year was .Esk-
ridge Waverly, IS, colored, 22l5
Ninth street NV, who collapsed
while unloading furniture in the
400 block of Delafield place NV
He was revived by Sixth Precinct
Policeman Clarence D. Roberts and
sent home.
Enough of Marylands legislators
lodged the heat in Annapolis and
went home for the week end to
force adjournment until tomorrow
OF a session scheduled to consider
important budget bills.
While awaiting the full blossom
ing OF the Tidal Basin cherry trees
Capital residents and visitors found
other cherry trees on the Library
(See SPRING, Page A-83
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Third Term No Family Topic,
Elliott Roosevelt Replies

jibs at young Roosevelt for his
broadcast.
He commented that regardless
OF how the family might feel about
1t, the fact of the matter is that
out here you can't stop people in
sisting that your pa has got to stand
for q third term"
Young Roosevelt wrote him in
reply that, II have no way, nor do
you, of knowing whether the Presi-
dent would run for q third term or
not" and added:
when he makes up his mind he
will announce, not through you or
me, but to the world at large. What
the family thinks or feels has no
(See THIRD TERM. Pare A.3)
Evening star., 1939-03-26
By the Associated Press,

6y tNe ASSOCldteQ fIeSS.
ROME, March 26 Sunday
Fascists expected conciliatory
speech from Premier Mussolini at
the celebration of their party's Goth
anniversary today despite strongly
worded message of support from
Adolf Hitler.
The text of the message to II
Duce was known only to a few in
Rome because, contrary to the usual
practice, it was not made public.
The text of the message was made
public in Berlin, however.
Concern in Rome over the Euro
pean situation has eased somewhat
amid signs that Italy and France
might come to terms on Fascist
claims for colonial concessions.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
BY the Associated Press,

0S Vic AcSOCAAteO 1Ic6Ss
PINEHURST, N. c., March 25.-
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the Presi-
dent, addressed an open letter to-
night to his brother-in-law, John
Boettiger, Seattle newspaper pub
Usher, expressing the view that q
third term was not q subject for
the family to argue publicly.
Young Roosevelt, in a Fort Worth
(Tex) radio broadcast last Monday
described Vice President Garner as
being "in the drivers seat" as a
likely Democratic presidential can
didate.
Today in an open letter printed
on page one of the Seattle Post
1ntelligencer. Of which he is pub
Usher, Mr.. Boettiger poked gentle
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Two Boys Flee Home
Clad in Night Gowns

Two ghostly figures fled last night
from the Industrial Home, 24OO block
Of Wisconsin avenue NV.
They were two 15-year-old boys
inmates of the home, who escaped
about midnight clad in nothing more
than their long white night gowns,
Police were asked to be on the look
out for them.
Evening star., 1939-03-26

1888" he said in his annual report,
Washington shows a notable de-
crease in practically all its major
offenses. There were 1,184 fewer
residences and stores burglarized in
1888 than in 1887, there were TIA
less cases Of serious theft, 426 fewer
robberies of all types were perpe-
trated and aggravated assaults were
reduced by 245. In all serious crimes
the District showed a reduction of
2,575 offenses for 1888 as compared
to 1887, which represented the 343
per cent decrease.
During 1888, 1882 serious crimes
such as arson, aggravated assault
carnal knowledge, embezzlement
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Byrnes Favors Delay
In Raising Social
Security Taxes
Series Of Changes in Act
Urged in Chamber of
Commerce Report
BACKGROUND


Varied proposals for changes in
the Social Security Act haze been
considered by House Ways and
Means Committee in hearings
that began February I. Admin
istration has proposed Hberalisa-
ton OF old-age insurance bene-
fit payments in early years and
poStponement OF scheduled pay
roll tar increases.
Evening star., 1939-03-26

(See CRIME, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-03-26

(See BORAH, Page A-40
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Weather Forecast

Cloudy, with occasional showers begin
ming In afternoon; tomorrow showers;
not much change in temperature. Tenn
peratures esterday-Highest, "a, at 3
PM; lowest, 81, at am. Full report on
page A-2
Evening star., 1939-03-26

(see THIRD TERM, Page A-3J