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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18
BINCO BILL WILL
 CAUSE BIG FIGHT
Protestant Clergy cry Much Opposed--Catholies
 Want No Race Track Tag

Hartford, Conn, May 18.-(UP. A bitter battle between sponsors and opponents of bingo was forecast as the house today took up the con- troversial legalization bill, condemn ed on one side as gambling" and praised on the other as "a harmless diversion"
 Telegrams poured into the legis- lature from throughout the state in support or opposition to the bingo bill, already passed unanimously in the senate.
 The board of managers of the state convention of Baptist churches joined the opposition and passed a resolution asking defeat of the bill.
 "Bingo is gambling the resolu- ton said, land we are opposed to legalized gambling in any form in our state."
 Copies were sent to the governor and high legislative leaders.
 House leader Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., was reported opposed to the bill, despite a last-minute amendment presented by Senator Albert L. Coles, D., Bridgeport, sponsor of the measure, which would limit the ore ganizations permitted to play the game if it were legalized.
 Representative George E. Jones. R.. West Hartford, was ready to pro- pose an amendment to the bill, es- tablishing state lottery to balance the budget.
 No Race Bin Tag
 The Rev. Andrew L. Kelly. Hart- ford, pastor of St. Anthony's church. said in e sermon; If the bill is to be perverted into an omnibus to Icgalize dog-racing and other gam- bling raclets. the clergy will have Sothing to do with It."
 Father Kelly said the majority vf Me citizens should not be deprived R playing bingo because q few have abused the game,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18

avenue, Venice Square, the Empire Way, the Colosseum and the Avenue of St. John as the procession pro- ceeded across Rome on its two mile route. Pope Plus TX had been the last Pope to take formal possession of this Basilica. in 1846. After the Italian occupation of 1870, Popes had been voluntary prisoners" in- side the Vatican until the signing of the vatican-Italian treaty after Benito Mussolini's accession to pow CT.
 All public buildings and monu- ments in Rome will Do illuminated tonight, by Italian government or der, In the Popes honor, to celebrate his visit to St. Johns. The Vatican issued a special series of stamps tc commemorate the recent coronation of tho Pope. The Pope was welcomed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18

Vatican City, May 18-(UP) - Pope Plus took possession today of the Basilica of St. John in Lateran, mother and head of all churches" in Rome, and thus revived a tradi- ton broken when Italian troops captured Rome in 1870. On the sol- einn occasion of Ascension Day, the Pope drove by automobile in semi- state procession and as bishop of Rome took possession of the an- cient church which dates from 324 and was founded by Constantine the Great in palace of the family of Laterani.
 The Pope rode In an open auto mobile. fifth in a uiotorcade of 10. He was accompanied by Monsignor Arhorto Meila. master of the papal household. Thousands crowded Con- ciiiation avenue. Victor Emmanuel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18
Conn. River PouUer Project Is Killed

Washington. May 1S-UP) The House today was sched- uled to pass the $120,000.000 rivers and harbors auth0riza- tion bill after a sharp fight over a Republican drive to whittle 1t down.
 An attempt to authorize a $12,344,000 Connecticut River navigation power project above Hartford, Conn.,, was defeated among other amendments yes- terday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18
BODY IDENTIFIED

Berlin. Conn. May 1e-(UP)-A body found beside the railroad tracks by a train crey Wednesday was identified today as that of Wal ter Ferris Johnson. %. Kentucky employed at c construction camp. He died from c skull fracture suffered when struck by . train, according to tho medical examiner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18
8 Connecticut Pastors
 Given Rank Of Monsignor

through The Catholic of eight Connecticut pastors the monsignor appointee vadam the Church of Our Lady of Louds Waterbury another Rev. Fitzgerald, pastor Church. Naugatuck & The other monsignori
 J. St. Britain, mer Waterville pastor
 Rev. Musie, Cyril Mehodus Hartford
 John Ambot of the Holy Trinity Church, Hartford
 H. Fitzmaurice, of church, New
 Lynch St. Patricks church, Bridgeport.
 Joseph Paplon of St. Marys church, Willmantic.
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The Weather

Fair, Cooler Tonight; Friday Fair, Milder
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Manufacturers Now Use
Scents to Boost Sales

BUFFALO, N. Y.-The manufac-
ture of odors has reached the boom
stage because producers of various
commodities have discovered that
"the better it smells the better it
sells," according to DR.. Harold G.
Hewitt, assistant chemistry profess
sor at the University of Buffalo.
"The old can of glue appears now
with an odor of spring flowers" DR..
Hewitt pointed out. 'The painter Of
fers not only the color you wish,
but paint that is free from the So
called paint odor.' The food indus
try has taken to scenting the inks
which appear on food packages to
make the product more attractive.
Most articles of clothing have the
odor of starch employed in manu-
facture masked with perfume
Declaring that emotions can be in
f1uenced by the nose, DR.. Hewitt
recalled how scented stationery was
followed on the market by books
and magazines with delicately scent
ed pages to give their readers add
ed enjoyment.
1T would not surprise me at ALL"
he said, ''to learn that soon not only
will we buy gasoline which is tint
ed to suit our eyes, but probably
scented to please our nose."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Chinese Hold Classes
In Caves in Mountains

KWEILIN, CHINA. - Students
from various parts of China are now
f1ocking to the caves in the noun
tains of Kwangsi near here.
When schoolwork seemed at a
standstill as the Japanese were In
cessantly bombing this mountainous
province, a Chinese teacher, Tao
Tze-shing, hit upon the idea of u.s.
ing the 10 huge caves for school
houses and it proved at once an un-
qualified success.
The Han Min middle school, for
merly of Marking, the Kiangsu ed
ucational institute, and the China
vocational educational institute
which was once in the French con-
cession, Shanghai, are all now in the
large Kwangsi caves. In the small
er ones are libraries.
Numerous radio sets have been
placed in these improvised school
rooms and the students are kept fully
informed of all that is going on in the
present clash. Often they can hear
appeals and exhortations sent out
from Chunking by Gen. Chang Kali
Shek.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
MICHIGAN'S GOVERNOR SLAPS
HIGH LIFE

When ailing, 120-pound Repub-
lican Lieutenant Governor Luren
Dudley Dickinson became governor
of Michigan last March after the
death of Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald
few expected him to create any ex-
element. He was 80 years old. He
still taught a Sunday School class
near his home at Charlotte. His
chief interest was the Anti-Saloon
League, of which he was national
vice president. Moreover, he said
he would not seek reelection.
In June, Dickinson, accompanied
by his granddaughter and his secre-
tary, attended the National Confer
ence of Governors in Albany, N. Y.
With other governors, he was enter
tanned at big dinner parties in AL
bany, Saratoga Springs, New York
and at Hyde Park, where President
Roosevelt was host. At some of the
parties liquor was served. Dickinson
was shocked.
In Lansing last week, he issued a
blast against the thigh life" he had
seen at the parties. Liquor, he
charged, was served in large
quantities eat all official dinners of
the conference" except the one at
Hyde Park; but even there, "if they
asked for it, they probably would
have got it," "Girls from Is to 25,"
including the two with him, were
repeatedly" urged to drink, and
some succumbed to the 'sweet-voic-
ed hosts" but THANK God, our
girls came home unsullied, and
never will know how near the brink
they were" Purpose of his "ser-
mon," said Dickerson, was to warn
mothers and daughters of the dang
erous proximity of the hellish brink
for unprotected girls in anything
smattering of high life. There is
more danger than in the old saloon
days"
Denials of Dickerson's charges fol-
lowed Immediately. A host at one of
hthe parties called the statement
ridiculous" New York City's May
or Fiorello La Guardia said Dickin-
son had "hallucinations," adding:
Nobody pays any attention to him
in his own state, and surely I'm
not. :" Gov. r. l.. Cochran of Ne
braska fatty said there weren't
any wild parties" But Dickinson
retracted nothing. In fact, he re-
GREETED that he had not made his
criticism strong" and announced
that he was planning an attempt to
return prohibition to Michigan, if
not the whole country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
MILK AND MONOPOLY

Last November, the antitrust di-
vision of the Justice Department ad-
vanced another step in its drive
against monopoly by cracking down
on some parts of the milk industry.
After a years investigation by Fed
eral agents and 16 weeks of FEEDER
al grand jury hearings in Chicago,
it obtained two comprehensive in
dictments charging a vast conspir-
acy to fix fluid milk and ice cream
prices. This, conspiracy, said the
government, was in violation of the
Sherman antitrust acts provisions
against restraints of in ers t a t e
trade.
Named as conspirators in the milk
Indictment were "a corporations from
coast to coast and SO Individuals
big business executives, labor lead
ers and public officials including
DR.. Herman N. Bundesen, president
of the Chicago Board of Health.
Named in the ice cream indictment
were 90 corporations and 20 persons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
WHO WILL HEAD 1910 TICKETS.
]. E. Jones

Washington, d. c., July 31-The
figures of the Gallup polls indicate
the accuracy of the observation OF
one Senator that 1.-The only Demo-
cratic issue is Roosevelt" The Pres
ident is expected to be the nominee,
unless he should decline to be a
candidate for third term The
same Senator and most democratic
leaders do not expect him to decline.
The Gallup polls are accepted as
important because in every show
down they have proved to have
been correct. The polls show Thomas
E. Dewey to be the favorite of
ard bearer-actually it is Dewey
against the field. Dewey, AZ per
cent; all other potential candidates,
including Vandenberg, Taft, Hoover,
Landon, Bricker, Saltonstall, etc.,
So per cent.
How curious and remarkable 1t is
that the District Attorney of one of
the nations 1858 counties should
today so outdtstance the field as
the favorite of his party for the
1910 presidential nomination.!
The charge of his opponents that
Dewey is too young and therefore
too inexperienced does not stick as
far as the public is concerned. De-
cent people everywhere who respect
integrity and ability like the cut
of Dewey's jib, get enthusiastic over
the public record that he has made.
They like his public record because
they highly regard courage, INTEL
igence and ability wherever found
and especially in public life.
And like the astronomer they
don't have to wait to see comet
Land before knowing it's coures. In
stead, after the manner and method
of searchers of truth in the heavens,
they study its course, get range
on it's curves, calculate it's speed
and tell you exactly when and
where it will land.
While it is true that the science
of politics is not an exact one as
is the science of mathematics with
which the astronomers calculations
are made) nevertheless there is
enough known about it to enable
men to see where public figure
is going. And Dewey is going places.
He has become the symbol of hon
esty, courage, and decency in gov
eminent. He thinks straight, sees
straight, walks straight, and best
of all he is young-the symbol OF
the fresh, hopeful, clean, honest
leadership which can lead dis
couraged people to the firm ground
of high places.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
TRAVELLERS LARGE
SPENDERS

That U. S. citizens are great trav-
boat, airplane and even on foot, they
journey uncounted millions of miles
year not only at home but abroad.
AS tourists in their own country,
Americans can be counted upon to
swell the receipts of not a few
businesses.
That Americans as velers
abroad are big spenders was indi-
Gated in a report from the Depart
ment of Commerce last week. Prin-
cipal disclosures were these:
In the 20-year period from 1919
to 1888, U. S. citizens spent S.
400, 100000 on oversee travel, al
most ~ times as much as the ST.
OO0 100000 spent by foreigners Wis
iting the United States.
Peak of American overseas travel
came in 1929. In that year, Ameri-
cans spent total of $771,000,000
in foreign lands, compared to the
I$167, 100000 paid out by alien Wis
itors in this country. In 1888, the
figures skidded to $300,000,000 and
$64, 900; in 1887, they rose
again to $563,OO0,OOO and $751;
900, 200. In 1888, expenditures by
Americans abroad were still more
than 100000, while expendi-
lures of foreign visitors here re-
manned at approximately $16O,OOO,-
900.
Since 1894 expenditures for for
eign travel have accounted for al
most 40 per cent of the total pay
ments made by U. S. citizens to for
eigners for services and for 10 per
cent of the payments for both mer-
chandise and services.
Because of this travel, foreign
vessels received $221,000,000 from
American passengers in 1929 and
S125, 100000 in 1887. American
ships received from American pas
sengers only $55,00O,OO0 in 1929
and $37,O0O,000 in 1887.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
YOU CAN'T STRIKE AGAINST
THE GOVERNMENT

"You cannot strike against the
government.
With this blunt statement, Presi-
dent Roosevelt last week established
the governments opposition to the
nationwide walkout of unemployed
skilled workers engaged on WPA
constr ion projects. AT the
height of the ''stoppage," 92,77O
skilled building-trades workers,
mostly members of the American
Federation of Labor, had quit WPA
projects in an effort to force re-
establishment OF the prevailing
wage" principle for relief work.
This principle was scuttled by a
provision of the 1910 relief bill re-
curing every worker to put in $50
hours month on his WPA Job.
Previously, skilled workers had been
able to earn the same monthly wage
as under the new act by working
only one-third as many hours per
month.
Encouraged by the Presidents
firm stand, other government officl-
ais reiterated treir own opposition
to the "stoppage", so called because
they refused to recognize strike"
against relief.
Brought into the picture by new
outbreaks of violence in Mime
apolis, Mimi, where the second kill
ing of the strike occurred in a clash
between WPA pickets and police,
Attorney General Frank Murphy
revealed that his agents were in
vestigating some evidence OF rack
eteering' in promotion OF the strike
In the face of this barrage OF
criticism, the strike seemed to be
whiting at the weeks end. President
William Green OF the A. F. OF L.,
whose locals had strongly supported
the walkouts, indicated that the ma
tional organization was not whole
heartedly behind the move. We
clearly recognize he said, that
the remedy lies with Congress rath-
er than through strikes on WPA
projects. At the same time, Con-
gressional leaders who had planned
to seek restoration of the prevail
ing wage" principle announced that
they fund it "inopportune" to press
for such legislative action during
the strike.
Most effective action of all in dis
couraging the strike was WPA's dis
charge Of 32,5S2 relief employees
for failureto report for work for
five consecutive days.
The Pathfinder
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
MARYLAND STATE BONDS BRING
HIGHEST PRICE EVER
RECORDED HERE

AS an indication Of the high re-
gard in which Maryland's financial
future is held by the financial in
terests of the country, the bids for
the new issue of $1,000, 900. 90
Maryland State Bonds, opened by
the Board of Public Works, were the
best ever received for any previous
issue on record.
The highest bid of some twelve
received was from a New York syn
dictate, whose price of slightly above
par bonds to yield IL per cent
means that it will cost the State of
Maryland only 1.24 per cent inter-
est per annum, a figure which bears
irrefutable testimony to the coun-
try's confidence in Governor O'Con-
or's financial administration.
Governor O'Conor was delighted
with the bids, and Immediately af-
ter the award, issued the following
statement:
st is most gratifying to note
the exceptionally high price at
which Maryland State bonds were
sold today. The price is the high
est at which Maryland bonds have
been sold in the history of the state.
This is positive proof that those
who are in the best position to
know consider the States fiscal af-
fairs in splendid condition.
For years, emphasis has been
laid upon the necessity of having
balanced budget. We have now ac-
complished this result. Furthermore,
it has long been felt that our State
should not live on borrowed money
and defray current expenses loans.
The program which we have adopt
ed adheres strictly to such policy.
Another important factor is that af-
ter pursuing the most painstaking
effort to determine the total State
requirements for the next two years,
we tackled the problem and put for
ward tax program which would
produce an adequate amount. All
of these considerations undoubtedly
are reflected in the high bids made
for Maryland bonds. AS Governor of
the State, 1 am proud that, through
out the country, our securities are
valued so highly and that it is the
consensus of opinion that our fin
ancial house is in order"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
May Solve Dispute
Over Shakespeare
Pages in British Museum
Identified as Bard's.

LONDON. Hope Of definite set
Element of the claim that Francis
Bacon, Lord Verulam, wrote the
plays of William Shakespeare, was
offered in three faded, blotched
scraps of paper preserved under
glass in a show case in the Brit
ish museum.
DR.. Robin Flower, deputy keeper
of manuscripts of the museum, said
that he believed, after years of
study, that the fragments were writ
ten by Shakespeare, and thus were
the only original Shakespearean
writings known to exist, aside from
few mere signatures.
''If my verdict is correct" he
said, 1--WE shall be relieved forever
of the wearisome assertion that
anybody else but Shakespeare
wrote Shakespeare"
The three fragments, in untidy
writing, are ranged in the museum
alongside open pages of a manu-
script book in Bacon's neat, schol-
arly hand. They are three pages
from the play on Sir Thomas More,
and are part of the world famous
Harleian collection of the museum,
the collection of Robert Harley and
his son Edward, in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries.
''The conditions in which these
pages were written" DR.. Flower ex-
planned, 'imply that. they were the
original composition of journey
man dramatist called in by his COM
pany to patch up play to certain
features of which a censor might
have been expected to object. And
the great lawyer (Bacon) or the
magnificent nobleman (the seven
teenth earl of Oxford whom wild
theorists prefer to Shakespeare as
the author of Shakespeare's plays
do not fit easily in this role"
1t was in 1869, more than $50
years after Shakespeare's death,
that the theory was first advanced
that Bacon really wrote Shakes
peare's plays. Little attention was
caused then but the theory was re-
vived in 1848 and the controversy
over it has ragged ever since.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04

Last week the N. Y. Stock Ex-
change took first step to find out
just what the public thinks about
it and why. Well aware of the weak
mess of their institutions reputation
Stock Exchange officials appointed
Elmo Roper, marketing and re-
search expert, to make nation
wide survey of public opinion on
the nations leading securities ex-
change. Operating with well
established technique, Roper's army
of field workers will question a
cross-section of the population rep
resentative of the entire United
States.
The questions Roper will ask have
not yet been determined. In general,
however, they will be designed to
show the nature and extent of what
Exchange officials call ''misunder-
standings" of the markets function.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
MANY WPA WORKERS WILL
LOSE JOBS

WPA workers who had been en-
ployed for more than eighteen con-
secutive months in Maryland will be
dropped gradually in August.
These workers were ordered re-
moved from WPA pay rolls not later
than August 81 under relief bill
passed recently by Congress. Thirty
days must expire before these relief
workers are eligible again for WPA
employment. Meanwhile, they must
be recertified as to their need for
work.
Statistics compiled by the WPA
revealed that 14,468 persons are
now on the WPA rolls. At this time
last year 16,60O were working on
projects.
OF the total now working, 1873
are engaged on State projects and
the remainder on Federal projects.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Law Against Ornaments
In Colonies Uncovered

BOSTON.-In. 1851 colonists had
to own e200 before being allowed
to wear gold or silver ornaments,
silk bands or scarfs.
But magistrates and other public
officers, their families, military Of
fcers and soldiers then in service
and those whose estates had become
"decayed" were exempt from the
ruling passed by the general court
of Massachusetts, Bay colony, ac-
cording to the WPA historical rec
ords survey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Summing Up

AS Congress prepares to adjourn
it's members may look back over the
records of great extravagances and
shocking spendings. A large number
of lawmakers arrived in the Ma
tional Capital last January, boast
ing that they would bring about
economy in government, and reduce
taxes. Like oun@P resident who prom
ised 25 per cent reduction OF
public expenses in 1882, these crit
ical Congressman went the limit in
breaking all records in peace-time
spending.
1t all seems to indicate that an
independent" conservative can
spend the taxpayers money as easy
as reformers and liberals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04

New labor strikes, particularly OF
WPA workers, are worrying WASH
ington. Congress will not change
the law, and therefore workers must
''take it or leave it,
The legislature of New YORK
State asked for voluntary cut In
the salary of school teachers. Dyn-
annie Mayor LaGuardia thereupon
raised the roof and told the teach
ers not to agree to "any voluntary
cut in salary in order to cover the
perfidy of politicians" The teachers
promptly agreed with the Mayor.
Business is not good throughout
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04

To combat crickets threatening to
destroy crops in Wyoming and Mon
tana, entomologists last we k
spread a new kind of poison said to
tickle them to DEATH" Sprayed on,
the poison causes the cricket to
itch, scratch, and then lick the
deadly dust from their feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Giant Oak 1900 Years Ola

SAN MARINO, CALIF.-The gi-
gantic oak tree here, known as "The
Sentinel of the Ages" is believed
by scientists TO be the oldest and
largest oak in the world, It's age
has been established at 1900 years.
The trees circumference Is 20 feet
and its spread more than 90.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-08-04
Neutrality Legislation Postponed

1t will be a good public service
if the President carries the battle
for new neutrality policy to the
country. Senator Borah practically
challenged the Executive to start
discussion of that issue and the vet
eran legislator served notice that
both sides of the dispute would be
fully discussed. Let's hope that both
sides will meet this challenge.
The President and Senate agreed
to postponement of neutrality legis-
lation until the next sessin of Con-
gress.