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Evening star., 1939-10-20

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Casco Prod (1g).
Catalin (Am)
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Celluloid 1st pf
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Chi Rivet t.30g)-
Childs of --,
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Cons Steel Corp
Cook Paint t.60)-
Cooper-Bess
Cooper-Bes pr pf
Copperweld .60g-
Cosden Petrolm :
Cosden Petrol pf
Creole Petm .50a.
Crocker Wheeler
Crown Drug -.
Cuban Tobacco
Cuneo Press (3a)
Dayton Rub 1.25i
Decca Rec Cog
Det Mich Stove
Det Paper Prod
Divco Twin .40g
Driver-Har .55g-
Drive-Har pf 60
Eagle Picher Id
East'n Gas & F.
Eastn G&F s of
Ea stn G&F Or Of
Eastn Mall Iron
Eastern States =.
Eastern SITS of B
Easy WI sh MOB
Eisler Electric
Elec Bond & Sh
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Elgin Nat W .75g
equity Corp
Equity CIV pf (3)-
Esquire t.60)----
Fairchild Av .20g
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Ferro-Enam (1)-
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Godchaux (B) -
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Greenfield T & D
Grumann Air.50g
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Helena R(A)(1)-
Heydeh Ch 100
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Hollinger 6 .65a
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Imp Tob Can .40a
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Int Hydro Ell pf--
Int Indust log.
Int Pa&Pwr war
Int Petrol l.60a--
Int Products -.
Int Utilities (A)-
Int Utilities tB)
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Irving Air c (1a)
Jacobs Co -
Jones & Lau Stl-.
Kennedy's .50g--.
kingston Prod -
Kirby Petroleum.
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Lakey Fdry & M
Lehigh Coal & N
Leonard Oil
LIE Tourneau .75g
Lockheed Airc -
Cfeel 1 20
Lone Star <40g)-
Long island LtK-
Loudon Packing
Mo Willms Dredg
Majestic Radio
Manati Sug war.
Memph N g .36g-
Mercantile Strs--
Mesa bi Iron -
Mich Gas & OIL.
Mich Sugar
Midwest Abras-
MID West Corp
MINI M&M 1.65E-
Molly ybdenum -
Monogram Pic.
Mont Ward A (7)
Mon LH&P 1.50--
Mount City Cop
Mount Prod(.60)-
Murray (O) .50g-
Muskegon 1.20E-.
Nat Auto Fibre
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Nat City l. .60g-.
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Nat Tea pf -
Nat Transit. '.35g-
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Evening star., 1939-10-20

UflclaI returns frOnN other martS
were not reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
MOVING TO SUBURBS (New Hav-1 Journal -Courier)

One of the most characteristic trends of modern urban popula- tions is that from the center of the city to It's outskirts. In those cities where political boundaries, reaching back into history, are narrow, the effect of the movement has been grave. For one thing, grand lists have suffered, as property values have declined. As more and more people move out, they need, not shelter within the city limits, but parking spaces; and their needs are met by the demolition of real estate improvements of all sorts which leaves merely the bare eh h of parking spaces. But parking spaces don't yield so much in taxes.
 There is a subtler result of this tendency now coming into view in some cities. It is the fact that those who move to the suburbs often hap pen to be among the most useful of the community's citizenry. This reduces the lists Of those who are available for various sorts of muni- cipal service; with the result that appointment sometimes have to be made from seriously narrow select ions. Many a modern Mayor has doubtless had the experience of drawing lists of men known to the community as fit for a given com mission post: only to find some of the best of them residents of some suburb. It is not a. reassuring sign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
The System, Not the Judges

The last complaint voiced by Professor Albert Levitt of Bedding was addressed to the Connecticut Bar Association and proposed that this organization probe the appointment of minor court judge ship deals that were supposed to have taken place during the late days of the 1889 legislative session. It is unfortu- nate that many fine judges in our minor courts thus come under public suspicion. As a general rule most of them are con- scientious and hard-Working. Unfortu- nately they become part of bad system.
 Had not Connecticut legislators for some years past been independent enough in most instances to name good judges in the minor courts there might have been more glaring examples of court politics in evidence As it was there were enough of them for most of us to realize that the system in Connecticut of playing football with these minor courts was faulty and sooner or later would have to be tossed out the window. UnSucceSSfully this proceudre has been attempted now for several years.
 Whether or not any probe of the recent appointments would do any good we honestly don't know. Personally we don't think it would. Everyone is more or less familiar with the court set-up and how it works. We hate to see good judges forced to play politics to protect their jobs but that's the way it has been and every effort to change the system has thus far failed. Republicans are claim ing that they brought about sweeping reforms in our minor court system. The main one, however, remains to be made. Only complete removal of the appoint ments from the legislative body will pro- duce such reform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Law Lid Blows Of

People used to have funny idea that there was limit to the things you could do by law. Of course we know better now. You can do anything by law. Why, not long ago we had law telling people what they couldn't drink.
 There is no longer any limit. Illinois is pioneering. It is on the point of passing a law forbidding picture houses to show double features. This, of course, opens the way for lot of new laws which no- body mad dared to think about before. Let your imagination go little:
 How about law that there must be not less than three, not more than five shrimps in shrimp cocktail? This is ptac- tically tradition, anyway, like the third term. How about law against any one woman spending more than six hours in beauty parlor in any one day?
 How about law providing that vege- table plate shall always consist of equal dabs of spinach, buttered beets, carrots, and peas? How about law providing that all restaurants serving chop suey must publish on the menu its exact con- tents?
 How about law prohibiting double header baseball games? How about law prohibiting people from showing more than once those movies they made on the vacation to Geezick Falls?
 How about law prohibiting doubling at bridge? Or in brass? In short, how about law?
 Well, how about it? You might think, in your innocence, that the question of how many pictures a movie was going to show would be business question, purely between the people who make and sell the movies, the people who show them, and the people who go to see them. That would be the old-fashioned view So purely private matter as this, matter so little tinged with the public interest, would scarcely have been considered a matter behind which to throw iron regu- lation and the majesty of the law.
 But Illinois is on the point of declaring otherwise. Do the kids love to sit all after noon watching an interminable show? No matter - the law knows best. Do the elders want to drif5 in, catch a quick show, and beat 1t? No matter, the law knows best. Any such law as that now proposed by Illinois would certainly seem destined straight for long career in the courts, which will then be faced with the difficult task of determining precisely how much movie the citizen is entitled to see for his quarter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Outsmarted

The Old English pedigree of the world 'outsmarted" may be little blurred, and perhaps you won't even find the word in your dictionary. But it is fine, express sive coinage of the mint of modern Ameri- can life, bright and true-ringing. This Americanism was given added standing by it's use in decision by New York Supreme Court Justice William T. Collins who ruled in so many words that "ob- viously the defendant outsmarted the plaintiff"
 The sense of the usage was not to sug- gest that the defendant had done any thing discreditable, rather the reverse, that he had simply thought faster and farther ahead on the deal in which suit had been brought, a proceeding under New York States Feld-Crawford fair trade act And besides the happy use of a grand American word, the justice also showed that fair trade laws are not always and necessarily the death of competition. Within the act, he ruled there is still room for that effort to outsmart the other fellow which is at the base of any con- petitive system of economy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

Of one thing the President ever re- mained conscious and that was the devo- ton and service Claude Swanson had given his country. He was long in its service, including years as governor of Virginia, years in the lower House of Congress and prior to his Cabinet post a senator. More than that Roosevelt and Swanson were firm friends of many years standing and no matter what happened or was said each stuck to the other through thick and thin.
 As head of the naval portfolio in the government Swanson did good job while his health was with him. But unfortu- nately he was needed more than ever in the last year or so and he couldn't physic- ally assume the burden. The problems of our growing navy and the ever present threat of war in which this nation might ultimately be involved called for the pres ence of 24-hour-a-day official. This Swan- son could not be. It might seem as if criticism would surely be leveled at either Roosevelt for not replacing Swanson or the latter for not resigning, but 1t must be said that friend and foe of the admin istration never had anything but good to say of Secretary Swanson and his con- tinued presence in the Cabinet. Such a tribute is certainly fine memory of a hard-Working government servant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

Wives under Massachusetts law have as much right to work as their husbands. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has just advised the Legislature that married women in public service can't be restricted or prohibited. This controversy on married women holding municipal or state jobs has ragged all through the Bay State for two or more years, but it's the married women's turn to exult now Marriage un- der the law doesn't change a women's constitutional rights or guarantees. All of which is quite true.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Views of The Press

most severe form of exposition feet, namely, acute gouty arthritis."
 Also pr. Hench adds that thou sands of Americans are suffering from gout today, only most of them don't know what they have, The modern generation of medical men was taught to believe that gout practically disappeared after the war. As result the statistics of several clinics indicate that most gouty patients have to suffer their disease five to IS gears before 1t is properly diagnosed"
 This is indeed shock to many of us, who always thought gout a dis ease to be associated with choleric ex-army officers in England. The familiar picture of the gouty patient has always shown f1orid com- plexioned, explosive old English man, who has drunk port wine for decades and likes his grouse shoot- ing and fox hunts, only he cannot indulge in either one any more be- cause of his sensitive feet. The gout suffered is supposed to have one foot Swathed in bandages and rest ing tenderly on chair or footstool in front of him. He fends off all corners with cane, which he swishes vigorously through the air until 1t actually whistles. This is to keep all clumsy bystanders from nudging the foot. But every once in 8 while someone is bound to stum- ble over 1t, just the same.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

Gene Tunney takes a crack at the Soviet Republics exhibit at the Worlds Fair in this weeks issue of America. He says that it is grand spectacle of grandeur, but not a true picture of the country. Others have been of this same opinion. The ord mary visitor is greatly impressed, but to pass an opinion, should, like MT. Tunney, have visited Russia to know just how much of the exhibit is true picture, and and how much of it is propaganda, which MT. Tunney claims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

Week-ends especially those mixed up with holiday are so much enjoyed these days that very few working people want to work Saturdays. For many the week. end begins after business on Friday and if not Friday, afternoon on Saturday. This makes it just fine. We sometimes wonder how folks got along in the old days at all, when Saturday was just like Tuesday or Wednesday. Now that Satur- day is more or less lost in the shuffle there are some who would like the Monday holi- day; not every Monday of course, but periodic Mondays. In the British Isles they have their bank holidays periodically, when work shuts down from Saturday un-- til Tuesday, and try and buy spool of thread or a yard of goods during that interim.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Selected Poem
THE MAGIC NEEDLE.

The Queen of Sheba, we are told, While she was learning how to scold, Threw into stack of hay
 A needle that soon went astray. "The one who'll find it, will" she said, Wear a gold crown on his head. He will be king and I'll be queen Of the fairest country ever seen" The love-sick youth who sought renown, Rushed from far and nearby town To where the magic needle lay Hidden in a stack of hay
 Then trotting slowly on the road Came donkey with load Of peacocks for the lovely queen Who watched her suitors on the green Scratch and fight like angry crows, Until they yelled and came to blows. And when no needle could be found They all lay prostrate on the ground. Like one by some strange power beguiled. The donkey saw the hay and smiled He dined on wisps blown north and south, And found the needle in his mouth
 (seumas oBrien in the New York sun)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Claude A. Swanson

Of the members of President Franklin D. Roosevet's Cabinet none was held in more esteem or better liked than the veteran Claude Swanson, Secretary of the Navy, who died yesterday at a camp re. treat in the Blue Ridge Mountains oi his native state of Virginia It might truth fully be said that Swansons usefulness as an active member of the Cabinet ended several years ago. but never was there heard one whisper from the President about replacing him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS

A Girl Looks
 Down on Life
 For 12 hours Anne Minton stood
 OH the 15th-story window
 ledge of a Los Angeles hotel.
 How her long vigil, as she
 reviewed her own life, affect
 cd the personal affairs of
 many of those watching her
 Is told In Myron Brinig's dra-
 matic novel, "Annc Minton's
 Life" (Farrar and Rinehart:
 $2.5O), from which the fol-
 lowing quotations are taken:
 Anne was looking down at the street again, The crowd had grown to thousands who stood and waited for something to happen.
 And in addition to these thou sands there were hundreds of thousands of other people who were not here, but who were reading about Anne in newspa- pers hot off the presses and hear ing about her over the radio.
 All of Los Angeles had suddenly become conscious of this tragic, solitary figure who stood like an animal at bay against the wall of the hotel
 Hundreds of men and women in Southern California at this precise moment were fighting it out with death Tn seclusion. But Anne Min ton had chosen to fight 1t out be- fore the world
 Whatll I do? Shall I jump now or shall wait? I'm trying to make up my mind, and it's hard. What have I got to live for? An insane asylum?
 And then she thought, What ir heavens name am I doing out here anyway? Inf getting aw. fully tired. I don't know if I car stand it much longer. My knees are beginning to feel weak and my shoulders feel cramped and full oi pain. My hands feel heavy as il there were weights in the palms oi my hands.
 And I'm not sure want to di, yet. After all, it's still light. Wher it's dark I'll be able to know better Why am l here anyway?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

willing to give 1t another lease on life because I know Jesse won't. use It."
 If Jesse kept tight-fisted grip on the RFC's money bags when 1t came to little businessmen he was free indeed with advice to bankers about being open-hand- ed.
 In various speeches he lectured them about their obligation to be liberal in extending business credit. The fact that his own bank, the National Bank of Com merce of Houston, had liquidity of more than 80 per cent-that is, was loaded with cash and bonds instead of loans to business--did not seem to strike Jesse as in- congruous. When asked how he explained this, Jesse naively re- piled that he hadn't read his banks statement.
 NOBODY KNOWS
 Throughout al the historic legislative battles of 1886 '37 and '38, nobody knew where Jesse stood on any of the great issues. The inner circlers suspected him of secretly opposing the public works spending programs. But he never dropped a word in pub lie by which they could call him.
 In the SEC he was suspected of secretly fighting Wall Street regu- lation and aggression enforcement of the utility holding company act. But, again, he never gave the boys anything into which they coud sink their teeth.
 Similarly, during the Supreme
 Court battle, Jesse played 'pos-t sum, as he Is doing today In the
 bitter undercover struggle be-
 tween Vice President Garner and the White House. Neither
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

twitched pan. The comedy femme was Eleanor Holm.
 Friends tell me that screened we'll and tha. Eleanor was comely complement to the brief appearance in front of the tele- vision cameras. But I would like to give even further tribute to the lady. She saved the day-or the ten minutes of the day--when this televised experience took place. Being poised and glib, she kept the conversation from gasps and lullS, and when her timid Heading man" was searching for the next sentence, Eleanor was right out there batting a thou sand with informal chatter. HEAVY GREASEPAINT
 NOT NEEDED NOW
 Television, let me report from the inside, has come a long way since the last time 1t was mention ed here.
 The fat layers of makeup aren't necessary any more, for the new science has passed the phase when the epidermis had to be coated with crimson, green and black greasepaints. A mere dab on the ladys lips with a special cosmetic is enough to meet the cameras requirements.
 And that small. square Satan, the microphone, is no tone of television's menaces. Its imag- ined horns do not reach out for the victim who confronts 1t, as in sound-radio, for 1t is perched high over the head and is out of sight. TELEVISORS HAVE
 MIKE FRIGHT, TOO
 All in all, television is vastly more informal than broadcasts- by-ear.
 Scripts in the hand are forbid den on teleVised programs, for there would be no interest in per- formers who have to read their lines from paper. By an ingeni- ous device of inserting some notes between the cellophane wrapper and package of cigarettes, I felt safe when the ordeal began and the cameras turned. Sen- tenceS surely would form easily and bon mots would. flow from the lips like a Niagara.
 But such panic as seizes the vic- tim when he is on the air and can't bail out is unavoidable. And even the succor that comes from smoking profusely and "cribbing" from the cellophane is meager. The tongue slips notch or two, the breath runs short and the thoughts run out.
 That's where the pretty Aqua belle came to the rescue. Origin ally, I was supposed to have been the interviewer and Eleanor, the interviewee. Though the roles were surprisingly reversed. no one was happier than I at the trans position. Those who saw our like- ness in the receiving set panels within the fifty-mile radius, say they saw me smile. If so, Eleanor's quips and jokes must have been good. I don't remember what they were now. I was too busy think ing of what to say in return. But our allotted twelve minutes passed quickly enough and the report was favorable. Television Is here to stay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
PICNICS-STREAMLINED
lChrIstian Science Monitorl

The "open" season for meals is now well advanced, and the sport of picnicking is being enthusiastically pursued. At the same time. the public would seem to be coming to the conclusion. that. as a recent ed- itorial comr: ent ,n the London Times put 1t. picnicking reaches its rarest heights of enjoyment when lt is a by-product. and not an end to itself"
 For the ld-fashioned picnic which was the grand climax Of the day. which spread It's table in the wilderness vi T c sumptuousness that would have done credit to the din- ing-room mahogany" Of any gour- met. Is largely no more. People arc more inclined to hike. and ramhle and tour. and Co eat 0nly literally and fiRuratlyely. by the way. The picnic may etlli be "the thing" Co
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
SOVIET LIKES SHAKESPEARE

Moscow (UPl A million copies Of Shakcspeare's plays have been published In Soviet Russia in i4 lan- guages. including Russian. Ukrain. ian. ByeIo Russian. Armenian. Georgian and Tartan. DickenE. Bar busse and Zola also are popular In Russia. Antagoniam to Germany does nto prevent readerk from enc toying the works of Heine. Goethe and Schiller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08

1t will be ready for use. Another simpler method is to add one to two drops of tincture of iodine to each quart of water.
 e. What is the source of the quo- tation, "The play, remember, pleased not the million; twas caviare to the general?" A. Shakespeare's Hamlet" act II, scene ?, line 456.
 @. Please name the songs sung by Nelson Eddy in Let Freedom Ring"
 A. America" HI ome, sweet Home" "Where Else But Here?" "Ten Thousand Cattle Straying," Love Serenade," "The Dusty Road" "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Pat, Sez He."
 c. How many life insurance pol icies are In force in the United States and what is their valuef
 A. There are 124,l57,6ll policies | Ok LII hlklQb NdluCu db pAVoiVtStHoAtvsN'
 e. became an American citizen by marrying in 1920. My husband died recently and I want to know if I am still a citizen?
 A. You did not lose your citizen- ship when your husband died. Docu- mentary proof consists of your mar riage certificate and proof Of your deceased husbands citizenship.
 @. In which building in London Is the famous Big Ben" bell?
 A. Houses of Parliament.
 c. Has Pennsylvania more or fewer representatives in Congress how than before the reapportion- ment in 1892?
 A. Prior to 1882 1t had thirty-six; now 1t has thirty -four.
 If you want g copy of our book. let POPULAR RADIO STARS" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir. teenth St., Washington, D. 0. En- close 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-08
Questions
 and Answers
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 o. When will the Grand Coulee Dam project be completed?
 A. It is estimated that 1t will take 20 to 30 years to complete he project and bring 100000 acres ot ianos' now arid, under cultivation. Prob ably, water will be ready for deliv- cry to the first unit in l944. At present the dam is less than half finished.
 @. If one is in doubt about the purity of drinking water, what pre- cautions should be takenp
 A. Dissolve 1 teaspoonful of fresh bleaching powder (chloride of lime) in one quart of water. This should be placed in a tightly stoppered bottle and kept away from light. To disinfect water add 1 teaspoonful of this solution to each two gallons of water, stir thoroughly and allow 1t to stand for fifteen minutes, when