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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
KIDNAPPED MAN
 WRITES FATHER
Ohio Preacher Held By Arabs May Be Re-
 leased Shortly

Jerusalem, July "A. -(UP)-Ger- ould R. Goldner, Akron, Ohio, preacher, reported in a letter today that he was in good health and spent most of his time playing cards with the Arab rebels who kidnapped him Wednesday.
 The letter disclosed that GoldneI was being kept in a dry well most of the time, so that he would be safe from search parties.
 An unidentified Arab called at Y. M. 0. A. headquarters today and said he had mailed the letter from Bethlehem because he feared search by military patrols on the Jerusalem Road.
 He was sent back at once with food for ooldner. who mentioned in his letter that he was tired Of Arab food.
 4. |. Miller. Of Sioux. City. Iowa Oeneial Secretary Of the Y. N. Q. A.. left for Bethlehem in hope that ooldncr's safe release would bc af.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
Stimulation By Foreign Sources Also Alleged
 By English Home Secy.
BRITISH SEC'Y WOULD RESIGN
Started Peace COnsOlida. ton Talk Wants to
 Make Statement
BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondent ]

London, July 24.-(UP)-R. S.. Hudson, secretary of the important overseas trade department, was re- ported to have offered to resign to- day because of world wide publicity given his talks on peace consolida- ton with German economic envoy, and the resultant angry repcrcus- sions in parliament.
 The Evening News quoted Hudson as admitting he might resign.
 T should like to be able to make a full statement in the house of conn mons," he said. If I resign l shall make a statement. If I do not, have no doubt the prime minister will make a statement"
 Political quarters reported that Hudson had put himself at the dis. posal" of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain--that is, offered to re- sign of Chamberlain wished. g
 Chamberlain metxwith heads ' O the defense ministries, Sir John Si' mon, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Gen. viscount Gort, Chief O Staff of the army, this morning an indication that defense matter! of some urgency were discussed. Ear Stanhope. first lord of the admiral ty; Leslie Hore-Belisha, War Minis ter; Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minis ter, and Admiral Lord Chatfield minister for defense coordination were present.
 Arthur Greenwood, acting labor party leader, filed notice in the house of commons that he would ask Chamberlain this afternoon for a statement.
 T am most apprehensive of the international situation" he said at a trade union meeting today. T still have the feeling that if the prime minister could open his umbrella of appeasement again he would be only too glad to do 1t.
 "If the prime minister goes back on the tracks he has been following for the last four months we will al- most inevitably drift into war"
 Chamberlain was expected tc make a statement on this incident and British-Japanesc relations.
 It was indicated that he might have considerable difficulty in dis sipating what had become a political sensation over Hudson's talks with Hellmuth Wohlthat, German Econo- mic envoy.
 Not only labor men and liberals but many conservatives were angry (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
WELFARE CASES
 DOWN IN JUNE
Decrease of A Reported; l,24S Families on
 Relief

Welfare cases in Waterbury de- creased by A during the month of June as compared to May figures, the monthly report of Miss Grace L. White, director of the public welfare department, issued today shows.
 Fignres for the month of June show that 1,248 families were on relief, as compared with 1,29l in May. Institutional cases for June were l84, making case load of 1,432, as compared with l85 insti- tutional cases in May, when the case load was 1,476.
 Of 4,992 persons on relief, not including institutional cases, 1884 were on full relief and 3,308 on par tial relief, Miss Whites report shows Twenty-nine transients were assist cd by the department, during the month.
 Next months report may tell different story, in view of the lay off of more than 500 from the ranks of the WPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
Near Adjournment
 Speeds Up Congress
Social Security Amendments, Lending Bill Remain in Path; Former Tangled By Apparent Conflict in Its
 Terms; Last Week Disastrous for Administration
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington. July 24.-(UP) Con- gross entered the adjournment stretch today with little but social security amendments and the new lending bill to slow its stride.
 Social security is In tangle because of amendments which would increase federal contributions to old age pensions but, simultaneously, fix minimum below which state allotments could not fall.
 Advocates of higher federal con- tributions were hit hard by the latter provision because some states, notably Texas, do not or cannot meet the new minimum monthly al- lotment now suggested. The social security amendments are in confer- ence after four days of deadlock and discussion will be resumed to- day.
 Lending legislation is being shaped somewhat away from the form in which MT. Roosevelt submitted 1t and still will meet stiff opposition in House and Senate. The administra- ton has compromised bit on foreign loans and the provision Of federal funds for toll roads and toll bridges.
 The senate banking and currency committee trimmed $310, ,000, 900 from the program and 1t would provide as offered to the senate for $2,- 490, 100000 of lending. Into the bill the senate committeeman wrote an unqualified prohibition of loans for any enterprise competing with priv ate industry. While the senate begins debate on that bill today the house resumes consideration of the Lea transport tation bill. The major dispute over interstate commerce commission regulation of water carriers prob- ably will not be decided before to- morrow.
 Sen. James E. Murphy, D.. Mont |. will attempt to amend the recently enacted relief bill for 1940. WPA workers and organized labor have protested provisions for elimination of the prevailing wage for skilled relief workers. But there was little Continued on Page 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
PRIEST STRIKES
 AT NEW DEAL "A.
Father Coughlin's Guest Speaker Is Critical of
 Elliott Roosevelt

Detroit, July 24.--(UP)-Rev. pr. Edward Lodge Curran, guest speak CT on the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin' s Sunday radio program, declared that Elliott Roosevelt's advocacy of censorship of the radio priest had the support of the New Deal Dy- nasty"
 "The truth is," Father Curran said, That this new deal dynasty not satisfied with having attempt ed a purge of senators, is now try ing to purge all citizens who dare criticize tho new deal experimenta tions."
 Father Curran, president of the International Catholic Truth Socie- PRIEST STRIKE-1ST PGE .. ty, replied to Roosevelts recent broadcast advocating censorship of the air waves "If 1t will help insul- ate us against the anti-semitic ora tory of the radio priest in Royal Oak, Mich."
 Branding the criticism lone of the most false and fictitious assaults ever made against Father Coughlin in recent years" Father Curran denied the priest was anti-Semetic and warned that Roosevelt was tampering with freedom of spech.
 Tt is doubtful if Elliott Roosevelt would ever be on the air, in the guise of a, speaker, if he were not in the radio business and If he were not the son of the president of the United States" he raid.
 'The private and public life of Father Coughlin will stand the spotlight of publicity much better than the private and public lives of some of those associated with you MT. Roosevelt, in your attempt to silence the radio voice of teh com- mon people of America"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
ELE CTRIC CHAIR NEEDED RENOVATING

Boston, July 24-(UP)-Engineers today tested Massachusetts reno- vated electric chair to determine how soon two young slayers can be electrocuted without endangering the executioner.
 Two respites were granted Wallace Green, 2l, and Walter St. Sauveur l9. while the repairs were made State Correction Commissioner Ar- thur T. Lyman recommended the stays when 1t was feared faulty wir- ing of the chair might electrocutt the executioner.
 The youths. convicted Of the hold up-murder Of storekeeper. are scheduled to die Aug. 1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
SEVEN VIOLENT DEATHS IN CONN.
Auto Crashes, Fire Claim Victims-l5 Die In
 New England
lRY United PresSl

N Automobile accidents ana a Bridgeport fire claimed seven lives in Connecticut over the weekend. Adeline Coons, 27, New Hartford, and Edward Carey, IS, Jersey City N. J., were injured fatally when the automobile in which they were riding struck a bridge rail at East Granby. L. Raymond Soucie 37, New Hal tford, was held as the driver.
 James Brazee, g, New Haven, died of injuries suffered when his car collided with another machine at Branford.
 James H. Brookbanks, Hartford was injured fatally when his car strucw a pole It Durham.
 Edward Tracy, 39, New Haven, died of Injuries suffered when srtuck by a car while eros 1g a Nek Ha- ven bridge.
 Harry D.. Stteves, 66. and his daughter, Mrs. Anna Flanagan. Al, were burned to death in fire which destroyed their five-room home at Bridgeport.
 Boston, July ?4.-UP.-New Eng lands weekend toll of violent death stood at T. today. including seven in highway crashes. three sui- cides, two drownings, two dead m fire, and a eco boy killed n a fall from a 10-foot clin.
 Connecticut led the six states with seven deaC. Massachusetts second with four dead
 The victims included:
 Henry A. Lewis. 40. father or rhe children. suicide at his Boston home
 Mrs. Louise pperheim. 6'' bos- ton. suicide. an
 Mrs. Charlotte A. Wightman. 3S Maiden. suicide.
 Clarence D. T-rrlow. 24 Of Fair. field, Me, member Cf the Southwest Harbor CCC unit. in fall down Beech Cliff Al Echo Lake.
 Cieophas 0renier. 35. Lewiston Me, in an automobile accident al Wales, Me.
 Theodore K pea is. drowned a' Harrison. .Ze.
 Jacques Dt Germaine. 2o. ol WoOnsocket. R. l.. drowned at Poin' Judith. V. !.
 Homer VI. Morln. Athol. rf in' lurles suffered in hlg way reel dent at Oxinru Friday ln which hii wife hStclle was killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
WEDDING FEAST
 OVERCOMES MANY
Mass Marriages in Mon.
 treal Finds 300 Guests Suffering PrOstratiOns
BY ALEXANDER JANUSITUS Limited Press Staff Corrcspondcnt

United Press Staff C0rrcspOndcnt)
 Montreal. July 24-(UP) The last of the wedding guests were dis missed from the hospital today The celebration had been 50 strenu- ous that 300 of them got nervous in- digestion. And no wonder, for 108 couples were made one at that wed- ding and the guests had numbered no less than 25,000.
 For almost an hour last night, a line of men and women with stomach cramps, some maneuvering under their own power, some hobbling along on the arms of friends, their faces distorted in agony, some being carried, passed through the gates of the baseball stadium to waiting ann bulaces and police cars. It was esti- mated that almost as many more had had symptoms less distressing and had gone home.
 Within the stadium, thousands were whooping 1t up for 10j French Canadian girls, winsomely beautiful with ther black hair contrasted by their white attire, and their 108 just acquired husbands. It was the closing event of a wedding celebra- tion which had started 12 hours earlier-the joint reception of l0a newlyweds.
 Suddenly, an elderly woman faint ed. Then another. then another. In an instant men and women, many of them elderly, were fainting of doub- ling up all over the stadium and there was hurry call for ambulances doctors and policemen. Rumors oi a plot to poison the wedding guests passed through the throng, angerins 1t, and at first the doctors, who hat arrived by the dozens. suspected fooe poisoning. But at Notre Dame ans St. Luke hospitals, where a number of those most ill were kept for thu ffsA.att.a..nl s.. n.un Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
FOUR VICTIMS OF AVALANCHE STILL MISSING Workers Dig in SnOw- Filled Crevasse for
 Their Bodies TRAGEDY DISRUPTS
 ANNUAL MT. CLIMB Snow Swept Down on Group Without Warning; Two Bodies Recovered
BY ROBERT FAHS United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Glacier, Wash, July 24.-- Tons of slowly thawing snow piled in a 100-foot crevasse near the summit of Mount Baker were expected to re- linquish today the bodies of four victims of an avalanche which swept down upon a climbing party of 26 college day. The bodies of two had been recovered.
 The 20 survivors, who had set out from here on the Western Washington college of Education's annual mountain climb, had re- turned to their campus at Belling- ham. b g-s--..@i-srf rfp-x tsra.,s,~ -~se- p%Ss'ef Dig All Night 2
 Several score searchers dug al night. Digging begun Sunday morn ing by rangers and volunteers 8,00| feet up on the 10,700 foot peak hae turned up the bodies of Alice James of Arlington, Wash, and Julian Dornblunt, of Alderwood Manor Wash.
 The missing students were May nard Howat, Seattle; Verne Fisher Coupeville, Wash; Beulah Lind. bergh, Simms, Mont, and Hope Weitman, Thornton, Wash. Forest rangers directing the search held not the slightest hope that any would be found alive.
 Narrowing Story The survivors, two of whom de- scended the peak and hiked several miles to summon the aid of rangers (Continued on Page 4)
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HOME IS GONE

Vienna. July 2-tUP)-The Rt Rev. 5igmund Waitz Catholic arch bishop of Salxburg. recently busted from his palace by the Nazis who turned it into storm troop bar- racks. has been compelled to seek new home. 1t was disclosed today Tins timc the Nazts confiscatcd Tor governmental offices" the house nc had rented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
Was Reminiscent of Guy Fawkes Plot Is Off.
 cial's Report BRIDGES, RAILROADS,
 AIRPORTS INCLUDED TntensifiCatiOn of IRA Plots Expected With Risk to
 Many Lives

London, July 24-(UP)- Sir Samuel Hoare, home sec retary, revealed today that the irish Republican army terrorists had planned to blow up the British Houses of. Parliament.
 Reminiscent of the historic Guy Hawkes. plot to blow up Parliament, the home secre- tary said that the lives of Britons would be given no consideration in future I. R. A. plans, according to information reaching police.
 Foreign Stimulation
 we have in our pessegslQlL -xeliaau !:! !!!!'!! ' 3 :! ''':: '':: organization he said.A v
 Although Hoare did not repeat re- cent newspaper reports that Nazis were supporting the l. R. A. cam paign of bombings in England, he made 1t clear that the government was preparing to meet any internal trouble that might be encouraged by new European crisis.
 He said that in addition to plot ting to blow up parliament. the I. R. A. had surveyed important bridges, railway works, munitions dur'ps and air dromes, presumably for bombing attempts.
 Recalls Gunpowder Plot The home secretary's announce ment recalled the famous 'gunpow- der plot engineered by Guy Fawkes in 1905. He planted barrels of gum powder in the cellars of parliament, sufficient to blow the building up.
 The powder was discovered and Hawkes. was arrested and sent to the Tower. Traditionally, England celc- brates Guy Hawkes. day on Nov. $ each year, and Hawkes. Is burned in effigy. It is the origin of the term Guy
 Hoare moved the second reading of the drastic bill outlawing and impos- ing severe penalties on I. R. A. ter- rorisst. He said that the government had photographic copy of a plan Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
77O.POUND TUNA
 CAUGHT OFF MAINE

Bailey's Island, Me, July 24-(UP) A 770-pound tuna-largest taken by sportsmen on the Maine coast this season-was caught on hand line by MT. and Mrs. James Moore of Norway. Me.
 Moore sank harpoon into it's side after the tuna made several attempts to free itself when brought to the side of his boat.
 The largest tuna caught with rod and reel was a 660-pounder taken of Kennebunkport.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
MOTORisT KILLED

South Salem. N. Y.. July 24-tUP) --Oeorge A Pierce. 20. Of Ridge field. Conn. was killed today when his car skiddcd of the road near here and overturned twice. Police believed he tell asleep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-24
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, July 24 (UP)-Cov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through July 2f, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $608, TIT, ,20S.97 S575,351 ,937.i0
 Receipts $2Os. .o34.2o s2i3.29s. .74o.sO
 Gross Deficit s4o2, ,74s. oo1.02 sss2. o5s.ie6.so s4o2, sos, ,75I.o2 sasi,s ,si5, ,7ss.so
 Cash Balance $2.ssO. 352, ,6s4.59 $2,l42.747,l264 41
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Evening star., 1939-01-09
Dr.. Cormon, II, Dies;
Staying Case Recalled
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Dr. Edwin
Carman, II, whose wife, Florence,
was the defendant in a sensational
Staying nearly a quarter of a century
ago, died yesterday at Merrick, Long
Island.
Mrs. Carman was tried twice for
shooting Mrs. Louise Bailey in DR..
Carman's Office at Freeport in 1914.
The first trial ended in jury dis
agreement; the second in acquittal.
Mrs. Bailey, a stranger to Dr.
Carman, called at his Office on the
evening of June 30, 1914, and was
about to leave when pane of glass
in the window was smashed, hand
grasping pistol was thrust through
and shot was fired. Mrs. Bailey
was mortally wounded.
Mrs. Carman was suspected of
the shooting when 1t developed that
she had bought recording device
a short time before and installed it
in her husbands Office, presumably
because she was jealous of some of
his woman patients.
DR.. Carman insisted his wife was
innocent. She and daughter sur
vive.
Evening star., 1939-01-09

in our daily lives" he explained.
Training in these two subjects can
be given in such a manner as to rid
people of the misuse of words and
to help us cultivate our rational
powers and develop our imagissa-
ton"
Mathematics and languages should
be taught with the power of
thought" as an objective, rather
than that of pure information, he
said.
DR.. Barr also warned against an
emphasis on character building"
declaring that it is grand Fascist
term" He cited the importance Of
the concept in the youth organiza-
tions of Germany and Italy.
Members of a panel who led the
questioning following DR.. Barr's dis
cussion included Karl w. Bigelow,
director of the Commission on
Teacher Education, American Coun-
Gil of Education; Leon Marshall.
American University economics pro-
fessor, and Fritz Marti, chairman Of
the Maryland University philosophy
department.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Accountant Found
Dead in GARAGE

Walter r. Fisher, AZ, of 6113 Four
teenth street NV, an accountant
for building supply company, was
found dead of GORDON monoxide gas
in garage near his home yesterday.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued a certificate of suicide.
Mr.. Fishers body was found in
his car by his wife who was unable
to explain the reason.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Colleges Too Busy
To Teach Students
To Think, Says Barr
Town Hall Audience Hears
Educator Score open
Scandal of Profession

American colleges and universi-
ties are so busy imagining they
are training their students for q
multitude Of occupations, that they
have no time left to teach young
men and women to use their minds
DR.. Stringfellow Barr. president of
st. Johns College at Annapolis, told
a Town Hall audience last night at
the Shoreham Hotel.
Warning that "a crisis in liberal
education" has arrived, DR.. Barr de-
clared that our country cannot
survive unless it learns to culti-
vate the liberal arts, unless it
teaches its "of1springs" how to
think.
ut is an open scandal in my
profession" he continued. that a
large number Of people graduate
from our colleges yearly with a
B. A. degree, bachelor of arts, that
is a bachelor of liberal arts. Yet
the fact remains that a large num-
Der of these young ladies and gen.
tlemen cannot write their mother
tongue intelligently, speak clearly
or even grammatically, nor think
forcefully and tackle anything that
does not interest them"
For IA years students are taught
not to do anything that doesn't
interest them and as a result any
thing that is difficult doesn't inter-
est them," DR.. Barr said in his at
tack on modern education.
Reasons for Crisis.
DR.. Barr attributed the "crisis"
to two factors, American enthusi-
asm" which he said had tendency
ITO make education hum" and Sec
ondly, the period of rapid eco
nomic expansion through which our
country has gone.
Discussing the first cause, he
said: During the rapid period of
our national development, we had
to build our own educational in
stitutions in comparatively short
time, during a period when other
countries, centuries old, had already
built such institutions in Oxford,
Cambridge, and Paris"
He declared that as a result of
the second cause, production be-
came the end of our existence.
1T was also tempting to assume
that If we produced more the world
would be better place to live in"
DR.. Barr continued. 1--WE came to
exclude ideas in our desire to be
practical. These incidents fell
heavily on liberal education. Dur
ing the 2Os we believed that
given production, distribution would
take care Of itself. I doubt seri-
ously that most people believe this
now. 1t was a complete confusion
of the means and the end"
Education Became Practical
AS result of American economic
expansion. DR.. Barr said that our
education trends became more prac-
tical.
They became more concerned
with the immediate preparation to
meet immediate economic problems
and as result lost the thread. In
stead Of turning out useful men,
colleges and universities set out to
make them successful.
THE words useful and successful
are not good synonyms" he con-
tinued, because success as put
forth in our colleges means getting
ahead of ones neighbor. 1t means
putting on speed but not getting
ahead"
DR.. Barr advocated training in
mathematics and languages as a
means of teaching people Ito think
we'll"
Mathematics and languages are
important because of the constant
use of word and number symbols
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-17

At Temple Today

The popular orchestras of the
nation, and the fans who like to
dance to their catchy rhythms. or
Just like to sit this one OUT and
listen to the music, find happy
tidings in new show aglow with
bright new song hits-20th Gen.
tury-Fox's Happy Landing"
Sonia Henie. radiant beyond
imagining. is co-starred with Don
Ameche in Daryl F. Zanuck's
musicomedy spectacle, now at the
Temple theater.
Five songs are featured in the
film, which features Jean Hersholt,
Ethel Norman and Cesar Romero.
These are: Hot and Happy" "A
Gypsy Told Me-" You Are the
Music to the Words in My Heart"
and "Yonny and His Oompah" by
Sam Pokrass and Jack Yeilen;
''You Appeal TO Me" by Walter
Bullock and Harold Spina.
Bullock and Spina recently COM
pleted six rhythmic hit-parade
leaders for Love and Kisses"
the Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie
Simone Simon show.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-17

horse, that is, play in a certain
type of picture. Conceive of Hum
phrey Bogart as something other
than a heartless rogue on the
screen, or Joe e. Brown as sober
faced judge, or Lewis Stone as any,
thing but the fatherly type.
But take Richard Dix, and 9TH
ers like him, who play various
roles. Dix. for example, on the
screen has been a bronco-taming
cowboy. an airmail pilot, a poor
but honest politician, a general, a
rowing newspaper reporter, and an
editor, to list few of the roles.
The good thing about it is that
he is consistent in his acting, he
performs well no matter what part
he Is given.