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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

rett are constructing the new building, while Angelo Clas is list- ed as architect. Clas, it is also revealed, is one of the incorpora- tors of the Lafayette Building Corporation.
 In other words, Col. Hackett, after getting out of the New Deal, set up the Lafayette cor- poratiOn, borrowed $5,600,00O from the New Deal through his friend, Jesse Jones, then turned around and hired his own firm, Thompson-St -Starrette, to con- struct the building with his old
 friend Clas as architect. But
 inasmuch as Gas never has had
 any architectural experience on
 anything important, Hackett also hired his oad boss, John Holabird of Chicago, to do the real architectural work. Finally he rented the new building to Jesse Jones, from whom he had borrowed the money.
 Interesting fact is that the transaction is perfectly .legal. It merely bears a resemblance to the old practices at which the New Deal so sanctimoniously holds up its hands.
 NOTE-While Jesse Jones was advancing $500, 900 of REC funds to his old friends, he was refus- ing thousands of applications from small businessmen, with the re- suit that Congress is considering special legislation to obtain funds for small business.
 JAPANESE GOODWILL
 No one is supposed to know 1t, but the State Department of- ficials at first turned down the idea of sending the remains of Japanese Ambassador Saito home on a U. s. cruiser. They were abruptly overruled by the Presi- dent himself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
FOUR POLICIES THAT MIGHT GET THIS NATION OUT OF
 THE ECONOMIC SLUMP
Hartford, Conn. March 2, 1889.

March 2, 1889. To the Editor:
 How much more confidence we would have if we knew there was a way out of our economic and politi- cal problems on which we could all agree. In the faith that we are approaching such an agreement, let us try to express in simple terms as much of it as is now attainable.
 What is our objective?The em- pl0yment of some ten million idle men and women.
 What policies will most directly achieve this objective?
 l. The abandonment of futile
 spending and pump-priming.
 These are wasting our resources; withdrawing savings from new em- ployment opportunities and turning them into non-productive govern ment deficits; destroying private in- itiative and individual incentive: encouraging waste, extravaganza and political corruption.
 2. The ending of actual and threatened government competi- ,tion with private enterprise. This would promptly induce new investments in construction, public utilities and industry, instead of in government bonds.
 3. The repeal of discriminatory taxation.
 The use of the power of taxation to penalize any organization be- cause of its form or size exposes | legitimate business to the whims of Congress and the executive. It pro duces the constant fear Ot changes in conditions under which competition and private enterprise is to be carried on and destruc- tive of the hope of a fair reward. The reduction of public expendi- lures through the elimination ol government projects which are no1 vital to the public welfare and the insistence upon greater eficiency of operation in those which remain
 Business will not move forward and new enterprises will not de velop until the threat of an iI1sol- vent government or crushing taxa ton Is definitely removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
Whats Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Tn which city is Brown Univer- sity? 3. Name the fourth gospel of the New Testament. 3. Where are the Lachine Rapids? 4. Who won the recent Miami Biltmore Women,s Golf tourna- ment? 5. Name the flagship of Perry's fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie? } 6. Where is the city of Cannes? 2. What is the correct pronuncia- tion of the word ancestors?
 8. In which city is the training camp of the Washington Senators baseball club?
 g. Name the first Chief Justice of the U. s. Supreme Court.
 10. Tn which State is Kingsley (earth) dam?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

Oberammergau in Germany is rapidly becoming barber's inferno, just the opposite of paradise. All male residents are letting their beard grow in prepara- tion for the Pasison Play to be presented famous play are joining the ranks of the type of whiskers required for portraying the roles in the great drama requires all of year, hence the early start.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
In Today's Mail

{. The support and encourage ment of cooperation between man. agement and labor.
 This has been discouraged by un- wise labor legislation. Let us insist upon class cooperation, rather than antagonism. Let us repeal all leg islation in the interest of special groups.
 The above are simple policies. Their soundness is proven by exper- fence. They will bring benefits to labor and management alike. They will make for a universal advance and are readily attainable. All in favor should earnestly work for their accomplishment.
 HOWELL CHENEY, Treas
 Connecticut Economic Council.
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MT. Hulls advisers, inclined to argue over protocol and precedent, argued that Saito was an exam bassador. Therefore, to send his body home in a cruiser, would set precedent for all other exam bassadors who expired here.
 However, Japanese newspaper correspondent s. Ito, of the Tokyo Aasahi, pointed out to close friends of Roosevelt's that the Japanese attach great sig nificance to the death ceremony, that respect paid to Saito would
 greatly improve Japanese American goodwill.
 Roosevelt, advised of the situa- tion on his cruiser, acted immedi- ately.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Lloyd Garrison, brilliant young dean of Wisconsin university law school, has declined secret ad- ministration offer of appointment to Commissioner Donald Smiths place on the National Labor Re- lations Board. Garrison was chairman of the original Labor Board, but said he had enough of Washington and preferred the peace and quiet of academic life. =. Only $200 .000, 900 of the $2,- COG, 0,000 Stabilization Fund has has been used to maintain the value of the dollar In sizzling letter to Senator Rush Holt, Carl L. Curry, WPA time keeper at Grafton, w. Va, de- clared that one way the Adminis- tration could reduce government expenses would be to take his (Curry's) name "off your free mailing list".
 Copyright. 1889, by United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 8:28 p. m.
 Sun rises 6:19 8. m.; sets 5:48 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Sundays and Mondays rains were preceded by 2 brilliant display of the full moon each evening. S&turdays was the more brilliant, but when the moon rose up in back of Long Hill Sunday evening for few brief moments it shone forth from an eastern cloudless sky, soon obscured by whiriing mists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

ents and Trade Marks" can be ob. tained for ten cents from our Wash ington Service Bureau, 1013> Thir- teenth street, Washington, D. 0.
 e. Will you please give me the plank on foreign policy in the 1886 Democratic platform?
 A. It is as follows: ''In our rela- tion with other nations, this govern ment will continue to extend the. policy of the good neighbor. We re- affirm our opposition to war as an instrument of national policy and declare that disputes between nations should be settled by peaceful means. We shall continue to observe true neutrality in the disputes of others; to be prepared resolutely to resist aggression against ourselves; to work for peace and to take the profits out of war, to guard against being drawn by political commitments, inter1a- tional banking, or private trading into any war which may develop anywhere"
 o. Why are the navigable routes from New York to Europe longer in spring than in winter? ~
 A. Because of the ice, which in spring comes down from the north. During the winter the ice remains tight in the Arctic regions, but much of it breaks up in warm weather and is carried south by the ocean currents.
 A. Are members of steamship crews permitted to bring one hum dred dollars worth of goods bought abroad into the United Stftes free of duty?
 A. Only if they are leaving ship that touches foreign ports. If sea- man Is going to ship again on @ ves- sel that is going to foreign countries, he can bring ashore free of duty only clothing and toilet articles for personal use during his visit in the United States.
 @. Do earthquakes ever occur near the North Pole?
 A. Very seldom. Both the North and South polar regions are prac- tically immune from earthquakes.
 e. What is the present extyene limit of effective television recep- tion?
 A. Forty-five miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
In New York
BY GEORGE R0ss

New York, March T-Each time the Broadway coroners come by and
 pronounce vaudeville dead, along comes main stem medico to revive it. Frank Fay is the latest miracle doctor. At one of the largest riaito
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

theaters, he is co mmanding a variety program
 with such head liners as Eva Le Gallieune, Elsie Janis and him- self-and 1t looks from here as tn ough he Il make 8 success of 1t. Suavest of the masters of ceremonies, Fay
 has a huge fol- lowing in New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

1orK. InOugn ne mas been un6ure of his career in showdom since his martial breakup with Barbara Stanwyck, Fay has remained stead- fastly in the hmelight.
 He is an actor of the old school and though his sleeves have frayed sometimes, he has declined offers of jobs because they didn't pay enough. Fay's idea of reasonable pay runs into at least three figures.
 Financially, the variety show of which he now is the proprietor, was a tough nut" to crack. He conducted most of his negotiations for it at Lindy's restaurant - in a corner booth. Most of the folks took his word for his stability, for he is well-liked.
 AUDIENCE LOVE
 Elsie Janis (who is approaching the sedate age of 50) has been a darling of New York since the turn of the century. And there are few veterans of the World War who have forgot ten her tireless efforts as 8 rowing entertainer with the A. E. F. The years have not frayed her charms or lovable personality; and she has become 8 fanatical devotee of brotherly love.
 One of her ideas in the Fay vaudeville was to have the audi ence hold hands at one point to symbolic their natural affection for all humanity.
 GAG THAT FAILED
 The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agely, the poet once said, and certain publicists around town feel the same way about it today, too. These are the boys who were exploiting the film, "Stagecoach", into New York.
 A ripping stunt, they thought would be to transport the cans of film from Newark Airport to Ra. dio City via City Hall where Mayor LaGuardia could formally bless 1t on the steps. So with much ado, the scheme was carried out and all went well - up to a point.
 A stagecoach was secured from an obscure stable and an appro- priately attired driver whipped up the reins across the Pulaski Highway toward City Hall. The mayor was out, so an official pinch-hit for him.
 Then the stagecoach started at a frisky gait toward Rockefeller Center where bevy of girls waited on the street to receive the precious cargo. A curious crowd stood around to watch the ceremony. The driver turned the cans of film over to the waiting maids and signalled the horses to start off again. As he was almost on his way, he turned back to the girls. By the way he called out, whats the name of that pie ture, anyway"
 LAZY MANS LARK
 These have been busy weeks for the Sidewalk Superintendents Club, what with the raging of the Sixth Avenue Il" structure going on all the way uptown. The s. s. C.? That's the fraternity of spectators who stand guard at excavations, overseeing the steamshovel, the crane and the carting trucks.
 The Rockefellers founded the club during some construction at Radio City and built 8 balcony where the officers and rank and file of the s. s. c. could com- fortably take their posts. Un- doubtedly, the Sixth Avenue q" has been the vlub's biggest job, for the razing has been going on all over town and the watchers have had to be widely distributed. There are no entry requirements to join the s. s. c. except a ca- pacity for dropping everything that needs doing, disregarding the passing of valuable time and pa- tient incidence. Who hasn't that?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
Washington Merry Go-Round
cspydsAs ~ NA
D R E W PEARSON ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON historic landmark being pulled down. It the Mclean hundred bottles of the elite Washington uncertainty
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

If money velocity is what makes prosperity, gambling and wasteful spends ing should make us all rich.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

If you want 8 copy of our book let CHILD HEALTH" send to the Waterbury Democrats Wash- ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

TODAYS COMMON ERROR Do not say, 'The patient was restive during the night;
 say, restless"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

o. Can I get a patent on a game I have invented?
 A. No, but you may patent the game apparatus, copyright the rules, get a design patent on the game board, and register the name as 8 trade mark. A booklet entitled Pat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

e. What is the present extyeme limit of effective television recep- tion?
 A. Forty.five miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07

ents and Trade Marks" can be ob. tained for ten cents from our Wash ington Service Bureau, 1913, Thir- teenth street, Washington, D. 0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
THE EDITOR

@. Where are the Laboratories of the United States Bureau of Customs and what kind of work do t..ey per- form?
 A. The nine laboratories are To- cated at Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Savannah. They analyze sam- ples of sugar; ores, metals, etc.: tex- tiles; fixed is, fats. etc; and sus- pected opium and narcotics.
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Copyright, 1889, by United Fe1 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-07
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 and Answers
By FREDERICK nl. kRRBY

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Hoey. Won't
Save Life Of
"Cray Mouse

Raleigh, August 2.-(AP)-Gov-
ernor Hoey said today he had de-
clined to intervene in behalf Of Ar
thur Morris, 24-year-old Negro SEN
fenced to die Friday for first degree
burglary. Morris has a criminal
record dating back to 1882, Hoey
said, and was charged in more than
so cases with burglary, including
several involving entry at night into
dwellings in which people were
sleeping first degree burglary.
"Morris was sentenced to Dur
ham to serve SO to 80 years when
convicted of twob urglary charges" :,
said Governor Hoey. ''He escaped
from the Perquimans prison camp
and during the IA days he was out
he committed two,. three or four
burglaries at night at Henderson.
With a SO to 8O-year prison SEN
tence on him, he went right back
to burglary"
Morris will be the second man in
the last three years and the seventh
since 1910 to be executed here for
burglary.
Alienists pronounced Morris
"sane. smart and shrewd," Hoey
SdI1.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Air Corps
Celebrates
30th Year

Washington, Aug. 2.-(AP)- The
Army Air Corps celebrated its ,thlr-
tieth birthday anniversary today with
mass flights throughout the United
States and defense exercises over l.
500 miles of the west coast.
Amid these evidences Of aviation
progress in one generation, the air
corps announced its second world
record this week-a flying fortress
yesterday left Wright Field at Day
ton, Ohio, and strealked 625 miles at
259.398 miles an hour, carrying load
of 11,O23 pounds. Earlier a similar
plane reached an altitude of 5000
feet with a pay load Of Is 1-2 tons.
The record-breaking craft being
developed in the $300,000,000 air
corps expansion program bear little
resemblance to the first American
military airplane which a War De-
partment board accepted formally
from Wilbur and Orville Wright 80
years ago. 1t had made a successful
trial flight from Fort Myer, across
the Potomac from Washington, to
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Public Angry
At Bungled
Electrocution

b ton, Mass, Aug. 2.-(AP)-A
double elcctrOcution, in which mys-
ferrous eXecutiOner known only as
Nr H' required nearly 40 minutes
% put TWO young hold-up slaycrs to
oeaih. was denounced as an exam
PIE ot inhunanity" today, while State
officials explained that the substitute
eHecatoncr was not as expert as
'hc veteran Robert c. Elliott.
Iht criticism came from Herbert
= Parsons, president of the Massa-
CiIso II Council for the Abolition OF
lnc Death Penalty, after the early
morning execution Of Wallace Green,
~. and Walter St. Sauveur, 19, for
Ihe q $50 nold-up Staying Of Will
nam Phillips, middlc-aged Somer-
'HIe grocer, on May 81, 1888.
be name Of "Mr. x" who was
p.I.phstt FROM 'out-of-State" to sub
@iitaje Tor the ailing Elliott, Massa-
~ 'lta' official cxecutioner, was
'>0'' secret at his own request. Ell
continued on Page TWo)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
New Time OF
23O Hours In
Air Reached

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 2.-(AP)-
Two young brothers, one a veteran
flier and the other a fledgeling, ad-
ded additional hours today on their
newly-won worlds endurance flight
record for light planes.
Hunter Moody, 25, and Humphrey,
20, of Decatur, ILL.,, officially shat
tered the old record Of 218 hours, 43
minutes, of sustained flight when
they surpassed that mark by one hour
at 6:43 p. M, central standard time,
last night.
"We'll stay up here as long as the
motor functions okay and neither OF
us gets SICK" they announced by
radio. Previously they reported be-
ing divided in opinion over continu-
ance of the flight. The elder brother
has been a pilot since he was IA, but
Humphrey qualified for a private Ii
cense only a few days before the
take-off July %.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
New British
Protest Is
Registered
London Repeatedly
Threatened to Break
Off Negotiations at
Tokyo; Japan A c.
cused o f Backing
Action of Chinese.

Tokyo, August 2.-(AP)-
The United States was re-
ported today to have protested
to the japanese Foreign Of
flee that the anti-British move
ment in China evidently had
broadened into general anti
foreign agitation.
U. S. Charge d. Affairs Eu-
gene Dooman was said by re-
liable sources to have submitted
a protest on seven recent as
saults on Americans by Japan
ese in China, and to have told
the chief of the foreign offices
American section Yoshizawa,
that it was a reasonable as
sumption" anti-British activi-
ties had been converted into
general anti-foreignism.
The seven assaults were said to
have involved six missionaries and a
navy warrant officer, r.. A.. Baker,
who was manhandled at Hankow
July "a.
The British ambassador, Sir Rob-
ert Craigie, meanwhile, was said to
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
North Carolina's
Crop Condition Is
Still Excellent

Raleigh, Aug. 2-(AP)-NOrth
Cardinals crops "aS whole"
continue to show excellent con-
ditiOn, E. Y. Floyd, North Caro-
lima AAA executive officer, said
today. Tar Heel farmers in many
sections suffered from drought
conditions during part of July,
but as dry weather caused severe
crop damage in many parts of
the nation at the end of the
month, North Carolina was having
tOrrential rains.
"The rains may have done
some damage to some crops and
flooded fields caused lOSseS,"
sa.d Floyd, "but the needed rains
also did enough good to other
crops and to dry areas to offset
the damage, probably"
During the last part of July,
many sections of the State had
four or five inches of rain, some
places having two or three inches
in a day.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 2.-Nobody will ad-
nit responsibility for it nor confess
much knowledge of it, but quiet
campaign is being waged to get DR..
Clarence Poe into the Tar Heel gu
bernatorial picture as something OF
dark horse" candidate.
The Progressive Farmer editor
himself smilingly disclaims all know
ledge of any such movement and
refuses completely to commit him
self regarding his intentions in the
matter.
You can neither assume nor an
nounce anything at all about it,, he
told your correspondent, obviously
playing upon the recent sit may be
definitely assumed statement by
Revenue Commissioner Allen j.
Maxwell
And 50 there's just about the end
of the matter as far as Quotable state
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Activity Of.
Workers Cut
President Sends Con-
gress Message, How
ever, Advising Ameri-
can People Will Not
Stand for Gag Act";
Exemptions S u g.
gested.

Washington August e.
(AP) = President Roosevelt
signed into law today the Hatch
bill regulating the political
activity of most federal en-
ployees, but told Congress
emphatically the American
people would not stand for it's
enforcement as a "gag act".
The chief executive said he
was taking the unusual action
of sending a message to Con-
gress explaining his position
because there had been $50
many misrepresentation" of
his attitude, which he set out in
these words:
"It is because for SO many years
l have striyen in public life and in
private life. for decency in political
campaigns, both on the part Of gov
ernment servants, Of candidates, Of
newspapers, of corporations and OF
individuals, that l regard this new
legislation as at least step in the
right direction"
Mr.. Roosevelt recommended that
Congress study next session exten-
sion of the measure to cover state
and local government employees who
participate actively in federal cleo
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Deficiency Bill Trim
med Down to $685.
19O,O56 as $500, ,OOO,-
600 Housing Bill Is
Begged in Jam; End
Now Very Near.

Washington, August e.
(AP)-Congress went under a
virtual hour-to-hour work
schedule today in rush to-
ward adjournment. In the
scramble, economy advocates
in the House got in one more
big lick by reporting out a
much-shrunken deficiency ap-
preparation bill.
This measure, third of its nature
during this session, was trimmed
more than $3.50, 100000 in the House
Appropriations Committee, and, as
presented Tor ueDate, contained
$53,1 ,19OO56. A catch-all bill de-
signed to make up Tor budget esti-
mates which went awry, it provides
for civilian pilot training, improving
navy yards, and for many other
projects.
Speaker Bankhead, who yesterday
saw House insurgents rise up sud-
denly to kill the Presidents lend
ing bill, said at his press conference
that he did not know what would
come up tomorrow, and that no
determination had been made as to
whether the administrations $780,
100000 housing bill, or wage-hour
amendments, would be brought to
the floor before Congress adjourns.
Asked whether he expected to
finish the session by Saturday,
Bankhead, replied, 81 hope very
sincerely we'll be able to do So"
The Senate Foreign Relations
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
Man Who Assisted
Wright Brothers
Is Dead In Ohio

Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 2.-(AP)
Charles Wcbbert, 80, former
landlord of Wilbur and Orville
Wright, and one of the first men
to believe that they might teach
the world to fly, died yesterday.
Webbert owned the building
which housed the Wright broth
ers' famous bicycle shop, and
sold it to Henry Ford in 1887.
Webbert also provided the
Wrights with the water pump
used on their first successful
plane at Kitty Hawk, N. c., i'll
1908. ~"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-02
LONG-TERMER FROM
CARTERET ESCAPES

Raleigh, Aug. 2.-(AP)- Harry
Pridgett, 40, serving 13 to 16 years
for second degree murder imposed
in Carteret county in March, 1884,
escaped from Onslow county prison
camp yesterday, Oscar Pitts, penal
superintendent, said today. 1t was
Pridgett's third flight.
Fleeing yesterday afternoon with
Pridgett, Pitts said, was Emett Nc
Laughlin, 18-year-old convict SEN
fenced in January in Cumberland to
seven to eight years for highway
robbery.