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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

vandenberg and Colonel Frank Knox.
 Old friends, dating back to when they both were cub reporters on a Grand Rapids, Mich, paper, they are on opposite sides on lifting the embargo. Knox stands with the President on the ques- tion; Vandenberg is opposed. But this difference was not the cause of their set-to.
 What touched them off was Knox's objections to Vanden- berg taking leading role in the isolationists' fight. Knox ccntended that by sticking him. self out in front, Vandenberg was hurting the Republican party. With the party split on this issue, Knox argued that the wise course for the leaders to take was not to become too identified with either side.
 Vandenberg resented this coun- sel and the two men had 1t cut hot and heavy, separating finally in rage at each other. Since then Knox has debated ex-Gov- ernor Phil LaFollette in favor of the administrations neutrality bill.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The American Legion is worried over the fact that not enough graveyard space remains in Ar. liEgton National cemetery to blry World War veterans. Congress was asked at the last session to Euy new land around Arlington some of which still ex,sss-but delayed Horsewoman Evie Robert, visiting in the Far West, was more impressed with .he Arizona mules than with Holy wood. ''Those mules," she sad, "i1ave feet like cats. They climb anywhere" .. The John Boet- tiger baby, latest grandson of the President, is now walking. He was born last April.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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at $500 year, and mysteri- Ous John w. Smith, F. O. Box 262, Lexington, Ky. Smiths name is signed to letters and literature seeking to line up Nye delegates to the Republican con- vention. @
 A recent letter bearing Smiths name read, T sincerely hope and pray that you will uphold the. noble hands of Senator Nye in his wonderful neutrality work and that you will go to the Republi- can convention pledged to vote for Senator Nye for the presi dential nomination" Also en- closed in the letter were miIneo- graphed press handouts lauding Yves senatorial record and attack ing the WPA.
 Yves solar under-wraps presi- dential boom will be, no surprise to his friends. He has long har- bored secret White House ambi- tions. After his reelection last year he told an intimate, Well, I am in the clear now and I can concentrate on going after, the presidency. It ought to be a push-over for a Republican in 1940." TURNED TABLES
 For years, beginning wi the 1897 Supreme Court battl,, the COP delightedly stunned them- selves in the glow of the hot fac- tional warning among the Demo- crats. But now the tables are turned.
 Harmonious for the moment, the Democrats are revelling in the rare pleasure of watching the Republicans scrap heatedly among themselves over the neutrality issue.
 Still kept undercover, thanks chiefly to the firm hand of brainy Senator Floor Leader McNary, this rowing has re- suited in several acrimonious personal clashes between top rung party chiefs. The bitterest was between Senator Arthur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
. HlGHLlGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Miners Move
 Town for Ore

If you remember Stewart H. Hol-
 brooks lusty history of the
 lumberjack, Holy old Mack
 inaw", you have some idea of
 the treat in store in "Iron Brew"
 (Macmillan: $2.50), epic of ore
 and steel in the Great Lakes
 area. HoIbro0k has covered it
 all from the first mine to the
 first steel rail. with the full fla-
 vor of the raw pioneer mining
 camps as backdrop. Excerpt
 ed briefly here Is his story of
 the moving of Hibbing, Minn.,
 to get more iron ore.
 Vic Power liked 10 call Hibbing "The Iron Ore Capital of the World" The title fitted the town then, just as it does today. More material-that is to say, more of Mother Earth-has been removed from the Hull-Rust group of open pits alone than was removed in dig ging the canal across Panama. That's heap of world. Indeed, the village of Hibbing was built so close to rich earth that something had to be done about 1t. What was done was one of the epics of the range.
 Along about World War time, the open pits, which had been started well out of town, had eaten away to the very edge of Hibbing. Long cracks began appearing in the ground, well ahead of tn army of steam shovels ~. Buildings sagged. A dance hall buckled in the middle and cracked open Now and again the ground gave way wholly and frame building, with the ground under it, went crashing down into one of the encroaching mines there were indications that the main body of ore extended under the city. even beyond.
 It was a case of moving an en- tire city of l5,000 population :.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 9:57 p. m.
 Sun rises 6:05 a. m: sets 5:09 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The year is fast disappearing. Only two Oddly the end of the old year and the begin- ming of the new are usually submerged in holiday activities and burrowing into our cocoons to escape the rigofs of winter. By the time we emerge we have missed many inter esting developments of the cold season and its waning before spring zephyrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
CABBAGE AND KINKS
tchristian science Monitor,

Governor Salstonstall's disclosures of nine-year supply of dried peas at Mattapan, two years stock of cabbage at Northampton state hos pital, and like surpluscs at other state institutions ranging from l5,- 900 packages of hairpins in one to $500 knitting needles in another,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
Selected Poem
THE STEAM SHOVEL (Rowena Bennett in the Christian
 Oriaurn MoS,itorl


 Science Monitor) The steam digger Is much bigger gts Than the biggest beast know; He shorts and roars Like the dinosaurs
 That lived long years ago. He croucheS low On his tractor-paws ? And scoops the dirt up
 With his jaws, Then swings his long
 Stiff neck around And spits it out
 Upon the ground. Oh, the steam digger Is much bigger
 Than the biggest beast know; He shorts and roars Like the dinosaurs
 That lived long years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York. oct. I8-A thumb nail description of Robert Alton might be "one-man monopoly" because for the past several years his name has appeared as dance director of so many shows the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

re SC or ms craft formed i m prom p tn m O Il r n in g squads using the Palace Theater as a W ailing Wall.
 For anyone to achieve e such popularity in so transient a field as the musical show is unusual, but more unus- ual Is the agility with which AL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

@ How did George F. Baer get the nickname Divine Right?"
 A. When he was President of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, he led the mine Op- orators during the anthracite coal strike in 1902. He got the nickname Divine Right" after he made the statement that, The rights and ir- terests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men ot whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of the property"
 Q. Which famous Naval Con- mander was born on July IT?
 A. John Paul Jones.
 c. What is the Philadelphia Award?"
 A. It is a prize of $10,O00 con- ferred annually upon that man or woman, living in Philadelphia, its suburbs or vicinity, who, during the preceding calendar year, performed or brought to elimination an act, or contributed a service calculated to advance the best and largest inter- ests of the community of which Philadelphia is the center. It was founded by Edward w. Box, who, in June, 1921, created a trust fund for the purpose.
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@. How many Democratic Pres idents have been elected since the Civil War?
 A. Three Cleveland, Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

One could say that moving all Hib- ping was quite a job and still not tell tenth of it. Moving began in 1918. Again, Hibbing took on pioneer aspect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
Washington Merry Go-Round
RA azsasA E
DREW PEARS SON ROBERT s. ALLEN

significant spectacular ordnance exhibition at the Aberdeen 1d Proving Grounds didn't Harris salty Assistant Chief of Ord
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ton managed to dodge the lime- light. The manshas been a figure to reckon with on Broadway for almost decade.
 And yet few know anything about him except that he is as handsome as movie star, that he disappears for intervals Che goes fishing), that he rarely plays the night club circuit.
 HE INFLUENCES
 POPULAR DANCES se,
 They don't know that he used to be ballet dancer, that he has 8 phenomenal memory. for lyrics and show lines, but that he can't remember his own dances and once had to be taught one of his own routines by the chorines he rehearsed. in 1t.
 And so, because the steps you do now and will do in the future may have their source in an AL ton routine, here is a little more about the busiest dance director in the country.
 Alton came to the big city from high school in Bennington, Vt, determined to study drama. He got into dancing instead because he was obviously better suited for it and studied with the Mordkin Ballet. Then he met Midge Field ing and formed 8 dance team with her. They won own recogni- tion in the informal Greenwich Village Follies."
 That was about 1927, the year of the bad summer for show busi- nessAand while casting around for something to do, Alton ran in- to John Murray Anderson, the producer, who suggested that he go to St. Louis to put on stage shows. Uncertain of his ability, Alton tried to turn down the of fer, but Anderson was adamant and a career was launched.
 Two years in St. Louis and then to Philadelphia where Warner Brothers signed him for pictures. He also did an Eddie Cantor pie ture for Sam Goldwyn while he was on the coast.
 DIRECTED MANY
 MUSICAL HITS
 When his work was done, he came back to Broadway and went into the Paramount as producer. The stage called him, however, and since then he has been re- sponsible for the dancing for such glittering revues and musical comedies as (deep breath): '"The Show Is On," Hold Your Horses" "ziegfeld Follies," life Begins at 8:40." Thumbs Up," Anything Goes, 'Hooray for What, Streets of Paris the Casa Manana revues in Texas and in the now closed theater restaurant of the same name here. the Aquacades at Cleveland and at the Worlds Fair.
 Alton has an unorthodox meth- cd of working. He takes a script and reads it thoroughly. Then he consults with the scenic designer and the costumer. Henever thinks about the dancing until all these details are settled because he has a sublime belief f-thus far it hasn't failed hin--that the dances will come to him out of the air. He is open to suggestions from the de- signers and costumers, however, because sometimes they suggest ex- traordinary. effects.
 Alton cannot explain his re- markable memory for lines and his poor one for dances, but he is glad it is that way because he thus almost never repeats him. self.
 Another item: he hates to see a show once he has completed 1t. For some reason-he has never tried to analyze it-he feels de- pressed when he views the finished product with an audience in the house. He doesn't dislike an au- dience, though, for like most dance directors he gets paid a flat guar antee during rehearsals and a per- centage of the gross thereafter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

If you want . copy of our book let, HALLOWEEN PARTIES" The Waterbury Democrats Wash ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. C., Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "His furniture was sold at auction; say, "by auction"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

O. How many persons are taking college extension or correspondence courses?
 A. Approximately 209,Ooo in uni versailles and colleges, teachers col- leges, and normal schools.
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Questions and Answers
RY FREpERIC M. KERBY

BY FREDERIC M. kEhBx
 Enclose a three-cent stamp iu, reply when addressing any gues' tion of fact or information Co the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor can extended research be uIl' dertaken. Be sure an mail Is ad- dressed to The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

@. How much unstemmed tob- acco is required to make 1000 cig- arettes?
 A. About s.6s pounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
A Thought for Today

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.-I Timothy 5:6.
 
 When pleasure rules the life, mind senSibllity, and health shrivel and waste, till at last no joy in earth or heaven can move the worn-out heart to response.-T. T. Munger.
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 @. Why is alum included in some wallpaper paste formulas?
 A. It is said to increase the stiff ness of the paste. Added to given weight of dry flour or other raw material alum allows more water to be used, which makes a larger batch of patse with the same spreading qualities as a small batch made without alum, thereby lower- ing the cost. M
 @. What is the airline distance from Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida?
 A. It is 2,74o statute miles.
 e. When and by whom was the song Coon, Coon, Coon" published?
 A. In 1901, by Sol Bloom. Words and music are by Leo Friedman.
 Q. Where can I obtain Hitler's sixteen points embodying Germany,s basis for settlement of the Polish corridor dispute?
 A. The official text of the state- ment may be obtained from our Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. C., by send- ing self-addressed, stamped en- velope.
 Q. Who won the Greve Trophy Air Race in 1884.
 A. Leland Myles.
 e. Do the Germans have natural deposits of ,helium sufficient for their zeppelins?
 A. So far the United States is the only country in the world in which helium- bearing gases in helium- bearing gases in amounts sufficient for helium production for aerontutical purposes have been
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Copyright, 1899, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

e. When and by whom was the song Coon, Coon, Coon," published?
 A. In 1901, by Sol Bloom. Words and music are by Leo Friedman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

@. What is the airline distance from Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida?
 A. It is 2,740 statute miles.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Manufacturers Uroe
Tax Relief Beyond
Revision Measure
Bill Just Passed HELPS
But Is Not Major
Recovery Step, Claim
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
A committee Of the National As
sociation Of Manufacturers asserted
last night that while the tax re.
vision bill passed by Congress
helped" 1t could not be considered
"a major measure in the drive to
promote national recovery"
The Committee on Government
Finance included among recon-
mendations for further revision
these points:
Reduction Of the tax load on
business so that fair amount of
earnings can be turned over to in.
vestors."
Reduction Of surtaxes on indi.
vldual incomes so that enough in
come Is left to make the investment
OF venture capital attractive"
A study of the entire Federal tax
structure before the convening O.
the next session is contemplated by
congressional leaders. The INQUIRY
Is expected to be made by a special
Senate e-House committee and to in
clude study of all proposals for in
creasing revenue by broadening the
income tax base.
Vice President Garner was re-
ported yesterday to have Joined ad-
Vocates OF a broader tax base. He
was represented as believing the ex-
isting exemption of $500 for mar.
rled couples should be reduced to
81 200 and that single persons
should have only a $500 instead of
a $1,000 exemption.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Wartime Economy
Throws Japan
off Balance
Commerce Department,
Reports Government
Dominates Trode
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department re-
ported yesterday that Japan's war;
time economy has thrown the
country's economic structure off
balance"
At the outbreak of hostilities with
China in July, 1887, the country
definitely committed itself to
planned economy, the Department
reported in a survey of the Jap
anese situation.
To-day Japan is operating prac-
tically on the basis of a wartime
economy with practically complete
government domination over the
production, importation, price and
distribution of every article con-
sumed within its borders" the re-
port said.
These control measures, while
assisting it to meet its emergency
needs, have, nevertheless, thrown
the country's economic structure of
balance"
In order to safeguard the ex-
change value of its currency, imports
have been so severely curtailed that
many raw materials normally enter.
ing into production of essential re-
quirements for export products have
been diverted to armament indus
tries, the report said.
Export trade, it added, also has
prices brought about partly by con-
troll measures, and by decreasing
foreign demand for Japanese goods.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

connection with soil erosion. If we
are going to conserve wild life 1t
has got to be done on the farms" "
In the Texas Panhandle where
the Government has gone into the
dust-bowl area to build a great
watershed, he said the area has be-
come breeding place for wild fowl.
This can be duplicated, he suggest
ed, in many parts of the West.
Sea Bass Is Attraction.
The chief attraction at the bar
becue was a 5O-pound sea bass, sup
piled however, by local restaurant
instead of being the prize catch of
some Waltonian. Fred Orsinger,
who is in charge of the aquarium in
the Commerce Department Building,
supervised the meal spread on tables
under the great oaks of DR.. Cox's
farm. He was assisted by Raymond
Lurba.
The annual awards of recognition
was feature of the program. Mr.
Harry presented white Waltonian
jackets and honorary membership
cards in the league to Mr. Evans
and DR.. Davis, the latter serving as
one of the hosts of the day.
Gold league buttons for outstand-
ing services by members of the
Washington chapter were presented
to DR.. Cox, Mr.. Orsinger, Frank
Mllkern and Mr. IJlrha all of whom
contributed to the success of the
outing.
Miss Newman was the only woman
member of the league in attendance
Some of the chapters do not admit
women. but as DR.. Davis pointed out
in an informal address, the women
of America are taking a leading
part in the national conservation
movement.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

Whitaker recalled that q section Of
the Trading With the Enemy Act, "
as amended in 1923. held mo person
is entitled to the return Of property
or money who Is a fugitive
from justice Of the United States or
any State or Territory, or the Dis
trict of Columbia"
But when the exile returned in
May and submitted to arrest, he no
longer was q fugitive. On June 2,
he filed application again for return
Of his former estate.
Technically, the Government need
not return Bergdoll's fortune. When
such property is confiscated it be-
comes an outright holding of the
Government, lawyers say, and is in
vested in interest bearing Treasury
bonds.
Traditionally, however, attorneys
general have recognized that con-
fscation generally is abhorrent to
Americans and have approved re-
turn of such funds.
The Governments seizure Of
Evening star., 1939-06-25
from wartime aliens and fugitives

from wartime aliens and fugitives
from justice.
The former Philadelphia playboy,
who fled in 1920 to Canada and
thence to England and Germany
after his conviction as q draft
dodger, returned to this country last
month volubly penitent. Already
he has commenced serving his al
most-forgotten five-year sentence in
the military prison on Governors
Island, N. Y.
Fortune Was Confiscated.
After his flight from the country,
Bergdoll's modest fortune was con-
flscated by the alien property custo-
dian.
While Bergdoll remained a fugi-
tive, trusteeship Of the money was
clear.
AS recently as February 13, As
sistant Attorney General Sam Whit
aker rejected an application filed by
Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll for return
Of the half million dollars which
once belonged to her son. Mr..
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Girl CycIist Gets Lifts

PHILADELPHIA. June "a UP.-
Wlnsome Ruth Orkins, who ped
aled out of Los Angeles on her
bicycle June l, breezed through
Philadelphia today with much Of
her original s25 remaining. She
said she had some lifts" in auto.
mobiles.
The 17-year-old Los Angeles City
College freshman is headed for
Northfield, Mass, national head
quarters Of the American Youth
Hostel Movement, which provides
low-cost stopping places for young
travellers.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Goodwill Industries
Troining Plans Revealed

Future executives of the Goodwill
Industries all over the country will
be trained largely in Washington,
the Rev. H. j. Helms of Boston.
director emeritus of the National
Association of Goodwill Industries,
said yesterday.
The training course of executive
work will require year, divided into
three semesters, DR.. Helms ex-
planned, and two of the semesters
will be spent in the National
Training School at 1920 New Hamp-
shire. avenue NV. The third will
be given at the Morgan Memorial
School in Boston.
DR.. Helms gave an informal talk
to the staff and guests of the local
Goodwill Industries. He is director
Of the Goodwill Industries National
Training School Commission.
Evening star., 1939-06-25

way toward balancing the Federal
budget. There's a 2 per cent tax
on the sale price of the car, 10 per
cent on the car. radio, ~ per cent
per pound on each tire and 4 cents
per pound on each tube. An average
tire will weigh 20 pounds, making
the tax As cents apiece, and tubes at
two pounds each are worth 8 cents
each to the Treasury.
On long distance telephone calls
you pay 10 cents tax on a call to
your sweetheart in a neighboring
State if the toll is between so cents
and a dollar. If you put in a one
to-two-dollar call, that's Is cents
tax, and any call over 81 means 20
cents to the Treasury.
kilograms bear a S per cent tax,
and If you buy house worth more
than 500, the tax on deeds will
cost you so cents for each $500 the
dwelling Is worth.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Nuisance Taxes Continue Lew
Of Dime on 81 Box of Powder
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
.'Uncle Sam still wants a penny for
each gallon of gasoline in your jail
opy and 10 cents for each dollar box
OF face powder you buy.
The levies by which he collects
these sums are among the manu-
facturers' excise taxes, or so-called
nuisance" taxes, extended for two
years in the new tax law.
There aren't as many Of these
taxes as there were few years ago
Gone are those levies on bank checks
toothpaste, chewing gum, phono-
graph records, furs and soar.
But when you buy a new radio or
televisor, the Treasury will take 10
paS cent. It also wants 4 cents per
Aeallon on oil, S cents per thousand
on fancy wooden matches and 3 per
cent on electricity.
Buying an automobile goes quite q
Evening star., 1939-06-25
BergdoI| May Again
Return 10 Ranks
Of We||-to-Do
Decision on Return Of
Confiscoted Property
Rests With Murphy
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Once wealthy Grover c. Bergdoll,
who preferred 18 years voluntary
exile in Germany to World War
service in the American Army, soon
may be well-to-do again.
The decision rests with Attorney
General Murphy, who serves as Gus
todian of all properties confiscated
Evening star., 1939-06-25

Bergdoll's assets may have been q
great boon to the former Phila-
delphian.
Escaped Market Crash,
Bergdoll was a market specula-
tor, but when the stock market
plunged downward in 1929, his cash
was invested, by order of the Sec
retary Of the Treasury, in Govern
ment bonds.
IT have lots Of friends" chuckled
one Justice Department attorney
assigned to the Bergdoll case. who
only wish their money had been in
vested in Government bonds then,
too"
Details Of the rise and fall In
value of Bergdoll's former holdings
are kept confidential, but an Of
ficial audit last July showed his
estate to be valued at $566,833.4l