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her husbands name go firsD, writing the scenario without spar ing the tragic details that tore at her heart as she recreated them, the gayest lady of the gay Nineteen Hundreds definitely emerged from the obscurity that she had chosen for herself in the last decade.
 SURPRISINGLY,
 SHE SAID IVES"
 A few weeks ago, a brash en- trepreneur at the New York's Worlds Fair asked if she would not permit a celebration day to be named in her honor. She agreed unhesitatingly. She even offered to violate a resolution of many years and to do one of her renowned, old-fashioned dances on the green.
 Then friends who have some connection with a summer play house in New Jersey bolted in with a daring suggestion. Why shouldn't the affectionately-re- garded Irene appear in one of the plays? To their surprise, she did not react to the idea coyly. She thought it was fine.
 In fact, her elation was such that it verged on dangerous ex- travagance. For example, her role in Noel Coward's "Sharow Play" requires that she wear an impressive collection of gems. The property man had provided an assortment of paste jewelry for the occasion. But when Miss Cas- tie saw them, she drowned. My acting career" she remarked with ebullience, deserves better than thatl" And on opening night she wore sparkling galaxy of multi. carat diamonds. Insurance com. pany sleuths stalked the audience with vigilant eyes.
 DOESN'T CONDEMN
 JITTERBUG STEPS
 She has been sojourning in ob- scurity until now, but not as an inactive and breeding widow of wonderfully vivid personal ity. Remarked (she is Mrs. Fred eric McLaughlin)), she has been busily mothnring Barbara, IA, and Billy, 10, and she has established her famous animal refuge in Chi. cago until 1t now is in safe, func- tioning hands.
 She thinks that this jitterbur trend IS amusing enough. But as an exhibition" she adds with tol- erant criticism. You can't call it dancing. Some of the youngsters perform amazing athletic feats, hopping about to mad, chopped up rhythms. It's not becoming to the average age and figure and 1t really has no place no the ball. room floor"
 Besides, Miss Castle thinks that it's too hard on the shins.
 My dancing days are over." she says without regret, land I've always had soft spot in my soul for the theater, anyway"
 The romance of other halycon days has not deserted the heart and mind of Irene Castle. She Is the toast of the town again.
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Selected Poem
CITY FOG

(Fred Lape in the Christian Science Monitor) A fog over city is the low laughter that breaks restraint. It softens the houses the red brick and the yellow
 brick are mellowed; like a sea-line that seems, now sky now water their roofs rise where the mist hangs thick. The chimneys send up their smoke lazily Pigeons fly from roof to roof, wings white like water that turns to foam. Over the trees and Uttered streets the soft tongues of fog curl. The pavements shine, and up and down the men and women come and go the children laughing to school Their voices blend like water running in mountain streams and over them all the gentle arms of mist reach and enfold the fin- gers of mist bend and unbend. This is a kind hour; now it seems these many hearts beat rhythmicaly together; they move to one sure end
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. HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
MT. Emanuel
 Visits Maitland


 When MT. Emmanuel left the safety
 of his English home to search through Nazi Germany for the mother of a Jewish refugee boy,
 he anticipated little trouble. He
 was a Jew, true; but he was an Englishman too. His passport said so. His adventures among the Nazis
 make up a large portion of Louis
 GOlding's sympathetic novel of the
 plight of the German Jew, MT.
 Emmanuel" (viking Press, $2.5O).
 Prophetic is his warning to a Nasi,
 quoted here.
 T can shoot you down like a dog!" Herr Heinkes played with the butt end of a pistol slung at his flank. And bury your carcass by daylight in the front garden there!''
 MT. Emmanuel shrugged his shoulders.
 "The authorities in Berlin have given me day to clear out. If do not and 1t is my fault, some- thing will happen to me. If do not, and 1t is yours" He left the rest unsaid.
 "I'd very much like to risk 1t! :"
 Much good 1t would do youl" MT. Emmanuel observed. Much good is 1t all doing youl ...
 Where do you think 1t is all tak- ing you, where? You can beat me up. You can beat up a thousand other Jews. You can kill us. You can kill all the Jews in your country. Where will you be then. I ask you? You do not know. |. I will tell you. You will be sooner or later, where all the enemies of Israel is, where Moab is. where Egypt is, where Rome is. And it will not be so long like you think either.
 And we, where will we be? We will be where we always have been. Going to synagogue, bringing up families, writing few books, mak- ing a little business, asking a few questions-that's where we'll be, Herr Heinkes."
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world knowing about 1t. This was done through a betting commis- sioner. He cut the money up into amounts so small they attracted no attention, and distributed them to small bookies from coast to coast.
 These little fellows are never in on a "fox" and don't know what has hit them when called to pay off II to 1. That was about what the horse paid in this particular race--$23.80 for . $2 bet. The syndicate had invested $11,O0O, so you can fig- ure up its winnings.
 Racetrack fixing of this type and 1t is practised on a wholesale scale-would be unprofitable If the money was not concealed by distribution through the thousands of bookmakers built up through use of the Annenberg racing news service. Without the present far- flung bookie establishments, bet. ting would have to be confined chiefly to the track, where a six" is more easily detected.
 Copyright, 1889, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions: Turn to last page for the answers.

i. On what river is Sacramento, Calif.?
 2. To what place did Cain flee after he had killed his brother Abel?
 3. Who said: Tt is best not to swap horses when crossing . stream2'
 n4. Do elephants drink with their trunk12
 5. Tn grammar, what is the name of . word which stands for or in. stead of . noun?
 6. How is 1872 written In Roman numerals?
 2. Tn which State were the great est number of battles fought during the Civil War?
 8. In which National Park are Mammoth Hot Springs.
 Q. What is Q "Jinx?"
 10. Is Springfield the capital ot Massachusetts. Illinois or Indiana?
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets 9:l0 D. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 6:02 G. in.; sets 7:60 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 High water at Milford Friday. Aug. 1s. 2:35: low water, 0:i6 daylight time).
 Mid-August finds little or no trace Of ap- preaching fall in surrounding vegetation. Everything is lush right now. Plant growth at it's maximum: insect life excitedly prepar- ing for the later cold weather. The birds are stiil with us. Summer Is at its peak.
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Press Comment
SUMMERS WAIVE

(New Haven Journal-C Courier)
 Now that warm weather has be- come Q habit and the rare days of early summer have passed. the cons fines of existence have begun to narrow again. Horizons which seem- cd limitless Q month ago are not quits co wide as they were. Respon- abilities have begun to reasseTt themselves. There is even Q vague trace of restlessness in the air. sort of half-rcaiized desire to return to well-established routine and a more permanent mode of existence.
 In the city there doesn't seem to be much to guage the season by, but out in the country the days
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A Thought for Today

When thou shalt VOW . VOW unto Che Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay 1t: for the Lord thy God will surely require 1t of thee and N would be sin in thee-Deuteronomy 23:2l.
 
 Make no VOWS to perform this or that; 1t shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself-Fuller.
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Current Comment

We have . right to differ from one another in religious conviction and practice. But there is an obliga- ton upon us as citizens of the one country to join together in common civic tasks upon which all of us agree.
 Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 We can have confidence in the Czechs only when we see their read. mess to put an end to the forces ere. ating disturbances.
 --Konrad Henlein. German g0v-
 ernor, at Prague.
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In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Auc. 17.-Irene Castle, who once set the mode and mood for the women of the United States. feels that moth- like, irresistible urge toward the flame of the limelight again.
 To look at her, you would be sure that she is 35. No more. Per- haps less. Slim waitsline, youthful
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Trade in Waterbury

With Dollar Day being observed locally pouring of Waterburlans seeking bargains In our stores. The trade in Waterbury apirit has never been more uppermost
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ployment daily. Sixty.three aliens and l20 American residents corn- muted from Niagara Falls to Can- ada.
 c. Please name the transcont- mental railroads.
 A. The United States has no true transcontinenta railroads, but the following are generally given that title: Union Pacific, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
 @. What was the order of birth of the Dionne quintuplets?
 A. The order of their birth Is not known. Three of them were born before the arrival of the Doctor and the babies were not marked or kept in position in the order of their ar- rival.
 e. How many miles of streets has New York?
 A. Approximately $500 miles.
 Q. Is 1t good practice to place statuary or bird baths in rock gar- dens?
 A. No; they are incongruous. An informal rock garden should have the effect of natural wild place.
 Q. Why does Germany owe money to the United States?
 A. On account of the costs of the American Army of Occupation and the awards of the U. s. German Mixed Claims Commission.
 @. When the vice president suc- ceeds to the office of president, what oath does he take? A. The oath prescribed in the Constitution for the president. e. Which Is the highest noun. tain east of the Mississippi?
 A. Mount Mitchell, in the Black Mountains of Yancey county, North Carolina, 6,684 feet above sea level.
 C. How much water is used in plastering an average Groom houSe3
 A. Approximately 1000 gallons, all of which must be evaporated be- fore the house is ready for the in- terior finish. Q. How many Angora goats does 1t require to provide the mohair to upholster an average automobile sedan?
 A. Five.
 c. What book describes exper- fences within an insane asylum by voluntary inmate?
 A. Behind the Door of Delu- sion," by Marion Marie Woodson Climate. Ward 8"), The Macmillan Co.,, 1882.
 If you want . copy of our book let, MANAGEMENT IN U. s. GOV. ERNMENT" send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D.
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Since Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November n 1863 Thanksgiving Day this festive holiday has fallen on the last or 30th day of the month eleven times. If it went through again this year it would be the twelfth such occasion. All of which is proof that it takes us a long time to make up our mind that custom isn't always the best example to follow. The last such occur renee was in 1933 Prior to that in this century we had November 30th Thanks givings in 1922, 1916, 1911, 1905. It's time we fixed the date so it couldn't jump around the calendar.
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Questions
 and Answers
By gREDERICK a. KRRBx

" B@R@~@~~~ON@
 Enclose Q three-cens stamp fos csply when addrssslne ans Qpes. tlon ee fact os infarmation Co the Waterbury DemecFnt's Service Bu. reau as Washington. Legal and medical edvice cannot be glven nog can extended research be m. dertahsm. % sure an man Q aa. dressed Co Che WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU, l0la ThlEtee1th Street Washlngton, o. 0.
 THE EDITOR
 How does the consumption of wine in the United States compare with that of distilled spirits7
 A. In 1888, consumption Of wines of all kinds, amounted to 0l ,60e. .c60 gallons compared with l30,20s, ,6SS gallons of distilled spirits.
 c. How many residents of Mag ara Falls, ". Y., commute daily to Canada to work and how many Ca- nadians come to Niagara FallsS
 A. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, 339 aliens came to Niagara Falls from Canada for ern-
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race, brignt, alert and playful eyes, smart attir. But she disillusions you, before you've
 had the chance to hatter her. She likes k 45. She likes to be. She readily says so.
 w h c n she mothered t h c picture, TT h c Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (she insisted that
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Washington Merry Go-Round
D E E W PEARSON ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON August IT. Except for working the inside the brought against the Chicago grand jury
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What will happen to our civilization when all the slogans wear out?
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There are plenty of axes in Washing ton, but no definite axis yet.
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If you want . copy of our book. let, MANAGEMENT IN U. s. GOV. ERNMENT" send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. O. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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THE EDrroR

ToDAy's COMMON ERRoR Do not say, "The three men ioked at each other; say,
 "one another"
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c. What book describes exper- fences within an insane asylum by voluntary inmate?
 A. Behind the Door of Delu- sion," by Marion Marie Woodson Climate. Ward SD, The Macmillan O., 1882.
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e. How many Angora goats does
 1t require to provide the inohair to upholster an average automobile
 sedan? A, Five.
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Copyright, 1889. by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1939-01-11
300 SIGN
JetOish Center's Drive
For Members Pressed

With more than 800 new mem,
bers signed up during the first
week of their campaign, workers
in the Jewish Community Cen.
ter's 1889 membership enrolment
were busy today striving to reach
the 1000 mark. The eventual goal
of the months drive is $500 mem,
bers for the Sixteenth Street in
Stitution.
Burnett Siman, chairman, an
nounced last night at a rally at
the Center that a victory banquet
is planned for the workers early
in February. Another report meet
ing will be held next Wednesday
night.
A new series of Institutes on
Jewish history will open at the
center tonight, with Rabbi Isa
dore Breslau, president of the Dis
trict Zionist Organization, speak
ing on "The Emergence of the
Hebraic Influence in World His
tory" Leopold B. Freudberg will
preside.
The Town Hall of the Air dis
cuSsion group will resume its
weekly meetings tomorrow night
The radio debate will be between
Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes and Frank Gannett, pub,
Usher. on Freedom of the Press. ii
The Washington times., 1939-01-11

THE Weird Lure" First of series
of fascinating tales by Brian O'Brien
Afri.an explorer. in which he relates
strange secrets of the African jungle.
DO not miss this dOuble-page feature
illustrated in color in the American
Weekly,
The Washington times., 1939-01-11
U. S. Wife SUES
|RELAND'S PEER

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan.
Nobody but the judges of the
court of sessions knows the exact
nature of the legal action, but
some form of suit against the
Duke of Leinster, premier peer OF
Ireland, has been entered here by
his American-born duchess.
Speculation centered, however
on the possibility that the duch
eSs, the former Mrs. Clare Van
Neck, of New York, intends to get
divorce.
The duke, whose marital and
financial affairs have landed him
before judges all over the United
Kingdom at various times, has
been divorced once before. His
first wife, May Etheridge, musical
comedy star, was separated from
him shortly after she made
dramatic attempt to take her own
life in London apartment.
Mrs. Van Neck, born Agnes Raj
faele Kennedy, is the daughter OF
Robert Kennedy, of New York
and his former wife, now Mrs. 10
seph Henry Patterson. The pres,
ent duchess was divorced from
Van Neck in 193A.
The Washington times., 1939-01-11
BOARD
STUDIES COSTS

The Board of Education at its
meeting this afternoon was to
thresh out some of the problems
involved in the Budget Bureaus
revised estimates of the cost of
running District schools for 1910.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools, was to prepare
for the Board members a memo
randum showing the losses and
gains in the various items, as set
up in the revised estimates. The
Budget Bureau allowed the schools
$13,177,730 this year, only $1,270
less than the estimates made by
the District Commissioners and
$544,436 more than the amount
appropriated for the current fis-
cal year.
Decreases were made in funds
for construction of new school
buildings and in acquisition OF
land for construction.
The information given to the
Board members this afternoon will
help prepare them when the op-
portunity comes for them to make
an appearance on Capitol Hill to
discuss a possible increase in the
revised estimates.
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Old'ReCOrdS'
Put tOUSe
ASFuel

Don't think of throwing
those old Congressional Rec
OrdS away. Not, that is, if you
have a fireplace.
Why" said newly elected
Robert w. Kean r., of the
Twelfth New Jersey district,
today, they're as good as
firewOOd!"
AS a son of former Senator
Hamilton Fish Kean, of New
Jersey, he has been reading
the Record for Is years. In
the course of years the stock
piled up. What to do?
One day the KeanS tried
them out in the fireplace.
"They burned for hours"
he declared, "and gave off a
lot of heat"
It's the quality Of paper the
Government uses in the Rec
ord, all good wood pulp, that
makes it so serviceable for
fuel, the New Jerseyite con-
cluded.
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Ills o-ycdI-O1u sui, OOScpu, il :,
sobbed.
Assistant Prosecutor William
George tersely summarized the in
dictment before the jury: That
the defendant, 37-year-old unem-
ployed mason. last February mur-
dered PoormaSter Harry L.
Barck, "a, when he, Scutellaro, de-
manded relief in Barck's office.
That he did so by seizing a steel
spindle from the poormaster
desk and plunging it into Barck's
chest.
Prosecution witnesses went to
the stand in a formidable process
sion.
I've never told a lie in my
life, never, never, never" Eleanor
Hartman, a clerk in the Hobo
ken charities department, re-
peated.
Il saw Scutellaro lunge at Mr..
Barck and strike him a terrific
blow" she testified. "'Call an
ambulance Mr.. Barck said. He
got me! I'm done for! I'm done
for!"
Barck staged to the hook where
his coat was hanging, took a police
whistle from his pocket and blew
it-then crumpled at her feet, she
said,
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new RECRUITS
JOIN FARMERS
IN STRIKE CAMP
1900 ShareCroppers in
Mass Demonstration

sIKESTON, Mo-, Jan. II
GN.SO.-New recruits today
Joined the ranks of hundreds Of
evicted southeast Missouri share
croppers, who have pitched inn
provised camps along 100 miles
of highways, extending from Sike-
ston south to the Arkansas State
line.
Approximately $500 persons,
mostly Negroes, were camped
along highways which intersect
at Sikeston, it was estimated by
State highway patrol officials.
The sharecroppers' camps stud
ded 75-mile stretch of highway
81, from Sikeston down to the
Arkansas State line, and a 25-
mile stretch of highway so. ex-
tending east from Sikeston to
the Mississippi River.
SOME BLAME AAA
Blame for their plight was
placed by some of the evicted
farmers on the crop reduction
program of the AAA, which has
curtailed cotton acreage under
production and reduced the need
for labor.
Leaders of the Southern Ten.
ant Farmers Union, CIO affili-
ate which sponsored the roadside
demonstrations, also have charged
that the land owners evicted the
sharecroppers to avoid sharing
with them the AAA benefits paid
by the Government.
Despite the union sponsorship
of the demonstration, several
planters told reporter they ap-
proved the mass protest, but they
qualified their statements by
denying they were responsible for
the wholesale evictionS.
HOPES 1T ENDS CONTROL
Its a clever piece of propa-
ganda," said E. P. Coleman, jr,
of Sikeston, reputed to be the
largest landowner in southeast
Missouri. 1T will make those
fellows in Washington realize
how serious the situation is.
Perhaps we'll be allowed to run
our farms without this crop
curUailment program.
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DR.. Briefs Discusses
Capita|istic System

The question of whether the
capitalistic system could with
stand a breakdown under the
strain of excessive social and eco
nomic reforms was raised by DR..
Goetz A. Briefs, former German
economist, during a discussion at
the public forum of Georgetown
Graduate School last night. DR..
Carroll R. Daugherty. chief eco
nomiSt of the wage-hour division
IN the Labor Department, spoke
on the wages and hours law as
an attempt to increase employ
ment and purchasing power. DR..
Briefs is teaching economics at
Georgetown.
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der trial, yeSter-
dad heard him.
self branded a
first d e g gr e e
killer" and de-
f e n d e d as a
man of "un-
qualified inno-
cence'' in d bit
ter cl a S h Of
lawyers in Com
m on Pl e a S
C o u r t, Jersey
City.
Stolid, glazed
e We d. he be-
trayed no emo
tion whatever .
In a far corner
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HOPES 1T ENDS CONTROL
Jurist to Speak

What American Jews Can Do
for Palestine. will be the subject
of an address by Judge Elihu D.
Stone, of Boston, at the B'nai
Israel Synagogue Friday at $3.50
%. m.
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BEAUTY
Licensed Shops Only
To GlUe redtn7e7tS

The District Cosmetology Board
prepared today to turn over to
the Corporation Counsel for prose
cution any violation of the regula-
ton recently enacted Stipulating
only employees of regularly
licensed beauty shops may give
treatments at customers homes.
Mrs. Ethel M. Beebe, treasurer
of the board, asked 500 beauty
shop operators meeting at the
old Police Court Building last
night to cooperate by reporting
instances of violations.
Some time age, some 200 women,
including Mrs. Louis Brandeis,
wife of the Supreme Court jus
tice, protested that the regula-
ton in question worked hard
ship on customers and forced
beauty operators onto relief rolls.
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SAW SLAYINC,
Girl TEST|F|ES

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Joseph
Scutellaro, frail. meek-faced de-
fendant in the PoormaSter MUIR
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Answering
Readers
Queries
Dancing During
Meal Is Termed
Dinner Dance
BY EMILY POST,

DEAR MRS. POST: What is the
difference between a dinner dance"
and dinner and dance" If any?
Answer-The terms are really in
terchangeable, although dinner and
dance" is more usually taken to
mean dinner in one place followed
by dancing elsewhere; or If sin the
same house, the dinner tables would
be cleared and dancing begin after
dinner. A dinner dance" could be
the same, but on the other hand
it could mean that people are all
seated at tables around the ball
room floor and that people dance
between the courses at dinner and
throughout the evening-always re-
turning after dancing to their own
tables.
Dear Mrs Post: Is it proper to hold
the knife in the left hand all the time
one is eating to push the food on the
fork? I see so many people do this.
Answer: All foods that evade pur-
suit and capture by the fork may be
barricaded-if neatly done-by the
knife. But this should never be
done except when necessary.