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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06
CRANlslM
CRACKERS
BACK TO CHILDHOOD

You should be able to answer
these questions without the slightest
hesitation. since they concern the
most familiar nursery rhymes.
1. Where was the maid when the
king was In the counting house
2. BY whom did the big spider
eif?
3. Who married Jennie Wren?
&. Where did George Porgie go?
!. Who slept in his stockings7
Answers on Back Page
Italy's price fixing now includes
Gia~asdaA motion picture Aims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06

that"
I'm telling YOU now because
you have 70 make good 10 make
our faith come true"
He sat there turning this In
mind. Finally he turned 70 her.
LET me ask you something"
"Qo ahead. II I can answer your
question will"
was your paw ever up In HELM.
Domination Holler2"
Only for an instant did any
change come into her expression. II
was so little as a flicker Of her long
lRshes.
why, suppose so, Rosy, When
he came 10 be president OF Lincoln
College he covered Just about all
the territory In this end OF the
state. He felt he should travel over
his territory so as 10 know the peo-
pie who would come to his school.
I think he visited your neighbor-
hood, too"
II don't mean that way, I mean
did he"
did he whatP" she prompted
him,
did he ever live up In there?"
MY father2 Why, No. can't
think OF his ever living In HELM.
Damnation Holler. II you're asking
whether he Is q relative OF the fam
lily Of Tollivers up In your country,
the feuding Tollivers your family
have been additionally at outs with,
No. How could we bep"
"Er-well--"
cant you see how absurd that
would all be2 My father q member
Of q feud clan, and his being presi-
dent OF one OF the best colleges In
the mountain country That
wouldn't make sense, would itp"
She was leaning forward per-
suasively, and her very anxiety for
him 10 accept the absurdity put
him on his guard, Cousin Steve
Hogg would have said, shes mealy.
mounting you. She's sneaking up
on your blind side. She's trying 10
ketch you In q left-handed moment
and hog tie you" Something IN
RosSy believed that too, And he
knew what Hannah would say, and
his mother--all his klnfolkS,
MY father has always been In
school work." that sweet, determined
voice went on. ever since ! can
remember, He was principal OF q
big high school, then he went TO
the university and we lived there
four years while father finished his
masters and took his doctors de-
gree. He was q professor OF educa-
ton two years In northern college,
"rhat was before my mother
died. Then this place called him.
Naturally the board Of trustees
would examine carefully the whole
history Of man before they put
him In n responsible Job like this,
Well they gave him the presidency
OF Lincoln College. He has always
been O. fine, clean man, For me he's
q great man, Rosy"
But for Rosy he was the man
who killed his father.
tie BE Continued
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06
CHAPTER vi

The terrific impact OF Hannah
shriders hand on Rosy McAfee S
face left glowing, four-pronged
picture on his amazed and bloodless
cheek. He wallowed a moment on
the floor, where he had fallen after
the girl slapped the FIRE out Of him.
He gluped, started TO rise. Murder
.an through his arteries and mus
lies. "You-you-I'll knock the tar
cut Of YOU"
Hannah made ready TO meet him
blow for blow. KNOCK the tar out
Of me, dad-burn your low.life timel
Just come on and knock the tar
out OF mel"
Rosy looked up at the passion
set face OF the girl he had once
asked 10 marry him, He remem-
bered that day, In the spring, when
the orchard trees were pink and
white and the bland wind waved
her tawny hair,
Rosy and Hannah had been
weetheartS--and enemies-up from
their childhood. Both families had
known all along In time they would
marry. Rosy had never given
thought TO anything else, nor had
Hannah. At least not suntil TIL
moment, though they had fought as
often and as hard as they had
Rugged and kissed,
Anger went out Of him. He got
clumsily TO his feet, and stood just
staring at her. The commotion OF
their scrap brought heavy figure
10 the door, and there stood Mrs
Patterson.
"Well, OF oil thingsp the hor-
rified lady cried, seeing what had
lust happened She advanced upon
Hannah. Fighting Quarrelingl
And you have only got here, Who
ever heard OF such goings on? I'm
q mind 10 send you away, not let
you stay another moment In my
house-with all my nice girls"
"It was my fault" Rosy said,
"Rlane Il on me, not her. ! reckon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06
DR.. May H. JAMES
TO ADDRESS PTA
Talk to Feature Hamburg
Roast Tonight at Home
of Carl Spellman
PROSPECT
Correspondent; Alfred Peach
Telephone 5.0S32

Prospect, June 6-There will be q
Parent. Teachers association ham
burg roast mt the homo OF Mr.. ane
Mrs. Carl Spellman OF Summit roat
tonight. Dr, May Hall James viii
speak.
The Prospect Grange won the
game with Wolcott Grange last night
S6.e. This Is the second game they
have won In four.
The Fathers and Sons OF Prospect
enjoyed Q turkey supper last night
at the Congregational church
Sound movies were shown after mn
evenings entertainment which In.
eiuded tap dancing, trumpet playing
and violin solo by a girl with
midget violin.
Those attending were: Lewis W
curtis ST.. and Lewis w. Curtis Jr
David Curtis, Ralph Weloy, Ivar
Weloy, G. r. Mclean, Walter Gran
dial, Arthur Hill. Howard Hill, Rich
ard Spellman, Robert Spellman, Carl
g. Spellman, Billy Clarke, Dean
Clarke Daniel Conner, Roger Con-
nor. Alfred N. Peach ST., Alfred N
Peach Jr,, Fred II. Clarke, Harold
M. Bunnel, Emil A. Toscano, Earle
n. Cooley, George Cooley, William
II. vining, Sr., william II. Vining
Jr., J. w. Mulvey, Donald Mulvey
George KEEPER, John KEEPER, Craig
KEEPER, Carl KEEPER, Paul Stanis.
low, Eugene Stanislow, DR.. Johr
stanislow, Merit Walters, Clayton
Walters, Harvey H. Green, Johr
Green, Clifford Clark. Edward
Chandler. @. A. Milton, Loren Nil.
ton, Halsey S. Clark, Clarence A
Miller, and Rev. r. s. Cochard, Rev
Alan M. Fairbank, Doublas Merri.
man, Roy Merriman, Thomas Merri.
man, Edward J. Chafeld, ST., Ed.
ward J. Chatfield, Jr., c. Stuer Ar.
thur Squires, A. w. Davis, Irving w
Davis, John Schweizer ST., anc
John q. Miller, Jevy Miller, Johr
L. Cavanaugh, George Shuster Sr.
George Shuster, Jr., John Schweizel
Jr., Ralph Pratt, william Z. Morti.
son ST., William e. Morrison Jr., Ed.
win Parsons, Oscar Swanson anc
Donald Swanson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06
CAST or CHARACTERS

ROssY McAFEE-went 10 col
lsgo 70 play baseball, get an edu-
cation. and settle a feud.
Judy TOLLIvAR-AAughter 81
Lincoln Colleges president.
HANNAH sHRIDER-hlllbllly
KsFl who followed RosSy 70 college.
Yesterday; DR.. TOlllvar Arranges
Fer Hannah 20 stay In school,
room at another place. When
Rossy gees 10 see her, she tells
him how his cousin, Steve HOgg,
came down 10 school, spied ON
Rossy, then reported back that he
was living wlta The Tolllvars. She
reminds RosSy Of his oath 10
avenue his father, denOunces him,
slaps him sprawllng.
Evening star., 1940-09-19

1t took a crowd of 500 fans to get
Mickey Rooney's eyes open when he
arrived in Union Station this morn
ing.
He walked and talked in obedience
to photographers and press agents,
and yaWned that he was happy as a
lark" He was greeted by school
patrol leaders and introduced to his
police guard and press reception.
But he didn't wake up until he
saw the cheering youngsters and
groWnups, waving banners and auto
graph albums, herded at one end of
the station to meet him.
What clambake!" Mickey
chuckled, and bounced through the
crowd with wide grin to lead the
combined bands of the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club and the LOeW's
Capitol Theater.
Sports Flag Pin.
Mickey sported gray suit with
red pencil stripe, red tie, American
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Driver Falls Clear
As Truck 0verturns
And Tank Exp|odes
Hos Narrow Escape
In Accident at ToyIor
Street and Hurewood Rouc
picture on Page AZ

A 28-year-old colored man had a
narrow escape from death today
when the truck he was driving over
turned near the intersection of Tay-
lor street and Harewood road NE,
and the gasoline tank exploded.
Isaiah Hood, 906 o street NV,
the driver, who was treated for cuts
and burns by priests at nearby
Capuchin College. was unable to say
whether he jumped before the ex-
plosion or whether the blast threw
him clear
He said friend, identified only
as Richard Cornwell," was riding
with him at the time. He disap-
peared after the accident, but was
believed to have escaped injury.
Firemen eXtinguiShed the flames,
which caused almost a total loss.
Fruit which the vehicle was carry
ing was strewn in the street for
100 feet.
Meanwhile, Carl Vallandingham,
81, of 1430 w street NV. died last
night in Casualty Hospital of in
juries received Sunday in a traffic
accident near Floral Park, Md.
Police were told that he was in
jured when his car left the road and
overturned.
A colored asphalt workman was
seriously injured this morning when
struck by an automobile as he
crossed Lee boulevard at Glebe
road in Arlington County, Va.
The injured man is Howard King,
n, of Arlington. He was said by
Emergency Hospital attendants to
be suffering from shock, fractured
skull, multiple fractures of both legs,
lacerations about the body and pos
sible internal injuries.
A 10-year- old colored boy was in
Casualty Hospital with serious in
juries received, according to police,
while trying to hitch ride on a
moving truck. He is Theodore Pye
of GAL Forty-ninth street NE, who
was hurt near his home when he
missed the truck.
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Liquor Stores Move
Opposed by Five
Congress Members
Pennsylvania Avenue
Block Already Servieed,
A. B. 6. Board Is Told

Members of the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board today consid-
cred a decision in the application
for transfer of the permit of the
Bond Liquor & Wine Store from
the 14O0 block of Fourteenth street
NV. to the 900 block Of Pennsyl-
vania avenue NW-a petition which
is opposed by five members of Con-
greSs.
AS the hearing on the case was
nearing its close late yesterday it
was revealed that two Senators and
three members of the House had
written to Thomas E. Lodge, chair
man of the A. B. G. Board, about
the case, all of them suggesting the
section already had sufficient serv-
ice by retail liquor stores.
Maurice Milstone, owner of the
Acme Liquor Store, at 927 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, who had been
opposing the transfer, arguing that
the section was adequately serviced,
told the board he had not directly
or indirectly" solicited the letters
from the members of Congress.
Refer to New York Law.
The letters came from Senators
McCarran,, Democrat, of Nevada,
and Reynolds, Democrat, of North
Carolina, and Representatives Fish,
Republican, of New York, Van
Zandt, Republican, of Pennsylvania
and Poage, Democrat, of Texas.
Senator McCarran, in asking dis
approval of the transfer referred
to the New York law which baas
the granting of license for place
within 1900 feet of an established
liquor retailer.
Senator Reynolds said friends had
advised him the transfer was pend
ing and that it would mean that the
Bond liquor store would open store
adjoining another store He added: !:
will you please be so kind as to
look into the matter and advise me
if the above mentioned request will
not be violation of your established
practice and precedent which has
been followed in the past in cases
of this kind"
Mr.. Fish, referring to other stores
in the neighborhood, said he thought
any attempt to open another in the
vicinity will not meet with the
approval of the people OF the Dis
trict." He, too, cited the New York
1,500-foot rule.
Ballou Has no Objection.
Mr.. Van Zandt said, "It is my ar
dent hope you will give serious con-
sideration to the fact that there are
a sufficient number of stores" in the
neighborhood.
Mr.. Poage said, surely there can
be no possible public convenience to
be served by the granting of'anotheI
license to serve the same COM
munity."
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. superin-
tendent of schools. notified the board
! he had no objection to the proposed
transfer.
Evening star., 1940-09-19

flag in his lapel and abundant
blond hair. Before he saw the
crowd his blue eyes lit up only once,
for his old friend, Traffic Officer Joe
V. Osterman.
Mickey managed handshake for
three members of the School Sabre
Patrol who posed with him, Alan
DanZig, Is, of Powell Junior High;
Knox Morrison, II, of John Seaton
School, and Mickey Curtin, IA, OF
Hine Junior High School.
That was before he saw the crowd
to meet him. Between lines of
ushers and f1anked by eight police
men he walked to the end of the sta
ton.
Let's have the same tune again,
Rooney told the bands, and climbed
up on box to wave baton. Auto
graph slips were thrust at him. but
no one laid a hand on him, sc
efficient were the policemen and
theatermen detailed to protect him
Pulls a Wisecrack.
AS Mickey drove on IN COmmls-
sioner Melvin Hazen's car with the
No. license, one of his admirers
Wisecracked, Il guess III throw my
self in front of the car and then
he'll have to notice me-"
Rooney was accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. Nell Rooney He drove
Immediately to the theater for re-
hearsals of his personal appearance
here.
Elaine Gewirz, l4O3 Crittenden
street NV, and Dorothy Hicks, 470l
Sixteenth street NV, who got up at
4::30 m. and arrived at the theater
at 6 am. to see Mickey, were per-
mitted to watch him rehearse by
theater officials. Six more admirers
from Vienna, Va, didn't get there
until around 8 am, so they had to
wait until the theater opened.
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Band Concert

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band at the Soldiers Home
bandstand this evening at o'clock
John S. M. Zimmerman, band
master; Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, welcome All" Crosby
Overture, Hans Heiling,"
Marschner
Pastorale and hunting scene,
la Fremmersberg," Koennamann
Mosaic, Operate Masterpieces"
Safranek
Popular numbers, My Prayer"
Carmichael
Blue Orchid" Kennedy
Waltz suite, "Didi'' Strauss
Finale, Dawn of Peace" Hughes
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Preliminary Hearing
OF Traffic Cases
Ordered Continued
Seal Disoerees With
New Miller Policy
To Go Direct to Court

Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal today issued written instruc-
tions to his assistants at Police Court
to continue to hold preliminary
hearings for motorists facing traffic
charges. The action apparently
blocks, at least for the time being,
new policy" announced by Police
Inspector Arthur E. Miller under
which motorists would be taken di-
rectly to the court.
Inspector Miller, who recently was
placed in key" position in police
traffic control work, said his plan
revolved around an effort to avoid
using the time necessary to take
motorists and other witnesses before
the assistant corporation counsel at
the preliminary hearings.
Mr.. Seal, who emphasized that
Inspector Millers plan was tanta-
mount to elimination of the pre-
liminary hearing, said only the
Commissioners had the authority to
make any such major Change in
procedure.
Inspector Miller said that recent
ly he asked Mr.. Seals permission
to consult with his assistants at
Police Court, that this was granted
and that he found the assistant
corporation counsel liked the idea"
of not calling the accused drivers
for the preliminary hearings. In
reply to this, Mr.. Seal said that
while he had authorized his as
sistants to enter into a conference.
they were not empowered to adopt
any new policy.
Instructions Issued.
Mr.. Seal issued the following in
structions to his assistants:
In connection with the current
discussion of the new method of
traffic accident investigation and
control, you will continue to follow
the procedure heretofore adopted
and in effect.
Il call your attention to the fact
that it is the duty of the corpora
ton counsel to prosecute in all
traffic violations, and consequently
it is necessary, before cases are pre-
Sented to court, that the assistant
satisfy himself that a violation has
occurred and that conviction can be
sustained, since, as you know, in
formations may be issued only
through the Office of the corpora
ton counsel
Commissioners Melvin C. Hazen
and John Russell Young said today
they had not been notified OF the
proposed change in prosecution pro-
cedure and said they believed any
plan of modifying or eliminating
the preliminary hearing should not
be adopted until the Board of Com
missioners had a chance to give it
full consideration.
Inspector Miller said his plan was
that only the officer or officers who
had investigated an accident case
would go before the assistant cor
poration counsel. He indicated he
felt this would save the time of
witnesses and the accused.
IF the assistant corporation
counsel then issues the information,
that's all right, and if he refuses to
issue the papers, that also will be all
right"
Time Declared Consumed.
He emphasized there is a lot of time
and difficulty involved in the present
plan under which the accused and
witnesses as well as the police are
called to state their case before the
assistant corporation counsel before
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Schools 10 Close
For Use in Draft
Registration
Teachers Expected
To Help Enroll Men
Here October Is

All public schools in Washington
will be closed on October 16, the
date set for the selective military
service registration, and every prin-
cipal and teacher probably will be
assigned to the task of registering
the Districts prospective conscripts
at the schools under plans nearing
completion today.
At the request of the Commis-
sioners the Board of Education late
yesterday approved an order closing
the schools on registration day and
advising principals ana teachers
that they will be assigned jobs as
registrars.
Acting Supt. of Schools Robert l..
Haycock told the board it had not
yet been decided definitely how
many schools would be utilized,
explaining that this was to be
worked out by the Districts Sc
lective service executives in co-op-
Grafton with the Commissioners and
school authorities.
May Need More Facilities.
He pointed out that when the
Districts draft plan was drawn up,
dividing the city into 10 draft board
areas and using at least SO schools
as registration centers, the age limit
In the then pending draft legisla-
ton was between 81 and 81 years.
Now that the law affects men up to
IS additional facilities may be need
ed for the registration here, he said.
DR.. Haycock emphasized, how.
ever, that all principals and teach
ers probably would be called into
service in the registration. He said
five or six registrars and assistants
probably would be used in each
classroom.
Taking action on a number of
other school matters. the board
authorized the superintendent to
appoint committee of officers and
teachers to study the possibility of
organizing series of lectures in
the schools on the effects of alco-
hol, marihuana and narcotics. The
committee will submit a proposed
plan for putting such a program
into effect this year.
The board also approved a plan
submitted by the Health Depart
ment for immunization from diph-
liberia of school children below the
fourth grade The program will
be carried out between October 81
and November 16.
More Building Funds Sought.
On recommendation of the Build
ings. Grounds and Equipment Com
mittee the board recommended that
the Commissioners be asked TO in
crease from sl20,0o0 to s135 900 the
appropriation sought in the 1912
estimates for construction of an
eight-room addition and assembly
hall at the Syphax School.
In other actions the board adopted
proposed change in the rules re-
lating to reinstatement of married
women following maternity leave
and approved suggested new courses
of study for senior high schools.
1t was announced that the Com
mittee on Buildings, Grounds and
Equipment will hold hearing to-
morrow at pm. on plans for the
new senior high school for colored
students. The Northeast Boundary
Citizens Association had requested
hearing.
This committee and school officers
will inspect the new Jefferson Jun
ior High School in Southwest
Washington tomorrow at 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Hornets Build Nest on Window;
Give Family View of Home Life

nest building and egg laying, Mr..
York said.
There have been no casualties
among the York family from the
hornets. although George Hall, II,
who lives in the neighborhood. was
stung by one earlier this summer as
he ran through the yard.
The nest first was discovered by
Mrs. York in May. 1t then was
about the size of half dollar and
had a single tube about 5 inches
in length from which an entry and
exit was made.
When the hornets are to be
shown to visitors, Mr.. York has
discovered a method of arousing
them. BY wetting his finger and
sliding it ever the glass, vibration
is set up that soon has the hornets
as mad "as a hornet"
Evening star., 1940-09-19

Even in the hottest days there
was one window at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. j. H. York in Arlington
County, Va, that remained tightly
closed all summer.
A colony of hornets established
itself on the south parlor window
of the residence at 11l7 North Ran
dolph street and spread its nest,
about Is inches long, over the upper
and lower window panes.
The nest appears to be only half a
nest glued TO the glass, with the
interior clearly visible from inside
the house
Mr.. and Mrs. York sons. Carroll,
13, and John, l6, have had a num-
ber of guests throughout the sum-
mer to watch the progress of the
Evening star., 1940-09-19
IA. |. T. Society to Hear
Futher Walsh TuIk

The Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.,
vice president of Georgetown Uni
versity and regent of the School of
Foreign Service. will be guest speak
er before the Washington Society of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology at a meeting tomorrow at 5
pm. at the Y. w. c. A, Seventeenth
and K streets. His subject will be
present Problems of American
Diplomacy."
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Funeral Directors Study
Cooperative Buying

A cooperative buying proposal
aimed at possible reduction of fu-
neral costs to the public was to be
considered this afternoon by the
Board of Directors Of the Advertis-
ing Funeral Directors of America
at the final session of its meeting
in the Mayf1ower Hotel.
All aspects of such cooperative
dealing were to be discussed and a
decision on its practicability made,
according to G. C. Echols, vice
president of the organization and a
member of the w. w. Chambers
firm here.
The groups 1941 convention will
be held here May Is, 16 and II, 1t
was decided yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Lord Lothiun to Thank
Americans in Talk

Lord Lothian. the British Am
bassador. will thank the people of
this country for their aid to Brit
ain in a broadcast sponsored by the
British War Relief Society. which
will be heard locally at 1890 pm.
tomorrow over Station WMAL.
Others who will take part are
Rudy Vallee, who will be master of
ceremonies; Sir Cedric Hardwicke,
Wilfred Pelletier, Helen Hayes and
Clifton Fadiman. Theme of the
broadcast will be "There1l Always
Be an England"
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Policeman Hunts Thief

Policeman 0. j. Henning, 624
Sixth street NE, organized himself
today as a one-man posse to track
down the burglar who broke into
his home last night. The robber
stole watches and other valuables
while Mr.. Henning and his family
slept-and to add insult he stole
the policeman's service pistol.
Evening star., 1940-09-19

the judge. On this point Mr.. Seal
said that sometimes even under the
present procedure the court will di-
rect that case be reviewed egain
by the assistant corporation counsel
before the case is tried.
Discussing his plan that the
traffic accident investigation squads
would investigate any or all acci-
dents, whether large or small, In
spector Miller said that not neces-
sarily would all motorists involved
in minor cases be taken before the
judge.
"If somebody's fender is slightly
damaged and all parties are con-
tent with their own arrangements
and no complaint is made to the
police, then we will not know about
it," said the Inspector.
This was in reply to a question as
to whether, if a small dent was
made in some ones fender, both
drivers would have to stay at the
scene of the accident to await the
arrival of one of the crash squads"
and thereupon go through an In
vsstisation and court trial.
Evening star., 1940-09-19
Club to Discuss Profit Tux

The proposed excess profits tax
will be the subject of a forum to
be held by the Washington Peace
Club at o'clock tonight at Friend
ship House, Sixth and D streets S e.