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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

golden curls. Round pix baby face. And
We godsi-lnen -embroidered-French'
convent work if ever saw itr-white kid shoes.
Child, what is your name?"
The girl-she might have been or 10
stared at her defantly.
"Buck!"
"Buck?"
Buck what?"
Buck nothin'. That's all there is to it.
Buck"
"Oh, what difference does her name make?"
Bob cried "a rose by any other name would
be as muddy, wouldn't it?"
"An right, Buck it is" Nancy acquiesced.
What are we going to do with herr" Take
her home. We can't leave her her to kill or
be killed. Where do you live, Buck?"
eat the Garrettson Place."
II know where it is. Hop in. Get in the
The wet one climbed sullenly in Bob started
the car.
Where are you heading for?" Buck asked.
Next door to your place, Donnerton."
"OhP ecstatically. 1.-THE haunted housed"
"Nonsense!" said Nancy. what do you know
about it2"
"a lot" resentfully. "I've been IN 1t lots
of times. 1t is haunted. voices--and-
lights"
white people don't believe in ghosts" Nancy
said severely.
Don't they?" A reflective silence Then
What are you going there for?"
Bob glanced back ct her and grinned.
I'm an architect dabbling In real estate on
the side," he explained. Miss Brown helps me.
We buy rundown places and TX em up We
nave kind Of informal partnership.
We BEEN wishing for a long time IT was
real partnership" He sighed.
Sure, know" Buck said unexpectedly SYM
pathetic. Like In the movies"
Exactly" Bob was enjoying himself. It
was not often he could get even with Nancy.
Nancy looked at him, willingly. But Bobs
eyes were on the road
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

IS A ND so you took steps to protect yourselves.
see. The role Of knight errant seems to
be thrust upon me. Have you got hoSe?"
'Hose?" scornfully I'VE amt got no city
water"
"I see. Is there -ah-hog trough, then?"
I'VE got well pump" hopefully.
"Ah, the very thing. Let's CO."
They went. Even Nancy Brown-albeit some
what acknowledgements from the car, and
trailed behind them. 1t was she who spied the
book that had started the fracas, a red book
with gold lettering, lying face down in the dusty
yard She picked 1t up.
"Ahl" said Nancy. How fttingl"
But the mud ball rushed at her, snatched the
volume and flung it into the bog hole.
There. now, that fixes that" she screamed.
II should say it does" Nancy shifted. Poor,
sweet. little Elsie Dinsmorel She never got her
clothes muddy beforeI"
And who. may I ask" Bob demanded was
Elsie Dinsmore?"
ooh, O little saint girls read about back in the
Dark Ages. cherub like Little Lord Faunt-
leroy only more So who never did anything
wrong. She forgave her prosecutors and gave
away her pocket money. She"
"She was a darned little dumb-bell," cried the
mud ball yiciously. II wouldn't be like her for
anything"
Don't worry" Nancy comforted. you're as
different As"
The half dozen took turns at the pump
handle. The mud ball gasped and sputtered,
Bob lending q helpful hand.
1t ives over at last, Nancy spoke.
You look considerably less like a collar ad
than You did when you started, Bob"
II can't deny it." grimly. But I tell the
world she's Improved"
Nobody denied that either Nancy stared at
the child with growing wonder.
Baby blue eyes," she commented Soft,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

an Cele brung out the nice book she got
Christmas an said didn't she wanter read it,
an that little varmint jest taken one look at
it an then she throwed it away an lighted
inter AS, an So
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

For many years, "Captain Fi3nch"' pilo,od her craft, the %.tchoz. throurh tho tricky chan n"l2 Of tho great waterway Guid- ing ii carefully through the snag- infected waters, avoiding sand h-r5 which hold un similar craft, .hc played a btg part in the dis '~.Dution Of cargo and passengers 10 the rIver towns.
 FiCty-ona years ago. while on a
 rip to see the Iardj Gras festiyi- .es. Blanche Douglas met the man she vas 10 marry Captain Leath- t-E. the gallant son Of a man wide 'N known in the annals Of river nI--orr, was piIoting tha Natchoz, bis own steamer After q romantic ,ourtshiD on her decks, he claimed 'hi7 shy daughter Of a wealthy cot ion planter IS his wife The same cleaner geIved as quarters for the hcn1ymoOn Of the young couple. La-rr -he vessel was 10 be her own and she its celebrated woman captain.
 It was an interest in her hus- bands work and m inbred love for tho great muddy stream which nada 2 pilot Of this grave. sincere girl Gradually becoming acquaint- ad with the business ot mastering her steamer, she took over the
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Ciiy Items

Mrs. May G Maikonski has re signed her place at the Curtis beauty parlor on Main street.
 A daughter was born yesterday afternoon at New Britain General hospital to Mr. and Mrs. August Brandt of 94 Belden street.
 Boys aged Is years and over have created such disturbances that Nich- olas Alessi of $ Hurlburt street has lost several tenants, he complained to Supernumerary Officer Albert J. Murphy last night. The miscreants congregate on the street at night and are a nuisance, he said.
 George J. Pola Of East Hartford and Ida Ravizza of 391 Arch street, today made application for a mar riage license.
 Supernumerary Officer Thomas J. Mullen investigated a complaint last night that boys had been stealing plums and damaging a garden at Dr. John J. Tokarczyk's home on North street. He spoke to the boys and they promised to desist.
 The police were notified today Of the suspension of the operators li- censes Of Anglo Dimauro of 4 Broad street and Joseph Blancato of 262 Oak street.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
OBJECTS ID HELP
 FOR DAIRY LEAGUE
Charges Group Wants Control ol
 City'S Milk Business

New York, Aug. g (Pl-A request that the federal farm board suspend it's $40o0,G0o loan to the dairymens llague has been made by Aaron Sapiro. counsel for the Harlem and Bronx Milk Dealers Association, who charges the league plans 10 use inc sUnd 10 arquue control of the cI'ys wholesale milk business.
 The league a cooperative organ iaation cI 45.ooo farmers, sells fifty per cent Of the milk used in the city. Sapiro's organization of independents comprises ahout seven per cent Of rhe wholesalers. A state investiga- ton Of a price increase Of nearly 25 per cent. first gut into effect by the dairymen's league. is now under way
 Sapiro said on Monday he would file a complaint with the federal trade commission charging tho league with '7s;raint of trade in price manipulatioEs, which he said, aided subsidiaries 10 steal customers from jndrpc. dents.
 Chester 7oanE. treasurer of tha le1gu,. asserted that the loan was authori4,d fast April o3 but that the , league had as yet made no aQplica-
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
). 0F A. ID HAVE
 COUNCIL IN STATE
Institution Exercises to Take
 Place Here Sept. 15

Delegates from II councils of the Daughters of America in Connecti- cut will be guests of Martha Wash ington council of this city on Sep tember 15 when state council of the order will be instituted. The Daughters of America is the aux Hilary of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. The councils in the state are: Martha Washing ton, New Britain; Barbara Friet- chic, Stonington; Pride Of Bridge port, Bridgeport; Perseverance, Stamford; America, Danbury: Lib erty. Noank; Mayflower, Bridge port; Lady ,Fenwick, Middletown; Nancy Hempstead New London; Betsy Ross, Waterbury, and Lady Buckingham, Norwich. Each coun- cil will send five delegates to the meeting and all past councillors will be admitted.
 National Councillor Sarah Johnson O. Newark, N. J, will institute the new state council. The state coun- Gill secretary Of Ohio will also at tend.
 preliminary meeting will be held in Junior O. |. A. M. hall On Glen street at 3 o'clock. A banquet will be served at 6. The formal institution exercises will take place at 7:30
 The mem bership of local councils in Connecticut is about $500. Martha Washington council has q membership Of 200.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
 FOR SECOND TIME
Orange Street Woman Tries to
 End Life With Gas

Taking advantage of the absence of her husband, who was playing with the American Legion band in Meriden, Mrs, Constance Falanga, 2S, of 103 Orange street, tucked her small child in his bed, stuffed d towel under q slight opening under the door leading from the kitchen to the bedroom and turned on every Jet on the gas range last night, in her second attempt to commit sui eide within two months.
 Nicholas Ricciardo, who lives in another tenement in the block, was summoned by his son about o'clock, the boy having detected the odor of gas as he passed Mrs. Fall angas door, and upon finding the door locked, RicCiardo entered through a window in time to save the woman from asphyxiation. He carried her into the open air and when Officers Harper, Tierney and Brophy arrived in response to call from Dr. John J. Tokarczyk, po- lice surgeon, she was recovering on Q rear Neranda. Black coffee was eiN en her and it was not necessary to use the pulmotor
 Mrs. Falanga denied that she had intended to end her life when ques- tioned by the investigators, her story being that a coffee pot had boiled over and eXtinguished the gas flame. but upon being shown the cold pot she admitted that domestic trouble had driven her to the act. She de- scribed her preparations and de- Ciared that she was tired of living but she did not want any harm to come 10 her child. She and her husband, Emil F'alanga. quarrel most Of the time. she said Mrs. Talanga's family lives in South Carolina, where she formerly made her home.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Senator Plans to Use Air Bombs
 in Fighting Caribbean Hurricanes

Washington, Aug. g lP--Flor.aa's senior senator Duncan L, Fletcher. has ben seeking means Of employ ing high explosives to destroy little Caribbean hurricanes before they be- come big September storms.
 Displaying large uIo of dats OF how ty conr.cl hurricanes by aerial bombs tho senator today said h. haI received small cncoUrag mont from tho weather bureau.
 h fact, h. said, C. r. Marvin. weather bureau chief, had pro- nouncod aa mot practicable" tho plan 10 send a 1o9t:oyar into the Caribbean soa during the imIninou, formative period of hurricanes 70 watch for them and destroy or dis pcrs- them with aerial bombs Mar yin proclaimed tb7 ocean surface too vast, and inc evidence that hurc.- canes originate thlouch miniature
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
Personals
Associated Press Photo

Miss Grace schlcicher of Lyons street. who has been spending a short time at Beach Park with Mrs. George Dunn will be at Myrtle Beach next week.
 Miss Veronica Shea is the house guest of MT. and Mrs. Walter Doyle at Ocean Beach. New London. Miss Harriet Martin is spending three weeks at Bayview Beach, Mil ford,
 John Zaugg of Avon and Frank Schardl Of this city are the week. end guests of Mir. and Mrs. kolet Of Waterbury at their summer home at Myrtle Beach.
 Miss Mildred Wentland of Rob- bins avenue. Maple Hill. is spend- ing week at Point O Woods.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

duties Of her husband. AS he was required to be on land more, the responsibilities fell into the capa- ble hands of his wife.
 It was q gala day when she re- ceivcd her pilots license and head cd her boat up river on her first trip as captain. Ten tugs accom- panied her out into the harbor and Inc river rang with salutes from all vessels in port.
 The license under which she served for 20 years hangs on the wall Of her living room, She has gathered around her the things which bring pleasant memories of the days when she carried impor- tant people up and down the river.
 There are pictures of old river beats on her walls, The massive furniture in her bedroom was for many years In her quarters on the Natchez.
 4 cherished possession is a bot tie Of Madeira wine given her by Jefferson Davis It bears this in- scription "Briarfield-NIiss Blanche. brought this 10 you. Don't open it. until your first boy comes" The son never came to Blanche Leath- CTS and the bottle remains intact
 Far different from the raw bcned, swash-buchling woman one expects 10 see, Mrs. Loathers sits quietly rocking, telling of the siamorous days along the river. Her soft voice tells many amusing incidents Of the past, when pilot ing river steamer was a mans tze job. She remembers well the important people who shipped with her.
 They were great boats" shc says, You know the Leathers fam tly built and ptloted seven vessels md all Of them were named The Natchez.' The first one was the most famous but the others all " ere strong hardy craft"
 As a quick smile comes and goes md a twinkle brightens her eyes, here is slight tightening of the iirs. not hard but determined. hich shows the spirit IS still there which demanded results rom drunken mates and negro deckhand in the old days.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
WONAN PILOT
 IN NEW ORLEANS
C29.aiD oi tie NatCheZ Kr3..
 Mississippi

Ne" Orleans, Aug. 23. CuTN - Living the quiet. Nou-o-le:-a f.-. of the average American hou.r- keeper, content in her comfortable Tonti street home in New Or}cor- is Mrs. Blanche Douglas Leather. whose name is written in The Li@- tcry Of the Mississippi river.
 Not because her husband vas Captain Roland Loathers nor h-- cause her father-in-law vas Con- modore T. P, Lcathers. who built and raced the first Natchez. in B record breaking trip 10 S. Lou. against the Robert F. Lee is Mrs Leathers famous. She has lived a romantic life along tho old river a. the only woman pilot in its hls- tcry.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

WElr.s not sufficiently clear to war rant z4ch d course, Fletcher as serted
 storms Due Next Month
 X constituent Fletcher explained, had written him that storms Of gale force have been predicted 10 strike the coasts Of inc gulf states about September 12. Calling attention 10 q hsmpo~ Florida fruIr crop yet 10 b" marG,ted the F'lorjdian had asked his senator to sec if he could not 2 B hurriranc-destroying destroyer and thus save the fruit crop.
 Tho whi'o-haired senator sighed. H. expressed himself as open mind od today on any method a young scientist might develop in hurricane control. But hn thought he would have to rely on the improved warn ing methods Of the weather bureau and the hope that the freak storm CycIo' had passed.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
STRONG NORTH BLOW
 HALTS YACHT TRIALS
American Contenders Held in New port Harbor Today as Commit
 tee Wants Race in Light Air.

Newport. R. |, Aug. 2S UP)-A strong blow from the north. accom- panied by gusts Of rain, held the Americas cup contenders in New port harbor today and the scheduled 30-mile race was called off by the |committee.
 While the big yachts would cas- tly have weathered the blow, the 'committee is satisfied with their ac- |com plishments in heavy weather and Night airs,
 Shamrock will leave her berth Mon-
 day for her first trial in American
 waters.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
CHOR|NES SEEK
 WAITRESS JOBS
No Market for PulChritude Along
 Broadway

New York, Aug. 23.-Ladies of the chorus are just ladies of the mob these days.
 The Broadway beauty market has dropped to a new low and chorus . girls can be hired, as one manager puts it, for a dime a dozen.
 Three thousand girls are waiting at stage doors for jobs that aren't there.
 Every day this army of the idle > increased by arrival of more young women who have left their home towns for Times Square.
 When the new theatrical season opened there were only three musi- cal shows in New York, and only three others ready to open. Csual- ly at this time there are from ? to IS musicals preparing for Broad way premieres.
 Each show employs an average of 25 chorus girls, and the revues fave less. With only six shows play ing or in rehearsal, this provides ap- proXimately 50 jobs to take care of 3.000 chorines. In other words, there are 20 girls for each job.
 Every chorus call brings out a crowd that almost needs a cordon of police to handle. When an audi ton was announced for one new show more than 1,500 applied. From this 1,50o chorus of 35 was selected.
 The situation has taken on an added seriousness by the decision Of Hollywood to make fewer pie lures with music and dancing. This may mean that within a few weeks another army of chorus girls will reach New York from Hollywood.
 Managers of second class bur lesque and tab" shows report they can now hire beautiful, talented girls at low salaries to play in their bookings through small towns. A year ago Broadway chorus girl would have considered it an insult to be offered such a job.
 Scores of chorines are becoming salesgrls or waitresses.
 And there are many others who are deciding that the idea of matri- mony is a splendid one.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
'MA' FERGUSON'S
 FATE IN BALANCE
Opposes Publisher in Texas
 Democratic Run-0lI Today

Dallas. Texas, August 3 LPl-Thc fate of Miriam A, Ferguson's at tempted political come-bacll was in the balance today as the states for mer governor opposed Ross D, Sterling, Houston publisher and capitalist, for the nomination for governor in the democratic run-off primary.
 Sterling. chairman of the state highway commission, and Mrs. Fer gUson, emerging from q field of eleven candidates in the first pri- mary, concluded a yitriolic cam paign last night which aroused the state.
 James E. Ferguson, busted gov ernor barred from the race by his impeachment, conducted his wife's campaign on the promise of two governors for the price of one, Notable among his campaign utter anccs was the promise that all im- prisoned violators of the prohibition law would he liberated if Mrs. Fer guson won the election. He said she would free @.p00 conviCts
 Ferguson attacked SterlinSs pro posal that the state issue $@5o,o00.- GOO in highway bonds, his education, his ability. his attitude toward labor and his reputed wealth.
 Sterling. a novice in politics, coun- tered with an attack on Mrs Fer guson's pardon and parole record references to Ferguson's impeacl- ment and named honesty in gov ernment as the paramount issue"
 In the tossing to and fro of per sonalities Sterling was aided by Gov. Dan Moody, who strongly do nounced the Ferguson pardon rec ord. and State Senator Clint Small who called Ferguson three ring circus"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
HITS YOUNG DRIVERS

Denver Colo. Aug. 23 CUP)--A series of automobile accidents in vhich drivers under 15 years Of were involved caused Charles NJ
 Armstrong. secrtary of state to call attention 10 Colorado sheriffs to 8: law governing the age of drivers. Letters were sent out by Arm strong 10 the sheriff Of each coun- ty in the state pointing out that it is unlawful for any person under. Is years Of age to operate or drive a motor vehicle.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
CONVICTED NEGRO
 CONFESSES CRIME
Sentenced for Carolina Murder,
 Admits One in New York

Raleigh N. c, Aug. 23 (P-In confession attributed 10 g Negro under sentence of death. authorities today believed they have cleared up the staying Of Elsa Marshall near Greenburgh. \. Y, II months ago.
 The Negro Will Sloan, indicted for the staying but never appre- hended. was quoted by Sheriff Louis Elroudt of Westchester county, N. Y. as saying the shooting was acci- dental The sheriff. however. said Mrs. Marshall, who was A years old. and bride of three months, had been criminally attacked,
 She had been employed as a maid in the home of Henry Kelly, jr., wealthy produce dealer, where her husband, John Marshall, was 3. but Ter When she failed 10 return from a walk on September 26. 1929. search was instituted and the next day her body was found in under brush along the road, She had been slain with shotgun
 IabOrers saw Negro
 Two negro laborers working near tho spot where the body was found lold the police they had seen anoth- "r negro emerging from the brush with a shotgun. About two months later, authorities announced that Sloan. alias Joe Madison. an ttiner- ant negro laborer. was being sought in connection with the slaylng. He was indicted for murder in the first degree
 Sloan is under sentence 10 die Oc- 'ober l" for the staying Of negress in Pearson county Authorities said tp years ago he had been tried for murder in Columbia $. C, but ac- quilted, Later he was convicted Of stealing an automobile hut escaped before completing his term.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
SMOKES ANYTHING

Budapest Aug. g TP)-"Any- thing my friends happen to have on them Your Honor: but I am never SO impolite as to ask what brand they are" the prisoner an- svered when asked by a Budapest magistrate what kind of cigarettes he usually smoked.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
AUTOMOBILE ABANDONED

Alfred McAdam of the Atlantic station on Washington street near the Rurritt hotel report cd 10 Officer George Collins today that an automobile carving q Penn sylvanla registration was left there on August Is by two young men who paid 25 cents for parking it, and nobody has called for the car since hon
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23
SIDEWALKS NEED REPAIRS

Upwards of Is places are in need of repair in the stretch of sidewalk along Arch street, according to q report turned in by Policeman Wal Ter Wagner today. Listed as very pad" are those at S6. 142. 143. 187. E59, 336, AIS, 466, 40. 4s2 and the |orner of Grand and Arch streets. The police turned over the report to The public works department.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

Farmers in Scotland conty, North Carolina. have shipped near ly 15.000 carloads of watermelon5 this season.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

ton fer an advance. He decIared it vas to be used for buying milk, plants and business and m erchandis- inc facilitiesn
New Britain herald., 1930-08-23

2's "hlr,s nr' sufficiently clear 10 war r. rant sGch d course, Fletcher as
The Indianapolis times., 1930-10-01
|o,812 FOR TREASURY
pic Service Group Turns Over
Money to General Fund.

ndiana's public service commits
= Tuesday turned $80,812.96 into
state general fund after all ex-
seS for the fiscal year, which
ed today, were paid, Chairman
n w. McCardle, announced.
he commission took in $275, ,453.1I
fees and expended $194, ,640.I5
Cardle's report showed.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-10-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

spector of oils, said there are at
least five known methods Of extract
ing oil from shale in a commercial
manner, and expressed confidence
oil profitably could be produced from
shale.
He charged that withholding Of
land titles from the small man"
had hampered the industry.
Delos D. Potter, an authority on
oil shale, said he believed it is now
impossible to extract oil from shale
in a paying manner, but that event.
ually suitable method viii be de-
yised and the industry will become
a leading one in Colorado.
Information supplied by the Of
flee of the state oil inspector shows
beds in Colorado alone comprise
more than 100000 acres of land,
and that the estimated amount of
oil should approximate $40, 900, 900, 900
in value. The beds extend into
wyoming and Utah.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-10-01
EXPERTS DIFFER
ON EXPLOITING
OF OIL SHALE
Disagree as to Whether In
duStry at Present Can
Be Profitable.
BIZ Entted Press

BIZ United Press
DENVER, Oct. 1.-Oil experts to-
day disagreed over the possibility
of working Colorado's oil shale
beds at present on a profitable basis.
Mining men agreed generally that
extraction of oil from the ground is
a cheaper process than to refine it
from Shale.
Oil shale officials admitted their
industry is in its infancy, but said
eventually a process of cracking"
oil from shale will be devised to
place it on a paying basis.
Commenting on charges by Ralph
c.. Kelley, former chief of the field
division of the United States general
land Office; Robert D. Hawley, gen.
eral attorney in Denver for the
Continental Oil Company, denied
large oil companies ARE attempting
to seize the public domain in Colo
RADIO"
Hawley added private citizens are
unable to carry on the oil shale
work, due to the heavy financial
burden involved. and said they had
urged the oil companies to investi-
gate the beds.
James Duce, Colorado state in