Putnam patriot., 1930-05-29
EDITORIAL SCRAPS
Items of News Cleaned from the
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Not creosote but arsenic is the poison in ''jakey' which has created 1 such havoc of human lives and im- | peded the locomotion of those using this former pain killer as a beverage. 1 according to analysis made at St l Francis hospital, Hartford.
 The book market took a tumble last week. Quotations from several leading publishers showed fifty to six ty per cent price drops. If the new quotations are maintained one may hereafter purchase S2.50 and s2.O0 | novels for $l.25 and Sl.00, and the S5 fiction books will sell for S2.50. ] The action is considered the most im- portant development in the literary I world in a decade.
 Who would ever have thought that I innocent little bottle caps such as we are all used to seeing on top of pop bottles would become eontraband. It happens that some of these harmless | adjuncts of glass containers have l been used to restrain home brew. ! probably of more than the legal al- AbttNAAA AWiAt4As M& HAEttAtAt ARAAh N decision that the sale of accessories used for making liquors is illegal has caused a number of raids where bot tie caps have been seized as evidence against themselves and their posses sor.
 Col. and Mrs Charles 4. Liudbergh took a pleasure iaunt' in the Colo nels speedy plane last Thursday. This seems a bit like taxieab driver going out in his car just for the joy of riding a few more miles. Trips in- ters5ate and international: journeys covering thousands of miles. These are just in the ordinary course of events for the flying Colonel Yet he takes a short spin over New York and Long Island and when he lands it is said of him that he has just been on pleasure jaunt. Ii may be that the pleasure of 1t was that he did not have to sit for hours at time at the controls.
 j It was hot day on Old Mother Earth last Thursday. However, 33,- I 500 feet lover six miles) skyward, it was so cold that 1t froze and peeled ] the paint off the tail surface of an airplane. On that day Lieutenant I 4. Lewis MacClain, test pilot, flew i to that height above Brainard Field. l He thereby set new altitude record ! for Connecticut At 10000 feet the ] thermometer registered thirty degrees below zero. As the pilot rose high 1 CT the mercury dropped into the bulb at the base of the thermometer and i the actual temperature at the highest altitude reached was not recorded.
 The meanest thief has gone on record He is the man who stole three dollars from a boy in a Massachusetts city who was collecting donations Co the poppy drive last Saturday Not l only did the lad suffer loss but the
 Legion also suffered a loss and in directly some disabled veteran or his dependents were losers.
 When a train hits an automobile 1t
 is news but not outstanding. When a driver runs into a train the value of the item becomes, perhaps more im-
 portant. A real news item has been going the rounds of the press where the Central Vermont railroad collect ed damages of S2S9.29 from an in- surance company because an assured drove his ear against train and damaged the rolling stock of the com pany.
 Down in Miami, Florida. the officials continue to arrest and release Al i Capone. The court is kept busy sign i ing habeas corpus writs and the law yers are making an honest living.
 The supreme court has allayed all | fears that there is a large criminal class in the United States surrepti- tiously purchasing intoxicating bev- erages. The court has decided that the buyer of bootleg liquor is not 1 liable to prosecution as a yiolator Of the prohibition laws.
 A story has gained currency that i the city of Cranston, k. l. is not as l elated as it was upon receipt of the census return showing a substantial i growth. IL has developed that in the enumeration of the city's population appears the names of a substantial number of inmates of the Cranston states prison.
 Some weeks ago Mayor Walter E. Patterson of Hartford was called be- fore the grand jury Investigating il-