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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-28
ANNUAL MINISTRIES
 FROLIC AND DANCE
Given By Universal Old Times in St JOseph's
 Parish Hall
ON FRIDAY NIGHT

Comedy will be one of the chief features of the third annual min- strels, frolic and dance to be given by the Universal old Timers in S: Joseph's hall Friday night.
 There are several outstanding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-28
NEW ENGLAND WEATHER

Boston, Jan 28. = (UP)-Sprlng breezes which yesterday gave Boston it's warmest January 27 in 15 years fingered to-day, but the weather bu- reau predicted that another cold snap would strike this section of New England tonight.
 At 9 a. m. the temperature was 39, representing drop of 16 degrees from yesterdays maximum. From northeastern New York, zero weather was reported this morning, and Tn northern Vermont the mercury how cred only a few degrees above zero.
 This meant the weather bureau said, tha trather severe cold would sweep this section of New England tonight. with a minimum of 20 above, perhaps even lower, in pros pect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-28
FULL WEATHER REPORT

WashingtOn, Jan 28.-(UP)-FOre- cast for Wednesday and Thursday:
 New Hampshire and Maine: Fair with omewhat colder in extreme south portions tonight; Thursday cloudy and warmer probably ligh. snows in north portions.
 Rhode Island and Connections: Fair and colder tonight; Thursday in- creasing cloudiness and warmer.
 Western New York: Light snow beginning late tonight or Thurs day except fair in southeast DOT ton tonight; rising temperature to- night and in east portion Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
MAGAZINE STORY
LEADS TO ARREST
Policeman, Detective Yarn
Fan, May Have Caught
Wife Murderer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2o.-A pa
trolman's retentive memory and his
fondness for detective story magazines
may bring him a reward of $500 II
Frank j. Moran, whom he arrested here
yesterday, proves to be George H. Perry,
known as the marrying brakeman" OF
Eagle River, Wis.
Perry is wanted for the murder last
July Of Cora Belle Hackett at Lac du
Flambeau, Wis. She was one OF the SIX
women he had married.
Moran, business agent for the Inter-
national Brotherhood, figured in an au-
tomobile accident here recently and Po-
lice Inspectors James johnson and
Richard Hughes went to Moran's ofhce
to get his version of 1t.
Picture Attracts Attention.
Monday johnson was perusing mag
azine. His attention was attracted to
a story of the murder of Cora Belle
Hackett and a picture of her husband,
Ferry who had disappeared.
The picture interested him. He noted
facial peculiarities of Moran and Perry,
which were similar. Yesterday he tele-
graphed Wisconsin authorities. They
asked that Perry be held.
Moran denied he was Perry, said he
was never married before and that he
was in New Orleans at the time OF the
murder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
G. o. P. CLUBS TO MEET

The annual meeting of the League of
Republican State Clubs, of which United
States Marshal E. c. Snyder is presi-
dent, will be held tomorrow evening at
the rooms Of the National Capital Re-
publican Club. 1881 g street, at 8
o'clock.
Officers for the year will be elected,
reports Of officers will be received, and
arrangements will be made to partici-
pate in the coming presidential cam
paign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20

DooTH HARRINGTON has done
- it again! His new novel. .up-to-
the-minute in tempo, yet written
with mature skill. lis bound to be
best seller!
But you can read it in The Amer
lean Magazine months before its
publication in book form.
High Summer. beginning in
the June American Magazine >.
offers an intimate and penetrating
study of family that steps out in a
modern summer resort. For three
months each year they emerge from
the drab obscurity of their winter
Information. You can imagine what
Booth Harrington does with situa-
ton like this!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20

India, he said, and the decline in the
value Of silver in China has cut in half
the purchasing power Of those countries
and of more than one-third of the
worlds population.
With few countries holding most
of the gold, the Senator said. billion
and a half dollars are left for the use
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
STRAYER SCHOOL GETS
CUT-FARE FOR STUDENTS
Business Pupils Under ID Given
Special Street Car and
Bus Rate.

The Public Utilities Commission has
granted the request Of Strayers' Bust
ness College bringing students Of that
school under the age of 10 within the
provision for reduced car and bus fare.
The application stated that the school
had about 100 students under 10 years
old. The action of the commission ap-
piled specifically to the petitioning
school only, and apparently other similar
schools must make similar applications
before their students will be given the
reduced fare privileges.
The commission also granted q re-
quest of the Capital Traction Co.. for
permission to rehabilitate its car tracks
between Eighth street and Pennsylva-
mia avenue southeast and the. end OF
the line at Seventeenth street southeast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
ROWE TO GIVE LECTURE
Director General of Pan-Americar
Union to Conduct Seminar.

Attendance at a seminar conference
in Latin American relations, which DR..
Leo S. Rowe, director general of the
Pan American Union, will conduct
daily from June 90 through July 8, will
be permitted a selected group of George
Washington Summer students. This
privilege was arranged for students in
terested in the Pan-American field.
Preliminary registration for George
washington University's Summer ses-
sion began this morning and will con-
tinue through May 81. Students who
roll during the regular registration,
June IL and ID. The Summer classes
will open June is for the nine-week
courses and June 20 for the six-week
cOlIrSe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
Many Three-Dollar
Bills Are Cherished
ASS Red Dog" Relics
BY the Associated prssu.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 20.-When Glenn
Ivey Of Cincinnati announced on
May II that he had the only SO
bank note in the United States
he started something.
At least 20 persons in Chicago
said today they had SO bills saved
as relics of the red dog" and
wildcat" money days, so called
because Michigan banks once
used wild animal pictures to dec
crate their currency.
One Chicago man said he had
65 SO bank notes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
ROBINSON EXPRESSES
SILVER MONEY NEED
Tariff Also Prosperity Deterrent,
He Tells Alabama
Graduates.
by the Associated Press

by the Associated Press
AUBURN. Ala, May 20.-Downward
revision of the United States tariff and
restoration of the value of silver and
its use as money in India were de-
scribed in an address here yesterday by
Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas
as essentials for return of prosperity.
He predicted. if tariff rates are low
cred, it will be done by Congress and
not by the Tariff Commission.
establishment of a gold basis In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20

Love laughs 9aily. with the tan.
talizine lure of youth. 1t is fresh,
wholesome, clean.
So if you're a bit tired of much of
today's sordid fiction, clammy and
unreal, read this novel. BEGINNING
in the June American Magazine.
You'll enjoy every word.
u
YET THIS is ONLY ONE of thirty
interesting features in the June
issue of The American Magazine.
Some are listed on this page. In.
spring, thoueht-provokine bioe.
raphies about the known great and
the great unknowns. Every page is
waiting with something that will
entertain. stimulate. inspire you!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20
HAWKS zV0ntS TO
OmtRy the SUN!

TAPTAIN FRANK HAWKS split.
~ second salesman of speed has a mis-.
sion in life. He wants to race the sun . and
win! He plans midday lunch in New York,
followed by midday lunch in Los Angeles
the same day! A cross-country flight in three
hours!
And it looks as if some day he'd do it, For
Captain Hawks has captured countless flying
records. In fact, he can't remember them all.
This exhilarating story is in the June Ameri.
can Magazine. It's another of those interesting
stories of human beings always found in this
magazine. Read this months unusually good
issue. It's full of entertainment for you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-20

tants Of the globe. or less than 81 each.
when it Is realized this pittance Is
not evenly distributed" he said, "the
necessity for restoration Of the value of
silver and It's use as money in India
and China becomes apparent"
Minnesota showed a gain Of nearly
1000 farms In the decade 1920 to 1880.
Evening star., 1931-06-23

rubber-shod. with cushioned tires and
now balloon tires, and the actual trafic
itself is noiseless. Street cars, however,
are dangerous.
Another great fortune awaits the
inventor Of q method of dulling the
noises of steel construction, and there
are many other opportunities for rich
contributions to public convenience and
comfort and sanity. The neighbor's
radio, for instance, that beats so
thunderously upon the unwilling ear
cannot there be some device to limit
the noise to the premises of the owner,
be windows opened or closed? Cannot
there be some improvement in the
manufacture of milk bottles so that
early morning deliveries will not be so
leep-dispelling? And the airplane with
out sound-that must come soon If this
air-minded world is to fly as persistently
as now seems likely in the very near
future
Noise and jarl Chatter and shiverI
The foes of peace, the enemies of COM
fort! More glory to the rubber heel
man and to his successors in the field
of invention who are striving to reduce
the friction of life.
Evening star., 1931-06-23
Ford and Detroit.

The charges and countercharges
passing between the Public Welfare
Service of the City of Detroit and the
Ford Motor Co. are less interesting than
the outcome of the row, which the
Ford company demands should be set
tied by q grand jury investigation.
Detroit, and Detroit's Mayor Murphy,
have won national prominence and
praise for their dealing with suffering
caused by the depression. The city has
been one of the hardest hit. Layoffs
in automobile plants, the city's princi-
pal industry, made the effect of the
depression there particularly acute.
Mayor Murphy was commended for
having done something when too many
other communities were merely founder
ing. A dole system for the aid of the
unemployed was established, q huge
fund was raised, and disbursements have
been made at the rate Of $1,50O,0OO a
month for the help of needy families.
Ford, in Detroit, occupies a position
that is unique. AS an individual he has
probably played greater part in max
ing the city than any other man. The
huge plants for the manufacture of his
automobiles, employing thousands Of ar
tisans, furnished much of the life
blood that formed the city's bone and
sinew for its remarkable growth in the
last two decades. When all the auto
mobile plants were running full blast,
with money flowing freely and the mar
ket open for labor, Ford occupied some
thing of the position of mortal god,
the giver of all good things.
1t was another thing, of course, when
the depression slowed down the wheels
Of the automobile industry. Thousands
Of men were out Of work. The man
who had spent good part Of his life
learning how to screw the left front
hubcap on an endless procession OF au-
tomobiles found himself pretty helpless
when the fiow of automobiles slowed
down. Figuratively speaking, at least,
he knew no other way to make a living
than to screw on the left front hubcap
of an automobile. Mr.. Ford, having al
ready been made something of SYM
boil of all the coed things In the world,
naturally suffered the fate Of becoming
Evening star., 1931-06-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

possessor of long tail and four legs
as well.
Palmists for centuries have claimed
that they were able to read the past,
present and future, merely by peering
at the lines of the hand.
Most human beings, at some time or
other in their lives, have been interested
in this pretension. We can recall in
our childhood days when we devoured a
large volume by one Cheiro, or Chiero,
a mcst interesting work.
If we were able to do any palm read
ing we do not recall 1t, but the tplpres"
sion remains over the years that the
subject was an interesting one.
There Is something about the spirit
of man which inclines him to delve
into the unknown, and to wish to be-
lieve that by so delving he may find out
something or other.
Ordinarily, mankind is not given to
following the nose on his face.
He had rather look mysteriously into
the lines of his palm than see the
plain signs visible el3ewhere.
Templeton Jones was the exception.
He wondered why that cup of coffee
should have turned in his hand, after
so many hundreds of similar cups had
been held as firmly as the rock Of
Gibraltar.
He was not conscious of any mental
or physical slackening-but the cup
had slipped.
The cup had slipped, and he had
been forced to go back and dress all
over again for the day.
He wondered If 1t would occur again.
Had 1t been a mere chance, or was
1t indicative of the handwriting on
the wall?
Jones forgot all about 1t, until one
morning he was drinking a glass of
water, while looking out the window at
his lawn.
There is no time like early morning,
say o'clock, for admiring ones handi-
craft in the shape of grass.
Then even grass full of dandelions
appears to be a veritable sward, such
as the England landscapes possess by
the square acre, il one may believe
the travel books.
Suddenly, while Jones was admiring
the dew, the glass gently slipped out
OF his fingers, and gave him an i'm
promptu bath.
Here, old fellow" said Templeron
Jones, to that most worthy person,
himself. You will have to get yourself
together. This is entirely too much"
1t was.
r + n 4
Templeton met his friend, Ben Bill
low, later in the day.
You have heard the expression,
losing your grip'?" asked he.
Ben had.
Ben Is large, seemingly phlegmatic
person, with an infinite capacity for
work and humor
Jones explained his dilemma.
Just slipped out of my hand" he
declared.
We'll, what Of it2" asked BilIow.
Jones attempted to give his theory
that until one got to be a certain age
one never lost their grip and that
perhaps the figurative would follow the
literal.
He proceeded to give Ben Billow an
illustrative instance of a wrong de-
cision in business.
why, that was not wrong, at all"
declared Billow. You did exactly right.
You have not lost your grip at all"
Templeton Jones felt better.
Still, he was going to keep a good
hold on his coffee cup in the future.
Evening star., 1931-06-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHrLANDER JOHNSON.
Constructive Criticism.

Constructive Criticism.
It's only human nature TO ke kicking
now and then.
The secret of the trick is knowing how
and where and when
If everything is going smooth and joy
knows no restraint,
You need for contrast something In the
way Of mild complaint.
But in q time of stress, when there Is
work for all to do,
The sunshine -smiler" often frowns and
says that he is through,
For he and trouble have been total
strangers for so long
That he can't endure discord, as it
interrupts the song.
The kicker, on the other hand, when
life has grown perplexed,
Says, Lets get through with this hard
luck and ready for the next"
A man that's always happy is unlike
his fellow men.
It's only human nature to be kicking
now and then.
Evening star., 1931-06-23
Economics Versus Prohibition.

More and more 1t appears that the
economic situation in this country is to
be the important issue in the coming
national campaign. And at the same
time prohibition, which threatened a
few months ago to become a paramount
question, is shrinking as an issue. This
may or may not be to the advantage of
! the drys, depending largely on the course
of business and of employment in the
next six or eight months. In 1880.
when the congressional elections were
held, the campaign was waged largely
over the business conditions and lack
of employment, the slump which had
| hit the United States after an era Of
unprecedented prosperity. The Repub-
lican party, in power, was the target
and the voters hit it hard, wiping out
the huge Republican majority in the
House and reducing it to margin of
one in the new Congress. Republican
Senators fell like trees before the wood
mans ak. The Republican party has
come to be regarded as the particular
champion of the prohibition cause, de-
spite the fact that the Democratic solid
South" is ardently dry in its political
leaning. The blow struck the Repub-
licans in many of the congressional and
senatorial elections was also blow at
the drys.
In the campaign next year the Demo-
Gratis are expected to place wet at the
head of their national ticket. Indeed,
it would be regarded almost as miracle
if they did not. The Republicans, un-
less there is some disturbance in the
party not now visible or even conjec-
tural, will renominate President Hoover,
who is eminently satisfactory to the
drys. Whether the Democrats will go
so far as to place in their platform any
suggestion of change in the national
prohibition laws is extremely problemati-
cal, and, at the present writing, unlikely.
However, II the Democrats succeed In
electing their presidential candidate, IA
vorable to q change In the dry laws, on
economic issues, 1t will none the less be
hailed by the vets as a victory. And
such it will be for the vets.
Under the circumstances it would ap-
pear that the drys will have to grid
themselves for a contest to uphold the
Republican administration or else be
acquiescent in the election OF a wet
Democratic President. A turn for the
better in business will be regarded,
therefore, not only as benefit to the
G. o. P. but to the dry cause. And this
Notwithstanding the fact that in the
Republican party are to be found to-
day many earnest men and women who
are strongly opposed to national prohibi-
ton. Hard times and liquor, it appears,
advance together under the present
political lineup. Good times and pro-
hibition go hand in hand. The race Is
not now between the vets and the drys
so much as it is between hard times and
good times.
Evening star., 1931-06-23
Highligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

This last is a very small Russian,
but count, even IL he first saw light
in Second-claSs state room-a very
little count, who later on will make
his schoolmates laugh II they ask him
where he was born.
Well, it was not on land. He first
opened his eyes on vast stretches of
interminable waves, yet his birthday
may very likely be the richest and
grandeSt of his life. For it is the Gus
tom of all ships to make presents to
any baby born on board. And on the
Queen Travelled only lords and ladies,
millionaireS and wealthy merchants.
And q third-claSs didn't exist! Among
the women who distinguished them
selves with largesses. the Hollanders
We're by no means left behind, though
all were eager to do the handsome
thing, for the birth of a genuine little
Russian count is a wonderful OCCASION
on Shipboard and creates more Of a
sensation than If the captain had been
murdered.
The ladies outbid each other. The
millionaires laughed, but turned over
their checkbooks to their wives. The
older Russian count modestly pro-
tested, but the custom of giving a baby
born on Shipboard the richest gifts DOS
sible is an old and sacred one and must
be observed. The mother smiled feebly.
day out of San Francisco was cele-
brated the baptism. The passengers
seized upon this as an additional op-
portunity to bestow their benefactions.
Lets give them another little bit of
pleasure" said one American woman to
her husband, a Safety-pin king by call
ing, for they are certainly most dis
tinguished people, even If they are emf
grants!"
Well, these emigrants can easily live
q year in the United States on the gem
erous offerings they received, whether
the original count can find any work
or not. But rumors whispered that all
is not so impeccable. A Russian count
journeys with his countess each year
upon a luxurious ship. This year was
the seventh time such an event has
been recorded. Have they seven chill
dren? Each year q trip-each year a
new little passenger on board-the pat
ent is legally protected
Evening star., 1931-06-23
Foes of Jar and Friction.

Some forty or fifty years ago young
printer who had had rather poor luck
in keeping job at the case joined his
brother in a small retail shoe shop in
New England. Business was not very
brisk and he had time to watch the
people going to and fro in the street.
Being interested in shoes he noticed
their feet particularly, and he came to
consider the jar upon the body OF the
nervous system of the impact Of hard
leather heels upon brick and stone and
concrete pavements. This gave him
an idea. If he could provide cushion
of some sort he could reduce this jar
The result was the invention of rubber
heel. But success came not from the
invention so much as from its ex-
ploitation 1t was advertised probably
more extensively than any other single
product Of the period. The public had
20 be made rubber heel minded" to
use phrase that was not then common.
For some years all the profits Of the
business went into printers ink.
Eventually a rich harvest was reaped
and at his death, which occurred the
other day in q New England city, the
inventor Of the heel pad was a multi
millionaire.
Perhaps some neurologist will even
tually compute the saving of health and
perhaps the prolongation Of life incident
to the softening of the foot blow upon
pavements by means of the cushioned
heel. 1t would be more difficult to conn
pute the effect in health terms Of the
softening of other jars incident to
trafic. An immense fortune, greater
than that Of the rubber heel man,
awaits the inventor of a method of
softening the sound Of trolley and rail-
soad cars. other vehicles have been
Evening star., 1931-06-23

another sort Of symbol. Difficulties
over which he had no control whatever
were laid at his door.
Detroit's dole system has obviously
supported thousands of otherwise help
less individuals this last Winter. But
there have been accompanying comph-
cations. Two cases of misuse, or theft
Of funds, brought arrests within the
city's welfare administration depart
ment. The city has attacked the Ford
company with failure to provide for its
own employees thrown out Of work, and
the Ford company has replied that as
1t employed upward of 100000 men in
the last seven years, large proportion
Of Detroit's working male population
come within the general classification
of Ford employees" The Ford COM
pany also charges that men actively
at work, and drawing pay from its rolls,
have also been receiving the citys un-
employment dole. 1t charges Detroit
with efforts to make the Ford Motor
Co. the goat, and to hide the city's own
shortcomings in relief work behind a
smoke screen Of unspecified charges.
A grand jury investigation ought to
help Detroit more than anybody else.
1t might show the difficulties of ad-
ministering the dole, and 1t might shed
light on the extent of responsibility
resting upon the employer whose work.
men have been cut adrift by world
wide economic depression. Detroits
experiment in dealing with unemploy-
ment has bsen intensely interesting,
and the Nation as a whole would like
to see an impartial evaluation of its
merits.