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Evening star., 1931-04-15

fair Many reservations have been
made, and among the new members are
Miss Juliet Bowie, Mr.. Holmes Branson,
Mr.. j. Kenny Miller. Mr.. and Mrs J..
Douglas Rollow. Baron Paul Wrangell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall T. Elliott, Mr.
Lynn Anderson and Mr.. Robert F.
Kelley.
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Mrs Raymond Spear and Miss Bea-
trice Craft were among the dinner host
esses last evening who later took their
guests to the fourth of series of dances
in the sail loft" at the navy yard.
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Mrs. Irenee Du Pont and Mrs. w. w.
Laird of Wilmington. DEL are spending
q few days in Washington at the May
flower
Evening star., 1931-04-15

DIR. and Mrs George L. Hoffman, of
Pittsburgh have taken a suite at Ward
man Park Hotel for short time.
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Mr.. and Mrs Theodore Silkman Rep
plier of New York are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of a son, Theo-
dore Silkman. jr.. born April H. Mrs.
Repplier was formerly Miss Martha
Macatee of this city.
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Our Costless Credit
Makes 1t Easy to Buy
$3.50 Three-piece Living Room Suite, '95
$195 Threepc. Living Room Suite 1923
$279 Three-pc Living Room Suite 1893
$219 Mohair Bed-Davenport Suite 1888
$3.50 Fourpiece Bed Room Suite. ;. '95
$195 Fourpiece Bed Room Suite ..'134
$3.50 Four piece Bed Room Suite ..S178
$189 Ten-piece Dining Room Suite s119
$279 Ten-piece Dining Room Suite 1884
1925 Tenpiece Dining Room Suite s219
$25 Five-piece Breakfast Suite :. $3.50
$49.5O Woven Fiber Suite ;. :. $3.50
$69.5O Lawson Type Sofa -. 47S0
$2.95 Book Trough End Table =. SIS
$19.75 Occasional Table -. '12's
$69.75 Pillow Wing Chair 49,. 47So
s34" Bed, Spring & Mattress Outfit, s24s0
S44.5O Studio Couch s297s
$3.50 Walnut Cedar Chest. ;. !. $3.50
$19.75 Gliding Divan 49,. $3.50
$35 Steel Refrigerator $3.50
$19.95 Baby Carriage or Go-Cart $3.50
$85 Sixpiece Dinette Suite ;. ;. $3.50
$3.50 Buffet Mirror -. 47s
$3.75 Console Mirror -. .s2@S
$33 Double Day-Bed ;. 80. $3.50
$3.50 Spring filled Mattress or Box
Springs s19'
large of discontinued WOOL fiber
subsantaI avings
House s. Hermann
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Conihe, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wardman,
MFR. and Mrs Bernard B. Jones, Mrs.
George Barnett, Miss Josephine Patten,
Mrs. irving Chase of waterbury, Conn,
and Mr.. John Stuart Groves of VIII
mington, Del
Evening star., 1931-04-15

DR.. and Mrs. D. w. Mears are at the
Mayfiower until the first of May, when
they will go to their Summer home in
TIE PocomoS.
Evening star., 1931-04-15
GENUINE REPTILES-COLORED KIDS-SATIN KID


of
is psets
Evening star., 1931-04-15

DIR. and Mrs w c.. Alexander of
Evanston. ILL.,. who are visiting Wash
ington for short time, are staying at
Wardman Park Hotel
Evening star., 1931-04-15

Mrs. M. S. Jarvis. who has been Wis
iting in Baton Rouge. La, will return
home the end of this week.
Evening star., 1931-04-15
House & Herrmann's
10th Anniversary Sale
The Big Event of the Year


a nobe dsppo onted for
Merit andmarked it
circular
hundred who have
pondd that will take early while
best
hhundred
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

year ago. the curve has been down.
ward for eighteen months, but for
the last six weeks it has remained
steady at 80 per cent below normal
taking the situation in the fall of
1929 as normal.
The fact that it has fattened out
and remained horizontal inspired
the announcement Tuesday from
the White House that the President
and his advisers had considered the
general economic situation and had
found many favorable. factors"
Officials, it is known, expect i'm
provement to be slow and gradual,
and no optimistic statements are to
be issued predicting an early and
swift recovery.
There is a decided feeling here,
however, that the turn of the road
has been reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
e NABBED IN
GAMBLING RAID
Two Accused of Operating
Illinois Street Resort.

Two alleged gambling operators
and tWenty-one men charged with
gaming awaited arraignment in
municipal court today as the result
Of a safety board mandate to police
Tuesday that gambling must be
wiped out in indianapolis.
Shortly after, the board threat
ened to clean up the city with a
handpicked police squad, police
raided place at 1874 South Illinois
street, said to be the rendezvous for
those who would wager on horses
and participate in other games of
chance.
Thomas Casey and Andy Donlan
were charged with keeping a gam
ing house. Lieutenant John Shee-
han, leading the raiders, said he saw
one man place a bet on a horse,
rendering money to cover the wager.
To Major Herbert Fletcher, act
ing police chief, Frank c. Daley,
safety board member, flung the
challenge that he could name a
police squal that could clean up the
city, declaring he was getting tired
Of reports that gamblers have said
they had it fixed with city Off
Gals"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

after winning the national spelling
championship.
The White Hall (Ill.) schoolboy.
also planned to look at the Lincoln
Memorial and other national show
places before starting home Friday.
Gee" he said, after the seventh
annual spelling bee under the
auspices Of the Louisville Courier
Journal. Wont those kids who said
I didn't have a chance be surprised. y
Charles Michel, IA, Bellaire, O..
gave him a tough fight, but when
the pronouncer came to "Foulard"
it was all over. Michel left out the
"U" and Randall spelled it correctly.
I'm going to use the money for
my education" he said.
And when he arrives home:
ooh, Boyl' he enthused. "You
know, they promised to have the
band out if won. wonder if they
will?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
BY SLUMP
Farrell Says World Gains
Through Hard Times.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May 27.-"What-
ever losses sustained during the last
two years, the world materially has
gained by the Christening discipline
of hard times" James A. Farrell,
chairman of the national foreign
trade council, said today at the
opening session of the national for
eign trade convention.
housekeeping" he said, "has
been made necessary by derange-
ments of a war which caught the
western world in a transition stage
between a nineteenth century in
dustrial era and a new industrial
revolution to which scientific re-
search and invention had given
birth on the American continent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
PRESS POISON PROBE
Fifth Death May Be Laid to
Woman.

CHICAGO. May 27.-While Mrs.
Margaret Summers remained in the
county Jail today. tearfully denying
she had poisoned four members of
her household in order to collect
their insurance, police began an in
vestigation into the death of a fifth
possible victim.
A coroner's jury Tuesday recon-
mended that the woman be held on
murder charges as a result of the
death Of a nephew, her husband,
and two roomers by arsenic poison
ing.
1t was said she collected a total of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
POSTAL COST SLASH
ATTEMPT is ASSAILED

Economy Will be at Cost of I'm
paired Service, Says Congressman.
By ScrjppS-Hotoard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Efforts
of President Herbert Hoover and
Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown to lop millions of dollars of
the postal deficit were assailed to-
day by Representative Clyde Kelly,
(PaO
Substantial economies only could
be effected, he said, at the price of
impaired service or increased post
age rates.
In times of depression I believe
the government should give the
most complete service possible in
order to encourage private industry"
Kelly declared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
COMPILE CRIME DATA

End Work by July 1.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May q. - The
Wickersham law enforcement COM
mission resumed work today on a
number of reports covering various
phases of its inquiry into crime and
related subjects, which it hopes to
complete before it goes out of ex-
istence July l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
BY ARTHUR +. DEGREVE
United Press stan Correspondent


LONDON, May 27.-scotland
-a.srd folloyed trail of blood to
fame.
In 1888 a maniacical slayer who
slashed his victim to death had ter
f1rrized the slums of London.
He sent letter to police with
bloody hngerprints boldly smeared
thereon and brazenly informed them
when his next crime would be COM
p1itted.
The public was panicky. Women
and children lived behind closed
doors
Whole City Feared Ripper
Jack the Ripper" as the fiend
signed his letter, was on every
tongue The press bitterly criti-
cised the police and especially Scot
land Yard, organized ten years be-
Gore. for its failure to capture the
nan
Using this as an example that
crime was increasing, police Off
Gals demanded and received addi-
tional men to augment the detec-
tive force.
This proved to be the vital spark
needed to raise the yard" from an
ordinary group of plain clothes men
to an agency which has grown to
be feared by the worst criminals in
the world.
A series Of sensational murders
which we're promptly solved sold"
Scotland Yard to Great Britain.
Lieutenant Andrew Oliphant, who
retired after serving two score years
on the force, said:
Scott at Sherlock Holmes
mo detective possesses uncanny
powers such as Sherlock Holmes"
And, another shock to thriller
readers is contained in the state
ments of other police heads that
detectives rarely use DISCUSSES but
dress in such a way as not to at
tract attention. All are excellent
marksmen but do not carry guns
The chief value of the Scotland
Yard agents is his keenly deveI-
oped powers of analysis and OBJ
servation which, aided by every
modern invention of science, gives
him the advantage in coping with
the modern criminal, authorities
say.
Sherlock Holmes, they say,
wouldn't search in dust bins for
discarded cans of lobster but Scot
land Yard did and convicted
gang Of defaulters.
Make Use of Science
Chief Constable Frederick VEINS
ley, who retired recently, was known
as the worlds cleverest detective.
He was offered a position to reor-
ganize the Chicago police depart
ment, but declined.
1t is doubted that Sherlock
Holmes would have followed the
same steps as a Scotland Yard man
assigned to investigating a murder
of a woman, committed on the
docks. The face and head had
been badly beaten.
The officer was convinced a bottle
was used and later thrown into the
water.
No Such Thing as Perfect Crime
A force Of divers was employed
and fragments of broken glass
brought to the surface. The num-
Der of the bottle was traced to a
public house where the possible
purchasers name was revealed. A
few weeks later the man was
hanged on the gallows.
One murderer was traced by a
laundry ticket, another by a picture
and one by an insurance policy.
Scotland Yard doesn't shout but
knows there is no such thing as
perfect crime" They always look
for the minor details which the
slayer in anxiety to cover his crime
has overlooked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
RIPPER FIEND
WON FAME FOR
SCOTLAND YARD
Series of Crimes Brought II
Backing to Build Up
Super-PoIiCe Force.

Jack the Ripper" a hendish slayer
Of women, remains one Of the most color
full figures in Britain's criminal history.
How his sensational attacks later were
10 benefit society is described In the fol-
lowing article. the second OF a series
on Scotland Yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

Business Stable for Last
Six Weeks, Presidents
Chart Shows.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover's personal
chart of business shows stable
condition since April l.
With but one temporary pause a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

1924 in insurance upon the deaths
of these four
The fifth person believed to have
been a possible victim was Mrs.
Summers brother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
VOTE FOR DRY STAND

Both Major Parties in New Jersey
Pledged to Repeal.
BIZ United Press
TRENTON, N. j., May 27-Both
the Democratic and Republican
parties of New Jersey will go to the
polls this fall with a demand for
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
and restoration of state option on
prohibition following sessions of
their conventions here Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
WARD RANDALL,
II, WINS U. S.
SPELLING TITLE
HonorS Go to Illinois Boy in
Seventh Annual Capt.
tai Contest.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Ward
Randall, II, bearing in mind that
he has $1,000 coming to him, went
out today to eat ice cream to relax
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25

visibility as poor as it was reported Monday by all arimen and at all air fields of the state. In his brief regime Mir Lenox has not ae- quired a reputation for reeklessness in the air. We don't know that he engages in stunting when it isn't called for. But if it is conelusively proved that the deputy com missioner was at fault naturally we. as well as the whole state. will expect his chief to ground him.
 Mir Lenox himself seems to be trifle ex- cited over the unfortunate incident. He resents the uttered statements of several army officials, not to mention the unspoken im- plications. He probably imagines that everyone is talking about him or pointing their fingers at him behind his back. For his own good and that of the department he represents he should keep his lips closed. He has not been officially charged with any act of omission or commission as yet Until he has he need not reply to the charges of critics, fault-finders. and the like who are quick to jump to conclusions. In cases like the present one it doesn't do to lose ones temper or ones clear-headedness. Wait un- til the findings are made known before pass ing judgment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
This Dizzy World

Circling the globe is not, as many people suppose, strictly modern pastime. Magel- Ian in l5l9 did it. True. it took him three years, and he wasn't strewn with confetti by worshipping populace when he returned, but his feat is ohronicled In his- tory. Fifty years later. Sir Francis Drake outstripped him by only two months. There was dearth of speedy world travel CTS for about three centuries, but then Jules Verne and Phileas Fogg emerged to enthrall a breathess world with record that was surpassed not long afterwards by Nellie bly of New York, who globe-trotted past all meridians in a space of 72 days.
 In aviation. the first high mark was reached in 1924 by United States flyers who made their round the world trip in l75 days, including stops for leisurey visits. Airplanes plus trains, ships and automobiles carried Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells in dizzy circle for 28 days and IA hours. In 1928. Colyer and Mears bettered that record by five days and only year later the Graf Zeppelin cut two more days off the Collyer-Mears time. making the trip in 1 l days and g hours. It took Wiley Post and Harold Gatty to fly around the globe in less than nine days. Now the world is more or less calmly looking forward to the time when circlng the earth will be such swift. easy procedure that our real globe will seem no longer than the little globe on teachers desk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
BERRY PICKING
(Hartferd Courant)

In the Berkshires. and for leagues to the north and northeast. pickers are gathering blueberries for the market. The pickers are women and children, for the most part, in the Berkshires. They are now paid six cents the basket. The berries are marketed in crates con- taining thirty-two baskets. We as- sume that the fee of six cents is for berries after they are free from twigs, leaves and green or overripe berries. It Is not an excessive price, and we do not look for an inves- tigation of profits to the pickers or the middlemen.
 If the day is not too warm, the work would not be altogether un- pleasant, provided one were not Tn dire need of the cash and 1t did not matter whether or not one filled a crate In a single day. A blueberry pasture is by far more agreeable place for work than Is cornfeld in July or August, and the things that attra.t ones attention may be given their share of scrutiny. There must be Joe Pye weed in blossom, to say nothing of thoroughwort, yervain and thistles, if the growth of berry bushes is not too dense.
 If one is quite, and quietness Is oftLA a virtue, one notes other for:.s of life interested in the ber- ries, taking their toll of them and resentnig humans who are not sat- isfied with what they can get, as . we'll hammered beast or bird would be, but are striving to get all the fruit and carry 1t away for some purpose which wild life cannot fathom. Wild life does not always take kindly to the appearance Of humans, who may be thoughtlese or lacking in sight. There are hor- nets to be considered. It Is impos- sible to reason soberly and con- vincingly with a colony of indig- nant hornets. Then, too. there are fat and repulsive spiders. perfect lily harmless, but not agreeable as neighbors.
 l There is a subject for meditation that being the magnitude of the blueberry crop which nature pro- duces with considerable regularity year after year. Along the Connec- ticut shore the huckleberry, alto gether different, takes its place. but the blueberry fiourishes from northern Connecticut to heaven knows where but probably. into the region of Hudson bay. For that matter, it grows well to the south. ward of Connecticut, where persons alert to its value have cultivated Il and have developed berries of great size. To the north or northeast. the work is left to nature, man taking a hand now and then by starting fires which burn over large areas the treatment resulting in more and larger berries two or three yeari later. Picking these berries at si, cents the basket does not increase wealth rapidly, nor does 1t make great inroads upon the crop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
(Hartford Times)

We doubt that very many Amer jeans or Britishers are going to be- come excited over the issue which has been raised between the fed eral state department and the Washington birthday anniversary committee of Yorktown. Virginia. regarding the reproduction in pageantry of the surrender of Cornwallis. Pageants are things of beauty and are generally accepted as such and are not interpreted as means of propaganda It would be difhcult to raise the American pat riotic pulse of hate against Eng land one beat by staging on a hill- side a colorful ritual depicting a victory over a British general con- cerning whom his countrymen have long since lost enthpsiasm. What may be done by studied
 provocation of old issues between
 nations is seen in many countries in Eprope, but there the hatreds are kept continually alive. Those who presume to see such condt- tons still imbedded or dangerously near the surface in regard to An glo- American feelings on the Rev olutionary war are placing too It, | tie confidence in settled facts. It may be possible to stir up contro-
 versy, but we doubt that k will be genuinely related to the original separation between Englan6 and ] her American colonies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
Alternate Vacations

One of the tragic evils of the coal situation is that it is so difficult for miners to shift to different occupation. It IS an evel con- nected with many industries in this era of spe- cialization. The old saw, jack of all trades. master of none' is true enough. but it is just as true that the worker who knows only one operation in the manufacture or some complex product is master of no trade.
 A social worker tells of men and women in clothing factory who participated in the manufacture of mems suits. Thrown out of work by the closing down of that plant and others in their community. they were able to get no other work because they didn't know how to do anything but run the machine they were trained to. he so- cial worker suggested to one or two with whom her work gave her contact that they do some tailoring in their homes and offered to bring them customers. One said he knew nothing of cutting or fitting. His job for years had been to do certain bit of stlteh- ing on countless different suits. That was all A woman had for years been doing nothing but make machine button holes. The monotony of their tasks had deadened their initiative until they were mentally and spiritually unable to tackle new tasks.
 There are educators who recognize this evil and who urge that every worker today should have an alternative vocation and should be educated to versatility and adapta- blity. It is one method of cushionlng un- employment and widening the individual horizon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
Here, There And Euerywhere
STEEL COACHES DEMANDED
Bridgeport Telegraph

The crash between the Mer- chants Limited and the Springfield local, train No 86, in the railroad "cut" at New Haven on Friday night is the most serious wreck the New Haven road has suffered in many years. Fortunately, both trains were travelling at reduced speed when the accident occurred. The local train had just started up while the express was slowing down for the station. One of the trains, apparently the local, had been switched onto the wrong track in manner as yet unex- plained.
 When the two trains came to. gether the wooden coach attached to the tender of the local train split in two and piled up on top of the tender. It was in this coach that most of tho injuries were sustained. All of the cars by by the wreck. On the other hand the ali-steel Merchants' Limited suffered hardly a scratch. While some of the passengers WClC bhCiA " the sudden stop. nobody was seri- ously hurt.
 It is surprise and A disap- pointment to learn that the New Haven road Is still sticking to out of date, unsafe wooden coach- es. They ought to be ordered out of service by the railroad for its own good, if not for the safe ty of It's passengers. Since no pro- gressive railroad has bought a wooden coach for many years. those still in service on the New Haven must be of ancient vintage. It is wrong to rick the lives of passengers with such rolling stock, when better is available.
 | The cost to the railgoad in damage suits arising from the wreck would pay for more than enough steel cars to equip the Springfield local--and then some. If the local train like the express, had been of steel. nobody would have been hurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25

One of the beauties of owning your own water system is the free water that you get. Waterbury doesn't pay one cent for the use of water by any of the municipal depart ments nor for fighting fires. etc. Other towns where the water system IS privately owned, of course. are obliged to pay regular rates. Down in New Haven, where there IS a private water company. the city gets it's water free by taking care of the annual taxes of the concern. For the past year the water company owed the state $l2.o83./3. The city will pay this amount. It isn't the entire state tax, of course. The city only pays about 75 per cent ot the total. How ever the city probably gets the best Of the bargain, as a large municipality like New Haven can use good deal more than SlZ'- 900 worth of water in year. Unfortu- pately all cities and towns don't get out Of # as easy as New Haven does. They are charged rates in proportion with those lev- jed on private individuals and corporations. Just at present the subject of water sup plies is occupying every town and city in the nation. That's one reason why we should pay so much attention to the elml- nation of river and lake pollution.