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normal shipper buying probably will
support current or even higher prices,
but larger receipts and wider selec-
ton of cattle Immediately will depreSs
the general price level. The trade be-
lieves this should serve as a warning
against confusing the weeks advance
on good to choice heavy steers as a
general upturn.
Finishers seem more interested in
unloading habitat cattle than in buy
ing either thin or habitat offerings for
further growth and development. This
is one of the bearish factors which
helps to hold down the market on COM
mon and medium grade killing steers.
Considering the kind, replacement cat
tie are the lowest they have been since
last August.
The fact that shippers took few
more hogs, and that choice light
weights were increasingly scarce, caused
the lighter kinds to hold up better
than heavieS and to make an almost
unbelievably wide spread between
heavies and lights. The spread be-
tween 1870 and 400 pound averages was
as much as $1.70 per hundredweight.
While many Chicago interests are
hopeful of price recovery. there is a
general feeling that a fairly large sup
ply of hogs are on the threshold of the
market. others ANTICIPATE graoual
reduction in supply after next Monday
on the custom of the second Monday
in February often being burdened with
the largest receipts of the season.
Sheep and Lamb Trade.
Following last weeks period of pros
perity the sheep and lamb trade went
into a veritable tailspin. Spring-like
weather was partly accountable, mas
much as it retarded consumption and
ultimately tied up the product in
wholesale channels. But another rea-
son was that lambs previously had sold
too high.
All this came about in the face of
smaller receipts than a week earlier.
With the Colorado and Nebraska
movement getting under way, the i'm
mediate prospects are anything but en-
couraging and have given rise to a
certain amount of speculation that
current prices may work still lower.
The country continues to show. an
active interest in feeding and shearing
lambs. but is keeping its purchases In
line with the trend of fat prices.
Argentina exported many more pieces
of frozen meat last year than in 1929
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Stocks Are Facing
Friday, 18th, After
Holiday in Market
Return of Public to Active
Trading Fills Custom
ers' Rooms.
BY LEMuEL T. PARTON.

OpeClHL JlSpbICu W OldI.
NEW YORK, February 12.-The bull
market. coming to life again, took a
breathing spell today before facing
Friday, the thirteenth. If it can take
this hurdle without tumble there is
no telling what will happen. for even
in less uncertain times Wall Street
SPECTATORS approach this fateful spot
on the calendar with their fingers
crossed.
This may sound bit fuzzy for such
steel-trap minds as those of the money
kings, but the Street works that way.
The long period of depression has been
gold rush for soothsayers and as
trologers catering to the captains of
finance. These practitioners of me-
dieval arts have taken millions from
these supposedly hard-boiled hard
headed and hard-fsted masters of
finance. On February F. B. Keech
e. Co., an old and reputable registered
firm with two members holding seats
on the Stock Exchange, put out this
statement in its market letter:
Predicting stock market movements
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by astrology Is not altogether out of
date, and it may be some comfort
to learn that, according to the stars.
February will be a more favorable
month for prices than January"
Previously there had been several
predictions by astrologers that an up
turn in the market was due.
The public is venturing out of its
hole as cautiously as the recently agi-
tated ground hog, but is venturing out
nevertheless. Customers rooms in bro
kerage houses were filled Wednesday
for the first time in months. Almost
without exception, brokerage firms
questioned by this writer said they
were adding to their stats. They are.
however, taking on trained workers
formerly employed. and not newcomers.
Many members of clerical STATS have
been recalled from extended vacations,
granted on account of the depression.
(CopyriRht, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
CHECK TOTAL GAINS.

Payment of monthly bills caused a
sharp increase of IL per cent in checks
cashed on individual bank accounts Of
the Federal Reserve system during the
week ended February as compared
with the previous week. The debts, for
comparable weeks, as announced by the
Federal Reserve Board, follow:
Week ended February 4 .S1l ,073,815 600
Previous week. .......... 9,867,5l7OOO
Same week last year.. 1910, 19l 900
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WHOLESALE PRICES.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Selling prices continued their down
ward trend last week as the change
was calculated by the Department of
Commerce. In the figures that follow
the average wholesale price is given
for comparable periods, based on rep
resenting 1926 averages as 100. In
addition, the selling price of a ton of
composite steel products is given for
like periods:
All Com
moditieS Steel.
Week ended February T.. 1914 $31 So
Previous week ............. 7T.2 81. 10
Same week last year,. 1914 1924
There have been coined in the course
of our history l2-cent, 2-cent and
Scent pieces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12

S. Walker. general passenger agent: J.
A. Maxwell, auditor G. E. Herring, pur-
chasing agent; D. Sawyer. superin-
tending engineer: L. H. Potzler, freight
claim agent; C.. H. Ray, general agent.
Washington: P. M Pritchard, general
agent, Norfolk; H. N. Larcombe, agent.
Alexandria; c. S. Revell, joint agent,
Old Point Comfort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
BANK RESOURCES GAIN.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Resources of the 1893 banks in con-
tinental United States, Alaska and
Hawaii on December 81 totaled $28, 1893,
684, 900, an increase of $42l, 001 900 over
the September "a total.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12

The oldest hair tonic. made for an
Egyptian queen. consisted Of the paw of
dog and the hoof of an ass boiled in
oil with dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
PARENTS LEAD CHILDREN FROM
 BURNING HOME
They All Got Out in Safety,
 But Pet Dog Refused to Leave and Probably Died

Nahant, Mass, April 27.-(UP)- MT and Mrs John Boyer led their five children, ranging in age from 6 to II, to safety when fire ruined their home on Castle road here early to-day. causing damage estimated at $S,080. Embers from fireplace in the living room caused the fire. It was discovered by Mrs Boyer. After his children were safely out of the dwelling, Boyer called the Nahant fire department by telephone. A northwest gale sweeping in across Nahant peninsula from the water front scattered sparks and menaced other homes, and Chief Charles F. Leonard summoned aid from Lynn. Coast guards from Nahant station also assisted.
 Boyer was unable to induce Trixie. a Boston terrier, to leave the burn ing home, and it was thought the dog perished in the fire. But after the blaze had been controlled Trixie was found, seemingly unaffected, in an upstairs room.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
LABOR fORCESG
 NATION EXPECT
 DRY LAW CHANGE
Light Wines and Beers May Be Legalized in the Next Congress in Opinion of Leaders

Philadelphia, April 27.-(UP)- Light wines and beer may be legal iZed in the next congress in the opinion of organized labor's anti-pro- hibition committee which opened it's first annual conference here to-day. Matthew Woll. vice president of the American Federation of Labor. and I. M. Ornburn, president of the Ci-
 gar Makers International Union. authors of congressional survey, cV Sd majority in both houses of ngress for modification of the Vo1stead act. They claim that only 17 members of the senate and Al representatives are prohibition die hards.
 During the two-day convention Of labor's national committee for modi- fication of the Volstead act, Orn- burn, who is secretary of that com mittee, will read the report on the congressional survey to the dele gates. Woll is president of the com mittee. The report expressed the belief that the people of the nation favor modification of the dry laws and added:
 We would never have been both cred with such legislation as prohi- bition, had the American people ever. imagined its passage would have re- suited in the transfer of the corner saloon to the home, in the corrup- tion of our youth. apparent corrup. tion of our judiciary and enforce ment officers and creation of boot leggers gangsters and racketeers."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
HARVARD SENIOR ALMOST CAUGHT
 IN ROOM BLAZE
Broke Window to Let Out Smoke and Night Watch= man Helped Him Escape

Cambridge, Mass. April 27.-UP) Fire in a fourth-floor suite occu- pied by Harvard law school senior and another youth drove some 300 guests from their rooms in Hotel Commander near Cambridge Com mon early to-day. The Harvard stu dent, R. T. Dunn. was awakened by smoke and broke window to let in air. Richard Winsor, night clerk. heard the shattering of the pane and thus learned of the fire.
 Archie Johnson. night watchman, hurried to Dunn's room and led the youth out into a corridor. Winsor aroused most of the other guests by telephone. They did not have to leave the hotel, but congregated in the lobby.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
GOV ROOSEVELT l HAS ENTERED THE DIAMOND CASE
Supersedes One District At= torney and Names the AttOrney=General to Do Prosecuting \

Albany, N. Y.. April 27.-UP)S Governor Roosevelt to-day super seded District Attorney Harrison l.. Gardner of Greene county in inves- tigation of activities of Jack degs) Diamond, racketeer king.
 The governor directed Attorney General Bennett to supersede Gard ner "in all action arising from the acts" of Diamond, who is wounded in a hospital here, the victim of an early morning attack; James (Jack) Dalton, who is under indictment with his chief on charges of assault and kidnapping. and Paul Quatroc- chi. road house proprietor and Dia- mond lieutenant.
 The attorney general might take personal charge of the prosecution ot the indictments against Diamond and Dalton, or name a deputy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
SENATOR GLASS
 SNEERS AT THE
 CANNON ILLNESS

Washington, April 27.-(UP)- Senator Carter Glass. democrat. Va, has renewed his feud with Bishop James Cannon. Jr, in the Southern Methodist church and out, in state- ment ridiculing the bishops plea of sickness and proposing that his con- stitutional objections be ignored The statement of the Virginia senator and publisher was made in response to Cannon's challenge of the Nye senate campaign committee inquiry authorized by resolution proposed by Glass.
 It precedes another crisis in the bishops stormy career. the meeting next month of the College of Bishops of the Methodist church. south. when Cannon Is expected to be named chairman if the usual seniority rule is followed. Other churchmen last week were reported circulating a petition to block Cannon's selection
 Glass spoke sarcastically of the bishops physician, who, he said, warned Cannon his life would be en- dangered if he appeared before the Nye committee. "at the same time telling him that 1t would improve his health to travel across the continent making political and religious speeches"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
Mayor Walker Hits Back At Detractors
 And Their Charges

 imperial city" Walker asserted. They want to destroy the confi- dence in this city first, the state next and then the nation"
 "It's not for you and me to worry about. It's for big business, indus try. commerce. If they have the power they will invade business. in- idustry and finance, and then I say, Mir Publishers, who looks upon these attacks as simply news, they'll te into the newspaper office and they'll dictate. MT Publisher, what you'll have to write.
 We're merely the goats, the tenn porary targets to shoot at. We have q news value. and the propaganda can best be spread around by at lacking some one in the public eye"
 "The dangerous communist is the parlor communist He is a slick fell low. He is the fellow who exercises great intrigue and influence. But most dangerous of all Is the one who acsends the pulpit and pretends that Ee has background of Christ's holy word and immortal Torah.
 fContinued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
JACK LEGS DIAMOND IS
 LUCKY MAN
Twice Before This Famous Gangster Has Escaped Death-Early To-day He Again Cheated His Bandit Enemies

Cairo, x. r.. April 27.-UP)- The amazing luck which has saved Jack Legs" Diamond from assassin ation twice before in his unsteady gangland career came to his aid again to-day when he emerged alive. though severely wounded, from a terrific volley of enemy gunfire.
 A midnight ambuscade in Cat skill mountain roadhouse was the latest trap set for the New York underworld chief by the foes who long since have marked him for death. But, by the narrowest of margins. this attempt failed like the others that have been made on Dia- mond's strangely charmed life.
 Ten charges of buckshot blazed from sawed-off shotgun as the young Broadway beer runner walked out on the porch of the Aratoga inn shortly before 12 o'clock last night
 (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
Edgar T. H. Oxford Startled This Town
 With Double Tragedy
Shell Shocked Victim of World War, Crazed With Drink Murdered His Wife After Argument at Midnight
HE TURNED WEAPON UPON
 HIMSELF AND ENDS LIFE

Souhbuy April 27 Drinkcrazd and suffering from shell shock Edgar H. Oxford pheasant breeder the Oxford road shot and midnight last night and then turned his revolver inf wound his right temple weekend visitor Wnied Clifford cripple from New York city, sleeping in with Mrs Oxford and witnessed the double shooting
 No explanation for the shooting outside of the fact th had Waterbury and returned around midnight under the Relatives said shell shocked during the World
 which he member of the Royal Flying Corps being for bravery Relatives said when he under the influence shell shock and of his mind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
MAN SHOT HIS WIFE
 DEAD AND THEN TOOK OWN LIFE
Hoover And Curtis Will Be Renominated From Poll
 Taken By Washington Paper

Washington April 27 = (UP) = Delegates alternates republican overwhelmingly opinion President Hoover will be nomnaed year according poll by the Washington Post discussed copy rghted article Sunday
 Vce-Presdent Curtis according the copyrighted story, favored renominaon also.
 The following summary of opinion of the 52l delegates and aternates given:
 Hoover. 4o2 Morrow. l3; Coolidge 2; Lowden Dawes 1; Borah. l; and Watson l.
 Curtis named by 247 the probable presidential Sixty named Theodore Roosevelt 34 Morrow B Secretary of War Hurley and 10 Representative Tson republican Connecticut Scattering for of others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
BRIDGE PLAYING PARENTS BLAMED
 FOR CHILDREN
Judge Cabot, Head of Ju- yenile Court in Boston, Says They Are Cause of Delinquents

Bridgeport, Conn. April 27-(UP) Pleasure seeking parents. who 'pay more attention to bridge than to problems of their growing child ren," are to blame for the delin- quency of many boys and girls. Judge Frederick P. Cabot, head of the juvenile court of Boston and chairman of the delinquency section of the recent White House confer ence, told delegates to the 21st an- nual Connecticut Conference of So. cial Workers last night.
 The conference, attended by more than 500 social workers. entered It's final session today with scheduled addresses by Lois Hayden Meek, di- rector of the Child Debelopment in- stitute of Columbia University; Dr. Bruce B. Robinson, Newark. N. l.: and Professor Frederick E. Croxton of Columbia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
FOUR MEN GIVEN
 LIFE SENTENCES
 IN ROBBERY CASE


 Montreal, April (UP)-Con- victed last week of robbing two bank messengers of SS,000, Sam Behan. native of Boston, and his three companions. Jack Miller. Leo- pold Warren and Morris -Weinbaum, to-day were sentenced to life im- prisonment. Each had been found guilty on the two charges of con- spiracy and robbery. George Lau- niere, who turned kings evidence, was freed.
 Behan, Miller and .Weinbaum were arrested after he had betrayed them. Sam Behan is graduate of an American university. is 40 years of age, with a record of SS arrests and convictions in England. the United States and Canada. ac- ccrding to his attorney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
NAVAL PROGRAM OF FRANCE AND
 ITALY SMASHED
Great Britain Cut Out One Proposal of France and the French Became In- dignant

Paris, April 27.-(UP)-The Franco-Italian naval Limitations ne- gotiations were at a serious impasse again to-day, reviving the threat of a European naval building race which would involve Great Britain and perhaps the other London nav al treaty signatories. The disagree fnent, arising from the supposedly settled French demands for permis- sion to replace obsolete warships after 1894, disturbed the entire naval limitations question and threatened again to disrupt the forthcoming 1882 conference at Ge- neva for world disarmament.
 Great Britain, party of the tri-. power act recently concluded" for limitation of French Iand Italian navies, has definitely rejected the French proposal for replacement of obsolete ships--a question which nas supposed to have been settled. italy has decided that the French proposals are not acceptable, 1t was said semi officially at Rome. France, stung to indignation by what many obserters considered q ''rebuke." has no intention of withdrawing her propOsale. a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
ROOKIE PATROLMAN CAPTURED MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL AT
 POINT OF PISTOL AND ALONE

Dover. N. Ja April 27.--tUP)- James Nannery. escaped Sing Sing convict who boasted he would never be taken alive and who is wanted in New York in competitor with the staying of a policeman, was under heavy guard in the county Jail here to-day after being captured by a rookie patrolman. With him In the jail was Patricia Pearl Smith, alias Helen Lorraine. She was arrested near Morristown. N. J., by state troopers after she had, fled in Nan nery's automobile following his cap ture.
 Nannery who was described by Police Commissioner Edward P. Null rooney of New York as lone of the most dangerous criminals in Amer tea" was arrested when he uninten- tionally parked his automobile in a restricted zone here. Policeman
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
THREE FIRES
 JUST MISSED
 FATALITIES
SUNDERLAND MAY YET BECOME HEAD
 OF STATE POLICE
Bill to Create Police COm= mission and Abolish Poe lice Head, Will Probably Die in Committee
By GEORGE R. MORRIS, JR.

: By GEORGE R. MORRIS, JR. United Press Stan COrrespondent)
 Hartford, Conn, April ,27-(UP)- The legislative bill which would take from the governor the power of ap- pointing the state police commis- sioner and vest it in commission. and which if passed probably would leave Colonel Anthony Sunderland of Danbury with little chance of as- suming that office, to which he was appointed by Governor Wilbur L. Cross, will die in committe, 1t was reported reliably today.
 The measure, introduced by Rep. John s. Thornhill, repn, Brookfield, would create commission compos- ed of the attorney-general, the state treasurer and citizen to be named by the governor. The bill also would
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
COUSIN OF SLAIN GIRL
 QUERIED
William WetmOre, Related to the Hamden Victim, Not Held - Autopsy Dis- closes Some Frightful Conditions
BY BOYD LEWIS

United Press Stan COrrcspondent)
 Hamden. Conn. April 27-UP)- Pretty Emily Kirk. 21-year-old daughter of Charles Kirk, prosper ous country gentleman and member of a family which colonized Hamden nearly 300 years ago, was beaten w:th a ginger ale bottle, criminally attacked and shot four tines before a 50-pound boulder crushed out her life, Coroner James J. Corrigan said to-day in revealing the results of an autopsy.
 County, state and Hamden police were uniting i'll a man-hunt ham, pered by absence of clues. A drench- ing rain which fell on the wooded scene of the staying Sunday wiped out all helpful trace of the assailant
 (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
HITCH-HIKER IS
 DROWNED WITH
 DRIVER OF AUTO
Car Goes Into Delaware River Near Chester-An= other Hiker Saved His Life

Chester, Pa, April 27.-UP)- Two men, one hitch-hiker, were drowned last night when the driver ran his car through the gates guard ing the entrance to municipal pier and into the Delaware river.
 Those drowned were Wilbur E.. Andrews, 4S. of Newtonvilie. Mass, a candy salesman and driver of the car; and Charles Dunder 41. of New York. a hitch-hiker who was en- route from Washington to his home and who with a companion was picked up by Andrews near Will mington. Del.
 J. I. Kimball, 43. of Cambridge, Mass, the other hitch-hiker. who was riding in the car, escaped death but suffered a broken leg and other injuries when he leaped from the machine as it crashed through the st eel gates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
YALE COLLEGE MADE SOME NEW
 APPOINTMENTS

New Haven, Conn. Apr 27.--(UP) Robert Ernest Doherty. consulting engineer of the General Electric Go and assistant to Steinmetz. the cleo trical wizard, at the time of his death. has been appointed professor of electrical engineering at Yale uni- versity. His appointment was one of 71 made public by the university to-day. He is graduate of Univer- sity of Illinois and Union College.
 Others included olin Saxon. New York city. professor of business ad- mimistration: Walter Richard Stiles. Stanford university, professor of psychology; Dr Christian Richard Thurnwald. University of Berlin. vis- lting professor of anthropology.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
WILL
 ORGANIZE NEXT
 CONGRESS HOUSE

Providence, R. l., April 27--(UP) Ut is little importance which party organizes the house and senate at the next session of congress. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the democratic national executive committee con- tended in an address before Rhode Island democrats here last night. "The Hoover administration has lost control of the legislative arm of the government Shouse declared. The are divided as never be- fore. The democrats in either branch remain the sole coherent, cohesive group. and therefore must assume the leadership of legislation in the 72d congress"
 He predicted. however, that the democrats would have a clear ma- jority in the next house. Shouse said southern democrats were ''as blind and mistaken as honest men can be-" in holding that the party should shut its eyes to the prohibit- ion problem merely because it divides members. How can they disagree" he added, with the sug- gestion of giving back to the states the power over this vexing prob iema2"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27

New York, April 27-(UP)- Mayor James J. Walker believes the attacks on his office are part of na- tional campaign by communists to undermine municipal state and fed eral governments in the United States.
 Communists are making him the goat" and the target to shoot at i.t their attacks at the very founda- ton of good government" Walker tcld 2,500 firemen of the Holy Name society yesterday. He attacked the religion of those who have. brought charges of misfeasance against him and termed them "parlor commun- ists."
 There Is "sublety. hidden pur- pose" behind the attacks on private r,dividuals. he declared, warning in- Gustry. commerce and newspaper publishers that it was something for him to worry about more than him.
 These attacks are for the very purpose of tearing down the struc- ture of our municipal government that has won the admiration of the entire world and has made this an