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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
Family Of Suicide Or Murdered Girl
 Tells Final Story
Stepfather of Starr Faithful Says He Knew the Middle
 Aged Man, Who Killed Her Soul, But Not the Wan
 Who Killed Her Body

It was in June 1926, that Mrs Faithful, then living in West Orange was advised that this man was coming to New York. and would take Starr to- a theater. Subse- ouently, as the Faithfulls relate. he called up the West Orange home to suggest that it would be well If "Bamby"- as Starr was known remained overnight in New York.
 The girl was called to the phone and Mrs Faithful asked her if she wished to remain in town.
 "She talked incohefently and strangely, very much like a person who was under the influence of li- quor, but I felt that it was incon- ceiyable that she would have liquor being with" Mrs Faithful con- tinued. "She told me, I really think had better"
 When Starr returned home, she acted strangly, lay in her room, and acted "dazed but not hysterical. like a person under a drug"
 Mrs Faithful at this point left asking her husband to relate the rest of he story alone.
 As given by him. Starr told of occurrences in the hotel here the previous night. This happened only a few hours before time for the girl to sail on 8 cruise to England, and the family decided that it would be best not to have her abandon this trip. On this journey. Starr was re- ported to have taken considerable drink and to have become particu- larly excitable, whereas on previous trips she had drunk nothing.
 Her condition seemed worse upon her return in September, and the family had her consult an alienist. Prior to this, she had unfolded to her mother story of the relations of the man in the case. It came out | in sections; sometimes only few words ;again in a flood as though by telling the details she was purg- ling her soul. The details are un- printable. The girl advised her mother that the man had acted un- der the guise of teaching her the things she should know and that her father would have given her (Her own father was separated from her mother). The girl quoted him as saying any reluctance on her part would be abnormal.
 | Sometimes he drugged her with chloroform, according to the girl who vaguely recalled some experl- ences on occasions when the drug
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
ARMY INCREASES
 ALFALFA RATION

Fl Paso, Texas, (UP)-The U. $. army mules and horses in the Sth Corps area should give three hearty brays and neighs for the Fl Paso Chamber of Commerce. As a result of the ceaseless work of the Chamber of Commerce. the mules and horses. starting July l, will have their alfalfa ra- tions increased 100 per cent.
 Before the chamber succeeded In rousing war department offi- ciaIs to the feed situation of the animals hay rations for tho mules and horses consisted of ID per cent prairie hay and 2b per cent alfalfa hay.
 But nfter July 1, each mule and horse will receive lt pounds of hahy q day. seven of which will he alfalfa, Proponents of more AI- faifa argued thnht on account Of iis high protlen content tho gov. ernment woulnd save on iho oats bill
 At ihe same time, it is expected that iha horses hnd mules Will cooperate In eating hll tbe alfalfa, and thus increase ibn price, which Ia now Ri rock bottom,
 Representative 0f Texas, Now MekieOand Arizona eoOpefated ih making iha more alfalfa nam. palan Of Inc chamber q success
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
By Carl D. GrOat Copyright 1881 by United Press Reproduction Without Per-

hGDrOOuCl1On WItuOut 1CEs
 mission Prohibited).
 New York, June 19-(UP)-Stan- ley Faithful, stepfather of the dead Starr Faithful, told the United Press today he knew "the man who killed her soul" though he did not know the "man who killed her body"
 Faithful and his family were just closing the recital of Starr's life history-a revelation which, he sug- gested, might be of value to parents through the country by causing to guard their children against peril.
 we have thought seriously of what we say," Faithful remarked after telling the story of how Starr had after long concealment poured forth story of intimacies with a man old enough to be her father-a man whom she said had covered his deeds with the claim that he acting in the role of father to her.
 The mistreatment, as related by the girl, had started at the age of II and had continued long and in the meantime she was evidently struggling to reconcile in her own mind his deeds with the words he heard everywhere that the man m question could do no wrong.
 This man had been trusted almost as a father, according to the Faith fulls, but had abused this confidence with shocking relations which, in Faithfulrs words, killed her sour' and left her at womanhood with a twisted view of life. love and sex. Under the guise of kindness and of being a father Ito her, the man. according to Faithful had wrought his immoralities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
.Kraukauskas Case :.
 Over til Tuesday
Father of Accused Youth on Stand When Trial Is
 Continued

Trial of Peter Kraukauskas, known as California Pete" will be resumed Tuesday morning in superior court before Judge Frank P. McEvoy. The case started yesterday afternoon with the state resting and part of the de- fense testifying. The accused is charged with the holdup of the Tenn pleton gasoline station at Meadow and Benedict streets last August 9th.
 He was picked from a lineup of II men at the New Haven county jail by John E. Meyers of 79 East Main street, attendant at the gas sta ton the night of the holdup. Meyers identified him as the man who held him up. The accused was serving a
 six months jail sentence at the time, after having been sentenced from lNaugatuck for carrying a concealed
 weapon. On the stand yesterday, kraukauskas admitted carrying the
 gun but explained he carried it while working for his father who operates bakery in Brooklyn. The accused
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

Iagain Tuesday.
 The accused was arressed in Ef Louis when the Watertown bank robbers. now serving states prison sentences, were taken into custody. He proved he had no connection with the prank robbery and was given his freedom. He came to Waterbury and lsecured a job working for his father until his arrest at Naugatuck. Hs lis represented by Attorney John IT..
 Monzani States Attorney Lawrence IL. Lewis is presenting the states side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
Ten New Engines For
 The New Haven Road
Delivery of Hgh-Speed Locomotives Costing S2,OOO, 900, for New YOrk-New Haven Passenger Service

heretofore used on the New Haven Railroad, being designed to haul trains of fifteen S0-ton Pullman cars at maximum speed. They will be capable of operation either into Grand Central terminal or into the Pennsylvania station, as provision has been made for operation on the 11,000 volt overhead wire system of the New Haven and Pennsylvania roads, or the 600-volt third rail sys- tenn of the New York Central.
 The total weight of the new To- They measure 77 feet in length and of 70 miles per hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

Telegraph Editors Note: The United Press presents herewith the last chapter in the life story of Starr Faithful, whose death has perplexed authorities and is still unsolved.
 Stanley Faithful and his fam ly have given the details to the United Press with the expressed intention of clearing Starr's name of innuendoes in a part of the press.
 Today's story deals with the girls revelation of alleged mal- treatment by 8 middle aged man when she was 1 1 years old and the events which grew out of this disclosure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
WOMAN COBBLER. 5s.
 A DANCING GRANDMA.
By NEA Service

By NEA Service
 Memphis, Tenn-When it comes to dancing, Mrs Barney Watson. 59- year-old woman cobbler, takes no back seat for any young upstarts. With her husband, 49, this grand mother of five grandchildren dresses up every chance she gets and whiris about some ballroom floor until i or 2 o'clock in the morning.
 The couple recently entered a city dancing championship and placed among the finalists.
 Mrs Watson has been dancing since she was 16--for 43 years ---- and her husband has been dancing for 25 years.
 " A1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

Lieutenant Joseph Stevens and De- tective John Leary on the stand. The defense put the father of the accused
 on the stand and he will resume his
 testimony when the case is called
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

one female herring will yield aA many As 10,o00 eHah
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

New Haven, June 19.-Delivery has just been made to the New Ha- ven Railroad by the General Electric company of the first of ten new cleo tric locomotives of the very latest design, costing nearly $2,000,000, which will be used in the railroads s high-speed' passenger service be- tween New Haven and New York. Delivery of the remaining nine, which will be made at subsequent dates during the summer months, will bring the roads fleet of electric locomtives up to a total of 154.
 The new locomotives exceed in weight and rated capacity any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

Some 5000 persons commit suicilei yearly in the United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Sales of Farms In
Minnesota Show Seven
Percent Increase

Farm sales in the state of Min
nesota were approximately seven
percent more in 1881 than in 1880,
according to a report Of II. G.
Hotaling, executive secretary Of
the Ten Thousand Lakes-GreateI
Minnesota Association.
The figures contained in Hotal-
;ng's report were arrived at fol-
lowing a thorough and complete
check. Registers of deeds, bank
ers and realtors were asked tc
report sales in their districts, and
an effort was made to learn the
names and addresses of new far
mers moving to Minnesota from
other states. The reports were
checked carefully to avoid duplica-
ton and the figures given by Ho-
falling show only actual sales.
This increase In the number of
sales means an increase in the
misery of the farmers who have
sold during the past year only
because they have been forced to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Members of Farmers
Union Distribute
Communist Literature
By ELLA REEVE BLOOR

Minot, n. D., Dec. 19.-The Far
mers Union held the Ward Coun-
ty Annual Convention at Minot,
Dec. 18th. Mr.. Talbot, president
of the North Dakota Farmers
Union, seemed 10 sense the fact
that the farmers Of North Dakota
are deeply interested in the farm
ers of the Soviet Union, and &C
tually thought they would come
out all right over there
Two members of the Farmers
Union, disregarding a resolution
passed at the last meeting of the
Ward County committee, declaring
that mo one should pass out Com
munist literature at a Farmers
Union meeting" distributed free
of charge a number of copies of
the Communist Call to the Toiling
Farmers, a big bundle of Daily
Workers, containing the stories Of
the Hunger March,-all of which
were eagerly taken by the farmers
present.
All of these meetings impress
US with the fact that all members
of the United Farmers League
must organize shock troops to col
lect money to buy bundles Of the
Producers News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

States, at its meeting on Deem
Der 18th, 1881 decided to eumzs
nicate to you the following VIII
respect to the incarceration q
Tom Mooney and Warren K. BIZ
ings in the California prisons:
We know and always han
known that Warren K. Billing
and Tom Mooney are in prisU
innocent men, being framed up d
the time of their imprisoment b.
the authorities of California, VI
tins of class justice in your state
Therefore, we demand their imnA
date release.
In the name of the Thousands q
members of the cO-operatH
movement we protest against hi
dickering with the problem that .
taking place today as a eOnse
quence of which is the delay q
their release, and the breaking q
the health of these brave tighten
Of the American working class
The Executive Board Of ti
Workers and Farmers CO-Opers-
tive Unity Alliance wishes to con
municate to you that We sha-
leave no stone unturned; that "
shall use all of the power that "
possess to mobilize the wOrksn
and poor farmers Of this county
to effect the release Of Tom MOO
ney and Warren K. Billings fro1
the dungeons of California.
For the immediate release
Mooney and Billings, we are,
Yours truly,
WORKERS & FARMERS "
OPERATIVE UNITY ALLANUA
Per: w. A. HARJU, Seq
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
WORKERS And FARMERS COOPERATTVE
DEMAND RELEASE OF TOM MOONEY
Protest Hypocritical Political Maneuvering of WaE
and Others With MONEYS Life AT Stake.

The following letter was sent to
Governor Rolph of California by
the Executive Board of the Work
ers and Farmers Cooperative Uni
ty Alliance demanding, on the
part of the thousands OF worker
and farmer coOperators, the imme-
date release of Tom Mooney from
the California dungeons where he
has served fifteen years under one
of the most brazenly framed con-
victions in the history of the Am
erican labor movement.
December 14th, 1881.
Governor Rolf, Jr.,
State of California,
State House,
Sacramento, Cal.
Dear Sir:
The Workers and Farmers Co
operative Unity Alliance Execu-
tive Board representing thousands
of co-operators in the United
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
HANCOCK, MICHIGAN
FARMERS MEETINGS
EXPOSE OFFICIALS
CONVINCE MISLED FARMERS
OF NEED FOR MILITANT
FIGHT AGAINST MISERY.

Hancock, Mich, Dec. 9.-We
have now laid a basis for the real
organization of farmers here. At
all the meetings we have made
plain to them that the program of
the UFL is the program the far
mers should follow. The meet
ing we had at the Houghton coun-
ty court house was a corker. The
farmers turned loose on the sup
ervisors with full steam on. You
know there are several Finnish SUI
pervisors here and after the sups.
adjourned for dinner the farmers
had their own meeting and re-
quested them to stay and have a
talk with the farmers. Some stay
ed and did the farmers roast them,
WOW.
We had two good meetings in
Ontonagon county last Saturday
and Sunday. The meeting Satur-
day at Trout Creek was a good
meeting of Finnish farmers, about
70 present. Many reported on
their taxes j. e. 20 acre farm $3.50
taxes and $40 personal properly
tax. Another one: 40 acres
taxes in 1929 $37; in 1880, $40,
etc. Committee of action elected.
Convince Misled Farmers
A rumor had gone around To-
paz 1.-THE meeting was in the
schooD that red speaker was to
be there. A couple of local fas-
cists came with intentions to throw
US out in case the speech is too
cred" The chairman had the
agenda and after the officials had
been elected we read the resolu-
ton passed at the Trout Greek
meeting on Saturday. All the
farmers were 1000 with US on the
demands. The fascists were SO
surprised that at the end of the
meeting they were with US too
There was a Township supervisor
very sympathetic, who helped US
along much by exposing the crook
ed work of the county supervisors
on the various county work, such
as building the aeroplane ground
in Ontonagon, etc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
LOSSES OF MINI.
RURAL CREDITS
COVER ROBBERY
$13. 10000 OF LAND HAS
ALREADY BEEN ACQUIRED
FROM DESTITUTE FARMERS.

The accountants report on the
Minnesota Rural Credits Bureau
admits a loss of $2,302,180 since
1923. The bureau is now facing a
loss of $336,000 annually. Thomas
Frankson, secretary of the bureau.
has stated that the bureau has not
quit making loans but that it is
still looking for good loans on
conservative basis" This means
that the farmers who have been
thru years of crisis will not be
able to get loans. They are not
a conservative basis" for loans.
The 100000 that has been loan
ed since last January 1, is prob
ably the remaining security avail
able on the farms of the state.
That is mortgaged now.
The bureau which was supposed
to have been established for the
helping the farmers shows its true
face in the s13yO0O,OOO of land
that it has already foreclosed on.
But the helping hand of tie Rur-
al Credits Bureau is there to help
the farmers get back their land.
However, we are selling lands
right along and find that there
is a big demand for them," said
Frankson. mot all applicants
can meet even the very easy
terms Of sale we offer, but they
certainly want to get back to
the farm"
The only complaint that Frank
son has to make against the &C
QUESTION of farms by the state is
that they do not even pay enough
to cover the interest charges tt at
the Rural Credits Bureau has
against them.
ct do not anticipate the ex-
pected loss, if land values re-
turn to normal, as they un-
doubtedly will. Oar income
from farms we have taken over
nets the department about IL
per cent. This is due of course
to the low price of farm pro-
ducts. A better market will en-
able an income easily equal to
the regular interest charge we
have against the farms"
This is the way in which the
farmers were forced off the land
Despite their hard toll they were
unable to make more than the one
and one-half percent which was by
far not enough to cover the in.
terest that they were robbed of by
the Rural Credits Bureau.
This is the way in which thous-
ands of farmers in Minnesota
were financed off of their farms.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Wife OF NEGRO CHOPPER IS
SHOT BY MISSOURI BOSSES
Workers Had Resisted Robbery By Rich Land Owner of
Their Share of Crops.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Dec. 49,
Down in Dunklin County near
Maiden, Mo-, lives George Schwad-
er, who possesses a title to more
land than he can possibly till. So
one day George Schwader made it
known that if some worker who
had no land, would come over and
do the work necessary to produce
a crop that the worker could have
q portion of what he made.
Well, A. C. Thompson, a Negro
with family being less fortunate
than George Schwader, had no
place to lay his head or shelter
his family; so the negro worker
agreed to cultivate Schwader's crop
on the share cropping basis.
On November 26th, an argument
over the crop division occurred be-
tween the white landowner and
the Negro worker. Schwader knew,
according to custom that the
strong arm of the law would set
tie the matter in his favor. 81
Schwader started to Maiden to
secure a warrant for the Negro
workers arrest. Shortly after
Schwader left the farm it was
noised among the landowners
friends that the sharecropper was
disputing with his master over
the crop.
Schwader's friends surrounded
the workers home, broke his win
dows, fired several shots into his
house. After they had satisfied
themselves that Thompson would
give the landowner no trouble ov-
er the crop, they left; after which
Schwader and his protecting arm
Of the law arrived to arrest the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
By NJ. S.


The following article is q con-
tinuation of the article. 'The
Struggle of the Dairy Farmers"
which we published last week
Editor.
In my other article 1 wrote OF
the vital importance of the milk
receiving station to the dairy far
mer. I also showed how the trust
(Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. thru Bordens
and the National Dairy Products
Co. are buying up all the market
outlets that they can get hold of.
At Plainsboro, n. J. is the iarg-
est dairy farm in the country own
ed by Walker Gordon Co., a Bor-
den subsidiary. Here a revolu-
tionary machine has just been de-
Veloped called the Rotolactor. 1t
milks and washes cows at the rate
Of 4 COWS a minute. It means the
doom of the small producer Of
milk, that is certain, but how is
this trust going to use this new
weapon?
The OrganizatiOnal idea of the
Walker-GOrdon system:
1. A farmer comes in as a pro-
Queer. He brings his producing
cows to the central farm. He still
OWNS the cows. The COWS are
placed in a separate barn for his
cattle alone. He must have 100
producing cows to make up the re-
quired unit, if he has not enough
cows the company arranges with a
bank for a loan to buy the requir-
ed amount. Very few farmers
own 100 cows, so practically ali
farmers must go into debt at
once.
2. The farmer must own OF
rent a farm within a 15-mile "a
dius of the central farm, where he
lives and care for those cattle OF
his unit that are not in produc-
ton (young stock and dry stockJ
8. The farmer sells his milk tC
the company but the company does
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
Conference to Build
Children's Movement
Held In Brentwood

Brentwood, visa conference
to build the workers children
movement, the Young Pioneers of
America, was held here Sunday.
Dec. 9th, at the Brentwood Work
ers Hall with the Communist Par
ty, the Young Communist League,
the Young Pioneers, the Labor
Sports Union and the Finnish
Workers of Owen and Brentwood
and the Finnish Women's Section
of Owen, Clifford and Brentwood
participating.
A United Front Committee to
carry out the decisions of the con-
ference was elected.
The points raised at the discus
sion were better guidance of the
children's movement, new methods
of work for children, summer
camps, drawing in children from
bourgeois organizations, school
work, and the New Pioneer maya
zine.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
w by Y. A. YakOvleV
lGS Peoples Commissar of Agriculture
Translated by Anna Louise Strong

Take the first five year pa
worked out by the planning
partment of the CommissarlaI 7
Agriculture of the R.S.F.SR y
chief authors were KondratleV y
Makarov. (Members Of ths
called Party of Working PsasAlIi
supporting the Kulak clemens
the village and working N CO
cooperation with the eOunter-is.
lutionary Industrial Party II
forming acts of sabotage aga.
the Five-Year Plan and N ne
tempt to bring about foreign - =,
tary INTERNATIONALLY II =
based upon analysis Of the -,
denotes of the actual spOntsan...',
expansion Of agriculture. y -,
based upon the suppOsition -
the same tendencies when =,
acterized the development :, ~
revolutionary farming "Ouiu
good for the present day. -
/ How brilliant" that n =,
was, the following facts snow nov. q
plan "foresaw" a soWn "a. "a ne
.252.5 million acres in 49, .,rr
actually had in 1929 ,ui.i
area of 300 million acres = .5us
of the extremely meageI houst.
tivity of the small peasan. iyvs
hold which is the dOminsI-s;, q
The plan "fOresaw" a supp ~
farm machinery for the ~, ooooOa
period to the value Of SiO' -
We actually supplied II
value of $s7O,OOO,OOO.
(TO be continued
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25
DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAIRY
TRUST IN THE ACRARIAN FIELD

the milking ION the Rotolactor1.
In other words, where formerly
the farmer sold his milk in a can
he now sells it while still in the
cow.
4. The company has complete
veterinary and sanitary control.
of s The farmer or his hired
man must come to the center sew
eral times daily to take care of
his unit of cattle, mainly feeding.
6. On his own farm away from
the center the farmer raises hay
and corn for silage which he
must sell to the company to be
stored at the center.
1. The farmer is put into debt
feed as he needs it for his cattle
in the center.
Some of the effects of this sys-
TEN are:
1. The farme ris put into debt
and can be left perpetually in
debt if the company so wills it.
2. The great obstacle (disease)
Of large scale corporation agricul-
ture, the national risk, is elimin-
ated by having the farmer GOWN"
the cows.
At present the trust is just
working this system with Is far
mers as an experiment. These Is
farmers are well satisfied because
they are being paid attractive
rates. As this system develops,
the trust will move in to other
dairy sections and build similar
centers. Farmers who will then
refuse Invitations" to join this
producing center will find the
trust thru ownership of the milk
stations and market outlets able
to force the farmer to give in or
stop selling milk.
When this system reaches a
certain stage of growth the trust
will be able to squeeze and exploit
the farmers as they never nave in
the past because they will have
almost complete monopoly.