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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
By RAYMOND CHAPTER fCOpyright. 1g3f. By United prcssl

New York, Nov 12-(UP)--Re- viewing confidence Is echoing through the canyons of Wall street. Feeling here is that the real turn-F ing point in the depression is immi- nent. if indeed 1t has not already arrived.
 Faces downcast during two of the blackest years in the nations economic history are lighting up.
 Here In the new money capital of the world, there-is anew enthu-' siasm and a conviction that good times are coming soon. Perhaps it is premature, for New York Is sub ject 10 quickly changing moods. But whether warranted or not the feeling exists.
 Four factors are most often sug. gested to account for this upswine in morale:
 1. Increasing stability of com, modity prices together with recent spectacular rises in wheat, cotton.
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JACK DEMPSEY IS
 MADE OFFER OF $lOO,0OO PURSE
Matchmaker of Boston Garden Will Pay That Sum to Have Him Meet Ernie SChaaf

Boston, Nov Match
 maker Billy Ames of the Boston
 Garden announced to-day he has
 offered Jack Dempsey $100.00O to
 meet Ernie Schaaf. Boston heavy
 weight, in an outdoor bout here
 next June.
 Ames said he discussed the pro- position with the former cham pion, who Is in Omaha, Neb, by
 long distance telephone last night land that Dempsey seemed inter- lested. Dempsey said he would Emeet. Ames in New ,York.sin two
 weeks for further discussion of the proposition.
 $100,000 or 37 1-2 per cent of the gate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
The Business Outlook
CASTAWAYS ARE RESCUED FROM
 STORMY SEAS
United States Mine Sweep CT Swan Takes II Men on Board--They Had Been Drifting for Many Days

Balboa, c. Z., Nov 12-(UP)- Eleven men who for days drifted belplessly in lifeboats on storm tossed Caribbean waters were res cued, alive. to-day by the United States mine sweeper, Swan.
 They had tossed about in their life boats since their steamer. the Baden Baden, was wrecked in one of the sudden storms of that trop- ical area.
 For days rescue had been near. Pilot Ormsbee of the Pan-Amer- ican Airways sighted the drifting .lifeboats last Saturday as he swung his big plane over the regular air course. He could make TO landing for rescue as the sea was churning high.
 He could but signal back to the frantic waving of the castaway. signifying he had seen them, and
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ONLY FRIENDLY !
 CALL SAYS GOV
 ALBERT RITCHI[E
Maryland Executive Is tin New York and Has: Scheduled Visit With.
 Alfred E. Smith

New York, Nov 12--(UPl-Gov- ernor Albert c. Ritchie of Mary land, mentioned for the democratic presidential, nomination, today in- sisted his scheduled visit to For mer Governor Alfred E. Smith was purely a courtesy cail," RitchIe satd he had come here to be the guest of Bernard Bafuch and to lecture on "The World Crisis" at tomorrow nights dinner of the Academy of Political Science
 The democratic group headed by Smith and John J. ltaskob, how ever, is regarded as ,favoring the candidacy of Ritchie over that oi Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt ol New York. .@< r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12

Alpine. N. J., Nov i2.-(UP)--- A man with $719 hank account who lived two months in n primi- tive cliff dwelling on Q narrow ledge 800 feet above the base of the Palisades has been discovered by state police. The cliff dweller was observed wandering about a guily-pltted stretch Of the reserva- ton, forbidden to trespnssers: Po. lice followed him to hls eyrie Vo feet below the ton of the clifi. |.
 The mans rude camp consisted of m old tnrpaulln. and worn
 comforter .4syith stale brend hnn cold potatoes for food. He saia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
HAD BANK ACCOUNT BUT MADE
 HOME IN PALISADES CLIFFS

he was David Testori, He had a bank book issued by the Farmers and Mechanics bank Of Middle town. Conn. Extended questioning brought only the claim that he had fsowery because he was "afrald of people in New York" All he took into retirement with him was q piece of string and q fish hook. three pairs of trousers but no un dergnrments. lie bnd no fire and no mcsGs of mnke.g one. He snld he had obtained food 10 camps along the edge Of tho nearby Hud- son rlpe~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
PROPOSES LAW TO
 FORBID USE OF ' !. .';:iALL.Cl|OSaIIElTIlclS
Women Made the Dry l. { Laws and It Is Only Fair
 to Give Them Bit of Their Own Medicine S

springaeid., III. Nov i2-1t tUP)--- So that Everybody will be vIclat- ing the law" State Senator J. o. Monroe to-day proposed law forbidding use of face powder and rouge. 70 Fs 2 @"Women brought about prchi- bition,", Monroe said, ''now they ought to get q taste of their own medicine. if we have prohibition of cosmetics, we'd have cosmetics bootleggers just like we have H. quor bootieggers and everybody will be violating the law"
 If prohibition of cosmetics fails, Monroe suggested that they De taxed. Men have to phy tax on cigarets. why not make the wom- er nay one on their rouge" the 1egislat0l' said.y .S@ i.,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
ROBOT PILOT ON
 AIRPLANES HAS
 BEEN PERFECTED

New York, Nov 12.--UP)-An automatic airplane pilot, a robot which relieves human pilots of a major part Of their duties. has been approved for use on com mercial air transports by the de- partment of commerce.
 The device was invented by the late Dr Elmer Sperry and his two sons. Elmer and Lawrence and is similar to the gyroscopic steam ship pilot long in use, It cor rects aliseffetts of air. currents and shifting weights in a plane, keep ing the craft on an even keel.
 Pilots stiIl will have to steer. take-off and land but the new automatic pilot is expected to help greatly in fog and darkness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
NIGHT SHIFTS IN
 LAWRENCE MILLS
 INCREASE FORCE
About ll,OOO Will Be at
 Work of the Total of 7. 10000 That Went on Strike

Lawrence, Mass, Nov 12. (UP)-
 Resumption of night shifts at several Lawrence woolen mills to-
 night was expected to result in re- turn of perhaps 1000 more opera ttves. increasing to nearly 11,000
 the, total of those back at work after the five-week strike.
 ; Others of the. 10000 not yet re- turned probably will be re-hired by next week, but several thousand face continued unemployment due to failure of the Pacific mills to reopen. Among the mills which were to. start. night, work were the Wood mill of the American Woolen company and the Arlington mills. The strikers returned. under a 10 per cent wage cut which they were protesting. 'iia ~s ct
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
DASHED THROUGH
 HOLE IN CLOUDS
 AND SAVED LIVES
One Passenger Slightly Hurt as Plane Was Hnr- tied Down to Farm in Ridgefield

Ridgefield. Conn, Nov. 12.- tUP).--A pilots skill avoided what might have been a serious airplane accident when 8 large cabin plane was forced by fog to land in a field here to-day. Pilot Merrill Abbott of Ridgewood, N. J., was unable to locate Danbury airport but found q hole in the fog over the property of Irving B. Conklin.
 Merrill swooped down into . short field but his brakes failed to hold on the wet grass and the plane sped toward stone wall. The pilot 'gave 1t the gun" and hopped the big ship over the wall into another field but straight into a tree. Thomas 0'Dowd, Jr., ahead was a pond. To save him. self and two passengers he crashed of Livingston. N. !. son of the owner of the plant. was slightly inc jured. Abbott and Joseph Delaney of Newark, N. J., escaped unhurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
OWEN D. YOUNG
 DENIES AGAIN HE IS CANDIDATE
Disappointed That People Won't Believe Him When He Insists on Keeping Name Out

Atlanta, Ga, Nov 12s-(UP)- owen D. Young has denied enl- phaticaliy any presidential aspira- tions in lettet received by Huber 1 F. Lee, editor of Dixie Business. Lee had written Young informing him he had been approached to head a south-wide movement to organize "Owen D. Young for President'' clubs and asked Young's reaction. Young, replied in part:
 "Time and again during the last few months have said would not promote my nomination for the presidency. l have said that ] have no desire or thought of en- tering politics under any circum. stances and my disappointment IS that people wh oseem to think ! am qualified for the presidency still persist in disbeiievins my state ments."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
Finland Drop the Present Dry ]. { LawNOw in Use

S Helslnsfors. Finland, Nov 12..-- iWP9 -+Modification of the Finnish prohibition law to permit beer and light wines has been recommended by the government committee which has been studying the liquor problem in Finland.
 The report probably will be made public this month.
 Beer of about 3h per cent and wine up to IF per cent were con- sidered likely of adoption.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12

Cambridge. Mass. Nov i2r-tUP) --The Greeks probably had . werd for it. hut the Romans must have caiied it just plain soup. So ib members of the Harvard ciassical club were stumped hy the appstlsa lng word "MuIiiRatawny" when they sought to translate the menu into the tongue lof Gicero duflnR . l.atin dlnner at Lsvsrest Hosse last night. le.f t
 They couldn't even coin on awkl ward phrase Co nurm0unt the difiI- euity, foF no two could agree ns to tho precise lngrsdlents of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
MACHINE GUN OF
 COAST GUARDS
 STOPPED RUNNER
Providence Speed D ca { Captured Last Night With a Cargo of Liquor Worth $50,00O

Woods Hole. Mass, Nov 12.- Halted by machine-gun fire. the 76-foot speedboat Jetaime of Provl- dence. R. l., with a liquor cargo valued at more than $5O.000, was captured by coast guards last night .2h miles off Sakonnet Light.
 The catch was engineered by Chief Boatswain's Mate Cecil Mc- Leod of the CG-813. which thrice opened fire with a machine-gun before stopping the rum runner. No one was wounded. Coast guards reported the confiscated craft, valued at $75,000, had approxi- mately 1,400 cases of choice liquors. including champagne, aboard, sF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
HARVARDD LATIN BANQUET WAS
 PUZZLED BY ''.MULLIGATAWNY"

soup in question., The difficulty was purely academic. for the club was unable to secure services of |a Latin.speaklnK waiter, and or- ders were given ln English. s
 It was decided that if the Ros mans had ahirrea eggs they would have called them Oya Turbata. and that they probably would have called sausage porous miraeulus. All converaation among the dinsrH wna eaFrled on in Latin, and enc scholar told soies froni juvennl. After deseFt the fb repaired Co the tower Of Lowell House where they Fead Lucian's poems aloud. 1p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
MRS MILLER DIVORCED

London. Nov i2.---(uP)---fUpl An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Melbourne to-day said Mra Keith Miller had been divorced. The divorce plea of the husband Of the famous aviator was erant. ed on tic grounds Of 6esartion. |. Mrs Miller recently has spent yir. tuaily all of her time in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
GOLDEN RULES ADOPTED FOR
 ALL CHICAGO BUSINESS GIRLS

I Chicago November l2 (UP) - golden rule for business
 Girls today by Phi P Psi Sorority business girls N organization.
 III The rules: -. sas H. iI Keep thin. The boss likes you better that way IN & Don't gum dgnifd silence is far preferable 4 Be time a-' IN Watch the ipstiek No likes look the IN of a murder iI Do what the the way he it. though III l,s ", he won't raise your salary I'M t Eat your spinach. Your cosmetic bill will be less IN Keep clean There's virtue like wslxfubbed neck N Kssp your mind yeur work It and pays snd III rsy M There no substitute for eight hours sleep. Get it. IN Dost gossip. The tongue longer than the sword
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
Late Bulletins
ROBBERS STOLE PRAYER BOOK

Ansonia Conn., Nov 12-(UP)-Thieves who broke into the home of Kenneth D. MacLean during the night stole six volumes of Shakespeare prayer book pack of cards a diamond ring and gold watch. qt-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
DECIDED OFFICE BY COIN

Elyria, O., Nov 12-(UP)-"Heads" was the lucky side of the coin for l. F. Diebrch and Elmer Portman candidates for township trustee jobs Deadocked with their respective opponents in the election the two chose heads" to-day when flip of the coin decided the tie vote in their favor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
STOLE CHICKENS FROM BLIND

Marion, O., Nov 12--(UP)--Mr and Mrs H. F. Bill are blind and raising chickens is one of the things they can do well. That's why police making added effort to find the thief who stole half of their large brood of chickens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
OLD BUDDY WAS THE DRIVER

Evansville, Ind, Nov 12-(UP)-CarI Rechert and Carl Schuerz had not met since they parted In France while serving with the A. E. F. Then Reichert walked out of the hospital where he being treated for war injuries and hailed taxcab. The driver Schuertz.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
SAME HORSE AFTER 40 YEARS

Tyngsboro Mass, Nov 12-(UP)-Forty years ago Ben Lawrence officially opened Tyngsboro bridge over the Merrmac river by driving horse and buggy across it. Yesterday new span, to replace the old one was dedicated and the horse and buggy that was first across carried Ben Lawrence aged 87.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
DRUNKEN HENS GAVE SECRET AWAY

Cambridge, Mass, Nov 12-(UPl-Intoxcated hens aroused the suspicious of police and they raded the East Cambridge Poultry companys establishment. A 6OO- gallon vat 400 gallons of liquor and 10000 gallons of mash were seized and four arrests made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
HAD TO BATHE IN BARREL

Ashland, Wis, Nov I2-(UP)-Gertrude Steln county presented her report the need of more efficient county health program She read letter she had received: Dear Madam can't give my children a bath until the sauerkraut barrel is empty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
WOULD.BE FIRST VOLUNTEER

Baltimore, Md Nov 12-(UP)-Had Jesus Christ lived in 1917 he would have been the first to volunteer in the American army, to gas mask, shoulder rifle and enter the trenches according to the Rev Dr T. Andrew Caraker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
FATHER ELECTED FROM CHURCH

Boston, Nov 12-(UP)-Miss MarmeIa de Pasquale, l9 and Alfonso Cerullo were being married at St An thonys church when the brides father attempted to stop the ceremony he had not consented to it. He eected from the church and the ceremony com peted.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Nov -UP)--The treasury net balance November 10 was s2i7.525. .o09.07.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-11-05
hard work done by the Libby boys will be
victory at Corvallis.
TIME TO FORGET THAT SCARE.

THE daily press the other day carried
/ report to the effect that because OF poor
crop the Soviet government would not ex-
port any more wheat and i'll fact, had been
caught by an advancing market and had
been forced to buy wheat at a higher price
to cover some Of her commitments. Later
reports are to the effect that the Russians
wifi not export any more wheat this year,
nor III 1892 All of which has been denied
BY Soviet authorities.
Whatever final results may prove the
truth to be III this regard, this report
coupled with adverse crop conditions else
where has started the price OF wheat climb
ing i'll America, with corn and dairy prod
ucts following suit to some1eXtent. 1t Is the
most hopeful thing that has happened for
some time. This increase III the price OF
grain means many additional millions OF
dollars III the hands Of the farmers, and
when the farmer has money. he will start
to buy and when he starts buying again, the
back of the depression will be broken. In
fact. many students of financial matters
think that fracture has already resulted
We know we are treading on dangerous
ground when we become SO bold as to
prophesy but already we see a letting III
of the Russian threat The Russian crop i
below expectations according to reports ant
it is said the Soviet government is going t(
convert more of their wheat into food fol
their own people. It's time to get over th'
scare Russia is not going to dominate thu
world Good and prosperous times VII
again be onr lot in due time.
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HERE'S HOPING AGAIN.

4 T the beginning Of the football season,
a this newspaper called attention to the
fact that it is no pink tea affair to develop
a championship high school football team;
that it requires much hard work, grit and
determination by the boys and coaches, that
the boy who makes the team must deny HIM
self much for the good of the team. That
editorial was closed with this remark:
"Here's hoping that the reward for that
hard work will be championship team this
fall"
A large part Of that hope has already been
realized So far the Libby team has had
very successful year. The boys have wor
the Northwest District championship fol
Class "B' schools This week they leave
for Corvallis to battle with another district
championship team. If the team wins there
and Libby is betting strongly on them
the boys will 60 into the state finals. Here;
hoping again that further reward for thu
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ATHEISM TO DOOM sOVIETS
by BISHOP RAYMOND J. WADE cMe,Aol,,i Episcopal.

FE present Soviet regime Russia by preventing the develop
of the religious aspect of life is laying foundation for
The educational system which has been developed
the Communists will be instrumental in causing their down
fail the lack of religious education Students who are being
the present eventually will find that all the
truth has not been revealed them they will know about
the religious spiritual phase of life.
inclination toward rel AMI M Ignoring It the
uneonscousy working toward another revolution e
very using educate people to Communism will result
IN trend toward different form government That opinion
present ruling class has not succeeded entirely in stamping out
hureng although persons who do attend church do so their
own ty reported they lose their apartments and Jobs and
when jobs gone they pay higher price for food
However the present ateste attitude OF Russia improvement
over te situation old church Russians living under tyr
amy but do is their tyranny and NOT that
of class rulers Conditions generally have improved Tor many
Russians but
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\ CHILD TO LIFE
IMPRISONMENT Is TOO SEVERE.

0NE must admit to 4 feeling that justice
~ lad been outraged when it was read
tie other day that 12-year-old Hubert Me-
oils had been sentenced to life imprisonment
by a Washington court for the murder OF
i sheriff. There i little doubt the lad Is
bad He had committed terrible deed.
Caught III robbing store he deliberately
shot and killed al officer OF the law. But
there were eNtenuating circumstances. he
is mere lad, raised by grandmother, al
lowed to fill lis mind with wild west anti
bloody tales.
We are inclined to think as does the
Rev. Fir. Flanagan, head of Father Flana-
CANS BOYS home OF Omaha, Neb. Fr. Elan
agan saws mo boy is criminal at heart.
We would say with special emphasis that no
| 12-year-old boy is. Fir Flanagan is a
rather good authority for he declares he has
saved more than 5000 boys during the past
Il years, without a single instance. the
Father says, of one Of his boys being III a
penitentiary after leaving the home. Father
! Flanagan gave voice to his Indignation with
these words:
'What travesty on justice to commit
la 12-year-old boy to life imprisonment and
i to speak Of hanging him when all OF the
/, crime commissions, special enforcement SO
I 1cieties and government prosecutors con-
/, graduate themselves upon sending such al
: arch criminal as al Capone to jail for i
! years. II the state Of Washington vii
) parole this boy to me, | will personally
/ supervise his education and his future &C
/ tivities." !,
: 1t appears the state Of Washington WI.
: strive to do its duty BY the boy He is to 3
5 given special care and will be educated 3.
Q instructors III the prison. No one denies
! was necessary to detain him III some plac
of detention The encouraging thing IS tina
if the misguided lad takes advantage OF III
opportunities and develops into worth
young man, he undoubtedly will be pa
J. doned. But what an awful thing it Woul
81 be to think that a mere boy, Il years Oh
. must spend the remainder OF long llfe D
|: hind prison walls.
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paid the assembly the courtesy of a

paid the assembly the courtesy of a
visit
A cold and an inflamed eye inter
fered at the time with his projected
ride to Lexington, scene Of the first
bloodshed in the Revolution. He struck
out along Boston's famous North
Shore" through Lynn, Salem and
Beverly, in each of which towns he
paused to be shoJn through textile
mills and to receive enthusiastic at
tentions. From Newburyport he went
to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where
he had the pleasure of being welcomed
by his old comrade in arms, General
Sullivan. then chief executive of the
state
He visited Exeter, New Hampshire
and Haverhill, Massachusetts, From
there he passed through Andover, and
at last satisfied himself with the de-
! layed visit to Lexington. On the way
back through Connecticut he went out
/ of his way to call on another old COM
rade of the Revolution, "Old Put
otherwise General Israel Putnam, but
found him at too great distance off
the road. and SO missed this pleasure
On November Is he was back in New
York, rejoining Mrs. Washington,
whom he found in good health, and
the Government functioning in good
order. In one month less two days this
most indefatigable traveller of his time
had finished his first Presidential tour,
richer than before in popularity and
himself the gamer by knowledge OF
the people.
J. Next year It will be just 143 years
!. since President Washington made this
: tour Of New England. It is to be hoped
that in 1882, when the whole nation
celebrates the Two Hundredth Anniver-
sary of His Birth every New England
city that he then visited will re-enaci
the scene or otherwise mark the oc-
casion, as part of the tribute which the
entire world will then render to the
greatest American and one of the loft
lest figures in human history.
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of equal Importance with freedom OF the
press. The two have been SO long enjoyed
here that the average person gives little
thought to their vital Importance. But how
would one like to live in Italy where Mus
solini has issued decree that all educators
must subscribe to an oath one feature OF
which is,that they must swear allegiance TO
the facist regime? Failing to 50 swear, they
arc TO he discharged. Some Of Italy's most
outstanding educators-men who attract
world attention by their brilliancy-ha
announced they will not subscribe to such
an oath and will leave their positions IN old
and famous universities.
That's liberty in Italy under dictator