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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
WOMAN SUES FOR LOSS OF RIGHT ARM
Fred s. Smith
 at Y Forum
Addressed Meeting on
 Ups and Downs of Business

Fred S. Smith of the American Brass Company opened the series of Y Forums on Unemployment with a talk at the Central Y last night on "Ups and Downs in Bus iness." Using a large chart for illustrative purposes he traced the alternate periods Of depression anu proseprity in this country from 1860 to the present time. We are now in the secondary post war de- pression.
 A similar depression after the Civil war lasted six years, but the severity of the present depression lends nope that it may be terml- mated earlier. Mob psychology IS the underlying cause tor both over inlaltion and excessive deflation, said the speaker. Either all the people buy at once, or they don't buy at all. According to the mood we are prosperous or depressed.
 Last nights forum was the first of series entitled, Proposed Roads to Economic Security" Friday, December 4, Attorney Max R. Traurig will discuss Economic Planning" December II, "Regu- larized Employment" will be the subject. George J. Scott, on De- cember IS, will present the case for Unemployment Insurance" On December 30, "Old Age Pen sions' will be the topic and on January 6, the relation of "Charac- ter and Prosperity" will be taken up.
 These forums are open to all Y members and all unemployed, or partially employed men who want to keep thinking through to a so- lution of our economic problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
COuntee Cullen
 Forum Speaker
Famous Negro Poet to Be Heard Here Tomorrow
 Night

Countee Cullen, famous negro poet, who is making a short lec- ture tour under the management of w. Colston Leigh. Inc. will lecture under the auspices of the Forum at Second Congregational church on Sunday, November goth. at 7:3O o'clock and will speak on Days and Nights in Harlem"
 MT Cullen was born in New York city and is the adopted son of the Rev r. A. Cullen minister and founded of the Salem M. E. church. He was educated in the public schools of New York city. De Witt Clinton high school and New York university. In March. 1925. he was elected to Phi Beta Kcpra and in the fall entered Harvard univer- sity to take a degree of Master of Arts, concentrating on English lit- erature.
 Mir Cullen's first verse was pub lished in "The Bookman" and was called "To Brown Boy" Later he published verse in Hampers" "The American Mercury" Century" "Nation." and in "The Coming Tower" r. P. As column in The World"
 When MT Cullen first began to write he was very much influenced by and was a great admirer of Ten nyson. Tennyson has since been supplanted by Edna St Vincent Millay, Housman, Robinson and Keats. Mir Cullen is essentially an emotional and lyrical poet. His only present tendency towards free verse is in experimental attempts and he finds himself more and more inclined towards the more rigid forms. Most things I write,' he says, "I do for the sheer love of the music in them. A number of times I have said I wanted to be a poet and known as such and not as negro poet. Somehow or other, however. I find my poetry of itself treating of the negro. of his joys and his sorrows-mostly of the latter. and of the heights and depths of emotion which feel as a negro"
 MT Cullen also was a winner of the Guggenheim Memorial Foun- dation and has just returned from his year in Paris. Some of his most popular books are Color" "Copper Sun," "Caroling Dusk" and "The Ballad of the Brown Girl"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
City Will Appeal
 the $5,OOO Verdict
Defendant Not Satisfied With Award for Death
 of Boy

The city of Waterbury is plan- ming to appeal to the supreme court of errors the $500 verdict re- turned against 1t in favor of Fil- berto Capozzi for the death of his boy. The verdict was returned several weeks ago by a superior court jury.
 The same verdict gave $200 to the estate of the Capozzi boy, Ben- jamin, who died allegedly form in- juries he received when he fell on a stake driven in the, ground on Drayer avenue. The city will not ap- peal the $200 verdict
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
The West Haven
 School Board Town Paid Penalty for Neglect to Carry Out
 Contract

The end of a long fight which started last spring when the West Haven school board awarded a con- tract for the construction of an eight-room addition to the Forest street school to Frank P. Sullivan, East Haven contractor came yes- terday, when a board of arbitra- ton, named to settle Sullivan's claim against the school board after the school district had voted to cancel Sullivan's contract. granted Sullivan $39.745.50. Sullivan had threatened to- bring suit for breach of contract against the school board and the board of arbitration was named to settle the case without recourse to the courts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Divident of 50 Cents A
 Share Voted Yesterday

At the quarterly meeting of the directors of the Scovill Manufac- turing company held yesterday aft ernoon a dividend of fifty cents a share was voted. payable on Jan uary 1 to stockholders of record, December 15.
 Payment of this quarterly divi- dend by the local firm sets at rest rumors that have been heard throughout the city that it would not be voted at to-day's meeting. It is an indication of a firm trend in local manufacturing circles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Community Club To
 Hold Christmas Parry

At the meeting of Washington Park Community club last night it was voted to hold the usual Christ. mas porty this year for the chil. dren. A committee was appointed to plan for suitable entertain. ment. It was stated that an effort muct be made to maintain the Christmas spirit among the chil. dren, and that it would be mis- take to let the festival pass by without a fitting reminder of the event for the benefit of the chil. dren, who fortunately for them celves, are not worrying over the period of depressions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
FREE TOBACCO FOR
 HOSPITALS IS URGED

Washington. D. C.-The Amerl- can Legion will continue it's fight to bring about the issuance of to- bacco and cigarettes to hospitalized veterans as a therapeutic measure. The proposal will be presented to congress either in the Legion's gen. eral bill for extensions in the present law, or as rider in some appropriation measure, according to Watson B. Miller. national re- mobilization chairman. Free is- suance of cigaretets to hospitalized veterans has been advocated by the legion for the past thre or four years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
EXTRA FARE PLANE

Washington-An "eXtra fare airplane, operating on the same principal as the "extra fare' pas senger trains. has been added to a line between this city and New York. Refunds will be made if the plane is behind schedule, and for this fast service the passenger jays a small additional cost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Mail Boxes Get
 Annual Coat Paint
Letter ReceptacIes Winter.ProOfed -P. 0. Awaits
 Christmas Rush

The post offices 150 mail boxes, located around the city, are receiv- ing their annual coat of paint and will be completed in about three more days. They are then ready to go through the rigors of the winter being watertight and able to withstand continued rain and snow with no harm to the mail.
 The weather, no matter how severe it may be, has no bear ing on the collections at the boxes, it was said at the post office. The boxes are opened at regular inter- vals during the day and early eve ming, the exact hour being listed on the boxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Mayor Hays To Turn
 Switch At 5 O'Clock

This afternoon at o'clock. Mayor Frank Hayes will throw" the switch in his office at the city hall which wifi cause thousands of lights to blaze on the miles of wire strung about the business section of the city. The installation of this Christmas decoration was complet- ed yesterday afternoon and was given a trial last evening. It will remain in action until after the first of the wear,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28

First snow fall of the season yes- terday witnessed a revival of lit- tie game of Find the Buttons" Around noon hour when the initial storm started in real earnest Pat rolman Walter Overton started on a fast ride about the city collect ing buttons" those little steel discs that are silent reminders to drivers to keep to the right in mak- ing a turn. The discs, painted yell low and resembling big buttons have been located at principal in- tersections of the city. They have replaced the warning sigrs of rub Der, the wooden posts and even red
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Mrs. Pearl Mel Call !.
 Asks $25, 900 Of l
 Gasoline Dealers
E. J. Wissman of Torrington and A. X. Wissman of West Haven Defendants Plaintiff Claims Blow on Arm Caused Infection and Amputation Was
 Necessary Argument Involved Payment of Bill

plaintiff to apply the payment of the corn to the alleged bill for gas and oil.
 When the argument started the plaintiff claims the defendant abused her and struck her about the face, body and arm several times. The case is drawn by At torney Vincent A. Miller of Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28

Many of the boxes about Ex change place have already beer printed and look resplendent il their new coating of thick browr paint.
 Everything at the post office il being speeded up in anticipation. Oi the Christmas rush. Additional men will be hired, married men beina given the preference by authori: ties.
 This is the first Christmas in the new location and it is expected thai. next year, the rush will be taken care of in the new building on Grand street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
CASE SETTLED
 OUT OF COURT

The S2.OO0 damage suit of James Cialeila against the Lombard Bros. Transportation Co. has been settled out of court. It was all set fer trial in the common pleas court. The pinnitiff received injuries when the car in which he wns riding was struck by the defendants on the Southington mountain on June IF.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
Police Collect
 Traffic Buttons
Arrival of Snow Brings End to Months of Service on
 City Streets

lights. An autoist in making sharp turn usually feels jolt fl a wheel of his car comes into com tact with the discs. It has ten- dency to keep him to the extreme right.
 The seasons first snow fall is ths official signal to take in all discs for the season. Accompanied by ar assistant and with a truck Officer Overton made fast ride about the city picking up the buttons They will be taken out of service until spring returns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-28
FIRST-AID STATION.

Alliance, Ohio-One of the first highway first t-aid stations in the state has been tablished on the Alliance Minerva road at Yeagley's Corners by the c. c. Weybrecht Post 166 of the American Legion.
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to make a special study Of the situation.
Maj. A. M. Holcombe of the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association, Is its
chairman.
Maj. Holcombes report, after taking
in all phases of the airport situation,
reached the conclusion that until the
Government has settled the question
of what it is likely to do with regard to
permanent airport development in the
District of Columbia, it would be i'm
practicable for private interests or citi-
zens' bodies to proceed with carrying
cut their own plans at this time.
Anxiety was expressed that the rapid
increase of flying here would soon
neceSSitate public action.
1892 Bicentennial Cited.
The approaching 1892 Washington
Bicentennial celebration, when more
than a million visitors are expected in
the National Capital, gave rise to ex-
pressions that Congress should give
early consideration at its next session
either to plans for taking over the two
airports on the Virginia side of High
way Bridge or else take steps whereby
those fields could be more closely con-
solidated by the private interests oper-
ating them.
1t was pointed out that the Washing
ton-Hoover Airport is now one OF the
most active in the United States in the
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chemical analysis Of the organs to de-
termine whether they contained poison.
But today Assistant Medical Exam
liner Gonzales said: There is no
chance the girl died of anything but
natural causes. Bruises found on her
body were superficial and could have
been caused by falling out of bed,
which might have happened TO her be-
fore she came to Bellevue in q critical
condition from pneumonia"
The chemical analysis of the organs
will be continued, however.
Another lead" in the Vivian Gordon
murder mystery dissolved into thin air
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number Of passengers and commercial
planes operating daily, and also in the
number of short hops taken by sight
seers. Reports from both fields indicate a
steadily increased use of their facilities.
1t was quite natural to expect that the
volume of flying would increase ire
mendously during the year-round BIZ
centennial celebration, the report sug-
gested, and interest in this phase of
the situation, with resulting needs de-
veloped at the meeting to meet it.
The two airportS. operating under
different management, are separated
only by the Military road leading to
Arlington National Cemetery. One of
the proposals involved in connection
with their ultimate consolidation is the
acquisition of some of the land now
utilized as the Government Expert
mental Farm Acquisition of sufficient
acreage Of this farm, it was said. would
provide a runway of ample length and
breadth to meet any future airport
needs of Washington.
But until Congress does something, 1t
was pointed out in the report, private
hands are tied in the matter.
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today George Hennessey, alias Teddy
Spanish, who named 10 police two men
he said committed the murder, broke
down and admitted he connected the
story in the hope Of selling 1t to news
papers.
Vivian Gordon, who accused Patrol
man Andrew @. Mclaughlin of framing
her on vice charge in 1923, was
strangled to death on February as and
her slayers are still at large.
Under the name of Violet Smith, Miss
Dickens was taken to the hospital last
Friday from a West Seventy-second
street apartment, allegedly suffering
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from bruises and other ailments. She
was identified by John A. Marley. an
attAche of the district attorneys office.
AS Georgia Gray, she testified in the
perjury trial of Patrolman Leigh Hal
perrin, who was acquitted, and was under
$1,000 bond to appear against his part
ner, Daniel Sullivan. The policemen
were associates of Harry Gibson, stool
pigeon, she said. and had paid him to
play the unknown man" act in en-
trapping women. Gibson previously
jumped $500 bail in Baltimore and is
still missing
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AIRPORT NEED HERE
URGED BY CITIZENS
Interfederation Conference
Seeks Improvement of Fields
Before 1882 Fete.

Questions affecting the development
of an adequate municipal airport with
its relation to the metropolitan area of
washington were discussed, without
reaching any decision in the absence of
definite knowledge as to congressional
plans, at a meeting of the lnterfedera-
ton Conference held last night in the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building.
The basis for the discussions was a
report submitted on behalf Of a subcom-
mittee Of the Interfederation anpointed
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The girls grandmother. Mrs. n. E.
Doolittle, said in Augusta, Ca, that
Miss Dickens had written her for money
several months ago. saying she wanted
to return home because she was "tired
of the crowd am running with" She
was informed of the death In q tele-
gram signed only III G. Barber" she
is on the way here to claim the body.
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PNEUMONIA KILLS
|NFORMER ON VICE
Death of New York Dancer
Who Testified in Probe
Is Investigated.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 17-Authorities
denied today there was any possibility
of foul play in the death of second
woman vice graft witness.
Miss Lucia Dickens, red-haired girl,
who danced under the name, Georgia
Gray, died Saturday night in Bellevue
Hospital after an illness Of four days.
Though the cause originally was dag
nosed as pneumonia. Or. Charles Norris,
chief medical examiner, ordered a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Licorice is used in many medicines
and other commodities, the total gather
ing being about l00, 200, 900 pounds an
nllallv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

There are abount 10000 Christian
Endeayor Societies, with more than
1000 900 members.
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OHIv a Brooks Anniversary
could offer such smart fashions
and such large selections at this
special IOaC price.
Evening star., 1931-12-06
W0Men In G0Ue,11nzent SeyUiCe

OF home building following out an idea he
had in mind long before he entered the White
House; one he had often discussed with one
OF his Commerce experts, DR.. John M. Cries,
chief Of the division of building and housing,
who has spent lifetime studying home prob
lens.
Naturally, women of exceptional value
on the committees of this conference, because
the women are the ones who know intimately
the homes needs and who have added to their
natural feminine instinct for homemaking ex-
pert knowledge Of the subjects of home plan
ming and home management.
"A large number of women, therefore have
been asked to serve on the various committees,
and on several of these there is preponder-
ance Of women. Among them are: Miss
Frances l.. Swain, DR.. Louise Stanley, DR.. Lii
liam Gilbreth, Mrs. William Brown Meloney,
Mrs. John F. Sippel, Miss Gertrude Lane, Mrs.
William F. Lake, Mrs. Hugh Bradford and Mrs.
Henry Ford all serving on the Planning Com
mittee; Miss Efie Raitt, chairman Of the Com
mittee on Household Management; Miss Ruth
Lyles Sparks Of New York City, chairman Of
the Committee on Home Furnishing and
Decoration; Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, of
Cornell University, who heads the Committee
on Homemaking; Miss Abby Harlott chair
man Of the Committee on Kitchens and Other
Work Centers; Miss Harlean James, who
serves as chairman Of the Committee on Or
ganization Programs. Local and National, and
Miss Pearl Chase Of Santa Barbara, Calf, who
serves as chairman Of the Committee on Home
Information Centers with Miss Helen Atwater,
ofncial OF the Home Economics Association,
with headquarters at Washington, as her vice
chairman.
These women, of course, are not, strictly
speaking, connected with my department. but
they are vitality connected with my work as
chairman OF the conference upon which they
are serving, and there Is feminine touch that
will add more happiness and lasting content
ment to the lives Of our people than any
other single piece Of work, perhaps, now being
done In the field of commerce or economies"
tCopyright, 1931)
Evening star., 1931-12-06
This Is One of
The StarNaga-
zine s Fust-Run
Stories -AH0ther
nil BE featured
Next Sunday.

= M just kid cab driver from Pittsburgh
which is between New York and st. Louis
and don't know much yet, but am learn
ing a lot, because you can't be cab
/ driver at night in New York if you come
from Pittsburgh or anywhere / guess with
out learning lot, especially about women. But
why they always want to be calling you up
and running their fingers through your hair
I never found out yet, even if you are 20 and
husky and have wavy hair, dammit
$50, because you're not cab driver, but try
b drive you3 own car and never had the same
chance 1 did to life they say, and peo-
pie being themselves, especially women, 1
thought I'd tell you about some of my expert
ences and at the same time improve myself, be-
cause Miss Young, she's a teacher 1 met, says
you improve yourself by using proper words
and so if you can't improve yourself who can,
and what's the use of anything?
So came to New York after 20 years as an
orphan in Pittsburgh which long enough
and not having any money, but needing job
I decided to do what 1 know now how to do,
drive car.
So asked taxi driver how to get job in
New York If you don't know the streets and
don't have New York reference. He said say
nothing about the first and for a couple of
bucks I'll give you file full of the second,
which I did and he did. But stay out of
Brooklyn" he said, because it's better to play
safe in New York and stay empty than lost in
Brooklyn and full" Dutch, he said his name
was and he tried me out and then took me
around to see Mr.. Carter VITO the big boss,
and that's how I got the job.
Well, for few nights / got along all right
and then about the next night when / reported
for work out of clear sky, as you might say,
/ stepped into trouble. Because Mr.. Carter
had asked for me to say he was pleased with
how was doing for green hand, which part
was all right, but his wife was there because
they were going somewhere together.
She was beautiful all right, with such blue
eyes and creamy hair, but she started looking
me over from behind Mr. Carter's back some
thing women don't do SO plain like that but
men look women over SO plain you want to slap
them down. was very much embarrassed and
could feel my face getting red, don't that make
you mad though? Mr.. Carter noticed my face
and smiled when he said, YOU'RE nice kid
Cooley, but watch out for the girls" He didn't
know the half of it, as they say and / didn't
either, because had just seen the lady once
but what's the use of arguing with the boss,
so got out OF there
Evening star., 1931-12-06

meet your bosom companions, though there's |
no law against it, but anyway they call it a !,
club. But whatever they call it, thousand
places like that in the Forties and Fiftes are
no place to take your girl or wife or anybody
else's
Anyway, this couple was only half on their
feet I mean the lady was walking, and the
gentleman, too, to keep from falling, but
maybe you don't know how it's done. We got
him in and home, but carried him upstairs
and in the light she was beautiful. After she
put him away we had some talk and a little
to eat and little Of the private stock she
brought along for him next morning
Anyway, I was to meet the lady next day
about something important she said-a new
Job it was-and left and not walking couldn't
walk home on the clouds, as they say, but
driving, I felt like I was driving through the
milky way. And, sure enough, was because
I hit a milk wagon and got sprayed all over,
and it's good thing, guess, when your heads
in the clouds to keep your feet, or if you're
in cab, your wheels, on the ground.
Next day was dressed up my best and tried
once more to straighten my hair out, but made
1t worse again, but when Claudine saw me
she said "Clem, you look wonderful" and I
said the same thing, because she did I never
saw any one look more wonderful, and she was
a real lady, too, and was very proud to b.
her friend.
Claudne said they just got back from Palm
Beach and hadn't taken the car out yet and
needed chauffeur and Il want you" Her \
husband was named Royal.
I moved to nice hotel by the garage asn1
a friend from Pittsburgh Phil Neal, was lvil
there, too. He was little wild back in Pit
burgh, but had come to New York and settl
down, he said, in Wall Street, and I thougi
by that he must of reformed to be in Wal
Street. I invited him up one night and nd
asked where did I get it, and before long n
told him all about it, and after that we were
close friends. even closer than In Pittsburgh
He said he'd give all the inside dope and
I'd make killing and could maybe marry
Claudine if Royal didn't reform too, but good
tips are scarce but being such friends he was
glad to tip me off for nothing
I carried Royal upstairs lot because he
drank 1t like he was still trying to drink it all
up, like when prohibition first started, and did
it, except what Claudine hid, which was not
easy around a lot of servants who didn't drink
a drop in their reference. Winnie who was
Claudine's maid helped hide it and a little
extra for me, and by that time I knew for
sure Winnie liked me, which I couldn't under
stand why. And she wouldn't take drop
when she delivered it, but begged me to get
.aaot-er position.