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The Omaha guide., 1932-09-03

A low racy roadster SID 10 an
abrupt stop in front of the Hotel
Imperial in Fairview and a hand
some clean cut young man got out.
A bell boy took his bags and a gar
age attendant drove off in his car.
Inside the hotel he wrote, pete
Wilson, Washington, De-" on the
register in a large masculine
Scrawl.
Call me about eight this eve
ming" he instructed the desk man.
YES sir, Mr.. Wilson," that in
dividual replied in his best hotel
manner. rs that ALP"
well" Fete favored him with a
wide diSarming grin, IF you can
think of anything else that will
help, do that, too"
Another wise guy" the desk
man muttered to himself, watch
ing Pete follow the bell boy to the
elevator.
After arranging his things to suit
him. Pete poured himself a stiff
drink from a choice bottle of
Scotch. THE Chief sure gave me
a job this time" he unused half
aloud, recalling his mission there
in FairvieW.
Wilson" the Chief had said,
there's a gang of shady charac-
tiers working in Fairview. I have
reasons to believe that they are run
by Paul Carlson, who runs the
Black and Tan roadhouse there.
Find out their racket. Go about
it in your own way, but 1 want
them cleaned out"
So here he was. Pete Wilson, of
the International Detective Agency
of Washington, DC, confronted
with the task of cleaning out a
shady racket. He smiled grimly,
Il guess I'm in for some fun-or
something" he added.
Pete left the hotel about eight
thirty that evening and walked
down into the section of the town
where the theatres were located.
Since it was rather early yet, he
decided to go in one of them.
His eyes fell ON a pretty girl in
one of the boxes. Now Pete had
seen plenty of pretty girls in his
life. But never in all his twenty
seven years could he remember
having seen a girl like the one he
was gazing at now. "Phew!" he
exclaimed to himself, what an
angel! 1 wonder if that's her old
man with her?"
Turning to a youth beside him,
he asked. Say, bud, do you know
that girl and man up there in the
first box?"
Sure. The girl is Sally Wright
and the man is Paul Carlson" the
youth replied. turning his attention
20 the girl on the seat beside him.
Paul Carlson, eh?" Pete unused.
$50 that's the guy I'm supposed
to get interested in. Well, I don't
believe I'm going to like Carlson
but Miss Wright and / should get
along fine"
During the rest of the show Pete
sat gazing at the girl. He was try
ing hard to figure out some way
of meeting her. At the same time
he was telling himself that at last
he had found the real answer to
all his romantic dreams.
The show ended and he drifted
out with the crowd, hoping to
catch sight of her again in the
lobby.
Finally he saw her. She was
standing over in one corner as if
h were waiting for someone. Pete
began to shove through the crowd
in her direction praying ferventiy
The Omaha guide., 1932-09-03
Is. o~" ILLUSTRATED FEATURE sECTIoN-september B., 1882
BY WILLIAM NJ. JOHNSON

Pete Wilson, detective, has been
given an assignment to clean out
the Carlson gang, Fairyiew's best
organized rscketeers. First, however,
Pete had to meet Sally Wright, soft,
and high brown.
johnson throws together a smart
detective, q brown girl, and a gang
of racketeers, stirs them all up and
the result Is the exciting
"ROADHOUSE RACKET"
The Omaha guide., 1932-09-03

"a sign that read:
THE BLACK AND TAN CLUB
P. Carlson, Prop.
well, here we are" Carlson
said, getting out and helping Sally
out. What do you think Of this
|location?"
"Ain't bad" Pete replied.
They went inside.
An orchestra sat at one end Of
the big room. Tables and booths
extended around the walls in a
horseshoe shape, leaving a fairly
|darge dancing space in the center.
Soft colored lights hung from
brackets on the walls, giving the
room a pleasant blend of coloring.
Already there was a fairly large
crow din the room. Blacks, browns,
|yellows and here and there a white
couple sat apparently enjoying
themselves as much as their darker
brethren and sisters.
Pete followed Sally and Carlson
to a booth and seated himself in a
chair. The Black and Tan Club,
from what he could see, seemed to
be a very popular place.
"Well, whatll it be?" Carlson
asked, leaning back in his chair
and lighting a big black cigar.
Ginger ale for me-" Sally said.
Milk" Pete said.
"What?" Carlson exclaimed al
most falling backward in his chair.
The waitress too seemed to be
on the verge of a collapse.
Sally was looking wonderingly at
Pete, who seemingly unmindful Of
it all, vas gazing innocently at the
orchestra.
what did you say?" Carlson ask
ed again, leaning forward SO as to
catch every word.
Pete looked at him family sur
prised. Milk" he replied, you
know, COW fruit"
The waitress giggled.
Carlson pulled out a large silk
handkerchief and mopped his brow.
Bring me plenty of rye" he or
|dered, land this-See that he gets
hiS-er-milk."
With their respective drinks be-
fore. them, they talked on different
things in general. But from the
now and then, Pete knew there was
something else more important that
Carlson wanted to talk about.
Finally Pete asked Sally to dance.
He forgot all about Carlson, when
he was dancing with her. "You
know" he said, "you don't look as
Though you are the kind of girl
that comes to a joint like this
loften."
II don't come here often" Sally
Smiled. .
Good" Pete said emphatically.
"And why do you say that?"
she asked looking up in his face.
You're turning out to be exact
ly the kind of girl I've been
dreaming about"
You're crazy" Sally said laugh
lngly. But her laugh was a little
uncertain.
Back at their table, a big dark
heavy set man was sitting talking
to Carlson. He was introduced to
Pete as being Sam Jones.
Sally excused herself and went to
join some friends at another table.
Instantly Carlson's oily
disappeared. "All right, Wilson,
what's the gamer" he asked sud-
denly.
what game?" Pete inquired in
.nocently, slipping his milk.
"C'mon, bo," Jones said, leaning
on the table and looking
Idarkly at Pete. Were wise t. va"
Yeah" Carlson added, I'VE
know you're here to try to put
something on us. What's it all
'about?" 4
WELL" Pete said suddenly, put
ting his empty glass on the table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
Here, There And EDerysDhere

Head, Gadpouch. Donkeyville, Burritt, Chickadee Valley. Between the Rivers. B al lahack, Isinglass District. Gotts. Johnny Cake. John Tom Hill, Joshuatown. Kasson, Kongs Cut, Horse Neck. Good Hill. Lovely Street, Meekertown, Nine- veh, Nonnewaug,. Poquog, Nod. Number Five, Otrabando Road. Pacowset, Pamaecha. Pepper Box Hill, Pequotsepos, Pitch. Puckshire Rixtown. Sc h agticoke. shippee. Shumoc, w a,p ping, Hockanum, Hill, Shuchuck, Skogorat, Sparks. Quauqua, Stockings Corner, Sun- capaugh, Terramuggus, Vexation, Wamphassuc. w k e eepeemee, Winnipauk, Whisconeer, Whistle town, Snipsic, Siam, Toddy Hill, Tokeneke, U m D waug. Titicus, Squash Hollow, Success, Susanville,s Tashua, Tater Hill. F a ceable, Pimperwaug, Portipaug, Pontoosuc Puddletown. Puffingham, Podunk. Pootatuck, Plum Trees, Old We'll, Lime Kiln, Guinea District, Gum gey, Kenosia, Compo, Obtuse. Oc- cum. Panum, Pegville, Purgatory. Quadic, Queach, Ratlum. Tebtown, Wicket Lane, Wig Hill, Wequetes quock and Yellow Schoolhouse.
 Connecticut has her share of obscure hamlets and of quaint place names. From Ekonk to Bridgewater, whether toward Men, unkatuc or Scitico. the woods are full of them. M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
If You Needed Isabel, You'd
 Soon Get Her

Isabel was an English girl who was gifted with--or, may be, af- fiicted by--such q strong desire to
 makeother people happy that she got herself a dreadful reputation. Isabel had only to find out that & man needed her-really, honest
 to-goodness needed her-and she
 would be his. Since she was just
 thetype that lots of men need, her
 career. if deplorable, was at least eventful.
 She is presented in the novel, I "Isabel," by Gerald Gould, and
 despite the fact that the author
 bears Q distinguished reputation
 theb 5ook seems to me to be noth- ling you need worry over very
 much.
 To be sure, it isn't cheap, even ! if the above resume does make 1t sound that way. MT Gould has con-
 trived to put a lot of intelligent,
 thoughtful comment on people and
 events into his book, and it is not
 in any sense a sexy thriller. But
 somehow, it seems a pretentious
 fake.
 Isabel starts out by marrying.
 whilein her early twenties, an aging drunkard at the same mo-
 mentthat her sister, Rosaniund.
 marries his son. Presently the
 drunkard dies, and Isabel becomes themistress, successively, of an ed-
 itor and an arty sort of critic. Then
 shemarries . financier, becomes
 the mistress of a politician and ul- timate1y brings about a cash that
 overwhelnas practically everybody. Mir Gould never makes you believe
 in her or in the importance of the people whose lives are entangled with hers.
 "Isabel'' is published by Brew l CT, Warren and Putnam. and costs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
Split Atoms

Five atoms have been split. Energy enough to blow up the world. scientists used to say, would be released if ever the cruel deed were done. But Fritz Lange and Arno Brash of Berlin. have done it and the world yet stands They used a current of 2,500,- 900 volts. splitting an atom of aluminium, transforming it into helium. They gained an energy equal to that of 8,000.000 volts in the process, thus multiplying the total energy by more than three. They then. just to prove they could really do it, split atoms of boron. sodium, glucinum (known as berylium) and lithium. These were trans formed into other substances.
 At Princeton university, Dr. Robert J. Van De Graaff of the Palmer Physical laboratory is preparing apparatus which he hopes will generate l5,000.000 volts He expects to smash whole armies of atoms when he gets that built. His present ma chine, which generates but paltry l.500,-
 900 volts, cost only about S90, so he thinks the cost of the greater apparatus will not be prohibitive. Especially as physicists have been maintaining that there is enough atomic energy in thin dime to drive a large steamship across the ocean. It looks, how ever, as if 1t might be quite while before atomic energy were utilized to the point of keeping every body comfortable and pros- porous on an hour or two of work week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1882
Roosevelt and Garner

Fi II IS 100 DdQ tIldt tLe HOHllHdtiOH VI !: Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor of New < {. York. had to be accomplished by a political 2 deal. which brought the nomination for vice. president to John Nance Garner of Texas ea Sepaker of the House of Representatives. < Most of the delegates to the national con- vention must have realized that Friday night when William Gibbs McAdoo, with aIthe greatest of pleasure, and William Ran Z 1olph Hearst, with similar sentiments turned the Garner votes they controlled over to Roosevelt thus insuring his nomination and preventing the allied Smith forces from {. .deadlocking the convention any longer Q We hope that nobody is deceived into believing that Mir McAdoo shuddered at the thought of another deadlock such as he and former Governor Smith engaged in in 1924. Never was there provided for one political figure more suitable opportunity of knif- ing his opponent. In the days of the Roscoe Conklin-James c. Blaine feud their bitterness carried them to the point where each sought the political death of the other. That certainly was what Mir MeAdoo was mining at in this convention. He seized his opportunity and as result we are face io face today with ticket that may lose every advantage that the democrats have gained in the last four years and by their repeal declaration of last week.
 We have no intention of stirring up irter-party strife, but we cannot help but react to the stated opinions of other demo- crats in this section of the nation. And they are inimical to MT Garner. There IS apparently nothing wrong with the man himself, save that he comes from the wrong sseton of the country This in itself is no indictment. But just look at the faults that people sin this tolerant nation of ours found with the 1928 candidate. Sores still rankle They were reopened Friday night by the vindictiveness of William G. MeAdoo.
 Speaking impersonally the ticket of Roosevelt and Garner is far to be preferred to that of the present incumbents - Hoover and Curtis. In fact. if we were to rank these four citizens for their value to the United States we would certainly place the president at the end of the list Harsh. perhaps, is this criticism, maybe it's even unjust, but we know there are lot of peo- pleswho hold the same opinion and If we are wrong we certainly will have plenty of company The qualifications of Messrs Roosevelt and Garner are too well known to all of us to need further discussion here. Everything is in their favor, save sentiment in their own ranks. If they can turn that towards themselves in the months interven- ing before election they certainly will find themselves backed by majority of the cleo torate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05

This is the time of the year when flower vandais are rampant. We haven't heard of any local home owners suffering from the depredations of these lawless individuals this year. but we presume sooner or later somebody will suffer. Of course the parks always lose many of the flowers or shrubs that make them so beautiful. Over in New Britain last week an eRtire bed of dahlias just about to bloom disappeared over night. They were in front of gasoline station. When the proprietor opened up one morn ing they had vanished during the night The thoughts of neighbors like that some times makes one feel terribly sad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05

Chicago.-Convention memories. The fiendish delight which the federal prohibition agents took in
 drying up this city while both con-
 ventions were wild for repeal. .-. They turned the screws hardest on the poor democrats, who were wet test. They raided hundreds of speakeasies in the Loop district
 just before and during the republi- can convention, frightening others into temporary closure. But it was not until the democratic conven-
 tion that they raided the cozy little beer parlor alongside convention headquarters at the Congress hotel and the famous Swedish club, re- sort of high officials, to which delegates had been given guest cards. Chicago's capacity for indig- nation is not very great, but 1t sur- passed itself after the Swedish club raid.
 Chicago is used to being a wide open town. Its democrats, now in
 municipal control, are as wet as
 its republicans, than whom there is nobody any wetter.
 The only theory tending to ex-
 plain the sudden wholesale raid-
 ing is that the federal enforcers,
 infuriated at the politicians who
 were committing their parties to policies which would eventually
 mean abolition of enforcement
 jobs. struck back viciously, after
 their. fashion. =. Not that there
 wasn't altogether too much liquor
 in the hotel rooms or enough boot leggers operating from their own
 suites. There was and there were.
 z. Indigestion was rampant. Dele- gates accustomed to three square a
 day had a bad time on the sand
 wiches available for lunch at the convention hall, although city
 dwellers inured to such fair sur
 vived relatively well. Hours of the convention were such that any idea ] of regular meals was absurd. :.
 The convention hall hot dogs, on which some of our most distin- guished statesmen subsisted from
 morning until evening, were al-
 ways cold. Someone called them
 malamutes. A Texas delegate entered one of the sandwich tents in a yard adjoining the Stadium. How much for cheese saand-
 wiches?" he asked, pulling half
 dollar from a change purse. "Fift-
 teen cents," the vendor said. "I'll go hungry first!' shouted the dele-
 gate-and stalked angrfiy away. Conventions are comprised al-
 most entirely of tired but dogged men and women staggering
 through the day, getting hardly
 ever any sleep. Four hours a night is perhaps average for the conven- tionite. That sagging, worn feling is probably responsible for the ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
Convention Memories
(BY RODNEY DUTCHER)

The fact is that there is fascination in these conventions. Nobody ever goes to bed early and nobody ever arises late, apparently because they're so feverishly anxious not to miss anything but to get around
 at night as long as anyone else is up. Up to the time he made his excellent speech for Jouett Shouse for permanent chairman, when he drew a big hand, John w. Davis was the forgotten man" of the convention. He stood around
 largely by himself, and once when he souhgt to get into his platform seat without his ticket a door
 guard, despite his protestations that he was John W Davis in person, grabbed and held him until he was rescued. '
 The ancient elevator man at the congress had an elaborate system designed to see that no one missed any of the lattered floors. "A for ale," he would announce = and B for beer, c for convention, D for democrat = or depression, E for economy, F for Franklin, G for good times, H for harmony and so on. While the speakers for 'Shouse and Walsh were straining themselves to hurl elaborate en- Icomiums at each others candidate, your correspondent got not so forced laugh from pretty girl
 alongside by describing the show as a convention of delphiniums and stilettoes. For one with a low sense of humor, few democratic in-
 cidents matched the spectacle, one evening during the republican con- vention, of a webbing drunk. bran dishing a clinking highball and chasing Mrs Mabel Walker Wille- brandt down the hotel corridor with the firm intention of persuading her to take @ drink. Mabel made the elevator safely without losing her temper or disclosing her identity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
ECONOMY ACCOMPLISHED
Christian Science Monitor.)

~5S~~-~S ' , ts4s4
 Furloughs instead of pay cuts will be the lot of the greater num- Der of Uncle Sam's employees as a result of the governmental econ omy bill which congress, after long deliberation, placed upon President Hoover's desk only two days before the beginning of the fiscal year to which it is to apply. While the sav- ings to be effected do not reach the intended 200,000.000 mark, they come perhaps as close to it as could be expected where two groups, one of 435 men and the other of ninety-six, must come to an agreement among themselves and with the chief executive.
 In its principal points the bill follows the presidents recommen- dations, and hence has received his signature. The thirty-day payless furlough plan is an alternative to MT Hoover's original proposal of a five-day week in the government services. It would have been in- teresting to see his five-day week the United States, but the furlough pldu VO6Slply OAACIS tAS WOkhCIS . more promise of return to a full time schedule when times improve. Either system clearly would be pre- ferable to the straight pay reduc- tion vigorously urged by some.
 Civil service employees are tradi- tionally one of the policeman. While everyone knows his ings, and considering how far short of
 munificence their salaries attain when times are f1ourishing. this shelter has some Justification. New |ertheless, when the federal treasury is in straits as at present, and when millions of their fellow country men are without employment at all, 1t may be expected that govern- ment workers will accept in good grace the necessitated layoffs and the cessation of promotions and will continue Loyalty to give their best efforts to the service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05


 Now that the democrats are hot after repeal and the republicans lukewarm brew cries all over the nation are preparing for anything that may occur. Many are being . overhauled in anticipation of change in the liquor laws One company is even sell ing stock. There's optimism for you, not merely upon the part of the seller but also the buyer. Colonel Jacob Ruppert declar- ed last week that We are all ready to let contracts for the enlargements and improve ments which would have to be made. If you want to be specific, shall have to use my own brewery as an example. We used to employ about 1000 men. We now em- ploy 200. If we ran to capacity we would need about l,600 men. To reach capacity we'd have to spend around S5,000.000 in building and equipment That doesn't in cludc trucks We would need 50 additional trucks, at a minimum cost of $5.000 truck. think you will find that those are fairly average figures. ~ Questioned as to the number of breweries the colonel said, T think about 164 are now in opera tion. There were once about 1850 With beer legalized there would of course be many new ones built. It would be conserva- tive to say that the orders for buildings and accessories would total S200,000,000. The demand for labor in each brewery would be about eight times what 1t is now :" All of which should interest those who claim that the return of liquor doesn't mean anything. We still insist 1t would act as stimulus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
The Detroit Prophet Speaks

Henry Ford says or his ghost writer says for him, in his latest revelation: One thing is certain - we must go on-present con- ditions cannot be stabilized = life goes on. l suppose that in l632 there were people who urged that the world had gone far enough and that ]. should be halted and hardened into the pattern of 1852. And again in 1732 others thought that line should be drawn and conditions stabilized. In 1852 the same proposal = it is always made - every generation makes 1t.
 Suppose the world had halted at any of those dates. Are we to declare that l932 is the date at which development must case and the world be stabilized just as it is? It cannot be done. Life would burst any bar rers we might raise against its ongoing. We do not yet control the materials out of which to assemble world that is worthy to endure unchanged. Our times are primitive. True progress is yet to come. The indus trial age has scarcely dawned as yet; we see only its first crude beginning.
 We are pioneers and pioneering has its hardships. This generation is composed of economic pilgrims, passing out of less de- sirable conditions into what we hope shall be more, desirable ones. That is the mean ing of these times Well, maybe he is right. It gives us new and hopeful slant on the situation, anyway, to regard our selves as pioneers Pioneering, hard as it is. has always been hopeful in this country. looking forward. promising fulfillment. Suppose we start considering this not as the end of an era, but the beginning of one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-05
So They Say

Charities and almost every other form of philanthropy have been taken over by the government. It is time that a similar step was made in the field.
 --Dr A. s. Munro, Vancouver, B.
 C., retiring president, Canadian
 Medical association.
 The government, instead of trying to drive the bonus army at Wash ington back to their cities, should stake them to a modest layout of food and tools and let them pros- pect the valley and hills of the west for gold. It's life in the open; 1t will pay its way and 1t will bring more and more gold into our treas- ury.
 James Randolph walker. movie
 executive.
 It looks like the senate wants to destroy any economy at this session. The house conferees are not going to yield. If the senate wants to take the responsibility of prevent ing economy at this session, let 1t do SO.
 -Congressman John M Duffie, chairman of the house economy committee.
 Confidence is all that America needs to restore 1t to 90 per cent prosperity, and the newspapers, which reserved the panic when the country's banks were threatened last January, can meet the situation. Colonel Frank Knox, publisher.