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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
Wears More--4nd
 1t Costs Hotels Millions

CHICAGO, March 26. = Milady's long skirts and other recent addi- tions to her wardrobe will cost American hotel owners more than million dollars, A. c. Pulver, Man ager of the fashionable Hotel Sher- " in Chicago, said in an address here.
 Pulver spoke before a gathering of hotel operators.
 Time once was Pulver said,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
MASS SLAYER'S BURIAL. PLACE
 IS DESTROYED
Garage of Blue Beard Mysteriously Set
 Afire, Burns

CHAR KSBURG, West Virginia, March 26.-One week to an hour after "Blue Beard" Harry F. Pow CTS, mass slayer, was hanged in the State Prison, a strangely con- structed garage in a quiet dell, where the bodies of his five victims were found, was set afire last night. The police believe the blaze was of incendiary origin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
ExTORTION IS
 CHARGE FILED
 IN IDAHO CASE.
Janitor Alleged to Be in Plot for Demand
 of $l0,000

BOISE, Idaho, March 26.-A com- plaint charging Roger Gull, State House janitor, with an attempted extortion in connection with the attempt to force William V. Began, wealthy resident, to pay $10,o00 to protect his family, has been filed in a Justice Court here.
 A blackmail note threatened harm would come to one of Regan's seven children in event the s10,000 was not paid.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
NEGOTIATIONS
 FOR PEACE AT
 DEADLOCK NOW
Farley at Shanghai Report ed Nearing Breakdown
 on One Issue EMPHATIC ON QUITTING REGION Will Not With draw for Next Six Weeks and
 then Only So Far

SHANGHAI, March 26.--Negotia- tions are near breakdown in the Sino-Japanese peace moves.
 Adjournment of the barley was taken today until next Monday.
 The deadlock is on the issue re- garding the withdrawal of the Jap anese troops. The Japanese insist they will not withdraw for six weeks and then only to secondary defense line.
 The Chinese agreed to remain in the conference only after persuad- ed to do so by the American and British Ministers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
Banking Situation Shoi0s Improvement Throughout Nation

WASHINGTON, March 28.- The great improvement in the banking situation in the nation has received the official recog- milton of the Federal Reserve Board. The statement of the Beard credits the recent re- constructive acts of Congress and gives credit particularly to the GIass-Steagall Credit Ex- pansion Bill.
 Praise is also given to the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- ation. This agency has now made leans totaIing S234, ,981,714.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26

when a guest room clothes closet from four to five feet deep proved adequate for any purpose.
 The closet space now required is almost twice what it was in the days of abbreviated dresses. To in- crease and remodel their clothes closet facilities, hotels throughout the country will spend more than sl,oo0,00o during the next three or four years"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
GILMANS WILL MAKE
 THEIR HOME HERE

MT. and Mrs. Fred Gilman and their daughter have arrived in Juneau from Seattle to make this their home. They came Friday on the motorship Northland.
 MT. Gilman will have charge of the fruit and vegetable department. of the Piggly Wiggly Store here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
Mdin Mystic Dies, Martyr
 to His Faith; Drinks Poison

ABINGDON, Burma, March e. Nara Singh Swami, Indian mystic who thought he could swallow pois- on and other noxious substances with impunity, died yesterday, a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26

martyr to his own faith.
 Swami swallowed nearly a quart of the deadliest corrosive poisons and then ate a handful of broken glass.
 He died three hours later.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
FRESH ARMY"
 IS PERMITTED
 TO CELEBRATE
Republican Spirit IS Gay on Bloody Easter
 Anniversary

DUBLIN, March 26-Easter Eve, the anniversary of the bloody Easter week of 1916, found the Republican spirit more active than in years.
 The Irish Republican Army" is allowed free reign in the cele- bration for the first time in years, but the regular army forces have been ordered out as a precaution- ary measure to prevent clashes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
GRAF ZEPPELIN
 OFF FOR HOME

FER NANDO NORoNHA. Brazil, March 26.-The Graf Zeppelin flew over this island this morning on the return trip to Germany. The giant airship took off from Perm ambucco shortly after midnight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
INQUIRY COMMISSION
 NOW B0JND TO NANKTNC

SHANGHAI, March 26. = The League of Nations Inquiry Con- mission has left for Ranking to continue investigation of the con- flict in the Shanghai and Man churia area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
CLOSING PRICES TO-DAY

NEW YORK, March 26.-Clos- ing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is l41s, Ameri- can Can 62A. Anaconda 8. Beth lehem Steel 17A Curtiss-W Wright 1%, Fox Films SIS, General Mot ors 16h. International Harvester 21, Kennecott 7A, Packard Morors 3 5-8, United States Steel 4oA, Bunker Hill, no sale.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
A. J. FICKEN TO BE
 AT SHOP NEXT WEEK

A. J. Ficken, proprietor of the Sanitary Meat Market, who has been ill at his home for several days, expects to be able to attend to business next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26

Montana's five-cent gasoline tax yielded s3,873,827 in 1881 as com- pared with $3,8O1 ,887 in 1880.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26

Evasion of the Oklahoma gasoline tax is reported by motorists who purchase decrepit tractors to get the exemption.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
EARTH SHOCKS
 AT FAIRBANKS
 s WIN 6 LIGHTS
Dogs, Terrified, Run Into Cabin and Crawl
 Under Bed
" yRIIr1aBlia v

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 26. Two earthquake shocks, one ex- ceedingly sharp. shook Fairbanks yesterday afternoon, the more se- we're occurring at, 2;02 o'clock.
 Buildings swayed. doors cracked and lights swung violently.
 The quakes of short duration were much more violent at Broad Pass and Healy on the Alaska Railroad. Telephone reports said chimneys were knocked down at Broad Pass and the ground swayed so violently two dogs ran into a cabin and crawled under a bed.
 SLIDE AT GIRDWOOD
 SEWARD, Alaska, March B. Four earth shocks were felt here last night.
 The shocks shook down earth at Girdwood delaying the Alaska Rail road passenger train for two hours.
 Buildings are reported to have swayed at Anchorage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

Mississippi packed this seas2p three times as many standard cas19 of oysters as any other state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Magic Pump Makes
 Water Run Uphill
Argentinian Invention, Defying GravitafOn Draws Up
 Liquid Without Suction

Following the example of the
 United States Patent Ohice, eIgh-
 teen foreign countries have Issued patents to an ~Argentinian inventor
 upon an amazing pump that seems to violate natural laws. By creat- ng waves in pipeful of water. 1t
 makes the liquid run uphill. When the inventor. Toribio Bel
 locq. applied for a United States patent on a pump to be mounted at the top of a wei and to draw water up from almost unlimited depths, officials pointed out that his device apparently would have to defy the law of gravitation. Every high school student knows that by no effort can a pump suck water higher than approximately thirty three feet. This is the limit at which the weight of an imprisoned column of water balances the att mospheric pressure outside. To force water higher from it's source, authorities have always agreed that 1t must be pushed from below. Therefore .Bellocqs wave pump" seemed in a class with perpetual
 IlOIlOII IldCHluCS, WHICH dIS HOl patentable because they are impos- sible.
 Bellocq built one of his pumps. installed it atop a Washington, D. C., office building, and invited off, cials to inspect it. They saw it draw a steady stream of water up a pipe eighty feet high' says Pop, ular Science Monthly. Not until lrA fC tho pipe and found no unseen machin- Then they acknowledged that Bel new mechanical principle, of pos sible application in deep water and oil wells, and issued his patent.
 So extraordinary is the operation of the new wave pump that even Bellocq admits he is not certain of it's principle, and leaves to scien- lists the verification of his own ex- planation. He says that it does not depend upon suction. Instead, 1t applies the fact that water. gen. orally regard as incompressible, ac- tually is elastic to a slight extent.
 In Bellocq's pump a piston vii brates rapidly with an extremely short stroke. It deals hammer like blows to column of water in a pipe. His theory is that when the frequency of the blows is prop erly timed for the length of the pipe, a series of stationary waves" is set up.
 Suppose the pipes bottom to be closed, then layers are formed where the water is alternately rare fled and compressed. without mov- ing. Midway between these and at the bottom are regions where water rushes alternately up and down be- cause of the waves.
 When a one-way ball valve Is added at the bottom, water enters from outside at one point in each wave cycle, to replace water mov- ing upward from the bottom of the pipe. Once inside, it cannot back out. Every influx of water inches
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
The State Legion Committee Active Will Hold Final Session at Legion Home This
 Evening

The American Legion state con- vention committee will hold its final meeting in the legion home this evening. It is urged that every member of the different commit tees be in attendance. The con- vention will open Wednesday night for the registration of delegates, but the first session of the general body will not take place until Thursday. The big parade will be held Saturday.
 Special trains will be run for the accommodation of delegates and others who will want to come here. The train from the south will leave Greenwich at 11:10 D. D. T. and make the following stops: Stam- ford 11:20: Darien 11:32; South Norwalk 11:37; Westport 11:42; Fairfield 11:50; Bridgeport 12; Stratford 12:04; Ansonia 1925; Waterbury 12:30.
 The train from the north will leave Hartford at 12; Newington .12:09; New Britain 12:1S; Plain vile 12:27; Bristol 12:37. It will arrive here at 1880.
 The two trains will return in the evening, to Hartford at 10:50 and to Greenwich at 10:45.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
NAUCATUCK E Former Ohio Man
 Given Heavy Fine
Charged With Drunken Driving Street Oiling Pros
 gram Started This Morning

lin Waterbury this coming week will be completed at meeting of
 the post to be held tonight in the legion rooms in the odd Fellows
 building at o'clock.
 With the scene of the convention so close at hand, the local post will
 be represented throughout the ses-
 sion by 8 large delegation. The post will also take a prominent part in the parade to be held next Saturday the closing day of the gathering
 An appropriata float depicting the borough chief industry will be one of the features of the parade.
 The "Rube Band" of the post
 which has appeared in state legion parades in many sections of the state will also be on hand. At tonight's session the post will also decide on the candidate that will be supported for the various state offices:
 Hold Rifle Practice
 Members of the local police de- partment held rifle and revolver practice last Saturday afternoon at the rifle range on Osborn farm. A settlement of the grievance of property owners on Grove street over the re-setting of curbing and re-laying of side walk on the
 street will probably be heard at the special meeting of the board of warden and burgesses to be held
 tomorrow night in the borough court room at 8 o'clock. Burgess P. August Johnson who resides on
 Grove street has been battling the /, borough fathers for some time to
 do something to remedy the con-
 dition. He started his battle long before he was elected to the board It is his contention that the bor- ough should reset the curbing and relay the sidewalk as the borough is to blame for the present con- dition due to the fact that the job
 was never done right at the start. Property owners of the street are expected to be present at tomorrow nights meeting to be heard. Warden Whittemore stated at the last meet ling of the borough board that he thought he had plan worked out that would be agreeable to every body concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

A fine of $10O and costs amount
 ing to $113.46 was imposed upon
 Herman Parsell of this borough formerly of Ohio, charged with op- erating an auto while under the in-
 fuence of liquor,N by Judge Clare
 mont I. !Tolles in the borough court this morning. Parsell was arrested Sunday morning by Officer Anthony
 Farrar. A charge of evading a taxi bill was nolled.
 Walter Kerski of Forest street charged with neglecting to support a minor, was discharged by the court. His son was arrested on Fri day, charged with vagrancy, testi- l fled that he was in the habit of running away from home. He was found guilty as charged and fined l $1 and costs and sentenced to serve 30 days in jail. Execution of the sentence was suspended for 90 days. He was ordered to be off the streets every night by 1C o'clock. Failure on his part to carry 1 out the orders of the court will re- suit in the jail sentence being en- forced.
 Joseph Waitkus and wife of 31 OOuIA XAeAAA oSA WI, oAASS Ae~SNA day by Officer John Gormley on charges of breach of the peace and | |intoxication, each were fined $1
 and costs.
 Caucuses in Three Wards The places for the holding of the
 democratic caucuses in the three
 wards of the borough have beer
 announced by Democratic Towr Chairman Frank T. Green. The
 first ward caucus will be held 1T
 the borough court room, the sec.
 ond ward in the American Legior
 rooms in the odd Fellows building and the third ward in the Unior
 City hose house. The caucuses will
 be called to order at 8 o'clock. At the present time 1t begins tc
 look as though contests for dele gates may be waged in all thret
 wards. Last week it appeared | everything would be harmonious
 in the party ranks and but ont
 slate of delegates would be named
 but since Friday there has been g
 complete change and it is certain
 that a contest will be waged in tho
 third ward and possibly in the
 second.
 This change has been brought about through the dropping off o1
 several names from the delegate
 list that had already been agreed
 upon. Several of the party members see in the move an attempt to gar ner the local delegation for the so- called old guard element of the party at the state convention to be held next month in Groton. The younger members of the party re- sent this and are prepared to put up a battle.
 It was reported today that an ef- fort will be made to have a meet ing of the party leaders to see ii the thing may be strengthened out before the caucuses
 Plans for the part the local post of the American Legion will take at the state convention to be held
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

All ex-service' men in Waterbury as well as Legionnaires attending the American Legion State Con- vention are cordially invited to att tend the smoker and entertainment at Eagles Hall on Wednesday night of this week.. This event which is given in honor of the department executive committee of@the legion, which holds it's meeting at the El- ton early in the evening will ofi- ciaily- usher in the activities of the Fourteenth Annual; State Conven- ticn of the American Legion. 1t is the first event of the special pro- gram arranged by the convention entertainment committee. The smoker will be preceded by a par ade, through the central streets of the drum corps of Corporal Coyle Post of Waterbur Entertainment features during the evening will in- clude songs and dances by Danny Barrett, a novelty act by James Cantwe1l, a program of songs by Charles Favalli, and a special pre- ,sentation by revue from Hart ford.
 On Thursday evening the conn mittee will offer a free band con- cert at Library park at ;f5 p. m. The American Legion band, under the direction of George Gentle, will be augmented by s1ffoKe than "a score of musicians from the Thon1aston Marine Band and by members of the American Legion Drum Corps. There will be more than sixty bandsmen upon the plat form. The band will be assisted by Miss Mona Claire. contralto soloist, star of several Broadway musical comedys, and George Di- Vincent, trumpet soioist. The fol- lowing program will be offered:
 Star Spangled Banner" .Overture: Morning. Noon and
 Night" ...... ...... Von Suppe. Selection: "Bohemian GirP'e. Balfe American Fantasia: Southern
 Star ....... ...... Lake Trumpet Solo: Polka" ........
 Memories of the War. 1861-65:
 American War Songs Selection: Woodland" :. Luder Contralto Solo ... Miss Mona Claire Irish Melodies ....... ..... Keller Medley of Popular World War
 OVertuFe. OTpucuS ss OASHoASAi "America".
 On Friday evening the commit tee is bringing Will Osborne and his famous broadcasting band of fourteen pieces to the State Arm ory for: dancing from 9:00 to 11:45 D. m. This is the first local ap- pearance of the. popular broadcast 'er, who is playing seasons en- gagement at Playland at Rye Beach, N. Y.
 At midnight on Friday, follow Ing the dance, will be presented the greatest vaudeville bill ever of- fered in Waterbury, A seven-act bill Is headed by three unusual head liners. Miss Fritzi Scheff will pre- sent a group of the songs which she has made famous and by pop ular request will include in them Kiss Me Again." Miss Schef Is offering her services to the legion for this performance and will come in from her summer home at Lake Hitchcock. She will be accom- panied at the piano by Unico Ba-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
People And Events

| imony by his alleged slayer who pictured him as drug addict and
 a man of many loves.
 The mother, Mrs Ida Clarke, was
 expectede to testify late today in
 the trial of Captain w. N. Lan-
 caster, British flyer accused of
 young Clarke's murder. Lancaster
 was for many years a companion
 to the woman Clarke planned to
 marry.
 Bombay, India, Aug 15--UP) IA large snake which, jumped
 from a tree to the deck of a fer Trey boat near Kolhapur, caused a panic. in which more than 100 persons died. The passengers all rushed to the side of tn craft,
 causing 1t to overturn. Mukden, China, Aug 15-(UP)- Twenty-four Japanese policemen part of the force occupying Man Ichuria, were killed today when a
 hand grenade accidentally explod- ] ed at Chikuanshan, near Antung. The Japanese had been preparing for "a campaign against bandit op-
 erations.
 Vienna Aug 15--(UP)-A son
 was born today to the Princess
 Ilena, daughter of Queen Marie or Rumana, and wife of the Arch duke Anton of Hapsburg. to whom lshe was married in 19S1.1 The child. It to be named Stefan. weighed 6.6l pounds, is blond and has blue eyes. His mother was said to be in ex- tcelient condition. --s 1'@
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Will Be Held In Eagles Hall On
 Wednesday Night
Departnent Executive Committee to Meet Before Af-
 fair -Oficialy Ushefs inll 4ti Annual State Con-
 vention of American Legion Parade to Precede {. Smoker . ss

lrohe. will Osborne and his band
 will offer ( novel stage number. lasting nearly thirty minutes. Through the efforts of Major Leslie Thompson, president of R K O.and former adjutant of the 30th infantry in which % many Waterbury men served. during the
 war, it has been possible to bring to Waterbury the entire cast of ..'Impressions" the Paramount-Pub- iix4 Revue, which recently played at the Paramount theater in New York, and which completes its en- gagement in Boston on Thursday.
 There are twenty-five people in the cast, including Joe Moss, Ccrinne,
 The Four Feathers, DuCalion and a Sunkist Beauty Chorus of six teen., The. entire company Is do- hating. it's services to the Legion IConvention Committee prior to lopening in New Haven the follow ing day.
 The Brass City Minstrel Troupe,
 which is composed largely of vet erans of the World War will pre- sent a tabloid minstrel under the direction of Jimmie. Cunningham. In jtisef company of eighteen will he George Ayotte, holder of the Dis- jtinguished Service Cross and the
 Croix de Guerre, with palm.
 Miss Mona Claire, a native of Waterbury. who, for the past seven years has been featured in inn portant roles in Broadway musical successes, notably Rose Marie" ]" Countess Maritza" and "Three's a Crowd" will present songs and im- ipersonations. She, also, will be ac-
 compahied at the piano by MT. Ba- lrone.
 Worden's Milky. Way Four, fea- turing Sam Barlow, well known eccentric comedian will present Si lCrabtree and the Quackenbush
 Brothers in a hodge-podge of har-
 mony entitled From Down in
 Caribou"
 Completing the bill will be the
 Elk's Trio, an excellent singing group directed by Gene Oviatt, who
 will be at the piano. The mem bers of the trio are George Sul- livan, CHS Bergin and Hugo Lange.
 Joe Divito and his Palace or- chestra will play a special over ture of World War songs previous Ito the performance. The doors or the theater will be open at 11:30 D. m. and the performance will start promptly at 12:15 p. m. mid. night. Special trolley service will be available on the East Main Wa terville. North. Main-Town Plot, West Main street and Baldwin
 street following the performance. As the result of conferences be- tween Major Thompson and Presi- dent Elliott of the National organ ization of stage hands, the strike now in effect at the Palace Theater l has been called off for the per formance. of the, American Legion lshow and the regular crew of stage !attenaants and operators will re- turn to their posts. Members of the entertainment lcommittee are c. Arthur DuBois, E.. Christy Erk. Robert Birt. Jo- seph DiPietro, Charles Woodworth, Fred Seidel, Dr Robert Watkins Patrick Foley, Raymond F. Dow lney. Paul A. Monroe, James Null vile and Charles Schnitman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

valley Stream, L. I. Aug 15-- (UP)-The "Flying Boudoir' swung over. Long Island again to. day in the second attempt by two women flyers to break the 123- hour endurance mark set by Bobby Trout and Edna May Coop CT. in 1881. Mrs Louis McPhet- ridses Thaden, and Mrs Frances Harrell Marsalis, took off at 2:0O D. m. Sunday. Their first flight, started. Friday, ended Saturday when they had to land for repairs
 Middleton, N J. Aug 15--(UP) Fritz, Leiber. jr., son of the Shapcspearian actor, is the new pastor of St Mary's the Protestanf Episcopal mission at Atlantic Highlands. He made his pulpit de- but yesterday with his distinguish ed father 6. member of the congre- gation. The young minister was graduated in June from, the Uni versity of Chicago.
 Fitzgerald, Ga, Aug li5--(UPl-- Hilbert Bowling, 22; was killed when his parachute failed to open during his first jump intended to thrill q large Sunday airport crowd. s9 .' Mexico, City. Aug 15--.(UP) < The cosrnic ray reaches a great CT intensity with altitude. pr. Ar thur Compton, Chicago university physicist, said today after xeperi- ments at the crater of the volcano, Toluca, and here. He said hesplans more studies in the Rocky coun- tains and Hudson Bay regions. He is enroute to the States. < '.t
 iMilfords Pa.. Aug 15-(UP)-- Rosamond APinchot. the nun of the Miricle,. and her brother, Giford 2nd, are reported enroute to Reno to obtain divorces from their res, pectiye, mates. Their father. Amos. brother of Governor Pinchot. re- fused to confirm the report. Rosa norid is the wife of William Gax- ton, attorney: Clifford 2nd is the husband of 'Janine voison. the daughter of a French motor manu- facturcr. t4a.g
 Miami. Fla. Aug 15-(UP)- The state has called the mother of Haden, Clarke to. refute testf-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

Miami. Fla. Aug 1s-(UP)- The state has called the mother of Haden. Clarke to refute testf-