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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18
Hurry In Traffic
 Is Common Fault
Commissioner Stoeckel Urges Care Especially When
 Children Are Playing in Street

there may be may, through having attention called to situations In which he has allowed his car to get out of control, whether by pre-. .cept and example or by experience which frightens him. or by police discipline which warns him, on con- sid era tion of his conduct arrive at a point where hk grants little more care.
 "These particular hours which scene to be so safe because the rush of business and pleasure and hurry of the day apparently are over, really are the most danger z ous After five o'clock in the af. ternoon, especially in the summer months, to be safe in the kind or traffic which. then exists, every per! son taking part fin 1t must be con stantly aware of the whole situa- ton and know of his own know ledge the particular dangers which exist and how they apply to his case.
 ITO point out this fact Is to di- feet attention to the part of Con necticut in the program of safety now being worked out In the United States"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18
OakviIle Youth
 Is Bound Over
Case to Come Up in Superior Court in Sept-BOnds
 Set at Sz,5OO

Britain Friday when he attempted to cash q check at the New Britain Trust company. The check, acc cording to Hardware City police, was one of a number they believed had been stolen from the Southern New England Telephone company. It was made out the day previous ly by Frank G. Vibberts, president of the New Britain-Trust company and had been tempered with when the youth made his attempt to cash it. He ran away when a bank teller attempted to question him, but was caught by Policeman Hanford Dart after chase through Main street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18
Seven Year Old Girl Struck On
 Hamilton Ave.
Was Carrying Loaf of Bread Home From Delivery 9 Wagon When Run Over-COroner Finds Truck Was Operated Moderately and Accident Was Un-
 avoidable

dex, which was parked directly across the road. She obtained the bread, delivered 1t to her mother and again crossed the highway to pay for 1t.
 After paying the baker she pgO- ceeded in front of the latter's truck and began to run across the roadway to her home when a heavy duty Ford truck driven by Mur- phy came along in a rortherly di- rection. There was load'of sand on the truck. Murphy did not see the little girl in the roadway until 1t was too late to stop. She was struck and knocked to the ground, receiving injuries which resulted in her death before St Mary's hiss pltal was reached.
 According to the finding. Mur- phy was operating the truck at q moderate rate of speed and the brakes on the vehicle were In good condition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18

George J. Murphy of Ill Cherry street, driver of the automobile which last Saturday struck and fatally injured Giovaninna Zam. peiii. ', on Hamilton avenue, was freed of all criminal responsibility today in finding issued by Deputy Coroner Waltef J. Smyth. The finding was fiied in the superior court and was the result of an in- quest held sunday and Monday by Deputy Coroner. Snyth.
 Among the witnesses examined were Elireo Fernandez of S7. Union street, Detective William Foley. John Guanino of 62 Canal street. Ethel Merii of 90N North Main street and Murphy,
 shortly after Ii o'clock Satur- day morning the Zampeili girl. who lived at s04 Hamilton avenue, was sent from her home to pur- chase a loaf of bread from the bakery wagon of Elireo Fernan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18

warned by their leaders to leave their arms at home. Tension was so high, however, authorities ex- pected a clash at the Christian county borders.
 Deputized citizens and Christian county officers set up barricades on all highways. They said no pickets would be allowed to enter the coun- ty. Sentries armed with rifles and revolvers halted all traffic.
 The pickets desire to halt oper- ation of the Peabody coal mines where their fellow union members are at work under the new $5 a day contract negotiated by United Mines Workers officials. The Springfield group is seeking a statewide strike iA support of the old scale of $6.10.
 The staying of Colbert increased bitter feeling in the rival miners camps. James Sutton, mine watchman, was held in the slay-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18

Taylorville, III, Aug 18-(UP)- The Christian county blockade en- forced by armed volunteer citizen guards to halt an invasion of union coal miners, was lifted by Sheriff Charles Wienecke to-day.
 He announced he had asked Coy L. L. Emmerson to have National Guard troops, encamped at Camp Grant, neaH Rockford, held ir readiness to move here in case of trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18

ing. Authorities said he confessed shooting Colbert in self-defepse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18

Joseph Lipkowslxi, 19. of Oak vile, appearing 1n the New Britain police court yesterday, charged with attempting to obtain money under false pretenses. through his counsel, Attorney Albert A. Green berg, pleaded not guilty. waiving examination and at his request was bound over to the September term of the superior court under bonds of s2,50O set by Judge Morris D. Sake.
 Liplowski, who is also known as Laskowski, and by many aliases throughout Massachusetts where he has a police record extending over nine years, was arresetd In New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-18
DUCK HEN KIDNAPs DUCK.

Oakville. Ia, (UP)-A mallard duck hen will kidnap little ones from another duck if she has lost hers, Allen Green, naturalist, de- clares. Sometimes, Green says. two hens will wage such fight
Evening star., 1932-08-19
Papers in Museum
Bare Oppressive
Check Tax of 1898
Bonds, Bills of Exchange
and Promisory Notes
Carried Federal Stamps.

The newly enacted tax on checks is
only a mild dose of what was imposed
on American citizens the first year of
the Republics history
This Is revealed by some curious
papers which have just come into the
custody Of the National Museum Lii
brary, bearing the stamps of a long
forgotten Federal revenue act passed In
1898. Apparently 1t was so oppressive
that it soon was repealed. Bonds, bills
of exchange and promissory notes were
obliged to carry stamps ranging in
value from 10 cents to rs cents. Notes
were taxed five-eights of a cent per
dollar up to $50. A 500 note must
carry 81 stamp and a $500 note
81 stamp. Bills of lading of goods to
be sent out of State must have a 10
cent stamp. An inventory of a cata-
logue Of goods required 50-cent stamp.
This stamp tax, which constituted one
OF the first revenue acts of the new
Government, was far more oppressive,
it Is pointed out, than the Grenville
stamp tax imposed by Parliament, which
was primarily responsible for the Amer
ican Revolution. The Colonists claimed
that the Grenville act made business
practically impossible.
The papers In the National Museum
contain several blank sheets with the
stamps affixed. A citizen, 1t Is ex-
planned, either could take the prepared
document to the tax collector to have
the stamp affixed or could purchase the
stamped sheets from the tax collector.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The first men in North America may
have encountered an animal capable
of cutting down forests and building
big wooden houses.
This creature was the castoroides, q
relative of the beaver, but approx
mately 10 times the size Of the present
animal, according to a report just
made to the American Society OF
Mammalogists here by Alvin H. Calm
of the University of Illinois, who has
traced the distribution Of the skeleta!
remains Of the creature over great
part of the continent. This giant.
which weighed approximately 500
pounds and had teeth six inches long,
apparently disappeared at about the
close of the last ice age, when man Is
believed to have made his appearance
His range seems to have been concen-
trated in the Middle West. although
partial skeleton has been found as
far away as Alaska.
monarch of all it surveyed. Calm be-
lieves, yet after attaining great num-
bers it became extinct quite suddenly.
This may be explained, he thinks, be-
cause of its great specialization and
enormous appetite. It apparently had
the same habits as the modern beaver.
"The present-day animal" he points
out, has a heavy bulky body. Its legs
are short, it is clumsy on land. end
has great difficulty In going over the
rough terrain which marks the country
where 1t lives because Of the very
qualities which make 1t so successful
as an aquatic animal. How much
greater difhcultv must castoroides have
had In leaving the water!
Evening star., 1932-08-19
WOMAN IN AUTO
ROBBED OF GEMS
Man on Running Board Gets
$4,000 VaIuabIes From
Mrs. w. w. Wirgman.

Mrs. w. Wayne Wirgman Of the 2200
block of California street was held up
last night and robbed Of $4,000 worth
of jewelry by lone bandit Who jumped
on the running board of her automobile
on Sixteenth street at Kalmia road.
The bandit also forced her to give him
her pocketbook, containing So in cash
Mrs. Wirgman told police she was
driving at a slow speed when the man
jumped on the running board, f1ourished
a gun and commanded her to stop. Still
brandishing the pistol, the bandit then
forced her to take of her two rings,
one of them with large ruby In the
center and surrounded by diamonds,
valued at $4,000, and the other, a ring
containing a number Of diamonds and
valued at 81 900.
The man was described as being OF
stocky build and wore dirty gray cap
pulled far down over his face. Mrs.
Wirgman said today she believed the
man was a dark-skinned white man,
but said he could have been a light
skinned colored man. The bandit
ordered her to drive on after commit
ting the robbery.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
GIANT BEAVER-LIKE ANIMAL ONCE
CUTFORESTS ON THIS CONTINENT
Huge Castoroides, Weighing Close to 500 Pounds,
Became Extinct Suddenly.

"a modern beaver colony Of 10 in
dividuals will cut down from so to Is
trees a year in order to live and the
bulk of its food is limited to two species
OF trees. Those trees are cut which,
when felled, will be available to the
animal from the water. Hence the
time must come when the beaver must
leave the water in order to obtain food.
"The animals must then go inland for
trees or migrate, and this migration may
well be an overland journey of great
difficulty. Imagine, then, colony OF 10
castoroides, Weighing 500 pounds in
stead of so pounds each. If beaver
cuts down so trees year, now many
hundred would a castoroides have to
cut In the same time in order to per-
sistP How much quicker must he have
been forced to make land excursions
for food.
"Then would come the time of forced
land marches which the bulk and struc-
ture of the great beaver would have
rendered almost prohibitive. Some
slight change in the physiography OF
the country would easily explain its ex-
termination"
There is no evidence, he points out,
that the first men on the continent ever
came in contact with the great beast
or in any way helped in its extermina-
ton. There was no huge f1esh-eating
animal which could have made great
inroadS on 1t.
The creature is believed to have built
houses, like the modern beaver, but
these must have been rather imposing
structures. One partial skeleton is
claimed to have been found inside a
house made of 3-inch wood 8 feet
square and 4 feet high. But this would
not have been big enough to hold the
owner, Calm points out.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
DELEGATES TO LEGION
SESSION INSTRUCTED
Hyattsville Group Will Work for
Resolution Condemning Method
Of Evicting B. Z. F.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, August 19.-
Instructions to work for adoption Of a
resolution condemning methods used in
the eviction of the bonus expeditionary
force from Washington were given dele
gates of Snyder-Farmer Post, No. 3.
American Legion, to the coming con-
vention of the State Department Of the
Legion at Ocean City at a meeting of
the post.
Ceasar L. Aiello was asked to write
Representative Royal johnson of South
Dakota, asking that he furnish proof
to support statements credited to him
that the Federal authorities are pre-
pared to prove at the proper time that
arms, ammunition and ignition caps
were at one time concealed in the same
bonus camp of Washington" Repre-
sentative johnson was quoted as having
made this statement at the recent con-
vention of the Department of Wiscon-
sin. Mr.. Aiello was also asked to send
a copy Of his letter to the Department
OF South Dakota, to which Representa-
tive johnson belongs.
Snyder-Farmer delegates to the State
convention were instructed to ask the
convention to take steps TO combat
propaganda against non-service con-
nected disabilities and to request an ex-
animation of the methods of the ex-
amining boards at the United States
Veterans Bureau.
The Snyder-Farmer delegates will, In
addition, it was decided, work for
change in the constitution of the State
department which will permit the
naming OF delegate from each post on
each of the important committees.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
OFFICERS SLAYER
ADJUDGED INSANE
Carpenter Who Barricaded
Self in Home Is Sent
to st. EIizabeth'S.

Nicholas A. Long, "a, the carpenter
who barricaded his home at 506 First
street southeast July and carried on
pistol battle with police, resulting in
the death Of Policeman Elmer A. Swan
son and injury of other officers, was
adjudged today by jury in the District
Supreme Court to be of unsound mind.
He was committed by District Supreme
Court Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue to
st. Elizabeth's Hospital. Should his
mental status be recovered Long will be
subject to trial under the indictment
charging him with first-degree murder
for the death Of Swanson.
The petition for the inquiry into
Longs mental condition was filed by
Attorney Lucian H. Vandoren as his
next friend after DR.. D. Percy Hickling,
District alienist, had examined the
prisoner at the request of United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover Vancoren said
Long Is of unsound mind and unabls
to confer with him in the preparation
OF his defense to the murder indictment,
DR.. Hickling was the only witness be-
fore the lunacy jury today. He said
ne had made examinations of Long on
July IA, July 26 and August II at the
District Jail and found him to be suf-
fering from cerebral arterio sclerosis
and mentally incapable of handling his
affairs.
Assistant United States ATTORNEY
Julia I. Richards made no objection to
the case being submitted to the jury.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
Policeman Freed
in Boys Killing
By 'Coroner's Jury
Member of White House
Force Tells About
Finding Prowler.

coroner's jury this afternoon ex-
hcnorated Ignatius Connole. 35year-
cid White House policeman, in the
killing last night of Charles Young,
Is, colored, after the officer testified
the youth made motion as If to draw
a gun. The jury reached the verdict
after an hour and half of delibera-
ton.
Testimony by numerous witnesses
who live in the vicinity of Ccnnole' S
home, 2l4 Seventeenth street northeast.
was to the effect that colored prowler
had frequented the neighborhood, peer
ing into bed room windows and stealing
food and clothing.
Appears Full-G Grown.
Connole told the jury he first saw an
intruder answering the description of
Young Wednesday night. At that time
he said. the colored youth crawled back
and forth along the top of high en-
bankment in the rear of the 200 block
OF seventeenth street, peering into
windows.
The youth appeared to be a full
grown man, Connole said, and his testi-
mony in this regard was born out by
description read by Deputy Coroner j.
Rogers Young, who said the slain boy
was feet 6 inches tall. weighed 168
pounds and was unusually we'll devel-
oped.
Last night the prowler again put in
his appearance, Connole told the jury.
Determined to catch him, the officer
enlisted the help of Lawrence w. Bailey.
216 Seventeenth street northeast, and
Gilbert Boyd, 212 D street northeast.
Bailey and Boyd approached the spot
where the youth was hiding, while the
officer crept along the top of the bank.
Springs Up Nearby.
II stumbled, and made a slight noise"
Connole declared, land the man sprang
up ahead of me from where he had
been hiding and ran down into the alley
past me. I called to him to halt and
as I did so he hesitated, half turned
and made a motion toward his hip
pocket with his right hand I thought
he was about to pull gun, so drew
my revolver from my coat pocket and
fired"
Connole said Young ran about 20
feet before falling. He was dead when
he arrived at Casualty Hospital.
There DR.. Charles w. LIE Master
him and found no weapon, but
took toy horn, lady's compact and
lipstick from his pockets.
Young, who lived at 116 Sixteenth
street northeast, was identified this
at the morgue by his father,
George Young.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
POSTAL EMPLOYE
DENIED PAY CLAIM
McCarI UphoIds Depart
ment's Cancellation of
Military Leave Right.

In the first test of the order of the
Post Office Department canceling mill
tary leave privileges this year as an
economy measure, Controller General
McCarl has rejected salary claim by
an employe who was notified while he
was in camp that he was considered as
being on legislative furlough, which,
consequently, subjected his pay to de-
duction.
At the same time, however the con-
troller general reiterates his previous
ruling that the right to military leave
Is absolute" and may not be legally
denied" The present case was raised
by Burie l.. Bell of West Palm Beach,
Fla, a Reserve Artillery lieutenant. who
was in training for the last two weeks
in July when advised that military
leave privileges had been Cancelled by
the department, and that he therefore
was considered as being on payless fur
Tough.
Bell appealed directly to McCarl. The
latter, after explaining that military
leave cannot be withheld, said:
standing the mandatory provisions OF
the law hereinbefore quoted. refuses to
grant the military leave, and places the
employe on furlough under section
lob of the economy act, for and dur
ing the period he is taking military
training, as appears to have been the
case here, the fact that the employe
attends the training camp, while he is
on his legislative furlough does not give
him the right to be paid the salary OF his
civilian position for any part OF the
time of his absence on such furlough."
The Post ONCE Department order
has been the cause of several exchanges
of correspondence between the depart
ment and Representative Mead of New
York, chairman of the House Postal
Committee, who protested the action to
the White House.
The McCarl decision in the present
instance, it was thought today, does
not 6ecide the question finally. It was
thought that the matter was one on
which the Court of Claims might ulti-
mately have to pass.
Evening star., 1932-08-19
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at the Sylvan Theater at
7:3O o'clock; Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second
leader. Guest soloist, Anna McGuffey,
contralto.
Overture, "Tannhauser" ...... Wagner
Vocal solo, Agnes Del" from
"L'Arlesienne" ................B .BiZet
Anna McGuffey, contralto.
Nocturne. "Liebestraume" c'Dreams
OF Love- .::;....: ......:.... List
Comet solo, willow Echoes. Simon
Second Leader Arthur S. Witcomb.
prelude" and Dance of the Ap-
prentices" from Die Meistersinger,
Wagner
saxophone solo, Beautiful Colorado"
De Luca
Musician Kenneth Douse.
Rhapsodic dance, "Bamboula.''
Coleridge Taylor
Vocal solo, "Habanera" from Carmen, "
Bizet
Anna McGuffey, contralto..
Xylophone solo, "Valse Caprice"
Wieniawski
Musician Wilbur D. Kieffer.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"..... .Liszt
Marines hymn, THE Halls of Monte
yuma"
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Concert by the United States Army
Band, Capt. Kendall J. Fielder, COM
manding officer; William ]. Stannard,
leader; Thomas F. Darcy, second leader.
Special program at the Capitol at 7:30.
Grand march, "Pomp and Circum-
Overture, Spiritual Rivers. .Gault
Selection from Faust. ....... .Gounod
Marche elegante, "CA-NA-EX," Gagnier
Dedicated to the Canadian National
Exhibition.
Colonial Song. .:::...... :Grainger
Solo for piccolo, Cleopatra Polka"
Demare
Alexander Lutkiewitz, soloist.
'Valse des Fleurs" from the Nut
Cracker Suite" ........ Tschaikowsky
Tartar Dance" ...............W Woodin
March. "On the Avenue. Pierson
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Community Center's Band,
this evening at 1880 o'clock, at Tenth
and u streets; James Miller, director.
March. National Emblem" :. .Bagley
Invitation, "A La Valse". ......... Weber
Trombone solo,
Musician Frank Trimmer.
Lies Folies Bergers," concert polka,
lines
Overture, Barber of Seville"
Vocal solo. Dodson.
March, "Stabat Matar". ..... .Losey
Songs from the Old Folks. -. Lake
March, Land of Moa". Lake
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1932-08-19
NEW TAXES SUPPLY
3PER CENT OF JULY
FEDERAL REVENUE
$1,094,287 Produced by
Bank Checks and $539,461
by 1-Cent Gas Levy.
S221,359 is TOTAL
PAID BY BREWERS
Tires, Soft Drinks and Other Items
Add Many Thousands, Period
Covering Part of June.

New taxes, led in volume by bank
checks and gasoline levies, contributed
more than per cent OF the internal
revenue of the Government in July,
according to figures made public by the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
Although covering only the last nine
days of June, the Treasury reported the
2-cent tax on bank checks produced
S1,034,287, while the 1-cent gasoline
levy brought in S539,461.
Next was the brewers wort. malt and
grape concentrates tax. which produced
$22l,359; tires and tubes, S96,057, and
soft drinks, $685.
The per cent tax on automobiles and
motor cycles returned $47.629; the per
cent levy on radios, $32,848, and the
3 per cent tax on electrical energy,
$32,196.
Amount of Taxes Small.
while credited to July receipts, actually
nine days of June and what the In
ternal Revenue Bureau termed a "drib-
BILE OF current taxes" during July.
Most of the manufacturers excise and
miscellaneous taxes are payable the last
day Of the month for the preceding
month, so that the total actually due
for July will not be paid into the
Treasury until the last day of August.
The July receipts are held by bureau
officials as bearing no comparative rela-
tion to the same nine-day period of
succeeding months, because consumers
stocked up in nearly all articles just
before the new taxes went into effect
June 81.
August receipts. covering July tax
payments, are awaited by tax experts as
the first figure upon which the total
yield from new levies for the year can
be estimated.
July Total S12,4s2,790 Less Than 1881.
Despite collections of nearly So, 900 900
in new and increased taxes. the total
in July from all sources was $12 ,482, 100
less than July. 1881. While the new
levies brought in S2.732,731 and the in
creased tax on issues Of stocks, bonds.
etc, raised revenues in that bracket
by $225,000, the total receipts were
s61 ,686,467, compared with $74.l69,258
in July last year.
income, estate, tobacco and stamp
taxes decreased over SI4 ,000, 900 as COM
pared with July, 1881.
Revenues from the increased postal
rates are not included in Treasury re-
ports, but Postmaster General Brown
said today he had reported to President
Hoover that, despite decrease in the
volume Of mail, there has been sub
stantial increase in postal revenue"
He said the outlook was hopeful that
the higher rates would raise enough to
overcome the huge postal deficit. but
this would not be known until after the
Christmas season.