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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
$5,OOO DAMAGE
 SUIT STARTED
Rebecca Schneer Names C. Paul Raymond De-
 fendant in Action
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

c. Paul Raymond of this city is named defendant in suit asking s5.000 damages which was instf- tuted in superior court to-day by Rebecca Sachner of Thomaston. The suit arises from an auto acci- dent in Plymouth last August collision between cars of both 16th, when 1t is alleged that q parties were caused by the defend- ant.
 rhere is another suit of both parties filed a week ago in which the defendant in to-day's suit. Raymond, is plaintilff' against the same defendants father. Deputy Sheriff John l.. Gray served the papers in to-day's suit drawn by Attorney David Cramer of Torring- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22

Five cars were reported to the police to-day as having been stolen. One report on being investigated indicated evidence of self-service of attachment, which may result in arrests and possibly q civil suit Of the four cars believed stolen one has been recovered.
 This morning at o'clock two employees of the H. s. Coe company wholesale dealers at AZ Freight street. left 6 truck parked near one of the warehouses and started to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
Three Hartford
 Men Sentenced for Bank Robbery

Worcester, Mass, Dec 22--CU.P.) After pleading guilty to robbing the North Brookfeld Savings bank last month, three Hartford, Conn, men were given prison terms of two and half to three years each. by Superior Judge Frederick w. Fosdick hereyesterday.
 Those sentenced were Alexander Patterson, 29, Gordon Nauss, 28, and John Tierney, 20.
 An alleged accomplice, William Putnam, 37, also of Hartford, pleaded not guilty. He was held for trial in $2O.O0O bail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
SANTACLAUSAT
 SL0CUM SCHOOL
Will Be Introduced TO- morrow By the Prin-
 cipal, Miss Pagan
CHILDREN TO SING

Miss Anna F. Pagan, principal of the Slocum grammar school, has arranged a unique Christmas pro- gram which will be presented at school tomorrow morning.
 The program, made up of songs, plays and recitations, follows: l. (First floor-"Jolly Old Saint Nicholas; Second floor "Silent Night"-Audience.
 2. Santa Claus Receives a Let ter-Santa Claus.
 ,. Song-"Merry Christmas Bells"-Patrol Girls.
 4. Christmas pictures.
 5. Song (First floor-"Up on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

Frank Rinaldi. farm hand, 122 Charles street: Josephine Valerie, factory employe, 215 Charles street.
 Henry Witte, landscape garden CT, 64 Easton avenue; Dorothy Me- street
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22

The appropriation for this sort of work was only $75.
 The commission also found t necessary to expend it's appropria- ton on the item for hospital and medical care. A total of $4,628.72 was spent for this sort of work although the appropriation was but $3,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
CONDEMNATION AGREEMENTS

Tho following compensation agreements were filed to-day at the office of Commissioner Frederic M. Williams: Jacob Cravchuk of Al Wine street and the Scovill Mfg Go, foot injury. $8.77; Scovill's and Felix Mikulslai Of 150 South street. finger iniu,.vI S10.02 weekly. :.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
LATE REALTY NEWS
wARRANTY DEEDS:

William Zubriskas to Amelia Zubrisky, real estate on the west side of Alder street and on the east side of South Wilson street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
ANOTHER FALSE ALARM

Headquarters companies answer ed an alarm rung in from box 223 at 1925 this morning. It turned out to be a false alarm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
Attorneys for
 Divorced Wife
 to Take Appeal

New York, Dec 22-(U. p - Attorneys for Peggy Lawton Rich. beautiful ex-follies girl, to-day pre- pared an appeal from the jury de- cision that yesterday granted a divorce to her husband Freddie Rich, orchestra leader. Rich charg- ed his wife with misconduct with Jack De Ruyter, society broker, on two occasions in her suite at the St Moritz hotel. The jury found ner innocent on the first occasion put guilty on the second.
 the House-Top"; Second 1ioor-- "Noer'-Audience.
 6. Play-"The Star Dollars-- Patrol members.
 2. Song-"Christmas Welcome Patrol Boys.
 8. Recitation-"Coming of San- ta William Boldyish.
 9. Song (First floor-"O Come. All Ye Faithful; Second floor 70 Come, All Ye Faithfur--Audi- ence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22

French industry is much disturb cd over threatened tax increases.
The Kusko times., 1932-03-19

to the end of time men who under the guise of one pretext or another hog the game, the fish and the fur unless controled by their fellows. It is for these men the laws are made. And these human hogs make it worse for the law-abiding sportsman who real izes the work of the game wardens and attempts to assist him in pre- serving our wild life.
 At many points in Alaska settlers and prespectors are compelled to live off the game they can kill, but there is no excuse for this in this. section, where meat can be secured at any time.
 Therefore all true sportsmen will congratulate Warden Frank Dufresne and U. s. Commissioner DeArmond upon their effective prosecution of the men who so grossly violated ali sportsman's ethics in their frightful waste of game.
The Kusko times., 1932-03-19

evils in the Volsteaa Act and thereby make it enforceable.,,
 "The Volstead Act as enforced is extremely obnoxious to American medicine. It prohibits the: doctor from prescribing alcohol except under Limitations which circumscribe and damage his usefulness. He, is sper- mitted to write 100 prescriptions for liquor within a period of 9O days and no more, no matter how urgent may be the necessity.
 "The Volstead Act is no more: sa- cred than is any other act of Con- gress- at is not the. Eighteenth. Amendment-it is merely the en- forcement act to make the Amend ment effective. If we have made: mistake in the Volstead Act, if ssx- perience has taught us that it con- tains defents, we should mot hesitate to make corrections. By foolish in- sistenoe upon the retention: of <. the original language we are making..the prohibition Ia wa stench in the nos- trils of good government ana:A men ace te the public welfare.
 Money is piling up in the hands of the underworld, police officers < are being bribed, and the courts of rihtice are becoming polluted. iIs there not sanity enough, Mavery enough; and plain ordinary common sense enough, to permit such modification of the Voastead Act as will make it an in- strument of good? As I view it, it is time the American peqpfe took stock of themselves and determined how to escape moral bankruptcy"
The Kusko times., 1932-03-19

Big Rrownie,," 'erstwhile monarch of the Fairview Mountain placar min ing region, was executed last fall by Matt Hamburger and Joe Kroskey. They own a good stretch of placer ground on Pass creek, near Fairview Mountain, and last summer they de- cided to prospect the creek. HaHdly had they tmloaded their packs and begun to look around when Big Brownie" seated himself on a nearby grass dope and said something, which in bear language might have meant, Look who's here with my dinner!' For years Big BrGwnie" had abeen. .. scourge of the district. He not. .only tore down caches and destroyed their contents, but extended his aHepreda~. dations to the interiors and .exterinrs of cabins. Three years ago he visited a cabin on Cottonwood creek, and when he departed it looked yas4: F some political convention had. just ad- journed. A year later he finished an other. cahiQ, and among his acts of vandalism was the smashing. of . Lang steve. On another occasion. he tore out six sluice boxes and. an. au- tomat5c splasher on Chicago gulch. Armed only with 3O-30 rifles, Ham burger and Kroskey hesitated about opening an offensive, hoping the king of the range would depart. Caching their food, they rigged a snare, using dog chains and heavy wire. This. thSy attached to log. Hardly had they departed when the bear made4a rec onnoisance and wandered into. .the snare. Attracted by what ~ sounded like hog caller announcing on: the mike, the partners returned, andzwith Big Brownie handicapped by. the:log. they were able to dispatch him with out danger of being annihilated...
The Kusko times., 1932-03-19
DUR GAME LAWS.
tStroller's Weekly.)

The arrest and conviction of trio eof Sitka residents for gross violation of the Territorial game laws in the nndiscriminate slaughter of deer out sof season, brings home to Alaskeos the fact that the advance of civili0- ttion brings it's penalties and puniaA. nnents. In years gone, by hundreds of 'deer were killed for. their hides alone, zand the waste of meat was appalling. But with increased population the wisdom of curtailing the slaughter became apparent and laws were passed to protect game animals, furs and fish. While the game wardens have been most lenient considering circumstances under which game is Killed, had these men been destitute and killed a small quantity of meat Tor food it is doubtful if they could have been convicted by any Alaska jury, but the fact that seventeen lhams were found together with jbarrel of salt venison, placed them beyond the plea. of necessity and proved beyond the shadow of doubt that they intended selling the meat :at a later period.
 Living on frontier the greater part of our life, we have had scant sympathy with game laws. or. in fact. with laws of any kind relating to con- nrol of country's resources, if these resources were needed by the settlers But increasing progress in ciyiliza- tlon has convinced us that if we are ito have any game in the future it must be conserved in the present.
 Our game laws represent the per- 1ected reasoning of our ,country's greatest conservationists, and while to degree these laws are inapplic- able to all localities they are the best flor the country as whole and should lbe respected and obeyed. If game is allowed to be slaughtered indiscrim- iinately, it stands to reason that with an short time our sportsmen will be forced to shoot songbirds and all "there feathered denizens of the woods. in the name of sport. ....
 Game animals and game birds have been killed with such frightful prodi- gality that within the past fifty years they have been practically extermin- ated in many States. By careful prop agation these areas have been re- stocked until they aragin are furnish ing recreation and sport for, many thousands. But how much better would it have been had they been cop served with their original stocks
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The Kusko times., 1932-03-19
DOCTOR SENATOR ADVISES
 CHANGES IN VOLSTEAD ACT

America cannot return to the drink evil because America has not given up the drink evil" declared Dr. Royal s. Copeland, United States Senator from New York. in an ad- dress which was broadcast over a na- tional hookup a few evenings ago. "No well-informed and candid per- son." he argued. "can contend that cause of true temperance has been promoted by our Federal laws. Every person who drank liquor when these laws went into effect can get it and is drinking liquor today. America has not abandoned the drink evil.
 T am a physician. Speaking in that capacity, I wish America had abandoned the drink evil. Insted of that, our cities have become crime infested, the health of thousands is being undermined, and the respect for law which should control our youth has disappeared. But it is on health alone that shall speak.
 "When the Government undertook to enforce the law against liquor it abandoned it's oh-time effort to guarantee the quality of the liquor. What was at least pure in the sense thst harmful incidental ingredients were not included with the beverage, has become reeking mass of poison- ous concotions. Those who drink the stuff on the market are unwise be- yond words. But they do drink it and will drink it, unless we can find suc- cessful substitute for the present legal failure to control the traffic.
 Millions of citizens are in revolt against the law because they regard the enactment as too rigid. These laws cover nonintoxicating as we'll as intoxicating liquors, If they were modified to permit the sale of scien- tifically determined nonintoxicant, millions who resent the present situa- tion would become honest adherents to and supporters of the law.
 Tt is because believe the welfare of the country would be every way every way promoted that I favor modification of the volstead Act. Such modification is legally possible. It is advocated by vast number of persons and by several nationwide associations of lawyers. doctors, le- gionnaires, craftsmen and other or ganizations in no wise selfshly inter ested in the subject.
 Tt has been definitely planned by the League for the Modification of the Volstead Act to introduce legisla- tion at the present session of Con gress intended to remedy the existing
The Kusko times., 1932-03-19

Takotna. Alaska. March l9, 1892.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
PAINT CONTRACTOR
LOSES WAGE CLAIM
General Accounting Office
DisaHows SO, 1894 Asked for
Work on Revenue Building.

Claims of the Alliance Construction
Co., painting firm Of New York, for an
additional s8,3s4 represented as an
alleged loss to the firm because Of pay
ment of the prevailing rate Of wages"
to painters working on the interior
of the Internal Revenue Building, was
disallowed today by the General Ac-
counting Ofice.
The firm charged that 1t was forced
to pay that much more than 1t had
figured in its bid, because OF the deci-
sion of the Department Of Labor, en-
forced by the Treasury Department,
that $1l a day was the prevailing wage.
and should be paid by the contractor.
The case was handled by the claims
division of the General Accounting Of
fee. The claim was disallowed on the
ground that the wage provision calling
for payment of the prevailing wage
was a proper part of the contract since
the painting was part of the new work
of completing the Internal Revenue
Bureau Building
The prevailing-w provision was
properly applied under the law to paint
ers on this job, as to other workmen in
the construction of the building, the de-
cision held. 1t was pointed out that the
painting of the Internal Revenue Build
ing was not repair work, but was new
work, the first time the building had
been painted, and that any amount paid
by the contractor above the sum he had
contemplated in his bid was an entirely
proper expense. Such an amount could
not constitute a real claim for payment
in addition to the amount Of the con-
tract, it was held.
The Alliance Construction Co. was
low bidder for the paint job at the fig
ure Of $78,896 and obtained the con-
tract. Union labor on August Of last
year protested to the Secretary Of Labor.
charging that the company was violat-
ing the Bacon-Davis law by paying less
than the prevailing wage" After con-
Slderation Secretary of Labor Doak de-
cided that sl1 per day which was the
union scale, was the prevailing wage
The paint company agreed under pro-
test on September l to pay $l1 day,
and claimed that it paid this scale.
Several painters filed affidaVits with
Evening star., 1932-04-19
FUND Of S6OO,O)O
FOR RELIEF URGED
Lincoln Park Citizens ASSo.
citation Asks That Sum Be
Given to District.

Unanimous approval of a resolution
urging Congress to appropriate $500, 900
to be included In the 1888 District ap-
preparation bill fer unemployment re-
lief in the District was given by the
Lincoln Park Citizens Association last
night.
The association also supported the
action of its delegates to the Federation
of Citizens Associations in opposing
any reduction in the salaries OF Federal
employees at the federation's last meet
ing.
w. A. Calvin. vice president of the
International Brotherhood of Boiler
makers, Iron Ship Builders. Welders
and Helpers of America, addressed the
group on the proposed reduction OF sal
aries of Federal employees and Senator
Capper's bill which is now before the
Senate Committee for reorganization
and enlargement of the steam boiler In
spection service for the District
Mr.. Calvin asserted that a reduction
In wages of Federal employees would
only result in further discomfort and
suffering in the country. This. he said,
would also be a signal, as well as an
alibi, for reduction in the salaries Of
employees OF private business concerns
in the country.
He placed large part Of the blame
for the present business slump upon
the bankers, brokers and big business
men of the country, stating that 1t was
inevitable they could foresee the 1929
stock crash.
Representative Mary Norton's old-age
securities pension bill, now before the
House, was disapproved by the asso-
citation.
An investigation was ordered by the
association with a view to obtaining the
Eastern High School grounds for the
use Of children in the Lincoln Park ter
ritory as a playground.
Illustrations on the progress of avia-
ton were given by George Hern.
Joseph l.. Gammel, president. and
William A. Carlin, secretary, offciated
at the meeting, which was held in the
Bryan School, located on B street be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets southeast.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
LAW COLLEGE HEAD
WINS DAMAGE SUIT
Mrs. Ellen s. Mussey Awarded
$337.75 as Result of Accident
With Oil Truck.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, April 19-Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey 81, head of the
Washington College of Law and one Of
the ccuntry's best known woman law
yers, was awarded judgment Of s337.7s
by a jury in Circuit Court here last
night in q suit for $4,000 damages
against the Atlantic Refining Co. for
injuries alleged 10 have been sustained
in an automobile accident on the Rock
vile -Gaithersburg pike near Derwood
on September 8 last.
1t was shown that an automobile in
which the plaintiff was on her way
from Harpers Ferry to Washington
crashed into a concrete culvert and
that she sustained painful injuries TO
the knee and arm and was otherwise
hurt.
1t was claimed that a motor truck
belonging to the defendant company
which the car containing Mrs. Mussey
had been trailing made a left turn
into a side road just as Mrs MusSey's
machine was passing it and that in an
effort to avoid a collision the auto
mobile was pulled to one side and into
the culvert. 1t was further claimed that
the truck driver did not give warning
Of his purpose to turn. The truck
driver said, however, that he did give
a hand signal.
Mrs. MusSey was represented by At
torneyS Stedman Prescott of Rockville
and Edwin c. Dutton of Washington
and the company by Attorneys Thomas
L. Dawson of Rockville and Robert
Bartlett of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
DEATH IN BURNING
CAR HELD ACCIDENT
Prince Georges Inquest Held for
Washington Man Found
Burned.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 49,
After 80 minutes deliberation, coroner s
jury last night decided that the death
of Kenneth Vieth, 1855 Monroe street
northeast, Washington, whose body was
found in the wreck of his burned auto
mobile early Sunday morning, was
accidental.
The verdict gave "the fire or the col
lision" as the immediate cause Of the
mans death. There was evidence which
indicated Vieth's car collided with a
tree stump before leaving the road,
turned over and caught fire.
County Policeman Elon Turner and
Federal Prohibition Agents r. A.
Brantley and L. G.. Mitchell told OF
seeing the reflection of the burning car
in the mirror Of their car as they
rounded Wells Corner on the Grain
Highway about 2 am.
They said the door Of the burning car
was open and through the flames Vieth's
body could be seen, his hands gripping
the steering wheel. The jury was also
tod that the car was identified by
license plates and the body by ring
An effort was instituted last night tC
make a further identification by means
of dental chart, police said
The accident occurred in front OF the
home of Samuel A. Wyvill. who We,
foreman of the jury. Justice of Peace
Horace Taylor presided at the inquest
which attracted a capacity crowd to the
court house.
Evening star., 1932-04-19

He also devoted much attention to-
ward obtaining a Federal appropriation
for cancer research in cooperation
with philanthropic agencies.
Senator Harris was one Of five sons
of Dr. Charles Hook Harris and
Margaret Monk Harris, all of whom
achieved prominence. Two OF the
Senator's brothers were Army officers
Maj. Gen. Peter c. Harris, who
was recognized for gallant service in
the Spanish American War and who
was adjutant general of the United
States Army from September. 1918,
until his retirement four years later
and Maj Hunter Harris who, after an
enviable record in the World War, be-
came instructor in military science at
the University Of Georgia. His other
brothers were DR.. Scale Harris, for
mer president of the Southern Medical
Association, and James c. Harris, for
years superintendent Of the Georgia
State Institute for Deaf and Dumb.
After his public school education,
Senator Harris went to the University
Of Georgia, where he was graduated
in 1890. On July 27 1905, he married
at New York, Miss Julia Knox Wheeler,
daughter of the famous soldier, Brig
Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
The Senator was a member Of the
Presbyterian Church and an Odd Fell
low. He was member of the perma-
nent board Of visitors of the United
States Military Academy at West Point
and also of the National Forest Reser-
Vation Commission.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
HI-JACKING CASE
PROBED BY JURY
Tea House Shooting Is Also In.
vestigated by Prince Georges
Body.
y staff Correspondent Of The Star.

b. staff Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md April 19-
Tle Bladensburg tea house shooting
and charges Of hi-jacking against a
deputy sheriff were presented to the
grand jury by States Attorney Alan
Bowie yesterday The jury is under
stood to have completed its investiga-
tion of the hi-jacking, but the tea house
case was continued until today.
Verne Edwards, star witness for the
State who has repeatedly declared
Peter Abbott of Philadelphia to have
been the trigger man" in the tea
house hold-up, during which Grover
Amick was slain was brought from the
House of Detention, Washington, to ap-
pear before, the jury
Lieut. Cornelius Roche and Sergt-
William Feehley, Baltimore detectives,
and Prince Georges County police who
investigated the case were also called.
Among the witnesses who appeared in
the hi-jackng case was man said to
have owned the liquor involved and the
driver of the car who was hauling It..
These men were called to testify against
Newton James, deputy sheriff, and
Thomas Vernon Garrison, son Of the
chief deputy who are accused of hi
Jacking the liquor in warrants obtained
by County Policeman Ralph Brown.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
FOUR FILIPlNOS SOUGHT
IN S1,50O DICE SWINDLE
Victim Says Men in New York Car
Took Life Savings
From Him.

Four Filipinos who swindled Sonido
Deosdado of 81 500, his life's savings,
in dice game on the Lincoln Memo
rial grounds late yesterday, we're sought
by police today.
DeoSdado was resting in his apart
ment, at 1900 Eighteenth street, when
the four men raped at his door and
asked for a man named Jose For
anda." Told that he knew no one by
that name, the men fingered and finally
swung into discussion of gambling.
One Of the men, the victim told po-
lice, persuaded him to take part in a
game of dice and Deosdado went to his
bank and drew out 81 500. The quar-
tet film -f1ammed" Deosdado of the en-
tire sum within short time in a game
played near the Lincoln Memorial and
then drove off in a car bearing New
York tags.