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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10

hydrocyanic acid and although perhaps the most powreful poison known. 1t is chemically weak. It will clean surfaces somewhat as potash and sal soda do, removing grease and dirt which is held by the grease. It is not, however, as good cleaner as sal soda and pot ash. Chemically it has very little action on the copper. A better cleaner for copper is oxalic acid" What if any effect does the ad- dition of cyanide of potassium to oxalic acid have as cleaning fluid for copper?"
 "In the proportion four parts of potassium cyanide to one of oxalic acid (Mrs Costello bought four ounces of cyanide and one ounce of oxalic acid) it is perfectly use- less as a cleaner. In that case the oxalic acid has disappeared as a cleaning agent. Its use as a cleaner is, to say the least, idiotic, because it Is extremely poisonous. After it dries on the copper the air is filled with cynaide dust which is very dangerous for children"
 The government, through Dr Boos' testimony, also assailed the- ories of the defense that absorp- ton of cyanide through the skin or inhalation of fumes of hydro cyanic acid during the time Cos tello was mixing the cyanide and oxauc acid may have caused his death.
 Dr Boos said a "cyanide rash" was very common in districts where men used cyanide in the ase-hardening of steel. They have sores on their hands, but he has treated numerous cases of the kind and there never was serl- ous case" he testified. Such em- ployes had their hands in cyanide all day without serious results, Dr Boos added.
 Regarding the inhalation the ory, Dr Boos testified that when inhalation of hydrocyanic gas took place If the person gets away from the atmosphere in which he breathes the gas, into the fresh air or another room. he will recover" person inhaling such gas either dies on the spot where he breathes it or not at all. he said
 In this connection it was recalled Mrs Costello testified her husband mixed the cyanide and oxalic acid downstairs, but his body was found lDstairs
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1 hundred dollars in a previous will, will receive the remaining two- thirds of her fathers estate.
 And Mrs Arden Brown, mother of Arden Brown, who died on the afternoon of his second marriage, loses the bulk of the estate to which she had been named heir in the first will drawn and witnessed in July of 1928.
 These unusual conditions now exist as result of Judge Dennis J. Slavin ruling in probate court this morning that the late Arden Brown of Roseland avenue, sales manager of the Risdon Tool Works, died intestate. The will drawn in 1923 was declared void.
 The Colonial Trust company qualified to-day as executor of the estate. At to-days hearing Attor- ney Nathaniel R. Bronson ap- peared for Virginia Ruth Brown, child of about 8 years, who is residing in Richmond, Va. She is the daughter of Arden Brown by previous marriage. Attorney Walter Monagan appeared in the interests of Mrs Marie Goodelle Brown of Homer, N. Y, widow of hte deceased.
 MT Brown and Miss Goodelle were married in Homer, N. Y, on July 12, 1893. An hour after the ceremony the couple were seated in their automobile bidding goodbye to friends. They were about to star on their honeymoon. As MT Brown reached over to turn on tho ignition switch, he slumped sud- denly in his seat and died before medical attention could be sum moned. He was the victim of a heart attack.
 The original will drawn in 1928 was presented in court to-day. It named Virginia Ruth Brown, the daughter as beneficiary to the ex- tent of $100 and Mrs Arden Brown, the mother, the chief legatee.
 Mir Browns sudden death, how ever. resulted in developments. To-day 1t was Judge Slavin's ruling that the will was out and that MT Brown died intestate. This de- cision brought he widow into the usual one-third allowance as the wife of the deceased. It placed the daughter in position to claim the bulk and left the mother with out basis for a claim against the estate.
 The deceased was very promin- ently known in Waterbury. Sev- eral local residents witnessed his marriage in Homer, N. Y., on July 18th. His first wife was Miss Ruth Blakeslee, daughter of the late Ralph N. Blakeslee.
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Famous Dry Board
 Died Last Night

fContinued from Page l.) the new division. but 1t was be- 1ieved additional readjustments might be made later in line with the administrators confident be. lief the 18th amendment will be re- pealed by the end of the year.
 Aftr repeal, tho governmnt's pro- hibition enforcement activities will be confined to protecting states which desire to remain dry. How many men this will require is un- certain at present.
 Fderal enforcement has been relaxed considerably in recent months, although Attorney General Cummings has said 1t will contiue as long as the 18th amendment is in force. One fthe last acts oi federal agents under the separte bureau was the arrest here of seven persons, including one described as the "brains' of ring said to have been furnishing q major part oi Washington's illicit liquor.
 About $100.000,0 1000 was spent more than 100 lives. were lost and thousands were sent to jail in the prohibition bureaus hectic 13. year existence.
 The Roosevelt administration began to curtail the prohibition unit almost as soon as 1t came in- to power. Medicinal liquor regula- tions were relaxed, making il easier for individuals to buy whis- key from durg stores at prices of $1.75 to $2.5O a pint. This cost the bootleggers many customers, as did the legalization of 3.2 per cent beer.
 Five men headed the prohibition bureau. with varying success. They were in the order of their service, John F. Kramer, Major Roy Haynes, Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews, Col. Amos W. w. Woodcock, and Major A. V. Dalrymple. The lat ter. Roosevelt appointee. lost his job last night.
 Under the consolidation plan, prohibition enforcement activities will now be under the direction of John $. Hurley, heading the unit as subdivision of the new division of Investigation. J. Edgar Hoover who has been with the justice de- partment since 1917, heads the division.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Textile Industry In South Rooms Better
 Than In All History

Telegraph Editors Note:
 Following is the first of two
 articles on the effect of the
 MIRA textile code in the mill
 centers of the industrial south.
 This rounds out the picture of
 the textile industry sketched in
 the United Press survey of the
 New England industrial dis
 tricts, concluded yesterday.
 By FOSTER EATON ,(Copyright, 1888, by United Press)
 Rome, Ga, Aug 10-(UP)-A new era has opened in this pie turesque textile town on the banks of the Etowah river, where 21,000 look to the carders and looms for a livelihood.
 A new feeling of security com pels the attention of the most cas- ual observer. Hundreds have found unemployment under the textile code.
 At Lindale, 8 suburb, day-shift boys released from labor at the Pepperell cotton mills, sprawled on the lawn of the community center. A score of workers splashed in the swimming pool, and others played ball or tennis. The company gives a motion picture show every night in the auditorium.
 The Pepperell mills now em- ploy 3,150 regularly in two 40-hour shifts which run from a. m. to 10 D. m. daily except Sunday. The average weekly pay is $14.85 for a 40-hour week compared with an average of $12.00 plus for a 55- hour week before the code went into effect.
 Before the rush of manufactur- ing in anticipation of the code's adoption, Pepperell employed 1,780 men and women, meaning that 1870 have been put back to work by the code.
 Captain H. F. Meikleham, mill head, is a benevolent dictator who seems to command the loyalty of his workers The mills are strictly open shop, but R. D. Harvey, as- sistant agent, said ''if the men voted for a union, they could have it, but they have never seemed to care or need it."
 Harvey did not seem thoroughly convinced the new industrial scheme would work. He feared prices would advance beyond the consumer buying power, and point ed out. that while mills have cleaned out the stocks piled up during the anticipatory rush, dis tributors' warehouses are damned.
 Another major mill is the Tubize Chatetilon corporations rayon plant, employing 1,708 as against 1,035 previously. Four hundred of the increase is attributable to re- cent installation of an acetate unit, the rest to the code. Tubize now works at plant capacity, two 40- hour shifts at an average hourly wage of 46 cents.
 Tubize had paid 30h cents per hour average, according to R. C.. Jones, plant superintendent. While the rayon industry was not yet on code operationsI Tubize announced effective July 31, it would operate under a pending code, at 40 cents per hour in two 40-hour shifts. Spinners protested, demanding 50 cents per hour.
 We immediately shut down the plant, called in a federal media tor, and finally effected compro- mise of 46 cents," Jones said. "In some instances that represented as
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Cyanide Story Was
 Struck Body Blow
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it perfectly useless as a cleaner"
 This testimony of Dr. Boos came after defense counsel and govern ment attorneys, in 49-minute bench conference, had reached an agreement on certain facts relative to Fire Captain William J. Cos tello's life insurance which Super for Judge Frederick w. Fosdick said would greatly expedite the trial.
 Defense Counsel Francis l.. Raf- ter read to the jury statement of fact on which both defense and prosecution had agreed.
 "On December 1, 1921, William J. Costello took out $1,000 pol icy of the Massa chusetts Firemen's Relief Association, making his father, John J. Costello. Sr., the beneficiary. This occurred prior to his marriage to Jessie B. Costello, the defendant at the bar.
 Ut is agreed that no change was made in the policy affecting the beneficiary and it is also agreed that William J. Costello had the right to change the beneficiary by indicating that change on the cer- tifcate in the presence of two wit nesses
 "The certificate has been either lost or mislaid. An honest search has been made for it by all the par ties concerned, but it has not been ! found. Neither party imputes to the other any wrong-doing in the failure to find the certificate"
 The $1.000 policy referred to in this statement is separate from Captain Costello's two other like insurance policies, totaling $5,000, which the government contends supplied one motive for the al- legged murder. Mrs Costello was the beneficiary of both these poli- cies. the larger of which for s.t a00) Costello had arranged to cancel only few days before his death.
 Doctor. you have some knowl- edge of the efficacy of cyanide as a cleaning agent" began John J. Ryan, bespectacled, 30-year old as- sistant district-attorney.
 "Yes. I have" replied Dr Boos Potassium cyanide in solution is an excellent cleaner for silver and gold and is used for that purpose by jewellers. It's affect on copper Is not the same as on silver and gold"
 "How does 1t act on copper?"
 "Potassium cyanide is a salt of
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Doctor DOlan to Start Next Weel
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NCOnLlUueQ LrOm rage 1.) enue office as the guest of Colond Eaton.
 Appointments throughout thI state are expected to follow i'm mediately after Dr Dolan formall| takes over the reins of the revenu| office at Hartford. Just when | chief for the local revenue offlc| will be named is not yet knqwii The present chief, James P. Md Grath, is ready to resign very soo1 It has been g foregone. conclusioI that his post would be given to
 pr Dolan, so far, has only nom mated five special processing ta1 deputies. one of them is from the fifth congressional district Winsted or vicinity is understood to bet he district of the fifth dis trict recognized in Dr Dolan's SC, lections. One deputy for each con, gressiona1 district. has been picked As soon as they are approved al Washington, D. C., the deputie! will begin their new duties. Other appointments must await officia action from Dr Dolan, himself after he has become official revenue chief for Connecticut.
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President Of Cuba
 Clings To His Job
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I be to settle the general strike" he said. "Then continue the media tion negotiations with the opposi- ton where they were suspended about week ago. The mediation was progressing smoothly. "It is impossible for the head of the government to abandon the helm of state, especially under such trying conditions.
 There should be no interven- tion, and anyone talking interven- tion is speaking for himself. We must remain in peace and order, and not by imposition from any one.
 "The United States has always been creating and not destroying countries. President Roosevelt is trying to be good neighbor and the United States government Is trying to unite all America for poll itical and economic purposes, not trying to harm any nations. T know the ability of Ambassa- dor Welles and I am sure he would be the first one to decide upon Cuban independence" Ambassador Welles said that the next move lay with Machado. He repeated his denials that he had delivered any ultimatum. Tn an effort to maintain a nor mal atmosphere the government ordered the usual band concert in the Prado Glorieta, but only a few promenaders heard 1t.
 Popular anger against the police and secret service manifested itself again when a secret service man oh at last night. T. policemen and 8 police lieutenant were reported killed elsewhere, but there was no confirmation of the report.
 An unidentified radio announce ment last night said Machod would not see Ambassador Welles if he sought an interview. but would re- fer him to Ferrara. An appeal was made to all Cubans and to Spanish residents to unite against interven- tion.
 Ferrara told the United Press he disapproved of such attacks on the United States or its ambassa- dor.
 The presidential proclamation declaring a stcte of war was post ed this morning. It gave "parti- cipants in seditious movements" "A hours from the time of signing of the decree--5 p. m. yesterday-to deliver arms and munitions to the authorities. Civil authorities are to relinquish their authority to the military as soon as disturbances occur in any locality the proclama- tion said.
 The national executive commit tee of Machado's liberal party was called to discuss t' e peace formula offered by Srmn r Welles, Amer ican ambassador.
 Military authorities in Havana prohibited the assembling of groups ir the streets and required pedes- trians to keep moving. Sixty per- sons ere arrested for participa- ton in disturb nces.
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career. Cuba was being ruled bJ the army under "state of war;" It was believed Machado hai received plain intimation from American officials that his con. tinuance in power made solution of the crisis difficult. But despite persistent rumors that he would make patriotic gesture by relin- quishing office, there was no sign of compromise in his declaration of a state of war or the attitude of his first lieutenant, Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara.
 Machado told the United Press he was devoting all his time to ending the strike that is in actual ity a passive revolution. Ferrara said Machado must remain in off, flee, that there must be no Ameri- can intervention, and that the solu- tion was in ending the strike and continuing mediation by American Ambassador Sumner Welles. Anti-Americanp propaganda broad cast from local radio stations al. legedly by the government, bore its first fruit when Miss Hertha Shriv' ing, Alabaman in charge of the commercial cable office at the Plaza hotel, was seized by police man as she left the hotel and dragged screaming through the streets to a police station.
 Another American watched as police took her to the central po- lice station. He telephoned Ann bassador Welles and Miss Skirving was released. No reason was given for her arrest.
 The incident was attributed solely to theanti-American feeling engendered among police and other government supporters by the denunciatory broadcasts which seemed undoubtedly to have ema- mated from government sources.
 The central strike committee voted to halt the strike of omni- bus drivers and transport workers, and a meeting of workers was called for to-day to pass on the committee recommendation.
 Machado meantime was pre- pared to break the strike by force if possible, provided he could not persuade workers to return to their jobsand feed the hungry city.
 His declaration of a state of war by which the army took control of the citly, was attributed first to the murder of policemen in revenge for the slaughter of score of per- sons before the presidential pal ace Monday, and secondly to a plan to use the army as strike breakers.
 There was little sign of state of war" in the strets. Knots of soldiers stood at street corners. People sat in the parks as usual, and the scene was that of Sum day except cafes were closed.
 Machado, however, made plans to use the soldiers to run trans port and distribute food. No meat was available There were few vegetables, and no distribution of milk.
 Many observers doubted the loyalty of the army, believing that if the workers refused to return to their jobs and fought an effort by the army to do their work, the soldiers would refuse to fire on them. Thearmy's attitude could be one of passivity or open revolt, in which event Machado would have little choice but to retire.
 Secretary of State Ferrara after conferences with Machado' and Ambassador Welles, granted an interview to the United Press.
 My solution of the crisis would
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Sanditz and
 Traurig Dividend
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is hoped to have sufficient funds to make another dividend payable The first dividend was paid in July of last year.
 The civil action referred to is based on two 5000 dividend pay. ments due from the Merchants Trust Co. The latter bank has de. clared two dividends to depositors but the amounts due the Sandit; and Traurig bank were not paid pending the civil action.
 The sums are due MT Kimbal said, on the $40,000 certificate oi deposit which the Sanditz and Traurig bank had with the Mer. chants Trust Co.,, at the time oi its closing. The receiver for tho Merchants Trust Co.,, objected tc paying the certificate of deposit dividends to the Sanditz bank or the grounds that when the certi. ficate was issued. no cash entered the deal, it simply being book keeping transaction.
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SCHOOL GOT ss,soo GRANT

Eugene. Ore. (UP)-The school of fine arts at the University of oregon has been given a $6,5O0 grant by the Carnegie Foundation to conduct special courses during the summer session. Eugene Gus tav Steinhof. director of the Na- tional School of Decorative Art of Vienna will be in charge of the instruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
HALTiNG THE ANT INVASION

In the summertime you should take steps to prevent ants and other small vermin from invading your home. Kerosene oil or strong household ammonia, used on the baseboards of the kitchen and on the woodwork around the cupbards, will tend to keep ants and reaches away. Red pepper is another thing which bugs hate. Sprinkle little in the bottom of your refrigerator and on the shelves of your cupboards. Dis- infect the sink daily. A weak sol ution of any good household disin- fectant will do the trick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-10
Daughter Benefits Also By Probate
 Court Judgment
Late Arden Brown Died Intestate, Rules Judge Widow to Receive One-Third and Daughter By First Marriage Gets Residue of Estate Mother Named in Original Will Loses Claim to Estate

A bride of one hour received a wife's one-third interest in the estate of her husband.
 A daughter of the deceased, who had been given a legacy of one
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Modern Barber Shop, J. R. Wat. kins Products, Judge Office Equip. ment Company, Harper Method Shop, Gualtieri Studios, Inc, Con- ti's Grocery, Membrino, tailor.
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RISKED LIFE TO SAVE DOG

Portland, Ore. (UP)--Unmind- full of his own life, James Whit, IT. threw his life preserver around his pet dog when canoe they were padding upset recently. The pre- server kept the animal afioat un- til harbor police rescued them. Whit clung to the canoe.
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Twenty blocks of buildings are being demolished in the North Lambeth quarter of London.
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Evening star., 1933-12-11

furnish such route, but between that
boundary and Trinidad lies a rough
terrain of high mountains. Nearly
five hundred miles of this course spans
a country Of the greatest difnculty for
the flyer. Settlements are small and
widely separated. There is no assured
water landing possibility until the
delta of the Oronoco is reached imme-
diatels south of Trinidad. Yet so
'killful is Lindbergk's flying, so accu-
rate his course-laying, that there Is no
present fear of mishap on this leg,
which is perhaps as risky as any he has
undertaken in this present great circuit.
Assuming that he will cover the course
safely he will have contributed valuably
to the cause Of regular pan-American
flying by this route, when once sur
veyed. With all the perils Of the jungle
and the broken land Of the mountain
Gus region it is apt to be found better
for scheduled flying to Brazil than that
heretofore followed along the coast. At
all events this detour which Lindbergh
is taking will open up a new field, and
it may have the effect of restoring the
prosperity of Manaos, which few years
ago fourished as center of the
Amazon Basin rubber industry, and is
now in a sad state Of decay in conse-
Quence of the collapse Of the latex
boom.
Evening star., 1933-12-11
Campaign Goes On.

The Budget Committee of the Com
munity Chest today begins its study for
the ALLEGATION of funds raised in the
annual drive, but the occasion will not
be as joyful as many had hoped. The
formal campaign brought only about
seventy eight per cent of the gifts and
pledges required to maintain the work
of the constituent agencies. How serious
such a cut will be is readily apparent.
The average man knows only too well
the significance of a twenty-five per
cent decrease in income. Hospitals,
homes for helpless infants and for the
aged, community centers and charac-
building institutions are subject to
the same law. They can do only a
portion of their work If they have only
a portion of their usual resources.
Moreover, it should be remembered
that the demand for social, aid is
greater at present than it Ordinarily
has Seen. The effects Of the9ong de-