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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-14
PERSHING is RECOVERED
Feeling Fine" He Says as He Starts
on Auto Trip.

By nitcd Press
MIDLAND, Tex, Feb. 14.-Gen-
eral John j. Pershing left for FL
PaSo, Tex, today after weeks ILL
ness here with bronchitis and laryn-
gifts.
He said he was feeling fine" He
Travelled by automobile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-14
GIRL ATTACKED, SLAIN
Body Is Identified; Left to Die in
Bridgeport (Ill.) Park.

Bridgeport Ill.) Park.
BIZ United Press
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill, Feb. IA
The nude body of a girl attacked
and left to die in a Bridgeport GlI)
park was identified today as that
of Dorothy Adams, 19, Lawrence
vile.
Bruises on her face and body in
dictated that she died from effects
of a beating and criminal attack
Apparently she had been dragged
to the park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-14
Ford Co. Refusal to Cooperate
Is Held Reason for Moratorium

LANSING Mich,
forum banking Michigan
Motor Company Governor william A Comsock
He said that refusal of the
Guardian
the R. F. c. forced the moratorium depotors and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-14

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Hope Dies

Those proponents of a special session of the Legislature have met with short shrift at the hands of state officials in the last few years It may be recalled that a year ago Mayor George Quigley of New Britain made every effort to have Governor Wilbur L. Cross call special session. The governor. however. bided his time and eventually pointed out that some emergency must be clearly outlined before he would do any such thing As was expected, the regular session this spring proved plenty early enough to care for the situation Thus was needless expense prevented.
 Ever since tie Legislature adjourned in carly June there has been more talk of con- vening again. This time the demand has come from various sources and for various reasons First we were told that it would be necessary for our legislators to amend the state bank laws SO that the Federal Home Loan Owners Corporation might be put in working operation. It was believed that certain statutes would prevent state banks and savings institutions investing in the bonds of the Home Loan Owners Corpora ton. An official ruling showed no need for the Legislature to meet to amend the laws.
 The next thing we knew there was call for a session to allow towns and cities to make use of federal funds apportioned them under terms of the public works act This money may be obtained for specific forms of public work and only by satisfying certain conditions. It was claimed by those lovers, of special sessions that to secure loans from Uncle Sam towns would have to get first legislative permission. However, once again the Attorney Generals office has come to the fore and saved the day, Money may be bor- rowed by towns without fear of violating any state ordinances. So our legislators can resume their normal activities withotu fear of interruption and the voters of the state can rest assured that we will be spared the sight of the General Assembly meeting twice in the same year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Cool Clothing

England is advancing sartorially. It can't be more than a quarter of century since Mark Twain startled that country by wear ing white dress suit in London, because he preferred white to black and because it was cooler. Now already a noblemani follows his example. The other evening the elderly Duke of Marlborough. ninth bearer of that title. appeared at formal ball dressed in white linen and soft collar. The gathering. of course. was startled almost out of its wits. The duke explained kindly that he did it not merely for selfish comfort, but as an example to other men who were mopping themselves in the heat wave.
 Now there's some chance of dear old England being as comfortable indoors as it is outdoors. Even there, it may learn some thing from this crass country. A true Briton never takes off his coat. Britannia may yet cease to be shocked by shirt-sleeves. We're making further progress toward sar- torial sanity over here, too. The reference is not to bathing suits which tend more and more toward the infantie minimum, lacking sense as much as Victorian styles did. It's the wearing of cool white ducks by men more generally than ever before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Cuban Sugar

Cuba is notable example of the folly of any nation putting all its eggs into one bas- ket. Sugar, even more than Machado, has been her undoing. And her great and good friends Uncle Sam has contributed to the After we freed her from Spain and set her up as a republic under benevolent protee- torate, our Congress enacted commercial measures to make her prosperous and inci- dentally to enlarge our foreign market. Cuba seemed the best place on earth for sugar cane, so we encouraged her to specialize in sugar. Soon most of the cultivated part of the island was growing cane, our capital was spouting into Cuban plantations and sugar mills. and we were taking most of her raw sugar. She became virtually a one crop country. Her plantation owners na- tive and American. became rich, she was buying in the United States half billion dollars worth of imports a year. and pay ing for it mostly withs ugar
 Havana became second Paris But pros- perity did not reach to the masses. Planta- ton workers were virtually peons, and re- mained so. Lately Cuba has been buying from us less than $30,000000 worth of goods. This is largely due to the world depression. but it also is largely result of our sugar tariff which, whether or not it benefits our own sugar growers as it is sup posed to do, makes it impossible for Cubans to produce except at loss. American in- vestors there have suffered heavily along with the Cubans, with perhaps $1,500,- . mn mn Nf al ct>r fN CO00 100000. Cuban workers lucky enough to have plantation jobs mak el2 to 20 cents day. Efforts at Washington for Cuban recovery will have to take these facts into account.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Traces Decline Of U. s. Presidents.

"The Peoples Choice" by Her.
 bert Agar, passes the presidents of the United States in review, from Washington to Harding, and con- c1udes that the calibre of men elected to that high office has suf-
 fered because of the rapid spread of democracy in a country which also elected to go industrial at the same time.
 Of the first seven presidents, says
 MT Agar, six were first rate men by any standard-world statesmen of whom any nation might be proud. Then, after Jackson, came vast
 extension of democracy. The oli- garchy which had governed the country lost it's power and the
 voice of the people became su-
 preme. As a result, he says, only four of the remaining presidents
 were truly big men. The rest range from mediocre to worse.
 As MT Agar sees it, Q good bit of this trouble arises because the na-
 tion tried to combine the Hamil- tonian and Jeffersonian programs
 at once.
 Hamilton's scheme for protected
 industry, a powerful owning class and a strong federal government was adopted-and so was Jeffer-
 sons play for complete democracy.
 The old south tried to preserve
 Jefferson's agrarian civilization as well, and was crushed in the Civil war. At the same time, Hamil- toms profund distrust of the con- mon people was ignored.
 "The Peoples Choice" is a stimulating and valuable book. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. 1t sells for S3,50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Al Capone Has Job Fixing Shoes at Atlanta
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

!, barons to confer in her office while President Green of the A. F. of L.. i was there.
 Under Miss Perkins, the Labor Department policy has become one of avoiding publicity on anything likely to start controversies. Even official acts.
 Green Ready to Quit
 Green spilled the story of the steel men after the Labor Advisory Board had decided to keep quiet about it. Chairman Leo Wolman of the board was angry about the leak.
 Green, it is now whispered, wrote his resignation from the board after General Johnson had denied his status as labor adviser on the steel code. He was modified when Johnson and aides drafted 8 state- ment to cover up the generals er- TOT and admit Greens position. (Earlier, Green had theratened to resign over an internal l.. A. B. argument.)
 Johnson's Brother Mrs Johnson and her son are working for MIRA, but the gen. erals brother, Aleck, who ran for congress last year, has yet to be taken in.
 Aleck Johnson told friends he ex- pected to be made public works administrator for Oklahoma. But that was before the public works program was taken from the gen. erals hands and before it was known there would be no state ad- ministrators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
So They Say

Jazz is insanity set to notes. Rev. George Bernard, 60. who wrote "The Old Rugged Cross" Everyone here is saying MIRA means "No Republicans Allowed" Fred L. Porter, republican mem- Der of New York assembly.
 One finds good book these days with about the same emotion that one comes across a dime in for gotten vest.
 Frances Trainor, poetess.
 f@ I am 6 baritone. not a crooner. There is a vast difference. Hutton, actor-husband of Aimee Semple McPherson.
 The moving pictures need more more drama, more mu- sic, instead of so much talk.
 Mary Pickford The president wants to get mon- ey into circulation. We are going to help him. In the future, we will work only for cash. Jeff Davis, "King of the Hoboes'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Useless Army Posts

For decades the federal government has made futile attempts to cut down the number of its army posts. It supports some $50 military reservations in all parts of the coun- try. and vast number of the mare of no military value whatever; but every time the War Department tries to close up some of them political pressure has blocked the move.
 Now it is reported, President Roosevelt is going to give the army new deal. The President hopes that the army can consoli- date its posts into few major establish ments. Such move unquestionably would aid both economy and military efficiency. Here is reform that has been on the hori- zon for a long time but which has never quite come into actual existence. It is to be hoped that it can finally be effected. The army has spent enough time and money on forts which it doesn't have any real use for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26

in this city. then its evidence enough that there is plan behind them. It should not require too much persistence upon the part of the police to break up any such ring. And in view of the fact that the eireum- stances surrounding few of the recent out breaks show resemblance it seems time for the police to do their part. It was only few summers back that a series of house breaks startled various neighborhoods. Just now it's holdups. We'd like to see a few of these would-be sunmen given lengthy jail sentences. That would give them an oppor- tunity to ponder on the advantages of career of crime as compared with that of the lawful citizen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Here, There And EueryuDhere
THE INNOCENT SHARK
/ (Hartford Courant)

Despite the repeated assurances of Dr William Beebe, who ought to know what he is talking about, that sharks are, harmless creatures who wouldn't think of chewing off a mans leg, it is not hard to un- derstand the consternation that the reports of sharks off Long Island and New Jersey have brought to bathers. According to Dr Beebe, it is not the so-called man-eating shark but the tiger of the sea, ,"- the barracuda-who does the dam age. pr Beebe, who apparently has no nerve whatsoever, has told of walking on the bottom of the sea, unprotected except for brass diving helmet, and having sharks sniff-if sharks can sniff-curious- ly at his toes. A wiggle of the scientists foot is enough to fright en them away, or so he implies. It is not hunger, he reports, but sim- pie curiosity that brings them around.
 But to the unscientific mortal who lacks both the knowledge and the self-possession of the pictur- esque doctor the sight of that evil dorsal fin cleaving through the water Is enough to destroy any de- sire he might have had to go bath ing. One remembers that sharks, maneaters or not, have more teeth than twenty dentists. The weather may be warm and the humidity high, but when sharks are reported around our accustomed bathing places, most of us will restrain our bathing to the bath tub. first mak- ing sure that the water pipes are small enough to keep any of Dr Beebe's innocently curious fish from entering. Timidity may be un- called for, but scientists have made mistakes, and there is always the tale of the cuff links found in the belly of Cuban shark to make one jittery. :
 The skin of a shark is, or was, Q favorite material for women's shoes. It's tail was the usual adorn- ment of the bowsprit of a sailing ship. It's fins are highly esteemed by Chinese and it's teeth have passed for currency in Africa. But though most of us will admit that 1t has, or has had its usefulness, we re- fuse to undertake the close inspec- ton that a fish of its importance may deserve. Foolishly or not, the cry of Shark" draws all but the intrepid Dr Beebe out of the ocean and above high tide mark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1es:
Codes And Spinach

One of the most amusing cartoons seen lately was by Hal Donahey in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two very reluctant small boys are sitting in chairs labeled Coal and Steel before plates heaped with NRA spin- seh. The beholder realizes without quite realizing why. that there is a third occupant of a seat called Oil. unseen in the cartoon. Uncle Sam sits in the background, benevo- lent but firm. He looks up from his news- paper on which there is large eagle and remarks: Remember. Daddy Spank''
 President Roosevelt, however. has evidently been reading Angelo Patri-who thinks there are other methods better than corporal punishment. that every child has right to his say in court and that coopera- ton is better than tyranny The result may be the same. but the feeling between the parties remains better. the prognosis more hopeful. if cooperation can be attained The spinach, however, must go down red lane. There are. nonetheless consolations. There's iron in them spinach. It's been cooked with coal, or gas made from it. A drop of oil with lemon juice adds flavor to its dressing. Sailor Pop-Eye would main tain stoutlly that vitality comes from it.
 Mother. too. is about to enter the room. Mother. though the steel. coal and oil men may forget it, is in the last analysis the larg- est purchaser of their output as well as of groceries and dry goods. It is Mother who saves for and chooses the automobile and the house. the sink and the sewing machine. It is Mother who buys much of the gas for the car. the oil. the kerosene. the paraffin in its many phases. It is Mother who buys the fuel -- and the things made by wheels turned with the burning of coal. At Mothers approaching step the forks go into the spinach. Her word may be quiet. but it is final. She says: You'd better eat that spinach now. boys. You know it has to be done. You can go for drive with Mother when it's finished. Hurry up. now. eat your spinach. IT'S SO GOOD FOR YOU!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
The Waterbury Democrat Washing
 ton Correspondent.


 Washington.-While Professor Moley plans war on racketeers, MT Al Capone improves his health at lanta penitentiary.
 He has lost 20 pounds in 16 months there. He wil lbe over- weight until he loses as much more. But he has six additional years in half-soling in which to do it. He works an eight-hour shift.
 Garrulity is reported as his chief fault. He behaves we'll, asks no favors. They told him when he entered that even if he managed to bribe a few favors, he was so conspicuous that it would be dis covered. That would mean loss of three or four years off for good behavior. Al saw the point.
 He remains bitter at newspapers, believing they broke up his deal for a three-year sentence. (His sentence was for II years.) And he's still outraged because he was "persecuted" for delivering a com- modity people wanted. Hard to Please
 "Id like to have them like it," said Administrator Hugh S. for the bituminous operators, "but as far as I can see, you can't get anybody to like anything"
 Secretary of State Hull and President Roosevelt both baked at sending American destroyers to Cuba.
 They yielded only after urgent insistence by Ambassador Welles, who telephoned that they were necessary to exert a calming effect, that by the time they arrived the situation might be quiet or might be infinitely worse.
 Feared Intervention
 For days Roosevelt, Hull and Welles were badly worried. Would Machado, the rebels or a danger ous mob get-and keep-the upper hand? Everyone feared that we might have to intervene.
 That was the last thing the ad- ministration wanted. Roosevelt lays great store by the convention of 21 American republics at Monte- video in November and knows how intractable interventions make Latin-Americans
 Labor's "Hush- Hush" Policy
 Labor's representatives here have adopted hush-hush pol icy.
 Secretary of Labor Perkins be- lieves that the dirty linen of the persistent capitalization scrap shouldn't be washed in public and did her best to tone down the pub licity that followed refusal of steel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
Too Much Banditry

Waterbury seems to be in the throes of an epidemic of banditry just at present. In fact the entire summer has seen one episode after another in which propretors of stores in isolated sections have been held up at the point of guns and robbed of money. In addition to that there has been any num- Der of breaks and attempts at robbery. good many of them frustrated, of course, by the presence of police. Just what this will lead to. We don't know. but we are conscious of the fact that most of the off, lenders are not being punished as they should be. And this is no criticism of our courts either. They are too often limited by law in sending violators to jail or fining them.
 Where youths brandish guns to perpetu- ate a robbery. they are certainly only one step away from actual murder. Who knows but what some innocent shopkeeper or home owner will be killed one of these nights If he resists the demands of the bandits or thieves and attmepts to oust them from his domains. We don't doubt but what there would be shooting with the resultant sad ending. We don't encourage the ownership of firearms by store owners, gasoline sta- tionc attendants etc. to protect themselves. We are in way opposed to the general use of guns. It IS too easy to obtain them to- day. We have constantly railed and ranted on this point.
 If there are systematic holdups going on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26

mits. Other states are in the same position. In some conditions will revert to the last day before prohibition went into effect As to the supply of liquor that will be available for consumption there need be no real worry. It isn't news aay more that every distillery in the nation is working night and day. Of course. it still will be necessary to allow the whiskey to age in wood the required number of years, but perhaps by that time some chemical process will have been discovered that hastens this action. In the meantime nobody need worry about the future. It will be taken care of. what with every for eign nation angling for some of our liquor business now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26

It was to be expected that a formal apology would be forthcoming iron NRA officials at Washington when they learned of the furore that had been created within the state As matter of fact. the gentle man who is said to have traduced our fair name claims be was misrepresented by the press. That's always good alibi with all due respect to the gentleman. It's easy to push an unfortunate remark off on the newspaper boys. They'll never retaliate. However. it is now apparent that Connec- ticut is absolved of any laxity with regard to putting the NRA across. We may be slow in accomplishing things here. but don't forget this is the State of Steady Habits. And when the final reckoning is made Con- necticut will be we'll up on the list of states that have done their all for good old MIRA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-26
London
 Letter
By HENRY IT. RUSSELL HInifn6 PrpsS Staff COrreSOOnden

Un1tc0 ffcSS StaH COrrcSpOnuenC
 London (UP)- Paul Robeson, who made the part of Emperor Jones' synonymous with his name, may soon be singing to his aldiences in Russian, Hebrew or again in either French, German or Italian.
 q will not do anything that I do not understand. I do not un- derstand the psychology or phil osophy of the Frenchman, Ger can or Italian. Their history has nothing in common with the his- tory of my slave-ancestors. So will not sing their music, or the songs of their ancestors" he said.
 Plaint of Russians
 "But I know the wall of the He- brew and I feel the plaint of the Russian. understand both, as I dol the philosophy of the Chinese, and feel that they have much in common with the traditions of my own race. And because have been frequently asked to present something other than Negro art, l may succeed in finding either a great Russian opera or play, or some great Hebrew or Chinese I WOrk WHICH lccl ohdiA oS oOAC to render with the necessary de- | gree of understanding"
 It is part of the inferiority com | plex of the American Negro. he added, to consider that 1t is an achievement for a Negro singer to sing in a white mans opera house.
 | Why shouldn't any Negro who has a good enough voice sing in an opera and in any language! But what does that prove? Mere Iy that he or she has good voice and may be a good octor." | Understand Art
 It is only possible to render well lin art what one understands thor oughIy, according to Robeson. q fail to a~ how Negro can