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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
U. s. Declares War

Kidnapers, raeketeers and gangsters have been declared in on the New Deal by Pres ident Roosevelt. And they will be the only ones who will not like 1t. The president has instructed the Department of Justice to use all its resources in helping local author ities stamp out lawlessness. This action will be welcomed not only by public which has at last become alarmed over the success sion of sensational kidnapings and the grow ing depredations of gangsters but it will be welcomed also by local authorities for or ganized crime has been conducted on scale with which city and county police have been unable successfully to cope.
 The United States government cannot under the constitution, set up central de- tective agency like Britain's famous Scotland Yard. But the federal government can per- form many similar functions. It can bring to the aid of local police the services of corps of highly trained and efficient agents who are not hampered by questions of juris- dietion and who can coordinate local efforts to bring criminals to book, There is no desire on the part of the federal government to usurp local police functions in the preser- NdllOu VI PcdSes Dut ihtcLNehlAOA Aido been made inevitable and is now desirable because criminal operations have become national in character, and a national prob lem. Joseph B. Keenan, in charge of the governments anti racketeering campaign, called the situation "a veritable revolt against orderly government"
 The federal government in recent years has demonstrated its powers by putting in prison number of gangsters who had been able to operate in large cities virtually without molestation. Lately the govern msnt has done effective work in arresting several persons in millionaire Kidnapping cases soon after the victims were released These men will be prosecuted in federal courts under the so-called Lindbergh law. Federal agents assisted in obtaining the death penalty for the kidnaper of Mary McElroy in Kansas City. "The Department of Jus tice will build up its force and increase its activities in cooperation with the states to crush the bands of kidnapers and raeketee1s promises Attorney General Cummings. It seems safe to predict that gangsters are wit messing the beginning of the end.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

Six states in the nation are increasing the kidnapping penalty to death, recent surveys revealed. In time no' doubt. unless the proposed nationwide secret service force materializes there will have to be some such means of combating this menace. Just now it is ranked in the category of racket. There is evidence that organized methods are be- hind the sporadic outbreaks They have not been haphazard cases, but carefully planned and executed ones As a result they must be met with organized resistance. This may mean specially trained agencies. federal or state Certainly it means revision of the statutes to govern the situation. F
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER COVER UP YOUR INIQUITIES YOU CAN ALWAYS
 FALL BACK ON THE OLD ALIBI

According to news dispatch professional gentleman suffered a nervous collapse" after he had been exonerated by a, coroner in the
 case of girl who had committed suicide The girl ended romance with the gentleman | by her death. Then the gentleman hastened | to sanitarium. The gentleman's wife had | kindly offered to give up her husband to the girl if the girl would only promise rot to com | init suicide.
 with wives loosely bound to them and ready | to give 'em up to any girl who will promise
 anything. There ought to be law or maybe a | national conference of husbands whose wives | are asking bids on them. I'd hate to think that | my wife would give me up just to stop one | girl from doing something rash: especially if l the coroner, good sport had looked into the mess and pronounced my part in it quite sav- | ory If my wife is going to throw me to the tigress hope she will save me till there are at least half a dozen girls convinced they can't l be happy without me.
 Dr Jekyll seemed reasonably content with | life until he disassociated himself into MT Hyde l for nefarious purposes, and as soon as Hyde | cut loose the doctors troubles began.
 This "complete nervous collapse" or "break- | physician specialist for a moment regards | that idea seriously. If a doctor seems to ac- | quiesce in the charitable covering of noisome scandal 1t is because he is physician and not | a censor of morals and anyway 1t is none of | the publics business what he thinks ails his 1 patient ,..sJ,
 | But I'm a newspaper man, in a way. and so | I venture to make this plea. After so many | years of obstinate misuse of the term 'aphas- ia" Gloss of speech) when obviously the pur- | pose was to say loss of memory (amnesia) all | but few of the newspapers have learned | to the right word for it. In view of the fact that every intelligent person now knows that nervous breakdown" or nervous col | lapse" is merely an attempt to conceal the | truth, why not drop it from news writer's lingo and report instead that the scounGrel has entered the santarium for some reason not
 disclosed? As long as this threadbare alibi is
 kept ready to spread over the shoulders of any and every crook of high degree for whom the game is up, doesn't it offer an easy way out
 for the culprit with enough dough, and is il
 not therefore an incentive to wrong living?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
So They Say

We don't want to listen to ha-, rangues. You must submit facts to back up your assertions.-G General. Hugh S. Johnson, recovery ad- ministrator.
 Prices must not be stimulated to go so high as to unbalance the supply and demand situation.--- Henry w, Wallace. secretary of agriculture.
 think that to-day we rather feel that people have too many ideas.-Dr Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
 By strength and stupidity youth sometimes elbows experience out of the way, but experience wins finally.-Henry Ford. automobile manufacturers.
 We have discovered by hard ex- perience that life does not consist of the abundance of the things we may possess and that we cannot. feed our souls on corn and wine or on bread and circuses. Bishop John Newton Mccormick of Michi-' gan. |.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
Mosc0zv
 Letter
By EUGENE LYONS.
United Press Stan Correspondent


 Moscow (UP)-Newspaper read come familiar with the Soviet def milton of the word '.wrecking' through the trials of British and cused of sabotage, or "wrecking,' in the Soviet industries. The Soviet press now has dis covered that wrecking is not con- fined to their industries; that it is western nations, and with a tri- isatsiu," the daily organ of the commissariat for heavy industries, brings forward it's most striking project crippled by sabotage --anr lit turns out to be Muscle Shoals The British press during the gineers charged, according to this Machlavellian trick of the Soviet as one fantastic, impossible for people of western culture"
 F Offered Proof
 | <Nt isatsieu" remarks with obvious sat- lisfaction. that 1t can present con crete evidence of "rail, and not only, organizational, but also pure. l ly technical wrecking on a biz Escale of a great electrical plant 1T which people of a 100 per cent western culture are involved" Informing Soviet readers that Muscle Shoals approached itheil Town Dnieprostroi in importance the industrial organ charges tha engineers, acting on orders iron electrical companies, collaboratei I!with state employees Gin vilely be ltraying their duty by mutilatinl 1.-the initial plans which Were con scientiously drawn" The wrecker, were caught red-handeds at < thu lscene of their crime, it is stated.
 Our Politics
 l Americans. who had been accus ltomed to dismiss the delays ant lchanges at Muscle Shoals as all Itoo- familiar politics. can leari lfrona the Russian newspaper tha it was instead "wreckers plo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Staff on N. R. A. Tolls Overtime on Work Code
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

tor Simpson, Johnson realized that they had come on in the correct order. So he called them back to finish their speeches. Sinclair Walks Out
 One of the witnesses was Harry F. Sinclair, who looked older than in. his appearances here during the oil scandal trials but still didn't seem to be missing any tricks.
 Johnson, not realizing that the first speaker had presented the code, halted Sinclair after about two minutes and said he must wait until the code had been offered. Sinclair, confused, left the hall. When Johnson called for him again. someone else had to read the Sinclair statement.
 Business of Being Tough When an industrialist gets tough, Johnson still tknows how to get tougher. ss. iHe called in representatives of the shipbuilders one night when an impasse had been reached on their code. fl, The shipbuilders found Joseph Franklin and John P. Frey, labor leaders representing the shipyard workers. waiting in Johnson's of- flee. .s1
 What, they, demanded, were those birds doing there? Johnson stuck out his chin and roared:
 You fellows have got a wrong idea in your heads. Now, get 1t out! This is a conference of ship builders, shipworkers and the gov ernment." That was all = except that the lshipbuilders accepted Johnson,s de- mand for a 32-hour week in yards engaged on government. construc- tion and a 36-hour week elsewhere and on repairs. Labor had de- manded a 3O-hour week and the industry a 40-hour week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

of the same order which in .U.3 $.
 s. k. would have brought it's rapid
 sequel of midnight raids by the
 c. P. U. (secret police). inquisitor-
 ial examination extended until all
 details are ferreted out, blaring
 trials under arc lights and before
 radio micfophones-or perhaps
 more probable, g summary hearing
 and prompt execution.s i. X. "Za Industris lisatsiu" is quick to
 draw the comparisons. Where
 were the Investigating officials en- trusted to witch vigilantiy the in- violability of state property'?'s 1t
 asks. Why. even now have the wreckers not been in prison?"s
 It takes a dismal view of the American governments plan to operate ...this; giant. equal to pnie- prostroit.n It. is impossible in an artificial manner, with the inter- ference of 2 capitalistfe govern ment, to develop successfully one sphere sof industry while HI the others are suffering from the cri- sis. z 1t says. N Y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
"Boss' LORD
(New, York Times)


 In that shabby old news room of MT. DANA'S Sun, reached by steep stairs in a building whose duty and traditionsit it was to. be on fire at least once every twenty-four hours, BOSS LORD, the managing editor, had his undistinguished and unprotected desk in. one corner on the Park Row side. lin the other corner on the same side. sat BOSS CLARKE, the night, city editor. They supplemented each other perfectly, though totally unlike, save that each was q first-class newspaper man. s: s 4St. X .s.s (
 CHESTER LORD was always patient. pleasant, imperturable. If he had been told that tomorrow was the Day. of Judgment, he would have ."chewed'', as he used to say. upon the problem of get ting out the, paper on time and with a full report, provided time and. the presses continued to ex- ist.. His appraisal of relative news values was sound. To get the news and put it into readable and at- tractive form was characteristic of The Sun. Sometimes the collection of news was pursued under. finan- ciale and other dffficulties. When the paper broke away from The Associated Press, the situation must have looked more than q lit- tie bleak; but BOSS LORD dealt with it effectually.
 In extent of field and resources, in many obvious respects, the newspapers of BOSS LORDS prime may seem to belong to the with the, contemporary fjOurnalism ing editor have not. been changed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
Here, There And EueryuDhere

in essentials. Into.-the chaos of each days events he has to bring order. He has to make a thousand decisions. He has continually to meet the unforeseen. unmake what he has made. As EDWARD PAGE MITCHELL said at Lords retire. ment:
 : Every night of his ten thou
 sand nights has been Ira
 falgar or a Waterloo.
 \ He got the news. He never got excited. Largely by his gift of in- sight The Sun had always a corp of skilled reporters, some of whom were men of genius. It was long the newspaperman's newspaper. Not many of those who worked with or under CHESTER LORD survive. Not one of them can think of him and of the days and nights Jcheered by his friendly presence without regret and affection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
To-day's Selected Poem
1893-CHICAGO-19ss.

(M. c. A. in The New York Times) There Is gypsy caravan On the lake of Michigan Some gigantic nomade notion Of tribe in vast commotion Pointing progress at the stars, Storming heaven with reeling cars Why should Beauty captive be To confuse modernity? Why must curve with thrust assault And over one another vault? Need jostling buildings interrupt All idea save the abrupt? How can color never blend? @ Does art in contrast always end? Is perspective's measured power Lost to foreground's little hour? Have ensemble and precision Vanished from the builders vision? Those of us who tell our age Still see an Illium in mi.age See white glory sanz compare, Which Burnham gave the Worlds Faii
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

Just IS years ago July 30 Joyce Kilmer was killed in an observation, post along the Ourcq river. Then he was just sergeant in the old 69th Regiment of New York with few poems to his credit. They were the same poems that are hailed today, but it remained for the war to raise Kilmer to the heights. We don't say that if he had not survived the war his poems would not have brought him fame. Surely they would. but perhaps not so rapidly as they did when the poet-soldier's death was recorded. and New York literary circles mourned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

orous past, that the fire-escape or- naments in wrought iron, boxers, baseball players and walking racers, still fixed above the side. walks of Franklin square and once the glory and wonder of the neigh borhood, are well worthy Of their attention. Scanning from the days when the "Gazette's" clock was the last word in accuracy for homego- ing Brooklynites and facing the Brooklyn Bridge, they are au- thentic American period art. hap oily reminiscentof a forgotten age of gymnasiums and minstrel shows f1ls 4R
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

on such projects, but better to have such ownership and operation in the hands of the government than in private interests. Not that we think government ownership is the eure-all for everything. Far from it. But we do believe that our lakes and our streams and our forests are gradually reverting to private ownership instea dof belonging to all of us as the Creator intended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

establish trade - as the economists mean it - on lines adapted to the modern world The penludum has swung toward extreme isolation for the present. not for one or two nations. but for nearly all. For that very reason it seems likely that it will swing back again toward freer communication.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

| Signed letters pertaining to personal
 health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or
 treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat. sending stamn and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

High tide at Milford Friday, August 4 l0:40 p. m., daylight time; low tide. 5:Ol a. m., daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

Runs on banks have stopped and we may be coming into halcyon era when the most tragic catastrophes are runs in stockings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

After all this depresison you still fine people trying in vain to lose weight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-03

All vehicles must be lighted not later thar 8:37. daylight time, tonight
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 8 GN.S).
A national conference to analyze,
for the benefit of depression
blighted communities throughout
the country, one of the most un-
usual of economic experiments
the subsistence homestead idea
opened here today under the
auspices of the unit committee Of
the Council of Social Agencies Of
Dayton.
Born of the depression, the sub
sistence homestead plan. which
has been hailed by some as new
step toward economic freedom,
will be viewed and placed under
the microscope in its practical
and apparently successful appli-
cation in Dayton. Scores of ex-
perts and authorities on housing
and unemployment problems will
study it.
U. S. Funds Available
A sum of $25,OOO,OO0 has been
set aside by the Federal Govern
ment for development of home
stead projects, but the Dayton
plan and another in West Vir-
ginia, in which Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt has interested herself,
are the only ones thus far to
qualify for loans from the fund.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
DOLLAR STEADY
IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 QNS0.
The dollar ruled steady today as
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
porat;on made no change in the
$34.O1 an ounce gold price, con-
tinuing it for the seventh success
Sive day.
This gives the dollar an Off
cially indicated value of 60.77
cents. against 63.74 in London
and $3.50 in terms of the French
franc.
British sterling was off / cent
at $5,12. Scandinavian exchanges
reacted from II to 10 points in
sympathy, but the Canadian dol
lar gained 1s of a cent at 1as
per cent premium over the dol
lar.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Farley Maps Plans to Push
Subsistence Homesteads

The first homestead unit of
Dayton, which has assumed a
leadership in the practical appli-
cation of the idea of "self-help,"
will be the Laboratory of the
subsistence homesteading confer
ence here.
The underlying principle of the
Dayton homestead plan-a back
to-the-so movements to SUD-
stitute producing using scheme
of family economy where the
earning buying plan has been
wrecked by economic compllca-
tions.
Educator Heads Farley
The conference opening here
today will be directed under the
Craftsmanship of DR.. George w.
Rightmire, president of Ohio State
University. He said:
1--WE hope that the condensed
and edited report of this con-
ference will become the first
handbook on the homestead
plan. Such a plan is only in
small part a relief measure, as it
tends toward permanency not
usual in relief projects. 1t may
prove to be one of the greatest
benefits known to society,""
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
FUGITIVE AIDED BY WRITER
British Author Joins
Fight to Save
ESCAPED Convict

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 GN.S).-A
desperate fight to save James A.
IaRue, 22-year-old father of a 9.
months-old baby, from the dreaded
Florida chain gang, was being
made today in the face of an ex-
tradition warrant signed by Gov.
Henry Horner.
Rosita Forbes. visiting English
novelist, has become interested in
Earue's case and has joined the
fight to prevent his extradition.
Judge Alfred o Erickson boldly
declared in criminal court that
the youth is not extraditable. He
said:
eff the Governor had looked
into the case he would have no.
ticed that this boy is not ex-
traditable under the law. But
the Governor is too busy a man
to inquire into every case"
Attorney Grenville Beardsley,
retained in behalf of the youth
by Miss Forbes, planned to seek
writ Of habeaS corpus.
Miss Forbes said today:
"T will fight this case to the
last limit the law allows. /
can't believe that officials and
the people of Chicago will allow
0ne of their own citizens. a boy
whose sole crime was that he
- Q victim of the depression
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Clearing House
Backs Bank Policy

Meeting today, the Washington
Clearing House Association
adopted resolution approving the
principle announced by President
Roosevelt in strengthening the
capital structure of banks through
out the country by the sale OF
preferred stock or capital notes.
The resolution pointed to the
principle as a step toward ma.
tional recovery, and recommended
that every member of the associa-
ton consider increasing capital
structure by purchasing the notes.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Hacker Can't Jail
NOnpdying Patron

Judge John P. Mcmahon today
ruled invalid a recent promulga-
tion of the Public Utilities Com
mission and the District Commits.
sioners making it punishable by
fine or Imprisonment to defraud a
hacker of his fare.
Judge Mcmahon dismissed Jesse
C. Burroughs, of Falls Church,
who was charged with failing to
pay a taxi fare. because, he said,
the law is contrary to the Con-
stitution. in that it imprisons a
man for debt. The case was
prosecuted by William A. Roberts,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
CREW HELD
IN KIDNAPPING

ST. PIERRE, Miquelon, Dec. 8
GN.SO.-Captain and crew OF
the liquor laden vessel Kromhout
were Jailed here today after the
craft escaped from a tow by the
Canadian coast guard cutter and
kidnapped four coastguardsmen
aboard.
The four members of the coast
guard cutters crew were aboard
the Kromhout when it arrived.
The master Of the Kromhout
vigorously denied that his vessel
was within the searching limit.
He said the ship was 81 miles off
shore when the government vessel
seized it.
Arrival of the Kromhout ended
a search by government patrol
forces which had extended over
the entire coast.
Earlier advices told how the
rum-runner had turned the tables
on the guardsmen and taken them
captive.
Guardsmen aboard the cutter
Stumble Inn had chased the
Kromhout in a stormy sea and
captured the rum-runner. Four
men from the cutter were put
aboard the Kromhout as a guard
while the Stumble Inn towed the
rum-runner toward North Sydney,
Nova Scotia.
En- route there was a sudden
struggle aboard the Kromhout and
somebody slashed the towing cable
with an ak. The Kromhout sped
away, the Stumble Inn in pursuit
and firing shots. The cutter, how
ever, was outdistanced.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
SHIPSTEAD.
ASKS QUIZ Of
CHAIN BANKS
Corporations Escape Control
In Northwest, Says Sena-
tor; Fight Impends
By International News Service

A request for investigation Of
chain banking practices in the
Northwest today raised the pros.
pect of a Senate battle over ex-
tending the life of its sensational
banking inquiry.
The Northwest" inquiry was
requested by Senator Shipstead
(F-L) of Minnesota. who charged
banking operations we're escaping
State control in that area through
holding corporations. He asked
Senator Fletcher CD of Florida,
chairman of the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee, to OBJ
tain committee approval of his
request.
Other Probes Proposed
Petitions for investigation of
the banking situations in San
Francisco and Toledo also have
been sent Fletcher. He promised
to lay all the requests before his
committee.
Shipstead intimated he would
carry his campaign for a North
west inquiry to the floor of the
Senate, in event the committee
decided against him. Indications
were he would win if the Senate
is forced to decide the issue.
The Minnesota Senator charged
the Northwest Bank Corporation
and the First Bank Corporation,
with headquarters in Minneapolis,
we're operating chain banks in
his and adjoining States. He said
they were holding corporations
and controlled the banks through
stock ownership.
Committee Reluctant
Committee members appeared
reluctant to undertake new in
quiries. They have been investl'
eating the stock market and New
York banks for more than year.
In that period, they probed at'
fairs of the National City Bank.
j. P. Morgan and Company,
Kuhn, Loeb and Company, Dill
lon, Read and Company, and the
Chase Bank. They have ordered
an inquiry OF Cne DeIrOlC Dd1lk-
ing situation to start December
18.
The Chase inquiry was con-
cluded yesterday. The highlight
probably was revelation that the
bank and its affiliate lost about
$3.50, 100000 in security invest
ments and loans. The final
phases involved Harvey C. Couch.
a reconstruction finance corpora
ton director, who was revealed
as a frequent borrower at the
Chase bank. He still owes $685.
912 on a loan, shared by c. H.
Moses, former law partner OF
Senator Joe Robinson CD OF
Arkansas.