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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
EVENING POST OF
 NEW YORK SOLD
Buyer Has Not Yet Been DiscLOsed-Hand Many
 Famous Editors

New York. Dee 7-(uP) The New York Evening Post, news paper with an impressive journal lstic heritage which was founded in 1901 by Alexander Hamilton, has been sold by tile Curtis Martin Newspapers, Inc. 1t was learned re- Lably today. L
 The identity of the purchaser re- mained mystery. A formal an- nouncement was expected beIore Saturday.
 Among those mentioned as pos sible purchasers were J. Davld stern, publisher of the Philadelphia Record and of the Camden. N. J.. t.ourier-Post: Mrs Mary Louise Curtis Box, daughter of the late Cyrus Fl. K. Curtis; Vincent Astor' and Harry Sinclair, oil magnate. Of these, Mrs Box characterized the report. through her son. Curtis Box as ridiculous" Astor's asso. ciatcs also denied that he was the purchaser. Stern was regarded as the most likely buyer among those Ested as possibilities.
 Past editors of the Post have i'm e1udcd William Cullen Bryant, Carl shurz. and E. I. Godkin. Prior to it's purchase in 1923 by Curtis It vas owned bv syndicate headed by Edwin F. Gay and including Franklin D. Roosevelt, owen b. Young. George w. Wickcrsham, August Hecl.scher. Norman H, Davis, Paul M Warburg, Frank L.. Polk and Marshall Field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
BY ELMER c. WALZER United Press Financial Edlt0r)

-
 New York. Dec. 7.-(UP).- Stocks, bonds, grains and business registered gains today. Trading in the share market was quiet but prices rose fractions to more than N2 points in the main list with one issue up more than z and several at new highs for the year.
 After a firm start the stock list slowly advanced. Building shares were prominent with Johns Man. vile at a new high of 63 3-S up 1 3-4, and Foundation up Is at 16 1-8. Armour preferred spurted 5-8 points to 51 5-S.
 New highs for the year were made by American Woolen pre- ferred at 62 3-8 up 3 5-S; Continen. tai Can 76 up 3-4; Du Pont 93 up 21-4; and Patha A 13 up l 1-2. Allied Chemical equaled its high at 149 7-8 up 2 3-4.
 Railroad shares were again in demand with Norfolk and Western up 3 points at 160; New York and Harlem 115 1-2 up 1-2; and Penn sylvania 30 IA up 5-S. Railroad equipments were in better demand on prospects of larger orders from carriers in the near future. Penn sylvania railroad yesterday placed an order for 100000 tons of steel
 Autmobile and automobile equip ment issues were active and firm. Electric auto-lite rose 1 5-8 to 19 3-4. General Motors. Chrysler. Hudson and others of the automo- bile group made small gains. Trad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
ADVICE T0LFE
 INSURANCE cos
Doctor Asks Them to Make Study of the Rising
 Death Toll

New York. Dec. 7-UP)-Life insurance presidents were urged to- day by Dr William Muhlberg, med ical, director of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, to make a united effort to curb the rising
 death toll from degenerative dis eases of the heart, the arteries, and the kidneys. Dr Muhlberg said that the countrys life insurance
 companies paid out $250.0O0, 900 last year in claims resulting from
 the breaking down of these closely
 assocated organs He spoke before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at q meting at the Wal. dorf Astoria.
 Deaths from heart and kidney
 disease. apoplexy, and arteriosclero- sis increased 10.6 deaths per 100,- 900 population in the first nine
 months of 1893 as compared with the similar period of 1892, he said.
 Because of the divergence of medi-
 cal theories as to the cause of these
 diseases statistical study such as the insurance companies can pro-
 vide will be of great service, Muhl.
 berg said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
Haruey Couch Mixed
 Up m Wiggins Deal
tContinued from Page 1)

/, originally by the National Park bank of New York of which he was president in 1928.
 The original sum of $2,295,0 5,000 but was increased to $2,795,000 in May 1929. In August of that year | the National Park bank was merg- ed with the Chase National of | which Mccain became president. The account still is open. Mccain said and the loan now amounts to $1,2S9,000.
 T might say" Mccain explained. "That MT Couch has 22 sub-par- ! ticipants in his share of the loan," | adding that he believed the loan was adequately secured. In addition to the collateral posted, the Chase National bank holds Couch's note for $S20,000 and a note by R. G. Pack, Prince ton, N. J., capitalist, for $175,000, Mccain said.
 The railroads the syndicate bought were the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad and the Louisi- ana and Arkansas Railway and Navigation company.
 Railroads indebted to the Chase National bank have repaid approxi- mately $11 416,00O of their obli- gations with funds advanced by the Reconstruction Finance corpara- tion, Charles s. Mccain, chairman of the bank, today told the senate stock market investigators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
ALLEGED GOLDEN YEAR RECORDED
 MANY TROUBLES
1920 Held Up as Model Had Its Own Share of
 Unrest
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (CoDyright. 1883. By United PresS)

BY FREDERICK L. OIHMAN
 Copyright. 1883. By United Press) Washington, Dec. 7.-(UP).- Administration efforts to restore average prices to levels of 1926 have made that year seem like q golden paradise to which Ameri- cans hope to return under the re- covery program.
 But a check-up of newspaper files reveals that even in that year, Americans worried about many things.
 Farm relief. taxes, liquor. com- munism. scandals, lynchings, high prices-troubled by these and many other things, Americans aroused their way through what is now coming to be regarded as the per | feet years.
 News headlines of December 1926 revealed:
 Farmers denounce Coolidge agri- culture program Mae West appears in "Sex" at Da1y's 63rd street theater Lynch negro at Aiken, s. C. |. Coolidge ponders tax bill. Philadelphia Sesquicentenniaf Exposition loses 0,00O,000 Cotton growers demand equality .s. $45 overcoats reduced to l$29.50 destroyers ordered to Hankow Wayne B. Wheeler says "the people are behind the 18th amendment" the farm bureau federation demands adoption of the McNary-Hauger
 Alleged communists riot baby starves to death scna- torial committee considers the Teapot Dome scandals
 Hall-Mills trial proceeds witt new sensations aggressive buying steadies stocks -.
 United States Steel SAY 1-4 pound sterling $4.S5 5-S, U. $ Treasury 4 1-2s $109.27, Middle west Utilities (InsulD $105 1-2 cotton 13 cents per pound.
 Want add sections skimpy, want cd: restaurant cashier lady $1( week and two meals; wanted: plas terer $14 a day.
 Labor troubles in east, Thco- dore Dreiser writes An American Tragedy" brewery enters cheese business, collect charity funds fol Near Est relief.
 Shoes $1O a pair, silk hats SIS suits, special sale, $45. 1 Coffee 49c Il pound, bacon 64 cents, prunes 10 cents. Super super extra special ra- dio. six control dials $S9.50. five
 rooms and bath in F'latbush $6250 six cylinder sedan, balloon tires ex- tra. $1lS5.
 Agriculture petitions congress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07

Wiggin. The sum was not stated.
 In the first letter, dated Septem- Der 24, 1929, Couch told Wiggin that he had just mailed him an allotment of 25,000 shares of Southwest Investors. Incorporated an investment trust organized by Couch. The letter said "our mu- tual friend" subsequently, identi- fled as Mccain, had suggested that Wiggin be taken in.
 "We have already made a nice profit" Couch wrote, "and you are getting in on the original basis.
 The letter was written a month after Mccain joined the Chase bank as president.
 q simply mentioned to MT Wig gin,' Mccain told Pecora, that MT Couch had organized the com pany. He said he would like to be interested in it"
 Two days later, Wiggin replied to Couch:
 "I thank you sincerely for your thought of me. I assume that the original basis includes share in the option warrants"
 Mccain said Wiggin's immediate paper gain was several points" on each share of stock.
 .'Was this really gift to MT Wiggin?" Pecora asked.
 q hardly think so," Mccain re- piled.
 Well. it was an outburst of gen. erosity," Pecora suggested.
 "Yes, sir," Mccain replied.
 Mccain said the loans now held by the Chase bank were advanced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
CHRISTMAS TREES
 MUCH IN EVIDENCE
Truck Loads Being Deliv- cred Here From Out
 of Town

Evidence of the advent of Christ mas Is noticeable in many ways about the city, but in none more so than in the loads of evergreens being carried here and there in trucks. People have not yet com menced to make purchases of Christmas trees, but soon almost every family will be in possession of one. Wreaths are also quite common in the market, but is said that most of these are made in Wa terbury and offered for sale at a small price.
 Some enterprising people have youngsters going around taking orders for Christmas trees and wreaths, and many of them are making money at the business. It Is an honest way of prying a dollar loose. If you do not care to invest give the agent" kind word.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07

New Haven. Conn, Dec 7-(CPl t--The Suicide Club started as a jest in the back room of Bridge port saloon years ago, had closed its books to-day.
 Charles Kinney. 73. veteran Connecticut newspaperman. the iast of the 13 original members of Inc unique organization and one of .he three to sucumb to natural causes. died at St RaphaePs hospi- tai. here after an illness of six months.
 Kinney was one of the founders of the club. He and q group of fellow writers had gathered. as was their custom, in saloon after their nights work. Drinks flowed freely and the conversation finally turned to suicide. one of their number. a bit moro exuberant than the rest. suggested Suicide club" whose ,,, . Ia-s .-c"id see, thAir own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
CONSTRUCTION PLANS OF GOVT.
 ARE UNFOLDING
Fund Created to Inventory Real Estate and Provide
 For Building
By II. 0. THOMPSON

IW0Ds GnaNItt EhCHSJ
 Washington. Dec 7-UP)--Es- tablishment of a $2,0O0,000 fund for use in initiating a national real estate inventory is recommended in the first report of an MIRA unit studying the possibilities of stimu- latinC unemployment in the con- struction industry.
 An inventory is necessary, the re- port states, to enable the govern mcnt effectively and swiftly to put out the desired amount of money for the construction of socially use full low rental housing and for the initiation of properties which will aid our cities in clearing them selves of slums."
 The report is the result of months of research by group of experts retained by the NRA. It states that there is room for the construction oG SOO,O00 residences annually for the next several years, that possibilities exist for nearly $14,0OO, 100000 in construction work. and that more than 100000 workers could be re-employed in this field.
 The first part of the proposed $2,OO0, 900 fund would be assigned to Cleveland. New York, St Louis and Philadelphia, where the work already is well advanced.
 The second part would go to such cities as have conceived or initiated similar studies. Los An Reles, Detroit, Chicago, Denver and Toledo are on this list.
 After this the inventory would be expanded into 50 leading cities of the country.
 Describing the value of the real property inventory as threefold, the report listed its advantages as follows:
 1.-U n m D loved professional men engineers, architects, &C., countants and appraisers, would te given immediate work.
 2.-Absence of such information in the past has led to periods of alternate disaster and oversupply.
 3.-Data would be produced for the regular administration of real estate, irrespective of its use for the regulation of new construc- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
What WiH Russia Use For Money Payments?
United States Could Not Have Found Poorer Customer If She Searched the World Says Financier

1 do not need any large quantity of fish. canned foodstuffs. eggs. poultry and game of Russian orig in. And sugar: that is to laugh. To take butter from Russia would be a crime against her people. Llcorice root, matches and splints are about the only sizable sorts of Russian ex- ports left-and the chances of our enriching the Russians by buying them are not promising. Plainly. the Bolsheviks cannot proflta bly, barter with us directly. The statis- tics of normal years attest. that fact: Russia takes from us five or six times as much as she sells. 1t cannot be otherwise.
 The more Russia may buy from us, the less she can buy from othe- nations-which signifies that they will curtail their purchases from her and there will be no balances with them to meet a trade deficit with us.
 Russia has, it is true, gold production of forty or fifty million dollars year, but she hangs tight to it. And we have about as much use for her gold as we have for her petroleum. Any balance settled by Russian gold would leave us with q load of sterile metal and Russia with real wealth. Intangible items. such as tourist trade and immigrant remittances-are negligible.
 There is no other way than long time loans, if the windy enthusiasm stirred by recognition is to be translated into substantial trade. With eleven billions of political debts gone glimmering. with our German loans vanishing in repu- diation or endlessly impounding with South America plastered with worthless bonds, will we fall again for the device of giving hopeless creditors cash with which to buy our goods?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
WEEKLY REVIEW / OF NEW ENGLAND
 TRADE STANDING
Continued Activity Noted in Wool and Cotton
 Goods Reported

Boston, Dec. 7.-(UP).-Con- tinued activity in wool and cotton
 goods was reported by Dun H Bradstreet, Inc, in the weekly re- view of New England trade con- ditions.
 Wool prices continue firm. with a tendency to rise, the review said. Heavy receipts of domestic wOols at the port of Boston this week were reported.
 Business in the piece goods market is active" the review said,
 'and there is more demand for woolens suitable for women's wear. Wool tops are firm, although the
 market is quieter. Deliveries con- tinue at about the same rate as heretofore.
 Activity in. the cotton textile line has been well maintained since the large influx of orders in the early fall. Deliveries of rayon yarn continue active and there is a good call for novelty fabrics. Worsted and woolen yarns are quiet and transacted in the cotton yarn di- vision. Prices in all lines have been steadily maintained.
 Tn the season just ended. shoe
 manufacturers, as rule, have had a fairly profitable business, al- though in few sections labor diff faculties have prevented satisfac- tory operations. Current indica- tions point to a continuance of &C., tivity as a good volume of orders
 is coming in.
 Current leather production is
 being maintained chiefly by large
 supply of hides purchased by the tanners before the recent rapid in-
 creases and these savings have
 been passed along to the shoe man. ufacturer, with the result that that popular-priced shoes have not yet advanced much more than 10 per
 cent. although the tendency all along the line is decidedly upward. Hides are still rising and leader prices are firm. Current demand is light.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
Good Trading Was Done in the Market During the Day
Stocks And Bonds K, Mood For Business
Trading in Share Market Was Quiet All of Them
 Showed Good Gains

CTS turned to the Motors in the belief the various companies would follow the lead of Ford in raising prices for the new models.
 Celanese gained more than q point in a strong textile division. American Tobacco B was up 3 point in the tobaccos. American Telephone rose more than a point on its October showing. It had net operating income of $1.466,5S7 ir october, against $5sO,S58 in Octo- Der, 1892. Net operating income for the first 10 months of 1888 was $10,519,SS6, against $6,S32,032 in 1892.
 Mining shares picked up slightly after an early selloff. Wet stocks also firmed up to small gains, Schenley was up moderately on rumors the company would acquire distillers seagrams of Canada.
 Chain stores and other mercan- tile issue were in demand on high CT sales. Mail order stocks firmed up moderately on their November sales reports. Montgomery Ward sales rose 25.3 per cent over 1892. while Sears Roebuck's gain d. mounted. to PIP per cent.
 Oil shares made small gains. Steels were up fractions to a point. led by U. s. Steel. Western Union gained a point in it's section. Vest inghouse and General Electric made small advances.
 Call money. which Lad been at 3-4 of per cent since August 29. rose to 1 per cent, and other money rates hardened because Of heavier demand for funds at the year end. Stocks sales today totaled ap- proximately 1,6S0,000 shares as against 1,440,000 shares yesterday. Curb sales today were 230,00O shares as against 228,000 shares yesterday.
 Dow Jones preliminary averages showed industrial 102.04 up orc, railroad 41.53 up 100 utility 2S.50 off 0.13.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
Conn. Suicide Club Ended
 By Demise OfLdst Member

means of death after they had had their fill of life. The fact thefe were 13 present added appeal to the suggestion and the bargain was sealed on another drink.
 Although the .'club" was taken seriously after the effects of the night had worn off. oddly enough ten of those present met death by their own hands. Kinney. who out lived the rest by many years. al. ways was reluctant to speak of the others who had been among his closest friends.
 He had been associated with newspaper work at New Haven. Hartford and Bridgeport for more than 50 years. In late years he lived alone in Stste street 'sgen- tlemen's hotel"
 He Is survived by one sister. Fu- neral services will be held to-mor- rnw sftarnnnn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
U. s. Not Buying Gold
 In Canada, Officials Say

Montreal (UP)-The United States is not buying gold in Can ada, and there is no expectation in official quarters in Ottawa that the stream of gold bullion now flowing from Canada. to Britain will be diverted across the border, officials say.
 It was stated by government authorities that. notwithstanding stock market reports, no contracts have been entered into by the purchase fo Canadian gold in Canada.
 Since the United States went off the gold standard, Canada's out put of gold bullion has been ex- ported entirely to the London mar ket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
Don't Quote Me
By United Prcss)

Washington, Dec 7.-UP)-- Representative John J. Cochran democrat of St Louis, Mo, an nounces that the charging of $7 a quart for whiskey, no matter how old, is outrageous.
 So long as legal liquor continues at present prices, he urges the pub lie to refrain from buying it.
 "Such prices as are now being charged will only perpetuate boot leggers, he said. We do not want federal dispensaries, but something of that kind will result if the present day prices are con- tinued.
 Chemists of the bureau of in- dustrial alcohol advise me that the best whiskey available today did not cost more than ,5O cents gal Ion to make"
 Dr Frederic Howe, the consum- ers' counsel of the AAA, says apropos of tin cans:
 Common sizes of cans for fam fly use are No. for vegetables and No. 1-2 for fruits. and there is another size of can Watch this one. It looks so much like No. 2 that your eye can hard ly tell the difference when they are side by side. This can is a trifie shorter and little less in diameter. But it holds three or four ounces less than No. 2. is often advertised at the same price, may actually sell for more If you are not .on guard. This can is known to the trade as No. 303."
 Madame Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has gone down one notch in the estimation of those who admire her for her orig inality. For the first time since she has been high priestess of American labor she used yesterday the following Rooseveltian phrase in her press conference:
 This is off the record"
 She hastened to explain that what she was saying was "off the record" simply because 1t concern ed man whose name she had for gotten. Miss Perkins said she did not want to hurt the feeling of the forgotten man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07

This country spends $3,65e, ,00O.- 900 annually for medical care, and maintains 1.1O0,000 persons in the various pcadical hran chaa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07
HEAVY DAMAGES
 FOR AUTO CRASH

Bridgeport, Dec 7-(UP)-Dam- ages of $11,590.50 were awarded Mrs Rose Nagy, this city, against Fitch Monroe Briggs. Mount Kisco, N Y.. as the result of an automo- bile accident October 20, 1892 in which Mrs Nagy suffered injuries she claimed caused permanent i'm pairment of her vision.
 A jury returned the verdict in superior court late yesterday. Mrs Julia Zolyee, also injured by Briggs car. was said to have settled d $10,00O suit against him for $3000 earlier in the week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07

The earth has one satellite, the moon; Jupiter has nine and Saturn l0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17
Peace on Earth First
Theatre Union Play, to
Open in N. Y. Nov. 20

NEW YORK.-"Peace on Earth, Is
described as q play about the next
war, will be presented by the Theatre
Union at the Civic Repertory Theatre
beginning on Nov. %. Its cast OF 10
professional actors and actresses Is
now in rehearsal under the direction
Of Robert Sinclair. Cleon Throck-
morton has built It's sets.
peace on Earth" was written by
George Sklar and Albert Maltz, au-
thors Of Merry Go Round" which
was produced two years ago and
which the city authorities attempted
to suppress because Of its expose OF
the alliance Of Tammany Hall with
gangsterism. Their new play is re-
markable for the scope of its action.
Workers, intellectuals, bankers, poll
ticians, students-an are portrayed in
the well developed plot.
The Theatre Union is attempting
something In the theatre that has
not been done before In the United
States. 1t will produce plays that
present the struggles Of workers
sympathetically that compete with
Broadway shows as entertainment
and in technical competence, and that
compete with the movies in price
Seats are priced from 80 cents to
$50 Preview dress rehearsals on
Nov. IS and 81 will be given for or
CARNATIONS who wish to run benefit
performances, and blocks of seats at
special prices can be arranged for at
the Theatre Union office at 104 Fifth
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17
ITHAPPENS EVERY DAY
Short Stories from the Experiences of Home
Relief Bureau Investigator
as told to HELEN KAY
Yes We Haze No Coal

ALL morning a constant stream
n Of men and women, with torn
shoes and angry faces, with sacks
under their arms came to the Re
lief Bureau for their coal.
But they were told, mo coal
here. Go to the Police Station"
Neither was there any coal in the
Police Station. But the chief super
visor thought that the Police Sta
ton would be better equipped to
handle those who insisted on get
ting coal.
1t was a bitterly cold winter
morning. And the poor men and
women looked blue. The supervisor
thought it quite amusing to watch
them march back and forth with
their empty sacks, However, his
chief concern was that they re-
turn home without raising too
much fuss.
One group was desperate. They
couldn't stand the constant shift
ing. They knew that their children
we're home, freezing to the marrow
Of their very bones. In the sweet
est OF words the supervisor told
them to go home. His smile was
angelic. His tones soft. Nov go
on home. What can we do? Be
good" Be good little children;
don't make me any trouble and
go home. were his thoughts.
A worker stuck the empty sack
into his face. In broken English he
yelled: me no go home. NY wife
is hungry. My children die. Sick In
bed. My house is cold like a stable.