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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31

At the meeting of the board of
directors of the Y. NJ. G. A. last
night, arrangements were made for
!. visit of International Secretary
Francis s. Harmon to waterbury
on Friday, November II. Mr. Har-
mon will address a luncheon meet
ing for the directors and their
wives and a few friends, at the Z.
NJ. c.. A. at 1915. In the evening at
o'clock he will address the COM
lined membership of the Young
Mems clubs of the three Y. M. q
A. branches.
Mr. Harmon Is coming under the
leadership of n committee OF
which Chase Kimball is chairman.
The evening meetings viii be I'M
der the leadership of the presidents
OF the three inter-club councils
Richard F. Burdett. Central;
George C. Berardi, Brooklyn; Ray
mond II. Ouimet. North End,
Francis s. Harmon was a lawyer
and newspaper owner in MISSISSIPPI
nj, AS a business man, he was
Elevated to the position as presi-.
dent OF the Y. NJ. c. A. national
council. He became so deeply en-
crossed in the Y. NJ. c. A. work
among So nations OF the world.
that he is now giving his full time
10 Y. NJ. C. A. world service. The
mantle of DR. John II. Mott mas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31

Holy Name Chatter
Get McVerry! 1t can't be done
says Mike. r
II we don't win next week, Ill
have q new team-Quill.
i've heard that before-Crean.
I'm satisfied I beat Quill-Carr.
We're not hitting-Joe Common.
Hold them boys, says Flaherty.
I'm with you Pat--Dick Baldwin.
Yes sir, it's the same old game
Tim Shanahan.
We get the cards but we play
them wrong-Moran.
know what my men can do
Mike Whelan.
You're the only one that does
Din Delaney.
TIT proud Of all OF you-Rev
Peter Daily.
I never saw such cards-Pete
Lawlor.
Just like old times-Dick Deely.
never had such fun-Pat Troy.
Two forties, I have it-Pat But
Ter.
Women Of Italy now favor long
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
MONEY ORDERS AT
THE POST OFFICE

Rises Of foreign currency have
made It necessary for the post Of
rates for conversion of American
fee department to increase the
money into foreign currency. ac-
cording to an official bulletin
reaching the local post Office to-
day.
Starting today the rate for
money orders sent to Great Britain,
ireland and Northern ireland will
be $3.50 to the pound sterling; for
France six cents to the franc; for
Spain 10 cents to the peseta; for
Sweden Is cents to the krona;
Switzerland 80 cents to the franc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
CARD CONTEST AT
ST MARCARET'S
McVerry's Bakers Tighten
Grip on First Place in
Play Last Night

Mcverry's Bakers. took Connor's
Bambinos over the hurdles in the
weekly "45" competition Of the st
Margaret Holy Name society last
night in the parish hall strengthen
ing their grip on first place. The
score was to 15. Other results
s h wed Delaney's Caretakers
humbling Moran's Specials, rs to
II; Carr's Hi-Jumpers taking q
fall out Of Quilts Kerry Cows, %
to 20; and Flaherty's Founders bat
Ting to a 21-21 contest with Whe-
lan's ice Cream Cones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31

Police to Be on Deck to Check Lawlessness :
Halloween Spirit Here Greater Than Ever

grace and are or try to be sports
for this one night.
The city has never had more In
trfguing outfits and paraphernalia
as have been displayed in win
iows. 1t will be a great night for
the young folks. and there are few
joys in a child slife. outside Of
Christmas. that AFFORD the pleasures
Of Halloween.
Take note: All parades and OUT
fits viii gather for the evenings
gala program Just past shutdown
when ghosts, COLLINS, clowns, pi-
rates. spooks, witches and, what
have you will sally forth for the
annual Halloween hokum and
hoOey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
AUTO ACCIDENT ON
WEST MAIN STREET

Toyosh Nomura, ~. Japanese
quired treatment at the Waterbury
hospital when the automobile he
was driving ran into the rear Of a
trolley car on West Main street.
near WATERFOWL avenue. last night.
He told police the trolley stopped
suddenly in front Of him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
POLICE CALLED TO
CONCORD STREET

Police made q hurry call to the
home Of Herman II. Rhem at 119
Concord street last evening in a re-
Spouse to a cali received at head
quarters by Sergeant Joseph Bag
ley. \ Mr. and Mrs Rehm were away
and their daughter called head
quarters to report someone trying
to gain entrance to the house
through window. Police found
nothing an1iss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
BOARD OF WORKS
MEET TONIGHT,

Hearing will take place tonight
before the board Of works on the
matter OF a sewer for Cables ave-
nue.. Only q few property owners
are involved in the matter and,
therefore, the hearing will be
brief one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31

Loyal Scotsmen ar protesting
against the charge that Scotland IL
famous for nothing else but whis-
key.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31

A bridge connecting Canton City.
China, and Honon Island, has been
built by an American firm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
PROGRAM FOR
ELTON RECITAL
Joint Dance and Piano Re-
cital at WOmen's Club
November 3

Miss Charlotte Elton, in arrang-
ing her share Of the joint dance
and piano recital which she and
her sister Deborah are giving at
tho Waterbury Womcn's club on
Friday. November third, has Sc
lected an extremely interesting and
varied group OF dances, ranging
from tho postured Siamesc dance,
created by Ruth st Denis, through
the graceful ballet of Schubert's
Rendezvous" to the impressive
Kor'Kokshi dance, developed by
Ted Shawn from the Rain Cerc-
mony Of the Usage Pawnee In
dams. Her versatility is further
shown in the change from the bal
let Autumn Wind" to the usual
"Statuettcs of Egypt" by Ruth st
Denis, and the gay "Cuchipanda'
created by tho well-known Span
lard. Pace Cansino. The Dandc-
lion" Is another OF Miss Elton's
charming ballets. soon followed by
THE Sacred River" a beautiful
East Indain dance inspired by the
live whithersocver tho river flow
eth: and everything on Its banks
shall be healed" With her usual
skill, Miss Elton concludes her
program wi u the perfect touch--a
Vicnnese waltz by Strauss. The
program follows:
Tho Correnti 49,. Rossi Bartok
Evocation
Intcrlude
Finale
Autumn Wind ........... Chopin
Siamese Dance ..... .lrenec Bergc
.Statucttes Of Egypt
C3:..randa ............ .CanSino
Rendezvous .Schupert
The Dandelion ...,.... Chadwick
Kor' Kokshi Dance. Homer Grunn
Prelude ................ CHOPIN
The Sacred River (East Indian)
Viennesc Waltz .........".S Stratus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
MORBIDITY REPORT
FOR THE PAST WEEK

The morbidity report of tho
state board of health makes no ref
erence to any cases of diphtheria,
whooping cough, scarlet fever,
measles, or other sickness reported
In Waterbury during the past week.
Various Jewish youth organiza-
tions Of Glasgow, Scotland, are
raising funds to aid Palestine.
Hungary Is wrestling with the
problem Of marketing its abnor-
NAL wheat surplus.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
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|KELLY'S WIFE
TAKES STAND
Wife Of Machine Gun Says
He Forced Her To Participate
In Crimes.
By SAM d. HALES
United Press Staff COrresnOnde,


OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. Ii. -
Kathryn Kelly told the second Ur-
schel kidnapping trial jury in fed
eral court today that she partici-
pated in the 100000 abduction plot
because she feared her husband,
George machine Gum Kelly.
The authenticated woman and
her husband are co-defendants on
Lindbergh law charges. She began
her story after the government rest
ed its case with testimony that KEEL
ly himself admitted connections
with gigantic kidnapping and rob-
berry ring centered in Chicago.
Kelly, who was claimed to have
counseled with the slain Gus Wink
Ter, the notorious Verne Miller and
Joe Bergl of Cicero after the kid
MAPPING, will not testify, his attor-
neyS said.
The much married wife of the
gangSter and terrorist was the Sec
ond defense witness.
Walking with mincing steps and
smiling at the jury, Kathryn Kelly
went to the witness stand, sat down,
crossed her legs and began her story
Government witnesses had pictured
her as hard woman who said Ur-
schel should have been killed after
the ransom was paid.
She smiled continuously at the
jury. Once when Joseph B. Keenan,,
objected to a defense question, and
was overruled, she turned to bald
bespectacled Judge Edgar S. Vaught
before giving her answer.
Tries To "Vamp' Judge
"Oke?" she inquired with smile
"You may go ahead" said Judge
Vaught, seriously.
Kathryn said Kelly woke her at
4:30 a. M, July %, while she was a
visitor at the farm of her grand
mother, near Stratford, Okla, and
gave her the first intimation of the
kidnapping. Urschel had been taken
from his mansion here a few hours
before.
She said Kelly told her he was
delivering man to the Arkansas
line"
"He said We have a kidnapped
man outside"
When the aged, feeble grandma
Their heard this, she made the men,
presumably Kelly and Bates, leave.
You never did go out and see the
kidnapped MANI"
"Oh, no sir"
Kelly threatened her, she said,
when she went to the Shannon
farm a few days later and learned
that Kelly and Bates had a man in
her step-brother, Armon's, tenant
house. Bailey was at the Shannon
home, she testified. though, she
knew him as Mr.. Brennan" (Bail-
ey'S real name.)
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
|ROLPH ALLOWS
EXTRAD|T|0N

SACRAMENTO, Oct. II. U.H -
Extradition of C. D. Cooper, alias
Ben jones, Los Angeles motion pic
ture worker, to South Carolina,
where he is wanted as an escape
from a prison camp, stood approved
today by Governor Rolph.
Rolph ordered Cooper's return
following a hearing at which pleas
for a 30-day delay were presented
by attorneys who claimed they could
in ttot time establish their clients
innocence of the crime for which
he was convicted in the southern
state.
In denying the request, however,
Rolph said he would intercede with
Governor Blackwood of South Caro-
lima in an effort to obtain leniency
for Cooper. Immediately after the
hearing, Cooper's wife and his at
torneys left for South Carolina to
present their case before Governor
Blackwood.
Cooper was charged with escap-
ing frcm the prison camp where he
was serving a term following con-
viction of a murder charge eight
years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
SAYS Staying
WAS JUSTIFIED

BELL, Calf, Oct. II. W.H-Af-
ter his step-father, Hale Williams,
So, had battered down the door OF
a bedroom with an axe, George Ran
dali, 80, shot the older man to death
today allegedly to protect his wife
and mother, sheriff's deputies re-
ported.
According to Randall, as quoted
by the officers, Williams returned
home intoxicated and threatened
the two women, Mrs. Della Williams
and Mrs. Martha Randall, who hud-
died in terror in the bedroom.
Dandall, according to his state
ment to the officers, armed him
self when williams demanded en-
trance, and shot when Williams bat
tered down the door.
II had to shoot him. Officers
quoted Randall as saying.
Randall was arrested and charged
with murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
By United Press

Worried peace officers feared
fresh outbreaks of violence would
develop today in the San Joaquin
Valley cotton fields where five men
lost their lives in clashes between
striking pickers and armed farmers.
The five-county cotton growing
area was tense and troubled by the
outbreaks at Pixley and Arvin. At
tempts of angered ranchers to break
up a strikers meeting at Pixley led
to gunfire which killed three Mex
lean laborers. Strikers interference
with pickers at Arvin precipitated
the clash which brought death to
a Mexican worker and an unidenti-
fled Negro. Almost 20 men, some OF
them civic leaders, were wounded.
Wholesale warrants charging MUIR
der were issued in Tulare county
as the result of the Pixley outbreak.
The spectre of hunger added to
the bitterness of the strife over the
wages of the pickers as food sup
plies of the strikers became scarce.
At Corcoran an infants death was
attributed to malnutrition. Child
rem of other workers were reported
suffering from the same condition
Unofficial appeals to the state
for military Intervention and re-
quests for declaration of martial
law went unheeded. Governor James
Rolph insisted local authorities
were capable of handling the situa-
ton. He sent state mediation Off
Gals into the area.
Offer Compromise
Labor strife on four other fronts
proceeded on less violent lines.
Operators of Salinas and watson
vile lettuce packing sheds came
forward with a compromise offer
to bring their striking workers back
to their posts. Labor leaders indi-
Gated the peace plan will be reject
ed, but they counseled their fol-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
SLAYER TRIES
HUNGER STRIKE

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Oct. IL
W.p)-Forcible feeding was contem-
plated today by hospital officials as
a means of breaking the hunger
strike of Mrs. Hazel O'Brien, de-
sirous of following her two small
sonsin death she dealt them.
Attendants revealed she has stead
tasty refused food since she was
brought to the hospital last Satur-
day after shooting her children
William, Is, and Willis, Jr., 13, and
then herself. Although still in SER
ious condition from the wound, she
is expected to recover.
Il have no interest in living,
want to die" she cried.
Mrs. O'Brien is the estranged wife
of Willis H. OBrien, prominent
Hollywood film technician. She de-
clared she shot her sons and her.
self because she feared death from
an incurable disease. Prosecutors
said she would be tried on murder
charges if she RECEIVERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
STORM DOES
MUCH DAMAGE

SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. II. W.P)
"A cloudburst left a transconti-
mental motor bus and more than
"a score of private automobiles
STRANDED in the Mohave desert to-
day.
The machines were maroonet
when the storm caught them on tie
national Old Trails highway between
Earstow and Victorville. PaSsen-
gers of bus and private machines
made their way on foot to Barstow
in safety.
The storm destroyed quarter
mile of the highway. The automo-
biles were all but covered by sand
and silt. Road crews set out today
to free them and build detour
around the damaged section OF
highway.
The storm extending to the
mountainous regions near Lebec
trapped E. Ray Cato, state high
way patrol chief, as he was en-
route to Bakersfield on the Ridge
route. Tons of rock and mud were
swept across the highway, causing
considerable damage to his car
Cato was uninjured and later pro-
ceeded to Bakersfield.
The General Petroleum company's
pipe line station in TETON canyon
WAS disabled by small avalanche
of sand and rock. The station was
soon restored to operation by emer-
gency crews.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
EAGLE
TAKEN FROM
INDIANA MAN

WASHINGTON, Oct. II. U.P)-
A major offensive against violators
of NRA agreements opened today
as the recovery administration be-
gan to make good on its oft-repeat-
ed threats to take blue eagles away
from alleged violators.
Administrator -1ugh S. Johnson
summarily ordered Theodore G..
RahutiS, Gary, Ind, restaurant
owner, to turn in his eagle because
of alleged persistent violations OF
his unemployment agreement.
johnson repeatedly has warned
violators, but this was his frs. di-
rect action.
He said that almost at once
blue eagles would be taken away
from violators of agreements iii
other cities.
In another move against alleged
violators, the MIRA prepared orders
for public hearings of complaints
that some firms operating under
Vic IchCllC COuC lldNC bOoooCe PA
ces unjustifiably.
Hundreds of complaints have
been received against blue eagle
merchants, but the NRA said local
compliance boards had found most
of them to be due to misunder-
standings. In the Gary case, john
son said, every one of the restau-
rants 40 employees had filed COM
plants, and the compliance board
had made repeated and futile ef-
forts to adjust the situation.
The order withdrawing the blue
eagle was issued as johnson ex-
pressed belief that criticism of the
NRA's slowness in acting against
"chiseling" was justified
But the point has never for one
moment been overlooked" he said,
explaining that it had required
some time to perfect an organiza-
ton which could act with justice
and certainty.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
|Crofton Denies
Divorce Ruy1ors

LOS ANGELES, Oct. II. U.H -
Rumors that lie would establish res
idence in Reno to obtain a divorce
were denied today by James N.
Crofton, wealthy sportsman and
husband of Mona Rico, Mexican
tilm actress.
Crofton said he had been in Reno
but only on business trip and tn 1t
he would proceed to San Diego 70
visit his wife.
The actress filed suit for separal',
Inainte nance last March, seeking
$4,000 monthly. The proceedings
were later withdrawn when rec
onciliation was followed by q Sec
end honeymoon to Hawaii. They
were married in Mexico City in
July, 1882.
Crofton formerly was part OWL
er of Aqua Caliente, order resort.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
LABOR SEEKS
3O-HOUR WEEK

WASHINGTON. Oct. II. U.H -
The American Federation of La
Dor decided today to fight for a
compulsory 30-hour week at the
next session of congress if it be-
comes apparent that the same re-
suit cannot be obtained through
NRA industrial codes.
The federation at its 53rd annual
convention adopted resolutions de-
claring the shorter work week "the
most essential solution of the I'M
employment problem.
A compulsory 30-hour week for
government employees without a
reduction in pay was approved
Speakers on the subject pointed
out that the National Recovery
Act was temporary measure and
efforts should be made constantly
to obtain backing both in congress
and state capitals for the compul-
sorry 30-hour week throughout all
industry.
The report of the committee on
the shorter work week praised
President Roosevelt for his part in
pushing through the recovery act.
The MIRA, the committee reported,
is "headed in the right direction. "
The committee urged a drastic
shortening of work-week maxi
NUNS in industrial codes, with no
reduction in wages.
The 30-hour work week would
consist of five days of six hours
each.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11

in the presence of foreign officers. 1"
Tada attempted to see Rear Ad-
miral A. w. Johnson, who accom-
panied the squadron on it's long
flight but failed because the officer
was asleep, it was said. Johnson,
expressing his regrets, said he
hoped no particular significance "
would be attached to the incident.
Tada was quoted as saying he was
"happy that the admiral was not
disturbed"
Speaking of his inability to view
other naval and military planes,
Tada was quoted by the Examiner
as saying, 81 want to make it clear
that I have no complaint to make
on the score of having been denied
information about them. Naturally
1 would not seek that information.
My visit here was strictly unoffi-
cial.'
Tada had attended the Chicago
convention of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers. He was accom-
panied here by Lieut.. Comdr. x.
Kondo.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
Council Approves
Dance Ordinance

Ordinance No. $40, which is de-
signed to regulate and license the
business of operation or maintain
ing public dance halls in Ell Gen.
tro, was passed to its second read
ing at an adjourned meeting of the
city council held at A O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. 1t will be
brought up again at the next regu-
lar meeting of the council and
either finally passed or definitely
rejected.
This ordinance is designed to do
away with another city law which
prohibited such dancing within the
city limits outside of hotels. This
had been passed shortly after the
World war.
Two other ordinances, No. 371,
designed to regulate the buying of
used cars for wrecking purposes
and disposal of such used parts, and
No. 372 to regulate public card
games in the city, were held over
for further consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
CONTROLLERS
STATEMENT ON
COUNTY DAT

A statement of the value of prop
erty in, and Indebtedness of, each
county in the state, issued by the
state controllers office, shows the
following information concerning
Imperial county:
Classification, 18th.
Acres of land assessed, 1,015,314.
Value of real estate, $24,921,5 SOL.
Value of improvements on rea;
estate, S8,585,507.
Value of personal property, $4,-
055 1913.
Solvent credits, $l32,8Ol.
Stocks, bonds, notes, ETC., $23, 1856.
Value of non-operative property,
$37, 718,997.
Value of property assessed on OPP
erative roll, $7,126,941.
Total value Of property as re-
turned by county auditors, $44,8 45,-
938.
Value of railroads as assessed by
state board of equalization, So, 426,-
1856.
Grand total of all property, $43,-
272,274.
Funded debt, $1,524, 1000.
Floating debt with estimated in
terest, $116,957.81
Total county Indebtedness, ST.
640,957.81.
Total county rate of taxation on
each 500 (no state rate), inside,
81 80; outside, $l.30. Editors note:
this is the county and state tax
rate, exclusive of school rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
REPEAL NEEDS
To GET THREE
MORE STATES

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Oct. IL.
W.P)-The approval of only three
states was needed today to end ma
tional prohibition. Florida, the 33rd
state to vote, yesterday became the
33rd state to repudiate the 18th
amendment.
Incomplete returns indicated the
state had voted repeal by a major
ity of about 4 to l.
Seven states vote Nov. 7 and they
are expected to seal the doom OF
the 18th amendment. Repeal will
not become effective until Dec.
when the Seth state holds its rati-
f)oation convention Thirty-six
states must ratify before the 2lst
(repeaD amendment can become a
part of the constitution.
Tabulations of returns from 812
of Florida's 1,275 precincts showed
1888 votes for repeal and 1882
against. All but eight of the 81
counties, five of them complete,
were represented.
A long and confusing ballot made
counting of the votes slow and final
complete returns were not expected
to be known for several days.
The Ct delegates to the conven-
ton Nov. IA were elected from the
state at large.
Only one precinct was reported
unanimously dry. It was in Leon
county, of which Tallahassee is the
county seat. 1t voted II to against
repeal.
All votes counted were wet in sew
eral precincts.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-11
SECOND BYRD
SHIP LEAVES

BOSTON, Oct. II. U.PeFlying
the MIRA insignia, the commissary
freighter Jacob Rupert, flagship
of the second BYRD Antarctic expe-
dition, sailed at TOT a. m. on the
first stage of her journey to The
bottom of the world.
She is scheduled to arrive shortly
before noon tomorrow at New York,
where she will take on IA more men.
Sunday night she is due at No.
folk, Va, where she will be joined
by the barkentine Bear of Oakland,
the other ship of the expedition.
The Bear, which cleared Boston
a fortnight ago, was to leave Will
mington, N. c., today for Norfolk
to undergo repairs Of damages sus-
tanned in a storm off the Carolina
coast last week.
The Rupert, formerly the Pa
Icific Fir, carried a crew Of 81 men
and 164 nuskies.