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0LD AUsE WORKED:
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.-The old ruse of posing as a prospective tenant was used in a S2,200 theft in an apartment house in the Mar ina, according to Mrs. w. H. Mor- gan, victim and manager of the place.
 She told police that while one man lured her from her apartment on the protest of looking at va cant one, an accomplice entered her quarters and stole two rings valued at $1,4OO, a diamond stud ded watch and $26 in cash.
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WEEKEND DISCUSSION
 WITH SENATOR GLASS

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 15, -Presi- dent-Elect Roosevelt has made tentative arrangements for a week end meeting with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who has become the "keyman" in the cabinet sit uation.
 Glass has the acceptance or re- fusal of the treasury portofolio and the incoming president is an- xious to have him as a member of his official family
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ASKS MORATORIUM

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 15.-Gover- nor Charles Bryan issued a pro- clamation yesterday calling upon holders of mortgages on Nebroska farms and homes to suspend fore closures. He asked that the Sus- pensions remain in effect until his recently appointed board of re- conciliation could complete its or ganization and until the state leg islature could pass mortgage re- lief measures.
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LUMBER SHIPMENTS
 REVIVED MN BRUNSWICK

ST. JOHN, N. B., Feb. 14,-Four steamers are under charter to car " full lumber cargoes from Saint John during the next fortnight, it is learned.
 They will take approximately 6,3OO,OOO feet of sawed hard wood and soft wood to Great Britain. Not for some time have such large shipments of New Brunswick lum- Der lumber been booked for Brit ish islands.
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REGRETS WHIPPING
 POST OUT 0F FASHION

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14,-Ex- pressing regret because the whip ping post is not legalized in Utah, Police Judge J. Bronson sentenced Ralph Coon, confessed wife beater, to 90 days in jail.
 The court is sorry he does not have the power to send you to the whipping post in a public square and there to receive 100 lashes" said Judge Bronson.
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DROWNED HER DAUGHTER

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, -Ac- cused of having drowned her g. year old daughter by holding the girls head under water in the bath tub, Mrs. Herbert Kennedy, 36, was taken into custody by Dep uty Sheriffs. God told me to do it," Deputy Sheriff w. c. Killion quoted Mrs. Kennedy as saying.
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INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
 ID |MPEACH HIS HONOR

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. IS, TT The House judiciary committee adopted final report censuring Federal Judge Harold Louderback of San Francsico for his handling of receivership litigation.
 The report will be submitted to the House today with resolu- tion finding that there is not evil dence to warrant impeachment of the jurist.
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PRELIMINARY HEARING

ROANOKE, Va, Feb. 14, The two Roanoke men who tried to cash bogus $17,000 check with which federal agents had baited a trap for the writer of extortion letters to Col Charles A. Lindbergh were to have preliminary hear ing before U. s. Commissioner Charles D. Fox Jr.
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RELATED EFFORT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14,-Con- gress accelerated activities in a belated effort to rush thru legisla- tion before March A. The Senate Agricultural mittee began rounding into shape a drastically revised domestic allotment Farm Relief Bill, while cotton aid pro-. posals moved nearer Senate ac- tiOn.
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MEETING TO-DAY

GENEVA,Feb. 15, A meeting of the general commission of the World Arms Conference was set to start working out features of the British plan. The political commission will meet for the first time on Tuesday, to discuss the security suggestions of the Brit ish plan.
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ANXIOUS MOMENT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. IA, Sir Malcolm Campbell and his mechanics were given a bad moment when fire broke out in front of the building that quar- ters the British drivers racing car, Bluebird. Sir Malcolm grab bed a fire extinguisher, as did two of the mechanics, and the fire was quickly put out.
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BOBSLED CHAMPIONS

LAKE PLACID, II. Y, Feb. 15.-- The Lake Placid A. c. BluebirdS, led by the guiding of Curtis Stevens, Whizzed down the Mount Van Ho- evenburg bob run at a record breaking speed yesterday to win the national A. A. U. four-men bobsled title. Stevens negotiated the two-mile course in 1::47.86.
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CAPTURED A CITY

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 15, m It was unofdcially announced that Colombian troops had captured the city of Tarapaca on the Putu mayo river in the vicinity of the city of Leticia, over which Colom bia and Peru have been in con- flict since last September.
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STRENGTHEN REPLY

GENEVA, Feb. 14,-The Japanese Cabinet has made certain changes in the draft reply of the Japanese delegation here to the League of Nations on Manchuria, the delega- ton was advised by cable from Tokio. The changes were under stood to strengthen the proposed negative reply.
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REDUCTION SEEN

WELLINGTON, N. Z., Feb. 14,- Reduction of 100000 pounds in es- timated budget deficit of 100000 pounds is now looked for as a re- suit of increased tax revenue uneX- pected buoyancy in customs re- ceipts and reduction of the public expenditures
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LOCUSTS RUIN CROPS

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 14,-Four million acres of choice Argentine corn land, containing one-fourth of this years Sowings, have been ruined by vast hordes of locustS, the government officially an- nounced.
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INDIANS SAVED

EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. Is, - One hundred Beaver Indians, liv- ing in the isolated Stony Creek district, have been saved from starvation after an airplane brot them 300 pounds of food, medi- cine and clothes. Five of the num- Der, including two children, had succumbed before Pilot McMillan made his mercy flight.
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The Stock Market

MONTREAL, Feb. 15.-Brazilian 8 3-4, Nickel 93-4, Vancouver Big Missouri r, George Copper 35, Col conda IT, Pend Dreille 60, Reeves Macdonald 16, AP Con 10, Calgary & Edmonton 36, Home Oil 40.
 WINNIPEG, Feb. 15.-Wheat: May, July 49 IA; October 50 Is; U. $. March closed.
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OUTRIGHT REPEAL

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. Is, - Senate majority leader Robinson announced in the Senate that he would offer to the proposed mod flied prohibition repeal resolution an amendment for outright repeal in conformity with the Democratic National platform pledge.
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OUTLINES PROGRAM

LONDON, Feb. 14,-Prime Minis ter Mcdonald told the House of Commons Monday that the debt discussion at Washington next month will range over a whole program outlined for projected world economic conference.
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S6O,0OO SWEEPSTAKES

ORLANDO, Fla, Feb. 15.-The S60,000 Hambletonian sweepstakes will be trotted on August Is, over the track at Gosheen, N. Y, for the fourth consecutive year, J, J. Mooney. president of the society, announced yesterday.
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RUMORS REVIVED

BERLIN, Feb. 14,-RumorS of an impending engagement of Chan cellor Adolf Hitler and Frau Wini- fred Wagner, widow of Siegfried Wagner, son of the composer, were revived after Herr Hitler and Frau Wagner met Sunday at the Wagner anniversary festival.
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POSTPONES FLIGHT

RIO de JANEIRO, Feb. IS, - Jean Mermoz, French airmail pilot, has postponed his return flight across the South Atlantic to Mar seilles until the next full moon, in March, Aero Postal announced.
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FAMILY BURNED DEATH

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Feb. 14,-A family of four were burned to death when fire of undetermined origin partly destroyed the bunga- low home of Alexander A. Spraker here.
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GROWING WEAKER

BAYSIDE, N. Y, Feb. 15, TT James J. Corbett, former heavy weight champion boxer, ill of heart disease at his home here, was just "a little weaker" last night.
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GOLD STRIKE!

MEXICO CITY, Feb. Is, Dis covery of an important new gold field near the municipality of Cosala, State of Sinaloa, was an nounced at Manzanillo by Deputy Felipe Ratamoza.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
Two Novelists Pass

Two of the foremost writers of Ameri- can fiction have died in Louis Joseph Vance and Robert w. Chambers. There is much comparable in the lives of both of them. Oddly enough they were not trained for the career to which they gravl- tated ultimately. Both considered art careers and actually engaged in them for short periods with Chambers probably the more successful of the two at it. When they did take up writing seriously it was with will and gusto not always found in the American writer
 During their respective lifetimes they turned out copious copy and most of it readable. Where Vance turned towards adventure that was tinged with crime, Chambers preferred the social side of life and the historical. It was Louis Joseph Vance who created the character of the Lone Wolf, one of his very best and one whom he was forced to resurrect several times and also to carry into the second generation after the natural mistake of killing off the original.
 Of the two Chambers work showed the more polish. But that was natural. No modern writer ever spent the time on a manuscript that Chambers did. It was nothing for him to rewrite passages and even many chapters seeking for the proper expression. It was even said of him that unless story was rescued by his publishers he would have cut it down to merely the covers, so meticulous was he. Vance was never troubled this way. He worked rapidly and furiously pound- ing away at typewriter until he finished his book.
 Chambers wrote always in longhand. He had number of hobbies, one of them exemplifying itself in magnificent fashion at his huge estate in the foothills of the Adirondacks, He planted many thousands of trees annually and was noted con- servationist, not to mention a collec- tor of Japanese pictures, American furni- ture of early periods, and North Ameri- can butterflies His collection of the lat ter was one of the finest known. Vance died as mysteriously as some of his char acters acted. Maybe he planned it that way; perhaps it was just coincidence. At any rate the world of letters loses two fine representatives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
CWA Might Continue

The tremendous program of the Civil Works Administration began as a sort of improvisation - happy thought, put into execution almost on the spur of the moment, to take as many Americans as possible off relief rolls and provide regu- lar incomes for families that needed them. Before we get through with it, it may de- velop easily into an elaborate and per- manent set-up designed to take the place of unemployment insurance and to cushion the nation against the shocks caused by sudden contractions of the industrial sys- tenn. All this is foreshadowed in recent statement by Harry M. Hopkins, director of the c. w. A.
 MT Hopkins points out that the experi- ment officially runs only to February 15. Under it some 2,500,0 ,000 men are at work. Probably no one would propose seriously that the props be pulled out from under these men in the middle of the winter. Sheer force of circumstances will compel us to renew the experiment and carry it at least into the spring.
 Nor is that all. MT Hopkins remarks: 'Tt easily might lead to scheme of using civil works as a device for permanently providing work on important public pro- jects for the unemployed. The country is not going to be disposed kindly to un- employment insurance in terms of men going up to window to get dole"
 And there is still another angle to it. The scheme enables the nation to accom- plish lot of jobs which are almost cer- tain to go undone if left to private initia- tive The work of the forest army is case in point. There are many similar projects - the drainage of swamps, the establishment of health and recreation centers, and so on.
 Now it is pretty clear that we are going to need some far-reaching program to take care of unemployment even after prosperity returns. We either can give the jobless work to do, set up regular unemployment insurance system-a dole, in plain English-or go back to the old, unsatisfactory method of letting private charity take care of them. One of these three is going to be with us more or less permanently. Doesn't the civil works scheme look very much like the best of the three alternatives?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19

Waterbury. sharing with him to some de- gree the satisfaction which comes to one who has achieved success through diffi- culties. Waterbury was lucky to have had an engineer who looked so far ahead and who was able, at all times, to command sufficient backing at home to prevent the illustration of his plans for municipal development"
 We only hope now that Waterbury continues to advance and develop to the point that City Engineer Cairns has planned. The last few years have been rather discouraging in this respect. When the city failed to go over the 100000 mark in 1880 it was quite disappointment to most of us. To-day the city's population is probably lower than it was three years ago. Let us hope that it is merely the result of industrial let-downs and not being permanent. We don't want our plans for a great Naugatuck valley me- tropolis to die aborning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
A Book a Day hu RRIICE CATION
MT Mosley Reveals Greater Activity

''Internal Revenue" is another collection of the graceful and easy to-read Njottings of Christopher Morley; and Mir Morley's wide and devoted audience will find it q shot right down their alley, a package of goods bearing the old familiar trademark and warranted to be fully up to standard.
 The only way that it differs from his previous books-like Pipe fuis," for instance-is that Mir Morley seems to be living a more active life than he used to lead. We find him, for example, riding from New York to Albany in the cab of the goth Century Limited, sitting in the pilot house of tug boat which helps dock the liner Aquitania, travelling all the way to San Francisco as 8 paying passen- ger in the Overland Limited. He even goes to Honolulu and turns in Q glowing report on the potencies of a special brand of Hawaiian hooch. And whenever he goes and whatever he does. he pre- serves the capacity to be gently pleased and to write about it smoothly.
 It must be reported, unfortunate ly, that some of the pieces in this book are. exceedingly thin; and once in a while MT Morleys air seems just a trif1e self-conscious and strained. You feel, now and then, that you have read it all be- fore, in one of his earlier books. But that's probably a minor mat ter. In the main Internal Revenue is straight Morley--which means that 1t is pleasant. readable, and infused with an urbane and mel low charm.
 Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co, it is priced at $2.5O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
New Work For Libraries

Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 per sons who did not use public libraries be- fore have become book borrowers during the depression. This is a development which gratifies librarians while it creates a difficult problem for them. The same depression which has brought them mil lions of new patrons has cut their funds for books and salaries and has forced on them various makeshift economies. It may effect important changes in their future service.
 For example, public libraries, especially in the industrial cities, are keeping very up-to-date on MIRA codes, public works programs, business expansion and other phases of the rapidly shifting economic scene. They are prepared to share in the adult education movement, to provide bus mess information and occupational advice to people seeking to advance in their own lines or to step into something new.
 It is estimated that astrologers and quack vocational guides receive from the public $125, ,000,O00 a year for "advice" about jobs. Librarians would not attempt to read the future for any patron, but they would gladly set before him any available information which might help him make his future for himself. The libraries are fast becoming occupational' advisers to the public as we'll as suppliers of literary entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
Know Your Waterbury Its History, Facts and General Information
HISTORY

Before going on with the history of our city we will digress a bit at this point to briefly describe some thing of Waterbury's geological history. The surface revealed, &C., cording to our historian, mica slate and semi-crystalline rock which is the foundation of the en- tire Green Mountain range, "a superficial deposit of drift" The granite in some of the deposits is fine enough to be quarried.
 The wearing off and polishing of boulders, pebbles and gravel which form much of the drift was thought to have been done before the age of the glacial era. Stray and odd boulders are common in this locality, one of the largest on the road from Waterbury to South ington. Then there is the tree growing out of rock on the Che shire road. Mny hills in this local- ity have been leveIled in the past thirty years, and others fast dis appearing. The hills were said to be of sand, gravel and boulders and of glacial origin. Waterbury is preculiarly ledgy, a great part of the past and present residential sections built on either ledge-side or filled in land. Very little distance outside the city reveals enormous rocky regions such as in the vicin- ity of Waterville, and the rocky prominences along the river be- tween Reynolds Bridge and Thomaston and then in several di- rections toward Morris and Litch- field to the north,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19

have to do something about the Home Loan act.
 Congressman returning for the session are. bringing bulging portfolios filled with letters and complaints about the operation of the act. Several informal con- ferences have already been held on Capitol Hill on the situation.
 Amendments broadening the scope of the law are certain to be proposed. The complaining congressman would like to see the White House take the lead in this regard. If it declines, they intend going ahead on their own.
 Chief objections center around first, the 5 per cent interest rate that home owners must nay un- der the present law: second, the difficulty home owners are en. cOuntering in persuading mort gage holders to accept Home Loan Corporation bonds in ex- change for their debts.
 These bonds are not govern ment securities. The government merely guarantees interest pay
 
 government make them full fiedged government bonds, with an interest rate in line with those of other government secur- ities.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Autograph collectors of the future are going to have a hard time with members of the Roose- welt cabinet. Few of them sign their own mail, but have ghost-signers who can initiate their signatures almost perfect- ly. . Secretary of the Inter- for Ickes has a woman sign his letters and few people can differentiate between their sig natures. The past master at signing mail, however, is John Martyr, for twelve years assist ant to the secretary of war. He has learned to write the signatures of John Weeks, Dwight F. Davis, James M. Good, Pat Hurley, George Dern, and does them all perfectly. Alexander Sachs refers to Moley's magazine To-day" as "an AhICiiCSlustl DdiaJhOO WAtu nay Moley pinch hitting for Elmer Zilch." Spanish Ambassa- dor Cardenas has some sherry of an 1850 vintage. The bot ties are especially enscribed with his own name. Some news papermen have fallen for the yarn circulated by critics of hard-hitting Jerome Frank, counsel of the AAA, that he put two of his laws on the AAA payroll. Funny part of it is that Frank has only one brother-in-law and he is separated from his wife. The last think Frank would do is give him job.
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Monetary Approval

greatest of all documents ever de- vised by mankind) that the Con- gress shall have the power over money.
 Ever since the constitutional right of Congress was transferred or delegated to private individuals the management of our money sys- tenn has become a closed book to millions of citizens. These private interests are not the representa- tives of the peopie-they corrupt ove~umeylt-cheat the people and wield power that is almost un- limited. We do elect our repre- sentatives to Congress and their ac- tions are forced out into the open. If they fail to represent our inter- ests-or become corrupt-we can at least vote them out of office.
 No longer must we be kept in the dark by private interests. In the light of the disclosures that have come before our eyes 1t would be the rankest kind of folly, to al- low our children and future gen. erations, to become engulfed again in such a dramatic farce that has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
Waterbury, Conn
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Waterbury, Conn.
 Dec 18th, 1888. Editor, the Democrat:
 The resolution addressed to con- gross, as printed in Saturdays Democrat, seems to me to just about hit the nail on the head re- garding the monetary controversy that Is raging up and down this land of ours. I've been reading all the arguments that are being print ed in the newspapers and, as just a plain citizen trying to learn some- thing, I find that the arguments so far presented have been as to whe- ther we should go back to the gold standard on the old basis or on a new basis. Advocates on both sides are profuse in their presentation of what will happen or will not hap pen if the opposite view from their own is allowed to prevail. Practically all the contenders on the monetary issue have forgotten what the Constitution of the Unit ed States had to say on the matter. The Constitutional fathers in their wisdom had provided Gin that
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struck down the present genera tion.
 I. congratulate your esteemed paper. for its foresight and keen understanding of this all embrac- ing problem. One does not have to be an economic expert to under stand your resolution to Congress. It Is the very heart of the entire controversy. The people have an opportunity to voice themselves as to whether they want the continu- ance of private control Cover which they have no controD of our mone- tary system-or whether they want their duly elected representatives to exercise control as provided in the Constitution. If they do not take advantage of their constitu- tional rights, now then perhaps never again will they get the iop- portunity. After all why run around in circles-better to take the bull by the horns and be gored to death than to be bored to death. Everybody is tired of this depres- sion.
 (Signed)
 CONSTANT READER
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19

This business of appointing celebrities to governors staffs is coming in for crl- ticism. It has been carried too far evil dently. Kentucky has been the greatest offender for years. Its staff is manned by any number of honorary colonels. The roster reads like Who's Who of the United States. Maine has adopted the same idea of recent years, but there's growing criticism there now. Rudy Val le is lieutenant-commande Gene Tun- ney colonel; and Phillips Lord colonel. It is claimed in Maine that real military men are complaining about the titles, most of them outranking even the high est military staff officers. We don't blame them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
Praise for MT Cairns

The completion of the Shepaug river dam by the city of Waterbury has result ed in much praise for City Engineer Rob- ert A. Cairns. Many residents of this city have taken the pains to congratulate him personally on this achievement Others have sung his praises aloud. State papers are beginning to find out about the waterworks and to pass on it in en- viable tones. The Bridgeport Telegram speaks most highly of MT Cairns in this connection.
 Among other things the Telegram says, "So we salute City Engineer Cairns of