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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

new wave of inferiority complexes threatens to engulf the country due to notice accompany ing some jigsaws, Average solving time for this puzzle-two hours "-tDetrot Newso
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

It was discovered that O. Beau clerk, Wrangell, registered at the Occidental Hotel, who told in the previous days Empire about min
 ing in Dease Lake, was really Lord
 Osborne Beauclerk, brother and
 heir to the Duke of St. Albans,
 whose dukedOm was one of the
 most aristocratic in all Great Brit ain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

Inst think. since beer was here the last time the country has grown accustomed to curb service. Could that be the answer to the saloon worry?- (IndianapoliS Star0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

SEATTLE.-Constable c. A. HOltz attempted to drive some Indians from piece of land at Quarter master Harbor on Vashon Island, but made a nasty retreat when he was attacked by a Siwash woman with a double bitted axe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

Dr. Robert Simpson, well-known
 optician, announced that he was opening offices in Juneau and in- tended to locate here. He had just Ireturned from California where he
 completed a postgraduate course at the Los Angeles College of Opfalthalmology and Optometry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17
20 YEARS AGO
From The Empire

APRIL F, 1913
 Judge Lyons set the trial of Jos eph Macdonald for 10 am. July 8. Judge Overfield was expected to come to Juneau about May Is in order to pass upon the applica- tion of Mcdonald to be admitted to bail pending trial.
 Miss Helene Malone, one of the most popular young ladies of Ju- neau and daughter of MT and Mrs. Harry Malone, was married in Se- attle to MT. Allen Chamberlin, min- ing engineer with the Alaska Gasti- neau.
 MT Otto Widemann and Mrs Elsie Knispel were united in mar riage by Rev J. F. Warmanen in Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

Classified ads pay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17
. NORTHWEST NEWS BRIEFS .
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UT 70 T fEAhS AGO } c q q q .

BREMERTON.- The cruiser Maryland, Washington and Tennes- see have reached port here, mak- ing the fleet one of the largest ever assembled at the yard.
 SPOKANE.-Wil Mercier, 19, was taken to Swedish church by his Scandinavian fiance. He fell asleep and snored because he could not understand the sermon, deliv- cred in Swedish, so the girl tilted him. Now Mercier is in jail charged with having threatened to kiln her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-17

Margaret wonders whether she dares accept her only help tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Registration Will Reach 76; Daily
 Routine Established
Craftshop Under Direction of Vernon E. Abel Is Popu- lar Rendezvous Overnight Hikes Are Started Scout Executive Marston Conducts Campfire Talk

Gsventy-six members of the Wa terbury Council of Boy Scouts will be registered at the summer camp, Camp Sepunkum on Mt Tom, for the second week commencing to- morrow as 24 new scouts are enter ing, IA are going home and the balance from the first week are re- maining.
 Those leaving tomorrow will in- cfude: Troops 23, Maurice Afexan- der; 10, Francis Bragg; Il, Silvio Beriute; Thomaston, Herbert Ben- son; 22, John Breithaup; Thomas ton, Albert Ciafardone; 13, William Card; Cheshire, Joseph Cullen; Thomaston, Wallace Dyson; 23, William Ershler; 22, Donald Hard- wick; 10, Robert Hentzi; Thomas ton, Waiter Kloss; 22, Lawrence Kreig; II, Robert Liddell; 35, Franklyn Mccoy: Thomaston. Will liam Martin: 29, Bernard Mosk- owitz; 5, Leon Schliff; 10, William Schuster; 19, Carl Sandin: 19, Har- old Slater; Thomaston, Floyd Wood; 10, Metro Yuachyk.
 In addition to the regular routine the scouts busted themselves yes- terday in their leisure moments in the craftshop making various leather. metal and wood souvenirs to take home. The shop is under the supervision of Vernon B. Abel, assisted by Douglas Benedict. Then Camp Hillside challenged the Junior staff to a baseball game and were victorious, IA to z. The Hill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Liquidation of
 More Assets
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The plan works to advantage for both the depositors and the receiv- CT. The depositors are given credit for 85 per cent of their de- posit while the receiver wipes out debts owed on mortgage and col lateral loans. Also, the amount of dividends the receiver is ex- pected to pay on the deposits is considerably lessened.
 The depositor instead of waiting until the ultimate liquidation of the banks assets to get full credit credit now. At the same time, the clared paid and the depositor does not have to worry about meeting the regular interest installments.
 For instance, a depositor might have $1,200 on deposit in the bank and at the same time, owe the bank $1,000 on Q mortgage note deposit at a 15 per cent discount and apply the deposit against the debt. The bank clears up the de- posit and the debt in the same operation.
 The depositors who have to wait for the final liquidation of the banks assets also benefit under the plan because by the receivers It per cent discount the depositors re. maining are seeing the remaining assets increased. Taking into con. sideration that the deposits are ex. pected to be paid almost 99 centi on the dollar, with the IS per cent added on each liquidation plan, the assets will naturally mount ir value.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18

restaurant and bar, which used to operate behind two locked doors, has moved around the corner to a two-floor building. The bar is on the sidewalk level, where hard liquor and licensed beer are served in plain sight of the passerby, who must only stroll through the open door to join the party. In midtown, bars which lacked seating capac- ity for twenty food-consumers - a requirement for a beer dispens- ing license - have restored to.var- ious subterfuges. Some have put in open air beer gardens in back.
 Others have rented space behind adjoining stores for enlarged "res- taurant" facilities.
 A few owners of two or more speakeasies, feeling none too pros- porous. have tried taking out q beer license for one only and smuggling beer bought under the license into the other bars; but they must operate with extreme care behind locked doors, for the New York police force is enforc- ing the state beer law.
 Prescription liquor sales by drug stores have mounted to the point where supplies are difficult to get. A stranger drops into a reputable midtown drug store for a pint of rye. The druggist may ask some minor bit of Identification, before explaining that without pre- scription, the price is 25 cents a bottle over list because he must provide one. Prices, with the quarter added, range from $2.25 to $3.75 pint for standard high grade brands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Armada of Italy
 Getting Ready
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moorings in the Chicago harbor where they landed late Saturday, were refuelled and tuned up.
 Throngs of downtown workers greeted General Balbo wherever he appeared, shouting "Viva Balbo" The bearded young commander called on Mayor Edward J. Kelley received an invitation from Post master General Farley to visit President Roosevelt in Washington visited Century of Progress Expo sition and saw the unveiling of a monument of Christopher Colum. bus in Grant Park.
 According to present plans, the planes will zoom from the lake early tomorrow, turn eastward and follow the lake-canal route to New York. They remain in New York 8 week or more. General Balbo said 1t was probable the flyers would go to Washington to see President Roosevelt.
 Rome, July 1S-(U.P.) - Italy's dispatch of her seaplane fleet to the Chicago exposition entailed a possible total cost of $3,000,000, 1t was estimated to-day.
 However, much of the cost is in the seaplanes themselves, in spe- cial instruments they have, and in the cost of trainihg and maintain ing their crew, who are members of the Royal Air Forces.
 The planes cost from $50,000 to $60, 900 each. The expense of estab- fishing bases and ships at sea was probably $450.00O. and this the principal out of pocket cost = will be met by the sale of special air mail stamps. Postoffices have sold $100.000 worth of these already.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
TEXANS FELL FROM HOMES
 IN HIGH CAVES Cliff Dwellers' Muninlies Reveal Story to
 Experts

Washington, (UP)--Prehistoric cave dwellars of Texas appear to have been such @ hardy race that they could fall off 150-foot cliffs and still live to recover from brok- en arms and legs.
 Reporting on recent acquisition of skeletons of these people. the Smithsonian Institution says:
 Nearly all skeletons showed evidence of fractured legs or arms which had healed without being set. The cave in which the skele- tons were found is in the side of an almost perpendicular cliff, ap- flood plain of the river. and the people not infrequently tumbled over the edge"
 The cave was discovered by Dr Frank M. Settler in the canyon of the Pecos River. One of the specf- mems he found was an almost per- fectly preserved mummy.
 The body was buried in an up- right position in a deep deposit of wood ashes," the report said. '"It was wrapped in a rabbit skin robe with a basket over the head. When the mummy was dug up the face had an almost lifelike expression, with the hands crossed in a pecu- liar fashion under the head"
 Six other similarly preserved bodies were found, one of which was lying in prone position with the bones articulated.
 From the bodies and accompany ing relics. Smithsonian scientists hope to learn much about the life and culture of Texas cave dwell. CTS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
More Than Fourteen
 Hours In The Lead
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Airport officials, anxious that he should be in the best of shape, urged him to sleep. He consented to lie down for ten minutes, with his eyes closed, but remained fully awake.
 Then he was off, after a halt of but 2 hours. 36 minutes, on his way to Irkutsk. He will follow the trans-Siberian railway all the way across Siberia.
 Post planned to rest at Irkutsk only two or three hours, while his plane was being refuelled and ov- erhauled, and then proceed on to Khabarovsk, in extreme eastern Siberia. 1880 miles from Novosi- birsk. where he will spend a night Advised that the landing field al Irkutsk was not a good one, Post decided to look it over and, if hs found 1t hazardous to proceed, te Chita, 430 miles nearer Kharbar ovsk, his final planned halt in so viet Russian territory. | Post said he would overhaul the plane completely at Irkutsk oi Chita.
 T flew in fog all the way" he said of his flight from Moscow. q could not even see land for half the route."
 While Post was here he confirm ed his decision not to take Miss Gillis with him as far as Khab- arovsk because he wanted the flight to be strictly solo. He had first planned to take her as passen- ger because her Knowledge of Rus sian would help him at Khabar- oVsk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Again Comes Runor
 Secretary Woodin
 Will Quit Cabinet
Always the Rumors Are Given Prompt Denial at White -Woodin, However, Has Not Beenin Good Healtll-Names of His Successor Heard

tratoin, Woodin was. at the right hand of President Roosevelt all most constantly, working out the emergency banking regulations.
 In connection with reports of his impending resignation three men have received prominent men, ton as possible successors. They are Senator James Couzens, repub- lican progressive of Michigan; Frank Walker, democratic na- tional treasurer and now "co- -ordin- ator of co-ordinators" in the in- dustrial recovery setup; and Jo- seph P. Kennedy, Boston banker, and Roosevelt campaign leader So far as Walker was concerned 1t was reported that he was happy where he was and had no desire to enter the cabinet. The same was said to be true of Kennedy, who now is enjoying the cool of his Cape Cod summer home. During the makeup of the cabinet Ken. nedy was reported at various time. as in line for cabinet positions particularly the navy secretaryship He, however, disavowed any inten. ton of entering public life and faded from the democratic picture when the administration began functioning,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18

sides then played the Camp Orig inal team, the former winning, $ to {.
 In the evening two overnight hikes were enjoyed. Camp Orig inar went to the Haunted House and Camp Hillside to the beautiful camp site in the ravine. Camp Lookout remained on the camp grounds as the scoutmaster from New Milford and his troop visited the camp and were entertained. Gordon Coates made a big hit with his renditions on the banjo.
 Scout Executive Arthur D. Mar ston conducted one of his series of campfire talks on "The Legend of the Porcupine Dance" The next series will be given tonight. Last night Marston told how the birch tree got it's red marks.
 In the afternoon the boys trained for the canoe and boat races which will be held at camp tomorrow. John Sherwood, junior counselor of Camp Lookout, is coaching the boys. This afternoon swimming meet, originally sched- uled for Saturday but postponed on account of rain, will be held plus a water polo tournament be- tween the three camps.
 Tonight Camp Original will be in charge of the program. Herbert Root, chairman of the court of honor, will visit camp at 7:3O o'clock while at the same time the reviewing board for first and second class scouts will meet with Vernon E. Abel in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Fire Capt. Murder
 Case Has Started
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Gregg said that when state of- ficersreminded her that there were both cyanide and oxalic acid in the home, Mrs Costello asserted she did not know these were poisons.
 As he reviewed step by step the events leading up to Captain Cos tello's death, the district attorney abruptly interrupted his story to say: tell of evidence in reference to the defendant. The state will show that this dfendant was a different type from her husband. She had little or no interest in her home. She was frivolous and wanted to go out more-liked the frivolous things that were less attractive to her husband. She cared little for her family or home. Her husband knew this two years before his death."
 Gregg told of the Costellos' last ride together, a few hours before the captains death, when they went first to the office of pr Har- ris s. Pomeroy. and then to the Curtis drug store, where Mrs Cos tello bought four ounces of cyanide and two ounces of oxalic acid, while her husband waited in the car outside.
 Mrs Costello has insisted she bought the poisons with the idea of mixing them to form 8 potent cleansing agent subsequently, used on a copper boiler in her kitchen. In discussing Costello's life, Gregg said he would show that the fire captain was home-loving and religious man, extremely, solicita- tious for the welfare of his chil- dren, and that when he came home from work in the evening he would go to his room and, kneeling. say prayers for them.
 At O'Neil's wake on the eve oi Costello's death, the captain was in a jovial frame of mind and joked with his friends. the prosecutor said, indicating he would attack any effort to show that Costello was depressed and took his own life.
 "The evidence in this case will warrant this description" Gregg said after describing Mrs Costello as 'extravagant, defective, pro- fane, vulgar and lewd."
 Gregg said he would show that Costello and his wife were not on friendly terms, and that for two years they had not had marital re- -lations.
 "She had her acquaintances, her friends, and she sought her own entertainment" he sf i'd. Tt be- came apparent that they were not in accord with her husband's s ideas"
 The state would disclose, Gregg declared, that at 2:3O the morning he died Costello came home from the O'Neil wake and that at 10 a. m. Mrs Costello found him dead in an upstairs corridor of their home.
 Gregg said the Costello death was "a murder but a different kind of murder than that with a gun or a club" ''It Is obvious" he said, that this death, this situation, brought people to a point where they began to listen. There is some thing about this type of crime that causes it to come out. It's the guilty conscience"
 Defense counsel had objected to this line. of talk, but were oyer- ruled by Judge Fosdick.
 Gregg outlined Mrs Costello's purported answers to authorities when she was first tntarroRnfeA In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
SPECIAL TRAINS TO HAUL VETS OF
 FOREIGN WARS
National Encampment Will Be Held in Mil-
 Waukee, Aug 27

Milwaukee, Wis, --(UP)-Spe- cial trains will bring hundreds of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to the 1893 national encampment here, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1.
 Reports from national head quarters at Kansas City, Mo-, in- dicate a record attendance. There will be members of the V. F. w. Auxiliary and the Military Order of the Cootie-fun degree of the organization.
 Four silver trophies. each nearly three feet high, will be awarded in recognition of outstanding re- cruiting activities.
 The individual unit with largest numerical increase will get the national recruiting trophy, while the unit with greatest percentage increase will receive the comman. der-in-chief's cup.
 More than $2,600 in cash vii be distributed to winners of tho band, drum and bugle corps, ant drill team contests. Championship prizes range from $500 to $100.r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Barbers Told to
 Get Together
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both causes until President D'Am- ico took the floor.
 After reading over separately, each clause of the new regulations governing the conduct of barber shops in the state, such as closing hours, and stating that he will make it hard for those who violate any of the laws, he pleaded for an. amicable understanding be. tween all parties concerned.
 He stated that two master bar bers' associations could not func- tion in Waterbury. It was upon his suggestion that a motion was made and passed that a committee of two from the old and new mas ter barbers' associations, be named to meet and straighten out the sit- uation.
 The new association charged that the old group was controlled by Exchange place proprietors who did not give the outside pro- prietors a chance. The new group also charged that the old associa- ton was dead because it had moi paid its tax to the state organiz- ation.
 Information was offered to show that the tax had been paid to July 1st and that the association Is still existent. Vito Durso, of New Ha- ven, secretary y-treasurer of the state board of examiners supplied the information that the tax had been paid. Charles Altieri of the Connecticut Master Barbers' association added that if the old association did not pay it's tax from July 1st, 1t would be out of existence.
 Among those who spoke at the meeting were William Gerardi, president, and Michael Tolomeo. secretary of the new association. Emil Juliano, president of the old association, Ralph Capuano and Peter DeCicco.
 Joseph Summa, president of the Journeymen's association, presid- ed at last nights meeting and An gelo Possemato. secretary, acted in the role Of clerk.
 The journeymen voted that for the present, they will recognize only the old Master Barbers' asso- ciatf0ns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
Speakeasies Are
 Swanky Places
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ceeding left in the illicit liquor business.

ceeding left in the illicit liquor business.
 Some swanky "clubs" maintain doormen and peepholes, but only to impress the trade and keep out undersirables; there is no fear of prohibition agents.
 With only fifty dry agents left in Manhattan, raids have dropped until they are rarities. Low-grade speakeasies marked as crime breeders occasionally are Knocked over." In the United States attor- ney's office only, four assistants look after prohibition cases where 13 were so occupied before the ad- ministration put the brakes on pro- hibition. Paddock proceedings have been stopped completely.
 Protection payments have drop- ped correspondingly. Drinks over bars are cheaper and there is a general movement toward expan- sion and cleaning up by the boot leg joints" The current price of whisky is 50 cents in high class establishments which used to get IS; 35 to 40 where 50 once ruled. Gin drinks are down to quarter in most places.
 A kvntres T.ower Manhattar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18

the death of her husband. "She was asked why she went to the doctors (the home of Dr Harris s. Pomeroy) the night be- fore her husbands death, and she answered that she wanted to find out if she needed a prescription to purchase cyanide of potassium al a drug store. "At the drug store (where Mrs Costello bought the poison) sht was asked about her conversation with the clerk. She said she asked for potassium and that 1t was for cleansing, and that he didn't tell her 1t was poison.
 "The clerk will take the stand and will say he told her cyanide was a deadly poison, and that he
 didn't want to sell 1t to her. When the state officers asked
 her about having poison in hei
 house, she said she didn't know ot
 any. but when she was reminded
 of the purchase at the drug store,
 she said:
 "oh, yes. But I didn't know il
 was poison"
 Illicit love and $5,00O life in.
 surance motivated the cyanide
 murder of Fire Captain William J
 Costello, 38, the state charged. Mrs Costello is alleged to have
 slain the father of her three chil.
 dren last February IT by feeding
 him "enough cyanide to kill g
 dozen men,
 Tn opening the states case. Dis.
 trict Attorney Hugh A. Gregg oi
 Essex county pictured the attrac.
 tive defendant, who Is on trial fol
 her life, as frivilous, extravagant
 and immoral woman, who loved
 neither her home nor her children
 but who was infatuated with g
 handsome 26-year-old Peabody DO.
 liceman, himself the father of sev.
 eral children.
 Gregg charged that Mrs Costello coolly plotted and executed thu
 murder of her husband, even talk. ing with her when she bought the poison, and that she borrowed
 money from the undertaken tt
 meet obligations for her clandes
 tine sweetheart, Edward J. Nc.
 Mahon. known as "the Kiss-and'
 Tell Cop"
 Discussing the motive. crege
 said:
 Mrs Costello was in debt. Bill Cher husband bowed money. She
 had signed notes that were due and payable. She had contracted bills her husband knew nothing off. He
 was insured for .$5,000. Ion the morning of his death she was at the fire station, in. quiring for those policies. .. E "McMahor had collected as rep resentative of the Peabody Police Association $360 and had given il to her to keep. She gave him ex- cuses from day to day and on the morning of CostelIo's death she went to the undertaken and bor-
 rowed $225 and paid McMahon's obligations (presumably putting other money with it). "Once, referring to her husband, she said to McMahon: He has one foot in the grave"
 Gregg said that on one occas- l ion while Captain Costello was on | the night shift, McMahon lived al | the Costello home for two weel<a'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-18
BY FREDERICK A. STORM

(Un1ted Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, July 1S.-(UP)- Despite headed official denials, the belief persisted in circles close to the administration to-day that Sec- retary of the Treasury William H. Woodin would resign from the cabinet before the end of summer.
 Although the latest revival of re- ports he would resign met the prompt reply that "Mr Woodin is expected back at his desk next week." there were well-informed persons who believed the secre- tary's health might cause him to step from the cabinet.
 Others thought that disclosure of Woodin's "bargain" stock pur- chases from J. P. Morgan & Go, several years ago might be the mo- tivating influence that would de- eide him to retire politically.
 Woodin Is now recuperating from throat trouble. his second attack ir recent months. Soon after taking office he was forced to his bed Later a recurrence compelled him to take a longer rest at his New York home.
 In the early days of the adminis-