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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Taxpayers: Learn To Say NO!"
Detroit Youthful Mayor Couzens Says That's The Only
 To Put Cities Back On Their Financial Feet

pay our rent. Does the landlord accept it? I'll say he does. We found out he hadn't paid his taxes. So he can't refuse to take scrip that the city accepts for taxes!"
 Detroiters agree that Couzens principal achievement has been the refunding of the city's debt. Faced with a defaulted issue of $44. .696.- 900 of short-term notes and Q huge tax delinquent list. Couzens se- cured an agreement for refunding from New York banks and other security-holders. He is working oii a $1.500. 900 slash in city expenses. and is conducting weekly talks by movie to the taxpayers to educate them in the affairs of their gov ernment.
 Depl0res Duplication
 "One of the wasteful things in city government today" Couzens explained, 'is overlapping and dup lication of city and county gov- ernment. Here are 80 per cent of the Wayne County taxes are paid by Detroit citizens. but the 20 per cent who live outside receive the same benefits from county admin istration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
DROUGHT RUINS
 WHEAT CROP IN
 SOUTHERN AREA
Rich Panhandle Sections Are Laid Waste By
 ScOurge

Guymon, okla. (UP)-A vast empire. larger than France, which normally pours millions of bushels of wheat into the nations gran aries, lies wasted this year. One of the worst droughts on record laid waste the rich Pan- handle region of Oklahoma, Texas, southwestern Kansas and the ad- joining tips of Colorado and New Mexico. Rain the. first of the month was the first appreciable moisture in IS months.
 Where waving fields of grain stood last year, the soil is as bar ren as if it had been swept by a huge broom into sand dunes along fence rows and highways. Swept as If By Broom The unprecedented action of the elements, in fact, worked like huge broom since January in the Panhandle. Sixty separate sand ! storms, swirling up from the Texas plains, have ground out vir- tually all vegetation. These storms, during an 18-month drought. prevailed for as long as week at time. Gales blew up uuSS anu SttLiW dI InIu-Uay tndl obscured the sun. Street lights were turned on at noon many days. Chickens went to roost at D. m.
 Owners of the vast wheat ranches and the remainder of the populace are faced with starva- | tion this winter. Of Texas coun- tvs 2,200 farmers, more than half now are on federal-state relief rolls. In the Oklahoma area alone, comprising chiefly Texas, Cimar- ron and Beaver counties = the worst sufferers and the border counties of Woodward, Ellis, Har- per and Woods counties, 1t has been estimated that an expendi- ture of at least $500,000 will be required before Christmas to fore stall actual starvation in this land where practically every farmer owns his own ranch and home. Texas County Suffers | Texas county is one of the worlds greatest wheat producers. For the past five years 1t has har- vested an average of 5000, 900 bushels annually. Growers antic- ipated an 8,000,000 bushel har- vest. They reaped but 5000 bush- els and not combine was put into the field in the. three coun- ties extending over an area 100 miles by 30 miles.
 Not a single garden in this stricken area could be raised. Cat tie, suffering from water short- age, graze hungrily on parched sagebrush and yellow stunted for age.
 Too Proud for Aid
 The farmers who till this plains country, which lies like an even floor as far as one can see, are too proud to seek aid. When Gov w. H. Murray called the four-state relief conference here, representa- tives found for the first time the acuteness of the situation.
 Residents of the area are look ing forward to approval of flood control and reservoir projects along the storied Cimarron river, a flatbed stream that becomes a raging torrent when rain does fall, for their salvation. State officials have taken these appeals to the public works administrators al Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

quent for two years, remaining the collector of its revenues until all back taxes are paid. This Is similar to the plan to beat tax delinquen- cies adopted by Indiana under Governor McNutt.
 When this plan goes in operation Couzens hopes it will produce enough back taxes to put the city back on cash basis and retire its scrip, which is eventually redeem able in money.
 Couzens, aggressive son of the aggressive Michigan senator and former mayor of Detroit, James E. Couzens, has brought his tax delinquency program home to the city hall by insisting that all city employees pay up their back taxes. "How do you expect to make citi- zensp ay their back taxes when the very officials who demand it haven't paid their own?" he asks. Through his leadership of an effective council, this young shirt sleeved mayor is leading one Amer ican city out through tn wilder ness of debt and blazing a trail to Q new promised land of soundly- | financed cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
ORPHAN ISLAND CAUSES DISPUTE
 IN MINNESOTA
AIIuvial Deposit in the st CrOix River Grows in
 Fifty Years

Marine-on-st. Croix. 1Einnssota- (UP)-An island in the st crcix River, which has grown to sise- able proportions from aliuvial de- posits washed down in the last 30 years, is held to be an orphan.
 The island was not in existence or at least maps fail to show it, when Minnesota and Wisconsin were admitted to statehood. Her bert L. Dunn, attorney for the United States engineers omce. holds further that it is a part or neither state and has no owner.
 Private individuals may have acquired rights to the island. Dunn declared. "But this is neither for the state or federal government to determine. Such rights must be determined by the courts of law"
 In the meantime, Dunn said, the authority of federal or state governments is limited to use or the island for improvement or navigation or for protection.
 The question arose when John Resell, of Marine-on-St. Croix, sought for an owner from whom he could lease the island for a village bathing beach and other recreational purposes and couldn't find anybody to accept rent
 Peru is increasing it's outlay for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
BRITAIN SCRAPS
 VETERAN ENGINE

London-(UP)-A battle-scarred British war veteran and ex-German prisonef of4war, with travel rec- ord of more than 1.220,O00 miles, has just passed away. < This ''hero" was Locomotive No 2717, believed to have been the only British railway engine to have been captured by the Germans. It has just been withdrawh from ser- vice and broken up.
 While in use on the British front at Cambrai in 1917, No 2717 was captured by the enemy and for five months was used as a machine gun post in "No Mans Land. .s Following the March retreat the Germans removed the engine, patched up the bullet and shrap- mel holes, and used her for railway service until she was recaptured by the British in 1918.
 , On return to home duties after the war the engine was decorated with a plate recording it's war services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
DOGS DEFENDED
 IN VERBAL SPAT
Cincinnati Dog Fancier Riled By Magazine
 Story

Cincinnati, O. (UP)-De Glenn Adams, Cincinnati dofi fancier. and the author of a recent article in the American Spectator" disagree on the virtues of cats and dogs.
 A verbal "cat and dog fight" in which words from the dictionary were used as weapons, resulted from the widely read articles to which Dr Adams took exception.
 Doctor Makes Reply
 Pen and dictionary in hand, the doctor, replying to the writer's challenge, gleaned words of nasty connotation derived from "cat." He supplemented his written offering with the assertion that the cat is so dumb he does nothing about which a man can make an ob- servation."
 The Spectator writer had said, in part:
 "An infuriated man hurls as his vilest epithet that of cur or dog. Nothing can be- more abject than to lead a dogs life. nothing more ignoble than to die like a dog.
 "The level assigned to the crea- ture is apparent when we; cansider the type of person who goes to the dogs, or the sort of thing that is thrown to the dogs. An underdog is a term of unfathomable con- tempt. Dog-days are wretched days. dog-Latin is wretched Latin. dog-cabbage. dog-fennel, dog-berry dog-leek, are each the. most wretched of their kind"
 Has Nothing Against Cats
 T haven't anything against cats but I've got to talk when someone abuses the dog.
 Tine reason we have so many derogatory phrases that apply to dogs, Is that man is better ac- quainted with the dog than any other animal. If the ostrich were his pet he would built lot of similies on the ostrich.
 "The evil expressions concern ting the dog came from the archaic past when men didn't understand dogs. In those days people didn't even like each other much, so how could they be expected to say nice things about dog?
 "Cats can't be trusted g sec- ond."
 Offers Derivations
 Turning to the "cat" section of the dictionary, he offered the fol- lowing uncomplimentary deriva-
 Catfish: One of the hideous and
 Catsh: One of the hideous and most undesirable of all fish.
 Catface: A blemish in lumber.
 Catfooted: Stealthy and treach- erous.
 Catnip: Catsfoot and other type of weeds, of the lowest order.
 Cat-meat: Food refuse.
 Cats tongue: A slender, worth- less type of oyster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Hanihara Hopes U. s.
 Will Right Error
His 1924 Exclusion Act Note Created Great Stir
 Statesman Now Dying

1 not slow in coming. Immediately there was tremendous revulsion of feeling in Japan. Japanese gratitude to, and friendship for, Americans had reached the high est pitch in history for the aid in services and millions in dollars and materials that had been rushed to their rescue following theg reat earthquake of Sept. l, 1923.
 But, suddenly, everything Amer had, previously been popular. The name of the big American cafe, in Tokio, was changed overnight to Oriental cafe. Japanese girls wearing their hair in American style were hissed, jostled and evena roughly handled. Yuko Hamaguchi, then finance minister and later to be assassinated as premier, put through his famous 100 per cent luxury tariff, evincing anti Americanism in particular and a current of anti-foreignism in general. A band of reactionary> youths burst into the ballroom of the Imperial hotel, filled with American and other foreign guests, and staged a sword dance. shout ing a warning to, Japanese guests to leave foreign ways alone and not be traitors. tH
 Individuals Not Molestcd
 Characteristically Japan 8 c, however, was the fact that no ,in- dividual Americans were molested. though one Japanese committed harakiri near the American em- bassy in the traditional method of protest. Such Americans as Lind bergh, Douglas Fairbanks and others when -they visited Japan were greeted by chering crowds. It is only very recently that this wound to the pride of the Japan csc has seemed to be healing over. The cure" is not complete, how ever, as those Americans who know tn Japanese well are thor oughly aware. Evidence that the hurt is there as deep as ever comes out In chance remarks = forebodings of the long-talked of Japan American war, and bolster ous boasts that the Japanese navy is ready to meet the American fleet any day.
 Referred to Act
 Baron Shidehara, as long as he remained foreign minister, in- variably in his annual statements of policy at the opening of the imperial diet referred to the anti Japanese law of the United States and expressed the hope that the American people would in due time repeal it. Succeeding foreign ministers, however, have dropped reference to te matter, prehferring to avoid the possibility of creating further irritation by continued official statements and awaiting action by the Americans them selves.
 Hanihara (Little Hani as his friends called him) was appoint ed to the United States in Decem- Der, 1922, and resigned in Decem- Der, 1924, and returned to ToSio. In 1926 he was offered the post of ambassador to Italy, but re- fused the appointment, on the ground of family affairs requiring his presence in Japan.
 He is olny 57. His first diplo- matfc post was that of consul eleve in the Japanese consulate at Annoy, China. Subsequently he had minor diplomatic posts in Korea and the United States. He grad ually4 worked his way up, and finally after becoming vice. min- ister of foreign affairs and dele gate to the Washington confer ence, was appointed ambassador to the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

Peru is increasing it's outlay for national defense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
Mornons Will Dedicate
 Landmark in Arizona

Winslow, Ariz-(UP)-One of the landmarks of early Arizona will be perpetuated here Aug 27 when members of the Latter Day Saints church formally dedicate a marker at the cemetery of old Brigham City.
 Brigham City and Sunset, an abandoned town on the opposite bank of the Little Colorado river, were two of the string of posts es- tablished by the Mormons in their invasion of Arizona in 1876.
 Mormons from Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, many of them descendants from those buried in the cemetery. are expected to at- tend the ceremonies. "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30
$l.OOO,OOo Feet Flee Wedlock

Helen Fzisrdezn Kelley has a pair of seet that were insured for el.oo0yeo0 when she was wipnlng prizes for the most perfect sct os pedal equipment In New Engiand . few years ago. Now she's using them to run away from marriaee Cd Harold Allen Kelley after nine xears of welded life. She posed for this picture after filing suit for divorce in Los Angeles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

While visiting England with a team of Indian polo players, the Maharajah of Jaipur had an au. diehce with the king fin Bucking- ham Palace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-30

Mrs Alice Penney was awarded penny a week maintenance when she was granted a separation from her husband, in Monks Risborough, England. '
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20
CIIRTAILMENT PLAN

WASHINGTON, Jue 20. -Secre- tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal lace Monday revealed a plan for the curtailment of the current American cotton production by 10,- 100000 acres. The Agriculture De- partment is working on the de- tals of a plan to reimburse cotton producers for this curtailment ot production.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20
.EB|NC GOT GREAT
 KICK A|RPLANE RIDE
Was Jack Ebing thrilled? And how!

Was Jack Eblng thrilled?
 And how!
 Yesterday the popular and highly efficient B. P. R. Superintendent left terra firma voluntarily for the first time when he decided to come to Seward from Moose Pass via Pilot Art Woodley's Bellanca mono plane. The flight only gave him Is minutes in the air, but what IS minutes they were to this aero nautical enthusiast. He didn't have time to take more than two puffs at a cigarette, 90 intensely inter ested was he. No one ever enjoyed an airplane flight more than did Jack.
 It's son Johnny's turn next, then Mrs. Ebing.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20
WOODLEY RETURNS

Pilot Art Woodley and party ot four flew back to the Seward base last evening from Moose Pa s where the day was spent touring the entire district. Woodley set his Bellanca monoplane down on Trail Lake while the tour of Moose Pass, Hope and the Sunrse area va made by motor car. Among the plane arrvals were Jack Ebing, Lois lessen and Edwin Sandbeck
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20
THERE IS A JOKER

ENSENADA, Mexico, June 20. - Thousands of bottles of French brandy of the vintage of 1900 are for sale here at $2 per bottle but the joker is that purchases must be made in $1O,O0O lots or more.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20

Glen Rogers, superintendent of the Seward Schools, now pla acer mining in the Moose Pass country, writes friends that he is working hard brightening a No. 2, sleeping the sleep of the just and eating like a horse.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-06-20
WEATHER REPORT

Seward, 54, cloudy and light So wind.
 Tunnel. 55, Part cloudy, calm. Anchorage, 63, clear, calm. Curry, 60, Part cloudy and calm. Broad Pass, 50, Clear and calm. Healy 50; Nenana 60, Fairbanks 55.
Evening star., 1933-09-12

his government to the President at
noon and to conduct the flrst cabinet
meeting tomorrow.
With the announcement OF the gov
ernment, Leftists. radical Socialists,
Socialists, and others distributed leaf
lets attacking Lerroux and their own
party leaders for tolerating the gov
eminent.
Members Of the Lerroux cabinet are:
War-Jose Franchy Roca, former
minister Of commerce.
Interior-Martinez Barrios. former
minister of communications.
Observation-Disclosures Barnes. former
minister Of public instruction.
Treasury-Gomez Lara.
Public works-Guerra del Rio. leader
of the radical Republican party.
Commerce and industry-Gomez
Parapcha.
Justice-Juan Asensi, a reactionary
deputy.
Labor-Richard Samper.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Santalo.
State-Rector Sanchez Albornoz OF
Madrid University.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
|OFFICERS NOMINATED
IN. STANTON PARK
Citizens Association Names Viii.
liam E. Monroe President for
the Coming Year.

The Stanton Park Citizens Associa-
tion. resuming its monthly business
meetings, last night nominated the fol-
lowing ofncers to serve during the en-
suing year: William E. Monroe, presi-
dent; Mrs. Luther H. Brown, secretary:
Claiborne Hunter, treasurer; e. j.
Elwood, FIRST vice president; James P.
Farmer. second vice president; S. Mer-
ton Chipley. financial secretary, and
Harry N. Stull and A. H. Gregory as
delegates to the Federation Of Citizens
Associations. -
Meetings will be held in the Peabody
School, Fifth and c streets northeast,
where the election of officers will be
held on October 8.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
CLEAR KIDNAPPING RECORD |
BY JUSTICE Department
Attorney General Cummings Shows
100 Per Cent Activity Against
Recent Racketeering.

BY the Associated Press.
The Department Of Justice can boast
100 per cent record Of success in It's
recent activities against kidnapping and
racketeering. Attorney General Cum
mings told the United States Flag Asso-
citation last night.
"The Division Of Investigation of the
Department Of Justice has for several
months devoted large part Of its time
to these two types Of crime" he said.
Through the public press you have
been given accounts Of the progress that
has been made
"Of the Is kidnapping cases reported
and investigated, there have resulted II
convictions, one death sentence. two life
sentences and terms of imprisonment
aggregating 3l2 years. In addition
thereto, 80 persons are now In custody
in various parts Of our country awaiting
trial"
Evening star., 1933-09-12

Mr.. Monroe, present president Of the
association. in reporting ON N. r. A.
activities for that section. said the area
is one Of the most active in Washing
ton.
A special committee composed Of
Mrs. Brown, Mr.. Gregory and Samuel
Frantz was appointed to investigate q
proposal to widen East Capitol street.
Members Of the association opposed
such action.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
BIRD HUNTING SEASON
RESTRICTIONS RULED
Department Of Agriculture Seeks
to Preserve Stock Of Game
Flyers. szn1k
BY tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
The Department Of Agriculture,
which spends most Of its energy these
days figuring out ways to get rid Of
surpluses, has been giving some thought
recently to the opposite problem-pre-
serving stock Of game birds by clamp
ing down on hunting season restric-
tions.
Ducks and geese, due primarily to
drought over the breeding areas. began
to grow very scarce in 1880 just about
the time the country began to pile
up a surplus of such farm commodities
as wheat and cotton
Coot, known to many hunters as the
lowly mudhen. and jacksnipe were in
cluded In the regulations for waterfowl.
Evening star., 1933-09-12

which also cut the daily bag Of ducks
from is to ~. Not more than Of
the IL may be canvasbacks, redheads,
scaups, teals, shovelers or gadwalls,
and the number Of the particular spe-
cies named may not exceed In the
aggregate.
Possession limits on ducks were re-
duced from 80 to "a and no open
season on brant along the Atlantic
Coast will be permitted, although they
may be hunted on the Pacific.
Other changes in regulations make
1t possible to hunt cackling geese this
season. The number of woodcock that
any person may have In his possession
was limited to IL and the season on
this bird was changed In Maryland to
November l5-December IS.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
Pioneer Auto Maker Dies.

INDIANAPOLIS, September IL P).-
Arthur c. Newly, 68, pioneer automobile
manufacturer and philanthropist, died
at his home here last night following q
long illness from heart disease.
Mr.. Newly helped found the National
Motor Vehicle Co.. makers of the cid
National automobile, and founded the
Empire Automobile Co. He was one of
the incorporators of the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
.LERR0UX CABINET
FORMED IN SPAIN
Premier to Present New Gov.
: ernment to President Al
= Gala Zamora Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MADRID, September 12-Premier
Alexandra Lerroux announced today the
personnel of his cabinet to succeed that
OF Manuel Azama, whose resignation
the new premier demanded when two
elections were unfavorable to it.
The new government. approved by
President Alcala Zamora and all Re-
publican minority groups. directly
f1aunts an old Spanish superstition in
that it has 13 members.
I'VE are above superstitions now"
said Lerroux, a 69-year-old attorney,
who has been active in Spanish politics
for so years. He himself took the state
portfolio until the return from the
United States of Sanchez Albornoz, rec
tor of Madrid University
The new premier planned to present
Evening star., 1933-09-12
Protest Overalls Price.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. September IL
R.-Complaining against what they
asserted was an undesirable rise in
prices of overalls, a delegation Of farm
ers called on County Attorney Phil H.
Oldham yesterday. Oldham agreed to
transmit the complaint to the county
N. r. A. Council
Evening star., 1933-09-12
DISGUISE USED

Montagu Norman EIudes People
Waiting at Railroad Depot.
LONDON, September IL R.-Mon-
tagu Norman may have made use Of
his prof. Clarence Skinner" disguise
when he returned last night from the
United States. CThat is the name un-
der which the governor OF the Bank Of
England often travels)
Disembarking at Liverpool. he was
seen to enter a first-class compartment
When the train arrived in London sew
eral people were waiting for him, but
he did not appear. Later it was learned
at his home that he had arrived.
Evening star., 1933-09-12
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-07
One of First WintOn
Residents Died In Idaho.

T. E. Gustafson, one of the first
residents of Winton on the advent
of the numbering to that place, died
on July 4th at Occur D. Alene, Idaho,
at the age of 70 years.
The remains viii be brought to this
city for interrment and will probably
arrive Sunday Funeral services will
be held at his home city before the
remains are sent to Ely. After arrival
here they will be taken to the Laing
Mortuary after which they will be
taken to the William Hasselblad resi-
dence where the last sad rites will be
performed by the Rev. II. r. Browne
Mr.. Gustafson removed from Winton
to his Western home ten years ago after
having lived in Winton for 81 years.
He was employed with the st. Croix
Lumber company and was one of the
first men on the job when the mill
was built.
Surviving are his widow. two sons,
Harry of Sultana, California, and
Elmer of Tower; four daughters, Mrs.
Frank Retter and Mrs. Harold Prather
of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. T. o. Sand
moen of Rainy River, Ont. Can, and
Mrs. William Hasselblad of this city.
Several grandchildren also survive.