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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
INDIAN THEFT
 CODE REVEALED
Being Caught Stealing is Crime With Navajo
 TribeSmen

Salt Lake City. Utah-(UPl- Being caught stealing, and not the actual theft. is crime under codes of the American Indian, l.. J. Foutz, retired Indian trader. said.
 One incident brought to Foutz's mind was on a Navajo reservation. Desiring to purchase few sheep, the trader removed his spurs and walked into group of young ln- dians to make the transaction.
 When he returned. hisf spurs were gone. No one was near ex- cept the owner of the sheep he had hargafned to purchase, and his parents. Foutz accused tlpem of the theft.
 lSllamefaced, the young Indian kicked the spurs from the sand, whore he had buried them. He had brought disgrace upon himself and parents by being canught stealing, E'outz said.
 This attitude toward thievery IS agO-old with Navajo Indians, the trader explained, and not the re- suit Of contact with white men.
 "You could give any Indian on the reservation your money for safekeeping and he would guard it with his life until you reclaimed it. Once it is back in your pocket. however, he would spare no effort to steal it."
 Indians are not bargain hunters. Foutz declared. They wait until they need an article before pur- chasing it.
 The Irish Free State has extend ed it's bounties on agricultural pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

Stalin spoke optimistically of the possibilities of q lively trade be- tween Russia and the United States, and laughed at fears ex- pressed by some economists re- garding the Soviets' ability to pay for goods.
 we are the greatest demand market and are ready to order-7 and pay for-large quantities of goods" he said. Every one has been surprised that we are paying. that we do pay and that we can pay. I know it is not customary to pay debts nowadays, but we do it. Other nations 'renig on their debts, but the union of Soviet so- cialist republics does not renig.
 We have many sources of gold supply and they are being devel- oped. Already our production is nearly double that of czarist times more than 100,000,000 rubles."
 Stalin characterized President Roosevelt as "by all appearances a decided and courageous politi- cal leader"
 Explaining his conception of MT Roosevelt, Stalin said there was a philosophical system known as
 
 do not believe in the reality of any, thing outside of yourself, but only in your own personality"
 For a long time," he said, Tit looked as if the American govern ment was 'solipsist.' But Roose. welt is not a supporter of that strange theory. He is a realist and knows facts as they are."
 He also praised Ambassador Bull lit who, he said, "does not talk like an average diplomRt-he is straightforward, and means what he says"
 Stalin was hopeful that the world is rising from the depres- sion, and believed bushes was on the upgrade, he said.
 Unless I am mistaken" he de- clared, business is beginning to improve. think the lowest point. perhaps, is already past. I do not believe they (the countries hit by depression) will reach the heights of 1929, but with some fluctuations as transition toward a revival is not only possible but probable"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
BLUE EAGLE WAS REMOVED AGAIN BY GOVERNMENT
Boston Restauran { Tried to Work Trick But Was
 Caught in Act

Boston, Dec 28--UP)-Believed the first case of it's kind in the country, tho blue eagle of the MIRA has been removed for a second time from 6 Boston restaurant, ac- cording to word received from Washington by the Massachusetts State Recovery board.
 On December 15 the insignia was ordered taken from the Barstantfs Sea Grill, Inc, here and was sur- rendered December IS. The fol- lowing day, the Arch Restaurant, Inc, signed an MIRA agreement and was given a blue. eagle.
 The local board contends that the two concerns were identical and the whole affair constituted
 subterfuge.'
 The. case came to light when
 representatives of the board passed
 the restaurant after the MIRA em-
 blem had been ordered removed.
 When they saw the insignia in the place they began an Investigation
 This brought out the fact, ac-
 cording to the board, that the res turant was operating under new Ename but apparently under the same management"
 Herman Moves, treasurer of the Commercial Tradi ng Company,
 present holders of the premises. characterized as absolutely falseS any charge of subterfuge.
 ssI think it's an outrage for the local board to make any such er- Ironeous statement. and I have so wired Johnson. We took over the
 place when Barsanti went into r-e , ceivedship. We formed new cor poration and control all the stock, we put, in Barsanti as manager to give him q break after he had lost
 all his money"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
Russia Fears Danger From Japan Militants
But Stan Believes Japan Would Be Unwise to Attack
 Russia Can Pay For Everything


 New York, Dec 2S--(UP)-The New York Times, in an exclusive cable dispatch from Moscow to- day, quoted Josef V. Stalin in an interview as seeing "real danger to the Soviets from Japan, but as believing that Japan would be un- wise to attack"
 "We should like to have friendly relations with the Japanese" the communist party leader said, "but unfortunately that does not depend upon us alone. If the more req sonable elements and more pru- dent counsels prevail in Japan our two countries can live in amity, but we fear the militant faction may push saner policies into the background. It is uncertain, too, whether she would get support for such an adventure from other powers. There is grave danger, and we cannot but prepare to meet it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
FRANCE DRAFTS
 GERMAN REPLY

Paris, Dec. 2S.-(UP).-France's reply to disarmament proposals of Chancellor Adolph Hitler of Ger manyl, was drafted today for pre- sentation by Andre Francois-P Pom cet, ambassador to Berlin. in verbal form.
 Francois-Poncet arrived unex- pectedly today to consult Foreign Minister Joseph Paul. Boncour and receive the memorandum of reply and any additional instructions. Previously, the French foreign of flee denounced as "idiotic" reports published abroad that France was prepared to offer to scrap half her bombing air planes. So far French German converse tions have been limited to talk be- tween Hitler and Francois Poncet so that the government has not been committed in any way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
PATROLMAN AND SMUCCLER WERE KILLED IN FIGHT
New Flare : Up in Long Struggle Along the Rio
 Grande Border

Fl Paso, Tex, Dec 2s.-(UP)- A border patrolman and liquor smuggler were killed in running gun fight early to-day, in the new est flare-up of the long struggle between smugglers and customs agents along the Rio Grande.
 Four suspected smugglers, two of them wounded, were arrested. Twenty gallons of contraband whis- key was in the hands of officers. The dead patrolman was Bert Walthall, S4, formerly of Flagstaff, Ariz. Tho body of Joe Estrada, who had served a prison term on a federal liquor charge, was found in the smugglers' wrecked auto mobile.
 Patrolmen Walthall, Louis A. Smith and Curtis Mosley gave chase when they saw the suspected smugglers cross the international bridge in an automobile from Juarez.
 Commanded to halt. the snug glers opened fire through a rear window. The first bullet wound ed Smith. The second struck Waltnail. lie uled en route tO ai hospital.
 After Estrada's body and the whiskey were found in the wrecked machine, an augmented force of officers raided Estrada's house in East Fl Paso. believed to be head-1 quarters of the gang.
 The officers, heavily armed with |shotguns and tear gas bombs, found the place empty. From blood- stains in bath tub, however, they deduced that the smugglers had been there for time at least.
 The four were captured later in another section of the city. They were Juan Lopez. Ramon Rico. Ruben Rico and another who re- fused to give his name. Ramon Rico had a bullet wound in the face and the fourth man had been shot in the eve,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
|LAGUARDIAHAS
 CONN. DOCTOR

New York, Dec 2S-(UP)-Two more important posts in the in- coming fusion administration were filled to-day when Mayor-elect Fiorello LaGuardia named Dr John l.. Rice as commissioner of health and Dr s. s. Goldwater as commissioner of hospitals.
 Dr Rice is a native of Connecti- cut and for the last 10 years has been city health commissioner of New Haven. He has had wide ex- perience in the public health field. holding posts in Kentucky and New York state and serving on health boards in this country, Gen. tral America, and Trinidad.
 American pilots are in charge o1 air planes in the new Shanghai Canton air route in China.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
May Locate Lumber
 Pest In Experiment
Threat to Christmas Tree and PupwOOd Hoped to Be
 Found By Brown U. Botany Dept

twigs. Eventually al needles drop off and the tree dies.
 Experiments by pathologists at Brown University have disclosed that spores may be carried to other trees by wind or rain, and possibly by insects, in much the same way that the Chestnut blight was spread between 1900 and 1920. The disease has been combated with some success by clipping and burn ing infected needles from the tree and by raking up and burning dead needles on the ground. An effective remedy is Bordeaux spray applied in early spring.
 How the blight reached this country is not known. Theories ad- vanced by Brown University bon- tanists and the staff of the patho- logical laboratory include contam> ination from imported European shrubs os possibly from some un- known source in Canada. The date of contamination also is uncertain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
2nd District Posts
 To Gather In Chase ]. Go. Assembly Hall
Ample Parking Places to Be Provided For Visiting < Delegates - Speakers to Discuss CWA Work and { Veterans Advancement Under Recovery Plan

, = N
 Nearly 200 delegates represent ing the various posts in the, juris- diction of the second district, Con- necticut department. American Le- zion. will visit Waterbury on We'd nesday evening. January 17th. Through the courtesy of the ofi- cials of the Chase companies the spacious auditorium in the com I.ai1y's office. building on Grand strete will be placed at the dis posal of the visitors. s sNa
 Special arrangements will also be made by Superintendent of Po- lice Joseph H. Mclean to provide ample parking space for the large caravan of autos expected iron, New Haven, West Haven, Seymour. Guilford. Naugatuck and the. vari- ous other posts included in. the district. Corporal Frank Coyle and it's auxiliary are making the nec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

essary arrangements for the event. Commander Walter Jarvis of the post and Miss Victoria Leibreich, president Of the auxiliary, are CO., chairmen of the committee. Com mander- Edwin R. Praun of Guil- ford will preside.
 P Waterbury had the honor of staging district meeting here sev- eraI months ago. It marked the first meeting here of district dele gates in nearly two years. The hospitality shown on that occasion evidently created Q most favorable impression. When Waterbury ex- pressed desire to act as host dur ing 1884 the local post was given the first meeting of the new year.
 Special speakers will be present for the coming meeting to take up the work of the PWA and the CWA and show how veterans are faring under the national recovery program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

STATE of CONNECTICUT: DIS-s
 TRICT of WATERBURY, ss. PRO-
 BATE COURT December 26th.
 1888. ESTATE of JESSE A. MAIL
 LETT, late of the Town of Mid
 .dlebury, in Said District deceased
 The Court of Probate for the Dis-z trict of Waterbury. hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said eS-i tate to exhibit their claims for set- clement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly att tested within said tim will be de-. barred a recovery. All persons in- debted to said estate are requested to make immediat payment to
 VIM. K. LAWLOR, 12-26-3t Administrator. eta.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, District '{ of Waterbury, ss. Probate Court.
 December Fist, 1883.
 ESTATE OF Joseph F. Hanlon, late of the Town of Waterbury, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis- trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requests ed to make immediate payment to
 JOSEPHINE BIRNEY, 12-1S St Executrix.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

STATE of CONNECTICUT: DIS- TRICT of WATERBURY, ss. PRO- BATE COURT, December 21st, 1883 ESTATE of WILLIAM NELSON LADD, late of the Town of Wa terbury, in Said District, deceased. The Court of Probate for the Dis- trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the cerditors of said es-s take to exhibit their claims for settle ment. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly atteste.t within said time. will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make imme- diate payment to The CITIZEN x MANUFACTURERS
 NATIONAL BANK &
 Thomas F. Moore.
 12-20-3t Bxecutor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
FIREMEN HAD CALL
 TO WHEELER AVENUE

The Baldwin street fire company responded to call this morning to investigate a fire in the home of William Wheeler of Wheeler ave- nue. Firemen found and checked a smokey oil burner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

With the resumption of distiller- ies in the Speyside district of Scot. land to help supply tho United States following repeal, more thar 5000 tons of barley were received by ship in six weks, compared with uone in 1892.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

Although the judges at . bird show in Ayr. scotland stod at at
 tention during the two minutes silence on Armstice day. the TOO birds sang louder than before. but
 at the end of the observance they lstopped singing for two minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28

The Irish Free State has extend ed it's bounties on agricultural pro- duce until March 31.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-28
Winter. j. Colds.

The ,spectre of W, in ter has no ter- TOTS for the family that
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
TAXI BONUS"
Is BIG PAY CUT
Morgan's Co. Making
Men Pay for Gas

NEW YORK.-A spirit OF unrest
among the cab drivers, shown by ma
ny quitting their jobs at Morgans
Terminal Cab Corporation" has
postponed the scheme to make the
men pay losses until March Is. But
the company is pushing through a
clever wage cut to reduce the COM
mission from DO per cent to 80 and
one third. They call it bonus. They
offer 10 per cent additional commits
sion, if the men will pay 10 cents a
gallon for gas. The net result is, with
q very few exceptions which the
company makes much of, that the
men, already down to SIS to $12 a
week, lose dollar or two more.
The Taxi Workers Union, 80 East
18th Street, is organizing the men
for q struggle. Its official paper, 1.-THE
Taxi Worker off the press today,
will have complete exposure of the
Terminals wage cutting scheme, and
plans to fight it. Come up to Room
Isl and get some copies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
2,463 DAILY CALL
FOR AID IN N. Y.
Big Increase Since the
Banks Closed

NEW YORK, March 13.-The ap-
plicationS for aid at the City Home
Relief bureau has doubled since the
closing OF the banks, according to
the report of the commissioner of
public welfare. During the last month
there have been 103, $50 families who
received relief from the bureau. The
first three days of the bank holiday
there were new applications averag-
ing 2,463 day.
More than half a million persons
are on the emergency relief, which
means that they are facing the worst
form of restitution, because the re-
lief bureau does not give out penny
if it is possible to convert even house
hold goods into cash. There are also
innumerable determinations based
on rules regarding length of residence,
moral status Of the applicants,
and so forth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
4 NEGRO YOUTHS
FRAMED BY COPS
Accused of Robbing
Man They Never Saw

NEW YORK-Four young Negro
workers, Tom Brown, John Christian,
Joe Turner and youth whose first
name is William, were arrested in
an outright frame-up last Saturday
charged with robbing a white man,
they never saw before, of $1440.
A policeman called the four as they
were going into Browns home, they
stopped and he told them they were
under arrest. The policeman took
them over to a white man who was
obviously drunk and asked him,
Are these the guys?" The man said
they were the ones who robbed him.
Unable to find the real criminals
the police as usual are trying to pin
1t on Negro workers.
The boys will have a hearing to-
morrow morning at the 121 Street
and 3rd Avenue Court at 10 a. m.
The International Labor Defense
Immediately came to the defense Of
the young workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
n. Y. DISTRICT SLUMPSIN
DAILY DRIVE; JOIN IN TAG
DAYSTO KEEP PAPER ALIVE

Only S283.33 was contributed to the
Daily Worker on Saturday, due to g
great extent to New York's con-
sinued laxity in raising funds. The
New York district sent in one OF the
lowest days totals in more than a
nonth-s6785. This, together with
the equal failure of every other dis
trict with the exception of Boston,
plunges the daily deeper into a
crisis which may engulf it completely
at any moment.
The New York branches of the In
ternational Workers Order, together
with out-of-town and national
branches, remained silent again Sat
urday in the face of the suspension
threat Not q cent from a single
branch Of this great organization!
Workers: members of the Com
munist Party and of sympathetic
organizations, get busy Raise the
crisis in the daily at every meet
ing Of your organization, and every
line you see friend or fellow
worker or neighbor, get them to con-
ribiItei Speed all Tag Day funds
directly to the Daily Worker. Make
possible for our paper TO carry on!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Chinese Unemployed Here
Organize and Put Demands

NEW YORK.-Chinese workers in
New York city have been for the last
several months organizing the Chi
nese Unemployed Association OF
Greater New York" with a program
of demanding immediate relief from
Chinese charity organizations and
participation in unemployed demon
strations of all workers city, state
and national
The association has already won a
few partial demands for tenants in
some houses.
Officials of the Chinese charitable
organizations and benevolent assoc
iations have raised thousands of dol
lars on every pretext they could uti-
lie, Recently they carried on a drive
for money to send back to China the
bones OF those dying in this country
But when the unemployed Chinese
here placed their demands before the
Chinese Charities there was no an
Swer at first. and then the associa-
ton was told by letter that the cha
rites were unable to do anything"
AT the same time the gentry run
ming these charities and benevolent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
FOOD PRICE RISE
IS CONTINUING
Women Toilers Take
Lead in Fighting It

NEW YORK, March 10. Retail.
prices are soaring all over the coun-
try. In New York bread is up from
one to two cents a loaf; butter that
early last week sold for 20 cents q
pound is now between % and 80
cents; canned milk has gone up from
three cents small can to four cents;
meat of all kinds is much higher
with beef leading, the price of steers
on the Chicago market being % pei
cent higher, with retail prices be-
tween 40 and AZ per cent higher. Veal
is $l00 a hundred pounds higher on
the Chicago market, at $3.50, while
the retailers have boosted the price
as much as 80 per cent.
Maintain Higher Retail Rate
Price trends characteristic of the
course of the crisis since 1929 main
tain approximately the same proper
ton. The chief characteristic OF
price trends was the fact that retail
prices sank much slower than whole
sale prices. Today with wholesale
prices rising rapidly, the retail prices
are advancing proportionately faster
In all markets there is sharp adj
vance of sugar and coffee.
There are also price advances in
many articles of clothing, particularly
shoes and hosiery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

associations took part in the Gibson
committee by sending delegates to it,
and paid banquet and transportation
expenses which alone would have
been sufficient to support a number
Of unemployed Chinese for many
days. The Chinese charities did not
in any way protest the discrimina-
ton against Chinese or foreign born
workers by the Gibson committee.
The Kuomintang newspaper here
paid no attention to the unemployed
until the association began to dis
tribute leaflets rallying the jobless
to force relief from the rich Chinese.
Then it began suddenly to discuss
"how to help the Chinese unem-
ployed in q. S. A."
In one of its editorials it advised
the Chinese jobless workers to wait
for the gentry to help, and not to
organize themselves, on tn preteXt
that if they did organize they might
be deported.
The Kuomintang consul in New
York has also declared that helping
the Chinese unemployed is Outside
his responsibility
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Stage and Screen
PICTURING THE WORKERS OF
U.S.S.R. RUNNING INDUSTRY

Shame" the new Soviet talking
picture at the Cameo Theatre, And
Street near Broadway, is a simple and
gripping account of life in the So
Wet Union, with its new security for
the toiling masses, whose enthusiasm,
consciousness of power, collective in
itiative and sense of ownership and
responsibility for the machines and
their production peryade the story.
The story is centered mainly in a
turbine plant, although several scenes
OF the home life and love affairs of
the workers are given. The workers in
a turbine factory in Leningrad greet
with unbounded enthusiasm the an
nouncement by the Party secretary,
Vesia, of the approval by the govern
ment of their counter plan-the plan
originated by the workers in the
Soviet plants to surpass the tasks
assigned them by the official plan.
From an enthusiastic factory meeting
they return to their machines and
tools determined to push through
their plan in record time. But some
thing goes wrong with the turbine
part on which Semion Tvanitch Bah
chenko, and old skilled mechanic, had
been working. Skvortzov, a DECEASED
engineer, has been sabotaging the
factory. The turbine is off center.
And the flag of shame is hung ever
the machine by the workers. The en-
tire factory is respondent, with the
exception of the wrecker, Skvortzov,
who gleefully conVinceS himself that
the workers are defeated, that "the
scum" as he arrogantly refers to them
when alone with his mother, can
never master the technique of pro-
duction. But the workers refuse to
admit defeat Under the leadership
of the Party secretary and old Bah
chenko, who deeply feels the shame
Of the defective turbine, they take ,
heroic measures to overcome the set
back and to complete their plan on
time. Babchenko, himself sneerer
at the new notions of collective work,
becomes an enthusiastic supporter of
the plan, following a dramatic scene
in which he first threatens to leave
the factory and then in an angry
outburst, typifies the attitude of the
Soviet workers, shouting at his cri~
tics Il am worker in my own fac
tory" In the end it becomes clear to
the whole factory that not Babchen-
ko, but the DECEASED engineer, was
to blame for the defective turbine.
The film is produced by Soyuz-
kino and directed by Frederick Er1n-
Ter and Sergei Yutkeyitch.