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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
EXAMINER FINDS
FRIEND ON SLAB

New York, May 3--(Up)---Chirf
Medical Examiner Charles Norris,
20 whom tho unpleasant duties or
Bollvue Morgue are everyday
routine, was preparing for an au-
topsy on an unidentified automo-
bijo victim, Az tho body was turn
cd on tho. marble table the face
came directly In view. DIR Norris
cried: "It's DIR Echwarsl"
Tho victim was DIR Ladislaun
Michael Schwarg, 90, a refugvu
German pathological who barely ~
hours earlier had boon appointed
10 DR. Norris star. DIR Schwnrz
was removed last year as professor
OF Forensic medicine nj Berlin
University whore he had ostab'
llahed n worldwide reputation
Under Maxi force he was Obliged
TO leave Germany and arrived mere
six weeks ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
April Back Taxes
Bring In $500
Report to Be Submitted To-day - City to Pay on
Sl,SOO,OOO Temporary Loan on June 18th

Back taxes collected during the
month OF April by tho city OF Wa.
terbury through the medium 0f
the office Of Tax Attorney George
", uuilfolla amounted 20 ey,Bio.72,
A report 20 this effect will be- made
10 the board OF finance nt She bi.
monthly meeting OF the commits.
HIoners this afternoon nj I o'clock.
During the month, also, seven or
more foreclosure actions we're In.
NtItuted in the local superior ana
common pleas courts and ~ title
Nenrcheg were made IN propRrn-
ton for future suits now under
confederation,
Outside OF receiving reports from
tho tax attorney, the park CON-
mission, and the city treasurer,
this Afternoons meeting Ii expect
cd 10 be n short and routine one
Due On June 18th.
on June 18th the present OUT
standing temporary loans or the
city will come due. They amount
TO S1,b00,000. Tax money on the
May installment OF the 1894 levy
In now pouring IN n fairly good
way, II wns stated today,
Pay Million And Half.
Tho city will pay Off its million
and OBe-hnlf temporary loans on
June 18th with the proceeds OF this
months collections. II In expected,
though that the city VIII hoht y
new temporary loan, the extent or
amount OF which In not yet known
Executive Secretary Thomas y
Kelly stated today when talked
with that the amount or o new
temporary loan will not be decided
upon until the present tax pay.
ment period has closed. All 1894
Iirgt -inBtDilment taxes must be IN
by June LIST. A long line Of prop
erty owners was on the scene yes
terdny settling up. Business today
was slowed up due 70 tho inc'c'
ment weather.
Showing u Good,
Tux Collector william A, Ennis
expressed satisfaction, TO date,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

f'SVhtbibsV iEVIu IakE ~
AgUlrre, a close friend or Junes
wealthy grandfather had accom-
panied HoblcB into the Mexican
state of sonora last week end when
the 73-year old rancher was UNDER
stood TO have established n contact
with the kidnapers. A. the time,
Robes was said TO have be enor-
dcred TO prepare for a second trip
10 Sonora. ito meet the ransom de-
mands In exchange for his grand
daughters release.
Aguirre returned 10 Nogalcs late
yesterday. He was seen In a.
money exchange, private institU-
tino similar To % bank. ife de-
MED his trip had anything to do
with the kidnapping.
The bus on which he booked
transportation In owned by Henry
Dalton, Tucson city councilman,
who also accompanied Robes on
the Sonora trip.
The new development CAUSED n
furorc here with federal, county
and city authorities awaiting the
! zero hour this afternoon 10 renew
their search for June.
Possibility OF another truce de-
pended, IL was believed, on the
outcome OF Aguirrc's mission.
Even the family has had no
definite evidence that the girl IN
still alive, friends said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
OBITUARY

BOYCE-lnfant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Boycc OF 10 Char
lcvoux street died last evening at
her home. The funeral, which will
be private, will be held tomor-
row. Burial will be In Calvary
cemetery. Besides ber parents she
leaves one sister. Hazel.
LGER Mrs Eleanor
fBroughD Bolger, widow of the
late Michael ". Bolger, died at tho
home OF her daughter, Mrs J..
William Cross, 81 Fuller avenue,
East Hartford. yesterday afternoon.
| She IN survived by a son. Edward
). Bolger Of Waterbury: three
daughters, Mrs John Curtin OF
South Windsor, Mrs Hanford Bill
ings OF ~ Paul, MINI, and Mrs
Cross with whom she lived.
The funeral wflI be held from
the home In East Hartford at
$3.50 O'Clock Saturday morning
with solemn requiem mass ut ~
Mary's church, East Hartford Mt
. o'clock. Burial will be In Mount
~ BeDedict's cemetery, Hartford.
BEECnIR--Mrs Edna Gertrude
Beecher. age ~ years, OF 2s7 Frost
road died this morning. She was
born In this city. the daughter Of
George y. and Anna Mason Rey-
nolds. Mrs Beecher was member
of the Mil Plain Union church and
member OF the choir of the
church and also the Ladies' AID
society. Hile waB q member OF Mao
mi chapter. Order OF Eastern Star.
Mrs Beecher is survived by her
father. George Reynolds: her hus-
band: two daughters, Hazel ". and
Ada q. Beecher: and one brother,
Harry q. Reynolds.
The funeral will be held satur-
day afternoon at 2:3O o'clock from
the Aiderson funeral home, 10
Central avenue. Rev J. q. Todd OH
ciating. Burial win . In Pine
Grove cemetery. Friends may call
al the funeral homo tomorrow af-
ternoon between 2 ana o'clock
and tomorrow evening between 7
and o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

The plattB Mills Commun.
nifty association win observe chill.
dren's night saturday, May 9Th, at
the Bristol company studio with tho
children furnishing the program.
Refreshments viii be served ana
dancing enjoyed following tho en-
tortainmant. Tho committee on ar.
rangements In as follows: MrH
Christian Schumacher, Mrs Oscar
Wcdin, Mrs Harold Sohnerr, Mrh
Walter II. Roberts, Mrs Chester
Burtnett, Mrs Guatnve w, Metz.
The standing soliciting oommlt-
tee will be- In charge or refresh.
ments: Mrs Leslie Baker, chairman,
Mrs John Mnlik, Mrs Robert Latti-
mer, Mra Oscar Wedin, Mrs Louis
Davis, Ah., Mrs Charles Jennnin,
Miss Marion Roan.
Opening Wolcome---There'a a fit-
tle Dutch Mil Chiidren'n chorus
MarceIle Pronovost, Alicia Rob-
erts, Phyllis Aldrich, Sylvia DUR
bin, Gertrude Schumacher, Betty
Churchill, Shirley Southland, Helen
Carpenter, victorlno Hecho, Alma
Mclean, Ruth Baker, Florence
Harpass, Marie Carpenter, Dorothy
sheldon, ElinOr Churchill, Irnee
Durbin, Muriei Booth, Ruth Metz.
Harriet Pronovoat, Rita Dessereau,
Lorrain Dessereau, Lois Baker, Lu-
ellie Carpenter, Raymond Stewart,
william Heche, Jack Baker, Har-
old Alvey, Raymond Alvey, Robert
IIalstedt, Ralph phonovost, Robert
Pettijean, John Durbin, Harry
Stewart, Harry Mclean, Paul Pro-
n0vost, oliver Carpenter, Climord
D0olittie, Lawrence 6arpasa, Her.
bort Wedln, Ellard Nelson. irving
Southland, Arnold Southland, Harold
Sanford, Paul Davis, Bennett Booth.
Tribute to Mother
M--Aiicia Roberts
O--Phylis Aldrich
T'--Sylvia Durbin
H--Gertrude Schumacher
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

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charged against Aloorace IL Is
years In states prison. vocchlo In
charged also with accepting money
collected immorally.
Tho trial OF both men was set
for next Thursday morning, They
will not BIO tried together, IL In bo.
lieved, Alcornco TO follow Veechio.
There are certain ramiiicationH
10 tho shooting OF Barshow that
cause police TO believe that plans
were quietly being made 10 set up
a women trafIic organization hero.
Neither police or attaches OF tho
states attorneys office would dis
ouBs the situation, but from re-.
ports being circulated In official
circles II was learned that because
OF such n proposition thu high
bonds we're asked In superior
court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

Mrs Page, the most seriously in
1ured, suffered n fracture OF the
left arm. The complaint says she
was an accom- plished pianist prior
70 the accident, and that because
or her fractured arm which will
not heal, she will be prevented
from again playing the piano. In
addition 20 the injured arm, she
suffered fracture OF ~ bone near
the base of the spine. She will be
perme injured, the complaint
says, and maids and servants will
have 10 be hired 10 do her house,
work.
Her husband claims bodily con-
kunions, sprained ankle. injuries TO
hts knee, and arm. He VIII be re-
ouired 10 expend considerable sums
for maids and servants, says the
complaint.
Earle suffered internal injuries
had his leg muscles torn and his
car demolished In tho collision, the
complaint says. The cases are re-
furnabie In court In June, accord
ing TO the complaints drawn by At
torney william J. LarkiD of Car
xnody and Thoms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
n I -
WATERBURY ELKS
VISIT NEW HAVEN

A number of members of the
Waterbury lodge OF EIks attended
the rituaiistic contest In New Ha-
ven Monday night between teams
representing New Britain and An
sonia. Tho contest was won by
the Angonia lodge by one and one
half points, and az n result this
lodge will represent Connecticut nj
the annual contest to be held In
Kansas City. The following MEM
bers were present from Waterbury:
Robert r.. Brit, William Reither.
Charles Ahearn, William Pollard.
Renard PaIlatine and Postmaster
James Kelly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

however, with the showing being
made and iB Of the belief that the
May payments this year will sur.
pass records Of the past few years
when tho depression forced q gen.
eral laying down" on the part OF
property owners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

UIEVEs GET TWO YEARS

klamath Falls, Oregon 49, fUP)
- Horse stealing, once punishable
by hanging In this section. now
bring two-ycar pcnitentiary sen.
tences. Judge william Duncan re-
Gently handed two-year sentenced
to two confessed horse thiees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

Thero's Something About q
Soldier Goodbye
Children's chorus cs,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
Old LAWYER DEAD

DID LAWYER DEAD
Norwich, Conn. May 3--tUP)--
william II. Shields, s8, Oldest prac-
tioing attorney In New London
county, died NJ Bankus hospital
last night. Ho was admitted TO tho
bar In 1889,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
DAMAGES ASKED
FOR $45,OOO

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03

wEECHEH this city. May sra.
1874. Mrs Edna Gertrude ". beach,
urday afternoon Mt z,a0 o'clock
burial IN Pine Grove esmetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
KIDNAPERS ARE
GIVEN time Limit

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-03
JURY EXCLUDED
in MURDER CASE

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Evening star., 1934-08-12

America might do well to follow the good
example of this modern Chinese scholar.
Africa also speaks. For centuries the popu-
lation of South Africa has been increasing,
though even yet it is not overcrowded.
The methods of the natives have been as
tonishingly similar TO those OF our own Western
ranchers; raise little patches of grain and
vegetables, Craze the land empty and move on.
Winds whip across the denuded soil. securing
Its surface away. Sudden heavy rains lash it,
furrowing it. cutting cattle and game paths into
tunnels, and these into crumbling gullies.
The good surface soil goes into the streams
and chokes them with SILT the new surface Is
not only cut to pieces physically but is impov-
erished chemically. European administrators
are very much concerned, and discuss means
of inducing the population TO shift TO better
lands and cease their ruinous methods Of ex-
ploitation.
Does it not all have q familiar sound?
The remedy is simple-though laborious and
not swift. Just this: FIJI the soil with roots
again. Quite literally. "go to grass." And trees.
What Is now the rich ploved corn land OF
Iowa and Illinois and Eastern Nebraska was
once long grass prairie. Farther east In the
Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes country and
the deep South. there were forests.
We cut and burned down the forests, plowed
out the deep-rooted prairie sod In doing so
we destroyed the innumerable tough cords Of
roots that held the soil together. II We would
end the insubordination Of the soil, we must
restore them
That does not mean that we must give the
whole country back to the forests and wait.
like Elijah, for ravens TO come down out OF
the treetops and feed as. It does not mean
Continued on Thtrteexth Page
Evening star., 1934-08-12

called fer meat, meat, meat always more meat.
1t was a patriotic duty to produce in excess.
Land was plowed beyond the margin of safe
grain farming herds were bred past the ca
pacity of range lands to support them.
And when the men of Europe stopped killing
each other and went back to their own farms.
throwing tariff hedges around themselves, down
came prices. American farmers, unorganized,
could only meet lower prices by raising more
stuff to SELL And the land was plowed to
dust, grazed clean as though shaved with
razor
Then came the drought and with the
drought the wind The land, with more
grass roots in it to hold 1t in subjection, rose
in anarchy and filled the sky portent and
sign Of warning. People who had never
thought of the farmers troubles before, wiping
q film of his farm out of their eyes and cough
thoughtful of them.
What are we doing with our land? The
question is on city tongues well country
tongues now. It Is asked in the East as well
as in the West What are We doing with our
land? Are we really making a desert of it?
The suggestion is not as fantastic as it
sounds. There are other man-made deserts in
the world, or at least deserts where the reck-
lessness or hunger drive Of men has supple
mented the unkind ofices of q slowly desic-
eating climate and brought the region to agri-
cultural suicide China can tell US about that
kind of thing. and so can Africa.
Not very long ago scholarly Chinese was
talking to o widely travelled American news
paper man. drought was over China, with
famine certain to follow. and n duststorm
raging outside as he spoke. Said the Chinese:
These droughts, dnststorms and famines
Evening star., 1934-08-12

destroying property and impoverishing the
people.
It was a warming that under our planless.
systemless, anarchic mode of land
are about to make a reality out OF myth. We
are getting ready to create the Great American
Desert
When Brain Truster Thomas jefferson be-
came President a century and third ago, one
of the important moves in the new deal OF
his DAY was the purchase of great chunk Of
land west of the Mississippi. The opposition
newspapers of his time denounced him for
'usurping the powers Of Congress when ne
did so. and Jefferson himself admitted with
q red-headed. freckled GRIM that he had
stretched his power till it cracked
The opposition newspapers also declared that
the SIS. 900 900 Of taxpayers money which JET
ferson had squandered on this 500 900 square
miles of territory just poured into a hole
for was not almost all of it in the Great
American Desert?
But jefferson only sent out his trusted
friends, Lewis and Clarke. to look over the
bargain he had bought, and they quickly laid
the ghost of the Great American Desert myth.
Within q generation after the return of their
expedition, the scoffers' sons were getting rich
selling wagons and plovs and guns to the
pioneers who were going out into this Great
American Desert to break the virgin sod and
raise crops such as not even Joseph dreamed
of when he was Pharaoh's overseer in the
Seven Fat Years of Egypt.
DUT Pharaoh has arisen in this land, who
- knew not our Joseph, and his name Is
Agricultural Overproduction.
The needy years of. the World War called
for wheat, wheat, wheat, always more wheat;
Evening star., 1934-08-12

busted her furniture after the sitting dust
had passed on, she was throwing bread out
of the house. Not this years bread Next
years. Bread that might have grown as wheat
on farm in Kansas or Western Iowa. but
now can never be harvested or milled or baked.
Lost bread
For that great dust storm. the first of its
kind that ever blew so far as the Eastern Sea-
board. was made of the best topsoT of the
Midwestern grain lands. 1t had the mineral
elements in it that are needed by plants, to
be added to water and air and sunlight to
make food. Lost from the farms, it can never
be replaced or. at any rate, not In humanity
calculable time
nUST storms like that have been fairly fire.
quent things Of late years, but only In the
Midwest. They start In Colorado or Nebraska,
nois: not until this year have they ever reached
the East
In ancient times such an unfamiliar event
would have been regarded rs q portent and
q sign Of warning of disaster to follow, as was
the darkness over Egypt In the time of Noses
itself not improbably just such q dust storm.
Our dust storm was portent and q sign OF
warning. needing no supernatural sanction to
make its lessons clear for the eyes and the
minds Of people who are thinking-as many
ere thinking hard today.
It was 3 sign Of warning that the farm
problem Of the Midwest is national problem.
not q regional one. 1t was a warning that
the soil there, and elsewhere in our country,
too. is In danger Of becoming q nomad soil,
gypsy soil. abiding nowhere, profting nobody,
turning from its age-old function of creating
wealth to new racketeering occupation of
Evening star., 1934-08-12
The great dust storm Of 1884 was
swRnine that under our planless
method Of land use vast desert will
eneuF our midwest farms unless we
wake up and DO something about it
BY DR.. FRANK THONE.

RAY-YELLOW dust,
borne on dry, scorn-
A full wind, logged out
the sun over Eastern
Seaboard cities q few
weeks ago. People
looked and wondered. Housewives
were annoyed: more cleaning to
do. Airplanes had to stay ground
ed. Port navigation was doubtful
for day or two.
Then the sky cleared and busi-
ness went briskly forward again.
But people remembered. For a
long time they will remember
They will tell their children, their
grandchildren, of the great dust
storm of "a.
They will have this portentous
thing to tell about as long as they
live. But only on one condition.
That is, that they now take steps
to keep others like it from coming
again-from coming again so
often, and so calamitously, that
there will be no thrill In the tell
ing, because such storms shall
have become q burdensome COM
monplace.
An impoveriShing commonplace,
too. For when the peeved house
wife revacuumed her rugs and
Evening star., 1934-08-12


for unless you wake up in time. !
can understand them in China be-
cause the damage was done CEN
turies. even thousands Of years
ago-before people knew what de-
forestation and bad farming could
do to nation. But cannot un-
derstand a country like the United
States allowing such a thing to
happen"
China, he added, ought TO be the
''horrible example" in this respect
to all the rest of the world.
CHINA is not asleep any longer,
~ either. China is out to salvage
the fertile lands she has left. and
even to redeem the desert, if do
mestic fury and fierce civil strife"
and the ambitions of imperialistic
foreign powers only let her.
A dozen years ago a quiet young
Chinese was studying in the botany
department of the University Of
Chicago. when finish here go
to Yale, study forestry" he explain
ed to an American fellow student.
The American looked his surprise;
he had always understood there
were no forests in China.
"Oh. yes," the Chinese continued,
with a quick-smile, your foresters
have as their task TO conserve the
forests. It will be my job in China
Evening star., 1934-08-12

Continued on Thirteenth Page
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-19
L. IS. Farmers
Elect Delegate
ForSoviet Trip
Julius Walsted to Make
Survey of Collective
Farms in U.S.S.R.

Julius Walstad has been elected
as the delegate to represent Ameri-
can dirt farmers on the friends of
the Soviet Union delegation, which
will reach Moscow in time for the
Nov. 7 celebration. Walstad, en-
dorsed by the Farmers National
Committee for Action and the
United Farmers League, as well as
by tens of thousands of other dirt
farmers, will make a thorough sur
vey of State, collective and COM
munal farms in the Soviet Union.
The newly-elected delegate has
been active in the struggle for bet
ter farm conditions in South Da-
kota, his home state,
Walstad, as we'll as the other
delegates, will speak at a mass
send-off to take place at the Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. 4th ST., on
Friday evening. All interested in
having the delegation obtain an
swers to questions regarding the
Soviet Union while in the U,S.S.R,
are urged to come to the send-off,
where such questions will be col
lected and given to the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-19
Bosses Attack
.C.P. Candidate
In Cleveland
Relief Denied JObless
Leader After Bride
Is Refused

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. 18.-The
city Democratic machine, headed
by Mayor Barney F. Dickman in
cooperation with Peter Kasus,
$1,O00-a-month relief director, has
centered its attack upon the unem-
ployed leaders in numerous attacks
upon Samuel r. Dukes, organizer
of the Unemployment Councils and
Communist candidate for Congress
in the eleventh district here.
Immediately that the workers
filed a petition with the signatures
of 32,034 registered voters, thereby
placing Dukes and other working
class candidates on the ballot, the
Democratic machine pivoted its at
tacks upon the leaders of the job
less.
Last Thursday Dukes applied at
the Finney Avenue relief station for
payment of his rent and provision
of clothing for himself and his
17-year-old son. After a two and
one-half hour conference behind
closed doors, where the battery of
relief officials hurled libelous
charges at him, the relief heads at
tempted to strike a bargain with
him.
A special messenger was sent to
his home asking him to appear at
the relief station for work relief
job Here he was told that his
weekly food check would be stopped
and was offered a work relief job
at less than his present relief
budget. Declaring that this was an
attack not only upon himself but
upon the relief standards of all the
unemployed Dukes refused and
stated that he would continue the
fight against the present relief.
Reverting to their previous tao
tics, they then asked him to call on
Mayor Dickman, who, they assured
him, would provide a good job.
When he branded this as an at
tempt to bride him, police were
called and Dukes was thrown out.
Since then the relief heads have
declared that he will get no more
relief until the matter was taken
up with the State Relief Admins
tration."