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, 1934-11-18
HueyLong;s Blind
Legislature Deals
Blow at Opposition

BATON ROUGE. La. -tR1-
Armed with q new set Of laws he
wrote to increase his power over
state affairs. and his popularity 70
maintain that power. United States
Senator Huey p. Long. LouiSiana's
political dictator. took the day off
Saturday TO see the Louisiana State
W.. University Of Mississippi football
game at jackson, Miss.
He left nc the close OF the five
day special session OF the leglsla-
ture that passed a bills at his bid
, 1934-11-18

VENTURA. Calf, NOV. ~. Up
Cenevieve Tubin. 2T. blonde motion
picture actress, and her MOTHER
Mrs. Genevieve Tobin, SO, we're In
jured seriously Int Saturday aH
their automobile Skiddnd and
crashed into A palm tree.
Dr. "A. vi. StOll. Oxford, said M
preliminary examination showed
both had dislocated shoulders and
probably other injuries.
, 1934-11-18
A Workmen Crushed
Under Mud Cave-In

BRIDGEPORT. Nov. III. Pr
Buried under tons Of muddy earth,
four workmen persisted Saturday
when the walls of a ditch ID feet
deep caved In Oh them.
The victims. ali Bridgeport men
were.
RI. II. Fur, 40; Claude Mater. 81;
Bud Shawn, Is: Nolan Gober. 20.
Apparently rains had lo0sened the
soil and caused supporting timbefs
III the deep sewer ditch to give
away. The ditch IVES being dug mi
the Bridgeport waterworks. where a
new filtration plant Is under con.
struction.
, 1934-11-18
Four Killed AS
Plane Crashes
In California

LOS ANGELES. Nov. N. -tP-
Tommy Thomas, veteran Southern
California pilot and all the passen-
gers in his biplane we're killed sat-
urday in a crash In the San Fer
nando Valley north OF here.
-Four died In the crash.
The coroners office here report
ed the dead had been tentatively
idnetified as:
w. K. CTommy) Thomas. pilot.
Roy w. Kidd. mechanic.
r. M. Mathews.
Dorothy Benham. telephone oper-
ator.
The biplane. in a high fog, crash
ed into the hillside, beside a spill
way or the municipal aqueduct,
about 20 miles from here.
Bursts Into Flames
The four dead left Union Air
Terminal az $50 a. m, to fly over
the foothills Of the Tehachapi
mountains near Saugus. where on
Thursday night a II. w. A. mail
plane piloted BY George Rice made
a forced landing.
About an hour and a half later,
the motor Of the plane was heard
BY r. 8. Cagnacci. transmission
patrolman Of the municipal bureau
Of power and light, who was patrol
ling the auueduct. The plane was
above the clouds and shrouded In
fog.
A few minutes later he saw II
crash and burst into flames beside
the spillway.
A truck driver. "A. Tetro. OF Los
Angeles, who also heard the ex-
plosion and saw the crash. rushed
10 the scene with Cagnacci. All on
board the plane apparently had
been killed instantly.
Pioneer Filler
Thomas was 80 years old. He
started one Of the first flying SER
vices In the country and was the
personal friend OF most of Amer
ica's foremost filters.
He was president on the Pacific
Aeromotive Corporation, one of
the largest flying service companies
on the coast. and he had acted rs
western representative for many
national aircraft corporations.
Active In the National Aercnautic
Association for years. he was q
prominent figure each year &C the
National Air Races.
The impact OF the crash was
evidenced BY n OF the bodies
being thrown $50 feet up the hill
from the w~reckage.
, 1934-11-18

GEORGE WEST. Nov. lT--A1~
wv. r.. Ruh) Clark charged with
murder for the highway staying ~
Homer D0bbs and Virgil DCbbS,
was brought tn 1aAl here saturday
from Lnmpnsas In custody of Shar-
iff WV. "A. Smith.
Hn will be held -four grand Jury
action III December. IL Il charged
by complaint with killing tine DubhH
brothers COAT Highway Go, the night
or October ..
TWO other men nave been charged
with murder I'm the case. Charles
Clark and william Reed. They, tup.
are Am custody of officers. Clark
was arrested Friday ~ LampasAH.
, 1934-11-18
4Oth Day Of Kings
Death Is Observed

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. Nov. II.
RY-With national religious services
Yugoslavia observed Saturday the
40th day OF King Alexander's death,
which IN this country In symbOlical
OF ChriSt'S ascension forty days
after the crucifixion.
An elaborate requiem mass with
a majestic Slavic ritual was cele-
brated az the national cathedral
where members OF the cabinet. all
the members or the regency except
Prince Paul. cousin OF the late
king, as well as Charles S. Wilson,
the American minister. we're pres
ent.
, 1934-11-18

BAIRD. Nov. l7.-P- Clifford
Doggett was convicted OF robbery
with firearms and sentenced TO 80
years imprisonment Saturday BY a
jury which heard him tried for
robbing Z T. Threet, Callahan
county cattleman. OF about $3.50
last August rs.
During the trial. the states chief
witness, Elmer Van Clevae. youth
ful co-defendant. testified that
Doggett shot Threet with q rifle
and then robbed him Of the money
at the Threet ranch-
, 1934-11-18
Women End Parleys

BRYAN. Nov. ~. P-Delegates
10 the convention of the Diocesan
council. national council OF Ca.no-
liz women. selected Mrs. Sarah ID
Morris or Beaumont. president,
picked Galveston as the 1885 meet
ing site and adjourned Friday.
Other officers elected we're
Catherine Kicks of Houston. record
ing secretary: Mrs. Fl. p. Mcdowell
or Bryan. treasurer: Mrs. Thomas
F. Taylor of Austin .parlian entar-
ian: and Miss Loretta T.. Yeager o.
Galveston, auditor.
, 1934-11-18

DALLAS. Nov. III. R-Silo Scriv-
nor was brought to the Dallas
county jail Saturday by federal
officers from Houston 10 await sem
fencing for his admitted part N the
$1,000. 900 jackson Street postofiice
robbery here In 1921.
The convict, a criminal with a
long record. was convicted several
years ago OF the ROBBERY - which
he pleaded guilty. but. at that time,
federal authorities RETAINED from
sentencing him because he had tes-
titled as a government witness
against two other defendants.
, 1934-11-18

WASHINGTON. Nov. III. tPp-The
Interstate Commerce commission
Saturday reopened the complaint OH
the Southern Produce company and
others. operating III Louisiana and
Texas. against several railroads. al
leginE rates charged on shipments
on bananas. cocoanuts and other
produce commodities from gulf
ports and Mexican border points no
destinations In the southwest were
unreasonable.
, 1934-11-18

SHERMAN, Nov. II. Rl--A rusty
single nail was removed Friday
from the left lung Of Glade Haw-
kins, p-year-old Whitesooro lad.
The operation vas performed by
DR.. w. Key.
Hospital attendants said the
lower lobe OF the lung had become
infected but the boy was expected
to recover.
The nail had been in his lung
three weeks.
, 1934-11-18

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. ~. Up
"A veteran San Francisco police SER
geant, whose ~ years OF service
were declared without q blemish.
was arrested Saturday night and
charged with participation I'm a safe
cracking.
The officer, Sergeant Oliver III
HassinR. was stripped or his badge
and booked on charges Of burglary
and Illegal use or explosives. He
denied he wns guilty.
, 1934-11-18
Speakership Race
Begins in Earnest

WASHINGTON. Nov. ~. Up
Speakership candidates win gather
here next week 20 begin six weeks OF
hot and heavy campaigning before
$50 house democrats meet Nm party
caucus about December 81 tO pick
their speaker.
Representatives Joseph wv. Byrns
of Tennessee. democratic floor lead
err. and Sam Rayburn of Texas
whose followers claim support IN
some administration quarters, are
the leading candidates.
, 1934-11-18

L0pyTIENT. 1884 NV TNB MI
ROME. Nov. 17.-PremlHr Bnnlt0
Mussolini and Kurt SchuschniKKg,
Austria's chancellor. agreed Satur-
day that Austria must be made the
Switzerland OF central Europe.
Either Germany must voice her
unmlstaknble intention t0 lnt Aus
tria alone or Germany nus. sign
an agreement with other European
nations guaranteeing AuEtria'H In
dependence, the two statesmen de-
cided.
, 1934-11-18
ANDERSON

TNTTTWTWI W IWN TIW1"1WT
SAN BENITO, Nov. Nv. r.
Anderson. engineer advisor 70 the
American section OF the Interra-
tional Boundary commission, re-
turned this week from II Paso where
he went Oh commission business.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
A Remarkable Chance
to Buy a Really
Good Suite or Piece
at o. Worthwhile Price
Reduction!

Of utmost Importance to those who want to
pick up really fine Suite of Lifetime Furni.
ture at a worthwhile saving is our January
Clearance Scores and scores of artistic and
dependable Suites and Occasional pieces are
sharply reduced for immediate clearance.
Evening star., 1934-01-07

man; L. Lee Combs, j. Harry Cunning
ham. C. ]. Gockeler, Curtis A. Hodges.
c. N. Nichols, Archie K. Shipe, William
H. Waters and Harry P White.
Property Committee-A. c. Smith,
chairman; E. C. Thomas, vice chairman;
r. K. Ferguson. Theodore Nj. Judd. Will
liam H. Lanham and Fred J. White.
Transportation Committee - Edward
S. Pardoe, chairman; w Elkins Reed
vice chairman Inspector rs R. Bean,
Lowry N Coe. Harry Dean, w. Herbert
Gill and Frank r. Strunk.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
WOMAN FOUND HANGING

Coroner's Jury Recesses Without
Returning Verdict.
SARASOTA, Fla, January LP)-
Mrs Gertrude Thompson, 81, Winter
resident from Prophetstown H.. was
found dead at her home yesterday.
hanging by the neck from a rafter in
a clothes closet.
G. G. Thompson. her husband, told
police she had been in bad health for
two years A coroners jury recessed
late yesterday until Saturday without
returning a verdict. A son, A. G..
Thompson, also survives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17

three jumps apiece, landed each in his own car and shot out of town like a three-cornered whirlwind. They were good fellows and they liked Mildred. They got them- selves down to that fiattened mass of steel and broken glass and rub Der as soon as they could, while Harry Motherwell, frog-eyed and trembling, wobb1ed on out and headed for Walters house, to tell him what had happened.
 As for Lew, he rose when Harry came in, turned green when Harry spoke, and then stood still as a rock. He stood there in the quiet garage with the old Seth Thomas clock ticking along on the wall and stared straight in front of him, while the feel of being a murderer crept through him like a poison.
 What he stared at was the open window in the opposite wall, but he didn't see it. What he saw as plainly as though it were still in his hand with the air rushing briskly through it into the old weak tire-was the air hose with the tire valve and the valve cap that he had screwed back on with out letting out an ounce Of the pressure.
 And then, suddenly and as clear ly-and 1t made the black hair lift at the back of his neck-he saw Mildred, in a sort of angels cos- tune of silky whitness, her yellow
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speak first. Inside he was hot and shaky, but he didn't show it. He had been standing pretty pat re- gently, and he meant to continue. His back was up. The trouble was, hers was, too. She was mad be- cause she had hurt him (women are like that), and she looked at him just exactly as he looked at her, and didn't say anything.
 It was Lew who spoke up. It would be. Breeding in from the little cubbyhole marked "Ofice", Hello, Mil', he said, You put me in mind of pond lily, in that green dress-what with your yell low hair and everything. Gee, kid. but you're looking swell to-day!
 She dimpled all over and said, "You say the incest things, Lew McGee! It's a pity there aren't more like you in this town. We need 'em."
 And right then the telephone rang.
 Walter was so hurt and mad that he parked a "Hellon into the mouthpiece that nearly broke 1t, slammed the receiver back on the hook and jumped into the old serv- | ice car himself and went roaring | off down the road to answer the call instead of sending Lew.
 It seemed to suit Lew, and Mil- dred all right, judging by the way they smiled at each other and went right along talking.
 There was something wrong with Mildred's steering gear. Lew -instead of Walter-fixed 1t. But this time, as it happened, he did his work well enough: it wasn't that. But then he went on to pump up the tires. He always took all the valve caps off, pumped up all the tires and then went around and put the valve caps on again. Which is a good enough way[it saves time. The pressure was high that night, and the air flowed in briskly. with hissing sound. One of the front tires was pretty weak. It was the one he pumped up first. There was gauge right on the airhose, but he was talking his head off as usual, and before he knew 1t the gauge had run away up-so high up that he jerked the hose off with
 a zip. But instead of letting some
 of the air out while he had it in his
 mind to attend to it, he went on
 and pumped up the other tires first, meaning to defiate the weak
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"Narrowest squeak I ever saw or heard of Phil Bartlett said half an hour later to practically the whole of the population of Pol locksville gathered there in Ly- mans Garage. "She landed spang in the middle of pine tree, climbed down and took the short cut home over the mountain. And I'll be damned if it even spoiled her clothes!"
 "What," said the Apthorpe boy, "was she rigged up like that for that kind of angel dress and braid ed hair and all?"
 Costume for a play the church is going to give. Sallie Mason made it for her, and she wore It home because she wanted her mother to see her in 1t, and maybe make some alterations. But l guess 1t was Walter she went to first. just met her on the way to his place, looking kind of teary around the lashes. guess she had a big scare all right"
 "This'd ought" somebody said, 'to bring 'em together again, don't you think?" -.
 Old man Lyman chuckled away down around his belt, T wouldn't be surprised" he said, If you were right. Look at him."
 Walter was coming in the door. Everybody looked, and laughed. :.
 Ducking to one side, he squinted at himself in the little mirror over
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
LOAN PROPOSAL
 BEING ADVANCED
LOnergan Pushing Plan to Permit Borrowing on
 Civil Service Fund

Washington, D. C., Jan 17-A provision to enable government employees to borrow from their civil service retirement fund, at reasonable interest rates, may be included in the employment loan proposal now being advanced by Senator Lonergan, dem, Connecti- cut, he announced to-day.
 The senator said that his origin al plan had contemplated small loans only to employed persons outside of the government services by amending the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, or the Home Owners Loan Corporation Act so that the government would guarantee to private banks and lending associations the repayment of loans made to employed indi- viduals of good character.
 While this would also offer re. lief to government employees, he said that more specific relief could be provided by legislation permit ting regular employees to borrow from their civil service retirement fund which has accrued to their interest. Many government em- ployes complain, he said, that they are forced to go to small-loan com panies and borrow a few hundred dollars at high interest rates while at the same time their retirement fund, representing money paid in from their salaries, is returning to them a lower rate of interest. They contend that borrowing from this fund would in no way affect op- eration of the retirement plan.
 M, axy COW tbara xu0Iild ha few lOSs- es if loans were made to regular employees, whose supervisors would be required to give the retirement fund advance notice in event of separations.
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one before he screwed the valve caps on.
 But by this time he got to doing that he had forgotten everything but the impression he was making on Mildred-which, it must be ad- mitted, was a good one.
 He didn't think of the weak over-infiated tire again until Harry Motherwell came in four hours later and said Mildred was dead. It Was A Little
 After Ten O'Clock
 |. It was a little after ten o'clock. Walter was asleep in the modest little house he had been born in, dreaming of that other house he had once meant to build for him self and Mildred, under the big sycamore, and Lew was down in the garage with three other fel- lows playing pinochle.
 Harry Motherwell, sixteen, tow headed and frog-eyed from excite ment and fear, came staggering and panting into the garage and exploded with all the force his lack of breath would permit.
 My God! Oh. my God! Mildred! Mildred Hastings! Dead's a door nail |. Hairpin Curve! :. Front tire busted! Saw her car leave the road and hit the rocks! Oh, my God!"
 The three men with Lew made
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 lew was a long legged, oppres- sively good looking, luscious-eyed vounp man from Oklahoma; a drifter and a tall talker; and he thought he was a mechanic. Walter liked him when he showed up look inp for a job, and helped him land one in the garage. It wasn't until he had worked alongside of Lew for a day or two that Walter dis covered he was teamed up with the most casual, slack twisted and un- informed mechanic he had ever met.
 Walter himself had never sent q car out of that garage that wasn't as much better than when it came in as he could make it. It really hurt him to feel one going off down the road that hadn't been properly attended to. But Lew only did things right when it was convenient If there was anybody around to talk to, Lew talked, whether they listened or not. And when Lew talked he never worked well.
 Mildred had been away when Lew came-visiting a girl friend in Bruton. When she was ready to come back, Walter went over on the train and drove her home in her big blue roadster
 Gee, honey" he said, paying out the road behind them as smooth as silk, "the little old burg S going to be another place with you in it again! I bought that lot on Maine's Hill with the big sycamore on it-the one you liked. Paid cash for it. We're going to build right under the sycamore, huh"
 Mildred agreed that they were. And that's the way things stood until three day later, when the left rear brake of the blue roadster began to bind, and she dropped In at the garage to have Walter fix 1t, and found Lew there instead.
 It was the first time they had ever seen each other, and Lew fell for her on sight. He talked high, wide and handsome. The kind of talk Mildred wasn't used to. All about the things he'd seen and done, and the kind of picturesque, romantic fellow he was when you really got to know him.
 Mildred Wanted to
 Get to Know Him
 Mildred wanted to get to know him, and showed it. He reached a new high of very personal and sen-- timental eloquence. He surpassed -even-himself.
 He didn't fix the brake. He went through the motions, but four miles down the road it began send ing up clouds of smoke, and she had to stop and throw dirt on It..
 He was with her a good deal in the days that followed. He had stirred up something in her that wasn't real, but that fascinated her and was dangerous. And heaven knows how it would have ended if Lew had been a good workman, or Walter had stayed on the job that July night and fixed Mildred's car. What happend was this
 At 6 o'clock on that July night that the people of Pollocksville still talk about Mildred drove up to the garage on her way to Sallie Ma sons out in in the counry, where
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several of the girls were going to meet and sew together.
 Lew and Walter were both in the garage. Walter looked at her steady and cool, waiting for her to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17

Josephus Daniels Is U. S. AM BASSADOR TO MEXICO. The bird shown is a TOUCAN. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE was the first Englishman to travel round the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17

Dormice are being eaten in parts of Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
AT HAIRPIN CURVE

hair brought forward over her shoulders in two long braids and hanging down in front-with the black rectangle of the open win dow for background. Mildred as nobody had ever seen her before.
 Mildred as he imagined she would look if she had died and gone to heaven. Mildred as he was go- ing to see her in his dreams for years to come.
 "Narrowest Squeak
 I Ever Heard or
 Lew McGee shivered and broke from his trance. His old sway back cut-down flivver was there, the big doors were wide to the night. Lew jumped in. Stepped on the starter post. Shot out. Was gone.
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IA Daily Story.
 Real Life

the sink. In the middle of hi. cheek was the clear print, ID rouge, of Mildred's lips.
 "Geei" he said. T meant to wipe that off," And dabbed at it with his handkerchief.
 Far down the road the sway backed cut-down fliver was roll- ing along like old Man River.
 THE END
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
By ALMA and PAUL ELLERBE

MILDRED Hastings the pretest girl in Poocksvle M You would have thought most of the young men in the
 onv Walter Norris That because she so quiet and modest everybody knew she belonged to Waiter
 Walter worked in Lymans garage and 1t was pan that if wouldn't be long until he had garage of his own He and Mildred had been in love since they went to Miss Hopans kindergarten together and they would have ogged along into marriage without any interruptions ii 1t hadn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17

Stray items. Davis & Nye held private exhibi tion of old United States on with Connecticut town cancellations and old United States and fine old British colonies Friday night prior to the sale of these stamps and covers at auction in New Haven Tues day Mrs w. l. Jones' well known Naugatuck resident is recuperating at the Waterbury hospital after a recent operation. Hank ODonnel, sports scrivener is ill at his honle Hockey enthusiasts in Waterbury are grumblng about the lack of suitable rink in the city, They claim that the rink presented to the city by Frank English few years ago IS in stor- age It was originally used at Morans pond in Fulton Park but owing to the depth of the water there re- moved The Hamilton Park skating pond, particularly the "cove" would make good spot for the rink to be set up, hockey players claim
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17

Little round noted for their and their ability in making noise This in the of several south enders who after finishing their daily grind take to the Grand bowling alleys week at a. m be- ina hours Noise seems to be their speciality and with arynges such as those possessed by Dan Suozzo Ernie Spotti Joe Caabrese Min Ciprano and Nick Carosella you can imagine the boserous earbedng that goes on But
 It's a in fun and the boys with the big fronts get quite kick out of t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
Good Evening.
THE 1884 MODEL
a2 ss THE MAN IN 41EE TOWER

Have you seen any of the new autos? The sight will give you treat, Streamlined, low and sporty,
 With decidedly larger front seat. The style in autos is changing Along with the style in hats; Look at that low swung monster My dear, isn't it the cats! You needn't step high, wide and handsome To get into the latest sports model; The agent says nice for fapper matron, Likewise for stout ladies who waddle. Yes autos changing along with chapeaux, Where one swings low the other swings high, Built close to the ground, don't forget the streamne, Come in, look them over no obligation to buy.
 Elm. Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
The Cast of Characters in "At Hairpin Curve"

MILDRED HASTINGS, a comeIy miss, engaged to wed WALTER NORRIS, an ambitious mechanic who plans to own his own garage. LEW MCGEE, who works in gar- age with Walter.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

at the Willard Hotel Saturday night.
President Roosevelt. Vice President
Garner and many others prominent in
ofncial and political life will be pres
ent. The banquet will be presided
over by George E. Durno of the Nc
Clure Syndicate, the retiring presi-
dent
'Stevie." as the newly-elected presi-
dent is more popularity known, was
born in Chicago IS years ago and
moved to Indiana in his early youth.
He attended DePauw University, where
he was q star on the varsity base ball
team. He started his journalistic
career here IS years ago on the staff
of the Washington Herald and became
a member Of the Associated Press staff
q year later.
He has covered many important as
signments and was head Of the Asso-
ciated Press Capitol stafY for several
years.