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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
Priest Helps To
Set Broker, Leg

Moosonee, Ont, Jan 22--
(UP)-Mrs Elliott Johnston,
was recovering from o frac-
tured leg today, after a priest
and two neighbOrs set the
bone while a doctor, moro
than 500 miles away, gave
directions over the telephone.
The woman, one of the few
white residents i'm this north
crnmost Ontario town, situ-
ated on the banks of James
Bay, fractured her leg yes
terday in q fall. The village
doctor had left the day pre-
vious by dog.sled, to attend
stricken patient and was
not expected back in several
days.
A priest sat at Mrs john
ston's bedside and called DIR
Il. l.. Grove, at North Bay,
500 miles away.
Mrs Johnston will be TAX
en- to the hospital I'm North
Bay, when the next train
leaves MOosOnee, next Thurs.
day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
SPAIN WILL USE
PROMPT ACTION

Madrid, Jan 22-CU.P) - High
officials of the Spanish government
to-day promised prompt action
in the cases of the four Americans.
already under sentence at Mallorca
after an alteration with a civil
guard, who were thrown into jail
again. yesterday.
Ambassador Claude G.. Bowers
learned from the Palma attorney
for the four that the re-arrest was
caused by reports they intended to
flee the island. The prisoners de-
MED any such intention, and had
said repeatedly that whatever the
outcome of the case, they intended
to remain in Mallorca.
The prisoners are: Roderick F.
Mead,, of New York, Edmund w.
Blodgett of Stamford. Conn and
Mr. and Mrs Clinton S. Lockwood,
of West Springfield. Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
THREE DIE FROM
POISON LIQUOR
Sabbath Drinking Party in
Norwood Results in
Very Sad Tragedy

Norwood, Mass, Jan 22-OP)-
Three men were dead, another was
recovering in a hospital, and two
persons were under arrest today
after a Sabbath drinking party at
which poisonous liquor was con-
sumed.
The dead: Andrew Olson. 45, a
farmland said to leave wife and
several children in Holyoke. Peter
Bozwadaus, IS, tanner. Alexan-
der Romaszkowski. 81, a farmland.
Recovering at Norwood hospital
was Albert Steinberg, IS, farm
foreman.
Those held were Steve Barron,
SO, and his wife, Mary, 40. at
whose South Norwood farm the
victims allegedly bought four pints
of alcohol. Liquor. samples seized
at the farm were being analysed
today Police said that II. as they
believed, the liquor consumed was
wood alcohol. manslaughter war
rants would be sought against Mr.
and Mrs Barron. So deadly was the
liquor that one imbiber died 10
minutes after drinking third OF a
pint. The other two died at the
hospital within few hours. The
deaths were the first from poison
GUS liquor In this section since re-
peal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
Tickets Distributed
For Presidents Ball
From Present Outlook This Affair Promises to Be One
of Greatest of the Kind That Was Ever
Attempted in Waterbury

Tickets for the Presidents ball
a week from tomorrow night at
the Hamilton Park pavilion were
distributed through the ticket COM
mittee following a meeting to-day
at the City Hall of Mayor Frank
Hayes, chairman, Thomas P. Kelly
secretary and Charles J. Allen,
manager of the Connecticut Light
and Power Company who is chair
man Of the ticket committee.
Mr. Allen announced he will
designate sub-chairmen who will
act as key men for the distribution
Of the tickets. The tickets, will sell
for $1.25 each. The sum of one
dollar from each ticket will be for
warded to the national committee,
headed by Colonel Henry l.. Do
herty who will in turn forward the
sum, together with. contributions
from the 5000 other balls. to
Washington for President Roose-
velt's SID birthday.
The money is to be turned over
to the Warm Springs Foundation
Endowment Fund for infantile par
alysis victims. President Roose-
welt is president of the foundation.
National headquarters to-day an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
Western Union, Telephone
and Telegraph Go and
Radio Corp May Merge
THREE GIANTS ARE
READY TO COMBINE
Congress Has Been Asked
to Permit This Great
Wire Merger
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
Copyright 1884, by United
prnco\

New York, Jan 22.-(UPC
-Amalgamation of the most
powerful telegraph communi-
cation systems in the world
into a single, American-owned
and government supervised
monopoly was forecast to-day
in New York and Washing
ton. ~
Such a merger, involving the
Western Union Telegraph Co., the
Radio Corporation of America
and the International Telephone
and Telegraph Co., and its subsid-
iaries appeared to depend solely
upon the attitude of the United
States government.
If Congress, which has been
importuned to permit the merger
is willing to pass legislation waiv-
ing the old-fashioned Sherman
antitrust law, the management or
the giant corporations involved
are willing-some of them grudg-
ingly-to Join hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
TWO YOUNG BOYS
WE'RE MURDERED

Seattle, Wash, Jan 22-(U.P.)-
A strange case of religious fanat-
acism was revealed to-day in the
double Staying of two young boys
whose father allegedly confessed
that he had been told by God" to
kill them.
Police charged the father, Oscar
Hestines. 43, unemployed painter,
with strangling his sons. John. 8,
and Henry, 5. The bodies, with the
Threats bruised, were found on a
bedroom floor of the Hestines home
at Ballard near here.
The father, for whom a sanity
test was planned, insisted. police
said, that he had been directed to
kill the children because they had
the devil in them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
WILD INITIATION
IS NOT POSSIBLE
SAID WITNESS
Prof George Warren, Adj
visor to President, Tells
Story to Senate
BY H. o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Jan. 20 - Cup -
Historical presidents indicate that
the United States will not embark
on any wild imitation unless a
"violen. revolution" occurs, DR.
George F. Warren, monetary ad-
visor to President Roosevelt, said
in testimony before the senate
banking and currency committee.
It was Warren's first public ap-
pearance before government
body. Curious senators who have
been puzzled at Warren's part IN
fiscal policies established In ques-
tioning that the professor did not
have an official government POSI-
ton.
The Cornell university economist
is a man in middle years. He wore
quiet clothes and had a modest
bearing.
PHOTOGRAPHERS swarmed about
the committee room and senators
fired questions regarding Warren
convictions on the bill for dollar
deyaluation and a $2,0OO,0OO,Oo
sterilization fund.
Warren presented a chart show,
ing price trends in England and
the United States since February.
The senate banking currency
committee is considering the Dill,
which passed the house SATURDAY
night before presenting 1t to the
senate later in the week.
Responding to questions, War
rem said that by index figures ne
intended to interpret the decline o.
the dollar in the advance Of gold.
Price figures for those nations
stiIl on the gold standard. he said.
would reveal a slight decline.
The price study showed iar
greater advances in the United
States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
WYNEKOOP CASE
HANGING IN The
BALANCE TO-DAY
Judge Took All Parties in
the Trial to Doctors
Bedside

Criminal Court Building, Chi
cago, Jan. 22-(UP)-Judge Jo-
seph B. David today ordered court
removed to the bedside of DR. Alice
Lindsay Wynekoop to hear her
wish on whether her trial on
charges of the murder of her
daughter-in-law Rheta shall be
continued.
Judge David determined to
hear DR. Wynekoop's own opinion
of her plight after a dispute broke
out between defense and state re-
garding a motion to withdraw a
Juror and declare mistrial. 80.
AFTER ALL" said Judge David, III
is the defendants right to be heard
We will see what she thinks about
her condition"
Judge David's decision came az
ter reports of there physicians
named by state. court and defense
varied as to whether her trial could
be continued without danger OF her
life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
Final Nezq,s Flashes
CHIEF THUNDERCLOUD DEAD

New York, Jan 22-(UP)-Great Chle1
Thundercloud, last of the sachems of the Nara
gansett tribe Of Indians of Rhode Island was
found dead in shanty on the Harlem river near
the Polo grounds. Police say that the aged In
dian died of starvation. His friends said ne was
born near Westerly, r. T., more than 100 years
ago, and was direct descendant OF Massasolt,
chief of the Mampanoag tribe, who greeted the
Pilgrims at Plymouth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
Telegraph Systems of
Nation May Form Most
Powerful Combination
Petition For MstridL
In The WynekoopCase
II Was Drawn Up To-day and Presented to Judge 1t
Looks as If the Strange Case Would
End for Long Time

Chicago Jan 22-(UP)-Petition for mistrial in the
case of DR. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop charged with Staying
her beautiful daughternaw Rheta drawn up to-day
and it appeared that the strange case was about to
to an indefinite halt
DR. Wynekoop, interviewed by attorneys court re-
norters and physicians at her bedside in the county JAIL
Indicated she would be willing to sign the petition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
SHORT WEEK AND
HIGHER WAGES

Providence. r. l., jan 20. (UP)
"A 30-hour work week and higher
wage schedules will be demanded
of all wooden and worsted manu-
facturers early In February. Fran
els J. German. national vice-presi-
dent OF the United Textile Workers
of America. announced last night.
In addition, uniform working
conditions will be asked, he said,
I'm the past year" German said,
there has been big increase ~
tho retail pflee OF woolens ANA
w0Fsteds and they are now selling
~ high as, and IN some cases high
or than, IN 1879"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22

the posting OF a 81 900 bonds
Referee Torrance takes half of
New Haven county and Litchfield
county under his jurisdiction. Ref
cree David Richman of New Ha-
ven takes the other half OF New
Haven county and other towns adj
jacent to New Haven.
Both Referee Torrance and Ref
cree Richmar succeed to the office
vacated by the late Referee Carl
ton e. Hoadley who died two years
ago. Mr. Torrance is associated
with the office of Carmody &
Thorils.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
cLuDMAN DIED SUNDAY

Monroe, Conn, Jan. ss,-lypl
Wilson, !. !. 4. clapp ..,. t ", "'a seng
elubman, died az bis home near
here yesterday, 10 had been lll
moro than . pear, elapp was TIE
llseoVeToF % \ formula loF paint
which made u hFe TeslsIlnF'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
DORIS DUKE SENT LETTER

New York, Jan 22-(UP)-Detectives OF
the alien squad searched Slavish sections OF New
York today for the author of letter sent to Doris
Duke, the worlds richest girl" Police SAID the
letter had been sent to them by members of Miss
Dukes family No requests for police protection
for the heiress were made Miss Duke was re-
ported at her Hillsboro, N. j., estate accompan-
led by her usual complement of private guards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
WILL RECOGNIZE CUBA

Washington, Jan 22 = (UP) = President
Roosevelt informed the Latin American dlplo-
matte corps today of his intention to recognize
the Cuban government without delay. No def
mite time was fixed for formal recognition, but it
was generally believed that it would be given
within "a hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
PASTOR is DEAD

Wallingford. Conn, Jan. a.
(UP) services VIII be
held here wednesday afternoon for
Rev Henry d. stone, 50, pastor OF
Advent Christian church, who died
yesterday after a two-month illness.
Doctor Stone had been hero ~
years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22


Prisoner of kidnapers. Edward
G. Bremen. 80, upper left, wealthy
st Paul banker brewer, is held for
100000 ransom. His home. i'm
which his wife and daughter, Bet
~, are near collapse, is shown up
per right. In the small pictures at
left are shown his father, Adolph
Bremen, brewing magnate. left. and
Edwards uncle, Otto, banker.
right. They are reported ready to
pay the ransom. At right is Walter
Magee, close friend of the Brem-
ers, acting as intermediary. First
news of the abduction was tele-
f,hOncd to him by the gang.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
FARM MORTGAGE BILL PASSED

Washington, Jan 22-(UP)-The senate
today passed without record vote, the $1,000
farm mortgage refnancing bill, designed! to re-
move some Of the debt burden from the farmer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Jan. 22-(UP)--Gov-
eminent expenses and receipts of
the current fiscal year to Jan. 10th,
compared with the corresponding
period of the previous fiscal year:
This Year Expenses Last Year
$3,323,S11,S0S.29 $2,916,230,447.4e
Receipts
$1.s24,5s5,52o.5S s1.1o5.s7s,156.ss
Deficit
81, sss. 27s,ss2.71 s1,s1o.s51. es1.ls
Cash Balance ...... $3.50, 800. 233.S9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22

Stocks up fractions 10 points.
Bonds higher.
Curb stocks irregularj utIltiesfrm.
Chicago stocks steady.
Call money per cent
Foreign exchange firm.
Wheat on slightly; corn and oats uneven
Cotton steady NJ small losses.
Rubber dips more than 20 points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-22

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
HOME ROOTS DEEP SET

TEDERAL officials who think it will be an
Il easy matter to transfer families from
drought-stricken areas to greener fields in
other parts of the country might ponder
briefly over the British governments expert
ence in connection with the inhabitants Of the
island of Tristan da Cunha.
This is a desolate and lonely spot of land in
the south Atlantic. 1t has about 100 inhabi-
tants. The soil is so poor that they can grow
nothing but potatoes. These, and the fish they
catch. are their only resources. Once year a
British warship sails in and leaves supply OF
canned goods.
Conditions are so bad that the British gov
eminent for years has been trying to persuade
the settlers to leave the island and take up
homesteads in South Africa
But the settlers won't do it. Absolute STAR
Walton may strike them, any year; even when
it doesn't. they are condemned to lonely and
poverty-stricken existence. But they're stick
ing, nevertheless.
Persuading people to leave their homes and
make a fresh start elsewhere can be an ex-
ceedingly difficult job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
INVESTIGATE INDIANAPOLIS,
NOT HUEY, is PLEA

By Robert Z. A. Crookston
Your editorial about "Huey's
Circus" Aug. 9 was boomerang at
yourself. You say that an average
family Of SIS persons in New
Orleans lives on an average Of
S1940 a week and that so many
families have no fresh milk at all.
Say, what is the matter with you?
Are you blind?
Why pick on Huey Long? Inves-
tigate in Indianapolis. Come visit
me. I'll take you to place after
place where no fresh milk is used,
bought, or can be bought. Further
more, we don't know what sl9.40
looks like in indianapolis
I work TWO days a week, receive
Sc; have a family Of three, pay
rent, buy my groceries, wear clothes
bought years ago, and can get no
government surplus food-and am
hungry most Of the time. New
Orleans is getting the best Of the
deal.
Come out, Mr.. Reporter, and I
will give you some facts. Lay off
Huey and help clean up your own
city.
I an not a Communist but an
American citizen who believes in
justice to all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
OBJECTS TO SIRENS
ON BICYCLES
BY Annoyed NeighbOr.

BY Annoyed NeighbOr.
Isn't there a state law or city
ordinance prohibiting the use of
sirens on bicycles, and limiting use
of sirens to police and fire depart
ment machines and to city hospital
ambulanceS?
am very sure there is such a
law and I wish something could be
done to enforce It.
Indianapolis is the "shriekingest"
town 1 ever was in. 1t is seldom,
or so it seems, when other traffic
noises are not at their peak, that
one can not hear the wailing Of a
siren somewhere.
I spent nearly a week in Chicago
this summer and heard a siren only
once. Two years ago, I spent two
weeks in Kansas City, and heard
sirens only once.
One or two private ambulances
in this city have sirens which they
use whenever a police officer is not
in sight.
AS an added annoyance, boys on
bicycles add to the din.
7 live in the 2200 block, Central
avenue, and there is a noise-loving
lad with one Of the annoying sirens
on his bicycle. I think he is de-
livery boy for drug store in the
vicinity.
How that boy loves to hear his
siren Shrek. He rides up and down
the neighborhood at night, when
people are trying to get to sleep,
with the siren screaming and an
noying every one within several
blocks.
Aside from the annoyance, the
bicycle siren tends to make people
careless when the siren happens to
be on a police car, ambulance or
fire truck.
I should think the police would
do something to stop this as a
matter for their own safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
Theu'ue Something to Say

of what the city is and is not do
ing, let's go into the traffic and
slot machine conditions existing
hereabOutS.
The traffic situation always has
been bad and always will be until
the residents of this city and the
members of the police department
realize this no longer is a one
street town with the pump over
flowing at Illinois and Washing
ton streets.
About the only thing most Of us
motorists and pedestrians can say
in favor of the local traffic situa-
ton is that the police department
finally has become broad-minded
and big town enough to chart
traffic lanes on some Of the chief
thOroughfareS
The slot machine racket is about
over, we hope. We've been in
some of these joints and know
that the machines are there and
will be out in the open again just
as soon as the boys feel the heat
is off.
Now seems to be the time to
stop this racket forever. Why
there should be any delay is more
than most of us can figure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
KING COAL COMPLAINS

TN its outburst against the federal water
Il power program. the National Coal Asso-
citation commands progress to stay its hand
lest it reduce the profits Of the coal industry
It is strange indeed that coal has not
learned its lesson. In a brief seyenty-fve
wears the infant oil industry has driven coal
TO the wall. Yet coal still rails at competition
instead Of meeting it.
But. says the NCA, this is unfair COMPETE
ton because the taxpayers money will be used
to subsdize the government water power pro-
gram That is a mere supposition. The gov
eminent says that the power projects are to
be run on a self-sustaining basis. Proof must
wait.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is unsound,
says the NCA, because there is no demand for
It's additional power. In order for the IVA TO
succeed, the power demand in the territory it
serves would have to increase three and one
half times. says the coal association. The
answer is that in Tupelo, Miss, the first iva
town, power consumption more than doubled
in the first few months Of cheap rates.
Here are two other excerpts from the coal
association:
TWAS prospective hydro-electric power
output if produced by coal-burning plants,
would utilize on an annual basis more than
six million tons of COAL" and -.
Electric energy can be generated at less
cost II modern, efficient steam plants than in
hydro plants"
If so, why doesn't the coal industry do
something about it2 Why does it allow this
vast potential market to remain undeveloped?
Why doesn't the coal industry construct giant
central steam generating plants at the mines,
and market the cheap power by long-distance
transmission?
The rivers, owned by all the people, have
been wasting energy. Coal owned by few
people, has been boarding its energy in the
ground Our government has decided to
harness the energy of the rivers. Why should
not the few people who own the mines bring
the energy of coal out Of boarding?
The people demand and will get cheap
power to wash the Dishes cook the meals,
make the ice, sweep the floors, pump the
wells. milk the cows cool the air in summer
and heat it in winter.
Progress is on the march; it does not stop
to bury its dead. There was once great
wagon industry and a great canal boat in
dustry. If King Coal wants to keep his throne
he should get busy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15

THINKS BEER DRINKERS
STILL BEING CHEATED

BY NO-FOam.
A few days ago the city measures
department declared it was going TO
war upon beer parlors where under
sized stems we're advertised as sew
eral ounces bigger than they are.
Nothing apparently came Of it,!
The war apparently was only a
neighborhood squabble and yet in
many beer parlOrs Of the city 1913
ounce stems should be filed from
the bottom instead Of the top. In
fact the bottom in some cases seems
to be so false that it would hold
almost as much beer as the foam
which tops the wild stuff sold in the
stems.
The attitude of the proprietors is
if you don't like IT, go somewhere
else-and the customer does. But
he only finds himself being "gypped'
again in another fashion The
stems are either advertised larger
and proportionately smaller as far
as beer or they're smaller with more
foam.
Complaints to city officials seem
to be futile when the apparent
cheating in stems goes on right be-
fore the eyes Of the city scales and
measures department.
Or mayhaps they never drink
drop and Go not know how the
beer-drinking public is being taken
for beer-less ride.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
RUSSIAN GOLD

IF there are still Americans who are worried
about how Russia is going to pay for goods
bought in this country, they will find reassur-
ance in the latest report Of the American
Bureau of Metal Statistics.
Since it has been demonstrated so con-
clusively that the Soviet government never de-
faults on its foreign commercial obligations,
certain opponents of Russian-American trade
have retreated to the argument that Russia,
even though she intends to do so, can not long
meet her foreign bills because she will buy
here so much more than she sells to US.
They do not reckon with the Soviets' gold
supply Figures just published by the bureau
show that Russia has about doubled her pre-
war gold production. and that her Sl00OOO0OO
output in 1888 was a - per cent increase over
1882 In Moscow the estimate for this year
is Sl50OO0OOO
In view OF recent discoveries and greater
efficiency in working the old deposits, the Eco
nomic Review Of the Soviet Union predicts
that in the not-distant future it will be pos
sible even to overtake the output of the ex-
tremely rich Transvaal fields and to bring the
L. S. s R. up to first in world gold output"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-15
CITES BY-DRINK TEST AS
GOVERNMENT ERROR
By Buy-A-Drink.

By Buy-A-Drink.
What's it all about? The head
lines say "By-Drink Sale Drive Is
Renewed" as state officials intend
to 90 after the violator Of package
sales-the beer vender who has a
little corn" to sell.
But are the state officials prose-
cutting any one for selling blythe
drink? The city police merely ar
rested one man in test case and
let it 90 at that. The law is vio-
lated on all sides and now they're
starting a news test case to find out
whether they can make their liquor
act stick as far as package sales
are concerned.
The McNutt administration re-
sembles a government-by-error and
the Democratic party in general
seems to administer the affairs Of
state throughout the country in the
same way.
If at first you don't succeed, try,
try again.
If the first law isn't the right one,
then test case, test-case it again.
Nc wonder the average citizens is
perplexed as TO traffic laws. drink
ing laws. dancing regulations, tavern
rules. He hardly knows if he's
within his legal rights when he turns
of the incandescents to 60 to bed
at night
He IS perplexed in every way, but
one. and that one will be how he'll
vote at the fall election. McNuttism
is to be eraoicated with the rapidity
of nudism in an Arctic climate.
What's next in our noble expert
mental station-Indiana-in govern
ment- by-erroT?