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Evening star., 1934-10-04
Plane Radios REQUIRED

All British commercial aircraft must
carry radio receiving and transmitting
equipment, according TO q new air
ministry order.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
EDWARDS NOTES
OFFERED IN COURT
State Presents Letters to
Second Sweetheart in
Staying Trial.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, October A.
The love letters of Robert Allen Ed
wards, 2l-year-old defendant in the
trial for the murder of Freda Nc
Kechnie, to his later love were brought
to court today by the State in an ef-
fort to have them admitted as evil
dence.
Some ITO letters which "Bobbie'
wrote to Margaret Grain of East
Aurora, N. Y, were said to be in the
States possession.
Miss Grain supplanted Miss Nc
Kechnie as Edwards sweetheart, a
circumstance of a realistic American
Tragedy" which had as its sequel, the
State charges, the blackjack Staying
Of Edwards neighborhood sweetheart
at a midnight swimming party in
Harveys Lake.
Large Crowd Attends.
The possibility the contents Of the
love letters would be read in court
drew another crowd to the Luzerne
County Court House, and recurrently
State troopers were forced to clear
from the doors those persons who did
not possess tickets Of admission.
After the Commonwealth presents
the letters, the State will rest its case
Edwards will take the stand to tell
of his romance with the music teacher
he wooed while at college, but to
deny that he blackjacked his neigh
borhood Sweethea.. :.
Just before he was removed to the
county Jail last night, after a night
session Of the trial, Edwards was in
formed that Miss Grain had said at
her home:
mo matter what happens, I am
through with Bob Edwards"
Edwards said Its all over now, 1t
doesn't matter what happens
The youth was d0wncaSt upon learn
ing that the State has possession OF
the letters he wrote to Miss Grain.
County Detective Richard Powell a
neighbor OF the Edwards and MCKech-
ME families, testified yesterday that
Edwards made several statements to
him about the Staying, saying in one
Of them:
Il got out my blackjack and let her
have it."
The statements. repudiated by the
defendant, were given TO the jury over
Evening star., 1934-10-04
BY GENEvIEvE FORBES HERRICK

Mrs. Claude Swanson is an ex-
tremely energetic little woman. But
even she can't be in two places at
the same time Which will cause her
some concern at Saturdays foot ball
game between the United States Naval
Academy and the University of Vir-
ginia.
She will be sitting. Of course. in
the flag -draped box in the center of
the stands on the Academy side. Isn't
her husband the Secretary of the
Navy? And isn't that her proper
place? The answer is yes.
She'll be thinking. however, of an
ordinary seat. even in the bleachers,
on the Virginia side Isn't her son,
Douglas Hall, an ardent alumnus of
Virginia? Wasn't her husband for
many years senior Senator from Vir-
ginia. The answers are yes.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY

World day for animals, the birth
day OF St. Francis of Assist, will be
celebrated tonight BY q meeting OF
the Human Education Society at l4l4
Sixteenth street. Mrs. Burnett, wife
of Col Charles Burnett, formerly mill
itary attache at Toxic, will describe
the advance of human work in Japan
and the progress Of the children's
bands of mercy. which she helped to
organize The public is invited.
The international observance Of the
birthday of ST Francis, who is noted
for his love of animals, was instituted
for expanding the movement for bet
ter treatment of animals.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

Lieut.. Robert e. York, assistant TO the
Engineer Commissioner; Capt. II. C..
Whitehurst, director Of highways;
Capt. Hugh P. Dram, director Of in
spection, and J. B. Gordon, director
Of sanitary engineering.
An informal dinner in honor OF the
District engineers will be given before
the meeting at $50 pm. at the Raleigh
Hotel Members expecting to attend
should call M. x Wilberding not later
than 10 am, October IL. Members
are invited to bring sngineerin
friends.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
SULTAN WILL ADDRESS
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Session of American Society to
Be Held in Pepco Audi
torium Thursday.

Lieut.. Col. Daniel I. Sultan, En-
gineer Commissioner for the District,
will speak at a meeting of the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Washington branch. next Thursday at
8 pm. in the auditorium Of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co. The whole
engineering staff Of the District of
Columbia will be present: Maj. Paul A.
Hodgson, Capt. Howard F. Clark and
Evening star., 1934-10-04

the objections OF defense counsel and
were corroborated by two other police
men.
John Dempsey, chief county de-
tective. told Of Miss Grains visit to
Edwards at the Pennsylvania State
police barracks after his arrest-one
OF his few visits
District Attorney Thomas Lewis and
his assistant, Harold Flannery, said
they will rest their case some time
today" and Frank McGuigan, chief
defense counsel, said the defense will
require about day and half, with
Edwards own testimony taking the
major part OF a day
Attorneys for both sides said the
case may go TO the jury by Saturday.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
Rally Planned.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, October
(SpeciaD Under the sponsorship
OF the Aquasco District Democratic
Club a rally for Democratic candi-
dates will be held in St Paul's Parish
Hall, Baden, October 10 at 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
K. OF c. WILL MEET
State Deputy and Officers to Be
Honored at Session.

Honored at Session.
George E. Herring, State deputy OF
the Knights OF Columbus for this ju-
risdiction. and members OF the State
Council will be honor guests at a
meeting Of Spalding Council, Knights
Of Columbus. at 8 O'Clock tonight. at
the club house. Herring will report
on the Supreme Convention, held re-
Gently in Detroit j. Fred Brady, grand
knight, will preside.
Announcement concerning the Octo-
Der Is council party and the Hallow-
cen party and dance on October 81
will be made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
Expensive Defense

If naval technicians had not evolved their art to such high degree of com plicated and costly perfection the price of building first-rate battle fleet would be a great deal less than it is = and the economic argument for armament reduc- tion would lose much of it's force. Con- struction was begun the other day at the Philadelphia navy yard of two new 15OO-ton destroyers, the Cassin and the Shaw. Each boat will cost approximately $2,70O,OOO for hull and machinery.
 Contrast that with bills that were in- cured a generation ago, when the United States began to rebuild it's fleet following the post Civil War letdown. The Olympia, a heavy cruiser used as. Admiral Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay, cost almost exact ly what one of these new destroyers will cost. In other words, the cost of building one of the lighter craft, which first-rate navy must number by the dozen, is equal to the cost of main unit of the fleet generation ago. No wonder modern nav ies are expensive!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11

w. Malone, young World war veteran, militant progressive re- publican, and a radical silverite, is going up and down the silver minded state demanding that Pittman explain his three votes against bi-metalism measures. The amusing thing is that Pitt man did more for silver during the London Conference than the entire state department put to- case against Samuel Insull is one of the most extensively prepared in the history of the Department of Justice. Fifteen accountants spent the greater part of a year compiling charts and fig ures. These constitute only a part of the 2,500 exhibits the government will introduce dur ing the course of the trial =. Former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, al- though retired, still continues bis practice of employing as secre- tary for a year an outstanding, Harvard law graduate. The great jurist spends most of his time reading. Last winter he devoured over. 250 books, many of them French novels The New Deal has been god- send to the National parks and forests. In addition to regular appropriations, more than $100,- OO0,000 of emergency funds have been spent, or allocated, for en- larging and improving these great public recreation areas. Most of the money goes directly into labor costs {. Following complaint of Pittsburg's Repre- sentative Henry Ellenbogen. the Home Owners Loan corporation has begun a quiet investigation of charges that government ap- praisers are under-valuing homes on which needy owners seek federal loans.
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 ture Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11

take a new lease on life and really per form the services that were being de- manded, it was republican majorltles m the Legislature that brooked no interfer- ence with the law or the board.
 We can echo Governor Cross own words with respect to the commission named to study the subject of old age pen sions. It took long time for the repub- licans to see the light of day there. At first they were opposed Then they were wary. They let the bill creating com mission to study the needs of such soclal legislation in Connecticut pass, but they rather adroitly ducked the important point of appropriating funds with which IL might carry on it's work.
 It took Governor Cross considerable time and worry before he was able to find the S1OO00 with which the survey could be conducted. And then the Legislature disapproved of the idea. But today m today the republicans act as if nothing was ever farther from their thoughts than reflection of old age pension leglslatlon Read their platform and chuckle pit II you are familiar with the part the party has played in the last ten years ln the right waged by various agencies to secure the attention of the Legislature and state officials for a brief consideration of old age pensions It took a democratic gover- nor and his slight support in the General Assembly to cause this consideration. Let every voter in the state remember that.
 Possibly there are other instances that we might call to the attention of the re- publican candidates if they want to dls- cuss boards and commissions which Gov ernor Cross should be sending into action. But nobody should be deceived by this bal lyhoo. Where the corporate interests, which are so dear to the republican party of Connecticut, are concerned no board will be found capable of standing in the way of any and all violations of personal liberty, home rule, states rights, etc. Thanks to Governor Cross and the demo- cratic party we have thrown off the yoke which made us the pawns of powerful out-of-state companies. Why bow our shoulders to them again, simply because the name of the leading man is changed, but the plot of the drama remains the same.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
The Insidiousness Of It

Hugh M. Alcorn, the republican candi- date for governor, unwfttingly uncovered weak point in his party's armour in an address in which he took the most inde- pendent governor we have had in many a year = Wilbur l.. Cross = to task this week. He brought up once more the topic of the State Board of Mediation and Ar bitration, which g.o.p. spokesmen would have the voters of Connecticut believe could have solved every industrial diff culty that presented itself in the last few months.
 It may be recalled that Governor Cross exploded this in his New Haven speech ot last week by claiming that the board was powerless to do anything more than act in an advisory capacity. Now MT Alcorn charges the governor with being either Ignorant of the real intent of the law by which the board was commissioned and under which it operates or else deliber- ately uttering a misstatement. The fact skiIl remains that like so many boards it's rowers have been emasculated so that re- rubIican domination of the state might bs more complete.
 Ire Public Utilities Commission is anD<her striking example of this sefsame <&lnx, The democrats have endeayored to eksrfe the existing statutes so that the z<nrd might be able to regulate utilities z91oef3y and as they should be. When a
 ralffe step toward shalse-up In the 4&1EissIo1 was proposed Co that tt might
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11

Washington, Oct 11.-When President Roosevelt addresses the approaching convention of the American Bankers associa- tion, one thought will be up- permost in the minds of his audience:
 "Will he give any inkling of his attitude on a central bank"
 This is the one issue that has the financial boys, big and small, jittery.
 Their fright oyer move for a government controlled central bank at the next session of con- gress even exceeds their fears Of further inflationary measures, an unbalanced budget, or con- tinued heavy emergency expen- ditures.
 Every conceivable vile and strategy has been resorted to by the banking community to ob- tain a private expression of the presidents views on the ques- tion.
 They have been unsuccessful.
 The reason is simple. The president has not as yet made up his mind.
 But the mere fact that he is seriously studying the matter, is definitely not hostile tos the pro- feet, sends cold shivers up and down financial spines. CLEAVAGE
 In inner banking circles there is sharp cleavage of opinion as to the public policy that should be pursued on the issue.
 One group, made up chiefly of big, Tory. Federal Reserve Sys- tenn bankers, is for an aggres- sive challenge to the president on his entire monetary policy.
 The recent tirade of the Fed eral Reserve Council was a dis. play of this attitude.
 Accustomed for so many years to dominate the fiscal affairs of the country, it rolls these money potentates to the raw to sit by. unconsulted by the White House, taking, instead of giving, or- ders.
 The second group, among them Francis M. Law, president of the American Bankers as- sociation, is for a soft-treading, sofs-speaking, attitude toward the president. |
 Law and his associates are bitterly critical of the Reserve Councils outbreak.
 They counsel playing bal" with the administration, warn that defiance and failure to cooperate will merely further
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11

antagonize the country and the president, inevitably lead to drastic measures.
 "The president hasn't got it in for us, and we haven't got it in for him., Law tells his banker friends. And, furthermore, if Roosevelt fails, we might get some one worse."
 CAREFUL
 Secretary Henry Wallace, who in his shy, boyish way is proud of the high praise literary cri- tics bestow on his recent book, encountered a friend who is writing a volume criticizing Ad- ministration policies, particular ly agricultural.
 "How is the book going?" Wallace asked.
 ''Oh, it's going along"
 "Well, don't let 1t go too far," Wallace replied with grin. NEW REED
 Battle-scarred Jim Reed is in the political arena again, and no one in the middlewest is be- ing watched more closely by the the political prognosticators of the administration.
 Reed can, if he wants to, wreck democratic chances to capture a republican senate seat in Missouri.
 The reason for Jim's change of heart, his constant vitupera- ton against the New Deal, has puzzled old senatorial friends who know him as a rabid cam paigner for the under dog.
 Jim jumped from the modest salary of senator to the status of a millionaire.
 First, he made a fair-sized fortune practicing law. On top of this, his brother died leav- ing him several public utility companies in Iowa. Finally his new wife has made over a mill lion as a big-tinie dressmaker.
 A real noveau riche, any gov- ernment move to, dip into in- come makes Jim see red.
 That may explain his state ment that there is no real un- employment in the United States except for people who didn't want to work.
 That also may explain the telegram Reed sent his old friend Bennett Clark. The senate was considering shifting the electri- city tax burden from the con- sumer to the utility, which of course, hit. Reeds companies in Iowa. So he sent a six page single-spaced telegram of pro- test to Senator Clark.
 Had anyone sent such tele- gram to Jim Reed in the old days he would have stepped on the floor of the senate and ex- posed the sender.
 But the old days with Jim Reed are gone.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Political scouts report that Key Pittmap, Nevada's veteran democratic senator and chair man of. the august Sem ate Foreign Relations Commit tee is having a real battle to save his Seat. His opponent, George
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
ChuckleCorner
COURT ROOM SCENE
By willard Bottone

Judge Hugger was hearing na- turalization cases. His kindly grey eyes viewed. through horn-rinI- med glasses, the line of two or three hundred applicants for ci- tizenship. The American flag was draped over His Honor's desk, so the new citizens would know 4 next time they saw 1t. Giuseppe Roccorro, tenth in line, listened carefully to answers to the Intel- ligence Test made by those pre- ceding him. Finally came Giusep- pes turn.'
 Judge Hugger: well, what's your name ?"
 Applicant: Giuseppe Roccorro.'
 Judge Hugger: Now, Giusep- pc, we want to know that those who become citizens of this great country have intelligence enough to appreciate its blessings. will ask you few questions Applicant: Me know da whole answers" Judge Huggcr: Now don't gel excited. Take it easy"
 Applicant: "Me no eXcit', giva da chance. me knowa da Fort July, Georgia de Wash, Abc'm Line, Constitush, da whole damn1a bezeness. Two Senator's, Con- grssa, Tammany. Hall" 4 t Judge Hugger: Wait. Don't talk so fast. Since you know the answers to questions previously asked I'll ask you a new one. Whe is President of the United States?' Applicant (triumphantly): "Mis- ta La Guardia." .ss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
ELM MENACE

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 New Haven was the City of
 Films before the present genera ton was born. Win 1t remain that until the present generation shus- fles off this mortal coll? At this
 writing, the thing looks doubtful,
 to say the least. For tree experts are saying quite authoritatively
 that the elms may precede those now living from the scene. Amer. jeans who remember what { the
 blight did to the chestnut trees which once were a glory of the Yankee landscape will know what this means. The Dutch elm dis- ease now threatens such q dcstruc.
 ton of the elm trees which have
 been New Haven's special pride.
 The tragic point about the whole
 matter Is the apparent failure of all curative measures. So far tho
 plant pathologists have foun dno specific cure against the Dutch elm diseaHe. With one.haif the Armory ef defense thus cut away
 foresiers arc loft the fruncattd
 possibility Of haitlne eontanion kpecimAnk This has not, unfof. itiHafely boon done In tha com.
 nunities worst afKoefed Co date. Ths sifas ef New Jersey hesa ssis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
A Book a Day
Blood : Lust Of War Made Him A Vampire
By BRUCE CAPTION

During the war Arthur Machen wrote a shivery little story called "The Coming of the Terror" in which he visioned wars blood lust and hatred as injecting the whole animal kingdom, so that sheep and cattle attacked farmers, robins ganged up on pedestrians and even insects swarmed out 10 help destroy the human race. The same sort of note is struck | in Hanns Heinz Ewers' "Vampire,' an eerie satanic sort of novel | about a man mysteriously afflicted
 by the complaint of your old | friend, Count Dracula.
 This man is a German-a world
 wanderer who finds himself Tn
 America when the World War be-
 gins. At first he plans to go back
 to Germany and fight: but German friends in New York persuade him | to stay in American and help di- l rect German propaganda work to
 offset the Allied propaganda bar
 rage.
 fected by the blood lust which has
 swept tho world, he becomes Q
 vampire. For long time he does not know it. He knows only that
 at times he gets exceedingly tired and iacka daisicai, and that if he can spend an evening with q wealthy German woman who has .befriended him he will get new strength.
 Not until she is on her death- bed does he learn that at these geanees he has been slashing her
 bosom with q knife to drink her blo0di
 All Of thlp. naturally. makes a weird and mhcabre book. If your taste runs that way, yOu'li fnd ii Id very good specimen Of ite kind.
 publlshed by John Day, it soils ! for ss.so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
Mass Production Newspapers

Oswald Garrison Willard, much VauHleu publisher of the Nation, maybe because he really believes it. or perhaps due to the fact that even the magazine business IS not what it used to be these days, devoted quite some portion of his lecture here Tuesday afternoon at the WomenS Club to the matter of newspapers. That the fiery magazine publisher has become imbued with the idea of mass production, even in journalism, was only too evident from his line of argument on that question MT Willard sees the day not far off when every large city will have but one morning and evening newspaper operated by the same management and thinks it advantageous to the community. From a mass production point of view, money making. maybe yes; but one ot honest endeavor, no.
 To men of MT Villard's type, the suc- cess of any enterprise from the produc- tion of fish-hooks to the building of sky scrapers, the monetary success of the enterprise is what counts. The humanl- tarian effort is of no consequence so long as it does not ring the cash register to the tune of the fat salaries and big dividends. Furthermore, if what MT Willard predicts comes to pass, the day of individuality, the original underlying foundation of the American press is lost and the public might just as well be as many sheep, or goats, listening to the tinkle of the flock leaders bell.
 While much that MT Willard predicts is virtually true even now, not only Tn respect to newspapers, but every line of endeavor in this country today, we still have faith in the American peoples spirit of independence, not to see the Russian aspect of any such ultimate amalgamation of business ventures Tn this country. First you have your tightening up, whereby all main lines of industry, newspapers as well, are ln- vested in the hands of few. Then the amassing of untold wealth for those few, and finally government overthrow or control and the final surrender of everything to one control = call it dlc- tator, or what you like, rose by any other name, etc. After that everybody spends the rest of their lives working for subsistence. And a poor one at best.
 It's not pretty picture to paint Per- haps MT Willard has had the foresight to see it in advance, but it is true, neverthe- less, if individuality has to give way to amalgamation, combinations, or what ever it's termed. This nation was founded on the efforts of the individual artisan and prospered that way. It has foundered in the heyday of mass produc- ton and will not recover until the small business man is given an opportunity to prosper. A nation of all workers for few bosses will never succeed to the extent we once knew prosperity in the United States It smacks too much of old world peasantry and over lords.
 Sooner or later, maybe too late, this country will awaken to that fact. In any event Mir Willard opened up an interesting vein of thought. We wonder if he was aware of the fact that he was talking in one of the two three-paper cities left in Connecticut - quite a coincidence, when you stop to think it over!