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never saw home or mother again.
He made his way by wits and
gun as a card sharper and cattle
thief.
He shot down from ambush
peaceful Indians, to rob them.
He killed several men over card
games, and, as his repute grew,
his real name, William H. Bonney,
gradually dissolved into Billy the
Kid.
Coming to the Pecos Valley, in
Texas. Billy became involved in a
cattle war" More victims fell
to his gun, and Sheriff Brady is
sued a dead or alive" proclama-
ton, with a reward for Billy,
then 49,
SO the Kid, ambushed behind
a wall, shot down the sheriff and
several deputies.
OUT the old days were passing.
ID Respectable elements rallied
about a new sheriff, Pat Garrett,
once friendly to Billy, but who
served notice that he was going to
run down his gang to the last
man.
Billy took to the hills. Cornered
several times, he shot his way out,
but one by one his men were
picked off. Then Garrett and
posse drove him to bay in ranch
house, and compelled his sur
render.
On the way to Santa Fe, Gar
rett resolutely saved Billy at gun
point from an ugly lynching mob.
A jury convicted him of the muir
der of Brady; a judge decreed the
rope.
Two guards alternated watch
over the shackled Kid; with one
he became friendly. Inveigling
him into a card game, the hand
cuffed Kid snatched his gun as he
bent over to recover a card from
the floor, killed him, then killed
the other guard az he came run
ming up. Slipping his small hands
from his steel cuffs, and stealing
a horse, Billy rode away.
=
DUT now Garrett, Infatuated by
ID the death of his deputies, bent
coldly and implacably to his task.
Posses combed the hills with no
luck. The Kid had vanished. But
Garrett and John w. Poe, his
deputy, waited.
From a drunken down and
outer, finally, there came to Poe
a tip that Billy had been seen at
Fl. Sumner, only a few miles
away. And dollar carelessly
dropped from a deputy's hand was
the price of the life of Billy the
Kid.
Garrett and Poe reconnoitered
at FIT. Sumner, but were able to
learn nothing from the close
mouthed residents. Baffled, they
decided to make one last try for
information at the ranch of Pete
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Tugwell, whose main job is as
sistant secretary Of agriculture,
but who performs many official
errandS for the first lady of the
land.
Tugwell and John Carter (alias
Jay Franklin, Tugwells ghost)
recently have been working with
Mrs. Roosevelt on the future
of Winship in Puerto Rico. The
war department, which has
charge of the island. doesn't like
, it, but can't help it. The cabal of
Puerto Rican politicians against
Winship is too strong.
CENATOR BOB WAGNER has
- agreed to a $3.50 split on his
bitterly contested labor disputes
ball.
In last hope to obtain some
sort of labor legislation he has
given ground on one of the two
major provisions of his original
measure.
They we're: ID outlawing of
company unions; CO majority
rule to control membership on
workers representation commit
tees.
General Hugh Johnson. secretly
tried to kill both proposals. Wig
orously he fought the creation of
a powerful, independent national
labor board. In the auto strike
agreement. he dealt the principle
of ma jority rule a crushing blow
by laying down the precedent of
proportional representation.
Wagner, with his back to the
wall, and striving desperately to
salvage something out of his bill,
proposed compromise. He stood
pat on the ma ority rule require
ment, but offered to give I'D the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-14

/ was Yankee rooter, although called them
HlshlanderS. Babe Ruth still a gangng lad in
a parochal school. and instead of Gehrig first
base we had Camel affectionately known to all
as 'Pop-Up John" I suppose being Yankee rooter
colored my whole life, it did in the of the
seven or eight other regular rooters. We dedicated
ourselves to taking the side of the underdog. You
did not 60 to the Yankees win. Nobody expected
that, at least Of all the players who composed the
team. But We were with them whether they came
back with their shields on them That was a
fortunate break all around, since the old Yankees
were regularly stripped of everything save honor
every afternoon, except Saturdays when they played
double-headers and died CALAMITY twice.
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Stan writer

WITH Diing running the country
w aghast violent crime that make mockey
recall the end of the legendary criminals who beat
And by these the end of the
Dilingers
Billy Kid Jesse and Harry glow in
these blazing outlaw trails waited the
bullet lonely CELL So been will be-
Mexico today the of Billy the Kid carries
killed
of murdered, and died. time and
commonplace and much
part regular dress than his socks
his murderer precocousy l2 when he
in Silver
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work. once they nave done II, Will
not have to be ripped out and
done over And, being of good
character and conscientious cit
liens, they endeavor to do as
much work as they can while
they are at it.
1t should not be necessary to
point out that this is very bad.
1t uses up the available work at
a rapid rate so that each night
fall brings just that much closer
the day when the boss engineer
will be compelled to report the
job finished and lay of the
1000 men.
At the present reckless rate of
progress that day will come in
the spring of 1886. If crew of
New York workmen of the kind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-14
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

w had built lucrative practice with big business
He became attorney
upon biggest
charities
Rchberg
Company millions
annually behalf of the city he brought
point Rchbergs life became hell
ingenuity fighting he attempts
escape the of justice
young Attempts
expenses money
100000 contribution from insult attempted discharge
they he
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who have been doing little mending jobs along the
margin of Central park had been recruited for the
Norris dam. the job would last forever.
Under the New York unemployment system
crew consists of eight men. One man holds a little
red flag to warn motorists not to drive over the
crew. Another man has A small shovel with which
he occasionally picks up few selected pebbles.
third member then guides the shoveler over to
selected point, about twenty feet away, where the
pebbles to be dumped.
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Fair Enough
WESTBROOK PEGLER

U NOXVILLE, Tenn. May l4-The menace Of in-
IN telligence and good moral character never was
illustrated more unhappily than the present
Norris dam job which the government is conducting
in the Cumberland foothills outside this city.
The 5000 working gentlemen employed on this
task are almost all Nordics of the conscientious
citizen type who have approached their government
job in spirit of gratitude and terrible enthusiasm.
Being intelligent they good workmen whose
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Billy the Kid, from the only
photo ever made of New MexicO's
all-time No. l gunman.
Maxwell, a known friend of the
Kid.
Il Il
TT was a moonlight night. Poe
Il and another deputy waited out
side, Garrett went into the house
and questioned Maxwell Soon a
figure approached the ranchhouse,
a kitchen butcher-knife in one
hand, apparently to cut a steak
from beef hanging by the porch.
1t was Billy, unrecognized by
either deputy. He whipped out
a siX-shooter and covered them
with a sharp question in Spanish,
Who is it?" Then he edged into
the house to see Maxwell.
In the darkness of Maxwell's
room, waited Pat Garrett. He had
recognized the Kids voice outside.
He knew the figure silhouetted in
the doorway in the moonlight.
1t was a situation where one
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HJeemC tome
By
Haywood BROUN

YANKEE STADIUM One hundred sixty-hrst
street, the Bronx. May 1--we churning
along steadily way to California, but I
tced vistful look in the eyes Of Earl Wilson. who
was driving. At the moment we happened to be
passing an impressive structure gsyly bedecked with
American flags. That's the Yankee stadium" VEN
tured He nodded and said: I suppose it will be
quite while before either of US sees baseball
game again 1 mean a real baseball game"
Now, of course, have been eager for many days
to get away from the dull grind of metropolitan life
and strike out into the open country like Lewis and
Clark or Daniel Boone Still I will admit that
had a sudden and sharp attack of nostalgia. After
all I was baseball reporter long before I became
coumnist or explorer. Hardly is now alive
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We Had Solidarity

IN those days being an Amer
l. lean League rooter was
little like being a criminal syn
dicalist. Every mans hand was
against you. indicating both
hands of the players of the seven
rival teams.
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VINO remembers the old Hilltop
grounds of the Yankees. The
site has now been converted into
an asylum for the deaf and dumb
in partial remembrance of the
teams which used to represent our
city in the days when the Amer
lean League first broke into the
enemy territory.
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WANTED


absorbing telling how bullet and prison
descriptions wanted" criminals of today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
YMCA Notes

A Speakers Bureau has been organized by the members of the Waterbury Public Speaking club. A considerable number of speakers are available to give talks on, a wide variety of topics.
 Organizations requiring the serv- ices of speakers are urged to call Secretary Purinton at the YMCA or any of the following committee members: Roy A. Ferris, Miss Mary c. L. Pheian, Mrs Henry w. Minor and Miss Mary L. Martin. Economic Nationalism" will be the topic under discussion at the Economies Forum at the Centra YMCA next Tuesday evening. The lecturer and discussion leader ,s Prof. Hudson B. Hastings of Yale university. Previous discussions have centered around national planning, codes and competition and labor under the N. R. A. The lecture will begin at o'clock. There is nominal fee foi admission.
 sPARTAsN DANCE
 Tonight at the Central Y.M.C.A, gym the Spartan Club will hold their annual Thanksgiving frolic The lobby and gym will be attrac- lively decorated for the occasion. and with dancing to the delight full tunes of Harry Armand and his orchestra. the event is sure to be a great success. The committees have been working hard for the past few weeks to get everything in readiness. Dancing will start about nine o'clock with a grand march scheduled for around ten o'clock. Refreshments will be served during the intermission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
By JOHN T. MOUTOUX Written for NEA Service

Knoxville, Tenn, Nov 17-You don't have to be a dreamer to wis., ualize what the Tennessee Valley Authority, given the time and the money, will do for the Tennessee valley. The program of national planning for a complete water sheds as outlined by President Roosevelt is definitely under way.
 Whether the whole program will be carried out depends, the people of the valley believe, on what the voters of the country do in the presidential election of 1936. For the program can't be completed during the remaining two years of MT Roosevelt's present term, and will have to carry over into the next administration.
 If carried out, this is what the IVA program will do for the Ten nessee valley:
 Bring cheap electricity to the whole valley. Now 95 per cent of the farm homes have no electricity. The presence of the IVA with its power yardstick has already re- suited in rate cuts by private com panies of around 20 per cent, but IVA rates are still 30 to 50 per cent lower than that.
 SWEEPING CHANGES LOOM
 Bring new industries to the val ley, especially chemical and metal lurgical plants, which by reason of cheap electric power will be able to utilize low grade ores found in the valley.
 Make the Tennessee River navi- gable, the full $50 miles of it's v.nCr11fiv0 p nh Nxyof for transportation.
 Put an end to destructive floods. Rehabilitate millions of acres of rundown land by stopping soil erosion, putting a part of the land in forest and the rest in crops that will restore the washed-away hu- mus and top soil.
 Land destroying cotton will be replaced by livestock and land building crops.
 Fill the valley with cooperatives of all sorts, beneficial alike to con- sumer and producer, but hard on the middle man.
 Generally, increas the income of the people of the valley, bring most of them conveniences they never had before, and make living in the Tennessee valley pleasanter. COST UNKNOWN
 Naturally the question arises. what will 1t all cost and how will it pay out? It is question that cannot now be answered.
 Chairman A. E. Morgan, pressed for an answer by a persistent con- gressman at a hearing before a house committee last spring, said the dams and distribution lines might cost around $500, 1000, 900, and that the distribution systems might pay out in 25 years. But he insisted it was only an estimate.
 Army engineers, in their last re- port--which preceded creation of the TVA-estimated it would cost a billion dollars to build all the dams necessary for flood control,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

ods until now they have found the best and least expensive way. II consists of blowing in all but the main gully on a hillside until they are level, seeding them with grass, then covering them with straw mating to keep the rains from washing out the seeds and the new fills. E,
 The main gully acts as drain for the entire hillside, and dams are built in 1t to check the flow or the water, thereby preventing deep ening of the gully.
 SOIL SAVING REVELATION
 This method has been in use for the last six months and seems 10 be a success. It was a revelation to foresters and conservationists who attended a meeting or the American Forestry Association here recently and they predicted It's use would spread over the whole coun- try. - workers cost twice as much as the ordinary kind of construction camp would have cost. Instead or the usual temporary barracks, there was built the model town or NOT ris.
 Norris offers an experiment III low-cost housing. About naI tne houses in Norris are of this type They are built of blocks made of cindersr and cement. The federal Tovernment right now is spending millions of dollars on housing anu tha exneriment at Norris is compar- atively small.
 The fertilizer program Is an eX,. neriment which, if successful, Will pay ous handsomely to farmers, put moi to the government. Much or the IVA work is like that.
 HEADERS ARE TRAINED
 Other narts of the IVA program ran he measured still less in dol lars and cents. For instance, the training and recreation program for the workers of Norris dam IS given free, with no thought or a
 But it Is making leaders and trained workers of large group ot men in the valley. The training and recreation program IS the TWAS substitute for the gambling and drinking joints and red light districts usually found at or near construction camps. r,,,.
 The expenditures of the IVA renresent a nations investment m a section of the country to ind out how certain ideas work out so that, if successful, they can be applied .to the rest of the country. It IS national planning on an experi- mental scale.
 The experiment is far enough along to indicate that the money It Is costing is well spent and that the whole country will benefit from what the IVA is doing.
 THE END.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
NEW BURLESQUE
 IN OWN MONDAY
'Frolic of l934,' Featuring Prize Winning Beauties,
 Full of Comedy

Almost from the initial entry of
 burlesque as major factor in the
 amusement world, the title "Frol-
 ics of 1884" has been utilized, but
 one of the best offerings ever to
 wave that time-honored banner is
 the show that opens a weeks en- gagement at Jacques theater Mon- day.
 The reason for this enjoyable distinction is two fold. First, be-
 cause 1t is produced by the Inde- pendent Burlesque Association, which means fine, wholesome en- tertainment. and secondly because it boasts of an exceptionally fine and distinguished cast, headed by George Broadhurst and Dawn De- lees. MT. Broadhurst is the same gentleman that was featured in several comedies for the Columb bia Film Studios. He is very versatile and his comedy is droll eccentric. He sings, dances and plays musical instruments, in addition to making his public laugh, and in his famous novelty dance he combines all these features of amusement. Dawn Delees is blonde, prize
 winning beauty, having been select | ed as Miss Cleveland in 1881. in | support of these headliners are Billy Scratch" Wallace, tramp comedian; Ralph Duby, tumbling comic with a French style; Deen Blake, master of ceremonies and singing juvenile; Harry Cornell. de- luxe straight-man who is one of the best dressed men on the stage; Jack Gordon, very clev-
 CT chap who presents many novel specialtles and plays all instru- 1 ments including the accordian saxaphone and harmonica-a one man band: Evelyn Cashway, a tall, auburn haired soubrette in several novelty dances.
 Then there is Jimmy Pinto & Co.,, consisting of Jimmy Pinto and
 Del Della, Italian comedians and Helen Lee, petite blues-singing | soubrette. A beautiful chorus of
 sixteen dancing and singing girls | who were selected from the best that the stage has to, offer. and who went through long period of training and rehearsals, will com plete this fine cast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

For the first time in the history of Connecticut socialist judges judges and prosecutors may func- tion in the lower courts of the com monwealth. Because of the fact that the three Bridgeport socialist senators-elect will hold the balance of power in the 1885 upper house of the state assembly, it is believ- ed that representation on one or more of the minor court benches will be demanded. It will mark new milestone in Connecticuts history if events. come through as expected.
 At the same time, it is under stood, tn defeated republicans Of the state are already dickering with the socialist leaders whom they have ignored in the past with the view of possibly saving some of their big office holders and swapping with the socialists. Boom For Dunham During the past week the Mid dletown board of underwriters | went on record as being in favor | Of naVlnS InSuFaHce IHiuiSSiouSl Howard P. Durham reappointed. His term expires during the com ing year and Governor Wilbur L. Cross has the power of remaining him or picking his successor dur ing the coming session of the leg islature.
 Insurance Commissioner Dun- ham, whose residence is in Weth- ersfield, was originally appointed to his post by former Governor Charles A. Templeton of this city He has held the post since by vir- l tue of reappointments under g. O D. governors. This is the first time l that Governor Cross has had a chance to shoot at the insurance commissioners post, hence the worriment among the republicans
 Combine Expected
 The g. O. D. leaders of the state are, according to reports. attempt ing to make overtures to the so- | cialists, promising to split with l the latter if the third major party of the state opposes some of Gov ernor Cross appointments during the coming sesison of the assem- bly,.
 On the other hand, certain dem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

At present there is no market for such vast amount of power,
 but the potential market is unlim- ited. For instance, heating the
 homes of the people of the valley by electricity would consume :ln
 enormous amount of power.
 One of the reasons for building
 the town of Norris was to experi-
 ment in this very thing; to see # houses could be heated by cleo tricity at a cost low enough for the average income of a skilled worker. What this might do to the al-
 ready groggy coal industry is an- other matter.
 Nor is there any way of knowing
 how the project will pay out. Rev
 enue from power is fairly tangible,
 but how can you figure. the. return from reforestation and soil ero-
 sion?
 Land reclamation is part of a national program of planned econ- omy and cannot be put on a cash and carry basis. The same is true
 of other phases of the IVA pro- gram. NEW DEAL LABORATORY Much that the IVA is doing is in the nature of experiment which. If | successful, will benefit the whole country. It is generally understood | in Washington that the Tennessee valley is being used as laboratory ! for tying out some of the New Deal | experiments.
 An example is soil erosion work
 At first, check dams. were built. It
 is the method being used through out the. country. But dams. espe-
 cially those built of stone, are
 costly and take a lot of time to build.
 IVA soil erosion experts have
 experimented with different meth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
PICTURES DEPICT
 GREAT REFORMER

Saint Paul's Illustrated Service
 at Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow evening at S:S0
 D. m. will feature the third in the
 series of motion picture episodes
 on the life of Martin Luther the Great Reformer. The story of the
 famous Ninety-Five Thesis and the
 growing sentiment against the sale of induigences will be portrayed. His appearance before the Diet Of Worms and the spread of his teach lnRs until the celebrated Protest was made In 1929. The pictures il- frustrated the messages are authen- tic of the life and times of the great religious leader. The musical program will be furnished by st Paul's Quartet. A week from Sum | day evening the World Wide infiu-
 ence of the Life Of Luther.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
Runors Of Socialist
 COP. Combination
New Set-up May Block Democratic Program Social
 st Judges, Prosecutors Considered"

ocratic leaders are also under stood to be handling out the olive
 branch to the socialist senators and
 the organizations they represent, with promises of judgeships and prosecutorships. The 1885 session of the legislature, especially that of the upper branch, is expected, therefore, to be most interesting and exciting one from a political
 and voters standpoint of view.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

Key points in the mammoth Ten nessee valley project of the New Deal are shown in the map above. At left is a view of Wilson dam, present source of IVA. power, which will be the main unit in the power production program. It was built by the government during the World war at cost of $47, O.OO0 to provide power for nitrate plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

sf recent edition of the Medford, Massach~setts' Nercury has front page boz m Uhich is contained the foloapino On behalf of the Democratic Mems Club ot Medford svish to ertemd y thamks for your cooperG- ton iY publishing notices and to compliment you om the fur ,cay in ahich you handled the complicated com' pcign, aoh grateful appreciation a, very trty yours -Mark E. Gallagher, Jr" Mark is the emterpr's'"g so of Mark Gallagher popular secretary of the Lar9dy Bresoery Company and leader in the Medtord demo- cratic party Like faher ke son. seems to oe cue "0'e sounded here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

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