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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
ONE-MAN GIRL

tliat,,' Linda said4 'Tt. never was really good looking. It's too warm for today, I'd say.
 'sShess more interested than that, anyhow Katie thought; "but she doesn't care about him any more, and God knows it's a comfort t--for God knows I dO;' How much she hadn't settled yet. An awful lot, maybe. she thought, when his sig nal on the buzzer sent her heart soaring.
 ; And ~ She'd have peIted down the steps, thrust her check, Katie O'Eiagan -fashiOif, into his hand and shortly thereafter married him, if, Katie O'Hagan- fashion, she hadn't forgotten her bng. She pelted half way down, missed 1t, fememb bered that the check was in the bag and ran back up.
 Linda was 8 good whistler, but few people keep 1t up alone. Katie opened the front door upon an empty living room, took two steps and saw Linda stretched on the bed in the bedroom crying her heart out into Bids old coat. She had turned on the radio to cover the sound of 1t, but 1t wasn't loud enough.
 T love him!" Linda sobbed. "1 can't help it! I'm never going to be able to help 1t! I love hirnw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

k Pasadena, Cal-(UP)-Should administration officials wake up some day with 8 splitting headache from counting appropriations and expenditures by the billions of dol- lars, they should call upon two as- tronomers from the Carnegie In- stitute's Mt Wilson observatory.
 pr Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason are experts on figures. The round numbers they toss off so casually make the national debt look like the current assets, of the relam of Insult. ar rt,f
 :; Dr Hubble and Humason re- gently have completed a census of the heavens.
 They didn't count each individ- ual star. They contented them selves with counting the galaxies, or star groups. The earth is but one small part of the galaxy sur- rounding our sun, which is but a second fiddle in the Milky Way group, and our. galaxy isn't even in the center of the well-organized heavens.
 k Dr Hubble has determined that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
MOTOR VEHICLE
 HEARING ON FEB. 6


 A motor vehicle hearing will be held in the city court room on Tuesday morning, February at 10:30 o'clock, at which the fol- lowing persons have been notified to be present: Roland Sicard, "A Kingsbury street: Ovila Bonneville, 213 River street; George Boinay, 476 Watertown avenue; Thomas Mcclure, 5 Ash street; Erwin Hath away, 215 Tracy avenue; William Joseph, l30 Scovill street; Fedilia Landi, 26 Patterson street, Torring- ton; Thomas Marine, Minor street, West Cheshire; Ernest Bayette,
 Westchester Center: Rudolph Mo- Code, Cheshire; William Leitton, 55 Central avenue, Naugatuck Wesley W. Rood, 24 Fort Hill, Waterville and, Frank D. Wilms, Fall Village. ,A 5
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

"Mm'--scrooged down in the big chair among the Sunday papers. And then, fnatter-of-factIy Whats he going to do about it7r.
 WELL, LAST NIGHT
 HE DIDN'T KNOW" VI "well, last night he didn't know. And I didn't either. We just went around in circles. My bank ac- counts so low you can hardly see 1t. And this morning guess he still doesn't know, poor kid-4-but me-I've had an idea, ? said Katie O,Hagan. with a sort of squarihg of her shoulders.
 "Spill it." Linda invited. z
 'trd forgotten all about it, but can borrow on my life insurance. We're going to ride in a couple of minutes, and" She went to the desk in the corner of the room I'm going to lift him right out of his troubles-with a check. I'll tell him not to cash it until telephone him I've got the money, but I'll give it to him now, and his boss'll never know Bids not as cagy and careful as he is himself" And she wrote the check.
 "Bid." Linda said, lis a fast worker. He's made you care like that. then. as quick as this?" | Enough she said, "to keep him
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

q forgot to tell you, it's Bid I'm going with She said it care llessly. but there was hint of ten- sion in her voice. 1T thought" Her glance travelled to the small figure on the couch in the living
 room of their tiny apartment. T thought you'd feel it might as well
 be me as anybody else-since you are through with him yourself" | Linda Conover yawned and sat up. Sure. It's all right by me-"
 She, too, said it carelessly. "If
 he was a nickel in my pocketbook," !" she smiled amiably--Td give him to you, honey"
 Katie picked up her plaid bag and came and stood beside the couch. 'Itd tear me to pieces if I got you wrong about this kid"
 Don't get me wrong" Linda said, "We're all washed up, Clyde Bidgood and I. That's the official lowdown on 1t. Take him, darling, and run along with him. God knows, I wouldn't take him if I could. What I would do, maybe, if could think of a good one she looked at the watch on her wrist-"is to go, to a movie"
 1T won't bring him here," Katie said, still little anxiously. You can be sure of that.
 1T wouldn't eat him, like the big, bad wolf, if you did; but--there's no use pretending-there are fifty seven other varieties I'd rather be seeifg"-Linda got to her feet - land that's a fact. Run along, 1it- tie bright lighter, let him talk about himself all he wants to, and he, at any rate, will have swell time. As for me, I'm done with him, and don't mean maybe. Would you like it in writing?"
 KATIE HEAvED A BIG
 SIGH OF RELIEF
 Katie heaved a big sigh of relief, gave her friend and housemate a hug and kiss, and was gone.
 She wouldn't have to worry about Linda, then. People were always worrying about Linda. Trying to look out for her. She had the unconscious appeal of a child. She looked so small and
 helpless. She was small. But she wasn't helpless. She had been talk ing care of herself since she was 15. She was 19 now. Her soft little red mouth shaped itself fre- quently into the most wistful of
 smiles, but for all that, Linda was a good whistler. That was one of the reasons Katie O'Hagan went on being so fond of her.
 Well, thank goodness, 1t was all right about Bid! Katie thought.
 running down to meet him. Bid was rather 8 honey, and the de-
 pression had made 0 break in. the
 ranks of Katie's followers that Bid
 was needed to help fill up.
 They found, as the days went
 by, an endless number of things to do together. They swam and ! danced, and on Sundays and Sat-
 urday afternoons. they drove of
 into the country in Bids roadster, or took long walks together. They went to the movies and the the-
 ater. It was all pretty swell. Katie
 was getting to like him lot. She
 had almost stopped remembering
 every now and then with sinking of the heart that Linda, now that
 Bid was gone out of her life, wasn't t
 being taken about anywhere-had almost forgotten everything but a
 growing feeling that something
 big and satisfying was just about to break on her - through, of
 course, Clyde Bidgood - when-it
 happened.
 She told Linda about 1t the Sun
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shadow running over her face - "Bid's got himself into a pretty bad mess. He went on friends note. It's fallen due. The friend can't pay it, and Bids got to. He has exactly $200 in the bank-he'd put it aside, it seems, to marry on and the notes for four. If he doesn't meet it inside of five days, the holder of the notes going to notify his boss. The old mans got a kind of phobia about business men who go on notes. Says it's sentimental, out of date and down. right dishonest. Everybody knows how he feels-especially Bid, who's been kind of favorite of his. He's been grooming him for something pretty good, but it'll be all off if he hears about this. The boys bother ed to death.."
 A worried frown furrowed Katie's brow, but she watched Linda sharply and sighed with re- lief about that anyhow! Linda = thank God-didn't care! Not any more. All Linda said was:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
IA Daily Story Real Life

to get him ,to promise that he,o
 never do it again, but he wouiohr r
 tried to make him see that no
 man who's going to marry has 2
 right to mortgage his wife,s future
 ike that, and I couldn't. I'd never
 feel safe with a man of that sort' I'm pretty careless about some
 things, but not money. I want the
 man I tie up with to help me take
 care of 1t. I--weIl. I'm dropping out where Bids concerned. l can help it-Im made that way. But !
 want him to have the money. Not as coming from me, you under
 stand. If give you the $20O, would yots----~
 |KATTE BACKED SLOWLY
 OUT OF THE DOOR
 q have two hundred of my owns Linda said. "I'd rather lend
 him that. I'd be perfectly willing to do it, you know, just-Just for old sake's sake.' She said 1t Quiet- Fly. "You'd find him at home, I think, F if you wanted to go around there now" Katie said. And, when Linda had gone. to herself alone, as DraVeiy aS she could: There's been nobody for her since they split. There never will be anybody but him. He'll go back to her if ditch him, and she lends him the money. And this time she'll cinch it: she'll marry him. She's learned her lesson. She won't nag him as she did before. She = there ought to De a law against them, but she's Q one-map grill And some day" she went to the mirror and settled her red beret--''there'll be somebody else for me-"
 And. Katie O'Hagan fashion, though her eyes were full of tears, she went to the telephone and
 called the likeliest runner-up from
 her abundant list.
 THE END
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
Good Evening.
NEWS WR1TEMs

The gold bill was signed we see by headlines, Walters on strike who'll pour the dinner wines! Chefs too are out, tough on the diners Fogs out at sea imperil s. s. liners. The presidents birthday has come and gone, Balls all over the nation lasting till dawn. Cold wave hits country causing much fear oh The Mercury hitting way down near zero. Light wines will be served, Mrs Roosevelt decree But distilled liquors at White House have no
 entree. Forced flight to Indiana by notorious crook Sinclair Lewis makes hit with his latest book. Local bakers made cake for the presidents ball. Fair and warmer the weather, and that's
 about all.
 Elm. En-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Info,msation from Washington, requested 6y ocat reserye officers assures them hGt they Gy purchase fs dress uniforms avithout restriction. Some doubt has eristed m the minds of the officers as to 'ohether hu,mo fhese Mniforms for the military dinnerdamce at the Hotel Elton, February 8th Tue amount of gold required to decorate these uniforms $ considerable ond as the deaamd for the fudress uniform 's mcredsed each uear it qvas tkought Washington avould curtaI theiy use No dobt the fact that speca permission is required by the officers to aoear the ~miorm ln Gmy other country Gn his oa0n assures the o~tho7t'es tot tke qold aOiU be kept in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
By ALMA and PAUL ELLERBE

HATIE OHAAN settled her little plaid hat trfe more IN smarty over her left eye threw the scarend of her long brown veveeen cape her shoulder stuck per fumed lozenge in her mouth and turning from the mirror looked about for her bag and gloves Shewas off to dinner, and to dance afterwards.
 When not working, Katie was usually off somewhere for good time Her capacity for enjoyment and ability to find it were things to yourself bthough she put in perfectly good MIRA week downtown had suffered two cuts in salary lived from typewriter to mouth it were and hadn't relative in the world worth claiming. tsf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Coordinating. The membership roll of the Over- IooCottage Park club includes the of hundred families. The residents of Pennington Ave
 will soon be given opportunity to vote on the question whether they would like to have their street named that the two ends of the street may easily distinguished North Pennington and South Pennington have already been suggested Lexington Avenue residents are sub- ec inconvenience and will also be asked to vote their preferences their street The short tion leading off of Bdwe street might we'll be called Lex ingon Place Lexington Extension thus eliminating mixups petition will shortly be presented to each prop erty owner. The many friends of Mrs George Bren- nan will be glad know that she is considerably improved having been suffering from attack of arhrs for several months. MT and Mrs Robert s. Walker of Fske street attended the Old Guard Ball at the Commodore in New York recently. . . MT and Mrs Arthur Hertz.
 mark of Macdonald spending several weeks in Florida. . Mtzi Frank Browns collie dog was killed Sunday in front of her owners house Robert street by milk truck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Katie backed slowly and silently out and closed the door softly be- hind her. Slowly and soberly she went down the stairs and got rid of Bid somehow. And then she walked. For blocks and blocks and blocks-fighting 1t out inside. When she got back the battle was over.
 Do you know" she said, "this thing of Bids going on his friends note is sort of Fundamental. I tried
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

from this kind of tailspin if I can. Who wouldn't?" But she thought her voice betrayed her. To cover up, she said from the closet, roofing around for wraps: Sup pose BidI want this? Is it cold enough?"
 ' It was an old leather jacket he had made her wear once when he thought she was cold.
 Funny how he always liked
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Flash! .. F. When Sid SckaCartz tGkes tue Gr from WMCA ct 115 Thursday afternoon from the New York Duly Mirror rooms be hos promised Joe Fdigetti, WGterbarys Latest contribution to the Mr TOT sta include Of Joes bot tips from the BrGsS Citg amOng tue neaOs bits. And is JOe's chest pufed Out about sir inches? And he the alert for the past a0eeend Vhich be spent m the old home ton? SchqOaytz broadcasts duly from Nick Kenneys office but his Waterbury flush Wont be heord unta Thursday. We'U be listentng Joe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
SOUTHERN SUPPER
 AT PEARL STREET

Everything is In readiness for the inter-racial supper at the Pearl Street Neighborhood house tomor- row, from 4:30 o'clock in the aft ernoon until 2 in the evening. Dishes will be served in regular southern style. G{
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Breezn along. Betty Price enjoyed most pleas ant weekend Hartford the guest of MT and Mrs Rob- ert C. Buell.. Rev Rocco Guerrerio, pastor of St Se- bastians church in Middletown renewed acquantances with many of his former parishoners of Our Lady ot Lourdes church Saturday. Domenic Mecca, erstwhle accordons and his intimate pal Peter Sto were among the many Waterburans who caught the coorful ski meet near Winsted Sunday Edward F. Doyle, president of the New Haven County A. O. H. has been confined to his home the past few weeks with illness and will be incapac tated for another fortnight. Speedy recovery, Ed Tasted of Mrs Louise Shepards delicious pies ths morn inc and believe me that Watervile street is Al cook The Aquarium Society exhibit in the Bronson
 Library is quite credtabe and at earliest convenience you should look is most interesting and educa tonal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31
Barl)s

Barbs Rev Richard Tanning of West Haven, a native of this city, has been named chaplain of the newly organized club of Catholic College graduates in New Haven . John Heeney and his Willow street family will leave within the next few days to take up residence in Norwich where John has been promoted to the managershp of the Swift Company plant there. Burglars broke into the Boston auto show and stole the whole state police exhibit checp is being made to see if any police are missing also
 Dillinger the bandit, supposes he'll learn this business doesn't pay But then 1t will be too late to do him any good. There is supposed to be about 45 trlion dollars worth of gold under the S we'd have to dive deeper into eans than into the to find any gold these days :. Rumanian deputy had to apol- ogize for calling his colleagues He couldn't creep out of that charge hmsef What has Postmaster Far Icy done with the automobile thai built to f the silk hat of former postmaster general?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Bg-Yyr-4-r .. A can4TGs eacked aud thrlU seske1s sorr qlo,g tue 2ooterfyont, "Hike' Noomam to55 e@7aCt 1p la tte chalg 9aters of LGkesoood Park Saadag ajternoof /FsW fa0e there's deep seq agsteW 'at4aH tG 15f an1s4ai Gentawe Of tue citys ~-4aeat 1gala casa. case you gre not aa0are, here 'tis. Way back in 1909 Arthur "Spike" Hemnessey, cl1,unus of the Water5uyy Brcklayers Union, aOemt bating one Sunday afternoon and lost his membership card aohch enclosed ID smaU metal case Since deuvor to find the ease Sunday he failed agoin but located good luck carD1 ost by Irvimg Cohen, Rose Jand maomager im 1929 Hihe, hoa0ever, is fur from discouraged in vieau of t n1iety Henesseys part to see if hs union daes paid up. So n the future "Hike" has promised 10 io the poar bear Gct semi- dnnMdlly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

The Cast of Characters in
 "A One-Man GfrT' LINDA CONOVER, who has come to the parting of the ways with her sweetheart, CLYDE BITGOOD.
 KATIE O'HAGAN, Linda's roommate, who "faIls" for Clyde.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Active gardening will start be- fore many more weeks, and you should be sending you order for seeds, bulbs and plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Pick out a location for a com post heap and really start one this year. It is the cheapest method of assuring yourself of the proper hu- mus for your flowers and veget- able.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

day morning after she had learned of it herself.
 "Bid," she said--a little wave of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Look over your plans of the gar den you had last year, so that you do not plant the same things in the same locations this season. This will give you the proper rotation necessary for most plant life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

If you have a fireplace, remem- Der that the ashes from the oak logs represent real money as gar- den fertilizer. Save themi Other wise you may find yourself at the seed store buying them or their equivalent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Do your gardening with pencil and paper this time. of the year. A plan well thought out beforehand will invariably result in the best garden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

A better watering system will aIlay much trouble if we get an- other drought this season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-31

Make sure that the cold frames are in good condition. You will be using them before long.
 If last years garden was 8 fail ure, don't put all the blame on drought. Make on hanest check-np on your garden activities, and see if there were not several things neglected, then, with all the facts at hand, plan the new garden.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
MEN 70 AND so
BATTLE WITH AK
One in Hospital, Other in Jail as
Luray Police Probe
Encounter.

Special Dispatc'' to The Star.
LURAY, Va. September 24.-Hacked
almost to death with an ak, 70-year
old man lay in hospital here today
while his 60-year-old assailant was in
Jail awaiting the outcome of his in
juries.
A fight occurred Saturday when
Mann Shiff1ett, now in jail, allegedly
was detected stealing wood from the
yard of Jonas Housden.
Housden, according to the meager
account police have been able to OBJ
tain, demonstrated and Shifhett started
toward him menacingly. Housden
then picked up a stone and let it fly
at Shifnett, who, in return, picked up
an AK
In the ensuing battle Housden had
one arm cut off at the elbow, his chest
was hacked in number Of places and
he lost a quantity Of blood.
Shif1ett suffered cuts over the eyes.
on the arms and body. He did not
require hospital treatment.
After blood transfusions today police
hope to obtain more coherent story
Of the fight from Housden. Deputy
Sheriff David Fox and Common
wealth's Attorney Lynn Walton already
have talked to both men, but because
Of the condition Of Housden were un-
able to question him at any length.
Evening star., 1934-09-24

Their critics will probably call them
the stiff shirts, the $40 shirts or even
the stuffed shirts. They do not call
themselves anything.
Their secrecy has encouraged pop
ular suspicion that they are primarily
out to stop the New Deal. That may
be the unspoken hope Of many of the
delegates at the clandestine conven-
tions. but those who have attended
say the meetings have not been run
on that basis al all.
The real basis seems to be to
band togther in groups for SELF
preservation They hare an idea
that the administration is driving
q Uedge into their businesses
In that suspicion, they are not far
wrong. Only last week, one of the
only three men competent to express
the philosophy behind the New Deal
told a private gathering in his draw
ing room: If you have to boil down
the future Roosevelt program to a
single sentence it would be-the dif-
fusion of big business and the encour-
agement of little business"
Would Guide Course.
The White Shirters, therefore, con-
tend their only plan is to bring pres
sure on the New Deal to guide it for
their own purposes. to get the best
deal possible out of it, for themselves
They are not ambitious enough to
think they can block it, or defeat it
politically just yet.
The American Liberty League is not
supposed to be connected with these
meetings, although one of its back
ers attended the Long Island conven-
ton. Incidentally. it has recently en-
ployed an ace Washington newsman
(William Murphy as publicity ad-
wiser and is about to step out cam
paigning in bigger and broader way.
Every insider agrees these UdriouS
steps mean more intelligent and
better organized opposition to the
NeU Deal program from here on.
In other words, big business is
banding to fight.
You would not suspect that the
Lindbergh kidnapping capture has a
political aspect, but 1t has. Presi-
dent Roosevelt's political friends and
enemies alike wagged their heads over
that development, saying exactly what
they did when Dillinger was shot: ut
is the Roosevelt luck. He Is rab-
bit'S-foot man"
Effect Is Excellent.
The White House crowd, meaning
Mr.. Roosevelt and Louis Howe, realize
that such things as Dillinger and the
Lindbergh kidnapping have more in
fiuence on the public mind than heavy
problems, like tariffs and taxes, which
the people generally do not under
stand There has been constant pres
sure from the President and Howe
upon the Federal detection agencies.
Evening star., 1934-09-24

his parachute spinnaker, and it filed
and began to pull beautifully.
Endeavour'S crew was slow in get
ting her ventilated Annie Oakley
spinnaker set and had trouble get
ting it to draw.
While the Englishmen we're busy
with their canvas Rainbow went out
to 3-length lead.
1t was six minutes after the start
before Endeavour's spinnaker was of
any use to her.
Endeavour ripped her spinnaker
hauling it around the jib stay. The
tear was near the clew, and although
apparently not serious it was evident
it was not drawing as well as the
Ralnbow'S big parachute.
At 1880 am it was estimated the
defender had increased her lead to
five lengths.
Endeavour continued to have trou-
Bile with her spinnaker half an hour
after the start and Rainbow had in
creased her lead to six or seven boat
lengths.
The breeze continued to moderate
and the sea was f1attening out, only
an occasional white cap showing.
At 11:20 a man could be seen aloft
on Endeavour working on her spin
maker halyard block.
Rainbow's spinnaker blew out at
11:26. Four minutes later however,
the defender broke out another SPIN
maker, and despite the accident held
most of her lead over Endeavour.
Sail Hoisted Quickly.
The tear first appeared at the foot
Of the sail, but quickly extended well
up the billowing canvas.
While new sail was being brought
on deck Vanderbilt put Rainbow over
on the port tack and held her there
while the new canvas was set.
The defenders crack crew showed
their worth as they quickly hoisted
the sail, which Immediately began to
draw beautifully From the cut of the
new spinnaker it was believed that it
was the one borrowed from Yankee
and that the one which tore was
Rainbow's own parachute.
Sopwith finally doused his unruly
spinnaker at l1:45 am. He also went
over on the port tack as the canvas
came down and set Genoa jib.