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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
SHOEWORKER MAY
 BE MURDERER

Boston, Dec 7-(UP)-A South End shoemaker was arrested today in connection with the mysterious death of a woman in his rooms.
 Nicola Mastrangelo, AS, told po- lice that his fiance, Anna M. Sven- dsen, 31, had visited him last night and asked him to get her some cigarettes. When he returned, he was quoted as saying. he found her dead.
 Bruises on the woman's face and body caused authorities to believe she might be a victim of foul play. Police Physician Joseph W. Devine said death was under circum- stances suspicious enough to war rant an investigation" An autopsy on the body was to be performed.
 Mastrangelo said he and Miss Svendsen. a housekeeper, were to be married. but she had postponed 1t until she felt better.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
UNITED STATES
 MODIFIES STAND
 ON GRAN CHACO
Will Partially Cooperate in Attempt to Bring Peace
 in South America
By HOBART c. MONTEE United Press Staff Correspondent

V
 Washington, Dec 7-(UP)-The United States today modified it's ob- durate stand against any partici- patton by the League of Nations Tn settlement of purely American af- fairs, and agreed to partial coop eration with the league in another attempt to bring peace to the Gran Chaco.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in formal note to the secretary general of the league, advised that the United States will cooperate with that body in the purely Amer ican phases efforts to negotiate a cessation of the war between Para quay and Bolivia.
 The United States. Hull said can not participate in the Geneva end of the Chaco> peace plan, whicl, includes establishment of league advisory committee comprising 29 members, many representatives ot European and other non-American countries.
 Hull's note was in reply to two separate invitations from the league body, requesting this coun- try to partlclpate Tn the CnacC plan.
 This plan had three separate parts:
 1. Establishment of the advi- sorry committee" including repre- sentatives of states which are non- members as well as those which are members of the league council.
 ?. Creation of a neutral super visory commission, to be com posed entirely of representatives of American nations, to meet on American soil for the specific pur- pose of supervising and facilitating the execution of measures relating to the cessation of hostilities.
 3. A conference of representa-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
ATTENDS INQUEST
 STATE POLICE HEAD
Significance as Yet Un= knOWn-28 of AS Witt
 nesSeS Now Heard

Greenfield, Mass, December 7- (UP) State Police Commits sioner Paul G. Kirk arrived here today and immediately entered the grand jury chamber where the fifth day session of the Rev Elliott Speer murder inquest was in progress.
 Whether Kirk's presence had any special significance could not be learned at once.
 As Kirk appeared, Associate Justice Timothy M. Hayes was lis- tening to the testimony of today's fifth witness, Albert D. La Rue of Melrose, Mount Hermon School senior, football star. and operator of an amateur radio station, who was on the campus the night Headmaster Speer was slain.
 Le Rue was the 18th of 4S subpenaed witnesses. He had been preceded on the stand this morn- ing by William Dierig, school car penter, Mrs Dierig, and Mrs Dan- iel Bodley. wife of the man in charge of the school laundry. They are three of four persons who saw the automobile in which the killer is believed to have gone to and from the scene of the crime. An-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
COLORFUL ALABAMA
 GOVERNOR IS DEAD

Tuscaloosa. Ala, Dec 7.--(uP)- William w. Brandon. 66. former governor of. Alabama and for years a coIorfui figure in southern poli' tics,. died here to-day.
 II. was Brandon's strong voice that made history at the democra flc national convention in New York ln i9s4 whom he called out countless times: Alabama casts 24 votes for Underwood"
 He was governor from 1928 tc 1927.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
EXCITEMENT GALORE ALL OVER A MOUSE

Gambler, O., Dec 7.-(UP)- Bob Reid, student pilot at Kenyon College school of aeronautics, was startled to-day when Donald Cret- ger. his instructor, suddenly tore the controls out of his hand.
 Onlookers saw the plane whip around into tight spiral and race in for landing.
 Cretzer leaped out of the cock pit, loosened the trousers of his flying suit. shook his leg, and out ran-a mouse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07

The former Chase worker, who readily admitted sending letters threatening the life of Frederick S. Chase. president of the Chase Com panies and other prominent offi- cials of the same firm and mailing bullets and Chinese dagger to leading factory executives, will be {. turned over to the Waterbury city court, which will take temporary Jurisdiction in the case as soon as the government relinquishes its claims on Brown. City court will then undoubtedly turn the case over to the office of States Attor- ney Lawrence l.. Lewis for dis position. The almost certain out- come is that Brown will be com rnitted to state institution as be- ing criminally insane.
 Get Technical" Freedom
 Brown will probably be given his technical" freedom by the federal government in time to be brought before Judge John E. Nc Grath in city court tomorrow. The governments departure from the case is the result of the fact that it has no Jurisdiction over state institutions such as the one to which Brown will most probably be committed.
 The finding of Brown as '1n- sane" was made after he had been examined at length by alienists and medical men, 1t is believed. Tax ing leading part in the study of Browns mentality was Dr w. H. Grove of New Haven, Yale physi- clan and psychologist, who was or deied to make the examination by Assistant U. s. Attorney George Cohen of Hartford.
 Arrested Near Home
 Brown was arrested near his home November 17th, shortly after he had mailed threatening letters in two boxes on East Main street. He was nabbed by Postal Inspector Teunyson Jefferson of Boston. who had been at work on the case for weeks, and Waiter Jarvis, person. nel director of the Chase com paniess who took an active. part in t s a ~. ! a taH kl. = = n A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
LOW NEAR BOSTON

Boston, Dec 7-(UP)-David g. Low, missing 16-year-old son of U Dartmouth college chemistry proc lessor was believed by police today to be somewhere near Boston, af-' ter Francis Flynn, Framinghan truck driver, reported he picked over, N. H., high school athlete'a description. Flynn said he had put the boy up for the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
MILK INDUSTRY
 PROBE TO OPEN
Hartford Session Starts Wed. = Federal Trade
 Commission in Charge

Washington, Dec 7.-(UP9-Th8 federal trade commission to-day announced it, would open public hearings next Wednesday at Hart ford, Conn, in connection with itn investigation of the milk indus try.
 Witnesses will be examined cone corning trade conditions in the Connecticut milk shed.
 The investigation was ordered by the last congress to determine whether there is any evidence o1 8 monopoly or any attempts to leSa sen competition in the industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
Wnter OF Poisoy, Pen His ,','1i s'ii.ues Is Reported Insane, ,;.'
Alienists Finding in Benjamin Brown Case Throws It Into Local Courts Can Be Sent to State In-
 stitution -Four Year Hunt Ended on Nov IF

Benjamin F. Brown, 42 of 344 Pennington avenue, awaiting trial in US court on charges sending obscene and threatening letters through the mails and arrested here three weeks ago as sensational climax to four and half to The Democrat As result of the findings of alien ists at New Haven the sefconfessed poison pe writer
 will be released by the federal and turned to local courts tomorrow for commitment to state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
HUNGARY DENOUNCED

Geneva. Dec. 7.-(UP).-Bogul- jub Jevtic, Jugoslavian foreign minister, bitterly denounced Hun gary before the council of the League of Nations today, charging the nation with complicity in the Marseilles assassinations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
Final Nelus Flashes
MAN NOT DIR BICELOW
Birmingham, Mass, Dec 7.-UP)

Birmingham, Mass, Dec 7.--(UP)-A man said to resemble Dr George H. Bigelow, seen on Reginald w. Birds farm here this morning, was noon. Authorities found that the man believed to be Dr Bigelow was an employe of the Beebe farm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
BAIL IS REDUCED

Albany. N. Y, Dec 7-UP)- The $100.000 bail under which Arr thur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer New York's public enemy No l is held on income tax charges, was reduced 10 $75,000 today by U. S. Commissioner Lester T. Hubbard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
PERKINs cAsE To s6RY

Harrisburg Pa.. Dec 7--(Pj-- A federal court infy' today WaG given file. NRA code violation case oe Fred C. Perkins. ssmall scale battery feonufaeturor. An effIy verdict H11 Q pected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
l3O PLANES IN MANEUVERS

Washington, Dec 7.-lUPJ-More than 1S0 army fighting planes will be concentrated near Miami, Fla, on January 10, for war maneuv- CTS which will coincide with the al-American air races.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec 7-(UP)--Gox- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year to Dec F compared with the correspondin& period of the previous fiscal years: 7 This Year Expenses Last Xe3E $3, 033, ,36S, ,005,70 $2,029, ,SO6, ,054!$z
 Receipts 2s $1,517. .436,315.95 S1,1s5. .206, ,749.es
 Deficit f $1,515,9S1,e ,eSs.75 sS44,e01s sS05.z6
 Cash Balance M s1,592,12s.o42.s5 si.Oss.os7, ,421.st
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
PARAGUAY SPELLING BOLIVIA

Aglncion, Paraguay, Dec 7.-- (UP) )-Para- guayap shells fell on Bolivian soil today for the first time during the long Gran Chaco war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-07
Markets At a Glance
Stocks dull and irregular. Bonds irregularly higher. Curb stocks quiet and mixed. GhiraRA sfneIxa duII and irrA0nIar

Chicago stocks dull and irregular. Call money per cent. Dollar strong in foreign currencies. Wheat of # to up h cent; corn of h to 1M; oats
 ease. Cotton steady around previous closing levels. Rubber of tO up point. Bar silver of N at 54N cents an ounce. Copper 9 cents pound.
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The Washington times., 1934-11-03

brought in every few minutes.
Policemen in and out Of uniform
were everywhere. The detective
bureau was a beehive.
Trading information with the
police detectives, I told them
about the Armenian boy. We
were making up a party to visit
the remains when the captains
door opened and Lieutenant Duff
came into the assembly room.
"Allez! Oop!" he said, point
ing a thick finger at O'Gar,
Tully, Reeder, Hunt and me.
There's a thing worth looking
at in Fillmore"
We followed him out to an
automobile.
A gray frame house in Fillmore
Street was our destination. A
lot of people stood in the street
looking at the house. A police
wagon stood in front of it, and
police uniforms were indoors and
out.
A Toast
A red-mustached corporal Sa-
luted Duff and led us into the
house, explaining as we went,
"'Twas the neighbors give us the
tumble, complaining of the fight,
ing, and when we got there,
faith, there weren't no fight left
in nobody"
All the house held was IA dead
men.
Eleven of them had been poi.
soned-oVerdoses of knockout
drops in their booze, the doctors
said. The other three had been
shot, at intervals along the hall
From the looks of the remains
they had drunk a toast-a loaded
one-and those who hadn't
drunk, whether because of tenn
perance or suspicious natures
had been gunned as they tried
to get away.
The identity of the bodies gave
us an idea of what their toast
had been. They were all thieves
they had drunk their poison to
the days looting.
We didn't know all the dead
men then, but all of us knew some
of them, and the records told us
who the others were later. The
completed list read like Who's
Who in Crookdom.
There was the Dis-and-Dat Kid
who had crushed out of Leaven
worth only two months before;
Sheeny Holmes; Snohomish
Whitley, supposed to have died a
The Washington times., 1934-11-03

"I'u take him." I said. "You
stick to the other baby"
The skull-cracker took ten or
twelve steps from the house and
stopped. He looked back at the
house, raising his face to look at
the upper stories. Then Jack and
I could hear what had stopped
him.
Quick Work
Up in the house man was
screaming. It wasn't much of a
scream in volume. Even now,
when it had increased in strength,
it barely reached our ears. But
in tin that one wailing voice
everything that fears death
seemed to cry out its fear. I
heard Jacks teeth click. I've got
horny skin all over what's left
of my soul, but just the same my
forehead twitched. The scream
was so damned weak for what
it said.
The skull-cracker moved. Five
gliding strides carried him back
to the house. He didn't touch
one of the six or seven front
steps. He went from pavement
to vestibule in a spring no mon
key could have beaten for swift
ness, ease or silence. One min
ute, two minutes, three minutes,
and the screaming stopped. Three
more minutes and the skull
cracker was leaving the house
again. He paused on the side
walk to spit and hitch his pants.
Then he staggered off down the
street.
"He's your meat, Jack" I said.
I'm going to call on the boy.
He won't recognize me now"
The street-door of the rooming-
house was not only unlocked but
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THE STORY SO FAR

The teller of this story-G private detective-fees
"heres more trouble in the air. Ohen Beno tIpster
NeoVsboy shot dead after Beno had tipped off the
etk about "a cGper being rigged for the SeGmans Ma
S5omG1 Bank"
EorEev that evening" the detective spotted several moto
T crooks from vGous parts of the United States in San
Francisco
TRe Mert afternoon an organized mob (a6out $50
6) seizes and loots the aforementioned bank and the
GodeH Gate Trust Company, killing 16 policemen, wound
S0 about three times that noGny numbering IL bank clerks
md bstGnders, and getting GOGy Ith loot running into
the ~Nons The thugs lost dead and 81 prisoners
most of them bleeding," IN this BIG KNOCK-OVER.
rigid police roundup and drastic hird-degree follow,
Nueg ick the narrator phoned the local office of his
otom0I detective agency getting the help of Jack Count
hop 0omng and ambitious sleth Jack is assigned to
"tcE" dopper young feloU-"G boY'-Ohom the nor-
rotor had seem neGr by Vhen Beno had been slain.
The Washington times., 1934-11-03

wide open. I went through it
into a hallway, where a dim light
burning upstairs outlined a flight
of steps. I climbed them and
turned toward the front of the
house. The scream had come
from the either this floor
or the third. There was a fair
likelihood of the skull cracker
having left the room-door I'M
locked, just as he had not paused
to close the Street-door
had no luck on the second
floor, but the third knob I eau
tiously tried on the third floor
turned in my hand and let its
door edge back from the frame.
In front of this crack I waited a
moment, listening to nothing but
a throbbing snore somewhere far
down the hallway. I put palm
against the door and eased it
open another foot. No sound.
The room was black as an honest
politicians prospects. I slid my
hand across the frame, across a
few inches of wallpaper, found a
light button, pressed it. Two
globes in the center of the room
threw their weak yellow light on
the shabby room and on the
young Armenian who lay dead
across the bed.
I went into the room, closed
the door and stepped over to
the bed. The boys eyes were
wide and bullying. One of his
temples was bruised. His throat
gaped with a red slit that ran
actually from ear to ear. Around
the slit, in the few spots not
washed red, his thin neck showed
dark bruises. The skullcracker
had dropped the boy with a poke
in the temple and had choked
him until he thought him dead
But the kid had revived enough
to scream-not enough to keep
from screaming. The skull-crack
er had returned to finish the
Job with a knife. Three streaks
on the bedclothes showed where
the knife had been cleaned.
The lining of the boys pockets
stuck out. The skull-cracker had
turned them out. I went through
his clothes, but with no better
luck than I expected-the killer
had taken everything. The room
gave me nothing-a few clothes
but not a thing out of which
information could be squeezed.
My prying done, I stood in the
center of the floor scratching my
chin and considering. In the
hall a floor-board creaked. Three
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NOW READ ON
CHAPTER ~

gacK pocketed his matches and after the boy gave
Jack lead and then followed him. And then interesting
thing happened
The fairly well filled with people, mostly
walking loafng and front Of sofdrn
paror AS the young Armenian reached the of alley
where there light two men came up and spoke to him.
moving little apart so that he was between them.
The boy would have kept walking apparently paying at
enton hem but checked him by stretching out
in front of him. The other took his right hand out of his
pocket and fourhed in the boys face that the nickel
plated knuckIes on it twinkled in the light.
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Yoicks after them, and they
brought us here, going into that
house down the street in front
of which one of their motors still
stands. After half an hour or so
I thought I'd better report, so
leaving my taxi around the cor
ner-where it's still running up
expenSes-I went up to your all
night caravansary and phoned
Fiske. And when l came back,
one of the cars was gone-and I,
woe is me!-don't know who went
with it. Am I rotten?"
Sure! You should have taken
their cars along to the phone
with you. Watch the one that's
left while I collect a Strong-arm
squad"
went I'D to the lunch-room
and phoned Duff, telling him
where I was, and:
eff YOU bring your gang along
maybe therell be profit IN 1t. A
couple of carloads of folks who
were in Fillmore Street and didn't
stay there came here, and part OF
'em may still be here, if you
make it sudden"
Duff brought his four detectives
and a dozen uniformed men with
him. We hit the house front and
back. No time was wasted ring
ing the bell. We simply tore
down the doors and went in.
Everything inside was black until
flashlights lit it up. There was
no resistance. Ordinarily the six
men we found in there would
have damned near ruined us in
spite of our outnumbering them.
But they we're too dead for that.
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The boy ducked swiftly under
threatening hand and outstretched
arm, and went on across the alley,
walking, and not even looking over
his shoulder at the two men who
were now closing on his back.
Just before they reached him an
other reached them-a broad
backed, long-armed, ape-built man
I had never seen before. His
gorilla's paws went out together.
Each caught man. BY the napes
of their necks he yanked them
away from the boys back, shook
them till their hats fell off,
Smacked their skulls together with
a crack that was like a broom
handle breaking, and dragged their
rag-limp bodies out of sight up the
alley. While this was happening
the boy walked jauntily down the
street, without a backward glance.
When the Sku1l-cracker came out
Of the alley I saw his face in the
1ight-a dark1skinned, heavily
lined face, broad and flat, with
jaw muscles bullying like assesses
under his ears. He spit, hitched
his pants, and staggered down the
street after the boy.
Messenger
The boy went into Larrouy's.
The skullcracker followed him in.
The boy came out, and in his
rear-perhapS twenty feet behind
the skull-cracker rolled. Jack
had tailed them into Larrouy's
while I had held up the outside.
"Stiu carrying messages?" 7
asked.
eyes. He spoke to five men in
there. He's got plenty of body
guard, hasn't hep"
"Yeah," T agree. "And you be
damned careful you don't get be-
tween them. If they split, I'll
shadow the skull-cracker, you keep
the goose"
We separated and moved after
our game. They took us to all the
hangouts in San Francisco, to
cabaretS, grease-joints, pool-rooms,
saloons, flop houses, hook shops,
gambling joints and what have
you. Everywhere the kid found
men to speak his dozen words to,
and between calls he found them
on street corners.
- 7 would have liked to get he
Is hind some Of these birds, but I
= didn't want to leave Jack alone
with the boy and his bodyguard-
they seemed to mean too much.
And I couldn't stick Jack On one
Of the others, because it wasn't
safe for me to hang too close to
the Arman1an boy. So We played
the game as we had started it,
shadoWing our pair from hole to
hole, while night got on toward
morning.
It was a few minutes past mid
night when they came out of a
small hotel up on Kearny Street,
and for the first time since we
had seen them they walked to-
gether, side by side, up to Green
Street, where they turned east
along the side Of Telegraph Hill
Half q block of this, and they
climbed the front steps of ram
shackle furnished-room house and
disappeared inside. Joined Jack
Counihan on the corner where he
had stopped.
"The greetings have all been de
livered," 7 guessed, "or ne
wouldn't have called in his body
guard. II there's nothing stirring
within the next half hour I'm go
ing to beat it. You'll have to take
q plant on the joint till morning.
Twenty minutes later the skull
cracker came out Of the house anc
@alkad DOM the street.
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THE BIG KNOCKOVER'

EDITORIAL NOTE: Before they actually do it, one is in
cined to say it isn't DONE But the astounding 900
armOred robbery in Brooklyn N " last August coup
accomplished with military precision gang warfare in Middle
Western States; at least mailruck hodup in which
bandits used bombs machine guns and arplanes-we
such things happen and may what Mr. Dash Hammett
describes in the ensuing masterpiece Of realistic underworld
fiction
The Washington times., 1934-12-05
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