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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
BAR GOLD HIGHER

London, Aug II - U.P.) - Bar gold firmed halfpenny from yes- terday's quote to 138 shillings, 1 1-2 pence. On the basis of s5.0s 5-S for sterling at the time of fix ing the price of gold. the Amer ican equivalent worked out al s35.13 per fine ounce. making the dollar 99.63 cents. Gold available in the market amounted to 1S5,000 (S940956)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
BUNKER HILL

Fourteen girls reported for the first of the sewing classes held at Bunker Hill yesterday under the direction of Mrs Bessie Madden. There will be another meeting of the group next Tuesday afternoon. at which time there will also be doll parade. There will be track meet today at the playground and on Monday night another ses
 sion of the popular game of ping
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
ARNATOWICZ HELD
 UNDER $500 BONDS

Naugatuck, Aug 11-Judgement was suspended until Monday. in the case of John Arnatowicz, of Pond Hill street, accused of theft in bor- ough court this mborning. The spe- cific charge against Arnatowicz was stripping a motorcycle owned by Walter Clements of Riverside drive. He is held under $500 bond.
 George Poval of Mulberry Heights was fined $5 on charge of intoxication, $5 on charges of breach of the peace and $10.26 costs.
 Severe damage in various parts of the borough was caused by the electrical storm of last night. A bolt which struck pole in the Maple Hill road caused telephone and electric light service in that section to be suspended tempo rafyily and many homes reported that lightning rods had been struck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
LOCAL MAN BANKRUPT

Thomas W. Moore of this city, sales manager, was the only per- son to file a petition in the New Haven bankruptcy court yester- day. He listed liabilities of $9,417 and no assets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
IN MEMORIAM

In Loving Memory of Rosemary R. MalOney-Died August II, 1883. No one knows how much I miss you, No one knows the bitter pain I have suffered since I lost you, Life has never been the same. Oft and oft I do wander To your grave not far away. Where they gently laid your body, Just one year ago today.
 MOTHER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11

Australia's S9,OOO flock owners now have total of l12.000,000 sheep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11

In Loving Memory of Rosemary R. MalOney-Died August II. 1933. She's gone, God has plucked her
 from out my heart, From His heart she may not roam, Of His kingdom celestial she now
 is a part, He has called her, my darling,
 home. Called home. where there's no more
 sorrow or care, Where from loved ones she'll not
 part, Where no troubles of life, nor its
 sadness she'll share. She's at rest in the Sacred Heart.
 MOTHER, DAD, SHIRLEY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11

Help the Waterbury Democrat gauge extent of covery in Waterbury by filling out and mailing the coupon above at to The Recovery Editor Your signature is required evidence of good fah but your replies will be kept strictly confidential and used only in tabuaton of totals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-11
Fairfield Unaffected

Fairfield, Conn, Aug 11-(UP) Between 500 and 500 workers of the Aluminium Company of Amer ica plant here were unaffected to- day by the strike which has closed fiveof the company's other plants.
 Works Manager Sidney K. Becker said he had not received word of the strike from the Pitts burg headquarters and that the To- cal plant most certainly would continue to operate"
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TRAFFIC COP HAS
 ENDED CAREER

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IN OTHER PLACES
 Hast St Louis, III, Aug 11.-(UP) Two hundred workers stood watch today at the plant of the Alum mum Ore company, the industry's
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only refining plant, which was closed by strike.
 The night shift, which was to have come on at II o'clock last night, returned home when pickets informed them of the walkout. The plant employees 1500.
 Alcoa, Tenn, Aug 11.-UP)- The local plant of the Aluminium Company of America, which em- ploys 1,S00 men and is~this towns industrial mainstay, was closed to- day after union employees voted to concur in the nationwide strike call.
 About 1000 workers are mem bers of the union. The other workers did not participate in the strike but made no effort to resist pickets.
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VOTING TEST ON
 ALL ABSENTEES

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RAIN FALLS IN
 EIGHT STATES

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SACRED HEART
 PARISH IN SUIT

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
Great Falls Area Had
CTS Births Last Year

The bureau of census announced that
in the Great Falls area, during the cal
endar year 1888, there were 675 births,
81 deaths Of infants under l year of
age, and 9 stillbirths. The figures rep
resent a birth rate Of 22.7 per cent per
1000 population, an infant mortality
rate of 80 per 1000 livebirths, and a
stillbirth rate Of 1.3 per 100 livebirths.
In 1882 the corresponding rates for
birth registration were 24.7, AL, and
1.6.
In Montana during 1888, there were
8,875 births, 460 infant deaths under
l year of age, and 228 stillbirths. These
figures represents a birth rate of 16.5
percent per 1000 population, an infant
mortality rate Of 51J8 per 1000 live
births, and q stillbirta rate Of &c per
100 live births.
In 1882 the corresponding rates Of
birth registration were 1863, 51.4, and
2.8.
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shrewd, kindly face was perturbed.

shrewd, kindly face was perturbed.
or CasS looks wusS'n usual" he
commented to a Negro helper. TOO
dang bad"
The gaunt mans eyes were the eyes
OF a mailman, in truth. He drove the
mule at a shambling gallop back to the
big shed which housed his only treas
ures, his tools. Out came an expensive
case of Stillson wrenches, a battered
chest of carpenters tools, an oxy-acety-
lene welding outfit, seven saws of var
ious kinds, and a rack Of bits. He
thought of the footpower lathe, but
shook his head. No one would buy it.
He doubted that any of the s%torekeep-
ers would give him more than twenty
or thirty dollars for all this expensive
stuff, but now he would not haggle.
He drove down to Blackjack, visit
ing a man who dealt in second hand
articles. Cass accepted the first price
offered, then dashed to another store.
His face was set in pain. The tools
had been parts of his heart and brain.
Out of the money secured he bought
two more writing tables, a pail of salt
pork to boil with the cabbage, and a
ten cent bar of chocolate almonds for
Nancy. Then he stopped at the post
office, scrawling a line to the nurse
at the Montgomery hospital, and send
ing the remainder of the money to Jes-
sic Odom in her care.
When he got back Nancy accepted
the bar of candy with wondering
thanks. All of a sudden she reached
up and kissed her father, then ran for
the bedroom, closing the door. Browning
vaguely, although pleased, the man
went about one of his jobs. He sup
posed Nancy was seated on the bed,
delighting in the taste of the candy.
As a matter of fact she was face down
in the pillow, the chocolate bar clutch
ed tightly to her breast. That evening
she gravely served two equal portions
after supper, "for dessert"
Slow, terrible days dragged IN. -Four
days, three, until the coming of STRAIT
ton. Nancy wrote letters and did what
she could with the interior of the crazy
shack. She could not understand at all
why Mons did not write.
The mother, just then, was towering
all to close to the borderline of shad-
ow. She had developed peritonitis. An
immediate operation, performed at the
first hint of this usually deadly COM
plication, had almost m%iraculously
stayed the course of infection, but ii
had left Jessie too weak even to whis-
per.
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Turning away, he saw Nancy sitting on
the cane suitcase, head bowed between
her hands.
The poor kids father hadn't show
ed up! That was a shame for sure,
especially on Saturday night in a woods
town like Blackjack, Alabama. Maybe
the old man had moved away OF some
thing.
strange waters of solicitude. He con-
soled the child, then drove her to his
sisters home.
Beatrice Shugrue, something Of q
younger-set leader in the narrow con-
fines of town society, looked askance
when she discovered Nancy's last name.
my dear! She's that mans daug-
teri" she exclaimed in a shocked voice.
Gid nodded slowly, a plying express
sion coming to his countenance. He
remembered Cass Odom with a shiver.
A big, stern looking, gaunt man in ov-
eralls-half starved, probably. He had
a big I-shaped tin tower, what people
called a perpetual motion machine.
Clever fellow with any kind Of mach
inery, though. Probably Just a nut like
almost all inventors.
20, the dickens; what of it?" pro-
tested Gid, struggling. "The kids
hungry. I'll bet she hasn't had a bite
| since breakfast"
Beatrice questioned no more. She
was not hard hearted. She raided the
icebox for b bountiful chicken supper,
and then saw Gid's blue eyed protegee
safely to bed.
During the rest of the evening Gid
got an earful of Cass Odom's story
the tale of an aviation mechanic in
the war, who had been wounded when
the Germans destroyed an airdrome.
"They had given him a decoration"
! declared Beatrice, land when he came
back here from the hospital Black
jack gave him a big reception. He had
always been inventing things, and I
think he invented something to put on
an airplane engine to make that engine
go faster"
"a supercharger?"
But Beatrice did not know. She knew
only that he had finally lost his wife
and child through his folly in sticking
to that tin tower and the crazy idea of
perpetual motion. He farmed a miser-
able tract of piney-woods land, instead
of going into a garage or an airplane
factory, where he might have amounted
to something.
20, I do hope he treats this little
girl decently!" concluded Beatrice.
when did you say her mother was
apt to get out Of the hospital?"
The eastern sky was still the hue Of
watered ink when Cass Odom arose
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SUPERCHARGER

Published by Special Advancement with The
CHICAGO Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Inc.
Oopyright: 1882: By Anthony M. Rud
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE
THE STORY OF CASS ODOM AND
HIS STRANGE INVENTION, AND
OF LITTLE NANCY, HIS DAUGH-
TER, FOR WHOM HIS CLEVER
FINGERS FASHIONED A WOOD
EN- DOLL. ...... ........ ........
Dapper Gid Mccall, genial liar and
ordinarily as constituencies as a va
zoo Indian, oddly enough vas the man
who befriended Nancy Odom. They met
on the southbound train when the no
ton salesman, strolling Through in
search of a possible woman companion,
found none.
Gid did not speak the first time
through, though his c~ynically practiced
eye noted the frail, shy little girl perch
ed there beside her suitcase.
A few minutes later, as easily casual
as If he noticed her for the first time,
Gid stopped and smiled.
"You look kinda lonesome all by
yourself in here, sweetie," he greeted,
unconsciously using the Technology a
4dI c11G 1cllllk411kc bCI1S 1ll1Sl4O 4AdVC
evoked. mind If I take a load off my
feet for a minute? I'm going as far as
Blackjack-"
The blue eyes regarding him stead
ily from beneath a beribboned sailor
hat mirrored a wan reflection Of his
smile.
Gid soon learned as much Of her
pathetic little story as Nancy herself
knew. She had come from Montgom-
cry, changing to the Mobile and Ohio
train at Artesia, Mississippi. And she
made one statement, which Gid, of
course, accepted at face value. Her
daddy was going to meet her at Black
Jack, Alabama. So when, q half hour
later the train drew near the station,
Gid shook hands and said farewell
Light heartedly. He went back into the
other car for his sample cases.
Still later, with the cases safely lock-
ed up in a barn belonging to his broth
er-in-law, Gid came back to the sta
ton, driving his nephew and gangling
niece, who were bound up to Vinegar
Bend for a square dance. When the
northbound local came in he left them.
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By Anthony M. Rud

run another full day-perhaps indef-
initelyl
For short periods of running the
valve seated perfectly. He used his las
drops Of oil with sparing + Then
he tested for leaks. He found two ana
soldered them.
When Gid and Nancy drove out IN
the salesman's truck, Cass Odom was
busy erecting a rough s~caffolding from
which he could begin a job Of securing.
Years of sun and rain had rusted the
tin giant, and to the creators mind IL
had to look fresh and clean before thai
damn Yank engineer came down to IN
spect.
Gid's gray eyes were not smiling this
morning. He stopped the truck and
then led Nancy out to the road, through
the loose wires of what once had been
q "hog-tight" fence, and across the al
most denuded cabbage field. The lit
tie girl looked up in wonder and horror
at the tin monstrosity, which now look
ed like some freak variety OF boiler,
discarded and left to the elements.
Cass Odom came out from q narrow
door in the tower. Naturally enough
he did not recognize Nancy, whom he
had not seen in full six years.
"You-all get out Of here!" he COM
manded %brusquely, approaching with q
lowering scowl. II don't allow no Wis
itors; an there's a sign out there that
says so plain!"
He gestured angrily toward the road
way.
Gid halted, his hands tucked under
his seersucker Jacket and his neck
thrust forward like that Of a game
cock.
20, my Lord!" he exploded. "A swell
father you turned out to be, Cass
Odom! Wake up, you dumbben! This
is Nancy Odom, your own daughter!"
"Eh? Wha-a-t?"
"You heard mel" snapped Gid. II
found her last night down to the sta
ton, crying. Darn it all, why don't
you call for your mail once in q while
and find out what's going onP"
He thrust the oblong letter he had
been thoughtful enough to get at the
postoffice into the fathers hand. Then
he bent to kiss Nancy's forehead.
$50 long kid. I got to buzz along
back. Just make yourself to home, and
see to it this great big daddy of yours
treats you nice. When I make my next
trip through I'll bring you a big bag OF
candy"
Then, with a final significant glare
at the man, Gid turned back to his
truck.
Cass Odom dumped down to his
knees, gathering Nancy to him In a
convulsive, soaring hug. She shrank a
little, afraid Of his fearsome expression,
yet wanting to love him. AS he loosen
ed her, hearing a gasp from her lips,
she imprinted a wet hasty kiss upon
his unshaven cheek. He fumbled up
the letter, blinking at it through the
queer blur in his eyes.
Jessie had written tersely, yet every
word was an index finger OF accusa-
ton to the man. She suffered from
chronic appendicitis. OF late the pain
had become acutely ~unbearable. An
operation was unavoidable-six or seven
weeks before she could hope to return
to work. Would Cas- meet their baby
at the station and take al Of her that
long?
The final paragraph cut to the mans
heart:
%, Cass, dear, If you ever cared
for me at all, take good care OF
Nancy! She Is all I have now. I'll
forgive you everything, everything,
If you'll Just be good to my poor
little girl! She got over scarlet
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ANALYSIS

INDIVIDUAL HANDWRITING AN.
ALYSIS: Have your traits Of character an
alyzed. Send sample of your and
rs cents to B. MULLER, $40 Putnam Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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said not a word of the hardships which
she had faced from the first.
Cas- Odom took the finished letter.
He added a constrained postscript, as
surfing Jessie that he would a for the
little girl as well as he was able, and
Offering an awkward prayer for his wife
in her lone battle through the shadows.
Then he went out to the road and in
tho darkness set up a post to hold the
r. F. D. box he e had deemed
worth while.
Next morning Nancy, barefooted and
incredibly thin Of appearance in her
scanty frock, gathered vegetables from
the neglected fields. Later she scaled
and fried some fish Odom brought.
Most Of the daylight hours now he
spent securing the exterior Of the jul
machine and relubricating the wheels
cogs, and shafts of its intricate interior.
Eight days, seven days-and then the
supreme test which would make or
break his years of ruthless sacrifice and
unsparing endeavor!
from a nurse at the hospital. It told
tina Mrs. Odon had come through the
operation fairly well, but still was in
critical condition owing to general
weakness. The general prognosis was
favorable, however.
Nancy wrote again and again, until
he nickel tablet was exhausted. Odd
", not even an indirect word came
from Jessie. Fear for her, coupled with
bis hopes and apprehensions in regard
TO the coming of Straiton were driving
Cass Odom frantic. The blur behind
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-11-15
Jews Suffer Most

1.-THE Jews of the world are bear
ing the. brunt of racial problems
at the present time" stated IT,
Miller, and he pointed out that a.
yer in history have the colorod
people been subjected to such per
secution as that aimed at the Jew.
1.-THE white races of the world, ;
continued the Bryn Mawr presi-
dent, are facing a crisis, because
they have built q culture IL which
money and power are the leadils
factors"
He contrasted this situation with
China's principle which puts schol-
arship first and the soldier at the
very bottom Of the scale of human
respect. The world has now to turn
to China to steady the disintegra-
ting forces Of civilization, he sa.d
The greatest living religious
leader In the world today, or. NIL.
LEI believes, is Gandhi, a number
of the colored race.
The Bryn Mawr president urged
the graduates to look forward
with zest to the opportunity they
viii have in the future.
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CoIOred Races Are Worlds
Hope, Says Bryn Mawr Prexy

CHEYNEY, Pa Pointing Jut
that the major problem OF today
is that Of people living together
who have not lived together in the
past, DR.. Herbert Adolphus Miller,
white president of Bryn Mawr Col
lege. told the Cheyney graduating.
class mat the hope Of utilization
now rests with the colored races.
DR.. Miller, who spoke on "The
Aspects Of the Rice Problem, :"
stated that the Nazi movement 4
Germany directed against Jews as
a race had set the worl1 to think
ing on racial relations as has ne
yer been done before.
practically every, great sciens
fist In every big center In the
world" he said. has been concen-
trating on study Of racial DIFF
ferences and the net result has
been to date. the finding Of no
fundamental differences IN races
that anybody can demonstrate,
1T has been generally agreed
that the problems we have been
regarding as race problems, are
problems of culture which can be
changed.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo- have
Just returned from the national A.
nnarican Legion conRentian keld q
Mianni, Florida, and + wouldn't
take that trip again for a winning
ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes. I
am too glad to be back home safe.
The convention was all right, but
the hosts to the convention resent
ed in no mistaken words and ac-
ton the presence of Negroes as
delegates.
The resentment began while I
was riding in the jim crow coach
before we reached Jacksonville. I
was the only occupant Of the car
and white man came through and
gave me the once over as I read a
newspaper. It didn't occur to me
that it was heresy in that part of
the world for a colored man to be
found reading a newspaper. He
walked up and jerked the paper
out Of my hand with the question:
scoffed at Answer
Hey, where you goin', n-?" l
answered him as civllly as I
could without showing my resent
ment. I told him that I was a de-
legate to the American Legion
convention in Miami.
American Legion, eh?" he SCOT
fed.
well, we don't allow any n
in the legion down here and the
best thing for you to do is to start
back where you came from"
The conductor VINO occupied two
seats in the jim crow car and this
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-11-15
Cl)LORED Relief
ROLL GROWS TO
/ OVER $4,000

WASHINGTON, D.c.-A total of
$4,000 Negro cases was receiving
emergency relief in urban areas of
the United States in May, 1884. ac-
coEding to an estimate issued Tues
day BY Harry L. Hopkins. Federal
Emergency Relief Administrator
The estimate, based on a study
inside recently by the Division of
Research. Statistics and Finance of
the FERA, shows that the number
Of Negro urban relief cases this
Nay was 81 per cent or 100000
cases greater than IN October, 1888
when nationwide census showed
10000 Negro cases on relief.
The total number of urban relief
cases increased by about S6 per
cent during the same period. rising
from about 2,O23,O0O In October.
1888, to about 2.750.O0O in May.
1884.
This number Of Negro relief cas-
es is more than 21s times as great
as would be expected by the num-
Der OF Negro families in the total
urban population. Both in octo-
Der, 1888 and in May, 1884, approx
imately 20 per cent of the urban
cases receiving relief were Negro,
whereas only 7.6 per cent of all
families in the urban population
in 1880 were Negro families.
The disproportion reflects the
greater economic distress existing
among the Negroes. 1t Is signifi-
cant to note that. although during
the earlier years of the depression
negroes came on relief at q much.
more rapid rate than whites, they
increased in about the same pro-
portion as whites during the seven
month period covered by the fig
ures.
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SECORD RIOT Is
BARELY AVOIDED.
IN PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA repition of
the riot which struck terror into
the heart of North Philadelphians
last summer was barely avoided
when police broke up a group Of
frenzied men and women engaged
in a free-for-all on the platform of
the Broad Street Subway at Co
lumbia Avenue on Saturday morn
ing.
The trouble started when two
night club employees, en- route
home, were allegedly insulted by
five white men returning from a
dance.
The girls, Mrs. Esther Briddell,
%, of 1885 South Woodstock St.,
and Mrs. Beatrice Cunningham, 81,
of 769 South Hicks ST., had just
paid their carfares and, while wait
ing for the train, were engaged in
a conversation with the master of
ceremonies in the club in which
they work.
Thomas Jones, %, white, of
Shackamaxon ST.. was accused of
making the first insulting remark.
When they resented the remark,
Mrs. Briddell said, the man slapped
her.
The master of ceremonies, whose
name could not be learned, jumped
over the rail and joined the fight.
Many were pushed down onto
the tracks and when the train ar
rived it was forced to wait beyond
the platform until police could
clear the. rails.
At the sight of the police, many
of the rioters scurried in many di-
rections to avoid the wildly swung
night sticks. When the din of the
battle cleared away, six men and
Mrs. Cunningham were arrested.
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~ ian Porters Refuse Plan
To- fiIiate With Conductors

NEW YORK Pullman porters
win not subr-'t to any plan which
win make the white Order Of
Sleeping Car Conductors their boss
declared Ashley L. Totten Monday,
when he was questioned by the
United Negro Press concerning a
rumor that the American Fedora
ton Of Labor hal assigned the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers to the jurisdiction Of the con-
ductors.
So far as the brotherhood is con-
cerned, the matter was settled
some weeks ago at the San Fran
cisco Convention, Mr.. Totten, who
Is secretary-treasurer Of the bro
thernood, added. He continued:
Convention Action spurned
Last month the brotherhood.
through A. Philip Randolph. its
president. introduced a resolution
to the saith annual session of the
A. F. Of L. asking for an interna-
tional charter; at that time n. s.
Warfield. president Of the Order Of
Sleeping Car Conductors, petition
ed the body that the brotherhood
l,a aasiornaf tn the noudisctor'a In