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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-01
COST JAMES $5
 TO GET SLASHED

Not only did James Gordon, 32- year-old Negro who lives at 235 Abbott avenue, get slashed during the weekend, but 1t cost him $5 and costs as well.
 James was arrested while in bed and when he arrived at headquar- ters 1t was found that he had a long butcher knife in his pocket. His hands were cut in several places, James claiming that his wife did it but refusing to make a com plaint against her.
 This morning, for breach of the peace, James was fined $5 and costs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-01

Rushing into a burning stable barefooted a man helped save l3 circus horses and ponies in Dept ford, England, but was seriously burned himself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-01

Two announcements of particu
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~ NCE a runner always a run
1 ner. some one told young
\ J Robert Fleming as he stepped
~ off the cinder path after win
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Adoption of Ring
by Masses Forcing
Change in Pattern
of Performance to
Increase Appeal.

come out with the hounds. Con.
sequently fields grew. This Fall.
when one of the most fashionable
hunts in Virginia held its opening
meet, there were 100 riders on hand
and about 500 kibitzers storming
around in automobiles. Every day
since at least half that number of
horsemen has appeared regularly. The
real fox hunters in the crowd are
beginning to wonder if they have not
unwittingly cut their own throats by
becoming so devilishN smart" rich
and populous. A big field is un-
wieldly, tough on hounds and no help
to dispositions 1t is safe to guess,
however, that the 20-odd packs oper-
ating within a 100-mile radius Of
Washington bring out between 1000
and $500 fox hunters each week for
about 20 weeks in the year. Some Of
them are repeaters, most in fact, but
there you are-4o,000 to $4,000 for the
fox hunts.
A BOUT 80 per cent of the hunt races.
rs per cent of the recognized
hunts. and so per cent of the horse
shows extant within our aforemen-
toned 10o-mile radius pre-date 1925
by good many years. The important
development has been the greater fu-
sion of these interests with Wash.
ington crowds and Washington sports
men. Strictly speaking. this is not
a sporting city, or was not even mildly
so until the last decade Now stee-
plechases draw huge attendance from
its population. the hunts attract great
er membership and more visitors. the
horse shows glory in an unending
stream of avid fans.
Half a dozen explanations may be
offered for this phenomenon. In part
it reflects the recent national revival
of interest in equestrian sports. Then
there has been a general "back-to-
the-soil' movement $50 long as the soil
is within an hours drive Of the city.
night clubs and elegant bars) which
piqued great many people with lot
of money and nothing much to do
with 1t. They constitute what is i'm
politely known as the retail counter
gentry, and they brought with them
into horse sports an entirely new ele-
ment.
OF course all the meeting places
have been brought closer to hand by
improved transportation and, further-
more, it is distinctly possible that the
public is just discovering, after all
these years, that the advertisements
in question are really blood-and.
thunder stuff. All, that is. except the
horse shows. Just why there has
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Fleming Starting Runner Top American Banking Fe

WELL, Robert V.-Bob - Fleming
W. was a good runner and he still
is good runner. He ran from one
bank to another in his early days in
the business, meeting cashiers and
tellers, and an occasional president,
all men older than he was. and he
runs now from one board meeting to
another, from one end of the city
to another, in his unceasing work of
trying to lend helping hand to WASH
ington and Washingtonians.
If there is one man in the city Of
Washington whose time is not his
own, this man is Robert V. Fleming.
From the time he gets up in the morn
ing until he falls from exhaustion into
bed at night, Bob Fleming is on the
go-running the Riggs National Bank.
attending to Government, financial
and civic affairs. To list the various
interests that command his attention
day after day would look like the re-
print of pages from the city directory.
He is, for instance, treasurer OF the
Corcoran Gallery of Art; treasurer Of
the National Geographic Society; 'di-
rector of the Acacia Mutual Life In
surance Co., Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. and Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. of New York; member
of the Advisory Loan Committee OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp, OF
the Housing Advisory Council OF the
Federal Housing Administration. and
heavens knows what else. 1t takes
one secretary alone. working con-
stantly on the engagement books, TO
keep Mr.. Fleming advised of his ap-
pointments.
Now, of course, these are only few
of the many activities that engage
the seemingly unlimited capacity of
Fleming of the Riggs. Aside from his
active interest in civic affairs, devct-
ing much of his time toward develop
ment of his native washington, Mr..
Fleming Is q member Of the Council
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of Boy Scouts of America and trustee
of the. National Training School
for Boys.
To one who had never met Fleming
of the Riggs, having heard only of
his accomplishments, the thought
might occur that here is one OF those
supermen, one of those human
dynamos you read so much about and
never SEGA machine instead of a
man. And when Fleming of the
Riggs is met up with, the student OF
human character finds "a man with
all the enthusiasm and zest of boy,
with a boys twinkling blue eyes and
the well-knit frame Of an athlete
for Fleming of the Riggs is still the
runner of the Western High track
team. He has never lost his interest
in athletics, and play.
That, probably, is the outstanding
feature of a man who really has two
personaAties-the charm of boyhood
mixed with manhood.
FLEMING OF. THE RIGGS is two
= persons-the hard-working, hard
hitting banker-business man, and the
joyful, playful boy they call Bob. He
was once a choir boy at Mount st.
Albans, where the National Cathedral
now stands, and he had not forgotten
the joy of supreme living, the living
Of joyous life.
To any one who has been beneath
the hospitable roof-tree Of his home,
this is the outstanding characteristic
of Bob" Fleming-Fleming of the
Riggs: That he knows how to relax,
and even sing a song, when the busi-
ness cares of the day are thrust aside.
In his 20's, Bob Fleming got mar
ried-and he chose for his life part
ner Washington girl, Miss Alice
Wright, youngest daughter of Judge
Daniel Thew Wright.
There Is where you get the real line
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Fleming,
Bv John Jaw Dalv.

~ NCE a runner always run
ner, some one told young
Robert Fleming as he stepped
~ off the cinder path after WIN
ming fast foot race for Western
High School back in the old days of
Oughty-Six, the collegiate designa-
tion of the claSs-year 1906.
So when the scholastic term was
over and it came time for young
Fleming to go to work he got a job
as runner in the Riggs National Bank.
AS time flies, that was more than a
quarter of century ago, and young
Robert Fleming was in his seven
teenth year. When he had reached
his tllirty-f1fth year they made him
president of the bank.
Just the other day-on November
13, 1885, Robert v. Fleming was
elected president of the American
Bankers Association at the annual
convention held in New Orleans.
At this same rate, Robert v. Flem-
ing might be running for the presi-
dency OF the United States IN his
fiftieth year. which will not occur
until 1910. The new president of the
American Bankers Association has
Just turned IS.
No danger of Robert Fleming going
out of the banking business, however,
for he claims that once a banker al
ways a banker-unless misfortune
takes the bank away from the banker
In the case of the Riggs National
Bank and Robert v. Fleming, its pres
ident and chairman of the board,
there is as much chance of this hap
pening as there is of Pennsylvania
avenue becoming a one-way street.
Fleming of the Riggs is what they
call him in banking circles-circles,
by the way, which extend all around
the world. Wherever there is a bank
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or a banker they know Fleming of
the Riggs.
WHILE Washington as a city has
w been in the banking business
many, many years-the central Gov
ernment located here in 1900 and the
Treasury set-up for business soon
after-this is the first time that
resident banker has been elected
president of the American Bankers
Association. Robert v. Fleming,
therefore, adds not only new laurels
to his own brow, but brings a note OF
distinction to an old institution that
has f1ourished these years on the
Banks of the Potomac.
While he is comparatively young
man, with many good banking years
ahead of him, Robert v. Fleming
looks back on these same banks OF
the Potomac as the happiest hunting
grounds in all the world. He was
born here, November, 1890, he went
to high school and college here, he
went to work here, he married here,
his family being reared here, and he
remains here as the living embodi-
ment Of. the new age success story
wherein the hero has the unanimous
sympathy and support Of every char
acter contacted.
AS a character study, there seem
to be two Flemings of the Riggs
the digniied. sedate, diplomatic
Robert vedeer Fleming, president and
chairman Of the board, and Bob
Fleming, the human being, who wears
no glass eye to wither prospective
loan artist.
Friends of Bob Fleming, who meet
him at the bridge table or on the golf
course, will tell you that he is the
best fellow on earth, and staid business
men, high financiers, cold-blooded,
calculating brokers and promoters will
acknowledge that Robert v. Fleming
is as fine piece of banking 1achin-
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worthy of such inspiring sport.
Later the money barons assumed
the overhead of the chase. and as
most of them had made all manner
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tured the public fancy to some ex-
tent, and in turn been mastered by
the masses. In an earlier day the
great land owners of Northern Vir-
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cry as the banking business has de-
veloped.
That there Is some truth In. this |
survey Of a fine piece Of smooth run
ming machinery must. be evident from
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the fact that bank runner at II
became q bank president at Sand
president, too, Of one Of the strongest
financial institutions In -knerica.
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scribers. This permitted almost any
body with a couple of horses and the
price of subscription (ranging from
s25 per season to $500 a more) to
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ginia and the Maryland Valley sup
ported private packs, invited their
friends to hunt and held that only
those within the inner circle we're
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of friends on the way up, they were
less particular about their compan-
ions afield. The next stage was the
distribution of costs among sub
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comfortable motoring distance Of
Washington.
Even the fox hunt, once the most
sacred of lordly privileges, has cap
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City Is Becoming
Center of Sport;
Events Attracting
Crowds Reaching
Foot Ball Scale.
By Robert B. Phillips, J.
? r MAY be treason to print this il


TT MAY be treason to print this in
a democratic country, but the
news is out that Washington has
i lately become the capital of
monarchy.
The name of the empire is the
Kingdom of the Horse. Five years
ago Washington meant little more
than half dozen other names in the
same domain. Today no locality in
the United States holds such promise
as a teeming paradise of the horse
show, a focal point of the best in
American fox hunting and the geo.
graphic center of flrst-flight cross
country racing.
The horse, of course, is not new
invention lately come to town. Equus
caballus was scooting around the Dis
trict before it was the District of Co.
1umbia and some centuries before
Henry Ford began casting a million
votes year against the species. The
Colonial squires of Virginia and Mary
land chased foxes, swilled stirrup cups
and matched the bob-tailed mare
against the gray long before any one
dreamed of crowds $4,000 strong at
steeplechase, horse shows complete
with society reporters and race courses
bristling with 50 windows.
Nevertheless it is only within the
last half decade, or at the most 10
years, that the prophets were sure
the horse was here to stay. In that
period equine sport completed the
transition from local amusement to
what is known in vaudeville as the
''big time" AS that metamorphosis
occurred, Washington naturally came
to the fore. 1t is the urban influence
that organizes, commentaries, sys-
tematizes and popularizes sports in a
big way. No matter how the old
timers may feel about II, that Is
precisely what has happened to horse
sports here.
Horse shows began as friendly
matches between neighbors in fox
hunting country. Last Summer on
one nearby show grounds alone some
$4,000 persons witnessed the modern
lied form of these venerable institu-
tions. The locale was the Riding and
Hunt Club in Montgomery County,
Md. Unquestionably another $4,000
attended 18 recognized meetings on
the Virginia circuit, and it is i'm
possible to estimate how many more
swarmed to the ringsides of score of
. lesser events staged in obscure ham
lets. Score a minimum of 125,000 an
nual attendance for "neighborly
matches"
HUNT races originated in the spirit
- Of rivalry engendered by heady
seasons of cross-country fox hunting.
When hounds had been put away for
the Summer, horsemen found them
selves with exceedingly fit hunters
on their hands and nothing to do
with them. They worked off excess
energy in racing across the country
side over their hunting fences, test
ing the speed and skill of their best
mounts. One of these man-to-man,
hunt-against-hunt affairs in the olden
days was the Maryland Hunt Cup.
Last Spring that erstwhile private
entertainment brought $4,000 enthu-
siasts charging up to Worthington
Valley. They represented about IA
States. In full season easily 10000
people will gasp, groan and cheer
oyer amateur steeplechases run within
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per in three-f1fths Of a second. made
40,585 strokes-1l12 per secondhand
beat out 8,117 words His percent
age of error is less than one-tenth of
/ per cent, he says.
Tangora, q sleek, dark-haired little
man with thin-hngered. sensitive
hands, first used a typewriter when
13 years old. That was in 1916. With
in seven months he had won an East
ern States championship and within
year the novice championship.
Il liked machine right from the
start and was determined to win the
worlds championship" he said.
Four Times Victor.
How far Tangora carried out his
determination is shown by the fact
that he has won the worlds cham
pionship four times.
How does one so expert ever lose?
Well, speed typistS have their "off
d,ys" just the same as concert artists
and athletes, Tangora explained. He
st the 1927 contest, he said, because
the audience applauded while he was
writing. Since. he has learned to ac-
custom himself to such distractions.
He trains for each contest for three
months, "rehearsing" at least one
hour daily, and supplies sample dis
fractions to steel himself against dis
turbing incidents.
When in a contest Tangora wears
blinkers, like a cart horse, but can
tell, nevertheless, whether his oppo-
nents are getting ahead of him. He
says he has familiarized himself with
their stroke and knows to the split
second when they are going to change
paper.
Superstitious? Yes, Tangora says
about the number seven. Otherwise,
no. His last name has seven letters
t. ere were seven contestants in the
June contest and the race began at Z
pm. in a hall decorated with seven
flags. Likewise, Tangora is his
mothers seventh child.
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CAR "SNATCHES" PURSE
Victims Pocketbook Found Be-
meath Engine.

meath Engine.
LANCASTER, Pa. Up. - George
Dandre. "a, of Brooklyn, N. Y, suf-
fered a fractured leg in an auto race
track accident and discovered on his
way to hospital that he had lost his
pocketbook. Sympathetic friends
searched the track without success.
The wallet was found, with cash in
tact, in the pan beneath the engine
Of the racer which struck him.
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SMITHS ATTITUDE
is MAIN QUESTION
Availability of New Yorker
Long Discussed by New
Deal Foes.

By the Associated Press.
The big question raised by VIII
liam Randolph Hearst's advocacy Of
Alfred E. Smith to be the 1896 "Jef-
fersonian" Democratic presidential
nominee was what will be Smiths
attitude?"
Political enmity heretofore between
Smith and Hearst accounted for the
amazement with which the sugges-
ton was greeted by many in the
Capital.
The availability Of Smith to oppose
President Roosevelt for denomination,
or possibly to lead an independent
ticket, had been discussed in some
quarters long before the Hearst state
ment. No public notice has been
taken by Smith, but repeatedly he
has registered skepticism on policies
since 1882.
At the Chicago convention which
nominated MIR. Roosevelt, Smith was
a leader Of the opposition. Once his
cause lost, he left for New York with
out waiting for Mr.. Roosevelt's spec
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tacular arrival by air to accept the
nomination.
Support After Urging.
It was only after some weeks, and
urging, that he took to the speaking
platform on behalf Of the party ticket.
For some months following inaugura-
tion, he kept relatively silent. Just a
year ago, he joined other opponents
of the New Deal in founding the
American Liberty League, which has
since become one Of the most per-
sistent organization critics of the
Roosevelt course.
If Smith should agree with Hearst
that he is the accredited leader" of
the Democratic party today, it was
believed by those familiar with his
outspokenness that he will rot hesitate
to express himself more often in the
future than he has Of late. Whether
he will carry this to cooperation with
an independent political movement
was another question.
Until his position becomes known
in the light of the Hearst proposal,
leading Democrats were disinclined to
commit themselves on the potential
tiles Of last nights unexpected de-
velopment.
Leaders Are Unalarmed.
New Deal political leaders have been
counting so far on the election-year
pull of party regularity to offset moves
for an independent Democratic ticket.
Announcement in New York yester-
day by cambridge Colby, the Wilson
Secretary of State, Of plans to project
Constitutional Democrats" CAM
paign caused little apparent perturba-
ton among them.
That's just one Of those moves that
Is being threatened in the hope OF
getting party to weaken U.s." was the
Evening star., 1935-08-29
MIAMIANS ASK BIG
W.P. A. UTILIFIES LOAN
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, August 29.-The
Municipal Ownership League yester-
day demanded the City Commission
apply for a $10,o00,000 w. P. A. loan
to establish city-owned utilities.
After 80 minutes Of acrimonious
debate, chiefly between two success
full and two unsuccessful candidates in
last Mays City Commission election,
the demand was received and placed
on file"
One of the losers, r. G. Gardner,
president of the league, asked i'm
mediate action and fired a parting
verbal shot that was interpreted by
some as a reference to the recall move
ment now underway against all COM
missioners.
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BY WILLIAM A. BELL, JR.
A LBERT TANGORA, worlds
" champion typist, played
n serenade here yesterday-the
a same kind of serenade which


n same kind of serenade which
won him wife.
Striking the keys Of typewriter
with the same skill that Paderewski
or Rachmaninoff would strike the
keys of a piano, Tangora showed 200
delegates to the National Typewriter
and Office Machine Dealers ASso-
citation convention at the Mayflower
Hotel how he won his championship
last June and later told of his unique
wooing.
1t was at the Chicago Worlds Fair
in 1888, he said. He was demonstrate
ing typewriters when he looked up
and saw "the most beautiful girl"
standing on balcony, enraptured
by the dashing staccato produced by
his niYnble fingers.
"She was demonstrating pianos" +"
Tangora related. Il would Serenade
her on my typewriter and she would
serenade me on a piano. When I
first saw her I told a friend, That's
the girl I'm going to marry I did
right after the fair was over"
Won Titles in Chicago.
Tangora won the international type
writer contest in Chicago on June
% by writing 1913 errorless words a
minute for one hour. His fastest
performance is 282 words a minute
and he can strike of 165 words a
minute while adding q column Of
figures.
1t is actually exciting to watch him.
The typewriter carriage whips across
its transit in one-tenth of second
so fast that you can hardly notice
its motion. The click of the keys
is more rapid than the tattoo of a
machine gun. One tap virtually
merges with the next. In the cham
pionship bout, Tangora changed pa
Evening star., 1935-08-29
GAMING BOAT ROBBERY
HOLDS FIVE AS PIRATES
Los Angeles Federal Grand Jury
1ndicts Men Alleged to Have
Taken $21, 900.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 29-The
Federal grand jury indicted five men
yesterday on charges of "piratically
and feloniously" boarding and rob-
bing the gambling barge Monte Carlo
Of about $21, 900 in silver and cur
rency and jewelry worth about $4,000
last July of Long Beach.
Those indicted were Carl Carrillo,
Walter Miller, August Wunderlich,
Frank Gibbons and Harry Allen Sher-
wood. All are in custody but Sher-
wood, who was referred to In the
indictment as the leader Of the band.
Penalty for conviction on a piracy
charge is life Imprisonment, District
Attorney Pierson M. Hall said.
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tions but not his effectiveness, Senator
Lewis Of Illinois, chairman Of the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Com
mittee, predicted: :
when the election approaches, he
will be found supporting the Demo-
cratic candidate-and Franklin D.
Roosevelt"
Evening star., 1935-08-29
SUICIDE is THOUGHTFUL
Woman Leaves Note of Warning
About Gas-Filled Room.

CHICAGO R).-Mrs. Mary Ellen
Liston, 50. had determined to die, but
she considered the welfare of others.
Her niece, Miss Mary Daley, told the
police she came home and found this
note on the kitchen door:
Don't enter. Don't open the door.
II you light match there will be an
explosion. wanted to do this last
week but you wouldn't go out and I
didn't have the chance"
Mrs. Liston was found dead inside,
"A gas Jet was open.
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Of Louisiana, that he would run inde-
pendently against Mr.. Roosevelt If he
failed to beat him for nomination.
Now administration men say they
consider him weaker than ever after
his filibuster-kniflng of the social
security appropriations.
Minimizing Longs third party inten-
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way Speaker Byrns' dismissed it. "All
these efforts will die aborning, and 1t
all shows little desperation on part
Of the opposition. They are Just cast
ing about and sending up test
balloons"
Similar reaction greeted the recent
assertion by Senator Long, Democrat,
Evening star., 1935-08-29
1000 LEAVE HOMES
IN COLORADO FLOOD
Waters Break Through Two
Dams-Several Houses Are
Swept Away.
By the Associates Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLY, Colo, August 29.-Roaring
Hood waters burst through two small
dams yesterday, sent the 1000 resi-
dents of Holly fleeing into the hills,
drove dozen residents of Kit Carson,
Colo, from their homes and inundated
Syracuse, Kans., just across the State
line.
Last night, as families returned to
their mud-littered homes, no loss of
life was reported. Several farm houses
weree swept away but the occupants
escaped. Property damage was placed
unoff1cially at half million dollars.