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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-08-09
LAWRENCE REELECTED

John R. Lawrence, Jr., of St.
Paul, was elected President for
the eighth consecutive time. Other
officers chosen were Mary Short,
Minerva Totten and Beatrice Goss,
LIST, End and Bird Vice Presidents,
respectively; Dorothy Erricks, Sec
rotary; La Mari Goss, Asst. Sec
rotary; Mabel Combs, Cor. Secre-
tary; Vesta Phillips, Treasurer;
Helen O'Neil, Chorister; Arlee
Harris, Organist; Reginald Harris,
Parliamentarian; Berda Sheldon,
F. P. Phillips, I. L. Smith, Martha
Lee, Elizabeth Newton and Rev.
J. Phelps were chosen Board Mem
bers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-08-09
s. L. ROGERS RITES

Hundreds of Twin City people
attended funeral rites last week
for S. L. Rogers, 718 st. Anthony
Ave-, veteran st. Paul red cap.
Following the services the re-
mains were cremated. Mr.. Rogers
is survived by his widow and other
relatives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
BABY DOE TABOR
 WASFOUND DEAD ] IN LOWLY SHACK
Romance of Past May Be
 Recalled By Some of : the Old Timers

E Leadville, Colo, March SUP ) -Only a few old timers to-day mourned the death of Elizabeth McCourt (Baby Doe) Tabor. widow of H. A. W. (silver Dollar) Tabor. "A new generation hardly knew of one of the most celebrated TO- mances of the pioneer west, or of two of it's most picturesque char acters. .....t.4t.. , Tabor died penniless in. 1899. Ten years before his fortune had been estimated at between $2O,- 000,000 and $40,000,OO0 and he was the biggest land owner in the world. His wife; Baby Doe, pos- sessed the diamond Queen Isabella pawned to finance Columbus's voy- age to America, and $1,000,000 worth of other jewels.
 < Baby Doe, a shrivelled old wo- man of 73, was found dead yester- day in the shack hard, by. the matchless silver mine, which had been the basis of much of her hus- bands wealth, and which he told her to keep because some day 1t would renew her wealth. She had been dead about 10, days, having died. 1t was believed, of pneu- monia..
 In. the. shack were two paper dollars, the final remnant of the great fortune that made Tabor one of the most striking figures of the sos and sos. ....
 While still young girl Eliza beth met and married Harvey Doe, son of an Oshkosh, Wis, lumber man.
 Lured by tales of great wealth in the mines and streams of the west, they made the long journey by wagon-train. Doe found all the desirable claims had been staked and was forced to work in the mines of more fortunate men camps. His beautiful young wife was favorite. The miners called. her Baby Doe.
 She disliked poverty and in Leadville met the mighty Tabor of whom she had heard tales even back in Oshkosh. Tabor already had a wife the faithful Augusta who had worked herself into pre- mature old age in his poor days. 2.
 Tabor was riding the crest of fortunes wave. He had but two unfulfilled ambitions. He wished to become a United. States senator and he wanted to marry Baby Doe. Within short time he managed a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
BY JOHN n. FLYNN
|, NCopyright, 1885. NEA service. Incl

CLE SAM has got to digging into his pants pocket for sometime to This unacceptable necessity that we will go arguing about where the old gentleman twill get the money Will he continue to borrow it? Or will dig it out of the pockets of the taxpayers? Or will he print il? This is to be the motif of the coming struggle Lh. whole subject gets very confusing because stems C into hanks There camor for oyehaung banking system Then problem the of debt. ', .
  the and the relief Then there the
  there Is the rapidly rising and commanding question of
  ciamor for balacing the budget
 
 
  problem !
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
Proposed Liquor Laws
 Outlined By Culhane
State Should Prevent 'Chain Store' Monopoly De-
 cIares State Senator in Address to Democrats

II ..'.. l.
 jected, and other measures that he
 has Introduced. He expressed the opinion that the proposed road over Bucks Hill to Bristol will go through this session of the legisla- ture. His bill to abate interest and
 lien fees on back taxes paid up
 before October 1st, the measure cutting interest rates on mortgages and other loans to four and one half per cent and the effort being made by him to have interest on
 unpaid taxes cut to z per cent were also described by the sena- tor.
 Senator Culhane objected to al-. lowing persons under s21 years of age to purchase liquor. He said that if the licenses were made substantially high and the number of permits limited according to population, conditions would be
 much better. He said that high school children are able to buy liquor too freely under the present system where the alcoholic bev- erages are dispensed in butcher shops, grocery stores, clt-fate cos- metic stores and, so forth. He said package stores should be package stores and nothing else. : Tribute to Crary
 i William T. Harrington, president of the local club, pointed out that in the 1888 session of the state senate the democrats had an 1S-l7 advantage in voting strength. This port lacked a leader of the alert- v.auo ov,A nh hf1f$,, s,% (uR. Ynts,a H, Crary of Waterbury, as well as an energetic voting den,ocratic club, the Park City was carried by the socialists and for the first time fin history that party not only had in the state sen- ate, but had "tlie balance of pow- err, the makeup of the senate bc- ing IF democrats, 16 republicans and three socialists, with 18 as the necessary number to decide the fate of a measure. Had the demo- 'crats carried one senatorial dis trict in Bridgeport it would have placed them in a position to orr ganize the senate and to command the patronage of at least 500 jobs for 'the faithful"
 Green Chairman
 Short talks were also given by Attorney Cipriano, who is state or ganizer of the young democrats, Bernard L.. Mullen. vice-president of the local club, and Attorney Harold C.. Green.
 Attorney Green was named chairman of the local. committee to make preparations for the Wa terbury delegation which will att tend the state dinner at Waverly inn on the goth in honor of State President John F. Robinson of this city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
WHELAN PLANNING
 C. O.P. GATHERING
Young Mems Republican Club of WOlcOtt to
 Hold Banquet

Senator J. Kenneth Bradley of Westport, g. o. D. leader of the senate, Senator William c. Hun gerford of Watertown, Senator F. Lynch of West Haven, president pro tempore of the senate, and High Sheriff elect Edward Piatt of Sherman will be the principal speakers at the second annual ban quet of the Young Mems Republi- can Club. of Wolcott on the 21st. The affair will take place at the Hitchcock Lake Fish and Game Club. N% fT
 : Town Chairman Martin Whalen of Wolcott has been laying plans for the banquet for some time. It is expected that several of the re- publican leaders of Waterbury will be present for the event, including Judge John F. McGrath and Town Chairman Frederick w. Palomba. Last year, the first time that the club held banquet, the affair was very largely attended. The speak CTS at the coming event will dis cuss the doings of the legislature and also stress the point of keep- ing interest up among the younger voters of the republican party.
 1t is expected that several hum dred persons will attend the gath ering. Senator Lynch's talk will be of interest, especially, in view of the fact that he represents the sem atorial district of which Wolcott is Q part.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
BRISTOL BAND TO
 PLAY FOR CIRCUS
New Departure Musicians Added to Program. at
 ArfifOry, March IIth
: (specIai fo The Dcmocratl

Terryville, March s-The. selec- ton of the New Departure band to play for the Redmen's Circus to be held in the Bristol Armory the week of March 11th is based on the fact that this band has had considerable experience in playing accompaniments for vaudeville and circais acts.
 Among the various, engagements of the band 1t has had to furnish music for vaudeville acts at many fairs tlifoughout the east--at such fairs as Stafford Spring, Great Bar, rington, Mass, Chatham "a n d Rhinebaclx in New York, Connecti- cut State Fair, Riverton, Goshen and Tefryville. Then, too, the New Departure band has been featured at the week-long Danbury fair each year for the past eleven sea- sons.
 However, 1t must not be thought that this band Is simply one which can play only circus music. The New Departure is primarily a con- cert banda band that, under the able leadership of Director Ernest A. Becker, has won the enviable reputation of being one of the fin- est industrial bands in the east, noted for its tonal technique and extensive repertoire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

raising money to meet it's vast ob- ligations and to render itself free of the bankers, got around to pret- ty much the same station as thesc inflationists. If the bankers rebel against further bond issues, what can we do? 1t asked. Why the best thing for us to do is to take over the Federal Re- serve System. Then if the banks resist, we can issue our bonds and sell them to the Reserve banks. which is the same as selling them to a central bank. And thus, for the first time, the inflationists and the government are almost united in their plan to meet a growing difficulty. Up to now the govern ment has tried to block the infia- tionists. But now, almost without realizing it, the government finds itself moving over to that side., GLASS VS THOMAS
 This is the principal significance of the Federal Reserve Bank bill. Senator Glass, who considers him. self the watchdog of the Reserve system, has announced his inten- tion to lead the fight on this bill. Senator Thomas and the infiation- ist bloc backed by Father Cough lin will put their force behind the government. The fight will split both parties.
 You will be called on to takc sides. Do you think the banking system should be controlled by the government? Or do you favor having 1t directed by private busi- ness?
 Are you in favor of the govern ment raising funds for emergency purposes by borrowing or do you favor the issuance of government reserve bank notes without interest for this purpose?
 Do you think the Treasury, which has a number of political problems, should direct the bank ing policy or should that policy be directed by some separate agency in either the government or busf-. ness? Y
 These are the questions which Congress is going to have to set- tie. Meantime there is a growing number who insist that govern ment borrowing should cease. These also are split into two groups. One group thinks that re- lief payments should be ydrasti- cally curtailed. The other favors continuing them. But both insist that whatever is done, the pay
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
Homicide Victims In
 U. s. Show Increase
Rate Steadily Gaining-Men Involved More Frequent-
 ly Than Women -Dissimilarity in Police Methods

New York, N. Y.-The vaunted superiority of the British police over that of the United States in bringing murderers to justice does not appear so great percentage wise, when convictions for homi- cides in the two countries are com pared. The police had Knowledge of 489 homicides in New York city in 1881. During the same year in England and Wales, the authori- ties had knowledge of 29O homl- cides. The percentage of conVic- tions was 33, in Great Britain ard 22 in New York. But although the percentage of convictions in Great Britain was Il higher than in New York, it was nevertheless tower than in ten other large American cities by about the samo amount.
 This is according to Dr Louis |. Dublin, third vice-president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, and Miss Bessie Bunzel, of the insurance company's statistical bureau, in Thou Shalt Not Kill," a study of homicides in the United States in the curernt number of the Survey Graphic.
 The survey on homicides shows dissimilarity in the police methods of the two nations. The most striking different was in the num- Der of suspects taken into custody. In New York, 54 per cent of those proceeded against were discharged or acquitted, while this percentage for Britain was 39. Capital pun ishment, the survey shows, was not carried out more frequently ip Britain than in New York, as Is generally supposed. In fact, the reverse was true. Death sentences were imposed on 30 persons, or 28 per cent of those found guilty in New York city, as contrasted with IS persons, or 19 per cent in Brit ain. In both countries the guilty person paid for his crime with h:s life in only per cent of the cases known to the authorities.
 More than 11,000 persons, or 9.2 out of every 100000 of population, are victims of homicide in the United States each year, according to this survey. Furthermore, the rate is steadily increasing. The re- port says Such huge wastage of human life Is but the more acute symptom of a deeply rooted na- tional lawlessness which reflects our historical backgrounds. racial mixtures, industrial conflicts, lim- tied educational system, and many other factors m our social organ- ization."
 Violent Deaths COntrastcd
 The contrast of deaths by vio- lence in the United States in com parison with European countries Is brought out in the survey, which says: The Netherlands has the best homicide record in Europe; during the five-year period 1g26- l930. an average Of only three per.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
THE END.

sons out of every million in the population were killed. Our rate was 29 times as high. It was IS times that of England and Wales and of Scotland. In no region of the British empire did the rate approach that of the United States Our figure is more than three times that of Italy, which has the highest rate in Europe; 1t is about four and one-haIf times that of Belgium and Germany; and five and one-half times that of Switz- erland." % g& . Pointing out that age and sex as well ash race are significant fac- tors in the homicide rate, the sur- vey says: "As a cause of death, homicide involves men far more frequently than women. In 1892, S646 men and 2076 women were slain in the United States, exclusive of Texas. In the early years of life the homicide rates are very small for both sexes and approximately equal. After, age 15, however, they begin to diverge widely and at ages Is to 19, the male rate is twice the female rate among the white population.
 'The highest homicide rates oc- cur in early adult life, reaching 2 peak in the age group 25 to 34 years among males and 20 to "A among females. Among white males the rate stays above 10 per 54."
 The variation, in different parts of the country, in the percentage of those convicted for murder and manslaughter Is reported as fol- lows: Taking the number of such crimes known to the police as a base, investigation showed that convictions reached the high mark of almost 50 per cent in Baltimore and Detroit and the low point of 20 per cent in Chicago and New York. excluding these two, which have rather special conditions, convictions in 10 large cities ayer- aged 43 per cent during g recent year. To this number must be added the cases that are pending, some of which will undoubtedly be ultimately declared guilty There is much room for improve ment in the efficiency Of our police departments and in our legal ma chinery."
 Freedom Higher Rate
 The fact that the high homicide rate in this country may be due, in part, to the fact that the murderer in many instances goes scot free, is borne out to a certain degree by the study. It says: Tn 6f1 cases of homicide investigated by us, 86 persons had been killed by officers of the law while resisting arrest or while engaged in committing crime, E4 assailants committed sui- eide and l8 died before nrarign- mert,
 This left 4bS assailants answer able to the law. Of these. IS per
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

divorce for Baby Doe and then. with the aid of a friendly judge, quietly severed the bonds which bound him to Augusta, upon whom he settled $1.000,000. Tabor was elected lieutenant governor. Later he was appointed to fill Senator Henry Teller's term after he was appointed to President Arthur's cabinet.
 In Washington, Tabor and Baby Doe were married March 2, 1888. President Arthur attended the ceremony. Two daughters now dead-Elizabeth Pearl and Silver Dollar. the latter named by .Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, were born to the couple. \ Tabor's fortunes were lost lin the panic Of 1893. He died ns1899. On his deathbed he told his wife nc. rr to surrender or sell the Matcll!, ss because he was sure 1t would res build their dissipated fortune some day. f&
 < With her two daughters, Baby Doe went to Leadvilie and -estab- lished a home in the little shack just before the mouth of the mine. She had lived there since.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

Liquor has mo place in the gro- cery store or the butcher shop; Connecticut permitees should be protected from chain interests; the prescription system should be followed ih the drug store-tiese and other declarations were made last night by Senator George T. Culhane in a talk before the Young Democratic club at the Elton. At the business meeting of the club Attorney Carmine Cipria- no and Edward Kirby were chos-. en chairmen of the Waterbury delegation of 36 that will attend the county convention of the or ganization in Naugatuck tomorrow. M Abatement Measure I
 Senator Culhane described his liquor bill, which was recently re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

MONEY FACTORS
 Tosunderstand 1t the reader must keep in mind just flew simple facts. %sa First of all, 1t is not question of mere money. We have in cir cu}ation now nearly, two billion dollars more than we had during the pTDsperous1 days of 1929. We also have far more gold and un- der the new valuation, an enor- nous increase-$3. 900, 000,000 in 1929: $4, 4,000, 100000 in January, 1884; $7,000, 0,Oo0,000 fin February. 1884, and $S,3S7,00e,00 in Jan- lAry, 1895. @sE' S a
 S.Second, we do, our. business with bank money-bank deposits. This ia what has sf1runk. At the be- ginning of 1929 4our commercial banks had deposits of about 35 billion dollars. Now they hold about 28 billion.
 However, In spite of the fact that this is so much less than in 1929,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

ments. should be raised by taxes. Some think there should be higher income taxes. Others favor sales taxes.
 HALF.BlEASURES
 But the problem of banking rec form seems to get lost in the shuf- fie. The new Reserve Board bill does propose some changes in the banking practices. But 1t may be they do not go to the root of the problem and 1t may be questioned whether they are really reforms, such as permitting banks to lend more extensively on real estate collateral and for very. long terms. This is, in my judgment, back ward step.
 Of course, if Congress supports 8 great works program with a guarantee of prevailing wages and If 1t votes for the bonus, which wuld mean an additional two, bil- lion in payments by the govern ment,, powerful impetus will be given to the whole movement of imitation.
 SUMMARY Y.
 Looking oyer the whole picture, and attempting to an- swer the question--"Where Are We Now?" perhaps we may sum it all'up about as follows:
 Business volume-it has in creased.
 Production-it has travelled half the way to recovery.
 Employment-it has travelled one-quarter of the way.
 Wages-they have travelled IS per cent of the road.
 Total payrolls-they have jour- neyed one-fifth of the way.
 Profits--they have outstripped all others. :.
 To do this much, we have spent nearly ten billion dollars of gov- ernment money. How we shall travel the rest of the way and how much 1t will cost we have not set- tied. The big problem is to get the heavy capital goods industries re- vived and we have not tackled that problem yet.
 And out of it all looms a great battle over the control of our banking system which will decide whether we will move into infia- tion before the year is out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
FINANCIAL DILEMMA

EAHA4NSAtkL O1L1tlUV1SA Now all these problems, simmer
 ing away in the minds of different
 groups. have gotten mixed up to-
 gether. The newspapers during
 the last month have contained
 stories about the governments $ plans to recast and strengthen our Federal Reserve system. The busy reader has had no time to exam inc that. But that proposal. now embodied in bill, promises to de-
 velop into one of the biggest, if not the biggest, battle of the New Deal, alongside which the relief battle is
 just summer breeze.
 Now let us see how all this comes about.
 First of all, the government be-
 came alarmed at the prospect of 1. resistance from the banks when 1t comes to offer more bonds. It
 did not want to be caught help
 less if the banks refuse to take it's paper. It put a committee to
 work, therefore. to study the sit-
 uation. That committee worked all through last summer and very secretly.
 Meantime, the. various inf1ation-
 ists were busy trying to agree OH
 program. They held a meeting
 in January at which various plans
 were discussed. At that meeting
 and for hte first time they agreed upon common program. They
 agreed to support demand and bill for central bank. That ia, they want the government either
 to abolish the Federal Reserve
 System or to take 1t over and set
 up central bank. owned and con-
 trolled by the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

the banks cannot lend 1t. It Is ac- tually more than we can use.
 NEED BETTER SYSTEM
 Our need, therefore, is not for more money. It is for more in- come. There Is ample money to do all our business with. All we have to do Is to keep the money we have moving faster-passing from hand tions are arising to plague the administration. r or instance, many men insist that government borrowing must stop because the credit of the government will get involved. Others oppose further to hand. We cannot do that until the income, the money income, the purchasing power of the people is increased.
 Of course, think the money problem important in that I be- lieve we ought to equip ourselves with more intelligent money
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08

cent had not been apprehended one year after the act; 108 were re- leased for lack of vedence; were declared insane; and 25S, or 56 per cent, were actually brought to trial; one quarter of these were acquitted, and 3 cases were pend- ing twelve months after the slay-' Ing.
 "Only 43 per cent of the 45S who should have been prosecuted were actually declared guilty; 8 were sentenced to death and ITO. to prison for terms of varying length, and 9 were released either with suspended sentences or upon payment of a fine" : v.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
CENTRAL BANK SCHEME

But how would this help infia-
 ton? Now the government issues
 It's bonds and sells them to pri-
 vateiy owned banks and pays three
 or more per cent interest on the
 bonds. Under the new plan the government could issue its bonds
 and sell them to its own bank, without restriction and without paying interest. But how would the government bank pay for these bonds? It could issue central bank notes just like Federal Reserve notes (which we now use for mon- ey). The government owned cen-
 tral bank could give the Treasury Department It's bank notes in pay ment of the government bonds.
 This would be printing money
 without seeming to do so. Tie central bank advocates declare that this would not be "printing- press" money, because the govern mcnt with its eight billion dollars In gold has enough gold 10 give legal backing to nearly 20 billion .dollars Of central bank notes. The |goyernment could then use this money 10 pay relief bills, build houses, etc..
 Now 1t so happens that the gov ernment. studying its problem of