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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28

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 "But Randy, he said that your last examination proved to him that If you tried to walk you could; that your legs are all right"
 T know |. ;"
 "Please, Randy He explained that nerves are queer things - sometimes all that they need Id. an unexpected jar to wake them up or some kind of action. Maybe if you really tried, dear!"
 He listened, and the familiar words beat against his brain like | tiny hammers. "It's no use, Judy. I simply cannot be talked into do- ing something impossible!" he cried desperately.
 In his minds eye formed visions of long years ahead of him, with use same formula repeated over and over, and both ho and Judy breaking their hearts slowly under the pressure of fate. Judy rose. "I must drop in to say hello to old Mrs. Turner, Randy, she will be expecting me as usual" She brought him . cigar cite from the table and held . match for him. Excuse mo for . few minutes, dear, shan't be gone long,"
 When the door had closed after her Randy wheeled his chair agin to the window and scowled again upon the pleasant lawns. FlippinE his cigarette cut the open window, he thought, Tt would be criminal of me to marry her, now" Exper- mentally he attempted to move one leg, but 1t was as though 1t be- longed to someone else. He relaxed, drowning at the window ledge and running over in his mind the best way to announce his intentions to her. No matter how tactful he was. a painful scene was inevitable he knew. Fifteen minutes passed, a half hour. Randy, chin firm with his resolution, was facing the door awaiting Judy's return. He steeled his heart to utter the words that would take tho meaning out of life l for him. He essayed q nonchaiant smile.
 Suddenly shattering the quiet of the afternoon, the pandemoniA bowling of the fire alarm in the corridor cut across his thoughts, snapping them like threads. Firel His thoughts raced madly. Where was Judith? How would he get out? His knuekles whitened with the fierce grip of his hands upon the wheels of his chair. Crying out hoarsely. he suddenly found himself with a desperate lunge out of his chair and stagger- ing drunkenly toward the door. | F'ranticaiiy jerking 1t open, he saw Judith framed there on the thresf- old, q look of wonder stamped ups on her face.
 Randy" she shouted, ciutchinE him to her with . happy sob. over her shoulder he saw his nephew frightenediy standing amid the fragments of splintered glass where his ball had broken the glass front of the alarm box and pushed over the lever!
 Copyright, 1885,
 The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
 Tomorrow: "Lucl<y Ticket" by Charles Philip Riley, describes the strange good fortune of . plucky working girl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-28

Tomorrow: "Luclxy Ticket" by Charles Philip Riley, describes the strange good fortune of . plucky working girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
NEW JERSEYS GOVERNOR
GAINS HIS ENDS

Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jer-
sey got what he seemed to want. When,
unaided and alone, he stirred up furore
over the Bruno Richard Hauptmann con-
viction, it was the opinion of many news
paper men-who meet a lot of that kind
of people-that his principal object was
not justice, but publicity. He got it.
Evidently, he got far more than he want
ed. His private detective, assigned to in
vestigate the Lindbergh kidnapping case
anew, failed to dig up evidence other
than that presented at Hauptmann's
trial, in spite of confident assertions by
the governor that new evidence would
be forthcoming. Then Col. Lindbergh
fled to England with his wife and in
fant son.
The storm of protest and publicity
that followed Lindbergh's decision to
live in England, free from the constant
threat of kidnapping and from the recur-
rent memories of the first tragic crime,
was a deluge where the governor eX-
pected trickle Gov. Hoffman found
himself rather unpopular man in some
quarters, even in his own state. His
flare for the public eye, and his desire
to use the Lindbergh case to get into
the spotlight, backfired unexpectedly.
The result, as now seen, is that the
governor has abandoned his original
plan. His remark that he does not in
tend to reprieve Hauptmann seems
something of an about-face, in view of
his form intimations that there is
much to the case which has never been
revealed. The governor had gone so
far as to intimate that the state police,
in Hauptmann's trial, withheld evidence.
He has forgotten that, too.
Gov Hoffman's part in the case has
not reflected any glory on him. If he
was right in the first place, he is wrong
now. If he was wrong at first, he was
entirely too vocal about it.
He got what he was seeking, perhaps,
but it does not seem to be what he
wants
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
ALL is NOT QUIET
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT

Now and then there are reports from
strictly censored Europe which indicate
that the unity of nations under dicta-
tors there is not all it might be. Be-
cause of strict censorship in such coun-
tries as Italy and Germany. it is seldom
that any report leaves those countries
which might give the outside world
clear picture of internal conditions.
The dispatch in question is one from
Vienna carrying reports that 16,50O
young German blooded Italians had de-
serted Italy for Switzerland or Ger
many to escape being drafted into SER
vice for the Ethiopian conflict. The re-
port might be exaggerated, but in the
main it probably is true. No people
ruled with such an iron hand as that OF
Benito Mussolini can agree entirely with
its ruler, nor escape yearnlng Tor
greater freedom. This is especially true
of those of alien blood.
Italy is not having the easy time with
its own people it would give the world
to believe Americans who have travel
ed there return with reports that the
people are afraid to voice opposition to
the dictatorship of Mussolini, but that
there is opposition. No government is
entirely stable when founded upon fear,
for a time will come when desperation
overcomes fear. When that time does
come, the rulers find opposition where
they never expected it. They find the
power they built so carefully crumbling
with astonishing speed. They find, too
late, that the best government is gov
ernment in which the people have conf
dence, and in which they take part.
Such a government is that of the
United States. The persons who would
change it have only to look toward Eur
ope to see why they are wrong.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
~
CON T r ACT
a BRIDGE a
WRITTEN FOR CENTRAL PRESS
By {. v. SHEPARD
MASTERING BRIDGE f44,

CORRECT technical training
makes plain how expensive blind
opening leads from tenaces and
certain other honor holdings are
against trump calls. Common sense
the A-Q of side suit, that there
must average to be one case in
three when declarer will held the
missing K. If any other player
leads seniors suit he will win tricks
with both his high honors, but if
he leads the suit he makes pres
ent to declarer Of trick. Taking
into consideration possible ruffs by
declarer or dummy, we find the
exact differences to the holder of
A-Q, who opens that suit, are 10
cases in the q possible different
ways whereby the missing honors
may be divided among the other
three players. These 10 cases in
81 possible different ways K-J-10
may lie, amount to a total of 91s
| tricks.
Aside from the question of ruff
ing, one-third the time it means
a needless loss of trick to blindly
open any one of these tenaces:
A-Q-J-10, A-Q-J, A-Q-10 or A-J-
10.
1t makes a difference of two
tricks in nine cases who leads your
K-Q-10 or K-J-10 suit, and six times
in 81 cases it means difference
who opens your K-J suit.
Lacking better suit of your
own to lead, naturally you will
make a directed lead of your part
ner's suit, regardless, of the queS-
ton of what honors you may hold
therein. There is a single case
where you should open your long
est and strongest suit, regardless
of the particular honors you may
hold therein. This happens when
your partner has made an open
ing bid of no trumps, that second
hand has overcalled with a suit
Presumably your partner has some
honor strength in each of the plain
suits Chose not the trump. Youl
best chance to defeat the adverse
call is to hammer declarer with
; the suit in which you and partner
: hold the most strength.
Here is case quite possibly diff
ferent from the above, not making
. it SO certain that you should not
mind opening away from your ten
ace suit. Declarer opened the bid
ding. Your partner made Inc
, Trump overcall as fourth hand
Declarer rebid his suit and was al
lowed to- play the suit named. Your
partners acts show one or more
stops to the run of trumps, with
something in the two unbid suits
in which you may be weak. The
other unbid suit you hold strong
ly. Quite probably your partner
holds little or none of the missing
honor strength of your best suit
Probably declarer holds the missing
strength, If concentrated, giving
you an excellent opportunity to
, trap declarer later on. In the
meanwhile you had better make q
blind opening lead of your second
best suit, counting on partner also
to hold some strength in the suit
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

involved sentences would not es-
cape a freshman's correction IN a
Petticoat Gulch high school, HIS
books are flocked with grammatical
awfulness, but Hemingway manages
somehow. Indeed the report is he's
sittin pritty. He did not grease his
wares to slide by. He festooned them
with thorns, thistles and cacti, and !
they stuck.
Will Rogers, Ring Lardner and H.
C. Witwer didn't do badly making
literature of illiteracy. Neither has
Sam Hellman. Shakespeare had his
flair for redundancy, Meredith
double-negatived all over the lot and
Joseph Conrad had no knowledge OF
grammar. I enjoy the works OF the
masters and have probably read
them as much as many living con-
temporaries But I'm not going to
try to compete with them in the he'll
ter-skelter of a daily column even
though I could. And which, as any
one must know, can't.
They buried Ralph Barton's bro
ther Homer the other day. Long a
player of small roles, he was one of
those dependable actors who never
achieved a spectacular role. But at
tanned a contentment rare among
stage folk All his New York years
he lived in typical theatrical ho-
tel hard-by the Palace but was little
interested in the caperS of Broad
way. He was one of the towns most
indefatigable explorers. There was
scarcely an inch of the island he had
not been over afoot. He knew it from
the Battery to Spuyten Ruyvil as few
men of his time.
Ernest Hemingway's boon COM
panion on recent New York explOra-
tions was Ben Finney, a survivor of
that glossy guild tagged men-about-
town. A Scutherner, Finney has for
wears been a citizen of the world, at
home promenading the Shanghai
Bund or surf bathing at Pago Pago.
And is even better known in such
nearer capitals as London, Berlin
and Paris. At times he hawks down
yonder hams, new brand of cof-
fee or runs one of the Saturday
night celebrity dances. But the main
business is to live 'robustly and for
the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

CLEVELAND.-Thi is one of the
Santa Claus cities. If it wouldn't
be for the PWA, the WPA, the
RFC and few more of the alpha
bet agencies, Cleveland still would
be in the dumps. And dumps is
correct. You should have seen the
lakefront once.
But now it seems impossible to
keep up with all the activities, in
spired by government money.
In fact, whoever is mayor-there
have been three mayors and city
manager in the last few years
passes much of his time flying
down to Washington to see about
a new allotment.
From the moment one lands in
Cleveland, via plane, he sees the
busy government dollar at work.
The airport, already 'the worlds
largest, is being doubled in size.
The lakefront is being made over
from end to end.
A huge sewage disposal plant is
nearing completion.
Parks are being remade, slums
torn down for model housing, roads
improved.
Smoke is pouring from nearly
every mill chimney. Money to
farmers has been used to buy au-
tomobiles and Cleveland furnishes
many parts for autos.
Try to get into any of the large
stores along Euclid avenue (the
shopping avenue of Cleveland and
you'll be showed aside by thousands
of others, more eager to spend
their money.
And it's nothing at all to meet
a man who will tell one, I've just
bought a 1000 house"
And Cleveland's own costly grand
opera-12 performances this year
has been sold out at every per-
Torrance so far.
How long will Santa Claus last
ON A PARK RAIL
Cleveland has its own Hyde Parl
or Union Square-in the center o
toWn-the Public Square, looking
upon the array of Van SWeringer
skyscrapers. Here, ostensibly
speech is free. Of so, it is abou
the only thing that is free IL
Cleveland these days)
Stop to talk to a lounger or two
Yes, there's money being spen
But the poor still are poor.
And there isn't any Santa Claus
This is all a bubble. They're
giving the people a show.
Republican convention coming
here, and then everything will bt
all right? Brother, don't make mt
laugh, Republicans, Democrats
they're all alike.
What would I do? Brother, vol
don't want to know. You believe
in Santa Claus. Look at that gooc
overcoat (thanks) and all these
parcels. How can you know how
we feel?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Publishing Company, 625 State
street, E Centro, California. Telephone 800. Full
leased wire United Press Association. Entered at
E Centro California, post office as second-class
matter. Member California Newspaper Publish
ers Association. M. @. Mogensen national ad-
vertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
PRIEST ENDS ARCTIC TOUR

EDMONTON, Alta, U.P)-Using
nearly every method OF. transpor-
tation known in the north, from
the railway to the pack train, the
Rev. t. Labourne, O.MI., superior
general of the Oblate order of the
Roman Catholic church, has just
returned here from a 6,500-mile
tour of the Arctic.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
Looking Backward
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley This
Date in Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 28, I91

Since a rest room in Ell Centro
is an admitted necessity, a suitable
location seems to be the one point
in question.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
Answers to Foregoing Questions

I. The Washington monument,
at Washington, D. c. 1t stands
555 feet five and one-haf inches
above the ground.
2. The early Egyptians. Isis was
the Goddess of the Moon, and
Osiris, her husband, was the God
CT the Sun.
3. Charles Evans Hughes,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
COP. PRESIDENT HELPLESS

A Republican president Couldn't
start a telling inquiry with a Dem
ocratic congress against him.
But a Republican house of rep
resentatives could start it and push
it to the limit, regardless of
Democratic senate, with President
Roosevelt still in office.
That is why a Republican house
would be fNorth more to the COP.
than a Republican president with
both congressional chambers against
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

j. l.. Travers has decided not to
permit his name to stand as a
nominee for director Of the cham
Der Of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

The new dollar bill carries the motto
sc Pluribus Unum" Zone From Many)
the significance of which will become
Immediately apparent every payday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

On Jan 1, 1917, the estimated
number of men under arms in
Austria-Hungary was 100000; in
Germany, 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

At this season it isn't hard to explain
the AAA to Junior. He has undoubt-
edly been paid for not footing his Christ
mas sax
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

To have a bullet wound in ones
head and still be in Jail charged
with assault with a deadly weapon
is not the most pleasant conditions
TO be in.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
TEN YEARS AGO
December %. 1925

Rain, which started falling here
shortly after noon yesterday, con-
tinued intermittently throughout
the night and morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
TOday's Horoscope

Persons born On this day are
tireless workers, deep thinkers and
logical in their judgments and
opinions.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
GRAB Bag

What is the tallest monument
in the world?
In the religion of what people
did Isis and Osiris figure promi-
nently?
What justice of the U. S. su-
preme court resigned to be candi-
date for the presidency and later
became secretary of state?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
LIKE TO INVESTIGATE

Republicans simply are bursting
for an opportunity to investigate
New Deal expenditures.
They want to make showing of
waste, incompetency, favoritism,
graft, if any.
Now, it stands to reason that
government money can't have
been ladled out in billions dollar
handfuls without the certainty that
some mistakes have been made.
The Republicans notion is to
make the most of the mistakes.
To do this they simply have got
to have an anti-administration con-
gressional investigating commit
tee.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
Words of Wisdom

Every unpunished delinquency
has family of delinquencies.-
Herbert Spencer.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
Correctly Speaking-

Same" is no longer In good use
as a pronoun, except in legal dec
umentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28
WHkS a! WHAT ATAGIpCE
w A S II N G 0 N w Q R L D
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, D. c. - If Re-
publican strategists were to be Of
fered their choice between electing
the next president or gaining con-
troll of the house of representa-
tives in the seventy fifth congress
there is small doubt that they
would prefer control of the house
of representatives. Not that they
wouldn't like the presidency also,
but, of the two selections, they
reckon that a majority in the
lower congressional chamber would
be more valuable to them. They
can't possibly wipe out the Dem
ocratic senate majority; not enough
seats are at stake at the coming
election. However, a majority of
the representatives would serve
their purpose.
For one thing, with the Town
sendites threatening a third party
movement and with boiling Dem
ocrats, led by Governor Eugene
Talmadge of Georgia and John
Henry Kirby of Texas, incubating
fourth one, politicians think they
see a chance that the job of pick
ing the 1874 president may be
thrown into the popular house of
congress. Naturally the COP. fam
cies the idea of being dominant
/ there, and doing the picking.
But, setting that contingency
aside, a dependably Republican
house of representatives would be
priceless to the Hamiltonians any
way, with a view to the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-28

Hemingway notched a place in
literature by shucking polished flub-
dubbery and socking the reader with
what the finicky call viscera but
which he called CUTS. His mile long,
The Washington times., 1935-10-09
AUGin in Forest

After many more stops we came
back to the river. Following an.
other protracted argument of our
convoy, who were as tired as we
were, we headed in a direction
still further to the left, made a
few more kilometerS, and having
spent whatever strength still re.
NAMED in us, found ourselves
again in the forest.
This time there was no doubt
that we had lost our way. Only
one alternative was left, to spend
the night in the forest, for the
utter exhaustion was now quite
general. But our leader was un.
willing to give up and went out
to reconnoiter the surrounding
country, while we got busy lighting
fires. When he came back our
fires were blazing and men were
sleeping all around them. I
stretched out my feet towards the
fire, wedged myself between the
fat warm Korolkov and my faith,
full "caddy" Borisov and immedi
ately fell fast asleep.
At early dawn our indefatigable
leader went out again to recon
noiter and discovered the large
village we were seeking some five
kilometers from our bivouac. Judg'
ing by the tracks we had left in
the snow, we should have borne
q little further right and would
The Washington times., 1935-10-09
Find q HdUen

We stood in formation in the
village square. The convey-chief
came up to us accompanied by
the head of the local soviet, who
did not bother to hide his dis
pleasure. They were having an
argument and all the emphatic
reasoning of our drab-looking
convoy-chief did not seem to i'm
press the head of the soviet at all.
"Where shall 1 put them?
Let them take care Of them
selves, there is plenty of room.
Why was I not told that q
column was on its way?"
They argued for a long time
and finally reached some conclu-
sion. DetachmentS started to
leave the left wing of our column
one after another. escorted by
soldiers. In a half-hour or so
the square was emptied.
Our group of "intelligentsia"
was escorted by a young convoy
soldier who was instructed to
find us quarters and to keep
watch over us. He made several
unsuccessful attempts. We were
not admitted into one Of the cot
tages because the head Of the
house was absent and his wife
was afraid of such a number of
questionable-looking guests.
We were rebuffed in the next
by the host himself. a commun-
iSt who did not wish to extend
hospitality to "convictS," as he
contemptuously called us. The
third cottage had children sick
with diphtheria, the fourth was
not large enough. Finally we
found two cottages, side by side,
which took us in.
Our hostess was a kind woman
about 40 years old who served a
samovar, some boiled potatoes,
millet cakes, and even a jar of
sour milk.
The indefatigable engineer r
Tselikov went to fetch our allot-
ment of food from the convoy
sleigh and in another hour we
were sitting around the sizzling
Samovar and eating a delicious
but quite original puree Of pota'
toes "Polonaise" which he had
concocted for us.
With royal generosity we gave
our hostess the allotment of fish
and greats we had received. Sev'
eral days later we had occasion
to remember our generosity and
to regret it.
My wet shoes and stockings
were drying on top of the stove;
my coat folded into a bundle
under my head seemed softer
than down; the floor felt like q
hair mattress. In another hour we
were all sound asleep, some Of
us on the floor, some on the
benches, and some even on tor
of the stove.
The Washington times., 1935-10-09

fail. The whole village came out
to see us off: Old men, women
and girls stood around us in
groups. Children played and
jumped around us like puppies.
The weather remained beauti.
full. The bright sun, reflected in
the snowy blanket, made us blink.
The pure cold air was invigorat-
ing and after the first hour my
tired legs stopped aching. Our
path lay through open country
with Snow-covered fields on either
side of us. Soon the village dis
appeared behind the horizon. BY
3 o'clock we had gone half way.
We all walked along merrily and
from the ranks Of the gangSters
came one of their faVorite songs
ending in the refrain:
II hold up the state official,
Make him raise his hands to
heaven,
"And escape with all his cash."
Refreshed after the rest, Korol.
kov was again diShing out his
funny stories and time passed
quickly. We made few stops. AS it
grew dark we saw lights in the
distance and at $50 we reached
a village which was to shelter us
overnight.
We stopped at the cottage of
a Shewd little drunkard who tried
his best to trade bottle of vodka
for the meat which we were to re-
ceive from the convoy. However,
there was a hitch in getting the
meat. First we were told to come
and fetch it; then it was to be
distributed in the morning. A lit
tie later that evening all the mem
bers of the convoy assembled at
their chiefs cottage for a drink
ing bout.
The village proved to be we'll
stocked with vodka. The convoy
first spent on vodka all the money
entrusted to them for feeding the
prisoners en- route and then
bartered away all our supplies.
All the meat, fish, goats and
sugar disappeared. At three in
the morning our convoy.chief,
and accompanied by
his soldiers, who could hardly
stand up, made the rounds of the
cottages to check up on the num-
ber of prisoners.