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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01
Conquerors Of World
 Flight Nearing Base
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were asked as they inspected the I Winnie Mae.
 Great" Post replied.
 And we're feeling fine as fiddles," :" | Gatty added.
 The rain had stopped when the Winnie Mae began it's run down Portage avenue, but low clouds hung over the city. The big monoplane | gained headway and was quickly into the air. It gained altitude slowly at first, then climbed into the sky, circled back and was off to the southeast.
 The world flyers, heroes for a weeks amazing work in this imagln- ation-inspiring feat, hoped to make the 1850 miles to New York in about IA hours. They will have cir cled the earth in eight days and about 12 hours if they do-beating by far the record set by the German dirigible of 22 days in July of 1929.
 The globe-circling team brought their white monoplane down here last night at 4.37 (M.S.TD (6:37 E.S.T.) in a driving rain. The mud at the airport was so thick after a steady downpour of the past "A hours that the craft became stuck and had to be hauled from the mire ! by a tractor.
 The two men left Fairbanks, Alas ka, at 3:2O a. m. (S:20 E.S.T) and for the first part of the trip flew over desolate territory. For nearly five hours no word of their flight reached the outside world. The first word came from a point 200 miles from White Horse, Yukon. They next were sighted at Fairview, 360 miles north of Edmonton. Their progress was recorded again as they flew over the northern Alberta rail- way line. The next communication point to sight them was only 20 miles from Edmonton.
 The average speed from Falr- banks to Edmonton was about 175 miles an hour.
 It was said unofficially that the Winne Mae travelled the last $50 miles on the trip at speed of ap- proximately 200 miles per hour. All the way around the earth to Edmonton they made phenomena, time, racing across land and sea with almost express-train precision. They were on or ahead of schedule from the time they left Roosevelt Field N. Y., a week ago yesterday morn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01
Martin Guiltless Of Negligence In
 Coelho Death
Smyh Finds No Criminal Negligence on Part of Driver of Car Which Struck and Fatally Injured Ihree- Year-Old-Several Witnesses Subjected to Exam= inatiOn

time, the deceased, a child three years old, was on the westerly side of South Elm street near Pond street. He was alone and appeared to have come from the direction Of South Main street. He was crying and apparently on his way home at 50 Pond street.
 At this time Robert Martin, oper- ating a 1927 Chrysler coach, was proceeding south along South Elm street. Martin, properly licensed operator of motor vehicles, was travelling about 25 miles an hour. In the front seat with him was Martin Stanley while Mrs Stanley and Marie Ney occupied the rear seat. Martins headlights were lit and in proper working order, but he did not see the Coelho child on the side walk. As Martin approached Pond street the deceased left the side- walk and started to run across the road to the easterly side of South Elm street. Martin saw the child when he was about five feet from the curb and immediately turned his car to the left and applied his foot brake, but the right fender of his car struck the deceased, throw ing him to the roadway with con- siderable force and fracturing his skull.
 Martins car proceeded about twelve feet after the deceased was struck, coming to a stop against the curb on the easterly side of the street. Deceased was at once re- moved to St Mary's hospital where he died at 3:25 p. m., D. $. T.. on the followin~ day, May 30th, 1881.
 I find that said death was caused by a fracture of the skull when de- ceased was struck by the Chrysler coach operated by Robert Martin, but that said death was not due to the criminal negligence of the said Robert Martin.
 In compliance with the statute l have filed with the clerk of the su- perior court for New Haven county at Waterbury my report of the ln- quest together with the testimony taken
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New York Will
 Welcome Them
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line, where they will be given over to the New York committee. Present plans call for a route to some hotel where the flyers can make good some of their promise to "sleep AS hours straight" once the flight is completed. On Thursday morning the round of official receptions will begin. The flyers will be taken to the Hudson river at 10 o'clock, where they will board the municipal reception tug, Macon. The tub will proceed down. stream to the Battery, escorted by fireboats, police boats and tugs, to the accompaniment of siren blasts from every craft in the harbor. At the battery a procession will be formed, augmented by a large detail of police and units from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. The through the traditional storm of torn telephone books, ticker tape and confetti to city hall, where the official party will be welcomed formally by Mayor Walker in the aldermanic chambers.
 At noon Thursday Post and Gatty are scheduled to have luncheon with Mayor Walker and in the evening they will be guests at a dinner to DC gwen Dy WllldL1l beLIS, pTcSlucIt of the United Detroit Aircraft Cor poration, builders of the monoplane Winnie Mae.
 Nassau county officials have asked that every available county policeman be assigned to the airport to aid in handling the crowd expect ed for the landing.
 Cleveland Ready
 Cleveland, July - (UP) - A squadron of aerial police was ready to day to greet Harold Gatty and Wiley Post when they near Cleve- land for their final refueling stop.
 Expectant crowds were gather ing early at the Municipal Airport where the record-smashing airmen were scheduled to land. Special police were detailed to handle the huge crowds.
 Flying conditions in the Cleveland area were reported good, with a high ceiling prevailing. The weather forecast was fair and warmer.
 It was understood there would be no ceremonies when the famous flyers arrive. Aerial traffic over the port was to be suspended when the Winnie Mae is sighted, officials said.
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Deputy Coroner Walter W. Smyth issued the following finding to-day on the death of David Coelho. three wears of age, who died of injuries caused in an auto accident. He ex- onerates Robert Martin, driver of the car. from criminal negligence.
 The report is as follows:
 Having been notified on the 29th day of May, A. D., 1881, that DaVld Coelho, a white male, three years oi age, lay in imminent danger or death at St. Mary's hospital, Tn the town of Waterbury, county or New Haven, state of Connecticut, as result of being struck by an auto mobile. I at once made all proper inuuiry respecting the cause Of said condition. Having been further noIi- fled on the 30th day of May, A. h., 1881. that the said David Coelho had died and having reason to suspect said death was caused by the crlm. fnal act. omission or cerelessness or another. I continued said inquiry and held an inquest to determine the manner and cause of said death' Said inquest was conducted at the town of Waterbury. The following named witnesses were examined:
 Joseph F. ColllllS, Wdleipoi Po lice department.
 Virginia LaChance, 113 South Elm St., Waterbury, Conn.
 Bernie Lankowski, 7 Pond St., Wa terbury, Conn.
 Robert Martin, 1889 Thomaston Avenue, Waterbury, Conn.
 Marie Ney, IS Maplye St., Water- bury, Conn.
 Edward Roach, Waterbury police department. .
 Martin Stanley, IS Maple St., Wa terbury, Conn. ..
 Mrs. Martin Stanley, IS Maple St.. Waterbury, Conn.
 Having considered all of the tes- timony taken at the inquest, l, on the 1st day of July, A. U. l95l' made the following finding concern ing said death:
 On the night of May 29th, at about ten o'clock daylight saving
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Mrs Post and
 Backer of Flyers
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(Continued from Page l) welt field, they will see the men whose success has meant so much to them.
 "Wiley will finish it all right" said the pilots 21-year-old wife. "He is the best flyer in the world"
 And Gatty," added Hall, the unassuming packer of the Winnie Macs flight, 'is the worlds best navigator. As for the plane, it was the best that money could buy"
 Since tIeir arrival yesterday to welcome the flyers at the end of their journey, Mrs Post and Hall have found little time to do more than give interviews and keep them selves informed on the progress of the final dash across North America. The young housewife, who has been married four years now, has mana aged to do "a little shopping" though.
 Though her husbands colGsuming interest in flying finds her respon- sive, young Mrs Post has not fol- lowed the example of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and learned to pilot her own plane.
 "Im domestic" she explained with a smile.
 She is busy enough, she added. Hooking after Wiley and taking care of the house back in Maysville." She didn't object to his plans for the world flight when he first con- fided them to her.
 "Would you want him to do it again?"
 Well, I wouldn't exactly want him to but if he insisted I sup pose I'd tell him to go ahead" she said.
 As for Hall, a former Texas far mer who made a fortune in oil, he did 1t "all for his little girl" The "Little Girl" for whom the famous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01
DEPUTY CORONER EXONERATES AUTOIST
OLD RONSIDES
 IS ONCE AGAIN
 IN COMMISSION
Pennies of American School
 Children Put Fighting Frigate Back on the Sea

Boston, July 1.-UP)-Restored to her erstwhile glory by the penny contributions of American school children, Old Ironsides was recom- nissioned here to-day almost within sight of the spot where she was first launched 134 years ago.
 While hundreds of men, women and children looked on, naval and civic dignitaries attending the re- commissioning exercises at Boston Navy Yard paid glowing tributes to the famous frigate whose feats in war and peace fill many pages Of American history.
 To-day's colorful ceremonies cli- maxed three years of restoration work begun in 1928 after Old Iron S. Constitution, had long rested as ar all but forgotten relic at the navy yard.
 Tomorrow this one-time terror of the sea, built in George Washing tons day, will leave in tow for Portsmo outh, N. H., the first of IF At- lantic ports to be visited during a tour which will end at Yorktown, Va, October 16.
 Speaking at the recommissioning exercises, pr Curtis D. Wilbur, for mer secretary of the navy, declared that Old Ironsides links the present with the past, and for at least an- other hundred years will link the present with the future."
 "Is it too much to hope," he added, that when the day comes to bid good-by to this old ship, a hum dred years hence, that the instru- mentalities of peace and justice will be so far developed that war be- tween civilized and Christian nations will be as unthinkable as another war between any of the AS sovereign states which compose this nation?"
 The quarter-deck of Old Ironsides was the scene of the recommission- irg ceremony. Rear-Admiral Louis M. Mutton, commandant of the navy yard, read the orders to commission the Constitution, directed colors and jack to be hoisted and the watch to be set." The national salute was fired from the navy yard. Comman- der Louis J. Gulliver read his or ders to take command of Old Iron sides and Admiral Mutton formally delivered the ship to him.
 Other speakers included Ernest l.. Jahncke, assistant secretary of the navy; U. S. Senator David I. Walsh, Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massa- chusetts, and Mayor James M. Cur ley of Boston. William Cardinal O'Connell, Catholic archbishop of Boston, pronounced the benediction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

bury was given very much atten- CTS.
 The noon hour to-day was much cooler due to 8 clouded sky which gave indications of a much needed
 shower and one that would certain ly be welcomed.
 Deaths from Heat. The body of Daniel Blackmar, 60, for thirty years well known in Wa terbury as a night watchman for banks and business establishments, was found on the kitchen floor of his residence, 357 Willow street late last evening. The discovery was made by William Flynn of the Wa terbury Savings bank, an associate of the deceased, and Detective Jo- seph Bendler. They conducted an investigation when MT Blackmar failed to report for duty. Death was
 due to a heart attack, possibly in- duced by heat. It marked the sec ond death reported here within twenty-four hours that is believed to be traceable to the oppressive weather.
 Charles Ostlund, 60, of 1922 East Main street collapsed on Walnut street yesterday noon and was pro- nounced dead when taken to St
 Mary's hospital by the police. He was a painter.
 The death of "Dan" Blackmar, a former member of the supernumer- ary force of the Waterbury police department was 8 great surprise to hundreds of his friends. It is be- lieved that he returned home from work early yesterday morning and was preparing a lunch when taken i'll. Residents of the house reported
 hearing someone knocking on the floor yesterday but attributed the noise possibly to MT Blackmar work ing about the house.
 Last evening about 9 o'clock when MT Blackmar failed to send in his customary evening calls to the American District Telegraph com pany word was sent to bank officials. They requested MT Flynn to investt- gate. After visiting the different banks and stores that the deceased was accustomed to inspecting sever- al times during the night. MT Flynn asked the police for assistance. Ac-
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Post agreed with Gatty. He scanned weather charts and said he would set a straight course Tor Cleveland. The weather had cleared considerably as dawn brightened. A 45-mile an hour tail-wind speeded them on their way across the North American continent toward the achievement of their daring goal.
 The flyers were up at 2:3o a. m. (4:3O a. m. EST) after eight hours sleep. They ate hearty breakfast and then inspected the plane. Me- chanics had it wheeled out onto Portage avenue, a broad pavement which gave them a Emile straight away into the wind.
 A steady rain during the night had made the airfield soggy and the runways were too water-logged for a safe start from their uneven, soft urfaces. The avenue was cleared and lined with hundreds of Edmon- ton citizens who cheered and waved and shouted enthusiastically in the rain as the big white plane gathered headway and was off into the mists to the southeast.
 "How did you sleep?" the flyers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

airpiane Is Named. is Mrs Winnie Mae Fain 9f Long Beach. Cal who
 Post waS Halls private pilot for some time{
 He's been promoting me for this round-the-world flight for the last couple of years" the oil operator revealed. T'd sunk about $100,000 backing two endurance flight that didn't come off very we'll. But last January told him he could have the plane for this trip and I'd see 10 it that the fuel and weather reports were taken care of. There was only one condition-that his wife give her consent.
 "Gatty? never saw Gatty un- til last February but Wiley wanted him for navigator and said o. k. guess it was a pretty good choice, too."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

the inter-racial commission as "Communistic,' has retained George Chamlee, Chattanooga attorney, to make the appeal.
 Under no circumstances will cooperate with Chamlee," Beddow told the United Press by telephone from his home at Birmingham. Yet both are working toward the same end, in the belief that injus- tice was done April when a Mad. ison county circuit court jury at ScottsboAo, Ala, convicted the Ne groes on the testimony of the two girls, and of Orvil Gilley, 8 white boy.
 Gilley, according to the testim ony, was one of seven white boys who were riding in the gondola, or open, freight car with the two white girls when a gang of 12 Negroes came piling down from an adjoining box car roof and engaged in a free-for- all fight. He was knocked out, he said, and was the only white boy not thrown off the train.
 Those who were pitched off ran to a telegraph station and flashed word ahead of what was transpiring. A farmer who testified he saw the train pass said he was on a nearby ! Negroes, the two girls and Gilley were taken off the train by an armed posse some 30 miles from the point where the white boys were routed. | At the trial, 10000 persons f1ocked into Scottsboro. National guards men were in command. Judge A. E. | Hawkins of the ninth Alabama cir
 cult presided. Solicitor R. G. Bailey prosecuted; Steven RoWdy of Chat
 tanooga appeared for the defense
 but turned over the actual conduct
 of the case to Milo Moody, Scotts-
 boro attorney appointed by the court.
 Solicitor Bailey told the United Press he believed the case was con-
 ducted in "absolute fairness and tha1
 under the Alabama law. the eigh' Negroes were convicted in all justice
 One of the Negroes was tried sep. arately, but the jury disagreed.
 "Som ething certainly happened 1T that car," Bailey said, reviewing the testimony of physicians called by the state. eff I had the slightest suspicion any one of those defend. ants was not guilty, l would be down conferring with the governor right now" | pr Alexander, however, attacked the conditions under which the trial was conducted, denounced the al
 legged injection of Communism
 into the case by the International labor defense, and said:
 Personally l have great faith in the Alabama supreme court. Over and over again, the higher courts ot
 the South have demonstrated thai
 they do not make racial discrimina- tion in cases that come before them
 A fact that unfortunately does not
 sometimes exist in the lower courts.' .'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

I- Napoleon Dyer, Negro, blamed it
 on the heat when he was caught
 stealing 150 pounds of ice.
 Springfield, Illinois, July 1-UP) Doubling Thomases in the county treasurer's office registered skepti-
 cism when told the temperature was 1923, the hottest in Springfeld's s history. They placed thermome-
 ter in the glare of the sun to check
 the reading. The mercury spurted to 120 degrees.
 Chicago, July l - (UP) - Chi cago's water system pumped 1,259,- 27O,OOO gallons of water yesterday, new record. Kind hearted firemen opened so many street hydrants to cool children that second and third floor apartment dwellers complained
 the pressure wasn't getting water to them. "
 Chicago, July 1 - (UP) - Loop ouslness houses and many firms
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June Heat Wave
 Goes Into July
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though the toll among city dwellers also was great. The agricultural areas reports included:
 Scores of farmers overcome while working in the hot sunshine and more than a dozen deaths after prostrations.
 Oats and other grain crops dam aged by heat and corn crop in need of rain.
 Water shortages and baked pas lures forcing farmers to send cattle and other livestock prematurely to market.
 Hundreds of horses dead after becoming overcome while pulling heavy harvesting machinery. c. A. Donnell, weather observer for the Chicago district, said to-day he could forecast no general relief from the heat.
 Contrasting the sultry winds and hot sunshine over the rest of the nation, frosty temperatures pre- vailed in the state of Washington and in other sections west of the Rockies.
 ''Heat freaks" by the score were recounted as the mercury rose to as high as 100 degrees. Several broods of chickens were matched by the sun after hens left their nests or died from the heat.
 Wide cracks appeared in the walls of buildings which were ex- banded by the heat. Lives were inn periled in several instances when portions of the weakened buildings
 Authorities of many cities were troubled by dogs driven mad by the heat and bathers appearing at beaches with little or no clothing. Among the cities which recorded temperatures above the century mark were Milwaukee, Atlanta, Birmingham, Huron, s. D.. Little Rock, Ark, Moorhead, Minn, Monti- cello, Ga, Peoria, III, and Evans vile Ind. Scores of cities had tenn peratures above 90.
 The death toll in the Chicago area from the heat was reported unofficially as 151. The fatality list in Wisconsin reached 63; Indiana, 54; and Iowa, S1. Minnesota, the Kakotas, Montana and other states also reported large numbers of deaths.
 Heat Waves Bunker Hill, Illinois, July 1 - (UP) - A freak tornado left a mass of debris in Bunker Hill today. Be- fore the home of Mrs George Lee was wrecked, rain fell in torrents on the one side of the house, leaving the other side dry. Evansville. Indiana, July 1-(UP)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01
Quake Was Felt
 in Waterbury
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surprised to learn this morning that it was. The dock was quivering, as we'll as the boat. The roaring noise and shaking sensation lasted about a minute, just about quarter to eleven"
 The tremor was felt in Waterbury and caused many to look around and inquire what it meant. It is believed to have been the most mo- ticeable disturbance of the kind ever noticed in this city.
 As far as could be learned no dam age caused by the tremor, which was also felt in Danbury, Roxbury, Gaylordsville, Cornwall Bridge and Woodbury. At New Milford, almost 100 persons rushed from a theater when the tremor caused buildings to shake, rousing many from their beds,
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companied by Detective Bendler, MT Flynn went to MT Blackmar's home. Failing to obtain an answer to the knocks the two effected an entrance and found the body on the kitchen floor. It had apparently fallen from a chair drawn close to the table, where some food rested.
 Medical Examiner Dr Edward H. Kirschbaum viewed the remains and attributed death to heart failure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

in Wisconsin gave half or full holi- days because the heat made their employees so listless that little work was accomplished.
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Eight Are Under
 Death Sentence
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 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which works in harmony with the Inter-Racial co2nmission, has ap- preached Roderick Beddow, Bir- mingham criminal lawyer, to handle the forthcoming appeal. The inter '>~Ai~A-1 la.hor defense. described by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-01

OLDEST CLERGYMAN 1O3
 Emscote (Warwick), Eng (UP)- In celebrating his 103rd birthday, the Rev Denham R. Norman, oldest clergyman in England, advised the young men of 60 and 70 years not to stay in bed too long.
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Heat Does Not
 Dimish a Bit

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Evansville. Indiana. July 1--(UP)
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Just the set for the seashore, camp or country. Suitable for h 0 m e use where space will not permit a larger model.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
N M'FADDEN GETS
DEATH THREAT

Representative Louis T. Nc.
Fadden tR0, of Pennsylvania,
who charged President Hoover
with violating his oath of office
in putting over the moratorium
proposal. yesterday received a
letter threatening his life.
The letter, regarded by Nc
Fadden as the work of a fanatic,
was sent from New York. 1t was
printed in ink and said in part:
BE careful of your step.
You know you are going to get
yours and soon your family.
I'll soon be walking slow be-
hind you only you won't know"
The letter. sealed in home.
made envelope. was poSt-marked
December 81, 4:30 p. m, from
the Grand Central Annex, New
York. 1t was addressed to Sen.
McFaden of Penn. Washington,
D. c." McFadden said:
81 am not worried. I will
not be deferred in my fight
against foreign raids on our
Treasury"
The Washington times., 1931-12-23

Through the cooperation of all
churches, civic and fraternal or
ganizations in Arlington, Va,
sponsored by the Arlington Pres
byterian Church, the community
is having it's first community
Christmas tree this year, accord
ing to an announcement made to-
day by the Re-. E. G.. Latch.
A living tree at the corner of
Columbia Pike and Bingham
Road has been selected, and will
be decorated and lighted by a
committee headed by Albert C.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
XMAS TREE IN ARLINGTON

Scheffel county fire marshal,
The program will be presented TO-
morrow evening between 6:45 and
tbs o'clock. The tree will be
lighted each evening from Christ
mas Eve to New Years Night.