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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
Addition al
 Society

Judge ..nd Mrs Frank P. McEvoy of Robbins street will be among the patrons and patronesses for the AL bertus Nagnus Alumnae dance at the Race Brook Country club which will be he'd next Friday.
 Mir and Mrs Albert Greenberg of Grove street, entertained at a bridge at their home on Wednesday night: The guests were e. Attorney Ut. y Mrs Joseph Goldberg, MT and Mrs Edward Cohen and Rubin R. Brav- erman. iIigh scores were made by Mrs Goldberg and MT Braverman.
 Mrs Edward Cohen of Moran street gave card party at her home on Thursday night, at which the guest of honor was Mrs Albert Green berg. who has recently made her home in this city. The guests were Mrs Trank Slomowitz. Mrs Fred Reich, Mrs William Schneer, Ms Dave Goldberg, Mrs Philip Cohen. Mrs BenDamin Strachman, and Mrs Albert Greenberg. Prizes were Mrs Benjamin Strachman, and Mrs Cohen for high scores and to Mrs Greenberg as guest of honor. A luncheon was served.
 Dr and Mrs c. E. Munger of Grove street arc spending a few days In New York where they are registered at the Chatham hotel.
 pr and Mrs M. J. Lawlor of North Main street leave today for Palm Beach, Fla. where they will spend several weeks.
 A regular meeting of the Y. w. 1T. A. will be held on Monday evening at 8:15 o'clock at the club rooms, at the Waterbury Hebrew institute on Kingsbury street. Final lans and ar rangements will be discussed relative to the annual formal dinner dan sant to be held at the Rainbow room of the Hotel Waterbury on Sunday evening, February 15. Valentine ia vors and decorations will be used. The committees in charge of the af- fair consist of Miss Rae Kobotchnick tickets; Miss Reah B. Goldberg and Mrs Dave Harris, arrangements; and Mrs Dave Harris and Mrs Ed ward Cohen, mistresses of ceremo- nies. Arrangements are being made for the annual entertainment and dance to be given by tho Y. W. Fl. A. on May 5, under the direction of Mrs Edward Cohen, director and coach, and Mrs Harris and Miss Goldberg as arrangement committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
|REICHSTAC HAS BEATEN OFF ALL
 ITS OPPONENTS
Motions of MiscOnfidence Were All Defeated and Govt Sailed Through in Safety

Berlin. Feb 7-(UP)-The Reich- stag rejected motions of misconfid- ence against the Bruening govern ment, Introduced by Fascists and Communists, by vote of 293 to 221 today. There were 15 abstentions.
 A motion submitted by F'ascists demanding the dissolution of the Reichstag was defeated by vote of SIS to 207.
 Rejection of misconfidence mo- tions continued when the Reichstag, by a vote of 312 to 206. with sev en abstentions, voted to pass over q nationalist misconfidence motion d. gainst minister without portfolio GottfriaJ Treviranus and proceed to the nnxt item on the agenda.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
Objects to Hoover Interfering in the
 Judge Dispute

Wash ton, Feb 7-(UP) )-Presi- dent Hoover's effort to avert spit in the republican party in Minne- sota as q result of the controversy over a judgeship was coldly receig- ed today Ly the blind Senator Thom- as D. Schall. repn, Minn. While Schall declined to comment on the letter written by the president yes- terday. hiG associates asserted he had no intention of accepting MT Hoo ver's proposal that eight or ten more names of candidates be submitted to the Whi'e House. Schall will stafd by his ndida1o. Ernest Michel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

Have you a mohair-covered chair or sofa in your home? If so, you may be two hundred and fifty dol- lars the richer for 1t!
 The Democrat Is in receipt of a message from the Household Sci ence Institute, Chicago, asking for help in locating the oldest piece of mohair-upholstered furniture in the United States. The institute feels that there is a possibility of it's be. ing found in this section. The style of the sought for furniture or it's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
POST OFFICE EMPL0YES FINGER PRINTED
Local Staff Is Classified At
 Headquarters
Captain Keegan Assists in Work Governments Plan Prevents Possibility of Criminals Being Employed in Federal Buildings Throughout the Country

The care exercised by the govern ment in the selection of It's employees is evident in the fact that every man or woman who enters the postal ser vice is finger printed, record of these being filed at Washington, D. C. Yesterday, Captain William Keegan, of the detective bureau. classified q group for the local post office.
 According to a postal official, this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs Jennie F.
 (Crittcnden) Johnson, will be held from the Alderson funeral home to- morrow afternoon with services at the chapel of the Second Congrega- tional church at 2:30 o'clock, Rev Moses F. Lowell officiating. The body will be sent to Bellefont, Penn, on Sunday for burial which will take place Monday Friends are re- quested to kindly omit flowers.
 Funeral services for Mrs Carrie A. Hoyt will be held from the Alderson Monday afternoon at o'clock Buri- al will be in old Pine Grove ceme- tery. Friends may call at the fu-
 neral home this evening and to-
 morrow.
 Funeral services for, Dennis Sweiger of 51 Grown street will be
 held from the LaW1or funeral home,
 21 Cooke street tomorrow afternoon at 9 o'clock to the Russian Greek
 Catholic church on Grown street.
 Burial will be in the Russian Greek
 Catholic cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs Mary Johnson W1IldInS VIII Dc nelu MOUudy dl- ternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the to the Zion Baptist church where services will be conducted at 2 o.
 clock. Burial will be in Pine Grove
 cemetery.
 The funeral services for Miss Susie
 E. Hill, aged 87 years, who died yes- terday afternoon at her home, 1
 First avenue following brief ill., ness, are to be held Monday after noon at 2 o'clock at her home, Rev Arthur r. McKenny officiating. Bur ial will be in Riverside cemetery Friends are asked to omit the send ing of flowers.
 Miss Hill was born in this city on February 3, 1S44, the daughter of Junius Favette and Elizabeth (Porter) Hill. Miss Hill was n de-
 scendant of Revolutionary ancestors
 and was one of the oldest members of the Melicent Porter chapter, tion.
 She is survived by a nephew, Rob- ert Hill Leach and n grand niece. Suzanne Hill Leach of this city and by two other nephews, Clarence L.. and Trubee J. Doolittle and three gra nd -nephews all of Woodmant and by a number of cousins. The funeral of Walter J. Kelly took place this morning from his
 home in Middlebury at 8:30 o'clock to the Church of St John of the Cross at 9 o'clock. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. Waterbury The pallbearers were: John Delaney. Jo- seph McNellis, Louis Began, Thomas
 Brosman. Matthew Farrell and John Karragan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
Naugatuck Iron
 Worker Killed
John Peterson Falls Eighty Feet in Philadelphia
 Coming Home

to be announced later.
 He is survived by his father, John Peterson. former well known painter of the borough but now residing in Cromwell; three sisters, Mrs Arthur Holmes, Mrs Alice Haversack and Mrs Christine Holmes, both of Sey- mour; four brothers, Raymond of Seymour, Odgord of Philadelphia, Fred of Naugatuck, his twin brother, and Peter Christensen.
 The deceased was a member of the local aerie of Eagles. This organiza- ton will hold a special meeting Sun day night at 7:30 at which arrange ments to attend the funeral will Dc made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
Thirty We're Hurt as Subway Trains
 Were in Crash

New York. Feb 7-(UP)-Thirty persons were injured, three serious ly, today when a southbound train in the East Side subway crashed into the rear end of an empty train which WAS moving on to siding at 146th street, in the Bronx.
 The force of the crash hurled pas sengers out of their seats, broke windows in the cars, and crushed the forward platform of the first car. Traffic was delayed for an hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
HAS GONE WET

Miami, Fla, Feb z. (UP)-Chair- man Jouett Shouse of the demo- cratic executive committee, declar- ing that the democratic party has al- ready "gone wet by virtue of the declarations of it's leaders in q maj. ority of states, has called upon the party as a whole to take a definite stand on prohibition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
(speciaI to the Dcmocrat)

Naugatuck, Conn, Feb 6.-John Peterson, a former resident of the borough, was killed in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon when he plung- ed from building on which he was working. Peterson was a steel and iron worker and had been away from the borough for over a year follow ing his trade. Early reports received here stated that he fell eighty feet to his death.
 The body will be brought to Naugatuck this afternoon and taken to the home of his sister, Mrs Arthur Holmes, from where the funeral will be held Monday afternoon, the hour
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
STUDENT
 CRUEL TO WIFE

Los Angeles. Feb 7.-(UP)-Beau Williams Hymer, former New Eng land society girl and Ziegfeld Follies actress, charged that her husband was cruel to her, in q divorce suit on file to-day against Warren Hymer, former Yale student and son Lf John E. Hymer: author of East Is Vest" Warren Hymer is moving picture actor, usually being cast in the role of a "hard guy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

eliminates any possibility of any criminal entering the service. As the Washington office has & file of the finger-prints of all criminals, they match" finger-prints of applicants and if it is found that any individual has g. criminal record, he is imme- diately disqualified.
 There are numerous other reasons for the desire of the department to have it's employees listed in this uniuue file.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
GET RID OF ALIENS,

Washington E'e3 1.-UP) A de- termined drive by the department of labor to rid the country of un- desirible aliens is now under way, it was learned to-day. This campaign is nationwide in scope, but particular attention is being paid to the New York city area, where numbers of aliens have ben arrested in the last few days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
FRANCE MOVES
 TO SAVE HER
 OLD CHURCHES

Paris.-Through the generosity of John D. Rockefeller. the mutilated glory of Rheims Cathedral is being restored and this has caused a group of French citizens to start a move ment to perserve the village churches of Normally, Brittanp, Vendee an dother French provinces, from ruin.
 A national campaign to raise 10,- O0O,00O francs for this purpose will start this year. A national league for the preservation of French churches is being former, principally to prevent the dismantling of pretty little Gothic structures and their shipping, stone by stole, to be re- erected in America.
 World famous cathedrals. such as those at Cartres and Rouen, have been classed as "historcial monu- ments," which preserves them from being sold abroard anroad and per mits them to be kept in repair with government subsidies.
 But there are thousands of other churches which are worthy of in- terest and there is no practical method for preventing them from going to decay.
 The cost of the project is esti- mated at ten million francs, about $4O0,O00, to be raised chiefly by pri- vate subscription. This will be suf- ficient to save the old churches from falling down. Restoration in any sense beyond that arresting further decay is not contemplated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
NO BAIL FOR GARRETT

Boston, Feb :. OUP)-Superior Judge Harold P. Williams has de- nied q petition for the release on bail of Oliver l.. Garrett, former head of the police liquoar squad.
 A jury late Wednesday reported Q disagreement in the case of Gar rett.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
STONE MOrN".'N TRANS
 FERRED

Atlanta. Jan 7.-(UP) Title to the Stone Mountain Memorial site here has been transferred by the Venerable family, owners. to the City of Atlanta, forecasting early resurn ption of work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
MASS NOTICE

months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated Tuesday morning. February 10th, at 8 o'clock at the Immaculate Conception church for the repose of the soul of the late Eugene Fl. Sullivan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

WANT TRUCKS TO BUILD ROADS
 Nashville. Tenn, Jan 7.-(UP)- A bill has been introduced in the Tennessee legislature by Representa- tive R. M. Murray, Carroll county, that would compel motor carriers en- gagged in commercial traffic to build their own highways.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
CALL ROTATION

Bridgeport, Conn (UP)-The "sick committee of the local kiwanis club consists of a doctor, q minister and an undertaken Usually they call on the sick Kiwanian in that order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

Mrs Mary A. Landino of M.ddlebury. Conn. Funeral Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock to St John of the Cross church.. Burial in St James ceme- tery, Naugatuck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
MAsu N0TI(,N

O'sHEA--There will be third anni- versary mass celebrated Monday at the Immaculate Conception church for the late Mrs Hannah O'Shea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07

To alleviate housing conditions. Poland is waiving communal real estate and buildings taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
DIED

DIRD-In this city Feb 6. 1891 Miss Eleanor s. Bird of Cheshire, former Iy of this city. Funeral from Alder sons, 70 Central Ave. Arrangements later
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-07
PHILADELPHIA STUDIES MOVIES

T1IIIJZhDT III7H oI ODIIIs5 VNO VIH4s1
 Philadelphia, Jan 7.-(UP)-Five prominent Presbyterians were re- gently named q committee to investi- gate charges of vulgarity in movie advertising. The selections were made by Rev Hugh Thomson Kerr, moderator of the Presbyterian Gen. eral Assembly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21

Editor Tall Tower Top Citizens of Waterbury will un- doubdy the of Mir Lawrence C. Jones' principal of the Pinsy Woods Country Life School Pney Woods Mississippi in addressing he desired to have broadcast Water and vicinity the hope might meet the eye Of an individual
 living Waterbury pleasant to know In that way that the brand banjo from Waterbury something very much wanted forwarded my by Mir " Connor MCoys Music reached its destination though with only copy ot Waterbury Democrat used packing it. clue to whence 1t have brought sad thoughts mind when you had made that of the
 have that Mir Connor had only thoroughly
 read the evenings issue that he used but that each member of his starr
 of the Tous had the that badly only could still render that of enwppns SO precious thing way band of joyful negro students white teeth would be doubtless all revealed by their broad smiles when unpaked Privately think they done little dancing that moment Of course only one educational work would speak of so frivolous an occur North and it possible such occurrences do take place in schools in the When Principal Jones his communication to In the of spraying human orchard Lawrence C Jones' reel tnat he unduy disturbed the students under his oecas- onally themselves by what they kids lambs we should gambong around bit believe in fact he will not be by my suggestion that his good boys did bit of tap anng when the wrapping of the Evening taken off the mysterious gift them and proved to be banjo No doubt they noticed it by who joined them as
 mule that had helped boys educa by letting them drive him. attempt to do o while he hauo lumber bricks vegetables etc. voluntarily hthr and yon Tn the interest of education seemed to me the best way 10 mourn
 mule which could play an their voices lifted mourning for the
 ue Perhaps you will kind enough forward of the paper in which this printed Principal Jones Piney Woods so that informed why the banjo sent and for what purpose for did really that good mule Indeed sent replacing him. Perhaps others of your many readers
 may be inclined little toward the purchase of new mule If such should should be glad permit the boys after having mourned the mule length of um to use the onJo in accompanying rejoicing that money enough had come in buy mu In that undoubtedly they would De good mule Waterbury With the stimulus that thought perhaps will bv contributions and with the bright thought day Pney Woods there be mule lending
 his boys help them earning education
 close this communication Sincerely yours-ary K Fiaro Principal Westover School. Mddlebury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21
[NEWWRK
uih GiIbert Swan

1 helm. The '.cape country" near Truro and Providence has swal- lowed many of the colorful per- sonalities. Juanita Clivette keeps open house in Fifth avenue. The Fifth avenue hotel, which sprouted from historic ground just off Washington Square, has intro duced a new type of Villager.
 Here are celebrities and near celebrities. writers and artists and actors of note, living in the shadow of the Washington art and being successful about it.
 One of Manhattan's most indi- vidual dwelling places is the hotel penthouse of Achmed Abdullah, the writer, who has applied the old Orient to the New Village. His walls are replicas in color of the Temple of Karnak. An Oriental atmosphere pervades. Yet, just a few steps away. dwells Judge Julian Mack of the supreme. court, who has a bent for literature as well as for law.
 Harriet Hector, the premiere danseuse of America, might be found practicing a new routine. Albert Boni, the publisher, has another penthouse, which is a gem of ultra modernistic severity, though the walls are practically papered with books. Jack Demp- sey has a standing order for a cer- atin two-room suite when he hap pens to be in town. Eva Le Gall lienne, the actress-producer, may be found there almost daily when in town. So can King Vidor, the movie director, Clara Kimball Young, Blanche Yurka, Lenore Uric, Ann Harding or Olive Bor- dan.
 Here is a modern-day Bohe- milan rendezvous, quite different from the capitals of the old Vi;- lage.
 Certain titled foreigners, who
 seek the surroundings of writers and artists-such as the Count and Countess Cortina or Sir Cecil Beck i-use this as their New York ad- dress.
 History haunts the very ground
 surrounding this section. The presidential campaigns of Grant
 and Theodore Roosevelt were
 launched there. King Edward
 when Prince of Wales, was just
 across the street at the Brevoort;
 Lincoln, Johnson. Grant, Garfield
 Harrison and Mckinley were guests
 of the old Fifth avenue hotel. Ii
 was once the headquarters of
 the republican party of America
 A changing Village is all about |. but there are still poets and
 rebels and board tables and candles
 and futile discussions that run un-
 til dawn.
 Copyright 1881 NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21

New York.--Greenwich Village
 may have had its architectural face lifted and it's famous old-timers may have drifted hither and yon but an ever-shifting tide of dream-struck youngsters leaves little groups of serious
 thingers eddying around the cam dle-lighted basements and the cof- fee shops.
 Shocks, once the uniform of the professional Villager, now are to be found in the most conservative of- fees. Bobbed hair is old-fashion- ed. One may observe few boards of the Paris ATeft Bank" variety, but long hair is passe.
 Still the side lanes that run from the main arteries of the Vil- lage have never given up their tea rooms and poetry groups and discussion societies. Vagabondia still thrives; so does Romany Marie's and the Grub Street Club meets in a Thirteenth street cafe to argue over "the facts of life Of evenings, third-rate, second- rate and even first-rate poets read their scribblings to the light of guttering candles. Several of the fixtures remain year after year, even if Bobby Edwards has be- come a lesser figure.
 The Vagabonds. one of several groups, use old-fashioned hobo signs on their walls. Harry Kemp is rarely seen about in his old haunts; nor is Maxwell Boden-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21
Uncle Rays
 Corner
AMAZON INDIANS.

In some sections of Brazil, na- tive whU wants a drink may climb a tree. He chambers up the trunk of a coconut palm, picks a coco nut. and breaks open the "soft spots." Then he drinks the coco nut milk.
 In the upper parts of the Anna zon valley, in places where white men seldom venture, live thousands of Idians. Around them is the great Amazon forest, and from the forest and the river waters they obtain most of the things they need.
 Amazon Indians use spears, blowpipes and darts to bring down game, as well as large bows and arrows. With nets they take hun dreds of kinds of fish from the river.
 Baskets are made by Amazon Indians, and they also know how to make clay dishes. Their homes are simple affairs. sometimes noth- ing more than nests amid bushes or up among the branches of trees. The Indians who sleep in. trees are 'nomads." They travel througt the forest looking for game, and do not take the trouble to build better homes. Other Amazon Jn- dians live in villages. A village hunt commonly has wooden framework, with clay walls and a matched roof.
 Indians of Brazil, as well as na- tives of other parts of tropical America, long have had the cus- tom of using hammocks made from lal ~ 1otn taI Tv- dians are given credit for having l mock" is an Indian word. An interesting legend exists among Indians who live in the lower Amazon region, not far from the sea coast. If a native were to tell you about this legend. his story would be on this order: 5 'Long ago a white man came 10 visit us. He had long beard and his name was Sume. He taught us l how to make fire. He showed us the way to plant seeds, and how to prepare cornmeal to be eaten. He told us that we should live in peace with one another. One day Sume was told that wicked Indians were plotting against his life. He went away and did not return"
 A similar story was told to Spaniards when they first entered Mexico. It is possible that ship wrecked sailors reached South American and Mexico before Co- lumbus sailed to the New World. (Scrapbook club, members may place this story in "Geography" or s'Trayel' section of their scrap- books.) 5.'+'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21

The Fourth takes pardonab pride the selection of John D Corpo city clerk. Although the racket years he from cub regular in quick me passing through the various chairs with ability and personality that brought him popularity only denzens of city the ebb and flow of humani tide along the busy He developed reportoa that could dfferene between the legitimate and coated bunk which has been doed rather freely these He recognized the faults we'll the virtues of newpaperdom and while loyal the craft permitted false sgmatsm blur his real vision of the daily wa His pleasing personality coupled with nh ent attributes kept friends worth while We give him to politics with false appraisal of human values. The game will be bettered by his presence and quick recognize type of ocehod capable of understanding the genesis of criticism and already ealoused its dehydratng effects
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21

Telling the daisies A Kiwanis Free Message Clinic has been established Chase dpeny where given week by skilled masseuse Charles keeley and Bill Conway sporting basketball jackets. Mrs Ray Shove is autoessoning Anna and Margaret Moekie Ann Herman Matilda Schmidt motord the big city, caught the 'Foies and played whoopee along Broadway Mike Moran who conducted shirt shop in Exchange place back and also secretary of the Waterbury Baseball Club was recent visitor Mike works for advertising agency In New York and hitting all eight. The Mattatueks pulled early last night after lending noise and color to the Yorktown blurb The Hiies A. C. moving It's cheaper to do this than pay rent.