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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13
Plant Guilty Of Reckless Operation;
 Court Imposes Fine
Dr. Browns Testimony on Speed of Truck and Distance Travelled With Locked Brakes, Brings Conviction in Accident Case, Involving Sedan

Mrs Rossi and Dr Brown testified for the state. The former claimed that on reaching the intersection she brought her machine almost to a complete standstill and believing that she had a good chance to cross safely started ahead. The truck, she claimed, came toward her at such a rapid rate that the only thing she could do was to pull to the left.
 pr Brown testified about the speed of the truck. the fact that it travelled a hundred feet with the brakes locked and that 1t proceeded fifty feet more when the driver pulled, up Pine street.
 Plant claimed that Mrs Rossi came to a stop and then started up and from all indications she didn't know just which way she wanted to go. The sedan hit the rear rack on his truck, he claimed.
 Judge McGrath informed Plant that it was very evident that he doesn't know the meaning of speed and that he did not have his truck under control.
 Another collision, which took place on Grand street, resulted in the arrest of Arthur HaWley, 10, oI 258 Monroe street. He surrendered to the police sometime after the crash and now faces the charges or evasion of responsibility and oper- ating without a license. The ma chine he was driving collided with a car operated by Patrick Rooney or 226 Lincoln street. Mrs Rooney and Mrs l.. Vernekin of the same address were cut about the hands and face. When Patrolmen Joseph Petit and Thomas Phelan investi- gated the accident they were unable to locate the driver. It developed that Hawley had borrowed the ma- chine from it's owner. William Pecka of Wolcott street.
 Hawley will be tried tomorrow morning. He is at liberty under bonds furnished by William B. Pape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

The testimony of Dr Charles H. Brown, who was an eye witness to an automobile crash on Cooke street yesterday afternoon, figured promi- nently to-day in the conviction of Benjamin Plant, 19, of 9 Chase Park avenue on the charge of reck- less driving. He was fined $25 and costs, but when Judge John F. Mc- Grath was later informed that he was the only one in family of eight working, the fine was remit ted and the youth given the privi- lege of paying the costs to the pro- bation officer.
 Plant, driving a two-tone truck owned by the Peoples Oil and Coal coppany, collided with sedan op- erated by Mrs Pasquale Rossi of Chipman street. The accident loc- cured at the intersection of Cooke and Pine streets. The testimony of Dr Brown and that of Traffic Off, cer Barney Burns was to the effect that the speed of the truck ap- preaching the intersection was so great that the oil truck with the brakes locked skidded distance of nearly 100 feet. It would have
  had not Mrs Rossi pulled sharply to the left. Appreciating, apparent ly. the danger. Plant turned to the right. and shot up Pine street for distance of fifty feet or more before the machine came to standstill. As he swerved about the rear of his machine struck the right rear of the sedan, crumpling the mud guard and denting the body.
 Mrs Ralph Rossi of Bishop street, one of the passengers in the car, was taken home and placed under her doctors care. She was only re- gently discharged from the hospital and it was reported that her injur- ies caused the opening of an incl sion. Mrs Pasquale Rossi, the driver. Mrs Mary Covello, her mother and Rosemary Rossi, 2, escaped injury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

the French maintain that customs should be abolished generally, as outlined in Briand's scheme for an economic federation of European states, and not altered through sec tional agreements.
 Reports of new commercial ac- cords between Austria and Italy, in- volving Hungary, have further stiff- ened the French attitude against what is regarded in Paris as move toward new economic bloc in Gen. tral Europe.
 In drawing the attention of the league council to the Austro-Ger- man accord, however, the French delegation was expected particularly to stress article 88 of the treaty of St. Germain and the Geneva protocol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

Twenty-Five prizes of s1OO each were awarded to the following:
 Miss Marie Alberts, 6252 $. Spaulling Avenue, Chicago. Ill, who lives at home.
 w. B. Barker, IT,. 42O N. Spruce Street, Winston Salem, N. C.. em- ployed by an Insurance Company.
 Eugene Barton, S625 LaLuz Street Fl Paso, Tex. railroad timekeeper. | Mrs Edward F. Daly, 1133 Louis vile Street, St Louis, Mo-, house. wife.
 ! William G. Arbacher, S0S N. Front Street. Conway, Ark, meat and cattle dealer.
 Leroy Fairman. 69 Dartmouth, Street, Forest Hills, N. Y., advertis- ing man.
 Miss Kathryn R. Francis. who lives with her mother at 44S East 22nd Street. Baltimore, Md.
 Mrs Alexis Godillot. 191 Waver!y Place, New York City, housewife. | c. w. Grange. 2316 Central Street Evanston. III, magazine space seller.
 C. S. Graybill of Paxtonville, Pa. a farmer who works as a foundry foreman during the winter.
 John l. Griffin, 1908 Jackson | a fuel and iron company.
 David c. Hill, Peyton and Airing ton Roads. York, Pa, hardware credit manager.
 Miss Elizabeth Jarrard. Porter Apartments, Lansing, Mich. secre- tary of State Board of Health. | J. w. Heating, 523 Prospect Ave- i nue, Cleveland, Ohio. salesman for an arms and ammunition Company.
 J. H. Kennedy, 2627 w. State Street, Milwaukee, Wis, electrical appliance service man.
 John Kilpelainen, R. r. D., West Paris, Maine, Finnish lumberjack.
 Dr Clinton B. Leech, 211 Angell Street. Providence, R. l., heart specialist.
 Edward Martin, 121 Liddell Street Buffalo, N. Y., draw bench operator
 Mrs L. c. Willard, sos Stockley Gardens. Norfolk, Va, granddaugh- ter of former Governor Kemper of | Virginia, and prominent socially. | Eugene Sartini. 745 Chapel Streer, Ottawa, Ill.,, chauffeur. | Gregory Luce Stone, 755 Texas Street, Mobile, Ala, welder. c. l.. Thomas, Mount Airy, N. C., dentist.
 Lee R. womack, AS Penney Ave- nue, Amherst, Ohio, locomotive fire | man.
 J. Arthur Wood. 21 Burke Street, Mechanisville. N. Y., locomotive fire man.
 Emery Herbert Young, 266 Fair view Avenue, Painted Post, N. Y.. glass worker in Corning. N. Y. A total of 952,2sS answers were received in the contest, which was announced in an eight-day news paper advertising campaign in which 1,713 dailes. 2,139 weeklies and 426 college and financial newspapers were used. The only other an- nouncement of the contest was on the Camel Pleasure Hour broad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

Winston-S Salem, N. C., May 18th James Thomas Sharkey, 32, a milkman in Boston, was awarded the $25,OOO first prize in the $50,OO nation wide contest for the best let ter setting forth the advantages to smokers of the new moisture-proof cellophane wrapper on Camel cig- arctic packages, officials of R. J.. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the contest judges announced today. Sharkey lives at 101 Train Street, Dorchester. Mass, a suburb of Bos- ton.
 Mrs Walter Sweet, mother of three children and wife of a Marine Corps captain now stationed at the Brook Iyn (N. Y) Navy Yard, won the second prize of $1O.OOO:
 Third prize of $5,000 went to Julius M. Nolte, real estate dealer of Duluth, Minn, and former secre- club.
 In all thirty-eight prizes were awarded, of which five were for $l,- 900 each, five were for $500 each, and twenty-five were for $100 each. Judges of the contest were Roy Howard, chairman of the board of he Scripp- Howard league of news papers; Charles Dana Gibson, fam ous artist and publisher of Life Magazine, and Ray Long, president of the International Magazine com pany and editor of Cosmopolitan.
 The five prizes of $1,OOO each were awarded to the following:
 Albert B. Franklin, 3rd, 22-year- old graduate student at Harvard. rA Ilr rirlsI sIntn nd Cambridge, Mass.
 John R. Mccarthy, 3S. blind to- bacco store proprietor of 721 Man street, Willimantic, Conn.
 Frederick F. Robinson, Latin American mining engineer residing In Coronado Beach, Calf.
 William A. Schrader, aerial photo- srapher at Curtis Wright Airport. Louisville, Ky, who lives in the Brent Apartments in New Albany. Ind.
 Dr D. II. Soper of 523 E. Brown street, Iowa City, Ia., an instructor in dentistry at the University. of Iowa.
 The five prizes of $500 each were awarded to the following:
 Frank Cartwright, engineer of T02 Transportation Building, Wash- lngton, D. C., who lives in Chevy Chase, Md.
 Mrs Edith Paddleford Cochrane. Glenvale Avenue, Darien, Conn.,, housewife, mother and author.
 Miss Barbara Lawless, 21-year- old stenographer of 311 East Lan- caster avenue, Ardmore, Pa, who lives at home.
 Mrs Jane Parsons of 325 East 79th Street. New York City, a for mer actress. now married and the mother of two children.
 Richard W. Vogt. Green Bay Road, Waukeegan, H., Swiss nur- serynan, who has been in the Unit ed States only six months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13


 
  of Y,  third of each $1O0 each awarded will Winston Salem N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

MUST OKAY FLARES
 Washington.-Illum flares on licensed planes carrying passen- gers at night must have the approval of the department of commerce, ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

of 1922. under which Austria pIe1se5 not to sign away its economic In- dependence without the consent af the signatories. These included France. Great Britain. Italy and czechosIovakia. In return. Austria re- |ceived financial aid.
 A stiff battle on this question was expected during the forthcoming council session, regarded as one of the most significant in recent years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

Palestine was taken from Turkey at the close of the war and is now governed by Great Britain under mandate granted by the League Of Nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

cording to set of minimum require ments adopted by the aeronautics branch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
DEFENSE IN THE
 KINGSTON CASE
 GIVES EVIDENCE
Securities of Company
 Were Increasing in Mar- < ket Value While Other
 Stocks Declined

Hartford, Conn, May 12.-(UP). Securities of the F. E. Kingston and company subsidiaries were fn- creasing in market value while most other stocks on the open market were depreciating rapidly, Emil J. Monde, Hamden accountant, testi- fled in superior court to-day at the trial of five Kingston officials on fraud charges.
 His report of the condition of the Connecticut Utilities Corporation as of December 31, 1929, he testified on cross-examination gave the mar ket value of securities of the Powell corporation, New Haven and Shore Line Railway and Groton and Ston- ington Traction company as $754,- 025. Their purchase price was $407,- 595, he said, giving the corporation classes of securities held by the cor poration were listed as costing $1,- 376,692.82 while their market value amounted to s995,165.07, or a de- preciation of 27 1-2 per cent.
 The defense called Walter A. Still man, consulting mining engineer of Altuna, Pa., to read his report of the appraisal of the Sonman Shaft Coal Mine, located near Altuna, which was taken over by the King ston company in 1927 when the Powel corporation became a sub- sidiary. States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn objected to admission of the report on the grounds the Powell corporation was not at that time as- sociated with the Kingston com pany. His objection was overruled by Judge Frank P. McEvoy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
Named as Court
 Judge To-day
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made to care for Judge Harry H' Reardsley. who was recently. auto- matically relieved of his duties on the expiration of his term. oniess there is some unexpected actiVity within the next forty-eight hours Attorney Finn will be the only judge of inc local court of common pleas In addition to Chairman Johnson expression of doubt. Judge E; Feck of Bristol also stated that he aid hos believe there was any possibility oi a bill being drafted and voted 1avor- ably upon during the remaining days of legislation.
 mittee in stressing the fact that its members considered Attorney finn's Appointment as part of their doings, is in line with past reasoning on the part of the general assembly. The committee holds to the claim that the governor has not the pow CT of recommendation in regard to iudgeships of the court of common pleas. While the resolution naming Attorney Finn originally came rom Governor Cross, Chairman Johnson emphasized in his report that held to it's constitutional rights and named Attorney Finn. He stated however, that in the senate to-mor- row when actions has been been taken on the judgeships 8 resolu- tion will be passed investing the power of recommendation in the governor for future cases.
 Other measures of similar im- portance will be taken up at to- morrow's session.
 The appointments of Attorney Finn will meet with great approval in Waterbury owing to his personal popularity and general qualifica-- lions The fact that the appointment has been changing fire" for so many weeks after Governor Cross proposal has only made public in- terest keener in his success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
PHONE s7
NOTICE.

THE BUREAU OF ASSESSMENT. of the City of Waterbury, in the mat ter of'the assessment and determina- tion of benefits and damages accru- ing to all parties interested by the es- tablishment of building lines on Woodbine street, from woodland avenue to the end of the street, twen- ty feet, both sides, exemption of ten feet, both sides, at corner of Wood bine Street and Woodland Avenue, back from the parallel to the street lines of said street, as the same was accepted by the Board of Aldermen September 3, 1929, approved Sep tember 4, 1929, made report to the Board of Aldermen setting forth that they caused reasonable notice to be given to all persons interested in the proposed public improvement, in all respects pursuant to the provision of the Charter of said city, to appear before us and be heard in reference thereto, and that they fully heard at the time and place specified in said notice. all persons who appear ed before them.
 And thereupon, they did assess and determine that the benefits and dam ages are equal to all persons and cor porations interested in the proposed public improvement.
 Report accepted, assessment of benefits and damages confirmed and adopted by the Board of Aldermen, May 4, 1881, approved May 5, 1881.
 Attest:--
 EDWARD B. o'DoNNELL, 5-1l-3t. City Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
YALE ABOLISHES LATIN AND GREEK
 IN B. A. DEGREE

New Haven, Conn, May 12.-UP) Yale university, long regarded as fortress of classicism, has abolished the classics-Latin and Greek-as Ireuuirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
 The president and fellows of the university decided upon that action Saturday, upon recommendation or the dean and faculty of Yale college, according to announcement by Pro- vost Charles Seymour. The Bachelor of Philosophy degree, for which neither Latin nor Greek was requlr- ed, is, of consequence, abolished. Be- ginning with the class which grad uates Tn 1892, all students in the col llege will become candidates for the A. B. degree.
 The Yale Daily News. undergrad nate spokesman, hailed the change lin an editorial to-day headed, "Swan Song of the Ph. B.
 "As far back as 1924 the faculty recognized the absurdity of award ling academic honors on the presump-. | ton that the classics were without
 peer in the development-ef the in tellect, but a corporation dominated by dyed-in-the-wool classicists tabled ithe proposal" said the News.
 The corporation voted to give
 candidates for the A. B. degree their
 choice between Latin, Greek or a course in classical civilization. There lis no doubt in the minds of faculty for students that all but an insignifi-
 cant minority will shun the classic
 bugaboos of students since time i'm
 memorial and elect the classical
 civilization course. l While the campus was buzZine
 with discussion of the curriculum
 change, Professor Harold Laski. wis liting professor of government from
 the University of London, was advo-
 eating abolition of compulsory lee lures before the Dwight Hall (Y. M IC. A.) group. You academic
 system," said Laski, destroys intel llectual initiative"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE

PRESERVES, :. That J. A. Sullivan of the Town of Woodbury, County of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, engaged in manufacturing. bottling, and selling milk, cream, in bottles, cans, jars, boxes has adopted the follow ing name, mark, or device to be branded; stamped, engraved. etched. blown, impressed, or otherwise pro- duced upon such bottles, cans. jars, or the boxes used in connection herewith.
 In circle-Curtis House Farms on top, large c. in center with J. A: Sul- livan through center and Regis on one side and tered on other side at bottom of c. Woodbury, Conn. on bottom. Ira denmark was first used by me on or about the first day of March A D. 1923, and that have the exclu- sive right to the use of the same.
 J. A. SULLIVAN. State of Connecticut. County of New Haven, ss. Naugatuck, Oct 2l. 1880. Personally Appeared. J. A. Sullivan and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate, before me.
 AUSTIN A. WEAVER, 5-5-12-19 Notary Public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
 DID T1cy I1 ATTyC

That Vim. Wookey of the Town of Watertown, County of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, engaged in manufacturing, bottling and selling milk, cream, in bottles, cans, jars, boxes has adopted the following name, mark. or device to be branded, stamped, engraved, etched. blown, im- pressed, or otherwise produced upon such bottles, cans. jars, or the boxes used in connection herewith.
 In circle-Large Wookey in center. And further certify that said Trademark was first used by me on or about the first day of March A. D. 1929, and that I have the exclusive right to the use of the same.
 WILLIAM WOOKEY. State of Connecticut, County of New Haven, ss. May 1st, 1881.
 Personally Appeared, William Wookey and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate. before me,
 HARRY B. GORHAM, 5-5-12-19 Notary Public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
WANTON DESTRUCTION.

" AIN 4OIN Seville, Spain, May 12.-(UP)--A Ifanatical mob attacked religious in-
 stitutions in Seville early to-day. The rioters set fire to the Jesuit convent and the Carmelite church.
 The anti-religious fervor which has lspread to many cities throughout the
 country broke out between 2 a.. m. and 3 a. m.
 The mob broke into the Carmelite church. They removed sacred images, vestments and dhalices and
 burned them in St Peters Square. Among the images destroyed at the Carmelite church, were the fa- of great devotion in Seville. After sacking the church, the mob set it lafire.
 The civil guards were unable to control the mobs. Bremen seeking to extinguish the flames were forced to flee.
 A mob carrying republican flags.
 demolished the door to the Jesuit convent in the Plaza Villasis. They fused hammers and iron bars to bat ter the way into the convent. The doors down, the crowd rush. ed into the quiet, cloistered halls, here they again carried out rich, valuable vestments. Filling their lloot in the square, they set it afire. Gasoline and oil was poured about lthe building, and it was set afire. The occupants of the convent had fled.
 The archbishop of Seville ordered all monasteries and convents evacu- lated after the mobs had burned the Jesuit convent. the Carmelite church
 and the Church of Buen Suceso.
 Priceless art objects, vestments and
 sacred articles were burned in the public square.
 The Seville mob twice attempted to set fire to the Jesuit monastery
 but troops rrepulsed them. In Granada all monks and nuns were evacuated and placed in pri-
 vate residences for safety. Early in
 the morning a mob attempted to Set fire to the newspapers GaZetta Del Sol and Noticia Granalino but fire- men extinguished the flames. An unsuccessful attempt also was made to fire the Carmelite convent. The attempts were not restricted to Jesuits, but were made against Carmelite, Marist, Dominican and
 other orders. Religious buildings burned 1nclud- ed eight in Madrid, three in Malaga,
 nine in Alicante and three in Se-
 vile, a total of 23 so far, besides
 numerous others which were at
 tackled or set afire but only damaged.
 In Alicante, after firing seven
 buildings earlier. the mob attacked and set fire to the Ave Maria con- vent and the Capuchin monastery. Firemen were trying to extinguish
 the flames.
 Barcelona, after a brief fiare-up yesterday, was reported tranquil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
BOSTON FIGHT
 WAS POSTPONED

Boston, May 12-(UP) = The Argonne A. A. today announced postponemc~. of tonight's boxing show at Bri yes field until tomorrow night because of indictment weather.
 Johnny Indrisano of East Boston is scheduled to meet Sammy Bruce, Buffalo negro, and Steve Halaiko of Buffalo is scheduled to oppose Baby Jack Renault of Cambridge in 1O-round co-feature bouts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE

PRESENTS,
 That L. F. Diorio of the Town of Waterbury, County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, engaged in mas,n1ufacturing, bottiing. and selling boxes has adopted the following name, mark, or device to be branded stamped. engraved, etched. blown impressed, or otherwise produced upon such bottles, cans, jars, or the boxes used in connection herewith. In circle-L. F. Diorio on top, Reg istered in center and Waterbury, Conn. on the bottom.
 And I further certify that said Trademark was first used by me on or about the first day of April A. D. 1919. and that I have the exclusive right to the, use of the same.
 LAURENCE F. DIORIO, State of Connecticut, County of New Haven, ss. May l, 1881.
 Personally Appeared, Laurence F. Diorio and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate. before me.
 HARRY B. GORHAM, 5-5-12-19 Notary Public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

DISTRICT OF CHESHIRE, ss, Court
 of Probate. May 11th, 1881.
 ESTATE OF Josephine S. Tyler, late of Prospect in said District, deceased.
 Upon the application of Helen Mac Burney praying that an instrument in writing purporting to be the last will and testament of said Josephine $. Tyler deceased may be proved, ap- proved, allowed. and admitted to pro- bate. as per application on file more fully appears; it is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at the Pro- bate Office in Cheshire in said nis- trict, on the 18th day of May A. D.. 1881 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and that notice be given of the pen- dency of said application. and of the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing the same one time in some newspaper having. a circulation in said District, and by mailing a copy of all interested persons, by register ed mail, postage prepaid, all on or before May 18th, 1881.
 JAMES R. LANYON. 5-12-1t Judge.