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Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

$. T. Kelsey, IT,, brother of Mrs. P. c. McMullen of this city, who arrived last week, accompanied by Mrs Kelsey and son, from Dundu, Angelo Territory, West Africa, lost no time in playing a few rounds over the Seward golf course and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

The Majestic" last word in mo- dern refrigeration, at Brown & Hawkins.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

The best ice cream yet! HOR- LUCK'S Danish Ice Cream. andy Cottage, sole Seward agent.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

Phone for Horluck'S banish Ict Cream and we will deliver. Candy Cottage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
POLICE PUZZLED IN CHICAGO OVER
 STRANGE IMAGE
Represented Mother and Child and Many Specta. tors Thought It Was the Blessed Virgin

Chicago. July 15-(U. P)-Po- lice were puzzled and hundreds of persons were awed to-day by what was declared to be miraculous appearance of an image of the Vir- gin Mary upon the side of three story brick building on the South side. Everything was quiet and serene in the HOO block of South Ashland avenue last night when passerby noticed the image and dropped to his knees. Another pass erby noticed the first. glanced up at the wall, and dropped down be- side him. Others followed. Soon there w. so many kneeling fig ures in the street that trafiic was blocked. The police and fire de- partments were called out.
 OfYicers found that the dim but clearly defined image of woman holding a child disappeared when lights were flashed upon 1t. They determined from this that the image. about 16 feet in height, was a reflection from some statue in the neighborhood.
 In an effort to prove the image was due to natural causes and thus disburse the crowd, ofiicers began to search to find the statue from which the reflection was cast. No statue was found.
 More than 800 persons still were kneeling in the stseet when day. light came and the officers. after an all night search, still had failed to nnd anything natural about the image except that 1t disappeared when light was thrown upon 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
MOTHER OF THE RADIO
 IDOL DEAD
Mrs Katharine L. Vallee 6l Years of Age, Died Shortly Before Noon To-day-Was in Coma for 36 Hours

Westbrook, Me, July 15-(Up) - Rudy Vallee's invalid mother. who helped him become the idol of radios millions, died today with her favorite son at her bedside.
 Death came to Mrs Katherine L.. Vallee, 61, shortly before noon af- ter a gallant three-year struggle against heart disease. high blood pressure, and complications.
 She has been in d coma more than 36 hours, during part of which time the radio crooner had sat by her bedside and held her hand.
 Rudy, married only last week to Fay Webb, actress, had flown here from New York with his younger brother William late Monday to comfort the dying mother during her last hours. She frightened when she saw them but this rally was shortlived.
 After father William J. Culbert, pastor of St Marys Catholic church had administered the last rites of Vallee lapsed into a coma from which she never emerged.
 Her death had been expected yesterday but she survived the day and last night. When Dr Albert D'Arche, the family physician. left the Vallee home on Monroe avenue this morning he said the end wss imminent. He returned shortly before his patient died.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
LUXURIES WERE BOUGHT AND CITY
 WAS BANKRUPT
Detroit to Make WhOle- sale Arrests for Squan= dering of Funds for the Unemployed

Detroit, July 15-(UP)-Arrest st of public welfare department em- ployes and merchants appeared possible today after an auditors report revealed how the city rf Detroit bought cosmetics, silk stockings and other luxuries for its unemployed families while the city was near bankruptcy. The re- port charged City Controller G Hall Roosevelt had neglected his duties. and that gross incompent- ency" prevailed in the public wei fare department. which has spent $18.000,000 for unemployment re- lief. Prosecutor Harry S. Toy, who ordered the audit after a young welfare repartment clerk had confessed embezzlement of $207.000 of the unemployment funds, announced criminal charges would be filed.
 The auditors found. they claim ed. that destitute persons sent to their home towns at city expense. were provided with Pullman berths parlor car chairs, private sections and even drawing rooms and com- partments on extra fare trains.
 The records showed, the report said. that the welfare department bought cosmetics. window curtains and silk hosiery for the women of its dependent families and paid prices higher than persons of moderate means would pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
SEVEN PARCELS OF LAND LACKING
 CLEAR TITLES
Old Transaction of the Benedict and Burnhanl Company, Almost 100 Years Ago, to Be Clear ed Up

Titles to seven parcels of land comprising three acres will soon be cleared through process In the probate court as the result of a. petition received by Judge Den his J. Slavin asking him to ap- point an administrator who will give quit claim deeds to the pres ent owners of the land on South Main street.
 The titles, which have not been quite clear as far as record goes, will then be valid. The matter goes back almost 100 years at the time Benedict & Burnham was partnership in 1838.' It was in- corporated in 1853, and when the company sold seven parcels of land. which have houses on them at the present time, 1t failed to transfer the land from the part nership to the corporation on the land records. Hence the title is not clear.
 It has been sold from one owner to another, and this series of sales will automatically be cleared of all membranes when the ad- ministrator will give quit claim deeds.
 Heirs located in New York city, Pailo, Penn. and London, England, will be notified of the fact that an administrator Is to be appointed for the purpose of clearing the record.
 Owners of the property will not be notified of the procedure until they receive quit claim deeds as there is no desire to cause them any anxiety relative to the matter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
YOUTHS CONFESS
 THEY MURDERED
 STORE MANAGER
Both Belong in Windsor, Where Chain Store Con- ductor Boulanger Was Shot Dead Saturday

Windsor Conn. July 15-(UP) State police to-day announced solution of the murder of Joseph Boulanger, chain store manager, with confessions by two Windsor youths. Investigators who had been working on the case since Saturday arrested Zeto Petraio. 20, during the night. Tony Kim, 21, had been arrested previously. Both were questioned and finally admitted the crime. police said. Petraio's gun was located and a search was begun for one belong ing to Kim.
 Kim and Petraio were taken be- fore Judge Vine K. Parmalee and bound over to the criminal supc- rlor court on first degree murder charges. They were sent to Hart ford county jail. Boulanger was shot by two bandits early Sunday as he locked up his store and pre- pared to go home with a brief case containing his commission on the days receipts. The brief case has been recovered by police,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
BOMBS AND SHOTS
 FIRED TO-DAY IN
 THE COAL STRIKE
Daisyt0wn in Penn Was the Scene Two Cars With Strikebreakers RiddIed With Bullets

Pittsburgh, July 15 --- (UP) - A bombing at Daisytown today the fifth this week in the coal strike, and the riddling with bull let's of two cabs bearing 12 strike breakers from Pittsburgh to Wheeling were the newest devel- opments in the tri-state mine strike. Today's blast did no dam age. according 10 Captain George Smith of the Vesta Coal Company police. He said the bomb had been set off in the rear of five company houses.
 A car, said to have carried Ohio license tags, drove past the two autos of the Burns X Church Transfer Company of Wheeling and sprayed the cabs with machine gun fire, shattering windshields and tops, but injuring none of the 12 laborers. officials of the Cab Company said they had been warned 10 stop hauling strike- breakers from Pittsburgh They said they delivered the men safely at the mine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
ALBERT B. FALL WILL HAVE NICE AIRY ROOM IN PRISON
 HOSPITAL IN NEW MEXICO

tence hero instead of in the capital, where he was sentenced, was con- sidered in his favor as it had been feared that his transfer to a differ ent climate might prove fatal after his long illness.
 Besides the hospital rooms. the only place he could be kept within the prison walls is in the cell block or perhaps in some isolated room now occupied by a trusty. These rooms are all small and have the prison atmosphere. The hospital rooms are light and airy and com pare favorably with n hotel room. Should Fall be assigned to the hos pital ward he would have to share 1t with other prisoners. Fall will not be obliged to eat prison food unless he wishes, but If he wants a special diet will have to pay for fl. This Is a general order apply inx to all nrtsoners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
DRY RAIDERS ARE LICKED IN FIVE
 YEAR OLD CASE
U. $. Court of Appeals Rules That They Cannot Seize Equipment Indis. criminately in Raiding Homes

New York, July 15-(U. PD- Dry agents may not make a gem eral "exploration" of citizens premises during a raid or seize equipment indiscriminately,, the United States court of appeals has ruled. Deciding a five-year-old case involving the seizure of equipment at the Glickstein and Terner Bot ting Works, the court ruled agents went beyond "the category of mere incidents of the arrest"
 Although no warrants weTe is- sued. raiders took 1914 crates of whiskey. kummel, bencdictine, ba- cardi. and gin bottles when they visited the bottling works in Feb ruray 1926. The decision reversed a previous ruling the raiders were within their rights. --
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15

Santa Fe, N. M. July 1b.-(UP) Albert R. Fall, once a powerful political figure in the cabinet of Warren c. Harding, was expected to enter the new penitentiary hos pital of state prison soon as a con- vict-a prisoner in a. prison he often entered as a state inspector. He Is under sentence of year and a day after conviction on charge of accepting a bribe in connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandals while secretary of interior in the Harding administration.
 Warden Ed Swope has declined to say whether Fall will be assign ed any duties. but it generally is believed that due to the aged poli- tician's physical condition he will be given a hospital room.
 The decision in Washington that Fall might serve his prison sen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE DRINKING
 PARTY IS HELD
Six of His Companions Are Dead-$l2,OOO Bail Is Asked to Hold the Ac= cuSed

Brockton. Mass, July 15.-(UP) -Domenick Desormiers, 33-year- old jobless shoe operative and sole survivor of last weeks poison liquor drinking party, was ordered held for the grand jury to-day in connection with the deaths of his six companions.
 District Judge William c. Rowe found probable cause on six counts of manslaughter and in lieu of $l2,- 900 bail the defendant was com mitted to Plymouth jail. The i've men and a woman died after drink ing denatured alcohol which all legedly had been mixed with water and served as beverage by Desormiers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
FAKE LOTTERY
 MAN ARRESTED

Everett. Mass. July 15-(UP)- Alleged to have promoted a fake lottery scheme calculated to swim dle New Englanders out of $2,. 500,000. John A. Grover. 37. was arrested at his home here by Bos- ton police inspectors.
 Grover and associates distrib- uted nearly 100000 spurious tickets, to sell at $2.50 each. on the Cambridgeshire. England, horse race in october, according to authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
Six Million Of Them Threaten
 "Fatherland"
Nationwide Strikes Urged -COnfscatiOn of Big Savings Deposits-The Seizure of Millionaire Fortunes - Dis a f m a. ment of Hitler's Army and the Steel Helmets
FINANCIAL MUDDLE
 STILL CONTINUES
BY FERERICK KUH Tinted Press Stan Corresponds

Berlin, July 15.-(UP)-Ger- many, weakened by financial diff faculties, was threatened by nation wide strikes to-day, urged by com munists for the good of the mass es."
 The communist party, with a membership of about 6.00O,O0O persons, issued a proclamation an- nouncing preparations for strikes which would enforce a program of confiscation of capital and enforce work regardless of profit"
 The party's program to stir up industrial turmoil in an effort to take advantage of the present economic strife to gain their ends. included the following major points:
 1-Confiscation of savings de- posits exceeding 10000 marks.
 2-Security, however, for small depositors.
 3-Confiscation of millionaire fortunes"
 Reinforcement of resumption of work in all industries regard less of profit.
 5-Distribution free of food and clothing to unemployed.
 6-Immediate disarmament of Hitler's fascist storm detach- ments" and the steel helmets, a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
DRINKING PARTY IN TRAMP JUNGLE
 PROVES TRAGIC
One of Their Number Pre-. pared the Mixture-Six of Them Are Already Dead

Tamaqua. Pa. July 15-(UP)- Six men are dead and others are in a critcial condition as result of a drinking party in a tramp jun gle" near here. One of the men produced a "cheap drink" for his companions. It was 10 cents worth of radiator alcohol mixed with water.
 Norman Dalzeit, 45. staggered into a gas station outside Tamaqud and told of the party before he died. Police who searched the camp site found two others dead there. Meantime another of tho revelers was stricken as he entered the city hall here for medical aid. still another was found dead near -4he camp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
POST AND CATTY MADE FAST DASH
 FOR NEW YORK
Left Indianapolis and Flew Spec diIy to Greater City Will Soon Tour Whole Nation

New York. July 15-(UP)-- Wiley Post and Harold Gatty ar rived at Floyd Bennett airport at II a. m. to-day after fast flight from Indianapolis.
 Indianapolis, Ind. July l5-(UP) Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, round the world flyers, left India napolis to-day on nonstop flight to New York, from where they plan to start within a few days on an air tour of the nation.
 The two famous flyers spent the night in Indianapolis, but arrived so quietly that most of the city did not know they were here. They landed shortly before dusk in their globe-encircling airplane, the Win nie Mae, and went immediately to hotel where they were the guests of an Indianapolis physician.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
Jack Diamond Again Has The Last Laugh As State
 Failed To Convict Him

jury chose to believe the one told by Diamonds friends--who placed him at an Albany hotel-to the one related by Grover Parks, the Cairo truckman whom he was accused of Kidnapping and torturing.
 Now Diamond is free in $5o.000 bail to do more or less as he pleases until September IS. when some action may be taken on the four indictments still remaining against him in the Parks kidnap- ing. Since the evidence involved is virtually the same as that pre- sented in his fast-moving two-day trial before Justice James C. Crop sey. the New York gang leader ap- parently has little to fear. at least
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
POLICE CHIEFS REFLECT THEIR
 OLD OFFICERS
Convention Was Held Toe day at East Haven Garrett J. Farrell Was Elected President

New Haven. Conn.,. July 15.-- (UP) All officers of the Connec- ticut State Police association were reelected at the association's 29th annual convention at East Haven to-day.
 Those reelected included Presi- dent Garrett J. Farrell, Hartford police chief; vice president. Philip T. Smith, New Haven police chief; secretary. Charles A. Wheeler, Bridgeport police chief: treasurer. William c. Hart. New Britain po- lice chief, and the Rev. Walter J. Luddy of New Britain. chaplain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
THOSE RECEIVING AID FROM CITY'S UNEMPLOYMENT FUND
 SPENDING IT FOR LUXURIES

Bayonne, N. J., July 15-(U. P.) Some people receiving financial help from the city's unemployment fund have been spending the money to get $5 permanent waves or on the upkeep of automobiles. public Safety Director Jerome J. Brady revealed in announcing a survey of the recipients of municipal charity.
 Among other astounding" dis coveries, Brady found:
 That some people receiving a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY IS IN
 BANKRUPTCY

Chicago, July 15.-(UP) An in voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the Albert Pick-Barth company. among the largest hotel supply firms in the na- tion..
 Samuel Dulsky. attorney, filed the petition on behalf of three creditors. He said that the company has lost money in supplying new hoods. some which failed.
 Dulsky said the assets would total $10,000, ,600. if Iiquidated. and the liabilities would approximate '16, ,000.000s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15

dole had rented summer cottages.
 That others wei away on vaca- tions and could not be found.
 That many owned praperty and some collected rent.
 That one woman, with a son working, paid for new furniture and a radio. totaling $160, out of her $B q week grant.
 That some who bought gas and oil and paid garage repair bills had complained they had no money to buy food for the children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
By THOMAS G. FORD United Press Stan COrrespondent)

Troy N. r., July 15.-UP)- Jack Legs" Diamonds 16-year career as a racketeer was as bright as ever to-day for he had defeated New York states most imposing attempt to put him behind bars; t was Legs " 25th arrest. and he had been convicted on his first ar- rest only.
 A jury of solid Rensselaer, coun- ty citizens acquitted him last night after deliberation less than two hours on evidence offered in a one- day trial.
 Of two entirely different ac- counts of the gangster's movements on the night of April 15-16 th"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
OUR LOWER COURTS IN
 SCANDALS
Police of Nation Also Put on the Carpet By Hoov- CTS Crime Commission Too Much Politics in Inferior Courts
BY PAUL K. MALLON nYted Press Staff Corrcspondent


 Washington, July Is - (UP) - Scandal marks the work of police, traffic and magistrates courts in this country, the Wickersham commission told President Hoover in its eighth report entitled Grim inal Procedure" issued today by the White House. It urged that the courts be taken out of politics.
 Taking the country as a whole, there, has been and continues to be scandal in connection with these inferior courts in noteworthy con- trast with the almost uniformly clean record of the superior courts during century of immersion in politics." the commission, except one member, concluded.
 Apart from all other consider ations, arbitrary methods, incom-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
LIKE WAR TIMES AT NIANTIC

camp Cross Mantle, Conn, July 15-(UP)-Na- tonal guardsmen in camp here underwent con- dltlons stimulating time bombardment during last nights storm when bolt of lightning crashed into the parade ground scorching the trousers of private and knocking bugle out of the hands of bugler
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
TWO BROTHERS SHARE RECORDS

NorWalk, Conn, July 15-(UP)-Two brothers of Norwak share Oldest" records Edward Beard, 93 re- elected president of the South Norwak Savings bank yesterday the oldest bank president in the United States His brother Augustus, 9s is the oldest Con- gregationa minister and the oldest Yale graduate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
Late Bulletins
PUPPY SAVED BABY'S LIFE
fork. July 15-(UPl-Fif1

New York, July 15- (UP)-Fifteen-mont ths-old Joseph Frey his life to-day to his mongre puppy. Joseph playing the second floor balcony of his par ents Staten Island home, fell 20 feet to the ground but landed top of the puppy. Neither baby dog was seriously hurt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
ELECTRIC EYE OPENS DOORS

New Britain, Conn, July 15-(UP)-An "electrc eye" which opens doors approaches them and closes them automatically after has passed through has been placed in commercial production here. It perfected by Horace H. Raymond in his cellar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
HE HAD SAVED TWO GIRLS

Staunton, III, July 15-(UP)-After battling his way to shallow water with drowning girl in his arms, Fred Nizerny, 18 discovered he had saved two girls. The second girl had clung to the of the first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
SHOT SUPER HOLE.IN.ONE"

STatford, Conn, July 15-(UP)-Dr l. c. Groark, playing in foresome with three other physicians, shot super hoein-one the Mill River golf course yes terday He drove the ball from the fourth tee directly into the cup. The bail never touched the green.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
DRIVE AT EXACTLY 40 MILES

Michigan City, Ind, July 15-(UP)-Starting next Sunday, every motorist the Dunes highway between Gary and Michigan City must drive at exactly 40 miles hour get arrested, or get out of the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
Holds Balance
 OfPowerOver
 Next Nominee
Former Standard Bearer Has Given Out No Word of Where He Stands as to Himself or Any Other Candidate, and He Probably Won't
SMITH ALWAYS
 ONE GOOD WAITER
By RAYMOND CHAPTER fUnited Press Stan Corrcspondcnl

(UHlteu fFosS ctdH SOITSSPohSs1
 Washington, July 15 - UP)-- Hanging over the entire demo- cratic presidential situation is the uncertainty as to the intentions of former Governor Alfred E. Smith.
 Immediately after his defeat in 1928 he said he was through with politics, but human nature being what 1t Is, many believe Smith would like to try again. It will be a different Hoover that the demo- cratic party faces next time.
 Smith, having carried on the fight when the cards were stacked
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
CABBAGE GREW NINE HEADS

Rocky Mount, N. C., July 15-(UP)-A cabbage stalk with nine well-developed heads it has been raised by J. A. Y Stills, truck farmer, here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
HUGE RUBY WAS FOUND

Calcutta, India July 15-(UP)-A ruby weighing 17 carats and valued at $35000 found recently at Mogok Burma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, July 15.-CUP)- treasury net balance for July 13 was $360,0S0. .959.+3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-15
The Weatl,er

Thunder Showers To- night, But Thursday Fair Complete Weather Report Page 8.