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The Washington times., 1931-05-28
Seaside Park Ready
For HOLIDAY CrOlUds

This holiday weekend at Sea-
side Beach finds the beautiful
new amusement park ready for
big early-season crowd. Six
trains will be operated on Sun
days from now until late in the
summer, providing convenient
and frequent service from District
Line.
Chesapeake Beach is also tax
ing on the status of a port, with
the Wilson Line steamer. State OF
Delaware, making five trips
weekly from Baltimore. and g.
special Sunday boat operating
from Cambridge. Md, both be-
ginning this weekend. Excursions
from the Eastern Shore to Wash.
ington will be operated via the
Cambridge boat.
Seaside Parks big pool and
dance floor attract thousands Of
WaShingtonians, and the many
other amusements at the park
offer an enjoyable outing for the
whole family.
The Washington times., 1931-05-28
KEATONTOGET
BIG HELP FOR
LAUGHS
BY HARRISON CARROLL
(Copyrlght, 1891, Premier
Syndicate Innl

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May %.
Old.time favorites continue to fur
nish talkie material. Very Good
Eddie" that genial musical show
of some years back, is to be
shaped into Buster Keaton's next
story.
No doubt Busters success with
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"
guided the decision. AS in the
case of this farce, "Very Good Ed.
die" will be very freely adapted
for film use. George Landy and
Paul Gerard Smith, authors of
the comedians current vehicle,
Sidewalks Of New York." are en-
trusted with the assignment.
Big names are sprinkled Law
iShly in the cast. In addition to
Buster, there will be Charlotte
Greenwood, James Gleason. Cliff
Edwards and the much-tou\ed
Jimmy Durante. The latter
makes his Hollywood debut in this
picture, but is not new to the
game, having been singled out by
many critics for his work as the
comedy waiter in "RoadhouSe
Nights" In case you don't recall
this one. it featured Helen Nor
gan, and was made last year by
the Paramount Long Island Stu
dio.
OF course, the new version of
VERY Good Eddie" will have no
music.
Struck Responsive Chord
An appeal letter sent out by
the motion picture relief fund
told, among other things, how
the charity had buried several
extra people, two well-known
actors and one producer.
Presently, came the following
reply from George Marion, jr.:
Enclosed find check for 500.
Please bury another producer"
Latest Gossip
John Mccormack, the tenor,
may have too much girth to be
a satisfactory film hero, but it
doesn't keep him from entering
the forthcoming motion picture
tennis tournament. This affair
excites great interest in Holly
wood, where they know about
all kinds Of "love" games. =.
Dorothy Burgess is nursing sum
dry bruises, because Leo Carrillo
isn't as good an acrobat as he is
an actor. A scene in their Uni
versal picture called for Leo,
with Dorothy in his arms, to
Jump from a table to chair. He
jumped all right, but the chair
went over and Dorothy ended up
on the bottom of the heap. No
bones were broke, but she was
pretty well shaken up. 1t de-
velops that Robert Armstrong is
accompanied on his ensenda trip
by Eugene Palette. They are
camping in Genes special built
location car" which has all the
conveniences. Fiji DorSay may
be leaving Fox, but her brother,
Roger Lussier, is being promoted
in the laboratory department OF
this studio. Leslie Howard is
talking of going to Europe. He's
been in three pictures now:
Never the Twain Shall Meet"
"A Free Soul" and Marion
Davies Five and. Ten
The Washington times., 1931-05-28
ECHO HAS
BIG HOLIDAY
PLANS

Glen Echo is playing host to
thousands these days, with its
more than so amusement devices,
all humming tune Of fun and
frolic.
Plans have been made for big
two-day celebration over Decora,
ton Day and Sunday, the former
to be a red letter day in the
history of the park, marking as
it will, the opening of the crystal
pool, the greatest and most mag
nificent swimming pool around
Washington, costing 5000, 900, and
Offering every known comfort ind
device for the amusement of bath
ers. At the park right now are
many new devices.
Many picnic parties are ex.
pected over the holiday, and
there is ample accommodations
for them. In the ballroom, Mac
Williams and his orchestra plays
for the crowds every evening ex.
cept Sunday from $50 until 1870
The Washington times., 1931-05-28
Midnight Shon
at Rialto Friday

Due to popular demand Hell
Bound" at the Rialto Theater,
is being shown at a special mid
night show Friday, May 20, and
will be held over until Saturday
night.
With Leo Carrillo as the gang
leader, Nick Cotrelli, and Lola
Lane as the stranded musical
comedy actress. Platinum Reed.
and Lloyd Hughes as DR.. Robert
Sanford, the picture moves
rapidly.
This is the first time Leo
Carrillo has portrayed a gang
ster. but the underworld king is
the type of character that only
a Carrillo could enact.
The Washington times., 1931-05-28
BY BROADCASTER

It would be interesting to know
whether the broadcasters or the
power companies make more
money out Of radio. Consider
25,000,000 actively operated re-
ceiving sets going an average Of
two hours a day, the transmitting
stations, and the electric lights
that otherwise would be out, and
it's q pretty safe bet that the
power companies are the real
winners. Yet, do they patronizc
the radio? They probably make
enough money in a year to afford
one of the grandest possible pro
grams.
Graduation ceremonies at the
United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis, will be broadcast over
q coast-to-coast network Of the
Columbia Broadcasting System on
Thursday, June 4, from 10:45 a. m.
to 1880 p. M
The broadcast will include q
description, by Announcer Stanley
Bell, of the colorful scene as the
midshipmen step forward to re-
ceive in turn their commissions
from Secretary Of the Navy
Charles Francis Adams. A orief
biographical sketch of each fledg-
ling naval officer is also to be
narrated over the air.
Preceding the awarding of di.
plomas, Invocation is to be de-
livered by Comdr. F. H. Lash.
Naval Academy chaplain. An
address by Rear Admiral Thomas
C. Hart, new superintendent of
the Academy, will follow. The
principal address of the day
will come from Secretary Adams.
Arthur Pryor, whose Military
Band is heard six nights each
week over a coast-to-coast net
work of the Columbia Broad
casting System, is considered by
many the greatest trombone
player of all time-he has PLAYED
more than 10000 trombone solos
in 16 different countries in the
So years he has been playing
in bands and conducting them.
He was a full-fledged member
of his fathers cornet band In
st. Joseph, Mo-. when he was 3.
playing the bass drum-a year
later he could play the cornet.
A double murder in Los An
geles will be one of the drama
tized news events on the March
of Time program at 8 p. m.
Friday over WMALN and the Co
Iumbia network.
This episode will be immedi.
ately followed by the scene in
Havre, France, during which
Mayor John Clinton Porter, of
Los Angeles, repeatedly refused
to drink champagne at ban
quet rendered to visiting Ameri-
can mayors when the mayor OF
Havre proposed a toast to the
President of the United States
and the President Of France,
Other outstanding news events
to be dramatized include the
shipwreck of the schooner in the
Bahamas carrying Angl c n
Bishop Of Nassau, the Rt. Rev.
Roscoe George Shedden, on a
tour of his diocese; and the clean
up of Los Vegas in which
80 bootleggers, Speakeasy proprie-
tors. and other racketeers were
rounded up and Jailed.
Frank Crumit and Julia San
derson, musical comedy and ra
dio stars who in private life are
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Crumit, will
be interviewed over the radio
when they appear as guests of
the second broadcast Of meet
the Artist over the Columbia
The Washington times., 1931-05-28

FOX-Elissa Landi appears in
her second starring picture. al
ways Goodbye" opening Friday.
In the supporting cast will be
Lewis Stone, Paul Kavanaugh,
Frederick Kerr, Herbert BunSton,
Lumsden Hare and John Gar
The Washington times., 1931-05-28
Helen Chandler In
May OLiUer's Picture

Helen Chandler and Rochelle
Hudson have been signed for the
cast of Fanny Foley Herself"
which is to be Edna May divers
first solo feature vehicle with
Radio Pictures.
Hobart Bosworth already has
been announced as one of the fea-
tured supporting cast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

Waterbury at a glance for the month of April shows increases in bank clearings, bank debits, bank savings and employment compared to the previous month according to the previous month according to the monthly report of the Waterbury Chamber of Commerce submitted to- day. The report shows an increase of $240,500 in bank clearings for April compared to March and an increase of $2,513,337.15 in bank debits for March as compared to April.
 During the month of April, the re- port states. net gain of the sav- ings as of the last day of the month amounted to $13,712.17 as against a loss of $1O1, ,664.06 during the same period in 1930.
 An increase of 16 persons employ cd during April is noted in com- parison to March. In eight of the largest factories however, a decrease of 121 persons employed is shown.
 Following is the report:
 Bank Clearings-The total bank clearings for the month of April amounted to $7,609,300, decrease of $1,795,20O as compared with the same period in 1880 and an increase of $240,50O as compared with the previous month.
 Bank Debits-The bank debits for the mont hof April amounted to $31,- 576.064.67. A decrease of $10,908,- 943.14 as compared with the same period in 1880 and an increase oi $2.51e,337.15 as compared with the previous month.
 Bank Savings-During the month of April there was net gain m tne savings as of the last day or the month, amounting to $13,712.l7 as against a. loss of $101 ,664.O6 during the same period in 1880.
 Building During the month of Anril there were 60 building per mits issued, valued at $124,3O0, a decrease of 1S permits and a de- crease. of $509,924.00 in value as compared with the same period or 1890. There was an increase or I4 permits and decrease of $65O Tn value as compared with the pre- vious month.
 Employment: During the montn of April there were. 2s,247 persons employed in manufacturing cor cerns employing 100 or over' pup lie utilities, retail stores employins G5 OF over, industrial concerns em- nlovinr less than 100, showing an incresse of 16 persons as compared with the previous month.
 Tn of the largest factories there were 15.696 persons employed dur ing the month of April, showing a decrease of 121 persons as com pared with the previous month.
 Eloctricity: During the month ,2, or Aprit there were 10,029,147 XVII of electric current consumed. a de- crease of 63S,77s XVII as com pared with the same period in !93o;
 GAS-During the month of April there were 72,216,70O GU 1t or gas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Savings Banks
 Report Gain; Gas
 Consumption Up
Employment Shows But Little Change Over Previous Month Real Estate Equal to Similar Period Year AgO-More Building Permits Issued

consumed, an increase of 2,905, 200 GU it as compared with the same period in 1880.
 HEALTH: During the month of April there were 96 cases of com- municable disease and 22 deaths, a decrease in the number of cases as compared with the same period of 1890.
 Insurance: Insurance agencies re- port that insurance sales for the month of April were increased as compared with the previous month and with the same period a year |ago, cancellations are noticeable.
 Marriages. Deaths, Births: Dur ing the month of April there were 35 marriages, 109 deaths and 97 births.
 New Residents: During April there were 13 new families who came to Waterbury to make their residence.
 Postal Receipts: During the month of April the postal receipts amounted to $41,416.62, decrease of $3,992.2S as compared with the same period in 1880.
 Real Estate: The real estate transactions for April of this year compare favorably with the trans actions during the same period in 1890.
 Retail: The retail merchants re- port that business for April was slightly off as compared with the previous month.
 Telephones: There was a net decrease of 61 telephones during the month of April.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
PAPERS FILED IN DAMAGE SUIT Vincent Ippolit0 Claims He
 Was Falsely Accused
 By Jay Conrad DIS CHARGED IN COURT

Charging he was falsely and mali |ciously arrested on charges pre- ferred by the defendant, Vincent Ippolito to-day instituted suit in su. |perior court for $2,000 damages |against Jay Conrad, doing business as the Valley Engraving company. The case is returnable in court the first Tuesday of June according to the complaint as drawn by Mascolo, Mcknight & Dauch.
 The complaint alleges the plaintiff
 was arrested on May 4th after the defendant, Conrad had gone to office of Prosecutor Mitchell c. Meyers and preferred charges of theft against
 him. The complaint alleges the de- Ifendant accused Ippolito of theft of photos valued at $100. Ippolito was
 arrested on a warrant and after sev-
 eral continuances in city court. was
 discharged, the papers state.
 l The plaintiff alleges his reputation
 has been damaged and he will suffer
 a loss of business as result of the
 arrest and arraignment in court
 (which was done through malice in-
 tent on the part of the defendant.
 Attorney Lawrence L. Lewis repre- lsents the defendant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Goss to Fly in
 Army Airplane
Congressman at Dayton Ready for Spectacular
 Flight

When the 672 army planes are flying in armada procession over New York City next Saturday in the biggest demonstration ever attempt ed by the Army Air Corps, Water !Jbury will be represented in one or the planes in an official capacity. The local representative will be Con gressman Edward W. Goss who left Waterbury Wednesday night for Dayton, o. where planes from all over the country gathered for the
 start of the two weeks program.
 Congressman Goss is attending the air demonstration as a member of the House Military Affairs com
 mittee. Senator Hiram Bingham as a member of the senate appropria- tions committee is also included in the official party. All members of the House Military committee and the senate appropriations committees are attending the event.
 Congressman Goss left here for New York where the official party
 met by previous arrangements with F. Trubee Davison, assistant secre- tary of war. A transport plane car ried the officials from New York to
 Dayton where the 672 planes were to be congregated by tomorrow.
 AIlcT IildHOQCNSiS anu tions in Dayton, Chicago and Cleve.
 land the entire feet will start Tor
 New York New York will be con- sidered under War conditions" on next Saturday night, S6 big bomb CTS will fly over New York and give an idea to Manhattan residents what the next war will be like. After the New York demonstra- | tions the plans fly to Boston in Bos- ton in battle formation, attacking Hartford, New Haven, Providence en
 route. It Is probable that Waterbury
 residents may get a glimpse of the
 planes as they pass In this section toward Hartford on next Sunday.
 After participating in the demon- strations, Congressman Goss will go with the planes to Washington, D. c. where the final show will be put on on Memorial Day.
 Congressman Goss stated before
 leaving last week the reason for the military affairs committee of the
 house and the. appropriations com mittee of the senate, attending the
 air show Is to give the committee members an idea of how the air corps operates. He said the commit tee members get first hand informa- l ton in this manner and when ap-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

she said, had suffered almost un-
 bearably for the past 20 years and
 they had agreed that it was best for
 him to end it all.
 This agreement came. she said,
 after a meeting of the Suicide
 Club" at her home, when members
 offered prayers for relief of. his suf-
 fering to no avail. The "cult." origin ally composed of 50 aged and suffer- ing members, but with only 26 re-
 maining, had an unwritten law, she
 said, whereby 1t was understood that
 if the weekly prayers for some member failed the victim would end
 his life.
 It was under this understanding that the brother and sister decided 1t was best for him to end his life, she said, She helped him put on his
 best clothes, shaved him and placed him in the easy chair ESQ that he would look his best in death." She then got the revolver and handed 1t to him, she said. leaving the house shortly thereafter, not to return un- til five hours later. When she got back her brother was dead. She
 called for neighbor who sum
 moned police.
 Authorities were at first inclined to place little credence in her story until she told of how another mem- her of the club. George Breitenbach, had gone home and hanged himself in the cellar of his home after the "club's" prayers had failed. Authori- ties looked up the case and found the details of the death of Breiten-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Photo.

Barrett, Allene Cummings, Helen
 Moore, Alice McEvoy, Leona O'Neill, Ruth Barry, Marjorie Pow CTS, Helen Kingsley, Harriet Burns,
 Margaret O'Brien, Marion Kingsley,
 Elizabeth Meeks, Alice Grady. Mrs Thomas Calvin, Ruth Gleason, Bibi- ana Stark, Mrs Bernard Preston,
 Gertrude Mulvilfe, Margaret Rear
 don, Cecile Duka, Mrs Joseph Jack'
 son, Margaret Duffys Flora Lanori eaux, Helen a Garrity;-' Virginia Skelley, Ann Reilly, Josephine Meade, Frances Schaeffer. Kathryn Hubbell Flora Neubauer, Dorothy Leonard, Jeanne Lipovsky, Olive Russell, Margaret Morgan, Mary Dev- itt, Mary McDermott. Catherine Bid- lingsly, Mrs E. J. Dyer, Rae Pape, Mary and Harriet Barrett, Mrs A. c. Emerson, Mrs J. Frank, Mary Henry, Peg St John, Marion. Shan- ley, Helen Shanley, Mrs Fred Mind CT. Mrs Edward G. Knell, Dorothy Debier, Marie Massey, Anne and Mary McMahon, Mary, Casey, Marion Sturdevant, Mary Ringrose, Alice
 McNamara, Marion. Keane, .- Teresa Reisinger, Lusita and Mary Smith,
 Barbara Thidick, Janet Killelea, Bet ty Moher, Anne Whalen, Katherine i Moher, Isabelle Calvin, Natalie AL teri, Barbara Ciglar, Catherine Daily,
 Irene Murphy, Agnes Mcclure, Mrs w. T. Robinson, Margaret Kelley
 Helen Began, Anne O'Brien, Marion
 Naughton, Marion Cannon, Mary
 Burke, Katherine Mccarthy, Anne
 Deidikus, Helen Zukowski, Katherine
 Delaney, Virginia Began, Anne Car. rig, Margaret Dooley, Katherine
 Kenney, Margaret Clifford, Rae Col
 son, Katherine Kilbride, Margaret
 Truman. Margaret Fitzpatrick, Grace White, Elizabeth Conheady, Ann Os- trofsky, Edith Barbara Maureen Luddy, Anne Qevereaux, Margaret Cannon. Margaret Durphy,' Mary Coleman, Ruth Coleman, Kathryn Brennan, Alvina Sirica, Florence | Lavery, Winifred Casey and Mary | Schmidt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

A dinner and miscellaneous show CT was given at the Corona shoppe on Center street recently for Miss Olga M. Radke of Hill street, by several of her associates at the American Metal Hose Co office. Miss Radke is to be married next month to T. Franklin Kirsch. The guests were Misses Gladys Delkescamp Mary Hogan, Florence Platt, Ann Mahoney, Catherine McEvoy, Mary Farrell, Adeline Guest, Marie Mon- tagno and Mrs David Stewart.
 The Visiting Nurses Association are to hold their regular meeting in the club rooms in the Lilley build- ing Tuesday night. The hostess will be Miss Florence Anderson and Miss Mary Adamek. Supper will precede the meeting.
 Miss Clarissa Deming, daughter of Dr and Mrs Dudley B. Deming of Country club road, has been elected Ridge" the quarterly publication of . William Smith college, for the coming year. Miss. Deming is a freshman at the college.
 Miss Bertha Fox of Ridgewood street attended the dance given by Franklin Hall last evening in con. nection with the spring festivities ol the freshmen at Yale. university Miss Fox will also attend dance to be given this evening by Frank. lin Hall.
 A luncheon and bridge was held this afternoon at the Hotel Elton al o'clock by the Waterbury cha ptel of the College of New Rochelle Delegates from state chapters in c]uding Bridgeport, New Haven Hartford and Stamford -Norwalk at. tended. Local guests included: Misses Virginia Dalton, Ann Moore Helen Doran, Kathleen Fitzgerald Anne Toole, Beatrice Danaher, Mary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
STATE GAS LINES
 ARE INCREASING
Total of 2,60O Miles of Pipe Now Required to
 Serve State
|l25 MILES ANNUALLY

To keep pace with the expansion of the demand for gas service in Connecticut each year, the public utility companies of the state find 1t necessary to add to their distribu- tion systems annually between 125 and 130 miles of new main of vary ing sizes, according to the records |of the Connecticut public utilities commission.
 Connecticut's requirements for gas distribution to its thousands of do- mestic, commercial and industrial customers are to-day cared for by more than 2,600 miles of pipe line. This figure does not include the length of the long distance line which carries gas from the Connec- lticut Coke company plant at New Haven to Hartford, Middletown, Meriden, Bristol, Plainville. Hart ford and Manchester.
 Gas mains very in size in accord lance with the requirements of dis
 tribution. Pipes of large diameter lare used for the main distribution lineswhich carry the gas from the |, holders to the major distribution centers. From these lines branch smaller mains which transmit it be- heath cross streets. Still smaller pipes carry the fuel from the lat- ter mains directly into the custom- CTS home or commercial or~industrial esta blishment. The'entire system, if lit could be viewed from a great height. would appear like the top of huge tree with the gas holder as the trunk and the mains and pipes spreading in much the same manner tas the trees branches. In smaller
 isituations gas is forced through the pipe line systemrunder pressure pro-
 vided by the weight of the collapsible
 holder upon the vapor which it en-
 closes. In the larger cities this hold
 l CT pressure must be augmented by
 Icompressors which pump the gas from the gas works to outlying hold
 CTS or to regulating stations where
 the pressure is reduced for general use in the vicinity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Lecture at
 Davenport Hall
Aniceto C. Cabildo to Speak on Philippine People To-
 morrow Night

At the evening service at second Congregational church on Sunday evening at 7:3o o'clock in Daven- port hall, Aniceto c. Cabildo of the philippine Islands will give an Il. lustrated lecture on '"The People oi the Philippines'' with one hundred beautiful slides portraying the lire and ideals of the Filipino people. 1t will also depict Americas grea' contribution to the life or the Ell. nino people. During his stay of seven years in the United States Mr. Cabildo has been able to bring about friendly relations between the two peoples through this illus trated lecture. He is now finishins his theological work in Yale and expects to leave for the Philippines some time this summer. The public is cordially invited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Senator Swanson Stricken With
 Sudden Illness

Washington, May 16-(UP)--Sen- ator Swanson, dem. Va, was stricken with an attack, of indigestion at the war policies commission hearings yesterday and collapsed, falling from his chair to the floor. Secretary of War Hurley went to Swanson's side and the Virginia senator was lifted to a table where he quickly re- vived. Swanson had complained of feeling i'll on, entering the -eommis- sion room. His condition was said not to be serious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Would Be Suicide
 Saved By College
 Life Saving Boys

Chicopee. Mass, May 16-(UP)- c o n e mplating suicide, Michael Lacek leaped from a bridge into the Connecticut river.
 He struck the water just as 16 Springfield college students passed under the bridge while an instruc- tor lectured of hfe-saving methods.
 Lacek was hauled out and the students given realistic demon- stration of resuscitation procedure.
 Police said he was unemployed and intoxicated.