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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

sudden. violent and untimely death. in the town of Waterbury, New Haven county, Connecticut, I at once made all proper inquiry re- specting the manner and cause of said death After said inquiry and having reason to suspect said death was caused by the criminal act, omission or carelessness of another or others. held an inquest as to the manner and cause of said death. Said inquest was conducted at the town of Waterbury. The following witnesses were examined:
 George J. Alderman, 955 North Main street, Waterbury, Conn.
 George Berthouse, Stafford street, Waterbury, Connecticut.
 Uriah H. Barrett, 349 Cooke street Waterbury, Connecticut.
 William F. Foley, Waterbury po- lice department.
 Edward J. McElligott, Waterbury police department.
 Samuel Reid, 1S2 Monmouth avenue, Waterbury, Connecticut. Having considered all of the tes- timony taken at the inquest, I, on the 10th day of February, A. D., 1881, made the following finding concerning said death:
 On January 26th shortly before twelve o'clock noon, the deceased was on his way home from the Sprague school where he was a pu- pill. Together with several other chill dren he was walking in a westerly direction along the southerly side of the Fairmount bridge in Waterville.
 A three-ton Mack truck owned by the Connecticut Fat Rendering & Fertilizer company of New Haven and operated by Uriah H. Barrett, 65 years old, of 349 Cooke street, was at this time crossing the Fair mount bridge proceeding in west erly direction. Barrett was a prop erly licensed operator of motor ve- hicles. The truck was practically new and equipped with double pneumatic tires.
 Huntingdon avenue at the wes. end of the bridge turns sharply to the left and when Barrett reached the westerly end of the bridge he turned to the left to take this road The deceased before Barrett made the turn began to run along the side of the truck. Barrett had got. ten off the bridge when the de- ceased ripped or stumbled and he fell under the rear wheel of the truck and was instantly killed. The operator of the truck was proceed ing at a reasonable rate of speed and before he made the turn from the bridge to the roadway blew the horn on his truck. due to the fact that he had seen the children along the side. of the roadway. With Bar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
SENATOR WALCOTT
 FILES PETITIONS
Veterans Urge Immediate Cash Payment of the
 Soldiers Bonus
WORLD COURT PETITION

Senator Frederic c. Walcott of Connecticut presented the following petitions and resolutions to the sen ate today:
 Petitions from the League of Wo- men Voters, Middletown, Conn, The Hillside school, Norwalk, Conn. and sundry ,'.tizcns of Middletown, Washington. New Haven and No.- walk, Conn. and also a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Methc- dist Ministers of Eastern Connecti- cut, urging the adherence of the United States to the World Court, under the Root Protocol.
 Petitions from sundry citizens Of Williman;ic, New Haven, Millda.c, Meriden, Danbury, Milford and East Haven, Connecticut, favoring the passage cf H,R. 1884, for the ex- emption If dogs from vivi-section in the District of Columbia
 Petitions from Dilworth Cornell Post, 102, American Legion. South Manchester, Conn, Harry Congdon Post, II, American Legion, Bridge port, Conn. Rau-Locke, Post, No. g., American Legion Auxiliary, Hartford Conn.,, Michael J. Comcowich Post, 597, Veterans of Foreign Wars, An sonia, Conn, and the Bristol Cha pter No. 5. Disabled American Veterans of the World War. Bristol, Conn, urging the immediate cash payment of the adjusted service certificates.
 Petitions from the Eddy-Glover Unit No. 6, American Legion Auxi- liary, New Britain, Conn, favoring a reasonable hospital construction pro- gram, providing hospitalization for all veterans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Mothers, Mix This At Home for
 a Bad Cough

You'll be pleasantly surprised when you make up this simple home mixture and try it for distressing cough or chest cold. It takes but a moment to mix and costs little, but it can be depended upon to give quick and last ing relief. ,s.--
 Get 2h ounces of Pinex from any druggist. Pour this into pint bottle then fill it with plain granulated sugar syrup or strained honey. The full pint thus made costs no more than a small bottle of ready-made medicine, yet it is much more effective. It is pure, keeps perfectly and children love it's pleasant taste.
 This simple remedy has a remark able three-fold action. It goes right to the seat of trouble, loosens the germ laden phlegm, and soothes away the inflammation. Part of the medicine is absorbed into the blood, where it acts directly upon the bronchial tubes and thus helps inwardly to throw off the whole trouble with surprising ease.
 Pinex is highly concentrated com. pound of genuine Norway Pine, con- tainink the active agent of creosOte, in . refinNd, Ealatable form, and known as one of the greatest healing agents for severe coughs, chest colds and bron- chial troubles.
 Do not accept substitute for Pinex. It is guaranteed to give prompt relief or money refunded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Pope's Broadcast
 Heard Thursday
Will Be Heard in This Country Thursday Morning at
 lO:3O O'Clock Speech Will Be in Latin

l A fanfare of trumpets, echoine through the corridors of the new papal radio station in the Vatican City. Rome, will be heard around the world Thursday morning, Feb. ruary 12, at 10:3O o'clock, and fif- teen minutes later Pope Plus XI, by means of international radio relay will deliver the first pronouncement ever made by a head of the Roman Catholic church to a worldwide au. dience.
 The exact time and complete schedule of the program i'll which
 Pope Plus will dedicate his new radio station, HVJ, was outlined Monday
 morning by engineers in the Vati
 can, communicating in test broad
 casts with the National Broadcast ing company and other broadcast
 the world from which the papal ad
 dress Thursday morning will be re
 layed.
 The Pope's address will be de- livered at 10:45 a. m., after cere. monies formally dedicating the new Vatican transmitter. His Holiness will also speak a second time dur ing the program, probably soon after I11:10 a. m., at the Vatican Aca- demy. Pope Plus will speak in Latin, but his remarks will be trans lated into several different languages for the. benefit of the far-flung na- tionalities which will be listening in.
 The probable schedule of Thurs days broadcast, as taken down by c. w. Horn. general engineer for NEG. follows: The pope Is expected to arrive at the station at 15:3O, Greenwich | Mean Time (10:30 a. m., E. s. T.) and he will be announced by a blare of trumpets. He will proceed at once to the power room, to start the mo- tors. Thence he will go to the trans hitter room, where he will throw on the high voltage power of the radio valves CT tubes by means of a push button.
 After starting the power, Pope Plus will transmit by hand, in Morse code, a message which will be heard This message will probably consist merely of the call letters of the new Istation-HVJ. It is understood that His Holiness has been studying the Morse alphabet in preparation for this part of the ceremony. Next, Pope Plus will put a per- forated tape on the automatic wheatstone transmitter, which will send more Morse characters, slowly or by what is known as the "band speed.' He will then proceed to the amplifier room, when Senatoro lGuglielmo Marconi, the donor of the new station, will be accorded the honor of announcing His Holiness presence.
 | Before a microphone in the ann plifier room. the pope will then de- l liver his formal address. When he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
CORONER FREES BARRETT OF LIABILITY
ANNUAL BANQUET
 AT HOTEL ELTON
Waterbury Assn of Per- s0nal Finance Companies
 Held Session
GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE

The annual banquet of the Water bury Association of Personal Finance companies was held last evening at the Elton, the speakers being Will liam A. Hendrick, of New Haven, a member of the state board of finance and control; Dwight l.. Hoopingar- ner, public relations counsel of the Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp, and William M. Harris. chairman of the mutual aid unemployment commit tee.
 MT Hoopingarner stated that the extension of credit for utilitarian purposes has a valuable place in the credit and the business scheme of the nation. He stressed the value of loans to families where the hus- band and wife and other wage-earn- CTS seemed able to pay for home im- provements. <.
 MT Hendrick stated that co-ordin- ation of the work of all cities of the state is an absolute necessity. MT Harris told of the efforts of poole to maintain their credit ratings, to pay to these people would pay an im- portant part in the social resuscita- tion of these people during the next few years.
 Among the guests present were Rev James Tyler of St Anne's church; Rev Robert Batchelder of St Johns; H. P. Stephenson of New Haven, vice president of the New England Equity Corp; Allan Deliver representing the Beneficial Operat- ing Bureau of New York city; I. Edge, representing the Equitable Loan Co of Newark; members of the state executive committee and representatives of local industries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

begins to speak, Vatican engineers estimate, it will be approximately 1O:45 a. m., eastern standard time. After his address, he will visit the other rooms and then proceed to the Vatican Academy by automobile, while translators repeat his speech in the principal modern languages.
 At the academy, Pope Plus will hold a short audience which also will be broadcast. From this point, the Vatican engineers said, it is probable that the president of the academy, Senatore Marconi, and the pope will speak, in the order named. This part of the program is ex- pected to begin at 16:1O, G. M. T.. or 11:1O, New York time.
 Station HVJ will broadcast the program by short wave at 19.8s meters. The signals will span the Atlantic and will be picked up di- rect by the RIGA experimental re- ceiving station at Riverhead, l.. l., through which NEG engineers have been in daily communication with the Vatican for the past fortnight.
 At Riverhead, the program will be tuned in on three sets, and will be carefully monitored by means of an elaborate set-up including among its features automatic volume con- trol. Wire lines will then carry the signals to the NEG studios at I'll Fifth avenue, New York City, for distribution over combined nation- wide networks associated with NEG and several non-network stations which have requested permission to rebroadcast the significant event.
 Vatican engineers said Monday morning that the program will also be broadcast in Italy on Al meters in conjunction with the FEAR Utal- ian Broadcasting company.
 NEG officials predict that at least seventy stations in this country will be lined with WEAF and WIZ, New York, for the international rebroad- cast. In addition to the long wave transmitters which will handle the program for Amreican listeners, short wave stations in Pittsburg, Schenectady and other points are ex- pected to relay the event to po- tentially worldwide audience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Blizzard Scare
 Abates To-day
For Time Last Night It Appeared as If City Was Due
 for Heavy Fall of Snow

Unless the present storm continue and more. snow falls, the conditions that confront people today will be far from what they had to contend with during the blizzard which set in March II. 1888, and shut in Wa terbury and other New England towns for several days. The younger generation knows nothing about this except wlat they have heard from the older folks and great many who were much in evidence at that time have since been called away, but enough are left to tell interest ing stories about how families were hemmed in and could not visit near neighbors for several days.
 In those days people used to have more things in the house than they do now, SO that most families were able to tide over the storm without much suffering for the want of food and fuel,( but quite few had to live
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

rett on the truck was George J. Alderman, also an employe of the Fat Rendering and Fertilizer com pany. There is no sidewalk on Huntingdon avenue at this point and the body of the deceased was found IA feet from the westerly end of the bridge. Barrett did not see the deceased before the rear wheel of the truck struck him. He stopped his truck as soon as the cries of the other children directed his attention to the accident.
 Dr James Hinman with the Wat erbury hospital ambulance soon ar- rived at the scene of the accident but the Atherton boy was dead upon his arrival.
 I find that said death was caused by crushing of the skull and lac eration of the brain when deceased was run over by the left rear wheel of three-ton Mack truck on Hunt ingdon avenue, operated by Uriah H. Barrett, but that said death was not due to the criminal negligence of the said Uriah H. Barrett. -.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Not Responsible
 For Death Of Y 6 Year Old Boy
Sprague School Pupil, Killed Late in January, Under Truck, Driven By Cooke Street Man-Smyth Finds No Criminal Negligence on Drivers Part

Uriah H. Barrett, 65, of s349 Cooke street, was held not crimin- ally responsible for the. death of G. year-old Phillip T. Atherton, Sprague school pupil who was killed by a three ton Mack truck operated by Barrett, on the Hunt ington avenue bridge last January 26. according 10 finding made this morning by Deputy Coroner Walter ". Smyth. The boy was killed when the rear left wheel of the heavy truck ran over his body near the wesetrn part of the bridge as the lad was going home from school. The finding follows:
 Having been notified on the 26th day of January, A. D., 1881 that Phillip T. Atherton a white male, six years of age. had come to a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

sparingly and if they had been shut in much longer they would have starved. At times last night it lock- ed as thoIgh we were in for reps- tition of the old blizzard. What came caused considerable inconven- fence. but it was a small affair com pared wi-h the one that hit Water bury back in the eighties.
 The storm today made pretty picture and furnished lots of work for the eunemployed. so that while it caused some inconvenience t served a good purpose and was well comed by many who were out of work and found all they could swing into this morning, either for them selves or in the employ of the city government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
WOLCOTT MEN
 PUT UNDER BONDS
File Appeals and Furnish Bonds to Appear in
 High Court
AN EXCITING TRIAL
Special to The Democrat)

(oDCCldI tO 1IC DCuhoSh"e(
 Wolcott, Feb 1O-Two town offi- cials were bound over to the su- perior court at Waterbury on charges of extortion and third was fined $25 and costs on breach of the peace counts. when the trio was found guilty in the town court be- fore Justice Graham Hitchcock here yesterday afternoon. Grand Juror Oscar Todd and Constable John K. Fulgham were bound over and Con- stable Julius Cowles was fined. Con- stable Cowles appealed his fine to the common pleas court and bonds were, set at $1OO (which were fur nished by his wife. Bonds were set at $1,0OO in the other two cases. Bonds for Todd's release were fur nished by his sister. Miss Irene Todd. Constable Fulgham's bonds were furnished by his wife. Attor- ney Finton Phelan of Waterbury acted as special prosecutor for the town and the officials were repre- scented by Attorney Thomas F. Me- Grath of Waterbury. The officials bound over to superior court will be heard in June.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
E.. Robert Stevenson
 Defends Sinclair Lewis

E. Robert Stevenson spoke yester- day at the Waterbury club before the members of the Junior League. Sinclair Lewis, he said, is misunder- stood by the world. The author, however, is responsible for the atti- tude of antagonism against him, the speaker declared. MT. Stevenson and MT. Lewis were classmates at Yale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Illustrated Lecture
 On Travels In Africa

An illustrated lecture on his travels in Africa was presented by Past Regent L. Erwin Jacob of New Haven at the regular meeting of Mattatuck council. Royal Arcanum, in Columbus hall last night. A short business meeting presided over by Regent Harold Briggs was held be- fore the lecture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Parents Night
 and Banquet Sponsored By Troop 34 Local Council of Boy
 Scouts

Troop a4 of the local council of Boy Scouts sponsored it's annual Parents night and banquet last eve- ming at the Christ chapel church in recognition of the 21st anniversary of the founding of the scouting movement in America.
 Carlton Chapin, scoutmaster, handed in his resignation to be- come assistant scoutmaster. William Sanford will become the new scout master. Elliott R. Dudley, assistant scout executive, delivered the main address. A delicious supper was pre- pared and served by committee of mothers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
The Waterbury
 Hospital Aid Society

Miss Nina M Brown spoke yes- terday afternoon before the mem- bers of the Waterbury Hospital Aid society at a meeting held at the home of Mrs c. P. Goss, Jr. More than 100 women attended. Miss Brown, well known social welfare worker, told of her duties and the various problems with which she is confronted from time to time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Special Party At Masonic
 Temple Friday Night

Galilee Shrine, White Shrine of Jerusalem, will observe it's ninth birthday at a special party to be held in Masonic temple Friday eve- ming. All charter members of the order have been invited to attend. An entertainment is being arranged in connection with the the party which will follow the semi monthly meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Twice the Heb!

Many things people take for constipa- ton do only half as much for them as Cascarets would do. For Cascarets are made from cascara, which any doctor will tell you acts not only on the lower bowel but the upper one as we'll. And it actually strengthens Me muscles of tie bo1vels. So the quick, pleasant relief Cascarets bring when you're bilious, dizzy, headachy and constipated, ts lasting relie7 Take a candy Cascaret tonight and see how that coated tongue clears up; how your breath is sweetened; eyes are frightened and your entire system is strengthened. 20 million boxes used yearly is proof of their popularity!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Theodore Roosevelt Lodge
 K. of P. Dinner Dance

Theodore Roosevelt lodge, Knights of Pythias, made plans for the an- nual dinner dance to be held at N.@verly Inn on March 1st. Chan cellor Commander Louis Franken, presided at the meeting in Pythian hall and announced the membership drive would start immediately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
TO PICK HIGHWAY ROUTE

Chihuahua City, Chih., (UP).- Governor Andres Ortiz has named a commission to select the route for the Juarez- -Torreon highway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Birthdays of Washington
 and Lincoln

Wadhams Women's Relief corps, G. A. R., made plans at last nights
 meeting for a special program in
 honor of birthdays of Washington
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

and Lincoln. The program is to be presented at the next meeting on the 23d. A silver social will be held on the 28th,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

Nobel, founder of the Nobel prizes,
 owed his great fortune to the dis Icoverv of dynamite. 1
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-06
THE COAL BLOCKADE

Utah coal is exported to every States and Terri tory in the Unon Senator King of Utah member of last summers special senatorial investigation com mittee which turned in such adverse report the Alaska Railroad and recommended raise in rates in order the good book says, to put the railroad on paying basis
 For about two years it is said, the city of Los An gees has had representative in the railroad be look ing into the possibilities of the coal fields with the view of shipping Alaska coal direct to Los Angeles Los An gees so the story goes is tired of paying Utah dealers what they consider exorbtant price. It is further claimed the representative with government assistance has located huge field where big veins in place. in the Palmer Creek area not far from Anchorage.
 Now raise in freight rates
 Is there any connection?
 year ago The Gateway charged Utah interests blocking the Alaska coal industry; blocking it at Wash ington, D. C. For years have said Alaska coal compete in the coal marts of the Pacific Coast We still of the same conviction.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-06
SOUNDS LIKE DISCRIMINATION

The zeigler bill, introduced in the Territorial legis- latllle Wednesday, seeking to penalize cannery men who import fibre board boxes for their products, against using box shocks made in Alaska, appears to be based on discrimination If so, the bill hasn't ghost of show to go through We doubt very much if an n- terstate embargo of this sort Is permissible It is re- gretabe an Alaskan industry may suffer from such importation of lighter weight boxes but it also must appear logical shippers and buyers are going to cut every corner possible to reduce the price of commod ity
 For the moment the exact figure eludes us but in commenting this subject last summer The Gate way published an accurant statement of the saving in a carload of cased salmon going overland from the Pacific to the Atlantic seaboards. It around $6O a car that certain. In other worlds cased sal mon, clans, in wood boxes, cost approximately $6O a in freight rates than fibre board.
 It would appear with pulp mills going in Southeast em Alaska fibre boxes could likewise be manufactur ed On the other hand if Alaska could tax all mporta tions shipped in, progress would be assured Local industries of all sorts would blossom overnight If the legislature put the Zeger bill through protection should be given every business in the Territory
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-06
"Snowshoe Wireless''

and further more, there is ab- Solutely no truth in the report that Abul-Bull-Bull SkavinSky Skivar ran down the city hall stairs when the warriors clashed in the council chambers.