davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Additions to
 the Fire Dept
Two CaIImen Appointed at Meeting of Commissions
 CTS Yesterday

Two caIlmen were appointed al yesterdays meeting of the board of fire commissioners. They were Walter Flynn and Charles Ryan. The report of the death of Captain John J. Mitchell was received from Chief Henry II. Heitman, who is arranging detail of hrcmen to accompany the Waterbury Ameri- can Legion mem bers in the parade at the state convention at New Bri- tain on Saturday. The information came after request from Commis- sion Daniel J. Mahaney.
 Lack of q quorum prevented the police board from meeting. The meeting will be held Monday after noon at o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

neId, VIII reopen on WedneSuay, September 23rd. Resident students will register at o'clock (DST). All new students will register on Saturday, September 18th, at 10 o'clock DST).
 SEMINARY APPOINTMENTS St Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield
 Prcfccts: The Reverend Gerald J. Corri- gan, Saint Joseph's, Bristol. The Reverend Peter Karlonas. Saint Andrews, New Britain. The Reverend Michael J. Sulli- van, Saint Francis, New Haven. St Mary's Seminary, Baltimore
 First Theology John J. Bennett, Assumption. Ansonia.
 Anthony Bombolieski, Saint Jo- seph's, Norwich.
 Edward D. Halloran, Saint Fran els, Torrington.
 Second Philosophy: Edwin B. OBrien, Saint Fran cis', New Haven.
 First Philosophy: David Bannon, Sacred Heart, Waterbury.
 Joseph IT. Collonan. All Hallows', Moosup.
 William P. Faccinto, Saint Fran cig, New Haven. sBernard J. Flynn, Saint Marys, Unionville.
 Joseph Kasperkiewicz. SS. Cyril and Methodius', Hartford. James r. Glynn, Saint Angus tines, Hartford.
 Burtin 'Glendon, Saint Joseph's, Shelton.
 James r. McGrath, sS Peter and Paul, Waterbury. Naugatuck.
 Cornelius Looncy, Saint Francis, New Haven. Donald OLeary, Saint Charles, Bridgeport.
 Francis O'Neil, Saint Francis xavier's, Waterbury. John Rzasa, Saint Stanislaus', Chicopee Falls. St Bcrnard's Seminary, Rochester
 Second PhIlosOphy: Alfonso J. FiedorcZyk, Sacred Heart, New Britain. Vincent Sankas, Saint Joseph's. Waterbury.
 John J. Iyskowski, sacred Heart, New Britain.
 First Philosophy: Bernard Butcher. Saint Johns, New Haven. sylvio Bernier, Saint James Danielson.
 Thomas J. Carmody, Saint Jo- seph's. Hartford.
 John A. Jankowski, St Joseph's, Norwich. William P. Kelly, Our Lady of Sorrows, Hartford. James r. Looby. Saint Angus tines. Hartford.
 James N. Murphy, Saint Jo. seph's, New Britain. Dennis Noonan, SS Peter and Paul, Waterbury.
 William Powers. St Patricks, Waterbury.
 Leonard White, Saint Thomas the Apostle, West Hartford. Bassclin College, Washington
 First Philosophy: Joseph A. Degnan. Immaculate Conception. Hartford. James J. Farrell, Saint Johns. New Britain. St Bricu Seminary. St Brtcu, France
 First Philosophy: Thomas Y. Looney, Saint Fran els. New Haven. Peter Mclaughlin, Holy Trinity. Wallingford.
 Leo Pcchie. Saint Mary's, Put nam.
 St SuIpicc. Issy, France
 First Philosophy: John r. Hackett, Saint Joseph's. New Haven.
 James r. Murphy. Saint Charles. Bridgeport.
 North American College,
 Rome, Italy
 First Philosophy: John J. Horgan, Saint Angus tines. Hartford. Michael McVerry, Saint Margar- cts, Waterbury.
 ArchdiOccsan Seminary.
 Florence, Italy
 First Theology: Francis Cuddigan, Saint Jo- seph's. Hartford. Francis Smith, Immaculate Con- ception, Hartford. Robert Doyle, Saint Francis. 
 The Albertinum. FrlbOurg,
 Switzerland
 Third Theology: Vincent Bodnar. Saint stephens, 
 First Theology: Louis Blecharcyck. Saint Casi- mfrs. Terryville.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Steps Taken to
 Collect Judgment

In an effort to collect on q judg- ment previously granted in his fa- vor. Roland Baker yesterday start ed a $500 city court action against Nick Cena. Baker was allowed a Judgment of 3154.60 and costs or S47.6O against Cena which has not been satisfied, according to the suit. The original suit was the re- suit of an automobile collision. Att torney William K. Lawlor repre- seisted the plaintiff in the original action and brings the present suit. City sheriff William ]. Roach has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
AIR LINES, INCOME

Washington. = Commercial ar transportation has grown into a business taking in an annual in- come of $25.000.000 a year. the Aeronautics branch of the U. &. Chamber of Commerce reports Mall contractors are receiving from the government $20.00O,000 annual ly. Passenger and express trafhc accounts for the remainder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
Official List or
 Seminary Appointments
Waterbury Youths Entering Priesthood Democrat
 Published Local Students Last Evening

The curreI( issue of the Cath ollie Transcript carries the follow ing article on seminary appoint ments and also with reference to the opening of St Thomas sem mary at Bloomfield.
 The local young men who are to enter different seminaries were mentioned in The Democrat yes terday, but the full official list is inserted to-day. This is a matter of much interest to many families in Waterbury and other places all over the Hartford diocese.
 Saint Thomas seminary, Bloom-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
BABE HAS 12 FINGERS

Powhatan, O.-An infant son of Mir and Mrs Theodore Bauer here has 12 fingers and an equal num- Der of toes. The child is normal in all other respects, doctors say.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
PLANE PROSPECTING

Phoenix. Ariz.--George A. Will son. B. M. Curry and Miles M. Car pcnter, mining engineers, nave se- cured a plane and pilot, John o' Chapin, to prospect by air DOT ton of the Arizona desert. near A1o' believed to be rich In minerals They hope to prospect 1oo square miles in the plane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

In preparation for annual in- spection and the observance of Governors day at Camp Cross, Ni- antic, Waterbury members of the Second company, Governors Foot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

attached i've pieces of property
 located on the Middlebury road, on Judd and East Aurora streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
GOVERNORS OF TWO STATES ARE
 OIL HARDENED
Texas and Oklahoma Re- fuse to Give in Unless Price of Crude Oil Goes to $l a Barrel

Oklahoma, City, Aug 20-UP)-- Refiners and distributors in some of the most productive oil fields in the world were faced today with a. rapidly approaching oil famine.
 The governors of Oklahoma and Texas remained firm in their deter imitation to keep all wells closed under martial law until crude oil goes up to a dollar a barrel. Protests and pleas of the oil men thus far have been on no avail in altering the stand of the militant | governors, William H. (Alfalfa BID Murray of Oklahoma, and | Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas. | Reports from throughout the oi regions were that the refnersl ant distributors were seriously cohsid. ering a drastic upward trend ir prices.
 With approximately 100000 bar rels of oil held from the market each day by the shutdown, stores of refners are fast being depleted. panies had in storage an amount of oil equal to only about four days average production of the East IeXdS uelu dIOIc' "dHy SIIIhiiNl ip- liners and independent filling sta tions were closed.
 Governor Murray reported that four or five refiners had told him they would have to close almost it once for lack of crude. The Nor gan Petroleum company, which two days ago offered 77 cents bar red if Murray would reopen the Oklahoma fields, raised its offer to 70 cents.
 Governor Murray told all who preached the price to him that he would discuss $1 barrel for oil and nothing less.
 Governor Sterling said no one had approached him about prices and that he expected to keep the East Texas field closed until the railroad commission was able to enfore the new conservation law.
 From Kansas come word that the shutdown may soon be extended to fields of that state. where more than 20O0 wells would be affected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

Tulsa, okla, Aug 2O-(UP(-- The following sign appeared today over q suburban filling station as the owners interpretation or the tax and price of gasoline: .
 sad but true-Alfalfa Bill D cents; Phillips Petroleum company 4 cents: me cents; total II cents per gallon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
AGENTS OF COURT FIND 100000
HIDDEN BY WOMAN, 90, IN HOTEL
Widow Who Danced With King Edward
VII, Then Prince. and Ran Newspaper
Gets Administrators.

refer to her money, but even they were
surprised at the size Of the fortune.
Although she was openly displeaSed
that any court should think her unable
to attend to her own business affairs,
Mrs. Wood did not become angry, as
she did few weeks ago when she pro-
duced a sugar bag containing $4,000
and turned 1t over to the administrator
Of her affairs.
Once Ran Gotham Newspaper.
Mrs. Wood, sprightly despite her
years, Is only five feet tall. She has
lived alone for many years. Her hus-
band, one-time owner and publisher of
the New York Daily News, was promi-
nent Democrat
The New York Daily News. which Mrs.
Woods husband bought In 1850 and
ran as Democratic newspaper, had no
connection with the present New York
Daily News.
After Mr.. Woods death his widow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
LETTER BY lincoln
TO Be GIVEN PUBLIC
500 Word Autobiography,
Written in 1859, Left by
California Woman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated ETeSSs
SAN JOSE, Calf, october 8-The
original Of a 500-word autobiography
in the handwriting Of Abraham Lincoln
will be turned over to public tnstitu-
ton, under the terms of the will of
Miss Fannie Fell. who died at Los
Gatos September "a.
sThe will is to be probated here this
week. 1t bequeaths the three-page
manuscript In trust to Miss Fell'S niece
and her son, Harriet F. and Robert D.
Richardson of Milwaukee.
They are directed to present the
manuscript ito some public institution
where it will be we'll cared for land
made available to the people of the
United States and especially to students
of the life and times of Abraham Lin
coin"
At present the manuscript lies in a
bank vault at Normal, ILL.,, Miss Fell's
former home.
The autobiography was written in De-
cember, 1859, to Judge Jesse Fell. Miss
Felrs father. when Judge Fell had in
mind the possibility Lincoln might be-
come a presidential candidate Judge
Fell and Lincoln shared law Offices in
Springfield, III.
His parents were "of undistinguished
second families. perhaps I should say,
Lincoln wrote in the autobiography, a
photostatic copy Of which Miss Fell
had here
Lincoln commented on the handicaps
of his boyhood schooling, and added
that 'the little advance I now have
upon this store of education I have
picked up from time to time under the
pressure of necessity"
His concluding paragraph was a de-
scription of himself as he was then at
the age of so.
"If any personal description of me
IS thought desirable" he wrote, st may
nes SIIo Lean am IL IN H Hesb o, aSeI mcneS
average 100 pounds dark / lxcnopme-
average 100 pounds; dark in complex
eyes. No other marks or brands recol-
lected"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October S.-A little
lady of SO years wondered yesterday why
the law should take her hoard Of
$400 900 In cash from its numerous hid
ing places In her modest hotel room.
II don't want any body to take care
Of me-" said Mrs. Ida E. Wood, who
once reigned over Fifth avenue salons
and danced with King Edward VII
when he was the Prince Of Wales. I'm
80 years old-and that's old enough
for me to take care Of myself"
A bewildering treasure was revealed
yesterday when officers, acting under a
court order declaring Mrs. Wood in
competent, searched her quarters at a
midtown hotel
Confronted with the court order, Mrs.
Wood surrendered her treasure reluc-
family. From the folds of her old-fash-
Toned frock she produced a parcel In
it were bills of large denomination
many Of them half a century old.
100000 Cash Is Found.
Altogether there was $4,000 in cash.
For years she had kept it, not trusting
banks or investments.
There were bills long since out Of cir
culation. In the room, too, were trunks
filled with laceS, debated bustles, satin
ball gowns. watches studded with dia-
mondS, taffeta petticoats, dance pro-
grams, tiny shoes and jewelry.
Her relatives often had heard her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
CASHIER FOUND DEAD

odlcial Of Closed Ohio Bank Dies
in Gas-Filled Garage.
DEFIANCE, Ohio, October 8 CP).-
William E. Irwin. So, cashier of the Ma
tional Bank Of Defiance, which closed
month"; ago, was found dead in his
garage. last night, victim Of monoxide
poisoning.
Coroner F. w. Watkins deferred an
official verdict pending investigation,
but expressed the belief Irwin met an
accidental death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08

managed the paper herself by telephone
and pneumatic tube, reading the proofs
and directing its editorial policy
Eventually, however. she relinquished
control of the publication and it was
sold to Munsey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

giving the latest information on con-
ditions in US.A., including the crisis,
strikes, war preparations of the capt.
talist government, etc, with special
ference to the effects here of the Boil
shevik Revolution and the Five-Year
Plan in the Soviet Union. 1t will
tell how the news of the advance Of
socialist construction in the Soviet
Union is received by American work
ers, technicians. business men and
war mongers. 1t will contain pictures
of conditions today in the United
States. There will be collective let
tiers from masses of workers in vari-
GUS industries, giving their opinion
of the effects on America of the rule
of the workers and farmers in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
On the other hand, the Daily
Worker will take pleasure in bringing
before the American workers. page
written for them by the workers Of
the U.S.S.R., and arranged by the
staff of Trud.
Watch for the announcement of
the appearance of this page in the
Daily Worker. and be sure to have
plenty of that issue on hand to cir
culatel
All workers organizations who wish
to send a collective letter to Trud
for this special page should do so
this month If possible.
Districts, sections and units should
make preparations now to determine
how many thousands of the special
7th edition Of the Daily
Worker they can use.
Bundle orders at one cent per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Party Will Support Demands
Of EX- Servicemen at Meet

The, election campaign gesture on
the part of the American Legion
which has for its aim to fool the
workers on the bonus issue will be
brought into the fore front and ex-
posed by the Communist Party dur
ing the Election Campaign Ratifica-
ton Meeting which takes place this
Friday evening, September 10, should
rally the ex-servicemen from New
York in coming with workers from
shops, factories and fraternal organ
izations for coming struggle in sup
port of the Communist Party fight
for immediate unemployment relief
and unemployment insurance which
is central demand in the Commu-
mist Party platform.
The Communist Party calls to the
attention of all workers to the role
of Major General Hartford, the re-
tired official, who is now handling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

returned last week TO her parents
after long weeks in the County
Hospital.
Neither her distraught mother
nor father knows how she is to re-
ceiye milk for daily feelings. They
spent their last 10 cents yesterday
for bottle of milk, and stretched
1t over the five necessary feed
ings."
The family has two other babies,
both under 3.
Referring to them as under
privileged youngsters" the boss paper
tries to cover up the fact that these
working class babies have been SEN
fenced to death by the murderous
capitalist system which has denied
relief to their unemployed father.
The same paper, in an attempt
&CoNTINUED ON PAGE EryEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
PROTEST RATES
OF ELECTRIC
POWER TRUST
Workers Will Rally at
Public Service Com
mission Friday

The workers of New York will pro-
test against the new 81 minimum
electric rate Friday under the lead
ership Of the Unemployed Councils
and the Tenants League at the Of
flee of the Public Service Commits
sion at 80 Center st. at 2;3o p. m.
Thousands of petitions against the
minimum rate have been circulated.
These petitions have been distributed
at open air meetings and by the var
ious workers organizations. All
workers are called on to turn in their
petitions to the office of the Unem-
ployed Councils at 5 East 10Th st.
If workers should find it impossible
to bring them to the office they
should bring them to the protest
Friday. All workers or their wives
should bring their electric bills also
to the demonstration.
The electric and gas trust is not
satisfied with the tremendous profits
they have already made but are try
ing to squeeze more and more out of
the workers in their desire for
profits. The workers should demon
strate against this robbery of the
electric trust at the demonstration
Friday. Come in masses to the Of
flee of the Public Service Commits
sion at 80 Center ST., Friday at
2:30 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
$4,000 STEEL
WORKERS TO
GET PAY CUT
Longshorenen to Be
Cut Also On Oct. |
To Affect 9th er S
Must Or ganize to
Strike Against Wage
Cuts


The wage cut for the 100000 stee.
workers in the country is scheduled
to go into effect on September rs
according to the Journal of Com
merce of September 16. The cut viii
be started by the us. Steel Corp
when the board of directors meets
on that date. The Journal of Com
merce states that the wage cut de-
ciSion has already been made by the
finance committee of the US. Steel
and the board of directors will make
it final when it meets. This is OPEN
ly stated as follows:
TT is understood that final de-
cision has been reached by the fin
ance committee of the board of the
corporation and that the occasion
of the fun board meeting will be
utilized to make it public"
This general wage cit attack will
cut ten per cent more from the mis-
cradle wages of the steel workers.
This is in addition to the slashes
which have already been forced on
the workers of individual crafts and
mills in the industry during the per-
iod of the crisis. The steel bosses
are cutting wages on the whole front
now in addition to the cuts on a
partial scale which took place previ-
ously.
The Journal of Commerce states
that there has been some "mystific-
alton" as to why the Steel Corp.
waited SO long after it reduced the
stock dividend at the end of July to
reduce wages.
The Journal of Commerce gives
two reasons for this delay:
TN the first place, he said, ii
was desired to establish the prin-
ciple that capital and salaried en-
ployes must make their sacrifices
first before labor is called upon to
accommodate itself to prevailing
conditions. Secondly, it was desired
to permit fall business prospects to
be clearly gagged before taking &C
ton, since the possibility still ex-
listed then that some turn for the
better would be seen in the autumn
which might mark the definite
turning point in business"
The first reason for the delay was
to make the workers believe that this
slash was forced on them only after
the officers Of the corporation and
the salaried workers had had their
wages cut The wage cut was de-
cided on in July but the bosses real
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Their Parents Denied Relief, Babies
of Jobless Workers Found Starving

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Sept. 16--
Three starving, unemployed workers
and 2-year-old baby were discov-
cred at Burbank yesterday in the
empty ice box of a refrigerator car
on which they had "beaten" their
way from Bakersfield. They had
only dry loaf of bread between
them for food. The baby was in an
advanced stage of starvation. The
adults were so weak they had to be
helped off the car.
The four were James Bresnahan,
his wife, Margaret, and their little
son, Junior, and Mrs. Bresnehan's
brother, j. A. Brady. They came
from Chicago. Unable to find en-
ployment and denied relief by the
Chicago bosses and their city adj
ministration, the three adult workers
had boarded freight train with the
baby in an attempt to find work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

spoke. Subcommittee of the general
strike committee as picket, defense,
relief, etc, we're reported to be func-
tioning.
Call Mass Meeting.
A mass meeting has been called by
the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union of striking and working uphol-
sterers and furniture workers, Thurs
day, September 10, Manhattan Ly-
ceum, &C E. 4th ST., 8 pm. The re-
cent move of the upholstering bosses
to build up Local rs, Upholsterers,
A. F. of L. organization, will be ex-
posed. Discussion on the strike and
methods of spreading the strike will
also be held at the meeting.
An appeal was made by the general
strike committee for aid to the strik-
ers by friendly workers organizations.
Negotiations with two more bosses
are now under way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

The relief shower idea comes
from Detroit, where Workers
International Relief sections
have been holding shower"
parties to which everyone
brings anything that can be used
by the relief: canned goods, flour,
coffee, sugar, shoes, shirts, trousers
and money.
After the relief shower a sewing
bee Is arranged where the women
get together and patch and repair
clothing received at the shower and
put them in shape for the commit
tee to distribute to the striking min
ers families. A big Proletarian Soil
darity Shower will be held on Sept.
% at 1343 East Perry Ave, Detroit,
at 730 p. m.
The proletarian solidarity shower
is one more method of attracting at
tention for the big National Solidarity
Tag Days, to be held everywhere in
the country on Saturday and Sunday.
Sept. 26 and 27, for the relief of the
miners and other strikers against
starvation.
Everybody Help.
The Solidarity Tag Days are de-
signed TO reach every worker pos
sible. Volunteer workers in over 200
cities will try to reach every person
there for relief funds. Volunteers are
gathering from many sources at the
call of the WIR. committees and
sections in the various cities. Every
worker who wishes can get in on
this work. There is plenty of room
for more and more workers, both
on the actual job of collecting on
the two tag days, and in the pre-
paratory work before them.
The WIR. sections have under
taken the job of broadening their
membership to cover all organizations
sympathetic to the relief campaign.
Mass meetings are being held in many
cities, picnics are being arranged, and
demonstrations so that when the tag
days come, everyone will know why
it is being held.
Special efforts are being made to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Ala. Boss Court Continues to
Hold r. Wright Without Trial

NEW YORK.-The Alabama boss
lynchers have decided that little
14-year-old Roy Wright must re-
main in Jail several months again
before his case is brought to trial.
Roy is the ninth Of the Scots
boro Negro boys whom the bosses are
trying to burn in the electric chair
on a lying charge of rape in their
attempt to terrorize the Negro masses
and crush their craving struggles
against starvation and national OPP
preston. There was a mistrial in
his case when Roy was tried in the
original Scottsboro trials. The bosses
insist that he must face the same
ordeal again.
The other eight boys we're SEN
fenced to death. They are still held
in the death cells in Kilby Prison,
Montgomery, in spite of the fact that
an appeal has been filed for them to
the Supreme Court of Alabama by
the International Labor Defense.
The Alabama laws calls for the re-
moval from the death cells of con-
demned prisoners awaiting an ap-
peal. But, as usual, the bosses ig-
more their own laws when carrying
out attacks against the working
class. Workers, and especially Ne
gro workers, have no rights in the
eyes of the bosses.
Not daring to carry through their
legal lynching of this Negro child
In face. of the mighty protests of
the international working class. the
Alabama boss courts are delaying