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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss.
 Probate Court, May 18th. A. b.

DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss.
 Probate Court, May 18th, A. ID.
 ESTATE or Hyman Albert, late of Waterbury, in said District, deceased.
 The administrator eta. having ex- hibited his administration account with said Estate to this Court for allowance, it is ORDERED, That the 21st day of May A. D. 1881, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, Standard Time. at the Pro bate office in Waterbury, be and the same Is assigned for Q hearing on the count, with said Estate. and this Court directs the administrator eta. to cite all persons interested therein | to appear at said time and place, by publishing this order in some news. paper having circulation in said District, and by leaving with, or by mailing in registered letters address, ed to each of the persons interested and residing without the Probate Dis- trict of Waterbury, a copy. or this order, all at least 3 days before said day of hearing.
 ~ MARGUERITE M. FAHY,.
 5-16-1t Asst Clerk.
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subsequently adopted a permanent policy of conservative buying, plac- ing orders only to cover limited re- quirements and becoming especially cautious about style and seasonal goods.
 This policy of conservative buy ing has without doubt been one of | the saving factors for merchants during the recent period" Kelly said.
 Kelly gave much of the low-down on the stores, which you and pat ronize nearly every day.
 For instance, although the chain stores have made rapid inroads on American retail trade and you seem to find them rnow on every other cent of that retail trade. The rest of it is divided up as follows: Departments and general merchandising stores 16 per cent, mail-order houses 3.6 per cent, company stores operated primarily by industrial concerns for employees 3 per cent, house-to-house canvass | ing 2.3 per cent, consumers CO., operative stores four-tenths of one per cent-and independent stores outside those clasifications 56.7 per 
 cent.
 Retailers Costs Mount
 Kelly took slam at the theory often held by manufacturers and other folks that retailers get the lions share of the profit in produc- ton and distribution. Expenses have mounted steadily in the last decade, he cited surveys to show, and profits have often decreased as fast. Many stores have net oper- ating profit, but many-even in 1929, the last year for which fig ures are available-did not.
 The Harvard Business chool found that among department stores doing a two-million dollar business or more. each $100 Of op- eraitng expense was divided up like this (showing what becomes of much of the money you leave in department store): Payroll, $51; rent and operating plant and equip ment, $15; advertising, $1O.5O; taxes, $1; interest, $6; supplies, $5; light, heat and power. $2; travel ing, $1.5O; communications, $1; re- pairs, $1; insurance. depreciation and professional services, $2.5O; and unclassified, including bad debts $3.50.
 Department stores have devel- oped by laying special emphasis on service to customers whereas chain stores have >curtailed service and operated leash and carry" Kelly said, but some chains lately have shown tendency toward granting credit and free deliveries to cus- | toners.
 Mall Order Sales DrOD A large portion of the mail order business has been diverted to stores at, the trading, center during the past decade because of automobiles and ] good highways. That's why two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
SMALL STOCKS, WISE BUYING
 AID STORES IN DEPRESSION
Merchants Adopt ConserDatiOe Purchasing Policy
 Especially For Style And Seasonal Goods

of the largest mail order houses have established chains of retail stores.
 Stores doing a credit business usually find that 50 per cent of their sales are made on that basis. Payments on charge accounts fre- quently lag 30, 60 days or more be- yond the date when payment is off, cially expected. Credit losses on open charge account sales average only about four-tenths of one per cent. Losses in installment sales by stores normally range from one to one and half per cent.
 The peak of instalment sales, including automobiles. was in 1925 and they totaled for that year $6,179, ,OO ,o0O. The extent to which credit losses of both classes in- but 1t is certain that they increased.
 The Returned Goods Evil
 Merchants are now waging war on the evil of returning goods bought on credit. Some custom CTS, according to Kelly, return 90 per cent of the merchandise they buy. Department stores returns are estimated at half a billion dollars a year and that runs that increase of operating costs into millions. Newspaper advertising is unques- tionably the most effective medium for the retail stores, Kelly said, and others in order of their importance are direct mail, radio, street car and billboard advertising, window and interior displays.
 For large stores, advertising ex- pense runs from Al to 4.8 per cent of total sales. The percentage spent for newspaper advertising common ly ranges from 2.3 to per cent.
 "There are instances on record" Kelly said, where stores have spent and as result have sold as high $40,000 for one days advertising as $1,000,000 worth of merchandise in one day"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
By RODNEY BUTCHER (NEA Service Writerl

Washington.-In god times. more than fifty billion dollars of our na- tional income is spent in American retail stores. t-
 Nearly everyone buys "at the store." It is the producers vehicle of distribution and its tieup with a national condition of prosperity or depression is obvious.
 But although the country's di- unfinished purchasing power has au- tomatically reacted against the re- tail stores, our merchants have stood the strain far better than in the 1920-1921 slump, which caught them heavily stocked with mer- chandise, then belabored them with sudden and drastic price declines as well as loss of sales.
 Now Merchants Buy Carefully
 That was the dawn of new era in retail merchandising, according to President D. F. Kelly of the Na- tional Retail Dry Goods association, who heads large Chicago depart ment store. Kelly explained at the International Chamber of Com merce congress here that merchants
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
NOTICE
Waterbury, Conn.,,

Waterbury, Conn, May 11th, 1881. You are hereby notified that the
 Board of Tax Commissioners and
 Apportionment of the City of Water bury, will be in session in their of-
 fees in City Hall, every business day from June 1st. 1881, to July 1st,
 1881, inclusive, for the purpose of re-
 ceiving tax lists of all persons own ing taxable property, real and per-
 sonal, subject to taxation in the City
 of Waterbury. If any resident or nonresident tax
 payer neglects or refuses to hand in lists made and sworn to as pre-
 scribed by law (absence from city
 or sickness being no eXcuse) the Tax Commissioners must make out list
 and add ten per centum as pre-
 scribed by law.
 Each parcel or real estate must be separately described.
 Office hours, 9 a. m. to D. m. in- elusive to July 1st, z p. m. to p. m.
 Wednesday and Friday evenings to
 June 17th, and from p. m. to 8 D. m. every business day thereafter to July l, Daylight saving time). Board of Tax Commissioners and
 Apportionment.
 JOHN H. CRARY,
 5-15-3t. Secretary.
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT. District
 of Waterbury, SIS. Probate Court,
 May 11th. 1881.
 of the Town of Waterbury, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested within within said time. will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted 10 said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 MARGARET F. KIELYs~. 5-14-3t ExecutriX.
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DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss.
 Probate Court, May 18th, A. D.

1J0l.
 ESTATE OF Arthur H. Dews, late of Waterbury. in said District, de- ceased.
 Upon the application of John P. Clark, Creditor, praying that letters of administration may be granted on said Estate as per application on file more fully appears, it Is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at the Pro- bate Office in Waterbury, in said Dis- trict, on the goth day of May A. D. 1881, at 8:30 o'clock in the forenoon (Standard Time). and that notice be given of the pendency of said applica- ton, and the time and place of hear ing thereon, by publishing the same one time in the Waterbury Demo- crat, Waterbury American, and Wa terbury Republican newspapers hav- ing a circulation in said District, on the 18th day of May 1881.
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE NJ. FAHY, 5-16.1t Asst Clerk
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Editors Noto: This is the last of a series of five stories which sift and summarize the thought of world business leaders and facts about the depression as developed at the recent International Cham bcr of Commerce meeting at Wash- tngtOn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

BUY WITH CONFIDENCE OUR USED CARS SATISFY
 THEY ARE SOLD WITH AN OK" THAT COUNTS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

AVALON CIRCLE
 A beautiful new house of z large rooms (4 sleeping) and sun parlCr. It contains hardwood floors, hot water heat, ? lava tories, tile kitchen. tile bath room, set-in tub and shower. cedar closet, brass plumbing. copper gqtters, leaders ana two individual hot water heat ing systems for summer and winter use: also a 2-car garage.
 Monthly Expense $50
 To Own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

Real Estate For Sale
aouscs for Sale

ROOT & BOYD
 Incorporated 174 GRAND ST. TEL s17s WHAT IT WOULD COST YOU, MONTHLY TO LIVE IN SOME OF THE FINE HOUSES WE HAVE LISTED AFTER YOU sAi;I MADE hovvS A SonPAKATIyELx pIyNAHT
 RoBINwOOD An attractive, we'll designed house, rooms (4 sleeping), shower, hot water heat, open fireplace, brass piping, two lava tories, laundry in basement. One-car garage attached to basement. Delightful open porch. Lot 60x135.
 Monthly Expense s7o BUNKER HILL SECTION REVERE ST. EXTENSION Six large rooms, hardwood floors. brick open fireplace, large porch, Holland furnace, built-in china closets. Garage for one car. Lot 89x110. Many shade trees and much shrubbery.
 Monthly Expense $60
 VALENTINE AVE. Six rooms, hot water heat, hardwood floors, brass piping, one-car attached garage. Lot Monthly Expense $55
 To Own
 VALENTINE AVE. Six rooms, hot water heat, Quartered oak floors, fireplace, brass plumbing, built-in book case. One-car garage. Lot 55x120.
 Monthly Expense $6o
 To Own
 MAITLAND AVE. Seven rooms and sun par Tor. Pipeless furnace. One-car garage.
 Monthly Expense ssS
 To Own
 MAITLAND AVE. Seven rooms, hot water heat, hardwood floors. enclosed porch commanding fine view. One-car garage Fruit trees and gen. erous sized lot.
 Monthly Expense $50
 To Own
 BUNKER HILL AVE Eight rooms, pipeless fur ages 75x128. House set back.
 Monthly Expense $50
 To Own
 CIRCUIT AVE. Six rooms. pipeless furnace, hardwood floors.
 Monthly Expense $35
 To Own COLUMBIA SCHOOL DISTRICT
 WILLOW ST. Six rooms, sun parlors, hot water heat, open fire place, tiled bathroom, shower, laundry in basement, laundry chute. brass plumbing, garage in basement. on a splendid corner lot, 70x120. Owner is quite anxious to dis pose of 1t.
 Monthly Expense s1OO
 To Own
 HARRINGTON AVE. Seven rooms 4 sleeping), and sun parlor. hot water heat with electric stoker device. Tiled bathroom and shower. basement. One-car heated at tached garage. Lot 70x100. This is fine looking house.
 Monthly Expense $95
 To Own
 AVALON CIRCLE A beautiful new house. of large rooms (4 sleeping) and sun parlCr. It contains hardwood floors. hot hot wntsr w;,aS.n heat, t,s hasa faYa- room. set-in tub and shower. cedar closet. brass plumbing. copper gutters, leaders and fiashings, built-in ironing board, two individual hot water heat ing systems for summer and winter use: also 2-car garage. Monthly Expense $50
 To Own
 HERKIMER ST. One of best constructed houses in the overlook section, of 9 rooms and sun parlor. Built of hollow tile and stuco and in pleasing architecture. Hot water heat, tiled bathroom, set in tub, shower, two extra lava tories, open fireplace. Best of materials used throughout. Many features contained in house which must be seen to be appreciated. Aot 50xl37.
 Monthly Expense $115
 To Own
 VARIOUS SECTIONS
 PEARL LAKE ROAD Six rooms, pipeless furnace. electricity and gas, two-car garage, chicken coops, truck garden, Lot 50xSS0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Special Notices

glass mirrors; all sizes; for restaurants, beauty par lors. for boudoirs. Union Plate, x Window Glass Co, 26 Union St. Tel 3970. Free parking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Announcements
Lost and U'oun0

SNAPSHOTS-Andfi film, found in en- velope on E. Main St. Name on en- velope. Mir Akeron. Claim at Demo- crat Office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
ATWOOD ALWAYS HAS
 GOOD CARS

Bucks, Dodges. Chevrolets
 Fords Our Speciality Largest Selections-Lowest Prices
 ATWOOD BROS. North Main St. Meadow St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

2 7-PASS P-ckards for sale. One Si75, 0 her $500. Both in good shape. Would accept panel job truck in trade Tel 1856.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

VALENTINE AVE. Six rooms, hot water heat, hardwood floors, brass piping, one-car attached garage. Lot 5Ox120.
 Monthly Expense $55
 To Own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

VALENTINE AVE. Six rooms, hot water heat, quartered oak floors, fireplace, brass plumbing, built-in book case. One-car garage. Lot 55x120.
 Monthly Expense $60
 To own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

SYD SAYS: Every Certified Used Car that we offer for sale is backed by a 30-day guarantee for replacement of defective parts and free service on adiustmentS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
HERKIMER ST.

One of best constructed houses in the overlook section. of 9 rooms and sun parlor. Built of hollow tile and stuco and in pleasing architecture. Hot water heat, tiled bathroom, set- in tub, shower, two extra lava tories, open fireplace. Best of materials used throughout. Many features contained in house which must be seen to be appreciated. Not 50x137.
 Monthly Expense $115
 To Own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

SiItSoiA iA <A ~' Six rooms, pipeleSS furnace, hardwood floors.
 Monthly Expense $35
 To Own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

VARIOUS SECTIONS PEARL LAKE ROAD Six rooms. pipeless furnace. electricity and gas, ano,s twU,esF trHck garden. Lot 50xSS0.
 Monthly Expense $50
 LOCKWOOD AVE. Five-room bungalow. pipe less furnace. House in nice condition. Lot 50xl00.
 Monthly Expense $2S
 To Own
 FAIRLAwN MANOR Near new school site, a new ly reconditioned house of good d-sized rooms. pipeless fur mace, Lot 50x115.
 Monthly Expense $32
 To Own
 ROOT X BOYD
 Incorporated 174 GRAND ST. TEL si7a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

HARRINGTON AVE. Seven rooms (4 sleeping). and sun parlor, hot water heat with electric stoker device. Tiled, bathroom and shower. brass plumbing, laundry in basement. One-car heated at- tached garage. Lot 70x100. This is a fine looking house.
 Monthly Expense $95
 To Own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16
Employment
Agents Wanted

IF YOU WANT to get your groceries and household supplies at whole sale, and wonderful chance to make $15 profit a day besides, send me your name immediately. No ex- perience necessary. New Ford Sedan free to Producers. Albert Mills, 7106 Monmouth, Cincinnati, o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-16

BUNKER HILL AVE Eight rooms, pipeless fur mace, 2-car garage. Lot aver ages 75x12S. House set back. Monthly Expense $50
 To own
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09
THIS COUNTRY TO EXPLODED WITH
 RUSSIAN WHEAT
2O0,OOO,OOO Bushels Will Be Rushed Here By 1883, If Five Year Contract Holds Good
BY DIR. FRANK TUONE United Press Science
 EnrpnSnnnIonf

Washington. Jan. 9.-UP) Two hundred million bushels of wheat will be exported from Russia in I933 if the hve-year plan holds up, Dr. C. r. Marbut of the II. $. agri- culture department predicted in a report prepared for the Geograph- ical Review.
 pr. Marbut, chief of the depart ment's division of soil surveys, re- gently returned from an extended journey in Russia, where he attend ed the second international soil science congress at Leningrad and Moscow. He took leading part in the first congress, held at Washing ton in 1927.
 In his survey of the wheat-produc- ing possibilities of Russia and the United States, Dr. Marbut points out many important advantages enjoyed by the former.
 The potential wheat producing acreage in Russia Is much greater than that of the United States. Rus sia has more than 482,O0O,0OO acres | of first quality wheat land, as com pared with 99.O00,000 acres in this country. Of second-quality wheat land, Russia has nearly 372, 100000 acres, as compared with about 135,. OOO,O0O acres in this country. Russia also has some advantages in transportation facilities. In this country the great grain belt in the Plains state is remote from tide
 water ports and lacks navigable riv- CTS so that all it's wheat has to be
 hauled long distances by rail.
 The European part of the Russian
 grain belt. runs directly to the
 Black sea and is crossed or border ,I I,xy Tor i,pl h
 The wheat zone is Asiatic Russia. however, IS not so favorably situated. There is a basic similarity between the soil types that are best for wheat in the two countries. The first-qual- ity wheat soil, whether in western
 America or in southern Russia. is a
 deep, black earth known the world over by a Russian name, "cherno-
 gem" Sccondquality wheat soil is lighter in color and bears the Eng fish name "chestnut' or chestnut brown" The Russian wheat zone is about 200 miles wide, extending eastward from the Rumanian border to the re- zion of Lake Baikal, though the best of it stops considerably to the west
 ward. in the valley of the OB riv- CT. The American wheat begins in northern Texas and runs to the Can adian line, whence it continues far "up the map" under the Canadian flag.
 Whereas the rest of the world al- ready has put most of it's possible wheat acreage into actual cultiva- tion, Russia has vast land reserves that have never known the blow. It is this, coupled with the grandiOse schemes for farms as big as whole counties. that is causing uneasincss among the nonSovict agricultural economis at the present time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09
Uncle Sam Has To
 Know His Onions
Hundreds of Thousands of Letters Received Yearly From Dog Cures to Care of Permanent Wave

Hundreds Of thousands of ques- tions. from comedy to bitter tragedy, came in Uncle Sans mail each year, but all come from the hearts of his nephews and nieces and all are an- swered as carefully as the govern ment experts know how. It may be what to do about a dog which swal- lows gun shells; about the husband who didn't like liver; from .he mother with four children and SIS q week; from enc with dying fath- er--all these questions seem to thc askers the very reason for the gov ernment's existence. Some of the many human interests stories that have come to Washington recently under postage stamps are told by Constance Elliott, in McCall's MagI- zine.
 Uncle Sam gets more mail thnn any person or organizations on earth. Hundreds of clerks open them. sort them. Scores of scientists search Tor the data required for helpful replies. Ard each not Is answered. Hundreds of thousand of women who believe there must be an Aunt Samantha, an all-Wise mother even more inter- ested in the personal problems of her people than Uncle Sam, fad tnemSclVeS TlSHt, dOSOlulCly iiShl' with each letter they indite to their government!
 "A large proportion of the letters that come to the department of agriculture is from farm women. MoW of the letters. as in all de- partments, are requests for the gov crnment publications, but personal letters from women come too, usual- Iy directed to the subordinate bureaus home economies and tho radio station of the department.
 Writes Mrs: At last l have found time to write you you sec I have just become mother to ray 7th son and the cares which are many along with a rooming house and 4 others who are in school. my idle moments are few Now. please tell me about children lunches
 
 "'Please send me some of your took books as I am stern old Ratchler from matremoney free
 "'You know my husband never cared for liver before but l am sure
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09
EXCLUSIVE WASHINGTON CLUB ADMITS GOSS7
SOVIET RUSSIA. TO STOP PRIVATE INDUSTRIES
Almost All Eliminated at Present Time-GOvt Will Administer Largest Bud= get in the World

Moscow, Jan 9-UP) Private industry has been almost complete ly eliminated in Soviet Russia, the report of Commissar of Finance Gregory Grinko. submitted to the Zik or Soviet parliament, revealed to-day.
 The share of private industry in the national income was less than one half of one per cent, the report said.
 During 1881 the government will collect and administer 32 billion roubles. or two-thirds of the na- tional income, which is the largest national budget in the world. The protest against alleged Soviet dump ing world markets was called empty jabber" in the report, which gave figures to show that the Soviet income is delivered domesticaily.
 The report showed that over I3 billion roubles will come from the profits of socialized economy: II billion from, the taxation of indus- try; and 5,700.000,000 from direct and indirect taxes on the population.
 Workers will receive nearly 17 1-2 per cent of the national income in wages during 1881. the report said. a considerable increase over 1880. This figure did not include numer- ous social and insurance benefits covered elsewhere in the budget.
 The government tripled it's busi- ness in the last three years. Grinko' $ report said. Operating expenses were 10 billions in 1928 and 22 billions in 1930.
 The Zik adopted resolutions rati- flying the internal and foreign poli cies adopted by the government since the last parliamentary session. The 1891 economic plans and the budget were also approved
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09
ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN
 SPANISH ZONES
Reports, That King Alfonso Was to Abolish the MOn= archy, Are Declared Most Absurd

Madrid, Jan 9.-(UpL)-The gov ernment is continuing with it's plans to hold parliamentary elections in March, despite rumors of the for nation of grand monarchial coal ition'' cabinet. the United Press was informed to-day.
 The United Press was also in- formed officially that reports pub lished abroad that King Alfonso in tended to issue manifesto abolishing the monarchy were "absurd". The publication of such a manifesto would be unconstitutional and has never been considered by the king, Louis Rodriguez de Viguri. minister of national economy, said. Other cabinet ministers called the report one of many ridiculous rumors cir culated in Madrid since the recent unsuccessful attempt against the monarchy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-09
AIR SERVICE OF
 SPAIN IS GIVEN
 ORDERS TO QUIT
Whole Force Will Be Dis= banded, Because of Re- cent RevOlt-NeW Ser vice to Be Started


 Madrid. Jan 9-U. P)-Thc Span ish Army air Service was disbanded and plans for its reorganization were outlined in decree published to-day. officers and men of the serv- ice were given 1 . days in which to apply for membership in the new air corps, or to return to the branch es of the army with which they serv- cd originally.
 The decree had been expected, in view of the attempted revolt at Cuat- TO Vientos airdrome recently. led by Ramon Franco. The decree ordered ali members of the air service to give up their special uniforms dur ing the period of reorganization. An official board will receive petitions of men who wish to become members of the new corps. They will be judged by their past records. and present circumstances.