The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-26

of Mir and Mrs Robert Best or COen street suffered serious injuries Sat- urday morning in the Brooklyn Navy Yard when he fell distance of forty feet landing on the cement bottom of the navy yard dry dock. He suffered 8 broken right arm and fracture of the right leg as we'll as other injuries. MT Best who is a member of the U. s. Navy was as- sisting in preparing the boat to which he is attached for a southern cruise starting this morning. He was occupied in putting water in the boat with large hose, the hose slipped and MT Best was plunged to the bottom of the dry dock.
 MT Best was removed to the Navy hospital. Relatives visited him yes- terday and reported that despite his serious injuries he was resting as comfortably as could be expected. x-rays were taken to ascertain the full extent of his injuries. The in- jured man is well known in the bor- ough being a prominent baseball player while resident here. Accidents Reported Three minor accidents were. re- ported to the police over the week. end as the result of slippery pave
 
 John O'Donnell of Frederick street and Elmer Phillips of Springdale, Conn, were in slight accident at the corner of Main and Maple streets Cars operated by Raymond St John of this borough and David Griggs of 176 Pine street, Waterbury, figured in a slight mishap near the Union City garage on North Main street last night and this morning a car oper- ated by Herman Gighif of Baldwin street, Bridgeport, skidded on the pavement near Webers corner and crashed into the fence. No one was injured in any of the mishaps which was considered unavoidable. Fined Sr3.28
 Ben Wovandovag of High street, charged with intoxication and breach of the peace was fined $1 and costs |.on the intoxication charge anG $1 on the breach of the peace count in the borough court this morning. He was arrested by Officer Walter Ly- | swiewcz.
 Former Local Man Dead Word was received in the borough | last night of the death of Peter Brannigan, former resident of the borough who died in Bayonne, N. J., MT Brannigan was a brother of Bor- | ough Treasurer John Brannigan of Cherry street. MT Brannigan left for | Bayonne, N. J., on receipt of the | news of his brothers death. I Shed Destroyed
 A small building in the rear of the sundries department of the G. l. R. | Glove company on Water street was destroyed by fire Sunday night short ly after 10 o'clock. The building was l rl1 hlIf 1af l has been used for storage purposes. The fire was discovered by Eugene Sweeney who saw the reflection from the rear of his store on Church street. He telephoned to the Maple street fire house and the straight chemical was dispatched to the scene. When the fire was located more apparatus was sent to the scene of the blaze. A line of chemical and two lines of hose were soon playing on the blaze which was brought un- der control. The building was des- troyed. The damage was reported to be small. When the fire was well un- der control an alarm was rung in from box 23 located at the plant. This brought out many residents who seeing the reflection of the fire in the sky thought a bad blaze in the I Yesterday afternoon the firemen were called to the home of Daniel | Monohan, on Curtiss street to ex- tinguish a slight blaze caused by an l oil heater. Very little damage re. suited from the fire.
 l Forum Talk
 Professor Robert l.. Calhoun Of Yale university, teacher of historica theology, and leading advocate ,o1 peace will be the speaker at the sec. ond forum in the Methodist Episco- pal church on next Wednesday night Prof Calhoun will speak on "Pacifis as Patriot. On the same evening the men of the parish will serve 2 roast beef supper from 5 until o'clock. The supper will be open tt the public.
 Officers Installed
 Officers of Aetna lodge, Shep
 herds of Bethlehem, were installed Saturday night at a regular meeting held in Pythian hall by Deputy Mir Tomas of New Haven. A social fol lowed the installation and refresh ments were served. The officers in stalled were: Commander, Mis-
 Margaret Morris; vice-commander Mrs A. K. Weaving; scribe. Mir Mratha l.. Buchanan; accountant Mrs Louise Carrington; treasurer Mrs Richard Kenney; escort. F. W Weaving; inside guard, Mrs Lotti, Todd; outside guard, Mrs Wilbur Todd.
 Funeral of Charles ErricO
 The funeral of Charles Errico, fol many years foreman at the plan of the Rubber Regenerating com