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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Especial to The Democrat

Naugatuck, July 21-Some of country's renowned sport writers are expected to be in the borough Thursday when Naugatnck honors her native son, Billy Burke, na- tional open golf champion with a big home town reception and ban quet.
 Grantland Rice, renowned sports writer of the New York Telegram, who is known to every sport fan in the country through his writ ings and broadcasts Is expected to be the principal speaker at the banquet planned to be held in St Michael's parish house in the eve ming. MT Rice Is a personal friend of tho champion. Warden Frank T. Green, chairman of the execu- tive committee in charge of ar engagements for the celebration, reported last night at meeting of the chairmen of the various com mittees that he was in converse lion with MT Rice over the tele- phone and that he informed him that he would be pleased to come to the borough. He stated that he had an out of town engagement for Thursdays morning, but that it was possible he would make ef- forts to be here in the evening. Warden Green will receive definite word to-day from MT Rice, he as- sured him. Efforts will also be made to have Frank Craven, well known comedian and also per- sonal friend of Billy. speak at the banquet. MT Craven was the speaker at the banquet rendered to Billy in Greenwich last week.
 Invitations have also been for warded to Dan Parker. Bill Slo- cum, W. o. Meeghan. Harry Cross, Paul Gallicco and Clarence Cassin, well known New York sports writ CTS, as well as the Associated Press, the United Press and Inter- national News Service and other sport writers to be present at the event.
 Edward T. Ahern, chairman of the press committee, is arranging with the Western Union Telegraph company for hook-up to carry press dispatches of the celebration to all parts of the country. Ar rangements for broadcasting the program are expected to be made today by MT Ahern with the rep resaatative of one of the broad casting stations.
 Golden or Farrell in Exhibition
 Either Johnny Golden or Johnny Farrell will be seen in the four some exhibition game to be played Thursday afternoon paired up with Burke. the other players 1t Is expected will be Joe Stein and Jimmy Andrews. stein who played with Billy as a youngster is now pro at Massachusetts club and Andrews is pro at the Mattatuck club in Waterbury. An admission fee Of $1 will be charged for the match. Arrangements for the match were left In the hands of Lewis A. Dibble. chairman of the finance committee, Harold R. Per- ry, chairman of the program com mittee, and Frank Bradbury, chairman of the greens committee of the Naugatuck Golf club where the match will be played. The ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21

must decide the issue. A postpone ment until Saturday morning was granted In the case to permit the defense to summon another, wit ness, one of the three women, who were in the machine at the time of the incident.
 F An unusual feature of the case developed when counsel for the de- fense questioned Patrolmen Phelan and Petit and demanded to know if their action in not placing Schryver under arrest when they first stopped him was not an indi- cation of doubt in their minds that he was not under the influence of liquor. Both officers denied that they had any misgivings as to the course of action they should take. "One of the women in the car begged us not 10 arrest him. She gave her word of honor that they would not let him drive any more and that they would leave the ma chine by the side of the road and would continue home in a cab if the officers would but give him q chance. Schryver asked us to re- member what it would mean to him. if he were arrested"
 IL was indicated that the two offi- cers were inclined to give the driv- CT q break" at that time and pointed out to the party that they would probably find telephone At a nearby gasoline station and call cab. The defense intimated that Schryver "as told to get cup of coffee. It developed. however, that the driver as he stepped out of the machine nearly fell out and stag gered when he attempted to walk.
 Schryver and his two witnesses claimed that he was not intoxicat- ed. He explained that the atten- ton of the officers was attracted to their car by the fact that one of the women had been taken i'll. The woman is under a doctors care al present and has been for several weeks. All denied that they stopped anywhere along the road for drinks or that they carried any in their machine.
 Norman Hoffman, 79 Day street. New Haven, d brother-i Jaw of the accused. was charged with in- toxication.
 Both cases will be disposed of Saturday morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Sport Authority And Comedian To
 Honor Billy Burke
Final Plans Completed By Naugatuck for Testimonial Thursday to Favorite Son Who Brings Golf Crown to Rubber Town-Noted New York Jour- nalists Invited to Attend

1 hibition match is scheduled to
 start at o'clock and 1t Is ex- pected that several hundred from all parts of the state will be pres ent to see the champion perform,
 as well as hundreds from the bor- ough. Reports at the meeting last night were to the effect that great ! interest is being manifested in all sections of the state in the match
 and celebration.
 Meet Champ in Bridgeport Warden Frank T. Green was In Greenwich Sunday and conferred I with Billy in regards to the ar-
 engagements. Billy and Mrs Burke l with q party of friends will be met
 In Bridgeport at 12:20 o'clock Thursday by delegation from the
 borough and an escort of state and
 local police on motorcycles. The champ and party will be escorted to the borough and it Is expected that the party will arrive here about 1 o'clock. They will go di-
 rectly to the Naugatuck Golf club grounds where the exhibition
 match is scheduled to start at 2 o'clock.
 Parade at B:3O
 The big parade to be held in connection with the event is sched-
 uled to start at 6:30 o'clock. The
 parade will start at the local green
 and will march down Maple street
 to North Main street, to Bridge street, to North Church street and
 back to the starting point where the parade will disband and those who will attend the banquet will
 go to Ct MichaePs parish house. Tickets for the banquet went on
 sale yesterday. Due to the seating capacity of the banquet hall the ommittee has found 1t necessary to curtail the number of tickets to 200. The tickets for the banquet are $2.0O each and 1t was stated
 last night that women as well as
 men will be welcome to attend. The sale of tickets will close to- night as 1t Is necessary that the committee know the number to
 mako reservations for. Tickets are on sale at Olson's drug, the Nauga- tuck drug and Sollosky's drug store or may be obtained from members of the banquet commit tee.
 Family tO Be Guests
 Burke's parents and members
 of his family will be guests at the banquet and will also be hOnored
 guests in the parade, a special
 auto being provided for them.
 It is possible that Professor. Will Ham A. McCann of Weehawken, N. J., may bring one of his bands to the borough to take part in the parade. At last nights meeting James McCann stated that his brother who has several bands in
 New Jersey. had proffered to bring
 n band to the borough. Efforts to
 get In touch with Professor Me Cam over the telephone last night proved fruitless but he was to get in touch with his brother to-day.
 Several drum corps including the
 St Francis T. A. B. corps. the St
 Francis Xavier corps of Water
 bury, the Grammar school drum
 corps and the Mattatuck drum
 corps of Waterbury are expected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Judge To Define
 Normal Beer Breath
McGratl's Ruling Awaited in Schryver Case-Mac-
 Mullen Claims Evidence of Drinking

Judge John r. McGrath will be obliged to issue ruling Saturday morning on the legality of nor nal beer breath as defined by Lieutenant Milton MacMullen and the possible effect that two bottles of home brew would have on a per- son.
 Patrolmen Joseph Petit and Thomas Phelan of the police mo- tor patrol testified this morning that on June 27th they encoun- tered a Cadillac car on the Meri- den road. It contained six persons, two of whom were decidedly un- der the influence of liquor. one be- ing the driver, Paul Schryver, 32, of 140 Grand street. Lieutenant Mac Mullen testified that the de- fendant gave signs of having been drinking. but when quizZed stated that he walked and talked all right and had q decidedly sour breath, q normal beer breath qualified the lieutenant. As Schryver and two witnesses insisted that he had had but two bottles Of brew and was not intoxicated, Judge McGrath
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21

, one or episode one brought out the I interesting statement on the part | Of Pietfarcia that his wife had another husband living some 1 where In Pennsylvania. Mrs Pict- rarcia outpointed. but non-plusscd for the moment came back with 1 the counter charge that her hus- band has another wife living some where.
 ! With the score tied as far as wives and husbands were concerned Judge John r. McGrath, who faced two hour session of court. agreed 10 n postponement on ac- count of hot weather and lack of evidence to issue decision as to whether the charge of non-support was regular one or just foul ball.
 To add pep to the session Attor- ney Michael V. Blansfield, counsel for the accused husband, and At torney Edward Mascolo. who was in Mrs Pietrarcia corner, cx- changed greetings with accusations and counter accusations.
 IL was finally decided to resume play next Saturday morning. In he meanwhile counsel for both sides were instructed to go into q huddle. even if they had to appeal to Judge kenesaw Landis, and ob- tain an official count as to the number of husbands and wives in- volved in this supposedly common place case.
 The principals In the case are aged persons. but exhibited plenty or fire and pep to-day in telling of their domestic troubles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
SMALL NATIONS MAY BEAT RUSSIA AT OWN GAME
Finland, Sweden, Poland, Latvia and Esth0nia Combine in Export Competition
By THOMAS l.. STOKES United Press Stan Correspondent

I-GSEH &OssSblsOhs"s''sI Washington, July 21 - (uP)- Government officials arc watching a series of negotiations abroad In which i've small nations are seek ing to beat Soviet Russia at its own game In export competition.
 Finland, Sweden. Poland. Lat via and Esthonia have banded to- xether in an effort to break Rus sia's hold on the English lumber market and have forced negotia- lions with Russia by threats to undersell her there.
 Finland and Sweden already have sold more lumber below the Russian price in this move to "out R Russia Russia according to reports here.
 Russia has been throwing her goods on the markets of the world at low prices in an effort to pay the way of her five-year industrial plan. Apparently due to the trade threat against her, Russia has en- tered negotiations with the i've small countries, the purpose of which is to divide up the English market among them. Conferences in Warsaw recently are to be re- stunned in the fall.
 Just how far the negotiations got in the first conferences is not known here by commerce depart ment officials who are awaiting re- ports from consular agents.
 A routine statement tssueE a few days ago by the commerce depart ment seems to he n clue to some success of the Ave small nations. This statement carried reports from an English trade journal that Russia had agreed to reduce her lumber shipments to- England from 1.18S. 900, ,000 board feet, the total fixed in an earlier agreement for 1031, to 090. 800. 900 board feet. It also explains that Russia has agreed to a reduction in price.
 This seems to point to some agreement which must involve other nations selling lumber to England. but no mention Is made of any other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
RICE AND CRAVEN TO SPEAK AT BANQUET
State Potato
 Tour Saturday
Starts at Charles Green- backer's in Meriden
 at 10 A. M.

The Connecticut potato tour will be held Saturday, July 25 starting at Charles Greenbacker's in Meri- den at 10 daylight time when MT Greenbacker's cultural and spray ing machinery will be studied and his methods of mixing sprays ex- plained by himself.
 MT Greenbacker lives on Mad dox avenue, a mile east from Meri- den center on route III and mile south of route Ill taking Pad dock avenue to Maddox avenue.
 From MT Greenbacker's the party will go to Daigle Brothers Ill to Marion post office turning left and proceeding south about nine-tenths of mile.
 Daigle Brothers grow 40 acres of potatoes in Marion and 45 acres in South Deerfeld Massa husetts and grow their own seed in Maine. They have comparison of their seed and seed grown by the well known Christie of Maine and they will demonstrate their methods of preparing spray materials and spraying as well as show the use of home made cultivator attach ment for q Fordson tractor.
 The party will go from Daigle's cross route Ill into Plainville and up the college highway into the edge of Pennington where they will turn west toward Pennington Depot and go out to the seed strain test on E. r. Manchester's 20 acre lot where strains of seed from 10 different sources are planted side by side and growers con observe for themselves the percentage of seed which came up and grew and the percentage of diseased plants on each lot.
 way the party will go to the Elm Tree Inn for luncheon and imme- diately after luncheon will go land tking the Holland turnpike Hartford to Frank V. Williams farm where for the third year the agricultural experiment station has been conducting tests on varying quantities of fertilizer ranging from 500 10 1000 pounds per acre.
 From MT Williams the party will go over to the 50,000 bushel storage house of Louis l.. Grant of Buckland where the latest thing in Boggs grader equipment will be demonstrated.
 William Pinneys in Elllnton is the next stop and MT Pinney has a comparison of potatoes grown on dry sod and land without sod as well as a 5000 bushel2 farmers storehouse.
 The last stop of the day will be l.. Wetstone and Son just beyond Plnneys where duplicates of the seed strain test Is being carried on.
 There are practically 12,000 acres of land in the State of Con- necticut devoted to production and total yield last year according to the latest census was well over 2 million bushels and >despite this production, the state received more than 2,00O car loads of po- tatoes from outside areas each years so that there is certainly not only the best of soil and farming ability but the finest markets available for conservative expan- sion in the potato industry in Connecticut. July 1 forecast for 1881 potato crop is down to less than 400,000,000 bushels while this is not too promising if weather conditions should reducef the crop to around 350,00.O00 bushels, Con necticut potatoes may be a fair crop next fall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21

Weighing 23S pounds, q youth of 20 summoned for military service in Paris. has been sent home by tho doctors because he was too fat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21

to be in line. It is expected that the high school band will be in line.
 children of the borough will take part in the parade. James Me Cam, caretaker of the high school, offered to take charge of the children. All caddies at the Naugatuck Golf club where Billy one time caddied, will be in the line of march. A large welcome banner" will be strung across either Main street or Riverside drive. It Is expected that the re- ccption will rival anything ever held in the borough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Certificate
 of Dissolution
Filed To-day for the M. A.
 DOOlittle Motor Car Co

A preliminary certificates of dissolution of the M A. Doolittlc Motor Car Co was filed at the of flee of the clerk of the superior court this morning. The action is taken by agreement with the stockholders, the papers state. In- corporators signing the papers are M. A. Doolittle, Sarah A. Doolittle and II. M. Lasher.
 The certificates states the busi- ness is no longer profitable and is insolvent and no further capital is to be obtained. The papers also add that the vote of the directors and the confirming vote of the stockholders are dispensed with and the directors As trustees in the dissolution shall wind mp the af- fairs of the company in accorda nee with statutory provisions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Bridgeport Plan Benefits JObless
More Than 400 Re.hired After Contact Is Made
 With Concerns

The State Emergency Commit. tee on Employment, through R. Neithercut, its executive secretary has released for publication ex' tracts from letter from H. Amor Chaffee, general chairman of tho Citizens Emergency Committe, on Unemployment in Bridgeport which indicate that the employer, in that city have done splendid job in giving employment to ( large number of people. MI Chaffee's letter gave much credit to the subcommittee on fact-find. ing under the chairmanship of W Stewart Clark and to Alpheus Winter, secretary of the Bridge. port Manufacturers Association for the results obtained.
 "The other item that I wish to bring to your attention is the manner in which the Manufac- turers' Association made use of the survey material turned over to them after the registration of the unemployment was made. In general, some 1,200 odd persons reported having previously worked in local factories. MT Winter, through his office, seg- regated these former employees to the individual plants and in a personal letter with the dupli- cate list enclosed, mailed 1t to the chief resident executive at the plant and asked for more definite information to more
 definitely classify the type and quality of the labor and urged cooperation in replacing these persons on the payroll at the earliest opportunity. These lists were cleared of errors and after the first two contacts, those not hehired were segregated by job classification and the entire list sent to all manufacturers As a result of this very efficient method, more than 400 persons were rchired."
 MT Chaffee's letter stated fur. ther that Bridgeport expected to make another registration of the unemployed in the fall in which special attention would be given ta the number employed in each fam lily. Tin respect to this the letter said
 Another registration Is being considered of the unemployed this fall. with particular atten- ton to the registration of the number employed in each fam fly. It Is our opinion that prior to the war the prevailing idea had been to provide work for the head of the family. During the war q situation arose which required n tremendous increase in the number of employees and in this way the number of em- ploycs per family was greatly increased It has also been n tendency for newly married per sons to continue working. In the present situation with It's lack of employment it Is impos- sible to provide work for as many members of the family as during boom times. We are of the opinion that with the facts before us we may be able through the cooperation of man. ufacturing and mercantile plants to secure a very careful cOnsid- eration of these facts by them to the extent that they will give proper consideration to the cm- ployment of persons in the exact proportion to their nee dOf em- ployment, ability and capacity. being. of course, considered. As ( matter of fact, some heads Of families are not able to find work, whereas some families have two and three persons working"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21

s Edinburgh, Scotland. Is trying to drive all bookmakers from the city.
 high -intersst sharks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
Hurl Accusations
 In Non-Support Case
Husband Claims Wife Has Another Sweetheart-She Retaliates By Making Similar Charge Against Him

The non support case of Camil- To Pietrarcia of A Ann street, which court officials had an idea would be but mere formality of having the defendant post q bond. agreeing to pay his wife a certain amount of money each week, de- veloped into an unexpected battle and with subsequent requests for continuance. Chapter one, round
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
MILITARY MANEUVERS

Washington.--A huge joint anti aircraft and air maneuvers will be staged by the army air corps sometime ip the fall of 1882, the war department has announced. Tho aerial stunts will probably be held near Camp Knox. Ky. with large air forces from Dayton. O., Fort Sheridan, III, Fort Totten. N. r., and Fort Mcclellan. An, par ticipating.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-30
MOTHER CRAWFORD
 PASSES ON AFT TER A
 LINGERING ILLNESS
RESIDENT OF SEWARD FOR 20 YEARS SUCCUMBED AT AN
 EARLY HOUR TO-DAY

Mrs. Emma Crawford, known to everyone in Seward aS Mother Crawford, responded to the Final Call at about o'clock this morn ing after an illness of at least six months, brought on by encroaching age. Death came peacefully to the dear old lady at the residence of her son, MT. E. Crawford, on Third Avenue
 Born in Gerry, Chautauqua county, New York, on September B, 1852, Mrs. Crawford and her husband moved to Deuel county, Minnesota, in 1876. Mothers maid en name was Miss Emma OStran- der and on February 10, 1869, she married. It seems but yesterday when the legion of local friends of the elderly couple joined in con- graduating them upon the arrival of their golden wedding anniver- Sary It is with happiness friends recall how delighted Mother was that day.
 Mother Crawford leaves to mourn her passing, besides host of local friends, her husband, Walter; son, Edwin, and daughter, Minnie; the latter residing at Modesto, Calf
 Funeral services will be held on New Years Day, Friday, at p. m., ln the chapel of the Seward Under taking ParlorS with nterment in 8 beautiful plot in the I. o. o. F. grounds of the Seward Cemetery.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-30
HARLEM GANCsTERS
 ARE ACQUITTED FOR
 KILLING YOUNG CHILD

NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (P)-Vincent Cole and F. Giordan were acquitted Monday on the charge of killing Michael Vengan, five years of age, and wounding four other children in an attempt to slay an opposing gangster in Harlem last July.
 Their acquittal was secured after George Brecht, the States surprise witness" admitted perjury in con- nection with the Identification of Cole Giordan as the occupants of an automobile from which the shots were fired.
 It is not known what New York State will do to Brecht because of his admitted perjury as it is the law in some, States that perjury at murder trial is punishable by life.
 Giordan does not secure his free dom, however, as he has been sen- fenced for another murder and will be sent to Sing Sing at once to be- gin serving his term.