davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
Business Improves
 And Idle Machinery Is Whirrirlg Again One Half of One Per Cent Up to One .1 .s@ Per Cent of the Huge Army of ....s '. Unemployed Will Be at Work ' 's... Again on Monday

Some reem mployment was attribut-
 able to the usual iseasonabie in-
 creases in certain. trades, notably the clothing industry.
 While the return of. 65,000 work
 CTS to paNrolls was a. small per- centagei of the total of the unem-
 ployed, economists were Inclined
 to take Fit ak a hopeful sign hat
 the tedious and slow processes of |readjustf>ient and regeneration were at last under'wa .:sss s39
 Tife survey by sections: V
 New England states-At Law renee, Mass. Nashua, N. H., and Rivefpofnt, R. l., seven textile mills
 employed 5000 workers At Fall
 River, Mass, textile mill idle for
 seven weeks, reopened. At Nashua.
 announced 1t would soon resume
 operations. At Gardner, Mass. an oil stove factory on part time schedulde for, months. announced full time operation for the rest of the year. At Franklin, N., H., a textile mill added a night shift. In Connecticut, the. hat indus try was reported strongly im- proved. At Danbury, two new fac tories employed 100 hands. United States Rubber company's payroll was at it's highest point in three years. At West Haven, Armstrong Tire: was operating day and night shifts. At 8 Middletown. Goodyear Rubber lcompany will reopen a branch factory: employing 200. At New London a. new silk manufac- .turerS will hire 100.,
 Eastern States:- -s@
 New. York state-Building pro- jects, factory reopenings, clothing. shoe and tanning x activity were 'signs of better economic conditions.
 Pennsylvania-E1eyen anthra- cite mills reopened. Fourteen5fac- tories reported they were resutning eparations; seven others hired thou sands of employees. New Jersey Radio, can and food industries added thousand of workers to their staffs. Gq The Middle West-Improvements in construction, Insurance and air express businesses were reported in Chicago. Shoe and button factories in Wisconsin and, Iowa returned to q full time basis. Federal Reserve reports showed increase in, shoe, grocery, hardware, drug and cleo itrlcaf supply trades. Cleveland reported renewed industrial .activ- 'ity. Other Ohio cities showed employment and factory increases.
 The, South-Virginia industrial plants re-employed thousands of workers. In. North Carolina, "A textile mills were tied up by a strike. / South Carolina cotton mills were scheduled to resume opera tions. Georgia cotton and tobacco industries began heavy increases. In Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten nessee. construction, engineering and industrial projects offered work to thousands. Missouri and Okla hOnla factories A reopened. Texas and Oklahoma highway programs soon will begin, giving work to A. 900 men.
 :. Business reports from Colorado, Nebraska and Pacific coast states wereSnot encouraging. sTE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
RAzE ORIGINAL
 HOSPITAL HOME St Francis in Hartford Has
 Been Operating 5 { Years v @t ss @Ht ----- :. es E. M STEADY EXPANSION

No longer serviceable to. the in- stitution, the original home of St Francis's hospital at 110 Wood- land street, Hartford, at the north east corner of Collins and Wood- land streets, will soon be demol- ished. Application for a permit Ito rage the old building was filed Thursday at the, office of the De- pertinent of Building Inspection.
 For 35 years the building has seen service as part of the hos pital. Tn 1897, when. the institu-. tfon was founded, Bishop Michael Tierney gave the building, previ- ously the old Episcopal residence, to the group of Hartford citizens who; we're active in the orgaliiza- |tion of the hospital With ca- pacity for only 32 beds, the build ing proved inadequate to the de- mands within three years, and the first addition was built. opening in 1901. '
 Has Grown Steadily
 Since that time St Francis's hos pital has expanded steadily so that at present 450 patients can. be ac- |commodated in the buildings and wings which have been erected For several years after the com pletion of the addition to the original home the old building continued to be used to house per sons under the hospitals care.
 Since 1906 it has been used only as quarters for internes, orderiies and other employees of the insti- tuition. Considered unsafe Tor some time, the building has twice had fires during the past four months. As early as 1930 plans were under way to- destroy the old building to allow erection or a serviceable additionsto the plant to renlace the anticipated section.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30

An irtercontinental airline plane settled to earth the eotfier day at the Miami, Fla, airport after a long flight from South America. Part of it's cargo consisted of sinfinitesi- mally, ! small winged creatures, thousands of wasps that were being rushed here to aid in the war against the sugar-cane borer that was ravaging cane crops m Louisi- ana. Fs
 Some day earlier great trans
 continental plane landed. at the Camden. N. J., airport, a cargo Of wasps of another species con- signed to the U. s. Department or Agriculture's field laboratory at Moorestown, N. J. These swasps
 had been shipped from Sydney. Australia, to San Francisco by steamer and then flown across country to aid in the fight on de- structive insects. E W y.A
 These imported wasps represent only small portion of the count less number of foreign insects
 brought into this cNtntry each year: to help American farmers get srid
 of insects that destroy their crops, writes Clayton R. Slawter in the
 Popular Science Monthly. There are many such crop pests that can
 not be controlled my n1an-devised
 methods, among them the sugar
 cane and moth borers. the plne-tip and gypsy moths. and the Japan
 ese beetle. There are. however, other insects deadly to these pests. So when artificial methods Tail. entomologists of the Department of Agriculture travel Tar afieid in search of insect enemies or tne bugs that ruin American crops ana plants. ,...-s, world is combed in this search.
 From the Malay Archipelago to the south Of Europe, from kaolians fields of Manchuria to the grain lands of Eurasia, agents of the United States governmert travel on their 'uuests. Fl. H. Haynes. one of the departments eritomolosists, spent three years In South Amer, ica searching for parasites of the suKfr.cane borer that had invaded Ibuisiana. His search was re- wardod by the discovery of the fly and Wasps that were rushed to this country by plane. The flies suc- cessfuiiy withstood tho boat jour- found, to New orleans, but the ney from Peru, where they wefe more delicate waspa were shipped by air. Even this shortened trip was fatal Co many of thems SO Inynes devised special containers ln which were tiny drinking founs taIns and minute caps of grant. iatol aiisnr fo supply the fuoA a nI lrinE fh1l kent FInAf nI fIIn IU. sects alive on the'f Journey. 4. a n.lIIIon insscts were sa'pped %
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30

Executive Secretary Thomas F. Kelly today explained the city's financial position in regard to the claim of State Tax Commissioner, William H. Blodgett that Water bury had exceeded it's borrowing limit. MT Kelly takes issue with Tax Commissioner Blodgett and charges that the Hartford officials figures are not accurate.
 In support of his denial of the tax commissioners claims, Secre- tary Kelly showed the controllers latest statement on the bonded debt which reveals that Waterbury is still $694,066 short of reaching it's bonded debt limit.
 MT Kelly explained the propo- sition as follows:
 Comsr. Blodgett gave Water bury's bonded debt limit as being $9.662,119, this being five per cent of the grand list. The net borrowings, exclusive of water debt he gave as being $12.205,491, or $2,543,371 ov CT the debt limit.
 Actually, according to the con- troller's figures, the city's borrow ing limit is $9,786,000, inasmuch as the grand list total for 1881 was $195,731,894. The total amount of bonds outstanding today, in- cluding the $1,000,000 funding bonds recently sold, and deduct ing the bonds retired July l, is $16,743,000. From this there must be deducted the -$7. .482,000 water bonds, because under the law they are not included in figuring the five per cent limit, as they are backed by revenue producing works. This leaves $9,261, ,000. From this must also be deducted the $168,472 which is in the sink ing funds, leaving a net bonded debt today of $9,O92,52S. This is $694,000 less than the bonded debt limit. Tn other words, the city could still sell bonds amount ing to $694,000 and keep within the legal bonded limit.
 Presumably, the state tax com missioner's figures were as of May 10. rather than those of today, but even taking those figures, the city is within it's borrowing limit, Secy. Kelly says.
 Net Bonded Debt $S,4fO,527
 The financial statement issued when bids for the $1,000,000 fund.- ing bonds were solicited May 10 gave the total bonded debt then as being 6.1S0,000. This was before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
tBy United Press)

Business is. improving. !. Idle machinery is whirring again, and Ion Monday 9 brigade of the airie ployed- perhaps one-half of one per cent up to one per cent of the vast army of unemployed- will be at.works agains-s.
 !. "A survey to-day by. the United Press revealed. a new spirit of hope in the midst of the worlds greatest depression. and showed at least 36,00O had been reemployed the past week. Another Z, 2,000, are en- gagged to join the work brigade next week. A.
 Meantime, the stock market has been pushing upward, marking at least a new psychology. in "a hot bed of gloom.
 Commodities prices. regarded as a good barometer of the times, showed d hopeful increase, pouring new money into farmers empty pockets, and spurring their demand. for goods.
 The weeks improvement z was most marked in the New England textile and manufacturing sections. but 1t was general except Tor the far west and the Pacific coast where unemployment and general economic distress were at their nea1 4,s A A a5'4sy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
Foreign Bugs Fight
 Native Crop Pests
Experts Employed to Comb World for Insects That
 Aid in War to Save Farms s.ss.l q,

this country from the Department of Agriculture's chronological la
 boratoryfat Hycres,s France. These
 bugs were sent here to help Ameri- can farmers in natheir war against the European corn borer. which bthe United States prior to the war period! By 1919, 1t had done so. much damage that the de- Spartment took a hand in attempt- ing it's suppression.s
 Mechanical methods failing, en- tomologists were sent to Europe and Asia on hunt of insect para sites of it. Thesce expeditions es- tabHshed field laboratories at many points for breeding specimens or insect parasites from locally par .asitized bofers. The most .efft- cient enemies of the corn destroyer came from the South of Europe Since l9is., when American ex-' perts established their field labora-' tory at Hyeres, each year has seen vast numbers of various enemies of the corn borer shipped to grand headquarters at Arlington.. Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
RETREATANTS AT
 CHARLES ISLAND
Sixty-Six Waterburians to Spend Week-End in
 MeditatiOns
MORE GOING LATER

The Waterbury band of Catholic iaymen who left this city yesterday afternoon to spend the weekend at- tending spiritual retreat on Charles Island, near Milford, num-
 bered 66. It was the largest group ever formed here. The services on the island win be conducted by the Dominican fathers and in view of the representative number of men attending this week 1t is expected that another large contingent will be formed for f,some weekend later in the summer.
 . The party included the follow ling: Patrick Griffin, Joseph P. Hay den, John F. McGough, Patrick Fitzpafrick, Patrick Newman, Dem nis Delaney, Al Demenske, Edward Bevans, George Smith, John Claf- fey, Michael J. Lynch, Patrick Burns, Lawrence Sullivan, Steven Syuricsko, Peter Cassidy, Joseph A. Hackett, Michael Sullivan, John F. White, John Gilmartin. George Heckelman, John Guinan, William Nolan, Ralph Hayward, James P. Phelan, James Logan, Thomas Luddy, Floyd Parsons, Joseph Bou- .rasse, Thomas Blair, Peter Tehan, William B. Hennessy, Patrick o. Brien, Charles O'Brien, Vincent A. Miller, Thomas Crean, Thomas Thompson, James A. Phelan, James Holleran, John Fitzmaurice. Dennis Curtiss, Thomas Byrne. Thomas J. Carmody, M. Gaffney, John B. Greco, Martin Scully, Thomas Sween ey. John Shea, William Carroll, George O'Neill, Edward Eagan, Martin Tehan, Hugh F. Gallagher, William Carroll. Thomas J. Me- Adam, John O'Brien, Leo Wallace John J. Conaty, Henry McGrath. Stephen w. Robinson, Aurelio M. Greco, P. Noonan, William Keav- eney, James Moran, Timothy Car ney, and John Riley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
Friends of Ireland
 Meet Tomorrow
Eiibernian Hall Session to
 Arrange for New York 1. Representati0n

The committee in charge is anxious to make the coming Irish Race Convention, which will be held in the Hotel Astor. New York city. on August 18th and 18th as fully representative as possible or all who believe 1t to be their duty to aid Ireland in winning that measure of freedom to which she i" Without doubt. there are many in waterbury who would be giad to be present on an occasion wnicn wifi be of historic slgnificance in tho aunaig of tho Irish ln Ameri- ca. They want all of those who are, able to help, whether they are members Of an organization or not.
 The meeting Go be held in Iyibornian heii. a East Matn street tomorrow night, will make plans f6F attending tho conven. ton and will havo full information raRa fdIug transportation and hotel affanaemenfe. Every friend uf ireland in Waterbury is invited 70 De present. :a'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30

Cases of non-support are in- creasing in police court, but cash receipts for dependent wives and children are dwindiing.
 Interesting sidelights on pitiful struggles that are being enacted be- hind the scenes in every day life in Waterbury are found in the figures prepared by Probation Officer Nicholas Combellack.
 How to provide for family of six or seven on $3 or $6ta week with the father and mother sep arated and perhaps hopelessly ir- reconciiable, is one of the many problems that Judge John E. Me- Grath and T. V, Meyer and MT Combellack are called upon daily to solve.
 To commit a. man to jail because he is unable to support his family would necessitate the erection or bigger county bastiles. To order a man to give $10 or $15 week for the support of his family when ne is not earning more than $s week or perhaps nothing is simply q gesture. Everyone admits 1t iss an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
City Has $694,O6
 Margin Says Kelly
Takes Issue With Blodgett Who Declares Waterburys
 Has Exceeded Borrowing Debt Limit 4

the. $1, ,000, 900 funding bonds were added to the total, but also before4 some s440,O00 worth of bonds were retired on July l. The watei bonds then outstanding amounted to $7,601,00 Dedeucting thein left $S,579,O00, from which must also be deducted the amount iit. the sinking funds, $16S,472, leaVe< ing net bonded debt on May 10a of $S,410,527. This is $1.s7G.- 900 under the legal bonded debt limit.
 It is considered probably thatz Comsr. Blodgett included tho amount of the temporary loans also in the figure, although the fve per cent limit applies only to the total of bonded and floating debt. However, even if this is added to the debt figure of May 10, the ex cess over the debt limit is far short ' of the $2,543,371 claimed by Comsr. Blodgett. ~
 The total temporary loans outls standing on May 10 amounted to $2,100,000 which, added totthe nefn bonded debt of $S.410,527 gives q total of s10,510,527, or only S724,- 900 over the limit. If the present.a < days figures are taken, the excesseS
 
 The total temporary loans now arcs but $1,200,000 which added to the net bonded debt today, $9,092,5 ,52S. : gives total of $10,292,52s. This is 7 but $506.000 over the debt lii1itss6 Secy. Kelly also says that if thep temporary loans- are to be in , cluded in the total debt figures. credit must also be given for the.ss city's bank balances, which now amount to almost as much as the temporary loans. Deducting them. the city still would have bonded debt borrowing capacity of $400.-
 900 to s500,O00. a Comsr. Blodgett's figures sl1oWed0 that Hartford has the largest total debt of any city in the state, $21,-~ S09,379. It showed that Bristol. Danbury, Norwalk, Stamford and Windham had exceeded their bond.ss ed debt borrowing capacity. Hart-A ford's and New Haven's temporary loans on May 10 were greater than Waterbury's. the former being < $4,500,465 and the latter $4,500.- < 900. Stamford's temporary loans 2 were $2,360,611, also greater than-s Waterbury's. This city's temporary loans then were $2,100.000 but 7 now are only $1,200,000. ---
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
COT WRON(s RAIT

Stevens Point. Wis, (UP)-v. J. Buisclt dipped his hand into the water of Bass lake while fishing. A crappie grabbed his index finger and inflicted a severe cut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30

France viii spend nearly tei.'
 sss ess a .s g9,t fs.:sa.'is' ssssasaon'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
Probation Officer
 Has Hard Time
 Collecting Money
Depression Hits Half Year Totals Fines Total But SlO7, About Twenty-Five Per Cent of Last Years Figure Over Same Period Touching Struggle Revealed

impossibility, but usually some wives insist that the delinquent husband can do it. It is a mystery in arithmetic for court officials to understand the process of reason ing on the part of some of the complaining witnesses.
 From January 1, 1882 to Juiysl, Mir Combellack collected in non support orders for 76 families $11.- 2S8.70. In 1881 his figures show total collections for fewer families of S16,155 and in the previous year s1S.294, The collections range from s1 a week to $15 with $3.5O and $7 about the average.
 Tn fines imposed for breach of the peace or iDtoxication and the accused placed on probation MT Combellack has collected for the city court in the six months period iust passed only $107. In 1881 he collected in the same period s4I3.05 and in 1880. $445.25.
 The figures shown are conclusive ,proof that business these days in cftv court Is not so hot" but the real pathetic picture is found in the daily visit of mothers to the omce or the prODaLiuH vHlSShS to receive $8 or $10 week from their husbands only to discover that he is either not working or only in a position to give her $S 2 week, perhaps a little more and often a little less.
 How a mother can pay rent, buy food and clothe youngsters on such allowances is one of the perplexing queries of present times. Of course the answer invariably is-she doesn't. Even with bag of food or a. little financial aid from the city welfare department the strug- gle is pathetic one.
 For heartaci1es one need only 10 listen to the daily trials of norl- support cases or spend few hours in the office of Probation omcer Nicholas Combellack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
Margaret Heene.y
 Awarded Prize T -
Exhibits Largest Pet at Waterville Show

Margaret Heeney took first prize for the largest pet in the initial net show at Waterville play ground yesterday afternoon by Supervisor James Fryer. Other awards made included:
 Smallest pet. Marion Truelove: oddestA pet. Fred Mcclellan; and prettiest pet, Mary Ciaceio. The Mrs Benson and Mrs J.. Heeney.s
 The Orioles featured yesterdays $ baseball contests in. the play ground lead overcoming a IF to 5 lead to score eight runs in the last inning to defeat the Lions. 13 to 12. Lasky and Reed made up the winners battery while Totter and Hanson worked for the losers.
 Wembly, England. has an cpl demic of charity-collection- box theffs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-30
GODFREY URGES
 SAFETY FIRST
Would Acquaint Public With Prone Pressure
 for ReSusitatiOn
OUTLINES THIS METHOD

Now that the vacation period Is at it's height in Waterbury and swimming the most popular out door sport 1t is not out of place to present the most popular method for reviving persons rescued from drowning. Health Officer Dr E. J.. Godfrey believes "The Prone Pressure Method'' is the best to apply.
 Directions for it's adoption to victims were outlined by Dr God frey to-day as follows: Place pa- t!ent stomach down, one arm stretched. above, the other bent. with face resting on it..
 Rescue measures should begin at once and continue rythmically until natural breathing is established this may take four or, more hours. The procedure is: First, kneel and straddle the patient below the hips, placing hands on small o1 back with fingers over the lowest ribs, tips of fingers just out of sight. fftSi Second-With arms straight, while counting one, two, swing for ward bearing weight on body firmly but not violently.
 Third-Swing backwards while counting one, strengthening up and thus relieving pressure-this allo Ss air to be drawn into the lungs
 Fourth-Rest in this position for two counts.
 Fifth-Repeat these movements rythmicaliy, forward and back wards, without interruption. about twelve to fifteen a minute, until natural breathing is restored.
 Sixth-Meahwhile, if assistance is at hand, a physician should be sent for; patients tight clothing loosenedi at neck, chest or waist and patient should be kept warm.
 Patient should not be removed from this spot until he is breathing normally and then should be car- ried in lying position to a place where he can be kept warm and re- ceive expert medical attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-31
MOLLISON GIVES
UP RETURN HOP
Scot Ace Ill; Yields to
Pleas of Filler Wife.

BIZ tHtcd Press
LONDON, Aug 31.-Captain
James A. Mollison will return to
England by steamer. his manager
announced today. The Scot f1ier
has decided to yield to the pleas of
his wife and numerous prominent
persons that he abandon the return
Atlantic fight.
L have not been feeling too we'll
the last few days and I now realize
that 1 am not so fit as I ought to
be to make the fight back Captain
MolliSon said.
The strain of waiting has been
simply awful
DR., Freeman O'Neil. Captain Mol
lison's host here, advised the f1ier
to rest under physicians care for a
week or two, as h was in danger of
a nervous breakdown.
Amy Johnson, his bride of two
months, one of Britain's most dis
tinguished flierS, appealed to Mol
lisO1 by cablegram late Tuesday
night to gave up his return flight.
She had been advised by a physi-
clan that her husbands physical
condition was such that the cross
ing would be extremely dangerous.
1t was recalled that day before
Mollison began his ocean flight, a
golfing companion had called him
lin no physical condition for fly
ing"
Mollison. whose personal modesty
coupled with his skill in flying has
earned him the title of "England's
Lindbergh," had planned to take Off
from Sydney today for Harhor
Grace, then speed across the north
Atlantic in the midget Puss- Moth
plane which carried him safely from
Ireland to New Brunswick two
weeks ago.
The brave little Scot was reluctant
to abandon his plane for the re-
turn flight. He had contracted to
make the first round trip air jour-
ney between Europe and America.