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of the country as a whole. 1t
is obvious that we must have

fo o d., a n d
will use our
spare dollars
for that, and
clothing, and
h osu S i n g
ahead Of any,
t h ing else,
more espe-
cially such
things as fur
niture, auto
mobiles and
other things
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c. B. DULCAN UIHtF LHIngS
that, while necessary, we can
possibly exist without, even
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had been producing merchan-
disc at a loss or at no profit
long enough, and the rise at
this time is simply a natural
consequence of renewed op-
timism after a very trying
Deri0d."
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Raw Materials
Force Prices Up
Accordingly

= N~SS1NASSIY
A sudden rise in the prices
of raw materials has startled
the merchandise world the
last few weeks, startled it
out of the lethargy of the
depression. Manufactur e RS
have been buying in small
quantities for some time.
Now, without stocks of raw
materials on hand, they must
pay more. That means they
must charge more for their
products. Retail stores pay
that price and, in time, it
will be passed on to us, the
consumers.
Hopeful Omen
There's nothing alarming
in the situation. 1t means
better times for us all.
There's at present a rush to
buy goods of all types before
prices go up, which means
that many factories are work
ing full time and over, wages
are increasing, are spreading
over more people, will benefit
the whole country in time.
The increased prices will not
reach us Immediately, for re-
tail stores have enough goods
On hand to sell for quite a
while in some cases, but when
the present stock is gone, we
must all pay more for COM
modities.
Labor Statistics
It's difficult to get accu-
rate statistics, for the change
has only taken place the last
three to five weeks. Quoting
from the Index of Whole
sale Prices issued by the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, Of
the United States Depart
ment Of Labor, we can give
you a slight idea of the
situation. Over a period Of
five weeks, hides and leather
products have advanced IL
per cent. Textile products
are up 3.8 per cent, metals
and metal products 5 per
cent, and all commodities are
averaged as up 1.8 per cent.
These figures are bassed on
the 1926 prices as 100 per
cent. Unfortunately we have
been unable to get figures
on wood, and other definite
furniture materials, but we
are assured that they are up
correspondingly high.
Quoting Executives
In investigating the rise in
prices of furniture, we inter-
viewed many executives Of
Washington stores, who, with
their associates, have been in
the wholesale furniture mar
ket recently, and who can
give us first-hand infOrma-
ton. Without an exception
they agreed that prices are
already up 5 per cent to Is
per cent, and that indications
are that they will go higher.
But let us quote them
directly. A. G. Case, general
Of the Palais Royal,
says:
"Prices on staple commodi-
ties and household necessi-
ties are advancing daily. Just
how far they ll %, I. =======. ======'5
will 60 it is
difficult to
S ay. We
h ave h a d
enough signs
Of returning
prospe rity
h out
tFH county,.
~, - use
ers to feel
h at tn ey 4. 6. CASE
lad been producing merchan-
lise at a loss or at no profit
ong enough, and the rise at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
CHOOSE WATERBURY FOR STATE CONFERENCE
E. OF A. SUPREME
 COURT CONVENTION
Connecticut to Send Eight Delegates to Meeting
 at Atlantic City
OPEN NEXT MONDAY

Michael V. Dunn, chairman of the democratic town committee of watertown, is an official delegate to the supreme court convention of the Foresters of America which will open Monday in Atlantic City. A four-day session will be held.
 The formal election of delegates was 0 feature of the 33rd oonven- ,tion of the Grand Court of Con- necticut held in Bridgeport on May 18th. Several sessions have since been held with the entire state delegation prepared for the presentation of resolutions placing before the supreme body the names of prominent members selected for higher honors.
 Connecticut is sending eight dele- gates: Harry w. Streck of Bridge port; c. J. Matrellano of Hartford; {; Joseph Morei, Torrington; Alex Gilman, Putnam; William J. Fitz- gerald, Hartford; Arthur J. Hayes, Tariffville; John F. Limerick, Man chester; Michael v. Dunn Water- town.
 Alternates, Andrew l.. Lawson, Bridgeport; Andrew Patrizzi, Hart ford; Ambrose Fraunhofor, Tor rington; Edgar, Lucia, Putnam; Samuel r. McAlear, Hartford; Dennis J. Sullivan, Jewett City and Walter s. McGowan, Water town.
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ing uproar during the dark hours of early morning, while the four maniacs. barricaded in small room. stood off heavy force of police and state troopers.
 At daybreak, in reply to final demand for surrender. Ray Fisher, committed from Buffalo in 1882, opened the door and advanced with what appeared to be a revolver in his hand. A guard shot him, kill ing him instantly. The bullet. pass ing throguh Fisher. lodged in the leg of Shelly Marshall, of New York. one of the desperado group.
 The other two. Reinhart Volz. of New York. and James Ellis of Brooklyn. meekly surrendered and the riot was quelled.
 The dormitory. in which 65 in- mates were peacefully sleeping at l:15 q. m. under the eye of Guard Michael centofant. was aroused when Voiz leaped from his he'd and shouted, five been here long enough. l want to go home"
 With hysterical laughter and shrieks a number Of the other in- sane tumbled from their beds and began 10 menace the guard. Vols picked up a wooden chair and tried to crash it down upon cent0fantf head. Fisher, Marshall and Ell, Joined him and were beating the guard when a second guard. Thom' aH Diamond, rushed to the scene Joseph Brown, q third guard rushed upstairs at the noise and joined the defense forces against the battling mhnlacs. In the struggle. the four madmen forced
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the present registrar, Thomas F' Diliane and those opposing him.

AtkhAhS 8ho bthSsV ~RRNsss0
 Republicans of the city were very secretive today concerning their conferences. In fact, one leading republican, Charles J. DeBisschop did not know anything of the con: ferences and said that he was told by Town Chairman Conway that hc would Do called in within 24 hours" this despite the fact that the choice for mayor was to DO de' cided on this afternoon.
 Attorney Hummel, whom talked with, stated that in fairness to his party and to Town Chairman Conway ho could not make. any statement of what was talked over between tho two this morning. However, 1t is said that he express cd q desire to escape the Imayoralty nomination and leave t to sono 70 .calied "dark horse"
 Major Roy Rice, former com. mander of the local Legion ana connected with the Scovill com. pany, stated this afternoon that he considered the mention of his name all "hot weather talk" He said he had nothing to do with in. jccting his name into the race. When asked # ho would consider tho nomination hc said T don't think so."
 At { o'clock this afternoon some more information is expected to come out # it docs not reach the public by leaks in the meantime. indications were carly this after. noon that tho republicans were at. tempting to solidify the forces by . definite announcement immediate. iy, the city, town, and school con. yentions being so near.
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Eyc.Witncss Story

Houston, Tex, Sept 6-CUP)- An eyewitness account of the devastating lower Rio Grande val- ley hurricane was brought here to- day by J. w. Harrigan, railway ex. press messenger, who arrived from Bro wnsviile on the first Missouri Pacific train to leave the zone.
 T pulled into Brownsville some. time after Q D. m. Monday" said Harrigan. "The wind was blowing about 35 or 40 miles an hour then, but 30 minutes later it was literally shrieking about the de-
 "They said 1t blew 100 miles an hour, but I think, conservatively, that some of those gusts reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour.
 "I spent the rikht on the train, and when daylight came 1t seemed to me that the town was blown to pieces. don't believe there was a small building in Brownsville that escaped damage and most of the larger brick buildings were caved in.
 "The entire city was filtered with debris and there was not a plate glass window in the city. The whole town was covered with wa- ter. It came from the rain be- cause the river remained in its banks.
 T saw no bodies but heard there were many persons injured.
 Most of the population deserted their homes and took shelter dur ing the night in hotels and in the railroad station. The roof of the station was ripped to pieces by the wind.
 "The wind blew for seven hours without letting up. Then there was a flat calm that lasted about 30 minutes. Then it started again and kept up for another seven hours before 1t began to slacken.
 'The people of Brownsville. San Bsnito and HarIingen were left in absolute misery by the storm. The water that flooded the city streets and the rainfall kept everyone drenched for hours and they were without food and water.
 However, they probably have gotten food and water by now bee cause the Missouri Pacific sent two special trains into the towns from Raymondville and Kingsvilie."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

The iong. delayed construction of
 the sanitary sewer In Thomaston
 avenue will Do started within Q few
 days as the result of action taken
 at last nights meeting of the board
 ok commissioners of public works.
 The superintendent of streets and
 sewers was instructed to rush his
 preliminary plans 50 that tho work
 could be started quickly. Speed is
 necessary since the work must be
 compieted before the state high.
 way department starts the cons structipn of c new pavement in |Thomaston avenue from West Main street to the end of the pres- ont state highway north of Fort Till avenue At . point opposite the Chase Metal Works. The conBtruc- ltion will probably get under way |eayiy in. october.
 The Thomaston avenue sewer, as originally planned was to have been constructed from Driggs street southeriy to the Homer street Huntington avenue lateral which goes through the latter street to the northern terminus Of the main trunk sewer in tho Nau. gatuck river bed at the Huntingdon avenue bridge. It was urged as Q measure to relieve the unsanitary |overflowing ,eesspool conditions In the Haase street section. Hearings
 were held last year, funds were ai. located to the project and tho
 work ordered done by the board of aldermen. Shortly Afterwards it became apparent that the efforts to
 have Thomaston avenue included In the trunk highway system
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
First Meetings
 in Bankruptcy
Three New Cases Came Before Referee Tor.
 rance To-day

Three now cases were Up for first meetings at the bankruptcy court session this morning heard by Referee Walter r. Torrance. Stella Romanofsky, midwife, re. ported no assets and liabilities Of S1,o00. John J. Dalton, factory worker, reported no assets. Rocco Coiella reported he went into bankruptcy because his pay had been attached three times. No trustees. wore mentioned in either of tho three cases.
 Tn tho hearing on potion for ale iowance in the case of the State Paint & Wall Paper company. Attorney W. W. Gager was al- lowed s7b for legal services ren- dered the trustees. Assets were appraised at $s,100 fn tho hearing of the adjourned first meeting of Charles Schmidt & Sons, Inc.
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had been diverted toward Havana. They said the 10000 tone cruiser Indianapolis was expected to be ors derod toward Cuba today or to. night.
 Tho marine movement to Quan. tico was underway today, the hrst contingent departing from Phila' deiphia for Quantico.
 The navy department announced shortly before 10:30 c. m, that the battieship Mississippi was eri route to Cuba and that the cruiser 1n- dianapoiis was under orders 10 proceed to the island from Anna polls, Md.
 MT Roosevelt summoned secre. tary of Navy Swanson. Assistant Secretary Henry L. Roosevelt and Admiral William II. standley, chief of naval operations, to q White House conference at Il c. m. Naval officers said contingent of 2,2O0 marines colud be moving on Cuba within 24 hours If inter. yentIon or merely such show or force were ordered.
 State department officials refus- cd to discuss tho possibility of h.. terv ention. The landing of armed men in Cuba probably would be the last expedient adopted by the administration But the four war ships ordered yesterday to Havana and Santiago were instructed to protect American lives and prop erty even If that duty imposed the necessity of going ashore. A full landing In Cuba would in- volve an expeditionary force con. sisting of the Seventh Regiment oi HOS (CQ) marines now being as' scmbed at Quantico and n contin' gent of 1000 marines from Haiti
 "Col. Richard P. Williams com. mands the Seventh Regiment. His senior officers art It. Col. John Henley, It. Col. S. s: Lee and Ma jor John Potts.
 The Mississippi is a capital ship recently modernized at Norfolk, Va, navy yard. The battleship left Norfolk Sept. l, for southern drill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06

N. s. Light, director of field service in Connecticut, has arr ranged a series of conferences with the local board of education for this month, one of which will be held in the library of Wilby high school Monday evening, at which several members of the board of education and Superin- tendent of Schools Thomas J.. Condon will attend.
 The matters for consideration at these gatherings will be the re sponsibility of boards or education with partial reference to financing the schools: (a) board of finance, (b) town meetings; tho progress of inc state board of education for 1933-35; and the lines of defense suggested by the commissioner in the May meetings.
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clock last night in response to an Binghamton city limits at S:3O o. automatic block signal. The heavy locomotive plunged eight feet into the steel observation coach. The next coach, q steel Pullman, was telescoped into n wooden day conch directly ahead of 1t. Almost all. put not ali of tho dead and the in- 1ured were in the wooden coach.
 The signal that stopped the pas sengor train automatically set Q caution signal at the block behind where tho passenger train had stopped, and this should have halt cd tho on- coming milk train. Flag man A. O. Morris of the pas- eenger train set dynamite caps on tho rails after his train halted ana tried to signal with c lantern.
 M, II. King, engineer of the mills train, Immediately reported to rail- road officials. He was not hurt, nor was any member of his crew. D, II, Shea, his conductor, said he did rot see tho signals until it was too late to stop his train.
 Two investigations, one by Erie officials and the other by repre- sentatives of tho interstate com. merre commission, got underway
 Before all of the bodies could be removed from the erumpled day coach. q crano had to be brought up to lift the heavy Pullman which had piowod through two-thirdB or its iength. Rescuers found scenes of fndescribable horror. one of the last bodies removed was that of q one-year- baby.
 The track was cleared after five hours and 0 special train was made in 10 carry surviving passengers into Jersey City. the Fries New York terminus.
 An official of the Erie railroad, who would not permit use TO ms name, described the wreck to tho United Press:
 Train No 8 (Atiantic express) waa half q minute late leaving Binghamton station. Just inside the eastern limits of Binghamton, it was held up by an automatic block signal set against 1t. The danger signal was caused by c yard crew busy switching cars to be attached to train No 2 (milk train).
 "setting the danger signal against No 8, automatically set q caution signal against No which was following the passenger train In addition, Flagman A. c. Mor.- ris left train No s and walked back along the tracks with q red lan' tern to warn No 2. The flagman had been gone approximately minutes when the crash came Without q doubt, tho engineer oi No failed to heed tho two sig. nals.
 The scene after the crash wal one Of death and terror. Screams of the injured and of panic.strick' en passengers trapped in tho wreckage brought motorists from the highway running parallel witt the railroad right-of.way. With in a few seconds, every ambulance police car, and fire engine 1T Binghamton was racing to thu scene.
 Fioodlights were set up on tho roof of the state hospital for tho insane, which Is on a hill overlook ing the wreck. Under this eerit light, rescue workers swarmet over the wrecked and overturned coaches, removing dead and in' jured.
 Many passengers were in the ex' press luxuriant dining car. fai
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ran to the recreation hall' one
 While the three embattled guards were locking the remain ing inmates in the dormitory and auelling their fears, Volz and his companions found a key to room leading from the recreation hall and out to the open grounds.
 One outside guard, thrusting an other key into the lock, prevented them from making their escape by that route, and the four then rushed into Q smaller room, where they barricaded themselves.
 Dr Raymond Kied, superinten- dent of the asylum, telephoped for state troopers and the polce or Beacon, the nearest town. when these forces arrived. a council or war decided to smoke out the maniacs with bombs.
 When the tear gas. penetrating to their fortress. began to take ef- feet, the maniacs fled to another room, and the process was repeat
 Finally, at 5:15 a. m.. when there were indications that the mutineers were weakening, the guards called upon them 10 come on out"
 The door was flung open. and Fisher advanced towards the po- lice with his pistol" aimed at the group. The police fired one shot. Fisher fell. dead when he struck the floor. and the bullet. after passing through his body, lodged In Marshalrs leg.
 Fishers body was taken 10 the morgue. Marshall was treated in the hospital. The other two were isolated.
 All four of the mutineers were known at Matteawan and in police circles as dangerous maniacs. and all were committed after major crimes. principally acts of ban ditry. Fisher was SC years old.
 Vols was the longest.term pris. oner. fie had been in Mattcawan since 1919, while tho other three were committed in ies2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Director Of Field Service N. 5. Light
 To Conduct Series
Education Boards Cooperating With State Commis-
 sion-Local Meeting to Be Held at Wilby High F. School Sept ll-Discuss Matters of Importance lE, to School Boards

The tentative schedule follows: Monday, September II, ct Wilby high school; Tuesday, September 12, in Hartford; Wednesday, Sept tember 13, in Salisbury; Thursday, September 14, in Torrington; Fri- day, September 15, In Stafford
 Monday, September IS, in will!- mantle; Tuesday, September 19, in Norwich; Wednesday, September 20, in New London; Thursday, Sep- tember 21, in Danielson; Friday, September 22, in New Milford; Monday, September 25, in Middle town; Tuesday, September 20, in New Haven; "wednesday, soptem- ber 27, in Bridgeport; Thursday, September 2S in stamford; and Friday, September 20, in Vest brook,
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More Warships And
 Marines Get Orders
(Continued from Page l,

grounds but was diverted by radio orders to Havana.
 Tho Indianapolis also ordered to Havana, is c 10.000.ton, S.1nch gun cruiser, one Of the newest of the fleet. Her shakedown cruise was completed this summon with President Roosevelt aboard.
 The Indianapolis and Mississip- pi together can muster 1,400 en- listed men. The light cruiser Rich. mond and tho destroyeds sturte- want, Mcfarland and Dainbridge ordered to Cuba yesterday have aggregate enlisted com plemen1 Of 745 enlisted men and marines.
 The marine concentration at Quantico was made Up of the fol. lowing detachments: Philadelphia, Pa, navy yard, 107 men; Annapolis, Md, 10; navy yard, Washington, D. C., 50; marine barracks, Wash. ington, D. C., 56; Norfolk Navy yard, Porthmouth, Va, 84; naval operating base, Norfolk, Va, 24S; seq school, Norfolk, Va, 11e; mar inc base, Quantico, Va, s69; total, HOS enlisted men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Parlor, Stable and Hay Room
 All Connected

Hartford. Conn. Sept 6-(UP)- It was parlor. hay room and sta ble. not parlor bedroom and bath, at one of the east side tenement district houses visited by Dominic J. Murphy, chief sanitary inspector of the board of health.
 Murphy found the house oc- cupied by Turkish popcorn ven- dor. In the front room the man prepared his meals and his popcorn and slept. Another room was piled high with hay. and in the third was the vendors horse. contented- ly munching at q feed box.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-06
Attorney Humnel Is
 Out Of c. O. P. Race
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some ready cash before they can iand a definite candidate.

some ready cash pefore they ceh land c definite candidate.
 However, 1t -iS said they have landed c definite candidate and 1t is likely that ho will be somebody who can throw some cash into the matter. Ex-Mayor John P. Elton was mentioned today as one of the possible "dark horses"
 On the whole the makeup. of the major part of tho republican ticket, as heretofore reported, Is smashed. James F. McGrath, rev. enue chief for Waterbury, has lot 1t be known that unless he is forc- ibly pushed into the race he wants nothing to do with the makeup Of the ticket.
 Former Postmaster A. N. Coi- grove doesn't want to run for con. troiier, either. Now he Is an out and. out candidate for registrar of voters and,, it ts understood, his two deputies, if he gets the nomin- ation, will bo Walter White, an admitted candidate for the regis trar's post, and Henry smithwick, who ig backing White. There will, without a doubt, be q stiff battle in the town convention betweon