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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Tim BalleW was in town again.
 Drunk again. He was on d ram page.
 Up and down the length of Main street, at high noon of a brilliant July day, went Tim Ballew, aim- ing for street lamps and hitting his target straight and steady, drunk as he was His 57 year old body waddled up and down the street on its bowlegs that were more used to the roundness of a horse's body than the flat even- ness of the ground. His wide, thin mouth was open and he gave the cowboys scream intermittently, enjoying himself, then he moved to a central position in the middle of the wide street. There was no traffic. Every one in the vicinity had been warned to stay at a safe distance; Tim Ballew was in town.
 Come on out, you yellow liv- cred scum!' Tim shouted, and in his voice was. the power of lungs filled for a lifetime with prairie air. Come on out and take your medicine, come out of your holes, you rats! Come out and get belly full O lead. Tim Ballew's in town. I'm a bad hombre. I want justice done. Come on out and take your medicine"
 IN THEIR SHOPS THE
 GROCERS TREMBLED
 In their. shops the grocers trem- bled and the goods merchants felt weak. Suppose Tim took it into his head to enter their stores?
 Come out, I dare you!" Tim thrust his axe-like chin forward, challenging the air. q got reckon ing to do. You come out here when tho land and the sky and God was free. Look what you done, you yellow livered dogs! You thieves! You stole the good from the land. A man cant have a decent fight. It's agin the law. A man can't git a drink. It's agin the law. If a thief steals his propity or his wife or his daughter, he's gotta go to court. It's the law! It's the law! nize no law. He's the law! Tim Ballew's the law to hisself! This is the law!"
 Swaggering, Tim shot three times into the air. Then he took full aim at the largest plate glass window on Main street and fired through it--so clean that the glass did not shatter. The owner of the store threw up his hands in resig- nation. There was nothing to be done about it until Tim was sober. Then he would come back to town, with a hangdog expression, lock- ing neither to right nor left, and pay for the damage he had while drunk.
 The town folks were familiar with Tins drunken rampageS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

under the nose of Bud Garrett who was also counting her, and estab- lished her in a big white frame dwelling .on his ranch.
 They lad two sons and lived contentedly on their ranch until the influx of traders and specula- tors came to build up the nearby town, and taint the atmosphere with commercialism and right eousness and respectN for restrain ing laws that made Tim want to get drunk and stay drunk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
SWISS ARMY TO
 SPEND MILLIONS
Fighting Forces to Be M0dernized at Cost of
 of $25,0OO,OOO

Geneva-(UP)-The Swiss fed eral council has decided to spend about $25,O00.000 equipping and modernizing it's fighting forces. The expenditure will be paritioned over 25 years.
 This program has been hastened, it is believed, because of the reve- .lation of alleged German plans to invade Switzerland in the event of another war with France. Fears that the World Disarmament con- ference migh fail also are respons- ible.
 The program calls for the ex- penditure of s24.500,000 on air. planes, tanks, motorized artillery, cannons, heavy and light machine guns. Six heavy machine guns will be added to each Swiss battalion, while all other equipment will be increased, or modernized.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Hartford, Conn. Dec 1S.-Rev pr William F. Frazier of Burling- ton, Vt, a recognized leader among the younger Congregational clergy throughout the country, has been chosen to fill the newly created of flee of superintendent of the 321 churches of that communion in Connecticut. Since 1922 he has been superintendent of the churches in Vermont. He will take up the duties of his new office Feb ruary 1, it is announced by the committee on the superintendency: the Rev pr John M. Phillips, pas tor of Center church, Hartford; the Rev Dr Oscar B. Maurer, pastor of Center church, New Haven, and the Rev Theodore A. Greene, pas tor of First church, New Britain.
 pr Frazier will become the exec utive leader for the oldest as well as the largest numper of churches of any communion in Connecticut. The first churches of the towns were all of the Congregational orr der. Twelve of the present active churches were founded before 1850 and twenty-five more during the second half of the seventeenth cen- tury: 159 were founded during the eighteenth century. By the time of Revolutionary war, church had been organized and a meeting house" erected at the center" of practically every one of the 169 towns of Connecticut's eight coun- ties and in some cases a second church had been formed in the town.
 The leading settlements of the earliest days were around Hart ford where Connecticut colony was formed and in the New Haven colony. The two colonies united 1865.
 In protest against the intolerance and rigidity which prevailed in the church and civil life of Massachu- setts Bay colony, families migrated overland and began settling Wind sor 1633, Wethersfield 1884 and Hartford 1885. The Windsor church was organized at Dor chester, England, 1880, it's mem- bers settling first at Worchester, Mass, before coming to Windsor. The Hartford First or Center church was organized at Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass, in 1892 and moved officially to Hartford in 1886. The Wethersfield church was organized at Wethersfield 1895 or 1636.
 Thomas Hooker, pastor of the Hartford church from 1883 to 1647 exercised a guiding-infiuence in the Connecticut colony. He had been opposed to the Massachusetts re- striction of civil suffrage to church membership and 1t was never inn- posed in the Connecticut colony. He is credited with being the first person in New England to uphold the theory of a pure democracy. He held that ''in matters which concern the common good, a gen. eral council, chosen by all, to transact business which concerns all, conceive most suitable to rule." Tn 1899 Hartford. Wethers- field and Windsor churches united in establishing Connecticut colony under it's first constitution known as *The Fundamental Orders"
 Tn New Haven colony the fran- cl1isc was limited to church mem bers until the union with Connec- ticut colony. First or Center church, New Haven, was organ ized 1899. The Milford church was organized the same year, the Guil- ford church. in 1643 and the Bran ford church 1644.
 Other churches established in Connecticut before 1850 were: Stamford, 1885; Fairfield. 1889; New London, 1642; Old Saybrook,
 In order that the churches of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Bud would get the draw on Tim.
 When Tim was sober he was as honest and law abiding citizen as could be found in any county. He lived quietly and industriously on his ranch four miles out from town. His philanthropies were many and varied, including giving away thousands of gallons of milk to poor children in the town and bailing rascals out of the county jail on pleas of their wives.
 It was when he got drunk or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
POLICE LOCATE
 STOLEN MACHINE

Patrolmen Joseph Mccarthy and James Sammon of the motor patrol recovered a car early yesterday morning which was identified as the property of Congressman Ed ward w. Goss. The machine was stolen Saturday night from in front of his residence, 129 Prospect street. The person or persons re- sponsiblc for it's disappearance ap- parently enjoyed brief joy ride, but lacked the courage to drive the machine out of the city. The car is decorated with a special marker in- dicating that member of congress is the owner. The car was found on Bank street, near Fourth street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
WORLD RODEO AND AIR RACE PLANNED
AntipOdes 1884 Centenary to Stage Event in AuS=
 tralia Next Year

Vancouver, Dec 1S.--An interna- tional rodeo to determine the worlds rough-riding championship, an international air race between such celebrated flyers as Charles Kingsford- Smith, Jimmy Doolittle and Frank Hawks for a $50,000 prize, a worlds championship golf tournament and polo matches be- tween world-famous teams are among the many attractions being planned for the centenary celebra- tion to be held in Melbourne and other Australian cities during 1894.
 w. S. McColl, Melbourne sports promoter, arrived here recently aboard the Canadian-Australa liner "Aorangi' to lay plans for the Melbourne Centenary and to en- gage Canadian-American stars for participation in what will resemble an Australian Worlds Fair. T expect during this North Ameri- can trip to line up all the best rodeo riders, both Indians and and whites, MT McColl said, and to interview Tom Mix, the cowboy circus and film star, one of the par- ticipants. We have some wonder full riders in Australia who may surprise the North American stars.'' He said the rodeo winner would receive about $5,000.
 Melbourne's international air race will be on hitherto unknown scale. the $50,000 prize money at- tracting the worlds leading avia- tors.
 Polo teams from Australia, In- dia, Great Britain, the United States, the Argentine and South Africa have been lined up. The in- tcrnational golf match, too, is as- sured of many prominent entries. In addition to these leading fea- lures there will be competitions in many other sports.
 MT McColl believes success should crown the centenary, as economic affairs Down Under" have considerably improved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

corn liquor that Tim reverted to his role of bad man, a role hc had played well in the early days when Oklahoma was still Indian terri tory. When drunk. Tim remem- bered the time when a man was a law unto himself and didn't shave to plead mercy from the courts. If he wanted revenge, he walked over to the yard of the man from whom he sought it, called out his name and shot him in the heart as he turned. Only a'skunk!" shot a man in the back-no matter how iustifiable the shooting might be.
 Tim had come out to Oklahoma on horseback and with no other possessions than the clothes on his back. He had acquired his piece of property. He had married a good girl, won her right out from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Some of the youngsters in town have heard from unknown sources that Col Charles Lndbergh and his wife met Santa Claus during their worldwide trip gently and learned from him that he is certain to be here Christmas with beautiful presents for every good boy and girl This prompted of the hddies to ad dress Santa in of the Colonel and his wife, think ing that perhaps the American flyers would have some the hard weather of last week knocking out Santa but there truth in it. His agents have al for slight mishap which amounted to nothing more than injury to of the reindeer had to be left behind, but another substituted and put in place of the hurt animal The trouble arose when loose cake of ice rolled from side hill at tremendous rate of speed hitting the reindeer in the left foreleg and throwing it into pile of snow deep that it required several hours to dig it out and it to veterna- rian It is believed, however that it will be fully covered by the time Santa reaches that point his return trip to his workshop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Good Evening.
I HEARD A TREE SAY
sR Mn MAN m mn EowR

"I think that shall never be So sweet thing as Kilmer's tree! For though look at God all day often see cloud that's gray Up there in heavens milky way; And though I do in summer wear A nest of robins in my hair, With autumn's chill the nest alone Is prest against my barren bone; For then the sweet birds fly away To drink the warmth of southern bay, And am left to winters prey And poets inky holiday. "I think that l shall never know What day an ax will lend blow, The hour I'll grace an old mans hearth And cope with fires stinging birth! Oh, friend, it is mystery What end shall be my destiny. ,5 Perchance I'll be the Yuletides heat With children gathered round my feet; Across the room another tree With lovely lights will gaze on me In artificial ecstacy- One week with lights, one week with man, And he will join my caravanw
 "Who Heard'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
THE LAST BAD MAN


 The last straw, as 1t were, had been the desertion of Bud Garrett from the ranks of the pioneers who still believed themselves to be above the law. Bud had accepted the office of sheriff. And a gosd sheriff he, made, too. He cleaned up his county until it became a feat of conspiracy to obtain a drink of liquor. The women of pleasure and the men who made their liv- ing out of manipulating paste boards fled before the stormy up- holding of the law. Night and day Sheriff Garrett and his deputies made raids, and many a former comrade of the reformed sheriff went to an eternal prairie for of- fering resistance to "The Law!"
 The feud between Tim and the sheriff got its impetus when the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Telescoping around town.

Telescoping around town. . Pretty Doris Morri7 son was one of the many Waterbury femmes who se- cured Sonny" OBrien's autograph when the pleasing WABC soloist appeared at Hamilton Park dancetorum last week. Many thanks to F Sage of 20 Seminole avenue for generous contribution of tinfoil. . . Johnny Santa Lucia, of the Bridgeport Santa Lucias who is now affiliated with the Democrat Insurance De-
 field for two years where he of the Saints all around athletics. \. Ken Strathern, Clarmont A. c. grid star is still confined to St Marys hospital as suit of knee injury sustained on the field of battle . Nick Appalucci, Butch" DeVto, Bill Spallone, Frankie Place, Charley Spiotti Rocco Capozzi Andy Pape, Pat O'Brien, Leno Castaldo Mike -Coucci and Tom Forte among the many Brooklyn A. c. fol- lowers who attended the opening of Hotel Trumbu in Milford last week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

4A Eavesdropping. . Johnny Hartnett and "Tp- per- Coney recipients of varisty football letters from Manhattan college at recent banquet rendered the Jasper eleven in New York city. . General Jo- seph Haler, Polish hero who will be entertained by many Connecticut veterans during his stay in the Nutmeg Stae paid his last visit this state ten years ago and warmly received by Charles A. Templeton then governor. -. w. E. Bumstead of Thomaston was awarded first prize for his Buff Plymouth Rock cock at the fourth annual New England Poultry Show in Hart ford last week. Joe Phean, former Crosby foot ball captain is member of the formal dance committee of the Connecticut Club of Fordham University The event will be held Thursday evening, December 28th at the Stratfield Hotel in Bridgeport. Vaughn Gooding of Waterbury and Petere Potera of Long Is land members of the double quarette which will be part of the entertainment program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
By HESTER ROBINSON

electric street lamps Another shot The companion globe shattered and fe shower of glass; to the sidewalk of Main street in the little Oklahoma town
 Every sorekeper who heard the shots dashed into his shop and trembed behind his counters Every man,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
time director of the foreign mis-

time a director of the foreign mis- sion board.
 During his superintendency the Vermont conference has closed each fiscal year without a deficit and the endowments of the confer ence and of the local churches have been substantially increased. Public service which he has rem dered has included membership on the council of the Vermont State Commission on Country Life. He is a Rotarian and a trustee of the Burlington Savings bank, a mutual institution and the largest bank in the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: A few years ago were bothered with all of merchandise that arrived post pad through the mails Today it's Christmas cards What are we going to do with them? E. A. D. Qf you don't want to buy them send them back E. A. D. You don't have to accept them from the mail carrier if dered However, that he has to cart them back the O. and at this time of the year he deserves consideration. The Ed.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Wish we could

Wish we could . gaze into store windows through the eyes of kid seeing his first Christmas toy display
 have horse Wnny and nuzze hand he did the first time got up enough to touch the bakers the nose watch of famous amateur baseball of other perform they did in their days
 grace and power hitch of the seighs that the milk dealers used to have of those famous old sighthorse Chase company teams going up North Main btreSt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

sheriff arrested Tim for being drunk and disorderly-on one of his rampages, and insisted on Tim serving out his sentence. The day he was released, the former bad man of pioneer days swore to get even, If it takes me till the day I die."
 THE FEUD HAD BEEN IN PROGRESS FOR YEARS
 On the day that Tim returned to town and shot out the lights once more, the feud had been in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

They were familiar with his mover varying complaint against their righteousness and their upholding or the law. They were familiar with his never relaxing feud with the sheriff, Bud Garrett, and they were unanimous in declaring that someday Bud and Tim would meet
 while the latter was drunk and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Elk in the national parks of this country increasel from 96,905 in 1881 to 103,856 in 1882.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Hints to Christmas shoppers. Finish your er- rands before Friday and Saturday this week. Be con- sderae of the clerks They're the go continuously days Also remember the traffic cops have to put up with additional burdens in keeping autos moving and pedes trians from being hit. dollar spent in Waterbury means dollars worth of work in Waterbury. Spread and is the most joyous season. not simply because exchange gifts and greetings but also because is the be- ginning of the church year, coincdng with the birth of Christ ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
The Cast of Characters in
 ssThe Last Bad Man"

TIM FALLEN, the one renain- ing had man of a small Okla home town.
 BUD GARRETT, the sheriff, who has Q graudge to settle with Tim.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Tn order that the churches of Connecticut might not be depend- ent upon Harvard college for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18

Peter Tschaikovsky was the greatest RUSSIAN COMPOSER. The symbol stands for SALT. NEW YORK and CONNECTI. cur licensed motor vehicles in 2 :. 1891.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
BLOOM DEFENSE
MEET THURSDAY
Will Elect Delegates to
See Governor

NEW YORK-A delegation TO see
Governor Lehman at Albany TO lay
before him demands that Leon Bloom.
secretary of the Laundry Workers In
dustrial Union, be Immediately re-
leased from Sing Sing, will be elected
at mass meeting Thursday, May
Goth, p. m, at Ambassador Hail.
Third and Claremont Parkway, Bronx
Bloom was remanded to Sing Sing
for years, the Parole Commission
withdrawing his parole on a previous
charge, in an attempt to break the
strike against the Pretty Family
Laundry, Inc, conducted by the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union.
The Union the N. Y. District LID.
and the T.UU,C., urge all ofganiza-
lions to send kilograms to Governor
Lehman at Albany demanding that
he give hearing of this case, and
that he release Bloom without parole
restrictions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
N.T.W. ACTIVE IN
SILK STRIKES

PATTERSON, N j., May %. - The
strike call of the Associated Silk
Workers was answered by approx
mately u shops, the majority, being
small shops This is the result of
the policy pursued by the Associated
in failing to prepare the strike
properly, and in rejecting the pro-
posals for unity and joint strike
with the National Textile Workers
Union. The Associated, having no
clear program for this struggle. and
turning down the appeal for unity
with the N. r. w vacillated by first
calling the strike, then calling it off,
then taking it up with the Mayors
Committee and finally being forced
to call the present strike. This vacil-
lation together with failure to make
basic preparation in the shop re-
suited in demoralizing the ranks Of
the workers, and confusing them, and
doomed the strike to defeat at the
very outset.
The National Textile Workers
Union is active in the few shops
which responded to the strike. The
Associated is concerned only with in
dividual shop strikes and is opposed
to picketing. On the other hand the
N. T. W. is issuing leaflets in the
buildings where the shops are on
strike and have established a picket
line to pull out other shops and dew
elop and spread the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
MASS FIGHT FOR
JAILED J0BLESS
BEGINS IN CITY

NEW YORK-A series Of meetings
and demonstrations will be held the
next few Gays by branches and sec
tons of the New York District In
teInational Labor Defense in protest
against the clubbing and arrests Of
workers who demonstrated at home
relief bureaus against cuts in relief
An open air rally will be held in
Union Square Thursday al 73O pm.
by the Tom Mooney Branch LID.
to demand the release Of Sam Con-
shaE secretary Downtown Unemplov-
ed Council whom the lsbor-hating
Judge Aurelio sentenced to 2 years.
The same Judge Aurelio is to pass
sentence on NJ. Snipes, Negro lather.
held for trial after he was beaten up
at a Harlem home relief station
Demonstrations for the release OF
Gonshak and all other arrested work
ers will be held on a Borough-wide
scale this Saturday, May q. in Har-
lem Manhattan and Bronx
The Harlem demonstration will
take place at pm. at 18th st. and
7th Ave In addition to protesting
The police brutality. the clubbing Of
NJ. Snipes and his arrest, it will also
denounce the attempts of William
Davis. of the Amsterdam News and
his clique to disrupt LID Scots
bcro Defense meetings in Harlem.
The demonstration downtown will
start al Union Square at $50 pm
1t will be followed by parade, led
by the Red Front Band, eliminating
in a final mass rally at 10th St. and
End Ave. All downtown and midtown
mass organizations are urged to par
ticipate and to bring placards and
their organization banners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-24
Marine Union Ship
Delegates to Meet

NEW YORK. - A Conference Of
Ship Delegates and forces active in
visiting ships is being called by the
National Buro of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union, to be held in
New York on Sunday, May %, at II
a. m Delegates from the North At
lantic Branches of the M.WIU., Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York
will attend.
The conference is being called to
discuss the experiences Of the union
since the National Committee meet
ing in building ship committees, de-
veloping joint action and carrying
through the membership drive. Es-
pecially will the experiences of the
union on the Munson Line, where
a number of recent struggles have
been lead be discussed, from the
point of view of clarifying the prob
lens on this companys ships in prep
aration for an intensive drive before
the convention.
In calling the conference the Ma
tional Buro states that it expects
only those who have actually done
work as ship delegates or partici-
pated in the volunteer activities of
the branches should be designated to
attend.
Discuss Convention Preparations.
On Monday, following the confer
ence, the National Buro will hold its
regular meeting and final prepara-
tions for the National Convention
which will be held in New York, July
Is, II and 18, will be the main point
on the Agenda. Thirty thousand
calls for the convention have been
issued, are receiving wide distribu-
ton and already the convention has
aroused considerable interest in the
mass Of marine workers. In addition
to expecting delegates from all the
major ports in the United States, it
is also expected that fraternsl dele
gates from at least two Central Amer
lean countries will attend