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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29

Mrs Milton J. Warner of Pine Orchard will be hostess Monday for the second in series of dupli- cate contract tournaments and bridge parties which are being ar- ranged for the benefit of the Con- necticut Child Welfare association under the chairmanship of Charles +. Bakewell and the fol- lowing committee:
 MT and Mrs Winchester Bennett, MT and Mrs Frederick F. Brewster, William H. Buell., Dr and Mrs Rob- ert Jay Cook, MT and Mrs J. Alex ander Hamilton, Dr and Mrs Rob- ert E. Seabury, MT and Mrs Percy T. Walden, Mrs Charles T. Weed, MT and Mrs G. Harold Welch, Dr and Mrs F.. Reed Whittemore and MT and Mrs Samuel T. Willis. Playing will begin at 3. with Mrs Clarence A. Pierce directing the tournament and with Mrs Robert Jay Cook in charge of rubber play. Winners in both sections will be given the opportunity to meet the winners of other tournaments in . play-off which is to be held at the end of the series.
 The engagement has been an- nounced of Miss Helen Marie Rel ser, daughter of MT and Mrs Emil Reiser of Wolcott and John Joseph Cavanaugh of North Main street.
 Miss Jane Bowling of New York city is visiting her grandmother, Mrs Jane M. Bowling of Chestnut avenue.
 Miss Polly White and Miss Lois Warner of Kellogg street sailed yesterday afternoon for a vacation in England.
 Dr. J. H. Green of this city is registered at the Barbizon-Plaza in New York City.
 Announcement has been made Of the birth of a son to MT. and Mrs. Maryland. July 26 at the Provi- .dence hospital, Washington, D. C.. Mrs. Reid was graduated from St. Mary's hospital training school for nurses 8 year ago last June.
 George Mitchell of North Main street. Charles Howell of Silver street, James Hefrrin of Willow street and Edwin Mora of. North Main street are spending a few days in New York and Atlantic City.
 Announcement, has been made of the marriage of Miss Mary Brew CT, daughter of MT. and Mrs. F. F. Brewer of Hartford, to Joseph Riley of Somervi1le, Mass. The ceremony was performed Thursday The bride attended Mount St. Jo-- seph's Academy. MT. Riley attend- ed Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology.
 MT. and Mrs. Frederick Sturges. of Far House, Fairfield, Conn.,, and Dr. Victor c. Thorne, of Thorne- brook, Conn. will give a dance on November 29 at the Ritz-Carlton in New York to introduce their daughters, Miss Catherine A. Sur ges and Miss Victoria C0rse Thorne. Dr. Thorne also will give tea dance in honor of his daugh- ter on September P at his home in Greenwich.
 The Misses Alice Foley and Helen Martin of Willow street will leave for Q vacation at Asbury Park, N. J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29

Mrs George Pierpont conducted contract bridge play at Tavern Rosanne in Middlebury yesterday afternoon, six tables competing. High north and south scorers were Mrs R. D. Schroeder and Mrs Carl Heebner with 56 points. Mrs Ray mond Monroe and Mrs Fred Stewart were high east and west with 59 1-2 points. Runners up were, north and south. Mrs James Walsh and Mrs William Facth, 50 1-2 points; east and west, Mrs Robert Dennison and Mrs E. J. Nelson with 50 points.
 The Silver Tea circle of the Swedish Lutheran church were en- tertained on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs Gus Larson of Woodtick road. Among those who attended were Mrs Andrew Roden. Mrs Herman Johnson, Mrs c. E. Lindell. Mrs c. E. Johnson, Mrs Edward Strom, Mrs Martin Ander- son. Mrs c. L. Hallenborg, Mrs Fred Anderson, Mrs John Clausen, Mrs Fred Harberg, Mrs Robert Lagerquist, Mrs John Larson, Misses Janet Allard, Betty Allard, Ellen Larson, Agnes Larson, Mrs Anna Thompson, Mrs Gustav Gran del, Miss Gertrude Larson and Mrs John Grandel.
 The wedding of Miss Alta Jane Bassett. daughter of MT and Mrs Benjamin Franklin Bassett of Red- ding. Connecticut, and Valdemar Thorvaldsen Hammer, Jr. son of Mir and Mrs Hammer of Branford. will take place Saturday afternoon, August 12. at 4, in Christ Episco- pal church, Bedding Ridge. The Rev Raymond Cunningham. rector of Trinity church. Hartford, will officiate. An informal tea for the immediate families will follow in the Ridgewood Inn.
 Mrs George A. Wallace of this city will be Miss Bassett's only at- tendant, and Walter R. Nichols of North Guil:ord will attend MT Hammer as best man. The ushers will include Russell M. Nichols of Wallingford, Frank V. Bigelow of Branford. Norris c. Andrews and George A. Wallace of this city.
 Both Miss Bassett and MT Ham, mer attended the Sanford School in Bedding.
 Miss Florence Eccles of Cooke street is sailing to-day on the Bri- tania for a visit in England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29

Miss Mary c. Duffy of Newark, N. J.. has just been reelected su- preme regent of the Catholic Daughters of America for the next two years, at the close of the fif- teenth biennial supreme conven- tion in Colorado Springs, Col. Other supreme officers elected for the 1933-35 term are as follows: Vice-supreme regent, Mrs. Jennie B. Greene, of Baltimore, Md; na- tional secretary, Miss Katherine M. Rosney, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; national treasurer, Miss Frances Maher, of Kane, Pa.; national counsellor, Mrs. Leorone z. Meder. of Chicago, Ill.,; national directors. Mrs. Anna Baxter, of Dubuque, Ia.; Miss Mary McKeough of Rut- land, Vt; Miss Veronica O'Connor of Omaha, Nebr.; Mrs. Elizabeth Ahearn, of New Haven, Conn; Miss Catherine V. Mylett, Cleve- land, O.; and Mrs. Katherine T. salmon, of Cambridge, Mass.
 Members and guests of Steele and Johnson's Merry Makers. Club enjoyed a delightful pleasure cruise, along the Connecticut river on Friday evening, July 22. The party motored to the Middletown Yacht club where they went on board the Pelham" They docked at Hurd Park where they lunched, then continued the sail as far as New London. Dancing and other forms of entertainment were en- joyed on board, music furnished by a local orchestra. MT and Mrs P. Basile sponsored the outing. Those attending were Dixie Lamontagne. Herbert Donnely; Margaret Ri- na1di, Michael Di Leo; Gwendolyn Demock, Jack Lynch; Jane Evon, Harold Hughson; Kay Early, John Dolan; Betty Early, John Carlin; Agnes Seery. Andrew White; Eleanor Fellows, Edward Davis; Mary Fox, Michael Hyland;. Helen Rush, James O'Nei1l; Ernestine Steinert, Thomas Rush; Emma Hemlock, Joseph Tram; Irene Mulville. Jack Keefe; Peg Griffin, William Sullivan; Helen Norton, Joseph Norton; Grace Pascucci, Anthony Pascucci; Mir and Mrs William Squires; Mir and Mrs Charles Mulholland; Mir and Mrs John Brick; Mir and Mrs Palmer Brick; MT and Mrs Jack York; MT and Mrs F.. Basile and Amer icas Basile.
 This morning at 9 o'clock at the church of the Sacred Heart in Worcester, Mass, the marriage of Miss Eileen B. Sullivan, daughter of Mir and Mrs Michael J. Sul- Mvan to John J. Delaney, son of Mir and Mrs Dennis Delaney of this city took place. Miss Mar garet Delaney, a sister of the groom was the only attendant for the bride and William Sullivan. brother of the bride was best man for MT Delaney. Ushers were Mar tin Ganley of Hartford and Charles Greancy of Holyoke, Mass. x Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Driscoll and son., Daniel, of Holmes avenue are returning today from a, two weeks vacation at Point Beach.
 Mrs. Isabella Koch of Woodlawn Terrace and daughter Catherine are leaving today by motor for Bar Harbor, Maine.
 Miss Alice Kingsbury of Pros- pect street opened her North street home in Litchfield yesterday after noon for a recital of negro spiritu- als by the Hampton Institute Quar- tet,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29

MT and Mrs Henry J. Bowling
 of Fox street wil spend the next two weeks in Chicago where they
 will attend the Worlds Fair, trav-
 cling by boat from Buffalo.
 George Howe of South Elm
 street is vacationing at Bay View.
 William Zeigler of New Britain
 is spending a week with his grand
 mother, Mrs Margaret Dillon of
 South Elm street.
 The annual meeting ad reunion of the Upson family Association of America is taking place today at the Congregational church in Kens- ington. All descendants of Thomas Upson, pioneer settler of Hartford (1636) have been invited to at- tend. The association has a mem-
 bership of $50 family heads and descendants all over the United States.
 Among those making reserva- tions for the Dutch Treat chicken dinner dance at the Mad. ison Beach Yacht Club are MT and Mrs Charles .Durfee of this city. Miss Daisy Lord, president of ths Waterbury Teachers Association
 was in attendance at the 58th Ma
 tional Convention of the Ancient
 Order of Hibernians in session 1T
 Chicago last week.
 Miss Anna J. Coughlan of State
 street who has been spending a va
 cation at York Beach. Maine, will leave for Windsor, Vt. where she will spend two weeks. Miss Kath- ryn Healey of Prospect street is returning to this city from York Beach.
 MT and Mrs John M. Lynch of
 Boyden street have left for a two weeks vacation at their summer
 cottage in Bay View. The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Parsons. daughter of MT and Mrs
 Stuart Wilson Parsons of New Bri- tain and Dr John Garthwaite Mar tin, son of pr and Mrs James Mar IlI Ol | ldTIIlHSl StNCHdOs thAo SAty
 will take place next Tuesday after
 noon at 4 o'clock at the home of her parents.
 Miss Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan prima donna, formerly of Meriden
 who is spending the summer in Italy, sang recently at the Floren- tine Music Festival, and requested that her proceeds be turned over
 to Florence charities.
 The marriage of Miss Patricia
 Mclean. daughter of MT and Mrs Charles Mclean of Boston,. to Frederic E. Taintor of New York took place yesterday in the rectory of St Johns church, Stamford Conn. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev Jerome Cook | in the presence of few friends. In the absence, of her father, who is now in. Europe with Mrs Mclean, the bride was given Tn marriage by Charles P. Rogge- of New York. Mrs Rogge was the only bridal attendant and Morti- mer Landsberg of Mamaroncck
 was best man. r
 The ceremony was followed by a breakfast for members of the wedding party at Hycliff, the home of Mrs M. c. Staton in Stamford. The Quilters society met yester- day with Mrs George Veasey of North Main street. Dinner was served followed by a program of recitations and songs. Those pres- ent were Mrs Emma. Hays. Mrs
 Mary Strong. Mrs William Clark. Mrs Julia Wheeler, Mrs Augusta
 Sadler, Mrs Mary Lawrence, Mrs Summerville. Mrs Stanard. < Mrs
 Francis Dave. Mrs s. A. Patchen,
 Mrs Charlotte Harmon, Miss Be-
 linda Denigri, Miss Maria Wood- ruff. Mrs Sarah Ferguson. Mrs
 Miller, Miss Chloe Wedge, Mrs Hi-
 cock. Mrs Ellen Newell. Miss Dor
 othy Veasey and MT, and Mrs
 George Veasey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29
DRUM CORPS IS
 OFF FOR HARTFORD

Major George Whitaker yester- day Issued orders to the members of the Mattatuck Fife and Drum Corps. Putnam Phalanx- Veteran Corps, the state detachment and the 43d Headquarters Detachment to assemble at the Putnam Phalanx Armory in Hartford this afternoon at o'clock.
 The group will leave from there for the home of Lieutenant George K. Macauley In New Britain who is giving a reception for the Phalanx group. About 15O are expected to attend the get-together.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29
NATIONAL GUARD
 k UNITS HOME TO-

UNITS HOME IU-DAY
 Deeply tanned by the sun and appearing trim and in apparent good health, Waterbury's six com- panies of national guardsmen re- turned to Waterbury after the an- nual encampment of two weeks at Niantic. After the train pulled in the local railroad station, the com panies marched in military forma- tion to the armory where they were mustered out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29

was a beautiful place in which to play bridge, believe those mounr .aiIis had some mystic effect on ;he cards, as many unusual hands appeared
 The following hand was bid In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29
By .WM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary. Amcpican Bridge
RRUEE

I have just returned from Han over, N. H., where I attended the 43d annual congress of the Ameri- can Whist League. and while il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-27

In that river was a drift of logs
miles long. Behind this drift
was the spread" of the st. Fran
els river. I shall not elaborate
here on the wonderful bass fishing
and the astounding duck hunting
that I experienced in the
spread"
Below the drift a formal river
wound through the cypress
swamps to it's final outlet near
Helena. I can not recall there
was any such thing as a devastat-
ing flood below the drift as long
as I knew it. Then some brilliant
county engineer and an accom-
modating lawyer drew up the
modus operandi to clean out the
drift. This was accomplished in
1918. There was nothing now to
stop the food water of the St.
Francis. They dashed through the
old drift area in hours where it
used to take weeks. The
people down the river went
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-27

III 1A0 ANOOANS
Charles M. Halstead, 70, of 11O2
South Illinois street, was brought
before the court, charged with
throwong stones at the two small
children of James B. Roberts,
1915 South Illinois street, and
then drawing a gun and forcing
Roberts away, after Roberts went
to Halstead's home to demonstrate.
Judge, it's all a lie,' HalStead
said loudly, as he reached for his
hip pocket.
Here's what I used" he added,
as he drew a large weapon and
waved it carelessly in the direc-
ton of Myers.
The judge blanched and shrank
back before he noticed that the
revolver" was made of glass, and
had contained candy.
Recovering his equanimiay, and
reSuming his judicial poise, Myers
withheld judgment, promising
Halstead a nice, long Jail term if
he ever appeared in that court
again.
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Hourly Temperatures

and a program of prevention. Up
to the present moment we only
have witnessed the program of
prevention used in this state. The
program of control here has not
been n of control at all, but
one of ~aggravation.
AS time passed, the pioneer
family moved out of the ridges
and invaded the richer domain of
the valley. His contact with the
outer world developed the first
step toward bringing about our
destructive floods of the present
century. To effect an easier path
for his boat, over the network of
waterways with which Indiana
was blessed, he and his neighbor
and his legislature spent thou
sands of dollars to keep the
streams free from distractions.
This act was the beginning of
the program of aggravation. AS
late as 1912, 1 saw the effect of
just such an act in the st. Fran
els Valley in northerH4Arkansas.
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AoACC q pAOO,OOO OoliOoA6h AdAAAs INV
The chief executive stated that
the club collections will continue.
and made no mention of the vote
to be taken by the state committee
regarding continuance.
This was taken to indicate that
he is sure of a majority vote as
against the opposition of R. Earl
Peters, state chairman, who was
asked by the Governor to call the
meeting.
Statehouse predictions today were
that the administration has seven
teen of the twenty-four committee
votes. Pleas Greenlee, McNutt sec
rotary and foe of Chairman Peters,
predicted thirteen certain votes
Tuesday.
One concession was made in Gov
ernor McNutt's speech to the con-
gressmen. He announced that the
2 per cent assessments on state
employees salaries would be scaled
down where it appeared excessive,
and not more than l per cent would
be collected in such cases.
This was one Of the suggestions
made in a long letter from Mr..
Peters to the Governor which
brought about the state committee
call.
Mr.. Peters was not invited to the
congressional meeting. All but Con-
gresham Finley Gray accepted in
vitations to the luncheon. MI. Gray
was scheduled for an address at
Muncie and could not attend.
Governor McNutt called attention
to letters sent out by Burrell Wright.
state treausrer for the Republican
party. asking 500 donations from
wealthy industrialiSts" so that a
100000 slush fund can be raised"
Purpose is to defeat the Demo-
cratic program of tax reforms"
Governor McNuttrharged.
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tween himself and the British
fort. Whenever there is normal
rainfall, there are floods.
The normal flow of water
through any river on the face OF
the earth will not keep a channel
open large enough to accommo-
date the water of flood periods.
1t has been estimated that the
Mississippi river should maintain
for itself a water prism PIG times
larger than the one existing to
take care Of such a flood as
swooped through it in 1913.
Floods become devastating only
when there is a population to act
upon. So long as this population
insists on invading the domain of
the flood waters. just so long will
we witness the annual parade of
houses floating out to sea and
worse.
The problem then is one of con-
troll, and this can be divided into
two aspects, a program of control
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The cities reported today were
Anderson, B Bedford. Evansville,
Frankfort, Hammond, Marion, Mish-
awake, Newcastle, Peru and Shelby
vile. More than a score of Indiana
cities of more than 10000 popula-
ton have not reported on the
success of NRA in their COM
munities, according to Wells.
Among these cities are East Chi
cago, Elkhart, Fl. Wayne, South
Bend, Muncie, Richmond and Terre
Haute.
Appointments of an Indianapolis
woman to represent consumers and
another member to represent labor
on the local complaints board to
hear alleged violations of NRA have
not been made, although the board
considered cases at its regular meet
ing Tuesday at the Chamber of
Commerce.
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CHILD CUSTODY FIGHT
SHIFTED TO COURT
Probate Judge Will Rule in Battle
Of Fnster Parents. Mother.

Probate Judge VIII Rule in Battle
of Foster Parents, Mother.
Fight for the possession of g.
year-old Winnie Pettigrew, which
has been waged for weeks between
her mother and her foster parents,
will be transferred to probate court.
Following a decision by county
C om ami S n ers, MI. and Mrs.
Thomas E. Rogers, who were given
custody of the child by juvenile
court last year, will begin formal
adoption proceedings, it was indi-
Gated.
The child's mother, Mrs. Roy
Losch, wife of a local policeman,
seeks to regain custody of the girl,
born in a previous marriage. Vim
ME was taken from the orphans
home by the Rogers, after juvenile
court had made her a ward after
Mrs. Losch is alleged to have de-
serted her.
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S73,25O KIDNAP
MONEY FOUND
Part of UrSCheI Haul Is
Discovered in Texas
Cotton Patch.
By nitcd Press

BIZ United Press
COLEMAN. Tex, Sept. q. De-
partment of justice agents today
questioned a brother Of Mrs. R. G.
Shannon, defendant in the Charles
F. Urschel kidnapping case, after
s73,2 $50 was recovered and identified
as part of the $780, 900 ransom for
the wealthy Oklahoma City oil man.
The money was recovered from a
cache in a cotton patch.
Federal agents arrested the man,
Cass Coleman, As. 1t was indicated
he would be charged with harboring
George Machine Gum Kelly and
his wife Katherine, both of whom
were arrested Tuesday at Memphis,
Tenn.
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LOAN ASSURES
TEACHERS PAY
Five City Banks Will Aid
School Commissioners
With S5OO,OOO.

Authorizing a $500, 900 loan from
five Indianapolis banks by the
board of school commissioners made
payment of Indianapolis school
teachers salaries a certainty, it was
learned today.
The loan will tide the board over
until the first instalment of taxes
is received. Arrangements for the
loan have been made with the
Union Trust Company, the Fletcher
Trust Company, Indiana Trust
Company, Indiana National Bank
and Merchants National Bank.
Salaries of school principals have
been fixed in ratio to enrolment in
buildings, according to Paul G,
Stetson, superintendent.
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BY
DISCOUNTED
GUARDS limited
Charge Prison Break Is Due
to 'SpoiIs System
Holly Denied.
PROBE TO BE LAUNCHED
Wayne Coy Asserts SuIIen
Veterans May Have
Aided ConviCtS.
BY N M. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer

Formal investigation of the Indi-
ana state prison break will begin at
the prison Thursday by the board
of trustees, it was announced today
by Wayne Coy, McNutt secretary in
charge of penal affairs.
Coy will attend the trustees meet
ing and represent Governor Paul V.
McNutt.
The Governor said he would be
unable to go Thursday and might
issue a formal statement on the af-
fair later. He does not believe the
new warden to blame, he declared.
Hue and cry has been raised that
changes in personnel at the prison
under the so-called "spoils system
was a contributing cause of the
escape. This was being combated
by a counter-theory advanced by the
administration.
The statehouse view is that it
might have been brought about by
sabotage by the "old guard" group
that still remain at the institution.
Mr. Coy advanced this viewpoint.
He indicated that it will e one line of
questioning to be followed in an ad-
ministration investigation of the
prison delivery.
Half of Guards Fired
Governor McNutt ouSted former
Warden Walter DAILY, who had spent
more than twenty-five years in
prison work, by appointing Louis E.
Kunkel, Michigan City attorney, to
the wardenship.
Under the direction of Pleas
Greenlee, patronage secretary of the
McNutt regime, half OF more of the
guards and other prison employees
then were replaced by deserving
Democrats"
Warden Kunkel has experienced
considerable difficulty since taking
the post. Not long ago a prisoner
hid in an automobile and got
through the gates with another
who was being paroled.
Prisoners working on the farms
walk away almost weekly, it is re-
ported.
Revolvers Tossed Over Wall.
Last week, revolvers were tossed
into the prison yard over the high
wall. i,.'s'e
Mr.. Kunkel then asked for better
flood lighting. He had the Culver
bank robbers put into solitary con-
1nement on the grounds that they
were the ones who were to get the
revolvers.
Now the theory is that the men
who escaped Tuesday were the plot
tiers.
Warden Kunkel has noticed that
there is something wrong at the in
stitution," Mr.. Coy explained. For
one thing, the new guards appear
so much more cooperative than the
old ones, some of whom have been
extremely surly and seem to resent
taking orders from him.
Such a break as occurred Tuesday
would be almost impossible without
some cooperation from guards or
some one else on the prison staff"
Mr.. Coy contended.
1T might have been an old guard.
or even a lev one who would sell
out. Every effort will be made to
learn the truth
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SOL BOOMER ENTERS
PLEA OF NOT GUILTY
Attorney Denies Charge in
Theft Indictment.

Sol C. Bodner. prominent criminal
practice attorney, today pleaded not
guilty to an indictment charging
receiving stolen goods, when he was
arraigned in criminal court before
Judge Frank P. Baker.
Bodner, indicted l n connection
with his defense of the Delphi bank
bandit gang, entered his plea after
Judge Baker overruled a motion to
quash the indictment.
Baker also overruled a similar
motion in the case of Louis Rosen-
berg, attorney, indicted for alleged
subornation of perjury in the James
G. Seaman auto finance embezzle-
ment case. Rosenberg previously
had pleaded not guilty.
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Prosecutor Herbert Wilson, graf
flied" at obtaining Dillinger's GUS
tody, said he would ask indianapolis
police to leave Immediately for Day.
ton toreturn Dillinger here for a
speedy trial.
Little time was lost by the pros
ecutor in following through his pro-
gram to have Dillinger tried here
for the Massachusetts, avenue bank
robbery. The alleged leader of the
bandit trio that obtained $24,864 in
the local holdup Sept. s, was in
dicted Monday by the Marion coun-
ty grand jury.
Governor Paul v. McNutt signed