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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

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delegates. which IN turn ulII 14It-|
the county president. VICE
ident, etc. An executive committees
to carry on the Important phases
Of the many activities Of the young
democrats will be selected ~ the
officers elected.
The formation Of county organ
izations follows the lines o. tho
state constitution Of the young
democratic clubs and aims TO bring
the youth Of the state into an or
ganization that will enable them -
advance progressive democrats
ideas. Several of the counties have
formed their organizations and the
remaining ones will all have maj
organizations plans made within
the next few weeks.
Plans were also discussed iaes
night concerning the methods to
be used to assist the few towns IN
the county in which there were no
organizations to form groups that
will be able to be active in the
coming state elections.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
JEWELRY WORKERS
SEEK HIGHER PAY
State Secretary to Report
Friday Night on Clock
Co.'S Attitude

Members of the Waterbury To-
cal. International Jewelry Work
ers' union. will meet at Moose
Hall riday night to vote on the
proposal to seek an increase in
wages for those employed at the
Waterbury Clock Co in fitting,
training, vibrating, pinning and
escaping.
Labor's attitude toward the in
crease will be voiced officially by
John j. Egan, secretary of the
Connecticut ederation of Labor. Mr.
Egan met recently with Clock Co
officials and he will report on the
discussion at that time.
The decision to have the union
vote on the raise proposal was
reached last night at a meeting Of
the executive committee. Mem
bers of the group declared that
the Waterbury Clock Cos present
conditions more than justified an
increase in wages for its employees.
At last nights meeting, the Jew
elry Workers union, through the
executive committee, pledged it.
self to join with the rest of or
ganized labor in supporting the
Wagner-Lewis unemployment in
surance bill now before congress.
The provisions of the new bill.
speakers declared, will be Of i'm
measurable assistance to the
working man and woman.
A communication from Pres
William Green Of the American
Federation of Labor concern
ing the bill was read. He said in
part: The opponents of
this legislation are active, doing
all they can to prevent the Wag-
ner-Lewis bill from becoming a
law at this session of the congress.
That means that friends of the
bill must give it their immediate
support and call upon others to
join them in appealing to mem
bers Of congress to vote for the
hill -
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
Young Democrats In
County Organization
Caucus Held in New Haven Last Evening Officers to
Be Chosen at WaIIingfOrd Session

The majority OF the twenty-four
towns in New Haven County sent
Representatives to a preliminary
caucus of the. Young Democratic
Clubs of this county. that was held
last night in New Haven. Vincent
d. Gym, president of the state or
ganization presided John r. Rob-
inson, president of the Roosevelt
Gross Club of this city which is af-
filiated with the state young DEM
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
MISSIONS SUFFER
AS RECEIPTS FAIL

Rev DR. D. Brewer Eddy Of Bos.
ton, speaking last night in Daven1
port hall before the members of
the Mems league of the Second
Congregational church and their
friends, stressed the value of for
eign missions and pleaded for their
continuation as insurance against
war. The gathering was in the
form of box supper and social.
The women brought the box
lunches which were auctioned off.
The purchasers had to share the
boxes with the lady who made
them up
Only one out of every 1000
Chinese is a Christian, he said. In
four years, he declared, the Amer
lean Board of Foreign Missions has
suffered a drop of 40 per cent in
income from the churches and, as
a result, has had to recall 100 mis-
sionaries and close rs schools and
colleges.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
committee TO
STUDY THE ARMY
AIR CORPS FULL
Newton D. Baker Accepts
Place and Completes
Eleven Members

/ Washington, April 10-UP)-
With an acceptance by former Sc
cretary Of War Newton d. Baker,
Secretary of War George HI. Dern
today announced completion of
committee of IL members which.
will undertake to find out whats
wrong with the army air corps"
Col Charles A. Lindbergh re-
fused to- serve, because of the
manner in which. air mail contracts
Of commercial air lines were can
celled.
{ The committee will comprise six
civilian and five military members.
Baker will be chairman. The group
I Is expected to assemble in Wash.
ingtop soon to outline procedure.
/ 1t win undertake an exhaustive,
I constructive study of the army air
corps. criticize shortcomings and
+ attempt to make constructive sug-
gestions for improvements. The
committee is entirely free of pol
itics, Dern declared.
The non-military members are
< Baker, chairman: DR. Karl Taylor
Compton,, president Of Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology: DIR
! George William Lewis. director Of
/ aeronautical research, national ad-
4 visory committee for aeronautics;
+ Clarence d. Chamberlin, transat-
lantic flyer: Major James III. Doc
little, flyer and aeronautical en-
gineer: Edgar S. Gorrell. president
! OF Stutz Motor Car company.
The military members are Maj
y Gen Hugh 8. Drum, deputy chief
of STAFF. executive vice chairman of
the committee: Maj Gen George s.
Simonds, commandant Of the army
ar college: Maj Gen Benjamin d.
Toulois, chief of army air corps;
Brig Gen Charles e. Kilbourne, as
sistant chief of staff. war plans
division: Brig Gen John w. Gulick;
and Major Albert e. Brown. war
department general staff. as re-
corder.
81 It promises to be the most
sweeping investigation Of the corps
ever conducted.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
Brandely, Court
Heminway' Guest

Grand Chief Ranger Louis F..
Brandely of Waterbury, Grand
Court Secretary Thomas O'Lough-
lin Of Naugatuck and other grand
court executives of the Foresters
Of America, will be the guests this
evening of Court Merritt Hemin-
way, WATERFOWL. The occasion is
the official visit of the Grand
Chief Ranger and his staff to Wa
tertown. A large attendance is ex-
pected to greet the chief executive
Of tn F. Of A. in Connecticut.
A formal invitation will be ex-
tended this evening to the Court
Heminway to participate in the
exercises arranged in observance
of Waterbury Forester's Day." An
invitation of a class of over 200
candidates in Elks' hall will be one
ofthe chief features Of the day.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

ocratic organization was tn erepre-
sentative from Waterbury.
It was voted to hold the. county
caucus in Wallingford at the Col
ony Lodge on May 3rd. The caucus
will be followed by a banquet and
dance, the Young Democratic Club
In Wallingford acting as host to
the remaining towns in the county
that are expected to attend.
Each town with a bona-fide or
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

good sized roll Of money was dis
covered on him the victim, to save
further trouble, would be given a
double knockout and put to
sleep forever. His body would be
thrown down q shoot into quick
lime, or tossed into the sewer and
the body found floating in the East
river.
The Salvation Army work will
be shown together with other
agencies that was the leaven that
purified New York. Colonel Win
chell will show the Midnight
stretcher brigades" for the rescue
of drunkards perishing in the cold.
He will show the Hallelujah Cab
aret and the famous "Buttermilk
Bar. Among the famous gang
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

won't thin out dangerously at extreme heat.
Mobiloil's the biggest selling oil in the
world because it can stake" that multiplied
punishment better. It is particularly i'm
portant to have it now-because you'll be
driving more, going farther, travelling FAST
er, in warmer weather. This means you need
the correct grade of Summer Mobiloil for
your particular make Of car.
It takes only few minutes to drain your
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
Winchell To Discuss
N. Y. Gangs In Talk
"Bowery Bishop to Give Illustrated Lecture Tonight
at Salvation Army Citadel

1.-THE Gangs Of New York" will
be the theme of an illustrated lee
ture tonight by Colonel Wallace
Winchell, 1.-THE Bishop of the
Bowery' at the Salvation Army cit
adel at 8 o'clock. One hundred
stereopticon views will be shown
made from police records and from
periodicals back in the mauve de-
cade when New York city was
really a wicked city.
The pictures will show such
dives as Bill McGlory's and Harry
Hills dance palaces where hun
dreds Of sailors off the high seas
and suckers from upstate would be
lured in to dance and drink. After
dancing men would be asked to
drink with the "artists" and If a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10
March Witnesses 300
Increase In Accidents
Autos Kill Here, Iniure 96-Peak Total May Be
Reached in 1884 Claim Officials

daily now of traffic as does New
Haven, being on the direct Post
road in Connecticut and carrying
practically all of the traffic coming
from New York state for points in
New England. With such accident
potentialities Is would be natural
to expect these two cities to have
large accident totals. Hartford
ranks next in importance as q traf-
fic connection with Waterbury last
as being off the direct path of
through traffic.
Fatalities Decrease
With the exception of fatalities.
the total for the four cities show
ing a decrease of two from 1888
record of 22 deaths, the general
motor veicle accident experience of
Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven
and Waterbury for to first quarter
of 1894 emphasizes the need for
maximum efforts in safety educa-
tional work, in engineering or road
construction to obviate accidents
and in enforcement to restrain all
operators from unsafe driving prac-
tees.
Peak I'm 1884
If the same ratio OF increase
continues through the year in these
four cities, and the rest of the state
developed the same alarming ten
dency to accidents, Connecticut
will register, for 1894 the peak to-
tai of accidents ever listed. For
1888 there Were 14,122 accidents re-
corded and high mark since 1880
of 1900 would be developed, ex-
ceeding 1881 when a total of H.
O81 accidents was recorded.
Pedestrians continue to figure
largely in both fatalities and in
judies there being 13 killed out of
a total Of 20 for. the quarter this
year, while 329 pedestrians were
injured out Of a total of 726 re-
ported for the three months. There
were four children killed and 140
injured.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Bridgeport handles a Tremendous
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

sters whose pictures will be shown
will be Walter d. Britt, an accom-
plice of Gerald Chapman, who paid
with his life recently at Wethers-
field.Bitt had spend 10 years behind
prison bars, when he came into
the office of the Salvation Army
Memorial hotel on the Bowery on
April 8. 1928, where Winchell led
him to Christ.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

With incomplete March figures
as accident reports are still to be
received at the state department
OF motor vehicles for the closing
week OF the month, the four large
cities of Connecticut show an APP
proximate increase of 80 per cent in
total motor vehicle accidents, a
slight decrease in fatalities and a
substantial increase in the number
of persons injured. Pedestrians still
figure largely in the accident pic
ture with about the same percent
age of fatalities this year as last
accounting for 329 out of the total
726 injuries for 1894 of 800 Of the
668 injuries reported a year ago
for the first quarter.
Tabulated Figures
The following comparative tabu-
lation will show how the cities
stand in motor vehicle records, all
though consideration must be given
to the varying population and the
differences in locations on Travelled
highways:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
MERCURY HITS II,
NEAR RECORD MARK
Warm Spell to Remain for
Few Days, Is Word.

The all-time temperature high for
Nov 10 was on the verge of being
shattered shortly after noon today
when the mercury scared to II, only
five degrees under the record set
Nov. 10, 1880, when rs was reached,
according to j. H. Arlington, local
meteorologist.
Indianapolis just as we'll might
lay aside the heavy overcoats, he
said, for the current warm spell not
only is reaching record proportions,
but is destined also to remain for
at least two more days. Intermit-
tent showers may occur, Mr.. Arm
ington said, but they will do little
to detract from the Springl1ke air
now permeating the city and max
ing citizens wonder why they ever
started the furnace.
Mr.. Arlington continued to blame
the great basin west of the Rockies
for withholding the colder weather
which is gripping northwestern
Canada. Until the cooler breezes
escape from the basin, he said, the
rs degree record will be in imml-
nent danger Of being surpassed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
FLAMES RUIN
$500 IN FOOD
SChnuII Warehouse Swept
by Fire: Total Loss
Is $500.

A fire of unexplained origin 20
day destroyed approximately $500
worth of groceries in the Schnull
& Co. warehouse, 1903 East Wash
ington street, and damaged the
building to the extent of $4,000.
Discovered and reported by a mo-
tOrist. the fire had gained consider
able Roadway before firemen ar
rived. Flames, they said, were leap
ing thirty feet from the front win
dow of the cement block one-story
building and hampered them in their
efforts to put it out.
Orlando O'Grady, of 1902 East
Michigan street, the manager, who
estimated the loss, said groceries of
all kinds were stored there and that
fire, water and smoke had ruined
them all He could suggest no ex-
PLANTATION for the fire. A stove in
thc building had had no fire in it
Tor two days, he said.
Discovered at 6 the fire was under
control within one hour and was
extinguiShed in another. 1t burned
StubbOrnly in wall boarding stored
between the rafters and the roof.
Firemen said defective wiring or
spontaneous combustion might have
caused the blaze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
Mountaneers Suing to Side of T. S. Agents in Effort
to Smash America Largest MoOnsIine Whisky Ring

sham commissions prohibition re-
port Of 1881 as the worst county in
the nation for illicit distilling.
Smashing of the Franklin county
ring, treasury officials believe, will
be a challenge to illegal tax-fll
liquor operators everywhere.
Agents of the treaSury'S alcohol
tax unit have been working on the
case for fourteen months. 1t took
them months to break down the
reticence of the drawing, stolid but
cunning mountain folk who won't
even admit to a stranger that they
ever heard the name Of their life
long next-door neighbor.
Many in this region are con-
WINGED Deputy Sheriff Thomas JEFF
ferson Richards was murdered on a
mountain road last month TO seal
his lips from the grand jury.
Richards was slain six miles from
Rockymount. county seat Of Frank
lin county, the night Of Oct. II as
he was bringing Negro prisoner to
the county Jail. His body was rid
died with buckshot and .45-caliber
revolver bullets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19

The Negro with him was killed,
apparently to prevent him from
identifying the murderers. In the
windshield of Richards automobile
we're counted twenty bullets. Big
city gangsters could not have per-
formed a more thorough job.
The only name mentioned in court
thus far bearing on the Franklin
county ring is that of Charles Car
ter Lee, the commemorative attor-
ney or county prosecutor.
During trial Of a minor case in
county court Tom Cundiff, we'll
known as a moonshiner in the
mountains. while under oath on the
witness stand, publicly accused Lee
Of taking money for protection. Lee
denied the assertion and Cundiff
was sent TO jail for ten days for
contempt Of court.
Shortly after he served his ten
days. Sundiff was arrested by county
authorities on an assault charge,
tried and sentenced to three years
Imprisonment. He will be an i'm
portant federal witness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
WILLARD MACK, 81, OF
MOVIE FAME, is DEAD
Actor, Author and Director
Stricken at Home.

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1S.-Willard
Mack, 81. actor, author and film di-
rector, died today at his Beverly
Hills home after a sudden attack of
heart disease.
He was in good health until a few
days ago, when he suffered a slight
illness. His condition, however, was
not alarming until late last night.
Mr.. Mack was one Of the most
versatile figures in the theatrical
world. During his career on the
stage he wrote thirty-six plays,
twenty-six of which appeared on
Broadway. For twelve years he was
co-starred under the banner of the
late David Belasco, once with Lenore
Uric in one of his three greatest
hits, Tiger Rose" which had a
seventy-six-w week run.
At the time of Mr.. Belasco's death
he was working with the great pro-
Queer preparing a stage version Of
Dickens Tale of Two Cities"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19

Evidence gathered by the govern
ment, it was understood, indicates
leaders of the ring have reaped
large profits for six years while vir-
tually holding in bondage illiterate
mountaineers, who for generations
untold have considered it their
God-given right to run little stills.
The rings operation have been
marked by murder and wholesale
corruption of law enforcement Off
GERS, it was alleged.
The ring survived prohibition, but
now faces dissolution. The inroads
Of its illicit product on government
tax revenue was said to be consid-
cradle. The federal government
has determined to smash bootleg
ging and collect maximum taxes
from the liquor trade.
Center of the rings operations is
Franklin county, which ranges for
500 square miles over the rugged
country of southwestern Virginia.
Franklin county has been famous
for its mountain corn whisky for a
century. It was cited in the Wicker
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
CHAILLOUX NEW
LEGION OFFICIAL
Californian Named to Post
Formerly Held by
Russell Cook.

Homer L. Chailloux, former Cali
fornia departmental commander
and now California delegate to the
national executive committee, has
been named to succeed Russell
Cook, 345 Buckingham drive, re-
signed, as director of the American
Legion National Americanism COM
mittee, it was announced today.
The announcement was made at
the 1885 legislative program three
day conference of department COM
manders and adjutants over which
Frank N. Belgrano Jr, newly
elected national commander, pre-
sided at legion headquarters, TIT
North Meridian street. At the con-
ference, Commander Belgrano re-
affirmed his stand for immediate
payment of the adjusted service GER
tiflcates."
Mr.. ChaillouX, a native of West
Baden, Ind, was graduated from
Orleans Qnd0 high school and at
tended Indiana university until his
enlistment in the army two days
after America entered the World
war. He served overseas for twenty
seven months.
He is known as an active opponent
of Communism and only recently
won a $4,000 damage suit which was
filed against him by the California
Civil Liberties Union. The union
sued Mr.. ChaillouX for having called
one of its lawyers a liar when the
attorney claimed he had been kid
naped by the legion during a Com
munist-incited vegetable strike in
CALIFORNIA; famed Imperial valley
The Rev. Park w. Huntington
national chaplain, opened the ses-
sion by pronouncing the invocation.
National Commander Belgrano was
the first speaker. Greetings were
extended to the group by Mrs. A. C..
Carlson, auxiliary national presi-
dent. and John D. Crowley, Forty
and Eight chef de chemin de fer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
Home Is DESTROYED

The one and a half story frame
dwelling of Fred Kleis at Stop 6l2
Rockville road. was destroyed by
fire Sunday morning with an eSti-
mated loss of $500.
Outside the water protection area,
the house burned while two engine
companies poured chemicals on it
with no effect A radio aerial pole
fell. injuring slightly Captain Gale
RacobS and John Sullivan, both of
Engine House Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
Copyright, 1884. BY United Press,

HARRISONBURG, Va, Nov. 10
Mountaineers came down from the
hills today to help United States
treasury agents expose the nations
biggest moonShine whisky ring.
A federal grand jury reconvened
TO hear more than one hundred in
dividual stories Of moonshine
industry. alleged to involve official
corruption, that has marketed mil
lions Of gallons of Illicit liquor IN
adjacent states.
Gawky mountaineers complained
to the grand jury that they we're
held in virtual slavery by the ring
masters. Traditionally, these same
mountaineers have spent their life
times hating the 'revenoors." but
in this case they seemed TO be siding
with the government.
The grand jury probably will re-
port by Christmas. Persons not
afraid TO talk-there has been some
shooting since the jury convened
predicted its finding would precipi-
tate a major political scandal in this
state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-19
WOMAN
IS STORIES TO
END HER LIFE
Third Victim of Chicago
Suicide PIungeS Within
Week.
OTHER JUMPS PR0BED
Football Stars Will Be QueS-
toned in Death of
Ex-ShoW Girl.
Press

~ z NfffO FFfSS
CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-Theresa
Naughton Ryan jumped from the
eighteenth floor of the Stevens hotel
to her death on crowded Michigan
avenue today.
1t was the third time within a
week that a woman has so met
death in Chicago. Today's victim
was IS years old and was alone in
her room whereas the other victims
of the suicide epidemic had been
young and their plunges followed
drinking parties.
The tragedy occurred while inves-
legations were in progress in two
similar cases, both involving women.
Three members of the Chicago Bears
professional football team were
called to appear at an inquest into
the death of Nell Walker Ablin,
pretty 26-year-old former show girl
who jumped from the eighth floor Of
the north side Commonwealth hotel
yesterday.
Nell had sent telegram to one
of the players in New York congrat-
ulating him upon victory over the
New York Giants just before she
plunged to death. Bernie Master
son was the player to whom the
wire was addressed. 1t was planned
to question him and two of his
teammates.
Meanwhile, plans we're made to
complete an inquest into the death
of Lucille Nolan, 21-year-old night
club hostess, whose plunge from the
seventeenth floor of the Medinah
Club started the suicide epidemic.
Her jump and that of Mrs. Ablin
followed drinking parties.