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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

means an extra day every week to do the things you want to do. It means that when you send your bundle to the laundry your clothes are washed in warm, rich suds, until every tiny speck of dirt is coaxed out. They're rinsed and rinsed in gallons and gallons of clear, rain-soft water. They're sent back to you all Flat Work ironed and wearing apparel ready to iron. And this is the best part-we only charge you 70 cents for pounds, and 6 cents each additional pound A bargain" if there ever was one! U
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

and was chairman of the dramatic committee of the church.
 The funeral was held this after noon at 2 o'clock from the Alder son Funeral home, TO Central Ave- nue, Rev Joseph o. Todd officiat- ing. Burial was in old Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

FERRARO-In this city, Oct goth. of this city. Funeral tomorrow morning at $500 o'clock, to. Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
FALSE FIRE ALARMS MCREAsED

Boston (UP)--Falss fire alarms in Boston have increased 1400 DOT cent since 1921. Police blame hoodIums for the huge gain. Dur ing recent month, 45.4 per cent of all fire alarms were false.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

rise to power at Mount Hermon, and fear that his liberal ideas soon might lead to replacement of older faculty members by youthful ed- ucators, might have inspired the they theorized.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
HUGE POTATO GROWN

Foxboro, Mass. (UP)-A potato dug by J. Montgomery White measured IA inches around the ends and Il 3-4 inches across the center.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06

About 56,974 varieties of stamps
are issued by postoffices of the
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
By EDWARD BEATTIE
United Press stan Correspondent

BERLIN. July 6-Inaccurate re-
ports Of happenings in Germany
reached a new high during the sup
preston Of the Roehm revolt.
In the absence Of trustworthy
news sources at the peak Of the
excitement last weekend, rumors
spread rapidly by word of mouth.
Many Of these reached the out
side world under the guise Of au-
thOritstive news dispatches.
The United Press staff IN Ber-
lin was deluged with rumors. Many
Of them came IN the form of cables
from New York telling OF head
lines that we're appearing over Ger
man stories printed IN the United
States.
In the interests Of clarifying &C
tual developments in the last five
days. here are a few OF the big
stories published abroad that the
United Press did not carry because
they were rumOrs, which upon in
Vestigstion. we're found TO be untrue.
Roehm Report Erroneous
That the number Of persons ex-
ecuted would run into hundreds.
supplemented later by eyewitness
accounts" of the execution Of sixty
storm troopers at one cadet school
IL Berlin.
Che latest official figure yester-
day placed the total deaths in all
Germany at fOrty-six1
That Ernst ROehm. chief Of staff
Of the Storm Troopers. had COM
mitted suicide at Munich on Sat-
urday tROehm was executed by
firing squad Al p. m on Sunday
That President Paul Won Hin
denburg disapproved Of Hitlers
action in having revolt leaders
shot. cat the moment this was
appearing in print IN the United
States. the United Press was carry
ing the text of kilograms which
Hindenburg sent to Hitler cOngrat-
ulating him on his cOurse)
Death Reports False
That artillery fire was heard at
Munich. This was quickly dis
proved by the United Press CORE
spondent al Munich
Among those enormously re-
ported dead from time to time were
President Won Hmdenburg; August
Wilhelm. former crown prince.
Chancellor Hitler. President He'll
dOrf Of the PotSdam police. and DR..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

what he believed we're causes Of
the crash, then wrote:
Il believe that each of the prob
lens thereby demonstrated is
capable of practical solution for the
safe and efficient operation of air
ships in the future"
Recording his deductions in the
navy's official organ, United States
Naval Institute Proceedings, Com
mander Rosendahl reported that "a
combination of factors destroyed
the Akron.
L do not consider that the Akron
was abruptly hurled out of the sky
sucked down by aerial quicksands, :"
wrote Mr.. Rosendahl. She was not
torn to pieces by the elements not
wrecked by the weather, not VIC
lently forced into the sea-
1T was a combination of factors
that destroyed her. They included
a lack of sufficient weather infor-
nation relative to the formation,
travel and intensity of the second
airy low into which the ship trav-
eled. inability to learn direction and
velocity where she was flying; down.
ward air currents to moderate pro-
portions in the turbulent zone; a
deceiving altimeter; temporary
charges of buoyancy in warmer and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
FIRE STATION BUILT
FROM JUNK LAUDED
Mayor Praises Ingenuity in
Economical Job.

Patching together odds and ends,
gathered from various sources, the
city has new fire station at l26
West Fifteenth street, which Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan pointed to with
pride last night at the dedication
ceremonies.
Taking some old materials from
the old building of 1874, and gather
ing 10000 secondhand bricks from
the city dump, then employing free
labor from the CWA. a new station
was built at a cost of $500, he de-
clared.
Twenty-siX firemen and the bat
talon chief occupy the Fifteenth
street station, picked out of the
city dump"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
ROYAL CounIe in Crash

LONDON. July 6.-Prince and
Princess Arthur of Connaught sus-
tanned a slight shock today in
rear-end collision of their autOmo-
bile with another while en- route to
the Wimbledon tennis champion
ships
Hjalmar Schacht of the Reich
bank.
That the governor of Silesia had
warned Catholic priests they would
be executed if they plotted against
the Nazis. The governor denied
thiSl
That American Ambassador Will
liam E. DOdd and the British am
baSSadOr had protested to the Ger
man foreign ministry against men,
ton of an unnamed power in the
revolt. Both embassies denied that
any such protest had been made or
planned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
FAITH RETAINED
BY ROSENDkHL
y IN D|DIGI6AES
Tragedy of Inflated Akron
Fails to Shake Former
Commanded.
BvUHitcd Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July \6.-Though
the dirigible Akron, once the pride
of the navy, has lain under eighty
feet of ocean water, off Barnegat
Light, N. j., more than year her
former Shippers faith in lighter
than-air craft is mistaken.
With excitement subsidized, Lieu
tenant Commander c. E. Rosen-
dahl, who formerly captained the
Akron, today deliberately outlined
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06

You'll feel right at home with this
comfortable, good looking outfit that
gives you a complete Living Room,
Bedroom and Kitchen for less than
you'd expect to pay for one room
alone!
Special Terms$f Weekly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06

colder air masses, together with
turbulence making it difficult to fol-
low such bumps quickly enough to
keep the ship out of steel inclina-
tons; immersion and collapse of
the tail in water
All led to the retardation of the
forward motion of the ship and the
inevitable spending of a momentum
of a 200-ton mass moving over 100
miles per hour against an unyield-
ing surface. Such was the untimely
end of the Akron"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
WILD RUMORS
PROVED FALSE
IN NAzI REVOLT
Expert Coyerage Enables
United Press to Keep
Stories Correct.

Nov that the violence and much q
the excitement over the storm troop
revolt IN Germany has died down. for
siEn correspondents here are reviewing
the usItsr Of false reports which marked
The strenuous DAYS beginning i-st Satur-
day. The foreign press vas flooded with
Wild rumors of events that did not hap
pen Edward Bsattis. Aforementioned
nsWspsperman. who Was "on the desk
In the Berlin office Of the United
Press during the revolt clarifies in the
following story manv disputed points.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06

The indianapolis Exchange Club
will hold national recovery
meeting next Friday, at which
Harold NJ Harter, Toledo. o.,
National Exchange Club secre-
tary. VIII be the principal speaker.
Mr.. Harter is on a tour of the
principal cities of the nation in
connection with the National EX-
change Clubs program to stimu-
late business and civic activity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
Negro Murdered for Crime now
confessed bv White Men

TOWNSVILLE, Ga.-An enGghtening
seoucl to the wanton murder of Negro
worker by local sheriff deputies weeks
ago was furnished last week with the ra-
rest of two white men who are reported to
have confessed to the crime with which the
Negro was charged.
The Negro was arrested on suspicion"
of attempting to extort $4,000 from II.
Hanna, Cleveland financier, at his luxurious
winter home in this town. The innocent
Negro was subjected to fusillade of bull
let's before his arrest and subsequently shot
down in the prison yard on the pretext of
attempting to escape" The two white men
now charged with the crime for which the
Negro was framed are J. E. Pullian mad
Emory Callahan.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
GRANGE FAILS TO.
ATTEMPT TO STOP.
SOVIET PICTURE.
UFL Farmers Hold Protest
Meeting Exposing XXX
Master Granger
By a Farmer Correspondent

BRYANT. Wash.-Local farmers
and workers in this community are
Indignant over the action of the
Master Granger when he dictator
tally cancelled the use of the Local
Grange Hall where the Soviet
Union motion picture Fragments
of an Empire" was to be shown.
This motion picture is being toured
in. connection with the "Voice of
Action" 1,500 campaign drive.
When the workers and farmers
arrived a. the hall. Comrade Dirk
De Johge, in charge Of the tour,
called a mass protest meeting, ex-
posing the role Of the leadership
of the Local Grange as misleadens
Cf the Door farmers. Manv rank
and file Changers Joined with the
United Farmers League in con-
Cemning the Master Granger (and
his satelli esq who is commonly
known as a Ku Klux Hammer.
At the protest meeting it was
decided to issue a leaflet exposing
the fascist elements who are try
ing to prevent he UFL from gain
irr prestige among the poor farm
ers here. Despite the sabotaging
by the Master Grange. the motion
picture was shown in a local farm
house the same evening. A COCO
collection for the "Voice of Ac ion
was realized.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
o. H. HAMMERS IN
CHARGE OF COUNTY
HOPPER CAMPAIGN


Oliver H. hammers has been put
in charge Of the grasshopper cam
paign for Sheridan county, it was
announced by the director Of the
Montana extension service J. C.
Taylor.
In order to minimize the effects
of the widespread grass-hopper in
festation federal and state agencies
are now starting to organize their
forces. District supervisors ard
county leaders have been an
nounced. The anti-gxasshopper
campaign is to take place from
April 16 to June 80.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
By VIM. Schneiderman

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Faced with
the growing rehabilitation of the
workers and farmers of Minnesota.
the State Convention of the Farm
er-Labor Party adopted a dema-
gogic platform full of radical
phases about the failure of the
capitalist system" "the abolition
of capitalism" and taking over
the industries and establishing
cooperative Socialist State" The
role 70 the Farmer-Labor Party as
the third party of capitalism how
ever, was clearly revealed in the
conventions decision to endorse
the Wagner strikebreaking bill,
i and its general support, behind a
smokescreen of mild criticism, OF
the whole Roosevelt program Of in
flation, reduction in relief, NRA.,
AAA, and RWA, a program of at
tacks on the workers living stan
dards, of growing tendencies to-
ward fascism, and imperialist war
preparations.
The Farmer-Labor machine JAM
med through the endorsement OF
Shipstead for Senator, af er a bit
ter struggle led by the fake cleft
wing" who believed that Shipstead
was too closely identified with
Hoover and Roosevelt to be able to
deceive the masses into supporting
the Farmer-Labor party.
Revise Roosevelt
! The platform adopted by the
convention called for the abolition
! of capitalism and the establish
ment Of Socialism by peaceful
and lawful means" following close
ly upon a speech by Governor Oh
son in Duluth to CWA workers anc
warning against revolution as toe
costly, and proposing to "abolisl
poverty by law" The aim of thu
convention platform was to throw
sop to the leftward trend amonG
the masses, while at the same
line attempting to divert tn
growing upsurge into the channel
of capitalist reformism, and ava,
from revolutionary action under
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
WIS. FARMERS TO.
DEMONSTRATE MAY.
DAY WITH WORKERS.
Committee of 9 Workers
and Farmers VIII
Prepare

IRONWOOD, Wis.-Forty dele
gates from the nine workers and
farmers organizations attended
the United Front May Day Con-
ference held in Bessetmer. The
opening speech of comrade Payn-
ter dealt with the present condi-
tions resulting from year of the
New Deal, and the growth Of war
preparations and fascism.
After some discussion it was de-
cided to hold one major demonstra-
ton in Ironwood on May Day.
Street meetings will be held in
Bessemer, Wakefield, and in Mon
treal a few days before May first
in order to rally workers for the
demonstration. A committee Of
nine was elected to arrange for
the meetings and to make all the
other preparations.
May Day Slogans
The following slogans were
adopted for the May Day demon
stration:
, 1. The passage Of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill.
2. A shorter day and higher
wage to meet the ever increasing
initiation prices.
3. A minimum wage of 80 cents
an hour and S0-hour week On al
relief jobs.
A. Cash relief instead Of mill
tary training, as in he CCC, fol
all youth.
5. Against contract labor ant
speedup in mines and other jobs.
+; 6. The right Of the workers tt
organize in their own unions ant
the right to strike.
z. Free hay, feed and seed TO
all needy farmers.
! 8. Against all foreclosures an,
evictions of workers and farmer
for inability to pay taxes, interes
or rent.
9. Against Imperialist War an,
Fascism.
All out on May First to tht
biggest demonstration ever witnes
sed on this range, and to win on
demands.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
Coffee an

A sculptor presented Mrs. Roose-
welt with a bust of the President
and she said: ct is much the best
thing that has been done"
And the army purchased GOGGLES
for ayiators without competitive
bids for 500 a pair.
And We "a her like the Helena
girl who wrote of the West Point
ers:
You think, cause you're a fine
cadet
With guns and brass and such
Your hometown girl will soon
forget
You don't amount to much.
And Martin Toftness says there
is a lot Of dough in the bakery
business.
And when Harry A. Yodeu, a
farmer. slipped into the White
House and handed letter to Mrs.
Roosevelt, he was taken to the
hospital and placed under observa-
ticn for being crazy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
Farmer-LabOr State
Meet FavOrs Wagner
Strike-Breaking Bill

the leadership of the Communist
party.
Realizing that the events in Ger
many and Austria have shattered
many illusions in the minds of the
workers, Governor Olson in his key
note speech to the convention de-
Glazed that he was not a liberal.
but "a radical, and that when
the final clash comes between
Americanism and fascism, The So
called Red win be the defender of
democracy" He failed to add that
precisely the defenders of capital
list democracy" the Socialist and
Farmer-Labor Parties, will be the
best aids for the establishment of
fascism, if the workers do not or
game and unite under revolution
airy leadership TO prevent it, as the
developments in Austria and Ger
many have already shown. Olson
in his speech praised Roosevelt's
fascist-breeding program almost
without reservation.
The so-called "left-wing" played
a most despicable role in the Farm
, er-Labor convention, which was
dominated almost entirely by the
A. F. Of L. bureaucracy and the
state administration officials,
While they put up sham battle
against Shipstead and others, un.
der pressure of the rank and file
the fake "lefts" finally gave uL
the shadow-boxing and started
whooping it up for the same candi-
dates they had previously bitterly
denounced as "reactionaries." They
did succeed in Introducing in o the
platform much of their cleft
demagogy in order to better foo
the masses.
The Communist Party is calling
a State Nominating Convention OF
Jue II, where a program of gen
uine struggle against hunger, fas
cism, and war, and for the revolu
tionary way out of the crisis, vii
be brought before the workers AM
farmers of Minnesota in the com
ing state and Congressional cam
! r9ign.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
Hitler Asks Death for SO Seamen
and Harbor Workers

HAMBURF.-Trial of SO German sea.
men and harbor-workerS, charged with
revolutionary activities, began here AprI
IL. The death penalty is asked of the IIit.
Ter court by the Nazi prosecutor.
The German Red Aid is actively orca.
nizing mass defense of these workers and
has called for support from anti-fascist
workers in all parts of the world, in the
form of resolutions and cables of protest
demanding the release of these workers.
Protests should be addressed to the Han
seatisches Sondergericht, Hamburg, Ger.
many, the court before which they rae be,
ing tried
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
u. S. Warships Stage Mimic Battles
Preparing for Actual Conflict

MEXICO, April 11.-Mimic warfare
was staged today when a theoretical COM
bat between surface crafts and the new
giant submarines, recently built by the U.
S. Navy, lasted 800 hours. The new ships
are capable of cruising $4,000 miles, armed
with 6-inch guns and house airplanes of
their own. Dirigibles, airplanes and ships
are maneuvering southwark down the East
coast, winging their way to the Canal Zone,
to show the power of the United States
war equipment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
California-Mexican Growers Join
Hands Against Common Enemy


SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Mexican and Cali
fornia growers have found it necessary to
Join hands in their common fight on mill
tant fruit pickers.
Stanley Hancock, leader in the recent
lettuce pickers strike, was deported from
Mexico last week on orders from Joaquin
Terrazas, Mexican consul in the California
border town of Calexico.
Terrazas is the official pawn in the
growers efforts to force his countrymen
into the nefarious company unions.
General Glassford, NRA arbitrator in
the imminent cantaloupe strike here, has
showed his hand. He stood by and per
mitted the arrest of Frank Nieto, agricul-
tural leader, as the two were leaving meet
ing hall together. Glassford, finding him
self embarrassed in his negotiations with
the workers by the falling of their leader,
finally ordered his release.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
$40 Workers Jailed in Paris
Demonstration

demonstration 4,
PARIS, April 20.-Tens of THOUSANDS
OF workers battled police today in uI 45ST
front demonstration before the Clty i uEs
against the wage cuts, wholesale lay-S Sics
and slashes in veterans pensions by VII LII.
the Domergue government is trying 70 ~
ance its war budget. ~
Police reported that $40 had Oeen IA I,
rested. Hundreds were injured IL
fighting which began when heavy int iustov \
police barred the way of the demOnssl e S'S su
and refused to allow their delegatlOn y :
ter the City Hall. -, this
Thousands of workers struck lSss lam.
afternoon in order to take part IN eie W.
OnStration. ,d
The police and Mobile guards, a. a. NE
with rifles, thousands strong, chaIsst ihs
workers again and again in tron 1.o u YET.
City Hall. A group of several hunols ;oti \.
Grams, led by three one-legged war- WY Mo
was furiously attacked by police Auu
bile guards. nars
The fightiig continued in many 70"
of the city until late at night.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
YOUNG MOTHER DIES
AT THE AGE OF "a

At the heighth of her life Mrs.
Josephine Popescu, was torn away
from the side of her husband by
death last week.
Critically i'll, she was taken to
Minot. Physicians at the Minot
hospital diagnosed the case as tu-
NOR of the brain and recommended
the treatment of a specialist. Her
husband continued the trip and
took her to Minneapolis. While on
the way Mrs. Popescu's condition
grew steadily worse and when she
reached Minneapolis doctors left nc
hope that she would recover.
The last few days she passed IN
state of coma which lifted only
a few brief hours shortly before
she died. The specialist had con,
tended that an operation would b<
of no avail.
The body was brought to Plenty.
wood and lay in state at the Full
kerson-Nelson Mortuary. Funera
services were conducted from the
Lutheran church Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Popescu has been in Plenty,
wood since 1925. She held a DO
sition at the Sheridan Memorial
hospital of which she later became
superintendent. In 1923 she mar
ried Poscu Popescu.
Three children, born to this
union, are left motherless.
The sympathies of a wide circl,
of friends that extends far beyont
this community, are with Gene
Fay, and James and with their be
reaved father.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27
Milk Control Plan
Defeated

WASHINGTON, April 24-The Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration an
nOunced today that the national milk con-
troll program had been abandoned.
Chester C. Davis, administrator, stated
at press conference that the milk pro-
gram had been withdrawn because we do
not feel that it has sufficient support Of
the farmers"
This is the first complete defeat of one
very important phase of the AAA caused
entirely by the open defiance of the dairy
farmers and by their huge protest demon
STATIONS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27

In SSCrGC
NEW YORK-Persistent rumor. q. =.
the trial OF Ernst Thaelmann, leader a. 's "a
German Communist Party, has been = 1.s NE
in secret III Berlin are widespread fbr %sae
out Germany according to word ra .sosgD-
here via the international Liberation mug rnoV
mittee in Paris. 00n''
The Committees correspondent in p.
lin writes: III Def'
F'Since March 70 there have been ~.
sistent rumors in the workers District e T.
Moahit, Wedding, and Neukoeln, that that fs VI
trial OF Ernst Thaefmann has aheaTv ' Ss
gun" '"' "
The I. L. D. here is CONDUCTING a, u;a.
spread campaign around the demand n lug SsS
the freedom of Ernst Thaelnann and !. .Vr
100000 anti-fascists in German canps s ~S
prisons. ''p' "Do
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-27

pick handles and clubs forced re-
lief workers to go down into the
fire-trapped valley.
Mrs. Virato sued the county for
her husbands death. She was
awarded $82.63.
Today the County Welfare moved
to collect $164.40 from her
money which the couple has re-
ceived for groceries during the
time that he rhusband was alive
and was working for relief.