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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
SAVIN ROCK FIRE
 DOES BIG DAMAGE
"NOah's Ark" Destroyed Early TO=day-Private
 Home Also Burned

West Haven, Conn, Dec IA. (UP) Fire believed of incendiary origin ragged for almost five hours at Savirl Rock early to-day, destroy ed "Noah's Ark" an amusement i place, and a private dwelling be- fore 1t was brought under control by four West Haven fire companies.
 Damages was variously estimat- ed at $2O,000 to $40,000. The fire first was discovered by Patrolman Elmer Bergeron who reported he extinguished 8 small blaze in "Noah's Ark" then return- i ed to his beat.
 !; Three hours later, he found a fire sweeping through the same : building and summoned all avail flames spread to an adjoining able apparatus in West Haven. The flames spread to an djoining house owned by aJmes B. Smith, who, with his wife, was driven out by fire which levelled the building. Freezing weather hampered the firemen.
 Authorities immediately investi- gated a theory of incendiarism when 1t was learned, they said, that oil-soaked rags were found in ..Noah's Ark"
 s The fire was the most serious in the Savin Rock amusement area since 1892 when a $200,000 blaze destroyed 0 roller coaster, a pier and several buildings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
YAWNING WOMAN
 FINALLY AWAKES

Morrison, H., Dec. 14.-(UP).- - Mrs Harold Mckee. 35, awoke <yawning today from a drug in Huced sleep, after 112 hours of continuous yawning which medical authorities believed to be un- paralleled.
 Dr H. L. Petit, physician who has tried every method known to science to relieve the farmer $ wife, said that her condition was unchanged.
 Since p. m. Sunday Mrs Me- kee has been fighting a strange malady which her physician is un- able to diagnose. Great yawns en- gulf her.
 As soon as the muscles of her face and throat recoil from ono yawn. she begins another. The syawns continue uninterruptedly at at the rate of about 12 minute.
 No symptoms have developed d from which Mrs McKee's condi. ton can be traced and cured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
Strange Fate OfGrace |Budd Seems SoIued
Repeated Confessions of 65=Year=Old Albert A. Fish
 Convince Police He Is Guilty of AtrOciOus Crime

was going to take her to a chil- dren's party. She never was seen again. Fish, admitted he was How ard and also was so identified.
 He confessed he took the child to a deserted house, choked her, hacked her head from her should CTS and her legs from her torso and buried the dismembered body in woods in Westchester county. He led police to the scene where the skull and number of bones were found.
 New York detectives have work ed continuously on the case for six years, but probably never would have solved it had not Fish set out to deliberately torture the parents. Last spring, Albert Budd and his wife began receiving anonymous |lettess, diabolically phrased and limiting the child had met a hor- rible fate, but leaving grounds for hoping she still was alive.
 These letters were mailed mostly in one Manhattan sub-station. Finally one was written on the sta- tionary of an employment agency. The agency described Fish who fitted the description of Howard. Fish was arrested at the main post office where he presented a check from his son, a eco worker, for payment. He was surrounded by detectives and postoffice inspectors.
 You are wanted for the kidnap- ing of Grace Budd," he was in- formed.
 Through his small, trimmed spectacles he stared at them. Then he launched into confession. The detectives had to cut him short re- peatedly before they got him to police headquarters and stenog- rapher.
 Fish was identified by Edward Budd, brother of Grace, and other members of the family as Howard
 Edward, led into his presence, had to be restrained by police.
 In May, 1928, Edward, then IS inserted an ad in the New York World asking for job on farm
 A few days later Howard called al his home. The man said he had a farm on Long Island and gladly would hire' Edward and his boy friend. Howard saw Grace. and seemed interested in her. He pet ted the girl in a fatherly way. He returned a few days later, on | Sunday. Howard said his sister was giving a party for his niece Couldn't he take Grace? Mrs Budd agreed and dressed Grace in hei white confirmation dress. The gir and Howard left in his car. Fish has been arrested five times since 1927 on minor charges, but never convicted. His last arrest was on charges of sending obscene
 matter through the mails. He has been estranged from his wife 1e years and has five children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
BY JOHN R. MORRIS nited Press Staff COrrespOndent)

Shanghai, Dec 14.-(UP)-The United States to-day demanded Immediate capture and punishment of the Chinese red" bandit who Kidnapped and killed two American missionaries and carried off their two-month- daughter.
 Consul General Willys R. Peck At Ranking sought to have the Chinese national government act before a similar fate overtakeS other Americans in Southern Anhwei province, where a plum dering band of hungry bandits is Spreading havoc.
 Peck made strong representa- lions to the Ranking officials af- ter the China Inland mission con- firmed definitely that the bodies of John c. Stam, 27, and his wife, Elizabeth, 25, had been found eight miles from their mission station at Tsingteh. There was no indica- tion of the fate of their daughter, Helen.
 In the same area were the Rev Erwin A. Kohfield, his wife and their three children, afraid to leave the shelter of their mission quar- ters because of the fear of new attacks.
 An emissary of the national gov ernment was hastening to Wuhu, near Tsingteh, to intercept the ban dits and prevent the capture of the Kohfields. Vice Consul Jenkins Of the Shanghai legation also was on his way into the interior 10 intervene.
 The Stams were captured this week when the Reds, part of the thousands of irregulars roaming Chinese provinces, staying and pil- laging, captured Tsingteh. A de- mand for $20,000 ransom was re- ceived at the China island mission headquarters here almost at the same time as the deaths Of the captives became known.
 For many anxious hours there were grave fears for the safety of the Kohfields, who had not been in communication with Shanghai for months. But to-day from Tunki about 60 miles from Tsing- teh, word came of their temporary safety. They feared, however, that the bandit band may strike have taken refuge. Rains, which next in the town in which they washed out bridges , and roads, made it impossible for the mis- sionaries to flee.
 With the United States demand sng punishment of the Stam slay- CTS, Nanking officials turned 10 Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, strong maII' of the Chinese republic and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14

New York, Dec. 14.-(UP)- A mild hammered little 65-year-old man insisted today upon confess ing again and again the revolting murder of Grace Budd, 10, whose disa in 1928 became one of the countrys most publicized mysteries.
 Oblivious of his own fate, Albert A. Fish, his nervous hands fiutter- ing, provided police with informa- tion forming an open and shut case of first degree murder. But authorities disagreed as to the eX- tent of his responsibility. Some said he obviously was insane and should spend the rest of his life in a psychopathic institution; oth- CTS said he clearly was sane ana should be electrocuted.
 Grace left her home in a Man- haitian tenement district June 5, 1928, with Frank Howard" who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
MORE MONEY FOR
 RELIEF NEEDED

Washington. Dec. 14.-(UP).- Congress must act almost imme- diately after convening, January 3 to appropriate more money for federal relief if the nations 1S.- 000,000 needy are to be fed after February 15, it was indicated to- day.
 Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins estimated he would have about S200. 100000 on hand to start the new year. The governments monthly expendi- lures to care for the unemployed have been above S130.0O0,O00.
 Relief rolls. meanwhile. are in- creasing. Hopkins said there were 4,161, 900 families receiving federal aid in November, ai increase of some 60.000 over October and 350,- 900 more than November, a year ago.
 Relief plans for 1885. incharge of President Roosevelt are being laid around new public works pro- gram. The set-up is expected to cost between $5,0OO, 100000 and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
CUFFS IS AWARDED HALL SCHOLARSHIP

New Haven, Conn, Dec H. ,(UP) Willard Gates, Baltimore, d junior, has been awarded the Nor= man Stewart Hall scholarship at Yale which is presented annually to the student who most nearly approaches the standard of manly character which Norman Hall ex- emplified."
 Gates is the son of former Athle- tic Director John NJ. Gates, Yale. prepared at Andover and explained the Yale freshman boxing team.
 Recipients of other scholarships were Frederick J. Linehan, 1881, Westficld, Mass, former football star; John T. Lindenberg, 1882, Co., lumbus, O.; John M. McGauley, 1893, New York city, and Walter A. Marting, 1884, Marion, Ohio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
RIVER IS DRAGGED
 FOR GIRLS BODY
Trapped in Auto That Went Off Road, Through Ice
 Into Water

Boston, Dec 14.(UP)-Police dragged the Charles river in Brigh- ton today for the body of a IT, year old girl who was trapped in an automobile which skidded from the Soldiers Field road and went through the ice into seven feet of water, causing the death of a man and serious injury to another girl.
 Anthony Irrera. 25, of Waverley, the driver, was dead when hauled to the surface with grappling hooks. Evelyn O'Landis of Cam bridge, who celebrated her 17th birthday anniversary yesterday, was trapped inside.
 Evelyn's sister, Helen, 20, push cd her way out of the immersed car and rose to the surface to be rescued by skaters. She was taken to a Cambridge hospital where her condition was reported not serious.
 Two other persons were killed in automobile accidents yesterday.
 Charles B. Bradley, 50, for 34 years a member of the Cambridge police department, was killed by a machine allegedly operated by Dennis D. Sullivan of Arlington.
 Samuel Rambero, 43, of Wobnrn was fatally injured when the ma chine in which he was riding crashed into a pole in Woburn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
REVOLVER SERIAL
 NUMBERS ARE CLUE
Bridgeport Police Seek 5 Bandits Who TOk $lO,=
 900 From Safe

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Dec. l4.- (UP) The serial number of a revolver today furnished police with a clue through which they sought to identify three bandits who stole a safe containing $1O,OOO from the home of Frank Cozza af- ter binding Mrs Cozza and locking her in aclothes closet.
 The men appeared at the home late yesterday while Mrs Cozza was alone. overpowered her. taped her mouth and locked he'd in a closet on the second floor. They leisurely ransacked the house. hauled the heavy safe. containing cash, jewels and valuable papers, to a waiting automobile and sped away. s
 Mrs Cozza, wife of a jeweler. managed ot free herself as the men were leaving the house. picked up a gun one of the bandits had dropped and leaped from a second story window to give chase. Their car sped from the yard too quick ly for her to open fire.
 Several blocks away the machine passed the car of Pic Geniganlo, who gave chase for several miles. At Nichols Center the bandit ma- chine stopped, and its occupants threatened Genigananio if he con tinued the pursuit.
 The markers on the robber car were found to have been removed from an automobile stolen at New Haven Tuesday night. The ma : ,onyt 6aV hI1t the plates were missing.
 Police said the men overlooked a quantity of jewelry in a closet in their eagerness to carry away the safe.
 Mrs Cozza furnished good description of the bandits which was broadcast by state police throughout New England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
Lesser Known Stocks are Feature of To-day's Marke
THOUSANDS FLEE INTO MOUNTAINS
|HOndurans Fear Great Earth TennblOrs-CO COfi-
 tinue for l3 Days

Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Dec 14--- (UP)--ThOusands of persons in the Copan and OcotepeQue regions on the northern frontier huddled fin terror in mountain passes today while the earth for the 18th day continued to tremble beneath them.
 Houses in the little towns, their foundations weakened by repeated temblors, crashed.
 Cerro Negro, a towering peak in the Ocotopeque area, was throwing lava, rocks and burning ashes into the villages of La Reunion and Pombola, on it's slopes, and they were fuined
 Cerro Azu1, in the Copan dis trict, was trembling violently and apparently sinking. Unless it and two other peaks, Erapuca and Carmencillo, burst into eruption, and relieved pressure, inhabitants feared a calamity that would devastute the entire region.
 Great earth cracks were open- ing all over the area, especially in the neighborhood of old Mayan ruins. It was believed that Maya cities. buried for centuries, might be unearthed.
 Many persons have fled north- ward across the Guatemalan fron- tier. others are roaming through the mountain passes or in the in- terior, homeless and trying to reach solid earth.
 Fifteen small towns in the region have been destroyed since the quakes began December 2.
 There have been specific reports of only three persons killed, but many injured.
 The government has dispatched relief mission under Minister of Education Jesus NJ. Rodrigues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
.FIREMEN RESPOND
 TO FOUR ALARMS

Four alarms kept firemen busy this afternoon, one of them closet fire in a home, another a shed. while the other two were brush fires.
 Four companies went at 1:s7 to the home of William Miles. 25 AL bion street, where cigarette butt started fire in a closet. The fire- men were back at 2:04.
 Engine was out 16 minutes on a brush fire on Eaton street. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
SAFE THEFT IS MYSTERY PLAY

Boston, Dec 14.-(UP)-A Chi nese physician and three other men were arrested to-day in con- nection with a $500 Ogem theft that had many of the elements of q mystery thriller.
 Margaret Le Torney reported to police that 700-pound safe con cealed behind tapestry in her fathers south end home had been stolen. The safe, owned by Thom- as Le Torney, liquor dealer, con- tained $5,000 in jewels and $15O in cash
 Shortly afterward Herman Rob- inson, 30, a negro, was arrested Tn the south end. After questioning the man, police discovered the gems wrapped in a newspaper be- hind a counter in a Tremont-street restaurant. The newspaper, ac- cording to police, bore the name of the Chinese physician.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
United States Asks Bandits Be Punished
Wants Deaths of American Missionary Wife Avenged;
 Fate of Infant Daughter Is Still Unknown

1 leader of it's military forces. For months Chiang has beer waging warfare against the Reds striving to crush their scattered forces. Within the last two weeks at least 15,O00 of the rebels have been slain, but they are far from subdued.
 It was under Chiang's direction that Chinese regulars captured and executed the bandits who had slain Dr James H. Ingram, an American missionary.
 R. 4. Bosshardt and A. Hayman, British subjects, still are held by bandits, who sent Hayman's wife and his children and Bosshard' $ wife to Shanghai to demand ran- som for the mems release. The same bandits held Miss Grace Elm blen, Oak Park, Ill, for short time but released her without pay ment of ransom.
 The StamS were married in China after a romance which began at the Moody Bible Institute in Chi cago. The husband was a son of Peter Stam, who conducts the Star of Hope mission in Paterson, N. J. Mrs Stam was the former Elizabeth Scott of Chicago. The Rev Kohfield is former Bend, Ore, pastor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
FATHER COUGHLAN
 GETS A TICKET

Ferndale. Mich, Dec 14-(U.P.) Charged with speeding and oper- ating a car without a drivers lic- ense, the Rev Father Charles E. Coughlan, pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, is to appear before Municipal Judge Earl N. Nash Monday.
 The priest was tieketed Thursday by Patrolman Peter l.. Larion, wno said. Father Coughlan was driving 50 railes an hour. Father Cough Ian said he was la.e for an appoint meyt.
 to an automobile manufacturing company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
FIRE DESTROYS
 OLD STILES HOME

Rockville, Conn, Dec. 14.-CUP) Fire, of unknown origin, caused damage at $5.000 to the old Eli Stiles home located six miles from Rockville Center, today. The in- terior of the 50-year-old brick structure was destroyed in addition to 1,5O0 bushels of potatoes which were stored in the cellar.
 The house was not occupied at the time of the fire and is owned by Dr Robert Stiles of New York city. A small fire was discovered at the home shortly after midnight and was quickly eXtinguished. A second blaze was discovered by q neighbor this morning and the house was a mass of flames upon arrival of flremen
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
OU BURNER STOLEN

Boston, Dec I4--(UP)-Bosto police received a report today on what they considered the nearest thing to theft of red-hot stove Amateur boxing bouts were held last night at the American Athletic club. During the bouts it became colder in the building. Someone investigated and discov- cred that the oil burner in the basement had been stolen. It was valued at $4S0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
M'MAHON DUE TO
 GET APPOINTMENT

Announcement of the appoint ment of Dennis J. McMahon of Meriden as deputy boxing commis- sioner to replace the late Patrick J. Conley of Danbury was expect ed momentarily today from State Athletic Commissioner Joseph H. Lawlor. McMahon. trainer and handler of boxers and one of the best liked figures in the game. piloted Louis Kid" Kaplan to a worlds featherweight champion ship. Announcement of his ap- pointment by Commissioner Law Tor will be greeted with general acclaim by fans throughout the state. The position is salared one, paying $2,200 a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
TERRY BOAT FOUND

New London, Conn, Dec IA The ferryboat Mohegan. which broke loose from a tow tug enroute from Montauk Point. l.. l., to Black Island last night with four men aboard, was found today heacbed cH the west shore of Block Island. The men. suffering from ex- posture. were taken aboard the cut fer. Their names were unknown at coast guard base here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
BONES ARE FOUND

White Plains, N. Y, Dec 14- (UP)-Police digging in dirt and debris in Worthington woods for the body of 10-year-old Grace Budd today found bones of a .child's legs, arms, toes, fingers and vertebrae. The find was near where a small skull was found yess terday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14

Winston. Me.-(UP)--- A local resident was so embarrassed, he withheld his name when he told this story. He made elaborate preparations and went all the way to the Magalloway region to hunt deer. When he retuTned empty handed. he learned that his 14- year-old son had shot a 279-pound buck in the back yard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
Leaders In Narr0w
 Range Most OF Day
Tax Selling NOted--Year End Switching Operations Also Seen-RKO, Radio Corp Most Active on Board

American Telephone, and Du Pont
 were down small fractions. Chrys- Ter was up 1-4 at 38 and General
 Motors unchanged at 31. Motor equipments made small gains. Textiles were firm notably the
 American Woo1en issues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
DRIVER ABsOLVED

<. New Haven, Conn, Dec 14-(UP)
 Martin Shack, New York city has been absolved of criminal re- sponsibility in the death of William T. McJunkin, 49, Hartford Tobacco company official who was injured fatally in an automobile collision Dec 6 at Meriden. The coroner found the accident caused ''by Mo Junkin's own reckless driving and failure to see the truck ahead in time to turn out and avaid 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14

property is owned by J. W. Slater.
 Engine queiled a brush fire on Long Hill road at 2 o'clock. Short ly after, the Burton street com- pany was called to the corner of Beacon and Grown streets. where a shed was ablaze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
Investment Trust Quotations e. T. UULAANE CO.. INC.
 0S Center Street

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
CONNECTICUT SECURITIES
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PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS
Bridgeport Gas It Go 34 Bridgeport Hydraulic


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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
INDUSTRIAL STOCKS

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 com. ............ 6 Niles Bement-Pond
 com. ............ 12 North & Judd Mfg.
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 com. ............ 22 "A Torrington Go. ..... 6sh 71k
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14

DOW JONES AVERAGES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-14
HOME LOAN

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Evening star., 1934-02-23
MOTHER BLAMES U. S.
Says Lieut.. Lowry Unfamiliar With
Route.

DETROIT, February % R.-A
mother who learned through a chance
glance at newspaper headline that
her son, Lieut.. Durward o. Lowry,
had been killed while flying the mail,
said yesterday she believed the Army
pilots, good as they are" had been
given an assignment fraught with too
great hazards.
They shouldn't have had to fly at
night through Winter storms, through
the night, over unfamiliar courses
that it took months for commercial
pilots to learn" she said.
II can't help thinking that if this
Government housecleaning campaign
hadn't occurred, this dreadful thing
would net have happened to my son.
Why did they do it?"
Failure Of his radio to function
properly contributed to the death of
Lieut.. Durward o. Lowry, Army mail
pilot, near Deshler, Ohio, yesterday
morning. Capt. Fred Nelson of Sell
fridge Field said last night at To-
ledo.
Capt Nelson is investigating the
accident and will report to WASH
ington.
The officer declared, however, that
"any commercial pilot would have
been killed had he been up against
the same combination of circum-
stances which faced Lowry"
THE Army mail ships are equipped
with blind flying equipment" Capt.
Nelson explained, but you can't fol-
low a radio beacon and stay on your
course If your radio isn't working"
The officer said that on Lowry's last
westbound trip, his radio. which was