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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-22

at the more important downtown
crossings. At all other points these
lights have worked effectively,
changing at given time. This too,
will eliminate conversation between
the motorists making a left turn and
the officer, to the detriment often
times of traffic in opposite direction,
and it also releases the officer for
the specific duty he was hired for
policing.
There could be an additional step
taken that should be beneficial
synchronize the lights so traffic at
twenty or twenty-five miles an hour
could move through, getting the
green light from corner to corner.
At present if you are west-bound on
Washington street at Alabama and
get the ego sign" it practically is
impossible to make the green light
at Delaware street without speeding
and endangering the lives of pedes-
TRANS.
In other words all the lights from
Alabama to Senate are red or green
at the same time; the same applies
to New York street from East to
Alabama. Timing Of these lights
to change at proper intervals would
permit moderate traffic at twenty
miles an hour, once you are given
the green light at any of these cor
ners, without creating any hazard
for pedestrians.
Terre Haute has such system.
The traffic problem there, in proper
ton to the population, is practically
the same as ours, since the main
street, Wabash avenue, is a cross
state as well as a main local thor
oughfare. One can ride through the
Wabash avenue (which is also state
Road 400 at twenty-five miles an
hour after getting the first green
light in either direction without
shifting a gear, and their north and
south traffic is also automatically
timed accordingly. 7 believe such a
change is worthy Of some consider
alton at least.
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HERE'S A QUESTION
FOR LATER CONSIDERATION

BY Your Old Friend Anxiety.
In reference to your Silver Shirt"
citation, would like to know if you
can compound logic of sufficient
probative force to diSprove same.
When you, Mr.. Editor, go to
heaven, how much time will expire
before you are discovered by said
angels?
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So They Say

Men are often called upon to adj
mire spectacles involving not only
force but brute violence. This is
contrary to Christian education as
well as the sentiments of human
dignity and purity-Pope Plus XXI.
I do not know just why, and can't
explain it, but this country can be
home to every one.-Jose Iturbi,
Spanish pianist.
When gentlemen address each
other as "Sir" we have civilization.
When they slap each other on the
back, decadence has set in.-Abbe
Dimnet.
When hubby's pockets are chok-
ing with greenbacks, its easy Tor
him to get into trouble, but when
he's nursing thin dime he's more
apt to behave himself.-Lee Win
chester, Memphis (Tenn) divorce
proctor. I
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A cake baked in 1879 for brother of
President Fillmore is still untouched and on
view at Lagrange, Ind. And they say only our
mothers and grandmothers knew how to cook.
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new vaccine for sleeping sickness is
strong enough to protect mice against power
full doses of the disease germs. What the
mice want is protection against cats.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
FIRST VICTIM OF
 TRAINING TANK
Sailor Dies After He Got the Bends" in New
 London

New London. Conn. July 2S = (UP)-The lofty submarine rescue training tank at the submarine base claimed its first victim late yesterday when James R. Griffin, Los Angeles, Calif., fireman, third class, died from the bends" Grif- fin shot 100 feet up to the top of the tank after he lost his escape lung. The rapid change from high pressure to low pressure caused his death.
 Griffin. after losing the lung" shot to the top at 10:S0 o'clock yesterday morning and was rushed into a afdecompression chamber. His fate was not known until 6:07 o'clock last night when the door of the chamber was opened.
 The Californian, with four other sailors, were assigned to instruction in the tank. They began the ascent at depth of 100 feet. A line ex- tends down into the deep tower filled with salt water. Sailors, in making the ascent, use the line to assist them in ascending gradually, In some undetermined manner, Grimm, lost his Hung" for some time; officials said, he clung to the line and then suddenly shot to the surface choking. His rapid ascent to the lower pressure caused the dreaded bends Willing hands took the sailor and immediately placed him in the decompression chamber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
NAME OF MACKEN
 HACAIN BEFORE LOCAL COURTS
Small Suit on Present Oc. casiOn-Recalls High
 Court Ruling

The name of John B. sMacken entered the court records of Water- bury agai nto-day in a minor civil action but 1t recalled to court at- taches the famous case in which the name of Macken made history in court records of not only Water- bury, but the state of Connecticut's highest courts and the highest court of the United States-The United States Supreme court.
 That was the case involving a strip of land in Watervilie, at the corner of Boyden street and Thomaston avenue which is now incorporated in the beautiful Wa terville park.
 When the Chase family donated that part of Waterville, now used as the park. to the City of Water bury, Macken was the owner of the corner lot upon wkhich he con- ducted 8 meat market. The litiga- ton arose about 1922 oxer Mack ems refusal to accept the price off, fered to him by the city of Water bury and a commission appointed by superior court for his property. The city offered .s10.o00, the com mfssion. $12. 900.
 Appeals Started
 When condemnation proceedings were instituted to take fov the lot, Macken responded with an appeal. He lost out in the local superior court but appealed to the Connecti- cut supreme court. That court up- held the lower court and again Macken appealed, this time to the United States Supreme court. It
 (Continued nn paca oN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
MICKEY NORMAN
 MAY. LOSE SMOKES
Three=Year=Old Give II Plenty on Birthday;
 His Parents Object

Paterson. N. J., July 2S-(UP)- Charles Mickey" Norman, Jr., lighted big cigar at the flame of three birthday candles today bliss fully ignorant of black conspiracy to break his near-lifetime habit of smoking.
 He got the two cigars. one cigar cite and pipeful or two of strong tobacco today to celebrate his third anniversary as MT and Mrs Charles Norman promised. But from now on the parents said, lit tie Mickey's daily consumption of the weed will be cut down.
 They braced themselves for the ordeal because their blond, chubby youngster gets frightfully unhappy without his smokes. He would walk mile for one any day. And therein is the crux of the dread reform movement.
 Mickey has hawk eyes for dis carded cigar and cigarette butts. Unless he is watched he ferrets them off the street. The Normans fear this habit threatens his buoy ant health. They plan to cultivate his taste for ice cream and sodas to ease him off gradually.
 Their family doctor assured them, they said, Mickey's smoking had caused no ill effects. He started smoking when he was IA months old. His father a steam shovel op- orator, let him draw on his pipe to quiet him. Afterward nothing soothed him but smoking. He grirs widest over a cigar. He handles all varieties of smokes like a veteran. He likes to exhale through his nose. He inhales every puff. He does not chew.
 He is ruddy checked, weighs 35 pounds and is 37 inches tall. He is lively, and his parents said he has never been i'll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
MARTIAL LAW IN
 THE MODEL CITY
Kohler, Wisconsin Has
 Plenty of Trouble Over Its Strike

Kohler. Wis, July 2S.-(UP)- Martial law was threatened today for America's model industrial village" where two workers were killed and 20 injured in riots last night.
 National guardsmen were mobil- ized in Milwaukee while 400 deputy sheriffs patrolled the fiower-bor- dered streets of Kohler. Sheriff Ernst Zehms told Gov Albert C.. Schmedeman he was unable to maintain order.
 First fatalities of the three- weeks old strike were Lee Wake field, 25, and Henry Engelmann. 27, of Sheboygan. Wakefield died a few minutes after the battle of a chest wound. Engelmann died today from a rifle bullet in his ab- domen.
 The governor ordered Adjt Gen Ralph M. Immell, commanding the national guard encampment at Camp Williams, to determine whether troops were necessary.
 Military action followed a night of bloody riots climaxed by firing of about dozen shots at the auto mobile pf a newspaper photog- rapher, John Steger of. the Chicago Tribune, He was not injured but his car was struck several times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
Final Nezgs Flashes
FIGHT ON BOOTLEGGERS

Washington, July 28.-(UP)-Beset by post-repeal problems, Uncle Sam today launched plans for new fight to the finish against boot leggers and rum runners. The campaign en- braces: 1. Expansion as quickly as possible" of the present alcohol tax unit of the internal revenue bureau from 1,250 to 1,700 men. 2. Im- mediate and strict application of recent liquor bottle and label regulations to curb bootleg sales. 3. Probable strengthening of coast guard facil- ities along the north Atlantic seaboard to com bat renewed rum smuggling activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
THREE SHELTON
 VICTIMS WERE
 BURIED TO-DAY
Scenes of Sorrow Around Homes and Church as
 Last Rites Were Said
(By a Staff Reporter)

Shelton, Conn.,, July ZS-Be- meath gray and sodden skies that were in keeping with the aura of stark tragedy that covered this little town. three of the eight vic tims of Thursdays terrible rail- road catastrophe were laid in their final resting places this morning. Four more will be buried this af- ternoon, and tomorrow the last of the eight will be lowered into the earth. Then there will be only galling bitter and tragical mem- ories left of the grusome disaster in which the eight happy young sters were moved down by rumb- ling freight train as they played cards between the rails.
 Scenes of sorrow this morning were more touching than any that this little town along the Housatonic has ever witnessed. Sympathetic townsfolk, their num- Der augmented by hundreds of the morbidly curious from all parts of the state, gathered at St Joseph's church and at Mt Peters cemetery in Derby, as red-eyed, weeping parents, brothers. sisters, reatives and friends sobbed through the last worldly rites for their loved ones.
 One of the two families which were doubly stricken by the tra- gedy saw two of it's boys lowered into the earth this morning, as John and Joseph Gentle were placed in graves at Mt St Peters cemetery. Then, little more than a half-hour later another sorrow ing caravan of mourners entered the same cemetey for the burial services for George Rumble.
 Four will be buried this after noon in three services. Ruth and Charles Bierwith will be laid at rest at Riverside cemetery, follow ed short time later by Stephen Rotkowich and Carl Hoffman. To- morrow at Ansonia, the last of the eight, Joseph Dawonchyk, will be buried in Three Saints cemetery.
 Coroner John J. Phelan of Bridgeport today continued plans for a formal inquest in to the tra- gedy at Bridgeport next Wednes- day. Severl additional eye-wit- nesses have been located and will be heard at the inquest. The New Haven railroad and Shelton police likewise continued their investiga- tions into the tragic accident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
TWO KILLED INV
 BAD COLLISION

Stamford, Conn, July 2S--(UP) Oscar H. Schmidt 50, New Cam aan and George Imhoff, 10, Springdale, were killed and thres others injured when four-ton sand-laden truck crashed broad- side into light bakery truck, yesterday.
 Ernest F. Fay. Noroton, Stephen Jubyna. and Peter Hopik, Stam- ford, were treated for lacerations of the face and scalp.
 Schmidt was driving the bakery truck and young Imhoff was a passenger, Fay, driver of the sand truck, was held in bonds of $2,500 on a technical charge of mans slaughter. Jubyna and Hopik, both about Is. caddies, who had been given a ride by Fay were allowed to go. Police said that Schmidt attempted to turn into IngIeside road, when the sand truck. travel ling at about S5 to 40 miles an hour on a down grade in the same direction crashed into it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
DISMISSED MAN
 WILL CARRY ON

Berlin. July 2s--(UP)--Dr Kurt Rieth, dismissed as minister to Germany today carried on the eff fort of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to convinced the world that kss gov 'ernment did not aid the Austrian Nazis in their revolt.
 Rieth was recalled because he promised safe conduct for Austrian Nazis arrested at the chancellery in Vienna where they assassinated Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
 In a public statement, he de- tailed his acts, he said first that he acted at the request of the Aus erian government and secondly Ahnt he acted in c personal capa- SRiv.
 TT acted not as German minis ter" he said, ''but as man. to avert threatened blodshed. alone am responsible"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28

was explained that the rumors may have been caused by the in- f1ux of German-speaking Italians, who f1ocked across the frontier to volunteer in the Austrian army.
 Nine Nazis were killed and Is were arrested according to reliable reports, when troops attacked 100 insurgents assembled at St Geor- gen, East Carinthia last night.
 The remainder of the rebels fled. leaving two machine guns behind
 Although the Carinthian authori- ties reported 'all quiet" from pri- vate sources it was learned that in- surgents were still in control at Feldamsee, South Carinthia, while Naz1 bands were rowing through the Drau valley near St Veit, occa- sionally sniping at loyal troops.
 Resistance to the government was still reported in outlying prov inces, notably Carinthia, but each succeeding report from comman- ders of regular troops and Heim-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
LAST BLIZZARD WAS CAUSE FOR
 COMPENSATION
Com. Lynch Gives Award to WatertOWn Woman
 for Husbands Death

The blizzard that struck Water bury and vicinity last February, enters as a prominent factor into a compensation award handed down today by Commissioner James M. Lynch in favor of Mrs Mary Norton, mother of six chill dren, against the town of Water- town. Commissioner Lynch awards Mrs Norton the sum of $5,645.44 for the death of her husband, John Norton, who died June 5th as re- suit of injuries suffered during the night of February 27th when he was engaged in the manipulation of snow blow for the town of Watertown.
 The award states Mrs Norton is to receive $12.68 weekly, half his weekly salary, for a period of 312 weeks the maximum allotment un- der the compensation law. In ad- dition she is to be paid $1,414.40 for hospital, nurses, doctors, med ical, burial expenses The finding also states Mrs Norton is to re- ceive $12.6S weekly from Feb. 27 to June 5th, the period of his in capacity. The award is effective as II OlIl tllC odlC Ol oCdll, uiS ctiA.
 What Finding Says
 The finding says MT Norton's duty was to go out and clean the roads of snow. He rode in the cab of truck and lowered and raised the blade of the snow blow.
 He worked day and night some times. In the night Feb. 27 or early in the morning of Feb. 2S, MT Nor ton sprained his right foot and ankle. He also struck his leg, below the knee, against some object or the machine. He was taken to tho Waterbury hospital for treatment A bone infection developed whicf led to a brain abscess, resulting il death.
 Commissioner Lynch in his find | ing holds that the man'sfdeath wa 1 attributable to the work he was en l gagged in for the town of Water. l town. The Travellers Insurance Go is insurer for the town. Attorney Michael " Blansfield appeared al the hearing for Mrs Norton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
NAMES OF LOCAL MEN ELIGIBLE TO
 SERVE ON JURY
Nnety=six Men Picked to Do Jury Duty in Three
 Courts

Names of 96 local men who win be eligible for jury service in the common pleas court and city court of Waterbury and the superior court Of New Haven, from Septe1a- Der, 1894, to September, 1935, were received to-day by Town Clerk Dora A. Egan. The names were selected by the jury commis- sioners of New Haven county. as follows:
 James Abercrombe, musician, 32 Ray street.
 Frank Anderson. foreman, POT Piedmont street.
 George Baronian, real estate, 31 Woodside avenue.
 Egbert A. Bass, sales manager, 99 Fiske street.
 Frank Baumgartner, clerk, 126 Cables avenue.
 Burton N. Beeman, civil engi- neer, 68 Delaware avenue.
 Robert Beers, manager, 1a6 Walnut street.
 George B. Bisset. merchant, S6 Columbia boulevard.
 Arthur E. Blewitt, foreman, Il Eastwood avenue; Arthur P. Bliss, chemist, 37 Lexington avenue: Edward L. Bronson, farmer, Pier
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
Frank Shields Lost Three Straight Sets
Henry Bunny" Austin Defeated Him in Cup Series; Wood Was on Even Footing With Perry,
 Winning One Set Each

Wimbledon, England July 28- CUP)-Henry Wilfred (Bunny) Austin sent England off to win ming start in the first match of the Davis Cup challenge round today by defeating Francis Xavier Shields of the. United States. Austin best ed Shields, g6-4s S6z4, ..6=lls.--sz4...e..s,
 The match involved the No. 2 players of the rvial squads.
 Austin, we'll onto his sometimes brilliant game, thoroughly out- classed the large New Yorker who on Wednesday assured Americas s entry into the challenge round by capturing the final match of the interzone final from Vivian Nc 'Grath' of Australia.
 Shields made brave bid in the middle set when he had an early lead of games to 2, but was broken on his own service in the following game and Austin ran out the set.
 A swiftly increasing wind was blowing as Shields and Austin made ready to play. The wind made the harder. Fifteen thousand people we're pTSsSut."
 Standing room was at premium. They were lined more than 15 deep in the standing room sector.
 Austin was cheered wildly for breaking Shields service in the first game of the first set. Shields backhand was most cratic.
 Austin held his own service in the second game to lead 2 to 0.
 Shields won the third game, scoring three service aces, but Aus tin won the fourth after four deuces to lead to 1.
 Two bistering forehand smashes gave Shields the fifth game and broke through service in the sixth to level the match at three all.
 Shields, hitting with full power, won the seventh to lead 4 to 3, but Austin captured the next three games for the set.
 Two beautiful backhand passing shots gave Austin the eighth game to gaain put the match at level. He broke through Shields service to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
STRIKE OF THE TEXTILES

Pawtucket, R. l., July 28.-(UP) P)-Strike action will be taken by all branches of the textile industry at conference in New York August 13 unless manufacturers, in the interim, grant 30 hour week and other demands, it was announced here today The announcement was made in a formal statement issued by President Thomas F. McMahon at the New England headquarters of the United Textile Workers of America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
THREE BALLOON
 MEN SEEK RECORD
Went Up Early To-day in Attempt to Reach Is
 Miles or More

Rapid City, S. D., July 2S.-(UP) Three dauntless army balloonists scared aloft today, in quest of an altitude record of fifteen miles or more-higher into the sky than man has ever reached.
 Major William E. kepner, pilot, Captain Orvill Anderson, his aide, and Captain Albert Stevens, scien- tific observer, comprised the crew for the epoch-making flight.
 They shot upward at 5:45 a. m. (MST) in the U. S. ArmyNational Geographic society stratosphere balloon, "The Explorer" largest free balloon ever built.
 With their enormous gas bag, having capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet, inflated with only 200.- 900 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, the men were lifted over the rim of this peaceful, sheltered Black Hills valley at speed of more than 500 feet minute. Cleared the Rocks
 The huge balloon, appearing as a great exclamation mark with its metal condola the dot beneath, cleared by hundreds of feet the rock-bound walls of the bowl, on which it had been feared it might come to grief due to sudden gusts of wind.
 Before the balloonists stretched a new frontier of science-the stratosphere. Fifteen miles up the blue of the sky we know gives way to purplish black as the density of the atmosphere thins to a point where a human being, if exposed, would explode like a bursting pa- per sack.
 From the stratosphere Kepner Anderson and Stevens expected to bring back, not alone 8 new alti- tude record, but a great store of in- formation for science to consider Behind, as the balloon scared upward, were months of painstak- ing expensive preparations. and weeks of tedious waiting for fa- vorable weather.
 The takeoff provided colorful and dramatic scene.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-28
ATTORNEY SMITH ISSUPPORTED BY
 CITY DELEGATES
Thirty=six of Them Will Back Him in NOmina=
 ton for Congress

Attorney J. Joseph Smiths chances of being the democratic candidate for congress from the fifth congressional district in the election to be held this fall were greatly strengthened today when it was learned that Waterbury's 36 delegates to the congressional con- vention would endorse the local man.
 It has been the custom in the past, Democratic Town Chairman John H. Crary said for local dele gates to pledge themselves to the Waterbury candidate and since htere appears to be no opposition to Major Smiths nomination, it seems certain that he would be the unanimous choice of the con- vention, on the first ballot. Always Sought After Waterbury's delegates to con- canvassed by other delegations 1T order to get the sentiment of thu Brass City representatives and tc learn whom the local group is backing. This is because Water bury can play a major role in the convention proceedings by virtue of it's large number of delegates. This city's delegation, 36 in number. is always the largest in congressional conventions for the fifth district. Torrington is second but it's num- Der is much smaller than Water- bury's. There are 179 delegates eligible to vote at the congressional conventions.
 The people on next November, it appears now, will have the choice of voting for the present republi- can incumbent, Congress Edward w. Goss, or Major Smith, the ap- parent democratic standard bearer.
 Cavanaugh to Call
 The convention vii lbe called by Peter Cavanaugh, of Torrington, chairman of the congressional con- vention. MT Cavanaugh was chosen