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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
Brookly, Man Takes
Life In Novel Way
tcontinued from Page /,

The police ambulance. manned
by Patrolmen Thomas Grady and
Patrick Hughes, rushed to the
scene. Gerdauskas was still alive at
their arrival and they brought him
to st Mary's hospital. His body
was almost cut in half at the waist
and he was horribly mangled.
Omccrs Gather Evidence
Detective Sergt Henry johnson
and Detective William Foley were
on hand few minutes after the
accident and located two eye-wit..
nesses, David Barnett of Alma
street, and Oscar Olson, of Rail-
road Hill street. Barnett told the
detectives that he saw Gerdauskas
rush from his house, which faces
on the tracks, run to the train and
throw himself head-first under the
wheels of the last freight car.
w. l.. Adams, the fiagman of the
long freight, felt the jar as the
wheels of the car next to the
caboose passed over the mans
body. He signalled for stop i'm
mediately and saw Gerdauskas'
body, half of 1t across the rail
nearest the house from which he
had dashed. The conductor, A. C.
johnson, notified police as soon as
he saw the man was badly hurt,
and Lieutenant John Dunphy, on
duty at the dask, dispatched the
police ambulance to the spot.
Had Prepared For 1t
The two detectives found q par
ing knife, It's blade newly sharp
ened, under Gerdauskas' pillow,
that he had contemplat-
ed suicide. Neighbors told Sergt
johnson and Detective Foley that
the needle-seller, known to many
Waterburians as vendor, had
been in bed for three days and
that he was in poor health.
When questioned by the medical
examiner, DIR Edward A.. Kirsch-
baum, Conductor A. c. johnson OF
the freight said that the train had
left the yards but three minutes
before the accident happened and
was proceeding at speed of but
a bout Is miles an hour.
The train with 81 cars and a
was bound from Water
bury to New Haven. Six of the
cars in the freight were fully load
ed and the remainder were all
empty. Witnesses agreed with the
story that the train was
moving at slow speed.
His family lives on Lafayette
street, nearby, and his mother was
at the scene of the accident soon
after it happened. He had not been
living home for more than year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
THREE SENT TO
LIFE SENTENCE

Bucharest, Rumania, April S -
(UP) - Three of the men on trial
for the assassination of Premier
Ion G. Duca were convicted today
and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. All the others were ac-
quilted. Duca was slain at the
railroad station at Sinaia late in
December. Nicholas Constaniescu.
student, fired the shots, but the
terrorist organization known as
the Iron Guard was blamed as In
stigator. Various members, were
arrested and tried as accomplices.
Constantinescu and two compan-
ions were those sentenced to life
terms. Under Rumanian law they
cannot be pardoned. The verdict
resulted in a demonstration In
favor of the Iron Guard by a large
crowd which had surrounded the
court since early morning. The
Iron Guard, which Is of Fascist ten
denotes, was dissolved after tho
assassination.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
YOUNG BANDITS
SENT TO PRISON
Drug Store Robbers Called
Most Vicious Gangsters
in This State

Bridgeport, Conn, April 5-(UP)
Three drug store bandits, char
acterized by Judge Alfred c. Bald
win as "the most vicious young
gangsters Connecticut has ever
produced" were given states pris-
on terms to-day of s. to 26 years
each in superior court.
George Tomasko, Nathan Lazosik
and John Poremba, all 19years old,
pleaded guilty to six counts of rob-
berry with violence, one count of
theft Of an automobile and one
count of carrying concealed weap-
ons.
They were accused of having
held up number of drug stores
and gasoline stations earlier in the
year. In several cases the victims
were bound and thrown into a
closet.
They are about as hardened as
any criminal now in Wethersfield,"
Judge Baldwin declared, land the
reformatory is no place for them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
SILAS H. STRAWN
VERBALLY LASHED
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(Continued from Page H.
suffering and who have seen condi-
lions under the prevailing social
order. cannot realize the need for
a fundamental change, need a
mental examination.
There is a lot wrong with the
intellectual processes of such peo-
pie. There is nothing wrong with
the thinking of the intelligent, in
dependent and courageous thinkers
in the administration who grasp
the need of definite action to save
the nation from starvation.
"Strawn does what every reac-
tionary does and advocates what
he thinks is good Americanism.
The workers and farmers of the
United States want no more good
Americanism' of that kind.
''The principal question in their
minds is, When do we. eat?' And
they want economic conditions to
prevail that will assure all who do
honest labor of eating regularly,
having enough food and having
enough of the other requirements
of normal living. That is the good
Americanism' they are demanding.
And let reactionaries everywhere
take warning-the people are go
ing to get what they want"
Foulkes concluded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
CHAIRMAN HAS
QUIT POSITION

Boston, April 5.-(UP)--Resig-
nation of Carl A.. Terry of Fall
River az chairman of the republic
can state committee was regarded
by political observers today as re-
sulting from dissatisfaction among
party heads of his leadership be-
cause OF a law suit against him
brought by his mother.
In his letter of resignation. filed
with Secretary Charles Nichols,
Terry said he desired to devote
more time to his law practice.
His mother, Mrs Cora b. Terry
OF Fall River, has brought suit
against him in Barnstable probate
court In connection with the adj
ninistration of his grandmother's
estate.
1t was pointed out that regard
less Of the outcome OF the litiga-
ton, he would be the target Of poll
tical opponents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
ACCIDENTS in
AVIATION Less
Improved Planes, in the
State Have Lowered
Death Rate

Hartford, Conn, April 5.-(UP)
improved construction Of air.
planes reduced aviation accidents
approximately 35 per cent during
1888, State Aviation Commissioner
Charles L. Morris said to-day.
A survey showed only 80 acct
dents in the state last year as
compared with AZ during the pre-
vious year and 81 in 1881. There
are now more licensed pilots than
ever before and flying activities
have greatly increased, he said.
Mechanical failure, the survey
showed, was the cause of 20 per
cent Of all accidents personal err
ror 20 per cent; weather 9 per cent
and terrain 10 per cent.
Last year, Morris said, 1874 stu
dent pilots were licensed and only
one minor accident occurred when
a plane was TAXED into hole on
flying field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
NEW CRISIS IN
CUBAN AFFAIRS

Havana, April 5--(UP)--A new
crisis in Cuba's troubled political
situation was threatened to-day
after the suicide OF Colonel Ro-
berto Mendez Penate. minister Of
justice and president of the domi-
nant nationalist party in which
President Carlos Mendieta Is the
chief figure. 1t was feared posi-
BILE that some cabinet ministers
might resign, and with still dam
gerous labor problem to be solved
leaders were anxious. As Mendez
Penate died on an operating table,
q bomb echoed in the center OF
the city. II blew up 33 telephone
cables running under one of the
principal streets. Mendez Penate's
suicide was due to a combination
OF disappointmentH because he was
not named president OF the coun.
ell OF state and sorrow over dis
ruption In his nationalist party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
AMERICAN ONLY
. PASSENGER SAVED
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He told them he was the only
survivor of the crash. The Indians
divided into two groups. one i'm
promising a stretcher to carry Mar.
shall into Bolivar and the other
guarding the wreckage of the
plane, which carried. 100000 in
bar gold owned by the Choco Pa
cific Mining Co., of which Marshall
is Colombian manager.
The first group carried Marshall
to the village of Betania, not far
from Bolivar, where they had to
leave him because Of his exhaust
ion. He was so weak he was un-
able to talk. The mayor of Boil
var sent troops to guard the plane.
The sScadta lines sent q light
Fokker plane from Bogota which
they hoped could .and near the
wreckage to recover the gold, and
then proceed to Betania to get
Marshall and carry him to hos
pitatat Cali or Bogota, which ever
pitai at Call or Bog? which ever
Five Wer On Board
The plane carride three pas
sengers, II crew of two, and mail.
Flying up the san Juan Vailey TO-
wards Quibdo, 1t apparently lost
its way and was forced down in
the hot. steaming territory of the
Carriage Isthmus, whose topography
comprises wooded hills and valleys
of dense tropical growth.
Marshall arrived last night at the
town OF Bolivar, in the department
of Vale, and gave details of the
disaster and his tedious passage
through the jungle to civilization.
His arrival was the first definite
news of the planes fate. Airplanes
had searched the region diligently
for II without result.
Marshall, who comes from; Mil
waukee, was manager of the Choco
Pacific Mining Co. Choc0 Pacific
had offered a reward of $1,000 to
the finder of the plane, and Scad.a
offered $1,000.
The pilot, Capt. Walter eek. of
Germany, who was among the
dead. had flown many thousands of
miles in Colombia without acct
dent. Scadta has been operating air
passenger lines in this country for
Is years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
WOULD ARM THE
LOYAL WORKERS

Camden, N. j., Apr. Supp
Wholesale applications for pistol
permits by the Campbell Soup
Company to arm loyal employees,
several of whom were beaten by
strikers, brought labor troubles to
the crisis point today.
The company also appealed for
a sweeping injunction to stop
picketing, described as an illegal
conspiracy" and to prevent the
union from boycotting the COM
pany's products.
Twenty-Five empl o yes were
sworn in as special deputies yester-
day as crowds Of jerring strikers
swarmed about the plant, pounc7
ing or employees entering or leav-
ing, and beating several severely.
Twenty others awaited approval
Of pistol permits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
LOTTERY BILL is
UP FOR ACTION

Washington, April 5 - (UP) -
Enactment of a national lottery
bill would net the United States
treasury $1,000, 100000 annually,
Representative Edward A. Kenney.
democrat. New Jersey. said today.
Kenney has introduced a lottery
bill on which hearings will be held
by the house ways and means COM
mittee beginning April II.
The bill authorizes the veterans
administration, with the consent
of the President, to conduct q ma
tional lottery to pay for veterans
compensation and pensions.
A national lottery would pay all
veterans compensation and yet
would offer chance for many cit
liens to win large prizes, Kenney
said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
FORMER STAR
GOING TO CHAIR

Boston, April - (U.P.)-Ed-
ward T. Stanisiewski. FL, of AM
herst, former Providence College
athlete, must die in the electric
chair next week for numbering a
friend during $40 robbery.
Governor Ely last night denied
his plea for Communication OF the
death sentence to life imprison-
ment. Thus the youth may be ex-
ecuted at state prison here at any
time after Monday midnight.
On the night of October IL, last,
Stanisiewski waylaid Timothy L..
Diggins. 23, Amherst lunchart en-
ploye, beat him to death with a
stone, and escaped with the days
receipts. He was arrested neas
Troy. N. y. where he had gone to
Sc his sweetheart.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
Bank Openings This
Year Near 500 Mark
Latest Federal Reserve Figures Show Re-openings
Since Bank Holiday of 1888 Total 1856

New York, April 5-Openings
of banks throughout the United
States during the first three
months of 1884 will be close to
500, the American Banker states.
Reports in its columns daily dur
ing the past week added 40 re-
opened or replacement institutions
to the number already reported
this year, bringing that figure to
473.
Openings last week included IL
national and 28 state-chartered
banks, making their respective to-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
Prices MoUed In Very
Narro1UR angeAHDay
Commodities Generally We're Dull; Bonds We're Down
and the Dollar Showed Strength

quotations are nominally unchang
ed.
The U. S. agriculture department
said: "The prices at which early
offered on the Boston market IL
causing some weakness on medium
quality Ohio fieeces. Original bag
and country graded feeces of
Michigan, Indiana and similar
midwestern types, are geing offered
at 35-37 cents in the grease for
lots containing combing and cloth
ing Sos, 3-S blood, and ASS. SEES
Ia blood, qualities. These prices
are considered in the Boston trade
to be below the parity of currens
asking prices on graded Ohio
woods of last years clip"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
TAX WOULD HIT
THE DAIRYMEN

Boston April 5--(UP)--The
proposed federal milk processing
tax would take approximately ST.
100000 from New England dairy
men for the benefit OF middle
western farmers, 1t was charged
today
Assistant Administrator Victor
A. christgau of the AAA and two
other Washington farm experts
outlined the government plan be-
fore nearly 500 farmers and milk
dealers here yesterday. IF enacted.
the tax would take an estimated
$14,625, 900 from New England
consumers and less than half Of
that amount woulL be disburscd
to dairymen Of this section.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
WOOL MARKET.

Boston, April 5-(UP)-Wit the
wool market dull and soft, Boston
dealers delayed purchases of new
stocks of wool in the west today.
Boston wool men were in the
growing sections but relatively lit.
tie new clip wool was being bought.
Growers were holding out for
prices equivalent to little higher
basis than could be obtained in
Boston at the moment.
Some few sales of fine and
medium new clip. woods have been
made by growers at 30-31 cents a
pound, which is equivalent to So
20 cents pound clean landed in
Boston. Consumers will hardly
pay this, and meantime Boston
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

tails for this year 178 and 295.
Latest Federal Reserve and
American Banker figures show
that reopenings or requirements
of banks which failed to open i'm
mediately after the banking holi-
day of 1888 now total 1856 out of
the 1909 banks which closed for
a longer period than the banking
holiday in 1898.
Comparison Of the number of
banks of various classes open on
January /, '1933 and now open, is
given in the American Banker as
follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
STRIKE AT WEST
HAVEN ENDED

West Haven, April 5--(UP)--
"A compromise wage settlement to-
day sent more than 400 striking
weavers back to their looms at the
American Mill company.
State Labor Commissioner JO-
seph M. Tone announces q y per
cent increase had been accepted
by weavers and " 10 per CEN,
advance had been made to gem
eral workers. A nat 2b per cent
s ass s,1a e v''asFs ''s HH"'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
Jail Sentences Melted
Out AS Term Closes
McEyOy Given Seven Months For RObbing Union City
Man Suspended Sentence For Beck

given James J. French, charged
with automobile homicile. Fran
cisco viera, charged with a statu-
tory ofkense was granted a nolle.
Beck and McEvoy were alleged
to have robbed a Union City res
ident after the man had hired a
taxi-cab at waterbury, during the
evening of Feb. IA, to take him to
Naugatuck. Assistant States Attpr-
ney William b. Fitzgerald said
Beck was the driver of the cab
and that there was no evidence to
show his assauiting the passenger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

derwear and socks, dash from the
front door of the house, but a few
feet from the tracks Of the New
Haven railroad. He said that the
man raced across the tracks used
by north bound trains on to those
over which the New Haven bound
freight was passing and throw
himself head first under the wheels
Of the last freight car.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

Criminal business OF the April
term of the superior court was
completed this afternoon with the
disposal Of four cases. Only one
Of the quartet was given a jail SEN
fence. q seven months term being
handed out to Frank McEvoys 81,
charged with robbery with vio-
ience. His companion. Thomas
Beck, 35, charged with the same
offence. was given nine months in
iail with sentence suspended.
Judge Edwin c. Dickinson pre-
sided. A year in jail with execution
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
COAKLEY sTILL LIVES

Boston, April 5--( UP} daniel
Iii. Coakley, 6S-yehr-old governors
councillor and former Boston
nof<d ii rs sendItion sssiSrisS'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

. China is warning on manufacture
ers who fill containers of we'll
known products with limitations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

New buildings constructed in
Chile this or next year will be ex-
empted from taxes until 1916.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
N. Y. Bank and Trust Stocks
The II. q. Griggs Co.

Bid Asked
Bank of Manhattan. 81 "a
Bank of N. Y. & Trust 335 355
Bankers Trust ...... 81 "a 64h
Cent Hanover Bank &
Trust ............ ia 1870
Chase National Bank. 81 80
Chemical Bank & Trust 39 AZ
Corn Exchange Bank. So 81
Empire Trust ....... Is 20
First National Bank 1850 1850
Guaranty Trust ..... 342 351
Irving Trust ........ IL 10
Lawyers Mortgage :. 3
Lawyers Title & Guar. 2
Manufacturers Trust 20h 23b
National City Bank 20 80
New York Trust go. 9S 1913
Title Guar & Trust =. 10 13
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05
he r. +. Griggs Go.

HOME LOAN BONDS
Home Loan AS 1851 995s 100h
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-05

Estimated from Federal Rese
- February %.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
The Romance of a
Happy Marriage
BY ANNE CAMPBELL

THE romance of the "sheik," the
i glory
OF glamorous, mystic sands;
The allure of the unknown places,
The magic of foreign lands
They can never approach the splendor
My Grandmother could recall
The romance of happy marriage
Is lovelier than ALL
The romance of black street. lover,
The furtive, clandestine kind.
Could never be as satisfying
AS love that have in mind:
An affection that builds future
AS staunch as granite wall
The romance of happy marriage
Is lovelier than all
The romance that is only captured
In print or upon the screen
Is unreal when compared to unions
OF lovers that have seen!
When two hearts are entwined together
No matter what may befall,
The romance of a happy marriage
Is lovelier than all
Copyright-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
Relic. Found in Palestine

All that remains of an Egyptian
town which fourished more than 5000
years ago, on a site near the present
city of Tel Aviv, Palestine, are q
heart-shaped scarab, the sacred bee
tie of ancient Egypt, fragment Of
an Egyptian seal used on a papyrus
document and few bronze and flint
implements. The large stone scarab,
which bears hieroglyphic inscription
of a passage from the Book of the
Dead" is the first of its kind to be
found in Palestine. 1t was placed over
the heart of mummy and is believed
to have come from the tomb of some
Egyptian official.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON w. BURGESS

when he catches more grasshoppers
and insects than he can eat, he sticks
them on those thorns so that later he
may be sure of good meal If it hap
pens there are no more to be caught
when he is hungry. Mice, sparrows,
and things too big for him to swallow,
he sticks on the thorns so that he can
pull them to pieces more easily. You
see, his feet and claws are not big
enough to hold them while he tears
them to pieces with his hooked bill"
"Does he kill many birds?" asked
Peter.
"Not many" replied Skinner, 'and
most of them are English sparrows.
He is a good deal like Killy the Spar
row Hawk in this respect. Hello! Now
what's happened?"
G. T. w. Burgess.-wNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12

turned his head they saw black stripe
across the side of his face and that
the tip of his bill was hooked. These
were enough to make them forget that
otherwise he was like Mocker. While
they were looking at him he few down
into the grass and picked up grass
hopper Then for some distance he few
with steady, even flight only little
above the ground, suddenly shooting
up and returning to the perch where
they had first seen him. There he ate
the grasshopper and resumed his
watch for something else to catch.
"He certainly has wonderful eyes"
said Skinner admiringly. HE must
have seen that grasshopper way over
there in the grasses before he started
after it, for he few straight down. He
doesn't waste time and energy hunting
aimlessly. He sits on high perch and
watches until he sees something he
wants. Many times I've seen him sit
ting on top of telegraph pole. /
understand that Bully the English
Sparrow has become terribly nervous
since the arrival of Butcher. He is
particularly fond of English sparrows.
presume it was one of Bully's children
you saw in the thorn tree, Peter. For
my part, hope he'll brighten Bully
into leaving the Old Orchard. It would
be good thing for the rest of u.s."
"But 1 don't understand why he fas-
tens his victims on those long thorns."
For two reasons" replied Skinner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
No Friend of LADY Luck

Blinks-So you think you are
about as unlucky as a man can be?
Jinks-Say, if paid for insurance
on my house for thirty years with
out ever having fire and decided to
let the darn policy lapse the place
would burn up two minutes after the
policy had expired.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
PLENTY of Time

A boy remarked at the dinner table
that his class at school was to have
a cleanup contest.
"a cleanup contest" exclaimed
his mother. "And you come to the
table with those hands?"
II know, mother, but the contest
doesn't start until next week. PA
cific Methodist Advocate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
CALLING THE DOCTOR

"Do you approve of doctors in poll
tics?"
Sometimes" answered Miss Cay
enne. "They always tell you not to
worry. And to soothe your nerves
they even tell you which way to vote
in order to avoid anxiety"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
Ru.sia n the World War

personal---very. RUSSIA had the
only national anthem which contained
as it's chief note a prayer for peace.
Yet, writes F. G. Taylor. Jr.. New York
city, in Golfers Weekly. when the
World war came, no country modified
more quickly In fact, enthusiasm ran
SO high in Petrograd that prize Of
100000 was raised as an award for
the Russian who set foot in Berlin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
Reducing

Two of the comrades were discuss
ing their big fat buddy. Said one !:
II saw Ben the other day, and he is
not as big fool as he used to be-"
whats the materials he re-
formed?"
"No, he's dieting. American Lee
gion Monthly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-12
Twas Ever Thus

"You look worried. What's the
matter?"
"Ding 1t, my doctor just told me
I've got to quit worrying or. else
Macon Telegraph.