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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

tories out there. Dry goods are usually shipped into Long Island from New York instead of from Long Island into New Yorki"s MAYBE SOME STORE WENT BUST'--
 Maybe some store went bust out there, and is auctiOning off it's goods."' suggested the officer.
 Graydon grinned at him. "That answer is so damned logical, Mul- ligan," he responded, "that I'm quite sure it's what I would be told if I made tnquiries! Never theless-the stuff is selling too from another retailer, and that's driver"
 It was fifteen minutes later, when the truck had been emptied, that the driver was accosted by an unobtrusive little man in a gray suit.
 "Iow about a ride back to Long Island, brother?" said the gray lit-
 The driver eyed him suspicious
 "How did you know was going out to Long Island?" he inquired cautiously.
 The little man laughed disarm- ingly. q live out there," he re- piled easily, land saw you load ing up as I came to town this morning. And I thought maybe I could get a ride. back, and save carfare."
 well, don't mind," replied the driver graciously. I'm going back for another lot now. Climb aboard!"
 The inspector waved an eloquent hand at the open cigar box.
 Help yourself, Graydon," he ob- served expansively. "Take a hand full! You ought to take them all as a matter of fact" he continued
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

gravely. "The president of the Simmons Shirt company just brought them in"
 The little man took cigar, lighted it, and leaned back in his chair, with the quiet assurance of a man who contemplates a job well done. The inspector beamed at him. Good work, Graydon! Seven pris- oners, and three of them have records. I'm especially glad to have nailed that crooK Walton Brunt! We've had our hooks out for him for years. But how did you land his gang?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
A Daily Story Real Life.

"As soon. as 1t was shipped into Brigl1tville, they loaded 1t on trucks and dumped it in New York, auc. tioning 1t of for whatever it-wouio bring!"
 "But how did you happen to snag the whole gang?" asked the inspector.
 "That too was easyt" grinned the little gray man. T made ar rangements with the BrightviIle police, and then I went up to see Blake & Wingright. We just wait- ed until Burnt and his crowd came in to get their cheques from the auctioneers. q knew they'd all pc on hand because they'd never trust one another, but would all come for the money at once.) Then, as soon as I'd picked up the ringleaders I 'phoned Brightville to pull a raid on the store, and grab everypody out there!"
 THE END.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
By LOWELrM. LIMPUS

uTS crime gentlemenp roared the leather-Iunged
 auctioneer. Its crime tell you" he repeated in strident accents Here's half dozen genuine broadcoth ANo shirts going for dollar and half for the box! Do hear $1.75?
 He listened anxiousy for another bid None and he shook his head despondeny "A crime, tell you but they going Going Going twice Going three times
 and SOLD Sold to the gentleman in the gray suit And a real bargain you've got, Sir"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

II hustled back to Brightville, and looked up old man Burke. He told me he had sold his store week before to this New York City syn dicate. He had. gotten swell price for 1t, too-though only $10,000 was paid down. The rest was se- cured by notes on the store.
 "A little checking soon brought |out the truth. The Burnt gang had bought the store and were using Burke Brothers name to raid the factories. They had bought more than $1,000,00O worth of stuff all over the country on the strength of Burke's credit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

Caught in passing. :. Tom Walsh, Tom Wagner, Matty Sheehan, "Scoope" Carey, Billy OBrien of New London Merwin w. Grove of Cheshire Alden White, Tom my Thompson Jack Freney, Attorney Warren Upson Lou Traurig, Johnny Burns and Johnny Dunn saw the Yale quintet score surprise win Penn in New Haven Tues day. Enjoyed quite an interesting chat this morning
 with Ira C. Maheny of New Haven, state Y M C. A. direc- tor who was in town Red Triangle business. Tom Carmody will take his Clock Shop basketeers to White Plains N. Y week from Friday. bus has been char tered carry the boys and their rooters to and fro Walter J. Raccot chairman of the Veterans Council here rendered his resignation at meeting in the armory last night and very thoughfuy paid tribute to the scrbes erng that beat adding that he hoped the future will hold the cooperation between the Fourth Estate and the council of this city, Lucille Farley is of the most ardent rooters of the Roxbury Prep basketball team Her brother Ned is member.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

Here and there. |. Miss Evelyn Cooper of South Leonard street will take the matrimonial at the home of her parents Sunday and the lucky grooobe is Bena min Zeigman of Hartford. John J. Daly, competent Naugatuck News coumnist, is in Washington, D. C. ing the Goss- ss-Gormley hearing You can rest assured that of the many gate crashers in town will talk the'r way into Buckingham Hall tomorrow night for the annual Concordia masquerade as good ole Oourke will be at the door taking the ducats. Floyd Frederick draws lot of oos ahahs he acceerates through the burg in his Chevrolet sedan. Wilfred X. Dillon is now affiliated with the Democrat Insurance Department. Henry Hayden IT, St Thomas Semnaran is confined to his home with illness Bill Powers, classmate of Hay den's is with for brief stay Jim Coukis will h test to New Britain tomorrow night to catch the annual Anepa Council dance in Tabs hall Rev Eugene Cryne
 was hest at recent dinner at LftTheatch Inn n honor of the members of St Packs church choir and the dgen Sunday collectors. .. Tom Shea h home from St Marys Seminary at Baltimore for mid-year recess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

Pot pourri. . -. The 1884 officers of the St Lucy Holy Name Society in their respective chairs for the first time Monday night with genial Henne Mnicucc punishing the pavel The organization will sponsor bazaar from February 4h to the 8h in conjunction with the Ch
 dren of Mary members . Dudley Beach is back his feet again after being confined to the Waterbury hospital for a few weeks with acute appendicitis Dick Crane has gone in for ping pong aduous that he has set mahogany table in his home Billy Johnson one of the most polite nesboys who packed Democrats under their arms recuperang at St Marys hospital after bid ding adieu to his appendix James O'Dea, William Sullivan and Arthur Brophy enjoying their three weeks leave absence from St Bernard Seminary in Rochester
 Joe DeBlasio is chairman of the Brooklyn Inter- club Council dance to be held Friday evening. Many thanks latest tnoi contributor Mary Phean of Il South street. Among the new officers elected Monday in Hartford to the Guild of St Agnes Mrs Edward L. Bowling of the Capitol City, the former Miss Alma Collins of this city who for number of years was society editor of committee capacity in which she is most competent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
Good Evening.
GLORY AHEAD
a3 ss zzs AAn n zzn TOWER

With the cries of pain, and the burst of shels Some say it's herosm, but it's hell, With the smell of rotten flesh, and the pile of dead And that familiar cry-push on for glory's ahead. It was for the glory and the country we loved, That most of us died, to meet our superior above, But now it's our time to sit back and look, At the new generation reading ours from book. But they can't realize what we went through, It is to them strange and new, We will always remember our buddes that are dead, And that familiar cry-push for glory's ahead.
 H. Warrington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
Tue Tover goes philatelic for the moment.

Tue Topoer goes philatelic for the moment. Alden Cachet Club S2O2 Avemue D, Brooklyn, ~. r., acW sponsor tpco free printed cachets blue cacet tocover February 1@, commemorcting the 125th oni- versary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln; also on 6icentemmial of the birth of Marqus de Lafayette, depicting his meeting ot the Hermitage evith Amdreao Jackson Oly ta0o cOvers per person a0lu be oowed, sent qnseaed and unstufed to address above. Covers qciU be nailed in Hardin Conty Kentucky Springfield Illinois NashUiue Tennessee Gny Lincoln and Lof- ayette postofice in the U S. # toraoordng postage is enclosed. ...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
Forecasts Cruising
 Speeds Next Season
Douglas Airners, Carrying Full Load, May Make 200
 Miles Per Hour in 1885

have just about reached the maxi mum of speed and efficiency with their presentwing-c g-curves. A lot
 of engineering must be gone into before any vast improvement comes to light. Both companies are ex- tremely vague about future models.
 which leads to the belief that they fele that it would be gliding the lily
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

It avas c pleasure to meet Raymond 5. McNGnGr0,
 nutive of HGverhi Mass, but connected uith the Department of Commerce at Washington, D. C., Tues dcy ormng sohes be stopped ct the Tocer door to say heo after introducing himself to the City Editor. Mr McNaara auas in Waterbury to start of the rea prop eyty invemtory aVich being conducted in ths city snder CWA auspices Waterbury a0as one of 6S cities i the United States chosen for such survey ond Mr McNuara oisied here to that the ocol enuneroors and supervisors of the right foot Incidental y upon hs meet vist he hopes to reeao Gcqu0lntdmces sCitk Holu Cross alumni. Mr McNGnarG graduated from tue Worcester institution m 1906 amd of It's truck stars during his intercollegiate days Ta0o brothers also numbered Ganomg the Holy Cross grads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

Weu he aOent and did it. Eddie Higgins turned the tables on BU Burton to recaptre, for the time be- ig at least the set-bdck paymg championship of the police department Eddie aUas beaten recently M close
 Gtck but he he'd hdve revenge The other night they set-backed again and Eddie reganed his lost tG reLs-ba B erplains it the game aCas played ach Eddies cards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25
The Cast of Characters in
 Credit Rating"

HARRY GRAYDON, a detective. BLAKE & WINGRIGHT, auc-
 tioneerfs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

WALTER BURNT, who heads a
 gang of crooks operating on questionable credit system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-25

truck ain't been washed since then," he concluded safely. t
 Nonsense" interjected the slueth. Use your eyes, Mulligan!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

repressed, punctuated by shy
pauses, could be expressed in one
pithy word: Trousers!
They were overwhelmingly, ter
rifically important in the scheme
of things for q five-year- James
Blaisdell listened gravely, tighten
ing his hold on the little fellows
shoulders. The man understood
partially. He grinned.
It'll see to 1t, Dick, old-timer,"
he promised. Just the minute we
can swing 1t, you'll get your big
boy suit. You sure deserve it,"
ooh, thanks, Daddy"
Now Dick, sonny, want you to
say your prayers for Mother, to-
night. Seems like what you'd ask
might have some reason to be
granted. Ask the Lord that Moth
er be spared to us, and that she be
able to come home soon. Do you
understand"
Eyes, Daddy" said Richard. He
| climbed out of the covers and
| knelt beside the bed.
Next morning Richard dressed
| in a hurry and ran downstairs. but
his father had left early. James
Blaisdell had not forgotten his
promise, though it seemed that way
| to the boy. This was the morning
the Bremen locked. There would
be fast plane waiting for Hugo
Meyer at Newark.
HE STOPPED ON
THE SECOND FLOOR.
Afternoon operations were I'M
usual lat the West Suburban Hos
pital, but this one was an event.
Everything would be blocked out
and ready for Hugo Meyer. The
| gallery of visiting surgeons would
be waiting. Hugo Meyer had in
vented this operation; and score
| Of American surgeons were very
anxious to see him perform it.
| AS soon as Richard had finished
breakfast, he romped away up
stairs. The germ Of glorious Idea
had come to him. All through the
meal it had been unfolding in beau
tiful completeness.
] Trousers of his own!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28
MAN-CHIID

Of Blaisdell, the medico raised his
lips. This was the woman on
whom Hugo Meyer would operate
OF course children would not be al
lowed around. He would have to
see to Richard somehow.
And what are We wearing I'M
derneath? Pants, We say?"
Sure, pants! They was kits,
but I hated EN-! made 'em into
pants!"
"Humph!" The Scot seemed to
have difficulty for moment with
his pipe. But IL he was indignant
at this attitude toward kits, he
managed to keep it hidden under a
broad grin. He lifted Richard to
his shoulder, and strobe forward
through the snow.
Thus it was that Richard Blais-
dell arrived at the hospital. A lit
tie later he lunched with DIR Nc
Carron. Then the Scot put him in
la deep, soft leather chair in a wait
ing room. ON the fifth floor. Rich
ard sighed. Two ninutest later he
slept.
Hugo Meyers surgical miracle
was finished. Grumpy, rejecting ali
proffered hospitality, he pushed his
way out, speaking only few words
of gruff encouragement to the hus-
band of the woman, James Blais-
dell, She would recover in ten
days-probably. Then Hugo Mey-
err was gone.
"YERE THE FATHER
OF A WEE BARN"
It was Andrew McCarron, still In
and face mask, who saw Blaisdell
and smiled dourly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28
Mexican Peon Labor
Floods United States
Thousands Here Illegally, Menacing American Work.
man, Standards of Living

Many leading business orgaIfiza-
tions have contributed inadvert-
! emily in the past to the, present
heavy burden of unemployment re-
lief through the opposition of their
Representatives to various. meas
| ures limiting immigration into the
| United States.
We, now have on our hands at
least two million new workers who
have entered the United States
since the World War, either legal
ly or Illegally, whose services are
| not needed. Business organiza-
| lions, therefore, need to ask them
selves, most seriously--"Has this
policy of opposing limitation of inn
migration been wise? Is it to our
interest, or that of the country, to
continue it?' 81. =
American Workers Suffer
Far from having scarcity of
labor to justify such a policy, we
have numbers Of American work
ers seeking jobs. Even before
1929 there was a large amount of
| unemployment, known as techno-
| logical unemployment and due to
| mechanical improvements, shifts In
industry, and in changes in demand
! for products. 1t Is obvious that
every new worker from outside has
meant one more for US to support,
whether 1t is the foreigner him.
self, or the American worker he
has kept out of a job.
| This process of wasteful impor-
tation of labor received check
in 1880 through a revokable exec
utive order constituting strictly the
law excluding aliens Likely to
become public charge" This
check is, however, only temporary.
AS soon as anything like normal
| conditions return, the public
charge basis for refusing admission
will still be fewer than applicants,
| come in and again overload the
/ labor market. \ r.
Seriousness Not Realized
| Unfortunately the representatives
Of our commercial bodies have not
awakened to the seriousness Of the
situation. They have not changed
their position Of opposition to re-
striction of immigration, regardless
of the effect that attitude has on
the tax burden of their members
and on everyone else in the coun-
try. @ s54t
The reason for this. opposition
to Limitation of unnecessary immi-
grafton. is of long standing. II
owes its existence to the fact that
this immigration Is profitable to q
limited class of employers, al
Though maintained at the expense
of the other employers and OF
everyone else. The profit Of this
minority among employers lies not
in ability and enterprise, or in bet
ter organization and equipment
but in the exploitation of cheap
labor. They do not ordinarily give
steady employment. When the
busy season arrives, they prefer the
:newly arrived, exploitable foreign
er to the American worker, better
acquainted with American stand
ards. They prefer to go to Ellis
Island or the Mexican border and
hire fresh bodies of arrivals each
year. When the season is over
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28
THE END.

these workers are thrown on the
/, community. The next year, new
arrivals are again sought.
Over 100000 Here
Mexican immigration furnishes
shining example Of this process. Its
effects, direct and indirect, have
penetrated to far corners of the
country where the Mexican, him.
self, may be unknown:
When, in 1924, we thought we
restricted immigration by placing
Europe under q quota, without do
ing the same for countries Of the
western hemisphere, we merely
| substituted Mexican peon labor for
the cheap labor of southern and
eastern Europe. From 1920 to
1880 we admitted legally about
1 100000 Mexicans for permanent
residence. In addition, large mum
bers must have entered Illegally.
because during the same period
the number of Mexicans in the
United States increased by over
722, 000-and many were dndoubt-
edly missed by the census emu
merators.
Usually thrown out of work at
the end of their first season, these
Mexicans have drifted over the
country in search of employment,
| and have formed communities as
far north as the Canadian border,
| and have added greatly to the re-
lief and unemployment problems.
Industries Affected
In the southwest, they have dis
placed white labor on railway
maintenance crews and in agricuI-
ture, BUSTING and driving north
both white and negro workers. In
| addition, there is hardly an indus
try employing ordinary American
labor that has not been affected
, by shops and mills manned by
Mexicans. Parts of the country
that have never seen a Mexican
have felt the effect OF his coming,
with its cheapening of the price
of labor in the west and south
west.
We are entering a new era, in
which we hope for better condi-
tons. But under any conditions.
il we do not use our labor thrift
lily and intelligently we shall pay
the price of waste. There is no
escaping 1t.
This waste. and this burden de-
mand the serious study of Cham
| bers of Commerce and trade and
business organizations. They can
not afford to let their members be
exploited or their money used in
the interest of any minority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

fore a door mirror, scissors in
hand. After many fumblings and
fittings against his legs, he sawed
and cut upward through the red
Manned kits, from hem almost to
waistband. Then In the rear he
repeated the process.
Then he donned the kits again,
and ripped out q dozen new safety
pins from their retaining paper. He
drew the slashed and ragged sides
Of the right-side kilt together just
above his knee, and fastened them
tightly together with a pin. Two
inches higher, another pin. Then
a third and fourth.
Lo! the voluminous right kilt
had transformed itself into a tight
and peculiar-looking knee trouser!
Richard then repeated the pro-
cess with the left leg.
Three minutes later, after many
admiring gasps, Richard tiptoed
downstairs, donned high overshoes,
| toque and striped mackinaw. Then
he slipped out of the front door
into the soft, new-fallen snow.
Andrew McCarron, M. D., had
come all the way from Rochester,
Mimi, to watch the famous Hugo
Meyer operate. The Scotchman
descended from the Austin Boule-
ward station of the Chicago and
Oak Park elevated.
Half way to his destination the
surgeon overlook a diminutive fig
| ure. 1t was very tired little boy
who was striving manfully to cover
the last blocks of his long journey
through seven inches of snow.
McCarron looked down rather
doubtfully at Richard. The child
was dressed strangely. Rather
young to be plugging along in deep
snow, too. ss r.
"Where are we bound, son?''
asked the Scot, putting his pipe.
''I'm going to see Mother, up ia
the hospital" responded the boy
sturdily. II made pants for myself
| to show her!"
"Hmph. The hospital? Who Ii
your mother?"
| Richard told him. At the name
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

ssYe'rs the father-r of wee
BARN, / take it? Weel, come along
The lad doesna like kilties, an has
made himself some pants to show
his mother. He came all by him
self to the hospital. Here he Is,
sound asleep, STILL"
With a gulping sound James
Blaisde1l, overwrought, went down
on his knees and ciasped the boy
in his arms. A moment later,
blinking away tears, he was listen
ing to the lad tell proudly how he
had made his own first trousers.
Mccain. behind them, cleared
his threat.
"D,ye know" he said medita-
lively, that was wonderful OPP
Grafton. I'm no sac pairfect a
Christian my own self. but I'm
thinkin' the Lord will not be dis
appointin' this little fella. think
his mother will be comm back
soon.ss
"But now, I'm wonderin' If his
father is goin' to disappoint him ?
He seems to want to dress like a
real American boy. Though I've
naething against the kilties, We un-
derstandt'
James Blaisdell stood up, hold
ing Richard.
"Bless you,- DIR McCarroni" he
said huskily. Tomorrow morning
first thing I'll take Dick down town
for his first knicker suit And
lthen-when Martha opens her eyes,
she'll have to look in vain for her
baby. That morning-may 1t come
soon!-she'll find she has two men
in the family!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28
LABOR APPEALED TO
RODRIGUEZ

Juarez, Mexico (UP)-Appeal to
President Abelardo Rodriguez to
subject American workers in Mex
leo to the same conditions as
those under which, it was COM
planned, Mexicans suffer Yin the
United States, was issued here by
Juarez labor unions. 1t was pro-
tested that Mexican workers in the
United States are being dismissed
at the demand of--the American
Legion to provide Jobs for Ameri-
cans. despite long and faithful SER
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

He stopped on the second floor,
listening. On tiptoe them he went
back to the small room in the rear
given over to the ironing board,
the electric sewing machine, and
Miss Rennie's dress form. Here
was a basket. Scissors. and safety
pins
Two minutes later he stood be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

Noticed, according to last nights Democrat that
the Dolice department and the Connecticut Company
combining to end the practice of boys hoppig trolley
rides in the Brooklyn and Toacm Plot sections Hope
street it's bad enough there to follo0 car up the
hill a0ith several youths precoriousy perched ON the
qu,roW ledge at the end of the trolley but @swaly there
IL one or tao bicycss hanging to the end of the trolley
and being pulled up the hill. Motorists who use the hill
daiy can give vvd tales of how they narrowly escaped
ran1,ing 0ver some boy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28

Borbs. {. A dog put to death by a Cahfo'nua
scientist is being brought back to life. What for? 1t
aOiu o,,lv be dogs life. . Cleveland motorists are
faced cith gas famine due to strike THIS 'ou glve
people chance to the Streets The cheap douor
is bringing many European tourists to the Un.ted
States If aUe've learned anything from them, MIA
should set separate price standard for the Europeans
Insult a0ouldmt pose for any but American photog-
rophers believing IN patronzing home industries evem
to the jais . Roger Babson, the economist, says no
one can be blamed for the depression. Well, not at
least until the meet presidential election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-28
By ANTHONY RiJD

DICHARD pressed small against the cold windoW.
II Out there small snowakes whed and edded along the
curb of Washington boulevard
Over the black asphalt continuous stream of cars
rushed past On Central avenue the rossstree big
troeybus suddenly rumbed into motion the traffic light