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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

4 great deal of interest is being shown in the meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening of next week, November goth, at the home of Mrs Jennie G. Phillips, principal of Sprague grammar school at 303 Dwight street. The meeting has been sponsored by the Casper s. Davis, Jr., post of the American legion and is planned to interest all organized Waterville groups in promoting some sort of enter { prise to raise a fund for handl- l ing Christmas activities, a com munity basis in Waterville this year. The legion post has invited all groups to send committees of three to the meeting. Already the following organizations have &C., cepted the invitation. Court Welch F'oresters of American; the Fair mount Community club, Waterville the Watervi1le Parent-Teacher l association, Pride of Welch circle, { Companions of the Forest, the 1 Girls club of Waterville, Water vile Camp, Patriotic Order, Sons of America, Everyman's Bible Glass of Waterville, Goodwill lodge 1 Knights of Pythias, the Waterville Boys club and representation of various Waterbury church organ izations.
 { In promoting the project the Waterville legionnaires felt that joint community efforts of this na- 1 ture might make it possible to rem der more effective holiday relief to needy Waterville families with less chance of duplication of effort and the overlapping which always attends individual effort.
 Funerals This Afternoon
 The funeral of Mrs Richard J. Minnaman takes place at two o'clock this afternoon from her late home at 1469 Thomaston ave- nue. Rev Raymond M. D. Adams, of St Paul's Episcopal church will conduct the services and the burial is to be at Riverside cemetery.
 Rev MT Adams will also conduct the private funeral services for AL bert Bitz who succumbed Thurs day to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Wednesday ievening. They are to take place this afternoon at the Alderson funeral home. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
 Football
 The Waterville Maroons will ! play a return game with the Litch- l 1leId Cowboys at Litchfield tomor. row afternoon. The locals droppe1 8 close game to the Cowboys in the opening contest of the season and Coach Buffers team is out for revenge. This game was originally
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
Legion To Sponsor
 Community Meeting
Proposals for Promoting Enterprise for Handling
 Christmas Activities to Be Accepted
WATERVILLE

scheduled two weeks ago but was rained outt.
 Bridge
 Mrs James Duncan of Boyden street, recently entertained the following at bridge: Mrs Rather inc Malia, Mrs William Rooney, Mrs Edward Barlow, Mrs William Dunlavey, Mrs Charles Denehy, Mrs David Cooley and Mrs Frank lyn Robinson.
 Heads Committee
 Mrs John M- Lynch of Boyden street heads the committee in charge of the Thanksgiving party to be given by the Ladies' auxiliary Ancient Order of Hibernians.
 Pinochle
 MT and Mrs William A1bon, of Conrad avenue entertained their pinochle club this week with the following guests. MT and Mrs Harry Sizer and MT and Mrs Harry Hoethke.
 The Fairmount Bridge club met this week with Mrs Frank Bailey of Essex vaenue. Attending were Mrs Walter Norman, Mrs Frank Liliher, Mrs Benjamin Bradley, Mrs Russell Atherton, Mrs Russell Truelove, Mrs Patrick Donahue and Mrs Benjamin Bradley.
 On Honor Roll
 Louis Laun, Jr, son of MT and Mrs Louis Laun of Faber avenue, who entered Taft school at Water town this fall, appears on the first term honor roll of the school.
 Father Dies
 Alfred Ellis, of Thomaston ave- nue, has the sympathy of a wide circle of local friends in the loss of his fathher, John Ellis, whose death occurred in Thomaston ear- Her in the week. The elder MT El- lis resided in Waterville until 0 few years ago, making his home here for years, and had many local friends.
 Funeral services for the late Mrs. Robert Platt of 773 Cooke street will take place on Monday morning from her home to St. Mar garet's church where a high mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in Riv- erside cemetery.
 Briefs MT. and Mrs. Ralph Darlington of Bon Air avenue recently en- tertained MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Richardson of Putnam, Mass, and MT. and Mrs. George Hoxie of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. MT. and Mrs. Paige Seaton, former Waterville residents who are now resiring in Providence, R. T., were recent visitors in Water vile.
 Mrs. Curtis Bonney and son, of Plainville, have been visiting the formers brother, Benjamin M Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, oi Boyden street.
 James J. Lynch, of Salisbury, is spending the weekend with his sister, Mrs. Katherine Malia o1 Boyden street.
 | Thomas Cornell of Bridgeport was a recent visitor at the home of MT. and Mrs. Charles Denehey of Dwight street. | Miss Mary Greene of Colonia avenue is visiting her uncle, Rev Henry Moves and Mrs. Moves oi Shrewsbury. Mass. Mrs. Ida Tullar of Boyden street is entertaining her daughter and grandson, Mrs. William Hyde and Robin Hyde of Milford. Mir. and Mrs. William Rooney of Dwight street, have as theii guest, the latter's brother, Thomas Dalton of Hastings-on-the-H Hudson N. Y.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Keliher oi Charter avenue, has been in Fall River, Mass. where they visited Mrs. Keliher's sister, Sister Elm ma Ste. Anne.
 Mir. and Mrs. James Burns ant family of Th0mast0n avenue. have returned from Garrison. N. V. where they visited their son. Ron aid. who Is . student at Q sem mary there.
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Westheim's as Butler chauffeur and cook. until two years ago. They were discharged, he said, because his wife, southerner, could not cook Jewish meals"
 Police Lieutenant Amos Ander- son, called the Lone Wolf of the Boston Post road" because of his many single-handed brushes with criminals on that highway, said in- formation he had from very pri- vate source" leads him to believe the quartet attempted to kidnap the boy. He also pointed out that the suspects, after passing the Westheim home once in their auto mobile, stopped for 40 minutes at the gate of the exclusive Cherry Lawn school, which Robert attends.
 They evidently knew that Bob by was due at school about that time," Anderson said.
 Actually the boy was in New York with his parents. He had been taken there a few days ago after police received the stip" from Somewhere in Connecticut" that an abduction would be attempted.
 Prior to venfuring into the Vest helm home, a rambling, modern ized farm house, originally built 167 years ago. one of the trio call- cd the house and asked whether the Westheims were there. Under prompting of police, Q servant re- piled that only Bobby was home. Then. they prepared fof action. A vacuum cleaner was turned on to lead the plotters to think that the servants were at work upstairs. Actually. they were hiding under a bed.
 When the trio finally entered. they ran into the arms Of the poe lice. A struggle ensued in which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17

On the fourth floor of the old Mathews and Williams plant on North Elm street, which now houses the Mutual Aid workers. the first of the government-spon- sored workshop projects, a FERA mattress factory, established little more than a week ago, is already operating with surprising amount of efficiency.
 Since the institution of the pro- cess and a production of six or seven mattresses for the first few days, the women engaged in the work have become so proficient that they are now averaging II or 12 mattresses completed at the end of each working day.
 Forty-seven women and two men are employed in two spacious, we'll lighted rooms on the top floor of
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ity as an industrial center and be- cause of the fact that space was Available in, the factory, where for some time Mutual Aid workers have been engaged in the manufac- ture of brooms and similar work. According to William M. Harris, EZRA administrators, the factory may eventually average as many as 15 mattresses daily.
 The completed products are dis tributed through the central ware house of the EZRA headquarters al New Haven. Needy families of the city will probably be given the mattresses directly from the fac tory, although they will be official ly recorded as having been sent from the New Haven warehouse.
 No mattresses can be allotted here without approval from New Haven.
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the building. The first department is known as the picking room, where the cotton is fiuffed out by hand and combed. Because of the flying dust and lint in this room the workers must wear protective guaze masks.
 In this department the cotton is placed on the filling table in 50 pound lots, wrapped and sent out to the finishing room where 1t is tufted, rolled and made ready for shipment. With the exception of the foreman, Samuel Spatz, none of the workers has had experience in mattress work.
 The local factory is only one of several installed in large cities of the state within the past month as EZRA projects. Waterbury was chosen, along with Bridgeport and New Haven. because of it's suitabil-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
OBITUARY

CARROLI-Peter J. Carroll, age 70 years, died at New Haven hos- pital last night after a brief illness. The body was taken to the Lunny funeral home, 25 Central avenue, from where the funeral will be held Monday morning. Other ar- engagements will be announced lat CT.
 MT Carroll was a former resi- dent of this city and had lived in West Haven for the past two years. He is survived by one brother, Will liam Carroll of West Haven: one sister, Mrs Mary Donnegan of New York city, and several nieces and nephews.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
FUNERALS

Privatef uneral services for Al bert Bitz will be held this after. noon at the Alderson funeral home 70 Central avenue, Rev Raymond M. D. Adams, rectord of St Pauls Episcopal church, will officiate, Burial will be in Riverside cemc- tery.
 Funeral services for Mrs Rich- ard I. Minnaman will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, 1469 Thomaston avenue. Rev Ray mond M. D. Adams, rector of St Paul's Episcopal church will off, ciate. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs Katherine Scanlon Parker, will be held on Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock from the home 24 Arbor street to St Francis xavier's church where solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in new St Joseph's cemetery. The mass will be in the basement of the church as the main church is being re-decorated.
 The funeral of Mrs Robert Platt will be held on Monday morning at 9:15 o'clock from the home 773 Cooke street to St Margaret's church where solemn mass of re- quiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
 The funeral of Michael Redican will be held on Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main street to St Thomas church where solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at g o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs Nora (Mc- Cormick) Kennedy will be held on Monday morning at S:30 o'clock from the home, 2 Union street to St Patrick's church where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at 3 o'clock. Burial will be in new St Joseph's cemetery.
 The funeral of Henry E. Elan agan which was private was held this morning at 8:30 o'clock from the Bergin Funeral Home, 200 East Main street to the Sacred Heart church where a solemn mass of requiem was celebrated at Q o'clock. Burial will be in new St Jo- seph's cemetery
 police fired sawed-ofE shoteuns and pistols. boring holes in furniture and walls. as well as smashing con- siderable glassware.
 Two of the quartet escaped but police later seized one of the fuei- lives near the scene of battle. The Weetheime returned to their home with Robert last night,
 "Kidnnping7" Mrs WeDtheim laughed. sFof whatf Ransom Why, we couldn't raise sbvD # we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
W. H. JUNIORS IN
 MINSTREL REVUE
Spendid Cast Rehearsing Under Direction of
 Joseph LezOtte
WASHINGTON HILL

The Washington Hill Juniors
 one of the leading junior clubs oi the city, will sponsor their second annual minstrel and dance at the Washington park community house Friday evening, December IA, and are now rehearsing for the event under the direction of Joe Lezotte
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FIRST REACTIONS
 FOLDING REGIME
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under another legislative act, was informed by the federal pubic works administration that a $l,- SO0,000 loan and a $7OO,OO0 grant for remodeling work had been held up indefinitely" The administra :. tion's telegram said officials would study the change in control before acting.
 The federal government has dis played marked antipathy for the Long political machine. Federal appointive offices in the state have been filled with anti-Long demo- crats.
 The laws finally approved by Longs legislature yesterday do not become effective for 20 days. Mean while some of the states leading attorneys will scrutinize them on constitutional grounds and it was believed probable that some or all, would be challenged in the courts.
 Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and other city officials. all members of the old regulars machine, refused to say if they would turn control of the municipal police and fire departments over to a state civil service commission headed by Long appointees. It generally was be- lieved that they would refuse to comply, contending the law vio- lated the constitution, thereby initiating a test.
 Long politicians circulated word among the faithful that another special session of the legislature would be held in January to take up "tax matters" Financing of the states huge bonded indebted ness may become a major problem.
 The kingfish himself remained In Baton Rouge. exulting in his triumph. The A laws passed yes- terday concentrated control of all police and fire departments with the state government, stripped New Orleans municipal government of control of three other agencies where old regular democrats now employed will be replaced by Long democrats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
COLOMBIAN VESSEL ARRIVES

Philadelphia. Pa = (UP) - An old visitor to the Port of Philadel- phla in the past, docked here again recently but not in the role of a freighter as before. The Comnercial Traveller, as she was known hten. arrived all dressed up as a member of the Colombian Navy md under Q new name - Cucutn. This q the first time a naval vessel from a South, Amer lean natlon has visited Philadeis phin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
RUNAWAY YOUTHS PICKED UP HERE

Waterbury proved to be the end of a hitch hiking tour yesterday for Leo Whitehead, 12, and Clar- ence Lavelley, 13, of Waltham, Mass. Picked up by Sergeant Gooding, they were found to be runaways from home, and were taken to headquarters to await the arrival of parents to bring them home.
 The two lads left home Thurs day, spending the night in Wor- cester. They were on their way to New York when found here. Police headquarters notified the lads parents that the two had been located and were being held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
REPRESENTS CAROLINA
 AT MEET

Raleigh, N. C-(UP)-Attired In an attractive dark blue en- sembie for street wear, Miss Mary Rose Pickler, of Albemarle, won first prize in North Carolina's All club dress revue. She will repre- sent Carolina at the national All congress in Chicago Nov. 30 through Dec. 8.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
OWNS LICENSE FAC

Andover. o.--(UP)- A set ol ohio automobile license plates for every year since 1909 has been col. lected by Fred W. Sargent. who owned this towns first automobile ! o3 years ago.
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Northern Ireland hns n cam. paign against motorists who "eut ln' on carts.
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ESCAPED CONVICT
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PARKING PROBLEM
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CARROLL-In New Haven, Nov 18th, 1884, Peter J. Carroll, of West Haven, formerly of this city. Flu neral Monday morning, time and arrangements later, from Lunny Funeral Home, 25 Central Ave.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-17
MASSES

MASSES
 McGEE-A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated Monday morning, Nov. 18th at 7:30 o'clock, at the Blessed Sacrament church. for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs Della Hazlett McGee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-22
Windbreaks

Thirty or forty years ago, says the Ok
ard, Calf, Courier, that community did
not enjoy an attractive climate. 1t WAS
plagued with violent and frequent east
winds which swept the region and made
everybody miserable. Then the inhabi-
tants began to plant groves of trees as
windbreaks where they would do the most
good. They reduced the severity of the
winds as we'll as beautified the landscape.
Lately, citizens who have forgotten what
the windbreaks were for have been cut
ting them down to restore their acres to
crop production. The Courier points out
what mistake that is,
Recent experiments conducted by the
horticultural department with respect to
lemons showed that where windbreaks
were planted twice as close as ordinarily
though sufficient in lemon orchards in the
Oxnard district, production was increased
as much as four times and more" it says.
Apparently the trees were as valuable in
sheltering orchards from harmful winds
as they were in protecting human beings.
Trees are essential for many reasons.
Their presence helps to prevent floods
and soil erosion, to maintain normal rain
beautify city and country. There will be
fall, to shelter homes and farms and to
no danger for long time of having too
many of them. Planting more groves and
windbreaks is important.
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icals, etc, in their harmful state into the
same streams and ponds.
We feel that the fight in Connecticut
can never be won unless every industry
that today pollutes natural water source
will install such devices as are necessary
to neutralize wastes. We also claim that
many towns in Connecticut have not de-
voted the time nor the money to elimina-
ton Of pollution as has our own city of
Waterbury. In time Waterbury will
boast modern sewage disposal system
that will be the envy of many larger
cities. Even in the midst of hard times,
diminishing tax returns, and the like we
have kept our word to the State Water
Commission and have continued our plans
towards complete elimination of pollution
of the Naygatuck river and it's tributaries.
This will be accomplished by major trunk
lines handling all laterals and eventually
dumping in disposal plant where raw
wastes will be neutralized Were all cities
and towns to do the same as we have done
the fight would be half won.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-22
HISTORY

Certain streams figured in the
early history of water power here.
Waterbury abounds in hills and
for every hill there is a small
stream or brook most of which
eventually come, perhaps by way
of other streams, the lesser into
the larger, to the Naugatu0k.
Among those mentioned and which
had (some of them became COW
cred or dried up) an Importance
are Long Meadow brook, Hop
brook, Pulling Mill brook Cater
called City brook, Snug brook,
Mad river, Great brook and Little
brook, Beaver Pond brook, Turkey
Hill brook, Sled Hill brook. Turkey
brook, Park brook, Steels brook
and Hancock brook.
Many of these mean nothing to
the present generation but to old
er generations they no doubt are
familiar, including those I. like
Great and Little brook which now
meander along under the earth to
their ultimate emptyipg place.
Waterbury like the srest Of Con-
necticut, measures it's history by
its natural peculiarities, its hills
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-22
Too Much Postponing

Representatives of the four states
through which the Connecticut river
flows were present at meeting IN Spring
field last Sunday to give impetus to plan
that eventually will result in river
that is free from pollution at every point
in it's winding course from Canada down
to the Long Island Sound. There were
good promises made Sunday to push this
work with all dispatch. The Hartford
Times calls attention to the fact that Con
necticut has been working towards new
day, when rivers and ponds will not be
"open sewers, for some years now
1t is not in a Boosting manner that we
call attention to the fact that the Water
bury Democrat was one OF the first or
our state papers to praise the creation Oh
the State Water Commission and to urge
the utmost cooperation of every city ana
town in the state with this board IN It's
work of cleaning up our waterways. For
wears we have given much publicity to
the work of this board both through the
editorial and news columns. Only in such
fashion can the fight against stream pol
luton ever be won. We have seen pro-
gress made. We have witnessed retro
gression.
It was only few weeks Back that we
discussed the Connecticut river problem
as it appeared to Massachusetts. A re-
gional conference revealed that the 349
towns in the Connecticut river valley were
all willing and ready to do their part in
the fight against pollution. At the time
we praised this spirit, but we maintained,
as we have right along, that all such eff
forts would be fruitless if at the same
time our industries cannot likewise be
persuaded to cease dumping acids, chem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-22

Announcement that the old Lewis
homestead at the corner of Linden and
Prospect streets may be RACED by CWA
workers and the wood used for fuel must
have stirred memories in the minds of
many of the older residents of this city.
The house has been empty for many
years now, but at one time it was con-
sidered one of the show places of the city.
1t was built according to exacting specifi-
cations and when completed was probably
one of the best built residences in Water
bury from a structural standpoint. It
seems shame to think that the fine
woods and the carpentry work that were
put into it must now be sacrificed. While
it is purely a private matter, the mere
fact that CWA labor may be employed to
tear it down gives it quasi-public touch.
We'd suggest that the CWA or Mutual
Aid officials look over the property with
view towards selling possibly some of
the fine woodwork, wainscoting, and the
like. Of course, this depends to some ex-
tent on the skill with which the various
rooms would be demolished. If it is to
be mere wrecking job, nothing of value
can be saved, but house can be demol-
ished today without damaging valuable
woods, panels, etc, for which oftentimes
large sums are paid.