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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
ITALIAN SOCIETY
 ELECS OFFICERS

Mrs. Josephine Pernatozzi was reelected president of. the Italian Sisterhood at a meeting of the or- ganization last night in Liberty hall. Plans for a Christmas party at Liberty hall on the 21st and for a dinner dance on February 14th were discussed. Miss Lillian Ranan- do is chairman of the dance com mittee. Other officers elected in. clude: Vice-president, Mrs. Dom chic Barbieri; recording secretary, Julia Jannetti; financial secre- tary, Sylvia Perrilla; orator, Mrs. Joseph Jacovino; treasurer, Mrs. Lucy Mattarazzo; trustees, Elsie Perrillo. Nellie Capocchi; advisory councillors, Mrs. Thomas Barbieri, Phyllis Esposito, Lillian Ranando, Theresa Barbieri, Lena D'Alles- sandro; hostess, Mrs. Robert Bos- co; sick visiting committee, Mrs. Julia Capocchi, Mary Mecca, Mrs. Josephine Cesariello.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

Formalities. necessary for the
 transfer of Jurisdiction were being gone through today in the case of Benjamin F. Brown, 42, former Chase company worker who was yesterday adjudged insane three
 weeks after he had been arrested as the sender of abusive and threatening letters to officials of the
 Chase Companies and other local
 factory executives over a, period Of four and a half years. Disposi- ton of Browns case is being turned over to the federal govern
 ment, in whose court he was to be
 arraigned this month. to local courts.
 Brown will be returned to this city as soon as the papers re-
 leasing him from the Jurisdiction of the U. s. court have been sign- ed and approved at Hartford and
 New Haven Brown is stiil at
 New Haven county jail, where he
 was taken in lieu of $5,000 bail
 after probable cause against him had been found at hearing before
 U. s. Commissioner Harry Krasow in this city.
 News that Brown had been ad.
 judged insane was reported exclu- ,sively yesterday by The Democrat.
 He had been under examination by
 doctors and alienists appointed
 through the office of the U. s. at-
 torney at Hartford. At present, it appears that Brown will be brought
 here early next week under the
 Jurisdiction of Waterbury city
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
|ELKS ARRANCES
 NOVELTY DANCE
Social Affair to Be Held in Lodge Rooms This
 Evening

Members of the Waterbury lodge of Elks will gather at the Elks' hall tonight for the first of a series of social affairs leading up to the New Years Eve celebration on the 31st. Tonight's event will be novelty dance during which hot turkey sandwiches will be served and entertainment present ed.
 It is planned to make these af- fairs weekly feature, provided the members support them. They are open to Elks and their friends. The affair tonight will feature one or two round and square sets for which special announcer has been engaged. Dancing starts at g o'clock and lasts until tomorrow morning.
 Al King and his Melody Men will play for the dancing tonight. The hall has been attractively dec- orated and fair sized attendance is looked for by the committee consisting of Lieutenant William F. Pollard, chairman, Ben Laval lee, Walter Jarvis, James Court ney, Clifford McHale, James Walk CT. Joseph Kenny, William Cum ningham, John Holian, James Gal win, James Mccarthy and Harry Boyce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
Police Ball Excites
 Keen Public Interest
Memories of Brilliant Social Events of Past Recalled
 By Announcement of 1935 Plans

News that Waterbury's police men are to revive their annual ball struck 8 responsive chord in the hearts of residents old and young when 1t was announced a few days ago and started many, particularly among the older folks, to reminisce about the great social events that policemen's and firemen's balls of the past proved to be.
 The 1885 ball, sponsored by the Waterbury Police Aid association, will be held on Friday night, Feb- ruary 18th, at the municipality owned Hamilton park pavilion. It will be the first time that a po- licemen's or firemen's dance has been held at the city ballroom. Most of the ones remembered by the present generation were held at the state armory on Field street, while ones dating even further back were held at Buckingham hall, and beyond that in the old city hall.
 The coming event, like the ones of past years which are so we'll re- membered, will be an occasion for Waterbury's policemen to parade themselves in fancy dress, as well as play host to state and local dig nitaries and to their friends among the genera public.
 Memories Recalled
 Balls in the past. held by pclice- men and firemen, were an occasion for the city'se social minded folk to turn out almost en masse. Sc 1o l,, @fo{ {,.e Tn the past that usually the main problem was to handle the crowds which fiocked invariably to the ball. Once year, the police hold. ing their ball one year and the fire men the next, the service ball wa. one of the highlights of Water bury's social season. Then, witt the depression. the two depart ments found 1t impossible to con tinue the annual dances and tht series was ended several years ago Color has always been one of the marked attributes of the biennia police and fire balls. and it was nc unusual occurrence for several thousand people to line the en. frances to the hall just to see the dancers entreing. There were hun dreds on hundreds of pretty girls, all attired in their choicest finery, much of it purchased especially for the occasion, each miss trying to outdo the other once she was for tunate to receive one of the .prized "bids" to the ball.
 "Blaze of Glory"
 And then the uniforms :. There were regular military dress
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

Every soon many industries, be- gun in the house or the shed, were transferred to mills employing a few hands along the rivers. All sorts of Yankee notions were man. ufactured and peddled throughout New England and west of the Hud- son.
 Connecticut soon became fam ous for it's machine tools and for it's clocks. From small beginnings have been created great industries. Waterbury is now known as the Brass City; New Britain as the Hardware City; Danbury as the Hat City; and Meriden as the Sil- yer City. Hartford, the Insurance City has long been the home of the typewriter and across the river are the great aircraft manufactories. Scattered throughout the state, more to the east of the great river. are silk and woolen mills. Wash ington had a suit of clothes made of Hartford woolen. Along with the growth of Connecticut's manufact- uring industries have come great inventors. James Fitch, for in- stance, built the first steamboat David Bushnell the first submarine and to Ely Whitney we are in. debted for the invention of the cotton gin. These are great names in our industrial history"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
WANAMAKER KIN
 AMONG RICHEST

Philadelphia, Dec 8--(UP)-The death of Capt John Wanamaker, Jr, made his children two of the wealthiest minors in the world, it became known today.
 The children, John Rodman Wanamaker, 16, and his sister, Fernando Pauline Wanamaker, 13, have each begun to receive more than $21,000 income a month.
 T hmonicee.e eta oinshrdl =? -?--
 The income is derived from a $13,000,000 share of the estate of the late Rodman Wanamaker, who left nearly $72,000,000. The chil- dren live with their mother, Mrs Pauline Disston Wanamaker, di- vorced wife of Wanamaker, at the home of their grandmother, Mrs Rachel B. Dunlop Disston McVick- CT in Chestnut Hill.
 Upon reaching maturity the two children will receive outright control of their share of the in- come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
New Books At
 The Library
Non.flction-Bioeraphy

Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico Jose Blasio; Lost Paradise, a boy hood on a Maine farm, R. P. T. Coffin; My Own Story, Marie Dressler; Character-Bad Letters of a Pacifist, H. S. Gray; Girls Who Became Artists, w. and Frances Kirkland; The Son of Marie An toinette, Maud Minnigerode; Car dinal Recollections of Seventy Years, William O'Connell; Wan derer's Circle, Cornelia s. Parker. Autobiography, John Cowper Powys; The White Monk of Tim buctoo, William Seabrook; Experi- nent in Autobiography, Herbert G Wells.
 Miscellaneous
 All Around the Town, Herbert Asbury; Conflicts of Policy in the Far East, G. H. Blakeslee; Con- tract Bridge Red Book on Play Ely Culbertson; The Dictionary oi Dates, H. +. Keller; The Rise ot Rome, Gordon King; They All Sans from Tony Pastor to Rudy Val lee, Liebling and Marks; Textbook of Psychology for Nurses, M. A Muse; Library Manual-Study- Work for High School Students; Handedness-Right and Left, l. S. Vile; City Editor, Stanley Walker
 Technical
 Elements of Power Generation A. M. Greene; Hawley Conversion Tables, Hawley; Electron Tubes III Industry, Keith Henney; Moderi Piano Tuning and Allied Arts. W B. White.
 Juvenile BOOks-FictiOn
 Picture Book of Lorna Doone, k D. Blackmore; Can You Read It! Picture Story of General Jeenis Alice and Allen Gall; Lumberjack s. w. Meader; Lending Mary. B. 0 White.
 NOn.fiction
 Children Catalog, 4th Supple. ment; The Girl Through the Ages Dorothy Stuart; Roundabout America--New York, New Eng. land, Middle and Northwest, John. sof, & Peck. (Course of study fl use of the library for Grades to 6.
 Adult Fiction The Haunted Hills, B. M. Bower Dangerous Cargo, Hubert Footner The Case of the Curious Bride, D s, Gardner; Lost Horizon, James Hilton; The Safe Bridge, Frances P. Reyes; Three Men Die, Sarah 6 l Millin; Pitcairn's Island, Hall anl Sordhoff. The White Reef. Mar tha Ostenso: Mir Cohen Takes ; Walk. Mary R. Rinehart; Lust fvl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
Stocks Sag in Session Marked by Small Volume To-day
TEACHERS MEET
 TO ELECT SLATE
Daisy Lord May Be Named President of Group at
 Hartford To-day

officers will be elected today at the meeting of the Connecticut State Teachers association at Hartford. Miss Daisy Lord of the Wilby faculty is the nominee for the office of president of the de- partment of class room teachers.
 The complete slate is as follows: William E. Parker of Danielson, president; Miss Helen T. Collins of New Haven, vice-president; Joseph Fitzgerald of New Haven, finance officer; Miss Daisy Lord of Water bury, president of the classroom teachers department; Miss Kather- inc Fitzgerald of Bridgeport, pres. ident of the administrative depart ment; Miss Mary Campbell of New Britain, w. B. Conish of Stamford, A. A. MacKimmie of Essex and Raymond N, Grown of Thomaston. directors; MT Harrington, executive secretary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
INSECT STING NOT SUFFICIENT FOR
 COMPENSATION
No Grounds for Claim, Rules Lynch in TOrring-
 ton Mans Case

The sting. of an insect received while at work is not sufficient grounds on which to claim compen- sation, according to a ruling of Compensation Commissioner James M. Lynch handed down in the local court today in the case of Leo De- Francischi of 173 Chestnut avenue, Torrington, against the city of Tor rington.
 The claimant testified at the hearing held recently that he was engaged in digging header for the respondent company which was engaged in the construction of a state highway project at Torington on September 29.
 While engaged in the digging, tho claimant stated, an insect of unknown species, stung him on the arm, developing an infection which laid him up for several weeks.
 The claimant thought he was en- titled to remuneration during the time he was out of work.
 Commissioner Lynch thinks diff ferently, stating, From the evil dence, there was no special hazard in the claimants work which rem dered him especially likely to be bitten by insects, but he was ex- posed to the same hazard in this respect as the community at large"
 The claim for compensation was thus dismissed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
BOYS CLUB GAME
 BOOM RENDEZVOUS
Harmonica Band to Be Formed Rifle Dart
 Range Attracts

Considerable interest has been manifested in the newly opened game room at the Boys Club on Cottage Place. Both junior and senior division members have found something of interest here and have taken advantage of the facilities.
 Anthony Ciofani has been placed in charge of this division and has planned activities that have won wide approval in the ranks of the juniors and seniors. Another dt- vision that. has proven popular IS the kiddie's room with all of the slates and wall decorations serv- ing to attract the attention of the youngsters. Their instructors have little difficulty in teaching them the proper use of the facilities.
 Listed among the activities in- teresting to the boys are ping-pons and the Rifle dart range.
 It has been the good fortune of the club directors to secure sev- eral talented harmonica players as members within recent months and under the direction of Phil Mannel- 10 "The Boys Club Harmonica Band'' has been organized. Despite the fact that the organization has had but few rehearsals they have shown considerable talent and are in demand at fraternity gatherings and socials about the city. They plan to make their debut as part of a great holiday program plan- ned at the Cottage Place institu- tion.
 Among the members Of the mu- sical group are Phil Manneiio' Louis Manello. Frank Mazzola' Tony Daversa, James Cimino, Marty Cimino, Thomas Piesyna ana Michael Flinter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
RUSSELL ESTATE
 INVENTORY FILED
We'll Known Teacher Left $l,l66-Mrs Erlanger's
 Estate Is Sl,590.53

The late Mary Jane Russell, one of the city's most prominent school teachers, left an estate of. $1.166 according to the inventory filed to- day at the office of Judge Dennis J. Slavin in probate court. Miss Russell during her teaching career had the distinction of tutoring some of the prominent business and professional men in the city today.
 Her estate shows an interest in property at 246 Bank street worth $1 and interest in real estate at 319 Grove street worth $905. There is a savings account in the Wa terbury Savings bank of $60. Four pieces of jewelry are appraised at $200. Miss Russell died August 22d
 Another inventory filed today. that of the late Mrs Meyer B. Erlanger, shows a value of $1,59s.53. The estate consists of 13 shares of stock of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph com pany, valued at $1.404; an account in the Waterbury Savings bank of $94.S9; checking account in the Citizens & Manufacturers National bank of $78.45 and an account in the Merchants Trust company of $22.19,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
SMOKER ATTRACTS LARGE CEATTENDANCE

More than 200 persons attended the entertainment and smoker sponsored by the Holy Name so- ciety of SS Peter and Paurs church in the parish hall. Rev James Woods and Rev Francis Murphy addressed the gathering. Joseph Brophy was master of cer- emonies.
 The program was as follows: Songs, West End quartet composed of Michael Lombardi, George zap- pone, Thomas Martelli and Angus. tine Morbtto; recitation, "Gunga Din," William Garren; vocal solo, Ely Iabonne; jokes and songs Thomas Stange: dance routines Billie and Ernie Leger; vocal SC. lections, Milky Way quartet; song Clifford McHale; vocal solo, Vii. liam Clasby. Several card and mag. teal tricks were performed by MI. chael c. Kidney.
 Harry x. Cashin was chairman of the committee in charge of ar
 Nngements which included Jack Hartley, Edward Dwyer, Arthur 1 Wengersfmann. Joseph Brophy i Edward x. Bolger. Matthew Galli. gan and George Reilly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

Life, Irving Stone: Elizabeth, Frank Swinnerton. .
 -fiction-Classified
 Ethics; The Dawn of Conscience, J. H. Breasted; Peace with Honor. A. A. Milne; New Patterns in Sex Teaching, F. B. Strain; Making Life Better, Elwood Worcester.
 Religion; What Can We Believe? :? J. G. Gilkey; Stages on the Road, Sigrid Undset.
 Social Sciences
 The World Adrift, R. L. Buell.. Adult Elementary Education, Walker & Cook; Parents, Children and Money, s. and B. Gruenberg; The Method of Freedom, Walter Lippman: Boy and Girl Tramps of America. Thomas Minehan; Young Geographers-How They Explore and Map the World, l.. s. Mitchell; Vacations for Women, Adah Peirce; Outline of Governments-- The Municipal Year Book 1884, Roger Shaw.
 Poetry, Essay, Drama, Etc
 Horns in Velvet, Joan Ramsay; From Bed to Worse, Robert Bcnch- ley: Becoming Writer, Dorothea Brahde; Conversation Piece, Noel Coward; The American Keepsake, Russel Grouse; Artists in Uniform. Max Eastman; Advanced Problems for the Fiction Writer, John Gal lishaw; Twenty Problems for the Fiction Writer, John Gallishaw: To One Who Mourns the Death of the Emperor, Kimi Gengo; Happy Ending. Louise I. Quincy. Travel
 Russia's Iron Age, W. M. Cham berlain; Soviet Russia i917-19Sa W. M. Dean; Ones Company--.A Journey to China, Peter Fleming The Spirit of Modern France, Hel' en Hill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
Dry Goods Assn To
 Check Legislation
National Organization to Present Reaction to 10 Basic
 Questions on Unemployment Insurance

New York, Dec. S.-With con- gress preparing to give serious con- sideration to unemployment in- surance legislation when it con- venes in less than a month from now, retailers throughout the country were called upon today to present their reactions to ten basic questions in connection with un- employment insurance and unem- ployment reserves.
 Samuel w. Reyburn, chairman of the Independent Merchants committee and committee of the National Retail Dry Goods asso- citation for the study of proposed social and unemployment legisla- tion issued the questions for retail CTS today, urging the submission of their opinions at once.
 The ten questions offered by MT Reyburn, who is also president of the Associated Dry Goods corpora ton of New York, all revolve around points of basic importance to retailers in the framing of un- employment legislation, but are fundamental to study of the sub- ject by any form of business. The questions are:
 1. Is the fundamental prin- ciple of unemployment insurance or reserves sound?
 B.. Should retirement allow ance tpensions),s disability com pensation and relief be combined with unemployment insurance?
 3. Should legislation and ad- ministration be left to the federal government, to each state, or shall the federal government supervise and control the enactment of in- dividnal state laws? ,s5
 1. The program necessitates the accumulation of fund:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
NEW RADIO GROUP
 ORGANIZED HERE

An organization meeting of Wa terbury radio service men was held last night at Chamber of Com merce hall. The group. to be known as .The Waterbury Radio Service Mems Association" will have as Its aim the furthering of better radio service in the city and the develop ment of the efficiency of its mem-
 A. M. Winchell was elected presidents Max Garber, vice-presi- dent; secretary, Henry Carpenter: treasurer. Murton Lyon.
 The members present last night were R. F. Hamilton, w. R. Ma cauiay, w, E.. Nicholson. Henry R, Vanasse, Frank Shurpo, Edward Wandzeil, Ronald Vosburgh. Ernest Franz, ]. L. Phelan, Charles Sum- ma, sherman Shapiro. Mufton w. Lyon, Edgar Hughes, Louis Green biatt. Everett S.. Hicock. MT Gar Der. Harry Carpenter, A. M. Win che1l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
OnlyFracti0naLL0sses Recorded By Leaders
Few Issues Close Fiigher-Seyeral Stocks Set New
 Highs for Year-AIIied Chemical Suffers Loss

widest loss in the active list. lt touched 134 off points and then rallied partially. Declines of point or more were noted in U. s. Gyp- sum, American Sugar Refining Cerro De Pasco, and Owens 1llin- ois Glass.
 United States Steel dipped near ly point and small losses were made by Atchison, Chrysler, Gen. eral Motors, General Electric, In- ternational Harvester, Johns Man. vile, Montgomery Ward, National and Woolworth.
 Hahn preferred made new high at 55 up 2 1-2 and International Business Machines crossed its 1894 top to sell at 160 1-4 up l 1-4. IT.. s. Rubber issues were strong and rubbers generally made small gains. Evans Products rose more than point and so did Burns Brothers preferred. Fractional gains were made by Loew's' Internation- al Nickel. Case, American Can and Du Pont.
 Utilities held their own while rails were easier, Union Pacific losing nearly 2 points on a few 
 cent gains. Tobacos were about steady. Most aviation shares im- proved. Building stocks were lower as were steels.
 The bond market turned ihhegu- lar after migher opening. Trad ing was light.
 Cotton futures were practically unchanged on the governments final estimates of the crop.
 Grains were irregular in . nar- row range as the stock market closed. Wheat was up 1-S to off 1-8 cent, while corn was off 1-2 to 5-S cent, oats unchanged to off 3-S cent, and rye unchanged to up 1-4 cent. Copper futures were higher and so was rubber. Other com modities were steady.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
LOUIS LOMBARDI
 STRUCK BY AUTO

A car driven by Walter Scanlon of IS Keefe street yesterday after noon struck Louis Lombardi, 6. of 107 River street, as the young ster was crossing at the intersec- tion of Baldwin and Liberty streets according to a report filed at po- lice Headquarters. The boy had several cuts dressed at St Mary's hospital and was then taken to his home by the driver.
 A passenger car operated by James Braculis of 500 South Wil- son street and a truck driven by John Stanley Drost of Southington collided yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Washington and Lounsbury streets. No one was in- iured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

uniforms, from high ranking offi- cers down to privates, scattering of naval uniforms, reserve officers uniforms: and all the special dress uniforms taken out of chests espe- cially for the ball. Then there were the resplendent outfits of official attaches from Hartford and from the states traditional military units. Topping them all, though, in estimation of all present, was the blne uniform of Waterbury's policemen and firemen, standing forth on that one night in verit- able blaze of glory.
 All the color of the past, and more, promise Waterbury's police- men, wil be in order when the 1885 policemen's ball is held at Hamil- ton park pavilion two months from now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
ECONOMIC SYSTEM
 BEST IN WORLD


 Middletown, Conn.,, Dec. - (UP)-America need not fear 0 revolution because .'our economic system is the best in the world" Rep, Hamilton Fish. repn., N. r., told the Wesleyan university politi- cal philosophy conference.
 He took issue with Scott Near ing last night that the capitalistic system must be abandoned for communism in order to effect planned economy.
 ''The revival of red terror in Russia," said Fish, who recently Investigating communistic activis ties, land the butchery of several hundred men, women and children without a semblance, of a trial, IS revolting to free American citi- zens."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
POLICE ARE PROBING
 ASSAULT STORY

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 8 = (UP)-Police today checked the story of Rino Politi, Is. she was forced into an automobile by three men, driven around the city for several hours and then taken to Hamden where she was beaten and thrown from the car.
 The girl, hungry and naar col lapse, was found in theater late yesterday and turned over to au- thorities.
 She said instead of going home Thursday night she stayed at a hotel and yesterday spent most of the day at a show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
Poison-Pen Writer
 To Receive Hearing
State Moves to Commit Brown, Principal in Recent
 Federal Probe -Adjudged Insane By Alienists

be transferred as soon as possible to the superior court, which will have the power to commit Brown to state institution.
 The confessed poison penman' was arrested here November 17th after he had been the object of a thorough search for almost five years, being nabbed by a postal inspector after he had mailed two more threatening letters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08
Brass City Mentioned
 In Governor s Address
History of Connecticut Reviewed By His Excefency
 in Philadelphia Last Evening

The history of Connecticut and its bearing on the development of New England and the entire Ila- ton was related last night in an address by Governor Wilbur L. Cross before the meting of the New England Society of Pennsylvania held in Philadelphia.
 Waterbury received mention ir the governors address, which was largely concerned with the histor- ical development of the state. Ar excerpt concerning the Brass City follows: