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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
FITCH PLANNED
STEAMER Line
American Philosophical
Society Dedicates Model
to Early Navigator

PHILADELPHIA (UP)-1n the
rooms of the American Philosophi-
cal society here stands a small
shin model. memorial to the vision
Of fohn Fitch and the beginning OF
the steam navigation industry.
The model was tried out success
fully in little stream on the 1arm
of Joseph Longstreth. In South
ampton. Bucks county, in 1785-22
wears before Robert Fulton
steamed his "Claremont" on the
waters of the Hudson river in
1907. Though Fulton is credited as
being the inventor of the steam
boat, the idea apparently was born
in Philadelphia.
Evidence of Fitch's foresight Is
seen in an appeal for financial aid
Off his idea which he made TO la
yid Rittenhouse in 1892.
Fitch's efforts were rewarded by
New Jersey which, in 1885, granted
him a franchise with exclusive
rights for IA years to build and
navigate steamboats, on the waters
of that state. With this franchise
as his only asset. he organized
what undoubtedly was the first
steamship company in the world,
and began construction of a full
size steamboat. The craft was
completed June IA, 1890, and that
year it covered some 1000 miles
successfully on the Delaware
river.
TIL. e inventor, however, became
involved in debts and committed
suicide before his dreams OF wide
spread steam navigation were real
lied.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
How President Roosevelt Became
Interested In Warm Springs Work

"In the fall of 1924" said Mr.
Morgan, "Mr Roosevelt, who had
infantile paralysis, learned of a
young man, also victim of "Po-
lio', who had spent three success
sive summers bathing in the warm
water pools of Warm Springs.
"This young man, practically
helpless, had been helped each day
into the pool. He quickly found
that he could move his limbs in
the water and by persistent effort
and exercise SO increased their
strength that at the end of the
third summer he was able to walk
once more with the aid OF a cane.
"Mr Roosevelt went to Warm
Springs in the spring of 1925 and
spent several weeks, exercising and
swimming in the pools. He was SO
impressed with the improvement OF
other patients, as well as his own,
that he decided in 1925 to conduct
some experimental work.
"Twenty-three patients were
placed under observation for pc
RODS of five to II weeks. All
made improvement, some to re-
markable degrees. At the close of
the season a detailed report of each
case was made to three prominent
orthodpedic surgeons. Each ex-
pressed unqualified approval and
concurred in the establishment Of
a Hydro therapeutic Cenetr at
Warm Springs.
"on July 2S, 1927. the Warm
Springs Foundation, backed by a
number of prominent and public
spirited men, was incorporated to
be developed and administered
without personal gain or profit.
1.-THE policy of the trustees has
developed Warm Springs as an or
thopedic center. This development
brought about a position of leader
ship, which, under the direction of
the president, is now ready to CO.
ordinate all of the many individual
efforts in the fight against infantile
paralysis into national crusade.
"The endowment fund, made
possible by the citizens of the
country, will enable the Foundation
to carry on and intensity this leads
ership.
"The purpose of this party for
the president on his birthday is
very simple and humane one.
at is to establish through the d.
rect Heip VI lHc CitAAoHS u tHo
country an endowment fund for the
Warm Springs Foundation, created
in 1926 by President Roosevelt, so
that this Foundation may carry on
it's national crusade against Infan-
tile paralysis, and devote unselfish-
ly its full energy and thought to
the coordination of the fight against
a scourge which physically handi-
caps,I every year, thousands of
American children.
Furthermore, the success Of this
countrywide party, sponsored by
the citizens of the United States,
will be growing testimonial to a
man who has waged and won a
hard personal fight against what
might have been accepted as a
| lasting handicap"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
pRoposALs ron BONDS.

The City OF Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, offers for sale:
s2O.OO0.oO 4hS Park Bonds, Ser
les of 1881.
Sealed proposals will be RECEIVED
day, January 31st, 1884 Cat which
time they will be opened In public
at a meeting of the Board of Alder
men of said CITY, for the purchase
of the following described bonds:
see, 10000 4k% Park Bonds Of the
City of Waterbury, Series OF 1881,
dated january 18th. 1854 and pay
able 100000 thereof ON the IF.
teenth day of January of each of
the years 1895 to 1914 inclusive. In
terest payable semi-annually on
January 18th and July 18TH.
Principal and interest on the
foregoing described cribs, bond bonds Of 70 tb Pc
United States of America at The
First National Bank OF Boston
SAID bonds are to be issued in
coupon form, convertible into regis
tered bonds at the option OF the
purchaser or holder Thereon, Win "
and the signatures and seal thereon
certified as to genuineness py Inc
First National Bank OF Boston,
Massachusetts, and their legality
approved by Messrs. Storey, Thorn-
dike, Palmer and Dodge OF BostonI
Massachusetts. whose legal opinion
will be furnished the purchaser. Al
legal papers incident to this issue
WIN be i.ied with said Bank where
they may be Inspected az any time
honda will be delivered 70 tne
purchaser on or about FEBRUARY eth,
i9sl IA THE First National Bank Of
Bostor.. Massachusetts,.
amount OF the bid IN words ana
nuinerals and shall be marked IRE.
posai for Bonds" ana ndnressea y
Johm u. Fitsmaurloe. City Clerk
waterbury. connoctlcut, and 30 Z &C. !. /.
compaIlied by q certihed check pay
,irre'f Of the city .pf waterbury foI
SSnnia ps e NJ boSdS BID fer. ~ a II
guarantee OF good faith on the part
"he ne I'D Slaa ies less than par o. th:
fats value Of the said bonds and
iks' Accrued Interest thereon, can b
eoeapied, and me right 20 reject ans
ana al BIDS II reserved.
|. :. ;ssS'lss y. glrsMAYp,!sn.s, ,
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
SEA EATS AWAY
HELICOLAND ISLE
Thousands of Cubic Meters
Gnaw Away Strata OF
Land Yearly

Hamburg (UP)-The island Of
Heligoland is crumbling con-
stantly.
Almost every year, during the
stormy season, thousands or cupic
meters of rock fall into the sea
which necessarily Is gnawing away
at the soft sandstone strata OF the
island.
The latest large slide occurred
early in December, when following
a heavy gale, 5000 cubic meters
of rock dropped into the sea. Since
1925, approximately 10000 cubic
meters thus have been eaten away.
Heligoland which guards the
entrance into the Elbe river, came
back under German sovereignty In
1890. Then the kaiser's govern
ment obtained the island from the
British by way of barter for the
island of Zanzibar In East Africa.
Immediately after re-obtaining
Heligoland, the Germans started
to construct heavy concrete RAM
parts to protect the island against
the corrosion by sea. These works
have cost the Urussian state treas
ury fortune.
Nevertheless even these elabo-
rate Notifications proved ineffective
to check the corrosion. Now the
Heligolanders demand that their
home rock should be strengthened
further. They have suggested
that this be done in the scope OF
the governments program for the
procuring of work for the jobless.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
PROPOSALS FOR BONDS.

The city Of Waterbury, Connects
cut, offers for sale:
$5oo.ooo.oo ~ ~ Funding Bonds.
Series 1894.
Sealed cal. proposals st., will be rscsiyed
day, January slst, 1884 Cat which
time they will be opened In public
at a meeting of the Board Of Alder
men Of said city, for the purchase
Of the following described bonds:
&C. &c wa TsnSSng s sssiss
1884, Of a denomination Of 81, 10000
each, dated January 18th, 1894 and
payable 100000 thereof on the
fifteenth day OF January Of each of
the years 1885 to 1854 inclusive and
$4o,ooo.oo on the fifteenth Day OF
1854 Inclusive. Interest payable
semi-annually on, January 18th and
July 18th.
Principal and interest on the force
going described bonds to be payable
In lawful money of the United
tionaI Bank Of Boston, Massa-
Said bonds are to be issued in
coupon form, convertible into regis
tered bonds at the option of the
purchaser or holder thereof. will be
and the signatures and seal thereon
certified as to genuineness by The
First National Bank Of Boston,
Mass, and their legality approved by
Messrs. Storey, Thorndike, Palmer
& Dodge of Boston, Massachusetts,,
whose legal opinion will be furnishs
ed the purchaser. All legal papers
Incident to this issue Will be filed
with said Bank where they may be
inspected at any time.
Bonds will be delivered to the
purchaser on or about February 8th.
1884 at The First National Bank Of
Boston, Massachusetts.
Each proposal shall state the
amount of the bid in words and
numerals and shall be marked ''Pro-
posal for Bonds" and addressed to
John p. Fitzmaurice, City Clerk,
Waterbury, Connecticut, and be ac-
companied by certified check pay
able to the order Of the City Treas
,irer OF the City OF Waterbury for
one percentufn t1%) of the par
value of the bonds bid for, as q
guarantee Of good faith on the
No bid for less than par or the
face value of the said bonds and the
accrued interest thereon can be ac-
cepted, and the right to reject any
and all bids 10 reserved.
JOHN p. FITzMAuRIcE.
1-23-2t City Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23

CONTINUED from rage -
effective a new deal for all the
people.
1.-The report finds every depart
'ment of the organization function
ing with smoothness and eff
cheney"
But while wages of the miners
have been settled by the NRA, off,
GERS of the United Mine Workers
said they would continue their ten
year fight for a six hour, five day
week. The question Is expected to
be the dominant issue during the
present convention.
The code provides fsr an eight
hour day but Lewis pointed out
that the time required in trans
porting the men underground and
lunch hours make the total nine or
nine and a half hours In many
The report credited the United
Mine Workers with laying the
Foundation which brought about
Qualification of the coal Industry
as we'll as every other business.
New topics to come before the
convention, as outlined In the re-
mort. are unemployment insurance
and retirement funds for Officers
and employees.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23

Chicago (UP)-Despite a COM
plete suspension of income, due to
shrinkage OF capital assets, the
julius Rosenwald fund paid out APP
proximately $3,000,000 in its pro-
gram of education and philan-
thropy in the last two fiscal years
it was revealed in President Edwin
B. Embree's biennial report.
Most significant of the funds
accomplishments were those in the
fields of Negro education and med
ical economics.
The building of schoolhouses for
Negroes in the southern states was
SO successful that the fund has de-
cided to withdraw from this work.
at is not felt that the ideal of
public education for all has been
approached, particularly in refer
ence to the Negro" the report said,
"but with the program Of Negro
public schools well under way, the
fund regards its efforts in this spe-
cific direction as ended"
Initiated in 1918, this activity of
the fund has rsulted in the building
of 5,357 individual schoolhouses in
$50 counties in is southern states.
The "Rosenwald schools maintain
a staff Of $1,000 Negro teachers
and provide educational facilities
for, 100000 boys and girls.
To promote the development OF
adequate leadership among the Me-
groes, the fund has been giving In
creasing attention to the need for
q few first rate centers Of educa-
ton on the college level. In this
effort activity has been concen-
trated on assisting a small group OF
colleges to maintain high stand
ards. Four Of the centers which
have received special aid are the
newly projected billiard university
in New Orleans; Howard univer-
sity in Washington, D. c.; the fed
Grated group of institutions In At
lanta, and the group in Nashville
composed of Fisk university, Me-
harry Medical college and the state
agricultural and Industrial college
Of Nashville.
Three important hospital pro-
jects for Negroes have been placed
in operation during the two years.
Two of these-the Flint-Goodridge
at New Orleans and the Provident
at Chicago-are essentially centers
for the development of Negro doc
tors and the dissemination of
health education. In Knoxville,
Tenn, a new building was complet-
ed in the summer of 1888 and
serves as a branch of the municipal
hospital.
Another phase Of the funds work
that is Of growing Importance is its
activity in bringing about better
methods of spreading the costs OF
medical care, which the committee
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23

barred attorney and releasing him,
they brought in a middle-aged man
with a SCARED face. This man
was questioned in the detective bu-
reau for several hours and placed
in a cell shortly after midnight.
Extra guards were stationed about
the cell-block.
Police refused to reveal what
charges would be placed against
him. They denied that the man
was Verne Sankey, suspected kid.
naper. The rumors that the sus-
pect was Sankey occurred after
federal agents appeared to aid in
the Questioning.
Police advanced the theory that
an experienced gang perpetrated
the abduction. They indicated the
hunt would swing to Chicago.
Bremen had been held almost a
week. He was abducted last
Wednesday morning about $40 af-
ter he had driven his daughter,
Betty. 8, to school and was on his
way to the Commercial State bank
o. which he is president.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
REGULAR UNION
OF MINERS MEET

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan 23--(U.P1
With all their major issues OF
past years already settled by the
National Recovery Administration,
union coal miners from oil parts
of tho United Htatos arrived to-day
for the biennial convention Of the
United Mine Workers OF America.
Speaking stars on the 10 days
bor Perkins, Governor Paul v. Mo-
Mutt OF Indiana, John l.. Lewis,
prealaent OF tho uniOnj william
Green, praslaent OF the American
Federation Of Labor. and possibly
GENERAL Hugh johnson, MIRA chief,
The convention will take up de-.
mands fer q siK.honr day, utheF
questions 10 b0 considered inoluae
unemployment Insurance ana old
ake pensions
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
Balkans Alarm Due
To Nazi's Influence


are overwhelmingly peasant coun-
tries-had hoped to find markets
for their agricultural exports
among the western nations. But
each of the western governments,
to which the Balkans appealed for
help, was sedulously safeguarding
and improving the lot of its own
farmers and erecting tariffs
against foreign food to that end.
The Balkans were allowed to
starve in the midst of their own
plenty.
Now that the League of Nations
has ceased to be an effective in
strument OF international policy
IL it ever was that-and with the
disarmament conference trans
formed into a rearmament move
rnent, the Balkan countries have
been impelled to look to their own
security and livelihood more dill
gently than ever.
In this dilemma, there has been
a fading of the black line which
separated countries like Bulgaria.
which demand revision of the
peace treaties, from Jugoslavia
and Rumania, determined to retain
their prizes of war. When King
Boris of Bulgaria recently visited
his neighbor. King Alexander Of
Jugoslavia, Bulgarian flags fut-
tered from Belgrade housetops for
the first time since the 1912 Bal
kan war.
For more than three months,
Balkan monarchs and diplomats
have been exchanging significant
Ensk L. 4, akh nre,t IN
Zig powers capitals.
Treaties concluded between Tur-
key and Greece of late have
merged those two countries In
common policy, even going so far
tive for both nations at certain in
ternational conferences.
Balkan ties are being cemented
even more firmly by King Boris
visits to King Carol of Rumanie
in Bucharest. This meeting will be
contaminated by gathering of the
three Balkan monarchs, Alexander,
Carol and Boris, in Sofia on the
occasion of King Boris thirty
ninth birthday on January 30.
Whether the youthful ideal of a
Balkan League will emerge from
these new endeavors can not yet
he safely foretold. But it Is GER
tain that the movement towards
self-reliance in the Balkans is
growing formidable. France and
italy will not relinquish their in
Huence in those countries without
a struggle. But southeastern Euro
pean nations are no longer willing
to be merely pawns on the big
powers chessboard. They are clos
ing their ranks against the Draug-
mach Osten, from whatever quar-
ter that encroachment on their
sovereignty may come.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
RAIN FELL HARD
FOR MANY HOURS
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CONTINUED from Page ~
The mercury in local thermom-
tiers ranged between the 40 and 80
degree marks during the morning.
This is in direct contrast to tenn
perature reports from upper New
England. One town in Maine, Fort
Fairfield, reported the temperature
at 81 degrees below zero while
Vermont towns, such as Montpelier,
reported the temperature 20 below.
Trolley cars were taxed to fun
capacity this morning as thousands
used them to avoid the rain rather
than walk or use their own auto
mobiles. Despite the heavy demand
for service, however, the Connecti-
cut Company kept up it's schedules
on all lines.
officials of the Southern New
England Telephone Company and
the Connecticut Light & Power Co
reported this morning that their
overhead lines were withstandine
the force of the wind and rain
Underground cables had SO far es-
capped being soaked through. There
fore, things were normal for both
companies during the morning, al
least.
Despite the heavy rain very few
streets were washed out due to the
fact the city's program of giving
them an oil-tar surface during the
past few yo RS enabled them to
Withstand the force of the water
practically 100 per cent. There
were few instances of minor
Washouts.
storm water sewers were taxed
to their capacity throughout the
rainstorm. Cutters were trans
formed into rivers, practically. II
the central part of the city the
folding of cutters was especially
noticeable. The Naugatuck ant
Mad rivers were considerably swol'
len today, but not enough to cause
any fear. Had the ground up thu
valley been covered with heav!
thickness of ice and snow serious
floods would have occurred as u
past year, it is felt. However, thu
Naugatuck river was free of ice am
the water flowed along at a heigh
and speed somewhat greater thar
usual.
Business houses were PRACTICAL,
deserted today as the rain forced
people to remain indoors. Signs wer'
blown down in many parts of thu
city. Limbs of trees, not great il
size, fell in various sections, also
Thomaston avenue was a mudd,
scene today due to the sewer Wort
that has been going on there for thu
many weeks past. The new storm
water sewer functioned pretty wei
| today. considering the choppy con
dition of the surface OF the high
way. The street Is to be paved q
soon as the frost gets out of thu
ground permanently for the winter
The contract has already been let
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
BY FREDERICK KUN

united Press stan Correspondent
London, Jan 20, (UP)-Adolph
Hitler's slogan of "All Germans
are one race and single nation, I"
b9 which he has reclaimed &c.
100000 Germans outside the\Fath-
erland's frontiers, has solidified the
Balkan front against pan-German-
ism.
The immediate and most tam
RIble incentive to recent. intense
Balkan activity has been the
Nazis' campaign to win control OF
Austria. Even though 1t is the
austrian Nazis who are out to
govern their country, the convic-
ton prevailed and still prevails
abroad that a Nazi regime in Wen
ma would take its orders on crucial
issues from Berlin. The prospect
Of a Nazified Austria, which has
slightly diminished but by no
means vanished, caused alarm
throughout Europe. A Hitlerized
Austria, in the mind of Europe.
would have made the dreaded An
echluss a reality; even If Austria.
once Nazi, were to retain her from
tiers, those boundaries would be-
come q fiction, argued uneasy, non
German diplomats.
France feared German absorp-
ton of Austria and engaged in
assiduous diplomatic activity to
forestall Germany's acquisition of
six million Austrians along with
$4,000 square miles of Austrian
territory.
italian Friendship Cools
italy, too, well under way to-
ward becoming German ally, sud
denly paused, patiently startled at
the possible extension of Ger
r1any's political frontier to the
Italian border. German-ltalian
friendship cooled perceptibly as
merge their mutual dissension in
the teeth of what they considered
the common German danger.
Britain's effort to dispel Franco
italian discord began to make
headWay and found its expression,
I'D part, in the Four Power Pact.
But the Nazis' struggle to cap
tilre power in Austria struck even
anore closely to the Balkan coun-
tries, which envisioned an enlarg-
ed, militant, nationalistic Ger
many at their door. A NaZi Aus
fria, they believed, would in fact If
not yet on textbook yield
German a frontier contiguous to
the Balkans.
The new idea of 'the Balkans
fer the Balkan peoples began to
gain ground rapidly. 1t was part
~ the result of uncertainty con-
cerning Hitler's pan-Germanism.
But 1t was also the product of Bal
kan establishment in the west.
Tariffs Hit Balkans
The Balkan peasants-and these
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23
MAYORS EDICT ON
BIRTHDAY BALL
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AS mayor of Waterbury, ana
myself a victim of infantile paral-
ysis, I most fundamentally urge
every man and woman in Water
bury, who can afford to do SO, to
buy O. ticket for the bali. In so
doing, they will be giving testimo-
NAL to their respect for the pres
ident and his heroic and unre-
strained efforts to restore the Unit
ed States and the world to a state
Of normally.
In accord with the national plan
I hereby proclaim Tuesday, Jan
uary 30th as day of rejoicing
and merriment as we'll as one of
Thanksgiving that President Roos-
eyelt has been spared the nation.
Let Waterbury's support of the
plan to make this humane BIRTH
day present to the president be so
generous that it's natal fluctuations
to him will be outstanding in the
whole nation.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the City of Waterbury this
lwenty-third day of January in the
year One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Thirty-four.
Signed:
FRANK HAYES,
Mayor.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23

DISTRICT Of WATERBURY. SIS.
PROBATE COURT, Jan 22nd, 1884.
ESTATE Of JACOB KERN, late OF
Waterbury. In said District, de-
Upon the application Of MARY
KERN praying that letters OF adj
ministration may be granted on said
Estate-as per application on file
moro fully appears, Il II
ORDERED, That said application
be heard and determined at the
Probate offiee In Waterbury, in said
District, on the 27th day Of january
A. d. 1894 at 1870 O'clock IN the
forenoon (Standhrd Time) and that
notice DO given OF the. .pendeney Of
place Of hearing thereon, By pub
fishing the same one time. IN some
said DisirleI. also 81 ~is1vlne with
or BY mailing. IN. registered letters,
copy % this order 10 oil baflles IN
tafseted and reslelne Without ne
before The ssrd day e JaaaAFs
....... 'lni'S'asuun'su II. sA gI!.i4.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-23

(Continued from Page ~
Senator Lonergan Is in sympathy
with the "old guard" and feels
that the patronage should be d.
vided up between the two factions
in the interest of harmony. He
now has the three nominations In
his pocket and everybody is wait
ing to see whether they will be
confirmed or turned down. 1t Is
likely that the president and 9TH
ers in sympathy with the new
guard" will attempt a compromise,
Otherwise, it is feared. other sem
ators will follow Senator Loner-
gan''s example and protest against
being overlooked in the handing
out of patronage in their respec-
tive states. A couple of other sem
ators have already started to show
that they are disgruntled.