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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
rest of the gang but wasn't down here when they pulled the job"
 Awake All Night


 rest of the gang but wasn't down here when they pulled the job."
 Awake All Night
 Neither Mais nor Legenza rested during the hours before execution. Long after midnight they called for coffee and continued to chat ner- vously with prison guards. Legenza was dour and depressed. His young. CT companion was jumpy and fears had been expressed that he too would have to be carried to the chair.
 Virginia law forbids the revela- ton of any facts of the final death scene but 1t was learned Mais was able 10 walk the short steps to the chair unassisted. He was led from his cell between two guards short- ly after 7:30 a. m.
 Prison attendants had some slight dificulty in affixing the elec- trodes to Legenza's broken legs, stiffened from several weeks in plaster casts. However adjustments were made quickly.
 Both men were silent in the death chamber. Twelve witnesses watched each execution as required by Virginia law.
 No Time Wasted
 Virginia justice wasted no time in send the two men to the death chair. Just two weeks ago today they were taken in a raid by fed eral agents and New York police that was final cleanup of the gang.
 Eleven days ago they were re- turned here, Legenza on hospital cot. They had hardly arrived be- fore they were taken before a judge and ordered executed today. This summary justice brought an end to as bloody a trail of crime as the east has seen in recent years. They were the survivors of Q gang of i've relentless criminals. The crime for which they died was the cold-blooded murder of Ewell M. Huband, a federal reserve truck driver. One Gangster Left Only one member of the gang remains. He is Arthur Minunas. who turned states evidence and is serving a long prison term. Big George" Phillips, the brains of the gang, was slain by Washington po- lice. George Kaufman. another leader, was slain by companions who feared he would squeal. Mais and Legenza were first cap- tured last summer through evi- dence obtained from Mrs Elenor Fontaine, pretty young divorcee and alleged companion of Phillips. She was found near death in a small Pennsylvania town and told authorities the gang had attempted to murder her to keep her from "squealing."
 Mais and Legenza shot their way out of the city jail here last Sep- tember after being convicted, kill ing policeman.
 They went to Philadelphia and Kidnapped William Weiss, Philadel- phia racketeer. Weiss was mur- dered end his body was not recov- cred until after their last arrest when they revealed It's where abouts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

Amid impressive Pythas East Main street F. O. vgneuies post Yankee Division will he Yankee Division local post by Barney Clarke of NOoOn president Officers of vigneues o as the local veteran formally joins with the national Officers installed includes Ayward vice president Jeremiah Grinn Charles F. Ladue treasurer; and William Cashn
 Following
 
 figures walk post, Yankee DvsiOn The local Yankee Division national Of fin valuable addition to organ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

Fears of Strike
 The feeling of unrest that swept the nations biliion-dollar automo- bile industry toward paralyzing strike Il months ago was evident again today. Renewal of the auto- mobile code without revision by or- ganized labor brought the situa- tion sharply before the public, al- though labor and employer alike declared there was nothing omin- ous in the way friction has devel- oped. activities of labor and manufac- turer:
 I. Organized labor is growing more insistent in its criticism or ma manufacturers' methods of hand ling workers and has made infer- ences that the government is con- doning these methods.
 2. Manufacturers recognize the growing discontent. although ID most cases that recognition IS merely unsolicited assurance that "nothing will happen" 3. The industry Is reaching iti peak production period. g critical time for labor troubles from the manufacturers point of view, and strategic time for labor tn threaten to strike. |
 The situation thus outlined, if the same as in February of last year.
 one month after that situation became apparent 100000 workers threatened o walk out. President Roosevelt intervened and estab. lished his automobile labor board
 Non-partisan students of the la bor situation fear now that .esab- lishment of the labor board was in effect, q temporary truce. Un' activities by organized labor, they believe, indicates that truce ii about to be suspended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
Groundhog Suffers Sunstroke At Party

gathering of friends and relatives attended the Gwendoyn Groundhog held today the home of parents (. Montmorency Groundfog, Miss Groundhog becomingy attlred win ensemble unfortunately compelled to leave the fes Friends said that suffer- indOsion the and
 circulation off several weeks The lady a poison enthusiastically gathering The artv not a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
LOST TRAINED GoosE

Hollywood, Feb 2--(UP)-H: J. Malerstcin today bewailed the loss of Pete, the trained goose that laid him golden eggs on .. film contract Two goosenapers took Pete from his pen. Malerstein, who had hired Pete out to studios. in ned of a trained goose. feared the thieves unappreciatiye of his "histrionic rowers" would roast him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
P, A. Meet Tuesday

The February meeting of the Waterville Parent Teacher Associ- ation will be held on Tuesday af- ternoon, February 5th, at two o'clock at the gymnasium of Sprague grammar school. Mrs Cliff ford Thompson of Wallingford one of the leaders of the state organ ization will attend and will be the speaker of the afternoon.
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Birthday Party

BarLHUMy FHFty
 Mrs Bartholomew ,. Connor of tained in honor of her daughter Nancy's fourth birthday. After a program of games and story-tell- ing a luncheon was served. Those attending were Mary Jane Stuart. Barbara Connor, Marileyn Lodge, Nancy Montambault, Dorothy Stu art, Harold Lodge, Barbara Mon- tambault, Joan Sonier, Jack Will cox, Thomas St John, Robert Tay- Tor, Marguerite Seery and Lois Platt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
OBITUARY

TATA = Luigi Tata. age 7S years, died this morning at St Mary's hosiptal after a brief ill., ness. He was Q native of Italy. but had been resident of this city for B years. MT Tata was en- gagged as a cobbler until 1928.
 MT Tata is survived by his wife, Nunziata; one son, Anthony, of this city; three brothers, Vincenzo and John of this city, and Michael of New York; two sisters, Mrs Lebo Labanca and Mrs Anthony Daddario of this city and Il grand children.
 The funeral will be held form the home, Fl River street, time and arrangements to be announced later.
 FEELEY = Mrs Anna Mulligan Feeley, died at her home 22 Wy man street last evening after a brief illness. She was Q native of this city, the daughter of the late James and Hanna Wilson Mulligan Mrs Feeley was very well known and highly respected.
 She Is survived by her husband William J. Feeley, a member o1 the. local police department; two sons, William Jr, and James Fee ley; one sister. Mrs George Con. long; one brother, George F. Null ligan. four nieces and i've nephewt all of this city.
 The funeral will be held on Mon. day morning at 8:l5 o'clock from her home, 22 Wyman street, and al St MargaretS church at o'clock Burial will~be in Mt St Benedict'i cemetery in Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
Card Party

Tuesday evening the members of Pride of Welch Circle, Companions of the Forest, will hold a card party at their rooms in Foresters hall on Boyden street. The public is invited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

CARD OF THANKS. The family of the late Mrs Kath- crime Fitzpatrick wish to thank their relatives, friends and neigh bors for their kindness in their late bereavement.
 The FITZPATRICK FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

The second eclipse visible in the United States this year will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of July 15-16. This eclipse begins at 9:15 D. nn., standard time, the total eclipse occurring at 11:09, and ending at 2:43 a. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
BARRIERS STUDY ELoCUTION

Madison, Wis = (UP) = A school of "elocution" for reticent bargers has been established in the Madison Vocational School. The barbers attend conversation and salesmanship classes every Thurs day evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
I.enion Meets Monday

The regular monthly social meet ing of Casper, s. Davis. Jr. Post. No 136. American Legion. will take place at Foresters hall. 16S Boyden street. Monday evening. al eight o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
Woman. Sces Bluebirds

In spite of the severe weather or the past two weeks. Mrs Valentine Field of Faber avenue, believes that a mild February and an early spring is ahead. She bases her be- lief on the fact that she has noted a number of blue-birds in her yard
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
CARD OF THANKS,

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors for their many acts of sympathy and kindness extended to us during our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved mother. Mrs Emma Sohve.
 signed:- SHOVE FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
PERFECT AUTO RECORD

Puyallup, Wash. (UP)-Puyal- lup claimed one of the best rec
 ords of Washington cities in 1884 It was without a single automobile fatality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
CITY TO WITNESS
 ECLIPSE OF SUN
Thousands Waiting Rare Solar Event TO-rnOr.
 row Morning

The first of two eclIpses, that win be visible generally through out the United States, begins to- morrow morning at about 10:30 n- rn., eastern standard time. It will be partial eclipse of the sun and will reach it's greatest period of totality as far as Waterbury is eoncerned at 11:30 with about 40 per cent of the suns surface ob- 9curod by the shadow of the moon.
 The eclipse will end about 12:30, It's entire period being slightly over two hours. The greatest magni- 3ude of the eclipse will be in Brit 1sh Columbia where "A per cent of the sun will be plotted out. Tn the United States Minneapolis will get the best view, the moon cov- -ering up 61 per cent of the sun from that angle of observation.
 Observers are warned against Attempting to watch the eclipse with the naked eye. Smoked glass or photographic film that has been exposed are both excellent for gazing at the solar phenom- enon. A pln-hole camera can also be made by unching a tiny hole in one end of a cardboard box. Empty round salt boxes are fine for this purpose. Cover the open end with . piece of transparent paper.
 Various periods of the eclipse in the United States can be noted from the table below:
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
FUNERALS

The funeral of Miss Mary Egan will be held from the home, S1 Idylwood Ave. on Monday morn- ing at 8:15 o'clock to SS Peter and PauPs Church, where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at g o'clock. Burial will be in new St Joseph's cemetery,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

The funeral of Miss Florence Edna Babin will be held with ser- vices in Trinity Episcopal Church, at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, Rev Roger B. T. Anderson officiating Burial will be in the old Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
Club

Club
 Mrs William Rooney was the hostess this week at the Wednesday afternoon bridge club. Her guests were Mrs John Calvin. Mrs Fran cis Whelan, Mrs George Goggin Mrs James German, Mrs Joseph Seery, Mrs William Heaney and Mrs Thomas Buckley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02

Funeral services for Charles H. Frey will be held in the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main St, lat ? o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in the new Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-02
Mrs. Malvina Teeter
 Dies In Plantsville
Former Local Resident Saccumbs at 83-Parent=
 Teachers Convene Friday
WATERVILLE

during the past few days. These birds are usually considered har- bingers of milder weather.
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BANDIT KILLERS
 DIED IN CHAIR

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LABOR INDUSTRY
 IN GRAVE DANGER

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TATA-,Ii, ; ,L this sity; M Feb znd, 1925.
 neral arransemsnts later.
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days before and after Oct. l. This program Is to be put into effect this year.
 Eoore' nf StpikA
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MAN IN THE
 STREET HELPED

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MASSES. A A-A

MULLTGAN-A A first anniversary mass of requiem will be celebrated Monday morning at 500 o'clock, at the Immaculate Conception Church for the repost of the soul of the late Mrs Annie R. Mulligan. FEELEY-In this city, Feb 1st. 1885, Mrs Anna Muiugan Feeley. 22 iWyman Street. Funeral Monday morning, at e:1k o'clock, from 22 Wyman Street, to St Margaret's Church. Burial in St Benedict's cemetery. Hartford.
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JUDGE M'CRATH
 BUSY IN COURT

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Evening star., 1935-06-24

Across.
!. Forthwith.
&. Month called for q Roman gems.
Q. Women newly married.
IA. A son Of Cad.
IS. Chamber In o stove.
i6. A Bohemian dance.
II. Disencumber.
i8. A garden vegetable.
10. In q state Of inactivity.
40. An 8 curve.
m. An arsenate of xine.
"A. A narrow fllet.
26. A term in mathematics.
~. Something prised for great beauty.
30. Immune.
81. Process Of aquatic animal.
"a. Mother Of Perseus.
"a. A linen cloth
81. Immense.
e8. Marked the limits.
Il. Dark trap rock.
q. An elaborate melody.
a.. Deceiver.
As. The void Of space.
%. Compact by pounding.
%. Ornamental vessels.
SO. Brother Of Osiris.
"a. A lath.
B6. Affect pleesurably.
81. Having the three sides unequal.
30. Zeal.
90. Instrument Of combat.
90. Boorish.
IS. City in Paraguay.
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skyrocket for Eacn Year.

On the lolst birthday anniversary
Of Mrs. Gwenllian Thomas In Ybysy-
mond. Wales, birthday tea for school
children was held and lol aayrocksts
fred.
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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE.

R7EsrERpAN. pUFlJkB, SINGLE
HANDED, BRotI UP The VICIOUS
ATTACK OF SLUGGS KILLERS.
SLUGG ALONE ESCAPED.
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Evening star., 1935-11-20
PERF|DY CHARGED
ON OIL IMPORTS
Levy on Philippine Product
Held Like Time Bomb for
New Government.

HOUSTON, Tex. November 90
American betrayal of the Philippines
through 100 per cent Federal taxation
OF coconut oil imports was charged
today at the National Foreign Trade
Convention here.
Claiming that if the tax continues in
its present form, 1T is as if We had
newly launched commonwealth gov
ernment," John B. Gordon. secretary
of the Bureau of Raw Materials for
American Vegetable Oils and Fats In
dustries. pleaded for support of legis-
lation to ease crushing burden on
millions of Filipino farmers.
President Manuel Quezon," Gordon
said. "ascribed the recent Sakdalista
outbreak which cost so lives to bad
economic conditions engendered in
part by the excise tax"
Bill Provides No Duty.
Gordon said the Philippine inde-
pendence bill provided a duty-free
quota of 448, 1000 900 pounds Of coconut
oil to the United States annually.
Then Congress last year. over Presi-
dent Roosevelt's protest, imposed levy
of 3 cents a pound on the product.
The result has been to increase the
price to American consumers of soap
zinc laurate, used by rubber tire
makers, sulphonated coconut oil, used
by leather tanners, and to injure a
major Philippine industry.
"At the moment of the levying Of
the excise tax" he said, lit was obvious
that the attempt at correction was un-
fair because while levying what
amounted to a 100 per cent import
duty on the second most important
export of the Philippines to the United
States, no change was made in the
policy which forces the Filipinos to
accept American made merchandise
duty free.
But the outstanding element of un-
fairness was the stipulation that the
Filipino government could not, under
pain of losing the money it received
from the 3-cent-per- pound excise tax,
return any portion Of 1t by direct or
indirect subsidy to the producer of
copra, the coconut growers who bear
the main burden of the tax.
Selling Below Cost.
Gordon said copra was selling in the
Philippines at below production cost
and at less than half its normal value
because Of the tax. The intended
compensation to the Philippine gov
ernment. he said. in the form of re-
turned collections on the excise tax,
has not yet been turned over, because
''it is suspected that Controller General
McCarl thinks that this disposition of
tax money collected from American
taxpayers is unconstitutional
He blamed the imposition Of the tax
upon the misdirected efforts of butter
producers, cottonseed oil manufac-
turers and stock growers, who wanted
an increased market for their products
at the expense of the Philippines.
AS a remedy for this burden on the
Evening star., 1935-11-20

corrected by the farmers themselves
through cooperative action"
The argument for consumer CO.
operatives was advanced with the
statement:
Under our present monopolistic
system one of the greatest difficulties
Is that industrial workers are unable
to buy back goods which they them
selves produced. We even get in
volved ir disputes internationally be-
cause of some Of our combines want
ing selling advantages.
Consumer co-operatives Is a So
luton to this evil and should be en-
couraged. The private profit motive
should be replaced by the cooperative
motive of service"
The Grange urged "strong oppoSi-
ton" to sales taxes on the ground
they have been foiSted upon the
masses by corporations and large
property holders seeking to unload
their taxes. In their place the Grange
suggested income and inheritance
taxes, among others. because they
were based upon the ability to pay
and not upon the necessity to live"
The Grange voted to oppose amend
ment No. 80 to the A. A. A. on the
grounds 1t would make co-operatives
ineligible to receive governmental
loans.
1t advocated a 5-cent-per- pound
levy on butter substitutes to compel
manufacturers to pay "a tax COM
parable to that paid by dairy pro-
ducers upon their real and personal
property in the production of butter
Evening star., 1935-11-20
Spring Arrives.

Spring has just arrived, with wind
and dust, in South Africa.
Evening star., 1935-11-20
CO-OPERAT|vESTOP
GRANGE INTEREST
Market Expansion Heads
List of Policies Enunciated
at Sacramento.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, November
20.-Expansion Of cooperative mar
keting, taxation Of butter substi-
tutes and repeal Of State sales taxes
were enunciated yesterday as policies
of the National Grange for 1896.
Committees at the national con-
vention worked at top speed to sift
the stack of resolutions offered by
delegates from 35 States, and the
bulk of the Grange policies will be
determined today and tomorrow, the
last days Of the meeting.
Co-operatives for the consumer as
well as the producer were advocated
by the farmers in adopting the re-
port Of a committee headed by Erwin
E. King, master of the Washington
State Grange.
Farmers at Disadvantage.
The growth of business and finance
has placed "unorganized agriculture
at a great disadvantage" said the
report, and this circumstance will
increase as time goes on, unless
Evening star., 1935-11-20
TAbER CONTINUES
FIGHT FOR GRANGE
0hioan Has Declined High.
SaIaried U. S. Jobs to
Further Ideals.
BY the Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO, Calf. November 20.
Dynamic Louis j. Taber, starting his
thirteenth year as master Of the Ma
tional Grange. has q simple, seven
Evening star., 1935-11-20
LIQUOR CLERK ROBBED

Brandishing pistol. an unidentified
white man last night held up Elmer j.
May clerk in a liquor store at Dol
Eleventh street, robbed him of s54
belonging to the store and ned into
the street. May told police.
Personal belongings and sS5 in
cash were stolen yesterday from a
fourth-fioor apartment at Pill O
street by a thief, who gained en-
trance by way Of fire escape. Misses
Leslie Braugh, Marie Birmingham.
Jean Scearage and Jane Williams are
occupants Of the apartment, police
reported.
Evening star., 1935-11-20

Radiophone Links.
London and Ceylon have just been
connected by radiotelephone.
Evening star., 1935-11-20
Democratic Group to Meet

The Legislative Committee of the
Democratic Women's National Coun-
Gil will meet tomorrow at 8 pm, in
the Brown Studios, 1910 G street. Mrs.
Clara Wright Smith. chairman, an
nounced today Entertainment plans
for the Tacky Toys Ball to be given
by the council Saturday at the Wash
ington Hotel will be discussed.
Evening star., 1935-11-20

work he knows
what it is. His father died when he
was IA. leaving him to care for the
family.
Since he became master Of the
Grange he has averaged IL hours a
day in his office at Columbus, Ohio.
Recalls Struggle.
AS for putting the Grange first, this
is the way the white-haired Taber
feels about it:
Only these who know the struggle
and privations Of pioneer life or the
depression Of the '90's and the years
following can realize the long, hard
road agriculture has Travelled prior to
this depression.
If the farmers of this country would
take into their hands their own busi-
ness affairs; if they were thoroughly
organized. intelligently cooperative
and would follow the rules of educa-
ton and research, they could provide
for themselves easier and happier
roads than those this generation has
travelled"
Spurns Government Posts.
Three Presidents have offered the
57-year-old Grange master attractive
positions in their administrations at
much higher salaries than the $1,000
the Grange pays him, but he feels he
can fight better as the head of the
farm fraternity.
He is a descendant OF long line Of
Quaker farmers.
Evening star., 1935-11-20
DISCRIMINATION HIT

PHILADELPHIA, November 20 (P).
The Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension of the Methodist
Episcopal Church adopted a resolution
last night stating discrimination
against Negroes and Jews in the mat
ter of work relief is creating a social
and economic problem of a most Sc
rious nature" =
Evening star., 1935-11-20

Philippines, Gordon urged the passage
during the next Congress of the Guf-
y-Dockweiler bill, which would re-
move the tax on Coconut oil used for
industrial purposes and leave it on
oil used in oleomargarine or other
food products.
Evening star., 1935-11-20
PETWORJH CITIZENS
HIT LIQUOR LICENSE
Oppose Application for Firm Lo-
Gated Near Schools-Health
Survey Indorsed.

Survey Indorsed.
Opposition to the application for
a Class c liquor license in Petworth
was voted last night by the Petworth
Citizens Association, meeting in the
Petworth School.
The resolution, brought in by George
w. Potter, showed that the location
of the applicant was within 400 feet
of the Roosevelt High and MacFarland
Junior High School grounds.
In the discussion of the measure
the present system of notifying the
public of liquor license applications
was scored as being inefficient.
In another measure adopted, mem
bers Endorsed the case finding survey
now being conducted by the District
health officer. DR.. George c. Rutland.
Filling a vacancy left open at last
months annual election, William P.
Kilgore was unanimously elected
corresponding secretary.
A Commute open forum was held
on taxation.
Evening star., 1935-11-20

STEAMSHIPS.
MEDITERRANEAN and all FuTope-O.
Luxe service on famous express liners Via
the smooth Southern Route Wv
ITALIAN LINE. 621 9th Ave, New YoyL
Evening star., 1935-11-20

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.
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WORD explanatlon
for a record un-
precedented in
American agricul-
ture.
Hard work
and putting the
Grange first" +" said
the square-j
Ohioan. here for
the national con-
vention of the
organization with
which he h as
been connected
for 35 years.
AS for hard