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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
CITY UNDERTAKES
 PAVING PROJECTS
Center Street Work to Start Monday; Phoenix
 Ave-, Following Week

Center street, one of tho city's centrally located principal auxil- iary arteries of travel, will be paved next week. Information to this ef- feet was obtained today in the of- flee of Mayor Frank Hayes. The work of paving Center street, which carries traffic westerly off of Bank street through one- way direction, will start Monday morning, 1t was stated.
 The present brick surface on Center street will be allowed to re. main, according to the plans of Superintendent of Streets Thomas J. Fleming.
 It Is expected that the work of paving Center street will take about one week. It Is understood that the city will then undertake the work of paving Phoenix ave- nue from East Main street to Alb. bolt avenue. This work will also take about c week, the present pavement being retained as q base for the new surface to be laid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Holly Edwards, who now makes her home in Baton Rouge, La.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Mulllgan of Cook street, have opened their cottage at Bay View Beach, Mil- ford, where with their sons, George. Jr., and Francis, they will spend tho season.
 Ronald Burns, son of Mir. and Mrs. James Burns of Thomaston avenue, who has just completed his first year at St. Johns college at Garrison, N. r., is spending the summer vacation with his parents
 Mrs. Arthur Batter, with her son, Arthur, Jr., and her daughter Florence, have goneto Canada where they will remain for severa weeks.
 Mir. and Mrs. William IT. Burr of BonAir avenue, have been en' tertaiuing George Farnsworth oi Turner's Fall, Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Wagner O Cornwall avenue, have had al their guests, John Collins O Thomaston.
 Miss Hazel Brown of Hartford who has been visiting her parents Mir. and Mrs. Edward Brown O Boyden street, has returned. Sh, was accompanied by Mrs. William Brown, who will remain in Hart ford for a week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur N. Hum. l phrey have returned from theil wedding trip and are now residing at their home on Columbia boule. ward extension. Before their mar, riage of June goth, Mrs. Humphrey was Miss Hazel Hallock, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. c. F. Ballock oi Thomaston avenue.
 Mrs. Patrick F. Donahue of Staf. ford street. is entertaining hei niece, Miss Maurice Dawson of New Haven.
 Miss Phillips of Norwich, is wis. ting her daughter, Mrs. William Anderson and Mr. Anderson of Suf. fren street.
 MT. and Mrs. Russell Atherton oi Essex avenue have returned from . visit with friends in East Orange N. J., and New York city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
Legion Units In YD
 Convention Parade
Corporal COyIe Post No. Given Position of Honor m
 Saturdays Demonstration in New Haven

convention activities include: Ma jor James w. Carroll, who IS q member of the parade marshai stan; and Commander George Mc- Duff of Corp. Coyle post
 Maloney Candidate
 It is expected that Major Leon- ard J, Maloney of New Haven, EZRA veterans placement officer and formerly of this city, will be elected national president of the association at the business meeting of the convention. \
 A bus will leave here at 10:45 O. clock Saturday for members Of the Waterbury chapter who do not plan to drive their own cars. The reunion will begin Friday noon with a clambake at Lighthouse point.
 The elections will be held Sat- urday morning at 10 o'clock and the parade Is scheduled for l o. clock Saturday afternoon. Most of the New England governors will att tend the convention and among the delegates will be several I'D veterans who have achieved na- tional prominence. Features of the convention will be Q sham air raid of the city and several entertain ment programs at Moose hall There will also be a drum corps contest and exhibition drills. The convention will conclude Sunday following memorial exercises on the Green at 10 a. m.
 Headquarters for the Waterbury contingent will be at the Hotel Garde. William F. Cashin is chari- man of the transportation com mittce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
BOARD TO EXAMINE
 STATE OPTICIANS

The five-man board representing tho Connecticut Opticians associa- ton which Governor Wilbur L.. Cross is expected to appoitn within few days will not have the power to conduct examinations for per- sons seeking optometrists' licenses. The board will examine those seek ing opticians licenses. Harold Scarborough and William Worm ington of this city were included among the 15 Connecticut persons whose names have been submitted to Governor Cross. The latter will choose five names from the list of Is when making up his board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Captain Newton w. Alexander Nill head the delegation from Corp. Coyle post, American Legion, in the parade Saturday afternoon Nt New Haven which will feature ssthe annual convention of the Yam ,kee Division Veterans association. corp. Coyle post, No. l, will lead the first section of the second di- vision of the parade, composed of .iegionpaires from all sections of Connecticut.
 Other Waterburians to take . prominent part in the parade and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
Church Bazaar Opens
 With Fine Attendance
Sacred Heart Societies Hosts to Hundreds School
 Grounds Illuminated for Seasons Popular Event

monies, errand boy and whatever happens to be needed of him at the time of his appearance in the sections of the grounds.
 The Ryan Brothers, dancing team will be present to given impress sions of the very latest in tap dancing, and Joe Laviano, an at traction in himself, will be assisted by his sister, while the Rhythm Kings Harmonica ensemble will al- 10 be heard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
AUTO MISHAPS HERE
 LISTED BY POLICE

One, person was injured In two auto accidents investigated by police last night. The injured man was Jerry Carroll. 6S. of l24 Cherry street. who sustained a scalp laceration when struck on Cherry street by a car operated by Rocco Ciprlon of n South View street. The accident was reported by Patrolman Edward Hayes.
 A car operated by William D. Buell. of 44 Park place was in. voived in an accident with two other vehicles at West Main street near Holmes avenue. Sergeant George Gooding investigated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Telephone subscribers in Eng land whose eyeelght is weak can now have their instruments fitted with q dial bearing figures three times the normal aizA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
SON FACE
 CHARCESIN COURT

Arrested on charges of operating still in Moriden, John Soiortiho of 2ss Easton avenue was ordered hel for the next term of the fed. eraI district court when arralgned before U. S. Commissioner Harry Krassow yesterday afternoon. Bonds were set at s2.000.
 The accused's son, Rosario Scior- tino, is to be arraigned before the commissioner tomorrow on q siin- liar charge, having been arrested
 during the raid. The father was arrested at his home last week af- ter an investigation by federal men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Favorite conversations of women
 In England have just been found to be men, conditions of work and
 play, gossip, clothes accidents, murders, movies, the stage, art, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
PATENT GRANTED

Charles r. Bertschinger of this city has been granted a patent on q combination can opener. funnel and flexible pipe attachment. He has assigned his rights to tho scovill Manufacturing company. A patent on an electric pull chain socket has been granted Harmon J. Cook of Torrington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Rowley W. Phillips. Rawson W. Haddon, Frank J. Green, Louis A. Walsh, Herman J. Weisinan, Charles P. Sciullo, Rev. Peter Dzubay, John T. Sterling, Charles Dreher, John Bender, Armand Blanchard. John A. Johnson, Will liam MacLean and Mrs. Leila Al- exander.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

The average roll call in London schoo for the coming year Is esti- mated at 525,000, compared with T27,O52 in 1914-15.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

Tax receipts in France have shown a decided drop in the last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27

AMERICA has received the an- A nouneement of the new Nash "400" as the Big News ofthe auto mobile world the newest news in style the newest news in engineering progress the new est news in better riding comfort .. the newest news in power thrills the newest news in thriftiness of price, operation and upkeep. Never before has one car contributed at one time SO many basic and important betterments. Everybody who sees and drives it calls it remarkable. Read aese highlishts of what the "4oo" has: moHEYoa-sEalEp 20 aaoToR- First major uecce impreveuaent in years. All mani6o1ds sealed insids the motor b1cck. Design % simplihed. % clean cut. that several hundred previously necessary parta are totally elimi- mated. Kcslits: Uniform efficiency ra9ardIsss ef oufsi6s sen,psrA- fure. Gasoline sAyingi oii savinsl GImpll6ed ssryicei Longer iifei
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-14
400 DROWNED
IN MINE

SHANGHAI, May IA GN.sO.
Four hundred men today lost
their lives in one of the most ap-
palling mine disasters in history.
The miners, trapped far under
ground in the Tzechwan coal
mine in Shantung province, were
drowned when digging operations
tapped a deeply submerged spring.
The water welled through the
shafts in a swift torrent, flooding
the whole mine in only 40
minutes.
One Japanese superintendent
was drowned, all the others being
Chinese coolies.
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LOVE SUIT TIES
UPFORTUNE

HARRISBURG, w. Va, May
14.-The personal property, bank
holdings and stocks Of Giles
Luster Pettrey, ST., vaguely esti-
mated at upwards Of a million
dollars, were attached by the
circuit court Of Harrison county
today following the filing of a
$150,000 "heart balm" suit against
the banker, business man and
politician.
Mr.. Pettrey, wherever he may
be, or with whom, has not thus
far replied either to the suit or
the attachment, granted on be-
half of G. Thorn Turner, under
takers assistant, who charges
Mr.. Pettrey with secretly elop-
ing" with his wife.
Nan Turner, blonde wife Of the
undertaker's assistant, has been
missing from her home for g.
week. Mr.. Turner, in his affidavit
for attachment, declares she left
in company with Mr.. Pettrey,
who, he charges, withdrew
$4,000 from the bank and drove
her in his automobile somewhere
farther West in the United
States" presumably Reno, New.
Mother Of Two
The story as revealed In the
husbands affidavit tells in legal
phraSeology Of the secret romance
between the wealthy and socially
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PAIR
TORTURED
LIEUT.. JOHN FOWLER

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
14.-Evidence produced by the
Commonwealth today tended to
prove that John Thomas Coleman,
76-year-old Spotsylvania farmer,
and his 65-year-old wife were first
tortured and then thrown alive in
the well on their farm in the
county, seven miles from this city,
the nigtE of April 2.
John Shell and Joe Jackson,
colored, both Of whom entered
formal pleas of not guilty, are on
trial for the crime at the county
courthouse at Spotsylvania, where
a crowd too large to be accom-
modated in the historic building
gathered. Both men have con-
fessed completely in the crime, but
each blames the other for the
actual commission.
DR.. w. A. Harris, county cor
oner, testified that the legs of
both Mr.. and Mrs. Coleman
showed many small wounds, evil
IDENTIFY pin pricks, and other con-
ditionS indicated that the two
had been thrown bodily in the
well while alive. In his confes-
sion to Sheriff Make L. Blaydes,
Joe Jackson is purported to have
said that Shell stuck the two
old people with pins to force
them to reveal the hiding place
of a small sum Of money they
had in the house.
R. r. Burlington, a local
jeweler, testified that a watch
case found in Shells possession
when he was arrested in Haver-
straw, N. Y, belonged to Mr.. Cole.
man. He identified it from the
number found in the case, which
correspondent with the number
which he Lad taken when the
watch was left with him for re-
pairs.
Walter HUMPHREYS corroborated
DR.. Harris theory that the two
were thrown alive into the well by
testifying that, although the skulls
of both victims were crushed and
the water in the well was red
with blood, no blood was found
elsewhere about the place.
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D. {. SLAYER
HANGS SELF
IN CELL
H. M. Kaiser Cheats Chair;
UntroubIed at Death, Note
To His Mother Declares

Declaring in a note that he was
going to his 'long sleep with an
untroubled mind" Harrison NC
Kinley Kaiser, convicted slayer,
cheated the electric chair in
which he was sentenced to die
June ii by hanging himself in his
cell in "murdererS' row" at the
District Jail early today.
Kaiser hanged himself from the
side Of his cell using moose i'm
provised from torn strips of his
sheets and mattress cover. The
slip" was fastened together with
wires. The man had trussed his
hands and feet before stepping off
the prison cot which was his
scaffold.
Note to Mother
He was discovered about 6:45
a. m. by A. w. Howard, guard in
charge Of a crew of men cleaning
up in front of The tier in which
KaisefsS cell was located. An hour
earlier a guard making his morn
ing rounds had seen the man on
his cot, apparently sleeping.
The note found in his cell was
addressed to his mother, who Wis
tied him in Jail yesterday. It
follows:
"Dear Mother: In my last
hours wish that 7 might do
something to brighten your
heavy load of sorrow. I wish
that I might believe in your
religion, but I cannot, nor any
other either. just simply don't
know, I don't have the faith.
I wish that I could have gone
through life without antagOniz-
ing the law, though / am a killer
Of man by nature, though
have never desired to injure
anything else.
II regret that my children
have to suffer for what I have
done, not that I feel or have felt
any remOrSe for anything that
have done, but that the law
wishes to make an example of
me.
every day people do as bad
or worse than / have done, and
get off lightly. 1 lived q law
abiding citizen for 40 years. I
go to my long sleep with an un-
troubled mind. We have per-
hapS met for the last time, as I
expect this life finishes all.
though 1 shall know or not know
shortly.
RELIEF TO ESCAPE
'It is like getting ready to 60
on distant journey and 1 am
presently exhiIarated and, Oh,
what relief to escape from this
dreadful dungeon in which the
sunlight scarcely enters, and
from mans inhumanity to man,
which, in his evil thinks he's
entitled to another life.
"Give my gOOd-bys to Lois,
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PLEA
IS REJECTED
!: BY g. TOGO.
SWindIe of Government BY
Contract Change Claimed
BY the "KingfiSh"
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

International News Service
In an apparent desire to crush
Senator Huey P. Long CD Of
Louisiana, the Senate this after.
noon defeated his resolution call
ing for an investigation into the
official conduct Of Postmaster
General James A. Farley.
The vote was 81 to 20.
The great Democratic majority
in the Senate refused to investi.
gate Mr.. Farley, though Senator
Long charged he had helped the
James Stewart contracting firm
Of New York city swindle the
Government out of $383,000 on
the New York Federal courthouse.
Senator Long backed up his
charges with Government records
and linked Mr.. Farley to the
Stewart firm by the affidavitS Of
two former Stewart employees.
New Affidavit
To-day he produced a second
affidavit from Miss Lottie Koch, q
firms office, in which she stated
Mr.. Farley had written member
Of the firm:
"The matter is in allegiance.
Contract is yours"
She said the letter referred to
the firm securing a contract for
the Vesey Street post office in
New York city.
She also charged in the affi-
davit that the Washington repre-
sentative of the firm came to
New York city in June, 1884, and
Systematically searched the files.
Senator Long previously alleged
that the firm destroyed all Gov.
eminent correspondence about
that time because its contracts
were being investigated.
Cites u. S. Reports
Senator Long also produced re-
ports from the Department Of
Interior files, showing that Spe-
cial agents of the PWA's division
Of investigation tried to investi.
gate the courthouse contract but
were halted by the Treasury De-
partment. A series of reports by
Wharton Green, special agent in
charge Of the divisions New York
office, declared statements were
made to him that the Stewart
firm had swindled the Govern.
ment out of 100000 or 100000.
Senator Long took the floor as
soon as the Senate met in an eff.
fort to secure adoption of his reso-
luton, proposing an inquiry into
Mr.. Farley's official conduct. He
previously had produced an aft.
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BURNED GUN
NEW CLUE IN
GIRL DEATH
Expert Believes Pistol Found
After 5 Years In Ash Pile
Killed BeuIah Limerick

The gun that killed Beulah
Limerick was thrown into the
stove in her bedroom. The fire
exploded the cartridge and the
striker" or firing pin, dropped
out. The murderer then removed
the gun from the stove and threw
it into the ash heap in the rear
of Beulah's home.
Lieut.. John Fowler, ba1listics
expert assigned to the case by
Major Ernest w. Brown, gave a
Times reporter this theory today
on the finding of the burnt 80
calibre Spanish revolver discov-
cred in an ash heap April 20 by
a three-year-old child.
On December 81, 1880, when de-
tectives examined the ashes in the
stove in Beulah'S room, a piece Of
melted tin or iron was found.
Where the metal came from never
was established, the balliSticS ex-
pert said, and it was SO twisted
from heat it was impossible TO
identify it.
May Be Striker
In his opinion, this metal was
the STRIKER" which is missing
from the gun.
While he said he would be I'M
able definitely to prove the gun
was the one which killed the
Limerick girl until he had made
a more thorough investigation.
Lieutenant Fowler said it appeared
very probable"
There are $500 types Of amnu-
milton, he said. The bullet re-
manning in the gun is the same
as the bullets taken from the
girls brain and those found in
the wall. This itself is signifi-
cant, he thought.
Asked how it happened the gun
was not found before, Lieutenant
Fowler said the murdered evil
IDENTIFY had covered the gun with
ashes.
Almost five years from the New
Years morning on which the body
Of Beulah Limerick was found,
the unSolved murder of the secre-
tary Of the "Sky High Whoopee
Club" was reopened today with
the discovery of the gun which
police believe killed her.
Hidden in Ashes
The gun was found April 20 by
3-year-old Alfred Pearson, who
lives with his grandfather, Lee A..
Pearson, in the house at 10 Nine
tenth st. S. E., where Beulah Lin
erick met her death after a New
Years Eve celebrated in the "Sky
High Whoopee Club" manner.
The gun apparently had been
hidden under a five-foot pile Of
ashes since the night of the MUIR
der.
Mr.. Pearson, who moved into
the house November %, 1884, be-
gan moving the pile shortly after
he moved in and when almost all
the ashes were gone, little Alfred
found the automatic.
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Reds Ousted By Films
TO'SaVe DemOCraCv'

Absolute personal liberty,
luxurious food for a fen PEN
MES and the beSt-Stocked bars
in Europe characterize Finland,
H. r. KnickerbocEer tells in
the second of his 1e1O series on
"Communism Us. Capitalism In
the Baltic"
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1885. by International
News Service)
HEEL SINGFORS, Finland. May
14.-Finnish Reds in 1918 killed
1000 Finnish Whites in battle
and 600 in the cellars of the Red
terror. Finnish Whites disposed
of ten times as many Reds.
Twenty thousand Finnish Reds
died in battle, by court martial
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5 Shot as PiCkets
And Strikers Clash

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, May IA
U.N.SO.-Five men were shot and
an unidentified number injured
today in a pitched battle at the
Nottingham colliery Of the Glen
Alden Coal Company when picketS
attempted to prevent miners
from reaching their posts. The
wounded were rushed TO hospitals.
The outbreak was the most
serious in the Wyoming Valley
since the United Anthracite
Miners Of Pennsylvania, new
union, called an inSurgent strike
at Glen Alden collieries in Feb
! ruary.
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WADE COOPER
COLLAPSES

Col. Wade H. Cooper, former
president of the defunct CONNER.
cial National Bank, collapsed in
the District Court of Appeals to-
day and was rushed to Garfield
Hospital, where his condition is
undetermined.
The former bank president was
a spectator in the court room
where a. suit involving the Com
mericial National Bank was being
head. Colonel Cooper Slumped
over in his chair, fell to the floor,
and was taken from the court
room by attaches.
Cause Unknown
Physicians at Garfield Hospital
were unable to determine the
cause of the collapse. He was un-
conscious for more than half an
hour, doctors reported. He re-
gained consciousness long enough
to recognize those about him.
Colonel Cooper was scheduled to
go on trial in District Supreme
Court tomorrow on charges of mis-
applying funds of the CONNER
cial National Bank. It is expected
his collapse today will defer the
trial, which already has been on
the calendar for some time.
Illegal Dividends Charged
The charges of misapplication
Of funds against Colonel Cooper
grew out of the merger of the Con-
tinental Trust Company and the
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Putting Cat Out
TOGiue Seattle
Loud Guffaw

SEATTLE. Wash, May IA II.
N.S0.-Seattle was all Of a
other today over Mayor Charles
L. Smiths latest plan for max.
ing the lot of John Citizen
easier and funnier.
This one is a "cat putter out
err contest. Mayor Smith said:
'The people of Seattle should
learn to laugh at adversely.
What this country needs-be-
sides q good five-cent cigar-is
q good guffaw."
His first idea was a "nutty
nag derby, held last month.
On May 10, another civic
brain wave is to be held at
Golden Gardens Park, the "cat
putter outer contest" Entries,
clad in their nightshirts, will
Jump out of beds at the starters
signal, grasp their family cats,
and dash SO yards to baskets.
The first man back under the
sheets gets the prize.
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or in prison camps. These are
official figures of Lieut.. Col.
Joose Hannula, professor Of mill.
tary history in the staff college.
Firms completed their studies
in communism in 1880. They
drove the communist deputies out
of the paliament. Logically they
declared that a democracy dare
not suffer the existence Of a
party which avows it's aim to de-
Stroy democracy. So they crushed
the Reds. Does that mean they
crushed the workingman?
rs Are Socialists
Not in paliament. In the
uniquely circular hall of the Fin
nish house of parliament, finest
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