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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-12
CHAPTER TX

was we'll under way. Iney MADE
the table very large. There was
York Burney whom Reuben had ac-
cepted and trained as chairman,
and there was Spur Darten who
had come as ax-man. And there
was red-haired and toothless Ezra
Ferguson from above Horsepen.
She knew how it would be but
she did not dream of complaining
or phrasing an inhospitable thought.
She could hear his ak on the hill
above the orchard clearing sight
through the trees for Reuben's COM
pass, and then the voice of Reuben
calling to Abral to move the rod
little to his left.
II guess the corn and the sheep
and the plums and Mothers pop
pies can grow all right this spring
without me looking after them. God
can see after these things by Him
self without much help from any
body, but He leaves the kitchen and
the beds to the womenfolk, and if
they don't do them, they don't get
DONE"
ThR Shellenberger came again
near the 'rst of June, riding down
Wolfpen on Nelson's mule and
bringing Mullens with him. Null
lens was a hard black man Of forty,
who had spent his years among the
timber lands Of Pennsylvania as
field manager and boss Of the lum-
Der camps. Shellenberger had
brought him in to supervise the
whole process of getting out the
timber.
"Good evening, Mrs. Pattern.
Back again."
"Howdy, Mr.. Shellenberger."
''This is Luke Mullens, who man
ages the woods for me-
"You are right welcome" Julia
said.
Mullens looked out from under his
deep black eyebrows and did not
say anything.
''Just sit down on the porch. The
menfolks are still surveying. They
ought to be in any minute now,"
Julia said.
Julia arranged the chairs a little
closer together on each side and
added two plates for the strangers
''Five extra menfolks makes the
work heavier" Cynthia said.
tits nothing for womenfolk tc
excite themselves over" Julia said
But the work was greater anC
harder, and it's demands and the
coming of the heat, the extra wash
ing and ironing, cooking and dish
washing and the unusual excitement
were firing to Julia and Cynthia
and Julia was finding it hard to gel
time and strength to keep her gar
den neat. Neither were the fields
Sc frequently and carefully worked
this spring. Never had a Wolfpe1
bottom gone without adequate cul
tivation. But the survey must com,
each day could keep ahead of thu
weeds. Julia saw these things AM
Spared saw them. But they ha,
guests and they were selling land.
There was much talk among tn
menfolk in the yard after supper.
Glow is the survey getting on?
Shellenberger asked.
"All right" Reuben said. .Som
days we run great deal when it,
level, or not too grown up and tn
marks can be found. Other time
we spend most of day trying t
get one straight line up and down
hill to corner we can be certain Of
But it gets on as we'll as common.
"When will you get around it?"
II couldn't say about that. Thes
deeds give no course and only a
approximate distance, so we have t
feel our way along. Maybe two q
three months. more or less" The
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lying still and hearing the night blot
out the voices: II reckon I'll be
right glad when it's done and we
live again like we always have,
without a man like Shellenberger
wanting to pay for his keep and
then doing a thing like that. Be
fore he came we were weaving and
planting and making garden and it
was like the other springs. Every
thing has been in whirl from the
minute he rode into the bottom.
Only Reuben is gen.
tleman as much as Shellenberger
but he sees finer into peoples ways
and feelings and he wouldn't
come here if that man hadn't
In the morning Mullens came up
to the wash rock brushing the
straw from his hair and trousers.
Where have you been?" Abral
asked.
''The barn." he said, with squint
about his eyes.
Spared only said, Morning"
When breakfast was over, Shell
lenberger spoke to him for the first
time. We'll go with the party this
morning and see the layout. Then
We'll go on across to Cannon and
figure on an opening"
There was always magic about
Wolfpen in the first hour after
breakfast when the cool mist began
to rise from the valley, and the
hills and trees took form in the in
creasing light. The men went up
Wolfpen to the fifth hollow on the
left, turned into it and climbed
along the thin channel of Turkey
creek to it's source, and then up
the steep final slopes to the ridge
where the line had ended the night
before in a mass of underbrush.
There Reuben set up the COM
pass near the last corner tree, and
established course for the new
departure. Ezra and Spur plunged
into the thick brush, hacking it
down with ak and corn knife. Abral
went along behind them to keep
them on the line, Spared went
| ahead to hunt the marked trees, and
Jasper, grown skilful as head chain
man, followed with the measuring
chain. Spared would find the next
corner tree, Reuben would take the
bearing of the line and re-establish
the corner, the ax-man would move
into the brush on the new course
and rod by rod they advanced with
the survey.
| All morning they toiled, crawling
over fallen logs, through clumps of
berry vines and greenbriers that bit
through corduroy, out suddenly onto
rock cliffs covered with moss and
edged with pine trees where they
must delay the line and find a way
around, down into sharp steel gull
lies unseen since Saul Pattern
tramped over them, up agin on the
| other side, always holding to the
line which Reuben set with the com.
pass and Spared verified by the trees
At noon they were on a ledge OF
rock at the very head of Wolfpen
Spared pointed over the expanse OF
virgin timber with his right hand
Il reckon that will be the section
you get. Mr.. Shellenberger."
ut looks like we could get few
poplars out Of it," Shellenbergel
said. 'Mullens and / will just &C
back through this section this aft
ernoon."
1--WE had better eat here" Reu
ben said.
They all went down under the
deep overhanging rock cliff. It was
covered with heavy moss and Dor
dered at it's base with ferns ant
laurel and pine trees. 1t was COO
and picturesque.
'This is Wildcat Cave" Spare
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ooh. No. He Doesn't Sleep With
Me. I Sleep by Myself"


die of the floor glancing at Shellen-
berger, but not removing his clothes.
Shellenberger sat on the edge of the
bed unlacing his boots. Spared
came to the door to make formal
inquiry Of his guests and to say
good night.
"Where's this man to sleep?'
shellenberger asked.
'He can sleep with you," Spared
said, simply and naturally as Gus
tom.
"Oh, no. He doesn't sleep with
me. I sleep by myself"
Spared had never known a man
to object to sharing bed in an
other mans house. He looked at
Shellenberger, and then at Mullens
and then at Reuben. Il guess the
beds are about all full now but
yours" Spared said.
"He can sleep just anywhere"
Shellenberger said. "Give him
blanket or something"
But the black man had got out
of the room and did not answer
Sparrel's call. Shellenberger went
on with his undressing. He turned
back the bright tulip patterned
quilt Julia had spread with care
over the bed. He saw that there
was only one sheet on the bed.
"And I want another sheet,
please, to sleep under and single
small pillow if you have one"
Spared stood looking at him, but
Julia had heard him speak, and
without revealing any Of the hurt
to her pride, she got them quietly
from the linen closet and gave them
to Spared. Reuben, lying on the
bed and looking up at Spared, could
feel him restraining speech before
his sense of outraged hospitality.
"That's much BETTER" Shelenber-
ger said, apparently unaware of the
thing he had done. He lay down,
drawing the cedar scented sheet
over him.
"Good night" he said.
But Spared did not answer until
he had reached the door; then he
said without warmth, "Good night"
And as if remembering Reuben and
Jesse, "Rest to you, boys"
| Cynthia, in her room next door,
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FREAK STORM HIT IN BRIDGEPORT
Trolley Car, Church, Fac' tory, Residence Were
 Struck By Lightning

Bridgeport, Conn, April l5-CUP) A trolley car, church, factory, pri- vate residence and transformer were struck by lightning during a freak thunderstorm here this noon. Tn most instances fires followed. No one was injured.
 The spire of the Evangelical Re- form German church was toppled into the street. At the City Ice & Coal company, the lightning bolt blew out the transformer, took a freakish course through the plant and missed a 23.000 gallon tank of kerosene by @ scant twenty feet. At the Mills company, novelty making plant, windows were smashed and part of tall smokestack was crumpled.
 A trolley car carrying six passen- gers was stalled on Main street Orr's Castle, private residencc near the Fairfield town line waf struck and windows broken. The place was not occupied. All of the strikes occurred within a period oi IS minutes. Fire apparatus was kept busy dashing from ono place to an- other, although the fires were ol small conseuuenoA The storm waf one of the most severe felt here in years. Thundred .Cpaps rolled over the city, literally shaking buildings No estimate was obtainable Of the damage.
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DOCTOR, WIFE
 KILLED BY BOMB
Dr. William J. MOriarty of Los Angeles Believed
 to Be Slayer

Los Angeles, April 15-(UP)- White haired Dr. William D. Mo riarty, dean of the school of mer- chandising at University of South ern California and his wife were killed last night when homemade bomb, which police believed Moriarty set off, exploded in parked auto- mobile. Two companions were se- riously injured but are expected to recover. They are Harley Mccoy, business associate of the educator, and Eleanor Thonis, friend. The bomb exploded while the car was parked in dead end" street near fashionable Hillcrest Country club. The bodies of Dr. Moriarty, 50, and his wife, Dorothy, 48, were badly mutilated.
 No Coherent Account
 Mccoy was not able to give CO., herent account of events leading to the bombing until several hours later when he recovered from the shock and received emergency treat
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SURPLUS CROPS
 SHOULD BE SOLD

Syracuse, N. r.. April 15--(UP) - Sale of U. s. surplus crops to needy European nations on long term credit with little attempt made to collect. was advanced today as an effective step toward world friend- ship by Frank F.. Gannett, Roches- ter newspaper publisher.
 Gannett, speaking before 70 ncwspapermen attending the Sigma Delta Chi regional meeting here, asserted that the United States should take the lead in preventing imminent" war by inviting repre- scntatives of European nations to meet here to "come to a sane agree ment regarding conflicting inter ests."
 At the same meeting James II FuraS, TIce-s -src5idcnt in charge Of foreign service for the United Press, described recent Tokyo incidents and declared he saw no danger of Q Japanese United States var. ..-
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BANK RECEIVER
 MAKES REPORT
Kazemekas Co. Sanditz, Traurig Co. Have No
 Dividends Coming

Monthly accounts filed by the Waterbury National bank, receiver for the Kazemekas & Co.,, bank and the Sanditz and Traurig Co.,. bank, give little promise of an early divi- deEd for depositors in the two closed institutions. The statement for Kazemekas & Co.,, shows that the sum of $660. .46 set aside for divi- dends. The statement for the San- tiitz and Traurig Co.,, shows that the amount set aside for dividends for depositors is $2,3o8.82.
 Assets of Both Banks
 Kazemekas & Co.,, have assets totalling in value $4l7,350.0S. Re ceipts during the month were $959.22, principally in the form of rents for. property owned by the bank. Disbursements totalled $621 .05 Sanditz and Traurig have assets totalling $255, ,726.73. Receipts during the month were to the amount of $391.9 principally in the form of interest payments. Disbursements were only $3.50.
 The reports were submitted by Attorney Chase Kimball, trust of- ficer for the Waterbury National bank. The reports will be submitted to Judge Earnest c. Simpson in the superior court Friday morning for approval.
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DONATO VARRONE
 WINS VERDICT
Jury Decided in His Favor in $IO,OOO Suit of Ben-
 jamin Sears

Verdict for the defendant was re- turned by jury in common pleas court this afternoon in the $l0.0O0 suit of Benjamin Sears, adminis- trator of the estate of the late Lin- wood Sears. against Donata Var rone of this city. The jury brought in the verdict at 2:55 o'clock after having deliberated for AS minutes. It was accepted by Judge Edward J. Finn.
 Trial of the suit began yesterday, with Attorney Vincent Miller ap- bearing for the plaintiff and the firm of Marsh, Stoddard and Day of Bridgeport representing Varrone. An accident which fatally injured Linwood Sears was the basis of the suit. A car driven by Mark Sears last September crashed into the rear end of Varrone's car at Tran uuillity station on Middlebury road It was claimed Varrone was negli- gent in halting his car too quickly without giving proper warning.
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GEN. WADHAMS
 SPOKE FOR CONN.

Washington, April 15 - (UP) - New England representatives today urged house judiciary sub-com- mittee to approve legislation au- thorizing states fin that region and New York State to enter into com pacts for flood prevention and elimination of pollution in streams.
 Gen. s. H. Wadhams. chief oi the Connecticut State Water com mission, asserted that his state had been able to solve most pollution problems but was powerless to pre- vent flood dangers and pollution arising in other states without CO., operation from other interested states.
 Lieut.. Col. Glenn Edgerton, as- sistant chief of army engineers, said that the war department, at- ter a national survey, was deeply impressed" with need for states be- ing permitted to undertake com pacts for pollution and flood con- trOl,
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DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTER TO BE APPOINTED. Will Be Chosen Friday When Permanent Chair
 man Is Selected SEVERAL PROMINENT
 NAMES MENTIONED Conference to Be Held in in Bridgeport, Starting
 Friday Noon

Selection of the "keynoter" and permanent chairman of the coming spring state con- vention of the democratic party will be made Friday. State Chairman J. Francis Smith has issued a call for a meeting of the committee making arrangements for the convention. The conference will be held at the Hotel Stratford in Bridgeport and will open at 12:30 o'clock Friday noon.
 Several names are being men, toned for the post of permanent chairman of the state convention. Among them are Governor Wilbur L. Cross, U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney, U. s. Senator Augustine Maloney and U. s. Attorney-Gen- eral Homer s. Cummings. The permanent chairman delivers the keynote" address of the conven- ton.
 Arrangement Committee
 The arrangement committee con- sists of State Chairman Smith, Vice. Chairman Mrs. Nora Mahoney Har-
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START TRIAL OF
 DIR. PETR0CELLI
First Evidence Was Pre= scented This Morning;
 Jury Filled Yesterday

Trial of Dr. Gerardo G. Petrocelli on a manslaughter charge finally got underway late this morning, and the state began presentation of its case against the accused whom 1t charges with criminal responsibility for the death of Mary Silva of West Avon after an alleged illegal opera ton. Only medical testimony had been heard up to the time that court was recessed for lunch early this afternoon by Judge Earnest c. Simpson, who IS presiding in su- perior court.
 Stenographer Disqualified
 All day yesterday was taken up with the selection of jury, the last of the F men being chosen at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time court was adjourned till this morning. Opening the court was delayed today when John AplzZo of New Haven, assistant court stenog- rapher, was disqualified from taking down the testimony in the case when 1t was found that he might be call- ed as state witness. Apuzzo 1t was reported, had taken down the tes- timony given at a hearing in St. Francis hospital last June before Coroner John T. Monzani. It is cx- pectcd that the stcnographer will be called to testify that he took down the statements made by the Silva girl as she lay on her dcath- bed.
 Witnesses Begin
 Dr. T. M. Poiere of St. Francis hospital, was the first witness call ed, going on the stand at 10:40 o'clock. He testified briefly to the effect that girl giving her name as Mary Calabre had been admitted to the hospital last June, and later admitted her name was Mary Silva
 General peritonitis. testified Dr Edward il. Kirschbaum, Waterbury medical examiner. was the cause oi the Silva girls death. He quoted al great length from his report on al, autopsy made on the girls body June IS, 1885.
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Final Ne1vs Flashes
BASEBALL LIBRARY MADE GIFT

Bridgeport, Conn.,, April 15.-(UP)-'What baseball writings in the world, collected by the late Michael J. Flanagan who died in February, was willed today to the Bridgeport library. Flanagan, who was clerk of the superior court, had never missed single game of any world series. He had been consulted frequently by sportsmen on baseball and his collection had been gathered over a period of half century. The remainder of his estate was willed to his widow Mary.
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DIRTY POLITICS
 FULLY EXPOSED
Lobby Probe Reveals That Picture of Mrs. ROOse-
 welt Was Distributed
BY RONALD G. VAN TINE

United Press Stan Corrcspondent.)
 Washington, April l5.-tUP)-- Vance Muse, a broad d-shouldered Texan, told the senate lobby com mittee today that he distributed pictures in the south showing Mrs. Roosevelt entering "a negro meet ing. with two negro escorts" The photographs had caused comment in connection with campaigning against President Roosevelt in the southern states, especially at the Macon, Ga, convention in January which endorsed Gov. Eugene Tal- madge for the presidency. Chair man Hugo l.. Black of the senate lobby committee earlier warned Muse, manager of the southern committee to uphold the constitu- ton, that he might be hailed be- fore the senate for actoin if he per- sisted in "un-called for" remarks.
 Muse Got Angry
 Muse angered Black when he told the committee that it would be an
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DANBURY RIOTS
 CAUSE ARRESTS
Strikers Attack Homes of Strikebreakers; Stones,
 Bricks Were Thrown

Danbury, Conn, April 15 - (UP) - Six persons were arrested early today in connection with riots at the homes of strikebreakers em- ployed at the Hoyt-Messenger Hat Company last night in which six were injured. Rocks and sticks were thrown by the disturbers who beseiged two homes. John, Stephen Francis and Andrew Halas, and Mrs. Stephen Halas. who came here re- gently from Norwalk to work at the plant, were severely hurt. Stephen. the most seriously injured, suffered a broken nose and 8 torn scalp. Joseph Simko, another worker living on the other side of town, was as- saulted and four stitches were re- quired to close a face wound.
 Names of Arrested
 Those arrested by state police after 8 six hour roundup and in- vestigation were: Martin Holick,
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BANDITS WERE
 FORCED TO FLEE

Bridgewater, Mass, April l5- CUP)--Timely arrival of third au- tomohile foiled a holdup early to- day. when bandits forced car con- taining four Providence, R. l., wo- men of the road.
 Two masked men jumped from the bandit car and approached the Providence machine. but fled when another automobile appeared.
 Mrs. Mary ]. McClusky Of Ray m0nd gtrccO Providence, driver. rec ported the license number of the bandit car to police. and investiga- ton showed the plates had been stolen from q quincy automobile.
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CH|EFTA|NS OF
 NATIONS MEET
Great Britain, France, Bel- gium Leaders Plan to
 Control Germany
By FREDERICK KUH

Copyright 1886 by United Press)
 London, April 15.-(UP)-General staff chieftains of the British, French and Belgian fighting forces met today to perfect a plan for mutual defense in event Germany attacks France or Belgium pending the adoption of general plan for European peace solidif1cat tion.
 It was understood that major feature of the plan would be to reply to any German attack with a terrific aerial boHnbardment by massed fleets of German industrial centers, railways, army headquar- ters, airdromes and seaports.
 High Officers Attend
 High officers of the air forces, armies and navies of the three countries took part in the talks, as- sisted by experts assigned to them. Officers of all three services met together at the admiralty for the opening session, with Vice Admiral Sir William James, deputy chief of the British naval staff as host. Eight British, three French and two Belgian officers attended. Before the meeting James conferred with Maj. John Greer Dill, British direc- tor of military operations.
 While photographers waited at one entrance to the admiralty, the officers entered unnoticed at an- other, first the Belgians, then the French, finally the British.
 They met as representatives of three signatories of the Locarno treaty, which bound Britain, France,
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Mrs. Garafola Fires
 Shot At Man Anno.yer
Several Weeks Ago in City Court She Warned Him He Would Be Shot If He Annoyed Her Again-This
 Morning Bullet Just Missed Him

Several weeks ago in city court Mrs. Joseph Garafola, 38, of 180 Easton avenue, warned Fred D'An- gelo, 35, of p Burton street, that the next time he annoyed her she'd shoot him. A bullet fired from a .32 calibre revolver which narrowly missed D'Angelo as he paid an unwelcome call on Mrs. Cara fola shortly after 9 o'clock this morning convinced him of the seri- ousness of her intentions.
 D'Angelo ran to nearby store where he telephoned a somewhat garbled account of the shooting to police headquarters. Under the i'm precision that woman had been shot at the Easton avenue address, Captain Joseph Stevens dispatched Lieutenant Detective William Pol- lard and Detectives William Foley and Joseph Bendler to investigate.
 They found Mrs. Garafola, only a little disturbed. She was not worried about the incident and quite willing to talk about it, while DAugleo was nowhere. in sight. She said the man had been annoying her for some time. This morning, she told police, he had rung her doorbell repeatedly and not con- tent with that, loudly demanded admittance. His language was cx- tremely abusive, she said.
 Raised Window, Fired
 When DAngelo left the front veranda to go around to the rear of the house, Mrs. Garafola, who lives on the second floor, raised a bedroom window and took aim with her revolver. A mark believed to have been made by the bullet a short distance from where D'An- gelo stood at the time, according
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 other securities, might be devised. The "most gratifying" feature of the annual report of 1885, he said, is the fact that general operating revenues continue to increase and notwithstanding an increase in op- erating expenses, the deficit after fixed charges was approximately $2,0OO,000 less than in 1884"
 Revenues Increase
 During the first quarter of this year, the first under the operation of the trustees, operating revenues showed an increase of approxi- mately $1,372,000, or eight per cent more than during the same period last year.
 However" he explained, "oper- ating revenues and taxes for the first quarter show an increase of $2,281 ,O0O approximately, of which $5O0000 is chargeable to flood dam
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