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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
PROVIDENCE MAN
 :. SEEKS SOMETHING

Providence, R. l., Aug. l5-(UP)- Frederick L. Jenckes, Rhode Island textile man, said today he had not decided how much he would expect from the Rev Charles E. Coughlin as compensation for the cancella- ton of their election bet. q atn still waiting for some direct word from Father Coughlin," Jenckes said. T hope he has been quoted correctly when he says he is ready to com pensate me. But If it's as hard to get him to put up money for bet, how are you going to expect to get anything out of him in the way of compensation?"
 z Father Coughlin had offered to bet, at odds of to 2, that Lemke would poll more votes than Landon iia Rhode Island in November. Jen- ckes, c republican, took up the bet, offering $l6.666.66 against the priests e25,0 900. Now, however, Fath- CT Coughlin has called of the bet. explaining that he has learned 1t is illegal to wager on an election in Rhode Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
LOCAL SUSPECTS
 HELD FOR COURT
U. s. Commissioner Kra. SOW Finds Cause For
 Formal Arraignment

Four WaterburianB arrested in Q raid on an alleged still off Mount Vernon road in Southington July % were bound over to the next term of United States district court at Hart- ford under bonds of Si,000 each by United States CommissionGr Harry Krasow at c hearing here today. One of tho group, Anthony Triola, of 700 North Main street, iS now serving . six months sentence in New Haven county Jail as . federal parole Violator
 The others are Patsy TraverB of 700 Highland avenue. Louis RI. naldi of 700 North Main street and Frank fngleSc of 362 Congress ave- nue. Two 5000 gallon vats Of mash were seized by federal agents in tho southington raid and the men were charged with violation of the liquor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
FOLLOW SUICIDE
 INSTRUCTIONS

Fairfield, Conn, Aug. i6-(UP)- Funeral services for Samuel M. Sadiier, i7, who committed suicide Thursday after leaving instructions for his burial, were to be held to- day. His instructions will be fol- lowed to the letter. Six of his school chums, who he selected by name, will be active bearers. They are Wallace Downs, to whom he left his personal effects, Richard Daw- son, Robert Qamache, Robert and Merritt Curtis and Arthur Hun- tington.
 The body will be dressed in Q white suit, maroon shirt, maroon socks and white shoes. sadlier will have his gold chain, tie clasp, ring and wrist watch on, just as he re- quested.
 No motive for the suicide has been offered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Tomorrow brings another hap. py anniversary Into the lives of two Of Waterbury's outstanding residents, Mir. and Mrs. Paul Fel- teIsOn. Quietly and happily as has been their custom for years they will remain at home tOInor. row to greet relatives and friends, who will share with them the Joy of the OccaslOn-thelr ffty.flfth wedding anniversary.
 Mir. and Mrs. Feltelson were married In RIssla In 1881. They came Co America and tO Waters bury 3S years ago and since have played an active part in the daily life of the city of their adoption.
 Mr. FeiteISon Is identified with many local JewIsh organizations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
Ruling In Local Girls Case May Bring Amendment
Denied Compensation Owing to Flaw in Pres.
 ent Provisions

The case of Q Waterbury
 girl who was this week
 denied compensation by
 the state supreme court of
 errors though she con.
 tracted tuberculosis be.
 cause of conditions at place
 of employment may lead
 to a change in the com.
 pensatl0n statutes at the
 next session of the General
 Assembly. The case, that
 Of Josephine MadeO, who
 fell victim to tuberculosis
 while employed at the l.
 Dibner and Bros. dress fac.
 tory, has aroused state.
 wide interest, and has re.
 vealed an apparent flaw in
 the compensation laws. Several state legislators are reported to have begun . study of the case, preparatory to introducing . meas ure to broaden the law ct the next legislative session.
 Awarded SB,OOO
 Commissioner James M. Lynch who awarded the girl mpensatioTl of more than 5000, sharply scored the unsanitaFy conditions ct the dress factory in his finding. Medi- cal testimony was introduced tc show that the girl had contracted the disease because of prevailing conditions ct tho Dibner establish- ment. Yet the supreme court set aside the award, pointing out that the state law does not cover cases such As hers.
 Under the law as it now stands, an occupational disease is one pc. culIar to Q particular industry. For instance, when Q workman Cm' pioyed at c stone.cutting firm con. tracts silicosis from inhalation of silica, it is considered as an occupa- tional disease. But in the MAdec girls case, tubercvlosis iS not pc. culiar to dressmaking shops. IL would come to anyone employed itl c brass mill, or in Q store, or in on ofiice. The supreme court rules in effect, that the girl contracted tu- berculoBig not because work in a dresSmaking factory leads to tuber- culosis, but because unSanitary con- ditionS prevailed ct one particular dress factory. And, under the law, the girl cannot recover, since her tuberculosis cannot be listed as on occupatlonal diBease within the meaning of the compensation Stat- utes.
 Parallel Cases
 One local lawyer who has made . close study of the compensation laws of the state says that the fol- lowing is true: A man employed at stone. .cutter works amidst silica dust and contractG, SiiicoBiS. He ii entitled to compepgation becauSC SilicoSiS is c diSeebe peculiar te stone e-cutterS and hence b "occu' pationaI". But . Mmc-keeper, per- haps working only Q few feet away and just aS much subjected to the dust, cannot get compensation If he contracts BilicosiS, because he is not employed as workman but aS clerk and silicosis Is not c disease peculiar to clerks and hence not "occupa- tionai."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
Canal Street Fire
 Under Investigation
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Canal Lunch ct Canal street and Chatfeld avenue, opposite the ware house. MT. schiaVone noticed smoke emanating from the windows in tho basement as he was sitting in front of his restaurant. He ran at once to Box 4i3 and turned in the alarm. When firemen arrived the blaze had reached the second floor and had made considerable headway.
 Operators c. M McPhee and James J. Campbell received tho alarm ct ii:60 at headquarters. Acting Deputy Chick Kelly ordered the soconi alarm sent in from the same box later.
 Among the first policemen at the fire were Patrolmen Jack Winston and supernumerary Joseph CaV- anaugh, who said that flames were visible through the second floor windows opposite Chatficld avenue, when they arrived.
 Many Fire Companies
 Engines 9, 3, {, 10, 6 Il, and 8, trucks 1 and and 3 and the chem. ical engine engaged in tho work of auelling tho furious blaze. Tho Building wns formerly used by 6 number of concerns, including the Waterbury Paper company, A. c. Northrop and company, and the American Sheet Metal Works. It was until lately the property of the I. M. Shapiro eBtate but is now under. stoodto have passed Into control of the Waterbury Savings Bank, with Nuhn & Nuhn as agents.
 Property owned by the Tracy Brothers Lumber company was stor. cd in part of tho building. Police at the fire worked under the direc. ton of Superintendent William J. Roach. The police detail included several Bergearts, four patrolmen and members of the motor patrol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
INDICTMENT IN
 McELROY CASE

New Haven, Conn, Aug. lS-(UP) States Attorney Samuel E. Hoyt planned today to call a grand jury late this month to consider an in- dictment againset Joseph J. Me- Elroys, confessed slayer of Mrs. Anna Mae Johnson. if e superior court judges services can be obtained.
 Hoyt said an inquest into the death of the New Haven hospital maid last Monday has not been completed. She died shortly after her throat had been slashed from ear to ear.
 McElroy has been held incoml- municado since his arrest Tuesday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Americans, 1 fear, to look beyond to realize the inevitable penalties, the inevitable day of reckoning that comes from false prosperity. To resist the clamor of that greed, fl war should come, would require the unSwerving support of all Ameri- cans who love peace.
 "If we face the choice of profits or peace, the nation will answer- must answer-'we choose peace. II is the duty of all Of us to encourage such body of public opinion in this country that the answer will be clear and for all practical purposes unanimous"
 HOk They View It
 London, Aug. i6-(UP)-Britons viewed President Roosevclt's reaf- firmation of American isoiationiSm ruefully today as further dispelling any hope of more active collabora- ton in aiding Europe from threat ening cataclySm.
 Trying to read into the speech the presidents views on the Euro- pean situation at the moment, ob- servers here saw an apparently oblique attack on dictatorshipS as alluding primarily to Germany and Italy. They believed it might tend morally to support the Spanish de. mocracy against It's Fascist rebels.
 Rome, Aug. l-(UP)--Authorita- tive opinion on President Roose- vents speech today was that his pleas for peace were over-theoreti. cal and did not take due consid- eration of tense European situa- tion-caused, 1t was held, not by fanatacism which the president de. nounced but by moral, economic and other complex causes deriving from the Versailles treaty.
 It was suggested also that tho president had deeply in mind thu far eastern situation, which directly affects the United States rather than Europe.
 Political quarters expressed deer appreciation of the presidents offei of friendship, which they said wa the only possible way to build peacl because 1t would eliminate suspic ion, generally regarded as . majo cause of European tenseness a aside from basic problems. -s----
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

(Continued from Page D not be known until after an inven' tory has been filed.
 Buildings In Trust
 In 1903, Paul Ransom, Mrs. Ran. som's husband, founded the Flor. ida Adirondack school. Tn her will. the school holdings are to be placed in trust and the school maintained Any income from the school goes to nieces and nephews.
 Mrs. Ransom lived ct Onchiota, N. Y, and Coconut Grove, Fla. Her estate includes . quantity of valu- able silver, many prized antiques, silver sets of priceless china, and many sought-after books.
 The will was drawn ct Franklin N. r., May 14, 1898.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
LICENSE REVOKED

Hartford, Conn. Aug. l5.-UP) The state department of health has revoked the license to practice medicine of pr. Gerardo Petrocelli. Waterbury, now serving a state prison term for performing an illegal operation. Revocation of li-
 censs is required by statute under
 aueh circumstances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

the member who will interest the most members to join the organi- zation. All efforts are being made to make the meetings inteseStlng and beneficial.
 Bendler To Speak
 Alderman John W. Bender will be the speaker on tho Lithuanian radio program tomorrow over Sta ton WATR at 1915 o'clock. Michael Verbickas will be master of cere- monies and director of the l5-min- ute entertainment feature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Plans for Q gaia reception to Col. Frank Knox when the republican vico presidential nominee comes Co Waterbury, August 3ist, were made last niaht at d meeting of Q special
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
GuaItlerI Photo.

and ls president of his own firm, FeltelsOn's, Incp electrical con' tractor.
 Tomorrow at their anniversary party they will be greeted by sev- en grandchildren. Their children include three daughters, Mfrs. Meyer KIrjassoff of New York city and MrA, George Karnofsky and Rose FeItelson of Waterbury; fo"" sons, George of New York city, Louis, Morris, and Jack Of this city.
 Many relatives and friends from aII parts of the city, Con- nectlcut and New York will visit at the home of MT. and Mrs. FeiteIsOn, 343 Willow street to tender congratulations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
MEN IMPROVED

Bridgeport. Conn, Aug, i6,-(UP) Two Bridgeport men who were overcome by % degree heat yeStcr. day were reported improved today. Edward Hoyt. WPA worker, who collapsed while working on a project, was taken to a hospital, af. ter treatment, he was sent home. Fred Ermmerch, q, who was over. come on Main street, was diScharg- ed from St. Vincent'S hospital after treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

More than one-fourth of the em- ployment in automobile factories is outside of Michigan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

Pulling out of line is involved in 1e per cent of motor fatalities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
DEED

thls city, Aug. 18th, iO36, Mrs. Edison W. Pratt, Of 16 Ashley st. Funeral Monday after noon, from Alderson Funeral Home, 10 Central Ave. Burial in Ever green cemetery, Watertown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
MAsNEs

MASSES DONAMUE = A first anniversary mass of requiem will bo celebrated Nendny morning, August 17. at 5 o'clock, at tho Imms cuiate GNncep- ton church, for the repoBe Of She soul of the late Mrs. Mary Cava~ naugh Domaine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
ALICE R. RANSOM
 HAS FILED TODAY

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
PRESIDENT IN
 PLEA FOR PEACE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15
FATHER COUCHLIN
 PREDICTS LEMKE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-15

"It would be hard to resist that it would be hard for many
Evening star., 1936-01-19

HEHkLHEJ
Thank God for small favors I'm busy
enough without having some man on my
hands. And imagine dancing or flirting in such
weather. AS for love = pretty sticky! ugh!'
. She set cocky little hat on her head,
popped kiss on his and staggered out like
bwlesque comedienne, smiling till she had
closed the door after her.
BY the time she had walked to her job, her
fresh clothes we're wilted and her flesh drip
ping. But she always had to laugh when she
got there. For her sweat shop was mansion.
So many new departments had been added
that all the Office buildings in Washington
we're sardine- packed, and the Government
was renting houses, among them this once
famous palace built years before The over
stuffed furniture, the sole-deep rugs, and the
paintings had been removed; but otherwise
the mansion was almost unchanged The grand
marble stairway was breakneck hazard for
the hurTying clerks who were forever coming
down it in cascades; off the Offices there were
vast bathrooms with sunken tubs of onyx and
golden faucets.
No splendor, however, had been wasted on
the servants quarters, or the basement, and
it was here that Valerie worked The whole
house was ablaze with lights when she reached
it, and crowded as on one of its former
reception nights But now the guests were
doggedly pecking away at typewriters, finger
ing index cards, Juggling bundles of papers,
scurrying hither and yon.
Valerie took her place in chair that her
predecessor had left still warm. The other
clerks did not so much as look up at her.
They hated her and themselves, their sweaty
hair, their rumpled clothes sticking to their
dank bodies, the night, their work, the world
An army takes its tone from its commander,
and the head of this division of Government
Bureau was Hexter Floyd. He was afraid not
to be bully, one of those irresistible poll
ticians who secure posts of honor, manage
them without honor, make patriotic public
ity out of the small stipend, then multiply it
by secret graft.
Valerie had never even seen him, for she
worked in the basement and he never visited
the basement. But on this night the inspira-
tion for visit came to him after he had taken
eleven shower baths during the day in the
onyx room next to his Office, and his twelftha at
his hotel. On his way to reception he
thought he would have look-in. 1t would i'm
press his office-force with his watchfulness.
But his heart failed him at the thought of
mounting the grandiose stairway to the or
nate front door and he decided to turn in at
the area a-entrance.
Valerie did not see him come in. She was
leaning on the top drawer of tall cabinet,
looking for lost file and wishing that she
might fall in and be filed away as just another
case history. Her back was eloquent and
statuesque. Floyd did not get his hopes up,
since he had been too often cruelty dis
appointed in beautiful backs that turned out
or turned around - to reveal homely faces.
ILIustratjOns BY Phil Lyford
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Evening star., 1936-01-19

kettle top on the quivering air of
Washington 1t was the fetid air of
- the old marsh, still a marsh for all
the temples of politics, the palaces the tene-
ments heaped on it.
The Congressional committee rooms and
assembly halls we're ovens, where paunchy
senators and representatives squirmed like
broiling HOLSTERS, and wondered when they
would die half-hoping it would be soon. Yet
they we're afraid to 60 home and face the mil
lions still unemployed in spite of the billions
voted
In vast barracks hot as furnaces the clerks
worked three shifts. all day. all night, while
sweat dripped from faces onto cards, hands
were wet, ink ran and blotted. There was
never stop to the clickety-click of type
writer's: the Squeals of fle-cabinet drawers
running in and out on their grooves the
mumbling and whispering of consultations,
questions, arguments, = an everlasting surf
that would not hush At noon the thermome-
tiers reached hundred and seven in the shade
Midnight would bring them down no lower
than nlnety-eight.
At the upper window of one shabby apart
ment house the last flares of sunset, piercing
the edges of the drawn blind, glowed on the
bed where a girl tossed and flung about in
frantic hunt for her last crumbs of sleep. She
must leave it in the scarlet sunset. For she
worked on the night shift, and found it as
hard to keep awake while she worked as to get
to sleep when she was off duty
Her parched eyes went to the clock and saw
that her hour had come. She went sleep-walk-
ing through warm 'cOld-shOWer," dressed.
cooked a quick dinner with the automatism of
a robot. and pushed her fathers wheel chair
into the little dining -room Mrs. Virkus, the
woman who helped her with her father and
acted as nurse, masseuse and helper when
Valerie was away, did not come in till she
went out.
While Valerie served the meagre meal, her
fathers eyes we're, as always, full of remorse
because he was burden to her instead of the
protector he had been.
His career of hard-earned success, of prob
ity and fidelity, had crashed when the general
crash of '29 swept him into poverty and his
wife into her grave. Then penniless drunkard
had run over him and left him half f-paralyzed.
Now he was helpless pensioner on the labors
of his daughter
knowing his mood, she tried to be gay, but
he kept up his old refrain:
MY poor child! My poor child"
Darling" she pleaded. ITS too hot to
quarrel with our luck. I've got a job"
But such job!"
IF you could see the pitiful cases have
to handle in the files -
"You ought to be dancing, swimming, in
love ="
Evening star., 1936-08-13

The Stars "heat chaser would
not make a hit in London. but in
Washington it's a swell idea" ac-
cording to Capt. Rhoda Milliken, COM
mander of the Woman's Bureau of the
Police Department.
Just returned from London, Capt
Milllken pointed out that the British
hobbies" probably would run away
from the "heat chaser" truck instead
of focking around it as the Washing
ton police do on these sultry Summer
days.
washington police might have a
peculiar yen for the cold orange juice
and root beer that the heat chaser
Is supplying them," said Capt. Milli-
ken, but in London the police drink
tea. In fact, they are allowed a shil-
ling day to buy tea while on duty"
Capt. Milliken spent several weeks
IN London, studying the Woman's
Bureau set-up in its famous Scotland
yard, but said she did not see any
"heat chaser" there beacuse England
don't have the kind of weather that
makes the heat chaser" popular in
Washington. And while the London
"bobbies" is supposed to use his shil-
ling allowance to buy tea to invigorate
him while on duty, she said she did
not actually see any of the London
officers at tea bar during her visit.
Anyhow. Capt. Milliken indicated her
enthusiasm about the heat chaser
Evening star., 1936-08-13
staff Photo.

idea in Washington after sampling
glass of cold orange juice served to
her from the truck in front Of the
Woman's Bureau on Fifth street be-
tween M and N streets. Members of her
staff-Sergt. Veronica Devlin and Pvt.
Katherine Garrard-joined her and
thereby earned the distinction of be-
ing the first women policemen to
quench their thirst at The Stars
heat chaser" truck.
The "heat chaser loaded with a
cargo of iced water, cold orange juice
and bottled soft beverages, will con-
tinue its service to perspiring Wash
ington policemen until the weather
cools permanently.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

been his wife was found dead Of gun
shot wounds on the floor of their room
in the 1900 block Of T street.
Helen Chapman, colored, a roomer
there, made the discovery and notified
police. The McLendon woman,
known as Christine, was pronounced
dead early today by an Emergency
Hospital ambulance physician. She
had been shot in the back of the
head and right thigh.
Other roomers told police they had
Evening star., 1936-08-13

death of his wife at their auto-trailer
home near here.
II didn't do it. I tell you, I didn't
do it," Spanglehour cried, while q
constable read the charges ordered
by coroner's jury, which investi-
gated the death Of the 48-year -old
mother of five children.
Mrs. Spanglehour died in flames
Monday on an outdoor bed at their
trailer home in an isolated woods
south of st. Petersburg.
Spanglehour and his 12-year -old
Evening star., 1936-08-13

son. Ray. gave testimony before the
coroner's jury in which the father
discussed Indian witchcraft and told
Of a Course" which he said neighbors
placed on his wife and boy.
Spanglehour, who, officers said,
came here from Philadelphia. testi-
fed he was preparing breakfast when
he noticed his wife enveloped In
flames.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

heard two shots and seen some ons
running from the house.
The couple rented room Tuesday,
but none In the house saw them until
last night. The man was seen alone
in q corridor. but there was no sign
Of the woman until her body was
found.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
DIDN'T KILL Wife,
SOBS HERB DOCTOR
Mother of Five Victim Of Flames
at Trailer Home Near St.
Petersburg, Fla.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. August
13.-Tearfully pleading innocence.
John Spanglehour, 48-year-old self
styled herb doctor. heard a flrst-de-
gree murder indictment read yester-
day, charging him with the torch
Evening star., 1936-08-13

Capt. Rhoda MHlken commander of the Womans
OF the Police Department. learned to drink tea and like it we
in London recently But she admits cold glass orange juice
from The Stars heat chaser does persprng police
Sulry Summer day than all the England
Hope Bacee the cheat chaser hostess has provided drinks
for Capt Mken and her staff Left to right Sergt Veronica
DeDln, Pot. Katherine Garrard and Capt. Miliken.
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1936-08-13

Zinc plated sheet iron which can be
bent, folded or rolled without crack
ing is being made in Germany.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
5 ST. MARYS BRIDGES
ARE PUT IN CONDITION
Repairs to September Storm Dam
age Completed Between Leon
ardtown and Point Lookout.

ardtown and Point Lookout.
erecial Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDToWN, Md. August 10.
Five State road bridges damaged
IN last September's rain and wind
storm have been completed between
Leonardtown and Point Lookout, it
was announced here today, and a mile
and a half of new road constructed
on either side of them.
The bridges reconditioned are
Hiltons Run. East Run, Grasons Run,
St. Marys City Causeway, and two
other bridges below and above St.
Inigoes.
The highway has been greatly i'm
proved and the bridges widened.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

Portugal has sent a Consul to Ma
Mia to promote trade.