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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

more to do with placements of men of local WPA projects.
 Interviews
 It was also reported this morning that by tomorrow evening there will have been 614 WPA workers in the district re-interviewed by staff members. Due to misunderstand- ing it was enormously reported last week that this re-tnterviewing Of local WPA employees was connected with removing men from work and placing other men. This is not the case. The re-interviewing process is being carried on only for the purpose of re-checking all names of people eligible for work and those working at the present time. The names are on the files at the present time and staff members are re-interviewing WPA men at tn- tervals during regular WPA work periods, checK1ng up on their adapt ability. Some of these men and women have not been interviewed since they first went to work on relief projects.
 2,400 On Test
 Up to last Saturday noon there were 514 men from the Waterbury district re-interviewed. There will be fifty more taken care of in Wa tertown this afternoon and fifty tomorrow at the local office. The total of 614 includes one-half of the WPA workers in the entire Water bury district. In all there are about 2,400 persons to be re-interviewed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
LEADERS PLANNING ON COLUMBUS DAY
Elaborate Arrangements Made for City's Observ-
 ance of Holiday

The general committee for the celebration of Columbus Day will meet at City Hall tonight at 8:30 p. m. to make final plans for the celebration to be held next Sunday afternoon.
 Dr. Rudolph Damiani will preside as general chairman. Major Mi- chael J. Galullo, chairman of the parade committee will announce the plans for the parade.
 About 25 units will participate in the parade with several bands and drum corps. Many of the units have purchased flags and others have purchased uniforms.
 The Provincial di Foggia Women's Auxiliary will have float showing the times of Harvest in their laa- tive land.
 Domenic c. Onofrio, Past Ma tional Chief of Staff of the Disabled American Veterans who is now the National Chief of Staff of the Ital- ian American World War Veterans will deliver the main address on Columbus in English, at the library park.
 MT. Onofrio is a member of the famous Italian Machine Gun Com pany from New Haven and is one of the few fortunate survivors of the World War.
 All delegates of societies taking part in the celebration are urged to be present tonight. Returns must also be made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
SOCIALS PLANNED BY MOTHERS CLUB Unit of Columbian Squires Holds First Meeting
 This Evening

The first of the winter meetings of the Mothers Club of the Colum- bian Squires is scheduled to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Colum- bus Club, 79 North Main street. Mrs. Edward Conlan will preside at to- nights meeting and plans will be made at this time for 8 series of social and business sessions.
 All mothers of members of the circle, as well as other relatives, or women who are interested in boys work are invited to attend tonights meeting, as well as those to follow.
 A series of interesting lectures is to be arranged for the winter months, which will be combined with the former successful socials that the club has been holding of recent years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

ing his administration, yet countless thousands walk the streets without employment. New Dealers have put political price on hunger and have made relief football to be kicked around at will by petty party leaders
 his relief officials to be 'hardboed" in dealing with
 local politicians seeking advantage from relief and promised the backing of the administration 100 per head in carrying out this general program"
 This is what the president said. The facts are, however, that newspapers all the country printed photostatic copies of letter written to New Deal committeeman by Charles McDonald leader in the l4th ward in Philadelphia, March 14. 1936, 10 days before the Pennsylvania primary registrations. That letters as follows speaks for itself:
 Contact all houses in your division and get the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
4O2 Persons Given Private Employmen
CASE WORKERS
 GET NEW JOBS
Five Mutual Aid Staff Members Transferred
 to Welfare Ofice

Five case workers from the stan of the Mutual Aid have been trans- ferred to the department of publlo welfare to assist in re-classifying WPA workers, it was announced by Mrs. Margaret Verdon this morning. The local director of the department stated this move was made to ex- pedite matters in connection with the re-classihcation of all local WPA employees on relief, which work was being carried on by members of the regular welfare department stan.
 Some weeks aeL an allocation for $18,000 was supposed to have como through from Washington in con- nection with this work, It was ex- pected the local share of the alIo- cated sum would enable the depart- ment of welfare to add about seven additional members to the staff and speed up the re-classification work. Therc has been no allotment made to Waterbury as yet, and the Mutual Aid has agreed to transfer the five case workers and two S ', ,ographers.
 With the new members added to the staff, several of the regular de- partment of welfare workers who had been engaged in reclassif1cation work will be able ta devote their entire time to routine work. The addition of the case workers will also help to finish the reclassification work. which at this point, is about half completed.
 Those who have been transferred are: Miss Mary Gibbons, Miss Kath- leen Dillman, Miss Margaret Ma loney, Mrs. Marie Hayes and Miss Jeannette Shinn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
'F A Won,an's Good Enough To Be The Statue or Liberty She s Good Enough To Be Mayor"

George McMal;us, has amused millions in many lands. Jiggs' devotion to the old gang on the corner at Dinty's; Maggie's social aspirations, have created 8 con- tinuous battle the merry din of which has been heard around the world.
 Now cart3onist McManus will relieve the tel;sion of the pOlit- ical campaign with a gay inter- Jude of Maggie's entry into pub lie life. Candidate of the Wom- ems Social club, she squelches Jiggs' opposition, and starts her vigorous battle for ballots. For the first stallment of this new timely rip-roaring campaign trav- esty by the famous George Me- Mal;us, see page - of t0day's Waterbury Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
PEARL ST. HOUSE
 PLANS CAMPAIGN 
Membership Drive Opens Thursday; Clarence
 Alexander Directs

Tn the absence of Mrs. Leila T. Alexander, who is convalescing from Q recent attack of influenza, the fall program at the Pearl Street Neigh borhood house will be. conducted under the direction of Clarence N. Alexander, assistant director. Plans are being completed at the present time in connection with a member
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
FISH, GAME GROUP
 OUTLINE PROGRAM

Winner J. Latimer, president of the Waterbury Fish and Game asso- citation, will preside at the first fall meeting of the group tonight at the Chamber of Commerce building, at which time plans for the distribu- ton of pheasants in cooperation with the state board of fisheries and game will be made. This will include distribution on the 10000 acres of semi-restricted land which is controlled by the association. The season officially opens on October 20.
 Tn connection with the pheasants the state will match dollar for dol lar with the association. The aver age cost is $1.25 per bird and if the local group buys fifty birds the state will buy fifty more.
 There are about 100000 square miles of lake and river surface on the earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
Reliefers Testify


 Earl T. Musselman, another Har- risburg WPA worker, who received S17.50 a week, testified before the committee that he was "ordered" to buy 8 $5 ticket to one of the re- gional Jackson day dinner. He was sent the ticket by Charles S. Gra- ham of the Pennsylvania state de- partment of highways, he declared.
 Musselman said he sent dollar, and begged for time. Presently, he said, he received a letter from MT. Graham saying that he had been given time enough. Finally, so the testimony runs, his immediate WPA boss called at his home, and when Musselman could not pro- duce the remaining $4, said. You know what my orders are" On May 5, Musselman was dismissed from the WPA.
 Meanwhile, thousands of letters from all over the country, repre- senting practically every state. have poured into the oces of Senator Rush D. Holt, democrat, of West Virginia, all of them de- crying the extent to which the New Deal has permitted relief to become involved in politics.
 Senator Holt, on the floor of the United States senate, denounced the New Deal time and again for its activities. He became so dis gusted with what had happened that he refused to attend the national convention which re- nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt. Holt is now for Governor Landon for the presidency. It is 6 far cry from the presidents own state ment against relief in politics to what has actually happened.
 NEXT: Senator Alben Barkley
 of Kentucky discusses the national
 debt and declares the Roosevelt
 financial policies sound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

Pupils in local schools will be released for a brief recess if they are in session next Friday when the giant airship Hindenburg flies over the city. Plans for 8 tour of the northeastern states of the United States by the queen of the skies have been completed. The time of the arrival of the Hinden- burg over Waterbury will not be known definitely until Thursday, it was stated today. Mayor Frank Hayes has recommended to Su- perintendent of Schools Thomas COndon that the school children be permitted to glimpse the air. ship which will fly low so that everybody can make good study of the dirigible. /
 Four of the principals who will be aboard the airship when it flies over this vicinity are shown above. In the lower left is Cap tain Ernst A. Lehman of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
against Harold and Harriett Bun-

against Harold and Harriett Bun- nell.
 The girl was riding in 8 car opcr- ated by Dr. Max N. Matzkin when ii was involved in a collision with the Bunnell car on the Waterbury-New Haven highway via Prospect at 7:45 a. m. June 13.
 It is alleged that Mrs. BunnelI was operating her car recklessly and negligently and that she caused the accident.
 The girl claims she sustained mul- tiple contusions about the legs, shoulders and body, brain con- cussion and other injuries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

Helium gas is not inflammable, although it is derived from hydro gen, a highly inflammable gas. Fin stein explains the loss of weight of the helium atom as being due to ra- diation, and the loss is believed to go into the making of the mysteri- ous cosmic ray.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
Maggie for Mayor

Maggie for Mayor
 The inimitable heroine of George McManus' world famous comic page classic, Bringing Up Father" appearing daily in the Waterbury Democrat will star in a new development of this ever- hilarious story beginning today, when she formally enters the cam paign as . candidate for mayor.
 "If a woman's good enough to be the Statue of Liberty" says Maggie, she's good enough to be mayor"
 Thus she defies the protesting Jiggs, and rushes into the polit- ical arena.
 For more than . generation the strife of Jiggs and Maggie as pie tured by the master comic artist,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

ship drive which starts on Thurs day. Teams of clubs wishing to se- cure regular gym periods are asked to file applications with the aS- Bistant director.
 The staff of the neighborhood house follows: Social director, Mrs. Leila T. Alexander; secre- tary, Mrs. Mabelle H. Ward; club director, Miss Inez l.. Alexander. Members of the national youth ad- ministration staff are: Cynthia Mott, Marion Wyncoop, Mary Copeland, Virginia Sears, Mrs. David Fogg, Lawrence Goodwin and James Barros.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
MINOR SUES FOR
 HURTS IN CRASH

Catherine LeBel, minor, suing through Modesto LeBel, asks dam ages of $1,000 in suit filed today in common pleas court. The action is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

Paris police have the largest col- lection of criminal fingerprints in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
Recalls Landon on Relief

When Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, was inform ed that politicians were meddling in relief, he waved it aside by declar- ing, q cannot be held responsible for the acts of dumb politicians"
 Gov. Ali M. Landon has made his position on relief clear. Tn his speech accepting the republican nomination, he declared, While we propose to follow 8 policy of economy in government expendi- lures, those who need relief will get 1t. We will not take our econ- omies out of the allotments to the unemployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters. The question is not, as stated by the administration how much money the American
 people are willing to spend on relief. The question is, how much waste the American people are willing to stand for in the ad-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05
BOTH SIDES ' of inc
 CAMPAIGN
'Playing Politics With Hunger"
 Is Charged By c. O. P. Stalwart
BY BERTRAND H. SMELL

House of Representatives Minority Leader height public life political capital of human suffering and misery
 Deal stands indicted its in this respect
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised that should sarve
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

More than S2,oOO women work in Indias mnies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

ministration of relief"
 Most significant is the stand of the New Deal on politics in relief, and the extent to which Adminis- tratoor Hopkins has gone in bot- ting up information regarding it.. In Pennsylvania, when a republi- can state senatorial investigating committee sought to throw light on the tangled relief affairs an order forbidding any WPA Penn sylvania ocial to discuss WPA affairs, even in a court of lawl This was only last June.
 Pennsylvania Picture
 The denouement of the Penn Sylvania state WPA investigate came when two assistants to the att torney general at Washington went to Harrisburg, the state capital, and obtained an injunction forbidding the Pennsylvania senate committee from conducting or attempting to conduct any investigation whatso- ever respecting in any manner the organization, administration and functioning of the works progress administration in Pennsylvania. !" And the order still stands.
 The injunction was obtained by the very administration which has erected the greatest propaganda machine in history to inform voters about the New Deal. It hires thousands of specialists in information" to inform the people. And then 1t goes into court and erects legal barricade for the WPA against any specialists in information" except its own.
 The Pennsylvania senate com- mittee, however, examined g few witnesses before the New Deal applied its gag rule. Louis Cohen, 8 worker on WPA- map-making project, told the committee at Harrisburg that he was ap- preached repeatedly by New Deal local politicians to change his registration from republican to New Deal. He refused, he testi- fled, and was promptly discharged from the WPA job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

NEXT: Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky discusses the national debt and declares the Roosevelt financial policies sound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-05

names of all men on relief, also of those holding WPA jobs. Urge them to register democratic on March 26 or else lose their jobs."
Evening star., 1936-07-29
Father Jailed as Fire Perils
TlUO Sons Chained in Basement

bin, freed them. The blaze did little
damage.
Where's our daddy" both boys
asked Wheeler. Docs he have to 60
to jail?"
Told by Wheeler that their father
would have to remain in jail for the
present, the boys said they were sorry.
c. ]. -Gobble, deputy district attor-
ney, said Hamblin would be charged
with wrongs to children.
Claiming them up seemed the only
way to keep them home and to keep
their mother from worrying every
time they went to the swimming
hole" Hamblin said.
Il didn't do it to be cruel and now
! wish ] hadn't done 1t at all. The
thought they might be trapped in q
IRE never occurred to me-"
Mrs. Hamblin defended her hus-
bands action.
Wheeler said both parents were
away at work when the I'm broke out.
He said the fire started from spon-
taneous combustion.
Evening star., 1936-07-29
ACCORD REPORTED
FOR STEEL PEACE
Sterling, ILL.,, Company and
c. |. O. Put Agreement
Up to Union Vote.
BY the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
STERLING, Ill. July 29.-Repre-
sentatives of the Northwestern Barb
Wire Co. and the Committee for In
dustrial Organization announced
completion of an agreement today to
end the first strike in the Nationwide
drive to unionize the steel industry.
Robert Pilkington, arbiter for the
United States Labor Department, who
made known the agreement, said effec-
tiveness of the peace pact would de-
pend on a vote of the Sterling unit of
the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin
Plate Workers Union.
The union went into session to take
the vote shortly before noon.
A barrage of bullets and bricks cap
ped a fresh flare of violence early to-
day at the companys plant.
Deputy sheriffs guarding the prop
erty reported as or 80 rife bullets had
been fired from behind trees and
buildings, but that all of them had
passed over the plant or spattered
harmlessly against the walls.
tbOChS WCLC uAoO 3AuASSA az thS
structure.
The 20 deputies threw tear gas
bombs at the demonstrators until
they finally withdrew from the neigh
borhood.
Three men were injured in earlier
clashes-two of them In fight be-
tween John Gleason and Fay Ben
nett, deputized plant guards, and a
group who attacked them last night.
Gleason dubbed a man whose name
he gave as Gable, infiicting a scalp
wound. Bennett was knocked out by
his assailantS.
Charles Roberts, a spectator, was
struck by gas bomb. He was taken
to a hospital, suffering from burns.
Violence also broke out when work.
ers on the 10 pm. shift entered the
factory. Some 1000 strikers and SYM
pathizers, lining both sides of the
street leading to the plant for a dis
tance of two blocks, attempted to halt
the automobiles carrying the employees
with bombardment Of rocks.
Evening star., 1936-07-29
BRO0KHART IS KEY
IN SENATE RACE
Democrats Fear He Will
Spoil Iowa Chances as
3rd-Party Candidate.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

DES MONIES, July 29.-Two sena-
torial seats hang In the balance in the
Iowa campaign.
The Republicans are placing their
bets on Senator L. j. Dickinson,
reckoned a Conservative, and on an
unknown, Berry Frederic Halden,
editor of weekly newspaper in Char
iton. Halden is no wild Progressive,
either-has been lambasting the
Roosevelt New Deal for months.
The Democrats have as their candi-
dates Gov. Clyde L. Herring for the
long term-against Senator Dickin-
son, and Representative Guy M. Gill
lette for the short term, the unexpired
term Of the late Senator Murphy,
Democrat, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident
1t is not improbable that these SEN
atorial contests will be decided along
the lines Of the presidential contest.
If Roosevelt wins, Iowa may have two
Democratic Senators and if Landon
wins, the Republicans are likely to
have the two Senators. A possible fly
in the ointment for the Democrats
would be entry of former Senator
Smith w. Brookhart as the senatorial
candidate Of the Farmer-Labor party
or the new Union party or Of both
these parties. The Farmer-Labor
party in Iowa is likely to fall in behind
the presidential candidacy Of William
. ~
Dakota. That is one Of the hopes Of
the G. o. p. In this State.
Brookhart Dominant Factor.
If the Democratic leaders here are
correct, Brookhart will decide finally
not to be drawn into the senatorial
race as a third party candidate. They
(See BROOKHART, Page ~
Evening star., 1936-07-29
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated PreSS.
BRIGHTON, Colo, July 29.-Two
small brothers, saved from a fire last
night in the basement of their home,
where they had been chained, re-
morsefully saw their father in Jail to-
day-accused of chaining them to
keep them at home.
w. B. Wheeler, State humane on
Ger, said the boys, Wayne and Jimmy
Hamblin, 10 and II years old, escaped
injury when a gasoline-soaked rug
famed in the room where their father,
Roy Hamblin, 42-year-old w. p. A..
worker, had fastened them.
Wheeler said the brothers were held
to q board by chains padlocked about
their necks.
An older sister, 14-year-old Lois,
heard their cries and ran to their aid.
She beat out the flames with broom
and their mother, Mrs. Goldie. Har4
Evening star., 1936-07-29
FOUR Of FAMILY
DIE AFTER CRASH
Baby, Mother, Father and
Aunt Are Death Victims.
Two Others Hurt.
BY the Associated Press.


FREDERICKSBURG Va, July 20.
The toll of dead in truck-car COL
lison near here yesterday mounted
to four early today with the death
in Mary Washington Hospital of Mrs.
Agnes Mennick, "a, and her sister,
Carrie Woolfrey, II, both Of Gold
dale, Orange County.
Mrs. Mennicks husband Eugene,
IS, and their infant daughter Gladys,
3, were killed outright in the head
on crash of their automobile and a
slate-laden truck miles west Of
here.
Pearly Mennick, brother Of the dead
man, suffered painful injuries.
o. F. williams, %, of Arvonia,
Buckingham County, the truck driver,
was slightly hurt when he was
thrown from the truck cab by the i'm
pact. He was placed under technical
arrest by State Patrolman r. A.
Sims after being dismissed from the
hospital. Two companions, Walter
Chambers, II, and his brother Pierce,
IA, also Of Arvonia, escaped unhurt.
No funeral arrangements were
known here early today.