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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

Winners Of the Democrats
who's Who In Waterbury" contest
were announced today by the judges
after perusing an avalanche Of let
tiers received from participants In
what was unanimously declared to
have been one of the most amusing
forms of competition the city has
enjoyed In quite a long time. To
Loretta Fitzpatrick Of 90 Bridge
street went the first prize Of 500.
The contest, which was conducted
during the past month, taxed the
memory Of the contestants as well
as their knowledge Of the location
OF firms and the sort OF products
they dealt in. The memory angle
entered the contest because those
participating had to tell how long
various local business firms have
been in business.
Not one of the contestants had
the answers 100 per cent correct but
1t was declared that Waterbury as
a whole Is merchant-minded and
knows where to do business when
looking for the best results.
The judges of the contest were
Frank Green, secretary Of the Wa
terbury Chamber Of Commerce,
Thomas P. Kelly, executive secre-
tary to Mayor Frank Hayes, and
william r. harrington, city editor
Of the Waterbury Democrat. The
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
NOTICE

There win be m open meeting Of
the Waterbury Carpenters Unien.
local 900, his evening 81 c 0'eIeck
at che Waterbury buiidAsg Trades
Council bullding on 6eevlb Street.
Al members end former ulembefs
ere Invited " attend the session This
evening. Refreshments viii - served
following the business meeting. The
announcement ~ the meeting was
| n sde this morning b. Thomas
! Quinn, secretary.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
FIRST WOMAN COUNCILLOR

Augusta, Me-, Dec. 1.-(UP)--
Names first woman executive
councillor, Mrs Edith William
Small of Freedom, began her duties
at today's council meeting.
Mrs. Small, representing the fifth
Maine district, was appointed by
Governor Louis J. Brann cd and
last week was confirmed by the
council. She succeeds her late hus-
band. Dr.. A. M. Small, (r) who died
In office.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
High School Notes
CROSBY

CROSBY
The Crosby band met this after
noon to practice for their coming
concert. The session was held I'M
der the direction Of Floyd Evans.
Under the supervision Of w Sher-
man Smith Of the faculty the men,
Der of the Mathematics club met
this afternoon In room 200.
Yesterday afternoon the girls
basketball groups reported for the
first time to Miss Florence Turn
bull, gymnasium instructor. For the
first half Of the semester the girls
engage in See-Gee soccer and for
the latter part they take up bas-
ketball. There will be carnival
program for the first section an
nounced later this week.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
OPEN FARLEY OF
CARPENTERS SET

There will be an open meeting
Of the Waterbury Carpenters UNI
ic--, local 200, this evening at Q
o'clock at the Waterbury Build
ing Trades Council building on
Scovill street. All members and
forr-er members are invited to at
tend the session. Refreshments will
be served following the business
meeting. The announcement Of the
meeting was made this morning by
Thomas Quinn, secretary.
Germany's export hat trade is
much better this year than last.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
SIGN DRAMATIsT

Ferdinand Bruckner, recognized
as one of Americas finest drama
fists, has been contracted by B. p.
Schulberg, Paramount producer, to
write an original story for Sylvia
Sidney to be produced early next
year.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Loretta Fitzpatrick
Winner OF 500 Gift
First Prize Money in Democrats "Whos Who in
Waterbury, Won By Bridge Street Woman

by Miss Agnes Reyher Of 1856 Edge
wood avenue. She received IS. The
names Of the winners Of the 81
prizes will be found on Page 10
of this evenings Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Settlement Reached
In Accident Suit
Plaintiff Accepts $1,000 for Injuries in Auto Accident;
Making Co. Defendant IN Local Suit

e Shortly before the to have been heard by
dge Edward Finn and common pleas court jury today
a6pulaton was entered whereby the plaintiff accepted
1900 settlement of her civil action for 500 against
victor A. Pasche.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
You Should Know Abo0
NEW SOCIAL SECURITY Law

lou 0HOutO VNItOW
NEW SOCIAL SECURITY Law
IN How Workers Entering Employment
~. After Jan. /, 1897, Can Get BENEFIT &C
counts. What Worker Should Do If He Changes
Employer or Type of Work After Account Is
Created.
r1HOSE persons covered employment aiter jan
1887 will have had Social Security ACCOUNT
during the from Nov "a 10 Dec
ever made to set up accounts ior SUCH new
workers Immediately their entering covered epioyne
application for Social Security account WIZ Pc avail
able his place Of employment OF ~ Ie
closest Of Social Security Board Ine empCys
WIN be requested It in and forward 1t TO the Social security
Board. .a. rr,nher n
THE hoard will set UP the account assign nunDt
Il and then send card bearing tne nupel u ~
account certvnp that account has been SET up 60,
WORKER Will not anything in regard 70 ms ooc.
sac,,rv account changes employment ELMER rom
Covered employment not covered, or from One 'o's
finder treasury regulations 3D. employers are required 70
NAVE periodic returns OF employees wages 1ns G
mort for each employee will give the number OF mat epye
Tns ~ worker changes covered employment 70 one
not covered employer not required 10 make oi"
ton returns his wages -. -. ..uouoa .,on,ov,r.nt
n anoter the new employer will ask the worker for the number
he accomt and reporting the amount OF the employees
wages the new employer will give this NUMBER. A.. -.
Thug credit entries automatically Will be mace on tne en-
ployes account
NEXT Does change Of job affect old-age benefits!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

Illness Is responsible, on the aver
age, for every worker losing 20 days
a year in Great Britain, latest fig
urGs show.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
RUGGLES IN

Wesley Ruggles Paramount pro-
Queer director flew In from Chica-
co.. where he stopped on q trip
from New York, made In connection
with the opening Of his latest pic
ture, valiant Is the World for
Carrie" and will start work on II
Met Him In Paris" starring Clau-
dette Colbert.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

ance company offered her $500 In
settlement but she claims the loss
to her amounted to $4,000.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
CHESHIRE CRASH
PROBES ENDED

CONTINUED from Page ~
Evening star., 1936-03-30
GATHER MURDER
CLUE HERE TRACED
Gangster, Killed in BaIti-
more, May Be Linked
in Wilson Case.

Baltimore authorities today asked
Washington police to investigate a
clue which linked to the Capital
"ride" murder of Charles Gather,
Maryland numbers operator, whose
crumpled body was found early Sat
urday on the lawn of a Baltimore
County mansion.
Suspicion that Gather. who at the
time he was shot was awaiting trial
for his alleged participation in a
numbers syndicate, had District
connection was aroused by a letter
found in the grass-stained coat the
racketeer was wearing when he died.
This letter, from Cleveland hotel,
was addressed to Charles White, 800
block of Thirteen street. 1t was dated
January 20, and requested White to
remit promptly payment of his bill.
Charles Gather and Charles White
are thought to be the same person,
for Gather had been in Cleveland a
few weeks before the letter was posted,
returning to Baltimore January IT.
Involvement of Gather, who began
MS outlaw Career III 1919 Will liHuoA
store burglary, in the Capital UNDER
world led both Washington and Balti-
more police to believe the murder may
have been plotted to keep him from
telling what he knew about the killing
Is months ago of Allen B. Wilson in
Montgomery County.
The possibility of Gathers cooper
alton with Edward Mickey Mac
Donald, Capital numbers king, who,
it is thought, was the intended target
of Wilson's slayers, was being con-
sidered by police departments of both
cities in the effort to solve the gang
land killing.
A more likely motive for the Gath
er murder, however. was the one first
advanced by Baltimore police-that
certain Baltimore police dodgers were
afraid the numbers operator, who lived
with his wife and her five unmarried
sisters, would "squeal' to save his own
skin when he went to trial.
Evening star., 1936-03-30
ALASKA GIRL PLANS
FAlRBANKS-NOME TRIP
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, March 30
Mary Joyce. pretty hunting lodge
manager, who mushed more than
1000 miles through frigid Alaskan
territory "just for the experience"
disclosed yesterday she was planning
a lonely 6OO-mile journey from Fair
banks to Nome.
The new dash, projected for next
Winter, is but one ambition of the
petite brunette who few years ago
won a Far North beauty contest.
My greatest ambition is to pilot
my own plane over the route my dogs
and I covered from Taku north and
then fly from Fairbanks to Nome"
Miss Joyce said before boarding a
transport plane for Juneau and her
hunting lodge at Taku.
Evening star., 1936-03-30

well-wishers. Also stock promoters,
automobile statesmen, income tax coll
lectors and life insurance agents, af-
fectionate females (object, matrimony
and alimony, in the order named)
and citizens on foot or hitch-hiking.
AS for distant relatives, he'll begin
thinking he must be part Belgian
hare-and they won't stay distant,
either
Nothing renews old family ties like
coming into large chunk of unex-
pected currency. wonder how much
establishment and disappointment
follows the average sudden windfall
for one who never had much ready
cash before. Still, nobody's refusing
such prize. 1t would seem money is
something which would be bad for
somebody else, but just right for us.
(Copyright. 1885, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1936-03-30

to share his good
tun e with.
That'll be t h e
smallest Of the
young mans wor-
ries.
Inside of 48
hours he'll have
more k n f o k S
than a Potomac
8 h a d. BY the
end of the week
he'll be entirely
sur rou n d e d by
an inpenetrable
forest of pre-
viously u n S u S.
pected friends and
Evening star., 1936-03-30
Irwin S. Cobb
Says:
Sweeps Winner Will
Have More Relatives
Than Potomac Shad.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, March 30.
One of the main sweepstakes win
ners, mere youth, laments being
alone in the world and having nobody
Evening star., 1936-03-30

Another big week Of savings the "WorId's Finest
Fruits" fyou not regular user Of "HUNT'S SU-
PREE" take advantage Of this opportunity to become
acquainted With them They are Natures finest, picked
at the peak of perfection and packed in heavy syrup
Hunts Supreme Fruits graded strictly "fonoy" the
highest rating obtonobIe One toste will prove their
superiority.
The producers news., 1936-05-29
PROPOSALS FOR
POST OFFICE SPACE
CALLED FOR
Post Office Department Asks
for Bid on Floor Space of
1347 Square Feet by June
10. 1896

The Post Office Department of
the United States government has
asked for proposals for suitable
quarters for post office purposes
at Plentywood, Including heat,
light, power, water, toilet facilities,
plumbing, heating and lighting fix
lures, safe or vault, and all nee
essary furniture and Equipment,
for a term of five to ten years
from July 1, 1886.
Important considerations are a
reasonably central location, good
daylight, and accessibility to rear
or side entrance for mali. Pro-
ponents may be required to show
whether the property offered is
mortgaged and to furnish con-
curing agreement by the mort
gagee. All bids must be in by
June 10.
Detailed information may. be Sc
cured by writing Post Office In
] spector p, L. Neil, Box 217, at
Seattle, Wash.
The producers news., 1936-05-29
RAEER OIL WELL FLOWS 1850 BARRELS DAILY
treat Western Sugar Company Imports Beet Workers
On the Defeat Of the Fra1er-Lemke Bill
= y = = y = = = X * * * = * f
* * * * * y = * y - * * * * :
By JOHN BOSCH
President, National Farm Holiday AssOcia


There will be much disappointment among farmers be-
of the defeat of the Fraziereke Refinancng Bill
Hundreds of thousands of farmers with debt burdens greater
than they pay will lose the farm homes they struggled
so long to build
It is difficult to offer encouragement to these farmers
many of them old and unable to start again. Yet to give
the struggle for lower rates of interest and adequate credit
facilities for farmers would be unhinkable 1t would be
fair future farmers and unfair to those who have fought
so hard for these things.
The of failure lies not with these people organza
tOns who tried hard to win these but with
those who are Indifferent who willing and anxious to
accept the benefits made available by eseS srug
gle yet who always withhold their help when is much
needed
Defeat now should only teach that greater unity is
necessary battle to get fair legislation Rather than
give up let us unite efforts and fight harder.
Let not forget that the tremendous burden of debt
that is running agriculture the result of marketing sys-
tenn that gives to the farmer only small fraction of the
value of the thing he produces The farmer pays in
in the production of farm products than he receives
for them He must borrow the difference in order to remain
in the business of farming
While lower rates of interest absolutely necessary
complete change in speculative gambling farm market
ing system is even necessary.
don't beive that all farmers willing to be poems
peasants believe that the defeat of the LemIe
Bill will serve make them understand that any benefits
they are to gain only through determined anC
united action.
The producers news., 1936-05-29
TIED TO TREE
FIRE KINDLED
But NO BURNS
Madame Blase Hysterically
SObs Blood Curdling Story
Over Wire Into Sheriff
Madsen s Ear Who Hastens
to Investigate
BULL BALOEY

On Thursday of last week,
namely, May 81. about 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, Mrs. Art Blase
came into Redstone and telephoned
to Sheriff Hans Madsen at his
office at the ocurt house at Plen-
tywood, calling him to come at
once to the Callahan farm south
Of Redstone on which Mr.. and Mrs.
Art Blase lives, since they broke
the locks and moved into the
house in the spring of 1885, where
something terrible had happened.
Mrs. BIase, excited and hys-
terical, sobbed out to the sherl1f
that the Blase hired man. Oscar
Andersen, had been burned at the
The producers news., 1936-05-29
To Beat Down. Wages.
Of Beet Field TiIlers
Ten Carloads of Sugar Beet Workers Brought Into Mon
tana Fields by Sugar Company in Drive to Reduce
Price Contract of $21 so to $13 Per Acre
GOV. HOLT AIDS SUGAR COMPANY
BY JEROME LOCKE

BILLINGS, May 8.-TO again
beat down the price of labor In
sugar beet fields, Mexican and
Filipino workers are being ship
ped in by the Great Western
Sugar company. Ten coach loads
arrived here last night. For two
weeks small groups have been
coming by train and auto. More
are reported enrOute. Copies of
haRdbills, circulated by the
Sugar company i'm California let
tuce fields, show that 1900 for
eign workers are being nObilized
to invade the Yellowstone Valley
in Montana.
Official government records
show upwards of $4,000 beet
workers already listed in the
state. Total acreage t'.is year
will not employ more tn2n half
Of these on the regulation basis
of one worker for each ten
acres.
The present wage scale is
$21.5O per acre for a seasons
work. The imported workers
have been induced to sign up for
about SIS per acre. On this
basis each worker will earn $3.50
for a seven month seas on.
The Montana Federation of
Labor, Beet Workers Union, the
Farm Holiday and WOrke.s Pro-
tective Union have all entered
vigorous protests against he i'm
pOrtatiOn of labor but Governor
Continued on page three)
The producers news., 1936-05-29
BLASES HIRED MAN OSCAR IS
TORTURED BY FOUL FIENDS?

stake by fiends who had seized
him at his. work back in a coulee,
bound and tied him to a tree and
built a fire under his feet, and that
the tortured man was in a pre-
carious condition. The poor wo-
man pitiously urged the sheriff to
come at once.
Mrs. Blase then went wringing
her hands and sobbing from place
to place in Redstone telling the
heartrending, blood curdling story,
of the torture four foul fiends had
administered to the poor hired
man-they were strangers, but she
inferred that they were either the
Galatians, or somebody associated
with the Holiday Association OF
Montana, vicious and degenerated
radicals and reds, inspired by hell
in carrying out diabolical designs
against the Blase hired man. Many
people believed the story, especially
those who wanted to, and a high
feeling was formed for the time
against the Galatians.
Sheriff Madsen rushed over to
County Attorney Vern Hoven, and
the two. with others rushed out to
the Callahan farm occupied by
Blase. where they found the tor
tured hired man in his agony.
The officials conducted a pre-
linoinarv examination. Oscar An
derson told his story. Mrs. Blast
fold her story. Others told thei1
story Mrs. Blase soon admitted
that the whole matter did SOUND
and smell pretty fishy, and did no
! CONTINUED on Page z
The producers news., 1936-05-29
Billings, Montana
May 7-8-9
By Special Correspondent

oY 0PSSAOA GO4A ASSgO4GOCA6
The sun is not making the only
heat down in Billings these days.
There is a lot Of good red hot
news emanating from there at the
present time. Significant incidents
are multifarious. However, the
situation in Billings at present is
the result Of the climax Of series
of incidents extending over a long
period of about three years. The
outstanding industry in the COM
munity is the Sugar Beet industry.
Conditions in that industry are un-
bearable. Experienced resident
beet workers know this condition
and they have been taking consid-
cradle measures to protect them
selves in the past three years..
Affairs in the Sugar Beet indus
try came to startling climax this
The producers news., 1936-05-29
Friends Give BrensdaI
Surprise Birthday Party

The friends Of J. o: Brensdal.
pioneer farmer, who lives on
farm east Of Antelope, honored
him Wednesday, May 27, with q
surprise birthday party upon the
occasion of his 64th birthday. pre-
senting him with cakes and gifts.
Mrs. Simonson and Mrs. p. BTens-
dal made the cakes
Mr.. Brensdal was greatly moved
by the friendship which Inspired
the party
The producers news., 1936-05-29
BEET WORKERS UNION
APPEALS TO FARMER THRU
COLUMNS OF THE
PRODUCERS NEWS

COLUMNS OF THE
PRODUCERS NEWS
Billings, Mont.
May 9, 1886
To the Producers News
PlentywOOd, Mont.
Special correspondence:
You no doubt have a cOpv of
the Governors telegram by
Jerome LOCgxel
For four or five weeks we
have kept the wires busy ap.
pealing to every government de-
partment, Gov. Holt of Montana,
Congress and Senate, and even
the keyman for the sugar trust.
Henry A. Wallace, in Washing
ton, d. C.-to employ local la
Dor in the beet fields with decent
wage scale.
In spite of all our efforts, train
loads of outside labor are con-
stantly pouring In.
Local beet workers are being
put off the WPA projects penni-
less, and no provisions have so
tar been made to take care of
them.
Outside labor is brought In
guarded by the sugar company
labor agents until placed in ears
and trucks and taken out to the
farms to take on scab beet con-
tracts.
The 1885 contracts put out by
Continued on page three)
The producers news., 1936-05-29
c% canent Sheridan Co.
M llS Attend Hiway
'l'et at Sidney Wed.

q eIsslils' SsaiS7' mayor, and L. J.
! 4 Rssss,-AAn RBsss -AAngvick and Car Carl
n We5nSasarIye, journeyed to
"a ff9tiSesdSy Of tSs az, to attend a
y Assn. montana Central
4 p thss sJsSVe95 se9eTSoGpf Of + North 9Et. Da-
ion ioS1Ss,s II rs Of the e Highway Highway
he rpsst;lle y fae two states at
The producers news., 1936-05-29
,.JTreatment Raises Pro-
~ ~,tion from 400 Barrels
! IMontana-D Dakota Utili-
j., little Bear Well,
proving New Oil Field
NELL DEPTH $500
he Proving of the Baker
Field Renews and Intensi.
fes Interest in Archer
Field Where Drilling OPP
aatOns May Soon Re-
sume
..uax& 4 + 4 = 4

BAKER, Mont, May 27.-Man-
Ter Harry Schroth said the Mon
IA Dakota Utilities Co. Little
aTas oil we'll, southeast Of
.kg, showed an open flow daily
otuChOn rate of 1860 barrels in
s runs this morning.
&hrOth and Dan Helgeson, Of
Z manager for the company,
ia.
50 far as is known here, this
reduction would be by far the
Egest Of any oil wen ever
lolght in in Montana"
HsgesOn said the we'll was un-
control and shut down after
alable tanks and reservoirs
Y filled during the test runs.
We calculated the daily pro-
.lva 0y timing 1,OO0-barrel
y said Helgeson.
ODUCTION
-lOND EXPECTATION
shioth said the production was
n excess Of what had beer
'le Y well was drilled to a deptH
Joa' $500 feet before oil waI
~ several weeks ago.
llOIh said 1000 gallons o:
ven were put into the deep tes
= sssIerday, with the expecta
Y getting results in about 2.
SP1EsCTAToRs
IAESS TEST
,sao iSlo no spectators were pres
n. sa.9 y. the tests were made
aI n'iIhlght, except Tor
=, y me ne Cedar Creek co. an an
NC. .Ms.eDonald. Several hur
SseaS ~ gathered at the we
N " ]; OIL OIL strike was announced
sSs s% Dakotans from over tn
asss aS came to see the well
si ',e !, drilling operations al
sss . %, follow, Schroth an
,oo,s rsR Is located about 8
sast' ',reast .Osa of here on tn,
lCostUlr,ne lCs corner Of the northwel
Evening star., 1936-12-24
Parties and
Definition of
High Tea''
Late Afternoon Af-
fairs Often Turn
Out to Be Suppers.
BY EMILY POST.

nEAR MRS. POST: When one pays
a visit late in the afternoon on a
Sunday and is invited to remain for
''tea," does this mean really tea or does
It mean an evening meal? I was given
such an invitation recently and the
'tea" happened to be light supper?
Answer: The answer to this would
depend upon the hour. At 4 or 4:30 in
the afternoon stay for tea" would
probably mean afternoon tea at S
o'clock, but at $50 or 6, staying for
tea would probably mean cold sup
per- As a matter of fact, the word tea
used as synonym for supper sounds
delightfully."- old-fashioned. At least it
takes me back about 20 or Is years.
NEAR MRS. POST: A friend and I
are giving party at hotel for
my sister. All the information neces-
sary is too much writing for visiting
card, which, however, the kind of in
vitation we would have liked to send,
since writing notes Is so time taking
and anything especially printed is
suggestive of much too important q
party. What would you suggest that
we do?
Answer: Write your sisters name
and the invitation on your friends
card and merely inclose your own
visiting card to show that you share
In giving the party.
4 X + X
NEAR MRS. POST: I am going
South with friend and we have
been invited to spend several days with