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Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-22
TWeIue Killed in Series of Auto Accidents,
Four Members of Family Wiped Out at
Speeding Train Hits Machine

Los ANGELES, June p. (UP)-A hot muggy week
end that sent hundreds of thousands of Southern Cafor
the highways and beaches left aftermath
13 dead and several dying today Twelve lives taken
in the widest Weekend of traffic accidents this wear
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-22

Factory guards were armed to
the teeth in the battle which
ragged at the Black and Decker
Tool Co. plant in Kent, O., as
this haul of shotguns and gas
guns held by Patrolman w. :.
Barr shows. Nearly a score of
casualties resulted from gas
nnd bullets in the battle in
which pickets and the guards
clashed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-22

A lucky purchase of discontinued styles
all finest quality Simmons baby cribs
makes possible this sensational price
reduction. Stocks are limited SO we
urge prompt action. On display at all
|. Y. Hardware Furniture Stores
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

Dragon"
 Yes, Paul Revere was the Mo- hawk Chief-and 14-year-old Paul Jr., was one of the husky young braves.
 The value of the teamwork of Paul Revere and Dr. Joseph War ren for the Patriot Cause is be- yond calculation. without these two most extraordinary men, Sam uel Adams could not have ren- dered the might service he did; nor could John Adams and John Hancock have accomplished what they did.
 Dr. Warren was 36; a Harvard graduate: chairman of the Conn mittee of Safety, and in his rank of General-was head of the Pa- triot Army of Massachusetts. AS a writer he was the equal of Sam uel Adams; and as Q fearless and forceful orator for the Cause of Liberty, he was unequaled in Massachusetts.
 On the eventful night of April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere was just 40. At that time he lived happily with his wife and seven children in the historic old house--still standing on North Square.
 It is said to be the oldest house in Boston-built only 8 few years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

ing and upholding Paul Revere and his associate leaders, and training soldiers to be ready to go to their support.
 The Waterbury patriots also knew about the Boston Tea Party" and that Paul Revere and his friend and neighbor, Dr. Warren, were the leading spirits in that celebrated affair.". They probably had a copy of the following notice for the Rally of the Mohawks" at the Green Dargon Inn:
 "RalIy Mohawks! Bring out your axes; and tell King George we'll pay no taxes on his Foreign Tea. His threats are vain, and vain to think to force our girls and wives to drink his Vile BOhea! Then rally boys! And hasten onto meet our Chiefs, at the Green Dragon.
 "Our Warren's there-and bold Revere, with hands to do and words to cheer-for Liberty and laws; our Country's brave and Free Defenders shall ne'er be left by true North -Enders fight ing Freedoms cause!
 'Then rally b0ys--and hasten on to meet our Chiefs at the Green
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
The Ride or Paul ReUere

Listen, my children, and you shall
 hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Re-
 were, On the eighteenth of April, in
 Seventy-five; Hardly Q man is now alive Who remembers the famous day
 and year. He said to his friend, 'Tf the Brl.
 tlsh march By land or seq from town tonight, Hang . lantern aloHt in the belfry
 arch Of the North Church tower as
 signal lights-- One, if my land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and
 farm, For the country folk to be up and
 to arn." You know the rest In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and
 fled How the farmers gave them ball
 for ball, From behind each fence and farm.
 yard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Tho crossing the fields to emerge
 again Under the trees at the turn of the
 road, And only pauslng to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul
 Revere; And so through the night went his
 cry of alarm, To every Middlesex village and
 farm A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, knock at
 the door, And . word that shall echo for-
 evermOre! For, borne on the night wind of the
 past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril
 and need, The people will waken and listen
 to hear The hurrytng hoofbeats of that
 steed, And the midnight message of Paul
 Revere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
Ln Memory Paul ReDere Once More Rides
 Through The Streets Of Old Waterbury
immortal Patriot Known to Early Residents of
 City, Writes Barr
BY JOHN BARR

The paper that brought the news to Waterbury before and during the Revolution was 'aThe Connecticut Journal and The New Haven Post-Boy". It was a weekly, published in New Haven 'by Thomas and Samuel Green, near the College"
 It was distributed through greater Waterbury (which then included present Naugatuck, Prospect, Wolcott, Plymouth, ThofmastOn, Watertown and Mid- dlebury) by Thomas Hickox, Jr., whom we know about from the following notice in the paper of April 5, 1775; (Just two weeks be- fore the Battle of Lexington and Concofd.)
 ss'THE next weeks paper, No.
 301, completes the second year that I have rode as post: to which No. all indebted, are de- sired to make payment. Those who incline to take the paper another year, or to stop at the end of this,
 are
 desired to make known their in- tentlons to the public's
 Humble Servant,
 THOMAS HICKCOX, junr.
 (An ardent patriOt.) Westbury, in Waterbury,
 April 5, 1775.
 The Yale Library contains bound file of this newspaper, in excellent condition. They are wonderfully fascinating old vol- tunes, where Waterburians may see many curious local notices and advertisements, as well as the stirring articles that were big news in 1776 and are big history in l936.
 For instance, the newspaper of September 8, 1774, that Thomas I7ickcox Jr., delivered to his Wa terbury subscribers, brought Q whole front page account of the proceedings of the First Conti- mental Congress, then in session
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

from WateEbuEy. were on tns double-quiok march with fslmxr. General 1srael Putnum, for the support Of tho Patriots of Boston and Massachusetts = and stayed with them, shoulder Co shoulder, till the British feet and army were driven out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

verse what happened on ihe night os April isth, i77s-end all the next day, at Lexington and CCn- cord.
 And Co the everlasting honor of Connecticut - immediately - companies of Patriot Militia mum. boring thousands, including 50
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

asaln1t llls nm clw nstWlas cs The casa was heard last weak at which tlms decision was reserved.
 Sullivan claimed that he Wst placed in Q tavern bg tl0 oonpant and promised wages of 90 oemla An hour. The issues were found ln 1uI- liyanls favor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

at Philadelphia; and in connection therewith, at the top of the front page the mention of Q fearless American patriot whose very name thrilled his countrymen then as 1t does us to-day:
 sLast Wednesday evening, Mir. Paul Revere (who passed thro' this Town, last Wednesday sem night, as an Express from Boston, to the Grand COngress), returned from Philadelphia, which place he left last Saturday, by whom we have what follows, viz:
 ~To the Printer of the Philadel- phlA Packet,
 "Sir:--Please to insert in your paper the following extract from the Minutes of the Congress now sitting in Philadelphia.
 By order of the Congress
 "CHARLES THOMSON,
 Secretary.
 "Tn Congress, Saturday, Sept. 17, 1774."
 Then followed the famous "Suf- folk Resolves" which had been written by pr. (GeneraI) Joseph Warren, who was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill Paul Revere had evidently brought cop. ies of Capt. John Dunlap's Packet" and given one to the New Haven editor, which he re. printed in the paper that came to Waterbury.
 The extent of the services of Paul Revere for the Cause of Lib- erty are not as well known, out- side of Boston and Massachusetts, as they deserve.
 Too many think of him only as the hero of Longfellow's thrilling poem of the Midnight Ride" of April 18th, 1775. Of course he is entitled to all the glory he has received for that occasion; but Paul Revere actually rode thou sands of miles horseback for the patriot cause before the war be- gan.
 Every time he rode from Boston to Philadelphia he covered 700 miles on the round trip, and he made that trip ct least @ half- dozen times-going by way or Hartford, New Haven, and New York.
 He made the $50 miles between Bostot1 and Philadelphia, includ. ing stops, in six days.
 Yes, under the sun and under the stars he rode--in fair weather and in storm Lover old Indian trails, and new white-manB paths-over dusty roads and mud dy roads and frozen winter roads he urged on his horse for the Cause of Freedom carrying Mes- sages between Boston and the sis- ter Colonies--too important to be trusted to any ordinary carrier and often only to be given under secrecy of oath by whispered word of mouth.
 His name was Q household word among the patriots of America, from New Hampshire to Georgia, for Hive years before that famous Midnight Ride"--the night before the beginning of the var at Lex ington and Concord.
 As the first American cartoon ist, he had dared to engrave and publish under his own name, in l77O, pictures of the Boston Mas sacre" to rouse the people against the inhuEnan tyranny of the Kings troops, swarming in Bos- ton; and on the first anniversary of the "AGassacre" had defiantly exhibited transparencies of that horror from the upper windows of his house on North Square. before a multitude of spectators whom the Kings troops were trying to disperse.
 No wonder the people called him BOLD" REVEREl
 The Waterbury and Connecti- cut patriots knew all about these exciting things that were going cn in Boston and were encourag-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24

after the landing of the Mayflow- CT. It was more than a century old when Paul Revere bought 1t in TITO. For 30 years 1t was his family residence-save the year following the MIDNIGHT RIDE; for after he left the house that fateful night-160 years ago-he did not return till the Patriot Army, under the command of General George Washington drove the British out of Boston--a year later.
 Longfellow has told in immortal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
WAGE ALLOWANCE
 GIVEN SULLIVAN

m a decision handed down yos-
 tefday afternoon in Che court of
 common pleas, Judge Edward ]. Finn awards the sum Of 41oe.47 to ! Michael Sullivan in his claim
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
of l776'

list of of Watsbuian who served in the Revolutionary the third in connection with M HaFrS historical Another list viii next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
By Dorothy MatfiS0n.

TINE shows, along with the mu-
sic, keeps going round and
round. Some of them, Of
= course, quite definitely are
regular institutions on the networks
which introduced them-but that new
tendency Of the fellows who pay the
bills to shift their radio shows here
and there keeps growing.
Shopping for new air time means
the sponsors are shopping for new
customers for their wares. But 1t
listeners. The N. B. C.'audience gets
a chance to tune in Jimmy Fidler's
sprightly Hollywood chit-chat Tues
days at 1890 pm, beginning jan
uary 81 The Corn Cob Pipe Club
hops from Saturday to Wednesdays
at 8 pm. on January 20 How
ever the "Hit Parade" stays where
it is, inasmuch as Columbia couldn't
find a spot to suit the sponsor who
has been thinking of transferring half
the show to that network and
Loretta Lee is retained to sing the
tunes Carl Ho1 has a 13 weeks con-
tract to play.
CURTIS ARNALL is due to go over
to N. B. C. as soon as his new
sponsor makes up his mind about
the right time to air Elaine Caring
tons new network serial There's
rumor that "The Story Of Helen
Trent" resumes on Columbia in two
weeks and another that the
current STORY of Mary Marlin shifts
to N. B. C. next month . Dial the
Gang Busters" on c. B. S. Wednes-
day, 10 pm, If you keep track of
all Phillips Lords radio ventures.
Robert Armbruster is the one re-
sponsible for putting some badly
needed pep into the Melody Master"
shows, just in case you didn't recog-
nize his unique choir and orchestral
effects the other night And not
that there have been complaints about
the Rudy Vallee outfit, but report has
it he is considering upping his orches-
ira to 40 members.
RENE BEASLEY, the long, tall gal
from Dixie who queened it on the
air a couple of seasons ago, was back
at the microphone Wednesday in
company with Clyde Lucas orchestra
-. She may rate a contract on that
show =. Frank Fay is slated to guest
star again soon on the Vallee pro-
gram, which the broadcasters hope
may prove his springboard to some
thing regular on the air moving
some of his listeners to wonder how
long he could go on climaxing his
deft comedy with a moving tear
jerker.
Nothing like having a business man
ager in the family Connie Bos-
well, who followed Lanny Ross ex-
ample and married hers, Harry Leevy,
has set up housekeeping up at 275
Central Park West now that her
bridegroom of December IA has man.
aged to dodge the bad luck that's
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Archbishop of York Believes Benefits
OF Radio Offset Evils; Urges Liberty

While he's on the subject, the Arch
bishop offered a couple of suggestions
for the benefit of those who direct
British broadcasting. and they are
worthy of the attention of broadcast
ers and fans in his country, too.
First, he says, there must be con-
slant effort to promote intelligent
and critical listening. If people will
listen with alert intelligence, he
prophesies, and will take the trouble
to understand, not only to apprehend,
what is put before them, wireless
offers an opportunity such as we
never had before of bringing to birth
that educated democracy which alone
can preserve freedom for the world"
Having offered that suggestion, he
then points directly at the officials
who control broadcasting, and in the
case Of the British he Is referring
to the government-controlled agency
which has complete charge of radio
in that country. To them he aims
the warning that there must be COM
plete liberty In permitting varieties
OF opinion to be expressed. No sim
cere convictions should be boycotted,
he says, only abusive or contemp.
tuous reference to the beliefs Of
others.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

Shopping of Sponsors Seen
Benefit to Radio Listeners
Tendency of Fellows Who Pay the Bills
to Shift Time Is Effort to Get
New Customers.

tagged him ever since the wedding.
They bundled the groom up and
hustled him to the hospital for an
operation the day after he said "I do
which was just 16 days before
the public prints announced the we'd
ding of another of the harmonizing
Boswells, Sister Martha. Connie con-
tinues to vocalize with Ray Mobiles
orchestra while radios other
Connie, Miss Gates, keeps every one
waiting for the news that she has
donned wedding ring, too.
SPEAKING Of weddings, as Jack
Benny happened to be on the eve
OF his 1ith anniversary today the
comedian confides that Mary Living
stone had quite a time making up
her mind about him =. changed her
mind seven times just in the week
they finally up and married. The
husband-and-wife shows on the air
are about to be augmented by Phil
Baker and the Mrs, and Phil and
Flo Cook both play in the new Co
lumbia amateur show. Comedian
Bakers frau was Peggy Cartwright
Of the English stage. She starts
stooging for him next month.
WONDER if the smooth pacing Of
the new Bing Crosby-Bob Burns
show isn't due, in part, to the fact
there's no studio audience but at
least one thing about the bill is a cer-
tainty it's rehearsed to the teeth,
as every air show should be and
it presents competent Crosby who
is alternately informal and hail-fel-
lowish in manner and then thoroughly
sedate and apparently awed by the
magnitude of some of his guest stars
-. While they're arranging the mikes
for the next show, it would be nice if
some one would think to shove one in
the drummers vicinity 81. Meanwhile
Paul Whiteman, who has just vacated
the Crosby spot, is managing to squeeze
his former hour-long show into As
minutes and somehow getting even
more time to oficiate as the bandSman
he is -. He's been spending too much
of his time ushering others up to the
microphone these evenings When
Whiteman m. cs today's show it will
be a reunion for him and one Of his
proteges,
Evening star., 1936-01-12
SHORT-WAVE FEATURES.
Today.

1O0dys
Winnipeg-5 pm, "Vesper
Hour" Choral and organ pro-
gram. CJRX, 25.6 m. (l1,720
kc.); CJRO, 48.7 m. (6,150 kc.)
Mexico City-6 pm, program
sponsored by Mexican govern
ment. Miners and Sappers Band
of the Mexican Army. The an-a
nouncer said last Sunday night
the next concert would be heard
at 6 pm, Central time q pm.
Eastern) Heretofore they have
been heard at 6 pm. but both
times might be tried. XECR, 4O.8
m. (7,380 kc.).
London-7 p.m,, bells and an
empire service, from st. Paul's
Cathedral, London. Csc, 3l.3 m.
(s,5so kc.); GSB, 31.5 m. (9,510
kc); GSL. 49.1 m. (6.1i0 kc9, or
GSA, 49.5 m. (6,050 kc). Also at
10 pm. over GSD, 25.5 m. d.
750 kc.); Csc, and GSL.
Melbourne, Australia TAO
pm, M editation Music"
VK3ME, 31.5 m. (9.510 kc).
Paris--6:15 pm, Literary
Life" NJ. r. de Teramond. FYA,
25.6 m. Q1,720 kc.).
Berlin-8:30 pm, "a Waltz
and q Lullaby" (tale Of Brahms
YOUTH. DUG, 49.8 m. (6,020 kc.).
Evening star., 1936-01-12

WHEN the Archbishop of York
Nv voices an opinion all Britain sits
with ears cooked to catch every word,
and so does most of the Protestant
world And when this redoubtable
official lays down his views on radio
the whole world of listeners can find
food for profitable thought in his
erudite ideas on this most modern of
machine-age blessings.
It's the mechanical aspect of broad
casting that gives the distinguished
Britisher few misgivings on the
subject, however. The far-reaching
influence of radio as millions listen
to the same program worries him a
bit because he wonders if people lose
the power to amuSe themselves and
the capacity for concentrated atten-
ton.
Yet, while there may be an occa-
sional plague in the influence Of a
machine-ridden era, on the other
hand there are countless benefits off,
setting such plaques. First of all, he
says, writing in the Radio Times of
London, "'there is a diminution of the
power of clap-trap."
Take an election, as one example.
Eager voters now have ample oppor-
tunity to hear all sides of public ques-
tions and to weigh with more intelli-
gence the abilities of public figures.
Still more, If there Is mo risk of men
tai indigestion in the hearing of lee
lures by all the chief scientists and
philosophers, at least the general pub
lie is brought into direct contact with
iirst-class students of their subjects
instead of being at the mercy of popu-
lar manuals or street-corner orators"
80 In the realm of art, particularly
music, the Archbishop Of York finds
that 'the gain already Is incalculable.
Thousands are rejoicing in good mu-
sic today" he says, "who would never
have listened to it and therefore never
have found out that they liked 1t,
If it had not been brought into their
homes"
Evening star., 1936-01-12
High Economic Hurdle.

TELEvISION, which has been trying
hard to round that corner of
experimentation for nearly a decade,
Is fine as laboratory development,
but it still has big economic hurdle
to jump before it will be useful to
the public.
That is the appraisal Of the visual
radio art advanced by the Federal
Communications Commission in its
annual report to Congress. Calling
attention to the surge in public re-
action to television in recent months
because of the activities in Great
Britain and Germany in this line,
the F. c. O. ventured the view, how
ever, that technically "television has
been as highly developed in the labor
atories Of the private companies of
the United States as has been accomp-
ished in Europe"
One of the big difficulties here,
says the F. c. c., is the failure of
the television experimenters to stand
ardize their methods of transmission
and reception. so that cne television
receiver of the future will pick up
all of the television stations, irrespec-
tive Of the operator. At present, it
was pointed out, a separate receiver
would be required to pick up the
visual signals of each independent
method Of transmission.
No commercial receivers are at
present available to receive television
programs, the report brought out. I'm
order to give television service" the
report concludes, ''it is necessary for
the different manufacturing COM
panies to standardize their trans
missions and produce receivers which
can receive all programs transmitted.
In short, from a laboratory stand
point, television programs can be
satisfactorily transmitted and received
locally at the present development
of the art. but before it is finally
useful to the public, there are many
commercial problems to be solved
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Artists to Collaborate.
TWO artists well known in concert

and radio will collaborate in
q novel series of Wednes-
day programs over N. B. C., COM
mencing January Is. This new series,
explained by its title. "Songs Of the
Harp" will be broadcast by Mildred
Dilling and George Rasely.
Miss Dilling, recognized through
out the music world as one Of the
greatest living virtuosos Of the harp,
shares with Paderewski the distinc-
ito of having been invited to make
more appearances at the White House
than any other music artist in history.
She also has played numerous conn
mand" programs at court functions
abroad.
Rasely. whose distinctive artistry
Is familiar to N. B. G. network audi
ences, established an enviable repu-
tation with his tenor voice on the
stage and concert before coming to
radio.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Orchestra to Broadcast.

THE Pittsburgh Symphony Orches-
ira, directed by its young COM
poser conductor, Antonio Modarelli,
will be heard in series of concerts
each Thursday from $50 to pm,
Eastern standard time. over an N. B.
c. network, starting February 6.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
New Series Planned.

THE March Of Time" nightly
dramatization of news on the Co
lumbfa network, will soon begin a new
series of half-hour programs, to be
heard every Thursday from $50 to 8
pm, sponsored, as at present, by
Remington-Rand and Time, Inc.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

So strict are Denmark's neutral
ity laws being applied to broad
casting that the program director of
the Copenhagen station recently
banned the playing Of . new fox trot
titled BLACK Sheba From Adds
Abaha,"