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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
ATTORNEY FOR
WILMER UPHELD
Judge McEvoy Decides He
Did Right in Refusing
to Show Letter

an attorney Is not only exercising
a right but Is performing a duty
when he refuses to surrender let
ter written him by a client, says
Judge Frank p. McEvoy in a memo
randum Of decision handed down In
superior court today on the move
brought by Coroner John T. Mon
zani to secure possession of a
letter written to Attorney Percy
Gracerstein by Maurice wilmer a
few hours before Wilmer COM
nitted suicide and took his Ave-
months old son, Joel, to death with
him In a garage Of his Willow street
home March s. Judge McEvoy,
after discussing the rights Of the
coroner and of practicing attor-
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CONDUCTOR DROWNED

Greenfield, Mass, March 19--(UP)
Conductor J. L. Moylan Of Green
field apparently was drowned early
today when an embankment coll
lapsed and plunged four dump cars
into flood waters, according to word
received by the Boston g. Maine
Railroad office here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
Final Ne1vs Flashes
ITALY READY TO END WAR

London, March 19.-(UP(-Italy IS ready
to cease hostilities against Ethiopia if sanctions
against her are lifted, league of nations officials
announced tonight. League officials said Italy
of Is on Ethiopia-the council without Italy-to
that effect. Committee members said they ex
pected Italy to announce her willingness to end
hostilities after the committee meets tomorrow.
They believed, however, that Italy would first re-
quire pledge that sanctions would be lifted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19

Wheeling, w. Va, where 16 are
known dead and scores missing.
Central Pennsylvania and SOUTH
ern New York cities badly
flooded.
Whole Connecticut river valley IN
New England flooded and conditions
getting worse. Other rivers also out
Of banks.
Potomac floods part Of Washing
ton, D. c.; government buildings
in danger.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania IA dead. Water
swiftly receding from Pittsburgh,
leaving untold damage. Nearby Nc
Kees Rocks, on Ohio river, under
water. Johnstown starts digging out
of mud and debris. Situation in
western Pennsylvania generally i'm
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Southern Ne1v England
Hartford Offices Are
Surrounded By Floods
Conn. River Has Risen to 81 IL Feet at 2:45 This
Afternoon - Power Lines Faltered Through.
out Hartford For Short Time

Hartford, Conn.,, March 10 - (UP) - Flood waters
arooned the Southern New England Telephone offices and
plant this afternoon and service in the East Hartford area
was almost completely demorazed The first floor Of the
Telephone building was flooded and the water entirely
surrounded the building and spread out for nearly two
blocks Pumps had worked franticay since early morn
ING to keep the water from entering the building
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
WEST VIRGINIA
PANIC STRICKEN
Raging Ohio River Left Its
Banks Today-Fourteen
Dead in Wheeling
BY ALFRED E. DOWNS
lCopyright 1896 by United Press

Copyright 1885 BY United ~PresS)
Wheeling, w. Va, March 19-(UP)
The raging Ohio river left It's
banks today, flooding Wheeling and
a dozen large industrial COMMUNE
ties in West Virginia and Ohio, and
causing at least 20 deaths.
At 8 a. m. the river had passed
52.8 feet stage reading, eclipsing the
all time record established In the
great flood of 1884. 1t still was ris-
ing. The entire industrial and busi-
ness section Of Wheeling, Wheeling
Island in the Ohio, and parts Of
Weirton, Wellsburg, Denwood, and
Moundsville, in West Virginia, and
Steubenville, Mingo Junction, Mari
eta, Martins Ferry, Bridgeport, and
Bellaire in Ohio were three to eight
feet Of water.
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300 PRIZE. CATTLE DROWNED
Mortified Farms Mass, March 19.-(U

Mortified Farms Mass, March l9.-(UP)
Approximately 800 head Of blooded cattle
drowned in their stalls here today when flood
waters of the Connecticut river engulfed the
huge dairy barns of Charles S. Tenney. No esti
mate of the herds value was obtainable, but it
was known to be tens of thousands of dollars.
Tenney had won numerous prizes with his cattle
in dairy contests in various parts of the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19

Wheeling, w. Va, March 10
CUP)-The steel and suspension
bridges, giant spans over the Ohio
river here, were feared near col
lapse today. Police warned all resi-
dents to stay off,"
The suspension bridge is one OF
the oldest of its type in the coun-
trY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
SNOW-BOUND CHILDREN SAVED

Newland N. c., March 19.-(UP)-Rescue
workers today pushed through 20-foot snow
drifts to rescue approximately 200 children who
had been snow-bound since Tuesday at the local
consolidated school. At noon, according to the
sheriff's office, all but dozen of the children
had been removed. Removal of these was ex-
pected to be completed before mid-afternoon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
WILLIAMSPORT is ON FIRE

Philadelphia, March 19-(UP)--An entire
city block of Wiiamsport, Pa, was reported
'afire this afternoon. The Philadelphia Navy
Yard communications reserve picked up short
wave message from Wilamsport reporting the
blaze. The message said that all gas mains had
been shut off to prevent explosions. Williams
port has been isolated BY the food for "a hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, March 10 (UP) Gov
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year to March
18th, as compared with a year ago;
This Year Expenses last Year
S4,996. 441,373.91 $4,S43,537.153.63
Receipts
$2,690,S1S,60940 $2,566,26e.719.4s
Deficit
so,3O5G22,76451 s2,277.270.4s4.14
s2,s2e,Gs4.ssOi4 $a,i4s,s5o.o2o.44
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
Flood Situation
Is Not Improved
This Afternoon
Hand in Trouble-l6 Reported Killed in Wheel
ing - Conditions Growing Worse
(BY UNITED PRESS

The flood situation at glance:
Death toll 102 and mounting
President Roosevelt reports 900 homeless asks
SO 000 900 Red Cross fund
Fourteen states from New England to Virginia and
west to Ohio affected.
Ohio river flood sweeps down from Pittsburgh striking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
The Weather

Mostly Cloudy Tonight;
Unchanged Friday
Fun Weather Report Page 3
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Evening star., 1936-11-29
D. c. Milk Quality Excels,
Official Inspector Reports
DR.. Reid H. Ash,uOrth Informs Health
Officer of improvement in Whole.
sOneness and Cleanliness.

apparatus are q part Of the modern
equipment used by the farmers. No
milk leaves the farm until 1t is cooled
to the proper temperature and the
cans have been sterilized under q
germ-destroying steam. Even the cows
teats and udders are washed and wiped
before each milking. In addition
dairy attendants must pass a medical
examination If the producer is to re-
ceive high rating on his milk. The
sanitary regulations are just as strict
in the dairies where the milk Is pas
teurized and bottled for consumption.
Must Have Permit.
The Health Department maintains
strict control over the milk supply
under its rating and permit system.
No dairy farmer is allowed to ship
any cream or milk into the District
for fluid consumption without a per-
NIT from the Health Department. The
milk that does come in must conform
to the standards outlined in the milk
control act and the subsequent regu-
lations promulgated under that law.
To procure a permit the producer
must keep all of his cattle free from
tuberculosis and meet the numerous
! other sanitary standards prescribed
by the department.. Otherwise, the
permit is revoked.
Evening star., 1936-11-29

drastic official action as neither you
nor I would welcome"
The Governors warning followed q
clash between police and plant guards,
armed with nightsticks and pickets
welding rocks. clubs and flaming
sticks. A State police sergeant. John
w. Kries, and Deputy Sheriff Edgar
Lewis were among those most seriously
injured.
Fight Involves Crowd.
The hand-to-hand fighting involved
approximately rs State. county and
plant police and between 800 and 400
strikers.
Mrs. Ida Hoffman, A, of Ridgeley.
w. Va, a picket, claimed she was
knocked unconscious and trampled by
the milling mob in front Of the plant
gates. State police said the woman
tainted and was not trampled.
The outbreak was the second in two
days. Yesterday, a fiare-up left 16
persons injured, three with stab
wounds.
Both incidents occurred in connec-
ton with the movements of trains to
or from the plant. Gov. Nice, in his
wire to Kelly, asserted If there Is ANY
accusation Of violation Of agreement
Evening star., 1936-11-29

From the COW to the consumer
washington's milk supply cannot be
excelled anywhere in quality and
purity.
DR.. Reid r. Ashworth, who super
vises milk inspection for the District,
made this disclosure yesterday in re-
port to Dr. George c. Rhuland, health
oficer, which showed that despite the
previous high standard Of the Dis
tricts' milk in both wholesomeness and
clealiness, there was an Improvement
last year.
DR.. Rhuland agreed with DR.. Ash
worth that washington undoubtedly
is in the top rank of American cities
with respect Of the supply Of milk and
other dairy products"
Strict regulation and supervision
over the dairy neutrality-suspicious.
and regulation which starts on the
dairy farm and continues until the
milk Is left at the doorstep of the con-
sumer-is attributed by health officials
as the reason for the position WASH
ington holds with respect to its milk
supply. 1t has taken many years to
achieve this goal.
Dairy Farms Cleaned Up.
Back in 1920 before science gave
much thought to the disastrous ef-
fects Of unpasteurized, unclean milk
when newborn babies were dying at
an alarming rate from pathogenic Or
ganisms in their food-the raw milk
shipped into Washington from the
farms averaged about 1,898,000 per
cubic centimeter. Five years later the
District milk-control act became law
and the count dropped to an average
Of 100000 per cubic centimeter. In
other words, at that time there were
100000 organisms in every IA drops o1
milk.
With the milk-control act as
weapon, health authorities virtually
wiped out unclean dealers in the dairy
industry Dairy farms were cleaned ur
and SO were the dairies. In fact. more
sanitation, 1t is said, Is thrown aroune
milk than any other food product.
DR.. Ashworth's figures show that the
average bacterial count for milk de-
livered to the milk plant now is abou,
$4,000 per cubic centimeter. And aftel
pasteurization in the dairies the coun,
dropped precipitiously. The average
count of the milk retailed during the
last year was 5000 per cubic cent?.
meter.
Jmnroyement in Sanitation.
This indicates" DR.. Ashworth re-
ported, IAN improvement in sanitary
methods on the dairy farm which pro-
duces the milk for the market as well
as the milk plant where 1t Is proc
essed."
And while the bacteria count was
being reduced, the butter fat content
or the richness, went up. In 1928
when the health department charted
this feature, the average butter 1a'
content of milk shipped into Washing
ton was 4 per cent. This average has
steadily increased.
Improvement in the milk supply,
however. has come only through the
cooperation of the dairy farmers
and the distributors. The producers
who furnish the District with its milk
supply live chiefly in Maryland and
Virginia.
Refrigerating and steam sterilizing
Evening star., 1936-11-29

on part Of employers, am ready to
have cars entering company grounds
examined under police supervision to
ascertain If agreement Is being
broken 80 ."
The union and the company agreed
early in the strike to permit move
ment of trains provided strikebreak-
ers, material, or products Of the plant
were not carried on board the cars.
Il will not tolerate protests in form
Of violence" Gov. Nice's wire said.
IF you present proof Of unprovoked
violence by company guards shall
take appropriate action. have al
ready indicated I will defend your
legal right Of peaceful picketing ."
Strikers Bombard Train.
Today's clash began at the railroad
station adjacent to the closed plant.
As State police officers, under Maj.
Enoch B. Carey, and a group of
company workers carrying mail de-
scended from a train, strikers lined
up on the banks OF q nearby stream
and laid down q barrage of brickbats.
The officers, aided by plant guards,
defended themselves with their night
sticks and q brief but violent melee
ensued. Lieut.. Nils Falkenstine OF
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Cumberland, refused to delegate .
physician to accompany the ambu-
lance, choosing to 60 himself. Inside
the plant, he treated the injured per-
sons and ordered Kris and Lewis re-
moved to hospital.
Maj. Carey, superintendent Of State
police. was himself slightly injured by
stones and clubs. He continued tc
direct his men, later returning to the
city in an attempt to confer with
strike leaders.
State police said more than q
score" Of strikers were arrested and
held in the Cumberland jail. States
Attorney William A. Hustler said 80
warrants were issued from his office
and that "all violating the law" would
be arrested.
Evening star., 1936-11-29

Of rioting which left at least six per-
sons injured today. more than q score
of strikers under arrest and brought
a warning of drastic action" from
Gov. Harry w. Nice.
The Governor, remaining at his desk
In Annapolis. In close touch with de-
velopments In the strike area, wired
William F. Kelly. international vice
president of the United Textile Work
ers' Union, that reports indicated .
collapse Of union authority"
Unless union leaders prevent q re-
currence Of violence. breach of peace
and bodily injury" the Governor told
Kelly, you will force me to take such
Evening star., 1936-11-29

the State police detail, came out of
the fray with his face painfully
burned by flaming stick tossed from
the picket line.
Sergt. Kries was beaten severely
and Deputy Lewis was clubbed un-
conscious. Those injured were re-
moved to the plant infirmary. Doubt
rs to whether an ambulance could
get through the mob prompted Gov.
Nice to wire strike headquarters that
Q path must" be cleared.
"The injured" he telegraphed,
SHALL not be permitted to suffer or
die for want of medical attention.
I shall hold to strict accountability
any and all who interfere with its
(the ambulance's) passage"
DR.. Thomas w. Koon, Mayor of
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-11-19

for Cynthia to help in the sweet-po-
tato vines. She went on to the
house and got the water bucket and
went to the we'll as the sun slipped
off of Saul's headstone, drawing
after it a veil of dark. She saw
Shellenberger and Mullens coming
down the path from the Pinnacle.
1t was almost dark when the 9TH
er men came in. Cynthia could see
them from the Kitchen, hustle OF
men around the wash rock rolling
up their sleeves, opening their
shirts, soaping and splashing and
suffering; thinking how funny men
folk were when they washed. Reu-
ben had come into the kitchen.
II hope we haven't put you out,
Cynthia, being so late. | had this
instrument set up and | wanted to
finish off a line before l pulled it
up"
1T isn't any trouble at ALL" she
said.
ut was slow going and made us
late"
The men were unusually talkatlve
at the table and on the porch after
supper. Cynthia sometimes listened.
Eyes, we got around all right"
Shellenberger was saying. "Well
cut in through Dry creek and work
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She Was Fascinated by His Zeal
and the Reality of the Performance.
back. We may have to put In
splash dam to give them start
down Cannon"
"Are you actually going to float
logs down Cannon Abral asked.
1--WE certainly are"
''In rafts?"
eyes. Small ones"
"Can | take one down." Abral
demanded.
"You certainly can," Shellenber-
ger said. 'But we have to cut the.
logs first. Do you think we can get
good men along the creeks here"
"There1l be plenty out Of these
hollows," Spared said. "The coun-
try is filing up fast and plenty of
them have not land enough to keep
them busy"
"We'l have to put up q camp
there. If you'd rig up saw on your
mill we could rip out boards pretty
quick
The saw ought to be in now any
time" Spared said.
So the talk went on while Shell
lenberger explained about the SUI
periority of oxen over mules In lum-
bering because they draw heavier
loads, require no expensive harness,
stand rougher treatment, eat less
and cheaper foods and Craze at
night: and of the number of wedges
and wooden mauls and cross cut
saws and axes and spike poles and
AIDES and peaveys required; and OF
blacksmithing and the hazards OF
logging and the carelessness OF men
even where their necks are in danger.
Cynthia had finished the dishes
and was moving the lamp from the
table. 1t flashed against the pol
ished brass of Reuben's compass.
"That was the first time he ever
called me anything. Cynthia. He
saws it so nice. I hope we haven't
put you out, Cynthia = / don't
reckon many a man would say 1t
about keeping supper waiting for
them. Tt was slow going and made
us late.' You're in love with him,
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Patterns of Wolfpen
By HARLAN HATCHER
tbyt WV selslee
wNU Service

buys necessary common supplies,
but not for anything besides nee
essaries."
SIS that what law isl" Cynthia
asked.
swell, that's just one little part.
There are so many things here. 1t
makes body wonder If people
really do all the things this book
says they mustn't do, and how many
neople had to do an evil before a
law was made about it. 1t takes a
lot of study, and man needs help
on some of it,
you're going to read with Tandy
Morgan, Jesse?"
"That's what aim to do this
fall.'
"We'll have ready money, too, and
can go to Pikeville, Mother says"
''The book lays down law on that.
It says here, The last duty of par
ents to their children is that of CIV
ing them an education suitable to
their station in life; duty point
ed out by reason, and of far the
greatest Importance of any. For
it is not easy to imagine or
allow, that a parent has conferred
any considerable benefit upon his
child by bringing him into the
world; If he afterwards entirely
neglects his culture and education,
and suffers him to grow up like a
mere beast to lead a life useless
to others and shameful to himself
This fellow talks straight words
like a lawyer ought"
you'll be a great lawyer your
self some day." Cynthia said.
II aim to if ] cam"
They sat, each with their own
| thoughts, for a minute in silence.
Us Reuben a great Surveyor?
| she asked, interrupting the silence.
"Why, yes. He seems to know
right smart"
us he as nice out in the woods
as he is about the house?"
IT don't see any change in him"
II like his way Of talking about
the Ohio river and things" she said.
Then, rousing from the dream in
which he was still partly sub
merged, he said, Il guess you like
him a right smart, don't you!"
| The directness of it made her
self-conscious and she blushed. She
retreated into herself a little way
in defense, Il think he's right nice. "
you're in love with him. You've
been different since that night he
came and you put flowers and a
white cloth on the table,
"Why, Jesse, 4. Why do you
say that?"
"Oh. Reuben is a nice fellow.
don't blame you any,
Cynthia had not meant to speak
to Jesse about Reuben. She had
merely sat there with her OWE
thoughts but they had moved sc
quietly and rapidly that the pres
sure of the undersurge had sudden
ly escaped into words. what de
you do or say about it to another
,, person, anyway? Would even Jesse
understand? A body doesn't do o.
say anything but lets it have it:
own way. It sparkles in your hear
where no one sees, and it lights W
the so. and changes the look O
the whole world. You hold it there
like it was star vapor from anoth
er world or the first green mist O
leaves Sitting between the willow
limbs on Wolfpen and it tremble
inside of you with wonder. Mayb'
if you let it alone and believe il
; it
Cynthia changed the subject skill
: fully back to Jesse.
you've sure read right smar
in such hard book"
II guess I've been getting alon;
right we'll"
) II came out to lay some Of the pc
tato vines up on the ridges for you.
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Cynthia came into the kitchen.
She was surprised to find herself
looking Immediately into his eyes.
"Oh! Excuse me-" she said.
"Not at ALL"
surveying? And on Sunday?"
"There are so many things to be
surveyed here, you have to use ev-
cry day and Sunday too"
tits a good day for surveying"
tits too good to be long indoors.
have finished anyway. l was try
ing to get yesterday straight in my
mind, and projecting tomorrow"
Cynthia stood by the table look
ing at him and at his map, with an
artless and unconfused silence, more
becoming than speech. She had a
way of lifting her head and offer
ing a simple smile that flushed del
icately over her face and into her
eyes, and became radiant under the
coil of rich dark hair.
In this isolated privacy he felt
that he was seeing her for the first
time. He thought quickly over the
weeks he had been here. Always
there had been other people, put
ting strains on relationships sim
ply because they were physically
present. When he had seen her
and been affected by her, the con-
seriousness of Spared, or Julia, or
the brothers, or the other men, had
been there, too, and there was no
telling what part of the completed
effect was provoked by the grace
full and sensitive young girl. Now,
Julia was in the garden, beyond
this new aura, and all the men were
far away on Dry Greek, leaving
this moment to Cynthia.
do you like it up here? she
| asked. But even before she spoke,
she felt how irrelevant to the rich
and powerful underfow of feeling
between them was the convention
that nothing really exists until it
has been dragged forth from it's
privacy and trimmed, distorted and
then sewn up into words.
And there began two movements
through time: the significant but
unvoiced understandings and the
commonplace of talk.
II never liked a place BETTER" he
said. do you like it?'
"It's my home. A body just nat
urally likes home"
"Well, not always. People do a
lot Of moving about. Do you ever
wish to go out in the world?''
'I've been to Pikeville. And I'm
going over there this fall to the
Institute for the winter. Some day
I'm to go down the river to the Ohio"
"My people live right on the Ohio
river. You can see the mouth Of
Sandy and the big bend in the Ohio
from our porch. And see the big
steamboats, come around it. In the
nighttime, when there is a moon,
they look like a great swan with a
black neck and string of red and
green heads around it. l guess
that sounds kinds of funny"
ooh, no. / like to think that way
about things
They both felt suddenly confused.
tits a fine day." Reuben said.
could we walk, or sit somewhere
while?"
"Let's do" she said.
They strolled across the yard to
the path along Julia's garden fence.
Julia was among her sweetpeas
pulling off the faded blooms.
you certainly have a fine gar
den, Mrs. Pattern" Reuben said.
Its not quite so good this year, -
Julia replied.
The soft part Of the .fternoon
lay quiet over the valley.
"We're going to sit little while
up there on the rock by the syca-
MORE" Cynthia said.
We'll, don't go far" Julia said,