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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12

Marshall Haddad, Robert Copes, Maureen Connors, Gisele Milot, Vic- tor Ruselowski, Stanley Ruselowski, Edward I,ovrinovicz, Vincent Bud- ris, Anthony Winslow, George Chartrand, Henry Kacerguis, Evelyn Lamothe; adults: Avery Rowlison, David Christie, Thomas Kelly, John RuselowSki, Michael RuSelowSki, Helen Ruselowski.
 The sponsors will be Joseph Shields, church trustee, and Miss Louise Riley, president of the Chil- dren of Mary society.
 The Holy Sacrament of Confirma- = tion will be conferred by Most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe, bishop of Hartford, this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. This is a Mission church under St. Johns Parish.
 These to be confirmed follow: Ann Lizauskas, John Lizauskas, Beatrice zemaitis, Helen Kacerguis, Edward EkeltiS, William Alexion. The sponsors will be Matthew March and Miss Eva March.
 There will be a meeting of the Stamp club in the Library this eve ming. Albert Pope of Oakviilc will be the speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
SPORTS WRITER
 CORUM WOUNDED

New York, May 12.-(UP)-Bill Corum, sports columnist for the New York Evening Journal, suf- fered a slight gunshot wound early today, apparently from stray bul- let which entered his right thigh.
 Corum, 46, was walking on Madi- son avenue when he felt sting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
By ELMER c. WALZER

New York, May 12.--(UP)-The stock market flrIned in opening trading today but the trading pace was extremely quiet. Cotton futures sagged to further new lows for the movement and bonds were steady in quiet turnover.
 Railroad shares made the best early showing. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe opened with 3-4 gain at 91, Southern Pacific a similar gain at 58, New York Central 1-2 gain at 47 and Pennsylvania was 1-8 higher at 43 IA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
ROBERT LIGHTBORN DIES

New Haven, Conn, May 12.-(UP) Funeral services will be held Fri day for Robert c. Lightborn, prom inent business man, who died yeS- terday of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lightborn was president of the Lightborn & Pond Co.,, for the past 35 years. He leaves his widow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
FORECLOSURES

The following foreclosure &C., tiOns will be heard in superior court Friday morning by Judge Kenneth Wynne:
 Rose PreslOpsky against Tanka CirkOt and others; Waterbury Savings Bank against Max ROsen and others; Nathaniel R. Bron- son, trustee, against Rose Gold man and others; HOLC against Ida F. Zibell and others; HOLC against Katherine AZunaris and others; HOLC against Mary A Carter, HOLC against Leonardo Der gantinO and others; Waterbury Savings Bank against Frances Bennett Johnson and others:
 HOLC against William M. Brown and others; Waterbury Savings Bank against Citizens & Manu- lecturers National Bank, admins tratOr, and others; City of Water bury against Robert x. BOppeler and others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12

The England by New England manufacturing the largest block of economic activity in New England In 1885 nearly 300 million dollars paid out in New Eng land fin This in found Its in the form of purchases into of the business con tbutng kind activity study which M
 Naw Ensland husinaw beneAt from cur manufactures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
NON-PARTISAN MASS MEETING
 MAY 19 TO RAISE FUNDS FOR { SPANISH REFUGEES' RELIEF
Huge Pageant 'The Sacrifice of Spain, to Be Headed By Walter Hampden- Michael Williams to Speak
 and Father Finn to Direct PanliSt Choir

Plight victims Spanish will be materially relieved by by Committee for Spanish Kehe reused the Smpathes O
 in funds
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14
BY Bob Edgren, Jr.

@NCE they laughed at the game, and called
Oit Indoor rugby" Now look! Basketball
draws the biggest attendance of any American
sport Yet it is still one game about which little
is written: the thrills which draw so 000. 900 spec
tators year to basketball games not the
subject of hundreds of thousands of columns.
as the feats of baseball and football teams are.
That's because interest is scattered among
the followers of some $4,000 teams. and the
record attendance for one game. in America,
is relatively small. 1t is only little 5000
Another queer thing is that America the
home of basketball but does not furnish the
biggest crowds at basketball games -Four con-
secutive games in Madison Square Garden. New
York. averaged over $4,000 customers apiece
last year. Yet as long ago as 1881 the national
basketball tournament of China in Peping Tew
more than $4,000 persons per game.
Now that basketball is an Olympic sport, there
is no question that the records for attendance at
a single game will shoot skywards. Many of the
thousands of Germans and other spectators who
saw America win the Olympic basketball title
this year thought it was the first time that bas-
ketbal had ever been part of the Olympic
Games. But they were wrong.
The first Olympic Games to feature basketball
were the Games of 1904
The Olympics were held in st. Louis, Mo-.
that year in connection with great Worlds
Fair. among The OlneT events duueO 10 lne pro-
gram by the American committee-which was
outdoing itself to make the first visit of the
Olympics to America a success-was basket
ball tournament.
When the worlds championship tourney was
concluded the victors were five boys from little
Hiram College in Ohio. Second was Wheaton
College of Wheaton, ILL.,, town that later
to bring forth fairly well-known football player
by the name of Red Grange, and in third place
came the Latter-Day Saints College of Salt
Lake City.
For years Hiram College had banner in its
gymnasium commemorating the basketball
championship won in the 1904 Olympic Games.
Two years ago the gymnasium burned down,
and with it the banner. Hirams athletic plunge
was further continued when the little college
dropped out of the Ohio Conference last year
because it could no longer meet the other con-
ference members on an equal athletic basis and
had finally decided to use freshmen on varsity
teams
The early days of basketball were wild and
woolly. No two sections of the country played
the same rules. When DR.. Nainsmith remem-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14

shooting. A modern player, Bunny Leavitt OF
Chicago, gave an exhibition before 1000 people 4
A A. u. authorities kept count, and Leavitt rangV
up 499 consecutive baskets, shooting from the
free-throw line. This April 6. 1886.
girls basketball team believed it had set
a record last season when it had a perfect de-
fensive and offensive record. The final score was
Hurley, Mo-, 81 Verona Mo-, o. A search of the
records, however, shows that these girls weren't
even half trying. Why, in 1925 Webb City, Mo-,
had girls team that BANKED two rival squads.
They beat Jasper 1910 and Monett 1910
What was more" said Dorothy Mammen.
captain of the Webb City team, there
good reason for Monet failing to score They
didn't get shot at the basket"
Why not?
well because Monett didn't get possession of
the ball even during the entire game"
said Miss Mammen.
1910 sounds like big score. 1t is. But another
girls team down in Georgia made better one.
Waresboro rolled up no less than Ill points in
defeating Folkston couple of seasons ago. ThN
Folkston players. however, offered more stub
born opposition than Monett, tallying three
points during the game.
The young man of the family, seeing these
hgures, will probably say: Yeah! That's girls
basketball. I'll bet you could never find team
of men that allowed any such ridiculous score
to be rolled up against it,
A ND that's where he'd be wrong
~ Not only has such a score been made in
mems basketball, it was made against college
team. and it was much higher than any number
quoted in the paragraphs above.
The team that won this game the Buffalo
Germans, was one of the finest squads ever to
play basketball. The same men played together
for many years. They won the national A. A. U.
title, won championships at worlds fairs land
in general cut swath through championship
basketball that has left its mark in basketball
history. On one OCCASION when the Buffalo Gerz-
mans were feeling especially frisky, they ratA
up against Hobart. What happened that day.
many years ago. is still enough to bring blush
to the cheek of any Hobart alumnus.
The score was: Buffalo Germans 1874 Ho-
bart o.
In case you want to know how anybody co.,
ever beat such team we have only one gag
gestion. They might do the Benjamin team
of the Valley Independent Basketball League
(Texas) did. The Benjaniins won the league
championship in spite Of tie fact that they were
the only team in the league that did not win
game.
This is the way this unique championship was
Won competition in the league got so hot that
all five other teams in the circuit began playing
ineligible men on their teams. At the end Of the
season it found that the only outfit to abide
by the rules throughout the schedule was the
only team that hadn't won game-the Benja-
Minis za...-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14

far behind the players
A GOOD example OF earlyday confusion was
~ the game between Wisconsin which won
the Big Ten championship, and Columbia, East
ern collegiate champion The came was for the
national title of l905-l906, and it took place in
the Morningside gymnasium in uptown New
York.
The Wisconsin boys nearly had their breath
taken away when they trottsd into the gymna
SUM before crowd of 5000 people hey had
never seen such crowd before it almost gave
them stage fright ne Wisconsin team had
brought along one Off -ial Albert Lindemann
but the Columbia authorities fatty refused to
allow him to have any part IN the officiating
The game was controlled BY two New Workers.
and il was not discovered until the game
over that each team had played under differ
ent set of rules
The baskets were hung posts something
like pole-vaut standards standing loosely on
the floor. There backboards, every shot
that didn't hit the basket went sailing out OF
bounds.
Wisconsin took the tipot and Bob zuppke
(now football coach at the University of Ill-
nois) dribbled the ball down the floor. He shot
at the basket and the Columbia guard prevented
a score by very unique method of defense. HI
took hold of the standard and shook it SO vigor
ously that the ball hoped out of the basket
The Wisconsin boys caught on to the schem,
right away and from then on any shot that wen
into the basket was extremely lucky. Sometime.
two or three players would have hold of The
standard, the defensive team trying to shake
the basket and the shooting team trying to hold
it still
The game was extremely rough 1t lasted three
hours. On one occasion Wisconsin man stood
under the basket, alone, and was passed the ball
for set-up shot AS he took aim. the Columbia
guard rushed down the floor, dived into the air.
and knocked him head over heels out of bounds
breaking his jaw.
The referees decision that the Wisconsin
PLAYER had carried the ball out of bounds He
therefore gave the ball to Columbia. 1t is little
wonder that players of both teams tainted from
injuries after the game. The boy with the broken
jaw played the whole way After that intersec-
tional contest which Columbia won. there was
a clamor for unified rules.
BASKETBALL has gone through many
d changes since the days when it was known
as indoor rugby" Now, according to an investi-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14

cation by Everett Dean, formerly coach of In
diana University, the average actual playing
time of game is 20 minutes 80 seconds. not
two or three hours. And the referee calls %
fouls in average game instead of looking the
other way while both sides commit mayhem.
Knowing in advance that there will be z
fouls in an average game, coaches are very care
full to train their men at scoring on free throws
Very few men ever attain the skill Dave McMil
Ian, Minnesota basketball coach, had when he
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14

vas player. In one season of professional bas
ketball, Mcmillan had 200 free shots at the bas-
ket. Out of this 200, he sunk exactly 199 STILL
Mcmillan doesn't expect his Minnesota boys to
hang up any record like that. because in the days
when he accomplished the feat, the backboards
were made of chicken wire, and one player was
allowed to shoot all the fouls for his team That
gave him plenty of practice.
Chicken-wre backboards or not, however, Nc
MILAN doesn't hold the record for free-throw
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-14
Onetime Indoor Rugby" Attracts
Larger Crowds In China Than y. S.

bered throwing the family cat into we'll. and
humorously tossed a ball into peach basket
he invented an indoor game whose popularity
was so immediate that the rule-makers Jagged
far behind the players.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04

Pasco and KenneWick visitors,
Monday were M. BE-. and Wright
Wiehl.
Chinook-As we go to press, a
Chinook wind is blowing and the
SNOW is rapidly melting.
Priest Rapids Maia-For the past
week, Miss Jane Re1nHnger has
been making tri-weekly trips to
Priest Rapids with the mail. The
deep drifts made the first couple of
trips real feats of mail delivery.
: Frlit Hurt by Cold?-So1ne ap-
prehension has been voiced by Local
orchaIdiSts over the effect OF this
ilg-continued cold wave on the
peaah trees. lit is not expected that
amy damage will be wide spread,
but the less Of even an occasional
tree would hurt However, others
say the fall left the peach trees in
splendid shape to endure hagd
winter.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04

Returns from Elensburg-Mrs.
Clyde Wilson returned to her home,
Monday, after a fortnight's visit
with friends in Ellealsburg.
X X X
Walter Jones Back-Walter Jones
returned, the fore part of the week,
from Walla Walla, where he had
been spending the past two weeks
visiting his son Everett and other
relatives.
~ Nearly N0rnaa4-Mr. Thornet as
sures us that NEST of the grade
children are back at school, a GOOD
Indication that tire outbreak of in
fauenza a1aa of claicke1,pox aaas' run
It's course. The Ver1liba school bus,
though it made the trip, Tuesday,
was unable to get through, Wedres-
day
FORMER Resident Befeayen-,Mrs.
w. J. Jenkins received word. this
morning, from Mrs. Ethan Allen
Realms, of Spokane, tlaat Mrs. Reamns
husband had passed away, Mrs:
Realms will be we'll remembered il,
White Bluffs and vicinity, AS Mrs.
William Huey, She was the wife of
q Storekeeper who preceded r. S.
ReierSom in the corner store. Mrs.
Reams has three Sons: William, of
China; Ralph and Harold Huey, of
Spokane. White Bluffs friends will
be deeply sympathetic in this be-
reayernent of Mrs. Reanls.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04

laly, OF Dy PuOllS-Hc " dfPISSka
Cold Greek Gets Another Citizen
Tom Wade has gone to Cold
Greek, where he will be employed by
the Martinez Bros.
Throat TrOubie-T'hree year old
Clifford Ralston was taken to Ken
neWick, Saturday, to consult doc
tor, by C.. I. Wright. The child has
been suffering from tlMoat trouble.
4. 4; X
CorrectiOn-Mr. Keller informs
me that the article on the st. Fran
els river, last week, erred in stating
that the flood channel was six miles
wide at flood. Its that wide at low
water and is many miles wide at
the food.
N II - y:
d Heaven?-HorSe Heaven may be
heaven for horses, even in winter,
but it's Heavens 1ladir in winter for
humans, if we are to believe reports
which tell of snow drifts twenty feet
high AND OF completely blocked
roads. Thank Heaven for this sec
tion
Conventio1,-C. o. Bunnell and
K. e. House, local representatives
OF the Pacific Power 81 Light Com
pany, left, Wednesday, for Seaside,
Oregon, to attend a conclave Of Of
hcials of that company. They trav-
eled by train from Kemnewick and
expect to return, Sunday.
He Brings Home the Bacon
Melvin Williams, Benton County
bounty hunter, got twenty coyote
pests in january, to the mutual sat-
isfaction of Melvin and Benton
County residents. According to
the records, Melvin is one Of the
most consistently successful hunt-
ers In the state.
!, " 4 4 X
W More Snow Wednesday ---Wednes-
day night, or rather early Thurs
day morning, about two and oEe-klalf
inches OF snow fell. Today CIEhurs-
day. the weather is mild, ttaawing
a little. There is a report that tbs
snow has drifted near Gold Greek
and the caterpillar and grader are
being used today to keep the road
open to Priest Rapids
4. \: 4:
American Legion AuxiiiaFy-The
American Legion Auxiliary met at
THE home of NIay. George Barta and
made plans for the special meeting
at the Liberty Hall on the 18th, at
which time they will entertain the
Department. and District Presidents,
Mrs. Mary Silapley, of Ritzville, and
Mrs. Ira Williams, Of Grandyiew.
They also prepared for the potlllck
get-together to be held on Satur-
day, February 18th, i'm honor of..bhe'
Girls Drum Sc Bugle Corps and tlle
boys Band. Five dollars was sub
scribed toward tlse relief Of food
refugees in the Ohio and Mississippi
river flood areas The hostess at
this meeting, which was held on
Tuesday, served very nice lunch.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04

VC WCIAAV w 44A& oA&AS ko6N WAsAA SSO
of interest, tell us about it perso
Correction-Banker Kincaid and
his party did not go to Yakima to-
day, the snow having caused the
postponenent OF the trip.
Business in Yakinla-W. j. Kin
caid, Earl Knaub, Mrs Lille Robin
son, and Mrs. G.. A. Wills are in
Yakima today cThursday) ON bust
ness.
Salvini Hurt in Fall-B. Salyini
was painfully injured, Tuesday, In
a fall through an open cellar door.
His ribs and right side bore the
brunt of the fail. It is hoped that
no bones were broken and that MIR.
Salvini will soon recover.
x x y
Brotller-in-Law Passes-Wednes-
day morning, D. W. Wilkinson rel
ceived a telegram announcing the
unexpected deadly Of his brother in
law, Frank Faulhaber, at Kansas
City, Missouri. The Wilkinsons
visited Mr.. Faulhaber last June.
X X Z
Wednesday, February 10th, is the
date set for the next meeting of the
White Bluffs Won1an}s Club, this
meeting to be held at the Club room
IN the Lutheran church building.
Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs.
Kncaid will discuss magazine ar
ticles Of their own selection, and
Mrs. O'Larey will ARRANGE the mu-
sic =
X X -. :.
Locals Donate to Flood Relief
While we were in the bank, Thurs
day, we noticed E. A, Schilling dig
! down in his pocket and bri1g out a.
dollar for flood relief; all banks be-
ing authorized collection agencies
for the Red Gross in similar cases.
The Legion Auxiliary, too gave five
dollars; '.we-note by their article in
this, Spokesman. Today's paper
brings word that Red Gross dona-
'tions are pouring into relief head
quarters at the rate Of a, million
dollars a day.
!: = II ~
Little Drops Of WRter-Over ten
quadrillions of salowflakes fall on
White Bluffs township every MINI
ute in such a SNOW storm as we had,
yesterday morning. We present the
physics class of White Bluffs high
school in support OF this statement.
They counted the. sr1oWhakes fall
ing on a board. The sziow melted
as it hit and the actual count was
of the drops of water and was done
by using a. microscope. It made a
very interesting problem in nlath-
matics to work out the application
to the SO miles of White Bluffs
township. We suggest that two OF
the school classes in the sciences
unite-one to discover a natural
and victorious enemy to the codIir1g
moth and the corn 'borer, and the
other to figure out; how many of
those enemies to introduce into this
neighborhood to save 100 percent
of our fruit and corn crops.
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04
Milwaukee R. R.
Train Schedule

Furnished through the courtesy
of local agent r. r. Woods.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-04
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
No Change In Scouts
 Program Of Activities
Board of Review to Sponsor Five District Meetings During Coming Year; Seasons First Meetings Held

An extensive schedule of board of review meetings for the five local districts of Mattatuck Council, Boy Scouts of America, is now being drawn up at headquarters for the coming season by David Babson, scout executive, and assistant execu- tive Henry Donohue.
 According to the present set-up of plans there will be no deviations of any importance from last years schedule and as usual there will be five monthly boards of review, one for each district, presided over by district commissioners and chair men. The same rotating scheme used last year will also be in effect again, with various troops in their respec- tive districts taking turns as host troops.
 Eagle Scouts
 In addition to the board of re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

dread ailment, of which four were in New Haven county, but none in Waterbury. Advent of the cold weather this week. however, is ex-. pected to cut the increase within the next report period.
 Two carriers of dipEtheria were reported at Waterbury and the two cases here caused Dr. Edward J. Godfrey, city health officer, to re- peat his warning to parents con- cerning the benefit oS :11munization of school children by the toxoid in- Cculation. The city health depart
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

view schedule the Eagl Scout reviews for districts, which are not held as frequently, are also being arranged at the present time. More detailed information in regard to this phase will be announced later.
 Henry Donohue, assistant execu- tive, told the Democrat today that with but few exceptions all local troops have held their first fall meet ings and are now working out their plans for fall and winter activity. The troops who have not as yet formally assembled are expected to do so before the end of the current week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
NEW FTVE-CENT
 STAMP ON SALE

Postmaster Charles Babin an nounced this morning that 10000 of the Virginia Dare commemora- = tive stamps were now on sale at the local post office. The new stamp, which was first put on sale August l8 at Mantao, North Carolina, is a five cent stamp done in a light blue color. It is one inch square and the central design shows 0 picture of the mother of Virginia Dare sitting at the door of their cabin holding her daughter in her arms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

Gossip. . Mrs. L. A. Hall hOnOrs the Tower with heavy box of tinfO Jack MedfOrd left yesterday to begin his sophomore year at Holy Cross Tom Leon ard bid his friends goodbye Sunday and boarded rat tier for StOrrs where he enrolled at Connecticut State College as freshman. John Howard had box ot Thomas Club but the smokes lasted but three days It seems the players couldn't get decent cigar in the tournament city and had to fall back on good Op John n.y. .. .. Larry Funk and his band of Thousand Mel- oiies will be the attraction next Sunday evening at Lake COmpOunce in Bristol