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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
Britain Enlarges Her Mediterranean Fleet
Rushes More Warships as Hope of Spanish Neutrality Has Died-News From All European Capitals
 Is Very Grave
By JOSEPH W. GREGG. JR.

United Press Stan Correspondent
 London, July B. (UP)-Great Britain began reinforcing her Med iterranean fleet today as hope died for preservation of neutrality in the Spanish civil war. Three crack bat tleships, all reconstructed to with stand fire of late model airplane bombs, their anti-aircraft batteries doubled, received orders to join the fleet in what is now the worlds most dangerous sea. The Royal Oak. on a parade-cruise of seaside resorts-part of the admiralty's policy of showing the fleet to the people-received orders to cancel its schedule and proceed at once for the Mediterranean. It sailed direct from Liverpool.
 Ships Get Orders
 The Malaya quietly left the home fleet to go to the Mediterranean.
 The WarSpite received orders to
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the strange car contained woman and three men, felt soaring pains about his arms and shoulders.
 Police attributed the attack to a "feud" over legal matters. This theory was borne out by Dander who appeared in city court today on charges of carrying revolver. The case was continued.
 Police Find Gun
 pander, treated for severe burns at St. Mary's hospital when he was taken there by Motor Patrolmen Joseph Mccarthy and James Mag ner after he had made complaint of the attack at headquarters. was found to be carrying the revolver whsn police took him home from the hospital.
 At headquarters. he explained that he had carried the weapon since last Friday night when he was attacked near his home. He alleged that one of his assailants used baseball bat and marks on his person bore out his story.
 Burns They Received
 Dander was burned about the eyes and face by the liquid, be- lieved to have been sulphuric or nitric acid. Police assumed that the acid was thrown from an open container as search at the scene of
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Three People Are Being Hunted By City Dete ctiues
Joseph Dander, John Fedderman, Both Residents of Fox Street Were Victims-Sitting in Auto
 When Burning Fluid Was Thrown

Waterbury detectives making an intensive search today for woman and three accused of throwing acid which caused burns to two Fox street early today Joseph Dander 50, of B Fox street. and John Hedderman 3 of 39Fox street victims of the assault were riding in Danders car at 5 o'clock this morning Another car drew alongside '"That's him" woman cried Burn inp fluid blinded Dander Hedderan after noticing that
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Showers for Tonight;
 Fair on Sunday
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Evening star., 1937-03-14

minute or for some other unfathom-
able reason. At the close of 1888 it
was announced that the Metchnikoff
Institute of Moscow had succeeded
after 81 years Of continuous work, in
cultivatins the typhus germ, but the
report has not been confirmed.
There are some scientists who be-
lieve that tiny bodies discovered in ty-
phus victims, known as "rickettsia," :"
are the cause of the disease These
little bodies were first discovered by
Ricketts, In the intestinal tracts Of
lice who had been fed on typhus- in
fected blood. They are unlike bac-
terra, in that they cannot be culti-
waited. In the bodies OF woodticks
who had caused the fever in the
Northwest Ricketts, found the same
minute bodies.
The work now under way in the
Washington laboratory and that con-
cluded has been confirmed, in its re-
suits, over the whole world. Today
Dyer is concentrating upon the per-
fection Of vaccine that will success
fully combat the typhus germ in man.
In the course Of his experiments he
has set up colony of rats. One white
rat occupies one cage. The cage is
large wire-meshed box, its seams sealed
with vaSeline.
The vaseline is to keep the fleas,
Evening star., 1937-03-14
BY BECK.

feeding upon the rat, confined to the
cage, for there they breed and feed
and thrive and are raised for ex-
perimental purposes. AS further
precaution against the escape of these
infected f1eas. the rats cage is set in
the center OF shallow pan, and that
pan is filled with liquid dsmfectant.
Here, like lord in moated castle,
the white rat lives out its days. But
whereas the medieval baron shut
himself up in his moated domain to
protect himself, the neas are shut up
in the wired cage afloat in a sea OF
dHinfectant in order to protect those
| outside the walls from his deadly bite
IN SPITE Of every precaution, every
worker in this laboratory has been
stricken with typhus. There are
some diseases" says DR.. Dyer matter
of-factly, that you just can't keep
in laboratory. It's impossible to
handle them safely Tularemia is
one. Everybody in Francis labora-
tory has come down with tularemia
Psitticosis, or parrot fever, is another.
Every one working on exotic diseases
here has had that. Then there is
undulant fever and typhus-both i'm
possible to handle safely. It's pretty
hard to conflne flea
In his laboratory they have what
they call their life insurance" rat
The rats name is Jimmy, and how
many cases Of typhus he has STAYED
OF it would be impossible to esti-
mate. Jimmy's job consists in rum
ming loose around the floor of the
laboratory so that any stray neas. es-
capped from the rat castles, may jump
on him. 1t works like this: The rat
nea," explains DR.. Dyer, prefers to
iced upon rats, but when driven to
it by hunger or the absence Of rats he
will attach himself to human and
make meal OF him. Body lice, for
example, differ in this respect; they
are known as "hosts specific" That
means they will feed upon nothing but
humans. But the rat nea will feed
upon rats or humans, preferably rats.
That's where Jimmy comes in. We
turn him loose in the laboratory, and
II flea escapes he will find Jimmy
as sure as he's born. If Jimmy were
not available, the flea would hop onto
the legs Of worker in the laboratory
attach himself and feed. That would
mean another typhus victim We have
grown very fond OF Jimmy. and he
watches us as we work here, some
times coming up quietly to claw at
our trouser legs. He has surprised
so many Of us, who have stepped sud-
denly back. that his tail is full inch
shorter than it was some months ago.
from being inadvertently trodden on"
Today in the white stone laboratory
beside the Potomac trained workers
are busy with DR.. Dyer upon intricate
and mysterious tasks Of their own that
may prove the immunizing agent man
hopes for. But one never knows in
this scientific business. Sometimes"
says DR.. Dyer, things look hopeful
and sometimes they don't, for the ulti-
mate aim of all our work, which is in
the last analysis the prevention of
disease"
But with the records of the past to
back up the statement, the chances
are excellent for the next big, thrilling
announcement in the fight against
typhus to come out Of that same little
laboratory of the National Institute Of
Health.
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by Rumreich showed that 78 per cent
Of the "typus like" disease formerly
known as Brills disease gave his
tory Of close association with rats.
They were, it appeared, on the right
trail
The disease was designated endemic
typhus," in contrast to epidemic ty-
phus." 1t Is disease in the United
States Of the late Summer and Fall,
in contrast to the Winter and Spring
prevalence Of epidemic typhus. In
its New World form it Is not confined
to the lower strata of society and def
nitely Is not associated with body lice.
Those engaged in handling foodstuf1s
or in close association with rat har-
bors are exposed to an increased risk
OF Infection.
1t was in 1929 that Dr.. Maxcy, who
had first suggested the rat flea as a
transmitting agent, resigned from the
National Institute Of Health and left
for the University of Virginia. DR.. R.
E. Dyer took up the fight against
endemic typhus. He started in to find
out all he could about the flea that car
ried, apparently in its body, :. germ
Of disease and death.
Dyer, the son of = clergyman. had
practiced medicine for a while in
Texas before he entered the Public
Health Service in 1915. Born so
years ago, he was educated at various
schools in Kentucky and was gradu-
ated later from Kenyon College in
Ohio. After graduation he taught
school for while in Tennessee and
in California and then drifted down to
Texas, impelled by an urge he could
not resist to study medicine. He en-
tered the division of infectious dis
eases, Of which he is now chief, in
1921. Since 1929 he has devoted him
self to the fight against typhus.
Slowly but certainly he is making
headWay. In the first place, he dis
covered beyond doubt that rat heas
transmit typhus. His method was as
direct and personal as is character
istic OF these men who are devoting
their lives to the prolongation Of hu-
man life. Like Goldberger and other
investigators in the service before him,
Dyer contracted typhus within few
weeks Of taking up the work While
he was convalescing he became, after
fashion, human guinea pig, OBJ
served and charted by himself.
7 ATER he turned his attention to
rats. Mooser, in Mexico, had
succeeded in securing a virus of the
disease from rats. Dyer recovered a
virus from fleas. He infected white
rats with typhus and fed infected fleas
upon them. Then he removed the in
fected feas from the typhus rats and
placed them upon healthy rats. In
variably the healthy rat came down
with typhus-incontrove proof
that fleas are transmitting agents.
Il found out" says DR.. Dyer, that
you can feed a nea on a rat long
enough for him to get a good feed,
then wait 10 days or even two weeks
and grind up that flea, dilute him
100000 times in salt solution and re-
cover enough virus to infect guinea
pig.
When one-millionth of diluted nea
will prove that potent. some idea may
be gained Of the destructive force Of
the mysterious germ that infects man.
kind with this disease
That germ has never been identified.
Scientists have never succeeded in
isolating it, either because 1t is too
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Driver
Car, You .
Ans,uer This .
A. A. A. 1RAFFIQUlZ.
Check Right Space.

Check Right Space.
I. With good roads and good brakes,
what Is the distance required to bring
your car to stop from 40 miles an
hour after the brakes have been ap-
piled?
az } 20 feet.
b } 40 feet.
C 80 feet.
3 Where are most pedestrians killed
while crossing the street?
3 In the middle of the
street
b } During the first few steps
from the curb.
C { } When the person is al
most across the street
8. What is the principal function OF
schoolboy safety patrols?
a To direct vehicular traffic.
b To train future trafic
officers.
C } To protect schoolmates
crossing streets.
4. When walking along a rural
highway with no sidepath, what should
you do?
a Walk to the right.
b } Walk to the left, facing
trafic.
C } Walk in the middle of
the road in position to dodge
either way.
S. On what day y. the week do most
automobile accidents occur?
a Friday
b } Saturday.
C } Sunday.
d } Wednesday.
Answers to Trafiquiz.
l (c); 2 (b); 3 (c); 4 (b): S (b).
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AutOmOtive Briefs

l.. P. Steuart, Inc, local Pontiac
and Oldsmobile dealers, announce the
appointment Of Dick Sullivan as gen.
eral manager of all used-car opera
tions. Sullivan is we'll known to the
public and trade in Washington auto
motive circles, having been connected
in various official positions here for
many years.
Joseph B. Trew, vice president and
general manager of the Trew Motor
Co., Dodge distributors for this terri
tory, announces the completion of a
new sales and service headquarters.
built by the Kirby Sales IL Service
Co., at Arlington, Va.
Jim Becker president of c. H. J.
Becker, Inc, distributors for Graham
automobiles in Washington, D. c., and
large part Of surrounding MARYLAND
and Virginia, announces the appoint-
ment OF the Marbury Motor Co., at
Marbury, Md, as an authorized Gra-
ham dealer.
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Maryland Area Marked.
MARYLAND has been placed amor

MARYLAND has been placed among
the States within which white
pine blister control areas have been
set up. Within these areas planting
Of either gooseberry or currant bushes
is forbidden and possession Of the
plants also is not permitted
1t has been proven conclE vely that
the spore of the blister rust finds in
the two berry bushes host over the
Winter, host without which the rust
can not survive.
Tests have shown that one berry
bush can infect pine trees within .
radius Of 10 miles.
For that reason the bushes are
barred in those sections In which the
rust has been found prevalent.
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JED IN FATALITY WAR -: AV
United Effort Necessary
To Prevent New Records
Insurance Company, Traffic Director, Ameri-
can Automobile Association and Key
stone Club Set Forth Vital Views.
Bv g. Adams HOzvnrd.

AFF1C fatalities here and elsewhere are pling Instead
reduction for
unless everything humanity possible
everything do his
William A. the
Evening star., 1937-03-14
!: AVIATION NEWS
Air Unit Reorganization
Is Proceeding Smoothly
Fagg and Maj. Schroeder, New Leaders,
Refuse to Be Forced to Make
Hasty Decisions.
BY Joseph S. Edqerf0n.

DoRGANlzAIoN OF the Bureau Air Commerce which for four
political
INCREASINGLY
ic proceeding smoothly
Flagg director
F1agg Schroeder
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Typhus

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OF bubonic plague, for where there are
foodstuffs there are rats. Perhaps" !"
concluded Maxcy, rats and mice
transmit this disease to man by blood
sucking ticks, fleas or mites" Studies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
AVIATION GROUP
 HOLDS MEETING
Chase and KaynOr Repre-. sent City Today at
 Hartford Farley

Frederick s. Chase. president ot the Chase Metal Works, and Will jam F. Kaynor, president of the Waterbury Button company, are list ed as members of the aviation com- mittee which met in Hartford at the Hotel Bond this afternoon for the purpose of discussing the im- portance of aviation to Connecticut industry.
 Leading industrialists and manu- lecturers from all parts of the state were in attendance at the session, as well as business, political and civic leaders. The future develop ment of aviation in the state was r.. main topic of discussion at the meeting, arranged by the Connecti- cut Chamber of Commerce.
 Bills bearing on aviation now be- fore the state legislature were ex- plained. One of the purposes of this conference was to bring to the pub lie an appreciation of the aircraft industry and the benefits the state will receive for supporting the idea.
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Giants of the motor industry, 1n- cluding Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Henry Ford, and Walter P. Chrysler have been invited to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, to attend, on April IA, the forty-fifth anniversary luncheon sa- luting Springfield as the birthplace of the motor industry, and honoring Charles E. Duryea as the inventor of the first successful automobile built in America. The luncheon is being sponsored by the Springfield Kiwanis club.
 IN More than half a hundred out- standing figures in the automotive industry are on the invited guests list, and the committee in charge anticipates an overflow attendance at the luncheon. MT. Duryea, who is now 75 years old, will come from his home in Philadelphia to attend the unveiling of bronze plaques com- memorating the birth of the Ameri- can automobile. One will be set in the lobby of the Hotel Kimball in Springfield, and the other on the outside of the building at 47 Taylor street, the scene of MT. Duryea's early endeavors as an automobile manufacturer.
 Birthplace
 The city of Springfield may truly be called the birthplace of the auto motive industry. The Duryea car was manufactured here from 1892 until 1902, at which time the com- pany was purchased by the Stevens Arms & Tool Go. This company manufactured the Stevens-Duryea car until 1915. In its day the Stew ens-Duryea was one of the finest automobiles built in America.
 Springfield was also the home of the Knox Motor company. The first three-wheel Knox car was built by 8 group of Springfield men in 1899. In 1900 the Knox Motor Car com pany was incorporated with a cap ital of $50000 and, producing both three and four wheel vehicles, was an instantaneous success. Knox taxicabs, the first of their kind, were operated all over the United States. From cabs and passenger cars, the Knox company branched out into
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monthly at the ratio of $2l per week, or $84 per month, for 312 weeks, be- ginning March 29. Mrs. Olson is the only dependent, there are no children.
 Olson had been employed by the telephone company for IA years and was earning $42.77 weekly. He met his death while working with a line repair crew on the Woodbury- Wash ington road fin Washington. The crew was engaged in trimming trees when g heavy limb struck him in the head and fractured his skull.
 He died in the Waterbury hospital ambulance while enroute to that in- stitution making the record break ing dash of the ambulance to the scene of the accident fruitless. The hospital received the cal lat 1915, immediately despatched the ambu- lance, and it was back at 1:10 D. m. MT. and Mrs. Olson were married October 1, 1884, at New Milford.
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Motor Industry Heads
 To Honor Duryea
Springfield, Mass. Also to Be Recognized as Brtll-
 place of Motorcar on 54tll Anniversary, April IA

the truck field. One of its most suc- cessful operations was the. building of fire-f1ghting apparatus. The Knox factory employed 1000 workers at its peak and produced as many as 800 cars a year. Many of these are still in operation.
 The Atlas Motor company was another Springfield organization. Atlas was organized in 1905 for the express purpose of producing trucks, taxicabs, and runabouts. Its two- cylinder, two-cycle motor was con- sidered an unusually smooth rum ming job."
 Particularly important at this time to the rapidly growing motor industry in Springfield was the proximity of the Hartford Rubber Works, in Hartford, Conn, later to become part of the United States Rubber company. The Hartford Rubber Works was 8 vital cog be- cause in 1894 it developed the first pneumatic tire for automobiles. The first set was used by MT. Duryea in 1895 on his third car, which won the famous Chicago Times Herald race. Charles D. Whittlesey, former presi- dent of the Hartford Rubber Works, will be among the industry's pio- neers who attend the luncheon.
 The rapidity with which the motor industry mushroomed during this period can be realized from the fact that in 1894 there were not thirty self-propelled carriages in practical use anywhere in the world. In 1898 there were not thirty in America. And yet between the 1st of January and the 1st of May, 1899, companies with an aggregate capital of $388. 8.000,000 were organized in New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia for the sole purpose of manufacturing these new ve- hicles.
 Historic
 | The luncheon in Springfield on April 14th is proper gesture of es- teem to MT. Duryea and to Spring field, developer and birthplace of the largest industry in the world. Trophies and medals won by early Duryea cars in automobile races in this country and abroad will be brought to Springfield and put on display.
 The first. car built by MT. Duryea and the one which gave him the distinction of being the father of the American gasoline driven auto mobile, is now in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. c. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
FOOTBALL GAME
 IS CANCELLED

Rome, April 8-(UP) The Italian Football federation, considering the tension between Italy and France, telegraphed to Paris today cancel ling a football match between Italy and France as scheduled for next Sunday in Paris. The cancellation was coincident with an editorial at tack by Virginia Gayda, editor of Giornale D'Italia and mouthpiece of Premier BenitoMussolini, on al- legged intervention by France and Russia in the Spanish civil war. It recalled the incident last year when Mussolini forbade cyclists and other Italian athletes to compete in France, in retaliation for the Ethio- pean war sanctions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
YOUNG WOMAN IS
 MONOXIDE VICTIM

ff + 7 2 t
 Oakland, Cal, April 8 (UP)--Miss Enda Sherman, socially prominent daughter of well-known Oakland family, died today shortly after she was found unconscious in the family garage under circumstances which caused police to order a thorough investigation. Miss Sherman was found unconscious in her car when her brother, Clay Sherman, heard motor running in the garage at 2 a. m. The car doors were closed but the garage doors were open Sherman called Dr. Louise J. Lohse and they took Miss Sherman to a hospital. She died en route.
 Dr. Lohse found a small bump on Miss Sherman's forehead but he was unable to say whether the blow that caused it was sufficient to make her unconscious. She might have hit her head on the steering wheel, he said. Mrs. Fred B. Sher- man, the girls mother, said her daughter was subjects to nose bleed- ing. This, she said, might explain, stains found in the car. 2,
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him with the gift. Mrs Florence Johnson of Waterbury was in charge of a memorial service held yester- day afternoon at Elk's hall following the nomination of officers.
 Other speakers at the banquet i11- cluded Mrs. Frances T. Williams of Newport, R. l., department presi- dent of the D. U. V. of that state: Rev. Edgar Jackson chaplain of the Thomaston camp, Sons of Union
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
$6,752 Compensation Awarded Widow of Linernan

Veterans; Mrs. Minnie willard. of Madison, department president of fhe Women's Relief Corps: Mrs. Ella L. DeForest, of Derby, department president of the S. U. V. auxiliary: Herbert w. Cleaveland, of Thomas ton, department president of the s. D. "; Miss Bromley and Miss Sanborn.. Bertram De FDreet of Derby, past department commander of the s. U. V, was toastmaster.
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ed the group last evening. The mayor stated he was happy to ob- serve such group of women laying homage to those heroes who had fought and died for the pre- servation of the union.
 Commander Rhue was presented with @ clock, made here in Water bury. on behalf of the business men of the city. Frank Green, head of | the chamber of commerce. presented
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
DANCE TEACHERS TO MEET SUNDAY

Hartford, April S.The annual get-together meeting of the New England Council of Dancing Teach CTS will be held Sunday at p. m. at the Allyn Hotel ballroom. The program will include the following: Intermediate tap, Helyn Flanagan, Hartford; military tap, Beverly Le- vine, Meriden; advanced tap, Lor- raine Nevilyle, Hartford and waltz tap, Janet Fabian, Wallingford. Demonstrations will be given by pu- pills of the following schools: Leah Groosman school, Meriden: Kath- leen V. O,Hara school, Medford, Mass; Joseph P. Neville school, Hartford; Elinor Mics school. Wa terbury; William White school, Hartford: Janet Fabian school Wallingford, and Ruth Massey school, Glastonbury. M b
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08
Fyaternal
 NeUs
Kitchener Post

The regular meeting of Lord Kitchener Post, British War Vet erans, will commence tonight im- mediately at the completion of a meeting of the entertainment com-
 nittee' slated at 7:3O o'clock. Meet ings will be at the club rooms on Scovill street. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock there will be a joint meet ing of the entertainment commit tees of the post and auxiliary.