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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

MARY DE MATTO TO BE HONORED.
Plans Completed for Testi- fnOniaI Dinner at Way-
 erly Tomorrow

The committee on arrangements headed by Umberto Santopietro Jane Ranando. Anthony Iannitto, Joseph Petroccione, Steve Barbieri and Nicholas De Matteo, announce the completion of plans for the tes- timonial dinner to be given in honor of Miss Mary P. De Matteo, at Waverly Inn tomorrow evening, Tn recognition for her splendid wori: accomplished in organizing and heading several organizations dur ing the past six years.
 Miss De Matteo rendered her ser- vices to the Italian Committee Pro Patria for fourteen months serv- ing as secretary to Atty. Michael Galullo, Atty. Carmine G. Cipriano and Rev. Joseph Valdambrini, pas tor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes.
 Tn addition to taking active part in the Italian American clubs and societies she had charge of the Citizenship classes during the term of Atty. Frederick w. Palomba as republican town chairman, being qualified by the state to conduct such classes.
 Miss De Matteo's interest and ability in dramatics was very much in evidence when the Unico club members displayed the drama "Cosi IT Voglio (As I Want You) at which time she portrayed the part of The modern mother. The proceeds from such given plays were used for Unico club funds to help defray expenses for the annual June din- ner dance in honor of local Italian graduates from the high schools, colleges and universities.
 Attorney George J. Crocicchia will be the toastmaster of the af- fair. Joseph A. Petroccjone will have charge of the transportation About 200 are planning to attend.
 Word was received that Congress- man J. Joseph Smith. will attend the dinner. Judge Edward Mas. colo. Arthur B. Bucknan, principal of the Walsh school. Louis E. Bria, commissioner of education, and Harry x. Cashin, will also be pres- ent.
 Assisting the heads of the com- mittee are: Atty. Carmine G. Cip- riano, Atty. Fred w. Palomba, Atty. Michael J. Galullo, Dr. Rudolph A. Damiani, John De Pastino, Louis Ursini, Chahrles Sciullo, Patrick Perriello, Nick zappone, Anthony Petrillo, John Storza, Michael Gi- usto, Sebastian Ferace, Leonard Mecca. Mrs. Rocco Longo, Mrs. Steve Barbieri. Mrs. Mary Fisher, Mrs. Joseph Volpi and the Misses Melba Falcone, Sylvia Perillo, Connie Ci- accio, Linda Boccaccino and Julia Jannetto.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25
Full Weather Report.

Boston. Aug. 25--(UP)--. Weather forecast:
 Rhode Island - Cloudy, probably occasional rain tonight and Thurs day. Continued cool.
 Massachusetts --- Cloudy tonight and Thursday. possibly occasional rain in the extreme southeast por- ton. Not much change in temper ature.
 Connecticut = Partly cloudy, con. tlnued cool tonight and Thursday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25
CsTARLisHED isss

Whether You're Down to Your Last Car or Up to Your First Air. plane - Here's An Upstanding August Sale of Topcoats, Fleecy Overcoats and Overseas London Made British Overcoats, from as Choice Fabrics as the Good Ship Queen Mary Ever Brought to These Shores.
 Topeoots $27.5o- November Price $35, overcoots $27.5o- November Price $35. London Made British overeoots $42.50-N Novem- Der Price $55.
 It's only question Of little foresight your pert 10
 gother in choice sovinss of $7.5o to $l2.50 and be
 ready for outumn and winter later.
 As member of the largest buying organization in the
 country composed of hundreds of Isadins merchants
 from Maine 10 Washington, in position
 offer this August opportunity the foee of rising
 costs in the clothing industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25
BOY FALLS 70
 FEET, IS ALIVE

Cambridge, Mass, Aug. 25-CUP) Doctors said today that James Luz, 13, had less than an even chance to recover" from head in- juries suffered yesterday when he toppled from the roof of his home and plunged 70 feet, striking two other boys seated on the front steps.
 The boy, honor boy scout and one of five children of an invalid mother, wasp laying with a friend on the roof when the mishap oc- cured. Police said the playmate apparently fled in fright.
 Struck by the victims hurtling body, Ernest Champion, 12, and Al- fred Neves, l3, suffered strained backs and bruises.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

ming broad jump; senior running broad jump; circling the bases tone man from each ball team) |: midget relay (one-quarter lap each boy-mour boys to team); junior relay (one-hah lap each boy four boys to team); senior relay lone lap each boy)-four boys on team).
 Story book festival on the ath- letic field, Hamilton Park-"Three Little Pigs" Fulton Park-"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" Washing. ton park-"Wedding of the Painted Doll" Chase park-"Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe" Water. ville-"School Days. Division street
 -"Sleeping Beauty. Fuller street -"Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid Town Plot Cinderella. . Fairmount-"Old King Cole. South End-"Mother 0oose's Id. ,a,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25
General Attendance
 For Season Indicates
 Change In Patronage
Youngsters Abandon Activities for Swimming Pools; Increase of SO,OOOin Attendance Figures for Water
 Sports Playground Day Terminates Season

coincident with. the. gigantic Playground Day" program which will be held tomorrow afternoon at Hamilton park to mark the wind up of the 1887 season, the aggregate total attendance figures for aII parks and swimming pools were releaced this morning by superintendent James J. Curtin.
 Attendance totals for the l2 lower than last year because of the unusually hot weather, show that li5,SSl children have participated in activities since the beginning of the summer. The aggregate atten- dance at the two swimming and two wading pools Is listed at l0l, ,923. This Is an increase of about 3O,0Oo over 1886.
 The Story Book Festival" and 1nter-playground Track meet which will take place tomorrow, will start at 2:30 o'clock. Some 500 youngsters will take part in the affair. There will also be handicraft exhibition in the park pavilion which will be open to the public all during the afternoon.
 The report of the department on attendance figures is as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25
MATTERN FAILS
 IN RESCUE ACT
American Aviator Reports No Success in Locating
 Russian Flyers

Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 25-UP) Jimmy Mattern paused here to- day after e flight from Point Bar- row that failed to find trace of aix Russian aviators missing 12 days on a trans-polar flight from Moscow.
 Mattern flew northeasteriy from Point Barrow to the 14sth meridian, north to the 74th parallel and sev. eral hundred miles over the Arctic ocean.
 Bob Randall, Canadian aviator, and several Russian flyers at Point Barrow, were grounded by weather when Mattern left. The Soviet ice breaker Krassin was sighted from Point Barrow yesterday as 1t sped to join the searching parties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

PROGRAM
 The complete program for to- morrow l. listed aS follows:
 Midget 70 yard dash (open to boys l2 year. of age and under) {: junior 50 yard dash topen to hoys l3. l4 IS years of age): senior 100. yard dash topen to boys l6 years and over): junior running high jump topen to boys IS and underD {; senior running high jump (open to boys IS and over): junior run.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

Hamilton Park Juniors Is boys Tennis Men Robert Blewitt)
 Inter-playground
 Chase vs Hamilton 8 men Chase vs Hamilton (Jrs.) 10 boys lnter.playgFound Athletics Boys: Baseball 8 teams l00 boys) volleyball 8 teams (6o boys) Girls: Softball 6 teams (55 girls)
 volleyball 9 teams (55 girls)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

dustrial concerns and fraternal or ganizations, and 1t was voted that these be given consideration. The chorus. which IS directed by Joseph Fl. Lezotte has been in existence for the past three years during which time 1t has appeared in many en. tertainments throughout the state and in addition has been heard In several radio broadcasts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

TENNIS Girls (Miss Mcknight
 Instruction Glasses
 Ages 8-15) Fulton Park 25 Hamilton Park 10 Chase Park 20 Washington Park ~
 Total 50
 Tournaments Chase Park IS women Hamilton Park IS women
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-25

Totad 34 Inter- park Match Chase vs Fulton t6 women com peting.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S GAINS
Faculty Has Expanded and Resources Have Shown Con.
slant Growth While Physical Equipment Has Kept Pace With
Constant Demands of Modern Education

equipped with parlors, reception and
reading rooms, solarium, a recre-
alton room and an open-air play space
on the roof
Near the corner of Twentieth and
G streets is the new Social Sciences
Hall, which replaced the group of old
houses formerly in use. From TWen-
tieth to TWenty-trst street the uni
versity now presents a solid front.
Any of George Washingtons $4,000
alumni will consider such improve
mentS remarkable, in view of the fact
that a decade ago the whole univer-
sity plant was composed of Corcoran
Hall, Stockton Hall, the medical
school and hospital and a number
street.
In 1880 the medical school build
ing, occupied since 1902, was COM
pletely reconditioned and new equip
ment was installed for the depart
ments of biochemiStry, pharmacology,
physiology, pathology and anatomy.
7 UNIVERSITY laboratories have in
creased in 10 years from SO to 80,
while Offices number 1863, as compared
with 81 The number of libraries
has doubled and the number of VOL
umes in them has grown from 74,s74
to 115290.
Other milestones in the progress of
the university under DR.. Marvin in
clude the establishment of three stu
dent social centers and the publica-
ton of the quarterly George Wash
inton Law Review, the semi-annual
George Washington Alumni Review
ana eight volumes published by the
University Press. The alumni direc-
tory is in preparation.
Moving in the vanguard of general
trend in American university organiZa-
ton, George Washington under DR..
Marvin has placed the work of the
freshman and sophomore years in the
Junior College, where more attention
can be paid the individual student ard
where those who cannot complete
four-year course can nevertheless OBJ
tain well-rounded general education.
The university has attained during
the past 10 years the highest accredi-
tation, both for its liberal arts work
and for its professional work. To re-
gional accreditation by the Middle
States Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools has been added similar
accreditation by the Association of
American Universities, giving it the
highest possible rating. Similar recog-
milton for professional work, granted
by the Association of American Law
Schools and the American Medical As
sociation, has been maintained.
The most recent evidence of the
high quality of the university's work
and its recognition by the academic
Evening star., 1937-04-24
Big Balm Awarded for Bumps and Bruises Suggests That
Juries in District Are Not Ungenerous in
Their Verdicts to Plaintiffs

wise of the jury's liberality or tight
flstedness.
COME judgments have compensated
for simple fractures and a few
bad bruises more than have others
for permanent injury or death. Injured
feelings or mental anguish" is no
grounds for suit in the District, but
such theoretical-perhaps a better
adjective is mon bodily''-damage as
injured professional reputation" has
been the basis for one of the largest
awards made by Washington jury
in local court history.
The incident under discussion BY
the elevator walters is one of the
latest of an imposing number OF sue
cessful damage suits. Paul Jack,
Swiss head waiter at the Shoreham
Hotel, reduced Thaw's considerable
capital by. 50 200 by convincing a Dis
trict Court jury that the slayer Of
Stanford White had given him most
painful sinner" or mouse" while
allegedly misbehaving at a dinner
party. The jury was told the blow was
struck while Thaw held a lighted Gig
arctic in his fist, and it assessed the
damage to Jack at $4,000
In a manner of speaking, more
than $4,000 has been found on the
sidewalks of Washington since 1881.
Although the discovery was painful
perhaps, in some cases, permanently
njurious-flnders have been keepers.
The loser was the District Govern
ment, compelled to compensate in
that amount persons who stumbled on
faulty pavements and stumbled right
into court with demands for damages
on the complaint that the city fathers
Evening star., 1937-04-24
More Than Fourteen Thousand Dollars Have Been
"Found" on Sidewalks of Washington Since
1881, According to Legal Records

encouragement or diScouragement 1r
the case of one Moncure Noble. whose
reception when he called ION business
at local agency was anything but ap.
propriate to his name. Not only was
the greeting ignoble. averTed Mr.
Noble. but he was put upon by EN-.
ployes and his arm broken. Appar-
emily feeling that even on mid-August
days such people should keep cool anc
not assault visitors, jury awarded
Noble $11, 900 in q Judgment against
the company, which contended to nc
avail that the alteration was the re-
suit Of personal feud.
Frank Bonner. former executive sec
retary of the Federal Power Commits
sion, has been awarded libel judgments
against newspapers amounting to q
small fortune. Suing in the District for
compensation for allegedly libelous
articles which brought him into dis
grace and seriously injured his pro-
fession as an electrical engineer" he
won $45,000 from the papers, $4,000
for each of the five articles that caused
him grief Bonner's basic salary as
secretary of the commission had been
$500. His suit was in the courts ap-
proximately six years. Therefore, had
he remained with the commission, his
total income for that period would
have been $2l 900, or less tnan half
what he received from the District
award alone, to say nothing of sub
stantial judgments obtained against
publications in other cities.
Affirming the $45,000 judgment re-
turned for Bonner by District Court
jury. the Court of Appeals refused to
discuss the reasonableness Of the large
Continued on Page B-3)
Evening star., 1937-04-24

world generally has been the establish
ment there of chapter of Sigma Xi,
national honorary fraternity in science.
Moreover, the Phi Beta Kappa men,
bers of the university faculty have
been invited to submit an application
for a. chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
THE record of the past 10 years,
friends of George Washington feel,
can be taken as an indication of things
to come in the next 10. There will be
further strengthening of the faculty.
Plans already are in preparation for a
seven or eight story library building
of setback architecture, to be situated
in the middle of the principal univer-
sity block. fronting on G street. With
in comparatively short time. too, the
university will have an athletic field,
with field house and a gymnasium
equipped for almost any kind Of indoor
sport.
When alumni, faculty, students and
trustees of George Washington pay
tribute to DR.. Marvin next week they
will be expressing the thanks of the
whole city
Evening star., 1937-04-24

Medical practitioners of one sort or
another have been among the favor
ite targets Of damage suits
Under the heading Tooth Worth
$1,000" The Star of December 18,
1884, reports that "a sound tooth was
valued at ST 900 by a District Supreme
Court jury today" The grand" was
collected from two dentists by Mr..
Percy L. Kise, who charged they ex-
tracted the wrong molar when mining
for lower wisdom tooth.
One of the defendants, incidentally,
recovered threefold recently on an
Irish sweepstakes ticket drawing.
Earlier that year Dora E. Grubb
was awarded $3,000-she asked $780,
OOO-on her contention that she was
burned while undergoing X-ray treat
ments. The defendants, an X-ray
firm, fought the case for years. They
won the first verdict, but the final
judgment resulted when the jurors
failed to agree and counsel for both
sides decided to allow $4,000 damages.
The alleged carelessness of one phy-
sician cost him $4,000, a patient prov
ing to the satisfaction of a District
Court jury in March, 1894, that the
doctor had left three pieces of tubing
in an incision.
A DAMAGE suit similar to the
= Thaw case as to circumstances
and the amount of award was that
brought two years ago by Charles
Newman, taxicab driver, against
former Representative Francis T..
Shoemaker of Minnesota. Shoemaker
ex-convict, successor to Huey Long
and predecessor to Marion Zioncheck
as congressional bad boy" beat up
the hacker, it was charged. Newman
said he was assaulted by the ex-
legislator while halted at a red light,
blocking the latter's car. He asked
$25, 900, got $2,5O0. Assault charges
against Shoemaker resulted in q hung
Jury.
Another case Of alleged assault
Evening star., 1937-04-24

which brought cash judgment for
the plaintiff involved former lieuten-
ant of Capitol police, whom a Mrs,
Elsie Jardine accused of striking her
as she tried to prevent him from
beating her son. A District Court
jury thought Mrs. Jardine's claim was
worth $3.50.
Nearly $4,000 has been assessed
against businesses in the past five
years for accidents to women who
faw'd down and went boom. For a
fractured wrist, sustained when a
chair in which she was sitting COL
lapsed in an apartment house dining
room, Mrs Bella M. Hoefer collected
$4,000. The restaurant concern said
the collapse was caused by a struc-
tural defect which it hardly could
have been expected to notice. But the
jury said such faults should have been
observed before Mrs. Hoefer sat down.
Spinach leaves and grapes caused
q 5000 fall and toy drum $l2.-
900 one. The former amount was
awarded Mrs. Margaret Snead, who
made a ground loop in Connecticut
avenue store after slipping on the
aforesaid agricultural debris. She
claimed injuries to the nerves OF an
arm and shoulder.
Tripping on a child's drum during
the 1888 Christmas season, Mrs. Ida
Lowe Kenney fell on some stairs in a
downtown store. and was severely in
jured-severely enough to persuade
a District Court jury to award her
$4,000 damages.
nOOR-TO-DOOR salesmen who
have been pitched out by ex-
sspsrated prospects may ind either
Evening star., 1937-04-24

ing for an elevator snorted
\ as his eyes glanced across
~ the front page of news
paper he was holding
Look here" he said, that head
waiter got 1000 bucks from Harry
Thaw for punch in the eye"
He held up his paper for the others
to see.
Pretty costly punch" said one.
1T served Thaw right" said another.
well, I'd take a sock in the orb
for couple of grand" said a third.
A fourth said, You could do both
OF mine up for less than that and my
mouth and ears and nose, too
The man with the paper remarked
that the waiter had asked $4,000.
"They never get what they ask,
though" he added
He was almost right. They seldom
do. A census" Of damage suits in the
District during the past five years
discloses, however, that juries here
have not been ungenerous in their
awards to plaintiffs.
Unfortunately for this account,
newspaper treatment of such judg-
ments has been cursory, partly be-
cause the interval between filing of
damage suits and their final DISPOSE
ton has been matter of many
months, even years, and also because
it Is not within the realm Of a news
paper to record the actual damage"
suffered by the plaintiff other than
to report the claims Of the litigant.
The latter circumstance precludes
comment on the fairness" Of other.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
SUN TURNS COOK AND BAKER
Smithsonian Scientist Tells of Ways Which Solar Rays Serve
Mankind Solar Engine Interests Agcult,raists in Hot
Lands-HeatStoring Reservoirs Exist.

such inventions as the solar cooker,
the solar power engine, the solar flash
boiler and the solar disttlling ap-
paratus, bearing witness to the prac-
tical and material application Of
a unique and intriguing theory.
Not SO many weeks ago many OF you
in Washington may have listened in
to most unusual radio program that
went across the country over a ma
tional hook-up, broadcast by nothing
more than solar power. That day the
sun itself took part in one of the most
astonishing demonstrations OF modern
times. 1t beat benignly upon curious
contraption set up in the Smithsonian
Institution grounds in Washington. Its
heat was concentrated upon three mir
rors of aluminium products, each about
- feet square. These mirrors were
cylindrical and conCave in form,
mounted upon frame which defined
an axis parallel to the axis Of the
earth, the axes of the mirrors laying
at right angles. The entire frame ro-
tated about once each half hour, keep
ing the mirror axes approximately at
right angles to the rays Of the sun.
Each of the three mirrors focused
the suns rays upon glass tube, COM
prising three tubes of glass, one inside
the other, with the inner tube contain
ing a black oil liquid which almost to-
tally absorbed sun rays and Withstood
a temperature of $40 degrees Fahren-
heit. without boiling or decomposition.
Hermetically sealed, the inner tube
preserved a vacuum, hindering the
escape of the solar heat thus collected.
All three focus tubes were connected
to boiler and with steam raised to a
pressure exceeding 100 pounds to the
square inch, enough power was gen.
Grated to drive small steam engine.
This, then, was the solar engine that
sent conversation out upon the ether
waves from the Capital. The sun had
indeed been given voice.
AS result of this demonstration
letters began pouring in to Washing
ton from the far corners of the earth.
Men in the lands where the sun beat
hot and fiercely upon plowed fields,
men in desert spaces where only irri-
CATION could bring forth crops, men
far and wide interested in utilizing
the most miraculous agent in the uni
verse-the sun itself-wrote to inquire
Just how this solar engine could be
made to serve their own needs
Most Of the inquiries that came in
to Dr. Abbot were from agricultural
districts, since men who till the fields
are quick to realize that the forces
Of nature, such as light and air, are
prodigal and free. If only the initial
cost of the contraption were the price
of its wonder they wanted to know
about it. Another reason why agri-
Evening star., 1937-04-24
ARE LED TO BELIEVE THAT 1T PAYS TO BE

had failed to keep the sidewalks in
a proper state of repair.
The latest instance of sidewalk
nose-dive was that OF a Miss Ada
Tanner, who fell in a depression at
Connecticut avenue and R streets and
last October was awarded S2,4OO on
her charge that she had suffered
serious injuries because Of the "negi-
gence" of the District Government.
A spill on the sidewalk at Georgia
avenue and Blair road won a judg-
ment Of $4,25O for Winton E. Disney
in February, 1885.
But these judgments were chicken
feed in comparison with those won by
visiting Long Island couple in June,
1882. Mrs. Robert H. Legs, who did
the falling, got more than $1,000 COM
pensation for injuries received in q
tumble on B street southeast, while
her husband, who paid the doctors
bills, etc, got separate award, the
total "take" amounting to $7700.
ONE Of the most unusual instances
of falls which have received the
golden sympathies of 10 jurors was
that in which the victim, Mrs Susie
K Ball, toppled into an open grave at
the Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Ball
set forth that while walking along a
slippery cemetery walk in October,
1882, on her way to place flowers on
the grave of grandchild, she lost
her balance and plunged into an exca-
walton intended to receive a dead body,
not live one. Claiming internal in
juries and that she had swallowed dirt
in such quantities as to cause "an
ulcerous condition of her tonsils," Mrs.
Ball went into court She came out,
eventually, with $500. The ceme-
terry association appealed, but the
judgment was upheld by the United
States Court Of Appeals, extra COM
pensation being awarded Mr.. Ball for
expenses and losses" In connection
with his wife1 injuries.
Evening star., 1937-04-24
By William 4. Bell, T.

~ NE MAN among several wait
I ing for an elevator snorted
as his eyes glanced across
~ the front page of a news
Evening star., 1937-04-24
By Lucy Salamanca.

= AN the sun itself be harnessed
to light our homes at night,
run our engines, irrigate bar