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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
WPA CONSTRUCTS SEWAGE CONVEYOR
Huge Siphon to Be Install-
 ed in Naugatuck River Near Eagle Street

Construction of a huge 'siphon under the bed of the Naugatuck river, at the Eagle street bridge. has been begun. The siphon will be used to convey sewage across the river to the main trunk sewer on the west side of the river.
 The outlet will care for the new sewer on South Main street and for the new sewers along Baldwin street. The street and water de- partment recently completed a sewer on South Main street, from Pearl Lake road to the Eagle street bridge. Another sewer is being laid on South Main street, from Piedmont street to the bridge. The Baldwin street sewers, which have been us- ing a temporary outlet, will be connected to the siphon.
 When the project, which is a WPA job, is completed the sewage will How to a level below the river bed. It will then be siphoned up the other side into the main car Tier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
FOR 1 STATE ANGLERS
Various Streams to Re-
 main Open For Fishing Until Thursday July IS

Addicts of the rod and reel have only a week left of the regular fishing season. But announcement has been made by the State Board that extension of the season will apply to more than a dozen ponds and streams, due to favorable con- ditionS this summer. With these ex- captions, the season closes July IS.
 Streams to which extension ap- plies are: Pennington river and its west branch. Housatonic, Williman- tic, Natchaug, Quinnibaug, Salmon Blackledge and Shepaug rivers.
 The Salmon river will be open to trout fishing during the extension only below the North Westchester dam; the Blackledge, below the New London highway, Route 2, and the Shepaug, below the Roxbury- Southbury town line.
 Other waters included in the ex- tension are: Trumbull reservoir Trumbull; Black Rock Pond, Water town; Bragg Pond, Hartland; Chat field Hollow Pond. Killingworth Hodge Pond, Voluntown; Mitchell Pond, Salem; Moriarty Pond, Will ton, and West Hill Pond, New Hart ford.
 Four other lakes will also be open to trout fishermen. These are Lake Quassapaug, Middlebury- Woodbury; Green Falls reservoir, Voluntown; Cream Hill Pond, Cornwall, and Lake Wononscopomuc, Lakeville. Al these four lakes special regulations limit the catch per angler to five i trout-l0 inches or more in length per day and provide an open sea- son to October 31.
 | Due to unusually high water, ar1 open winter and excellent stream conditions which have resulted in a good carry-over of trout from last year, an extension of the trout sea- son appears justified" Superinten- dent Arthur L. Clark declared.
 "The open season on these waters will be continued until further no- tice and until weather and stream conditions indicate that a closed season is warranted.
 Fishing during the extension is subject to the daily creel limits anc methods of angling which have ap. piled to leased streams during the regular season." the announcement concludes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

There is good chuckle in the story of the Chatta- nooga storekeeper who put up an empty cigar box in his
 machine here" The chuckle comes from the fact that his patrons took him at his word that in few days the box nearly full of coins The average American peas to his sense of humor The point however is that the customers who played" this cigar box got just about as much for their money they would have got if the slot machine had never been removed The average slot machine is an everything -goes-in nothingcomes-out proposition You might just about as well put your money
 in an empty cigar box for all you likely to get out ot it. Indeed these Chattanooga players probably ahead of the game they at least got chucke for their money
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
Patrolman Returns
 Five-Year-Old Boy

Five year old Kenneth Towers wandered about Worth Square for more than an hour last night be- fore being returned to his frantic parents by Motor Patrolmen Thomas Phalen and James Wagner. He was found by Patrolman John DeNardo, when police were informed of his description by the parents, Mir. and Mrs. Kenneth Towers of Williams street, Oakville. MT. Towers said the boy got out of his sight at Cooke and Hawkins street early in the evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
RABBI SWERIN IS
 SYNAGOGUE GUEST

The blessings of democracy as contrasted with autocracy and op- pression abroad were lauded last night by Rabbi David B. Swerin of West Philadelphia, first rabbi in Waterbury more than twenty years ago, speaking at an informal meet ing at Beth Israel synagog where he served as leader from 1912 to 1916.
 Rabbi Swerin spoke of the begin nings of the Jewish congregation here and said he was impressed with the growth of the Jewish com- munity in Waterbury since his time. He is visiting relatives here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
HIS START

Arthur William Brown, distin- guished illustrator who plays him. self in Paramount's Artists and Models" made his debut in show business more than 30 years ago when he travelled with Barnuin and Bailey's circus for six weeks, imak. ing illustrations for a circus story. Once when a clown became sudden ly ill, Brown donned makeup and pinch hit for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
Tall Tower
 Topics
Good Evening.
FADING STARS
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Where are the stars of yeSteryear? Actors who were once so good; Those who aren't still playing the boards Have. drifted to Hollywood. Directors hand them trifling role You detect their names as you read down; You spot them the minute they start to speak, They once were celebrities in town. They have tricks of the stage not easy to copy, They give movie folks trick or two; They know how to leave and enter room, There's art in their how do you do. Where are the stars of yeSteryear? That figured in the current drama plot; They get few lines in the latest screenings And are extras all over the lot.
 -EM EM,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
Denies Part in Kidnapping

met Harvey Bailey, too. Nobody introduced meNto him, but we got fairly well acquainted and talked a good deal.
 He worked in the kitchen and steam table most o the time. but just before left he was transferred to the laundry. pA s
 Bailey is nearly 50. His hair is al- most white, he weighs around 200 pounds.
 He was pretty cheerful and popped up. He denies he had any hand ii1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
They Live on Hope

Just like everybody outside, the men on The Rock live on hope. They call 1t the Island of Lost Hope, but that isn't true.
 The only fight I got into at Alca- traz was over Bailey.
 A big Negro who was going crazy, only we didn't know 1t then, walked up to Bailey in they ard during one of the six hours of recreation per week we were allowed.
 The Negro jumped Bailey for try ing to poison him at the steam table. Bailey, afraid 1t would hurt his rec- ord to get into a fight, let the col- ored boy threaten to beat and stomp him to death.
 A Texas boy named Walter and I talked about this and a week later decided the Negro ought to apolo- gize to Bailey. He said he would, and I was turning away when saw him swing on Walter and knock him out.
 I got to the Negro in time for one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

Star gazing |. . Fred Bernhardt of Waterbury was married roller skates to Eleanor Human of Meriden at Mansfield Grove Fourth of July evening. Justice of the Joseph F. Adams of East Haven tied the knot Oh well! . MT. and Mrs. Charles Russillillo of Sylvan avenue had great Fourth. boy was born to the MissuS at St. Marys hospital and Poppa Rus sio is still celebrating. Mr. and Mrs Thomas Paw loski and Mr. and Mrs Chester May sending postals from Niagara Falls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

lick which had him groggy. But the guards were right on top of this play too.
 Walter and I weren't punished. The colored boy had been making too much trouble talk.
 He was put in solitary. He proved he was crazy by cutting his wrists and nearly bleeding to death. He was adjudged insane and was trans ferred.
 Meets Other Kidnapers
 Machine Gun introduced me to George Bates, tall, slim, stopped
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
The smallest soldier.

The smallest soldier . . . Private Nicholas Casale of Newark N J., may be egotistical; and then again he may merely be seeking justice when he demands that Congress vote him gold medal as the smallest American soldier the World War He says he drafted in vo- lation of the seecve draft law Casae measures four feet ten and weights 1o4 pounds He had hard time in the service because the rest of the army wouldn't take him seriously Once had to time in the guard house for throwing brick at sixfoot sergeant who called him a Boy Scout. "The humiliation was awful, he says was kdded and laughed at for something that wasn't my fault They had no business putting me in such position, Why had to saw six inches off my rifle so l could handle it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

rid bits. |. Josephine Mccormick of Pleasant street is motoring to Chicago to spend few weeks with Mrs F. J. Hanon the former Alice Dillop of this town "Jo" pulled up anchor yesterday ayem. Tommy Nova Scotia. . MT. and Mrs. George Shove and family of Eastwood avenue and Ellen French of Fair lawn avenue are Newport-ing in Rhode Island this week. Mrs Frank Ennis of Bridgeport is using family towel of her sister Mrs. Richard Ratzke of Pleasant street .. MT. and Mrs Warren Leonard and son, Warren, IT,, vacationng with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leonard at their Bangor, Me. cottage for a fortnight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

The men on The Rock, some of them, think if they could kill him they would become famous.
 And a few nutty ones are prob- ably so publicity crazy that they would risk a life stretch to get their names in headlines again.
 Liked to Play Tough
 I'll say this for the warden, he does the best he can.
 Nobody who is an enemy to Al is put on the job near him.
 When Jimmy Lucas made his try, Jimmy disappeared for 90 days. When he showed up he claimed to have spent 30 days in the dark hole and 60 days in solitary.
 But he liked to play tough, and we never knew If that was right or not.
 Al, the man people used to think of as going around in the middle of a bunch of men with violin cases under their arms has learned 10 play real violins.
 A smart guy, he learns quick. He couldn't play a note when he went in, he told me.
 Al liked to talk best about the time when he was boy, struggling to help support a big bunch of brothers and sisters, the hard knocks he got and how he whipped them.
 Al said he was through violating the law. He's proud of his ability to organize, and told me he was go- ing to look for place and legiti- mate business to get into when he gets out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

Most warning era. U. Twenty European and Amer. ican scholars headed by Professor Ptrm Sorokin of Harvard have recently completed study of the social not flatterng to contemporary civilization There 9O2 wars and 1915 internal disturbances during those years but the first quarter of the century was the "bloodiest period in all history The war index for the twentieth century to date is "egh times greater than all the preceding centuries of the thir. teenth century had far better chance than man of today to escape war death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
 Inside xALcGt1NS-- -NO 3 Byusrnth "Bigfoot' Blames Alcatraz Jealousy for the Stabbing of Hated Al CapOne
Prisoner Sees Other Famed
 Criminals

blond, quiet, doing life for the Ur- schei snatch. Machine Gun told me George had more nerve than he did.
 Bates seldom if ever talks about his past. From the look on his face you would think he is wondering what it is all about.
 got acquainted in casual way with Harmon Waley, doing 70 years in the Weyerhauser kid snatch. About 35, weighs about 195, a big chested, blond, red-faced guy who thought he did something smart when he knocked Capone down one day and got by with 1t,
 Capone could handle two like him.
 I was disgusted to hear Waley say one day about his wife, who $ in prison: I'm glad she got 20 years. At least I'll know where she is for while"
 Karpis a Loud Talker
 The grapevine, by the way, said William sMalan was sent to McNell Island in the Weyerhauser case and went nuts.
 Alvin Karpis came in while after I was there. He worked in the laundry close to me.
 A long-neoked, slim, stooped- shouldered guy, scars over his ears where he said his face was lifted, boisterous, loud-mouthed.
 He bragged about dodging the G-Men as long as he did.
 Karpis isn't a bad fellow just doesn't know what 1t is all about. He needs high chair, not an elec- tric chair. .t.
 I met John Paul Chase, with "Babyface" Nelson when the two G-Men were Killed. Chase is quiet, says ives" or mo" when you speak to him, goes around like a man in a fog.
 knew Doc Barker, son of Ma Barker, a big-shouldered. squatty guy who had rep of being danger. ous with his dukes.
 met Volney Davis. nervous and hot-headed, doing life for conspiracy in the snatch of Bremen.
 T don't want to talk in this place about anything but getting out--le- gally," he told me once.
 That's Folding Money
 The funniest pair of pals I saw there was Wick Miller, the interna- tional con man who hopes he will be deported. and Sam Seaman Of San Francisco.
 Wick clipped Sam for 36 grand. Both of them told me about 1t. But here they were. laughing and joking like the best of friends.
 Sometimes I wondered if Sam would smile like that If they were out and he had Wick in a dark alley. r Thirty-five grand Is folding money.
 NEXT: "BigfOot" learns how i'm" possible 1t Is to escape from Alca- kRN1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

the Urschel kidnaping, although he was caught on the Texas farm where Urschel was held, with some of the ransom money.
 He says he didn't know it was ransom money. He thinks the gov- ernment is convinced of this and will let him go. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

The salt machine One of the old McGuffey Readers told story of who wanted to make salt He obtained magic machine which he ordered to grind out salt salt nothing but sat' It did It ground until his house. barn and yard filled with salt and then wouldn't stop It ground salt until his farm was covered the roads blocked and the streams were briny At last when threatened to fill all the land with salt he put the machine ship and started out to sink it in the On the way it filled and sank the ship and it's with it. And according to the legend is still grinding salt at the bottom and that is why the sea is salt The yarn makes fellow wonder in these days whether modern machinery that we wanted so much and have been proud of isn't little like that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
West End telescoping.

West End telescopng. Rube Denze will be broke he keeps passing out smokes freely as he has the last few days The significance of his generosity yes you guessed it. baby girl to the Mssus the first visit of Longlegs stork to the Denze domcile. Augustine Gus D'Amco James Marine and Domenic Zappone are free-week-ingit in Montreal. Luke Piazzo Frank Fusco and Bill Colangeo sun-tanning at Walnut Beach . . Dan Zibello Michael Daversa Broadway Rose and Joe Reno are motor trip to Greenburgh, Pa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
AnstUers To
 Test Questions

| S~S Z SSSOSeNDU9V Below are the answers
 to test questions printed
 on page 6.
 1. He can only pardon pris- OnerS who have been convict ed of a crime under federal laws. 2. Off the southeast coast of Asia. 3. Hydrometer. 1. MCMXXXVlI. 5. Eros.
 6. Jack Johnson.
 ]. Egypt.
 8. German operatic singer.
 g. British West Indies.
 10. The progeny of parents which belong to different spe- cies or races.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

The three musketeers of the Clock Shop, Mary Guarrera of Walnut street, Olive Schlega of Kenyon street. and Helen Ladden of Ashley street. making faces and holding hands at Atlantic City these days Nurse Betty Kendall is back in the receiving room of the Waterbury Hospital after months soourn m Colorado Dickie Leonard, chubby Dem copy boy, is getting tanned at the beach this week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
HORSE TIP

If you can't pick long shot play winner across
 Ride cock horse at the Agawam course.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
Stabs Him in Back

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 Lucas went down into the base ment where Al did the janitor work, the grapevine said, for a monthly haircut. In the barber's chair he reached over, grabbed a pair of scissors, ran into the next room where Al was leaning over sorting laundry.
 Jimmy stabbed Al in the back several times, the grapevine said. Al turned and hit Jimmy on the head with a banjo. It knocked him about half out. The guards were there by then.
 T knew before you got hurt that there was 8 rib on to mur- der you," I told him. T heard it when I got in, but I didn't hear who was to do it and, anyway, I couldn't get any word to you"
 He said he appreciated it. any, way. We met the day I put in a re- quest to see the warden about something. It happened that Ma chine Gun" Kelly and Al had each done the same thing, and the three of us met outside the wardens office.
 Outsider Couldn't Understand
 Machine Gun went in first, and Al and talked until he came out.
 T hope you won't turn out to be my enemy like about 90 per cent of the others in here have turned out to be-" he told me.
 And I found out 1t was true. The Rock swarms with enemies of Capone.
 Why? don't think there is a single reason for 1t that would make sense to men and women out walking where they want to and breathing free air.
 The bitter way those guys hate As guts shows the kind of men they are, the pressure The Rock puts on a man, the twisted way he gets to feel with years up to life stretching ahead.
 l tell you CnaC LHe HIGH OH AHS Rock don't want to see other men leave there.
 T can't leave, why should he?" is the way they think.
 Hard to believe, but gospel truth. I-..
 When anybody, just anybody, gets short-1 felt 1t myself later you can almost feel and touch the jealousy and bitter envy when they look at you.
 Al Is Getting Shorter
 That day in December, 1888, that Al has ringed on the cal- endar is not too far away now.
 Add to that these things which stick in the mems craws:
 Al has a fortune to return to, a home, a wife, a 1s-year-old son, a mother.
 He's better off than they are, and how they hate it.
 As known all over the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
Release, Life Always
 In Danger

This is the third of four stories on life "Inside Alcatraz," related by the first convict ever to be paroled from the federal prison for incorrigibles. 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
BY A.W. "BIGFOOT' DAVIS


 (As told to Douglas Hicks) Copyright, 1887, NEA Service Incl
 Al Capone stuck out his hand and introduced him. self to me when had been on 'The Rock" 10 days.
 That started a friendship which will last until one of us dies-a long time, I hope. But 1t may not be long at that.
 Al-he called me Big Dave, and I called him Al - is in constant danger on The Rock.
 As Al gets "shorter"--he is due out in December 1938-the thirst for his death among other inmates will grow worse and worse.
 Just about year ago they tried to get him and didn't miss 1t far Jimmy Lucas, 8 Texas boy do- ing 30 years for bank robbery, was elected. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

AFourPart Series of Articles Describing Life on Uncle sams Devils Isandv By the First Inmate Ever Paroled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
That's Folding Money

NEXT: "Bigfoot" learns how in- possible 1t Is to escape from Alca- traZ.
The Washington times., 1937-07-06
AWARDS
GO TO HEARST,
Il OTHERS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July
6.-William Randolph Hearst and
eleven other newspapermen were
awarded the annual prizes Of the
National Headliners Club today
in recognition of outstanding
achievement in journalistic work.
Gold plaques will be presented
to those named at the annual
frolic of the club here next Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
The awards recognize outstand-
ing performances in gathering
spot news, writing of features,
radio reporting, factual magazine
writing and picture gathering.
Those named include:
Most enterprise in journalism:
William Randolph Hearst, for eX'
elusive story obtained by him,
first definitely announcing the
impending marriage of former
King Edward VIII and the former
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson.
Best series of public interest
stories: Paul Anderson, st. Louis
Post-Dispa h, on La Toilette
Civil Liberties Committee hear
ings.
Best domestic spot news report
ing: Robert Okin, Associated Press,
for coverage of Hindenburg dis
aster.
Best foreign spot news report
Ing: Henry T. Russell, United
Press, on King Edwards abdica-
ton
Others named we're Henry Nc
Lemore. DR.. Thomas Parran. John
Lindsay. Arthur Menken, Joseph
Eaton. w. L. Carlson, H. V, Kalten-
born and Westhrook Pegler.
The Washington times., 1937-07-06
MARVIN URGES
SUFFRAGE
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Association Editor

Pleas for suffrage in the Dis
trict of Columbia, so that Wash
ingtonians may manage their own
governmental affairs, we're voiced
yesterday by DR.. Cloyd Heck Mar.
win, president of George Wash
ington University, during a speech
in which he pointed to the pos
Sibility that the entire country
might lose its political rights.
Addressing the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants in the Old
Union Fire House, DR.. Marvin de-
clared the experience of the
peoples of Russia, Germany and
Italy shows what happens when
ordinary citizens forget to exercise
their political powers properly
He said:
ITO be aloof and say there
is nothing in it for me- means
SelfishneSS, narrOWneSs and stag
nation which results in the com.
mitment of public affairs into
the hands of the politician.
"That too often we shrink
from contact with politics, lest
We become entangled with condi-
tiOns that may be harmful to our
private interests, is evident.
eff we lose our constitutional
rights, as they have been lost in
Germany and Italy; if we be-
come a cOmmuniStic state as
Russia and Spain, it will be be-
cause you and have been will
ing to give up our righteous citi-
ZenShip because we we're lazy or
ignorant, or worse yet, because
we tried to save our holdings by
being criminally aloOf from max
ing the necessary sacrifices to
give others their rights
Other features of the meeting
were the reading of the Declara'
ton of independence by John B
Dickman, the reading of an orig
tnal poem by John Clagett Proc,
tor. and solos by Frank K. San.
derson.
The Washington times., 1937-07-06

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The Washington times., 1937-07-06
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The Washington times., 1937-07-06

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