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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
City Gets Places On Democratic Platform Committee
New Volume On
 State Records Out
WPA Historical Survey Announces Publication of
 Volume VII New Haven County

inventories. Work Is continuing in other towns as well as in the coun- ty records and those of churches, inventories of which will also be published. A start has also been made on several of the fine Inanu-- script collections in the state.
 "The seven inventories contained in this volume give a representa- tive picture of thetype of records now to be found in the smaller town of Connecticut. We know that these inventories will be of invalu- able assistance to historians, genea. logists and all people interested in the history of local communities. We also feel sure that they will be of great help to lawyers and others who need to consult local records and especially to local officials. They will make it possible to compare different ways of keeping records which in the long run should lead to an increase in efficiency and economy in local government"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
Smith, Mulville On Group; To Draw Up
 Preliminary Draft
Senator MaIoney, National Committee Also Repre- sented-Mayor Coyle, New Britain, Ex-Mayor
 Moran, Norwich, Also Named to Committee

which was granted the state chair man at a recent meeting of the state central committee, will formulate a preliminary draft to be presented to the resolutions committee, which in turn will bring the 1888 platform before the convention delegates.
 The members include: National Committeeman David E. FitzGerald of New Haven; National Committee woman Mary Coughlan of Strat- ford; Mrs. Norah Mahaney Harris, vice chairman of the state central committee, New Haven; State Chairman Smith; William J. Farley, treasurer, New Britain; Secretary Mulville; Senator Francis T. Ma loney of Meriden; Philip Hewes of Pennington, secretary to Governor Wilbur L. Cross; Fannie Dixon Welch, former national committee woman now collector of customs at Bridgeport; Richard J. Smith, for mer Yale Law School professor now prominent utilities lawyer; Mayor George Coyle of New Britain; and ex-Mayor Edward G. Moran of Norwich.
 The committee has not as yet an- nounced date for meeting prior to the Groton convention in Septem- Der.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17

Work of the WPA-sponsored His torical Records Survey, which will provide 30 volumes or more of in- ventories of local archives of Con- necticut, has reached the point of publication of volume VIII, New Haven county, according to word today from Vincent J. Sullivan, WPA administrator for Connecticut.
 MT. Sullivan's announcement states: This is the first publica- tion of the Connecticut unit of the Historical Records Survey. A lim- ited number of public copies have been mimeographed and will be dis tributed to public officials, libraries and other public and semi-public agencies in the state.
 The Historical Records Survey is a unit of Federal Project No. 1, which includes the five nationwide arts projects sponsored py the Works Progress Administration itself. It is part of the Division of Wo- mems and Professional Projects of which Miss Mary H. Hughart is di- rector in Connecticut.
 When completed, the inventory of the local archives in Connecticut will consist of more than 30 vol- umes divided into eight series, one for each county. The counties have been numbered accord:ng to their position in an alphabetical list, New Haven being No. 5. Within each county the towns have been ar- in alphabetical order. While the volumes are numbered accord ing to these alphabetical lists of counties and towns it has not been convenient to work the towns in order and we are pub fishing volumes as the towns are completed. We hope to get out at least one volume for Hartford and Fairfield counties this year, and others will follow later.
 up to the present the records in over 70 of Connecticut's 169 towns have been listed as a pre- liminary to the preparation of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17

period at the U. s. Naval Training Station, Newport, R. l. He is in the engineers force and is studying to be machinist.
 Bernard is quite an artist, and while under instruction at the naval training station, Newport, R. l., painted several scenes of that beau- tiful station, several of which are permanently hung in the various administration buildings.
 Joseph Alexander Dunphy, seaman second class, U. s. navy, of Baldwin street extension, has returned to the U. $. Naval Training station, New port, R. l., this date, after spending 12 days leave with his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. Edward R. Val ade of that address.
 "Joe," is he is commonly called, has completed his three months re- cruit training period which is re- quired of all new applicants in the U. $. navy. Joe has recently taken the competitive examinations for the machinists' mate school, at the naval training station, Norfolk, Va, and has been selected from approXi- mately 200 applicants for a course Of instruction in this school Upon completion of this school, he will be transferred to one of the new mod ern cruisers or repair ships of the U. s. fleet.
 John Walker Mellor, the son of MT. and Mrs. Benjamin Mellor of 72 Faber avenue this city, was in- cluded in a successful group of can didates who were selected for en- listment in the United States navy yesterday after being found best qualified of several hundred appli- cants throughout the state. With other men of this group who hail froh various parts of the state, he was transferred this date to the U s. Naval Training Station, New port, R. l., where he will be sta toned for the next three months receiving training and instructions
 in the fundamentals of navy edu- cation prior to, being assigned to a school or to one of the ships of the U. S. fleet
 Mellor attended Crosby high, and while there took an active part in school athletics. Swimming being his favorite sport, he was mem Der of the schol team, and a swimmer of note. Mellor is hoping to attend the Pharmacists school maintained by the navy for men who are desirous of furthering their education in this profession, and while at the Naval Training Sta tion. will take competitive examina- tions along with other youths for entrance exams for this school
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
HEAVY OLD AGE. INSURANCE HERE.
Conn. Workers Pile Up $z1,OOO,OOO, Field
 Agent Reports

Federal old-age insurance pro- lection amounting to at least $2l,- 244,825 has already been accumu- lated by Connecticut wage earners 1t was announced today by Robert E. Austin, manager of the Social Security Boards Waterbury field office.
 This sum represents 3 1-2 per cent of wages reported for Connecticut employees covered by Federal old-age insurance during the first 16 months of the program operation In no case, under these provisions of the Social Security Act, will the benefit payable be less than 3 1-2 per cent of the employees total wages according to MT. Austin.
 Highlights of old-age insurance were summarized as follows by MT. Austin, in connection with the third anniversary of the Act, signed by President Roosevelt August IA, 1885 ::
 All payments are based on wages for work after 1886, by per- sons under age 65, in jobs covered by old-age insurance. Monthly benefits will be payable to retired employees at or after age 65, begin ming in 1942.
 A lump-sum is payable now to employees reaching 65 and em- ploye does not have to quit job in order to collect this type of payment.
 Death payment provided for close relatives when employe dies before reaching 65.
 To staff six field offices in Con- necticut, the Social Security Board employs a total of 29 persons, all with United States Civil Service status.
 Regular out-of-town office hours on certain days each month are maintained by the Waterbury field office at the post office in the fol- lowing communities: Seymour, Naugatuck and Beacon Falls. Per- sons wishing information about old age insurance payments or social security account numbers can ar- range an appointment with MT. Aus tin in any of these places by writing to the Waterbury field office.
 The average old-age insurance claim in Connecticut certified in June amounted to $5706. Up to the first of July, total of $l58,504.74 had been certified to ATS claimants in Connecticut, since this part of the act first went into effect at the beginning of 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
They're In Navy Now These Waterbury Gobs

Word has been received by the local Navy Recruiter, that Bernard J. Valuckas, Fireman Third Class, U. s. Navy, the son of MT. and Mrs. John Valuckas of Middlebury road Watertown, is now attached and serving on board the U. s. s. Porter, (356), new and modern Destroyer which is the Flagship of Destroyer Squadron "2" U. s. Fleet, based at the destroyer base, San Diego, Calf. The Porter is one of the vessels which is scheduled 70 visit New York city for the Worlds Fair in 1889.
 Bernard was transferred to the U. s. s. Porter upon completion of his three months recruit training
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
Compensation Agreements

The following agreements in which compensation will be paid weekly during the period of total disability were filed today and ap- proved at the office of the com pensati0n commissioner:
 J c. Murphy Co.,, New Canaan and Charles Wepprecht, Brook lyn, N. Y., lacerated left arm, S7.50 beginning Aug. 2.
 Torrington Bldg. Co. and John Kron, Litchfield, thumb injury, $21. beginning July 25.
 Waterbury Battery Co. and Will liam Henry Small, 400 Mill street, back injury, $13.87 beginning July 8.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17

Waterbury will hold two places on the important platform commit tee at the Democratic state conven- ton in Eastern Point September 13 and IA, 1t was announced today by State Chairman J. Francis Smith.
 MT. Smith is a member of the committee by virtue of his office. as is also Joseph F. Mulville, secretary of the Democratic state central com- mittee. Other officers, as well as the national committeeman and woman, one Q. s. senator, and prominent Democratic officials throughout the state, are included.
 The platform committee, authori- ration to appoint the same for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
TWO BOARD PARLEYS
 SCHEDULED TODAY

Regular meetings of the boards of police and fire commissioners are to be held late this afternoon. Only routine business was expected to be transacted
 Several of the fire commissioners plan to attend the state flremen's s convention at Milford on Friday and Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
STROKALITIS ASKS
 CHANGE IN NAME

Ferdinand George Strokalitis of this city today filed petition in su- perior court asking that his name be changed to Frederick George Stroke. He claims that he is known by that name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a student The reason given for the desired change is that his pres ent name is difficult to pronounce and spell. He was born here March 1, 1914.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
Mortgage Foreclosure
 On Block Sought

Foreclosure of mortgage on a large block at IT Commercial street is sought by the Waterbury Savings Bank in an action filed in superior court today against Amanda A. Car roll of Boston, Maude M. and Maude R. Manion of Torrington, Elizabeth c. Krantz of this city and several others. The action is predicated on an allegedly unpaid note for $25, ,000 executed Dec. l, 1927.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
Full Weather Report

Boston, Aug. F UP)-Weather forecast;
 ONNECTICUT-Pnrt cloudy, probably local showers and thun- der storms tonight md T'hursday. Not much change fin temperature.
 RHODE ISLAND and MASSACHu = SETTS - Partly cloudy. Probably local showers and thunder storms and Thursday. Not much change in temperature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17
NO TYPISTS

Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. 17-(UP)- State Personnel Director Harry W. Marsh had difficulty today finding typists and stenographers to work for $70 month.
 The salary is the top wage for that classification of work and al- though scores qualified in competi- tive examinations they have re- fused to accept jobs, he said.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21
PLANS COMPLETE FOR
PRESIDENTS BALL
Annual Birthday Event
for Crippled Children
On January %

In the selection of an executive
committee, initiatory steps have
been taken for the annual Roose-
welt Birthday Ball to be held at
The Club on January %.
Chairman Calvert K. Hartle has
named the following on the com
mittee: William P. Lane. Jr., A.
K. Coffman, J. Garvin Hager,
Jack Watts, John Hoffman, Roy
Letter, Stuart Bushong, Geary
Porter John B. Ferguson, L. Vim
ton Hershey, Mrs. Brewer L.
Stouffer and Miss Thelma Rus
sell, secretary.
1t is planning having number
of vaudeville acts and also the
presence of a Hollywood moving
picture star, if it is possible for
her to attend
A grand march will be a fea-
ture Of the evening, the event
getting under way at o'clock. Al
Gruber's 7-piece orchestra will
furnish the music.
Tickets this year will be only
81. Seventy per cent of the re
c6ipts of the ball. will remain in
Hagerstown for crippled children
and 80 per cent will go to the
Warm Springs (Georgia) Founda-
ton, established by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt himself
being afflicted some years ago by
infantile paralysis. Warm Springs
has returned many afflicted to
health. The ball is annually held
on the Presidents birthday.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21
BY THE OLD LAMPLIeHTER

One hundred years ago: The
medical college of Virginia is
founded; a branch of the U. S.
Mint is opened at Dahlonega, Ga;
both houses of Congress, pass
Joint resolution repeating the
.'Specie Circulars, May 81; the
Legislature of Pennsylvania pass
es an act for the promotion Of
silk culture, April 2, and the Ma
tional Silk Society is organized in
Baltimore, December II, 1887;
Captain Charles Wilkes, U. S. n,
sails on his famous South Sea ex-
ploring expedition; two steamers,
the Great Western and the Sirius,
propelled exclusively by steam
power, arrive at New York from
London and Bristol, respectively,
and are the pioneers of Atlantic
Steamship travel; the money be-
uueathed by James SmithsoH, of
England, amounting to upwards
of 100000, for the purpose of
founding an advanced educational
establishment in the United States
is received at New York. and with
it the Smithsonian Institute, of
washington, D. c., is created; the
Congress, having ordered a new
set of standard weights and
measures, zinc is used in their
manufacture, for the first time in
the u. S.; solid-head pins have
begun to be manufactured at Bir
mingham, Conn; Charleston, S.
c., is visited by a fire which de-
stroys 1,15S buildings, laying
waste to nearly half the city; 100
persons lose their lives by an ex-
plosion of the boilers of the
Steamship Mosells, while enroute
from Cincinnati to st. Louis; the
manufacture of gold spectacles
and silver thimbles is begun at
Long Meadow, Mass by Diamond
Chandler; patents are granted
Charles Goodyear for making gum
elastic shoes, to Col. Stephen H.
Long, U. S. N, for a suspension
and brace bridge. and to Elisha
R. Root CollinsvilIe, Conn, for a
machine for punching and form
ing the eyes of axes, matches and
hammers; the National expenses
of the year amount to $39,455, 438,
the debt is $4,857, 500, the value
of imports, $113,7174O4, and Of
exports, $1O8,4S6, 616.
The Mormon community at In
dependence, Mo-, numbering r.
600 men and women, is attacked
by the populace, who charge them
with every crime in the criminal
code, their$ printing office is de-
stroyed, several of the Apostles
are tarred and feathered and a
number of the Saints" are killed.
None of the charges against the
Mormons are proven, the majority
are found to be redicilous and
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21
:. HEARD RE.ELEcTEp

G. Edward Heard was elected
for the 10th consecutive year as
president of the First Hose Fire
Company. Other. officers elected
We're: Vice-presidents, Charles
L. sMobley and John Burger;
treasurer, w. Edward. Helmet;
secretary, Ross F. Kountz; stand
ing committee, Edward Oswald,
ST., Charles =, Mabley,< FEagrF e.
Fiery, Hubert H. Schindel and w.
Edward Heimef;s' foreman, Donald
.Maisack, assistant Max Smith ),
chief pipemasn, James Bowman;
assistant .%pipemen, Adrian Buck
ingham, Jack Zellers, Earl Feiser
and Clarence Gossard.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21
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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21

without foundation; nevertheless
so strong is the religious feeling
aroused against the new Christian
sect that they are driven from the
State. Joseph Smith conducts
them to Hancock county, H.,
where they found the city of Maui
VOC.
The following items are taken
from the Free Press. published in
Hagerstown in 1881:
Samuel Ridenour and William
Helmet announced to the public
that they had taken the room be-
longing to L. C. Willis, two doors
from Daniel Flory's Inn. In
Smithsburg, in which to conduct
a tailoring business. A foot note
stated they would receive the
Philadelphia styles regularly.
Henry Fouke, Lewis Zeigler and
Daniel Huyett had been appointed
examiners by the Commissioners
of Washington County, "to meet
upon the premises and enquire
and examine whether the conven-
fence of the public and the neigh
boring country requires thot a
road should be opened from the
61st milestone on the Boonsbor-
ough turnpike to place called
the old Hemp Mill near Winners
Mill, Beaver Creek"
This caption headed the nuptual
records of the paper: woman
is the best gift of heaven to man,
and he who does not accept it
hardly deserves "a seat in Hea-
ven" This headed the obituary
notices: 81 asked, where are
they? An echo answered.
Where!"
died, at his residence in
Roonsborough. DR.. Ezra Slifer, a
respectable inhabitant of this
county. BY this dispensation of
an All-Wise Providence, his fam
lily has been bereft of a tender
husband and father, and society
of a valuable member"
This was the Lords Prayer,
versified for children:
Our Father in Heaven,
We hallow thy namel
Nav Thy kingdom so holy.
On earth be the same
0, give to us daily,
Our portion of bread
It is from thy bounty
That all must be fed.
Forgive our transgressions.
And teach us to knov
That humble compassion
That pardons each foe
Keep us from temptation.
From weakness and sin
And thine shall be glory
Forever Annni
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21

Officers and directors of the
two GreencastIe banks First
National and Citizen and OF, the
Marion Bank, remain the same
as a result of reorganization
meeting, recently held.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-01-21

Octavian Goga, new premier Of
Rumania. A Christian socialist
leader, and an avowed anti-Semitic
politician, GOga was requested by
King Carol 70 form a ministry fol-
lowing one of the most serious cabi-
net crises Rumania has ever faced.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-26
u, S.RET|REMENT
CHANGES URGED

In a room crowded with civil
service workers and Government
labor organizations officials, the
House Civil Service Committee to-
day heard pleas for revision of the
civil service retirement system.
Officials of the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees told
the committee the time is ripe for
revamping the retirement syS-
TEN, pointing out that system Of
retirement is "society's protect
ion"
Luther c. Steward, president of
the Federation. appeared briefly
to introduce the witnesses from
his group.
Representative William I. Siro,
vich CD of New York, member
Of the committee, pointing to the
"pitiful and tragic conditions" OF
Government employees in the so
called higher brackets who retire
on the same annuity as those re
ceiving lower salaries, asked for
passage of his bill providing that
employees receiving more than 81,
400 year be permitted to retire
at one-half of the salary earned
in the last five years of their
service. The committee began q
series of hearings on some 80 re
tirement bills. Representative
Robert RamSpeck CD Ga, com
mittee chairman, announced the
hearings would continue tomor
row.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-26
AAA Revolt
Feared In
Corn Belt

MACOMB, ILL.,, April 26 (I.N.sO
Open revolt against the Federal
crop control measure developed
in several sections Of this State
today and fears were expressed it
might spread like wildfire Just as
the farm holiday movement did
five years ago.
Many corn raiSers were up in
arms at what they termed inter
ference with their affairs. Some
1000 in productive McDonouRh
county alone turned out at a meet.
ing of the newly-organized corn
belt Liberty League, formed to
fight AAA corn allotments,
POLITICS BLAMED
The powerful American Farm
Federation, which supports the
crop measure, branded the whole
movement as political"
From the central offices in Chi.
cago, a spokesman of the fedora
ton said:
This is purely a political
move. Only one sponsor Of the
So-called Corn Belt Liberty
League is a farmer, and that
is its president. So far as we
can find out the league has no
standing, and more farmers have
been signing up with the AAA
since the leagues organization
than did before.
HINTS OF DISSATISFACTION
1.-THE mere fact that the
AAA measure is purely optional
and a farmer can sign up or
not sign up as he sees fit should
be enough proof that any talk
of dictatorship or regimenta-
ton in this case Is nonsense"
But reports of dissatisfaction
over the measure continued. In
Iowa, center of the violent and
protracted farm strike Of 1882
and 1888, AAA officials were
said to be jittery.
But w. D. Klein, AAA chairman
for Iowa, said:
We're not as jittery as they
think. It looks as though more
farmers would come in than last
year."
-VOTR FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL "A.