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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
Laboratories Given
20,347 Blood Samples
Only OS5 Per Cent Found Positive or Partially
Positive For Syphilis

OF the 20,347 blood samples re-
ceived at the Bureau of Laborator-
les and the other laboratories in the
state approved by the State Depart
ment of Health for making pre-
marital blood tests, only OBS per
cent were found positive or partially
positive for syphilis, it was an
nounced in the current monthly
bulletin of the State Department
of Health. The statement appeared
as a summary analysis of results of
the second year of testing as re-
quired by the marriage license law.
Testing Figures
The Bureau of Laboratories of the
Connecticut State Department of
Health did the bulk of the testing
with 16,431 blood test examinations
out of the total. The next largest
number of specimens were examined
at Bridgeport Health Department
with 2,049 and Hartford Health De-
partment with 1,084 tests.
Laboratories approved for making
standard laboratory premarital tests
include beside the State Laboratory:
four each in Bridgeport and Hart
ford; three in New London; two
each in Greenwich and New Haven
and one each in Danbury, Derby,
Middletown, Norwalk, Norwich, Pres
ton and Torrington. Two other
laboratories in Groton and Meriden
are also approved for making the
blood tests but their results were not
received for the summary. OF inter-
est in connection with this report
are comparative figures for the two
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
FORDPLANT MUST
RETURN WORKERS

Washington, July 29-(UP)-A
National Labor Relations board
trial examiner recommended today
the reinstatement Of so workers
with back pay at the Buffalo, N. Y,
plant of the Ford Motor Company
and charged that the company had
violated the Wagner Act by dis
tributing written attacks on labor
unions.
In a 62-page intermediate report,
trial Examiner Francis M. Shea as
serted the Ford Company violated
the Labor Relations Act by dis
criminatory discharge of workers
for activity in the United Automo-
bile Workers Of America. and by
spying on union meetings and 9TH
er employe activities.
The report was the fourth time
the board or one Of Its examiners
have ruled against Ford. ss.s d ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
RELATIVES FAIL
TO BREAK WILL

Salem, Mass, July 29-(UP)-His
widow and three daughters have
lost their fight to break the will of
Herbert Bryant Turner, CT, Glouces-
ter photographer and lecturer, who
left $4,000 to his globe-trotting
companion, blonde Mildred Copper
man, 40, Gloucester artist.
Probate Judge John v. Phelan ap-
proved the will despite objections by
Mrs. Avaline T. B. Turner of Brat
tleboro, VT, who was bequeathed
500. and her daughters, Mrs. Inez
T. Harlor of Columbus, O., Mrs.
Julia l.. Shaw of Boston and Miss
Vesta A. Turner Of Barnstablc, who
received 81 each.
Letters read to the court quoted
Turner as saying that Miss Copper
man gave him "the only real hap
piness" he ever knew.
Turner died in Genoa, Italy, last
fall.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

Machine age!" he snaps, with
one Of those quick jerks of the
head and dartings of the eye. ut
hasn't even started yet. We're Just
getting into the machine age.
There isn't any choice about it. In
spite Of all the discussion of it,
people do not realize yet how we'll
they will be able to live a few years
hence, and with how little physi-
cal labor.
But that will require more and
better thinking all along the line.
We must improve people as think
ing beings, as fast as we are i'm
proving machinery. That's our Job,
too, as well as mere mechanical
progress"
A vast body-stamping plant, new
open-hearth steel mills, a huge tire
factory, 122 brandnew coke ovens, a
big new tool and die building-all
these are being, or have recently
been, added to the already colossal
River Rouge plant. How does that
square with Ford's announced de
Capitalization" and village indus
try" plans? To Ford there Is no
inconsistency. He explains:
There are certain elements of a
car which simply must be produced
in large plant, like body stamp
ings and large castings. There are
certain small parts which can well
be produced in small village indus
tries. We are continually selecting
small parts which can suitably +
produced at such plants, for we
have no thought of centralizing all
production at the Rouge.
I'VE like to keep In position
where we could, If necessary, pro-
duce enough of everything we use,
to keep us going in the event of
unexpected interference with our
sources of supplies. And we like
to keep abreast Of the methods
used to manufacture everything
used In our cart serves to keen
our staff on their toes.
1.-THE only thing we insist on
making complete is our engine. For
other things we use the services of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

THE man who says nothing ever
i happens on a farm" certainly
isn't talking about pictures. On al
most any farm. II you keep your
eyes open. you will find enough
snapshot material to keep the cam.
era busy from early morning to late
at highland still not exhaust the
supply.
Farm animals offer scores of pic.
ture chances-woolly lambs in the
sun, hen fussing over her brood
of chicks. cows being driven In for
milking, pigs at the trough Cor their
owner summoning them with lusty
shout), horses drinking, ducks wad.
ding in a line about the yard or
taking an afternoon "cruise" in the
pond.
Work scenes In the field make
excellent pictures, and frssh-plowed
land with long deep burrows Is good
for pattern snapshots. The orchard
in bloom Is scene OF beauty. and all
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

better motors is as certain as to-
morrow, Ford believes. Not as some
great sunburst of discovery, but as
a steady improvement.
II have not the slightest idea of
retiring, or in any way changing
my manner of life," said Ford, as
he passed that 18th milestone.
THAT would be very foolish. I
have no desire to travel or loaf. I
believe the only way to be happy
is to work at the thing you do
best. And I expect to go on work
ing as long as I live.
II have no rules of diet and no
inflexible rules of living. had
buckwheat cakes for lunch today.
I eat what I have found, over
many years, is good for me-and
not too much of it. I almost al
ways go to bed at ten. From that
time to five is enough sleep-it's
enough for me anyway"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
WORK ADVANCING
AT SCOUT CAMP
Executive Council Well
Pleased With Progress
at Plymouth Site

The Boy Scout executive COM
mittee which visited the new camp
site at Plymouth yesterday, was we'll
pleased by the work which has beer
accomplished in clearing of land
and repairs.
After members of the COMMITTEES
had inspected several acres of ths
site, Walter H. Deacon, president of
the council said that the campsits
will be zone of the best in this
section of the country when ths
development work is completed"
The council is now receiving con-
tributions for the development and
the establishment of the camp, il
was announced yesterday. The camp
will be used by boy scouts troops
for brief periods, but will not bs
officially opened until next summer,
according to the committee.
The members Of the committee
who made the inspection, in adj
dition to Mr.. Deacon, were David
Babson, scout executive; Henry
Donahue, assistant executive George
G. Ham, Of Naugatuck; Louis Al
Walsh, Louis j. Hart, and Martin I.
Martus.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

around the house and barn lot there
are details which make pictures.
Get a snap of Grandfather whit
thing, mending . single-tree, or
busy at a whirling grindstone. Pic
ture shady fence corners, old,time
zigzag fences Of laid rails, the bat
tered wooden bucket at the well and
the worn saw-horse or chopping
block in the woodlot. Look for snaps
down by the shady springhouse
and brook. And watch the special
seasons-such as hog.killing time
later on--when there is some I'M.
usual activity to picture.
Yes, there are plenty OF farm
Notwithstanding from calf
being fed from bottle to corn.husk-
ing shots at harvest time and foot.
prints in the snow in winter. You
can point your camera in almost any
direction, and find something. Try
1t. every chance you get, and watch
your picture albums grow!
John van Guildsr.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
a little Gone

little Coue i. >. "The lake of little fishes is what
Indians dubbed Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies,
the usual catch being about onepound. But Joe, the
boatman, has his theory on the subject Joe says
you draw the size of the trout you expect and he cites an
party out one morning catching only the small frsky
trout Presently they joined by Sandy McWhnney,
husky farmer Sandy had been in the habit of hauling
them in around IS 200 pounds away up at Great Slave
Lake "Bet you, Sandy you don't get anything above
pound so, joked his companions Sandy didn't take
them up but the very first flick of his line and 2pound
trout practically hung itself his hook. While the
eyes of his companions popped Sandy regarded his cac
with dead-pan face. "A mnnow," he scoffed rs It
worth taking back? he asked Joe the poatman cor shall
throw the thing away?" He meant it, The 12-pound
trout looked like veritable minnow to Sandy, who
thought in terms of 75-pounders. $50, it's like what
said unused the philosopher Joe you get what you're
after fishing"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

birthday, when Henry Ford was
10, the motor magnate has aged
perceptibly, as who hasn't. The
lines in his face have been etched
deeper, his hair is little thinner
and grayer. But those restless,
darting eyes are as alive, and that
slim fragile body seems as alert,
as ever.
Get up at five or, at the latest
six, in the morning, work hard all
day at the things that interest you,
and then go to bed at 10. That's
Fords secret of youth, and 1t GER
tainly works for him.
Wait until you're rs, and then
see If you can supervise closely and
daily new factory conversion pro-
gram which will total $37, 10000
Oversee at the same time the work
incident to changing over the mod
ell" for next years cars In the
worlds biggest single auto plant;
submit to a score Of demands on
your time for civic celebration de-
clared by the mayor of your home
town in honor of your birthday
and see whether you have enough
to occupy your mind.
Yet in the face of 18th birthday
celebration keyed to the recollec-
ton of things past, Henry Ford
thinks mostly of the future.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

about 5000 other manufacturing
concerns. But all these new en-
terprises serve to keep us from
rusting out, help us to keep at our
best mentally"
Ford had a personal hand in the
development of the rear axle en-
CINE recently patented in the name
of the company. But that is only
one of similar development matters
with which Ford is continually
tinkering today just as he tinkered
with watches and that first car
back in the early nineties. AS long
ago as five years, Ford was person.
ally driving, experimentally and in
side the laboratory, a rear engine
car which steered with all four
wheels. He has at least three rear
engine cars running about now, he
says, but none of them is likely
to see the market soon. But the
development of more efficient and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

Christmas shopping in summer. After reading
what the have in store for the holiday season
their Christmas planning and perhaps shopping now.
Meeting in Boston the toy statesmen took up three
floors the Parker House to show the 1888 styles and
trends 1t is distinctly scientific, although many
old friends return in the form of Teddybears, dolls,
trains, building blocks erection SETS carpenter chests,
etc. Again the militaristc trend is missing. Again
Americanmade TOYS are in the lead. Science sets
are new heavyselIers So trains built to scale and
steam engines
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
RADIO HAMS" SCORE

Rutland, VT. CUP).-Three ver-
mont hams" radio amateur oper-
ators, generating their own power
with aid Of an old automobile mo-
tors, recently set UP radio transmit
ter and receiving sets at Shelburue
Pass and contacted 100 United States
and Canadian stations within 26
hours.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
HENRY FORD SPEAKING---AT rs:
"People Do Not Realize How Well They
Will Live a Few Years Hence---!"
Motor Titan Still Works Hard; Sees
Machine Age" AS Just Beginning
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Detroit July 29-Henry Ford, builder of ,565
tos enters his 10th year with which could scarcely
have been greater the rainy April day in 1893 when he
pushed his first out of the shop and into the street for
tryout
He long through
farming projects hearty
interviewer.
the fields plainly evident
strongly with the immaculate and quite modh ensemble
mauve behind the quiet pepper and salt
In
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

Ray Fitzpatrick and his better half celebrating
three years of matrimonial happiness today. Mrs Ray
is the former Elizabeth Sheehan. Mrs Stella Gouvan
of Park Road is convaescng at her home following an
extended stay at the Waterbury Hospital. Her Buckle
Shop coworkers hoping for her speedy return. St.
Joseph's Orphanage will benefit from the proceeds of
mammoth card party this evening at the Orphanage
grounds at James Place Corporal Knapp and prl-
Yates Manners Callan Kenny, Doyle, Mahan Ventreska
and Walker of Company sending friends their
regards Camp Cross in Mantle postas The boys
are members of the Pony Squad. Betty Short, vaca-
tionng in Atlanta Georgia, says the South is great
country Her treatment there nothing short of wonder
full.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

YOUTH SEEMS FRIVOLOUS AT 10
Salt Lake City (UP).-The trou-
BILE with youth today is that it's too
frivolous, according to Mrs. Sarah
Eggersten Cluff, 10, only living mem
Der of the first graduating class of
Brigham Young University. Young
people nowadays want to play tool
much" she said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
BEER CITED AS PEACE-MAKER

London (UP).-Beer as an instru-
ment for fostering world peace was
recommended by Gen. Sir Ian Ham
llton IN a naddress at Chestnut.
There Is only one way to stop war,
and that is to let the rank and file
meet and drink a glass or two OF
teer together" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
TRAINING TOWER FOR FIREMEN

Toledo (UP).-Firemen here will
train under realistic conditions of
smoke and flame, jumping into nets,
smashing windows, and carrying vic-l
TINS from a new 68-foot training|
tower. Fires, built in the lower part
Of the tower, will accustom the f1edg-
ling fire-fighters to the heat and
smoke.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

Joseph Faressa is passing out cigars since
the Longlegs Stork made him proud papa recently.
The Mrs. presented him with seven pound baby
daughter at the Waterbury Hospital =. Elaine Ric-
cardi of Long Hill Road honors the Tower with
most generous batch of tnfoil. Thanks, Elaine and
call more often . . Ernie Sims of Naugatuck, former
amateur fighter is in the radio business for him
self. Winnie Phelan and Johnny Cavanaugh ring
sided at the Mack-MellOdy 1OrOund draw in Hartford
Monday evening. Johnny Popcha is snug bug
in rug at Saratoga Springs N " where he is vacation
ing for week.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
To days Answers 70
URANIUM CRACKERS
Problems ON Comic Page.

1. False. France recently an
nounced Its intention to abolish the
Devils Island prison.
2. True.
3. True.
4. False. That's was written by
MasSenet.
5. False. "Tort" Is Q legal term.
There Is one piece Of laboratory
equipment called q retort.-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

arranged between is school OF
Great Britain and American schools
in California, Connecticut, Illinois,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, New Jer-
sey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Virginia, Washington
and Wisconsin.
Subjects covered are English, Art,
Mathematics, History, French,
Physical Training, Latin, Physics and
the Classics.
The Union has "a branches In i'm
portant cities of the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

A policemen's darts team oil
Southgate, England, has won twol
silver cups.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.
RED GERAN1UMS
(From Poems Selected by Hazel Felleman)

GERAN1UMS
(From Selected by Hazel Feleman)
Life did not bring silken gowns
jewels for my hair
Nor signs Of tabled foreign towns
distant countries fair,
glimpse, beyond pane green and friendly hl
And red geraniums ahame upon window sill.
brambled Of everyday,
The tiny humdrum things,
bind feet when they would stray
But still my heart had wings
geraniums doomed against window glass,
And low above hill the gypsy wndcouds
And If dreamings neer come true,
brightest and the best,
leave lone journey through
I'll heart at rest,
things friendly hill,
geraniums afame window sill.
Martha Haskell Clark.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29
Holiday for antiquarians.

Holiday for antiquarians Ipswich, Mass. is in
gala attire and mood these days. And all over few
antiques In this instance, though few means many.
In fact the antiques concerned occupy eight buildings in
The Bay State town. They represent rs years collecting
the part the late Ralph Warren Burnham and at
time valued at $4,000 With such collection
the market Ipswich is anything but peaceful little
every section of the country for the Burnham collection
famous The pieces all to be sold at auction this
week. the weeks to the pieces carefully
sorted out and presented the block There's nothing
like the frenzy of antique collector dealer the
scent of longsought piece Ipswich is the end of the
trail for many of them this summer for in the Burnham
collection what they long desired If they can
keep up with the drone of the auctioneer, in this
Walter Nichols famed for rs years in the Boston area,
they'll probably emerge triumphant with their prize
Tpperary. Once all knew it and hummed it.
1t was the popular marching tune of those that
and Tipperary. The lad from Tipperary minded he
messed about in trenches and the firing ne that
it would be lot finer to be looking at his hills of
home across the Tipperary plains The Englishman
grew hOmesck for the rolling English countryside the
busy city with its din and The American vsualized
scrapers of New York, Boston and San Francisco,
again the great open spaces out where the west begins
And all the time any of them popped up
when someone started to whistle hum the old
familiar marching song of the World War written by
Jack Judge of London who died this week at the age
of go in a West Bromwich hospital.
It's long to Tipperary, it's long 60;
It's long TO Tipperay to the sweetest girl
Farewell PiccadiIy; goodbye Leicester Square,
IT,! IT,. ~. long. g.. long . way to to- Tipperay
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-29

BEAR-OIL LAMP FOUND
st. Clairsville, O., (UP)-A bear
oil lamp has been found on the Ed
ward Eckles farm near here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-28
FALLING ORE
 BUCKET KILLS
 WISEMAN MAN

: WISEMAN, Alaska-When an ore bucket fell 90 feet down a shaft of mining property owned by Jess Allen and Kenneth Harvey in the Hammond River district, about IA miles from Wiseman on January 8 Herman Bassi was instantly killed and Mike Angelich suffered broken ribs and severe injuries to his right ankle. The men were at work at the bottom of the shaft at the time of the accident The breaking of the cable of the bucket caused it to fall
 Aviator Herman Lerdahl of Fair banks was in Wiseman at the time and flew MT. Angelich to Fairbanks for medical treatment.
 MT. Bassi, who was known to his friends as Slim is survived by his widow and mother, who live in Ta- coma, Wash.
 He came to Wiseman June 20, 1886, with Alaska Pete' Anderson and Fred Milan. MT Bassi was mining on Minnie Creek, a tribu- tary of the Hammond He was we'll known in Southeast Alaska, where he was engaged in fishing several years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-28
By AP Feature Service

Tine 1937-38 basi,etDan season IS now halfway over. So, some coach es seem to nope, is basketball-as she is played under the new rules.
 These new rules have made the season different They have given the writers a lot to write about, and have brought many new angles into the news reports.
 Perhaps, also, they have encour- aged degree of experimenting. There was, for instance, Coach Mac Pitt of the University of Richmond who decided he would eliminate the baskets His team shoots at black spots on the blackboard, in prac- tice
 No sooner than coach Pitt set the example of breaking into print when Coach Paul Mooney of Col umbia University came along. MT Mooney would leave the baskets, but he'd take away the backboards, thereby putting "a premium on good shooting" It may sound funny to lot of basketball players today, but the pros operated with open baskets about 20 years ago.
 It hasn't been verified, but US
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-28

whispered that, out at Popcorn Gen. ter, Coach Sorrow Fall wanos to eliminate the basketball. His team lost 10 straight games.
 The Old Guard
 There are those who would go back to the old rules. Dr. James Mai smith, the inventor of basketball, doesn't think the game has been speeded up any by the changes, and there are men in accordance with him. One who prefers basketball as it used to be is Chuck Solo- dare. the referee, who would bring back the jump-although he once spent 19 weeks in a hospital after collision on the jump ball.
 Elimination of the jump has af- fected the centers in various ways, and this is brought out by contrast ing the cases of Meyer Bloom, Tenn pie, and of Floyd DeHeer, Iowa's 6-foot, 8-inch pivotman.
 Bloom is thriving Now that he does not have to jump after every goas" reads a publicity release, '.he is a much more active man on the floor
 Hoeer is virtually an outcasC For two years he won basketball
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-28
EIGHT PLAYERS NAMED 10 MAKE
 WESTWARD TRIP
All Star Basketball Com- bination Is Picked
 Last Night

Eight men and two alternates have been picked by City Basketball League managers to form team of All-Stars for an invasion of the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous next month
 Those named subject to change) are Elmer Lindstrom Roy Smith, Dick May, Kinky Bayers, Mark Jen- sen, Claude Erskhie, Sam Nelson and Hub Sturrock. Alternates for the team are Gordon Mills and Stan Hill
 A manager to accompany the team will be named soon. President of the League, Jack Fowler, an nounced last night.
 A week from Saturday night a big fund-raising dance will be held in the Elks Hall to help raise money for the trip. Wes Barrett's band will donate its services for the dance as its contribution to the trip and the Elks have donated the use of the hall for the evening. According to Jack Fowler, tickets will be on sale soon.
 AS another fund-raising program, the All-Stars will be pitted again3, the Crimson Bears on February II to give Juneau fans a chance to See the star combination in action.
 It was also announced last night by President Fowler that "s few bas- kctball players who should have represented Juneau are unable to make the trip"
 Regardless of whether or not a few classy ball handlers could not make the jaunt, the All-Star con- binauon as it now stands, is power ful enough to give any team it comes up against a good run for its money