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Evening star., 1938-11-14

CEDAR CHEsTS-While they last these
genuine cedar chests only Sl7,75; quantity
limited only one 10 customer. No phone
orders or C o D Store open evenings
Green Furniture Co. $500 Georgia ave.
Evening star., 1938-11-14

AMERICAN TYPEWRITER CO.-Rent sell.
repair. Several offered at big reduc.io"s
Also adding machines Away from fhe
high rents Open eve 1431 East Capitol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
7auo Killed, Fiue Hurt h Bath, Maine, Blast
Double Explosion Levels BlOCk=LOng Garage-Win= dows Shattered as Far Away as Quarter
 of Mile-Damage Is $75,OOO

Bath Me, March l - (UP) - A double explosion leveled a block long garage in the business section, killed two men, injured five passers- by and shattered windows within a quarter-mi radius today.
 The Dead
 Henry E. Fuller, 2S, em- ploye.
 Arthur J. Ward, 31.
 Toe Injured
 Harold Roberts, B, internal injuries.
 Edwin Soule, internal injuries.
 Fred c. Hill, interi-a7 injuries.
 Leonard M. Lord, about 60, shock.
 Patrolman Robert D. Green, 25, shock.
 Damage to the building and con- tents, including 40 automobiles, was es mated at $75,000, but this did not de several thousand broken Widows in business blocks and dwellings.
 lllYCStlSdGOlS UCllcNCQ llldU uliSl a mechanic who opened the garage each morning, had entered the two-story brick and concrete struc- ture through the showroom and walked to the rear of the garage, where he apparently threw light switch as he opened rear door. The first blast followed. Fuller as decapitated and his body flung 100 yards across railroad tracks. Ward, an electrician at the Bath Iron Works, had just parked his automobile behind the garage. AS he started across lots to the ship yard, he was caught by the full force of the blast and hurled also across the trsEks.
 Green was returning to police headquarters after completing his night duty. The buttons were blown from his uniform. The other four injured were shipyard workers on their way to work.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
LOCAL JURORS'
 OCCUPATIONS
Insurance Man, Book keeper, Clerk, Salesman
 Among IS Chosen

An insurance man, a bookkeeper, a clerk and salesman are the four Waterbury members of the extraor- dinary grand jury selected today by Judge Ernest A. Inglis in superior court to investigate local municipal affairs.
 The city directory gives the fol- lowing information on the four local grand jurors:
 John H. Flanagan. insurance man, home and place of business at IS Central avenue.
 William H. Mordo, clerk at Laube- Interstate, Inc, home at 215 North Elm street.
 William A. Klebes, bookkeeper at the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, home at 408 Sylvan avenue.
 Fred D. New, salesman for M. J. Daly & Sons, Inc, home at 65 Will low street.
 The only attorney named to serve on the extraordinary grand jury is Carl A. Lundgren, of AnSonia. It is possible that he will be selected to act as foreman of the jury, though States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn of Hartford, assigned here as spe- cial prosecutor, will direct the ex- animation of witnesses.
 If any of the 18 grand jurors named today are unable to serve, Judge Inglis will appoint substitutes in their places.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Federal Competition
 With Business Hit
Bernard M. Baruch in Senate Testimony Today Also Took Slam at New Farm Bill-Blames Present
 Unemployment on Government Policies

Washington, March 1.-(UP)- Bernard M. Baruch, New York fi- nancier and close adviser of President Roosevelt, today attacked government competition with pri- vate business as violation of an essential of recovery" and challenged the administration to enforce anti trust laws by direct action.
 Testifying for the second day be- fore the senate unemployment and relief committee, Baruch suggested that production and marketing of agricultural products be on a free basis. He described the new farm ball as 'an untried plan of bu- reaucratic control of the individual freedom and initiative of 6,000,00O farmers.
 Yesterday Baruch advocated modification of the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes and blamed with regret" present un- employment on government policies rather than on the acts of business.
 Hinting that he was dipleased by recent attacks upon "big business" by Assistant Attorney General Rob- ert H. Jackson and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Baruch told the committee:
 ITO the extent that there are abuses in big o. little business, let us regulate and drive them out of existence. But to reach few male fatcors or a few Chislers who do not accede to the requirements of the general welfare, let us not throw away the benefits of our economy or burn our house down to kill a few bats in the attic."
 Turning to holding companies he said:
 There are some holding com panies in the utilities that result ed in over-capitalization or water ing of value on which they en- deavor to make the pubic pay These things are abuses and should be ruthlessly regulated out of our economy.
 But there are other holding companies that were set up merely tor convenient and legitimate man. agement of purely legitimate busi- ness. Of course they should be SUD- ported and encouraged"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
MARCH

Perhaps never more fOrcibly did the phrase" like li0n' inn press one than on the eve of March 1 when high winds and gales roared a welcome to March. In effect March lived up to it's reputation and came in rather lion like. Will it go out like 8 lamb? is now the question before the house. February, 1888. was, to speak in weather terms, variable. Snow and thaw, rain and fog. Just when it seemed that the finale would be slow movement, fading into diminuendO, came quick accelerated turn-about yesterday, Temperature went down, down. down; and wind went up and up Doors rattled. walls creaked; twigs and branches bent and snapped. At noon yesterday the lion was roaring and so continued to roar through the final hours of Feb ruary into March. Storms swept New England o nthe March eve. Many cities got the wind and the snow. In this locality the snow flurries went with the wind, the latter triumphing in its wild per- fOrmance. March. In like a lion. Will it go out like lamb3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
NAVAL BUILDING
 RACE IS NEAR
Britain, France, U. s. Talk Over Super=Ships to
 Combat Jap Menace

London, March 1-CUP)-Ameri- can, British and French naval ex- pertS started discussion today of the advisability of building super battle ships an dsuper-cruisers as defense measure because Japan refuses to disclose her navy building program
 The discussions, at the foreign office, were informal. But on their result depended, to a considerable extent, a departure into new phase of naval construction, the eXpendi- ture of enormous sums of money and possibly the start of new building race.
 Under their treaty of 1886 the three powers restricted themselves to battleships of not more than 35,- 900 tons and cruisers of not more than 5000 tons. But by an 'escala- tor" clause they may release them selves from these limits for purposes of national security. It was up to the experts to agree whether CD Japan, as some suspect, is building battleships and cruisers in excess of these limits; @ whether they should start building such ships themselves. They might even invoke
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
MONSICNOR BARRY
 IS DEAD IN MIAMI

Hartford. Conn.,, March 1. - (UP) - Funeral arrangements were being made here today for the Rt. Rev. Mons:gnor Michael A. Barry, "A, pastor of St. Augustine church for 36 years, who died late yesterday at Miami, Fla, where he had been va cationing since January.
 The body was to leave Miami to- night, arriving here Thursday morn ing.
 Monsignor Barry was native Of Middletown and was ordained at Worcester. Mass, June 29, 1888. Before being assigned here he served at Wallingford, Middletown, South ington and Norwalk. He founded St, Augustines parish in 1902 and a parochial school in 1928. He was made a Right Reverend Monsignor by Pope Plus XI in June 1883 and was installed at Norwich the same month.
 A nephew. the Rev. Michael P | Barry. West Haven. survives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
LOCAL APPEALS
 IN COURT TODAY
Supreme Court at Hart= ford Heard Three Wa=
 terbury Cases

Arguments in three appeals from decision of local courts were heard this morning in the supreme court of errors at Hartford. The three were heard in consecutive order commencing at 10:30 o'clock.
 The first case heard was that ot Anthony Giancarlo against Theo- dore Karabanowski and others which is the appeal of the plaintiff from & judgment recorded for the defendant in the local superior court.
 Attorney Michael A. Ciano ap- peared for the plaintiff, with At torney Michael V. Blansfeld and Attorney Harry M. Albert for de- fendant.
 Judgment Appealed
 Another plaintiffs appeal from superior court judgment was heard in the case of the Fidelity 6S Cas- ualty Insurance Company of New Work and others against Sears, Roebuck & Company. Attorneys Blansfield and Albert also appeared for this plaintiff, with Attorney William w. Gager on the defense.
 A question of considerable inn portance to compensation insurers is dependent upon the appeal of the defendant in the case of Walter Stulginski against the Waterbury
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
GOLD STAR WIDOW
 DIES OF WOUNDS

Skohegan, Me, March 1-(UP)- A gold star mother, shot twice Jan- uary 3l by her insane husband who then committed suicide, died early today at a hospital.
 Mrs. Georgia Dean, 60, died of perotonitis resulting from tn e wounds suffered when her husband Thomas, 65. fired point blank at her with revolver in their outlying home.
 AS she lay on the kitchen floor, her husband turned the revolver on himself and fired three shots. He died while she crawled to a neigh bor's home to summon aid.
 Police said the husband had been mentally unsound several months and that neighbors had removed a shotgun from his home several weeks before the shooting. He, how ever, had purchased the revolver from a village store a few days be- fore the murder suicide.
 Mrs. Deans only son was killed in the World war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
5OO,OOO GO ON
 RELIEF ROLLS

Washington, March 1-(UP)- The Works Progress Administration announced today that i5 had au- thorized states to begin an imme- diate increase of relief rolls to add 500.000 persons.
 Assistant Works Progress Admin istrator Aubrey Williams said after White House conference that he expected relief rolls to reach 2,500,- 900 this month.
 Officials said most states would in- crease their relief load by Is to 25 per cent this month under the $25O, 100000 additional relief appro- priation passed by congress.
 Relief rolls now contain approXi- mately 100000 names, the highest in almost a year, officials said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
NO DOORBELLS
 CHANGE PROJECT

Boston, March 1-(UP)-Door- bells-or rather a lack of them - plagued officials in charge of the federal governments $6,600,000 Old Harbor village housing project to- day.
 There are 1916 apartments in Old Harbor village-but not 8 single doorbell. And government regula- tions require that outside doors cs the buildings be locked at all times.
 All this was disclosed, by Coun- cilor Robert Gardiner Wilson after an inspection of the apartments, soon to be opened to 40Q0 tenants.
 Tt will be interesting to learn how unexpected company gains ad- mission to see a family dwelling in old Harbor Village" Wilson com- mented. t.,.....
 T assume one must either call up on the telephone, write letter in advance. visit by appointment or de- velop some private call or whistle, as result of which the front door key can be thrown out of the win dow for the visitors use."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
FATHER SEEKS
 SONS K|DNAPER
New Rochelle Lawyer Hopes to Make Contacts
 for Safe Return

New Rochelle, N. Y, March l. CUP)-Murray Levine, prosperous attorney, attempted to negotiate to- day with the kidnapers of his 12- year-old son, Peter, who disap- peared last Thursday and was being held for ransom, reportedly $60,000.
 The Kidnapping was announced of ficially by Philip s. Tilden, director of public safety of New Rochelle, last night on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr, on March l, 1892.
 Peter, a blue-eyed junior high school student, was last seen leav- | ing school, half mile from his fathers handsome wood and stucco home in this suburb of New York city at 3:15 D. m. (EST) Thursday. After a series of denials that he was even missing, police admitted that he had been Kidnapped and that G. men had been notified.
 Levine, desicrbed by friends as well-to-do but not wealthy, opened an avenue of safety to the kidnapers, assuring them that federal and local authorities had promised to permit him to negotiate without interfer- ence The following appeal on his behalf was broadcast by radio over the Greater New York metropolitan area:
 My son, Peter, 12 years old, has been missing since Thursday after noon. I have made every effort to keep this from the public because of my desire to do everything I pos sibly can to meet the demands of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Judge Inglis Ordered Jury Impaneled at Special Session This Morning ALCORN TO CONDUCT
 PROBE HIS OWN WAY Jury Will Be Subpoenaed Today, Tomorrow By
 Sheriff SIavin

Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn will go before a grand jury next Tuesday, March 8, at 10 a. m., and launch an extraordinary in- vestigation "of affairs, not only in Waterbury, but also of matters extending beyond the confines of the city" In a special session of superior court this morning, Judge Ernest A. Inglis ordered the jury impaneled. when Prosecutor Acorn made request for such action. The juryi,nc oishrdlcmfwyppjp
 The jury, including IS men. will be subpoenaed today and tomorrow by High Sheriff J. Edward Slavin and Deputy Sheriff James E. OLeary. Four local men are includ- ed on it.
 Conduct It Own Way
 q intend to conduct this grand jury probe my own way" said Pros- ecutor Alcorn, when asked if he in- tended to follow the procedure of States Attorney Loren M. Willis, who is conducting the Merritt Park way probe.
 twill you go before the grand jury as MT. Willis is doing?" he was asked.
 "Yes, believe I will" was the reply.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
M AN FLOCGED
 FOR HITTING WIFE
Old Maryland Law Invoked Today-PrisOner SObs
 Under Lash

Baltimore, March 1.-UP)- Sheriff Joseph c. Deegan ties Clyde Miller, convicted wife-beater, to a black whipping post in Baltimore city jail today and lashed his back into a mass of red welts.
 Miller, thin, tense figure when he was bound to the post, sagged with every thudding blow of the cat O nine tails and Sobbing means burst from his lips during the last dozen of 20 blows ordered by Judge J. A. Sayler.
 Mrs. Miller, who had sworn that she would witness the flogging and like it, was refused admittance to the jail.
 The flogging of the Baltimore printer was the first time that the old whipping post-part of which dates back to Colonial days-had been used in seven years.
 Miller was convicted of beating his wife after he himself had been mauled in a tavern fight Thursday night.
 Three husky blue-clad guards led him into the great central corridor of the old jail in the Baltimore warehouse district.
 He was slight dark haired and uncomfortable-looki figure as he stumbled through the barred gates of the cell corridor and stood be- fore the whipping post-a thick square stump six feet tall with arms stretching out on each side so that it resembled a crudely drawn black cross.
 A gray blanket across his shoul- ders dropped from his bare back into the hands of a guard. Miller went up two steps to stand against the post, his jaw frightened and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Annual Report Issued FOl= lowing Meeting of
 February 25
NET SALES FOR YEAR
 WERE S34,36O,S5l.77
Net Profit Represents $1.39 for Each of l,O46,
 838 Shares of Stock

The annual report of the Scovill Mfg. Co. to it's stock holders has been issued in printed form. The report, prepared by President Ed ward o. Goss by order of the board of directors, covers the year ending December 31, 1887. The annual meeting was held February 25. Net sales for the year were $34,- 36O,851,77. Manufacturing, selling and general expenses were $2a,365, ,54O98. The net profit was $1,457, ,78267 or $1.35 per share for thu 1.O46,838 shares of stock out standing. Net profit in 1886 was S3,l51,179.79, or $3.61 per share for the 872,367 shares of stock then outstanding. During 1887 there were 14,473 shares of stock issued, the proceeds being used in the retire ment of debentures.
 During the year total of $1, ,429,- COG.5O was spent for additions to plant, property and equipment.
 At the close of 1887, there were 6,538 persons owning stock in the company. This was an increase of 1894 during the year. Of tfiis total, there are 5,158 who live in Connecticut, this being a gain of 1892.
 In closing his report, MT. Goss says: "The efforts of the executive staff in meeting the many trying problems of the year are gratefully acknowledged, and it is most grati- flying to attest to the loyal coope-a- tion of our employees in period of difficult adjustments"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Sensational Charges of Com. Hurley Buried By
 Report Barrage
TRICK PHOTOGRAPHS
 CLAIMS MACDONALD
Hurley's RetOrt Today is to Urge Everyone to
 Visit Merritt Parkway
BY WILLIAM D. CLARK Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)

(ONlCcU fEeSS StdI1 OOETcSpUuucHtJ
 Hartford, Conn.,, March 1. - (UP) - State Highway Commissioner John A. Mac donald today replied with a devastating barrage to the sensational charges of Public Works Commissioner Robert A. Hurley that the roads agency was "Woefully dis organized" inefficient and Wasteful and engaged in con- tract-rigging.
 The Republican commissioner, who has headed the states $2O,OO0,OOO a year department for more than a decade, defended his agency in a 169-page, 60,000 word report to Gov ernor Wilbur L. Cross, which the executive accepted without com ment.
 He prefaced his report with the declaration that q have been reluct- ant to reply to the allegations of the Commissioner of Public Works on the theory that only the truth can hurt and that fiction can safely be ignored. But, having been con- pelled to answer, feel that I must
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
SAILOR JAILED

Boston, March l (UP)-James Clark. 35, dishonorably discharged U. s. sailor of 311 Main street, Galveston, Tex, was sentenced to three months in jail today by Fed eral Judge George c. Sweeney for unauthorized wearing of a Navy uniform. It was Clarks eighth court appearance on such a charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
TWO FIREMEN HURT
 AT DANBURY BLAZE

Danbury, Conn, March 1.-(UP)- Two firemen were injured slightly today when a blaze of undetermined origin swept tie boiler room of q three-story frame building housing the Morlock Machine Works and the Mock Hat Block Manufacturing Go. The damage was estimated at $5000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Mar. 1-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Feb 26th, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year S4,S9O,29l, ,S62.05 $4,745,9S7,S172
 Receipts S3,S44, ,461, ,O3S.64 $2,705,346,41S.4
 Gross Deficit s1,O45,Sso,S23.41 $2,O4o,641,ssS.Sa
 Net Deficit $s9s. .176,67S.41 s1,s65,538. .o9S.S9
 Cash Balance s2,974,160,SS7.50 $1,542.2S2, ,051.4j
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

Murray Levine, top, prominent New York city attorney, who ad- mitted at his home in New Rochelle yesterday that his l2- year-old son, Peter, bottom, had been kidnapped Thursday, Feb. 24, while on his way to the Levine home at II Slocum street from his classes at the Albert Leonard Junior High school. He admitted that federal agents had been working on the case since his sons disappearance but said that they had withdrawn in order to give him a free hand in negOtiat- ing with the kidnapers who de- mand a ransom of $60,000 for the boys release.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

Carl Lundgren, Ansonia. James Guernsey, Ansonia. Arthur H. DOolittle, Bethany. Tyler D. Davidson, Bethany. Herbert H. Tomlinson, Bethany. George Gamble, Derby. George E. Barber, Derby. Robert l. Sanford, Oxford. Robert H. Treat, Oxford. George H. Cowdell, Prospect. Clarence Comforth, Seymour. Clarence F. Baldwin. Woodbridge. William H. Mordo, Waterbury. William A. Klebes, Waterbury. John H. Flanagan, Waterbury. Fred D. New, Waterbury. Raymond F. Stiles, SOuthbury. Emerson Leonard, WallingfOrd.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Alcorn To Go Before It Next Tuesday; Powers May Carry Beyond City
Four Waterburians Selected
 On Extraordinary Grand Jury

The following Is men have been selected mem bers of the extraordinary grand jury which will next week begin broad investigation into the affairs of the City of Waterbury, with possible statewide ramifca tionS:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
The Weather

Generally Fair, Warmer Tonight, Wednesday Full Weather Report Page 2.
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-09

we tell the children that there isn't
any Santa Claus?
Before you decide that important
matter, and don't make the mistake of
thinking it isn't important, suppose
we go to the man whose ideas prob
ably mean as much to the children of
the world as those of any one living
today, Walt Disney.
Lets ask him if he believes in
Santa Claus and what do you think
his answer is?
Certainly, yes
what man or woman who spent a
happy childhood with parents who
told the tales of the fat jolly whis-
kered gentleman who could slide down
chimneys and told it with twinkle in
their own eyes, has ever stopped be-
lieving in him? Of course all of us
somewhere along the line experienced
temporary jolt the way Walt Disney
did when at the age of six he saw his
older brother Roy sneaking the Christ
mas tree into the cellar; but that
hasn't anything to do with one of the
grandest stories that the human race
ever produced.
"What child has been told a tale
that thrilled him more?
"But sadly, literally matter-of-fact
people will solemnly shake their heads
and say, But it isn't true-there just
isn't any Santa Claus and you know
it.
"Do we know it? That is the real
question.
Lets tackle Walt Disney again.
Let's ask him another question.
"Is there Mickey Mouse? Is there
a Minnie, is there a Donald Duck, a
Snow White? Is there Dopey, a Doc,
any of Seven Dwarfs?
"Walt Disney knows that Mickey
and Donald and Pluto are more real
and bring fun to millions more than
he could ever please by going around
the world himself.
"He knows that Heidi and Mowgli
and Uncle Remus and the Wizard of
Or and Pinoccio and Winnie-the-Pooh
and Old Mother Hubbard and Rip Van
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-09

was told that Ferdinand's Poppa was
coming that evening.
81 have seen some disappointed chill
dren in my life, but never one so COM
pletely surprised and detected as Peter
when he saw me! Just a man, as he
put it, with pants on! He had at least
expected me to be led in with ring
through my nose, and my tail switch
ing. You will never convince me that
Ferdinand is not more real to Peter
than can ever hope to be and / am
grateful that Walt Disney has made a
picture that will give Peter more sat
isfaction than a permanent personal