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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

7:0O-Easy Aces, Comedy Sketch
 Featuring Jane and Good
 man Ace. 7:15-Mr. Keen. Traver of Lost
 Persnos. 7:30-Republican Party Program.
 Political. 7:45-Democratic State Committee.
 Political. 8:30-Hobby Lobby with Dave 8:00-Do- -U-Kno? Quiz Game.
 Elman, Master of Cere-
 monies: Harry Salter's Orch. s:0o-To Be Announced. 9:30-Bridgeport Symphony Orch.
 with Frank Foti, Conductor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
How CD and AD.went after Customers

printed and hired boys to distribute them from house to house. Sometimes they put them under the door or into the mail box but often they threw them on the porch or into the yard, and many were blown away. Also, CD found it was slow and costly way to tell his story, as in whole day boy could cover only few hundred homes.
 OD was disappointed to find that after all this work and expense, only a few more people came to his store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

and Stephen Hero, Violinist. 10:00--Blow-by-Bl Blow Description
 of Henry Armstrong vs. Ceferino Garcia, Walter-
 weight Boxing Bout-From
 Madison Square Garden.
 Reported by Sam Taub and
 Bill Stern. il :00-News Service. 11:15-Weather Service. 12:00-Sammy Kaye and His Orch. Il 1:30-Local News Bulletins. 11:35-Russ Morgan and His Orch. 12:30-Skinny Ennis and His Orch. 1:00-Shep Fields and His Orch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
5OO--WICC-- Bridgeport--6OO

P. M. 4:00-Bridgeport Parade. 4:30-Club Matinee, Variety Pro-
 gram Featuring Orch. with
 Vocalists. 4:45-WICC News and Shopping
 Bulletins. 5:00-Dad and Junior. 5:15-Terry and the Pirates,
 Children's Dramatic Sketch, 5:3O-Don Winslow of the Navy,
 Dramatic Sketch. 5:45-Tom Mix Straight Shooters,
 Children's Dramatic Sketch, 6:O0-News Service. 6:15-Yesterday's Heroes with
 Eddie Casey. 6:S0-Musical Roundup. o:45-Musical Moments Presenting
 James Melton, Tenor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES

The nation will hear two ad- dresses by President Franklin D. Roosevelt over networks of the Ma tional Broadcasting company on Friday. Both broadcasts will be made from the Presidents Hyde Park. New York home. MT. Roose- yelt's first talk-to be broadcast ne- tween 800 and 3:45 p. m, ESI- will be in connection with dedlca- tion ceremonies of the $2OO'OUo memorial to the late Will Rogers at Claremore, Oklahoma. Later speaking as "voter of New York State" the chief executive Will pc heard in a discussion of the torth- coming state elections, and the na- ture of his talk, 1t has been mol- cated. will be of national slgnln- canoe. This address will be broad cast from 7:30 to 800 p. m, EST. NEG will then take the radio audi ence around the nation for tributes by intimate friends of Rogers. Fred Stone, veteran stage and screen star. will speak from Boston; Eddie Cantor will be heard from New York, George M. Conan from Pitts burgh and Irwin s. Cobb from Hol- lywood. Music by the Claremore Military Band will be a feature of the program.
 Marion Barney, who plays the
 mother in Pepper Young's Fam
 fly, over NEG, has been associated
 with the most famous names in
 the American theater during her
 career as an actress. She appear
 ed in New York for the first time
 at the old Herald Square Theater
 in a play called Arizona" with
 Theodore Roberts, Louise Closer
 Hale, Edgar Selwyn and Dustin
 Farnum. She played later in
 "Alexander Hamilton" with
 George Arliss.
 Good News of 1899 will celebrate its first anniversary during the NBC-Red Network broadcast of Thursday, from 800 to 10:00 p. m., EST. The program is an experiment. which quickly took hold with the coast -to-coast radio audience. Be- sides featuring regularly such stars of entertainment as Frank Morgan, comedian, and Fanny Brice in the role of Baby Snooks, the program has paraded past the microphone a host of celebrated film players in dramatic and comedy sketches and ix, Y,o1lciool YorocnVto tiOoc DohoT+ Taylor and Robert Young have all ternated as master of ceremonies, and the music is under the baton of Meredith Wilson.
 The life story of SequOia, the Indian for whom CalifOrnia's
 giant redwood trees were named,
 will be told by the Old Ranger during the Death Valley Days program on Friday at 9:3O D. m., EST, over the NBC-Red Network.
 SsquOia's mother was a Cherokee and his father German trader. He was the first to create an In- dian alphabet. Born in the sOuth- ern Apalachian Mountains of
 Georgia, SequOia early decided that the superiority of the white may lay in his ability to write. He felt that the Indian also should have words that remem-
 ber themselves" and, after twelve
 years of effort, devised symbols for every sound in the Cherokee language. In 1S4S, Sequoia, then an old man of 80 years, left his people 10 teach other tribes an alphabet which would aid Amer ican Indians in communicating with each other. He was never heard of again. Four years later an American bOtanist, Stephen
 Endlicher, discovering that the rcdwOOds were a new genus, named them after Sequoia.
 Anton Dvorak's popular Sym
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

ONE DAY OD came to AID and applied for po- sition. He asked AID how he had built such fine business and obtained so many customers AID said, First, by making the store an attractive and convenient place to shop.
 Second, by having the kind of merchandise our customers want.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
2ss--WTIC--nartford--1O4O

IF. M. 4:00--Backstage Wife. 4:15-Stella Dallas. 4:30--Life Can Be Beautiful, 4:45-Girl Alone. 5:00-Dick Tracy. 5:15-Your Family and Mine. 5:30-Jack Armstrong. 5:45-Little Orphan Annie. 6:00-News and Weather. ! 6:15-Republican State Central
 Committee Program. 6:30-Wrightville Clarion. 6:45--Democratic State Central
 Committee Program. 7:00--Amos m Andy. 7:15-The Human Side of the News
 Edwin c. Hill. 7:S0-1nside of Sports with Jack
 Stevens. 7:45-serenaders with Peg La
 Centra. S:00-One Mans Family. S:80-Tommy Dorsey's Orch. 9:00-Town Hall Tonight. Kyser's Musical Klass
 and Dance. 11:00--News and Weather. Il 11:16-Johnny Messnef's Orch. Strings--WTIC
 String Ensemble-Moshe
 Paranov, Director. SOsborne's Orch. 12:s0--Lights Out-Drarna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

OD found that so few people came to his store that his goods moved very slowly. He could buy very little new stock because his money was tied up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02
How OD and AID Opened their Stores

as possible in fixing up his store. He said he was not going to "waste" money on trick lighting" and "fancy front" He sought large quantities of a few lines of merchandise, because that way he got them cheaper.
 Then he put an assortment of his goods into the windows, but because he had done so Eak to make his store at tractive, tev people noticed that it was a new store, and tes0 came in to buy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

CD believed that the way to get cus- toners was to sell at low prices, and that the way to sell at low prices was to keep his expenses down. So he spent as little
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-02

Anton Dvorak's popular Sym
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02

four shots into her back, leaped over her body as she fell dead, fired once at his father, and disappeared into the night.
 McBrien reportedly was incensed at family efforts to send him to a mental institution, in which he was confined for month in 1886. He held a special enmity towards Eliz- abeth, the family said.
 The search for the perfect hide out" began when it was learned McBrien once lived in an isolated shack at Holland Lake. Mass. It was practically inaccessible, friends said, adding the man kept many firearms there. The shack was de- stroyed by fire recently.
 McBrien, at one time, had a room at Middletown, police were in- formed, and search for hide-out was started at Haddam, an adjoin- ing town along the Connecticut river.
 The weapon McBrien allegedly used in the staying was found by police on a lawn near the shooting scene. Five bullets had been fired
 Authorities watched especially for a green coupe McBrien was re- ported to have purchased at East Hartford Saturday, less than 1a hours after the shooting.
 He was said to have driven tlse machine into Hartford and passed within two blocks of the police sta- ton at the height of the search for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
GERMAN BUND IS
 GROWING STRONG

Andover, N. J., May 2 - (U.P) = The German American bund, claim ing "the sole right to guide and lead" German Americans in this country. Is gaining strength daily, Fritz Kuhn, its national leader. said today.
 Tn the next six months" he said, the German Americans in this country will be united as never be- fore in the bund. The bund will be more stable and will become stronger economically. We will con- tinue to fight for a better and hap pier America because America is now our homeland. by our own choice"
 Kuhn, who resectnly returned from visit to Germany, told 4,000 Nad sympathizers at a May Day celebration yesterday that Austrians were happy and pleased" over the annexation of their country by Ger many. M Ns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
Cop Hating Killer Slayer or Sister Hunted h Conn.

Hartford, Conn.,, May 2-(UP)- Special details of state and local po- lice hunted in Connecticut's hills today for the perfect hide-out" of which an eccentric "cop-hating" kill Ter. object of a nine-state search, often boasted.
 The man sought was Vincent Mo- Brien, 26, baby-faced brother of a local traffic policeman, who al- legedly slew his sister with a re- volver Friday night and narrowly missed killing his father when he went to her assistance.
 Homes of eight families here and in West Hartford, known to be ob- jects of enmity by the man, were guarded by police. State police sent special details to cover all state highways in the search for Mo- Brien, known to be heavily-armed and with a "grudge" against the world.
 His parents told police Vincent frequently gave them trouble. re- fused to work, demanded money, and held to all attitude that he didn't ask to be born
 One of McBrien's friends said he often spoke of Jumping guys off. 7 walked jauntily and usually main tained a sheer on his face.
 According to members of the Nc Brien family, Vincent returned home Friday and demanded $6O00, When his sister, Elizabeth, 35, turned to leave the room he fired
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
$3Sl,OO0 TAXES
 PAID SATURDAY
First Installment Collected By Collector Ennis Up
 to NO0utinle

Payment of the first installment of taxes due May l, amounted to $38l,0UO on Saturday morning through until noon, Collector Will liam A. Ennis reported today. He re- marked that the payments are con- ing lin rapidly and that many large taxpayers are taking advantage of thef savings to be effected by paying both their May 1 and October n- stJallments at one time.
 / In the event the total of taxes due is paid now. there Is saving at the irate of 4 per cent per annum on the number of days between the pay ment and October l. The period for payment without penalty of interest for this installment is through the month of May.
 The collector reported that liens have been placed on 1.706 pieces of property today. These attachments arc for non-payment of taxes on the 1886 list and the number of liens placed is 69 less than the number placed at this time last year on property for which the 1885 taxes were due.
 To release the liens requires pay nent of $3.75 as noted in the warn ing issued by the collector last month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
$l5O,OOO Poker Game WiH Be Played Ouer h Court

king and another jack. Brice said he remembered no pot that amounted to more than $40000.
 Present at today's gathering will be Clifton, a wealthy young sports man who writes poetry; Brice, for mer vaudeville star: Tommy Guin- ana, brother of the late Texas Guin- an of the night clubs, and the other two players, George Lewis and Jack Reynolds.
 The original game was played a week ago in an apartment in Long Beach, it came to the district attOr- ney's attention when CliftonS at torney, Jerry Giesler, obtained a court writ of attachment and in- junction to stop payment of Cliff tons hcecks.
 Tt was all quite jolly" Clifton said
 They started a friendly game with a 50-cent limit. The stakes rose. Or the third hand of stud. Clifton said he had king in the hole, and witlI the Jack showing he oct $50,000 Only Brice stayed. He had nine showing. a seven in the hole, Slif' ton said. 4
 When Lewis finished dealing, Crf ton had two kings and two jacks Brice. according to the court suit had a pair of sevens until the las card. It was seven, he won the DO with three sevens.
 q thought it was an amazing bi of luck when the chap turned u that last seven," Clifton said. !" really did"
 The next day. Clifton said, friend told him that he ha been given ride" He hired an attorney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02

Hollywood, May 2.-(UP)-They are going to play that $l5o,o0O poker game over today, in the office of the district attorneys chicef investi- gator. This time there will be just cards, no money. Investigator John Klein is going to try to establish ju~t how it was-and what the game was in which Lew Brice. brother of the movie comedienne, Fanny Brice, won a pot to which Harry T. Cliff ton, Isle of Islay, England, said he had contributed $150,080. Clifton told authorities he had been threat enede with physical violence and the district attorneys office assigned a detective to act as his bodyguard. There were several questions for Klein to settle, among them, these:
 1. Whther the game was stud or draw. If it were draw, Brice may have had a legal right, according to a recent ruling of the state attorney general, to the money. Stud poker is considered gambling in California the attorney general said draw wasn't.
 3. Whether Brice held just three sevens or a full house. Clifton said that Brice drew a third seven on his last card beating pair of jacks and pair oi kings. Eric, said that he had full house, that if he had had only a pair of sevens he would not have called Clifton's bet. particularly when Clifton had pair of jacks showing.
 3. Whether Brice wo $40,000 oi $150,O8O. Clifton said that he bet $50,000 when he had . king and jack and $100080 when he caught another
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
POLICE CHANGES
 ARE TO CONTINUE
Expected That at Meeting of Board Today More
 Will Happen

A shake-up in the police depart ment, begun last Friday with the retirement of veteran captain and the promotion of five men, was ex- pected to be continued this after noon at meeting of the board of police commissioners. Mayor Frank Hayes indicated Friday that 9 patrolmen would be appointed this afternoon. In addition, some sources predicted more retirements and pro- motions but no official confirmation of this report could be secured.
 The men to be made regular patrolmen have all been doing supernumerary duty. Their ap- pointments were expected Friday, but at the meeting Mayor Hayes said it had been impossible for the police surgeon, pr. E. E. Fitzpatrick to examine them all. He suggested an adjournment to later date, and the board voted to meet again at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
 What Happened Friday
 On Friday the board granted the request of Captain Hugh Flaherty for retirement on half-pay. Lieut.. John V. Leary was promoted to cap- tain. Patrolmen Patrick Hobart and Ernest Pakul to lieutenants, and Patrolmen John Mates and Anthony Mariana to sergeants. Retirement of Captain Flaherty and the five promotions become effective May l5.
 Among those most prominently mentioned as receiving appoint ments as regulars today are Super numeraries James Wagner, Ray mond Grady, Ralph Belloisy, Don aid Hart, Joseph Tierney, Anthony Mole and William ODea.
 Others mentioned as probable ap- pointees are James Stack, George Roberts, Gordon Jones, John Walsh and Rufus Chapman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
More Bank Transactions Have Been ImpOunded
 By Aides of Acorn
CONFISCATE RECORDS
 OF LOCAL TRUST co.
Seek Payments Made By City to Individuals in
 Concerns

Checkup of every business transaction involving city funds during the past eight years has been started by assistants to Special Prose- cutor Hugh M. Alcorn and the Waterbury extraordinary grand jury. City records of the transactions are incom- plete because of various books which mysteriously disappeared from the con- troller's office.
 More bank records have been in- pounded by the Alcorn aides and apparently they will be used as means of reconstructing that por- tion of the picture which has been obliterated by the missing city records.
 It was learned from reliable source that on Saturday afternoon Detective George L. Greer confis- cated records from the Waterbury, Trust company, which include the. daily working sheets for tiae bank for the past eight years. IA daily working sheet includes every trans action completed by the bank during that specific day. Records have been in1pounded at the Citizens and Man. ufacturers' National bank, the Col onial Trust company and several
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
Three Catholic Nuns Attacked dNearChur
Bishop Francis P. Keough of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral of Providence, K. l., Reveals It;
 Veil Torn Off One of Sisters

Providence, R. l., May 2-(UP)- Governor Robert E. Quinn and May or James E. Dunne of Providence today joined investiga tion of an at- tack on three Catholic nuns outside Sts. Peter and Paul cathedral.
 Bishop Francis P. Keough blamed "boring-in" campaign of commit nists for the attack, in which a woman tore the veil from one nun and forced two others to seek refuge in a nearby automobile Saturday.
 Quinn pleGged cooperation of the state police in investigation of the attack.
 Woman Must Be Found
 Rhode Island and Providence will not tolerate this sor- of tactics" he warned. This case will be sifted to the bottom. The woman who made that attack must be found" If com munists were found to have inspired the attack, the governor said, he will do everything in my power to stamp out such radical terrorism. " Dunne said he had ordered Public Safety Commissioner Joseph Scun- cio to make an immediate investiga- ton. He theoriZed thL woman may have been insane.
 At Boston, William Cardinal o. Connell, archbishop of Boston and longtime foe of communism, de- clined to comment.
 Bishop KeOugh Reveals It
 Bishop Keough disclosed the at- tack within the shadow of my ow1, cathedral during a talk before the Rhode Island Union of Holy Name Societies.
 While communists are not attack ing the church directly. the bishop said, they are boring in" by attack
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
ROME PREPARES
 TO GREAT HITLER
National Holiday Is Pro- claimed for Tuesday;
 Miles of Decorations
By STEWART BROWN

United Press Staff C0rrespOndent
 Rome, May 2-(UP)--Rome com pleted its preparations today for the state visit tomorrow of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, Berito Mussolnis partner in the Berlin Rome axis of cooperation.
 Tomorrow was proclaimed na- tional holiday in Hitler's honor, and the decorations, on scale of which Hollywood never dreamed, made 1t clear that Mussolini was determined to impress Hitler with as gorgeous a show as has ever been arranged for state visitor.
 Italians gazed entranced at the four solid miles of decorations along the route which Hitler will take. on his arrival by special train at 8:30 D. m. tomorrow. (3:30 p. m., EDT) from the new St. Paul's station to the Quirinal palace where he will stay as the guest ot King Vitcor Emmanuel.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
Carrying of Concealed Weapons Also Will Be
 Added to Charge HAS PLEADED NOT
 GUILTY TO BOTH Shooting Occurred on Bank Street, Sept. IA
 of Last Year

States Attorney Lawrence L. Lewis will prefer charges of assault with intent to kill and carrying a concealed weapon against Michael Car osella, 59, of North Main street, in Superior Court to- morrow m orning at 10 o'clock. Judge Ernest A. In- glis and a jury will hear the trial.
 Carosella, accused of at- tempting to kill former Constable Frank DeSomma, has pleaded not guilty to both charges. He is repre- scented by Public Defender William w. Gager.
 The shooting occurred on Bank street the morning of September IA 1887. after Carosella had allegedly borrowed money from DeSomma. Al the time of Carosella'S arrest, it was said that DeSomma had given him 30 cents. but that the man had de- manded more, claiming a debt was owed him. Both men had guns, ano at least one shot was fired by each.
 Between Life and Death
 DeSomma hovered between life and death for four months at St. Mary's Hospital as result of the bullet which entered through his back into his abdomen. He has ap- parently fully recovered. however, and will be used as key witness by the state in attempting to gain a conviction.
 Other witnesses will include Off, cers Joseph Dwyer and Patrick Hughes, who were first to reach the scene of the shooting; Chief InSpec-
 Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02

Italy, were emphasized-elaborate decorations, staged spectacles, pa rades, and naval review. It was stressed that this was visit of friendship and that no agreements or treaties were in prospect.
 But the feeling was strong, how ever, that Hitler would want to find out as much as he could about the recent treaty of friendship be- tween Italy and Britain, about the prospective Italian-French treaty, and about the feeling of Mussolini toward the British French alliance.
 Mussolini, in turn sougt to know more about the possible meaning to Italy of Hitler's absorption of his native Austria.
 Will Test Each Other
 Thus visit arranged some months ago as one of pure friendship, in re- turn for MuSsolinis visit to Ger many, gave prospect of being one during which Hitler and Mussolini would test carefully, each for him. self, the functioning as of today of their Axis" of cooperation.
 To insure fitting send off for tue Fuehrer, the government ordered flags flown from all public buildings today and it was made known that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
WILLIAM J. COX
 BEGINS DUTIES
Yale Engineering Profess sOr Assumes Head of
 State Highway Dept.

Hartford, Conn, May 2.-(UP)- William J. Cox. Yale engineering professor, today took over active ad- ministration of the $20,o0o,0o0 year state highway department and was introduced by the governor to mem bers of his cabinet. An informal conference was held at the office of Gov. Cross, attended by Cox, Fi- nance Commissioner Edward F. Hall. budget director. Benjamin P. Whitaker, purchasing director Ed ward Geissler, personnel director, Harry w. Marsh and the governors s Executive Secretary Philip Hewes. The governor remained until it was time for him to attend the semi annual session of the board of par dons at states prison.
 Press Conference
 Later in the day, 1t was an- nounced by Hewes a press confer ence would be held by Cox who might outline the policies he would pursue and give some intimatoin whether there would be changes in the administrative division heads of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-02
1.soo DYERS sTRIK'

Providence, R. l., May 2-(UP)-- Some l,500 dyers in eight Woonsock- ct plants struck today in protest against a 12 l-2 per cent wage re- duction.
 Four of the plants, devoted ex- clusiyely to dyeing. closed immedi- ately and the other four were .x- pecte1 to close later today, forcing 5n, more emploves ont Nf uor@