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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18
BADMINTON PIONEERS

The oldest existing padminton club in the world, the Badminton Club of New York, was founded in 1878 by E. Langdon Wilks and Bayard Clark, who had discovered the game while visiting in England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18

FLORENCE BIRMINGHAM Boston leader wrote in The
 Waterbury Democrat that the Working Wife menace ciety Edwna Austin prominent Washington attorney replied life marriage itself will be threatened ban the employment Todayin the last of three subjec-John writer busi impary looks the question economic prob
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18
BY JOHN T. FLYNN Written for NEA Service)

THE movement to restrict by law and by policy the employ
 ment of married arises entirely out of the homie situation The out of work who his neghbor and his wife both employed feels-que humanythat some sort of injustice is being done to him.
 agitation originates
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18
AnssOers To
 Test Ouesfions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
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Questions on Comic Page

l. Vouch plus safe squalls vouch- safe.
 ?. Cage plus brush equals sage- brush.
 3. Welter plus weight equals wel- terweight.
 4. Punch plus con equals punch- con.
 WEALTIEST JOCKEY Sonny Worl man is credited with being the richest jockey in racing to-day, as result of wise invest- ments in Washington, D. C., realty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18

Singapore. Maiaya, is to have . block of noderp tenelnent fah.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
LEGION IS SET
 FOR CONVENTION
Bridgeport Host to 2lst Annual Session; Legion
 Program Stressed

Bridgeport, Conn, July 26.-(UP) -Legionnaires began pouring into the city today for their 21st annual convention which opens tonight and concludes Saturday with a parade in which 1t has been estimated more than 5000 will be in the line of march.
 Simultaneous sessions will be held by the legion, its auxiliary, and 40 and and the 8 and 40.
 Meetings of the executive commit tee were scheduled for tonight, and the formal convention opening to- morrow.
 Department Commander William c. Kruser, Torrington, said We have plenty of time to play and we intend to do so, but business must come first"
 Concerning the activities of the legion, Kruser said, ITO few people actually know what we try to do because they do not have ways of securing information concerning our program. We are mighty proud of our yearly program. It is anything but a selfish one. We do every thing possible for the disabled vet- erans, the widow, the fatherless child and the orphan. We ask no payments for anything we do. In- stead, we wish we could do more for the coming generation because when we are gone we want to go feeling that the coming rulers of this country have the same high ideals that we feel we now have. We want to know that America Is going to be in safe hands for the generations that are to follow. That is why we are so interested in our sons and the youngsters of today"
 Kruser said the legion believed in "adequate national defense" and sufficient armaments assuring "the people of this nation that they need have no fear of a possible invasion by any other nation"
 l Talk of war, he declared sounds 1 foolish" at this time. "Who could possibly believe that any man who went through the World War would want to do so again, or send his own son or the son of his neighbor? The fact is our one million members will do everything possible to see to it that never again will any American boy be called upon to fight on foreign soil. Defend our own shores? Yes, to the last drop of our blood"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
MISSION WILL | GO TO MOSCOW
Britain Reported Ready to
 Send Military Group to | Talk Alliance
BY FREDERICK KUH

London, July 26-(UP)-The ca- binet was reported to have approv- ed at it's meeting today @ plan to send a British-French army, navy and air force mission to Moscow, to negotiate a military alliance with Russia.
 A Russian spokesman said that general staff talks would be the real test of the strength of an alliance.
 Roles of the British, French and Russian armies, navies and air forces in the event that Poland was involved in a war over Danzig would be discussed at the Moscow confer ence.
 Reports in reliable quarters that Viscount Halifax, foreign secretary, had told Russian ambassador Ivan Maisky that Britain intended to dis- patch high ranking army, navy and air force officers to Moscow soon were supplemented by assertions that a. joint British French mission would be sent to discuss defense.
 The result of the reports was a surge of hope in London and Paris that an agreement to include Rus- sia in the peace front" could be concluded soon.
 Agreement by Britain to discuss defense problems was. 8 big conces- sion to Russia.
 Russia had long insisted on such conferences; Britain had held back, desiring to conclude an anti-aggres- sion agreement first.
 It was understood that premier foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mo- lotov told the British and French ambassadors, at a conference at Moscow Sunday that Russia might be more willing to accept the Brit ish-French definition of what would constitute indirect aggression against a Baltic state if the general staffs could begin consultations at once, to prepare 8 military conven- ton which would bs signed simul- taneously with 8 political agree ment.
 There was a meeting here today, attended by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Admiral Lord Chat field, minister for defense co-or- dination; Leslie Burgin, minister of supply; Earl Stanhope, first lord of the admiralty; Leslie Hore Belisha, was minister; Sir Kingsley Wood, aid minister; Gen. Viscount Gort, chief of the imperiar general staff, and air chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, air force chief of staff.
 It was believed now that this meeting had dealt with Molotov's suggestion and that 1t was agreed to send a general staff mission to Mos- COW. Yesterday an official spokes- man had said that Britain had gone 95 per cent of the way to meet Rus- sia's views.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
FRANCIS MURPHY
 ACCEPTED AS COB

Francis Kenneth Murphy, son of MT. and Mrs. James Edmond Mur- phy of 9 McGuinness avenue, Tor rington, was examined and enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the U. s. navy at the recruiting station in the Post Office building in New Haven yesterday.
 He was one of several successful candidates from various parts of the start. For the next three months he vii lbe stationed at the naval train- ing station in Newport, Rhode Island, where he will study the funda- mentals of naval education. After wards he will be assigned to a trade school or ore of the ships of the U. s. fleet.
 Murphy is graduate of the Tor rington high school. His brother, James Murphy, Jr., is a private in the U. s. army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

another great original literary genius to add to the splendid list of immortals with Irving, and Cooper, and Poe, and Bryant, and Hawthorne, and Longfellow, and Emerson, and Whittier, and Low ell, and Hale, and Thoreau-all products of the first century of the Grand Republic. So in '69 the homes of the American people were richly supplied with reading matter, not only by our home tal- ent but fresh from the pens of Charles Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Thackery Read, Wilkie Collins, Tennyson, Victor Hugo.
 It may be interesting, too, to re- call the "songs" of 70 summers ago. To the credit of our people then and now, Stephen Foster holds first place in the universal affection of young and old alike. Old-timers have been pleased to hear the radio" reviving so many of the old songs. But there are two pop ular songs of '69 that I haven't heard for many years. One was "Three Fishers" that at least one girl in every family specialized on: "Three fishers went sailing out
 into the west,
 Out into the west as the sun
 went down; Each thought on the woman
 who loved him the best,
 And the children stood watch
 ing them out of the town" Of the other song, all can re- member is:
 "We gather shells from youth
 to age,
 And then we lay them all
 aside"
 And as '69 was less than five years away from the Civil war, of course no singing occasion was complete without
 "Tenting tonight on the old
 camp ground"
 and
 John Browns body lies
 mouldering in the ground
 But his soul goes marching
 on."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
HEAVY ELECTRIC
 STORMS IN MASS.
Inch of Rain FalIs-Hail. stones Do Damage-5
 Persons Injured

Boston July 26-(UP)-Five per. sons were injured and 10 buildings struck by lightning yesterday during severe electrical and hail storms which caused thousands of dollars damage in central and eastern Massachusetts parched by 26-day drought.
 Though leaving over an inch oi rain in those sections, the storms brought little relief. The weather bureau forecast fair and continued warm weather today, with possible showers tomorrow.
 Large hailstones smashed thou sainds of windows, and added to the damage of crops, buildings and tele- phone and lighting systems.
 The storms were followed on the coast by fog, which hindered sea air. and highway traffic.
 The rainfall, slight in Boston failed to extinguish fire which started Sunday in suburban Nor wood peat bogs.
 At Marlboro, four young persons were stunned by a lightning bolt which struck a tree under which they sought shelter. Rita White, 16 most severely injured, was reported recovering satisfactorily at hospital today. Her companions received medical treatment.
 Mrs. Christina Welch, 69, was stunned by lightning which struck her home at Natick where three other houses were hit.
 Sweeping Dover and Medfield, the hail storm broke over 120 windows al Medfield state hospital and shredded two automobile tops.
 Striking 65-foot chimney at tho Ashland high scholo, lightning free the building. Custodians quilled tht blaze after disrupted telephone serv. ice prevented them from notifying the fire department.
 Birmingham, Clinton, Sherborn Westboro, and Fitchburg reported widespread age. Hailstone! shattered about 1,500 window pane. of residents and greenhouses 1T  South Birmingham, and about 500 panes at the women's reformatory in adjacent Sherborn.
 Three airplanes at the Framing ham airport were damaged by hail stones. And various manufacturing plants throughout the area suspend ed operations temporarily when power service was disrupted.
 Heavy damage to the apple crop was reported at Sterling, containing some of the largest orchards in Nashoba valley.
 The scattered storms dodged for est fires at Athol and New Salem.
 Meanwhile, forest fire conditions were becoming critical in New Hampshire where authorities closed the state reservation picnic area on Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
VESSELS GROUND
 IN PEA-SOUP FOG
Coast Shipping in Massa- chusetts Delayed Dur-
 ing Night

Boston, July 26-(UP)-Four fish ing vessels grounded and several other boats, including two coastwise passenger steamships, were delayed during the night as soup fog blanketed the Massachusetts coast
 The Boston Trawler Boston Col lege and an unidentified smack were floated unassisted by the rising tide after grounding off Spectacle Is- land in Boston Harbor.
 The Adventure II, inbound from fishing grounds, struck a submerged ledge off the navy drydock at South Boston. It, too, was floated unas- sisted. The schooner Queen Mary" similarly floated with the rising tide after grounding 1-2 miles off the wood end coast guard station at Cape Cod.
 The Eastern Steamship Lines s. s. Boston, bound from New York, docked here two hours behind schedule. And the Merchants & Miners s. s. Berkshire from Phil adelphia was delayed about six hours in the Cape Cod canal.
 Two freighters, the City of Atlan- ta. from Georgia, and the Juniata, from Norwolk, Va, similarly were delayed.
 The Black Gull, New York freighter in Transatlantic service coming here for cargo, was trapped by fog yesterday near the Buzzards Bay entrance to the canal. Tenn porarily clearing conditions enabled the freighter to proceed, but as fog again closed in the vessel anchored off Graves light here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
Road To Boys Scout
 Camp Being Repaired
Group Puts in Three Hours of Hard Work This Morn- ing Troop C. Entertains at Campfire

Boy Scout camp at Plymouth, which until now has been in barely passa- ble condition.
 The scouts and scouters worked from to a. m. on the road, as part of the central district scouters' project. Buell. Webster is planning to organize group of scouts among those now staying at the camp, to finish the work on the road.
 Yesterday group of the scouts cleared better trail from the head quarters tent to the other parts of the camp, and also put in some good work on clearing away brush down by the waterfront. It is quite evil dent that although the scouts are at camp for a vacation and good time, they are not averse to putting in some of their time on hard man. ual labor, so that by next year the camp will be able to run at full tilt. Inasmuch as there are now 60 boys staying the camp, it seems that great strides forward ought to be taken his week.
 No report has as yet been received as to the result of the testing of the water of the new well in the state laboratories, so Scout Executive David F. Babson Is still loading his car with milk cans full of water every time he goes up to Camp Mat tatuck which is very often these days.
 Provisional Troop D was the guest of Troop c at fine campfire last evening. J. Milton Burrall, Jr., chairman of the camp committee, visited the camp, and expressed his approval of the progress that is being made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

Fred Smith, chairman of the or- ganization committee of the. Matta- tuck council of Boy Scouts and mem Der of the committee of troop p; Irving Spiers, scoutmaster of troop 2; Buell. Webster, assistant scout master of troop T; Frank Schwartz
 central district commissioner, to- gether with Scouts Smith and Web ster this morning put in three good hours of work on the road to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
LOYAL SECRETARY
 INHERITS BUSINESS

Cambridge, Mass, July 26-(UP) A loyal woman secretary will in- herit the insulated wire-cable busi- ness developed during the past 50 years by the late Frank. M. Perrin of Newton, according to his will on file in probate court today.
 Miss Mary A. Brennan, 59, of Dor- chester was Ferrin's secretary A years until his death July Is at the age of 73.
 Requests also included $400, ,000 ul- timately to be distributed among some 40 charitable and educational institutions: $25.000 to employees; an dover $l0,000 to Natick institu- tions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
GREYHOUND TO
 TRY FOR RECORD

Old Orchard Beach, Me, July 26- (UP) - World champion trotter Greyhound races against time in an attempt to shatter his own record of minute, 55 IA seconds, in a mile exhibition which will feature the final week of grand circuit harness racing here tomorrow.
 The famed grey ghost" also will try to break the fastest mile of 1855 at either gait which is held by Billy Direct. If track conditions are favor able.
 The big grey gelding set the pres ent old Orchard trotting mark of 2:0i four years ago and lowered it unofflcially to l:58 IA in a workout two weeks ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
Stock Leaders Show
 Small Noon Losses
Market Moves Irregularly in Moderate Turnover;
 SeIective Buying Moves Many Issues Upward

New York, July 26.-(UP)-Stocks moved irregularly in moderate turn over today. Most leaders registered small losses around noon.
 Selective buying carried many issues upward and several made new highs for the year and longer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
BY MERRIMAN SMITH Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent)


 Gainesville, Ga, July 26-(UP)- Two historians announced today that they had solved the 350-year- old mystery of the disappearance of Virginia Dare, first white child born In North America, and the other members of the Host colony" of Roanoke Island.
 Dr. H. J. Pearce, President of Breanu College, and his son, Dr. Haywood Pearce, of Emory Univer- sity, had discovered on a wooded hill near Greenville, s. C., 13 rudley carved slabs of granite and sand stone. These, the historians said, ap- parently marked the graves of GA members of the colony whose fate has been question mark in history. The reason they thought so was because names and messages had been carved in some of the stones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

Among them were American Stores at l4K up IS: Anchor Rocking Glass 24N up K; Dome Mines 34 uph; General Mills 9Sh up h; Nor- walk Tire 5K up X; Norwalk pre- ferred 43h up 3h; Pathe Film l2% up 1; and United Fruit @ up 1. Interborough Rapid Transit made a new low at 3h off 2&.
 Chrysler was at 8lh off %: Gen. eral Motors 47A up #: Bethlehem Steel 63 off X; Q. s. Steel SEA- off K; Anaconda 26%. unchanged; !; Santa F'e 2oK off M: Standard Oil of New Jersey, 42h off %: and U. s. Rubber 45K off %.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
TREE CUTTER DIES

Greenwich. Conn.,, July 26.-(UP). Thomas Strazza, 56, who was crit ically injured July 22 while cutting down a tree with two other work men. died today at Greenwich hos pital. Strazza suffered compound fractures of both legs and pneu- monia set in several days ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
WOMEN EAGER ANGLERS

Warsaw, Ind. - (U.P.) - With a new state law providing 50 cent fishing licenses for women. Clerk Orvel Phillips and his staff have been swamped filling them. Phillips said most of the women were past 60.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
INSIGNIA BANNED

The New Jersey Boxing Commis- sion has adopted c rule prohibiting fightege from wearing the Star Of David. the Shkmrot or any other insignia embroidere don their
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
PIPES OFFERED BEERY

A Pennsylvania fan wants to sell Wallace Beery his collection of Meerschaum pipes. which he asserts are the finest in the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
TAX DISPUTE ENDS

Washington, July 26.-tUP) .-The estate of George B. Alvod. West Hartford, Conn, has settled Q tax controversy by agreeing to pay $407.- 279 additional estate taxes. The government had sought $i ,73i .0i9.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

Admission fees to the Armistlce Coach. the railway coach in which the Armistice was signed. in the forest of Compiegne, France, to- taled el.0o3. . last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

Wearing e tea cosy as . hat. a woman llinched at . fashionable restaurant in London and no one apparently noticed anything unus- ual in her headgear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
(Copyright, John Barr, 1939)

NSUPJAAbhst ASASAAb AuooI
 Of course the America of 70 summers ago, 1869, when I was clerking in "Webb's" drug store, was very different from the Amer ica that we know today. For in- stance, New York city, with its population of three-quarters of a million, no Statue of Liberty down the bay, no Brooklyn bridge even dreamed of, the word "skyscraper" not yet coined. The most cele- brated building then was the Fifth Avenue hotel opened in '59 on Madison Square at the intersection of Fifth avenue, Broadway and 23rd street-and regarded as the most stupendous hotel in the world. But in the summer of '69, marble palace was completed at the cor ner of Fifth avenue and 34th street of incomparable beauty and durability, that was expected to outlive the Pyramids of Egypt. That was one of the topics of gen. eral interest that year. Harper's Weekly of August 14th, 1869, car- ried full-page picture and edi- torial from which here quote:
 "Mr. Stewards New Residence
 "New York is not picturesque
 city, like London or Paris, or 8
 dozen other European cities
 which we might name. In L0n-
 don or Paris you may see some
 relics of past centuries; these
 are reverenced and preserved as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

Every man and woman in France Is to receive e health book" con- taining the medical history of the holder of any other details of as- distance to . doctor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
PART FIVE.

long as they enGure. But New York Is a series of experiments, and everything which has lived It's life and played It's part is held to be dead, and is buried, and over 1t grows a new world. Of how few buildings in this city can it be said, Here is something that will last for a thousand years?' How few, in- deed, are built with any idea of permanency!
 But there is one edifice in New York that, if not swallowed up by an earthquake, will stand as long as the city remains, and will ever be pointed to as a monument of individual enterprise, of far seeing judgment and, of disin- terested philanthropy. This is MT. A. T. Stewards new and palatial mansion on Fifth ave- nue, of which we give an illus- tratiOn on page 521.
 "There is nothing like it in the world, not even among the pal- aces of the European nobility. It is a temple rather than a mansion."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

summer vacation time h 'b9 d1d not interfere with Indian "anti- social" activities in the west. The Apaches were on the war path, as usual, and 8 less known tribe, the Modocs, of northern California, were engaging the attention of federal troops. The "Modoc" chief was Kintupash, commonly known as Captain Jack"
 The newspapers kept the public informed, and while the name, Apache" excited terror, the name "Modoc" rather excited mirth and took the popular fancy. That name was on every tongue that summer, and parents who wanted to scold their children or be jovial with them-called them little Modocs" and even "the baby" when he was sitting, all smiles, in his little high chair at the supper table or being put to bed"-and he was kissed and chucked under the chin by the different members of the family and called You cun- ming little 'Modoc'," or You little rogue of a 'Modoc'!" and when it came "mama's" turn, God bless my darling little 'Modoc'." I doubt if there's a person living today who was born in America that summer, who wasn't called some kind of a "Modoc."
 Quotations from the Society and personal" column of a daily newspaper of July 23, '69, flash to us for moment some of the names that were prominent then:
 General Grant has bought a valuable cottage at Long Branch.
 Commodore Vanderbilt, who is seventy-five years of age, is to lead to the hymeneal altar in few days a blooming maiden of seventeen summers.
 Mark Twain writes in a cur rent magazine on The Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins
 Edwin Booths income Is S88,- 738.
 Maggie Mitchell has tenderly recognized the touchstone of her fame by naming her first child 'FanchOn.'
 Levy gets $I50 per day for conretting for the Seventh Regi- ment at Saratoga"
 The mere mention of the names, Maggie Mitchell" and "Fanchon" must awaken delightful memo- ries to all of us who are old enough to remember her. Her irresistible art and her noble character won for her the real affection of the America of long ago.
 On eof the truly great events of that year of '60--was the publica- ton of "INNOCENTS ABROAD" that launched MARK TWAIN into fortune and eternal fame. set
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

On eof the truly great events Of
 that year of '69-was the publica- ton of "INNOCENTS ABROAD" that launched MARK TWAIN into fortune and eternal fame. set all the world laughing. and gave America the credit of producing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26
STORE CLERKING IN '69

John His Reminiscent Journey Personalities 1S69-Famiar His
 tory the Headlines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-26

(TO Be C0ntinued)