davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

FARM LOANS-are now avail
able at 40 on conservative loans.
The State Bank of Redwood
Falls. 9-tf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

FOR SALE-Roan Shorthorn bull
of serviceable age Reinhold Rad
datz, Redwood Falls. 22-3p
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

FOR SALE = Purebred Guernsey
Heifers, freshening soon. Also
heifer calves. S. A. Wittwer, 4
miles east of Wabasso. 21-3pd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

REPAIRING - tractors, binders,
mowers, plows and welding done
on your farm. Prompt service.
Phone 400. Glib Roswell. 2-tf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

USED PIANOS Seven recondi-
toned upright pianos, cleaned,
tuned and equipped with bench.
$3.50 to $65.00. FREE delivery
within reason. THE MUSIC
Tel. 453, Redwood Falls. 14-tf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
FURNITURE

NOTICE-Expert chair regluing,
sewing machine repairing and
chair Gaming. Inquire Second Hand
Store, Redwood Falls. loft
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30

RATES-One cent is charged for each word
in Gazette classified ad, with minimum
charge of Is cents for the first insertion in
case the ad contains less than rs words. Want
ad customers will please send cash with orders
to avoid bookkeeping expense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
Club Stewards
 Estate Inventory Set At $39,OOO

Two inventories, one showing val- uation of s3s,0oo. were accepted by Judge Patrick Healey today in the probate court. VI
 The inventory of itch estate of Camille Geigere. former steward of the Waterbury club who died Jan- uary IA, last, included almost all cash assests. Items are: Savings In Waterbury Savings bank, $22, ,482.79, Thomaston Savings bank, $8,431.52; twenty $500 U. S. A. Savings bonds, present value $380 each, $500 at maturity. 1947, valued at $7,600; automobile, $3s6; personal effects, $l00.
 The estate of Casmir Dupuis, who died January 24, last, showed Q total valuation of $i3,400, mostly in property. Land onbuilding at Fuller street was appraised at s6,000; lot Slocum street, $500; first mortgage, S2,700; and three half-interests in first mortgages, $l,2o0; sl,50o; and $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
P. H. CARROLL, 75,
 DIES IN SLEEP
Pioneer Apartment House Builder Had Long Career;
 Died Last Night

The one man responsible for build ing of homes housing thousands of Waterbury residents, Patrick Henry Carroll, one of Waterbury's best known citizens, died in his sleep early today at his home, 18 Water vile street. MT. Carroll was 75 years old and death was due to a heart attack.
 During half a century as Water bury's foremost real estate man and developer of city property, MT. Car roll built and owned about a score of apartment houses and residences beyond that number.
 He was builder of such apartments as Waterbury's largest. the Trinity apartments; of the Carroll apart ments, the Belvetlere at West Main and Willow streets; the Carrolton at Pine and Willow streets; the Margaret and Ridgewood on Willow street; Carroll Court, later the St. Regis, of East Main street.
 Other constructions included the Carroll theater in North Square; the Gloria apartments on Grove street; and the first house on Hewlett street.
 MT. Carroll was born in Woodbury, October 13, 1864, and came to Wa terbury to live when he was IS years old. He was a communicant of St. Margaret'S church and a member of the Holy Name society.
 He is survived by i've sons, Henry, James A., and Theodore F. Carroll, of Waterbury; Attorney Frank w. Carroll, of Rye, N. r.; and Vincent J. Carroll, of Brooklyn, N. Y. A brother, Martin Carroll, and a sis- ter, Mrs. Robert Walker, of New Haven, also survive.
 Mrs. Margaret E. tOBrien) Car roll, his vii died four months ago today.
 Funeral services will be held from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, Monday with arrange ments to be announced later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
MARTIN SWINGS
 AT HIS HECKLER

Elizabeth, N. J.. February 18. = (UP) = Homer Martin, one of two rival presidents of the United Au- tomobile Workers Onion, climbed down from the speakers platform at Scott Hall, stepped into the au- dience and swung his fist at the head of a man who had been heck ling him, to climax a labor meeting last night.
 The blow missed. The heckler, identified as Carl De Phillips, a JAW. member, arose to fight. Spectators came between them. Two policemen escorted De Phillips out- side.
 Martin had been discussing the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions, which has recognized the rival faction in the union.
 "The same communistic disease which has been gnawing at our vie tals is gnawing at the citals of the CI.O.," he said. John L. Lewis had better cut it out as he would cut out cancer. !. If Lewis means business about Communism, let him clean out his executive board. Then he'd have about a bakers dozen left"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
MUSSOLINI IN
 REVIEW TODAY
Black Musketeers Pass Before Him; Undisturbed
 By Killing Attempt

Benito Mussolini, completely undis- turbed by what was said in authori- tative quarters to have been the eighth attempt against his life, re- viewed today the 200 picked stall warts of his "Black Musketeers. |" pledged to defend his life with their own.
 The ceremony was private and hundreds of plain clothes men kept the public out of the Pincio Gar dens were 1t was held.
 Thousands of persons gathered as near as they could, despite the rain, to watch the ceremony and cheer Mussolini, in ignorance Of the re- ported attempt against him. It was officially denied that his life had been the object of a madman who shot one of Mussolini's detective bodyguards when he was challenged outside the premier's home.
 The Black Musketeers," in their uniforms which are black from boots to tasseled Fascist caps except for a white skull and crossed bones on front of the caps and 800 pick ed Fascist militiamen of the Rome garrison participated in this morn- ing's ceremony.
 Mussolini pinned three silver and seven bronze medals ca the chests oi seven musketeers for bravery in the Ethiopian and Spanish Civil wars and a posthumous silver medal or
 lCtnntinlied on Page 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
FATHER, SEVEN OF
 CHILDREN BURNED
Mother, One Boy Safe as Flames Rage Virginia
 Home

Nokesville, Va. Feb. l8-(UP)- Edward Hansborough. 40, and seven of his eight children were burned to death last night in the fire which destroyed their home.
 Hansborough's wife, Edna, 35, res- cued their youngest child aged two, but the others were trapped on the second floor when the roof col- lapsed.
 Fire Chief P. W. Howard, of Ma nassas. Va, said the cause of the fire was undetermined. Neighbors of the Hansboroughs said there was no sign of blaze 10 minutes before the tragedy. N
 Mrs. Hansborough said she and her husband had been reading in their bedroom on the ground floor and had fallen asleep. She was awakened by smoke. She carried her baby out of doors while her husband went upstairs to wake the other children. Before they could escape the roof fell in and the house blew up like a finder box"
 Mrs. Hansborough was hysterical. She and her son were taken to neighbors where she was treated by a physician for shock.
 The Hansborough house was less than two years old. It was heated by wood burning stoves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
JUDGE THOMAS TO
 GO TON. Y. TODAY
Subpoenaed to Appear Be- fore Grand Jury PrOb-
 ing MantOn Affairs

New York. Feb. i8-CUP)-Fed- eral Judge Edwin s. Thomas of Connecticut appears under subpoena at 1l:30 a. m. today before a grand jury Investigating the affairs of Martin T. Manton. former senior judge of the second United States circuit court of appeals.
 The subpoena was served on him at g o'clock last night at his cham bers in Hartford, Conn. after he had failed to appear at 2:30 p. ri., as expected, at the office of John T. Cahill, special assistant attorney general in charge of the Manton tn- vestigation.
 Cahill reported that after the summons had been issued, Thomas had agreed to accept service in his Hartford office at 6:30 D. n., but was not in his office at that time.
 The investigation of Manton, who resigned two weeks ago, was based on charges made by District Att0r- ney Thomas E. Dewy in a letter to Chairman Hatton w. Summers, D.. Tex, of the house judiciary coni- mittee, that Manton or firms con- troled by him had borrowed approx imately $400,000 from persons or corporations having litigation in Manton's court.
 Thomas interrupted a Caribbean cruise when notified that he was wanted for questioning before the grand jury. He conferred briefly with Cahill after landing in New York this week, then went to Con- necticut. He said that he had giv- en Cahill information about the McKesson and Robbins. Inc, re- ceivership suit filed in Connecticut last December. but had not been questioned about Manton.
 Manton appeared before the grand jury yesterday and is to ap- pear again Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
Conclave to Elect Pope's Successor May Open on Afternoon of March l
Track Stables
 Can't Be Occupied

Revere, Mass, Feb. 1S-(UP) Officials of Suffolk Downs to- day protested the revocation by the city building inspector of a permit for occupancy of the stables at the horse race track.
 Building Inspector Warren M. Campbell hsd revoked the permit on grounds that. the. stables violated the city build Ing code.
 "The stables are regarded by experts as the finest obtain able." said Charles r. Adams, acting president of the track.
 The stables accommodate 1S00 horses. The Suffolk sea- son Is scheduled to open May IS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
MORE WATERBURY
 BILLS UP TUESDAY
Charter Changes Proposed By G. 0. P. to Be Heard
 Next Week

More than a score of Waterebury bills not given hearings Thursday afternoon will be heard before the cities and boroughs committee of the legislature Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. In the group are many important measures, including one setting up an administrative code for use with the proposed city man. ager charter, a series of Republican organization bills aimed at the pres ent city administration, and several amending the present city charter.
 Sponsors of the bills listed for Tuesday are Senators Edward P. Egan and George T. Culhane, Reps. Daniel Mahaney and Hugo Gusta- ferri of Waterbury and Senator J. Howard Roberts of Thomaston. The latter presented the Republican town committee bills.
 The ripper" bill introduced by Rep. Gustaferri, which calls for the appointment of commission of three to govern the city under the broadest powers until next January, has been temporarily withdrawn and will not be heard Tuesday.
 The Republican town committee bills include one prohibiting the mayor from vetoing Impeachment votes against himself or other city officials, another subjecting his ap- pointments to confirmation by the board of aldermen. Also in this group are bills enlarging the powers of the controller, ordering city court abstract fees turned over to the city treasury. obliging bids and contracts for city work. and ordering the use of voting machines in local primaries.
 A charter amendment establish ing a personnel department and setting up a merit system in the city government will also be heard,
 A bill of Rep. Gustaferri's to be heard would oblige the North East Transportation Co.. and the Cooke Street Line. local bus companies, to issue transfers to patrons.
 Rep. Daniel Mahaney has two bills slated for hearings. one amend ing tlsa charter provisions concern ing the surplus resource sinking fund and the other affecting the city retirement commission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
DEATH OF WOMAN
 BEING STUDIED

Los Angeles, Feb. 1S-CUP)- Deputy District Attorney D. L. Di Vecchio studies further today the death Feb. 10 of Mrs. Eleanor Scherck, 30, to decide if her hus- band, Paul Edward Scherck, would be charged. A coroners jury re- commended that Scherck be held for trial, but was unable to decide if his wife's death was accidental.
 Scherck had been held on sus- picion of murder since Mrs. Scherck succumbed of a skull fracture. Chief evidence at the inquest was a deathbed statement: it wasn't an accident--I didn't fall- but 1t wouldn't do any good to tell you
 Scherck, an unemployed Glen dale salesman who brought his wife here IS months ago from Boston. said that she fell in bathtub. Mrs. Scherck corroborated his state- ment when she first was taken to a hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
MISSING" GIRLS
 REPORTED SAFE

Revere, Mass, Feb. IS = (UP)-- While Metropolitan police searched for them for hours early today, two Missing" Worcester waitresses were spending the night with friends not far from where their abandoned" sedan had been found.
 The mystery was solved when the waitresses, Mrs. Blanche Wood, 30- year-old widow, and Miss Barbara Mccarthy, 30. walked into Metropol- itan police station shortly before g a. m. to report their car missing from Eliot Circle. where they had parked it last night.
 Police explained that they had mistaken the car for an abandoned one and had taken it to the police garage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
237 Persons Will Be Iso- lated in Vatican Tri-
 angle During Ritual

Vatican City. Feb. l8-(UP)--A high Vatican prelate said today that the conclave which is to elect a successor to Pope Plus xI would open late in the afternoon of March 1.
 There was a possibility that the conclaye would meet February 2e if all cardinals from the American hemisphere arrived in time, the inc formant said,
 A score of bricklayers, carpenters and general helpers were called in today as preparations were speeded for the meeting.
 It was estimated senii.officially that 237 persons, all men, would be isolated from the world during the conclave, in a little Vatican triangle bounded by the courtyards of St.. Damascus, Marshal and St. 'Uffizi.
 The 62 cardinals will be assisted by 175 others.
 All doors and windows will be sealed with lead. with the official seal of Cardinal Pacelli, Camerlengo and acting head of the church. Window panes will be whitewashed. Telephone lines leading into the rooms occupied by the conclave will be cut.
 It was believed possible that 76 year old Cardinal Boggiani might be excused from attendance. He suf- fers from diabetes and is nearly blind, 1t was explained.
 The cardinals will meet in con- clave in the Sistine Chapel, after attending special religious services in St. Peters to invoke the help of the Holy Ghost in selecting the new Pope.
 Those who will be immured with the cardinals include a secretary and a servant for each cardinal. II cooks, six officials of ceremonies, six scullery boys, five chimney sweeps, three stewards, three fire men, three barbers, three physicians two druggists, two tinsiniths, one architect, one carpenter, one brick layer, one butler, one secretary gen. cral to the conclave, one sacristan and one confessor.
 These aides are needed because
 fCA4.kt.s,.AA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
RED-SWEATERED
 YOUTH IS SOUGHT

Boston, Feb. i8-(UP)-Police to- day sought a red-sweatered, swar- thy youth who beat and crimlnally attacked Miss Mary o. Huntington, IS, of Hartford, Conn, art student and daughter of Episcopal Bishop Daniel TrumbuIl Huntington. in her West End apartment yesterday.
 The girl told police that her as- sailant followed her into the builo- ing and forced his way into her apartment, where he beat her semi conscious. Her screams brought no help, she said, because nobody was in the apartment house at the time.
 Her sister and two other girls. who share the same apartment. ar- rived there less than an hour after the attack and found Miss Hun- tington hysterical, her eyes black ened and her mouth cut.
 Miss Huntington described her as- sailant as about 22 years old. me- dium height. with dark hair and wearing red sweater and dark trousers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
STATE TROOPER
 NOT TO BLAME
Absolved By Coroner in Death of Reformatory
 Employe

State Trooper Warren A. French is absolved of responsibility for the accident Dec. 9 which caused the death of William J. Nolan, 48, an employe of the Cheshire reforma- tory, ii finding handed down to- day by Deputy Coroner William B, Hennessy. The accident occurred oil the College Highway in :. Cheshire, near the entrance to the reforma- tory.
 A light truck driven by Nolan was struck by a car driven by French, and turned completely around. The state police car overturned. Nolan was thrown through the door of his car on to the highway.
 The deputy coroner says that tes- timony by witnesses at the inquest differed in many particulars. Both cars he said, were proceeding at moderate rates of speed.
 Witnesses examined included French, Robert H. Patterson of % Yates avenue, Waterbury; Peter Tassman of Milldale road. Water bury; Sergt. Gene LenA of Beacon Falls; David Thompson. Charles Talmadge of Cheshire; and Willard D. Leshure. of Longmeadow, Mass.
 The finding by Deputy Coroner Hennessy follows in part:
 "The deceased was employed as assistant to the deputy super
 intendent of the Cheshire Re- formatory, in Cheshire, Conn.
 On December 9, 1888, at about 3:45 P. M., deceased, in the course of his employment, was operating Ford half-ton pickup. owned by the Cheshire Reformatory, i'll a northerly direction on Route No.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18

the years l930 ana lo3o the sum of $243 ,297.39 from the City of Wa terbury." admitted today that his books had been under the survey of the federal authorities as late as "one day this week.. He admitted that they had checked his books several times before.
 others Being Watched
 Several other firms who were re- ported by the grand jury to have received huge sums of money from ths city, are also said to be under the surveillance of the federal au- thorities, but further information was not available.
 Federal authorities. who for the past year and more have been in Waterbury working hand-in-hand wilh Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Acorn, who is in charge of the Waterbury conspiracy case. refused to comment on any angle Of their investigations.
 Reliable sources reported that in addition to the income tax inyes- tigation being carried on by the 
 treasury department men, who at tend every session of the conspiracy trial. are probing for new details in the famous MT. Beano" liquor case which caused sensation In Water bury in 1884.
 yt was reported. but federal men refused to comment on 1t, that the two conferences held by three agents with Judge Ernest A. Inglis, were in connection with the federal inves- tigations of income taxes-and also the Mfr. Beano" case.
 "Mr. Beano" Recalled
 MT. Beano" was the name given the very mysterious and unidentified owner of a large still found in opera
 lf.otatiytfad 0,, Pape ol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
STUD GAME ENDS
 WITH MAN DEAD
Marked Bandits Raid Club; One Other Man MOrtally
 Wounded

Maiden, Mass, Feb. l8-UP)-A stud poker game at $10 per card was raided early today by three masked bandits who shot and killed one player, perhaps mortally wounded another. and escaped with an estimated s5000 to $8000.
 The robbers overlooked an addi- tional $4000 which was found intact in the pockets of Jack Wheelock, 50, ofsAllston, the slain player. Shot in the back. his body was found sprawled beneath a card table on which was scattered deck of cards, all face down except the Queen of Spades. .A
 Soon after the gun battle, which occurred in a basement clubroom two blocks from police headquarters, an automobile arrived at Maiden hospital. Three men got out, car- ried an unconscious man into the hospital, and fled. Police identified the patient as Patrick tPatty) Flynn, 40, of Everett, a former prize fighter.
 Though the bandits robbed all 12 players, they did not touch stack of $l0 bills in the middle of the table.
 Anthony Mondello, doorkeeper of the club, stuffed these bills into his pocket and later turned them over to police.
 It was Mondello who opened the outside door to be confronted by the three bandits, each of whom wore q handkerchief mask. Two of the men carried pistols and the other a sawed-off shotgun.
 At gunpoint, they forced Mondel- To to lead them along q corridor and downstairs to the basement where the poker game was in prog ress.
 As Mondello, with hands upraised. appeared at the door of the club room, followed by the shadowy fig ures of the bandits. Wheelock real ized that a robbery was imminent and reached for his revolver. One of the robbers shot him dead be- fore he could defend himself, how ever.
 In the wild gun battle that en- sued, Flynn was shot in the head and was believed dying at the hos pital.
 Police theorized that Boston ol Providence. R. l.. gang, to whom the gamblers had refused to pay tri- bute, was responsible for the raid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
Military Secrets Would Not Be Divulged; ROOse-
 welt Urged Sales
PLANE INVOLVED WAS
 NOT USED BY ARMY
Gen. Arnold Protested to Sec'y of War WoOdring
 on Inspection
BY RONALD c. VAN TINE United Press Staff Correspondent

BY RONALD G. VAN TINE United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, February l8. - (UP) = The Senate Mili- tary Affairs Committee may make public today the testi- mony of Secretary of the Treasurer Henry Morgen- thau, Jr., and Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring concerning President Roose- velt's order to government departments to cooperate with a French air mission seeking to buy American made military planes for cash. W
 Morgenthau and Woodring have twice testified before the. commit tee. At Morgenthau's direction a | small portion of his testimony aI- ready had been made public. Tn that portion he replied to a ques- tion of why the treasury procure ment division had assisted the French Air mission - matter in which 1t ordinarily wouldn't be con- cerned: The president asked us to do it."
 Edit Military Secrets
 If and when published the trans- tript of the testimony would reveal all of what Morgenthau and Wood ring said, less military secrets which the committee will edit out. No por- ton of Woodring's testimony has been made public.
 While the committee was making public here the testimony of army officials which revealed that Presi- dent Roosevelt had overruled the viewpoints of military men SO that the French could buy late-type Am- erican made bombers, President Roosevelt was taking full respon- sibility for the transaction.
 He said that the French had a perfect right to buy the products of American airplane manufacturers and that the transaction tiac been entirely legal. He was commenting on Morgenthau's testimony that he had ordered the treasury procure ment division to cooperate with the French mission. If prefaced with the (Coutinled on Page 2)