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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
ELDERLY MAN IS
 BEATEN TO DEATH
Woman, Another Man May Die-Baseball Bat Used
 in Lowell BraWl

Lowell, Mass, June g - (UP0 - An elderly man was beaten to death and a mother of two children and another man were injured perhaps fatally with a baseball bat in an al- legged drunken brawl early today
 Joseph Metivier, 79, died at a hos pital of a broken skull a half hour later without regaining conscious ness. The other two were reported in critical condition. Police ques- toned man who gave his name as William Brown, 33, a grocery store clerk, held on suspicion after he was found wandering near the scene. his own head bloody. The woman, Mrs. Leona Karanis, 36, Arthur Hamel, 36, and Metivier were found uncon- scious in separate rooms of Mrs. Karanis' Commons Street home by the woman's daughter Katherine, II aftre she was awakened by a noise in the kitchen.
 Runs to Her Aunt
 The girl ran to the home of aunt Mrs. Mary Rousseau, who notified police. Police said the blood-covered bat was found on the floor beside Mrs Karapis who was lying under the kitchen table. Hamel was found on a bed in one room and Metivier under bed in another room.
 In another room, another child, Vs:tor Karanis. g. was found lying ts-ror-stricken in his bed He said the bat was his.
 Police said Metivier was unem- pfoyed but had earned pin money by caring for Mrs. Karanis' two chil- dren while she was working in To- csl knitting mill. Hamel also was unemployed.
 Brown allegedly admitted being at the Karanis home but denied he was present when the beatings oc- cured He said he cut his own head iia fall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
NAVY DRIVERS ARE
 WORKING HARD

Portsmouth, N. H., June g - (U. p - Navy divers expected to fin- ish the first tunnel beneath the sunken submarine Squalus, tomb of 26 men, today. Through this and other tunnels, blasted out with com- pressed air, chains will be drawn and attached to salvage pontoons. The Squalus sank of Isles of Shoals May 23.
 Certificates of graduation were awarded yesterday by Rear Admiral Cyrus Cole, commandant of Ports mouth Navy Yard, to 12 members of this years naval expert dviing class who have been assisting in salvage work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
CRIME DETECTIVE
 EDITOR ARRESTED

Bridgeport, Conn, June 9.-(UP) -Liohel White, New Yoork editor of Crime Detective" magazine, was released today in $500 bonds follow ing his arrest on a superior court bench warrant charging he aided and abetter in the distribution of obscene literature.
 Michael A. Gillotti, manager of the Bridgeport News Co.,, also was arrested on a bench warrant charg- ing selling and distributing ob- scene literature.
 Superior Court Judge Frank P. McEvoy issued third warrant, but no information was available as to whom it applied
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
STRIKERS WILL
 RETURN TO JOBS

Bath, Me, June g. = (UP) = Granted wage increases, all 2,400 employees at the Bath Iron Works, Inc, will resume work Monday after two-week layoff precipitated by a dispute between the management and the crew.
 The welders voted, 70-1, to accept the management,s offer of wage increases and end their work holi- day." which has delayed work on five navy destroyers. The welders are members of CLOS Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
LOCAL GRADUATES
 TO ATTEND PARTY
Parent=Teachers' Banquet to Be Held at WOOdtick
 Chapel June 20
WOLCOTT
 Mrs. c. Nelson Cole, Todd Road Telephone 50939

Wolcott, June 9-Dhe Woodtick Parent-Teachers association held their final meeting until the fall at the Woodtick school Friday evening. The election of officers was post poned until the September meeting. Mrs. Walter Smith won the basket of groceries.
 The annual banquet for the grad uates will be held June 20 at the Woodtick chapel at 6:30 o'clock with the graduates of the South school as guests.
 The Wolcott firemen and drum band will hold their annual memo rial services at the morning service of the Wolcott Congregational church at II o'clock, Sunday, June II. Rev. Orin E. Dice will have for the text of his sermon Moral Re- armament" Music will be by the Pilgrim choir.
 The Pilgrim fellowship will hold a strawberry festival on the green at Wolcott Center, June g, for the benefit of the church.
 Harry Wabuda, son of MT. and Mrs. Markus Wabuda, of the Woodtick road, and Miss Helen Havelick of Astoria, Long Island, were married Sunday at g. o'clock at St. Mary's church, Terryville. A reception for 150 guests was held at the WabuGa home with guests present from New York, Long Island, Shelton, Sey- mour, Terryville, Bristol, Waterbury, Litchfield, Naugatuck and Wolcott. After returning from their honey moon the couple will live in Water bury.
 Dinner guests of MT. and Mrs. Elmer Symonds of Woodtick road Sunday were Mrs. Lois Loundsbury, Mrs. Leila Bughee and Mrs. Leon Barnum of Bristol. Mrs. Elmer Symonds and Mrs. AL bert Homewood were recent guests of their cousin, Mrs. Thomas Mar tin of Bantam.
 MT. and Mrs. William Dumschott of Hitchcock lake were weekend guests of'Mrs. Amelia Krause at AL bany, N. Y.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Nutland of Prospect have bought the Worsley cottage on Shelton avenue. Miss Lillian Crandall of Larch- mont spent the weekend with her aunt. Mrs. Harry Nutland and MT. Nutland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
HEADY GRANTED
 NOLLE IN COURT

James E. Heady, 32, of Middlebury, arrested Wednesday on charges of forgery, was granted a nolle when arraigned before Judge Theobald E.. Conway in City Court today.
 Heady was accused of forging the signature of Delma s. Futile to a check of the Waterbury Trust Co.,, in the amount of $250 payable to himself.
 Prosecutor Frank Healey, in rec ommending a nolle, said Delma S. Futile is Heady's wife, and she in formed him she is not certain of the alleged forgery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
LITTLE GIRL IS
 STRUCK BY AUTO

Evelyn Folkman, 6, 647 North Riverside street, suffered a lacera- tion Of the scalp and multiple abrasions late yesterday afternoon when struck by an automobile in front of her home. She was taken to the Waterbury hospital by Thomas Pitre, g, of Pierpont street, driver of the car, and her condition was reported not serious by authorities today.
 According to Motor Patrolman Jo- sept Lavallo, who investigated, the child darted out from between two parked cars and into the path of Pitre. No arrest was made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
PLAYS REDsKIN

Chief Thunder Cloud, a full blooded Cheroke, today is playing the title role of Paramount's "Ge- ronimo," story of the arrny's cam paign against the Apache war lord who terrorized the Southwest at the head of confederation of Indian warriors in the sos. Others in the cast are Preston Foster. Andy De- vine, Ellen Drew, William Henry Ralph Morgan and Marjorie Gate son. Paul Sloan is directing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
ISABELLA BATES REPORTED MISSING

A break reported at the home of I. P. Kellogg, of 59 Willow street last night, was being investigated by Lieut.. John Calvin, of the detec- tive bureau today
 Police also reported they were no- tified this morning that Isabella Bates, IS, of 198 Orange street, was missing from her home, having dis appeared last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
NAVY OFFICERS GRADUATE

Groton, Conn.,, June 9-UP)- Twenty-six U. s. Navy officers wine entered special submarine school at the submarine base here Jan. were graduated at exercises today.
 Capt. Claud A. Jones, naval in- spector of machinery for the Electric Boat O., made the principal address at the exercises. All but one of the 26 graduates were assigned to the submarine service. The 18th re- signed to enter civil life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
MERCURY CLIMBS
 TO 93 DEGREES

The heat record for the year was threatenled this afternoon as the mercury climbed to 93 degrees at o'clock and gave no sign of halting its rise. The hottest temperature thus far was 95 degrees.
 At 10:30 this morning, the tenn perature hit the 90-degree mark and it continued to climb slowly and steadily after that hour. The high mark yesterday was 93 degrees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
MINOR FIRES ARE
 REPORTED IN CITY

Minor fires reported yesterday aft- ernoon and evening at fire head quarters were as follows: Dump fire, 2;05 o'clock, property of Henry Daher, off Plank road; brush fire. 4:25 o'clock, property of the Roman Catholic Cemetery association, Ash nun street; rubbish fire, 7:20 o'clock in the rear of 370-376 North Main street, property of Sam Wilton; and short circuit, at o'clock, at the home of L. D. Reiter, on Columbia boulevard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
BIZ ELMER c. 'WALZER funited Press Financial Editor

New York, June 9-(UP) Stocks opened firm in dull trading today. Bonds were mixed and cotton fu- lures steady.
 Steel shares yielded small frac- tions at the outset, while equally small gains were noted in motors and some mercantile shares. Rails were mixed. Coppers held around yesterdays close.
 Kroger rose to new high for the year after opening unchanged at 26. Hupp featured in initial activity with block of 1900 shares at l 1-2 unchanged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Market Opens Briskly, But Trading Very Dull
SteeIs Fell Small Fractions at Outset-SmaII Gains
 Noted in Motors s-Rails Were Some Mixed Up

U. s. Steel opened at 48 l-s off 1-2; Bethlehem 57 Ia off IA; Chrysler 70 l-8 up IA: General Motors A 7-8 up 1-8; Du Pont 14s IA up IA; New York Central l6 off 1-8; Santa Fe 29 1-8 up i-B: Sears Roebuck 75 IA up 1-8, and American Can 95 IA up IA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Kate Smith Not Only Sings For British Royalty, But Writes Story All About It

Telegraph Editors Note: Amer ica's famous radio singer, sang three songs at the White House musicale last night which followed the state dinner given by Pres ident and Mrs. Roosevelt for King George and Queen Elizabeth. She. as we'll as the other enter tainers. were introduced to their majesties. She has written for the United Press her impressions of the royal visitors and her reaction to the command performance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
KILLED
INJURED
STAR TwIRLs ROPE

Lionel Barrymore's work in wes- terms between fifteen and twenty years ago had been almost forgotten until, on the set of "On Borrowed Time" he started showing rope tricks to eight-year-old Bobo Wat son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
SIGNS IN CHINESE

Hedy Lamar, besieged by more than twenty Chinese children for autographs on the Lady of the Tropics" set at M-G-M. found out from the technical adviser how tc sign her name in Chinese for the kidClieS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
BY KATE SMITH Written For the United PressI

Washington, June Q - (U.P) - Don't worry, Kate. Shake hands with them and say how do you do.' That's what I did
 With the brief telephonic coach- ing from Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- welt. I went to the White House last night, sang for tine King and Queen and thought up three words to describe thom: They're fine pco- pie" Oh. yes. ! met them. sII right It certainly was aua<ine Co an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
CUSTAVE TRUCHOT
 PASSES THURSDAY
Eight=five=Year=Old Resi- dent to Be Buried TOmOr=
 row Afternoon
CHESHIRE NEWS
 Hubert Rigney
 Cheshire Phone 33A

Cheshire, June 9.-Gustave Tru- chot, ST., 85; died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Minert DeOrlo on Willow street. MT. Truchot had resided in Cheshire for over 30 years and was a highly respected resident. He was connected with the Ball and Socket Company for years.
 He is survived by one son, Gustave Truchot, of Main street, and one daughter, Mrs. Minert DeOrlo. Funeral services will be held Satur- day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 The CCC's held a surprise birth day party in honor of Miss Betty Thorpe, at the home of Misses Jane and Florence MacAlier of Jarvis street. Those present included Misses Marjorie Thorpe, Jane Mac Aleer, Florence MacAleer, Frances Lichten, Mary Joyce, Mary Pacelli, Lillian Borzillo, Betty Thorpe and Betty Rigney, Robert Hurley, Austin Close, James Thorpe, Edward Logan, Harry Anderson, William Myers, Anthony Lambo, Robert Tal- madge, Edward Wallace of Prospect, and Caleb Gray of Waterbury. Games and dancing were enjoyed by all.
 MT. and Mrs. Frederick s. Baker of South Cheshire are spending their vacation at Johnny Cake Mountain.
 Miss Ruth Hine is home from Rogers hall in Lowell, Mass, to spend the summer vacation with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Raymond w. Hine of West Main street.
 Festival June 20
 The annual strawberry festival and cafeteria supper, under the aus pices of Women's Guild of St. Peters church, will be held June 20, in the church parlors and lawn. Sup- per will be served starting at 5:30 p. m.
 MT. and Mrs. Wesley Collins of Maple avenue have recently had as their guests, Donald and Allen Fleming of Detroit, Mich.
 Miss Ruth Deming of New York city, was the recent guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Dem ing of Meriden road.
 John Mark Bishop is home from Connecticut State college, for the summer vacation, with his parents, MT. anG Mrs. Mark Bishop of East Cheshire.
 Members of the Methodist church will hold reception in honor of the new pastor, Rev. A. H. Cam and family in the church parlors this evening at o'clock. All members and friends are invited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

NEW YORK CURB Cities Service .............. .... 6 Elec. Bond & Share .-.......... 5
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
INSURANCE STOCKS
Investment Trust Quotations G. T. CULHANE. INC. 6S Center St.

Bid Asked Amerex Holding Corp. 24 26 American Ins. Stocks Corp. ........ AZ 5h Associated Standard Oil
 Shares .............. AZ 5A Bancamerica-Blair Corp. 1A 2& British Type Investors IS .28 Broad Street Investing
 Bullock H .Af Fund d''........ ........ 124 A A Central National Corp.
 Central National Corp. 70 Century Shares Trust. 24 26 Dividend Shares .. IF 127 Equity Corp. $3 Conv. pfd. ................. % Z Equity Corp. common. F < First Boston Corp. . 16 Is General Capital Corp. 29A 32A Incorporated Investors. 15A TIA Mass. Investors Trust. 20A 22A Mutual Invest. Fund. 10A 11% Republic Investors Fund
 Inc. ............. .22 .2S Spencer Trask Fund. :. l4A 15N State Street Investment corp. .............. 16 6U% U. s. Elec. It. & Power
 Shares A 15A Shares B....... 2 Home Owners Loan
 2A,s 1oo.1o 1ools Home Owners Loan 3's. 109.11 109.17
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

Members of the Methodist church will hold a reception in honor of the new pastor, Rev. A. H. Cam and family in the church parlors this evening at 8 o'clock. All members and friends are. invited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
|S2O,OOO SUIT l IS ENDED HERE
Jury Returns Verdict for Defendant After Two
 Hours DeIiberatiOn
LlTcHFlELD
Correspondent: Nellie $. Fair
 grieve. Phone SIS

Litchfield, June 9-Verdict for the defendant was rendered by jury in superior court Thursday in trial of the case in which Cassimiro Cas- tellani of Torrington sought $20,- GOO damages from the City of Tor rington. The jury deliberated near ly two hours following Judge Rob- ert L. Munger's charge before ar- irving at the verdict which denied damages to Castellani.
 Castellani, who was WPA work CT employed on the Brandy Hill project in Torrington on February 18, 1898, was a passenger on truck which was carrying the men to work. The plaintiff claimed that the truck was city truck operated by city employe and that the ve- hicle slipped on the ice while as- cending Brandy Hill, rolled back struck a tree, and inflicted damages. including crushed foot, to the plaintiff.
 School Contests
 MlSS 1tOSe bIcIlIldIl, NILS. WllldIu c. Spain and Mrs. F. B. Plumb will judge English and geography con- tests among six grade pupils at the Litchfield Center school.
 Mrs. Norma c. Burgess, of Hart ford, will give a monologue, "The Uncrowned Queen" in the Meth odist church Sunday, at 8:15 p. m. The monologue gives episodes in the life of Frances E. Willard, the centennial of whose birth occurs this year.
 The Connecticut Junior Republic drum corps will drill on the opening day of the Fairfield County Hunt club horseshow, June 29, at Vest port. A share of the proceeds from the opening days show will be given to the Republic. Tickets for the show will be sold at the Watertown horse show to be held June "A and 25. Aiding Donald Ballou in sale of the tickets at the show will be Miss Mary Hodson, Edward Car mody and Mrs. Charles P. Durfee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

John Mark Bishop is home from Connecticut State college, for the summer vacation, with his parents,
 MT. anG Mrs. Mark Bishop of East Cheshire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
TIIOMAsTON

FOR sALE-Piano. furniture. rugs other household articles. Mrs. John powney. io6 BroadyIew Heights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Warranty Deed

Warranty Deed Leon and Grace Totten to Dore- thy and Albert sheldon, property on Dwight street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

Miss Ruth Deming of New York city, was the recent guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Dem- ing of Meriden road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

MT. and Mrs. Wesley Collins of Maple avenue have recently had as their guests, Donald and Allen Fleming of Detroit, Mich.
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Nov 16 R.-(United States
Department of Agriculture )-Salable hogs.
10000; total. 19.50O: open 1918 lower
than Wednesdays average; later trade 15-
25 of: top, 6.15: bulk good and choice
1921 pounds e6oo-15: s2o-259 pound I!yra
Il33oo-1l60 pound averages, 6:s5.6.1o: good
extreme heavies, 4.75-5.1O.
Salsble cattle, 1000: salable calves;
1000: fed steers. and yearlings trade
steady to strong: light and lonG yearlings
q little higher in instances; not many
weighty steers in crop. and big weights
scaling over 1:500 pounds confined ed5 70
treme, top today. 1880, paid for LOO
pound yearlings;. several loads 1O.25-50;
best 1.400-pound bullocks. 1000. largely
S.75-10.25 market; with strictly good
and choice yearlings and light steers
mostly 10.25-50: best heifers 1880; gen.
eral heifer trade fully steady: with bulk
9.75 down to ,s.25: cows slow. steady:
inss i gp e I lis; mostly 700 down; 9eTS *
down: steady: weeks closing trade on
stockers and feeders dull. weak
Salable sheep, 1000: total, 1900: late
Wednesday fat lambs and yearlings strong
to Is higher; clipped lambs and other
classes steady: top 9.45: bulk wooled
yesTlinss zoos; 90; native ewes: as:
around steady on practically all classes;
refusing lower lamb bids early and asking
stronger price rates: around $40 to o so
on best offerings initial bids mostly q. 90
15: undertone strong on sheep: native
ewes eligible, 3.75-4.50; best held higher.
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Bank CIearines Show
Moderate Gain in
Holiday Week
,TotoI in Major Cities
Also Slightly Ahead
Of Lost Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Check
clearances were restricted this week
by the observance Of Armistice Day.
The total for the current period in
creased slightly over that for the
previous week, which included the
election day holiday, a ! showed a
further small gain ove4 the CORE
spending 1888 week, when Armistice
Day was also factor in the total.
Bank clearings for % leading
cities of the United States for the
five-day period ended November IS,
according to Dun g. Bradstreet,
Inc, amounted to $5,l75 1892, 900,
against $5,O47 ,4S3 900 for the same
five days of last year, giving an in
crease of 2.5 per cent.
The aggregate for the latest week
rose 8,486, 900 over the amount
for the week preceding, while the
gain for the two similar weeks of
1888 was equal to $632 ,954,000.
New York clearings, at $685.
177,000, were OF per cent smaller
than the $2,967 ,130, 900 recorded last
year, while the amount for the out
side cities-$2 ,229, 9,215 ,0O0-was 72
per cent higher than the $2,080, ,353,-
nm for the like 1Q22 Ueek
Small declines from a year ago
appeared at New Orleans, Detroit,
Portland, Greg, and Seattle. The
more important gains at other out
side centers included: Pittsburgh,
26.4 per cent; Cleveland, 1913 per
cent; Kansas City, 1873 per cent;
Richmond, 154 per cent; Buffalo,
1910 per cent, and Philadelphia, 1913
per cent.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage changes
from last year, follow; also the daily
average bank clearings for the
months of September, October and
November to date:
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Nov 10 .LP.-The dis
count on the British pound deliverable in
30 days increased a full cent to 5l2
cents. today, while the spot rate declined
Spot sterling recently rallied briskly
after a headlong drop, but the future
price didn'e entirely keep up with this
The belga fully maintained the gains
scored early in the week The suilder
was UNCHANGED In relation to the dollar.
the Swiss franc inched forward and the
French franc lost .o0h Of a cent.
Late rates follow:
Great Britain in dollars, others in
cents. Great Britain. demand, 3.92h:
Great Britain. cables. 3.93A; 6O-day bills,
3s9h4; 90-day bills, 3.s7s4; Canada. Mont
real in New York, s7.75; Canada. New
York in Montreal. 114.00: Belgium, 1910;
2.23: Germany: 40. lon: benevolent, 1873:
travel unquoted: Greece, .T3i2n; Hungary.
l7.60n: Italy. sos; Netherlands. $40:
Norway. 2274; Portugal. 3.65n; Rumana,
,73n; Sweden. % SO: Switzerland. 22.4s;
(freey. 800; Brain lofhcisD. sos: Bra
I'll ureel, $40; Mexico. COCOON; Japan,
23.49 Hong KONG, 2473; Shanghai. $50:
Yugoslavia, 23On
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
n Nominal
Evening star., 1939-11-16
Probers
Go Into Recess
Until December
Investigators Continue
Study Of Insurance
Operating Practices

Furnished with its present hear
ings on steel industry matters the
Federal Monopoly Committee was in
recess today until early December.
AS Securities and Exchange Com
mission attorneys and investigators
continued their study for the COM
mittee of operating practices in the
insurance field, however, attention
was being given to Tightening up
on leaks of their pre-hearing in
quiries. On several occasions, 1t was
said, information believed held In
strict secrecy by the committee staff
has cropped up in unexpected quar-
tiers.
Attorneys Files Ransacked.
In addition, twice within the last
eight months the files of Gerhard
A. Gesell, chief attorney for the in
Surance study, have been ran
sacked.
During the closing steel hearing
yesterday, members of the committee
questioned whether the Steel Export
Association of America. a group of
Major steel producers, had complied
with Federal law in its relations
with an international cartel.
Leon Henderson of the S. E. c.
and Joseph J. OConnell of the
Treasury Department suggested that
the American group had sought CO.
af fhoir
ciates to eliminate non-member
Americans from competition in
foreign markets.
Accusation Is Denied.
Under the ebb-Pomerene Act,
domestic exporters are permitted to
enter agreements with foreign COM
petitors as to price and division OF
markets in export trade provided
this does not interfere with domestic
prices or domestic competitors.
S. M. Bash, vice president of the
Bethlehem Steel Export Corp. and
manager of the Steel Export Asso-
citation, denied that the group had
sought to suppress non-member
American competitors in foreign
markets.
The association, he testified, had
made agreements with the foreign
cartel by which it was to pay
heavy penalties if a fixed Ameri-
can export quota were exceeded.
The group, he said, was forced to
assume responsibility" for exports
of members and non-members alike
in this country in order to partici-
pate in the international agree
ments.