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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-07

The report, which covers the year ending August 30, points out the many demands for aid received by the department. However, since August, the relief load has mater ially declined locally, thanks to an upsurn in business.
 Miss White states that the Welfare Department has cooperated not only with the WPA, but with other fed- erai agencies, the IVA and the CCjC, and has received from the federal government large supplies of food and clothing for the needy.
 The average expense for the care of c family on relief during the year was $20.25 a month. says Miss Whites report. She describes changes in departmental procedure which have been effected.
 slziss Whites report orii the wei fare Department follows: N
 Tn compliance with the ordi- nances of the City of Waterbury the report of the Department of Public Welfare is submitted for the fiscal yeer ending August 90, 1899.
 Inasmuch as this report covers the period ending August 30, 1889, and the appropriations are for the period ending January 1, i940, we can give no comparison between amount appropriated and that spent. However, there is attached a separate report showing expenditure for a nine month period ending September 30, 1899. Total collections during the year nave been $i75,- O82.l5 of which $l47 ,303.33 was re- ceived from the State of Connecti- cut for reimbursement for state cases and s23,l85.80 from various
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STORE OWNER IN
 SUICIDE AT SEA

Newport, R. T., Dec. 7.-(UP).-A brief note found in stateroom of the Colonial line steamer Arrow re- vealed otday that James Arthur Jones. 72, of Maiden, Mass, retired department store owner, whose body was washed ashore off Davis Point yesterday, had committed suicide by drowning.
 The note read:
 we are now passing Point Judith --Good-by."
 Jones, who founded the Jones stores of Maiden and Melrose, had booked passage for New York on the ArrcW Tuesday. He was believed Respondent because fo heart dis- ease and the death of his wife Oct 16.
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weak places in the French de- lenses and obtain information re- garding troop dispositions.
 Rifles, machine guns, grenades and mines made a bedlam of the front and finally artillery was brought into action to clear the No Mans Land between the French and German lines.
 Brilliant rockets, sent up by men in outpost positions to disclose the whereabouts of raiding parties, H. luminated the front in the hours before dawn. Heavy Losses of Nazis
 The French reported heavy losses among the German raidiag parties, | and numerous prisoners, but ads mitted that they had lost some dead and wounded.
 The biggest German attack took place in the Wissembourg sector at the East End of the line. An en- tire German battalion, perhaps 1900 men, raided the French lines with the support of their artillery.
 ICELLldklS III dh VU 1hiSS uhsS0 v new technique. They advanced in series of files or columns. In each raid, the Germans tried to cover French outposts from front and each side, using portable trench mortars. As soon as they were dis covered, the Germans closed in, dug shelters and tried to hold their ground.
 To knock them out and send them back to their own lines, the French advanced units signaled to the main Maginot line for artillery support, and 1t was asserted that the Ger mans were driven back.
 The French, however. were pre- pared for further attacks, perhaps in larger scale.
 Serious Losses In Planes
 The French expressed belief that the intensified German raiding activ- ities, designed to gain information,
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CLEVELAND IS
 STILL HUNGRY
Mayor Burton Not At City Hall to Hear Complaints
 of People

Cleveland, Dec. T. (Up) = More than 100 men and women who said they wanted food went to city Hall today and demanded to see Mayor Harold H. Burton.
 The mayor still was in Columbus, state capital, working out details of a q 100000 bond issue which he has admitted will not solve the city's latest relief crisis.
 City Welfare Director Fred W. Ramsey met the group and told them that adults can stand to go without food better than children, the child must come first"
 Director Ramsey said the crowd was orderly. Most were men.
 At the city's six district relief offices, social workers continued to pass out limited food orders of butter, flour, rolled oats and apples.
 The City Hall demonstrators were mostly single men and childless married couples, who were taken of the direct food order list last week becaues of the relief fund emer- gency.
 Seek Free Lunches
 City, school and relief officials sought means to resume free lunch es to l2,000 public school children who have lacked Q proper diet.
 Assistant City Relief Commis- sioner Sidney B. Rowley said that
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East End Gym To Be Urged On Aldermen
Public Housing Program Will Also Be Suggested at Public Hearing on l94O Budget Tonight;
 Gymnasium May Be Approved

Appropriations for an East End gymnasium and for @ public hous- ing program will be urged on the board of aldermen at public hear ing on the l940 budget at the city hall tonight. A delegation from the East End Community club will ask that the budget be altered so as to provide for gymnasium at An- derson school, and representatives of several labor and welfare groups will seek an appropriation sufficient for the city's share in a federal housing program. Delegations from several other groups are also ex- pected to seek appropriations.
 The budget before the aldermen as recommended by the board Of finance, calls for e tax rate Of 32'5 mills. It sets lip appropriations Of s6,i58,872.72. The 10 per cent pay cut is to be returned to all city employees.
 Gym May be Approved
 Possibility was seen today that the aldermen might approve the East End clubs request, since several members of the board are known to be in favor of the project and are seeking support for 1t. The club claims that the building could be erecetd as Q WPA share, with the city paying only $16,5o0 of the total cost of $65,000.
 Approval of the gymnasium plca would requier either @ slight in- crease in the tax rate or either a readjustment of appropriations or an increase in estimated revenue One of the latter two courses would probably be followed.
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RECEIVER WILL
 PAY BACK WAGES

Rutland. Vt. Dec. 2 - (U.P.) = The receiver for the Rutland Rail- road Company today sought author ization to pay 1900 employees a total $93, ,680 in back wages.
 In filing the petition with Federal Judge Harland B. Howe, Receiver Luis c. Murphy said yesterday that he now has $z55, ,270 working capital, but owes the workers s34S,Sal de- ducted from wages before July 1. Judge Howe ordered wages re- duced 10 to 30 per cent and this schedule stu is Id enect.
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to intercept royal air force patrol craft over the North sea Wednes- day, it was announced today, but were off and damaged after aerial battles.
 None of the enemy planes reached the Scottish coast and there was no attack on the Firth of Forth area. Several German planes--moslly Dornier flying boats were engaged. however, over the North sea.
 Rome, Dec. 7--WP)--Itaiy's su- prcme Fascist body Is expected toe night to agree on q program of def- mite action to oppose the spread oe Bolshevism in the Balkans.
 The FasCists grand council meets, for Che first silmn in eight
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BY JOHN. F. FRANKISH United Press Stan Correspondent


 New York, Dec. 7-(UP)-Author- ities rounded up the friends" of Walter Richard Engelberg. mur- dered secretary of the German Con- sul General, today hoping to learn whether his slayer had been moti- vated by personal or nolitical hatred. The brutal bludgedhing of the Nazi official confronted them with all the clements of a fictional mur- der mystery, a case fraught with possibilities of international compn- cations.
 Police announced today that IS of his friends, associates and neigh bors had been unable to give them any information of value. The case was listed as having an "open mo- tive, with robbery definitely out"
 Engelberg was found beaten to death in his bed at his Brooklyn home shortly after p. m. yesterday
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Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy
 Makes His Report To President
Confidential Story of Eu. ropean War Is Told
 to Roosevelt
By FRANK McNAUGHTON

Limited Press stan COrreSpOnuentl
 Washington, Dec. 7.--(UP)-Jo- seph P. Kennedy, ambassador to Great Britain, delivers to president Roosevelt today report on the Eu- ropean wars "too confidential for the cables"
 White House and state depart ment conferences with MT. Roose- veltS No. l ambassador were eX- pected to have an important bear ing on the future policy of this gov- ernnaent toward the belligerents, particularly with respect to Soviet Russia and Finland.
 Kennedy arrived at Port Wash ington, N. Y., yesterday by Clipper plane after a series of conferences in Paris with William c, Bullitt ambassador to France, and Anthony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr, ambassador to the refugee government of Po- land.
 He will follow to the White House other government officials who have been discussing with the president a program for extending relief to Fin land---a program that may embrace credits for purchases of this coun- try's surplus commodities and for aid to refugee and wounded Films.
 There has been much agitation by Republicans and by some Demo- cratic congressmen for severance of diplomatic relations with Russia.
 Must Get Full Report
 Mir. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull have said that no step would be taken until com- plete, authoritative reports have been received from abroad Ken nedy's report will round out a sur- vey of European conditions that MT. Roosevelt has been conducting through the state department, mill tary intelligence and returning diplomats and military attahces.
 Another important phase of the
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LARGE DERELICT
 IS BEING SOUGHT

Boston, Dec. ' - (U.P9-A large derelict was sought by coast guards $50 miles of Halifax, N. S., today as @ menace to navigation.
 Division headquarters here said that if and when the Cutter Tohoe located 1t, the derelict probably would be sunk by shellflre.
 Coast Guards said the derelict, described as 450 feet long, might be the British Freighter Manchester Regiment, which reportedly was in collision with an unidentified tanker early this week. The crew of the Manchester Regiment was said to have escaped.
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THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO,
 DEC. 2, 1914
(By United Press)

(By United Press) IEindenburg began three-weekS battle in second struggle to take Warsaw.
 Russians bombardcd forts of CFacow.
 French pounded German line on Western Front ana captured vernleIIes.
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec. 7--(UP)--lov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Dec. 5th. compared with year ago; This Year Expenses Lmst Year $4,027,445.6 .657.s4 ss.s21 ,555, ,o47.74
 Receipts $2,265,526,547.74 $2,290,137, ,s67.eS
 Cross Deficit $1,761,919,110.1O s1,531, AT, ,079.81 s1.751.554.Sso.io si.515.o4s.57s.s1
 Cash Balance 151,sS9.529.67 $2,3so,364.056.50
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Supervisor Grace White In Annual Welfare Report
Submits Record to Mayor Patrick N. Perrieo- Cites Projects That Have Been of tielp-Relief Load
 Has Declined Since August

WPA projects have done great deal to relieve the local welfare department says Miss Grace White super visor of welfare in her annual report submitted to Mayor have not only given employment but have brought many other benefits to the city, and describes the cooperation between her department and state and local administrative offia r.oF%l. IynA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-07
Christmas
 Carols Through the Ages

WHAT CHILD IS THIS? "What child is this who, laid
 to rest
 On Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with
 anthems sweet
 While shepherds watch are
 keeping? 7"
 Carols often sprang from the most natural source for merry naking-the folksongs and dances. The melody for this one is that of m old English ballad, known as fGreensleeves." first printed In 1880. The words were written in the lo00s by William c. Dix. 1I Shopping Days IT I'll Christnaos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-07
Finland Given Support
 By Nations To Prevent Invasion By Bolshevists
Germans Tried Sixty
 Raids On French Lines
Attacks Came In Early Hours of Morning Raids Were All Along 100 Mile Line = Nazis Suffer Heavy
 Losses as They Retreated
BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent

Paris, December 2. = (UP) = German troops made 60 raids the French advanced lines of the Western Front during the early hours of this morning it was learned today in the first real activity in month French out
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The Weather

Fair, Warmer Tonight; Friday Cloudy, Colder Full weather Report on Page 3
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
Two Billion Dollars
Loaned Home Owners
Administrator Mcdonald Issues Statement on Fnan-
ciaI Assistance Granted By Government

Washington, D. c., Oct. 3D.
Small home mortgages accepted for
Insurance by the federal housing
administration have passed the 81
OO0,O0O,O00 mark, Administrator
Stewart Mcdonald announced today.
At the same time, Mr.. Mcdonald
released figures on the volume Of
applications for small home mort
gage insurance received during the
week ending September %. These
figures again registered gains over
recent weeks, the administrator said
indicating that home construction
plans are proceeding in normal vol
ume at q level well ahead of mid
summer months.
For Appraisal
Mortgages selected for appraisal
during the week amounted to $22,-
GAS, $50, compared with $22514, 200
in the previous week and $23,568, 945
a year ago. OF the mortgages Sc
lected, 1928 represented homes to
be built under FILA inspection, COM
pared with 5000 in the correspond
ing week year ago, and 1854
homes were actually started, COM
pared with 2,088 last year in the
same week.
The volume of insurance OF short
term modernization repair loans was
unusually heavy during the week.
More than II 900 loans amounting TO
approximately $4,900000 were in
sured, compared with $3,873,00 in the
preceding week and $4,548,000 in the
same week last year. This was the
largest week since new amendments
to Title became effective July LIST.
The total volume of modernization
loans insured crossed the $500 000, 900
mark during the week, Mr.. McDon-
aid said. adding that there should be
a continuing large amount of this
type of financing through the aut-
umn.
ain spite of uncertainties arising
out of the European war, the out
look for construction of new homes
and the improvement Of existing
ones appears good,' the administra-
tor said.
Itch volume of applications on
homes to be built under FILA inspec-
ton is still running well ahead of
1888, with new homes accounting for
about 81 per cent of the number of
mortgages selected during the last
few weeks, The fact that our appli-
cations are running slightly below
last year is due entirely to decline
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in mortgages on existing properties.
Last weeks business was the
largest transacted in any week since
the end of June, with the exception
of one unusual week in August.
"The net volume of mortgages &C
copied for insurance, after with
drawals and expirations of commit
ments, is now about $2,125, 900, 900,
including small home mortgages and
mortgages on large-scale rental
housing projects.
at was also apparent from the
heavy volume of modernization
loans reported for insurance that
lending agencies are becoming fam
liar with the procedure of making
the new type of loan, and 1t is ex-
pected that the volume Of these
loans will continue to rise during
the next month or two"
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Market Reaches Two
Points Up At Opening
War Babies Were Liked By Traders After Holiday;
No Peace in Europe Is Their Decision on British Talk

Ter yesterday, but some Wall Street
quarters believed the door to nego-
tiations had not been completely
shut.
Bethlehem Steel opened 1900
shares at 81, up 2, and U. s. Steel
appeared in q 5000 share block at
76 ga, up la.
Douglas led Aircraft issues higher
with l 1-8 points rise to " 7-8.
Blocks in the group ranged to S,400
shares in CurtisS Wright which
opened at 3-8, up 3-8.
Union Carbide jumped I Ia to
80 7-8 on q 1000 share block, Allied
Chemical spIrted Ia and Inter-
chemical reached new high, up ale
most a point. Westinghouse Elec-
trio, Youngstown Sheet q Tube, and
Johns Manville were up a point and
more.
Rails strengthened with Santa Fe
up ] point to 80. N. Y. Central
opened 1880 shares at 81 5-8, up SO.
Utilities were narrow movers.
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STRIKE is ENDED

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Oct. 10 - o..
Po - A three-day strike of 288 en-
ployes Of three underwear manu-
featuring plants was ended today
under an agreement to return to
work pending adjustment Of de-
rnands for ten per cent wage In
crease and differences between New
York contractors and jobbers con-
corning prices.
ReSuming operatings were the
Scharf & Wolf, Inc; Perfect I'm
dergarment Co., Inc, and the Art
Craft Lingerie, Inc.
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ENLIsTMENTs REDUCE RELIEF

winnipeg, Man. (UP)-Manitoba s
forestry training camp for single
men on relief will soon be deserted
II the army continues to call for
volunteers, a statement issued by
Arthur MacNamara, provincial re-
lief officer, indicates. About $50 O,
the 300 young men at the Sandiland
camp have offered themselves fo.
service.
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PROPELLER CLOVIS, HE FLIES
BLIND

Darwin, Australia (UP) st. Elmo's
fire-a fiame-like glow that occurs In
tropical storms.-encircled the pro-
pjellor Of the plane which Flying
Doctor" Fenton was navigating to
attend q patient suffering from APP
pendicitis, forcing him to make the
entire trip by flying blind, guided
only by rivers.
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G. O. P. IN BRIDGEPORT

Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 10 -. (U.
P.) - The Republican party was ex-
pected at a convention tonight to
nominate Daniel E. johnson, insur-
ance agent, as its candidate for
mayor to oppose Socialist Jasper
McLevy, seeking his fourth term.
johnson was approved by the
town committee last night. Demo-
Gratis already have nominated Ste
phen Boucher, chairman of the
board of education.
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By ELMER c. WALLER
UNITED Press Financial EDITOR

New York, Oct. 13-CUP)-War
babies led stocks fractions to 2
points higher in active opening
dealings today. Bonds were mixed
and cotton futures firmed / to Z
points in initial trades.
Traders generally placed q mo
peace" Interpretation upon Prime
Minister Chamberlain's reply to hit
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
HUNT CLUB HOLDS
EVENT TOMORROW
Riders to Leave From
Bethlehem; Women to
Hold Church Sale
WATERFOWL
Correspondent: Mary Cosgrove
Phone 975

Watertown, Oct. 13-The members
Of the Watertown Hunt club met
Thursday morning at the school
house on the Linkfield road for the
fourth in their series of fall hunts.
Those who rode were: Walter Howe,
M. F. H.; Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Gill
bert Of North Salem, N. Y; Miss
Muriel Arthur and Miss Jean Nc
Allister from Audsly on hudson;
Miss Joan Townsend Of Greenwich;
Miss Elizabeth Chase Of Waterbury;
Julian Schawabacher of Bethlehem;
Arthur Shipman of Hartford; Jack
Prestage, Eddie Drever and Joe
Murphy.
The next hunt will be held on
Saturday morning October IA, at
q. m. from Meeker's, at Bethlehem,
Conn.
Rummage Sale Planned
The Women's auxiliary Of Christ
Episcopal church will sponsor a
rummage sale Oct. 26. Further an
rouncements will be made In re-
CARDS to this event at later date.
The next meeting will be devoted
to special work for the Red Cross.
Volunteers are invited to attend.
The date Of the next meeting will
be announced.
Open House
william Hartwell OF the Puckshire
district held open house Thursday
In celebration Of his 80th birthday.
He was at home to his friends, rela-
tives and neighbors from p. m. to
p. m.
Entertained Friends
Mrs. James Caffrey of Main
street entertained at a party at her
home Tuesday evening. Guests
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Ohm
stead, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Pawson,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. D. Fields, Mrs.
Marie Harteau, Mrs. Mabel Hummel,
Mrs. Ralph Silvernail, Mrs. John
Dunphy, Jr., Miss Ella Bates Miss
Florence Carpenter, Miss Dorothy
Olmstead, Albert Clark, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Caffrey.
Sunday School Supper
There was very large attendance
u the super sponsored by the Sum-
day school of the Methodist Epis-
copal church last evening. The pro-
seeds will be used to help meet the
Sunday school budget.
The committee In charge was
composed of Mrs. Floyd N Barlow,
Mrs. Dwight s. Goodwin, Mrs. Karl
T.. Winter, Mrs. B. B. Skilton, and
Mrs. John Turner.
Miss Evelyn Bessancon was in
charge Of the mattresses. The host
esses were: Mrs. William F. Davis,
Jr. and Miss Erma Scott. Miss Mary
Davis was in charge of tickets.
Membership Drive On
At a special meeting of the mem
bership committee of the Leroy G..
Woodward post. American Legion,
Tuesday evening, each member of
the committee was assigned the task
of canvassing a specified section.
The post leaders are anxious to
meet its membership quota and re-
port to headquarters before Nov.
II. Noel Stewart, chairman of the
committee, is asking the cooperation
Of all ex-servicemen.
Ladies Auxiliary Meeting
At the meeting of the Ladies aux
iliary Of the Congregational church
Tuesday afternoon at the church, ii
was voted to donate IS toward the
Red Cross work and make dresses
for refugees. Announcement was OF
the Connecticut council Of Congre-
gational Women in the Congrega-
tional church at New Milford, Mon
day. Those wishing transportation
were asked to get IN touch with
Mrs. Howard Farwell.
Announcement was also made OF
eight lectures on mental hygiene e
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INSTANTLY KILLED

Greenwich, Conn, Oct. 13-(UP)-
Sumner Bogart, about IS, "A Drake
road, Scarsdale, N. Y, was killed
instantly today When his plane went
out of control and crashed on the
estate Of James p. Warburg.
Police said he obtained the plane
at Arents air service at Armonk, N.
Y, about an hour before the crack
up. He was alone In the ship. Cause
Of the mishap was not known.
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The stunts Of chin balancins
heavy objects done by Milo Brinn
never have been equaled. Brinn is
capable Of balancing q cannon. with
carriage and all, on his chin.
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MONTREAL COURT PATRIOTIC

Montreal, (UP)-Recorder's court
is not going to keep a man from en-
listing. Three men were allowed
freedom on charges of begging when
they promised they were going to
join the army right away.
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The North school Parent Teacher
Association met at the school Fri
day night. President Robert Lyon,
presided at the meeting. A masquer-
ade dance will be held in the school
October 81. Membership cards were
given out. After the meeting q
representative Of the department of
motor vehicles showed moving pic
lures on Highway Safety" Mrs.
Bonesteel and her assistants served
refreshments.