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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
RETIRED LAWYER DIES

Pomfret, Conn, Oct. 17-CUP)- Marcus Morton Kimball, "A, retired wealthy Boston attorney, died today at his estate.
 A native of Boston, he is survived by two sons, Lawrence K. Kimball, a member of the British parliament. and Day Kimball, 6 London barris- ter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
A. L. Auxiliary

A meeting of Corp. Coyle post auxiliary, American Legion, will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow at the American Legion home. Plans will be discussed for a series of social events to be held during the winter months. All members are urged to attend this sesion of the unit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
SALE OF COW BEING
 HEARD IN CFOURT

The case of Samuel Hermann against Daniel Connor is on trial to- day before Judge John : McDon- ough in the court of common pleas.
 The case involves the sale of a COW. Attorney John F. Tobin ap- pears for the plaintiff and Attorney Maurice Gruskay appears for the plaintiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
PERSONAL SECRETARY

Hartford, Conn.,, October IT = UP)-Mrs. Mabel P. Lopatis, West Hartford, today was appointed per- sonaf secretary to State Finance Commissioner Olin Glenn Saxon. The position is outside the merit system. Mrs. Lopaus was secretary of the General Assembly's finance committee during the last session.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
AND ! USED TO BE
 SUCH 4 SAUSAGE IN THIS DRESS
Look. at
 the Fat l'vesLO!st!

Now you can slim down your face and figure without strict dieting or baek-break- ing exercises. Just eat sensibly and take { Marmola Tablets a day. according to the directions.
 Marmols Tablets have been sold to the public for. more than &Af.k- wAA.m MAAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17

China has banned entry into Chi nese-controlled areas of products of Chinese industrial plants seized and operated by the Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-17
CONNECTICUT SECURITIES
 The R. '. Griggs Co.
PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS

Bid Asked Bridgeport Gas It. Co. 34 s7 Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. 35 38 Conn. Gas & Coke pfd. 3s 41 Conn. It. & Power ..... 60 GA Conn. It. & Pow. 5h%
 pfd. .1lo Connecticut Power Go. 50 52 Hid. Elect. It. Go. com. 65 67 Hid. Gas It. Go. com. 32 36 Illuminating Shares A .. 55h STA New Haven Water Go. "A South. N. E. Tel. & Co. ..157 l62
 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
 Bid Asked Amn. Hardware Go. .... 23M 25h Arrow Hart G Hege ... 40 42 Bristol Brass Corp. com. A 46 Colts Pat. Fire Arms Go. 85 86 Eagle Lock Go. ......... 10 12 Eastern Malleable Iron 10h 12h Landers, Frary & Clark 25h 27h New Brit. Mach. Co. com. g 34 North & Judd Mfg. Go. 30h 32h Peck. Stow & Wilcox Go. 2 g Remington Arms ....... 5 6 Scovill Mfg. Co. ......... 33h 35H Stanley Works Go. com. 45 47 Torrington co. ......... 29 31 Veeder Root .......... 53h 55k
 INSURANCE STOCKS
 Bid Asked Aetna Fire Insurance 46h 48h Aetna Life Insurance 29 3l Automobile Insurance 32M S41S Connecticut General .... 23h 25h Hartford Fire Insurance TIA 79h Home Insurance ........ 34 36 National Fire Insurance 59 61 Phoenix Fire Insurance 77 30 Travellers Insurance AIS 425
Evening star., 1939-05-07

bicycle" 1t was one of the most dis
tinguished physicists who said, in
1903, The example of the bird does
not prove that man can fly" and who
advisedthe 'mechanicians" thentin
ering with the problem of flying to
give up all attempts to grapple with
it." Exactly two weeks later couple
of mechanicians named Wright sailed
off the ground in the first successful
airplane fight.
One of the very greatest and most
beloved inventors proved how wrong
a great man can be when, in 1926,
Thomas A. Edison gave it as his con-
sidered opinion that talking pictures
would never come into general use
because the public will not support
them"
So, when next you start out to
demonstrate your big idea to the boss
or the bank or the committee, you
might paste the names of all the mis-
takenexperts, from Lardner to Edison,
in your hat for moral support.
In the same headpiece, you might
also put the considered opinion of
Charles F. Kettering, head of General
Motors Research Laboratory. A dis
tinguished inventor in his own right
and great encourager of originality
in others. Boss ket" has had long
experience in shepherding new ideas
past the experts. In the course of his
early search for hard, quick drying
automobile finish to replace the old
vanishing process that took thirty
seven days, he was rebuffed by COM
mittee of paint experts, who told him
with whitening scorn that the time
might be reduced to thirty-four days,
but not less.
Mature, they said, fixed the
length of drying"
Eventually nature was persuaded
to do the job in less than an hour -
but not by the experts. ANY time
youw want to stop new thing quickly"
says Kettering. get bunch of ex-
perts together. Just call a conference.
They all vote that you can't do it."
But don't forget to take that same
hat along when you, in your turn, sit
in judgment on somebody else's pro-
posal. 1t is human nature for any man
whose opinion of a plan is sought
Especially if he is part of a COM
mittee) to prove how smart he is by
pointing out the flaws in the other
fellows idea. Garry the hat along and
take good look at the names in it
whenever you. too, are tempted to
show you are too smart to be right.
Evening star., 1939-05-07

spectacularly wrong.
1t was the men of
science who clapped
Daguerre, inventor of
the daguerreotype,
forerunner of present.
day photography, into
an asylum for pretend
ing he could make pic
lures with a box. 1t was
the experts of public
opinion who said, in
1894. THE horseless
carriage is a luxury for
the wealthy, and al
though its price will
probably fall in the
future, it will never. of
course, come into as
common use as the
Evening star., 1939-05-07

" HERE was once a learned gentle
man who bore the gaudy name
- of Dionysius Lardner, and who
trailed after that magnificent moniker
a string of learned degrees long
enough to have fur
Evening star., 1939-05-07

in the old days. We don't guess now.
We know better"
Yes? Since when? One of the queer
things about the experts is that some
times they know just enough to be
Evening star., 1939-05-07

PlzeS III logic, meta
physics, ethics, mathematics and
physics, to say nothing of gold
medal for series of discourses on the
steam engine.
People were enormously fascinated
by this strange new source of power.
In the 183O's engines ran on rails
even faster than a good horse could
gallop. Steamships piled the rivers
and made their cautious way along
the seacoasts. 1t was even predicted
by some bold spirits that steamship
capable of crossing the Atlantic under
its own power could be built.
This was a challenge to Dionysius
Lardner, B.A., MA. LIB, LID.
He sat right down and wrote a long
article about the rash prediction. You
can see it in any library that possesses
the Edinburgh Review for 1887. 1t
ran to twenty-five and half close
printed pages. Andit proved, minutely
and in detail, by all the laws of
physics. mechanics and thermody-
namics that the idea of a ships cross
ing the Atlantic under steam was
just PLAIN silly.
1t was beautiful essay, and it was
printed in ample time to be brought
to America in the Sirius, the first ship
to cross the Atlantic under steam.
Even the experts can be wrong. So,
if your big idea has been condemned
by people who ought to know, don't
be too discouraged. Most probably
they are correct. But. before you give
up entirely, remember DR.. Dionysius
Lardner and the Sirius.
And while you're about it, you
might remember that DR.. Lardner
was not alone in being wrong about
steam. There we're plenty of his con-
temporaries on both sides of the
Atlantic who guessed wrong, too.
Experts shook their heads over rail-
ways, declaring that, at the terrific
speed of thirty-fve miles an hour,
passengers would be suffocated; and
German scientists added that such
giddy velocities would put peoples
insides out of order,
Colonel John Stevens had built a
model railway in Hoboken as early as
1912, but the skeptical authorities
wouldn't let him build one outside his
own yard. His proposal that rail-
road be built instead of the Erie Canal
was soornfully laughed at by the
legislators whose heirs, few decades
later. were to see that very canal all
but put out of business by railways.
Eyes - butt" says the expert who
is out to prove you wrong. That was
Evening star., 1939-05-07

enough to have fur
nished all the letters
for one of those adver-
tising banners that air
planes tow. There
weren't any airplanes
in his day, as it hap
pened, for DR.. Lardner
lived in England dur
ing the first half of the
1905, when the mira
Gle of invention was the
steam engine.
Now, the good doc
tor was a scientist. He
lectured profoundly
upon physics and me-
chanics. He wrote pom
derous books. He took
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09

Hendaye, French-Spanish From tier, Jan. 9.-(UP)-GeneralisSimo Francisco Franco may remove Gen. eral Gonzolo Queipo De Llano from comamnd of the Spanish insurgent forces in the south because he has failed to stop vigorous Loyalist offensive, it was reported today.
 It was reported consistently that Franco had been forced to with draw troops from his own Cata- lonian t.rive to strengthen the Ma tionalist army in the southwest. Loyalists sail. that despite some Nationalist gains on the Catalonian front yesterday, the drive as a whole had lost momentum. This they attributed to withdrawal of re- serves to reinforce the southern army.
 Reports regarding Queipo De Llano, the famous radio" general whose fire-eating broadcasts made him internationally famous in the earlier periods of the Civil War, .unconfirmed. However, the reports said that Franco blamed Queipo De Llano for the success of the Loyalist drive and intended to re- place him with one Gen. Vigon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
PROBE DOUBLE
 CONN. TRAGEDY
Happened Ten Years Ago, But Is Revised By a
 Similar Tragedy

Lebanon, N. H., Jan. 9-(UP)-Re- opening of an investigation into the purported double suicide of his wife and her lover a decade ago was sought today as Henry Gideon Begin, 35, handsome beautician, faced ar raignmer on a charge of murdering a woman "who laughed at me-"
 Begin confessed, police said. that he slew Mrs. Frieda (Billy) Edson, 28-year -old divorcee, whose nude body was found in his beauty parlor yesterday. However, he refused to discuss details surrounding the deaths of his wife and man named Gadbois in room at New Haven, Conn.,. 10 years ago.
 q shall personally go to New Ha- ven and investigate the circum- stances regarding the two deaths" County Solicitor Norris Cotton an- nounced. Begin told me that the deaths were either murder and sui eide or a double suicide-which, he didn't know"
 At the time of the discovery of the deaths, Begin was atetnding a hair dressers' school in New York City.
 Eds0n Story Revived
 Authorities were unaware of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Comedian Jack Benny Is On Way To Smuggling Hearing

q want to find out what it is all about" he said. 'I'm willing to CO., operate in any way I can but hon. estly I don't know how can help" Benny conferred with federal au- thorities here once before. Other motion picture and stage personal ities who were questioned about the activities of Chaperau included Katharine Hepburn. Jack Pearl and Cary Grant. Benny will appear be- fore the grand jury tomorrow.
 Chaperau has admitted that he smuggled into this country the clothes and jewelry purchased by Mrs. Lauer and Burns. He sought to escape a jail term, however. by claiming diplomatic immunity. He said he was . commercial attache for the Nicaraguan legation. Fed- eral authorities said he never was accredited to the state department. By pleading guilty, Burns faced up to two years in jail and e5.000 fine on each of two counts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
SEVEN PERSONS
 DIE OF VIOLENCE
New Haven Catholic Priest Was Victim of Fall
 From Platform
(By United Press)

Violence claimed the lives of seven persons in Connecticut over the week end. Three died in automobile accidents, two young boys were drowned, priest was killed in a fall and an elderly man committed sui- eide.
 Mrs. Noemi Banchand, 56, Putnam, died of injuries suffered in an auto mobile accident at West Gloucester, R. T., just over the state line. She died in a Putnam hospital. Mrs. Harry Thurlow, East Providence, R. T., was killed in a Bolton accident.
 Joseph E. Dube, 48, legless Farm ington driver, was killed in a Bethel mishap.
 Rev. George Caviglio, 56, assistant pastor of St. Michael's Church, New Haven, for 18 years. was killed last night when he fell IS feet from a platform in the church belfry.
 Walter Wernicki, 6. and Patrick Miron, 5, both of Plantsville, were drowned in a Southington pond when they fell through thin ice.
 Curtis flakes, 73. retired Winsted manufacturer, committed suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas fumes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Lifting Embargo To Spain Arouses Bitter Arguments With Two Rival Factions
Rev. Charles Coughlin
 Hits Roosevelt Policy
Millions of Idle Workers, Than From Any Foreign Power

Detroit, Jan. 9CUP)-President Roosevelt's foreign policy was att tackled by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin in his weekly radio talk yesterday as contrary to traditional precepts of the Monroe doctrine.
 Discussing the presidents state of the nation address to congress, Father Coughlin sought to show that MT. Roosevelt was following the policies of Woodrow Wilson which, he said, led the United States into the World war. He quoted purport- edly similar paragraphs from MT. Roosevelt's speech and Wilson's in- augural address on March IS, 1917.
 Referring to MT. Roosevelt's warn- ing of dangers from abroad, Father Coughlin said he feared "an army of 10G00,000 unemployed Americans more than ' do an army of 10,000,- 900 foreign enemies; I fear the re- percussions which will eventuate from 20,000,000 government wards who are forced to live below the American standard of life more than I do the combined forces of Europe's dictators. What enemy from with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
United States Mayors Request More In Relief
Mayor La Guardia as Their Spokesman Asked $4O,= OOO,0O0 More Than Roosevelt to Carry
 on WPA Workers
BY LYLE c. WILSON

Limited Press Staff Correspondent $ Washington, Jan. 9.-cUP9-Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York today proposed that Congress pro- vide $915, ,000, 900 by finance relief un- til July instead of the $875 1000 900 recommended by President Roosevelt.
 La Guardia, representing the Con- ference of United States Mayors, said MT. Roosevelt's recommendation is mot enough" to meet the needs of the Works Progress Administration until the end of the fiscal year.
 The New York mayor came here to testify at executive hearings of the House appropriations sub-com- mittee studying deficiency appro- priation for relief. He arrived as House Democrats faced a decision whether to rally around the New Deal standard raised by the presi- dent on Jackson Day or to rebuf the with a vote to cut relief costs.
 $40,000,OO More
 La Guardia's proposal was $40,- 100000 above the recommendation of MT. Roosevelt, sent to Congress in a s.'e"ial message last week. He ex- plained that the mayors conference last year urged an appropriation of $2, 100000 for relief during the full 1889 fiscal year.
 Actual appropriations to date, he said, total $1,425, 100000 for WPA, and President Roosevelt has warned that this sum barely is sufficient to meet needs through this month.
 La Guardia said the additional $915, ,000, 900 which he will request in testimony before the appropriations subcommittee represents approxi- mately the difference between the $2,340, 100000 originally asked by the mayors and the actual appropriation.
 Before going to the subcommittee hearing, La Guardia conferred with Works Progress Administrator Fran cis c. Harrington. Neither would comment after that discussion.
 The relief showdown may come be-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
FLOOD OF BILLS
 FOR LEGISLATURE
Local Senators, Culhane and Egan May Get Im-
 portant Assignments

A flood of new bills is expected when the state legislature meets at Hartford tomorrow, with many pro- posals for liberal and reform meas- ures to be included among the pro- posed measures. Republicans and Democrats are agreed on several important bills, with consequent early action expected. Both parties favor more liberal old-age assist ance payments, establishment of 8 statewide juvenile court system, adoption of new adult probation system, regular periodic audits of city and town finances, and an arl- ti-injunction bill. Both major par ties also favor reform of the minor court system, but action on this will probably be delayed until late in the session.
 Local Senators
 Committee appointments tomor- row should find Senators George T. Culhane and Edward Egan named
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
General Franco To Remove
 Losing Rebel Commander

Dispatches indicated that the Loyalist drive in Queipo De Llano's country was continuing unchecked. However, the Nationalists also made important progress on the Catalo- nion front. There they struck northeastward and southeastward toward the Lerida-C -Ceryera -Barce- Iona highway. presumably intending to pinch off a big triangle of Loyal ist territory.
 From Lerida, the center and key point of the Nationalist drive at the beginning of the present Cat alonian offensive, there are three great roads. One leads southeast to Tarragona, the second eastward to Barcelona, the third northeast ward toward the French frontier. The Nationalists made their first big bid roughly along the frontier road. Next they drove along the Tarragona road. Yesterday they began to drive inward from both the frontier and Tarragona roads toward the central road leading to Cervera and Barcelona. Insurgent communiques indicated that the operation was complete success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
FRAUD TRIAL TO
 GARRY RIGHT ON
No Delay Because Two of Defendants Are Report
 ed to Be III
By JOSEPH P. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)

Indefinite delay of the Waterbury conspiracy trial due to the illness of Superintendent of Streets Thomas J. Fleming and Deputy Registrar of Voters Michael Slavin was averted today by virtue of a stipulation reached between Attorney Patrick Healey and Special Prosecutor Hugh Alcorn, which, in effect, is waiver by the two defendants of their right to be in court for the proceedings.
 The agreement between state and defense counsel has the tenta:.:ve approval of Judge Ernest A. Inelis, the presiding official It will have no effect on procedeings after the two alternate jurors have been ac- cepted, and the trial has reached the stage where the first witness will be called, however.
 = Collapsed in Court
 Supt. of Streets Fleming collapsed in the corridor of the court during a recess just before 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. Registrar Slavin was re- ported today as confined to his bed with an illness which has caused him discomfort for the past several
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
STOCKHOLDERS IN
 INVERSION co. SUE

New Haven, Conn, Jan. s.-UP) Five stockholders of ,McKesson & Robbins. Inc, sought return of their investments today in g superior court suit charging directors of the concern directly responsible for their losses. Defendants in the action, which sought $25.000 damages, were all of the directors, wives of the masquerading Musica brothers, and the New York accounting firm of Price. Warehouse & Co, which cer- tified the connpany's books.
 The plaintiffs were Alec Cohen, Peter Margoles, Concetta Amato and Anna E. Kaufman. all of this city, and State Police Lieutenant Frank Virelli, Bridgeport. The suit asked a court order allowing all other corn- mon stockholders to intervene as plaintiffs. Wives of three of the -u- sica brothers, who were officers of the concern, also were zlamed as CO., defendants. It was alleged property was transferred to them by their husbands for the purpose of conceal ing assets of the company from creditors and stockholders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09

New York, Jan. g (U.P0 = Jack Benny, the radio comedian, arrives in New York today to ap- pear before a federal grand jury and explain his alleged dealings with confessed smuggler. Like George Burns, another radio com edian, Benny was faced with the fact that jewelry he purchased for his wife and air partner, Mary Liv- ingstone, had been smuggied into the United States. Benny was said to have bought $1,200 worth. Burns and Mrs. Elma N. Lauer, wife of Supreme. Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer, already have been indicted and have pleaded guilty. They may be called to testify against Albert N. Chaperau, from whom they test- fled they bought smuggled jewelry.
 Left By Plane
 Benny left Hollywood by airplane last night with Mert Bloom, his business manager. He emphasized that he had not been subpoenaed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
DOE WAS
 HIS REAL NAME

Detroit, Jan. g = (UP) --- They laughed when he said his name was John Doe.
 Doe, 8 shabbily dressed man ck 8. told Judge Thomas Cotter about himself when he was taken into re- corder's court today on a vagrancy charge.
 He explained that his parents had died when he was four and that be- cause orphan asylum officials didn't know his real name they had tagged him Johin Doe. And that had been his name for 48 years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09

Mooney went to prison because ten persons died and forty-odd were maimed or injured by the explosion.
 Despite his long absence from Waterbury, and the fact that his stay here was brief, Mooney is well remembered by scores of Waterburi- ans and residents of neighboring communities.
 Local Opinions On Guilt
 "Was Mooney responsible for the parade bombing?" many were asked Saturday when Governor Culbert l.. Olson of California pardoned him freed him from prison and ofilcially dissolved him of all guilt. Answers from Waterburians were contrasting and contradictory.
 He was a good talker, but he didn't have the nerve to do thing like that" was the opinion of one man who worked shoulder to sho1l- der with Mooney between 1908-10 at the Manufacturers Foundry.
 He had the nerve of seven men. and might be capable of anything" was the response of another, who claimed to know Mooney equally as well.
 Red Hot Labor Leader A red-hot labor leader at the time of his conviction, Mooney re- tains his glowing desire to cham pion the cause of the laborer, and admits now that the rest of his life will be dedicated to labor activ- ities.
 But when Tom Mooney sweated b CT his tasks as coremaker at the foundry, he was nothing more than good union man. He held no office and was in no way connected with the organization or direction of union affairs.
 Some Who Knew Him
 Among the Waterburians who re- member Mooney, having worked with him, are Patrolman James Sammon, Eugene Connell, Bill Con- way and Arthur Dulac.
 MT. Connell, resident of l04 Fair mount street who ruomed with Mooney here and also at Hartford is perhaps most capable of relating his characteristics and capabilities.
 "He never drank, smoked or chewed-and he never missed Sum day mass at the Immaculate Con- ception church." said MT. ConnelI with reference to Mooney. And he was vegetarian" he continued. Brother With Him A brother. Johnny Mooney, lived with Tom at MT. Deans Boarding (Continued on Page 4)