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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12
OBITUARY

HART-Mrs. Helen E. Hart, widow of the late Charles Hart, of 1083 Baldwin street died this morning al the Waterbury Hospital. She was born in Saybrook but had been a resident of this city for the past 45 years.
 Mrs. Hart is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Strunk ot Bethany and Mrs. John Thomas ot this city; one son Arthur H. Hart of East Greenwich, L. I. and one grandson.
 Funeral services will be held at the Lunny Funeral Home, 25 Central Avenue on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Joseph Johnson the Second Advent Church, offlciat- ing. Burial will be in old Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.
 O'CONNOR-Peter O'Connor, TO-, of 2o3 South Main street, died at St. Mary's hospital yesterday after noon shortly after he was admitted at 3 o'clock. Stricken with a heart attack, according to Dr. Edward H. Kirschbaum, medical examiner. A native of Canada, he lived here more than 50 years.
 Survivors include TWO sons, Will liam and Francis O'Connor; a daughter, Mrs. John Cronin; two sisters, Mrs. James T. Caniff, all of Waterbury, and Mrs. Catherine Gavin, of Boston.
 The funeral will be held Wednes- day morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, with a Mass at g o'clock in the Church of the Imma- culate Conception. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

O'CONNOR-In this city, June 11th, 1889, Peter O'Connor, of 203 South Main St. Funeral Wednesday morn ing, at S:15 o'clock, from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., to immaculate Conception Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

PILON-In this city, June 18th, 1889, Mrs. Glaphire Lavert Pilon, of 148 Grand St. Funeral Wednesday morning, at 8:15 o'clock. from J. Victor Gagnon Funeral Home, 1855 South Elm St., to St. Ann's Church. Burial in New St. Joseph's ceme- tery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

ERB-Mrs. Catherine Erb, widow of Wilfred Erb, died suddenly Sat- urday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Catherine Feeley, in Worcester, Mass.
 Mrs. Erb was born in Ireland and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

MURRAY-In this city, June 11th, 1899, Mrs. Anna Murray, of Mix Wednesday morning, at 8:15 o'clock from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., to St. Brigid's Church, Cheshire. Burial in Calvary cemetery,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

MURRAY-Mrs. Anna Murray, widow of Henry Murray, died at her home on Mixville road, West
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

DIED CURTISS - In this city, June 11th, 1889, Howard w. Curtiss, of 194 Southmayd Road. Funeral We'd nesday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, Central Ave-, to Mill Plain Union Church. Burial in old Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

sANTORO-In this city, June 18th, 1889, Mrs. Lucia Santoro, of 53 South Elm St. Funeral arrange mentS later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

10th, 1899, Mrs. Catherine Erb, ot Worcester, Mass, formerly of this city. Funeral this morning, at 9:0C o'clock, from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., to Imma- culate Conception Church. Burial in New Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

HART - In this city, June 18th, 1899, Mrs. Helen E. Hart, of 10S3 Baldwin St. Funeral Wednesday afternoon, at 200 o'clock, from Lunny Home, 25 Central Ave. Bur- ial in Old Pine Grove cemetery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
REVIEW WILL
HONOR MERRILL

FORT LEWIS Reviewing 5000
troops here on Army day. April s.
Brig. Gen. Thomas f. Merrill may
reflect upon his As years of active
service TO be terminated with his
automatic retirement for age on
June 80.
Crowded into those IS years.
starting with his admission to West
Point in June. 1894. there has been
service in the Philippine insurrec-
ton under Funston, service with
Pershing in the punitive expedition
in Mexico, command Of an artillery
regiment in France during the
World war. command of artillery
in action against the famous Mexi-
can outlaw Pancho Villa, two tours
OF duty in the Hawaiian division,
and various important assignments
in home stations. including COM
mand of the Third Artillery brigade
since 1887 here at Fort Lewis.
Gen. Merrill plans TO leave Fort
Lewis by automobile April IL for
Pacific Grove. Calf, where he will
be joined few days later by Mrs.
Merrill and their daughter.
The review Army day honoring
Gen. Merrill will be but one Of the
many interesting features of the
military spectacle Fort Lewis will
present 10 the public April 8.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
TALKING PEACE
BUT PREPARING
BUDAPEST, Hungary ~ An

BUDAPEST, Hungary - An Of
fetal dispatch from the Slovak
frontier said Slovak troops had
attacked Hungarians with artillery
near Bunkos early today, setting
two houses afire and killing one
soldier. Hungarian artillery re-
piled and silenced the Slovaks, the
dispatch said.
BRATISLANA, SlovalIia - The
government resumed negotiate
tons for peace with Hungary to-
day, but made hurried prepar-
atoms for war in case they fail
Desultory fighting among Slo-
yak and Hungarian troops con-
tinued in the eastern part of the
state, despite Saturdays agree
ment for a truce until a Slovak-
Hungarian commission draws up
a frontier between Slovakia and
Carpatho- Ukraine, the f or m e I
Czechoslovak province seized by
Hungary.
Foreign Minister Ferdinand
Durcansky was directing the Slo-
yak peace delegation at Budapest
from here, and at the same time
supervising war preparations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
PEOPLE in the NelUS

William $. Paley, president of
Columbia Broadcasting company,
warned American audiences they
may be disappointed by the first
television programs which will be
inaugurated in the New York area
June 10 by Columbia. Paley based
his warning upon the experience
with television in England. where.
after three years. it has failed to
win a wide following =.
Alexander Pandelli Fachiri. 50.
authority on international law and
secretary to Sir Wilfrid Greene,
master of the rolls. died at London.
He was a native of New York
Mrs. Helen Fortescue Reynolds has
settled down at Reno for six
weeks course in mining and "a
friendly little divorce" from Julian
Louis Reynolds, heir to tobacco
millions. Mrs. Reynolds sister,
former wife of Lieut.. Thomas H..
Massie, was the central figure in a
sensational Honolulu assault case
a few years ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29

Given one more vacancy 10 fill.
the New Deal might establish an
absolute majority on the high
bench and one which could prevail
until we'll beyond 1850.
That situation has been brought
about by Roosevelt's nomination
Of comparatively young men.
II is "A paradox of politics
that the judiciary was the CEN
ter of anti-New Deal philos-
ophy when the legislative and
executive branches were riding
high on the popular Roosevelt
wave, anC that IL il coming
now into the New Deal fold
a. the legislative branch be-
gins to slip away from the adj
ministration.
With confirmation OF William o.
Douglas, Connecticut. as an asso-
ciate justice. Roosevelt Will have
named four Of the nine members T
the high bench. Douglas nominal
ton was made Monday. He was
promoted from Craftsmanship Of
the Securities and Exchange COM
mission.
Court Is Involved
Estimated on the basis of aver
age age at death of supreme court
substantially represented until 1855
or thereabout Douglas now is 40
years old If he served until the
average age at which justices have
died, the New Deal philosophy
would have at least one spokes-
man on the supreme court 80 years
from now.
Consolidation of the New Deal
forces on the supreme bench may
be a fact of increasing signif-
icance, as the conservative-libe
+ .ttle develops in 1910 and subse-
quent elections. The court is in
extricably involved in the political
events leading up to the conserva-
tive-liberal engagement. 1t was
Roosevelt's Feb. 5, 1887, proposal
to reorganize and expand the SUI
preme court that began dividing
the New Deal-Democratic party.
Makes 4 Selections
New Dealers contend, and gen.
orally are conceded to be correct,
that Roosevelt has won the court
fight, so far as the attitude of
justices toward New Deal legisla-
ton is concerned.
After serving beyond his first
presidential term without an OPP
portunity to make supreme
court nomination, Roosevelt has
named four justices beginning at
noon of Aug. IL. 1887, when he
proposed Sen. Hugo L. Black of
Alabama.
In January, 1888, Roosevelt pro-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29

Constance Lindsay skinner,
Canadian born author playwright
and historian. died at her home in
New York. She began her writing
career as a newspaper reporter in
Vancouver, h. c. and later worked
for Los Angeles and Chicago news
papers :.
Joseph p. Kennedy. jr., son Of
the American ambassador to Great
Britain. is at the United States
embassy at Madrid and 1t was be-
lieved he intended to remain TO
see the city's occupation by Ma
tionalist troops. His father had
said at London he was anxious
about his son because of lack of
news =.
Merle Oberon. British film
actress. is en- route TO New York
to sail on the Normandie for Eng
land and a series of pictures to be
produced by Alexander korda .
DIR. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 81,
son of cuba's liberator and first
provisional president following the
fall of the Gerardo Machado re-
gime in 1888. died at Havana .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
URGE TRAINING
Of new PILOTS

WASHINGTON-War and navy
department officers. testifying be-
fore the house interstate COM
merce committee Monday, urged
approval Of President Roosevelt's
program for annual training of
20 900 civilian pilots.
Rear Admiral Arthur b. Cook,
chief of naval aeronautics, and
Brig. Gen. r. X. Yount, assistant
chief of the army air crops, as
serted that the $7.10o,000 annual
training program would be of def
mite value to national defense"
They pointed out that although
the program would not train men
who could step into military pilots
jobs, it would prepare them SO
that in an emergency, they could
quality as pilots N fighting planes
after limited auxiliary instruction
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
BOYHOOD PARTNERSHIP
CONTINUES UNBROKEN

NORWiI.k. Conn. - Frank of-
govon and Stanley Dugdale have
held fast for many years to
bovhood pledge to be partners IN
all their undertakings.
They played together on the
high school baseball and footoaii
teams When they We're graduated
and Jobs were unobtainable. they
Joined the navy for four years ana
were shipmates. Jobs IN private
employment still We're scarce SO
they took examinations as govern
ment aviation machinists mates.
Both passed and We're assigned 10
the same base. at Pensacola, Fla.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
TWO drunken
DRIVERS FINED

Two motorists were given Jail
sentences and assessed fines In
Justice court late Monday after
being found guilty on charges OF
operating motor vehicles while I'M
der the influence of intoxicants.
Both had their operators licenses
revoked for 4 period Of one year.
Heaviest penalty was given d. p.
Green. 45-year-old mechanic of
Route 8. BOX 13l, Tacoma, who
was fined $3.50 and ordered 10
serve 8 days In Pierce county jail
by Justice Clarence Layton.
Green was arrested by Under
sheriff Clyde Knowles last Feb. 9
after Green's light coupe assertedly
collided with a truck driven by
Lloyd Hopkins. so, of 1902 Thomp-
son ave-, at the intersection OF
Park ave. and airport road.
Hopkins and two passengers In
his truck were injured as result
of the crash. Green received minor
cuts and bruises.
After Green had been found
guilty a. charged. he gave ora
notice Of appeal to superior court
through his attorney. Steve
O'Brien.
Second motorist to appear II
court was J. A. wickam, AZ, o.
Eatonville, who was arrested Sat
urday by Eatonville Police Chic
J. z. Ramey after he alleged,
drove his car around that cit,
while under the influence Of intoxi
cantS.
Wickam, . WPA worker, wa
fined 500 and costs by Justic'
Blanche Funk Miller and sentence,
to serve 20 days in jail. The sent
enee u subject to suspension aftel
10 daYn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
S. BILL FROM ct. R."
TREASURED BY TAILOR

PTTTSFIELD, Mass.-The most
treasured possession of David
Bidencope. local tailor, is IS bill
given to him by President Theo-
dore Roosevelt because Teddy
liked an overcoat he made.
Working in New York shop
shortly after arriving from his ma
tive Russia 80 years ago. Biden-
cope made a coat for Mr.. Roose-
welt. A few days later. the distin-
guished customer STROBE into the
store, demanding to see the man
who made the coat.
Shivering in anticipation of a
dressing-down, Bidencope appear
ed. Instead of a reprimand. Roose-
welt gave him IS tip and pic
! ture.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
Postal Receipts
Here Increased

Postal receipts in Tacoma for
1889 are on the rise.
Postmaster George Fshburne
Monday announced that receipts
are approximately five per cent
greater than those during the cor
responding period a year ago.
From March to IS, receipts at
the local office amounted to S43,-
47S.4s against the s41,112.23 col
lected during the same period in
1888.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
MISS GRACE BERKELEY
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Last rites for Miss Grace II.
Berkeley, well known Tacoma pri-
mary school teacher, who died
Monday at Portland, will he held
At $50 Wednesday afternoon at the
Buckley king mortuary. Rev,
Holland r. Burr will conduct the
service and burial will be in Ia
coma cemetery.
Miss Berkeley taught primary
grades In the Central school here
from 1904 to 1887. when she took
sahhatical leave because of failing
health.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
Omen Bids For
Circuit Breakers

Bids for providing oil circuit
breakers for the city light depart
ment were opened Monday after
noon by the board of contracts
and awards. Bids were asked on
two types, one operated manu-
ally. the other by motor. The
bids follow:
Allis : Chalmers. 1854 and
S4,e79; Kelman Electric a Mfg.
Co, S2,s7s and s3.ss6; Home Elec-
trio Co, S4.354 and s4.6s3; West
inghouse, S4,627 and s4,936; Pa
cific Electric Mfg. Co. $3.50 and
S4,6s3: Graybar Electric Co. and
General Electric Co. $500 and
| S4,eT0.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
YMbC STAMPS
Being OFFERED
Proceeds to Be Used
in Erecting Signs
Boosting City

II any mail goes out Of Tacoma
this spring with nothing but post
age stamps on it, it will be a case
of extreme negligence on the part
Of the sender.
A colorful new assortment OF
Tacoma booster stamps was placed
on sale Monday by the Young
Mems Business club as its part of
the endeavor to fill the city and
state both with tourists this sum-
mer.
They consist for most part OF
actual photographs Of Tacoma and
places of interest nearby, all
printed in natural color.
Purpose of the Y. NJ. b. c.
stamps Is q double one, said Stamp
Chairman Elmer Mortenson. The
stamps themselves will invite tour
lists from within the state and
without to visit the Golden Jubilee
celebration in Tacoma this sum-
ner. And proceeds from the sale
viii be used to erect signs on high
ways leading To Tacoma, to bring
visitors into the city.
Placed on Sale
Sale Of the stamps 10 the public
during Daffodn Festival week,
March n to April 2, started in six
places - the post office, Puget
Sound National bank. National
Bank Of Washington The Peoples
Store. Rhodes Brothers and The
Fisher Co. They also are available
at the Y. n. B. c. office, no Com
merce 1t.
Featured scenes on the poster
stamps include . section OF Hood
Canal, an air view cl Fort MIS-
qually at PIT. Defiance, huge
Douelas fir, mountain snow
scene, the Puyaan2 fair, fishing AZ
Pt. Defiance, Lake Cushman and
dam with mountains beyond, sta
dunn and Lincoln high schools, Nc
Chord field. Fort Lewis, Bremen
ton navy yard. a downtown Ia
coma view, . picture of the Mar
rows bridge as 1t will appear. a
Sumner daffodil field and other
views Of the mountain and Sound.
Serve ON Committee
On the committee putting over
the Y. n. B. c. stamp sale are Max
Rosen, Matt Hcrreid, Jack Will
Jams, Jerry Geehan, Oscar Will
iama, Howard Lincoln. George
Neumeyer. Al Oswald. Marvin
Lynn, DR.. Charles Green, James p.
Lesher. Jack Brouillard, H. J. Nc
Pherson. and Frank Gillihan.
Before the sale IL completed 1t
Is hoped to have 100000 Of the
stamps out working for the city.
The city light department alone
Is sending out $1,000 at the rate Of
1900 per day on some Of its regu-
lar mail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
MARTINOLICH STARTS
ON 5TH PURSE SEINER

Msrtinolieh shiphuilding Co, at
the head Of the city waterway,
Tuesday began construction Of its
fifth purse seiner ~ 1899. Several
others have already been con-
traoted. and the plant will be busy
through the summer.
The new keel was laid only 4
few hours after launching Of the
s2-foot seiner Dante Alighieri. on
Monday. The finished craft is
owned by Sal Coletto Of Monterey,
Calf.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
TRAPPER FLOOD VICTIM

DAWSON CREEK, r. G. - The
death toll of a flood in the East
Pine area last week rose to nine
today, when police discovered a
trapper and guide, Alexander La
mont, 40, had been a victim.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED

Building permits Tuesday in
cluded one to Golden Rule Bakery
for altering its plant at e15 Gen.
ter st, at an expense of $4,000;
and one to Jesse G. Cramer. jr.,
for a s1.4o0 cottage at 6645 So.
nirett st
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29

NOTED solicitor-General Stanley F.
Reed. Kentucky 10 the supreme
court. This year he has named
Prof. Felix Frankfurter, OF Har-
yard university, and Douglas.
Three vacancies were occasioned
by retirement Of Associate Justices
Willis Nandevanter. George Suth-
erland. and Louis d. Brsndeis.
Associate Justice Benjamin n.
Cardozo died last year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
WASN'T ARRESTEp

Edwin c. Thompson. s60s Nc
Kinley ave, who operates Mckin-
ley Park cleaners. wishes II known
he il not the ''E. c. Thompson
who was arrested for drunken
driving earlier this week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-29
Neav Deal Philosophy Noav
Entrenched on High Court

WASHINGT0N-PresdentR ooseyelts nominations nave
enrenched New Deal philosophy the supreme court until
prospect today that vii be dominant there for the
next 15 10 % wears
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-03-10

shipment by OK train across the Ju-
dith basin and down to Helena. The
post was established in 1866, had a
brief and Improbable career, and a
Missouri flood soon washed its physical
remnants away.
F. B. Kercheval, in the year 1866
one of the older pilots on the river,
was a man who had advocated the
founding of a settlement at the Mus
selshell to avoid the toilsome river trip
to Fort Benton. At one time l85O
master of the Hesperian, of which
Grant Marsh was mate, Kercheval had
the respect of rivermen and reputa-
ton which resulted in the new town
bearing his name.
In the spring of 1866 the Rocky
Mountain Wagon Road company To-
Gated a route across the mountains
from the mines to the mouth of the
MusSelShell The company put up log
cabin, intended probably as a ware
house, but as the men were very likely
without connections or influence with
river captains and owners, they re-
ceived but little freight. There was
opposition to the route, also, and while
the tiny settlement fingered for a year
or two, the Missouri river soon washed
away its traces.
An immediate successor to kercheval
was the more substantial post of Mus
selshell, established in 1868 by the
Montana Hide G. Fur Co., of Helena,
which sent a party to that place In
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-03-10

March The town las on the south
bank of the Missouri.
Soon after they were joined by Col.
George Clendennin and his brother,
who by his perseverance kept the
settlement in existence until he finally
left for Carroll then newly established,
in the spring of 1874.
Had so People in 1868
Musselshell City showed promise in
1868, with a great deal of trade coming
in. and that winter had buildings and
about so people. The nearby friendly
Crows and Gros Ventres came in to
trade and the post seemed on its way
to success. From Camp Cooke came
party of soldiers. who built stockade
and called it Camp Reeve. 500,
From there on, however, the little
town had a stormy time of it. In the
next year the buffalo left, and the
friendly tribes followed. and then came
visitors not so welcome. Marauding
Sioux swooped down on isolated wood
cutters and killed a number. Colonel
Clendennin armed all the toWnspeople,
and his small force had a pitched
battle with a big war party. About 30
Sioux were killed and one white. Few
steamers stopped at the place. and in
1870 the Montana Hide & Fur Co.
gave up and abandoned their store
house.
Clendennin. however. maintained his
post, stockaded it and held out, trading
with friendly Indians. avoiding hostI-
tiles with the Sioux as much as pos
sible, and supplying passing steamers
with wood Several men were killed
near the post and when the town OF
Carroll was founded in the spring of
1874. Colonel Clendennin gave up and
dismantled the post and moved most
of the material to Carroll. Two men
he sent to complete the demolition Of
the town on the Musselshell were killed,
marking the end of the enterprise.
Carroll, the most enterpriSing and
successful of the mushroom, river
towns. was based, as the others, upon
the premise that the shorter route
across country was better than that by
the river. It was. moreover. located a
short distance below Dauphin rapids,
and Cow island. the former of which
was a convincing affirmation of the
difficulties of getting through to Fort
Benton. especially in low water. Con-
sequently. in the two vigorous years
which Carroll lasted as an important
opponent of the Fort Benton route. the
latter town was acutely aware of the
existence of its rival.
Backed by Diamond r
Moreover, Carroll had backing from
influential firms. chief among which
was the great Diamond R Transporta-
ton Co. which at one time had loo
oxen. 400 mules and many horses. This
company was formed after the collapse
of the LaBarge & Hardness trading
firm. John J. Roe taking over their