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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Mrs. A.ihie ExarhOu of l4O6 North Main Street,
 Mother ot Child, Gassed
GRANDMOTHER WAS
 ALSO. OVERCOME
Father of Infant Ran Up- stairs to Discover Both
 Women in Bad Shape

Cries of a one-month old baby this noon saved the lives of the infants mother and grandmother. Gas from a hot water heater was flooding the apartment of Mrs. Althie Exarhou, about 45, 1406 North Main street, and had already overcome Mrs. Xarhou and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Marie Exarhou, 23, but help ar- rived in time to save them.
 The father of the younger Mrs. EXarfou, Louis Jamele, who lives on the first floor, heard the infant crying, and went upstairs. The doors were locked, but he broke in to find his daughter and the older woman overcome.
 Bremen with pulmotors answered an alarm at 12:15, but the St. Mary's hospital ambulance had al- ready arrived and taken the two women to the hospital. The baby was not affected.
 Gas To Heat Tank
 The women had turned on the gas to heat water for washing. The older woman was on couch in the living room, and her daughter-in- law in bed with the baby in her arms. While the women were sleep ing the gas somehow went out, and Illuminating gas fumes filled the apartment.
 At St. Mary's hospital this after noon it was reported that the con- dition of the women was not se- riouS.
 The infant was admitted to the hospital at 1:30 this afternoon. It was not known at press hour how serious her condition was.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
TWISTED MAN IS
 LONELY SUICIDE
Curtis flakes Didn't Wait to Become Burden to
 Any Person

Winsted, Jan. e(UP)-Life to Curtis flakes, 73, a retired manu- facturer, had grown "very lonesome" since his wife died two years ago.
 T feel myself going downhill, ' he wrote, land want to go before I become a burden to anyone.
 Tt has become very lonesome and I don't seem to get over it. I made my will in favor of the visiting nurse association.
 'There will not be very much but I know it is what Nan (his wife) would wish.
 'I hate to go this way"
 This was addressed to his sister.
 For the milkman, flakes left this note outside the door:
 Please come in and shut off the gas"
 For the undertaken, flakes left another note. asking he be given a "very moderate funeral"
 For the plumber, flakes left a note asking that the water and gas be turned off.
 Then he went into his kitchen turned on the gas,, and waited.
 Funeral services will be held to- morrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
DEMOCRACIES TO
 BE GIVEN TEST
New Militant Front Will Face Relationships for
 Showdown"
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor)

(UnitcO fTcSS FOFctSu NEWS EuAtUNJ
 A newly militant Democratic front gets its. first test of strength this week against the dictatorial bloc.
 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain leaves London tomor- row for four days of negotiation with Italian Premier Benito MusSo- lini in Rome.
 Officially the visit is to further the program of Europen "appeasement" which Chamberlain inaugurated af- ter the Czech crisis in an effort-so far vain-to adjust international grievances by friendly negotiation instead of by war or threat of war.
 Thus, the two leaders are expected to touch on the possibility of solving the quarrel between Italy and France over Mediterranean colonial poses sions, tA discuss withdrawal of Ital- ian troops from insurgent Spain and, possibly, to talk of a broad net work of anti-war pacts among Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain.
 But actually Europe's diplomats will be watching for something more important. They will be looking for the first indication of how successful the Democratic nations have been in their struggle to unite and rearm sufficiently to restore the balance of power in Europe; to offset the abil- ity of the totalitarian states to gain their ends by threatening war at any moment.
 To Face Each Other
 Chamberlain and Mussolini will face each other under conditions sharply contrasting with their last meeting. That was at Munich, when the Nazi-Fascist dictatorial combi- nation was in the ascendancy and the prestige of Great Britain and France was on the skids.
 Since that day, when Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's demands for domina- tion of central Europe were met, the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09

out is capable of attacking us suc- cessfully? I am more concerned over the possibility of Americas be- ing attacked from within"
 Picket Radio Station
 New York, Jan. 9E(UP)-While the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin made his broadcast yesterday, more than 800 of his supporters picketed radio station WMCA, which has refused to carry his speeches since early in De- cember.
 Chanting Send the Jewish war mongers back to Russia" the pickets marched back and forth before the station for nearly an hour. They carried placards reading Freedom of speech for all Americans" America for the Christians" and We demand a formal apology to Father Cough lin." Many shouted All Christians get in line" Keep this Christian country" and Down with the Jew ish press"
 They picketed also the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting system. Oficials there were mystified because CBS is not under contract to broad- cast Coughlin'S speeches,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Forty-Nine Cases Came Before Traffic Court
Watertown Man Was Given Jail Sentence, When He Failed to Pay, as Ordered-Ten Drivers
 Received NOlles

Forty-nine cases were on the docket at busy traf1c court ses- sion today. A jail sentence was given a Watertown man who failed to pay as ordered by the court. Judge Edward Mascolo approved 1olles for 16 drivers, who paid total of $110. Ten drivers received nolles without payment. A man charged with evading responsibility won a discharge, while another op- orator received suspended sen- tence. The cases of 20 drivers were continued for hearings at a later date.
 Edward R. Lawson, 28, of 16 Chestnut avenue, Watertown. was sentenced to five days in jail. He was charged with reckless driving, evading responsibility and driving without license. Lawson was ar- rested October 31.
 Found Not Guilty
 Frank Del Prete, 49, of l051 North Main street, charged with evading responsibility, was found not guilty and discharged. He was arrested December "A on complaint of Mrs. Elizabeth Macline, of Grassy Hill road, who claimed that Del Prete failed to halt his car after it had struck and fatally wounded the ani- mal. Del Prete denied the charge.
 William Bakunas, 31, of 4 Poplar street, charged with driving an un- registered car, was fined $10, with out costs, but execution of the sem tence was suspended.
 The following drivers received nolles on payment of the sums noted.
 Others Are Fined
 Joseph Ingend, 23, of IS East Main street, Meriden, charged with violating the rules of the road. $5; Bruce Gaeble, B, of Maple avenue,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Spanish Envoy Had Asked Prominent Catholics to See Loyalist Spain ARCHBISHOP CURLEY
 USES STRONG TERMS Alfred E. Smith Had Been One of Those to Get
 Invitation

Washington, January g - (UP) - Bitter controversy arose between a high Cath olic prelate and the Spanish ambassador to the United States today while two rival groups prepared to fight for and against lifting of the embargo on shipments to Spain.
 Spanish Ambassador Fer nando De Los Rios issued an invitation to prominent Ameri- can Catholics, including former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, to visit Loyalist Spain and determine for themselves whether Catholics are being persecuted. He denied charges of anti-religious activities in Loyal iSt territory and declared that reli- gioIy tolerance and freedom of wor- ship are fundamental principles of the republic.
 The Most. Rev. Michael J. Curley, archbishop of Baltimore, to whom a special invitation was extended, denDNpced. De Los Rios as "com- mon drdinafy liar, at1d said T guess he would have me come over wear ing my clerical collar-and get mur- dered.4
 Precedes Conference
 The exchange between De Los Rios and Curley preceded the opening of the National Conference to Lift the Embargo, on Spain. at which Leon Henderson, prominent New Dealer: Wyndham Mortimer. United Auto Workers official, and Rockwell Kent, the artist, were to speak.
 It also preceded mass meeting to be held here tonight sponsored by the "keep-the-embargo" commit tee, a group fostered by Louis Ken edy, New York president of the National Council of Catholic Men.
 Curley asked all Catholics of the Baltimore diocese. including Wash ington, to attend the meeting to pro test removing the ban on shipments to eithr side in the Spanish conflict. He charged that "there is not a church intact in that part of Spain
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Famous 'Lifer, ,
 Now Free, Was. In 10.
Many in This City Remember Him Well; Attended Dances Saturday Nights
 at Buckingham

Twenty-nine years have sped since Thomas J. Mooney symbol of persecution and the alngs of the California courts danced with fair ladies at Buckingham hall on Saturday nights relaxing from the tolls of his labor as coremaker at the Manufacturers Foundry on Eagle street. Twenwo of these long years have been spent in prison conviction of responsibility for the sensational bomb ing of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness day parade
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Jan. e--(UP)- Cow ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Jan. 9th, compared with a year ago:
 s4,717 7.s57.617.1I ss,S77,64s,187.26 s2.9s4.415.sss.so ss,ze1, 1,s7s, ,72e.ol $1,723,242.01S.21 s615,eee, ,470.1A s1.sss.11s.s1s.sl $57s.sos. .s2o.sx
 Cash Balance H ss.044,102 .o1l.62 $z,ss5.217,05s-71
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
The Weather

Fair, Warmer Tonight; Tuesday Cloudy, Warm.
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT. poCoMoKE CITY. MARYLAND

and homeless cats, held out no hand
to help the wife they hadn't wanted
their Michael to marry. If they had
such hand, they kept it well conceal
ed in the oversuffed Morton pocket.
Linda could never forgive that.
That's why she didn't notify them
when the new Michael Morton arrived
shortly after the first Michael left
the world whose stuffy bonds couldn't
hold him.
The Bradley Mortons, SNUG and
self-satisfied in all their glittering
affluence, would never now-so far
as Linda was concerned-that Mike
Morton had left them a grandson.
"Oh!"
The thought suddenly struck Linda,
that she shouldn't have sent Mickey
to answer the door. What if it were
prowler; one of these fiends you
read about in the papers when there's
series of attacks?
She was about to drop the chops
and dash for the door when loud and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
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vigil-waiting for word which never
came, living vicariously over and
over again each detail of the crash
she knew had happened, long before
search parties found the plane a day
later.
The craggy mountain peak, hidden
by wool-thick-fog, which doomed sud-
denly before the speeding plane Lin
da wondered whether it had looked
red or green in that last brief mo-
ment.
Probably red, for the ship burst into
flames when it struck.
The thing Linda remembered most,
though, the thing she could never for
get was Mixes watch.
It was her gift to him-a wedding
present. She still saw before her the
face of that watch, it's crystal shatter-
ed.
The hands were stopped exactly at
IL o'clock!
Two emergencies, striking stimuli
taneously, jerked Linda back from the
mists of memory into the very actual
present. At the same instant, her
lamb chops started to burn and the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

hearty voice from the hall treasured
her.
Hello, there, Dope!" OF Monroe's
voice doomed. "Who's your brother
the eighth dwarf? Well, 'pon my
soul, if it isn't my boy friend Mickeyl'
"Jo!" Lindais voice filtered out
from the kitchen. "You leave that
young man alone. His mother doesn't
approve Of the match. But come on
in and grab yourself a chair and a
chop; they both need repairing"
Josephine Monroe, tall and striking,
in a cosmetically emphasized brunette
way, stepped through the kitchen
door. Around her long and eye-hold-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

doorbell rang.
Mickey she called, choking from
the smoke which billowed from the
stove "open the front door, will you,
please?"
Burned chops or not, Linda really
welcomed the interruption in her
thoughts. They were not happy.
From the memory of the fatal crash
which had taken the life of Mike Nor
ton in the charred wreckage of a
plane sprawled on a mountain peak,
Linda's thoughts had flashed to the
Bradley Mortons, Mikes parents.
Following her collapse at the air.
port, after the news Of the crash had
confirmed what she already knew in
her heart, Linda had been taken di-
rectly to the hospital. Young Mick
ey, whose arrival wasn't expected for
nearly two months, was born shortly
afterward.
In critical condition herself, Lin
da had remembered, nevertheless, to
send heartfelt telegram of SYM
patty to Mikes mother and father.
She got no message-of sympathy or
otherwise return; no offer of aid,
money or condolences. No, nothing!
Never in her whole life, before or
since, had Linda felt so utterly, in
consolably alone. She had absolutely
no one to whom to turn.
And the Bradley Mortons,, who
could endow homes for orphaned waits
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

ing frame, peered the wide, innocent
brown eyes of Janice.
10 gave Linda the shows it, babe 2"
gesture, we'll manicured hand, with
pointed crimson nails, swept, palm
outward, before her face in a semi
circular perimeter.
"You know me, Linz" she smiled
Madame Monroe on the prowl. Any
thing eligible from 2 to ZOO"
Linda, honey" Janice was at the
effervescent point. 81 can't believe
it's true. You're in all the papers.
You're famous. About that opera
ton on the roof today, I mean. You're
a heroine!"
Continued next week
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

We'd like to have you meet more Of these experts Each
Is an expert on beers made here and abroad. James
Wright is on the left formerly Of Hotel Savoy, London
now In New York. Max Wex on the right, is member Of
the LR A, with Headquartsrs in Geneva Switzerland
AT LAST you can get it! The beer taste which has
"A maintained the worldwide reputation of European
beers for so many years. And it doesn't you penny
more than regular beer enjoy it. Gunther is Light
as European beers but unlike many u. S. A. made
beers it isn't Sweet
Experts amazed
Europe never believed America could make beer equal
old world glass of beer But today it's fact Here's
what Mr. Fred Hercher, formerly of BadenBaden,
America well be proud of that Maryland beer called
Gunthers. In my judgment costlier European beer
Is any better" Mr.. Werner Breloh says: you've got
great beer down there in Maryland. that Gunthers
equals the best European brews" And it goes one
International expert after another tells you that the
u. S. A. is beating Europe at her own game. x.z
Your Lucky Day
Try Gunthers. And you smack your lips its dry,
clean berry you know that in the opinion Of
International experts you couldn't get better glass
of beer in Holland Denmark any of the other ia
nous European countries. Order some Gunthers. Its
great beer. Gunther Brewing Co, Baltimore, Md.
For rich hearty fvN-bodied ALE 80: look for
Cvnfhers In fhs beuvffu green bottle
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-14
Get a Horse!

Remember when the automobile
jokes by the wits of earlier
industry and research have produced
American automobiles that the world
advance that all lines industry years.
BY of birds of
times Automobile Facts takes swift of
was being described around 80 years ago.
Even the advertisers who supposed
mobile described in reserved
praised because easily controlled
horse and safer because it Another called
horse automobiles"
And what would if heard
rich mans car at mans price S2.000"2
Then there testimonials but different
today One published
who had made 800 mile IA
cost today is 4 cents mile
And SO The brought
preclatve hucke by telling about
wooden Wheels wooden bodyand Woodn
there inclination today discount
less than perfect this bearing
one thing that the record of American
rapid and most efficient has
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-14
A Seal of Hope for the Sick

The annual Christmas in Lincoln
county, reminds of the particular
further which chiefly
their
from these seals wisely ry
which finds most of its victims homes
Thanksgiving
and who Christmas Day when this
with try out seds
This modest but amazingly effective raising
light those who the Christmas year year
for the dollars they these bright probably go
toward alternating suffering raising
fellows than other dollars
fare The tuberculosis Montana
death something besides
fresh air and order check spread
The Christmas
into the spending budget but te
and it holds forth people, who through
believed incurabe but
able. Support the Seal Sale!
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-14
Those Barriers Again

Secretary Hopkins steps
are contemplated deal with the alarming
this country brings old public
well that this problem before public something practical
accomplished in the of handling
State trade barriers generally
paid by outofstate producers
Actually they the right
alone to regulate interstate but
tain rights possessed by the states themselves
anlne products that might be harmful 0
Their effect
carried to its logical
40 separate little depending
materials and its products
The same type of economic thinking that results
has been evident
not unreasonable
the trade barriers that nation erected
this or in other matters to follow Europes faerng
The themselves
and individual citizens everywhere ought lend the weight
voices to demand that this be
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-14

COMMENT
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All liberty loving people are tax
ing their hats off to brave little
Finland. That handful of sturdy
people is standing with undaunted
valor against the onslaughts of the
Russian Goliath. If they are event
ually overcome it will only be be-
cause of the might of superior num-
bers. We doubt very much if any
nation, anywhere, could put up a
better or more valiant fight, judged
man for man.
The council of the League of Ma
tons has given Russia "a hours to
cease its attack on Finland and to
submit their differences to arbitra-
ton. Otherwise Finland will be
given every possible aid in supplies
and finances by the League mem
bers. A representative of Russia
at the Council meeting said there
was a $3.50 chance that Russia
might bow . to the dictum of the
League.
Later Russia refused to consider
the Leagues offer to arbitrate the
differences between the two bellig-
erents and the war will go on.
Men in high positions in this coun-
try have urged that the debt OF
Finland to this country be can
celled. Finland is the only nation
that has paid anything to the United
States on its World War borrow
ings. 1t has faithfully met every
payment While 1T might not be
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-14

nificent picture was set forth of
what America could be if it would
follow the knowledge and plans of
present-day engineers. How can
anyone envision those possible de-
velopments and still say there is no
future for today's young people?
In his opening address in his cam
paign for the Republican nomina-
ton for president, Dewey showed
vision and enthusiasm. He is a young
man who has made a remarkable
fight against the gangsters and 9TH
er corruption in New York as that
city's fighting prosecuting attorney.
He will unquestionably be a lead
ing contender for the Republican
nomination and if nominated will
make a vigorous fight for the pres
idency.
What has gotten into so many of
the young people today? One scarce
ly picks up newspaper without
reading an account or two of some
young boy or girl, in their early
teens, shooting to death a father or
mother or sweetheart, in anger over
some real or fancied Illustration.
How explain those tragic acts? Do
the young people read of similar
crimes in the newspapers and later
follow out those suggestions when
they, themselves, are crossed? Has
a strange and terrible weakness de-
veloped in the young people of to-
day, or IS the fault to be found in
the raising Of today's younger gen.
Grafton? Are parents too weak and
careless in what they demand of
their children? Evidently there is
something seriously lacking. Per-
haps no one thing is wholly to
blame. Perhaps there are many
contributing factors. In addition to
the carelessness and weakness OIL
parents, one might cite false stand
ards or almost total lack Of stand
ards IN SO many Of the present gen
Grafton.
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wise to cancel the debt, there can,
undoubtedly, be found ways of turn
ing that money back to the bene-
fit of those brave people.
The heroic men and women of
Finland are standing, as has been
SO truthfully said, in defense of civ
ilization against the onslaughts of
despotism and tyranny. They should
be given every possible aid
There was one part of Thomas E.
Dewey's Minneapolis speech that
touched responsive chord with us.
1t was his clarion call to the young
people of America-and to the mass
of the people as well--not to be
mislead by the paralyzing philoso-
ply that there are no. longer any
opportunities in the world for earn
est and Woodworking young per-
sons. He said such a philosophy al
ways leads to the destruction of
the handspring of a PERSONS life.
He condemned unsparingly that doc
trine of defeatism.
!, We never have had any patience
with those who morosely contend
that all great opportunities for
young people--and for Others as
Welfare gone. That now one must
have pull, or influence to get into
anything worth while. That is a
most reprehensible position. 1t dis
closes Encouragement and what is
worse, a weakness of character.
There are still tremendous OPP
portunities in the world. Read what
was pictured as the future civiliza-
ton here in America in that mar
velous exhibit, Futurama, at New
York Worlds fair. There a mag