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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
FUNERALS

The funeral of let Padarzny was held yesterday afternoon at one o'clock from the Stokes funeral home, SEA Riverside street, to St. Mary's Russian Orthodox church at 1:3O, where services were conducted by Rev. Peter Dzubay. Burial was in St. Mary's Russian Orthodox cem- etery, with Father Dzubay conduct ing the committal service. The bearers were Michael Rozun, John Nelnik, John Chernow, Thomas Ro- back, William Golben and Nick Merechko.
 The funeral services for Dr. John w. Mahoney, of Milford, will be held at two o'clock this afternoon at the George J. Smith funeral home, 135 Broad street, Milford, with burial in the Milford cemetery
 The funeral of Mrs. Ellen s. Leach will be held this afternoon from the home. on Eden avenue, South ingon, to St. Paul's church at two o'clock, with Rev. E. Robert New ton ofhciating. Burial will be in Hillside cemetery, Naugatuck.
 The funeral of Mrs. Timothy Leary of Jackson Heights, L. l., was held this morning at 8:15 from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, to the Immaculate Con- ception church for 8 solemn high mass at 9. Burial was in the family plot, new St. Joseph's cemetery.
 The funeral of William P. Mo- Kenna was held this morning from the Lunny funeral home, 25 Central avenue. at 9:15 o'clock to St. Mary Magdalen church in Oakville; where a solemn requiem mass was cele- brated at 10. Burial was in the family plot. Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03

Terming the human factor the supreme factor in accident preven- tion, Superintendent of Police Wil- liam J. Roach today said the answer to the problem is to be found in training.
 Safety training must become an integral part of all training" the chief said. we must learn to drive our cars habitually in a safe man. ner."
 "Every year our highway build CTS and traffic engineers construct roads with fewer physical hazards. Manufacturers build automobiles,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
PLACE TO PRACTICE

Burlington, Vt, Aug. 3 - (U.P0 Mayor John J. Burns today had offered the army place to practice aerial bombing during its New York state maneuvers. He suggested yes- terday that the airmen bomb dere- lict hulks along the Burlington wa terfront on Lake Champlain. Be- cause shipping is light, he said, the place would be ideal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
Peter Paul, Inc.
 Earnings Increase

Substantial gains in earnings for the first six months of this year as compared to 1889 fig- ures are reported by Peter Paul, Inc, of Naugatuck. The estimated earnings for the six months ending June 30, 1940, are set at S335, ,900.35 or $2.26 per share as compared with $253,617.31 or $1.71 per share for the same period in 1889.
 According to the company report this is subject to audit and year end adjustment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
DEDICATE NEW UNITS

Rocky Hill, Conn, Aug. g. CD. p - New units of the Veterans home will be dedicated September il, 1t was announced today by Col- onel Allan F. Mitchell. Greenwich, . member of the Veterans' Home Commission. The additional facili- ties will accommodate more than 800 veterans now quarters ct Fstch's Homo for soldiers ct Noroton. The Noroton home will be used for other purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
LIQUOR PERMIT

This Is to give notice that I. Mary Petruzzi, of 272 Bishop St., v,;aa.,S W,;atsr,bury; Conn. have filsd ed an slc sg, with the Liquor Control Commission for c Package Beer Permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor on the prem ises, 10b scovill St., Waterbury, Conn. The business is owned by Pietro. Petruzsi, of 312 Bishop St., Waterbury, Conn.,, and will bo con. ducted by Mary Petru1zi, of zI2 Bishop. St.. Waterbury, Conn, as
 MARY PErRuzzI.
 Dated August srd, ieto. s-s-to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
HARVARD AWARDS
 ARE ANNOUNCED

Scholarships for study at Harvard University have been made to two men in this vicinity, it was an- nounced in a list of recent awards issued by the university yesterday. The awards were made to Sidney D. Ripley, 2nd, of Litchfield, and John H. Cox, of Naugatuck. Ripley is the recipient of 8 George H. Emer- son scholarship and Cox receives the Harvard -Yenching Institute Fellowship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
THATCHED COTTAGES

aHusman's Honeymoon" starring Robert Montgomery, was filmed in the matched villages of Devon England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
sTARLET RIDES

Virginia Weidler's many hours of riding her pet pinto pony will come in handy when she rides a horse for a scene in "The Philadelphia Story"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03

Schoolboys in England offered to work on farms during summer va cations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03

Cuba is urging its farmers to cul- tivats medicinal plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03
FRENCH GOVT.
 IN VERSAILLES

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-03

The Democratic Town Commit tee of New London this week en- dorsed Dr. Wilbur L. Cross for the gubernatorial nomination and Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse for Secretary of State. Last week 8 draft Cross movement came from the New London local of the ln- ternational Longshoremen's Asso- citation.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

and reports, seem to have omitted
what some might consider es-
sential details. The columns of
The Star were scanned for the miss
ing links, but even this repository
of knowledge, strange to say, failed
to deliver the goods, to use a popu-
lar expression
Naturally, the first step was to
secure the land. for. as stated, this
belonged to the Federal Govern
ment, and so, in the minutes of the
board for November II, 1873 we
find among the recommendation
made to the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, the following:
First, that Congress be asked
to donate to the District of Co.
lumbia, for school purposes, lots 1S
and 10, square l58, on Massachusetts,
avenue, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets NV, in the city
Of Washington, and now owned by the
United States Government. These
lots have frontage of LOT feet and
a depth of 1T feet, and would make
an excellent site for a school build
ing for the children residing in the
northwestern section of the city"
Opening.
From the minutes of the trustees
for 1S80-8l, we get at the approx
mate date upon which the Force
Building was opened. Here We find
the report of the Committee on
Building and Repairs, which states:
The Committee on Building and
Repairs respectfully reports that
they met on the 31st of August at
the Force Building for the purpose
of inspection. After doing so care
Evening star., 1940-06-09

| gun to appear many years before
in the block bounded by L and M,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
but elsewhere homes were isolated,
and altogether few thousand dol
lars would have represented the
entire amount expended for building
| purposes.
Slash Run, or Shad Run as it
was sometimes called-a drowsy
shallow branch having it's main
source somewhere around Fifteenth
street and Columbia road-was still
an open stream in many places,
and the odor arising from the in
sanitary sslaughter houses which
lined the banks was even more un-
William Linkins. Frank Linkins. John
Pfeaster. John Berry, George Walk
er, John Hoover, John Little and
others did their killing hereabout
This picturesque branch, we'll known
to many an old timer, entered the
city by crossing Florida avenue at
about Eighteenth street. A feeder
which joined the main stream in
the center of Square 156, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth, P and
Q, added to the size of the branch
as it wended its way southeasterly
to near Sixteenth and L streets,
where it zigZagged west to Twenty
second street and flower into Rock
Creek at point between N and o
streets.
Three large springs found their
way into Slash Run. One was
known as Browns. and was near
Florida avenue east of Fifteenth
street; another was on the south
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Ringle WINGED, Eyes, I have to ad-
NIT it," he said, even though it
may cause the unthinking to ridi-
cule our department. That patent
was allowed many years ago, when
scientific knowledge was far below
its present level and originality plus
enough money for the fee was all
that was needed.
THE rules are difficult now We
have trained scientists whose serv-
ices are at the disposal of all ap-
plicants. If an idea is submitted
that is obviously infeasible, they
tell the inventor so, and try to per-
suade him to drop it and get his
money back If the inventor refuses
to accept their advice, then the case
is gone into fully; and If refused.
he can still sue in court. Yes, it is
still possible to get patent on a
device that may be unavoidable
practically, but at least it will have
some common sense behind it, and
be better than the screwbau patents
of other days which have no place
in the function of our department.
And while on that subject, I may
say that its function is wider than
commonly supposed. 1t exists not
merely to protect individual inven-
tors and to receive fees from them.
It's main accomplishment, by reason
of giving protection, is to increase
the standard of living of the country
as a whole. Without the patent
Office, such things as electric re-
frigeration, radio, automobile, etc.,
would never have been built at all,
or would be prohibitive in price
Naturally no one would have put
brains or money into their develop
ment If both could have been legally
stolen by the first industrial pirate
that came along"
Upon being promised that this
point Of view would be expounded, !,
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city was laid out, and in the
numbering of the squares this one
was assigned number 1853. In all,
there were % original lots in this
block, but subsequent to their sale
by the Government, subdivisions
were made and further lot numbers
assigned.
The first sale we find in this square
was in 1902. when William Dough-
erty and William Simmons OBJ
tanned four lots each Between
that date and 1906. Raborg e.
Taylor had brought from Charles
Love four lots on the N street side,
and evidently they erected build
ing on their holdings, for in the
30's they were taxed $3.50 for i'm
provements. In 1909. Mr. O'Neale
owned property at the corner of
Eighteenth and N streets, and in
1884 Grafton Powell bought lot
in this square, which he later sold
to w. w. Corcoran. In 1880, Ann
Shorter was assessed $50 for prop
erty here, and in 184O B. F. Moxley
was one of the taxpayers.
Missing Links.
Just when the Force School
Building was begun the record does
not state. There seems to have
been no cornerstone laying, nor
any ceremony at all. Exactly when
the building was completed and first
occupied is also a doubtful point
the writer could not clear up. OF
course, he got very close to it, but
not down to the exact date 1t
did not "just grow like Topsy-we
know that-and yet the Board of
School Trustees, in their minutes
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fully, we had the pleasure to re-
commend its acceptance by the
honorable Commissioners. ="
OF the buildings surrounding
Scott Circle, about the most inter-
esting one stands to the east of the
Hahnemann Memorial. 1t is desig-
mated as 1900 Rhode Island avenue.
1t is now owned and occupied as the
Washington headquarters of the
National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer
Association, Inc.
Alexander Bell Home.
This building, as 1t originally
stood, was erected prior to 1885,
when it was occupied by Alexander
Graham Bell. 1t was built by 1t.
Broadhead. probably 1t John Broad
head, United States Marine Corps,
who in 1880 resided at 1911 Four
teenth street NV.
The architect of the building was
John Fraser, who had his office at
1920 New York avenue and the
builder, Robert l. Fleming. father
of Banker Robert V. Fleming. 1t
is quite probable that Prof. Bell
made his home here until it was
sold to Vice President Levi P. Nor
ton in 1889
In 1887, during the Bell occu-
pancy. the house was seriously
damaged by fire and water, and
the blaze was a costly one.
The house was erected by It.
Broadhead and was sold to Prof
Bell some years ago for 500 900.
Since that time he has added some
Improvements, considerably increas-
ing the cost of the house.
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Above: The BeH-Morton hol

that there were no houses on the
south side of Massachusetts, avenue
in the block between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets.
Real Estate Notes.
The Star of November 2. 1870,
! in its real estate notes, gives an
idea of the condition of Massachu-
setts avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. saying:
Fitch, Fox & Brown. real estate
brokers. have sold lot 81 and part
of lots 56 and So, in Bryan's sub
division of part of square 2l2, known
as Highland place, fronting 40 feet
on the building line of Massachu-
sets avenue, with an average depth
of 160 feet, and containing 5.865
square feet. to Mrs. Adelaide I.
Brown for S7.33l25"
The name, Highland Place was
later changed to Highland Terrace,
by which name this property is
still known.
Prior to the early 70s, when
Washington enjoyed one of its
healthiest real estate booms, largely
due to the improvements then being
made by the Board of Public Works,
of which Alexander r. Shepherd
was president, before he became
Governor of the District. Massachu-
sets avenue, west of Sixteenth
street, was practically unimproved,
and brick yards were still being
operated near Dupont Circle by
William Hopkins, who had sue
ceeded to the business of Thomas
Corcoran. bother of the banker
and philanthropist. w. w. Corcoran.
True, struggling village had be-
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Var Lures Many Inventors Into Action by Which They Hope

tionship between doctor and patient
is a positive broadcast in a loud
voice. There is no use going there
to inquire if Mr.. John Jones has
submitted an idea, because whether
he has or not, the reply will be the
same-we cannot tell. But as soon
as Mr.. Jones has had his idea ac-
cepted, then any one at all may go
into the search room and read the
complete details.
Stimulated by War.
"All I can say" said David
Ringle of the Patent Office, "is that
it is quite true that we are receiving
applications obviously stimulated or
motivated by the war. And, ! might
add, not just this war, but all pre-
vious ones, not even excepting the
War of Independence"
With cooperation impossible to
praise too highly, Mr.. Ringle dug
into musty files for a series of pat
ents which showed that the de-
structive impulse is not new. Many
Of these are highly fantastic, others
are on the borderline of possibility,
and still others already proven sue
cesses, particularly when needed
improvements were added.
The first in point of priority, and
one of the most interesting. is Bush
nell's submersible, the original sub
marine. 1t was not only patented,
but actually built and used as long
ago as 1776.
A glance at the sketches of it
makes clear its principles. In this
one-man craft, the operator turned
by hand a crank with propeller
blade on the front, causing it to
move forward slowly. A vertical
crank and propeller also made 1t
descend. II continuously turned.
There is also an auger for boring a
hole In the keel Of IN enemy yes
eel. BY some means not quite clear,
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side OF Rhode Island avenue east
Of Connecticut avenue, and the
third was in the grounds now oc-
cupied by the Louise Home. At
Twenty first and L streets. where
John Berry slaughtered cattle, there
was wooden bridge, and where
the stream crossed Eighteenth
street, it was arched over.
Hunters Haven.
Downtown, this stream crossed
Massachusetts, avenue, Rhode Island
avenue and M street at point be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets and nearly touched Six
teenth street at M.
All along this run was good
cunning when the city was young,
and. judging from its other name,
"Shad" Run. 1t would seem that
shad once made their way into
this stream by way of Rock Creek.
Many years before the District
Of Columbia was created. perhaps
centuries ago, Slash Run was a
much larger body of water than
the early Washingtonian knew it
to be. and quite deep. On several
occasions, when excavations have
been made along its course, tree
trunks and vegetation of an early
period have been found, sometimes
20 feet below the earth's surface.
First Sale.
The Peter Force School. on the
south side Of Massachusetts, avenue
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, is no doubt worthy of special
mention. The ground upon which it
stands went to the Government in
the division of lots at the time the
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an explosive charge was supposed
to be screwed into this auger hole,
attaching it firmly to the doomed
vessel, after which the fuse was Lit
and the submersible fled away.
Mr.. Bushnell built his in 1776 and
trained Sergt Ezra Lee in its oper-
alton. The British feet was then
lying off Governors Island. block
aiding the port of New York. One
dark night two rowboats took the
submersible in tow and headed for
the enemy. Before they got close
enough to be seen they cast off and
rowed back, leaving the doughty
sergeant to continue alone.
Carried by Tide.
At first the tide carried Lee past
his objective, but he managed to
turn around and oar his way back.
Picking a big, fat, juicy victim, the
64-gun frigate H. M. S. Eagle, he
managed to sneak up to it, duck
under and set to work boring into
the keel. But there was no justice.
The nefarious British had pulled a
fast one on him and had sheathed
the hull with copper. Rivulets Of
honest American sweat poured from
Ezrais brow as he strove frantically
to drill through it, with the pathetic
hope of a woodpecker trying to nest
in a tin roof. He had to give it up,
but did get safely away. Later the
scheme was tried twice more, but
never worked. The effort was not
all wasted. as Bushnell proved later
on a fact that was not believed at
the time, namely, that a charge
could be set of under water-a
discovery that later evolved into
the submarine mine.
When asked about q report that
. patent had been granted an opti-
mist who wanted to harness four
eagles to . basket and conquer the
hitherto uncomfortable air, Mr..
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Mr.. Ringle consented to give further
information and lend photos of war
inventions of the past.
One Of the strangest of these is a
device based on the principle of re-
versing the Biblical injunction to
beat swords into ploughshares. 1t
is a combination gun and plow.
patented in 1862. Upon the appear
ance of Indians (or possibly city
relatives come to spend the sum-
mer), the ploughing farmer would
hastily unhitch his team, aim the
gun with the plough handles, and let
the enemy have it where it would do
the most good.
There is also an airplane with
neutrality-suspicious. out on the
wing tips. 1t is intended to be
launched without a pilot whenever
enemy aircraft are around. An
electrical device causes it to head
for the nearest loud sound, and
keep headed there. Naturally it is
hoped that the loud sound is the
drone Of an enemy plane, and that
the robot will crash into it and de-
stroy it. Fantastic as it may sound,
there is good basic principle in
volved, and some day it may be
practical.
Another one on the borderline
consists of proposition to raise a
sunken ship by putting down. re-
frigerating coils and freezing
solid iceberg around it. As icebergs
will float. up comes the ship, after
which there is a mad rush to tow 1t
to port before the ice melts.
British Device.
From the British patent Office
comes a device to overcome the
submarine by enlisting a part Of
Natures air force-sea gulls. A
float shaped like q submarine Is
prepared. Inside Is . clockwork
device which periodically chops up
Evening star., 1940-06-09
By Basil Gordon.

The W.. by far the most absorb
ing topic Of the day, exercises its
influence on the thoughts of butcher,
baker and candlestick maker, as the
saying goes. The members of these
trades look on it from the layman's s
viewpoint and are not professionally
interested; with the inventor, how
ever. such is not the case. Neces-
sity may be the mother of invention,
but war can also claim some respon-
sibility for its existence.
The information seeker who would
track the invention to its lair at
least has the advantage of knowing
where the lair is. 1t is in an i'm
posing structure on Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue, the
Department of Commerce Building,
which houses the Patent ONCE.
Here lie the records of millions of
brain waves, good, bad and indiffer-
ent, impartially catalogued for the
inspection of one and all. The man
who built the better mouse trap has
it recorded somewhere in the Pat
ent Office, whether or not the world
ever beat path to his door. The
poorest trap is also on file, even If
it never caught anything except
those unwise enough to invest in its
stock. 1t stands to reason, there
fore, that there is an abundance of
war patents, military and naval
and it also happens to be true that
under the stimulus of the present
war. there are various new appli-
cations along this line.
Interesting as it might be to
know what they are, the infornla-
ton cannot be divulged. Until q
patent is granted. all correspondence
or negotiations between the appN-
cant and the once is strictly conn.
dental. Compared to It, the rela.
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and spits out chunks Of garbage
The local gulls soon learn that the
float represents first call for the
dining car, and they eagerly follow
1t as it is towed along. Then. when
they are we'll trained, bitter blow
falls. The float is withdrawn from
service, and they are cut off from
their source of supplies. Frantically
they wheel through the skies, dream
ing of the good old days before the
depression. But hark, what is that
they see? Can happy days be here
again? Eagerly they cluster around
long, sinister, cigar-shaped object
under the water. Observers, mark
ing this, radio the nearest destroyer,
which goes out and sinks the sub
marine.
Another British patent OF the
vintage of 17l8 is depicted-a primi-
tive machine gun, with the legend
Defending King George, your
country and laws is defending your
selves and the Protestant cause"
The SuperStructure looks queer, but
the tripod looks as modern as II
made yesterday afternoon in De-
troit. But the real payoff is in the
instructions for use against different
types of enemies. Round bullets
are to be used against Christians,
square ones against Turks. No rea-
son, military or social, is given why
Christians should be roundly ex-
terminated while the Turks get Z
square deal.
The rearmament program soon
to be passed by Congress will un-
questionably stimulate further mill
tary inventions, and it is earnestly
to be hoped that some of them are
worthwhile. In fact, the best hope
is that they will be so overwhelming
in their powers of destruction that no
one dare attack us, and that they
will never be used.