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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Whenever anybody happens to mention sympathy for one of the Old.timers i'm this valley, some wise lad Is sure to pop up with the information that the sympa- thy is misplaced, that land- ownership or heavy bank bal- ance has removed the afflicted 0ne from the threat of misery. If half the tales of wealth heard here were true, Larry CondOn's post office would need enlarge ment to care for the seasonal flood of dividend checks, and folks would spend most of their time clipping coupons. UnfOf- tunately, most of this assumed wealth is dream money, or out worn stock certificates of no value.
 Times are harder. Henry Mo- Carthy has discovered that sugar bags are now made of five thick llesses of Kraft paper instead of six. Not so very long ago, sugar came in wooden barrels. The next step was cloth sacks that made good dish towels. Now there's mighty little use for sugar wrappings except to kindle fires with them.
 Nm the back room of Me Carthy's store stands . relic worth considerable money. It's an old pot-belIied stove. Around that stove men of great infiu- ence gathered to discuss politics, levy taxes, make plans for the improvement Of roads, or hire a new preacher. That stove served through all the hectic partisan quarrels incident to the World War and our once proposed en- try into the league of nations but it finally gave way. Now it's cracked and eorlorn, just be- cause Of an advertising stunt. One day new tobacco salesman called and gave away a gross of special chewing plug. The re- sultant barrage was toe heavy for Henry's stove. She broke her brisket under fire. Forum ateIy, Henry found an exact du-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27
CONTINUED GOLD
 WEATHER LOOMS

Continued cold weather is in prcs- pect for the weekend. the weather- man said today as the city shivered through another day of the current frigid wave. The temperature. dropped to nine degrees during the night, and had climbed to only Is above at 10 a. m. :. Fair and cold is the prediction. for today and tomorrow, and the end of the cold spell is not yet in sight. Temperatures this month have been far below normal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Drew PeGvson and Bob Allen
 writers of shs famous Washington Mery-G y-Ge.Reund. sfart fiIibuster of fun ln c rolieking eemls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Nicaraugua shlpped over 2,500, 900 pounds of cotton to Germany in
 1889. es
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Nate Evarts caught @ giant pos- sum the other day near Flood Bridge. Possums are about like carp, except that they have fur instead of fins. Nobody with real- ly refined taste ever tries to eat possun, that is, nobody except Jerry Tarbox, a four.footed gen. tleman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

George Welton, Grassy Hill stone mason, Is responsible for many of the best foundations in this area. George could lay stone, in fact he laid them so fast that no union mason could keep up with him. Two hod-carriers served MT. Welton, and he kept them busy. George once wore a stovepipe hat to church. A joker knocked the hat of and George worked out on the joker so effectively that most people believe the man dead. George went of to live in the woods until the dust settled, then he returned to teach a fish ped- lar a lesson. It seems that this hshman called on Welton with an offer of extra fine mackerel. George bought two. They were not as fresh as represented, so he put them away until the pedlar came again, then he wore them out slapping them around the merchants ears.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Charley the Fisherman is the happiest man on the river these days. He chops holes in the ice and sets giant carp traps on the bottom. Carp are hard these days, SO hard that some people won't eat them. Lloyd Fowler says there's only one way to prepare these fish. Stuff lem, bake lem on . board, then eat the board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27
Briefs | By BILL | GARRlGUS

plicate, and nobody has diStrib- uted any sample chewing to- bacco lately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-27

Walter A. Jarvis,. present exalted
 ruler, has selected a special con1-
 mittee to complete arrangements
 for the coming meeting, which will be featured as usual by @ social
 session. It is expected that the oc- casion will serve as a reunion for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Summer Session To Be
 Held at Saybrook For
 General Conference
Secretary Dunlavey of Waterbury to Submit Report; New Legislation tO. Be Considered for Presenta.
 ton in I94l Session of General Assembly

Sealers of weights and measures from all sections of Connecticut will gather at the Pease House ct Say- brook tomorrow for the annual ses- sion of the state association. Clifford Kyle of Fairfield, state president, will preside.
 The important business feature of the session will be in relation to instructions for the legislative coni- inittee. A number of new proposals will be presented by the various To- cal members of the association. Sec- retary William H. Dunlayey of Wa terbury will not only present his own report, but will read a number of suggestions submitted by the gem eral membership which may become the nucleus of new legislation or made the basis for number of amendments.
 The past year has been an espe- cially active year for the asSocia- tion working in cooperation with state officials. Frequent check-ups 'On weighing scales do not represent these days the principal duties of the sealers as in former measures. slt is testing measurements of trucks ofor the delivery of fuel oil and gas- oline to small dealers and to homes ethat is keeping the members on the llert in their own community. r Due to the existence of laws call-
 ng for frequent inspections and . double checks" on the latest in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Huey Long Regime
 Is Badly Smashed
Reform Wave Sweeping Last Yestiges of 'Kingfsh's'
 Empire Out to Sea-Imovations Disappear

Baton Rouge, La.-(UP)-In 60 days, the Louisiana executive de- partment and legislature erased the major innovations" brought to the state during the 12-year reign of Kinghsh Huey Pierce Long and his heirs.
 Thirteen months after the Louis- jana scandals broke and placed the state in national disgrace, the "re- form" legislature which took offlce with crusading Gov. Sam Houston Jones had legislated out many of the laws dearest to the hearts of Huey Long and his brother Earl. While the reform administration returned powers and authorities which Long took from many parish and city governments, it frightened the restrictions on many of the lead- CTS in government and political cir cles and made it harder for an of- flceholder to raid the state treas uries.
 The legislative record was accom- plished through a combination of Jones campaign pledges to clean up the state and shift in legislative membership executed during the same elections in which Jones gained office. The new governor had a house and senate definitely anti-Long, as compared with the "rubber-stamp" legislatures of the Kinghesh and his successors, o. K. Allen, Richard w. Leche and Earl K. Long.
 Rival Bar Group Set Up.
 Huey Long once became angry with the Louisiana Bar Association, so he had passed a bill which out lawed that standard organization of the lawyers of his state, and substituted another headed by his picked favorites. That measure stood for almost 10 years, until Jones legislature recently reiustated the bar association.
 Huey Long decided that parish (county) officers, sheriffs especially, were defying his wishes too fre- quently and too easily. So he took "home rule" away from the parishes @AANa AAfSSvNA 0AS PCAEAo NAoVSA1sNAy to some of the parish ofhcers in his state government. However, Earl Longs special vote-getting legisla- tive session of last January re- pealed that law in a last-minute effort to gain favor enough among the parish officials to make them throw their political weight to him in his unsuccessful attempt to slave of Jones' threat of unseating him,
 But, while Jones did much to place power back in its proper hands, he freely has ordered his trusted officials to step into parishes and take charge where sheriffs, courts and attorneys were under in vestigation.
 General Cleanup Begun. His attorney general, Eugene Stanley. has begun vigorous prose- cution of alleged pilferings of state funds, briberies, and cases of mis- conduct in smaller state offices. Stanley has pledged thorough prose- cution of state law violations-be- cause he still rankles under dis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
|Sl NEGOTIATES MACHINERY BUY City Acquires Necessary Ownership to Meet Fed-
 eral Requirements

For the sum of q the board es education last night purchased many pieces of machinery from the Scovill Manufacturing company be- cause federal funds for the repair and maintenance of machinery in the schools cannot be secured un- less the machinery is owned by the school department.
 The machinery, used ct LeaRen- worth high school, was previously on loan from the Scovill company It includes lathes. drill presses. . surface grinder, and other pieces.
 The board voted to thank the Scovill company and also voted to thank the Farrel Foundry company for the loan of 2 lathe for use at Leavenworth.
 Supt. of Schools pr. Thomas J Condon announced that the tuition rate in Waterbury for the coming academic year would be $1lS.O5 foF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

weighing and measuring apparatus the association reports that few serious infractions of the law have been reported in any part of the state during the past year.
 The usual number of complaints of receiving "short weightv in coal or poor measure in fuel oil have been recorded in different com- munities, but investigations usually result in a satisfactory adjustment of circumstances. Often times seal CTS learn that the fault rests not with the dealers apparatus, but in the consumers estimate of what he should have received.
 From all the complaints received and from the Investigations con- ducted new legislation will develop in the near future. It will be part of the official business of the con- ference tomorrow to bring out the developments of the past few months and to organize committees to prepare recommendations to be submitted at the fall meeting of the association.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

I criminatory legislation of the Long
 regime. Huey Long once had his
 legislature adopt statutes virtually forcing Stanley out of his ofiice as
 district attorney for Orleans (New Orleans) parish.
 That legislation gave the states
 attorney general power to super
 sede any parish district attorney, at his own discretion, and the gov- ernor still has authority to sus- pend other parish officers under investigation.
 Ironically, Stanley now has that same power that his former politi- cal foes had-for the statute au- thorizing suppression of district att torIaeys has never been repealed. The Jones legislature created a state crime commission, specific ally to clean up alleged scandal cases involving state law violations, and gave the commission 3500O00
 with which to operate. Stanley now is organizing what he calls
 his little FBI" to make a thor
 ough investigation throughout the state and ferret out all violations
 by men in public office.
 Scandals Over State (One notable characteristic of the Louisiana scandals is that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

their outcroppings never were con- fined strictly to any one part of the state. While more scandals have arisen and been aired in the southern section than in any other part of Louisiana, other cases nov are pending in all parts of the state. It is true, however, that New Orleans was the hotbed of the scandals discoveries.) To the man in the street, these principal things are noticeable since the Long regime has left office:
 The per cent sales tax Is on its way out and will die Dec. 31.
 In its place are higher taxes on cigarettes q cent a package) and other tobaccos; on gasoline q cent gallon, bringing the state tax to 6 cents), and higher taxes of liquors.
 Automobile licenses hereafter will cost only 8. And hore-racing is to stay. The legislature has created the first Louisiana horse-racing commission, and both within-the-park bookmak- ing and par-mutuel betting will De permitted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30


 Were you a poverty striclke ex- vaudevillian getting 425 q Wes on the Vaudeville News tn 1922
 ! was getting ef0 q week au assistant editor, plus an averN oi $l50 . week extra b d co1is- siOus.
 Were you ever on easy-lne terms with Dutch Schultz2 | knew every gangster in Fn, except Schultz. I never met hi
 Did you ever treat a gang aef with great contempt and V: ''what can YOU do for MEq" 1t was just the other way arold, He said it to me.
 In 1888 did you attempt to Srt a new holiday called "Preside's Day2" Did it fail because the Pyt- dent wouldn't cooperate? Not true. ! suggested such 2 y on April 2, MT. Hearst took # b from there, and three weeks lsr 1t was celebrated. When was the first time you pt dicted FDR would run again7
 The first time was on Augt 1st, 1888,
 Did you ever hedge on that ps diction?
 I quoted others as believing l wouldn't run, but I kept saying would. q
 Was your scoop on Zangara, WI shot at FDR in Miami stolen Steve flanagan from a Westel Union table and given to all u other news services?
 No. Here's 8 note flanagan SCI me about that. It says: T see no what you mean about second-ra reporting. You were exclusive on n wedding and no other neWspape man got the Zangara story fairly foulIy. You had IS good . reporter beat on that as any I ever saw
 Was your story on Lepke's SUI render also one of your phony scool and did the Daily News beat you 1t by five minutes?
 No, it was a clean beat by tl Mirror of 30 minutes.
 How about the legend that yol Hauptman news was n. g.?
 All I can do is refer you to D Dudley s. Schoenfeld's book, 'Tl Crime and the Criminal" On pas 92 this eminent psychiatrist of u Academy of Medicine says: "Wir chell's sources of information wel authentic"
 In 1881 when Scribner's wrote u most enthusiastic biographies sketch of you by Charles w. Wilco did you admire 1t so much you Ina it reprinted at your own expense ft private distribution?
 No. My syndicate, King Feature had it reprinted at its expense g sales promotion. Say, this is gel ting tiresome, mister.
 It has been recently written ths you have a peculiarly hewitchin personality, with an expression ( questing intelligence.
 That is completely inaccurate and foul blow!
 MT. Winchel, I'm serious, pleas don't kid me.
 I'm not kidding you. though you were kidding me. When in tn devil did you hear so much unim portant misinformation about mi anyhow?
 I didn't hear it. I read it in series by St. Clair McKelway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
COP WOMEN HERE
 DISCUSS PLATFORM


 Mrs. Henry Dews of IA Greenleaf avenue was hostess this afternoon of the Women's Republican Club. A discussion is scheduled on the plat form adopted at the recent. national Republican convention in Philadel- phia as well on the various reports submitted at the last meeting of the Federation of Women's Republican Clubs. Several suggestions will be taken under consideration for the clubs participation in the summer and fall activities as planned by the state and local organizations. Cards will be played and refreshments served.
 Mrs. Minnie LeRoy was chairman of the entertainment committee and Mrs. w. A. Ameling chairman of the program committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
POULTRY BREEDERS
 PICK OTTO PENNER

The Connecticut Poultry Breeders association elected Charles Kelley of Watertown, president, recently. Otto Penner of Oakvilie was select- ed first vice-president; William Christensen, Pennington, second vice-president; Eric Dahlberg, New Haven, secretary and treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Sealers of State Convene Tomorrow

the elementary echocle and 4I1s1. fnr the hl9h aGho1l1. Lat Essl& figures were c1af for elsm6nIel.i schools and t121el for hish Iehot|6. The iurreefe. HF. Ceu6cu SaId. N'Ee due to the reStoretIcn ol t.1e 20 pr cent pay cut tp teachqrs which raised the per capita cost.
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 Hong Enng residents must nor have licenses to Import Fsdips.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Ms Joan Byford paid ee.0o0 te least . london theater "fo: the duraSon ef the war" put on het own how Let's Mix It." and 1t ran for c(e performances only.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Current Political Gossip

"A poplar ticket to be presented ' the Democrats this fall, accord lg to one political observer who lssed along his information to lis column would be headed by laloney- Cross Birmingham It ,uld have both balance and wer, according to this inform tt, but he admitted that 1t prob ay would not be the one select- { at the forthcoming state con-
 ation, which will be definitely s when the State Central Com rttee meets this week. Senator Hncis T. Maloney already has h hnomination but not ex-Gover- n Wilbur |. Cross nor Thomas Birmingham of Andover. The lser, however, announced his csdidacy for Ieutenant-goyer- m last week.
 lshing Public Works Commis- sider Robert A. Hurley aside this faI in his quest for the guber- IlalriaI nomination or having him ste aside so that Dr. Cross might ha, it is not going to be an easy j0E The commissioner is proba- abIthe best-known of the Demo- crac hold -overs in this present Relblican regime. He certainly hOk the most important position of ay Democrat in the state gOv- erhent today and one that is the enviof countless Republican iob- seelrs. Democratic leaders have 0fthan mere deliberating to do ovethe elevation or relegation of Hury.
 Indentally his term expires on JulW, 1941, so that if he should not renominated and the Dem ocraE lose in the fall, it would verylikely mean that he would be o; of office next year. If the Dem;rats won, however, there'd be nlgood reason to depose him and iery reason to retain him, if he aeded to requests to let Cross run yain this fall. If he jumps rightinto the nomination battle, thoua. 1t will probably be on 8 winn:- -take-all basis.
 Relblican workers of the 17th Senalrial District t-Ansonia, Bea- con Nils, Derby, Middlebury, Ox- ford, Seymour, and SOuthbury- are netting tonight in the Mid dlebW town hall at s o'clock. Paul.. Cornell is due to address the spup. Campaign plans will be dislssed at length, not to mem tion Olitical candidates by the score.
 Sentor Francis T. Maloney, Na- tionalC Committeeman David E. FitzGsald. Mayor John w. Mur- phy, CNew Haven, and others ad- dressd the 9th annual outing of Demoratic Registrars Association in Waingford Sunday.
 Mrs Chase Going Woodheuse, Presidnt of the State Federation of Dei0cratic Women's Clubs, was guest f the New Milford club at a picm supper last night.
 Acccding to the latest official tabulaion there are now 569 Will kie-forP President clubs in the United States. In Connecticut alone here are 43 such units. To- tai meabership has not yet been computd, but when it is we'll have areliable a slant on just how many Republicans there are right now se9ing public jobs now held by Democrats.
 The lsst of the summer sessions z whicl voters can be made will ! held b Waterbury on Wednes- dy, August !. When the Septsm- bf date rolls around campaigns wh be oi In earnest and the hay ini seasa over for fair.
 Ms Joan Byford paid ee.0n0 to sast . london theater "fo: the ura}on of the war" put on her wn how Let's Mix IL" and 1t ran ar ole performances only.
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 eFfehsr $ kssk pais
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

| The lsst of the summer sessions
 whicl voters can be made will
 held b Waterbury on Wednes- d,y, August !. When the Septsm- bf date rolls around campaigns VI be oi In earnest and the hay inl seasp over for fair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Fourteen big consignments of clothes and tons of berries have been collected by Punjab boy scouts in India and sent to distressed fan- inc areas at HiSSar,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Fire has . renaissance in painting and exhibits by Irish painters and lectures on art are attracting crowds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Acccding to the latest official tabulaion there are now 56a will kie-forP President clubs in the United States. In Connecticut alone here are 43 such units. To- tai meabership has not yet been coinputd, but when it is we'll have areliable slant on just how many Republicans there are right now se9ing public jobs now held by Democrats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Mrs Chase Going Wooiheuse, Presidnt of the State Federation of Deibcratic Women's Clubs, was guest f the New Milford club at a picm supper last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

Sentor Francis T. Maloney, Na- tionalC Committeeman David E. FitzGgald, Mayor John w. Mur- phy, dNew Haven, and others ad- dressd the 9th annual outing of Demoratic Registrars Association in Waingford Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

.HELEN'S .
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1940-07-03
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VOLUME l. NUMBER q


The cooperator dominates, not very dramatically,
for Baseba11's Poison Ivy Club "those fellows who
AREN'T good enough to make the towns representative
ball teams md who criticize those who do", and goes
on to say, "youd think of these sour grape
fans were paying to see these gmes".
I'D say in the first place that the fact that the
FANS are not paying to the games has nothing
do with the question. ticket to game does not
give one the privilege of being msportaan1ike.
In the second place I think the cooperator Is
guilty Of an attitude toward the disgruntled
not conducive TO the development of the good fellow
ship which community sports supposed to provide.
The whole statement reeks with bad feeling makes
one wonder If perhaps there isn't something more
than sour grapes involved.
In the third place I wonder If too much attention
isn't being given to the so-called representative
teams. TO me it seems that the softba1l leagues
are much more important community projects. an
far prouder of the fact that have eleven teams OF
men playing ball together in our Community, than
am Of the fact that have two teams Of stars for
the rest of the town to watch, perhaps to cheer,
perhaps to envy. 7 think the eleven teams "repre-
sent" Greenbe1t far more than the two, and should
receive the featured places in schedules,
support, and in our paper's announcements and re-
ports.
Howard c. Custer
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1940-07-03
And a song was born continued

It is charming fancy to think that our National
Anthem tossed off by worried American patriot dur
ing the heat of battle Preached the country pro-
duct Of family cooperation. It Is typical Of the
true American spirit that anthem Is the result
of natural emotions recorded almost accidentally
an odd scrap of paper careless1y set to the words
Of drinking song and Is not the Worked-over,
cial outpouring of professional laureate.
The defenders of the United States in 1911, much
as they loved their flag, would stand aghast today
at the outrages done in the name Of honor to that
flag against small religious minority. That such
an outrage should occur in the very state where
great song born, not to celebrate bit OF bmt-
Ing, but the free, tolerant just spirit Of the
democracy, is great disgrace. As long our flag
lilies over land devoted to those ideals so nobly
Expressed IN the pres1nhle OF the n
times OF stress the hearts OF all citizens will
out "oh, say you see7"... And against people
united around their flag and the democracy It sym
bo1izes, no enemy advance.