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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17

Mickey Mouse win then make his debut and introduce the program to. follow. Honorable Mayor Vincent 4; scully this morning informed thGs sponsors that their invitation to att, tend had been readily accepted anc
 that he will be on hand to help the Riddles enjoy themselves aS they never have before at a theater party
 The main picture which will ts- offered will be announced in to1norT row evenings Democrat, along witk
 the remainder of the program. Ar, engagements have also been made tct have special policemen stationed ir,, front of the theater after the per-. forlnance to see that each child is. safely brought across the street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17

The commissioner reported that For the year ending June 30, 1940 -the department collected SIT 7,736, zoo as compared with $12,067 ,519 for the fiscal year 1893. The commissioner, who took office June 1, 1883, re- ported that the expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1888 amounted to $830, ,604 and seven years later the department spent $787 ,597, a decrease of $43,007 or 5.7%. The commissioner further reported that the department now has 424 em- ployes as against 458 persons seven years ago. In June, 1933 there were 335, ,467 automobiles as against 498,- g76 for the fiscal year ending June, 1940. The commissioners report in- dicates an increase in the number of cars of 163,5 ,509 or 48.74% during those years. The department, he de- Clares, licensed SIS, ,423 drivers, June 30, 1940, compared with 404 ,254 for the corresponding period in 1883, an increase of I'll, ,169 or 42%.
 New Duties Imposed
 The commissioner points out that these economies have been effected despite the fact that during the years the General Assembly has passed legislation imposing new du- ties on the department and added routine. He stated that the enact- ments of the gasoline refund law, the delinquent tax law and the act which created the dealers and re- pairers section in the department, increased the department'S eXpendi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17
47e6 Increase In Motor Vehicle Dept. Receipts
Decrease in Expenses Also Noted in Biennial Report of Commissioner COnnOr; Duties of Office Multiplied

Receipts of the Motor Vehicle Department have in creased $5 181 47 in the years of Comis- soner Michael A. Connor's tenure of office. This was
 made recently when the latter submitted his bien xa report to Governor Raymond E. Baldwin Despite this
 increase in business the Commissioner reported decrease fin expenditures number of persons employed and office space occupied in the State Office Building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17

cost of postage considerably. Post age was reduced, also, by the fact that it costs cents to mail pair of inserts, whereas set of markers cost cents under, the former sys- tenn"
 The Commissioners report shows tabulations indicating the amount of saving as a result of the adoption of permanent plates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17
cRocHEr1NG SPEED MARK sET

Kankakee, Ill.-(UP)-Mrs. Katie Rixie of Kankakee claims the speed crocheting championship of the world. Tn supervised contest con- ducted among 300 women in 8 local department store, Mrs. Rixie cfo- cheted 85 points in mile 8 minute" edging in one hour.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
Man Stabbed
In A Family
|Brawl
Collapsed
At Receiving
Hospital

SUNDAY morning james walsh.
an orderly at tho Receiving hospi-
tai heard an anto horn blowing in
the hospital driveway and went out
TO investigate lie discovered Will
lie Dixon. 80 3642 Brush street No
>. suffering from stab wounds In
the chest and abdomen. He was In
a sorions condition.
Dixon had driven himself 10 the
hospital. AS the orderly reached
tho car Dixon collapsed and lost
consciousness lie was carried iri1
The hospital Police revealed on
investigation that Dixon had been a
friend of Mrs liar Williams Grt:l
about six months ago He went 10
the Williams home AT 30O7 st An
tome street SUNDAY morning IT =
a. m and threatened the William s
family followed an argument with
Mrs Williams According 10 vii
nesccs he threw n pocket knife ri
Mrs. Williams and then put his arm
in tho bosom Of his shirt, stating
that he had gun and would Kin
the family including Mae Arthur
Williams, age ten. and Ulyses VIII
liams. age 10. who grabbed Dixon.
Tho Two mon scuffled and the Will
liams youth stabbed Dixon as mon
toned
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
Arthur Wood Seeks
Election On Record
In The Legislature

Two wears service in the House
and Is wears In the State Senate
have given Arthur f. Wood. Re
publican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor in the fail elections an
undispuird reputation OF faithful
moss and ability
Dufing these wears. an all-timc
record for State Senator service in
Michigan, Arthur f. Wood served
on many OF the most important
committees including Finance and
App OPERATION. Labor State Affairs.
Elections Ranks and corporations
Judiciary. Public l'iiliiies and The
state ; nitariums.
Combining an extensive know
ledge OF government with enthnsi-
asm Tor The welfare ~ tho state. he
had maintsined an opposition -
executive dictation and conetuu-
tional violations lic has fought tr,
massage ~ worthless bills and
initiated honehcal legislation lea
inc wiih lhe welfare ~ Tho State a.
large old Age Pensions. santa
fians for ihe iuhogular state ala
ter handicapped children and other
humane LEGISLATION is the reeul, ~
his cffolt-.
In addition senator Wood pfoyld-
81 licenses for real estate deale,
and automobile drivers lie helped
roducc the FAX on small corpora
iiou~ and he drafted Tho or A-o
Pension Act and repealed the Had
Tax
As Lieutenant Governor. no
would be The presiding officer or tie
Senate and 2 member Of tho state
Administrative BOARD a. h''ng
Nnico for man known as "indenen-
dent fair honest and on the ioh
opposing All rackots and fgtin.
Tor square deal for everyone ="
This is Tho reputation that ArihG~
y Wood has made Tor himself dur
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
Thirty Clubs Support
Harold Aliens Fight
For Sherif's Office

VIC colorcd committee heaat I
h Air, Nil Ransom Nobine Or
iA election % Harold Allen FOR
S9es " WaNnc County wetr
criii'u this week With his I'M
p1 i'" ro,erG as one ~ Mi IT.
-ta outstanding ciii7ons that he
W reelte hts iar toward Tues
f9f Seplemhor 10 election d,N
NaNbcrs ~ the committee follow
n- survey predicted his election
largo majority
iiey drew ihcF conclusions
finni = POLL made IA the rasi fti.
t'a among colofcd people rcnre-
s'iiNr oAcry rroGr and duh 10
Wafne Cnucty The pol showed
'ha' though Harold Nlirn Is 2
ncwrmog and Is cniharknr on Als
htsf scniure for public office W
Aa- hcen uuoanlihedly endorsed nv
nre ihm ihiri' Neero clnbs nd
a''e organizations
I't committee pointed Go tao
iple -ivc list as proof 'Hai yo'ors
~ i'i' Negro race arc NOT hluid
in Politicians Who arc false n
'heie concern ~ tho Negro pcorlc'e
welfare
.rlrs Nell Ransom predicted tar
ND Aliens election by huge ma
iorirv
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

n.hus -lca Chicago. treasurer. end
M Jackson Pittsburgh. CORES
pending secretary Mrs Jerene
Naklin. Detroit heade the Michi-
gan hurch contact for the Nation
al sSnphon, committee With Maud
Williams as assistant
nr John Moore Flint is again
i nr.onal scholarship commit
'f chairman : hoialships o:
Hnm $40 20 $40 were awaited
'oHf Young people piano and yoi's
coHfc.i winners
Tho convention viii convene y
l'fi-hureh ncxt year tho home 81
ihe president
ffc nial1 receptions Nclc ;sn-
~ottd hs ne tivo Choaco must o.
sanHaion- iha' entertained ne
convention snA ihr usual aftsis
ban 'o'leNne ihe concert Fihlay
ulcif
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

Upward % 100 delegates WEI,
here from Texas Florida. Tcnncs
see. Ohio. Indiana kansas. MIS-
souri,. Illinois. Michigan. New
Nolk Pennsylvania. MssSachu-
sctt> MARYLAND Washington. DC,
and Arkansas
Nationally known Artists
Among the naiionally known oa
standing musicians attending were.
Il Nathaniel Dctl Kempcr Harreid
Florence - Price Flta Morcn. An
iia raiiie Brown. VIM X Dawson
Florence NJ Price tiia Motcn and
many others
The DAN, conferences and dis
cusslonS on choral conducting
choir training voice etc. Ncrc
Vol, hcnehcial 10 the delegate
There were gpod muslDal programs
carh aflotnonn hy ianior and sen
Tor pupils and ncw talent viii b
Shove There sp'eudir mateeial
hcug developed 10 or Negro youtn
Nany huc new compositions sub
muicd was proof that the pea'i,o
ahiliis Of tho race is also erea'ly
immming The h,e evening con-
ccrts during he convention culmi-
mating in ire National Artists Nishi
program lasi Friday nien we're all
good ON NJ laiter program wefc
mo duo pianisfs tIholc Love and
George pierSor ~ Kansas cit,
Auhrc, ranhe, haritones Of Now
York n.y. Orpln southern mt
eanist ofsChiraro and Miss kra
Moten eortta!lo OF radio and
screen fame
The Detroit Ml.iDans assoeia
iion was well represented on thc
new talent program US Detroit
boy soprano Andrew Hcnry who
cspti,a'cd The audience with his
sweet voice The Pro. Mnsica nta.
maiique society 81 Detroit, dire'-
ct by y " Holloway sang on TO
na'ional h'anh night procrsn AMI
cived af ovation Tor ihrir twp
wrl crdored selections
The n,auihcnf officers wcra Fe
e'rcted the fo-f,r for me vcar h' r
ing My Macy caidwll Dawson.
pWshureh president 6 u Wilson
- Lon Nirf prosdept J Wel't
Zones CAioaen executive Sccfei2rN .
CARA liii' cleveland rccoedire
remls George u iluiehinso'
rii,ago 'ieasnrt Iol'o, II God
m N columbus eonn.'l'or
now neinh1r m Tho boa
81 directors Is Mrs Grace Thonr
NN YORK ny Mrs Nellie iiyn-
spu D"lfor Was named chairman
~ ihc National \rgto Opera com
mniec with Mamie Crimes as vrc
saman MIS- Lillian y Iohnsve
DrMof. fcrprdine secretary a
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

THIS organlZal ailegcdtN " e.
members in high government Of
fees who were pledged 10 carry
ont a reign OF terror IN Michigan
They started Il is claimed by plan
Ming 10 Kill OF Jewish people by
typhoid germs put in cottage cheese
IN all Jewish markets and bep1n
operation against the Negro nv The
Thrill Murder" ~ poor Silas cote
man. This BLACK Legion Orraniza
ton was carving out this terrible
program or murder while Wilton
If. Bowling was serving AS chief
assistant prosecutor OF Wayr"
county Tho Job fcl to him TO make
Michigan safe from this tcrrihla or
ganizaiion
A hint was dropped two y,ars
after SilaS Coleman had been kin-
cd that Negro had hccn Killed H.
Pinkney hv Tho Black Legion Like
a flash. "Bill' bowling drove &,
the scene OF tho murder. crawlc !
on his hand aud KNEES for hours at
time until he had unoarthcd TIC
clue that led TO unravclling " The
entire weird and unbelievable
story NJ how the Rltck Legion ial
murdered poor Silae Coleman be
cause HARVEY Davis The Colonel ~
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
Prosecuted Black
OF Silas Coleman

the Black Lection sixth regiment
wanted To know low u would ieel
10 KIN a Nieccr Men IN high pla' :
IS sought 10 Get Bill bow linc 20
ease M un tho prosecution a.
this murder Gang But Mr. pow.ins
pufsued his Job r,lrullc~sy ani'l
Jack Bannorwm. Harvey ntsis,
DAYTON Dcan Ray Lorcncc. 81, o
Lee aud Charles Rouse were con
victcd ae mmdcrors Of Silas Cole
man and placed safely behind D.
son bars.
Mr. nowiinc Is running FOR prose
cutor on the Democratic Ticket and
tho Primary date is TUESDAY,
Sepicmhor 10Th
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
Mass Meeting To Hear Details OF Lynching In Tennessee
Musicians Close Convention After
Selecting Pittsburgh For l94l Meet
By LILLIAN f. JOHNSON

CHICAGO IL The conccnsus of opinion is that hc
twentieth annual conference the National Association
of Negro Musicians Inc held here from Aug. Is to "a,
the best in the years existence in attendance
general nlerest and from tho fnamcia side.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

1929 Packard l.llour sedan "a
mechanically Perfect tar ~
Takes II. e.. &. lIill. 1851 t. !
ferson Ave. opposite Hudson '
Tors. IcnoN 49,.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31


prosecution os one
OF tho most tor
lifying murder
gangs ever 10 ap-
pear on the q ~
OF Michigan u
was tho y J = e. K
Legion Organika
ton that hoa~'- 4
Of its political
power I'm Wayne
county and Inc
state OF Mirh'g4n.
nsLt IL.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31
William Bowling
Legion In Killing !,
b, Alfred ta,scy

William + Dowlnc candidate
for Wsync County Prosecute. E
Well remembered for his cfhe ient
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-08-31

PIANO RI MR.
J. X fdd,. piano tuning and
pairing. Trlnii, s.lalg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
. HIGHLlGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Powerful Story of
 Negro'S Plight Told

The power and drama and truth of Richard Wright'S Native Son" (Harpers: $2.5W will keep the trag- edy of Bigger Thomas alive in your memory long after you have turned the last page, long after the echo of a changing steel door has died away.
 Wright has brought Bigger Thom- as to life, the life that too many American Negroes must face. It's not pretty-this life of hate, of pov- erty, of bewilderment and of pas sion-but it is devastatingly real. From the moment Bigger Thomas awakens in his wretched tenement home, kills a huge rat scurrying across the floor, Wright sounds the overtone of Bigger's inevitable end. An innocent victim of a system he can neither conquer nor understand, the cards are stacked against Big ger.
 Bigger was bad nigger." He was naturally lazy; he envied white folks, fought with his Negro con- panions. He stole when he thought it necessary. Then Bigger got job with the Daltons.
 The Daltons were people who, be- lieved in the advancement of the Negro, as a generality, contributed ping-pong tables and recreation centers; yet the Dalton wealth was squeezed from Negro tenants, con- fined in a "black belt" charged high rents for rat-infested homes.
 Wright shines in his picture of Mary Dalton and her Communistic lover, Jan, trying to fraternize with Bigger, taking Bigger to eat ando drink with them, filling him with emptp phrases of an equality he knows does not exist. Even Bigger cannot willingly accept their over- lures.
 There is a killing. Carrying the drunken girl to her room, Bigger Smothers her to escape detection. His efforts to hide his crime, his flight, a second killing and Bigger's capture are graphically pictured.
 The. story of Bigger Thomas is not for squeamish readers. Wright has wasted no time trying to make his story pleasant one. But it smashes through from one climax to another, never losing speed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
Luisa Tetrazzini

No opera or concert singer had larger following than did Madame LuiSa Tetraz- zini for at least twenty years following the turn of the present century. No victrola library was complete without it's quota of Tetrazzini records; solo record ings and some in which she was featured in duets and quartetS, and in this last type one can still hear her voice soar ing in the famous quartet from "Rigo- letto." Tetrazzini was one of the great singers of her day, and she sang profes- sionally much shorter time than many with lesser voices.
 Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian artist, passed away at Milan, Italy, at the age of sixty six years. She was, at the height of her career, the most outstanding colOratura soprano, and distinguished herself in such operas as La Traviata," "Lucia di Lam- mermoor," "The Barber of Seville,' and other operas that favored her coloratura voice. Emotional and temperamental Tetrazzini appealed to American audi ences and she in turn liked her Ameri- can audiences. She was favorite on the western coast, later identified with Os- car Hammerstein's opera. Her voice had purity of tone, but was of light quality as is the case with this type of singer. She was careful artist and took pride in being musicianly. There have been many such singers before and since let razzini, but she stands out as one of the most important She made fortune singing opera, but this was eventually lost, although at the height of her career she had both fame and fortune.
 Her artistic life was for many years, as she herself had expressed it, bed of roses, though this was not the case with her private life. She relates many of her ex- perienceS in her memoirs, "A Life of Song" Her life of song was more or less complete from start to finish as was only in 1888 that recording of hers was broadcast to this country from Italy, the singer listening to it from her villa where she, no doubt, sang in .pirit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
Coup, Surprise And What Else?

Democrats throughout the state don't know yet whether to cheer or denounce the coup that was turned at the meeting of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee here last Saturday. Political his tory for Connecticut was created when suggestion of U. S. Senator Francis T. Maloney that the senatorial nomination be combined with the election of dele gates to the Democratic national conven- tion prevailed. The renomination ot Senator Maloney was virtually assured by this decision.
 All sorts of meanings keep popping up as one ponders on this sudden Demo- cratic decision The average Democratic voter probably took it for granted that Senator Maloney would naturally be candidate to succeed himself and would be the logical candidate for the party to nominate. But evidently such leaders as Senator Maloney himself and State Chairman J. Francis Smith weren't too sure that the nomination would be as easy as that. Opinion seems to be that the early senatorial nomination was pro- posed to prevent any upset.
 Of course the Democrats had lesson in this respect two years ago. There's no doubt but what the candidacy Of Ex-Senator Augustine Lonergan was ser iously hampered by the pre-conventlon battle and the fight that took place there over his eventual nomination over oppo- sition of ex-congressman Herman Kopple- mann of Hartford. And lesson like this makes lasting impressions. Perhaps others shared the opinion that quick nomination and one in which opposition would not be ready was the answer to starting Democrats off towards con- plete victory this fall.
 If some Democrats express resentment because of the surprise of the move, they might be conforted by the knowledge that if they were taken off their feet, so were the Republicans whose thoughts these days seem to run to Paul Cornell as senatorial timber They face the prob ability of combating a Democratic sen atorial candidate early in the political season and of having to wait until July to find out what the odds against them in the presidential race are to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
Never Too Old

Probably the most unusual dance es- "Friendship Clubs" in Minneapolis and Milwaukee, conducted exclusively for peo- ole between 28 and 12O. Hostesses are 55 and 65 years old, and the dances are liquorless and jitterless. "Whistle dances" are featured so that the old folks can get acquainted-the sort of thing that used to be called, we believe, the Paul Jones'.
 Now here we are, all worried about jitterbugging and rug-cutting by the young folks, when it develops that the older folk retain their itch for, if not ac tually cutting rugs, at least mangling them. And why not? With every statistic showing clearly that we're all living longer, we might as well arrange to have fun longer, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
They Don't Understand

Japanese astonishment at the United States refusal to interfere with new Phil ippine immigration laws is probably quite sincere. That a great country which had possessions of a smaller one should actu- ally relax it's grip and grant greater rather than less freedom is of course strangely out of key with the way things are going today.
 Similar is the equally genuine aston ishment in Germany and Italy when an American newspaper has printed some thing they do not like. They protest to the State Department, and do not quite understand that the State Department or the government in general has nothing to say about it, can do nothing So far apart have drifted the two ways of look ing at the relationship between people and their government, between great peoples and small!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30
WARS STILL NEEDED AS NAUTILUS ONCE TOLD
 WORLD

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 War is justified on the grounds that it takes calamities such as wars to shock humanity into self examination. It would take a critic from some other planet to tell our cosmos few truths that might cause it to make a right-about face. A critic has to get away from his subject to be able to do it justice Any habitat of our world could not make an unprejudiced critic-could not get the outside viewpoint, any more than any European can under stand the American viewpoint, or an American get an honest = to God viewpoint of the European muddle. There is for example the war now in progress: Take it, from the British viewpoint; the German viewpoint; the Russian viewpoint; the Italian viewpoint and last but not least the American viewpoint as per the prop aganda to be found daily in the editorial columns of our newspapers.
 It would shock our dyed-in- the wool autocrats if you told them that Adolph Hitlers, MussoliniS or StalinS are the productS-Fr -FrankensteinS of our social and economic systems. If you Spow tareS you can't reap any other kind of crop. Once in a great, great while critic is born that tells the truth because he is en- dowed, gifted with the kind of per- Spective vision that is required to get birds eye view of our Chris tian civilization. Such critic was Malthus. His report was that in order to carry on our crazy quilt cosmos, that wars were absolutely needed to keep down over popula- tion. His opinion is being proven today, at this hour in the cat and dog kill as kill-can-cross the Atlan- tic. By the time the war over there is over there will not be so great a dole needed in Britain to feed the unemployed, or in Germans having to live on cabbage soup. As Malthus asserted, wars regulated the over surplus to normal. And the welfare departlnents-bread lines in all cen- ters will not be SO crowded. All the taxpayers will have to worry about, will be pensions for the veteran soldiers who are unfortunate enough not to have been killed = but only crippled so that they can't work, and have to be supported by the said, taxpayers who stayed at home and read the reports from the bat tlefields.
 If the dispassionate, unprejudiced critic from the distant planet was to emulate Maltus and tell us that our greatest sin is to refuse to look truth in the face that we need .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30

Dr. Ernest w. Butterfield, whose death occurred Sunday, ended remarkable career for one of the states prominent educators. Up until a few short years ago Dr. Butterfield was commissioner of education for this state and in the opia- ion of a great many people, as well as public officials, remarkably good one, too. Unfortunately his position, like so many others before the public eye, can be made the target for much that has no place in any state service, such as educa- ton. Many didn't agree with all that he advocated as public educational policy, but all agreed that his policies were pro- gressive and always sound. He contributed greatly to this states advance in educa- tional work.