The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Henry Louis "Alabam" Walker,
| father of % children and who
claimed he was 116 years old, died
at Memorial hospital yesterday of
natural causes.
Walker was born at Metz, France,
in 1927, according to his claims, and
worked as a slave on a plantation
near Flornce, Ala, during the Civil
War.
When he was 112 he was operated
on for a proStatectomy, and the
operation was reviewed in the Ameri-
can Medical Association Journal by
DR.. j. Bayard Clark, New York
city, who performed the surgery.
He married when he was 40 and
had II sons and II daughters.
Hartford, Conn.,, July I.-(UP)-
State police of Maine were asked
today to search for Mrs. Worth L.
Moves, wife of the vice principal
of Glastonbury high school, who
disappeared from her home at Hart
ford June 20, with her twO-years
old niece. Stephanie, Bradstreet.
The child's mother, Mrs. Geral-
dine Frances Bradstreet, "A, San
Francisco, charging that Mrs. NOyes
was illegally holding her daughter,
obtained a warrant for her arrest.
The women are sisters-in-law. The
girls father, Charles BradStreet, is
a soldier stationed at Jefferson City,
Mo.
Mrs. Bradstrete claimed her hus-
band abandoned her last October,
taking the child to his parents home
at Houlton, Me-, and later to Mrs.
Moves at Hartford. Mrs. Bradstreet
said she came to Hartford with her
father last week and found Mrs.
Moves and her daughter had dis
appeared.
Meanwhile, Bradstreet was said
to have obtained a furlOugh and
returned to Maine where it was re-
ported he brought suit for divorce,
charging cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
Hartford, Conn.,, July 1.-IUP)-
A voluntary labor sterilization code
for essential plants and workers in
the Hartford district will be drawn
up by the New Area War ManpoWer
committee, it was reported today.
The plans will be discussed at the
committees first meeting Tuesday,
according to Area Director William
G. Ennis.
Ennis said thousands of war
workers and others employed IN
critical. essential and locally
ed" businesses would be affected by
the agreement which would be de-
signed to promote the orderly trans
Ter and movement of workers, to
prevent pirating, undue migration,
excessive turnover and absentee
ism.
Later, similar codes will be drawn
up for other vital defense areas,
including New Britain, Bridgeport,
Waterbury, Greenwich and Nor
walk.
Hartford, Conn.,, July 1.-UP)-A
law requiring industrial plants to
pay employees weekly within eight
days of the end of the pay week was
suspended today by Gov. Baldwin
who extended the time an addi-
tional day to allow for increased
clerical work in making payroll de-
auctions.
The governor acted under the
executive war powers granted him
by the General Assembly, to sus-
pend any law for a six months
period if it impaired or hindered
the states war effort.
The governor said sthe extra day
for making wage payments would
be allowed only those plants en-
Moving more than 5000 persons and
engaged in 1.-The manufacture or pro-
duction of arms, munitions or other
material of war for the government
of the United States or its Al
lies"
New Milford, Conn, July l.-(UP)
Anton Track, 95, widely known
musician, died at his summer home
here yesterday.
Track was the inspiration for the
play. 1.-THE Music Master" in which
David Warfield starred. He was
native of Vienna, lived in this coun-
try for 60 years, mostly at Brook
lyn, N. Y. Two sons and three
daughters survive.
Hartford, July 1--(UP)-The Con-
necticut War Industries commission,
created by former Democratic Gov.
| Robert A. Hurley TO aid small In