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ZFIPTY-THIRD YEAIU-No. 33. THOMPSONYILLE, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932 Subscription $2.00 Per Year—Single Copy 5c. ''\£ AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP CHURCH BAZAAR TODAY K! Towii Treasury Facing Howard M. Bromage Receives Major Controversy Is Annual Event Being Held at Enfield •i 1 Honor at Brown University. Congregational Church. Welfare Work Will Need Announcement that Howard M. The Christmas bazaar conducted by Bromage, son of former Selectman the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Shortage In Ready Cash and Mrs. Edward Bromage of Pearl Impending Over Enfield Congregational Church opens At Least $40,000 More ' ' '"i-: ' this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the t x? t - street, has received the John S. Bray- chapel, and at 6:15 a supper will be ton Scholarship at Brown University served in the chapel dining room. Will Very Probably Have Exhausted Borrowed will be interesting news to his many Mrs. Milo J. Horton is general chair Present Appropriation For Town Welfare De friends in town. This is one of the man of arrangements, with Mrs. Wil Funds In Anticipation of Taxes Long Before major scholarships given by the uni fred W. Hopkins in charge of booths partment Proving Wholly Inadequate to Meet versity, at which Mr. Bromage is Attempt to Reduce Haz- and Mrs. Allen H. Chillson, chairman Any New Tax Money Is Available—Deficit Is completing his senior year. He is a of the supper committee. Those pre Demands For Help As Winter Approaches— graduate of the Enfield High School, ardville Rate May Re siding at the various sales booths are .Due to Large Amount of Unpaid Taxes—Gen class of 1928, and for a year after as follows: Fancy work, Mrs. Edward Work Relief Is About to End For the Season, graduation he was in the employ of sult in Transferring Hopkins; aprons, Mrs. Lillian Tuck eral Financial Status Not Impaired. Harold G. Moore, rug and carpet er; candy, Mrs. Raymond A. Waser; With the Sum Set Aside For It Almost Spent. -* dealer, as a salesman. While a stud Cost of Water For Fire grab bag, Mrs. Kenneth J. Ridley. ent at Enfield High he was promi Other members of the supper com According to a frank statement of nent in dramatics, in which he was Protection to Districts. mittee are Mrs. Charles C. Chapin, Although the fiscal year is scarcely, POLISH HEROES Town Treasurer Timothy J. Sullivan cast for leading roles, and he is also Mrs. Terry Chapin, Mrs. A. Storrs three months old, the town officialsNUFFIELD MAN made this week, the town is facing a an accomplished musician, playing Campbell, Mrs. Perley Emerson, Miss are already much concerned about the serious deficit in its treasury, which both the clarionet and saxophone. He That the outcome of the issue rais Fannie Hunt and Mrs. Paul Connor. financial outlook for the present fis MEMORIALIZED was a member of the school orches SUPPOSED TO BE ¥ a rim nTTUTT\ i it become acute long before the fis- ed at the annual town meeting over The dining room service will be di cal period. This concern relates par I A \ I \|||\l|| \ \ ical year ends. The situation as sum- tra and is now a member of the Brown the cost of water for fire protection rected by Mrs. Edward Talbot and University band. Mrs. Oliver Stoughton. ticularly to the financial status of the LillO 1 kJUi"IlJl\ 1 marized by Mr. Sullivan, is the result in the Hazardville district, and the municipality next spring, and the GOOD PICKING ______I of a condition which had its beginning action of the town in arbitrarily reg prospects of being able to finance the -w-,, , . t-» „'last year, and which commenced with town welfare department for the fis Ol the unusual amount of unpaid taxes. ulating the hydrant charge will devel Hilaborate Irrogram CHRISTMAS SEAL op into a controversy which will in STATE BEGINS cal period on the present appropria But He Told the Police l?vfti./.{0n0 A,u! The fact that this amount was ap- UUtj proximately $4B,000 more than it volve the town and all the districts, tion. Hixercises L/arried. is now apparent from the present At the annual town meeting an ap On the "Pickers" And Tn WV110V1 Triliiitn Wnn'would have been under normal condi- SALE IS NOW IN status of the question. INSPECTION OF propriation of $60,000 was made with ill VVIUCII inuuie W tions at the end of the fiscal year, left As a Result Four of Chairman P. T. Malley of the board the recommendation that $15,000 be the town treasury short of a corres used in providing employment for Also Paid to George ponding sum in actual cash. This of selectmen has invited the members Them Are in Hartford PROGRESS HERE of the four district committees, and AUTOMOBILES those in need, or what is termed work Washington. meant that the money was not avail relief. The remaining $45,000 was Jail Awaiting Trial. able to pay the bills as the fiscal year the representatives of the two cor- i porations furnishing water for fire specifically ordered to be used in wel came to a close, and it was found nec Every Effort Is Being fare relief work. According to the Two noted figures in Poland's his- essary to take it out of the sum pro _ j protection in the town, to a meeting Intensive Check-up Will Because Anthony Zukowski, a farm - tory, Count Pulaski and Thaddeus M"ade to Tti1TITP«S«5 ffip which will be held in the town build- town officials, a considerable portion vided by the annual town meeting aft dUe 10 im Get Underway to De of the work relief appropriation has er of Suffield, was supposed to be Koskiuszko, and the Polish heroes of er the borrowing power had been re prebb me ing. next Tuesday evening. Mr. Mal the World War were memorialized in ley proposes to lay the facts of the been expended in providing work for "well fixed" and would therefore be stored. By the action of the town People With the Im termine Cars That Are the unemployed this fall, and with the "good picking," a rather crude and exercises that took place here last meeting the selectmen and town present status of the water for fire Sunday, and at the same time cogniz portance of the Move protection service in the town before beginning of the winter season at wholly unsuccessful attempt to mulct treasurer were authorized to borrow In Condition to Be Op hand, there will be little opportunity ance was taken of the Washington the sum of $225,000 in anticipation of these groups of officials and get their him out of $5,000 by the blackmail Bicentennial period. The exercises ment Succeeding. opinions regarding the possible course erated On Highway. to provide any relief with the remain taxes, which is the usual procedure, route was made last Tuesday. The opened with solemn high mass which and" this was done* to be taken in the matter. der of it until the spring. •was celebrated by Rev. Stanislaus As the matter stands at the pres With the regular welfare appro principal reason for the failure of the I The heavy demands on the treasury The bright Christmas Seal posters, Because there has been a decided priation the situation is even worse. Federkiewicz, pastor of St. Adelbert's by all the departments of the town ent time, Mr. Malley, in obedience to scheme was that the intended victim Church, with Rev. John Sobeleski as conspicuously placed about the town the action of the annual town meet let-down in the degree of care which Over half of this sum of $45,000 was government for the first two months with the aid of Girl Scouts of Moun expended even before it was appro refused to be intimidated and prompt deacon, and Rev. Franklin J. Corri- of the present fiscal year indicated to ing, has refused to pay the bill of the owners and operators are giving their gan of St. Patrick's Church, subdea- tain Laurel troop, the Christmas seal Hazardville Water Company, which cars, the Connecticut Department of priated. This was due to the fact that ly notified the authorities, after read Treasurer Sullivan that the borrowing the department was unable to meet ing the threatening letter which he con. During the services, Rev. Fr. power of the town will be exhausted talkie trailer shown at the Franklin has been reduced from $60 to $54 per Motor Vehicles plans an extensive Federkiewicz gave an appropriate hydrant, whereas the town meeting its obligations, both local and to other took out of his mail box, and which long before the revenue from taxes theatre over the Thanksgiving week and continued inspection of safety municipalities for several weeks be gave_ instructions regarding the dis sermon to the large congregation of comes in after March 1. This will cre set the sum to be paid for this serv- his own parishioners, and which also end, the display of the double-barred' Ice" ar$25*"whic'h irthe" amount'now mechanisms and appliances to begin fore the end of the fiscal year. This position of the money. ate a situation about March 1 which e nfie d s was clearly stated at the public hear Acting on the advice of the police, included members of the Patrick F. will be the first stage of the antici °l-^ / i 5 " charged by the Northern Connecticut immediately, a department bulletin Triggs Post, Veterans of Foreign iting Nurse Association for advertis Power Company for hydrant service ing of the town finance board and at the insti'uctions were followed, with pated financial troubles. This will be ing the drive, in the Fleming Tailor today says. the annual town meeting. No provis the single and all important excep Wars, and Horace J. Tanguay Post, especially so if there should be any in the other districts. American Legion. ing Company window, and the news Incidentally, it has developed in the Approximately 80 per cent of the ion, however, was made in the budget tion that there was only one dollar appreciable accumulation of unpaid paper notices, all proclaim that the cars checked recently had defective to meet the outstanding obligations in the package which he left in his The church service was followed by bills due to a shortage of cash. controversy that there can be found a parade which covered the northern campaign is on. no authority by which the town offi equipment, an investigation by the and the officials were left with no al mail box for the convenience of the Due to the enormous sum which the The result is now in the hands of department showed. Nearly one- ternative but to pay the bills out of picker Tuesday evening. During the section of the Thompsonville district town is compelled to borrow each cials can legally pay for water furn and was led by the V. F. W. Drum those who have received the seals, ished districts that are organized for third of those examined had foot the appropriation for the present fis night they attempted to annex the year in anticipation of taxes there about 120,000 of which have been sent brakes which were useless, or in such cal year. "roll" and were permitted to do so to Corps. The procession ended at Wa- j jj^ ry likely be comparatively fire_ protection purposes. The legal w ve out by the association, and of any condition, at least, that the inspectors The result has been that, together show their "good" intentions, and \rel Hall, where a memorial program jittl money available for paying the advisor of the town is of the opinion W£ re e others who might welcome this op found it ' with the—_ increasing demandsUW11„UU1) onVll theW1C ; then promptly annexed them- of^ public exercises was held. This!regular obligations for the first few portunity to help a worthy cause. If that whereas each of the four dis- ate renairs ThP ™medi- eIves program was 0opened byy an overture tncts is organized for the purpose of brlw H * u °r a"xihary department for the past two months, • ® by Deputy Sheriffs George L. , i/ i. j overture weeks 0f the new tax-paying period. all the seals are sold it will mean an be ou the greater portion of the appropria-1 • eeV a?d Cai\ Tucker, who follow- by Bayek's Orchestra and included Th{j notes in the Thompsonville Trust affording fire protection to the prop- ^ t order g short patriotic plays and musical se income only sufficient to carry on the erty owners of these districts, and were almost twice the number of de tion has already been expended. The'I" instructions of County Detec- Company for this large amount of association's program of school and fective foot brakes. All of the safe officials are fiank to admit that the i? Edward J. Hickey, who had been lections by the orchestra and drum the property owners are paying taxes alIed ln money must receive first considera home nutrition that is of such vital ty devices tested were on cars which money will not be sufficient to finance $ , on the matter, were waiting •corps, together with singing by the tion from any early receipts from for that purpose, the districts must ver woul v s importance to our community. When supply not only the apparatus but the ™rti, ur had been in actual use this department very far into the new, Myra H. Barden, the lo- ington, also to aid families of veter gretted here. It is particularly pa ans throughout the state. A cordial thetic, as he had fully determined evening at 8 o'clock, in the Masonic ty Y. M. C. A. In the Senior "B" Mrs. Frederick E. Hunter of En- high school auditorium tomorrow eve- cal welfare worker, which has just Temple, for the purpose of confer eastern section, the communities rep held street and Mrs. Allan D. Kerr, ning and his offer has been accepted, been compiled. In her recounting of invitation is extended to all towns that he would end his football career this season. ring the initiatory degree on a class resented, the names of the managers' '^^"t of Penelope Terry Abbey 'Bill/ Conway of Hartford, noted the situation, Miss Barden says in people and those wishing to make up a tables may do so by notifying Mrs. of candidates, receiving reports and and the schedule of games are as fol-'," Ptei\ D. A. R., are distributing referee who will supervise the bouts, part: The Stonewalls will be assisted in lows: the application blanks for member Stevens. putting on this benefit game by all cash disbursements. Tim0 for social has blso practically donated his serv "Although we almost daily have Center Church, South Manchester, ship in the Children of America, a ju ices for the benefit program. new applicants for aid, in the last few the other clubs in Holyoke and vicin enjoyment will be allowed after the Carpet Plant Officials in Town. ity, and it is expected that some of meeting and refreshments will be Walter Snow, manager; Hazardville venile organization which is being weeks we have been able to discon served. Mrs. Emilie Evans, Mrs. An RCA, Martin Corbett; Highland Park, promoted by the local D. A. R. Chap ;Glark A. Carle, a sophomore year tinue many cases because of improv President John W. Sweetser and the_ best players on these teams will Treasurer Frank Deknatel of the Big- be in the "Stonnie" lineup. It is very na Hastings, Mrs. Elizabeth Fairman Richard Nichols; Manchester Y. M. ter. The age limit is 5 to 18, and stttteitf at Harvard University, spent ed conditions at the Bigelow-Sanford and Miss Jean Lowrie are the com C. A., Hugh Greer; Wapping Y. M. the ancestry of the applicant must Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. Carpet plant. The worker has week- elow-Sanford Carpet Company, were likely that a large number of local visitors at the local plant of the com fans will accompany the Greys to mittee in charge of this feature of " run back to the period of the Revo and.Mrs, Albert J. Carle of Sullivan the evening. (Continued on Page Eight) lution. Avenue." : " 3:.. aiiriiiSam rwo THE THOMPSONVILLE PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER lt 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Glen Smith and son, Clark, Walter Allen and Edward Al SOMERS Wayne of Bristol, R. I. len of Agawam, Mr. and Mrs. Char RESERVES HAVE Governor Cross Opens Annual Christmas Seal Sale S Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bliss were les W. W. Pease and Miss Helen M. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Thayer had holiday guests at the home of Mr. Pease of this town. INCREASED ABOVE as guests at a family dinner party and Mrs. George Bliss in Longmead- Mr. and Mrs. H. Leigh Herr and Thanksgiving Day, Mrs. Martha M. ow, Mass. three children, Jean, Marjorie and Thayer of Enfield, Mass., Mrs. Eliza Mrs. Mabelle Russell Niles and Wil Audrey, spent the Thanksgiving holi IsNigp beth Caldwell of Springfield, Mrs. liam Henderson of New York City day at the home of Mr. Herr's father, If-pLY PERCENTAGE - '-M life Maude Wilson and Mr. fend Mrs. Rob were entertained Thursday at the W. F. Herr in Brooklyn, Conn. ert Thayer of West Springfield, Rev. home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mc The funeral of Mrs. Mary Fanning -A.. <: | Strengthened Financial and Mrs. Frederick Thayer and Miss Lean. was held from her late home in Som- l Mr. and Mrs. Clifton M. Ellis had * Eleanor Thayer of Shrewsbury, Rev. ersville at 8:30 Monday morning, fol Position Reported By &2S % '. and Mrs. Charles Nightingale and as a Thanksgiving guest, Miss Viola lowed by a requiem high mass in All ' 'V : the Misses Elsie and Caroline Night Reid of Springfield. Saints Church, which was celebrated ? the Building And Loan ingale of Charlton, Mass., S. A. Mc- Mr. and Mrs. Bert D. Cooley jour by the pastor, Rev. Joseph H. Seifer- ft Associations In Third ^ - " * ** Call of New London, Prof, and Mrs. neyed to Orcuttville on Thanksgiving man. Burial was in St. Bernard's Clark Thayer and Esther, Philip and Day, where they were the guests of Cemetery, Hazardville. She is sur V Quarter of Year. Bab Thayer of Amherst, Mass., Miss Mr. and Mrs. William Bumstead: vived by a daughter-in-law and two Elsie Thayer of Hartford, Miss Ger Guests of Mrs. W. A. Pease on grandchildren, John and Winifred F. MnlRi trude Thayer of Springfield, and Mr. Thanksgiving day were Mrs. George Fanning of Brooklyn, N. Y. Strengthened financial position is and Mrs. J. Frederick Zappv of En reported by the building and loan as field, Mass. sociations at the end of the third Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt and John quarter, according to the United Hunt, Jr., spent the Thanksgiving iiifsls holiday in Springfield as guests of States Building and Loan league, na Mr. and Mrs. George McCauley. tional organization of these home fi Miss Caroline Comstock, a senior nancing institutions. Reserves have at Russell Sage College, spent the AC® increased two per cent above their Thanksgiving holiday and week-end Incorporated with her mother, Mrs. Gladys K. Com percentage of assets on July 1. These stock. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. figures come to the League from as Miss Emilie C. Bugbee of Coble- sociations in all parts of the country, skill, N. Y., and Miss Isabel P. Bug- and represent the status of the asso bee of Greenfield, Mass., spent the Little Girls Love v ciations with their 11,500,000 inves Thanksgiving seasoji with their par tors as of October 1. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Bug- Warm Robes Picturing "Financial statements filed with the bee. League show that reserves are now Mr. and Mrs. Chester W« Pomeroy had as guests over the Thanksgiving 6.44 per cent of total liabilities, a safe —[Hartford Times Photo. holiday, Mr. and Mrs. A. Vail Smith margin over real estate holdings and of Hazardville, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert GOLDILOCKS and real estate sold on contract, which to Gov. Wilbur L. Cross pur Allen and three children of Hazard gether total only 6.21 per cent," says chasing the first sheet of Christ ville, Mr. and Mrs. A. Vail Smith, Jr., Ward B. Whitlock of Springfield, 111., mas Seals in Connecticut, and of Somers, Mr. and Mrs. Morey W. president of the League. "Conserva thus officially opening the 26th Smith of Springfield, and Miss The THREE BEARS tive management during July, Aug annual campaign under the di Blanche Pomeroy. ust and September, raised the level rection of the State Tuberculos Announcement was recently receiv of reserves which already stood at is Commission. The children, ed of the birth of a daughter, Bever the fair percentage of 4.59 on July 1. Joan Thompson and Billy Bar Sizes 2 to 6 "The third quarter reports also ly Mae, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. ** rett, patients at Undercliff San Worthington, formerly of this town. show a decrease in the associations' atorium, Meriden, where they The child was born on November 17. Is some one cute between two and six years old going borrowings, with 3.26 per cent of to are recovering from tuberculos Mr. and Mrs. S. Dwight Percival, tal liabilities consisting of borrowed is, made the appeal in behalf of to open your package Christmas morning? She'll put v SS& Miss Eleanor Percival and Constance money on October 1, compared with all those children and adults Percival of this town and Carroll P. one of these robes right on, the minute the Christmas 3.49 per cent on July 1. The Home who are suffering from the dis Moore of Westport, Mass., were the ribbon is off. Fruit of the Loom quilted cotton robes, Loan Banks were not open on Octo ease. More than $100,000 is ex holiday guests at the home of Mrs. with story-book pictures all over them. With a deep ber 1 and all association borrowings pected to be raised from the Anna L. Pomeroy and Miss Lucille D. pocket and matching silk cord tie around the waist. at that time were short-term obliga sale of Christmas Seals to sup Moore. tions to commercial banks, or to the port the voluntary tuberculosis Mrs. John B. Kibbe was hostess at Blue, rose or green. Reconstruction Finance Corporation. program throughout the state. a family party held last Thursday, at Their move to pay off such borrow The sale began last week and which 18 guests were present, includ FORBES & WALLACE, Inc. ings is a step towards cleaning house continues until after Christmas. ing Mrs. Charles A. Billings, Miss ' Springfield, Mass. on short-time loans in preparation Sara I. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. Herman for the new era of specialized long- B. Billings and daughter, Eleanor of Please send me Little Girls' Goldilocks term credit for the home financing in stitutions, ushei-ed in by the estab Somers, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed, Robes @ $1.15. Size. Color.. lishment of the Federal Home Loan CZAR'S LAST HOPE Explosion for Safety Delegates Mr. and Mrs. Dalziel Smith of West Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. Valerius NAME - Banks. FOR RETURN BALKED Kibbe, Valerius Kibbe, Jr., Miss Bar "Mortgage loans on homes which bara Kibbe, Harold Kibbe and Lucille ADDRESS dipped to the year's low of 84.71 per Kibbe of this place. cent of total building and loan re Royal Marriage Ends Chances TOWN sources at the end of the second quar Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Worthington were Mr. and Chg Cash C. O. D. ter, a time generally assumed to have for Ferdinand. Mrs. Harry Worthington and three been the bottom of the depression, ! children of New Milford, Conn., and were up again to 85.24 per cent of Coburg, Germany.—Marriage here of total resom-ces on October 1. Month the Princess Sibylle of Save Coburg by month analysis of the associations' loans during the past quarter shows to Prince Gustav Adolph Oscar ended an increase of some $1,000,000 in con-] a situation that promised to play a big struction loans in September over the part In the affairs of the kingdom of August figures, and an increase of Bulgaria. slightly more than $1,000,000 in loans It all centers around the dethroned made for purchase of existing homes. monarch of Bulgaria, Czar Ferdinand, Refinancing loans showed a falling who, at seventy-two years, still has off in August and September for the hopes of returning to his throne at the first time since May. These condi tions depict a favorable situation in expense of its present occupant, his the residential real estate market, son. Uoris. with the trend towards acquisition of When Ferdinand was exiled he came homes, and less demand for funds to! here to live. Princess Sibylle, then a stay in the homes already bought. j mere child, became his favorite among "Families which have borrowed for all the little royalties who found the their homes in the first three quar old fellow a fairy godfather. As she VWWJjjj ters of 1932 now total some 166,000, grew up Ferdinand, eyeing the fruit of which 15,500 obtained financing to less quest of King Boris for a bride build new homes and 10,500 received loans to buy homes. The larger per among the royal houses of Europe, centage of the loans went for refinan conceived the idea that If Boris mar cing, which is now shown to be on the • ried Sibylle the way would be paved Delegates to the national safety conference at Washington were treated decline in comparison with the other for his own return to Bulgaria and— to some thrills when scientists of the Department of Agriculture, who are two types of loans." who knew—perhaps to his throne. studying dust explosions, staged some spectacular demonstrations In their mod Boris had his eye on Sibylle at the el laboratory at the Arlington farm station. The photograph shows a striking time, but he grew suspicious of his view as one of tho explosions shattered doors and windows of the model test Let's Give the father eventually and turned his at-, ing chamber. tention to the Italian royal house WM. E. SAVAGE whose eldest daughter, Giovanna, final Kiddies a Right Jolly Successor to ly became his bride. This was a blow British Prince to to old Ferdinand, for it effected an al Thomas Savage & Sons liance with the one nation which was GENERAL CONTRACTOR most instrumental In seeing that he lost his crown. MERRIE AND BUILDER Ferdinand was persistent, however. Falling to see Boris marry Sibylle he Office: fancied it might be a good idea If she became the wife of his second son, 148 PEARL STREET CHRISTMAS Prince Cyril. Sibylle might yet wield Phone 167-5 Thompsonville influence enough to let him go back to Bulgaria. Again lt looks as if Ferdinand was to be disappointed. Prince Cyril, ac They are only chil companying Boris In his wooing trips to Rome, fell In love with King' dren once in their Emanuel's younger daughter, Maria.' She was too young to marry just then, lives and at best Ra dio but now she is not and formal an nouncement of their engagement Is ex-, childhood is brief. pected soon to confirm rumors that It Service has been arranged—further strength ALL MAKES OF RADIOS ening the Italian-Bulgarian bonds and Things are so cheap this"l| handing out another wallop to Ferdi year that even the poorest SERVICED. TUBES nand's hopes. TESTED FREE. For all that Sibylle either could not of us can distribute a little or would not advance those hopes by holiday happiness. marrying one of his sons, Ferdinand proved a good sport when she was Frank Barrila married the other day. 1 And if Old Santa may offer 12 PEARL ST. In the first half of this year Aus you a tip, watch the adver tralia imported 1130 American pas-1 , ™nce Sweden, whose engagement was ex- tisements of merchants in 472 in the same period of 1931. pected to be announced in the Swedish capital. THE PRESS. Open Evenings Until Xmas Search for Missing American Airman Ends They always advertise spe smm MWI< cial purchases and as my old friend Ben Franklin said, "A penny saved is a penny earned." M: Save time and money by watching the We are equipped and ready to give the most expert service on advertisements in "THE PRESS" any make of car, at very reas ' ' onable prices. Day and night ifjtil service. We also specialize in used parts for every type of car. Come here for your motor oils and gasoline. * * THE MIDWAY JHMNHML * Scene on the island of YamI, in the Philippine archipelago, showing Aleko LIllus (right), leader of an es^dltion GARAGE to find the missing United States airman, Glenn Brophy, giving the order to fire a tribute to the man who will never i WILLIAM MAXELLON be found. Members of the Philippines constabulary, under command of Vicente Formoso (second from right), gov Service Manager ernor of the Calayan province, are firing the tribute. Brophy left Macao, In Portuguese China, late In March for a ELM STREET TEL. 285-4 flight to Manila in an effort to establish a commercial air route between Shanghai and Manila. He was never sighted Thompsonville, Conn or heard from. < . . MM .v-VK, *, v j> A „ f • . ...y • r THE TH0MPS0NV1LLE PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932 TBB» Review of Current ,mm K,' - ^ a'v f . /£l. •f'W&.r:-'- Events the World 0\lr M -*i enjoy - *, **•. ^ Zero Bridge at the Hit Confers With Roosevelt and Congress Leaders m- •:&& i:;l ? on War Debts-1—Hitler Offered German ' • J r^r / . Ride Under Conditions. > A « • • the home is always "warm as toast" By EDWARD W. PICKARD because the Browns, like so many other PRESIDENT HOOVER and Presl- prianons ror the fiscal year Beginning * dent-Elect Roosevelt held their June 1 next were settled by the cab Connecticut people, have switched to ;*ch«beduled conversation on the war inet at about $700,000,000, but It was 5s: aebtsaebl In the White House Tuesday explained that this would be offset Koppers Connecticut Coke, the fuel that and exchanged views "by certain increases in uncontrollable as to the wisest course items, such as interest and amortiza provides more heat, clean heat, steady for the United States tion on the public debt and tax re government to pursue. funds to the extent of about $150,- heat, for less cost than any other fuel. SKi&SSsS The conference may 000,000." have been of value to The White House statement said the two gentlemen "the administration Is determined to but its national or present a balanced budget," and lead International impor ers of congress appear equally deter tance is questionable. mined to keep down the regular ap Mr. Roosevelt had no propriations at the short session. intention of commit ting bSmself concern ESLEY L. JONES, veteran Re Dr. Raymond ing the debt question Wpublican senator from Washing Moley or of assuming any ton, who was defeated on November 8 responsibility in ad for re-election, died In the Mount vance of his inauguration. Mr. Hoover Baker sanitarium in Seattle. He had can do nothing more than make a served in congress for 33 years, was recommendation to congress In the one of the most uncompromising of the matter of reopening the debt settle drys, and at the time of his death ments, and It Is practically certain was chairman of the powerful approp- . HE fashion toward economy started them using ^^lil that congress is overwhelmingly op priations committee. Koppers Connecticut Coke. But, they found that low cost posed to reducing the debts or sus Governor Hartley of Washington ap was really the beginning of "Reasons Why" they use pending the payments. pointed B. S. Grammer, a Seattle lum nothing else. Mr. Brown was so busy earning a living for Besides Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roose berman and a Republican, to fill out Mrs. Brown and the kiddies that he found carting ashes velt, there were but two persons ad Jones' unexpired term, thus assuring out of the cellar an extra burden. But with Koppers mitted to the conference. These were the Republicans of a majority in the Connecticut Coke, a small pail thirteen inches high would short session. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden easily hold a week's supply. And, in ten minutes after Mills, who with Secretary of State getting out of a warm bed, he had the house so comfort Stlmson had prepared the data for HAT did the President say to armth rvithin the President; and Dr. Raymond WFred Britten? That was the able for the whole day that he knew the children would v Moley, professor of government and question that was agitating the propo not catch troublesome colds because of uneven tempera June law in Columbia university, who at nents of a bill legalizing beer. The ture. At night, it was a simple matter to bank the fire. 3 tended as Governor Roosevelt's ad wet congressman from Chicago ad Easy Rules fop „ viser. Doctor Moley, an authority on mittedly went to the White House in The Koppers Service Man Shotved the Browns Sociology and crime, was one of the the hope of finding out what Mr. Hoo Koppers high-test COKE! So-called "brain trust" that travelod ver would do to such a bill if it were the Way to a Bigger Bank Account With Roosevelt during the campaign, passed In the short session, and as L alt fuellCSS ,bCCaU6e Cofce is Of course, Mr. Brown knew how to handle the furnace. Ask for Service Man . " " ' kurns to fjne a(. and it was he who assembled much he came forth he announced he was He'd been doing it for years before he married the e Ilru with pf the material for the governor's convinced that the President would "missus". But he consented to a demonstration of the Your fuel dealer will send the Koppers siZT"lt } eehv ^ « n'f ' "Z- Once a day fa speeches. There are those who thin!; not veto It. Rejoicings among the correct method of firing with this new fuel. Not much °«en enough. beer boys! Service Man to your home. . . . He the professor will be the Colonel different from any other, of course. But, just enough so House of the Roosevelt administra Then came swiftly Theodore Joslin, will examine your heating plant, advise 2 es dra/tbecauseK that he learned how to get more efficiency out of every ton, ' cok! t °p^ tion. one of the White House secretaries, what size fuel to burn. Then he'll wturn Coke burns frcelv, witIlom save on labor and how to secure greater uniformity in The President, as is well known, with the flat assertion to the newspa and show you a few money-saving ways •uJf' jRcsjrK>nds immedi- favors action looking to revision of per men that "the President had de service. And at the end of the season he found quite a ately to draft. the war debt settlements, but knows clined to discuss beer with Mr. Brit tidy sum left on the fuel budget—enough to think of to burn the modern high-test fuel . . . 3' Fill/\re P°* /«" because coke Congress would not sustain him in ten." Cheers from the drys! that electric refrigerator that he wanted to get for so long. KOPPERS CONNECTICUT COKE. « Miter than coal and burns this position; so It was thought prob Notified of this action on the part economically with f!ecp fire able he would merely tell the debtor of the White House, Mr. Britten stud? nations that the United States de by his guns, asserted that Mr. Joslin clines to suspend the December 15 knew nothing about what had been CONNECTICUT ayments and that there is no lmme- said during his conference with the ENFIELD LUMBER AND Slate prospect of reduction of the President and reiterated his predic F. P. SMYTH tion that Mr. Hoover would approve P. VERDIGLIO COAL COMPANY terms. However, it was believed In TELEPHONE 496 TELEPHONE 509 Washington that he would recommend beer legislation. ;OKE TELEPHONE 21 to congress the re-creation of the war debt funding commission for the pur D AYMOND ROBINS, the long miss- Koppers Connecticut Coke is a Connecticut Product and Its Manufacture and Distribution Furnish Work for Hundreds of Connecticut People pose of making new settlements with ing social worker and prohibition the nations that might otherwise de advocate, was found in ths mountains fault This he tried to have done in of North Carolina masquerading as 1931 but congress declined, and it "Reynolds Rogers," a Ohlia "waft 'dMffSSIB^rW TIHTion mining engineer and """"H tariff "off "ttiSSe commodities produced heart roses and lilies of the valley. probably will decline again, which which was a prey to rival war lords In surplus, must be taken by the com SUFFIELD Vould mean the entire debt problem prospector. Identified MONTHLY CHILD The matron of Honor, Mrs. Harold L. by his nephew and and was menaced by communism. Had ing congress. It is said that millions Holcomb, a cousin of the bride, was ould be passed on to the Incoming China or even Manchuria been prop of bushels of American corn would The funeral of Robert J. McComb, attired in a gown of ecru lace and she democratic administration. then by his wife, he carried chrysanthemums. The brides Insisted for several erly governed, the present situation find a market In home industries if It NURSING SERIES 45, a native of this town and a resi would not have arisen, he said. were not for the competition in prod dent of Windsor Locks, was held Sat maids, the Misses Lois C. Washburn days he did not know of this town and Celestine Babcock of EDNESDAY morning the Presi Wellington Koo replied with elo ucts produced by cheap tropical labor urday afternoon in the First Congre dent and Secretary Mills went them and was in real Milford wore gowns in pastel shades W ity "Rogers." In oth quence and spirit for China. He and imported In this country free. BOOKED IN CONN. gational Church and was one of the of blue and green and turbans to $>ver the whole matter again with 13 charged that Japan had kept China In "If America is to continue as a pro largest attended services ever held in match and carried bouquets of chry leaders of congress, Including Speaker er respects his mind was clear, and after turmoil as part of a plan to conquer tected nation agriculture must be Outstanding Authori the church. Rev. Arthur H. Hope, santhemums. The best man was Rob garner, the Vice-President-Elect, and Asia and the world in successive given protection," said Mr. O'Neal. ert Woodbury, a brother of the bride these: Senators Smoot, Watson and a rest In a sanitarium the pastor, officiated, assisted by Rev. groom. Following a reception at the and medical care he stages. Matsuoka had complained "Either we must have tariff for all ties to Address Public eed, Republicans, and Harrison, th"J Chinese boycotts were hurtful to or tariff for none." Victor L. Greenwood of Poquonock, a home of the bride's parents at which [ng and George, Democrats; Repre recognized Mrs. Rob Raymond Health Nursing Meet former pastor. Music for the service about 50 were present, the young ins and his own iden friendly relations. Ivoo Inquired sentatives Collier, Ralney and Dough- Robins was under the direction of the organ couple left for an extended wedding tity and was declared whether friendly relations still exist ENATOR P. BYRNES, Democrat, of ing At the State Office trip by automobile and will be at ion, Democrats, and Hawley, Tread- ed. He explained that the boycott South Carolina, has announced ist, Miss Hancock, and the soloist was home after December 15 at 40 Bridge Way and Bacharach, Republicans. to be on the way to normal health. S Building in Hartford. The psychiatrist in charge said Mr. was a self-imposed sacrifice and the that he will ask the first Democratic Mrs. Douglass King- of Thompson- street. With them he sought to formulate a most humane method of resistance to j senate caucus at the December ses- ville. Burial was in the West Suffield "The Far East and the Peace Ma united policy on the debts for presen Robins had been suffering from am Outstanding Authorities in the field nesia or a similar mental malady. aggression yet devised. Then he j sion to agree not to confirm any of Cemetery. The bearers were Dr. Et chinery" was the subject" of the talk tation to congress; and this was the whipped forth a clear threat in be of public health nursing who are given by George H. E. Smith before Ever since his disappearance early : President Hoover's recess appoint tore Carniglia, Mathew Leahey, Sam-, Ke^beToFth"- Suffield Woman's conference of greater Importance, for half of the Chinese government to le ments, these Including several appolnt- i members of the committees of the in September Mr. Robins had been In uel Beresford, Leander Jackson, My-( Club at a meeting held Tuesday aft- these leaders really will determine the galize, extend and protect the boycott. ; ments to the home loan bank board, White House Conference on Child attitude of the government in the the Great Smoky mountains, tramping ron Potter and I. Waldo. Mr. Mc- ernoon at the home of Mrs. Harry The league council was helpless, for ; the tariff commission and other bodies. n matter. about and prospecting. Health and Protection will be brought Comb died suddenly from heart ^"P^ins o Main street. there was no chance for conciliation, "President-Elect Roosevelt should to Connecticut this winter to address Czechoslovakia joined Great Britain, so the whole affair was referred to the have the privilege of appointing per- a series of monthly meetings for those trouble at the American Sumatra To-j^ TWiC™ a"atKj'and'M?S France and Belgium in the petition UPPORTERS of the St. Lawrence assembly of the league. Whatever the ) sons to serve in his administration interested in public health nursing in bcicco Co. plantation where he had i long resident of this town, were held for suspension of payments and re S waterway treaty now fear that It assembly may do, the statements of and on whom he will depend for the the auditorium of the State Office been engaged as a foreman. He was!Tuesday afternoon at her late home, 9 vision. Italian ministers decided that will not receive consideration at the Foreign Minister Uchida and the war ' success of his administration," Byrnes building in Hartford, the State De a shade-grown tobacco authority and'?^ Main street and were conducted short session of congress, because the partment of Health announced in its - - - - ' >by Rev. Arthur H. Hope, pastor of Italy would pay its debts punctually office in Tokyo make It plain that Ja ' said. had been foreman for this and Premier Mussolini approved. opposition has come forward in such pan Intends to maintain the status quo weekly bulletin. the First Congregational Church. This year's series will be devoted to jfor many years. He was widely Burial was in the West Suffield Ceme strength. One of them, Senator Walsh in Manchuria. FTER serving 23 years as presi- tery. Mrs. Wilcox died Sunday fol of Montana, thinks it will reach n those phases of public health nursing | known in this and surrounding towns VER In Berlin there were confer ( A dent of Harvard university, A. that deal with child health. This is I both as an expert in growing shade- lowing a long illness. She was born Oences during the week that were vote before March, but will not pre ATEST advices from Manchukuo Lawrence Lowell, one of the world's a continuation of the educational pro j grown tobacco and as a Mason. He in West Suffield, February 14, 1853, vital to the future of the reich and of diet the outcome. Should the ratifi L say that the Japanese there have j foremost educators, has resigned. No gram instituted last year as regional was born in West Suffield on October a daughter of Henry and EJizabeth Intense Interest to the rest of the cation or rejection of the pact go over just launched a great military drive reason was given In the announce conferences by the Bureau of Public 29, 1887, the son of David and Susan (McMulIen) Taylor. Her husband, world. After talking with leaders of to the new congress, Its fate would against the 33,000 Chinese who have ment, but Doctor Lowell Is seventy- Health Nursing of the department to (Edgar) McComb. Following his Charles Wilcox, died here about ten depend largely on the attitude of the been threatening from inform those allied with local nursing education he took up the growing of years ago. She leaves three daugh Various parties, PresI- < • six years old and It had long been ters, Mrs. Charles A. Prout of this dent Von Hindenburg new President. This, it was hoped, the north. In China known that he desired to retire as associations as to the newest meth tobacco and for many years was con ods in public health measures. This nected with the Sumatra Company, town, Mrs. Jennie Hazard, at home, summoned Adolf Hit would be revealed by the testimony It Is declared these ! soon as the new house plan, which he and Mrs. Frank Callin of Hartfordj of Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the year, the plan is to review the re both at Windsor Locks and other ler, chief of the Na forces are under the regarded as the capstone of his career, ports of the White House Conference places. He was a member of Euclid one son, Fred M. of Feeding Hills; tional Socialists, who New York power authority, who was command of Gen. Ma was working smoothly. which represent the most advanced Lodge of Masons of Windsor Locks. one sister, Mrs. Charles E. Root of bad demanded con scheduled to appear before the senate Chan-shau, whom the knowledge in the field of child hy He is survived by his wife, one daugh East Granby, and four brothers, Ro trol of the government foreign relations subcommittee after Japanese claim to giene. ter and three sons at home, his par land V. Taylor and William S. Tay NIVERSITY of Michigan, with an lor of West Suffield, Clarence E. of for his party and the the Thanksgiving holiday. have killed in battle U unbroken list of victories, won At the November meeting which ents in Suffield, three sisters, Mrs. post of chancellor for Powerful opposition to the treat \ some months ago. inaugurated the series, Miss Sophie William Clark and Miss Emily Mc Springfield, and Henry M. of Taun the football championship of the Nelson, president of the National Or Comb of Suffield and Mrs. Louise S. ton, Mass. She also leaves a num* himself. The Nazi developed at the fourteenth annual General Ma made a Western Conference, with Purdue a ber of grandchildren. name for himself as ganization of Public Health Nursing, Sperry of East Haven, and two bro leader set forth the convention of the Mississippi Vallc.v close second. Yale defeated Harvard sketched the background of the White thers, Andrew and David S., both of Rev. and Mrs. Daniel R. Kennedy, alms of his move association In St. Louis, on the ground the gallant defender In their annual battle which still holds House Conference development. The this town. Jr., have announced the engagement ment, and in return that one article would dry up the Illi of Tsitsihar, against chief interest in the East. first conference was called in 1909, The funeral of Mrs. Anna Kraiza, of their daughter, Katherine Mason, the president gave Adolf Hitler nols waterway, now nearly ready foi the Japanese a year General Ma 1932, Western Newspaper Union, the second in 1919 and the third by 48, -wife of Ignacius Kraiza of Spen to Guy Beardsley, Jr., son of Mr. and him a mandate to opening, and the iakes-to-the gulf w:i ago. Later he served President Hoover in 1929 "to study cer street, was held Thursday morn Mrs. Guy E. Beardsley of North Ox-i form a cabinet under certain condi ter route. The article in question i! with the Japanese army, but only, as the present status of the health and ing in St. Joseph's Church and was ford street, Hartford. he later revealed, to obtain Japanese well-being of the children of the Unit j largely attended. The requiem high The funeral of Mrs. Eunice Brown tions which Hitler temporarily at least was said, takes from congress it.-- Half Billion in Idle Cain, 21, wife of James W. Cain, waa rejected. rights to prescribe diversion from secrets. ed States and its possessions, to re mass was celebrated by the pastor, Gold Scattered in U. S. port what is being done, and to rec Rev. Anthony Wojcessuk and burial held Friday morning in the Sacred The president demanded that Hitler Lake Michigan for navigation ptir The Chinese forces are concentrated Washington.—Gold to the value of ommend what ought to be done and was in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Po Heart Church at 9 o'clock. Requiem agree to respect the majority of Von poses. The Mississippi Valley associ in the northwestern part of Heilung- how to do it." high mass was celebrated by the pas half a billion dollars Is believed to be quonock. Mrs. Krazia was born in Papen's emergency decrees and that atlon has In the past indorsed the SI kiang province. Attendance at the first meeting was Poland, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tor, Rev. Arthur G. Cavanaugh, and his cabinet would have to be backed Lawrence project, and it still does lying Idle in the form of old jewelry, seventy-five, among the group being Joseph Lippinski, but had resided in burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery in "by a majority or almost a majority" but It opposes the treaty in its present ORMULATING a new agricultural trinkets and decorations throughout persons interested in public health this town since her marriage 32 years Windsor Locks. The bearers were of the relchstag. Von Hindenburg form. policy for the nation will be the the country. There are at present 32,- nursing from thirty-nine towns. ago. She is survived by her husband; Howard, Donald and Marshall Brown, F 000,000 families, each of which is esti six daughters, Mrs. Rose Shilk of brothers of the deceased, and John, also demanded Hitler's pledge to gov task undertaken by the American William and Lawrence Cain, brothers- ern according to parliamentary rule. VTOSUKE MATSUOKA, the smooth, mated to have on the average of $15 Wants Marine Junkyard New Britain, Sophie of New York 1 smiling representative of Japan Farm Bureau federation when It City, Mrs. Anna Thresher, Helen, in-law. Mrs. Cain died at the Spring He further stipulated that Hitler must worth of the coveted metal in soma Trenton.—Establishment of a ma In Geneva, appeared before the coun meets in annual convention In Chi Julia and Florence, all of this town; field Hospital following a few days' maintain the present military and for cago December 5. President Edward Idle form. If this treasure can be re rine junkyard where abandoned ves cil of the League of Nations and set five sons, Frank, Walter, Stanley, Ed illness of meningitis. She was born eign policies and that General Kurt A. O'Neal In his call for the meet covered, the purchasing power of the sels would be broken up was recom here on April 20, 1911, a daughter of forth his country's position in rela ward and Harry of this place; one von Schleicher must be retained as ing said: population will be greatly Increased, mended by Victor Gelineau, engineer. sister, Mrs. Helen Alubicki of Rain Albert A. and Jennie (Cowles) Brown minister of defense and Baron Kon- tion to Manchuria and China. In ef while the government may materially bow, and her mother in Poland. and was educated in the schools erf fect he defied the league and rVflculed "As did those fighting farmers of Increase its gold reserve. the town, ahe is survived by her stantin von Neurath as foreign min 1787 crystallize the hope of a new Miss Sarah Pease, a student at Sim ister. the findings of the Lytton commission mons College, and Miss Bernice Gibbs husband and four children; also her whose recommendation of the interna people Into the Constitution upon Proud Turkey Gobbler Fire Chief Thrills of the Leland Powers School in Bos parents, three sisters, Dorothy and At this writing the outcome of the tionalization of Manchuria he declared which this nation is founded, so will ton, spent the holiday and week-end Ruth of this town and Lilla Coombs conference is In doubt Hitler was the organized farmers of today, meet Sick Boy by Visit at their respective homes here. of Ivoryton, Conn., and five brothers, unthinkable. Mascot of Ball Team Denver.—Five years spent In a ing at Chicago In the fourteenth an Holdrege, Neb.—A strutting turkey A very pretty holiday wedding took! Austin_ of „Franklin, , TT Mass.,„ „Donaldr , of still trying to get assurance of a ma "Establishment of the state of Man- bed in a Denver children's hospital place Thursday when Miss Mae B. East Hartford, Howard of Warehouse jority in the relchstag, but this seemed chukuo seems to be the only solution nual convention of the American gobbler Is the mascot of the Holdrege Farm Bureau federation, build a new had Its reward for Basil Lasker, Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.| Point, Marshall and Norman of this a feat almost Impossible as Hugen- possible," said Matsuoka in fluent baseball team. eleven, of Belen, N. M., when Fire John H. Adams of Bridge street and town. i burg's Nationalists and various other English. "We have violated neither policy seeking through the rehabilita The gobbler, owned by Charley tion of agriculture the salvation of Chief John Healy made a personal John E. Woodbury, son of Mr. and " relatively small parties were holding the covenant of the league, the nine- Bjorklund, persisted in walking a quar Mrs. Jane Woodbury of Mystic were A little known fact: Horses are this nation." call on the boy and allowed him to out power treaty nor the pact of Paris. ter of a mile each Sunday to watch handle his big helmet. During the united in marriage. The ceremony, half-brothers and half-sisters only We aited in self-defense and spon The federation's drive for legisla the home town boys play, so the team was performed at the home of the when out of the same dam. Identi- tion that will place the Industry on a years spent in the hospital the bride's parents by Rev. Daniel Ken-1 cal paternity implies no relationship, EDUCTIONS In the budget of ap taneously, and when we acted the in Just adopted Gobbler as the mascot. rush of Denver fire engines along proximately $500,000,000, request dependence movement developed spon paying basis will be vigorously prose Whenever the turkey Is not present nedy, Jr., a former pastor of First! American raw cotton consumed in R a nearby street provided Basil with Congregational Church. The bride the Orient in the first six months of ed of the cabinet by President Hoover taneously." cuted, according to the preconventlon to watch the game, the players say a-tsoanfiuuentf* Stens ta correct the his greatest thrill wore a gown of white satin trimmed. this year was double the amount of have been met The cuts The meetings and attendance of the Great "Sanctuary of the Sun" Uncovered Intermediate group is growing, each PREDICTS FIFTYis week. This society meets each Sun day at 6 P. M., and is open to junta? AT THE CHURCHES and senior high school students. MOTOR DEATHS IN The regular monthly meeting of the Church Session will be held Sunday Methodist Episcopal der Bridge presiding. Services next at 8 P. M., in t&e minister's office. • NEXT FEW WEEKS Morning worship at 10:30 Snnday, Sunday as usual with Church School Next Tuesday evening at 7:30, the at 10 A. M., and morning- worship at Woman's Missionary meeting will be with sermon, "The Days Spring Prom 11, with special musical program by ^ ^ Bulletin of State Dept. On High," by the pastor, Rev. G. S. ( held at the home ofw Mrs.io> Georgec B. Cunningham "oTInfield'streX'and > Bases Claim on Statis Helps. Church School will as usual convene at 11:45. The Christian En Paul by the girls, of Class 8 of the Wednesday, Dec. 7, the first meeting week-day school. Miss Phyllis Bridge tics And Carelessness deavor meeting is held at 6:15 P. M., of the reorganized "Light Bearers"' will take the part of Paul, assisted in will be held in the chapel at 3:45 P. of Drivers And Pedes and at 5 P. M., a twilight musical the cast by the Misses Mary E. Rum- service will be held, at which the M. The leaders of this group are ford, Louise Curtis, Janice Eugley. Mrs. James Comrie and Mrs. Freder trians On Highways. choir of the North Manchester Meth Catherine Bell, Mary Jordon ana odist Church will sing West's beauti ick Leach. This is a missionary so Florence Buck. ciety for children, and will be both ful cantata, "Prayer and Praise," The Christian Endeavor Societies Fifty persons "will be killed in Con which includes appealing solos and , „ j , . interesting and attractive. Each Wed- necticut during the next few weeks festival choruses. All are cordially meet at 6 P. M., followed by evening nesday night at 7:45, the mid-week worship at 7 P. M., with preaching by service is held and is conducted by because motorists and pedestrians invited. the pastor, Rev. Mr. Bell. Prayer:the minister. are doing those things which are The Greer Class will meet Monday, December 5, at 7:30, at the home of meeting was held on Wednesday eve- The December supper of the Men's dangerous, experience statistics show »—-vr5!? the president, Mrs. George H. Colby, nmg in the parlor. The women s Bible Class will be held next Monday 6:3 M S eaker a bulletin of the Department of Mo 14x« GardenViaraen s.reeustreet. Thexne class memmem- C' A° f' \ ^ P tor Vehicles says. It is apparent that bers are beginning an interesting se- chib nfeete Tuelda^veS in their'ReV- 4nd£ew J' Stanton of the Em- iar uel motorists are driving at speeds too ries of discussions on "The Women of clubr,^f * * *< attend these services. Sunday School meets at 9:30 A. M. The Senior and Junior Christian En deavor Societies meet at 6:15 P. M. The choir for some months to come will be under the direction of Mips EPSTEIN'S LIMOUSINE P Edna Morrison in the absence of Rde- * -w ert Hilditch. Mrs. Emma B. Ganner AMBULANCE still presides at the organ. Mrs. S. J. Magill is director of the junior and SERVICE AVAILABLE AT ALL HOURS * * * the young people's choirs. The ex periment of the young people in their w fe. i special service last Sunday evening Motor Livery For All Occasions mm. t > was a success. The attendance was excellent and the service helpful. The CALL PHONES 182 AND 620 young people's choir sang two special numbers and Rev. Raymond A. Was THOMPSONVILLE, CONN. MtfrfMfedfetMiiMMMiaMMM er was heard with great pleasure. f ^ A With such a start, much is expected Helge Bostrom is captain of the from the programs of the future. _ilackliawks, Chicago's Ice hockey laa Tomorrow evening the Enfield C. |t$am, and is rated as one of the^best I? ^S93IL2JI U. organization will hold its quarter L,«rf the puck chasers. -*r_ J, . ly meeting in the United Presbyter ian Church. Supper will be served at 6:30. After the fellowship hour, a good program is planned and large attendance from the different socie ties is expected. The regular Wed WELDING AND nesday evening hour will be held next week at 7:30, followed by the regular BRAZING ^ -- weekly choir rehearsal. OP ALL KINDS Mexican soldiers have been drafted by the government to carry out the huge road building program which Mex- Hazardville Methodist. Auto Body, Fender and has undertaken, and which has resulted In the construction of more roads in Mexico during the last two Today (Thursday), the Ladies' Aid Radiator Repairing p than were built in the previous century. Soldiers shown above are working on the newly dedicated section Society are holding their annual sale le International Pacific highway between Nogales, Ariz., and Sonora, Mexico. of domestic articles, Christmas cards, Sheet Metal Work food, candy, nuts and other articles Roofing and Gutters suitable for gifts, in the vestry be ginning at 3 P. M. The monthly ses Scenes and Persons in the Current News sion of the society was held in the Tony Troiano parlors at 2 P. M., with Mrs. Alexan- 112 No. Main St. Phone 93-3 Thompsonville, Conn. RESTORER OF YOUTH 'ii Edward Leete Funeral Director A Year OFFICE: 74 MAIN STREET Telephone 180 Round Gift Residence: 107 ENFIELD ST. AN ANNUAL subscription Telephone 197 to our newspaper will prove very interesting every week of the year. It's a gift that never gets tiresome—for it Thompsonville WMSm mm tells a different story with £T ' - > J * every issue. Phone 50, and Monumental we'll attend to the rest. Works D»\ Helan Jaworski of Paris, who has conducted a series of successful M. J. LIBERTY, Proprietor 1—Doing the fall housecleaning in the honse office building In Washington preparatory to the session of congress. rejunevatlon operations by transfUB- 2—Recently completed locks at Lockport, 111., largest of the five locks In Illinois waterway project connecting the Ing the blood of yonng men into the veins of aged patients without resort THE PRESS Office: 97 Pearl St. Great Lakes and the Mississippi river which will be open to navigation next spring. 3—Joseph Avenol o£ France, named secretary general of the League of Nations to succeed Sir Eric Drummond, resigned. - ing to surgery. He will visit this THOMPSONVILLE, CONN, Phone 403-4 country at the invitation of leading scientists* ^ •P • v'f- ?;/ - T.'.'r > •v.-.' ••:•*••?., : ; : ; ; : : j^iv^ ?::1'i;.:;;^^v'- ^ r'; v -;;" • ^g=!?'^; ;^' ^:;t:,';v 5 'f '':.v^ '£• -•-:::; , DECEMBER 1, 1932 uvn They were Naugatuck, Norwich, Tor- SCIENCE TO TACKLE in Two of the Newly Ejected Senators WINDSOR LOCKS rington, Wallingford, West Haven. THIRTY MILLION ss CONN. BUILDING Building permit figures for October FLIGHT TO STARS are reported by the railroad as fol PI tiatiisir Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cutler, Jr., are receiving congratulations on the birth lows: Bridgeport, $74,960; Bristol, DOLLAR DROP P iPIC."- GAINS SLIGHTLY $3,330; Danbury, $31,100; East Hart Overeoming Earth's Pull of a daughter, Susan, born recently ford, $17,785; Derby, $850; Green at the Hartford Hospital. wich, $43,350; Hamden, $86,935; Mer- fWlZ.v Problem to Be Solved. WW; A very pretty wedding took place DURING OCTOBER iden, $33,776; Hartford, $33,566; Mid- dletown, $16,210; Naugatuck, $14,376; Blodgett Gives Figures London.—The new problems of In here on Thanksgiving Day in St. New Britain, $28,730; New Haven, ter-planetary flight Is now being Mary's Church, when Miss Mary Dur- New Haven Road Sur $73,462; New London, $31,350; Nor- •r.ViSj On Decline in Connec earnestly studied tn London. Profes za, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin vey Shows Increase in walk, $20,500; Norwich, $18,419; Wal sor Plccard's ascent Into the strato Durza, was married to Jerome J. lingford, $20,493; Stamford, $68,754; ticut From All Sources sphere and his eagerly awaited data Driscoll of Thompsonville. The cere Dozen Communities— Stratford, $57,264: Torrington, $21,- mony was performed by the pastor, 618; Waterbury, $27,900; West Hart —Federal Sums Paid has given Impetus to the movement Totals, However, Re ford, $65,870; West Haven, $145,555; among the scientists and astronomers Rev. John A. Conlan, who also cele Cut in Half. brated the nuptial mass. The bride main At Low Ebb. Wethersfield, $4,235.00; Willimantic, In Great Britain. was attended by Miss Mary V. Dris $10,225. The movement in England has the coll, sister of the bridegroom, and the Taxes paid in Connecticut to fed benefit of the advice of Professor best man was Edward W. Durza, bro Building permits issued by cities Swimming Classes In Action. eral, state, county and local govern Jeans. ther of the bride. Following a wed-land towns in Connecticut during the Colds and sickness brought the at ments decreased nearly $30,000,000 Across the channel the British so ding breakfast and reception at the I month of October rose in valuation tendance of the swimming class of in the last two years, it is shown in ciety Is awaiting the result of France's h°_me. : lightly above those of September, the Junior High and High School •figures made public this week by $2,000,000 rocket This Is not intend street, Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll left for a wedding trip to New York City and but nevertheless remained at the low down to about 20 boys. These boys State Tax Commissioner William H. ed to be a mere projectile fired Into ebb which has marked the preceding made the trip to Springfield College the moon, but a vehicle to transport upon their return will reside in this Blodgett. Whereas the Connecticut town. months of the year's third quarter, it in transportation provided by Judge man there equipped with everything Guy F. Bushnell, William E. Savage, tax bill totalled $152,941,231 for the Mr. and Mrs. Henry V. Griswold I is shown in the monthly building sur modern science can think of to se are the parents of a daughter, Mary Edward White and Samuel J. Magill. year ended June 30, 1930 it decreased cure the safety of the passenger and Lou, born in the Hartford Hospital vey taken by the Freight Traffic De Hard work was the order of the eve to $147,077,251 as of June 30, 1931, partment of the New Haven Railroad ning and the boys show marked prog and dropped to $123,306,936 for the also the Instruments to collect the recently. Invaluable data. An informal reception was held at among twenty-five communities along ress. Among the smaller boys that year ended June 30, 1932. The most the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pasquale the railroad's lines. Permits issued are pointing up nicely are Robert substantial decrease has been in fed To Overcome Pull. ^ Among the Democrats who were chosen for the senate in the recent elec tion were these two representatives, John H. Overton of Louisiana (left), and Calapietra on Thanksgiving Day in by those communities in October in-1 Leggett, William Fuge and Allen eral taxes. Although state tax re The conception Is staggering. honor of their 25th wedding anniver creased only about $83,000 over Son-'PamnwrSep-1 Campbell. Watson Magill after an ceipts also show a sizeable decline, William H. Dietrich of Illinois (right). The former succeeds Senator Broussard tember's grants. absence of two weeks was in for a According to a scientific writer In and the latter takes Senator Olenn's seat. sary. taxes paid to towns and other local the "People": Dr. John F. Barton of Hartford The list of building permit values j little while. Two new faces came out governments increased slightly. "A projectile designed to travel was the guest speaker at the meeting showed a definite change in the com- last night in the persons of Bryce The total annual tax burden for of the Rotary Club held Monday noon munities heading the list, Bridgeport |Leggett and Edward White. The lat- Connecticut is now divided as follows, into lnter-stellar space has to rise being the only one of the larger cities j ter has been in the game before and above the earth's atmosphere envel in the Methodist Church. His sub according to the tax commissioner's No Detours for This Vehicle • ject wa_s "Business as Related to a to take a place among the first three.; after a few sessions will show plenty statistics: ope and to cancel the gravitational Profession." West Haven headed the list with per- of speed. Young Leggett showed up Amt. of Taxes pull. This Is one of the major prob Miss Elizabeth Harrington, daugh mits valued at $145,555 with Green well for the first night. Mass les- Tax Source Received lems confronting the rocket experts. ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Harring wich second and Bridgeport third. sons have been the order of events Local (towns, cities, "To be shot free of the earth's pull, ton of Broad Brook, became the bride Twelve of the twenty-five communi thus far, but starting next Tuesday $72,107,660.92 ties covered in the survey recorded each boy will be grouped according it must be discharged at the rate of wSSS of John J. Healey, son of Mrs. Mar Metropolitan District- 179,332.54 speed of about seven miles per sec garet Healy of this town, at a cere gains, mostly small, over their totals to the events he is particularly inter Eight Counties — 1,187,898.60 mony in St. Catherine's Church on of September. They were Bridge ested in and the instructors will stress State of Connecticut 29,425,700.37 ond; that is a hundred times the port, Danbury, Hamden, Naugatuck, form and breathing in these for the speed of an airplane. But if that Thanksgiving Day. Rev. David A. Federal 20,406,343.58 Hutchinson performed the wedding New Britain, Norwich, Stamford, Tor benefit of the individual. speed Is attained at the start of the ceremony and also celebrated the nup rington, Stratford, West Hartford, $123,306,936.01 discharge, the density of the atmos tial mass. The bridesmaid was Miss West Haven and Willimantic. As Merchandise exported from the The decrease in the aggregate Con phere will turn the projectile Into an Eleanor Harrington, a sister of the compared with October, 1931, only United States to the Far East in the necticut tax burden is more sharply Incandescent mass. bride, and the groom was attended five of the cities and towns reported j first half of this year was valued at "brought out on a per capita tax basis. "Briefly, a rocket designed for such by his brother, Paul P. Healey, as upon in the survey showed gains. > $180,030,000. "While Connecticut per capita taxes Is an engine composed of four parts. best man. Following a reception and for federal, state, county and local wedding breakfast held at the home purposes were $95.67 for a twelve Firstly, the fuel compartments, then the combustion chamber, next the pay- of the bride's parents, the young month period ended in 1930, the cor- couple left fo?: a wedding trip to -responding per capita tax was $90.98 load compartment (In which the inter ^ ~ V iMi Washington and upon their return for 1931, and only $75.76 for the same stellar traveler will pilot his craft), will live at 115 Spring street. •period in 1932. This is a decrease of last the rocket shell. A bridge party sponsored by the | COAL-WOOD-COKE-OIL [ nearly twenty dollars in the Connec Women's Guild of St. Paul's Church ticut per capita tax in two years. The Fuel Problem. '* Isadore Cholfin, inventive genius of Somervllle, Mass., drives his "salt "The fuel problem is divided Into was held this afternoon at the home Connecticut taxpayers paid to the water taxi" over the smooth waters of the Charles river in first public dem of Mrs. Edward Micha on South Main federal government, exclusive of cus two divisions—solid fuel such as gun onstration of the craft. The "taxi," In reality a discarded automobile, i3 sup street. toms receipts, a total of $48,391,389 powder—and liquid fuel—a combina ported by pontoons. A series of under-water propellers connected to the drive for the year ended June 30, 1930. For tion of hydrogen and liquid oxygen." shaft give it a speed of ten miles per hour. Highest Grade Fuels! the next year, ended June 30, 1931, "Today," states the writer In the the total paid from this state to the "People," "the only basic problem War Rages for Year; federal government was $37,886,349, Anthracite in all sizes from Stove to Rice. Bituminous that stands between earthbound man Opening the New Highway in Rome News Now Leaks Qui suitable for all uses. Koppers Coke, reputed the best, a decrease of $10,505,040. For the and the vast Intoxicating dream of year ended June 30, 1932, however, London.—In an Immense coun and much in demand at the present time. Wood, hard federal tax receipts totalled only $20,- lnter-stellar travel is power. try of 462,200 square miles a "Mankind is now tackling that and dry, split for stove use or unsplit for furnace. Oil 406,344, a decrease of $17,480,005 for fierce civil war has been raging for and all necessary equipment—tanks, racks and faucets. the year. Federal taxes accounted problem with all the skill and knowl the last year, and only now has for 31,64 per cent of the total tax bur edge of the chemist, the astronomer, the news reached the western WE CAN TAKE CARE OF ANY den of the state in 1930; dropped to the Professor Piccards and all the world. '25.76 per cent in 1931, and took a de aviation Dioneers." AND ALL FUEL REQUIREMENTS cided drop to 16.55 per cent of the to The country is the least known tal in 1932. in the world—Tibet, land of 1m Taxes paid to the State of Connec Gift Overalls Returned; passable mountains and Inscrut ticut totalled $31,239,198 for the year Cause Is the High Duty able human mysteries. ended June 30, 1930; they increased Recently news reached here of to $33,280,644 for the next year, and Elyria, Ohio.—A pair of overalls FRANK P. SMYTH desultory but violent clashes dropped to $29,425,700 for the year which he had sent as a gift to a friend FUEL DEALER ended June 30, 1932. State taxes com In Germany was recently returned to which have taken place between prised 20.43 per cent of the total tax Jose Frassel, tailor here, because it the Lamas—Buddhist leaders—of 98 Prospect Street—Phone 496 Thompsonville, Conn. loan in 1930; 22.63 per cent in 1931, requires a week's wages to pay the the Derge and Bara monasteries. »nd 23.86 per cent in 1932. Import duty on them. Towns, cities, boroughs and all oth Accomrawiyiug the returned overalls er local taxing districts received in taxes $71,727,376.66 for the year end was a Tetter In which the German ed March 31, 1930.| For the year end friend stated that the Import duty ed March 31, 1931, local tax receipts amounted to eight marks and GO pfen rose to $74,441,793.04, then dropping nig, or $2.10 In American money, which to $72,107,66J.92 for the same period amounted to a week's wages. 1932 DECEMBER 1932 in 1932. It is shown that whereas SUN MON TUE WED THU fRI SAT such local taxes comprised 46.89 per •cent of the total tax bill of Connecti Series of Civil Wars » » » » | cut in 1930, the share of the total 2 3 borne in 1932 is 58.48 per cent. Raging All Over China Taxes paid to the eight counties in Shanghai.—Hundreds of thousands 4 5 6 7 8 9 IO 1930 totalled $1,583,267.45; $1,395,- of soldiers are In the field In a series 798.34 in 1931 and $1,187,898.60 in of civil wars and rebellions raging in II 12 13 14 15 16 17 1932. Metropolitan district taxes to virtually all sections of China, with an Id 20 21 22 23 24 talled $72,667,46 in 1931, the first year ever mounting death toll and increas 19 of its operation, and amounted to ingly grave fears for the future. The $179,332.54 in 1932, as of March 31. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 A three-year comparison of the Con struggles are chiefly between native necticut per capita tax burden shows war lords, seeking to wrest power and the following changes: territory from one another, and thus Tax Source 1930 1931 1932 far there has been no serious threat Federal $30.22 $23.42 $12.53 to properties of foreigners In the County 0.99 0.86 0.73 strike-torn republic. Met. Dist. 0.04 0.11 Entire villages are reported to have Local 44.95 46.09 44.33 been burned, and refugees are pouring Totals $95.67 $90.98 $75.76 into the larger cities In the hope of ™ General view of the ceremonies which marked the opening of the broad finding safety and shelter. Farmers highway cut by Mussolini's government across the stones of ancient Rome. who had rejoiced over the first good The new road, which links the Colosseum and the Piazza Venezia, was opened crops in four years are experiencing