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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03
HAMER BENEFICIARY

New York, Dec 3.---OP)--Mrs Abbie Y. Wsyman of Boston. was named h beneficiary of tho estate of her son. Wesley Weyman, who died October 90, according to the terms of his will. filed here for probate. The estate is valued at "mOre than atOO.UOO,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03

The mildest cigarette is bound to be the one that's made of the mildcst to- baccos. It's harder to find the mildcr varicties-but we pay the price and get the choice. The worlds finest Turkish-the worlds finest Domestic the purest, mildest and best tobacco that grows-that's what we buy for Chesterfield.
 We tic up millions of dollars age ing these tobaccos ,1ghk. Then we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03
AKUnN OFE AuAIN

Lnkshurst. ". J., Dec 3.--(UP) The United States navy nirphip. Akron, left ths naval air station here to-day at g;BO n. n. on q training flight. The airabip's dss- tination was not made known.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03

Hungary ia considering eventual consolidation Of It's state iron and machinery works with private en- terprises.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03

Northampton, England. Sgricnl- turnl wages committee has just in- creased tho hours Of work on thh farm from A 10 60 in winter and from GO to BI in summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-03
nTmD Ow WgJRTe

pittaburg. Dec 3--(Up)--Twoive year old Steve Alias. Munhaii. Pa, injured three weeks ago in q neigh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
ADAMS SAYS NAVY
SAVING EFFECTED
Hoover at Rapidan Meeting
Hears Two-Year $25, OOO,.
600 Economy Plan.
BY the Associated Press

ORANGE, Va, June 6.-Secretary
Adams today informed President Hoo
yer at Rapidan camp conference that
savings during the current year in the
Navy Department had amounted to ap-
proximately $4,000. 900 and that prelim-
mary estimates for next year indicate
they will run from $l0,000,00o to
SIS, 000,0 900.
It was determined at the confer
ence today that the Island of Guam
Is no longer of any military value, and
that all activities there will be reduced
to the minimum basis required by the
civil government.
The Navy appropriation for last year
was $3.50, 900, 900 and for the coming
fiscal year $3.50, 900.
Destroyers Decommissioned.
Most of the savings this year resulted
from decommissioning a number of
destroyers and reassigning a number
of battleships.. Through this opera
ton 1900 men whose enlistments ex-
PRED were not replaced.
The Navy last August had $4,000 en-
listed men and at the present time has
approximately 79,700.
A statement from official sources said
every division of the Navy was combed
for economies that could be effected
without sacrificing efficiency. Exhaus-
tive studies, it was said, are being con-
Quoted with a view to increasing saw
ings without danger to employment
or ineficiency In training.
The meeting between the President
and the Navy officials began early in
the afternoon after Secretary Adams
had come to the camp in an airplane
with Assistant Secretary ingalls, at the
controls.
Adams said he enjoyed his flight.
President Hoover came to his camp
yesterday afternoon making an unan-
nounced and hurried departure from
the White House. He spent the morn
ing working on a speech he will de-
liver about the middle Of this month.
Mrs. Hoover arrived at the camp
this morning accompanied by her son
Allan, who is home from Harvard where
he is taking postgraduate course in
the business school.
Representative Simmons of Nebraska
and Mrs. Simmons and Hugh Gibson,
Ambassador to Belgium, were guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
$50 OFFICERS TAKE
TRIO IN GAS THEFT
Siege in Woods, Directed by
Plane, eliminates Chase
Over $1.55.
BY the Associated Press.


SYRACUSE, N. Y, June "a force
Of $50 State troopers, city police and
deputy sheriffs, aided by an airplane
pilot, captured three Of four men who
had engaged in a running gun battle
from an automobile for several miles
with trooper who tried to stop them.
The men had sped away after taking
$l55 worth of gasoline from an Au-
burn gas station. The fourth occupant
of the car escaped after the car over
turned.
The three were captured in a woods.
The fourth man, with gun drawn,
forced a motorist to carry him and, after
driving a half mile, forced the car own
err out and drove on with the stolen
roadster.
The three prisoners gave their names
as Harvey Sutton, Kansas City, MO. !:
John Ryan of Chicago and Steve Mack,
no address. One Of them told police
the sedan in which they were travelling
was stolen in Chicago. A loaded sawed.
off shotgun was found in the wrecked
car.
After the trio had fed into the woods,
Trooper j. E. Grouse, who had pursued
them on his motor cycle, exchanging re-
volver fire with them for several miles
gave the alarm, which brought county
city and State officers to surround the
woods.
Emil Roth, flying from the Syracuse
Airport, circled over the woods, signal
ing searchers to guide them to their
quarry and occasionally returning to
the airport to telephone more detailed
directions to the officers. Eventually
the three were rounded up. The stolen
car In which the fourth escaped had
not been traced early tonight.
The car in which the men had been
riding bore an Ohio license plate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
COUzENS DEMANDS
MITCHELL REPLY
Plans to Force Answer of At
torney General in Hill
Tax Case.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator CouZens, Republican OF
Michigan, made it plain yesterday that
he expected Attorney General Mitchell
to reply to his questions about the
million dollar Hill tax case.
For two months, the Senator said
the Attorney General had ignored his
questions. There was no indication yes
terday that Mitchell intended to reply
II expect an answer from Mr.
Mitchell to my question of why the
Department of Justice refused to appeal
that case to the Supreme Court" Sen
ator Couzens said. There may be a
know it."
Makes Stand Clear.
Couzens said he was in earnest and
while he did not talk about the future
he made it clear that he would not
hesitate to go before Congress, If neces-
sary.
The tax case was one involving an
assessment of S1,l30,000 upon the estate
Of the late Mrs. James j. Hill Of Min
nesota.
NAANCAACh Woo 1bUO1AlCy All LAAS CobdLC.
The District Federal Court ruled that
the assessment should be paid The
Circuit Court of Appeals held that the
tax should not be paid.
THE Treasury Department and Mrs
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assis-
tant Attorney General, recommended
an appeal of this case to the Supreme
Court" the Senator related. Attorney
General Sargent refused to appeal
Mr. Mitchell at that time was solicitor
general.
Suspects Evasion.
"I do not challenge the personal in
tegrity of Mr.. Mitchell. I do say that
on the face of it this case is great
example Of tax evasion. think I have
a right to have my letters to the Attor-
ney General answered"
Senator CouZenS and Secretary Mel
Ion engaged in a controversy on taxa
ton problems over a period of years
During that dispute the Treasury levied
q $4,000, 900 additional tax assessment
on Senator Couzens The tax board
gave CouzenS the decision. Couzens OBJ
tanned a Senate investigation of the
Treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
TWO NAVY MEN DIE
IN BLAST OF STILL
Norfolk Yard Lieutenant and
Civilian Die of Burns in
Hospital.
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va. June 6.-Explosion
of distilling apparatus in the apartment
of Lieut.. T. w. Smith, A, assistant to
the outside superintendent at the Nor
folk Navy Yard, this afternoon re-
suited In his death and that Of o. e,
Whilden, civilian employee at the navy
yard.
! A visitor in neighboring apartment,
who heard the explosion met the two
men staggering out through dense
smoke with their clothing ablaze. He
smothered the flames with wet blan-
kets. but both men died later at a hos
pital.
Police said there was evidence that
a copper tank placed on the gas stove
had blown up with terrific force. The
explosion and fire which followed did
considerable damage to the apartment,
in which officers reported finding a
quantity of what appeared to be mash
and beer and jugs and bottles.
Lieut.. Smiths home was said to be
in Belleville, III. He resided in Chi
cage before joining the Navy and came
here some time ago from Boston.
Whilden was a resident of Portsmouth,
Va, and during the war served as a
lieutenant in the Navy. Both men
were married.
Lieut.. Smiths wife and three sons live
at 3l19 Adams Mill road.
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SANTIAGO RIOTERS
ASK CONSUL'S AID
1900 in Unemployed March Dis
persed by Police-Appeal
to U. S. Office.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO. Cuba, June ga score
OF persons were slightly injured today
in. an unemployment demonstration,
after which so rioters sought the refuge
of the American consulate here as they
fed from rural guards.
Those entering the consulate were
part of a crowd of 1900 who shortly
after noon marched through the bust
ness district, crying threats against
employers and the government.
The city police attempted to break
up the procession, but were unsuccess-
full Rural guards then attacked the
crowd with drawn machetes, and the
rioters dispersed About So pursued by
the guards. burst into the consulate
and begged Consul Edwin Shoenrich
to give them protection.
The consul talked to them, urging
them to leave.
During the fight one man fired point
plank at the municipal military super
visor. Lieut.. Rosillo. The shot missed
and the man was arrested Immediately
The Santiago troubles followed SINH
lar outbreaks last night at San Antonio
de Los Banos, where several persons
were arrested, II having been brought
to Havana from there this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

For the week ending May 30th, the wholesale
price index for "all commodities'-550 of them
touched low level since the That figure
compares today with what it along about 1918
the good old days" when things cheap and life
rosy
Wideawake merchants, with fallen wholesale
prices goods in stock, sulking in the
and rueng the day-they moving the goods.
Retail prices down along with wholesale prices,
and the shelves being cleared keeping dollars
flowing and keeping the wheels of business whrling
around.
The margin between wholesale and retail prices
has frightened and goods being moved in increased
quantity. These wise merchants setting the rest
of the business world good example. And through
the Daily and Sunday columns of The Star, they
breaking hot news of many opportunities-that may
not knock again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
POST OFFICE LEASE
ABOLITION WS|ONED
Brown, in Radio Forum,
Says Cost to U. S. Is
s1o,o0o,ooo.

While no evidence of fraud has been
ton Of post office leases, Postmaster
General Brown favors complete aboli-
ton Of the lease system on the ground
that it is poor business" for Uncle
Sam to prefer a tenants role to that
Of property owner.
Addressing a Nationwide audience
last night in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star and
broadcast over a coast-to-coast network
of the Columbia Broadcasting Co.,
Brown predicted that the. next Con-
gress will give his department authority
to erect its own post office buildings
LEGISLATION Blocked.
Such authority was recommended by
President Hoover during the last ses-
sion. he pointed out, but the proposed
legislation, sponsored by Representa-
tive Kelly of Pennsylvania, was blocked
by Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
when it reached the Senate floor.
The Senate investigation. conducted
by a committee headed by Senator
Blaine of Wisconsin, was launched
after charges of fraud had been made
In connection with negotiations for a
post Office lease in st. Paul, MINI
The st. Paul case has been in the
courts since 1928, Brown said, and two
weeks ago the Court of Claims ordered
the Government to reimburse the
building owners for unpaid rent, nc
evidence having been presented to sus-
tain the fraud charges.
While this court decision effectuallJ
disposes of the only definite charges
of fraud made in connection with any
postal lease contract" the Postmaster
General stated, "it does not alter the
fact. which we have repeatedly calico
to the attention of Congress, that il
is poor business for the Government
to lease from private owners the quar-
tiers which it requires for post office
stations, branches and garages in the
large cities.
Rental Totals $4,000, 900.
1.-THE department now leases about
$500 buildings for such purpose:
throughout the country at a renta
cost of about $4,000 900 a year. Be.
cause many of these buildings were
specially located and specially de-
signed to meet the peculiar require
ments of the postal service. in such
cases the rates of rental are neces.
sarily high enough to permit the owner
to recover substantially all his invest
ment. plus moderate profit, within
the terms of the lease.
1T needs no complicated analysis t.
demonstrate that such an arrangement
Is costly and unbusinesslike in the ex'
treme. During the term of the LEASE
the Government must pay the full value
Of the building in rental and at the
end of the term has nothing to show
for its expenditure. since the building
remains the property of the owner.
Is obvious that there would be a sub
stantial saving in operating costs If thu
department had the authority to cree
its own buildings for these purposes"
For the present, Brown said, the de-
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CATHOLIC GROUPS
HELD ACTING FOR
FOREIGN POWER
Authorized italian Speaker
Says Society Controlled
From Outside.
BY the Associated Press.

1
ROME June 6.-The Catholic Action
Society was described tonight, in a
radio broadcast purporting to give the
Italian side of the governments con-
troversy with Pope Plus XXI, as "a
| strong organization taking orders from
foreign power"
The declaration was broadcast during
the regular evening program of the
Roman radio station. 1t did not pur-
port to be official, but 1t was pointed
out that it would undoubtedly not be
broadcast unless it represented an Off
cial view.
Catholic priests were accused in the
broadcast of black ingratitude" to
Fascism, which. it said, guarantees
religious liberty"
This unofficial reply to the Vatican
and to the speeches of Pope Plus XXI
was made on the eve of the second
anniversary of the ratification of the
Vatican treaty and the concordat, the
two documents which ended the Popes'
SO years as prisoners in the Vatican.
Fascism Honors Church.
1t came also at the end OF day
when the Pope had declared: I'VE are
fighting a battle for liberty of con-
science The Pope's declaration was
made during an address to group Of
Catholic members Of the Fascist or
ganization.
italian listeners were reminded in
the broadcast that Facism gave place
of honor to the church, which was
badly protected by preceding govern
ments' 1t declared the church and
not the Fascist State had deprived the
people of their religious professions and
| it said that many of these had occurred,
| with perfect order, through the coop
Grafton of Fascist authorities in places
where the Pope's prohibition against
them was delayed or disregarded.
The condition of the church in Italy
was Compared with that in "other
countries, where it is really persecut-
ed" The Pope. it said. instead Of criti-
Ching those countries, spoke sharp
words against Italy"
Referring to the demand made yes
terday by an editorial in the Osserva-
tore Romano that proof be offered that
the Catholic Action Society was pollt-
ical, it said that the society had all
the externals of a political party" and
the members belonged to the old anti
Fascist Popular party, which has been
dissolved.
Says Mussolini Justified.
The acts of the society, it was de-
clared, also supported the political
charge Premier Mussolinis action in
proceeding against the clubs was de-
clared to have been jutified by the gov
ernment's high duty to defend itself.
No government in the world, 1t said,
would have permitted such a state Of
affairs.
"All the revelations Of the Lavoro
Fascista Fascist organ) have been at
least 90 per cent confirmed" it said,
"by the Osservatore Romano, which
confined itself to corrections OF form,
and not of substance.
Regarding the prosecutions spoken
of in Vatican circles, every one can see
that they are ridiculous attempts to
make the church appear as victim in
a country where thousands of foreign
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Declares Purchase of Three
Apartments Would Be
Excessively Costly"
PREDICTS THAT CONGRESS
WILL Reject PROPOSAL
Suggests Proper Place Would Be
in Southwest Section-Presi-
dent Undecided.

Firm belief that Congress will never
sanction the placing of the new War
Navy group of buildings In the triangle
between New York and Constitution
avenues. Eighteenth and Twenty-third
streets, on which location the Public
Buildings Commission decided last
March, was expressed last night by
Chairman Wood of the House Appro-
priations Committee in q long-distance
telephone interview with The Star.
Chairman Wood emphasized that this
site west of the White House is excess
sively costly, and therefore in direct
conflict with the policy of President
Hoover, with whom he proposes to con-
fer upon this subject when he returns
to Washington between June 20 and Is
from his home in Lafayette. Ind.
Holds Price Prohibitive.
THAT location, where three large
apartment buildings would have to be
torn down, the Mayfair. ais c street:
the Potomac Apartments, Twenty-first
and C streets; the Riverside. Twenty
second and G streets, and the Architects
Building at Eighteenth and e, make the
price of this location prohibitive" said
Representative Wood, who vigorously
declared that the estimated cost of eight
or nine million dollars for the land
alone falls far short of what the real
cost would be before the Government
acquired these buildings under con-
domination proceedings.
II am personally very much opposed
to that location west Of the White
that the only proper location Is in
the Southwest section, in the triangle
bounded by D street and Virginia ave-
nue. on the south, Maryland avenue
and B street on the north, Second
street on the east and Seventh street
on the west. That location Is conven-
Continued on Page 2. Column A.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June Cone airplane
completed the last leg of its trans-At-
lantic flight yesterday, three were
poised today for the weatherman's
signal, and seven are trying their wings,
preparing to answer the annual early
Summer challenge of distant skies.
Sixteen fiiers, three Of them women,
will pit their skill and courage shortly
against fatigue, uncharted spaces and
possible storms Three expeditions will
be world flights. The expeditions are:
DO-x flying from Switzerland, ar
rived yesterday at Natal, Brazil.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs
Lindbergh at Curtiss Field, to fly to
Orient, probably about June %.
Ruth Nichols, awaiting favorable
weather at Roosevelt Field for Paris
flight.
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, await
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

10 FLYERS PREPARING
FORLONC.DISTANCEH HOPS
Three World Cruises Among Expeditions
Planned as Annual Challenge
to Summer Skies.

ing favorable weather at Roosevelt
Field for start Of world flight.
Laura ingalls,, testing plane at Roose-
welt Field, preparing to fly to Paris late
in Summer.
Hugh Herndon, jr., and Clyde Pang-
born at Roosevelt Field ready for world
flight.
Alexander Magyar, Hungarian flyer
to fly from Roosevelt Field to Budapest
in month.
Capt. Roy w. Ammel, on way to
Roosevelt Field for Paris flight.
Benjamin Zabora and Emil Bugen to
start world flight late this Summer.
Set Yerrington and Edward F
Maloney expect to leave Roosevelt Field
in week in nonstop flight to Mexico
City.
Holger Hoiriis preparing to fly tc
Denmark.
The seaplane Do-X dropped down
into Natal Harbor yesterday, complet-
ing her transatlantic voyage from
Altenheim. Switzerland. The last leg,
Continued on Page 3, Column ~
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Dynamite Hurled
At Soldiers Camp
Near Coal Mines
Blast of Is Sticks Fails
TO Result in Injury.
Trio Arrested.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARLAN, KY. June 6.-Three men,
accused of hurting sticks of dynamite
at an encampment of Kentucky Ma
tional Guardsmen stationed at Yancey,
were arrested today. The dynamite
exploded, but injured no one.
The dynamiting occurred early today,
but news Of 1t was not made public
until the men were under arrest. 1t
was the first reported attempt at vio-
lence against State troops, which were
sent here several weeks ago to quell dis
orders in the Harlan County coal fields.
The men arrested gave their names
as Edward Holman, Berry Murphy and
Paul Pace They we're charged with
banding and confederating for the pur-
pose of injury.
Harlan County officers, who made the
arrests, said 25 or 30 sticks of dynamite,
tied together and with lighted fuse at
tached, we're thrown into the encamp-
ment of about 80 soldiers guarding
mines in the vicinity. The explosion
caused no material damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
FLORIDA FAILS TO ADD
CONGRESS DISTRICT
Legislature Closes Without Pro.
viding for Fifth U. S.
Representative.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE. Fla, June GA
district for Florida's fifth representa-
tive, allowed because of population in
crease in the last decade, was not pro-
vided by the regular session of the Leg
stature which adjourned today.
Numerous bills proposing redistrict-
ing of the State to create the, fifth dis
trict were introduced, but none passed.
AS the Legislature opened a special
session Of twenty days today. soon after
adjournment of the regular session Sen
ator Parrish of Titusville introduced a
bill to have the fifth representative
elected from the State at large. A SINH
lar bill was offered in the regular ses-
sion, but did not advance to a vote.
Under federal laws the fifth repre-
sentative will be elected from the State
at large II the Legislature does not Gre
ate the fifth district.