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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04

In connection with the observance of Mothers day on Sunday next, May 10th, Postmaster Albert N. Colgrove advises that in sending mothers greetings by mail greetings should be deposited in the mails early enough to insure reaching destinations in time for delivery on the Saturday before Mothers day. Such greeting mailed in Wa terbury, and addressed for delivery in Waterbury, should be placed in the mails not later than Friday evening, May 9th.
 If delivery of Mothers greetings on Saturday evening, May g, or Sum day morning, May 10, is desired, q special delivery stamp, in addition to regular postage, should be used.
 A bulletin on this subject, as is- sued by the Post office department and addressed to postmasters, reads in part:
 Mothers day this year occurs on Sunday, May 10. The volume of mail incident to Mothers day will undoubtedly exceed that of last
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
EDITOR COOK IS
 DEAD AFTER LIFE OF USEFULNESS
Rose From Cub Reporter to the Editor of Central Group of Newspapers Died in Columbus

Columbus, Ohio, May 4.-(UP)- F. E. Cook, who rose from cub re- porter to editor of the central group of Scripps- Howard newspapers died at his home yesterday from cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57. He had been i'll for several months.
 Cook was well-known as a news paper man throughout Ohio. A for mer editor of the Columbus Citizen, he devoted his life to the newspa- per business. He had been con- nected with Columbus newspapers for more than 35 years.
 Born in Dalton, Wayne, Ohio, on January 21, 1874. the son of Captain William c. and Ella Fletcher Cook, he attended public schools in Dalton and came here to work on the old Press Post in 1895. His associates of those days recall that one of his first assignments was the 'penitenti- ary beat" One of the last big stories he helped handle was the Ohio peni- tentiary fire in 1880 in which 322 convicts were killed.
 Cook went to the Citizen on June 1. 1900. as city editor. The paper had been founded only a year. He became managing editor and then editor-in-chief when a controlling interest was purchased by the Scripps-McCrae league, now the Scripps- Howard group, on July G. 1904. He was made editor-in-chief of the central group of Scripps- Howard papers IS years later. This group was composed of the Cleve- land Press, the Cincinnati Post. the Toledo News Bee, the Youngstown Telegram, the Akron Times Press the Columbus Citizen and the Pitts burg press.
 When he was promoted to this position, Cook moved to Cleveland
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04

A Forest Gate man claims to be Eneland's unluckiest bettor. having bought sweepstake tickets regularly for o5 years without success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
Cannot Sit In Court
 Of Common Pleas
(Continued from Page D

ernor Cross get together soon. there fore, there will be a mass of bust ness piling up in the court of com mon pleas in Waterbury and Deputy Judge MeNiff will be faced with a very serious situation.
 Dispute Over Court
 Governor Cross has nominated Attorney Edward J. Finn of Water bury for the post on the bench in the place of Judge Beardsley, whose term expired yesterday. However. various swaps have been going on and the court of common pleas has been made the political football. Therefore. the appointment of the judge has been delayed. It is under stood at the present time that Judge Beardsley will be renamed and that Attorney Finn will be taken care ol by creating third judgeship in ths common pleas court.
 Delay Causes Trouble
 Nevertheless, the delay has created a very unusual situation in Water, bury. The court of common pleas there is the busiest in the entire state and to have it operating with but one judge at this time, with the June recess fast approaching, is con- sidered one of the most ridiculou: situations politics have ever caused in Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
Post Office Ready
 For Rush Of Cards
COIgrove nstructs Public in Effort to Guarantee Sas-
 faction to All Concerned

year. Unless mothers greetings are received on or before Mothers day, May 10, the sentiment and value at- tached thereto will be considerably lessened. Those not desiring to use the special delivery service to in- sure delivery before Sunday should be urged to make suitable inquiry at the postoffice in order to insure having their Mothers day greetings reach destination in time for de- livery on the Saturday before Mothers day"
 In this connection, Postmaster Colgrove advises that by use of Air Mail service the dispatch of Moth er's day greetings to distant points will be greatly expedited. The post office Telephone (434) will gladly supply full information concerning air mail schedules and rates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
Good News at
 Fire Stations
Nothing Doing To-day But Four Calls Were Sent
 in Sunday

Inquiry at the fire headquarters revealed the fact that there were no fires to-day, but four were reported yesterday. Planks on the Washing ton avenue bridge caught fire and telephone call brought Engine 5 to the scene yesterday afternoon. No damage resulted. Other calls includ- ed fire at the Tracy avenue dump, brush fire near the Mattatuck Manu- featuring Co plant and a chimney fire at the house owned by Thomas Day. 816 Baldwin street. Little damage resulted in the last call.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
ENTERTAINERS.

Washington, May 4.-tUP)-High- est temperatures yesterday and low"'
 est last night in 20 cities were re-
 ported by the weather bureau to-day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04

exander I of Jugo-Slavia. Carol was on his way to Bucharest from Timi- sowara, where he had been attend ing horse races.
 We'll informed quarters believed there was a discussion of political and economic matters connected with the little entente conference at Bucharest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
NINE WERE KILLED.

Boston, May 4-(UP)-NIne per sons were killed in Massachusetts automobile accidents last week. ac- cording to announcement by George A. Parker registrar of motor ve- hicles. The total was 10 less than for the previous week and 10 less than for the corresponding period q year ago. Seven of those killed were pedestrians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04

ened out their difficulties and decide upon some certain path of proeed- ure.
 !. Judge Beardsley, when talked with this afternoon, stated that un- der the law he cannot hold over Therefore, he stated. he has gotten all of his memorandums of decisions in and has closed up all cases pend ing before him in the court of com mon pleas.
 Unless the legislature and Gov
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
FULL WEATHER REPORT

| Washington, May 4.-UP)-Fore-
 cast for Monday and Tuesday: | Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire,
 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut: Fair and not quite SD cool tonight; Tuesday increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer fol- lowed by showers Tuesday night or Wednesday,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
Mystery Bomber Crash at San
Diego, Killing l, Linked With
Akron Sabotage Arrest.
FLAWS NOTED AFTER TWO PLANES
PASSED RIGID CHECK AT FACTORY
Mechanic, Trapped, Confessed Plan to
Wreck Giant Navy Airship, Federal
investigators Say.


CLEVELAND March 2ODscovey Of the alleged plot to wreck
ougrowth investigation
widespread sabotage plot against aircraft in this country it
revealed today.
Band general of the Great Lakes Aircraft Cor
said bombing Diego Sep
investigation which cmaxed
night with the of Paul his alleged
confession of plans to wreck the huge drigible.
pilots bombing plane killed the ship
mysteriouy built
Spring by the Cleveland.
Subsequent investigation sad
eventually they collapse
already rigid factory inspection
be defective.
Agents Say Confessed.
Investigators of the Diego tragedy followed the trail back
the factory where Kaay had been employed mechanic He
drigible investigation
continued the alleged plot this craft discovered
Kassay trapped Department confessed
drigible
Akron, construction designed
formidable fighting ship operated
Kasay described Communist and wartime captain
in the Austro- Hungarian Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
GORDON UPHOLDS
HAYNES CHARGES
Former Bank President Must
Stand Trial Despite Quash
Motions.

Justice Peyton Gordon In Criminal
Division 1 today ruled that Harry ".
Haynes, former president of the Farm
ers' and Mechanics National Bank,
must stand trial on an indictment
charging him with making false en-
tries in the books of the bank, with
misapplication of the funds and credits
Of the institution and with abstraction
of bank securities. Haynes, through
Attorney H. Winship Wheatley, had
filed a motion to quash the indict-
ment, alleging that the indictment was
invalid because returned by a grand
jury on which women were permitted
to serve without any authority of law
and which had been impaneled in July
during the Summer recess Of the court
without lawful authority.
Justice Gordon overruled the motion
on these grounds and also the claim OF
the defense that a representative of. the
Department of Justice had been allowed
in the grand jury room. The defense
also attacked the methods used in Sc
Letting the grand jury and the validity
of the appointment of Mrs. Lillian S.
Pritchard, a member Of tn Jury Com
mission, when no date had been set for
the starting of her term of Office. A
number of other objections by counsel
for the defense was also overruled. At
torney Wheatley noted an exception to
the courts ruling and will take no fur
Their steps to delay a trial.
Haynes, he said, will plead not guilty
to the indictment and will proceed to
trial when a date has been agre;d on
with United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
Officials Describe
HO,U Justice agents
Revealed Sabotage
BY REX COLLIER.

A denim-clati agent of the United
States Bureau OF Investigation, pre-
tending to be q mechanic employed on
the Nays new dirigible, the Akron, has
forestalled major aviation disaster
and exposed sabotage plot Of possible
wide ramifications.
The inquiry, resulting in the arrest at
Akron yesterday of Paul KaSsay, en-
ploye of the Goodyear Zeppelin Co., on
a charge Of attempted sabotage has led
to San Diego, Calf, where KaSsay is
said to have been linked to a mystery
involving the fatal crash of a naval
bombing plane last September.
It was learned from reliable sources
today that an additional charge may be
placed against Kassay shortly in con-
nection with the San Diego crash, in
which a pilot was killed when the wings
of a plane collapsed in a suspicious
manner.
Communist Angle Secuted.
It is said Kassay was employed at San
Diego at the time of the so-called acct
dent to the bombing plane.
kassay is reported to have told the
disguised Federal operative that he
was Communist and was working I'M
der direct orders from Moscow" Of
ficials here are inclined to discredit the
Communist angle, however.
Acting Director Nathan of the Bureau
Of Investigation told remarkable story
of the secret workings of two bureau
agents in uncovering the plot to de-
stroy the big dirigible.
Attention of Federal authorities was
called to certain suspicious aroused by
KaSSay as a result of remarks dropped
among fellow workmen at the airship
plant. KaSSay is a Hungarian, and a
bureau operative of Hungarian descent
was assigned to enter the plant as a
mechanic and work beside the suspected
man.
Pretended to Be Communist.
Another agent was stationed outside
the plant for purposes of general sur
Veillance,
The agent-workman donned overalls
and went to work as riveter. He en-
listed KassayS interest and friendship
by pretenses of being a fellow Com
munist. Kassay eventually grew quite
chummy with the agent, and they fra
ternized socially for some time.
Before long Kassay told the agent of
plans he had for wrecking the dirigible
on her first trial fight. He solicited
the agents aid, after being certain of
the new workman's confidence.
"KaSsay showed our man all about
his scheme" Mr.. Nathan explained.
He was to take a rivet, place it in the
hole in the frame, and, instead of ham
mering it into place, would wet the hole
with water so that the rivet would freeze
last In its socket When the inspector
came around to test the rivet, he would
find it to be apparently solid in the hole.
and pass it as o. K.
Such rivets, KaSSay told the agent,
Continued on Page 6. Column a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
MRS. HENDERSON'S
PETITION ATTACKED
Counsel for Mrs. WhoIean
Charges She Is Seeking to
Set Up New Facts.

Asserting that Mrs. Mary F. Hender-
son is now trying to establish new set
of facts, counsel for her adopted daugh-
ter, Mrs. Beatrice Wholean, today asked
District Supreme Court Justice James
M. Proctor to dismiss a petition recently
filed by Mrs. Henderson asking that the
adoption decree be vacated.
1t was declared Mrs. Henderson al
legged certain facts six years ago in her
petition for adoption and she is now
estopped from attempting to set up a
contrary set of facts merely to further
her own purposes in having the decree
declared void.
Sees Elimination of Heir.
Mrs. Who'ean's attorney, H. Prescott
Galley, also protested an effort by
Henry Arnold of New York, a nephew
of Mrs. Henderson, to intervene in the
petition seeking vacation of the de-
cree.
1T is as plain as the nose on his
face that Mr.. Arnolds only purpose in
attempting to intervene is to eliminate
an heir to the Henderson estate" Cat
ley asserted.
The attorney for the defendant con-
tended that when Mrs Henderson in
stituted her adoption proceedings six
years ago she told the court Mrs.
Wholean was then minor child and
that, despite diligent efforts, all at
tempts to locate or learn the identity
of her parents had failed.
Points to Early Adoption.
He also nointed out Mrs. Henderson
had stated that Mrs. Wholean always
had been regarded as her granddaugh-
ter" Mrs. Henderson's adoption petit
ton, Galley pointed out, also stated
that Mrs. Wholean, as child, had in
fact been adopted by her son, John B.
Henderson, jr.
According to the attorney, Mrs. Hen
derson, in her original petition, set forth
that Beatrice Henderson was brought
up as the child of her son, John B.
Henderson, and his wife, Angelica
Schuyler Crosby Henderson; that after
tk death of the wife, John Henderson
continued to bring up the child as his
daughter and that both the sen and
the adopted child continuously resided
with her until the death Of the son in
January, 1923.
Mrs. Henderson now comes into
court and asks that the decree be va
Gated, alleging it was known at the time
of adoption that the mother of the child
was alive and her consent was not Sc
cured" the attorney said.
Cites Legal Aspect.
"It is an established doctrine of law
that a petitioner in court of equity
cannot, to further a personal interest,
attempt to set up facts which would
nullffy and be contrary to a former set
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
PASTOR ENDS LIFE
AS TRAIN HITS HIM
Chesapeake Beach Engineer Says
Rev. D. E. Beavens Leaped
on Rails.
Special Dispatch to the Star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March 20.
"A retired Methodist minister, identi-
fed as the Rev. D. E. Beavens, about
81 years old, of Baltimore, jumped In
front of passenger train of the Chesa-
peake Beach Railway today near the
Marlboro crossing and was instantly
killed, according to a report made by
the engineer of the train to Acting
Coroner Thomas B. Griffith.
The engineer of the train declared
that he saw the man standing on a
bank near the tracks as he approached
the crossing. When the locomotive drew
close to him the man leaped in front of
the engine and was killed, the engineer
said.
The authorities at Upper Marlboro
were notified and an investigation be-
gun. Coroner Griffith said the minister
formerly had churches in Calvert Coun-
ty and Hyattsville, Md.
He was visiting his daughter and SON.
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Dent, at
Upper Marlboro for several days, Grit
fifth said. Griffith said he learned that
the man retired from the ministry sew
eral years ago. An inquest will be held
at Upper Marlboro at 1880 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20

Kassay denied to reporters that he
ever was in the Austro-H Hungarian navy
and said the plot charged against him
was frame-up.
Arrest OF the suspect followed long
investigation at Akron by Herman Hol-
lis and r. L. Nails, Department OF Jus
tice agents. They placed other men at
work alongside Kassay to learn his
plans Of the alleged sabotage.
I'VE don't know exactly how extern
sive the plot was McDermott said,
NOR just how far back Of Kassay 1t
goes. We are continuing the investiga-
ton
Kassay pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned in Akron Municipal Court to-
day on a charge Of criminal syndical-
ism. He asked no bond and none was
granted. A preliminary hearing was
set for tomorrow.
Federal agents and Goodyear-Zep-
pelin officials said they believed Kassay
was fanatic and that he was the only
one involved. County officials expressed
the belief that KaSsay was the agent Of
a plot with widespread ramffications.
Oficials today asserted they had dis
covered that Kassay had planned to
wreck the control room of the Akron
with oxalic acid during the airship'S
maiden flight this Summer and, II nee
esSary, perish himself in the wreckage.
The District Committee of the Com
munist party here issued statement
today saying that Kassay is not men,
Der Of the Communist party.
Probing Kassay Case.
Kassay was arrested under the Ohio
criminal syndicalist law, which the
Legislature a few days ago refused to
repeal. Numerous suspected Com
munistS have been arrested under the
provisions of this statute, which for
bids dissemination of seditious propa-
ganda.
The Communist Committee said
Kassay's arrest occurred conveniently
enough when the workers all over the
State are aroused against the Legis-
lature which voted down repeal of the
law and when the sponsors of the
Fish Congressional Committee pro-
posals are in bad need of justification
for terroristic measures"
The committee denied that the
Communist party advocates any form
of individual violence and terror.
An investigation of the KasSay case
is being continued by the party, the
statement said, 1t added that the party
will most certainly support the de-
tense of Kassay if our present opinion
that he is the victim of the infamous
frame-up system Is substantiated."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
g VIKING MISSING
ARE THOUGHT DEAD
FriSseII and Penrod Among
Those Thought to Have
Sunk With Vessel.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March
20.-Captains of sealing vessels report
ed to st. Johns today that they had
searched every foot of ice within %
miles of the scene of the Viking dis
aster without finding trace of the "a
men still missing. They declared
further search useless.
Twenty-seven of the % missing men,
bers of the viking company are believed
to have gone down with the ship after
it exploded Sunday, a message to
Bowring & Co., owners, of New York
said today. 1t said:
Missing Believed Dead.
"Imogene today landed men with
food supplies and got Viking survivors
off to the Sagona. Is tightly damned
in effort to reach island, but hopeful
change of conditions will free. Have
done splendid work Twenty-eight I'M
accounted for. Believe all these, with
possibility one exception, whose tracks
show he was drowned, went down with
the Viking"
The weather report from Horse Is
land, near which the vessel burned
and sank Sunday, shows east by north
erly gales with thick fog along the
coast. Navigators familiar with the
locality doubt the wisdom of sending
airplanes to search for the missing
Air expeditions, it was felt here,
would needleSsly endanger the lives OF
flyers, and would accomplish nothing.
Official TabuIation Made.
An official tabulation issued by Sir
Richard Squires, prime minister Of
Newfoundland, also listed % as still
missing in the destruction of the
Viking with 1877 survivors.
The premier said the ship carried
a signed crew of 147 members of the
motion picture expedition, headed by
Varick Frissell, 2 stowaways and men
who had joined the ship, but were
not listed on the ships articles, making
total of 155.
The survivors who reached Horse
Island, miles from where the ship
blew up Sunday night, numbered 1871
The rescue steamers Sagona and Beothic
picked up three each in White Bay, a
total of 127 saved.
Three men who had signed on for the
seal hunt did not sail when the Viking
sailed from here March 9.
Frissell, who was aboard the Viking
with his companions to take motion
pictures of the seal hunt, and his
cameraman, A. G.. Penrod, are among
the missing. Harry Sargent, actor and
explorer, who was one Of F'rissell's party,
was picked up by the rescue ship
Sagona.
Survivors Aboard Ships.
All of the survi ors who were able to
travel across the ice barrier from the
island were taken aboard the Sagona
and the seal ship Imogene yesterday
after crews of the rescue vessels sue
ceeded in reaching the island with food
and medical supplies.
The rescue party, which included
doctors sent from st. Johns on the
Sagona found the refugees and the
residents of the tiny settlement virtually
at the end of their food supplies and
subsisting on ration of crackers and
tea.
While medical attention was being
given the injured and the removal Of
the Vikings people to the rescue ships
was being pushed, the steamer I21ogene
landed supplies of butter. biscuit, sugar,
coffee, bully beef, bread, fresh meat
canned milk, cheese and tea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
SAYS SENATOR NORRIS
is "WORSE THAN REDS

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 81 H1.
w. A. Fraser, national president OF
the Woodmen of the World, speaking
here today at State encampment o.
the order criticized Senator Norris Of
Nebraska. as worse than the Russian
reds" and charged him with seeking
the get personal control of Muscle
Shoals through Government operation.
Representative Ed Almon of the
eighth Alabama district, another speak
err, said the next Congress would pass
bill to place the power project in opera
ton. even over the veto of the President.
Fraser replied he was unalterably OPP
posed to Government operation OF pub
lie utilities and in that connection criti-
cized Senator Norris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
TALKIE WITH SETTING IN CAPITAL
IS PLANNED FOR BICENTENNIAI
Warner Brothers to Produce Film for Nationwide Dis
tribution as Contribution to Fete

A $4,000 talking moving picture with
National Capital setting will be made
by Warner Brothers, producers, for dis
tribution throughout the United States
during 1882, as contribution to the
George Washington Bicentennial ami
versary celebration.
Announcement to this effect was made
at meeting of the Bicentennial Com
mittee of the Washington Chamber of
Commerce in the Homer Building today
by subcommittee consisting Of Sidney
Lust, local theater operator, and A.
Julian Brylawski, official of the local
Warner Bros. branch. Both members
Of the committee reported that ar
engagements with Samuel Morris, vice
president OF Warner Brothers, in New
York recently, had assured the produc-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSs.
NEW YORK, March 20.-The Eve
ming Post says that Theodore Dresser,
novelist, slapped the face of Sinclair
Lewis, Nobel Literary Prize winner, at
a dinner last night honoring Boris
Pilnyak, Russian Communist writer.
The incident, says the Post, was the
result of literary feud brewing since
1928 between the author of Main
Street" and the author of AN Ameri-
can Tragedy"
1t occurred after Lewis, called upon
to speak at the dinner, said, according
TO the Post story, II feel disinclined to
say anything in the presence of the
man who stole 1900 words from my
wife's book, and before two sage critics
who publicly lamented my receiving
the Nobel prize
Three years ago Mrs. Lewis, for
merry Dorothy Thompson, charged that