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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-20

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 Bridgeport being reelected t0 tho national committee arc slim.
 Ex- Mayor David E. Fitzgerald stands the best chance of getting tho national committee post but there ts C strong possibility that Governor Wilbur l.. Cr0sg will in. Bist on a cOmpromige candidate. Tn this case the choice will maybe iy between Mayor Hayes Of this city, Thomas Hewes of Farmington and Senator William c. Fox of New London.
 To.night's meeting of tho smith delegates will be followed in q few days by n meeting of all tho del0- gates from this state at which time organization steps will Do adopted. This means that the delegates VIII elect a chairman, secretary and treasurer and name those who will handle tho transportation and hous Ing Arangremcnts for the Connec- ticut group. Later state Chairman David A. Wilson will call q meet ing of tho state central committee for tho purpose of organizing.
 Mayor Hayes is the only one Of the three local delegates going to the national convention with full vote, Controller Leary and ex-May. or Thoms have one.fourth Of z vote, each.
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Two Ships to.
 Try Atlantic
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 sary of Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight to Paris.
 Lindbcrgh's was tho first solo flight across tho Atlantic. The woman flyer was tho first trans- Atlantic woman passenger. Sho hopes to Do. the first woman 10 make tho solo flight.
 Balchen to delay continuation of tho flight Co Harbor Grace. IIo was not pleased at nows Of fog banks and increasing winds over tho Gulf of St Lawrence. Misa fcarhart was roHdy to go, md hoped to get away before 10 c. n., EDT.
 Sho narrowly averted a eraokup hero yesterday on the first leg of chen. "so commnandcr n Ryrd's pilot. % They had taken off in mid.aftor. noon from Teterboro airport, New Jersey.
 Tho crimson monopIane appeared to Do hoaded for a fatal crash aB it careenod and bumped across tho shorter runway of the municipal airport here. The plane waB right d and brought to a halt whilo spectators gaspod.
 For anxi0ua seconds the crowd feared that Miss Earhart's plane, would suffer tho fato that ovor- took Ruth Nichols whon she landed here last summer. Miss Nichols machine crashed Into tho woods, injurIng the avlatrix. But BalGhen, veteran nirman who pilotcd Admiral Richard A.. Byrd over tho south pole, brought his ghip in gnfely. fIo was flying at between Go and 70 miles m hour when he n0sGd down. A froshenlng cross wind hooked under his right wing and tho L0ckheod-Vegn did q poriiohs ddneo ovor the runway. Miss 1arhart, Belchen and Me- chaniG Eddie Gorgki did not soem to mind tho landing. finlchon said Miss Earhartg chances for success ns tho first woman Co fly the Atlantic solo were 200 out Of 100."
 Mss EarhArt was in fine spirits md appeared confident. The first pegs0n 10 greet her was Inspector Horace MGLoese. who weighs 324 pounds and iS six and G half, foot tall.
 "Weil. we're hero" Miss F,arhart told tho Inspector. My, but you're C big man." sho added in admirat0In aB she gazod nt the bulk of the Inv. '"rhe Boston force has no such giants as you" Miss lcarbart would not reveal her ultimate destination after she leayeD IIarbor Grace on her solo flight, buts promised to announce 1t Just before she starts across the Atlantic. The flight across the Atlantic ls about 1900 miles.
 The trip from Hasbr0uck Heights, N, J., to Bt John was made in three hours zD minutes, at a speed Of about f80 miles an hour. Miss Earhafts plane has C cruis- ing radius of 3,200 miles, cruising speed of 140 miles an hour, top speed 1S0 miles, is equipped with three compassee, and carries 420 gallons Of gasoline. The flyer estimated that the trans-AtIantic journey would require about i3
 Miss Darhart emphasized thss sine would be guided by weather conditions in further plans for her flight, BaIcben as,d uorski will be
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Mill Workers
 of Lancashire

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 Der of mills and rationalize the whole. industry.
 Now the cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers association has des clded Go Hb0rgate the 1919 agree- ment without any substitute nc. ceptable t0 the unions They have resigned themselvos t0 possible bit- ter strikes, riots, and turbulent conditions in the textile .mnrkets of the world
 Strikes are already in progress at some of the Lancashire mills and others are expected if tho 1919 agreement goes out of effect. "rhe operatives will show unre.
 lenting opposition tO any attempts by mill owners Go make tentative wnRe agreements" said Andrew Naesmith, secretary of the AmaI- gamated Viewers assOciati0n.' While guerilla warfare is not q healthy thing for the operatives, It has little practical advantage for the employers. 1t can only create chaotic conditions on the market 1 in quoting prices for cloth; and one IA mindful Of the fact that II was just these conditions which obtained Mxty or seventy yoars ago in our mills.
 "For the relations Of capital and labor o return t0 the bad condt. tiOng M half century ago il neither good policy nor good bust. ness"
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formed of his negotiations, ana that diocesan authorities were con- vinced he acted in good faith.
 Robert M. Hughes, .Ir, senior warden of the church and q lead Ing attorney here, said the vestry and trustees were unanimous in their approval of the dean's course.
 Six Leading attorneys are trus- tees or Vestrymon, and were pres- ent at the church when Dean Dobson- Peacock received the news that Curtis had blamed his "pub- licity seeking mania" for contin- uanGe of the negotiations.
 They united in advising the dean to refuse to g0 to Hopewell. No sane man." they said, would do so when Colonel Schwarzkopf could easily send a man here.
 As to SchwarSkopf and hls co. horts, many who pre well informed in police affairs hold the view that they mIserably bungled this whole buslness;. and they are nothing moro than traffic cops at best and not even good onos at that"
 London, May 20 --- (UP)--A lengthy letter from Rev 1T. Dob son Peacock to his mother, living in the English Midlands, was pub- lishod to-day by tho Daily Express in which tho Rev Peacock gave chronol0gicnl details of hls deal- ings with the alleged Llndbergh kidnapers.
 "I mot tho gangsters in ono of the swankicst hotels in New York" the letter said. "I got all the tn- formation l wanted. if tho plan works out, we will take the child off the boat about 20 miles out and fly t6 Norfolk, where we will meet Colonel Lindborgh."
 The clergyman's mother was distressed over the implications of John Hughes Curtis regarding her sons part in tho negotiations.
 "rhey arc trying to impllGate my son." she said toarfully. "But ho has done nothing except try to restore the baby"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-20
Carnival Attache Fined $25; Clever
 Work Trapped Him
Operators Ear Noted That TinkIe of Coin Was Not Genuine-PoIins TraiIed to Hotel and at First Resented Accusation Judge Informs Youth Break" Came His Way =

In addition to Mir Davis, Charles McBurney and Albert Griffith, telephone employees and Lieutenant Joseph Stevens, who obtained statements from Rollins. were questioned. The states evidence made 1t very evident that the tele. phone company are on the qui vive every minute for attempts to de- fraud the company by patrons in- sertiny blanks or slugs. The gen. uiness of a coin is determined by the sound of bell as payment is made.
 Pollins sent in Q s230 call from one from Schulte's Cigar store and the third from the United Cigar Store.
 When his call for Miss Eloise Meyers of Baltimore was register cd yesterday the alert operator notified MT Davis. Rollins was trailed from the cigar store to the Palace hotel and was asked by MT Griffith to return to the booth from where he had registered the call. He was guizzed about the toll call he had sent in and ad- mitted that he had been talking with Miss Meyers in Baltimore. The coin box of the booth was examined and the slugs were found. At police headquarters Rollins was questioned to some extent and made several contradictory state. ments. io was booked on the charge Of defrauding. The more specific complaint is obtaining valuable services under false pre- lenses.
 During the past several weeks several attempts on the part of persons to use phoney coins have been detected by the vigilance of telephone operators. It was learn. cd today that for several months telephone officials have been alert to the possibilities of persons us. ing depression money" slugs in payment for service. It was only after making quick getaways after their efforts had been frustrated that others have escaped being ar. rested and prosecuted.
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Police Want Curtis
 And Pastor To Meet
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Condon, in the meantime, Is suf- foring from the effects of hfB stren. iiurs activity. He is 72 years old. Yesterday it was announced he would rest for Il few days before reeuming his examination of rogues gallery photographs. But he didn't rest.
 The aged college instructor vis- tied West Point to look over some records there; he made several visits to Bronx police headquar- ters; and he took time out t0 cx- plain that n Mary q. Ford, ques. tloned by police fin another matter, was one of many who tried to borrow money from him after his name had been mentioned In the Lindbergh investigation.
 Mrs Ford is n school teacher, 46 years old, with n 19 year old daughter. She was Involved in n suit resulting from n lonn and Judgments previously rendered. against her salary. A telephone call to Condon traced to her resulted in ynguo rumors that she was in- vc1ved in the Jafsie negotiations.
 Condon was expected Co go to- day before the Bronx county grand Jury Investigating the extortion case in which he was tho interme- diary. However. he was expected to tell his story last Tuesday and tho grand jury called almost every one but him. Another postpone ment may result to-day.
 Henry (Red) Johnson, sweet heart of the Lindbergh nurse, Bet " Cow. paid surprise visit at Newark police headquarters yeB- terday in company with n man halping him in publication of n book describing his experiences IIe is held by federal authorities as m alien illegally in this country.
 And at Englewood, the home of Mrs Lndbergh's family, and tho home of Henry Johnson, n hotel keeper declared G guest registered with her n few days before tho Kidnapping March resembled the pictures and descriptions of Harry Fleischer, Detroit gangstcr sought by Investigators.
 The chief of police nt Englewood vouchcd for the accuracy of her memory, which he snid had helped him In Identification of many Bus- poets in other cases.
 Colonel Lindbergh himself led n group fin re-enacting the Kidnapping
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New York--Adjournment of con. greBs before tho coming political conventions and complete suspen. sion of stock market investigations until tho next session of the ha- tlonai legislature are two steps urged by The Business Week In q program for economic. recovery of. fored in It's current issue.
 "There arc many important mat. tors on which congregational action would be desirable before Decem. ber," the business Journal snys, but it is impossible to expect con. structlve action from this congress under current chaotic conditions or In the atmosphere of .an election year."
 Decisive and prompt rejection of ail proposals for immediate cash payment of tho bonus to veterans and postponement to n later ses- sion of congress Of all proposals for general revision of the bank ing system under the uIass bill also are urged.
 "The main obstacles to rsstora. ton Of confidence now are fiscal, legislative and political, not eco. homie" snys the publication. "Whether justifabiy or not, they are paraiyzing the normal pro- cosses of recovery because they render impossible those individual decisions of business and banking executives necessary 10 start the economic machinery moving once more.
 critical. If the immediate obsta. cIes to the restoration of business confidence can be speedily re. moved, and no new ones intrude then1seIves, the process of recovery may bo rapid. If these obstacle cannot be cleared away by coop srative, public. spirited action by all parties and groups, no one can say. what the consequsnces will
 Both political parties are urged to include in their platforms clear declarations Of policy on war debts, so that the next session of congress and tho next administration may have c definite mandate from the public upon which to act accord. ing to any decision that may be reached at the separations confer. ence in Juno,
 Tn support Of its suggestion that proposals for general revision Of tho banking system be postponed, the publication states that afixiety about the cone6quencen Of such IeGisIation is probably the most i'm. portAnt factor hampering the COG operation of the banks with feds efAi reserve efforts toward credit expansion and preventing norm4I response cf the security ssarksts to those efforts.
 Imnssdiate declaration. by jeint resolution of congress, of its unal. fs1srsi government by jsss is sn- other factor urged in the .prcerns1 Of The pus!nsss . . wss!s v M yhieh .,t.. siss l.. efforts to improvise . patchwork
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Norfolk People Stick By Dean
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 possibly, for one reason or another some member of q rum running gang claimed to know where tho Lindbergh baby was, or claimed t6 have been 6 member Of tho gang
 The purpose of such a claim, as was pointed out by coast guard officials weeks ago, would be Co gain freedom of action In Virglnin waters for rum runners. All police officials had been requested to give negotintors for the baby's return "the right of way" and had agreed not to molest them.
 Supposing, they say, Curtis had been s0 approached, had told Dean Dobson. Peacock and Admiral Burrage of the incident, and had made a preliminary move toward negotiating the peturn. Suppose further that ho learned within q few days that the story was q fake, Or suppose he actually wa linked with the rum runners in the fabricated story.
 Then, finding himself a loca hero, n financially harassod boai builder whose creditors left him alone while he remained q hero what would be more natural than that he attempt to hold his place in tho sun by creating fictiona ne- Rotiati0ns, . heti0nal doBperadoes, phantom ships, and . faker hero ?
 That trail at m end, two courses would be left open to Curtis. ono of them would Do for hih to place the blame on the rum runners who originally suggested the idea of the Iindbergh negotiations; the other would bo for him to admit the wholo story was faked.
 The reward in tho first case would be tho usual liquor rack ete0r reward for squoalorg with which Curtis, as a boat builder for rum runners and others, was well fa- miliar. The penalty for the second course would be q misdemo oan or charge, and a confessed desplcable role in a national tragedy for q man already bankrupt Onc6 and threatened with bankruptcy a secs ond time.
 Norfolk citixons recall that Cur Us and his associates did not men ton Go anyone excepting tho binds berghs tho negotiations they ear- EIVU OU IOT Ut ltubt IV uuSb DttvTt news of the negotiations was broadcast.
 If they were publicity seekers only, tho neg0tlatorB would have rushed into print "t onoe' they
 Also, if all the stories told by Curtis were fabrications. how can any mysterious visits and phone calls for Curtis during his absence from homo be explainod2 MrB Cur tis has told of such visits and calls, alrcndy cited by Curtis as fiction. al, thon denied as fakes. Some of them have been confirmed by others
 In tho moantlme, many lending citizens, and ehurohmen of the community, have pr0fossed their confidence in tho associates of Curtis, Dean Dobson- -PeaGock and the more reserved Admiral Guy II. BurraRe.
 officials of the southern Virginia diocese and his own Christ Eplac0- pnl church publicly announced their confidence in the dean and tho admiral. tho latter q vestryman in the church.
 The Rev Norman l;. Taylor, executive secretary of tho di0ceHe, anid the dean had kept him in-
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For two days Toby Rollins, 33, an employe of a carnival show solved tho problem of holding telc- phonic conversations with a girl friend in Baltimore.
 To-day he was presented with a bill for ''services rendered" It came from Judge T. V. Meyer, who : not only found the accused guilty and Imposed q fine of S25 and costs but informed Pollins that if heh ever attempted the scheme again in Waterbury he would be sent to states prison. Pollins had paid for his telephone services mostly in slugs, small paper discs with metal bands on them. The alert ear of a telephone operator detect cd the false ring as the slugs were dropped into pay station slots. Rollins got away with 1t twice, but the third time, which was attempt cd yesterday afternoon, he was trapped in a telephone booth in the United Cigar store on the corner of Bank and Grand streets. His arrest followed.
 For over half an hour this morn- ing Rollins attempted to show that he had been framed and obliged to sign q confession on the prom ise that he would be dealth with lenientiy. He based his pre- pretense in innocence on the strength of the police admission that when searched at police head- qtiarters no discriminating slugs were found in his possession. Fol- lowing n conference. however, be- tween his counsel, Attorney Fred Bauby and Prosecuting Attorney Charles Summa fin which Judge T. ". Meyer and Harold q. Davis, manager of tho local telephone ex- change were in attendance, PollinS withdrew his plea of not guilty. A nolo contnendre defense, was then presented without additional evidence being presented.
 Judge Meyer Informed Pollins that he was indeed fortunate to obtain such q "break" and it was only on his understanding that his next offense would mean n trip to states prison that he was escaping a more severe sentence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-20
Adjournment Of
 Congress Urged
Business Week Sees Little Opportunity for Construc.
 tive Legislation During Presidential Year

federal revenue bill." Application of . uniform low-rnte manufacture. ers' excise tax without exemptions, together with sufficiently high in- divlduai income md inheritance taxes to balance tho budget, Is sug- geated.
 "The curront efforts of federal reserve authorities to Start the pros cess of credit expansion are prom. iHing and of the utmost potential importance" says the journal. "There is q good chance that if they are not lnterfered with they will succeed in stnDIlising the. slt- uation and gradually start business on tho road to recovery"
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 Byrd Coming
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 He will De the guest ir Water. bury Of Mayor T. Frank. Hayes, who will also Dc one Of tho prin. cIpaI speakers at ths dinner
 MT Fahey Is ono of tho best known figures in the political and business fife of the nation and his address promises to be of intense interest.
 rho dinner will mark the official opening of tho Democratic Victory Turd Campaign, which is sponsor. cd by the Asnocratic state central ] and national committees. Tha campaign Is designed to raise . campalen fund sufIicientIy large to enable the democfatic party 70 prop. erly finance its faIi campaign in Connecticut.
 The campaign has the snthusias. tie snderssmsnt of Mayor Hayea and ef the WnteFbuYv 1en1eeratje f0Wn committee and q comfniftee of goo is bbifE organised 70 con. duct the drive here. pr Andrew v
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Doctor COndOn
 Told His Story
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tC0ntinu0d rom IuRo l,)
 Curtis, it was learned today, lived for n time nt tho Hide. brccht hotel in Trenton with tho government paying his expenses. Federal agents made the Hilde- breoht their headquarters, aa many as Q nt IL time having been registered there. Curtis bills were forwarded to Washington and promptly paid, it was said. Ho was registered under tho name of Richardson.
 Dr Condon was asked to and did sign n waiver of immunity to-day whom he went before tho Bronx grand jury 10 toll of hiA experi- enccs.
 Authorities in touch with tho Jury's proceedings told tho United Press that Condon, the aged educn- tor who paid $b0,O00 for Col Lind.
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Alfalfa Bill
 Enters New York
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Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were favored to poll heavy popular votes in Orogon's preferential primary to- day. Roosevelt is opposed On the dem ocratic ballot by Governor Will liam II. Murray of oklahoma, Many were expected to write in tho names of Alfred E. Smith and Newton D. Baker,
 Friends of Hoover plan to writa In his name. He spent his b0yhood in oregon. The only republican named on the ballot is Joseph !. France of Maryland. Ton dom0- cratic and i3 republican delegates will Do chosen for national con. vcntions,
 6b For Roosevelt
 Harrisburg, Pa, May 20-(UP)-- Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York to.day appeared to have as many as 66 Of the Pennsyi. vanin's 70 votes to the democratic presidential convention.
 This strength was indicated at the reorganization of tho demo. cratic state committee when War; ren Van Dyke, head of the Penn syIvania Roosevelt for PreEIdent League, was elected state chair. man,
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1 in full charge of preparations at Harbor Grace.
 Mss Earhnrt is the wife Of George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher. financial sponsor of tho flight.
 DO.X Prepares St Johns, New Brunswick, May | 20.--(UP)--Tho Dornicr DO-% rested on the smooth waters of Dido inlet carly to-day after | plouRhing through n thick Now | foundtand fog and coming down in Trinity bay go miles from Hoiyrod, the giant flying boats objective. Commander Christiansen taxIed his craft Into the open bay late yesterday with the intention of continuing to Holyrood, In Concep. ton bay, But fog and darkness were descending rapidly so tho ship was brought back and moored for the night In Dido Inlet, The formation of Trinity bay and Conception bay K very similar from the air, apd tho Do-X com. mandor thought ho had reached H0lyrood whon he came down on was uncertain of the ships posi- tloH uHtI ult'F eSHH"'''"f"" "N" the shore.
 The DO.X crossed Newfound- land from the south coast in n dense fog. Tho pilot picked up tho railway line 100 miles west of St Johns and followed it to Whitebourne. Water was sighted on the port side. The ship was brought down on Dido inlet. There was no danger from east- erty or other winds in tho inlet. The ship made m easy landing and eamo ID thu inlet with her motors purringt In perfect unison.
 MessageS received from the DO. x before tho landing regretted that oasterly sweils provcnetd tho ship coming down in F'reshwater bay at St Johns. The commander pre-. ferred tho protected water at Holy rood.
 St Johns, Newfoundland, May 20 DOx. landed at Hoiyrood, in ConcoptoIn bay. at O.10 q. rl., EST, to-day.
 Flyers In Congress
 Paris, May 20-- (UP)-Nino French ocean flyers left for Rome to- day ag q mission Of the ministry of national dofenso to attend a con. gross of B2 ocean flyers in the 1tnl' ian capital.
 The French delegation com. prisod Dioudonne Costes, Maurice Bellonte, Joan Mermoz, Jean Dabry,, Leopold Clinic, Jean Az. solant, Rene Lofevre, Armono I.otti and Leon ChalIe. The last namod will Do joined by the Uru- guayan, Tade0 Larre Borges. with whom he flew tho South Atlantic. Amelia Earhart Putnam, who is preparing to fly across the Atlantic from Newfoundland, also hopes to attend tho congress.
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WANTED TO DIE
 BUT DIDN'T

Chicago, May 20---(U. P.) = A qulrk of fate to-day Kept Mrs Della f3eiluofiiini, who wanted to die, alive while Leo Carvis who wanted to live, was dead,
 Mrs Beiiuoinini, mother of three children, turned on the gas In her homo In . suicide attempt.
 AS Carvis walked past tho house, the gas ignlted and the terrific ex- ploslon killed him instantly. :. The woman was only slightly hurt,