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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
FINLAND TODAY CELEBRATES END
 OF PROHIBITION
Restaurants Crowded and About All Tables Are Reserved for, Tonight No Increased Drunk= enneSS

Helsingfors, Finland, April5 = (Cs P.)-The end Of the prohibit ton law in operation since June l., 1919, was celebrated throughout Finland to-day when prohibition repeal voted overwhelmingly in a recent plebiscite became effective. Restaurant owners reported that most of their tables had been re- served for parties tonight, despite
 reats by restaurant owners not to stock their cellars on the grounds that prices fixed by the state liquor monopoly would make liquor handling improbable.
 Advertisements of we'll known brands of whiskey shown at local cinemas last night were greeted by cheers. The restaurants were crowded this afternoon. although they still were not serving drinks because of the disagreement with authorities over prices. An agree ment was expected momentarily, however. The retail liquor ships were doing rushing trade. So far the majority of the customers were of the humber class, buying gin. the most popular drink. No in crease sin drunkenness was so far noticeable. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
HITLER IS IN DAN GER
 OF ARREST
German Government Raid= ed Offices of Fascists and Found Documents That Call for Civil War Mass of Evidence Against Hitler

Berlin, April 5-OP)-D Docu- ments seized In raids by Prussian police on Fascist headquarters have been turned over to the pub- lie prosecutor for possible treason proceedings against Adolf Hitler and other NaZi leaders, the Phus- sian government announced to- day.
 At the time of the raids, Prus- sian officials said they had seized evidence showing that the Nazis were preparing for civil war. Hitler denied the charges. but admitted plans for heavyl concentrations of his brown shirts" on the eve of the recent presidential elections. for the protection of Fascist voters.
 The government statement said the seized material showed the Hanover headquarters of the Brown Shirts had lists of state railway guards. arms, armored trains, radio stations. telegraph and telephone wires, airplanes. bridges and ferries.
 The Nazi files at Goettingen. the statement continued, reve aled Hitler's intelligence service col lected information on airdromes and the governments communica- ton. transportation and postal system suggesting that the Nazis were prepared for wire-tapping OF important international conferences such as those at Geneva.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
Senator Barkley As The
 Democratic Keynoter Is
 Compromise With Shouse
The Latter Will Be~Per- fllanent Chairman of the Convention Barkley Is Roosevelt Man. levitt May Start Third Party in Connecticut

Chicago. April 5.- (UP) Rec- ommendation of Senator A. w. Barkley of Kentucky as tempoa- ary chairman and keynoter of tho democratic national conventpii. and of Jouett Shouse. chairman of the national executive committee. as permanent chairman, was seen to-day as a compromise in the in- terest of party harmony
 The recommendations subject fO' ratification by the national coIn-8 mittee and conventoin. were made by the subcommittee on arrange- ments after a day of wrangling in an ornate congress hotel suite ad-l joining the famed '.smoke-filled" room where republican bosses picked President Harding as the 1920 nominee.
 Senator Barkley was the choice of supporters of Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Many eastern leaders including Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Chair man John J. Raskob and others of the factiol. of former Gov Alfred E. Smith wished Shouse as keyt noter
 Both sides. however, expressed "pleasure'' at the result
 Shouse. weary after the long ar gument. his red necktie awry. said:
 "Our conference to-day was one
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
This Record Was Released To-day By Mayor Frank Hayes and Controller Daniel J. Leary--It Is a Very Interesting Ace count of Just How Wa terbury Stands
FIGURES SPEAK
 FOR THEMSEL YES

Waterbury spent s204,519.7s. over it's appropriations during 1881, financial report for the past year released to-day by Mayor Frank Hayes and Controller Daniel J. Leary disclosed. Appropriations for the year were. $6,492,352.21. Disbursements totalled s6,696.- S71.94. The excess resulting was the figure noted above. This con- dition of the appropriations at the end of the year is exclusive of the bond and special funds for per- inanent Improvements. A special report was issued on these funds to-day, also.
 The appropriations and dis purse ments on various items, eX- elusive of the bond and special funds, were as follows: Redemp- ton on bonded debt, appropriated $945,400, spent $945,80O: interest on bonded debt, appropriated, $753,- 3a0.61. spent, $752,413.10; state, military. county and cog taxes, appropriated, $20s.222.47. spent, S206,157.7s; ordinary running ex- penses and permanent improve propriated, $4,388.304 62. plus ad- ditions. to appropriations $199.- 034.51, or a total of $4.5S7,339.13, spent $4,793,301.11.
 The report shows that while the ordinary running expenses were S205, ,961.9S over the total appro- priations, the excess was cut to s204,519.73 by keeping under the line o1 the interest and redemp- tion items and the state, military, county and dog taxes.
 For general purposes the city h5a available in cash on January l 1881, the sum of s551,608.99. There was received from the sur plus resource sinking funds an amount equal to the 1880 cash de- fcit, amounting 10 $4Ss,a60.41. The receipts from taxes and water rents during the year totaled $5,- 69S,524.70. A temporary loan of Sa00,000 also went into the treas- ury and the city, borrowed $709.- 100 from the bond funds On notes and $400.00O from the surplus re- source sinking fund to pay tempor- ary loans. There was also received an addition to the appropriations from the special schoo: fund and surplus resource sinking funds amounting to $199,034.51 This made the total cash resources for the year the sum of $8,885,128.61.
 The disbursements were as fol- lows: Temporary loans repaid to the bond funds, $70C,0d0; tempor- ary loan. $400,000: redemption on
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
GRAF ZEPPELIN STARTED AGAIN
 THIS MORNING
Accident Held It Up-Rudi Land 5H Years Old, Youngest Passen g CT Ever Carried

Freidrichshafen, Germany, April 5-CU. P.) = Rudi Land, five and a half years old. finally got away to-day on his 1000 mile flight to Pernambuco and Buenos Aires af- ter deciding again at the last mo- ment that he would rather go by boat, train or afloat. The youngster baked Monday when time came for the big dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin, to take off for Pernambuco Brazil. But his foster mother finally con- vinced the reluctant youngster that the thing to do was to go.
 Rudi went. And he and seven other passengers and the 42 mem bers of the crew came back little more than an hour later, after the Graf Zeppelin had ripped part of it's underbag on the airport radio antenna. This morning the young ster reported the same misgivings for an air ride to Brazil and Argen- tine for the sole purpose of being the youngest person to cross the Atlantic by air. But he went. Rudi planned to meet his parents in South America. He was to take a plane from Pernambuco to Buenos Aires. The dirigible left at 6:30 a. m. on the second flight of the sea- son to Pernambuco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
BY HARRY FERGUSON

Copyright 1881 by United Press)
 Middlesboro, Ky, April 5-In all the turmoil, misery and bloodshed that has beset southeastern Ken lucky in the last year there are three facts that impress the out sider most vividly-near starva- tion, espoinage, and curtailment of constitutional rights.
 Approximately 10000 miners, both employed and unemployed, are living on the verge of star .vation.
 One of the most perfect espoin- age systems ever developed is watching the striking members of the National Mines union and is conducting bitterly effective campaign of intimidation against them.
 The constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly. insofar as the strikers are concerned, have been scrapped by officials of Bell county.
 On my arrival in Middleboro I sought to establish the truth or un- truth of rumors that the National Miners union was meeing secretly, changing officers once a week and in general, operating in constant state of fear of deputy sheriffs and armed citizens. Inquiries revealed that group of strikers were liv- ing in Stony Fork Junction, out side Middleboro, and there I found five of them sitting on the porch of a strikers commissary which had just been closed because of l lack of funds.
 All of them were suspicious of strangers and three left immedia ately. warning their comrades that ''it ain't no good to talk to people if you don't know who they are" One of the remaining men fin ally agreed to take me to the home of John Milford, who has been ac-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
COUNT CZERNIN
 DROPPED DEAD
 IN HIS BEDROOM
Austrian Diplomat and Statesman Realized End Was Coming - Was a Power in World War

Vienna, Austria, April - (UP) = Count Ottokar Czernin, Austrian diplomat and statesman, dropped dead last night while walking about his room. Just before his death, he had spent several hours writing and arranging his papers, apparently realizing the end was near. He was 60 years old.
 Count Czernin was foreign min ister of Austria Hungary under the Emperor Charles. from 1916 to 1918, in which year he resigned because of differences with the emperor. He conducted the peace negotiations with Rumania in 1917 and took part in the Brest-Litovsk negotiations.
 He was formerly Austro- Hun garian minister at Rome and Bu- charest and in recent years a member of the national assembly.
 Count Czernin played an im- portant part in the World war. He was minister to Bucharest at the outbreak of the war and worked
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
MORE RUMORS ABOUT BABY
 LINDBERGH|
Mysterious Moves of the Colonel Has Kept News papermen on the Jump But From No Source Comes Any Positive In= formation About inc Missing Child
 SEARCH, HOWEVER,
 STILL GOES ON
By BATES RANEY < United Press Stan CorrcsDondentl

Hopewell. N. J., April 5.-fUP9 New information has reached
 police Investigators in the Lind- bergh Kidnapping case. adding to the recently increased activities, which have included mysterious trips by Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh.
 Lindbergh returned to his estate early this morning after a mysteri- ous airplane trip yesterda y-the second in two days. His private plane was seen last evening over the Martha's Vineyard section off the Massa chusetts coast. Then this morning Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf. superin- tendent of New Jersey state police said in his press conference: Investigators are out this morn- ing on information received through the mail and further re-
 ports on their findings will be
 given in further bulletin Meantime one metropolitan newspaper reported that the Lind
 bergh family had made four defi5
 nite contacts with the supposed kidnapers.
 Schwartzkopf today did not come
 ment on Colonel Lindbergh's mys~ terious visits. apparently in keep-s ing with the flyers plea that he be permitted to conduct his inves- (Continued on Page 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
UNLUCKIEST MAN
 IN WORLD DIES IN NATURAL WAY
Disaster After Disaster Followed Him as Sea Captain and Hotel He Bought Burned Down

Guernsey, Eng, April 5-OP) Friends who mourned the death here of Captain Charles Leach said "the worlds unluckiest man" should have been his epitaph. His hard luck record follows:
 Captain of the bark Geraldine. wrecked off Sark; captain of the schooner Mary Lord, lost in a hur- ricane off the Welsh coast; cap tain of the steamer Leading Chief, lost in gale off Clacton.
 In command of German schooner which was torpedoed; in command of the Western Bell, burned at sea; in command of the Mary Walters. sunk in a collision entering Androssan harbor, Scot land.
 Captain Leach retired from the sea and bought a hotel here. It was destroyed by fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
CITY REPORT ON FINANCES
 OF THE YEAR
JOBLESS MAN MAKES $I,O99.95 ON ONE
 SPENT NICKEL :

Philadelphia. Apri, 5--(UP) An unemployed seaman. . whose name Is being withheld by police, last night spent a nickel for five back-number magazines on which he prob- ably will realize net profit of $f,O99.g5.
 After obtaining the magazines at n secondhand book store, the sailor went to the seancn's institute. stretched himself on a cot and started reading a de- tcctive story magazine.
 In the back he came upon n list of missing criminals. He stared at photograph then, out or the corner of his eye, exam. ined the features of the man on the next cot. Suddenly he jumped up, put on his shoes and departed for the police station,
 Police identified his neighbor as Herman Snyder. alias Joseph Callahan, sought for the mur- der of a garage attendant al Somerville. Mass. in April. 1881. A reward of HOO had been of- fered for Snyder's arrest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
POLICEMAN WAS
 TAKEN FOR RIDE
 BY SMALL BLIMP
Tried to Arrest the Escap= ed Airship and Strong Men Pulled Him Down to Safety

Chicago, April 5.-CUP)-Po- hceman Joseph Sychowski was uu- certain to-day whether he seized the dilemma, as it were, by the horns or whether the dilemma seized. him. Sychowski came up- on the dilemma in the form of a miniature advertising blimp which had escaped from it's moorings. The officer grabbed the blimp's trailing mooring rope and felt himself lifted gently from the ground.
 Fearful the blimp would escape if he let go and unable to hold it on the ground, Sychowski started to travel slowly a few feet in the air in the general direction of Cam ada. He had journeyed some dis tance when his cries for help were answered by four stout men who brought him back to earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
LITTLE SICK BOY
 GIVEN CHEER BY
 GOVERNOR CROSS
Billy Hastings Has Been l90 Days in the "Iron Lung" and Expects to Get We'll s..s

Hartford, Conn, April 5-(U. P.)
 Billie Hastings.s Hartford young ster suffering from infantile paraly- sis, passed his 190th day in an iron lung" to-day cheered by letter from Governor Wilbur l.. Cross.
 "Deaf Billie''.. wrote the gover- nor. Last week saw a picture of you lying on your, bed covered all over with letters from well-wishers living not only in Connecticut but in. other parts of the union.
 $ There were flowers too by the bedside behind which your nurse was standing. am awfully sorry you have had such a hard time of it. What appeals to everyone who knows about you is the patience you have shown and the determin- ation to recover. Just keep up your heart and you will get we'll.
 Il hope may see you some day walking into my office
 Relieve me most sincerely yours.
 Wilbur r. Cross, governof.sl '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
TRUE STORY OF BAD MINE STRIKE
Misery And Turmoil
 Of Kentucky Strike
 Told To The Public
Lays Bare the Secrets of the Terrors That Are Being Enacted There

Telegraph Editors Is frsto of of to investigate
 
 
 of a with wfic m to of Bell scapped traditional American assembly peaceful County Walter B. smith
 
 would be the basis charges jail liberty subsequent operator and Ofic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
Veteran Fireman Died In Somerville At Blaze
 Near Catholic Church

Sonerville, Mass, April 5T(UP) "A veteran fireman died from ex- haustion early to-day while fight m.g blaze that destroyed three and-a-half wooden business block ih Union Square, owned by State Treasurer Charles F. Hurley, caus- ing damage estimated at $100.000.
 The victim was Hoseman Lyle Sterling, so. of engine 4. for 40 years a member of the Somerville department. He was one of a crew that manned a.'deck gun" from engine 4. parked dang close to the burning building. Strenuous work of a period of several hours together with the smoke-filled a;>' he Sreathed caused Sterling to cell lapse. and he was pronounced dead at hospital.
 Two other firemen. Hoseman
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
Buster Keaton Showed Everybody That He Was
 Still Boss Of His Home

The officers acted on instructions from District Attorney Burton Fitts of Los Angeles who itele- phoned them after Mrs Keaton, the former Natalie Talmadge, con- ferred with him.
 Fitts telephoned Keaton from Los Angeles.
 I'm just showing her few things Keaton said when the dis tTict attorney spoke of Mrs Keat- cn. want people to know who's head of this family. I'm going to Ensenada or somepface.
 Authorities in San Diego decided there was no reason to hold Keat- or longer. so the comedian took his childres and left the station saying:
 ..Har. I guess I'm head of my own house. after all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
SMALLEST BABY EVER BORN HAS CHANCE TO LIVE
One Pound Was All It
 Weighed at Birth Sleeps in Cardboard Z Box for a Crib

Kansas City. Mo. April , -tUP) - A one-pound baby boy, be- lieved to be the smallest ever born alive, carried on a stout fight for life there today. And doctors gave the tiny boy. less than four teen inches long, his doubled fists about as large as his 6-foot fathers thufnb-nail, an excellent chance to win. The baby. the physicians said. is premature and under- nourished. but fully developed. MT and Mrs William St John, the par Ients. had not expected the arrival until two and one-half months later. They had few baby clothes laid away. Even these were far too big. Nestled in soft clothes, the child slept today in card board box for crib. His mat tress was nest of hot water bags
 in "a box that once contained a dozen cans of coffee. The father Is IS years old. the mother IT. They have been married about a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05

John Connerton of engine and George Drew of ladder 2, were partly overcome by smoke and re- Guired hospital treatment, while Lieutenant Walter Young of en- zine 4 suffered strained side and was treated by physician.
 The destroyed block was oppo- srte St Joseph's Roman Catholic church, the parish house. and par ochial schools. and firemen were alert to prevent spread of the blaze to this property.
 Before the church was built a hall in the burned building was used as a temporary church, and Monsignor Christopher T. Mo- Grath. 90. pastor of St Joseph's church celebrated the first mass ever said ,n Somervilte there SO years SEQ. He watched the fire during the night from the rectory.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05

Hollywood. Calf, April 5-(UP) Buster Keaton was homeward bound to-day after an airplane ride which the dead pan" screen comic said showed "who was head of the house."
 His flight to San Diego with his two children and their nurse brought him temporary detention for questioning by police when his wife's fears for the chi:dren's safe tv led her to ask authorities to hat, them.
 The episode was explained to- day as misunderstanding. Off, cers who stopped th., comedian said he told them first he was go- ing down near Ensenada, Mexico, and buy a ranch ands have chick CTS, cows and peace 70 the chill dren can get closer to nature."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
ALEXANDER .LYALL HAS
 PASSED ON
Secretary of the Rowland Hughes Company of This City Die d in Springfield, Mass-Ac- tive in Business Here for Many Years

Alexander S. Lyall. secretary of the Howland-H Hughes Company of this city: died yesterday noon at Springfield, Mass. News of MY Lyalrs death, when received in Waterbury, caused many expres- sions of regret. MT Lyan was ac- tive in the mercantile business of Waterbury for a great number of years and was well-known through out the city in business, civic and fraternal circles.
 MT Lyall was born in Dundee. Scotland. He learned the dry goods trade there and then went to Glasgow, Scotland. In 1884 he joined group of young men sent to this country. by the Glasgow Y. M. C. A. and he worked for one year for Calender, MacAusland &
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
IRISH CABINET GIVES APPROVAL
 TO THE REPLY
Vote Was Unanimous Contents of Note Sent to Great Britain Not Yet Made Public

Dublin. April 5.-UP)-The Irish Free. State cabinet approved the goverfment's reply to Great Britain regarding abolition of the oath of allegiance and retention of land annuities to-day and prepared to send the reply to London.
 The vote of the cabinet was un- animous. apparently disproving re- ports of dissension among repub- lican' leaders. There had been ru- mors that Ramon De Valera. presi- dent of-the executive council. had been forced to alter his attitude on republican policies which Lon don holds to violate the Anglo Irish treaty.
 The text of the reply will not be made public until exchange of com- munications between the two gov ernments is finished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
DEMOCRATS ARE TO HAVE BATTLE
 AT CONVENTION
Thomas J. Spellacy Will Combat the Roosevelt F0rces-LOcal Leaders Seem to Favor That Plan

Local democratic leaders today doubled their interest in the com ing state convention of the party upon receipt of news from Hart ford that former National Commit teeman Thomas J. Spellacy, "old guard" leader, will go into the state session on May 18th prepared to battle for a delegation to the national convention containing as many supporters as possible for the smith for President" boom.
 This decision was reached today by the "old guard" leader, with whom ex-Mayor w., E. Thoms and Mayor Frank Hayes are aligned in the interests of ex-Governor Smith, when he sensed that the new guard" forces. headed by Ma tional Committeeman Archibald McNeil of Bridgeport would not
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
TWO SENATORS
 AGAINST BONUS

Washington. April 5-(U. P.) - Senators Reed. republican. Penn sylvania and Harrison, democrat Mississippi-bo influential mem- bers of the senate finance commit tee-have informed their constitu- ents they will not support imme- diate payment of veterans adjusted service compensation.
 Reed is informing his constitu- ents that there is no chance for immediate payment, which he be- lieves would destroy the credit of the government"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
No Li0uOr Aboard But They Should
 Not Have Fled

New London, Conn. April 5 tUP)-The captain and crew Of the speedboat Anabelle R. of B0s- ton were held by federal authorities here today on charges of resisting arrest and failure to halt during a nine-mile pursuit by a coast guard rum chaser off Vineyard Sound light.
 Three warning shots were fired from the destroyer Porter before the suspected rum boat halted IT miles off the Massachusetts coast
 The boat carried no liquor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
CONGRESSMEN TILSON AND GOSS AGAINST
 PHILIPPINES

Congressman E. W. Goss of this city and John Q. TiIson of New Haven joined yesterday af- ternoon in voting against the bill providing for Philippine i'm dependence. The house at Washington. D. C.. however. passed the bill, 3O6 to A. en- abling the people of the Phil- ippiDe islands to adopt consti- tuition and form government.
 COnnectfcut's delegation in the hUsIsc was evenly divided OD the question, Congressman Goss and TilsOn. republicans, voting against the measure. and Con- gressmen William Tierney and Augustine Lonersan. democrats. voting in support of the bill. Richard P. Freeman. repubIi- can congressman from Conncc- ticut. was not present to vote due to illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-05
PARTED p YEARS, DIVORCE REFUSED

Salem Mass April 5-(UP)-Though separated from her husband for 22 years Mrs Irene Cronn has been denied divorce on the grounds of desertion Judge Harry Dow denied the decree because the wo- man admitted that when her husband told her he was going to leave her, she replied that 'he could go if he wanted to-.