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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-05-20

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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-05-20

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DELLA, YOU STAY NE

They've got a new brand Of ink. Ed.
And I'm punning verse as you see,
This new fluid has rare quality. Ed,
In your pen il starts out INSTANTLY.
Della.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
NINE DIE IN PLUNGE
Of CAR INTO RIVER
Six Children Among Victims.
Party Bound for Chicago
Holiday Celebration.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January Mime per-
sons, six Of them children, were
drowned last night when their auto
mobile slipped off the roadway and
fell % feet into the Calumet River.
The victims were members of two
families, one from New Era, Mich, and
the other from CoopersYille, Mich.
Jake Schiller, sailor, of Coopers-
vile, head of one of the families, es-
capped from the sedan. After making
efforts to rescue members of the party,
he swan ashore and notified authori-
ties.
More than two hours passed before
the submerged automobile could be
brought to the bank.
Those drowned were:
Clarence PoStmana, 8, New Era.
Howard PoStmana, 8.
Mildred Postmana, II.
John Postmana 38, the father.
Reca Postmana, 38, his wife.
Alice Schiller, 8.
Shirley Schiller, 7 weeks.
Louise Schiller, 3.
Seneca Schiller, 90, the mother.
Schiller said he and his family had
driven from Coopersville to spend New
Year day with the Postmanas. The
two families attended church services
and were on their way to Chicago
for a New Year Eve celebration when
they lost their way.
Postmana, who was driving, at
tempted to turn the car around on
the road-end near the Calumet River.
One wheel, Schiller said slipped off
the roadway and the car toppled into
the water.
Evening star., 1932-01-01


face Of the ordinances and acts, which,
II they are not stubbornly resisted will
end in the utter Generalization of the
nation"
Referring to the Bengal ordinances,
the viceroy had said:
1T is necessary for the government
to take all possible measures to prevent
dastardly assassinations of its officers
and private citizens. Abdul Gaf-
far Khan, who was arrested and de-
ported, delivered number Of speeches
tion than incitement to revolution and
the creation of tribal strife"
He said he did not hold Gandhi re-
sponsible for the recent activities of the
Congress in the united provinces and
was willing to see the mahatma on this
basis, to give him his views on how be
could best exert his influence to mairs
tain "the spirit of cooperation whfch
animated the proceedings of the last
not discuss the ordinances, which x
could withdraw only when public la%
and order are restored.
If Mahatma Gandhi is arrested
and his arrest is expected within 45
hours-he wants it to be done in Bonn
bay, and not in some small town, so
the whole world may know about it.
1t is understood the British au.
thorities will allow Miss Madeline
slade, his faithful disciple to accom-
pany him to prison as personal at
tendant, as well as his secretary,
Mahadey Besai
Evening star., 1932-01-01
.TEAROON SHOOTING
SUSPECT RETURNED
Abbott Is Due at Marlboro
Today After Battle
on Extradition.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, January l.
Peter Abbott of Philadelphia, accused
as the trigger man" in the Old Co.
lonial Tea House shooting, who was
Jailed here last night after falling In
his attempt to be released on a writ
of hebeas corpus in Philadelphia yes
terday. was scheduled to be removed
to the Marlboro Jail today. Deputy
Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison, who
brought the prisoner from Philadelphia
Yesterday, said he would take Abbott
to the county jail this morning.
Abbott was returned to Maryland
after a sensational court hearing which
ended in an uproar when Mrs. Cath-
crime Abbott, wife Of the accused, StrucK
the prosecutions star witness in the
face and called her liar.
Enraged by Testimony. "
AS Judge Frank Kun announced his
decision to turn Abbott over to the
MARYLAND authorities, Mrs. Abbott, en-
ranged at the testimony of Mrs. Verne
Edwards that Abbott was the first man
to enter the tea house on the night
Of The shooting, leaned over and STRUCK
he witness in the mouth with per fSt.
How can you stand there 'and lie
like that?" shouted Mrs. Abbott.
A number of court attaches jumped
to the protection of Mrs. Edwards While
Others led Mrs. Abbott, shouting anc
crying, from the court room.
Mrs. Edwards, principal witness IN
the habeaS corpus proceedings 10 pre-
vent extradition Of Abbott, teStlfled ne
was the first of the alleged gunmen to
enter the tea house.
In an effort to shake Mrs. EdWaros
testimony that it was Abbott VINO leo
the raid upon the Bladensburg eStap-
lishment. defense attorneys called Ab-
bolts brother, who closely resembles
the suspect. Asked if she was sure OF
the Identification, Mrs. Edwards insist
ed she was not mistaken.
Ten witnesses Summoned.
Ten witnesses, summoned by the de-
fense. were prepared to testify that Alb
bott was in Philadelphia the night OF
the shooting, but Judge Kun ruled
identification by one witness was SUI
ficient to necessitate his remandlng Ao-
bott to Maryland authorities.
Four men and Mrs. Edwards were
wounded in the hold-up and shooting
at the tea house on November %, when
Grover Amick of Washington was
killed. Subsequent investigation is said
to have shown the establishment was
linked to a white slave ring operating
in several States and resulted in an
extensive investigation by the Depart
ment of Justice.
Evening star., 1932-01-01

Continued From First Page)
Columbus, Bowen messaged the CleVe-
land Airport that everything was %. K. !"
1t was reported overdue at Cincinnati
at pm.
Residents of Brighton, near where
the crash occurred, reported seeing the
craft about 7:30 pm. circlmg about
and apparently in trouble.
Boys Find Wreckage.
Shortly afterward the crash was
heard and residents began searching.
Nearly two hours afterward two boys
located the wreckage.
With the aid Of c. L. Snodgrass, a
farmer In whose cornfield the plane
landed. they extricated the victims,
their bodies caked with mud, While
about 500 farmers and passing motor
lists looked on.
Doctors and ambulances rushed the
victims to the Springfield City Hospi-
tai.
Examination failed to disclose the
cause of the crash, but several persons
said the plane appeared to have lost a
wing. An inspection OF the ship
showed the pilot had turned of the
ignition to prevent fire.
The pilot said he lost control OF the
plane while trying to regain altitude.
He was slightly. off his course and
was flying low. .----
Evening star., 1932-01-01
MISSING 7 HOURS,
GIRL BARES ATTACK
: Eight Year-0ld Tells of Being Kid
= naped and Kept Prisoner
at Columbus, Ohio.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January l.-Seven
hours after she was kidnapped, AIDA B.
Ruhl. 8, returned dazed to her home
early today. She was taken to a hos
pital by police, who said she had been
criminally assaulted.
Z, Officials said the girl told them she
was seized while on an errand for her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fred Ruhl,
early last night and held captive sew
eral hours in garage by an unidenti-
fed man.
Shortly after she disappeared police
found her cap in a dark alley within a
block of her home. A city-wide search
was ordered, but no trace Of her was
found until she returned and told OF the
attack.
After being treated at a hospital the
child went with radio cruiser crew
to a point near her home, where sht
identified the garage in which she hac
been imprisoned and molested.
o. She told police her abductor was 6
well dressed white man. Authorities
said the description fitted that Of mar
arrested several months ago in similar
attempted attack.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
HOLIDAY FIRE IN CAVE
TAKES LIVES OF THREE
Two Others Hurt al Roof Crumbles
While They Prepare for New
Year Feast.

BY the Associated Press.
WATERLOO, Ohio, January Fire
built to make cave a pleasant place to
celebrate New Year eve with a card
game and turkey roast caused tons Of
earth to crumble and crush out the
lives Of three men and injure two others
last night.
The dead:
Samuel Cooper, SO.
Amos Woolum, 36.
Paris Cooper, 55.
The injured:
Roy, "a, and John Woolum, 81, brothers
OF Amos.
The Woolum brothers, with their
father, George Woolum, a farmer, went
TO the cave yesterday afternoon, gath
cred firewood and started roaring fire
for their party.
Awaiting the feast. the five men went
| into the cave, the roof of which con-
sisted Of rock, overhanging about 20
! feet, about 10 feet from the ground.
Heated by the fire, the earth and rock
dried and crumbled. Standing near the
cave entrance, George Woolum escaped
and spread the alarm. Amos was killed
outright, ,Roys feet were crushed, while
John Woolum escaped with only slight
injuries.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
SIX CHILDREN KILLED
BY GAS STOVE FUMES
-Four in Michigan Family and Two
who Cared for Them Found
e. Dead by Mother.
~ the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
e MARYSVILLE, Mich, January l.
A working mother returned home last
night to find her four children, and
two older children who cared for them
during her absence, dead in a gas-filled
house.
Investigators said one Of the children
probably had opened the Jets Of q gas
stove.
The dead children OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen Mcclure are Olive. 3; Rayfield,
z: Phyllis. 4. and Rowley, 2. The
others, children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
s.. Earl, are Martha, l6, and Shirley, 10.
Beth Mr.. and Mrs. Mcclure are en-
pioyed. The Earl children were sister
and brother Of Mrs. Mcclure.
A neighbor, Charles E. Miller, who
responded to the distracted mothers
screams, helped her carry the bodies
into the open.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
FIVE SENT FROM NEW YORK.
Gotham Police Notify other Cities and
Give Probers 40 Names.

NEW YORK, January (P).-Police
Commissioner Mulrooney announced
last night that five bombs were sent
on December 20 from the American
Railway Express station at Thirty
third street and Eighth avenue to ad-
dresses in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit
and Youngstown, Ohio.
In the announcement, in which the
express company executives joined
Mulrooney, it was said the company
became suspicious of the packages after
they had been sent and police were
notified here Commissioner Mulrooney
then directed that the police OF the
four cities concerned be informed.
The bombs sent from the express Of
flee and those found in EaSton, Pa, ap-
parently were of the same manufacture
Each Of the packages was about 10
inches long, six inches deep and four
inches wide.
Bore Name Of Editor.
Police said several of the packages
bore the return address, "Dr. ltalo
Carlo Falbo," editor of the newspaper
II ProgreSso 1talo Americana. one OF
these was the parcel directed to Mr..
Durante in Chicago. DR.. Falbo said he
had sent no such package.
DR.. Falbo himself was one OF those
persons to which the bomb packages
intercepted In EaSton were addressed.
The % members of the police bomb
squad were ordered to remain on duty
IN police headquarters until further
notice. Commissioner Mulrooney asked
newspapers to cooperate with him in
advising prominent Italians to be un-
usually careful about receiving pack
ages.
Detective George Mccartney returned
from Easton with one OF the packages
from which explosives had been re-
moved. He said he supplied Easton
police and post office officials with a list
of 40 names of known anti-Fascists
and Communists, whom he said might
be considered suspects.
Blames Plot on Crank"
F. A. Herdling, special express COM
Danv investigator, began an immediate
inquiry into the dispatch Of the pack
ages, but was handicapped by the fact
that express accounting offices were
closed because of the holidays. Mean
time the opinion that the Easton
bombs were sent by person with a
deranged mind who Is neither a Fas-
cist nor an Italian was voiced by DR..
Charles Fama, prominent New York
Italian.
DR.. Fama is president of the Defend
ers Of the Constitution of the United
States. He explained the society had
been brought in contact with all fac
tions OF the anti-Fascist movement in
the United States and then stated:
"The italian consul's office is trying
to blame the anti-Fascists for sending
these internal machines. This accusa-
ton is foolish and childish, If not ma
licious."
Gencroso Pope, for whom investi-
gators believe one Of the Easton, Pa,
bomb packages was intended, has sent
81 900 to cash Of the families Of Edward
w. Werkheiser and John 3. House,
postoffice clerks, who were fatally tn
Jured when the bombs exploded.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
u. S. AID DEFENDED
BY JAMES ]. DAVIS
Former Secretary Denies
la Toilette and Costigan
Plans Constitute Dole.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
II the Senate Western ProgressiveS
bill for direct Federal unemployment
relief comes to a vote in Congress they
may find support from a former men,
Der of President HooVer's cabinet.
James j. Davis, who left the Secre-
taryShip of Labor to become junior
Senator from Pennsylvania says he is
sympathetic to Federal relief, If it is
shown to be necessary to prevent dis
tress this Winter.
He let it be known today he does not
consider the provisions of the La Fol-
lette and Costigan measures as conSti-
tuting dole" One provides for dis
tribution of 100000, 600 and the other
s350,000,000 to existing welfare agen-
cieS.
Plans Careful Study.
Davis takes the position the vote of
Congress would be on a temporary
proposition to meet an emergency.
1T would not be a governmental
policy such as England set up with
her dole" he explained. Davis is not
yet ready, however, to give blanket
approval to the bills.
A split by Davis with the admin
istration is not to his liking and the
administration is opposed to direct re-
lief. In his more than a year in the
Senate he has differed only once with
the President on legislation and that
was on loans to war veterans on COM
pensation certificates.
Davis intends making a careful study
Of testimony before the La Toilette
committee before finally committing
himself for or against the bills
Gov. Clifford Pinchot of Pennsyl
vania will appear before the Senate
Manufactures subcommittee next week
to ask for Federal assistance to the
jobleSs. The subcommittee already has
a record bulging with testimony in
favor of direct Federal appropriations
Lewis Also to Testify.
The Pennsylvania Governor has long
been an advocate of Federal aid to the
unemployed and last Fall urged Presi-
dent Hoover to call a special session of
Congress to consider the problem.
John L. Lewis, president Of the
United Mine Workers, also will testify
Monday. He is expected to support the
stand taken by the American Federation
of Labor Wednesday in favor of Fed
eral appropriations.
Later in the week Mayor Frank Muir
ply of De.rr.t ond Edward L. RyerSon
of Illinois, Chairman of the Governors
Commission on Unemployment, will be
called.
The committee expects to conclude its
hearings by the end Of next week. One
of the last witnesses is expected to be
Walter S. Clifford, national relief di-
rector, who Wednesday reiterated his
confidence that local committees can
take care of the relief problem.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
ROVER SEEKS BAN
- ON MAGAZINES
Two Already Ordered Removed
, From Circulation in Drive
Against Indecency.

Three recently launched comic maga-
Zines may be banned from Washington
s-newstands in a drive TO be conducted
by Leo A. Rover, United States attor-
-shey, he revealed today.
q. Two magazines of an Objectionable
nature already have been ordered re-
moved from circulation. Mr.. Rover has
IL,IlFader consideration a plan to ban three
Sether publications because of their car
HtoOnS.
= 1t was said no arrests would be made
unless necessary. Instead, the whole
sale dealers would be requested to cease
voluntarily distributing the periodicals.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
JAPANESE TROOPS
J REACH CH|NCHOW
Army Crosses falling River
Preparatory to Taking City
Tomorrow.
aHy the Associated Press.

Jgy the Associated Press.
Is MUKDEN, Msnchuria, January l.
Japanese cavalry clattered across the
}tce on the falling River today and
rlstopped at the outskirts OF Chinchow,
z China's last Manchurian stronghold.
f. This was an advance patrol from the
main body of the brigade encamped on
the north side of the river.
There was no resistance. The Chi
z feSe defenders continued leaving the
walled city in great numbers and pre-
sSumably the japanese intended to take
sit over tomorrow.
p Most OF the japanese brigade was to
cross the falling tonight. so as to be in
1position to move on with the dawn.
1t was obvious that the Chinese had
no intention of resisting this side Of the
great wall and it was altogether possible
that the japanese would keep on the
heels of the retTeating army clear Gown
to Shanhaikwan, at the very edge Of the
sWall.
Mai. Gen. Miyake. chief of staff for
Gen. HOMO, told the Associated Press
tonight:
Our campaign against bandits will
follow the Chinese troops as far as is
) necesSary-to London or Paris even. At
least we'll wipe out the bandit menace
west of the Lao River"
% Gen. Jiro lannon's brigade remained
at Kowpangtze and was reorganizing
the city and its enVironS. The weather
was bright and unusually mild for this
.iClimate. The temperature was 10 de-
q grees above zero.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
ONE FOUND IN CLEVELAND.

Package Addressed to Count Knocks
Down Distant Spectators.
CLEVELAND, January / (P).-Possi-
BILE heavy loss Of life and property de-
struction was sverted yesterday by the
discovery and removal Of an unusually
powerful bomb from the italian con-
sulate In downtown Cleveland.
1t had been addressed TO Count
Cesare P. A. Buzzi- -Gradenigo, the Ital-
ian consul for this district.
Detectives took the bomb to rife
range on the outskirts of the city and
caused it to explode harmlessly by a
rife shot. The blast tore deep hole
in the ground and knocked down sew
eral Of the spectators, who were not
less than $50 yards away.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
FIVE MORE BOMBS
START WIDE HUNT
Italian Embassy Guarded as
Internal Machines Turn
Up in Four Cities.
Continued From First Page.)

printing utensils and bore the re-
turn address, "Itals Carlo Falbo, II Pro-
greSeo Italo American, AZ Elm Street,
New York Knowing he had not Or
oered any printing tools he refused to
accept it from an express deliveryman,
who later was found by the police.
Shortly afterWard officials of the eX-
press company received word from New
York of the package sent to Castruccio,
and it was seized by police at a Sheri-
dan Road address before 1t could do
any harm.
Meanwhile a special guard of police
watched over the italian Embassy here
at the request of Ambassador De Mar
tino. Inspector Albert j. Headley, act
ing superintendent of police, said he
was not anticipating any trouble, but
had acceded TO the request for the
guards as a precautionary measure"
Philadelphia reported that the home
of Judge Harry S. McDevitt of the
Common Pleas Court had been placed
under guard following receipt of
bombing threats. Judge McDevitt SEN
fenced Orlando Spartaco, who was con-
victed of heckling Foreign Minister
Dino Grandi of Italy when the latter
visited in Philadelphia. Spartaco ap-
pealed.
THIRD VICTIM DIES.
Evening star., 1932-01-01

was found by police last night to have
contained a powerful bomb.
The bomb, exploded when police
poured several quarts of gasoline over
the package and set on fire by a long
paper fuse, tore up the ground for IS
feet around it. Dirt was thrown for
100 feet Automobiles parked 500 feet
away were rocked.
The package, about a foot and half
square, was sent by express. On it was
the return address of G.. T. Trambetto,
566 East Forty-fifth street, New York
City
Becoming suspicious, Dr. RaSapepe i'm
mediately turned the package over to
the police.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
DETROIT AVOIDS DISASTER.
Express Bomb Safely Exploded on
River Bank by Police.

DETROIT. January CP-A bomb
sent by express to Count Ugo Berni
Canani, Italian vice consul, at his
hotel here, was exploded harmlessly
on the river bank by police late yes
terday, after the count had refused
to accept it.
The bomb was capable of "tremen-
dous havoc" William Cavers, police
expert, said, after police had set it
off by fire. 1t was described by
Cayers as a nitroglycerin bomb and
the expert said he believed 1t had been
set to go off when the hinged lid Of
the wooden box was lifted.
Police took the box to the river and
surrounded it with tnf1ammable ma
terial, which was ignited. When the
fire reached the box there was ter
rife explosion.
Evening star., 1932-01-01

neighbors of the gambling house, the
petition is expected to receive more
than passing attention from the COM
missioners. 1t has long been argued
that because Of the orderly fashion in
which gambling is conducted at the
Bladensburg road establishment, resi-
dents of nearby communities have no
objection to its operation.
La Fontaine was sentenced by Judge
w. Calvin Chestnut on December 4, but
allowed his freedom under $4,000 bail
until tomorrow to permit him to put
his business affairs in order and to
spend the Christmas holidays with his
two little nieces.
The nine month sentence and fine
Of $1,000 was imposed after La Fon-
taine pleaded guilty to a charge Of
seeking to eyade a payment of SILL
62262 ir taxes on 1926 income. He
was indicted on similar tax-evasion
charge for 1925, but this was nolle
pressed after he paid the Government
$685. 900 in back taxes and penalties.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
CHINESE CABINET INSTALLED.
Inauguration of New Regime Limited TO
~ Simple Ceremonies.

=. NANKING. China, January LE).-
China's new National government head
=, ed by the veteran Lin Sen and COM
: posed of q cabinet most Of whose men,
- bers are identified with the Cantonese
faction, was formally installed in of1ce
today.
=, There were only the simplest cere-
monies and the customary New Year
:, military parade and official receptions
:. were omitted.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Burns His Coffin,
Resolves to Live
100 on New Year
BY the Associated Press.

ST. JOE, Ark, January T.
Ben Malloy's coffin won't figure
in his scheme of things for 1882.
The 76-year- -old farmer had it
made two years ago in the belief
he was on his death bed. But
he recovered and the coffin was
utilized for storing seed corn. 1t
was hand-fashioned and a good
container.
However, with the close Of
1881, Malloy decided it provided
a poor atmosphere for dreams of
a prosperous new year. He used
it for a bonfire.
Anyway, he said, it didn't fit in
with his New Years resolution
to live to be a hundred.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Doherty Gets Florida Club.

MIAMI. Fla, January l (P)-The
Miami Biltmore Country Club, long a
leading factor in south Florida winter
life, today Became an official unit Of
Henry L. Dohertys $4,000 900 recrea-
ton center, the Florida year-round club,