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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
This City Will Be Consid-
cred the Headquarters
of the Party During
Coming Campaign - j.
Francis Smith, Secre=
tary of State Central
Committee to Open Of
fees on Monday
HEADQUARTERS AT
rs EAST MAIN

Waterbury will be estab-
lished as the headquarters of
the democratic party in Con-
necticut on Monday. ]. Fran
els Smith, secretary of the
democratic state central COM
mittee, when talked with this
morning, stated that the
headquarters will open at rs
East Main street in the build
ing owned by Mayor Frank
Hayes, Monday morning and
from then ON activities Of
the party viii be directed
from this city.
FUND CAMP AIGN
1t has also been decided TO
make Waterbury the head
quarters of the victory fund
campaign for Connecticut.
The drive for campaign funds
will be directed from the
TIA CONTINUED on Page % ssss,
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FREE STATE TO
PUBLISH SECRET
AGREEMENT

Dublin. April 16-U. Po The
secret agreement concluded be-
tween the British and Free State
government in 1929 regarding the
payment of land annuities to Bril-
tain will be published in a white
paper Monday. the Free state gov
eminent announced to-day.
The announcement followed a
conference between President Ea-
mon DeYalera and leaders Of the Ia
Dor party whose support enables De
Valera to hold a majority In the
Dali. Abolition OF the oath of al
legiance to the British crown also
was discussed.
A cabinet meeting of the re-
publican laborite conference stud
led a proposal for a drastic. new
tariff system. to be prohibitive In
some cases.
The republican government win
Introduce iegirlation aimed to re.
move the oath from the Free state
constitution when the Dali recon-
venes April 60. Lahorite lenders
were understood TO have assured
De Valera OF their party's support.
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ADJUTANT GEN
OF MASS FOOLS
ALL HIS FRIENDS
John H. Agnew Was to Be
Married To-day - But
He Wed Louise De Wolf
Yesterday in Catholic
Rect0ry

Framingham,' Mass, April Is
(UP)-With their wedding seized.
uled for today, Adjutant-G General
John II. Agnew of Massachusetts,
and Miss Virginia De Wolf, daugh-
ter OF Governor Ely's secretary,
were married secretly here late
Yesterday, 1t was learned this morn
ing. The Rev Michael O'Connor
officiated at the ceremony, per-
formed in the presence of two Wit
nesses at st Bridget's rectory. The
witnesses were Miss Louise De
Wolf, one Of the brides sisters, and
Captain William Harrison.
Dewitt De Wolf, father of the
bride, who had planned to attend
the wedding at Chester today, was
notified of the surprise marriage
and later dined with the newly
weds at a Worcester hotel. There
was no special reason for the sur
prise wedding. Miss Louise De Wolf
explained. They just decided to get
married yesterday instead of to-
day. that's all" she said.
The bride attended high school
at Chester. Lowell Normal cshool
and took special courses at Har-
ward university. Acknowledgement
Axnew formerly lived in Lynn but
has lived at Boston hotel for the
past two years. He was educated IN
the Lynn public schools and at Fort
Leavenworth and the army war col
lege at Washington.
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JULIALATHROP
DIED LAST NIGHT
FROM OPERATION
She Was an International
1y Known Child Welfare
Worker-First Head of
Children'S Bureau

Rockford, Ill. April 16.-(UP)
Julia Clifford Lathrop, inter-
nationally known child welfare
worker. was dead last night after
an operation for removal of goiter.
She was "a years old.
Miss Lathrop, the first head of
the children's bureau of the u. s.
department OF labor. devoted her
career to social problems special
izing in child welfare.
Her studies in juvenile education,
juvenile court laws and care of
the insane earned her interna-
tional recognition. She won high
commentator, in Berlin, Paris and
London. Czecho- Slovakia conferred
the Order of the White Lion upon
her for her child welfare work.
She was an associate of Jane
Adams at Hull House, Chicago
and spent much time in residence
there.
She was several times mentioned
as a possible cabinet member and
once was regarded as the most
likely choice for the first woman
United States senator from IL
linois.
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OF
State ToOpen
Offices Here
FLARE OVER THE
LINDBERCH HOME
WAS EXCITING
Took Place Last Night and
1t Illuminated the COun-
tryside-Believed to Be
Some Signal

az Hopewell, N. j., April 16-(UP)
"A magnesium flare lighted early
to-day at the home of Col Charles
A. Lindbergh atop Souriand Noun
tan, Illuminated the countryside
for miles and led observers to be-
lieve it was signal having a sig
l,ificant bearing on efforts to re-
turn the flyers kidnapped son.
State police at Trenton said that
y state trooper stationed at the
I.indbergh home had found the
fare yesterday. 1t was described
az being an old one, a "dud." The
trooper decided to test it, so
shortly after midnight he took ii
into the yard and lighted it.
An aviation expert at Hopewell
said the fare was. of the type de-
signed for parachute landings al
night, costing from $50 to SIS
each. He estimated 1t could have
been seen from the air so miles
distant and from the ground fol
20 miles.
The fare burned for five min
utes, throwing out an intense whitt
light which was made more con
spicuous by the elevation of thu
Lindbergh home.
Newspapermen watching be
You'd the deadline set up by thu
New Jersey state police reportet
lro planes could be heard overheai
but one could have been beyont
nearing and still within sight o
| the flare. Speculation also centeret
on whether some motor car nigh
have been waiting in a nearby roat
Tor signal.
Finally Col II. Norman Schwarz
kopf issued a statement to answer
the hundreds of calls from farm
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FIRES in HOMES
CAUSES OF SAD
BEREAVEMENT
Four Members Of One
Family We're Burned to
Death in New York
Mother and Five Chill
dren Victims of Fire Are
Buried

New York, April 16-UP)-
Four members of one family were
burned to death to-day as fire de-
stroyed a four-story brick tene-
ment building. Two children were
burned severely before rescued.
Several others received lesser in
juries.
The family, consisting of Sam
uel Cabronel AS, Gussie Cabronel,
As, and their twin children, Jacob
and Josie, II, weret 'ropped in their
apartment on. the fourth floor.
A higher death toll was prevent
ed by heroic rescue efforts Of fire.
men, police and volunteers. After
the residents had been aroused by
Max Himmelstein, chauffeur, res
cuers rushed through the flaming
building carrying out those who
had been overcome by smoke.
The two children, severely
burned, were Phillip Winestein,
10, and his sister, Edith 7. They
were carried from their rooms af-
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TRANSATLANTIC
FLYERS TO TRY
FOR new RECORD
Hoiriis and Hillig, Who
Flew to Copenhagen,
Are to Try Longer
Flight Next Time

New York, April 16-(UP)-
Holger Hoiriis and Otto Hillig.
transatlantic flyers, have announ-
oed they intend to make another
transatlantic fight in quest of
a new long distance not-stop rec
ord some time next month"
The two flyers landed the Bellan-
ca monopiane. Liberty. in which
they spanned the Atlantic to Copen-
hagen last year, at the Roosevelt
field airport for delicensing yester-
day. Hillig, a photographer from
Liberty, N. Y. said they would at
tempt to break the record of 5000
miles set by Russell Boardman and
John Polando in their fight from
New York to Istanbul, Turkey.
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NINE-YEAR-OLD
GIRL KIDNAPPED
AND THREATENED
Father Is Rich Manufac=
turer of Wilmington and
Note Has Been Sent to
Him With Threat
BY PAUL Comfy FRENCH.
united Press Staff Correspondent

BY PAUL Comfy FRENCH.
Omitted Press STAR Correspondent
Wilmington, Del, April To-
(UP)--Nine-year-old Hilda Brod-
sky has been threatened with bod
lily injury. police believe in what
ithey say was a ransom note mail
ed special delivery to her wealthy
father by supposed kidnapers in
Washington, D. c. The girl failed
to appear for classes at school Fri
day morning, and so far as Is
known, has not been seen since
that time, although attorneys for
her hosiery manufacturer father
announced the kidnapping report
sis only a rumor."
Harry Brodsky, jobber and hos
iery manufacturer, refused police
admittance to his house when they
arrived to investigate the supposed
kidnapping. And today he declined
to confirm or deny the kidnapping
story. He asked newspaper men
to publish no reports and not to
telephone, 80 1 can keep this line
open" Brodsky's attitude indicat
ed he proposed to bargain with the
supposed kidnapers.
The note Brodsky received by
special dellVery was understood 70
threaten harm to his daughter II
the police were notified or il
ramson were not paid. The manu-
ufacturer, evidently frightened by
the activities of the Lindbergh kid
napers, particularly since Lind.
bergh's loss of $4,000 without re-
gaining his child, was extremely
cautious In his dealings both with
the newspapers and police. Brod-
sky. has two other daughters and
a son.
Harry Rubenstein. Brodsky's at
| torney, was reported in New York
on a, secret mission. He sent a
message to Wilmington newspap-
| ers declaring the kidnapping report
lis only a rumor and should not
be published" He added that
Brodsky did not desire ANY ar
| ticle to appear In the papers"
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This "Mr A. IL youth of Is
years. But despite his youthful age
he Is really playing the part Of a
father to his family which consists
of his mother, four brothers and
two sisters.
'fhe oldest SON in the family is
26 but he is an epileptic and liz con-
fined in the state hospital at Nor
wich, Therefore, the subject inter-
viewed to-day is the oldest of the
remaining .children. The other
Youngsters ages are s. 10. IL. IA
and 16 years.
The IA and 16 year old children
are girls. Fire three youngest are
bSyss The father died on Easter
Sunday. 1881, leaving the mother
and her seven children, including
the helpless son at Norwich. owing
over $500 Inf rent, undertaking bills
two loans and a huge grocery ac-
count.
The sum Of 5000 was realized in
surance upon the occasion of the
fathers death. Endeavoring to wipe
out bills and satisfy creditors who
were kind during the fathers ILL
ness, the family spent the 5000 IN
paying up the rent, undertaking
bills. one of the loans and the gro
Gerry bill.
To-day the family owes nve
months in rent once more. a doctor
bill, an account for groceries and
one remaining loan. Upon the
shoulders of the 18-year old son
lies the task of bringing in money
TO keep the family going. Prior 70
his death the father was a highly
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
barrow Rises From
Sick Bed To Carry
On Honolulu Fight
Aged Attorney Has Met
Able Foe, in Prosecutor
Kelley and the Court
Room Scenes Are More
Than Thrilling Kelley
Insists on Knowing the
Real Slayer
BY DAN CAMPBELL

(COpyr1ght 1857 BY Un1te0, FrcSS
Courtroom, Honolulu, T. H. April
16-(U. P.)-Clarence barrow was
confronted by prosecution demands
for an immediate showdown In
naming the slayer of Joe Hakaha-
wal when he rose to-day from a
sick bed to resume defense of four
| accused Americans.
The murder trial. interrupted at
a crucial point by the aged attor-
ney's illness, was to continue to-day
in a conference of Judge and OPP
posing counsel with Darrow facing
one Of the most important battles
of his case.
John Kelley. fiery territorial pros
ecutor who seeks life sentences fol-
Mrs Granville Roland Fortescue,
her navy officer son-in-law, Lieu
tenant (JG) Thomas H. Massie,
and Seamen A. o. Jones, and E. j.
Lord, announced he will resist fur
Their defense testimony until the
actual slayer is brought into the
open.
The edemand was aimed chiefly
at Lieutenant Massie, whose
graphic story of brutal attack on
his wife by gang of island hood
lums-one of whom allegedly was
Kahahawai-has been the only
mitigating evidence.
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Barbara Dunn, six year old
daughter of Joseph r. Dunn of 127
Elliott avenue, who was injured
when large pole used for radio
aerialss and clothes lines toppled
over on her, is the plaintiff in a
suit for $4,000 damages against
Mary L. Bowling of the same ad-
dress in an action started to-day
IN superior court. The case is re-
turnable to court the first Tuesday
OF May according to the papers
prepared by Attorney Clayton L
Klein, counsel for the plaintiff.
According to the suit, Barbara
was playing in the back yard of
her home when the accident hap
pened last October 6. She lives
with her parents on the third floor
OF the three family house owned
bv the defendant. Suddenly and
without warning, the large pole
crashed down, striking first gar
age in the rear yard and then
Glancing off to strike Barbara.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
Only Support OF
Mother And Six
Others At Home
Is Years Old Father Is Dead, and There Are Four
Brothers and Two Sisters, All Younger Than
fiimself-Eager to Work

William M. Harris chairman of the Unemployment com.
mee here and Attorney Warren Upson head of the spe
cia subcommittee in charge of the unemployment bu
fctionng in the Chamber of Commerce building de-
cided to-day order stimulate the drive to provide add
tiona jobs for nonworkers in Waterbury, give the public
idea Of the which contacted with daily
by the relief officials here They announced that they will
publish .'case-adayo picture showing conditions here
among the needy.
No names, however, are to be used in the publication
the accounts Of conditions existing but the subjects chosen
will be cassed Mr Az and The Democrats reporter
to-day examination of applicant seeking work
some kind through the medium Of %he unemployment
bureau of which Attorney Epson is the head and the cond
tons found to exist considered quite pathetic
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
PRIMARY DATES
FOR DEMOCRATS
COME THIS WEEK
Announcement Will Be
Made Either Monday or
Tuesday Night - sc to
Named From This City

Dates for the democratic prim-
aries and city convention in pre-
paration for the coming state con-
vention will probably be set either
Monday or Tuesday night. Town
Chairman John n. Crary stated
today. He announced that follow
yisUsseIs1aa fapsace with paTtg Leads
ers this afternoon he will issue the
call for the town committee to
meet and formally fix the dates.
which are expected to. be April
25th and 28th, respectively, for
the primaries and convention.
At the primaries no contest ls
anticipated. Therefore, the voting
will be formal and will take place
in the party headquarters on East
Main street. In the primary vot-
ing delegates to the city conven-
ton will be elected. ~
When the city convention meets
delegates to the state convention
SO in number, will be chosen. AS
Waterbury is wholly a Smith
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JUDGE OF COURT
and DAUGHTER
SENT TO JAIL
Father Altered Court Rec
Ords to Save Daughter
From Disgrace - Both
Pleaded Guilty

Omitted Press STAFF Correspondence
Raleigh. N. G.. April is AZ.
P.)-Grey- haired Judge John HI.
Harwood of the North Carolina SUI
perior court and his 81 year old
daughter, Lola, are behind prison
bars to-day--because the. daughter
speculated in stocks to finance d
romance, and the distinguished fa-
ther altered court records to save
her from disgrace.
They were sentenced at the ter
mination of a dramatic court scene
late yesterday scene that would
have provided thriller for Just
such stage production as. say
"Coquette". or The Trial OF Mary
Dugan."
High state officials and members
of the bar. for years associates. Of
Judge HARDWOOD we're gathered in
the Wake County court room. The
daughter known to all of, them as a
trusted clerk of the department. of
revenue, cried and hid her face in
a handkerchief as the trial began
Her father sat erect
Solicitor J. c. Little read the IN
dictment. The state prepared, to
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Six Year Old Girl
Sues Landlady For
Damages Of $1O,O 900
Barbara Dunn. Badly Iaiared When RadieA Aefisl sis
in Yard Of Mary L. Downing Crashed Down on
Top OF Her

Barbara suffered fractures OF
two bones in her right foot, lac
Grated knee which developed syno-
Wits, back confusion and was re-
quired to have her leg placed in a
cast for four weeks, the complaint
alleges. She must wear special
shoes with a special lift inside and
VIII suffer from permanently fall
zen arch. 1t is charged that the in
Jnries will recur with every change
in the weather.
The defendant is charged with
negligence in permitting the post
TO remain. uninspected and in
stalled in a covering of ashes so
that the water in the ashes caused
the pole to decay at the bottom.
1t Is charged that the pole was inn
properly installed and was allowed
TO remain in an unsafe condition.
The papers charged the pole was
caused to fall when the second
floor tenant pulled on the pole in
I ulling at the clothes line pulley.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
MEMBER OF THE
FAIRBANKS co
MARRIES NATIVE
Fairbanks Expedition Is in
the South Seas - Wal
ter Pahlman Webs the
Daughter Of Chieftain

Hollywood. April 16-UP)-
walter Pahlman, AZ, member of the
Douglas Fairbanks motion picture
expedition, has become the husband
Of Simone Terai, daughter of a
Polynesian chieftain, cablegram
revealed today. A two-day cere-
mony of feasting, dancing and con-
tests preceded the actual marriage
at Tiariroo, the brides ancestral
home, according to the message. <
Pahlman was given native
name meaning THE Red Cloud in
the Sky" He, is head of the tech
meal department of the company
making Robinson Cruso of the
South Seas" in Tahiti.
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Three Directors of
Kreuger and Toll
Under Arrest

Stockholm. Sweden, April t.
(UP)-Three directors OF the
Kreuger Il Toll company with
world wide interests were under
arrest today charged with helping
the late Ivar Kreuger, swedish
match king. TO falslfy books OF the
company, thereby fraudulently
misleading stockholders.
Acting on krcuger q Toll CON-
pany report and also on the report
OF special auditors. police arrested
Carl LANCE. svcn Holdt and Victor
Holm 10 climax developments
which have followed the suicide Of
Kreuser.
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CAL COOLIDGE
DEFEATED BY
BAT BATTALLNO

! Simsbury. Conn, April 16-(UP)
Calvin Coolidge presumably had
Connecticut brook trout for break
fast today. for he carried IS
"speckled beauties" home to Mort
hampton, Mass. Last night after
three hours angling on the estate
Of Former Senator George p. Nc
Lean. "
The former presidents catch.
weighing about 10 pounds. was
one OF the best for the opening
day OF the trout season In the
state.
Bat Battalino Of Hartford, for
mer world featherweight boxing
champion. caught Is but many
anglers returned home with their
baskets only half full.
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Paul L. Haid of
Hartford to Head
Insurance Co.

Hartford, Conn, April 16.-(UP)
The newly-organized Insurance
Executive association, which In
cludes in its membership most OF
the leading figures of the insurance
business in the United States. viii
be headed by Paul L. Haid of this
city.
Haid is expected to resign his
position as president of the Ameri-
can fore group, seven fire insur-
ance companies, to assume his new
duties. Announcement of Haid's
election was made here last night
by Richard NJ. Bissel1. president of
the Hartford Fire Insurance com
pany.
Haid is a native Of New Castle,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-16
HERE IS A YOUTH that NEEDS SOME JOB
Stop Roosevelt
Leaders Are Not
Being Obeyed

held entirely to their own states,
except Governor Murray whose
brother got on the North Dakota
delegation, the remainder of which
went to Roosevelt.
This has happened while some
of the leading politicians in the
party were saying privately that
Roosevelt was pretty light for the
White House. They have said it to
SO many that, though still profess
ing officially a position of neutral
ity, every informed democratic
politician knows that those in con-
troll of the democratic national
committee are not for Roosevelt.
1t is an open secret that Alfred
E. Smith spoke their inner feelings
when he made his attack on dem
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BEER-FOR.TAX
DAY IS PLANNED
FOR THE NATION

New York. April 16-(UP)-
Plans for ''beer-for-tax" day May
IL, as a nationwide demonstra-
ton have been announced by May
or James J. Walker.
He hopes congress may be In
fiuenced to pass a bill at this SEES
sion legalixing the manufacture
and sale of beer and imposing a
beer sales tax.
The mayor estimated the addi-
tional tax revenue at approximate
ly $600, 600, 600, and said he be-
lieved IT would revive industry. CIV
ing work to hundreds OF thou.
sands.
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He Bailed Himself
Out But Left
Friend in Jail

Evanston. Ill. April 1e.--(UP)--
Richard Hansen. 80, was unper-
turbed when asked TO furnlsh seb
bail on a speeding charge.
I'll call up my friends, Alfred
Parent, and have him bring the
money down." said Hansen. suiting
the ASTON to the world. "ft won't
take him long TO get here
Il didn't. when Parertl arrived
M was under arrest for q charge
OF speeding. He bniIed himself out
with the S25 brought for his friend
end left Hansen IN jail.
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new YORK
GOVERNOR
TO Fight
Will Address Jefferson
Day Banquet in st Paul
on Monday Nght-Be-
lieved He Will Reply to
Both Smith and Murray
BY THOMAS G. FORD
Tynifad prpss STAR COy.rcSnOndenf

UNITED Press Stan Correspondent
Albany, N. Y, April 16-(U. P.)
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
prepared to-day to take the fight
for the Democratic presidential
nomination to st Paul, MINI, where
he will address a Jefferson dinner
Monday night.
While he warned that speculation
as to what he will say may be
wrong" there was a strong i'm
preston he will counter Alfred E.
Smiths "demogogic" charge and
will reply to a letter from William
H. Murray challenging him to pre-
sent a definite relief program for
1.-The little man."
Up until to-day the governor had
answered neither Smith nor Muir
ray.
The governor matched Tammany
Hall strategy in fully approving a
Tammany-proposed resolution at
yesterdays meeting of the demo-
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BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent,

Washington, April 16-(UP)-
The stop Roosevelt generals are
tearing their hair because of the
way the New York governor con-
tinues to pile up delegates. He has
sailed away 245 sure votes.
This week Roosevelt wrapped
up Michigan, Kentucky and Ne
braska for delivery at the Chicago
convention. He snuggled up closer
toward the so convention votes
of Illinois with increasing likeli-
hood of taking them, or good
part of them, when they are re-
leased by Senator James Hamilton
Lewis to whom they are. to be
pledged.
Roosevelt's rivals have been
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Late Bulletins
FALLS INTO GRAVE FROM STROKE

Prague April 16-(UP)-As he pronounced the
words, "Our days numbered toward the close of
funeral ceremony at Sohra in the Goerz district the
Reverend Buddenbaum ga, suffered fatal stroke of
apoplexy and fell head-long into the open grave.