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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Youth Confessed
 Two Murders
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When he took Thelma to a dance on Memorial day a year ago, met them afterwards and went with them to the quarry where we drank a pint of liquor"
 As they sat on the edge of the quarry on blanket, among the wierd shadows cast from the trees, Loren conceived the idea of slay- ing his brother. according to the purported confession. He admitted he had first loved Miss Woods but his brother had replaced him in her affections.
 "I was thinking this would be a good time for me to get even with Earl" he said.
 50 I went back to his car, got a hammer, came up behind him and hit him on the head. He groaned and I hit him again. Thel- ma screamed and ran. I chased her around to the other side of the quarrly, caught her and slugged her too.
 "I weighed down both bodies with rocks and threw them in the pool. It took about an hour and half. I walked back mile and half to my car and drove home
 T felt pretty bad at Earls fu- neral later. But my conscience hasn't bothered me much since then. I've had a better time with him away"
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him, was near collapse when he made a spectacular trip to Califor- mia to plead emotionally for the liberty of Tom Mooney, the long celebrated bomb-convict at San Francisco.
 His nervous condition had been noted for weeks during the long gruelling hours of his double trial in New York and Albany. The characteristic smile and punch were lacking. There were grim tight lines around his mouth.
 He became angry, at times, a characteristic which no man had ever seen before. He indulged in bursts of petulant temper-and when his usual nature reasserted itself, apologized for it.
 It has been evident, however that from the beginning of the governors hearings in Albany, he and his counsel had decided to stake his political future on an ap- peal to the people who riotously elected him to the mayoralty Every declaration he made, and every statement or motion made by his counsel was directed to this end,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Presidential Race
 Much Affected
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One significant line in the Walk CT resignation aroused widespread speculation. This was the state-
 ment that he had been urged by some of the "most loyal and dis tinguished democrats in the coun-
 try" to take his present course. This instantly caused speculation
 here as to what position former
 Governor Alfred E. Smith would take.
 Should the Walker vindication campaign gain momentum in New
 York City and particularly should
 Smith join 1t whole heartedly. Gov ernor Roosevelt would find thou sands of his own democratic votes in the state endangered. His friends, however, would place their hopes in persuading city voters to punch a straight party ticket on the voting machine. The effort would be to prevent a vote for | Walker from turning into vote against Roosevelt. In view of these numerous un- certain factors any forecast at this time as to which presidential can- didate New York will vote for is regarded as foolhardy.
 Out in the country an entirely l different react1On IS pOSSlple. III the
 west, the middle west, and the border states which Roosevelt must have to win, in event he should lose New York state, a strong antipathy exists toward Tammany Hall. Roosevelt leaves shortly on a campaign swing which | will carry him through that coun- l try to the Pacific coast. With the possibility of New York being in
 serious danger, Roosevelt will work harder than ever to win sup | port in these other states. His job | there will be made easier. many believe, by the very difficulties he is encountering in his own state.
 Few presidents have been elect | ed. without New York State. Will
 son in 1918 barely pulled through when he came in by a nose in l California. Circumstances this year have again made California a bat tleground. Democratic voting in. creased sharply in the primaries
 and the administration stalwart Senator Shortridge was defeated | for re-nomination this week.
 Alignments in California have been shattered. The. democratic or.
 ganization under the leadership oi
 William e. McAdoo, just nomin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
s BLOCKS SINGLES
 |A} WHAT'S DOING M {. In The
 s WORLD OF PHILATELY

telic art. One of the features of the exhibit is to be the late Czar's collection of proofs of the Roman off issue of Russia. The produce ton price of this group is said to be fifty pounds ....
 Penn Stamps.
 Clarence w. Braber has for warded to Postmaster General Walter F. Brown a pen and ink sketch of the proposed William Penn commemorative stamp. In- cidentally, since William Penn's birthday was October "A, residents of Pennsylvania are trying hard to have the stamp issued on that date. It is hard to see how this can oc- cur with Daniel Webster commen- orative, due to make it's appear ance on that day at three towns. As usual the propoed design for the Penn commemorative Is such that can be placed on the regular size issue. Why not design that would result in stamp of the Yorktown style? What was the main criticism of the Olympic Stamps this year.
 Cancel Lightly.
 That is the sum and substance or a general order issued by the Swiss Department of Posts, accord ing to William H. Bond in a recent issue of Mekeeps Weekly Stamp News. The Swiss authorities recog- nize the growing demands of philatelists that less ink be applied to stamps when being cancelled. There are some postmasters in this country, too, who must issue simi- lar orders to the man who runs the cancelling machines, but in other places there seems to be an unholy desire to smear the stamps with as much ink as possible. The Swiss Posts department certainly is owed a vote of thanks by every philatelist in this old world of ours. New Issue.
 Georgia is doing her darndest to have Congress authorize issuance of a stamp to commemorate it's 200th anniversary. The Atlanta Constitution is doing most of the campaigning for the stamp but is ably supported by most of the Georgians. To say that the Geor- gians are ambitious would be putt ting it mildly. They seek a three. five and eight cent stamp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
MOTHER ASKS SIC, ,000 FOR SONS INJURIES
FOREIGN WARS
 VETERANS WILL FINISH TO-DAY
Election of Officers Is Principal Business - Passed Strong Resolu- ton in Favor of Still Battling for Bonus

Sacramento, Cal, Sept 2.-(UP) Veterans of Foreign Wars plan ned to conclude their convention here today by electing officers pledged to carry on an active fight for immediate payment of the sol- diers' bonus. Admiral Robert E. Coontz, retired, Washington, D. C.. was unopposed to succeed Harold D. Decoe, Sacramento, as com- mander-in-chief of the organiza- ton. James E. Van Zandt, Altura, Pa, was slated to become senior vice-commander-in-chief.
 The convention yesterday adopt ed a resolution which included a virtual mandate for incoming of- ficers to continue unabated the fight for payment of the bonus" The resolution urged all ex-service men to join some veterans organ ization and invited all such organ izations to cooperate in the fight for legislation that will grant benefits toNthe widows and orphans of World War veterans" An other resolution invited labor or ganizations, particularly railroad brotherhoods, to unite for our common good" Earlier a resolu- ton was voted asking veterans to make every effort to call public attention to the untruthful propa- ganda issued by the National Econ- omy league"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Republican Party
 Ticket Unsettled
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turned to the old republican sys- tenn of succession and suggested promoting Lieutenant Governor Samuel Spencer, despite the lat ter's lack of color.
 Within the past AS hours a new development has occurred which may change the entire picture Of the gubernatorial situation, the United Press was informed to-day. A conference of chiefs to-day may settle the question of who is to oppose Governor Cross.
 For several days the Capitol has been the scene of conferences of republicans for moulding the tick. ct. Yesterday the leaders moved over to Roraback's office and great CT pressure was exerted toward de- termining the candidates.
 The entrance of State Treasurer Roy c. Wilcox of Meriden into the race for leutenant-governor has complicated the situation.
 Wilcox is reported to have pow erfuI backing, although Mackenzie is opposed to him and wants Cliff. ford B. Wilson, former lieutenant. governor, to have the post. Mac kenzie is reported to favor nomina- tion of Wilson as gesture o1 friendship toward the last remain ing republican followers of che I late John T. Kings anti -Roraback organization at Bridgeport. Wilson was a King man. John A. Danaher of Windhan may be the candidate for secretary l of state instead of Dr William L Higgins of Coventry, father of the | dirt roads movement, who may seek the second district congres' sional nomination.
 Mackenzie and others are report. | ed to favor former Senator Ansor Keeler of Norwalk for comptroller succeeding Frederick M. Salmon the perennial incumbent. If Will. ] cox receives the lieutenant-gover. nor nomination, the post of treas. urer is wide open. The nominee for congressman. at-large is a question mark,
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ated for senator, will stage an in- tense fight on President Hoover's home grounds.
 Republicans are preparing to take full advantage of Walkers bitterness. They have, already been attempting to capitalize Smiths aloofness. Now with a fight be- tween Tammany and Roosevelt threatening to reach white heat by election day, republicans are get ting their salt shakers ready to do plenty of important rubbing of democratic wounds.
 The only instance approaching this situation in New York was when Cleveland despite the bitter opposition of Tammany Hall, made the White House on his motto, public office is a public trust" It is that precedent no doubt which will encourage Big Jim" Farley. democratic national chairman. as he views the disturbed ranks of his party in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

at inc grave of his brother, who was buried yesterday.
 National politics, state politics, and the eternal conflict that sur. rounds the local management or Tammany Hall had a hand in ms decision, His action was a defiant challenge to a democratic governor now seeking the presidency. Ana to another democrat-Samuel Sea bury-who has been a consistent and bitter enemy of Tammany throughout his career.
 The very procedure Walker fol- lowed in resigning to run agaln was suggested Thursday morning in a. signed editorial by William Randolph Hearst, newspaper pup fisher, Hearst was the only New York publisher supporting Walker against the charges of his accusers. He also was numbered among those supporting Franklin Roose- velt's presidential campaign. He was a political enemy of Alfred E. Smith, who had been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed walker, with whom he had been At "outs."
 Fifteen charges had been levelled against Mayor Walker as an out growth of the Hofstadter legisla- tive committees investigation into his operations as mayor of New York, They involved alleged ac- eeptance of stocks and money sas bribes, and unexplained accounts of his alleged business agent show inx a million dollars in deposits. Seabury had presented these 1b sc0nclusions" to Governor Roose- veH as reasons for the mayors re- moval.
 And seabury said to-day that walkers resignation in the face or those charges was "equfValent to
 .. confession of guilt"
 Roosevelt had ordered the mayor to trial on Seabury's findings, and for 12 days the dispute had rageo in the hearing room at the state capitol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

ship battle from Governor Wilbur L. Cross, the first democrat to break the g. o. p. line of succession in Is years, is held of chief im- portance.
 In the absence aof any definite guidance from Roraback, the chiefs aides have trotted out first one and then another prospect, only to have each meet with some important obstacle. States Attor- ney Hugh M. Alcorn of Hartford county was the choice of the Hart ford county leaders. He failed to arouse enthusiasm "downstate." Fairfield county leader Harry B. Mackenzie talked about drafting former Governor John H. Trumbull but Trumbull demurred, expressing a desire to stick to his private af- fairs. The Plainville manufactur- CTS business associates complained against the movement to draft him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
MORE BANKERS IN

New York, September -(UPJ Judge Martin Manton today granted an order permitting a sec- ond-group of bankers headed by Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone and Company, to intervene in the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany receivership suit as a com- mittee representing holders of the company's three year six per cent gold notes which will come due October ], 1882.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Causes That Had
 Paved the Way
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Governor Roosevelt, and the resig- nation of Mayor Walker while un- der fire.
 In both cases, charges were pre- ferred by Seabury, acting not as counsel for the Hofstadter commit tee but as a private citizen.
 The principal Charges" against Walker, the basis of the removal proceedings, were:
 That the mayor was actuated by improper and illegal considerations which led him to accept large se- curity holdings from groups inter- ested in taxicab legislation, caused him to sponsor 8 bus franchise from which he profited and caused him to hold bonds of corporation which received city contract. That the mayor accepted sub- stantial gratuities from Paul Block, publishers, and others. Those from Block amounted to a $246, 900 share in a joint stock trading account.
 That the mayors explanations of his official acts were unworthy of credence and that he failed to aid the Hofstadter legislative commit tee in it's inquiry.
 That he. failed to explain de- posits and stock trading accounts totalling almost a million dollars and carried in the name of Russell Sherwood who had acted for him in certain financial transa ctions. It was claimed that Sherwood was Walkers financial agent.
 That the mayor faled to execute properly his official duties.
 This last charge was repeated in more detail by groups or indivi- duals also seeking Walkers re- mova1.
 There was a similarity in the charges filed against both Walker and Farley.
 Farley had steadfastly refused to reveal the source of more than $3OO,000 in income, much of 1t &C., quired while he was in office. To all questions he had smilingly de- clared he "got the money from my good little tin box" Walker had referred to a "safe, at home"
 Governor Roosevelt, after a hear ing. dismissed the sheriff with the declaration that office holders must at all times be prepared to answer truthfully to questions as to their private incomes.
 The investigation of Walkers ad- ministration had two dramatic phases. The first was during the open hearings of the. Hofstadter committee, when the mayor for two days hurled indignant replies to the volley of questions pro- pounded to him by Judge Seabury. The second was in the executive chambers at Albany, when the mayor faced his accuser before Governor Roosevelt and attempted | to beat down IS "conclusions" of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
IS HE ELIGIBLE?

New York, Sept 2.-(UP)-City Clerk Michael'J. Cruise announced today he intends to certify to the board of elections that a vacancy exists in the office of mayor to be filled at the general elections Mo- vember g.
 James J. Walkers resignation was filed with Cruise last night.
 What effect such action by Cruise will have on, determining whether the mayor is eligible to run for re- election this fall was not immedf- ately determined.
 Friends of Walker contend he is eligible to run for reelection since he resigned and was not removed from oifice. There has been some dispute over the eligibility of a public oficial removed from office 10 run again in the coming election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
New Haven Road
 Made Defendant By Mrs. Griskas
Offspring Lost Left Leg and Right Arm ]. When Run Over By Train on Evening of June 20 h -NegIigence Claimed By Plaintiffs Counsel

Lafayette street. It is charged
 that the railroad company was
 negligent in permitting children to
 play in that section while a switch
 CT is operated back and forth on
 the tracks.
 The suit further alleges that
 there was no barrier or warning
 posted to keep children away. The accident happened when Joseph either attempted to cross the tracks or was playing too near the tracks, at o'clock in the evening on the date of the mishap. The suit is ,returnable in court the first Tuesday of September.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

Loss of his left leg and right arm as a result of being run over , by a railroad train in the vicinity z Of Lafayette street and Washing ton avenue, forms the basis for a { SlO, 900 damage suit filed-to-day in superior court for Joseph Griskas, -s, of this city, by his mother, Mrs
 Anna Griskas. against the New
 York. New Haven & Hartford Rail-
 road Company.
 The complaint sets up that Jo- seph was playing on the tracks June 26, 1891 with some other boys
 when he was run over by a switch , CT engine on the tracks bordering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Comment About
 Mayor Limited
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laYe nothing to say

II have nothing to say.
 Strangely enough. the governor
 had conferred at length with Mar
 tin Conboy, one of his legal ad.
 visers. regarding resumption of the hearing, shortly before the mayor resigned.
 The governor, whose campaign for the presidency has been seri-
 ously hampered the past several weeks by the hearing, would not -s- immediately comment on what ms ~-a Supreme Court Justice Ellis J.
 Staley. who ruled earlier in the
 week that Roosevelt was empow- -ered to remove Walker, but cri- .ticized the governors method or Walkers hearing, also -tleclined to comment.
 ,s- Paul Block figuring in the ln- ,-.yestigation of the mayor as the s.-donar of a $246,000 half share in sxsnrofits of a stock trading account, asaid the resignation was:
 ---- 'iNecessitated not only by the 3mp possibility of combating charges ~Dressed by men with thwarted -nolitical ambitions but also of overcoming verdict that looked .sas if 1t had been signed, sealed ana +deliyered, even before the trial had -,started." 4. ~ Block supposedly referred to SSeabury's defeat for the governor sEship several years ago as brought sa.about, it has been charged, by yTammany Hall, and to indications That Roosevelt had decided to oust Walker.
 sSl seabury, counsel to the Hofstad- ter investigating committee, said: s-- "The charges against the mayor <. were fully proved and corroborat- 7, ed in many instances by documen- tary evidence which was undis-
 puted and by the admissions of
 the mayor. "The mayors resigna- ton in the face of this record is ~ equivalent to a confession of guilt. n "No intelligent person will be 4 rnisled by the mayors attempt to ~ substitute for a defense an assault
 upon the good faith and the mo-
 tives of the lawfully constituted
 authority to review his acts while
 in office. It is highly sifinicant that
 this excuse is availed of by the
 mayor on the eve of the governor
 inquiry into the relation between
 the mayor and his fugitive agent,
 Sherwood p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
THE NEW MAYOR.

Mamaroneck, N. Y., Sept 2. (UP) Reduction of New York city's $700, 100000 budget will be the first concern of Mayor Joseph V. Mckee, he announced to-day at his summer home just before his leav- ing for Manhattan to take over his new duties.
 Mckee refused to discuss James J. Walkers resignation or the charges against him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
STAMPS

Snn IT C-4 cents up, contains vvV O' o' airs and specials, etc., good values. Ward, 214 East 5th St., Long Beach, Cal.
 IT c Commemorative. 20 different, S' 0' $1.00. Blocks pro rate. AL fred Jensen, 5S4 F. 137 St., Bronx. N. Y. City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
Cachefs Received.


 The third in the series of twelve cahhets being applied by the New York city Washington Bicenten- nial commission has arrived. It was applied on August 27 in com memoration of the Battls of Long Island. This cachet is in purple ink and oval shaped. Incidentally collectors should remember to use a different bicentennia1 stamp on each of these twelve covers coo. wilmington, Delaware, observed the Washington Bicentennial with a special cachet on August 27. The scene depicted was Washington's headquarters from Aug. 27 to Sept 6, TIT To-. The covers carried by the s. S. Manhattan on it's first Atlantic voyage arrived last week. They were postmarked U. s. Ger. Post, Aug. 10. The stamp was cancelled with a special S. s. Man haitian cancellation. The Manhat- tan is the largest ship built in this country and carried all mail for first day cachets to its European ports and home again .... AL though a commercial proposition the cover issued at Goshen, N. Y., on Aug. IT, in honor of the rum ming of the Hambletonian was one of the best that this writer has ever obtained. In addition to being highly pictorial the covers were stamped with the name of the winner of the race and immediate ly posted. Enclosed was history of the Hambletonian, perhaps the most famous harness race now run ....
 Novel Exhibition.
 London, England, will shortly witness one of the most novel stamp exhibitions ever. All stamps that are to go on view must be noted for their beauty, rather than their intrinsic value.~ There will be no attempt to keep United States stamps separated, for example, from British or French. All stamps will be classified according to some group in which they fall and thus many nationalities may be side by side. Glasses which will be repre- scented are birth of philatelic art, philatelic portrait gallery, em- blematic designs; scenery, views, buildings and statuary, airmail stamp designs, heraldry, famous pictures reproduced on stamps. mythology, native art, modern and fururistic art, locomotives and en- gineering, monstrosities of phila-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02
PROPHETIC WISECRACK

Albany, N. Y, Sept 2.-UP)- Mayor James J. Walker of New York "wisecracked" his coming eclipse as the chief magistrate of New York's greatest city last week, during his trial.
 He turned to group of reporters behind him, as he sat twirling his horn-rimmed glasses. then looked around the room and said:
 "As a matter of facts, boys. this is the most expensive political funeral a man ever had"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-02

Mrs Dorothy Pollak, called "Chi' cago's prettiest slayer," chose to place her fate in the hands of a judge rather than a jury. She Is shown here as she went to trial for killing her husband, who is alleged to have been a private banker for bootleggers. Her claim of self-de. fense will be weighed by Judge Harry Fisher (inset). The prose. cution made no attempt to force a jury trial, Chicago's experience having demonstrated the difficulty of convicting beautiful woman for murder.