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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
MILFORD PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT
 THAT MARRIAGE
Wealthy Mrs Aimee Greele
 AbbOttt Has Been Wed to Chinese Harvard
 Graduate for Some Time

Milford, Conn, April 22-(UP)- Milford folks still talked to-day about their amazing discovery that the polite, bespectacled little Chin ese who has been dolng errands for wealthy Mrs Aimee Greele Ab- bolt all winter was not her butler, as they had supposed, but her hus- band. The bride, widow of the late Charles G. Abbott, New York bus inessman and rotary official, admit ted the marriage yesterday and said she and her husband, Chan NJ. Jett, Harvard graduate and owner of a New York restaurant chain, had hoped to keep the ceremony a secret.
 People here aren't as broad minded as in other places," she explained. The couple refused to say when or where they were mar ried but Jett referred to the wed- ding as ''old stuff" Mrs Jett said they had planned to announce their marriage at the reunion of her husbands class of 1902 at Harvard this spring.
 Mrs Jett has travelled extensive ly in the Orient and is a student and collector of orienta, art. David Belasco was said to have been considering at the time of his death producing a Chinese play written by Mrs Abbott. The bride said her husband had been friend of her family for 25 years. They plan a trip to China and India soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Baby Lindbergh Clue Led To Milford And Several
 Mystery Visitors There
It Was Believed That Col Lindbergh Himself Had Been One of Them There Were Others in the Town Too, Who Were Not Known - No Definite Clue

Hopewell, N. J., April 22-(UP) Renewed efforts to negotiate with the kidnapers of Col Charles A. L1ndbergh's son were indicated to-day following a mysterious trip by the flyer and the arrival of a man believed to be Dean H. Dob- son-Peacock, of Norfolk. The fiy- CTS journey, which may have tak- en him as far as Milford, Conn, ended shortly before midnight. He was driving his own car as 1t speeded along featherbed road leading to his Sourland Mountain home. The gate was open. Glimp- ses of the fast-moving car indi- oated the colonel was alone. Ear Her in the day severa, motor cars, bearing New Jersey licenses, stopped in Milford. Two men be- ;ieved to be Col Lindbergh and Col H. Norman Schwarzkopf. state po- lice head, were in one car.
 No explanation or denial con- corning the Connecticut trip was made by Schwarzkopf.
 The man believed to be one of the Norfolk negotiators arrived soon after Lindbergh returned home. Two men were in the car which belonged to Edmund J. Bruce, of Elmira, N. Y., friend of John Hughes Curtis, colleague of Dean Dobson-Peacock The min- ister was known to have left Nor folk yesterday and it was under-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
CHASE cos WILL GIVE VACATIONS
 WITH FULL PAY
All Salaried Employees and Help, 20 Years in the. Service, Will Be on That Fortunate List

Salaried employees and help hav- ing passed their goth year of serv- ice in the employ of the Chase Companies, Inc, will receive yaca- tions this summer from the con- cern with pay. This fact was dis closed today in formal notice made public in the various plants of the Chase Companies, Inc, and was considered an important an- nouncement in view of the general trend of thought to the effect that the depression is forcing large em- ployers to counteract privileges of help rather than extend them.
 The news of the Chase com pany's intentions of giving its sal aried and old help paid vacations as in the past added new life to- day to the belief that business is on the uptrend in Waterbury. Other leadnig factories of the city are expected to follow the exam pie of the Chase Companies, Inc,
 Continued on Page 2.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
MARRIED LIFE OF ;, AZ YEARS HAS
 BEEN SMASHED
Wife Takes Revenge for Real or Fancied Wrongs and Blinds Him With Acid

Venice, Cal April 22-UP)-In
 revenge for real or fancied ill treatment during AZ years of mar ried life, Mrs Rebecca Greenberg, 60, blinded her husband. Morris 57. with lye as he lay asleep, po- lice reported today. After dashing a strong solution of the chemical in her husbands face, Mrs Green
 berg telephoned for officers to ar
 rest her, police said.
 Mrs Greenberg, said to be the
 mother of six children, was
 charged with assault with a caustic,
 a felony, and lodged in the city
 jail. Her husband was taken to a
 hospital, where physicians said his
 eyesight had been destroyed and
 that his life was possibly in dam ger,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
President Wilson SaDed MooneyFron1
 The Death Penalty
After He Had Been Found Guilty and Condemned to Die, Wilson Inter- vened-HistOry of That Fatal Explosion and the Trial

Sacramento, Cal, April 22-(U. P.)-Tom Mooney, an obscure young iron moulder who attracted police and public attention by his activities during labor troubles, was saved from execution by interven- ton of President Wilson. Thereaf- ter he remained in San Quentin with executive clemency his only hope for freedom.
 Mooney came to San Francisco shortly after the 1906 fire. In 1913 police at Richcmond, Calf, arrest ed him under the names of Charles King during a strike. but he was acquitted.
 About this time Moneys future co-defendant in the famous bomb ing trials, Warren K. Billings was convicted of illegally possessing 60 sticks of dynamite. This conviction ultimately separated the two in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Refusal Of Pardon
 Doesn't Close Case
 Affirms Prisoner
Highlights In Case
 That Have Excited Whole Legal World
(By NEA Seryice)

The story of Tom Mooney, the worlds most famous prisoner. is largely the story of his 15-year bat tie for freedom following the con- viction which stirred America as no other court case has since the Dred Scott decision by the U. s. supreme court before the Civil war.
 Highlights in Moneys life and his fight against what he terms the most colossal frame-up in history" despite the fact that California courts have upheld his conviction, are given chronologi- cally below:
 1SS1-Tom Mooney born in Chicago of Irish parents. His father was miner and his early childhood was spent in association principally with the working class.
 19O6-Became interested in socialism and began work as la Dor organizer in various parts of (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
"They Force Me to Fight
 and Fight l Will" De- clares the Famous Con- vict - Forces Back of Him Will Now Make Ef- forts to Get a New Trial
WHY GOVERNOR
 ROLPH REFUSED
By HOMER l.. ROBERTS United Press Staff Corresponden


 Sacramento, Calf, April 22-- (UP)-Tom Mooney, white haired workman confined for Is years be- hind prison bars despite pleas by jurors who convicted him and the judge who presided at his trial, began a new fight for freedom to- day after the fourth refusal of a pardon by 8 California governor.
 Governor Rolph's refusal to grant the pardon because mo new facts" were offered to support Moneys plea led friends of the convicted labor leader to seek his l liberation along entirely new lines. possibly through a new trial. | In the front lines of the reor- ganized Mooney forces was his 84- year-old mother, Mrs Mary A.. Mooney. She listened in dry-eyed unbelief yesterday as Governor Rolph read the decision which doomed her son to stay in San Quentin prison.
 l She had hoped for al least a commuted. sentence.
 | Mrs Mooney announced an att tempt will be made at once to have District Attorney Matthew Brady try Mooney on a single mur- der indictment in San Francisco lsuperior court.
 II This indictment has not been pressed since 1917. when Mooney was convicted on related indict- ments as one of the preparednesl parade bombers.
 Convinced a jury would acuuff Mooney on a retrfal, Mrs Mooney said the pardon application would be renewed with Governor Rolph after such a trial.
 | This program was outlined by Attorney Aaron Sapiro of New (Continued on Page 2.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
GENERAL SMEDLEY D. BUTLER
 AND SENATOR JAMES J. DAVIS
 PLAY PARTS IN ONE ACT DRAMA

Philadelphia. April 22.-(UP) A drama in one act, entitled. What Rival Candidates for the United States Senate Discuss When They Meet Unexpectedly"
 Place-Bellevue Stratford hotel.
 Time-1:30 a. m.
 Actors-Major General Smedley D. Butler and Senator James Davis.
 Butler is seen talking to Cover nor Pinchot's secretary. as curtain rises.
 Enter Davis.
 Butler: Hello senator how are you getting on?"
 Davis: "Heilo. smed, awful glad 10 see you. How's your throat holding out7"
 Butleri "I'm feeling fine. scna- tor do you remember the last time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22

I saw you? It was just six weeks ago on a Pullman and you were pulling on your long underwear" |> Laughs heartily as crowd gath CTS.
 Davis: "Oh yes. we folks in Washington have to wear long un- derwear."
 Butler: well senator you've been in harness q long time. You see I'm just q lad yet so wear shorts"
 Davis, obviously ill at ease. moves toward elevator.
 "Glnd to have seen va. smed. I've had . hard day SO Eucss Til go 10 bed"
 Crowd leaves: disappointed with lack of firoworka.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
FIGHTING COW PUT UP SOME
 BATTLE AGAINST DEATH BUT
 TRUCK BECAME THE BUTCHER

Middletown, Conn, April 22.-- (UP)-Somewhere in the ancestry of Bess. peace-loving Middletown COW. there must have been a snorting. fighting Andalusian bull. Bess never showed her spirit, how ever, until she was betrayed. For years she gave milk in plentitude without kicking over the pail or switching her tail in the milker's face--that is, no more than the average well-meaning COW.
 But yesterday her owner decided to transform her into sides of beef and hamburger. Bess was led to the slaughterhouse. At the gate she paused. comprehended the fate that was in store for her and dug her booves into the ground. me blood of that old Andalusian bull began to boil. Her tail came up like a fiagstalf. She lowered her
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22

horns and charged-this way that way-at everyone in sight snorting and tearing the earth.
 Fifteen men tried to tame her but their clubs and pitchforks were like match sticks to one in whose veins ran fighting blood. Then Bess spotted crowd of spectators on trestle. laughing and jeerlng. Up onto the trestle she numbered and cleared 1t with a charge from end ito end. She spung around and looked for more worlds to conquer.
 Down the street came a five-ton truck.
 Bess galloped into action against the new antagonist.
 Wham!
 Bess went down. with a last gall lant below.
 Today she is sides of beef and hamburger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
SENATOR'S MAY CHANGE MINDS
 ABOUT RELIEF
They Are Just Finding Out That Municipal Funds Are Exhausted and May Pass Relief Measure

Washington, April 22-(UP)- Senators who have been working for direct federal relief for the unemployed renewed their efforts today on the basis of reports that private. and municipal relief funds were being rapidly repleted.
 One senator interested in obtain. ing brief appropriation predicted that the senate would adopt a re- lief bill before adjournment. Some senators previously opposed tc measures like the Costigan-L -LaFol- lette bill, which was defeated Feb 16 by vote of 4S to 35, are said to have changed their minds in the light of the new reports.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
ELDERLY SISTER AND BROTHER IN
 SUICIDE PACT
Failing Health of Lynn Couple Decided Them in Taking Own Lives To- day

Lynn, Mas, April 22-OP)- Unwilling to endure failing health until natural death came, an elder ly brother and sister, who had lived together all their lives arose and dressed early today, penned three farewell notes, and sat down before a kithcen gas range to die.
 The bodies of Robert F. Will Hams. 70, retired shoemaker, and his sister. Josephine, 65, were found sldmped on chairs in the kitchen after their landlady had detected the escaping gas. All five jets on the range had been opened.
 The couple were not needy, for one of the three notes instructed an attorney to care for Williams nieces in settling the estate. Anoth- CT note asked friends not to be too harsh" in their judgments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
WEIGHTY JUROR WILL HELP WEIGH THE
 EVIDENCE


 Providence, R. l., April 22- (UPy-A jury that began hear ing a case in Providence supe- rior court to-day had as one of its members. Waiter V. Ken-. nedy, 4O-year.old Central Falls machinist who weighs more than 400 pounds. Court atta- ches said he was the biggest man ever to sit on a Rhode Island jury.
 To accommodate the hefty juror, one of the comfortable. cushioned chairs in the jury box had to be replaced with an armless chair, as no other would seat Kennedy.
 The juror, who has been un- employed for some time. came from Central Falls to the coun. ty courthouse on the seat of a light truck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
HELD FOR CORONER

Bethel. Conn, April 22 - (UP) = Thomas Fl. Keegan, 33. of Bridgeport. was held for the coro- ner today as result of the death of Miss Ella Wixtad, 64, who was struck by his automobile 10 front of her home here last night. Con- stable Morris Britto sasd KeeEan and two girls were riding In the front seat of the automobile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
Late Bulletins
PROFESSOR-EMERITUS IS DEAD

Cambridge, Mass, April 22-(UP)-Roland Thax- ter 73 of botany of Harvard unver sity, died at his home to-day after several oths ill.,
 ness He was native of Newton and Harvard grad- uate Besides serving in the Harvard botanical depart ment, he was mycologist at the Connecticut Agrcu- tural experimental station from 1885 to 1891. =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
BROOKLINE FOR BIG CUR GAMES

New York, April 22-(UP)-The country club, Brookne Mass has been selected the site for the Walker cup golf matches to be held this summer the United States Golf association announced to-day through the United Press Dates for the play which will involve amateur teams of Great Britain and the United States will be announced later
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
RETREATS CABINET CHARGES

Washington, April 22-(UP) Speaker Garner to- day made public letter to Secretary of Interior Wilbur bitterly attacking the cabinet officers views govern mental economy and reiteratng the speakers charge that the cabinet is not properly cooperating with gress in an effort to reduce expenditures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
FORBIDS MORE BRUSH FIRES

Hartford, Conn., April 22-(UP)-State Forester Austin F. Hawes to-day forbad the issuance of permits for brush fires anywhere in Connecticut until further notice remen batted flames in widely separated tons. Forest fires reported at North Stonington Thomaston Lake Compounce and Middlebury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
FOUR SUICIDES IN ONE COUNTY

White Plains, N Y, April 22--( (UP)-Four suicides in Westchester county reported to police to-day, three of them in Yonkers and the fourth at New Rochelle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
SENATE CHUCKLED AT MOSES

Washington, April 22-(UP)-The senate chuckled to-day Senator Moses, republican, New Hampshire presented with huge wooden club from the "Sons of the Wild Jackass." The bludgeon about three feet long and four inches thick, sent to Senator Nye
 republican North Dakota, by the Galesburg, N. D..
 Farmers Union. It bore the inscription: Regards to the Sons of the Wild Jackass" T do not want to keep such dangerous weapon around" Nye announced. q be presented to the author of the wild ackass phrase the senator from New Hampshire, Mr Moses 7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
BRIDGE AND TENNIS STARS TO WED

Dallas, April 22-(UP)-Oswald Jacoby, New York bridge player, and Miss Mary Zta McHae, Dallas ten his star, will be married here Monday parents of Miss McHale announced to-day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 22-(UP)- The treasury net balance Aprfl 20 was $444.71O,193.06.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22

Last Minute. News Flashes
Evening star., 1932-10-23
AS Told to Will Irwin

o. can't imagine any social situation of
which Mrs. Hoover wouldn't be
complete mistress" said woman who
has had many opportunities to see Mrs.
Hoover in the White House. She was
born with infinite tact; even the girls
who knew her in college remember that
She has supremely the high feminine
art of putting people at their ease.
I shan't try to describe what she looks
like. Photographs and news reels have
been showing us that for four years.
But women with an eye to beauty in
other women have noticed for me some
points which the camera doesn't get.
One is what might call the quick SYM
pathy of her expression. Another is her
hair, which, when it decided to turn from
blue-bla to white, did complete job
and attained the silvery quality of Win
ter frost in the sunlight. Nor can the
Evening star., 1932-10-23

camera convey her eyes. They have
many lights; when they are at their best
I should call them violet. They are
always candid and always kind.
For the rest-I once asked group of
interested women what they thought
they knew already about Lou Henry
Hoover. And the answers boiled down
about to this: "Well, she was born in
Iowa and grew up in California and
took geology in college and speaks seven
languages and went with her husband
all over the world"
All of which is an accurate sketch Of
her history, except the seven languages
Il have heard them stretched to 2D.
She may speak as many, but I've never
caught her at it; and have known her
since my college days. I know that she
reads French, and I assume that she
can speak it If she has to. When she
Evening star., 1932-10-23
q 1892, by Harris & Ewing.

kept her own quarters full of books
meant for reading and not for decora-
tion That is as true of her quarters in
the White House as it was of her COL
lege room. Her grasp of most subjects
has always slightly annoyed the rest of
us, who go in for lectures and courses
of study by way of keeping up" But
she never parades her knowledge until
the subject comes to the surface.
Once, after she had worsted younger
member of the family in pleasant argu-
ment, he said: "The only trouble with
mother is that she is right-even when
you knew you were right before you
tackled her." But it isn't book-learning,
really. She digs her information out of
life, and out of good talk about life.
Once, remember, when she was playing
games with a crowd of youngsters she
stopped, picked up her knitting bag,
tucked it under her arm and said:
"Good-by for while; I'm going of now
to be educated"
She passed on to the next reom and
slipped into a chair among the group
Of men who were talking the. shop of
government with the President. When
Evening star., 1932-10-23
A Pen Porhuit OF MRS. HOOVER
What a First Lady Really Women M asking This Question
7aAy-Hevb

was first married her husband
took her to China. Soon
afterward she had to go with
him into the remote Chinese
backwoods. She prepared for
that by studying the language
under a tutor. Old friends
Of those days say that when
she left China she had a
practical speaking knowledge
of the language.
Like any other child
brought up in old Monterey,
she acquired little Spanish
from her playmates. But
she never followed up the lam
guage, except for a brief
struggle to acquire conversa-
tional phrases when she and
her husband went to South
America in 1928. Her lin
guistic experiences during
their trip afforded her hus-
band much amusement. Hav-
ing pattered Spanish when a
child, she had caught the
twitch Of pronunciation, as
children do. When she spoke
a few words her listeners
noting that extraordinarily
good accent, assumed that she
must be proficient in Spanish.
And they would pour out on
her a flood of conversation,
often in the special idiom of
the country. Her husband
maintained that she had the
advantage over him because
while she could at least re-
spond vii h Californian
geographical names, prop
erly pronounced, he had to
fall back on gestures, which
wasn't fair.
Evening star., 1932-10-23

7 HAVE known Lou Henry
Hoover for a great many
years; and the women
whom I have met lately
have been asking me
what she is like-really. If
they had asked me that ques-
tion before she became First
Lady of the Land I would
have Said-provided the in
quirers were pleasant and
honorable women:
II can't possibly describe
her, but if you talk to her
yourself for 10 minutes you
will know. When you're 60
ing through Washington I'll
give you a note to her. If
she has minute to spare
she'll see you!"
For Mrs. Hoover likes peO-
pie as people, and especially
women. When she kept house
in West Australia or San
Francisco or London or STAN
ford she could always man.
age a minute for a friend of a
friend, with pleasant results
for all three. But it has been
different these last four years.
She's in the White House now,
meeting and liking more peo-
pie than any woman of ordi-
nary vitality could possibly
manage. Ard although the
best answer would still be an
introduction, that isn't pos
sible. Nor can the wife of the
President come forward and
explain herself to the public
even if natural modesty per-
mitted; and Mrs. Hoover is as
modest as she is utterly
natural.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
QY the oldest tradition of the
White House she cannot

I fancy this tradition fits like
a glove with her own ideas.
She is thoroughly modern
woman with an old-fashioned
streak here and there. And
one of her old-fashioned no.
tions is the conviction that a
woman doing woman's
work does not help by pub
licizing her personality. Then,
again, Mrs. Hoover is one of Z
the least self-centered per-
sons have ever known. She
always seems more interested
in every other person alive
than in Lou Henry Hoover.
And so I feel that some one should
describe to the public from first-hand
knowledge just what the Lady of the
White House is like.
I've begun describing her already-in-
terested in people, little interested in her
self, and interested especially in other
women. Men like her, she can hold her
own in the best masculine conversation.
But she is distinctly woman's woman.
Her own sex, invited to the White House,
is probably more thrilled to meet her
than even the President. She is under
constant scrutiny from shrewd feminine
eyes; and almost invariably they register
approval. She is so good at her woman's
job! If the conversation is the "old-
fashioned woman stuff"-house and
garden and babies and clothes and how
well Mrs Smith looked at the dinner
party and what Mrs. Jones is doing about
her daughters wedding-Mrs. Hoover is
in the midst of it, talking with wit and
wisdom and with infinite appreciation
of important trifles. And she's equally at
home, equally happy, when the CONVEX
sation runs on those larger interests to
which feminine conversation turns more
and more in these days.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
ONE language besides Eng

ONE language besides Eng
~ lish she certainly knows
well-Latin. That is all I
know about Mrs. Hoover as a
linguist. Yet I wouldn't be
prepared to swear that she
doesn't know the seven or 27
languages, because she has so
often surprised me by exact
knowledge on matters of
which I thought she had no
knowledge at all.
None of us who has known
her most of our lives has ever
classified Lou Henry as a
scholar. She isn't of that
type. She is too busy with
the world outside and inside
her door. But she has always