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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

Kidnapping plans for two months.
 Alcorn did not reveal the name of the Springfield man in explain. ing the case to Judge Jennings who held the pair under bonds o1 $25,000. Two unnamed material witnesses also were held under bond of $5,000, presumably in the county jail.
 It was two months ago, Alcorn said, when a tip on the Kidnapping plans was received. From then on Hickey and men from the states attorneys office worked on the case Several nights ago the kidnapers planned to stage the Kidnapping and went to Springfield to gel their victim. He didn't appear, All corn said, and another attempt was scheduled for Tuesday night.
 We knew they planned to grab this man, and if necessary to sub- due him, to strike him over the head with a lead pipe" Alcorn said. We didn't want anyone in- jured, so we decided to make the arrested.
 Alcorn and Hickey then followed Corvo and Campisi when they started north to Massachusetts. La ter the pair changed from a Ford coupe to Packard coupe, and they were driving this car when arrested.
 They threw a gun from the car when arrested. and it was found. Alcorn said. The lead pipe wal found in the car, together witt some rope and cords,
 Their plans were. sufficiently complete to include a shack hidden away in lonely spot near South. ington Mountain. We didn't fint the shack until this morning. II was covered inside with black tal paper. Even the one window wal covered. In the center of the room was post with chain wrapped around 1t. and near 1t was bencf on which a man could sit or li' comfortable. We can only contec ture about. their intended use. Tn, plan was to demand $50,000 ran som." s
 Alcorn said the gang planned | i've or six kidnapings Judge Pol | liner, who was slated to be taken | had tried both Coyyc and Campis | in his capacity as judge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
First Battle in
 American Legion
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his request for rehabilitation work was made through the legion post of his home town, would virtually exclude all but legion members from consideration. he pointed out. A resolution demanding that legionnaires be given first prefer ence was adopted.
 Colonel McCook pointed out that already other organizations have been going to the legislature in an effort to end the legion's adminis- tration of the state soldiers and sailors relief fund, established by the state. He warned that an at tempt to limit the fund to the or der's members only might event. ually result in the legion losing control of the fund.
 As the first real fight of the con- vention ended, Commander Joseph A. Treadwell speedcd up the pro- gram. He told delegates he in- tendd to dispose of all business to- day except the election of officers, which will be held tomorrow morn ing.
 Among resolutions passed with out debate was one calling for a change in hospitalization care for women disabled as result of their war work so they may obtain care closer to home. At present they have to travel considerable dis tances for such care, it was said.
 A resolution demanding that any veteran with service connected dis ability be given disqualification the same as he was in past years also was adopted, along with one call ing for the commissioning of army band leaders.
 The 40 and 8 began their con vention immediately after midnight this morning, and later in the day had as their guest John Elden, of Cleveland, their national head.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
'DEADLINE' FOR THE COAL CODE
 NEXT TUESDAY
President Is Said to Have Fixed That Date for Settlement of This Dispute
Bx IF. b. THOMPSON

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 Washington, Aug 25.-(UP)- President Roosevelt was under stood today to have fixed next Tuesday as the deadline for con- crete, constructive results from conferences here of non-union coal operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of America.
 The presidents wishes, 1t was learned, were communicated to those traditional enemies of the soft coal industry when they sat down for their precedent-smashine meeting, arranged in an effort to evolve a workable code of fair practice under the MIRA.
 The setting of deadline was not in the nature of an ultimatum but rather in the form of an earnest plea for cooperation in a situation which hourly grows more acute.
 John l.. Lewis, president of the U. M. w., is emerging from the national recovery program as one of Americas dominant labor lead- CTS. But for the present he Is hay- ing extreme difficulty in keeping miners from striking.
 The defiant attitude of coal sub- sidiaries of the U. s. Steel Corpora ton has been answered by the na- tional labor board which assigned an investigator to report on cases where workers are alleged to have been discharged because of union activities.
 Dr Elmer F. Andrews, New York state industrial commissioner, has been instructed to collect evi- dence through the troubled coal fields of Kentucky and West Vir- ginia. While the U. $. Coal and Coke company is not scheduled for immediate attention. It's property is included in Andrews itinerary.
 Lewis has organized the coal in- dustry almost entirely. He is re- sisting pressure for immediate strikes. How long he can hold out is problematical. Hence the need of prompt action on & coal code.
 The conference between the non-union operators of the north- ern and southern fields and the miners representatives made little progress at the opening sessions yesterday. There was some em- barrassment and self-consciousnes on both sides as these fighters for opposite causes came together.
 The first business was today or- ganizing committees to take up the problems that must be solved or adjusted before a code can be write ten.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

death list would mount when com
 munications are restored.
 Streets in Norfolk, Washington, and Philadelphia were flooded | Thousands of acres ofSlow land in l all six states were under water | Highways were ruined and cror damage wil mount into millions. Norfolk, worst hit of the cities in the hurricanes path, put $50 men to work to-day to clear debris
 from the streets. Telephone lines-
 men were at work restoring lines to neighboring beach resorts, many of which were ruined.
 Tugs rescued about 40 passen- gers of the Chesapeake Bay Line ship. City of Norfolk, which went aground at Poconoke Sound. 50
 miles from Norfolk, during the
 hurricane.
 North-south railroad traffic, dis rupted by floods and the wreck of the crack Crescent Limited which plunged through a bridge near | Washington, was restored. The | Crescent's engine crew of two was killed and 13 passengers were in | jured.
 Floods had not yet receded in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The hurricane had diminished greatly in intensity | when 1t passed over the Catskill region of New York state and the principle damage was the floods caused by heavy rains. It was still powerful enough to kick up a heavy sea in Lake Ontario.
 The Maryland death toll stood at II, and an aerial survey indicated terrific damage but no serious dis tress. Restoration of communica- ton with Salisbury established that only one was killed when dam broke, flooding the city. The Virginia dead included. two members of the crew of the s. S. Madison- which weathered the hurricane off Cape Charles after sending out two sos, signals, and made Norfolk safely. The other Virginia dead were in the Norfolk portsmouth district.
 The Pennsylvania dead included seven in the central part of the state and four in Philadelphia, most of the New Jersey dead was in the Atlantic City region where heavy seas wrecked bulkheads, docks, and seashore cottages. Some confusion was caused by the fact that while the hurricane was blowing northwesterly, an- other storm blowing southeast as- sailed the upper Atlantic coast. One was known to. be dead in this storm. lobster fisherman killed on the Maine coast. Storm warm ings still were up on the Maine coast from Portland to Passport to-day.
 Survey of Maryland Washington, Aug 25-(U.P.) - Aerial surveys of storm stricken sections of Maryland, for the most part isolated since Wednesday nights hurricane, indicated to-day that there was no serious distress. The death list stood at Il, but
 was feafed 1t might be increased when flood watcrs receded and communication was restored. The work of re-establishing telephone and telegraph systems was imped- ed by the fact that roads and
 bridges were cut, and the fact that low-lying sections remained under water. The storm, however, had definitely passed.
 In addition to the dead in Mary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
They Became Very
 Much Deceased
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will vote favorably for the local publisher.
 It is also understood that consid- erable feeling arose between the leaders of the Fusion party when 1t was learned that the time for fil- ing the required list of names in order to comply with the state election laws had expired and that the Fusion party could not legally present a ticket for election this fall.
 Eddie Udelowitz is said to have put Jim White who is the recog- nized major domo of the fusionists on the carpet for his mental lapse In regard to the filing of names. Eddie is reported to have chided Major Domo Jim along the lines that what the latter needed was a few practical politicians in the party, and that if Eddie had been in the party all the time, the em-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Retail Stores to
 Get Their Code
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A 40-hour work week was pre- scribed for employees of stores hitherto operating 52 hours or less, 44-hour week for stores operat- ing from 56 to 60 hours week, and a 48-hour week for stores operating 63 or more hours per week.
 Minimum wages of $14.50 a week for 40 hours work. $15 a week TOT A hours work. and $15 week for AS hours was provided in cities of more than 5OO,000 popu- lation.
 The scale was fixed at SIS to $14 in cities between 100000 and 50O,- 900. $12 to SIS in cities between 25.000 and 100000. $10 to $11 in cities from 2,500 to 25,000. and, wages will be increased from June I levels by not less than 20 per cent if it does not require more than $1O a week. A differential of s1 a week less for workers in southern states was retained.
 The code provided for no mer- chandise price increases of more than was made necessary by the application of the recovery act. Ap- propriate adjustments of existing contracts was provided for by the national retail trade authority, which was set up to administer the code.
 The code sought to prevent "cut throat competition" by prohibiting sale of goods "at less than net in- voice delivered cost . plus 10 per cent to insure that labor costs shall be at least partially covered"
 However. this provision was qualified by permitting bona fide seasonal clearances of merchant disc" and of perishable or dam aged goods. or of lines to be dis continued, without restrictions.
 The provision on advertising was strict. 1t prohibited the "bait off, fer of merchandise" whereby re- tailers attract prospective buyers and then through disparaging sales presentation dissuade purchase of the advertised article and substi- tute other merchandise. on which a greater profit is realized.
 No reference. direct or indirect, may be made in advertisements to competitors prices, values. credit terms. policies or services. Adver- tisers also were forbidden to claim continuing practice of generally underselling competitors,
 The trade authority would be empowered to require reports from retailers. make investigations and recommendations for the admints- tratiOn, supervise the setting up of local code enforcement bodies. and act generally as a planning and fair practice agency.
 It would consist of representa- tives of the president and two each from furniture, hardware, mall or- der, clothing, dry goods. shoe and limited price stores.
 The question of prison made merchandise was Left open for later settlement by the trade authority.
 The code would become effective one week after 1t is signed by the president. Various kinds of retail stores were sharply defined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
JAPAN PROPOSES
 CONFERENCE OF
 PACIFIC POWERS
Would Like to Settle Dis- putes - Asks Six Na- tiOns to Agree on NOn- Aggression Treaty
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Stan COrrespondent)

NOhAUCu ECSS 0tdH &OEEcSDUnUGnL Banff, Albt, Aug. 25.-(UP)- Responsible political leaders fl Japan would look with interest or an early conference of all the Paci fic powers to consider outstanding points of dispute in the area, Jap anese delegates at the Institute o Pacific Relations intimated today
 Information that such a confer. ence would be favorably received by Japan which is present center of half dozen fostering interna. tional disputes was contained in 6 proposal submitted to the confer. ence and confirmed by a series oi informal conversations.
 The specific proposition wa. drawn up by Professors Yasaks Takaki and Kisabuno Yokota o1 Tokio Imperial university. Japan. ese delegates at the institute sound ed out American Chinese and Brit ish empire opinion and in most cases found favorable reception.
 Their proposal was for "an in- ternational conference consultation among the leading Pacific coun- tries" to serve to restore disturbed relationships and re-esta blish the basis of international, cooperation among Pacific nations.
 The second suggestion of the Japanese was for a series of re- gional treaties of security and non. aggression between China, Russia United States, Japan. Great Britain and France.
 The Japanese proposal admitted that peace machinery in the Pacific region had broken down to a marked degree and that there was imperative need for quick recon struction to avoid serious conflicts in the future.
 A ten point security pact was submitted in tentative form. II would bind the United States, China, France, Great Britain Japan and Russia to respect the territorial integrity and political Independence of each other; not to attack or invade each others territory and in no case to make war except in resistance to a viola. ton of the pact or as a result o1 decision of pact members; to con- suit immediately upon any danger of pact violation; to hold a con ference to examine situations to agree upon unanimous action; not to recognize any situation, treaty or agreement brought about by means contrary to the pact; to at- tempt to settle. all disputes and conflicts by Pacific means; to sub- init any dispute impossible of set. clement by any other means to a permanent conciliation commission to set up five-member commissions between every two contractine powers composed of one national of each nation and three of other nationalities; to submit all dis putes of any type to international arbitration; and to submit these disputes either to the permanent court international justice or to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague or to an arbitration tribunal set up for the express pur. pose of resolving the dispute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
MANY GERMANS WERE PUNISHED
 BY FATHERLAND
Thirty-three of Them Now Ont of Germany Lose All Property and Citi- zenship

Berlin, Aug 25.-(UP)-Thirty- three internationally known Ger mans now abroad, including auth ors Lion Feuchtwanger and Hein- rich Mann, were deprived of cit- izenship to-day. Their property in Germany was ordered confscated.
 Minister of Interior Wilhelm Prick issued the decree, basing it on the law of July 14, against enemies or potential enemies of the state. Those affected were cited as Communists. Socialists or pasifists.
 They included, besides Feucht- wanger and Mann, the authors. Ernst Toller, Gerhard Begnhard and Alfred Kerr; the Socialist leaders Phillip Schneidemann, Ru- dolph Breitscheib, Otto Wells and Fredrich' Stampfer; two former Berlin police officials, Albert Giez- zinski and Bernhard Weiss; the Communist leaders Wilhelm >Muen- zenberg, Heinz Noumanm and Wilhelm Pieck, and the pacifists Wilhelm Foerster, Emil Gumbel and Helmut Von Gerlach. Gerlach Is correspondent for the Carnegie foundation.
 Feuchtwanger, particularly, is ar author of world eminence.
 Scheidemann, is a former chan cellor. Brietscheid was once Prus- sian minister of interior. And Wells also has served in the cabinet. The July IA law was one of the most drastic of modern times. It empowered the government to can- eel all citizenships acquired be- tween September Il. 1918, and January 30, 1883. It provides for deprivation of citizenship of Ger man born persons abroad if their activities were mot in keeping with their duty toward their gov- ernment and nation or detriment- tai to Germany's interests. or if they refuse to return to Germany when requested"
 Provision was made for confis- cation of their property.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
PRESIDENT IS IN CONFERENCE
 WITH WOODIN
Discussing the Financial Economy Pro gra m- Later He Will Meet Budget Director
BY FREDERICK A. STORM (United Press Stan COrresDondcnt

United Press Stan Correspondent
 Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug 25-(U. P.)-The administrators board financial and economy programs were discussed at the Summer White House to-day as President Roosevelt resumed his conference with Secretary of the Treasury Woodin. He was to meet later with Budget Director Lewis Douglass.
 The specific topics of the discus sions were not divulged. but 1t was believed that the talks centered mainly about treasury financing and efforts of the administration to bolster commodity prices to the 1924-1926 levels as a constructive step toward recovery.
 At the same time 1t was reiter- ated in sources close to the White House that there was nothing on which to substantiate reports that a policy of dollar imitation was about to be embarked upon.
 Douglass, whose call upon the president was at his own request, was expected to review the pro- gress of the governments drive to cut expenditures and obtain from MT Roosevelt the latest develop ments in his move to provide a final survey of those presumptive service connected cases of veter- ans who came within the economy measure.
 Almost daily MT Roosevelt has been signing orders setting up boards of review in various parts of the country that will pass upon those cases and adjust compensa- ton where necessary.
 Meanwhile from Washington the president was receiving reports from General Hugh $. Johnson, national recovery administrator on the progress of the code of fair competition for the bituminous mining industry.
 The president, who is obtaining as much rest as possible in pre- paration for teh grind on his re- turn to Washington Labor Day, planned to remain at Hyde Park the entire day.
 Sunday he will motor to Peek skill to review the national guard regiments at Camp Smith. From the camp he will drive to the civ- ilian .conservation camp near Bear Mountain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

barrassing situation would not have arisen.
 Eddie and Jim previously had parted over differences of opinion in the party and Eddie is said to have been only too pleased to point out Jim's failings. At any rate the pipe of peace was said to have been smoked and more united group with the aim of putting across MT Pape in the primaries, resulted. The reports also have it that Dr Arthur r. O'Leary who is reported to be highly interested in MT Pape's nomination exhibited much pleasure over the proposed plans.
 The fusion chiefs plan to capture enough delegates in the second and third wards which hold 19 dele gates, to win the primaries. The present plans call for a centraliza- tion of activity upon delegates of those two wards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

|tion. In the meanwhile also Pa trolmen William Haggerty. Patrick O'Rourke and Thomas Luddy were notified by the signal system of the hold-up and to be on the lookout for suspects. Their beats cover or border on the Wood street section.
 Raeburn was quite excited when questioned by the police. He ex- hibited marks on his wrists where the rope bruised him. He claimed that some kids cut his bonds as he shouted out of the opened window for help.
 Members of the detective bureau do not connect the two gunmcn to-day with hold-ups on Hill street and Roseland avenue during the past two nights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Local Police Are
 Not Invited In
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NSOutiuueO trOn rage l.l
 ing chief inspector of the local de- tective bureau, stated today that no one has approached him for any aid in gathering up the details of the plot to kidnap Judge Israel Poliner of Middletown.
 Gangs operating in Springfield. Hartford and Middletown are said to be implicated in the scheme.
 The gang had progressed in their plans to the point of having an abandoned shack on the Marion Mixville side of the Southington Mountain in readiness for a hide away. The place has been newly fixed up. A prominent resident of Springfield was to be the first vic. tim with $50,000 the ransom price.
 The local authorities manifested unofficial interest in the suspected gang and the arrest of two of its principals. but have taken no steps to make any inquiries.
 Hartford. Conn, Aug 25-(U.P.) ) With two men in jail under heavy bond, police of Connecticut and Massachusetts to-day sought additional members of an alleged gang which had planned a series of Kidnapping in the two states.
 Ernest Corvo and Magic Cam pisi, both of MiddIetown. now held in jail. were arrested Tuesday night in Windsor Locks, alegedly while driving to Springfield to con tact fellow gang members there and kidnap a wealthy Springfield resident.
 Judge Israel Poliner. of the Middletown city court. was slated for Kidnapping also if the first snatching job went off smoothly according to Hugh M. Alcorn, and Edward Hickey, county < de- tective. The kidnaping ring was reveal ed late yesterday when Corvo and Campisi were brought into court by Alcorn for arraisnment on charges of carryitg . concealed weapon in car and conspiracy tc kidnap. AIcorn told Judge Newell Jennings he and Hickey had sbeen watching the development of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

Peter Scott. artist son of Captain Scott, the explorer. has gone to thel frozen wastes of Spitzbergen as a member of an exploration < club formed by Oxford university.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

Autograph hunters held 2 com petition in Glasgow. Scotland,f to decide who had the right to the championship titles ss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
PASTOR IMPROVES

New York, Aug 25-(U.P) - The Rev Francis Waldas, pastor of a Stamford, Conn, church, in jured in an automobile collision last night, was reported in a fair ly comfortable condition to-day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

France Is losing her tourist traf- fic. the number of visitors falling from 1,911.107 in 1929 to 994,35S last year.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
BUY WHILE YOUR DOLLAR IS WORTH MORE

That's about the soundest piece of advice give you
these days of 'ayinghigh' prices! Buy NOW-whle you
may profit merchandise that bought before pre-rise
prices.