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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
HE LAY UNKNOWN
 FOR SEVEN YEARS
Man Had Been Decreed Le= gally Dead, But Papers
 Identify Him


 Philadelphia, Oct 18-UP)- For seven years, Charles L. Lewis, Baltimore, lay unknown at the Philadelphia hospital for mental diseases, decreed legally dead" :"
 Yet, at any time, hospotal au- thorities could have learned his identity by examining his posses sions in the institutes office.
 This is the strange tale which Lewis attorneys planned today to present to court in an effort to ob- tain a reversal of it's decree that makes him living dead man.
 Since the day he entered the hos pital. October z. 1928, the hospital had in it's possession his checkbook, a statement from his bank and two keys to his safe-deposit box. However, it was not until a few days ago that attendants discov- cred his identity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
LABOR BOARD IN ,
 FORD DISPUTE
Chairman Wagner Gives Out Text of Telegram
 From Ford Co

Washington, Oct. IS (UP)-The National Labor Board today ran into difficulties in its first meeting arranged in an effort to settle dis puties between the Ford Motor Company and striking employees.
 Chairman Robert F. Wagner of the board announced that mana gers of the Ford plant at Edge water, N. J., had gone to a meeting in Newark, arranged by the labor board, but had expressed doubt of their authority to confer with rep resentatives Of, the strikers there.
 Wagner made public the text of a telegram received from the Ford Company oct. 16, in which it den- jed that 1t had ever discriminated against them because of union membership. .
 The Ford Company in its tele- gram said that while reserving it's full constitutional rights" it de- sired to give the board any req sonable information" requested.
 v Wagner said the board was gratified by this attitude and "has reason to expect results from the conference today" in Newark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
RUSSIA MAY BE GIVEN RECOGNITION BEFORE FIRST OF NEXT MONTH
Cabinet Has the Matter Under Study By Order
 of President
MEMBERS SEEM
 VERY FAVORABLE
Outstanding Questions on Which Agreement Is
 Being Sought
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD

Copyright. 1933. United Press)
 Washington, Oct 18-(UP) The question of Russian recogni- ton and trade relations with the Soviet has now reached the ad- vanced stage of cabinet discussion, the United Press learned today from an authoritative source. President Roosevelt tpresented the question to the cabinet during long session yesterday. Although officials were reticent in discussing the matter. there is reason to be- lieve that informal, preliminary negotiations to settle various ques- tions impeding recognition have been begun with Soviet representa- tives.
 It was understood that if these problems are cleared up without delay, recognition may be just around the corner.
 The United Press was assured on high .authority that diplomatic re- lations between the United States and Soviet Russia probably would be renewed before November 1.
 Outstanding questions on which a tentative agreement is sought in advance of Russian recognition are:
 1. Claims of American citizens for property confiscated by the Bolshevik government government and defaulted bonds of the Keren- sky regime. On the other side of the lodger the Russians have claims for property destroyed dur ing the American invasion of Rus- ,sia. It is understood that no de- tailed agreement is being sought on these claims, but rather a method of disposing of them.
 2. The question of communist propaganda in the United States. It is understood that the Russians are prepared to give assurance that So- viet diplomats and consuls in this country will not cooperate in the spread of propaganda. 3. Methods of financing Rus Sian-American trade. z
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
PASSION GROUP
 OF PLAYERS VOTE
Bavarian Officials Given
 Hitler Salute as They Assume Charge

Oberammergau, Germany. Oct long hair and patriarchal boards waving in a gentle breeze, members of the fa- nous Passion Players company gave the Hitler salute to Bavarian officials who arrived to superintend the election for the 1894 cast of the Passion production. In the elec- ton, the actors who played Judas, John and Mary Magdalene last year, were defeated, Hans Zwink, Willi Wierling and Clara Mayr were elected.
 Oberammergau went heavily Nazi in the last election, the Pas sion players turned out in military gray uniforms of the Hitler storm grayj uniforms of the Hitler storm troops. the steel helmet organiza- ton and the Hitler youth legion, to greet the supervising officials.
 It has been decided officially that it will not be necessary to alter the Jewish roles in the Pas sion play to conform to the Nazi aryan policy. The ground was that it all occurred so long ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
TWO CHILDREN
 DIED IN BLAZE
Gasoline Tank Exploded and Set House Afire-
 Father Rescued Two

Plainfield, N. J., Oct. 1S-(UP) A week old baby girl and a year old boy were burned to death in an explosion and fire which destroy ed the gasoline station and home of Fred Buretti today. Thel were Louise and Albert Buretti. The ex- plosion occurred in a gasoline tank in front of the station at Green Brook, near Dunellen. It scattered gasoline over the entire building which included the Murettis apart ment on the second floor.
 Flames cut off escape and Buretti jumped from a window and secur- ed a ladder with which he rescued his wife and Edward twin broth CT of the burned boy. When he re- turned to fetch the other children flames drove his back. While he was trying to gain entrance through a window the floor caved in carry ing the trapped babies with it. The frantic father had difficulty in de- termining which of the twins he had rescued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
GERMANY SIGNS
 NO DOCUMENTS
 OF ANY NATURE
Must Be Equality of All Nations Before Any=
 thing Can Be Done
BY FREDERICK c. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondentl

BY FREDERICK c. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent
 Berlin, Oct 1S-(UP)-Germa will attend no conference, join no alliance, adhere to no convention, sign nothing" until she is granted equality with other nations, Chan cellor Adolf Hitler said in a speech, published to-day, to a group of Nazi aides.
 The speech was made to storm troopers and sub-1eaders of Nazi party propagandist headquarters. It was published to-day.
 "The mistake of previous Ger men, twas that they were over- optimistic regarding the league of nations and its institutions.
 q also am optimistic-but with regard to the future of the German people, while I am extremely pes- simistic about Geneva"
 "The governments decision on Saturday to withdraw from the league of nations and the world disarmament conference ushered in a decisive phase in our fight for equality" Hitler said.
 It was necessary to concentrate exclusively on this fight, he said, in the campaign leading up to Novem- Der 12, when there will be gen. eral parliamentary election and a plebiscite in which the people will be asked to approve the govern ment's policy.
 "Germany never was more peace u1 than she was when she turned her back on the unpleasant atmos- phere at Geneva" he added. The Nazf chancellor made fl plain that his government would insist it's withdrawal decision mark the day when Germany must return to full first-power status among Europe's nations or remain an out-sider-not refusing to cooper ate but not permitted to cooperate on honorable terms.
 It. was a hardening of the Ger man case as laid before the world in previous speeches and state ments, and may have been due to the statement last night of Sir John Simon, British foreign minis ter, refuting German charge that he had misconstrued Germany's s disarmament demands.
 Germany has asserted that the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
TABLET WILL BE
 PLACED INV YALE

New Haven, Conn.,. Oct. 1S.-- (UP).-A tablet, commemorating the memory of William w. Skiddy of Stamford. and Wyllyse E. Dowd of Greenwich, will be placed in the halls of the Cloister, the fraternity building which the snake and book society has presented to Yale.
 General Skiddy. who died in 1929,. was the last survivor of the seven Yale, men who founded the society. He was it's president for 36 years, Dowd was secretary for many years.
 The property, decided to Yale. has an assessed valuation of $144.- $50 and was sold for $25.000s the value of the grourA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
MIRA VIOLATORS FACE FINES AND
 TERMS IN JAIL
President Has Invoked Penal Section of Codes
 to Make Signers Obey

Washington, Oct 1S.-(UP) Fines and jail terms faced viola tors of recovery codes and agree ments to-day.
 President Roosevelt invoked the penal sections of the national i'm dustrial recovery act last night in a sweeping executive order. Full powers were delegated Administra- tor Hugh s. Johnson to prevent violations of the law and force compliance with codes and agree ments, and all rules and regula- tions issued under them.
 Johnson immediately supple mented the presidents order with regulations placing those who dis play the Blue Eagle under the presidents unemployment agree. ment on an equal footing with those for whom codes have been promulgated. Johnson's regula- tions also required surrender of the Blue Eagle upon demand.
 Any attempt by the administra- tion to invoke the penalties pro vided for Blue Eagle offenders in the executive orders would be talk en through the federal courts in the same manner that other in fractions of federal laws are handled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18

The unexpected break ln the prices of farm products was be- lfeved to have postponed the ad- ministration's plan for sound money' pronouncement this week, which now may be delayed until prices are restored nearer the de- sired levels. x
 Those working out the pres ident's monetary policy are reS garded as unlikely to give in to de- mands for cheapening the dollar through the issuance of green backs either as United States notes or non-interest bearing treasury notes.
 Under the Thomas amendment to the farm bill, the president is given authority to issue $3,0OO,- 100000 in United States notes, or greenbacks, in meeting payments on the public debt. However. the ease with which the government this week sold $500, 900, 900 in new 10 to 12 year bonds and the as- surapce of success in its refunding plan for the Fourth Liberty loan indicate that the government will not find 1t necessary, for the time being, at least, to issue unbacked paper money to finance it's oper- ations. !
 One thing is virtually certain there will be no paper money in flation except as "a last resort. Sound money advocates are in the saddle and can be counted upon to oppose paper money imitation to the last ditch. They are mindful thot imitation at this time could be of no more benefit to the country than was the abandonment of the gold standard last spring which had the same effect as imitation through a cheapning of the dollar.
 Meanwhile, steps are going for wSrd for an ultimate stabilization of the sdo1lar with the British pound sterling and possible re- 'tuen of the United States to a modified form of gold standard some time in the spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
Campaign Expenses
 OfB0th Parties Filed
Democrats Spent Over Five Times as Much as Repub= licans-$l3,3 ,370.5O By Vctors and $z,224.l6
 By the Defeated Party

Campaign expenses of the demo- cratic party in the recent munich pal election were more than five times as much as those of the re- publican organization, 1t was dis closed to-day when treasurers of both the major parties filed their reports with Town Clerk Bora A. Egan. The democrats spent $13,- 37O.50 and the g. Q. p. forces ex- pended $2,224.16.
 One of the outstanding features of the financial reports filed today was the fact that the large repub- lican contributors in past elections aided very little financially in the recent election. Another feature was that Congressman E. w. Goss, against who many of the so-called new ''make-over" republicans have been hurling charges, was the largest contributor to the campaign of Ex-Alderman Andrew J. Cooney, the defeated g.o.p. nominee for mayor.
 That the democrats and .republi- cans of Waterbury are now faced with deficits was disclosed today when the reports were filed. Be- fore the election the democrats had a surplus and the republicans were in ''the red'.
 Today's reports showed the democrats as spending $13,37O.5O as against receipts of $12,775, leaving deficit of $595.50. The report of the republican party showed a deficit, after all expenses paid. of s6,S22.S4, a, slight change in the financial condition of the sop. treasury.
 The expenses in general of the democratic party consisted of $3,00O for printing and advertising and $7,5O0 for the financial work of the 20 district chairmen. This $7,50O was used in setting up the 20 district organizations. The re- ceipts were only s12,775, hence the deficit of $595.50.
 The large contributors were as follows: Mayor Frank Hayes, $317; Controller Daniel J. Leary, (Continued on Page 2e.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
Paper Losses Proued Enormous For Chase
 Securities Company
Senate Probe Reveals That During Depression Years
 There Was Such Loss to the Great Amount A of SI2O,l38,O75.87

Washington, Oct 18-(UP)- Paper losses to the Chase Securities Corporation in depression years were said today by senate stock market investigators to aggregate $120,138.075.87, which repre- sents v per cent of the total cap ital and earnings of the corpora tions since it was organized June |, 1917.
 The investigators calculated the paper losses represented a loss of about o5 per cent of $57,093,785 cash capital raised from 1926 to l930 and 79 per cent of; the S6S.- 343.785 total cash paid for Chase Securities stock by subscribers.
 The investigators charged today that in five boom time years from 1928 to 1892 a subsidiary of the Chase Securities corporation which was controlled by the Chase Ma tional Bank bought and sold emore than $9O0.O 100000 worth of the stock of the Chase bank and banks which were absorbed by it in mer- gers.
 The charges followed develop ment by the senate investigators of the fact that Albert H. Wiggin, re- tired head of the Chase National recommended wage reductions for industrial workers in 1881, less than two weeks after his salary had been raised from $218,000 to $250,000.
 The vehicle of the tremendous Metpotan corporation, organized in 1921, as a subsidiary of Chase Se- curities.
 The period covered was five years immediately after stock of the Chase National bank had been removed from the trading list of the New York stock exchange. AL bert H. Wiggin, $100,000-a-year re- tired head of the bank told the ir- vestigators the stock was removed | from the trading list to avoid downward fluctuations. Did the Chase National Bank ever trade in it's own stock?" asked Chairman Fletcher.
 No sir" Wiggin replied, evil dently making distinction be- tween trading by the bank directly and through a subsidiary indirect ly controlled by the bank.
 The Metropolitan corporation was created at the time the Chase bank absorbed the Metropolitan bank of New York. It's first func- ton was to take over from the Metropolitan bank certain real es- tate mortgage loans which the Chase bank preferred not to put into it's own portfolio.
 Under Pecora's questioning con- corning removal of Chase National stock from the stock exchange list is is,developed that fewer than 5000 shares a month were being traded in, in the months prior to removal from the exchange. After the re- moval the stock was traded in over the counter and in five years the Metropolitan trading in Chase bank stock and the stock of banks merged with it aggregated more than $500. 100000.
 Wiggin testified that the Chase Securities corporation cut a 12 1-2 per cent stock dividend mellon on August 23, 1929, and the next day 75O,000 new shares of stock were issued from the proceeds of which S3,750,000 was allocated to capital and $3,903,000 to surplus. 'fWhy was the division made be- tween capital and surplus?" asked Pecora.
 '"To make round amount of capital" Wiggin replied,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
SUITS BY AUTO
 GUESTS BROUGHT
 IN LOCAL COURT
Waterbury People Are the Plaintiffs and Sl2,5OO
 Is Amount Asked

Two damage suits. brought under the guest statute were in- stituted to-day in the local courts by waterburly plaintiffs. The plain tiffs are Felix Meknes, seeking $10,- 900 damages and Michael Matisus asking $2,5O0. Peter Butkus of Bethlehem is named defendant. Both suits are brought by Attorney Vincent A. Miller in behalf of the plaintiffs.
 The plaintiffs charged they were injured when Butkus' car in which they were riding as passengers, overturned on the Waterbury -Mid- dlebury road Nov 12, 1892.
 = Meknes alleges both lower jaws were fractured and that per- feet union did not result. As a re- suit of his injuries the plaintiff charges he is permanently hurt. He charges he spent considerable time at the Waterbury hospital and that he was unable to go back to work for six months.
 In the suit of Matisus he alleges he suffered injuries to his elbow, legs, arms, head and body and that he was permanently hurt. This suit is brought in the common pleas court. The suit of Meknes is returnable to the superior court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
MYSTERY WRITER
 IS A SUICIDE

Lexington, Ky oct 1S-(UP)- Foxhall Daingerfield, 46. in whose mind were conceived stories Of criminal violence and mystery, was dead here today of a bullet wound
 His body was found Tuesday in a field at Hayland, a thoroughbred farm. Authorities said he suffered a nervous breakdown after long application in writin eerie tales. They believed he killed hdmself. Among Daingerfield's books are s'Ghost House" Murder Of the Gay Ninetiess and Mrs Haney's House"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
PARADE OF THE ' BUYERS OF CITY
 DUE THURSDAY
Tomorrow Will Be the Great NRA Day and It
 Looks Bright

It will be MIRA day in Waterbury tomorrow, and if you want to do your part in the war against de- pression you are asked to join in the big parade of shoppers who are expected to drop like an avalanche on the shopping districts of the city. f
 Tomorrow has been set aside by business, industry and merchant for Waterbury's observance of the Blue Eagle.
 It is Waterbury MIRA Sale Day..
 Old Man Depression has sure waged a terrible war upon all of us during the past few years. Like an octopus he settled on our com munity the, same as other cities, towns and hamlets throughout the nation and left us gasping for ex- istence, hard times that never be- fore were equaled in the 176 years of the nations life confronted us.
 Then came a light Tn the dark sky when the people of the United States chose Franklin D. Roosevelt to steer us out into the clear.
 What he has accomplished in his brief regime is now history. Calling to arms, His congress and the nations leaders, President Roosevelt laid the cards on the table. He made known his plans. General Hugh Johnson was ap- pointed to carry them out.
 The country won the first line trenches away from the enemy when industry began to reemploy labor, long idle. nIndustry and business did their parts.
 Now we want to capture the re- maining trenches.
 President Roosevelt and General Johnson have shown us how.
 Buy! they suggested. Deplete the shelves of the business houses who go to the manufacturer for more wares. That's the answer. The more we buy, the more or ders will be placed with the manu- facturer who will keep his wheels turning and his employees at work. That assures weekly envelopes.
 We are not asked to go out to- morrow on a spending orgy. No, all that is asked is that the resi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
WAGES CUT. AS SALARY. IS RAISED.
Albert H. Wiggins Asked
 for Cuts in Pay of Labor
13 DAYS AFTER
 SALARY RAISE
Wiggins Said That High Wages Do Not Make
 Prosperity
BY LYLE C. WILSON

2 0 Ak AL Ss WA1OSAt
 (Unieed Press Staff Correspondent) {. Washington. Oetober-l8-(UP) H. Wiggin, Sl0o. .00-a- year retired head of the Chase Ma tional Bank who drew $l.367.00O in salary and bonuses in five and one-half years, was shown today by senate stock market investiga- tors to have recommended reduc- tions in wages of industrial labor in 1931. just B days after his own salary had been raised from $218.000 a year to S250.00o.
 Wiggin received from the bank an additional $75.000 in 1881 as a bonus on the 1890 business of the bank, bringing his income from the bank in 1881 to $320,000.
 Ferdinand P or a, commit tee counsel, read to Wiggin his an- nual report for 1880 in which he stated that thigh wages do not make prosperity" and suggested that "many industries can ask their labor to accept moderate reduc- tions of wages to decrease costs and improve the buying power of labor" The lawyer showed that Wiggin's salary of $21S,000 for 1sSO was increased to $250,o00 in 1881
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
Final Neze,s Flashes
CHILD WAS UNDER GAR

Lawrence, Mass, Oct 18.-(UPJ-Dr Eugene J. Guilmette parked his automobile in front of the Marine home here today and went in to treat one of the young daughters of the fam ily. Completing his visit he reentered his car and started to drive away. A scream halted him. He discovered that Irene, yearold sister of his patient, had been playing under the machine. He took her to a hospital, but she was pronounc- ed dead on arrival
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
WILLARD V. BARBER DEAD

Torrington, Conn, Oct 18.-(UP)-Willard V. Barber, 75, retired Torrington businessman and a former member of the state legislature, died at his home in Bakersville, near here, today Barber, who had been in failing health, was op-- erated on in New York recently His widow and three daughters survive. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
NOUItinuSu UIi dS5 1V.l BUSTER KEATON
 WILL RE-MARRY

Hollywood. Cal. Oct 1S-(UP) Buster Keaton and his wife, Mrs Mae Scrivens Hawley, his former nurse. are planning a second trip to the altar within a few days.
 They applied for license to re- marry at Ventura yesterday. nine months after they first were wed at Ensenada, Tex. The first mar riage, Jan 8. was performed before the comedians divorce from his former wife. Natalie Talmadge. be- came final. Miss Talmadge obtained the decree month ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
JUMPED UNDER TRAIN

Boston, Oct 1S.-(UP)-A man. later identified as Philip Grosser, 40, of Boston. a house painter. to- day committed suicide.p throwing himself in front of a Boston ele- vated train at. Charles street sta tion. He was pronounced dead at nearby sachusetts General hos pital after being extricated frelti under the wheels of the second car ns tho train.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
OPERA TENOR TO
 MARRY HEIRESS

Riverside, Cal, Oct 1S.-Richard Bonelli, famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Mona Modini Wood, Southern California heiress, were to be married here to-day.
 They obtained a license yester- day. Bonelli, under the name of Richard Bunns, gave his age as A; Miss Wood, 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
FORMER MAYOR SEEKS DIVORCE

Reno, New, Oct 18.-( (UP)-Charles E. Lambeth, former mayor of Charlotte, N C., to- day filed suit for divorce from Laura Cannon Lambeth daughter of the late John Cannon, millionaire towel manufacturer. He charged ex- treme cruelty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
FELL TO HIS DEATH

Lowell, Mass, Oct l8.-(UP)-John F. Farley, 46, tinsmith and father of six children, was killed almost instantly here today when he fell from roof on which he was working. His skull was fractured
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18

Washington, Oct 18-(UP)-The White House still believes it was said to-day. that prices the farmer is receiving for commodities is too low despite the index figure which shows a gradual gain over last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
Markets At q Glance

Stocks drop to 5 points in dull trading. Bonds irregularly lower; speculative issues weak. Curb stocks react fractions to points. Chicago stocks lower. Call money 4 of 1 per cent. Foreign exchange weakens after early rise. Wheat holds gains of more than cent; corn and
 oats steady. Cotton loses half of early rise of $1.5O bale. Rubber drops, IS to IS points.