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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
JOBLESS BOY PROVED TO BE
 HERO TO-DAY
Raymond Butler, l7 Year Old Youth, Leaps From Haverhill Bridge Into Roaring River and Saves Life of Young Woman

HaverhilI, Mass. April 20-(UP) Raymond Butler, IT, year old high school graduate out of job, lolled against the guard-rail of the new Haverhill bridge today, idly watching, with several hun dred other spectators, the swollen waters of the Merrimack river swirling seaward.
 Suddenly someone shouted: "Wo- man in the river!"
 The crowd surged to the op- posite rail. They could see her, several hundred yards upstream, bobbing in the roaring rapids. She had been seen to leap or fall into the river at & point behind a downtown department store.
 Now she was approaching the bridge. The crowd was yelling and pressing against the rail for a bet ter view. No one seemed to know what could be done, no one, that Is, except Raymond Butler.
 f{0 sooner had the woman van- ished under the bridge than the youth mounted the guard rail. Wien removing sweatshirt. trousers or shoes, he leaped into tho boiling rapids 50 feet below. landing only a few feet from the woman. Swift strokes brought him ale ngside her. He grabbed her, held her firmly, with one arm. while with the other he struggled to keep afloat.
 A quarter mile below the bridge, firemen threw out ropes and haul ed the pair ashore. The woman. who proved to be Mrs Marion Smith, 21, of Atkinson, N. H., was taken unconscious to Q hospital but was expected to recover. Ray mond Butler asked only dry cloth es and then went home to lunch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
PRIME MINISTER MAC DONALD TO
 ARRIVE FRIDAY
Will Be Taken By Special Train to Washington, Where Conferences Are 10 Be Started

Aboard s. S. Berengaria, at Sea. April P)-Anticipating an arduous weekend, Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald devoted him. self to rest today. He arrives in New York tomorrow. The Beren- garia expected to reach quarantine at II a. m. Macdonald and his party will board a tug that will take them to Jersey City where a special train for Washington will be waiting.
 His daughter, Miss Ishbel, made plans to visit her fathers old friend, Miss Lillian Wald, founder of the Henry Street Settlement, New York, who is i'll in Stoning- ton, Conn. Macdonald wanted to make the journey himself but the press of official engagements elim- mated all hope. Miss Macdonald expected to go to Stonington Wed- neSday,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
PATRONAGE TO
 BE GIVEN OUT
 VERY SHORTLY
Within the Next Few Days the President Will Fill Up Some of the Posi- tiOnS
By FREDERICK A. STORM

Washington, April 20.-(UP)- President Roosevelt is ready to |open the floodgates of diplomatic patronage within the next few days.
 It was learned in authoritative sources today that important posi- tions are expected to be filled quickly to clear the slate of names and at the same time to begin shaping the Rooseveltian policies abroad.
 The president is expected to send to the senate this week the names of Alexander Weddell of Rich mond, Va. to be ambassador to Ar gentina, Warren Delano Robbins, minister to Canada; Breckinridge Long, of Missouri, ambassador to Italy; James W. Gerard, New York, for an important diplomatic assign ment; also the names of former Senator John Cohen and Clark Howell, newspaper publishers of Atlanta, Ga.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
FROGS OF ANS0NIA GO R0MANCING AND
 KEEP VERY QUIET
So the Scientists Say - Residents Don't C are Whether They Romance Or Not, So Long As They Stay Silent

Ansonia, Conn, April 2O.-UP) The frogs of Biddy Lamb and Hotchkiss ponds, which have made the days raucous and the nights impossible for 10 days. were quiet to-day. Scientists said 1t indicated spring romance had come to the frogs.
 East Side residents, who have been kept awake, didn't care what the quiet indicated. All they hoped for was that it would continue.
 The toads. Dr Stanley c. Ball, curator of Yale Peabody Museum, said. are a variety known as "spade-footed toads."
 They are of a specie not noted in this section in 40 years" Dr Ball said. "They are particularly noisy at the mating season, which usually lasts three or four days. Then they become comparatively quiet. I don't understand why the croaking should have lasted so long,
 pr William D. O'Neill, Ansonia health officer, was skeptical how ever.
 Maybe they have quieted down naturally, but I think the cold snap has shut them up," he said. T hope Dr Ball is right. but if they start that chorus again, I'm go- ing to ask the fire department to pump the ponds dry"
 The frog experts of the Con- necticut Experiment Station. also called in by harassed city officials, still were in a huddle on the ques- tion.
 The toads were described by Dr O'Neill as croaking like tuba horns.
 "The ordinary 'peeper' frogs we don't mind, but these new fellows are impossible. There are thou sands of them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
SUSPECT IN
 THE KIDNAPPING

Champaign. III. April 20 -(UP' - State highway police today held two men under guard at Tus- cola, III. in connection with the Kidnapping of the son of John tyake the Barber) factor In Chi' cago.
 The pair were Sam Campo ana Rocco Sicillino, arrested here lasl night on word from Chicago tnat they were associates of three sus- poets in the abduction being held at Chica4so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
RESPONSE FROM MARKETSB BACKED
 THE PRESIDENT
Rise in the orning Business From 1 to 9 Points - Trading Was Biggest in Months
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press StaR Correspondent


 Washington, April 20.-- (UPy-- Senate leaders said to-day that "very substantial agreement had been reached with President Roose- welt on the administration curren- cy imitation bill and that it might be offered to-day as Q rider to the farm relief measure.
 Details of the program were dis cussed last night at a White House conference, in which Senator Pitt man. dem, Nev, and Senator Byrnes. dem, s. C., participated. and again to-day between the nresi- dent. Secretary of Treasury Wood- In and Senate Majority Leader Rob- inson.
 Pittman said 1t was likely some liniitation-perhaps 50 per cent
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
FLOOD THREATS IN
 CONNECTICUT AND
 NEW ENGLAND END
AGED INMATE
 OF POOR HOUSE
 DIED IN FIR E

Van Buren, Me, April 2O.- (UP)-A 75.year-Old man per- ished and nine other elderly inmates, both men and women, barely escaped with their lives early today when fire destroy cd the poor farm in this Cana dian border town.
 The victim was Frederick King, who was trapped in his bed by fast-spreading flames which kindled on the ground floor. and soon envclOped the two-stOry wooden structure.
 By tho time fircmcn made the 2 1-2-lnilc run to the scene. the other nine inmates and those in charge of the poor farm had escaped unaid- cd, and the building was doomed.
 Cause of the fire could not he established.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
"A Feet Reached in This State a n d Will Go a Little Hig her, But Danger Passed-Parts of New England Are Not Yet Fully Safe

Hartford. Conn.,. April 20-(UP) skies and reports from the north that the Connecticut River was falling slightly. brought relief to flood sufferers in this sec ton to-day.
 The flood stage stood at more than 24 feet this morning and it was expected the waters would go higher today and then begin to drop Friday. Tn 1927 they reached 27 feet. but it was not believed they would touch this height this time.
 The meadows and the lowlands in East Hartford were two great lakes today, with many small houses inundated and hundreds of others threatened. Many families
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
SENATOR LAWLOR :. AND COMMITTEE
 ON INSPECTION
Members of Assembly Here to Look Over Waterville R ca d and Act On Measure
BY WILLIAM J. MORIARTY
 (Democrat Stan Man)

State Capitol, Hartford, Conn, April Especial to the Demo- craD Headed by Senator Joseph H. L-wlor of Waterbury, members of t.fe legislative committee on roads, rivers. and bridges this af- ternoon inspected the lower Water ville road. They were accom- panied by Mayor Frank Hayes, Superintendent of Streets Thomas Fleming, and Controller Daniel J.. Leary on the tour.
 As stated some time ago in the Democrat the committee is ready to report favorably on a bill plac- ing Thomaston avenue from West Main street to Waterville in the trunk line system. It was taken
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
WILL WRITE
 FOR MOVIES

New York, April 20-(UP)-- Sherwood Anderson, plans to give up writing books and try to write for the movies because "they rep- resent the greatest medium for moulding public opinion that ex- ists today"
 Books are old fashioned" An- derson said. "You can't get peo- pie to read them unless you en- gage in some sort of a racket"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
FORMER STATE
 POLICEMEN TO
 GET RIGHTS
George w. Herr and
 Harold F. Richter Were
 Convicted of Assault in Waterbury Court
By WILLIAM J. MORIARTY Democrat Stan Man

State Capitol, Hartford, Conn, April 20-(Special to the Demo- craD-Forfeited rights were re- stored to former state policemen George W. Herr and Harold r. Richter by the House to-day upon recommendation of the committee on forfeited rights. The two troopers were convicted in the Wa terbury superior court in June. 193O. of assault with 0 dangerous weapon and given six months sus- pended sentences and forced to pay the costs of the court.
 The case was an outgrowth of the death of negress who was shot by the troopers in Southbury.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
Markets At a Glance
By UNITED PRESS

Stocks quiet down in fourth hour after tickers ran 32 minutes behind; prices ease off moderately from early highs which were 1 to points above previous close. Bonds irregular; U. s. issues react; corporation bonds strong. Curb stocks hold gains of to points after slight dip from early bulge. ChOcagO stocks higher. Call money per cent. Foreign exchange strong against dollar; sterling scars. Wheat holds gains of more than cents; corn and oats strong. Cotton steadies at gains of 31 points after easing from $250 bale rise. Rubber reacts from highs. but maintains advance of 19 points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
Winnie Ruth Judd Sane Said Prominent Alienist
 In Court This Morning

she flew into a rage and screamed and cursed and swore she would tear herself limb from limb rather than go through another court session."
 The psychiatrist testimony was opposed to that of defense alienists who testified the blonde "Tigress' is irrational, childish, petulant and a hopeless case of dementia praecox."
 Dr Utziner was one of the states final witnesses in the hearing which was requested by Warden A. c. Walker of Florence in the belief his prisoners mind has snapped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
WHOLE WORLD WILL BE AIDED
 SAYS EXPERT
Bank of England Director Sees Good in Roosevelt Plan = Great Britain Will Lose Something
By w. G. QUISENBERRY United Press Stan COrrcspondent)

By w. G. QC1SENBERR1 United Press Stan Corrcspondent)
 London, April 20-CUP)-The new United States gold embargo may well result in lasting good for the world, Sir Josiah Stamp, direc- tor of the Bank of England and one of the most powerful figures in British finance, told the United Press in an exclusive interview to- day.
 The American dollar dropped rapidly again to-day. but British economic and financial experts. re- covered from the first shock of American abandonment of dollar parity, were optimistic that it would bring the international mon- etary problem to quick head and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
TEN NOMINEES
 FOR POSITION

Washington, April 20 - (UP)
 From a group of ten nominees, the daughters of the American Revolution will select their high ranking officers at today's session of the annual meeting of the or ganization.
 Candidates for vice-president general include: Mrs Victor War rcn. Maine.
 Mrs John Laidlaw Buel. Con- necticut. and Mrs James T. Morris, Minnesota, are candidates for honorary vice-president general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
By GALE ID. WALLACE United Press Stan Correspondent

Courtr oom. Florence, Ariz.' April 20 (UP) - Winnie Ruth Judd killer of Agnes Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, is sane, pr Q. F. Utzinger, Ray. Ariz.. aiienist and state witness. testihed today at the sanity hearing through which Mrs Judas attorneys nope to save her from the gallows.
 'T examined her recently In her cell at Florence prison" he said "She was responsive to all ques- tions except those concerning her case.
 s'When l mentioned this hearing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
MARKETS BOOM WHEN GOLD IS
 SIDE TRACKED
Senate Leaders B a ok President in His Plan to Drop Gold Standard and Help the Nation
BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

New York, April 2G-(UP)- Stocks and commodity markets re- sponded with rush today to the trend toward infating American currency.
 On the New York stock exchange shares changer hands at rate of 17,000,000 shares for a full five hour day. Tickers fell 27 minutes behind the market. Price gains ranged up to 9 points.
 Cotton, rubber, silk and silver futures markets in New York and the grain market in Chicago were staging equally strong dcmonstra- tions.
 Down in the financial district of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
FRANCE IS MUCH ALARMED OVER
 THE GOLD ISSUE
Believes Herriot C an [ Accomplish Much Over Here NOw==Fears Heavy Withdrawal of Gold
By RALPH HEINZEN

(COpyright 1883, by United Press)
 Abroad S. s. He de France, April 20-(UP)-Abandonment of the gold standard by the United States makes Former Premier Ed ouard Herriot's mission to Wash ington infinitely more complicated, he indicated today.
 Herriot conferred for hours with Charles B. Rist, under-governor of the Bank of France, who is &C., companying him. They agreed the importance of their mission had been reduced to an informative capacity, and that it would be im-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
$s,OOO, ,OOO, ,OOO BILL

Washington. April 20 - (UP( - An $8,000,O00,0O0 currency note issue to meet outstanding short term obligations within the next five years was proposed in the Senate today in a bill introduced
 by Senator McAdoo. democrat. California
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20

Hartford, Conn, April 20-UP) Passage of the beer control bill seemed assured day as the Sem ate. under suspension of the rules, began debate on the central con- trol measure which was approved in the House Tuesday.
 A motion by Majority Leader Frank s. Bergin to suspend the rules met but little opposition from republicans. Senators Kenneth Cramcr, Wethersfield, and Freder- isk Huxford, Stamford. protested. declaring too little time had been given to study the bill but were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
NO GERMAN PROPAGANDA

Prague, April 2O.-1UP)--The Czecho- sovakian government moved today to prevent citizens from listening over the radio to German lpropaganda. A decree forbids the placing of loud speakers in open places or in windows where messages from Germany are "apt to cause public scandal"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
Final News Flashes
GOVERNOR ELY SIGNS BILL

Boston, April 20.-(UP)-Governor Ely to- day signed the bill for election of 45 delegates to state convention to vote on the question of ratl- fication of the constitutional amendment to re- peal prohibition The governor said he would ask the executive council to set June IF as the date for election of delegates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
JUDGE THAYER FUNERAL

Worcester. Mass, April 20 - CUP) Funeral services for Judge Webster Thayer, Sacco- Vanzetti trial justice. will be held at St Matthew's Episcopal church here tomorrow at 2:30 p. m., with burial in Hope cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
PRESIDENT IS GIVEN DOG

Washington, April 20.-(UP)-A prize winning English sheep-dog was presented to President Roosevelt today by Mrs Lewis Roesler of Great Harrington, Mass. The dogs name is Tiny Tre He is anything but, tiny, however, weighing about 100 pounds and about the size of full crown St Bernard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
GLOBE TROTTER IS DEAD

Lawrence, Mass, April 2O-(UP)--Dr John c. Bowker, 71, internationally-kn known globe-trot- ter and lecturer who made 28 trips around the world and visited 12O countries, died at his home here today after Is months illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
WOULD DUST MAYOR KELLY

Springfield, IT,, April 20.-(UP)-Action was started in the Illirois supreme court today to oust Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, from office. Claim his election was illegal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 2o-CUP)-The treasury net balance for April 1S, was $386.202,319.57.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-20
The Weather
Generally Fair Tonight
 and On Friday

Complete Weather Report Page a
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Unit
Young Tarheel
Farmers Formed
Fine Spirit of Boys Promises
Creditable Showing
on Projects

The E6neyville chapter OF the
Young Tar Heel Farmers has been
organized for the coming year
and according to f.. 7. Frls6le'
local advisor of the group, the nne
spirit shown by the boys in the
work in getting out the program
insures that they will make 4
creditable showing with other
CHAPTERS in this section during the
coming year. OIL l,,.o
The following officers have
been elected: Freeman Pryor.
president; Horace Wells, vice
president; James Presley. secfe1
tary; Foy Hill, treasurer; Donala
Orr, reporter, and E. T. FrlsO'e'
advisor. -,
The program of work has beeh
divided into parts with commit
fee made responsible for setting
mn the goals to be accomplished,
Committee appointments are as
follows: Supervised practice, eacs'
student carrying projects up u
Standard for the district. Each
student carrying two or more
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Brownlow Jackson Will Round Out
FOur-Year Term AS 1. S. Marshal
Other Republican Hodovers for Western and Middle Dis
tricts Will be Expected to Yield Offices
by January LIST

will be Patton's successor as dis
trict attorney. both being the
choice of Senator Bob Reynolds
who has endorsed them and asked
that they be appointed. The pat
ronage in the western district IS
conceded to Reynolds by Senator
Bailey.
1t is understood here that Watt
Gregg has already resigned as
marshal of the middle district, eff
fective January l. By that time
William Dowd, Senator Reynolds
choice for the marshalship, is eX-
pected to be appointed so he may
take over the office the first day
of the year.
While it is expected that Ray
McCrary of Lexington, district at
torney for the middle district, will
also be asked to resign by January
l, what will be done about his sue
cessor is not known. This patron
age is conceded to Senator Bailey
by Senator Reynolds and II the
senior senator follows his wonted
custom in this matter, he will not
make known his endorsement un-
til a short time before the ap-
pointment is made and then only
after he has been asked by the
attorney general to make a rec
ommendation.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-The
United States district attorneys
and marshals for the western and
middle districts of North Carolina
will be called upon to yield their
offices to Democrats by January
|. it became known today.
One exception will be made,
however. and that is in the case
of Brownlow Jackson, marshal for
the western district. His term eX-
pires January "a, next, and it has
been decided by the department
of justice that no change Will De
made until then and that Jackson
will round out his four-year ten
ure. -,
1t was at first decided that
Frank Patton, United States dis
trict attorney with wo more years
to serve on his four-year tenure
would be asked to resign summa-
rily but it is understood that the
attorney general has decided that
he will be given until January L
to wind up pending cases or to
get them in such shape that they
can be turned over to his success
sor and that he must step down
and out by New Years. ,
go It. is generally conceded that
Mckee Cooper will succeed. Jack
son as marshal and Marcus Erwin
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TO
COLFlNC TEST
Bennett and Whitmire Name
Managers for Coming
Event

DR.. ]. G. Bennett and Robert
Lee Whitmire, who will meet on
next Saturday, Oct. Ia. in an 49,
hole golf match to settle once and
for all the question of supremacy
in the ancient Scotch game, today
announced the appointment OF
managers.
Dr.. Bennett, who holds all four
city golfing cups, announced that
Jim Duff would handle his man.
agerial affairs, while Senator
Whitmire announced that L. Ben
ton Prince. prominent attorney
and Legionnaire, would act in that
capacity in his case.
Both the golfing dentist and the
hard-driving attorney stated that
they had entered intensive train
ing periods to get in the best of
shape for the match. Both men
are playing a round of golf daily
and are otherwise excepting train
ing"
The match will be Henderson
ville's greatest "grudge battle"
Whitmire has always maintained
that he is the only local man able
to beat Bennett. Bennett on the
other hand contends that almost
any dentist can "take" any attor-
ney. Whitmire answers this con-
tention by declaring that there is
onlv one instance according to the
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BYRD'S ship
NOT IN Peril
Anchors at South
port Overnight
for Safety

SOUTHPORT. Oct. C.. (UP).
Captain K. A. J. English of Adj
miral Byrd's supply ship. the
Bear, anchored here, denied last
night the ship had been in distress,
declaring she had been brought
into port by weather bureau warn
ings her course lay directly in the
path of a tropical hurricane.
Earlier in the day it had been
reported the Bear, a rebuilt coast
guard cutter bound for Little
America in the Antarctic. base of
the Byrd expedition. had been dis
abled off Frying Pan shoals on
the North Carolina coast and had
sent an sos call for the coast
guard cutter Modoc.
The captain, in a statement
given the United Press last night,
denied this. He said the ship was
in no way crippled and had come
to port under her own power, a
tug being used merely to tow her
up the river. She anchored at !?
O'Clock this afternoon.
The Domoc was not at South
port last night.
Captain English said the Bear
would proceed on her journey as
soon as the weather bureaus re.
port storm dangers past.
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METHODISTS
ASKED TO AID
IN DRY CAUSE
Mouzon and Presiding Ell
ders of VINO. Confer
ence in Formal Plea

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 6.-An ap-
peal for pastors in the Methodist
church to assume place of lead
ership in the movement to pre-
serve our laws governing the IL
quor traffic and to prevent the
repeal of the 18th Amendment to
the Federal Constitution was
stressed in a resolution signed by
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon and all
presiding elders of the church in
the Western North Carolina con-
ference and released here yester-
day.
The resolution declares that the
legalzation of the liquor traffic
would be economically unsound
and morally wrong and calls on
all members of the Methodist
church to support their pastors as
they fight for the "decencies and
sanctities of our civilization"
The paper is signed by Bishop
Edwin D. Mouzon and the follow
ing presiding elders: D. NJ. Lita-
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