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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
BETTY COMPTON IS NOT GOING TO WED
 "JIMMY" WALKER

q might explain that like Jim
 my too much to marry him." she
 said, Out I would rather say I am
 not getting married this week or
 next. You'll know about it when
 I do marry.
 Right now, Mary, you can safe-
 ly say Jimmy and I have no in- tention of marrying. Who started this nonsense, anyway? It must have something to do with April Fools day"
 Inquiry at the town halls of Nice and Cannes showed no publica- tiou of banns, as ordinarily re- ouired under French law for ten days preceding a marriage. Walker could choose any one of dozen mountain villages for publishing the banns, however.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
Sweeping Trade Reprisals Proposed and May Be Carried Out-Britain in Angry Mood Over Arrest of Six Britishers By So- yiet Russia
BY HERBERT MOORE

(CnIfcd Press StAn COFcSpOHIcHtJ
 London April 3-(UP)-Sweep- ing trade reprisals against Russia. i. including possibly a total embargo on imports into Britain were pro- posed by Primo Minister J. Ram say Macdonald today.
 After summoning the British ambassador home from Moscow for consultation the government de- cided on this further drastic step in protest against the arrest and impending trial of six British sub jects in Moscow on charges or sabotage.
 Announcing his decision to the house of commons. Macdonald Said
 (COntinued on Page 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
Reconstruction Finance
 Corporation Has Loaned :.
 $166,645,9O1 In February

will be advanced as he requires.
 The largest bank loan was $l6,- 750, 900 to the Hibernia Bank and Trust company of New Orleans Ten loans were granted to DetroRit banks. The largest were $2,O0O, 900 each to the Detroit Bank andthe Detroit Trust company.
 Loan applications during the month came back from 612 banks including 2s closed ones.
 The largest railroad loan wns $11,t27,7OO to tho Chicago and Northwestern. The Baltimore and Ohio ana the Missouri Pacific got &3,O0O,00O each while the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific obtained 1,000,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
FOUR MEMBERS OF CINCINNATI
 TEAM INJURED
Truck Demolished the
 Auto in Which They Were Riding to Atlanta
 Ga, To-day

Hernando. Fla. April 3--(UP)- Four members of the Cincinnati Reds were injured to-day when a truck demolished the automobile In which they were riding.
 The injured, en route to Allan fa where the Reds were to play the Crackers to-day. were: Ton RebeIia. inlelder. who received q head injury: EIll Schmldt. pitcher Irving Hummer. outhelder. ana Lawrence McManus. trainer. Exact extent of Injuries was not immedi- ately determined but noue was bo- N~v@d seriously hurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03

Washington. April 3--(UP)-
 The Reconstruction Finance Cor
 poration revealed today that 1t had
 made 672 loans totalling $1G6,654.- 9O1 during the month of February. Of this sum, said tho corpora ton in its monthly report to Con- gross $S9,368.507 went to banks. Railroads obtained $l9,449,922 while $48,202,771 went for relief. The secretary Of agriculture ob- tained $l6,5OO, 900, making n total og S15e, 800, ,QDO to the agriculture department for the year ending February 28.
 The secretary of agriculture has asked for $50, 100000 more. Funds
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
White House To Serve Beer Says
 Mrs. Roosevelt
POLAND GIVEN
 WARNING FROM
 GERMAN GOVT.

Warsaw, Poland, April B. tUP)--Germany has threat- ed Poland with rcprisals against "atrocity propaganda" 1t was disclosed today.
 Hans Adolf VOn Moltkc, German minister, made repre- scntatlons to the foreign office on Saturday, announcing that Germany would retaliatc un- less anti-Gcrman propaganda i'm the Polish press abatcs. by expelIing Polish workers and eastern Jews from Germany. It Is estimated 100000 poles are in Germany, especially in Wcstbhalia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
Final News Flashes
LINDBERGH TRIED TT OUT

Newark N. J., April 3-(UP)-Col Charles A. Lindbergh to-day studied how to operate the curved radio landing beam developed by the de- partment of commerce. It enables pilot safely to land plane in fog He practiced a number of landings under the tutelage of James H. Kinney, test pilot of the department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
GOVT. STANDS BEHIND HIM

Washington, April 3-(UP?-Federal Dis trict Attorney George z. Medalie of New York "has full support of the administration" in his prosecution of Charles E. Mitchell and Joseph w. Hartman, New York bankers, Attorney Gen. eral Cummings said to-day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
By HARRY KNIGHT limited prcss Staff COrreSDOnucnt) }

Paris, April 3-(UP)-Miss Bet ty Compton Hikes" former Mayor James J. Walker, of New York, but she is not marrying him-at least, not at present, she told the United Press by telephone from the Riviera to-day.
 From the barred door of her Villa Beau Geste, on hilltop over looking Cannes, she consented to answer the telephone, although re- porters who, besieged the place were told insistently that Miss Compton had gone away for sever- al days.
 Miss Compton said the vide spread rumors of her impending marriage to the former mayor were "nonsense."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
CASE CONTINUED

Chicago, April 3-(U.P) -- Tes- timony of physician that 80 year old James w. Stevens, former chairman of the board of the failed Illinois Life Insurance Company is suffering "a dementia" as a re- suit of his troubles brought con- tinuance of his case to-day until April r.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
Markets At a Glance

Stocks irregular in narrow range in dull trading; tobacc0s firm; utilities weak. Bonds irregmarIy lower; U. S. government issues
 soft.
 Curb stocks irregular in narrow range. Chicago stocks quiet and mixed. Call money 2H per cent. Foreign exchange easier; sterling steady. Wheat bulges fractons and oats steady. Cotton steady around previous closing levels Rubber dull and unchanged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
SUES SON OF KAHN

Reno, Nev, April 3-(UP)- Hannah Will Hams, Broadway musical star, to-day filed suit for divorce against Roger Wolf Kahn, New York orchestra leader and son of Otto Kahn. She charged cruelty. The couple married Jan 26, 1881. They have no children
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
21 YEARS FOR ASHURST

Washington, April g. UP)-To-day is the twenty-frst birthday in the senate for Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, dem, Arz. Twenty one years ago to-day" said the senator, ate day just like this-I was sworn in. Things have changed lot since then. But not much for the better"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
REPUBLICANS STOP PROBE

Washington, April 3-(UP)-Republican objection to-day blocked senate consideration of a resolution extending authority to the stock market investigation to compel J P. Morgan & Company to reveal secrets of its investment banking business,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 8-(UP).-Ths treasury net balance for March 5ls
 was S492,926, ,476.44.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
CENSORSHIP BILL IS
 SUDDENLY PASSED BY HOUSE
Imprisonment To All . Who Publish Secrets Of The Government

Members Surprised When Bill Was Sprung on Them I'll hO s e Who Knew It Was Coming Say Their Lips Are Seal- ed-MOst Far-Reaching Bill Ever Passed By Any Congress
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03
The Weather

Occasional Rain Tonight
 and On Tuesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-03

Complete Weather Report Page g.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CATELANO CASE
ACTION NEAR

The District Commissioners will
act at their regular meeting Tues
day on the recommendation OF
Corporation Counsel William W.
Bride that they cancel the con-
tract of the Catalano Construc-
ton Company for the erection OF
a new school here.
Brides recommendation was
made after Domenic Catalano,
head of the construction COM
pany, failed to report what action
had been taken toward meeting
the claims of workmen who had
been underpaid on the school job.
Some time ago it was learned
that Catalano was not complying
with the Bacon-DaviS prevailing
scale wage law and he was given
until yesterday to pay the work.
men the amount due them. 1t de-
veloped that he has settled with
all the men except the bricklayers,
with whom no agreement has been
reached.
Before the Commissioners meet,
attorneys for Catalano and for
the bricklayers are expected TO
confer in an effort to reach an
agreement, and it is further ex-
pected that the action OF the
Commissioners will depend largely
on the outcome of this conference.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
GOV. COMSTOCK
IN BANK PROBE

DETROIT, Aug. 26 0.N.SD
The man who astonished the ma
ton last February by closing every
bank in Michigan under the police
powers of the State, will tell the
inside story of the Michigan bank
holiday next week before Judge
Harry B. Keidan's one-man grand
jury investigation.
Judge Keidan is seeking the
causes of the local bank crash
which resulted in the National
banking crisis. Star witness next
week will be Gov William A. Com
stock, first Democrat to occupy
the executive chair at Lansing
since the Civil War.
It was considered possible that
if ComStock's testimony does not
occupy too much time, the investi.
gators will also call Edsel Ford be.
fore the end of the week.
United States Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg was yesterdays
witness. In contrast to the round
damning given the bankers by the
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Vanden,
berg told in a quiet. undramatiC
manner how the Federal Govern,
ment was unable to save the
Michigan banks and still remain
within the law.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
IN FIGHT
ON AUTO CODE
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
A code of fair competition to
cover 145,000 workers in the au-
tomobile industry hung in the
balance today as a labor fight
was threatened against the code
of the manufacturers.
With spokesmen for the auto
mobile industry demanding in
clusion of a paragraph designed
to aid them in maintaining an
open shop, the Labor Advisory
Board was called to pass on the
proposal.
The new provision is under
stood to have eliminated the
words "open shop" from the code,
disclaimed any intention on the
part of the manufacturers to in
terpret the law, but reserved to
them the right to hire and dis
charge workers regardless of
union rules.
Deputy Administrator R. w +.
Lea, in charge of the automobile
code, expected it to be approved
during the day.
Negotiations between coal oper-
ators and union leaders we're con-
tinued with indications that the
conference would continue over
the weekend.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Z SAILORS SLAIN
IN SHIP FIGHT

VALLEJO, Calf, Aug. 26
G.N.SD stabbed to death in q
mysterious battle aboard the U.
S. S. Argonne on the high seas.
while the naval auxiliary cruiser
was returning from duty in the
Aleutian Islands, the bodies OF
two enlisted men we're brought
to Mare Island Navy Yard today
for a naval inquest.
Commander H. A. Badt of the
Argonne, reported that Querico
de Ocanta, first class steward in
the officers mess room, was be-
ing held for court martial.
The men killed we're:
NAPILO PERALTA, mess at
tendant, third class.
JOAQUIN GARRIDO, officers
cook. first class.
Officers aboard the ship de-
clared they knew nothing of the
fight, which occurred in the
kitchen Sunday afternoon, until
Ocanta ran shouting to his bunk
after dropping a bloodstained
knife.
Naval officers here declared
it was the first time a fatal stab
bing among enlisted men had
occurred aboard a United States
warShip.
The three men involved in the
StabbingS we're FilipinoS.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
GIRL HIT AS TWO
DIE ON SPOT

BUFFALO. Aug. 26 G.NSD.
Police today saw in the killing
Of two men and the wounding of
another man and a 14year-old
girl here a renewal of the illicit
alcohol traffic between Buffalo
and Cleveland. The case is seen
as a sequel to the killing of
Angelo Porella, of Cleveland, here
eight months ago.
James Callea, 81, and Saliva
tore Callea, 80, brothers, in front
of whose restaurant Porella was
shot last January. met the same
fate last night as five gangsters
in a new sedan stopped in front
of their place in Connecticut
Street and emptied automatic
rifles, shotguns and pistols at
them.
June Bauder, IA, returning
home from a movie, was seri-
o9sly wounded as she happened
within range of the hail of bull
lets. Another bystander, Joseph
Pariso, Al, was shot in both legs.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
PRICES
FACE PROBE

Investigation of the new bread
price increase in Washington by
the Department of Justice was
intimated today by department
officials.
The price boost of l cent per
pound loaf, which went into ef-
feet yesterday. is expected to be
gone into by investigators shortly.
James Lawrence Fly, special as
sistant to the Attorney General,
in charge of antitrust violations,
said today that his division at
present is "up to it's neck" in in
vestigation of milk prices.
However, in view of it's investi-
cation a few months ago into
bread price boosts at that time,
it is expected that this division
will soon look into the present
increase.
The local increase went into
effect throughout the city, with
two leading chain stores the first
to post the new price. 1t was
explained in some quarters that
the rise was brought about by
the increased cost of flour.
The office of DR.. Frederic c..
Howe, consumers counsel of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration, said the increase will
be investigated.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
F. P. CLASS PAY.
MUST WAIT

Frank P. Glass, Alabama news
paper publisher, was appointed to
the Senate in 1918. came here.
served three months and was
then ousted because it was held
that the governors appointive
power had lapsed. His accumu'
lated pay went to his successor.
Recently he got another Fed
eral job. this time on the Board
of Mediation. But the Senate
had already confirmed Vincent Y.
Dallman, not knowing that he
was going to decline the Job, and
now Glass must wait for the Sen
ate to approve his Appointment
before he can be paid. so Comp
troler General j. R. McCarl has
ruled,
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
Shoe Buyer Kidnapped
AS Abductors BunqIe

DENVER, Aug. 26 G.N.SO.
Colorado and Wyoming police and
Department of Justice operatives
spread a dragnet today for the
kidnapers of Bernard Bitterman,
28-year- -old glove and shoe buyer
for local department store.
Bitterman was kidnapped Thurs
day night in what police describe
as lone of the most amateurish
and bungling Jobs in police an
mails" He was supposedly taken
because of a mistaken belief of
the kidnapers that he was a
nephew of Alfred Triefus, general
manager of the department store
in which Bitterman is employed
The search for George (Ma-
chine Gum Kelly, which has CEN
tered in this section for the past
few weeks, was intensified with
the abduction of Bitterman. Kelly
was indicted with Albert L. Bates
and Harvey Kelley for the kid
mapping of Charles F. Urschel, mil
Ionaire oil man, of Oklahoma
City.
First definite information that
Bitterman had been kidnapped
came last night when Triefus re-
ceived a note, mailed at Cheyenne,
Wyo., saying:
"YOur nephew is o. X. You'll
hear from us later. NRA."
The kidnapers are believed to
have been under the impression
that Bitterman was a nephew Of
Triefus because he usually ad-
dressed his employer as "Un0e
Alfred"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
WAITRESS SLAIN
FIGHTING THUG
IN BEDROOM
Rose GrygiII, 4 Days in New
York, Shot When Man
Enters Apartment

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 GN.S).
Rose Grygill, pretty 20-year-old
waitress, arrived only four days
ago from Donora, Pa, today was
shot and killed in a rooming
house off the midtown Broadway
section as she fought to keep two
men from breaking into the bed
room she occupied with two
other girls.
Her roommateS were Anna Per
dok and Rose Manetta, both 81,
also from Donora.
Jack Miller, captured in the
vicinity of the rooming house, was
charged with the Staying. He
was suffering from wound in
the hand which police said was
the result of the struggle in the
doorway of the girls apartment.
The Perdok girl identified Miller,
police said.
The body of the Grygill girl,
clad only in silken chemise, was
found in pool of blood on the
second floor landing of the build
ing.
The three girls were awakened
at S o'clock this morning by a
heavy pounding on the door.
Miss Perdok opened the door
partly. Two men with drawn
guns stood in the hall. She tried
to slam the door shut when one
of the men fired:
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CAPTIVE FREED,
/ TELLS STORY
Of TORTURE
Woman Who Befriended Gun
man Is Sought; Police Be-
H IieVe He Was Insane

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26
NNS0.-Shot down by an appar-
emily demented kidnaper, Police
man Michael Mcdonald, 54, ia
ther Of four children, died here
today.
The kidnaper, Howard S. Meek,
80, former ferry ticket-taker at
SauSal1to, across the bay, also lay
dead at the city morgue. killed
instantly by Policeman Edward
Borbeck as he fled down a
crowded street.
The kidnaper'S victim, William
r. Wood, IS, cousin of former
President William Howard Taft.
revealed a bizarre story of kid
naplng and torture by the lone
wolf" gunman, eliminating in the
shooting in downtown market
rs Wood sought to escape.
i Captive Since Monday
Meek had held the aged man
captive since Monday when he &C
costed and threatened Wood as he
entered his Sausalito mansion.
Yesterday Meek brought Wood to
San Francisco, where he forced
MIN at the point of a gun to give
him securities and cash totaling
$4,000.
Desperate from beatings at the
hands of his captor, Wood shouted
to Policeman Mcdonald as Meek
stopped to buy walnutS at a gro
cery counter. Meek shot McDon-
aid four times then fled to the
street, where he was shot down
by Policeman Borbeck, passing in
b car.
ByStander Wounded
Mrs. Ella Bowers, a bystander,
Nas wounded in the arm by one
of Meek's bullets.
Detectives studied the posi-
bility that a woman was involved
In Meek'S plot. The man was ab-
sent for long periods, locking
Wood in closet, and wrote let
ters late at night, Wood said.
Accompanied by police, Wood
went to the lodging rooms where
Meek had held him captive.
Crumpled and torn notes ad-
dressed to Dear, Kind, Sweet
Lady" were discovered in a waste
basket.
Woman Befriended Him
It was only the slightest of pos
Hbilities that a woman was in
volved in the plot, police ad-
mitted, after reading the jumbled
notes which indicated an un-
named woman had befriended
Meek, given him lunch and din
ner and had taken an interest in
his spiritual welfare"
Police inclined to the theory
that the kidnaper-killer suddenly
became demented and thought
of Wood as a likely victim, be-
cause Wood undoubtedly was
known to him as a regular pas
senger on the San Francisco
Sausalito ferry boat Wood said:
81 believe his plan was to
hold me prisoner until 1 had
withdrawn all my money from
the banks, then kill me-"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
SLEEP MALADY
KILLS 3 MORE

ST. LOUIS, Aug. -6 G.E.SO.
The harvest of death reaped by
encephalitis - sleeping sickness"
epidemic raging here h "a d
mounted to 81 today. as three
more victims succumbed to the
dread disease.
Twenty-Five more new cases
were reported to authorities,
bringing the total to 243, of
which 1873 are in St. Clair county,
and 80 in St. Louis.
While government, State and
city health officials laLored untir-
ingly caring for the sufferers
from the disease, and kept eyes
glued to microscopes in an effort
to isolate the encephalitis germ or
VIRUS" orders were given to
flush all creeks in the county
which carry sewage. Some of the
medical experts are of the opinion
that mosquitoes may be carriers
of the disease.
Isolation of all patients suffer
ing from the malady has been
ordered
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
GOCKELER GOES
To NEW BANK

c., J. Gockeler, one of the best
known figures in local financial
circles, joined the Hamilton Ma
tional Bank staff as assistant
vice president today. Gockeler is
a former vice president of the
District National Bank.
The new Hamilton official has
been identified with local indus
try and banking for 80 years.
He was formerly secretary of the
Board of Trade and of the Stock
Exchange.
Gockeler was one of the organ
izers of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce and is a director
in the Chapin-Sacks Corporation
He is a native of Washington.
E. C. Graham, president of the
Hamilton National Bank, in an.
nouncing Gockeler's appointment,
said:
81 regard Mr.. GOckeler's ad-
ditiOn to the Hamilton staff
distinct achievement. His bust
ness connections and the public
confidence he enjoys make
him a decided asset to the
bank"
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
MRABLueEagle
Seen for Beer
And Liquor
Nv international News Service

BY international news service
A movement to put the Blue
Eagle on 80 beer-and hard
liquors if the Eighteenth
Amendment is repealed-Was
under way today.
An effort will be made to form
a regional association of whole
sale beer dealers in New En-
gland to submit code to the
National Recovery Administra-
ton, as a starter toward a ma
tional code.
Major A. Heath Onthark,
chief of the NRA control diVi-
sion, in a letter to Francis C.
Harley, secretary of the Rhode
Island Wholesale Alcoholic Bev-
erage Dealers Association, out
lined the idea.
He told Harley New England
regional code might be sub
mitted and suggested the or
ganization of a Middle Atlantic
association.
The Washington times., 1933-08-26
CUTSCONT|NUE,
ROOSEVELT
INDICATES
President Wants Estimates
BY December |; Early .
Start Is Planned

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 26
0.N.SO. Still awaiting word
which will signal completion of a
code of fair competition for the
troublous coal industry, President
Roosevelt was to devote an after
noon to Dutchess County today.
The President and Mrs. RooSe-
velt were to attend a reception
at Vassar College, where the
county in which Mr.. Roosevelt's
ancestral home lies, will assemble
to welcome it's most distinguished
citizen.
Studies U. S. Finences
Federal finances occupied the
Presidents attention during the
morning. Following a lengthy
conference with Budget Director
Lewis Douglas, the executive
studied charts and data showing
the financial picture of the gov
ernment. and found it not unsat-
isfactory.
Through Douglas, Mr.. Roose-
velt initiated his plans for keep
ing Federal expenditures down
for the coming fiscal year, and
announced he expected them to
match the deeply cut figures Of
the current year. The President
wants each department to have
its proposed budget in his hands
by December l, and plans to have
the congressional appropriation
committees hard at work on these
four weeks in advance of the con-
vening of Congress in January.
Sees Ickes Monday
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
and Postmaster General James A.
Farley were on the Presidents
engagement list for Monday.
Ickes was to talk about the
recently approved oil industry
code and public works with the
President. Farley was, it was
presumed, to talk Federal patron
age.
Reports that Farley's visit here
presaged action by the President
on District of Columbia commits
sionships were denied, but per-
sisted just the same. 1t was made
plain, however, that Mr.. Roosevelt
does not contemplate appointing
new District commissioners at
present. He views with favor the
proposal of his uncle, Frederic A.
Delano, who was for years head
of park planning in the District,
for a one-man district govern
ment to replace the present policy
of lodging administrative power in
a three-man board.