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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
INVESTIGATION
 OF MUNITIONS
Amazing Secrets Are Dis= closed - Intrigue and
 War Secrets Proven

Washington, Aug 2S.-(UP)- International intrigue payment of graft and the trading of military secrets among various powers fig- ure in the evidence collected in the senate munitions investigation.
 The investigation, carried on all summer, will result in hearings be- binning next Tuesday and run nings for three weeks. Later hearings are planned for Novem- Der and December, with the pos sibility that the sensational nature of evidence may throw the inquiry over into the next session of con gress.
 Investigators have collected enough evidence for solid three weeks of testimony, it was assert ed The evidence will connect American interests with foreign munitions makers and will show the worldwide ramifications and close connections in the munitions traffic.
 Europe's mystery man." Sir Basil Zaharoff, who built tre- mendous personal fortune after beginning as munitions sales man, entered the investigation al various points. Evidence has been collected to show he has dealt with
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
DEMOCRATS OF CALIFORNIA ARE
 MUCH PUZZLED
Socialist Upton Sinclair in lead for Governor on
 Democrat Ticket

San Francisco, Aug. 2S-UP)-- With Upton Sinclair, socialist and author. a distinct favorite to win the democratic g1Ibernatoriai. noms ination, the primary election in California today was challenge of the new deal. stop Sinclair became the watchword among the regular democratic leaders as the largest primary registration ID state history went to theN polls Weather conditions - Generally fair and warm-favored record vote. Possibly 60 per cent of the registration of 3,o62,317 will cast ballots.
 Prestige of California democracy in the majority for the first time was in the balance. UnlnVited and certainly unwanted. Sinclair registered as a democrat after failing three times to win state office as a socialist. He presented an Epic" plan for ending poverty. His reputed strength lay in South ern California. area of greatest population and large unemploy- ment.
 Last t-minute efforts of leaders to unite their party against him failed. Neither George Greet MIRA leader in the west. nor Justice wardell, old-line democrat, would concede he was out of the race or that Sinclair has a chance to win.
 Greet and Wardell are North ern Californians and most of their strength lies in the north. Obser- vers believed either would have to carry lead of 100000 votes southward to beat the socialist and save the party from what leaders said would be national disgrace.
 The democrats also are nom- mating a progressive republican as their united States senatoria, candidate today. but that was diff ferent. It had been blessed by the Roosevelt administration.
 Sen. Hiram Johnson was can dldate of four separate parties republican, democratic, progress sive and commonwealth. His nom- ination by all four vas assured.
 Gov Frank Finley Merriam, a conservative, was the favorite to win the republican contest for governor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
Voting Zones In
 COP. Primaries

Ward 1-72 Phoenix ave. nuc.
 Ward 2-North side of Green, opposite Prospect street.
 Ward 3-City Hall.
 Ward 4-Franco Ameri- can hall. 43O South Main street.
 Ward 5-East Main and Silver streets, entrance to Hamilton park.
 Sixth district-Waterville firehOuse, 1851 Thomaston avenue.
 The primaries open at , o'clock this afternoon, day light saving time, and close at 10 o'clock. Delegates to the city, congressional. sena- torial. county, town and pro- bate conventions will he chosen as well as the town committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
MERCY KILLING
 MOTHER TO LIVE
She Took Life of Her Crip= pied Girl and Then
 Tried Suicide

Concord, N. H.. Aug 2S-(UP)- Mrs Lois M. Cotter, 27, attra ctive wife of an electrician. who wants to die, will live to face prosecution in connection with the mercy killing of her 10-year-old crippled daughter, hospital authorities said today. Mrs Cotter killed the child, paralyzed from birth. with illumin- ating gas at her home here Sun day, and then tried unsuccessfully to end her own life with the fumes.
 The child's father. Lawrence E. Cotter, was at work at the time of the tragedy, and his younger daughter, Marion, 8, was at church with her grandmother. Mrs Cotter wrote a farewell note. explaining that she had decided to end it all. As soon as the mother recovers. police said. she will be prosecuted. They have not decided what charge will be lodged against her.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
SIX CIVIL SUITS
 WITH $lO9,OOO
 DAMAGES ASKED
Claims Were Filed in the Superior Court To-day
 for Fall Session

Damages totaling $109,o00 are claimed in six civil actions filed today in superior court as the opening of the fall sessions of the common pleas and superior courts neared indicating busy term ahead for judges of both courts. Included among the suits filed were two that have travelled to the supreme court of errors for rul- ings.
 Those are the cases of Rose Ru- bino and Frances Aprile against the Colonial Trust Co.,. trustees for the Elisha Leavenworth Foun- dation. Inc, in which each plain tiff asks $25,000 damages. The suits are the result of a veranda collapse at GA Eliza beth street, Aug. 2S. 1893 in which both wo- men with several other people were precipitated 10 feet to the ground amid furniture and debris. (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
REPUBLICANS TO HAVE THEIR BIG
 BATTLE TO-DAY
Both Sides Are Confident of Victory - Police
 Have Been Assigned

Both deeply entrenched, the or ganiZation forces of the local re- publican party this afternoon tin- ished their final preparations for the primary battle, scheduled to open at o'clock, involving the en- tire five wards of the city and con- corning the control of the g. o. D. town committee. Statements of faith in victory were issued by Town Chairman T. E. Conway, heading the organization forces, and Attorney r. W. Palomba, head of the organzation forces.
 Town Chairman Conway today also issued a special statement in response to the inference in the editorial in this mornings Repub- liean to the effect that it is not impossible that fraud would be pra cticed.
 The regular organization will not countenance and never has countenanced unfair practices at the polls or in primaries" declared Town Chairman Conway. The town committee will do its part in the primaries fairly and above board and I have every reason to believe that the reorganization group will do the same. An infer ence of this sort, directed towards the regular or reorganization
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
CANNOT MOVE TO
 OTHER STATES

New York, Aug 2S-(UP)-The New York regional labor board to- day hailed a decision of Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Roseman as upholding in principle its conten- tion that employers may not move to other states solely to escape con- tractual or NRA obligations here. The ruling was on application of Sam Farulla, president of the Doll and Toy Workers Union, for an injunction restraining Ralph A. Freundlich, Inc, from violating a contract with the regional labor board. The justice said the Freund- lich company might be enjoined from moving to Massachusetts if it could be shown the move was an attempt to escape the provisions of the NRA agreement. The justice also ruled that section "A of the national industrial recovery act. re- lating to collective bargaining, does not invalidate the principle of the closed shop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
|Jesuits Are Told OF
 One More World War
Rev L. K. Patterson of Woodstock College Maryland Warns of False misunderstanding of
 Priests Must Prevent It

South Norwalk. Conn, Aug 2S-
 UP)-The rising tide of false na tionalism must be checked or the world will be plunged into a war findeseribab destructive with germs and poison gas acting as the main sourges," the Rev Laurence K. Patterson. Woodstock college, Maryland. told leading Catholic philosophers of the east here to- day.
 Addressing the 11th annual con- vention of the Jesuit Philosophical association of the eastern states at Manresa Island, the Rev Patter- son declared this false nationalisnl must be halted through the teach ings of Catholic priests" and that while Americans "glorify war" and capitalists are not hysterical pac- ifists," America must take the first
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
LEFT ESTATE TO
 BRITISH SPOUSE

London, Aug. 2S-UP)-Lady Jeans, the Former Charlotte Nit chel of New London, Conn.,, in her will probate yesterday left her whole estate of $4S1.056 to her husband, Sir James Jeans, eminent astronomer and president of the British association.
 Sir James and Lady Jeans mar ried in 1907. She was the daughter of Alfred Mitchell of New London Sir James served as professor of applied mathematics at Princeton University from 1905 to 1909 and has been research associate of Mt Wilson Observatory, Califor- mia, since 1928.
 In addition to many technical scientific works, Sir James has written books known all over the world designed to give ordinary peaple an idea of the universe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
OIL COMPANIES ARE SUED

Washington, Aug 28- (UP)-Charges that more than $500, ,OO0, ,O0O worth of oil land near Los Angeles is illegally held were contained in seven suits filed today in district supreme court by 467 Los Angeles residents who are seeking to assert homestead rights. Defendants named in the suits were Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes the Shell Oil Go, the Standard Oil Go, the Pacific Oil Go, the Texas Oil Go, and the Union Oil Co
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
Final Nezgs Flashes
POLICE CALLED JUSTICE

on police records as accidental retributon." Frank Tucker, 38, got drunk and beat his wife last night She ran from the house with her chil- dren. Tucker chased them. They hid in the weeds of a vacant lot. Tucker returned to the house for matches, tried to scale fence to reach the lot where his wife was hiding fell to the ground and broke his neck. Mrs Tucker, with two black eyes, found his body this morning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
TEXTILE STRIKE
 MAY BE INVERTED
 BY LABOR BOARD
Most Dangerous Trouble of All-6O0,O0O May
 GO From Jobs
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (United Press Staff CorrespondenO

BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Stan Correspondent
 Washington, Aug 2S - (UP) - Both textile workers and mill op- orators seemed willing to confer wit the National Labor Relations Board today, arousing some hope that the threatened labor war in the gigantic textile industry might be settled before a strike is called.
 The board intervened in an elev- enth hour effort to halt the worst strike of the New Deal that would take 600,000 from their jobs. Un- less it is successful, the strike call may be issued this week.
 Early indications pointed to ac- ceptance of the boards offer of conference tomorrow or Thurs day to consider "the issues and ex- plore the possibilities of arriving at some settlement"
 All Parties Invited
 Invitation for the conference was extended to George Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile In- stitute, and Francis German,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
AL CAPONE FIGHTS AGAIN

ors of Al Capone, today filed with the supreme court petition for writ of certiorari which, if granted, would mean the court would review the decision of lower court by which the gangster was denied a writ of habeas corpus. .Capone is now at Alcatraz prison isle in San Francisco bay Capone's lawyers contend that their client was indicted after the statute of limitation had ex- pired
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28

OCI Iiduy'
 The documents are intended to show that the entire Nazi Putsch of July 25, and the subsequent up rising through the provinces. were engineered from across the border.
 They prove, according to Aus trian statements. that the move mcnt was organized in Munich by Theodor Habicht, who was then provincial director of the Austrian Nazis. If not under the direct or ders of Adolf Hitler. at least without his opposition.
 Whether the league assembly will handle an investigation into the authenticity of the documents or whether private inquiry will result. is to be determined by the big three-Great Britain, France and Italy.
 An official who revealed the charges to the United Press de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
NO MEALS GIVEN PRISONERS WHO
 WENT ON STRIKE
1000 COnviCts in Eastern Penitentiary, Penn. to
 Be Forced to Obey

Graterford. Pa, Aug. 2S-(UP) --One thousand convicts at the new Eastern State Penitentiary were on strike" to-day. Prisoners refused to work No meals were served, The power. plant was main tained by guards. The situation was reported as "tense.'
 The strike was called by convict leaders in protest against punish ment ordered for 15 bad actors" who led a riot at the model insti- tuition Saturday.
 State police and highway patrol men, armed with machine guns and tear gas. agumented regular guards to prevent new rioting.,
 Dr Guy T. Holcombe. president of the prison board of trustees.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
SWISS ARMY TRAINS

Geneva, Aug. 28 - (UP) - Twenty thousand soldiers of Swift zerland's army, using the latest motorized equipment, swarmed through the foothills of Che Jura mountains today in annual man. euvers.
 Between Nyon. on Lake Geneva. and La Sarraz. 1.500 feet up in the hills, red and blue armies faced each other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28

was sleepy and hungry. She said Prosecutor Donald H. Grant urged her to make a confession if she did not want to burn in the elec- tric chair" and that she was so sleepy she had to be awakened to sign the document.
 Mrs Coo testified unexpectedly after the state had drawn from her fromer friends accounts intended to support the charge that Little Eva" struck Wright, crippled handyman, with a mallet, ordered an accomplice to drive an auto mobile over his body and then carted the body to the highway. The state alleged she sought to make the crime appear as an ac- cident so she could collect Wright's insurance.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
NATIONAL DEFENSE INCREASES

: Geneva, Aug 28-(UP}-The armaments year book, published today by the League of national defense increased by $241 100000 Gin gold standard dollars) from 1882 to 1883.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
FOUR PRISONERS ESCAPED

Rockview, Pa Aug 28-(UP)-Four pris- oners, serving sentences from four to 20 years, slashed wire stockade and escaped from Rock view state penitentiary today in stolen automo- bile
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
|Roadh0use O1vner Was. Deserted By Her Close.
 Friends m Murder Case
Was Suddenly Placed on Stand to Defend Herself; Claimed Police Had Promised Her Leniency
 to Sign Her Confession
BY ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Staff Correspondent

Cooperstown N. Y, August 28- (UP) little Eva" Coo facing the electric chair charges of murderng her handy man. Harry Wright testified in her behalf today effort to show her confession forced by the prosecutor and police officials with promises of eniency
 Miss Coo told of being questioned time when she
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. 2S (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts of the current fiscal year to Aug. 25. compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year: This Year Expenses Last Year $S59, ,S05,119.10 S55S,011, ,170.61
 Receipts
 s45s,22s,0s5.3s $325,s42,1s4.s1
 Deficit
 s4OO,57s,O3s.71 s23s,36s,9s Cash Balance ..... s2,213,S57.565.0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
Assassination Of Dollfuss Laid Al
 Door or Germany
Chancellor Who Succeeded Him. Tells League of Ma tions He Has the Documents to Prove Germany
 Was Behind the Revolution
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent

Geneva, August 28 = (UP) - Chancellor Kurt Schuschngg will place before the League of Nations
 bv and the foreign ministers of France Great Britain Italy documents purportng to fix responsibility the assassination of Chancellor Engebert Dofuss directly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
Markets At Q Glance

Stocks dull and irregular in range. Bonds quiet and mixed; U. s. government issues
 rally. Curb stocks irregularly lower. Chicago stocks quiet and mixed. Call money per cent. Dollar firm in major currencies. Wheat unchanged to off h cent; corn unchanged to
 up H; oats steady. Cotton holds gains of to 12 points. Rubber off to 10 points. Bar silver unchanged to 59% cents an 0unce Copper cents a pound
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-28
The Weather

Showers For Tonight;
 Fair on Wednesday Full Weather Report Page 3.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
WHAT PRICE GLORY

The World War all told, cost apart from 30 million lives-4OO billion dollars. With that money we could have built S25O0 house, furnished it with 5000 worth of furniture, placed it on five acres of land worth $10O an acre and given this home to each and every family in the United States, Cana da, Australia, England, Wales, Ire land, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany and Russia We could have given to each city of 10000 inhabi- tants and over, in each country named, a five million dollar library and a ten million dollar university. Out of what was left we could have set aside sum at five percent that would provide a 5000 yearly sal ary for an army of 125,00O teach CTS and a like salary for another army of 125,000 nurses.
 Nicholas Murray Butler
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
TAGS ON RECAPTURED
 HALIBUT SHOW TRAVEL
(Ketchikan Chroniclel


 The recapture of two tagged hali- but on Alaskan banks have been reported to the International Fish cries Commission by Captain L. F. Sunday and of the schooner Sen tinel and Captain L. P. Sjong of the Mars.
 Both men received acknowledge ment from the commission, accom- panied by interesting matter re- garding the histories of the tags.
 The fish taken by the Sentinel was caught 32 miles from it's re- lease location 532 days after hav- ing been tagged. It measured AT F inches when tagged and 91s inch es when recaptured.
 A larger difference exists in the statistics of the fish caught by the Mars. It was caught 9S2 miles from it's location on release 1876 days after having been released. During it's period of freedom it grew from 35 2-5 inches to 59 A inches in length.
 Both fish were taken late last month and were landed here, mea- sured and weighed and their tags removed The tags were turned over to Clarence Olson, Acting Agent for the International Fisheries Commits sion and local agent for the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
SAILORS CARRY OFF TOTEM
 POLE FOR SHIP FIGUREHEAD

The police court at Ketchikan had ten cases over the weekend. all various types of drunken brawls reports the Chronicle. Bad feeling between white and Filipino can nery workers caused one TOW. One man was booked for entering a mans house, throwing the bed clothes off the bed and sleeping be- tween the mattresses" He was selI- tenced to pay a fine for drunken ness. Another was fined $15 fer hitting woman in a bar room.
 Naval service men in port over the weekend were the source of one disturbance that attracted no- tice. Two seamen engaged in a fight over a peacoat after the dance for them Saturday night. A broken leg to one of the combatants was the result.
 Police stopped one group from getting souvenir figurenead for their ship at Ketchikan A group of sailors were well on their way toward dock with a totem pole that graced the front of a curio store, but they replaced the pole which they thought would Hook fine on the bow of a ship" when police intercepted them.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
BABES HELP BUSINESS

In the first two weeks following the birth of the quintuplets at Cor bell, Ontario, the Canadian Nation al Telegraphs handled more than 100000 words, all sent out by spe- cial press and news syndicate men, who hurried to the Dionne home stead. They wrote approximately 100 columns of solid type. In addi- tion to this, more than 300 tele- grams were filed. And the writing is still going on.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
CARGOES SHOW ALASKANS
 LIKE TO EAT. DRINK, SMOKE

TACOMA, July 19.-Here are the character of goods shipped to Alaska and their percentage pro portions
 1.-Whiskey, beer and wines, 10 per cent.
 2.-Tobaceo, in varions forms, 1 5 per cent.
 3.-Fruit vegetables. meat, spic- es and other commodities in the food class, 50 percent.
 4.-Automobiles, tractors, mining machinery and other kinds of hard ware, and cloth goods and wearing apparel 25 percent
 Steamship officials declare that only 25 percent of all cargoes that go to Alaska cannot be drunk. smoked, or eaten.
 Large crowds gather daily on Tacoma docks to watch the loading of Alaska vessels The waterfront is experiencing it's greatest activity and this activity is benefitting business generally in the c.ty
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-03
TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFT

press dispatch from Seattle last week stated that on the arrival in Seattle of Daniel c. Roper, secre- tary of commerce. from a trip along the Alaskan coast and out to the Pribilof islands in Boring Sea, he stated emphatically that the education of the Natives should be directed more to preserving their traditional handicraft than to mak- ing White Americans out of them."
 We cannot help wondering what Mir. Roper meant by such a state ment. It is difficult to see where the welfare of the Indian of south eastern Alaska would be promoted by preserving h Is traditional handicraft" No matter how indus triously the men and women worked at weaving Chilkat blankets, fash ioning bark baskets for food con- tainers, carving totem poles, making moeeasins, making head dresses and robes for ceremonial dances, they could not possibly earn a living by it. The market for these products this means because the market is very limited. Only a few summer tourists buy such articles.
 If the Indian followed tradition he would go out in skin clothes in a dugout canoe to spear salmon. In- stead of this, scores of men and boys are now out on the fishing grounds garbed in the same clothing and owning and operating gasboats the same as white men. They are skilled fishermen and instead of spearing a few salmon for their own use and no more, they are producers. Their labor is helping to supply world markets. And in return they are buying from world markets.
 It is probable that Mir Roper meant, though he did not say so, that he does not approve school system of academic courses solely which would prepare the Indian youth for professional and liberal arts college courses, but rather be- lieves that their education should fit them to make the transition from the primitive ways of the older generation. to their present environ ment This adjustment cannot come from traditional handicraft." It requires a progressive system of edu- cation in which good grade school background is combined with voca tional teaching, a sound health pro- gram of instruction and complete knowledge of domestic arts.
 It is far more important that ali Indian boy knows how to earn his living, how to cope with the various problems of living in the land of his fathers under conditions good and bad, brought by white civili- zation, than to decorate q war canoe or carve totem pole.
 The traditional handicraft should not be despised or forgotten but their place in the education of the Indians, should be only as interest ing side lines.
 As to what MT. Roper had in mind about making white Americans" out of the Indians, we cannot even conjecture.
 It all sounds rather senseless in our opinion, and unworthy man of such high intelligence and ability as is Secretary Roper.