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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12

over for the millionaire's freedom postoffice authorities intercepted a letter that demanded s40,000 ran- som.
 There Is so much confusion be- tween the various messages that I am asking the kidnapers to get In touch with me again." Noon said In n public statement. "I shall be In my office all day, waiting for any message" He said he had the money ready for direct negotiations. The second telephone call and subsequent calls were answered by Miss Grace Hudley, Noons secre- tary. Told the attorney was out, the caller asked: "fs he ready to talk?' Assured that he was the caller directed hi into insert a notice in the personal columns of a local newspaper.
 The four subsequent calls merely asked if the intermediary was in his office.
 Authorities were puzzled by the letter sent from San Bernardino. California, to Mrs Gettie.
 Scrawled in rencil, it commands ed the distracted wife to "get $40, 900 and use bills in tens and twenty's and keep ready. Don't tell the law. Will get in touch with you later" The letter was smudged, pre- sumabiy to obscure finger prints. Experts were inclined to view 1t the handiwark of 9 crank. Noon was seated at his desk when the call came.
 twill you pay seventy-five grand?" Moons telephone caller asked.
 Why" he stammered.
 Make up your mind," the caller said curtly.
 "All right-we'll pay" replied Noon.
 Well. then. you follow instruc- tions and everything will be All right"
 The connection then was broken. While officers offered no direct interference with negotiations every road was guarded to prevent a possible break" for some dis tant refuge. The case assumed international aspects when Mexican authorities were asked to check A report an airplane speeded across the inter- national border without stopping for inspection a few hours aftef the Kidnapping. Immigration inspectors reported that plane flew at high speed across the border n few miles east of Tijuana at dawn Thursday. Sc high it's identifying letters and number could not be deciphered. Noon conferred frequently will District Attorney BurOn Fftfs Although the extent of their dis' cussions was not divulged. it wal known both were convinced th' wealthy kidnap victim Is alive. 2g.
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Murton and Faber watched the light from nearby cells.
 The trial stood adjourned today until Monday, when tho defense will open It's fight to prove that all three men are Insane.
 So far as Faber, gray-faced and seemingly somnolent college grad' uate, is concerned, a virtually com' piete outline of tho insanity cons eontion already has been offered Tn a wcck-long presentation 0' evidence before Judge Nelson ' Brown, with the Jury excluded William R. Scharton, Faber' counsel, sought to show that FabeI was a schizophrenic, victim Of split personality, half of which was nubraerged in the dominant person. aiity of Murton Millcn, supposed 1 leader of tho amateur, if skilled gang.
 But only n meagro inkllng of the Nfillen defense has come rom Ceorge Harvey, lawyer for MurtoN and Irving. The inkling was re- vealed briefly yesterday during !. Hnrvey's cross-examination oi Ca ptain Charles !. Van Amburgh' por6erously precise ballistic cx' pert, whose testimony linkeu tne bullets found in the body of For bes A, Mcleod, Needham patrol man, with the mnchine.gun Mur. !ton Is said to have carried durlhp The holdup.
 Harvey sought to draw Iron Wan Arburgh m admission tna Ifhe veteran firearms savant Wu' famiiar with type or man wh' Twas Fascinated" by machine guns Wan Amburghs well-calculated re- neiv was that he was familiar with such men "only in the crimina classes"
 Faber has stated to Lieutenah, Detective Joseph l.. Ferrari of the Massachusetts State police tna when Murt saw n state police ex' hIbit of firearms at the BostoI Avtomobile Show last winter, h'
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second. the leeway of one foot on she highway. or the length Of q rar in distance might have pre- vented a fatality. You would, I nm .ure. conclude with us from these reports that no departure from careful driving is slight enough to ha unimportant, because 1t can and nss been the cause of some per son losing his life.
 Careful driving is not diiiicult You must be alert to the conditions uf the road, flow of traiiic, opera fions of other drivers, and to per sons and objects that may appear suddenly in your path. TO date seV' lenty-four pedestrians nave peer Killed by automobiles.
 Speed, of course, must pc con kidered. You can drive reasohaDis fast. sometimes, but not on crowd' led thoroughfares, either m towI of country. or when paVenehts ar wet, or if your vision is oostructed If many cars are on the roau re letrain the impulse to "step on lt. lIf you are a slow driver' m h.aVs lsrafIic remember that cars plIIht lnp behind you may tempt someone I&0 fatal reCkIeS6hbS5
 what is expected of you by youl Fellow w-travelers is normal behav' for. It is expected that you WI continue in your own lane of trai slc. that you will not pass another ear unless the road ahead Is cieal and the distance ample.
 Courtesy has a definite vaIu' From the standpoint Of safety Don't forget your manners just De eause you are behind the whee bf d car. Don't rush ahead, don srowd others into the ditch an! suore than you would if walking.
 Last February I appealed to mo korists to cut down the then Tn ereaslng number of accidents. o eourse the reduction which follow ed was not altogether due to thos' Anpeals. Conditions had grea Sesi to do with 1t. But I believe motorists did respond and tha zheir response also had its eheet
 Therefore I appeal again-t' &ach individual motorist-- to hell make our highways definitely saf nr---nof merely for people at large but for you and for me. and fol those whose lives mean much t'
 COL. MICHAEL A. coNNoR,
 Com. of Motor Vehicles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
TROLLEY HOPPER
 GETS $l FINE
Judge MascOlO Carries Out Promise Made Early
 This Week

Carrying out . promise made q few days aGO, Judge Edward Mas. colo in city court this morning in. Dscd o fine of ore dollar, without costs, on e youth pleading guilty to stealing c ride on a trolley car. Tine youth, Anthony PurcarO, f7, of i447 Bank street, must pay tiic flne in i've installments of 20 cents each, tho judge stlpu!ating that the money must come from hts own earnings.
 Trying Q youth for the same of. fense earlier this week, Judge Mas. colo fined him 60 cents, payable at the rate of 10 cents Q week, and said that the next offender brought before him would be fined dollar, payable at 20 cents Q week.
 Finding probable cause. Judge Mascolo bound over Anthony Gris- ka, 70, of 197 Alder street, to the superior court on q serious stat utory charge. The case was first heard Thursday, a 1S-year old girl testifying against Griska. Bonds were placed at S1,000.
 Tho undetermined case of Domenic Papa, of Ill Avon ave- nue, was nolled when Probation Officer Emil Hummel said that all was well again in the Papa home. The man was charged with breach of the peace. testimony at an earl. fer hearing disclosing that he had never allowed any of his children, one of whom is grown up, to at- tend Q moving picture show or to leave the house at night. He was told at that time to liberalize his parental Ideas somewhat.
 Charged with theft of an auto- mobile. Francis Neville. 22, and Richard Sullivan, 23, were given ( continuance till the 21st.
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Issues Found
 for Defendant

Issues in favor of the defendant were found by Judge Edwin c, Dlckenson m a decision handed down yesterday afternoon In the Si,b00 civil action of J. Joseph Smith, trustee for Angelo scionti against tho Waterbury Building q Loan association. The case was based on a stock transaction.
 scionti claimed Si,20O was due him for the withdrawal value oi 8S shares of stock. He had mort. gagged his property to the defend. ant which had foreclosed. sciontI went Into bankruptcy he claimed because tho stock due him was nol forwarded as per agreement.
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term was the first term in the lengthy history of the state naeo- clation that such . thing had taken place and is considered e singular honor for the local man.
 Business to come up at tho rO. opened convention will probabl include further restoral of pay outs, resolutions agalnEt additional fur. loughs and guarantee of minimum hours for substitute workers.
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Robert A. Waters. transporta- ton manager Of the Chase Com. panics, Inc, who leaves this city next month for California, will be guost of honor ut Q farewell dln- ncr to bo hold at the Elton to- night at 7:30 o'clock. Kenneth Wynne, executive secretary to Gov ornor Wilbur L.. Cross will bc the main speaker. Attorney Francis ?. Guiifoile, former mayor, VIII Dc toastmaBter,
 Judge Edward j. Finn of tho common pleas court Is chairman of the arrangmonts committee. Other speakers tonight VIII be Judge John F. McGrath of tho city court and former Governor Charles A, Templcton. Rev William !. O'shea, pastor of St Michaels church In Watorvllle whore MT Waters has boon pnrishionorB, will deliver tho invocation and henediction,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
COON DOGS IN
 ANNUAL TRIALS

Dogs from all parts Of the state were entered in the first annual coon trlais of the Brass City Coon club ahis morning. The trials aiarted nt 2 o'clock. being ruil over nn nren lying between the MiadIehury and Woodbury state highways. About 60 dogs werc on hand thlB morning.
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(Continucd from Page L., sections Of Wisconsin and inaiani end the cotton fields of the south the promise of rain meant succor from threatened ruin.
 Relief from an unprecedented May heat wave and the gigantic dust storm of Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday added to the spirit of encouragement.
 Passage fo the dust cloud, which powdered New York skyscrapers yesterday with grime from the far northwest before blowing itself out to sea, left clear skies and q spark. ling sun.
 Damage wreaked by the sitting dust was estimated in the millions of dollars. Buildings, furnishings and clothing were covered with silt.
 officials of the Chicago Laundry owners association estimated that the storm brought approximately S70,000 additional business to as- sociation firms on yesterday alone.
 Recession of wheat, corn and oats prices in the closing hour oi the Chicago board of trade ycster. uuY hd6 III SCabss<Ss W scenes earlier in the day.
 Lost Over Atlantic
 Washington, May 12-UP)- The worst dust storm in American history vanished over the Atlantic ocean today after bringing visual evidence to Washington and tho eastern United States of conditions in the rich central farm lands.
 The U. S. weather bureau re- ported today that the main storm which had extended almost from the rockies to the eastern seaboard and from the Canadian prairles to the southwest was sweeping out over the ocean.
 In the absence of general and 6renching rains, new storms may be expected almost any time weather observers said. Scattered showers were forecast today f0i some suffering areas but 1t wa feared they would bring but slight benefit. Damage is so widespread and the affected area Is so vast experts said. that only prolonged rainfall will be Of any aid. In raany districts 1t is too late f0l rain to save the crop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
SHOP WORKER
 LOSES A TOE

Injured while working on the night shift at the Chase Metal Works, John Barron, 27, of 700 North Riverside street was brought to the Waterbury hospital early this morning, where 1t was found necessary to amputate a portion of one of his toes. He also had lacerations of the foot and leg.
 Hospital authorities received no information as to how the accident took place. Barron was resting comfortably this morning.
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OBITUARY

BURNS Mrs Rose Burns. widow of the late Patrick Burns. died at her home, 16 Atwood court. Watert0wn, this morning. Mrs Burns had been a resident of Watertown for the past 36 years and had host of friends and ace Guaintances by whom she was held ir high esteem.
 She is survived by five daugh- ters, Miss Jennie Burns of Phila- delphia: Mrs John Fogarty of this city; Mrs William Burns of Coal. dale, Pa: Miss Margaret Burns of Watertown, and Mrs Frank Larkin of Seymour; two sons, Frank Of seymour and Eugene Burns of fhlz sify: three fisters, Mrs Edward Gal lagher and Mrs Peter King os coaldale. Pa, and Mrs James Kane of Nebraska.
 The funeral will be held from the home ib Watertown on Mon- day morning at S:t5 o'clock to st Johns church in Watertown where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Nit St James cemetery. Watertown.
 WERNER - Mrs Aiice M. Werner, s6. of PlainyiIle. sister oI W. Y. Healy of this city, died Thursday evening at the Hartford hospital after q brief illness. ehf resided in Watefville Of late. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Maple HILL Burial will be fin Kensington.
 MATTHEyys-Henry Matthews age b7 years. died at St Mary.' hospital Thursday after Q long ili' ness. He was q resident of Brook side home. The body was taken tf the Bergin funeral homes seo Eae' Main street. Funeral arrangement will be announced later.
 IOfsD--W0rd was received her' this morning of the death of Hu doiph Lord at Seton Hospital Y New York city yesterday. lie U survived by hls wife and three sis iers. Geraldine. Edna and Iso1is' and nis parents. Mir and Mrs Fret IJ. Lord of 227 River street. Fu neral serviucs wifi ne eonduuses ltcmorrow afternoon st wcioek II I Astoria, E. 1.
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ROBERT HAMPSON INVENTORY FILED
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6 shares Blue Ridge Corp, sls0. 800 shares Chicago A. Eastern Illinois Railway company, s2.ssO.
 shares The Country Club of Waterbury. %.
 10 shares crucibie Steel Com pany of America, $2b5.
 IoO shares Gulf Mobile < Nor thern R. R.. si,000.
 La0 shares Hampson, MiDtie & Abbott, Inc, sio.0Oo.
 2 shares Loeds 4 Lippincott company. ei.
 200 shares scovili Manufacturing company. e4.7OO.
 share schulte Retail Stores Corp. Se.ss. goo shures Scnboard Air Line Rnllwny company. s550.
 800 shares Yellow Truck a Coach ManufactuFlne company. ei,575.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
LOCAL MAN NOT
 HELD TO BLAME

Edward a. Cru, of 575 Merlden road, WIS not held by Wallingford authorities yesterday afternoon af- ter his car had struck Theodore Kozimor, IS, of Yalcsville, on the North Colonoy road. Tho Yales. vile youth was on the danger list n. Merlden hospital this morning, having n fractured skull and frao- tured vertabrne,
 Police say that Gray was not at fault in the aCcidcnt,
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A joint concert by the famous sisters, Rosa and Carmela Pongelle, ln Meridon on Thursday the StBt. has aroused wide interest among Waterbury music lovers and many from this city will bo among the audience on that occasion.
 The event, which is of wide im- portance In state music circles. 10 being held for the benefit of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which the two Pongelles attended in their youth and et which they have tAken part ln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
DUST CLOUD
 MISSES CITY

Skies were clear once more In Waterbury today. Yesterday, how ever, . dun ooiored mantle of soil dust from the middle west struck the east. Watcrburlans who gazed towards the hills yesterday noted the haze. Last night, however, the pail of dust had disappeared. 1. While no estimate of tho amount of dust in the air In Waterbury was made, New York tests showed that tho air contained 70 tons of dust DOT cubic mile.
 Tho dust was blown here from tho drought-stricken western grain bolt,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
ELECTRO PLAYERS
 MEET ON 18TH

The Waterbury branch Of the American E:lecrto- platers society will be represented at the annual state banquet os the organization ln Hartford on Inc iath. plnns for pnrticlpatlng were discussed Insi night at . meeting in Mechanics hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
COSS RENAMED
 TO FARM BOARD

John H. Qoss. vice. president and general superintendent of the Sco- will Manufacturing company of this city, was reappointed to the board of directors of the Connec- ticut state farm for women by Governor Wilbur L. Cross yester- day. His present term expires July ist. The reappointment Is for a term of seven years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12

The surge of national spirit tn Nazi Germany. determined to end the humiliation of the Versailles treaty, started the chain of events.
 Final Links Forged Tho final links in tho chain were forged this week in London and Paris.
 France, always watchfui of Ger many, disclosed publicly that Brit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
Visiting Nurses Fund
 Drive Opens June 4
Finance Committee Made Plans at Meeting Yesterday
 Nurses to Write Articles for Publication

headquarters on Field street Mon- day afternoon nt 4:00 o'clock on
 methods of feature writing. Articles written by tho nurses
 will appear In the Democrat from
 time to time until the opening of the cnnlpaign.
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Mayor Prank Hayes will be one
 z the main speakers at the State #aKmnm Athletic Recreation Hassuo banquet 70 be held Sunday #vpning, May s0th, at Waverly Inn. Dei speaker will be Mrs Mary Fil-
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ser Lohr of New York City, nation- al vice-presldent of tho Catholic Women's Union of tho United States and state president of tho New York League.
 Miss Gertrude NJ. Suffa of Wa terbury, vice president of the Con. necticut League, is chairman of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12

Walter Jmrvls, commanders Oi Corp Coylc post of the American Legion, win head . delegation of Tcgionnalres tO the state meeting of Che 4O and . Society at Middle town to-day. Every 90 and g dis- trirt in tlsc state will represent . country included in the Allied forces of che world war. State Commander Ditlncy Finer of Mid' tIlct0wn will preside. A big parade this afternoon will wind ID the meeting.
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Prepared medicines exported from trance Iasf yenr weighed ie,- geo tone
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KIDNAPPED GIRL
 AND BROKER HELD

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DEED.

DURNs--In this city, May 12th, 1884 Mrs Rose Burns, of 10 Atwood ct. Watertown. Funeral M day morning at 8:i5 o'clock, to st Johns (Watertown) Church. Bur ial in Mt St James (Watertown) cemetery.
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TOO MANY FATAL
 AUTO ACCIDENTS

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MASSES

MASSES CLgFFOnD--A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated Mon day morning, May 14th at 73O o'clock, ht St Francis Xavier church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs Ellen Clifford.
 GARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors and especlal- ly the Shipping Department of the Waterbury Manufacturing Company ters of America for their kindness and sympathy shown us during our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved brother, Peter Kelly. Signed:
 HIS SISTERS.
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DUST CLOUDS OF
 WEST DISAPPEAR

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-05
RELATIVES WROTE
 HAUP I MANN ON
 ACQUIRED WEALTH
New Letters Found Are Called Important Piece
 of Evidence

New York, Oct 5-(UP)-RcI- atives in Germany who wrote Bruno R. Hauptmann sympathiz- ing with his poverty before the time the Lindbergh ransom mon- ey was passed congratulated him on his prosperity after that date, it was learned today from packet of letters found in the apartment of the kidnap suspect. The letters. in German script, were turned over to District At. tOrney Samuel Foley of the Bronx, with translations by Dr Samuel Lubliner, interpreter of the Bronx supreme court. They are regarded as of importance in the circumstantiaI evidence case against the taciturn carpenter.
 Under questioning. Russell, off cials said, admitted he had knowi Hauptmann since 1926 and wal with him in New York togethe with the late Isidor Fisch, iron whom Hanptmann said he receive, the ransom money found in hi possession.
 Other prisoners at the jail her, said Russell told them Hauptmanl helped him escape from the West chester. N. r., county jail in Au gust. 1880. A checkup disclosed Russell was sentenced to West chester jail that year for carrying a loaded gun.
 Russell said he met Hauptmanr in Buffalo, N. Y. in 1926, while tryA Ay.Iy iv1er nf, 1x said Russell told them he kept ir contact with Hauptmann unti September, 1892. six months after the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and then they lost track of eact other.
 Awaiting sentence in connection with attempts to cash forged posl office money orders in Chelsea Russell allegedly said, If I tall about Hauptmann, it won't hell him any, but it would hurt him .. There's lot of angles to this Lindbergh case. I'm going to be sentenced Monday, but I don't know to what jail I'm going, and wherever I go. I'll be marked man and known as a 'talker".
 Russell also said, according tt officials, that Hauptmann was "s sort of peculiar fellow, but I don'' think he would commit a deliberate murder"
 Conference Is Called
 New York. October - CUP - A new conference of high New Jersey officials was called todd, to decide definitely how the state would proceed in prosecutinf Bruno Richard Hauptmann on { charge of Kidnapping the Lindbergf baby.
 Meanwhile in New York, Haupt. mann's attorney James M. Faw' cett. planned a strong fight agains
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SURPRISE COMES
 IN JEWEL THEFT
Kreiger Valves Examine ton in City Court
 To-day

Fred "Whitey" Krieger. 24, old gold buyer who has made his home at the YMCA and who is linked by police with the burglary of valuable jewelry from the home of Mrs Lucy French on Radcliffe ave- nue and the disposal of the stolen goods in Hartford, created a sur prise in city court this morning when he waived examination on charges of burglary and larceny. Judge Edward Mascolo immediate ly bound him over to the next criminal term of superior court on charges of burglary and larceny. setting bonds at $2.000.
 The second youth arrested in the same case, Joseph Hayes. IS. in- dicated that he would contest the burglary charges lodged against him in city court and obtained a continuance till Tuesday morning. Krieger was arrested Wednesday night, while Hayes was taken into custody yesterday. both arrests be- ing made by Detectives Edward McElligott, Connie Shanahan and John Leary.
 Krieger's action in waiving ex- animation was a surprise in view of the fact that yesterday, when his case was continued day at the request of the state, he declared very decidedly that he would not plead guilty to any charge. Hence it was expected that he would at- tempt to clear himself in city court.
 Means by which Mrs French might be able to reclaim the re- mains of her jewelry were still un- known today, since the J. M. Ney Co. of Hartford bought the goods as old gold, not knowing that it had en stolen. Most of the pieces sold in Hartford were ruined as far as further use Is concerned. with gems removed and watches torn apart. The Hartford firm paid $33 for the articles which it pur- chased, while the entire loot taken from the French home, much of it in the nature of heirlooms which had been in the family for genera tions, was valued by the owner at at least several hundreds of dollars. Its worth is not estimated even close to the reported sum of $1, ,500.
 Krieger has been working in this city as an agent for the National Gold Refining company. but police claim that he sold the jewelry in Hartford under his own name.