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Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-11
SAYS VOTE Of
PEOPLE MUST
Be RESPECTED
Proposal To Defer Change Back
To County Tax Rolls Frowned
On By Governor.
PREPARE RELIEF BILLS
Old Age And Unemployment
Insurance Measures To Be ln-
troduced Later.
PREPARE RELIEF BILLS
BY GEORGE E. HELMER

United Press staff Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Jan. IL. = Rev.
enue necessary to meet state ex-
penses must be raised in some man.
ner other than delaying return OF
utility property to county tax rolls.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam said today.
While legislators were consider
ing all types of revenue sources
and discussing the possibility of
retaining utility taxes and thus
solving two-thirds of the $l00000,-
900 deficit problem, the governor
announced for the first time his
attitude concerning the utility pro-
posal.
"I am opposed to any delay in
transferring private utility proper
ties to the tax rolls of the coun-
ties.o Merriam said. "The people
voted in favor of this plan, and
local county and municipal gov
ernments have proceeded to ar
range their annual budgets on the
assumption that the mandate of the
people would be observed.
"While it is true, transfer of this
source OF revenue from the state TO
the counties makes the states fin
ancial problem more difficult OF
solution at this time, do not be-
lieve we should permit this fact to
interfere with the proposed trans
fer. 1 approved the change when
it was originally proposed and see
no reason now for altering my pos
ition."
SACRAMENTO, Jan. IL WP) -
Courts, the legislature or admins
trative bodies would be precluded
from examining newspaper writer's
and publishers as to the source of
information in published news if
the legislature should adopt a SEN
ate bill introduced today by Bert B.
Snyder, Santa Cruz.
Senator Snyder said his meas
ure carried the approval Of the
California Newspaper Publishers
association.
The senate voiced its unanimous
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
SENATOR BORAH
 LEADS IN VOTE
Choice of Hundreds as the Leader of Party in
 Next Campaign

Washington. August 20-(UP) - Senator William E. Borah's big lead in straw vote expression of preferences for next years sop. presidential nominee may be a political fluke or 1t may signify real split between what norm- ally are the eastern and western wings of the republican party.
 A few hundred town and country republican leaders among thous- ands boiled in a straw vote have made Borah first choice for presi- dent by a wide margin. Republican leaders hereabouts do not, how. ever, expect Borah to win the 1886 prize although they recognize his power with the people and the sen. ator's determination to put his mark on the campaign platform.
 Significance of Vote
 The significance of Borah's straw vote strength seems actually to lie in the fact that the poll was taken just after Borah seized the reins of the currency imitation band wagon and began to whip the horses.
 Last month Borah hit the head lines with q demand for two cur (Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
THOUSANDS ARE
 TO PAY TRIBUTE
Will Rogers, Wiley Post Will Be Paid Honor
 at Funerals

Hollywood, Aug. 20-(UP)- The nations sorrow at the passing of Will Rogers and Wiley Post was epitomized here and at Oklahoma City today as thousands planned a final personal tribute to the hum orist and the daredevil air adven. turer.
 Rogers travelled the last of the thousands of miles he had covered by air last night when Douglas airllner touched ground at Bur bank airport. His and Posts bod les were taken to a mortuary chapel, having been flown 4,000 miles in three days from Point Barrow, Alaska, scene of theif tragic accident Thursday night.
 Both To Lic In State
 Posts body will be flown on to Oklahoma today and will lie in s.ate Thursday in the Capitol at Oklahoma City. where thousands of his admirers will pay their last respects to the hero of two breath taking flights around the world.
 At approximately the same time Rogers body will lie in state at Forest Lawn cemetery, Glendale, while more than 10000 persons gathered in Hollywood Bowl join in great public funeral service.
 Flags throughout southern Cal. ifornia were at half staff and will remain so until after the funerals, Hollywood was in the deepest mourning. affected by death as it hasn't, been since the passing of Marie Dressler. Sorrow was not
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
PALOMBA FAILED
 IN VOTING LAST
 STATE ELECTION
That Fact Became Known Today as Dunais Hear-
 ing Began

Repub lican Town Chairman Frederick w. Palomba this after noon refused to sit in, personally, on the inquisition in the aldermanic chambers called to remove Peter Dunais and other signers of minor party petitions from the regular g. o. p. list. Chairman Palomba stat ed htat he would not sit but re- fuse to divulge the name of his deputy. T will name my deputy five minutes before the hearing starts this afternoon" said Chair man Palomba.
 More than 16o persons were ex- pected to file into the aldermanie chambers to appear before Repub. lican Registrar Albert Taller tc show cause why they should not be removed from the regular g.o.p. primary list because the. signed the petitions of the minol parties placing the latter groups oi the votlng. machines. ,sa. '''' rape May Name Him.
 Chairman Palomba's refusal {, name a deputy to represent hin at this afternoons session was un' derstood to be due to the failure of Publisher Pape of the Pape. republican forces to sanction any. body but his own choice. The hear. ing got underway this afternoon shortly after o'clock. Mir. Dunais who never signed the independent republican party's petition and who is chairman of the first g. 0. D. ward under the regular organiza- tion, Is the one man of all the 16O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
WRECKED PLANE
 IS DISCOVERED

Glendo, Wyo., Aug. 20-(CP)- The. tangled wreckage of the miss ing Indianapolis airplane located today high on the northeast side
 of Laramie Peak, Capt. George c. Smith, head of the Wyoming State Motor Patrol reported.
 The crashed plane, which evil dently flew into the granite peak
 Thursday night during fog, was located from the air.
 It was estimated it would take at least four hours to reach the spot. On the basis of reports re- ceived By Capt. Smith, 1t was fear ed that all occupants of the plane were dead.
 The plane left Helena, Mont,
 Thursday afternoon, en route to Denver. The owner. Burnside
 smith. 47, prominent Indianapolis
 businessman. Dick Arnett, mana
 ger of the Indianapolis Municipal Airport, and Eleanor Arnett, his bride of three weeks, were in the plane when 1t left the Helena
 airport. Arnett was at the con- trols.
 Ranchers. in the vicinity oi Laramie Peak. towering mountain that rises abruptly out of the plains, reported they heard a plane circIIng Thursday night. They lat CT saw Hash then fire on tht side vf tine mountain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
KELLOGG PACT
 TO PREVENT WAR

Paris, August 20 - (UP) The United States may invoke the kel- logg Peace Pact, at least semi officially, in an effort to avert the Italian Ethiopian conflict, 1t was learned on high authority today.
 This became evident as strong reports persisted that the League of Nations Council, its peace ef- forts now stalemated, may be called into session before September 4, the date about which hostilities are expected to start, to consider the crisis.
 Because the United States Is neu- tral nation it cannot formally in- vite the pact. applicable only in cases of aggression. It can, how ever, invoke clauses which give 2 neutral nation the right to exxpress a desire for peace, and call the at tention of other world powers te impending conflict.
 It was understood here tha' American statesmen, probably of the occasion of United States Labol day, would make addresses citinl the threatened war. and exhort ing the powers to put forth stranu ous efforts to avert actual hostili ties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
DEBISSCHOP IS ENJOINED FROM
 INTERFERENCE
Telephone Co. Brings Pole Case to Court for
 Settlement

The American Telephone & Tele- graph Co.,, resorted to the courts to-day to continue the pole excava- ton work on the Charles DeBis- schop property on East Mountain, where the company's men were halted on August 7th when MT. DeBisschcop placed two of his children in the holes and defied the workmen to continue.
 Through Carmody & Thoms, counsel for the utility company. 1t obtained an injunction from Judge Frank F. McEvoy which re- strains Mir. DeBisschop and his wife from interfering with the ex- cavation work on the property.
 Civil Action Also
 In addition, the company, in Q civil action instituted in the su- perior court here, asks the court for a declaratory Judgment, fixing the rights of the plaintiff over the DeBisschop property. V < The complaint states the com pany obtained a rigfr Of way ovei the property of it's poles and lines in 1904 when the property was owned by William s. Strong. The company exercised the right of way on August 7th, says the com piaint. when company employees went to the DeBisschop property to replace some rotten poles with new ones. The poles are part of the so- called midland line, running between Boston and New York.
 Doesn't. Own Land
 The defendant, says the com plaint, charges that part of said
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
GIRL SUICIDED
 WAS DECISION

Attleboro, Mass. Aug. 20-(UPl Miss Florence May Murphy. 19- year-old nurse who was found dead from shotgun wounds at her home here last May. committed suicide. according to expert testimony at an inquest here yesterday. The case has been the subject of long investigation because the gun was found beyond the girls reach. but Medical Examiner Timothy Leary of Suffolk county and Captain Charles ]. Van Amburgh. state po- lice firearms expert, agreed that the girl fired the shot herself.
 They thought her family moved the gun. either in the excitement or 10 make the death appear acci- iental.
 Al the time of the death her fanily admitted Miss Murphy left . letter. but 1t WIZ ncvrr Rrndgccl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
DEMOCRAT PLAN
 MEETS APPROVAL FROM | EVERYBODY l; 3!
Great Number of Signed
 Safety Pledges Flows x Into the Office

Waterbury and Naugatuck Val ley drivers today were giving their full support to the Waterbury Democrats Careful Drivers League, with the large number of signed safety pledges pouring into the newspaper office as the best indi- cation of the car operators enthus- iastic approval of the effort to cut down the number of accidents in this part of the state. Though for nation of the League was an- nounced only yesterday. there has already been a great response, with more and more pledges expected to be signed within the next few days.
 May Set Record
 If every Naugatuck Valley driver will fill out one of the pledges found elsewhere in tonight's paper and will keep to the letter the rules he promises to obey, the local area will set an enviable record for the rest of the state to follow. There is no reason for accidents caused by carelessness, recklessness, or disre- gard for the rights of others on the highway; the drivers who sign League pledges appreciate that fact and promise to see that as far as they are concerned there will be no accidents coming from those too-frequent causes.
 All Are Eligible
 Mem bership in the Careful Driv- CTS League Is open not only to in- dividuals. Firms which have fleets of drivers in their employ are elig- ible to register for them all, and several well-known local concerns have already done so.
 If you are an automobile driver and if you join with the rest of the state in horror at the appalling highway death toll of late, then your membership in the League Is needed. Clip out the membership pledge, found in tonights Demo- crat. and mai or bring 1t to The Democrat office. Act now, the League needs your support!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
BRITISH EMPIRE
 IS THREATENED
Hurried Session of Cabinet Called--Troops May Be
 Sent to Border
By FREDERICK KUH

(Unitcd Press Stan Correspondcnt)
 London. Aug. 20-(UP)-Italy's program Nof expansion is regarded as bold, direct threat to the power of the British Empire by a considerable proportion of British leaders, it was learned today.
 An emergency cabinet meeting was called for Thursday and min isters were urgently summoned home from vacation. Phime Minis ter Stanley Baldwin announced at Ak Les Rains, France, that he would start for London tonight.
 Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign min- ister. and Anthony Eden, British chief delegate at the disastrous British -French-Italian conference at Paris which precipitated the crisis, conferred at the foreign of. flee today on British policy.
 Ray Atherton. American charge d'affaires, visited the foreign of flee yesterday to discuss the situ' ation. 1t was learned.
 It is understood that strong rein torcement of British forces in al territory bordering Ethiopia is be-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
|Hopson Family Made
 Millions OF Dollars
Cleaned Up Plenty While No Dividends We're Declared; Hopson Is Given Scathing Lecture to Answer
 Right By Senator Black

Washington, August 20 = (UP) = Howard c. Hopson told the senate lobby committee today that S3,1S7,064.0l profits from his pri- vate service companies in five years "didn't go to anybody else" except the Hopson family. For several years during that time. the record slioAsea f5firso kssociAted ,6fas ata aizieet tnI IG Con . fxks gaiS nS dividends. y~ s " Chairman Hugo I4 Black, prioi to disclosures regarding the pri. vate companies, had read to the glum, silent utility man a state- ment in which the committee "unanmiously agreed" to press charges of contempt of the senate against him unless he ceased al- legged evasion of questions and speech
 Maze of Data
 Then Senator Lewis Schwellen- bach, democrat, Washington, fumbling and digging through a pile of records, led Hopson through the maze of data showing how he and J. I. Mange borrowed $10,00O to establish the Associated Securi- ties Corporation, ran that into a $900,000 corporation and repaid the original loan.
 The 225-pound Hopson sprawled back in his chair with his eyes shut as If asleep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
WATERBURY WPA PROJECTS SENT
 TO WASHINGTON
Approval Is Sought From Transferred
 From EZRA Payroll

Five Waterbury WPA projects have been sent to Washington, D. C., for approval. They involve school repair and storm sewer in- stallation work that has been going on under the FERA. according to Executive Secretary Thomas F Kelly. In other words. he s,tld tils jobs are being transferred from the EZRA payroll to the wPA sched- ule. <,
 Seven Seek Sanction
 Seven proposed projects, in all, In the Waterbury area, so-called, have been sent to Washington for official sanction by State wPA Ad- minlstrator Matthew A. Daily of New Haven. Of the seven, five are in this city. The other two are in Naugatuck.
 One Project Returned
 One project, coming from Litch- field, has been returned to the sponsor by Administrator Daly for minor corrections. Thirteen pro" posed projects in the Waterbury area are now in the process of in- spection.
 Seven of the jobs being inspected are in Waterbury, Executive Secrc-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
CHICKEN POX OR
 MUMPS ARE NO
 SCHOOL EXCUSE
Ordinary Sicknesses in the Family Cannot Keep Pu.
 pills in Home Circle

Chicken pox or humps in the family no longer will be consid- cred legitimate excuses for John ny's remaining away from school. according to a change in the state sanitary code, recently approved by the State Public Health Coun- ell. The council has ruled that only when the diseases attack Johnny, will he be permitted to stay out of school. Formerly, if either of those two common dls- cases entered home, all the chil- dren in the family could remain away until the victims recovered.
 The health officer may permit children, in families where measles and whopping cough occur. to att tend school regularly, provided school inspections are possible and child may be watched for symp- toms of the diseases. These two diseases also were dandy excuses for Johnny to remain absent in the past.
 Quarantine Diseases
 Should he contract any of the following diseases, however, John- ny will be placed under quarantine: Meningococcus meningitis, conn monly known as ccrebrospinai meningitis, epidemic encephalitis and psitticosis. These have been added by the council. through changes in the regulations, to the group of diseases that are placed under quarantine. Some common diseases in this group are scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile paralysis.
 Plaeards may be omitted for sew eral of the common diseases which were placarded under former regu- lations, including amebiasis. chick enpox, bacillary dysentery, measles,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
ONE FIREMAN WAS HURT IN BLAZE
 THIS AFTERNOON
Stubborn Fire at United Tyre Sales Corp. on
 North Elm Street

One fireman was injured as sev- en companies this afternoon bat tied a stubborn blaze that did dam age estimated at more than $5,0O0 at the United Tyre Sales Corp, at East Main and North Elm streets. The vulcanizing plant of the firm was badly gutted by the flames, while hundreds of tires were dam- aged in the fire.
 The injured fireman was Capt Robert Whitaker, commanding of. ficer of Engine Co. 1, Burton street Suffering an ankle injury that is believed to be a fracture or sprain Capt. Whitaker was forced to leave the scene. He was taken first to the Burton street engine house and later to his home, being at. tended by Fire Surgeon Dr. E. E Fitzpatrick.
 Fire Alarm t2:5S
 The first alarm came into head. quarters at 12:5s this afternoon. Il was after o'clock before the blaze was under control. Two com. panies were still at the scene short ly before 3:30 today, but the fire was definitely out at this time, and firemen were only wetting dowr additional stock to prevent i from catching fire. The firemer were directed by Chief Thomai Lynch, assisted by Acting Deput, Martin Campion. Fire Marsha Den Lahey this afternoon wal probing the cause of the blaze. be lieved to have started in vulcan izing machine.
 Clouds of smoke poured out Q the building as the fire sprea, through the rubber stock and larg ! crowtis gal 4}iered near the scene Thes L1enicsras cifflo6 sSas sfaoode' with calls seeking information a to the location and nature of tn blaze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
FOUR DRIVERS IN WATERBURY ARE
 UNDER ARREST
Taken in By Police on Drive for Safety on
 Our Streets

Four drivera were arrested Tn Waterbufy carly this morning siid additional arrests were made in Naugatuck and other nearby towns as state, city, and town police con- tlnued their crusade against ac- cidents on the highways. The safe- drive being conducted by authori- ticg, with the aid of The Democrats Careful Drivers league and similar organizations about the state, ap. parently is having some effect, for yesterday was the first day in the last 10 that not one auto fatality was recorded in the state. Tn the nine days before yesterday, 30 per- sons were killed or fatally injured in motor vehicle mishaps. Two per- sons were injured here this morn ing in an accident which resulted in one arrest, and indirectly in a second.
 Arraigncd ln Court
 The four men arrested In this city were arraigned in city court today. One, charged with opernt- ing without a license. was fined $l0 and costs after verbal scoring by Judge John r. McGrath. The cases of the other three were con tinued under bonds.
 The fine was imposed on Louis Piteras, 21, of 625 East Main street. who was arrested this morning by Motor Patrolmen Joseph Mccarthy and John Walsh as the car he was driving sped by the scene of an ac. cident at speed described in, court as 60 miles an hour. The fino and costs came to $20.35.
 One Case Continued
 Continuance till Saturday was given by Judge McGrath to Marcel Duprey, 2s, of 149 South Main
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
MUSSOLINI HAS
 TAKEN UP THREAT
Turns Deaf Ear to Every Pr0test-NOt Scared By
 Any Embargoes
By THOMAS H. MORGAN Copyright 1885 By United Prcss)

Copyright 1885 By United Prcss)
 Rome. Aug. 20-(UP)-Benito Mussolini, deaf to the threats of the powers, increased his air force personnel by 67 per cent today in preparation for his war on Ethio- pia.
 By a decree published in the off, ficial gazette, Mussolini added 500 officers, 1,S00 non-commissione officers and 1o,9Ss men to the force. He empowered the air min- istry. also, to maintain with the colors 1,500 officers and 1,500 non- commissioned officers of the air force reserve.
 Before the decree the air force personnel totalled 24,195. Musso- lini's terse order increased 1t by 16.2SS to a total of 40,4s3-or by 672S per cent.
 It was an answer to reports from world capitals of pressure to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20

2. 0. p. primary list. Decision was reserved by the registrar and Att torney Miller, the latter represent ing Town Chairman Palomba on the board of inquiry.
 His Direct Charge
 Charges were made by Attorney Cassidy, who appeared for Mir. Dunais, first ward chairman of the regular republican party, to the effect that Publisher Pape's tactics were serving to widen the gap in the g. o. p.
 Continuing he questioned the right of Attorney Miller, represen- tative of Town Chairman Palom- ba, to sit in at the meeting. He quoted statutes to show that the chairman must be absent or dis abled before he can name deputy.
 Attorney Scully Scored
 Attorney Scully he scored be- cause, he said. he was a member
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20

too precipitate rush for adjourn ment that might imperil other Roosevelt measures. The fact that the agreement was announced ap- peared to indicate they were well satisfied with the situation.
 Bills In Progress.
 Bills still in progress included;
 Iva amendments, alcohol con trol administration. gold clause splits, Utility Holding companies, all in conference;
 Guffey coal bill, passed by the House and expected to be debated in the senate today;
 Third deficiency appropriation bill, still in House committee, but which can be whipped through In a furry: M(
 Railroad reorganization, passed by House and pending in Senate;
 Farm Mortgage adjustment, oil
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20

Washington, Aug. 20 - (UP)- Announcement of 12 cent cotton loan may "come before nightfall." Sen. John Fl. Bankhead, d., Ala, predicted today.
 Bankhead said the president had under consideration very large reduction In next years crop In nrder tc get rid of the present government holdings"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
Final Nelvs Flashes
BOSTON $60, ,oOO JEWEL ROBBERY

Boston, Aug. 20.-( (UP)-Two well-.dressed young bandits swaggered into a fashionable jewelry store in the Ritz-Carlton, Bostons swankiest hotel, this afternoon, held up 15 em- poyes and customers with sub-machinegun, and escaped with jewels valued at $60,000 Off, cials of Hodgson-K -Kennard & Company Inc., whose store was the scene of the daring raid re- ported that 10 trays of diamond rings, emeralds and other valuable trinkets and gems were stolen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20
SERGEANT PROMOTED

Washington. Aug. 20 - (UP) - Tho war department today pro. noted Technical Sergt. Stanley k. Morgan. who recovered the bodies of VIII Rogers and Wiley Post from their wrecked airplane in Alaska, to the rank of master ser geant, highest non- commissioned grade in the U. $. Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20

Willimantic, Conn, Aug. % I'll (UP)-John Zaklukiewicz. Mans field, scratched his finger on a rusty nall two, weeks ago while repairing a fence. Lockjaw devel- oped and he died at hospital late yesterday.