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holds there. Word that atCackS m mass had been started on Oviedo and Zaragoza was expected at any moment. Troops were converging from the east coast on Seville, the rebel stronghold in the south, and 1t was apparent that the fate of the rebellion hinged on the operations at four points-Madrid, Oviedo, Zaragoza and Seville.
 A heavy concentration of loyalist air force and civilian aviators and airplanes has been effected at Qetafe flying field, near Madrid, for the final phase of the revolt.
 Hastily Armed Militia
 More and more civilian militia, hastily armed, left for the front. Premier Manuel Azana conferred with Gen. Sebastian PozaS, minister of interior in charge of national law enforcement, and Enrique Ramos, minister of finance, until the early hours of this morning. Government and labor leaders continued their wireless appeals to the country, and to foreign countries, for support against the fascist threat. Dolores Ibarurri, the fiery woman connmus mist deputy called the passion now. CT, was the principal speaker last night. In an appeal to liberals of the American republics, France, Great Britain and Belgium, she said: Spain is fighting against fascism, which desired to submit her to a regime of terror and bloodshed. But spaniards are energetically op" posing, and hope that liberals throughout the world will aid in preventing the triumph of those opposed to democracy"
 Fantastic Promises
 The ministry of interior, in Q broadcast, told the people that the rebels, undoubtedly in order to in" spire their followers" were making fantastic promises including one that Q certain European power" was ready to support the insurrec. ton. Loyalist operations on all fronts, the ministry asserted, were going well. People here awaited anxiously the roar of the artillery which would announce the opening of the real battle of Madrid, while the loyalists prepared to storm Ear" agoSa and Oviedo.
 There was no indication that the rebel movement had gained strength during the two days in which there has been little real fighting. On the contrary the tone of government Spokesmen seemed more confident.
 Seize Rich Property
 Employees of the Trans.Mediter. ranean Shipping company, which is controlled by Juar March. called the richest man in Spain, seized the company's headquarters today.
 March is a refugee, believed in France where he lied from San &c., bastian. It has been charged that he financed the rebellion.
 The foreign ministry today issued c formal denial of reports pub- lished abroad that the government had seized Roman Catholic church. es and also had seized industries.
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(Continueo from Page lJ time afterward. within . few min- utes after the fire was first disccy- cred, the entire building, measuring 90 by 50 feet, was Q mass of flames. After Q half hours work by fire- men the blaze was brought under control. A three story building near the feed bins was kept under Q con. stant stream of water by members of the Bunker Hill fire house, but small office and storage shed near the street was partly burned.
 Hundreds at Scene
 Attracted by the flames, hundreds of persons crowded the streets in the vicinity and police were dis- patched from headquarters to hold spectators in check. Two New Hav- en road freight cars at the rear of the building were soaked with water to prevent the flames from igniting them.
 Others who sent in alarms were Earl Barns, orderly ct Waterbury hospital, Bill Moriarty of Oakville, and Joe LeClaire of Newton heights According to Donat Biron and John D. Graham. signal operators at head- quarters, eight calls came in by tele- phone. Acting Deputy Chief Mar tin Champion was in charge of fire- men. Engines 8 and 10, truck and the chemical engine responded to the alarm. Watertown firemen were under the direction of Chief Ray Palmer.
 The fire marshal in statement as issued today said that he had not as yet determined the cause of the fire.
 "The evidence shows that the fire originated in the two story ware house of the feed company, along side of the spur railroad tracks, and that the building was involved right from the very start. The heat was 50 great at the beginning that Waterbury and Watertown fireu1en were unable to 60 very close Co tne structure.
 ~sparirs flew in all directions. threatened the adjoining property ol Mrs. Margaret Shields, in fact part of this building was scOrched, and also threatened some Of the honnea on Rosstte street"
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How Party EmBIems Were Born

The emblems of both major po- lltical parties-the democratic don- key and the republican elsphant-- we're inspired by the same cartoon ist, Thomas Mast. who won fame for his drawings in Harpers Week. ly.
 The democratic donkey came into existence on Jan. 10. 1870, when the cartoon shown below appeared in Harper's. The democrats gtill were bitterly assaillng Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. though he had died c short time before.
 Using the old fable of the mule defying the dead lion. Nast's car- toon showed the lion, labelled Stan-
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(Continued from Page D of the alcohol tax unit working out of Hartford under direction of Joseph c. OKane, head of the Con. necticut unit.
 They visited taverns throughout the state and uncovered l60 barrels of beer with alleged spurious tax stamps on them. The stamps were said to be the work of an expert, and might deceive anyone but those intimately connected with printing of the regulation stamps.
 Worked Here Tuesday
 Working quietly in Waterbury Tuesday night. federal agents seized Q number of half barrels of beer m several taverns, all allegedly bearing the spurious stamps.
 According to Robert c. Coyne, as. sistant supervisor of the federal alcohol tax unit in Connecticut, the seizure was the first of It's kind in the country. Secret service men and agents of the tax unit are still checking on the activities of the brewery with the object of uncover ing further evidence.
 Counterfeit stamps
 The counterfeit stamps are de" clared to SO nearly resemble the originals that only experts can dis' tlnguish a difference. They repre-. sent o S2.60 tax and must be pasted on each half.barrel of beer.
 Experts from Boston have been sent to Connecticut to aid the dis. trict unit in its work on the case. Signalling the beinning of the drive was the closing of Q rectifying plant in Stamford recently, known as the La Salle Distillery. .j..
 Mystery On stamps
 A phase of the current nvestlga- ton which remains unexplained IS how surplus beer could be turned out to fill half.barrels bearing the counterfeit stamps. Breweries are inspected periodically and the out. put checked as well as the supplied purchase for use in the brewing oi beer and the number of stamps purchased.
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reouired for foreigners going to the Mediterranean coast because the railway line is open and regular trains are leaving Madrid on sched" ule. It inferred that foreigners could leave at any time on the regu- lar trains.
 Diplomatic Corps Meets
 Eric 0. Wendelin, reporting these facts to the state department, Said the diplomatic corps was meeting to consider the feasibility of evacuat- ing foreigners from Madrid on special coaches attached to the regu- lar trains to Alicante and Valencia. The railroad, he said, was prepared to attach as many additional coach. es to daily morning and evening trains as can be carried and will furnish first or third class coaches as desired.
 Wendelin added that Americans who have left Madrid for Valencia and Alicante during the past three days are believed to have arrived at their destinations safely. Wendelin said there has been no confisca. ton of American properties in Spain other than the communicating or some automobiles for war purposes. There has been no confiscation Of bank deposits. but there is a mora torium on loans and Q limitatoin on bank withdrawals.
 Wendeiins' assertions were Sup- ported by a cable from Consul Lynn w. Franklin at Barcelona.
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By MORRIS GILBERT TEA Service Staff COrrespondenl

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 Paris, July 30. = Just as Com munism in Russia has undergone notable revisions recently, so the Communist party and program in France has also remarkably chang ed. Maurice Thores, youthful lead. CT of the party here, has announced formally that French Communism Is cutting its coat to it It's cloth.
 The chubby, rosy-cheeked sec- retary.g general of the party, at Q meeting of the French and for. eign press, was no longer the strid. ent, cumulative rebel of former days. He spoke with the assurance Of an established statesman.
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 Seek to Aid All Glasses
 The immediate program of French Communism is as nationAlistic as the most ardent reactionAry. It is profoundly loyal to the Peoples Front government, even though 1t is recognized that the platform of the government is not really socialistic. French Communism will strive not only for teh improvement of condi. tiois for labor but also for the white collar workers" the bour. geoise, the peasants. Not Q word was said about the famous "dicta- torship of the proletariat." Com. munism here is joining the middle. class parties to seek general, rather than party, advantages for the na- ton at large. Communism here is ardently pro-gold d-standard.
 Looking forward 6 little farther, Thorez predicted that if communism came to France it would be French Communism, not Russian. Tt will be based on French essentials, French civilization, French customs, French ideas. It will not be dictated from abroad" he daclared. But that, he added, was in the future, perhaps far in the future. The present pur- pose of the communist party Nh France was strict loyalty to the Blum government as outlined in the
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DWELL GIVEN
 ANSWER BY PRES.
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Rules May Be Enacted

The N. U. s. J. will hold nation. ,al session on August i4th, 18th and 18th in Cleveland, Ohio. At that ses- sion, 1t is expected that rules will be laid down governing procedure for the selection of congressional, sen. atoriai, state and local candidates. MT. Puckey said today that he would be in no position to pass on the pro" priety of MT. O'Neili's candidacy ur- til after receiving instructions from national headquarters. He refused to comment further than to state that his recent assertion to the ef- feet that the N. U. s. J. of the fifth district has endorsed nobody for congress still stands.
 Protest To Priest
 Milford, Mass, July 30-(UP)- President Francis x. Trudell of the Milford unit of the National Union for Social Justice has resigned on grounds that expulsion of other or- ganization officials was "undenio- cratic, unAmerican and Hitleristic" In a letter to the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, founder of the union, Trudell said President Timothy J. Stevenson and Vice President Charles F. Cahill of the fourth con- gressional district assembly were ex- pelled with other officers without explanation.
 Trudell was the 18th person to re- sign or be expelled from the organ ization in this district.
 Took Step As Protest
 T am taking this step as a pro- test against the undemocratic. un- American, Hitleristic manner in which Charles F. Cahill and other officers of units in the fourth district were expelled without being told what they were expelled for, !" TrudeIl said in a letter to Father Coughiin. "They have requested a I hearing of Hitler" Hayes, which has been denied them.
 "You. Father Coughlin, have ig- nored letters and telegrams from the expelled n1embe- and from UDll presidents and delegates in the form of resolutions. as a protest against the unamerican principles and Nit
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UP. MORGAN IS
 ABOARD YACHT

Glen Cove. N. Y., July SO-CU.P.) --J. P. Morgan was aboard his yacht, Corsair, today, en route to Europe for c vacation at either his English or Scottish castle. He elud- cd newspaper reporters and photo- graphers by boarding the yacht last night from 6 point on his soia's es- tate West Island rather than ct the New York Yacht Clubs dock where the boat had been loaded with lug- gage. The tinancier was accompan- led to the yacht by woman some believed to be his sister. Anne Mor- gan, from whom he has been estranged for years. No one was able however, Co verify whether the w0s man wAs Miss Morgan.
 After Morgan had dined 4ith friends aboard the cozsaiF's anchor was lifted nt about i0sa0 D. in. and the yecht headed 0ut the sound to-
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White Collar Brand of Communism
 Offered to France by Young Leader

Transplanted to the Midi, he soon joined the Communist party, and has been an active party member ever since. Three years ego he was chosen secretary-generai of the grou.
 He has been Q member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Paris suburb of Tvry, for several years. Last May his constituents sent him back to parliament with the biggest actual and comparative majority of any member of the chamber. His opponent was literal- ly crushed.
 Proves Genius as Organizer
 Under Thoress new nationalistic policy, communists have made rapid strides. They elected T2 members tQ the present chamber. Their biggest increase of any political party in tho chamber, although the socialists, for the first time, became the biggest actual group.
 The party itself has grown rap. idly during the last seven months, A very close corporation, demand. ing perfect obedience and consider able sacrifice from it's members, 1t had 00,000 on January 1, i036, co. cording to Thores. At the time of teh elections. May 3, the number had jumped to 100000. Today thero are o3,000 enrolled French Conls munists, 2i,000 of these being from the city os Paris; and there arc 0S,s 900 member of the Jeunesse coiiis lnuniste, the youth group.
 ThoreZ is known as Q rer1Arks able organizer, and much credit iS given him for the electoral success of tho Peoples Front in tho last elections. His party, although woTks ing closely with the government, rec fused to join the government itself, although there is no doubt that Thorez could have had almost any cabinet post he wanted, from tho ministry of the Interior Up or down, under Blum,
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VISIONS OF DEAD
 GIRLS MISSING
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 Somebody dropped Q flash bulb, creating consternation. Another reminded that three others died by murder and another by suicide ID this same house. {
 Davidson burst panting into the room, shouting: "Youre in the wrong place. The ghost isn't here. I just saw 1t upstairs. talked to 1t. I had been waiting an hour and Q half up there"
 "Who are youp" someone asked, "Whatd yot tell her7" asked an. other. Davidson shook his Mustered head:
 "I'm sorry, boys. What I said was personal"
 Dunninger seized c flashlight and put his hand on Davidson's shoulder.
 Would Not HypnOtlse.
 "Close your eyes," he said in c low voice. Now relax aS though you were about to sleep. ... Sleep. :. Close your eyes because you are tired. Now sway backward. {. Backward. z. shall catch you. :. Sway backward. . Now forward. Forward. Easy. Aw heill"
 Davidson had opened his eyes and with startled expression looked at Dunninger. Dunninger strode into the next room and saw Q weird red-white blob of light in an apart ment across the alley. It was 6 gas light. It threw floating figure against the wall.
 "There." said Dunninger, ''is your 1 ghost.
 Philadelphia Spectacle
 Philadelphia, July SO.-- tUP)-- Hundreds Inilled about a small home today, attracted by reports that q ''vision" of Q dead girl had appeared on a mirror in the bedroom of lD- year old Peggy Murphy. The image was described as an exact likeness of another io-year old girl. Maris Rourke. Ressy's best freind and Catholic sorority sister, who died c year ago.
 Supposed likeness in the wall- eaass waB first seen on the morning zfeer 6 mass in colnlneIaoTaticn ci Marie's death. Word spread through the community, and last night { crowd of 800 thrcnged about thl | house. Police had Co digperee thl crowd wha nia haceina to1 large. ~1l
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ton, beneath a tree, with . donkey flashing his heels at the carcass. The donkey emblem speedily found fa- vor with the democrats and they adopted 1t.
 The g.o.p. elephant first appeared in the cartoon shown here, printed In Harper's Nov. 2, 1874. Its basis was another fable, of the donkey clothed in lions skin, which prayed i1 the jungle and frightened the elephant into dashing into Q trap set by a willy fox.
 The elephant as an emblem pleased republicans, 60 1t was adopt ed to represent their party.
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tri-party platform called the "Ras- semblement General" drawn up last autumn and winter.
 Boon In Mining District
 Maurice ThoreS, is 30 years old and looks younger. Chubby, rosy- checked, curly-haired, his face un. lined, he looks like Q contented, cheerful, short, broad-shouldered French artisan. His voice is agree- able, his French fluent and well spoken.
 He was born in the northern mine country of France, and worked from childhood in the mines in the Pas de Calais. He was brought up by his grandfather, also . miner. With the war, he was obliged to ice the region which the Germans occupied. Tn 1914 he was 14 years old.
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MoTHER KILLs HERsELF

Stamford, Conn, July 30.-(UP)
 A nineteen-year old mother of Q blx months old baby. Mrs Bertha Daskenl. shot and killed herself late yesterday. Her husband. Richard. 6 special constable, sat in the kitchen and heard the report of his own gun, when the shot was fired. The haby Glept iIi adjoining room. Police said MFB. paskam had been de- soondent.
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COWBOY BEATEN
 FOR NOMINATION

Oklahoma City, July 30.--(UP).-- Percy Lee Gassaway, cowboy con- gressman, was defeated in Mondays democratic runoR primary, returns showed today.
 The victor over Gassaway was Lyle Boren, 6 27-year-old WPA worker and 6 teacher. His margin was more than 5000 votes out of 6B.OOO in the fourth district.
 0assaway rode to national prom thence by sarcastic attacks on the late Huey Long. ridicule of the Townsend pension plan and spon- sorship of q birth control bill: He is father of l4 children.
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AMERICAN LEGION
 IN WARM BATTLE
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 Department Commander Morgan B. Haven is presiding over today'i session of the legion. A resolution to make Judge William J. Malone Bristol, an honorary department past commander with full rights was filed with the resolutions com mittee. Three other men have been accorded the distinction without having served in this capacity. They are Frank s. Butterworth, c. o. Scarborough and Col. Anson T. Nc. Cook.
 Committees Named
 Department Commander Haven announced appointment of the fol- lowing committees:
 Credentials = Harry E. Scheuy, New Britain, chairman; Edward Gerber, Naugatuck; August Marc, Stamford; Walter Hickey, Eagleville; Wallace A. Perkins, New London; August Frey, Torrington; Ernest Peterson, Middletown.
 Rules - George Delage, Green wich, chairman; Charles Wigren, Manchester; William Rybeck, Mer- iden; James Charron, Putnam; John J. Kuhne, Groton; Graham Peton, Essex.
 By-laws--Robert H. Alcorn, New Haven, chairman; William A. Pur- tell, Hartford; Arnold R. Hart, Stam. ford; William LaBreche, Stafford Springs; Frank s. Shea, New Lon- don; William Foord, Litchfleld; 1; Charles Lilley, Chester.
 Resolutions - Frank Anderson, Wethersfcld, chairman; Robert Hooghkirk, Milford; Harry .Ander- son, Wilton; Nelson Mead, Rockville; Landon Duntton, Groton; Carl Dun- derlich, Watertown; Forest Thatch- CT, East Hampton.
 Reafiirm Faith
 The executive committee last night reaffirmed It's faith in the work of the veterans preferential committee, charged with helping to carry out the latest veterans nnili- tary legislation granting prefer ence in state and county jobs to constitutional by the attorney gen. veterans, which was declared un- eral. The committee seeks to have the opinion tested in the supreme court.
 One proposed resolution to come before the convention would enable the Legion and it's auxiliary to hold their conventions in separate cities and not simultaneously as at preS- ent. Backers of the resolution claim 1t will allow the groups to work more smoothly and with less confusion be- cause of the added interest in acc tivities of the other. Also, they point out, 1t is virtually impossible to house the number of delegates from both groups except in five or six larger cities.
 Decrease Convention Days
 Another resolution would decrease the number of convention days by one. An existing ambiguity in the state law providing $l,00O exemp- ton from taxes for women veterans would be cleared under another res- olution. A proposal to change the law to permit alien widows and children of veterans to benefit un- der the widows aid act, is embodied in another proposal. A demand for building and proposed new veterans home at Rocky Till as soon as pos- sible Is the text of another resolu- ton.
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Ter tactics of Miles 0. Hayes, slper- visor of the National Union Nh Mas sachusetts. You are either unaware of what is going on in this state or else you choose to uphold the i8- nominlous methods Of ~hitier" Hayes."
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ward the ocean. Morgan arrived at his Glen Cove estate about four weeks ago. .At tlaat tlsno hn was un- able Co walk. having been stricken while vncatloninn ln New England with neuriti1.
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Gavernor ia Rnaak

Hartford, Conn. July 30-(UP)- Governor Wilbur L.. Gross will make brief address at the American Lee zion convention in New Britain to- today.
 He will be accompanied by his morrow ct n Q. rn., 1t was announced stan.
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WATCH FOR SCHOONER

Boston, July 30-(UP)-NeW Eng land coast guards were asked toe day to watch for the iive-masted schooner Edna Hoyt. Boston- bound from Venezuela and wnreported Tor . fortnight.
 The request was made by the agents for the owners. The schoon- CT hes no radio.
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Continued from Page l.) good business for the rest of the year. Competition in business at the present time is very keen, he pointed out and while volume Is large profits are not great. Keeping prices down, of course, means more business and make 1t possible for the public to buy within its means.
 A gradual increase in the cost of general commodities was predicted by Mir. 0oss but. he said. the cost of living 50 far has kept itself well within the earning power of the working people.
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BEHIND E SCENES
WASHINGTON
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Steel Warfare VIII Rage in Washington as We'll as In Min Centers .. Roosevelt and Federal Agencies Are NitaIly Concerned !. What the Setup Is in Capital.
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WashIngtofl, July 3O-This is the 1HQ Of the great effort of John L. feWis and his followers to organize tIie billion dollar steel industry.
 Yt is also the seat of as sympa- shetic Q government as ever watched q major industrial conflict develop In America.
 IG you want to follow the Battle 0g Steel blow by blow, you will have Co train your telescope on Washing ton as often as you turn 1t to the actual firing line.
 You will have to watch the quar- ters of the committee for industrial organization the handsome off" ees of Lewis and the powerful Uni- ted Mine Workers two blocks away, and the American Federation of Labor building, where an executive council has pondered whether 1t dared suspend any or all the l2 c. I. O. unions, with their l,2S0,00o members.
 And you will have to watch the White House and half dozen fed- crai agencies where what happens to the c. I. o. in its struggles with both the steel corporations and the A. r. of L. craft unions is a matter of intense concern.
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PRESIDENT TO
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FIRE MARSHAL
 PROBING BLAZE

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