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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
COUPLE DIDN'T
 OBEY COMMAND

Boston, March 6.-(UP)--A South Boston couple. advised last Decem- ber by a superior court judge not to have any more children while on welfare rolls, have announced the birth of their third child. The baby, a girl. was born to MT. and Mrs. Charles P. Hurley February IS. The suggestion they refrain from increasing their family was made by Judge Ernest H. Hobson when Hurley was arraigned on a non-support charge.
 "Now I may not have any more children for some time" Mrs. Hur- ley said. But 1t will be our own wish and not the suggestion of a member of the judiciary. Of course. I may change my mind. I may have another baby by this time next year."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
NANTUCKET HAS
 REFUSED TO PAY

PawtucKet, R. l., March 6-(UP)-- Again citing low IVA rates, Public Works Commissioner Albert J. La marre of Pawtucket today refused to sanction payment of the city's Feb ruary electric bill of $5,554 to the Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric company. Last month he refused to approve the January bill. Lamaree announced a bill would be filed in the legislature Wednesday to permit the city to float a $5,000, 900 bond is- sue to erect municipal electric plant.
 Decision to file the bill resulted from the company's refusal to re- duce electric rate. Lamaree said. He communities were l750 per cent less said the IVA rates given Tennessee than those imposed on the city, Electric company officials have de- clined com s.lent on the situation. but have continued to furnish power for street lights and municipal build ings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
ANOTHER DELAY
 IN MILK DISPUTE

Hartford, Conn, March 6--(UP)--- Another delay over the polling Of milk producers to learn their pref erence for a flat price of classified system of sale was occasioned today by the problem of wording the ques- tionnaire to be sent out by State Milk Administrator s. Mclean Buckingham.
 A recent conference of producers and dealers with Buckingham result ed in decision to conduct the poll, limiting preference to either the flat rate basis or the present classified arrangement.
 A second conference was held to hear a proposal to modify the classi- fication system but 1t was rejected. At a conference late yesterday Buckingham suggested that two questions be proposed, fiat price. or some form" of a classified plan. Producers asked for delay in order to obtain the reaction of the major . ity to altering the questionnaire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
TOWNSEND PLAN
 BECOMES POETIC
Rep. Harlan of Ohio Read
 in House Today Latest of EffusiOns

Washington. March 6--(UP)-- Rep. Byron B. Harlan, d., Ohio, commented on the Townsend old age pension plan today by reading the house a poem entitled "Hella- looya". The origin of the poem was un- certain. It said in part: Clear the tracks, you whippersnap- persl
 Out the way, you flaming youth! Gangaway, fashion plates and flap
 pers! Your old Gran'dad's heard the truth. From the old mems home he's hop
 pin,
 Dancing like a crazy man. Singing. shouting, 'Hell's apopin'. '
 Gran'dad's read the Townsend
 plan.
 He has painted up his crutches,
 Polished up his wooden leg, Gave his other tooth some touches
 Took his toupee from its peg. Says he's found the youthful foun- tain
 And the primrose path he'll seek He'll be coming around the moun- tain,
 whoopeel Fifty bucks a week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
JAMES A. FARLEY GUEST OF HONOR
Testimonial Dinner From Democrat State Central
 Committee in Hartford

Postmaster General James A. Far ley will be the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner to be given him by the Democratic State Gen. tral Committee ct the Hartford club, Hartford, March 28, 1t was announced today by State Chair man J. Francis Smith of this city.
 The committee to have charge of this dinner, as well as the toastmas- ter. will be announced tomorrow, Chairman Smith stated this morn- ing.
 Postmaster General Farley's re- marks on the occasion of this visit to Connecticut will be carried over @ national radio hookup.
 Other Speakers
 Other invited speakers will in- clude Gov. Wilbur L. Cross, and United States Senators Augustine I,onergan of Hartford and Francis T. Maloney of Meriden.
 Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy oi Hartford will give the address oi welcome to the guests.
 Democratic leaders of Waterbury when informed today of the im- pending visit of Postmaster General Farley, stated their intentions of at- tending. They include Mayor Frank Hayes, Controlled Daniel J. Leary, Town Chairman John H. Crary and others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
MRS. BERGER IN
 FEAR OF MURDER
Wife of Man Sentenced to Prison for Killing of
 PatrOlman Stokes

Fear that her husband will kill her when he is released from the Wethersfield penltentiary, where he Is serving tern, for the killing of Patrolman William Stokes hero some years ago, was expressed in superior court today by Mrs. Georg- cite A. Bercier as she took the stand In her divorce action against Ernest Bercier. Sobbing that she wanted to leave Waterbury with her children and go to a new city as soon as she is given a decree, Mrs. Bercier told Judge Frank J. McEvoy that her husband had threatened to kill her when he was released. BerciGr was freed on parole few years ago, but returned to prison for the re- mainder of his term when he was arrested again. He comes up Tor parole again later this year.
 Her Life Tormcnted
 She was in torment all through her life with Bercier, the woman testified, as she related how, as a war bride", she married Bercier in 1919 and came back with him to this country. Unable to speak Eng fish, she said, she had to endure beatings and cruelty for years, but she sought to remain with her hus- band because of the children.
 Describing the night that Patrol man Stokes was shot to death, she declared that when her husband wrestled the policeman's gun away from him, she stepped between the two of them and cried: Shoot me Shoot mel" The policeman had come into the Bercier tenement on Bank street to stop Bercier from beating his wife. He knew Bercier well and was taken off guard when the latter attacked him. Several bullets were fired by Bercier and the policeman was mortally wound- ed. Bercier was found guilty of man. slaughter and given Is years in prison.
 After hearing the testimony of Mrs. Bercier and of an old friend of hers, Jacques Carey, Judge Me- Evoy ordered the case continued till next Friday. Additional witnesses
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
.S|EMDORSKI IS GIVEN LONGER
 TIME. TO LIVE Governor Cross Today
 Gave Him Reprieve Un- til March 24
 SCHEDULED TO DIE ON TUESDAY NIGHT Attorney Quinn of New
 Haven Secured Delay in Death Penalty

Hartford, Conn, March 6 - (UP) - John Siemborski, scheduled to be hanged at State Prison Tuesday night, was granted a reprieve today until March 24 by Governor Cross.
 The stay of execution was granted at the request of At- torney Michael J. Quinn, New Haven, counsel for the condemned 26 year old police slayer, who petitloned for an extention of time during which to decide what steps could be taken to prevent Siemborski from being hanged.
 Quinn had intimated he would urge 8 special session of the board of pardons to commute the sentence to life Imprisonment.
 Supreme Court Blocked
 It was understood today that the opinion of Chief Justice William M. Maltbie, declaring the states legal right to hang Siemborski, handed down earlier in the week, blocked any attempt to appeal to the U. s. Supreme Court.
 It was the third reprieve to be
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
JUDGE ELLIS HAS
 FAVORED SCHOOL

New London. Conn, March g. CUPl-superior Court Judge Arthur P. Fills has refused t0 grant the proprietoFs of College Inn a tempo raTy injunction preventing Connecti- cut college authorities from inter. feFlng with the student patronage ct the inn. The owners Of the tea room, William and D0r0thea DetwlldeF has asked for a restrain ing order and t60.000 damages, claiming the business and reputation Of their place had suffered as result Of q college order prohibiting girl sludepts from entering the lnD be. cause 'lt was not an approved place"
 In defense 0f the order, Rslied by President Katherine Blunt. college authorities offered ln evidence yes- teFday several circulars sasd io have been sent out by the propTIetors Co which the college meals sere crit' eiEed as being served to curb "bes appeal" and students Affe dared Co "apf1d A nisht in one of our w0ndeFsil beds" hwa DetMilder de' tended the circulars, deelaFlng Ines wsre "tnfsnded Co hS h''"aa-"''f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
BR|T|SHER WAS
 KILLED BY BOMB.
Head of Red Cross Victim of Italian Air Raid in
 Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, March 6.--(UP) - Major General Achilles Burgoyne, British head of the Ethiopian Red Cross, was killed by an Italian air bombardment of fleeing Ethiopian warriors in the northern area, at was announced officially today. Az the news was announced an Italiar three -motored bombing plane circled 5000 feet over Addis Ababa, arriv- ing from the south and the populace feared a bombardment might come soon.
 The Exchange Telegraph corre- spondent at Adds Ababa reported that excited warriors fired machine guns and anti-aircraft guns at the plane without hitting it, as 1t cir- cled thrice over the city, apparently reconnoitering.
 Many Times Over Capital
 The Italian plane, q Capronl zigzagged a dozen times over the capital, obviously taking photo- graphs. It left in the direction of Sidamo. The awed population gaped open -mouthed at the plane, but did not run Into hiding. Major Bur. goyne, distinguished Irish-Eng" fish soldier and sportsman, and, as St. Patrick pursuivant for Ireland in the Royal College of Arms, an officer of the British Royal Court, was killed by a bombardment of warriors of the Dedffiabmatch Kabada, retreating from their de- feat on the northern front, 1t was announced.
 It was indicated that Burgoyne was with his Red Cross unit as the plane bombarded the warriors north of Magdala. which is between Des- sye, Emperor Halle Selassie's war headquarters, and the front.
 His unit was bombed previously on January 16, khen IA persons were killed and 35 wounded He was present but was not injured.
 Had Been Protest
 Announcement of Burgoyne'S death followed by one day an Ethio- plan official announcement that Italian planes bombarded British Red Cross unit at Koran, killing three patients and wounding three
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
PLYMOUTH TOWN MUCH EXCITED
SeIectmen Have Endorsed Brewing Co. in Historic
 Spot; Vote Tomorrow

Plymouth, Mass, March 6.-tUP). Ale became an 1lth hour cam paign issue here today. Historic Plymouth, which claims to be the landing place of the pilgrim fathers, was all a-dither because its select men allegedly endorsed Boston Brewing company's product known as Pilgrim Ale" Clergymen. Pil- grim descendants and business men vehemently protested association Of the name Pilgrim with any malt beverage. And the town election Is tomorrow. All of these officials will be seeking reelection tomorrow, there being a total of II candidates for selectmen. Resentment fiared when Plymouth's ii6-year-old week. ly newspaper "Old Colony Memor- ial," appeared on the streets last night with details of the affair.
 Party At Brewery
 The weekly said town officials at- tended a party at the Boston Brew cry last Monday when the new ale was christened They were ushered through the plant by men and women in pilgrim costumes. 1t was said, and told the company was about to name Q new ale in honor of the Pilgrims.
 Town officials who endorsed the product were named as Selestmen
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
ROOSEVELT JR.
 MAY BE DELEGATE

Boston, March 6.--(UP) The Boston Herald says today that James Roosevelt, eldest son of the presi- dent, has indicated to state demo- cratic leaders that he would well come 8 place on the Roosevelt pledged slate of candidates for dele gates to the democratic national convention.
 Young Roosevelt is willing to serve as @ delegate from the ninth congressional district. in which he formerly resided, according to the Herald. The newspaper said Roose- welt probably had kept his voting residence in Massachusetts although he now lives in New York.
 In the 1882 presidential primary, in which slate pledged to Alfred E. Smith was victorious in Massa- chusetts, Roosevelt was second only to Governor Curley in total votes on the defeated Roosevelt-pledged slate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
PUTNAM WOMAN KILLED BY SON
He TelephOned Her Death to Undertaken, Then
 Killed Himself

Putnam, Conn March 6.--(Up).- Mrs. Mary E. March, 82, and her son. J. Herbert March, 58, were found shot to death in their home today in what police described a murder and suicide.
 The woman's body was found in a chair in front of her sewing ma chine. Half of her head had been blown away by shotgun charge.
 The son was lying face down on the kitchen floor, a few feet away gc' a him was a l6-gauge shotgun with which the killings were com mitted.
 Telephoned Her Death
 Carl E. Weeks, an undertaken and friend of March. said he received telephone call from the son Short- ly before II o'clock this morning telling him Mrs. March had died suddenly and asking him to call and prepare the body.
 When he went to the house he found the two bodies.
 Mrs. March apparently had been working at the sewing machine
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
STRIKES IN ALL PARTS OF NATION
Worst, However, Is in New York Where Conditions
 Grow Very Serious
iBy United Pressl

Serious strike problems confront ed a score of cities of the nation today. Thousands of men and wo- men were idle. Street fighting was widespread, arrests were numerous and public health and safety was menaced in many places.
 Most critical was the building ser- vice employees walkout in New York city. Already affecting hundreds of thousands of citizens, 1t spread to midtown hotels in the Aleart of the city. No settlement was in sight.
 In Akron, O., three-cornered dispute between striking truck driv- CTS, dairy companies and farmer producers stopped home delivery of milk. City officials said delivery must be resumed even if under armed guards.
 In all 17000 men were idle in Akron for employees were out also at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company plants, the Palmer Match company and the Columbia Chem icai company.
 Women Garment Worker strikers, strike-breakers ano ciub-swinging
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
BUCKLE co. WILL HELP CITY PLAN
Prepared to. Dismantle Part of Factory to Make
 Streets Straight

Plans for the demolition of a por- ton of the plant of the Waterbury Buckle Company on South Main street 50 as to permit the city of Waterbury to cut 8 straight-of from Washington street to Wash- ington avenue have reached an ad- vanced state, 1t was learned on re- liable authority today. The con- cern, according to Information ob- tained, has ordered tenants in sev- eral private dwellings and a garage to the south Of the factory buildings, proper, to make ready to vacate with in @ short time and has started plans for a new factory building on the land in question to take the place of the structure that will be torn down to make way for the new high way venture.
 No New Factory Plans
 No plans for the new factory structure have yet been filed with Building Inspector Patrick Carlin. No permits have been asked for, either, providing for the tearing down of the portion of the present factory building standing on the land that is to be sold to the city. Furthermore, the factory officials have not applied for permits to de- molish the private dwellings and garage involved in the big change.
 However. the concern officials have made several requests for information to the building inspec- tor relative to the building regula- tons that must be followed In con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
FATHER FOUND
 HIS DAUGHTER

Santa Rosa. Calf. March G-'UP) Joseph r. Mulllneaux. wealthy Boston. Mass, wool buyer who charged his daughter. Jane. 10. was kldnaped by his former wife. today awaited a court decision to estab- lish custody. Mullineau was stop ped by state police as he vas board ing an east-bOund aiFiiner with Jane. Mrs. Betty Moore, his friner wife, had obtained writ of habeas corpus t0 keep her daughter tn Caii- f0rnla. Judge Donald oeaTy S eK. peeted i0 rule Co the ease today Mulllneaux told officers he was granted custody 0f Jane when he di- vorced his wife in 1881. He charged the child was Kidnapped and that he had searched for her i've Seart
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Governor Hoffman Ls Back With NewA Attack
Was Gang -Bodyguard of Condon Visited Miami Jail to See Another Kidnaper

Trenton, N. J., March 6--(UP)- The office of Governor Harold c. Hoffman, continuing its almost frantic attempt to "break open" the Lindbergh baby murder case, an- nounced today 1t had evidence that Dr. John r. (Jafsie) Condon, a key witness for the prosecution, believed the crime was @ gang affair as late as Q month before Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to trial.
 Dr. Condon, eccentric Bronx edu- cator and the intermediary in the ransom negotiations for Charles A, Lindbergh, Jr., testified during the trial that one man committed the Kidnapping and murder. He pointed out Hauptmann as the criminal.
 Based On Telegrams
 The new claim of the governors office was based on an exchange oi telegrams between the governor and Sheriff D. 0. Coleman, of Miami.
 It concerned a visit made to the Miami jail in December, 1894, by Al
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
WILL PAY ALL

New Haven. March G-tuP)--Ha- a- zen Haywood. returned here from Lake Placid, N. Y.. charged with four counts os issuing fradulent checks In payment for winter sports goods, was fined ti0 and costs In police court today by Judge Joseph weincr. The penalty was imposed on oa count after the court was told Haywood. a vel in0wn bob. sleddcr. was prepared to make full restitution to the Yale co-operatiff st,re
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Final Nelvs Flashes
ONE SISTER DEAD, ONE BURNED

WatertoWn, Mass, March 6.-(UPJ-An 83-year-old woman was found dead and her aged sister suffering a severely burned arm when health officials arrived to evct them from their home today. Miss Ellen M. Gallagher had died about an hour before health authorities arrived. Her sister Katherine ST. was treated and taken to the town infrmary The sisters century-old home had been condemned for sanitary reasons. Fully dozen well-fed cats roamed the house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
PLAN FOR TAXES
 l NOT YET FIXED
No Assured Program Is as Yet Found -- Experts
 Study All Proposals
By EDWARD w. LEWIS United Presses Staff COrrespondent)

Washington, March 6--(UP)-A schedule of sharp increases in nui- sance and inheritance taxes has been submitted to the house tax sub- committee by the treasury as possi- ble alternatives to President Roose- velt's proposal to increase revenues S620, 100000 by @ corporate surplus tax.
 These proposals, with other alter native schedules submitted to the sub committee of the house ways and means committee, met 50 cool reception that prospect of enact- ment of a tax measure along the lines proposed by President Roose- welt was strengthened substantially.
 Other alternatives included sched- ules of manufacturers sales taxes to raise as much as $530, 100000 in new revenue and income tax changes in- creasing the yield from that source by $446, 100000.
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his life as one of the great influences in the legal profession.
 To remind the world that Holmes now rests in a grave at Arlington cemetery, Thomas paid for an Tn Memoriam" advertisement in Q local paper today. It read:
 Paid for MemOriam
 "Holmes, Oliver Wendell-In sad remembrance of the late associate justice of the supreme court, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who passed to his reward one year ago today, March 2, 1885.
 "Death is the gate to endless joy, but we dread to enter there.
 "(Signed) His old messenger, Arthur A. Thomas"
 Thomas, grizzled tender of the massive doors on the new supreme court building, said he might have said more about the late justice If had been 6 white man"
 Being colored man, I had to be careful not to say too much" he said. Judge Holmes didn't have no kinfolk hereabouts, and I thought
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That leaves us with the picture of MT. Doherty taking @ good profit and leaving his employees holding the bag" Robert Burns, Cities Serv- ice attorney, jumped up from a seat behind the witness table, exclaiming: May I explain that?" Well" Gib- son said, If you can explain how these employees were not holding the bag, I'd like to hear it."
 The committee earlier was dis closed to be opening up three new lines of inquiry--into alleged lobby ing activities of the Crusaders, the National Gamers association and the Institute of American Fats and Oils.
 Agent Discl0ses Deals
 Examining Doherty utility affairs, in connection with investigation oi lobbying on the Wheeler -Rayburn
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
QUEEN OF GREECE INJURED

Munich Germany, March B.-[UP)- Queen Elizabeth of Greece was slightly injured in fall today at the funeral of her aunt, Grand Duchess Victoria FeodOrovna, wife of Grand Duke Cyril, claimant to the Russian throne. The queen slipped on the steps of the mausoleum and was cut above the lip when her head struck the running board of the automobile of Queen Marie of Rumania her mother.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
PATTY BERG WAS BEATEN

st. Augustine, Fla, March 6.-IUPl--Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, and Mrs. Marion Orcutt Crews, of Miami will meet tomorrow in the final round of the wOmens Florida east coast golf championship Mrs. Hill gained the finals by defeating Patty Berg. of Minneapolis, one up. while Mrs Crews defeated Marion Miley, of eyin0'on Kv. two and one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Court Messenger Honors Mem ory OfJusHce Holmes
Aged Colored EmpIoye Seems to Be Only One al Capital, Who Thought of Late Jurist, Oliver
 Wendell Holmes, on Anniversary

Washington, March = (UP) An aged Negro supreme court messenger, Arthur Thomas appeared to be memory the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes dean of the supreme court liberal group who died year ago.
 that wear of fastmovng events had dmed the memory of the who honored during
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
Senate Lobby Probers
 Exposed Profits Made |By Henry [. Doherty
Disposed of 2OO 900 Shares in 1929 at Profit of $7- 74SO32-EmplOyes of Company Bought Shares;
 Doherty Profits Invested Elsewhere
BY RONALD c. VAN TINE United Press Staff Correspondent

sented to senate lobby investigators today that Henry L. Doherty disposed of 100000 shares of his Cities Service Company stock in 1929 profit of $7748032 Senator Ernest w. Gibson republican, Vermont, commented when testimony was given that in 1929 the company employees were being induced to invest in the concern:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, March G-UP)-- Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year to March 4, as compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year S4,Sl9, ,45G,207.2 A,6lS,lS2.4l29 96
 Receipts $2,3s7,227,92s56 s2.3t3,7s3,9lO.65
 Deficit $2 432,22s.27s72 S2.304,s9s, ,502.sl
 Cash Balance SI,75i,323,62G S2,023,966,275.os
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Final Edition
 Closing Stocks Late NeuOs Flashes
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