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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17
Shrine Of Little
 Fz0lDer Is Burned
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of the shrine in which he rose to national prominence in the last de- cade. It was in this building that Father Coughlin stood at the mic crophone each Sunday afternoon and preached his sermon against '"The Money Changers"
 Father COughlin Serrowful
 Nothing can replace the original shrine of the Little Flower" he said. Tt was my home. I have eaten, slept and lived there for 10 years" "
 Looking over toward the new shrine, built atl a cost of $75O,OOO, Father Coughlfn 1nuttered:
 T would rather have seen this one destroyed" The priest said that in the safe of the burned building was Q piece from the true cross" and Q bone from the arm of St. Therege, the "Little Flower" in whose honor the shrine was built.
 Broadcast Equipment Gone The expensive organ and broad casting equipment installed in the shrine also were destroyed. Leo Fitzpatrick, president of WJRi originating station of the Cough lin broadcasts, said that a new stli- dio would be started immediately in the new shrine.
 Hundreds of spectators were att tracted by the blaze. The shrine, located on Woodward avenue, 12 miles from Detroit, was in view of the heavy traffic. State highway police were called upon to direct traffic.
 The fire was reported at 6:16 .. i1l., and when the Royal Oak fire de- paftment arrived flames were shoot ing 25 feet above the roof.
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Priest Dl1C0verB Ht

The fire was believed due to de- fective wiring. Father Cyril Keat- Ing, who was to conduct early InassD discovered the blaze. The church sexton, William Currier, climbed to the roof and attempted to put out the fire with Q chemical fire ex- tinguisher, but the intense heat forced him to retreat.
 Father Coughlila was called and with his parents, MT. and Mrs. q. J.' Coughlin, watched the shrine burn in little more than an hour. He said the entire loss was covered by insurance. Although the priest be- lieved Q lack Of water halnpered tire-f fighting efforts, Fire Chief Charles Henning, said there was plenty.
 Sacred Things Saved
 No effort was made to recover the iron safe from the smouldering ruins, but the church officials said the Blessed Sacrament, holy vest- tnents and Little Shrine statuary .had been saved.
 Father Coughlin returned to his modest parish house when he was assured there was no danger of the fire spreading.
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q
 pr. Fritz Gebhardt, 43, . dis- tinguished German importer, once a professor of economics at the University of Frankfort, was killed early on the morning of Nov. l2, 1895.
 Police called by reighbors who heard shots, broke into his richly furnished B ekman Towers apart merit to find his body. Blood from four bullet wounds was staining the old-fashioned nightgown he wore.
 Beside the body was a torn re. ceipt, indicating that Dr. Geb- hardt had paid his own and some one else's rent at Q hotel the night before.
 Girl Lived in Same Building
 Qebhardt's apartment was on the Fist floor and Miss strets, a graduate of New York University, lived on the same floor.
 Shortly after finding Dr. Geb- hardt's body police came upon Mies Stretz. She was sitting on che stairway of the third floor.
 She was downcast but she was not weeping.
 "Did you shoot pr. oebhardt9" ah officer asked.
 "Yes, I did" she answered de- fiantly.
 The best police efforts could drag nothing more from her. Of- ficers especially sought Q motive to aid them in attempting to prove first degree murder but she would not talk.
 Tn the small bag she carried were the revolver with which Dr. Gebhardt was shot, four discharg- ed cartridges, woman's rose silk nightgown and her will, made two days before.
 Note Expresses Dependency
 q note attached to the will
 q am tired of 1t all. am leav- ing this world in good sound mind. Cancel ell previous wills and make this one stand"
 Police immediately began an Investigation of the background of Miss stretz and Dr. Gebhardt but they learned little.
 They discovered that she once participated in 8 $l00,000 dispute over the will of her grandmother, that she apparently had an inde- pendent income, that she had studied abroad and that she once had claimed to have been mar ried. She worked in Dr. Geb- hardt's office.
 Police learned that Dr. 0ebhardt apparently was wealthy, that he had . wife and two grown children in Baden Baden, Germany; that he had many women friends and that the night before his death had been spent at a hotel with a woman other than Miss Stretz.
 Leibowitz Defense Counsel
 Miss Stretz hired Samuel Leib- owitz, famed criminal attorney who has won 112 murder cases and who never has had a client executed.
 Among current defenses he is conducting are the cases of the Scottsboro Negroes.
 The prosecution to. date, has theorized that Miss Stretz shot
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(Continued from Page 1J the controversy now existing" Dal- rymple wired Green. Advise 50 we can prepare for Q huge meeting"
 Despite 6 heavy snow storm, sev- eral thousand shivering strikers stod by the gates. But neither the company nor Sparks organization made any apparent move during the morning.
 There was no certainty that this was the day selected for reopening the strike-c closed plants, but rumorS circulated through this center Of the rubber industry that 1t was. officials of the Goodyear Company were silent, but Sparks claimed to have 25,000 men organized In Q "Law and Order League" pledged to maintain Flaw and order" in the vi- cinity of the Goodyear plants, by force If necessary" Don't Want Peace
 While Sparks talked periodically on the radio about tout of town agi- tators," urging citizens to run them out of town" Paul w. Litchfield, Goodyear president, telegraphed La- bor Secretary Frances Perkins that the forces supporting the strike would block any settlement because peace is not their objective.
 Ills telegram was in reply to Miss Perkins telegrams to the company and to the Rubber Workers Union urging Q peaceful settlement. Goodyear company officials have been seeking to reopen the plants during all of the four weeks they have been closed. Sparks was ada mant in his pledge to put his league, organized by fire-eating radio speeches, at the task of reopening the plants. Neither would set q date, but union leaders believed 1t probably would be today.
 Those Behind Sparks
 Union ofilcials, announcing that "everyone knows who is behind Sparks" prepared both for a spir- tied resistance of the vigilantes and a general strike. A labor. committee held the power to call all Akron unions out on @ general strike when ever they thought 1t necessary.
 City officials appeared helpless be- fore the gathering storm. Chief of l Police Frank Boss asked all dealers 1 in guns and ammunition to keep their stocks out of sight and to halt all sales. Police said they did not believe there. was any connection between the strike situation and the theft of l2 revolvers and 485 rounds of ammunition from local armory. Like Pilgrims of Old
 Sparks, in a radio appeal for more vigilaptes last night, said his recruits were like the pilgrims of old. "a prayer book in one hand, @ blunder- buss in the other"
 We want to make this a safe community in which to work and do business and we want to make the elective officers conscious of their duty" he shouted. Soft words are only barrage of cream puffs and make the strikers more con- temptuous of the law.
 "We're not calling on members to swing clubs, but many have offered to do so."
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RIVERS IN MAINE
 THREATENING
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and Rowland. Costigan was ringed by ice cakes and three feet of water covered the main road throughout the town.
 At Winslow, it was feared a dam of the Central Maine Power com pany and two bridges would be washed out by the surging Sexbasti- cook. A string of freight cars loaded with rock was rolled onto one of the spans in an attempt to anchor it more firmly against the rushing waters.
 At Winn an ice field broke last night.
 Logs Threaten Bingham
 Bingham was menaced by 5000 feet of logs straining to break loose from the anchorage in the dead- water region, 10 miles up Austin stream. Lumbermen, fighting losing battle to control the logs, yes- terday appealed to Bingham for as- sistance. If the logs break loose, they would crush bridges, houses and everything else in their path.
 At the Forks, 20 miles above Bing- ham, pulpwood in the Kennebec river was tossed about the town, forcing all but one family to evacu- ate their homes.
 Typhoid Is Feared
 Fear of Q typhoid fever epidemic prompted state and town health of- ficials to distribute serum in Bruns- wick. All drinking water was or dered boiled. Bowdoin college was cut of from the town water sup ply.
 Tn southern Maine. the Saco river threatened Biddeford and 6aco.
 No additional deaths were report d in New England overnight the toll of known dead remaining at B. Damage was high in the millions.
 In Massachusetts, the Charles river overiloWed It's banks in Ded- ham. WPA workers were assigned to build dykes at Webster, where the Manexit river threatened mills.
 Improved conditions were reported in other sections Of the state. Law renee and other cities and towns along the Merrimack river were Ee- turning Co normal. Thousands hlr0wn out Of work when factories were flooded. were Co return today e tomorrow.
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Dr. Gebhardt in a jealous rage on learning that he had spent the night before with another woman.
 But she pleaded not guilty and said nothing.
 Alarmed by constant references to her as "the icy blonde" the "cold killer" and the "iron-nerved tiger woman, Leibowitz asked re- porters to meet her in the wom- ems detention prison where she has been held for the shooting.
 She would not say anything about the shooting and answered mostly "yes" or mo" or "yes and mo-"
 Newsmen came away to report that she was "cold, icy blonde with iron nerves"
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Continued from Page 1) " cruelty. The two were married Sep- tember 12, 1917. The plaintiff is given permission to change her name to Pauline Vernold. <,
 Theresa Mastronato from Wilfred Mastronato, on grounds of desertion. They were married November 28, 1929. The plaintiff is given permis- sion to change her name to Theresa Irsatti.
 William Saunders of New York City from Frances J. Saunders of this city, on grounds of desertion. They were married May Il, 1880. !.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17
German Observer
ONLY FRESHMAN

New York, March i7 (UP) - John w. Molloy. vloiinist and only Irishman in the Philadelphia ore chestra, will receive . pot Of shamroeks from his colleagues to- night At the ct. PatFickis dnN coE- cert in Carnegie hall. He ls believed the only full-blOeded yrsshman playing in . major American or- cheglFa.
 Toeay also Is ihe birthday Of Moiloys daughter Pnt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17
CONRAD FAMILY
 ASKS FORECLOSURE

4 foreclosure action against Fas- auale Petrilio and the Waterbury second Mortgage Corporation was brought in superior. court today by seven members of the Conrad fani- ily. The action is returnable to court in April.
 The plaintiffs are Hazel Conrad Book and clifford Conrad of this city; and George. Fred, Howard. Charles and Henry Conrad Of Wa tertown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17

NOOIlbllluCu G0BC Asl him of the action of the Stamford organization in disapproving of his presence at the session. Other than that have no control over the gov. ernor's itinerary"
 Democratic Town Chairman John H. Crary drowned today on the con- troversy caused by Mayor Phillips statement from Hartford. Water bury is not interested in the private battles of the 6tam:ord machine, :" he said. Tt is the aim of this city to bring about harmony in the state convention next fall. Possibly Mayor Phillips has some grievance in his own town but 1t does not involve Waterbury. therefore there is no need for local action"
 Mayor Phillips Threat
 Mayor Phillips let of his blast at the states chief executive last night in Hartford because of the fact that the Stamford machine did not couFi- tenance his presence at the session of the Fairfield County Women's federation in that city Saturday. He warned the governor, who inciden- tally refused t0 comment. that he would not have gfamIoEd's delegas ton behind him ct the fall conven- ton.
 Waterbury is now preparing. it was pointed out today. for tho spring state convention nt which delegates e the national convention wiil be chosen. The fall convcntlon, at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17
ST PATRICK'S DAY
 IS CELEBRATED
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ton ball at Hamilton park pavilion; @ dinner dance at the Elks' hall: a Knights of Coloumbus affair at the organizations quarters on North Main street; a celebration at the Lyceum sponsored by the combined societies of St. Patrick's church; an Irish- American program put on by the Irish-Americans of the North End; a leap year night by the La- dies chorus of the Concordia Sing ing society in Concordia hall.
 Afternoon Parties
 This afternoon at 1:30 o'clock a dessert bridge and fashion show started at the Civic theater build ing on Leavenworth street and from 2:3O to s o'clock this after noon a St. Patrick's tea was being served by the St. Mary's Hospital Aid society at the nurses home. At 3 o'clock a WPA string ensemble program was scheduled for the hos pital proper. with Michael Pace di- recting.
 Tn the various local public schools special St. Patrick's day programs were conducted. The parochial schools were closed today. Thous- ands of Waterbury's Catholic cit- izenry attended mass this morning in honor of St. Patrick.
 Good Crowd Last Night
 Approximately 400 persons were present at the community apprecia- ton hour of the local Y last night at which many Irish airs were heard. The Mattatick Musical Arts society conducted an Irish program ct the studio of Miss Margaret 0eddes on WiilloW street lest night.
 The Mir. and Mrs. club of the Second Congregational church will sponsor c st. Ratricks program tomorrow evening. Tomorrow night also, the Daughters of Isabella will present . program In Hibernian hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17

rNSOkAtAluSA kkOnA GaHG A1 ----. carno powers towards discussing his peace proposals.
 The Hitler proposals, made in a memorandum to the powers on March 2, the day the German troops marched into the Rhineland, included:
 A mutual demilitaried zone on the German, French and Beligan bord- CTS; western rlon-aggression pact among Germany, France and Belgi- um, guaranteed by Britain and Italy, to last 25 years; an aerial non-ag- gression pact; n-aggression pacts with Germany's other neighbors, in cluding Lithuania; Germany's re- entry into the League of Nations.
 In Secret Session
 The council convened privately at 3.35 D. m.
 Nine minutes later, the council went into a secret session, giving the impression that discussion of the Franco-Belgian resolution was being delayed temporarily because of conversations with Berlin which have been in progress all day long.
 The secret session considered a message which Britain received from Germany. After the private session, only three delegates of each coun- try remained in the council cham Der, all other delegates and secre- taries departing.
 The council announced that Eden had received a communica- ton from Germany expressing will ingness to send a representative, provided she could negotiate with tn, Locarno powers as well as at- tend the council.
 Behind the Scenes
 As the council met, Britain was engaged in 8 lively diplomatic ex- change with France and Germany behind the scenes, seeking to ar- range simultaneous negotiations be- tween the Locarno powers and Hit Ter over his peace proposals. while the council goes ahead with the Rhineland dispute.
 4AASA 0AAeAoiA 4u0AeCAc WCAO pressing Germany to send repre- sentive to London and adopt an amenable attitude, and also urged France to accept negotiations with Hitler.
 The secret session recessed briefly at { p. m, after announcement of Eden's receipt of the message from Germany.
 German Observer
 London, March iT--(UP)-Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. German anl- bassador, arrived at st. James pale ace at 4:30 p, m. to sit as Ger many's oiiicial observer ct Q meet ing of the league council.
 He was summoned by Stanley Bruce of Australia. president of the council
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17
NEW YORK MYSTERY GIRL
 GOES ON TRIAL MARCH 20
 AS SLAYER OF RICH LOVER
Samuel Leibowitz Defends Vera Stretz, Indicted For First Degree Murder Of pr. Fritz
 Cebhardt, German Importer
BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent

New York, March 17-(UP)-Vera Stretz, the sta tuesuue blonde who shot her over calmly admitted it and then refused to say another word to trial here March 20 charged with first degree murder
 The very fact that the cultured 31-year-od former schooeacher has declined to offer public defense for her act has made the staying of the most discussed in vcry
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which the state ticket win Do picked is not scheduled to take place until next September. lt Wes explained. and, therefore, is teo far of io WaF- fanl any excitement nt this llnle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17

G1hrallaF. March l1-(UP)-The n@smn Catholic bishop of Cadlx, Gnaln. Nar a refugee here today after Spanish rioters set iiFe Co ms hoIa1a,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-17

4 New Zealand football ieaaa e touring Japan, playing ioeai 'san'h
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GERMANY AGREES
 TO DISCUSSION

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GOVERNOR WAS
 NOT WARNED

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CLASH FEARED
 IN AKRON STRIKE

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SIX DIVORCES
 WERE GRANTED

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
What About the Bread?

MUssoLIN1 has given the people of Italy SUI
perb circus. The Italian army has shown mill
tary genius in its handling of motorized transport
The aplane has been used for aggression in country
far more rough than bombers have ever tackled be-
fore So whatP When does the bread begin to flow?
For little while the Duce has diverted the atten-
ton of his people from the powerful foes which italy
must beat back if Fascism is to continue Selassie
was only little bit of fellow compared to Unemploy-
ment, which still threatens Italy as we'll as the rest
of the world.
And am puzzled, too, at the fierce glee with
Which many American commentators hail the pres
ent low estate of the League of Nations I do not
deny that the league is sick unto death It's struc-
lure seemed faulty to me from the beginning And
yet see no reason for joy at its demise If it is
utterly oblterated little will be left but the old plan
OF balance OF power and secret treaties and alliances
And the league at its worst caused no more havoc
than that system.
American critics assert that the league was timd
IN dealing with the Duce and that it should have
called Mussolinis bluff when he defied the world to
interfere with his campaign against Ethiopia. But
these are the critics, or their heirs who opposed
our participation at Geneva the ground that the
league had teeth which would make for constant
conflict
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09

gan sending reports to the State
Department. :. Congressman
Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan
never fumbles in his pockets for
notes while making speech.
Reason: He has no pockets. The
60-year-old rookie wears spe-
cially tailored pocketless suits.
Sitting on the sidelines OF
the Senate Commerce Committee
hearings on aeronautics was a
hawk-eyed old man with a Wind
sor tie, eagerly waiting to be
called. He wanted to tell the
committee about his invention,
the "All-American Rigid Diri-
gible," with propellers and rud-
ders at the bow of the ship. His
name is Walter Link. Day after
day he sat, but the hearings adj
Journed and he was not called.
Henry Wallace sings the
praise of the soy bean, points out
it can be used IN making maca-
roni. linoleum, breakfast foods,
fertilizer, salad oil and paint.
Henry Wallace has received
letter saying, My husband and
mother-in-law say that a rat and
a mouse are two different spe-
cies of rodents. / say the mouse
is the offspring of a rat, as
kitten is of a cat. Please settle
the argument for U.S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Liberal Viewpoint
BY HAIRY ELMER RARNEs

THE death of William Reuben George marks the
passing of one of the major figures in the history
of American humanitarianism, reformative methods
and education Out of his experiments at the George
Junior Republic have grown number of major adj
vances both in the reformation of delinquens and
the character building of youth. 1t is not beyond
the bounds of possibility that his innovations will
ultimately revolutionze the treatment of denquents
They already have made much progress in this di-
rection.
Mr.. George was born in 1866 near Freeville in
central New York state, where he ultimately con-
Structed his famous educational institution Going
to New York as young he became interested
In the problem of delinquency when Theodore Roose
welt was police commissioner of New York City
Roosevelt made Mr.. George a special policeman,
and he carefully surveyed the condition of youth on
the lower East Side of New York City in the early
nineties He was shocked by conditions he uncovered
and tried to improve them by organizing boys clubs.
But he found it difficult to make much progress
with poverty and degradation every side.
GO he decided to take youngsters from New York
~ and give them taste of country life during
summer vacations Results still were disappointing.
Therefore, in 1895 he gathered together about $50
boys and girls from the slums of New York and took
them to Freeville his boyhood home He started
the experiment shoestrng, and had to depend at
first upon the aid of curious but amiable neghbors.
He set up his school abandoned farm and
of the original group remained with him
throughout the winter In the summer of 1896 mat
tiers really got under way and the George Junior
Republic came into being
The term Republic" was not mere high sound
ing front for autocratc reality The boys and girls
in the colony actually conducted their govern
ment on representative and thoroughly democratic
foundations.
The success of the self-governing experiment
so impressive that it widely adopted in reform
schools, not only in this country but abroad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Times Books

THAT trip to Mars you've heard so much about
L seems to be moving out of the Sunday supple
ment into the laboratory
Rockets Through Space" by P. E. Cleator Isl
mon 81 Schuster; $3.50 examines the chances for in
erplanetary travel and concludes that they are ex-
cellent
Right now. says Mr.. Cleator, the construction
of ship that could fly to the moon and back is
theoretically possible The principal drawback is
that it would cost s10ooo0000 But the point that
in theory at least the thing is perfectly possible.
The space ships chief problem he says is to get
up through the stratosphere into empty space. To-
days research is devoted to solving that problem.
Once the ship reaches that space it can go on and
on with the expenditure of practically no fuel Find
workable way of getting past the first so miles
SO and the biggest part of the puzzle is solved.
1t Is strange, Jules Verne-ish picture Mr. Clea-
tor paints. He suggests in all seriousness the
Enlistment of fueling stations the and the
construction of artificial satellites to revolve end
lessly about the earth 500 miles UP, carrying
supplies for itinerant star visitors
Sooner or later, he says. we shall fly to Mars, to
Venus, TO -knows-where; and II you are in
cned to scott hs points out that less than 500 years
ago the idea of airplane that would passen-
gers across the Pacific looked equally fantastic and
absurd. (B CO