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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
Pittsburg Mayor Created
 Scene Before Committee

"just because they've got a little dignity up there doesn't mean they can make fool out of anybody.
 q saw in the paper this morning that they were razzing everybody so I thought I would razz them a little bit" he said. "They said they would call a policeman. I wish they had. As a matter of fact, I wish I'd brought some of Pittsburg's finest down here with me"
 McNair's chief objection to the bill was that 1t would prevent cor porations from accommodating sur pluses which could be used to cope with disasters such as the floods which recently swept his city.
 His testimony promoted good natured laughter on several occa- sions.
 He protested that the tax bill would take money out of Pittsburg and send it to Washington. and was met by i've hope so," from Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, republican, Michigan.
 We sincerely hope that that won't happen" McNair retorted' "because we think our city has functions to perform which 1 think are more important than the func- tions Of this body. Surplus has helped us out a lot in the flood crisis. We were glad that mills and factories had money laid aside. ! am here to plead with you not to take the shirt on our hacks."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
CASTON MEANS TO
 HAVE NEW PRISON

Kansas City, Mo, March 3l(UP) -Gaston B. Means, serving a long sentence at the Leavenworth, fed- eral prison for fraud in the Lind bergh Kidnapping case, is slated for transfer to Alcatraz Island, the Journal-Post said in copyrighted story from Washington.
 Means, onetime department Of Justice agent who defrauded Mrs. Evalyn Mclean of Washington out of $100,0O0 on fake claim that he was obtaining the Lindbergh baby from abductors, recently confess cd' staying the baby.
 An effort to smuggle an uncen- sored letter from the prison to Governor Hoffman of New Jersey resulted in his confinement in the dugeon, the Washington story said, and subsequent decision to send him to the island prison where the government concentrates its worst offenders.
 A guard reported Means attempt ed to bribe him to take the 16-page letter out of the prison and post it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
SANDLAND QUITS COP COMMITTEE.
Will Resign Soon From State Central BOdy-Is
 Member l6 Years

Following sixteen years of service on the republican state central com mittee, former Mayor William H. Sandland announced today that he will resign shortly from that body. The g. O. p. central committee meets on Thursday to set the date for the party's state convention and the local conventions and primaries. Ex-Mayor Sandland will not attend.
 Appearing for him at the state central committee session Thursday will be Alderman George L. Kings ton. The latter will have ex-Mayor Sandland's proxy. The other three local members of the committee will attend the meeting, which will take place in Hartford. They are Repub-
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HIS IRON NERVE CRACKS AT LAST
Weeping Wildly as He Still Claimed Innocence of
 Famous Crime
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

(Copyright, 1886, by United Press)
 Trenton, N. J., March 3l.-(UP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann's iron nerve collapsed today as the long and fantastic Lindbergh case sped him toward death tonight in the electric chair. He wept in his cell at the state prison and 1t was learned that officials were watch ing him every second in the hope that he would talk at the last mo- ment in an effort to delay his exc cution. Head Keeper Mark o. Kim berling announced that he had visited Hauptmann in death cell No. g this morning and that the con- yicted murderer of the Lindbergh baby was weeping bitterly although continuing to maintain his inno- cence.
 T found him broken down and he was weeping all the time," Kim berling said. Tt took several mln- utes for him to compose himself so that he could talk to me.
 Maintains Innocence
 He continued to HlalIltdAIl llio III nocence. He said he had no change to make in his previous statements. :" Kimberling quoted Hauptmann as saying: Any change would be a lie." Hauptmann spent almost all last night writing to his mother in Germany and talking with his guards about what his family would do after his death. He asked the guards if 1t would be possible for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
ITALIAN TROOPS
 MARCH 22O MILES

Rome, March 3l.-tUP)-A mys- tery column of Italian troops has oc- cupied Sardo, important center in northeastern Ethiopia, after a march of 220 miles from the Fri trean coast. a war communique dis closed today.
 The advance constitutes a threat against the Ethiopian lines of com munication with the sea in new direction. while fears were felt among Ethiopian leaders that the important Lake Tana region in the northwest and the Addis Ababa- Djibouti railway in the east-center might fall.
 Started from Assab
 The new mystery column started out from Assab, Il secret port on the Red Sea opposite Alden of which little is heard, and from Bailu! near it.
 They had to march in blistering
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G MEN IN CHELSEA ROBBERY

Chelsea, Mass, March 31.-(UP)-"G- men" have joined the hunt for the four bandits who seized $16,138 payroll at Chelsea City Hall today, it was learned this afternoon. The fact the payroll was in the keeping of an empoye of the National Bank when stolen gave federal authorities jurisdiction and at least two govern ment agents were assigned. Although about four hours had elapsed since the robbery, scores of police still sought the fugtives in the Everett Cemetery" district where they were seen to abandon the original getaway car.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
WEPT AT GRAVE OF DOG

Kansas City, Mo-, March 31.-(UP)-Zero, spotted pup of nondescript origin was buried here today while 12 persons whose lives he saved stood by and wept. Zero and the 12 persons were asleep in a bus in which the party was travelling. Flames from a gasoline stove set fire to curtain. Zero yipped violently. He jumped on the sleeping forms. They barely escaped with their lives. Then someone remembered Zero Two hours later in the ruins they found the pups body three feet from the door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
FAMILY SAVED BY MONGREL DOC
Barking of 'Jiggs' Reused Five Occupants as Their
 Home Burned

The barking of "Jiggs," a family pet, a mongrel dog whose courage and faithfulness are in the best canine tradition saved from possible serious injury MT. and Mrs. Edward Matarazzo and three small chil- dren, trapped by fire this morning on the second floor of their home at R. F. D. No. 5, Pearl Lake road.
 Awakened by the frantic warning of the dog, MT. Matarazzo, employed on the night shift at Scovill's. found the entire upper floor Of his home filled with choking. acrid smoke. Flames were shooting up into the bedroom through a heating register in the floor.
 Father to Rescue
 Awakening Mrs. Matarazzo, and catching up two of his children, Fc- lice, age 5, and Roland, age 3, MT. Matarazzo threw open window ad- joining the roof. He got the older children outside and helped his wife, who had the baby in her arms, to gain the roof, under which is a high bank which made access to the ground comparatively easy. His hair was singed and he suffer- slight burns about the head.
 Alarm Sounded
 A paSserby, whose name could not be learned, telephoned an alarm to headuuarters at 9:08 o'clock and two minutes later second alarm was rung in from box 65 on the cor ner of Hamilton avenue and Edge
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WIFE OF BRUNO BROKEN WOMAN Gets Message for Their Son on Her Last Visit
 tO Bruno
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff COrresp0ndent)

(Un1ted FreSS StaH COrTcSpOHucHJ
 Trenton, N. J., March 3l-(UP)-- Anna Hauptmann summoned every ounce of her strength today to obey-if necessary-the final in- structions of her husband:
 "Tell my son that his father is not murderer. Tell him that I'll die brave"
 Anna Hauptmann more colorless, more sad than since she first came into the public eye, hoped that she would never have to deliver that message spoken through the bars of a death house cell by the man she married and made home for in a neighborly section of the Bronx.
 Hopes For Something
 She hoped that the eternal something" of the Lindbergh crime would happen; that, for instance, Gov. Harold c. Hoffman would again visit her husband in the death house and that the governor might yet be persuaded to issue a second reprieve. But she appeared less hopeful than at any time dur ing the two years in which she has gone through almost unbearable grief, suspense, and suffering. She seemed to be at the end of that road of hardship today after al- most the first collapse she has per- mitted to break her stoicism. Haupt- mann then instructed her to tell their son that he was not rlur- derer; that he would die bravely If it were necessary that he die.
 Finally Collapsed
 It was not until she returned to her hotel room that she collapsed. A doctor was summoned. She had been suffering from grippe and the death house visit left her cold and trembling, but the doctor said her condition was not serious. That last visit to her husband was fraught with desperate hope that the court of pardons would grant Hauptmanns application for cle-
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Barring the possibility of the next thing to a miracle, the electric cur- rent that kills Hauptmann will end Hoffman's once brilliantly promising career.
 It's hard to say how and why Hoffman became ernbroiled in the crime that, before it shattered him, had wrecked many lives with mur- der, suicide, fear, and disgrace. Be- fore he dramatically visited Haupt- mann's death cell late one night last October he was being whisper ed of in high national circles as a prospective republican nominee for vice president-with the breaks" :" even as president.
 Popular Months Ago
 A few months ago he was invited to address more meetings, in New Jersey and west to the Mississippi, than he could attend. He was noted as the young governor who
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NEW YORK HEARS
 OF DEATH THREAT

New York, March 3l--tUP)- Brooklyn police said today that they understood that Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey had been threatened with assassination to- night if he does not reprieve Bruno Richard Hauptmann. scheduled to be electrocuted at about p. m.
 They received the information from Newark. N. J.. police when the Newark authorities asked them to attempt to capture man who telephoned the warning from a Brooklyn pay telephone. they sad.
 Abraham 0utterberg. owner Of pharmacy from which the call was made, told Detective Thomas Raf- ferty that two men used public booths in his store several times at about the hour of the call to New ark, but he could not describe them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
DEMOCRAT-POLI. MIDNIGHT SHOW
Splendid Vaudeville Bill Has Been Procured;
 Funds for Red Cross

All roads lead to Polls tonight fog the gala all-star Democrat-Poli flood relief benefit show for the Red Cross. A Broadway stage show, in- cluding doze stellar acts of vaude- vile, singers, dancers, musicians, comedians, acrobats several sur prise features, the comedy of Harry Shaw as master of ceremonies. the magic of Gus Meyers fiddle, and the music of six Waterbury orchcstras - that's a very small idea of what the purchase of a 50-cent ticket will bring to anyone who attends to- night.
 The benefit show, with all its pro- ceeds going to the Red Cross flood relief fund, opens at 1:30 tonight at the Poli theater. Special trolleys and busses will be run to and from all parts of the city before and after the performance.
 Buy You Tickets Now
 Tickets can be secured today at any one of the following stores: Rowland Hughes, Musler-Liebes- kind, Sugenheimer's. Grieve, ,Bissett and Holland, Worth's and Miller and Peck. Purchase of tickets this af- ternoon will save waiting at the box office tonight.
 Arranged through the, coopera- ton of The Democrat and the Poll theater, the midnight benefit will give all Waterburians and those from surrounding towns and oppor- tunity to aid the Red Cross and yet
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Guards With Year Gas Bombs Around Prison
Riot Clubs Are in Evidence Officials Expect Crowds to Gather as Fatal Hour ApprOaches-Will
 Try to Prevent All Trouble
By JOSEPH s. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent

Trenton, N. J., March 3l-(UP)- Extra guards with tear gas bombs and riot clubs patrolled the sunny streets surrounding the New Jersey state prison today as the hour Of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's exc cution approached. Nearby streets were roped of, closed to all except those who had special passes to the prison. In the early afternoon, the guards had hardly anyone to watch except 8 few boys who abandoned 8 ball game to lean against the ropes and peer toward the grim red brick building in which the state was pre- pairing methodically to kill Haupt- mann because he killed child.
 Feeling of Tension
 But feeling of tension pervaded the entire neighborhood. The au- thorities expected that increasing numbers of the curious would gather near the prison as the hour grew nearer and nearer.
 They were determined that for all the hysteria and excitement that has marked the Hauptmann case from the beginning, there should be no untoward incident outside the prison tonight.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
CHELSEA CITY
 HALL IS ROBBED
Three Bandits Seized Big Payroll After Policeman
 Was Slugged

Chelsea, Mass, March 2l.-(UP) Robbers raided Chelsea city hall today, slugged and disarmed a poe liceman, seized the weekly munich pal payroll of $16,138.07. and es- capped. An hour and @ half later more than 40 officers, marshalled from three cities. were making a o-house search for the four bandits in the vicinity of Woodlawn cemetery in adjacent Everett. Fif- teen Metropolitan district policemen and a squad of state troopers joined in the hunt, extending over the en- tire "cemetery" district. embracing not only Woodiawn but also Glen wood cemetery in Everett and Holy Cross cemetery in Maiden.
 Fled Into Cemetery
 The fugitives had been seen to abandon their black Oldsmobile se-
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MORE POLICE TO
 RESIGN PLACES
Three Officers to Tender Their designations at
 Meeting Tomorrow

Three resignations from the po- lice department will be read and accepted tomorrow afternoon at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the police board, it is reported on reliable authority. The three re- signing are. Captain William P. Keegan, head of the detective bu- reau, Lieutenant Arthur Yarring- ton, head of the department of auto repairs, and Lieutenant Detective James Murphy, former head of the vice squad. The report current, also, is that Detective Lieutenant Jo- seph Stevens will be advanced to the position of head of the detective bureau, succeeding Captain Kegan.
 The resignations of Lieutenants Warrington and Murphy will create two more vacancies in the staff of officers of the police department and it ist likely that the police board will fill them at tomorrow afternoons meeting.
 Captain Keegan'S Record
 Captain Keegan became mern- Der of the police department on January II, 1898. He was promoted to his present rank March 20tls, 1918, when he succeeded the late Captain Dodds as head of the de- tective bureau. His official rank in the department at the present time is that of "chief inspector.
 Lieutenant Warrington
 Lieutenant Warrington was named a patrolman on April 16, 1913, and was advanced to his present rank on November 16, 1921. During his service with the department he has principally performed desk and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. March 3i-(UP) " Government expenses and receipl@ for the current fiscal year to March 2Sth, as compared ith year ago: This Vear Expenses Last Year s5'293'345,551.1O $5,040,707,114.5
 Receipts .s6i.21 $2.S4G,s1O.902.95
 Deficit s9.e144oi,5ss.ss s2,1ss,7s6.2I1.6O
 Cash Balance e,9O3. .262,594.79 s2,433,12S.709O2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
DIR. 'ALPoRT VERY POOR

Springfield, Mass, March 31.- (UP)-The condition of Dr. Ben- jarnin Alport, 45, Springfield physi- clan who was bludgeoned by a na- tional guardsman when he ignored an order to produce credentials, was reported as poor and unchanged" today. The attack occurred March g when Dr. Alport attempted to en- ter 8 school to inoculate flood refugees. The guardsman, Marion J. Cassenelli, 20. still is in military custody.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
SATISFIED OF
 HER SUICIDE

Boston. March 3l--(UP) --Satis- fed that she committed suicide, authorities today abandoned plans for an autopsy on the body Of Mrs. Juanita Allen. 22, formerly Of Mt. Vernon. Ind, who died yesterday after swallowing disinfectant
 According to her husband George. Ghe had been morose following the death of her mother at Mt. Vernon a year ago, but lately had seemed more cheerful. She left no iare- Rell note.
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GAINED COUNCILMAN

Danbury. Conn. March 3i.-CuP) Republicans gained an additional councilman as result of the states first city election here yesterday The increase now gives the republi- cans . majority of 9 to , and they control the board of aldermen by three to one. The voting was cofn- parekively light and the campaign Was lacking In outstanding issues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
ZONE IS
 SHUT TO PUBLIC
Saloon Is Among Build- ings Roped Off-Tren-
 ton Still Excited
By JOSEPH H. WASNEY nited Press Staff COrrespOndent

tOUhtCu A kOoS 0SeSsA
 Trenton, N. J., March 3l.-(UP)- There's a saloon on a ramshackle corner of Trenton's Third street where the neighborhood boys drop in almost every. afternoon-but not today. Today the entire neighbor- hood around the corner saloon was roped off and guarded by policemen demanding passes of anyone at- tempting to enter, and along the bar telegraph keys clattered thou sands of words out to other parts of the world about an event in preparation across the street. They make preparations frequently there to eliminate a man who has trans gressed the laws, but never before on the scale witnessed today.
 District of Cheap Houses
 The huge, rambling prison spreads out in a vast square in district of cheap houses, before which chill dren in ragged clothes and dirty faces play on the street: where the
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Cambridge, Mass, March 3l.- (UP)-John Edwin Freehafer, 26, os Reading, Pa, graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, today filed intentions to marry Miss Helen Marie Richards, 23, also of Reading. Freehafer, son of MT. and Mrs. Raymond Free hafer, graduated from Lehigh uni versity. Miss Richards is a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Elijah Richards. Freehafer, said no date had been set for the marriage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-31
BRECKENRIDGE RUN

Baltimore, Md, March 3I.-(UP)-Col. Henry Breckinridge of New York today filed in Maryland his candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in opposition to Presi- dent Roosevelt. MT. Roosevelt has filed so far in Maryland, Massachusetts and Ohio. Breckin- ridge has filed or announced he would file in Pennsylvania and Ohio in addition to Maryland.
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head clipped TOT the electroueS or death--lost his stoicism when vir- tually every legal hope of delaying execution had vanished. He cracked up so completely that prison officials ordered extraordinary precautions against suicide and were prepared for the possibility of a confession.
 No Confession in Sight
 But thus far there is no stronger indication of a confession than at any time since the former German carpenters arrest on charges of kid- naping and murdering Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Head Keeper Mark o. Kimberling told reporters that Hauptmann continues to cry out that he is innocent and pray that
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Another Man To Die Politically Ouer Hauptn1ann
Governor Harold G. Hoffman, Who Might Have Been President Will Retire From Political Arena
 When Bruno Is Executed
BY GEORGE H. BEEALE Limited Press Staff C0rrespondent)

Trenton, N. J., March 31 = (UP) - If Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed tonight another man, 'the who might have been president will perish politically with him.
 tome of the ambitions of Governor Harold G. Hoffman
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Grips Bars or CeH h
 Trembling Fingers As He Weeps Most Bitterly
Bruno Has Cracked Up So Completely That Prison Of' ficials Have Taken All Precautions to Prevent
 Him From Trying Suicide
NEW TRIAL WAS DENIED

Trenton, N. J. March 31.-(UP)-Justice Thomas w. Trenchard today refused an eleventh hour appeal for new trial for Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
 He also denied a motion for stay of execu- ton.
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BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Copyright, 1886, by United Press)

State Prison Yard, Trenton, N. J., March 31 = UP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann grpped the bars of his cell in trembling fingers today wept bitterly and cried out for
 miracle that would him from death tonight in the electric chair .#
 The convicted murderer of the Lndbergh baby-his
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MORAN AND SONS GET CONTRACT

Washington, March 3l.-(UP)-Thomas F. Moran and Sons, of Waterbury, Conn., today was awarded contract for construction of postoffice building at Thompsonville, Conn., for a price of $48,752.
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INTENTIONS FILED

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Final Edition
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-09

Been driving an automobile for
many years and have made many
inquiries about how far car will
run on a single gallon Of gas. Best
record has been about seventeen.
This week the mark has climbed
above twenty But it's not all due
to the kind Of car It was more, per-
haps, due to the speed. Captain
Carnahan, of the state patrol, says
that the speed limits are to be en-
forced from now on, on the state
highways. A trip to the county seat
this week at the legal speed limit
of 40 miles was not too irksome-
and it surely made difference in
gas mileage!