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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-29
STORIES IN ] STAMPS
 By l. s. Klein

THE international Order of A Royal Exiles" has added to it's circle another member, Halle Sc. lassie. Emperor of Ethiopia, who recently fed Addis Ababa, leaving the capital to marauding natives. Italian troops had pushed back the great Ncgus, who boasts direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. until he re- sorted to the safety of foreign soil.
 Halle Selassie had been Em. peror of Ethiopia since his bril- liant coronation in 1880. He was born in 1891. and became regent. with Empress Zauditu, in i9i6. As emperor, he assumed the awesome title Of Eject of God, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, and Light of the World" He IS well educated and. during his reign, introduced many social and economic reforms.
 But he could not build an army of primitive tribesmen, despite
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their fearless ness and cour. age, that could face Italian invaders.
 The stamp shown here is one of the first tss u c q by E [ h 1 0 ? fl a, showing tn . q D c TO W ned m o n a [ C b as regent.
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ONE (. O.P. GROUP
 MEETS TONIGHT
Open Caucus Adherents to Gather at Civic Theater
 to Name Delegates

Open caucuses for the purpose of selecting delegates to the coming g. o. p. town and senatorial con- ventions and to nominate the mem bers of the republican town com mittee that will function for the coming two years will take place tonight at the Civic theater. The gathering will be the final step in the plans to conduct a bitter prim- ary battle next Monday when the balloting takes place to select the delegates and committee members.
 The new reorganization" group has invited all republicans on the party primary list to attend to- nights session so that the average voter may have say as to who is to be a delegate and who is to be on the town committee.
 Against Palomba Group
 This action is being taken in re- monstrance against the decision of Town Chairman F. w. Palomba to allow the ward chairman now on the town committee to select the delegates and their successors on the 1936-1937 town committee. The charge has been made that the plan of Town Chairman PaIomba is fathered by the Larkin- Conway machine and serves to create self
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LANDON FORCES
 CLAIMING MASS.

Boston, April 16. CUP)-Nearly 60 per cent of the republican voters of Massachusetts so far have indicated preference for the presidential can didacy of Governor Ali M. Landon of Kansas, President Edwin P. Park CT of the Landon- -for-President club said today.
 Newest recruit definitely in the Landon columns is senate President James G. Moran. who wrote Parker he "could definitely state that l am in accord with your movement 100 per cent"
 Parker said i3 of the republican senators and about 55 representa- tives have openly avowed prefer ence for Landon with six Of the rec inaining seven senators also favor ing the Kansas governor.
 we are not trying to convert voters" Parker said. but VIC are ex- tending invitations to ali those who wish Co become members"
 Parker believed that the prefer ence vote ii the prcgidential.pri- mary would 'obligatc' the Massachu- aetts delegation 10 vote for Landon, "eyen on tho first ballot"
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ON
 POLICY RACKET
Assistant States Attorney Fitzgerald Calls Gam.
 bling City Court Affair

In a prepared statement delivered in superior court this morning when nine defendants were arraigned on policy charges, Assistant States At torney William B. Fitzgerald de- clared that prosecution of the gam bling game should be city court matter. He also stated that the iden- tity of the head of the policy racket" was a matter "of common knowledge to the man in the street" but no sufficient evidence has been uncovered to request the issuance of a bench warrant for his arrest.
 Statement Given Out
 Assistant States Attorney Fitz- gerald made the following statement of facts:
 All of the accused, except the de- fendant in No. 5826, H. V. Bannon, are charged with the crime of writ ing policy. The accused, Ramon, is charged with the crime of collecting and receiving slips and money used in game of chance commonly hIlOWIi do pOllCJ. 1lC oIdLuIC lo oCC- tion 6337. do not believe that 1t is necessary for me to go into any de- tailed description of the manner in which this game of policy worked. Doubtless Your Honor, when you were prosecutor in New Haven, ob- tained an understanding of the prin- cipal mechanics of the game. In brief, player bets whatever amount of money he wishes that three num- bers of his selection will appear in a list of twenry-four numbers to be drawn by lot. If the numbers so se- lected by the player are in fact drawn he is paid on the basis of $1 900 for each penny that he bet.
 None Is Head Man
 When these defendants were first arraigned in this court on March 9 before Judge Jennings, the states
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Conn. Granted Sum OF $2, 351,357 To Repair Damage h ManyZones
Penalties Inflicted

writing policy lodged against of the BannOn noed and there substituted with cOlecting chance commonly policy without costs given six months in % tence suspended for year.
 The other eight disposed of as follows:
 Main street. $500 months a sentence
 East Main street four fined S4OO with six months in ja sentence suspended for
 three $3O0 without costs six months In a sentence suspended for
 ROmane 648 Wilson street. fined $2OO months in a sentence suspended for
 Pasqua Sanco 3 of B Beech street. counts fined $2OO sentence suspended year.
 Kelley 30 of 772 East Main street count fined S1OO and six months in jai sentence suspended for
 of 27 Madison street. counts fined $200 jail, sentence suspended for
 Dominic of 648 Wilson IA counts fined without six months j sentence suspended for
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Ethiopia Has Refused Italian Proposals
League Efforts to Arrange Peace Struck Snag; Italy Has Flouted Authority of League-Dictates
 Just Where Peace Will Be Signed

Geneva, April 16-(U.P.)-League efforts to arrange peace talks be- twen Italy and Ethiopia struck a serious snag today when Ethiopia announced 1t could not accept the Italian proposals for negotiations.
 Italy, fiouting the leagues author ity, demanded that Ethiopia sue for peace direct to the army headquar- ters of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in East Africa. Peace negotiations then would be held between the two na- tons at Ouchy, Switzerland, with league participation barred.
 Wolde Marian and Professor Cas- ton Jeze, representing Ethiopia, in- formed Salvador De Madariaga, chairman of the leagues committee of 13 on peace efforts, that Ethiopia could not agree.
 Proposals of Italy
 The United Press was informed that Baron Pompeo Aloisi, for Italy had made the following proposals:
 1. Ethiopia must start negotia- tions with Badoglio, following the World war precedent when an arm istice was signed by agreement be- tween the allied and German gen. eral staffs.
 2. Italy then would be ready for direct peace talks at Ouchy.
 3. Italy would keep the commit tee of B informed of the progress of the negotiations, but the league will not be represented at them.
 4. The league must guarantee Italy security against Ethiopian at tacks in the event Italy agrees to cease hostilities.
 The committee of 13 met in se- cret at 6:35 p. m. to hear Malaria gas report of his talks with the Italian and Ethiopian representa- tiveS.
 Awaiting Message
 The committee of 13 decided to continue its peace efforts, mean while awaiting a message from Rome to clarify Italy's attitude. The com- mittee agreed on strict secrecy about its discussions. One delegate that common sense is guiding our efforts"
 Madariaga and Averol conferred privately with Aloisi, informing him that Ethiopia rejected the Italian proposals.
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Three Other States in New England Also Were
 Given Help FIRST PROJECTS TO
 BE GIVEN APPROVAL l04 Projects in Connects cut Are to Be Assisted
 Right Away

Washington, April 16 = (UP) - Works Progress Ad- ministrator Harry L. Hopkins today announced approval of expenditure of $5,021,061 in 326 flood control projects in four flood stricken states. The projects include: Massa- chusetts, GA projects, $733,- 219; Maine, 138 projects, 1,412,277; Connecticut, 104 projects, $2,351,3 ,357. The projects were the first to be ap- proved from the $25,0o0,000 special WPA flood control fund and coin- cided with a broad flood control program moving toward congress sional consideration.
 Meantime, Rep. Bert Lord, r., N. Y, in address asked house members from New England, New York, Pennsylvania and other fiood- stricken states to attend a quick action" meeting at the close of to- days session. Citing press dispatch- es quoting President Roosevelt as saying he was unfamiliar with num- erous flood control bills on Capitol Hill, Lord demanded rapid-fire &C., ton to build retaining dams in New York state to present overflow of water into Pennsylvania and near. by states.
 To Hurry Problem | "A great deal of damage could be prevented by this" he said. Tt is time the president interested him- self in flood control legislation be- cause we don't know when floods will reoccur. urge congress to take immediate action and that those interested members meet with me later today to hurry this prob- lem along"
 A house judiciary subcommittee
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Final Nelus Flashes
TWENTY KILLED IN POLISH RIOTS

sons were reported killed today on both sides in battle in the streets of Lwow (Lemberg). At last reports the battle still was in progress. The fighting broke out between several thousand un- employed and police during the funeral of two workers killed Tuesday when the unemployed marched on the City Hall shouting for bread It was reported here that the demonstrators over turned street cars and used them for barricades. communication with Lwow was slow and uncer- tain
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SON WILL PROBE
 DEATH OF FATHER

Los Angeles. April 16--(UP)--A sons refusal to believe that 59- year-old university of Southern California economies professor kill ed himself and his wife in a bomb plot prompted police today to in- vestigate the possibility of murder in the deaths of Dr. and Mrs. Will liam D. Moriarty.
 Arriving here from Chicago, the son. John Moriarty, challenged the police theory that the elder Mor- iarty, crazed by financial worries, blew up an automobile. killing him. self and wife and wounding two friends.
 My father had many enemies, |" the son said. "I am going to present the various facts to Investigators in an effort to convince them that the black box that killed my parents was thrown or planted in the auto mobile
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ROOSEVELT IS VERY POPULAR
Polling Tremendous Vote in All Primaries Held
 Up to Present

Chicago, April 15-(UP)-The Powerful Chicago democratic ma chine, defeated in Tuesdays pri- maries, appeared today to hold the winning cards locally in next falls national election. Until this organ ization, controlled b Mayor Ed ward J. Kelly and National Com mitteeman Patrick A. Nash, dis closes what it intends to do Illinois will be a political question-mark. The organization has in its power the ability to swing hundreds of thousands of votes to the national democratic ticket headed by Pres ident Roosevelt next fall. Some ob- servers doubted whether 1t would.
 Kelly, Nash Split Party
 Kelly and Nash split the Illinois democratic party wide open by en- dorsing Chicago's health commits sioner, Henry Horner in Tuesdays primary. Between them, Horner and Bundesen drew more than half of Illinois vote, President Roose- welt, uncontested In the democratic presidential primary drew almost twice as many votes Fof the com bined total of the two republican
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DETECTIVES IN
 COMPANY UNIONS

Washington, April 16 (UP)-Pri- vate detectives agencies are allied with company unions in the hosiery industry to hinder collective bar gaining under the labor disputes act, John Edelman, American Fed eration of Hosiery Workers officer. today told the senate Lafollette labor spy inquiry.
 Tt can definitely be established" Edelman testified. That private de- tective agencies are not only con- nected with company unions but aid in forming them to prevent carrying out collective bargaining features of the labor disputes act"
 He said private detective agencies in the hoisery industry often framed" union organizers with women.
 Edelman described one case where an organizers wife received an anonymous telephone call every time he was seen with another woman.
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CUMMINGS MAY
 BE "KEYNOTER''
Has Not Yet Consented to Act, But Will Surely
 Accept It

United States Attorney General Homer s. Cummings Is in a recep- tive mood as far as the post of "keynoter" and permanent chairman of the spring democratic state con- vention is concerned. Interviewed in Washington, D. C., he admitted that he had received an invitation to pre- side over the convention at wkich Connecticut's sixteen delegates to the national convention will be selected. He said he probably would accept.
 This Is taken to indicate that when the committee in charge of the spring convention arrange ments meets tomorrow noon in Bridgeport that Attorney Cummings will receive the first considerat ton.
 Session In Bridgeport
 State Chairman J. Francis Smith of this city will preside at tomor- rows meeting at the Hotel Strat- field in Bridgeport. The other off cers of the state central committee and the two Connecticut members of the national committee will also attend to select the "keynoter". The
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 TO SETTLE CASE

Hollywood. April l6 OUP) - A friendly settlement of the battle for custody of l2-year-old Freddie Bartholomew, screen star, appeared near today as attorneys for his aunt. Miss Myllicent Bartholomew, tentatively agreed to a reunion of the boy and his mother.
 Mrs. Lillian Mae Bartholomew the mother, indicated her primary interest was to sec her son. not to open legal fight for his custody.
 Her attorney. Leonard J. Mey- berg, told the aunts attorneys, Felix Cunningham and Daniel O'Shea his client desired to arrange a meeting with the boy.
 We are agreeable to a meeting under the proper circumstances, O'Shea said We will insist. how ever. that the reunion bc strictly private"
 The request for a meeting wal believed preliminary to . conferenct of attorneys to arrange . peaceful settlement of what threatened tc result in Q long legal dispute over Freddie.
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LOYAL STUDENTS
 WILL ORGANIZE

Los Angeles, April 16-UP)-An intercollegiate war" appeared brew ing today as a group of local uni versity students opened a campaign against the undergraduate Vet erans of Future Wars" anti-war or ganizatoin formed at Princeton.
 Several dozen Loyola university students disclosed the birth of a new, copyrighted idea, Future De- lenders of America"
 The future defenders" like their Princeton brethren who formed the future veterans organization, will seek to establish chapters at vari- ous American universities.
 Aims of the Future Defenders" are ito correct the false impression that has been created at home and abroad that American youth is in harmony with the moronic move ment which attempts to ridicule patriotic traditions of our country"
 Martin Work, founder of the Future Defenders" said he was preparing to challenge the head of the Princeton veterans" to a de- bate.
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BONUS RIDICULE . BY YALE YOUTHS
Carried Out Last Night in Hilarious Manner; Yarl=
 kee Division Protests

New Haven, Conn.,, April l6-(UP) Recruiting officers for the Yale Post, Veterans of Future Wars, con- ceived at Princeton to ridicule bonus demands, dotted the Yale campus today after night of wild celebra- ton and marching.
 Student veterans" by the score were being enlisted on payment of twenty-five cents and it was antic- ipated that post roster would con- tain several hundred names before the end of the day.
 Last nights bonus march" kept the college in an uproar for several hours. A group of veterans" marched to the headquarters of the Yale Political Union, singing and shouting demands for immediate payment of 5000 certificates in payment Of sacrifices to be made in future wars. The marchers stormed the old Alpha Delta Phi house, where the political union was con- ducting debate on the Hauptmann trial.
 Pup Tents On Lawn
 Two pup tents were pitched on the lawn, a camp fire was lighted, some bacon was tossed in frying pan and amid cries of We Want the Bonus," a clothesline was strung up, dotted with Tapping shirts. The clamor interrupted the debate. A dozen marchers broke into the hall. Charles Woolsey leaped to the plat form and demanded to be heard. The sergeant-at-arms endeavored to hustle him from the rostrum. Some one stole the fuses from the light
 lHnfafifaund an pan.. Al
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Nine Men Arrested h1
 Policy Racket Fined
They Entered Pleas of Guilty This Morning Fines of $3,4OO Were Imposed-Jail Sen-
 tences Were All Suspended

Nine men described by Assistant States Attorney William B. Fitzger- aid as the willing tool" of those controlling the policy racket" were fined a total of $3,400, and each oi them were given a six months jai term, with execution of the sentence suspended for a year, when they appeared before Judge Earnest c Simpson in superior court this morning to plead guilty to charges of violating the anti-gambling statutes. The nine, who had previ- ously pleaded not guilty and elected trial by jury, changed their pleas this morning and the assistant states attorney moved for immedi- ate sentence. Each of the &C., cused was fined $10O on each count lodged against him, and was given the suspended jail
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WOMAN HANGED
 DESPITE PLEAS
British Trained Nurse Had Killed Crippled Patient;
 Mercy Refused

Birmingham, Eng, April l6-(UP) Mrs. Dorothea Nancy Wadding- ham, 36, a trained nurse and mother of five children, was hanged at Winson Green prison today for the murder of a patient. Despite a strong recommendation of mercy by the convicting jury, which the trial judge endorsed in forwarding 1t to Sir John Simon, home secretary, Simon refused to recommend that King Edward VIII commute the sentence. AS is customary, the king did not intervene personally. The re- fusal to commute the sentence was understood to be due to a strick ruling that as @ matter of public policy the death penalty must never be relaxed in poisoning case.
 Killed Crippled Patient
 Mrs. Waddingham was charged with mp.dering, by means of an overdose of morphine, Miss Ada Baguley, 50, crippled patient in her nursing home at Nottingham. Ronald Joseph Sullivan, father of dren, was tried with her but was ac- quilted of any complicity. Mrs. Wad- dingham stoutly denied the charge. and asserted that Mrs. Baguleys death was the result of misunder- standing. She was the tenth woman to be executed in Great Britain dur ing the present century. The last was Mrs. Ethel Millie Major, hanged at Hull in December, 1884, for mur- dering her husband by means of strychnine.
 Another Woman's Protest
 Mrs. Violet Van Der Fist, million aire industrialist who has indulged in spectacularly staged demonstra-
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FRED D'ANCELO
 TELLS OF SHOT
Writes Police It Was All Misunderstanding-Po-
 lice Can't Find Him

It was all the result of a mis- understanding, Fred D'Angelo, 35, of 28 Burton street, explained to police (by maiD today. MT. D'An- gelo is the caller at whom Mrs Joseph Garafolo, of 180 Easton ave- nue, fired a shot from .32 calibre revolver when he demanded ad- mittance to her home yesterday.
 In fluent Italian, translated for Judge John F. McGrath, and po- lice, by Peter DeCicco, court inter- preter this morning, MT. D'Angelo wrote that he was really playing the part of a good Samaritan yes- terday and that he was surprised and shocked when Mrs. Garafola opened fire on him from second story window.
 Tells His Story We'll
 As MT. D'Angelo tells the story he had just been given a job by Michael Negri, local contractor. Elated at his good fortune and filled with commendable desire to share
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half of vegetable land on the shores of Long Island, Grunwald told the committee that he organized farm- CTS against the New Deal in Me- braska and talked to others about his organization in South Dakota.
 But when Chairman Hugo L. Black called on him to name the persons he talked with, Grunwald refused on the grounds that under the New Deal they'd get in to plenty of trouble"
 May Be Contempt
 Black then summoned secret meeting later today or tomorrow to discuss possible contempt action.
 Pickering between Grunwald and committed members broke out after a discussion of methods to counter act the houses refusal to grant Blacks request for a $l0,000 appro- priation to employ Counsel to repre- sent the lobby investigators in litiga- tion. One method suggested by
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PRESIDENT LAID
 CORNER STONE
Spoke on Conservation of SOil-QuOtes Col The-
 OdOre Roosevelt
BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press White House Corre-
 sDOndent)

|, Spondent)
 Washington. April 16.-CUP). .-- President Roosevelt called on the nation today to carry on with re- newed vigor the governments policy of conss wing natural resources. Q
 The chief executive spoke at the cornerstone laying of the new $l2,- C00000 department of the interior b;:ilding now under construction.
 Secretary of Interior Harold l.. Ickes joined the president in urging conservation of resources and called on congress to change his depart- ment's name to "The Department of Conservation"
 High officials of the government were in the crowd that heard MT. Roosevelt review what already has been done along conservation lines and saw him lay the corner -stone with the trowel used by George Washington when he started con-
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ITALIAN PUBLISHER IS BITTER

Rome, April 16-(UP)-Virgilio Gayda, publisher of the influential Giornale q Italia published three-column article today denounc- ing the London Times and Britain's foreign policy. Italy, he said, is ready "with arms and hands to repel any provocation or threats, no matter where they arise, even in Britain" He added that Italy must be prepared for war.
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FARLEY SPEAKS
 TN PITTSFIELD

Pittsfcld, Mass, April l6.--tUP) Democrats will open their national and state campaigns in MaSsachu- setts at a dinner here tonight.
 More than 68O persons have re- served seats for the affair, at which Postmaster General James A Farley and Governor James Nj. Curlcy will deliver keynote speeches.
 The dinner will bc sponsored by democrats of four western Massa' chusetts counties. Prior to the din' ncr, Farley will be given a recep. ton by 100 Massachusetts post. manterss
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CHOSEN PRESIDENT

New Haven. Conn. April l6-tU P)-Dr. Edgar II. Sturtevant. Yale professor of linquistics, has beer chosen president of the American Oriental Society. succeeding Profes- sor William r. Albright. Johns Hop kIns University. Others elected al the ibeth meting of the society last night were Professor Leory Water man, University of Michigan. vice. president: Professor Carl H. Krael- Ing, Yale Divinity school, secretary. treasurer.