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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03
Republicans Ruled
 By Dictatorship
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if they are reduced in numbers, and to name the delegates to the town and senatorial conventions at which delegates to the state con- vention will be selected.
 Eight Delegates Going
 Waterbury will send eight dele- gates to the state convention, four from the town and two from each senatorial district. There are two senatorial districts in Waterbury. The delegates from the senatorial districts will also name the members of the g.o.p. state central committee, two from the 18th district and two from the 18th district.
 As reported exclusively Q couple of days ago in the Democrat, ex- Mayor William H. Sandland will not seek reelection to the central com mittee. Town Chairman Palomba, Mrs. Elizabeth Coe and Mrs. Lura Dutton are expected to seek re- election to the body. Alderman George l.. Kingston and Floyd Ras- mussen, both of the 18th district, are being mentioned for cx-Mayor Sandland's place. The former at tended yesterdays session of the central committee in Hartford when May 5th and 9th were chosen as the dates for the state convention. The scene will be Footguard Hall, Hartford. Local primaries must take place April 2oth.
 Opposition to Meet
 Leaders of the local republican organization opposed to the Palom- ba -Larkin- Conway regime were re- ported today as planning to hold meetings at which tickets will be entered in the g.o.p. primaries. The same cry that went up against the steering committees action in pick ing the city ticket for the last mu- nicipal election was started today once more. A bitter primary battle has been predicted for some time in the republican ranks of Waterbury.
 Nominations to be made by the opposition ticket will include per- sons for the town committee who will vote to throw out the present dictatorial group, 1t was asserted this morning.
 Attorney Crocicchia Protests
 Attorney Crocicchia, who demand ed open caucuses recently and who was one of the so-called reorgani- zation groups leaders two years ago, today protested against the latest plan to throw the selection of the town committee and dele gates to the state convention into the hands of a single group. AS far as Town Chairman Palomba's as- sertion that he does not feel that a meeting of the town committee is necessary to select the list of del- agates and town committee members for the 1936-1937 session, Attorney Crocicchia recalled that there has never been a meeting of the body called since Chairman Palomba took the helm except on one instance. At that time Attorney Palomba sought the endorsement of the committee for a prosecutorship in the city court. A battle ensued with him losing out.
 Rank and File Forgotten
 "The rank and file of the re-
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f publican party should have some say in the makeup of the town commlt- tee and the slate of state delegates. asserted Attorney Crocicchia. "Un- der the present plan 1t is ridiculous to think that the rank and file will have any say. The power is placed in the hands of the old steering committee consisting of Attorney William J. Larkin, former Town Chairman T. E. Conway, Alderman Francis T. Phillips and Town Chair man Palomba."
 Two years ago, Attorney Crocic" chia said the so-called reorganiza- ton group headed by Town Chair man Palomba and others, success fully fought against the Conway regime on platform of open cou- cuses. Now, charged Attorney Cro- cicchia, the power of picking dele- gates and the town committee is thrown back into the lap of those whom the reorganization group fought two years ago to 8 success full showdown.
 1 It was charged, further, that. the steering committee has already picked the slate of 20 town commit tcemen. Attorney Crocicchia point. ed out that he had no argument with those selected but against the method being followed. To allow town committee men to perpetuate themselves amounts to nothing more than oligarchy," he declared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03

Toledo uT) Toledo's eleven Kentucky colonels have decided to hold their meetings hereafter only on Fridays. the 18th.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03
ITALIANS READY
 TO GO FORWARD
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(Continued from Page l.) chine guns when they tried to at' tack the Italian positions in th& Lake Aschangi area, 1t was an' nounced today. Their losses werG said to be heavy. Italian losses were reported to be four Eritreana killed and 30 Italians and Eritreans wounded.
 Deny Peace Rum0r
 Authorities here denied reports that representative of Emperor Halle Selassie had effected contact with the Italian high command seeking preliminary peace negotia- tions.
 Details of the recent fight north of Aschangi indicate that it was the most sanguinary of the war which started six months ago to- day.
 Italian sources say they con- firmed their belief that Emperor Halle Selassie personally command. ed operations, with his chieftains Ras Siyoum and Ras Kassa beside him. ..t.
 Emperor In Charge
 He stood on a hill north of the lake, watching operations with field glasses, it was said, and directing the movements of his warriors, e, casionally consulting the chieftains.
 Weird funeral chants and the thud of tom toms throughout the night after the battle were taken as proof that many chiefs were killed.
 Pursuing Enemy
 Rome, April 3-(UP) - Italian troops are pursuing retreating Ethiopians in the Lake Aschangii sector of the northern front, Mar shal Pietro Badoglio reported today in war communique No. 174.
 He said that the third Eritrean brigade had joined the truck col- umn which occupied Gondar We'd nesday.
 The Somaliland front. Badoglio said. was quiet
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MARY E. CLAYTON
 LOST HER APPEAL
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tons attorneys to the state supreme court of errors, and there error was found, and the case was ordered re- turned to superior court. But sec- ond trial did not take place, and nothing was done in the case from December 20, 1892, to February 8, 1884.
 In February, 1894, Attorney Leslie Davis of Norwalk entered his ap- pearance as counsel for Mrs. Clay ton. The case dragged on till May of last year, when 1t was discon- tinued. Then on June 2, by agree ment of counsel, 1t was restored to the docket with the provision that 1t go off if 1t had not been tried by January 1,1936.
 Attempt to Restore
 It was not tried, and nothing new developed in the case until, late in February, Attorney William B. Hen- nessey filed a motion asking that the case be restored to the docket. Hear ings were held before Judge McEvoy last month. On March 20, Mrs. Clayton came here from New York to testify, and claimed that illness had kept her from following up the case.
 In his memorandum Judge Me- Evoy quotes from a letter by one of the lawyers in the case, in which the attorney said he was opposed to the case dragging on intermin- ably"
 Mrs. Clayton sought $100,000 on the claim that her husband, after living happily with her for years, was alienated by his parents and that his departure broke up their home. Her husband, Walter Clay ton, died during the litigation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03
Compensation Agreements

In snuppIementaI agreement filed today In compensation court, George POpovich of this city is awarded slO.71 weekly for 31 2-3 weeks from the Chase Metal works. For 50 per cent loss of use of one finger, he is given 15 weeks compensation at SlO.71 and for 66 2-3 percent loss of use of another finger he is given $lO.7l weekly for 16 2-3 weeks.
 The claimant was injured while at work Dec. l7, 1885.
 The following agreements, In which compensation will be paid weekly during disability were aI- SO filed today:
 Chase Metal works and l.. Pet- it, 29 North Main street, strained ba<s. Sl0.8g, beginning :Cal. M.
 Farrell Birmingham Co. and Melvin Woodford, Anaonia, finger injury. Si2.ls for 70 weeks.
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FORTY DEAD IN
 SOUTHERN STORMS
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Automobiles were tossed from streets into yards. Jagged bits of glass from the shattered window of grocery store were imbedded so deeply in g 7ooden telephone pole before u store that the pole seemed to De frosted.
 The central cone of wind struck the Fl Moro Cigar company factory one of the largest of its kind in the south, and lifted two brick buildings aloft in flying mass of brickdust and mortar to scatter them over five eastward blocks. It wrecked plants of the George C. Brown cedar plant, and the Blue Bell overall company.
 Many Negro Residents
 Most residences of the district were of inexpensive types, many oi them occupied by negroes. Their flimsy frames collapsed like card board.
 Electric power was turned off all over the city immediately after the storm but one man was killed before that by broken live wire.
 Gov. J. c. B. Ehringhaus ordered the 186 men and IT officers of the Greensboro national guard unit mobilized as soon as he learned of the disaster.
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Santa Cruz. Cal. (UP)--C. R Look found an oyster shell a in- ches long and inches wide. The oyster vas missing.
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papers today.
 intrnasigeant interveiwed prom inent women on their view of the case. One of them, Mime. Ferdinand Toch, widow of the World war hero said:
 "When a man is condemned there is nothing to do but execute him. The women were unanimous that the last minute delays were cruel. Le Matin called Gov. Harold G Hoffman of New Jersey great humanitarian" Reviewing the his- tory of Gov. Hoffman's activities the newspaper said: ..,
 Tt is preferable to steer clear oi great Humanitarian like the gov- ernor of New Jersey and the chief warden of Trenton prison. There are no cruelties that, in their hu- manitarianism, they are not capable of committing"
 Minister Protests
 Trenton, N. J., April 3-CUP)- Bruno Richard Hauptmann, kneel- ing in prayer during what he thought would be his last living mo- ments, heard the crackle of the elec- trio sparks as the death chair was being tested for his execution last Tuesday night, the Rev. D. G. Wer- ner, spiritual adviser to the con- demned man, related today in let ter received by Governor Harold G. Hoffman.
 T wish 1t were possible" Werner wrote, ito convey to you the supreme experience of those last hours I spent with Hauptmann in the ex- pectation of his inevitable death. If there had been any doubt in my soul as to his innocence, 1t was dispelled in those last crucial hours in the death cell with him.
 "The last minutes were indescrib- able, as the cracking of the electric sparks in testing the current, the rustic of the executioners, the rauc- ous gibes of the minions whetting their appetites for their feast of hu- man blood, broke in upon this man bowed in prayer, his hands clasped in mine and pouring out his heart and soul in the agony of an unjust sacrifice.
 "In those moments of travail. I searched his soul again and asked him if he had anything to say, to change or to add to what he had al- ready said. facing his righteous and eternal judge. He answered, looking straight into my eyes. No. I have told the whole truth. cannot change it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03

Reports were current that four men would be arrested and charged with Kidnapping. Wilentz refused to ad- init that his office was conducting an Investigation, but 1t was learned that his assistant had been studying carefully the state statutes in rela ton to alleged conspiracies to ob- struct justice.
 Miniature of First Trial
 The corridors of the court house echoed all Thursday and until early today a reenactment of the Lind bergh trial in miniature before the grand jury locked on the third floor
 Hoffman went before the jury of g men and an aged, motherly wo- man in the role of defense counsel seeking @ delay in Hauptmann's ex- ecution. He argued for an hour and quarter.
 Word flashed to the state house that he had left the grand jury room and Wilentz came dashing from a conference, pulling on his coat as he hurried down the corri- dor. He reached the jury room in five minutes and, one report said the walls rang with his denuncia- ton of the Wendell confession"
 Then, in rapid fashion, the jury heard the men who handled the ransom notes, the experts who charged at the trial that the writing was that of Hauptmann and other minor figures in the swiftly moving drama.
 Jury Ready to Quit
 Then, shortly after 2 p. m. there was 8 stir at the end of the cor ridor leading to the grand jury room, guard poked his head through the door opposite the jury room entrance and signaled another guard at the other side of the ten foot corridor.
 Before the crowd nearby could more than turn it's head there was batter of feet and two burly policemen scurried across the hall Between them and clasped by both arms was a tall grey-haired mar whose feet hardly touched the floor as he was hurtled through the door leading to the jury room. The door slammed shut. The guard straight ened his collar.
 That Was Wendell
 That" he remarked, was Wen- del"
 The man whose strange role ir the case blocked the executioA oi Hauptmann on Tuesday night was before the grand jury almost foui hours while more police were called to hold back the crowds in the cor ridor, along the wide marble stair way leading up from the first flood and on the front steps of the court house.
 Soon after midnight the jurors filed down a stairway and went home. But Foreman Freeman anc Prosecutor Marshall conferred fir the prosecutors ofiice. Then, in tn, door of Marshall's office, he gave evasive replies to questions about the Jury's action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03
CABARET DANCE

The "" Collegians will sponsor a cabaret dance tthe central build ing April 25. Plans for the affair were discussed last night at a meet- ing of the group. William Nolan. Charles Galaida and William Car- roll. members of the club, were com mended for their work in raising food and clothing for food relief purposes recently.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-03
Politics Off Map

Paris, April 3.-(UPl-The Haupt- mann case was driving international politics off the main pages of Paris
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
The Little Child
Learns In The
Kitchen
VIOLA E. HoLLEY

Watching and helping Mother the kitchen m
for this little boy And how things is iearnngl
"Wl bring three
eagerly to bring Them
This is three, isn't t holding them all in
his
to
three and send him back
this numbers and
He has opportunity the kitchen examine
ecs Of different becomes fam-
lar with the various tools and utensils
anxious to try these himself and little by little develops let
h use the simpler It is just such experiences
little child needs They help acquainted with the world
about him, his hands his ability m
tackle new and and difficult jobs
nave been surprised at times
very small child do successfully learned to
handle and even wash Dishes Juice after
nave cut the oranges to water milk
70 make an egg beaer go round in vigorous fashion
ne always explore the
Neseabes that from the up an
apple asking what color
IN he Kitchen and pleasing sounds to the sing
ing OF the teakee to the running or The
tinklng of ice a pitcher - @o
There mothers, doubt that IL Is too much
trouble 70 have small child in the kitchen too hurried or
perhaps they afraid he will break spill something There
give considerable time and thought what he doing
and when stop to think how kitchen must seem 10
enid ned as It IS with things that fascinating
than MS quite
ing that he needs just ~ ~
ne profits from helpful lessons in kind of obedience oo
ne oHows directions doing things right way He learns ~
snare IN the work Of the home up at me sn
Dne gay and said I'm little wen repaid for any
ne in the kitchen s W 0'pi"s
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06

This is just an ordinary street
crossing similar to thousands Of
others in this country. Not long
ago it was the stage for one Of
those typical American trag-
edies" that dot our traffic mans.
A father and mother called at
one Of the little dress shops near
the corner to get their daughter a
graduation frock. The proprie-
tress Of the store noticed they
were in a hurry. A few moments
after her customers hastened out,
she heard the sound Of screeehine
brakes and running feet. When
she looked out, she tainted at
what she saw from her window.
Days afterward, when asked to
describe the scene, she became
pale and i'll.
The parents and child had con-
tinued their haste in trying to
cross the street and were caught
between two lanes of traffic bv
changing traffic lights. They
paused uncertainty in the center.
They grasped hands for assur-
ance and protection. The child be-
came more alarmed and jumped
back directly in the path of an
oncoming truck, drawing the
mother with, her. They were both
struck and the wheels Of the truck |
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
BUREAUCRACY COSTS
MONEY

The pet project Of Federal Brain
Truster No. T. is doing a swell job
of spending money! Newspapermen
in Washington who went after facts
found ont these things about Pro-
fessor RexfOrd Guy TUgwelPs Rural
Resettlement Administration:
Since its inception, the Resettle-
ment Administration has spent S46,-
100000. OF that total. S19, ,727 ,305
went to administrative costs, pay
ing 13,O45 employees, Office rent all
over the country, travelling expenses
lin $1,000 automobiles) and numer-
our similarly worthy purposes.
That's more than 40 cents out Of
every dollar. Il is fairly Indicative
OF the dollars worth Uncle Sam gets
out Of his whole Federal establish
ment which had S15.789 employees
IN December, a gain OF 21l,07s in a
year. And that total the biggest IN
history did not include the CCC, /
Army, Navy, Congress or the courts. 1
Hail to Bureaucracy eve almost
Iaid Hell Hitler!') It gives the
axpayer so cents worth for his dol
ar!
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
FRANKFORT

Evelyn Truitt and Charles Parker,
both young people. had the pleasure
OF celebrating their birthdays last
Saturday, February 29th.
The Colonel Armwell Long Chap
ter Of the d. A. r.. held It's regular
monthly meeting Monday in George
town as the guests OF Mrs. James
NJ. Tunnell
Work which was held up BY bad
weather has been resumed on the
new fire house.
Dirt roads have been almost inn
passable. They are slowly drying
out.
Valouous Hudson dh0 has been
the PuroiI Station has
and accepted a position in
Charles Gray has
Mr.. Hudson.
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
FORMER STATE
TREASURER DIES
AT MIDDLETOWN
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Der Of conferences between the two
factions a harmony ticket was
drawn up. Mr.. HUM received united
support for governor and Mr.. Bur-
ris state treasurer.
The ticket was elected by a COM
Portable majority in November OF
that year and he served as treasurer
until 1904.
He was elected TO the State House
Of Representatives in 1916 and dur
ing his legislative service supported
measure which placed the schools
under the State Board Of Education
and removed their control from the
boards Of the various schools dis
tricts.
Prominent Methodist
Mr.. Burris was an active member
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He served as lay delegate for the
Wilmington NJ. r. Conference to the
General Conference Of the church at
Saratoga, N. Y, in 1916.
Mr.. Burris came Of an old Della
ware family and was a member of
the Delaware Society, Sons of the
American Revolution.
Funeral services we're held at his
home in MiddletOwn on Wednesday
at 2 o'clock, with inter-
ment in the Forest cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Sylvia Wright BurFis and one sis
ter, Miss Mary BurTis, of California.
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
Board Of Health Yarns
against Common Colds
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tions totaIed together"
There Is every Indication. DR.. Jost
explained, that the tendency we have
TO contract colds Is one Of the mem
alties we pay for our density Of
population. our striving il an un-
hygienic way for comfort, and our
conformity with conventional habits.
fads and fashions. Colds are not us
ually the result or low temperatures.
but are the result Of infection. Iso-
lated and uninfected localities in
latitudes where the thermometer
may drop to extremely low levels
are free from the aiiment.
The preservation Of a satisfac-
tory degree OF health" he stated.
depends largely on many factors
closely connected with correct and
hygienic liying-ample amounts 81
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06

Washingt0n-The New Deal con-
tinuea to take It on the chin. Fol-
lowing notorious defeats in the
elections in Rhode Island. Pennsyl-
vania, New York and elsewhere last
fall, the New Deal has recently suf-
fered the worst walloping Of all in
Democratic Louisiana, where Huey
Long candidates showed under two
New Deal congressman who sought
election as U. S. Senator and as
Governor on platforms pledging sup
wort to President Roosevelt and his
administration.
Congressman John N. Sandlin and
Cleveland Dear were the two New
Dealers who entered the fray TO
wipe up what remained Of the Huey
Long machine. From first to last
they promised to wrest Louisiana
from control Of the Long faction
and 70 swing the state into the
Roosevelt column. In their appeal
to the voters to repudiate the Long
faction. they pointed out that be-
cause of Longs unceasing warfare |
on the President and on Chairman
Farley, Louisiana had been denied /
millions Of relief funds that might I
have gone into the state, but for
this bitter feud at Washington.
The New Deal was as much an
issue in Louisiana as was the name
and the organization of>the murder
ed Senator; the two New Deal Con-
gressmen made it so. It was they
who thrust the national issue into
their state campaign; they who In
vited this latest rebuke to the New
Deal
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06
KENT All DRAMATIC
CONTESTS MARCH 1920
Eight Groups Busy Preparing For
Annual Events; To Award Prizes

Eight Kent county 4-H CIub
groups have become ardent disci-
pies of the drama in preparation for
a All Club Dramatic Contest which
is to be sponsored by the Kent
County Chapter of the Link and
which is to be held March 13 and 20
in the auditorium of the Caesar
Rodney High School, near Camden.
it was announced today by Miss
Helen L COmstock, Kent County
Club Agent.
Entered in the first session of the
contest, March 10, will be plays
staged by the Al Club groups from
Symrna, Dover, Westville, and
Houston. while the groups from Oak
Grove, WOodside, Canterbury, and
Frazier will produce the plays to be
held March 90. Each play, according
to Miss COmstock, will not exceed
40 minutes in length and will in
clude only All Club members as
actors.
The winning organization will re-
ceive fifteen per cent of the gross
receipts for the two nights while |
the groups placing second and third |
will receive ten and five per cent OF
the gross, respectively. The remain
Ing receipts will be divided equally
among the eight clubs after the ex-
penses are deducted.
According to Miss Comstock, this
IS the second year a 4-H Club Dra-
natic Contest has been held In Kent
county.
Milford chronicle., 1936-03-06

passed over the girls chest. An
autoist who took her to the hos
pital said she screamed constant
ly, horribly. She soon died of her
injuries. The father, who had
rushed toward his wife and
daughter in an effort to rescue
them, was struck by the same
truck and dragged to the curb,
mangled and dying.
Nor was this the end of the
tragedy that the truck brought
to this family group on their
graduation shopping trip. The
mother recovered from her physi-
cal injuries, but her mind has
given way under the strain and
she is now in an insane asylum.
It was a clear day when this
tragedy occurred. Eye witnesses
testified that the driver of the
truck had the green traffic lights
with him. This was his first acci-
dent.
Haste at traffic Intersections Is
for both driver and
l0alker.
The few seconds saved should
be weighed against a possible
lifetime of regret.