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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
WEISSMULLER IN
 UGLY PUBLICITY
Mother Working Every Day as Cook - Johnny
 Denies She Has to Do It

Chicago, Jan. 30.-tUP)-Thc mother of Johnny Weissmuller, Tar gan of the movies, was loyal to her highly paid son today although she cooks in a restaurant while Johnny enjoys the luxury of Hollywood. The plight of Mrs. Elizabeth Weissmul- Ter was revealed when judgment for 9254.7S back rent on an apart ment in which she formerly lived was obtained in municipal court She faces garnishment proceedings next Tuesday against her 3l6 Q week salary. Johnny doesn't know about her debts nor about her joD and she has refused to accept fi- nancial aid from him, Mrs. Weiss- muller told the court.
 What Attorney Said
 The mother who saw her son rife from c life guard on . south side beach to c movie star didn't want to poster Johnny with her troubles, :" her attorney, Louis ". Reinecker, IT,, said. Like any other mother, she didn't want to annoy her son." Reinecker said. "she wants to pad- de her own canoe and she's been doing c good job of 1t r,p to now. On her SIG c week salary she has supported herself and another son who Is out of work"
 Statement oe Johnny
 From Hollywood came a state. ment from Johnny that he has been sending his mother nearly 1200 q month. That's news to me-" said
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
JAP OFFICERS
 DIED IN MUTINY'

Moscow, Jan. 30-(UP)--A Tass news agency dispatch from Khabar- ovsk. Siberia, said today that Q com pany of the Japanese. .Mancl1ukuoais army mutinied, killed four Japanese officers, crossed the frontier into Russia and protested against Jap- anese occupation of Manchukuo.
 It was asserted that the mutineers were disarmed and interned, l04 soldiers, four non commissioned of ficers and one offlcer. Light arnis and two machine guns were taken. the dispatch said.
 A Tass dispatch from Ulan Bator, capital of outer Mongolia, alleged that e detachment of five men enc tered Mongolia Monday and at- tackled Q Mongolian frontier post. The frontier guards returned the fire, the dispatch said. and the in- vaders retired leaving one dead--A Russian white guard n snd two rifles,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
PENSION PLANS TO
 BE GIVEN PROBE

Washington. Jan. 30-- (UP) - House leadership support swung be- hind a resolution to investigate the Townsend and similar old-age pen- sion plans today. The initiative was in Q resolution offered by Rep. Jas per Bell. D., Mo. It was referred to the house rules committee. It was considered most important that Committee Chairman John J. o. Connor, D.. N. r., an administration leader, said he favored the investi- gation and that his committee would act promptly on 1t.
 Indications were that 6 bitter fight might develop from the Town send bloc in the house, which claims from 50 to 60 votes. Rep. John S. McGroarty, D., Cal. said, T guess the Townsend plan officials can take care of themselves in this situ- ation."
 McGroarty, who Is the sponsor of Q bill to pay . maximum pension of $200 monthly to persons over 60, said he had no connection with what, he called, the business end" of the Townsend organization.
 This part. he explained, Is ham dled by three directors pr. Francis E. Townsend, R. E. Clements and Conner Smith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
Gouernor Hoffman Is Persistent m Search
Calls on Head of New Jersey State Police to Continue Hunt For Anyone Connected With Kidnapping,
 Death of Lindbergh Baby

Trenton, N. J., Jan. sO-t tUP)- Governor Harold c. Hoffman today directed ..C Col M Norman Schwarz- kopf, head of the New Jersey state police, to continue "a thorough and impartial search" for the detection and apprehension of everyone and anyone connected with the kidnap- ing and murder of Charles A. Lind bergh, Jr."
 q do not believe that this crime ways committed by an yone man." Governor Hoffman said, land there Is ample evidence. direct from the record, that the chief witnesses and these who were engaged In the pros ecution share my belief"
 No Excuse for Bruno
 The fact that others were impli- cated, however, would not provide an excuse for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby, he asserted. "but neither does it excuse any official from doing his full duty in bringing every other participant to the bar of justice
 "The crime was a horrible one that shocked the world" the gov- ernor said in a letter to Schwarz- kopf, ordering the continuation oi
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
ONE CHILD DIED
 FROM HOME FIRE

Boston, Jan. 30--( -(UP)--One child was dead and his mother, twin sis ter and brother were recovering ct Q hospital today after firemen had rescued them from their flafile- swept apartment in South Boston yesterday.
 Four-year-old Gordon Diamond was suffocated and his mother, Mrs. Jean Diamond, 27, aia older brother, Leland Jr., and sister Gladys were overcome by smoke.
 After attempts to rescue them by climbing along an ice-covered cops ing had failed. firemen Michael Sheehan and Thomas Morris don- ned gas masks and carried the fam fly from their third floor apartment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
FIVE SUITS ARE ASKING $55,OO0
City is Named Defendant
 in Three, Which Seek Sum of S3O,OOO '..'''

Five civil actions filed in superior and common pleas courts today ask total damages of $55,000. The City of Waterbury is named defendant in three of the suits, with damages of 5000 asked in the actions. The suits against the city are based on sidewalk falls. A fourth action based on a fall finds @ Watertown woman asking damages of $l5,000. The other action filed Is based on the Meriden road accident in which Guy Lawrence of Mill Plain avenue lost his life.
 City Is Included
 Rose Bear of this city asks dam ages of $l0000 and names the City of Waterbury and the Waterbury Savings Bank as defendants. She claims that a fall near 52 Bishop street Jan. was the result of neg ligence by the city and the bank. She claims that 8 defective water box caused snow and ice to accu- mulate and that the bank, owner of the property. negligently let the snow and ice remain on the side- walk. The writ lists injuries to the plaintiffs right leg and ankle.
 Carmela Sicia sues the city for $l0,000 for injuries sustained in a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
STREET SAFETY
 BOARD MEETING
Governors New COmmis- sion Allowed SlO,OOO to
 Finish Work of Year

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 30-(UP)-- The governors special street and highway safety commission, appoint ed early this month, today was granted an appropriation of slightly less than $l0,0o0 by the state board of finance and control to carry on for the remainder of the year.
 The budget will include Q salary of from $l860 to $2l60 Q year for a highway safety executive secretary; a similar amount for highway safety investigator: from $l440 to $1600 for Q senior stenographer and $500 for supplies and equipment.
 The finance board meeting was at- tended by several members of the commission. including Chairman Samuel H. Fisher; Bishop Maurice F. McAuli1Ye and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William M Maltbie.
 V The heard also voted to accept the low bid of $2060 made by the East Hartford Iron Works to equip Con- necticut State college with fire es- capes.
 Camp Gross Improvements
 An appropriation of $64,303 was approved for Improvements to Camp Gross at Mantle. w. Blakeslee 6s Son, New Haven, was awarded Q con- tract for 448,070 to equip the camp with a water supply and sewage dis- posal system; the Pittsburgh -Des Moines Steel Co., New York, was awarded $0o20 for construction of an elevated water tank; engineering fees of S4500 and surveying fees of $30OO were approved and the. rec mainder of the sum will go for in. cidentals.
 Authority was given for publica. ton of c state map, showing the va rious types of soil and their best usages. The map was prepared by Prof. I. G. Davis, of Connecticut State college extension service. and will be for general distribution. The price. however, was not to ex- ceed sis0o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
HITLER GIVES WARNING HINT TO OPPONENTS Speaks to His People on Third Anniversary of
 His Powers LOVES PEACE EQUAL
 TO ANY COUNTRY Most Stubborn People in World However if They
 Are Attacked
BY PAUL KECSKEMETI United Press Staff Correspondent)

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 United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Berlin, January 30- (UP) = Germans love peace as much as any nation, but if they are attacked, they will prove the most stubborn peo- pie on earth, Adolf Hitler said today in a speech on the oc- casion of the third anniver- sary of his accession to power. He addressed 30,000 of the "old guard" of his storm troopers, selected from, units all over the country and drawn up in parade formation in the Lustgarten, near the Imperial Palace. It was the principal celebration of the day. Germany will love peace as much as any nation can love it," he said, "so long as Germany's honor is not sighted. But when our honor is attacked, we shall turn out to be the most stubborn people on earth. We hope that an understanding of the rights of ell will prevail in the world, thus creating for the first time the basis of real peace"
 Pays Tribute to Naxis
 He paid tribute to the achieve ments of his Nazi government and (Continued on Page S)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
RAGE
 IN EVERY ZONE
Speakers For Themselves or Their Policies Are
 Busy Lot of Men :.
(By United Press) lfiay,s rnlitical front:


 Topeka--Aggressive campaign to win republican nomination for Gov. Ali M. Landon expected to follow his "middle-of- -the-road" Kansas day speech; midwest republicans applaud his castigation of New Deal, his outline of "constitutionally lib- eral" program.
 Macon, Ga.-Gov. Eugene Tal- madge, endorsed by grass roots den- ocrats, plans extensive speaking tour in effort to win democratic nomina- ton over President Roosevelt.
 Cleveland, O.-Frank Knox, Chi cago publisher and potential repub- lican nominee, invites business men to substitute action for complaints against New Deal.
 Washington---AaArine bands with- drawal from Women Patriots meet ing inspires new attacks on New Deal; republicans say administra- ton "can't take it."
 Who Ordered Band Away?
 Washington, Jan. 3O-tUP)-Po- litical sleuths set out today to solve the baffling mystery of who ordered the U. s. Marine Band to walk out at the women's patriotic conference on national defense.
 All congress was asked--and ap- peared willihg-to help solve the mystery that has plunged Washing ton into such a controversy as had not been seen since the Dolly Gann- Alice Longworth feud as to who should sit where.
 Many pointed Q finger at Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, assistant secre- tary of navy. But Roosevelt said nothing. His silence led, indirectly, to a congressional resolution de- manding an Investigation.
 The cousin of President Roosevelt, political detectives hinted, knows @ lot more than he has told-which is nothing-about the mysterious order that caused the gaily-clad band to withdraw without explanation just as the ladies were sitting down to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
IMITATION PLAN
 AS BONUS MONEY
That Will Have Backing in COngress-President
 Sends in Message
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Limited Press Stan C0rrespondent)


 Washington, Jan. 90 (UP) -- A drive for infiationary measures was revived in congress today on the heels of President Roosevelt's request that 1t provide the $2.249,- 178,397 needed to pay the soldier bonus.
 The text of the presidents re- quest, sent to Speaker of the House Joseph w. Byrns, was made public by the speaker while congressman repeated that they had no intention at present of initiating new legisla- ton by which the taxpayers would be asked in this political campaign year to provide the bonus funds.
 Alternatives to tax legislation would be to add the bonus payments to the public debt, now estimated to be approaching the $35,0OO,OOO,- 900 mark for 1887, or to resort to inflationary methods.
 May Check Imitation
 Congressional leaders hoped they could check the inflationary drive, but Representative Wright Patman, democrat, Texas, leader of imitation bonus forces, served notice he would seek to push through legilation providing for issuance of bonus
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
INVENTOR WILL SELL OVER SEAS Unless United States Pays Debt His Tanks Will
 GO Elsewhere

New York, Jan. 30--(UP)-Amer- ica's foremost inventor of war tanks and submarines threatened today to sell the fastest tank in the world to Russia or Germany unless the United States war department im- mediately pays $45O,000 he says is due him.
 The irate inventor. J. Walter Christie, announced he would de- liver his ultimatum today to Harry w. Woodring, assistant secretary of war, in Washington. If he is not satisfied, he said, he will sell a just completed tank to foreign govern ment to avoid bankruptcy.
 Some Big Offers
 Germany has offered him $600,000 for the tank, he said, and the U. S. R. s. has offered him $l0,000 a month to superintend construction of a fleet of them.
 The tank is designed to be car- ried by ordinary bombing planes and to be dropped from planes in flight. Christie said 1t is capable of 100
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
Final Ne1us Flashes
LOTTERY PAY BONUS

Washington, Jan. 3O.-(UP)-Payment of the soldier bonus with proceeds of $2,249, ,OOO,- 900 national lottery was urged today by Dep Ed ward A. Kenney, d., N. J. Kenney said he was filing petition in an effort to force house vote on his lottery bill. From the standpoint of good housekeeping we should keep government ex- penditures from going higher" said Kenney. No one wants new taxes The way to pay the bonus is through my bill"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
NO OPERATION

Rutland, Vt, Jan. 3O.-(UP) =. Hugh Butterfly. 40-year-old chef who has c rare type of upside down stomach, was back home today after Boston surgeons had decided against an operation. Butterfly spent several days at Boston hospital where he had hoped to have his stomach lighted. Local physicians have given him only two years to live, but Boston surgeons said he might live indefinitely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30

Next week the Suffolk county grand jury will be asked to indict Winfield 4. Schuster, republican member of the governors council, for alleged criminal libel, Curley announced. The governor said the action would be based on radio speech in which Schuster allegediy blackened his character last Sep- tember.
 Will Garry It Higher
 If District Attorney Foley failed to act "expeditiously," the governor said, he would refer the matter to Attorney General Paul A. Dever.
 At the same time, Curley an- nounced that similar action might be taken against other prominent republicans he charged were cofi- spring to raise . $lO0.000 anti-Cur- ley fund, and that civil suits might follow.
 Schuster, an East Douglas mill operator, could not be reached for comment. Enroute home from To- peka, Kans., where he heard Gov- ernor Ali M. Landon's speech,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
MAN, WOMAN IN
 LINE FOR CHAIR
Everett C. Applegate, Mrs. Creighton to Die Week
 of March 9th

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 Akineoia, N. F.. Jan. 30.--(UP).- Evsrett O.. Applegate and Mrs. Mary Frances Creighton were sentenced today to die in the electric chaiT at Sing Sing prison during the week of March g for the rat poison n1ur- der. of his 220-pound wife. Ada.
 Before the sentence, Appelgate thanked Judge Cortland A. Johnson for his conduction of the trial and denied any part in the staying of his wife or accused Illicit relations with Mrs. Creighton.
 T would like to thank you. your honor" Appelgate said, flor the courtesy and fairness of your charge to the jury. I want to say now that I know nothing about and had noth- ing to do with the administration of arsenic at any time to my wife. I also further want to say that l was never ct any time guilty of miscon" duct with Mrs. Creighton"
 Mrs. Creighton Silent
 Mrs. Creighton made no response to the clerks question if they had any reason why the judgment ot this court should not be pronounced against you" Her face twitched slightly as she heard the sentence but Appelgate <, showed no sign of emotion.
 During their trial last week Mrs. Creighton mad additional comics sions" to the one which states at- torneys said she made immediately after her arrest. She first accused Appelgate of directing her purchase of the rat poison and Of administer ing 1t to his quarrelsome wife in small doses. Later she admitted she knew that the rat poison was being administered and that she did not call c physician when Mrs. Appel gate was writhing in pain preceding her death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
SCHOONER SUNK
 BY ICE BLOCKS

New Haven. Jan. 3O--(UP) -The schooner Sarah A. Carpenter. out Of Greenport, R. T.. rested on the bot tom of Quinnipiac river today, its starboard side crushed in as . result of being jammed in an ice pack. The schooner. used in the oyster trade, was damaged by ice broken up by a passing tug and barge as they passed in the marrow river channel. Attempts were made today to raise the schooner at low tide ny. pumping out the hull
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30


 On the basis of these collections, Americans last year paid an aver- age of 41,250,000 daily in federal taxes for alcoholic beverages, com pared with slightly more than $i,- 100000 daily in 1884. The 1885 col- lections of 4458, ,404,722 were the closest yet to the half billion dol- lar annual revenues from the liquor traffic estimated by vets as an argument in favor of repeal.
 There were no figures as to the state and local tax revenues during 1885, but it would run into tens of millions of dollars. States with large populations and containing important brewing and distilling in-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
UNDER HEAVY BONDS

Greenwich, Conn. Jan. 30.--(uP) --Clyde c. Paien. 22. Cos Cob. was held in e2OO0 bond today on . technical reckless driving charge as result of ar accident iA which Verna Duinei, (, lost her life late yester- day. Palen said the child ran into the street from behind a parked car. ghe died three hours later from 6 skull fracture
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
Libel Charges Against Those Who Conspire 1o
 kiLL Him Politically
Winfield A. Schuster, Member of Governors Council, Named Specifically Conspiracy Has Been Long
 Continued -$lOO, ,OOO Fund to Besmirch Him

Boston, January 30 - (UP) = Governor James M Curley Massachusetts original" Roosevelt man, suddenly struck back today at those he charged had conped to destroy him politically.
 The democratic executive, pictured in the current issue of the American Mercury virtual dictator of ra dtionay republican Massachusetts, announced his plan of attacking unexpectedly in the middle of press
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
OLD MASON DIED TODAY

Winsted, Conn.,, Jan 30.-(UP)-M Marshal G. Wheeler, 89, oldest member of St. Andrews Masonic lodge, died today after an illness ot sev- eral years. He had been salesman for the Strong Manufacturing Co.,, for 59 years. Two sons and daughter survive. The funeral will be Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
SON OF PHIL BALL SUES

Reno, New, Jan. 30.-(UP)-James F. Ball, son of the late Phil Ball, owner of the St. Louis Browns has consulted local attorney presumably with intention of opening divorce proceedings against Elina M. Ball of Norwalk, Conn, it was learned today. Details were not available
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
Drinkers OF Beer,
 Liquor, Wine Pay Millions II, Taxes
Record Total of $458,404722 Given to Federal Gov ernment in I935 - Rhode Island Drinks Too
 Much, and Wants Many Places Closed Up

Washington, January 30 - (UP) - Drinkers of beer liquor and wine paid in record total of $458 in taxes to the federal government during 1885 and untold millions of dollars in state and local taxes the federal treasury reported today
 The 1885 federal tax collections substantially exceeded the previous record collections of in the prohibition fiscal year of 1918 and compared with coec- tiona of S374571 430 in 1884 the first full repeal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
DAILY HoN0Rs

West Palm Beach. Fla, Jan. S0.-- Daily honors in the annual slI- yer sailfish derby yesterday went to James Scutter, Hartford. Conn. with q catch measuring ' feet. 6is inches,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
OLD TWISTED MAN DIES

Winsted, Conn.,, Jan. 3O.-lUP)--John p. Lewis, 80, died today after an illness of three wears. He was a resident of Winsted for so years and is survived by twin brother, Joseph, and son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
THREE PROJECTS
 READY FOR CITY
Renovation of irving, Park to Make an Amateur
 Athletic Field

Conversion of Driving Park on Watertown avenue into an amateur athletic field, installation of new sanitary sewage system in the Town Plot section and the laying of storm water carriers in South Main street and the Baldwin street area conn prise three of the large projects iIi- cluded in $l.626,699 worth of WPA jobs that have been approved to date. In all 91 projects have been approved for this city.
 The Driving Park project will cost $l2l ,000. land the work will be started soon. The Town Plot sani- tary drainage system involves not only the laying of sewers, but also considerable street grading. The sewers will cost $25.000 and the grading will cost $44,000. storm sew- CTS on South Main street in the City Corners area will cost $33.OOO. The storm sewers in the Baldwin street district will cost $57,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Jan. 30J(UP)--Gov- ,rnmcnt expenses and receipts TOT aa compnred with a year ago;
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lspeeial to The Democratl

New Haven Conn, Jan. S0-- One hundred 0 nd ninety-eight WPA projects in Waterbury and surrounding communities in both Litchfield and New Haven Coun- ties have received presidential ap- proval and are available for use in relieving local relief loads, accord- ing to a breakdown of project ap- provals by counties throughout the
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 Probably on Friday gun Wssshsf Rspsss Pags .
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-27
"Our FellouU Citizens !"
Miss Edna Harmon, Local WPA Educational Supervisor, Directs Courses of Ambitious Stu. dents Awaiting Employment

part were at one time not much less than human derelicts. Miss Harmon has devised Q program of education for these men which is a complete rehabilitation for them. Tn fact, her teachers have gone 50 far as to qualify some of those men for real jobs. Some of them have been educated enough 50 that they are able to be given the responsibility of car- ing for the various houses at Set- tiers Village. The men have been taught individually to become fa- miliar with the nation which his particular house represents, and each man will act as guide to the Settlers Village sight-seers who visit his house.
 The illiteracy classes are, for the most part conducted in homes, al" though in some cases there are some semi-public buildings, such as the Pearl Street Community house which provides space for the study groups.
 Anyone who knows Miss Har- mon will join your biographer in saying that there is probably none better suited to her job than she is. She's intensely interested in the good that this wonderful government movement can do. Not only Is 1t of tremendous value to the people who avail themselves of its opportunities for free edu- cation but Miss Harmon has this to say about the WPA Education al Project. "The Works Prog