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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Washington, April, 15-UP)- Marvin Creager, managing editor of the Milwaukee Journal. president of the American Society of News paper Editors, told the society today that the reelection of President Roosevelt was not a defeat for the nations press but rather a demon- stration that its power lies in in forming.
 Opening the society's annual con- yention, he warned against stand ardization inherent in modern meth ods and organization, whether Of our own or outside origin" as a foe ito the very life of the press"
 "Few editors wish to see newspa- pers reach such power as to be able to control elections" Creager said, "What we have seen is in no real sense a defeat for the press. It Is rather a striking demonstration that the public power of the press lies Ill informing rather than in exhorting in stimulating rather than in con verting."
 "It is left then for newspapers to light the way. That is laying out a colossal job-a bewildering joD Who can always know whether he is seeing facts or only . glare or a shadow?"
 Creager described the result of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Election OF Roosevelt NO Defeat For Nations Press

elections as "only the usual result of proprietry editorial activity"
 Standardized features have tend- ed to make newspaper offices into assembly plants rather than real producers" he said.
 But the nose is getting longer. There now comes a demand that editorial workers shall conform to certain tests imposed by member ship in a national organization and that none be employed or remain employed except members of that organization. Happily, this demand is being generally withstood."
 Creager said there could be no quarrel with the demands of that organization which relate to better pay and working conditions"
 Newspapers demand the best that is in man in brain, energy and loyalty. and they have not all done so. Happily there is a definite trend upward in editorial pay. There is very remote danger of a faithful worker ever being Overpaid.
 Better pay adds to the dignity and influence of our calling, But Journalism will have suffered a net loss If better pay has as its carol- lary outside tests for employment It will have sacrificed individuality. We will have become button-mak- CTS and toothpick whittlers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Auto Strikes Ln Michigan
 Cost Sum or $477, 900, 900

1 lecturers. felt tho pinch of the four strikes. Many were forced to shut down. It was estimated that they
 lost revenues of $l36, ,900.000.
 The state of Michigan estimated its losses and increased costs direct ly attributable to the strikes at $1,- 629, 1000. Relief costs from January to April were increased $600,0OO. Maintenance of approximately 5000 national guardsmen at Flint during the General Motors strike riots cost $4O0,OO0. Revenue lost through de- creased salesr tax receipts was placed at $020OO0. Increased relief costs
 which we believe are due entirely to the situation created by auto strikes, are estimated conservatiyely. at $500, 0,000." George K. Granger. assist ant state. relief administrator told the United Press.
 Draper Allen, state sales tax di- rector, said that his estimate of sales tax loss was based upon an an-
 ticipated' 20 per cent gain over the corresponding first three months of last year. Michigan collects . three per cent tax on every article sold in the state. ''The estimate of a e629 ,OOO loss in tax revenue repre- seYits a loss of about $l8,8870O0 in sales to merchants and storekeepeis of Michigan" Allen said. Another source estimated that the federal government also had been a loser. Federal excise tPxes lost as 8 result of the General Motor strike alone would approximate $4,s00,OOO, Il was said. The 44-day General Motors strike cost lS7.OOO workers wages of s29, 75O.O0O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
BUCKINGHAM IS
 FACING BATTLE
Opposition to State Milk AdministratOr-State
 May Raise Taxes

Hartford, Conn, April 15.--tUP) State Milk Administrator s. Mo- Lean Buckingham, Watertown, up for reappointment this year, today had the support of Rep. William E. Templton, Kent, former member of the state board of milk control.
 Buckingham has been under fire from various groups of farmers and milk dealers under leadership of State Sen. Edwin R. Dimock, Mans field, commissioner of domestic ani- malS.
 Templeton, president of the Farmers Association of the General Assembly, told the association at a meeting:
 q think it is wrong to legislate out of existence any man who knows something about any job. Wrong In Theory
 ''It is wrong in theory and wrong in practice to put in new bunch every two years and upset the whole milk industry. Any new bunch has got to do the job all over and it's human nature that they wouldn't do it just the way the man ahead of them did.
 "I've been through all this. God help any man who has anything to do with milk control. This man Buckingham has gone about 1t in a quiet way. I couldn't do that. I told them to go to hell.
 Do just as you darn please, but
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
By JAMES c. AUSTIN

Copyright 1857, by United fresSl Detroit, April l5.-(UPl-Fonl
 majo strikes in the automobile in-
 dustry since last January cost man.
 ufacturers, employees, merchants and the state of Michigan approximately
 s477, ,O00, 0,0OO, 1t was estimated today
 while thousands of workers labored
 to restore production to near peak levels. A United Press survey show
 ed that losses resulting from the strikes in plants of General Motors
 the Chrysler Corporation and the Hudson and Rec Motor Car Com pariies included $26T, 100000 repre-
 senting the value of cars scheduled
 but not produced and $45. 7SO,0 900 in employes' wages. The industry hast ened to restore normal production General Motors already has sue ceded. Chrysler and Hudson are nearing top levels. Reo's truck manufacturing plant, opened last
 Tuesday. is moving ahead as rap
 idly as possible.
 The trade publication, Automo- tive Daily News, estimated that Chrysler's production for the week would oe 2O,O60 units as compared with normal output of 23,5O0 units Hudson assembly lines are expected to produce 1900 units. Re0S pro- ductior may reach 800. The paper predicted that General Motors would produce 6O,AO5 units. an increase Oi 1000 oyer the previous week. Feed err industries, which supply wheels
 glass, instrument boards. bodies and other equipment used by the manu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Seuerl Man Committee
 For Nelv Election LalU
Passed By Senate Today, Sent Back to House--J. Warren Upson Asked for to 5-Man Commissions;
 Similar to G. 0 P. Bill
By WILLIAM J. MORIARTY { Democrat Legislative RepOrterl


 State Capitol, Hartford, Conn, April 15-In the senate this after noon an amendment was placed upon a bill which provides for the Ereyision of th6 tate election laws The bill was passed and referred back to the house of representatives The bill is similar to that which was supported by Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson of Wa terbury, who presented it before the committee on judiciary asking that five man commission be ap- pointed to study the present laws which govern elections.
 The terms under which the bill " passed this afternoon provide for the appointment of a seven man commission and the clauses contain ed are similar to those as intro duced in the original bill.
 In voting on the bill, it was final ly decided that the commission to be selected include, the secretary of ste; the attorney general. two reg istrars fo voters ,t to be appointed from any part of the state, and three other diSinterested persons to be named by the governor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
LABOR DECISION
 IS DISTURBING J
Business, industries Seek
 Govt Protection Against More Strikes
BY c. L. sULzBERGER

Copyright, 1887. by United Pres) { Washington, April 15-(UP) . Business and industrial pressure for government protection against strikes was forecast today by we'll informed persons.
 Legislation off-setting industry for the gains made by labor under the Wagner Labor Relations Act, it was reported reliably, will be dis cussed at three important meetings of business leaders here within the next two weeks.
 Simultaneously, it was learned on good authority that group of con- gressmen probably led by Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D.. N. r., author of the labor act-Would organize to defeat such proposals if. they are offered as amendments to the Wag- ner measure at this session.
 Manufacturers To Meet
 The National Association of Manufacturers will hold. a board meeting next week. prinlur:iy to dis cuss effects of the supreme court decisions upholding the labor act. A spokesman for the organlZat tion said means w.ll be sought to give labor a genuine responsibility for its actions by law.
 The United States Chamber ot Commerce holds its annual meet ing April 26. It is understod that employe-employer relations will over shadow all other matters to be dis cussed. It Is also generally believed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
CLAYTON SUIT STARTING IN COURT Stricken From Docket of Superior Court on January 1, l936 DOCKETED ON U. s. DISTRICT COURT Called for Assignment at
 Norwalk; May Be Heard
 in April Term

The $1OO, alienation ot affection action of M. Eliza beth Clayton of New York against John R. and Anne Clayton of this city, which was stricken from the local superior court docket after much hearing and appealing, January 1, 1886, has been entered in the United States District Court, and will be called for assignment at Norwalk, next Tuesday, April 20, at 10:30 a. m: Judge Edwin s. Thomas will make the assignment. The case is expected to be heard during the April term of the district court.
 Much Local Interest
 Local interest has been shown in the case since 1t was returned to the Waterbury superior court in June, 1881. Davis, Davis, and Davis of Norwalk appeared for the plain tiff here and Attorney Clayton l.. Klein was the original counsel for the defense. Attorney William B. Hennessy appeared for the plain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
TWO LOTTERIES
 INVESTIGATED

Boston, April 15 5- (UP) - Postal authoritis teoday launched an in- vestigation of two foreign lotteries offering prizes totaling 120,000,000 francs and $500,000, respectively. Chief Postal Inspector John J. Breslin said that whereas both lot teries appeared to be legitimate, he was Investigating charges that the lotteries were making intensive use of the U. s. mails in distributing tickets. He said he had received many complaints from persons who had received books of 24 tickets, to be sold with two free tickets as compensation. The lotteries appar- ently were distributing tickets with the aid of a mailing list, he said.
 One of the lotteries is the French National sweepstakes Grand Prix race at Longschamp, France, June 27. The other is "the official sweep stake at Monte Carlo" based on an automobile race to be held in Mon- aco Aug. 8.
 Breslin said no tickets had yet been confiscated but he assigned Inspector Tennyson Jefferson to de- termine whether such action should not be taken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
SONS OF VETS DO NOT LIKE STAMPS

Boston, April 15- -UP)-Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil war have declared war on postage stamps picturing Confederate Gen erals Robert E. Lee and (Stohe- walD Jackson. '-~
 Members adopted resolution ycs- terday that charged the stamps were "in very bad taste" The two genelarS were described as "out- standing only in an armed rebel lion against the United States.
 However, the resolution read. "some degree of respect" might be paid Lee and Jackson in their re- spective states for "cspousal of a mistaken cause"
 Southern groups recently pro- tested Lees portrait on the four cent stamp with the rank of lieu tenant-colonel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
NATIONAL LABOR
 BOARD IN MAINE
Shoe Manufacturers Have Refused to Bargain
 With Any Union

Boston, April 15-(UP)-The na- tional labor relations board entered the Maine shoe strike picture today.
 A conference will be held at the regional office here Saturday on charges preferred by c. l. O.'s Unit ed Shoe Workers of America that 19 shoe manufacturers in Lewiston and Auburn, Me, have refused to bargain collectively since March l9. A majority of the 5000 shoe workers in the twin cities" ar meemberS of U. s. w. A., union officials said.
 Conferees will comprise union of- ficials, management representatives and Miss Anna Weinstock, federal labor department conciliator.
 Judge to Hear Case
 Meanwhile in Augusta, Me, Jus tice Harry Manswer of the Maine supreme court was to begin hear ings on equity bill brought by IT shoe manufacturers against c. l. O.. leaders on grounds the strike call was not taken legally.
 Estimates of strikers in the two cities ran from 800 to 4000.
 In Waterville, Me, ambitions ot c. I. O.'s Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America seemed doomed following reports that 195 of the Hathaway Shirt company's 300 em- ployes had formed an inocpendent union.
 Forty union partners in Augusta, Me. returned to work under a com- promise wage scale of 30 cents an hour after weeks strike.
 In Massachusetts. six small strikes including one of the sit-down vari- cty by 75 girl employees at the Cross man Dress Shop at Fall River, were settled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
SUSPECT HELD
 IN CHILD MURDER

Cambridge, Mass, April 15-{U.Po A former city employe and well fare recipient arrested on a charge of accosting children was to be questioned today in connection, with the murder of five-year-old Chester John Harris, blond Cambridge twin
 William Wilson, 55, was arrested yesterday by police. who said they found him with two girls and a boy behind a store as
 The Harris boys body, wrapped in burlap sack and partly buried behind Brighton billboard. was found January 2S, more than three months after he disappeared from his Cambridge home. &4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
PASTOR APPEALS
 FOR ACCUSED MAN
Rev. Thomas L. Crosby Is Seeking Leniency in
 in Theft of Auto

A local minister whose car was stolen appeared before Judge John r. McGrath in city court today 1 seek leniency for the youth who allegedly stole the machine. The minister was Rev. Thomas Leroy Crosby, pastor of the South Feder- ated Church, whose car was stolen from its garage Saturday night, al legedly by Newton Leas, 2l, Of lSS West Main street, whom the min ister had befriended on several oc- caSionS.
 May Join Army
 In addition to the car theft charge, Leas also faced three counts of breaking and entering. Judge John r. McGrath continued the case for six months, on the assur- ancs that Leas would join the army. MT. Crosby was joined i'll his plea for leniency for Leas by Will liam M. Harris, director of the Lin- coin House and probation officer for the superior court.
 Arrested Monday
 Lieut.. Detective William F. Pol lard and Detective William Foley arrested Leas Monday on West Main street, after having obtained evidence that implicated him with the ciergyman's car and other crimes. 'Lleas was also charged with breaking into the Kozy Kotner Tea room at Piedmont street and Pearl Lake, road and stealing money from an automatic phonograph, with breaking into a South Waterbury barber shop and stealing money. and with breaking into the home of Fred Underhill, 572 Baldwin street, and stealing . quantity of jewelry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
FRANK HAWKS IS DONE SPEEDING
Last Crack-Up Did Not Please Him; Will Seek
 Enjoyment

Bedding, Conn, April 15.--(UP)- Frank Hawks, whose quest for speed won him distinction along the air ways, announced today. his future flights would be For pleasure only. Discouraged after his low-wine tsnenoplane .eTima ElinsEA ora clced gur in landing at NeWafk airport on the thome stretch Of a scheduled 12-houl round trip flight to Miami, the fa- nous time defeater said he would devote his attention to designing and manufacturing planes for mili- tary and commercial use.
 Has Had His Day
 i've had my day." he said. "I'm over 40 and it's time to get some enjoyment out of life" Just a few weeks ago he was in another crack ID. His tiny monoplane, "Time Flits," which he used to shuttle be- tween his home here and Rentschler field at East Hartford, smashed a wing. Hawks was unhurt. Unofh- cially his fastest time was 360 miles an hour, made between Springfield, Mass, and East Hartford last month as he checked his plane for plan- ned assault on the west-east trans continental record of Howard Hughes, made in January.
 No Immediate, Plans
 < In his 'ihome for dinner flight to Miami Tuesday his time was 266.4 miles per hour southbound. He was four and one-half minutes under Hughes time of hours q 1-2 min- utes between Miami and New York when the crash came that persuad- ed him to abandon further speed attempts. He said he had no i'm mediatep lans. He planned a rest at his home, Hawks Nest, before getting down to business"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
SECOND LIQUOR
 DEALER IS SUED
Herbert J. Leek Seeking Damages for Injury in
 McCleery's Tavern

Tor the second time within less tocii (. month, section 1088c of the cumulative supplement to the gen. e-...l statutes has been cited in a c;7il action flied in local courts. The laee,st such action is for $5,000 and brought by Herbert J. Leek of Wa tt-town against Dennis J. McCleery O. Watertown operator of a tavern in that town.
 LiquOr Dt aler Accountable
 lection lO8G: of the statutes holds that dealer ill liquors shall be H. accountable for any damage done, by any person to whom he sells liquor when he knows that per so:a is intoxi:ated. Aimel T. Bru- n .a,: was recently sued for $10,00C by the aGmir istrator of the estate of the late Harry B. Watts, who v;.r killed in. an altercatio1 with HarOld Cider Maxwell, February 28 1T. , Watts litigation claims that B.uneau sold liquor to Maxwell, whc w,y intoxicated, and that such ill- .oxicatio:. caused him to fight with Watts and kill him. J Complaint of Leek
 Leek, the plaintiff in the newer ac jon, filed today in common pleas co,rt claims that on April 17, l930, he was in McCleery's tavern when at Lhe same time one Ruhle Dunn WIS there Dunn is alleged to have zen intoxicated, and McCleery is s..id to have continued selling ,duor to him. It is claimed that Dunn pusI.cd Leek, knocked him to t floor, and caused him to break h.s ankle. The plaintiff is an en- D. vc of Johnson's garage in Water town. Attorney Frank B. ONelll ap- n rs for the plaintiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
One CountyHomes Ls Cause Sensation
Supt Provandie Is in Jail on Complaint of Children; Supplies Disappeared Found at Home of Mrs.
 PrOyandie'S Relative

Putnam, Conn, April 15-(UP)- Records of the Windham county temporary home for children were searched today for clues to mysteri- ous disappearance of supplies while police held 65 year old Philip Pro- vandie, superintendent, on an mde- cent assault charge and arrested a nephew of Mrs. Provandie on a fugitive from justice warrant.
 Clad in riding brooches, puttees and brown flannel shirt, Provandie muttered a low Not guilty" when he was arraigned in Putnam city court on the statutory charge grow ing out of the complaint of three girls. who fled the institution to es- cape his alleged advances.
 His case was continued until next Wednesday. Unable to furnish a $l, ,O0O bond, he was taken to Brook lyn county jail.
 Relative Is Arrested
 Meantime, at Maiden, Mass, po- lice arrested Wendell Ford, 35, Mrs. Provandie's relative, for question ing in connection with the disap- pearance of supplies from the home, which houses 105 children between the ages of and 18. Released in $500 bond, Ford will be presented in Maiden town court Friday. Con- necticut State Policeman Elton T. Nolan reported to superiors here that he found quantity of canned goods, cookies, cereals, clothing and other articles in Ford's home at Maiden. and that Ford had admitted obtaining them at the home. Ford also admitted visiting the institu- ton every two weeks, each time talk
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
BOY BRIDEGROOM z WILL BE TRIED

Boston. April 15-CU.P) = Bur ton s. Tucker, 30, boy bridegroom of IA years ago, was to be extradited to New York today to face charges of ron-support and assertion of his 59-year-old wife and three children ; Extradition papers were signed by Governor Hurley late yesterday after hearings before Assitant Att torney-G General James J. Bacigalupo
 When only IS, Tucker eloped with Mrs. Olive Burnham Simpson. then 45, He left her when her $500, ,OOO fortune was exhausted, according to New York authorities. N.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
69TH YEAR

Williamstown, Vt., April Is (UP) = Henry H. Poole, 90, and his S9-year- old wife celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary quietly today. Asked his recipe for welded bliss and longevity, Poole said:
 "I don't know. Perhaps it's because I've always had enough to eat. We never had any trouble"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
STAMFORD MAN
 IN ARSON CHARGE

Oakland, Calf, April 15-(U.Po- Missing for 13 years while his money lay unclaimed in a bank at Stamford, Conn, Joseph O'Neil, 36. was held in the city jail here today charged with arson.
 Police suspected him of having set fires to beds in four hotels in recent weeks.
 O'Neil was declared legally dead after the Stamford bank was un- able to locate him. He gave police here no explanation for his disap- pearance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
PARKERS TO GET
 COURT SUMMONS

Boston, April l5-(UPD -. Police will open new "no-fix" drive aca,hst illegal parkers in the down. town and Back Bay sections April 26. Under tho new procedure. no warming tags .vili be. placed. op auto mobiles. Patrolrnen will take regis tration numbers. of offending cars and the first notice owners will nave will be court sumnlOises.
 The drive was announced ast light by Police. Commissioner JO. eph \. Trinity following confer.
 nee with Governor Hurley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Jose M1aJa, LoyallSt commander III chief in the Madrid area. Addi- tional interest attached to the re- port not only because of the con- tinued danger of Spain as a breeding place for a greater war but because many experts now feel that the war may end in a stalemate, with both sides exhausted, unless Italy inter venes openly in behalf of the NationaliStS.
 Belligerents Notified
 A diplomatic correspondent or the Daily Herald, newspaper organ of the labor party, asserted that the plan already had been outlined discreetly to loyalist and national ist army leaders, and that their first reactions to 1t were favorable.
 This correspondent attributed authorship of the plan to group of Spanish politicians and men or affairs now outside Spain and not irreconciliably linked with either combatant faction.
 Under the plan as reported Ere mier Francisco Largo Caballero ol the Loyalist government and Gen eral Francisco Franco, Nationalist commander in chief, would resign. All foreign troops and advisers would be withdrawn and a non-political government of republican concen- tration, appeasement and recon struction" would be formed.
 Respected By Both
 Miaja is represented as enjoying
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Late Neus Flashes
LADY FLYER

Wellesley, Mass, April 15-UP)-For nine years Mrs. Lydia Stevens has celebrated her birthday by taking an airplane flight. Yesterday, her 89th birth day, she flew from Boston to Providence and return.
 "Next year in observance of my 9Oth birthday" she said, "I'll fly to New York"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
COSTLY JOKE

New Bedford, M a s s. April 15-(UP)-"Just for a joke" Assessor Benjamin R. Evans of Freetown list ed Leonard w. De Moran- vile, saw mill operator. in town books as a "shyster."
 Yesterday Judge Samuel Barnett awarded De Mo- ranville $100 damages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
DIES OF INJURIES

Hartford, Conn, April l5.- (UPl-- Funeral arrangements were being made today for Mrs. Anna Hum phray, 60, who died late yesterday of injuries suffered when she was struck Monday by a car driven by state Police Of1cer George l. Scidell at West Hartford.