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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
EMPLOYES WILL
 GET BIG BONUS
Farrel Foundry, Machine Co. Gives Five Per Cent
 for Past ( Months

The Waterbury Farrel Foundry & Machine Co.,, today announced a bonus of per cent for employees On wages earned during the past six months. The bonus is on the earrl- ings of workers from November 2S to May 29. Employees will receive the bonus in lump sum June 18. The factory also announced today that employees will receive a weeks vacation with pay this summer. It has not yet been decided when the vacation will be given. Notices an- r,ouncing the special bonus and the granting of vacations with pay have been posted in the plant. The foundry granted similar bonus last November, factory officials said today.
 Follows Other Plants
 The announcement by the Water btry Farrel Foundry and Machine Co.,, follows wage increases by sev- eral local factories. The city's major factories, the American Brass Co.,, Chase Brass & Copper O., and Sco- will Mfg. Co.,, have given wage in- creases of five cents an hour, and have announced that employees will receive weeks vacation with pay. Employes on night shifts in these factories were given an increase of five per cent over the regular rate. The Waterbury Buckle Co, and other local plants have also ar1- nounced wage increases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Violence Breaks Out Among Steel Workers Six Plants of Republic Steel Corporation Surrounded By Tickets; Employees Trying to Get ih Were
 Injured in Clash

Canton, O., May 26.-(UP)-Vio- lence broke out today on picket lines established by striking steel work CTS around six plants of the Re- public Steel Corporation, one of the four large independents which have not signed contracts with the com- mittee for Industrial Organization.
 Two corporation empolyes att tempting to drive through the lines around the four picketed Republic plants here were injured when a stone crashed through the wind shield of their car.
 Minor violence also was reported along the picket lines the strikers had thrown around two plants in MaSsillon, O., near here.
 Armed With Clubs, Stones
 The picket lines, mannerd by singing, shouting workers armed with clubs and stones, surrounded the plants immediately after the strikers were called last night.
 The strike was in protest of al- legged discrimination against mem bers of the Amalagamated Union of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, a CIO affiliate. The four Canton
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Famine Threatens Morocco
 With 200. 900 AlreadyDead

were reported to have died. Drought is the cause. It had been unusually dry for several years. This year, during the early season, the rain failed again.
 The Bank of Morocco has given 10000, 900 francs ($450,OO0) for relief. The government has authorized transfer of 50,000,000 francs ($2,- 25O,O00) from development funds for relief work. But the problem is to feed 1,5O0,000 persons for months. No rains are due for seven months. Grain and sheep are being distribu- ted along the caravan routes at points where the troops. are sta- toned. The government feels that 1t is impossible to permit migration of all people affected to the popu- lated areas.
 Steeg was accompanied by tech- nical commission including physi- clans, hygiene specialists and repre- sentatives of the general army staff and finance ministry. He is well ac- quainted with conditions in Morocco as former governor, and the govern inent hopes he will be able to or ganize relief work on an urgent basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Labor Troubles In State Crop Up M Various Places

Settlement of a strike of 71 bus drivers employed by three inde- pendent Bridgeport bus concerns may be taken to the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration as result of 8 breakdown of union n-manage- ment negotiations. The gray Line Bus Corporation, demanded Its striking employees disaffiliate them selves from the Amalgamated Asso- citation of Street and Electric Rail- way and Motor Coach Operatives of America Union before further eff forts are made to end the walkout. The employees refused to do so. Deputy State Labor Commissioner John c. Ready suggested the medi- ation board take a hand and both sides. agreed. But the Gray Ldne management would not agree to abide by the decision of the board. The strikers demand union recog- nition, shorter hours and more pay.
 At Hartford, James Nicholson, secretary of the Cooks, Walters and Mattresses Union, said an intensive drive would begin at once to or ganize employees of eating places. Picketing of non-union establish ments may start today, he said, fol- lowing a union meeting.
 Thomas J. Shea, MiddletoWn, president of the Connecticut Feder- ation of Labor, wrote Representa- tive Herman r. Kopplemann at Washington urging him to contact U. s. Labor Department officials over the strike situation at the MiddlctOwn plant of Remington Rand Corporation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
BY PATRICK KING

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Paris, May 26-Theodore Steeg, former governor of Morocco, left for Morocco today to take charge for the government of relief work in a famine that affected 1,500,000 per- sons. Down toward the Sahara desert hundreds of thousands of people with their emaciated camels and goats were moving northward toward the Mediterranean coast seeking relief. So serious was the threat from their mass migration that strong contingents of troops have been placed across caravan routes to stop the desperate men who with their families were walk ing away from certain death.
 The hunger has been prevalent for months and according to some estimates the famine has caused 100000 deaths. The terror of disease has been added to the horror of famine and doctors at all towns are alert for signs of typhus, of which a few cases have already been reported from some towns. Ten per cent of the cattle all over the fsn'inA area
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
DICK CHAPMAN IS
 WINNING AGAIN

Sandwich, England, May 26.- (UP).-Dick Chapman of Greenwich, Conn, fayorite among the overseas entries, scored an impressive 5-and- victory over hev-yeteran, Eric Chambers of Beaconfield today. in a third round match of the British amateur golf championship. Chap mans was one of the first matches played in the third round.
 Wilfred Wehrle, youngster from Racine, Wis, advanced to the third round by beating Kenneth Braddon. an unknown" from Beaconsfield, 3 and 1.
 Advancing with Wehrle were P. A. Valentine of Southampton, N. Y. and Robert Sweeny, Jr., formerly of New York, and now of London. Val entine beat Robert Foster, 2 and 1, while Sweeney topped M. w. Budd, 1 up.
 John o. Levinson of Chicago joined Chapman in the fourth round by beating Lieut.-Col. J. T. c. Moore -Barbazon, member of par- lament, up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
fBy United Press)

A consent" election to deter mine the bargaining agent for enl- ployes of the Yale and Towne Man ufacturing Company, at Stamford was sought today by the National Labor Relations Board. A union affiliated with the committee for industrial organization claimed 1t represented majority of employees, while an employees association said 1t had most of the workers signed up. The N. L. R. B. said it would contact both union groups in efforts to hold the consent" election to de- termine the collective bargaining agent.
 Meantime, at Danbury, the Harry Mel. I.aughlin hat factory closed its doors when IS employees on the night shift walked out after they said they were given wage reduction. Tickets said efforts would be made to pull out the day shift also. About 400 persons are employed in the Iac- tory.
 At Bridgeport, the Jennings Brothers factory shut down when 100 union members walked out in what officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union said was merely demonstration of strength. These leaders wrote to Mrs. Fillmore M. Herrick, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, in- forming her of the situation. Com pany officials refused to meet Witle the union, stating the factory would remain closed Lntil the labor difti- entities were settled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
ALFRED E|:||| E. SMITH l ]! l VISITS PONT' ] lF||.F. !
Spent Half Hour Audience With Holy Father-No
 Politics Talked

CaStel Gandolfo, Italy, May 26.- (UP)-Alfred E. Smith of New York, on his first visit to Europe, was re- ceived in private audience for half an hour today by the pope in the private library of the papal summer villa. Bishop Ralph Hayes, rector of the North American college in Rome, introduced the former gover- nor. Vatican officials expressed pleasure over the visit of Smith, whom they consider one of the highest lay opponents of Catholic ism in the United States. They de- nied, however, that Smith had been summoned to discuss the anti-red campaign in the United States, al- though it was assumed the pope asked Smith about his views on the subject.
 No Political Questions
 After the audience, Smith told the press: ''The pope appeared in viz orouS health and mentally alert. AL though could not understand his words because he spoke in Italian, Bishop Hayes did the interpreting and I noted that the pope possesses clarity of mind. He asked me no political questions nor did I volun- teer any information on either so- cial or economic conditions. visited the pope as any good Catholic might"
 Smith presented to the pope a gold replica of the Empire State building 10 inches high. Mrs. Smith was given a mother-of-pearl prayer book and Smith a silver-framed photograph of the pope autographed in Latin, "Toto corde benedicens," (Blessings with my whole heart.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
TORN
 FROM WORKERS

Lowell, Mass, May 26.-(UP.- Tickets tore clothes from woman worker attempting to enter the Boott mills here today.
 Ten police rushed into the melee, but the victim, Mrs. TeSsie Russell, had been stripped to her undergar- ments before they could free her from the grasp of angry pickets. A coat was thrown over her shoulders and she was taken to nearby drugstore.
 Four women pickets were arrested and charged with assault and in- inhalation. They were Talka Stef- anik, A; Afarota Sterf1es, 39; Camela ChristopouloS, 43, and Pata Minis, 36.
 Eugene Obara, IS, was charged with intimidation after pickets jostled handful of other non-strik- CTS who entered the mill. More than 400 persons were on the picket line.
 It was the first violence since l. 500 employees walked out of the plant more than fortnight ago, seeking a IS per cent wage increase, 40-hour week, recognition of C. I. O.'s textile workers organizing committee and improved working conditions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
THREE PLANES ON l WAY WITH FOOD

Moscow, May 26.-(UP).-Three four -motored supply planes flew to the North Pole region today to take supplies to the Russian explorers camped on the ice at the top of the world.
 Nine tons of supplies, scientific instruments, foodstuffs, fuel and a tent were taken for the four men who are to remain floating on the polar ice until next spring.
 One of the three supply planes landed at the North Pole" weather station on its 10 foot ice foe at 5:24 8. m., a second landed soon afterward 121s miles from the pole, and apparently near the camp.
 There was no immediate word of the third, though wireless adviceS had been that all three reached the camp position.
 There were 13 men at the camp. They made the flight Friday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Orchestra Players Are Killed h Collision
Their Auto Crashes Head-on With Truck Driver of Latter Is Victim Both Machines Burst Into
 Flames Following Crash

Coxsackie, N. Y. May 26.-(UP).- A truck driver and three members of a Massachusetts, orchestra were killed and three persons were in- jured today when a heavy truck and an automobile collided here and burst into flames.
 The known dead:
 Leonard Fleming, 40, Englewood, N. J., driver of the truck.
 Oral Bachofskyl, IS, Boston; Jack Poster, 20, Lynn, Mass, and Isidore Goldstein, IS, of Revere Mass, mern- berS of an orchestra.
 Three other members of the or chestra-Joshua Cohen, q, Robert Novak, 18, and Harold Bloom, 20, all of Dorchester, Mass, were taken to a hospital.
 Burst Into Flames
 Police said the truck and pas senger car burst into flames. One of the machines was said to have snapped telephone pole, disrupting some telephonic service.
 The orchestra was enroute to nearby Catskill to fill an engage ment.
 Hospital attaches said that Bloom was seriously burned in addition to injuries he received in the crash.
 Cohen, it was understood, told hospital attaches that tire on the (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
SYSTEM
 ASKED FOR CITY
Petitions Circulated to Have All Appointive Posi-
 tiOns By Merit Only

Formal petitions requesting the amendment to the city charter to provide for the inauguration of the merit system in filling the various appointive positions in the local municipal administration, were in circulation today. The names of 1000 voters are being sought to have the aldermen submit the plan to the electors of the city.
 William Burke of the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, has been designated by Presi- dent John Brodie of the Waterbury chapter of the Connecticut Merit System association to supervise the work of obtaining the necessary number of signatures. MT. Burke will confer with his assistants tonight at a meeting in the Central YMCA and will formally announce members of the committee in charge of the peti- tions. Frequent meetings will be held until the work is completed.
 Meet Monday Night
 The first meeting to. discuss details of the campaign to have Waterbury adopt a merit system in naming men and women to its staff of em- ployes was held Monday evening. The office of mayor and other elec- tive positions are not involved in the so-called merit system. The petit tions asked for the establishment of a board of civil service to super wise all selections of help in the future.
 Mayor Frank Hayes has been ap- preached on the subject and has re- quested time for consideration. He has promised to issue statement by June 16. It is believed likely that the proposal will be submitted to the electorate next October and may be made an election issue"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
SIMPLE RITES ATT
 FUNERAL TODAY
Relatives, Closest Friends of Rockefeller, Servants
 Are Only Ones Present

Tarrytown, N. r., May 26. = (UP)
 Private funeral services for John D. Rocket teller were held today in tlle living room of his Pocantico Hills estate with only 50 relatives, close friends and old servants at tending.
 As the organ began the solemn ceremony at II a. m. (EDT), workers in his oil empire all over the world paused for five minutes in tribute to the 97-year- multi-millionaire, who died at his winter estate in Ormopd Beach, Florida, Sunday, from a tired heart.
 Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pas tor of the Great Riverside church The Rockefeller Church"-in New York city, conducted the rites, as- sisted by the Rev. Lester P. Bent, pastor of the Pocantico Hills Union church.
 Dr. Fosdick Offers Prayers
 Dr. Fosdick offered prayers and read passages from the Bible and Harold V. Milligan, organist of Riverside church, played some of the hymns beloved of the nations first millionaire. These included, "Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go" .Abide with Me-" Sun of My Soul. Thou Savior Dear" Miss Dorothea Flexner, soloist of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26

Specifically the warrant charged assault with intent to murder, be. ing armed with a dangerous wea- pon."
 Lieutenant Maurice Nelligan of the State police immediately left for Alton, N. H., with the warrant.
 The man confronted with the shotgun last night was 66-year-old S. Allen Norton, who himself retired last August after 25 years as cash- fer of Mount Hermon, one of the nations outstanding secondary schools, at Northfield.
 Thomas E. Elder is wanted for questioning in connection with this Qast night's) assault" read the bull. letin broadcast by state police after hearing Norton's story.
 Missing From Home
 Meanwhile, Police Chief Alfred w. Cooley of Alton, N. H., visited El- der's home in that farming village near Lake Winnepesaukee and re- ported that neither the former Dean nor his wife was there.
 Police were asked to watch for El- der's dark blue 1892 Buick Sedan, New Hampshire registration 29,484.
 Chief Cooley said Elder was seen in Alton sometime yesterday" Alton is about 125 miles northeast of here.
 Norton Tells Story
 Norton, still shaky from his ex- perience, told the United Press this story:
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
CHISELL|NC IN
 RELIEF CHARGE
John O'Brien, His Wife of 322 Grove Street Sued
 for 5000

Relief Chiselling" is charged against MT. and Mrs. John O'Brien of 322 Grove street in $500 civil action filed in the court of common pleas today by the. City of Water bury. The specific charge is that MT. and Mrs. O'Brien represented them selves as being poor and destitute and received public relief from the city between the periods of Septem- Der 16, 1884 and June 30, 1886 when at the time they had money in the bank and considerable real estate interests!
 It was estimated today that the estate of the couple is valued at about $10,0O0.
 What City Furnished
 The city claims that during the period mentioned they furnished food, goods, merchandise, medical attention, hospitalization and rent which were reasonably worth $449.15. A demand for this amount has been made by the city upon tht couples attorney who is also Mrs O'Brien's @nservator, she having been proven incompetent. The de. mand which was in the form of an itemized account of relief, was re- fused.
 Attorney Irving w. Pasternak, who represents the couple in the action, stated today that there was TO req son why the relief should be paid from the estate. He stated that the relief was gievn to John O'Brien and not Mrs. O'Brien, the owner of the estate.
 Not Married At Time
 Attorney Pasternak explained that MT. OBrien did receive aid from the city welfare department, but that at the time he was not married
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
SENIOR CURATE
 OF WALDEN DIES

Boston, May 26.-(UP)-The Rev. Stephen J. Chamberlain. 48, senior curate at Sacred Heart church, Nal den and formerly of Lawrence, died late yesterday at hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered Sum day while he was watching a base ball game at Fenway park.
 A native of Chelsea, he attended Boston College and St. Johns sem'' mary, and was ordained by William Cardinal O'Connell in 1915.
 Father Chamberlain's first as- signment was at St. Patrick's church, South Lawrence. Later he served as curate at St. John's-St. Hugh's church, Roxbury before going to Maiden in 1919.
 He leaves a father, 8 sister and two brothers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
HENRY WENzEL
 TAKES HIS LIFE
Found Dead With Bullet in Head Garage Rear
 of His Home

Henry F. Wenzel, about 68, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head in a garage in the rear of his home at 6 Glenridge street early this afternoon. Police listed the case as suicide and said that Wenzel, an architect, left behind several notes to relatives and friends in which he asked to be excused for taking his own life.
 The body was found by John J. Siebert, who lives in the same house, when he entered the garage. Wenzel had left the house about 9:30 this morning and had not been seen since that time. The bullet entered the neck under the jaw and went upward to lodge in the cheek bone, near the eye.
 In Poor Health
 Wenzel was lame, police said, and had been in poor health for some years. He was suffering from a ser-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
GIRL, LOVER IN
 FEAR OF CHAIR
Gladys MacKnight, Donald Wightman Accuse Each
 Other of Crime

Jersey City, N. J., May 26-(UP)- Gladys MacKnight, 17-year-old high school girl, and her former sweet heart, Donald Wightman, 19, fought bitterly today to escape the electric chair by blaming each other, for the murder of the girls mother.
 The states case was pushed into the background temporarily as the principals of puppy love affair, now turned to hate, accused each other of yielding the hatchet that killed Gladys mother last July. For three days the tomboyish Gladys testified in a cold, unsympathetic voice that Donald killed her mother when she found him kissing her daughter. Yesterday Donald reversed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
SMALL HOLDUP

Boston, May 25-(UP) Mrs. Gertrude Alyward. 29, of Hyde Park today re- ported one of the smallest holdups on record. She told police an unidentified man knocked her to the ground as she returned home from work this morning and then fled with her handbag. Contents; Two unpaid bills.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Late Nelus Flashes
DESTROY PLANE

Bilbao, May 26-(UP)- Nation dist airplanes brought, down and destroy ed a French airplane in the Bilbao-France commercial service, gravely wounding it's pilot and injuring a pas senger slightly, it was as- serted by Loyalists today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, May 26 (UP)-Goy- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 24th, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,71S,392,664.44 $6,4S9,334,S57.S9
 Receipts $4,374,163.ss7.sS $s,550, ,472.S5
 Deficit ,266.51 $2,sss, ,s04, ,ss5.54
 Cash Balance s1,713.s24.196.15 $2.3s0, ,0es. .2ss.ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
SEN. CULHANE BLOCKS MOVE ON HOSPITALS Prevented Transfer of Ape prOpriatiOns to Public
 Welfare Council LOCAL HOSPITALS
 BOTH GIVEN HELP Watertown Trust CO11= pany Charter Amended
 By Bill in Senate
BY WILLIAM J. MORIARTY Democrat Legislative RepOrter)


 State Capitol, Hartford, May 26. = Especial to The Democrat) Senator George T. Culhane of Waterbury to- day prevented the Legisla- ture transferring authority for appropriations to hos pitals in the State of Con- necticut from the governors office to that of the Public Welfare Council when he succeeded in having the Senate retain on the calendar bill to this effect.
 At the present time St. Mary's hospital and the Waterbury hos pital, both in Waterbury, are aided every two years with grants of ESQ., 900 and $l8,00O respectively for charity work during that period.
 In addition to voicii1g objection to the plan to transfer authority over these appropriations Senator Cul-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
WINS THIRD MATCH

Paris, May 26. Katherine Win throp of Boston won a third round match in the wcmen's division of the French hard court champion ships today over Miss A. E, l.. McOstrich of England. 6+2. 6-4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Thomas E. Elder Had Been Suspect h Speer Murder
He Was Retired From Mount HermOn School After That Crime-Last Night He Threatened Life
 of Former School Cashier

Greenfield, Mass, May 26. - (UP) - warrant for the arrest of former Thomas Edwin Elder charge of assault with intent to murder issued in district court today {?
 The warrant issued by Clerk William S. Allen on complaint of S. Allen Norton who said Elder confronted him with shotgun in his garage shortly before last midnight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
Memorial Highway Named For Cross
Senator Joseph II. LawlOr Reported Bill FavOrably Today-U Ultimate Cost to State for Highway
 Will Be $lOO,OOO,OOO
BY WILLIAM J. MORIARTY Democrat Legislative Reporter)

State Capitol Hartford May 26. X Especial to The Democrat) Senator Joseph H. Lawlor of Waterbury, chairman of the committee roads bridges and rivers today reported voraby in the Senate the bill calling for establishment of the Wilbur L. Cross Memorial Highway at an ultimate cost to the state of $100O00,000.