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Evening star., 1937-04-25
Meetings This Week.

"ACCsu6S L lid VyCCAs
Monday-Augustus P. Gardner
Post, Army and Navy Club, noon.
Tuesday-Victory Post, No. 4,
New Colonial Hotel, 8 pm.
James Reese Europe Post, No.
S, Twelfth Street Y. M. c. A.,
8 pm.
National Cathedral Post, No. 10.
Wisconsin avenue and Window
place, SPIN.
Fort Stevens Drum and Bugle
Corps, Old Brightwood School,
8pm.
Wednesday-U. 3. Grant Nc
Alexander Post, No. SO, Hayloft, 3
pm.
Henry G. Spengler Post, No. II,
1926 Mass avenue, 8 pm.
Kenneth H. Nash Post, No. 3,
pm.
Friday-Sons Of the Legion
Drum and Bugle Corps, National
Guard Armory, 6 pm.
Saturday-World War Memo
rial observance, south Of Reflect
ing Pool, Potomac Park, 3p.m.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS
OF AMERICA

The members OF Court District OF
Columbia heard an Illustrated lecture
Tuesday evening at the Willard Hotel
on Jesuit Missions" by Rev. E. G.
Cannon, director OF the Jesuit Philip
pine Bureau in New York City.
Members Of the court. assisted by the
Junior Catholic Daughters Of America,
will usher at the lecture to be given
by DR.. de Quevedo at the Immaculate
Conception Auditorium beginning this
evening.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Daughters of the Nile.

Mrs. Arlene B. Hines Is the new
queen of SAmla Temple, No. 81. Past
Queen Mrs. leila Weaver Oatley wa.
the installation oficer. Mrs. Florence
K. Lee, past queen and present re-
corder. acted as marshal. Mrs. Lee
will be crowned supreme queen OF the
Supreme Temple when the Nile con-
vention meets hef fe in June.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
panied by Mrs. Adaline Halloran, also
of that unit.

Members Of the Government Print
ing once Unit, No. 80, are requested
to join in making poppies in the green
room of the Government Printing
once ut pm. each Tuesday.
Next Wednesday evening, following
the Executive Committee meeting, 4
child welfare program will be held un-
der the supervision Of the chairman,
Mrs. denevieve sparshott. There
will b entertainment.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
TABLET TO HONOR
Ex-HEAD OF S. W. Y.
Memorial to Be Erected for Past
Commander in Chief D. V.
Chisholm.
Meetings This Week.

Meetings This Week.
Monday-Col. James S. Petit
Auxiliary, 8 pm, Naval Lodge
Hall.
Tuesday-Col. James S. Petit
Camp, 8 pm, 92l Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
Evening star., 1937-04-25

At a meeting OF the Department
Employment Committee a committee
composed of Comdr. Lineburg as
chairman and Edwin Luther, Michael
Thomas was appointed to appear be-
lore subcommittee of the House of
Representatives on census.
Comdr. Lineburg appointed a SUBJ
committee on employment to promul-
gate procedure in connection with a
survey of unemployment of veterans
in the District. Edith Warren Quinn
Is chairman, with Ray Browning, H
B. Mumford and John Gray as mem
bers. Another meeting of the full com
mittee was held at department head
quarters yesterday.
The Liaison Committee Of the Wei.
fare Council held its annual dinner at
Chaplin's restaurant last Monday
Speakers were Department Comdr
Horace Lineburg, National Executive
Committeeman Joseph J. Malloy, DR.
Ray A. Gwynn, Miss Anne D. Pryde
Col. Julius I. Peyser and Col West
Hamilton OF the Legion; Harry Hites
publicity director Of the Community
Chest, and Mr.. Gray of the Chest.
The annual May dance of George
Washington Post, No. /, will be held
May l at the Club Admiral, Seven
teenth street and Rhode Island avenue
Dancing will be from $3.50 to 12:3C
o'clock, concluding with refreshments
Bunker Hill Post, No. 81, met Tues
day at 1926 Massachusetts, avenue
Senior Vice Comdr. Mack Myers pre-
siding
Entertainment Officer William Lee
Collins and his committee are making
plans for q stag party in June In
aearby Maryland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
MRS. HERMAN IS
 ANXIOUS TO DIE
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 charge of first degree murder. But I am guilty" she insisted. It was only after several minutes Of persuasion that she agreed to change her plea. Then she was led away, her face hidden in the folds of her cream -colored coat. A crowd of several hundred persons, mostly women, stared in silence.
 Lover Held As Witness
 The man she loved-loved so deeply that she tried to sacrifice her children to make room for him in her small apartment-waS held as material witness. Sc had ab- solved him of any part in the crime, after recanting an earlier confession which had implicated him.
 .'They (police) told me George was married to somebody else" she said. ''They kept telling me things he said about me. They made me SO angry I said George helped me to do it. But he didn't"
 It was little Jimmy's baby prattle that gave police a picture of what had happened in the woods near Brookhaven, N. Y, last Saturday morning while the children planned gay picnic. From a lunch basket Mrs. Herman drew hatchet. While Jimmy looked on, terror-stricken his sisters head was crushed, her throat was cut with 3 pair oi scissors and then fell, meaning, to the ground.
 Couldn't Finish It
 The boy turned to run, but his mother-described by her ileighbors as "a wonderful wonnen" "-grab abbed him and again wielded the hatchet A bread knife made a four-inch gash in his throat. Mrs. Tiernan said she poured gasoline over Hel- ems body and set fire to the child $ clothing. Gasoline was spilled or Jimmy, but 1t was not ignited. T couldn't go through with it," Mrs, Herman told District Attorney F, Barron Hill. What did you < tell George about the children?" he asked. T said I had them located in a private family in Long Island
 Loses C0mpOsure
 Mrs. Herman lost her composure and sobbed frequently alter she had been arraigned and locked in a cell. She told Hill she would like to see Jimmy, but that she was ashamed to face him. She asked if she could go to the hospital some time. when he was asleep and peep in" at the door. The plight of the chubby, blonde child aroused the sympathy of hundreds of residents of nearby Long Island villages. He received picture books, flowers, toys and two toy dogs. But to all visitors he in- sisted that what he wanted most was a lire truck to sit in. "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

confident that some of the "obJec' tiyes" of MT. Roosevelt's judiciary plan will be achieved, immediately enlarged their legislative program for this session. They completed bills embracing control of national resources and regulation of wage; and hours in industry and planned to revive proposals to reerganize the executive branch of the govern ment.
 More Favorable Court A court more favorable to New Deal social and economic objectives is assured when the next term be- gins in October. The appointment of Van Devanter's successor will achieve that. But the sudden su- preme court vacancy does not re- lieve the president of the urgent problem of handling a turbulent Senate. The Senate judiciary committee is in open rebellion against MT. Roose- welt and has rejected all comprom- ise proposals. The committee voted down the reorganization bill yester- day.
 Congressional tempers are short ening. The surprising committee refusal to adopt some compromise plan for the discarded presidential bill was attributed partly to resent against threats of political reprisals against democrats who oppose the president.
 Some of MT. Roosevelt's leaders appeared to be moving toward coirl- promise in the hottest dispute Washington has seen in years and there are packers of a strategy of delay to defeat court expansion al- together.
 Court May Have Decided
 Justice Van Devanter will retire two weeks from today, the day after the court recesses for the summer. He will receive $20,00O annually for life and no economy program ever will be able to reduce his pay.
 Van Devanter's retirement is ac- cepted here to mean that the court has decided pending social security cases. The "ears-to-the-greund" brigade believes the decisions will be favorable to that legislation. The opinions could be ready Mon- day or at the last meeting of this session, June l.
 Some persons close to the court believe one or more other justices will follow Van Devanter into re- tirement before the court convenes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
THRILL RIDERS
 ARE CAPTURED

Boston, May 19.-(UP)-Three alleged "thrin riders" were held on suspicion of nanslaughter today af- ter eluding police bullets in Q stol- en car chase climaxed by the killing of 7O-year old pedestrian.
 The victim, John A .MacD Dougall, was catplted over the top of the speeding stolen car as it turned a corner in the busy south end. He died shortly after arrival at a hos pital.
 A block farther on, the trio suddenly stopped after sideswiping another automobile. Police seized the alleged operator. who identified himself as Roland Ford, IS, but his two companions escaped.
 Later, two youths giving the names of John T. Ash IT, and Jo- seph Norton, 17, were arrested as the other two alleged thrill riders.
 The chase began last night in South Boston, when three members of the special service squad came upon three youths speeding in a car stolen earlier in the evening near a downtown hotel. During the chase, police fired two bullets through the windshield of the stoI- len car.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

(Continued from Page D the bus companies. A showdown or the situation was expected within 48 hours.
 City Employes Grumble
 Rumblings of discontent again were heard among city employees at Bridgeport. While settlement of a strike of ash and garbage collec- tion workers seemed further away than ever, park department em- ployes complained to the board oi park commissioners their wages were lower than In other city di- visions. A committee of cornmis- sioners was named to confer on the matter with Ellsworth Wolfsperger personnel director of the civil serv- ice department.
 Appeal to Governor
 An appeal was sent to Governor Wilbur L. Cross by strikers at the Stamford plant of Norma Hoffman Bearings Co, to have 25 state police withdrawn from duty around the plant. The officers were re-assigned to guard the plant yesterday after disturbances occurred Monday be- tween strikers and workers. Previ- ously they had been withdrawn when the area was quiet. A similar appeal to withdraw the police was sent to Fifth District Rep. Alfred N. Phillips, Jr, at Washington.
 CIO Hartford Drive
 The c. I. O., spreading it's Hart ford unionization drive, called g mass meeting for tonight of al petroleum workers in the metropoli. tan area. A local of the Interna. tional Association of Oil Field, Ga! Well and Refinery Workers ol America recently was formed there All gas station workers were de. clared eligible for membership.
 Other Labor Trouble
 At Danbury, meanwhile, unior officials in hat nanufa ufacturing plant! planned to demand collective bar. gaining agreements soon with al firms which have not yet recognized a union. The recognition driv' awaited unionization efforts at tn, John W. Green & Sons factory, 1 was ssid.
 A two-rAonths' old strike at tn, Norwalk plants of the Level ans Ryder Hat companies was settled when the homogeneous recognized a union and granted wage increases Negotiations on other points of diff. ference continued. All strikers wer' rehired.
 Results of Election
 At Bridgeport, the regional ofilci of Mrs. Elinor H. Herrick, direc, tor of the national labor relation board, announced results of an cleo, ton in the bookhinding division of the Braunworth Book Publishinl firm were 151 to 97 in favor of rec ognizing bookbinders' union a collective bargaining unit. A pol will be taken soon by employees Q the General Electric O., in the sam, city, 1t was announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Rebellion Spreads
 Against President
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next October. But White House or- ders are to continue the judiciary fight. MT. Roosevelt told press con- ference questioners he had nothing to say on the court dispute and that he had given no thought to Van Devanter's successor.
 White House Pleased
 There was no doubt of White House pleasure at Van Devanter's imminent departure. The associate justice has stood almost uniformly against the so-called New Deal laws submitted to the court for judg- ment.
 But there are some frowns on the court issue. Many of them are distracted by the choice forced upon them of voting for reorganization of the court or voting against their leader.
 Their hope is that the Van De- vanter resignation = and others which are possible-may relieve Congress of necessity of voting on the court bill. Opponents of re- organization insist that the bill ex- pired finally with Van Devanter's retirement announced. Some I1on- partisan observers share that view.
 When Van Devanter is replaced it will be by a jurist likely to vote uniformly with the so-called liberal members of the supreme court. That would give the court a liberal com- plexion by the margin of 8 six to three division between justices uni- formly or frequently sympathetic with New Deal legislation and those uniformly opposed to Roosevelt po- NcieS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
DIVORCE ACTIONS
 ON COURT DOCKET
Four Uncontested Suits Listed for Hearing Fri=
 day in Superior Court

Four uncontested divorces and several matters pertinent to future hearings of similar cases will be be heard by Judge Kenneth Wynne in superior court on Friday.
 Two of the divorce actions are Drought by men and the other two by women: They are: Rudolph Bal- dassari against Adelina Deldebbio Baldassari; Mary Fleet Thompson Platt against Irving Smith Platt; Mary H. Danialobich against Nich- olas Danialobich; Fernie I. Brock against Irene Yelderton Brock.
 Permission to place the divorce suit of Grace E. Andrews against Tracy J. Andrews on the uncontest- ed list will be asked. Similar mo- tionS will be heard in the cases of Viola B. Norton against Hubert c. Norton; and Otis c. Tisdol against Ivory Washington Tisdol.
 Alimony pending trial, and al- 1owance to prosecute motions will be heard in the following: William J. Schlesinger against Anna Schles- finger; Joseph Pastek against Anna Pastek: and Lawrence James Atch- json against Marion Allen Titus AtcniSon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
COUNTY WARDS
 WILL NOT CHANGE
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|f Ris the insurance companies of Connec- ticut at the committee, hearing. The Connecticut bill is patterned after one now in force in the state ot Massachusetts.
 Mutual Savings banks, by vote of the trustees and incorporators, may underWrite life insurance up to $1 ,0O0. The bill also provides that savings banks must set up a reserve guaranty fund of $20,00O and an ex- pense guaranty fund of $5,000. Out side solicitors are banned.
 District Court Bill
 The minor court judgeships will definitely break in the Legislature this week, it was learned by the Waterbury Democrat today. Sena- tor Raymond J. Deylin of New Ha- ven, Senate majority leader, in- formed the Democrat that with the substitute district court bill re ported in, the judgeships resolutions would follow in quick order.
 The court bill reported favorably in the Senate today gives all towns the option of being in a certain district court Sei-up. The Water bury district, as now constituted includes Waterbury, Middlebrry, and Prospect.
 Judges and deputy judges would serve four years. There would btss an annual assembly Of judges al Hartford on the second Monday ol September with the chief justice ol the Supreme Court presiding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
.SUPT, OF POLICE
 DEFENDS SQUAD
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as he's going to be taken care of"
 Two Cases This Week

Two Cases This Week
 supt. Roach stated that already this week there have been two cases in which witnesses gave different testimony on the stand than they did in their written statements. Both were drunken driving cases, he said, and in each instance the witness wrote a statement at the time of the accident saying that the driver was under the influence, and then, in court, said they weren't sure"
 The chief declared that the acci- dent squad had done excellent work since it was organized last fall. No changes in present procedure, he said, will be made.
 Practice Attacked
 In city court yesterday Attorney McGrath attacked the taking of statements and said the practice had long been frowned on. He claimed that many of the statements were uniform, and held that 8 witness should be believed only when he is under oath in the courtroom. Despite his claim, his client, Robert Walker of Plantsville, was fined $100 and costs, with $50 remitted, by Judge Edward Mascolo for operating lIn- der the influence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Mcin erator Ble1U
 Up On Welton Street
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Dr. Harold Curran of this city and Thomaston. Her name is not on the danger list.
 Fire MarshaPs Statement
 The marshal'S office issued this statement, following the explosion:
 "The evidence we have gathered shows that Mrs. Lynch and her & year-old son, Alfred, went to the old tin drum, abandoned for the use of the storage of oil; that she first poked up the accumulations in the base of the can, and then piled on the papers and lit them; that suddenly there was an explosion which rocked the neighborhood; the sensation of the explosion indicated to some about that 1t was dyna- init, or similar blast. If such were the case, however, we believe the result would have been more serious than we find it actually is. But it's lesson to us, and should be to all households of the city; our examination of the contents proved that the can was packed at the base with all sort of articles, generally used in the household. We had to use poker to get them out. There are many articles used in the house. hold today that are of an explosive nature and it may have been that such was the cause of today's af- fair. And yet we are somewhat baffled by the loudnesS of the re- port and the shaking of the nearby buildings.
 "The duty of the offlce of the fire marshal is to protect the peo- pie of the city from any and all hazards; we are vitally interested in knowing the cause, and intend to employ proper procedure in our eff forts in this line. The gases at the base, plus the flame, may have formed a combustion that brought about the explosion.
 For years, we have kicked" over such cans, used as incineratorS, where we have found them; fires in incinerators should be made fresh, and without anything hanging ovef from the day or week before.
 "The survey of the building where Mrs. Lynch lives, aS conducted by this oface, gives the following oc- cupants:
 First floor, north, Mrs. Helen Far- rington and four children, Mary 19, Margaret 1T, John II and Cath- crime g, also John Church 2 roomer and night watchrnan, asleep and awakened by the explosion. First floor, south, MT. and Mrs John McNitf and son, John, Jr., 25 Second floor. north, MT. and Mrs Harold Gensler, and two children Beverly II, and Lorraine g, and Mrs Nellie Ryan. mother Of Mrs. dens- Ter.
 Second floor, south, MT. and Mrs John Lynch, three children, John r, Michael IA. crippled. and Alfred Third floor, north, John Shea and family.
 Third floor, south, MT. and Mrs Daniel Guilfoile, and two children Patrick 6, and John 10 months; also Mrs. Anna 0lilfoile, mother oi Daniel, end John cuilfoils, brother The three story six apartment double frame house is owned by Mrs. Theresa Moran.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19

Robert Phelan came with the police ambulance and Mrs. Lynch and her son were removed to the hospital.
 Patrolman Patrick Kennedy said that he heard the explosion while doing duty at East Main and Mill streets. Others said that they had heard the blast beyond the Sacred Heart church, at Wolcott and East Main streets. Parts of the shattered incinerator were found on Orange court, nearby. Louis Hickox, of 142 Green street, an employe of the c. R. and L. lines, said that he was in the Aldo diner, opposite the Hayden street gate of the Scovill Mfg. Co, and that dishes and pans were shaken when the blast came. Neigh bors said that their houses were rocked by the explosion.
 Examining Refuse
 Marshal Lahey ordered the refuse scattered by the blast to be brought to headquarters for examination. He said it was possible that a bot tie or can of some explosive might have been in the incinerator.
 Mrs. Lynch is being attended by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
EMl[PPLoYMENT. EMl[PP WAGES

Boston, May 19-(UP)-Gains of 17 per cent in employment and 32.g per cent in wages last month over April 1936 were announced today by the state labor department on the basis of returns from 1894 Massa- chusetts industrial establishments.
 Employment last month was O.6 per cent and wages 2.8 per cent greater than in the previous month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
WILL GET IVORY CUP

New Haven, Conn, May 19-UP) --Yale's retiring president Dr. James Rowland Angel, will receive the Mory cup tonight for "conspic- uous service to Yale"
 The award was voted by the gov- ernors of Mory's association. It is presented annually at an associa- ton dinner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
SOCIAL SECURITY TO BE APPROVED
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 curity Act cases might work sub-
 stantially against the courts prestige at the present moment.
 Two additional Jurists were un- derstood to have retirement under considera tion. Justice George Suth- erland was believed to be one of
 these despite his assertion that he has no present intention of retiring. The other might be Justice James c. McReynolds, Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Louis D. Brandeis
 or Pierce Butler, all of whom are
 eligible to quit at full pay for life. Two additional appointments would open the way for the presi- dent to name 9 fully liberal court
 of the type he has indicated he
 wants.
 In the mention of possible suc- cessorS to the retiring jurist, it was established satisfactorily in the minds of many members of congress that Sen. Robert F. Wagner, d., N.
 Y., author of many New Deal measures, is eligible for the post.
 The question of eligibility was raised because the constitution pro- yides that members may not take a position if they have created the 0fice by their vote or have voted to increase its pay.
 Wagner undoubtedly would be confirmed quickly by the senate,
 where he is held in high regard but
 the feet that Hughes, Cardozo and Stone already come from New York might influence Wagner's chances.
 There has been some indication that Wagner, himself, might prefer to continue his senate post rather than go on the bench.
 Others who have been mentioned as possibilities are: Justice Ferdi- nand Pecora of the New Fork county supreme court, who con- ducted the banking investigation and helped draft the securities and exchange act; James M. Landis, Harvard law professor and former
 head of the SEC; Assistant Attor- iley General Robert H. Jackson, a
 succesfui pleader of New Deal eases
 in the supreme court; Felix Frank furter of the Harvard law school faculty and ardent New Dealer; Donald Richberg, former MIRA head;
 Secretary of Interior Harold |.
 Ickes; Judge John J. Parker of the fourth circuit court of appeals, re-
 jected by the senate as a supreme
 court nominee of President Hoover
 but one who has handed down many pro New Deal opinions; Judge Flor
 ence Allen of the sixth federal cir
 cult: Judge Seth Thomas or Judge
 Kimbrough Stone, both of the
 eighth circuit and Judge Sem Brat
 ton, . former senator, now of the
 tenth circuit.
 1 Would Not Accept
 Jamestown. N. Y. May 19-tuPl Robert H. Jackson, senior assis-
 tant attorney general of the United States, announced today that he
 would mot accept" 2 supreme court
 appointment.
 Asked to comment on reports that he was being mentioned as a prob able successor to Associate Justice willis Van pevanter, who will re-
 tire June 2, Jeckson seid:
 'T do not wish to have my nam
 considered. I am not candidat | fny. tha eYti1nfntTAnnt and rnAfIA nc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
Police Commission,

The committee on cities ana por- oughs today reported favorably on 2 bill establishing a Police Com mission in the Town of Woicott. The board, which would consist Of thfeee members. Is to be named py the selectmen. The Police Commis- sion Is empowered to name all cori- stables or special policemen.