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dBC ~ virtually will be eliminated as a re- suit of supreme court validation of the Wagner act.
 Miss Perkins Hopeful
 Miss Perkins hopes that her con- ference next Tuesday will be at- tended by many of the "big names of industry and labor. Among those invited were William Green, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor: John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Or ganization; Myroil c. Taylor, board chairman of the J s. Steel corpora tion; Gerard Swope, board chairman of the General Electric Corporation: Harper Sibley, president of the U. s. chamber of commerce and gov- ernment officials.
 Conversations with administration sources indicated that legislation seeking to bind responsibility of la- bor unions to contracts under the Wagner act would be discussed dur ing the next few weeks.
 Incorporate Labor Unions
 It was learned that certain attor- neyS close to President Roosevelt in labor matters have advised him that a law requiring incorporation of la- bor unions is the next advisable step in formulating a labor police. MT. Roosevelt has indicated that he is favorably inclined towards such a statute. Organized labor factions traditionally have opposed such a step. However. 1t was believed that union leaders could be persuaded to change their viewpoint. Councillors to the president pointed out that if no new law limiting labor powers is passed, such an act as the British trades union law may be sponsored in congress. This provides that all union funds must be accounted for to the government and that unions
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Women PicIsetg


 Women Pichets
 .Oshava, Ont, April 14g-WP- A'.en pickets in front of the General ..gotorB corporation of Canada as- SC. nbly plant here were replaced by 100 fiag-waving women strikers to- day--and shortly afterward 200 1lon- s'rikers walked through the slim lii. of booing women and entered the plant.
 It was the largest number of workers to pass the picket lines since the strike was called last thursday in an effort to force the co. npany to recognize the United Automobile Workers of America as [ barb lining agency for its S,700 eI:lployes.
 t'he wonser. pickets, sent to the Ii .es b; strike leaders as 8 gesture of confidence that their demands would be met, carried Union Jacks and sang national airs. The flags, they said, were intended as an aIl- s'v : to Premier Mitchell Hepburn'S charge that the strike was dominat- ed by communists.
 The women sang "We1l Never Let the Union Falr to the tune of "Well Never Let the old Flag Fall" Trey stopped singing to boo. how ever. when the f1on-strikerS appear ed and entered the plants parts de- partment.
 Get Out Emergencies
 Each day since the strike noS- union workers have entered the plant to get out emergency" parts for ambulances, fire engines and t.le like. but today'S group was more then twice as large as yesterdays. It was recruited, comapny officials indicated, among non-strikerS from all plant departments.
 The women pickets' reaction was noticeably milder than that of the I pickets they deplaced. Their mc-calling was considerably less salty the mems had been. Tn further protest against Hep" burns charge, war veterans menl- be.S; of the union planned a uni- formed parade through the city. They got out their decorations, col- ors ane. flags.
 The General Motors strike forced suspension of work in plants all over Canada where fabrics, parts s..d other supplies are manufactured s7r the automobile company.
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(Continued From Page 1) a woods near the scene of the mur- der. There the negroes were chained to trees. A mobster pro- duced a blow torch and struck a match and in a minute 1t was roar ing above the pleadings of the doomed men.
 Forced To Confess
 The Negroes were asserting their innocence. The torch was applied first to McDaniel. He screamed for mercy and 1t was withdrawn. Asked to confess the murder, he refused, and the torch was applied again. He then agreed to confess. He said that Townes had killed the white store keeper and that he had assist ed. He sobbed out his story amid screams and groans as he continued to scream, his torturerS stepped back, a volley of shots rang out, and Mcdaniel dangled in his chains,
 While this was happening, Townes was struggling against his chains. He was invited to confess, then the torch was applied to him. It was a slow process, punctuated by screams and Sobbing, and by the time he had confesed in the detail the mob wanted. he was partly conscious, held up by the chains. Brush was piled up around him. Someone came forward with a can of gasoline. Townes was drenched with 1t, as was the brush. The instant the match was applied great sheet of flame shot up and TowneS died in 1t.
 Another Negro Trccd
 On the way to the scene of the lynching, the mob picked up an- other Negro, Shorty" Derroh. Be- tween the executions. the mob beat and kicked him until he confessed that he had helped the others plan the murder, but had not taken part in 1t. After watching the others die, he was beaten some more, then told to get out of the state" He disappeared immediately and 1t was believed that he had obeyed.
 The bodies-one riddled with bull lets. the other charred, remained chained to the trees for hours.
 Circuit Judge John Allen an- nounced at Winona that there would be an immediate inveStiga- ton.
 This terrible thing will be inves- tigated by the grand jury," he said.
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ward bound on world cruise. She turned about and steamed at full speed for the Titanic. But at 2:20 a. m, the Titanic foundered, and the Carpathia did not reach the scene of the wreck until 5:30 a. m. The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats and few rafts. Two of the life boats were wrecked in launching. Thus, when the Carpathia reached the scene. only 2l0 were members of the crew. Several died later of exposure.
 It was this pitiful group that the Carpathia took aboard. The sur vivors had suffered from exposure in the open boats. They were hys- terical, grief stricken and suffering from shock. Families had been separated by the rule of the sea, women and children first" Fathers and husbands stood aside on the water-washed Titanic decks while they saw their children and wives lowered in lifeboats. John Jacob AStor was one of these men. Other famous men who went down with the Titanic were Isidor Straus, Benjamin Guggenheimer, George D. Widener and Major Archibald Butts, military aide to President Taft.
 News of Disaster Late
 While this great tragedy was oc- curing the world had only frag- mentary news. On April IS news papers had few vital facts concern ing the disaster. It was not until April 16, more than 24 hours after the Titanic sank that the first de- tailed news was available. At that time the passenger list was printed, but no accurate information could be obtained as to the identity of most of the survivors. It has been said that the White Star Line offices did not have official information oi the disaster until after 6 p. m. April IS, more than g hours after the Carpathia had taker the survivors aboard.
 The rescue ship arrived at New York on the night of April IS. It was not until the ship docked and the Carpathia passengers and sur vivors of the Titanic came ashore that the full Story of the disaster was told.
 There was the story of Mir and Mrs. Isidor Straus: The code of the sea. women and children first. would have separated them, but having lived their lives together, they chose to die together. Mrs. Straus refused to enter a lifeboat.
 Told, of As.or's Heroism
 There was the picture of Colonel Astor. helping his wife into a life boat, then stepping back smiling as he waved gOodby.
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 ceeding from the Nausatuck- Water bury road northeYly on Baldwin street extension. Baldwin street extension ascends sharply In a northerly direction and when Mas coli was about 122 feet northerly from the Naugatuck-W Waterbury road intersection, his car struck Savage with the upper left front part of the radiator. Savage suS- tained severe injuries from which he died at 10:50 p. m. on the 23rd of March, 1937, at St. Mary's hospi- tai. After Savage was struck, Mas coli stopped his car and went to his assistance. The occupants of pass- ing car helped Mascoli place Savage in Mascoli'S car and they then pro. ceed6dl on their way. without diScloS- ing their identity. There is no evi. dence of the manner in which Mas coli operated his car except his own statement, which was that he did not see the deceased until he struck him and that after he Stop~ ped his car, the deceased's shoes were oil side by side on the side of the road. There is further no evi- dence of where Savage was in the highway when he was struck.
 While the failure of MascoM to see the deceased with no plausible explanation therefore is evidence of lack of care, I do not consider the evidence sufncient to charge him with criminal negligence in the op- eration of his automobile at that time.
 I find therefore that the death of the said Thomas Savage was due to a fracture of the skull sustained in the manner heretofore described. but that said death was not due to the criminal negligence of the said Jerry Mascoli.
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\OU1l6uluCQ 4Vlu Gd6C 4V o',. exception they are absolutely opposed to it."
 T belyieye the amendment Oeav- ing the question to be settled by cfsrendum) will dispose of the mat ter once and for all. That would be the final decision on the whole mctter. III wager it will be defeat- ed twenty one. It's the only fair way"
 In defense of the measure, Sena- tor William c. Fox, democrat, New London, asserted: "It is constitu- tional responsibility women must assume, whether they like it or not"
 What Fox Said
 Regarding statements of previous speakers that woman's place is in tlie home, Fox declared:
 T don't like to miss the oppor- tunity of disagreeing with. my friend On the weakness of the opposite sex. This is a subterfuge. It's the place for men too, but neither of them stay there very much. Women eat as we do, and they sleep as we do-- I am told and some of them drink the same as you do.
 T am not opposed to having wo- men on juries because I am not haled into court very often.
 The democratic party. he said, was pledged to support the bill in the platform of the last election. which rolled up a 100000 majority in Connecticut.
 Rumpf,s suggestion was vigorous ly opposed by Senator James R. Rabbet, d., Windsor Locks, who called 1t dangerous" and tending to create professional jurors.
 Senate Leader Raymond J. Dev- lin, d., New Haven. urged the bill be approved without alteration and thus avoid necessity of second house vote which he feared would be adverse.
 Pass 1t now and amend it later," he advised.
 Ruinpfs opposition was based on his belief "that there are many more women who do not wish to serve on juries than there are wo- men who do."
 He said there exists "a certain indefinable distinction between men and women" which would cause most women to oppose jury service.
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WILL OF ALICE E. ]: KINCSBURY FILED
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 to be shared by Frederick Kings rbury Bull. of Litchfield, Ludlow S..
 Bull, of Litchfield, Frederick John
 Singsbury. of New Haven, and Mrs.
 Ruth Kingsbury Sargent, of New sEiayen. In another clause in the swill Miss Kingsbury left to these
 -Four all her furniture, household seffects, automobiles, jewelry, silver ware and other such items. to be IIiivided among them as they wish.
 Mattatuck Society K The sum of $25,000 is left to the isAattatuck Historical society, in ksnemory of the testatrix's father,
 Frederick John Kingsbury. Though knot establishing any trust fund, fMiss Kingsbury requested that the E1noney be used for the publication From time to time of historical lkpapers and documents. A short time |sbefore her death Miss Kingsbury Isdeeded her home on Prospect street 'sto the Mattatuck Historical Society. ' Besquests of $l,000 z There are a number of bequests Of A3l 600 each. one of them to Rev. .Dr. John N. Lewis, rector of St. Johns church, fin recognition Of shis devotion and interest in" the sKingsbury family. Requests Of s$l 900 each are also left to the fol- Flowing: Richard c. Sargent, Jr. Frederick John Kingsbury Sargent. sAdele T. Kingsbury, Patricia Kings sbury, Frederick John Kingsbury, ". Julia Ann Kingsbury, Frederick sxIingsbury Bull, II, Roger Ludlow Bull, Agnes Davis Bull, Julis Me- Kinney Kingsbury, Katherine Ex- ston Bull, Mary Matilda Jackson and Ruth Kingsbury Sargent.
 Employes Remembered . To an employe, William Josey, Miss Kingsbury left $l00 for each syear he was in her service. The sWill provides that if the total does mot come out to the even thousand sdollars, that Josey be given the next 2 highest thousand.
 The sum of $l00 for each full year sin Miss Kingsbury's employ is leit ssto Eugene Barnes and Alice M. Reed, and also any other servants , semployed by Miss Kingsbury at the time of her death.
 The residue of the estate Is then to go to the three nephews and the sniece. Inheritance and succession taxes are to be paid by the estate from the residue after other be- squests have been paid.
 Full Power 0i Executors Full powers to handle the estate are given the executors. Miss Kings bury named the following as execu- 1 tors: The Citizens and Manufactur" eers National Bank, Frederick Kings bury Bull, Ludlow 8. Bull. Ruth K. Sargent and Frederick John Kings bury. Ludlow Bull and Mrs. Sargent declined. however, and the bank and 1 the other two have been confirmed , e executors.
 The size Of the estate will not De knoan until after an inventory now
 .a progress faS been completed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-14
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press StaR Correspondent)

' With Rebels Outside Madrid, April l4-The nationalist GebeD ,forces held the loyalists on the Easa de Campo sector today, halt 3ng a renewed effort to penetrate 4heir lines encircling Madrid. l
 watched the engagement under di-
 rect fire and escaped b"ing hit.
 ThS loyalist artillery fire was heavy. Beginning at dawn they hammered the rebel positions in rain effort 10 lift the siege of the capital. Hun 1lreds of shells poured over from l&he government artillery units. The Hin was terrific. Three landed 30 %ards from where croucheG, watch ing the battle. Two soldiers and a
 nongrel dog with us were wounded. ' was unhurt.
 z Capture Many Tanks
 \ The nationalist officers told me MhAt nearly a dozen tanks captured From the loyalists on this front had
 been repaired and were ready to
 De put into action against the gov- &rnment troops. The insurgents
 painted over the tanks Identification 2narks, including the initials for the 3oyalist organizations such as the &lnion of proletariat brothers, con- Federation of national workers and general union of workers.
 : During the mornings lombard
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GOES INTO MOOSE

Boston, April l4.-UP)-James Roosevelt, White House secretary and eldest son of the President, will be initiated into the Brookline Lodge. Loyal Order of Moose, Sun day, 1t was announced yesterday.
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Censure Vote Asked
 For British Premier
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t the rebel blockade of the Bay Of sigcay port. and of actually helping 10 blockade because 1t wants to aid 1e rebel cause.
 sThis surely is a blockade on the aeap,'" Attlee said. Apparently nyone need only inform the Brit
 70 government that they intend to pR q few mines about a port and
 1c British fleet will then come pwn to blockade the port for them.
 Must Do Batting Franco
 Franco (the insurHent commander Ropes to depend on starving women nd children and the British gov. Fnmegt iS going to nelp him. The &ction creates the widespread cor. lction that the government must te backing Franco. The government isas no right to push this huTnilat. .ng procedure on British sailois." The house cheered.
 s AttIee charged that the goyern- 'aent, in warn.,1g British ships that hey would not be protected if they fentured to Bilbao. ''is guilty of hirrendering rights which the coln- Fy always has maintained"
 Here there is no question of &arting foreign war and no queS.
 Son of trouble with foreign pow.
 T." he continued. The threat came Dlely from the rebels, whose bellig-
 rency tright to be recognized as al
 elligerenD the government has not Recognized"
 Sir John Simon Replys { Sir John Simon, home secretary, Replying for the government. in- Wisted that It's policy regarding Bill Hao ''is based on a policy of no in- Preference, direct or indirect, in the affairs of Spain. This is the declared purpose of the government of this Country and cf France"
 \ In reply to a demand by Att!ee Regarding what evidence there is to Show Bilboa is mined, Simon said:
 The commander of H. M. s. Blanche on April 6 reported that *here is a close blocade of Bilbao. Thereupon the Blanche was instruc- ted to inform any British ship bound for Bilbao of this state of affairs and sdvise them not to pro- eeed to Bilbao"
 ( He declared a similar course was Followed last year on the south Boast of Spain in the face of a sim Mar situation.
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Aircraft Corp. today studied texts of the supreme court decision vali- dating the Wagner Labor Relations Act before taking action on a na- tional labor relations board, order to reinstAte 18 men discharged in 1885 for alleged union activities.
 There is more than a constitu. ti0nal qusgtion involved in this case. said Attorney George H. Day. corporation counsel. Not until I have received officials texts of the supreme court. decisions and have given them careful study can ! say what our course will be-"
 Company officials refused coin- ment pending word from their aty t0rT1ey. e
 Meantime, Union Counsel Julius M ACllatas salagAt the company re- fuses to. reillStRte te the men. Inc would sseG hMrit Gf uiahunnnAls from fcd- iNkAi Uuslgts E.s ,s.'s E .,s se !. ;ssf <.
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(Continuad from Page ID the actual horror of the disaster" declared William T. 5loper, wealthy broker.
 T know of one man whose wife divorced him. whose children left him, and who lost his friends. be- cause he was accused of leaving the boat in women's clothes. I saw him ten years after he was broken in spirit, alone in the world, all hiS interest in his fellow-being and ac- tivities around him gone - deJected to a state of melancholy.
 Man Was Innocent
 "And that man was innocent. The lifeboat he was in came along side ours that memorable night and this man, mustached and wearing his dinner suit, who left the ship without even bothering to pick up heavier cloak, was blue in the face from the cold. I threw him my overcoat. tt
 T know of another survivor, also accused but innocent of the same charge, who was unable to continue under its merciless pursuit. and some years after shot himself to death.r a
 Slipper Too Accused
 s"I, too, have been accused Of the cowardly act, both in a newspaper account and by word of mouth. but I am thick skinned and 1t does not bother me any. My innocence has helped to fortify me against worry ing. aa "Immeridately after 1t was real- ized the ship was in danger of sink- ing, a call was issued to board life- boats.
 "since most of the passengers held back, because the idea of ieav-
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ulent a nationalist shell made a di- rect hit on one loyalist tank com ing into action across the Casa de Campo. Tho explosion lifted the lit- tie tank 12 yards in the air, shatter- ing 1t like a piece of Dresden china before our eyes.
 Planes Forced Back
 ! saw a number of loyalist war planes try to gc into action, but they were forced away by anti~ aircraft guns. Prisoners captured in the IoyAlist offensive said a new Madrid battalion joined the gov. ernment forces Tuesday. ]. waG composed If remnants of intcsna- ticnal biigades that had been h.Ck- etl up by heavy loses. The nAtion- alist resistance to the offensive was aided by their possession of Strat- egic positions all along the Madrid front, many of them almost irn- ptegnable.
 In the past tive months of the siege, they had gained control of Strtng natural Qualifications in var iouS Sectors-such as the Cero de Los Angeles to the south of the city and were ready for just such sn onslaught as the loyalist offen- StVe.
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lO,eeo Rebels Encircled

1O,VVO Rebels EnclfcIed
 Madrid. April l4-(UP)-The S7th and 38th international brigades, cream of loyalist forces and com posed of French and Polish volun- teers turned back all attempts to relieve 10000 insurgents isolated in University City today.
 May Attack France
 Madrid, April 14-(UP)-Loyalist authorities announced receipt today of map implying that notwitt- standing an apparent preoccupa- ton in winning the Civil War, the nationalistS have plans to invade France.
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Soviet Russia announced that 1t will produce 65 feature films in 1886.
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LABOR WARNING
 IN NEW ENGLAND

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SIXTEEN YEARS
 OF FIGHT WON

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HUGE TITANIC
 SINKING RECALLED

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NATIONAL LABOR
 POLICY PLANS

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Rights of Employers

cannot participate in sympathy or general strikes.
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FRICHTFUL SCENE
 ATLYNCHINC SPOT

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JERRY MASCOLI
 FREED OF BLAME

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 virtually will be eliminated as a re- suit of supreme court validation of the Wagner act.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-01
CREDIT UNION FOR
NEGROES PLANNED
Other Activities for Year
Also Discussed At
Board Meeting

A credit union for Negroes in
Vance county is planned by the Ne
gro Agricultural Advisory Board
which also has other projects in hand
for the advancement and promotion
of the agricultural life of the Negroes
of the county, it was announced to-
day following a meeting of the board
Monday afternoon. 1t was the monthly
meeting of the group.
A county credit union with head
Quarters in Henderson is to be estab-
lishcd, although full details were not
learned. 1t was also planned to hold
a farmers county picnic at Kittrell
College on Wednesday, July Fl. On
November II, which is Thursday, it
is proposed to hold a county achieve
ment day Arrangements were made
also to send a large delegation of far
mers to the State Farmers Confer
ence in Wilson July 1916.
Tours of test farms were planned
for July % at the Iredell test farm at
Statesville; the Oxford tobacco station
July 80, the Edgecombe test farm near
Rocky Mount on August 10, and the
Willard farm September 10.
H. f. Webb, Negro farm agent, to-
day announced plans for the program
for the Negro rural workers of the
county.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-06-01
REGISTRATION FOR
SCHOOL IS LIGHT
Only Ten Signed Monday;
Glasses Start Tomorrow
At Junior High

Approximately ten pupils enrolled
on Monday for the annual six weeks
summer school of the Henderson
high school. Prof. w. D. Payne, prin-
cipal of the Henderson High school,
stated today The number was trifle
disappointing and was much less than
had been anticipated. He said there
would probably be a few more on
Wednesday, when the classes begin.
Since the number of pupils will be
so small, the size of the faculty that
had been arranged will likely be cut
accordingly.
Mr.. Payne said the lowering of the
passing grade in the high school from
rs to 70, as ruled by the school board
some months ago, enabled more pu-
pills to pass their work than hitherto.
The fact that a bonus" of three
points were given to all students at
the end of the year also was a favor
able move for the pupils, and which
had the effect of passing students if
their average was up to 81.
The faculty that had been arranged
for the summer school consists of
Prof. S. M. Crowder, Miss Shannon
Morton and Mrs. Julia B. Nanny.
The classes will be held at the
Junior high school. Students have the
opportunity of taking any subject de-
sired, either new work, failed work or
conditioned work.