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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
48-HOUR- WORK
 WEEK FOR WOMEN
Continued from Page l,

Tours on any one particular day in the week, if ill the event that girl or woman is relieved of those extra two hour.; upon another day of ....le same week. For instance on Wednesday a clerk can be ollowed to work for 10 hours on condition she work for 6 on another appoint ed day, if this arrangement is satis- f ,tcry with her employers.
 The bill was tabled for action to ta'-e place when tlAe senate con- ve es again next week.
 Senator Joseph H. Lawlor in- ci-eltally presided over the senate fo- a long period today, presiding in the absence of Lieutenant Gov- ernor Frank Hayes, who appeared before Y, meeting of the board of finance and control.
 Thoms Bank Bill
 In the House today a bill intro duced by Representative John D.. Thoms of Waterbury was defeated. The bill provided that depositors Tn savings banks be allowed the right to elect one- third of the directors of that particular institution. At the present time such boards are self-perpetuating, all officials suc- ceeding themselves continually year after year.
 Newspaper Bills
 In the House and in the Senate today bills introduced by the Wa terbury Newspaper Guild granting immunity to newspaper men ana women from revealing the source of their information were defeated.
 Another bill concerning the news- paper libel laws was referred to a subcommittee for investigation. The committee comprises Representative John D. Thoms of Waterbury and Representative E. Gaynor Brennan of Stamford.
 Naugatuck Bill Delayed
 Due to an error made in printing the bill, the measure providing for biennial elections in the borough of Naugatuck was held over. The bill however retains its place on the calendar. At the present time elec- tions in Naugatuck are held an nually.
 Cheshire Elections
 The house today favorably re- ceived bill which would grant bi- ennial elections in the Town Of Cheshire instead of continuing along under the present system of hold ing them yearly.
 Watertown Wants Refund
 Representative William c. Hun gerford of Watertown today appear ed before the committee on claims seeking reimbursement for the Town of Watertown for the amount of $4,- 400 which was spent for the care and welfare of transient paupers, many of whom were fed and cloth- ed by the township.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
PROBE DANBURY FIRE

Danbury, Conn, April J5.-(UP)-- Authorities started an investigation today into cause of fire which de- stroyed a two-and-a-half story house and took the life of three year-old Eleanor Wildman late yeS- terday. The fire began when Mrs. Elting Wildman spilled bottle of fuel oil on a stove. Flames pre- vented her from going into an up- stairs room to save Eleanor. She managed to rescue another child, Shirley, . year old.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
I'D TO DISCUSS
 PLANS FOR DINNER

Final arrangements for the Seich- eprey dinner at Elks' hall Saturday ni6lAk will be discussed tonight al a meeting of the I'D Veterans as- sociation at V. F. w. hall, 12S Bank street. The business meeting will be followed by social.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
to be made.
 Children Asked to Pay

State Police Lieut.. Ross V. Uruuhart learned the children were supposed to have been given candy bars once a week, but rarely got them unless the full i've cents was paid. tendent eight years ago. Now he has been suspended and Fred Thompson, caretaker, has replaced him. While investigators crowded the institution, small children played on the see-saws in the yard, singing:
 whats the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You2"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Intoxicated Driver
 Campaign Continues
Six More Drivers Arrested, Notified to Appear in
 Court Next Thursday

The states campaign against intoxicated drivers and others who flee after accident took another step forward today six drivers charged with Operating while under refusal to consider financial responsibility and reckless driving notified to appear for hearing in city court
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
DIRECTOR

Nate Watt has been signed by Harry Sherman to direct North or fife Rio Grande,' fifth Hopalong Cassidy story which Sherman IS s3roducing for Paramount.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Cross yesterday afternoon for con- ference with the state chief execu- tive on the pending public works bill. It developed that both parties in the house are in accord on the bill except for the provision requir- ing confirmation of the public works director by both branches of the legislature. Representative Thoms the governor and demand that the made 1t plain that he would support governors nomination be confirmed only by the senate, just as is the case in all important state commits SionShipS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

the district of Torrington which will be established shortly in the City of Torrington. This court which comes under the jurisdiction of Litchfeld County will be the fourth in the vicinity. Other such courts are located in New Milford, Win sted and Litchfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
TEMPERATURE RISES

Boston, April 15.-(UP)-The tenn perature climbed steadily today to- ward yesterdays high for the year of Il.
 At 11:30 a. m., the weather bureau recorded an official GA and the tenn perature was still rising.
 On only three April 14ths in the history of the Boston weather bu- reau-1876, 1891 and 1930-has it been warmer than yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
Culhane Makes Request

Senator George T. Culhane ap- peared before the committee on roads, bridges and rivers yesterday afternoon and urged the highway from Waterbury to Bristol by way of Bucks hill and Spindle hill be placed n the trunk line system. Attorney William K. Lawlor and pr. M. J. Lawlor also spoke in favor of the bill. They stressed the fact that it is the logical route to Bristol and would be shorter than the one now in use by way of Wolcott.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Shortage of railway cars is cauls- ing much trouble among miners in the lA:dlands of England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

Public Works Bill
 Representative Thoms and Repre- sentative Swayne were called into the office of Governor Wilbur l..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15

New City Gets Court In the Senate today a bill was passed granting superior court to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
WINDHAM HOME
 IS INVESTIGATED
ing goods with him.
 Children Tell Stories

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CLAYTON SUIT TO
 START OVER AGAIN

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
HEARING BEGUN
IN HOLTVIlLE
SHOOTING CASE
Evidence Presented on
Holding Branden for
Assault Trial

Presentation of evidence
was begun before Justice of
the Peace John E. Simpson
Monday to determine if R.
L. Branden shall be held for
trial by the superior court on
charges of assault with intent to
murder, assault with deadly wea-
pom and being an ex-convict in
possession of deadly weapon.
Branden is charged with wound
ing Grover Thompson, Yuma car
penter, in an early morning shoot
ing fray at Nells Cafe, Holtville,
when Branden found Thompson
and his estranged wife sleeping in
the same house. In a bloody, hand
to hand battle, Thompson was shot
once in the chest and once in the
leg.
Branden, in justice court Monday
morning, still showed signs of the
struggle June 13. Adhesive tape
hid scratches and bruises on his
face and head.
Thompson, who took the witness
stand during the morning, also haG
not fully recovered from the in
juries suffered in the brawl. Thomp-
sons version of the happenings,
as told to Judge Simpson, was that,
at about am, he heard key in
the lock, got up, and met Branden
charging into the room. Branden
fired Immediately, he said. The
witness denied that Mrs. Opal
Branden, his assailant's estranged
wife, was in the same room where
he slept.
Another witness at the prelim-
mary hearing was James B. Fran
kiln, 21-year-old hitchhiker, who
had ridden to Imperial Valley with
Branden, and remained in the car
while Branden went to the rear
of the cafe and let himself into
the sleeping quarters with a key
he had retained when he and his
wife separated. Franklin told OF
threats Branden had made against
Thompson, and of seeing Branden
with gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
NEST OF ALIENS
ON
IN TRUCK
Fish Turns Out to Be
Mexicans; Landed
In Jail

Watchdogs of the United
States immigration Border
Patrol have an unblemished
record of putting many alien
smugglers on ice, but to two
officers of the border patrol Satur-
day night fell the honor of taking
nine illegal aliens off the Ice and
putting at least two alleged SNUG
ers on the pan.
Alfredo and Alberto Amaya
Brothers Company. Inc, Ltd, made
the mistake of forgetting their fish
when they conducted their fish
truck, with supposed load of pis-
catorial edibles. north from Mexi-
cali towards Los Angeles. Instead
salted down In c1everly hidden
compartment between the ice and
the drivers cab. were nine Mexi-
cans who had absolutely no bus
mess in the United States.
Now Alfredo and Alberto Amaya,
the enterprising brothers, and Juan
Nava, 2O-year- youth they
picked up In Calexico to drive their
truck, are behind bars in the coun-
ty jail considering the peculiar
sense of smell which allows imm1-
grafton border patrolmen to smell
something fishy where there are no
fish.
In a different cell the nine IL
legal aliens muttered dark things
about Amaya brothers, who sup
posedly took their money for a
crossing into the United States, and
then were SO unlucky as to fall in
to the hands of the border patrol,
The fish truck owned and oper-
ated by the A1naya brothers was
stopped by two immigration patrol
men at 1 am. Saturday between
Imperial and Brawley The BROTH
ers were in the cab, but, because
they are Mexican citizens and were
no possessed of a drivers license,
they had pickd up the Nava boy
as driver.
An inspection of the truck re-
vealed compartment at the rear,
field with ice. There were no fish
on the ice, however. Further in
vestigation revealed a second COM
partment, between the ice and the
drivers cab, and it was filled
with illegal aliens.
The truck, bound from Mexicali
to Los Angeles, took a forceful de-
tour which ended at the county
iail.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

Russian aviation.
The three flying heroeS-Valerie
Chkalov, chief pilot; G.. p Vaidukov
and A. v. Beliakov = arose this
morning fully recovered physically
from the hardships of their 63 hour,
II minute flight.
Dressed in civilian clothing once
more their first thought of the day
was to thank their host and hostess,
Brigadier- General and Mrs. George
Marshall for the hospitality which
was shown them since they land
ed here unheralded Sunday morn
ing.
They ate hearty breakfasts and
then strolled through the grounds
of the garden of General Marshall's
home. They appeared extremely in
terested in the trees which are indi-
genous to the Pacific northwest and
made unsuccessful attempts to
question the soldier orderlies who
were escorting them on the stroll
The efforts of the orderlies to un-
derstand or reply to the questions,
were equally unsuccessful as the
fliers could speak no English, the
soldiers no Russian.
Later they slipped quietly out the
back door of General MarshallS
home and went to downtown Van
couver where they purchased rain
coats.
Before proceeding to the field
where the instruments were in
spected by a board of representa-
tives of the American Nautical as
sociation, the aviators returned to
the house where, with the aid Of
interpreters they discussed their
flight and Russian flying with
members of the board and aviation
officials of Pearson field.
Ambassador Troyanovsky reveal
ed that the Soviet Union plans
many more such flights but he
does not know what those plans are
at present.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
FLIGHT RECORD
Sent EAST FOR
CONFIRMATION
Chance Exists AviatOrs
May Have Established
Distance Mark

PEARSON FIELD, Vancou-
yer, Wash, June 21. (UP)
The paragraphs of the Rus
sian monoplane which made
the first nonstop flight over
the north pole from Moscow to the
United States, will be sent to Wash
ington, D. c., with their seal un-
broken. 1t will not be known until
the instruments are checked and
calibrated by American Aeronauti-
cal Society whether the three Rus
sian flyers set new world record
for a nonstop distance flight.
Officials of a special areonautical
board which superintended the re-
moval of the delicate instruments
said that contrary to earlier beliefs
the fliers are very close to the old
record of 5,675 miles set by the
Frenchmen, Codos and Rossi in a
fligh from New York to Syria.
Chief Pilot Valerie Chkalov cut his
finger severly when he removed
one of the aluminium covered bar
of a pullman loaf of bread, from
ographs-which are about the size
was smeared with blood as he hand
the wing of the plane. The box
ed it to the board members.
Although the ambassador and
other Russian officials had an
nounced that the flight was not
intended to be a record breaker
and that they were not claiming
any records, it was evident that
Chkalov appeared very desirous OF
such record. The fact that the
plane carried not one Paragraph
but three, two mounted together
and a third at another spot on the
ship, also indicated that the Soviet
government was taking no chance
that the instrument be faulty and
the record spoiled by mechanical
defect in the Paragraph.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
HAY BALERS IN
VALLEY STRIKE
FOR MORE PAY
Workers Seek Is Cents
Ton for Labor; No
Union Action

Concerted action by hay
balers in northern Imperial
Valley Monday resulted in a
walkout which, representa-
tives of the strikers said,
will last until growers agree to pay
25 cents ton instead of from 16
to 20 cents ton for baling.
No union action was indicated in
the walkout. One of the strikers
declared that the hay balers had
merely gotten together, agreed to
stand together in their demand for
higher wages, and walked out. No
violence was reported Monday.
Strikers said there would be none,
Signal for the strike was passed
Monday morning by leaders who
drove from ranch to ranch in auto
mobiles, passing the word. No par
ticular grower was affected more
than any other.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware declared
there would be no official action as
long as the strikers did not violate
any law.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
Merriam Victor
In Verbal Battle

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 21.
UPl-Editors and publishers of
he northern district of the Cali
fornia Newspaper Publishers as
sOciatiCn admitted today that
Governor Frank +. Merriam
bested them in a verbal duel
arising from a weekend fishing
expedition.
The governor attended a news
paper conference at the tiny
ghost town of townsville. During
a slack period the governor went
fishing.
The last of three fish he caught
was hooked firmly and the line
was snarled securely around its
tail as well when he landed it.
when the governor hooks
them they stay hooked. He even
takes half hitch around their
tails" quipped Toastmaster M.
F. Pop Small, publisher of the
Feather River Bulletin at Quincy,
during dinner session.
yes" retorted Merriam, "but
you people should understand
that. You know the kind of fell
lows l was fishing with"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
TRAGEDY ENDS
HASTY YU IA A
WEDDING TRIP
San Diego Woman Hurt
As Automobiles
Crack Up

A hasty Yuma wedding
trip ended in tragedy Satur-
day night when a San Diego
woman suffered a fractured
right arm in an automobile
accident which interrupted the re-
turn from Arizona's Gretna Green
of sailor and his bride.
The arm of Ann Newell, 80, was
splintered when caught between a
trailer and the automobile she was
riding. She and A. B. Champagne,
81, sailor, had accompanied Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Cormier, the bride
and groom, from Yuma. Champagne
was driving the car in which the
party was riding.
The car crashed into machine
which B. II. Yaeger, 40, Brownwood,
Texas, had parked on the highway
while fixing flat tire. The San
Diego automobile smashed into
Yeager's Car from the rear. Cham
pagne and the others in his car
had been drinking, according to
officers James Holcomb and Roy
Wells of the California Highway
Patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
STEEL FIRMS DEFY STRIKERS
DISTRICT HEADS
CANVASS VOTE
IN POWER FIGHT

Imperial Irrigation District di-
rectors Monday canvassed returns
from last Wednesdays special pow
er election and completed other
formalities prior to obtaining actual
ALLEGATION of PWA and REA funds
for construction of a public power
system on the All American canal.
The directors moved forward in
the belief that the District Of Co.
lumbia federal court will deny an
injunction asked by the Nevada
California Electric corporation to
prevent the federal government
from turning money over to the
district for construction. The court
will hear the injunction suit We'd
nesday.
Should the injunction be denied
the district will be in position to
proceed Immediately, as result OF
Mondays action.
Routine Monday included can
vass of election returns, execution of
PWA and REA contracts, and 9TH
er steps preparatory to actual de-
livery of the bonds covering the
two government loans for building
the municipal power system
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

udy.
The tour will start from Swan
Island airport in Portland, Ore.
at pm. today when the party
will embark by a chartered plane
for San Francisco, the ambassador
said.
The plane which made the $500
mile nonstop flight ended here at
1922 am. CPSTO Sunday when a
dense fog prevented the fliers from
reaching San Fransisco, 592 miles
farther south. will serve as tech
nological guinea pig" in the inter-
ests of Soviet aviation.
1t will be carefully dismantled
here and Grated for shipment to
Russia. where each part will be
scientifically inspected and studied
by Soviet technicians. In this way
Troyanovsky said, the effects of
the epochal flight on the ship, will
determine future development of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
et-Pierced
Auto Identified

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. June 21. Up
Sheriff George j. Carroll announa-
ed today that a bullet-pierced car
found abandoned on the street here
Saturday had been positively iden-
tilted as the one in which two Colo
RADIO gunner who killed Nebras-
ka sheriff and wounded his deputy
near Albion, Neb., last Thursday
made their escape.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

DOdCS overlooked MS QlSIreSS SlSndl,
Robert L. Brooks, the injured man,
is expected to survive.
Brooks, leasee of the windswept
speck in the Channel Islands chain
off southern California, slipped
while repairing a wharf two weeks
ago and a spike ripped a gaping
wound in his thigh.
San Miguel is without a doctor,
boat, or any means of communi-
cation with the mainland. No ship
was due for weeks.
Realizing that Brooks would
bleed to death unless the wound
was closed, Herbert Lever, only
other man on the island. set to
work. Lever, shell-shocked World
War veteran. lives on San Miguel
with his wife and two children,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
VALLEY YOUTH
RUNNING FOR
GOVERNOR

SACRAMENTO, Calf, June 81.
U.P)-High school youths from all
sections of California, meeting at
the state fair grounds here under
sponsorship of the American Le-
gion, today will nominate candi-
dates for governor of their "boy
state" First to announce his cam
didacy was Bill Dunn, Jr.. of I'M
perial county.
The boys already have set up
six city and two county govern
mentS.
Governor Frank F. Merriam has
been invited to attend installation
ceremonies for the hoy governor"
tomorrow night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
Trustees Obtain
Permit to Erect
School Building

To accommodate increasing en-
rollment, trustees of the Wilson
school district Monday obtained a
permit to put up a $l4200 class
room building at Wilson school In
Ell Centro.
Working from plans drawn by
Architect Albert F.. Hansen. Con-
tractor Mark McClelland will su-
nervise construction of the addi-
ton to Ell Centro's school proper
ties.
The building will be of stucco
finish. 24H feet by 100 feet in size
It's construction will relieve crowd
ed conditions in the grammar
school next fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21
SIGNED PACT
WITH UNION
HELD FUTILE
Plants to Reopen
Despite Lines
Of Pickets

CLEVELAND, June 81.
(UP)-Chairman Tom Grid
Ter of Republic Steel corpor-
alton today told the Federal
Steel Mediation board that
discussion of a signed contract with
the committee for Industrial Or
ganization-sole issue in the seven
state steel strike-was futile"
AS the Republic and Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company officials
announced plans to defy picket
lines and reopen plants in the
Youngstown area tomorrow, Grid
ler and executives of three other
struck companies appeared before
the mediation board an hour after
the board had conferred with CIO
Chairman John L. Lewis and his
aides.
Girdler said his company would
not enter into an oral or written
agreement with the CIO and added
that "any discussion of this is
futile"
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 81. U.H
The federal government inter-
vened in the San Francisco hotel
strike today when Walter Mathew
son, conciliator for the federal
labor board, called conferences
of leading factions in the 52-day-
old dispute.
Mathewson said he hoped the
conference would result in COM
plete settlement" of the strike.
Those who met with him included
representatives of hotel operators,
members of the San Francisco
labor councils advisory committee
and executive board, and Fl. p Mel
nikow, advisor to the joint strike
committee.
WASHINGTON, June 81. U.P)-
Rep. Allen T. Treadway, r.. Mass,
ranking Republican member of the
house ways and means committee,
charged in the house today that
the administration was "condon-
ing" strike activities of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization.
"These efforts by John L. Lewis
have been abetted by the admins
tration," Treadway said. "It is even
said that the head of the CLIO.
has demanded support of the ad-
ministration as remittance for a
$500,000 contribution to the last
Democratic campaign fund"
Treadway said that Mary Heaton
Worse, magazine writer wounded
by bullet at youngstown, O., dur
ing fight between deputies and
pickets sis a cousin of mine"
"It is indicated that she and
others were acting within their
rights as American citizens" he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

plete story, WoIford explained. yet
at joint trial either could pre-
vent the other from taking the
witness stand.
Attorney Lee Nuffer. appearing
on behalf of the Lucketts. objected
to July 7 as the date for Dr Luck
ett's trial Considerable discussion
ended when the court adjourned h.
Monday afternoon
Edgar Hervey, San Diego attof.
ney who will aid In defense OF the
Licketts, was not on hand but will
be present at the trial. the court
was told,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

SITUyI1Ig To ydTuS OF WdII anu UIUW-
ing the hospital into three sections,
leaving only one wall standing.
The Loyalists retired to their
fourth lines before the explosion
after Turing the Insurgents to the
front line with rifle and artillery
fire at midnight.
Not a single shot was heard in
the university city this afternoon
when neWspapermen visited the
scene of the explosion.
An official announcement said
400 were killed.
Major zulueta, Basque leader OF
the forces attacking Madrid, said:
"I firmly believe every one OF
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

and works for Brooks.
He boiled the needle he uses to
repair fish nets. While the injured
man dug his nails into the bunk
and gritted his teeth, Lever sewed
He prayed while he sewed.
For II days no passing craft
needed their distress signal-the
American flag flying upside down.
Then the motorship Vaquero of
Santa Barbara arrived four days
ahead of time with supplies. II
rushed Brooks ashore.
Physicians at Cottage hospital
said the amateur surgeon was so
thorough that no infection devel-
oped.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-21

Date for DR.. Luckett's trial was
to be fixed Monday afternoon. at
hearing set when attorneys could
not reach an agreement during the
morning session of court, It was
believed that DR.. Luckett will be
tried during the present court call
endar, however.
D. H Wolford, deputy district
attorney, moved for separate trials
because, he told the court, 1t would
be almost impossible to conduct
joint trial fairly to the state and
the defendants Each defendant
should be allowed to tell a COM