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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

Roach, the defendant, was asked to show cause why injunctions should not be granted restraining him from refusing to issue permit for the showing of the picture, and restrain ing him from interfering otherwise with display of the film. At the hearing the petition was amended % that 1t called for mandatory Injunction forcing Superintendent Roach to issue permit.
 Dispute Started In May
 The controversy over Spain in Flames" began in May, when super lntendent Roach refused to issue a permit for the showing of the pie ture on the grounds that It was too controversial The picture was scheduled to be shown here June O.
 Then, last week an application was made for permit to have the picture displayed July 22' when the superintendent again refused the legal action was taken, With tne plaintiffs being represented by At- torney Ralph o. Wells of Hartford
 Tn his memorandum, Judge lneIis holds that Superintendent Roach has no discretionary power in iSsu- ing licenses for moving pictures, put says that injunction proceedings arc not the proper steps.
 Mandamus Proceedings
 The committee will now undouot- cdly institute mandamuS proceed ings. but the case will not be heard until September or later. Whatever the courts decision on the petition for mandamus, the case will prop ably go eventually to the state su- preme court of errors,
 Memorandum of Decision
 Judge Inglis' memorandum of de- cision on the injunction application follows.
 The ordinance of the City oi Waterbury which provides that the superintendent of police shall issue licenses for "theaters and moving picture houses, % cents per seat per year minimum $50l" and "toi public museums and exhibitions IT
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hope centered on the Lexington, racing here at top speed. ,f \ Searching Since Friday s..s,sl
 Tho Itasca, which went to Hnw- land Island three weeks ago to give Miss Earhert any aid possible on her worlG flight has been searching the sea constantly since Friday. Yes- terday it made contact with the Colorado and was refueled, job that took four hours. Then both boats resumed their race southward into the area dotted by tiny islands sandy atolls and dangerous unchaft- ed coral reefs. '
 When the speedy pursuit planes of the Colorado were catapultec Into the air yesterday the battleship was still more than 200 miles from the area in which the search was cen- tralized today. ....,
 It is in the Phoenix Island area that George Palmer Putnam, hus- band of Miss Earhart, Is certain the big plane had landed Friday when Miss Earhart was unable to locate Rowland Island, her objective. It was he who recommended the search be centralized there at a time when the coast guard and navy boats were working the waters nearly 300 miles north of the island.
 Husband Convinced
 Putnam also is convinced that Miss Earhart made Q safe landing on . small island or reef and those in charge of the search now agree with him. If the plane were in water the radio could not be used, and Putnam and the navy and coast guard ob- servers say there Is no doubt many of the radio messages heard on Miss Earhart'S wave length came from her or Noonan.
 While the Colorado's planes will be able to cover hundreds of square miles, with greater chance for spot ting the Earhart plane than that oi observers aboard the vessels, the search will attain really wide flung proportions when the Lexington re- leases its scores of aerial Searchers
 On the Lexington's expansive decks are both speedy pursuit planes and big transports and bombers, capable of flying hundreds of miles. When they take the air 1t will be possible to survey the entire search area within six to i2 hours, but difnculty may be encountered in sighting ob. jectS on the low islands, the bigges,
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City Wins Decision
 On Injunction Suit
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stores or elsewhere, $5 per day" is intended solely to provide revenue and make sure that the police Au- thorities have notice of the times and place of such exhibitions.
 Discretion In Licenses
 It does not confer upon the su- perintendent of police any discret- ion in the issuance of the licenses or in particular any power of cen- sorship over the nature of moving pictures to be exhibited. This con- clusion is arrived at, first, because the ordinance is in terms mandatory on the superintendent of police to issue licenses, secondly because the fees to be charged for various li- censeS provided for vary more or less in proportion to the revenue which the licensee may be expected to derive from the business licens- ed, and thirdly, because inasmuch as the ordinance provides no standards by which the Superintendent Is to be guided in issuing licenses if 1t were to be constructed as giving him discretionary powers 1t would be unconstitutional.
 State Conlon, 65 Conn. 478
 Ingham Brooks, 95 Conn. 3l7
 State V Coleman, 96 Conn. l90.
 Was No Discretion
 It follow from the fact that the Superintendent Of Police has no dis- cretion in the issuance of such licenses that the plaintiffs have a remedy for his refusal to issue the license in this case by way of man. damuS.
 State ex rel Foote Bartholomew
 lo3 Conn. 607, 6l7
 Mandamus provides the plaintiffs an adequate remedy at law. The mere fact that because no court which can issue a writ of man. damus happens to be in session at the present time does not prevent that procedure being such an ade- quate remedy that equity will not interfere. A remedy at law does not lose It's adequacy in the eyes ot equity simply because its enforce ment will be postponed be delays III pToCeuuEe'
 2l o. J. 53 Equity Sec. 3o) Lazarevich V. Stoeckel, IF Conn 260 One might as well argue that, il, a situation where A owes B, & sum of money on a past due note which money B needs urgently and im- mediately to save himself from for feiture, then B Is entitled to an in- junction directing A to pay the note because 1t will take B too long to collect 1t by the legal process.
 The plaintiffs, having an ade- quate remedy at law, are not en- titled to relief by way of injunction For the foregoing reasons the application for a temporary in- junction is denied.
 Ernest A. Inglis
 Judge of the Super'or
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(Continued from Page l) sor of the walk-outs for signed union contracts, have discounted back-at-work figures offered by arrangements. They were not avail able immediately for comment on totals offered by the strike afiect- ed companies.
 Wives, Children Line-Up
 Workers in nearby factories bent out of windows to watch today's back-to-work parade. Wives and children of many returning workers lined the approach to the soot- stacked sheds.
 The fagazine iron age, reviewing renewed operations of various plants said today that the steel operating rate next week may return to 85 per cent of capacity or better.
 Daily metal trade, another publi- cation of the steel industry, said the rate had risen to 78 per cent of ca- pacity up to today.
 By tonight, the four reopened Cleveland mills expected to pour their first steel since the seven- state siege began May 26.
 Aluminium Strike Riot
 Alcoa, Tenn, July 8-(UP)-Na- tional guardsmen surrounded the Aluminium Company of Americas plant today to prevent further vio- lence on strikers picket lines. Two men died last night and early to- day and 20 were in hospitals after a gun battle between strikers and police.
 Adjutant General R. o. Smith was in command of machine gun companies from Knoxville and Ma ryville and infantry companies from Athens and Nashville ordered here after conference between Smith and David Manker, secretary to Governor Gordon Bros:ning.
 we are not going to declare mar tial law here because we are get- ting too good cooperation from the union and from Aluminium Con- pany officials" Smith announced after a tour of the strike area. We are here merely to protect rights and see that no trouble occurs"
 Rioting broke out when some of the 5000 strikers, advised that the plant would be reopened following the collapse of peace negotiations in Pittsburgh. Pa. started back to-work movement. The strike was called on May IS by the Aluminium Workers of America. an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, to press demands for adjustment of wage differentials between the Al- coa plant and those operated by the company at New Kensington. Pa.
 Striker Dies
 Harrison Click, a striker, died in Carson hospital at Maryville last night and Policeman W. H. Hunt, of Alcoa, died there shortly afterward. Click had been wounded in the throat. Hunt had a bullet wound in the abdomen.
 Fighting occurred outside the gates of the company's sheet mill No. l. one of the largest plants of it's type in the world and the only mill in Alcoa affected by the strike
 Strikers and police charged each other with responsibility for the ini- tial gun shot. which started the
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PRESENT CITY
 REGIME TO RUN
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 more amused than resentful about reports that opposition was devel- oping within the administrators ranks. T don't know of any city hall official, who contemplates re- fusing e renomination, his honor commented. Prom what I have ob- served everyone holding office seems anxious to continue and if the vot- CTS feel that way too, and believe they do, the present setup will con- tinue." The report that anyone was being singled out for retirement was very promptly denied, so 1t Is ap- parent tNot unless there Is a change of sentiment 3l1 the part of the in- d,Vduas now ,n office the demo- srgrD hcaet will he renominated "aS
 Epnis Nay Not Run
 Tine oAly possible exceptions to Is35 will be that of William J. En- his, tax collector, who Is not up for reelection this year, his term of office being for four years and Sheriff Angelo Nardona has replaced Su- perintendent of Police William j. Roach, who was the candidate in l036, When ne became police chief he was succeeded temporarily by John Kilduff, now 6 member of the board of assessors.
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REPUBLIC STEEL
 PLANTS ALL OPEN

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Edrlldrt Plane Has . Not Been DiscoDered
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of which are but . few feet above tho oceans level, ss Coneurs with Putnam Admiral Orin c. Murfin, com- Enardant of the l4th naval distirct and in charge of the search since lt was placed under complete con- trol of the navy, concurred in Put nams view that Miss Earhart prob ably had landed in the Phoenix group. He said the islands cover an area of about 36,00O miles, but that when Rowland Island and It's iTnTile- diate waters were included in the survey 1t meant an area of 300,0O0 square miles about the size of Texas must Dc covered.
 Captain Kenneth Whiting, com manding the Pearl Harbor air base here, said the islands were the logi- cal place for Miss Earhart to come down in event she could not reach Rowland Island. He recalled that Kingsford Smith considered the islands as possible emergency lard- ing base when he planned his Pacific flight In 1928.
 Three Miles Square Phoenix Island, he said, is three miles square and has a fresh water lake. It Is overrlin with rabbits and fish are plentiful. Cocoanuts would supply liquid to drink, he said. Can- ton Island, largest of the group. iS eight by four miles. Few of the islands, which lie just south of the equator, are inhabited.
 putnams confidence that the search would be successful and that his wife and Noonan would be res- cued safely increased with word that the Colorado's plane had entered the search. He said the hunt had just begun and reiterated that he had not given up hope.
 "Not in the least have I given up hope" he said. "As I see 1t, the ac- tual search has just started, now that the planes are on the job"
 Putnam reviewed his belief the plane was on land and not water and continued:
 Plane on Land, He Says
 Therefore, if the carrier signals heard Saturday and Sunday are au. thentic--and the experts believe they are-the plane Is on land. If so, the plane will be found as the search from the air broadens with the ar'
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'BUXOM MAE WEST
 ADMITS WEDLOCK
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May 1, ieS6, in New Jersey. Miss West charged that in obtaining Q license on Feb. 3, 1916 to marry Miss Blakesly, Wallace ''swore falsely" that he had never married and that he had no former wife or wives either living or dead. Miss West asked the court to refuse ."any de- claration or decree" to Wallace, who has sued both in New York and California to- have the actress de- clared his legal wife. Wallace has asked for division of community property which he estimated ran "well in excess of $l00,000P | a'
 New York Courts Adverse
 The New York courts threw out his suit, and Los Angeles judge did likewise but granted him per- mission to file an amended action, To his new action Wallace tackled sheaf of letters he wrote Miss West from time to time, implorins her to recognize him as her hus- band.
 Mae returned the love letters and scorned his persistent attentions.
 First hint that Mae was not the spinster she claimed to be leaked out two years ago when WPA clerk, dusting off old records in the Milwaukee court house, found c marriage license made out to a Mae West and Frank Wallace. Indications pointed to the 1911 bride being Mae West the come-up-and- -see-l1le- sometime star of Hollywood. Miss West denied everything, even that she was of marriageble age at the time the license was issued.
 Wallace Turns Up .,
 Several months later, Wallace turned up in New York with c lawyer and Q lawsuit to have Mae acknowledged as his wife. He lost and transferred the litigation tc California.
 Peculiar" snorted Mae at the time, that everytime one of my pictures Is released, he shows ur again." She has no new picture tc release this time.
 Tn denying she had lived with Wallace as man and wife, she said I'm still e spinster as I've always been a spinster."
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battle. A company official estim- ated that 500 shots were fired be- fore the riot was halted.
 The Aluminium Workers Union contended that a 20-cents differen- tial existed between wages paid here and those paid for similar work in New Kensington. The company had refused equalization demands on the ground that economic diff ferences between the two regions necessitated vary wage scales.
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BRITISH ] OOPS
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rival of the Lexington If not Oe- fore." .r, reporting messages they peneve come from Miss Earhart. The iaCest of these came from Ray Havers. Conrad. Mont, who said he heard Miss Earhart say she was "oKay at iO:40 D. m., MIST, on his radio at 3i06 kilocycles.
 position IFS west longitude and five south latitude. Okay, but nelp needed" was the complete message, Havers said.
 An old Reminder
 Oakland, Cal, July 8.-(UP)--MrS Mary Noonan, wife of Frederick J.. Noof,an, navigator with Aemlia Ear hart Putnam, yesterday received a package of pictures Noonan mailed from the far east.
 "This Is the next best thing to hearing that they have been res cued," Mrs. Noonan, . bride Of one month, said when she received the package and an accompanying let ter.
 The letter read in part:
 "Amelia is c grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman nyer I would care to make such . trip with because, in addition to being a fine companion, she can take hard ship as well as a man and work like one"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08
MRS. DYER KNEW | ABOUT HUSBAND

Los Angeles, July e-CUpl-Mrs. Albert Dyer, held in county Jail here as . material witness, today admitted she had suspected her husband of being the slayer of three small Ingelwood girls eight days before he confessed
 The thin, hollow-cheeked woman became hysterical after three days in jail and summoned Chief Matron Vada Sullivan to her cell. She told how she washed apparent blood stains from her husbands uunga- rec trousers the day he admittedly killed Jeanette stephens, 9, and Madeline and Melba Everett, Ther bodies were found two days later
 T believed ne was guilty as early as Monday before they found tne bodies,n she sobbed. But I didnt dare ask him or tell anyone be- cause I was afraid he would peat me-"
 Dyer is expected to enter Q plea today. However, the public defend- ants appointed to represent nm said they would seek Q continuance
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Guatemala has been battling heavy rains while trying to carry out It's extensive highway construc- ton program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-15
Striking Parallel

In one little respect there is quite a parallel in the political careers of the late Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and Ex-Senator Hiram A. Bingham of this state, Perhaps those of you who read the biography of the late Arkansan serl- ator in last nights Democrat noticed 1t. We commented yesterday in these col umns on the fact that for the last thirty four years Senator Robinson served the public of his state, both there and in Washington. It is needless for us to add that he served 1t we'll That is testified to by the high regard in which he was always held by political ally and foe
 His first political venture was In the Arkansas Legislature before the turn Of the century. Shortly after the turn he was elected to the House of Representa- tives and served there for ten years. He resigned to run for governor of his native state and was elected. He was sworn into office on January IS, 1913. Two weeks later at special election to fill va- cancy in the U. S. Senate Governor Rob- inson was elected and since that day had never been defeated for his office. He was relected in 1918, '24, 30, and 36, thus serving four full terms and part of fifth, lengthy and honorable service.
 MT. Bingham likewise went to the Sen- ate from the office of governor. Ills as- tension was all the more remarkable, Though because he did not have the long political training that was Robinsons' Bingham went into Connecticut politics from the teaching atmosphere, being another donation to Connecticut politics by Yale University. He served as lieu tenant-governor of the state under our own Charles A. Templeton and succeed Sd MT. Tenpleton at the end of his term in 1925 However, events had transpired in those last few months of 1924 to change the Bingham political career from the prosaic to spectacular.
 X The state election was held on Novem- Der in 1924 and the republicans con- tinued their victorious rampage. However. almost a month prior, October IA, to De exact, the much esteemed Frank Brande- gee, U. S. Senator, had died at Washing ton. It was too late to elect his success sor at the November elections, so spe' Gial one was held in December - the 16th = and Hiram A. Bingham was elected to the U. s. Senate. He was thus officially at one and the same time - Lieutenant- Governor, Governor Elect or Connecticut, and U. S. Senator-Elect. He completed his term as Lieutenant-Gover- nor when he was sworn in as governor ori January 8, 1925. Several hours after being sworn in, he resigned officially as governor and shortly thereafter went to Washington to be sworn in as senator. He was reelected in 1926, but failed of reelection in 1882 being defeated by Sen ator Augustine Lonergan, who became the first democratic senator from Con- ilecticut in many long years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-15
Would Build an Institution

Should the State of Connecticut ever lJe able to persuade the federal govern n1ent that 1t actually is indebted to us for over half a million dollars we know just what could be done with the payment Of course that is il. the money would De paid over without any strings attached ss1ct as limiting 1t to very definite pur- noses. And then again the chances of ever getting this money due and payable for more than one hundred years IS eX' ceedingly slim.
 We hear much talk about defaulting nations these days. The average Ameri- can is quite proud of the fact that Uncle Sam is owed and doesn't owe anything tp foreign nations. But the debt that the federal government incurred during the var of 1912 and which the State of Con- 1iecticut claims was never fully paid off certainly fails in the category of default ihg. But that remains to be proved and somehow or other this state could never quite prove to the satisfaction of federal authorities that it owed Connecticut over $5O0,000
 4 still the facts remain that at the time of the war this state advanced $180,000 fb the federal government for war pur- noses. Of- this amount it is claimed that o11y $118,000 was repaid. The balance plus interest at 6 per cent over period of 100 years (the last payment was made fl 1838) brings the bill now up to $559,- 373. Tn order to collect this money it is necessary to procure congressional per salission to press the bill. But while one Fide of Congress = the Senate = JS Millin', the other the House - is op- n0sed to Uncle Sam paying war claims, #AeffprsIar1v n1d nYes tn the states
 me hope now lies in efforts of Senator asIkBtine Lonergan and Representative
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1 including the chief justice, who shah have reached the age of 7O, As the chief justice and Justices McReynolds, Brandein and Suther- land are each 75, the court may thus be increased to eleven by Jan uary, 1888, and to twelve by Jan 1, io3o, unless death or retirement of some of these older justices should occur.
 All that has been said In .oppo- sition to the original proposal ap- piles equally to the substitute and more: The original was mandatory; ! the substitute Is permissive. The president is now given power to appoint an additional justice or not, at his discretion, for each justice who at the time of nomination has reached the age Of 76. Thus eon- gress has delegated to the exeeu- tive the power to increase the size of the suprme court ct will for any reason that may seem good to him, subject only to the limitations that he may not nominate more than one additional justice in one calendar year,
 2. Provision for the assignment Of Judges is adequately and more wisely covered by existing law (Title % U. s. c, A. Sec. ID. The sub. stitute, like the original bill, gives the chief justice power to assign any distrits judge in the United States to any district court with out check. The present law limits the power according to the need. In case of disability of Q judge or ac- emulation or urgency of business, the senior circuit judge may assign any district judge in his circuit to Q particular court; and fl this is not practicable, the chief justice may designate judge from An ad- josning circuit, or from nay circuit, provided the senior circuit judge of the circuit fro mwhch the district judge s to be taken consents. These are wise and proper safeguards.
 g. The proctor. No such ofiicial is needed. All the duties assigned to him by the bill are vested by statute tU. s, Code, Title 2e. Sec, 2ie) in the chief justice, the attornye gen. eral and the conference of senior circuit judges, which is required to meet in September each year, after making reports of the bushes sof each circuit, the number and char. acter of cases pending and disposed of and the arrears together with their recommendations.
 If, however. Q proctor is author ized, he should be made executive secretary of the conferenc, and not be given leave to roam over the country duplicating the work of the judges and the encouragement.
 1. The provisions of the bill with regard to intervention of the gov- ernment in cases where the con- stitutionality of e statute is involved should be taken up separately. They have no place in bill deal- ing with the Constitution of the supreme court.
 The Logan bill Is a mere face- saving device. No such operation is needed. The president does not need it. Nor do the senators, nor does the democrtic party, nor does the New Deal. The best way. to remedy blunder is to admit 1t.
 CHARLES o. BURLINGHAM.
 New York, N. Y, July T, 1887.