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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-17

ATWOOD-In this city Feb. 18th,
1887. Miss L. Hope Atwood' I 81 1Sy
nornine' at sis o'clock, from 100
South view ST.. to st, Franecis
xavier's Church. Burial In 81.
Auxustin's cemetery, Seymour
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-17

Auy.OTNY-In this city, Feb. nth,
1891. Haryton Zablotny. OF loo
Wood st. Funeral arrangements
later.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-02-17

The funeral of John A. Costa
was held from the home, SO River
street this morning at 8:15 o'clock
to Our Eady Of Lourdes church
where a mass of requiem was cele-
Nogales international., 1937-12-25

HE long journey from Nazareth to Beth
1ehem . !. new Star in the sky .
heavenly music above the hills Of Judea
:. the Autter Of angel wings :. the
swift journeYins Of the Shepherds
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-09
LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR!
!sy Percy CROSBY

Iii BUSINESS do you love your nelghbor! Do you manage
your affairs you will reap double vaue-th value from lust
and valid service rendered and accrung which
your motives are right? The second value is based the first
Gusts less but worth far more On The accumulation of the second
value depends your chance grow and expand
Negro business needs goodwill grow expand
We Negro business
love their neighbor. (In other words COOPERATED
NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Durham, North Carolina
c, c. Spaulding President
"An nJeuhient in Life Insurance is an Investment
in Personal Security"
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1937-10-09
1T PAYS TO HEAD FOR
WOODLANDS

New Fords, used cars of all makes,
best prices, easiest terms. Regent GIT.
HEAD FOR WOODLANDS. Az E.
Lake.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
Sno,0 Delights
DiO1,7le Sisters
On Christmas

CALLANDER, Ontario, Dec. rs (Ca-
madam Press First of all last night
Santa Claus brought the Dionne quin-
tuplets q white Christmas. Then
came bright sunshine to make the
fresh snow twinkle.
3aily chattering, the i've famous
little girls trooped outdoors to play on
their slide in the snow, leaving behind
the Christmas tree in the nursery and
an array of presents.
Some of the gifts came from South
Africa and other distant places. One
was from q high church official in
Vatican City.
But the quintuplets, almost 4 years
old, did some of their own giving.
Papa Olivia Dionne got = travelling set.
There was dressing gown for mother.
Each brother and sister received .
leather-boun prayer book and other
gifts.
They listened to the Christmas mes
sage Of King George on the nursery
radio.
Then there was . family dinner.
Papa and Mama Dionne presided over
. really lavish feast at the dinner ia
bic in the Dafoe building. Among those
present wss DIVA. r.. thu latest ar.
nvA u tho famous family.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
FRENCH STRIKERS
EVACUATE PLANT
1900 Workers Accept Chautemps'
Plan for Christmas
Truce.
Ry the Associated Press.


PARIS. Dec. 25.-Two thousand sit
In strikers marched out of the Geod--
rich Rubber Co. factory singing the
international tonight after accept
ing Premier Camille Chautemps plan
for Christmas truce"
Before they left the plant they had
a special Christmas dinner, after
spending most of the day singing and
dancing. Police permitted musicians
to enter the factory as special
Christmas concession by the gov
ernment
Government arbitrators predicted
the beginning of the end of the
strike movement which threatened to
approach proportions Of the wave Of
strikes in 1896 under the government
Of Leon Blum
Cheers from their wives. children
and friends greeted the strikers who
marched out of the Goodrich plant.
Another bright spot for the gov
eminent was an agreement by bakers
with their employees in the Maine ct
Loire Department. Army bakers sup
piled the department with Christmas
bread. but today's settlement was ex-
pected to have the privately operated
bakeries open tomorrow.
Christmas celebrations by other
strikers took place today in the ma
tionalized factories at Gnome- -Rhone,
where airplane motors are made, and
at Lorraine & Potez aviation and other
factories where strikes continued.
Delivery workers and truck drivers
were on strike, but their walk-out
had little apparent effect on Christmas
Day observances.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
$500 in Orchids
And ViOIets Is
WiudsOr's Gift
By the Associated Press.


CANNES, France, Dec. 25.-The
Duke of Windsor practically bought
out q floral shop today to celebrate
his first Christmas with his bride, the
former Wallis Warfield.
Rising late after . Christmas eve
dinner with q few friends. the Duke
went to his favorite floral shop and
purchased nearly $500 worth Of
orchids, violets and out-of-season
lilacs.
With a big smile, he ordered the lot
delivered at once to the Duchess at
the villa Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman L.
Rogers, where the Windsors are
staying.
The couple spent . quiet morning
exchanging personal gifts. A year ago
the Duke, An ex-king, was in Austria
with the. Baron Rothschilds. and the
Duchess was here-waiting until plans
were complete for their marriage the
following June.
The Windsors called this afternoon
at the villa Of Maj. and Mrs Eric
Roder, near Juan les Pins, and had
tea in the gardens overlooking the Sea.
Mrs. Roder is the former Eleanor
Curran Of New Orleans, La.
Other guests included Maj. Andrew
Holt, son of Sir Herbert Holt. presi-
dent of the Royal Bank of Canada;
Mrs. Richard johnson and her daugh-
ter Joan, both Of Ottawa, Canada.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
MEMPHIS WOMAN
GETS FULL PARDON
Slayer of Husband in Rage Over
Cigarette Girl Freed by
Governor.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 25.-Mrs
Daisy Alexander Root, 81, convicted
Of killing her husband, Brenton, here
in November, 1885, was reunited to-
day with her mother and 5-year-ol
son after serving almost 10 months
in the State penitentiary at Nashville
Her mother, Mrs r. L. Roberts, said
she had been Internationally par
doned by Gov. Browning"
The Governor commuted Mrs.
Roots sentence last April, reducing
the charge from second degree mur-
der to voluntary manslaughter and
the penalty from 10 years to two to
10 years.
The pardon was not surprise"
said Mrs. Roberts. We've been pray
ing for it. It was a wonderful Christ
mas gift to have our daughter back
with u.s.
I'm just glad to be home with my
family and son." Mrs. Root said, de-
clining other comment.
Mrs Root was convicted January 30,
1895, for shooting to death her hus-
band, the son Of = Chicago clergy
man, in jealous rage after . night
club quarrel over cigarette girl"
The Supreme Court affirmed the
second degree murder conviction, but
recommended that the Governor grant
q communication.
When Gov Browning commuted
the sentence, Mrs. Benjamin F. Root,
mother Of the slain man, protested.
Eight Of the trial jurors recon-
mended = pardon.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
ENGINES PLUNGE
SFATAL TO TWO
Locomotive Drops 60 Feet
to Pittsburgh Street, Killing
Engineer and Fireman.
Bv TIE Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25.-A giant
locomotive Of Pennsylvania Railroad
express and mail train left the tracks
and plunged 60 feet down a retaining
wall into city street today, killing
the engineer and fireman.
Occupants of two automobiles mar
roWly missed death. They said the
l85-ton engine crashed with roar
like an earthquake"
Ten minutes before, the first sec
ton of the train known as the Gotham
Limited, bound from ST. Louis to New
York. passed over the same tracks,
carrying several hundred Christmas
Day passengers.
Two coaches of train of six were
dragged near the edge of the retain
ing wall and were saved from the
plunge by the swapping of the COUP
lings There were no passengers
aboard
The dead were: Engineer Oscar E.
Rhoads, ~, Of 14ll East Twenty
fourth avenue, Columbus, Ohio, and
Fireman william H. Strous Of Car
negie, Pa.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
Lindbergh Ransom, Money
Still Remains a Mystery
Coz. Hoffman Would Like to KnO,v What
Happened to 1t as He Prepares
to Pay Reward.

A different sort of ransom note was
the basis OF the claim of Joe Perrone.
Joe was the Bronx taxi driver who
identified Hauptmann as the man
who gave Joe the fare to 1914 Decatur
street to deliver a note on the night
OF March II. 1892. The note was one
OF the ransom demands and the ad-
dress was that Of "Jafsie" Condor.
Among other claimants to the
$4,000 were:
William Allen, New Jersey colored
man, who stopped for a rest while
driving q truckload of lumber down
the road to HopeWell on March II,
1882. In the brush beside the road
he found the body of the babe who
had been missing since the first of
March. The spot was within miles
Of the Lindbergh home. Aliens claim
points out that Hauptmann was con-
victed not OF kidnapping. but of mur-
der and that such conviction would
have been impossible had the body
not been discovered.
Patrick T. Grove. confessed kid
naper Of Edward Cudahy, jr., in 1900.
said he warned the Morrow family
the Lindbergh kidnapping was planned.
Wood Expert Is Claimant.
Arthur koehler, Madison, Wis,
wood expert who traced wood, in the
ladder that was found beside the
baby's open bedroom window. He said
he traced one of the rungs to the attic
OF the Hauptmann home.
Paul H. Wendell, former Trenton
attorney. whose confession" of the
kidnapping. later repudiated in a court
trial that brought about the conviction
OF Detective Ellis Parker for conspiracy
in the abduction of Wendell, held up
Hauptmann's executive for three days.
Wendell said Hauptmann would have
been freed had he CWendeD permitted
his confession" to stand, so Wendell
should get the $4,000.
One or more of the claimants will
get the reward before Gov. Hoffman
goes out of Office on January l8. But
what the Governor would like to
know-he went so far as to get one
man out Of Jail in Chicago in an effort
to find OUTS:
What happened to the missing
ransom?
Evening star., 1937-12-26
WAR REFERENDUM
PLAN IS SDEFENDED
Five Peace Groups Praise
Ludlow Amendment
and Rap Critics.

Five peace organizations, In a joint
statement last night. came to the de-
fense Of the proposed Ludlow was ref
erendum amendment and charged that
the present tense japanese situation
is result OF non-enforcement Of the
neutrality law.
THE opposition Is alarmed over the
probable effects Of the passage Of the
amendment on the current japanese
situation" the statement asserted. If
the neutrality law passed by Congress
had been carried out and our ships
withdrawn from the war zone, the sit
uation would not be what it is. If laws
passed by Congress can be set aside,
the measures giving the people protec-
tlon against foreign wars must be en-
bodied in the Constitution itself"
Peace Groups Cola laborating.
The groups which collaborated in
the statement were the National Coun-
Gil for Prevention of War, the Wom-
ems International League for Peace
and Freedom, World Peaceways, the
Fellowship OF Reconciliation and the
Emergency Peace Campaign.
Answering the contention that the
amendment would hamper the national
defense. the groups said 1t specifically
provides that in case Of attack Con-
gress may declare war They added
that amendments would be introduced
when the measure comes up for vote
in Congress early next month pro-
viding that Congress may act in event
OF a military expedition setting out
for the United States.
Have People Right to vote:"
"There is one simple question in
volved in the war referendum pro-
posal,' the statement said. That
question is, have the people the right
to vote on whether they will go to
Europe or Asia or Africa to take part
in a war between foreign countries?
Opponents of the amendment talk
about demagogues. but in demogogic
fashion try to make the amendment
seem what 1t is not"
The war-making power already IS
slipping from the hands Of Congress
to the Executive, the five groups de-
clared, exposing the Nation to the
danger Of being dashed into war by
the will of one man."
Evening star., 1937-12-26
BOWERS is HUNTED
NEAR PHILADELPHIA
Motorist Says Man He Took to
Chester County Resembled
Staying Suspect.

BIZ the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 25.-State
police secured Chester County tonight
for Wendell Forrest Bowers, former
Reformatory inmate, sought on a
charge Of murder in the Staying Of
Mrs. Wilma v. Carpenter, two weeks
ago, at her suburban Camp Hill home
State Policeman Jack Shubick of
the Coatesville. Pa, substation, said
Raymond Mcfarland of Christiana,
Lancaster County. told police that q
man he had taken to Nottingham,
Chester County, resembled q picture
Of Bowers.
Mcfarland, a garage employe, said
two men approached him and asked
to be taken to Nottingham. He and
several other Lancaster County resi-
dents drove them to that place.
Philadelphia police in teletype
message asked Maryland police to be
on the watch for the two men.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
SOuiets Demand
| MunchukuO Free
Missing Plane
Mail Ship Believed to
Haze Lost Way
SOuth,vard.
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Dec. 25-The Russian
government demanded today that
Manchukuoan authorities release .
Soviet mail plane which apparently
lost its way while flying the Khabar-
ovsk-Vladivostok line. The plane car
ried mail and crew of two.
A Tass (Russian) news agency dis
patch from Khabarovsk said the plane
was missing since December 10 and
that it was forced down In Manchu-
kuo.
Without saying whether the plane
was seized by authorities in the
Japanese-advised state, the dispatch
asserted the Soviet consul at Harbin
was instructed to ask immediate de-
livery Of the plane. persons and mail"
Tass, in Vladivostok dispatch,
charged the japanese government
with encouraging an anti-soviet cam
paign by refusing to permit publica-
ton in Japanese newspapers Of the
new fishing agreement by which Rus
sis grants jspanses dshing privileges
n 0bog1Aa WstegA
Evening star., 1937-12-26
GUNSM0CKPEACE
PLEA IN H0[YLAND
So Arabs Killed, Many Hurt
in Skirmishes With
British Troops.
By the Associated Press,

JERUSALEM, Dec. 25.-Christian
faithful knelt at the birthplace of the
Christ Child today in prayer for peace
In the Holy Land, but even as they
prayed British troops moved to quell
rev violence.
Forty-three Arabs were killed and
more than 20 wounded in battle the
last two days in the Tiberias region.
Three among the British troops were
reported wounded.
Ten Arabs were killed in battle with
military police in the village Of va
coub, southeast Of Nazareth, this aft
ernoon when . wandering Arab band
encountered three British regiments.
Terrorists, firing from the ground.
disabled Royal Air Force plane and
forced it to land
At Haifa bomb was thrown into q
crowded cafe, but a British soldier
quickly picked it up and tossed it
into the street, where 1t exploded
without serious damage
Fearful that hostilities might break
out elsewhere, 1000 British troops
guarded Christians who trekked to
Bethlehem for pontifical mass in the
Church Of the Nativity.
Terrorists Hunted.
Troops deployed through the Ti-
berias region in search Of Arab ter
rorist bands suspected Of fostering the
current outbreaks in a new manifesto
ton of resentment against Jewish ef-
forts to establish . national home in
Palestine
A 12-hour curfew was imposed in
Tulkarm, where shots were fred at
police.
Across the border in Lebanon, Beirut
police discovered an arms factory
smuggling arms into Palestine. The
owners were arrested and the arms
confiscated.
Pealing bells summoned worshipers
to masses said by Western, Greek and
Armenian Christians.
Many had made the overnight pill
grimage TO Bethlehem to hear mid
night mass by the Pope's representa-
tive in Jerusalem, in the / 1,600-year.old
Church Of the Nativity.
a mass DeSun al mlQnlgnt was Cele-
brated also in ST. GATHERINGS, adjoin-
ing the ancient Church of the Nativ-
ity. on the traditional site of Christ's
birthplace.
Pilgrims See Famed Grotto.
Nuns watched over the manger-
cradle Of the Christ Child as the pro-
cession Of worshipers passed through
the famed grotto of the church, bend
ing low to enter the church door,
which is only feet high.
Thirteen days hence still another
Christmas will be observed in the
church. the second of the 13 observed
annually in the Holy Land
On the night Of January s. the
Greeks, Syrians and Copts each will
fill their respective portions of the
church for services
A lone Greek priest watched the
Western celebrations as a reminder
that the Eastern churches, too, have
their place in Christendom. Eth-
opians, whose monks live in huts on
the roof of the church, celebrate all
the remaining Christmases.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
Chinese ENJOY
Quits Mosco,c;
Not to Return
tthe ASSociAted prAss

SMOSCOW, Dec. Is Sunday
Chinese embassy employees today dis
closed that DR.. Tng-fu Tsiang,
Chinese Ambassador, left Moscow
Thursday without expecting to re-
turn. They said they did not know
who his successor would be. - D..
Diplomatic sources said, however,
that they expected GeneraliSsimo
Chang Kai-shek would send some-
body who would have sufIicient pres
tige ia bse Joseph Stain, Soviet
leader, and ask him how far Russia
would 20 toward helping China In her
conflict with japan.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Dec. 25-The Lind
bergh kidnap-murder case crept toward
its close after six long years tonight
with Its biggest riddle still unsolved
What happened to the s50,000 ran
som?
Col. Charles A. Lndbergh gave that
amount in vain attempt TO save the
life Of his f1rstborn son. but most
Of the money still was missing as Gov.
Harold E. Hoffman prepared to an
nounce who would get Jew Jerseys
reward for the conviction Of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann.
Hidden somewhere there was still
more than $4,000 of the $4,000
bundle DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Condor
tossed over Bronx cemetery fence
to a gutteral-voiced John" on the
night of April 2, 1882, a month and
a day after the baby disappeared.
Hauptmann. the Teuton carpenter,
was put to death in the electric chair
partly because of the ransom bills
found in his garage. But those bills
totaled only sl4,60o.
Small Sum Accounted For.
OF what remained, there has been
this accounting:
Hauptmann admitted spending
about $l00
A mysterious -. j. Faulkner" ex-
changed $4,000 at a New York bank
on May /. 1888, in compliance with
the United States Treasury's call for
gold notes "Faulkner's" handwriting
was not the same as Hauptmann's
Some one exchanged $500 at an
other New York bank.
Some one exchanged $500 at still
another New York bank.
investigators traced $50 to points
outside New York.
New York business places took in
s945.
There the trail ends.
Investigators once said they traced
s45.000 Of the $4,000 through
Hauptmann's hands" but they never
gave details to support this
The ransom question was an i'm
portant link in the process of choos-
ing the person or persons who will
receive New Jerseys s25,O00 reward
sometime in the next few weeks For
some of the strongest claimants to
the prize based their case on one of
the ransom bills.
Dispute Credit for Note.
Three of the 81 whose claims Gov.
Hoffman has been hearing in private
interviews dispute the credit for re-
porting gold note No. A7396634A, the
bill which led directly to Hauptmann's
arrest.
Two years and seven and q half
months had passed between the time
Baby Lindbergh was stolen from his
crib in the Sourland Mountains of
New Jersey and the gray. wet morn
ing Bruno Hauptmann drove up to
. filling station in New York and
said: Give me five gallons" 1t was
September IS, 1894. The crime was
out Of the headlines
Hauptmann gave the station man
ager, Walter Lyle, q $40 bill. Since
1t was the custom to note the license
numbers Of motorists who passed big
bills, Lyle jotted Hauptmann's num-
Der on the margin of this one. Later
in the day, Lyle put the bill in the
pay envelope Of his assistant. John
Lyons, and Lyons still later took it
to the bank.
Lyle claims the $25,000 reward be-
cause he noted Hauptmann's license
number. Lyons says he should get it
because he took the bill to the bank.
William Strong, the bank teller who
checked the note against the ransom
list. says he should be rewarded be-
cause he actually started the search
for Hauptmann.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
| Readers Guide
| News SUNNI ary
The Sunday Star, Dec. rs, 1887.

The Sunday Star, Dec. rs, 1887.
FOREIGN
Japan announces blockade of Port of
Tsingtao Page Al
Hull accepts guarantees by Japan for
u S. interests. Page Al
Mexico in midst of huge spending pro-
gram. Page A-4
Bloody conflict RACES northwest of
Teruel. Page Al
Special Italian mission to be sent to
Toxic. Page Al
More designations from League are
expected. Page A
NATIONAL
Newton D. Baker dies after heart at
tack at Cleveland home. Page Al
Treadway urges elimination OF tax
exempt salaries" Page Az
Public wants labor peace, says Secre-
tary Perkins. Page Az
Five peace groups defend war referen-
dunn amendment. Page Az
Pan-American Airways facing Atlantic
monopoly charge. Page AS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
Two more added to holiday traffic
deaths in D. c. area. Page Al
Eight f1remen overcome fighting E
street blaze. Page Al
D, c. reorganization sidetracked for
tax problem. Page Al
Session to consider sciences relation
to human society. Page Al
President leads Nation in Christmas
celebration. Page B-1
New year to bring test of unemploy-
ment insurance. Page B-1
Committee suggested to study stadium
plans. Page B.
Boulevard circling consested area is
urged by Thomas. Page B-1
Fifty strangers celebrate Christmas
together. Page B-1
Capper seeks Congress trend to grant,
ing D. c. suffrage. Page B-1
Birthplace of Christ revered as troops
kill Trabs. Page B-1
MISCELLANY
Obituary. Page A-10
Shipping News. Page A-10
SPORTS
Entries heavy, pinfall light in Star
tourney. Page B-4
Alabama's Rose Bowl stock rising on
coast. Page B-4
Snead shoots 66 to win Miami open
golf tourney. Page BIS
He Did wins Santa Anita feature be-
fore $4,000. Page BIS
Nations Capital enjoys eventful sports
year. Page B-6
defeat Heurichs by 1886
score. Page B-6
Basket ball like perpetual motion un-
der new rules. Page b.
Abrams picked to beat Mamakos in
fight here. Page B-7