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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
ANOTHER LITTLE
 GIRL IS KILLED
FOur.Year.0ld Joan Kule. ba Is Fourth Victim of
 Some Fiend

New York, Aug. i4-(UP)-The body Of .year.old Joan Kuleba lay in 6 Staten Island morgue to. day, the fourth victim in New York's wave Of sex SlayingS and attacks as detectives resumed questioning Of Samuel Elmore, SO, a WPA painter.
 Unless someone provides funeral expenses, Joan will be buried iii potter'S field because her parents are pennileSS.
 Elmore found the body, diseolored from Strangulation and covered with c b0.pound section Of brick wall. iil the cellar Of c dilapidated bungalow in the middle of c swamp near South Beach. s. l. early yesterday afternoon.
 Elmore Denies Cruise
 He denied that he lured Joan to the desolatc spot. But he confessed to two arrests for unnamed offenSes Inspector James Mcdrath, said El- more was sent to Bellevue hospital a year Ago for observation on com- plaint of his wife that he persisted in going about their home naked.
 Joan was the ninth child slain by sex criminals in New York in the last nine years; the fourth this year.
 Assistant Chief Inspector John A. Lyons. who took charge Of the case, apparently was not satisfied with Elmore's story. The slight grey haired man said he was on his way to q creek to go grabbing, along with William Ham, when curiosity impelied him to peer into the cellar
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
SOO,OOO RAILWAY
 WORKERS RAISED
Operating Employees Given Increase of Five
 Cents an Hour

Chicago. Aug. l4-(UP)--WageS of 800,000 incorporating railway employees were increased soe,000. .000 annually today and union labor launched c drive for enactment of c federal unemployment insurance program for railroad workers.
 A compromise wage agreement be- tween railway executives and the i4 Ino1-o operating brotherhoodS was ape proved by the union yesterday after c long dispute marked by c charge Of communists" flung ct one group of protesting workers.
 The increase. i've cents an hour, is retroactive to Aug. l. George M. Harrison. Cincinnati, chairman Of the unions wage committee, said 1t increases the average wage Of non- operating employees to 64 cents on hour with the lowest paid. section hands, receiving an average Of q cents.
 Harrison said the drive for fed. eral unemployment insurance for railway employees would be taken up at . meeting of 20 railroad labor unions today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
May Be Referendum
 On OnRedistrictingPLans
Chairman of Committee City Engineer Cairns Fayors Letting Citizens Give Their Opinions-May
 Be Necessary to Make Changes

Citizens of Waterbury will have an opportunity to express theii opinions on the redistricting plar that it is finally evolved by the non. partisan committee studying the sit. uation before that plan Is presented to the board of aldermen for ap- proval. City Engineer Robert A. Cairns, chairman of the non-par- tiSan committee appointed by Mayor Frank Hayes, favors what would DC an unofiicial referendum on the new district set-up.
 Chairman In Favor
 Chairman Cairns, speaking to the committee Thursday afternoon. said that he believed the plan should be thoroughly considered by the public before 1t Is presented to the alder men with the recommendations oi the committee. The new set.up oi districts, as decided on by the com- mittee should be marked out clearly on maps and placed on display ifl places where the public will have easy access.
 Tn addition, Mir. Cairns suggested that the districting plan worked out by the committee should be given the widest yor"ible publicity in the local press. The votes of the city, he said, should have an opportunity to express their like or dislike for the district set.up which the com nittee arranges.
 May Make Changes
 He intimated that 1t might be necessary to make changes in the district layouts after the public had an opportunity [, study them. in some cases, he said, the public might object to district alignmentS which
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
WOMAN'S BODY AT MILFORD IS GONE
Search of Waters Fails to Find Teacher Who
 Was Drowned

Milford, Conn.,. Aug. i4-(Up)- The search for Mrs. Charlotte Lu. cas, Bridgeport physical education ifistructress who was drowned in Long Island Sound when tied to an oyster stake after 6 boating acci- dent, was abandoned today by police.
 The waters of Walnut beach were combed for two days upon the re. port of George W. Thorpe, New Ha- ven, he was forced to leave hls com. panion to the fury of c storm which swept the Shorelino Wednesday night.
 Thorpe, who swan Ave miles to safety, was released from Milford hospital last night after being treated for shock and immersion. He was the owner of the i7.foct Cape Cod sailing dory h which he and Mrs. Lucas put out from tho HouSatonic Yacht club "Wednesday evening for a short saii which ended In tragedy when gale capBized the frei boat of the mouth os the Hotisatonic river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
TUMB.ED FAR

Boston, Aug. l4--(UP) John Martin, 8, tumbled 25 feet from 6 third. floor window of his Roxbury apartment early today.
 A passerby who discoy. cred him unconscious on the sidewalk summoned Mrs. Martin. She revived her husband by throwing water in his face.
 Police took Martin to . hospital where his injuries were diagnosed as slight bruises on the back and head. Doctors said he could De released today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Raymond 'Norristown Red' Gray Reported in Very
 Grave Condition
PLAlNCLOTHESMEN AT
 WORK ON SHOOTING
Wife of Davis Claims Her Husband Had Ample
 Reason to Shoot

"Jackie" Davis, 35, was still at large today despite a state wide search launched for him by local police yesterday afternoon following tn e shooting of Raymond "Nor- ristown Red" Gray, 32, of Norristown, Pa, in front of Polls theater on East Main street. Gray was reported still in grave condition at St. Mary's hospital. Surgeons gave him blood transfusions, but were unable to remove the bullet, which imbedded itsels deep in his body. Both men are carnival workers
 Davis wife told police that her husband had ample reason to do the shooting, if he was the assail- lant. Gray, she said, had attacked Davis twice the night before and had made threats against him. She had advised her husband, she said, to carry a gun as a measure of self- protection. If her husband did the shooting, she asserted, 1t was in self-defense.
 Plaincloth ssmen Busy
 Every plainclothesman in the de. paetment was at work on the case today, with Chief Inspector Joseph P. Stevens of the detective bureau in charge. Detectives have worked steadily since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the time of the shooting. Three men held as material wit-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

New Britain, Conn, Aug. i4 - (UP) Anthony Bartonilli was to be arraigned in police court today on a criminal negligence charge in con- nection with the death of Lotus Vostabile who was thrown from e truck and suffered c fractured skull.
 Bartonillo. police said, made 6 sharp left turn ct c street inter- section. throwing Vostabile from the running board of the machine. He died late yesterday without regain- ing consciousneSs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14

authorities who had prepared to refuel the plane ct Fairbanks about noon Friday, still were not ready, however. to admit that contingency The plane, piloted' by the famed Sigismund Levanevcky, left MoS- COW at l2:i3 p. m. E,DT) Thurs day, Six men were aboard.
 Last Word From Plane
 The last word from the plane was at e:35 c. m. tED.T) Friday, when Levanevsky reported to Moscow that one of the four motors had quit three hours earlie rand the plane was flying through unbroken clouds.
 The last words heard were: How do you hear fne7"
 A message at TAO c. m. tE.D.T3 had said: We are flying over the pole ct
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Shanghai Becomes LiDing He'll This Morning; Bombs, Machine Guns StreU Bodies In Streets
Russian Plane Silent Since Friday Morning
No Word From Daring Flyers After They Crossed North Pole-May Have Been Forced Down
 in Towing Storm

Fairbanks, Alaska, August A. - four-motored Russian plane bound from Moscow to the United States long overdue at the landing field here today and has been unreported since crossed the North Pole in bowling storm at TAO a. m (EDT) Friday morning It was est-
 mated that the fuel supply would have been exhausted by
 a. m (EDT today. It was probable the plane was down somewhere on the frozen Tundra of the north Russian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Late NeUs Flashes
NOT BARRYMORE

Hollywood, Aug. 14- (UP)-Friday the 18th is past, and John Barrymore was back at work today.
 The profiled screen star didn't show up at the studio yesterday, but no one wor- ried. He has q clause in his contract excepting work on Fridays, the thirteenth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14

Bridgeport, Conn.,. Aug. i4--(UP) The death of William W. Dayton at the wheel of his automobile last night was attributed today to heart attack. Dayton collapsed as he drove the car to q curb and brought 1t to . halt. A pasSerby no- ticed him slumped in the seat and summoned an ambulance but he was beyond medical aid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Foreigners, Chinese Lying There After Hotels Are Crashed; Writers Van
 der Among Wounded
EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD
 NAN INFERNO OF WARFARE
By H. R. EKINS (CopyrIght, 1887, by United Press)

Shanghai, Aug. 14-(UP)--Airplanes began bombing and machine gunning the heart of Shanghai today, and the city became living hell. day of mad terror was brought to it's peak when in mid-aft enoon an airpane dropped from the murky storm clouds bomb that exploded in the Ranking road in the city's heart
 Americans May be Victims
 This bomb dropped near the Cathay hotel second dropped the Palace hotel and feared that foreign casualties including Americans, would high Street casualties frighu As the thunder of the explosion died there from the shattered street through bind ing, acrid smoke, the screams of wounded.
 Foreigners, Chinese Lying Dead
 Foreigners and Chinese lying there their bodies torn their blood mixing with broken plate glass from windows There further detonatonS all in the heart of the International Settlement and then terrific burst of machine gun fire. Chinese authorities in preliminary estimate put the dead and wounded from the Ranking road bomb at 150. There count of other casualties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14
Col. Roosevelfs
 Family In China

Oytser Bay, N. Y., Aug. l4- (UP)-Col. Theodore Roosevelt, IT,. disclosed today that his wife and son, Quentin, 10, were in Shanghai but intend to sail on the S. S. President Jeffer. son next Tuesday.
 By long distance telephone, Mrs. Roosevelt reported that she and her son were as free from danger as could be ex- pected under existing circum. stances, Roosevelt said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-14

Soon flames were licking upward from small fires at the corner where the Nanking road joins the water front.
 It Is unlikely that any city in the world has gone through what Shanghai endured today. 4 thor- ough investigation by United Press Staf Correspondents indicated strongly that both Chinese army and Japanese navy airplanes par ticlpated In the bombing.
 Blame Japanese Boats
 It was learned that some foreign officials. reporting the boinhings 70 their homo governments, asserted that the presence of Japanese guns boats immediately off the Interna- tional water front was responsible. They took 1t for granted that all the bombs that the Japanese boats ground that the Japanese boats brought the destruction to foreign property and lives because despite advance protests, Japanese navy men did not move them,
 On the ground. Chinese regulars and Japanese bluejackets were fight. ing all over the north and north. cast parts of the city. Six hundred
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The Weather

Fair, Cool Tonight; Cloudy on Sunday
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Evening star., 1937-10-17
SECURITY CHANGES
TO Be CONSIDERED
Advisory Council Will Weigh
Proposed Amendments
Nov. 5 and s.

Proposals for amending the social
security act, particularly ~ concerns
the old-ase benefits provisions, will
be taken up here November SIS when
the Advisory Council appointed IN
February by the Senate Finance Com
mittee holds its first session.
The council, which includes repre-
sentation from employers. employees
and the public, Il to cooperate with
= finance subcommittee and the
Social Security Board in formulating
recommendations for legislation which
operation Of the act now may be
viewed as making necessary.
A major problem to be studied Is
that of the huge reserve that even
tually will be created by the old-age
benefits tax on employers and en-
ployes it having been estimated that
this will exceed $4,000 ,000, 900 under
the present levy. This tax is to be
increased by one-half on one per
cent every three. years until in 104o
1t reaches three per cent from each
source, and the advisability OF de-
ferring the successive steps has been
suggested.
The question Of extending the scope
Evening star., 1937-10-17

tOdC ne is anu
Roosevelt" and has pledged his sup
port to the Presidents program when
1t comedies with the best interests Of
Arkansas"
The Governor, 43, is six years
younger than his opponent. The
spruce-looking Miller is youthful in
appearance despite iron-gray hair.
Married for "a years, Gov. Bailey is
the father of Ave sons and one daugh-
ter the eldest 20, the youngest 8. Mr..
and Mrs. Miller, married in 1914, have
two children-Mary Louise and John
E. Miller, jr.
Gov. Bailey's favorite sport is horse
back riding. He dislikes bridge; has
never played golf. Mr.. Miller's or
duty hours find him along the trout
fishing streams. Of North Arkansas or
In the thickets cunning for birds.
Both Are Lawyers.
Both are attorneys.
Mr.. Miller served his judicial dis
trict as prosecuting attorney from 1928
to 1921 and has represented the second
congressional district since 1881.
A school teacher at 18, Gov. Bailey
turned to railroad work, then became
a st. Louis shoe factory worker, took
q business course and returned to
Arkansas as auditor for lumber COM
pany. Studying law in his spare time,
he passed the State bar examination
in 1923.
Three years later he was elected
Pulaski County little Rock prose-
cutor, served two terms and won the
attorney generals office. Two years
later, in 1886, he announced for Gov
ernor, plunged into hot campaign
and won the Democratic nomination
by $500 votes. The November gen.
eral election was landslide, as is
customary for the Democratic nominee.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
Engineers to Talk.

Roy B. williams, assistant commits
sioner of reclamation, until recently
construction engineer in charge Of the
All-American Canal, will address the
Washington. Society of Engineers at
the Cosmos Club at 8:l5 pm. Wednes-
day. He will show pictures of the
project, which is the longest irrigation
canal ever undertaken in this country.
After the meeting a buffet supper
will be served.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

The members of our stoff
ore schooIed in these
principles Of accuracy in
design, integrity Of con-
struction-with the result
that you can tell at q
glance thot the room you
have furnished has been
done with Sloane Furni-
ture and furnishings.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

during the frst ~ days Of September,
according TO . report TO the Commerce
Department, more than doubling the
imports during the same period last
year.
Exporters explained that large orders
were received from American firms on
the Pacific Coast In anticipation of
the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

party split. Directors to the nomina-
etion held a convention and chose
f. Mr.. Miller to oppose Gov. Bailey In
the special general election Monday.
! Mr.. Miller is on the ballot as an inde-
/. pendent, but many Democratic county
committees have issued statements
. .informing voters they will not be re-
: garded as boilers II they vote for him.
4. Senator Hattie w. Caraway and Mrs.
: Robinson have Endorsed him, besides
/. four House members.
6 National Issues Cited.
! Gov. Bailey has pitched his cam
/, paign on a basis of Democrat VS.. In
Evening star., 1937-10-17
ARKANSAS ELECTS
SENATOR MONDAY
Most OF States Congress
Delegation Backs Foe
of Governor.
By the Associated Press,

I. ! By the Associated Press.
& LITTLE ROCK, Ark. October 10
{ A native Missourian will succeed the
! late Joseph Taylor Robinson as United
Z States Senator from Arkansas.
: The voters will make their choice
! Monday, in special general election,
!. between Gov. Carl E. Bailey and Rep
aresentative John E. Miller, born within
! few miles Of each other in Stoddard
County, Mo.
The race is one of the bitterest in
recent history of the State. After the
Evening star., 1937-10-17

I. death of Sen-
ator Robinson,
SGov. 3 all v
refused to call
a special pri-
mary and in
! stead received
y t h e d e m o.
@cratic nomi-
nation from
It h e S t a to
ID e m o C ratio
&C o m m t tee,
which he con-
trolled.
2 The action
, ! m m ediately
nr0Ynked d q
Evening star., 1937-10-17

dependent a n d
has charged that
Mr.. Miller is
: a n t / : Roosevelt,
citing his oppo-
sition to t h e
court plan. the
Black . Connery
wages and hours
bill and 9th er
New Deal legisla-
ton. Mr.. Miller,
while admitting
his opposition to
certain New Deal
m e a ures, has
denied vigorously
kL& &c.,.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
LABOR LEGISLATION
PARLEY NEXT WEEK
Invitations to Conference Sent to
Governors of All 4S
States.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins announced yester-
day the fourth annual conference on
State labor legislation would be held
here October 25 to 81 inclusive.
Invitations to the conference to
discuss labor conditions and legisla-
tion in the States, have been sent to
all Governors.
The agenda will include such topics
as cooperation between organized
labor and State labor departments,
age discrimination by employers, safety
and health, unemployment and work.
mems compensation, occupational dis
eases, minimum wages and maximum
hours, and child labor.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

Of payments, and advancing tbs ef-
fective date, which now y January
l, 1o42, also will be taken up.
The conference will b held It
the Labor Department.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

+ The mony long hours
! spent in the finishing, fol-
J lowing the old methods
I Of oil ond wax, present
! thot priceless potino
! which heretofore ooe
! alone hos been able TO
I achieve creating whot
( will live os the heirIooms
! Of the future.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
Imports Of both cognac and still
wines increased 100 per cent.
French Glasses Resumed.

Nine. Suzanne Laurent. French
teacher, who recently returned from
Paris, resumed her French classes At
tn. Washington Club Friday. She
specializes in French lyric fiction.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

Shanghai normally handles more
than 30 per cent Of China's foreign
trade.
Evening star., 1937-10-17

Miss Betty Schedle making friends 1Oth Lu said to
the @ Only ,0omoat in capuy in the United States Haing
from the Antp0deS this addition the
resembles giant guinea pig but reality related
kangaroo, being marsupial Lulu readily makes friends
don't tease her she out-bu billy
mule Her diet chiefly and roots and she tips
at IS pounds Wide World Photo
Evening star., 1937-10-17
WINE IMPORTS RISE

Alcoholic Beverages From Bor-
dsaux Double '00 Figure.
Imports Of alcoholic beverages into
the United States from the famous
Bordeaux district Of France amounted
to S4,171 gallons, valued 1T t2o3, ,365,
Evening star., 1937-06-18
TAX PROPAGANDA
HIT BY U. S. WORKER
Flood of Articles That Federal
Employees Escape Levies Seen
Paw Threat,

Assailing "the present flood of
propaganda rejecting upon Govern
ment employees as not paying their
fair share of taxes" Charles I. Stengle,
president of the American Federation
OF Government Employees, said today
that this was a way, by indirection, to
cut Federal pay and eventually the pay
OF private industry.
In statement, Stengle said that
articles "ostensibly prepared inde-
pendently but bearing evidence of an
inspiration from common source are
beginning to appear In various news
papers throughout the country" This
publicity springs from the same source
from which pay cuts are being ad-
vocated, he said. The effort is again
to drive a wedge between Government
employees and the rest of the popula-
ton, to stir up feeling against Govern
ment workers on the ground that they
are allegedly enjoying special priv
lleges,' he said. 1T is true that Gov
ernment employees are exempted from
income taxes of States, although they
would not have been exempted from
the income tax provision plans of
the District of Columbia tax bill
recently.
But they pay every other tax that
is levied on other citizens and the
propagandists who are misrepresent-
ing the situation are fully aware of
this" Stengle said it Is vital" that
the Government workers combat these
attacks and he added that the organ
ization is proceeding along the same
lines. There Is no sentiment for wage
cuts in Congress at this time" he
said.
Evening star., 1937-06-18
White House Maid
Hopes She'll Play
Part in Big Film,

Elizabeth McDunie, colored maid at
the White House and wife OF Irwin H.
McDume, President Roosevelt's valet,
who for long time has had an am
oltlon to play the role of nanny"
IN Gone With the Wind" still hopes
she will be selected.
Elizabeth, who Is a native of Geor-
gla and lived in Atlanta many years,
has already had a screen and voice
test and early next month will have q
nnal test in New York which she is
hoping will win her the important
character role in Margaret Mitchells
famous story of the war days in
Georgia. Elizabeth has read the book
several times and also q number of
other stories about the war and the
Reconstruction period.
Physically, Elizabeth is not as large
and ponderous rs the nanny in
Gone With the Wind" and she also
is well educated. She graduated at
Morris Brown College in Atlanta,
where she specialized in elocution.
When asked what he thought about
Elizabeth playing the nanny role in
Gone With the Wind" President
Roosevelt was represented as saying
It was grand" Idea.
Evening star., 1937-06-18
HIT @rutnrtat1t.

CHASE. GERTRUDE DAVIS. In sad and
mother, GERTRUDE Davis CHASE Who ho
June 1s 1913 NV
We miss your kind and CHEEKY ways.
With you we spent our happy days:
we miss you when we need a friend.
nryny~n ~ y9T we 21I5 e1Yld always depend:
CHASE. AND SONS. ~
COLEMAN. MATILDA AND FRANK. In
memory Of our beloved parents and
ssranaparents; snnpds" MATILDA COLEMAN
FRANK COLEMAN 'uai Who d d.paFted agSa tb,' and
AAe thlrty-iour years ago, May IS, 1908
When time and sorrow are no more
And the mists have. rolled away.
Iod promised We shall meet again
DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDArJGErcp
MARY ANR sII = vGI GIBsoN s NELLIE HoiMEs
iNnEhMAwER DE hsayna SIeEa rERc!vAL; N memory Of
Jun" Is. 1885. nov '04@''
In the haven Of rest on yonder shore
A. t9 g! oe @ With the ones We love
And sns Of his iees Iopdrnu We all shall hal meet.
HIS WIFE. ALICE. =
McFALL: CLARA B. In memory Of cr.ApA
b McFALt who departed this lie one
lGyErsSSSS, e, RESo9lD 5HVs Ii 'sRf RRi1sD oroee1
MOULD. LEILA. In sad but loving rem.m
LEILA HogLD Who passed .na s%.1 ,istsr sn;
year aso today. June Is. 1886.
foN NJ are m.tt.r nlways ysin. in our thoughts.
Always in our hearts
HER iSi7S DEVoTGp IL sG; FAMILY .