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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Ted Hung famed radio announcer, whose use of the putrd" Harvard football got him national publicity barred him from the Flows every quoh He smiled at but he was not happy "Oh, oil right, guess0 was hls reloinder
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Thanks Charley BTmbe Torrngon Country club bavaon the Invitation the fourth of It's kind Chnt time and besides slice would delcatessen Il a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

wool robe embroidered with Welsh dragon pretty well but has the jaw fighter And he loves It, but can't punch hard Pedro Monanez next lightweight champion unless his with Lew Ambers this month
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Frank Kddel sports follower years years college football tell you things about and colleges picked college a.sar tonight New York September and though tn coaches select his lineup it dandy Here tb:
 Ends-Tinsley, LSU; Kelley Yale
 Tackes-Widseth, Mnneyota Hamrick, Ohio State
 Ouards-shaceVich, Washington; dassford, Pitt
 Cener-Bell Purdue
 Quarterback-Baugh Christian
 Hafbacks-Larue, Pitt and Wnke Nore Dame
 Fullback-FrancLs Nebraska.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01
ThiS Sporting
 World
More Rumbles From The RingSide
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

sitting the row back of me with Ham Fisher tn dea some years os about Park Avenue pent house tell Strange he remembered his Paooka and encouraged h that 1t was a money-maker. And howl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Max oquacos decked out in $2oO Eng that reminded of Joe Brown one of his more little of the ckest starr sapphire hope to and that includes shcko Tommy Kellys hngerpece
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

in bald-headed with tin with n somewhere thought wondering Low he got mt be Marcel Thl middle beaten by Lou Brouad once by knockout fouls He lost he speak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Wgnal best known of the English boxing writer's who his Lon. Del Fontane who of his sweetheart Tonypandy Charley Beange the old Cana heavy of @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Danhury Toans Brooklyn tonight the Hat Kckoh c lb. Football Is here with bangI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

his dressing ten minutes before he went Into ring Topped Th with his Ted all while watching preliminary covered towel his He afraid might Mickey Finn into the water
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Remembering taken hiding from Farr London him could punch Here his hlum advice from who That from the who got SO0oO after he uui against
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
CIO WILL BEGIN
 ITS WORK HERE
Employees of Chase Rolling Mills Organized Ready
 to Make Demands

The CIO will make its first stand in Waterbury this week with the presentation of demands for wage increases and changes in working conditions for en1polyes of the Chase rolling mills branch of the Chase Brass and Copper Go, The Democrat learned today. The demands will be made for employees of but one de- partment of the North Main street plant, but will nevertheless be high ly significant as the first time that the CIO has openly attempted to show its hand in this city.
 Employees of the department in question, said to be almost 100 per cent organized, are reported ready to go on strike if their demands are not met. Union leaders, however, seem confident that no strike will be called.
 Demands to Be Made
 Chase officials will be asked to raise wages to 65 cents an hour in the department. Another demand will be that a revolving shift be es- tablished, so that men now on the night shift will work one month nights and one month days.
 CIO organizers have been steadily at work here for the past several months. They have been particular ly active in the city's major factories and have enrolled a large number of men in the Brass Workers union. Thus far, however, the union has not attempted to show its strength, and has kept in the background.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
Duke Of Windsor Forces Insulting Book From, Print

sons lawyers would apply for the final decree Wednesday and that the decree would be awarded a week from today. At that time, about 115 preliminary decrees granted last Oc- tober become due for final action. The custom is % run them through the court rapidly, referring to them only by number. As there is almost no chance of an intervention against Mrs. Simpsons decree now, it is ex- pected that she will be free to marry in a week.
 Today 128 provisional decrees were made absolute Dy the divorce court. One was awarded to Sir Neville Pearson from Gladys Cooper, act. ress. Pearson named Philip Merivale, actor, in his suit. Those in the court waited to see whether Mrs. Simpson had been made free.
 Then the duke is expected to join her in France. They are to be mar rled. 1t is understood, c few weeks after the coronation. May 12. De- spite many reports. it is insisted in well informed quarters here. at Monts. France. where Mrs. Simpson Is staying and at Ss. Wolgang where the duke IS living that the actual date for the marriage has not been set.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
PRESIDENT HAS
 HALTED STRIKE
Used Executive Authority to Prevent Eastern Rail-
 way Trouble

Washington, April 26 = (U.P.) -- President Roosevelt invoked his ex- ecutive authority today to avert 8 threatened strike ofe25,000 Eastern railroad employees. MT. Roosevelt ap- pointed three-man board to in- vestigae the labor controversy be- tween the eight major eastern lines and clerks and freight handlers. The threatened walkout, according to federal law, must be delayed while the presidential committee investi- gates carrier-wo differences and reports to the White House within 30 days. Names of the three persons to sit on the board were not imme- diately announced. Their selection was to be made public by the White House later today.
 Special Proclamation
 Mir. RooSevelt'S action was taken by special proclamation issued under the Railway Labor Act. He acted after the national mediation board informed him that the con- troversy now threatens substantial ly to interrupt interstate commerce within the state of New York and other states in the eastern part of the country to such a degree as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service. The railroad workers. members oj the Brotherhood of Railway Steam ship Clerks. Freight Handlers. Ex- press and Station Employees and oj the International Longshoremens Association, asked a 20 cent an houI increase in wages, closed shop and two weeks vacation with pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
MISCHA ROSS IN
 COURT TODAY
Alleged Slayer of Bridge port Girl Entered Plea
 of Not Guilty

New York, April 26 = (UP) = Mischa Ross, Broadway booking agent, pleaded not guilty today when he was arraigned in general sessions court under an indictment charging him with r1irdering Tania IIeelova, night club violinist. Samuel Leibo- witz, defense attorney, was given 10 days in which to file motions. These, he said, would be important, but he declined to state their nature. Ross limped slightly as he was led into court. After his arraignment he was returned to Tombs prison.
 Assistant District Attorney Saul Price said he had many surprises" in store for the trial. He said he had spoken to almost a score of witnesses In upstate communities and in New York City and had learned much of value. In Bridgeport, Conn.,, Miss Leelova's brother -in-law, William Dryer, protested against what he termed a campaign to besmirch her reputation.
 "She never had anything but con- tempt for Ross" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
GIRL BRIDES IN
 HANDS OF STATE
Mother, Husband of One Girl in Jail for Perjury;
 Lied About Ages

Perry, Okla, April 26 = (U.P0 - Oklahoma, which approves the mar riages of children of IS if the par ents' consent, took up today the cases of Opal and Jewellen West who, County Attorney Hudson Pierce said, were F and IA years old. They were married to adult neighbors last week in a double ceremony.
 The mother. Mrs. Mary West, was said to have approved the mar riageS. She had been working ill a WPA sewing room to support the two girls, and usually accompanied Opal and her suitor, John Lawrence Burns, 38, on their dates" to pie ture shows.
 Mrs. West, Burns Jailed
 Both Mrs. West and Burns were held in jail on charge of perjury. Pierce said he would question Jewell lens husband, Howard Carter, 35- year-old oil worker, and would charge him with perjury today. The elder sister was still with her new husband. Pierce said they all Swore that Opal was 15 and Jewellen "17 or 13." The marriages were per- formed last Wednesday night. Opal, fretting disconsolately for her jailed husband, said: we didn't have a car so John borrowed one after the wedding and we drove out in the country to some of his relatives and stayed there the first night" She
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
By.FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

nySrMEUGHkOM Os O1nNkAN United Press Stan Correspondent) Baltimore, Md, April 26-(UP)- Mrs. Catherine Carter today opened the Wallis Simpson Museum today (see the bedroom. folks, where Wally slept.) She hoped for the best but feared the worst.
 Had King Edward kept his throne and taken unto himself Queen Wally, all would have been well with the, 212 East Riddle Street Corporation, which bought her old home for exhibition purposes.
 But the King became a Duke. This makes Wally a Duchess, when, as, and if, and where does that leave the corporation, which invested a scad of money in the brick board- ing house of Wally's mother and turned it intoa museum at 50 cents per look?
 Curator Garter worried over this bit of modern history, as she de rected a scant stream of visitors through the nine rooms where Wally and her mother once lived.
 "Its too bad" Mrs. Carter said. .sBut maybe 1t will be better when WalIy does become a Duchess. Of course, Baltimore is very, very touchy right now. and we don't know how he will make out"
 Even while she refused to tell who owned the corporation or exactly how much it spent turning q dingy boarding house Into a shiny, paint one the dlgnlllod Mrs. Car
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
Basques Are Ordered ToMakeFinalDefense Last Desperate Stand to Keep Off Smashing Rebel
 Horses-BiIbao in Bad Shape British Are Warned By Rebel Forces
Bv EMILIO HERRERo
United Press staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Bilbao, April 26 = (UP)-BasQue militiamen, on their last line of de- fense, were ordered to hazard the fate of the entire Bilbao area today on desperate counter-attack against the nationalists.
 It was admitted that the loyalists had been thrown back before tre- mendous nationalist attack, and that the fate of Bilbao and the coastal area around it hinged on the next phase of the battle.
 Nationalist airplanes bombed and machine gunned the loyalist militia lines and towns all over the area while on the ground nationalist in fantrymen followed up the shells oi their artillery in a drive for Du- rango, only IS miles east of the city by road. 3'Ss
 Reorganize Militia
 The Basque senli-autonalnous gov ernment this morning gave the de- fense council supreme authority over the entire Bilbao area.
 The councily at once outlined g plan to reorganize the entire Basque militia into highly mobile, small brigades which could be moved along the front and thrown into the lines at any point which seemed in danger.
 Fighting reached its height in a battle which loyalists said was the most severe of the entire civil war.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
WILL OF ADRIAN
 WOLFF IS FILED
Widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolff Is Left Entire
 Estate as Trust Fund

The will of the late Adrian F. Wolff, retired mechanical superin- tendent of the Scovill Manufactur- ing Company, was filed in probate court today. MT. Wolff, who retired in 1883 after serving with the Sco- will Company for 65 years, died last week.
 The widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolff, is left the entire estate, to hold in trust. She is given the income of the trust fund, and allowed to withdraw any of<the principal needed for her support. At her death, the residue of the estate is to go to her son, Vic- tor.
 All furniture, jewelry, books, pie lures and other personal effects are left outright to Mrs. Wolff. Several provisions which provided for the disposition of the estate had either the mother or son pre-deceased the testator are included in the docu- ment, but are imperative. Mrs. Wolff is named executrix of the will, which was drawn March 22.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
JAMES H. RAND ARRA|GNED IN COURT TODAY Pearl L. Bergoff, Boss of Strike-Breakers, Was
 His Companion CHARGE OF VIOLATING
 BYRNES MEASURE Both Pleaded Not Guilty !; Held Under $5,OOO Bail
 for Trial

New Haven, Conn.,, April 26- -(UP)-Not guilty pleas were entered by James H. Rand, Jr., president of the Remington : Rand corpora tion, and Pearl L. Bergoff, head of a New York strike breaking agency, when they were arraigned in federal court today charged with violating the Byrnes act. They posted bonds of 1000 each for their release until trial May 1T before Judge Edwin s. Thomas at Hartford. Rand was the first to appear as court was con- veped by Judge Carroll c. Hincks. Bergof was late and U. s. Attorney Robert P. Butler asked the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest. Raymond A. Hackett, Stamford, counsel for Rand, requested a 10- minute continuance in the proceed ings, stating he understod Bergoff was on his way from New York but his train was late.
 Bergoff Just i'm Time
 He entered the courtroom just as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
By H. L. PERCY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, April 26. - (UP) - The book coronation Commentary whose stinging comments caused the Duke of Windsor to threaten 8 libel suit was tout. of print" today. This announcement was made by the publishers. Heinemanns. as the dead line for withdrawal of the book was reached. The dukes solicitors had said that unless a promise to with draw the book, and an apology, were received in todays first mail they would issue a libel suit. Connections of the duke said that the book had been withdrawn from circulation as the solicitors demanded: the pub fishers contented themselves with:
 "We have nothing to say except that the book is out of print"
 It was reported that several cir- culating libraries and booksellers had decided to withhold remaining copies of the book, and 1t appeared thta the duke was satisfied.
 Tomorrow marks the end or the six months period which Mrs. Wallis simpson was to await to obtain q final divorce decree. The prclim- mary decree was granted October 27. It was expected thet Mrs simp-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
Wallis Simpson Museum Is Opened Up For Business

ter stressed the dignity and the refinement of the enterprise.
 'It is not a peep-Show," she said Tt is intended to preserve the girlhood days of Wally Simpson as a perpetual shrine. Everything about the museum is in good taste. Why there are no ropes across any of the doors, except the bedroom, and that's simply because the rug is light-colored and we don't want to get 1t tracked up.
 Curator Carter said furthermore that the corporation had refused to fake any of the furnishings. The only thing in the house, consequent ly, which Wally actually used was the old cook-stove, where she some times made fudge for her beaux.
 Tn the desk in the living room is the music of the "triumphal March. " That's what the organist played when Wally was married for the first time, to Lieut.. Winfield Spen- cer, Jr. U. s. N.
 Mrs. Carter also installed a large picture of the Duke and Wally. Beneath it she painted some fam liar words:
 T lind 1t is an impossible burden without the woman I love-"
 The curator said she didn't know whether the museum would make Q profit, that she hoped 1t would after Wally becomes a Duchess, and that some of the dividends - if any would be given to charity. She didn't know what charity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
HELMUTH HIRSCH lSFACINC DEATH

Berlin, April 26-CU.Po = Amer ican Consul Raymond H. Geist was expected to confer today with an at- torney for Helmuth Hirsch, Amer ican citizen under sentence of death for high treason.
 Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is the last hope for Hirsch. Some uncertainty attached to the charges against him Specifically, he was convicted ot transporting explosives into Ger many. It was rumored that the real charge was that he meant to assas- sinate some man high in German NaZi circles - Hitler himself was mentioned in gossip.
 Hirsch himself seemed to hold no hope that Hitler would grant elem ency. He is 20. He has never been in the United States. His citizenship derives from his naturalized parents who are in CzechoSlovakia. Opinion in the American colony was divided on Hirsch's chance for clemency. In the past some American citizens have received clemency from Nag authorities. But none has been charged with an offense so grave.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
TWO MEN KILLED
 IN HAYDEN CRASH

Hamden, Conn. April 26.- (UP)- Two men were killed and a woman was injured severely in a two-car crash early today in front of the Hamden town hall.
 Alois Eibensteiner. 35, Mt. Carmel, was instantly killed.
 Benjamin F. Tayolr. 25, (80 Vine street., Hartford, died a few hours after the accident at Grace hospi- tal, New Haven.
 Ills wife. Belle Taylor. was at the hospital suffering from various inc juries.
 According to police, Taylor was driving towards Hartford and Eiben- steiner was going in an opposite di- rection when the accident occurred, Both cars were going at n fast rate, r,o''sQ said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
BURGLAR LIKED
 HIS EATABLES

Cromwell. Conn. April 26.-(UP) A burglar who helped himself to peaches and cream, oranges and candy before robbing two homes of jewels and money here Sunday was sought by police today.
 At the home of Henry Dadario the thief ransacked theice box. appar- ently ate a leisurely breakfast and left with diamonds and cash to the amount of $350. Later. Mrs. Athan Constantine said she frightened a burglar at her home and found he had taken a small sum of money. The intruder. she said. ate candy and oranges and threw the peels on the floor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
Heavy Rainfall Pushes Streams Out of Paths;
 Many Landslides RIVERS ARE RISING
 NEAR PITTSBURGH Johnstown Is Again Most Affected City on Route
 of Floods

Pittsburgh, April 26 (UP) = Western Pennsyl- vania was threatened with one of it's worst April floods in 36 years today as heavy rainfall pushed streams out of their banks and caused scores of landSlideS.
 A landslide west of Me- Keesport indirectly caused the death of two Baltimore & Ohio railroad trackmen. A train hit them while they were clearing earth and rocks from the tracks.
 Charles Christ and Luigi DiBide, members of a section gang, were killed. A third trackman was injured fatally.
 For almost 36 hours rain has fallen on the western Pennsylvania watershed, "storehouse" of floods on the Ohio and the Mississippi. Heavy precipitation was reported from all points on the headwaters of the Allegheny river, in northwest ern Pennsylvania, and the Monon- gahela river, in southwestern Penu- sylvania apd northern West vir- ginia.
 Near Flood Stage At "the point" in Pittsburgh, where the Ohio is formed by the junction of the Allegheny and Morl- gongahela, the stag, at 10 o'clock was 23.2 feet, less than two feet under the flood stage of 25 feet. The (Continlled on Page Al ".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26

formulate proposals which may lead to requests for legislation. Five spe- cific recommendations were expect ed to be placed before the meet ing. They will call for laws which would hold unions legally respon- sible to contracts with employers; give federal protection to private property during strikes, require unions to incorporate, and forbid dispensation of federal relief to strikers.
 In addition, the chamber under took consideration of formal sug- gestions relating tothe stucture and activities of the national govern ment. The Portland Chamber of Commerce, asking that the meeting inquire into policies and makeup of the department of commerce, with a view to urging that the President of the United States make such changes in policy or personnel as may be necessary to constitute that department a true representative of business"
 Other subjects for discussion cover the undistributed profits tax, na- tional conservation policies, crop iIl- surance and farm tenancy, imitation dangers and credit expension.
 Proposalus Submitted
 Among the proposals formally
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
SOUP KITCHENS
 WILL. CONTINUE
Shoe Strikers of Maine Not to Be Deprived of Their
 Free Food
BY HOMER JENKS (united Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Auburn, Me. April 26-The CLOS commissary and soup kitchen -only free food sources for 2000 shoe strikers in Lewiston and Auburn may remain open, Justice Harry Manser of state supreme court ruled today.
 Counsel for manufactures had asked Justice Manser to close the commissary and kitchen on grounds their continuance violated an anti struke injunction issued by him last Tuesday.
 Justice Manser held, however, that "the burden of supporting needy persons and their families connect ed with the strike should fall where it belongs, upon the organization which is responsible for the strike.
 Both Auburn and Lewiston have refused municipal relief to strikers.
 Leaders In New Angle
 Meanwhile, leaders of the CLOS United Shoemakers of America, sponsors of the month-old strike, hoped to circumvent the injunction by asking federal Judge John A. Peters at Portland to rule that the state court had no jurisdiction in holdinng that the strike violated the Wagner national labor relations act.
 Should Judge Peters support that contention, contempt proceedings against Hapgood and six U.S.W.A. organizers would be baked. Free in $2OOO bail each, the sextet are sched- uled to go on trial before a jury tomorrow.
 Secret Conference
 Federal concilliator Thomas J. Williams reportedly was to meet at torneys for the manufactures again today. A secret conference of manu-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-26
CUFFEY v|NSON COAL ACT SIGNED
President Puts His Name on Measure To Affect
 100000 Miners

Washington, April 26.-UP)- President Roosevelt today signed the Guffey- Vinson coal bill through which congress-by authorizing the fixing of coal prices-seeks to res- cue the bituminous industry from a competitive situation which was ad- .yersely affected operators and miners alike <
 The measure reenacts price fixing provisions of the original Guffey- Snyder bill of 1885 which created a little MIRA" in the coal industry and which was declared unconstitu- tional by the supreme court.
 It does not include the invalidated wage and working hour provisions of the original law, but is expected to aid 100000 miners indirectly by stabilizing the industry and increas- ing mine revenues.
 Same Provisions Out
 The original act provided for col lective bargaining and establishing of minimum wages and hours in the coal industry. The court thrust aside
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