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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-30
Catholic Leader M
 Chino Assassinated
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roads tn central and southern China the targets.
 Note To Britain
 London, December 90. .- (UP) - Japan, in note to Great Britain regarding an attack on the gunboat, Ladybird, gave assurances similar to those she offered regarding an attack on the United States gun. boat, Panay, publication of the text disclosed today.
 It was understood that the gov- erntnent sought to assure publication of the entire note ln Japanese news. papers. This was desired, partlcu- larly because Japan did not publish the Panay note in full, notably tho disclosure that men responsible had been punished.
 Tho Ladybird was attacked by Japanese artillery In the Yangtse river above Nanking on December 12, the same day as the airplane At- tack which sank the Panay.
 Japan's note said that though the Ladybird attack was due entirely 70 a mistake, the Japanese government, to insure against possible similar mistakes "have dealt properly 60. cordlng to law with the commanding officer and other officers concerned"
 As Co Guarantees
 AS regards guarantees for the future, which Britain like the United States requested, the Japanese note said:
 "strlct instructions have once again been Issued to take the great- est possible care that attacks are not made on the lives or property Of British or other nationals"
 Tho Japanese government the note said, is studying, and expects to give effect to, all possible means of preventing attacks on the lives or property of British and other nationals.
 in conclusion the note said the japanese government had taken measures enumerated to safeguard British lives solely out Of Q sincere desire to render more effective and more valid guarantees Of the rights and interests of Britain and other foreign powers.
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BgeHes
 Atty. Crocicchia Speaks
 Simultaneously, Attorney George J. Crocicchia, leader of Republican support among Italian.Americafls announced that he would accept the post of purchasing agent, principal plum" within the controllers cofrl- mand, should the supreme court dee eide in his favor. No lesser ftlce would be acceptable to the lawyer who claims credit for important steps in the merger of the Inde- pendent Democrats and the Repub- licans last summer.
 Thus, with John J. Bergin, his as- sociate and campaign manager, as his personal choice, MT. Rowland finds himself at odds with many political factions, including Mir. Upson, who seeks the appointment of Vernon I. Hall to the office of purchasing agent. Mir. Hall Is gen. orally conceded to be the Republic can organization choice.
 Among others nominated by re- port for places in the controllers once are Domenic Barbieri, presi- dent of the Young Italian Demo- cratic club; Eugene sheehan, James J. Hartley, Independent Democratic leader, and about c score more of lesser lights in the campaign 3eud against the administration.
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Well known for his philantrophy Lot had been decorated not only by the Pope but by the French and Belgian governments. Tn 1927 he visited the United State aS Chinese delegate to the International Con- ference at Chicago.
 Terrific Explosions
 Shanghai, December 30.--(Up) =. Two series of terrific explosions leit Tsingtao in terror today as Chi. flese continued their destruction Of utilities in face of e Japanese drive from the interior. Approximately 20 explosions, starting ct O:oO o'clock last night, reused residents There were four more, Of great in. tensity, ct 4:30 @. rrl., today. cefi- tering ct the new electric sub-sta- ton which -- paradoxically = IS seven times more powerful than the main station. ...
 1t was expected that ct any hour electric service would be stopped But despite the explosions It con. tinued this morning. .
 Chester Gardens, United Press Correspondent at Tsingtao, toured the factory and harbor districts to find streets deserted but for Q few policemen. It had been feared, ne reported, that the explosions would cause fires. But Gardens found only one, on the water front.
 Appeals For Service ....
 Leading Chinese citizens, fore. seeing the city's ruin, appealed to municipal authorities to maintain electric service, Gardens said, put It was believed their appeal woulo
 The United states gunboat, sacra. ,nento. arrived at Woosung. Wear Shanghai with refugees from Tsing. tao including % Americans. Three remained ct Tsingtao, lbO Amer. cans, with i3 more in the country nearby ad ii in the Tsinan ares which Japanese have captured on their drive for Tsingtao.
 Japanese army authorities az serted that their troops were max. inR good progress in their drive from Tsinan toward Tsingtao' At the same time they announced tnas their casualties in the capture ot Nanking, the capital, were 300 killeo and 4,000 wounded. ,
 Japanese airplanes resumed their bombing raids, with troop concen" trations, airports and strategic rail-
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Compensation Agreements

The following agreements In which compensation will be paid weekly during the period Of total disability were filed today and ap. proved at the office of the cOlns pensation commissioner
 Hamlet Illll Farm, Salisbury, and Lewis J. Hart, Falls Village, leg injury, So.S0 beginning Novem. ber 25.
 B. Perlnl 6 Sons, Inc, Tram. tOn, Mass, and A. LAmfranehl, New Hartford, wrist injury, S2l beginning November 24.
 D. A. Oardettl, fncs Canaan and FeruCclo Bonagulda, Torrlng- ton, rib injuries, SS beginning November G.
 Musante, BerMan and Stein. berg Co.,, and Frank MahEo, 90 Sccvlll street, head and back in- juries, SiS.5o beginning NoveHa. her A,
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Anna Pauleski Has
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today in an attempt to solve the Robinson. Rubens passport mystery and to learn the Identity of Q man and woman, foportedly Americans, held in Luhianka prison in Moscow.
 In Miami, Fla, the parents Of Mrs Adolph Arnold Rubens told news papcrrnen that c man who said no was c federal agent had advised them that Mrs. Rubens and her huss band had been Identified as "Mr. and Mrs. Donald l.. Robinsof," who went to Russia on fraudulent pass. ports obtained in New York city.
 State department officials in Washington professed no knowledge of such c development. but ails nouneed that photographs of MT. and Mrs. Ruhens had been sent to Moscow to he viewed by persons ac. quainted with the "RobinSons" there.
 sovlets Are Silent
 Soviet authorities have refused to discuss the case, beyond admitting that 0 man and woman known as Mfr. and Mrs. Robinson" had been arrested on suspicion of espionage and were in prison. State depart. ment officials said that no reprosen. tattons would Do made to the Soviet government until it became known whether the prisoners were American citizens. Mrs. Rubens. the daughter of Mir. end Mrs. Frederick c. Boer. ger. was said to Do on American, although she married c foreigner.
 Federal agents sought to trace Ruhens in Chicago end New York city as we'll as in Miami and Wash- inaton, but the greatest activity was in New York where tho "RobinSonS" and Ruhens obtained passports on the same day-April 2, io36-at the office of tho county clerk of Mar. hattan. who at that time was Al- bert Marinelii. influential Tammany district loader.
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A<A4ANllAN4NNI
 
 quantities of machine guns end lates tyne automatic rifles were involved, CNsArea reported.
 A Nationalist general commando iMR one of the columns sent to 10. lieVe the heaieaod garrison of Tertel wired to zAraQozA that the battle might develop into the most decisive ef the war q
 Trying I've Moves
 Tue Mathematics were trying both to out through direct to Teruel. to relieve their mon holding out in two eroups of buildings. end to smash the Eoyaltat wings.
 Loyalists. the zaraeozA dispatch SaiA. snFead out their rieht wing in An elfort to prevent the NationAls ists from turning 1t. But ct tho same time. the NAti0naiista began an encircling movement against the left WtMG ana believed. that they had trapped thousaads of men in tt.
 Nationalist reports to the frontier were that co 0f their airplanei bombed fl0yAlist positions. Loyalists on the contrary. reported that theii own planes had held of the itlAtir. rent attacking planes end had driv' en them back to their bases.
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ROBERT JACKSON
 RAPS MONOPOLIES
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(ContinUed rom Page D the United States is on strike to "whaek concessions out Of g 'efn- meht."
 Denounelng big business as an ex. Dohent of "afiStoeEatle anarchy" Jackson charged an effort was Wh. terWay ito llq0ldate the New Deal and to throw off all governmental interference with their incorporate initiative" He said "thls private Bo- ciallsm," this private feglmehtation oE industry finance and commerce, # not stopped, is the foreFuhner of political socialism"
 Almost Called Names
 Almost calling names, Jack. son accused "AfnerieaS dominant families" of keeping control of in- dustry In the hands oe eoMpara- lively Incompetent interiors of in- aUstfial and financial wealth. He defended labor and Its demands for hlgher wages against responsibility Tor reclsslon and cited increases In Qeneral MotorS' executive salaries In three years.
 JacksonS two addresses and his lob as senior assistant attorney gen. efal in charge of antl-trNst eases put him In command of the polltieo~ economic front which promises to he most active ln the next year or 30, Washington ls bNbbllng now with rumoes that MT, Roosevelt Wahta Jackson to run for governor of New York next year and possibly Tor president in l040 on the New DeAl~ Democratic ticket.
 Jackson ls EAvOflte
 AstNte politicians long aSsoelatea with MT, Roosevelt arc Inclined t0 believe Jackson lS the le40 White House faVorlte. Therefore, Wash, ington ls re-appFaiSing the James, town, N, Y, lawyer, age 4S, Demo eEat, Eplseopallan and Mason Whs. arrived in 1884 to become general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He was moved to the Justice Department last year
 Jackson came here Tr0sA Q small town corporate practice.
 My legal experience" he once said in an interview, made me a liberal. AS aA attorney for banks, I saw the manner In which coNh~ try banks were wrecked by the bonds sold them by allege 0blg hsasl" ness. | refused to believe the bNAl; Of speakers sent out by big blAsl, ness to address local Chambers 0S Commerce and other flag waving or ganlAAtloAS,"
 Jared Legal Profession
 Tn on address which JaEFed hGl profession, Jackson once demanded 0R Q New York audience why law yeFs should have . monopoly ol supreme court and other Judicial appOlntMents, reMAF&lng that thelv was no eonStltNtolnal bar AsainSN appointing laymeA. He said hS wanted a ssiMple, clear and work ablo" constitutional law and eFltls clged modern courts for trying tr draw injVnetlons against a whel people"
 Jackson made what was regarded
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At the same time, it was learned Willis may seek the advice of Hart- ford County States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, an expert on grand jury investigations, if c Fairfield County jury Is called.
 Other Developments 1.-The governor indicated the Legislative Council has broad powers under the statutes Ito do anything 1t likes" In the parkway purchase situation with c view to proposing remedial legislation for consideration by the 1889 General Assembly.
 2-"Reconstructlon" of the High way Department. regardless of de- velopments in the current investi- gation, was predicted by the gov- ernor.
 3--The executive refused to con- sider 6 demand by Congressman Alfred N. Phillips, Jr., Stamford, that he procure" the resignation of Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald.
 Tn competent Hanub
 T have your telegram regarding the Merritt Parkway" the governor informed Phillips, land hasten to assure you that the Investigation concerning the State Highway De- partment is in competent hands,"
 Governor Cross announced he would not remove from office until he had an opportunity to defend himself ana added he was giving Commissioners Macdonald that op. portunity.
 Macdonald" the executive said, lis cooperating fully. am trying to find out about everyone of those purchases"
 Tn addition to on explanation from the highway commissioner ns to the high prices paid for land rights.of-way, Mclaughlin and Wills expected statements from Comptroller Charles c. Swartz and Public Works Commissioner Robert A. Hurley.
 Mclaughlin Speaks
 When these are digestcd, Mo. Laughlln said. q will make e report to the governor, and then I anl done." He said he has no criminal Jurisdiction. That, Mclaughlin added, was up to Wills.
 Mclaughlin said he was making c searching study of each check paid out by the state for rights-of.way and particularly was interested II names of attorneys, agents and real tors involved in each transfer.
 The governor took the present st. uation as an opportunity to pfals' tho reorganization program unde which c state budget division wa established.
 "Our reports from different de
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same year. Custody of . child is sought by the petitioner.
 Cruelty Asked
 Emily Shaker George of this city is plaintiff in afl action against william George of Danbury. They were married May 9, 1o57. Cruelty is alleged.
 George Kanlensky, now of CSechOs slovakia, is named defendant in de vorce action by Helen 0alrau Ka. mensky of this city. They were married in New Britain, September il, 1918, and parted by way of dee sertion, Decernhe: a 1919. Custody of two children is sought.
 Louise DiToto Loinbardo iS peti. tioner in an action against James Lombardo, based on charges of cruelty and internperance. They were married November l6, 1883. Custody of Q child Is asked.
 DesertlOn
 Vivian 0rechika seeks divorce from Fred Grechika on charges of desertion. They were married Oc- tober 31, 1925, and parted septem- Der l, 1884. Custody of two chile dren is sought.
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COMMlSSlO OVER
 WILL BE NAMED

Hartford, Conn., Dec, S0-(Up)-- Governor Wilbur l. 0FeSs Was ex- peetea teddy to appoint q new uM- employment compensation commits SioNer from the thir0 congressional district to succeed James ,, Graham, New Haven, who declined to accept his appointment,
 QrahaM turned down the Ap- polAtMeAt as well a2 ehAhMaMSAln Of the tlve~pegSoM compensation board, to remain tM the AAlMlNlstFA~ tive davlsioA ek the unemployment compensation section os the state labor department.
 The third district commissioner ship carries an annual salary oi $S,S00 for Q slx~yeAr term.
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NN34tyAkAWyN AAVdtA U8V ~
 
 use Of the brothers late father, Peter Carlson. who died hve years ago M January.
 For two days there waS doubt about the death ot tho former Wat erhNry boy who left heEe tM l9ly to become an etMploye ef the otl company in the Far East, rose to the rank of captain, Then. after sur vivoFe ef tho D, 6, & paMAy and the three tankefs had been checked. the body ef Captain Carlson wAs reoov- cred hN Chinese,
 Died without leaving A Will. Des ceMher l2, at NanklMg. China.
 EiAAa fAge written
 So is written the final page of local interest in the AffAtrS ot tho American seaman who met death M the afternoon attack et . lArge squadron Of Japanese holAheFs. with lMaehine-gUM bullets repeFtedly spraying the decks Of four AMert- can vessels in the yellow XAngtzA river. eoNYSinE towards Ranking.
 30 the documents et legal nature M 50 pFosaie c spot as the town clerks olllee in Waterbury take life and incidence with international Af- fairs, although tM the sense of the AMtt@elllMAx to a pl0t which might have seen hloeA 0f millions spread tn ter lands and rivers>
 Incidents Recalled
 Stlll. remains the thought that the paMay and tanker sinking "M- oiNeNtSs 1orM basis to c growing sense 0f MatsoNAlisM Whtoh Will tM- clNde nc fallthle referendum on the measures creating war hv govern. MeNts. So too remain the excite MeMt ot vlSNAltzlng just what txAM- SplreA when. within hours. the pie sSareA portxayAl ot the rAnAy attack iS shown to Waterbury thotAAAoS at loeAl theAtAg9.
 An obituary end Q requiem. per- hapA to NM adventurous ltfA some said today of the latest phase n WNterhury& touch of the tntetnAs tionAl incident Just an a0mtnts. trAteEA certificate tM town clerkt once for Carl N. Carlson. ozAce oi Waterbury later ee Shanghai china. mere lAtteEiy ee the XAngtza riveN near Nanklng. was tAlea teaay
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HE WAS SUICIDE

oxford, Conn. Dec. 30.--(UP) = Ernest Renker, 28, who disappeared from home Christmas eve and was found dead last night in 0 wooded tract, was described by state police today as 0 suicide. Banker, authori. ties said, had been Respondent for some time and when he left home carried several guns with him. There was a bullet wound In his head and 6 shotgun lay beside the body which was buried in the snow.
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MatAly three months before they 10. eelved their passports issued through ex-0 County Clerk Al Marinellts otliee tn New York. on october 2. ioS6.
 "Whiie I was employed by tho Ru. heMs. | found them to Do c very seeretive couple. They had a private study room which was continually locked and everyttTAe Mir. and Mrs, Nuhena went into that room they locked themselves tn and oil I could hear was q phoNoeraph record play Mg Q Russian song, I always be- lieved MT, NNhens was c great cd. Mtror of Dictator Joseph StAlin he. cause he and his wife favored com. Munisln until they returned frenl Europe whom they then remarked that the American form of govern. Menk was good enough for them added Mtas pAuloSki.
 Always Treated Well
 Miss paWleski stated that both MT aud Mrs, Ruhens hal always treated her nicely and paid her well. She said when she first noticed tho plo. lures in New York newspapers oi Mir. and Mrs. Robinson. she irl' Mediately recognized her former employers. She added she was pos. ittvely certain the pictures were MT and Mrs. NMhens.
 Miss pAuleski asserted the reason she never could understand why MT and Mrs. RuhenS spent 50 much time tn their private study behind locked doors while c record beat out march tunes was the fact that Mir. Ruhent had led her to believe he was . publisher. although she never saV any et his publications.
 Federal Men at WoFk
 New York. Dee. S0-(url--Fed' ArAl asSkh0rittNa W0rkoA in foiir cittel
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ALL SECRETARIES
 MUST QUALIFY

Hartford, Conn., Dec, 50-(UP)-- The Ave newly.appolnted Nnem- ployed compensation commissioners cannot employ personal secretaries who have not qualified under the state civil service system, Attorney General Charles J. Mclaughlin ruled today.
 Notice Of hls opinion was sent Co State Personal Director Harry w. Marsh, informing him the commls- sloners could not be classified as administrative heads Of departments and therefore were ineligible to se. feet their secretaries at random.
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NOT REsPoNsEBl.E

New Haven, Conn, Dec, so,-tUp) A finding by Coroner James J. Corrigan today absolved Nat N. schwedel, Rockville, of criminal 10. Sponslbllity in the automobile Ae- cldent death of Giuseppe Masella, 60, Dec. 20. Masella was struck by .schwedelS car Dec, 10 ,An0 sue. cumbed to injuries the next day, The accident occurred at West tia' ven.
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Divorce Mill Given
 Fresh Business Boom
Five Women Plaintiffs File Actions Today to Obtain sIiberty Bonds" From AIIegedly Abusive Partners

Five women today filed divorce actions in the Superior Court seeking freedom of marital ties which now bind
 them to husbands whom they accuse of deserton cruelty and intefnperance Anna 0enova Cazone seeks divorce from Carne Cazone, formerly of Syracuse but now of parts unknown. Deseron Is charged The couple was married April 2S 1937 and parted September 25 of the
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Federal Govt. Joins
 M Merritt High1vay
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partments are not very good" tho governor said. We have got to know just what Is going on." he added the budget department now @ making this possible for the first time in certain departments.
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JanAnese colonista in the pepArt- ment of aAo Patio. Brasil. Are 70. ported t0 have gathered over 220.0OO pounds ot teA in the last year.
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AS the best argument iM behalf of MT. N0oSevelts Judiciary re0FgaMlzA~
 ton bill when no appeared hef0FN tho senate committee hSA March,
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(Continued from Page J river craft machine-gun the Panay as she was sinking, he had no op- portunity to film 1t because he was on the shore with other survivors.
 Ready To Distribute
 The Newsreel company announced that by noon today 1t expected to have 800 prints of the film, together with 0 sound commentary by Alley, ready for nationwide distribution. The prints, 1t was said, will show the actual diving of the bombing planes, the scene on the Panay as officers gave order to abandon ship" the American flags painted on the fore and aft decks, the es- cape of the survivors and other de- tails.
 The first print of the film was sent to Washington late last night for preview by government officials Later, others were shipped to Europe Australia and South America. '.
 A few hours after Alleys arrival another film of the attack, taken bS q Fox Movietone cameramat1, wa' brought to Newark by o regular all liner. It iS now being shown IT California theaters.
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Naval Board Upheld

New York, Dec. 30--(UP)-The findings of the U. 6. naval board Of inquiry which investigated the bombing of the gunboat Panay were borne out today by films taken dur ing the raid by Norman Alley, Uni- yersal newsreel cameraman.
 A preview of the film showed that the American flag on the Panay should have been visible to the 5ap- anese planes that bombed 1t. In one part of the film the diving planes an dthe American flag at the stern. post are shown in the same picture.
 Alley d!d not film the alleged ma. chine gunning of the Panay before it was boarded by Japanese. He ex- piained he had to hide his camera. However, he photographed numer. GUS machine gun bullet holes in the side of the ship.
 The film shows American sailors trctling to their posts and training machine guns on the planes, the ahandoning of the Panay, the death os sandro Sandri, Italian newspa- perman. the trudging survivors, and scenes Of the bombing of Nanking.
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ROWLAND CASE
 IS DEADLOCKED
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CAPT. CARLSON
 OFFICIALLY DEAD

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NATIONALSTS STRIKE BACK

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FIRST PRINTS OF
 BOMBING ARE OUT

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New York. pee. S0.-(url-Fed. eral authorities worked in four cities