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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
SPANISH REBELS
 FORCE THEM BACK
Terrific Counter Attack to Capture Gateway to
 Big Mining Area

Madrid, March 27-(UP)-Alca- racejos, gateway to the rich mer- cury mining area of South Central Spain, tottered today before a ter- rife counter-attack by Nationalists, aided by 10000 Italian troops, Loy- alist army dispatches reported. Gov- ernment spokesmen admitted the town appeared about to fall"
 The Nationalists forces, thrown back three days ago when Loyalist troops broke through from encir- cled Pozoblanco, six miles east of Alcaracejos, reorganized and began their counter-attack in great force early today, dispatches said.
 Moving up the Villaralto road from Villanueva Del Duque toward Fl Viso. the Nationalists drove a wedge into the Loyalist lines east of Alcaracejos. 104 miles south of Madrid, advanced in the direction of Almaden, their main objective, and subjected Alcaracejos to a sudden flank attack.
 Nationalist aviators, flying ahead of the counter-attacking National ists, bombed and virtually de- stroyed Fl Viso, Loyalist spokesmen said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
Tragic Plane Crashes Are Under Four Investigations

mately the time of the accident en- countered no severe icing" two offi- cials said, supports our belief that Pilot Bonnet ran into localized and exceptionally heavy icing conditions. The crash of the plane failed to dis lodge the ice formed on the ailerons and gave us the clue on which we were able to reconstruct the acci- dent" They said their company was taking immediate steps" to pro- vide safeguards against recurrence of the trouble.
 Fred D. Fagg, Jr.. director of the bureau of air commerce, sent Bryan M. Jacobs and other experts to the scene of the crash to gather what ever evidence was available in prep aration for the public hearing. Also acting for the government was Col. II. E. Hartney, technical adviser for a senate Investigating committee. Eugene Vidal, former director of the bureau of air commerce. was on the scene but said he had no offlcial connection with the Investigation.
 Investigating for the state were Maj. c. D. Vinet. aeronautics eu. reau chief: and Maj. Harold Bazley. WpA airport supervisor.
 Coroner W. ]. Mcoregor headed the county inquiry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27

cars will be able to broadcast as well as receive messages. The other eight cars in the radio patrol will have receiving apparatus only. The receiving sets will be installed in these cars when the police broad- casting station is placed in opera ton by the Gamewell O., to whom the police radio contract was given.
 Other Cars in Line
 In addition to the new cars, other police department cars will have re- ceiving apparatus. Among them will be the patrol wagon, the super intendent's car and the squad cars. Fire department cars may also have radio installed.
 The new cars for the radio patrol are black in color and are coupe models. Painted on the side are the words, City of Waterbury, Police Department, and the radio patrol insignia, a microphone. The cars were especially equipped at the Ford
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
First Lady Preparing For
 Easter E Egg Rolling Games

lawn while their parents take pie lures.
 The importance of the event is considered sufficient for the staid National Geographic Society, which brides itself on its analyses of folk traditions in various countries, to issue a detailed bulletin describing the children's party. It says: "In- side the gate and all over the grounds-mobs of children and adults. The green lawn under the trees and the towering magnoliaS is peppered as with colored confet- ti with children in red caps, green coats and other bright clothing" Here flash the red stockings of two little Swedish girls in native cos tunes; gaily striped skirts and aprons, flowred shawls and lowered caps on pale blonde hair. Two little Polish girls run by with a swish ot lowered skirts, the fringed silken scarves around their heads stream ing in the wind, their many bead necklaces swinging.
 The crowd presses thickest near the White House portico where news photographers set up cameras, waiting for the President to ap- pear. Nearby stands a newsreel truck and q Red Cross ambulance. The crowd gathers in another knot around the bandstand. laughing at the clowns antics: and in still an- other knot about the fountain. and then ravels of in the distance, by the fences. The band flares. the fountains splash. children playing tag nearly step on fat women sit- ting on newspapers spread on the damp ground. holding babies in their laps. Egg-rolling ts not as much in evidence as egg-throwing and egg-cating."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
DR. WOLFE CASE
 FOR HIGH COURT
Cheshire Physician Gets Judgment for $4,5OO
 for Child's Death

Justices of the Connecticut state supreme court of errors will be asked to make final settlement in the case of Dr, Emmons R. Wolfe, administrator against Philip Reh- bein, which eliminated in the local court of common pleas with a jury awarding a verdict of $4,500 to the plaintiff. The defendant has en- tered an appeal to the high court from this verdict, and also from the refusal of Judge Miles P. McNiff of the court of common pleas, to set aside the verdict. Arguments in the appeal will be presented during the April term of the court of errors, which opens April 6 at a. m. As- signment of cases will be made Wednesday, March 3l, for the entire term. Yss 2 g
 verdict Of $4,SoO
 Verdict of $4,500 for the plaintiff was returned April 29, 1886, after the common pleas court jury had heard the testimony in the case. Suit was brought by Dr. Erininons R. Wolfe, of Cheshire, against Philip Rehbein to recover for the death of his two years and ten months old daughter, who is said to have been killed as result of an act of neg ligence by Rehbein. The girl was killed october 2l, 1885, when a pile of lumber on the Rehbein property toppled on her. Immediately after the plaintiffs verdict was returned, the defendant requested that Judge McNiff set 1t aside, but in deci- sion handed down November 20, 1886, he refused. The appeal was then taken to the supreme court of errors.
 Lawyers in Case
 Attorney Michael. V. Blansfield and Attorney Harry M. Albert, who appeared for the plaintiff in the common pleas court, will also ap- pear in the supreme court. Carmody & Thoms, and Taylor & Tribou will appear for MT. Rehbein in his ap- peal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
By RUBY A. BLACK
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington. March 27-(UP)- Mrs. Roosevelt today prepared the White House for the most popular most spectacular, and most harum- scarum party of the year-the an- nual Easter egg-rolling. Thousands of Washington children busted them- selves preparing for the big day oi the year-the day after Easter-the day when they all dress up in their gayest clothes and romp on the White House lawn. The only Wash ington people unhappy at the pros- pect are the gardeners and care takers who must start late Monday afternoon to clear tons of cracked egg shells, debris and paper from the grounds of the executive man. sion.
 The president, who has intro duced many informalities into the White House routine, never has dared relax the strict rule govern. ing admission to his Easter party No children. no admission" Dozens of smiling blue-uniformed police men will congregate around the iron gates to enforce firmly this regula- ton. And dozens of gamins will cluster in the near vicinity, nudg- ing curious bystanders and hiring out" as admittance tickets to the childless. The White House egg rolling is a sacaroSanct event. prob ably enjoyed more by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt than by anyone else. The children are traditionally just . bit embarrassed. For the most part they get down on their hands and knees and push little colored eggs on the smooth and hiStoris
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
JAPAN WILL.NOT
 LIMIT HER GUNS

Tokyo, March 27.-(UP)-Japan has formally notified Great Britain that she will not accept Q proposal to limit naval guns to IA inch cali- bre, the foreign ofice announced to- day. r''
 Foreign Minister Naotake Satoh made the notification to Sir Robert Give, retiring British ambassador,
 Japan's action releases Great Bri- tain, the United States, France and signatory British dominions from conditional agreement to limit guns to IA inches.
 As the result, the United States is expected to mount l6 inch guns in the new battleships 1t is laying down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
STUDENTS LAY
 DOWN SCHOOL LAW

Hickory Flat. Mss. March 27- (U.PO-This message was scrawled across the main entrance to Hickory Flats red brick school house today School closed until we get a new board. Hours 8:l5 a. Ii., S:l5 D. m., by order of student body"
 The strike was called by 48 stu- dents who demanded the reinState- ment of six teachers dismissed by the board of education.
 The school board refused to re- consider the discharge of six of the schools nine instructors. Trustees and faculty members declined to comment on the situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27

They constitute 0 serious menace to England's traditional dominati ton. of the Mediterranean and a potefi- tial threat to her vital lines of corn- munication with her empire. For the first time in history, Great Bri- tain no longer is certain of her coil- mand of the shipping routes through the Mediterranean to Egypt, the Suez, India, Australia and the east.
 Despite signature of the recent Anglo-Italian pact to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean, re- verberations of this shift of power are continuing. They are evident in many concrete developments, aside from the renewed tension arisinA from Italian operations in Spains 71
 Real Developments
 As I analysed them here on my tour of Europe to study war prepara- tions, the most important develop ments include:
 1. Italian Qualifications of the strategically important volcanic island of Pantellaria. This island, only 45 square miles in area, lies al- most athwart Britain's sea route through the Mediterranean. It is only 62 miles from Sicily and A from Tunis on the African coast. Military development of the island will be of special importance to Ital- ian aerial operations.
 2. Mussolini's orders to rush ex- pansion of the navy immediately
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
LICHTEST BABY
 COULD NOT LIVE

New York. March 26 - (UP) - Physicians sought permission today to delve into a mystery that violated the established tenets of life and science-the survival for IS 1-2 hours of an infant that weighed barely more than half pound.
 They marveled, not that the slen- der thread of life played out but that it ran on so long. If the parents are willing, they will per- form an autopsy to seek an explain ation of what they would have called an impossibility had 1t not happened.
 The child. born in the fourth month Of gcstation to Mrs. Saverio Vita. a. Gied shortly before last midnight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
BUS STOPS TO BE CONSIDERED BY OFFICIALS North Main, Brooklyn Sec.
 tiOns to Be Submitted to Co. By Police
 SERGEANT FOLEY | NAMES NORTH MAIN Police Supt. Roach Ex. poets No Trouble in | All Arrangements

Proposed stops for c. R. and l.. Lines buSSes on the new North Main street and Brooklyn routes will be sub mitted to Superintendent Charles Chapman and other officials of the traction com pany at a conference Monday by Police Superintendent William J. Roach. The traf- fife hazard created by busses stopping at a considerable distance from the curb when talk ing on or discharging passengers will also be discussed.
 Supt. Roach said today that even- tually he hopes to have the con1- pany,S cooperation in changing most of the present bus-StcpS in the city. The changes will involve shifting the stops from one side of an in- tersection to the other, establishing new no-parking areas and other changes.
 Schedule Arranged
 Sergt. Patrick Foley of the depart ment has submitted to 6upt. Roach a complete schedule of proposed stops when busses 90 into operation on the North Main street and Bank street lines, replacing the present trolley cars Manv nf the etfog r1ro. posed are different from those now used as car stops.
 With buses soon to succeed trol- leys on every line in the city,, Supt. Roach expects no difflculty in hay. ing busses draw flush to the curb when stopping. Complaints about busses stopping in the middle of the street were made to the board of public works by State Senator Jos eph H. Lawlor. The board referred
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
FIGHT ON COULD
 WILL TO RESUME.
Probably Will Be Con-
 tinued in Probate Court in Coming Week
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 The battle of George Gould, Of 189 Wood street, to have declared invalidated document purported to be the last will and testament of his wife, Stella B. Gould, will be continued in probate court next week when another hearing is held before Judge Dennis J. Slavin. Sev- eral hearings have already been held.
 The will presented for admission was drawn Dec. 16 1936, at New Haven General hospital, a month before Mrs. Gould died. In the will she left her jewelry, stocks and bonds to Barbara Webber of this city and bequeathed the rest of her estate to St. Paul's Methodist Epis- copal church.
 Left Will to Husband
 A week before this will was drawn, Mrs. Gould had signed a will in which she left her estate to her hus-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
PRESIDENT HAS
 MANY PROBLEMS
Hurrying Back to Capital Today; Sit-Down Strike
 to Be Studied
BY RICHARD L. HARKNESS United Press White House Core.
 SpOndent)

spondent)
 Aboard President Roosevelt's Spe- cial Train, Enroute Washington. March 27-(U.P0-Three problems of state--labor relations, judicial re- organization and the cost of relief occupied President Roosevelt's at- tention today as he hurried back to Washington from spring vacation in Georgia. In robust health and cheerful spirits, MT. Roosevelt plan- ned to start work on the first prob- lem this afternoon when congress sional leaders call at the White House to discuss the sit-down strike situation. He also will devote time to his judiciary program over the weekend, canvassing the strategic position of his drive to enlarge the supreme court before the senate committee hearing starts again Tuesday.
 Special Message
 MT. Roosevelt's special message outlining 1937-l938 relief plans and costs will 90 to congress within the next week or 10 days. He tentatively allotted $500 000, ,O0O for job mak- ing in the budget for the fiscal year of 1888. Dr. Ross T. Mc1ntire, his
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
WIFE OF NAVY
 LIEUT.. KILLED

New London, Conn, March 27- (U.P.)--A fractured skull was blamed tooay for the death of Mrs Elizabeth Tucker, 25, wife of U. s. Navy lieutenant. who was killed last night ,yhen she fell from her hus- bands automobile.
 Lieutenant Tucker said the door of their car opened while passing through Lyme or East Lyme. As his wife stretched to close it, he said, the door blew off in the high wind and she Tell to the pavement.
 Mrs. Tucker died at Lawrence Memorial Associated hospitals here shortly after the accident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
.CEHRlG PASSES

Hollywood, March 27- (UP)-Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees was safe at first base in Holly wood motion pictures to, day.
 The husky batsman pas sed his camera tests for Sol Lesser and will report to the studio here within a month after the World Se- ries ends.
 The question of whether he dons tiger skin pants as a Tarzan is still up in the air.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
Late MelDs Flashes
BANDITS WAITED

Boston, March 27-(UP) After waiting until Good Friday churchgoers had passed, three masked ban. dits held up a Chestnut Hill drugstore last night and es- capped with $120, part of it postal receipts.
 The theft of $20 from the sub-postoffice prompt ed a personal investigation by Postmaster Peter F. Tague and postal inspec- tors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
MussoLini Determined 7oMakeM Mediterranean Into Italian Sea Only
Rise of Italy Has Caused One of Most Significant Changes in Western
 European Power
SERIOUS MENACE TO CLAIMS
 OF BRITISH SEA COMMAND

powers fevers building their air. forces ons have been accompanied by significant changes the that existed after the World participation of foreign troops the Spanish crises.
 Webb Miller, manager correspondent at the front lines dig out the latest he about Hays position of the Mediterranean for the first time in history challenges Great BranS control that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
VIM. H. MILLER DIES

Hartford, Conn. March 27--(UP) Funeral arrangements were being made today for William H. Miller, CT. manager of Inc agency sales de- nartment of PraM & Whitney divi- kfan Of Nileg-B -Bemont- -Fond Co. who aied suddenly at Unionville yaSter- day.
 fIe was connected with the con- ccrn @ years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
Ne1U Police Radio
 Patrol WiLl Soon Be h Operation
Ten New Cars Have Been Purchased to Be Used in PatroI-Two Will Be Shipped to Boston to
 Be Equipped With Radio

Ten new Ford Scylnder cars purchased by the police department of the City of Waterbury will be delivered to the department early next week by Mattatuck Motors Incorporated from which firm the cars were purchased The will be used in the citys new radio patrol which will begin functioning in month or two.
 Two of the cars will be shipped to Boston early next week installation of two radio equipment These
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
GOT $50

Danvers, Mass, March 27--(UP)- Three bandits clubbed Vernon Lee, Negro caretaker at Shady Oaks overnight camp of New bury turnpike, and fled with $50 early today. Lee said the men escaped in an automobile. He said he was in bed, counting the money when attacked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
BY WEBB MILLER Copyright, 1887, by United Press)

Rome, March 27. - (Via London). - (UP) - Premier Benito Mussolini has built 1talys machine up to point where he is in position back up his determination to make the Mediterranean Italian sea.
 This rapid rise in 1taly's military naval and air strength and her conquest of Ethiopia have caused of the most significant changes in the balance power western Europe since the World War.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-27
The Weather

Mostly Cloudy, Cool Tonight, Sunday.
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
New York Day by Day
BY O. O. Nc Intyre
MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1887

obscurity. There have been several
instances in New York lately of
former stars trying to make the
headlines and actually making
themselves ridiculous. Even the
great Bernhardt could not resist
the temptation to hobble about e.
crutches, thus bringing the public
to see her more as a freak than a
great artist. Among the few out
standing who have not tried to
SNEAK a bow" are David Warfield,
Mrs. August Belmont, Maxine Ell
liott, Maude Adams and Sothern
and Marlowe. grand troupers all,
Even sedate dressers are going
hotsy-totsy in their jaunty light
topcoats. The new style is a Duke
of Windsor Wilma dash of checks
or stripes that suggest the race
course and other outdoor sporting
events And are Worn only now and
then merely for variety and the
heck of it. Some are one-toned-a
light blue, coffee colored or such.
Made with a rakish belt and raglan
sleeves.
Louis Sobol in his rounds Of
Broadway discovered the one-time
popular singing star. Charlie King,
singing from table to table in the
cafe of a hotel Sobol noted the
/ engagement and King was immedi-
ately given contract for part in a
forthcoming Broadway production
Which is as it should be. Kings
rendition of The Wedding Of the
Paper Dolls" in one of the first mus
ical revues on the screen was just
one of his achievements in putting
a song over. In vaudeville days he
was often a headliner at the Palace
and not many performers had his
| gift for wearing full dress or tamp-
| ing a silk hat at that juSt-so angle.
* * X
Bagatelles: The longest proper
name in English composed entirely
of voweIs is Aeaea (Circe's isle.) -,
The Watterson RothackerS nave
been touring old Mexico. Best
winter tan: Lee Shubert. . Chap
lin has taught Paulette Goddard tc
sing his hilarious Partisan ditties.
Ford MADDOX Ford the author
| learned to dance only recently
beginning with the rumba.
Jacques Danielson, Fannie Hurst
husband, is touring Europe with
Heifetz as his piano accompanies
4 4 y
Red to the ears note: We were
talking to a certain lady about a
remote house on Long Island foI
the summer. And she observed she
would like to have the chauffeur
live on the place. Adding; Il would
not want to live in the country
without a man around"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
LET THE MOTORTST
BEWARE

California's perennial highway prob
lem, that of speed traps to catch un-
wary speeders, is with us again. For
years, the state has followed the policy
sportsman follows in hunting birds.
1T gets its motorists on the wing. A state
traffic officer cannot conceal himself
while watching for reckless motorists.
lie must give them sporting chance
If they see him before he sees them
then that's their good luck and his mis-
fortune
Now that another attempt is under
way to make speed traps legal, one
thing and one alone stands out above
all the arguments for and against:
MORE PEOPLE WE'RE KILLED IN
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS IN CALL
FORNlA LAST YEAR THAN EVER
BEFORE.
We adopt resolutions deploring the
states high accident fatality rate. We
hold solemn meetings to find out what
TO do about it. We blame the traffic
officers because they don't hold down the
deaths. We blame everybody but our
selves because someone hasn't found a
way to reduce the number of accidents.
Then we raise up on our hind legs
and complain to high heaven when some
one proposes method to catch us speed
ing. TT Speeu Is Idltu Tie greatest Sill
gle cause of accidents.
So many of us seem to go on the theory
that it's always the other fellow who
should be caught-never ourselves.
Admittedly it is disconcerting to sud
denly discover a traffic officer popping
out from behind clump of bushes when
we are breezing along the highway at
a mere 60 miles an hour But did you
ever smash into rattletrap machine
coming in from a side road, while you
We're travelling at the same speed? That
is even more disconcerting. Sometimes
it is even fatal.
If the fear that a traffic officer is
somewhere among the foliage in that
next clump of bushes will force Califor-
MIA motorists to slow down, to drive
more carefully, perhaps to save nobody
knows how many lives, then most GER
tainly there can be no legitimate op-
position to the proposal for re-establish-
ment of the speed trap system.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
WILD FLOWERS, OCOTILLO
AND RATTLESNAKES

1t is unfortunate that the gorgeous
beauty of wildflowers and cacti in bloom
on Imperial county's desert this time of
year is associated in the minds of many
people with the fact that this is the sea-
son, too, when rattlesnakes begin to stir
about. 1t would not be SO bad if most
people did not have misconception of
the ferocity Of the snakes.
Nobody should miss a Spring visit to
the colorful desert regions of this coun-
ty out of fear of snakes. The fear, for
the most part, is entirely unfounded.
Rattlesnakes do not attack unless
they are previously molested. They pre-
fer to crawl away as rapidly as they
can. Contrary to general belief, a snake
when aroused cannot strike any distance.
Seldom can they throw their bodies over
half their own length When they do
strike and when they hit their mark,
there is not as much cause for concern
as most people believe. Fatality from
snake bites is exceptionally low. 1t is
almost nil, where proper treatment Is
given the victim.
In brief, when you go out on the des-
ert you can be fairly certain that you
will not be a snake bite victim unless
you step on the snake-and they don't
lie about in exposed places where the
ordinary hiker walks.
If you want to visit the desert, don't
let the fear of rattlesnakes deter you.
They are highly overrated as instru-
ments of death.