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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02
SHAMROCKS WIN

Torrington, Sept. 2.-The sham rocks ran up . 10 to { score be. fore darkness ended their city twi. light league game with the Hilltops ct FuOssenich park ct the end of tho fifth inning last night
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02

The above contributions were re- ceived prior to four o'clock yester- day.
 Tom Kelly, Martin Dunn. Michael Leon, Clyde Jennings, Frank Mo. Cam, Michael Bergin, Peter Fox. William Dunphy, Frank Green, Thomas ?. McGrath, Morris Walsh, Albert Failer, Theodore Meyers, Thomas Jackson, H. ]. Carroll, Ed- ward Curley, Senator Joe LAwlor, Michael Slavin, John Hayden, E. Vincent Maloney, William Pape, E. k. ,s. Aui AinSf. wIn.am Derwin, Daniel Mahaney, James Curtin, Patrick Carlin, George Horan, John Dunn, D. T. Harrington, Daniel Driscoll, Larry St. Louis, A. Nastri, Phil Cappetto, Tocho Sullt. van, Charles Allen, William Ander. son, Fred Hungeford, Edward oold- berg, Frank Cassin, John McAEahon, T. McMahon, William Wegtheimeg, Fred paiumbo, Michael Whalen.
 Mast End
 Joe Cosgrove, raAlIx Pendy, P. s. Gordon, Walter Kelly, Francis Brsn-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02
LOTS or MILAGE

The 200 entries in the U. s. anna. teur golf championship travelled c total of more than 100000 miles to compete ct Portland, Ore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02

Joe Cosgrove, EaAlIk Pendy, P. s Gordon, Walter kelly, Francis Brsn'
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
WHELAN STRIKE
SHUTS 81 STORES

NEW YORK, Dec. IS GN.SJ.
To an already troubled labor pic
ture in New York was added today
strike of 600 employees in ST
Whelan Drug Stores.
The strike came a few hours
after the State Labor Relations
Board had certified the CIO affili-
ate union, Of which the employees
are members, as bargaining agent
for the chains $50 workers.
Months of negotiations for is
per cent wage increase, 48 hour
week. closed union shop and two
weeks vacation with pay pre-
ceded the strike.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
British Will Rush
Fleet to HOngkOng

How public sentiment was
whipped up was well illustrated
by an editorial in the conservative
Times of London. This newspa-
per published an editorial which
termed the japanese attack on
the United States gunboat Panay
a "hideous picture only redeemed
by the cool courage of the
wounded officers and gallantry of
the crew."
PRESSURE ON U. S.
The Times added:
America may now find it
hard to regard the affair with
the tolerant fatalism she was
ready to display earlier in the
week."
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
u. S. Aviator
BareS Fight
For China

LONDON, Dec. 18 G.N.S0.-An
American aviator, fighting under
the name of Robert Whereton, of
New York, has revealed the ex.
istence of a pro-Chinese "interna,
tional air squadron" the London
Daily Telegraph stated in a Hong
kong dispatch today.
The report said the flier esti.
mated 500 Japanese planes have
been shot down in the course of
the Far Eastern war.
Whereton, described as recuper.
ating from a recent crash, was
reported to have said:
There are 20 of us who fight
for living. There were %, but
two Americans were shot down
in flames at Hankow.
THE squadron is composed of
three Germans, a Swiss, Hol-
lander, and a Mexican, while the
rest are all Americans and
Frenchmen-all daredevils and
excellent fighters, particularly
the Frenchmen, Poivre and
Florin, who often engage groups
Of Japanese planes single
handed.
II was shot down a week ago
and my gunner and bomber were
killed. spent the night pinned
in the cockpit of my plane up to
my neck in water after pancak-
ing into river bank.
Many Russian planes and
pilots are arriving in China. The
Russian craft are enormously
fast. Recently 10 Russians
fought is Japanese and shot
down II of them.
"The Japanese are good fiierS
and extremely reckless, but they
are not original. Japan will win
unless the Russians intervene.
The international squadron re-
alizes it hasn't long to live, but
it's a great game"
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
PROTESTS FORCE
HIGHEST TOKYO
CHIEFS TO MEET
Imperial Farley Seeks
Course for Amity
By JAMES R. YOUNG

TOKYO, Dec. 18 0.NS).-Con.
fronted with mounting protests
against japanese attacks on for
eign ships in China, Nippon's i'm
perial conference composed of
the nations highest authorities
prepared today for definite action
to prevent any recurrence of the
present American-Japanese crisis.
The imperial conference, in
which l. has been suggested EN-
peror Hirohito participate, is
scheduled to receive reports from
the army and navy on ways and
means of preventing further as
saults like that IN which Nipponese
planes bombed and sank the
United States gunboat Panay and
three American oil vessels in the
Yangtze River.
PLANS ARE RUSHED
Specifically, way will be sought
to prevent Japanese airmen and
junior officers from disregarding
strict orders not to endanger the
lives of foreign nationals or the
property and interests of third
powers in China.
Plans for what appeared to be
a mighty effort to end the series
of incidents which have imperilled
Japan's relations with the United
States and Britain were rushed
after the Japanese government
was informed of official informa-
tior received in Washington that
the Panay had been machine
gunned as well as bombed.
This information was turned
over to the Japanese foreign office
by Ambassador Grew.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
Anti-Lynch
BiLLBLOcks
Housing
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN

GN.SD Straddling the Senate
doorway today and blocking pas
sage of the Wagner-Steagall hous-
ing-boom bill was the battle
scared anti-lynching measure.
Opinion was divided on whether
the proposition to stimulate dwell
ing construction would be passed
before Congress adjourns Wednes-
day.
While the Senate recessed, lead
ers on both sides in the anti-lynch-
ing bill fight went into huddleS
in an effort to reach an agree
ment by which that filibustered
measure might be sidetracked
until the next session of Congress.
Negotiations were contingent
upon the Banking and Currency
Committee reporting the housing
bill not later than Monday.
Though the bill will undoubtedly
be favorably reported, it was be-
lieved unanimous consent would
be refused for its immediate con-
sideration. Under Senate rules
reported bills must lie on the table
overnight before they can be
taken up.
Despite claims of Administra-
ton leaders that there would be
little debate on the housing bill,
there were rumblings of a fight
against the measure, with Sena-
tors consuming time in exploring
the entire economic situation
confronting the country.
WHIPS CRACK
With the House meeting in a
drive to pass the bill before night
fall, whips cracked in the Senate
for passage there Defore the spe
cial session calls it quits.
Though both branches may pass
housing bills before adjournment,
prospects for an agreement in con-
ference in time to obtain final
passage were not considered rosy.
On the anti-lynching bill prop
osition has been advanced to have
it taken up at the outset Of next
session, which begins January 3.
Southerners fighting the bill on
the ground it would be an invasion
of State rights threatened to pro-
long their filibuster.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
LEWIS TO SPEAK

Representative David J. Lewis
CD of Maryland, and Frederick
j. Libbey, director of the National
Council for the Prevention
War, will be among participants
in a luncheon discussion of word
affairs today sponsored by the
Washington Council On Interna.
tional Relations. The affair will
be held at Wesley Hall, 1903 K st.
N. W., beginning at p. m.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
100 Volunteer
For IL Vacancies

SHANGHAI, Dec. 18 Il. N. s..
For only II vacancies aboard the
United States gunboat Oahu, there
were 100 volunteers from the flag
ship Augusta today. In spite Of
the fate of her sister ship. the
Panay, the Oahu will shortly re-
turn to duty in the Yangtze River.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

deTOndUJlCS. H'0'00' wv -0ET
Dr. Eckener had been
advised long ago he receive the award letter
from him read in which he told how the information
him just after the Hndenburg disaster and how
cheered him in "the hours of sorrow"
Honorary fellowshps presented to Prof Mevill
Jones, Cambridge University, England and to Glenn l..
Martin, plane designer and builder.
The Sylvanus Reed award of $3.50 went to Eastman n
Jacobs research engineer for the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronaucs at Langley Field Va. Clarence L.
johnson of Burbank Ca received the Lawrence Sperry
award.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
Roosevelt to Meet
With Governors

Q.N.SO. Presto dent Roosevelt
yesterday agreed to meet with
the nine Governors of the South
eastern section of the country on
January 7. The Governors will be
received at the White House
shortly before noon to discuss
problems of their regions and
thereafter be entertained at lunch.
It was understood the Southern
executives were anxious to take
up the Hour.Wage problem which
confronts the South.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
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by Tor quick voyage to the far
East.
FIRST LINE SHIPS
1t was believed the squadron,
if sent, will probably consist of
two battleships, four cruisers
and a flotilla of destroyers, &C
companied by auxiliary vessels.
The question of sending the
squadron Immediately, without
awaiting the Japanese reply to
the last London protest note, was
considered. The government de-
cided, however, that unless the
situation becomes graver, any
final decision on this point can
be postponed until after Christ.
mas.
Meanwhile, in order not to
weaken the Anglo-French anti
pirate" patrol work in the Medi-
terranean, the government intends
to ask the French to fill the gap
which would be left by departure
of the British craft.
BOYCOTT FLAMES
This, it was explained, will
avoid alarming the public over
the holidays"
Meanwhile, British sentiment
against Japan famed to a new
high pitch as an organized boy
colt against Nipponese products
began in London's fashionable
West End.
Likewise prominent figures il
social, literary and public circle.
organized parades which marched
through fashionable streets bear
ing banners with slogans favorine
the boycott to stop the war II
l China"
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
POWER RATE CUT

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 10 U.N.SD.
The Public Service Electric and
Gas Company has agreed to re-
duce electric rates by $1,250,000
effective January /, the State pub
lie utilities commission announced
today,
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

memorate the t nj RI y.
fourth anniversary of avi.
alton which dates from
the W ri G h t Brothers
flight at Kitty Hawk, N.
c., made the award to the
absent doctor, i'll at home
in Germany.
Orville Wright, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh,
Comdr. Charles E. .Rosen-
dahl, U. s. N, were among
the famous "birdmen" in
the audience of 500 when
the Eckener citation was
read:
"For notable contribu-
tions to transoceanic air
transport and to interna-
tional in aeronautics."
tional cooperation in
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
DRIVE
ON BARCELONA
TO BEGIN JAN. I
Catalan City Capture
Is Next Objective

HENDhYE, France, Dec. 18
QN.SJ.-Insurgent General
Frances next big offensive
against the Spanish loyalists is
due to start January 7 with the
object of capturing Barcelona,
Catalan capital and now seat Of
the leftist government.
Insurgent circles, revealing these
plans today, said they expected
Barcelona will fall" by the end
of January. They said Franco
is instructing his armed forces to
spare civilians in the drive and to
respect British property.
CLAIMS DENIED
Meanwhile, in an announce.
ment at Seville, 1nsurgent Gen.
Gueipo de Llano denied loyalist
claims that government troops
had seized any strategic positions
in the Teruel sector. He declared
insurgent troops had surrounded
so government tanks which
"crept" through the insurgent
lines in an attempt to attack them
from the rear.
From Barcelona, however, came
word that a government defense
ministry communique claimed
loyalist troops, following up their
victorious offensive begun Wednes-
DAY, had surrounded the insur.
gent positions on the Teruel
front, cutting all communication
lines, despite a heavy snowfall. ..
VALENCIA SHELLED
Meanwhile, Lisbon reports said
an insurgent warship, for the
first time since the war began,
had succeeded in shelling Valen.
cia, causing heavy damages. Cas-
ualties were not known.
Hitherto, .Valencia's defenses
had prevented any naval lombard
ments, although the city frequent
ly has been punished by aerial At-
tacks.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

Think Of winning an income Of $1,000
every year for the rest of your life. 1t
sounds too good to be true yet that is
the grand prize which will be awarded
to the winner Of the big contest. win
an Income for Life" starting in the
American Weekly section of the January
2 Washington Herald.Times.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
Eckener Gets Guggerhei111
AWdrd for Air Advance

NEW YORK, Dec. Is (INS.).-To the sturdy old master
of lighter than-ar aviation Dr. Hugo Eckener today went
aerOnautics.
The Institute of Aeronautical Science meeting to
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

With only three working days
left before the leaders plan ad-
journment for the holidays, it
appeared that the session would
accomplish none of the objectives
for which it was called.
Everything now must 60 over
until the regular session begins
early in January after weeks of
futile fighting which has reopened
old Democratic wounds and
caused fresh ones.
FOUR "MUST" MATTERS
In his message Summoning the
reluctant legislators back to
Washington, the President in
sisted upon action on four fronts.
He wanted wage-hour legislation,
a farm bill, governmental reorgan-
ization, and regional planning leg
islation.
Recalcitrant Southern Demo
Gratis buried wage-hour legislation
last night in the bitterest Sec
tional warfare Capitol Hill has
witnessed since Reconstruction
days.
The Senate passed a crop con-
trol bill, it is true. But it is
facetiously called "the bill that
nobody knows" and probably will
prove unacceptable to the House,
which has passed an entirely
different measure.
There is no chance of confer
ence action in the few remaining
days, This means that ultimate
ly, sometime next year, an entire
" new bill will have to be written
in conference and presented to
both chambers for approval.
Gene, or virtually gone, is the
prospect of agricultural legisla-
ton in advance of next years
planting, which was one of the
points Mr.. Roosevelt insisted upon
NOT EVEN CONSIDERED
AS for governmental reorganiza-
ton and regional planning, the
remaining points of Mr.. Roose-
velt's program for the session, they
were not even taken up for con-
sideration.
Congress, in fact, has completed
action on only one measure. Un'
less a miracle occurs in the next
few days, the single achievement
of this special session will be thu
members voting themselves g
Christmas bonus in the form of {
$225,000 mileage appropriation
which, save in few cases, will no
be used to pay the fares of mem
bers going home between the tn
sessions.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
FIGHTING BEGINS
BEYOND NANKINC
IN PUSH INWARD
Reports to Shanghai
Tell of Clash

SHANGHAI, Dec. 18 G.N.S).
Fighting between Japanese and
Chinese forces west and north Of
Nanking has broken out, frag-
mentary dispatches from the
front received here indicated to-
day.
japanese officials admitted
their advance troops were out of
touch with local headquarters.
Meantime, japanese naval and
military authorities ordered a
new inquiry into the attack by
Nipponese planes and surface YES
sells on the American gunboat
Panay in the Yangtze River.
REPORTS BRING PROBE
The renewed investigation was
launched as a result of assertions
by survivors that Japanese sol
diers in two launches machine
gunned the vessel, even though
they could easily see the Ameri.
can flag flying from its mast and
two others painted on the craft.
While eye-witnesses reiterated
their charges the japanese attack
on the Panay was deliberate
Shanghai's American colony
joined with U. S. Marines and
sailors to pay homage to the three
Americans killed during the as
Sault.
Funeral services with full mil
itary honors we're scheduled. The
Japanese army and navy indi-
Gated their intention of sending
delegations of high commanders
to the rites.
RIVER BLOCKED
According to reports from Han
kow, Chinese forces completed
construction of a boom across the
Yangtze River at Kiukiang and
several other booms further up
the river, to prevent Japanese war
ships from bombarding Hankow,
present seat of the Chang Kai-
Shek regime.
In addition, Hankow advices
said, the Chinese may make a
powerful stand at Hsuchofu, north
of captured Marking, if the Japa-
nese continue their advance north
from Pukow and southwark from
Tsinan in an attempt to join their
forces.
Some reports said the Chinese
armies at Hsuchofu are the finest
in Generalissimo Chang Kai-
Shek's machine, and include three
fresh regiments from Kwangsi
province.
A strong line of defense, on
which the Chinese government
was said to have worked for years,
was reported heavily manned
along the Lunghai railway. Fight
ing in this region, if the Japanese
advance against it, may develop
into one of the greatest battles of
the war, along with the antici-
pated campaign in the south.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

"I Don't Take Mental Cases." An.
other lnstallment Of Ruth Burr San
bOrn's Thrilling Detective Mystery
Novel in The American Weekly, with
Sundays Washington Herald.T Times.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
Wage Bill Beaten,
House Bloc Fights
To Kill Farm Aid
North and South Conflict in the House
Threatens Presidents Program
By WILLIAM S. NEAL

GNS) Secthing with anger over failure of wage-hours
legislation embered members of the House Wage Hours
Bloc" today onened Of reprsal against the farm bill
The Washington times., 1937-12-18
Special Session Seen
In State of Collapse
Only Three Working Days Left
To Accomplish ObjectiUeS
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

GNS) President Roosevelts special session of Congress
was in state of ruin and wreckage today
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

The movement threatened to
embroil Congress in a sectional
battle between Northern and
Southern Democrats, split the
House into industrial and farm
blocs and further wreck President
RooSevelt's special session pro-
gram.
The wage e-hours bill. which
passed the Senate last session and
was brought to the point of a
final vote in the House, was re-
committed to the labor committee
by vote of ZIG to 1913, in a hec-
tic night session.
VICTORY FOR AFL
The action, which stunned Ad-
ministration leaders and came
after warnings we're sounded that
it would indefinitely doom mini
mum wages and maximum hours,
climaxed a week of turbulent floor
battles. 1t was a victory for the
American Federation of Labor.
which demanded recommittal of
the Black -Connery bill, after its
own substitute was crushed.
This is the end-from now
on it's a battle" said Represen-
tative Gavagan CD of New
York. I'VE will kill farm legis-
lation. They tricked us by their
trades.
THE farm bill was saved by
votes from New York, Chicago
and Philadelphia. They'll never
get the bill now"
Representative McGranery DD
of Pennsylvania, and other wage
hours hackers joined Gavagan in
declaring they would force fight
to the finish for party supremacy
between Northern and Southern
Democrats.
TO RENEW FIGHT
Other hackers of wage-hours
legislation laid plans to renew the
fight in the special session, hope
full a satisfactory measure can be
worked out.
1.-THE sweated industries have
/ gained a great victory, and if
the money spent in propaganda
ing around the Capitol had been
used to raise the wages of the
people, it would have been put
to far better uSe," said Repre-
sentative Mary T. Norton CD
of New Jersey, chairman of the
labor committee, who led the
fight for the bill.
This is only the beginning
we have only begun to fight.
The tide of battle apparently
was determined in the last hours
of fighting over the measure,
when nanv exenoDtionS from the
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

RATES By CARRIER IN WASHINGTON D. c.
AND SUBURBS
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

RATEs By MAIL FOR VIRGINIA. MARYLAND.
WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

by Tor quick voyage to the ia
East.
The Washington times., 1937-12-18

ALL NAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE
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Twin Town Talk

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out of himself the other night the T.
quite interested in " and the gent feeling What
Minneapolis married still trying explain away
friend wife found his pocket The Two
l. A and NJ who hit the high spots nightly.
looking The lady
won print item which occurred last
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What widow is up in arms over
non-payment of a loan which a
railroad man made shortly after
her husbands death? What
brother beat up his married sister
when he caught her with fellow
who wasn't her hubby? The
southern railroader who has love-
ly wife but who carries on each
night he is in town with another
jane?
The ID year old girl who looks
10 and who is going to cause a
certain St. Paul man some trouble
if he doesn't watch out. The
new man of cloth whose dramatic
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A st. Paul wife is going to raise
plenty trouble because she claims
her husband lost his WPA wages
in a gambling place on Rondo.
The Chinaman who operates a
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them in his chow mein restaurant
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