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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
RUSSIAN GOVT
 OFFICIALS DIE
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(Continued from Page D tary of the Soviet central executive committee, supreme governing body of the Soviet union.
 Vugucherman, former chief of the foreign office's Near East depart ment.
 Mikhail Steiger, former unofficial protocol chief of the foreign office an dofflcial "go-between" for the government and foreign embassies in Moscow.
 Gregorin Orakhelashvili, former chief of the N. K. V. D. of the re- public of Georgia, Stalin's native state.
 Shevaldaiev, head of the com munlst party organization in the Azov Black Sea region.
 Larin, communist party leader in the Bostov region.
 Metelev, unidentified in the aa- nouncement.
 Just Like Others
 The executions were carried out in the same manner as those of eight high army officials, including Marshal N. Tukhachevsky, who were shot lasta June l2. They also, 1t was announced, pleaded guilty to high treason.
 Tass, official Soviet news agency, said that Karakhan and those exec cuted with him had pleaded guilty to charges of treason against the fatherland, terroristic activities and systematic espionage for the benefit of one of the foreign states"
 The death penalty is provided for any one of these crimes, and, under the law of secret military trials, none of the evidence upon which the eight men were convicted, was made public.
 A similar fate may await MT. and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson" who are under arrest after entering Russia on fraudulent passports obtained in the United States. Nationality of the "Robinsons" is unknown. So- viet officials hinted that they may be charged with espionage and counter revolutionary activity.
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Japanese Admit To
 Boarding Gunboat
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and several of .he troops were killed or wounded, including an officer who was wounded.
 The Japanese commander then noticed, Harada said, that the Panay seemed to be sinking and sent two launches to investigate. One ofiicer and one soldier boarded the Panay, he said, and returned to shore. He asserted that no shot was fired. It was then, however, that he admitted that before 1t was discovered that the ships were American, the Jap- anese troops fired on and captured Q small boat from one of the Standard oil ships attacked.
 During the course of the airplane bombardment, Harada said, the troops, watching the attack from a distance of 2,2O0 yards, saw the Panay fire three cannon shots in the direction of the launches, in addi. ton to firing anti-aircraft shells at the airplanes.
 Harada Insisted
 Harada insisted on this statement despite the fact that survivors of the Panay present when he made 1t, asserted that tile Panay's three inch guns remained under their canvas covers all during the attack.
 (The Panay is listed as having only two 3-inch anti-aircraft guns and 10 machine guns. Weldon James, United Press staff correspondent who was aboard the Panay, em. phasized in his stories of the attack that the Panay's crew fired machine guns only at the airplanes.-Ed.)
 Burning of si0o,000,000 worth of Japanese mills at Tsingtao present. ed the Japanese with new problem today and 1t was reported that as the result, Japan might have to abandon proposed major military expedition against Canton, capital of South China.
 Japanese authorities were sutfl. ciently concerned with attacks on the Panay and the British gunboat Ladyhird when the long anticipated news of the Tsingtao burnings was received and Harada made his re- port admitting that the Panay was boarded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
FRANK KELLOGG
 IS NEAR DEATH

St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20-(UP)- Althugh physicians announced to- day that Frank B <. Kellogg, co- author of the Kellogg -Briand pact to outlay war, had rallied slightly in his fight against pneumonia theyy indicated that virtually ali hope for his recovery had been abandoned.
 Attendants said he might survive his Slst birthday, next Wednesday.
 Dr. J. A. Lepak announced at 10 e. m. that Kellogg's respiration and pulse had improved" since last night. After administering stimu- lants last night pr. Lepak said the patient was most critical but his case looked more favorable"
 Both lungs are congested and a low grade of pneumonia has set in,'' the continued. Kellogg, former aIl- bassador to England and secretary of state under President Coolidge, was stricken early Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
DIVERS SEEKING
 GOVT WORKMEN

Port Stanley, Ont, Dec. 20-(UP) Divers descended into Kettle creek today to search for the bodies of eight workmen who were trapped when e temporary dam collapsed, rec leasing a 29-foot wall of water. Four men survived. They were in a seri- ous condition from shock and in- juries.
 The dam-85 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high--had been constructed of interlocking steel blanks and billings to permit the pouring of concrete abutments for a new lift bridge over the creek The bridge to cost $250.O00, was part of a federal unemployment relief project. The dam collapsed last night, with Q raor that was heard miles away.
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ReigT, Of Uneasiness
 Strikes Holy Ldnd
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economically developed and hence less worthy of' independence than themselves-already have become inc dependent.
 Other elements inherent in the new Arab rebellion include the phe- nomenon of Jewish extremist re prisals against Arab terrorism; grow ing disappearance of religious di- vergencieS between Christian Arabs and MoSlem Arabs in the interest of complete Arab nationalisTn: econ- omic crises induced by riots which have ruined the normally remunera. tive tourist trade; the imposition of drastic curfew laws; destruction by authorities of several houses but without the desired effect of stamp ing out guerilla warfare and terror ist activities,
 Outrages Continue
 Thus day-by-day and weekday. week outrages continue throughout the country, taking also the form of assassinations or attempts upon the lives of Arab policemen who are rec garded as pro-British. Wanton bombing and shooting of innocent Jews, firing upon Jewish buses, al'. most nightly attacks upon Jewish assemblages, uprooting Jewish plan- tations and farms, firing of Jewish homes, destruction of Jewish cattle, and threats against Arab officials who are accused of insufficient or insincere nationalism--those are the happenings of the day In the Holy Land.
 Many of the incidents here are considered too petty" to be cabled abroad as news, but in the aggregate they are seething at the bottom of the country's turbulent national life and contribute to the general state of insecurity and continual tension.
 An unusual aspect of the present phase" is the campaign of assassin ation and intimidation of British officials, the majority of previous outbreaks having been confined to anti-Jewish campaigns.
 One Arab leader said to me:
 We are now convinced that Brit lsh policy favors the Jews. Thus we must fight them (the Britlsh) too, until they abandon the partition scheme, halt Jewish immigration, and give us self-government like that in fraq and Egypt and like that which France has given to Syria"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
TWO BALTIMORE
 MEN ARRESTED
New York Man Also Is Held on Suspicion in
 Breen Murder

Boston, Dec. 20-(UP)-Two Bal- timore men and o New York man were arrested in South Boston early today in an automobile answering the description of the getaway car used by the slayer of David (Beano) Breen, 45, racketeer and strike- buster.
 The trio, whose names were with held, were detained as suspicious persons. Their large black sedan with white-walled tires and New York registration plates was park ed on Q South Boston street.
 Police said three city hospital orderlies held in the purported theft of more than $500 from Breen's pockets will be arraigned in munich pal court tomorrow.
 New Happenings
 Other weekend developments in the murder investihation:
 1.--Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty charged that gangsters were raising $50,000 to be turned over to 0 Brighton politician to bring about Timilty's custer.
 2.-.Police guard was posted over two bellhops who receiveod tele- phone threats after questioning in murder investigation.
 3.--Report was circulated that G. Men may enter the investigation to determine if Breen's strikebreak- ing activities had interstate ramili- cations.
 4.--James Preston, 37, sought in murder last month of Louis 0aeta, Revere racketeer, was reported in Boston seeking Breen's slayer.
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 lowing the ferocious animal to be be kept in such an open cage, with out building @ fence of some sort or warning the public that he was dangerous, says the suit. The boy was in the park by virtue of the extension to the public of gen. eral invitation to enter into and en- joy the benefits and privileges ot It." 1t is alleged. The cage is of the type which is open only on one side, and that side is blocked by large bars, three inches apart, running from top to bottom. It is through these bars that the bear is said to have reached out and grasped the child. The boy was a student of the third grade in Q local grammar school at the time of the alleged ate tack. Since then he has not attend- ed school, nor has he taken part In any boyish sports, according to his attorney.
 Animal Not Wild
 William Coss, supervisor of the ZOO, said today that the animal "Niggy" is not wild or ferocious, and that he had never acted blood- thirsty before the litigation incident, and never has since. "Niggy has al- ways been peaceful and quiet," he said.
 It Is his belief that the boy had been feeding the animal acorns and that the animal might have reached out to grasp one which the boy held in his hand.
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tContinued from Page D tablishment of similar camps In New York, New Jersey and elsewhere physical threats and violence broke out between the NaziS and loyal German Americans"
 The federal bureau of inVestiga- ton, he said, was Investigating ro- ports that aliens, directly and in- directly in control of the Bund, arc collecting and using arms at these camps"
 Blocked at S0uthbury
 At Southbury the Bund wa blocked In It's endeavors to cleai It's woodland tract for camp pur. poses, although 1t was reported leaders would ultimately carry ou their original plans.
 Bund officials denied intentions of military training and declared the camp would be used for thu physical training and recreation o underprivileged Qerman-Americaf youths.
 Several veterans organization condemned the proposed camp bu the Connecticut department, Van kee Division, withheld action unti it had completed It's own investi' gation.
 Committee Action
 New Haven, Conn. Dec. 20.-(UP. "A committee of 25, appointed bS the newly organized New Havel anti.Na2l conference, was authorized today to oppose any move to estab liSh German American Bund camp within the state.
 The conference, representing 7l labor, fraternal, religious and edu oatlonal associations, met for tht first time Sunday and adopted resolution stating i've must he pre- pared at oil times to take actiot against NaEl propaganda and ac' tIVity. oil of which arc designed tt spread race hatred, and destroy { Democratic tradition upon Whicl thlS country was established. Holmes Was There
 Keynote speaker was deorg, Holmes, q leader in the Southbur, movement to prevent the Bunt from establishing Camp Won Steu ben In the Kettletown district O. that town. Other speakers were Dr. Willard Uphaus, executive sec, retary of the National Religious ans Labor Foundation, Harold V. Fein' mark, president of the New Haver Central Labor Council, and Majol Frederick Lord, American volunteer in the Spanish government oil forces.
 The committee was empowered [, "reconvene the conference when 1 shall be deemed necessary" It wil met January , for organization.
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he was questioned for an hour by newspaper correspondents including United Press Staff Correspondent James. It was pointed out to him that his statement confiicted direct- ly with statements of those on the Panay.
 Harada admitted that he had not personally interviewed anyone con- nected with the attack. It was point ed out to him that the Japanese at first said they knew nothing of the Panay until 10 a. m. Monday. He then changed the first sentence of his statement-which said that hav- ing learned of the Panay attack he left Shanghai at { @. m. Monday to investigate-to read that he went to investigate an attack on the British gunboat Ladybird.
 Tend Toward Whitewashing
 It was suggested to Harada that the army's own investigation might tend toward whitewashing the army and putting the sole blame on the navy.
 "That is something that can not be determined or given here by a general" he replied. Tt must be re- membered that an office rim the field Is always thinking of the enemy he thinks everything he sees per- tains to the enemy"
 Asked if the Japanese did not know that all Chinese gunboats are painted gray and the Panay was painted white, he said that under officers could not be expected to have naval knowledge.
 Harada was asked why the Jap- anese unit which proceeded to Pukow did not report that Q foreign warship was firing on a Japanese unit, and why 1t did not report that an American warship had been sunk by the Japanese.
 Tt takes time," he replied. Correspondents In It When correspondents pointed out that the unit was only 27 miles from Pukow, which 1t must have reached by darkness and that the radio was thein available, Harada replied:
 "The units main body was not then at Pukow and the commander was empowered to report only to his immediate superior officer, after which the report must proceed through the usual channels"
 Asked about Tokyo advices attrib- uted to the foreign office an admis- sion that surface craft fired on the Panay, the general said he had not been SO informed and in view of the fact that the Japanese commanding officer knew 1t WAS an American ves- sel and had treated some of the wounded, he was not inclined to credit 1t.
 Harada then suddenly broke of the conference, saying he would re-. port tomorrow on the Ladybird in- cident, which he originally had in- tended to take up today.
 Harada said that the captain of the Stcndard oil ship went ashore at the suggestion of the Japanese troop comrnandant, Capt. Hitotoku and signaled another of the Stan. dard ships to come alongside. Planes Did Not See Then he said, the attacking Jap- anese planes reappeared and the Japanese troops frantically waved their Rising Sun NlgT to ward of attack. But, he said, the planes did not see the flags and bombed the ships.
 The ships were set afire, he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
KEEL OF LINER
 BREAKS IN TWO

Shanghai, Dec. 20-(UP)-The keel of the $e,0O0,000 American liner President Hoover. lodged on Q reef near Formosa, hes been broken in two by the constant pounding of heavy seas, the Domei News Agen. cy reported from Formosa today.
 Such an occurrence would end any hope of salvaging the huge ship. operated by the Dollar line in its Pacific service, as anything oths CT than scrap iron. it was said here.
 The agency said the keel broke yesterday morning. It had been weakened by the impact when 1t was navigated onto the reef while her officers were taking her over an unaccustomed route to avoid Chinese war zones. #ss
 Immediate arrangements were made to take off the members of the crew still on the liner ct the time of the break. the agency re- ported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
BOYS DROWNED
 IN EAST HARTFORD

East Hartford, Conn, Dec. 2o.-- UP).-Two boys were drowned In the Hockanum river here Sunday when thin ice on which they were playing gave way. plunging them into i've feet of water.
 They were Robert B. Schuetz, 9, and Edwin J. Hewitt, II. The body of the schuetz boy was recovered about 20 minutes late, while Hewitt's body was not found until about 70 minutes had elapsed.
 Fire department resuscitation failed.
 Fireman John Kitty collapsed af- ter walking about in the icy water for about Q half-hour. He was sent home.
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Q series of hold.upS was refused, Yesterdays move, it iS claimed IS ar, sffort ct revenge.
 For weeks western Connecticut was terrorized by . hold.up gang, There were Q number of robberiGS in towns near Waterbury, and num- erous cars were stolen. During the outbreak ono man was shot and a1- other beaten unmercifully.
 State Police Investigated
 State police investigated mum. Der of tho crimes in small towns near Waterbury, and had the cases still under investigation when Wa terbury police "broke" the case. Five youths were arrested and subse- quently confessed to the crimes. State police, 1t is reported, asked for custody of the quintet but were turned down.
 On 6 number of occasions in the past there have been evidences of differences between the departments but the quarrel was never as serious as at present.
 Tn city court this morning, Oli- vieri's case was continued to next Monday
 Names of Those Arrested
 The men arrested in Oakville and Watertown are as follows: Giuseppe Martino of Oakville, Dennis Me- Leary of Watertown, Charles Law son of Watertown, M. D. McFad- den of Watertown, John Daddona of Oakville, and Ernest Stevens of Oakville, all charged with keeping gaming machines. Martina and Dad dona are also charged with keeping gaming houses, and several men in their places were arrested as fre- 0ffentarS
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ever, predicted that his body would be removed to his home ct Tut2lng, outside Munich, and buried pri. vately. They recalled that he had announced on october 20: Wanted No Burial Display
 1T have stated In my last will and testament that no official or mili- tary observances of any sort should be held at my funeral"
 Ludendorff had been III for sev- eral weeks. Saturday night he took Q turn for the better, and for the first time spent night without the constant watch of attendants. Early today hls heart weakened and hope was abandoned. He died at $40 Q. m.
 He was conscious until the mo. ment of death. At hls bedside were his two physicians and his wife, the former pr. Mathilde Won KemitZ, whom he married In 1928 after being divorced by his first wife, who named her correspondent.
 Military experts credit Ludendorff with Q large part In the important increase of Germany's army strength In 1913, in anticipation of war.
 Outbreak of War
 At tho outbreak of the war he was on the Belgian front. His command Ing officer in c brigade attacking Liege fell dead ct his sidc. Luden- dorfR took command, led Q brilliant attack-that was his idea of tho way to fight, always to attack--and was promoted from colonel to general.
 Within three weeks of the out. break of tho war Ludendorff was sent to the eastern front as chief of staff to the then Gen. Paul Won Hindenburg. The victory of Tan nenberg, In East Prussia, ono Of dermanys greatet, followed and Lu- dendorff's friends saw him as the master mlnd.
 Some military experts held that had Ludendorff's subsequent plans for eastern front operations beer needed. Russia could have been crushed In 1915 Instead of In 1917.
 General Chief of stiff
 On August 20, 1916, Ludendorff was made general chief of staff of all forces in tho field and the title Of quartermaster general was created for him.
 It was Ludendorff who played the great part In organizing the German offensive of 1918, which smashed through the allied lines on the vest ern front but failed, In the end, for lack of reserves, after the terrific losses In frontal attacks.
 In October 1918. when the German drive had been broken and the Ger mans were in full retreat, Kaiser Wilhelm ordered Ludendorff home under political pressure as the chief figure to Do blamed for tho collapse.
 Ludendorff offered his services to the transition government that followed Wilhelm's own fall but his offer was not accepted. He retired to Sweden and wrote his memoirs.
 Interested In Hitler
 Tn the spring of 1919 Ludendorff returned to Germany. He was leader in the Kapp putsch which briefly seized power and then he be- came interested in the Na2i move ment of the young Adolf Hitler.
 Ludendorff's part in Hitler's beer cellar putSch here on November 23 1923, has been derided, but his friends and some wyitnesses say that he, a strange figure wearing civilian clothes marched stiffly in the first rank of the youthful Nazis Into the fire of police and escaped death by a miracle.
 Ludendorff's prestige saved him from prison while Hitler and others
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-20
RARE INDIAN
 DANCE WATCHED

Flagstaff, Ariz. (UP).--Several white men reported here they had witnessed the first presentation of the Hoenai war dance in more than 20 years atop an isolated mesa on the Hopi reservation. The dance celebrates the birth of a boy.
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Gen. Ludendorf or
 World WarFaneD Dies
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| went to prison.
 Ludendorff interested himself, ir his retirement here, in his hates Christian doctrinaires, Jews, Jesuits Freemastons and Americans.
 Heather, Proud of It
 Explaining his promotion of tEt Tannenberg league, Q Neo-Pagan anti Christian. anti-Semitic organ ization, he said:
 1T am not merely an opponent of Christianity. I am literally anti- Christian and heathen and proud Of 1t.
 During the first years of the Na2i rule, starting in 1883, Ludendorft was ignored. There was ill-feeling, apparently, between him and some Nazi leaders. On the occasion of the generals roth birthday in 1885 there was 0 reconciliation between him and Hitler. Both Hitler and the army honored him.
 Then Hitler offered him o field marshal's baton. Ludendorff re- fused bluntly. He said field marshals Oukllb W WAl VihSR bUsSAAS AA Vsse'
 Toward the end of his life Luden' dorff more and more devoted him. self to religious questions. Ht preached 0 German knowledge o! cod" and preached against Chris tianity, saying 1t was unfit for the German race.
 No French Sympathy
 Paris, Dec. 20.--(UP)-General Henri Niessel of the French army whose troops opposed those com manded by General Erich Luden- dorff during the World war, had this to say today when informed of Ludendorffs death:
 General Ludendorff showed an intense hatred for France up until the time of his death. Had Ger many won tho war, he would have been among the most memorable and from him we could have expected not the slightest pity.
 "Througnout his career he dis- played on extraordinary capacity for work, an unusual determination, rare military science, but also he was presumptuous, arrogant, and hard"
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Over 150,000 hard hats were sup- piled to British miners in the last year.
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Industrial production in Hungary Is above the peak level og ie20.
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Church Officials silent

Vatican City, Dec. 20.-(UP).- Church officials made no comment today on the death of General Erich Ludendorff. The news was re- ceived directly from Munich.
 LudendorH was 0 bitter enemy of the church and of christianity. His books had all been placed on the Index and was often attacked by the Osservatore Romano, Vatican organ.
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Rome, Italy will spend over $l7,- 500,00O in constructing and improv- the sea.
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HAMILTON PARK
 BEAR IS ACCUSED

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LOCAL POLICE,
 STATE POLICE FEUD

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GOV. CROSS IS
 STUDYING BUND

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