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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-20

The third indictment was against Carney and his secretary, James r, McKenna, who also serves as WpA coordinator. This also concerned the garbage contract and alleged cgn- spiracy.
 The fourth indictment charged Former Deputy Aherin Joseph r Mallette with stealing money in value less than 1i0o" on Ave oc. casions from Israel Davis, "who wa interested in securing c piece cj real estate and also . beano |. cense.'
 Tn the fifth indictment, MailetA and one Adolptl Santos were chars. cd in two counts with coFispiring fs register trucks illegally in violation of chapter 90 of the Massachusett4 general laws. MI
 The sixth indictment, agalns, Mallette and one Qedroid '. 0reFi nier, charged four counts Of con, spiracy in connection with ilieea registration Of trucks.
 The seventh indictment comprised four counts against Mallette aaf one Robert Rayno. This also charg cd conspiracy to register trucks q legally.
 Carney and McKenna were chaFs. ed in the eighth indictment Witk conspiring on different cccasions with Jack TArie. Francis |. @uIIl- van. Joseph Sullivan and Edward Sullivan to set up and promote ( lottery for money.
 The next four indictments chargs cd Tarie and tiIe three gulliyafls with setting up lotteries.
 Councilman Leo Raymond c. Ward One was indicted on 90 colints Of larceny of "less than ei00" each from William Douchard, who hes trucking connections"
 The 18th indictment charged CaF- ney and McKenna entered into s conspiracy with Mitchell Green and
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SPY RUMRICH ON STAND AGAIN
Private Erich Chaser of U. s. Army. at Mitchell
 Field Helped Him

New York, Oct. 2o-(Up)-0uen- ther oustaye Rumrich, confessed German spy, testified in federal court today that private Erich 0la- ser of the U. 8. army. who was sta- tioned at Mitchell Field. gave him part of c secret army code book for transmission to Germany.
 olaser Is one of three persons on trial on spy charges.
 Rumrich, on the stand for the fourth day, said oiaser gave him only two pages of . manual Of rae do procedure used in contacting army planes in the air and that they discussed means of getting the rest of the code from two army men known to have copies.
 Finally, Rumrich said, he gave the two pages to Karl schleuter, pay-off man for the German spy network here, and asked e40 for it. lie falsely told schleuter, he said. that the code was of more military importance than 1t really was.
 Names Of Soldiers
 Rumrich said 0laser had given him the names of several soldiers and that he planned to induce them to become sources of information for the ring. in furtherance Of this scheme he wrote . letter un- der diasers signature to . so1 iier named Gus Schmidt suggesting he had some "very. very interesting things to toll you" "
 The name of William Lonkowslki, civilian attache of tho war minis try in Berlin, was brought into the trial by Assistance .. 8. Attorney Lester 0. Dunigan. Lonkowsli is under indictment cnarged with
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LINDBERCH ON
 GERMAN TOUR

Berlin, Oct. 20~--(Up)--C Colonel Charles A. LindbeFgh started brief tour of provincial aircraft centers today.
 Lindbergh and Major Vanamari left last night for Augsberg, to visit the Messerschlnidt airplane factory today,
 There was no clue as the reason for tho award to Lindbergh yester- day of the distinguished service crosa Of the 0eFinen Eagle, the 0iaiy NaN| government decoration aIVGn to foreiNneEa. Henry Ford re- onlgod enc recently
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been reported moving into the area around Canton but Japanese seiz- ure of Cranekangsliu, 20 miles from the city, would indicate that their lines had been deeply penetrated.
 Japanese advices earlier said that two of China's leading generals on the southern front he'd appealed to Qeneralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to assume | :rsonal direction of the de- lenses in South China.
 Appeal to Chief
 According to the dispatches, which quoted Chinese sources at Hong Kong, Gen. Ii Tsung-Jen and Gen. Pal Chung-fiui, two of the "big three" generals of Southwest China, made the appeal. They asked Chiang, 1t was said, to abandon his duties at Hankow. and take cofn- rnand on the South China front.
 It was noted here that this appeal followed c message by Eugene Chen, f0gmer Chinese foreign minister, to Cantonese leaders ct Hankow, corn- p!aining that Chiang had decided that the defense of Hankow was
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Business Begins Boom AsGouernnaentSpends
Treasury Deficit Will Hit One Billion = Early Re'eni' ployment of Thousands, Restoration of
 Pay Cuts, Is Answer
BY LYLE 0. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, Oct. 2o.-(UP)-The Rross treasury deficit is about to hit one billion dollars today as bust. ness begin to move faster with the flow of relief and pump-priming spending.
 Because treasury figures lag . couple of days behind current ace counts it is quite possible that the deficit already has exceeded si.000,- 100000 for this fiscal year.
 Latest figures through October i7 compare treasury fiscal-year ee. counts of that date this year with . year ago as follows:
 This Year Last Year Expenses s2.ees 100000 t2,2e4, ,ooo,ooo Receipts i,ss4'occ'ooc i's44'ooo'ooc
 deficit. o7s,ooo,oOO 44o.ccc,cOc "es'A' dsSt .. ss, ,4as, s,ooo.ooo ss.s4a,o ,ooo,ooc Comparison of spending in the first 17 days Of October this year with the first i7 days of October last year, however, moro accurately reflects the increasing tempo oi feedral spending as the Roosevelt puinp-priming program begins to take hold.
 Business Is Boomed
 Favorable business developments such as early unemployment of Sb.- 900 General Motors factory workers and restoration of pay cuts to somt
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arrested yeSVerday py OeteCtlVes Lieutenant William ?. Pollard re. ceived continuances to November { when afraigned before Judge Edward Mascolo in city court today. They are Vito Demola, 42, of 22e South Leonard street, who does bus mess ct 24 Grand street; Filbert A. vitone, 70, of Fairview avenue, Oakvilie, and Daniel 0allucci, 46, of e3 Temple street, the last two operating in partnership at Ill Grand street.
 Merchants Complain
 The warrants for the three tailorS were issued yesterday when formal complaints were filed with Prosecu- tor Meyers by the following: Wil- liam H. Jones, of Jones, Morgan & Company; George McDuff, of J. Johnson 6 Sons; Meyer Erlanger, of Erlanger's: Edward J. TitS- gerald, of Fitzgerald &s Platt; E. K, Samson, of the P. e e. Mems shop; and Morris silverberg, of Joseph Hilton & Sons. Prosecutor Meyeri said that several other naerchant had cooperated in the investigation but did not sign the complainti yesterday.
 frvldence against the alleged suit club operators, he said, was secured
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-20
MORE PERSONS
 ARE OFF RELIEF
3Ol People Less on Rolls of Local Department Is
 Latest Report

Waterbury,s relief load took ar- other plunge downward last month, the second favorable report since the steadily increasing demand started last October.
 Evidence Of some pick-up in pri. vate employment, of WPA provision of jobs for Q number, the full re- lief load showed Q drop of 30l pre- sons, while the partial relief burden was raised only IS beyond the Au- gust total, the monthly report to Mrs. Mary Doyle Camp, acting sue perintendent, of welfare, showed to- day.
 There were orr persons on full re- lief, as compared with 1,27S in Au. gust. Correspondingly, the case load for September, i,4e2. compared fa- vorabiy with the load of August ] i,S44.
 Carried Heavy Load
 Since year ago this month the welfare department has been carry ing an increasingly heavy load, one which saw early exhaustion of bud- gets made when times were better. It was necessary for the finance board to impose . salary cut on city employees to provide revenue Tor the welfare department.
 First signs of 6 halt in the upward climb of relief demands showed last month, the number of persons on rAitaf droY,nInR from more than 5000 to 6,e77. Tn the September report, 1t shows that 6,3o4 persons were receiving some form of relief last month; that 4,2i2 are receiving partial relief; 206 institutional re- iiefl 27 transient relief. The total figured without the Institutional re- lief, which is more or less static from month to month, shows 6,io0 persons on welfare in September.
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Special Committee 10 Report On Attorneys
Named By Waterbury Bar Association to Make Study of Fees Claimed to Be Owed By Lawyers;
 Finance Board to Get Report

Fees being charged lawyers by the city court are too high. This will be the substance of the report of the special committee named by the Waterbury Bar Association to be presented for consideration of the Board of Finance this after- visions as relates to city court fees, noon. This will be the summation of Q surveymade of the charter provisions as relates to city court fees, the result, actually. of the "semi-offi. cial" blast of Controller Sherwood L. Rowland at scores of prominent Waterbury attorneys who, he told the Waterbury American, owed city court accounts to e total of s7,7s7.i7
 Subject Of intensive protest, the controllers Jumping the gum to list debts of Waterbury lawyers in the Republican press resulted in declarations of 6 number of attro. neys that city court fees were charg- cd ct many times the amounts al- lowed by statute.
 Heard Controllers Report
 The board of finance finally heard the controllers report on the al. legged indebtedness of lawyers in all parts of the state to the Waterbury city court. The matter was referred on motion of Commissioner John fl. doss to the economy committee headed by Commissioner Major w. Judge.
 Then the economy committee met with the committee from the bar association, Lawrence L. Lewis, Francis T. Reeves, Walter P. Mona gan, 6r., the two city court Judges, Theobald E. Conway and Edward Mascolo, and Corporation Counsel
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LONERCAN TRIES
 TO HURRY HELP

Hartford, Conn. Oct. 20s- (UP)- U. 6. Senator Augustine Lcnsrgan protested to President Roosevelt to- day the delay In federal assist afice to New England hurricane and flood sufferers.
 Lcnergan wired the President:
 ''There is too much delay in giv- Ing prompt and necessary relief to sufferers of the recent hurricane in New England"
 The senator said he favored fed- eral character" loans. In which no security was needed. Be said he would seek an interview soon with presidsnt Roosevelt to urge this txcs ol loan.
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MAY BE NO RACE

Aboard Coast Guard Cutter Chel- an, of Gloucester, Mass, Oct. 20- (Up) p)--1'he American challenger led by . mile at the halfway mark in the third race for the international Fishernen's trophy today. but . dy- Ing wind indicated that expiration of the time limit would bring c Inc contsstr dsolsi0n from the iudses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-20
Suit Club Operators Are Halted By Police
Three Local TaiIors Were in Court This Morning For Violation of State Lottery Laws-Pinkerton
 Men Secure Evidence

Warrants served yesterday three local aors charg
 ing them with violations of the state lottery laws by operat
 ing suit clubs issued at the request of number oi eadjnp merchants after evidence had been secured by private detectives Prosecutor Mitchell Meyers of city court said today The prosecutor announced that suit clubs will not be allowed to operate locally and said he would issue warrants for any operators of clubs The men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-20
Japanese Troops. Are Only TlDenty MilesF Front Cant0n
They Beat Back Reinforced Chinese Defenders ing Chinese Generals Appeal to Their Chief to
 Take Full Command
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Shanghai, October 20. (UP) Japanese troops reported today they had fought their way to within 20 miles of the great commercial city of Canton in South China The dispatches said that the Japanese fighting forces had captured Chenkangshu after beating back the raifnrced Chinese defenders Chinese endorsements had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-20
SMALL, NATIONS
 BEGIN TO FEAR
New UpheavaIs in Europe in Dfead-Poland Starts
 to Take Action
pY JOE ALEX MORRIS

(C0pyflknty AUeb, uy OHnVou ksOosI
 Europe's little powers struggled today-apparentiy in vain--to bol- ster their safeguards against future uuheayals endangering their terri- tory or independence. From Lithu- aflia or, tho Baltic to Bulgaria of the Black Gea stretches ( bloc ol secondary states that has shud. dered under every blow ct Europei political structure since the foui major powers met ct Munich to dis. member Czechoslovakia in the in- terests of peace.
 Poland. probably the most influen. tial member of the bloc, persistently has sought to assume leadership ifl whipping the secondary powers iatc line, establishing . common neutral front and setting up c buffer" be- tween the trouble-p packed masieuv. CTS of Germany, France. Italy and Great Britain on the west and Soviet Russia on the east.
 Today, Josef Beck, the Poiisn foreign minister and dominant figure among the little powers, re turned to Warsaw from . visit with King Carol of Rumania. Beck sought to bring the Rufnanian ruler into line in connection with middle European settlement --aad ape parentiy he failed.
 Immediate Issue
 The chief immediate Issue iS the further partitioning of Czechoslo' yalia. Hungary and Poland de. cided during the sudetenland crisis that the Hungarian government should be ceded the Czech Province of Ruthenia in order to create . common Hungarian. Polish frontier The problem of minorities is' unusu- ally complex In that European area The Ruthenians or Ukranians are scattered across several frontiers Any minority demands that might be made by one capital could Just as easily be reversed by another
 Thus the real purpose m Po- lands move was not 50 much 70
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, oct. ze--tUP)--oov. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Oct, is, compared with year aGes is,sei, ,sss,s77.ls lp'"'is ss,s4s,sis.ssc.ii5 na off si,ss4,iss.lss;se 4i,sss.eso.sss.s7 sss7.sss.77zss y@'isi.7ss.esi.so ssss. iss.I7IsS Ss4s.7es.s4i.se
 Cash Balance
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Final Edition
 Closing Stocks Late NesOs Fg0she
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
LAFOLLETTE'SM MOVE
HINTS THIRD PARTY
Wisconsin Governor Has
Called Meeting of Lib
erals for Thursday

Madison, Wis, April % (AP)-A
mass meeting of liberals called by
Governor LaFollette in a plea for de-
pression-routing public action, may
hold the answer to national third
party speculation aroused in some
quarters by his series of radio broad
casts attacking administration recov-
cry policies.
LaFollette, who has branded Presi-
dent Roosevelts recovery program as
"tinkering and patching, issued an
invitation to a public conference here
next Thursday in the final of four
radio addresses last night.
He told pressmen that he had in
vited 5000 to 1000 persons, mostly
from the west and some from the
east. He did not divulge any names.
Non-commital on his future politi-
cal course and making no direct re-
ference to the possible counding of a
national third party LaFollette de-
clared the great problem of our
times" is the question that faces the
nations, "how we can get organized
action among a free people that will
increase our total production and get
wider distribution"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
GU|LFORD FARMERS
DEMAND INCREASES
AAA Official Thinks Little
Can Be Done To Raise
the Acreage

Greensboro, April 23-{AP)-Dis-
gruntled farmers swarmed over the
office of the county farm agent to pro-
test tobacco acreage quotas, which
they declared to low and County Farm
Agent J. I. Wagner and aides spent
busy morning trying to soothe them
In the AAA field office, Henry Win
chester estimated that about 100 far
mers have appeared at the office to
make protest, and he expected others
to do so. He pointed out that this
number was really a small percentage,
however, since there are about 1000
growers in the county. He said most
Of them were satisfied with their al
lotments.
Winchester said that little can be
done about it, since to allow individual
increases would send the county's
total tobacco acreage above the total
submitted by the State AAA offices
in Raleigh.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
65-Year-Old State Jurist
Suffers Fatal Heart At
tack After Arising
for Day
HAD NOTED CAREER
IN STATE AFFAIRS
Served on Superior Court
Bench and Before That
Was Representative in
General Assembly Several
Terms; Funeral in Raleigh
Sunday Afternoon

Raleigh, April 23.-(AP)-Associate
Justice George W. Conner, of the
North Carolina Supreme Court, died
suddenly of a heart attack at his
home here this morning.
Judge Connor, 65, and a native of
Wilson, had been a member of the
Supreme Court IA years and before
that served II years on the superior
court bench. He was speaker of the
House of Representatives in 1913, and
representative from Wilson county in
1909 and 1911 legislatures also.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the home, 1926 Holt Drive, at 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, by Rev.
James Dick, rector of the Good Shep
herd Episcopal church of which Judge
Conner was a member. Interment will
follow in the Conner family plot at
Wilson.
Last year Judge Conner was i'll sew
eral months, but he had been in bet
ter health recently, sat with the court
this week, and worked at his office
yesterday.
Colonel j. w. HARRISON, son-in-
law, said Judge Conner suffered a
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
Charge
In
Pennsy War
White House Enters
F / g h t Involving
Coercion of WPA
Workers There

Philadelphia, April 23.-(AP)- A
new exchange of charges in Pennsyl-
vania's explosive Democratic cam
paign primary fight drew White
House attention today as Federal and
State agencies. pressed investigations
on separate fronts.
A telegram to President Roosevelt
from John Kelly, co-leader of the
party in Philadelphia, brought an i'm.
mediate inquiry into Kellys assertion
that Senator Joseph Guffey, of Penn
sylvania, was trying to coerce WPA
workers for political purposes.
Aubrey Williams, national WPA ad-
ministrator, promised Summary ac-
ton" if Kelly's charges were substan-
tiated. Williams wired Kelly he was
sending a special representative to
confer with the Philadelphian and to
obtain any specific information
(which you may have in your posses
sion."
Meanwhile, from the camp of Kelly's
opposition, came another call to the
White House. representative Walker,
Democrat, Pennsylvania, who is align
ed with Guffey, said he joined in
Kelly's request because eff there is
any coercion from the WPA, it's com
ing from Kelly's mob"
The rapid fire developments brought
into the national spotlight again the
break. between Guffey and the Dem
ocratic State organization and the re.
sulting tattle for control of the party
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
Some Bodies Recovered Are
Burned Almost Beyond
Recognition Fol-
lowing Blast
400 WORKERS JOIN
IN RESCUE EFFORT
Air Cleared in All Shafts
But Searchers Proceed
Only With Great Difficult
ty; Explosion Occurs Just
After Night Shift Enters
for Duty

Grundy, Va, April 23-(AP)-
Bodies of 90 men had been brought
from the fiery pit of the explosion
wrecked Red Jacket mine today, and
final death toll of Al miners was
indicated. Nineteen missing men were
believed dead.
Progress of the rescue squads slow
ed down materially when they enter
ed the A shaft, where the last two
bodies were found, burned almost be-
yond recognition. Debris from falling
slate and coal and intense heat made
the labor of the rescue workers diff
ficult.
With 400 rescue workers present
were being used because Of the hea
in the mine.
Tired workers were being served
sandwiches as they came up from the
scene of the rescue effort deep under
Keen mountain. Many had been here
since early last night.
Payrolls of the mines indicated
there were 81 workers in A shaft,
leaving 10 unaccounted for there. Of
the % bodies recovered SO far three
were found at the mines entrance,
where the explosion struck with vol
canic force, and II were in the B sec
ton, now completely explored.
All but four of the bodies had
been identified. Friends and relatives
had been unable to identify two Of
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-23
DRY LAWS FATHER
FACES OPPOSITION
Turlington-Johnston Cam
paign for House in Ire
dell Is Watched
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
T., AU.A Ct, VHnIAAR HA%n1


Raleigh, April 23-There will be
many hot wet-dry races for the 1889
General Assembly, but none will be
hotter than in Iredell county where
Representative Con. C. Johnston will
the Democratic primary.
The very name burlington makes
the race of Statewide interest because
of the fact that Zebs last name has
become a by-word all over North
Carolina since he authOred the iron
clad, drier than bone law under which
it was attempted to enforce prohibit
ton in Tar Heelia.
On the day before closing of the leg
islative lists, Representative Johnston
had not officially entered the lists,
nor had he authorized any statement
to the effect that he would, but this
bureau learns on the well-known and
sometimes overworked "unimpeach-
able authority that before six
o'clock tonight, the Iredell law maker
will have planked down his So filing
fee and lodged his formal declaration
of intention with the election board
chairman.
Which will set the stage for fight
which will make such brawls as the
Spanish civil war and the Sino-Jap
embroglio look like pale, pink parties
for puny people.
burlington will have on his side the
prestige of a name to conjure with in
prohibition circles. His hackers will
realize that for him to be defeated
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