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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-09

tCOntlDueQ rom rage U although many of them were known to favor Sawyer.
 Senator Bulkley campaigned on his New Deal record and MT. Roose- welt mentioned him favorably during speech on his way to the west coast last month.
 Taft's opponent charged him with using the family fortune to buy a seat in the senate. Taft denied having spent excessively in his cam paign and although he challenged the right of the senate campaign expenditures committee to demand an accounting from him, he subse- quently filed a regular report.
 New Deal Test Here Boise, Idaho, August 9.-UP)- 1 New Deal strength in Idaho was tested today in the Democratic pri- mary contest between Senator James P. Pope, consistent suppor- ter of the Roosevelt administration, and Representative D. Worth Clark, conservative Democrat who bid for Republican support. The race be- tween Pope and Clark for the sen- atorial nomination., was the feature of primary in which Democratic and Republican nominees will be chosen for senate and house, for governor and other state offices. Clark praised Senator William E. Borah, a Republican and said he was disciple" of Borah's isola- tionist foreign policy. Republican leaders urged their party members to stay out of the Democratic pri- mary.
 Pope is chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee. He had the endorsement of National Dem- ocratic committee Chairman James A. Farley.
 Republican Slate
 Candidates for the Republican senatorial nomination are Walter H Anderson, Donald Callahan and Frank Adams.
 The states Democratic governor Barzilla Clark, uncle of the sen- atorial candidate, sought renomina- ton against c. Ben Ross, Lieuten- ant Governor Charles Gossett and w. P. Whitaker, merchant. Can- didates for the Republican guber- material nomination are R. H Young, farmer, and c. A. Bottolfsen publisher.
 Representative Compton I. White Democratic incumbent, has no oppo. sition in the primary in the first district congressional race. Rex T Henson is unopposed for the Re. publican nomination. Nine Demo. crats and 2 Republicans are seek. ing nomination in the second dis. trict for the seat vacated by Clark
 Hattie Caraway Battles
 Little Rock, Ark, August 9. - (UP) Senator Hattie Caraway asking the support of Arkansa, Democrats on the basis of her "l0t per cent" New Deal record, was op.
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Victories Claimed
 By Chinese Armies
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days and 1t was believed that the toll would be high. According to Chinese officials, the Japanese were carrying out their threat to bomb the city on each of 10 successive days.
 Fifteen bombers raided the city yesterday. Today, 25 planes began bombing at 9 a. m.
 The planes dropped many bombs on the Saikwan residential district in the western suburbs, which was crowded with thousands of refugees from the north. The Saikwan dis trict had not been bombed since the latter part of May when the Japanese raided the city almost daily. Six hundred persons were killed in single raid on May 30
 Many bombs fell within 500 yards of Shameen Island which has an International Settlement. The planes released some bombs while flying over the island, sending foreigners scurrying to shelter.
 A United Press staff correspond ent who visited the Saikwan area saw many bodies among the ruins of tenement houses. Red Cross workers removed 12 bodies within 10 minutes and many others were be- lieved buried beneath timbers and masonry. Many persons pinned be- meath wreckage were dying and their cries for help could be heard above the confusion.
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HUH uBC lJ prosecution officials about the pos sibility of pardon for Dwyer.
 8-Carroll attended Legion aux Hilary dinner the night of the mur- der, but left about 6:30 p. m.
 The 13 witnesses included short, stout Lieutenant Harry w. Lyon, navigator on the trans-Pacific flight of the Southern Cross in 1928. Lyon, now a Paris Hill resident, told of seeing the mysterious light in the Dwyer home the night of the mur- der.
 Miss Talbots testimony was the first presented by the state to corrobo- rate Dwyer's contention that Carroll was at the murder scene.
 She testified that she passed the DWyer house the night of October 13 while riding with one Robert Pierce.
 Yesterdays Highlights
 l-Dwyer told his attorney on the last day of his trial that he had to plead guilty because his and his mothers life had been threatened. Testimony by the attorney, E. Walker Abbott.
 2+Before the trial, DWyer told his attorney the real story of the murder, but after being taken to jail by Deputy Sheriff Carroll re- pudiated it. Testimony by Abbott. 3-Deputy Sheriff Sidney Verrell told High Sheriff Fernando Francis the real story" of the murder, naming Carroll as the slayer, on the last day of Dwyer's trial. Tes- timony by Francis.
 4-After Dwyer's trial, Carroll caused some trouble in the way of drinking" Testimony by Francis.
 5-A neighbor heard a woman's "very distressed cry" on Turkey Ridge hill one night during the week of October 10-17 (Mrs. Little- field allegedly was strangled short ly after midnight on the morning of October 15). Testimony by Mrs. Myrtle Burgess.
 GA youth was seen on the morn ing of October IS arriving through New Gloucester toward the Heater Piece" section with a Woman's head resting on his shoulder. The woman was either drunk, sick or dead" Testimony by Mrs. Eva Andrews of New Gloucester.
 The jury and Carroll were taken, yesterday afternoon to the field on Turkey Ridge hill where Carroll al- legedly strangled Mrs. Littlefield. Then they visited the Heater Piece" section of New Gloucester, 2..6 miles away, where Dwyer al- legedly shifted Mrs. Littlef1eld's s body from the front seat to the tonneau of the death car before proceeding to North Arlington, N. J., where he was arrested last Co., tober 16.
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posed for re-nomination in the party's primary today by Repre- sentative John L. Mcclellan who told the voters that he was friend of the New Deal but was not and would not be ''rubber-stamp con- gressman."
 The campaign developed little that was exciting beyond McClellan's s charge that federal employees in Ar kansas had been coerced in Mrs. Caraway's favor. This charge was investigated by the senate campaign expenditures committee.
 J. Rosser Venable, of Little Rock, also was running for the nomina- ton but was not considered con- tender.
 Democrats also were nominating candidates for state offices. Gov. Carl E. Bailey was opposed for re- nomination by R. A. Cook, former county judge, and Walter Scott Mo- Mutt, an educator and prohibition ist
 In Arkansas, the Democratic nom- ination is tantamount to election. quiet m NeDraSka
 Omaha, Neb., Aug. 9.-(UP)-Ne- braska held its quietest primary in years today. Less than 50 per cent of those qualified were expected to vote.
 Efforts of four Democratic and one Republican congressman to get themselves renominated formed the principal part of the campaign.
 Governor R. L. Cochran virtually was assured of Democratic renomin- ation. Charles Farmer, first speaker of the unicameral legislature, was expected to get the Republican norn- ination
 Democratic congressman seeking renomination were Henry c. Luc- key, Charles F. Mclaughlin Charles G. Binderup and Harry B Coffee. The Republican was Karl l! Stefan.
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Just like in a nutshell wrapped up in pink cellophane. congratu- late you Miss Pennington, on your conciseness. With most representa- tives of your womanhood, concise ness is fast becoming a lost art l You, however Sally Pennington stamped a narrow foot in a black and white sports shoe.
 "If you don't tell me who you are and what you're doing here this minute" she said, "Ill-Tll scream"
 Let us have peace and quiet, ? said Kinks soothingly. My name is Kinkkaid Parker. I'm sorry about the Kinkaid. They beaned me with it when I was defenseless. But when girl like you calls me Kinks, . well, simply sit up and beg"
 Sally Pennington gave a little cry "Kinkaid Parker!"
 Sure" said Kinks What's the matter? Doesn't one mention his name at Bide-a-wee or Sans Soucci or whatever this place is?"
 She was staring at him.
 But you you're It?" she said.
 Sorry, I lost track. But I re- member now. We were playing tag"
 You know what I mean" said Sallyf You're him. The man. The man who was left half of this property"
 That's right" he said. "The Parkers always come clean in the end. I'm the lord of the manor. Half of it, anyway"
 Sally Pennington looked at the ground suddenly. A little frown creased her wide forehead.
 And I suppose" she said re- f1ectively, that you'll want to sell it."
 From her tone it was obvious that she didn't want 1t to be sold. And it was just as obvious to Kinks that the way to rag out this conversa- tion was to assume the role of pros- pective seller. And a most hypocri- tical role 1t was Between MT. Parker and the sometime home of Mrs Martha Preston, 1t had been a case of love at first sight. He no more wanted to sell it than he wanted to fly to the moon. But it was neces- sary, absolutely necessary, to go on talking to Sally Pennington.
 Why, certainly" he said, with exaggerated negligence. I'm go- ing to sell it. Just as soon as any, body offers me decent price,"
 The scarlet line of Sallys lips curled.
 You would" she said.
 Why, of course, I would" said Kinks. What's a fellow like me want with an old fire-trap like this? Listen! If l were 80 and had good, steady going chauffeur for my wheel chair, might stick around here. But I'm only 26. I'm full of vim, vigor and vinegar. And if you think I'm going to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-09
0'CONNOR ASKS
 REPUBLICAN AID

New York, Aug. 9-UP)-Rep. John J. O'Connor, veteran Tammany Hall democrat and chairman of the House rules committee whom New Dealers listed for purge" because he directed the successful fight against the government reorganiza- tion bill, appealed today for Repub- lican support in the Sept. 20 primary
 O'Connor is opposed for the nomi- nation, and is seeking the nomination of both parties. He addressed the Nathan Hale Republican club last night and said every Republican in the city, state and nation" was in favor of his candidacy except Ken meth F. Simpson, the county chair man and national committeeman.
 O'Connor said he Supported Re- publicans when they were right and fought them when they were wrong and he had treated Democrats the same way.
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this address follows:
 You must get the electrones of my electricity while I transmit.
 You must unify yourselves to- gether in unit like 1t was at the time of the creation.
 Why must we live in prohibita- tion? I shall lift the privileged, the under-privileged, and the over-privi- legged by my Jurisdiction.
 But if you take the wings of the morning and fly 90 far you can see when you get there, you will see the sky is no where"
 Closed on High Note
 Father Divine closed on high note that brought thunderous ap- plause and cries of "Ain't he sweet, peace! Amt he sweet"
 With a bang on the table, he cried:
 By supposition through super stition you think you are in a geo. graphical heaven. Which is to sSy, according to me, the sky is nowhere but is everywhere where there is nothing"
 It began raining as he concluded and hundreds of voices cried:
 Thank you father for tho blessed rain. It cools us off like nothing else"
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FINANCE BOARD
 ORDERS PAYMENT
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analysed the matter, it was deter mined that these bills should be con- sidered part of the deficit and should be paid from the surplus resource sinking fund when funds are avail able there. Tn the meantime, they are to be paid from the general fund which will be reimbursed from the sinking fund.
 Ordered to Report
 Commissioner Goss moved that the controller report on the status of the surplus resource sinking fund at the Thursday meeting, giving complete breakdown" of receipts and pay ments, as well as how much more will be required to cancel the 1887 deficit, an estimate of revenues for the rest of the year. Currently, the fund has averaged receipts of about $40,000 monthly, with the July figure yet unreported in detatil by the con- troller who estimated" that it will be something more than $30,000." '" Another estimate" of last months s receipts to the fund was $35,000, however.
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ED WYNN LOSES
 HIS SECOND WIFE
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(Continued from Page 1) toes, which she exhibited in band ages.
 They're all blistered from danc- ing" she said.
 She said she had to hire the gigolo, at $20 night, because ev- erybody else was afraid to dance with her-"because of my hus- band".
 Miss Mierse said she lost 10 pounds the first week after her marriage to Wynn on June IS, 1887, and had suffered "all sorts of breakdowns since"
 Psychoanalyzed
 That was why she was being psy- choanalyzed, she said. She said she paid her psychoanalyst $25 an hour and that he was worth every cent of 1t.
 T think he's going to straighten me out" she said.
 Miss Mierse still likes Wynn, she said, and thinks he ought to get some happiness out of life" and that tits too bad I can't supply it." But she wants happiness, too, and that means dining on starlit roofs, dancing and having fun"
 Ed" she said, wanted to stay home all the time." In the week they've been separated she added, she's had more fun than any time during the 14 months we've been married"
 Going To Bermuda
 Miss Mierse said she planned to go to Bermuda with her mother, maid and dog before taking of for Reno.
 T want life," she said.
 Wynn was the star of "Hooray For What" which closed early last June after a seven-months run on Broadway and 8 two-months run out of town. He IS not working at present, but was reported to be ne. gotiating for return to radio iA the fall. It was said also that hs might take "Hooray For What" on tour.
 Sidney Fleisher, the comedians attorney, said:
 MT. Wynn doesn't care to make any statement in response to Mrs. Wynns remarks. She is 8 sick girl, and he is doing everything in ms power to take care of hero
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EFFECT IN STATE

Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. 9.-(UP)- Temperatures dropped sharply throughout Connecticut today after a night of electrical and rain storms which caused extensive damage in the central and northern portions ot the state.
 The heat wave of the past two weeks appeared to have been broken and for the first time in many days there were no prostrations or deaths.
 The storm was responsible for nu- merous fires and interrupted con- munications in nearly dozen sec- tions, notably in Litchfield, Holland and Hartford counties.
 A two-inch downpour flooded streets. Waterbury reported as much as foot of water in some thoroughfares and that many auto- mobiles were stranded. At Norwich sewers were overtaxed and back wash covered many streets.
 Church Is Struck
 A church spire at MiddletoWn was struck by lightning and two women were stunned at Portland wher lightning entered their home along a radio aerial. The bolt also short. circuited the towns fire whistle anc caused it to blow for two hours be- fore the trouble could be remedied
 Power transformers were blowr out at Wethersfield, Waterbury anc Willimantic. Lightning stunned 2t COWS in a Woodbury barn and de. stroyed the building.
 Crops suffered only slight dam. age from the fury of the storm but farmers feared prolonged rair might hamper their fight agains potato blight and apple scab re. sulting from the rains of last month
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NEW DIVINE HOME
 IS DEDICATED
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 comed the Harlem Messiah, and the Angels now living on the place had a hot fire going in the kitchen range.
 These caretaker angels were dis appointed when Father Divine and his fleet sailed right on by with shouts of, "We'll be back tomorrow. But with true angelic insight they understood that Father Divine and his accompanying angels had had too much fun at their first stop, a minor heaven 10 miles down river, to be interested in setting up an- other paradise at that late hour of the day. They felt God was just plum worn out.
 2,0O0 Angels" Aboard
 He had left New York city short- ly after dawn in steamer slowed down by a cargo of nearly 2,000 angels of all ages, each of whom paid a dollar for the trip. For the dollar they got swing music, soda water, watermelon, chicken lunch and the privilege of being in the presence of God.
 The schedule had called for only a brief stop at the branch heaven at Milton, N. Y, ten miles south of Krum Elbow. But the party found the place, formerly an artists col- ony, too much to resist.
 They arrived shortly after noon and didn't get away until dark. They spent the night at Kingston, N. Y, heaven on the Hudson above Krum Elbow.
 The Milton heaven offered all the advantages of a big country club. It has spacious public rooms, huge verandah dining rooms over- looking the river, giant shade trees, ripping brooks, fountains, tennis courts-in fact, everything but a golf course. The angels strolled over it, exclaiming:
 Peace Was Slogan
 Peace, ain't this gorgeous Peace, thank you father! Peace, take a look at all of this! Peace, you never saw nothing like this in Harlem!"
 Five hundred or more angels were on hand to greet the river voyagers, including Father Divine's $ chauffeur and his $23,000 custom built Dusenberg limousine. The angels wore everything from riding habits to lace evening dressing. All wore an emblem of some sort. There were cellulois lapel buttons with Father Divine's likeness on them, and tie clasps with the word God embossed on them. The women wore pins with God" correctly spelled in rhinestones.
 Some of the more zealous female angles had huge pictures of Father Divine tied around their necks by black ribbons. One man, gunning for an archangels job, carried a monstrous placard reading T love Father Divine"
 Through all this confusion, Father Divine moved quietly, neat. stumpy little man in grey worsted ana suede shoes.
 Divine Ignored All
 He paid little attention to any one, even during the gigantic meal which was served in three dining rooms. The tables were beautifully set. All of the linen, silver and glassware was monogrammed with the initials "F. D."
 Not until the meal was finished and every bone had been polished and the corn cobs were stacked high enough to keep out Indians, did Father Divine throw his presence around, so to speak.
 He got to his feet and orated for nigh on to two hours. Excerpts od
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anese troops alone withdraw, on the ground that they were on Russian soil
 Despite this, the foreign office to- day sent new instructions to Shig- emitsu. That these contained new proposals was made plain by the complementary announcement that negotiations with Russia were con- tinuing.
 Cabinet to Meet
 The cabinet, and the war time cabinet council, considered the from tier situation at meetings today. General Kazushige Ugaki, foreign minister, reported to members on the diplomatic situation and Gen. eral Seishiro Itagaki. war minister, reported on the military situation.
 At the cabinet meeting, Finance Minister Seihin Ikeda reported that he hoped for savings in excess of 250,00O,000 yen ($71, 250,000) in the next budget, an an effort to lower the general costs of government and offset the costs of teh extraordinary appropriations made necessary by the campaign in China.
 ActivtieS.on the frontier subsided for the moment after the sanguin- ary hand to hand fighting yester- day.
 A foreign office spokesman said that the frontier was quiet except that Russian airplanes continued accommodating Japanese positions.
 According to Japanese reports, all Russian attacks have been repulsed A war office communique last night put casualties over the entire front up to last Saturday to 70 Japanese killed and 180 wounded and 1,50O Russians killed or wounded.
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rusticate out here in the bulrushes, you're well, you're nuts, that's all"
 Sly Pennington didn't reply right away. Carefully she took the market basket off her arm and set it on the porch rail. Her fingers clenched once or twice. Then, very suddenly, she took step toward Kinks. Her blue eyes were blazing.
 Now you listen to me, Kinkaitl Parker" she flared. You've said your piece and it's my turn. You're not going to sell this place. You're not going to sell one stick of straw off it. This has been my home for six years. Six years when I've been satisfied and con- tented and and happy. And you come breezing up here like a silly young-young billy goat and talk airily about selling it. Well, you won't do it. You'll sell this prop erty, or any part of it, only over my dead body. And you can paste that in the funny-looking thing you're wearing for a hat. Do make myself clear?"
 Kinks Parker gaped at her. What girl! She-she was mag nificent. He wanted to shout "Hooray' or Hear Hear" or something similar. But he couldn't. He had to prolong the conversa- ton.
 "Oh, yeah?" he drawled. And who's going to stop me from sell ing it?"
 T am," snapped Sally.
 "Is that so? And just why do you think you can do that?"
 Sally looked at him coldly for the space of one second.
 Because" she said, T own the other half of it."
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CONFESSED TO MURDER

St. Albans,. Vt., Aug. 9.-CUP)- Carl V. ODonnell, 20, was held on murder charge today after he allegedly confessed stabbing Well hngton P. Churchill, 31. in the back.
 Though the confession was not made public, it was believed that no motive was given for the murder of Churchill. father of four children, whose body was found Saturday near the piazza of his home.
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nese drive on Hankow has been suspended pending clarification ot the Siberian -Manchukuan frontier
 Japanese authorities did not make any announcements of the fighting. They did report that flood conditions along the north bank of the Yangtse were growing worse and that the Japanese forces were attempting to drive westward from Kiukiang in an effort to get above the flood area.
 Chinese military authorities claimed that the Japanese had suf- fered 4,000 casualties in bitter week. long fighting. The Japanese lost 1000 men in one battle on the heights south of Kiukiang, the Chi nese claimed.
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struck by lightning, and repair crews were working within a few moments after the start of the storm.
 Despite the severity of the storm no telephone or electric light poles went down. The Connecticut Light & Power Co. also reported that the storm was the worst of the year.
 Lightning caused a short circuit and a minor fire at the home of MT. and Mrs. Albert Leggett, 68 Mont gomery street, shortly before 10 o. clock. Bremen quickly quelled the blaze.
 House Is Struck
 The roof of the home of Vito and Joseph Divine, 58 Bennett avenue, was struck by lightning An attic beam was shattered but there was no fire.
 A transformer on a pole on North Elm street burst into flames at 7:30, and firemen were called out. A car owned by Edmund Carserino, of 551 Wolcott, caught fire near St. Johns church during the storm. Firemen also went to St. Mary's convent, 51 Cole street, where the rain and wind had caused leak in the roof.
 Radio Station VERY was of the air from 6:52 to 8:30 D. m. after lightning had struck transformer near the transmitter in Prospect.
 Manh0le Covers Found Off
 The rush of water forced off man. hole covers on several downtown streets. Dozens of cars were stalled in pools of water that formed on a number of streets. Busses on the Bank street line had to detour to avoid a pool of water several feet deep on Bank street at the rail- road trestle. A bus on the Walnut street line was stuck in mud at the foot of Walnut street.
 Cellars of many homes and stores were flooded as the water lit- erally poured from the heavens. Visibility was almost non-existent as the rain fell in sheets from an ominous black sky.