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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-10-04

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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-10-04

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vs. French; Alleys 9-lo-seovill VI
Farrell Foundry.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
BOYS CLUB DRIVE
STILL UNDER GOAL
Members of Campaign Group
Meet to Discuss Plans to
Raise $40 900 More,

With the drive for funds to support
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club
still far short of its goal, members Of
the Campaign Committee met at
luncheon in the Willard Hotel yester-
day to discuss last-minute canvass
whereby they hope to raise more than
$4,000 by Saturday night.
Funds and pledges turned into the
treasury up to noon yesterday only
slightly exceeded 100000, whereas the
committee hoped to collect total
Of $4,000 for the maintenance funds
of the Boys Clubs.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of metropolitan police, was chair
man of the luncheon yesterday.
Among the speakers was Martin Mar
den, young Jewish refugee from Ger
many, who praised the Boys Club
movement.
So far the leading citizens team in
the drive is that headed by Charles
Clagett. 1t has turned in a total of
sl,36l, while that directed by o. R.
Lewis is credited with raising Sl,136.
Police Department workers have OBJ
tanned subscriptions in excess Of
$1,000
Evening star., 1938-04-06
DEFENSE HIGHWAY
CONTRACT AWARDED
Bid of $14.359 Wins Job of
Widening Road ur-Tenths of
Mile in Bladensburg.

A contract for widening the De-
fense highway in Bladensburg was
awarded by the Maryland State Roads
Commission yesterday to the Jarboe
& Houghton Construction Co. for
S14.359, the Associated Press reported.
The road is to be made 40 feet wide
from Baltimore boulevard to Edmon-
ston road, a distance Of four -tenthS
Of mile.
The commission also awarded con-
tract yesterday for gravel surfacing
269 miles on the State highway from
the Owensville-S e-Shadyside road to
Deale in Anne Arundel County The
project was given the James Gibbons
Construction Co. of Relay on its bid
of $12,714.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Agencies Clamor
ForEquiPment
As Court MOues

Police Court judges. attaches and
habitues may have been delighted to
desert the old Police Court Building
and all its fixtures, but scores of
District officials of other agencies
today engaged in mad scramble to
fall heir to properties left in the
old building at Sixth and D streets
NV.
Bernard A. Harrison, chief property
survey officer of the District, was
deluged with requests from many
agencies for hundreds of chairs, scores
of bookcases and other fixtures left
in the old building They may not
be new, but they are deemed better
than some of the fixtures in the
other agencies.
The best of the leftovers were
promptly assigned by Mr.. Harrison
to outfit the newly established Small
Claims Court, for which no provision
had been made for furniture and other
fixtures,
Evening star., 1938-04-06
STATE MAY RULE
HARD COAL MINES
Study Recommends Control
Over Anthracite Be Made
Complete.
BY ne Associated Press.

bA IL ASSOCldteU fItSS.
Complete State control of the huge
Pennsylvania anthracite industry was
recommended today by State COM
mission that has been working on the
hard-coal problem for more than
year.
The commission, headed by w. Jett
Lauck, economist for the United Mine
Workers, sent the report to Gov.
George H. Earle
1t was learned that the report
recommended:
That the State set up permanent
public service commission to regu-
late the industry as a public utility
The commission, among other things,
would determine prices.
That the State set up corporation
to market all anthracite throughout
the country. eliminating present
wholesalers and retailers This corpo-
ration also would promote the use of
hard coal by advertising and other
forms Of salesmanship.
The commission also recommended,
it was learned, that the State set up
three corporations to mine coal in
now idle coal lands. The output OF
these corporations, intended to employ
miners now out of work, would be
limited to 100000 tons a year. about
10 per cent of the total production.
One of these three State producing
companies would cover the area now
infested with so-called bootleg" min
ing operations. These are makeshifi
mines, often on idle company property
The operators are former coal company
miners who have made their oWr
employment. Bootleggers would be
required to work for the State cor
poration and to close up the miniature
mines they have been opertanig on
private company property.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
BURKE ET0SEEKA|D
FOR RED PRISONER
Senator Will Confer With
Troyanovsky on Case
of HorticuIturist.
BY IT,. Asso eiated Press.

oS li-- slSidttQ fIebS.
OMAHA, Nebr., April 6.-The
Omaha World Herald said this morn
ing Senator Edward R. Burke, Demo-
crat, Of Nebraska will confer with
Soviet Ambassador A. A. Troyanovsky
today in an effort to gain the free
dom of Albert M. Troyer, II, former
Nebraskan, whose wife asserted he is
confined in Russian prison camp.
The newspaper, in a copyrighted
story yesterday, said Mrs Elva Demp-
ster Troyer, IS, Lincoln, Nebr., re-
vealed at Sioux Falls, S. OAK, that her
husband is serving a 10-year prison
sentence on charge of counter
revolution"
Mrs. Troyer, who accompanied her
husband, citrus fruit expert, from
their Fairhope, Ala, home in 1884
to Sukhum, in Southern Russia, told
the newspaper she had not seen him
since his arrest by the Russian secret
police June 26, 1887, and she does
not know where he is.
She said he renounced his American
citizenship after his superior in the
Horticulture Institute told him the
Government intended to dismiss its
foreign consultants as rapidly as pos
sible.
Mrs. Troyer, who retained her citi-
zenship. returned to the United States
in February.
ONE OF SEVERAL CASES.
Evening star., 1938-04-06

Next he hears buzzing note. and
that's his signal to begin timing.
A few moments later he hears
another buzz. He stops the watch
and jots down the elapsed time be-
tween the buzzes. A special formula
then gives him the water stage.
Putting in a second call, he repeats
the procedure and thereby clocks the
rise of the river to the l-l00th of a
foot.
Nobody has to be stationed at the
river bank-it all works automatically.
The gauge looks like big gasoline
Alling station pump. When thousands
are placed all over the Nation, experts
believe they can keep tab on a flood
as does a wife calling In on her hus-
bands poker game down at the lodge.
They admit it might complicate mat
ters to get wrong number-say the
fire station, which Is full of eonrs
and buzzers.
What flood three-alarm IRE
would sound like!
Evening star., 1938-04-06
COURT AID TO ENFORCE
N. L, R. B. ORDER ASKED
Baltimore Newspaper Publisher
Accused of Discouraging
Union Membership,

Enforcement of an order against the
A. s. Abel Co. of Baltimore, publishers
of the Baltimore Sun. is being sought
through the Circuit Court of Appeals
for the fourth circuit, Richmond, Va,
it was announced today by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
On February Is, the board ordered
the company to end efforts to discour-
age membership in the international
Printing and Pressmen's Union, or any
other labor organization. Likewise,
the company was directed to cease
from recognizing a -domi-
mated pressroom committee as a
collective bargaining agency.
Under the boards order, the COM
pany also was directed to post COM
pliance notices throughout the plant
for a 30-day period.
A complete record of the case, in
Guiding transcript, testimony and
pleadings, was forwarded to the Cir
cult Court.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
PULPIT TO GRACE
CATHEDRAL SOON
$tones. of Canterbury Are
Being Assembled for
Use on Easter.

A new glory soon will be added to
Washington Cathedral in the form Of
great pulpit fashioned from his
toric stones from Canterbury Cathe-
dral and presented by the Archbishop.
dean and chapter of Canterbury as
long ago as 1902.
The pulpit now is being assembled
at the northeast intersection of the
great choir and the crossing of the
Cathedral and will be used for the
first time by Right Rev. James E.
Freemen. Bishop of Washington, when
he breaches on Easter Sunday. 1t
commentaries the life and services
of Stephen Langton, leader of the
barons Of England In the struggle
which ended with the granting of
the Magma Charta by King John
in 1915.
Stands on Gothic Pillars.
known in the language of ICON
ography as an 'ambon." the pulpit
structure stands on six Gothic pillars
and its floor is reached by short
stone stairway. A central panel
carved in bas relief represents the
drama of Runnymede with the tyrant
monarch yielding the charter to Arch
bishop Langton. Below appears
scroll inscribed with the charters
opening sentence: The Church of
England shall be free"
On the left the Venerable Bede is
depicted in the act of debating the
final portion OF his Anglo-Saxon trans
lation OF the Gospel Of st. John. while
on the right the martyrdom of William
Tyndale. burned alive in 1886 "for
making and printing an English trans
lation of the Bible" is shown.
Statuettes Support Crown.
Four statutes support the crown or
crest OF the pulpit. Their subjects are
listed as: King Alfred the Great,
translator Of the Psalms, the Ten
Commandments and the Lords Prayer
into nglo-Saxon; John Wycliffe, rec
tor OF LutterWorth, posthumously
burned for issuing an English version
Of the Bible 137s); Launcelot An
drewes, Bishop of Winchester and
sponsor OF the King James version,
and Brooke Foss Westscott, Bishop of
Durham and chairman OF the Commits
sion on the Revised Version 18SD.
The pulpit was built and carved un-
der the direction Of w. Douglas Caroe.
resident architect of Canterbury for
many years and an acknowledged au-
thority on ecclesiastical design. It's
parts were received at Mount st. Alban
before actual construction of the Ca
thedral had begun. They have been
sheltered in the crypt since 1890
awaiting the completion of the Great
Choir and Crossing.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
ONE OF SEVERAL CASES.
Any American Action in Troyer Case
Would Be Regarded as Interference.

MOSCOW, April 6 tP).-Diplomatic
circles consider American officials
powerless to aid Albert Melville
Troyer, aged American-born horticul-
turist, imprisoned in Soveit Russia's
purge.
Diplomatic representations here were
regarded as unlikely. since Mr.. Troyer
assumed Soviet citizenship and any
American action in his behalf would
be considered an interference in the
Soviets internal affairs.
How Mr.. Troyer was caught in the
past years roundup of Joseph Stains
suspected enemies was undlsclosed,
since no public record of his trial at
Batum was available.
Mr. Troyer's case was described in
diplomatic circles as only one of sew
eral in which Americans who became
Soviet citizens had been arrested and
imprisoned along with other foreign
workers who took Soviet citizenship.
L. S. CANNOT HELP.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
SLAIN SINGER TAKEN
FOR RIDE, is THEORY
Police of Three States Join in
Hunt for Slayer of Young
Weirton Nv. Va.) Actor.

By the Associated Press
BURGETTSTOWN, Pa, April g.
Police of three States joined today in
the investigation Of the death Of
Arthur c. Rowland, while Coroner
James Jones expressed the opinion
the 29-year-old Holidays Cove, w.
Va, actor and singer had been taken
for a ride"
The body of the young bachelor
who lived with his parents and was
employed as clerk by the Weirton
Steel Co. at Weirton, w. Va, was
found in a field near here, only a few
miles from the West Virginia border,
yesterday.
The parents became alarmed when
Mr.. Rowland failed to return home
Monday night and reported his alb
sence. Several hours later police
found his abandoned and blood -spat-
tered automobile in GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
The body, a bullet wound in the
head, was found still later near this
town in the southwestern corner of
Pennsylvania. Coroner Jones said a
80 caliber bullet caused death and
that the victim had been shot at least
10 hours before the body was dis
covered by w. r. Allison, 4 w. p. A.
foreman.
Mr.. Jones pointed out that there
was only small spot of blood where
the body was found, while there was
considerable in the auto.
Capt W. J. Kerr of the Pennsyl-
vania motor police discounted rob-
berry as 4 motive, pointing out that
there was small amount of money
in Mr.. Rowland's purse and that q
gold ring remained on q finger.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Weather Bureau Will Check
Floods by Telephone Cadget
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Weather Bureau announced to-
day the perfection Of = telephone
gadget by which man can talk to q
flood.
Experts say it's now possible for
observers to sit in their office, lift q
receiver and check up on a rising
stream many miles away.
1t requires the cooperation Of =
gauge located on the river bank,
stop watch, a knowledge Of arithme-
tic and-central.
It works this way:
The observer grabs the telephone
and waits for central's familiar, Num-
Der, please"
II want" says the observer for the
sake of illustration, Cherry Tree Bend
down on the Potomac River"
The call completed, the observer,
with q stop watch IN hand, waits for
the sound Of Z gong IN the gauge.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
R0TARIANS ENTERTAINED

Members Of the Washington Rotary
Club and their wives today were the
guests Of the Sanitary Grocery Co. at
a luncheon and tour Of the company,s
warehouses at Okie. and Fenwick
streets NE.
Approximately 500 persons were
scheduled to attend the meeting at
which baskets Of food were given wives
Of the memberA
Evening star., 1938-04-06
SEVEN MEN DIE
IN HOTEL BLAZE
Three Burned and 30 Are
Rescued From Fire Trap
in Chicago.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. April 6.-Seven men died
IN a fire that attacked the upper two
floors of the Hotel Center at 1926 West
Madison street today and then spread
to the roofs of two adjoining hotels.
The victims were either burned to
death or suffocated Three other per-
sons, including a fireman, were burned
and 80 of the 10 guests. including Is
women, were rescued. Three of the
dead men were burned almost beyond
recognition.
Firemen fought the blaze in a snow
storm.
Fire Marshal Michael Corrigan said
the fire was started by spontaneous
combustion in a third-fioor room in
which paint oil and rags were stored.
The identified dead were Joseph
Bento, 60; Henry Berndt, As; Edward
Haas, 40. and Thurlow Olson, so.
Two hundred and n:ty guests in the
adjoining hotels, many of them in
night clothes. fed to the street. Some
slushed about in the snow barefooted
until they found shelter.
Building Called Fire Trap.
The Hotel Center is about a mile
west OF the Loop. 1t occupies the
upper three stories of an old four-story
brick building. Nearly all the guests
were men. Most were transients from
the squalid West Madison street sector.
Michael Cody, first division fire
marshal, said an inspection showed
open stairways and open air shafts.
He termed the structure q nre trap
without an alarm bell.
On either side of the building were
the West End and Venus Hotels. The
fire Tapped the roofs of these struc-
lures, but caused little damage.
Mr.. Berndt was carried down a
ladder with clothing afame. Firemen
played a stream of water on him
when he reached the ground, but a
physician said he already was dead.
The flames went through the build
ing like wildfre. Most Of the residents
were asleep when the fire started. Panic
stricken, they fought and struggled
with each other to reach safety
through the narrow corridors.
Several Cling to Sills.
Some of the survivors told of seeing
weaker men trampled under foot in
the mad rush." said Marshal Corrigar1.
Several men climbed from their win
dows and hung to the sills until they
were rescued. A few dropped from
the second or third floors.''
Firemen credited Hugh Gillespie,
former Notre Dame athlete and the
first policeman to arrive at the scene,
with saving several lives. He rushed
into the building to arouse sleeping
occupants and helped two of them
out. He broke down a door to warn
John Simpson, IS, deaf Civil War
veteran.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
SUFFRAGE COUNCIL
Will MEET FRIDAY
Election to Be Held to Complete
Membership of Committee on
Referendum Plan,

Final details Of the proposed city,
wide referendum to determine how
many residents of the District desire
suffrage will be considered at meet
ing of the campaign council of the
Citizens Conference on District Suf-
frage at pm. Friday at the Times
Herald Building. 1917 H street NV
Election of seven persons to COM
plete the full membership of the
Executive Committee of the council
also will be held, Wilbur S. Finch,
president of the conference, an
nounced
The Executive Committee voted at
recent meeting to hold referendum
to determine how many District resi-
dents wanted the voting privilege.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
THIEVES MISS PANTS

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April 6
P).-Thieves stole Al suits of clothes,
but forgot to get the pants, in a rob-
berry at the Goldsmith Clothing Store
here last night. A dozen pairs of ex-
pensive shoes and five dozen mems
union suits were also taken. Loss was
estimated at $500.
The coats and vests were hung on
nearby racks while the pants were
stacked on tables in another part of
the store.
. Police were left no clues on which
to work.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
TOM P. BUMGARDNER.
HOUSE AIDE, EXPIRES
Clerk of Ways and Means Group
Came to Capital in 1888 From
North Carolina.

Tom P. Bumgardner. 81, clerk Of
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, died OF pneumonia today in sib-
ley Hospital
Mr.. Bumgardner formerly repre-
sented Stanly County, N. c.. in the
North Carolina House OF Representa-
tives. He came here in 1888 as assist
ant clerk OF the House Committee and
after three years took a position with
the Treasury Department at Raleigh.
N. c. He returned as committee clerk
two years ago.
Mr.. Bumgardner lived at 40 Inde-
pendence avenue S.W.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
PREDICTS PROGRESS

6y tEe AkkCClateC PTtSs
President Roosevelt predicted today
that the next decade Of airmail would
bring even more remarkable prog
ress' than this country witnessed in
its first 20 years of such service.
The President wrote Postmaster
General Farley OF his approval Of
National Airmail Week, May 1921,
commemorating the 10th anniversary
of the beginning Of mail-plane service
in this country.
Evening star., 1938-04-06

"A dlSturDance is moving northeaStWard
over Newfoundland. st. Georges 2914
inches. while another disturbance is NOV
ing east-northeastward near latitude 40
NJ and longitude a. W.. with lowest pres
sure about $3.50 inches. storm of
great intensity is moving eastward over
the middle and southern plains and the
central valleys. Wichita Kans. o93S
inches. Pressure is high in the vicinity of
Bermuda. st. Georses. 3O.2S inches and
from the North Atlantic States west st-north-
westward over the Western Canadian prov
inces. Minnedosa. Manitoba. 30.6! inches
Pressure is high and rising over the Lower
Mackenzie Valley. Aklavik. district of
Mackenzie. 30.S4 inches. and over the Pa
cif1c States. North Head. Wash. 1924
inches: During the last n hours there
have been rather heavy rains over the
middle Gulf States. and rains or SHOWS IN
the Upper Mississippi and Middle Missouri
valleys. the middle plains the middle and
northern Rocky Mountain and plateau re-
gsions. and portions of the Pacifie> States
Temperatures have risen in the central
valleys while they have fallen over the
middle Rocky Mountain region.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
DR.. MARVIN SPEAKER

CHESTERTOWN, Nd, April 6 Cp).
DIR. Gilbert W. Mead, president Of
Washington College, announced DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University in
Washington, would be the chief speak
er at the 157th annual commencement
of the college on June s.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Art Teacher to Speak,

FALLS CHURCH, Va, April 6 (Spe-
ciaD Stephen Walker, Jefferson High
School art teacher, will speak before
the Women's Club Friday at 2:30 pm,
at the home of Mrs. r. B. Robinson
Onicers will be elected at the business
meeting.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
THE WEATHER REPORT

District Of Coumba-Rain beginning late
A degrees; fresh winds mostly
Maryland-Ran
Vngna-Oon
and portions
to snow and dcolde
Evening star., 1938-04-06
SUGGESTS DEPORTATION.
Senator Burke Proposes Troyer Be
Sent to U. S. for Repatriation.

Sent to u. ). for repatriation.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Of Ne
braska, seeking the release of Albert
M. Troyer II, a former American.
from a Russian prison. today proposed
to ask the Soviet government to de-
port him to the United States for re-
patriation.
Senator Burke said he would ask
Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky to
make personal investigation of the
case and suggest the deportation pro-
cedure to his government as a means
of getting Mr.. Troyer out of prison.
Mr.. Troyer's wife, Mrs. Elva Troyer,
lives in Lincoln, Nebr
The former American who re-
nounced his citizenship while en-
ployed by the Soviet Horticulture In
stitute as citrus fruit expert. is serv-
ing a l0-year sentence on a charge Of
counter revolution"
Evening star., 1938-04-06
L. S. CANNOT HELP.
Man Held in Soviet Prison Camp
Renounced American Citizenship.

By TIE hssc ciated Press.
A Government spokesman said yes
terday this country could not help get
Albert M. Troyer out Of Soviet Rus
sian prison.
Noting that Mr.. Troyer renounced
his American citizenship last year and
avowed allegiance to the Soviet, the
spokesman said the United States was
powerless to act toward obtaining his
release.
The State Department already has
given Mr.. Troyer's wife. Mrs. Elva
Troyer of Lincoln, Nebr., full informa-
ton on obtaining immigration visa
for her husband provided he Is re-
leased from prison.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Racing Results
Bowie

FIRST RACE-Purse. 81 600: claiming;
4-year-olds and up furlongs
Star Porter lWrieht $50 4.40 BOO
My Surprise tSmth) go 45I
Surprise Box (Villalobo) 26C
Time. 1:14@,
Also ran-x Saxon Prince. In Memory
Pack Away, X Prince Turley. Bo Bean.
Continuity, Idle Ell. Wittekind and Miss
Leannah.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Tropical Park

FIRST RACE-Purse. $500: claiming;
3-year-olds and up: 5I7 furlones
Hornet 'McCombsI 5000 1880 $50
Chispa (Sylvester( 1880 500
Cosmlc Ray tCornay) $50
Time. :06l.
Also ran-Weapon. Come Home. More
Poise. Blakeen. Miss Chicro. Capt. Jerry.
Rich Strike. Mayro and Bally Stratford.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
PrecfpitatiOn.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the |
Capital tcurrent month to dateI:
Evening star., 1938-04-06
The Sun and Moon.

Sun. today 5.4T 6.Ss''
Sun. tomorrow 5.45 63S
MOON today 1913 a m. 12:lla am
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset "
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Hsrpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-04-06
Report for Last 81 Hours.

Record for Last 24 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
~ Highest, SO. at $50 pm. yesterday.
Year ago. 6S
Lowest, 80, at am. today. Year
ago, 40.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, "a. on March %
Lowest, IS. on January 2S
Humidity for Last - Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81 per cent. at am. today.
Lowest, 81 per cent, at 4 I'm. yesterday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast and
Evening star., 1938-04-06
BOWIE ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW
FIRST RAcE-Purse.. 81 600: claiming;
By the Associated Press.

SECOND RACE-Purse, ST 900: claim
Ing: maiden 3-year-olds and up; 6 fur
Evening star., 1938-04-06
DEPUTIES APPROVE
BLUM DECREE BILL
Resignation of Cabinet in
Prospect as Result of
311-25O Vote.
BACKGROUND

BHCKGROUNU-
Labor unrest, European political
disorder and financial DIFFICULTIES
present Premier Leon Blum Uith
three pronged dilemma. French
Socialist prime minister seeks to
hasten rearmdment in the face of
large deficit and increasing trou-
Die ,Dith support OF the franc.
He seeks po,Uer to rule by decree
in order to re-establiSh nations
finances.
Evening star., 1938-04-06

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Geodetic SurveyD