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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
RESCUERS HACK
 AT EARTH WALL
One of 10 Trapped Coal Miners in Alabama Is
 Still Sought

Praco, Ala, July 2. (UP) - Rescue workers hacked at a wall of stone and earth today in an at tempt to save the last of 10 me-: trapped 500 feet underground by a coal mine cave-in which killed five miners and injured three others.
 In dramatic fight against time miners worked in shifts all day yesterday and succeeded in bringing out four of the victims alive. One of the 10 escaped the avalanche and another - the one still sought - has not been heard since the section, 5000 feet from the mine entrance, caved in early yesterday.
 The missing man was Bill Pepper. Those dead were J. I. Wingard as- siStant superintendent of the mine, which is operated by the Alabama By-Produces Company; Lloyd Painter, his brother, Red, Howard Morgan and Leonard Dockins.
 Bookings suffered a terrible death. He was pinned under heavy rock and talked feebly with rescurers who had worked through to him but were unable to free him.
 "The rock kept settling on him, " one of the rescurers said, harder and harder the more we tried to get it off. He quit talking finally and then started moaning terribly as the pain got worse. Then the rock just slowly croshed the life out Of him while we couldn't do anything. It was pretty bad to see something like that"
 Those rescued all injured were Gus Hyche, Carl Shackleiord, and Willard Elmore Bivens Allender, one of the 10 men in the section, was the only one to escape the fall.
 The slide started when a portion of the roof over the section col lapsed, sending streams of rock and debris down the shaft. Oxygen was pumped into the hole where the nine men were trapped while res cuers picked and Shoveled through wall nearly 500 feet thick.
 Red Painter. one of the four brought out alive, lived only 18 hours. He was the last to be res cued and was in weak condition. He urged his fellow workers to hurry as they penetrated the wall between them and grew hysterical toward the end. Physicians said he died from shock induced by nerv- ous tension.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
IN
 MARTIAL ARRAY
Second Day of Celebration Finds Town Packed for
 Festivities
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent)

Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-(UP)- Trumpets clarioned in the streets of Gettysburg today, quickening the memories of the war of three quar- tcrs of century ago.
 The 10000 survivors, Union and Confederate. marked the second day of their final reunion on the battle ground where 75 years ago their comrades struggled through the scarlet hell that was the second day at Gettysburg.
 Before 3 D. m. the second day there was little action. Battle lines were being drawn. Confederate forces held the town of Gettysburg but Meade's Union troops invested high ridge that fish-hooked south from the outskirts)
 Crack drum and bug1e corps and uniformed veterans of more recent wars crowded Gettysburg's dia- mond bond and the narrow streets that fan out from the towns cen ter. They were here to parade in honor of the surviving veterans.
 Street vendors hawked tinsel souvenirs. Bunting -draped stands lined the green lawns leading to the battle ground and veterans encampment. Shouts of Get your hot dogs. Get your ice cream here" Peanuts, salted peanuts, popcorn" rasped above the rattle of drums and blare of brassy bugles.
 Gearing flank attack by Lee, Sickles moved up his corps a little before D. m. In the new position his line ran from peach orchard across a field of ripened wheat to q rocky glen, called Devils Den. From Emmitsburg road his artillery could rake the wheat field with canister and grapeD
 SWank Pennsylvania troopers in black and grey directed a swelling
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
NAZIS SEEK TO
 CORRECT ABUSES
ReexaminatiOn of Charges Against Austrian Politi-
 cal Prisoners Ordered

Vienna. July 2. (UP-Nazi author ities today ordered re-examina- tion of charges against all political prisoners held in Austria.
 The order was part of a decree which was believed to come directly from the office of Joseph BuerckeL German Nazi trustee" for Austria and to be aimed at correcting any abuses which might have been threatened.
 Measures authorizing confiscation of property are to be subjected to benevolent examination" 50 marks ($20) reward is to be paid to any, one who gives authentic information justifying arrest and punishment of persons who make false denuncia- tions of others, and persons dis charged from their jobs without valid grounds after the Nazi ab- sorption of Austria are to be rein stated Persons who gave false in- formation which led to the dis missal of innocent persons are to be arrested.
 The decree revealed, incidentally, that as part of a recent purge of Nazi commissars l2 Nazis were sent to the concentration camp at Dachau on the ground that they abused their position as controllers
 of certain firms whose business methods were regarded as not in accordance with Nazi social and eco- homie policies. It was understood that these firms were Jewish ones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
2,0OO PRAY FOR 7: 7. REV NIEMOELLER

Berlin, July 3 (U.P) - Two thousand persons attended church services last night to pray for the Rev. Martin Niemoeller on the first anniversary of his arrest for de- flying efforts to Nazify the Evan gelical church.
 The services was held at Mem oellers own church in the fashion able Dahlem suburb.
 It was reported that pastors of all confessional" or opposition churches, and many of their intiu- ential parishioners, had signed a petition to Adolf Hitler urging Nie- moellers liberation.
 So far all efforts to free Niemoel- Ter have failed. It was understood that he was still held at the Oran- ienburg concentration camp. though plans had been discussed to trans fer him to fortress where condi- tions would be more pleasant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
L0YALETS ADMIT
 LOSING 4 TOWNS

Hendaye, French-Spanish From tier, July 2. (UP)-Spanish Loyalists admitted losing the towns of Bechi, Vertice Solach, Verice Lagoleta and Los Males on the eastern front to- day, but asserted that they later recaptured Los Males.
 The Loyalist Spanish press agency reported eight civilians killed and 14 wounded in @ Nationalist airplane raid on coastal villages.
 Nationalists seemed well content with their progress toward Sagunto, on the Mediterranean front, but analysis of dispatches indicated that Loyalist resistance was strong and that the Nationalists were fighting for every mile. According to the Loyalists, the Nationalists have gained only five miles in the last eight days. Part of the Loyalist re- sistance, 1t was indicated, consisted of daily small counter attacks which made 1t dangerous for the nationalists to concentrate men at any selected point
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
3 Courses Open On Kelly's Quo Warranto
Counsel for Alderman Undecided on Procedure 10 Fol- low-Five Major Motions Definitely Assigned for
 Arguments on Tuesday in Superior Court

Three courses of action are oper to Alderman Thomas P. Kelly whose quo warranto proceedings O attack on the appointment of Hugt M. Acorn of Suffield as specia prosecutor of Waterbury were dis missed Thursday by Judge Ernes A. Inglis. His counsel, Attorney Thomas F. McDonough of New Britain said yesterday he has not a. yet made any definite decision as tc an appeal.
 He may, however, on Tuesday morning, ask to plead anew on the measure and introduce evidence as 8 preliminary to a supreme court appeal. In addition, he may lei judgment be entered in accordance with the decision of Judge Inglis Or, he may appeal directly from the decision as is stands to date.
 Five major motions are scheduled to be either argued or set down fol argument before Judge Inglis il superior court, Tuesday, July 5. As the 27 men accused by the grand jury are situated now, all their pre- liminary defense steps have beer whitewashed by the decisions o1 Judge Inglis. The state has been up held in all it's actions.
 The fourteen men who are counsel to the 9 accused who have filed defense motions will appear in court to argue the motions.
 Included on the list of motions to be argued are:
 l. Motion to inspect the minutes of the grand jury. Judge Alfred c. Baldwin in Bridgeport recently granted the defendants in the Mer- ritt Parkway probe the right to in- spect the grand jury's minutes. The decision is now awaiting argument in the supreme court of errors. In this instance, also, Judge Baldwin granted the right of inspection be- cause the jury was apparently com pleted with its investigations. The local jury is only recessed tempo rarily.
 2. Motions to expunge the entire grand jury report. This motion has been filed by John G. Purdie, New York detective said to have been hired by the administration for po- litical purposes.
 3. Motion to quash. Practically all the defendants have filed this motion, seeking to have the inform ation upon which the arrests are based, quashed. It is claimed that the information is null and void and lGnnfirilal o4a pnna Ol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
NOBLE ESTATE IS
 VALUED $9O,O00
Appraisal Filed in Probate Court - Stocks, MOrt-
 gages Comprise Bulk

The late Mrs. Bertha P. Noble widow of Arthur Dutton Noble, left an estate valued at $90,7l068, &C., cording to an appraisal filed with Judge Dennis J. Slavin in probate court today.
 Real estate owned by Mrs. Noble is valued at $18,200, stocks at $32,- 671 .25, mortgage notes at $30. .161 27 while bank deposits amount to $8,- 89916, and household effects are valued at $779.
 Mrs. Noble, who lived at 103 Will low street, died April 28. Born ir Watertown, she made her home ir this city after her marriage.
 Real estate listed in the inventory is as follows: one-half interest ir property at 1O3 Willow street ,$5 ,OOO; 11O Twining avenue, $2,95O; "A Montgomery avenue, $5,250; 39t Willow street, $5,000.
 There are 10 mortgage notes. ot vary amounts, totalling $30, ,161 .27 One is for $5,O00, from the Baptist Church of Waterbury.
 The following stocks are listed in the estate: 800 shares, American Hardware Corp, $11,000; 35 shares American Telephone and Telegraph q, 4,480; 40 shares, Connecticut Gas and Coke Securities Co.,, $1,280; SC shares, Connecticut Light and Pow CT Co.,, $5,725: 40 shares, Illuminat- ing Shares -Co., $2,000; 40 shares Southern New England Telephone Co.,, $5,220; 75 shares, Torrington Co.,, $l,706.25.
 Bank deposits are as follows: Wa terbury National Bank, $1,120.99; Colonial Trust Co.,. $65l.60; Thom- aston Savings Bank, $5,08T.81; Wa terbury Savings Bank $2,0SS.72.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
WHEAT BATTLE
 ON IN ITALY
MussOlini Takes Personal Charge of Campaign for
 Big Harvest

Rome, July 2.-(UP)-Premier Benito Mussolini assumed personal command of the country's battle of the wheat" today and mobilized cereals experts to concentrate their efforts on insuring good quality of bread and a maximum harvest.
 The premier elected to take the presiding chair at a specially called meeting of the fascist cereals cor poration today and to inaugurate the wheat harvesting season Mon day in the reclaimed Pontine marsh area near rome.
 It was expected that at the wheat harvesting ceremony, MuSsolini him. self would as usual toss the first Sheaves of wheat into the thresh- ing machine.
 For the cereals corporation meet ing, experts from all over the coun- try had reports on the wheat Situa- tion. It was forecast that, on the basis of the reports, MusSolini would issue important orders regarding the bread and wheat supply,
 MusSolini delegated Secretary of Agriculture Edmundo RoSSoni to open the meeting by giving up-to- the-minute estimates Of the pros pective harvest. Secretary of Cor porationS Ferruccio Lantini was or dered to follow with reports on va rious types of wheats and other cereals, their proper mixture in or der to insure palatable bread, their prices and other details
 Because of the campaign for eco- homie self-sufficiency and a pros pective shortage in the wheat har- vest, the bread and spaghetti now sold contains 80 per cent of wheat flour and 20 per cent of other Hours. Corn flour was used as an adulter- ant for time, but corn prices rose and as the result rice and bean Hours have been favored, One of the main efforts of the cereals cor poration was to provide means of improving the bread and spaghetti without altering the present propor- ton of wheat.
 Mussolini called the cereals cor poration meeting after receiving confidential reports of popular dis satisfaction with bread and spa etti-dissatisfaction which center cd on the taste rather than the ac. tual quality.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
HUGHES READY TO
 ATTEMPT FLIGHT
May Leave Today for New YOrk-Will Fly North
 Atlantic

Los Angeles, July 2.-(UP)-HoW- ard Hughes, millionaire speed flyer was expected to take-of in his twin motored monoplane today for New York where he will begin a flight across the north Atlantic, and pos sibly around the world.
 Hughes plane, one of the fastest of transport planes and equipped with experimental navigation de- vices in addition to the standard ones, had been extensively tested. Mechanics still were working over it late last night. His crew of. four was standing by and it was evident that his departure for New York and the beginning of his big adven- ture were not far off.
 The shy and taciturn young man who has been successful in business and as a movie director and pro- ducer and holds the world speed record for land planes would not discuss his plans. He had denied be- fore that he intended to fly around the world, but his friends here saw increasing evidence that he would, provided his nonstop flight to Paris was accomplished quickly enough to give him chance to break the around-the-w world speed record held by the late Wiley Post.
 Hughes Lockheed was wheeled out of its hangar late yesterday after noon and taken up for a test flight that lasted more than an hour dur ing which its instruments were test ed and adjusted. Mechanics had been installing new instruments and tuning up it's twin Cyclone motors all week. In addition to its multi plicity of other equipment. the plane had the most powerful radio ever installed in plane.
 Hughes is flying the north Allan tic in the interest of the New York World Fair. His crew of four is com- posed of Lieut.. Thomas Thurlow and Harry P. M. Connor, navigators; Ed ward Lund, flight engineer. and Richard Stoddart, radio operator. His engagement with the fair is in definite. Wherever he lands in Eu- rope or elsewhere, he will deliver invitations to attend the fair to dignitaries.
 The belief that Hughes had a world flight in the back if not in the fore of his mind was heightened by word from Paris that he had ordered officials there to have 2,500 gallons of high test gasoline and suitable provisions ready for him when he arrived there. That load would carry him to Moscow and far beyond. If he does try the world flight, he will go by way of Moscow and Fairbanks Alaska. The Post record is seven days, IS hours and 49 1-2 minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
SUICIDE, MURDER
 PACT REVEALED

Detroit, July 2.-(UP).-Two city tiremen, close friends for 10 years, died in an apartment suicide-mur der pact while the wife of one of them looked on from the doorway of her home.
 The victims were Royal A. Selleck and Edmund Tabbert, both 40.
 The men were sitting in Tabbert's s car in front of Selleck'S home last night when neighbors heard one shot, closely followed by three more. Mrs. Selleck told police that she looked out after the first shot to see her husband fire at himself.
 Detectives said it was case of suicide and murder, possibly by agreement, but that pending an in- vestigation no conclusive statements would be issued.
 Selleck's widow said she did not know of any quarrel between the two friends or of any other reason for the tragedy. .!..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
rC0n1m1issi0ner7o Be Aduanced 7ouards
 Sen. Lonergan s Seat
AMERICANS GO ABOARD WARSH|P
Japs Give SwatOw Merci= less Bombardment; U. s.
 Priest Wounded

Shanghai, July 2 - (UP)-Amer- ican residents of Swatow took refuge on the United States gunboat Sacramento today during a merci- less Japanese air raid during which an American priest was wounded, dispatches from Swatow said.
 Father William Downs, Erie, Pa, member of the American Roman Catholic Maryknoll mission, was the American casualty. He was wounded when bomb struck and demolished his home, dispatches said. He made his way to the water front and sig naled tender from the Sacra- mento. Chinese police arrested him, it was said and detained him for three hours but then permitted him to board the Sacramento's boat. His wound was not believed to be grave.
 One Chinese was killed and one wounded in the American owned Berger building across from the government buildings. The Berger building was severely damaged.
 It was estimated that 1000 persons had been killed in Japanese raids today and yesterday No count was made of the wounded.
 Today's air raid was followed by bombardment by Japanese war ships and dispatches said that thou sands of Chinese were fleeing in panic from the city.
 The Japanese Domei News agency revealed that Japanese units were fighting with 30,000 Chinese trips, divided into five units, near the Manchukuo frontier in the north. The dispatch said that the Chinese were communists and it was as- sumed they were guerillas of the famous eighth route army.
 A news agency reported from Peiping rumors of peace plan formulated there as basis for Chi nese-Japanese negotiations. Under the alleged plan there would be five autonomous regimes in China in the Peiping, Kweishua, Nanking Hankow and Cantno areas. Japa- nese and foreign military and dip lomatic quarters here denied knoWl- edge of such plan.
 Chinese reports here reported a French naval concentration of the French distrct of Kwongchowan, on the south China coast opposite the island of Hainan. Land, navy and air maneuverS were held Thursday it was asserted, and two 16-nch
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
Failure 10 Announce His
 Candidacy for Lieut. Gov
 Causes Comment @
HAD BEEN EXPECTED
 SOME TIME FRIDAY
No Doubt Since Cummings Visit Opponent for Veter-
 an Legislator Is Sought
BY JACK AMMAN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Hartford, Conn.,, July D. (UP) - State Labor Com. missioner Joseph M. Tone may become the administra. tion's candidate to oppose conservative U. s. Senator Augustine Lonergan in the Democratic convention this fall, it was learned today. Tone, it was reported, was about to announce his candidacy for lieutenant-governor Friday. For some unexplained reason it was withheld.
 At the same time, he was reported seen at Stamford, where U. s. At torney General Homer s. Cummings was residing for the entire week Tone could not be reached for con- firmation he had conferred with the attorney general.
 Seeking Lonergan Opponent
 It was learned beyond doubt the administration was seeking a can- didate to oppose Lonergan, on the New Deals blacklist because of his anti-administration records.
 Cummings left for Washington Friday, shortly after announcing he would not be a candidate for the Senate himself.
 Meantime, reliable sources con- firmed vast realignment of Dem ocratis forces in Connecticut was proceeding along New Deal and con- Servative lines.
 More and more it was reported Cummings urged National Commit teelnan David E. FitzGerald to desert the machine headed by U. s Senator Francis T. Maloney and State Chairman J. Francis Smith, both conservatives.
 FitgGerald is close personal friend of Cummings and President Roosevelt.
 Tone With FitzGerald
 If a realignment results, Tone may be found in the same political camp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02

AppotnteeS of MT. Taller are. as follows: Harry Reynolds, William Root, George Tolles, Arthur Green James Butler, Maurice Griffin Domenic Santoro, Frank Davino Boris Stoll, John Devereaux, Will liam "Tipper" Conley, and Philip Psill.
 Independents Named
 Several of those appointed by the Republican registrar are Independ- er1t Democrats. The canvassers will begin work at o'clock Tuesday morning, working in pairs of one Democratic appointee and one Re- publican appointee. The re-canvass will begin in the first and second wards. It will take three or four weeks to complete.
 Registrars Derwin and Taller today appealed to the public to CO., operate with them in insuring an accurate and complete voting list. They ask that canvassers be re- ceived courteously and supplied with the information which they ask.
 List Will Benefit
 Successful completion of the sur wys, they said, will mean a thor oughly complete voting list, and will be of great benefit to the city. The rscanvass was voted by the board of aldermen.
 The canyassers, while making their rounds of the city, will inform eAch voter. as to the district he is now in. The districts have all been changed as a result of a realign- rnent made last winter after a lengthy survey by the aldermanic board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02
100 LOCAL BOYS SET FOR CCC
Entrain for Hartford Next Week; May Go to Colo-
 rado Camp Eventually

The names of Waterbury's quota of 100 yung men to be added to the present enrolment in the Ci- vilian Conservation Corps, were an- nounced today by the local Welfare Department. The first contingent will leave Waterbury for the enroll ment station at Hartford on July 6, and the other 50 will go the fol- lowing day.
 All the boys will have physical examinations at Hartford, and in case any are rejected for physical defects, alternates will be en- rolled.
 All men enrolled through the Hartford center will be sent to Fort Deyens, Aver, Mass, and from this group will be selected those boys who will make up the membership of five Connecticut eco companies which are to be sent to the State of Colorado for the remainder of the year. These companies will be entirely of Connecticut origin and as losses occur selection of addi- tional Connecticut men to fill the vacancies in these companies will be made during successive enroll ment periods.
 The list of the 100 Waterbury boys follows:
 Thomas Acas, Michael A. Antico George Arb, Robert L. Archam- bault. Harold c. Atherton, Eucher Aubrie, Armond Aurele, Benjamin Bannick, Joseph R. Barbieri, Leroy Barrie, Nicholas Baritone, Alfred Bartolomeo, Silvio J. Battistrada, Philip A. Beausoleil, Gerard Belle more, Horace Blair.
 Ralph Brennan, Albert Brown, Charles Brunelli, Joseph Brunetti, Patrick Bruno, John Burlenski, John Carny, Ferdinand Catalina, Charles Cherrette, Emil Chrzanowski, An- thony DeBritto, Maurice Dee, Ere nando Delgado, George DellaRose, Ambrose DeSena.
 Pasquade DeVito, Frank Krajew- ski, Jr.. James A. Labonty, George LaPlante, America A. Lestorti, Mar tin Litschauer, William E. Loner- gan, James Longo, Edmund J. Lup- kas, Daniel Lynch, Joseph Madda- lena, Domenic A. Mancini, Rocco Marchitto, John McGrail, Bruno A. Mikletonas, Fred A. Milano.
 Edmund w. Mitchell, Joseph Mo- bilio, John Mulligan. Constantine Napolitana, Ronald Parker, Robert Pearson, Peter Penta, William Pin