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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
RAILWAY FARES
 ARE INCREASED
Change Made at Midnight; New Haven Road Sends
 Out Word

New York, July 25-(UP)-Pas- senger coach fares on eastern rail- roads were advanced to two and one-half cents mile today. The old rate was two cents. The change was made at midnight, after a day of confusion at the ticket offices of several lines over whether tickets bought prior to the change would be accepted afterwards.
 The Interstate Commerce commis- sion, which authorized the increase, ruled Saturday in Washington that tickets bought prior to the rate in- crease must be honored. The Erie railroad headquarters had closed be- fore that decision was made and it had previously instructed its agents to tell purchasers that they must pay the difference on their tickets if they used them after the rate change. Lacking any change in or ders, Erie clerks so informed their customers.
 Clerks of the New York, New Haven Ind Hartford railroad told purchasers yesterday that their tic- kets would be invalid after the rate change and would be redeemed for cash. Those instructions were changed last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
NEVER ELECTED,
 ACTED SENATOR

Augusta. Me, July 25-(UP)- Funeral services will be held We'd nesday for Obadiah Gardner, 85, who, though never elected to a ma jor political office, served as U. s. Senator and chairman of an inter- national boundary commission.
 He died early yesterday at the home of daughter, Mrs. N. s. Bev- craze.
 A native of Port Huron, Mich, Gardner was brought to Union, Me, as an orphan by his paternal grand- father.
 He lost his campaign for the gov- ernorship in 1908 but in 1911 was appointed by Democratc governor to fill the unexpired term of the late U. s. Senator William P. Frye.
 In 1913 he was appointed to the American Canadian boundary com mission by President Wilson. Two years later he became chairman and remained in that post until he re- tired in 1923.
 Besides Mrs. Beverage, he leaves a son. Albert of Orono.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
RECANvASS OF VOTERS HALTED
Completion Delayed Be- cause Funds Have Been
 Exhausted

Completion of the recanvass of voters from the registrars office will require between $4O0 and $500, it was estimated today as the last of the canvassers were due to re- port on the work done within the cost of $2,100 the sum allotted by the board of aldermen and the board of finance.
 The registrars, William T. Der win, Democrat, and Alberto. Taller, Republican, are agreed that the canvass ought to be finished if the board of finance can see its way clear to provide the balance neces- sary to defray the cost. To date, almost 27- districts of the 32 in the new voting district set-up are fin ished.
 Recanvass Results
 The results of the recanvass, while not officially announced, have had the effect of checking thor oughly the numerous changes of address and removals which have been noted in other years, averag- ing between 12,000 and 13,00O in recent years. The present check of the voters is expected to result in notation of changes of address of approximately 15,000 persons, &C., cording to Registrar Taller.
 This year the office staff of the registrars was unavailable for the check-up of the voting lists due to the work involved in the increasing of the districts from 20 to 32 and the necessity for preparing new lists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
Douglas Corrigan Flies
 To London As Passenger

T probably will start from Boston, working my way south, and will in- clude Philadelphia and Boston. I'd particularly like to call on San An tonic. Tex, where I worked in the flying game for six years.
 T heard they are getting up a fund to buy me new plane but wired them not to do 1t.
 T do not deserve it. had no in tention of attempting a deliberate record f1ight-thjs one was an acci- dent, you know. and I hope it will not happen again."
 Corrigan said that when he told the story of his accidental" flight to Prime Minister Ramon De Valera of Fire, T told him that had no instruments apart from the standard ones fitted on the plane except turn and bank indicator, and if I had come down on the water, would have been in one big fix"
 DeValera, the flyer said, chuckled
 Well, you might have turned out to be an accidental long distance swimmer as we'll"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25

London, July 25-CUP)-Douglas Corrigan, who flev the Atlantic in 5000 airplane, arrived by airplane, as a passenger, from Dublin today for brief visit to London during which he hopes to see the king and queen. Corrigan landed at Croydon airport and left in an American en- bassy automobile, to be the guest ot American Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy. He said he had no parti- cular plans. Corrigan, after lunch at the embassy, said he would leave for Dublin Wednesday night and for the United States on Saturday aboard the Manhattan.
 "After that, have no fixed plans, he said, but when I get back to the United States l shall be open to ac- cept any offers can get such as lec- ture tours, vaudeville or films.
 "I have received hundreds of con- gratulatory messages from the United States and civil invitations from all over the country. At the moment it is my intention to accept some of these as soon as I have seen some of the Irish in Brooklyn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
CAPEzUTO PUT
 UNDER ARREST
Man Wanted in New York Has Not As Yet Been
 Claimed There

Frank Capezuto, B, of Pember- ton street, was re-arrested by local authorities today on warrant is- sued by Prosecutor Frank Healey, charging him with theft. Judge T E. Conway in city court early last week granted Capezuto nolle on a theft charge to allow parole author ities from Sing Sing prison, New York to extradite him on a charge of violation of parole.
 In Sing Sing Claim
 Until late hour today the Sing Sing officials had not claimed Ca- pezuto, although they were here with 8 warrant last week. Judge Mascolo in city court today grant, ed continuance of the matter un- til tomorrow, when Capezuto will be arraigned on the original charge of theft. He is said to have taken a cash register from a South End store. He is held in bonds of $1,- 500.
 Has Served 5 Years
 New York authorities wanted Ca- pezuto, to return him to Sing Sing and complete his sentence of 2 1-2 to 15 years on 8 charge of robbery with violence. He has served five years of the sentence. The local charge of theft will be tried on its merits tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
NATIONAL LABOR
 BOARD ATTACKED
American Labor Federa- ton, Rep. Hoffman of
 Michigan Make Charges
BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE

BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, July 25.-UP)-The American Federation of Labor and Rep. Clare Hoffman, Republican, Michigan, in separate statements, attacked the National Labor Rela- tions Board and its administration of the Wagner act today.
 In an editorial in the American Federationist," h federation charged that the board had pro- noted the Committee for Industrial Organization and thus had dis couraged united labor movement. It charged the board with malad- ministration of the Wagner act which, 1t said, was defeating "prac- tical democracy"
 Hoffman Foe of Both
 Hoffman, a foe of both labor board and the CIO, defied the board to stop him circulating a speech he made in the house at the last session of congress.
 In a case involving the Muskin Shoe company, Baltimore, the board had ruled that 1t was a violation of the Wagner act for an employer to distribute on company time and property, copies of Hoffman's speech which charged that Con- munists were active in the CIO.
 In an open letter to the board, Hoffman said that the Muskin rul- ing, eff carried to its logical con- clusion, not only prevents the erl- ployer and the employe from giving
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
Thirty Seuen Killed When Plane Crashes
Dare Devil Pilot in Military Review at BOgOta COunl= ba, Sends Machine Into Spectators-Over
 100 Are Injured

Bogota, Columbia, July 25-(UP)- The army plane that crashed into a crowd, missing President Alfonso Lopez and his encourage by only 65 feet, killed 37 persons and injured more than 100, it was estimated to- day.
 Workers still were retrieving charred parts of bodies from the field where the plane fell, after spewing the crowd with a column of flaming gasoline.
 Many of the wounded were in a grave condition and it was feared that the death toll would exceed 40
 A holiday prelude to the local Olympic game of which yesterdays military review at which the disas- ter took place, was feature, was cancelled today. The government de- creed period of national mourning
 Daredevil Pilot
 The plane as piloted by Lieut.. Ce- sar Abadia Estrellose, a daredevil who previously had been suspended for six months period for reckless ness in flight He was stunting at a 200 foot altitude over a crowd of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
THREE DIE FROM
 AUTO ACCIDENTS

Boston, July 25.-UP)-Three persons including a Newton nurse died today as result of automo- bile accidents.
 The dead were:
 Miss Louise Mccarthy, 25, a Newton hospital graduate, killed when her automobile crashed against a tree early today in West Bridge water, Vt. Police said she apparently had dozed at the wheel.
 Leon F. N. Baldwin, CT, of Edge wood, R. l., at hospital follow ing an accident yesterday in King ston, R. I.
 Patrick J. Murphy, 63, of Cam bridge aB result of an accident in Belmont Saturday.
 Six persons were hospitaliZed following automobile accidents in Boston while over a dozen persons suffered minor injuries in crashes in Various sections of New England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
HE AMPUTATED
 HIS OWN TOES

Watertown, N. r., July 25-(UP\ hospital surgeons completed the job on John Lapham's toes to- day.
 Lapham, who is 66, had been try ing for months to get some physician to cut off two of his toes, which had curled back under his left foot and pained Jim when he walked. Every doctor he saw told him he was too frail for such an operation.
 Yesterday he went out by the woodshed and spread the offending toes on a stump. He held a chisel to the toes and beat the chisel with a wooden mallet. He used alcohol as an anesthesia and patent medi- cine as an antiseptic. The toes came off. His wife came out in time to tie rags around his foot and staunch the blood.
 The hospital admitted him for after-treatment and described the amputation as thorough job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
GENERAL FRANCO
 KEEPS UP DRIVE

Hendeye, French-Spanish From tier, July 25.-(UP)--Generalissimo Francisco Franco set up headquar- ters in southern Spain and person. ally directed a successful offensive on the Estraemadura front, Nation- alist dispatches asserted today.
 According to reports to the border, Franco for the first time took over the command of General Gongalo Queipo De Llano's southern army and made important gains in the Nationalist salient between Madrid and Seville.
 The Loyaiists for two years have held a salient in southern Spain which dangerously threatened the NatoinalisJ mes Of communications between Seville and Burgos, the seat of the provisional government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
NINE APPEALS IN FRAUD CHARGES
Five New Notices of Ap= peal Were Filed By Cli=
 ents of Atty Cassidy

Nine of the 27 men accused by the grand jury of conspiring to defraud the city of Waterbury have appealed or filed intentions to appeal to the supreme court of errors from the refusal of Judge Ernest A. Inglis to open the grand jury's minutes for inspection. Others are expected to follow suit before the two weeks period expires Thursday.
 Five new notices of appeal were filed late Saturday by clients of At torney John H. Cassidy, including Frank Santalucia, Donate Pietra- oria, James P. Healey, Corporation Counsel Charles s. O'Connor and Carl D. Olsen.
 Four actual appeals have been filed by Simon J. Alderman of New Haven, and George H. Kingsley, Wil- liam B. Murray and John Meany Of New York. Thursday is the deads line for filing appeals or notices, as only two weeks are allowed for such actions after the entering of the de- cision. The decision on the grand jury minutes was filed by Judge h. glis on July IA.
 The question of whether or not these appeals will delay the start of the trial will undoubtedly be de- cided by Judge Ernest c. Simpson, who will preside at the opening ses- sion of superior court here Septem- Der 16.
 Raise Same Question
 In general, all the appeals filed to date raise the same questions of the legality of the maintaining secrecy of the jury's minutes. Most stress is placed on the fact that the states attorney and his assistants were al- lowed in the jury room and have possession of all the testimony.
 In connection with the Alderman appeal, Judge Inglis filed his fact finding in superior court Saturday He maintains that the accused have no right to inspect the jury's minutes.
 Defense counsel have been, during the past week, inspecting those rec ords which belong to their clients, and which were impounded by the jury during the period of invesiga- ton. This will continue until all have been inspected. All inspections take place at the office of Special Prosecutor Alcorn, under the direc- ton Of one of his assistants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25

it was believed the days total might exceed 60 killed and 100 wounded. Reports poured in of murder and arson and of Jews stoned to death in various parts of the country, News of the Haifa bombing spread rapidly and Arabs were incensed.
 The latest reports included one Jewish supernumerary policeman killed and two wounded in the Ramathakovesh Jewish settlement near Nazareth. A Jew was killed in Tiberias.
 "A Hour Curfew
 In Haifa, 24-hour curfew was imposed in the mixed quarters, where Jewish shops, large mill and two Jewish taxicabs were set afire.
 A land mine exploded in the Jewish Kfaryavetz settlement near Haifa, killing one Jew and injuring two.
 Public and private hospitals were ove.taxed and British authorities opened a field hospital in school to take care of the overflow of casualties.
 British Marines on Duty
 Police, soldiers and marines from the British battle cruiser Repulse were sent to emergency duty in the disaster area and British troop re- Inducements were called from other parts of Palestine as maddened Arabs, who had seen wives, sweet hearts, fathers and sons torn to pieces began setting fire to Jewish shops.
 Jews began closing their shops and other businesses voluntarily, but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
|:HiHBilly" "BandMan
 To Be Texas Gouernor
w. Lee O'Danel Sweeps His Rivals Into Oblivion; Rep Maury Mavrick Is Defeated By 546 Votes
 in Effort to Win Return

Dallas, Tex, July 25-(UP)- Maury Maverick, leader of the house liberal bloc, has been defeated by 546 votes by Paul J. Kilday of San Antonio, the tabulation of all 268 precincts in the 20th congressional district by the Texas election bureau showed today.
 Maverick said when informed of the final tabulation that he would not contest the election. He said that he would take a good two years rest and then be back up there"
 Lincoln got beat four times," Maverick said cheerfully. T guess I can take it once. I'll take a good two years rest and be back up there"
 That was one result of an unique primary campaign.
 Others were: w. Lee ODaniel, 8 flour salesman who campaigned with a hill-billy band and used the 10 commandments as his platform, won the gubernatorial nomination with a clear majority over his Il opponents, which made 8 run-off primary unnecessary; Rep. Morgan Sanders, a veteran congressman, was apparently defeated; Rep. w. D. McFarlane, who, with Rep. Maverick shared an indirect blessing from President Roosevelt, trailed his op- ponent.
 Kilday Backed by Machine
 Paul J. Kilday of San Antonio, Mavericks opponent, was supported by the San Antonio Democratic machine which Maverick has always fought. Complete returns gave: Kilday, 24,929; Maverick, 24,383. The result was so close-Kilday had won by only 548 votes-that friends of Maverick believed he would seek
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
TEMPLETON co. EMPLOYE HURT THIS MORNING Joseph CrOughwell, 60 Beecher Avenue Is Very
 Painfully Injured TIRE RIM CRASHED
 AGAINST HIS HEAD Was Inflating Tire When Accident Happened-Is
 on Danger List

Struck by a rim which flew from the huge truck tire he was infla ting, Joseph Croughwell, about 26, of 60 Beecher avenue, an employe of the Charles A. Templeton company, was seriously and painfully injured shortly after Il o'clock this morning. Rushed to the Waterbury hospital in that institutions ambulance, his name was immediately placed on the danger list and authorities stated that his condition is critical.
 Although unable to define the exact extent of the mans injuries, authorities said that he sustained fractured jaw and an injury to the skull. He bled considerably, from the wounds inflicted by the rim which flew from the mounting suddenly as the tire deflated. Fellow employees at Templeton's called the Waterbury hospital ambulance im- mediately after the accident. Robert Munger, sales manager of the Tenn pleton company, said that Crough- well was engaged in his regular work in the tire department when the accident occurred.
 The tr1lck 1lpon which the tire was mounted was the property of the Chase Brass & Copper Go. It is understood that the tire was mounted on the spare rack and not actually on the wheel. Croughwell is said to have been experiencing some difficulty in opening the lock which held the tire in place when it blew out, throwing the rim into his face.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
WATERS RECEDE
 IN NEW ENGLAND.
$3,OOO, ,OOO Estimated as Damage - Dams Burst,
 People Made Homeless

Boston, July 25 -U.P)-Flood waters, fed by a week of torrential rains, receded throughout eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island today, leaving at least 400 homeless, $3,000,000 in damage and a threat of disease in their wake.
 Rain ceased yesterday afternoon. The seven-day rainfall totaled 7.67 inches, boosting the months total to 9.28 inches.
 This morning a haze hid the sun, but the weather bureau predicted that this would burn off during the forenoon and reported that no fur ther rain was in sight.
 Flood waters that burst dams and swept through cities and towns passed their crest last night, bring ing new hope to weary police, fire
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
OTHER NATIONS IN
 VIEWS ON CRISIS
Germany Insists on Peace. full Settlement-CzechO-
 slovakia in Danger Spot

Berlin, July 25-(UP)-Political quarters today, more than ever be- fore, insist that Germany wants peaceful settlement of the Czech aslovak minorities problem.
 Prospect of such settlement Is even more attractive because British leaders hold it to be an essential condition of a British German un- derstanding, and German leaders have always hoped for better rela- tons with Britain above all other countries.
 For the present, people here awaited the reaction of the Czecho- slovak government to British and French pressure in the interests of what Germans call more reason.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
ARRESTED MAN IS
 BADLY WOUNDED

Boston, July 25-(UP)-Wounded with his own revolver in struggle with a policeman, James Sullivan, 25, wanted for questioning in recent hotel and theater holdups, was un- der police guard at City Hospital today.
 Doctors planned to operate tomor- row or Wednesday to remove 8 bull let from his right thigh.
 Sullivan was captured yesterday by Officer Thomas P. Farrell when he went to visit his estranged wife and child in Dorchester.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25

Washington, July 25-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through July 22nd, compared with year, ago: This Year Expenses Lnst Year $599,751, ,464.S8 $497,614, ,401.SS
 Receipts $226, 6,679.S2526 $3O3,543.179.1s
 Cross Deficit s37s,o71, ,63962 si94,o71,222 7s
 Net Deficit sa72,9s4.2s9.62 4,O4O,s72.73
 Cash Balance $2,l36.224,166.1S $2.594,13O,154.15
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
PLEAD NOT GUILTY

Westfield, Mass. July 25 - (U.P.) Charles Lamont, Jr., 2l, of Q1 Howard Place) Bayonne, N. J., pleaded not guilty in district court to a dangerous driving charge grow ing out of the death of 52-year- -old cvclist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
Great Britain Leading General Effort To Stop ConHagration
Seuen-Day Rainstorn1 h State Seems Ended
Dams Are Washed Out-Tobacco Loss Is Esti- mated at About $1 100000

Hartford, Conn.,, July 25.-(UP)-Connecticut's rec ord sevendays ransorm ceased momentariy today en- abng authorities take stock of the damage which many predict will reach the $2O000OO mark. Two dams washed out shoreline towns boiling water Norwich residents preparing to be nocuated against typhoid
 farmers gazed sadly at ruined crops, state highway de- partment toed repair broken roads and replace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25

 highway bridge washed away by torrent.
 Tobacco damage alone was esti- mated at more than 100000 in the fertile, loW-lying Connecticut river valley. The quality of the crop has been lowered greatly, farmers said. In some cases, water was two feet deep in the fields.
 Other crops, especially potatoes, were damaged extensively through out the state.
 Two Dams Give Way
 Reservoir dams at Killingly and Clinton gave way before terrific pres sure, sending tons of water down the Menunketesuck river, ordinarily a stream but now torrent.
 Residents of Madison, Clinton, Guilford, Westbrook and Old Say brook, serviced by the Guilford- Chester Water Co.,, were urged by the concern first, to boil all water 20 minutes before use, and second to use very little of 1t because the supply was low.
 The waters wrecked highway bridge, washed out roads, knocked down telephone poles and poured into Long Island Sound, damaging many small boats.
 At Norwich, two blocks in the center of the city were flooded when Franklin Square brook went over it's banks. The Palace theater was in- undated to the stage level
 Many Homes Abandoned
 Many homes were abandoned in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
P0werfuI Bomb Is
 Hurled Into Arab Marker At Haifa
Toll of Dead Is Put at 3o, With 46 Wounded Reports Say Murder, Arson Followed-Jews Are D. Stoned to Death.

Jerusalem, July 25.-(UP)-Terrorism famed through Palestine today as powerful bomb exploded in Arab dead and injured The toll surpassed that in any of the long series of outbreaks between Jews and Arabs Several hours after the bombing, it 39 Arabs had been killed and 46 wounded The toll was expected to grow Many other casualties occurred elsewhere in Palestine and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
BY WEBB MILLER

Copyright, 1888, by United Press.
 London, July 25-UP)- Great Britain is taking tht leading role in a general ef fort by Euorpean powers tt prevent the minorities prob lem in central Europe from embroiling the entire conti. nent in a war.
 An unexpected German gesture in the interests of peace last week brought measure of optimism into discussions.
 But this optimism is based largely on the desire for peace rather than on conviction that peace is as- sured. The fact is that today Euro pean statesmen are looking forward to crisis of the greatest gravity during August, the 20th anniversary of the World War.
 Stated simply, it was understood that prime objective of Great Britain-in the person of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain-was to provide sort of diplomatic cush- ion to take the shock of the expected crisis.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-25
Unexpected Gesture By Germany Is Made in In-
 terests of Peace CZECH PROBLEM IS POWDER KEG, HOWEVER German Officials May Be Adamant on Question;
 Peace Might Ensue

Telegraph Editors Note: Great confusion has been apparent not only in news dispatches, but in European foreign office themselves as to the actual truth of 8 newly active, and obviously important diplomatic situation. Correspon- dents of the United Press in the key European capitals spent the week end finding out exactly what the situation is. Their dis patches follow, with a general, lead by Webb Miller, Unite Press war and diplomatic correspondent who has been at the center of every European crisis for nearly 20 years.