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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
SARAH K. PLUME
ESTATE FIGURES
Inventory Was Accepted
as Filed-$l20,547.83
Total Amount

Valuation of, $12O,54783 was
shown in the inventory of the es-
tate Of the late Sarah K. Plume,
widow Of David S. Plume, promi-
nent manufacturer, which was &C
cepted today by Judge Dennis j.
Slavin in the probate court. Mrs.
Plume died May 20 this year.
The majority of the estate Is in
stock holdings, with real estate and
miscellaneous items constituting
the items which are listed as fol-
lows:
Real estate, quarter interest in
two pieces at SO Prospect street,
$10,390.
Stock Holdings
200 shares American Hardware
corporation, $3,725; IFS American
Tel. g. Tel, $l4,835; so Colts Pat
emit Fire Arms Co., STATS; 1853 Conn.
Power, $6,873-dividend, $98.75; 204
Eastern Utilities associates, So
850.50; $50 Eastern Utilities shares,
$647.50; 675 Hartford Electric Light
Co., $37,125; 210 Landers, Frary g.
Clark, $4,410; $50 Scovill Mfg. Co.,
salts; so Peck, Stowe 81 Wilcox,
$3.50; 800 Plume g. Atwood Mfg. Co.,
$11,700; 68 SO. N. E. Tel. Co., $9,282;
. 100 Stanley Works, $4,000; 800 Tor
rington Co., 6,400; Country Club
bond, 5000:
Cash in banks: Citizens g. Man
ufacturers National bank, $745.42;
Waterbury Savings bank, $99.13;
Waterbury Savings bank, $l23.60;
Colonial Trust company, $108.23;
cash on hand, $43.42; furniture,
ETC., $4,000; jewelry, $420. Total
$120,547.83.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02

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kufeng sector at 8 a. m. today. Rus
STA asserted, in communicate Is
sued before the times cited for
these attacks, that Russian troops
had stormed and retaken the hill,
in the Changkufeng sector, from
which Russian troops previously
had been driven.
Japan asserted that Russia had
lost more than 10 dead in the
Changkufeng area. Russia asserted
that the Japanese losses there had
totaled 400 killed and wounded,
and admitted Is killed and SIS
wounded on her own side.
Russia To Protest
The Russian government in
structed its charge daffaires at
Tokyo to protest in the strongest
terms against frontier develop
ments and to point out the posi-
bilities of "gravest consequences"
of the action of japanese troops.
The atmosphere Of reserve and
watchfulness which comes at a
time when governments believe
they may soon be called up to de-
eide definitely between peace and
war. was apparent in dispatches
from both Moscow and Tokyo. 1t
was indicated that troops from
both sides were quietly taking their
positions along the frontier in for
midable number.
In Fukuoka province in SOUTH
western Japan, an emergency light
control" plan was put into opera
ton last night-an air raid precau-
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? ! |. !! F.. DUNCAN CT IN. n.
TRAGEDY AT SEA
Colgate Instructor Tries to
Kill Wife-ThrOWs Him.
self Overheard

New York, Aug 2.-OP)-Federa
agents learned today from seamen
aboard the Normandie that Prof.
Robert Moore Duncan, IS, of Colgate
University. had quarreled with his
wife Sunday night before he beat
and choked her and disappeared,
apparently overheard, while the ship
was 500 miles at sea. The Norman
die docked last night with first de-
tails Of the mystery, which came
within the jurisdiction of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Mrs. Duncan was met by her faith
er, Dr. Willard S. Richardson, who
forbade her to talk to newspaper
men. They went home Immediately
Those aboard the ship said Mrs.
Duncan had told them that her hus-
band sprang at her throat without
provocation while they were stand
ing at the deck rail, after dinner
Sunday evening.
A seaman carried her to the ships
hospital, and sounded the alarm but
Duncan was gone.
Political Science Prof.
Duncan was professor of politi-
cal science, a graduate of Princeton.
He had taught at Texas Christian
University and at Yen Ching Uni
versity in China before going to Col
gate. His wife is So; her father is an
executive Of the Rockefeller Foun-
dalton. They had called June Is on
the s. S. Paris for a vacation in
Europe, had visited the Azores,
France, Ireland, Scotland and the
Scandinavian countries and boarded
the Normandie at Southampton to
return home.
Sunday evening, "a hours before
they were to land, they had dinner
in their cabin and then went for
stroll on deck. Although Mrs. Dun
(UA,1tjy1naI ~, Dona
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
Possible Coordination OF
Independents With Vota
ers Group
4
SENATOR CULHANE LED
MEETING LAST NIGHT
Committee of Ten to Meet
Same Number Suggested
By State Chairman

Change in present organi-
cation of the Democratic
party in Waterbury, a pri-
mary, but possible coordina
ton with the Democratic
Voters Committee of State
Chairman J. Francis Smith.
were called for last night a
a meeting of Democrats and
Independents led by Senate
George T. Culhane, leader O.
the ticket of Independer
Democrats and Republicans at thu
last Waterbury election.
While a resolution passed by the
approximate $50 persons attendin
the meeting at The Elton last nigh
seeks "a new deal in local party at.
fairs removal of party contro
from present municipal leaders +.
complete reorganization T.. a fur
ther motion paved the way for haIs
mony, as the Culhane forces OUT.
HneQ tAlS phase Oh TeOTBduildIoH
Committee Named
A committee of ten will be APP
pointed this week to meet with a
similar committee suggested for APP
pointment by Chairman Smith.
Should this conference develop, rs
planned, then report Of possible
combination Of the groups will be
made at general meeting Monday.
Meanwhile. other reports not
withstanding. the proffer OF CO.
operation has been made to Chair
man Smith. even as the latter has
approached Senator Culhane and
others separated from the organ
ization over varying periods with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
1000 BUYERS FOR
BOSTON MARKET

Boston, Aug. 2-(UP)-More than
1000 buyers from throughout the
Nation and Canada were expected
to register at today's opening of the
Wholesale Garment Associations
three-day Boston Market week.
President David L. Rosenberg SAID
that with some 1913 lines on exhibi-
ton, business booked was expected
to exceed the 100000 reported after
last years second annual market
week An elaborate fashion show,
attended by 1,400 buyers last year,
again will be feature.
Participating In the event are
manufacturers and wholesalers of
dresses, coats, suits, skirts, sport
wear, sweaters, knitWear, underwear,
blouses, cotton dresses and furs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
But He Only Added to Rul-
ing on Minutes, Names
of Three Others
NEW YORK AUDITORS
JOINED TO CLAIMANTS
Addition Was Necessary
So Higher Court Could
Consider All Claims

Amendment to the find
ings on motions requesting
that certain defendants in
the Waterbury Grand Jury
proceedings be allowed to
inspect grand jury minutes
was filed today by Judge
Ernest L. Inglis in the Super
ior Court, as part of the
denials of the motions. Thus
are added claims of three
New York auditors to those
Of Simon J. Alderman, of New Hav-
en-, bringing all OF these matters
currently to consideration by the
Supreme Court Of Errors.
The amendment filed today ap-
pears as merely completion of the
findings when Judge Inglis denied
practically all of the defendants ac-
cess to the grand jury minutes. 1t
cites the additional claims Of George
H. Kingsley, William B. Murray and
John w. Meaney, all of New York
and members of the George H
Kingsley g. Co. audit firm, beyond
the contention of the New Haven
accountant, Alderman.
Addition Necessary
This addition would be necessary
to the judge of the superior courts
findings for consideration of claims
by the higher court. These addition
al claims, as cited some time ago
include the allegation by Attorney
Benjamin j. Slade, of New Haven
for the New York auditors, al
follows:
1.-THE testimony given before the
alleged grand jury, as distinguished
\
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
-Four States Holding
Primaries of Interest
Most Sensational Fight Is in Kansas Where Minister
Is Runnng-He Denounced Catholics, Jews
in His Campaign
BY LYLE C. WILSON
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 2 - U.PJ -
-Four straw-in-the- wind primary
elections sample voting trends on
some OF the outstanding issues of
the 1888 political campaign today.
Kansas heads the vote parade
with a test of the pulling power Of
campaigner who denounced Jews
and Catholics. Virginia offers a one
act play called "the purge. Mis-
sourians decide whether Thomas j.
Pendergast is as big a Democratic
boss as he used to be. West Virginia
offered no tests of national import
ance.
Minister In Kansas
The Rev. Gerald B. Winrod, a ra-
dio revivahst, is the featured player
In Kansas. He has been denounced
and repudiated by Chairman John
D. M. Hamilton of the Republican
national committee and other
party leaders. He is an uncertain
political performer who raised ra-
cial and religious issues in Kansas
until Hamilton advised fellow Re-
publicans to vote against him.
If Mr.. Winrod Is nominated"
Hamilton said on July %, ut (the
issue of tolerance) will again be in
jected into the national campaign
and our party in Kansas will be on
the wrong side Of a vital issue and
opposed to our party policy in other
states"
Editor White Speaks
Emporia Editor William Allen
White said that Winrod espoused
"the Nazi position" He and other
responsible leaders would be expect
ed to refuse to support Winrod, If
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
LIQUOR DEALERS
TO TEST RULING
Writs Were Served To-
day on State Liquor Com.
By Local Liquor Men

Writs calling on the state liquor
commission to show cause why the
licenses of three local restaurant
with liquor permits should be re-
voked were served at Hartford to-
day. This is the first step in ap-
peals to be brought in superior court
by Attorney Thomas F. McGrath,
counsel for the Connecticut Restau-
rant and Liquor Dealers Board Of
Trade.
The appeals are being brought in
behalf of Mulligan's Restaurant,
Phoenix avenue: Phil Becker's Grill,
Bishop street; and Keenan's Res
taurant, Cherry street. In each case
the commission ordered the liquor
license revoked because of alleged
failure to serve a drink without a
meal" on Sunday.
Sandwich Is Tangle
At hearings before the commits
sion in Hartford, inspectors testi-
fed that they ordered sandwiches
and beer In the establishments and
were served. The commission holds
that sandwich is not a meal, and
that the permittees violated the law.
Several other liquor permittees in
d.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02

committee, the group was given
no satisfaction. Including ward
chairman, as we'll as town commit
tee members, the group informed
Chairman Upson that they would
seek his removal at the meeting
next week.
Go ahead" the town chairman
was quoted as saying. "All political
life has to end some time" (The
last, in substance of his exact
words.)
Claim Twelve Votes
Claiming II votes on the town
committee membership of 20, the
group will seek removal of other
leaders, such as Registrar Albert o.
Faller, against whom numerous
racial delegations have united in
bitter criticism of his plan for
cutting representations under the
new set-up, by which there will be
10 members, instead of the 80 long
sought by the new districting of
Waterbury voting sections.
But the group admits that moth
ing in the Republican party rules
stipulates that the members who
elected Chairman Epson gives us
the right to remove him." They
called this to the attention of the
town chairman and searched the
rulog further only to find that there
Is no clause which states that the
members Of the committee cannot
remove the chairman. Thus, the
chairman was In the position OF
being able to name district chair
man without the members Of the
committee holding any check or
power whatsoever, they remarked.
Republican Rules
The Republican rules provide:
1.-THE city shall be divided into
voting districts as they may be con-
situated by law, and the town chair
man shall appoint district leader
for each voting district, to hold
office until he shall resign or shall
be removed by the town chairman.
H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
U. S. EMBASSY in
HANK0W HAS FLED
Bloody Battle Expected
Around Capital-20O,-
600 Building Forts
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE
UNITED Press Staff COrresDonde

NOIhtcu HICss otdII NOTTcSpOnOent)
Shanghai. Aug. q CUP - The
United States embassy fled the
Chinese provisional capital of Han
kow today where large scale prepar-
ations were being made to defend
the city against advancing Japanese.
Ambassador Nelson T. johnson
and his staff moved embassy docu-
ments aboard the Unitel States gun
boat Luzon which escorted by the
gunboat Tutuila, steamed upriver
toward Chungking, the new capital
where the Chinese foreign office
moved last week. The embassy tenn
porarily will be located aboard the
Luzon as 1t was shortly before and
after hte fall of Marking to the
last December. Major K
C. WI, Princeton educated Chinese
army official, babe farewell to john
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
Majority Group In
COP. Committee
Detern1inedT0Ac
Should New Party Rules Prevent Majority Action,
Courts Will Be Asked to Decide-Racial Groups
i, Are Aroused Over Rules

Custer of Republican Town Chairman j. Warren Epson
by recourse to claimed majority vote and then if the
specially devised rules of the party to concede
this result by court action, threatened definitely
today BY majority Group OF members Of the Republican
to attempt reconsideration" of his plan to "centraze
authority to cut racial representation on the town
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-02
Present Organization
OF Party In Waterbury
WiHSee ManyChanges
Russia, Japan Ready
To Start General War
Fighting on Siberian Frontier Has Reached Such
Scale That an Explosion Can Be Expected at
Any Minute Now
(By United Press)

Russia and Japan reported fighting on the Siberian
frontier today scale and of nature which made it
plain that explosion into general between two OF
the most powerful armies in the world, threatened
and might be imminent Japan asserted that after air.
plane attacks at a. and 7:30 Russian infantry
Sppored by tanks attacked the japanese in the Chang
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The Weather

Partly Cloudy for To-
night, Wednesday
Full Weather Report Page 3
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
Academy of Science
Palace of Wonders

Easily good penny arcade is the show being put
at the National Academy of Sciences annual meeting here
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
Radio Features TOdav

feet below strest level in New York city
will take the leading role when the first
of three weekly series under the guild
ance of the Adult Education Board y
presented over CHS. He 10 Joe Weaver,
and he will be met on his job in the
Sixth Avenue subway tunnel at Eighth
Street by Bob Trout, announcer and
Henry 3. Talbot, tunnel superintendent.
-wJsV.
DRAMA
s7:SO-GREEN HoRNET-A card shark
combines bridge with blackmail until
Britt Reid. publisher-crusader, assumed
the role of the Green Hornet.-WOL.
DISCUSSIONS
s:8O-TowN MEETING OF THE AIR
Concludes its 1937-3s series with q
brilliant program. The answer to the
question, What Is the American Way"
will be argued from the Republican
standpoint by Colonel Knox. vice presi-
Dental candidate in 1888. and from the
New Deal standpoint by T. v. Smith.
professor of philosophy at the University
Of Chicago. A third view will be Of
fered by Alfred Bingham. son Of Ex-
Senator Hiram Bingham.-WMAL.
s:OO-sUMNER wELLEs-The Under
secretary Of State will address the Pan
American Coffee Bureau in the Hall Of
the Americas at the Pan-American
Union on the subject of "Amity in the
Americas."-wJSV.
NEWS COMMENTATORS
5:So-BoARE cARTER.-wJsv.
S:45-LOWELL THOMAS.-wMAG.
7:OO-FULToN LEWIS, JR.-woL.
ORCHESTRA DANCE TUNES
1o;ao-ENR1 QUE MADRIGUERA.-
WMAL.
11:oo-oRRIN TUcKER.-wJsv.
12:00-JAN CAREER VOL
12:30-ANSON WEEKS.-WOLs
1:00-DANCE MUSIC.-wOL.
The Washington times., 1938-04-28

S:SU--EARL GODWIN-HIGALIGR
IN THE NEWS. AS GL!MPsED BY RE.
INGToN TIMES EDITORIAL STAFF.
HEARD AT THIS EARLY MORNING
PERIOD, MONDAY THROUGH SAT.
URDAY.
MUSICAL AND VARIETY
7:OO-RUDY vALLEE-sheila Bar.
rett will not be heard on the program
as previously announced. Replacing her
lie novelty instrumental trio, the Car
nuana Brothers, who play a style of
clarinet. Dramatic hiehliEht will be
provided by six members Of The stage
cast of what a Life" Broadway Fit
play about high school students.-WRC.
7;Oo-KATE sMITH-scresn star Ro-
salind Russell will take part IN an orig
her appearance. The hilarious team of
Abbott and Costello, graduates of the
burlesque wheel, will provide comedy
relief.-WJSV.
S;O0-GooD NEws-Max Basr, OK.
heavyweight champ, will sxch ing
punches with Fanny Brice in the Love
Battle of the Century," and take some
boxing lessons from Frank "One Round"
Morgan. Una Merkel and Maureen O'Sul.
livan have been added to the program
Miss o'sullivan Will emote opposite Rob
ert Young in playIet. Meredith WILL
sons orchestra will play the most be-
loved American folk song, and accom-.
pany Judy Garland on one Of the jaunts
into singland.-WRC.
S:oo-AMATEUR HoUR-Major Bowes
and his amateurs honor Lincoln, Netr.
-WJSV.
S:o0-MUsIC HALI4-Bing Crosby and
Roland Young, his actor guest. will
spring another stunt similar to the one
they did when Young last visited the
Hall: Georges Barrere, one Of the world
leading hautists, will also be heard
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
JAILED BANKER.
In THIRD PLEA.
FOR FREEDOM

Benedict M. Mcneil, imprisoned
at the District Reformatory, Lor.
ton, Va, for his part in the col
lapse of the Park Savings Bank,
will make his third bid for free
dom tomorrow when he faces the
District Parole Board.
On two previous occasions, NC
Neil sought liberation on parole,
but each time the board turned
down his application on the
ground he had not served suffi-
cient of his sentence.
NAMED IN FRAUD
Mcneil, erstwhile assistant cash
ier of the bank, was sentenced to
a term of eight months to four
years in April, 1885. He was in
dicted for fraudulent financial
transactions at the bank along
with Robert StunZ, bank execu-
tive officer, who committed
suicide.
BANK Is RAZED
Closed since the bank holiday
Of 1888, the defunct bank today
literally is going through a state
of collapse. The building, at
Fourteenth and Kenyon Streets
Northwest, is being razed by a
houSe-wrecking firm.
In addition to McNeil's applica-
ton, the board also is scheduled
to hear the cases of % other
inmates.
The Washington times., 1938-04-28

And when Junior gets wind of
it. the Science Building at Twenty.
first Street and Constitution
Avenue Northwest bids fair to
become a madhouse.
Junior will not be very much
interested in the papers read by
the visiting scientists-they were
too deep for this reporter, too
but wait till he gets a peek at the
miniature testing plant for Pan
American clipper planes.
This a complex model, which
the public is invited to operate
with buttons. The public was &C.
cepting the invitation in great
numbers when the meeting
opened.
THEN THOSE LIGHTS
Then there's the largest COM
mercial electric light in the world,
anc the smallest, on view.
The big lamp has a globe the
size of a basketball, and its so, 900
watts are the equivalent of 1900
ordinary lights. The filament in
side the globe weighs three
pounds, and a cupful of loose
tungsten powder keeps the inside
Of the globe from blackening.
They use it in movie work.
The smallest lamp is the grain
of wheat" light. It's just that
size, and is used by surgeons to
illuminate cavities in the body.
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
Furniture Ballot
Ordered by NLRB

The National Labor Relations
Board last night ordered the EN-.
pire Furniture Company, johnson
City, Tenn, to reinstate with back
pay three employees discharged for
union activity. The board also
ordered a collective bargaining
election to determine whether the
company's employees desire to be
represented by the textile work.
ers organizing committe, a Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
affiliate.
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
Le0Ue Order
/ Protested

White House Qualification of
present leave regulations today
was awaited by the CLOS United
Federal Workers of America fol.
lowing failure to achieve reversal
OF q recent order by the Acting
Comptroller General, which forces
emergency Government employees
to take all accumulated annual
leave prior to June 80.
The order in question was
issued by the General Accounting
Office to its $500 emergency
workers early this month, follow
ing revision of leave regulations by
the President, and stated that
emergency personnel-those whose
appointments expire June 80
cannot carry leave over to the
next fiscal year, even though new
appointments are granted the next
day. Employees were urged to take
their leave to avoid losing it.
Throughout the Federal service
other agencies have been following
the General Accounting precedent,
anticipating a Comptroller Gen
erals decision forcing the action
If they did otherwise.
Yesterday the UFWA's District
Organizing Committee visited R.
N. Elliott, acting Comptroller Gen.
eral, with a plea that his offices
Interpretation of the Presidents IS
regulations be reversed. Elliott
listened to arguments that the
language of the Executive order
required a different construction
more favorable to employees, but
refused action.
Jacob Baker, UFW president
then sent letter to the White
House reviewing the problem and
requesting a new and clarifying
Executive order.
~-vOYE FOR SUFFRAGE APRIL So
The Washington times., 1938-04-28

ROME, 1880 P. M.-Selections
from Operas; '"'The italian Center
for American Studies" a monthly
survey. 2RO, 31.l M, 9.63 meg; !;
1RF, 3O.5 M, 9.83 meg; 10Y. 1921
m, 11.90 meg.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, 800
P. Nv ariety; English Talk.
OLR4A, 25.3 m, 11.83 meg;
OLR5A, 1877 m, 1898 meg.
CARACAS, 900 P. M.-Songs.
YV5RC, SIT m, So meg.
ERLTN, OILS P. M.-Radio
Cabaret. DJD, 25.4 m, 11.77 meg.
The Washington times., 1938-04-28

CONCERT
s:O0-CooLIDGE QUARTET - Offers
Bridges Sonata for Violin and Piano, FL
gar's String Quartet in Minor, Opus, So,
and Williams "On Wenlock Edge in
concert from the Library of Congress
-WOL.
9:30-ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC
DIR. Howard Hanson, conductor. The
broadcast will be the third to be heard
from the American Musical Festival of
the Eastman School of Music Program
Charles Vardelrs First Symphony
WMAL,
NOVELTY
S:SO-WE. THE PEoPLE-Lee Gehl-
bach, best-known of the four living
American test pilots who specialize in
high speed diving. will head the list Of
guests on Gabriel Heaters . program
Also present will be franklin B. Hunt
ington, direct descendant Of Benjamin
Franklin.-wJSV.
s:3O-AMERICANS AT wOR E-A
sandhoE in a compressed air chamber so
The Washington times., 1938-04-28
Topic
For Brant, Teigan

Irving Brant, well-lnown author
and Representative Henry G
Teigan CF.-L), of Minnesota, will
be opposing debaters Saturday
night on the subject, Government
Monopolies," under auspices OF
Peoples Lobby at the Admiral
Club, 1910 Rhode Island Ave.
N. W..
Brant will take the stand that
Government monopolies are not
essential, and Represe n tative
Teigan will take the opposing
side. A forum will be held at the
conclusion of the debate.