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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
Relief Agencies Mobilize To Aid , Tornado Visited States

dead and 20 were in 8 hospital. Four were dead at Neeleyville, Mo.
 Impelled by 8 low pressure area of terrific intensity, the storm burst upon Avant, Okla, shortly before noon, barreled slantwise across Ar zansas, Kansas and Missouri and spent itself in central Illinois six hours later.
 Sometimes the disturbance was in the form of @ roaring black fun mel that sped across the horizon with the roar of freight train, dipping to earth with freakish hops and skips. Sometimes 1t was merely cyclone wind which fiattened wooden barns and brick school houses like a battering ram.
 Raymond Lahr, United Press staff correspondent, surveyed the devastated town of South Pekin and reported it reSembled scene of wartime bombardment.
 In the eerie blare of flare posted
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31

employees of the Chase Brass and Copper Company this afternoon rel ative to calling strike because cI an announced wage cut. Meantime, union employees of the Scovill Man ufacturing Company have taken vote to walk out on strike II ana when a reduction in wages Is arl- nounced by the company. The fac tories, the city's three largest, em- ploy more than 50 per cent of the factory workers in Waterbury.
 A. F. of L. Joins
 The strike at the American Brass Go. was given added impetus today when locals of the A. F. of L. joined in support of the strike, which was begun by members of the Brass Workers union, a CIO affiliate. Rudolph Tata, business agent for the Waterbury local of the Truck Drivers union, an A. F. or l.. afnn- ate, declared late this morning that the truckers will support the strike fully. Taking part in the walkout, he said, are machinists who are members of the American Fedora ton of Labor. The truckers union, he asserted would act to prevent any shipments of goods to and from the factory. Several inbound trucks were halted this morning, he claimed, the drivers refusing to pass through picket lines established on west Main street and Freight street.
 The local labor situation assumed national importance this afternoon when the Waterbury Brass Workers Union announced through spokes- man that 1t had petitioned its par ent body, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers to give all possible aid. The Inter national, local union men said, will probably send 12 union organizers here within the next few days. They said that Reed Robison, president of the International Union, wired them all help possible would be give the waterbury strikers at once.
 A meeting of the American Brass Go. strikers began at 1:30 this af- ternoon in a vacant store on West Main street, just beyond Judd street, and near the Crane street entrance
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
BOYS KIDNAPERS
 TO BE CONTACTED

New York, March 31 - UP)- (UP)-A mysterious message broad cast over radio station WABC caused reports today that contact had been made with the kidnapers of 12 years old Peter Levine of New Rochelle, N. Y.
 The message, read by the station announcer at 9:30 last night at the end of a program featuring Grace Moore, operatic and movie star, said {;
 We are ready to follow your in- structions B23L but we have to pro- ceed by automobile because of weather conditions"
 It had rained all Wednesday in New York city and it's environs.
 Columbia Broadcasting company, which operates the station, re- mained secretive today about the message. The announcer prefaced it by saying: we have been asked to make the following announce ment."
 Then he read the message and the programs continued with no further explanation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
WAGE CUTS WILL BE FOUGHT, SAY UNION OFFICIALS, WORKERS
A. F. of L. Union Lends Aid to American Brass Fight; Truckers Pledge Support Many Meetings of Df-
 ferent Unions in Three Big Plants to Be Held

One of the greatest labor crises in Waterbuys history
 was imminent today workers in the citys three major expected At the American Brass Company strike in the north mill begun yesterday was continued today with union leaders claiming that hundreds more nave !oneo CIO affiate nlanned to make an unofficial of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
FIVE MINERS KILLED

Edmonton, Alta, March 31-CUP) An explosion and fire at Hinton Collieries, 200 miles west of Edmon- ton in sparsley settled territory. killed five miners and injured five others, according to reports received at Edynonton today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
Rowland- Upson
 Battle Deuelops
Open Warfare Is Reported as Result of Controller s Personal "Merit tSysem"-Ihreats Alleged in Re-
 cent Controversy, According to Reports

Open battle between Controller Sherwood L. Rowland
 and the organization forces of Republican Town j. Warren Upson with a 'lethimdown-easy policy ordered bv Publisher William Pape the result, deve- oped yesterday learned on good authority today by
 Tine Democrat Fires of resentment have been farng since the time the Republican controller started m trek he is said to have believed might lead to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
How GoodaP Prophet Are You?

predcters the doghouse these days whir ing world has many careful prophecies recent months
 Probably well better than the experts We'll And really better of than the professionals you have reputation at stake
 your the chart below Clip out the list and mail Waterbury Democrat of Prediction Contest Editor Wednesday, April Here the questions l. Will 8 widespread world war" have begun? g. Will Greta Garbo marred?. B. Will better wOrse?.
 f. VIII Cxechoslovakia?
 B. Will the Spanish ver?.......,............. G. What in each major league?. T. Will ScarIett be chosen for Gone With the Wind'?
 g. VIII schmelng world heavyweight champ. Sno- Japanese be overt. TO- will the Kentucky Derby?
 you all those questions right you're wonder and The Waterbury $2 bill If get six out Of 10 and will receive $ bill If you get pretty fair worth honorable mention in Water hall of only correctwe you'll still be about good as the experts"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31

This Year Expenses Last Year $5,63S, S,497, ,14667 $5,491,982,5 ,520.69
 Receipts $3.704, 905, ,0S9.63
 Gross Defict $SS6, ,779.594.9s $1,7S7,o77, ,4al.o6
 Net Deficit s7SO, ,2Os, ,344.s9 sl,7OS, S,o73. .Os1.os
 Cash Balance $3,106,622, ,05O.9s $1.77o. s9s, ,s96.35
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
The Weather

Rain Tonight; Friday
 Fair, Colder FuD Weather Report Page 2.
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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-03-23

..
VOL. Z, NO. IL
PUBLISHED weekly oy the Groonbolt
the auspices Of the Grccnbclt Journal
rs follows:
Ii non profit enterprise.
& Nonp rt1 son In politics.
8. Neutral IN religious matters.
4. An open forum for civic affairs.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-03-23

u24'-s7 49,
sraoo t blossoms and >eAs5a asby
t2sy Of mountain lcurcl md dogwood
and wild czoloo will transform field
and forest.
T., ylory Of this String in G,o-n-
belt will be glory in the highest be-
cause here mon have strivon to enhance
md encourage, rather thCn cxploit,
the bC2uty Of ncturo.
u. upon who have the privilege
Of enjoying this glory falls thu re-
sponsi bi1ity Of preserving it for
future years.
S. IL express our delight in the
blossoms Of Soring by ripping them from
thI ir plants, md watching thor fade in
hor1cs? or shall We leave then to
bloom again in years to conc, md to
sow tho seed Of blossoms thot arc to
be? S. Ill each Of US take oh, just
one sprlg Of holly, or one branch Of
dogWood, ono cluster Of lourclo or
shc1l each Of us take mono, but have
ell?
But, you say, our plants arc in no
dCngor, for they crc prot ctcd by Inv.
True, just IS in the entire stctc Of
Virgini it is in Grccnbclt illegal
to rcnovc, irrocir or destroy trees,
shrubs, plants Flowers. But the
l2w n do little. Oily our dctcrnin-
alton not to crafty ourselves IT the
cxpcrs Of 9TH rs md ulti~ctc1y Of
ourselves; only our dctor:i cction to
truly revere md protect, rcth1r thin
destroy, + lures oounti1s; only our
dotcrr7inction not to dosnoil : single
lCcf or bud or flower, ill preserve
for tho future what shall hovc today. a.
I =. editorial in the " .shington
Stcr it WIS Woll said:
"T:co Lovolicoss Of ring chnllc ngos
mn to III ~d11irction that trc1sccnds
ownership"
". X. V.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
SIX ARE INJURED,
TWO SERIOUSLY,
IN D. c. TRAFFIC

Six persons were injured, two
seriously, in traffic accidents dur
ing the last "a hours, police reports
today revealed.
Stepping back to avoid being
struck by an automobile last night
Hillard Jones, colored, 27, Of 1700
block S St. N. W.. and Sarah Cal
loway, colored, 27, of 1900 block
New Hampshire Ave. N. w, backed
into the path of a street car at
Fourteenth and Corcoran Streets
Northwest, and we're felled. They
are in Gallinger Hospital with Sc.
rious head injuries.
Mrs. Gertrude Shimkover, AZ, OF
2200 block Twelfth st. N. W., is
in Emergency Hospital, under
treatment for a fractured leg and
brain conclusion after being
struck by a hit and-run motorist
at Thirteenth Street and Florida
Avenue Northwest.
Knocked down by an auto
mobile near her home, Mrs. Mae
Fr0eHch. 11C0 block East Capitol
St.. suffered a possible fracture
Of the skull. She is in Providence
Hospital. Police booked Ray
mord R. Gramlich, 27, of Route l.,
Benring, D. c., on a reckless driv-
ing charge.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

NCNAO
Their father, Salvatore Ossido,
had Just been electrocuted, but
they didn't know it. Anthony
Ossido, three, in gay new snow
suit, was sucking noisily on an
orange. His sister, Esther, seven,
clutched a precious souvenir, a
tube of toothpaste, and playfully
squeezed ribbon out of it now
and then.
Mrs. Beatrice Ossido, wife of
the condemned man, had brought
that tube of toothpaste, in one of
those incredible incongruities, 10
give hel husband. The guards had
said it wasn't allowed, so she
gave it to Esther. who was en-.
chanted with the new plaything.
Ossido went to the electric chair
at II o'clock last night, a sex.
bounded Brooklyn barber who en-.
ticed Elmer Sporrer, a frail, blonde
schoolgirl of nine, into his shop
one day last March, tried to Sc.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Hunter Succeeds
In Shot, Loses Deer

LEOMINSTER, Mass, Jan.
G.N.S).-There are other ways
Of getting your deer than shooting
it, it seems.
While hunting near here, Fire
Chief Ernest P. johnson shot a
deer on the opposite bank Of q
small stream. AS he started
across the stream, three men
emerged from the underbrush,
waded across the stream ahead of
him and after one Of their mum.
ber stuck it with a knife, picked
it up and left.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
DU POINT SUES FOR LIBEL

NEW --ORK, Jan. 7.-Officials
of the E. I. dupont and de
Nemour5 & Co. yesterday filed no
tice of intention to sue Ferdinand
Lundberg, author Of Americas
so Families" and &he Vanguard
Press for libel. It was understood
$150,000 damages would be asked.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07

duce her, and silenced her cries
with a hammer. He walked into
the death chamber with a sheep.
ish smile, a short plump man
of 26.
Three minutes-three shocks
and he was dead.
The Washington times., 1938-01-07
Father Dies in Chair
While Children Wait

OSSINING n. Y, Jan 7 (IN.S).-Two drowsy, ggging
children tripped the steps of Sing Sing Prison early
Evening star., 1938-09-21
WORK IN JOURNALISM
IS EXPANDED BY G. W.

With the appointment of three new
members to the teaching staff and
the addition of new courses, President
Cloyd Heck Marvin Of George Wash
ington University announced today
the expansion of work at the univer-
sity in the field of journalism.
The new appointees are Nathan
Robertson, assistant director of the
Division of Information of the Farm
Security Administration; Marcelle
LeMenager Lane, director Of the uni
versity press bureau, and Charles
Frederick Moore, on the stan Of q
Washington paper.
Mr.. Robertson will give the course
In reporting. Mrs. Lane the course in
feature writing, and Mr.. Moore the
course in advertising.
Edward Joseph Duffy, appointed
last year, will again be the executive
ofacer Of the journalism department.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
POLICE OPEN DRIVE
ON DRUG PEDDLERS
Use of Narcotics Held Responsible
for Large Part of Districts
PETTY Crime.

Police yesterday launched a drive
on narcotics sales in the District with
a raid at l Freedman's court S. W.,
arresting four colored men for in
vestigation and conflscating 80 cap
sules of narcotic
The raid was the third in as many
days in that area.
1t. Joseph Shimon, head Of the
pickup squad, expressed the view,
after the arrests were made. that a
great part of the petty crime in the
District is due to use Of dope. Not
only does dope unbalance the addict's
mind. but its expensiveness leads him
to resort to crime to secure funds
for purchase
Narcotics are obtained principally
from New York, 1t. Shimon said.
He further expressed the view that
longer Jail sentences and large fines
would tend to alleviate conditions.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
CONTRACT is SIGNED
FOR CENTER FUNDS
Loans and Grants for District
Totaling $5,700,0O0 Are
Made Available.

The formal contract was signed TO-
day by the Commissioners with the
Public Works Administration for loans
and grants totaling $500, 900 for con-
struction Of major portion of the
Municipal Center, to be erected be-
tween c street and Indiana avenue,
Third and Sixth streets NV.
Announcement of the advances was
made recently by Administrator Ickes
and the agreement today will permit
the prompt use of the funds for the
project as fast as the District needs
them. OF the total, the District must
repay SIS per cent, or S3,l35. 900, but
will receive on outright grant of S2,-
565 200.
Construction must be started on or
before January l next and the portion
Of the Center covered by the loans
and grants must be completed by
June 80, 1910. The loan portion of
the advance will be repaid in annual
installments running from 194l 70
1865, with interest at per cent. The
grant was announced recently after
agreement had been reached between
the District, the P. w. A., the Fine
Arts Commission and the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion to keep open John Marshall place
through the Center site in order to
preserve vista of the old District
Court House. The Municipal Center
buildings therefore will be divided into
two major sections, one on either side
of John Marshall place.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

World War and performed at Gridiron
dinners. During his 40 years he has
seen the band grow in prestige until
it now Is recognized as one of the
foremost musical organizations in the
country.
He was made leader in 1927 and in
1895. by special act of Congress, he
was commissioned captain.
Lends Talents to New Works.
Capt. Branson is catholic in his
musical tastes. He can attack a new
composition or a classic with equal
enthusiasm. While he is stepped in
the traditions of Bach and Beethoven,
he also is receptive to any new work
Of merit. particularly American COM
positions. and he has done much to
help native composers.
Il feel" he said, that compositions
like the Rhapsody in Blue are gen.
uine contributions to modern music.
Certainly the pieces of Irving Berlin
have brought distinctively American
flavor to contemporary music. We
were the first to revive 'AleXanders
Ragtime Band after it had been for
gotten for years except by the older
persons, and the youngsters who had
never heard it received it with great
enthusiasm"
The band, from its humble begin
nings in IT'S as a f1fe-and-drum unit
of the newly organized Marines, has
developed into an institution as firmly
established as the Treasury
AS for Its leader, Capt. Branson far
from weary after his 40 years of serv-
ice. has no intention of retiring.
Il never felt better" he said en-
phatically.
And he looks as if he never did.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
HOPKINS CLEARS
W.P.A. OFFICIALS
Finds No General Vote
Coercion, He Tells
Senate Group.
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
w. P. A. Administrator Harry Hop
kins has notified the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee that he
found no substantiation Of charges
that w. P. A. officials generally tried
to coerce relief workers into supporting
Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken
tucky for denomination.
or Is complaints submitted to the
committee, Mr.. Hopkins said "a w. P.
A. investigation produced evidence
backing up only one charge OF i'm
proper political activity.
He said James B. Boddie. a district
w. P. A. director in Kentucky, had
compiled lists of w. P. A. workers who
were registered voters and had made
them available to county campaign
chairmen. Although Mr. Hopkins said
steps had been taken to warn Mr..
Boddie. he expressed belief that his
fine record did not warrant his dis
charge.
The w. P. A. head made his state
ments in a letter to Senator Sheppard,
Democrat, of Texas, chairman of the
Senate Committee. Specifically, it
had been alleged that workers we're
canvassed as to their political affilla-
ton and preference among candidates
and approached by foremen to sign
papers pledging support of Senator
Barkley: that Barkley buttons were
distributed to workers and that men
known to hold views contrary to Can
didate Barkley were discharged"
Mr.. Hopkins wrote:
There is not the slightest evi-
dence in all the material sub
mitted by the committee and the
sworn statements of persons involved
in these charges to substantiate i'm
plications of any considered effort
toward political coercion by w. P. A.
officials in Kentucky"
Evening star., 1938-09-21
BETTER BALANCE
SEENFO CzECHS
Benefits From Partition Are
, Envisaged by Some
Experts Here.
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
.Czechoslovakia will be the best
balanced nation economically in Gen.
sral Europe, some American experts
predicted today, if portion of the
sudeten territory is handed over to
Hitler
Such partition, they said, would
leave the country in comparatively
better condition than now. They dis
puted contentious that partition would
be the economic ruin of the little re-
public. although they acknowledged
it would affect some major export
products.
More Homogeneity.
The new Czechoslovakia, these ex-
perts said, would be a better state
homogeneously and much more united.
The heavy problem of unemployment
In the Sudetenland would be shifted
to Hitler's shoulders.
Czechoslovakia agricultural self
suff1ciency would be much improved.
1t would retain nine-tenths of its
ASSo, AASoC VA ASo AloAu WA
and iron deposits, all but small per-
centage of its steel, machinery and
engineering industries.
Most Industries to Remain.
The greater part Of its chemical,
wood and paper manufacturing plants,
shoe and wooden factories, sugar,
alcohol refining and mailing in
dustries would remain in the Czech
area The vast shoe factories which
produce large part Of Czech exports
would remain in Czech territory.
Much Of the new Czechoslovakia's
prosperity would depend on trans
portation facilities Germany for
many years controlled the principal
Czech transport outlets, but recently,
experts reported. Czechoslovakia has
diverted a large portion Of her export
routing to the Polish port Of Idynia.
Poland has decreased sharply its
freight rates from Czech territory to
Gdynia.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
F. F. HILL IS NAMED
GOVERNOR OF F. C. A.
President Chooses Former Cornell
Professor as W. I. Myers
Successor.

President Roosevelt yesterday an
nounced the appointment of F. F. Hill,
a deputy governor. to succeed William
I. Myers as governor Of the Farm
Credit Administration Mr.. Myers will
return to PROFESSIONAL duties at Cornell
University.
Mr. Hill, whose appointment was
announced at the Presidents press
conference, has worked with the
F. c. A. since it was organized in
1888 and has been deputy governor
since 1884.
He also is a former professor at
Cornell University and was at one
time with the Federal Land Bank at
Springfield. Mass He is 81 and q
native of Kansas. Mr.. Hill attended
Cornell after graduating from the
University of Saskatchewan and work.
ing for a time as an agricultural ex-
tension agent.
In Springfield, he was agricultural
statistician and controller. and at
Cornell was research professor of land
economics.
Evening star., 1938-09-21

always chance for the recruit who is
thoroughly grounded in music, for
bandsmen get old and retire and re-
placements must be made
A considerable number of the in
strumentalists in brass and woodwind
also can double on stringed instru-
ments. for there is symphony Or
chestra in addition to the band, and
it gives regular concerts. performing
the works of the masters in q highly
creditable way.
Capt Branson himself born 81 years
ago, started out as violinist.
MY father" he explained, was a
country fiddler who played by ear at
county fairs in Maryland. He was
determined that would learn to play
by note, and I did"
Studied Under Santelmann.
The youth studied under William H
Santelmann. then a member and later
leader of the Marine Band. Young
Branson later learned the clarinet,
and he didn't rest until he had
mastered both instruments He also
studied composition and has written
some cracking good marches. includ-
ing Tell 1t to the Marines" and Ma
rines of Belleau Woods
During his early years. John Philip
Sousa, the march king was leader of
the band. In 1898. just before the
close of the Spanish-American War.
Taylor Branson achieved the coveted
honor OF getting into the band He
has played or directed for every Pres
ident since Mckinley. He has toured
the whole country, played at presiden-
tial inaugurations and state receptions.
in stately concert halls and at military
reviews, helped recruiting for the
Evening star., 1938-09-21
Am MERICAN CRUISER
REMAINS IN EUROPE
U. S. S. Nashville and Sister Ship.
Honolulu, Arrive Without
Notice at Portsmouth.

By the Associated Press.
The Navy disclosed today that the
European stay of the new 10,0O0-ton
cruiser Nashville had been prolonged
indefinitely. Altered orders were made
public as the Nashville and a sister
ship, the Honolulu, arrived unexpect-
edly at Portsmouth, England.
Both vessels are on shakedown
cruises prior to joining the newly
created Atlantic squadron They ORR
gtnally were to have met at Gravesend.
The Nashville was to have sailed on
her return to this country last Sat-
urday.
Officials said the changed orders,
issued by Admiral William D. Leahy,
chief of operations, had no signifi-
cance," but informed persons under
stood they were linked to European
tension over the German-Czech
crisis.
The two cruisers, together with the
cruiser Omaha and two destroyers,
forming temporary squadron in the
Mediterranean, could be called on to
transport American refugees and
undertake other responsibilities in the
event of European war.
Evening star., 1938-09-21
D, c. MANAGEMENT UNIT
TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS
John M. Carmody Is Chairman for
Dinner at Which Several
Will Speak.

Management problems arising from
recent Government programs will be
discussed at dinner tonight by the
Washington Chapter Of the Society
for the Advancement OF Management,
arranged in connection with the In
ternational Management Congress.
The dinner will be at the Washing
ton Hotel at $50, with John M.
Carmody, administrator of the Rural
Electriication Administration, as
chairman. Speakers will include J.
Warren Madden, chairman, National
Labor Relations Board; Evan Clague,
director of research and statistics,
Social Security Board; William o.
Douglas. chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission, and DR.. Har-
low s. Person, consultant in business
economics and management.