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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08
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0. M. T. c. terday at state headquarters in Hartford.
 Major Newton Alexander and George McDuff of Waterbury, past local post commanders, were among those named. Major Alex Ander will serve as Q member of the committee on 0. M. T. 0. training, while MT. McDuif Is chairman of the committee on uniforms,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08

Smokers of Belgium are showing . preference for American tobacco
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08

Rumania has more gypsies than any other country in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08
FACTORIES WORK TO MUSIC

London tUP) Is being us. cd to aid the workers in 100 factor. les in England, pr, Agnes savill revealed at the Music and Life Congress here, Tn e cracker works, she said, girls engaged in mono- tonouS repetition work were bright- ened and increased their output when foxtrots and waltSes were played,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08

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 Two Waterburians, members of Corp, Coyle Post, American Le- zion, have been selected by State Commander William Q, Kruser for membership on state committees during the coming year. Comman- der Kruser was elected department tal head at the recent convention in New London. Ills selection of committees was announced yes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08

Lop-eared rbabitS have been pro. dueed with 2e-inch ears.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-08

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Evening star., 1938-03-19
THREAT TO PEACE
HELD j. s. CONCERN
Austrian incident Cited in
HuI's First Statement
on Coup.

The extent to which the Austrian
incidents endangers peace and the
principles for which the United States
stands is "a matter of serious concern
to the Government of the United
States" Secretary of State Hull said
today in his first statement concern
ing Germanys absorption of Austria
The statement was made at the Sec
retary's press conference in connection
with an announcement that Austrian
Minister Edgar L. G. Prochnik had in
formed the State Department that his
country has ceased to exist as an in
dependent nation" and that the af-
fairs Of the Legation here have been
taken over by the German Embassy.
! Refers to Policy Speech.
MIR. Hull referred to his speech on
United States foreign policy Thurs
day and said:
THE day before yesterday I dis
eussed fully the principles governing
peaceful and orderly international re-
lations and their application to present
conditions in European and other
world areas.
THE extent to which the Austrian
incident, or any similar incident, Is
calculated to endanger the mainte-
nance Of peace and preservation of the
principles in which this Government
believes u.s. OF course. matter of serious
concern to the Government of the
United States"
Although the Secretary's speech
(See HULL, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Cherry Trees
Due to Bloom
First of April
Date Set by Finnan
Is Based on Good
Weather Prospects.
picture on page A-1O.)

The single Towering japanese cherry
trees, fringing the Tidal Basin in
West Potomac Park. probably will be
in full bloom during the first week in
April, it was announced today by C..
Marshall Finnan, superintendent Of
the National Capital Parks.
He advised Secretary Ickes and Arno
Park Service, that the present condi-
ton of the trees indicates they will be
in flower about two weeks hence. The
park chief made it clear that this
prediction is based on the continuance
of mild weather.
ANY severe changes in the weather
conditions may materially affect the
blooming dates Mr. Finnan said.
On at least one previous occasion,
when the buds We're far advanced. it
was necessary for park officials to set
out smudge pots such as is done in
the fruit groves of California and
Florida, in order to preserve the BIOS
SONS here when the weather turned
cold suddenly.
Mr.. Finnan personally inspected the
trees this morning and found the
branches laden with young buds His
prediction was backed by David Saun-
ders, chief of the Horticultural! Di-
vision of the National Capital Parks,
who has been observing the trees since
they were set out here after being
received from Japan.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
BALTIC WAR is AVERTED
AS LITHUANIA SUBMITS
TO POLISH ULTIMATUM
End of Souiet Pact Reported
Reich Peace Price to Czechs
Hitler Declared to Haze Informed
President Benes Alliance Must
Be RenOunced.

Germany rates the Czech mutual
assistance treaty with France as of
secondary Importance, since Germany
has fortified her western frontier so
strongly she has little fear of France
coming to CZechoslovakia,s aid in
time of war.
IT the Czechs accede to Hitler's de-
sire and give up their alliance with
Russia, then Germany will be in a
mood to offer Czechoslovakia attrac-
tive terms for economic anschluss-
such as was talked of between Aus
tria and Germany before Hitler ab-
sorbed his southern neighbor.
Though Hitler pledged his personal
word to the Czech Minister in Berlin
that his Nazi government did not in
tend to use force against Czechoslo-
vakia, he was said to expect the Czech
government to meet Germany's pro-
posals.
Whether such sweeping demands
have been made on Benes and Hodza
could not be ascertained, but they
already have gone part way to give
greater autonomy to the German
minority.
The cabinet council decided German
districts would be administered by
German nationals, shortly after Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, in a
speech to the Reichstag. had warned
again of his determination to protect
Germans beyond his borders.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
BAKER IS STABBED
TO DEATH IN SHOP
Police Say Reprimand to
Tardy EmpIoye Started
Fatal Fray.

Police found John A. Metcalf. 80, a
baker at the Vienna Pastry Shop, 55l3
Colorado avenue NV. stabbed to
death when they responded to call
that fight was going on at the bakery
early today.
Willie E. Odum. %, colored, 1900
block of New Hampshire avenue NV,
an employe Of the bakery, who ex-
citedly telephoned the fight report to
police and waited for their arrival,
was arrested and held for action of a
coroner's inquest.
Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson of
the homicide squad said Odum ad-
mitted stabbing Mr.. Metcalf during a
scufie that climaxed 3O-minute argu-
ment after Mr.. Metcalf reprimanded
him for being late to work.
Police were told by Charles j. Shupp,
1130 Jefferson street NV. proprietor
Of the pastry shop. that Odum, who
had worked there more a year, had
been jealous because Mr.. Metcalf, hired
four months ago. had been made his
overseer.
Odum was quoted as saying Mr..
Metcalf acted sore" when he came to
work a few minutes after midnight,
when he was due. but did not say any,
thing to him until nearly am. After
a bitter argument, the colored man
told police. he began scufling with Mr..
Metcalf.
During the scuf11e, police said, Odum
seized 3-inch pairing knife from a
bench on which lay an assortment of
knives-many of them longer-and
stabbed Mr.. Metcalf in the left chest.
Physicians believed the blade pierced
his heart.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said an inquest probably will be held
Monday.
Mr.. Metcalf, who lived at $3.50
Georgia avenue NV, is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Hannah Metcalf; a
5-year-old daughter, Janice; his
mother. Mrs. D. c. Metcalf, 1921 Rit-
tenhouse street NV; a sister, Media
meta Metcalf, and a brother. m. c.
Metcalf, of the same address. Another
brother was said to be living in Texas.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
STOCKS SWEPT UP
AS TENSION EASES
Bonds and Most Commodities Also
Reocver-U. S. Steel Rises
$1.75 Share.
BY the Associated Press.

by ltle ASSOCid dleQ HTeSS.
NEW YORK, March 19.-Financial
markets did a quick ht-about-face
today as European war prospects dWin-
died following the acceptance of Po-
lands ultimatum by Lithuania.
Stocks, bonds and commodities, most
of which tumbled on fears of mill
tary outbreak abroad. were given a
substantial upward push. The major
ity regained substantial portions of
Fridays declines.
Cotton futures, previously weak on
war fears, shot up more than Sl50 a
bale. Rubbers and hides exhibited
strength. Wheat was among the few
staples to dip, losing a cent or so a
bushel in response to lessening of fears
Of new foreign outbreak.
Most of the gains on the rally were
held to the close. Dome Mines, aided
by announcement of a plan to split
the shares on a tWo-for-one basis,
spurted 81, leading recovery in gold
stocks which had been hard hit earlier
in the week.
United States Steel finished SITS
higher at $751; and Bethlehem was up
about 50 at $5525. Chrysler gained
SITS at $50; Kennecott Copper, SITS
at 1876 rs; New York Central 81 at
S13.75; Eastman Kodak, $3.50 at
$14850, and United Aircraft, SITS
around $25.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
SEADLUND Will DIE
IN CHAIR APRIL 19
Judge Passes Sentence After
Denying Defense Motion
for New Trial.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 19.-John Henry
Seadlund. 27-year-old Minnesota me-
chanic, today was sentenced to die in
the electric chair April 10 for the kid
naping of Charles S. Ross, 72-year-old
retired greeting card manufacturer.
Federal Judge John P. Barnes
passed sentence after denying motions
of Defense Attorneys Frederic Burn
ham and Floyd Thompson for a new
trial and arrest of judgment.
Seadlund, manacled to two deputy
marshals, was led before the bench at
the direction OF the court.
Have you anything to say before
sentence is pronounced? Judge Barnes
asked
NO." Seadlund answered, shaking
his head.
Judge Barnes then read the formal
sentence directing that Seadlund be
held in the custody Of the United
States marshal and that on the 10th
day Of April the defendant shall be
put to death by electrocution.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
SLAYER OF AGENT
HUNTED IN HILLS
Officers Scour Remote Mountain
Areas of Tennessee for Killer
During Raid.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, March 10.
Federal, State and county officers
deployed through remote mountain
areas today in search Of the slayer
of william F. Berry, Federal alcohol
tax unit investigator.
Mr.. Berry gave up the practice Of
law to enter Government service less
than two years ago. He was killed
by a shotgun charge late yesterday
as he walked into an isolated noun
tain cabin during a raid. j. D. Jones,
another Treasury Department agent
who was with him, was wounded
slightly. Agent Jones said the as
sailant fired from the doorway of an
adjoining room, and that, when the
man advanced toward him, he took
cover behind tree, shooting as he
went.
Il fired five times from an auto
matte rifle. don't know how missed
him." Agent Jones declared.
A man arrested on the scene and
charged with possessing whisky was
quoted by officers as saying he was
loading liquor at the time Of the raid
and that the fugitive fired over his
shoulder at the Government agents.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PRAHA, Czechoslovakia. March 10.
Diplomatic sources, today asserted
Adolf Hitler had demanded that
Czechoslovakia renounce her military
alliance with Soviet Russia as the
price of peace with Germany.
The demand, said to have been con-
veyed to President Eduard Benes
through diplomatic channels, was re-
| ported as the Czech government con-
formed with other German demands
and gave the 3,500,000 Germans within
her borders greater voice in their gov
ernment.
End of the Russian alliance was said
to be Hitler's basic condition for any
talks to lessen Czech German fric-
ton.
Informed persons said it was being
made increasingly clear to Benes and
Premier Milan Hodza that locked
| Czechoslovakia, two-thirds surrounded
by an expanding Germany, must be-
come a satellite of Nazi Germany to
avoid war.
To do this she must sever her MILL
tary alliances and fit herself into Ger
manyS economic order
Czech government leaders consid-
cred that only thus could the Czechs
and Slovaks retain their political and
cultural independence won in the
World War peace treaties.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
CONFLICT RACES
OVER EXCISE TAX
Senate Committee Is Drawn
Into Controversy With
Lumber Interests,
BACKGROUND

Repision OF corporate tdres uds
undertaken by special House Com
mtttee last tau and legislation en-
oracing modification of much criti-
ctsed undistributed profits and cap
'tal gains leuies is now before SEN
ate Finance Committee. Epen more
sympathetic to appeals of business
tor tar reuision, this group has in
dicoted further modification of
present laus.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
CHANGE HELD UNLIKELY
IN BILLION RELIEF PLEA
Chiefs Indicate Administration
Will Stand on Figure Asked
in Budget Estimate.

BY the Associated Press.
Congressional leaders indicated to-
day that the administration would
stand on its decision to ask only ST.
600, 100000 for relief purposes in the
new budget.
John L. Lewis, c. I. o. chieftain,
urged the House Appropriations Com
mittee this week to approve an appro-
priation of $4,000, 100000 for the fiscal
year beginning July l to provide g.
100000 w. P. A. jobs for the unem-
ployed.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley,
Democrat, OF Kentucky said, however,
that as far as he knew there had
been no change in plans to limit the
appropriation to $1,000,000.0 the
amount set out by the President in his
January budget estimate
Evening star., 1938-03-19
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Special interest" pressure in con.
nectlon with Federal excise taxes con-
tlnued to conflict with the admins
tration's highly-prized reciprocal trade
treaty program today as the Senate
Finance Committee was drawn into
controversy between conflicting lum-
ber interests over excise levies on i'm
portations of Norway and northern
white pine from Canada.
During passage of the pending gen.
eral revenue bill in the House an
excise tax of s1.50 per 1000 feet on
lmportations from Canada of these
two lumbers was ordered removed.
The Senate Committee was besieged
today by some half a dozen Northeast
United States timber operators op-
posing this action and citing its con-
f1ict with provisions of the trade
treaty between the United States and
Canada. Others appeared to support
the House decision.
Conflict Is Second.
Today's conflict between revenue
law and tariff making is the second
to plague the Senate committee in the
past few days. with both the State and
Agriculture Departments summoned
previously to build a backfire against
pork excise-tariff levy slipped into
the tax measure on the floor of the
House. Secretary of State Hull per-
sonally condemned this action as en-
dangering the trade treaty program.
Because of the appearance of more
than 40 witnesses this morning, Chair
man Harrison announced the hear
ings would be extended longer than in
tended. United States Chamber of
Commerce representatives were among
those postponed until Monday.
Among numerous late starters" re-
questing opportunities to be heard,
the chairman said, was Mary Pickford,
former film star, who has asked to
testify on the cosmetics tax.
Open Sessions to End.
On Monday the committee expects
to end its open sessions by receiving
testimony and revenue estimates
bearing on the pending tax legisla-
ton from officials of the Treasury
Department.
AS the Senate committee speeded
its efforts to get bill drafted and
brought to consideration on the floor,
yesterdays prediction of Majority
Leader Barkley that enactment Of
legislation beneficial to business will
be accomplished within month took
on added significance.
For the virtual committal of a ma
jority Of the Senate committee, in
cluding Chairman Harrison, to modi-
f1cations far beyond the original ad-
ministration intentions makes it ap-
parently certain >that there will be
wide differences between the House
and Senate bills, with speedy agree
ment apparently possible only if con-
ferees from the House show a will
ingness to make important conces-
sions.
Even before the conference stage,
however, trouble was looming on the
Senate floor as Senator Borah, Re-
publican, of Idaho took the occasion
of the Barkley prediction to announce
his opposition to any effort to broden
the income tax base by lowering in
dividual exemptions. Several Finance
Committee members have indicated
support for this theory as a means
of making up revenue presumably to
be lost through further modification
of corporate taxes and possible re-
duction Of the higher individual sur
tax rates.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Boy Loses Life
Studying Rig
For Toy Trains
Touches Live Wires
OF, PO,Uer Pole of
Real Railroad.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISON, N. Y, March 10
Scientific curiosity cost John E. Mars
land, 15-year-old Mamaroneck honor
student, his life.
The boy, anxious to know more
about electrical hook-ups for mini
ature railroad he was building, climbed
q pole at crossing last night to
study the overhead power system Of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad.
There was binding flash as he
bumped against an 11,000-volt wire.
The boy dropped to the ground dead.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Barcelona Marshals Defense.

BARCELONA, March 10 (P,-This
capital of government Spain todav
gave evidence that its determination
to fight on has survived two DAYS of
the most terrible air raids of the civil
war.
United Socialist youth organizations
called for two divisions of Youths
totaling $4,000 volunteers to be formed
within 10 days.
Ihe Communist newspaper organ
appealed to youths who do not want
TO be enslaved' and who ARE willing
to do heroic deeds" to join the ranks,
Two great labor syndicates in their
f1rst really united action urged work.
ers to stay at their jobs in factories,
Rescue workers continued to dig for
victims in debris of buildings shat
tered by insurgent raids which con-
tinued from late Wednesday until last
night.
The highest estimates of dead in this
series of attacks we're about 1900. but
authorities said only half that number
OF bodies had been taken from the
ruins. They said they were unable
to estimate how many still were buried.
More than 1000 wounded were
counted.
Thousands refused to leave the shell
Ter OF the subways, where they camped.
Thousands more stayed in the sub
urbs, to which they had fed.
For the first time since Wednesday
Barcelona had an uneasy breathing
spell today. No insurgent bombers
came. The drone of patrolling gov
eminent planes replaced the deadly
snarl OF bright-winged bombers from
the other side.
Shops reopened. Subways and troll
leys were running as usual. Workmen
began repairing buildings still worth
repairing.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
French Protest to Franco

LONDON, March 10 (P.-British
attention was drawn anew to the civil
war in Spain by French demarche
today seeking renewed Anglo French
efforts to end the tragic insurgent air
bombings Of Barcelona, the govern
ment capital.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
TUG BLAST BURNS FOUR
Gasoline Was Being Pumped
Aboard Boat at Annapolis.

AUOdIU 0OdC dI x311HdPO11b'
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 10 (R.-
Four men were burned in an explosion
aboard a tug lying alongside gasoline
barge at a dock here today.
The injured were William Johnson,
chief engineer Of the tug Visitor of
Philadelphia; Marshall Coverdale,
second engineer; Lewis TAR, cook, and
Harrison Moore. deckhand,
Evening star., 1938-03-19
PHILIPPINE BILL SEEKS
TO BUY JAPANESE LANDS
Measure Proposes Appropriation
Of $12, 100000 for Purchases
in navao provinco
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, March ia bill intro
duced in the National Assembly today
proposes an appropriation of $12,500,-
600 for purchase of japanese land
holdings in Davao Province.
1t provides that the money come
from the s47,OO0,0OO coconut oil tax
refunded to the Philippines by the
United States.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Summary Of Today's Star

Page. Page.
Amusements BIG Lost & Found B-9
Churches. Obituary -- A-10
A-11-12-13 Radio ---- A-10
Comics - B-14-15 Real Estate B-1-6
Editorials AS Short Story A-9
Farm and Society - Al
Garden-A Sports B-7-8
Finance --A-16.17l
FOREIGN.
Rebel offensive to cut loyalist Spain
slows up. Page Al
Czechs say Hitler demands Soviet pact
be abandoned. Page Al
Britain halls Kennedy speech on U. S.
peace aims. Page AS
Brazilian Fascist plot to kill Vargas
thwarted. Page A
Four more years IN power asked by
Hitler. Page Al
NATIONAL.
OIL firms to ask Hull aid against Mex
ican seizure. Page Al
Business critics of tax bill get final
hearing. Page Al
Roosevelt calls for showdown with
r. v. A. chairman. Pare Az
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Baker stabbed to death in row with
tardy worker. Page Al
Ally of Group Health Association to
admit general public. Page Al
Eight persons arrested as police con-
tinue anti-crime drive. Page Ais
House light seen On two D. G. bill
itemA Page Alt