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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
DEATH SQUADS
 IN BARCELONA
Cabinet Approves ExeCu- tions-NatiOnalists Cut
 Off Power Supply
BY HARRISON LAROCHE Limited Press Staff C0rrespondent)

Hendaye, April 8.-UP)-Execu- ton squads are working in Bar celona with renewed activity, the government admitted today, as the Nationalist forces in the north cut off electric power to Catalonia.
 The cabinet has approved an in- creasing number of death sentences daily. Desertion was the charge in most cases. Official figures on the number of those who faced firing squads could not be learned.
 In wide flanking movement around the Loyalist defenders of Tortosa, the Nationalists reached the outskirts of Chert, IS miles from the seaport of Vinaroz. Galician army corps were pouring down the hills on both sides of the road from Morella toward the sea. At Chert the main road continues inland toward Valencia by way of San Mateo. Another road leads di- rect to Vinaroz, through which all Loyalist traffic is passing up and down the coast from Barcelona to Valencia.
 In the far north the Nationalists completed occupation of Copca de Tremp, including the various dams and villages at the foot of the Sierra de Boumort, and the heart of the great hydro-electric power system which normally supplied 80 per cent of Catalonia's power.
 Barcelona reports said that the cutting off of the power lines from the Tremp district had not seri- ously affected the city because the Loyalist government in advance had provided emergency sources Of elec- tricity.
 The Loyalist claimed they still control number of large hydro electric developments which in nor nal years supplied about 50 per cent of the energy needed. These have speeded up production to make Up for losses suffered in the west. Nationalist military sources said they expected sudden collapse of the Loyalist defense on the Madrid front. They said another division of Loyalist endorsements, com- posed of men withdrawn from the Madrid front had arrived at Tor tosa.
 A dispatch from Barcelona indi- cated that the Spanish government had inaugurated a new policy by which it intended to mobilize the entire strength of Catalonia for finish fight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
PARKWAY BRIDGES WILL BE CHANGED
Highway Dept. Engineers Plan to Make Them
 Wider, Longer

Hartford, Conn, April 8-(UP) = State highway department en- gineers drafted plans today calling for wider and longer bridges on the uncompleted portion of the $20,000,- 900 Merritt parkway, it was dis closed today.
 The procedure has the approval of Gov. Wilbur L. Cross, it was said.
 The single span type of bridge built by State Highway Commis- sioner John A. Macdonald over the completed part of the highway re- gently came under strong criticism by Public Works Director Robert A. Hurley, who charged the design was out-moded.
 The governor a month ago re- leased report by Former High way Commissioner Charles J. Ben nett which approved the single span bridge. Bennett, however, recom- nended lengthening the arch on three proposed bridges being pre- pared for bidding.
 About 20 bridges still remain to b constructed on the super-high- way.
 Leslie G. Summer, engineer of bridges and structures in the high way division, said the arch in the remaining bridges will be longer to avert narrowing of the separation strip under the spans. At the same time, he said, bridges will be widen ed to enable continuation of the separation strip over them.
 He said a new type of construc- ton would be employed whereby there will be an intervening space on the bridges between the road way and the parapet.
 In most cases, bridges will be heightened by approximately 10 feet more than those already con- structed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08

A detailed $1,5OO000,000 Public Works program has been prepared. Final decision whether to give busl- ness such an election year shot-in- the-arm may depend upon popular reaction to unofficial revelation of the New Deal plan. The money would be devoted largely to:
 l. Highway construction.
 2. Slum clearance.
 3. Flood control.
 Government anxiety to check the business slump and reduce unem- ployment was reflected further in senate speed with the business re- covefy" tax bill. In a few hours de- liberation yesterday the senate agreed to vital notifications of New Deal tax policies and all but passed the bill at one sitting.
 Tax Voted Down
 MT. Roosevelts corporation surplus tax was voted down and the capital gains and losses levy was further modified away from original New Deal standards.
 The house still is in boiling dis pute over the administrations gov- ernment reorganization bill, with its opponents continuing a thunderous complaint against cocentration of power at the White House.
 Some New Dealers believe the ad- ditional funds would permit cities such as New York, which have ob- tained maximum housing assistance under the quota system imposed by congress, to obtain additional funds outside the quota.
 First Reaction Favorable
 First congressional reaction to the new program generally was favor able although the plan would nullify
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
2 COMMISSIONERS
 DENY ASSIGNING
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Commissioner Tate was quoted as saying last night that he did not plan to resign. Commissioners Sul- livan and Minor are likewise not contemplating resignation, and ap- prove the changes made by the board.
 Chairman Mccarthy submitted his resignation Wednesday night. Commissioner Chess veteran member of the board, resigned yes- terday. Both resigned in protest against the changes in the depart ment.
 Hayes Explanation
 Mayor Frank Hayes, however, yes- terday credited MT. McCarthy'S res- ignation to the fact that no promo tion had been given to his brother, a member of the police department, despite his request that such action be taken.
 The promotions, appointments and retirements all take effect May 1. Capt. Martin Campion is the new deputy chief and Capt. Joseph Kel- ley is the new drillmaster. Among the seven men retired were six of- ficers and a private. Of the B new captains and lieutenants, all but one are being advanced from the rank of private.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
BLUM CABINET
 HAS RESIGNED
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crisis, called a mass meeting for this evening @ D. m. ESTD their own position was a delicate one as they expected to be excluded from and coalition cabinet which might be formed by an extension toward the right wing.
 So certain were political experts that Blum's cabinet was doomed less than four weeks after its for mation-that they predicted that a new cabinet would be formed un- der Eduard Daladiar, radical so- clalists monster for national de- ,fense, by tomorrow night. Pres dent Albert Lebrun had an- ticipated the governments fall by conferring In advance of it, with the presidents of the senate. and chamber of deputies, who tradition ally are the first political leaders called in time of a cabinet crisis. It was understood that he would call them again after the expected resignation of the cabinet, but mere ly as gesture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
MAGAZINE BAN
 IS LIFTED HERE
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Judge Thomas Sullivan in New Haven police court today ruled
 After hearing testimony of rec ognized physicians, welfare workers and ministers, I find that nothing contained in this magazine can be construed as obscene. The state statute under which this man had been held declares that the mate rial must be of obscene or inde- cent character. Doctors have testi- fled that nothing personal is re- vealed in these pictures and while I myself would not recommend it to my children, I feel that the state has failed to make out it's case and I hereby order a discharge"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
FIFTH RETRIEVE FOR
 PALKA CONSIDERED

Hartford, Conn, April 8-CUP)- Gov. Wilbur L. Cross today consid- cred 8 fifth reprieve for Frank J. Falka, "A, scheduled to be electro cuted Tuesday for the murder of Bridgeport policeman in 1885.
 Maurice Gruskay, Waterbury, Pal ka's attorney, asked the governor for the reprieve or for another hearing by the state board of pardons, which once before turned down the slayer's plea for clemency.
 The state supreme court yesterday refused to halt the execution in a decision which defended the gover- nor's fourth reprieve, attacked as unconstitutional by Attorney Grus- kay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
ORDER AIDS EMPLOYES

Gardner, Mass, April 8-CUP)- An order for 5000 chair seats for the New Haven Railroad will result in the re-hiring of 2000 employees and full-time employment for those now on short time, according to the Haywood Wakefield company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08

American mechanical toys may be introduced into Portuguese East Africa this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08

Lloyd said the storms path ex- tended from the Rio Grande Valley northeastWard to New England. The storm center was expected to reach coastal staetS by tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08
SOCIALIST-LABOR
 PARTY TO MEET

West Haven, Conn, April 8-(UP) for this years state elections will be named at the an- nual convention of the Socialist La Dor Party of Connecticut here Sun day. 1t was announced today.
 Secretary Joseph 0. Borden, Jr.. South Norwalk, said campaign of education" will be started to inform citizens of the differences between the Socialist Labor party, the So- cialist party and the Labor party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08

Employment in France is ap- preaching depression levels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-08

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Evening star., 1938-06-12
552 WILL RECEIVE
DEGREES AT c. U.
Graduation Exercises to Be
Held Wednesday--KeIIey
to Speak.

Five hundred and flfty-two degrees
will be conferred at the forty-ninth
annual commencement Of Catholic
University on Wednesday, when the
Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch
bishop of Baltimore and chancellor of
the university, will preside at the
graduation exercises in the university
gymnasium at 10:30 am.
In the School Of Social Science a.
degrees will be conferred; School of
Nursing. "a: social work, 27; engineer
ing and architecture, %; the Catholic
Sisters College, 43; summer session. q:
College OF Arts and Sciences. &C.:
Graduate School Of Arts and Sciences.
1874; Law School. 13; philosophy. So;
canon law, "a, and sacred theology. IL.
The baccalaureate mass will be cele-
brated at 1890 am. today in the crypt
OF the National Shrine of the Inn
maculate Conception on the university
campus by the Right Rev. Patrick J.
mccormick, vice rector, and the SER
mon will be preached by the Rev. DR..
John Montgomery Cooper, professor
OF anthropology.
Preceding the mass will be an aca-
demic procession, with the faculty as
sembling at Caldwell Hall and the
members OF the graduating class in
cap and gown at Mcmahon Hall.
An alumni-Senior class athletic COM
petition will be held in the university
stadium at 3 pm. today and university
alumnae will give tea for the women
who are to receive degrees in the foyer
OF the Mullen Library. The seniors in
Evening star., 1938-06-12
RAYMOND LEAVITT
/ IS SCHOOL SPEAKER
Final Exercises of Columbia
Technical Institute Will Be
Held Thursday,

Raymond B. Leavitt of the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co.. Bal
timore, will be commencement speak
er at final exercises of the Columbia
Technical Institute at the Wardman
Park Hotel Thursday.
Nearly 200 students in engineering
drafting, commercial art and trade
courses will be awarded certificates
and diplomas. This is the largest
graduating class in the 27-year history
OF the institute
Russell W. Cullen, jr., has been
selected as valedictorian of the grad
uating class. Mr. Cullen is a graduate
in electrical drafting in the electrical
engineering course and has maintained
high record in his school work.
L.. E. Reed, dean of the engineering
department, will be in charge of the
graduating exercises, and B. A. Foy
of the drafting department will be
postmaster of the graduation BAN
quet.
The graduation exercises will open
With banquet at $3.50 pm Award
OF certificates and special honors will
be made in the main auditorium at
$3.50 pm. and will be followed at $50
pm. by the graduation dance, which
will be attended by some 1000 alumni,
graduates, students and friends of the
institute.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
STRAYER CLASSES
BEGIN JUNE IS
Summer Term in Day and Night
Schools Scheduled to Start
July 5 and 6.

Evening school classes in shorthand
typewriting and related business sub
jects will be formed on Wednesday
evening, June Is, according to L. E.
Smith. director of admissions of
Strayer College These classes are
designed especially for students who
have had no previous commercial
training
Dictation, transcription, shorthand
review and advanced typewriting
classes will also form on that evening
for students who have previously stud
led commercial subjects.
The summer term in day and eve
ming school will begin on July S and
8. In addition to regular secretarial
courses, intensive classes in short
hand and typewriting will also begin
on that date in day school.
Elgie G. Purvis has been appointed
vice president of Strayer College in
washington, according to an an
nouncement just released by Edmond
S. Donoho. president.
During the 18 years Mr.. Puryis has
been on the staff of Strayer College
he has been employed as instructor
registrar and dean. He is a member
OF the Eastern Commercial Teachers
Association, national secretary of Phi
Gamma Alpha, national accounting
fraternity, and a member of Delta
Sigma Rho, national forensic frater-
nifty.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
HOWARD U. SUMNER
COURSE OPENS JUNE rs
School Will Provide Six-Week
Program for Graduate and
Undergraduate Work.

Registration for the summer pro-
gram at Howard University opens June
IS, according to Prof Doxey A. Wilker-
son. director.
The summer school will provide a
six-week program of graduate and un-
dergraduate instruction in about six
dozen different courses, he said, point
ing out that due to the success of last
years summer sessions, tuition fees
have been lowered considerably for
this year.
Summer school classes will meet five
days week, with the session winding
up on Tuesday, August 9.
An extensive program of tours has
been planned, according to the director.
to acquaint out-of town students with
the features of the Nations Capital.
Also, at the request of the home eco
non1ics division of the Federal Office of
Education, two special graduate courses
in housing have been incorporated into
the program.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Richard J. Smith, former Yale law

Richard j. Smith, former Yale law
faculty member, will speak
Tuesday at 8:30 am. Father OCon-
nor will celebrate the senior class mass
in Gibbons Hall Chapel. and the Rev.
George B. Stratemeier, o. p, chaplain
of the university. will give the farewell
talk. The School Of Nursing alumnae
will give a luncheon in the Music
Building at l o'clock.
Robert Hamilton Kelley OF Houston,
Tex, an alumnus of the Law School,
general counsel for the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, will deliver the COM
mencement day address on Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
TESTS TO BE TAKEN

Graduating students at the Wilson
Teachers College will take the Frank
lin teacher eyaminat tions tomorrow
through Wednesday.
The seniors will hold a banquet and
dance at the Kenwood Country Club
the following night
The baccalaureate sermon is sched-
uled for next Sunday and awards dav
June 20. Graduation will be at the
Roosevelt High School, June %. at
1880 pm.
The Student Council for the year
1883 has elected its officers. They
are: President. Sidney Zevin: vice
president, Wenona Barger: secretary.
Rught Merritt, and treasurer. Rita
Holmes. Under the supervision of the
council, the officers of each class We're
elected. Maurice Bresnahan. Harold
Orcutt and Byron Sorreu were elected
to be presidents of next years senior
junior and sophomore Glasses, re-
spectively. ss,x5S
Evening star., 1938-06-12

the College and Engineering School
hold their annual banquet tonight at
the Kennedy-Warren at 8 O'Clock.
The first class day in the history OF
the university will take place on Tues
day. Because Of the desire Of the senior
class to organize program devoted to
their own interests. the acting dean of
men, the Rev. p ]. O'Connor, an
alumnus OF the college, arranged for
these special exercises with the uni
versity authorities.
The Right Rev. Joseph Corrigan, s.
+. D., rector of the university, will pre-
side at the ceremonies beginning at
4:45 PM, during which the deans
honor list will be read The Engineers
Club Plaque and the Shahan Debating
Society Medal will be presented and
Clement r. Mccormack Of Norwood,
Mass. will deliver the class valedictory.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Princes Arrival to Recall
Imprint of Slueden on u. S.

lea also stresses the fact that the Swed-
ist settlement in Philadelphia, then
known as Wicaco, was not only made q
year before William Penn was born,
but that the great Quaker in his plan
for his City OF Brotherly Love secured
the most desirable site on the west
bank from three brothers named
Swenson
The existence today of Swanson
street, one of the very oldest in Phila-
delphia, is, In DR.. Johnson's opinion,
an evidence of the fact the city stands
upon what was once New Sweden.
Claim Of First Ships.
Other stellar claims for New Sweden
in our country's history include the
building Of the first ships in the VAL
ley OF the Delaware, and its first -four
and saw mill. Trinity Church in
Wilmington. Del. dedicated July 4,
1899, Is said to be the Oldest church
in America to have been in continuous
use as place of worship. Similarly
the Swedish Gloria Del Churchs in
Philadelphia is said to now have the
distinction of being the oldest public
building standing in this city.
Credit Is also given the Swedes for
Americas first law courts, the intro
duction of trial by jury, and for being
the only Europeans to avoid conflict
with the Indians.
1t was John Morton, Swede, who
cast the decisive vote for independence
in Pennsylvania's group of delegates,
and it is to the credit OF Sweden that
100 Swedish officers fought in the
Army and Navy for our freedom from
the mother country.
Another Swede, John Hanson. as
President OF the Congress of the Con-
federacy under the Articles of Confed-
Grafton, officially thanked George
Washington for the successful
termination of the Revolutionary War
at Yorktown.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Washington Kin
To Get Degree
Z In AccOuntU7lcy

A direct descendant of the Washing
tip family is included in the class OF
3p who will receive degrees in ac-
c9lntancy from the Benjamin Frank
liq Accountancy School at the annual
commencement exercises on June is.
Richard Washington, high-ranking
mennber Of the graduating class, is a
gHat-grandson four times removed of
john Augustin Washington, brother OF
Gen. Washington.
Fie is also great : nephew three
times removed Of Judge Bushrod
Washington of the United States Su-
prenae Court, great-nephew four
tinnes removed of Richard Henry Lee,
signer of the Declaration of Inde-
p@ndence, and great-great-nephew of
bohE former Gov. Thomas of Mary
land and Gov. MacDowell of Virginia.
HI Is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
CT Washington of Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
SUMMER COURSE
/ IS SREADy'AT c. v.
Law School to Open First,
With Registration Set
Tomorrow.

Summer study starts at George
Washington University tomorrow with
the opening of the Law School summer
session. Registration will take place at
Stockton Hail. the Law School Build
ing, from 9 am. until 6 pm, and
classes will meet
A feature of the Law School sum-
mer session will be the symposium on
Government corporations, scheduled
for the week of July l8. Legal PROB
lens arising out of the operation Of
Government agencies such as the Re-
construction Finance Corp, Tennes-
see Valley Authority Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp, Home Owners Loan
Corp, etc, will be analyzed by experts
who serve as counsel to some of the
principal of these corporations and
others who specialize in practice in re-
lated fields of law.
The symposium is being presented
by the Law School as a service 10
members of the bar, legal staffs of
Government departments, professors
Of law and qualified law students.
Next Monday the nine weeks sum-
mer courses will open and the. fol-
lowing Monday, June 27 the six weeks
courses will begin.
Fifty-one members of the resident
faculty of the university, together with
visiting specialists from other univer-
stiles and from the departments OF
the United States Government will
teach. One hundred and eight courses
are offered in 19 departments Of in
struction, constitution full program
OF academic and professional work.
In the School of Education a spe-
cial curriculum for teachers has been
arranged The six weeks courses in
education open this year one week
earlier than has been the practice
This change in the calendar was made
as an accommodation to teachers, af-
fording them a longer vacation follow
ing completion of their summer courses
before the opening of the schools in
the fall.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

School failures, reading difficulties, nervous
and behavior problems readjusted by ex
pert psychologist. graduate Of Boston Uni
yerSity. graduate student AT Yale and
Johns Hopkins Universities. with extensive
experience in child guidance clinics, public
and private schools. Individual atten-
tion or supervision in small group. Box
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Ex-Governor
Gets Protest
From Senior

A Princeton senior has contributed
another gem to the annals Of college
boners.
The lad, q resident of New Jersey,
greately angered over the treatment
received by Norman Thomas and Others
in Jersey City. wrote stinging letter
to Harold @. Hoffman asking what the
latter, as Governor Of the State, in
tended to do about 1t.
Mr.. Hoffman replied that, inasmuch
as he has been out of Office for some
time, the youth should refer his COM
plant to Gov. A. Harry Moore of the
State Of New Jersey or to President
Woodrow Wilson of Princeton Univer-
sity.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

seminary.
Despite her youth, Miss Thomas has
won other honors in the field of art.
One OF her paintings, a study of four
Mexican women, which she calls
Mexican Mourners. was accepted by
the Albany Institute for display in
its regional exhibit Several years ago
Miss Thomas was awarded a scholar
ship at the Pittsburgh Art Institute.
Miss Thomas will show about IL
pictures at the Albany exhibit. includ-
ing various landscape and still-life
studies, the previously exhibited Mex
lean Mourners.' portrait called
Philip" and her favorite work, the
portrait of mulatto girl. which she
calls Sara
She will also show one piece of
sculpture, the figure of a young girl.
She calls it "Whither?'
Evening star., 1938-06-12
N. U. OPENS WEDNESDAY

Several special courses will be inau-
eurated at National University We'd
nesday with the opening of the sum-
mer term in the. law school and the
school of economics and government.
The courses are designed to prepare
the new law students for the more ad-
vanced work of the fall term and to
enable enrolled students to make up
needed credits. Many of the summer
courses are not given at any other time.
Included among the new courses will
be study of labor law, public utility
law and survey of the jurisdiction of
the Federal courts.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

the Albany His
toric and Art In
stitute, W hi c u
opened yesterday.
T he 19-year-
old artist Is the
daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Dorsey
O. Thomas Of
Harrisburg, Pa,
and has been
studying for the
past year with
Miss Margaret C.
Mum, a native
Washingto n i a n,
painter and art
teacher at the
Evening star., 1938-06-12
GRETCHEN THOMAS
WILL EXHIBIT ART
Mount Vernon Seminary Graduate
to Show IL Pictures at
ALBANY Institute.

Gretchen Gorton Thomas, who was
graduated from Mount Vernon Sem
mary here on June /, has been in
vited to present lone art exhibit at