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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
COEBBELS MAY
 BE FINISHED
Publicity on Alleged Beat ings Believed to Be In=
 fluencing Hitler
(By United Press)

The New York Daily News report ed 4teday in 8 copyrighted dispatch from Basic, Switzerland, that Nazi Propaganda Mininster Paul Joseph Goebbels feared his public career might be at an end as the result of stories published in the United States, London and Paris. that he had been beaten by friends of the actress, Lida Baarovba. It said he had had nervous breakdown" when he learned of the publicity.
 United Press correspondents at Berlin were unable to confirm this dispatch or previous one that Goebbels had been beaten, and Ger man circles which usually are well informed, said both stories were without foundation.
 Chancellor Adolf Hitler has for bidden Goebbel's wife to leave Ger many or to make any public state ments, according to the Daily News, which added that Mrs. Goebbels had planned to go to Denmark for a divorce.
 The London Daly Mirror said to- day in a special dispatch that Nazi officials had virtually abandoned the "pretense" that Goebbels confine- ment was caused by intestinal in fluenza, as was first reported official ly, and that Goebbels, already bed- ridden from the beating, had had a relapse when he learned of the pub licity the affair was receiving abroad. The Mirror said Goebbels asked Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib bentrop to issue an official denial of the rurnors and that von Rbben- trop had declined.
 The Daily News said that at least six actors and actresses, friends of Baarova and her actor husband, Gustav Froelich, had been seized and that others were hunted in con- nection with the beating, which the News said resulted from Goebbels' love-making.
 The story described Hitler as being
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
LOYALISTS START
 COUNTER DEFENSE
Insurgents Stopped on Segre Rver-May Be
 Important Drive

Hendaye, French-Spanish From tier, Dec. 31 = CUP0 - Spanish Loyalists struck back at the Ma tionalistS today with a counter-of- fensive which they asserted had thrown back the Italian Fascist di- visions and temporarily stopped the Insurgents on the lower Segre river
 The LoyaliSts sent crack shock troops into their counter drive, under three of their most brilliant leaders-General Juan Sarrabia, General Enrique Lister and Colonel Juan Modesto.
 Dispatches from Barcelona, the Loyalist emergency capital, were careful to point out that the coun- ter offensive was "unimportant" and was only a diversional one to relieve pressure on other sectors.
 However, dispatches from the Ma tionalist as well as the Loyalist side indicated strongly that the Loyal ists now believed themselves in po- stiion, after withstanding the greatest Nationalist drive of the Civil War for eight days, to start a series of counter moves.
 The first of the counter attacks was made in the Sarroca sector after the Italians there had made further progress northward of Granadella, on the right wing of the Nationalist line. The LoyaliSts announced that the Italians had driven small wedge into their line south of Soleras and had reached the outskirts of the village of Tors.
 The Nationalists announced at their grand headquarters. zara- Goza, that Loyalist resistance was increasingly severe on that part of the front which the Italians occupy.
 For the second time since the Ma. tionalists started their offensive, dispatches from Zaragoza empha- sized the good feeling between Spanish and Italian troops and the relative insignificance of the Italian numbers as compared to those of SpaniardS. It was asserted also that the Loyalists were trying to make the offensive look like an Italian one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
ACONlES TO END;
 GIRL WILL WALK
Burned Beyond RecOgni- ton YOungster Saved
 From Sure Death

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 31-(UP)- Lola Mae Smiths physicians said today that the agonies she has en- dured for five months while her scalded, mutilated body was being remolded, were now about to end.
 Within a year, they believed, she will be able to walk again. Already she is able to use her hands. Her face, remade from skin grafted from her back, has not even a scar to show for the accident that near ly killed her and left her almost hopeleSSly disfigured.
 The girl is 12. She lived at a cabin on plantation near Marion, Ark. A gallon can of boiling tar exploded as she stood beside it.
 Her legs were burned to the bone. They Shriveled and were drawn back into such a position that her heels almost touched her hips. Her hands, burned black and useless, fell back so that her fingers touch- ed her wrists. Her face was al- most burned away. She could not move, her death seemed certain and physicians said even if she lived she could never talk because her mouth would be misshapen.
 At the Baptist hospital, they put her under tent and began an ar- duous treatment. Heat from four light bulbs was played constantly on her body. She was fed il- travenously for a month. A long series of grating operations was started. Nurses maSSaged the burned and grafted parts of her body. The child tossed and scream ed in pain that never abated.
 After a month, however. she was able to eat light foods. Five times skin was taken from her back to cover her face, hands, arms and legs. After three months her body began to respond. Her hands healed. Soon she was able to move her arms and legs and wiggle her toes. Her hair and eyebrows grew back.
 When the bandages were re- moved from her face after the last grafting, not a scar was visible. nor was there any impeachment in her speech.
 By the time she is discharged, physicians said, she will be normal again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
Death Threat Contained In Ext0rti0n Notes

Following is the text of the Sec- ord of two extortion letters received by Mayor Frank Hayes. The letter giving the mayor instructions as to turning over the demanded $5 ,000, is printed exactly as written:
 Called for No. 35
 You have failed to have money ready called for Dec. 25 at $50 p. m. Mother answered and said you were at office Brook St. so 1 called there andu was not there. think it best do get rid of it because it will me out of all trouble It will cost me $500 to get rid of u will be safe anyway than I will be safe /U must have money because you answered ad your only last last chance DON'T FAIL put money in box drive down Wall St and drop box corner of Wall and Catherine av. FRIDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 30, at 2 F. M. and 7:15 P. M. DROP BOX and KEEP MOVING stran- ger will be there to get money when you drop itTfrom your cars' if anyone reads this letter or fol- lows you when you deliver you will never live to tell it to anyone.
 must pay my fees Saturday Dec. 31
 Your instruction
 (There follows a map showing the route Mayor Hayes should fol- low: from East Farm street to Walnut street, to Wall street, to Catherine avenue.)
 In $5 and $2 ONLY
 $5,0OO
 BE CAREFUL YOUR LAST CHANCE.IT PAYS U SAID TO PLAY BALL.
 I WILL RETURN MONEY RIGHT AFTER OUR CASE is over.
 no price a nSwer once more in adif you intend to produce mon- ey.a q must be in by Fri Dec 30.
 Read as follow.
 would like to invest some money in some good and reliable firm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
OF
 SENATE WORRIES
Legislative Leaders Fear Repetition of '35; Inter-
 Party Session Off

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 31-(UP)- Organization of the state senate, which in 1885 delayed inauguration of the governor for 24 hours, today worried party leaders, who feared an amazingly similar situation would cause deadlock when the general assembly convenes Wednesday.
 No party has a controlling major ity in the senate in the coming ses- sion. Democrats have IT members, Republicans, 16. and Socialist two. The two leading parties have named conference committees of three to decide organization, but Socialists thus, far have given no indication they would participate.
 On inter-parsy meeting, scheduled for late today, probably will be called of because the two Socialist senators, both from Bridgeport wired they would not be present Without their votes. organization of the senate was impossible.
 In 1885, there were three Socialist senators, who threw their votes to the Republicans after more than 100 ballots.
 House Democrats. meantime, sel- ected Rep. T. Emmett Clarie, 25- yearrold Killingly legislator, as their minority leader. Clarie defeated Rep. Benjamin Tonkonow, Meriden prosecutor. S8 to 2l, in a caucus here last night.
 Former Rep. Wilbert N. Austin Plymouth, was designated as the Democratic candidate for house clerk.
 Republican plans to name Rep Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr.. Sufield, as ma jority leader and chairman of the :, judiciary committee. were changed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
FATAL BLAST IN GAS STATION IS
 CAUSE OF SUIT
Attendant, Badly Burned, Brings $25,OOO Action;
 Accident in Feb., l93S

An explosion and fire in an East Main street gasoline station Febru- ary ', l938, which caused fatal burns to two young men and ser- iouS injuries to several others, is the basis of $25,0O0 civil action filed today in the superior court by Richard Hager against the Buckley Brothers of Waterbury, Buckley Brothers Incorporated and the Cit- ies Service Oil Company of Penn sylvania.
 Hager. an attendant at the Sta- tion located at 805 East Main street was terribly burned and injured in the explosion. which according to papers filed in connection with the suit, was caused by an explosion of vapors from an anti-free solution.
 A defective oil burner in opera tion at the tiny wooden station ignited the vapors which resulted in the flaming disaster. Armand Ciano and Andrew Biondi sustained fatal injuries in the explosion and Hager and others were seriously injured. The estate of Ciano has filed suit for $15,000 against the same defendants, and other litiga- tion is said to be in preparation.
 The first count in the Hager liti- gation sets forth several allegations of negligence on the part of the defendants in installing and main- taining the allegedly defective stove. The second count maintains that the stove constituted nuisance.
 Attorney William P. Wertheimer of Waterbury instituted the action for Hager. Hearings on compensa- ton claim have been conducted by Commissioner James M. Lynch, but the action was withdrawn before the filing of the court suit.
 Ansel Adkins was actually the operator of the station where Hager was employed. but he was sub-agent
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
IrOn=Clad Case Built Up; Fibre Massucci Held
 as Suspect PICKED UP BUNDLE"
 THROWN BY MAYOR $5,OO0 Bonds Set; G-Men, Postal Inspectors to
 Enter Case

Police claimed today that an impregnable case has already been built up against Fibre Massucci, 29, of 55 Catherine avenue, charged with seeking to extort $5, 900 from Mayor Frank Hayes. Massucci was arrested last night at Wall street and Catherine avenue as he picked up a bundle thrown by the mayor from his car. Police shad tha eptire area sur founded and bounced on MaSsu2cl as he stopped for the bundle, which was supposed to contain $5,000 in cash, but which actually containeQ only paper. The mayors life had been threatened in two extorti0u letters.
 Superintendent William J. Roach and Chief Inspector Joseph F. Stew ems announced late this morning that Massucci has already confessed to going to Mayor Hayes home on Prospect street last week for a bundle. and also that he was wait ing for the mayor last night. Mas succi, according to police, claims that he was acting on instructions given him by another man. but he did not know the other mans name or address.
 Pleads Not Guilty Arraigned in city court this morn ing, MasSucci pleaded not guilty to a charge of blackmail. Judge Ed- ward Mascolo fixed bonds at $5,00O. though Prosecutor Mitchell Meyers had asked that the figure be set at $10,000. However, Supt. Roacll said that MasSucci would be held without bail on charge of violating the federal extortion laws. and that G-men and postal inspectors will arrive here today to take over the case.
 The daring plot was climaxed last night with MaSSucci's arrest. The second of two threatening letters re- ceived by the mayor had ordered him to place $5,O0O in bundle and drop it at the intersection of Wall street and Catherine avenue be- tween 700 and 7:15 last night. Nine teen policemen were hidden in the vicinity and every street was ready to be blocked as Mayor Hayes drovt slowly past the point instructed and threw out the bundle.
 Police Nab Him
 As MaSsucci reached to pick it tu he was bounced on by five police men, and whisked to headquarters Under early questioning he denied knowing anything of the extorti0n plot, saying first he was on his way to buy cigarettes and later that he was goign for a haircut. He was unarmed at the time of his arrest.
 This morning, however, it was am nounced at headquarters, Massucei admitted that he had gone to the mayors home last week n search of the money, and also to the mayors office at Brook and Eakl Main streets. He was waiting foI the mayors car last night. he ads mitted also. but said he had been instructed to do so by a friend, who asked him to pick up bundle f0f him.
 At Massucci's home police found
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
Congressional Message to Stress Foreign Issues,
 It Is Believed
WPA TO GET JOLT
 FROM SENATE REPORT
Budget Message to COn= gress Will Follow Later
 in Week
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

lUnlteO FreSS StaII COrreSpOn0ent)
 Washington, December 31. - (UP) = A preview report of President Roosevelt'S an nual message to congress foretold today a pulse-stir- ring call for national defense and a blistering repudiation of dictatorship. MT. Roose- velt's associates believe it will be his most vigorous speech of his career. The message will be delivered shortly after noon Wed- tnesday before a joint session of house and senate.
 The new 76th congress will meet at noon Tuesday. It would be a prefunctory gathering but for de- cision of the senate campaign ex- penditureS committee to release at that moment its report concerning Works Progress Administration po- litical activity in the fall election campaigns in some of Is states cov- CA Cu Oy b1C AAQuuy. OOIiIC pCISOLAS describe the report as blast" at the WPA system.
 Former WPA Administrator Har- " L. Hopkins was appointed to the cabinet as secretary of commerce last week and Aubrey Williams, his chief assistant. was put in charge of the National Youth Administration.
 But WPA and other domestic is- sues will be subordinated in the presidents message if it is presented in the form in which his close as- Sociates assert they most recently saw it. National defense and conti- mental solidarity of the western hemisphere against armed or -ideo- logical invasion by dictator nations has become the new deal theme.
 The message, therefore, is ex- pected to reverse the Roosevelt pre- cedent of making domestic problems the framework and substance of the annual address with only limited
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
Justices Wife Changes Plea On Smuggling
May Testify Against Alleged ConspiratOr Next Week; Mrs. Lauer's Appearance Yesterday to Switch
 Plea Was Unexpected

New York, Dec. 3l.-(UP.-The stylish, attractive wife of Justice Edgar J. Lauer of the state su- preme court, facing a possible eight year prison sentence for conSpiring to have her new winter wardrobe smuggled from Paris, will testify for the government against her alleged co-conspirator next week, It was re- ported today.
 He is Albert N. Chaperau, erst- while motion picture agent and fre- quent transatlantic traveller, charg- ed with having falsely represented himself as an attache to the Mica raguan consul general to get im- munity from customs to smuggle in costly jewels and finery for his friends of the cosmopolitan set.
 His trial starts Tuesday. Ano.her witness against him will be the movie and radio comedy star, George Burns, who pleaded guilty to a smuggling conspiracy charge Dec. Is, the same day he was indicted by a federal grand jury.
 Mrs. Lauer pleaded guilty yester- day. She appeared unexpectedly be- fore Federal Judge John c. Knox ill the federal building on Foley Square, across the street from the county courthouse where her hus- band has his court.
 At her arraignment two weeks ago, Mrs. Lauer had pleaded not guilty. Her husband also had pro- tested that the customs agents made a mistake when, they raide6 the luxurious Lauer apartment last Oct 26 and carried of two suitcases packed with imported gowns, frockS
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31

expressed the views ot the Amer1- can government on the present diplomatic situation.
 The note was rejection of the "new order" program which Japan outlined November 13 in reply to a United States demand for an open door" policy in China.
 Unwelcome Moment
 It came at particularly unwel- come moment immediately after the revelation that Ching Wei, who until the start of the Chinese Japanese war was premier of China, had broken with GeneraliSsimo Chinng Kai-Shek and was nego- tiating with Japanese agents for peace.
 Jspan's '.new order" program was based on the assertion that:
 (. In the face of the new sit- uation fast developing in East Asia any attempt to apply to conditions Of today and tomorrow inapplicable ideas of the past would neither con- tribute toward the establishment of real peace in East Asia nor solve immediate issues"
 American Note
 The American note:
 l. Re-stated the traditional sup port by the United States of the sanctity of treaties.
 2. Reminded Japan of the in- ternational covenants covering the Far East.
 3. Asserted that the United States. was cognizant of changed conditions but was unsympathetic toward unilateral settlement of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
BABY PLAYS WHILE
 NURSE IS SCREAMING

Boston, Dec. Sl- (UP) When Mrs. Frances Katz heard a woman screaming in the nearby home of MT. and Mrs. George Goldberg. she called police.
 The screams continued as police arrived to find the door locked. The officers climbed over the roof from an adjoining house. entered an up- stairs window and found:
 Two-year Phyllis Goldberg calmly playing with her dolls.
 Police released the girl, who was uniniured
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
Jap's "New Order" In China Rejected
 By United States
of China Made Comes at Bad Moment With Break Announced in Chinese High Officials War Policy
BY H. o. THOMPSON (United Press Staff Correspondent

Tokyo December 31. = (UP) = The United States today rejected Japans program for Japanese-dctaed new order in China and at the time offered to join Tn an international conference to discuss Chnas future
 America Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew delivered note in which the United States State Department emphacaY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31
Extortion Notes Sent To Hayes; Confession
 Is Claimed By Police
DEMOCRAT NOT TO PUBLISH MONDAY

There will be no issue of the Waterbury Demo- crat published, Monday, January 2. The Demo- crat wishes it's readers best wishes for a pros porous and happy New Year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-31

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The Weather

Fair, Cold Today; Sum day Cloudy, Warmer
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-03
seeePessssesessPe
FOLLOWING THROUGH

are: Paul Waner. Arky Vaughan,
Mel OFT and Chuck Klein. Mize
stands 6 f. 2 in. and tips the
scales az 215. He celebrated his
18th birthday Jan z. In 1896 he
broke In the league and batted
.329. He replaced Collins and
last year hit asa, which was Sec
ond only to Medwick, who hit
.374. Casey Stengel. IN Braden-
ton, claims TO have the best pitch
ing staff in the National League,
but no hitters. The wise guys
are ranking the Detroit Tigers
for second place and also claim
that the rest of the league viii
be the same as last year. Man
ush, at 81, visions league batting
crown and dreams of being first
to lead both loops in hitting. He
led the American League IN 1926.
hitting. 377. Last year, his first
in the National League. he batted
1873 and expects to better that
mark this year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-03
ADOPT SCHEDULE
OF GAMES FOR
BASEBALLCIRCluT
EACH CLUB ALLOWED Il
PLAYERS; FIRST CONTEST
WILL BE PLAYED COMING
SUNDAY

It was decided at a meeting
held this week by the Board OF
Directors of the Monroe County
Baseball League to start play next
Sunday afternoon
By laws and a schedule were
adopted. 1t was also decided to
name Cyril Griffin official um-
pire. Each club is allowed twelve
players.
The first game each Sunday
viii start at 100 o'clock sharp,
and the second game Is minutes
after the first.
The three clubs to enter the
league were the Army, managed
by Armando Acevedo; Sluggers,
under Roy Hamlin; Reds, under
the leadership of Frank Cara
ballo.
Games postponed on account
of rain or other reasons viii be
played after the regular schedule.
if need be.
Players names VIII be publish
ed later.
Schedule adopted follows, with
the last named clubs considered
as home" teams:
March 6, Army VS.. Caraballc
Reds; Army VS.. Sluggers-
March Is, Carabailo Reds vs..
SIuggers; Caraballo Reds VS..
Army.
March 20, Sluggers VS.. Army;
Sluggers VS.. Caraballo Reds.
March q, Army VS.. Sluggers;
Army VS.. Caraballo Reds
April 8, Caraballo Reds vs.
Army; caraballo Reds VS.. Slug
gers.
April 10, Sluggers VS.. Caraballo
Reds; Sluggers VS.. Army.
April IL, Army VS. Caraballo
Reds; Army VS.. Sluggers-
April "a, Caraballo Reds VS..
Sluggers; Caraballo Reds VS..
Army.
May l, Sluggers vs.. Army;
Sluggers VS.. Caraballo Reds
May 8, Army VS.. Sluggers;
Army VS.. Caraballo Reds.
May Is, carabaIlo Reds VS..
Army; caraballo Reds VS.. Slug
gers.
May %, Sluggers VS.. Caraballo
Reds; Sluggers VS.. Army.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-03
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-03

Baseball
Terry fears the Cards in 1888.
is aheadIine appearing on a sport
page. recently, and this coming
from Terry should mean some
thing as ne knows hove the 4eInbs
are in strength Terry has acquir-
ed Les Powers and Mickey Haslin
from Jersey City TO give the
Giants more power. -Mize of the
Cards is ranked prospect No ]
among hitters. He may develop
into the top IN southpaw hitters.
Other great lefthanded batters