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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
Profit akers Stopped Market That Had Been Advancing
Prices Receded After
 That Started Working
Business News Appeared to Be Very Favorable; Ptts
 burgh Steel Mills Put More Thousands to Work

Westinghouse Electric reported un- filled orders as of the end of 1897 at $65, 100000, against $48,000,0O0 at the end of 1936 The company antic- ipates large orders this year from the electrical industry which in many instances is using its plants at full capacity and in need of re- placements and expansion.
 Automobile production, according to Wards, rose to 54,084 cars and trucks from the 49,500 units pro- duced in the holiday week Output a year ago was 92,142 units for the corresponding week. Motor shares were easier all day with Chrysler down more than a point. Henry F'ord's statement that he believes America is entering its most pros porous era had no immediate effect on the market.
 Car loadings for the last week of 1937 tosaled 457,359 cars, a decline of only 3,008 from the preceding week and of 130904 from the previous year. Rails eased small amounts.
 Dun & Bradstreet reported minor improvement in retail trade. The statistical service also noted begin ming of moderate upturn in a few industries.
 Copper issues held around the previous close. Lea dand zinc issues were firm. SilverS firmed.
 Profit t-taking was heavy in the steel section. U. s. Steel lost nearly 2 points. Others were down frac- tions to more than a point.
 Utilities held well. Farm shares netted small gains. Electrical equip mentS, aviations and special issues receded.
 Loew's goined a point. Food is- sues were better in dull trading. Chemicals, except du Pont and Un- ion Carbide, were higher. Oils were mixed. J. c. Penney rose more than a point and Sears Roebuck was up fractionally. Building stocks had small advances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
BRITISH POLICE
 BEATEN BY LAPS

Shanghai. Jan. 7-(UP)-BritisA authorities reported today that two British municipal policemen had been beaten by Japanese troops in the latest incident involving Jap anese ever increasing aggressiveness in the foreign controlled interna- tional settlement.
 The attack took place last night on Brennan road, on the extreme western edge of the settlement, where several British troops were killed in the early days of the Jap anese campaign against Shanghai.
 The attack followed yesterdays protest to Japanese authorities by the settlement municipal police against the alleged manhandling of two other British policemen.
 Meanwhile. a Japanese naval spokesman asserted that IA Chinese planes were destroyed ill yesterdays gigantic raid on the Hankow and Wuchung airdromes. One Russian plane fled without fighting, he said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
TWO SEAMEN ARE
 GOING TO RETURN

Los Angeles, Jan. 7.-(UP) Back to sea undaunted, will go Robert Horne and George Spernack, young deckhands of the yacht Aafje, who threw the mutinous Jack Morgan to the sharks, and were exonerated yesterday.
 The federal grand jury returned a mo bill" deciding that the two seamen acted in self defense in dis posing of Morgan, who shot Dwight Faulding, the Aafje's skipper, and headed the boat toward the South Seas for planned career of piracy.
 Complaints charging murder on the high seas, on which the men had been held while the government went through its technical formali- ties. were dismissed in Federal Judge Harry A. FollZer's court. A deputy marshal went to the county jail and released the prisoners.
 Horne and Spernack sniffed the air outside the hall of justice aai grinned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
JACKSON MEETS
 WITH WILKIE

New York, Jan. 7-UP)-Big business was defended and attacked last night at a town hall debate be- tween Wendell L. Willkie, president of the huge commonwealth and Southern Corporation. and Assist ant Attorney General Robert H Jackson. leader of the New Deals drive against monopolies
 More than 1,700 persons cheered and booed the speakers, while an- other 800 clamored vainly for ad- mission. In fact that Jackson has been mentioned as President Roose- velt'S choice for governor of New York and that Willllie has conferred with the chief executive on prob lemS confronting the nations utility holding companies attracted a capa- city audience.
 Willkie declared that the business recession has become SO serious that government officials who at first sought to minimize 1t are now seeking frantically to make big business responsible.
 Jackson contended tlat big business is at war on many fronts with the government" and repeated his charge that few large CO., porations were in position to main tain prices "by various devices not reached by the present iaws'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
JAPANESE HAVE
 ADMITTED LOSSES
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Peiping, China Jan. 7--(UP)- Japanese military authorities ad- mitted today that Chinese Com munists had inflicted frequent losses" among Japanese detach- ments guarding the vital Shihchia- chuang- -Taiyuan railroad in Shansi province.
 A Japanese spokesman said that Japanese losses were inevitable" because the Communists, fighting as the eigth route army of the cen tral government, attacked points where the important rail line was thinly guarded.
 General Gnu Teh, Chinas Red Napoleon" and commander of the eighth rout army, has repeatedly embarrassed Japanese forces oper- ating in Shansi province. His Guer- rilla tactics and strategic maneuv- CTS were reported by Chinese gen. eral Headquarters to have been re- sponslble for routing the Japanese on several occasions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
TWO NEGROES ARE
 CONDEMNED TO DIE

Marion, Ark, Jan. 7-CUP)-TWo negroes were condemned to die to- day by a jury that included one negro.
 It was one of the few instances in the south since reconstruction where a negro had sat as juror It was a direct result of a supreme court decision overthrowing one of the ScottSboro convictions because negroes had been excluded from the jury panel. Since then, most south ern courts, in cases involving negro defendants and white complaining witnesses. have included negroes in jury panels.
 The condemned negroes were Frank Carter, 26, and Theo Thomas, 25, who dragged Miss Maple Wilson, 18, out of the car of her escort, and raped her.
 The negro juror was John Clay brook, 66, well to do farmer and lumberman who is esteemed in Ar kansas as a paragon of his race.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
WALTER O'HARA
 CASE IS DELAYED

Providence, R. l., Jan. 7.-UP).- Turfman Walter E. O'Hara was ar- raigned in superior court today on an indictment charging him with criminally labelling William E. Bee han, New York advertising man.
 Pleading was postponed and the Judge Patrick P. Curran granted a defense plea for 15 days in which to file special pleas, motions or de- murrers. Bail of $5,000 was con- tinued.
 O'Hara was charged with calling Beehan a "briber" for a billboard company in his Star Tribune, which subsequently, went into receivership and was bought by the Providence Journal company.
 Five other libel suits are pend ing against OHara. a $1O0,OO0 civil libel suit brought by Beehan, and $500,000 and $10O,000 civil libel suits and criminal libel suit brought by Governor Robert E. Quinn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
GLOUCESTER HAD
 COSTLY BLAZE

Gloucester, Mass, van. 7-CUP)- A general-alarm fire destroyed the Kerr block and threatened the shop ping district early today. Fire Chief Homer R. Marchant said damage may reach $150,00O. Aid was called from Rockport. The fire, discovered shortly after midnight, ragged un- controlled for three hours and four hours later still was burning, though under control. Bremen raised water curtains to save the adjoining Weth- erell and Harpel buildings.
 The blaze started in a three-story wooden furniture warehouse in the rear of the block and spread quick ly to the Norton Dress Shop. Jos ephine Corset Shop, Reynolds & Leary Women's Speciality Shop, two lawyers offices and a dance studio in the brick front of the structure.
 At 6 a. m. only the walls of the building were standing and firemen still were directing dozen streams of water into the smouldering ruins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
Henry Ford Predicts Prosperity

were trying, discarding, and trying again.
 Never Before Seen
 On the glazed floor Ford drove the new tractor, never before seen by an outsider The 74-year old in- dustrialist was as pleased as small boy with a fire engine. To him it was far more than a tractor. It was a magic sesame to a new life Through this mechanical simplicity nurtured in his mind for years-he saw the means of putting agricul- ture on paying basis. He saw streams of lll-housed city dwellers going back to the farm to live in abundance and to produce mater ials for industry.
 The high cost of tools and equip- ment is one Of the farmers great est difficulties now" he said. He can barely purchase what he needs prices are too highland, as for the man returning to the farm to start again, it is virtually hopeless The capital requirement is too high. We will offer our new trac- tor at a price which any one can afford. With it he can do all sorts of work. Production is what we need on farm and it can only be done with tractors"
 No Such Thing As Surplus
 But what of overproduction on the farm? Hasn't the country been plagued by farm surpluses? What of the campaign to blow under? /,
 To Henry Ford there is no such thing as a surslus. Tao pressure of the surplus, he believes, will force us to discover all sorts of new uses for the annual produce of the soil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
BY STEVE RICHARDS

Copyright, 193S. By United Press
 Dearborn, Jan. 7-(UP) Henry Ford believes America is entering the most prosperous era of it's his tory. The prosperity he sees will be one in which industry and agricul- ture are linked by an inseparable bond-to banish depression. This new day, the nations No. l in dividualist and pioneer automobile manufacturer told the United Press today, lis at hand" Its keystone will be the use of agricultural by products in the manufacture of in- dustrial goods. Its spark-plug. he believes, will be new tractor which soon will go into mass production at the Ford River Rouge plant. The tractor will be so cheap that every tiller of the soil from the dirt farms of New Jersey to the broad Kansas plans may buy it.
 Time Virtually Here
 The time is virtually here, Ford told the United Press. when almost an entire automobile-body lenders, doors and peneling-may be con- stYucted out of wheat chaff, soy iseanS, corn husks, or other farm py-products. This new alliance of agriculture and industry" Ford pre- dicted, Twill be the salvation of both. It will produce the greatest period of prosperity the country ever had known. And I'll put this thing over if it's the life of me- he added, smiling. Ford, vibrant with visions of the future based op his dream of farm and factory cooper ation, led the way through immacu- late laboratories where engineers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
LEVITT WILL GO
 BACK TO! PARTY

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 7-CUP)- State Republican Chairman Benja- min E. Harwood today advised AL bert Levitt, Bedding, former assist ant U. s. Attorney General, that his offer of assistance to the Con- necticut G. O. F., was gladly re- ceived and will be discussed with the state central committee"
 Levitt, msurgent Republican who recently retired as an aid to Attor- ney General Homer s. Cummings, wrote to Harwood, offering what ever assistance he could give to the state Republican party.
 Harwood's reply said:
 Party politics and platforms will be determined by the state central committee and the duly elected del- egates to conventions and not by any individuals. Party harmony and party councils must be pre- served"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
FAY WRAY HAD
 NO BREAKFAST

Hollywood Jan. T. UP)-Fay Wray was in bed with a headache today and there was nobody in the kitchen to prepare the meals. The cook, Mrs. aymond Duval, a power ful woman of 57 years and 175 pounds, was free on $2O bond cfter vigorous exhibition in which she cleared out the movie stars house. hold yesterday in a burst of tenn perament.
 When the police arrived, Mrs. Duval was standing on the front porch, spraddle-legged and akimbo, thumbing her nose with her free hand. Come and get me-" she called. The policemen did. She gave them battle, too, but was dragged away, kicking and screaming, and charged with being drunk on private property.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
TEACHER FINED
 FOR WHIPPING

Windsor, Conn, Jan. 7.-UP.- Erwin s. Harrington, elementary school principal. took a superior court appeal today from $200 fine imposed for alleged whipping a 13- year-old pupil with a belt.
 Town Court Judge Vine R. Par malee convicted Farringtcn after an eight~hour trial yesterday and after the father of John w. Provost, Jr., offered photographs of his son show ing large welts on the boys body.
 The punishment was imposed, It was testified, because the pupil re- fused to apologize before the class for being rude to the. teacher. A physician told the court he treated the boy on four occasions after the whipping.
 A defense fund was started today among some of the parents of two other schools of which Harrington is principal. His appeal probably will be assigned during the current term of superior court at Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
PASSPORT CASE
 LIKE ROBINSONS
Two Men Now Sought By New York Believed to
 Be in Palestine

New York, Jan. 7.-(UP)-Federal authorities, seeking to solve the Robinson -Reubens passport mystery, believed today that they had stum- bled on the trial of New York citys public enemies No. 1 and 2-Louis Nepke) Buchalter and Jacob (Gur- rah) Shapiro master racketeers.
 Investigators learned that a man whose photograph closely resembled that of Buchalter obtained pass port through the office of former County Clerk Albert Marinelli in the same manner as did MT. and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson" who van- ished in Moscow last month. The "Robinsons" have been identified as MT. and Mrs. Adolph A. Rubens.
 May be ill Palestine
 It was believed that Buchater and Shapiro-sought by District Attor- ney Thomas E. Dewey and the fed eral government-might have fled the country with the aid of the same chain that obtained fraudulent passports for Rubens and his wife. The fugitives, who dominated the fur. garment and narcotic rackets, were believed by some investigators to be hiding in Palestine.
 The passport to the man reSem- bling Buchalter was issued at about the same time as those of MT. and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson" and Rubens, and bore what investigators believed was a fictitious name. Mrs. Rubens' passport was not obtained through Marinelli's office.
 Signatures Similar
 Federal agents revealed that the signatures of Donald L. Robinson" Rubens and the fictitious" name contained handwriting characteris- tics strikingly similar, thus bolster ing the belief that the racketeer and his partner had been aided by the same persons who helped the Rubens enter Soviet Russia.
 Assistant United States Attor- ney Lister Dunnigan took charge of the Robinson-Rubens case under a conspiracy statute in the belief that several persons would be in- volved. The investigation will be resumed this afternoon with further questioning of Aaron Sharfin, 26- year old office boy of the Royal Egyptian consulate. named as the "No. Man" who started the chain that carried the passport .applica- tions through interlinging persons to Marinelli.
 Snarfin was questioned for l9 hours yesterday, and gave nothing but his identity. Authorities said, however, that part of the evidence torney's office indicated that he had a hand in the payment of $10 state department fee required for passport.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07

Our laboratories are at work now" he said, "on plans to use chemurgic products in more and more parts of the car. Only few more experiments are necessary un- til we will have perfected this pro- duct until it will withstand shock as well as steel
 His New Discovery
 He called for thin, convex sheet of a glossy substance made by a chemurgic process. It had been manufactured from soy beans or wheat chaff. He placed it on the floor and jumped on it. The piece was undamaged. If that was steel, !" he said, it would have caved in .Once production of thls material begins on a large scale-and we are working on that very thing now -the demand for farm products will increase tremendously The farmer, instead uf producing only the things we eat, WI. be produc- ing materials tor 'rldustry.
 Solution Of Troubles
 Tt is the solution of the nations troubles. Get agriculture and in- dustry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and working man are partners, trter-de- pendent on each other"
 For years Henry Ford has been the trumpeter of this new era in which the earth would provide solution for economic woes. To- days prediction of his p-ophesy's imminent fulfillment recalled his pioneer work in the use of farm products to make steering wheels, gear-shift knobs, distributor covers and other parts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
STRIKE BROKEN
 IN MARLBORO

Marlboro, Mass. Jan. 8-UP)- President Arthur Gilbert of the h. dependent Marlboro Shoe Workers associates announced today that a CIO-sponsored strike at the Orn- steen Shoe company has been brok- en. He said 1855 of the BOT workers had returned to their jobs, thus saving the unions contract with the management. The contract was ef- fective only if the union controlled 51 per cent of the employees.
 Gilbert announced that strikers would be replaced with unemployed members of the Independent union unless they returned to ther jobs by Tuesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
TAMMANY HALL
 UNDER ATTACK
Jeremiah T. MahOney, One of Hall Leaders, Would
 Kill Tammany
By RONALD G. VAN TINE

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, Jan. 7-(UP)-Jere- miah T. Mahoney, Tammany dis trict leader and New Deal Democrat. was regarded today to have made the first move in a campaign to switch leadership of the Manhattan borough Democratic machine from its old line bosses to Democrats sympathetic with the aims and poli- miniStration.
 Mahoney, who was the unSuccess- full Tam many Hall-Democratic candidate in last November's may orally election, demanded that the l48 year old hall be disbanded be- cause it had become "a national symbol for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic and sinister in politics in any machine ridden city"
 Jim Farley Failed
 Postmaster General James A. Farley, chairman of the national and New York state Democratic or ganizationS. long Strove without success to gain control of the Tam many Hall organization which en- braces the borough of Manhattan. Democrats favorable to the New Deal control the machines of the other boroughS which, before the New Deal, always worked with Tammany.
 Graft and corruption have. through the decades, been charged against some leaders of Tammany sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly," Mahoney declared. Too often Tammany gave more power and more glory to these leaders after such proof had scandalized the city and the nation"
 Statement Requested
 The attack on the organization. which, with only occasional inter- missions, has ruled New York city since 1900, was contained in an 11-page statement handed to news papermen by Mahoney. The unsuc- cessful Democratic candidate for mayor explained that the statement had been requested by Democrats throughout the city"
 Many district leaders and as- pirants for Tammany Hall leader ship and the friends of such as- pi-ants, have sacrificed the organ nation for their own greed and foS ulterior purposes, Mahoney as serted.
 Democratic leaders have lost and missed many opportunities, and un- less the proper kind of action be taken at once and in a courageous manner, the Democratic party in tt.e city of New York will have very little chance of success in future municipal elections; and there will be the immediate necessity of form ing another party"
 He urged the New York county [Manhattan). Democratic organiza- ton to oust district leaders of the type of Albert Marinelli who re- signed as county clerk under charges brought against him by Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He recommended cooperation with the Fusion administration of Mayor r. H. LaGuardia on matters "bene- ticial to the city
 Although he made no direct ref erence to Tammany leader ChriSto- pher J. Sullivan, he remarked: "The So-called leader of Tammany Hall in actual practice has become despot.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
By ELMER c. WALZER Limited Press Financial Editor

New York, Jan. 7-(UP)-Prices receded on the stock exchange today when profit t-taking was attracted by three days of advance. Trading was around yesterdays level.
 Business news appeared favorable. However, the week under review had compared with a holiday week which distorted the picture. Some reports said PittSburg steel mills added a few thousand men that had been laid off and slight improve ment was noted in the operating rate. Steel centers in other sections about held their own.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
WOOL MARKET

Boston, Jan. 7-(UP)-Demand for wool in Boston was slow and confined mostly to the fine grade, the U. S. Agriculture Department reported today.
 A little fine territory wool was selling in original bags at around 70-72 cents, secured basis, for bulk good French combing Tenth. The short Texas wools were having a lit- tie call. Greasy fall wools brought 66-68 cents, secured basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
Foreclosure

Certificate of foreclosure is sought in a superior court &C., tion filed today by Margaret Bohn against Giovanni and Rosina D. Angelo. The property is located on the west side of St. Jean street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07

The water strider, an insect that is common around ponds and streams. is covered with velvet, so that wen it dives, it carries with it a layer of air for breathing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07
PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS
INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
The R. Y. Griggs Co.

Ann. Hardware Go. .... 9 "A Arrow Hart & Hege .... Al 43 Bristol Brass Corp. com. 32 34 Colts Pat. Fire Arms Co. 591s .61I Eagle Lock Co. ..... 1415 1612 Eastern Malleable Iron. 71a ST. LanderS, Frary & Clark. 25 27
 N. Brit. Mach. Co. com. 19 21 North & Judd Mfg. Go. 241s 2613 Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. 6 8
 Remington Arms ..... 3 A. scovill Mfg. Co. ... 251$ 2719 Stanley Works co. con-. 38 40
 Torrington Go. .... 26 28
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-07

DOW JONES AVERAGES
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-12
WHAT'S WHAT ABOUT
SOCIAL SECURITY

Development of Federal Old
Age Insurance program under the
Social Security Act has given
added Importance to the. record
section of the old family Bible,
baptismal certificates, and other
papers carrying birth dates.
With the size of the average
payment of lump-sum claims for
old-age insurance benefits increas-
ing steadily, Mr.. Charles E. Bailey,
manager of the Social Security
Boards field office at Hagel s.
town, Maryland has been in
structed to inform claimants that
when claim is for over 800,
proof of age will be required
except in the case of claim made
by the heirs or estate of wage
Garner who has died.
Lump-sum payments amount to
8 IL percent of wages received in
covered employments since the
last day of December 1886.
Ordinarily, where the amount is
500 or less, it was stated that
proof would be required only when
the birth day as stated in bene-
fit application is not the same as
the date shown by the Boards re-
cords.
The Social Security Board, re
cognizing the difficulties in sup
plying proof of birth date, has
provided that when an applicant
cannot obtain evidence without
difficulty and expense, he will be
directed to file for consideration
whatever proof he has. Records
found in the family Bible, or in
business, fraternal, school, govern
mental or family records may be
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-12
submitted as proof of age.

submitted as proof of age.
Lump-sum benefits are paid to
insured workers who reach SIS, or
to the relatives or estates of those
who die. These are the only
claims now being paid. Beginn-
ing in 1912, monthly checks will
be sent to those who qualify for
old-age. insurance retirement ben
efits.