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The Washington times., 1938-11-04
FOREIGN POLICY.
|OF U. S. FLAYED.
BY NAzI PRESS.
Roosevelt Accused Of
'Sabotaging Peace

BERLIN, Nov. 4 U.N.S0.-"The
United States had better mind its
own business" the newspaper
Boersen Zeitung said today in a
scathing denunciation of Ameri-
can foreign policy.
An editorial in the influential
Nazi organ sharply rebuked Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recent appeal for
sanctity Of international treaties
and termed it an indirect de-
nunciation" of the fon-power
agreement reached at Munich.
SABOTAGE" CHARGED
Under the headline, "Sabotaging
Peace" the BoerSen Zeitung criti-
cized President Roosevelt for al
legedly first hailing the Munich
accord and then later denouncing
it as being brought about by
armed force.
Europe" said the editorial,
wants to bury the war ak be-
tween the democracies and the
totalitarian states.
Americas press is RESPONSE
BILE for statesmen blowing into
the fire ..
unless the land Of the Mon
roe Doctrine contributes some
thing better for the welfare Of
Europe, it had better mind its
own business. There is enough
work at home"
UNEMPLOYMENT CITED
The editorial pointed out that
the total number Of unemployed
In America Is between 10000, 900
and $4,000, ,000," and charged:
while Secretary Of State
Hull is pleading for free trade
American trade policy is
cynically aiming to take the
South American market from
European industries 80.
I'm view of the late President
Wilson's broken pledges, we
deny that the Democrat, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, has the right to
refer to the sanctity Of treaties.
"He has done nothing to re-
dress Wilson's wrongdoings."
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
KING CITES F. D.
AID TO PEACE

LONDON, Nov. 4 Q.N.S0.-Ref-
erence to President Roosevelt's in
fluence for peace during the re-
cent European crisis was made
today in King Georges speech
adjourning the British Parliament.
The speech, read in the House
of Lords by q royal commissioner,
was devoted to a review Of the
European war scare which, the
King said, he had followed with
deep anxiety.
Delivery Of the speech followed
action Of the House Of Commons
late last night in overwhelmingly
defeating a Laborite motion to
censure the government for In
adequately preparing Britain
against possible air raids.
After reviewing the circum-
stances leading to the crisis, the
King said:
"The cause of peace was
powerfully aided by the timely
action of the President Of the
U. S. A. The desire Of all
peoples not to be drawn into
war with one another was
manifest and significant and
everywhere men and women
share with me, 7 am convinced
a deep feeling Of thankfulnesS
that the imminent peril was
averted.
"I pray that with the passing
Of this peril new era may be
opened for Europe"
The King paid tribute to the
work Of the British and French
governments on behalf Of peace
and congratulated Chamberlain
for his initiative" in visiting
Chancellor Hitler in Germany.
The speech also referred to Pre-
mier MuSsolini'S valuable sup
port"
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Freight Car Kills
Man at Alexandra

A man identified as Roy Brymer,
81, Of Selby, N. c., died in an
ambulance, en- route to the Alex
andria Hospital early today Of
injuries received when he was
struck by a freight train while
walking along the R. F. and P.
tracks near Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria police said that a
track foreman found Brymer lying
along the right of way with his
head crushed and an arm broken
shortly after a southbound freight
had passed.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
High Court TO Get
New Mooney Plea

G.NS). A petition for rehear-
ing will be filed on Monday in
Supreme Court in behalf of Tom
Mooney, labor prisoner, his attor-
ney, John F. Finnerty, of New
York, informed court officials
today.
Reconsideration of action of the
court in refusing to review a
California Supreme Court decision
will be sought. After the court
turned down MONEYS plea re-
Gently, he announced from San
Quentin Prison that he would
drop his court fight. Later he
changed his mind.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. a.
Q.N.SD.-President Roosevelt has
indorsed Sheridan Downey, Demo
cratic candidate for U. S. Senator,
and Culbert Olson, Democratic
candidate for governor Of Califor-
mia, and "other liberal" Demo
cratic candidates.
In a letter to George Creel,
spokesman for the Democratic
party, the President said liberals
like Olson and Downey" should
be elected.
Concerning the $30-every- Thurs
day pension plan, the President
said in his letter:
"I have never concealed the
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
EX- aide OF D. c.. I'd. Backs DoWney,
GUILTY IN THEFT Hits Funny Money

fact that I am against it. How
ever important the $30-every
Thursday plan may seem in the
heat of the local campaign, 1t is
actually only a small item COM
pared with other fundamental
trends which will be determined
by the results Of that campaign.
Sheridan Downey should be
judged not by his position on
this exclusively State issue but
on the temper of mind with
which he will meet the really
national issues of a totally diff
ferent kind on which a Senator
of the United States has to vote
on an average Of once a day"
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
u. s. Re- jects Jap
rade Rule in China

backed by five other powers-Brit-
ain, France, the Netherlands. Bel
gium and Portugal. ..
An economic boycott Of Nippon,
it became increasingly evident, i'm
pends as the probable repriSal OF
the powers unless Japan retreats
from its announced intention OF
forever closing the Chinese "open
door,"
The nine-power pact, which
was also signed by Japan, guaran-
tees the territorial integrity OF
China and the equal opportunity
of the signatory countries to
trade expansion in China. The
pact was signed in Washington
| in 1922,
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Protect October 6

The most recent occasion on
which the United States has clari-
fled it's position in regard to the
Far East was the protest to Japan
of October 6, in which, in unmis-
taxable terms, Japan was accused
of attempting to close the "open
door" in China and Of trangresS-
ing American rights guaranteed
under the nine-power pact and nu-
merous separate treaties with
China.
In bluntly rejecting Japan's
claims to exclusive economic and
political interests in China, the
United States, it was learned, Is
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
U, S. TO DIRECT
SHIP BLAST QUIZ

Continued from Page II
into q mudbank where 1t stuck
fast, while the stern swiftly settled
to the bottom.
Anchors Saue Ship
Aboard the ship were eight pas.
sengers, none Of whom was hurt,
and a crew Of 81. The men hurt
were in the engine room. One
was knocked unconscious and
revived in time barely to escape
as water rushed in. All were
slashed by flying splinters.
The fact that Capt. E. w. Noes.
senger dropped both anchors as
soon as the blast occurred was
credited with preventing q major
disaster. The anchors helped
swing the vessels PROV into the
mudbank. Otherwise the ship
would have foundered in deep
water.
Blast from Outside
District Attorney Earl Warren,
Of Alameda county, who held a
five-hour hearing aboard ship,
reported that all testimony indi-
Gated the blast was from outside
the ship. This was confirmed by
a diver, Henry Fuse, who inspect
ed the shattered hull and said
the plates were bent inward.
Other officials probing the ex-
ploSion were German Consul Gen
eral Manfred Won Killinger Of San
Francisco, local heads Of the q. a
Coast Guard; Capt. William
Fisher Of the U. s. Steamboat
Service, Chief Of Police Vern
Smith of Alameda and Nat Pieper,
jr., head Of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigations San Francisco Of
flee.
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CONTINUED from Page II :
ut very important to view the
situation in accurate and compre
hensive perspective"
"The attitude Of the United
States and the position Of the
American Government in rela-
tions both with China and with
Japan, as with other countries,
are" he said, governed and
guided by the generally accepted
principles of international law,
by the provisions of treaties to
which the United States and nu-
merous countries-among them
China and Japan-are parties,
and by principles Of fair deal
ing and fair play between and
among nations"
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Hitler Is Thanked
By Admiral Horthy

BERLIN. Nov. 4 G.N.S0.-Ad-
miral Nicholas Horthy, regent Of
Hungary, today sent Chancellor
Hitler message Of thanks for the
part played by Germany in arbi.
tration of the Czech-H Hungarian
minority and territorial dispute.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
FRANCO BOMBS
SPREAD DEATH
4 Died
Here

PERPIGNAN, France, Nov. 4.
Many persons were feared killed
and injured today when four ma
tionalist planes bombed the Gu
lera main line railroad viaduct
just across the Franco-Spanish
border.
Windows in nearby French vii
lageS were broken by conclusions
from the blasts.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish
Frontier, Nov. Q.N.S0 New
advances were claimed today by
General Frances forces in the
bitterly contested Ebro district, as
they pressed ahead in an apparent
move to sever the government
lines.
Frances right wing, according
to a nationalist dispatch from
Saragossa, has reached the Pinell
River, an Ebro tributary, at a
point southeast of Gandesa.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Woman Is Burned
BattIinq Flames

Mrs. Lydia A. Micko, Of 1923
Rhode Island Ave. N. w., was
severely burned about the arm
and shoulder late yesterday at
tempting to beat out a fire in the
kitchen Of her apartment.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
British Seek Unity
AGAINST Japanese

LONDON, NOU. 4 (EN.S).-An intensive British
effort is under uUay to induce the cOsRners Of the
Nine-Power Pact to line up in making declaration
of rights to face Jdp0ns threat to 0brogate the
treaty Which guarantees Chinas territorial integrity,
it Uns learned her today.
Growing anxiety of the British government OOer
the Asiatic situation, brought to climax by an
nouncement of japanese "MOnrOe Doctrine" policy
for Eastern Asia, has led to feUsriSh behind-the-
scenes activities tOWdrd determining at Uhot point the
pOers ready stand together in resisting threats
to their interests.
Whitehall has been busy the last feW days U!th
consultations with the French, and confidential
sOundings of the United States and other NATIONS
uUhich are signotOries of the treaty.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
RED PAID BY Clio
HELD CHIEF OF.
STEEL STRIKE.
Legionnaire TestifieSI
Before Dies

U.N.SO, A Communist leadeT
in the pay of both the Communist
party and the CIO directed the
Warren, Ohio, steel strike, usurped
authority of the police. stopped
the United States mails and gave
orders to dynamite squads. it was
testified today before the Dies
committee investigating un-amerl-
can activities.
Gus Hall. also known as Arva
Halberg. who was candidate for
governor on the Communist ticket
in Ohio until the candidates were
withdrawn, was named as the
Communist and boss of the strike
at the Republic Steel Company
plant.
"UNDERCOVER" AGENT
The witness was Edgar Herzog
of Elyria, Ohio, an "undercoVer
member of the Communist party
for several years and chairman OF
the Ohio American Legion Un-
American Activities Committee.
AS HerZog unfolded "the inside
story of Communism in Ohio for
the committee, there were six ma
jor developments in the investiga-
ton which has created furious
controversy between the commit
tee and the Administration. Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself has form
ally attacked the committee and
its motives.
LIST DEVELOPMENTS
Developments were:
l. Communist strength in Ohio
Is centered in the industrial cities,
including Cleveland, Toledo, Ak
ron, Niles. Warren, youngstown
and Cincinnati, Herzog told the
committee.
2. Testimony was offered by
Herzog that the Communist party
operates a school" for teachers
in the public schools of Ohio who
seek to spread MARKHAM doctrines.
A communist" primer was distrib-
uted to be passed on to first and
second grade pupils, he charged.
"KEY-MEN"
3. Chairman Dies CD, Texas,
Of the committee, said he in
tended to subpoena a representa-
tive list of 400 to 500 Government
employees who, he said, are mem
bers of or associated with Com
munist Front organizations. Some
of these employees, Dies revealed,
hold key positions" in the Gov
eminent.
4. An investigator for the COM
mittee, the chairman announced,
woul be called to testify on Com
munist activities in at least So
organizations in this country
which front" for the Soviet cause
Of Moscow
S. Herzog offered testimony that
dynamite was kept i'll the CLOS
headquarters at Warren. This, he
said, was obtained by the CIO at
Oil City, Pa. Nitro-glycerine was
obtained later, he said, and the
strikers were armed with rifles,
shotguns, baseball bats, iron pipe
and other weapons.
BLAMES LEWIS
6. Federal officials and CIO
leaders were accused by Herzog
Of being responsible for Gov. Mar
tin L. Davey'S action in sending
the national guard to Warren. It
was this move by Davey that later
embroiled him in a bitter dispute
with John L. Lewis, who was ruen-
toned by Herzog in connection
with the labor warfare at Warren.
In his testimony on communist
activity among Ohio public school
teachers, Herzog said the "schoo"
to instruct the teachers in COM
munism was operated in Toledo,
Ohio, by Dorothy Cannon, youth
organizer for the young pion-
eers," described as a Communist
Front organization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
BOARD CONSIDERS
 NEW CANDIDATES

Meetings of the police and fire boards will be held tomorrow after noon. No important action is antici- pated at the present time.
 The only vacancies in the police department are in the ranks of upernumeraries. About 35 men will be chosen from the several hundred applicants. Appointment of this group, when it is made, will bring the police department to its full legal limit in all branches, includ- ing supernumerar.es. All regular officers and patrolmen's posts are now filled, while there are about 65 supernumeraries on the list at present. The legal maximum is 100
 The fire department personnel Is also up to par, and the only import ant action expected from this board in the near future is the purchase of new aerial ladder truck. Provision for such purchase was made in the 1888 fire department budget.
 Both police and fire department budget. Both police and fire de- partments now have large numbers of new men, who were appointed during shake-upS in both depart mentS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
WILEY ALUMNI TO
 SET UP MEMORIAL
1926 Class Members Who Have Been Taken By
 Death Remembered

Suitable memorial to be placed at 1 Wilby high school in honor of the i members of the 1926 class who have died was planned at a meeting of alumni of that year, last night in The Elton. Plans were also made to attend the 20th anniversary ban quet which will be sponsored June 27 by the Wilby Alumni association. While alumni in this city are plan ming to reorganize, those who live in New York are making similar plans. Under the chairmanship of Mary Byrnes Taylor, the following graduates. now residents of New York, will unite in that city: Fa- bian Alisauckas, Agnes Smith, Mil dred Merkle, Helen Hughes, Alice Sullivan, Ida Karpet. Bernice Mon- tambault, Helen Senkus Benedict Simons and Ida Weinstein.
 From those who attended the din- ncr at The Elton last night, the fol- lowing committee was appointed to aid the association in the 20th an- niversary program: John J. Morris sey. Emma L. Kunkel, Juliette La Riviere, Helen w Mckee, Marcelle ] Grasseler, Eleanor M Behan, Belle R. SiGal, Bernard J. Fucker, Linda S. Corby, Florence L. Emmons, Mary G. Toletti, Edith Calo, Cameron o. Klobedanz Mary Byrnes, Edward L. Conlan, John Griffiths, Martin Scott and Gabriel Price. Those who have died since graduation are Gertrude Smith. Florence Bagdon, Marie Palmer and ThereSe YoSe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
THUNDER CLOUD a
 ON VISIT HERE
Cherokee Indian Seeks Permission for Series of
 School Lectures

Native songs and dances by three Indians entertained members of tho board of education in session yesters day at Crosby High school. Two were full-blooded Pueblos, White Eagle" and Lightning Arrow" and their leader was Chief Young Thun- der Cloud, who is a three-quarters breed Cherokee.
 The Indians sought permission to visit the various local schools to present true Indian tales and ex- plain to the children the real life traits of their forefathers. The board turned the request to the disposition of Supt. Thomas Condon. who in turn left the question to the discretion of the individual principals. The Indians seek to take a collection at each school where they perform.
 Young Thunder Cloud is one of the most highly educated Indians in the country. He explained that he is a graduate of Oxford and that during the World War he was in the aviation corps and the intelli- gence department. His two com. rades sang and danced for the com. missioners after he had explained their purpose in appearing at the meeting. All funds derived from the performances are turned over to Indian missions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
BEVERLY FEN
 vALED|CT0R|AN
Dorothy Phillips SaIuta- tOrian at Wilby; Both
 Popular Students

Miss Beverly Fein of 75 Hill street, whose general average for four years of study at Wilby High school is 94.29 was hailed today as valedictor- ian of the l938 graduating class of Wilby. Miss Dorothy Phillips of 95 Ridgef1eld avenue. with an average of 93.91 for the four years, is saluta- torian.
 Miss Fein is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Morris Fein. She is a grad uate of Webster grammar school, and during Ter four years at Wilby has been very active in extra -curric- ular affairs.
 Miss Phillips is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Claude N. Phillips and is graduate of Anderson grammar school. She is member of the ex- ecutive committee and of the class book staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
Ne1u Officers or EIks M
 Official Roles Thursday
(BY A BROTHER ELKl

Dr. Mortimer O'Hara, the new ly elected Exalted ruler of Water bury Lodge of Elks, is probably one of the most active heads the lodge has ever had to preside over its doingS, and we have had some fine men, too, in that par ticular office, Elks that we like and admire, such as Col. Will Shanahan, the clever and witty Dr. Fruin, pleasant Jimmy Neagle, the Well-versed Charley Jackson, the likeable Louey Holland, the well known Charley Ahearn, young Flint" Phelan, now of Boston, the wide awake Jack Bennett, the soldierly Dr. George W. Leonard, and others of whom their names do not come to us at this very moment.
 Attractive Call
 Dr. O'Hara seems to have a way about him that takes" with many of us. His call IS attractive, readable, and full of timely say ings. He likes to write and what he says all of us read thoroughly.
 On Thursday night of this week, the newly elected officers will all be in their new roles. The exalted ruler desires good crowd to greet them, so he has sent out postal cards to various members urging their presence. After all, when the exalted ruler orders, good Elk feels bound to respond. inasmuch as it is the teaching of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17
Danaher Proposed As
 Senatorial Nominee
Republicans Visualize Success With Meriden Man on
 Ticket-YOung G. o. P. in Conference Today

| nity to attend lawn parties, tea parties and meetings and in this manner to meet and mingle with voters, rather than to wait until September thus giving the nominees very little time in which to meet the voters.
 Party Ruined
 Many members of the old guard are inclined to favor the proposal of the Young Republicans because they feel that the Republican party is ruined for this year at least and that any suggestion might be useful.
 If the proposal of the Young G. O. P.'s is adopted it will natur- ally mean that the dates for cau- cuses and senatorial conventions must also be advanced.
 By the same token if the proposal is adopted it will greatly curtail the campaign of Senator J. Kenneth Bradley and Samuel Pryor, Jr., of Greenwich, national Republican committeeman. The plans of the Bradley-Pryor combine have been laid out with great care and thus far the combine has been conduct ing a very successful campaign throughout the state, challenging the powers of the old guard in sev- eral of the districts with success. However, the most intensive cam paigning was not to have gotten un-
 The Young Republicans have been busy spreading their slogan that Politicians should be in politics not for what they can get out of it, but for what they can put into it."
 If the meeting with Harwood is successful it will mean that the state chairman of the party will be compelled to call his lieutenants together in a hurry in order to ar range caucauses in the towns of the state.
 While it is probable that the Young Republicans will win their point in this particular movement it is still an accepted fact that when the day of convention arrives every proposal advanced by the Young g. o. D. will meet with de- feat.
 Never in history has the once proud and powerful Grand Old Party been so torn and humiliated as it is at present. There is not one recognized republican leader in the state today who dares seek the republican gubernatorial nomination because they know it will mean quick political death for their future political ambitions to try and de- feat Governor Wilbur L. Cross this year.
 There is only one nomination on the state Republican ticket which seems to be clinched at this writing and that is the post as Republican nominee for the U. s. senatorship. This place on the state ticket will be offered to John Donaher, of Meriden, former secretary of state. Hugh M. Alcorn prosecutor of ,Hart- ford County would like to capture the nomination but as I pointed out in previous articles he will not be able to carry more than eight or possibly nine districts. The rest will back Danaher.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-17

our organization that an exalted ruler can do no wrong.
 So the chances are that many who have not been in the habit of attending meetings will be present just in honor of the wish of the much like exalted ruler. We have always thought well of him, in fact that is true of the entire O'Hara family. The head of the family, the late Dr. O'Hara, was an Elk of long standing, and his presence and activities of years ago, remain in the minds of the older members who worked and who were associated with him. Their respect and admira- tion for him carries along to the good children he left behind.
 Big Attendance
 Thursday mig ht. therefore. promises to revive interests in Elkdom. for it is the belief of many that the attendance will far exceed in numbers any previous meeting for months.
 A buffet lunch is to follow the session, in which song and gen. eral merriment will be added fea- lures.
 Attendance vii! mean much to Dr. O'Hara and like all good friends, we plan to attend, as mark of respect to the man who preSides over the order we justly think so much about.