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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
10 FIREMEN HURT
 BATTLING BLAZE
Oils, Paints Cause Terrific
 Blaze, Wrecking Woon= .> socket, R. l., Store

Woonsocket, R. T., April 2-(UP) Ten firemen were burned or oth- erwise injured early today during a two-hour battle against oil and paint-fed flames which wrecked hardware store, damaged adjacent buildings including a theater, and menaced downtown Woonsocket.
 Loss was estimated at $100,000.
 Only two of the injured, Lieu tenant John Conlon and Fireman Charles Kuccheryawka, were kept at a hospital. Three others, Lieu tenant George place and Bremen Charles Faubert and Eugene DeS- marais, were released after treat ment. The remaining five injured were treated at the scene.
 The fire started in the Thomas c. Nee Hardware store. Feeding on large stores of paints and oils, the flames swiftly enveloped that es- tablishment and spread to the ad- jacent Freeman building. This two-story brick-wood structure housing a jewelry shop. stationery store and the offices of several pro- fessional men, was damaged as were the Goulet building and Bijou the ater.
 Four Chinese escaped unassisted from the Shanghai restaurant above the hardware store.
 A series of explosions endangered firemen, several of whom were cut by shattered glass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
SLIGHT QUAKE
 FELT IN ME-, N. H.
Six Towns Recovering Form Effects-Many
 Houses Shaken

Rochester, N. H., April 2-(UP).- Residents of six New Hampshire and Maine communities replaced pictures on walls of their homes to- day as seismologists at two Massa- chusettS colleges studied recordings of last nights slight earthquake"
 Dwellings trembled, dishes tum- bled from shelves and pictures crashed at East and North Roches- ter, Milton and West Milton, N, H., and South and West Lebanon, Me. No one was hurt.
 Director L. Don Leet of Harvard University's seismograph station at Harvard, Mass, reported "a small record, so small it hardly looks nat ural, of an earthquake 60 miles north of here. That would be in the vicinity of the area reported affect ed"
 The disturbance began at 9:l3 D. m. (EST) and lasted about five seconds, Leet said. He immediately discounted an explosion theory on grounds that a blast would be of extraordinary violence to be describ- cd.
 Seismograph plates at Weston (Mass.) College also registered the shock. Attaches believed the dis turbance was small slipping of the earth surface.
 Some residents Believed a meteor ite might have caused the shock. but astronomers at Harvard observatory, Cambridge, Mass, said no astral fragment had been observed in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
PROBE OF PRISON
 BREAK STARTED
Dangerous Life=Termer at WetherSfield Dies in
 4=Story Fall

Wethersfield, Conn.,, April 2- (UP)-An extensive investigation opened today into an attempted eS- cape by two dangerous, long-term prisoners from States Prison shortly before dark last night. One of the convicts died in the break.
 Anthony Udisky, 31. Mt. Vernon, N. Y, native, was injured fatally when he plunged four stories from the roof of the prison administra- tion building. Frank Land, AZ, a Norwegian who twice has escaped from the prison only to be recap tued, was caught by guards hiding on the roof
 Udisky was being lowered from the roof by an improvised rope held by Land when they were spotted by George H. Bradley, superintend- ent of industries and guard.
 Land let go of the rope, either through fright or because or Udisky's weight. The younger man was taken to the prison hospital
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
NOERA co. HELP
 MAY WALK OUT
Union Employees Say They Will Strike Monday If
 Pay Cut Goes Through

Union employees of the Noera Mfg. Co.,, branch of the Chase Brass x Copper Co.,, may go on strike Mon- day if the company does not with draw an announced 10 per cent wage cut, it was reported today. A strike against similar wage reduc- tion by the American Brass Go. has been underway in the company's north plant since Wednesday. Mem- bers of the Waterbury Brass Work CTS union, CIO affiliate, continued to picket gates of the American Brass Go. as the rolling mill worked today to make up for time lost be- cause of the strike.
 Noera employees claim that the wage cut is in violation of a con- tract which they signed with the company last summer, and the union has protested to the state board of meditation and arbitra- tion. The union has already notl- fled factory officials that it's mem- bers will refuse to accept the cut.
 The American Brass Go. claims that more than half the workers in the rolling mills at the north plant have returned to work. The union disputes this, claiming that only 75 men have gone back to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02

Sixty persons have been sub poenaed by Waterbury's extraord- mary grand jury during the four weeks it has been in session. Dur ing the four weeks the jury con- ducted sessions on fifteen days. Three of the sessions continued in- to the night.
 Before any action emits from the jury it is believed that the list Of witnesses will at least be doubled. The list as presented in complete form since the jury convened on March 8, includes all persons, some who were subpoenaed merely to examine or identify records. and more who were actually called to testify before the jury with direct relation to the probe.
 Sherwood l.. Rowland, city con- troller, March 8-9.
 William J. Armstrong, aide to MT. Rowland, March SPA.
 James F. Purcell, auditor, affil- iated with the controllers office, March S-9-10-11-15.
 Frankie (Burns) Santalucia,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
ANOTHER VICTIM
 DIES IN FLORIDA
Edward Bclte, 70, Suc= cumbs After Receiving
 New Cancer Treatment

Orlando. Fla. April 2-CUP)-Ed- ward Bolte, 70, formerly of Chicago, died in a hospital today, the 10th person to succumb after receiving new treatment for cancer.
 Bolte died while laboratory tech nicians rushed an analysis of two preparations administered to the cancer sufferers interchangeably.
 The nine women and a man who have died from the treatment all had the symptoms of lockjaw. It was believed that q bacterio- -flltrate used for sub-cutaneous injections may have become contaminated with tetanus virus.
 We now have tests which should disclose within 48 hours whether it was a contaminated bottle of the second serum which caused the deaths" said Dr. J. N. Patterson laboratory director for the Florida board of health.
 Dr. Patterson said that analysis of the original serum under Suspi- cion failed to show any signs of tetanus bacteria"
 Four other persons who had re- ceived injections were in hospitals.
 The Orlando physician who gave the injections reported tha5 he had used a second preparation after he had tested it upon guinea pigs which died, according to Dr, Pat terSon.
 The second drug was manufac- tured in Philadelphia, Dr. Patterson declared. The original preparation tested and found to be uncontam- mated, was made in Kingston, Ont.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02

The jury adjourned shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon, but Special Prosecutor AL corn and his staff conferred at least an hour before leaving the scene.
 Jury Switches Tactics
 Attention of the jury during the past week, with the exception of has veered from the lob- bying angle, and centered on Wa terbury and it's peculiarities of pol itics. This is verified by a check of the list of witnesses who ap- peared each day. On Tuesday all the witnesses were po- litical leaders from other cities, but Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day witnesses were local officials and City Hall attaches.
 Attorney Martin E. Gormley, un- successful candidate for Congress in 1882, who fought in Washington to have his successful opponent, Edward w. Goss unseated, conferred with Detective Edward J. Hickey yesterday afternoon at the court house. MT. Gormley, who was prev iously consulted by the detective, did not venture near the grand Jury floor, and there is nothing to n- dicate that he will be witness.
 Heard Yesterday
 Waterburians who probably were heard by the jury yesterday in- cluded: Carl D. Olsen, Patrolman Christopher Luddy of the Police Department; Giles Anderson, clerk of the assessors of the assessors of flee; Ferdinand Bachmann, assistant secretary of the Waterbury Trust Company; and Frederick T. Dalton, democratic member of the board ot finance.
 The other Waterburians who ap- peared, but who are not believed to have been heard were: Martin J. Dunn, purchasing agent under ex- Controller Daniel J. Leary; Harry Frank, City Hall messenger; former Mayor Francis P. Guilfoile; Attor- ney Weisman.
 Unidentified" Witness
 The unidentified" man of yes terday made two appearances, one in the morning and the other ill the afternoon. He was not witness, according to Prosecutor Alcorn. 1t has been learned that his name is Richard Rapport. He is a resident of West Hartford and an assistant to State Banking Commissioner Walter Perry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
SHAKE
 UP COMMANDERS
Drastic Steps Taken in Military Ranks to Stif=
 fen Defense

Hendaye, French-Spanish From tier. April 2-CUP)-Spanish Loyal ists effected t he biggest military shakeup of the civil war today in a dramatic attempt to stiffen their resistence oh the Catalonian front and save their cause from imminent disaster.
 The entire Catalonian high com- mand was altered and every officer of the old regular army who had been in a key command was re- placed by a militia off1cer-one ot the civilian volunteers who saved the Loyalist government at the out set of the civil war.
 General Sebastian Pozas, the vet eran regular army man who was commander in chief on the Cata- lonian front, was replaced by Lieut.. Col. Juan Perea, who as civilian volunteer distinguished himself on the Madrid front in the first months of the war. Maj. Aniceto CarvaJal was named chief of staff. The Cata- lonian front, for tactical purposes, was divided into north and south commands, north under Lieut.. Col. Javier Linares, south under Lieut.. Col. Antonio Gordon. Jose Ignasio Mantecon, former civil governor of the Aragon reign, was named su- preme political commissar, of the Catalonian front-the army of the east"
 All these men were civilians 2l months ego.
 Coincidently. the Loyalists dis closed that the famous international brigade had been reformed after its heavy casualties in the Belchite area at the start of the Nationalist
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
OXFORD WINS
 CLASSIC RACE
Beats Cambridge for Sec. Ond Successive Time in
 9O=Year=Old Rivalry

Putney, Eng, April 2.-UP).- Oxford's powerful crew, battling through wind-swept waters on the River Thames, today defeated Cam bridge in the 90th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate sport rivalry in the world.
 Fighting off a stern Cambridge challenge in the third mile, Oxford stepped up the beat a mile from home and won by two lengths to score it's second consecutive victory over the light blue shell.
 Oxford's official time was 19 min utes. 30 seconds compared to the record of 18 minutes, three seconds set by Cambridge in 1884 for the four mile, 374-yard "S-shaped course.
 It was the first time since l909- 10 that Oxford had won two years in succession.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
FirenenTo Seek Three Days of Each Month
Petition Expected at Fire Board Meeting Next Wed= Appointments, Promotions, lrans=
 fers May Be Made Then

A committee representing the per sonnel of the Waterbury fire depart ment has voted to petition the board of fire commissioners to grant fire men three days off each month. 1t was learned today. The request Will probably be submitted to the fire board at it's meeting next WedneS- day.
 Long-awaited appointments, pro motions and transfers in the depart ment will perhaps be made Wednes- day, according to reports current to- day. More than 15 new flremen are expected to be appointed and sev- eral promotions and many transfers have been pending for some time.
 One of the transfers to be made is that of Lieut.. Michael Cavanaugh from Burton street to Highland ave nue station. A large number ot other transfers of officers and pri- yates are understood to have been arranged.
 The firemen's committee was ap- pointed some weeks ago at meet ing of delegates from all the engine houses in the city. The committee considered number of proposed re- quests to the fire board, but decided to limit itself at the present time to the single petition for three days oil each monh.
 The firemen will ask that the three days leave each month be un- related to the annual vacation. They will base their request on the fact that members of the police depart ment are given three free days a month. The time off could be so ar ranged, they will tell the board, so that no company need be under manned at any time.
 The meeting of delegates from all engine houses was called after mem- bers of the fire board had made a series of surprise inspection visits to fire houses, and after announcement had been made of rigorous enforce ment of department rules relative to time off and absence from the city.
 Chairman Thomas Mccarthy of the fire board assured f1remen that the board will give full consideration to any reasonable requests made by the men ill the rank. The plea for three days off a month is said to have the approval of Chief Thomas Cayanaugh, and it is with his per- mission that the committee will sub init the petition to the board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
First Saturday Session Since Jan. IS Finds Re- organization Faltering OPPONENTS HOPE TO
 KILL CONSIDERATION Tabling of Motion to Re- consider Would AutO=
 matically Kill Bill
Smith Votes "No"
 On Debate Limit

Connecticut's members of the House of Representatives re- corded differences of opinion yesterday on the vote to limit debate on the reorganization plan.
 Congressman J. Jose Smith of Waterbury, Alfred N. Phillips of Stamford and James Shanley of New Haven voted against the administrations efforts to place a limit on the discussion.
 Congressman Herman KOp- Ieman of Hartford, William Citron of Middletown and Will liam Fitzgerald of Norwich fa- yOred limitation. The final vote was 191 to 149 against linn itatiOn.
 A vote on approval or rejec- ton of the bill comes next week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
AUTO HOMICIDE. CASES FEATURE. COURT DOCKET Two Represent Hit=and= Run Cases = Session
 Opens Tuesday HUSBAND, WIFE; SON,
 FATHER ARE INVOLVED Assaulter of Constable De
 S0mma Also to Have Case Heard

Three automobile homicide cases, two of which represent successful investigation by the police department of hit-and-run fatalities, head the docket of the criminal session of superior couTt which opens here Tuesday before Judge Ernest Inglis. Other charges against those who will be arraigned include assault with intent to kill; manslaughter; embezzlement, in decent assault, and more of less serious nature.
 Maxwell Case
 A husband and wife, MT. and Mrs. Clarence Carolan of Thomaston ave- nue will be arraigned on charges arising from the hit-and-run auto- mobile death of Thomas w. Max well, 35, of Myrtle avenue, which oc- cured on ThomaSton avenue, Octo- Der IT, 1887. Carolan is charged with automobile homicide and evad- ing responsibility. Mrs. Carolan is charged with evading responsibility
 In another hit-and-run case, a father and son, Walter and John Unikas of Sheffield street, Water vile, will be arraigned. The father is charged with respon- sibility for the death of Mike Bush, which occurred on the Thomaston road, October "A. The son is charged with eyading responsibility, in that he disguised the truck after the ac- cident.
 Dr. Berman's Death
 The other automobile case is based on the death of Dr. Maurice J. Ber- man, of 155 North Main street, and for which Stephen Ponzillo of 131 Francis street is being held respon- sible. Dr. German was struck as he operated his car on Meadow street. October 21.
 Michael Carosello of North Main street will be arraigned on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, and assault with intent to kill former Constable Frank DeSomma. The case was supposed to have been
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
60 Persons Summoned Before
 Extraordinary Grand JuryHere

president of the Connecticut Supply Co.,, March 9-1O-2%.
 Miss Carolyn COzza. secretary of the Office Supply Co.,, March 9.
 Henry Gebhardt, commercial photographer, March 9-1O.
 Joseph Moore, office manager. Connecticut Supply Co.,. March 10-15-17.
 Martin J. Hayden, clerk, City Welfare Dept, March II.
 Timothy HOrgan. supt. of city hall, March 5-16-17-22.
 Simon J. Alderman, New Haven auditor, March 15-16.
 Charles E. Gillett, Bridgeport banker, March IS.
 Louis D. Kennedy, New Haven banker, March 15.
 Helen K. DriScoll, bOOkkeeper, City Welfare Dept, March 15.
 Samuel Kemp, city hall janitOr. March 16-17.
 Francis Brice, city hall janitor,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
Vatican Disapproual May Be Disregarded
German Catholic Bishops Reported to Have Discussed Plan of Urging "Yes" Vote in April 10
 Pebescite on Union

Berlin, April 2 - (UP) - It was reported without confirmation to- day that Roman Catholic bishops of Germany, at a conference at Fulda discussed the advisability of drafting a recommendation that Germans vote "yes" in the April 10 plebiscite on Austro-German union.
 The report was circulated despite the strong criticism by a speaker over the vatican official radio of the action of the Austrian Episcopate in recommending that Austrians vote ''yes."
 Evangelical church leaders met here to discuss urging their fol- lowers to vote favorably to the union.
 Even as the vatican speaker was making his criticism yesterday Cardinal Innitzer, archbishop of Vienna-who sponsored the yes" recommendation letter to Joseph Buerckel Nazi plebiscite di- rector, denying any connection be- tween the recommendation and a recent interview between Monsignor Domenico Orsenigo, the papal nuncio to Germany, and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister.
 T hope the bishops declaration will be a milestone in the entire nations religious and cultural life," wrote the cardinal, "and will initiate greater internal pacifica- tion and reconciliation between church and state and the Nation alist Socialist party"
 Vatican City, April 2 - (UP) - A breach between the vatican and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
EDWARD SIMPSON
 TO DIE IN CHAIR

Cambridge, Mass, April 2-CUP) Barring a possible appeal to the U. s. Supreme Court, Edward P. Simpson, 39-year-old jailbreaker, will die in the electric chair be- tween April 21 and May for the murder of two Newton policemen.
 A stay of execution granted Simpson pending a state supreme court review was removed by Su- penior Judge John E. Swift late yesterday, the high court having rejected his appeal for new trial. Thus, Simpson must die not less than 20 days nor more than 30 days hence unless defense counsel de- cides to carry out tentative plan to appeal to the nations highest court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
l Following g In | Dads Footsteps

Sons of present and former local attorneys of note are among the Il WaterburianS who have applied to take the bar examination in June. The applicants will appear before the New Haven County Committee on Recommendations for Admission to the Connecticut Bar, and if their qualifications are in order the per- mission will be granted.
 The committee consists of Robert c. Stoddard of New Haven, chair man; Walter F. Torrance, Water bury; David L. Daggett, New Ha- ven; Harold E. Drew, Derby; Charles M. Lyman, New Haven.
 William J. Larkin, Jr., son of the prosecutor of the court of common pleas is an applicant for the bar ex- animation. He is resident of g Demorest street. Others are:
 Edmund James Abbott, Jr.. of 63 Randolph avenue; William Patrick Duff, Jr., of q Beverly road, Ham, den. former Waterbury resident;
 Irving David Johnson, IT Hillside avenue, Waterbury; William c. Mo- Donald, 429 Cooke street; Edward Joseph Nocera, 11O Meadow street; Joseph James Phelan, 54 Lexington avenue;
 Paul Anderson Peasley, of 55 Elm wood avenue, son of the late James Peasley, prosecutor of city court. He is also the nephew of State Referee Frederick Peasley of Cheshire, who recently retired from the superior court bench.
 Edward Matthew Sciullo of "A South Elm street; Mark Leaven- worth Sperry of 154 Buckingham street; and Jules Sigal of 91 Clin- ton street. The latter is now afflli- ated with the legal library of the Department of Justice at Washing ton, D. c.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
TOKYO NOTIFIED
 OF TONNAGE JUMP

Tokyo, April 2 - (UPD = The United States and British ambassa- dors notified the foreign office today that their governments had decided to invoke the "escalator" clause of the 1886 American -British-French naval limitations treaty and thus in- crease warship tonnages.
 A high navy officer, commenting on the notification, said that to blame Japan for the invocation of the escalator clause was unWarrant- ed. He repeated that Japan was ready to increase her naval arma- ments whenever she felt her nation al security was threatened by Amer ican-B British building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02
Gov Murphy Rushes Home From Florida to En=
 ter Dispute 100 ILLUSTRATIONS,
 PLANTS WERE SEIZED Several Important Cities. 100 Towns Depend on Plants for Electricity

Saginaw, Mich, April 2. = (UP) - Striking utility workers manned the power plants of the Saginaw valley today after electing theil managers, and held the cleo trical service of two-thirds of lower Michigan at their mercy. Service was being maintained, and Albert Ston- kus, national head of the Utility Workers Organizing Committee. said the men would not pull the switches before Mon day, when an emergency peace con- ference, called by Governor Frank Murphy, is scheduled in Detroit. Governor Murphy. who threat ened to call out the National Guard to end utility strike in the Sagi- naw Valley last year, was rushing home from Florida, where he had ! been on vacation.
 Seized Plants Yesterday
 The workers, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organiza- ton, seized the plants yesterday af- ternoon to enforce a strike over their demands for guarantees against wage cuts during the next year.
 During last years strike, the val- ley was without power for "A hours. The unions contract with the Con- sumers Power Company, against whom the present strike was direct ed, expired February 28. A tempo rary working agreement had cover
 Workers occupied the plants ed working conditions during March. peacefully last night after the strike had been approved at noisy mass meetings in several cities.
 Many Plants Occupied
 The plants seized included the huge steam generating plant at Mill waukee: a sub-station in Saginaw; a sub-station and gas plant at Flint, and a gas plant at Lansing. In all approximately 100 plants and sub stations were seized.
 Workers marched in and ordered the foremen and managers out. The officials complied and service was maintained at the sufferance of union leaders.
 The strikers controlled service for such cities as Saginaw, Flint, Bay City, Owosso and about 200 small towns. The power area serves 35O,- 900 customers, is inhabited by l.