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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
TRUMBULL QUITS
 COP. COMMITTEE

Hartford, Conn.,, April 14.-(UP) Republican State Chairman Ben- iamin E. Harwood today accepted the resignation of former Gov. John H. Trumbull, Plainville, as a mem Der of the central committee from the 18th district. Trumbull, who held the post for 25 years. said he believed "it is time for a younger man was selected to take my place, explaining various business interests prevented him from devoting ade- uuate time to the position.
 Former State Senator Austin D. Barney, Pennington, has been sug- |gested as his successor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
BODY OF PALKA
 IS NOT REMOVED

Hartford, Conn, April 14.-UP) The state today refused to permit he body of Frank Paiha, 25, elec- ,rocuted at states prison Tuesday night to be buried in his home city of Buffalo.
 -> Connecticut law provides that persons executed in the state must be buried here. Despite an appeal from Mrs. Julia Palka, mother of the dead man, that she be permitted to take his body home, Attorney
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14

General Charles J. Mclaughlin ruled the statutes could not be con- troverted.
 Palka was executed for the gun- murder of a Bridgeport policeman in 1885. He was buried in local cem- etery at the states expense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
Figures Not Yet Definitely Determined But Adminis- tratiOn Plans to Pour at Least $3,OOO,O ,OOO, Into Priming Recovery Pump
W ROONEY BUTCHER

Washington, April 14-The big news is that the Roosevelt admin istration has decided to try to 'spend" the country out of the de- precision.
 The decision finally was
 reached by the President and
 WPA Administrator Harry Hop
 kins at Warm Springs. Further
 developments are rapidly un-
 folding.
 Half a dozen plans for pump ing money into the economic sys- tenn, backed and press-a -agented by as many groups, are being pushed around in the air. There are plans for pure spending and plans for pure lending, schemes for lend ing in such way that only part of the money will come back and schemes for lending so that none of it will come back.
 Pump $3,000,0O0,0OO
 Although mechanics of the pump priming scheme to be recommended to Congress are not worked out, it is certain that MT. Roosevelt will call for at least 5000, 100000 of funds for WPA and public works.
 It is not unlikely that the old PWA, whose machinery has been kept oiled for a program such as is now imminent, will be merged with WPA and that the whole works-recOvery program will be co-ordjnated under Hopkins. In order to get fast start, the merged organization would begin at once on projects of both agen- cies which have been proposed and studied but have not been acted on because of lack of funds.
 Prominence of Harry Hopkins in the Roosevelt councils and in administration of the spending pro- gram makes it certain that compre- hensive if not favorable considera- ton will be given to a large scale housing program, under government direction and financed by govern ment funds. Hopkins always has wanted to build houses with WPA labor.
 Housing Planned on Program Various ideas as to housing aS part of the new spend- ing program are as far up in the air as anything else, but a signifi- cant amount of attention is being devoted to possibilities of large scale erection of fabricated homes.
 Some government experts in
 sist that mass production of
 cheap pre-fabricated homes
 represents the only way to build
 cheap individual houses. They
 say several production units are
 ready to start off in big way
 and that WPA labor could be
 used to lay out sites, streets,
 cellars and water mains as we'll
 ss to put the houses together.
 According to the fabrication experts, it's largely a question of getting the public used to this type of house and if someone will just get lot of them up there will be stimulus for a huge new industry.
 But this is only one idea
 among many and opposition
 from building trades unions,
 building materials interests and
 other groups is likely to kill it.
 Early indications are that
 pump -priming proposals of
 whatever type :yiIl be closely
 scrutinized in Congress and
 perhaps subjected to consider
 able alteration.
 The proposal to turn the public works program over to Hopkins, assuming that Roosevelt decides he wants to do that, is one which conceivably may cause an uproar on Capitol Hill.
 (CODyriPht 1938 NEA Service Tnc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
What Good?

What Good?
 The chummy relation between Sousa and the Secretary of the Navy appears in the following conversation:
 "Sousa, I want to compliment you on the excellence of your band. I was very much impressed with the solo playing of your cornetist at your last concert.
 "Yes, MT. Secretary, that young cornet soloist is a fine Western boy; he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, his general habits and conduct are excellent, and all the Government pays him is $38 a month.
 You say he doesn't drink?"
 Not drop"
 And he doesn't smoke?"
 Not a puff"
 And you say too, that his gen. eral habits and conduct are ex- cellent?"
 He leads absolutely the simple life"
 Well, Sousa," and General Tracy leaned back in his chair, flor Heavens sake, what good will money do him?"
 At one time," writes Sousa, "the West Penn Hospital at Pitts burgh had secured permission from President Harrison for the band to go to Pittsburgh and give a concert for the benefit of the hospital. One of the Washington correspondents had amused him. self by informing me that there was no city in the world which demanded such highbrow music as did Pittsburgh, and he added If you play anything of so- called popular nature, they will hiss you off the stage just as sure as shooting!'
 Annie Vows Elm
 He carried such an air of con- viction that I believed him. I built my program of very solid material, something by Brahms, another selection Bach, some Wagner, and a bit of Strauss. The house was crowded, and when I finished the first number l turned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
N. Y. Bank & Trust Stocks
 The R. Y. Grlggs Co.

Miss Sarah Hadlow, aged 92, has completed 77 years as cook for one family in Kent, England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14

to play the national air of every embassy represented here today. His attache reported IT embas- sies! I always carried the nation al songs of a great number of countries inSa folio, so promised to play all of them. I distributed what music had and began with God save the Queen at which the English Ambassador immed- lately rose, followed by the rest of the guests. I continued with the airs of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, etc, ending with The Star Spangled Banner.
 "A few days later, encountered the Secretary and he congratu- lated me on my industry in col lecting the anthems. I remarked that I had spent much time in getting them for the folio, and he said that they should be arranged and made into an official volume.
 "'I should like to publish them under your authority I replied. He accordingly wrote the follow ing:
 NAVY DEPARTMENT
 Washington, Oct. 18, 1889. SPECIAL ORDER:
 John Phii1p Sousa, the Band master of the band of the United States Marine Corps, is hereby di- rected to compile, for the use of the Department, the National and Patriotic Airs of all Nations.
 B. F. TRACY.
 Secretary of the Navy.
 "The work was issued in 1890, and is a standard all over the world. It remains the most ex- haustive volume of its kind. In my collection included many songs of the American Indians with representative melodies of the following tribes: Apache, Cherokee, Chippewa, Dakota, Es- kimo, Iowa, IroquoiS, Ponca, Van couver. The titles were usually descriptive: Apache Scalp Song and Dance, The Returning Hun ter,' etc. Many of these songs were sung to me by ethnologists and others who had travelled and lived among the Indians. sat at my desk and applied harmonic treatment to the tunes, without in any case changing note of the melodies. Not only did the book cover all the principal countries of the world, but assembled the airs of such far-away places as: Abyssinia, Boa Vista, Celebes, Da- 1ecarlia, East Indies, Figi Isles, Lapland, Moldavia, Nukahivah, Pfalz, and Samoa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
CONNECTICUT SECURlTIES|
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-14
Annie Rooney "Wows" Elm

Psbmgs Hghbrow Melted by John Philip Souas Bands Rem Sng-John Continues Interesting Incidents Life Master of Presidents, and General Public
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
CANDIDATES WITH
 APPEAL SOUGHT

Eastern Point, Conn.,, June 25- (UP)-The eighth New England conference of Young Republicans opened here today with an appeal by the general chairman for nom- ination of G. O. P. candidates in whom the country will have con- fidence."
 Bruce Barton, New York con- gressman, will be guest speaker at a banquet of the group tonight.
 Paul Cornell, head of Romford school, Washington, Conn, and mentioned as a possible guberna- torial nominee, was present.
 Referring apparently to the in surgent movement headed by Ma tional Committeeman Samuel F Pryor, Jr., Greenwich, and State Sen. J. Kenneth Bradley, Westport, Goodsell added:
 "In one section of Connecticut, there is a new force growing in the party, and extending out into the rest of the state. This new element is not interested in seeking control, but it is interested in winning elections. We are determined to be free of the domination of a per sonal political machine which has brought the Republican party to low ebb in our state"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
RIGHT OF PEOPLE
 AT STAKE-AIKEN

woodstock, Vt., June 25-CUP)- The fight against the federal flood control bill is a fight for "the right of our people to be self-governing, '" according to Republican Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont.
 "The bill, as passed by Congress" :" he told the New England councils 5lst quarterly meeting last night, provides that the federal govern ment may seize without consent the water resources of any state under the pretext of flood control. The war department is given no discre- ton in the matter, but is directed to acquire such lands and rights as may be necessary.
 'sThe basic issue is neither power production nor flood control, but is one of maintaining a balance of power between state and federal government. If the bill . is signed by the president and upheld by the courts, it means that the necessary step for practical abo- lition of state government has been taken.
 Tt means that the people of our state will no longer be able to de- termine the use to which our lands and our waters may be put"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
MediU McCornick's s Body Sought Today
SearcI,ers Enter New Mexico Mountain Range Early Today Seeking It-Body of Companion Killed in
 Fall Found Late Yesterday Afternoon

Albuquerque, N. M., June 25 -(U. PD - Searchers led by Governor Clyde L. Tingley go into the Sandia Mountains at dawn today to search for the body, of Medill Mccormick, 21, scion of one of Americas most prominent families. They already had found the body of his hiking companion, Richard Whitmer, 20, and all evidence indicated that both had been killed in a fall from a mountain cliff.
 Accompanying the searchers was Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick Simms, widow of the late senator and newspaper publisher, Medill Mccormick, wife of Albert G. Simms, wealthy Albuquerque lawyer and land owner, and the boys mo- ther. Daughter of Mark Hanna, she is former member of congress.
 The body of Whitmer was found on ledge on a 2,000 foot cliff in the rugged Sandia Mountains lS miles from here, about 200 fet from the top. It appeared that he had been scaling the cliff and had fallen when about to climb over the top Darkness was falling when the searchers came upon his body and the search for McCormick's body had to be postponed until today.
 Mccormick and Whitmer set out Wednesday by automobile for a hike in the mountains, some Of which are in Los Poblanos, the vast ranch of his step-father. They plan ned to return the same day. Thurs day, Mrs. Simms reported her son missing, but was not alarmed, be- lieving he and his companion had been lost in storm.
 Friday when nohting had been heard from them, Mrs. Simms ap- pealed to authorities, National Guard cavalry directed by AdJutant General R. c. Charlton and Cover nor Tingley, c. c. c, members ana
 Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
40 PASSENGERS
 STILL MISSING
R. R. Agent Announces Search for Bodies in
 Wreck to Continue

Miles City, Mont, June 25-(UP)
 Forty passengers aboard the speeding express train which fell through trestle over Custer Creek last Sunday, still are "unaccounted for" J. R. Began, divisional pas senger and freight agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee. St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, announced today.
 Forty-six bodies had been recov- cred from the waters of Custer Creek and from the wreckage of the Olympian. Began did not suggest the fate of those "unaccounted for" Until he made his announce ment, only seven persons had been listed officially as missing.
 Custer Creek was filled from bank to bank with the waters of cloud- burst when the trestle gave way be- meath the weight of the train, and was flowing so rapidly that an all- steel Pullman car was carried 50 feet by its current.
 one body was found 50 miles from the scene of the wreck and another was taken from the Yellowstone River into which the creek empties.
 But Regan's announcement did not indicate that all or almost all of the "unaccounted for" might be added to the eventual death toll. It was a possibility that the rail- roads method of arriving at its fig ures had been faulty.
 The seven officially listed as miss ing undoubtedly were dead, which places the certain toll of the wreck at 53 dead. Should Regan's figures prove correct, it would raise the toll to over 90.
 Began said that the high num- Der of passengers "unaccounted for, was unexplainable at present"
 He added, Search for the remain ing bodies will be continued without Interruption"
 The railroad, by checking back on ticket sales and the destinations of those who bought tickets on the train whose point of departure was Chicago, arrived at the conclusion that 193 passengers had been on the train when it went crashing through the trestle. -
 Fifty-three survivors continued
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
FIVE DEATHS WERE
 CAUSED BY WEATHER

Boston, June 25.-(UP).-Five deaths were attributed today to New England wave of heal and humid ity as it entered its eighth day with little hope of relief Possible local showers were predicted for to- night.
 Four others were overcome.
 Highest official temperature re- cording at Boston was 88, equaling Thursdays mark. Highest record- ing daily since week ago were Saturday 85, Sunday 82, Monday 50. Tuesday 93 and Wednesday 84.
 North and south shore beaches and lakes throughout the area were crowded. Revere Beach reported the largest crowd of the year, estimat- ed at about 100000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
YISCOUNT CECIL IS DISSATISFIED
RenOunces Governments Support as Result of
 Spanish BOmbings

London, June 25-(UP) - Vis- count Cecil of ChelWood, one of Great Britain's most distinguished statesmen, renounced his support of the government today because of his dissatisfaction with it's policy regarding the bombing of British ships by airplanes operating in be- half of the Spanish Nationalists.
 This action followed the refusal of Winston Churchill, conserva- tive leader in the house of com mons, to vote with the government Thursday night after debate on Spanish policy.
 Cecil himself cited the speech by Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain in commons Thursday as his reason for withdrawing his support of the cabinet in the house of lords.
 In view of the speech, he asked the Earl of Lucan, conservative whip. to cease sending him the government whip Suggestion as to voting on party lines) with the comment:
 "I feel can not honestly allow VOL to treat me any longer as even nominally supporter of the gov- ernment."
 Churchill, on Thursday night, was one of a dozen conservatives who remained ostentatiously Ill their seats during vote on la bor party motion of censure against the government. Their votes were not needed. But their abstention was a direct rebuke, and one which caused something of a sensation.
 Churchill, most dashing of the conservative leaders, and one of the brilliant orators of his day, war time first lord of the admiralty, munitions minister and war sec- retary, has been outSpoken in his opposition to the governments Spanish policy, and its European policy generally. He is for a strong stand against the Fascist Nazi bloc.
 Cecil is a man of essentially op- posite character, who has devoted the years of his life since the war to peace and furtherance of the League of Nations. He was first minister of blockade. then foreign secretary, in the war as Lord Rob- ert Cecil.
 But most notable is the fact that these two men, aligned with the la Dor and liberal parties on the Spanish problem, are members oI | two of the greatest conservative | families in Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
STRIKE TERMS UP
 FOR RATIFICATION
6,OO0 Bigelow Sanford Workers Vote; Settle-
 ment Last Night

New York, June 25 CU.PO - Terms of the settlement of strike at two plants of the BigeloW- San ford Carpet Company were submit ted for ratification today to the G. 900 workers who walked out of the Amsterdam, N. Y. and Thompson vile, Conn.,, plants six weeks ago.
 The settlement was reached last night under the supervision of Ar thur s Meyer, acting chairman of the state mediations board, only "A hours after Governor Herbert Leh- man had asked the textile workers organizing committee of the c. l. O. and the company to submit their differences to arbitration.
 Prior to the governors interven- tion, Meyer had made numerous un- successful attempts to bring both factions together in an agreement. The strike was called after the com pany announced it was putting into immediate effect a 10 per cent wage cut
 Other differences, apart from that over the wage CuI, lldu peCl oaVio- factorily disposed of under Meyers offices. Under last nights agree ment, the wage cut will be submit ted to arbitration. Meyer said he would name an arbitrator next Tuesday
 Yesterday, Governor Lehman asked Sidney Hillman, chairman Of the textile workers division of the c. I, O, and John A. Sweetser, pres ident of the company, to submit the dispute to arbitration. Both an- nounced last night that they were willing to accede.
 Meyer said that workers at both plants would vote on the settlement as soon as election machinery could be set up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
Not Linked 10 Local Inde= pendents, Says Town
 Committee Member
TOBIN ELECTED TO
 FILL IN VACANCY
Endorsement of Cross and Lonergan By Local lnde-
 pendents Is Expected

There will be no "Inde- pendent Democratic" state ticket this fall and Senator George T. Culhane would not have place on such a ticket if there were. Such is the effect of action taken last night at a meeting of the h. dependent Democratic Town Committee at Hotel Elton. "The Independent Democra- tic party is not the party of Senator Culhane," declared Edward G. Kier- nan, town committee member from the 18th district When Senator Culhane announced plans to form a state party he was talking for himself, not for the local organiza- tian of Democrats which was formed only as Waterbury organization designed to combat the administra- tion."
 Two Vacancies Filled
 With Chairman James E. Hartley presiding, election of two new mem bces to fill vacancies was held and, after a contest presumably raised by few Culhane sympathizers, At terney John F. Tobin, was chosen member from the 9th district, Charles Popikas, of South Leonard street, a member from the Brooklyn district. -
 Senator Culhane, who was the Fusion Republican Independent Democrat) candidate for mayor of Waterbury last fall and lost to Mayor Frank Hayes by 55 votes in a bitterly contested fight, was credited last week in dispatches from the state capitol with attempting formation of a coalition with Senator Wayne O'Connell, recently elected mayor of Norwich. The move was said to be less a "trial balloon" than all attempt by the Waterbury legisla- tor to "rebuke" Governor Wilbur l.. Cross for his appointment of AL torney T. E. Conway, Republican, over the city court judgeship at Waterbury to be vacant July l, when resignation of Judge John F. Me- Grath, Republican, takes effect.
 No Cross Opposition
 Senator Culhane had been to see the governor a few days before the judgeship appointment was made, presumably in behalf of his attHr- ney, William K. Lawlor, for whom he sought an appointment before
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-25
0USTED SHERIFF
 HELD FOR MURDER
Double Killing in South Paris, Me-, Takes Un=
 usual Slant

South Paris, Me, June 25-(UP) An busted law officer today faced trial July 12 for one of two mur- ders he allegedly committed to hide a scandal in his life and for which a youth is serving a life prison term.
 Former Deputy Sheriff Francis Miltmore Carroll. 43, was indicted yesterday in the Slayings Of pr. and Mrs. James G. Littlefield in the Paris hill-home of Paul N. Dwyer, Is.
 The Oxford County grand Jury, which also indicted Dwyer follow ine his now-repudiated confession, indicted Carroll on a charge Of murdering the elderly doctor last Oct. 13. It was Dwyer who accused Carroll.
 Arraigned before Superior Judge William H. Fisher, Carroll pleaded not guilty. His trial, which may result in the freeing ot young Dwyer, was set for the morning of July 12.
 Carroll had been held in lieu Of $20 900 bail on morals charge ln- volying his daughter Barbara, 18- year-old brunette and formerly a girl friend of Dwyer. r
 Dwyer's latest version of the slayings of Dr. Littlefield, 66. and Mrs. Littlefield, GA, came after he had completed seven months Of a life term. It resulted from an in- quiry into the morals charge against Carroll.
 Special Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls, who investigated the morals charge, said:
 "The state contends that this boy possessed letter detrimental to the future of Francis Carroll They were letters written by one of his minor children so reflecting upon Carroll that their possession by young Dwyer menaced Carroll
 "Then when this information passed into the hands of a solid citizen of South Paris, Dr. Little field, motive for murder was es- tablished. The meeting of Dr. Lit tlefield, Francis Carroll and Paul Dwyer at the Dwyer house on Paris Hill on the night of Oct. 13 resulted in the death of Dr. L'ttle- field. A
 But the state contends that Francis Carroll and not Paul Owyei killed the aged physician"
 No mention of the slaying of Mrs Littlefield was made in the indict- ment against Carroll. Dwyer never was tried for the woman's murder