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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10

Waterbury Brewing Company is not expected to return from his Euro pean trip for about four or five weeks. MT. Healey's appearance as witness is sought by the grand jury.
 Recalled Witnesses
 The three witnesses recalled to- day were John M. Golden, director of the New Haven Department of Public Works; John H. Crary, local assessor and chairman of the demo- cratic town committee; and Frankie Burns" Santalucia, president of the Connecticut Supply Go.
 It was strongly ruinored that the jury was probing the election of 1887 today, with regard to possi- bility of campaign funds which were contributed but never officially re- corded.
 MT. Healey, who was a witness be- fore the jury for about an hour April 28, left Wednesday on the liner Normandie from New York and landed at Southampton, Eng land, yesterday morning. He re- sides at 108 Cooke street.
 Good authority stated that Mir Healey had been advised to hold himself in readiness for another appearance before the jury. It was learned that he gave no official notification of his plans to leave the country.
 Son Defends Him
 His son, James F. Healey, said to- day that if his father had known the jury wanted to question him again he certainly would not have gone abroad. He said that his father intended to stay at England and Ireland for more than month The trip. he said, was taken be- ause of MT. Healey's poor health. He has been suffering from bron-
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TELEPHokED SUICIDE ATTEMPT

Lynn, Mass May 10.-UP)-George Covert, 55, Swampscott armored car service op- orator. telephoned his wife from his summer camp today and said: ''Pm tired of living and I'm going to shoot myself" Soon after he tele- phoned the same message to the Lynn police sta ton. A few minutes later he called police and said: Better hurry mp, I've done it. Police drove to the camp and found him lying unconscious on the floor, bullet wound near his heart and near by a revolver with one chamber empty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
ETHIOPIA FIGHT
 BEFORE LEAGUE
Great Britain, France Bat tie for Italy's Conquest
 as Peace Move
BY WALLACE CARROLL

tUnlted Press Staii CorreSpOn0ent)
 Geneva, May 10-(UP) - Great Britain and Franc, confronted by stout resistance to their plans to recognize Italyis conquest of Fthlo- pia, defenGcd their policies before the League of Nations council to- day.
 Soviet Russia and New Zealand's labor government led fight against the recognition which IS an essen- tial feature of the BrItlsh-Italian friendship treaty and the friendship treaty now being negotiated between France and Italy.
 Viscount I!aii,aX, British foreign course and said that the British secretary, il his maiden speech De- fore the council at public meet ing today. defended his country's Italian treaty was a contribution to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
FOUR MILLION
 JOBS COMING UP
Appropriations Committee of House Reports Roose=
 welt Recovery Bill
BY JOHN R. BEAL

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, May 10.-(UP)-Thc House Appropriations Committee to- day favorably reported the $3,054,- 25,000 recovery bill, which it said would assure jobs for 4,l35,000 per- sons. The House was prepared for immediate debate on the measure, which makes direct appropriations of $2,519,425,0 ,0oo for lending and spending under President Roosevelt's $ five billion dollar program. The measure also carries authorizations of $535. 100000.
 In addition to jobs carried by the pending bill, the committee said, the civilian conservation corps, which already has received its 1889 funds, will employ 100000 youths, and the federal program for public roads, parks. flood control and sim liar work, will provide employment for another 5OO,0O0 making a grand total of 4,935,000 persons receiving federal jobs in the next fiscal year aside from nearly 100000 in the regular federal service.
 Dividing Employment
 The committee gave breakdown of the employment as follows: Works Progress Adminis-
 tration ................. .2,8oo, ,ooo National Youth Administra-
 ton ..,.................. 275,ooO Federal Buildings ........ 60,00O Public Works Administra-
 ton 1000. .oo0
 Total .................. 4,135, ,000
 The report showed that the pulp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
RUDY VALLEE IS
 AN AMBASSADOR

Hartford, Conn.,. May 10-(UP)- Gov. Cross today proclaimed Rudy Vallee. a fellow Yale man. and his Connecticut Yankees as "ambassa- dors from Connecticut to promote good will and entertainment throughout the nation"
 Although 42 years separated their graduation classes, the executive and wavey-haired band leader "reminisced" for IS minutes, after which Vallee distributed autograph. ed photographers to the governors secretarial staff and took away a framed copy of the proclamation which he said he would hang on the wall of his lodge in Maine.
 Before leaving Hartford Vallee told the governor he would look up heart interest" friend of his student days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10

wire to shipping firm from ship in the port said that large section of the city "is going up in smoke. Chinese reports said that 18 Japan ese planes dropped more than 200 ships shelled the port.
 The Chinese reported that large fire had started in the city, which has population of nearly 250000 persons. Civilians ran through the streets in panic as the shells and bombs crashed at short intervals.
 Chinese Resist FierceIy
 Under cover of the smelling the Japanese began attempts to land. They claimed to have put troops ashore but admitted that they had met stiff resistance from the Chi- nese defenders.
 Before opening the attack the Japanese planes dropped leaflets or the town warning foreigners tc evacuate and foreign ships to leave the harbor.
 In naval circles it was believed that the Japanese attempted to OSNuPy Talloy HI e1AA tiioi " 0Af(iv Chinese attention to the island, which is 800 miles south of Shang- hai, because of the scheduled movement of 500000 troops in Kwangsi province to the northern front.
 A survey of all foreign and naval sources failed to indicate the size of the ,JaDaneSe naval landing par. ty.
 Months In Patrol
 For many months the Japanese fleet has been patroling the coast in the vicinity of Annoy. Some quarters believed that the navy had decided on the action in or- der to take a more active participa- ton in the Chinese war.
 According to records at Wash- ington there were 26 Americans and B Filipinos in Annoy as of March
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
BABY MAY STILL
 BE ABLE TO SEE
Sight of Right Eye Has Not Been Entirely Lost By
 Operation

Chicago, May 10. - (UP) - Six weeks-old Helaine Judith Colan apparently was recovering today from an operation which medical authorities believed has halted spread of a cancerous eye growth and which may enable them to save at least part of her vision.
 A week ago her parents had abandoned hope, certain that she would die or be doomed to a life of blindness. Yesterday her left eye was removed during 13-minute operation which a council of ten eminent medical specialists, with the power of life and death, had de- creed was her only chance for life.
 May Save Right Eye
 Today, Dr. Robert H. Good, who performed the operation, said the baby still has the sight of her right eye. He and Dr. Cassius B. Rogers, brain specialist of the Garfield Park Community Hospital, agreed that there was a good chance that at least partial vision of the remain ing eye may be saved by x-ray or radium treatments.
 They said a small tumor already has attacked the eye. If the disease has progressed too far, that eye also will have to be removed, but the physicians said there was hope that it can be treated.
 Dr. Good said the left eyeball hae been turned over to Dr. Edward V L. Brown. eye specialist of the Bill ings Memorial Hospital. He planned to place it in a fixing solution fol two days before he examines it. 4 conference of eight x-ray special ists then will make final decision whether the right eye can bt treated.
 Condition Normal
 Attendants at the Garfield Hospital where the baby is confined. report
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Final News Flashes
FORMER PATRoLMAk SENTENCED

Springfield, Mass, Mass, May 10.-(UP)- Three Springfield men, one former patrolman, were sentenced in superior court today to four to six years in state prison for assaulting Holyoke taxi driver and stealing his cab. Former Patrolman Thomas J. Reyes s. William H. Scully, 32, and William T. Moynihan, B, struck Edward G. Monat of Holyoke on the head with a quart whiskey bottle and fled in his taxi the night of April IT, Monat is still in critical condition at hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
WARRANT IS OUT
 FOR BRETHAUER

New Haven, Conn.,, May 10-(UP) City Attorney George Tiernan to- day issued a warrant charging for mer City Controller G. Henry Bre- thauer, who disappeared last Janu- ary. with forgery in connection with an alleged shortage of $l6,000 in the Old Almshouse fund.
 The warrant was given Police Chief Philip T, Smith who has been searching for Brethauer for more than three months to serve bim with an embezzlement warrant issued several weeks after he van- ished from his city hall office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
JAPANESE HURL
 NAVAL FORCES
Trying to Smash Lines in East China - SO0,O0O
 Chinese Await Them
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff Correspondent

Shanghai, May 10-CUP) Large Japanese naval forces landed at Annoy, in Fukien Province on the Eastern China coast today and en- gagged the Chinese in violent fight ing. Japanese airplanes, apparent ly from aircraft carriers off the coast. flew over the area dropping leaflets warning foreigners to evacu- ate. Foreign naval observers here confirmed the landing at Annoy, where strong Chinese forts are situ- ated. It was presumed that addi- tional Japanese troops would be landed to reinforce the Japanese army attempting Ato storm the Lunghai Railroad Ia the north.
 China's Best Fighters
 Eight hundred thousand of China'S best fighters, aided by rein forcements arriving constantly, en- trenched themselves in the SuchoW area in southern Shantung Province for a gigantic defense of the Lung hai road, along which runs the Chinese "Hindenberg Line"
 One of the biggest Japanese offen- sives of the war, threatening to encircle Lunghai defenses, was in the making The Japanese antici- pate cracking the Lunghai road at SuchoW to consolidate and merge their northern and central Chinese provisional governments along the 450-mile railroad from Peiping south to Nanking,
 Chinese commanders based their hopes of repulsing the Japanese at on the fact that 100000 good troops under General Ii Tsung-Jen. awaited them.
 In addition, they believed that the Japanese columns would be thinned out by the time they reach- ed Chinese garrisons at strategic points in the SuchoW vicinity.
 Chinese guerrilla units, brilliantly their activities, were expected to further retard the Jap anese advance as soon as its lines were drawn out.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
CARGO OF BOMBS

Deepwater Point. N. J.. May 10-- (UP)-The German freighter Fran kenwald,- bound for Bremen and Hamburg, was scheduled to leave here today with cargo of 800 tons of aerial bombs. Ultimate destina- ton of the munitions was not dis closed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
QUEBEC USES PADDOCK LAW

Quebec, Que May 10.-(UP)-The Que bee paddock law, in force since last November, has resulted in 124 raids by provincial police, it ment today: The raids resulted in seizure of 532 books dealing with communism, 5000 copies of La Clarte, weekly French communistic newspaper and 1,5OO copies of the Daily Clarion, daily Eng fish newspaper, published at Toronto.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
FRANCE HAS PUT
 POLAND ON SPOT
Wants to Know Where She Stands in Regard to
 Nazi Program
BY RALPH HEINZEN

Paris. May 0.-(UP)-France has asked Poland to say specifically whether she would be on the side of France or of Germany in case of an act of aggression against Czechoslovakia, it was disclosed to- day.
 The foreign office said that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet put the question frankly and clear ly to Juljusz LukasiewicZ, Polish ambassador. just before he left for the League fo Nations Council meet ing at Geneva and that as the re- suit LukasiewicZ went at once to Warsaw to consult his government and bring back reply.
 Alliance With France
 Poland has a military alliance with France and non-aggression agreement with Germany, and in the minds of French leaders her policy has been somewhat equivocal as regards Czechoslovakia and other problems. Bonnet seemed deter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
FIRE LOSSES IN
 UNITED STATES

Atlantic City, N. J., May l0.- (UP)-Fire losses in the United States during 1887 totaled $285.- GOO 00O-$8,O0O,000 less than the 1886 loss, Robert s. Moulton of Bos- ton reported to annual meeting of the National Fire Protection As sociation today.
 There were g fires with losses of $250, ,0O0 or more in 1887. Moulton said, compared with AZ in the same category during 1886. The greatest loss of 1897. the report showed. was the Hindenburg disaster at Lake hurst, N. J.. recorded at $4,000,000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington May l0-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts fot the current fiscal year through May s. compared with q year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year s6.f44,133, ,01602
 Receipts S4.205, 5,663,7S0.73
 Gross Deficit s2,23S, S,469,235,S0
 Net Deficit $l,215,765.O1935 $2.13s,167, ,535.30
 Cash Balance $1.711,S64,974,S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
ONE YEAR, 10 LASHES

Lindsay, Ont, May 10.-UP)- Russell Burdic, IT, was sentenced yesterday to one year in jail and 10 lashes for the armed holdup of a woman. He got only her purse which contained nothing but three lip sticks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
National Labor Relations
 Board Put Under Charges By House Representative
City Paychecks Under Scrutiny Once Again
Bank Was Witness-Three Witnesses Recalled;
 Five Witnesses Now Missing

Records from the Waterbury National Bank, which institution handles in large proportions the payroll checks of the City of Waterbury brought before the extra ordinary grand jury this morning by Arthur L. Edmond cashier at the bank. Only three other witnesses recalled during the forenoon session. learned on good authority today that James Heaey, of the Connor Trucking Company and treasurer of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
Americans To Be EDQcuQted
 Very Quickly
Port Has Been Terrifically Bombarded By Japanese Bombers, Naval Ships;
 Consul Asks Aid

HongKong, May 10.- (UP) A united States warship sailed for Annoy tonight to evacuate Americans endangered by terrific Japanese aerial and naval bombardment of the island port, off the east coast of China. United States naval authorities dispatched the ship in response to appeal by radio for assistance from Leland Atafe the United States Consul at Annoy The indicated that city had been bombarded throughout the day. private
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-10
NEW HAVEN FIRE

New Haven. Conn.,, May 10.-(UP) Damage was estimated today at $2,O00 in e two-alarm fire which swept a tenement house last night driving four families to the street.
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The Weather

Generally Fair, Cool Tonight, Wednesday
 Full Weather Report Page 4.
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The Washington times., 1938-06-15
|WPA PREPARED
TO BUY CLOTHES

G.N.S.) The WPA was prepared
today to invest $10.000,000 in tn:
purchase of surplus mems, wom
ems, and chilcren's clothing for
distribution to the nations needy
Administrator Harry l.. Hop
kins revealed that, at the sugges-
ton of Sidney Hillman, president
of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, the WPA
would buy surplus stocks of clothes
from manufacturers all over the
country on the basis of immediate
delivery.
Hillman, Hopkins said, esti
mated that this action not only
would clothe relief recipients un.
able to buy clothes but would put
100000 persons back to work in
the industry as surplus stocks and
crowded invent ories were cleared,
and manufacturers start new
stocks.
The clothing will be distributed
by State welfare agencies.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
F|REMEN MEET
IN BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Md, June Is.
More than $4,000 volunteer fire
men and members of ladies
auxiliary units from every section
of Maryland were in Baltimore
tooay for the annual convention
of the Maryland State Firemen's
Ass ociation.
The State firemen will be joined
tomorrow by delegates of the
Eastern State Fire Chiefs Associa-
ton who are also holding their
convention in this city. The fire
chefs association meeting will be
attended by department heads
from Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, New York
ana Washington.
Last night high officials of the
State association met here at a
dinner to complete final arrange
ments for the three-day conven-
ton. The conclave will open Of
ficially with the first business
meeting at 1870 this afternoon.
The first days activities will close
with a dance at the Lord Balti-
more Hotel this evening.
Principal topic for discussion
will be more rigid Statewide fire
prevention laws, passage of which
will be asked at the next session
of the legislature.
Feature of the convention will
be the annual parade Friday after
noon when the fire companies
show off their apparatus.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
Finally Moves
"SteUe" Is Ousted BY
Fence Repair

Repairs to the White House
fence at the East Executive and
Pennsylvania Avenue corner did
what the park police failed to
do-drove Steve Vasilakos' pea
nut stand from the corner he has
occupied so long.
Steve, however, merely moved
across the street. on the Pennsyl-
vania Avenue side of Lafayette
Park, where he has continued
business as usual" The park po-
lice several years ago ordered that
the stand be removed. but he was
allowed to remain when the White
House interVened.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
"Expatriates"
Returning to U. S.

NEW YORK, June 15.-Native-
born Americans who have spent
most of their lives abroad are re-
turning to the United States in in
creasing numbers because they
fear persecution or privation in
Europe, according to a report pre-.
pared by Miss Virginia Murray
executive secretary of the Travel
ers Aid Society, submitted to the
Greater New York Fund.
The society is one of the two
agencies participating in the
funds campaign for 10 million dol
lars. These native-born aliens
are applying to the society for aid
at the rate of 200 a month, Miss
Murray reported.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15

bride and bridegroom perched
pertly on tn etop.
The cake was munched, and
champagne was slipped, and every
body was very gay. Just before
sundown, the newlyweds hurried
into a car, pelted by rice and rose
petals and headed toward the
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club to
board brother Lewis yacht Isla.
morada.
EIGHT.ROOM FARMHOUSE
On their return-and Billy has
to get back soon to sell more but
ter and eggs for a produce firm
they'll settle down in an eight
room farmhouse on Berry Hill
Road IN Syosset, L. I.-quite dis
tance in miles and luxury from
the 64-acTe LucKenbach estate al
Sands Point, L. I.
It will be a long time before
Billy is able to support his bride
in the Luckenbach manner. He
has been living with his mother
and his step-father, Henry Reston
in a Forest Hills apartment.
But Commodore LuckenbaCh
whose sire sailed into the chin
ping business on a single tug
boat, declared neither riches MOI
social position had any influence
on his opposition. 1t was Just
he explained, that Andrea wa
TOO young.
Friends thought maybe the ole
/ commodore had become soured or
the whole institution of matr!
mony.
/ Papa Edgar's first wife was SUI
Vlckers, mother of Lewis. from
whom he parted almost a quarteI
of a century ago. His second wa
Andrea FenWick, whom he mar
ried about 1918. She bore hin
two children, Andrea and Edga.
F., jr., IA When she died a yea
ago, she left a fortune OF which
Andrea will receive a sizable por
ton, even if her father carries ou
his threat to dlstnherlt her.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
HOLLE SLAYINC
STORY Barred

NEWARK. N. j., June IS GIN.
Edward Holes alleged con.
fession that he killed 23-year-old
Sophie Kujat to prevent her from
breaking up his home, today
awaited introduction before the
State rests its case.
When Holle takes the stand in
his defense he will contend Sophie
insisted he leave his bride. When
he took her for an automobile ride
to break off their acquaintance
ship, Sophie grabbed a knife and
threatened to kill him, Hole will
relate.
During struggle she fell out Of
the car and, believing her dead,
he threw her chain-trussed body
into the Passaic River.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
NEW KIDNAPPING
THREAT TO Indy
DENIED BY PARIS
Say Eagle Hasn't Even
Asked Protection

PARIS, June IS G.N.SO Col
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergl
and their two sons are living il
perfect tranquility and security OF
their new islet home off the coas
of Brittany. French authorities
united in saying today.
The French Surete Generate
local police in closest touch with
the rock bound isle of Illeac, anc
other officials denied as a
"canard" reports that Colone
Lindbergh has received threaten
ing letters there.
NO PROTECTION ASKED
There is absolutely no truth
in reports that we are guarding
the coast or have given any
special protection to Colonel
Lindbergh, it was stated at the
prefecture of Cotes du Nord De
partment, which includes the
Lindbergh home. It is false to
report that the Lindberghs have
even asked us for protection"
The reports, first published by
the London laborite newspaper
Daily Herald and reproduced else
where, charged that the letters
had come from the United States
from persons declaring Bruno
Richard Hauptmann to have been
innocent of the kidnap-murder of
Lindbergh's baby.
IMPOSSIBLE, is CLAIM
1t was pointed out that Colonel
Lindbergh arrived in France less
than a week ago. Even the fastest
boat sailings would not have
enabled such letters to reach him
in France by the time the rumors
first began to circulate.
The Daily Herald's story. as tele-
phoned here from London, read:
Anonymous letters from the
United States received by Col
onel Lindbergh have sent detec-
tives of the French Surete rae
ing to St. Gildas.
The detectives are guarding
every inch of the coast, some
times patrolling it on foot and
other times in motorboatS.
p: RMIT NEEDED TO LAND
Nobody is allowed to land
on the island without special
authorization from the detec-
tives. The letters contain
threats against the colonel
proclaiming: 'Hauptmann was
innocent"
The island on which the Lind.
berghs live is almost inaccessible
from the mainland. It is girted
by huge rocks and separated from
the coast by turbulent waters.
1t was recalled here, that the
initial rumors of threatening let
tiers credited as their source the
fishermen" of st. Brieuc, France.
Surete officials pointed out that
local characters such as these
would be the last to know the
contents of mail packets delivered
to the islands.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
This Gold Strike
Will Start No Rush

PRINCE RUPERT, B. c., June
Is 0.N.SD WORKERS at the J. H.
Carson medicinal oil company
plant made a gold strike, but there
will not be a gold rush.
They found a few flakes Of gold
in a halibut caught near Yakutat,
off the coast of Alaska, where gold
bearing black sand exists.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
Honduras Buys 3
Planes For Army

SAN DIEGO. Calf, June IS
Q.N.SO.-Three Ryan military
training planes were en- route to
the Honduras government today.
The planes will make leisurely
cruise over Mexico to their destina-
ton and are being piloted by Capt.
Malcolm Stewart. chief OF the
Honduras air force: Harry Cam
eron, Los Angeles commercial
pilot; and William Sloan, pilot
for the Ryan Aircraft Company.