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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
CONSPIRACY JURY
 TOBE PROTECTED
Cold Breeze in Court Room Will Be Directed By
 Special Barrier

Under the direction of aides of Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn, workmen today started construction of a special barrier atop the jury box to protect the 12 jurors and two alternates hearing the Waterbury conspiracy trial from the drafts and discomforts of the superior court room-scene of the trial.
 Mindful of the delay which might result should two or more of the jurors become i'll, the state forces took action today to install the anti-cold device. It consists simply of an extra panel atop the regular jury box rail-designed to ward of drafts.
 The often-stuffy; usually drafty courthouse has been the subject of much adverse comment by lawyers, newspapermen and other attendants of the trial. From almost the very start of the trial Attorney James D. 0. Murray, counsel for Mayor Frank Hayes has been suffering from a cold. Throughout yesterdays ses. sion, Attorney Thomas F. McDon- ough of New Britain, counsel for Secretary Thomas P. Kelly, was yisibly affected by cold which he said originated in the courtroom.
 County Detective Edward J. Hickey was feeling slightly better yesterday. after spending a miserable week of sniffies. Special Investigator George L. Greer has been missing from the scene of the trial for the past two weeks He recently recovered from an attack of pneumonia.
 It will be recalled that SEror Ed ward F. Rowland of Oxford was re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
STUDENT DIES
 AFTER BEATING
Tragic Episode Comes to Campus of Los Angeles
 City College

Los Angeles, Feb. 25-(UP)--Ayva Sosoyeva. P, pretty dramatic stu dent, died in General hospital early today several hours after she had been raped and beaten on the Los Angeles City College campus.
 Wally Myers, another student, told police she staggered up to him and fell at his feet, gasping: I've been hit"
 She lapsed into coma and did not revive before she died.
 Dr. John Cooke of the Hollywood Police Receiving hospital said the girls skull was fractured and her body bruised. indicating she had struggled with her assailant.
 Miss Sosoyeva was a member of a dramatic class in the college night school and had failed to attend last nights session. Meyers said she staggered up to him, her clothes torn, a short time before the hour for dismissal of classes.
 He carried her to the office of the college superintendent who sum- moned an ambulance. She was re. moved to the Hollywood Receiving hospital and thence to the General hospital.
 Detectives William Clark and George Hill of the homicide squad waited at her bedside, hoping she would recover consciousness long enough to describe her assa:lant. but she did not.
 They were questioning Meyers this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
PRENTISS GILBERT
 DIES IN BERLIN
Was Charge D'Affaires at Embassy-WelI Known
 in Diplomatic Circles

Berlin, Feb. 25. (UP)-Prentiss B. Gilbert, charge d'atfaires of the American embassy, died suddenly last night of heart disease.
 Gilbert had had a distinguished career. He was the first man to rep resent the United States in the League of Nations Council. During recent months. since the withdrawal of Hugh R. Wilson, ambassador to Germany, 1t had been his duty tc maintain contact with the German foreign office and to present the series of notes which the state de- partment sent in an effort to safe- guard interests of American Jews in Germany.
 Gilbert was 55. He was native of Rochester, N. Y. His father was an army officer. He was educated i'll the United States and the Philip pines.
 After working as a mine superin- tendent, travelling the world for sev- eral years, and organizing and act- ing as director of the school of ex- tension teaching of the University of Rochester, he entered the army during the World War. From second lieutenant, he rose to captain and major, and became chief of the combat section of the general staff division of military intelligence. Aft CT the war he became chief of the division of political and economic intelligence. He graduated from the army war college in 1924.
 Then he became chief of the vest ern European affairs division of the state department. He went to the Paris embassy as first secretary in 1880 and was almost immediately made council general at Geneva, a most important post which made him liaison officer with the League of Nations. He served at Geneva until 1887, when he went to Berlin as counsellor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
MANUEL AzANA
 QUITS EMBASSY
LOyalist President Will Abandon Mandate; To
 Be Without Ruler

Paris, Feb. 25.-(UP)-President Manuel Azana of Loyalist Spain left the Spanish embassy, where he has been a refugee, today.
 Azana was expected to leave Paris fo- Collonges. in the Savoy depart ment of France, and thus abandon his mandate as president of Loyal ist Spain, leaving the Loyalists with out constitutional president.
 Loyalist leaders made all efforts to induce Azana to return to cen- tral Spain. He refused firmly, hold ine that successful prosecution of the civil war was impossible.
 Diego Martinez Barrie, vice presi- dent and president of parliament, would be his automatic successor, ut he was in Paris also and said he would not take office.
 Official quarters here said that within 24 hours AZana would an- nounce officially that he had aban- doned his presidential mandate. He cannot resign, constitutionally, while he is outside of Spain, 1t was ex- plained.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
APPEALS FROM
 RULINGS SOUGHT
Hearing Dates Set for Supreme Court Term, Be-
 ginning March '

Supreme court appeals of two im- portant Waterbury court rulings are scheduled for hearing during the March term. which opens Tuesday, March 2, at 10 a. m. at Hartford.
 The appeal of Evelyn Ada Lilley of Waterbury from the alimony modification granted on request of her former husband, Theodore Lil- ley of Watertown is one case slated Attorney J. Gregory Lynch appears for Mrs. Lilley. while the firm Carmody & Thoms represent MT. Lilley.
 The other appeal is from the largest judgment awarded in the court of common pleas last year, for $37,000 in favor of Frederick F. SqIires against V. r. Reynolds and others. Attorney Michael V. Blansfield and Harry M. Albert ap- pear for Squires and Attorney Mar tin E. Gormley appears for Rev. holds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
U||D!|| RIOT
 AT UNIVERSITIES
Anti.German DemOnstra- tions Greet ltaly's Fora
 eign Minister in Poland

Warsaw. Feb. 25 -- (U.P0 - Anti German demonstrations were held by students at all principal Polish universities today as Count Galeaz- 20 Ciano. foreign minister of Italy, Germanys partner in the Rome- Berlin axis, arrived for an official visit.
 Soon after Ciano and his party arrived, to visit Colonel Josef Beck, Polish foreign minister, reports be- gan to arrive of repetition, though on larger scale, of yesterdays pro- test demonstrate against alleged anti-Polish activities by authorities of Danzig, which has a Nazi admin istration.
 At Warsaw. Cracow. Lwow. Wilma and Pozna Universities students called mass meetings and speakers protested strongly against the sit- uation at Danzig. They said Ger many was really responsible on the ground that the Nazis of Danzig were under German influence.
 After their meetings the students marched on German consulates, and found them strongly guarded by po- lice.
 Three thousand students gathered in the courtyard of the Technical High school here. Police frustrated their efforts to form a parade.
 The German embassy was pro- tected by a police cordon, and the street in which 1t is situated was closed to traffic.
 Reports said that at Cracow and Lwow students clashed with police
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
LITTLE GIRL HAS
 LOST ONE LEG
Run Over By Auto, Young ster Unaware of Tragic
 Aftermath

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 25-(UP) The physical sense of Anabelle Coen, seven, were gradually return ing today and her nurse at Mercy hospital realized that she must soon be told about her leg.
 Anabelle, blonde and blue-eyed already knew a little. She knew that she was in the hospital because she had been hit by an automobile, and she could lift her arm and brush her fingers across a large bruise on her forehead.
 She could remember, too, the ann bulance ride and how nice the men were who wheeled her through the big swinging hospital doors and into the brightly lighted room where everybody was dressed in white. And she was a little ashamed that she had cried because her head hurt.
 It was such @ little bump, she told her nurse today, and she ought to be able to go back to school tomor- row, yes?
 The nurse didn't answer Instead she pointed to a happy, gurgling baby across the corridor in the ma ternity ward, and Anabelle said, oh he's cutel"
 Today perhaps, or tomorrow sure Anabelle's full physical senses will return and she will begin to wiggle her toes. Then 1t will be her nurses or her doctors duty to tell her that the bump on her forehead was not the only thing the automobile did
 The car also mangled her left leg and surgeons had to amputate 1t tc save her life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
Horse -Radish, Onions,
 Garlic Rise In World
Anti-Socia Vegetables Found to Possess Remarkable Disease-Resistant Properties Experiments
 May Prove of Immense Value to Medical World
BY WILLIAM. D. CLARK United Press Stan Correspendent)

United Press Stan Correspendent) Storrs, Conn.,, Feb. 25.---tUP).-- The potent fumes of three anti-so- cial vegetables-onions, garlic and horse-radish-were allies of medical science today as potential deadly enemies of disease.
 As far back at 1900 B. C., su- perstitious Romans and Greeks wore amulets containing these pungent salad-bowl fiavorings in belief they would ward off sickness, and kept cloves of garlic handy as an anti dote for poison.
 Historians described the frequent use of garlic by the physicians of the famous lovers, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra.
 And, significantly, old Hebrew writings disclosed garlic as an in- gredient of medicines of the time for treatment of diseases ot the lungs and stomach.
 Within the past few years bac- terlologists began Investigating these ancient beliefs and practices. Dur ing 1886 and 1887 four scientists es- tablished that the vapors from crushed garlic and onions showed pronounced bactericdal properties,
 Pursuing the study, Dr. Milton J. Foter, Connecticut State College bacteriologist, discovered that horse- radish, in some respects, had even stronger inhibitory effects than gar- lie and onions. Controlled experi- ments revealed that horse-radish
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
MAY HAVE
 GONE TO MEXICO

Milton, N. H., Feb. 25-(UP)-John H. Rowland. 25, Ohio state prison parolee accused of staying an elderly spinster, was believed today to have taken refuge in Mexico.
 Rowland and his l5 year old cou- sin. Miss Aida Butler, who vanished with him, have been sought since the discovery of the body of Miss Maude Horne, 6l, in her home here three weeks ago.
 Police of CcAllen. Tex, only few miles from the Mexican border, re- ported tha ton February l7 they ap- prehended a couple they now be- lieve to have been How.and and Miss Butler. The couple were ques- tioned concerning an alleged viola ton. the nature of which was not disclosed, and then freed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
PENSION BILLS
 WIN APPROVAL
Mrs. Helen O'Leary, Miss Winifred Wood to Get
 Service Pensions
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Reporter)

State Capitol, Hartford. Feb. 25- Bills authorizing payment of pen- sions to Mrs. Helen OLeary, widow of Lieut.. John J. OLeary of the fire department, and Miss Winifred Wood, retired school department employe, have been voted on favor- ably by the cities and boroughs committee of the General Assembly. Favorable reports on the two pen- sions bills win be submitted next week, and approval by both houses of teh Legislature is expected.
 The committee, at an executive session yesterday afternoon, did not take action on any other of the many Waterbury bills now before it. In the group of bills still not acted on are, the city manager charter referendum bill, sponsored by the Citizens Good Government associa- ton, and series of charter amend- ments, 6S in all, proposed by Sena- tor George T. Culhane.
 Mrs. OLeary, under the terms Of a bill introuced by Senator Culhane will receive a pension of $25 weekly, unless she remarries. The pension Is retroactive to last September when her husband died of injuries m cured Il years before. Lieut.. OLeary lost both legs as the result of an accident April 1. 1927, In which @ fire engine crashed into q pole at Baldwin and Pleasant streets The pension for Mrs. OLeary was supported by the four Waterbury legislators, and more than dozen people spoke in favor of 1t at a hear ing before the committee here. A petition containing more than 5000 names was introuced in support of the bill.
 The amount of Miss Woods pen- sion will be fixed by the Waterbury retirement commission. She left the employ of the school department last June. after reaching the age of 70. Miss Wood had been in the em- ploy of the city for A years, 25 years as teacher and 19 years as a school secretary. She was not eligi- ble for the regular teachers re- tirement fund payments.
 In cases such as these, favorable reports by the committee virtually insure the passage of the bills iiy both houses of the legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
Retreat From New Deal Tax Objective Is Now
 Noticeable
HOPKINS SPEECH LAST
 NIGHT SIGNIFICANT
Good Will Gestures Are In- creasing-Utlities Also
 Come in for Support
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pres sStaff Correspondent)

United Pres sStaff C,rrespondent)
 Washington, February 25. - (UP) = The Roosevelt administration appears to- day to be making a con- certed effort to rally business confident in a new recovery drive. Presidential and cab inet statements accumulate to suggest that President Roosevelt may be testing a breathing spell' policy to acceler- ate business improvement.
 The outstanding developments 50 far seem to be a retreat from for mer New Deal tax objectives and the possibility that something sub- stantial may be achieved in solv-s ing the problem of competition be- tween federal and private funds in the field of electrical power.
 Conservative Tread Seen
 Evidence of considerably more COllSCIfdbiNC bkCA90 40 w ing followed now by what appear to be New Deal bids for business support. These, in turn. are cli- maxed by formal assurance that the administration has turned from reform to recovery.
 This assurance was uttered last night by Secretary of Commerce. Harry L. Hopkins in a significant speech is Des Moines. Ia. It had been widely publicized as a state ment of a somewhat new adminis- tration policy toward business.
 Hopkins spoke generally ot the necessity for industrial peace, pro- vite profit, and end to factional la bor differences and solution of the railroad problem. He attacked the public utilities question more direct- ly, insisting that "it IS extremely important that there be meeting of minds between the utilities and the government relative to the ap- propriate spheres of action of the on the, one hand and owned utilities on the other"
 Reform To Recovery
 The most significant sentence iu his address probably was this;
 With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery. this admiris- tration is now determined to pro- mote that recovery with all the vigor and power at it's command"
 The speech was the latest of . series of administration gestures of good will toward business following the November. l?38, general elec- ton in which the new deal suffered its first major political reverse. There was early disagreement among administration authorities whether
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
Prosecutor Infers He Has Completed Case Against
 Frankie Burns
NEW YORK BANKERS
 FEATURE TESTIMONY
Identification of Johnston Occupies Much Time
 of Court Yesterday
BY JOSEPH P. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)

Ringing down the curtain on the 12th week of the Waterbury conspiracy trial yesterday afternoon, Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn inferred that he had con- clwded presentation of evi- denee against Frank J. (Rurns) Santalucia, Water bury contractor and res taurateur. He also stated that next phase of the trial, start ing next Tuesday morning at 10 a. m. will be dedicated to Philip Cop peto and the Abrigador Diggers.
 Nine witnesses have. testified dur the past four weeks in which evi- derce has been admitted. Tessi- .mony late yesterday afternoon, with James F. Purcell on the stand for the ninth consecutive e-eeurt day. was to the effect that santalucia received $20,S40.e8 from the city of Waterbury in addition to the $100. 785 .53, which had been alleged previously, making total of slse,e40.ss, all without approval of the board of finance.
 Grand Jury Charge
 The grand jury charged that Santalucia received more than $780, 900. It may be that Alcorn intends to present further evidence at a later date.
 Attorney John H. Cassidy, coun- sel for Santalucia, was continuously on the defensive during the past few days, during which Santalucia has been the butt of almost all evi- 6ence.
 Starting Tuesday, Attorney Sid- 2 ney s. Cassel will be the chief de- fense figure, when the state seeks to prove allegations of the grand jury that Philip Coppeto and the Abriga- dor Diggers received at least $62i. .237.47 between 1882 and 1885. Coppeto is B, and according to the grand jury, was one of the favored group of contractors and truckers"
 Bank Records In
 Preliminary to starting concert- ed campaign of testimony in con- s. Johnston, New York broker and s. Johnson. New York broker and officer of the Electric Steam Sterili- ger O.. "kicked-back" large por- tions of the $l90,000 paid him by the city as commissions. Alcorn yesterday had entered as evidence records from New York banks show ing Johnston's accounts.
 John s. F'ox,a clerk of the Colo nial Trust Company. New York (formerly known as the Hibernian TrusD brought records pertaining to the Johnston account from 1881 to 1885. during the morning session. The books were returned to the bank last night after having been photostated. to show the portions admitted in evidence.
 Alcorn moved that the photostats be taken in order that the books,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
Breathing Spell" To Accelerate Business Apparent To Nation
FRENCH-SPAN|SH. ACCORD SEEN
Good NeighbOr" Clause Due With Recognition of
 Nationalists Monday
By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)


 Paris, Feb. 25-UP)-A French Spanish good neighbor" clause is part of letters exchanged by Senator Leon Berard, French special envoy, and Francisco Gomez Jordana, Span ish Nationalist foreign minister. in- cident to recognition of the Nation alist regime, 1t was made known officially today.
 France and Great Britain, as the result of the success of Berards mis- sion, are to announce their recogni- tion of the Nationalists as the legal government of Spain on Monday.
 It was announced today that Be- rard and Jordana had exchanged let ters summing up agreements approx imating diplomatic accord effective coincident with recognition.
 These agreements concerned the Spanish refugees now i'll France, the restoration of all communications between France and Nationalist Spain and Spanish possessions and the gold sent to France by the Loy- alist government and held in the Bank of France There was a sep arate good neighpor" clause, it was said.
 Berard'S agreements were said to include maintenance of the French Spanish arbitration agreement and the treaty apportionlng French and Spanish spheres in Morocco.
 Berard was to leave Burgos, the Nationalist capital, for Paris today after bidding his official farewell to Jordana. Identic notes on which they agreed are to be published Mon- day announcing recognition.
 AS Britain only awaited Frances word, 1t was planned to announce British recognition at the same time
 The Nationalist spokesman, the Count of Casa Rojas, said Argentina and Brazil were expected to recog- nize the Nationalists on Monday also.
 Bolivia announced full recogni- ton of the Nationalists today).
 Berard was expected on the French side of the frontier in d-afternoon
 He planned to confer by telephone with Foreign Minister Georges Bon- net, to arrange the evacuation to Spain of 250 Nationalists, whom the Loyalists had held prisoner in Cata- lonia and brought to France when they retreated. Berard promised Jordana that these prisoners would be returned to Nationalist Spain by Monday afternoon. when France is to announce recognition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
JIMMY HINES CASE BEFORE
 JURY TODAY Judge Charles (. Mott, Jr., to Make His Charge
 First WILL DECIDE TOM DEWEY'S STATUS Conviction Would Make Him Man of Hour; Hines
 Still Popular
BY JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, February 25. - (UP) - The case of James J. Hines, consort of gang sters, benefactor of the poor and strongest district leader in Tammany Hall, goes to a jury today after Judge Charles c. Mott, Jr., makes his charge. He is accused of having sold and conspired to sell to the late Dutch Schultzs lottery mob, the political influence he amassed and kept intact by dis pensing coal, food, jobs, funeral expenses, ice cream, handshakes and pats on the backs to the pooi voters of his 1lth assembly dis trict.
 The maximum penalty of th' crimes attributed to-. him is .2' years imprisonment.
 Significance National
 The implications of his trial arc of national significance for two reasons.
 Firstly. district attorney Thomas E. Dewey charged, there was sym bolized all the corruption that oc- CUTS or can occur anywhere when crime and politics form an unholy alliance.
 Secondly, if Dewey wins a con- vict.on, he will become the man of the day in the Republican party and at least temporarily, will be the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
RUSSIAN KILLED

Tokyo, Feb. 25-(UP)-The news paper Nichi Nichi reported today in a dispatch from Hsinking, Manchu- kuo that one Russian soldier had been killed and several wounded Thursday in a clash oil the western Manchukuo frontier. It was al- legged that 50 Russian cavalrymen twice had attacked Japanese Man. chukuan frontier guards had been repulsed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
20 INJURED WHEN
 CARS JUMP TRACK
Crack Flyer Partially De. railed in Wyoming
 eral Badly Hurt

Bosler, Wyo., Feb. 25 - (U.P) = Twenty were hospitalized here and in nearby towns today with injuries received when four pullman cars and the diner of the Union Pacific's crack Pony Express" Jumped the rails near here last night.
 An unknown number was less seriously injured. Most of these were taken aboard another train en route to Salt Lake City.
 Several were injured critically, in. cluding, Mrs. w. w. Jager, of Des Moines, wife of vice president of the Bankers Life Insurance Com- pany.
 The wreck occurred after most of the pullman occupants had retired for the night and some of the in- jured had to be pulled from their oerths by ambulance attendants ana doctors, summoned from Lara
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25
DRIVER IS HELD
 FOR FATALITIES

New Haven, Conn.,, February 25. - (UP) - A finding by Coroner James J. Corrigan today held Frank Perrotti, Jr., 25. Woodbridge, crim- inally responsible for the automobile accident deaths of two men at Wal lingford, December IS.
 The coroner said Perrotti, driver of a car with two passengers, was going at an excessive speed when his machine collided with . truck. The passengers, Nino J. Roncardi, 26, New Haven, and Charles Orvis, Hartford, were killed.
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The Weather

Fair, Colder Today; Snow Tonight, Sunday
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