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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

court cOlnmlSSlOueTS.
 2. "To obviate the possibility the governor could interfere with the exercise of the free will of the mem- bers of the general assembly and particularly of the senate by hold ing out to them appointments in the various administrative branches or judicial positions of the state.
 "A notable example of the first reason mentioned was the judge ship deal of 1883. The second req son is supported by the situation which existed in 1885 and again in 1887 when [. large number of Demo- cratic senators received appoint ments at the hands of the then Democratic governor.
 Refers to John D. Th0ms
 "In 1897 an extra post at $7,500 a year was created and the then Dem- ocratic leader of the house was ap- pointed to that post by the gover- nor as reward for partisan politi- cal labor.
 "This officer resigned and the po- sition has never been filled. His work has been done as it was done before, by the same man who had previously held the office and who now is exercising the duties of that office"
 The governors reference was to former Rep. John D. Thoms, Wa terbury, who resigned as statute re- vision commissioner after his ar- rest with four other former legisla- tors, on bribery charges growing out of the Waterbury municipal corrup- tion scandal. Frederick A. Scott was renamed to the office. Sent to Conference
 Hartford, Conn.,, March 1-(UP) The dual-job holding bill, focal
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(COntinued from Page D dent of the Freshman class at Por- tia Law school.
 Miss Dorrit Ruth Forman, 12.
 Miss Diana Lax, IT, Boston Uni- versity Freshman.
 Aleck Kozak, AS. Miss Alice R.Sloan, 13, negress.
 George Walton, 15, negro.
 Two of the victims, tfie Schreiber and Lax girls, perished almost on the doorstep of their homes. Par ents and relatives witnessed the crash, but not until hours later did they learn that their loved ones were among the dead.
 The car was nearly full when it left Egleston Square for Mattapan, according to Motorman Hanley.
 q stopped at Elm Hill avenue on Seaver street, and it is down grade from there to the corner" he told investigators.
 George Walton, 15, Negro.
 Neighbors called police and fire men and every ambulance in the city was dispatched to the scene. Rescuers arrived to find the injured climbing out through shattered windows and holes in the roof. All were dazed.
 Two of Dead Inside
 Two of the dead, Kozak and Miss Schreiber, were found inside the car. The other four had been hurled through a door and crushed when the car rolled over to a 45-degree angle. Their bodies were not recov- cred until the car was lighted.
 None of the injured was in critical condition, though many literally were knocked from their shoes. Fire men and police picked up a dozen pair of shoes and sent to City Hos pital for Identification by the own CTS.
 Robert Singer, 15, a high school student, was tossed through rear door and landed in a sitting position in the street 20 feet away. Another student, Bertram White, IS, was standing near Motorman Hanley when the car started to skid on the rain-slippery tracks. When he re- covered consciousness after the crash, he was in the rear of the car.
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truths, and the bringing up of youth in certain nations in contempt of Christian life and in old errors, in social disorders and hatred or dis trust between nations"
 After stating that the above and similar evils must be dispersed, the preacher stressed the necessity of returning "to the Angelic rules and to Christ, who alone can call men once again to the straight and nar- row path and make new nations by extinguishing hatred and bringing peace to our souls"
 This will be the very difficult task of the Pontiff who will result from the decision of your voting" :" Msgr. Bacci continued. You there fore know how much wisdom and sanctity he must have to be able to confront with success the neces- sities of modern times and accom- plish with divine aid such a diffi- cult task"
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Four Defendants Are Named In Trial Today
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spiracy trial, which opened Novem- Der %, with g men charged with conspiring to defraud the city of Waterbury of more than million dollars.
 Resuming where he left oil at the conclusion of yesterdays session, AL corn questioned Purcell concerning payments made by the city to Donate Pietraoria, alias Dan Peters of Bristol, for alleged truck hire. The grand jury charges that Peters received $75,000 from the city for truck hire, although he did not own a single truck, or render any serv- ice to the city.
 Records for l932- 1894 and 1885 en- tered in court yesterday and today show payments of $23,l97. Purcell testified that he knew of no other available records of payments to the Bristol grill operator, whom the
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JOHN H. LEARY IS
 NAMED BY MAYOR
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type were added, rented last fall with option to buy, and paid for at the start ofthis year by budgetary provision. Yesterday, MT. Leary supervised transfer to city hall basement of the 66 machines from the now closed isolation hospital where they have been stored since last November.
 Notice of Hearings
 In connection with election mat ters, notice was posted today by Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartin on the corridor bulletin board about hearings called at Hartford by the newly-appointed election laws com- mission, of which Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson is the clerk, by appointment of William J. Pape, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin's chairman.
 Two hearings are scheduled, one. Friday at 1:30 o'clock, Room 419 state capitol, for purpose of con- sidering laws about primaries caucuses and party rules; the other March 2, at 2 o'clock, for considera- ton of laws on elections, ballots, etc.
 Comment was today that MT. Leary is facing his busiest year and Waterbury's voting machines their greatest tabulating chore.
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EVERY CARDINAL
 ENTERSCONCLAVE
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N--S~-~SA~SA ballots cast at each until a two- thirds majority has been reached. It was expected that a new Pope, probably an Italian and ecclesi- astically-minded instead of politic- ally-minded, would be elected by Friday or Saturday, and crowned ceremonially on Sunday, March 12.
 The procession into the conclave, in which the clerical secretary and the personal attendant of each Cardinal also marched, formed in the courtyard of St. Damasus, where the Cardinals arrived by automobile.
 A choir singing the hymn "Veni Creator" led the procession. Next was the master of ceremonies bear ing the papal cross, and then the Cardinals and their attendants.
 The procession filed slowly into the Sistine Chapel, where the first procedure was for the Cardinals to take an oath of secrecy not to re- veal any of the proceedings of the conclave under pain of excommuni- cation.
 Boston Prelate Present
 William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. the last of the American Cardinals to reach Rome, arrived direct from Naples by automobile and entered the procession.
 On the election of the two pre- ceding Popes, Cardinal O'Connell did not get to vote. In 1922 he got to the conclave but Plus XI had already been elected when he ar- rived.
 Promptly at 2 p. m. today all telephone lines communicating with the conclave area were interrupted by orders of the marshal of the conclave, Prince Chigi Albani. Early in the morning, the last of the lead seals bearing the imprint of the Camerlengo, Cardinal Pacelli were placed on the whitewashed windows overlooking the outside world.
 Hope Pope Plus Will Aid The opening of the conclave was preceded by the mass of the Holy Ghost in the Pauline chapel, al which the cardinals invoked the in- spiration of the blessed spirit tc guide their choice. In the sermon of the mass, Msgr. Antonio Bacci secretary of Latin priests, stressed to the cardinals the importance oi their task because of the present world situation"
 Pope Plus will aid from heaven in the coming election" he declared
 Msgr. Bacci exhaustively reviewed the world situation. emphasizing "today's prevailing desire of earthly welfare, contempt forA the eternal
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until his father ransomed him ft $180. Y

until his father ransomed him for $180.
 Mitchell Go-Between
 Mitchell had injected himself as go-between for Katz, to negotiate the ransom payment for him. Katz had not suspected, when the kidnapers notified him to use Mitchell as "stooge" and let him bring the money, that Mitchell was doing more than friendly act. He thought he was indebted to Mitchell for having arranged the child's tenn porary" release for $180 when the ransom note had set the price at $7,O00. He was not even suspicious when Mitchell came back to consult with him about paying the rest of the $7,0OO, which the kidnaper had demanded if he was not to seize the boy again.
 But detectives learned that Mitch ell had not been at work at the lithographing plant where he was employed, at the time of the kid naping, and that neither had Schwartz, who worked beside him and was his constant companion. They learned that both were heav- ily indebted to gamblers and loan sharks Schwartz for $2,300; Mitch ell for $4,300.
 Get Full Kidnap Story
 They got the full story of the kid naping from them early today and Katz confronted Mitchell.
 He waver between anger and pity. He told Mitchell "There was no need for you to have Kidnapped my son; I would have lent you money if I'd known you needed it." Mitchell wept. He is dark, frail and wears a small mustache. @
 He was charged with Kidnapping, as was Schwartz. Mrs. Resnick, who got $5 for minding Michael during ransom negotiations, was charged with having withheld information of the Kidnapping from police.
 District Attorney William F. x. Geoghan gave this version of the Kidnapping:
 Katz an Accountant
 Katz is an accountant, of some means. His wife, Mrs. Bessie Katz, is school teacher. A negro maid, Lillian Beckitt, was at home with Michael February 20 when a man telephoned and said Mrs. Katz want ed Michael brought to her school. The maid said she did not know the way. The man told her to meet him in front of Loew's Coney Island the ater. Schwartz handed the maid a note and took the boy in a taxicab to his sisters apartment,
 He told her it was Mitchell's boy. Mrs. Resnick gave Michael some milk, potatoes and spinach. Schwartz made several trips outside to see if Mitchell was coming with the ran- som. Finally, Mitchell appeared in the hallway. He had left Katz wait ing outside in cab.
 Schwartz took $180, "all George had" and went back into the apart ment. Mitchell went outside and steered Katz a short distance away while Schwartz rot the boy out onto the sidewalk. Then Mitchell and Katg returned and got the boy.
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City Checks Paid For Private Detectives "Equiqment

order of the U. I. B., $790.0O.
 Dec. 20, 1895. Rental of equip ment. $980. Payable to the order of the U. I. B., New York city. $98O. All of these duplicated checks are payable at the Citizens & Manu- facturers' National Bank. Total amount t-$5240.
 e. To your knowledge are there any other cancelled checks showing payment to the U. I. B. or MT. Pur- die, in existence?
 A. Yes.
 Corp. Counsel Named
 e. MT. Purcell, who is Charles O'Connor?
 A. Corporation counsel for the city of Waterbury.
 @. Do you know how long he has been corporation counsel?
 A. From prior to 1880 to 1897.
 e. Do you know whether or not he is under salary?
 A. Yes.
 o. And what is his salary?
 A. $60O0.
 c. Is that fixed by law?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Does he have any assistants?
 A. Yes.
 o. Do you know whether MT. O. Connor has had an assistant pro- vided him by the city of Waterbury for 1930-1937, inclusive?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Can you name them?
 A. Yes. ...s.... e. Who are they, and what are their salaries?
 A. The assistant corporation coun- sel is Timothy Sullivan. $4000 year. The claims attorney, Vincent Scul- ly. $2500 per year. Then there was an additional attorney attached to the office, not on salary basis.
 @. Do you know whether or not during the years mentioned, MT. O'Conner had received from the city of Waterbury, sums of money in addition to his salary?
 A. Yes.
 Petty Cash
 o. Do you know whether or not he had a petty cash account?
 A. Yes.
 o. And whether or not that was carried by him during those years? A. Yes. Q. Do you know how it was handled?
 A. The total amount was advanc- ed by the city in the beginning of the year, subject to reimbursement during the year. Reimbursement was by check.
 Q. And do you know if he &C., counted during those years, for that petty cash account to the city of Waterbury?
 o. In what way did he account to the city for the petty cash account? A. He would submit request for reimbursement periodically, and he would show a total sum disbursed, and the voucher would contain a list of names on which the request was made.
 o. Do you know whether or not considerable sums of money were paid to him by the city in addition to his salary and petty cash &C., count?
 A. I remember the payments, but not the amounts. .. o. I show you two papers. Can you tell me what they are?
 A. They are cancelled city checks. First is payable to Charles O'Con- nor, corporation counsel, city, and the next one is payable to petty cash account, Charles O'Connor. corporation counsel.
 o. Part of the records of the city of Waterbury?
 A. They are. Admitted and marked as Exhibit 173. ! o. Do you know where MT. o. Corners corporation counsel office was?
 A. In the City Hall.
 @. How close was it to the Mayors office?
 A. The Corporation Counsel of- flee adjoins the offices of the Mayor.
 Q. In the City Hall?
 A. Yes.
 @. And where is the controllers office, with regard to the Mayors nfficoc
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e'Aio oAAS ~o~AN VI AAoAASC AV1 meetings.
 Not Pin-P Point
 Returning to the checks admitted to evidence, he stated that they were not made out on the pin point machine and were not regularly approved by the Board of Finance. ''They were not drawn in the city clerks office. To the best of my knowledge they were drawn in the controllers off1ce," he said.
 The checks were dated Septem- Der 13 and December 29, 1887, and totalled payments of $59254, of which $11754 was for petty cash. The latter check was signed by Martin J. Dunn, acting controller.
 Alcorn followed with another list of checks totalling $2,980.00, issued in 1895, which 1t was explained, were mainly used by O'Connor for travelling expenses related to the sale of $40O,00O water bonds and legislation concerning the city.
 Testimony and exhibits also con- cerned payments of checks as fol- lows: $40000 in 1887; $592.54 in 1887; $6750O in 1883; $2,98O.O0 in 1885; $1,394.11 in 1855; $4,033.8O in 1886; $500 in 1887, most of which payments referred to the petty cash account. Not Definite
 The question of Purcell's confer ence with O'Connor concerning the latter's cancelled checks was de- ferred until afternoon by Alcorn be- cause Purcell could not give a definite date for it. He promised to check up, by reference to the ap- propriation ledgers during recess, and have a definite date for the conference this afternoon.
 Attorney Cassidy objected that the records should go out because they were not made available for the in- spection of the defense.
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn handed Purcell paper which the latter identified as "the only petty cash voucher in the corporation counsers office in existence"
 It was dated June 19, 1886, and was for payments of $399.00. After Alcorn had read a portion of the voucher to the jury, Attorney Cas- sidy pointed out that it provided paymentss for investigation in prep aration of trial of cases against the city and investigation of claims against the city. Among the trials were the case of w. w., Gager, re- ceiver of the Hotel Elton against the city.
 In referring to the numerous in- vestigations and preparations. Cas- sidy told the jury that Alcorn has "glossed over it.'
 Objection
 Alcorn objected loudly.
 Judge Inglis said, 'It doesn't seem that's called for MT. Cassidy-it may go out"
 AS court adjourned, Alcorn had placed on exhibit a city voucher dated April 30, 1887, showing pay ment of legislative expenses and ex- penses of a trip to Boston and New York for a temporary loan |. 1900. The bill was charged to in- terest on floating indebtedness.
 Purcell, after identifying that voucher, state that he knew of no other records in existence, showing payments. to Corporation Counsel O'Connor.
 Cassidy referred to Alcorn's 'ac- commodating ears" when Alcorn questioned Purcell about the confer ence with O'Connor about canceled checks. Purcell gay enot month, and when Alcorn asked him about the conference in January" the re- mark was made by Cassidy.
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TROLLEY WRECK
 TOOK SIX LIVES

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Name OF Former Secret SerDice
 Man Written Into Trials Records
Pde Given Cheeks for Services Equipment Test6es Purcell Heays Figures Prominently in Todays Testimony

@. Part of the public records of City of Waterbury?
 A. They are.
 Admitted and marked as Exhibit 169)
 e. I'm showing you these two checks, States Exhibit 169. State whether or not they were drawn on the pin-point machine?
 A. They were not.
 Reads Checks Alcorn reads:
 Both are payable to the order of the Underwriters Investigation Bu- reau, 1947 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Both are signed with the auto- graphed signature of D. J. Leary, Controller. Both are payable at the Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank. Both are endorsed in pen and ink: Underwriters Investigation Bureau. John G.. Purdie, Principal. Both bear the stamp of the Water bury Trust Co, C.. B.. Olsen, Treas. December g, 1887.
 December 20, 1887 .........,.$ 270.00 December 20, 1887 758.O0
 TntaJ Am0dlnt S1028 00
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HE LOSES FAITH
 INHUMAN NATURE

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Not Pin-Point

and the Board of Finance for meetings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
NLRB UNDER FIRE TODAY
 IN HEARING
Is Criticized as UnameriCan -InternaI Troubles
 Are Revealed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-House investigators of the National Labor Relations Board opened that ag- ency's own files today to disclose in- ternal dissention which includes one complaint of indecent. destructive, and un- American" board procedure.
 The bitterest protest was in the form of a telegram from Fillmore Herrick, Regional Director of the NLRB in New York, who complained to Board Chairman Madden against investigators from Washington who she said refused to discuss with her her own case of jurisdiction.
 Other charges contained in let ters, telegrams and memoranda were read into the record of the House Committee at the opening of the hearing.
 During taking of testimony from William Leserson, newest of the Boards three members, in one doc ument, LeiSerson was shown to have proposed to the Board last July, the dismissal of Nathan Witt Board Secretary, because he lacked un- derstanding of the problems of the Administration agency.
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went along as commander With a cargo of mixed and conditional contraband he sailed from New York on October 3. October g the Ger man cruiser Deutschland captured the Flint, loaded on 1t 38 of the crew of the British freighter Stone gate which the cruiser had sunk four days earlier, and put aboard a German prize crew.
 Gainard celebrated his 50th birth day two days later, sailing the ship under the direction of the German lieutenants aboard. The rest be- came history.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
AMERICAN FLEET
 GETS NEW HEAD
Admiral Richardson Is to Take Over Early in Jan-
 uary-ReIieving Bloch

WASHINGTON, Dec. I1.-Acting Navy Secretary Edison announces that Admiral James Richardson will become Commander-in-Ch Chief of the United States fleet on January 6. Admiral Richardson succeeds Claude Bloch.
 Admiral Bloch will relieve Rear Admiral Murfin who is withdrawing from the service Murfin has reach ed the retirement age of 64 years.
 The new commander-in-chief of the fleet is a native of Texas. He is 61 years old and entered his naval career as a plebe at the Naval Ac- ademy during the Spanish -Ameri- can war. He was executive officer of the battleship Nevada during the World war. Admiral Bloch became commander of the battle fleet last June.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
AIRWAYS ENGIHEERS
 TAKE YUKON TO-DAY

G. E. Goudie, construction super intendent with the Alaska Aeronau- tics and Communications Commis- sion, passed through Juneau on the Yukon today for Ketchikan from the Westward.
 Goudie had been travelling through the Interior looking over AACC and CAA projects with CAA engineer A. D. Hulen, who flew down from Fairbanks Saturday and boarded the Yukon with Goudie for Ketchi- kan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
DEMOCRATIC
 CONVENTION
 BEGINS 18TH
Juneau Delegates Leave on Yukon Today for
 Ketthikan Meeting

Nine delegates, representing the three Juneau precincts and Salmon Creek, left on the steamer Yukon today for the First Division Demo- cratic convention at Ketchikan which is to be held Wednesday Thursday and Friday of this week.
 The Territorial convention is to be held in Juneau in January.
 Those leaving today for the First City were Oscar c. Olson, Frank A. Boyle, James V Davis, Mrs. Rob- ert Bender, J. E. Pegues, John Co., vich, Frank Chmella, John McCor- mick and A. D. Hulen. Mrs. c. P. Jenne, also delegate, went to Ket- chikan last week on the North Coast.
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load on the City of Flint, his radio picked up news of the stricken Ath- enia. He headed toward it, but other ships had picked up the sur vivors. He met a Scandinavian yacht overloaded with survivors, took them all aboard, and might have returned to England, a couple of hundred miles away Instead he took it the hard way, and continued across the Atlantic.
 Before his next venture out, the City of Flint was transferred to the United States lines and Gainard
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
Good Snow Conditions Reported by Skiiers

A party of skiiers, headed by Ralph Moreau, worked out a little yester- day afternoon in an informal prac- tice session and instruction on the upper part of the Darrock Crookes trail on the Douglas Ski Trail. The snow was reported to be good.
 Those making the trip included MT. and Mrs. William Hixson. Miss Helen Junes. Gerald Allen and Bob Laney.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
YOUNG KIRKLAND IS
 YUKON PASSENGER

Phillip Harland sailed south on the steamer Yukon today to join his sisters in Corvallis, Oregon.
 His oldest sister, Frances SIar- land, is teaching school at the Uni versity there and his sister Pat is student. Phillip will continue his high school studies in Corvallis and attend the University also.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
Birthday Party
 Event Yesterday

A birthday party yesterday after noon was given at the home of MT and Mrs. Milton Lagergren on Tenth Street for their son Charles for Pierre Sundborg, son of MT. and Mrs. George Sundborg, and for petite Carol Ann Prewitt.
 Besides the ten younger guests who were invited for the occasion, the three grandmothers of the honorees were present, Mrs. A. Lagergren of Juneau, Mrs. H. A. Fowler, also of this city, and Mrs. D. B. Baker, who is visiting here from Hoquiam, Wash, with her daughter and son-in-law, MT. and Mrs. Sundborg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
NUMBER CYCLE

MARTINSVILLE, Va, Dec. II. = It was a theft case but it had the earmarks of a numbers" game The negro defendant was charged with stealing SIP. He was fined SIP and was given a jail sentence of 72 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11

PYGMIES, after bagging an ele- phant, move their villages to the kill, for they find it easier to bring their homes to the elephant than to bring the elephant home.
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designated to bring home stranded Americans
 Fresh out of England with a huge
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CAPTAIN GAINARD IS NOW BECOMING
 A NATIONAL HERO

Today's News Today-Empire.