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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
Perjured Testimony, Mackenzie Admission
Was Designed to Put Cllas. Williamson "On Spot Reading of Grand Jury Minutes to End Tuesday;
 City Employees to Be Next Witnesses
BY JOSEPH F. DONAHUE. s. (Dempcrat Staff Rsporterl

Perjured testimony designed to place his former political ally, Charles E. Williamson of Darien, in an unfavorable light, before the extraordinary grand jury, was ad- mitted in the Superior Court trial of the Waterbury conspiracy case yesterday by Harry Mackenzie of Bethel.
 As the curtain closed on the 18th week of the trial, the con- fessed conspirator and former dope-addict, admitted that when he testified before the grand jury ig- norance of the amount Williamson got from Waterbury for lobbying, he lied.
 Mackenzie, according to the grand jury testimony, said he did not know how much Williamson got, until he read it in the papers Later he told the grand jury that Williamson received $24 400 in 1885 and $34,OOO in 1887. The fees were said to have been split between Mackenzie, Williamson and Daniel J. .Leary.
 Claims Truth
 Mackenzie claimed he told the truth, however, when he told the grand jury that Williamson had asked him to testify that he (Mac- kenzie) received half of all the checks issued by the city to Will liamson. He claims he received but one-fourth.
 q told him he was crazy" Mac kenzie said, explaining it as a move by Williamson so This skirts would be clean" @ n
 The reading of Mackenzie's grand jury testimony which started yes- terday, will be continued Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock when the 18th week of the trial opens. Mac kenzie will be recalled to the stand.
 New Witness Due
 Street department and city hall employees who were in the courtroom yesterday on call of the state, are expected to take the stand Wednes- day or Thursday at the latest, the opening of an apparent new phase" of the trial. The lobbying angle is apparently concluded, at least for the time, with the completion of Mackenzie testimony.
 In contradiction to testimony given by Williamson, Mackenzie said that the former arranged the con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15

voters and the esteem with which he is held in Parliament won him the right to come to this country this year as a goodwill ambassador.
 Since arriving in America late in January he has been in great de- mand as a speaker at all sorts of public gatherings. It was with con- siderable difficulty that his visit to Waterbury was arranged and a rerouting of his itinerary was neces- sary to make second visit to Con- necticut possible. He has already spoken in Meriden, the home city of U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney of whom MT. Briscoe is great friend.
 The highlight of his visit to Wa terbury today will be his public ap- pearance tonight in the Wilby High School auditorium, where he is scheduled to make an address at g D. m. Preceding this talk a half
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
TORNADO DEATH
 TOLL REACHES 6

Ava, Okla, April 15 = W.P0 - At least six persons were dead and more than 30 injured in an early morning tornado which swept over a number of towns along the Kan- sas-O Oklahoma state lines.
 The storm hit hardest at Capron and Vici, small towns north of here. Other communities were Waynoka, Woodward and Award.
 The dead were:
 Mir. and Mrs. Oscar Harryman, AIva.
 MT. and Mrs. Adam Vallmer, Alva.
 Louis Harryman, 19, Alva.
 Mrs. Joe Wenxel, Award.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
Russia to Send War Sup- plies and Materials to
 Poland, Runlania
AIR PACT SEEN AS
 MIGHTIEST WEAPON
Turkey Trying to Cement Balkans Into Anti=Ag-
 gressiOn Front
BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Corresuonden

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, April Is. - (UP) Great Britain started business negotiations at Moscow today to bring the Soviet Union into a peace front which, it was hoped, might soon present a barrier of more than 3O0,000, ,000 people to Nazi-Fascist ex- pansionism. Special instruc- tions were sent to Sir William Seeds, British Ambassador at Moscow, to start negotiations with Maxim Litvmow, Russian Foreign Com missar, today.
 It was understood that Britain and France sought first an agree ment by which Russia would send war supplies and raw materials to Poland and Rumania in event of hostilities. But an air pact, by which Russia would send its gigantic air force against an aggressor nation, was in prospect-and behind that would stand Russia's army of 2,500,- 900 men and reserve of 15,000, 900.
 Cement Balkans
 But at the same time Turkey, soon to enter 8 full military alliance with Britain, was understood to be trying to cement the solid bloc of Balkan nations, including Bulgaria, into an anti-aggression front.
 Britain land France seemed to have hope that JugoSlavia, also, which as member of the Balkan entente is an ally of Turkey, Ru- mania and Greece, might be brought into an overwhelmingly powerful ''stop the dictators" alliance.
 In addition, Poland and Rumania were reported to be on the point of concluding a new mutual assistance treaty which would bind them to united riststance against German attack.
 Beck Coming To Paris
 Paris reported that Col. Josef Beck, Polish foreign minister, was expected there on a state visit be- fore the end of April to re-cement the French-P Polish alliance. France also is already bound by military al- liance to Russia.
 Thus the peace front" was lining up as follows:
 Britain (44,000,0Oo people, was al- lied to France (42,0O0,000) and had given guarantees to Poland (32,000,- 000), Greece (6,0O0,00O and Ru- mania u8,000, ,000).
 Britain was negotiating with Tllr- key d6,000, ,000 and Russia (l66, ,000,- 0O0).
 Britain and France were seeking to negotiate with Jugoslavia (14,- O00,000).
 Turkey was reported negotiating with Bulgaria (6,000,000).
 Millions Bound Together
 The total of peoples who might be bound together had reached PA, ,000,- GOO, against the 82,0O0,0O0 of Ger many-mcluding' 10000 Austrians and 100000 Czechoslovaks-and 44,000,0O0 Italians.
 It was understood that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped to be able to announce to the house of commons Tuesday that Britain and Turkey had agreed to full mil- itary alliance-not merely guaran- tee by Britain to Turkey, as in the case of Poland, Rumania and Greece, but 6 two-way mutual de- fensive pact. Turkey, in turn, was close in friendship to Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
KENNEDYS TO
 VISIT WITH KING

London, April 15-(UP) --Ameri- can Ambassador Joseph F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain and their wives will be week end guests of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Windsor castle 1t was made known today.
 It was understood that the visit of the king and queen to the United States would be discussed, but 1t was assumed that the general world situation would be discussed also.
 Kennedy and his wife are to go s0 Windsor today for the week end Chamberlain and his wife will ar rive tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
PINTS DISRUPT
 BANDITS ATTACK

Boston, April IS - U.P0 It was lean night for bandits.
 When two youths pointed pistols at liquor store proprietor James Buckley, he began throwing pints and quarts, and they fled empty handed.
 Two bandits who held up a drug store escaped empty handed when a customer opened fire at them. It de- veloped that the customer was Po- liceman Archie MacDonald, in plain clothes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
Housing Project Meets Opposition At Civic Meeting
Board Finds Opponents of Federal Housing in Maj- 0rity; Crowd Unruy as Many Address Gathering

The spirit of an old New England town meeting in the air at the Wby High school auditorium last night proposed federal housing project for Waterbury crowd of between $50 and 700 was in the ha cheering without any concessions to parliamentary procedure As the smoke cleared away, it developed that sentiment of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
ROOMS AT GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar, April 15--(UP)-De- fensive booms were placed at all entrances to Admiralty harbor to- day as authorities continued pre- cautions in view of the Mediter- ranean situation and military ac- tivity in Nationalist Spain adjacent to the frontier. Military authorities forbade the public access to the eri- tire harbor. s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
KISS FISH NOW

{ Cambridge. Mass, April l5-lUP) Accompanied by group of Rad- cliffe College girls, Lamphrey F. Marlin Jr., 8 Harvard student, vis- tied a market and kissed 133 fish, explaining: Kissing co'eds bores
 me"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-15
DIES FROM INJURIES

Thompsonville, Conn, Apri l15- (UP)--Mrs. Frank Bennett, 56, died last night of injuries suffered Wednesday when struck by an au- ttcmobile. ss' ' '
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The Weather.

Occasional Showers To- night; also Sunday
Evening star., 1939-11-05

In spite Of wars that rage on two
continents, David Fairchild has gone
exploring again. At the age of 10 he
is setting out from Hong Kong in a
Chinese junk equipped with Diesel
engines and every modern convent
ence for the spice islands north OF
Australia.
Mr.. Fairchild's friends and former
associates here felt that the out
break of war in Europe might inter-
fere with his trip. But he has not
let 1t stop him, sailing from Cali
fornia recently to join the party that
will go on the exploration.
This is one more voyage in Mr..
Fairchild's lifelong search for new
plants that will enrich American
life. AS result of his explorations,
whole regions In the United States
have been transformed. From far
corners of the globe he has sent
back roots, bulbs, shoots. seeds, fruits
to be tested In American SOIL The
date palm, mosaic resistant sugar
cane, long staple cotton, the soy
bean and thousands Of other plants,
many in common use today. have
been introduced into this country
by Mr.. Fairchild.
Received Medal.
Not long ago, on the occasion of
the fiftieth anniversary of his con-
nection with the Department of
Agriculture. he was given the Frank
N. Meyer Medal, awarded annually
by the American Genetics Society.
Presenting the medal, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace paid high trib-
ute to Mr.. Fairchild, pointing out
not only his own personal achieve
ments but those of the staff he gath
cred around him as head of the Divi-
sion of Plant Exploration and In
PRODUCTION. A member of that staff
was Frank N. Meyer, who covered
China, Tibet, Manchuria and Mon
golia in his search for new plants.
And when he died In China he d.
rected that his estate go to create a
foundation to reward other plant
discoverers and scientists.
'The introductions which you
have made yourself, David Fairchild,
have been legion" Secretary WAL
lace said. Merely to list them would
keep you too long from that urgent
date beyond a far horizon. And
these plant godchildren Of yours
that worthless Hindu melon which
saved an industry-that lettuce
seed which grew in spite of mildew
and brown blight-these are all chill
dren of your dreams and mind and
heart-just as much as those giant
trees from half q world away which
shade your house in Florida. And
to the story of this Government
service in plant introduction must
be added all you have done to mar
shall your friends outside into q
great conspiracy of plant dissemina-
tion."
Gets Co. Operation.
Secretary Wallace's reference was
to the fact that Mr.. Fairchild has
been singularly fortunate In enlist
ing the cooperation Of wealthy men
and women. As q young man, he
found a patron in a wealthy Chi
cagoan, Barbour Lathrop, who
Evening star., 1939-11-05

by their host Of the occasion, the
Secretary of War.
The considerably disguised British
decided next to try their luck at
New Orleans. They sailed against
the Southern city, to find among the
determined defenders detachment
Of those ubiquitous and stubborn
Marines. The British lost a couple
of thousand men in that attack,
futile and useless. All the more
futile because the war was over by
then; but nobody had been notified
yet. Similar tragedies occurred at
sea, where many encounters took
place before orders for cessation Of
hostilties reached the ships.
In the next dozen years, Marines
participated in several expeditions,
from Argentine to Samoa, and from
Puerto Rico to Africa. In 1842 they
were called upon to quen an up
rising among the inmates Of the
Massachusetts, State Prison.
The most onerous work Of this
period was a punitive expedition
against the Island Of Quallah Bat
too. Sumatra, in 1882, and q long
series Of engagements with hostile
Indians in Florida.
Late in 1886, the Government was
opposed by CalifornianA mostly
Mexican natives. The trouble
stretched into the following year,
and several armed clashes occurred
between the Californians and the
Marines. On January 2, there was
a sharp fight near Santa Clara, with
casualties on both sides.
War With Mexico.
In the meantime, trouble was
brewing with Mexico, trouble that
developed into a war. On Septem-
ber 13, 1847, Marines stormed the
ancient fortress Of Chapultepec.
They scaled those flanks in the face
of a murderous fire, and took the
stronghold with bayonet and clubbed
musket. That battle will never be
forgotten by Marines, for their
famed hymn starts: From the
Halls Of Montezuma."
After the Mexican War, there was
no luli in activities. Marines ac-
companied Commodore Perry on
his expedition to Japan In 1853.
Other Marines were fighting and
dying In battles against Chinese
pirates. At the same time, on the
other side Of the world, revolt famed
in Montevideo, and sent Marines
racing to the scene to protect Amer
ican lives and property. Indians
menaced the settlements around
Seattle, in Washington Territory,
Evening star., 1939-11-05
By Frank II. Renffrow.

by land as the warships bombarded
from the sea. A brief but bitter
fight resulted and on April ~, 1905,
1t. O'Bannon hauled down the en-
sign of Tripoh and hoisted the flag
of the United States. This was the
first time the colors of the new
nation f1oated over an Old World
fortification.
Later, a sword was presented to
1t. O'Bannon. It was the native
type, with a Mameluke hilt. Today,
the distinctive sword you see carried
by Marine officers, with its grace
full ivory grip, is similar In design
to that historic gift of nearly CEN
tury and a half ago.
The Marines encountered several
scattered skirmishes in the turbu-
lent days that preceded our second
struggle with Great Britain. When
a rumor of a landing by red-coats
along Chesapeake Bay was verified,
a squad of Marines from the Eighth
street barracks buried some SIS, 900
somewhere in the compound and
then went off to meet the enemy at
Bladensburg, Md, where they got
themselves killed. The mystery of
that money died with them, for
there is no record that it was ever
recovered, even by the British.
At Bladensburg, the invader suf-
fered resistance only from a few
Marines and sailors that straddled
the road leading into the Capital
They had wheeled a couple Of can
non into position and they fought
with those guns until their leaders
were killed or captured. Then they
slowed up the advance with a bril-
liant rear-guard action all the way
to the city.
Wanton Destruction.
Throughout the narrowing night
of August "a, 1914, the city famed
under British torches. The Marine
commandant's quarters alone were
spared, for the high command o1
the occupying army used it for hi
headquarters. The destruction wa.
wanton, a vandalism that even theil
own Crown could neither condone
nor excuse, and the English press
usually bitter against their enemies
deplored the incident.
In an effort to capture Baltimore
the British next flung Themselves
against Fort McHenry, which wa.
garrisoned by both soldiers ane
Marines. There, with bombs burst
ing in air, Francis Scott Key com.
posed 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner.
The Marines were commended fol
their part in the defense of the for
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Plant Explorer Resumes Lifelong Hunt
In Which World Has Been His Garden
David Fairchd Starts in Chinese Junk on
Voyage to Spice islands, Successes Won
With Soy Bean and Other Products
By Marquis ". Childs.

financed several journeys around the
world. Much later in his life, AL
Hson Armour Of the Chicago packing
family equipped a yacht for plant
explorations, and for six years Mr..
Fairchild, his wife and a scientific
staff voyaged in search of new flora.
The angel for his latest trip to
the South Seas is Mrs. Anne Arch
bold of the Standard Oil family. who
will accompany him and his wife on
the expedition.
Mr.. Fairchild has just published
his autobiography under the title
'"The World Was My Garden" A
thrilling story Of adventure and
discovery, it minimizes the part that
the author played in tracking down
essential new strains Of both rare
and common plants.
In large things and small, Mr..
Fairchild was constantly ON the
lookout for ways to improve Amer
ican crops. In the little town of
Teschen, In what was then q part of
Austria, he tasted maliner kren, q
very delicate and delicious horse
radish. The Austrian method Of
cultivation was so interesting to
Mr.. Fairchild, with only the young
shoots used for the table, that he
wrote a special bulletin on it. And.
of course. he sent back shoots Of
maliner kren to this country. Sew
eral years later, he had the satisfac-
ton Of visiting a grower at Camden,
N. j., who had made a great success
of this superior kind of horse
radish.
Found Vegetable.
On q visit to Jamaica early in his
career, he discovered the chayote, a
vegetable with "a firmer, more
agreeable texture than squash and
an equally delicate flavor" He sent
number Of chayotes back to Wash
ington and persuaded some people
to grow them. For many years he
tried to popularize them, but never
with very much success. Once, Mrs
Fairchild served chayotes at a
luncheon given for the then Secre-
tary of Agriculture. David Houston
who ate them with gusto, but the
Fairchild's qualification was some
what lessened when Mrs. Houston
said that her husband never knew
what he was eating. anyway. FIRE.
quently, Mr.. Fairchild has encoun.
tered a stubborn conservatism when
he has attempted to introduce a new
food.
PLANT introduction" he writes
''has two phases. First, the securing
Of plant material In foreign coun-
tries and landing 1t alive in Amer
lea: and second, the dissemination
and establishment Of the plants in
the fields, gardens, dooryards and
parks of this country.
The first phase is comparatively
simple one, but the discovery OF
where and how to grow these plants
and how to utilize them, requires
years of patient investigation. A
pinch Of seed may come half round
the world for q cost of only 5 cents
But growing the seed will probably
require q nat in q hothouse, fol-
lowed In sequence by q bench of
2-inch pots, q greenhouse of 6-inch
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-30
THOSE NAzI SPIES
alameda Times-Star)

Attorney General Frank Murphy, Ed
gar Hoover, chief Oman, and squad
of his special investigators, are busy as
bird dogs in the brush searching for
Nazi spies in the Pacific coast airplane
factories. They must be there in devas-
tating numbers for Harry Bridges, boss
man of the San Francisco area, reports
their presence. Bridges heads the CIO in
this section of the country and certain
members of that organization who are
affiliated with the Communist party can
detect a Nazi spy behind every brush.
It's habit they have, hangover from
the late civil war in Spain-an event in
which Soviet Russia took feeble hand.
on little provocation.
After ALL the visit to the coast of high
ups in government policing and a thor
ough investigation of the Bridges report
should serve to clear the air of lot of
hooey that has been passed around as
fact for several months. 1t is possible,
of course, that there may be men at
work in American airplane factories who
report to Germany, Italy and every ma
ton, what they learn about the mech
anism of the ships they help to build,
but if there are such Harry Bridges and
the charging members of his organiza-
ton do not know who they are any more
than do the factory owners and opera
ton and groups of chaps who see ghosts
States is one of propaganda as ammuni-
The Communist-Naz battle in the United
tors.
And, too, in all kindness to Harry
Bridges as an individual, it would seem
that of nearly hundred million Ameri-
can adults a non-citizen is necessary to
spot spies in this country
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-30
MADDEN REVEALS CREED
OF NATIONAL LABOR BOARD

Chairman J. Warren Madden of
the National Labor Relations Board be-
lieves that unlimited right (by employ
ers) to petition for elections (among
employees to determine who shall handle
collective bargaining) might do much
HARM" He explains his belief by say
ing:
"If an employer wants to interfere
with a union, one of the most effective
ways would be to bring up the question
whether the union has majority at
time when the union obviously does not
have"
And SO, for the first time, Chairman
Madden inferentially admits that the
labor board is not averse to delaying an
election until the union it favor has a
maj jority of votes among employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-30

Not until the summer Is wan
ing will it be possible to tell
whether the Department of Ag-
riculture has got something in its
stamps for surpluses' program.
But the first few days opera
ton in Rochester, N. Y, are in
teresting, indeed, and contain the
germ of hope.
The plan is, briefly, this: relief
clients are sold by the federal
government certain stamps which
are good for food at local grocery
stores. For 81 the client gets a
blue ST. stamp, good for buying
any food. But he gets also an
grange stamp for so cents, good
for buying certain kinds of food,
of which there is a surplus. The
grocer. having sold the food and
taken the stamps, redeems them
for regular money at face value.
Thus the federal government is,
in effect, adding so per cent to
the relief check, provided the ex-
ira amount is spent for certain
things.
Now there would be little point
in this If there were no more of
it. The recent plan of buying sur
PLUG commodities and distributing
them free to reliefers would "a
mount to the same thing.
Here is the difference, and early
experience in Rochester indicates
that it is really working: Before
the experiment began, corn meal
in Rochester was selling at five
pounds for 30 cents. Before the
end of the week, it was selling
at five pounds for 16 cents.
That doesn't mean that the gro
GERS had been gouging the people
on corn meal. 1t means simply
that so few people were buying
corn meal that the grocer's stocks
of it were tied up long time, and
he had to have high profit on
it to make it worth while to car
ry 1t at all. AS in any retail busi-
ness, a small profit on each of a
lot of sales is better than large
profit on a few. So if the stamp
plan increases the number of the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-30
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or
Sales, Stamps and SurpIuses
0 assszsxzN vs.

sales in these special surplus foods
their prices may we'll come down,
just as they have in Rochester.
But when that happens, they
become attractive to still more peo-
pie, even those not on relief. And
sales increase still further. And
prices drop still more. And more
and more of the surplus crops are
consumed, to the joy of the far
mer
How greatly the stamp plan will
benefit the surplus crop situation
in the long run remains of course
to be seen.
But certainly the best thing to
do with surplus crops is to eat
EN-. And if they get eaten, the
government will perhaps save as
much in what it now pays to far
mers because there is a surplus,
as the new stamp plan will cost.
In any event, any attack on the
CHASTITY combination of surplus
crops and malnutrition standing
side by side, deserves attention
and support. Let's hope the gov
ernment is at last on the way To
stamping out both problems.