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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-09
WAR BULLETINS
OF ALL EUROPE
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duke and duchess left Cap DAN
tibes, on the French Riviera, by mo-
tor car yesterday and, reports from
Paris said, spent the night at Avig-
non. They were expected to cross
the channel to England today.
It was not known whether there
had been any move to grant the
Duchess Of windsor the style Of adj
dress, Royal Highness". The duke
Is q royal highness; his duchess
merely the Duchess Of Windsor. It
had been generally assumed that
the duke would not return home, In
peace time, unless his wife had been
assured a status equal to his.
Nor was 1t known whether the
duke would be given some war post.
Though he formally renowned all
his titles when he abdicated, the
duke remains an admiral Of the
fleet, a field marshal in gthe army
and a marshal Of the Royal Air
Force.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 9E(UP)-For-
eign airplanes disabled Belgian
air force plane today In an exchange
Of fire near Mons.
At g: 80 q. m. (1:30 q. m. EDIT
the Belgian plane sighted and chased
two or three foreign planes and
caught them near Mons. After q
warning, the Belgian plane fired on
the foreign planes, which replied.
Tho Belgian plane was disabled. Its
two occupants were slightly injured
in parachute landings. The Belgian
plpane crashed.
It was understood that the foreign
planes disappeared In the direction
Of France.
LONDON, Sept. 9E(UP)-The
Times published today its first ION
active service" obituary y0lumn Of
the new war. There were two no
tees:
ION Sept. z, Flying Officer Harry
Dale Green, lovel husband Of abr
bara Bowes Dale Green, Of Kirule,
st. Andrews, Fife"
ION the night Of Sept. 3, lost over
board, Cadet David A. z. Steward
Cox, Royal Navy, dearly loved eldest
son Of Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. A. Stew
ard Cox, Of Southend House, Nor
folk, aged IT,"
LONDON, Sept. o -(UP)- The
Evening Star reported today that
the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
had been blown up at Its moorings at
Friedrichshafen by sabotage. There
was no confirmation. It was re-
ported from Zurich, Switzerland,
Monday that tremendous explosion
was heard, and a glare seen, In the
direction Of Friedrechshafen.
The Graf Zeppelin was commits
stoned q year ago to replace its pre-
decessor which had been dismantled
after flying total Of 1,055, 100 miles
in nine years.
PARIS, Sept. 9-(UP)-An uncon.
firmed dispatch to the Agence Radio
News Agency from Brussels reported
today that German bombing plane
loaded with bombs was forced to
land ut the Eevere airport there ut
z q n. q o. n DT).
NAPLES, italy, Sept. e--Wp-
The liner Rex. crowded with Ameri-
cans returning from war ridden
countries, sailed for New York today.
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MeMAH0N---An anniversary mass Of
isSrnins, Of soc e'ciock. ii Si.
ThomaS church. for the repese OF
the soul Of the tate captain Thomas
Mcmahon. .e8slis
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EARLY START

william Henry, featured today op-
postle Ellen Drew In PAramountf
Geronimo" began his aim career a
q child Of { IN "fiis Majesty the
King" with Jackie Ooogan.
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Russia has Just established q new
weather station on Svernaya zen-
lyA, the Arctic island.
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The funeral Of Joan Ann Angelo
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Angelo, also known as Angelicola.
will be held this afternoon at o.
clock from the Maiorano funeral
home, 95 Willow street, TO the
Church 70 Our Lady Of Lourdes,
where services win be conducted ct
2 O'Clock. Burial viii be in Calvary
cemetery.
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FUNERALS

The funer:..l Of Stanley Hypsh
was held this morning at 1880 o.
clock from the Stokes funeral home,
694 North Riverside street, with q
solemn high mass at 3 o'clock 1t
st. Stanislaus' Kostka church. Bur-
ial was In Calvary cemetery.
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Big Strategic Victory


Military experts said that between
the lines Of this laconic communique
was to be read the news Of Frances
first big strategic victory.
It meant that the French had
smashed into and bitten off the big
German frontier Salient which ex-
extended into France betwee nSaar.
Bruecken and Saarlauten.
Experts believed that the French
were now In possession Of part of
the Saar valley.
The French had gained eight
miles in that sector.
French shock troops pinched off
the Salient by q swift drive north
westward from Forbzch, following
the little Rosel river to the saar.
Within the Salient, the French
took numerous villages including
Carlsbrunn, which gives 1t name to
the Carlsbrunn-Warndt forest; Lau-
terbach, Ludweiler, Gross Rosseln
and st. Nikolaus, all Of which the
Germans had evacuated.
Filled with Traps
The forest, filled with buried
mines and tank traps, was being
mopped up this morning as new
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line, the high command announced
today.
Crack troops, driving into the
Saar Basin, had surrounded the
city Of Saarbruecken, reliable In
formants said, and now were within
striking distance Of Germany's
great west wall.
Communique No. IL, published by
the high command, said today:
sept. 9, 10:45 o. m. (5:45 q. m.
EDT): Land operations during last
night saw action by our advance ele-
ment. Most Of the great Warndt
Forest west Of Torbach fell into our
hands. We found 1t filled with de-
struction and ell sorts Of traps. Our
air force operated In full iaison
with our land troops"
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EMPLOYMENT IS
INCREASING HERE

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REORGANIZATION
OF DEMOCRATS

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BRITAIN HURLS
MONEY INTO WAR

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BATTLE ON CITY
MANAGER SPEEDS

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FRENCH LINER IS
TIED UP TIGHT

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NAPLES, ftaiy, Sept. e--Wp--
The liner Rex. crowded with Anieri-
cans returning from war ridden
countries, sailed for New York today,
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PARIS, Sept. 9-(uP)-An uncon.
firmed dispatch to the Agence Radio
News Agency from Brussels reported
today that q German bombing plane
loaded with bombs was forced to
land ut the Eevere airport there ut
7 q q. q q. n EDT.).
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Unnumbered Checks

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, beginning in the early part of the year 1880 and continu- ing to the first day of January, 1898, the said Michael F. Slavin. then and there being the duly appointed Dep uty Registrar of Voters of the City of Waterbury, whose salary is fixed by law, did receive from said city by unnumbered checks, issued and signed by the said Leary in the form and manner hereinbefore described, payable at the Citizens and Manu- facturers National Bank of said Waterbury and not drawn in regular course by the Cty Clerk. the sum of $500 per year in addition to his fixed salary. Said additional amounts were never approved by the Board of Finance of said city as required by its charter. and. by order of the said Hayes. Leary, Kelly, Borgnaes and Dunn, said payments were with held from the warrants payable reg ister sheets until after the members of the Board of Finance had affixed their signatures thereto. thereby giv- ing the appearance of approval of said payments by said Board. Said checks. vouchers and warrants pay- able register sheets were removed. burned or otherwise destroyed upon the order of the said Hayes. Leary. Kelly. Borgnaes. Alderman and Dunn between October 5, 1887. and January 3. 1888. for the purpose of conceal ing said illegal and fraudulent trar,s- actions and for the purpose Of con-
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$1OO,OOO Shared

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit. between the "a day of June, 1892 and the 8th day of July, 1887, the said Levy received from time to time from said Kelly and the said Olsen by means Of cheeks of the City of Waterbury is- sued in the form and manner here- inbefore described. unnumbered when issued, payable at the Citi- zens & Manufacturers National Bank of said Waterbuy, and not drawn in regular course by the City Clerk, an amount exceeding $i20.O00 in currency, of which the said Kelly retained for himself and others an amount in excess of $i00,000 and the said Levy retained approxi-
 mately si5,OOO. All of said checks were exchanged for currency in the office of said Mayor. in sad City Hall, the said currency having been brought to the Mayors office from the Waterbury Trust Company by said Olsen at the request Of said Kelly. Said cheeks were issuec as aforesaid without the approval of the Board of Finance of said City, the meetings of which Board were regularly attended by said Thomas P. Kelly and of which said Board said T. Prank Hayes was chairman and a regular attendant. and said Daniel J. Leary was a member and a regular attendant: and by the direc- ton of .he said Hayes, Leary, Kelly and Borgnaes, said amounts were
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himself and others the balance thereof. hv
 Thereafter, to wit, on or about the Sd day of July, 1881, the said Kelly obtained from said city the sum Of s7e5, which was charged to an ac- count on the books of said city designated as Street Lighting" Said above mentioned contract ex- pired In June, 1882, and h May, 1882, the said Kelly delivered 10 said Levy and to said George Browning, Inc, a check Of said city payable at the Citizent & Manufac- turers National Bank of said Water. bury. issued and signed by said Ieary In form and manner as above described in the sum Of A.2oo, which said check was thereupon en- dorsed by said Edward c. Levy and the said George Browning, Inc. Immediately therafter, the said Kelly and the said Levy received from said Olsen in the office of said Mayor in exchange for seid check the sum of s4,200 in currency, brought there by the said Olsen who was then and there an officer Of The Waterbury Trust Company or said amount, the said Levy retained Sl,- 900, the said Browning received $i .0OO and the remainder thereon, to wit, S2,200, was retained by said Kelly for himself and others. All or said cheeks as aforesaid were typed and issued in the office of said Leary in the manner and form aforesaid were unnumbered when issued the payment thereof was never approved by the Board of Finance of said City of Waterbury as required py us charter, and by the direction Of said Hayes, Leary. Kelly, Borgnaes ana Dunn said bills were not recorded on said warrants payable register sheets when presented to the Board of Finance for It's approval and were entered thereon after the members thereof had affixed their signatures to said sheets, thereby giving to said payments the appearance Of ap- proyal by said Board. Said checks, vouchers and warrants payable reg ister sheets were burned or other wise removed and destroyed upon the order and with the connivance of said Hayes, Leary, Kelly. Borg macs, Alderman and Dunn between october 5, 1887 and January g., 1888 for the purpose of concealing said unlawful and fraudulent trans actions and for the purpose Of con- cealing the formation and existence of said conspiracy.
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No Appeal

And in further pursuance ci said conspiracy. to wit. between the lst day Of January. 1880 and the 3d day Of January. 1888, the said Hayes. Leary. Kelly, Olsen, Borg naes and Dunn did devise, consent to and authorize the payment Of large sums Of money belonging to said City Of Waterbury without first obtaining the approval of the Board Of Finance as required by the char ter Of said city; and did make pay ments to purported creditors; and payments in addition to salaries fixed by law of employees of said City of Waterbury by means of checks issued in form and manner above described, unnumbered when issued. and not issued in regular course by the City Clerk of said City, and drawn in the office of said Daniel J. Leary, and signed either by said Daniel J. Leary, Martin J. Dunn or Thomas P. Kelly, and did withhold said payments from the warrants payable register sheets un- til after said sheets had been signed by the members of the Board of Finance; and the said Daniel J. Leary did certify said sheets to be correct. and did fail to place upon said sheets the numbers of the vouchers appearing on said eets and the true amount of claims to be submitted to said Board for ap- proval: and thereby did give an ap- pearance on said sheets of the approval of said payments by said Board of Finance, and thereby con- cealed said payments from said Board of Finance, and thereby did make payments in excess of appro- priations and without appropriations therefore. contrary to the provisions of said charter and the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut. and thereby did cheat and defruad the said City of Waterbury during said period of an amount in excess of a million dollars.
 And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit. during the month of June, 1880. the said T. Frank Hayes caused to be passed by the Board of Aldermen of said city a resolution sponsored and approved by him, authorizing him. the said T. Frank Hayes. to make and exc cute contract in behalf of said city for the term of two years. the purpose of which was to reduce the light and power rates in said city: and thereafter. to wit. on the 24th day tf July. 1880, following & con- ference with said Leary. Comptroller and the said Kelly. Executive Sec
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therefor from the said Kingsley & Go. at the rate of $500 per month for which said Kingsley & O., pur- suant to an arrangement with said Hayes, charged the city of Water bury and were paid by order of the said Hayes and Leary in the man. ner aforesaid, compensation for the services of said Borgnaes at the rate of $700 per month by means of checks issued and signed by said Leary in form and manner as above described, unnumbered when issued, and not drawn in regular course by the city clerk, and never approved by said board of finance of said city as required by its charter; and said payments were withheld from said warrants payable register sheets un- til the members of the board of finance had afilXed their signatures thereto, thereby giving the appear ance of approval of said payments by said board; and the said Meany, Murray and others employed by the said firm of George Kingsley & Go. prepared the annual audits of the books. of said city for the years 1892 through 1887, which annual audits were signed either by the said George Kingsley or the said Meany, or the said Murray, Said reports and audits were false and misleading, and were calculated to be such, and failed to make comment upon said unau- thorized charges to appropriations; and failed to make comment upon charges made where no appropria- tions existed; and failed to make any comment in regard to the unlawful methods used by the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly, Borgnaes and Dunn in withholding items from the warrants payable register sheets until after the meetings of said board of finance and later entering said payments upon said warrants payable sheets in order to give the appearance of the approval of said items by the said board of finance; and the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly. and Dunn con- tinued to make payments to- the said Borgnaes, Kingsley, Meany and Mur- ray and other accountants in excess of the amounts appropriated for ac- counting services, in violation of the charter of the City of Waterbury; and the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly, Kingsley, Meany, Murray, Borgnaes and Dunn and others. by the means aforesaid. did prevent the unlawful expenditures of said city and its true financial condition from becoming known to the residents and taxpay- CTS of said city, all for the purpose of concealmg the unlawful and fraudulent methods and transactions of the said Hayes. Leary, Kelly and Dunn and for the purpose of con- cealing the formation and existence of said conspiracy. f~s
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For Advice

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy. to wit, between the 1kth day of July, 1880, and the l7th day June, 1887, the said John s. John- stop. then resident of New York city and then in the employ of a corporation owned or controlled by the said Leary. did receive from the city of Waterbury a total of $751; 747.O6 in return for certain financial advice claimed to have been given by him to said city ofiicials and in return for certain lobbying services claimed to have been rendered by him in behalf of said city during the legislative session of 1881, which services were never rendered by him in that amount. Said payments were made to the said Johnston by means of checks issued from time to time in form and manner as aforesaid and unnumbered when issued. pay able at the Citizens and Manufactur- CTS National bank of Waterbury and not drawn in regular course by the city clerk. signed by said Leary and aii exchanged for currency in the banking rooms of the said Waterbury Trust Co. by the said Olsen. None
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Alias Dan Peters

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, between the 1st day of January, 1882, and the Sd day of January, 1888, the said Do- nato Pietraroria, alias Dan Peters, of Bristol, Connecticut, did re- ceive from the said City of Water bury sums of money in excess of $75y000 in return for purported truck hire never furnished by him by means of checks issued from time to time in form and manner as aforesaid, and unnumbered when issued. and not issued in regular course by the city clerk
 Said cheeks were payable to the order of Donate Pietraroria. Eagle street, Waterbury, Connecti- cut, which was not his home or business address, and were pay- able at the Citizens & Manufac- turers National Bank of said Wa terbury. issued and signed by the said Leary in form and manner as aforesaid, and issued upon the order of the said Hayes, Leary, Borgnaes. Kelly and Dunn. and exchanged for currency. by the said olsen in the banking rooms of the said Waterbury Trust conn pany. Said payments were made for puYported truck hire. although the said Donate Pietaroria never owned or possessed .. truck and never did any trucking business for said city. and said payments were never approved by the Board of Finance of said city as re- uuired by its charter; and upon
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Corporation Counsel

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, between the lst day of January, 1880, and the Sd day of January, 1888, the said Charles s. O'Connor, corporation counsel of said City of Waterbury, an appointee of said Hayes, and whose salary is fixed by law, did receive from said City of Water bury in addition to his said salary sums in excess of $20,000 by means of checks issued from time to time in form and manner as afore- said, and unnumbered when issued, and not issued in regular course by the city clerk, signed by sad Daniel J. Leary. payable at the Citizens & Manufacturers National bank of said Waterbury,, and ex- change for currency in the bank ing rooms of said Waterbury Trust Co., by said Olsen. None of said payments was ever approved by the board of finance of said city as required by its charter. and, upon order of the said Hayes, Leary, Borgnaes, Kelly and Dunn, said payments were withheld from said warrants payable register sheets until after the said sheets had been signed by the members of said board, thereby giving the appear ance of the approval of said pay ments on the part of the said board of finance. and thereby concealing said payments from said board of finance and from the citizens and taxpayers of the City of Waterbury: and all for the purpose of conceal ing the unlawful and fraudulent methods and transactions of saic Hayes, Leary. Kelly and Dunn and for the purpose of concealing the formation and existence of said conspiracy. And further. the said Charles O'Connor did rlrport to relinquish to the said T. Frank Hayes upon his. the said Hayes request, authority to employ a large and unlimited number of lawyers at the expense of the City of Wa terbury in violation of the specific duty imposed upon the said o'Con- nor by said charter to himself em- ploy. with the consent of the mayor.
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Thomas Fleming

And In further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, between the first day of January. 1881 and the third day of January, 1888. said Thomas J. Fleming, then and there being the superintendent of public works of said City of Waterbury, an ap- pointee of said Hayes, did rent trucks and equipment and did make purchases in behalf of the City of Waterbury in excess of the require ments of said City of Waterbury, and did further authorize payments for trucks and equipment to owners and vendors of equipment of large amounts of money belonging to the City of Waterbury without making inquiry as to the amount of work performed or services rendered or the value of equipment purchased; and did further approve vouchers and bills prepared in the office of the said Daniel J. Leary without examination of said vouchers and bills to determine the correctness of the amount stated therein; and further upon the order of the said Hayes, Leary and Kelly did place employees upon the payroll of said city without inquiry as to the fit- ness of such employees or the ne- cessity of their employment; and further. between the fifth day. of October, 1887, and the date of this information, the said Fleming, for the purpose of concealing said un- lawful and fraudulent transactions and the unlawful and fraudulent transactions of himself and the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly and Dunn, did order the destruction by the burn ing of all records, books, duplicate vouchers, daily time sheets and payroll sheets of the said city of Waterbury then in his custody at the city yards; and pursuant to said instructions, on or about the 20th day of January, 1888, said books, vouchers, daily time sheets and payroll sheets were destroyed by burning, thereby concealing the unlawful and fraudulent payments made as aforesaid to truck and equipment owners and thereby con- cealing the unlawful and fraudulent payments made to employees placed upon the payroll of said city at the direction of said Hayes and Leary as aforesaid, and thereby conceal ing, the unlawful expenditures Of said department of public works from said board of finance ana from the citizens and taxpayers of said city.
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Checks Exchanged

And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, the said Hayes, Leary. Kelly, Olsen, Borgnaes and Dunn did devise, arrange. consent to and authorize the exchange for cur- rency of checks issued by said city for payments made as aforesaid to creditors and purported creditors Of said city by said Olsen in the bank ing rooms of said Waterbury Trust Co.,, of which the said Olsen was then and there an officer, thereby concealing the payments by said City of Waterbury to said creditors and purported creditors of said city, and to further conceal said payments, said Olsen did issue treasurer's checks of said< Water bury Trust Co.,. in exchange for said currency and did thereupon ex- change said treasurer's cheeks for city checks and thereby did cheat and defraud the city of Waterbury of large sums of money in excess of one million dollars.
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not recorded on said warrants pay able register sheets for the approval of said Board of Finance as required
 by said charter until after the meri- bers thereof had signed said sheets,
 thereby giving to said bills and pay- ments the appearance of approval by said Board. All of said vouchers and warrants payable register sheets were thereafter removed, burned or otherwise destroyed upon the order and with the connivance of said Hayes, Leary, Kelly, ,HorgnaeS, Al Hermann and Dunn between October 5, 1897 and January 3, 1898 for the purpose of concealing said unlawful and fraudulent transactions and for the purpose of concealing the forrn- ation and existence of said conspir- acy. ,t.., ~,s <