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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
Conspiracy Trial Will Be Resumed Tuesday
No Delay Expected Over Illness of Special Prosecutor Mitchell-Two Very Important Rulings Are
 to Be Given By Judge Inglis

No delay to the Waterbury con- spiracy trial is expected to result from the disqualification of Assistant Special Prosecutor Harold E.. Mitchell, who underwent an emer- gency appendectomy at Hartford hospital Friday evening. The hos pital reported him today as resting comfortably.
 Tomorrow's session of the trial, the 51st, the beginning of the 18th week, will center about rulings to be made by Judge Ernest A. Inglis on the admissibility of two exhibits offered in evidence by Special Pros ecutor Hugh M. Alcorn.
 Fruin Inventory Firm
 The first ruling will be on the admissibility of the inventory Of the estate of the late Francis J.. Fruin, organizer of the Connecti- cut Supply Company, which Alcorn contends was a dummy" concern, whose purpose was to defraud the city of Waterbury.
 The other ruling will concern tax lists for 1931-1937, which Alcorn intimates will show that the amount of equipment listed by Frank J. Burns" Santalucia does not justify the large payments made to his con- cern for rental of equipment and services rendered. Although he was charged by Defense Attorney James n ~ NH,,rrax, xx,ifJ, y,aokiyoO yr1iclpad- ing and deceptive statements, Spe- cial Prosecutor Alcorn alleged that the tax lists will show 8 tie-up be- tween Santalucia and Mayor Frank Hayes.
 Birthday of Guard
 John Sponzo, guard of the exhibits for the state at the court house, celebrated his birthday at the scene of the conspiracy trial today. The only other development was visit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
TEN PERSONS ARE
 KILLED IN CRASH
$5OO,OO0 Boeing Trans port Plane Goes Down in
 Frightful Disaster

Seattle, Wash, March 20 (U. P.) - The civil aeronauticS author ity directed an investigation today into the mid-air demolition of a $5O0,000 Boeing sub-stratophere transport whcih killed 10 persons.
 Frank Caldwell, chief of the au- thority's Investigating board, took several instruments from the planes twisted control cabin but said no clue had been found pointing to a cause. The prevailing belief was that the plane lost a wing while in a power dive Saturday afternoon for the benefit of Netherlands air mis- sion, two of whose members were aboard.
 Eyewitnesses said that once dis abled, whether from the sheering of the wing or some other structural disability, the air liner plunged like a dead weight, scattering parts over a wide area. Those aboard were crushed when the cabin demolished itself on the slopes of Mt. Rainier near the town of Adler.
 The left wing was found 150 feet from the main body. The outer port side motor, one of four powering the craft, was wrenched loose 1,500 feet in the air. The left tail section was 50 yards from the fuselage.
 R. J. Minshall, vice president and general manager of Boeing, said he was convinced neither the plane nor the crew was responsible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
COURT HOUSE TO
 LOSE ADDITION
$l5O,OOO Proposal to Get DisapprOval of County
 Law Makers

The proposed $150,000 addition to the county court house in this city will be turned down by New Haven county legislators at d meeting at the State Capitol in Hartford to- morrow afternoon, it appeared vir- tually certain today. Strong oppo- sition to the proposal has been de- veloped. A committee of three leg islators, which has been investiga- tion the situation, was scheduled to meet in New Haven this afternoon to draw up a report, which will be submitted to the county meeting to- morrow.
 Not only is sentiment against the enlargement of the county building strong, but an effort will also be made at the meeting tomorrow to have the compensation commission CT busted from his present quarters in the building and also have the deputy sheriffs give up their room. The space thus vacated would be used for lawyers room and con- ference room.
 Only A Rest Room
 The Democrat learned today that opponents of the plan for adding a new wing to the court house will concede only the installation of a new rest room for women jurors, and turn down the rest of the pro- posal.
 The court house enlargement pro- posal was made by the Waterbury Bar association, which contended that present space and facilities in the building are totally inadequate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
BY NORMAN B. DEUEL United Press Staff Correspondent


 Moscow, March 20-(UP)-Soviet Russia joined Britain, France, and the United States today in refusing to recognize Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia.
 The Soviet governments reply to German notes bearing the informa- ton that the Czech people had been taken under the protection of the Reich, characterized the action as arbitrary, violent, and aggressive" :"
 Far from eliminating any danger to universal peace" the Soviet said, the German actions have on the contrary created and enhanced this danger, violated political stability in Central Europe, increased elements of alarm already previously created in Central Europe, and dealt a fresh blow to the feeling of security of peoples"
 Handed German Ambassador
 Maxim Litvinov, Commissar of Foreign affairs, read the letter to German Ambassador Friedrich Wer- ner Won Schulenburg before hand- ing it to him for transmission to his government.
 The eight-point protest took issue with the German Justification of thesseizure and to the German claim that the Czechc state had been .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
ASSESSMENTS ON
 SEWERS TUESDAY
Hot Debate Is Expected to Come Up in Senate
 Chamber

Prolonged debate over the Wa terbury sewer assessment bill will be heard in the state senate at Hart ford tomorrow as the upper house of the state legislature akes up the question of reconsideration of the measure, which it passed unanimously last Thursday. The vote on re- consideration is expected ito split party lines, as did the balloting Thursday on motions to table the bill and have it referred back to committee for further stludy.
 Leading the fight for the bill will be Senator George T. Culhane, its author. He is exected to have the support of at least several Dem ocrats and number of Reppubl- cans, and will battle against any reconsideration of Thursdays favor able vote.
 Facts, Figures
 The opposition will be armed with facts and figures to support their contention that passage of the bill will create a financial einbergency in waterbury, will bring local sewer construction to a halt and force the laying off of some hundreds of WPA workers, the estimates ranging from 500 to HOO.
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Someone On South
 Elm Stret Wins

Today may be blue Monday for great many people, but for a certain party it's anything but; in fact all they're doing is singing Pennies From Heav- en-.
 Someone at 154 South Elm street, where the Bedell, Hen- messy and McNally families live, is the lone Brass Cityite with 8 lucky ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes. The ticket is marked with the serial number ZQ 85838, and the name on the ticket is Bamboo Fish Rod."
 However, neither the Bedells, Hennessys or McNally families know anyone in their d0miciles who purchased sweepstakes tickets. The horse drawn is Bachelor Prince," a runner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
SEVEN DEATHS IN
 CONN. BY VIOLENCE
Toll for Week-End Is ln- creased; Auto Crashes
 Cause Three to Die
(By United Press)

Seven persons died violently in Connecticut over the weekend. Three were killed by automobiles, a man and his wife were suffocated in a fire, a salesman killed himself and another man succumbed after drinking a disinfectant.
 Theodore Reisch, 13, Bridgeport, was injured fatally near his home by a taxicab.
 John Pich, 35, East Brunswick, N. J., truck driver, died of injuries suffered when his own truck ran over him at Greenwich. The man was under the vehicle repairing the brakes when it started forward, crushing him.
 Silvio s. Perci, 40, New London, was killed when his car collided with a truck at Waterford.
 MT. and Mrs. James Eco, Nor wich, were suffocated when fire swept their home.
 William N. Welch, Al, East Hart ford. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while seated in his car.
 John Strasinski, 50, Seymour WPA worker. died after drinking @ disin- fectant by mistake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
Old Emnities Forgotten as Soviet, British Seek for
 Power Combine BRITAIN WILL GIVE
 AID TO RUMANIA
British Leaders May Call Conference of Countries
 in Whole Empire
BY FREDERICK KUH

United Press staff Correspondent)
 London, March 20-OUP) Great Britain and Soviet Russia forgot two decades of mutual suspicion today to rally Europe against Adolf Hitler. Great Britain offered commercial aid to Rumania to withstand the threat of Nazi domination. Soviet Rus Sia was reported reliably to have proposed nine power con- ference of European nations to consolidate the Stop Hitler" cam paign. Bolstered by the stern atti- tude of the United States toward Nazi expansion by armed force. the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took the lead in negotiations for united front with Soviet Russia, France. Po- land. Rumania and the Balkan States.
 "A serious view is taken by the government of events of the last week." Chamberlain solemnly told the House of Commons as decision to send a commercial mission to Rumania was announced.
 "The situation created by those events is engaging the earnest at tention of the government. which also is in communication with other governments"
 Mission to Rumania
 The special mission to Rumania was considered an effort to offseb
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BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondel


 Paris, March 20-(UP)-Premiel Edouard Daladier and his cabinet ruled France with dictatorial pow CTS today and worked feverishly tc have the country on war footing by April 1 to meet the natural aspira- tions" of Italy and the expansion ism of the Rome-Berlin axis.
 A few hours after the senate com pleted parliament's grant of dictate rial powers to the Daladier govern ment, the cabinet met last night and in an atmosphere of stern secrecy formulatd the first series of the ministerial decrees which will be the supreme law of this republic until the grant of power expires next De- cember.
 They will be approved at a meet ing of the council of ministers-the cabinet plus President Albert Le- Brun-today Cat noon EST) and will have to force of law imme- diately. While no authoritative in- formation of these decrees was pos sible-the value of secrecy in coun- try preparing for an eventuality was one of the chief reasons why parlia- ment gave the government supreme authority - it was believed they would call thousands of reserve of ficers and specialists to the colors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
5000 DRIVERS OF
 TRUCKS ARE OUT
Rhode Island Begins to Feel Its Effect-COn1.
 Is Not Yet Affected

Providence, R. T., March 20-(UP) Rhode Island began to feel the full force of a strike of 5000 truck driv- CTS today as shipments of general merchandise and fuel oil were halted.
 Moving swiftly in the wake of a 2000-24 strike vote by American Federation of Labor drivers, State Labor Director Harvey Saul called representatives of the strikers to the state house for conference at 10 a. m. Later he will meet with repre- sentatives of the employers.
 Tickets were dispatched to strate- gic points along main highways, but employers said no attempt would be made to move trucks. State and local police reserves were mobilized, however.
 Department store, bread, perish able food, beer and concrete mixer trucks were exempted from the strike since the owners already are under contracts.
 Mlli May DC CIOSeu
 Should the strike tinue throughout the week, it was feared that many mills and industrial firms wuold be forced to close because of scarcity of raw materials. The strike began yesterday after drivers ratified the order issued by Business Agent Joseph Prior of To- cal 251 of the International Brother hood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Sta blemen and Helpers of America.
 President Percy F. Arnold of the Commercial Haulers of Rhode Island comprising 50 firms employing 1900 men. said that the employers will fight the strike.
 "That is the only course we can follow" Arnold said. "The truck owners cannot grant any conces- sions without forcing most of the operators, who have been losing money, out of business
 The employers established strike
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
Session Lasted Into Early Hours of Morning-No
 Secrets Disclosed
SITUATION IS VERY
 TENSE IN BERLIN
German Ruler May Issue Statement Denying He
 Broke His Word
BY JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. limited Press Staff COrreSnOndent|

BY JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent
 Berlin, March 20-UP)- Adolf Hitler consulted with his cabinet and the heads of Nazi fighting services to- day on how to meet the open hostility of western democ- racies and Soviet Russia against German expansion in central Europe.
 Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the armed forces of Germany; Admiral Erich Raeder, commander in chief of the Navy: and Field, Marshal Hermann Goeriag, commander in chief oi the air force, attended the session which began late last night and lasted far into the morning.
 All of those present at the session were members of the cabinet with the exception of Keitel and Raeder. Goering is air minister and No. Nazi as well as commander of the great German aerial forces.
 Hitler had started his consulta- tions on the next move in a tense international situation as soon aS he returned from his tour of the new German protectorate of Bohe- mia and Moravia to receive the cheers of perhaps million persons in the streets of Berlin.
 He talked first to Goering, after which the cabinet members were hurriedly summoned to the huge, ornate cabinet room in the new chancellery. One result of the ses- sion, it was understood, was aban- donment of the Reichstag session which had been tentatively set for Tuesday. The date was delayed in- definitely, it was said, pending de- velopments at London and Paris.
 Declaration Coming
 The Nazi government was under stood to be preparing a declaration in regard to German intentions to- ward Poland and Rumania.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
MORE SUICIDES
 IN SEIZED LANDS
Nazis Push Their Drive in Bohemia, Moravia; Death
 Notices Stopped
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE. JR. UJnifed Press Staff COrreSnOndentl

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Prague, March 20.-CUP)-NaZis pushed their Aryanization drive in Bohemia and Moravia today, and suicides continued.
 Five days after its seizure, Prague seemed to foreign correspondents, to whom reports tricked through of emergency cabinet meetings and growing tension elsewhere, the quietest spot in Europe.
 Newspapers contained no death notices, either in paid or unpaid announcements. But it was learned that prominent Jewish physician, after being called in to attend 40 cases of suicide or attempted sui eide, was unable to endure the strain longer and put revolver to his head. He was in critical condi- tion in a sanitarium.
 Three hundred Jews who had the papers necessary to enter England were hiding out in cellars and nearby woods, fearing last minute arrest.
 Concentration Camp
 A Nazi concentration camp was opened at Kanovice, IS miles from Prague. Reported arrests included pr. Klepetak, managing editor of the Prager Tagblatt and Professor Kazak of Prague university. Kayak was a close friend of former Presi- dent Eduard Benes.
 It was learned that Jewish shops had been smashed in Bruenn and that Jews had been molested on the streets. Three hundred Jewish doc tors, it was reported, were given three days to terminate their prac- tice. regardless of the nature oi their cases. Anti-Semites burned (f.nntintInd nr Dare Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Mar. 20 (UP)-Gov ernment expenses and receipts foi the current fiscal year through Mar 17th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Yeas $6,464,4S7,971.15 $5,272,799,9442. s4,1s9,44s,65s.1s 4,42s,7so,s51.s
 Gross Deficit $2.s25.OSs.s11.96 .96 sS4e,o6s,o42.4'
 Net Deficit
 $2,2s2,s27s61,96 791,222, ,599 4'
 Cash Balance $S,SSs.s64,177.34 s3,1O9, 9,S45.774.S:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
OLD VETERAN DIES

New Haven, Conn, March 20 = Funeral services will be held Tues day for Sigmaund Bauer, 92. Civil War veteran, who died Saturday night after a long illness. He was a native of Germany ant enlisted with Union forces at the age of IT.
 His widow and two daughters survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20

cations were that there WOulQ -pe little dispute over his confirmation.
 Douglas was nominated as from Connecticut, where he formerly taught law at Yale, but because of his background and political beliefs it was believed he would be accept able to most of the western senators who have been clamoring for a representative on the court.
 One Wesetrn Justice
 iS presently constituted, the court haG only one justice considered a westerner-Associate Justice. Pierce Butler whose home is in Minnesota. At 40, Douglas is one of the young est men ever nominated for the su- pr0me court.
 The nomination, completing the nine-man personnel of the high court, was President Roosevelt's fouSth appointment to the supreme bench. But it will not affect the close liberal-conservative alignment di- rectly since Douglas will succeed Brandeis, considered one of the fore most liberals ever to sit on the court.
 The nomination gives President Roosevelt a solid phalanx of four justices sympathetic to the objec- tives of the New Deal. These four are his nominees-Hugo L. Black. Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter and Douglas.
 Side with Liberals
 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts often have sided with the liberal group, leaving only justices Butler and James c. McReynolds as the remnants of the once dominant conservative majority.
 Although Douglas family roots are deep in the west, the major achieve ments that led to his nomination were accomplished in the east.
 President Robert Maynard Hutch ins of the University of Chicago once called him the best law profess sor in the country. Operators in the nations stock markets know him as an unrelenting advocate of scrup- ulous honesty in securities transac- tions who policed the exchanges with an eagle eye during his tenure as member and chairman of the securities and exchange commission.
 Only last week Dougles reaff1rmed with characteristic bluntness, his de- mands for rigid policing of the Secu- rites exchanges when he announced opposition to exchange proposals for notifications of trading restrictions.
 T don't want the boys on the street to have another party" he said.
 Pretty Conservative
 He describes himself, however, as "a pretty conservative sort of fellow from the old school--perhaps 8 school too old to be remembered"
 Douglas major achievements as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
Connecticut Man Is Successor Of Justice Brandeis
Born in Minnesota, But Educated in East-Is Now Chairman of Securities and Exchange COnl-
 missiOn-Called RefOrmer

Washington March 20-(UP)-President Roosevelt today nominated to the Supreme Court Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission, archNew Dealer and refomer of the nations securities markets Douglas 4o who born in Minnesota raised in Washington state and educated in the east named to succeed Louis Dembitz Brandeis who resigned The nomination was sent to the Senate, where immediate ndi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-20
RUMANIA, NAH
 TRADE AGREEMENT
May Be Signed Today But Rumania Is Ready for
 War If It Comes
BY FERDINAND C. M. HAHN United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

Bucharest, Rumania, March 20.-- (UP).-Rumania and Germany were expected today to sign a trade agreement which, according tC usually well informed quarters. reg ulates the provisions of 8 previous agreement signed in November and provides for further trade turn over of as much as 25 per cent above that envisaged in the November ~act,
 It was firmly denied that Germany had presented Rumania with an ul- timatum-like series of proposals" or that the agreement in respect was a new one.
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Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
Conference for Relief
Planned for MisSOuIa

MISSOULA.-Tentative plans for
an unemployment and relief confer
ence for Missoula county were laid
out at a meeting of the Missoula
Workers Alliance Saturday, March
18th. The conference is designed to
bring before the general public the
actual conditions existing among the
unemployed and their needs for jobs
and relief. All types of organiza-
tions are to be asked to participate
in the conference.
It is hoped that a wide and repre-
sentative group of sponsors will be
able to send out the conference call
within a short time. Among the
topics expected to be discussed at
the conference are relief needs,
housing conditions and the possibili-
ties of low-rental housing, the avail
ability of jobs and the Importance of
WPA and PWA employment, and
many other subjects pertinent to un-
employment and relief needs.
The committee which was elected
to formulate plans for initiating the
conference consisted of Thomas
Grindley, Rose Palmer, Guy RAIDER,
A. G.. Stretch, Roy Surbrook, A. R.
Nurse, Leona Hunter and Dan
Hunter.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
LiberaIize Federal
Pension AIIoimenis

Many elderly people, both men
and women, are looking forward to
the day when there will be adequate
old age pensions in the United
States. There is a movement on
foot, supported by Senator Murray
and other liberals in the United
States Congress, to revise the present
Welfare Act so that pensions will be
boosted to $40, $50 or even $50
month instead of the meagre $40 or
$50 which people over 65 are now
receiving. The general welfare act
is new; it is new in American social
life and at the time of its passage
the figure was placed too low. Under
the system as now practiced, the
federal government matches state
funds in providing for old age as
sistance. The act was a great step
forward but the whole country
recognizes its inadequacy. This ses-
sion of Congress should increase the
amounts to be given to persons and
should reduce the age limits from
IS to 55.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
Workers Alliance Asks
Public 10 Attend Dance
Al Carpenters Hall

Members and friends are invited
to attend a social dance to be given
by the Workers Alliance in Carpen-
ters hall Wednesday, March 20,
music by Palmer's orchestra.
At the last meeting, a report by
a miners Union delegate" indicated
there was slight hope of getting "old
age pensions" fully restored without
a special session of the legislature
as not sufficient funds were appro-
priated by the last Legislature for
that purpose.
Members are requested to attend
the coming meetings, and WPA
workers are urged to join the Work
ers Alliance, to find ways and means
to stop the three million contem-
plated layoff next month-it may be
your job next Meetings at Carpen-
ters hall each Monday, 8 p. m.