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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Expenses for May Amount to S6,27S.99; Guards,
 Aides Recompensed
GREER, SPONZA PAID
 FOR WORK SINCE NOV.

The state today paid off special guards and aides of Special Prose- cutor Hugh M. Alcorn in the Water bury conspiracy trial, as well as the bill of the Hotel Elton for the month of May, and brought the total expenses to date for the trial and grand jury probe to $lll.391 AS, according to superior court figures.
 Valet and news service to Special Prosecutor Alcorn end rooms and meals for his staff aic included in The Elton's bill of $880.34 for May 1-3l.
 Six items are included in the com- plete bill of $6,278.99 which was ap- proved by Judge Ernest A. Inglis today. Principal items are payments to Special Investigator George L. Greer of Suffleld and Special Guard John Sponzo of Hartford, for serv- ices to Alcorn since November, 1888.
 Greer, who is conceded as pos sible successor to former County Detective Edward J. Hickey, now superintendent of state police, re- ceived $2,180.40 for services and travel, while Sponzo, former Hart ford policeman, receives $2,55075 for travel and services.
 Greer worked 146 days since No- vember 25, 1888, at the rate of $lo day and travelled more than 14,- GOO miles. He will be remunerated for mileage at the rate of five cents a mile, total of $720.40, which fig- ure also includes allowance for meals and incidentals.
 Sponzo, who has been on guard duty at the courthouse since Mo- vember 29, when the trial started, worked 179 days, at the rate of $l0 daily. Tn addition to the allowance for time. he will be paid $626.50 for use of automobile in travelling from Hartford to Waterbury and re- turn almost daily. and $l34.25 for meals, a total of S762.75. He travelled about 12,000 miles.
 Lewis Cannon, another guard, worked 30 days at the rate of $7 a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
LAPS CLOSE IN
 ON NAVAL BASE
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Tientsin, China, July l5-(UP)- Japanese navy authorities, closing in steadily on Great Britan's naval base at Hong Kong, announced to- day that they intended to blockade several ports on the Kwangtung Province coast.
 Notifying foreign consulates at Shanghai that they intended to in- clude the ports in the zone of the hostilities against China, the Jap anese asked that foreign citizens and ships be evacuated from the ports and said that they could not be responsible for their safety after tomorrow.
 Three days ago the Japanese an- nounced that they intended to blockade Changchow, Tungshan and Chaoan. on the coast of Fukien Province, which is immediately above Kwangtung. Hong Kong, however is midway along the Kwangtung coast, and thus, presumably, ports both south and north of 1t will be blockaded.
 Even before todays notification Hong Kong had felt the beginning of food shortage because so many Chinese ports had been blockaded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Rescue Squad Sends Out Sorrowful Report; 3 Rescued Early oday
MINNEAPOLIS WPA IS UPSET
Mayor Leach Asserts Washington Must Now
 "Clean Up Mess"
By w. E. DICKINSON United Press StaR Correspondent

Minneapolis, Minn., July 15-(UP) Mayor George Leach announced today that in order to avert civil war" the city no longer would be responsible for the operation of WPA projects. He said the turbulent WPA strike situation, in which one man was killed and 20 injured in street rioting last night, was the problem of the federal government.
 q contend ana submit to you." he said in 8 radio address That whether 1t is now or later, the fed eral government must clean up the mess 1t has brought about"
 No Martial Law
 He said he would not ask Gover- nor Harold E. Stassen to declare martial law because of the expense.
 The government answered prompt- ly, through Linus c. Glotzbach, state WPA administrator. He said Min neapolis projects, which have been instituted and operated at the re- quest of the city," would, with few exceptions not reopen on Monday.
 Focal point of last nights battle between police and Strikers was a WPA sewing project, scene of two other riots this week, where women have continued working despite the WPA strike against the new 130- ! hour work rule. Policeman John 1 Gearty, 40, died of a heart ailment and two policemen and non -strik- CT were injured in a riot at the project Monday. Seven persons were injured in one yesterday aft ernoon.
 Violence flared for a third time last night while 55 patrolmen es- corted 119 non-striking women, completing a shift at the project, through a crowd of approximately 4,000, the majority, strikers, but in- cluding many spectators.
 Fought along two blocks, the bat tie pitted the bricks, sticks, and slingsbot missiles of the strikers against the tear gas, night sticks, riot guns and revoivers of the po- licemen. Police officials charged that at least two strikers carried rifles.
 The strikers howled and jeered when the women marched out be- tween the policemen. Suddenly they surged forward, rushed past armored police cars, and broke through the police lines. Bricks
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
AUDITORS TO
 BE HEARD AGAIN
Character Witnesses for Kingsley, Meany Also
 Due Next Week
By JOSEPH P. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)

Expert accountants and charac- ter witnesses will take the stand in the conspiracy trial next week, in the defense of George H. Kingsley and John w. Meany, of New Jersey. two of the 20 men charged with con- spring to defraud the city of more than a million dollars.
 The defense of the two men is ex- pected to conclude within the coming week, and the defense of another of the accused men will be taken up. William R. Murray of Teaneck N. J., formerly one of the accused, will conclude his testimony which start- ed yesterday, on Tuesday.
 Meany. like Kingsley, engaged Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn in hot and heavy battle of retorts yesterday, in denial of any knowl- edge that conspiracy existed for the purpose of defrauding the city. For three-quarters of an hour the battle see-sawed back and forth, speeded by such remarks from Meany as ."Is that @ wise-crack, MT. Alcorn?"
 Defending the work of the Kings ley Go. in Waterbury, Meany said that there never was any intent to have the audits false and misleading. He spoke ruefully of the day he had offered his services and paid his own expenses as a witness before the grand jury.
 When former County Detective Edward J. Hickey came to the Kingsley office in New York, Lin- coln's birthday, 1888, he was in quest of the auditors who had worked on the Waterbury books as witnesses.
 Meany said that he suggested to Hickey, who had not requested his presence, T know g little about the books, if you want me to come will do so gladly" Hickey told him that he'd be glad to have him, Meany continued.
 Subsequently, when he was before the grand jury, Meany said, he was asked by Alcorn to call Murray at New York and inquire about Enoch Borgnaes, the missing defendant. Hickey asked him to tell Murray that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Rescuers Labor to Reach Remaining 8 of 30 Men
 in Mine
HAPPENED lSI FEET
 BELOW EARTH SURFACE
Trapped Men Were Work ing 1000 Feet Away
 From Explosion

Providence, Ky, July 15.-- (UP) - Rescue squads found 19 miners dead today in the gas-laden galleries of the Ruchman coal mine where 30 men were entombed by a dust explosion, F. V. Ruch- man, one of the owners an- nounced. Three men were rescued early today and squads labored to reach the other eight to determine whether they were dead or alive.
 Thirty men were trapped by dust explosion last night which closed the tunnel l8l feet below the surface with wall of stone and dirt. Six other men working in the tunnel escaped to the surface.
 William Reynolds, who had been working near the shaft far removed from the explosion, also came up unassisted.
 Two of those rescued, Ernest Johnson and Douglas Gates, had been caught beneath the fallen deb- ris and were injured. The other Roscoe Higdon, was not hurt.
 The blast occurred about two miles from the bottom of the shaft. The 27 still missing had been work ing about 1000 feet beyond the point of the explosion.
 They reported their plight to sur l face crews on the mine telephone. Then the telephone went out.
 Rescue crews feared that the blast may have loosened slate falls cutting the entombed men off from the telephone or that gas had driven them into an incommunic- able chamber deep in the mines many labyrinths.
 State Mine Inspector John Dan- iels rushed here from Lexington to direct the rescue crews, gathered from miners here and at Earling- ton, Sebree, Madisonville and St. Charles.
 Charles o. Herbert, supervising engineer of the IN. s. Bureau of Mines at Vincennes, Ind, 100 miles north, dispatched truckload of mine rescue equipment.
 The single road leading from Providence to the mine, one mile
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
2 PERSONSsHURT
 IN DOVER, N. H., FIRE

Dover. N. H.. July i5.-tUP)-- Seven persons were injured and 90 others made homeless today when fire. famed by q strong northwest wind, spread from the E. J. York Coal and Lumber company. yard and destroyed six nearby wooden tene- ment houses. Damage was estimat- cd unofiicialiy at s2b0,000.
 Starting in the coal yard garage. the flames destroyed . shed where 5000 tons Of coal were stored. Fly. ing sparks lgnited roofs Of dozen houses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
TWO MEN HELD

Hartford. Conn. July ib---(UP)... Raymond E. Leveille. 23. and Ar. tonio sanzo. 2i, were booked tod , at police headquarters on charges Q. being fugitives from justice at Df; ter. Me. Maine officers were expecicc here to pick up the two Hartfo-c men, accused of breaking and sn- tering and theft Of stamps nt thf Dexter post once June 27.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Ex-Oklahoma Convict Believed
 To Be Youth Kidnaper

Egn Ill. July 1s-(UP-A identified Jack Russell Oklahoma who sought the slayer of William youth Kenosha Wis, last night and relea today
 He youths headng for Chicago to meet pals"
 Eghom, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oka into police headquarters and told his story
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15

Boston, July ib- tup)--ueTard Blair, 24, died at City hospital early today after swallowing carbolic asid and collapsing in . Roxbury street. His wife Hazel died lest August 22 as resuIl Of an accidental bullet wound suffered at . shooting gale lery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Musica-T Tie-Up Seen In
 Trustees Report
$70O,O Paid Former Local Firm According to State. filent-Suits Against Directors, Including Rowley
 Phillips, May Be Outcome of Continued Probe

The mysterious link between the late F Donald Coster- Philip Msica head of the McKesson & Robbins Company
 and the late William T. Truxtun of Waterbury, president of an industrial alcohol firm, into meligh again today as report filed in the U District Court at New York disclosed that payments of to the Trxton Company among the $28e9 4S295 definitely lost by virtue of the crude drug fraud". William J. Wardall,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Picard Goes 2-Up On Nelson
 At End Of First g. Holes

Country (UP)-Henry Picard Nelson the end of nine holes of their 6hoe 1889 P. G. A. golf championship today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-15
Trial, Jury Probe Expense Account Totals $111,OOO
Labor Revolts Against
 Government, Says Mayor

Minneapolis 5-P)-Mayor George Leach tegraphed at- Murphy Certain labor elements have openly evoIed against its wPA admnra ton" at Minneapolis
 Nothng short federal order he asserted.
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-11
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
'cThe Authority Authorities"
''The Authority on Authorities"

declarer played the hand right
After the heart K won, the spade A
disclosed East's trump holding. The
heart K was then cashed, club A
taken in, Diamond A and K played,
furnishing heart discard, and the
club K furnishing another, then a
heart was ruffed by South, who
threw East in the lead with the
spade to the 6, only trick lost.
Perfect play was of no value to
one declarer, however, because an
inexperienced player led the dia-
mond @, theoretically worst lead in
his hand, judging from the bidding.
That, however, broke communica-
ton between the declarer's holdings,
so that he could never get heart
discard on the club K and had to
lose a heart and a trump, no matter
what he tried to do.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-11
WHOSE GUESS is IT?

THAT QUESTION IS one of the
stock jokes in some bridge circles,
when the bidding is ended and a
careless player is in doubt as to
whether it is his lead or his part
ners. Pretty logical rules govern
the choice of lead, based on the
bidding that has been done and the
cards that are held. But sometimes
the card that seems to be probably
the best possible lead turns out to
be the worst, and the one which
figures to be the worst lead turns
out to be the best.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-11

dealer: North. Both sides vul-
nerable.)
This deal was bid differently at
most tables of a duplicate game,
nearly all declarers somehow reach
ing contracts Of 7-Spades. The brief
est bidding was where North bid
diamond and South went at once
to seven. In all cases North bid his
diamonds.
At some tables, after a lead of the
heart @, the declarer managed to go
down two, losing two trump tricks
to East. At several the set was held
TO one after that lead because the
Copyright, 1889, King
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-11

Detective John Sweeney police force He's shown eft
Reatz H. William Hynes
whom he arrested after fight The lads are
With holdup Sweeney leading role in capturing an opium
gang New Yors commissioner OF police will boost him III
Get married Central Pyess1
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-11

dealer: South. East-West vul-
nerable.)
If your partner was an absolute
beginner; playing bridge for the
very first time, and you were taking
him against two very fair oppo-
nents, what would you bid on the
South cards of this deal?
Features Syndicate Inc
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Miss Alice M. READING
Dies in California

Miss Alice M. Reading, for nearly
a half century a Washington resi-
dent, died last week in her home at
Redding, Calf, according to word
received here. She was the daugh-
ter of Maj. Pierson B. Reading, who
served in the Mexican War and
played a conspicuous part in early
California history. Her mother was
Euphan Wallace Reading, a Wash
ington native and daughter Of
Baily Washington, q high Navy
medical officer. Her father founded
Reading, which later was changed
to Redding.
Miss Reading was well-known
artist and some of her portraits now
hang in California public buildings.
She was an active member of the
Colonial Danes and belonged to the
Protestant Episcopal Church. She
left Washington about IS years ago
to reside In California. Funeral
services and burial were held In
California,
Evening star., 1939-04-11

vacuum, instead of placing it in the
context of our whole industrial life.
In this intellectual vacuum, since
the law confers direct protection
upon employees alone, it is one-sided'
in the same sense that a Workmen's
compensation law is 'one-sided' be-
cause it pays compensation to en-
ployes alone. 1t is 'one sided in the
same way that the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. law is 'one-sided' in
that it provides big loans toabusiness
and not small loans to labofers.
But when we take the Labor
Relations Act out of this intellectual
vacuum, and place it in the living
context Of our whole social system,
the criticism that the act is one
sided or unfair is stripped of its
improper setting and shown in ITS
true light. For laws are not sterile
propositions of logic, but instru-
ments of human adjustment among
the various individuals and groups
in real world. The test of whether
a law is fair, is whether in con-
junction with the other laws and
facts of society, it establishes fair
relationship among the people and
groups with which it deals. BY this
test, the labor act is eminently fair
mo just regard for the facts can
possibly lead to the conclusion that
the National Labor Relations Act
creates an unfair relationship be-
tween the rights of the employer and
the rights of the worker. Certainly
the employer has the right to bar
gain collectively through the cor
poration and through Nationwide
associations. Certainly in dealing
with labor and in all other business
affairs he has the privilege of Sc
lecting his own spokesman by ma
jority rule. No working group has
ever challenged the employers right
to use the collective bargaining pro-
cedure in dealing with his employees,
his competitors and the general pub
lie. The simple truth of the matter
is that all of the industrial rights
which labor is accorded under the
dCC nave Deeu enjoyed Dy industry
for century or more"
C. 1. o. Blasts Green.
AS what promises to be a long
drawnout battle of claims, accusa-
tions and bitter statements got un-
der way, the c. I. O. this morning
directed a blast at William Green,
president of the A. F.. of L., for en-
tering into definite conspiracy"
with the National Association of
Manufacturers and the United
States Chamber of Commerce to
break down the act.
Opposing any changes in the law,
the G. I. o. charged that the cam
paign to amend the Wagner Labor
Relations Act reveals strange line
up between anti-union manufact-
urers and certain leaders of the
A. r. of L.
Examination of the N. A. M. pro-
posals and those announced by the
Chamber of Commerce shows that
they are in many respects startlingly
similar to the amendments advanced
by Senator Walsh and sponsored by
William Green and his associates"
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Harlan Coal Firm Told
To Rehire 116 Workers

The Good Coal Co. of Harlan
County, KY, was ordered today to
reinstate with back pay 116 en-
ployes who walked out September
6, 1887, as protest against being
ordered to work on Labor Day.
The Labor Board also ordered the
company to bargain collectively
with the United Mine Workers of
America on request, to stop discour-
aging membership in the U. M. w.
A. and to disestablsh as collective
bargaining agent the Company
dominated" Wallins Greek Employees
Association.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Neutrality
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bring to Washington representatives
of the 63 nations which signed the
Kellogg BRAND pact renouncing
war.
Representative Guyer said the ma
tons should be called to renew their
pledge because the world just can't
stand another World War"
There is no way of enforcing
the pact" Representative Bloom
remarked.
mo. there are no penalties" Mr..
Guyer said.
1T is just a promise" the acting
chairman added.
They should promise 1t again"
Representative Guyer replied.
He agreed that even if another
conference of signatory nations were
called. some countries still would
violate the pact. But, he said, the
parley would stimulate public opin-
ion. THE strongest public institu-
ton there is, stronger than your
Constitution. stronger than your
Army and Navy"
Representative Faddis. Democrat.
of Pennsylvania called for repeal
of the Neutrality Act to Give the
President as much flexibility as he
was intended to have under the
Constitution" in dealing with inter-
national conflicts.
The senior Republican member of
the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep
resentative Fish of New York, said
he felt that behind all the neutrality
laws was the desire of the admin
istration to determine the aggressor
nation.
mo legislation will keep us out
Of war;" he said, "but we can write
legislation that can have tendency
to keep us out of war;"
Another demand for complete re-
peal of the present neutrality law
came from Representative Mas,
Republican, of Minnesota, who con-
tended that by invoking the act the
United States would be departing
from a policy of actual neutrality"
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Man and Whale Held
Dominant Animals d,
By Researcher
Dr.. Grille Tells Of
Study Of AdrenoI
Puttern

Man and whale were linked as
dominant animals because of their
similar BRAIN -thyroid-adrenal pat
tern by DR.. George Grille, Cleveland
surgeon, at the public meeting of
the Gorgas Memorial Institute at
Red Cross headquarters yesterday
afternoon.
He and his associates have studied
the nervous patterns of more than
$500 animal species, DR.. Grille said,
and have evolved formula to ac-
count for their behavior. This is
the relation of brain weight to
thyroid and adrenal weight. The
adrenals tend to be heavy, he ex-
planned, in all animals which de-
pend on sudden spurts of energy for
their existence. This is the case
with the lion and tiger, who catch
their prey with brief but extreme
effort. 1t is also the case with the
animals who must escape from
them. The explanation is that the
adrenals secrete adrenalin, whose
effect is almost immediate.
Lion Exhausted Quickly.
On the other hand, he pointed
out, animals who lead a placid ex-
istence, working steadily, but not
called upon for extreme exertions,
tend to have larger thyroid glands.
These secrete thyroxin, which has
much the same effect as adrenalin
in causing the oxidation of the brain
nerve cells, but which acts over a
much longer period. The lion,
whose brain furnace is actuated by
heavy doses Of adrenalin, becomes
completely exhausted in few min
utes. The farm horse, with more
plentiful supply of thyroxin, works
hard all day. The race horse is
more of An adrenalin animal.
The pattern of both man and the
whale, DR.. Grille said, is clearly
that of animals who are complete
masters of their environment-the
one Of land and the other of the
sea. No other creatures ordinarily
constitute any threat to them They
seldom run into emergencies which
call for adrenalin secretion.
The brain, DR.. Grille said, is the
only source Of energy in the animal
body and hence the degree of
possible energy and power in any
species depends on the number of
brain cells. The countless billions
OF cells, he explained, act like tiny
furnaces. Unique among body cells,
these brain cells are made up of
vast numbers of tiny granules which
give them a larger surface area
for the oxidation-that is, burn
ing-of the end products of the
food taken into the body. The
energy of this burning is trans
formed into minute electric charges
which operate the body"
Energy for Different Purposes.
The brain-generated energy. DR..
Grille said, is used for different
purposes in different animals. At
least three-fourths of 1t is needed
for the mere vegetative processes
of living. Man uses q good deal
Of the remainder for intellectual
activity. The whale had taken a
different path and uses a lot of
it for maintaining a colossal body.
DR.. Herbert Clark, director of the
Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in
Panama, told Of the progress made
in studying various animals and
human diseases in the Canal Zone
area. One of these is a serious
malady of horses caused by micro
organism spread by vampire bats
who lick the blood of the domestic
animals.
Rear Admiral E. r. Stitt told
of the history and objectives of
the laboratory.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Senators to Delay
Philippine Bill Action

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Tydings said today the
Senate Territories Committee would
delay action on bill which would
continue preferential trade relations
with the Philippines for Is years
after political independence in 1916.
Senator Tydings made the state
ment as the committee met in
executive session to consider the
measure
1T will be impossible for us to
take a vote for seem time" the
chairman said. "We are meeting
today merely to consider the testi-
mony of witnesses and formulate a
plan for future executive sessions.