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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
KINCSLEYC co. NAMED BY PURCELL TODA Y
Checks Issued Without Numbers Marked After Being Returned From Bank -$S,0O0 Appro- priated for Annual Audit, Testi6es State Witness.

amounts paid in excess of appro- priation?
 A. Xes.
 e. m show you another group of papers-a group of l6 papers as I number them. VIII you look at them and tell the court and the jury what they aree
 A. They are duplicate city checks, all payable to G. H. Kingsley 6 co.
 e. During the yeare
 A. They are all dated 19S6.
 e. Are they . part of the pulp lie records of the city of Waterbury.
 A. Yes.
 IHere MT. Alcorn read the The grand total of the checks was $l0, 0,252.72.
 e. I show you what purports to be another group of city of Water bury checks. win you examine them and tell me what they are and how many of them. if any of them, bear 6 penciled number, and to whom they are payable?
 A. All payable to c. n. Kingsley & Go. All dated 1887. Twenty-one of them bear penciled numbers: l2 bear numbers made on e numbering machine; on Q typewriter; l Is un- numbered.
 e. And does that make a total of S59
 A. Yes. Thirty-five in all.
 e. And are they c part of the public records of the city of Water bury2
 A. Yes.
 e. will you please arrange them for me in the order of dates.
 e. Twenty-one of these checks bear 6 penciled numbers
 A. Yes.
 e. And what does that indicatef
 No Numbers
 A. They were issued without . number.
 e. With respect to the clearance through the bank?
 A. The number was affixed after they were actually paid. e. Are you able to state whether or not the 21 checks bearing a pen- ciled number were or were not ap- proved by the board of finance? A. Yes.
 c. How do you knowp
 A. All checks approved by the board of finance were made out by the city clerk on . typewriter.
 (Here again Mir. Alcorn reads the checks.)
 Grand total: 29,6e6.4s.
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Debate On Labor Bills In Senate Is Postponed
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Drunken Drivers

Hartford, Conn.,, February 9. -- (UP) Over the strenuous objec- tions of Representative Benjamin Tonkonow, Democrat, Meriden, the house voted today to reduce the mandatory penalty for second con- victions of drunken drivers from six to two months.
 The bill was reported by Repre- sentative Stanley Mead, Republ- can, New Canaan, who said it had the support of the governors street and highway safety commission and it generally was felt that prosecu- tors and judges were reluctant to obtain convictions because of the stiff penalty involved.
 For heavens sake" he fairly shouted, How many times does 8 man have to get drunk and drIve before he realizes it is a serious mat ter, a matter of life and death to most of us?
 T say if we've got judges in the State of Connecticut who haven't got guts to enforce the law as it now stands, they shouldn't be judges, and I tell you that the same judges who would be reluctant to enforce the six-months law would be just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
Bills Of Missing Witness Borgnaes Presented In Court Today
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 Draft of Menus
 Cardinals in charge of arrange- ments for the election conclave, dur, inc which 62 cardinals and l7b aides will be isolated in the Vatican, completed a draft of the menus which will be served to everyone, from the senior cardinal to che youngest chimney sweep, daring the conclave.
 The menus are as follows:
 Breakfast-Choice of coffee or hot chocolate, rolls, butter.
 Lunch-Soup, boiled meat, fish, fruit, dessert, red and white wine. !
 Supper-Soup, meat, vegetables, dessert, red and white wine.
 The food will be passed into the conclave through the booths of the wheel" which will be the sole means of communication. It will be prepared by the Ii cooks and six scullery boys who will be among the 175 aides. Special food Will be ordered for any cardinals who may requier special diet.
 It was understood that three cardinals would be delegated as nurses to attend any cardinals who become i'll. One of the nurses. would take the vote of the III cardinal from his bed to the Sistlne chapel where the balloting takes place.
 Cardinals Meet Today
 The cardinals met today as e gen- eral congregation, discussing ar- rangements for the corclave.
 Special commissions also met to arrange details of the conclave and of the aides who will be isolated with the cardinals during 1t.
 Workers today began to erect the traditional iron stove which viii Do left at the entrance to the Sistine Chapel for use in burning the bale lots and papers of the conclave. Straw is mixed with the ballots to produce black smoke until election is achieved when the ballots are burned alone to produce white smoke, signal of election.
 The stove is painted silver and has three openings. Tn one open- ing the ballots are placed. Through Q second door iley are egnited with Q long torch oId from the third door the ashes are removed.
 Painters today white- washed all windows in Rafael's gallery. The carpentry work in the sistine Chapel was nearly finished. Wood frame work for canopies surmounting s2 arm chairs was being erected.
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RUSSIAN AGENTS
 TRIED AS SPIES
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an agency of the Soviet government which takes care of foreigners wis, iting Russia, had been sent here specifically to obtain the national defense secrets.
 The other defendants were Gorin's wife, Natasha, and Hafis Salich, ar American citzien of Russian origin who at one time was employed h the U. s. intelligence bureau on the west coast.
 No sooner was the jury selected than Prosecutor Benjamin Harri- son called L. V. McCloud, . dry cleaner, who identified e note writ- ten In Q foreign language which he had found in . suit 0orin had sent out to be cleaned. Attached to the note was $50 bill.
 Several Jap Agents
 Harrison intimated that the note note linked Gorin with Salich and contained the names of several Jap. anese agents operating on the Pa. cific coast. It will be translated fol the jury later. 0orin is charged witl, paying $2000 to Salich in all, te steal secret documents from naval files which were then transmitted tc Moscow.
 After McLoud had finished. the trial was adjourned until otmorrow today being George Washington's birthday.
 The testimony revealed that Nc. fylasyA had haav. tt4A asva taytP AntoR. tive who put authorities on the trail of the alleged spies.
 "When saw that the writing ap. peared to be in Russian, talked with my employer. and then turned them over to Hollywood police," ht testified. "The police copied the note and drawings and gave then back. I put them back in the en. velope along with the $50 bill ant notified Mrs. Gorin."
 Package Handed Over
 Next day oorln's pretty blonde wife called at the cleaning shop ant nervously inquired for the packet It was given her with no hint tha' federal agents and naval intelligencs operatives had copied them. This oc' cured about Oct. 30, of last year two months before they were indict' ed.
 Defense attorneys stressed that much of the allegedly stolen dats concerned Japanese espionage if this country, and information abouI the Japanese navy and armament' which the American naval intelli' gence operatives had collected. De- fense lawyers referrd to Japan as { common enemy" of the Unitet States and Russia. Several Japanesl newspaper reporters are covering ths trial. . aU
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was submitted.
 Again, over the objection of Slade, Alcorn was allowed to introduce in evidence five papers, which Purcell identified as bills of the Kingsley company submitted to the City of Waterbury in 1887.
 They were as follows: November 30, 1887, $1,285.00; November 30, 1897, $693.85; September 30, 1897, -$416.53; October 30, 1937-G891 O0; December 16, 1937-$715.30.
 Alcorn said that the September 30, 1887 bill was in the handwrit- ing of Enoch Borgnaes, the missing defendant, and that it was with reference to the examination of records of the R. F. Worden com- pany, pertaining to an assessment.
 Marked 'E B."
 Purcell also identified vouchers made out on standard vouchers used in the controllers office. They were in favor of the Kingsley Company, and contained the initials "E. B." which Purcell said were those of Enoch Borgnaes and in his hand- writing.
 The bills were for services rem dered by R. P. Clark in the tax col- lector's office." Each was for $525. They were issued monthly, accord- ing to the testimony.
 Today's session was the 37th of the trial, the middle of the twelfth week. Less than four of the almost twelve weeks have been given over to presentation of evidence, however.
 Duplicate records of the alleged unapproved payments made in the g months of 1887 referred to were admitted over objections of defense attorneys. The totals contained in the items was $468 ,934.30, but the only pencilled notations of names made references to three payments: $412.50 to Henry w. Minor; $5000 to Charles E. Williamson and $9,- 325.00 to Edward G. Levy.
 Reference To Minor
 Another reference to @ payment to Minor was made in connection with $3,322.50, made in two pay ments in 1897, $2600 and $722.50. The payments were charged to "a memorandum referring to appro- priations for auditing certain &C., counts in the controllers office,' according to Purcell.
 The witness testified that he had never known Minor to be an ac- countant, and has never known him to do any work in the controllers office.
 Alcorn introduced checks yesterday indicating payments of $450 to John H. Crary and Thomas A. Shanahan. city assessors, over and above their regular salaries fixed by law. Three cheeks were introduced in each case, two of them issued after 1884. Pur- cell said that he knew of no ap- propriation for "revaluation" under which the payments were made, since 1882.
 Just as court adjourned yester- day, Alcorn was working on Pur- cell in connection with monthly payments of $41.65 to Deputy Reg istrar of Voters Michael F. Sla- win, over and above his regular salary fixed by statute.
 "Were they approved by the board of finance?" he asked, re- ferring to the payments.
 ITO my recollection they were not" was the reply.
 "Were they in addition to his regular fixed saiary?" Alcorn asked. corn asked.
 The witness answered in the af- firmative.
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Payments made to the George H. Kingsley auditing company iron, lD3l-lSa4 featured the testimony of James P. Purcell ct the conspir- acy trial today.
 e. MT. Purcell, think you testl- fled that George H. Kingsley & CO were the auditors for the city2
 A. Yes.
 c. And do you remember wha, year they were the auditorse
 A. They were the auditors fol l930. I'm not sure about 1882. Ther I think from then on they were,
 @. You mean the years 1881 ts 1897, inclusive? {. A. Including 1886. I don't thini the audits for 1887 were completed Q. It is your recollection that the audit for 1887 was not completed?
 A. Yes.
 e. I show you e group of papers There are four in number. ask 70, to look at them and tell me what they are.
 A. They're duplicate city checks all payable to G. H. Kingsley &s co e. Are they part of the record; of the City of Waterbury,
 A. Yes.
 (At this point, MT. Alcorn read the checks.)
 c. What is the significance oi the penciled numbers2 = A. It means that they were Is. sued without the number.
 e. When was the number put A. After the cancelled check. were returned to the bank.
 e. After they had been paid2
 A. After they had been paid.
 e. Do yau know what the an. nual appropriations for the audits for the years 1882 through lss' A. I believe in 1882. it was ss,ooo Thereafter, including 1887. amount was $2,500.
 Q. Do you know what amounts were paid, if amounts were paid, in excess of that?
 More Each Year
 A. I'm quite sure there was more paid each year. More than the ap- propriation.
 Q. And could you tell how muchs [ A. One year it was $27,000. I'm not sure what year it was.
 e. Can you remember any other years?
 A. Not the amount.
 e. In those years there were
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rorists, operating with astonishing audacity in the heart of Japanese occupied territory, had assassinated more than 90 Chinese traitors" who were cooperating. openly or secretly, with the Japanese conquer ors. While Chinese guerrillas har- assed communications and attacked isolated garrisons in territory long nominally under Japanese domina- ton, these men, some of them mem- bers of the Blue Shirt" patriotic organization, had operated in densely populated Shanghai.
 A week ago large force of armed Chinese penetrated into the heart of the Japanese controlled Tato area of western Shanghai, fired shots in the air in front of the prin- cipal police station, and scattered pamphlets announcing in the name of the Chinese Anti-Japanese An- ti-Traitor Iron and Blood Corps" that all "traitors" would be exter- minated. They said that previous assassinations had been only . sample.
 Leading Judge Killed Next, terrorists shot and killed To Foh, e leading judge of the Japa- nese . sponsored government of greater Shanghai.
 On Sunday, 1t became apparent that the situation was approaching climax.
 First terrorists fired on e Japa- nese army automobile in the crowd- cd Nanking road in international settlement territory. They wounded Jiichi Koyanagi, an ofiicial Japa- nese army photographer; Kokuro Sato and Miss Masko Morioka. Next terrorists bombed the Japa- nese Kungdah mill.
 On Sunday evening Chen To, for eign minister in the Japanese e-spon. sored reformed" government of Nanking, arrived in supposedly com- plete secrecy-with 20 bodyguards ito celebrate the Chinese New Year ct the home of c friend in Chinese territory. Gaiety was ct its height when IS Chinese terrorists entered the front door. They herded the un- resisting bodyguards before them, entered the room where the party was proceeding. and emptied their revolvers into Chen,s body.
 Japanese Anger Rises By this time Japanese anger was at fighting pitch. The Japanese con- stil went to the municipal council, made verbal protest against the shooting of the Japanese in the, army automobile and reserved the right to present a written one. As all this was going on yesterday -terrorists, in street of the inter- national settlement, walked up to Marquis u -Chieh, wealthy in- dustrialist unof{icialiy associated with the Japanese-sponsored "re- formed" government, and shot him dead.
 This morning c combined patrol of the municipal police and police of the Japanese controlled Tatao area went on c search for suspects in the Kungdah mill bombing. Return Jap Fire They found c group of five men whom they suspected. They opened fire on the i've. The suspects re- sponded with . voiley. One Tatao policeman fell dead. A Chinese mu- nicipal policeman was wounded. The suspects lied safely.
 The wounded policeman died in hospital.
 The policemen were handicapped because they were crowded into C police patrol car. Thirty shots were fired into the car.
 As Shanghai authorities awaited the Japanese demands. . force of almost 800 British, Italian and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22

House in approving the bill strip- ping the public worxs department of supervision over construction in state parks and forests, Col. Thomas Hewes hoped today the governor would veto the measure.
 Col. HeweS, member of the state parks and forests commission and former chairman of Gov. Cross gov- ernmental reorganization commis- sion wrote Gov. Baldwin, protesting e transfer of the public works divi- sion's authority to the parks com- mission.
 "The department of public works, 1" he said, was created last year, as you know, as Q part of Q long-corl- sidered plan to simplicity the opera ton of the state government in the interests of economy, simplicity and efficiency. If public opinion in the state were now disposed to retreat from the general principle that would be one thing, but, in my judg- ment, 1t Is unsound procedure to permit the whittling away at the reorganization program simply be- cause some particular man, or small group of men, think that their own interests would be better served thereby. After @ while this nibbling process, unless 1t is stopped will de- stroy the substance while leaving the shell. and we will be back where we were, say in 1910, when the agi- tation for improving the state set- up was started.
 Tn my judgment, this nibble at the department of public works is a perfect illustration of what small organized group can do without rais- ing the complete issue of whether we want reorganization in this state or do not"
 $i0 Weekly Pension
 Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. 22-(UP)- Proposing $l0 weekly pension for all persons more than 55 years old, Rep. William E. Sheehy, R., Shell ton, told the legislatures judiciary committee late yesterday that parts of the Naugatuck Valley would make Tobacco Road look like the Garden of Eden."
 Jobs were unavailable to men over 45 years old, he said, and "the time from 45 to 66 (the minimum age for old age pensions) is a long time to go hungry" T
 States Share Available
 Hartford, Conn, Feb. 22--(UP)-, Gov. Baldwin made available today $63,206 as the states share of the si40,028 required for reconstruction at Hammonassett Beach.
 The federal government, under . WPA project, will furnish $76,822 of the cost. The money will be used to repair damage caused by last septembes's hurricane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
SALARIES TAXED

Washington, Feb. 22. (UP)--The senate finance committee today rec ported favorably . house bill pro- viding for reciprocal taxation Of state and federal eaiaries.
 The bill would cover salaries re- ccived after Dec. g1, 1o3a
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CITY BILLS NOT
 TOBE HEARD SOON
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yesterday and which possibly would make tho proposed charter effective If, for some reason, e referendum should not be held after the Iegis. lative approval of the same. He in. dicated also that the proportional representation (p. r.) system of bal- loting. called for in the new charter would be well scrutinized.
 There were 17 Waterbury bills in all scheduled to be heard yesterday afternoon before the house went into its prolongd session on the dual job-holding bill. Many Waterbury residents were present ct the capi. tol when the announcement was made that c postponement of the hearing was necessitated by the con. ference of the house session. There are . number of other Waterbury bills facing Legislative committee hearings. but no dates have been as yet assigned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22

Japanese troops and municipal po- licemen raided Japanese-o occupied areas near the international settle@ ment, seeking terrorists. They found none. c Japanese spokesman said.
 A Japanese army spokesman saids
 The Japanese army takes ( most serious view of this incident. It was evidently an attempt delibefate- ly planned and directed against the Japanese army"
 He intimated that the army would demand that the municipal council take stern measures t0 suppress tef@ rorism, and that if it dld not, the Japanese would take stern measures themselves.
 Meanwhile Japanese unofsclally were protesting afgfily against the assassination Of Foreign Minister Chen. The municipal council re- torted that the assassination was effected in Japanese controlled tef~ ritory, and added that the police of that area frequently refused to cooperate with municipal police,
 Japanese authorities te1egraphed urgently to Tokyo for 4ut}1ofltg t0 make on issue Of the open attack on the Japanese afmy automobile.
 Demand Use of Fexce
 Tn the Japanese parliament, 11eBi~ bers demanded use Of "foTcer C eliminate terrorism fn t1e fntefna@ ti0nai settlement aFea Of Shanghai, Four cabinet ministers. replying C questions, said that reflective meas ures" would be taken. Gen. seishifo Itagaki, war minister, commented that Japan could not consider the international settlement C battle. ground but added that fl teff0gisn5 continued he thought that appfoS pfiate self defense measures must be taken The cabinet discussed pos~ sibie actlon. <1f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
United States Ready

Burgos, Spain, Feb. 22-(UP)- Nationalist newspapers today quoted reports from Paris asserting that Foreign Minister Georges Bonet had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
All Fronts Quiet

Perpignan, French Spanish From tier, Feb. 22-(UP)-Spanish Na- tionalist and Loyalist war conn muniques reported all fronts quiet today. Nationalists continued air- plane bombings of Loyalist coastal cities.
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received Q comprehensive report" that the United States government was ready to recognize the Nation alists.
 The report was received with re- serve because there had been nu- merous reports here that the United States was not ready to accord rec ognition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
Post College BltI

on Tuesday, March 20, there Will be . hearing on c bill introduced by Senator George T. Culhane of Waterbury allowing Post Business College of Waterbury to confer Ge. grees as c junior college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
Favorable Report

The Judiciary committee today sent In . favorable report on the bill amending the charter of the Water- bury Trust company. No action was taken by the senate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
Italian Troops Stick

Rome, Feb. a. (UP)-Premier Benito Mussolini, in Q telegram to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, has reaffirmed that Italian troops will remain in Spain until final vic- tory" has been won, it was an- nounced today.
 Mussolini's message was in response from telegram from Franco, the Spanish Nationalist commander in chief, praising the work of Italian forces in Spain.
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JAPANESE ANGRY
 AT TERRORISTS

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Forfeited Rights

On Friday, February 24, the com- rnittee on forfeited rights commits tee will hold c hearing on ( bill restoring forfeited rights to Louis 4. Schiller of Naugatuck. Many bors ough residents plan to visit the capitol to register in favor Of the bill, which was introduced by Rep. resentative Richard Dunkin Of Nalf~ gatuck. Schiller was town clerk Of Naugatuck for many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-22
Balkans to Recognize

Bucharest, Feb. 22-(UP)-Mem- bers of the Balkan entente-Ru- mania, Jugoslavia, Turkey and Greece-agreed today to recognize the Spanish Nationalists as the legal government of Spain but left each member free to decide for itself the time and manner of the recog- milton.
 Gregor 0afencu, Rumania foreign minister, in announcing the decision expressed hope that spring would bring peace in Spain, and empha- sized his country's readiness to col- laborate in Spain s reconstruction.