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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
EMBASSY STATUS
 URGED BY BONNET
French Legation at Bucha- rest May Be Raised;
 Major Power Rank

Paris, April 1 U,P0 = For eign Minister Georges Bonnet pro- posed to the cabinet today that the French legation at Bucharest be raised to the status of an embassy.
 It was understood that the pro- posal to recognize Rumania as ma- jor power was part of British French drive to include Rumania along with Poland in their "stop Hitler" bloc.
 Great Britain would be expected to follow suit immediately, and pre- sumably such other powers as Ger many and Italy would be compelled to follow unless they chose to have inferior diplomatic representation at Bucharest.
 The proposal to put Rumania among the first rank political ally came immediately after signature of an important French Rumanian trade trade agreement and a French Rumanian cultural pact.
 Coincidentally the government, in business like gesture of friendship to Jugoslavia, decided to issue a series of decrees calculated to in- crease imports from Jugoslavia and perhaps to double the present ex- change of trade.
 The decrees were designed, by granting special tariff benefits to Jugoslavia, to offset the disadvan- tage imports from Jugoslavia have encountered because of the depre- citation of Jugoslav currency in the international market.
 The cabinet met as a formal coun. ssH S (Continued on Page 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
GOOD VACATION
 WEATHER AHEAD

Boston, April 1.--(UP). New Englanders may expect better vaca- ton weather this year than in 1888, Meteorologist E. B. Rideout of ra- dio station WEEI said in a long range forecast today.
 His forecast, month by month, was as follows:
 April Slightly cooler than usual, with frequent cloudiness and showers early in the month.
 May--A good month on the whole, with considerable clear weather, all though 1t may average somewhat cooler than usual, particularly along the coastal sections where the winds will blow from the northeast and east.
 June Warm weather may be ex- pected either late in May 6r early in June, followed by a brief wet cool spell. The greater part Of June, July and August Twill be good Tor vacations, for although there will be Ia few brief showery periods, there will be much more fine weather than last year.
 senteraber Cloudiness and show |ers "will become much moro fre- |quent, together with warmer wealth. |er than is usual, especially after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
Jackie Grady Mystery No Nearer Solution
Expected to Spend Week-End Searching for Boy
 or Body-ReWard Spurs on Many 5.

The baffling mystery of the To- day disappearance of little Jackie Grady was no nearer solution today, but the hunt for some trace of the youngster went steadily on. State Police continued to comb the towns of Wolcott and Cheshire, and plan- ned to extend their search into other nearby communities. Local police, meantime, resumed the dragging of Scovill's dam and hunted again through wooded and swamp areas of the eastern part of the city.
 Hundreds of volunteers are ex- pected to join in the search over the weekend, spurred on by hopes of gaining the East End Community Clubs reward for recovery of the boys body or information leading to his safe return.
 Captain William Duggan directed policemen today, at the Scovill dam, with several boats being employed. A large drag-net, made of barbed wire, was used for the first time. Last night the ponds bottom was searched in part, with the aid of an underwater light.
 Six state policemen directed by Lieutenant William Schatzman of the Beacon Falls barracks were securing Wolcott and Cheshire. The search was being conducted house by house, farm by farm, but at press hour no information of value had been uncovered by. the troopers.
 The powerful light used last night is the property of Charles K. Ahern former superintendent of fire alarms. It was rigged up at the pond by Electrical Inspector Martin O'Rourke. Powered by q generator, the light made the bottom of the dam visible over a small area. and a section about 150 feet square was carefully examined.
 Jackie, the son of MT. and Mrs. John Grady of II Gates avenue, " ffyn,, ftyn,,ad ~ Doon Cl W
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
ROOSEVELT IS
 READY TOACT'
May Leave Georgia for White House Today If
 Nazi Push Continues

Warm Springs, Ga, April 1-tUP)
 President Roosevelt today intensi- fled his close watch of European developments, awaiting Adolf Hit ler's reply to the announcement of a British French Polish alliance.
 At the Little White House., the president was within arms reach of a telephone through which will come fresh reports from American ebmsasies in London and Paris.
 From the temporary executive offices here came fresh indications that President Roosevelt and his administration were determined to support France and Great Britain in their effort to call halt to Nazi German dreams of world domina- ton by force. It was the view of President Roosevelt's intimates that world peace was being menaced.
 A White House spokesman dis closed that this government was gravely concerned lest German as pirations spread to the Americas. At railroad way-station not far from the presidents Pine Mountain cottage his special train was re- ported to be waiting for a hurried Journey back to Washington.
 Persons close to MT. Roosevelt att tributed to him the opinion that Latin American republics were not safe from the projected sphere of Nazi influence.
 The chief executive will dedciate two new buildings of the Warm Springs foundation, both for the care of infantile paralysis sufferers this afternoon.
 One is a new school, the other g 35-bed infirmary. Both were built from private contributions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
RUMANIA SOUGHT
 FOR ALLIANCE
Britain, France, Poland, Rumania Would "Stop"
 Hitler Drive

London, April 1-(UP)-Rumania is next on Great Britain's Stop Hitler" list, it was understood today while the government awaited Adolf Hitler's answer to its pledge to de- fend Poland in event of Nazi ag- gression.
 It was understood that discreet negotiations already have been started by Britain, France, Poland and Rumania with the idea of in- cluding Rumania in quadruple al- Iance which would have Russia as a silent partner and might be ex- tended to include Turkey if not to other powers.
 s Further, both Bratain and France, encouraged by their first apparent successes in organizing continental anti-aggression bloc, planned vig- orous drive to offset German eco- homie encroachment in eastern Eu- rope by concluding agreements of their own with the nations con- cerned.
 Before he made his historic statement of policy in the House of Commons yesterday, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promised that there would be a full dress debate Monday.
 All parties seemed solid in their support of him today, and the opin- ion was that he was assured tri- umph such as he has not known be- fore.
 Col. Josef Beck. Polish foregin minister, leaves Warsaw tomorrow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
Local Man, Protesting lis Innocence, Faces District
 Court Wednesday
FALSE, FRAUDULENT
 SALE OF STOCK CLAIM
Alleged Conspiracy Said to Have Started in 1925 in
 Counts on File

Secret meetings with the late F. Donald Coster-P Philip Musica, swindler of the cen- tury in the $21,000, ,000 McKesson and Robbins steal, for furtherance of an alleged conspiracy to obtain millions, are charged against Rowley w. Phillips, chairman of the board of R. F. Griggs Com pany, and Horace B. Merwin, president of the Bridgeport City Trust Company, in one count of the many against the two bankers and seven others contained in the federal grand jury indict- ment.
 The Waterbury broker and Bridge port banker are specifically charged with being leaders with Coster- -Musica in forming of the Canadian and Maryland McKes- son and Robbins companies and the conspiracy to defraud stockholders is alleged to have been started about the first day of January, 1925.
 Meetings between Phillips and Costa -Musica and Merwin and Cos ter-Musica, and then of Phillips, Merwin and CoSter- -Musica, at 155 East 44th Street, New York, were held as late as the fall of 1887, allegedis to continue the conspiracy, the in- dictment charges.
 In Court Wednesday The Waterbury broker, claiming innocence of wrong-doing, is pre- pared to face charges in the United States District court at New York. Wednesday morning, when bail will be set and the 21-page indictment on IA counts, with the presentment, will be read to the nine defenders.
 Meanwhile, at Waterbury, plans of stockholders in the Canadian and Maryland McKesson & Robbins companies progressed as meetings were held to determine what means will be taken to attempt recovery of some portion of money paid for the stocks. At least two local at torneys have the matter under con- Sideration.
 The report of the grand jury, now disbanded, and the indictment are only the fore-runners of other ac- tions against prominent bankers, politicians and associates of the late Coster-Musica, Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon has pre- dicted. N
 Counts Filed
 Part of the numerous counts against the Connecticut financiers, the brothers of the late Coster- Musica, and others include the fol- lowing:
 In the District Court of the
 United States for the Southern
 District of New York
 Southern District of New York. ss: The Grand Jurors for the United States of America duly empaneled and sworn in the Dis- trict Court of the United States for the Southern District of New
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
SKELETON NOT
 THAT OF FLYER

Oak Bluffs, Mass, April l.--UP)
 charts today disproyed a theory that skeleton washed up on Martha's Vineyard Island might be that of long-missing trans-Atlan- tic flyer.
 Authorities had theorized that the skeleton might be that of Davis E. Smith, 46, who took of from De- troit, Mich, last June on what his friends believed was 8 protected flight to Ireland. But today word came from Maiden that a check of dental charts showed no resem- blance. Mrs. Aida Smith Hawes of that city said she was satisfied that the skeleton was not that of her brother.
 The charts had been submitted to Smiths dentist in Detroit follow ing discovery of the -keletcn on the beach at West Tisbury last Satlr.. |day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
67 GOLDFISH
 CULPED DOWN

Waltham, Mass, April 1-(UP)- Sixty-seven live goldfish, gulped down in IA minutes with half pint of milk as a chaser, today had given Gordon (Doc) Southworth of Lynn the intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Championship.
 Southworth, a 21-year-old student at Middlesex University's School of Veterinary Medicine, performed his feat before a wide-eyed throng on Waltham Common yesterday, top ping it of wiht peanut butter sandwich.
 He wrested the title from a Penn sylvania student who earlier in the day had swallowed 43.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
Der Fuehrer Expected to . Reply to Chanlberlain's
 Challenge Today
ONLY EXCERPTS TO BE
 BROADCAST LATER
Hitler Will Speak at Wil= hemshaven Where Big
 Boat Was Launched
BY RICHARD c. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent

BY RICHARD c. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Wilhelmshaven, Germany, April 1. - (UP) = Nazi off cials today suddenly can celed the national broadcast of the speech in which Adolf Hitler is expected to answer Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain's challenge to Ger man expansioniSm. No reason for the decision was given.
 As Hitler attended the launching here of the 35,000 ton battleship Von Tirpitz, second floating for tress" of the new Nazi navy, offi- cials at Berlin announced that there would be no broadcast.
 Further, they said, that although Hitler probably would speak for about 45 minutes, starting at about Il a. m., EST, only recorded ex- cerpts" would be provided in later UIOdQCdcb OIl btlC okCCO1A WAAkNAA t4ANy arranged to give between p. m. and 2 p. m., EST.
 Break Our Enemies
 As Germans awaited the speech, Admiral Adolf Von Trotha, launch ing the Tirpitz, said:
 "This proud. ship shall carry Ger n1any's honor into the outside world and break the resistance of our enemies if they oppose Germany's right of equality within the corn- munity of nationS".
 As he spoke, the cheers of thou sands awaiting Germany's reply to Great Britain's challenge to Ger man expansionism, Hitler prepared to speak this afternoon in the city hall square before 80,000 people.
 Broadcast Cancelled
 Shortly after the launching it was announced that plans for nation al broadcast of the speech had been cancelled.
 Official quarters reported that Hitler would probably speak for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01

latter Is indicated from the fact that pr. Andrew J. Jackson, attend ing physician did not deem it neces- sary to visit him yesterday.
 Although MT. Shanahan was talk en, i'll almost two weeks ago, only six court days will have been lost if he returns to trial Tuesday, as is expected. Tuesdays session will be the 53rd of the trial, the 30th dur ing which testimony has been heard on presentation by the state.
 Previous estimates as to length of trial have been nullified by unex- pected circumstances, Observers now believe that the trial will continue through the hot summer months of July and August, even should the court week be heightened to five. Judge Inglis has voiced his diSap- proval of the five day court week.
 Whether Special Prosecutor AL corn will call Harry Mackenzie,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
Waterbury Broker, ark City Banker Closely
 Linked toC Coster-Musica
BOMBS STILL
 STRIKE LONDON
Business Section Terror ized All Last Night;
 Guards at Bridge

London, April 1-(UP)-Bomb planters terrorized the business dis trict from midnight to dawn today. Five bombs exploded, one ill front of a newspaper office, another in front of a bank. Two bombs were found before they exploded.
 The terrorists were believed to have roamed the city in fast au- tomobile disguised as taxicab.
 Flying squads of Scotland Yard men sighted the car once but it out raced them.
 A strong guard was placed on London bridge just before dawn be- cause of reports that it was to be blown up. Policemen made a minute search of the parapets, arches and roadway and of craft moored in the vicinity.
 Another force rushed to the ad- miralty in Whitehall where two men were reported seen climbing par apet in the rear of the building. No casualties had been reported in any of the explosions.
 The disorders were by far the most serious since the outlawed Irish Re- publican army began series of bombings in protest against the presence of British troops and off, cials in Northern Ireland. Hereto- fore, the bombings had been mostly in outlying sections of the city.
 At 12:40 a. m. the first of the nights. bombs exploded in front of the News Chronicle and Star office on Fleet street-which is newspaper row. It smashed the plate glass in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
WESLEYAN HEAD RENE MS FEUD WITH ]. E. SMITH Lieut.. Gov. in Radio Talk Accuses Chairman of
 Using Pressure
 EMBOSSED REPUBLICAN
 PARTY PROCLAIMED Senator DOWnes, Demo- crat, Urges State to Eye
 Party's Effectiveness
Hartford. Conn. April l.

Hartford, Conn, April L. (UP) - Lieutenant Governor James L. Met Conaughy today flatly accused Democratic State Chairman J. Francis Smith of exerting pressure on Democratic state senators to make a political football'' of the dual-job holding bill. "What the state is really watc hin g." Met Conaughy said, lis an unboSsed Repub- ncan party, and a governor who guides but does not boss. On the other side is well-organized, ex- perienced Democratic minority, un- der the direct control of tn. Demo- crstic State Committee chairman" 1" The Republican lieutenant-gover- nor said many Democratic Sena- tors have said privately that they resented this pressure, exerted for political reasons exclusively"
 Attended Caucus
 He said Smith attended the Dem- ocratic caucus in senate anteroom the day the senate passed its ver- sion of the job bill ''in marked con- trast to the absence of any pres sure on the part of the Republican state central committee"
 McConaughy spoke over the radio, and little later, State Sen, Joseph B. Downes, Norwich, the senate leader, replied to the Lieutenant governor.
 we recognized our duty to cling to principle and to fight for what we believed to be right" Downes said about the Democratic attitude on the dual-job bill.
 Democrats To Be Effective
 Downes said the general assembly "so far has fulnctioned effectively.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
STATE MOVES SLOWLY

Hartford, Conn, April (UP)
 Connecticut, one of the original l3 states, moved today to ratify the bill of rights, the first 10 amendments to the federal constitution, The leg islative federal relations committees voted a favorable report on the pro- posed ratification. Connecticut is the only one of the original l3 states to fail to ratify the bill of rights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
JOHN H. GOSS
 TO BE WITNESS
Scovill Co. Head Expected
 10 Be Summoned in Trial Next Week
Acme photo

John H. Goss, president of the Scovill Mfg. Go. and veteran mem Der of the Board of Finance will testify in the Waterbury conspiracy trial next week, on call of Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn who previously has interrogated five present and past members of the board. MT. Goss is scheduled to re- turn from Florida sojourn before next Wednesday.
 He may be the states first witt ness of the 17th week of the trial, which has been delayed six due to the illness of City Assessor Thomas A. Shanahan. Improvement of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
FIRE WARDEN DIES

Simsbury, Conn, April 1 -- (UPo Funeral services will be held Mon- day for Edward McChesney Eddy, 60, supervisor of forest fire wardens for the Westeran Connecticut dis trict who died last night after suf- fering a cerebral hemhorrage. He leaves his widow, four sons and a daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
AMENDMENT ON
 CHILD LABOR OUT

Hartford. Conn., April 1--(UP)- The legislative federal relations committee today voted an unfavor-j able report on two resolutions pro- posing ratification by Connecticut Of the child labor amendment to the U. s. constitution.
 The resolutions are introduced every two years, but each time they are defeated. The house usually votes along party lines to approve the committees uafavorabIe report. Republicans outnumber Democrats
 more than three to one in tho house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
FIRE SALE WASN'T
 APRIL FOOL JOKE

Cambridge, Mass. April T. (UP) It looked like an April fool prank when SFire Sale Saturday" signs ap- peared Thursday on q store where there had been no fire.
 Yesterday. however. fire brok4 out in the building. Three persons We're injured. A score of salesgirls fled for their lives. Damage was esti- mated at $5O.O0O.
 Police szid the nre Vss set.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
NO CONSTITUTIONAL
 CONVENTION VOTED

Hartford, Conn, April 1-(UPl-- The judiciary committee today voted unfavorable reports on Democratic bills proposing summoning of a state constitutional convention to revise Connecticut's constitution.
 Democratic members of the conn mittee reserved their rights and promised to take the floor against the rejection.
 A constitutional convention plank was in the Democratic platform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-01
The
 King And
 Queen 10 Take \ Inn

anA you can go with thsm. Starting Monday The Waterbury Democrat will pEint a preview of the his- oricaI visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain to Canada ana the United states. Writ ten by noted correspondents $ ii three countries for the
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Evening star., 1939-10-24

And What
They Do
Reed Can Foil Back
On Writing If Politics
DisiIIusion Him
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.


When young Joseph Werner Reed
blew himself out of theatrical pro-
ducing with loud bang, in 1888, he
wrote: Before the problems of the
theater are solved it is more vital to
help set Alright the workings Of the
machine of state"
In his Connecticut week end party
for Republican bigwigs, including
Herbert Hoover and Thomas E.
Dewey, he announced no such Sc
rious purpose, and the affair was
slated as quite casual and informal.
But there were present Cows. Carr
OF Colorado and Baldwin of Con-
necticut, Samuel F. Pryor, jr., Re-
publican National Committeeman
for Connecticut, and Representative
Albert E. Austin. Most or all Of
these, with Messrs. Hoover and
Dewey, are in the wheelhouse Of
Republican 1910 strategy. Mr.. Reed
may be getting at his self Imposed
task Of six years ago.
Mr.. Reed has described himself
as an "amiable Maecenas" of the
theater. A native of Denver, heir
to a considerable fortune, he was
graduated from Yale University in
1926, and in 1929 formed a theatre
cal producing firm with the expert
enced Kenneth MacGown. They
dropped $1,000 the first year, and a
year later lost $4,000 on one play.
They put on good plays, including
"Springtime for Henry" which ran
for ~ weeks, but their money was
always outward bound. In his Bit
ter valedictory, published in a New
York newspaper in December, 1888,
Mr.. Reed renounced the theater,
with its manifold hidden chican.
cries, its union outrages, its chisel-
ing gyps, its insuperable confusions
and its self-destroying financial
problems"
Then Mr.. Reed published his
book, THE Curtain Falls bril-
liant and scarifying chronicle OF
his back-stage years. After his
graduation from Yale, he had done
short stretch as reporter on the
Chattanooga Times. Perhaps free
hand Southern journalism gave him
abandon, but, whatever it was, he
wrote with the throttle wide open,
and his book stands on it's merits as
cracking good piece of straight-arm
Journalism. If he should later find
in politics the disillusionment of
the theater, he can turn to the
writing trade any day.
He had one more fling at the
theater, backing Maurice Evans
Hamlet" with $4,000, and getting
1t all back. He has been busy with
Florida real estate since his theatre
cal walk-out. In 1926, he married
Miss Parmelia Pryor. highly placed
in New York society, and in 1885
bought a 16l-acre estate near Green
wich. Gonna home base perhaps
for setting Alright the workings Of
the machine Of State"
released by Consolidated News Features.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Brine Belt Circles Woman
For Cancer Refrigeration

Grafton period" from a normal 986
to 90 degrees. The patient remains
conscious.
During the refrigeration period
she is being fed only fruit juices, "
DR.. Harrington said. During the
Information period she will not be
fed at all"
A "hibernation period" of five days
follows the refrigeration period" )"
In the latter stage, the body tenn
perature ranges from SO to SO de-
grees. The patient Is unconscious
or alseep.
Temperature is reduced to a point
where scientists hope cancer cells
will deteriorate without harming
healthy tissue.
I'VE hope it will cure her" DR..
Harrington said. I'VE will know by
next Tuesday morning, when the
treatment is completed"
DR.. Harrington said he recently
consulted DR.. Temple Fay of Temple
University Hospital, Philadelphia, an
authority on the new treatment.