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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
NINE MORE DEAD
 MINERS FOUND
They Had Made Gallant Effort to Save Them-
 selves But Lost

Providence, Ky, July 17-CUP)-- G. T. Powell. U. s. bureau of mines inspector, announced today that rescue workers had found nine more bodies in the Duvin coal mine, bringing to 28 the death toll in a dust explosion in the mine Friday night.
 The bodies were found behind a make-shift barricade in gallery 1855 feet below the surface and al- most three miles from the shaft.
 Rescuers had hoped to find the nine men alive. They had found evidence that the men had erected a barricade to protect themselves from gas-laden air.
 Powell said the barricade had been ineffective because the men had not had sufficient material to make it airtight. He said rescuers had reported the men had used some of their clothing to fill breach es in the barricade.
 Seeps Through Cloth
 "The gas seeped through the cloth" Powell said. "It was the only material they had to use.
 "The rescuers found them lying in orderly fashion on the floor oi the gallery"
 Most of them had their arms folded across their chests, a posi- ton they would have taken while awaiting rescue. They undoubtedly died from the gas"
 The men left two notes. One was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
Fritz Kuhn, German Bund Leader, Lands In Cell When He Laughed At flick Police

"Then I kicked his two storm troopers or whatever they were out in the street and sent the count along with them. Get out on the sidewalk. was what said, the airs better out there'.'
 Chief Templeman said the arrest of Kuhn occurred after police had taken the keys from Count Von- siatsky,s automobile.
 T know that count because he does a lot Of trading up here." Tenn pleman said. He wasn't in no condition to get home and wasn't going to let him drive.
 well they started arguing with one Of my boys and he brought them in. After a while I decided to let this Kuhn drive the car back to the counts house. That's about five miles from here.
 "Hc gets tn the car and starts to drive away, when all Of a sudden he starts swearing at us and giv. ing as the Bronx cheer. We don't have to take that kind of stuff so we brought ..sm back again and put Kuhn in the cell.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17

up here yesterday before raising $54 bail for his release. The bail was posted by Count Anastase A. Von- siatsky, leader of the White Rus- sians in America, and Kuhns two bodyguards.
 "iIe was just another wise guy who thought that this was nick town and that he could stage one of them beer hall putsch things and be the dictator in it," Police Chief John c. Templeman said.
 "They don't go swearing at poe lice in this town-drunk or sober.
 DO you know what he said when we brought him in? Why. he drew himself up and said: You can't do this to me. Do you know who I ann"
 T said. Buddy I don't care who you are. you're going t0 get q cell in the lookup and like it."
 "Iie shut right up after that and stuck him 10 the cell where wt had three local boys who thought they could swear and yell around the streets. That showed him wasn't playing favoFltes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
MOB GATHERS TO
 SEE 60 WED l6
Quiet Wedding Almost Turned Into Riot as
 Friends Gather

New York, July 17.-(UP)-Car- melo Locopria, 60, married Q 16- year-old school girl last night and attracted 500 on-lookers, IA police men, three radio cars, 10 fire trucks and an ambulance.
 A widower, he is wealthy by the standards of the lower East Sides Italian district. He had intended marrying Torsilla Minichiello quiet ly. When he emerged from his home last night, a few people were wait ing outside. They wanted to give him a cherry send-off but he mis- understood He ran and the on-look- CTS followed.
 Around the block they went. the pursuers gaining in number. Loco- pria bolted into the church where he was to take his bride, raced down the aisle, and behind the al- tar, a crowd of 500 at his heels.
 Someone had turned in riot call Police and firemen arrived in num- Der to discover that the crowd had been merely curious about run ming bridegroom. They cleared the church and the wedding proceeded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
SEVEN VIOLENT
 DEATHS IN CONN.
That Was Fatal Toll Over Week-End-16 Died in
 New England
lRY UNITED PREssl

Automobile accidents, a drowning, and 6 roller coaster fall accounted for seven violent deaths in Connecti- cut over the weekend.
 Five persons died in car mishaps:
 Two brothers, Thomas W. Lennon, 36. and Norman Lennon, 30, both of Rockville, were injured fatally when their car swerved off the road and overturned several times at Somers
 Mrs. Irene Lee, 32, Bridgeport, and Saul E. Cummings, negro, New York City, were killed in an automobile crash at Darien. Mrs. Lees car col lided with a machine operated by Cummings, which police said, was stolen Saturday at New York.
 Three-year- Stephen Hall Greenwich, was killed instantly when he released the brake of his fathers machine, parked in the driveway of his home, and the car raced downhill and plunged over an embankment.
 Floyd Crocker, Jr., Il, Warehouse Point, was drowned when he tried to wade across the Connecticut river shallow there at this time of the year he apparently slipped on rock and was swept away. Floyd's broth- CT, Robert, 10, was saved by a pas serby when he, too, attempted tc wade the river. eloyd's body wal recovered.
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Webster. Mass, July 17-(UP)- Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund leader, failed to appear in court today to answer charges of drunkenness and using profanity.
 southbridge District Judge Louis Rieutord adjourned court without announcing how he would dispose of the case.
 Judge Rieutord disposed of sev- eral routine cases before call- ing that of Kuhn. the 43-year old little fuehrer" whose arrest Sum- day followed what police described as lone of them beer hall putsch things.
 After court adjournment the Judge was asked by newsmen whether the case would be con tinued or Kuhn's s54 ball forfeited
 T am soriy." replied the judge .but I am unable to make any comment at this time"
 The little fuehrer," under . New York county indictment charging larceny Of eit.s4s In Bund funds spent % minutes in the town lock-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
PROBING CRASH
 OF MERCY PLANE

New York, July 17-(UP) - A board of inquiry convened today to determine the cause of the crash of 8 coast guard plane in which three men were killed. One of the prin- cipal witnesses was expected to be Capt. Frederick s. McMurray of the Ketch Atlantis, who reported on docking at Woods Hole, Mass, yes- terday that the plane had been ripped by a terrific explosion just before 1t crashed at sea Saturday 150 miles southeast of New York.
 The plane had flown to the At- lantis to take off George Temple Priest, 36, of Boston, a member of its crew critically ill with pneumo- mia. The crash occurred as the plane took off on the return flight. Priest, Lieut.. William Lee Clemmer, in command, and John Radan, Jr., of Bessemar, Pa, the pilot, were killed. Five coast guardsmen were rescued by the Atlantis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
GEORGE TYLER
 KILLED BY BULL
Hired Man on Benjamin Lynn Farm, Watertown,
 Badly GOred

George Tyler, 40, a hired man at the farm of Benjamin Lynn, of Mid- dlebury road, Watertown, met a horrible fate this morning when he was gored by bull as he worked alone in a barn.
 He was rushed to the Waterbury hospital in the hospital ambulance and he succumbed to his injuries shortly before o'clock.
 MT. Lynn, his son Robert, ane George Bassett, another hiret man, heard screams from the barn but arrived at the scene too late fol assistance. The bull was roped.
 Hospital authorities said Tyler suffered a crushed chest and per- forated abdominal wall.
 He leaves his wife, Grace, who lived with him at the farm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
FLY MANY MILES
 TO PUT OUT FIRE

New York, July 17.-CUP)-Three men arrived today on the first leg of an airplane trip half way around the world to extinguish an oil well fire. Myron M. Kinley of Houston, Tex, and his assistants, Charles Hengst and Cleo lobe, leave on a Pan American Airways clipper for Marseilles, France, Wednesday, and fly from there to Arabia by Imper- ial Airways They hope to reach a burning Arabian well a week from today. The fire has been burning since July 8 and could burn six months or year. An oil fire spec ialist, he was in Boston when stand. ard oil Company officials called him to San Francisco to discuss ths ! Arabian fire. He flew to California and then to Houston, to get Hengs and lobe. then here.
 Kinley went to Rumanla to ex tinguish afire several years ago. H, has put them out in several Soul American countries. Fighting o well fires is dangerous and difficult Experts are few.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
CHOSE NOVEL WAY
 TO TRY SUICIDE

Manchester, N. H., July 17-CUP) There was a\terrific crash out side, and Mrs. Leonidas Britton ran to the door of her home to see what had happened. She was amazed to discover that her new automobile had crashed through foot-thick cement wall. more amazed to see her husband extricate himself from the wreckage. apparently unhurt.
 T told you I'd get even for not letting me use your car" he told her.
 Police said Britton had loaded the tonneau with two boulders and then driven against the cement wal at SO miles an hour in . suicide at- tempt. After the crash. Britton . shoe worker and father Of foul children. brushed past his wife aiit went upstairs Seating himself ii' a close. he put the muzzle or rifle in his mouth and pulled tht trigger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
Father Coughlin Blasts Back At E. Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt, Son of President, iurls Charges at Radio Priest-They Will Be Answered By Priests
 Reply Over Radio System This Week
Acme Telephoto

Detroit, July IT - (U.Po - The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest, replies to Elliott Roosevelt on a free nation wide radio network this week.
 Roosevelt last week suggested that Father Coughlin might be barred from the air under a new code of ethics adopted by the American As sociation of Broadcasters. The code bound its members to bar from the air persons who disseminated hatred against persons of a given race or religion. Roosevelt said Father Coughlin disseminated hatred against the Jews.
 A commentator of Father Cough lin's publication, Social Justice, took part of Father Coughlin's weekly radio hour yesterday to denounce Roosevelt, to criticize his father and mother, and to demand that the Mutual Broadcasting System, which carried Roosevelt,s speech, provide free time for Coughlin's reply. Soon afterwards, Mutual announced that 1t would and Father Coughlin an- nounced that he welcomed" the op- portunity to reply to Roosevelt.
 Father Coughlin has been accused of taking an anti-Semitic position in his Sunday sermons and of dis seminating anti-Semitic propaganda originating with German Nazis. The American Association of Broadcast CTS has taken no position on whe- ther 1t considers him anti-Semitic
 Denies Anti-Lab0r
 Father Coughlin yesterday devoted his sermon to denying that he was anti-labor. He said that a carefully planned campaign was being wageo to convince workingmen that he was "a tool of the industrialists, of mon- opolists and economic slave owners.
 T have criticized the A. F. of L. not because it was helping three million skilled laborers to organize but because it was slow in recogniz. ing the need for helping unskilleo labor to fight its battles" he said.
 T have criticized the CIO not be- cause it spent its energies in helping unskilled labor to organize but be- cause certain leaders within It. ranks entertained unsound methods of procedure.
 "When certain leaders in the GIG seek to establish labor political I condemn their proposals on thu theory that no class, be it the f1nan' cial class, the industrial class, th' (Continued on Page 4
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of the taxshooks Tor 1e38 and the first three i1i6l9ths of S1g30 can be be- gun. The alleged shortage was found in the 1887 accounts, which are being audited by Griffenhagen & Asso- ciates.
 No New Developments
 Corporation Counsel Charles S. O'Connor said today there was no new developments in the official in- vestigation of the defalcations Apparently no action, criminal or civil, will be taken until after the new audit has been. completed.
 The 193e-38 audit will also be made by the Griffenhagen firm. The cost will be $7,800 and transfer of that sum has been voted by the fi- nance board. The audit will get underway as soon as the aldermen give their approval to the transfer
 Shortage Discovered
 The alleged shortage was discov- cred by Griffenhagen auditors some days ago. A report was made to Tax Collector William A. Ennis and the members of the economy committed of the board of finance, which group had started action for the audit.
 The report was then turned over to the mayor and the corporation counsel. MT. O'Connor has writer to the bonding company, notifying the,n of the situation, and attended the finance board meeting Thursday at which the new audit was voted.
 The auditors have reported tha' from $2,O00 to $3,000 has been dis. covered missing from the 1887 ac' counts. The new audit is for thu purpose of discovering. ifAany fundi are missing from the 1888 account! or those for the first three months of this year.
 The investigators have all ab' solved Tax Collector Ennis from any complicity in the reported shortage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
MISSIONARIES
 LOST IN CHINA

Hankow, China, July l7--tUP)-- American consular authorities are seeking information of Miss Ruth Daniels, Hiawatha. Kansas; Miss Eyaline Cav, Evanston, Ill, and Miss Coral Houston. Huntington Park, Cal, all attached to the Man. chang hospital in Japanese-occu- pied territory, 1t was made known today.
 The consulate disclosed Saturday that it had not heard from them recently.
 At the same time. the consulate was increasingly alarmed over the fate Of l.. W. Holland. Of the Meth odist Episcopal church at Nanchang who has not been heard from sincs Japanese arrested him June i3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
PACKING HOUSES
 FACING STRIKE
Big Four Meat Packers in Serious Danger Unless
 They Agree
BY E. w. KIECKHEFER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Chicago, July 17.-(UP.-The Packing House Workers organizing committee gave notice today that it would call strike against the big four meat packers, largest in the nation, if they refused to negotiate for wage contracts.
 Nearly 1000 delegates, represent ing 75,000 packing house employees who are members of the unions af- filiated with the Congress of Indus trial Organizations, attended a PWOC national policy convention Sunday and voted unanimously to give their leaders power to call strikes.
 John L. lewis, head of the CIO, spoke last night at a meeting of 12000 union members. He promised that the CIO would back packing unions in "any struggles into which they may be forced by the large corporations of the industry He predicted a new CIO campaign in the steel industry for contracts from little steel" firms.
 Power To Call Strike
 The PWOC claims majority rep resentation of employees of all the big four packing firms-Armour Wilson, Swift and Cudahy-produc- CTS of two-thirds of the cou ltry's meat. The strike authorization gave leaders power to call strike against Armour if peaceful negotiations fail and against the other firms and in- dependents if they maintain the same attitude as Armour an Com pany in refusing to confer" witl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
65O, OWPAWorkers to Lose Jobs By Sept. 1 Is Latest Order Issued
Orders Sent Out to States to Start Mass Firing
 Immediately
STRIKE SITUATION !
 IS COMPLICATED
BY MACK JOHNSON


 United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, July 17 - CUP. J. WPA officials today began the most extensive roll cutting program since the agency's establishment in 1885, involving the dismissal Of approxi- mately 650,000 workers by September 1.
 Orders were sent to state admins trators to begin mass firings In &C., cordance with a provision of the l940 relief bill that all on WPA rolls for 18 months must take 30-day vacation.
 In New York, 1000 dismissal mo- tices already were in the mails, and 2,500 will be discharged each work ing day for the next six weeks. Dis- missals in other states will follow shortly. ..
 Officials were uncertain what ef- feet the new flrings would have on the two-weeks old strike affecting more than 100000 WPA workers who are protesting another provision of the 1040 relief measure-that aban- doning the prevailing wage scale for skilled workers.
 May Complicate Strike
 They feared that the dismissals might complicate the strike situa- ton by increasing worker resent ment against the relief set-up. Leaders of the Workers Alliance, an organization of relief clients, have warned that nationwide pro- tests against the dismissal program will make the current strike Took like a party"
 A congressional drive to restore the prevailing wage apparently had failed. .-
 Representative Adolph J. Sabath, D., IL, who sponsored an amend ment to restore the old wage scale, said he was undecided whether to press for action in view of the an- nouncement from group of sena- tors sponsoring similar legislation that the fight appeared futile.
 Believes It Unjust
 Sabath said he still believed that the new wage provision, requiring
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
May Eliminate Danzig as Danger Spot in Euro-
 pean Affairs POPE PLUS NAMED
 AS ONE MEDIATOR There Are However Dozen Various Factors Against Any Danzig Peace
BY JOE ALEX NORRIS

O-~-N"~ United Press Staff Correspondent
 Nazis circulated the first vague hint today that media tion might eliminite Danzig as Europe's danger spot.
 Dispatches from Berlin said that persistent reports were being circulated that some form of mediation was in progress, with Great Britain and Germany in the leading roles and possibly with Fas- cist Premier Benito Mussolini or Pope Plus XII taking the initiative
 The real meaning of the reports remained to be tested against the realities of Adolf Hitlers determina- tion to return the free city of Dan- zig to the Reich and Polands vast war preparations -backed by Bri- tain and France--to prevent any forcible solution of the problem.
 A dozen formidable factors were aligned against successful mediation on Danzig and especially against negotiations between London and Berlin to end the war threat there. Poland has insisted that any move toward peaceable solution must be directly between Warsaw and Ber- lin. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in recent public utter ances, has indicated that Britain agreed. Furthermore, the Nazis have insisted that Hitler will solve the problem in his own way at his own time.
 Britain Never Shuts Door
 But Britain never has closed the door on peaceful negotiation Of the conflict at DanZig, and in his last statement on the Free City Chamb- erlain recalled that both Poland and Germany had at one time said they were ready to try to work out settlement on certain terms.
 Diplomatic quarters in Berlin also we've greatly interested in week. end development that kept alive speculation on the possibility that Nazis might yet try to get together with Soviet Russia, especially if the Moscow-London negotiations for a mutual air pact fail George Asta- chov, the Soviet charge d'affaires in Berlin, attended a ceremonial lunchon given by Hitler at Munich tn connection with an ex- hibition Vi Nazi art. The fact that Astachov was the only prominent diplomat present except for repre- sentatives of Germany's direct al- lies appeared to give his presence significance, although high sources denied that such an interpretation was correct.
 War Plans Carry On
 Regardless of such back stage diplomatic maneuvering, both Bri- tain and France kept hard at their task of preparing against the pos sibility of future conflict.
 With the first of 100000 con- scripts settling down to six months training in deluxe military camps in Britain, the government sent Gen. ST Edmund Ironside, new in- spector general of overseas forces to Poland by airplane to initiate general staff talks in which the French also will participate. Their purpose is to tighten defensive CO., operation among the three powers.
 At the same time, French and British general staff officers com pleted plans for coordination of defenses on the west coast of Africa
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
LOCAL WORKERS
 MAKE PROTEST.
Lost Their Jobs Friday as Orders Go Out-No
 Hope for Return

Scores of WPA workers who lost their jobs Friday virtually stormed the welfare department offices at the City Hall today, as officials prepared to make additional lay-offs as re- quired by the new federal law. Well fare department officials said there was no action they could take and claimed that the men dismissed had been referred to the department by WPA authorities without any notice being given the city.
 Acting Supervisor of Welfare Martin F. Hayden told The Demo- crat that no immediate relief emer- gency threatens, but said he feared the situation might grow grave within the next few weeks.
 More Confusion
 Adding to the confusion today was the fact that a large number of those given their notices Friday should not have been dismissed. The new !, law .provides for the firing of those who have been on the WPA rolls for IS months or more, but there were more than a few local cases ir which men dismissed had been work ing far less than that period. When they complained to WPA officials to- day, they were told that any action to restore their jobs will have to be taken at the state headquarters in New Haven.
 400 Let Go Friday
 Close to 400 Waterbury WPA workers were dismissed Friday, with several hundred more slated to suf- fer the same fate. At the welfare department, the protesting WPA workers were told that the city had no part in their being dismissed from their jobs.
 It was said that the dismissed workers would not be eligible for any city aid for at least two weeks, since they received pay last week, and still have some wages, mostly small amounts, coming from the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17


 Congress still has in the appropria- tions mill final deficiency bill which may increase the record 1940 total by another $100,000000
 Permanent" appropriations - to pay interest on the national debt and for similar outlays-aggregated $3 $50, 100000. Expenditures totaling 9,569, ,374,177 were voted in the regu- lar appropriation bills sent to the President to date.
 Relief Is Sheared
 The House economy blac Sheared $5O,O00,0O from the releif deficiency appropriations. It cut many fills be- low budget figures, including those for the legislative establishment, and the labor, state, justice commerce, war, and navy departments, but on the agriculture, interior and flood control measures the final figures were more than $300,000,000 above the budgete.
 National defense appropriations aggregated $2,000, 100000, and met little opposition in the Congress.
 There is still pending in the f1na, deficiency bill a request for 25,000,' GOO more military funds, and another measure for $350 100000 PWA pro. gram. Bills Passed
 Appropriation bills passed at this
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German Reports From Berlin Indicate Move Towards This Direction
76th Congress Has Smashed All Records
More Than $l3,OOO, ,OOO, 900 Ordered Spent; Ex- ceeds l939 Total By Over Sl,75O, ,OOO,OOO;
 May Spend Still More Before Adiourning

Washington, July 17-(UP) P)-Despite the efforts of economy advocates congress has set new record for peacete appropriations at this session. voting more than SIS 900 900 00O survey of money bills showed today
 Appropriations approved since congress convened on January for the current fiscal year which began this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
ROBERT FELL TO RESIGN

London. Ju:y i7.--tUp) --ffoberI PcIi. American vics-dlrsctor Of thl inter- governmental committee el refugees. will resign hls post oi Wednesday. it was learned today.