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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
PLOTS TO MURDER
 WIFE, HIMSELF
Plans Miscarry, But Death Strikes His Best Friend,
 Strange Woman

Ashuelot, N. H., March 27-(UP)- Albert E. Wojehick, g, whose plot to kill his pretty young trial" wife and himself miscarried and brought death to his best friend and a wom- an he scarcely knew, waived exam nation on a murder charge today and was held for superior court.
 Wojehick did not appear in Win chester municipal court for arraign- ment as scheduled, Judge Franklin P. Kellom announcing that the de- cision to waive examination was reached at conference between de- fense counsel Arthur Olsen and County Solicitor John H. Goodnow.
 While suicide guard was placed outside Wojehick's cell in county jail at nearby Keene, funeral ser- vices were being held at St. Mich ,ael's church here for the two vic- tins, Edgar Smart, 28, brother of the bride whose love he failed to win, and Mrs. Earl William Wheat on, 25, neighbor.
 Wife To MOurner
 Among the mournerS was the wife for whom Wojehick confessed he had intended the poison highball that killed the pair. She was blonde Lois Smart Wojehick, sister of Ed- gar.
 Wojehick nervously paced his cell. He complained he was unable to sleep.
 T keep seeing their bodies," he said, nervously running his hand through his sparse hair. They're always before me. They're driving me mad.
 T didn't mean to kill them. Why Edgar was my friend. And Julia Wheaton. I didn't have anything against her. Why did it have to happen that way?'
 Smart gave a party Friday night thinking it might provide a setting at which his sister Lois, l9, and her husband could reconcile their diff ferences. During the evening Smart and Mrs. Wheaton slipped a highba, made from a pint of whiskey Woje- hick allegedly confessed he had poisoned in a plot to kill himself and his wife should reconciliation efforts fail.
 Wanted Wife To Drink
 T wanted Lois to take a drink oi it, and if 1t had killed her, I was go- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
Twelve Heavy Bombing Planes Fly Low Over City
 in Final Warning
SOME HITCH HALTS
 EXPECTED SURRENDER
So Gen. Franco HurIs His Troops Through All Op-
 position to Madrid
BY HARRISON LARoCHE

United Press Staff Corresponcent)
 Hendaye, French-Spanish Border, March 27-UP)- The Spanish Nationalists drove victoriously through the Republican lines in south central Spain today and pre- pared to march into Madrid wi hout important resis- tance.
 Negotiations for uncondi- tional surrender of Madrid appar- ently had begged down because tho Republican government felt it could not control the die-hard anarchists in the capital.
 However, dispatches from Madrid indicated the people of the capital are hopeless, half-starved and eager for surrender and an end of the horror of 32 months of civil war.
 Nationalists at the border said fighting had broken out in the Madrid suburbs between Republican troops and civilians who demanded immediate surrender. Twelve heavy bombing planes flew low over the city as a warning of what may happen if resistance continues.
 Defense Council Losing Face E Burgos reorted that the defense council in Madrid was losin- control of the situation and might welcome a Nationalist attack which would force the city's equalization.
 The main Nationalist military ac- tivity for the moment was on the Cordoba front in southern Spain, with the Almaden mercury mines, the rich prize. Fierce fighting oc- cured in the Pedroches valley. where the Republicans resisted from concrete lined trenches, block houses and underground galleries.
 At other points, the Republicans surrendered. NationalistS were re- ported to have taken more than l0,- 900 prisoners and 38000 square miles. of territory.
 The Cordoba drive was co-ordi- mated with another on the Toledo front, to the north between Cordoba and Madrid.
 Madrid Capture Easy
 There appeared little doubt in Burgos that the capture of Madrid would be more or less routine with little opposition.
 Deserters who crossed into the Nu- tionalist lines in the early hours of this morning were quoted as saying that many inhabitants had hoisteu white flags on their homes. Some thing had happened to interrupt peace negotiations between the Re- publican defense council at Maorld and the Nationalist government at Burgos. The Madrid radio announced that as result of the hitch the de- fense council was studying means of preparing it's defenSes.
 But there were strong 1ntilnations that the fall of Madrid was im,nin- ent.
 Dispatches Both Ways
 Analysis of dispatches from both sides indicated:
 1. That the Republicans had lit- tie idea of making long stand if the NationaliSts attacked.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
NURSE SOUGHT TO
 RECEIVE LEGACY

Boston, March 27-(UP)-Police today started a search for a former Jersey city. N. J., woman, now be- lieved a nurse in state institution in greater Boston, who has come into a $3000 legacy which must be claimed by Wednesday. A telephone call was received by police today from Miss Nan Boucher of Jersey city requesting that they try and locate her sister, Mrs. Oulette Hus- ton, who came to this vicinity in 1921. Miss Boucher did not explain the Wednesday deadline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
CIO MUST RETURN
 BACK TO OLD HOME
President William Green of A. F. of L. Says That
 Will Bring Peace

Boston, March 27.-UP)-Peace will return to the ranks of labor only when the Congress of Indus- trial organiza tions "dissolves and re- turns home," according to President William Green of the American Federation of Labor.
 Expressing the AFL's willingness to "extend peace and invite them (CIO) to come back into the house of labor" Green, addressing 1000 New England Regional Conference delegates to the AFL yesterday, add ed:-
 'There will be no peace until one or the other is dissolved. You can't have two unions. The only answer is for the rebel union to dissolve and come back home."
 He referred to CIO Chairman John L. Lewis peace plan calling for merging the CIO, AFL and the powerful railroad brotherhoods in a new organization as "unthink- able".
 They Are the Rebels
 ''They are the rebels" said Green. "The American Federation of Labor disavows any responsibility for the break between us. We occupy the house of labor-the house established by those who started the labor move men 60 years ago."
 Green said the AFL was willing to apply craft unionism and industrial unionism where either would best serve to benefit the workers in- volved.
 "But we won't sacrifice the craft unions to the whim of any indivi- dual" he added.
 An unscheduled speaker at yes- terday's session. Green entrained for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27

necessary plans.
 Four Floors in Height
 The new construction will com- prise four floors, conforming in height to the original building. The newer portion of the hospital con- structed in 1923 comprises five floors, including operating and x-ray rooms. The wing will be added to the present north side of the hos pital building.
 Fatalities For 75
 Facilities for 75 persons will be provided by the addition, with the fourth floor to be given over to birth rooms. Mother Sacred Heart said that the entire maternity depart ment will be rearranged by the ad- dition. An increase of staff, includ- ing nurses, sisters and physicians will be required by the addition. The Sisters of St. Joseph are assigned to St. Mary's Hospital.
 The first floor of the new wing will consist of double rooms and wards, the second floor of . double rooms, private rooms on the third floor, and birth rooms on the fourth floor.
 The ground floor will provide fla cilities for an entirely new dining room for nurses, and space in the present building used for that pur- pose at the present time, will be given over for an enlargement of the clinic.
 Almost Complete Block
 The new-wing will extend the hospital property almost around the complete block of Union street, Franklin street, Scovill street and South Elm street. The new nurses home on South Elm street was erected shortly after the latest ad- dition was made to the hospital in the early 1920's.
 Special wards for children will be erected in an arm of the proposed building, extending from the main wing. The arm will be to the west of the wing. Children's surgical cases will be confined to the third floor and medical cases to the sec ond floor. This plan is realization of the proposals that were made in 1929 for the erection of a special children's section of the hospital.
 The new wing is to be erected on the site of the old day nursery, which was torn down some years ago, and supplanted by a beautiful flower garden, maintained by the hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
ITALY, FRANCE
 TRY TO SETTLE
Speech of Mussolini Was Not Considered So Very
 Aggressive
By JOE ALEX MORRIS


 United Press Foreign News Editor)
 The triumph of Nationalist armies in. Spain heightened the shadow of Premier Benito Mussolini across the Mediterranean today as France and Italy weighed prospects for peace full settlement of their colonial quarrel.
 Fascist Premier Benito Mussolinis speech yesterday encouraged a les sening of general tension because his attitude toward France was comparatively moderate.
 He offered to negotiate. a settle ment. He spoke of Djibouti, French port on the Red Sea that is vital to Italian Ethiopia; of the Suez Canal, which France dominates but to which commerce between Italy and Ethiopia contributes tremendous tolls; and of Tunisia, the French colony in North Africa, which was long ago grabbed from under the nose of Rome and where Italy's 95,- 900 residents are outnumbered by only 10000 by the French.
 Centers of Trouble
 In these centers of trouble, Mus solini presumably wants concessions that will relieve the strain on Ital- ian economy; concessions that France might gracefully negotiate If calm approach is undertaken by both sides. Only in Tunisia, where the Fascists seek greater po- litical rights for the Italian minor ity, does the conflict get on acutely dangerous ground.
 Premier Edouard Daladier of France, now invested with the pow CTS of dictator. indicated that he l(s0., fia,niad f,r1 paaa Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
TRUCK OPERATORS
 OF CONN. TO MEET
Gather Tonight in Hartford to Discuss Collapse of Providence Session

Hartford, Conn, March 27-CUP) Connecticut operators will meet here tonight to discuss the collapse of negotiations at Providence to set- tie the tri-state walkout of truck drivers and were expected to hold firm to their original offer of wage increases beginning in 1940.
 Myles w. Illingworth, secretary of the Motor Truck Association and spokesman for three major motor concerns involved in this state, said it was impossible to meet the union demands at this time.
 The union, he said, wanted 85 cents an hour for -the-road drivers in 1889 and l940, and 90 cents an hour in 194l. Operators were willing, he said. to grant 5 per cent wage increase in 1940. and another percent in 1941. Inasmuch as rates already were on file for this year with the Public Utilities and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
JAPAN HEARS OF
 GERMAN ALLIANCE

Tokyo, March 27--(UP) - The supreme war council met today to hear Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, war min- ister. explain the European and Chinese situations. The dispatch waS taken to mean that Gen. ItagaN had outlined to the supreme war council German proposal for a Japanese German military alliance aimed agaiSnt any anti-dictator combination of Democracies.
 Gen. Itagaki personally was un- derstood to favor an alliance aimed against the Soviet Union alone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
TRIAL GOES OVER
 TO WEDNESDAY
Assessor Thomas A. Shan= ahan Will Not Be Able to
 Attend Session
BY JOSEPH F. DONAHUE Democrat Staff Reporter)

Judge Ernest A. Inglis today de- ferred the Waterbury conspiracy trial until Wednesday, when advised at Atlantic City, New Jersey by De- fense Attorney Patrick Healey, that City Assessor Thomas A. Shanahan is in no physical condition to re- turn to trial tomorrow.
 MT. Shanahan,s illness, a stomach disorder, necessitated the adjourn ment of court last Wednesday, but it had been expected that the trial would be resumed tomorrow.
 Dr. Jackson said today concerning MT. Shanahan's condition, "The condition of Thomas Shanahans is not sufficiently improved to warrant his return to court tomorrow, aI- though he is somewhat improved" :"
 However, on advice of Dr Andrew J. Jackson, attending physician, De- fense Attorney Healey requested Judge Inglis today to grant the add ed postponement. Judge Inglis com- piled. Attorney Healey also under took the task of advising his bro LlleI QelcllSc COu1lOCl dllu 0PCCldt Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn of the continued delay.
 Clerk George H. Freeman and his assistants at superior court were advising the jurors that there will be no trial tomorrow. question of whether or not MT. Shanahan will be fit to return to court Wednesday will not be answered until later hour.
 Out of Hospital Sunday
 MT. Shanahan was released from St. Mary's hospital yesterday, after several x-ray pictures of his stom- ach had been taken. Dr. Jackson said that no treatment was given at the hospital, and that the re- moval to the hospital on Saturday was simply a precautionary meas ure.
 Dr. Jackson had been optimistic that MT. Shanahan might be able to return to the trial tomorrow.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27

teers to drag ponds and dams in the Fairlawn section, and the drag ging of the Scevill dam, near Hamilton park, was continued. Po- lice Superintendent William J. Roach this afternoon was to confer with City Engineer Charles A. Root about a plan to set off charges of dynamite in the dam. in the hope that if the boy had been drowned there, the blasts might send his body to the surface. Permission of Scovill Go. authorities was being sought.
 Parts Of Auto Found
 Police today were checking on an automobile bumper and radiator or nament, found yesterday in a swamp off the Wolcott road, in Wol- colt, several miles from Jackie'S home. The bumper was stained, either with rust or blood, and a ch:mical analysis of the stain was being planned. Like every other clue found thus far, it was being thoroughly investigated.
 In, official circles today, the be- lief grew that the lad had either been taken by someone mentally un- balanced, or had been struck by an automobile, whose driver picked him up to dispose of his body elsewhere.
 Police Are Baffled
 Police admitted themselves baf- led, and indicated their feeling that if the boy had been drowned, as first theorized, his body would have been found by this time by one of the hundreds of searchers who have been on the job since Thursday night. But still again and again the woods and swamps in Mill Plain, near the boys home were coinbed.
 Woods as far away as Wolcott were searched again today, without
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
POLAND BEGINS
 TO FEEL PRESSURE
Hitler Has His Eyes on Danzig-Poles Accused
 of Attacking Germans
BY JOSEPH Wi. GRIGG
United Press staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff CorrespondenD
 Berlin, March 27 (U.40 - Nazi government sources aSsailed Poles for purported anti-German activities today in what appeared to be a campaign of pressure on Po- land in connection with Danzig and the Polish Corridor to the sea.
 With International interest cen tered on the possibility that Adolf Hitler would move next to return the Polish Corridor and the port of Danzig to the Reich, semi-ofiicial information made available to the foreign press charged that system atic attempts were being made by Polish organizations to disturb re- lations with Germany.
 In the past, such Nazi statements have sometimes preceded German moves to expand the Reich's from tiers.
 Bombing of Germans
 Referring to reports by the Semi- official DNB Agency from Bromberg that attacks had been made on German women and children in the Polish Corridor by members of the Polish Western League, the state ment said:
 Recent anti-G German demonstra- tions by the Polish Western League in Bromberg and the vicinity have astonished political circles here in solar as 1t has been impossible to halt systematic attempts by this league to disturb Polish- German re- lations."
 The statement added that "yes- terday,s demonstrations at Brom-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Mar. 27-(UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Mar. 24th, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Yenr $6,643,S64.114.15 s5,425, ITS, ,457.SS
 Receipts
 $4ssO. .14o.s1s.16 $4.745,1sO,s25.e6 $2,s23, ,72s,7s4.ss sssO.s12.5s2.1s $2,24s,7os,744.ss ss24.ass.ss2iss
 Cash Balance $3.44o.7s5.1s2.2S $3,1sI,S3o.616,0I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
INJUNCTION GRANTED

Washington, March 27--(UP)-- The District of Columbia court of appeals today granted temporary injunction restraining the labor de- partment from enforcing minimum wages for the steel industry under the Walsh Healey government con- tracts act.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
Starving People Fight
 Loyalist Defenders To PreventM More Bloodshed
St. Mary's Hospital Is
 ToConstructN NewWing
Cost Will Be Approximately $500, ,OOO-Site Will Be Corner of Franklin, ScoviH Streets-Will
 Be Four Floors in Height

Construction of a new wing to the St. Mary Hospital at cost of approximately $30oOOO being planned by the board of directors, according to announcement made today by Mother Sacred Heart, hospital director
 Plans for the addition, to be constructed on property owned by the hospital at Franklin and Scov streets rectorS recently voted to request Mr. Walsh to draw the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
Search For Missing Boy Extends Into New Areas Today
May Be Used-Poce Check Up on Parts, of Auto Found Near WOlcOtt

Hope that four-year old Jackie Grady might be found alive had virtually vanished today the search for the youngster missing since Thursday extended into While the lads parents Mr. and Mrs John Grady of Gates avenue were still hoping against hope the grim hunt went without single trace of the tot being un covered.
 Rowboats were used by policemen. firemen and yolun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-27
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Lefty Hurls Sensational
Ball to Whip Queen City

feature next Sundays schedule and will
be played on the Keewatin diamond
Not since Ely encountered an 81
setback at Calumet June Is, has Mana
ger Maddernis club sustained a defeat
in league competition. A so shutout
of Chisholm in an exhibition contest
on the White Sox's field the same
week sent the local boys into the win
column with surprising results.
During past weeks Ely has been
marked as the club to beat, with their
little but potent pitcher hurting him
self to the No. position among league
moundsmen. "Leftyis" Is strikeouts in
Sundays battle made his total for the
IL league games 81, or nearly nine per
game. In the exhibition game with
Chisholm he also marked up Is strike
outs.
The count was knotted at / all as
that big seventh inning came I'D at
Virginia Sunday John Sweigel's run
in the fourth had been matched by a
run by Hanson of the Rangers in the
same inning to tie up the game. As
the seventh started the Queen City was
already using its second pitcher, the
starting moundsman having left in
the fifth.
Frank DebeltZ, starting the inning
at the plate, connected for a single,
and then stole second. Bert Maddern,
second up, was out on an unasSisted
play by the first baseman Albert Banks,
who followed Madden, was thrown out
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Legion and Auxiliary Units
to Compete at State Meet

Sleepy Eye corps, Chisholm, runnerup
to the title holders. worthington, East
Grand Fork, and East Side, st. Paul.
Ely, always a contender for the cham
pionship, won third place in the 1893
contest.
The corps will make its initial ap-
pearance Sunday at GAS p. m. In a
memorial parade of massed musical or
CARNATIONS in which LOO musicians
viii participate.
Monday they viii perform twice, at
$50 p m in the massed drum and
bugle corps parade and at $50 o'clock
in the 40 & torchHght parade. In the
latter event the corps win wear its
clown suits.
They viii also appear twice Tuesday,
the first time in the convention par
ade at p. m. and the second in the
contest IN the evening. The champion
ship corps viii give an exhibition We'd
nesday morning.
The auxiliary glee club was extend
ed an invitation TO sing at the OPEN
ing session Of the organization Mon
day morning but was unable to accept
it.
Convention delegates include Mrs.
Rosa Schaefer. auxiliary, Edward Buck
ley, Legion, and A j. McMahan, with
DR.. j. j. Call, alternate, for the 40 & g..
The auxiliary glee club Is composed
of Mrs Ina Dunstan, director, Miss
Mary Lambert, and Mesdames Sauna
Kayute. Anna Palmgard, Inez Norby,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps,
Auxy Glee Club, Quartet
to Bid for Honors.

The American Legion drum and
bugle corps and the auxiliary glee club
and quartet VIII compete for champion
ship honors at the state Legion con-
vention scheduled for Minneapolis from
Saturday until Wednesday, inclusive.
The auxiliary musical organizations
viii be defending frst-place titles won
in class B competition at the state con-
clave IN St. Cloud a year ago.
The drum corps VIII leave for Min
neapolis Sunday morning at o'clock
in a special bus. Corps members viii
meet at the Community Center where
they viii board the chartered bus. They
viii return Wednesday.
The championship glee club and
quartet are scheduled to depart Mon
day morning. They viii return late
Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Competition for the auxiliary musical
organizations VIII be held Monday
night at O'Clock IN the First Baptist
church, with the winners announced
the same evening The winning glee
club viii be invited to sing at the aux
iliary session Tuesday morning.
The drum corps is slated to appear
five times at the convention. The drum
corps contest is scheduled for the Uni
versity stadium Tuesday at 2 p. m
Competing in class A, Ely wiz vie for
state hOnors against the championship
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-03
3 Games Remain on League
Schedule; Calumet to Play
Here Sunday.

Two home runs that accounted for
five runs IN the seventh inning gave
the Ely city baseball team a to 2
win over Virginia Sunday on the Queen
City diamond.
Behind the maSterful three-hit pitch
ing of Reginald Lefty" winquist. the
Ely club turned in one Of its best
games of the season to annex its sixth
straight league win.
Calumet will travel here Sunday,
followed by Bull. Aug. 13. The latter
game has been changed from Bull to
Ely The game at Taconite, Aug. 20.
viii end the league schedule. Ne
gotiations are under way to bring sew
eral teams here for exhibition contests
after league play is terminated
IF Ely continues its winning streak,
it viii complete the schedule with nine
wins against five defeats. with a per-
centage of $50. The remained Of the
season will witness a nip-and-tuck
battle between Eyeleth, Keewatin and
Manager Ernest Maddernis boys for
second place honors, with Ely holding
an outside chance Of knocking down
that position.
Chisholm. which dumped Eveleth 4
TO 8 on the home diamond Sunday. has
only Keewatin standing between it and
a possible chance of losing the lead
which it now holds. This contest VIII