davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
SINKING FUND IS
 OFFICIALLY ENDED
$lS7,OOO Turned Over to Controller = Charter
 AbOlishes Fund Now

A check for $187,0OO was turned over to Controller Thomas Conlon today, the transaction ending the existence of the surplus resource sinking fund. A change in the charter act last year provided for the abolition of the fund, with the money therein at the end of the year to go into the general fund.
 Harley w. Tripp, local banker and former finance board member who served as treasurer of the surplus re- source sinking fund, gave the check to the controller. The amount re- ceived was below the estimate of $200, ,000 set up in the city budget for the current year.
 The $187,OO0 represents revenue received by the city late in 1889 for which no specific provision had been made. Most of the money came from collection of back taxes; the rest ot it was largely from back assess ments and special levies, as well as interest and penalties.
 The revised city charter provides that hereafter any revenue from such sources shall go It once into the general fund of the city. The surplus resource sinking fund had been the subject of considerable controversy for the past several years.
 The end of the funds existence was provided for in a section of the Crlhane charter revision act, pass ed by the legislature last spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
UNION HEAD SAYS
 UNION IS EXEMPT
Can't Be Indicted, Main= tains LOngshOremen's
 Assn President

New York, Jan. 24.-(UP)-JoSeph P. Ryan, president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen's Association, contended today that the Sherman antitrust act, under which he, his union, and 10 other of its officials were indicted, had never been in- tended by Congress to be applied to labor unions.
 "The position taken by MT. Thur man Arnold Especial assistant attor- ney general Investigating rackets in the building industry constitutes a grave perversion of the law" union statement said. "It is his contention that labor unions can be prosecuted under the antitrust laws labor unions are clearly and specifically exempt"
 The indictment, charging coercion against lumber dealers in an attempt to force their employees to leave a Congress of Industrial Organizations union and join the ILA, an Ameri- can Federation of Labor affiliate, named Ryan, 10 other ILA officials, the ILA, two of its locals, and a teamster's local.
 The defendants, 1t was charged, forcibly prevented employees of lum- Der firms from reaching the docks to get their lumber, which had moved in interstate and foreign commerce, thereby piling up more than $2,OO0,O0O worth of lumber on the city docks. They were accused of having instituted boycott and blacklisted the firms in an effort to prevent trucking companies from handling lumber.
 Penalty for the otfense charged Is one years imprisonment and a $5,0O0 fine. Ryan, former street car motor man serving his fourth term as 1LA president and drawing $2O,0OO a year, said he would demand a speedy trial and welcomed the chance to prove his innocence.
 The indictments were the third phase of an investigation of the building and construction industry here. sand and gravel companies and lighting fixture manufacturers have been indicted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
SHETLAND ISLANDS ARE BOMBED AGAIN
Nazi Planes Reported to Have Dropped Six
 Bombs

London, Jan. 24.-(UP).-German planes dropped at least six bombs on the Shetland Islands today and were reported to have bombed a veS- se' at sea east of the islands.
 Explosions at sea were heard by persons on the islands after three German planes flew high overhead and one had dived on the port.
 The bombs were dropped in sparsely populated areas in the mid- de of the islands where there were no military objectives. No damage was reported and it was believed the Germans were merely Tightening their loads.
 The messages from the islands said that TO damage was done by the bombs, dropped by three planes which renewed aerial activity over British naval and Seaplane bases north of Scotland.
 British fighting planes went up against them. The air raid warning lasted 31 minutes. It was the first renewal in recent days of aerial &C., tivity in the Shetland or Orkney Island seaplane and naval bases.
 One of the German planes flew high over the islands whil another dived on the harbor, but did not at tack.
 The British planes failed to con tact the three craft, which dorget behind high clouds and apparentl! flew away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
VISIONS NO THIRD TERM
"IgnOminiOus Defeat" If Roosevelt Runs; Doubts
 He Will
BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-President John L. Lewis predicted before the United Mine Workers convention to- day that if President Roosevelt were drafted for a third term, he would go down to "ignominious defeat"
 Lewis added that he doubted that Roosevelt would seek third term.
 Lewis said that political conditions made it "unwise, in my judgment, for this convention at this time to bestow its endorsement upon any candidate for the presidency of the United States" He recommended that the international executive board of the UMWA be empowered to endorse nominee later.
 q am one who believes that Presi- dent Roosevelt will not be a candi- date for reelection" Lewis said. "Conceding that the Democratic convention could be coerced or dragooned into renominating him, I am convinced that, with the condi- tions now confronting the nation and the dissatisfaction now per- meating the minds of the people, his candidacy would result in ighomini- ous defeat"
 The head of the UMWA and the Congress of Industrial Organiza tionS charged that" the Democratic party "is in default to the American peo- pie" because "after seven years of power, 1t finds itself without solution of the major questions of unemploy- ment, low national income, mount ing internal debt, increasing direct and consumer taxation, and restrict ed foreig markets"
 He said that Illinois, Indiana, Ohio Pennsylvania. New Jersey and New York "are trending toward the Re- publican column in the campaign year of 194O."
 The G. O. F., he said, can be "pre- vented from winning only by an ac- cord between the Democratic party and organized labor and the adop- tion of an intelligent and rational program to be written into the plat form of the Democratic party and placed before the American people as the issues of the election"
 Lewis declared that organized la- bor "created the atmosphere of Suc-
 (Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
TRAVELLERS COS.
 SHOW INCREASES
Annual Meeting of Three Insurance Firms Is
 Held Today

Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 24-(UP)- President l.. Edmund Zacher an- nounced at the annual meeting of stockholders today that the three Travellers Insurance companies showed increases in all principal items for 1899.
 Financial statements of the com- panieS listed:
 The Travellers Insurance com- pany: Assets, $1 ,039, ,202, ,643, a gain of $63,675, ,199; reserves and all other liabilities, $97S, ,083 ,558, gain of $55,9l2.575; capital and surplus, $6l, ,119,085. 8 gain of $7,762,624.
 The Travellers Indemnity com pany: Assets, $30, 0,318,756, a gain of $1,824, ,437; reserves and all other liabilities, 1896, ,279, a gain of $1,- I'll ,293; capital and surplus, $l0,- 382,476, a gain of $113,143.
 The Travellers Fire Insurance company: Assets, $27.357, 100, gain of $l,077, ,069; reserves and all other liabilities, $19,124,523, a gain of $8O2, 2,834; capital and surplus, $8,- 233.176, a gain of $274.234.
 Life insurance in force at the end of 1899 was $4,s86.971, ,181, a gain of $342, 2,048, ,320; new life in- surance on 8 paid basis totaled $782, 2,338, ,02l, gain of $263, ,O30 ,380, and the total new group life paid for, including additions and in- creaseS, was $589 900 900, an all- time high for any one year.
 Liquidation of loans by life pol icyholders amounted to $1I6,117, ,00S for the year. decrease of $6.098.- 567. E
 Benefits paid during the year totaled $l03, Al ,672, bringing the ag- gregate since the organization was founded to $l,S77, ,OO6,385.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
Helsinki Dispatches Say All Attacks Have Been
 Repulsed FINS CLAIM SEVEN TANKS ARE DESTROYED Best of Russian Troops Being Thrown Into Cur-
 rent Offensive
BY WEBB MILLER

United Press Staff CorrespondentN
 Helsinki, January 24. = (UP) - A big Russian of- fensive northeast of Lake Ladoga failed the third suc- cessive day yesterday with heavy slaughter among the attacking Red Army troops, an official Finnish com munique claimed today. All Russian attacks were re- pulsed the communique said.
 Strong Red Army drives were made at the center of the Man. nerheim Line on the Karelian Is. thmus and at Kollaanjoki, north- east of Lake Ladoga, the communi- que said. Another attack broke down, it was reported, on the cen- tral front in the vicinity of Aittojoki, former base of Russian operations. Destroy ] Tanks The Films claimed to have de- stroyed seven tanks.
 Twenty-one civilians were killed and q were wounded in .honbingS by raiding Russian planes yesterday.
 The Russians used infantry. tanks and airplanes, supported by powerful artillery, in their attacks The fighting northeast of Lake La- doga was regarded as an attempt to smash the Finnish left wing and make the Mannerheim defense line untenable.
 Using Best Troops
 Films reported that the vigor of the attack seemed to indicate that the Russians were using some of their best troops, and that a real fight might prove to be impending.
 One of the Russian objectives on this front seemed to be to cut a railroad which runs from Sortaval, on the north shore of Lake Ladoga, southwestwards across the Karelian Isthumus to Viipuri, on the Finnish gulf.
 Loss of this road would make difficult and slow any shifting of men and material by the Films III the isthumus.
 Fire Many Shells
 The Films reported that in their new attack, as in others, the Rus- sians were firing thousands of shells.
 Finnish authorities charged again that the Russians in their air att tacks were conducting a deliberate terror campaign, and alleged that yesterday four hospitals, marked with red crosses, were bombed. One surgeon was killed, it was asserted, and four women wounded.
 At least 19 civilians were reported killed, mostly women and children, and 8 number wounded when a Russian air bomb struck an air raid shelter at Nurmes, in Finland yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
Stamford Jury Probe Interests Waterburians
Local Town Now "Grand Jury Minded"- Claim Made Public Funds Dissipated- Judge Foster Orders
 Thorough Probe By Jury Sitting in Stamford

A grand jury investigation of the affairs of the city of Stamford, started yesterday, is attracting much attention in Waterbury. Wa terburians, who witnessed one of the longest grand jury investiga- tions in the history of the state of Connecticut in connection with the affairs of the city of Waterbury, are naturally grand jury minded" and interested in any such pro- ceedings particularly when the grand jury is Investigating the af- fairs of another Connecticut city.
 The Stamford grand jury inves-. tigation was undertaken yesterday to determine whether public funds in the city and town of Stamford were being dissipated.
 The inquiry, resulting from arrest of former Town Purchasing Agent Walter Campbell and four others on charges of coliSpiring to de- fraud through issuance of false welfare checks, was ordered by Su- perior Court Judge, Carl Foster to examine reports that public off, cials had betrayed their trust"
 Subpoenaed for questioning were three officials of the Genovese Coal Co.,, whose accounts were audited at the, direction of States Attorney Lorin w. Willis. Company records were brought to the county court house and protected by 8 police guard throughout last night.
 The jury's inquiry was being con- ducted secretly and was expected to consume about two weeks. It will submit its findings and recommen- dations to the court. .
 Judge Foster told the jurors there is some reason to believe that some one or more public ofd- cials and some one or more of the citizens of the town and city of Stamford have caused public mon- eys of the town and city to be mis- spent for their own individual enrichment and to the enrichment of individuals, firms and corpora tions not residents of such towr and city,"
 Subpoenaes for the coal company
 (Continued on Page A)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
COMPLICATIONS
 UPSET EUROPE
Rumania's Oil Shipments Disputed By Britain;
 Neutrals Aroused
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent)

London, Jan. 24-(uP)-An AL lied dispute with Rumania over oil shipments to Germany added a new complication today to serious dip- lomatic situation which now involved countries, belligerent and neutral, over most of the world.
 Not only had Rumania, according to reliable reports, insisted that foreign oil companies operating in Rumania provide their share of oil for Germany but it was complained here that Rumania was withholding oil from the Allies, presumably at Germany's demand.
 Britain was understood to have made firm representations to Ru- mania and to have added a clear intimation that permission for Ru- mania to obtain British products, including airplanes and other war materials, might depend on a solu- ton of the oil question.
 Developments included: 1. Britain was studying an American protest against detention of American merchant ships in the Mediterranean.
 2. Britain was involved in a ser ious incident with Japan over the seizure of 21 German seamen of military age from a Japanese liner only 35 miles off the Japanese coast.
 3. Neutral countries were show ing strong resentment against a speech in which Winston Church ill, First Lord of the Admiralty, i'm plicitly invited neutral nations to join with the Allies, for their own safety, against Germany.
 4-The Russian-Finnish war was assuming increased importance daily in connection with the Euro- pean war. Allied relations with Rus sia had cooled rapidly. and there was some belief here that by spring the Allies might be sending not only war materials but volunteers" to Finland.
 5-South Africa, was torn by a political dispute which arose from a motion in the union parliament
 (Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
U. 5. MAY DEFEND
 CARIBBEAN ISLES
Dutch West Indies Loom as Strategic in Present
 Naval Maneuvers

Washington, Jan. 24-(UP)-Amer- ican naval maneuvers off the Dutch West Indies suggested today that the navy may be preparing to defend the startegic Caribbean islands if Holland Is drawn into the European war.
 President Roosevelt revealed at his press conference yesterday that 9 naval vessels maneuvering in the Caribbean will operate of and out of the Dutch islands of Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and St. Eusta tius. He insisted that assembly of the Atlan- tic squadron in the Caribbean was only routine training.
 The navy and state department refused to comment. Diplomatic cir cles, however, speculated that naval maneuvers near the Dutch islands following recent Dutch mobilization on the German border might be more than coincidence.
 Last week, George A. Gordon, United States minister to the Neither lands, conferred with Queen Wilhel- nina at The Hague. The White House never disclosed the nature of the conference, but it was consiedred possible now that it concerned Amer ican naval operations in the West Indies.
 The incident recalled MT. Roose- velt'S press conference declaration shortly after the outbreak of the European war that the United States, under the Monroe Doctrine, will not countenance transfer of any vest ern hemisphere territory from one European nation to another or to any non-American power.
 Informed sources hinted that there may be significance in MT. Roose-
 (Hontin11ad 0va Ton,a Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24

testimony in the divorce case in- volved, which cannot be mentioned, and the fact that the defendant in the divorce action was arrested in the courthouse and taken to police headquarters on charge of breach of the peace. s.
 Case Involved
 The case was that of Carmella Lattanzio Guarino against her hus- band Albert Guarino. The couple have been married less than year and judging from the evidence heard this morning their marital career was not what one could call happy" by any stretch of the imagination.
 The case got underway this morn ing with Atty. William K. Lawlor, counsel for the wife, pacing her on the stand and starting to question her. He hadn't proceeded far when Mrs. Guarino made sensational charge against her husband.
 Upon its utterance Guarino rose from his seat in the rear of the courtroom and shouted:
 Both Called Liars"
 'You're liar" The wife respond ed with a similar appellation.
 Atty. John F. Tobni, counsel for Guarino, finally quieted him and Sheriff OLeary issued 8 warning that order must be preserved in the courtroom.
 His warning was followed "in the courtroom" although there were several warm clashes between Atty.
 (Continued on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
NO HOLD-UP OF
 EMPLOYES' CHECKS
List of City Employees Who Are Delinquent Ready
 Next Week

The plan to hold up the pay checks of city employees who owe the city for back taxes or assess ments will probably be put into ef- feet next week, it was said at the City Hall today. Pay checks were distributed today without any being held up because of alleged indebt- ednesS to the city by employees.
 The list of city employees delin- quent in taxes and assessments has not yet been completed, but will probably be ready before next We'd nesday. The names of city em- ployes who owe money to the city will be given to Controller Thomas M. Conlon, and he will turn their pay checks over to Tax Collector Humber. Mangini. The amounts due will then be deducted from the checks.
 A copy of the list of delinquentS who are on the city payroll will also be submitted to the board of fi- nance. A vote requiring this step was passed by the old board of H. nance in December.
 The withholding of city pay checks is part of a campaign for the collection of back taxes. The drive has brought in thousands of dollars since it began in November.
 The general campaign is directed toward the collection of back taxes on personal property, while that against city employees will be for the collection of taxes or assess ments of any kind. The general campaign will later be extended to take in back taxes on real estate and back personal and old age aS- sistance taxes, as well as overdue sidewalk and sewer assessments and water rents. 4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
Heavy ySlaughterAmong Red Troops Reported In Lake Ladoga Sector
Nye To Take
 Borah's Place

Washington, Jan. 24.-UP) Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., a leader of the isOlatiOnist bloc will be appointed to the Senate foreign relations committee to succeed the late Sen. William E. BOrah, R., Ida, Republican leaders announced today.
 Several Republicans, includ- ing Senators Warren R. Austin, Vt, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Mass, had requested the com mittee post. one of the most de- sirabIe in Congress. Republican leaders said, however, that Nye had first option and would re- ceive 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
|N.L.R. B. BEGINS |COURT TEST OF HTS AUTHORITY Seeks to Prevent DisCriml=
 inatiOn Against Union Members NEW HAMPSHIRE MILL
 INVOLVED IN SUIT Refusal of Firm to Rehire
 Two Employees Basis of Claim

Washington. January 24.- (UP) - The National Rela- tions Board began today the first court test of it's author tion against union members seeking employment. The board asked the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals in Boston to enforce an order requiring the Waum- bee Mills, Inc, Manchester, N. H., to give employment to two union men whom it refused to hire because of union membership.
 The company admitted at the board hearing in June. 1888, that it had refused to employ Alphonse Chartier and Edward G. Geoffrion because of their records Of union activity, the board said in its peti- tion to the court, but contended that in doing so it had not violated the National Labor Relations Act.
 Practice Called Unfair
 The board held that the refusal to hire Chartier and Geoffrion was an unfair labor practice within the meaning of the act and ordered the company to give them immediate employment with compensation for the company's "unlawfu1 discrimina- tiOn" in rpf1Isi1o tO hire ther1 0o July 15, 1887.
 The company refused, the board said, contending that the act "is inapplicable where the relations of employer and employe has not yet been established, and that, if SO ap- piled, the act would be llnconstitu- tional."
 Permit Blacklisting
 The board held that the refusal of a company to hire workers be-
 (FyAxNfiV,,,aI oya fao-a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
BOOTH
 DESIGNER DIES

Boston, Jan. 24-(UP)-A. Jarratt Lewis, 79, designer of the first tele- phone booth and of the Blue Bell of the Bell Telephone system. died yes- terday at his Jamaica Plain home.
 Born in England, son of a U. s. consul, he had been associated for 25 years with the Boston Board Of Fire Underwriters and with the Bos- ton jewelry firm of Shreve, Crump & Low.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
NEW ENGLAND MILK
 DEALERS TO COMPLY

Boston, Jan. 24.-(UP) - Faced with jail sentences for contempt of court, all but II of 40 New England milk dealers prepared today to com- plete-in instalments- payments to- tling $5O0,OOO to the Federal Milk Marketing Administration.
 The dealers paid Q total $1O0,000 late yesterday after Federal Judge George c. Sweeney ordered Harold Blanchard, g, North Abingdon Deal- CT, committed to jail until he purged himself of contempt. He de- ferred commitment to Friday when Blanchard paid $1OO of $500 owed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
TWO REQUESTS
 ARE GRANTED
} Denied By Judge Me- Evoy in Alleged City Em=
 bezzling Case

Judge Frank P. McEvoy in a memorandum of decision filed in the Superior Court this morning granted the first and second re- quests of the motion for more spe- cific information filed by Attorney Maurice P. Wrenn, counsel for Miss Mary Cavanaugh. clerk in the of- flee of former tax collector, William A. Ennis, who is charged with em- bezzlement, and denied the third, fourth, and fifth requests of the motion.
 The first and second requests for more specific information had to do with what property of the City of Waterbury, the, state claims Miss Cavanaugh has embedded. States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald an- swered this question in court yes- terday when he stated that it is the states claim that the property in- volved is money and checks"..
 On One Date
 The third request was for more specific information as to whether  or not the state claims that the to- tai sum involved, $2774.01, was em- bezzled on the one date, April 5, A939, set forth in the information. At torneY, Wrenn stated yesterday that is was apparent that the state in- tends to attempt to prove several acts over 8 period of B years that Miss Cavanaugh was employed in the tax collectors. office.
 The fourth request, Judge Mc- Evoy sets forth in his memorandum, is an elaboration of the third.
 No Compulsion
 The jurist quotes the General Statutes of the State of Connecti- cut to show that the states attor-
 (Continued 0r Pace Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
TWO NAMED TO
 CONN. U. STAFF

Storrs, Conn, Jan. 24-(UP)-Two additions to the Agriculture faculty of University of Connecticut were announced today.
 Dr. Joseph c. Shaw, of University of Minnesota, assistant professor In the dairy department.
 Wesley F. Judlins, of Ohio State University, assistant professor Of Horticulture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-24
Divorce Case In Superior Court Has Wild Finish
Epit1ets Hurled, Punches Traded Ambulance Called Woman Taken to Hospital; Real COmmOtiOn Started
 After Litigants Left Court Room

The activity on the Finnish-Russan front wasn't nearly as furious as it the divorce front in the local Superior Court this morning The old Superior Court
 building Kendrick action this morning than it has in long while There were epithets, punches blood, woman tainted, ambulance had to back up in front of the courthouse to take the to the hospital to say nothing of of sensational