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TO LEGAL ACTION
Two Candidates D e f e a t
Law's Intent, Ruled At
torney General Daly
iicretary of State Dr. C.
i Satti will be named
ndant, not later than
irday morning, in a writ
mandamus proceeding
ring him to show cause
a candidate for congress
se fifth Connecticut dis
; on the union party
;t should not have his
te on the voting
hlnes. Secretary Satti,
l in accordance with a find
ing handed down by State Attorney
General Edward J. Daly, has in
formed Frederick W. Puckey of
this city and Terrence J. O’Neill of
Oxford that they are both ineli
gible for a place on the machines
alongside the union party label.
Petitions of both men for the
union party designation for con
gress in the fifth district were filed
some time ago with Secretary of
State SatU after they were ap
proved, as to the propriety df the
names of Signers, by Town Clerk
Don A. Egan of this city.
Candidate O'Neill of Oxford de
clared that he will have a writ of
mandamus naming Dr. Satti de
fendant on file in the superior court
of Waterbury by Saturday. He has
oTfr a week in which to take
gallon.
Candidate Puckey of this city in
formed the Democrat that he had
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SPECIAL SESSION
TO HEARCASES
Federal Grand Jury to Sit
Monday*—-Vice Raid Vic
tims Will Get Hearings
Indictment of 35 persons, among
them several arrested in Water
bury as Mann aet violators and
conspirators in the recent extensive
investigation of organised vice, will
be considered at a special session
of the Federal grand Jury to beheld
in New Haven Monday. Those
against whom indictments are re
turned will be put to plea in Unit
ed States district court next day.
Latest of the arrests was that of
George Bealla, 20 years old, and a
brother-in-law of Michael Taver
ner, of this city and Bethany. Tav
erner and his wifd Are both held for
the district court session. It was
the raid on the Litchfield Grill in
Behany. allegedly owned by Taver
ner. late in July vthich precipitated
the wholesale arrests that netted 47
persons in New England and New
York state during recent weeks.
Bealla Is alleged to have escaped
from Bethany at the time of the
first raid, and was brought to Hart
ford by G-men who found him hid
ing in a coal mine in Wilkes Barre.
Pennsylvania. Arraigned yesterday
before Commissioner William J.
Wholean in Hartford, Bealla was
held for the court session In $5,000
bond bn a charge of transporting
women across the state line for im
tpotal purposes.
He said during the hearing that
Taverner had urged him to leave
Wilkes-Barre, the home of his par
ents, and come to Bethany to work.
Unaware of the nature of the place,
he discovered shortly after his ar
rival that it was a house of ill fame,
he said, but when he tried to leave,
Taverner prevented him from do
ing so. He was taken to New Ha
ven county Jail in lieu of bail.
Abo arraigned yesterday was
Steve Wolslaw. 39, of Springfield,
who faces a similar charge. He
pleaded not guilty and waived ex
amination, and was released under
$4,000 bond for appearance »t the
federal court session.
It to expected that a large num
ber of those under arrest will take
Pifm and throw themselves on the
mjrcy of the court Persons held
as material witnesses will in all
probability be teed.
CHARLES SCOn
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Lone Run Oa
Crossing the plate with the first run of the 1938 World Series, George Selkirk also scores the first hoine run,
his line drive having landed in the right field stands. It gave the Giants a taste, of the far-famed Xankee power
Mud, Water Unite To
Postpone Series Game
Com. Landis Makes Decision At 10:20 This Morning;
Mgr. Joe McCarthy, Capt. Travis Jackson Agreed
on Decision—Rain Makes Havoc of Grounds
BY GEORGE K1RXSEY
(United Press SUIT Correspondent)
Polo Grounds, New York, Oet. 1—
(UP)—Ankle-deep mud and big
pools of water on the Polo grounds
today caused baseball commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain jAndls to order
postponement of the second world
series game between the Giante and
the'Yankees.-' • '.;™ - >v
The second game will be played
tomorrow at- the Polo grounds, wea
tfser permitting and the series
Schedule set hick one day.
Judge Landis made his decision at
10:30 a. m., after * careful inspec
tion of the field from the home
plate to the farthest reaches of the
outfield. He was accompanied- bn
his Inspection by Joe McCarthy,
manager of the Yankees^axtd Travis
Jackson, field captain 'and third
baseman Of the Giants. Both Mc
Carthy and Jackson agreed with
Landis thatthe daimood was in no
conditlon to play any kind of ball
game; especially a world champion
ship event. .A
"The field is entirely too wet,.”
Landis said, “to offer a fair test of
baseball. Outfielders sioiply couldn't
run on this wet turf and the in
field la so sloppy that fielding a
ball would'be pure guesswork,”
Water stood in many places oh
the infield and there Were yards of
mud between second and third arid
first and second.
Landis, in deciding to call the
game off also took into considera
tion the fact that it would be dan
gerous for players to* perform on
such treacherous footing.
Waiting
Landis found that even the
Green wards were half 'way ankle
deep in mud. The infield, which
was left uncovered during last
night's hain because it was already
soaked by yesterday's rain,, also Was
heavy.
There was a pool of water about
SO feet long and: 30 feet wide stand
ing in the extreme left center field.
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Cheshire, Pot 1.—J. William
Moss, a superior com juror, and
prominent resident of the town, died
today from a heart attack, ap
parently while he was waiting a New
Haven bus. Mr. Moss was. a mem
ber of a civil Jury which late, yes
terday completed its deliberation of
a damage action. , . .
Apparently *r. Moss was stricken
as he Sat in a chair.outside Salva
tore’s Store at "The Notch,” West
before
Cheshire He arrived shortly b
Id o’clock and sat doyn in .the chair
t- await the arrival of a bus, K
Shortly afterward a woman pa
tron at the ate re came outside to
find Mr. Moss slumped over in the
chair. Con ' > Arthur O'Hare was
summoned, a:-.d he in.turn notified
Dr. Wilbur J. Moore, Cheshire Med
ics examiner. ^ : . .
Dr. Moore pronounced death dU*
to heart fa,- -c and gave permis
sion for the r valof the body ,to
LARGE ALIMONY
minis mid|
Temporary §tipJatioa Al
lows Cheshire Woman
$35# Monthly
One of the largest temporary ali
mony settlements In superior court
history w.-.s ;orded here today
When s' stipulation was filed in
which it is agreed that Mrs. Helen
Thompson Rutt:11 of Cheshire, shall
receive *850 monthly, while her di
vorce action against Donald Rus
sell of White Plains, N. T.„is pend
ing in the court.
The divorce suit was brought by
the We several weeds'ago. Her
husband and -%e were married Oct.
23, 1924, and she listed intolerable
cruelty as grounds for her action.
:, Also filed today in court was, a
motion for appointment of a guard
ian for the husband, who is npw 111
in White Plains. A committee of
one, Robert Russell, now has the
defendant in his custody.
Mrs. Russell alleges in her suit
that her husband has a large an
nual income. She asks custody of
three children, an allowance for
their support and alimony.
DISBARMENT CASE
State Said to Be Preparing
, Charge? Against Two
' - More lawyers ■ *»-V
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 1—(UP)
—Opposing counsel today drafted
to’efs to be filed in the disbarment
proceedings against Cherles and
Milton Harrison as the state re
portedly prepared charges against
at least two other attorneys for al
leged unethical practices
The accusations against the Har
rison toothers, and two ethers al
ready disbarred, resulted from a su
preme court investigation of mem
bers of the New Haven Countv Bar
association.
The H&rrLv,u
35 counts Of soliciting cases, Ciuifc,
in person or by agent Similar accu
sations, It was understood, would be
lodged against the pthers, who re
mained unnamed, but against whom
the association grievance committee
complained to State Referee John
K. Beach.
The Harrison case drew to a close
late yesterday when Special Prose
cutor Lorin W. Wilts was ordered
by the court to comb the evidence
for any Indication of perjury on the
part of state and defense wi'nesses.
Both toothers denied each charge
separately, testifying that the cases
that came to their firm either'had
been recommended by friends or
former clients, none of whom were
paid for their references.
A state rebuttal witness. Humbert
Savestano, proprietor of a Milford
Turnpike garage, however, testified
been offered 1
he had been offered commissions to
refer accident cases to the Harrison
firm and at
a Say to t
growing ou
Late News
Flashes
WEATHER MURKY
Aboard Dirigible Hinden
burg, Oct. X—(UP)—The.
dirigible Hindenburg, fly
ing to Frankfort with three
New York newspaper writ
era on the first leg of an
air race around the world,
was in murky weather over
a Choppy sea off the New
foundland coast today. It
was believed, however, that
- the dirigible would arrive
in Frahltf«rt*.t}enna»y> «n
time, shortly after dawn
Saturday. /;
CHINESE FLEE
Shanghai, Oct. 1—(UP)
—Thousands of Chinese
were in flight today from
their native quarter to the
,• safety, of the international
settlement. ' • , ;T>;
FIGHT FOR SPAIN
’ Burgos, Oct. 1—(UP)—
The insurgent armies are
not defending capitalism
but are fighting for the
people of Spain, including
the workers, Gen. Francis-,
co Franco proclaimed today
in taking- over supreihe
leadership of the provision
al government, as political
dictator and commander-in^
chief of the armed forced.
TOWN OFFIC:
Westpc
Taxes u
withheld
to^a .. o!
cpunty
the situation, disclosed by an audit
last motto, to cleared.
The Westport check had beep
drawn b» Mansfield and town
Treasurer William P. Clark, but held
UP upon receipt of word that Fair
field had refused payment.
TEXTILE PROBE
Witness Warned For Sec
end Day Against Giving
Evasive Answers
NOT COOPERATING WITH
COMMITTEE, CHARGED
Dumaine Could Not Re
member Yearly Salaries
in Various Companies
Boston, October 1 — (UP)
— For the second time in as
many days, Representative
Adolph J. Sabath (democrat)
of Illinois, chairman of the
congressional committee to
investigate bondholders’ re
organizations, today warned
Frederic Christopher Du
maine, guiding spirit of the
defunct Amoskeag textile
business, against giving
evasive answers In a public inquiry.
Sabath, Irked by repeated “I don’t
remembers" and “I think sos,”
charged the 70-year-old treasurer
of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company and its holding firm, the
Amoskeag Company, with falling to
cooperate with the committee.
new vsHugns
Even as Dumaine turned to pro
test, 8abath shouted new questions
at him. The chairman delved into
not only the Amoske&g cotton tex
tile business, once the largest of its
kind in the world, but also Du
malne’s multiple other interests.
Earlier Dumaine had testified he
received *100,000 a year salary from
191* to 1929 as treasurer of the
manufacturing company, which sub
sequently was reduced yearly to
*40,000 in 1932, which continued
through March of this year. He
"couldn’t remember” what be re
ceived as treasurer of thi holding
company, but offered to produce the
figures later.
What Was Salary
“And what did you receive as
president and treasurer of the Wal
tham Watch company?" pressed
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BROWDERFREED
FROM IND. JAIL
Speech Read Over Radio
Last Night Despite His
Imprisonment
Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 1—(UP)—
Earl Browder, communist candidate
for president jailed yesterday to
forestall a communist rally, was re
leased today at 8:45 a. m., 25 hours
and 15 minutes after his arrest.
David J. Bentall, attorney for
Browder, ■ said he would file suits
charging false arrest against Mayor
Sam Beecher, Police Chief James
C. Yates “and others.” The suit
will be filed in Vigo superior court
late today or tomorrow, Bentall
said. Browder will return to Terre
Haute ' to testify in the case, he
said.
Vagrancy charges on which
Browder, Wlado Prank, New York
novelist; Seymour Walden, New
York, communist national commit
teeman; Charles Stadfelt, Indiana
communist secretary, and Andrew
Remes, Indianapolis, were held
overnight were dismissed by the
prosecution at the opening of city
court.
Authorities were agreeable. They
had accomplished their chief pur
pose by preventing Browder from
delivering in person a scheduled
campaign address last night.
His speech was read over a local
radio station at the appointed hour
by David Bentall, his attorney,
while L. H. Quinn, secretary of the
Terre Haute Merchants associa
tion, stood outside the locked door
of the studio demanding the key
and asking for volunteers to aid in
a. forcible ejection of the speaker.
Gov. Cross Appoints Group
To Study Textile Situation
Hartford, Coon-. Oct 1.—(UP)—
Qov. WUbtir L. Cross today named
a commission of nine men to study
tlfe textile situation in eastern Con
necticut “resulting from a general
decline of that cotton textile indus
try which has been going on since
1931.. v,
The governor, frankly "diaurbed"
by conditions in this part of the
state, named the following members
of a commission to make “recom
mendations for action by both pri
vate and governmental agencies:
Chairman, B. R. Warren, Daniel
son, executive vice-president Brook
lyn, Conn., 8avlng bank.
Oeotge Kimball, president .—
lean Hardware Ca, Mew Britain. 4..
authority on taxation.
David Moxon, agent, American
Tlbead Co., WUllmantic.
Cordon Harrower, treasurer, Wau
regan-Qulncbaug, Inc-. Wauregan,
representing t|»e cotton textile In
dustry. .I;- <4.
department man
Fitzgerald, representing
William
labor
Mayor Edward Moran of Norwich.
James Hook, president, Geometric
Tool,Co., New Haven, representing
the general public.
The governor said several months
ago In a speech In eastern Connec
ticut that he planned to name a
committee to Investigate conditions
1q that section of the state where
many textile factories dosed In the
past fear years, leaving thousands
Unemployed.
"For some time,” an announce
ment from the executive offices said,
"the governor hap been disturbed
tor conditions in this part of the
state a erecting not only employment
and business but also the financial
structure of several towns.
"For this reason the commission
la made up of men to represent
banking, taxation, the cotton textile
industry, the silk and rayOn In
the woolen Industry, labor
which will
recta of the
the
for
ac
en. Francisco Frar
ecomes Dictator
Rebel Cause In
Alcazar After Weeks Of Shelling
Its walls and towers tumbled In ruins, the Alcaiar fortress at Toledo,
Spain, stands as a (rim memorial to the valiant stand of Ms 1200 defend
ers, who withstood a 10-weeks siege before being released by victorious
rebel forces who captured the city. Pictured is one of the shattered walls,
target for 10,000 shells.
Curley Claims Father
Coughlin Is Irritated
Mass. Governor Says He Advocated N. U. S. J. Prin
ciples Years Ago—Regrets III Feeling
Between Priest, Himself
ROOSEVELT WILL
SPEAK TONIGHT
Pittsburg Address 1$ Sand
wiched in Between Knox,
A1 Smith Talks
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
(United Press White House
Correspondent)
Aboard Roosevelt Special, Oct. 1
—(UP)—President Roosevelt opened
his re-election campaign in real
earnest today, scheduling two
speeches in one day.
Tonight in Pittsburgh he delivers
a major political address, just two
days after his opening campaign
speech before the democratic state
convention in Syracuse. On the na
tional networks, he will be sand
wiched between Frank Knox, repub
lican vice-prcsidental candidate,
speaking also from Pittsburgh, and
his former political and pemosa!
friend. Alfred E. Smith, speaking
from New York.
Between the denunciations of
these enemies of the New Deal, he
was expected to discuss the attitude
of his administration toward labor
(Continued on Page 4.)
21 PERSONS HURT
IN STRIKE RIOTS
Bricks Thrown Into
Busses, Trolleys Injur
ing Mill Workers
Heading, Pa.. October 1. — (UP)
— Twenty-one persons were in
jured. several seriously, in strike
riots at the Berkshire Knitting Mills
today.
While 3,000 pickets from neighbor
ing cities patrolled the plant bricks
were thrown through the windows
of busses and trolley cars carrying
loyal workers to the mill. Many
were Injured as the missies crashed
through the windows of crowded
vehicles.
The strike was called when the
mill opened Its three main gates
this morning. Company officials
said "several hundred” workers
marched from their machines to
join pickets gathered at the
entrances.
Luther D. Adams, president of
branch, 10, American Federation
of Hosiery Workers, said the strike
was called In protest against "vio
lation of the voluntary NJI.A. code
of the holsery Industry lor wages
and hours.”
Hugo Hemmerich, general mana
ger of the mill, denied the agree
ment had been violated in any way
and blamed effectiveness of the
strike on business rivals.
Arrival of 36 state police with tear
gas bombs dispersed the mob only
after several persons had been In
jured and taken to Reading hos
pital. More than 100 automobiles
were damaged and taxicabs carrying
men and women to work, were over
turned. ^
F. B. D. IN W. VA. ' •
Elkins, W. Va., let 1—(UP)—
carrying his campaign into the coal
country of West Virginia. President
Roosevelt arrived here shortly be
fore noon today tor special train. A
steady drizxle was falliiw at Mt.
Boston, Oct. 1—(UP)—Governor
James M. Curley (D) today ascribed
the suggestion of the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin, that he repudiate Pres
ident Roosevelt, to "mental Irrita
tion” on the part of the Detroit ra
dio priest because of "stress of a po
litical campaign.”
Curley communicated with Father
Coughlin in an effort to have him
accede to withdrawal of Thomas C.
O'Brien, tJhion party candidate for
U- S. senator. In order to Insure a
clean-cut contest between the dem
ocratic governor and Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., republican senatorial
nominee. Father Coughlin countered
with a demand that Curley endorse
the 16 points of the National Union
for Social Justice and repudiate Mr.
Roosevelt.
While awaiting a state supreme
court decision yesterday that was to
permit him and other Union party
candidates to use their organization’s
designation on the November ballot,
O’Brien received from Father
Coughlin a telegram urging him to
stay in the race.
"I regret exceedingly that any mis
understanding has arisen to mar the
beautiful friendship which has ob
tained between Father Coughlin and
myself over a period of years,” Cur
ley said.
“I can well appreciate and make
allowances for his failure in the
present Instance to exercise that ex
traordinarily good judgment* and
that keen discrimination which has
characterized his contribution to
public thought In America.”
Curley said he had advocated a
majority of the 16 points of the
NUSJ "many years before Father
Coughlin became sponsor for them.”
"The stress of a political campaign,
the failure to evolve overnight an
Utopia. . . the failure of the public
as a whole. ... to the sustaining of
the movement by him. . . is un
questionably responsible for the
mental Irritation which he has dis
played of late and which has shak
en the confidence of many and per
manently lost for him the good will
of countless thousands of others,”
Curley said.
Tonight
sor Toni
— Friends Spon=
ight’s Broadcast
New Yorkt Oct 1—(UJP.)—Alfred
E. Smith makes his first speech of
the presidential campaign to the
Independent coalition of American
Women and a national radio au
dience tonig it.
His friend s said it would be "one
of the strengest Incidents of the
present ad ministration that has
been heard in this political cam
ginning at 1:30 from Carnegie hall,
following hlk former friend and po
litical follower, President Roosevelt,
on the airways. This proximity
dramatised again the break between
the men which began In 1932 when
they were both candidates for' the
democratic presidential nomination
and was climaxed by the call for
revolt against the New Deal sent to
delegates of the 1936 party conven
tion. signed by Smith and other
dissident democrats.
Arrangements for tonight’s broad
cast were made by Josef Israels As
sociates. a publicity organisation.
Israels said the network was being
paid for by Smith’s “close, personal
mu
HIS
SMITH TO GIVE
FIRST TALK
Follows
Roosevelt
on Air
Rebel Troops Drive To
wards Madrid — Winter;
of Fighting Anticipated
Is Commander of
Provisional Governmen
Solemn Ceremony T<
LOSS OF ARANJUEZ
FEARED BY LOYAL!
By ROGER JOHNSON
(United Press SUIT Correspondej
San Francisco, Oct. X—(UP)
threatened tie-up of the great Pad
coast shipping industry was aver
at the zero hour today when uni<
accepted a 15-day truce and a i
day nominal extension of work!
contracts negotiated after the indi
trial war of 1834.
BY ELEANOR PACKARD
(Copyright, 1936, by United Preas)
Burgos, October 1. —(U3“ B
—General Francisco Franc
brilliant military leader
the insurgents, assu
supreme leadership of
nationalist cause today
dictator of the provisioi
government and c o nr* i
mander-in-chief of all land, 1
sea and air forces.
General VirgUlo San Miguel Ca
banellas, retiring as head of the
revolutionary junta or government*
handed over his powers to Franco
at a solemn ceremony at military
headquarters.
General Emilio Mola, no
field commander, also took pai
the ceremony. Franco flew to a
gos from the southern front He
was met In mid-air by a squadron
of northern front planes and es
corted to the local air field.
Tens of thousands jammed
streets to cheer Franco as he mo
tored by.
BY IRVING FFLAUM
(United Press Staff Comspo
(Copyright 1936, by United
Madrid, Oct 1.—The govei-T.
fears the imminent loss of Aran
juez, which controls the railroad to
(Continued on Page 4.)
PACIFIC COAST
»PI_
Tieup Averted When
Day Truce, 60-Day
tension Are,
ine truce Detween employers mi
shippers was announced after co
Terences and debates that extend
until 3:20 a. m. (EST). The deadU
had been set at 3 a. m. (EST) wh
old contracts expired.
The newly organised marltta
commission in Washington had a
nounced a few hours earlier that
had been Informed the truce won
be reached.
The truce will be signed later t
day. It provides that maritii
unions by October 15, would eith
agree to arbitration of Issues 1
volvlng wages and hours which a
not settled, or relations with eg
ployers would be broken complete
The negotiations, handled prijot
pally by the department of labd
ace trouble shooter, Edward F.M
Grady, will continue during the 1
day truce.
The announcement first eat
from headquarters of employe
who had offered the truce. T
unions—respeaenting sailors. Ion
shoremen, masters, mates and pile
and other sea workers—acoepted
after heated argument.
Those involved . agreed that t!
break in the long and apparent
hopeless negotlat'ons came in tlr
to avoid a cessation of work an tl
Pacific coast and consequent para!
zation of ports from Seattle to 8|
(Continued on Page 4.)
TREASURY BALANCE
Washington, Oct. 1— (UP)-.
ernment expenses and receipt
the current fiscal year to Sept,
as compared with a year ago:
This Year Expenses Last
$1,645,824,863.IS 31,830,486,!
Receipts
$1,138,430,373.53 3998,464,'
Deficit
$516,394,583.63 3832,031,1
Cash Balance
33.190.482,630.88 $1,798,553,?
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