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ESTABLISHED 1881 VOL. LIV, NO. 230
WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1936
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Hal Schumacher,
Gomez Open 2nd
Game Of Series
Full Stands Greet Giants,
Yanks Under Clear Sky
at Polo Grounds
BOTH LINEUPS ARE
SHIFTED SOMEWHAT
Pat Malone, Monte Pear*
son Warm Up During
Giants’ Practice at Bat
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Polo Grounds, New York,
October 2. — (UP) — Under
neath a brilliant summer
sun, which attracted 52,000
spectators including Presi
dent Roosevelt, the 1938
World Series was resumed
today between the Giants
and Yankees.
The Giants counted on
Hal Schumacher, the college grad
uate from St. Lawrence University,
Canton, N. Y., to pick up where
Carl Hubhell left off In the opener,
and give the National eLague cham
pions a two-game lead over the
Yankees.
Schumacher, who experienced a
highly erratic season, found himself
in the last week of the season and
plcthed the game which clinched
the pennant. His overhand “sinker
ball’ is the only delivery of its kind
in baseball. National League sup
porters believe the Yanks will And
it as tantalizing as Hubbell’s screw
ball.
Manager Joe McCarthy reached In
his pitching deck and pulled out
Vernon Gomez, sometimes called
Lefty the Goofy, to halt the Giants’
marc hand send the two teams to
Ysnke Stadium tomorrow even-ste
pben with one game apiece.
Every one got a break today with
the return of favorable weather.
After the disappointing opening day
crowd of 39,000, the second game
promised to draw a'near capacity
turnout. The field, unfit paf play
during the last few innings Of the
opener and so bad yesterday that
Commissioner K. M. Landis had to
postpone yesterday’s game, was in
perfect condition.
Henry Fabian, Polo Grounds cus
todian, who has tended this turf
mere than 20 years, worked over
time to put the diamond back into
shape.
The players, many of whom com
plained that they were handicap
ped by the conditions Wednesday,
wer glad to meet on equal terms.
CHATTERING WOMAN
CAN BE SLAPPED
New York, Oct. 2—(UP)—If a
"chattering woman” annoys you in
a motion picture theater it’s all
right to slap her face, according to
a judicial ruling in night court.
Magistrate Henry H. Curran dis
missed a complaint against Alfred
Fondler, 23, for striking Miss Mar
garet Schultz. 24. who sat behind
him in a Bronx theater.
Fondlef said that Miss Schultz
“chattered so long and so inces
santly” with another girl that he
could not hear what the actors
said.
“It served her right,” said Mag
istrate Curran. "Case dismissed.”
Geewhiz!
What’s the matter
with this man?
His name is Bill Biff, ant*, he is
feeling very sick because his
friend, Apple Mary, turned down
AN OFFER OF $10,000
for her sensational new con
fection.
Magic Apples
Presently Bill Biff will try in his
blundering way to hel.- out his
friends
Apple Mary
and DENNIE
But in all probability he will only
make matters worse. There’s
comedy here and strong drama,
making a grand story that you
can’t afford to miss.
Start today on the comic pages.
DEMOCRAT
COMPENSATION
CLAIM UP HERE
O’Donnell Hearing Will
Take Place Before Com.
James M. Lynch
The compensation claim of the
family of John F. O’Donnell, local
bus driver who was fatally injured
in the Cheshire road bus crash Sept.
17, against the Connecticut Co„ his
employers, will be heard before
Commissioner James M. Lynch in
this city, rather than before the
compensation commissioner- for the
New Haven district, Charles Klein
er, it appeared today.
Commissioner Kleiner has Juris
diction in the Claim, since the ac
cident happened in the town of
Cheshire, which is in the New Ha
ven district, but it is reported that
both parties will agree to a trans
fer to Waterbury, and a hearing be
fore Commissioner Lynch. The
holding of the hearing in this city
would be more convenient both for
the family and the Connecticut Co.
O’Donnell’s family has already
filed its claim against the company.
Lawyers agree that the family’s
only recourse is to the compensa
tion court, since O’Donnell was fa
tally injured in the course of his
employment.
Meantime, it was reported today,
adjusters for the Aetna Insurance
Co. of Hartford, are endeavoring to
reach settlements with a number of
those injured in the crash and with
the estates of those who lost their
lives. Three passengers were killed,
while O’Donnell and a fifth man
were fatally injured. Fourteen oth
ers were hurt,-sevewil-of them be
ing still in St. Mary’s hospital/
The insurance company is said to
have offered the Waterbury Trust
Co., administrate- of the estate of
Miss Ingeborg Mderson, one of hie
victims, a settlement of from $6,500
to $7,500. Acceptance of the settle
ment is subject to the approval of
Probate Judge Dennis J. Slavin.
Settlements wtth several of those
injured in the bush crash are un
derstood to have already been ef
fected.
Any settlements made in the
cases of Miss Elizabeth Norton and
Mrs. Doris Galor are subject to
the approval of the Cheshire pro
bate court. Any settlement in the
case of Charles Bruesche. of New
Haven, who died several days after
the accident, must be approved by
the probate court at New Haven.
REBELS MAKE TWO
DRIVES ON MADRID
Thrust at Capital From
East, West—Loyalists
Send Reinforcements
BY MICHAEL McEWEN
(United Press SUIT Correspondent)
(Copyright 1936 By United Press)
Gibraltar, Oct. 2—(U.P.)—Span
ish Nationalists thrust toward Mad
rid from eas* and west today as
President Manuel Azana asserted
that the loyalist government would
win the civil war and give the coun
try political liberty, not socialism or
communis.
Reinforcements were sent to’
strengthen the loyalist lines north
west of the Maqueda-Madrld road
in the belief that the nationalists
(rebels) intend to drive for Naval
carnera, 18 miles southwest ol
Madrid.
Fighting ior the present was in
the Gredos Mountains, where the
rebels reported, they had . captured
Mt. Mijaras, 25 miles north of Tal
avera De La Reina and 62 miles
southwest of Madrid.
The rebels also claimed capture
of the outer defenses Of Slguenza,
87 miles northeast of the capital, on
their way to Guadalajara and Ma
drid. -
On the Toledo front proper, a
United Press Correspondent and
Colonel Stephen O. Fuqua, military
attache of the American embassy
at Madrid, found all quiet while
the rebels organized 'for their ex
pected advances on Aranjuez and
Madrid.
The Catalan government in the
northeast decreed military service
for men betwen 18 and 40, and as a
first move decreed that men be
tween 20 and 30 must learn army
drill.
At Geneva, the insurgent provi
sional government circularized
league assembly delegates ' with a
“preliminary report On \ depreda
tions, abductions, violations, fires
and violences committed 1 in some
southern villages by Marxist Hordes
in the service of the so-called Mad
rid government.”
TWO PRINCIPALS «•
ARE SAME AGE
Boston, Oct. 2—(UP)—The two
principals in the Sabath congres
sional committee’s investigation in
to Amoakeag finances, were born
only 28 days apart 70 years ago.
Rep. Adolph J. Sabath, Illinois
democrat is presiding the inquiry
yeas born in Czechoslovakia April
4, 1866. „ J
Frederick C. Dumaine, treasurer
of the Amoskeag mfg. companies,
was born in Hadley, March
“ ’Twixt The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea. . . .
. FRANK KNOX FRANKLiN D. ROOSEVELT ALFRED E. SMITH
Here they are reading from left to right in order of their appearances last night before the radio mike which
bronght their voices to thousands of listeners. Sandwiched in between a republican and an erstwhile demo
crat, President Roosevelt delivered an impassioned address before 70,000 listeners in Pittsburgh in which he
put forth a superb defense of his administration and its many accomplishments since the dreary, drastic
days of 1933*
Late News
Flashes
HERB WILLIAMS DIES
Freeport, N. Y., Oct. 2—
(UP) — Herb Williams
whose high-pitched, queru
lous voice and shy, wistful
manner convulsed thous
ands of vaudeville and re
vue audiences in tank towns
and cities in this country
and abroad, died here last
night of pneumonia.
INJUNCTION URGED
Worcester, Mass., Oct. 2
—(UP)—An injunction to
restrain picketing at five
mills of the Schuster-Hay
ward Woolen Company was
recommended today by an
auditor who has been hear
1 ing arguments by counsel
for the company and 1200
strikers.
ACCOUNTING DENIED
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 2
—,(UP) — Federal Judge
Carroll C. Hincks today de
nied a motion of the Con
necticut Railway & Light
ing company for an ac
counting from the Connec
ticut Company so that the
court might ascertain a
reasonable rental for C. R.
& L., property now being
used by the Traction com
pany subsidiary of the New
Haven railroad.
PAYING OFF BANK
LOANS WAS END
Amoskeag Co. Closed Aft=
er Taking Care of $5,=
000,000 Obligation
Boston,- Oct. 2.—(UP).—If the
company had not paid off bank
loans totaling $5,470,000 in 1935, the
Arr.cnkeag Manufacturing company,
world’s largest single cotton textile
unit, could have continued opera
tions, Freder' C. Dumaine, Amos
keag treasurer, admitted today.
‘‘That obligation would have con
tinued, however," Dumaine testi
fied as the Sabath congressional
committee’s investigation of Amos
keag finances entered its final day.
Dumaine also said, under ques
tioning by r. p. Adolph J. Sabath
.(D) of Illinois, chairman of the
congressional committee to investi
gate bondholders’ reorganizations,
that no Off art \:iz made to secure
flncndal aid from federal govern
mental agencies until after the mills
closed in September, 1935.
“And it we. 3 only at the request
of PWA Administrator Harry Hop
kins that you went to Washington
then?” press-'1 Sabath.
"Yes,” replied Dumaine.
Dumaine r:-'! that Hopkins re
ferred him to Jesse Jones, RFC di
rector, who after studying the trial
balance of Amoskeag, said the com
pany “would l.iave to get rid of the
bondholders before funds could be
extended.
Though the company showed no
loss and ml.' t have made a small
profit during the manufacture of
rayons for five -years, the need for
new machinery in 1935 made it ap
pear “poor wisdom" to continue
such operations and consequently
rayons were dropped, Dumaine said.
The witness at start of his tes
timony corrected a previous state
ment. His salary as president and
trrasurer of the Waltham Watch
company was $25,000, he said, not
$30,000 or $35,000,” as he testified
yesterday.
GETS AWARD, DIES
Lynn, Mass-. Oct. 3.—(UP)— As he
accepted a life membership in a lo
cal shoe cutters’ union last nig)‘.t at
a testimonial dinner, John E. Van
[ sclver, 60, collapsed and died Of
iheart disease. . , -
Driver’s Drowsiness
Causes Fatal Crash
Truck Helper Burned to Death When Vehicle Goes Off
Tor ring ton=Thomaston Road Near East Litchfield;
Driver, Hitch-Hiker Receive Severe Injuries
WOMAN CARRIER
SPREAD DISEASE
Glastonbury Just Misses
Serious Paratyphoid Out=
break; 24 Cases Traced
Glastonbury, Oct. 2.—(UP)—A
woman carrier now being,“restrict,
•■■'and controlled” was'blamed to
day for the illness of 24 persons,
18 of them in this town, who were
stricken in the past few days with
paratyphoid fever.
Dr. Lee J. Whittles. Glastonbury
health officer, said the illness as
sumed epidemic proportions before
the source was traced. He said the
woman carrier contaminated con
tact with a potato salad served to
160 guests at a wedding here.
“All precautions have been ta
ken,” he said "to prevent the spread
of the disease. In my opinion the
epidemic is practically at an end."
Only women and children were
stricken, he said, because all men
at the affair had been inoculated
during the Connecticut river flood
last March.
Shortly after the first case ap
peared, Sept. 20, Dr. Whittles said
other cases appeared throughout
the state. Another case in Cleve
land was traced to the wedding
feast. Six persons were ill in one
family, he said.
“The cases,” he said, “were ap- i
pearing in scattered parts of the
town with heaviest showings iri
Addison and North Glastonbury.
The only common factor was at
tendance at a wedding dinner and
supper. Among foods served was
potato salad, quite a common food
to carry typhoid infection since it
is uncooked after being prepared.
“Withone exception all people
who contracted the disease attend
ed the wedding. This one case was
not traced to the affair and may be
a contact case.” ^
EMPLOYER WARNED
TO PAY UP HELP
Additional Charge Looms
Over D’Amico; Continu
ance Granted Today
John D’Amico of 24 State street,
charged with violating the state
labor laws in that he gave out home
work to women without first obtain
ing a permit from the Connecticut
labor department, was emphatically
warned In city court today that
if he doesn’t pay up his help to
date he will face an additional
count when his case comes up for
trial on the 13th. Unaccompanied
by counsel, D’Amico appeared in city
court this morning and obtained a
continuance of a week and a half.
His factory is at 133 Mill street and
is known as the American Sports
wear company.
Mrs. Theresa Sirica Crook, an in
vestigator of the labor department,
was in city court this morning. She
obtained evidence overnight that
one woman worked 45 hours and re
ceived $3.40 for her labor and that
another woman received $2.44 for
45 hours of work. Furthermore,' she
claims, she Hhs evidence that women
doing sewing work at home received
on an average two and one-eighth
cents, per hour for their labor.
The specific charge against
JTAmico, who is said to have come
to Waterbury recently from Itew
York, is that he failed to obtain a
permit from the state labor depart
ment to give women ho.he work.
The women, using their own ma
. (Continued on Page 4.)
(Special to The Democrat)
Torrington, Oct. 2.—A truak driv
er's drowsiness this morning brought
about a crash which resulted in the
death of one man, and injuries to
the operator and a hitch-hiker. A
man identified as Herbert Haas,
about 40, employed as a truck help
er by the Albany Packing Co., which
owned the truck, was burned to
death when the vehicle left the
highway on the East Litchfield road,
overturned and burst into flames.
“'he driver, William MacDonald of
Watervliet, IT. Y., was seriously
burned and his name was on the
danger list at Charlotte Hungerford
hospital this afternoon. The hitch
hiker, Herbert Joyner of Lenox,
Mass., sustained severe leg injuries.
His condition was reported "fair.”
According to Joyner, MacDonald
was driving and Haas was sleeping
behind the driver’s seat. He noticed
that MacDonald must have closed
his eyes again, he said, for the truck
went off the highway and over
turned.
The driver and the hitch-hiker
were thrown clear of the truck in
the crash, but the helper, Haas,
asleep in the rear of the truck, was
trapped when the vehicle caught
fire as it overturned.
Haas was identified by the driver
of another Albany Packing Com
pany truck which came by the
scene after the accident. He had
no identification on his person. His
wife was notified and was on her
way here this afternoon.
State police and Coroner Lester
W. Schaeffer of Litchfield county
began immediate investigations.
Trooper Remer was in charge of the
state police probe.
The heavy vehicle turned* over on
its side as it left the state high
way. Joyner said that fire broke
out almost instantly, before any
attempt to rescue Haas could oe
made.
MODERN HORSE
THIEVES CAUGHT
Police Cars Find Four
Youths, Girl Gazing
at Full Moon
Salem, Mass.,- Oct. 2. (UP)—Five
modern "horse thieves”—speedily
apprehended by radio-equipped po
lice cruisers—awoke today feeling
somewhat less romantic than when
they “borrowed” a horse and buggy
and parked beneath a harvest moon
in lovers’ lane last night.
The call went out to “locate and
apprehend” whoever took the horse
and carryall from Meade court.
Twenty minutes later police found
the carryall—in Dearborn street’s
“Lovers’ Lane” section. Aboard the
buggy, four youths and a girl sat
gazing at the moon.
At headquarters the youths told
Vincent Ziwiskl, Peabody farmer,
they "didn’t mean any harm,” and
had intended to return the buggy
“in a little while.”
With a reminder that horse
thieving—once carrying a death
penalty—is a long-term prison of
fense under an old blue law still on
Massachusetts statute books, police
decided this was a case of “roman
ticism” and released the five.
Ziwiskl without preferring charges
inspected the buggy, clucked at his
horse, and drove off toward Pea
body.
CART BEFORE HORSE
Washington, Oct 2.—(UP)—Wil
liam Hard, radio commentator for
the republican national committee,
assailed the administration as hav
ing “multiplied ihc tax burden upon
working people by two and a half
times.” The adcb\last night was a
reply to President Roosevelt’s de
fense of government spending in
Pittsburgh, although it was made
before Mr. Roosevelt spoke.
Air Waves Resound As
Knox, Roosevelt, Smith
Hit, Defend Neu) Deal
A1 Smith Throws His
Brown Derby for Oov.
Landon to Catch
BURIES IRREVOCABLY
ROOSEVELT FRIENDSHIP
Denounces New Deal Phi=
losophy of Government;
Praises Critics
BY SANfiOR S. KLEIN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
New York, October 2. —
(UP) — A1 Smith of the
Fulton Fish Market and the
Empire State building car
ried his brown derby into the
republican party today.
“I firmly believe that the
remedy for all the ills that
we are suffering from today
is the election of Alfred M.
Landon.”
With these words, the boy from the
sidewalks of New York, who rose
to become four-times governor of
this state, severed his life-long ties
with the democratic party.
The forum before which he an
nounced his decision — a moment
ous one in the life of the man whom
Franklin D. Roosevelt once called
“the happy warrior,” — was a meet
ing at Carnegie Hall sponsored by
the independent coalition of Amer
ican women — an organization
working for. the election of Governor
Landon and Frank Knox.
No one knew that he would bow
himself out of his party entirely.
Many of his friends thought that
he would castigate the New Deal
without endorsing the republican
candidate. But, asserting that
President Roosevelt leads not a
democratic party but the New Deal
party, he went all the way.
Next Friday he speaks in Phila
delphia. Before the campaign is
over, he will speak in Massachusetts
and Illinois where he has large
personal followings. Governor Lan
don and Herbert Hoover, Smith’s
campaign rival in 1928, in the Lan
don living room in Topeka, listened
to him by radio. Governor Landon
expressed his pleasure at Smith’s
endorsement.
Irrevocably he buried his long
waning friendship with the man in
the White House. As the democratic
standard bearer of 1928, he remind
ed"! traveled 39,000 miles through
this country spreading the gospel
of democracy and I think I can say
without ego that I planted the seed
that brought the eventual victory
of 1932.” , w
A few minutes before, he had
(Continued on Page 4.)
PWA HAS AIDED
OUR HOSPITALS
Roosevelt Shows How
Their Capacity Was ln=
creased at Dedication
By FREDERIC A. STORM
(United Press White House
Correspondent)
Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 2—(UP)—
Expenditures through the Public
Works Administrations are increas
ing the capacity of American hos
pitals by nearly 50,000 beds, Presi
dent Roosevelt said toda;- as he dedi
cated a new building unit at the
Jersey City medical unit.
The president used the occasion
of his speech to praise the social
security act.
"During the depression,” he said,
“the difficulty of obtaining funds
through municipal or private sources
would have meant a ser'ous shortage
in caring for patients and in giving
them adequate facilities had it not
been for federal assistance through
loans and grants."
President Roosevelt prais- the
doctors of the nation for “all they
have done during the depression,
often at great sacrifice, in maintain
ing the standards of care for the
sick.”
•‘The medical proiession can rest
assured,” the president added, "that
the federal administration contem
plates no action detrimental to their
interests. The action taken in -he
field of health as shown l'y the pro
visions of the splendid social secur
ity act recently enacted is clear."
He said the American Medical
association, the American Public
Health association and the state
and territorial health officers con
ference "came out in full support of
the public health provisions” of the
social security act.
The president said that public sup
port was behind the program and
that the act contains “every precau
tion for insuring the continued sup
port and cooperation of the medical
profession.”
Mr. Roosevelt told his audience
that attempts had been made in the
past to put medicine into politics.
“Such attempts have failed and
always will fail,” he said.
He conclude'’ with a tribute to
Mayor Prank Hague, Jersey City
and Hudson county for the new
medical buildings.
After the ceremony the president
went to New York to attend today’s
World Series game.
U. S. SEEKS COUP
FOR NEUTRALITY
Makes Overtures to Latin
America; Would Outlaw
— Unofficial Wars
By LOUIS JAY HEATH
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
(Copyright 1936 by United Press)
Washington, Oct. 2—(UP)—The
United States, in the interest of
maintaining peace in the western
hemisphere, is confidentially sound
ing leading Latin American nations
on a sweeping draft convention of
neutrality to outlaw unofficial wars
and block credits to belligerents, the
United Press learned exclusively to
day.
The text of the proposed draft
convention was given in confidence
informally to various diplomatic en
voys here for transmission to their
governments for study and observa
tions before the inter-American
peace conference convenes at Buenos
Aires Dec. 1.
In essence it seeks to modernize
the peace machinery of the. western
hemisphere.
It would first pledge the nations
to the principle of pacific settlement
of disputes. In case such principles
fail it would bind those nations not
to “commence hostilities without a
previous and unequivocal” declara
tion of war with reasons given or an
“ultimatum with a conditional decla
ration of war.” Unofficial wars
among signatories would thereby be
outlawed.
Although the purpose of the draft
convention primarily parallels the
League of Nations cognizance is tak
en of the fact that some of the prob
able signatories to this pact already
are members of the league. An "es
cape clause” is provided to prevent
conflict with league obligations.
At the sqme time the proposed
treaty was regarded as affording the
league a model instrument for
strengthening its own peac. machin
ery which failed to function during
the Italo-Ethiopian war.
In case of hostilities without a
declaration or ultimatum, neutral
pcwers, under the terms of the draft
treaty, would be free to declare “for
the purposes of their municipal
legislation concerning neutrality”
(Continued on Page 4.)
KNOX KEEPS HIS
‘RENDEZVOUS’
Still Insists Savings, In=
surance Policies Are Not
Safe With Roosevelt
Pittsburg. Oct. 2—(UP)—Prank
Knox, republican vice-presidental
candidate, had a “rendezvous” with
Pennsylvania last night to reiterate
his charge that “no life insurance
policy is secure, no savings account
safe.”
Knox spoke before 5000 persons
at Duquesne gardens within a few
blocks of the democratic rally, ad
dressed by President Roosevelt.
“I have a sort of rendezvous with
Pennsylvania, and I am keeping it,”
Knox said in opening his address.
“A few weeks ago I spoke in Allen
town. In the course of my address
I made a general summary of the
policies of this administration, with
reference to their manifold conse
quences to trade, to agriculture, to
finance, and to industry. And in a
general reference to these policies
I said that, because of th: present
practices of the administration, no
life insurance policy is secure, no
savings account is safe.
“This statement did not refer in
any way to the condition of insur
ance companies or of banks. No
body questions their abality to meet
their obligations.”
He charged that democrats had
distorted the statement, but con
tended that issue remained the
same.
“I returned to Pennsylvania to
raise it* (the issue) once more. My
text tonight is trustworthiness in
office,” he shouted as the assembly
cheered.
Knox charged that the democrat,
ic administration brought the na
tion to the brink of inflation by
pursuing a spending and borrowing
program which, he said, “results in
dangerous and explosive conditions
in banking.” He said that the deficit
financing of the government “has
steadily reduced the earning power
of savings and investments."
CHINESE SENTENCED j
FOR JAP MURDER:
_
Shanghai, ct. 2—(UP)—Two Chi- I
nese were sentenced to death today j
for the murder of Hideo Nakayama, j
Japanese naval warrant officer. An- ]
other defendant was acquitted.
Chinese authorities, anxious lest j
anti-Japanese elements, sympathe- !
tic with the defendants, should |
stage a demonstration warned them j
to remain quiet
The Japanese, in anticipation of
the court’s decision, had for-ifled
heavily their settlement in Hong
kew. After the verdict the barri
cades were removed, but the area
still was patrolled heavily by blue
jackets.
President Is Greeted By
70,000 at Pittsburgh
Last Night
FIGHTING SPIRIT IS
MANIFEST IN TONE
Progress of Administra
tion From 1933 Depths
of Despair Recalled
Pittsburgh, October 2. —
(UP)—President Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivered an im
passioned defense of New
Deal spending and of New
Deal methods of fighting the
depression last night In the
second speech of his cam
paign for re-election.
It was an optimistic pic
ture of the state of the nation
that he drew to an audience
estimated by police at 70,000 in the
ball park of the Pittsburgh National
League Club. National income has
“gone up faster than he dared then
(in 1933) to hope. Deficits have
been less than we expected, x x x I)
it (the national income) keeps or
rising at the present rate, as I air.
confident that it will — the re
ceipts of the government, without
imposing any additional taxes, will
within a year or two, be sufficient
to care for all ordinary and relief
expenses of the government — in
other words, to balance the annual
budget.”
The cheers of his auditors had
hardly died out of the loud-speakers
in the homes of the nation, when a
familiar, high-pitched voice pro
(Continued on Page 4.)
DISCRIMINATION
CHARGES FIIEF
Violation of Robinson»Pat«
man Law Alleged in
Three Complaints
Washington, Oct. 2.—(UP)—Th«
federal trade commission today
named five respondents in thret
formal complaints in the first im
portant test case charging viola
tion of the Robinson-Patman Anti
Price Discrimination act.
One complaint named the Kraft
Phenix Cheese Corp., of Chicago.
Another named the Shefford
Cheese Co., Inc., Syracuse, N. Y.
The third named Bird & Son, Inc.,
the Bird Floor Covering Sales
Corp., a subsidiary of East Wal
pole, Mass., and Montgomery Ward
and Co., Inc.
Kraft-Phenix was charged with
discriminating in price between
purchasers with the alleged effqet
of lessening and injuring compejjj|
tion between it and other ma|^|
facturers and distributors of sirnWP
lar products.
The complaint also -alleged less
ening of competition between cus
tomers of Kraft-Phenix, some of
whom were alleged to have re
ceived favored prices.
The commission pointed out no
allegation was made of "bad faith
or any subterfuge or secrecy on the
part of Kraft-Phenix in connection
with its price of policy".
The allegations against Shefford
Cheese were substantially the same
as those in the Kraft-Phenix case.
The third complaint contended
the two Bird companies sold floor
coverings to Montgomery Ward .
Co . at substantially lower price*
than to competing retailers.
The complaints, citing examples
said that a certain floor rug waa
sold to Montgomery Ward in car
load lots at $3.64 each and in
smaller quantities to retail stores ol
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TREASURY BALANCE
Washington, Oct. 2—(UP)—Gov
ernment expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year to Sept. SO,
as compared with a year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Year
$1,6607799,764.67 Jl,830,486,251.93
Receipts
$1,135,915,677.54 $998,464,465.44
Deficit
$524,884,087.13 $832,0U.766.$9
Cash Balance
$2,187,582,077.86 $1,788,718,010.09
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