a v n iA O B OJULT CaaOULATION THEWEATBEB . fer Ska Mairtb *f Deeamber, ISIS Wraeaat at V. S. Weatker Bureau Fair Saaightt Wedaeaday hirrcua ' 6 .1 7 9 lag eloodlaeas witk alowl; riaiag Slaaibar at tk* AedH iim trte trr l|pYaUi tempecature. followed jjr mow or Bateau of Oliealatteaa rain Wedaeaday attcraoea aad alght. MANC HESTER - A CITY OF VIU.AC.E (HARM VOL. LVnL, NO. 91 (tlUaatfled AdverUalag oa Page 10) MANCHESTER, CONN„ TUESDAY. JANUARY 17. 1939 (TW ELVE PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS were Axe Wielder Slays Girl, Wounds Mother SEVENTHPAM REFORM OF MINOR DECISIVE BATTLE MAY OF VENIREMEN COURTS PROPOSED BEINGJUIZZED FOLLOW NEW STAND Hale'aStilel BEFORE ASSEMBLY 28 Of 101 Prospective Ju- Light 1^ rors Called Today Ex- OF LOYALIST TROOPS Billt Propose Two Alternate Her Slayer Caught? cused At Outset; Two ID ---------------------- Plans For Achieniig' Called To Testify | GoTeminent Forces Belieyed Defendants Not In Court FRENCH TAKE Change; Contained In Re- To Ha?e Beet hcreued UP QUESTION port Of Special Group. WaterBury, Jan. 17.— (API— The Two color* eighth week of Waterbury's munici- To 400.000 Met By Rt- pal fraud trial opened today with OF LOTAL AID state Capitol. Hartford. Jan. 17— the summoning of the seventh panel cent Conscriptions; Esti- fAP)—Reform of Connecticut'* of veniremen drawn since the rase minor courts, one of the moat hotly- started Nov. 29 and attorneys set- Sources Close To Foreign mate Franco WEI B ix f debated iasuea In pest legislative tled themselves to the task of select- sessions, came before the 1939 Oen- ing the one alternate Juror still needed before testimony can be Office Say Goyenunent Annies To 500,000 Mei. eral Assembly today with the Intro- heard. Slxtcen-year-old Ruth Scott, (left! Milwaukee, Wla.. high school BeauUfid duction of bills proposing far- Twenty-eight of the 101 prospec- «tudent, was beaten to ileath and her wiilowed moth-r, Mrs. James I reaching changes in tha present tive Jurors called today were excus- Scott, (right I wa.s m verely slashed by an Intruder wielding a hatchet. Considers Rushing Arms, Hendaye, France (At the Spaatab Police at Racine. WIs. heid Ernest John Mahr, 24. and said he had system. ed at the outset leaving 74 available «■ Frontier), Jan. 17.—(AP) -Rota- for examinations. One venireman re- admitted making th* attack.^ during an attempted burglary. The bUla, proposing two alternate Pag* One Munitions To Barcelona. forced government and Inourgant plana for sieving court reform, mained from the sixth panel. One of the 38 excused was T. A. armies reformed their lines 88 inilea were contained In a report of a spe- west of Barcelona today for an ap- cial committee transmitted to the Belslegel of Woodl ridge whose Paris, Jan. 17.— (AP)— T parently Imminent battle oa which legislature by Gov. Raymond E. ' brother, Clarence, was accepted pre- ' viously as the 13th Juror to heat the French government, fearing an 1 Orade ADea may rest the fat* of the govenunsat. Baldwin. Among other outstanding meas- trial ot Mayor and former Lieut. JAPAN READY TO MAKE surgent victory In Spain, was aa capltel aad the outcome of tho Gov. Frank Hayes and the 31 others New York, Jan. 17—(AP) —Four Block nres in a flood of proposed legisla- Margaret Bfartta today to have taken up anew t Spanish civil war. tion swamping both Houses was s j charged with conspiring to defraud ff qf the nation’s beat known radio With their backs to tha sso Sri- question of opening its Pyrenees revival of the proposal for horse New a ty . N. Y., Jan. 17.—(AP) Waterbury of over I1,000,0(X). ■tars have been aubpoened by the lowing the Insurgent occupatha I "rheir’ve” got my brother ai- DEAL ON “ OPEN DOOR frontier to aid the hard-pressed Tarragona over the week-end. tM racing in Connecticut, killed by ex- —A 84-year-old poultry dealer s government to teotlfy at the smug- ecutive veto four years ago. story, as told by a detecOve. of Uie ready," Belslegel told the court and Spanish government. gling trial of Jack Benny, movie and iioverament forces were bellavod tb Judge Ernest A. Inglls, smiling as lave been Increased to aperoxtamt*-- After receiving new business and killing of a girl near Kingston, P a, Sources close to the Foreign Office air comedian, set for a week from appointing a oommlttee of three to a ripple of laughter swept the court- today. ly 400,000 men by recant cenoctllp last December was being explored said the government was consider- Uona. attend the fourth assembly of stste > roqm, excused Mm. Would N^otiate With United ^ BOMB DAMAGES The wltneases Inchid* George today for clues to the muUlatlon- I Two Defendants Absent ing rushing arms and munitions to Military obaervera aatlmatod thsR; leglslstors st Wsshington, D. C., the’ defense of Rarcel.m* to meet Bums'and Grade Allen, Jack Peart, next month, both House and Senate murder of pretty Margaret Martin I Street Superintendent Thomas comedian, and Kenny«es*a^ Baker,n saasia»* p «a sing-mi«eg| Insurgent Generallaslino I Fleming and Michael Slavln, two de- States And Britain In Re- TOWER Italian men and material aiding the Fpuico could lacreaas tala adjourned until tbmoitow. 19-year-oId typist Insurgent offensive. er on the Benny rogram. lag forces to 800,000 for tho The delegation to Waahlngtou. fendants who wer* taken 111 over a Burns already Saa pleaded mtUty YDVA. Aneated on complaint of a wom- Foreign Minister Georges Bonnst praadting conflict for . named by Joint resolution, iscludss an that he accosted her tn public, week ago and waived thatr rights to turn For Trade And Other to smuggling Jawslry.•wclry—the charge be In the courtroom during the selec- returned from a meeting of the highwajraiiighwajra to BarcMona. Senator McCarthy (D) of Anaonla Frank Moeda of Haverstraw road, facing Benny—and Albart N. and Representatives Baldwin of tion of two alternate Jurors, remain- League of Nations Oiuncll at Geneva Chaperau, co-dsfandant with aoch, tFrom near Sulfern, N. Y„ waa quoted by Concessions For Nippon. AT BIRMINGHAM to encounter Increasing demands fer Franco talnuMlt took oonunaaS off Westport and Lucas of Nawington, OetecUva William Sterns of the ed absent today. Slavln was report- baa admitted his guilt la both caaas both RepubUcana. ed recovering rapidly but Fleming's such action. Chaperau, who posed aa a com' the drive on the capltel os tb* big Rockland county district attoney ■ European poerars watebsd tbs ~ Tias Alternate Plaas office as saying be had attempted physician said he could not appear CThe Italian press, following last erclal attach*me oiof uietb* Ntiwaraguan lear^uan BtJlXETTN! Emergency Sqjuads Throu^- week’s visit of British Prime MlMa- to gain dtplomaUc Im- Btv* which may end tb* The court reform report aubmlt- attacks on 10 or 13 girls In the at all this week and It waa under- geverament to gain a half yaar old dvD erar. Ho wgg. ted ty a special committe* headed neighborhood of Simpeon. Pa., neai stood h* might have to enter a Tokyo, Jaa. 1 7 _ (AP) — ter (Jhamberlsln. boa delivered atm munity, has ptoadad guilty to Doroel, Japan's natianal aewa ’’warning*’’ to Franca against gle- eonspiiing withrlth Mrs. lam a N. at tb* haod of th* ssata by Justlc* Newell 8. Jennings of the "•ngaton. hospital for observation. movtag eastward along tho Stste Supreme Court of Ehrors, put “Did you ever kill one of them?" Officials withheld a decision on agmey. Indicated today that i out England Summoned Ing help to the Spanish government. Lauer, wife of a New York Judge, to lowering of the United Htateo* At the same ‘l.ua It waa carried on amuggi* In Partstan flnary. Barcalona highway toward Igosl forward two alternate plana. One Sterns said he asked the prisoner what procedure to follow li Fleming ballaved to b* th* nortbara saff would abolish the present Town, Mozda, who had been talking free- could not appear when testimony and Brlllah Dominion*' bars to To Guard PubEc Senrices a bitter anti-French campaign and • “ T t t a l ly, faltered. Oriental Immigration might be voiced Fascist demands tor colonial tha goveramant'a new Unas. City and Borough courts and pro- bgglns, pending selection o. the re- Mn. Lauer pleaded guilty, laavtag From ™tha atatt „of .th* ft vides that their functions be taken "Taa, I did," th* deteotlve said (haialng alternate. made a Japaaes* eondttloa far conceaMons from Franca.) Rota» tha enta P«nm Urao far 7 ...........................tko malatcBsnee of the -open door” Bonnstt west directly from the over by new Clroult court JudgM of tbs prisoner added. “I idlled her. It waa understood, however, that From Iiid i Blamed dieted to foe* tiW. Benny dMta* SSS zLISSSrlJr though. I hacked her up prett'. If the alternate waa picked todtoy to r trade of western power* In train to the Chamber of OspuUes to tb* eharya sod tumod over Jpw m iy'"^ oommtad haa the preeent Court of Oommon pieaa. (M as. The agency aald that draw from om fortlgod plotl! D m other, sIraUar to a bill wtro- much, with a hatchet" Then, court would adjourn until ‘nrara- face a foreign policy debato. vahMd at $9,191 wblob FMaral another without rioklag S d Stefna aald Moada told Mm, l a Japan was wUMng to nagotlato autboritlao sold bod bean brought dueed s t the 1M7 aeaalon, provtdas •eparately with the Calted London, Jon. IT.—(AP)—A new Asserts FMnd* DnpoB batUs. Now. mlUteiT gbt i t w ra,: tor th* lateotlao of tb* praaant dty .