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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
18th, 18th British Ships
Since Saturday Are Sunk
This Morning
JAPANESE LINER is
I4TH SINCE SATURDAY.
Floating Mines Are Real
Terror of Sea; Shipping /
May Shun England n
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

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UNITED Press Foreign News Editort
A new and perhaps more
dangerous threat to Great!
Britain's mastery Of the seas
arose today as Nazis pressed
their air and naval offensive
on the 21st anniversary OF
the collapse of Imperial Ger
many as a naval power. The
18th and 18th shops to be
torn apart by an explosion
since Saturday, the British trawlers
Mastiff and Seasweeper, went to the
bottom with loss Of six men, boosting
the estimated sea death toll in four
days TO 146.
A big liner ~ identified in mes
sages to the Japanese embassy as
the 11,930-ton Japanese Terukrni
Maru - was blown up off the east
coast Of England today, the 14th
victim of intensified sea warfare
since Saturday.
The Japanese embassy said mes
sages from Harwich identified the
liner as the Terukuni Baru, but
gave no details.
It was believed that the Terukunl
Maru struck O mine. She carried
crew of $50 and Is passengers, In
Guiding one Briton.
The Terukuni Maru was crack
liner on the Nyk Line, and en- route
from London to Japan.
The Terukuni Maru Is Of the Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha Line, registered
out of Tokyo. She was built in 1880
in the Mitsubish yard In Japan.
The Japanese embassy said 1t had
telephone message from Harwich
saying the Terukuni Muru had sunk
but had no details.
The telephone message from Hars
wich indicated that the Japanese
ship went down in the same area
where the Simon Bolivar, the British
steamer Blackhill and several other
ships have been sunk in the last four
days apparently the center Of oil
floating mine area.
Reached London November IL
In New York the Nippon usens
Kaisha Line offices said the Teru-
kuni Maru had arrived at London
November II from Yakahama and
was scheduled to pick up cargo and
passengers at various English ports,
returning to Japan December 8.
"A spokesman for the line des
scribed the ship as one OF our newest
types" built In 1880. 1t normally
carries 220 passengers, but the
spokesman did not know how many
were aboard.)
It was not known whether mine,
or torpedo struck the liner be-
lieved to be the Terukuni Maru. One
eye witness said:
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Germans Press Most Dangerous
Threat To Historical Claim OF
Britain, MASTERY Of All Seas"
GERMAN PLANES
over ENGLAND
They Roar Above Scot
land, Orkney Islands;
One Nazi Plane Down
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS
UNITED Press staff Correspondent

NOhsAwC0 = AV5D 6eSAA SSAASSEVAAssSAAv
London, Nov. 81 - (UP)-Nazi
planes reared over England, Scot
land and the Orkney Islands today
but Royal Air Force fighting craft
shot down one of the east coast
making a total Of 20 German air.
planes brought down in seven weeks.
The plane shot down, while anti
aircraft batteries were active In
southeast England, was understood
to have fallen in the sea before 1t
reached the coast.
Over Sutherland
But other planes were reported
over Sutherland of the coast Of
Scotland and over the Orkney
Islands. The bombing craft over
Sutherland was flying low enough
to show the German markings and
reared northward.
It was the second day Of increas-
ingly intense German aerial recon-
Nuisance and increased fears of an
impending bombing attack Yester-
day a German plane few over the
outskirts Of London.
Dispatches from Scotland reported
considerable air activity OF the east
coast.
Early In the morning, planes be-
lieved to be Royal Airforce craft few
swiftly toward the Firth Of Forth,
but no enemy craft could be seen
from the ground.
Hundreds Of persons, however,
heard planes roaring overhead and
the r. A. F. craft were active all
mrning. No air alarm was sounded
A fight plane believed to be Ger
man was sighted in the northeast
ern area Of England early in the
morning, flying at q high altitude.
Three Over Orkney
Three enemy planes In all ap'
peared over the Orkneys. Siren!
strieked but the anti-aircraft bat
teries did not open fire and NJ
bombs were dropped.
Earlier bursts of machine gun fir,
were heard over southeast Kent
Airplanes were heard and severa
planes, believed to be British, wer,
seen over one coastal town. Blu
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
GREAT BRITAIN
WILL RETALIATE
German Exports on High
Seas Will Be Seized By
British Warships
BY WALLACE CARROLL
United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

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London November 81. - (UP) -
Great Britain will retaliate against
Nazi sea warfare which sank IA
ships off the English coast since
Saturday by seizing German ex-
ports on the high seas, Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain announced
today in the House of Commons.
The prime minister's statement, in
reference to British charges that
Nazis had resorted to unrestricted"
war at sea by use Of floating mines,
was made as messages from Harwich
reported that the 1l,930-ton Japa-
nese passenger liner Terukuni Maru
had been blown up and sunk.
Previous reports today had told
Of the sinking Of the Minesweeper
Mastiff and the British trawler
and sea sweeper by mines.
Done In World War
Chamberlain recalled that during
the. World War the Allies had seized
German exports on the high seas in
retaliation for U-Boat attacks on
merchant ships.
There had been reports last week
that Britain was considering such
drastic action as selling German ex-
ports - in addition to the blockade
Of German imports = but Chamber
lain,s announcement came like 8
bombshell because Of Its possible ef'
feet on such neutral countries a
italy.
MANY violations OF internationa
law and the ruthless brutality o
German methods have decided thu
government 10 follow Q simila'
course" chamberlain said IN refer
|ence to the Allied action In tn
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
MUCH DIVORCED
. MANN TROUBLE
Fashionable Photographed
ofsNewsYork Beaten on
Estate Of Ex-Wife

Danbury, Conn.,. Nov. 2i.-tUP).-
Ira L. Hill, fashionable New York
photographer, walked out Of jail to-
day with both eyes black, his lips
cut and facing charges of. disturb
ing the peace and damaging private
property. -. @ r.
The property he assertediy DAM
aged was at the Lake candlewood
home of his third ex-wife, the for
rner Doris Goodwin, who divorced
him last year on q charge OF having
been linfaithfuf with his beautiful
1e-year old model, Marion Blackley.
Mrs. Hill Is a great grand niece Of
President Zachary Taylor.
: The 54-year old photographer was
accompanied out Of jail, as he had
been into It last night. by +. Regi-
maid Harp. New York engineer, ana
George w. Pierpont. New York p0r-
trait painter. They had been kAs
foemen IN the battle In his ex-wife's
yard. pierpcnt had two gashes on
IT. p
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
Corrine Maddox Wrote
HatePoem BeforeDeed
Two-Gun Girl, After She Shot Texas Attorney, Feared
He Wouldn't Die-lO Bullet Wounds, However,
Proved to Be Fatal
BY RICHARD G. BALDWIN
UNITED Press staff Correspondent

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Dallas, Texas, Nov. 2l.-(UP)-
Pretty Corinne Maddox hated At
torney Brooks Coffman so intensely
that before Kidding him with the
bullets of two pistols, she composed
a poem Of hate for him to read in
his dying moments, police re-
vealed today.
Miss Maddox, &c, member Of a
wealthy and prominent family, shot
Coffman in the back and continued
to shoot him while he lay on the
sidewalk, propping himself up on
one elbow, beginning for mercy. He
died from the wound in the back
-Four other wounds were minor, an
attache OF the McCallum funeral
home said.
Mystery Woman
Police today appeared post con-
cerned about the identity Of a wo-
man who was with Coffman when
Miss Maddox approached him. She
was an attractive young woman be-
lieyed to have once been an employee
of his law office,fA newspaper pho
tographer who did not know her
told police that while Coffman lay
in his death agony on the side
walk, blood streaming from his
wounds. this companion tried to
seize his camera, and exclaimed:
Don't take Brooks picture - for
my sake" She Immediately disap-
peared, he said. Police were hunt
ing her today.
Miss Maddox left her victim writh-
ing and crossed the street TO
telegraph company where she en-
gagged a messenger to deliver hel
poem of hate to the hospital where
she assumed he would be taken
He died without regaining conscious
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law, and have the court decide just
what was the intent OF the legisla-
ture Of the State Of Connecticut IN
drafting and passing" the act.
II Is believed almost certain that
Mr.. Sullivan's formal opinion win
be contested by several either already
receiving pensions or seeking PEN
slons under the Culhane act. One
ventsnce In the act provides that
every city employe, who Is So years
old and with 80 years service. shall
be entitled to q pension Of at least
$1,000 q year, irrespective Of whether
he was retired prior to the passage
81 this act or subsequent thereto"
The full text Of Corporation Coun-
vel Eulljvan's opinion follows:
waterbury, Conn.
November 49, 1889.
THE HONORABLE BOARD OF
FINANCE,
CITY OF WATERBURY,
WATERBURY, CONN.
Gentlemen
In answer TO your request Of o
previous date, for an opinion con-
earning the Interpretation Of what
8 known as substitute for Sen
ate Bill No. 90, entitled IAN Act
Concerning the Policemen's and
Firemens Pension Funds Of the
City Of waterbury" I wish TO in
form you that I have carefully
studied the various Sections OF
this Act, and have come TO the
following conclusions:
SECTION 2 OF the Act (relating
to proposed pensions for widows
of members OF the Police or Fire
Department Of the City Of Water
bury, whose husbands had served
continuously for ten years prior TO
their death, as well as including
widows and children now eligible
for and receiving pensions from
the Police Widows Fund" said
Pension rights to be also eligible to
widows Of Supernumeraries IN the
Police Department who may have
been killed while In the actual
performance Of duty etc., does not
specify an effective date, or q date
when its provisions become opera
tive, therefore we must follow out
the terms and directions Of Gem
eral Statutes Revision Of 1880,
SECTION NO. $3.50, which reads
as follows:- lJ
SEQ. $3.50. WHEN PUBLIC AND
SPECIAL ACTS TAKE EFFECT.
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OLD CAsKET FIRM QUITS

Burlington, VT. Nov. 2l-WP)-
Business Of the nations Oldest cas-
ket firm was dead today,
Owner-manager Bernard =. Bos-
worth announced yesterday that the
Bristol Manufacturing Company, az
ter 80 years operation, had liQuidat.
Cd all assets except real estate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
SENATOR M'NARY
GIVES COP. HOPE
Three Point Farm Program
That Would Win West,
Elect President
RONALD q. VAN TINE

tCnited Press Stan, Correspondent
Washington. Nov. .2l---(UP)-Sen-
ate minority leader Charles L. Nc
Nary, r.. Ore, proposed . three
point farm program today with
which, he said, the Republican party
would win western states and elect
q president in 1910.
after considerable thought" he
said in an interview, II have arrived
at the conclusion that the Republic
can party can be successful If It
demonstrates TO the farm voters and
those dependent on the farmers that
the party Is Interested. as formerly,
IN heir welfare" \ s \.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
Test OF Culhane
Act Recommended
By Corp. Counsel.
Attorney Timothy S. Sullivan Today Submits His
Opinion to Mayor, Board Of Finance-Ihose
H. Aggrieved By Act Should Bring Action

superior court test for the Cuhane pension act Is
recommended by Corporation Counsel Timothy s. Sullivan
Finance He rules that the act does not affect pensions
previously in effect but suggests that the logical way
to have the act interpreted and decided for those a
grieved by this opinion to bring legal action in superior
court based upon the socaled Decaratory judgement
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
DIE CLOSE roGKrHER

Lowell, Mass, Nov. 2l-(Up)--
Henry Il. Gray. 90. veteran Indian
fighter, and his wife Florence, 81
died within two hours Of each other
&c . c0nvalescenk home here yester-
day. Both we're III FOR several
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-11-21
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Nov. 21--(uP) --GovA
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year through Now
18th, compared with year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Yeas
$685., ,44s.S3 $s,414. 207. 104.o7
s2,O7s.257,sse.7s s2,1so. sos, 1889
Gross Deficit
$1,557,e35,4 49.57 1,2s3.ess.s7s.Ta
sl.S47,sss. sss.ss si.as7.5ss.szs.7s
Cash Balance
s2.24s, O5o. Sss.s7 ss,52s, B1s,7ss.1q
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THE WORLD WAR
rs YEARS AGO,
NOW. FL, 1914

British stage afr raid on xep-
pelin sheds It FFicdrichshavens
0erIpany.
Nhlkmlsh usaw Bllsn Uamah
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The Weather

Mostly Cloudy for To-
night, Wednesday
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Evening star., 1939-06-18
American Business Clubs
Convention Tomorrow

Members of American Business
Clubs in cities throughout the Ma
ton were registering today at the
Mayflower Hotel for the three-day
convention of the organizations
which opens tomorrow.
United States Solicitor General
Robert H. Jackson will be the prin-
cipal speaker Tuesday at the model
luncheon" one of the conclave's
principal events, according to an
announcement by the Convention
Committee.
Tomorrow's activities include q
business session, beginning at $50
am; a tour of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, 2:30 pm; I'M
provements Committee dinner,
p.m,. and a moonlight cruise down
the Potomac River on the S. S. City
of Washington at $3.50 pm.
In addition to the luncheon there
will be another business session and
a stag super Tuesday, while Wednes-
day will be occupied with conclud-
ing business and the annual BAN
quet and dance.
A shopping tour and style show
Tuesday and a bridge luncheon at
Capital Golf and Country Club
Wednesday are among the special
features arranged for ladies at
tending the convention.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
City Ministers 10 Inspect
Camp Bennett June Is

Members of the Washington Min
isterial Union and their wives will
be the guests of the Ministerial
Council Of the Central Union Mis-
sion June 26 at their picinc luncheon
at Camp Bennett, a mile beyond
Brookeville. Montgomery County
They will inspect the camp. main
tanned by the city's churches for
underprivileged children.
This is the first meeting to be
held at Camp Bennett for the wives
of the city's clergymen and is for
adults only, as plans are being made
to stage an impromptu playtime
without juvenile competition. DR..
Horace Cromer, pastor of Emory
Methodist Church, is chairman of
the Transportation Committee, with
Rev. Simpson Daugherty, pastor of
United Brethren Church, and Rev.
A. F. T. Raum, pastor of the First
| Methodist Protestant Church, as
his assistants.
The Rev. Freely Rohrer, presi-
dent of the Ministerial Council, will
preside at the 1890 o'clock luncheon
to be served by the mission staff.
Every two weeks 88 boys and
girls are sent out for a fortnight S
stay on the 234-acre farm which
forms part of the realty holdings
Of the Central Union Mission owned
by the Washington churches.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Junior Board Plans
Mass Meeting on
Traffic Safety
Boy and Girl Scouts
And Petrol Boys to
Attend Rally

A mass meeting of children, called
together in the interest of traffic
safety, is being planned by the
Washington Junior Board of Com
merce to be held in the department.
auditorium soon after school closes
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
been asked to lead the children
including Boy and Girl Scouts and
Patrol Boys, in taking a safety
pledge to protect themselves and
younger children from traffic acci-
dents. The youngsters will be asked
to guard younger children and to
report carelessness to their parents
Working in cooperation with the
Commissioners Traffic Advisory
Council, the Junior Board is plan
ming to include on the program ad-
dresses by Commissioner Melvin C
Hazen, Police Chief Ernest w.
Brown, Boy Scout Executive Lynn
c. Drake, Girl Scout Director Doro-
thy Davidson and Patrol Boy Execu-
tive Washington I. Cleveland.
Also on the program are communi-
ty singing, moving pictures, one
act play, magic tricks and stunts
by the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club and boys from a nearby c. C. c.
camp, and program by one of the
service bands.
Minor Hudson, Junior Board presi-
dent, will be chairman of the meet
ing, plans for which are in the hands
of the Junior Board Safety Com
mittee, headed by Joseph Kadens,
and the Traffic Safety Promotion
Committee of the Commissioners
Traffic Advisory Council, headed by
Edwin S. Hege.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Monument al Manassas
To Honor Gen. Bee

The Mary Taliaferro Thompson
Southern Memorial Association Of
Washington will present monu-
ment honoring Brig. Gen. Bernard
Elliott Bee. Confederate general to
the Manassas Battlefield Association
at ceremonies July 81 at the bat
tlefield.
Gen. Bee was killed at Manassas
shortly after he shouted Form,
form, there stands Jackson like
stone wall; let us die here and we
will conquer"
The State of Virginia is erecting
statue few feet away from the
monument in honor of Gen. stone
WALL Jackson. A monument has
also been erected to honor Gen.
Barlow.
The Federal Government will take
over the battlefield as a national
park.
Mrs. Nora Hardy Britton is presi-
dent of the Memorial Association.
Serving on her committee are Mrs.
H. G. Clay, chairman; Mrs. Wallace
Steater, Mrs. Frank Morrison and
Mrs. Walter Lee Pharss.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
'CYrano' 10 Open Summer
Festival Season tuesday

The 11th summer festival season
sponsored by the Community Gen.
ter Department in the National Syl-
van Theater will open Tuesday with
the BlaCkfriars Guild of Catholic
University presenting Edmond Ros-
tand's "Cyrano de Bergerac' at 8
pm.
The half-hour musical program
preceding the play will be provided
by the Washington Gas Light Co.
Band
Special guests at the performance
will include Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board of
Education; the Right Rev. Joseph
Corrigan, rector of Catholic Univer-
sity; DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of the public schools, and
Robert A. Maurer, Mrs. Philip Sid
ney Smith, John H. Wilson, Gratz
E. Dunkum, Charles D. Drayton,
Col. West A. Hamilton, c. Melvin
Sharpe, Mrs. Elsie D. Watkins, R.
L. Haycock, DR.. Thomas w. Gosling,
Dr. Chester w. Holmes, DR.. Garnett
c. Wilkinson, A. K Savoy and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry l. Quinn
The weekly programs will be an
nounced by Kent Dyer and tickets
and seating will be arranged by
Mrs. Charles NJ Hunter, Sd; Ches-
ter Ring and Charles Heider.
Performances will be staged each
Tuesday evening, with Thursday as
postponement date to provide for
inclement weather Tickets for the
Tuesday nights performance may
be obtained at the Willard and
Washington Hotels, the A. A. A.
Ticket Bureau and the Franklin
Administration Building
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Howat Named Head
OF Trade Board
Traffic Group
Will Succeed to Post
Held by Col. Crawford
For Four Years

P. Y. K. Howat, president-treas
urer of the Howat Concrete Co.. Inc,
has been named chairman of the
Traffic Committee of the Board of
Trade to succeed Col. Lawrence c.
Crawford, who held the post for the
last four years.
Other officers of the committee
are Col. A. B. Barber, manager of
the Transportation and Communi-
cation Department of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, vice
chairman, and Adelbert w. Lee, To-
cal realtor, secretary. The following
others have been named to head
various subcommittees:
Maj. S. D. Ashford, signal engi-
neer in the Bureau of Safety of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
chairman of the Subcommittee on
Automatic Signals, Signs and Mark
ings; DR.. H. S. Hoffman, physician,
chairman of child safety; Robert
Dougan, executive assistant of the
Capital Transit Co., Education and
Publicity Subcommittee; Washing
ton I. Cleveland, manager of the
District Motor Club of the A. A. A.,
Enforcement Subcommittee Everett
c. Critics, civil engineer, Highways
Subcommittee; Jerome Fanciulli,
Laws and Codes Subcommittee;
George E. Keneipp. manager of the
Keystone Automobile Club, Operat-
ing Regulations Subcommittee; John
F.. Victory, secretary of the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
Parking Subcommittee and Louis
Ray Torpy, Rights and Safety of
Pedestrians Subcommittee
The Executive Committee of the
traffic unit, composed of committee
officers and subcommittee chairmen,
will meet Tuesday at 1890 pm. at
the Harrington Hotel.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Board Of Trade Organizing
And Planning for Next SeaSo,

The president and Board of
Directors of the Washington
Board of Trade are busily en-
gagged forming the standing COM
mittees and making plans for the
next seasons work. All of the
old committees continue to func-
ton in the handling of any busi-
ness pending before Congress or
elsewhere and will so continue
until the new committees are
constituted.
With the coming of the cool
weather of the fall, when civic
groups of all kinds are resuming
activities for the busy season,
the Board of Trade will be found
organized completely and the
principal plans we'll matured.
One of the hardest working
committees of the board is the
Membership Committee, which is
required to be always on the job
and holding weekly meetings. It
Is through the untiring work of
this committee that the large
membership of the organization
Is maintained. There is a con-
tinuous contest among the men,
bers of this committee to lead in
the enrolling of new members. A
large blackboard confronts the
members at every meeting. On
this board are the names of the
members of the committee and
opposite their names are in
scribed the number of applicants
they have turned in. All of this
membership work is strictly VOL
untary. The Board of Trade pays
no fees or commissions to any
one for getting members.
Most of the presidents of the
board for number of years have
been those who have in their
earlier years served as chairman
of the Membership Committee.
Frequently they have been
stepped up first to the Office of
secretary, then to second vice
president, next to first vice presi-
dent and then into the presi-
dents chair. The officers Of the
Board of Trade are elected by
the Board of Directors.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Regatta Sponsors Plan
Moonlight Sail

The Sponsors Committee of the
Presidents Cup Regatta Association
today announced plans for a Gold
Cup Royal Moonlight Sail as a
pre-regatta event, on Friday, July
%.
The trip, on the steamship City
Of Washington, will be made, it was
said, in manner similar to that in
which kings and queens were car
ried to festivals and fetes along the
Thames River in England many
years ago.
A committee of arrangements is
expected to schedule a variety of
deck amusements. The committee
includes Harold Allen Long, Austin
de Wilde and William j. McManus.