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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
TerrOrists of Pro- azi Iron Guard Read
Poster Over Battered Remains
of Dead Comrades
THOUSANDS ARE WITNESSES
TO DREADFUL EXECUTIONS
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE, JR.
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Bucharest, Sept. 22.-(UP)- Bodes of nine as
sassins of Premier Armand Calinescu lay in main
street of Bucharest today CHASTITY warning to terror
lists of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard. "This will be the
fate of assassins and traitors" proclaimed an enor
nous poster above the corpses, lying in pools Of
clotted blood, in the Boulevard King Carol II.
Mercless Vengeance
The bodies were symbol that the government
intended to exact mercess vengeance terrorsts and
that king government, army and police controlled the
country Quieness throughout the country led the gov
eminent to believe that the assaSsns small group
o. men, remnants of the outlawed Iron Guard and that
they might have acted without contact with other Iron
Guard circles.
Thousands Pass Spectacle f--
Thousands upon thousands passed the bodies today
they lay in tortured poSures in the street where six of
them had been shot by soldiers at the range of arms
length they stood lined up before army truck facing
the pistols of their execuoners How the other three
were executed was not known Two of the assassns
known to have committed suicide Streets dogs wondered
about shifting at the bodies Soldiers on guard made no
effort to drive them away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
BY LYLE C. WILSON
A.

BY LYLE C. WILSON
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
Washington, Sept. 22-(UP) -
Party lines splintered today under
weight Of President Roosevelt's ap-
peal to congress to remove the en-
barge against export of arms to
warning nations.
Immediate objective Of. the adj
ministration is speed. Senate isola-
tionists are maneuvering for long
and hot debate.
The presidents opponents prom
ised fight from hell to breakfast"
They claimed nucleus of 80 to IS
senate votes.
Administration leaders cited the
rally Of conservative Democrats to
the presidents standard as an omen
Of victory.
The big democratic majorities,
however, appeared to be proportion
ately less broken on the neutrality
issue than the Republican front.
Senate Democratic policy and
steering committees meet at IL a
a., (EDT) today with leaders at
tempting to limit the session to
strictly emergency legislation. They
fear that delay Of adjournment
might jeopardise the cash-and-car-
~ plan.
In Three Day Recess
Congress Is IN three-day recess.
The president leaves today for a
Hyde Park, N. Y, weekend.
The capital is experiencing a
calm. But the fight Is on with a
splash Of drama fit for fiction.
Just two old men left" unused
Sen. Hiram w. johnson. r., Calf,
after q senators had met in his Of
(Continued on Page 81
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
Bodies Left Lying In Street As
Govt. Warning; Death of Premier
Calinescu Tragically Avenged
Proud Polish Cavalry Brigade
Emulates Crimean War Charge

Paris, Sept 2-(UPThe Paris Soir described suicide
whole brigade Of Polish cavalry trapped behind the German lines
The reports reaching here by Rome said the brigade
Surrounded with infantry
Kutno 60 miles west of Warsaw.
For these troops had charged the German line repeatedly
trying break through join the arrison Warsaw
to the south Every time they were beaten back.
dawn last Tuesday the story went General Skotnisk
mander Of the cavalry brigade whose history
the Napoleon gathered his
The general took his place at their head emug
Cardigan charge Of the Light Brigade"
the general ordered his to draw sabers ride
full tilt at the German machine
The battle lasted only 10 minutes The
down. the horses scared by fire. The general
The few survivors rode into nearby
killed themselves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
Russia, Germany Have
Partitioned" Poland
Divide Up Country Between Themselves With
Soviets Earring Well in Cut Up-Gernlany Gave
- Up More Than Was Expected
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Cprrespondent)
Armies OF Soviet Russia and Nazi
Germany split Poland between
themselves today in a military pre-
view Of how 500 miles of eastern,
European frontiers will be revised.
The soldiers of Adolf Hitler-car-
rying the burden of conquest
throughout the war-withdrew to
the western banks of the Pisia,
Narew, Vistula and San rivers which
approximately cut Poland in half
from East Prussia to the Hungarian
borders. The rivers line was an
nounced as the limit Of military op-
erations.
The red army-marching in from
the east in the last days of con-
dict but till forced to fight in the
southern Lwow sector-shoved to
the eastern banks of the four riv-
ers, takir.s Wilma, Bialystock, Brest-
Litovsk, Lublin, Lwow and drove to-
ward the suburbs of Warsaw.
Facing each other across a COM
mon frontier at last, the Germans
and Russians still had to decide
whether a small buffer state should
be created round Warsaw, when
and if the Germans capture the city
which has fought off the Nazis for
IA days.
Hitler Free To Leave
Regardless Of whether this line of
demarcation meant vast conces-
sion by Hitler in his deal with josef
v. Stain, the NaZi fuehrer now can
conclude the lightning war in the
east and free his armies for action
on the western Rhineland from,
where he is expected to make an
inspection tour within the next few
days.
The deal also meant that Poland's
big industrial, ornaments and min
eral districts fell largely into Nazi
nan6s and will be of great impor-
:anec in the war in the west.
But the Ukrainian grain fields,
the heart of the big Polish oil fields
which Nazis needed for their
mechanical army, and the frontier
or Rumania which Germans are
seeking to dominate economically
fell into Soviet hands.
That Nazis would have seen such
rich prizes slip from their hands
in other circumstances appeared I'M
likely but at the same time their
own gain was great from an indus
trial and resources viewpoint, while
war on the western front neceS-
saxiiy forced a quick settlement
(Contin;led on Page 81
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
REACTION FROM
!. OVER in EUROPE
All Nations Are Watching
to See How Congress
Will Vote
(By United Press)

Leaders of Europe's warning pow
ers watched intently today all de-
velopments In the neutrality fight in
the American congress, knowing the
of any decision either to
alter or not to alter the present
status. =.
President Roosevelt's appeal yes
terday was warmly received In Great
Britain. Not only government lead
ers, but people all over the British
Isles listened to q British Broadcast
ting company rebroadcast Of the
presidents speech to congress.
Berlin diplomatic quarters received
the speech with mixed feelings. Nazis
thoroughly approved the presidents
desire to. keep America out Of war,
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

The body Of Calinescu was re-
moved this morning to the Athe-
naeum, the city's largest hall, to lie
in state until tomorrow.
Hundreds Of members of the Iron
Guard organization were under ar
rest and more arrests were In pres
pect as the new miHtary-led gov
eminent moved to crush the Iron
Guard remnants.
Thousands See Executions
Thousands Of people had watched
last night, 8 Ia hours, after the
assassination, the public execution
Of six assassins at the spot where
they had slain Calinescu.
It was learned today that half
an hour before his death Calinescu
had been In conference with King
Carol. He returned to the war Of
flee, and was on his way home to
lunch when he was killed. The
King learned the news as he was
sitting down to his lunch. It was
a shock as Calinescue was his clos
est adviser and one of his most in
innate friends.
But the king recovered quickly.
He wrote personally, in pencil. the
first draft Of the communicate
which a United Press correspondent
saw later-announcing the assassi-
nation. It was written firmly and
without alterations. The emotion
under which the king worked was
shown only In that the lines were
not regular but moved at different
angles across the page.
Continued on Page 81
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
HARVARD MISSES
MANY STUDENTS

Cambridge, Mass, September %.
Cup - Harvard University be-
gan Its 3o4th academic year today
with many students delayed by the
war in returning from. European
vacations. 5.
Some 1000 freshmen registered
and then started q weekend Of
welcoming. activities. Upper class
men viii arrive tomorrow and Mon
day to jump the college enrolment
to $500. An additional 5000 were
expected at the graduate schools,
President James Bryant Conant
and ARCHIBALD MacLeish, recently APP
pointed congressional librarian
viii address the freshmen tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
AMERICAN SHIPS
/. ARE OFF TO SEA

New York, September 22.-(UP3
- American merchant ships, held at
their docks for a week by sea-
mans strike, were at sea today un-
der a compromise settlement OF a
dispute over working conditions In
war zones.
Under the settlement the seanen
receive a Is per cent pay increase.
$3.50 clothing allowance and con-
tinuing pay II interned by belligerent
nations, :. y 4
Some ships sailed last night imme-
diately the strike was settled and
others rushed plans TO sail today
or as soon as they can be loaded.
Many are going to. Europe to res
turn Americans from, the war
zones. 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
THE WORLD WAR
Il, Is YEARS AGO,
SEPT. 22, 1914
By United Press

y by United PreSS
German submarine U-e sank
three British armed cruisers,
Aboukir, Hogue and Greasy. in
North Sea. Destruction com.
pleted in one hour with loss Of
I,400 men.
1 Start Of FIRST battle Of Pic
ardy. ae5
German raider Emden shelled
tanks Of Burma Oil Co., causing
100000 fire.
Admiral Maximilian Won Spec
commanding German cruiser I'm
Pacific bomharded Papette, Ia.
hiti and sunk French xunboat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
War Summary
BY United Press)

LONDON - Warsaw radio an
nounces city still holds against
Germans after IA days of siege,
says German bombs, shells Thurs
day killed 100 civilians, destroyed
German and Soviet embassies.
Radio Warsaw asserts 81 German
planes shot down In battle for
Warsaw.
BERLIN-Army high command
announces Germany and Russia
reach complete agreement regard
ing lines Of demarcation in Po-
land, says Germans won battle
Of Tomaszow, 50 miles northwest
Of Lwow.
PARIS-War office announces
artillery action along entire west
ern front throughout Thursday
night, says French advance guards
continue activity against German
lines.
BUCHAREST - Government
rounds up hundreds Of Iron
Guards after public executions Of
Premier Calinescu's assassins;
government and army remain in
control, believe pro-Nazi plot to
seize power misfired; King Carol
strengthens determination to re-
main neutral.
MOSCOW - Soviets confirm
German announcement of agree
ment upon lines of demarcation
In Poland; army announces Red
troops mop up remnants Of Po-
lish forces in Polish areas occu-
pied by Russians.
LONDON - British. warplanes
are operating ON the western front
and have shot down at least one
German fighter, the ministry Of
information disclosed today. The
announcement constituted the
first official British acknowledg-
ment Of clashes between German
aircraft and the royal air force
on the western front. British air.
craft shot down . German fight
er In France ON Wednesday, the
ministry announcement said.
There were NO details.
WASHINGTON - Administra-
tiop presses for speedy enactment
Of ROosevelt's neutrality requests
while Senate isolati0nists plan
long debate.
LONDON - German prisoners
have started to arrive In England.
the ministry Of information an
nounced today. A number Of
German officers, the ministry
said, arrived yesterday and were
tAkea 10 prison camp. Other Ger
man prisoner. presumably Of low
or rank, arrived and were placed
in . separate camp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Sept. 22-(UP)-Goy-
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year through Sept.
20, compared with a year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Year
s2.209, 1888 $1,9sS, 156, 1889
Receipts
$1,s41,47o,s17.ss 1888, SOS, 571.4s
Gross Deficit
ss6s. 4oS.s1o.54 s5ss, 1s7, sso.ss
Net Deficit
SSs0,344,0s0.54 $5ss,1ss, 3sO.s9
Cash Balance
$2,24s,ss4.5s4.77 $3,122,525,142.s9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
Roosevelt Embargo Appeal Splits
Party Lines Widest Break Lies
Mostly Among Republican Ranks
Congress in Three Day Re.
cess Before Opponents
Face Each Other

Full text Of President Roosevelt's
message to the special session of
Congress will be found ON Page 8.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22
The Weather.

Fair, Milder Tonight
Saturday Fair, Warmer
guD weather Report FACES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

MOSCOW - Soviets confirm
German announcement Of agree
ment upon lines of demarcation
In Poland; army announces Red
troops mop up remnants Of Po-
lish forces in Polish areas occu-
pied by Russians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

PARIS-War office announces
artillery action along entire west
ern front throughout Thursday
night, says French advance guards
continue activity against German
lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

Continued on Page 81
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

WASHINGTON - Administra-
ti0p presses for speedy enactment
Of Roosevelt's neutrality requests
while Senate isolationists plan
long debate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

BERLIN-Army high command
announces Germany and Russia
reach complete agreement regard
ing lines Of demarcation in Po-
land, says Germans won battle
Of Tomaszow, so miles northwest
Of Lwow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-22

. lContinued on Page 81
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
SOME BIRTHDAY PRESENT
Babies Born on New Years Day
To Be Given a Bank Account

Parents of babies born in this
state on January first should take
their baby's birth certificate to any
savings bank in the state and have
opened there a savings account
with S5 credited to the new arrival,
E. R. Smith, Wilmington manager
of the ESQ Marketers, stated yes
terday. His explanation followed
the announcement of the ESQ
Marketers that they would open a
S5 savings account for every baby
born in this state on New Years
Day. This organization will also
open a S10O account for each twin
born on this date and a $3.50 ac-
count for each triplet born on the
first day of January. In case
are born they will
open for each quadruplet a $1,000
savings account and if quintuplets
are born each quintuplet will be
honored with a $1,000 savings ac-
count.
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
UNDER
CITY CHARTER
Dover Proves Efficiency of
New Plan Under City Man
ager /. ID. Shank
FIRST TO ADOPT PLAN

Because Of the widespread dis
cussion as to whether Smyrna
should have a city charter, and
possibly a city manager, it is in
teresting to note that Dover this
year is completing its first 10
years Of operating under city
manager form Of government. Do
yer was the first municipality in
Delaware to adopt this form of
government. In 1929 the Delaware
legislature granted new charter
for the city which, among other
things, placed the administrative
affairs of the city in charge of the
city manager and provided that
the city council should be the leg
islative body. When this new form
of government was placed in oper-
alton, all of the city's activities
were grouped under one head in
stead of being directed by council
manic committees, as was the pre-
vious method of operation. The
only exception to this plan was the
police department which was
placed under the direct charge of
the mayor with his appointments
and promotions being submitted to
city council for approval. L. D.
Shank, who for several years prior
to the adoption Of the present form
of government, was superintendent
of the light and water departments,
was appointed city manager and
has served continuously in that ca
pacity.
After the city manager form of
government was placed into effect
the city embarked upon an exten-
sive civic improvement program on
a pay-as-you-go basis with the re-
suit that during the past decade
several million dollars have been
expended on public improvements.
AS a result of this improvement
program Dover now has only few
streets that have not been improv-
ed by hard surface treatment. A
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28

The winners of the prizes for
holiday decoration were determined
last evening by an impartial COM
mittee made up of leading citizens
of nearby communities, according
to an announcement by Mayor Will
liam E. Matthews, Jr. The in
creased interest in the decorating
of homes and places of business
has made the matter of judging a
most difficult one, and up until
press time the names of the win
ners were not available. The ac-
tion of the town council in voting
prizes for home decoration stimu-
lated individual efforts along this
line to such an extent that Smyrna
was more beautiful this year than
ever before, officials stated. More
homes were brightly lighted, and
novel arrangement of colored ef-
fects proved to heighten the feel
ing of Christmas spirit. This ex-
pertinent as carried out during the
past Yule season, has made many
residents of Smyrna conscious of
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
XMAS LIGHTS BACK GROUND FOR
HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES HERE

the value, to the town and to their
properties, of extending the sea-
sons greetings to all who pass by.
Action taken in other Peninsula
towns in the same direction has
awakened keen competition among
home-owners in the various places,
reports show, and with the state
wide publicity which comes to
towns outstanding for home dec
orations, Smyrna has not been left
out in the cold. Mayor Matthews
expressed the thanks of town coun-
Gil to those who cooperated in the
program this year, and the belief
that more extensive and more elab-
crate decorations would be at
tempted by residents in future
years. The David c. Harrison Post,
No. IA, American Legion, are de-
serving of special commendation
for their decoration of the en-
trance to Market Street Plaza. The
Christmas tree which
they erected proved the focal point
of town decoration.
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
ACCIDENT NEAR
CLAYTON FATAL
Victor David of Smyrna Re-
ceived Broken Neck AS
Car Overturns
COMPANION ESCAPES

AS the result of an auto accident
between II midnight and 1 o'clock
Sunday morning, Victor David,
aged %, of Smyrna, was fatally
injured and Alvin Gaulke, aged 21,
of Smyrna Landing was hurt
slightly. The accident occurred
on the Delaney-Clayton road about
quarter mile from the Clayton
Greenspring road. 1t seems that
the car, driven by Gaulke, had
something go wrong with the steer
ing gear, causing the car to swerve
from the road and go down six
foot slope on the side of the road,
causing the car to turn over three
times, throwing Gaulke clear of the
car, but catching and pinning
David underneath as it turned over
the third time. Victor David was
gotten out from under the car by
George Langrell, Jr., who was
driving back of the Gaulke car
when the accident happened. Soon
after, George Hoffecker came along
and the two young men, David and
Gaulke, were put in Hoffecker's car
and taken to Kent General Hospital
at Dover where David died Of
broken neck shortly after being ad-
mitted. Gaulke suffered a sprained
back and was released Tuesday.
David was an active member of the
Citizens Hose Company, of Smyrna.
He is the youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Horace David, Sr. Besides
his parents, he is also survived by
two brothers, Horace Jr., and Clark
and two sisters, Mildred and Flor
ence (Mrs. NJ D. Ebright), all of
Smyrna Funeral services were
held from his late home yesterday
"wednesday afternoon at 2 pm,
in charge Of the Rev. Frederick M.
Barton, rector of st. Peters
Church. Six of his fellow fremen,
dressed in uniform, were his pail
bearers. Interment was made in
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
AA A CHECKS
SEED PROGRAM
Final Accounting Near For
Drought Aid to Kent Farm
ers Last Fall
PENALTIES TO BE LEVIED

Farmers who failed to sow seed
furnished by the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration in accord
ance with administrative rulings
will be required to pay for the full
value of the seed at the price in
dicated in their contract, accord
ing to notice received from County
Agent Russell E. Wilson. Farms
in Kent County have been checked
during the past several weeks by
field supervisors for wheat acreage
compliance in connection with the
1910 wheat allotment program.
Check was also made for the actual
use to which government seed in
tended for reseeding programs was
put by those farmers who partici-
pated in the agricultural conserva-
tion program for 1889 Aid was
offered as the result of Kent coun-
ty's being included in those sec
tions of the United States which
were affected by the dry weather
early last spring following the
seeding of red clover and other hay
and pasture crops. The AAA ar
ranged to furnish free seed this
past fall for reseeding purposes to
those farmers who experienced fail
ures in these crops. This seed was
available only to those land owners
and tenants who participated in the
1889 agricultural conservation pro-
gram. The total amount of seed
which could be allocated to each
farm was designated on the basis
of one-half of the soil-building pay
ment which could be earned during
the year 1889 by following certain
recommended soil conservation
practices. The distribution of this
seed was under the direction of r.
Harry Wilson, H. Clifford Clark
and Laurence E. Cain, members of
the county committee of the Kent
County Agricultural Conservation
Association, who have supervision
of this farm program in this coun- !
ty. These orders were placed with J.
local seed dealers throughout Kent
county who We're required to sub /
NIT samples of seed along with a
sales agreement in compliance with
ruling of the federal government. !
Continued on PAGE Ffve)
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
OF
THE TIMES DIES
r. ID. HOffecker, Owner of The
Smyrna Times, Passed
December oath
FUNERAL ON THURSDAY

Robert D. Hoffecker, editor and
publisher of The Smyrna Times,
died Sunday night, December "a, in
the Kent General Hospital at Do
Yer from complications following
an operation made less than a week
ago. Mr.. Hoffecker was born in
Milford, the son of Robert D. and
Anna Mansfield Hoffecker, and
soon after moved to Smyrna where
he resided all of his life. He was
graduated from the University of
Delaware in 1893 and Immediately
afterward associated with his faith
er, who had founded the Times in
1854. The Times, the only news
paper in Delaware to be published
without missing an issue since it
was begun, was taken over by Mr..
Hoffecker on the death of his faith
er in 1907. He was a member of
the Delmarva Press Association
and the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. He joined the
Smyrna Methodist Church when a
young man. Surviving him are his
wife, Mrs. Edna D. Hoffecker; one
daughter, Mrs. Louise H. Burslem;
one sister, Miss Bertha Hoffecker,
and a brother, Samuel NJ. Hoffeck-
er of Philadelphia. Funeral SER
vices will be held from his late res
idence on Commerce Street Thurs
day afternoon at o'clock, with
the Rev. DR.. James w. Colona of
fciating. Dr.. Colona will be as
sisted by the Rev. Frederick Marx
Barton of Smyrna, and the Rev.
DR.. G. A. Burslem of st. Georges.
Interment will be in Glenwood
Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1939-12-28
Fireless Christmas in Smyrna

Fire prevention rules were care
fully observed in Smyrna over the
Christmas weekend, as the hose
company hung up a clean record of
no calls for the two days when fes-
tivities were at their height. Us
ually a dangerous time for fires
set by faulty tree lighting or
sparks flying into highly infiam-
mable decorations, firemen Of the
Citizens Hose Company did not
nave to leave the fire house once
during the double holiday.