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Evening star., 1939-12-05
From the
Press Box
Giants Reach Pro Peak
Distressing Defense
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK, Dec. S CN.AN.A).-
In Milwaukee next Sunday the citi-
xens of that neighborhood will see
their Green Bay Packers attempt
to pry the world football champion
ship loose from q team which Ger
tainly must be regarded as one OF
the best Of all time, though its own
ers, coming from bookmaking
family, are inclined, I regret to say,
to snub in their prosperity some Of
the people who helped build up their
business.
Skipping the owners for the nonce
ALTER all, the folk in Milwaukee
von't have to worry about them
this team of New York Giants will
be hard to beat Their coach, Car
barn Owen, pays as little attention
as he can to color and spectacular
demonstrations. In & wide-open
game he plays close to his chest
with uniform success.
In a way the football Giants re-
semble the baseball Yankees. The
Yankees work in a bashing, slug
ging. loose-flelding league, and they
win their games with good pitching
and brilliant defense-plus a little
slugging for gool. luck.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Jeffra 10 Fight Here
+ Ahearn Finds
Suitable Foe
Overlin FoiIs to Please
Fons Despite Artistic
Win Over Oreovon

Harry Jef1ra will be the next fea-
tured artist to appear in the ring at
Turner's Arena If Promoter Goldie
Ahearn's plans materialize, but the
corpulent boss Of Washington's little
flstic factory Is bemoaning the lack
Of suitable opposition for stars he
would like to import.
"S'help me, but it's impossible.
II I ged q good, classy fighder I
can't ged dab hopposition," he
moaned today, big, salty tears cas-
cading down his -wrinkled
cheeks and dripping on his vest.
"And If I ged hopposition I can't
ged dab top-notchers. It's head
ache-a horrible hangover-no less"
All evidence in the matter tends
to bear out Goldie's contention that
1t seems to be impossible to get
good name" fighter in the ring with
enough opposition to keep the public
satisfied. He's had names. plenty Of
them. and good. rough f1ghters-but
not on the same card. Or, II the
bout shaped up as good one, some
thing went amisS.
Overlin Never Is Menaced.
Take last nights eight-round duel
between Ken Overlin and Babe
Orgovan, which the former won
easily, for example.
They shook hands before the first
round and Orgavan hasn't touched
Ken since. The paint job the for
mer sailorman did on the Babe was
something no union brush-wielder
could duplicate. He foored Orgovan
in the third-the first time the dur
able Dane ever had been on the
floor-and toyed with him there
after. He kept sticking the helpless
Orgovan with long, snaky left that
must have felt like a hot needle and
Evening star., 1939-12-05

Second ten-11, Notre Dame. 881a
10, Ohio State, 80; 13, Georgia Tech,
62: IA, Boston College, 81; IS, Glenn
son %, 46; 16. Santa Clara, 80; II,
Nebraska. 81; tied for 18, Fordham
and San Jose (Calif) State, 20 each;
20. Georgetown. 10.
Also ran-Michigan, 13; Princeton
and North Carolina. II each; Ore
gon State and Southern Methodist,
each; Villanova, 4; Oklahoma. g.;
Holy Cross, Colorado and Minnesota,
l each.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Ghezzi, Surozen in Town

En- route to the sunny South
land, where they will participate in
the winter tournaments, Vic Ghezzi,
North and South open champion,
and Gene Sarazen former British
and American Open titleholder. are
In town for few days, visiting with
Whiffy Cox.
Evening star., 1939-12-05

We can use him. We can use any,
body who can hit that RIM"
The Cardinals face a tough, 18-
game program, featuring contests
with Fordham, Maryland, Villanova,
La Sale, Baltimore u, Duquesne
Evening star., 1939-12-05

and Loyola. Although last nights
was the first ofncial practice, most
Of the squad has been drilling Of
its own accord and will have itself
In excellent condition In time to
break training at Christmas.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Unbeuten and United

Cardinal A. c. football team
closed its 14-game season unde-
feated yesterday with a 7-to-0
triumph over Seat Pleasant. The
winners were unscored on all fall.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
BeIImun's Baskets Tell

Led by r. Bellman, who made four
baskets, Bellman Heating Co. beat
Arlington A. c. at basket ball In
Roosevelt gym last night, 20 to 16.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Keep Foe From Scoring
New York's Bio Ideo

The football Giants can slug a
little, too. In Danowski and Tufty
Leemans they have a passer and
runner as good as most in the wide
open National Football League. But
their speciality is defense. Get a
touchdown if you can, settle for a
field goal If you can't, but keep the
other club from scoring.
This formula in the last two years,
and off and on before that, has been
more than a match for the roaring,
screaming, wide-open game of the
Packers, the Bears and the Red
skins.
Just for the moment we will con-
slider the technical aspects of the
quarrel between Ray Flaherty.
Washington coach, and the referee,
Bill Halloran, who called against
the Redskins in that ticklish situa-
ton Sunday, when Russell tried for
a field goal that would have won
the game for Washington.
Mr.. Halloran could have been
wrong. as Mr. Flaherty says, though
the referee, peeking squarely into
the twilight, had better look than
Mr.. Flaherty away back on the side
lines. If Washington had won that
game this sermon on the merits of
the Giants would make no sense.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Ovens System Would Help
Other Clubs in LOOP

However, the point is that the
Giants do go on winning, close ones
and all. Generally speaking, the
game Of pro football has led the
sport away from close-locked de-
fensive strategy into the happy
hunting grounds Of free-for-all
scoring. It's possible that the Gil
ants will lead pro football back a
little way into tho old defensive
sphere. When a team continues to
win it Is folly for its rivals to ignore
the tactics of the winner.
Giant methods can be adopted
without hurting the game at the
box office. After all, you still have
those good, open professional rules.
the posts on the goal line, the art
of forward passing encouraged by
free zone back of the line of scrim-
mage and the ball carrier at liberty
to plow forward as far as he can.
Washington can learn from Owen S
Giants the value of having a
sure-fire place kicker. Even if Rus
sells kick was goo he cannot be
ranked as marksman with Ward
Cuff and Ken Strong. And sure
fire place kicker is something any
professional team can have with the
help of thorough scouting and plenty
nf rra ctico
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
By WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service STAFF CORRESPONDENT

1Vh71A DIt WV Is''HA N7
On August 3, 1914, two days after
France entered the World war, the
French Rothschlld bank was an
Cling IN Wall Street Tor q Joan
through J. T. Morgan and co.
The United States was largely I'M
used to international finance IN
those days. 1t has had wide, and
costly. experience since. But then
1t was still a debtor nation, with
large blocks OF internal securities
held abroad.
Today the United States is one
Of the principal creditor nations,
vaults piled with more than SIS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
YOUNG GERMANS
FAVOR HITLER
Stand Loyalty Behind
Leader Reports Water.
bury Student

Belief that the German people
are firmly behind Adolf Hitler, was
expressed today BY Martin }.
Tierney, OF Highland av-,.tle, who
returned last week from Germany.
A graduate Of Middlebury college,
MIR. Tierney was at the University
of Stuttgart completing IFS course
for doctors degree in chemistry.
Although many persons believe
otherwise, MIR. Tierney said, the Ger
man people, including the educated
minority he met at the university.
believe In the Hitler leadership.
Young people especially, Mr.. Tierney
observed, stand firmly behind their
leader.
Mr.. Tierney said he kept up with
international affairs in English and
American newspapers that weren't
confiscated.
Mr.. Tierney, who resides at High
land avenue, went to Germany on "a
scholarship from the international
Institute Of Education Exchange.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
J. P. Morgan Directed
War Munitions Sale
United States Should Have Minded "Own Business
in World War States Rev. Mr. Madden in Address

America would probably not have
entered the World War if she had
attended strictly to her own bust.
ness" declared Rev. Matthew G.
Madden, pastor of the Mill Plain
Union church, in an address to
members of the Connecticut Moth
ers' Club for Prevention of War
last night at the Wildly high school
auditorium. He claimed that the
United States is in danger of being
drawn into the present European
war unless steps are taken to pre-
vent American financiers from max
ing loans or extending credits to
belligerent nations.
Mrs. Katherine johnson presided
at the meeting, which was attend
ed by more than 200 women. The
session was one OF a series being
held by the Mothers club.
Rev. Mr.. Madden said in part:
when Germany declared war
in 1914, America was free to do
business with whom she chose.
The American business man ac-
cepted this opportunity to stimuli
late trade. The munitions trade,
or sales in 1914 were ten million
dollars. In 1916 the sales had in
creased to over pit million dollars.
In addition to munitions we were
selling foods, clothing and other
articles to the countries at war.
Starvation
"At first we had clear sailing.
Later we ran into difficulties. Eng
land began to interfere with the
cargo bound for her enemies
ports. Germany was frustrated. At
the close of the war it was es-
timated that more than 100000
men, women and children of Ger
many, died of starvation. Ger
many's answer to the food situa-
ton was the submarine. On May
z, 1915, the Lrsitania was sunk,
carrying with her to watery grave
1,198 lives of whom 124 were Ameri-
cans. This event, stimplated by
strong propaganda, played upon
the imaginations and sympathies OF
the American public until the war
fever gripped our people.
TRADE and finance are closely
related. Shortly after the war COM
menced, j. P. Mor0n g. Co., took
the leadership in financing the
huge war trade with the Allies.
This firm became the purchasing
agent for England and France,
and in early 1915 this agency
signed the first contract for NUM-
lions with the Dupont Co. 1t has
been accurately estimated that
seventy per cent of the sales OF the
DUPONT Co., to England and France
were made through ]. P. Nor
gan d Co.
"The war Department plainly
stated that any loans to the coun-
tries at war would be inconsist-
ant with the true spirit Of neutral
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

ity.' However, by 1917 our war
loans to the Allies were well over
2 billions. BY this time financing
had practically been drained and
we are facing a crisis.
BaIIyhoo
I'm the meantime, the usual bal
lyhoo about the Huns, etc., was be-
ing scattered to the four corners of
the United States Finally in
March of 1917 Walter Hines Page,
our ambassador to Great Britain,
sent confidential message to Presi-
dent Wilson in which he wrote:
Perhaps our going to war is the
only way in which our present pre-
eminent trade position can be
maintained and panc averted
The submarine had added the last
item of danger of uncertainty
about our being drawn into the
war. No more considerable credit
can be privately placed in the Unit
ed States and collapse may come
in the meantime
~. S. Financier on Spot"
'The American financier was 'on
the spot To issue credit to the
Allies only would mean an open
break with Germany. To refuse
credit needed to back up the loans
of American bankers who had been
acting as agents of American in
dustry meant an unfriendly attitude
toward the Allies. More important,
it meant the stopping of trade
The result was that on April
Z, 1917, Congress declared war on
Germany.
81 honestly believe that had
America attended strictly to her
own business, it is very doubtful
whether she would have entered the
war which cost, to the present time
over IS billions of dollars and $780,
600 of her men, wounded and
killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
COMMAND PRAISES
NATIONAL GUARDS

The commander. officers, and en-
listed men of the 102d Infantry,
CHG, yesterday won high praise
from the high command for their
showing at the army maneuvers re-
Gently at Plattsburg. The report
was received from headquarters OF
the First Corps Area at Boston.
In q detailed review of the ma
neuvers, made by Major Thomas A.
Bresnahan, infantry, the skill and
discipline Of the unit was commend
ed, and stood out in comparison to
bungling and inefflciency shown by
some other units participating IN
the operations.
Individuals singled out for merit
included: Lieut.. Col. Ernest e.
Novey, Maj. J. M. Quinn, Capt. A. r.
Kappa, Capt. Frank Loughlin, Lieut..
G. G. Baldwin, Maj. Joseph p. Hou-
ley, and Capt. Frank Grimaldi
The report will be announced to
every member Of the regiment by
Col. Lewis e. Field, commander Of
the regiment. Five units are sta
toned in Waterbury under Mai
Thomas II. Horrigan, commander Of
the second battalion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

Swing and sway the Tower way. Dom Pinto,
goucky music maker with the Conn five, saps
the bass in torturous manner. No doubt the boys
who wrote can Apple for the Teacher had Mary Shinto
charming Bridgeport school marm in mind. That
sizzng sparkling flour salesman Jim Bozzuto is calling
on the customers with new buschariot. EXCLUSIVE
BULLETIN. . Don Ameche of the Hollywood lots is
building at Lake Zoar and will spend summer vacations
bathing in the refreshing waters of the lake. nice
blue orchid to Jim Magner of the motorpatrol platoon
for the swell charitable deed he performed the Merden
Road the other afternoon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

100000. The French in mid-1916
borrowed another $150,000,O00 and
the British received a further $780,
100000. Between November 1916 and
February 1917, British loans tota1ed
$685., 633 900 more.
Before the United States entered
the war, April 6, 1917, loans to al
lied governments totaled $2,506, 591,-
BIT, according to an unofficial tabu-
lation.
The government policy toward
such loans was never very clear. APP
parently after an initial fear of
them and the inducements they
might bring, there came a period
when the government tried not to
think about them.
It appears almost certain the
Morgan bank did nothing without
consulting the state department.
While they seldom got specific per-
mission for financial actions, neither
did they get prohibitions-it was
sort of silent consent" Once the
United States entered the war, of
course, the tap was opened wide.
The war boom" of 1916 was built
on the pyramid of credits and loans.
Spring Rice, British ambassador,
wrote, on Nov. 81, 1918, ia his chief
in London, 1.-THE brutal facts are
that this country Omitted .States)
has been saved by the war and by
our war demand from great eco
nomical crisis our orders here
are absolutely essential to their
commercial prosperity
The United States wanted the
prosperity, and it had to take with
it the loans and credits that made
it possible, together with all that
followed both.
If the present European war
continues, the same problem must
be faced again, sooner or later.
NEXT: The Munitions Magnet,
and its part in bringing the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
NO ACTION TAKEN
ON new CONDUIT
Board Recommends Calu-
met Street to Be Made
WPA Project

A request that o brook running
near Calumet street be enclosed in q
conduit was received by the board
of public works last night. After a
report from the engineering de-
partment that the work would cost
about $4,000, the board voted to take
action at this time but Ito ask that
the project be recommended for
listing by the WPA next year.
The engineering department. re-
ported that the owner of property
on Bank street, near the bridge
over the Naugatuck river, was ask
ing $1,000 for a right of way for a
storm water sewer. The board voted
to ask the aldermen's approval for
public hearing on the laying Of
the sewer.
A protest by Attorney James e.
Russell against the amount of a
water bill for property on Center
street was referred to the engineer
ing department. Mr.. Russell claimed
that in 1888 the water bill jumped
from $50 to 500 in six months. He
said his previous complaints had
gone unanswered.
On request of Mayor Patrick
Perriello, the board voted to ask
the engineering department to in
vestigate complaints that storm wa
ter is flooding private property and
to make an estimate for the lay
ing-out Of Columbia boulevard ex-
tension.
81. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

IN the main stem Ed BrucatO, Steven Bene-
detto. Bernie Forno and Frank Ragaga are still
singing the praises of Grover Whelans wonderland
and are contemplating more trip before the lock
is put on for the season. Frank MackOwsh of Sey-
mour has given Kay Spellman one Of the incest
sparllers in town. Mrs. Susan Rulaskus formerly
of the venditti family is learning to hum new lula
bes since the arrival of her new nine pound baby boy
:. Mary Muraska, Fulton Market stenog, we learn
from reliable source will be crowned the bowling
champ of the warehouse. She's really that good!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
DAUCH TO ADDRESS,
SOCIAL WORKERS
Communities Study Well
fare Program, Shortage
OF Funds

The problem of Connecticut's
community welfare program, faced
by increasing DIFFICULTY in obtaining
funds for welfare purposes and at
the same timely the imperative ne
cessity of preventing social break
down, will be the central theme for
discussion at the 10Th annual meet
ing of the Connecticut Conference
of Social Work to be held in Hart
ford on October IS, 26 and ~.
Speakers of national prominence
will include Charles s. Alspach, re-
gional director Of the Social Secur-
ity Board; DR.. Reginald Robinson
of the Community ChSetS and Coun-
ellis, Inc, national organization Of
community chests; DR.. Arthur l..
Swift of Union Theological Semi
nary, New York; Massachusetts,
State Welfare Commissioner David
w. Armstrong, and Arch Mandel,
assistant director of the Greater
New York Fund.
Among Connecticut speakers, dis
cussion chairmen and participants
will be State Welfare Commits
sioner Robert j. Smith, Deputy State
Tax Commissioner Frederick w.
Dauch, State Police Commissioner
Edward J. Hickey. DR.. Franklin M.
Foote, director Of local health adj
ministration, State Department Of
Health, and Deputy Commissioner
Serviah n. Packard, Bureau OF
Child Welfare, State Department Of
Public Welfare.
More than 1000 social warkers and
executives, board members Of well
fare agencies, school and health Of,
ficials, clergymen and church work.
ers. from all parts Of the state are
expected to attend the conference.
49, "a
nafnaffvo aovr nes.ea xs,a ~ ot,,er
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

sending all manner Of articles
across the ocean for final process
ing there when we could give em-
ployment to thousands by doing
it here"
In the 1914 days, the bankers in
their representations to the state
department carefully distinguished
credits from loans. This latel
turned out to be a distinction with.
out a difference.
The same point crops out to-
day in the argument ON CASH
and-carry. Shall it be cash on the
barrel-head. or 90-day credit?
And if it is 90-day credit, does
that lead to more formal and
longer loans? Would the sequence
be, as Senator Capper suggested:
First profits from cash.
then credit loans menu"
That was the sequence in 1914
and thereafter. By March 81, 1915
the government attitude had
changed. While 1t still disapproved
formal loans to belligerent govern
ments by public subscriptions, ii
took no stand on credits advanced
by individuals or banking firms.
act, passed in 1884 which prohibits.
Foreign loans of this kind are
now restricted by the johnson
Act, passed in 1884 which prohib-
its individuals or banks from buy
ing or selling the obligations of
any foreign government, or of
anyone acting in their behalf, If
that government is in default in
its debts to the United States.
The catch here is that the word
default" is. subject to interpreta-
ton, and it may not mean to law
yers what it means to Joe Blow.
But the policy, at least, is defined.
In May, 1915, the Morgan bank
became purchasing agent for both
and by October of that year it was
floating a $50000O,000 Franco Brit
ish loan in the United States. This
was sold to the public.
The Morgan bank recently an
nounced that during this war it
will not be purchasing agent for
European belligerents. A Franco
British mission is believed ready to
step in to coordinate directly
such purchases as soon as the law
permits. 1t is presumed that the
Johnson Act would forbid any
floating of British or French loans
at present, but that is subject to
Interpretation.
Last war, the pressure to permit
credits and loans was heavy.
Throughout 1914, the country was
in depression, and the prospect of
seeing perfectly legitimate business
go to other countries simply for lack
of American credit seemed dreary
one. Practically all the money adj
vanced as credits and raised as
loans was Immediately spent in the
United States for food and supplies.
MONEY AVAILABLE
FOR ALL
BY the following year, this bridge
of dollars" was in full operation.
Russia got two loans totaling $751;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

Nevertheless by Nov. 4, the Ma
tional City Bank was extending a
credit of $10,OOO,0o0 to France. The
government attitude of disapproval
of even such private loans to bel
ligerent governments had been
speedily broken down when bankers
pointed out that without credits,
trade with belligerents would be inn
possible.
A trace Of this point of view is
contained in President Roosevelt's
neutrality message to Congress
Sept. II. when he urges repeal of
the embargo on arms, saying
what is the advantage to us in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

Richard F. Perry local office clerk, and Mary Ann
Hedly Hartford cosmetican, that way about each
other. In fact, they filed marriage license applca
ton at the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the Capital
City recently. Ann Gallo, prominent st. Lucys
debater is taking post graduate at Waterbury
Catholic High School. She plans to matriculate at
Connecticut State College next year. Leonard B.
Lockwood was usher at the pretty wedding last
Saturday at ST. Johns Church where Ann Lockwood
of EnglewOod N j., became the bride of George X Ray
mOnd of Colchester The RaymOnds will make this city
their home after an unannounced honeymoon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

Attorney Francis Noonan, Leon Thibodeau and
Larry Shea, former Waterburians comfortably estab
lShed in palaal bachelor quarters at Takoma Park in
Washington D. c.. Winfield Scott Cline one of Con-
nectcus best known landscape painters and very good
speaker will be guest of the Kiwans week from this
Sydney A. Morcey, wholesaler have been elected to mem
bershp in the local Lodge of Elks and are eligible
for initiation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18
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1910 MODEL
By THE MAN In THE TOWER

The new models are divine
And classy accessories stress,
With all the bright and subdued shades,
No, we aren't describing dress
But those snappy new gas buggies,
At a thousand bucks throw,
Newest styling, chromium details
And guaranteed to do thus and so.
There's great change in rear axles,
Engineering skill has been used
To make car that is car
With parts all lined and fused.
AS for the chasses, that noble thing,
About which we little understand,
Like lady's fall getup,
The new models are simply grand.
EN- EN-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

Ed RED" Moran, son of Bill Moran assistant
foreman in the Dem composing room, is chairman of
the program committee for the annual alumni home
coming celebration at the University of Connecticut
next Saturday Red" received his sheepskn in 1889.
Walter Jarvis of the Chase Companies was added
to the membership roll of the Connecticut Society
for Crippled Children Monday. Bertram ID.
Dodd principal of Humiston School in Cheshire, is
undergoing treatment at the New. Haven Hospital
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

embargo, as of
today. But the
bill is compli-
Gated, and after
all the general
debate is over
which won't be
for a little while
yet at least
half a dozen
amendments to
v arious pro-
visions will come
up.
A number of
senators who are
for repeal of the