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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-26
Bermuda Censors
 Find Letter that
 Reveals Saboidqe

Continued from Page One) under indictment in the United States-undoubtedly would be un- der suspicion if he returned today, although the indictment has been dismissed
 Both of these COULD have been the activities of British propaganda agents. so COULD BE THE PRES ENT disclosure of a leak in U. S. naval secrets to Nazi Germany.
 But who's fooling who and why isn't important What is vital to our interests is that something s
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Today's news today in The Empire.
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AFTERNOON FIRE ALARM

A fire started by defective stove called out the Juneau Fire De- partment at l 45 o'clock this after noon to a house near Third and Franklin. The fire was quickly ex- tinguished and little damage was reported.
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THEME GIRL CHOSEN
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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 26 A pretty Los Angeles blonde, Vir- ginia Engels, has been chosen as Miss Streamline," theme girl of the 1940 San Francisco Exposi- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-26
LICENSES FOR STEAMERS

Bar license for the steamers AL eutian and Columbia were granted the Alaska Steamship Company yes- terday by the District Court.
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culates via Stockholm and is not sub feet to the above restrictions. Bod, Hammerfest, Mosjen, SandeSJen, Steinkjer, Svolver Irons. Traffic for all places in Norway is only &C., cepted at sender's risk and subject to delay"
 Kings Proclamation
 Faulkner is in receipt of a copy of King Haakon's proclamation to the Norwegian people, dated April
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-26
President Signs
 Bill Giving Big
 Sum 10 WrangeII

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill ordering payment to the city of Wrangell, Alaska, of the sum of $6,09276 from the special Federal District Court fund for taxes the Diamond K Company disputed pay ing the city and was subsequently, fined
 
 TOdaV'S news tOdaV in The F,npirp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
BARLOW
 TEST ON ANIMALS
Inventor Wanted to Try Out His Deadly .Explo-
 sive on Goat Herd

Washington, March IS. (UPl-The Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Animals today cried use ships not goats" to the inventor who wants to test his new liquid oxygen bomb by blowing up goats with 1t.
 Mrs. Herbert w. Fillmore, president of the Washington branch of the society, urged a nationwide cam paign of protests against the use of goats, or any other animal, and suggested that the explosive be tried on the governments ghost fleet" of World War vessels, now tied up in Chesapeake Bay.
 Inventor Lester P. Barlow, who claims that his exposive IS "the most deadly" indignantly denied that he intended being cruel to animals. He said the goats would be killed so quickly they would feel no pain.
 Mrs. Elsmore said her society would do everything in our power" to prevent such an experiment, put admitted that it Is a hard proposi- ton in view of the fact that 1t is a congressional matter"
 Test Would Be Horrible
 ''We believe in preparedness" she said, but 1t seems horrible that such a test with animals should be necessary. It would be far better
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
SIX PERSONS DIE
 IN HOUSE BLAZE

Charlotte, N. C., March 15.-(UP) Six persons were killed and at least nine others seriously burned in a fire which swept a downtown apartment house here today. The blaze broke out in the basement of the 24-family three-story apart ments shortly after 1 a. m, and ragged for three hours before firemen brought 1t under control. The fire swept up through the building. trapping those in upper stories. Many leaped from second and third story windows. Others were rescued by liremen with ladders.
 W. ]. durthery. one of the own CTS of the apartments, tentatively estimated damage at more han 0iOO.OOO. The dead were tentative ly Identified as Miss Lucy Walton, Mias R0Wena r. Dickerson. Mrs. H. R. Hey. Edward Martin. Tom Char fly and Mrs. Hazelle '. Martin, all nf OharlnLia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
National Campaigns Still To Be Financed
Despite Senate Amendment on $5,OOO Limit, Money Will Flow irl-l936 Was Record Breaking
 Campaign of Many Millions
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Washington, March 15-(UP)-- Presidential campaigns will contin- ue to be a multi million dollar busi- ness regardless of the latest amend- ment to the pending Hatch Clean Politics" bill to outlaw political con- tributions in excess of $5,000.
 The amendment established mini mum mandatory punishment of a $5,O00 fine and jail term for con- tributing more than $5,000 to the officer was adopted by the Senate campaign chest of federal elective yesterday. It was advanced by op- ponents of the new Hatch Bill which is designed to limit political activity of state officials as last years act limited the activities Of federal job holders.
 The report of the Senate commit tee which investigated 1886 cam paign spending discloses that the proposed limit on contributions would reduce the revenue of both parties by hundreds of thousands oi dollars but still leaves tremendous sums with which to conduct cam paign. The Investigators reported that the Republican national com- mittee collected $7,761 900 in 1886 and spent $8,892, ,00O and that the Democratic national committee col lected $5, ,205, 900 and spent $5,651 ,000
 Record Breaking Year
 Combined campaign receipts oi the major and minor political par. ties, state committees for all par ties and miscellaneous political or. ganizations in 1886 was a record breaking $22,541, ,0OO. But even thai sum was not sufficient because the combined spending of that group aggregated $23, 3,973, 3,000.
 A sensational development in the 1886 campaign-and one which could not be repeated if the $5,00C limit were imposed-waS the gift and loan of around $50O,000 to the Democratic cause by the United Mine Workers of America, the Gen. tral Union of the Congress of In- dustrial organizations which was organized by John L. Lewis witl' government-guaranteed collective bargaining as its foundation stone
 There has been discussion here
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Waterford representative. was being mentioned in high party circles Tor the state chairmanship.
 Meantime, concerted move was reported underway among promi- nent party leaders to induce Har- wood to remain as state chairman when his present term expires in Q month or so. It was understood Gov. Baldwin has asked Harwood to stay, but the executive realized the chair mans health was not all 1t should be, Harw0od. 1t was reported, would resist draft movement. He now is in Florida.
 The proposal to make the chair nianEhip q flili-time paid position came as party leaders experienced dlfIlculty in finding . suitable can- dIdale who could spend all his time on the Job. This would mean having a chairman wiih enough means co he could devote fiill-tinle to the party Job. The alternative faelng ad- ininlslraliOn supporters was to mako
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
BLAMED
 FOR JAIL ATTACK

Bridgeport, Conn. March l5-(UP) Two youths were blamed today for an attempted break at Fairfield county jail Tuesday night during which a guard was assaulted with the leg of an iron bed.
 The prisoners were Frederick o,Nell, 2i, this city. and Theodore Choljnowski, 2i. Stamford, both of whom were awaiting trial in supe- fior court.
 They were identified by the guard, Morrison Daucy. wii0 prevented their escape by locking them in the main cell block after he had bcen at- ianked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
Roosevelt Slaps Tobey
 Over Census Argument
President Says He Is the First U. 5. Senator Ever Openly to Advise American People to Violate
 One of Its Laws

Washington. March 15.-CUP)- President Roosevelt through his sec retary today attacked Sen. Charles w. gTobey, R., N. H., as the first U. Senator every openly to advise the American people to violate the law. Secretary Stephen T. Early, Tn conveying MT. Roosevelt's views did not mention Tobey by name. But the criticism of a anonymous" senator who advised citizens not to answer census questions was plainly directed at Tobey, who has led the Senat fight to eliminate from the census questions on personal income. MT. Roosevelt previously had de- nounced the census controversy as an obviously political move"
 The Presidents attack followed action by secretary of commerce Hary L. Hopkins to insure that the census income information would be keot confidential. Hopkins announc- ed that citizens would be allowed to place their income figure on an unsigned blank for mailing in a sealed envelope direct to the census bureau.
 Early As Spokesman
 Early acted as MT. Rooseveits s spokesman today when the Presi- dent cancelled his press conference because of cold. Had the president been able to meet the press, Early said, h would have said:
 aFor the first time in his know ledge e U. s. Senator has openly
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
VERNON HALL MAY
 BE COP CHAIRMAN
Captain J. Porter COstigan for Secretary-G. 0. P.
 Leaders Favor Them

The present leadership of the To- cal Republican party favors a slate which has Vernon Hall for town chairman and Captain J. Peter Cos tigan for secretary, according to re- ports in political circles today. Town Chairman J. Warren Upson will submit his resignation at a meeting late this month, the call for which he plans to issue soon.
 Hhe choice of MT. Hall. has not vet been definitely decided on, but were a successor to MT. Upson to be named today he would be the selection If the controlling group had its way. Developments before the election of town chairman will have much to do with the final de- cision.
 Harold Posts Chances
 Harold Post, former president of the Young Mems Republican Club, is highly regarded in many quar- ters as candidate for town chair man. Another possibility is Alder man William V. Gerardi, whose election would be an attempt to win back the many Italian Republicans who left the ranks last fall because of the refusal to nominate Mayor Patrick M. Perriello.
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the center of German diplomatic activity already had shifted to the southeast where the Nazis have been limiting for a week at the pos- sibility of vast economic bloc stretching from Moscow to Berlin to Rome and including the small southeastern states.
 If that goal can be achieved, 1t was indicated in Berlin, then the war in the west will resolve itself into a military deadlock that can be decided only by 8 hazardous armed adventure - or perhaps by a successful peace move after a mil- itary demonstration. The German viewpoint was that the NaN forces were prepared to undertake Q demonstration of military might if necessary. Is German Viewpoint This view of successful economic action to frllstrate the Allied block ade obviously was merely the Ger man viewpoint, and was inspired partly at least by Wishful thinking in Berlin. Nazis were eager to pro- mote better trade relations between Italy and Russia but their claims that an agreement was at hand were viewed in Fascist and Soviet sources as over-optimistic, although the Italians indicated prospects for a future increase in commercial deals with Russia.
 The Nazis also hoped that their improved position, resulting from the end of the Finnish war, would bring Rumania and other Balkan states more closely under German economic influence and that Turkey would turn back toward friendly relations with. Moscow. The Rumarians, &C., cording to dispatches from Bucha- rest, were hopeful butsnot at all cer- tain that progress could be made to- ward @ non-aggression treaty with Russia but they still were expected to follow as nearly as possible 8 neu- tral course between the Reich and the allies.
 Turkey so far has given no sign of swerving from her pledges to Britt ain and France.
 Are Berlin Reports
 Thus the diplomatic furry created by the Nazis has bene largely based on reports originating in Berlin and indicating what the German leaders hope will be possible as a result of the blow suffered by Britain and France when the war ended in Fin. land. Whether those hopes can be translated into fact remains to be determined and certainly must be judged win connection with the al- lied counter offensive on the diplo. matic front.
 London and Paris. furthermore, have consistently declared that the real German goal is new peace offensive" They take the viewpoint that the Nazis and Russians speeded up the end of he war in Finland and circulated reports as to possible eco-i homie developments in the southeast including Italy-in order to cre-
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Body Of Crazy Passenger Washed Ashore After Duel With Air Pilot
Emanuel Eisenberg New York Press Agent, Is
 Victim of Battle
BY EARLE B. STEELE lIlnited Press Staff COrrespOndentl

New York, March IS - (U.P) = The body of Emanuel Eisenberg, one of New York's leading press agents, was found on the. shore of New York Bay today not far from where the plane in which he had been a passenger erased yesterday after a struggle in mid-air between Eisen- berg and the pilot.
 New Jersey police believed that Eisenberg, 35, became demented when. an a sightseeing flight from Floyd Bennett Field and attempted to wrest control of the plane from Joseph Rosemarin, 38-year-old CO., owner of the Standard Flying Serv- ice.
 Eisenberg's body was found face down on the sandy shore at the foot of East 34th street, Bayonne, N. J., not far from where the plane, a Piper Cub, fell into the bay south Of the Statue of Liberty. .
 Discovery of the body and its identification by a name tag and an income tax blank found on the coat cleared up at least part of the mystery attendant upon the crash. Rosemarin, rescued by tug, had told police he was not certain of his passengers identity and related a story of frenzied battle which started 5000 feet above lower Man hattan's financial district in the cramped cabin of the dual control plane.
 The passenger, Rosemarin said, seized the stick on his side of the cabin and attempted to put the blane into a dive which would have crashed it in the purlius of Wall street. The pilot said he fought to regain control and managed to keep the plane aloft until it was over the water.
 Flutters In Distress
 The little plane, student model, was seen fluttering in distress over New York's financial district yester- day evening. It veered over the wa ter, past the Statue of Liberty, and pancaked near the Jersey shore. A
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
JAIL BREAK WAS
 QUICKLY SOLVED

Hartford, Conn, March 15.-(UP) Hartford police today helped solve a Bridgeport jail break before jail officials were aware it had occurred, Raymond Baldwin, 20, this city, was arrested for attempting to steal an automobile. During routine ques- tioning investigators learned that he and a companion, William Brown, had sawed their way out of Fairfield county jail last night and made their way here in a stolen car.
 While they were reporting the capture of Baldwin to Bridgeport police, jail officials were reporting the escape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
FINNS GIVING
 UP THEIR HOMES
War Worn Soldiers Leav- ing Front Follow Chil-
 dren and Women
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

(UubVc0 EEcSS 0tAhL OVEtrSPVHWSuV
 Eelsinki. Finland, March 15. - CUP) - Finland's war worn sol- diers began withdrawing today from the snowy forests and ice covered lakes and rivers of the front they had defended so stubbornly for 3 1-2 months against Russia.
 Ahead of them moved thousands of civilians, old men, women and who - like some of the soldiers themselves were leaving to the Russians, under the peace treaty, homes which they had known all their lives and their forbears had inhabited for centuries
 A protocol to the peace treaty had provided that the Films should be- gin withdrawing at g a. m. today (10 a. m. Leningrad time, 2 a. nl., EST) from that part of the front ex- tending from the Gulf of Finland to Lieksa, a stretch of about 175 miles.
 But by dawn the soldiers in the front lines were donning their skis, garbed in their now dirty snow cloaks whose immaculate white had blended so well with the snow, and were ready to move.
 Out From Their Dugouts
 From dugouts and shelters, hidden in the snowy woods among the pines, they took their radios, their dugout pictures clipped from newspapers and magazines, their trinkets and souvenirs and equipment, and started toward the new frontier. Their sledges were piled high, as were the little sleds which the advance ski patrols had used.
 Their heavy material, field guns tanks and motor transport, had been largely cleared ill advance.
 Many of the soldiers had never known defeat. On a large part of the front they had held their lines from the first day of the war. Many also were natives of the regions they were now leaving, volunteers or reservists who, when the war
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ROBT. CHESS0N
 IS MENTIONED
One of Seven Certified as
 Eligible as Supervisor ' in Motor Lanes

Hartford. Conn, March 15. - .(UP) - State Personnel Director Harry w. Marsh today certified the names of seven persons who will be eligible for five appointments as supervisors of the compulsory mo- tor vehicle inspection lanes when they reopen April 1. i.
 They were: Louis R. A. Clerlnont, Plainville; Clarence F. Roberts, southbury; Robert Chesson, Water bury; George F. Leghorn, New Bri- tain: Raymond J. Farrell, Stamford; {; Frank II. Larkin, Bridgeport, and Montague White, Andover.
 The jobs will pay $l,920 year.
 Marsh also certified A names for 42 jobs as inspectors at $l,5OO a year. ,,
 The supervisors and inspectors Will be chosen from the lists by Motor Vehicles Commissioner Michael A.
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to arise in the federal court as a result of the grand jury probe of local municipal conditions.
 Mystery surrounds the alleged England contacts with the City of Waterbury. The payments by the city are said to have been made Tn payment for road building equip ment purchased by the city. The details of the transactions involved are still confined to the local grand jury room. States Atty. Hugh M Alcprll, the Waterbury conspiracy 1 trial pfoseclit0r refused at his Hart ford office to mack any comment oi, the case. The prosecutor pointed out that all details of the grant jury probe arc secret.
 Not Mentioned
 Englarld's name did not appear ir the voluminous report of the grand jury which resulted in the arrest oi 26 men alleged to have conspired tc cheat and defraud the City of Wa terbury of over $l 100000, and was not mentioned in the trial of the case itself. o. England was not available fol questioning during the grand jury probe being in London. England, al the time. He was also out of the
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C0ster Booked Barrels of Hair Tonic to Macy But
 They Never Got It
BOOTLEGGERS PAID
 BILL TO MACY co.
Alcohol in Hair Tonic Could Be Boiled Off,
 Sold for Scotch

New York, March IS. = (UP) = The late Philip Musica sold great quantities of high alcoholic content hair preparation to bootleggers while listing the sales to one of New York's largest depart rnel1t stores, his brother teS- tificd in federal court today.
 George Dietrich (formerly George MuS:ca), testified for ! tho fourth day in the govern ineilt's trial of five Connecticut men charged with coraplicity in an all legod $2l ,OO0,0Ol sWindle of the sS6,OOO, GOO McKesson and Robbins Company. He said that his brother known to the drug industry as IF Donald Coster" had sold the prep arations --- ostensibly for their alco- holic conversion by: bootleggerS V while he was president of Girard and Company, the concern he later merged with McKesson's. R. H Macy and Company, he testified were listed as the purchaser of the preparations but "they never got the goods nor saw the goods"
 The witness identified documents which showed Girard and Company had sold $50 barrels of Eau De Quinine and quantities of Lilac Vegetal to the department store and testified that the shipments found their way into the hands oi bootleggers.
 Sold For Scotch
 Under questioning by George z Medalie of defense counsel, Dietrich explained that the alcohol in the preparations could be "bailed off'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
NAZL, RUSSIAN PEACE PROGRAM
Britain Believes Influence Is Being Brought to Bear
 on Sumner WelIes
BY WALLACE CARROLL

(Unlteu FreSS St3II COTEcSPVhuchJ
 London. March 15.-(UP)-Great Britain believes Germany and Rus sia may start 8 new peace offen- siye" timed to coincide with Under Secretary Sumner Welles' return to Washington, it was understood to- day.
 Britain and France were prepared to reject any such move as prema' ture and they were prepared also to counter any German or German Russian moves in southeastern Eu- rope which might be started as a follow-up to the Russian victory over Finland.
 There was belief here that Ger many and Russia might start a drive intended to end the war speedily and leave them with their gains in eastern Europe.
 Welles was told plainly when he was in London, 1t was understood that the Allies would repect any attempt Co make peace now. Bri- tish leaders made it clear to him that they would consider peace only
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BY JACK AMMAN
nited Press stafl Correspondentl

Limited Press Stan COrfespOnucnsl
 Hartford. Conn. March l5-OP) High administration Republicans today were considering seriously a proposal to make the chairmanship of the state central committee a fuil-time paid position.
 At the same time, Rep. Charles BIssell, sufIield. treasurer Of the state central committee. told the United Press: T am available # the party. wishes me to serve as national committeeman"
 Both State Chairman Benjamin E. Harwood and National Comittee- man samuel 2. Pryor, Jr. 0reen- wlch, have insisted they wished to retire at expiration of their terms In the next few months.
 The name of col. W. Bllery Allyn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
State COP May Make Their Craftsmanship
 Full-Time Paid Position For New Leader

the job a paid one.
 Bissell. a broker at Hartford. in- dicated he would like to serve" the party as national committeeman. Three years ago, on the death of J. Henry Roraback. Bissell was mentioned for state chairman, but Harwood was named. At that time, the state chalrmanship and the na. tional committee job both were held by Roraback. Pryor took over the national committee position.
 Pryor, whose term does not expire until June, indicated he was neutral on the candidacy of any person to succeed him. He said he was 100 per cent behind Gov. Baldwin and would be for any man the governor wanted for either state chairman or national committeeman.
 The governor refused comment on the Bisseli statement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
THE WORLD WAR 2s YEARS AGO,
 MARCH IS, 1915
(By United PressI

lBy United PressD
 Russian army defeated Aus lFlnma Co counter offensive near snaslnik Go CmFpaihlanA
 F.rillsh order in Ceunell pro. hlhlted nIl lgnfIle C aod from Hnitis ei ol kiel eenllnsed, ellh Germans sheIIiug British llnes souihensl ei fpfes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
George Dietrich Claims R. H.
 Macy Was UsedAs Cover House In Selling Bootleggers
$2OO, ,OOO Is Allegedly
 TakenF From Waterbury
George w. England Formerly of New York, Now of England Reported to Have Received That
 Amount During Years From 103l to l936

Alleged to have received $2O0OOO from the City of Waterbury from 1881 to 1886 which he failed to make proper income tax payments George w England formerly New York and of London England was indicted in New York yesterday five counts of violating the federal income tax laws The indictment of England signed yester day afternoon by Judge A. Inch in the United Stats District Court eastern dstrict is the first indictment