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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03

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 Bridges put his charges on rec ord in the Senate last night. Two or three colleagues and few gallery spectators remained after 6 p. m. to hear him. Norris was not pres ent but the attack is expected to cause the Nebraska veteran to reply today in what probably will be one of the bitterest political exchanges of the 1940 campaign.
 Perhaps the senator from Neb- raska (Norris) will explain to this body" Bridge said, "why there are II counties in west central Neb- raska that have the local name of the Norris Desert" A handmade desert, made by the New Deal at the inSistence of the distinguished gentleman from Nebraska. They are three hydro-electric plants. Two of them are on a stream that in very recent times has been dry for more than 100 miles and for as much as 222 days in single year.
 Tt is a matter of public record that at the complaint of Senator Norris, Harold Ickes disregarded the engineering reports and at the senator's insistence poured $60, 0,000,- 900 down that Nebraska rat hole. The two (dams) that are in oper- ation are bankrupts as the hearings of the House appropriations com- mittee show"
 Ridiculing Riddle as tame mill lionaire," Bridges said he had "abused his official position, first as counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority Investigating committee, and, second, as solicitor general in attempts to injure and destroy a newspaper whose only afternoon rival was a paper in which Francis Riddle was financially interested. Had he succeeded. he'd have lined his pockets with the resulting div idends."
 The Chattanooga News ceased publication on Dec. 16. 1899. and Bridges said that on July 29, 1940, after Willkie's nomination, it first was charged that he had killed the paper.
 Tt was followed up shortly af- ter" Bridges continued. "by John Carmody, who yields only to liar old Ickes as a New Deal political hatchet man. Thereafter Little Diddle' Riddle. still throwing paper wads after all these years, retold the tale. After that it was renewed in the New Deal March of Slime" recently published by the leftist New Republic. They were repeated on this floor by Senator Norris, who no doubt drew them from the New Republic.
 "The burden of these charges is that MT. Willkie destroyed this newspaper because it opposed him. It is an audacious falsehood."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
OBITUARY

died this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Begley of IT Summer street, after a brief ill., ness. She was native of Mount Vernon, N. Y, but had been resi- dent of this city for the past SO years always making her home in the North End section. She was the widow of the late James Flana- gan.
 Mrs. Flanagan is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Joseph Adducci, Mrs. John Begley, Mrs. Stewart Ed mond, Mrs. Albert Nicolai and Mrs. Margaret Herman of this city, and two sons, Henry and James Flana- gan of this city; several nieces and nephews; several grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
 The funeral will be held from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, on Saturday morning at 8:15 o'clock to St. Thomas church, where solemn mass of re- quiem will be celebrated at g o'clock. Burial will be in St. James ceme- tery, Naugatuck. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o'clock this evening. E
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Churchill Reorganizes Cabinet; One New Post
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the kings privy council.
 No Sensations
 There were no sensations in the cabinet reorganization.
 It had been reported, but not credited, that Viscount Halifax might be replaced as foreign secretary be- cause he had been linked with ap- peasement.
 The reshuffle was at once hailed as a further move away from the appeasement era and strengthen ing of -Churchill's hand at home.
 It was taken as foreshadowing an even stronger prosecution of the war. This was seen both in the final exit of Chamberlain and in the promotion of hard-boiled, dy- homie Ernest Bevin to the war cab met. He and Churchill, long politi- cal foes of note, are bitter-end fighters.
 The big surprise was the promo tion to the war cabinet of Kingsley Wood, who many had thought on his way out. But his promotion was explained by critics as a move to appease die-hard conservatives and mollify the now negligible remnant of anti-C Churchill conservatives. It was suggested also that Chamber lain might have asked ChurchilI to promote Wood.
 Mild Criticism
 As soon as the reorganization had been announced there was some mild criticism of the increase in the num- Der of the war cabinet from six to eight as the result of the promo tion of both Bevin and Wood.
 But Bevin's promotion had been expected and approved in advance. He was now regarded as the No. 2 man in the government, though he is 8 novice in politics. His promo tion means that the labor party has three of eight men in the war cab- met.
 Morrison's succession to Ander- sons key post was welcomed. The home secretary's big job right now is to combat the effect of air raids on London. Morrison is a former head of the London county coun- Gil and cockney. He knows the London area thoroughly. Anderson had doggedly held that surface shell ters were sufficient to take care of Londoners in air raids; they were not.
 Lord Cranborne's appointment as dominions secretary, a promotion also was welcomed. In February, 1888, he and Anthony Eden resigned their jobs in protest against Cham berlain's appeasement-at that time of Mussolini.
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 A joint communique of the air and home security ministries said that last nights main attacks were directed at the London area and southeast England but that high explosive bombs dropped on Scot- land caused a few casualties and that incendiary bombs started fires in northwest England.
 It was charged that bombs were again dropped indiscriminately in the London area but it was said that casualties were not serious and damage was not extensive.
 Heavy Damege Claimed
 Berlin, Oct. 8 - (U.PD = The German high command claimed heavy damage to London, including bomb hits on rail heads in the cen- ter of the city and docks and har- bor works in the Thames loop.
 The communique issued after British planes attacking Berlin had caused an air raid alarm here of one hour and 20 minutes during the night, said German air force at tacks yesterday were directed against south and middle England as well as London.
 The high command said many harbors in south and middle Eng land as well as hangars, barracks and a number of planes were hit. Factories, warehouses and oil tanks were set afire at Swansea, New Quay and Weymouth.
 Scores Direct Hit
 Southwest of Ireland German bomber scored direct hit on the engine room of 8 British merchant ship, setting fire to its decks, the communique said.
 According to the high command a German submarine, returning to its base, reported sinking eight arm- ed British ships totaling 42,644 tons. Another U-boat was credited with sinking the British steamer High land Patriot, 14,172 tons.
 Authorized quarters admitted that the plane which dropped bombs in county Wexford, Fire, last month, was German.
 Investigation has shown that the incident was caused by German plane which had lost its bearings" 1t was said. '"rhe German govern ment is prepared to express regrets and to pay the necessary damages.
 Bombs fell on three Irish villages and three waitresses were killed when a bomb struck dairy.
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.'JOE ST. LOUIS
 DIES HERE TODAY
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 getting the news. It was as a re- porter that "Joe" made so many contacts that when leaders of the Democratic party sought some years ago to break the Republican strong hold in the 18th Senatorial District they selected "Joe" St. Louis to op- pose Judge Arthur F. ELS, now a member of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. A Democratic victory in this particular district was be- lieved impossible, especially with such representative citizen as Judge Els the standard bearer for the Republican party. The district went Republican, but not without fight unparalleled in local politi- cal history. "Joe" entered the con- test with that boyish enthusiasm that was SO typical of him and with experience gained from his daily contacts with the public. Early re- turns showed him the victor, but a .re-check turned the tide in MT. Els favor and he was declared the win ner by less than 50 votes. This cleo ton cracked the Republican grip on the 18th district and led subse- quently to Democratic victories.
 The Democratic Party later sent "Joe" to represent Waterbury in the General Assembly as a Represen- tative. He kept his newspaper con- tacts until Mayor Francis P. Guil- foile induced him to enter the ser- vice of the city as his secretary. He remained in that capacity until Patrick Perriello succeeded Frank Hayes as Mayor of the city. He then returned to the Fourth Estate as court reporter for the Waterbury Democrat.
 During the past summer MT. St. Louis suffered decline in health, but tried courageously to combat the illness. He retained that cheerful ness that his friends in all walks of life will recall as characteristic of him. His battle for health became their personal concern as attested by the scores of inquiries concern ing him when he entered St. Mary's hospital last Friday afternoon.
 The announcement this morning that "Joe" had passed shortly after 2 o'clock came as a shock to his many friends and occasioned city, wide expressions of sympathy.
 He was member of the Water bury Lodge of Elks, whose members were planning today to pay their re- spects to his memory through the medium of Elks' ritualistic services. City officials, past and present and of both major parties, members of the bar association and representa- tives of social, fraternal and sport ing groups with whom "Joe" was in- timately acquainted will participate in the final tribute.
 MT. St. Louis is survived by his sister, Miss Helen M. St. Louis, a member of the faculty of the Berlin Tinker School; two step-brothers, John and Alfred St. Louis of this city.
 The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 9:3O o'clock from the Bergin Funeral Home, 290 East Main Street, to St. Margaret'S church, where a solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10I o'clock. Burial will be in old St. Jo- seph's cemetery.
 Friends may call this evening and tomorrow afternoon and evening.
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 ing, and replied that she was with both him and Leary. Calvin, in re- sponse to Atty. Weisman's question as to where they were headed, said as far as he knew they were head ed for Moynihan,s. Calvin described in detail the route taken from the time they left the brewery to the scene of the accident and in re- sponse to a question from Atty. Weisman as to what route he would have taken to get 70 Moynihan's, s, if there had been no accident, an- swered, Homer Street to Chase Ave- nue to North Main onto Lakewood Road past Gaffney school to the Wolcott Road, turn right to the Pines and turn left onto Frost Road onto the Meriden Road.
 MT. Moynihan informed the court that Leary called him Sunday eve ming, the night before the fatal &C., cident, on the phone and discussed possibilities of an order for beer and promised MT. Moynihan he would drop out to see him. MT. Moynihan informed the court that he told Leary he was going to New Jersey early Monday morning and thas Leary knew he usually was out of town Monday mornings. Tn answer to Atty. Weisman,s question as to whether MT. Leary ever called him before on the phone Sunday nights for beer orders. answered he had once or twice.
 MT. Moynihan added that Mir. Leary had been at his place of bus mess before 7:30 o'clock in the morning once or twice. He was ask ed by Commissioner Lynch whether he, MT. Moynihan, ever had seen .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03

partment houses, brownStone dwell lings, petty shops, family wash lines, pent houses, ocean liners, churches, schoolhouses, warehouses, motion picture houses, old houses, new houses, gas tanks and subway kiosks. Dimly, on the opposite side of the Hudson River, the view is of country houses set back in for estry, bridges, automobiles crawling like ants along macadamized roads, and streets of workingmen's dwell lings, standing in rows, like paper dolls cut from folded newspaper.
 It is the American scene down there, as dear, as close, as familiar and desirable to me as the American air I breathe these eighteen stories above the city street.
 It is the American scene, I say to myself, and out there in all that medley of human behavior, am- bition, desire, love, hate, hope, courage and fear, is the design of my country. which stretches from coast to coast and from north to south, its shape that of the map of the United States of America.
 It would be difficult, even allowing the straight northerly line, to fash ion a picture frame exactly the shape of that map. The jutting of Florida and lower California, the serrations of the Great Lakes, the indentations of the Gulf of Mexico states, would make it a jig saw car jentry job to fashion such picture frame.
 But within that framework lies the problem and the answer to the American case. And from my win- dow, my little sector of it is every bit as authentic as the Kansas wheat sector, the Nevada Mohave desert sector, the Wisconsin dells, Pennsylvania coal fields. New Eng 1avHd y,1ill f0ryT1S FSoro E0d fisheries
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The long and stormy political career of Neville Chamberlain ap- parently was at an end today as he retired from his post in Win ston Churchill's War Cabinet. He had been a key-man in British politics since the last World War.
 Sir John Anderson, home secre- tary and minister for home security was named Lord President of the council in Chamberlain's place.
 Herbert Morrison, supply minister succeeded Anderson.
 Sir Andrew Duncan, president oi the board of trade, was named te the supply ministry.
 Capt. Oliver Lyttleton, industrial ist and managing director of the British Metal Corporation, was named to Duncan's post.
 Gets New Post
 Sir John Keith, minister for trans port, was named to the new cab met post of minister for works and buildings and first commissioner ot works, and was elevated from knighthood to Baron.
 Lieut.. Col. John T. c. Moore Brabazon, a former lord privy seal was brought back into the cabinet to succeed Keith.
 Viscount Caldecote, dominions sec- retary, was named lord chief justice a non-cabinet post, to succeed Lord Hewart, who resigned, effective Oc- tober 12. and was. elevated to a viscounty.
 Lord Cranborne, paymaster gen. eral, was named to succeed Calde- cote.
 Cranborne, Lyttleton and Moore Brabazon were named members of
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'If you now tell me you must fall out of line I can not resist your claim. trust that having put down your pack you will find your health and strength restored and that we shall rejoice together in the better days that are to come"
 III Health Cause
 Chamberlain's resignation, expec- ted because of i'll health since soon after he gave up his Prime Minis try to Winston Churchill the day Germany invaded Holland and Bel gium, was made the occasion for a reorganization of the cabinet, Churchill's first since he assumed office May 10.
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 Registrars of Voters John T. Der win and Albert O. Taller will ap- point deputies for each of the 32 dis tricts, and they will be sworn in as registration officials. The deputies will in turn swear in their assistants and the clerks in each district.
 Mayor Scully is still working on the selection of the 12 persons who will make up the four draft boards that will serve in this city. Mean time, the registrars and Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartin are drawing up a list of registration headquarters in each district. The list will be an- romced in day or two.
 The mayor will head a group of local officials which will attend a county meeting in New Haven Mon- day night, at which time repre- sentative of the state selective. serv- ice headquarters at Hartford will outline the procedure to be follow ed.
 Under present plans. the teach CTS and other volunteers who serve on registration day will work in three shifts. One group will work from 2 6. m. to noon, another from noon to p. m. and the third from p. m. to g p. m.
 The thousands of registration cards will be gathered from the 32 districts and sent to the town clerks office. There they will be filed, ready for use by the draft boards. The boards will send out questionnaire5 to men chosen by lot. and from this number the actual draftees from Waterbury will be chosen. It is expected that the first selectees will be ordered to camp late in November.
 The state board of education an- nounced today that the day lost through closing of public schools for draft registration need not be made up.
 An estimated 1000 or more vol- unteer workers will assist in the registration, among them almost TOO teachers. Veterans organiza- tions and other groups have also promised to secure the services Of men and women to act as clerks.
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 of RUTib e t a n monastery torn out of the rock of the top of the HimalayaS or of the Grand Can- yon streaked with as many colors as a bottle of sand purch ase d in a childre ms s a n d store.
 It is of N e W York, my view, or Hudson River, of New Jersey Pali- sades, of docks, Hell's Kitch h en, slkvScra nerS. A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs. Maria Bredice was held this morning at 8 o'clock from the Colasanto funeral home, 934 Bank street to Our Lady of Mount Carmel church where a solemn mass of requiem was cele- brated at g o'clock by Rev. Dennis Biarareli assisted by Rev. Austin Saunders and Rev. Patrick w.. Flynn.
 The honorary pa1bearers, all members of the Holy Rosary Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel church included: Mrs. Filomena Dondino, president; Mrs. Antoinetta DiMaria, secretary; Mrs. Theresa DiBenedetto; Mrs. Josephine Pet runti, Mrs. Nicolina Ciufolo, and Mrs. Angelina Caldronna.
 The pallbearers, all grandchildren of the deceased, were: Daniel and Pasquale Bergantino, Alfred and Pasquale Bredice, Salvatore lava, and Nicholas Cialfone.
 4Il6 1u1lcIdA O4 TIE d1ICAo A. 4AAOhAP- son was held this morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Luny funeral home, 25 Central avenue, to St. Ann's church where solemn mass of re- quiem was celebrated at g o'clock by Rev. Alfred Matthieu assisted by Rev. Ubald Laurion and Rev. AL fred Cabitor. Burial was in new St. Joseph's cemetery with committal services by Father Matthieu. The pallbearers, all nephews of the de- ceased. were: Frederick, Donald and Walter Goulet, Oliver and Francis Hales and John McAvoy.
 The funeral of Edward Costigan was held this morning at 8:30 o'clock from the Bergin funeral home, 290 East Main street, to St. Patrick'S church where solemn mass of re- quiem was celebrated at o'clock by Rev. William Murphy. Burial was in Calvary cemetery with conlmittal services bly, Fathers Foster and Mur- phy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
-FOUR COUNTRY
Fannie Hurst Stands at Her
 Window and Looks at the One Thing That Matters Above All

or Oklahoma oil lands. All of them part of the American easel
 Down there, out there, I say to myself. intangible and real; remote and intimate, lies the American dilemma. And valuable beyond any of the wealth in her soil, her bank ing houses, here communities, is her integrity as a democracy.
 Beneath her surface turmoil and torment, fear and hysteria, politics, cross purposes, self1shness and self fitness, that integrity remains the paramount issue.
 Embedded even in this one tiny sector of scene outside my window is a spot of protoplaSm which is the source of the lift of our nation.
 And you cannot define it any more than you can define life it. self. It squirms with the beginning of our American ideals and ideas. It is the source of our high love of freedom, our uncompromising de- mand for the dignity of human living, our sanctificationS of toler- ance, humanitarianism and the right to live and let live.
 Out there, you willy-nilly politi- clans, pecking up your grains of gain, you Democrats, Republicans, pushing each other about, you in- terventionists, isolationists, New Dealers, rich men, poor men, beggar men, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chief, there is one thing that mat ters above all in this great emer- gency of our national life. America!
 Concentrate on it. Save it and thereby save yourselves, your chil- dren and the greatest treasure that any nation can claim for its own "a democratic way of living.
 Stand at your windwo, you rich men, poor men, beggar men, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs. Pool your interests. Pool your strength. Pool your energies, Focus upon that spot of national protoplasm.
 Lying out there, stretching from coast to coast and from north to south is a oscene that must be conserved within the jig saw frame work of democracy.
 It is the case for America!
 Upon your ability to subordinate all issues to that, lies our future.
 Is and at my window and my thanksgiving goes up for the privi- lege of citizenship in this demo- cracy.
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tContinued from Page D violation of the law.
 The nome" address should be the place where the registrant lives at the time of registration.
 Instead of giving the legal ad- dress, where persons maintain a legal address separate from their place of residence, the registrants should give their place of residence to be sure that mail sent them will reach them quickly.
 Conscription officials said persons who interfere with the law on regis tration day. or at any other time, will be dealt with effectively" by the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
POLISH SOCIETY
 REPORTS RECEIPTS

The Polish Inter-O Organization Centrala of Waterbury collected a total of $742 through August, ac- cording to a report filed with the state department. The funds are used for Polish war relief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
BIG SUMMER HOME
 RUINED BY FIRE

Ogumquit, Me. October 3.--(UP) U The 15-room summer home of Mrs. Nellie Lamb of St. Louis, Mo, was in ruins today after a $20,000 fire that endangered two hotels and a score of cottages in the summer colony.
 Firemen from four communities formed small patrols to extinguish roof fires set by wind-borne embers yesterday. The Lamb place was closed for the season three weeks ago.