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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
Both Parties
Predicting
Victory

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-LR-
National chairmen of the two
major political parties tonight
predicted substantial victories
for their respective presidential
candidates in the general cleo
ton next Tuesday.
Here are their formal claims:
For Franklin ID. Roosevelt, at
least 427 electoral votes pre-
dicted by Edward j.. Flynn,
chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee.
For Wendell l.. Willkie, at
least 1874 electoral votes pre-
dicted by Joseph w. Martin, Jr.,
chairman of the republican ma
tional committee.
1t requires 266 electoral votes
to elect. The electoral college,
will cast 531 ballots.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
He Will Not Run Again;
Seeks Re Election N0w
Only To Help Saue u S.
WILLKIE STATES CASE
He Charges F. R. New Deal
Is Leading U. S. Away
From Democracy
METHODS ARE WRONG
BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY

Dl Vl111LAfA1N1 -
NEW YORK., Nov. 2.-(R
Wendell L. Willkie, address,
ing the last major rally of his
presidential campaign, said to-
night that the Roosevelt adj
ministration has been leading
the nation down a road paved
with good intentions" to the
"destruction of our democra-
tic way of life"
The republican nominee
asked before a mass meeting
of his supporters in Madison
Square Garden where the
conflict lay between himself
and President Roosevelt. He
replied to his own question
by saying:
SOlemn1y Said
"It is, and I a it so1emnly and
with full understanding of the ter.
rible meaning of the words-it is
that for nearly eight years our
government has been carrying us
step by step down a road that
leads to the destruction of our dem
ocratic way of life.
"That road is paved with good
Intentions"
Willkie, who came back to New
York today after & 34-state, coast.
~to-coast campaigning tour, asserted
that he believed with the New Deal
in collective bargaining, wage-hour
legislation, social security, relief,
aid to Great Britain and a power
full national defense.
He declared, however, that New
Deal methods "are not the meth
DDS of democracy" Instead, he
said, the New Deal stands for:
"The unlimited spending of Dor
rowed money--the piling up of
bureaucracy - the usurpation OF
powers reserved by the congress-
the subjugation of the courts-the
concentration of enormous authori
ty in the hands of the executive
the encouragement of enterprise
and the continuance of economic
dependence for millions of citi'
zens upon government"
Willkie asked the support of all
who believe Gin the principles of
American freedom" and said that
he had repudiated at the start of
the campaign certain men and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03

The city commissioners, in a
public statement yesterday, re-
viewed the history of w ilmington's
water supply problem, described
their efforts to solve it and asked
for a sympathetic and cooperative
attitude on the part of the public
while efforts are under way to
determine a water make point
s'that is and will be free of salt"
The statement did not fail to
point out that brackish water has
been a problem here since the city
first began using the Cape Fear
river as a source or raw water,
and that although no stone will be
left unturned to secure a WPA
grant of 70 per cent of the cost,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
LONDON DEFENSES
BEAT OFF RAIDS
Night In Many
Weeks Enjoyed; Plane
Losses Summarized
By The Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 3.-(sunday)CH'
-Raid-weary England, Scotland and
Wales enjoyed n of the quietest
nights in weeks last night and early
today as the German and Italian
raiding squadrons, beaten back from
London time and again yesterday
gave the bomb.battered British a
rest.
Fast-striking early raiders, one OF
which machine gunned London
streets for the first time, thinned
out quickly and the all-clear signal
was given before midnight.
Early reports showed that win
the exception Of a few districts IN
Southeast England, the British were
getting a sound sleep.
During the daylight raiding yes
terday, however, six persons were
killed in a southeast town by high
(Centinued on Page Three; Ca. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
War; And Defense Orders
Push Trade To New Peak
FACTORIES EXPANDING
Defense Levies Cut Down
Huge Profits Made By
Steel Companies
BY A MacMILLEN

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-PEThis
week, more clearly than at any
time since the world struggle be-
gan was the force of war and de-
tense on American economy made
apparent, as business doomed to
decade-long records and the flood
tide of third quarter corporation
reports set in.
Here were some of the high
lights:
Billions In Orders
1. Probably for the first time
in history, an American industrial
corporation reported $1,000, 00O, 900
of untitled orders on its books.
Bethlehem Steel Corp, helped by
it's big shipbuilding division, set
the mark.
g., U. S. Steel Corp, reporting
for the first nine months of the
year, gave graphic illustration of
the meaning of high defense levies,
as it revealed taxes were $62,746,-
OIL for the period, nearly as great
as it's net profit of $69,418,070.
8. The demands of the arms pro-
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
ROME CLAIMS GAINS
Bomber Squadron Attacks
Many Greek Cities AS
'Pincers Close
MALTA ALSO BOMBED
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Nov. 2.-The Ital-
ians sent their crack Obs
perato" squadron of bombers
and fighters against Greece
today, planting bombs from
shore to shore of the invaded
kingdom, and said the only
peace the Greeks would get
from them would be by the
sword.
"Italy has no intention of
entering into peace negotia-
tions with Greece" an au-
thoritative source said. "The
Greek rejection of our ultima
tum set the Italian military
machine in motion. 1t will pro-
coed to deal with the situa-
tion."
Pinchers Are Closing
The high command reported that
an Italian land pinchers was closing
on the strategic northwestern base
town of Ioannina (Janina), both
from the Kalamas river valley on
the northwest of the town and from
the Pindos (Pindus) heights on the
northeast, which reach elevations
above 1000 feet.
The locations of these columns
were not stated, but unofficially it
has been said that they have pene-
trated the "Metaxas Line" of light
Notifications which r especially
thick in the Kalamas valley.
From this valley to the Quays of
Salonika, Crete, Corfu and Patras
the Italian bombers blasted away
with explosive and incendiary
bombs, ton upon ton Of them.
(The Rome radio broadcast a re
port tonight that 100 Italian fighter
and bomber planes had attacked the
British Mediterranean island Of NAL
ia during the afternoon, striking at
an aviation camp and naval base in
1.-The most important Italian air &C
ton since the outbreak of war"
("Visible destruction" on the air
Continued on Page Seven; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
U. S. NAVY SQUAD !
NEAR MARTINIQUE
Strategic French Base Is
Closely Watched By
British As Well

WASHINGTON, Nov. o. P) -
Breaking an official silence on &C
tivities of American warships in
the Caribbean sea, the Navy de-
partment said today that the At
lantic patrol force was nov carry
ing out scheduled exercises" in
that strategic area.
The patrol force Of eight de.
stroyers and six patrol-planes, un-
der command of Fear Admiral
Hayne Ellis, left Key West, the
announcement said, for training
and patrol operations in the Guata.
namo-San Juan-C ulebra island Sec
tor.
While there was no elaboration
of the ;navy's announcement, it
was learned that the patrol forces
Continued on Page Three; Col -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
BY KIRKE L.

The second World wal was only
427 days old as October ended, but
it already has carved a .grisly trail
of destruction and disaster across
Continental Europe unmatched in
recorded history.
Nation after nation has succumbed
to force or threats; some have lost
their national identity. More than
one hundred million jewellers on that
continent have been brought under
the domination of alien masters. Half
a million square miles of territory
are under alien flags.
Yet the essential fact of the wal
at this time is that Britain's island
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
City Board Describes
Work On Water Problem

the remaining 80 per cent must
be borne locally.
The statements follows:
Prior to 1922, the City water
intake was from the Northeast
river at the Hilton plant. During
those two years the city water
supply was rendered unsatisfac-
tory as the result of sewage con-
tamination, high SALT content, and
unpleasant colaration Of the water.
After an exhaustive study it was
decided at that time to extend the
intake to TONERS creek. Toom-
er's creek was selected rather than
Haynes, because the water in the
latter contained a high rate of
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
Raj HITS TWICE
AT NAZI CAPITAL
Centers Are Given
Heaviest Bombing And
Power Plant Fired
Ry the Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 2. - In two
smashes at Berlin officially called
the heaviest ever loosed by the
Raj, British bombers were declared
tonight to have repeatedly lombard
ed three of the German capitals
main railway centers and left a
mile-long blaze about a vital power
station.
One raiding wave, the air ministry
said, went into action shortly after
8 %. m. last night and stayed on the
CONTINUED Oil Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
War Interpretive

fortress remains unconquered, and
the bulldog grip of the British navy
remains unbroken on all the deep
seas that wash the shores of tragic
Europe.
Nazi-Fascist expectancy of a short
war is a shattered dream after IA
months of conflict. And while Brit
ain endures, the axis-mapped new
order in Europe remains also an I'M
realized dream.
There is a deadly for the
axis in the long war for which the
European stage is being reset. Brit
ain has still to reap the full benefit
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
REDS MASS ARMY
FACING GERMANS
Seven Air Fields Reported
Hastily Built Along
Rumanian Border
By the Associated Press

BUCHAREST, Nov. 2. - Soviet
Russia has concentrated thlrty-one
divisions of troops and three bri.
gades of mechanical equipment ir
Ressarabia and Northern Bucovina
travellers said today upon their ar
rival here from the provinces which
Russia acquired from Rumania last
summer.
The Russians have massed 20 in.
fantry divisions, II artillery and
Continued on Page Three; Col. g
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-03
WEATHER

No,., FORECAST
Georat;an carolina, South Carolina and
dsy 81 Fair and continued cool Sun
'''' NonGay fair.
Motns U. s. Weather Bureau
endins e22fologieal data for the "a hours
''9o p. m. Yesterday.
1.90 Temperature
N. n. III. 6S; 1870 a. m. a.. 1:3O D.
Minimum eo p. m. 81; maximum Y;
o-' mean 81; normal go.
In, Humidity
u 1880 p. m S. d. Ill., 3D. i''o p Ill.,
Toto, Precipitation
077 ino iof "A hours ending 7:30 o. M.
Month Vnes; total since first Of the
~'u'n' O,79 inches. 'U ' u LIE
Tides For Today
Wilmington High Low
''''nboro Inlet - 10 : :sSp 3 a:a2e
rie ' lG.5e 6;34a; sunset 5:1sp; moon,
moonset 9:01p.
%ettevin. Fear river stage at Fay
s''lie, 81 feet.
"'ued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
Jury Frees Mancino
In LitchfieId Trial
TOrringtOn Youth Discharged on Seven Counts Of
Passing Fraudulent Checks-Out 20 Minutes

ledge Of threats made by Edward
Taylor to "get even with" her SON,
and of her struggle to keep him
from making good his threat.
The states case depended almost
entirely upon the testimony of Ed
ward Taylor, buff" La Selva and
Judson Towne, already found guilty
and serving sentences in connection
with the wholesale check passing,
and testimony by George Remer.
Mancino remained mistaken I'M
der cross examination, both in the
story of his travels after June of
1888 and of his innocence in the &C
cusation. All the witnesses for the
defense told a convincing straight
forward story.
Denies Participation
Mancino, on the witness stand
quite a while yesterday, denied
being implicated in any way with
the fraudulent check passing in
Torrington. He also denied collect
ing merchandise from passers of
the phoney checks there and denied
ever talking to Edward Taylor of
Waterbury or Thomas Buff" La
Selva of Waterbury, admitted par
Elephants in the check-passing.
Asked if he had ever been in La
Selva's home to receive a share of
money accured from the phoney
transactions, as the state implied,
Mancino haid he had not. In des-
cribing his past history the accused
told the court he had been jailed in
Miami, Fla, for placing slugs in
phone booths, an act which he said
he did not perpetrate.
Mancino also admitted having
paid $25 and costs on petty lar
ceny charge in Newburgh, N. Y,
though he contended he was not to
blame. He also admitted having
been jailed in Litchfield County on
a breach of the peace charge II
years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
MARY BOYLES
GUEST ARTIST
Talented Young Singer,
Dancer to Appear in Mas
tersingers' Revue

Miss Mary Boyles, who has dis
tinguished herself locally as singer
of unusual ability, will be featured
with the Mastersingers in their fifth
annual concert revue next Friday
evening, at Temple hall. She is
one of several outstanding local en-
tertainers to accept invitation to ap-
pear with the city's most popular
singing group, the Mastersingers.
Miss Boyles, however, is to furnish
evidence of her versatility by giving
a dance specially that is expected
to augment her present wide coterie
of admirers.
Sharing honors with Miss Boyles
on the excellently balanced pro-
gram will be Miss Elizabeth Maher,
who has highlighted the Master
singers program on previous occa-
sions, Clifford Hirsch, well known
baritone and Miss Carmela Bergar-
tino. The guest artists of the
evening will be supported in their
specialities by the Mastersingers'
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24

Since Albania IS potentially
rich agriculturally, Italy has lost
no time developing the land.
italian "laborers' have reclaimed
marshes, broken new sod, inten-
sified cultivation of the fertile
lands stretching from Tirane to
southernmost Albania.
It Is estimated that this agri-
cultural program will net Italy a
surplus of products, including
100000 tons of maze, 100000 tons
of wheat, and large quantities of
barley, oats, rye and tare. To this
wealth must be added large
amounts of dried fruit, dairy
products, fish, meats, and skins,
wool, as well as silk and other
important products.
Finally, there is the italian pub
lie works program in Albania, that
includes a state highway from
Durzazo to a point beyond Xorce
This lies in the direction OF
Greece's Saloniki and follows
closely the route Of the great Via
Egnatia road thta made the Ro-
mans of Augustus and Caesar the
rulers of the Balkans and the
Near East.
There are countless military
roads and motor roads leading tc
These have been built in great
the Yugoslav and Greek borders
haste since Marshal Badoglio
urged them year ago.
So Albania has become another
Ethiopia, another Tripol. Any
Albanian resistance is being kept
strictly under control. Italy
fearing plebiscite after the war,
is sending 100000 Italians to settle
in Albania, may send ma addi-
tional 100000.
1t is these things which worry
the Balkans-and rightly.
The slide fastener was invented
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
ITALY MAKES
A PROFIT

The oil supply pipeline extends
for hundreds of miles from the
giant refineries at Kuchova, near
Berat, to the shores of Valona, just
across the italian boot. This oil
could be made easily available
both for the highly motorized
army in Albania and other points
of military Importance to Italy.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
Especial to the Democracy

Litchfield, April PA jury Of
nine men and three woman DELHI
Grated 20 minutes this noon anc
then found Albert Mancino, 20, Of
Torrington, charged with participa-
ton in the wholesale check pas.
sing in Terrington, May 10, 1888
not guilty on all seven counts anc
ordered the accused discharged.
Judge Earnest G. Simpson pre-
sided at the case which attracted
considerable statewide attention. The
accused threw his arms around his
counsel, Attorney Edward Mascolc
of Waterbury, when the foreman Of
the jury read the verdict.
The defense, represented by
Waterbury's attorney Edward Mas
colo, rested its case at 2:45 p. m.
Tuesday afternoon. Brought to the
witness stand after the HAS recess
Tuesday was William Visconti, who
testified that he had known Albert
Mansino twenty-four years and that
Mrs. Mancino, mother of Albert, had
worked as saleslady in his fathers
real estate business for many years.
Next witness was Salvatore Boriano
of the Scovill street Garage in
Waterbury where Mancino testified
Tuesday morning he had met Ed
ward Taylor on June LIST, 1888, after
the alleged check-passing.
Confession Read
Mascolo then read complete al
legged confession of Judson ToWne,
dated January 8, 1889 which made
no mention of Mancino. Charles
William Crowley of the Aetna Motor
Sales of Hartford, took the stand
briefly to present a bill of sale
dated March Is, 1886 for a 1896
Ford coupe.
Highlight of the afternoon came
when the mother of the accused
Albert Mancion, took the stand in
defense of her son. Concetta Man
cion, wife of Caesar Mancino of 625
North Main Street, Torrington
made an appealing witness as she
told in her own words her know
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
COe Reelected
A. B. C. President

John A. COe was reelected pres
dent of the American Brass Co.
at meeting of the directors today.
Clifford F. HOLSTER and Clark S.
Judd were named viee-presidents.
Other officers elected were as
follows: Clifford F. HOLSTER, treas
urer; Major w. Judge, S. Burn
ham Terry and Edwin J. Rock
well, assistant secretary.
The cOmpany's directors were
elected at a meeting of stOckhOld-
ers in New York April 8. The di-
rectOrs are: Cornelius F. Kelley,
John A. COe, Clifford F. HOLSTER,
Clark S. Judd, Franklin E. Weav-
er, James r. Robbins and Robert
E. Dryer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
BY NELO DRIZARI
NEA Service Special
CORRESPONDENT

With the pouring of many thou
sand new "laborers" into Albania,
the allies look with increasing ap-
prehen5ion on Italy, believed to be
under extreme pressure from Ger
many to enter the war.
Italy has held the tiny Albanian
kingdom just one year but in that
time has built a series of impreg-
nable Notifications and warplane
bases that make the Balkans
shudder. Italy has also made AL
bania her No. l colony economi-
cally.
When MuSsolini,s star perform
er, Marshel Pietro Badoglio, made
a thorough survey of Albania last
summer he left behind him a we'll
charted program for making Al
bania veritable springboard into
the Balkans. 1t has become just
that.
On the Yugoslav border, in
northern Albania, Italy now holds
a dominant military advantage
long the Mott mountains, over
looking the Mt river. Her guns
have the range of vulnerable
suotheast Yugoslavia, Farther
south, along the Mount Librazhd
section, Italy has constructed a
line of Notifications aimed at both
Yugoslavia and Greece.
In addition, Italy has a series
of vital bases stretching from
Korce to Argyrokastra, literally
covering the Greek border. These
bases are built underground at
the foot of mountains which shell
ter them from air attack. One
thousand planes can take off from
these points at moments no
tice. The reserve strength, as re-
ported by Albanians recently
reaching the United States, is two
mad a half times that number.
WHY BALKANS
WORRY
And along with the strategic
military position Italy won in
Albania, she also inherited a po-
tential Albanian army of not few
er than 10000 men. The AL
banians are additionally good
fighters.
The strength of the italian army
in Albania is believed to be not
leso than 100000, counting the Ga
borers" Italy continues to ship into
The country. Thus the italian
strength in the Balkans may be
placed between $4,000 and AGO.
900 men.
With an experienced air-arm, a
highly motorized and we'll
equipped army, with her impreg-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
FIRST AUTOMOBILE

During his motion picture career
Harry Sherman has produced up
wards of so films, but in 1.-THE Light
of Western Stars, featuring Victor
Jory and 10 Ann Savers, he en-
ploys the use of an automobile for
the first time. 1t is a 1908 Mitchell
owned in Hollywood.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
'EIREMEN ARRIVE
FOR CLEANUP JOB

An overheated glue pot today
started a small fire which released
the sprinkler system on the second
floor of the Eyelet Speciality Com
pany, a. State street.
Although the, sprinkler had ex-
tinguished the blaze before arrival
of four companies of fire apparatus,
Edward Pierpont sales manager Of
the company, said the firemen did
a fine job of cleaning up the mess
left by the water.
Companies responding to the
alarm were Engines 2, 10, Truck l,
and the Booster pump.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24

nable new system of Notifications,
not to mention the natural noun
tain barriers along northern and
southern Albania, Italy is at once
both practically invulnerable and
wholly dangerous in the Balkans.
BY bottling up the mouth of the
Straits of Otranto, Italy can make
the Adriatic sea truly a Mare
Nostrum," transporting her legions
into the shores of Albania with
perfect safety.
1t is little wonder Britain and
France have informed Italy they
will not tolerate the slightest
change in the Mediterranean
status quo and that France has
felt out Italy looking toward an
amicable settlement of the age
old Mediterranean problem"
Economically, as well as
strategically, Italy has made AL
bania prize plum. She has
spent $1O8,OO0,O0O developing the
country, for which in return she
is getting iron-1 100000 tons an
nually, equal to Italy's badly
needed iron imports - coal, tar
chrome, gold, silver, copper and
asbestos.
In addition, the highly coveted
oil supply no Whas an accelerated
annual production of 100000 tons,
exclusive of some 100000 tons
that have been stored in sealed
wells since 1927, when Italy out
bid several companies, including
Standard Oil and Sinclair, for the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
EARLY TO RISE

Marjorie Rambeau, teamed with
Wallace Berry in Metro Goldwyn-
Mayors '"Twenty-Mule Team" has
no difficulty getting up early in the
morning in order to reach the set
on time. She aises at daybreak to
supervise the feeding of several
thousand chickens on her Can Fer
nando Valley poultry ranch.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
NEW VOTERS GET
MEETING NOTICE

The board of registration will be
in session at the city hall for the
making of new voters next Wednes-
day, Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartir
announced today. She urged that all
those eligible to be admitted appear
at the session.
The number of new voters admit
ted at the monthly sessions has de-
creased steadily the past few
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24

The slide fastener was invented
by Whitcomb Judson in 1893, but
Gideon Sundback later improved
and patented it.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-24
Albanian Authority Tells
How Mussolini Prepares
|Springboard Into Balkans
New FOrtificatiOnS
Menace Greece,
YugOSlavia

Nelo Drizari, native Albanian,
authority on the Balkans, au-
thor, teacher and editor Of the
newspaper, Della, published in
New York, tells here the story
Of what Italy has done to make
Albania q springbOard into the
Balkans,