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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
STATES ATTORNEY
 WILL NOT TALK
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Health Center were seized in a raid at the local health center months ago and these were ordered return ed by direction of Judge Frank P. McEvoy of the Superior Court, fol- lowing the Supreme Court ruling that the state birth control laws are institutional.
 There will be much interest in the criminal cases of DTS. Goodrich and Nelson and Nurse McTernan, and if the cases should go to trial it is expected that birth control ad- vocates from throughout the state and nation will be present at the trials.
 The fight before the next session of the legislature on the birth con- trol laws is growing warmer daily and 1t promises to be one of the hottest ever staged in the State Capitol.
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(Continued from Page D five of every 100 homes to secure cross-Sectional information.
 Appointments Today
 The appointments announced to. day by Supervisor Byrnes are as follows:
 Salisbury-James B. Moore, Ar. thur Buttery.
 Winsted-Helen F. Atella.
 Ansonia-Dorina A. Mastrocaria. WatertoWn-Mrs. Margaret Mis-. chou, Mrs. Arthur L. Swanson. Torrington-Thomas P. McLough. lin.
 New Hartford-Martin Synnott. GoShen-Karol K. Kimberly. Litchfield - Martin Monaghan Catherine Doyle.
 Canaan-Betty Hanlon.
 Plymouth Stephen J. Tutak Metro Skrupsky.
 Field supervisors already appoint ed by MT. Byrnes will direct tht work of the census-takers both ii Waterbury and the suburban areas The local census is expected to takt two weeks, while in farming com. munitieS it will take month ol more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
LUNCH LEADS TO FIRE

Bakersfiel Id, Gal. CUP)-Jack Stahl believes you should always act on lunch. As custodian of the Washington School, he had an early morning hunch that some- thing was wrong there and sped up his arrival from 6 a. m. to 5:45 a. m. He arrived in time to put out fire that was getting started in one of the class rooms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
Underground Routes
 May Be Closed Down
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strikers. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine had cut short a holi- day and was in active charge of his force of 21000 men. All policemen off duty were subject to call on a moments notice
 Will Appeal to Court
 The Interborough Rapid Transit Co.,, one of the two lines against which the strike will be directed, in- dicated that it would appeal to fed eral court at once if the strike is called. It posted notices last night in all important stations and key
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
Drive Starts
 In Nation Tuesday
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ventory of our people, our homes and our farms. Let's all answer the questions freely and honestly, secure in the knowledge that throughout its 150 year history the census bureau has kept faith with the American people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01

Fishermen of Denmark have been warned not to use their radio trans mitters near mine fields because transmitterS often induce electrical currents of sufficient strength to explode the mines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01

Wiring of guns on the new French battleship costs over $60,000 a min- ute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
WAR BRIEFS

Tokyo, April 1.-UP)-The United States should pc more patient and await Far Eastern developments be- fore encouraging "those elements we are fighting" toward further resists ance, Yakichiro Suma, chief foreign office spokesman said today.
 Suma said that despite the state ment of Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the United States would not recognize the government" set up by Japan at Nanking, China, Japan would continued efforts to improve Japanese-American rela- tions.
 Hull's statement, Suma said, show ed that Japanese efforts to improve conditions were being disregarded and that the attitude of the United States was non-constructive.
 He admitted that the Wang Chin Wei regime at Nanking, which is to operate in Japanese occupied terri tory, controlled but small part of Chinese territory. But, he asserted, it controlled 95 per cent of customs revenue and therefore was entitled to recognition "as the dominant Chinese government"
 Paris, April 1. -CUP)-Intense aviation activity was noted along the western front today.
 French planes made reconnaiss- ance and photographic flights deep i11+n made similar flights over Northeast ern France.
 A military informant, discussing a German assertion that seven French planes had been shot down yeSter- day, said that nothing was known of any such losses. He expressed be- lief that the Germans were seeking, by their statement. to provoke a French denial which would give them information.
 The Western front was quiet as regards ground operations. This mornings high command communl- que said that the night had been calm all along the front.
 lStanDuI, lurKeV, ApllI l.-tOH)- Semi -officia! quarters last night denied reports that Turkey had opened the Dardanelles to the Allies so they could extend their blockade to the Black Sea. They said that to grant such permission would mean that Turkey was ready to accept all consequences, including, most likely involvement in the European war and that there was no reason at pre- sent for such a decision.
 London, April 1.-(UP)-It was said officially yesterday that Great Britain had not asked Turkey for permission to send warships through the Dardanelles and had not receiv- ed such permission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01

higher pices for Balkan supplies. Another will be to cut more deeply into Norwegian territorial waters in order to intercept iron ore ship mentS to Germany. Another will be to tighten the blockade in order to cut down on supplies of war mate rials which are going to the neutral neighborS of Germany and thus may later be re-shipped into the Reich.
 All of these measures are obvi- ously designed to make it tough for the neutrals as well as to strangle Germany. Furthermore, the under lying purpose is to make it so tough that the neutrals will find it difficult to bow to Na1 initimation and thus in the long run-the Germans may be forced to resort to armed in- tervention and then the allies will have the excuse they need for hurl- ing their man power and machines into the new battlefront and taking the oeffnsive without storming the Siegried line.
 Except for aerial battles and a British flight over Germany, there was little weekend military activity in western Europe.
 At Moscow-which has done little to encourage .Nazi claims of an im- pending German Russian Italian bloc to protect the Reich's Balkan flank-the Russian parliament met to approve 1940 budget boosting funds for national defense to 57,0OO,- 1000 rubles, a figure that defies ac- curate translation into dollars but might arbitrarily be put at $11,- 400 100000.
 Kai-Shek Speaks
 In the Far East, China's General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek at Ranking ChinaS strong man and chief of the armed forces, said today that China's answer to the inauguration of Jap anese-sponsored regime at Ranking would be to drive all Japanese out side China's boundaries and recon struct new free and independent state.
 Japan, Chiang said in speech OpSAA4llS t4lc HUI l)COplCo , IJOlAtlCeI4 council, was facing hopeless in- ternal and external economic, poli- tical and military situation.
 Chiang. asserted that the Chinese had killed 230,000 Japanese and that the Japanese were unable to ad- vance at present without defeat.
 The rebellion of Wang Ching-Wei, who heads the government" set up by the Japanese Saturday at Man. king. was a disgrace to the entire nation but would not influence re- sistance even slightly, he said.
 Japan had used military threats and economic inducements in an at tempt to influence the United States he said, but the United States had not responded to either.
 Foreign powers had indicated a clear understanding of Chinas posi- tion, Chiang said, and especially since the signing of the Russo-Fin nish peace treaty, Russia ana other powers were cooperating with China and laying the foundation for per- manent peace in the Far East and throughout the World.
 VxrAD DDVEES,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
FLOOD WATERS
 EBB IN STATES ! ~ AA"~

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
SUPERVISOROF
 CENSUS ASKS AID

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
MURDER, INC. IS INVESTIGATED

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The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
Girl Il Solves 4
Hold

GREENVILLS, SC, Aug 90 CAMP
J he quick wit and camera eye of ;
y year old colored girl was responsible
for the solving of four holdups which
Melted tfle robbers over $50, according
o Chief of Detectives L. w. Hammond
THE girl, whose name was withheld
+. the police for her own protection
Witnessed a holdup by two men of a
G ing station near her home. With
sare presence of mind the child iottad
,Yn the iice-se of the car in which
TIC robbers made their escape. This
tcs number she turned over to the
rroprietor Of the filling station that was
looted He in turn gave it to the polS~,
hs a result two men were arrested
Who were identified by their victims
IS the perpetrators of three other
hoiuups in the last week.
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

THEY BUY THIS PICTURE - EXPOSITION
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
LyncI1ing Death Held
BIalneless As Jury
Finds No Evidence

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, Aug % CAMP
The death of Everett Williams whose
body was found in the Hatchie Rive,
bottoms recently after he had beer
warned by whites not to organize g
chapter of the NAACP here, was due
to causes unknown, according to the
verdict of the Haywood County jury
which ended its two day investigation
last Tuesday.
Reporting to Judge w. w. Bono tina
they had been unable to uncover any
evidence that would ad to an indict-
ment, the jury foreman SAID:
The jury has made a careful and
earnest investigation, examining people
from all walks of life, and no evil
dence has been brought out that migi.
place suspicion on anyone as having >
part in the case
Others, who worked with Williams IN
an attempt to establish an N A A c P
chapter here have fled in fear that
they might receive the same treatment
given Williams who is believed to have
been the victim CT a lynching party in
June before his body was thrown in
the river bottoms.
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
1ynching' Death Held Blameless
NATL Negro Business
League Convention
To Meet In Detroit

DETROIT, Aug % CAMP The
Booker T. Washington Trade Assoc -,
atoms 10th annu j trade exhibit, to be
celd at the Forest club, Ford;t and
Hastings streets, is scheduled to be
Il ring the same week of the National
Negro Business league convention.
Those attending the league meet will
nave an opportunity to see the host
organizations annual demonstration.
Or. F. D. Patterson, president Of
Tuskegee institute, will deliver the
keynote address of the convention.
Or. ]. E. Walker president of the
National Negro Business league and
P, esident of Universal Life Insurance
company, will preside when the con-
cl.yion opens officially at 1890 am.
Wednesday, Aug %. DR.. Walker is {
graduate of Alcorn A. & M. College
alcorn, Mississippi and Meharry CedicaJ
college, Nashville.
Notify Moses K. Fritz, chairman d
housing 446 E. Warren Avenue, Detroi
of the size of delegation from YOU
city and when expecting to arrive anc
how.
! DR.. William H. Bell, president o
| Acorn A & M College, who is presi-
! dent of he Conference of Presidents .
, Negro Land Grant colleges; chairman
# board of directors of Security Lii,
Insurance company, Jackson, Miss, anc
member of education committee Nationa
| Negro Business league will be in at
tendance at the National ConveNtion
All of the regional vice president
have indicated their intentions to b,
present in the Motor City.
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
About Folk We
Know

Dr. S. ]. Cullum, Jr, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. ]. Cullum of Meridian and his
mother-in-law.
Mrs Kate Allen of Houston, Texas,
made very brief visit to our city
anroute to st. Louis, Mo to attend the
National Dental and Pharmaceutical
Convention His mother Mrs. NJ NJ
Cullum and his nephew, Prince Cullurn
accomanied the party to ST Louis.
Miss Sarah Ines Lee, the adopted
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The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
Seek WiLlkie fer Amer
lean Negro Exposition

speak at the American Negro Exposition
being held here has been issued. The
exposition authority promised Mr. Will
kie an audience of $4,000 at the Coli
seuum, where the exposition is in pr
gress
Chairman Joe Martin and National
Committeeman Schroeder are both said
70 have expressed themselves in favor o.
lie plan and are working to secure
Mr.. WILKES acceptance. The exposition
group hopes Mr.. Willkie will pay the
Negro Worlds fair visit Immediately
after ms acceptance speech.
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
Girl Is Yrs Becomes
Mother

VII SON, NC, Aug % CAMP Ireae
Richardson, who just reached the age
of IS, became a mother Monday when
she gave birh to six pound girl. Be
lived to be one of the youngest mothers
in the history of the state, Ireae
is he wife of Ernest Richardson, IS.
The baby, which was pronounced
perfectly formed and normal in every
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23
Meridian District
Trio onvention
Meet

The Meridian District Tri Convention
convened with Peasant Grove AM.E.
Church, Morton, Miss. of which Rev.
H. Jones is pastor, August Z, s, and 9th.
The Presiding Elder, Rev H. D.
Rhodes had us to note the call this year
With its many changes since the Gen
eral Conference. The convention opened
with the spiritual tide high and con-
5inued throughout the session The
churches that compose the Meridian
district were represented in fine style
~ delegates and finance.
The departmental work of the Sunday
School League and Missionary meeting
were discussed pro and con. The In
stitute held each morning was rich in
acknowledgements Wise and Red
lite were sle instructors. The con-
ference was graced with many noted
visitors: DR.. j. w. HIRE. presidin
elder of the Jackson District: the FRS,
ady of the District, Mrs H. D. Rhodes
re CT the presiding elder; Rev. FREQ
Divers. pastor Pearl Street A. M. Z.
1"r"h. T"cbson. Mss IS ppi; Professor
Collum, Miss Anderson, Miss Robby
Mays and Miss Divers all OF Jackson,
Mississippi; Mesdamos Smith, Arnold
ana Vashti Johnson OF Meridian and
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S. C.. Storm Toll
Peaches 33

STORM TOLL RAISES TO SO
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

Mississippi Standard Nses
Newspaper of Characssr. C,scp
lation and Opinion, with NJ
tnan 10000 Resders-
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

way by the obstetrician in charge DR..
Ben H. Hackney, has been named Betty
Jean.
The young mother is unconcerned
about the whole thing. the physician
said, and has a doll on one side Of her
bed and the baby on the other. She
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur
Byrd. -
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

AUSTIN JOHNSON, youthful radio
ports commentator who was awarded
I contract this week, through National
Feature Service, to appear weekly over
station WIND every Sunday night at
1890 Central Standard Daylight Saving
Time). He is featured in the Pepsi
Cola Sports Parade giving his news
IN sports for the Pepsi-Cola Company.
johnson is said. to be the first Negro
in the history of radio to be assigned
to handle a commercially sponsored
broadcast of this type.
rested last week for cutting a lawn IN
the Sabbath although there is no city
ordinance prohibiting it. Huey Ander-
son, 40, was warned by City Judge noA
to let it happen again.
Anderson, who admitted cutting the
lawn, was arrested after neighbour
complained about it, police said,
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

CHICAGO, Aug, % amp An inv
on to Wendell L. Willkie. Kepup-
Iran candidate for the presidency TO
The weekly echo., 1940-08-23

BEAUFORT, S. c., Aug. % CAMP
Reports received here this week that
eight more persons had persisted or
ladies Island in Sundays hurricane
bought the total number OF dead re
,orted in this area to 80 Is deaths
>ocured on st. Helena island during
he storm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21
(AGNtY- TEAM SEEN IN COLISEUM
 HIT ENDING HERE

James Cagney and George Raft the two champion tough guys of filmdom, are co-Starred in Each Dawn Die a stark, cruel, grim and tremendously. exciting picture of life behind prison bars, pro- duced by Warner Bros, which ends tonight at the Coliseum Theatre.
 The metamorphosis in the char acter of the decent young fellow played by Jimmy comes about under the orutalizing influence of first being railroaded to prison for a crime of which he is inno- cent and then being treated cruel ly at the prison. On the other hand, Raft is on the wrong side of the law right from the begin ming, but as the picture comes to close, he finds a way to wipe his slate clean and vindicate his life as gangster, The interdepen- dcnce of these two characters give Each Dawn I Die" a novel n d tremendously thrilling theme that sets it quite apart from any prison pictusa that has ever before been made. v 9k i
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21

bound Alaska and remains on u vessel as far as Seward where he will meet Andy Simons, Alaska guide and proceed by charter boat to the hunting areas.
 Both singers, hung with cameras got off the boat here commenting or the weather and the poor picture; it would permit The five weeks tgir to the Peninsula will give the tw1 men opportunity to hunt and to ob- tain pictures of the country anc game.
 His 225 pounds shaking as he joy ially told his story, Melchoir explain ed the growing popularity of grand opera in the United States by say ing that it was due to radio.
 Usually the Danish singer takes his vacation between seasons on his large hunting estate in Germany near the then existing country oi Poland. But this year, says Melchoir it is quite impossible
 You people up here are quite pro tected from iminent war by your distance,' said the hunting singer and continued by telling of his trip on 8 Swedish vessel from Europe III October, 1939 Even then" he said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21
EWaH0k|E5 FILA POLICY,
 INCREASING
Construction Under Way Now Tops 1939 Levels
 By 15 Percent

WASHINGTON, May 20. = More than 4O0OO new small homes have already been placed in construction under the FILA program thus far in 194O, Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald announced.
 Complete statistics through April 20 show that 38,743 new homes being financed under Title II of the Ma tional Housing Act had been started under FILA inspection up to that time, MT. Mcdonald said
 With new construction started under the FILA program now aver aging about 600 houses per working day, the, total for the year to date is now we'll beyond the 40000 mark. he pointed, out f
 Up Is Percent Over 1889
 The 38,743 new homes started un- der FILA inspection up to April 20 compare with 33,841 started in the corresponding period of 1939, an in- crease of 15 percent the Administra- tor disclosed. Most of these houses are small, single-family homes, he said. -
 MT, Mcdonald pointed out that the 10000 total of new homes started under the FILA plan thus far this year is particularly significant ill view of the fact that January and February are always seasonal low months for new-hoime building and that unusually severe winter weather also hampered building activities in most sections of the country
 Since early March, he continued new homes started under FILA ins- pection have exceeded 5000 each week and have surpassed the l93s peak of 3,122 houses, reached in the week ended July 9 of that year
 Bigger Gains Now
 The vigor of the current expan- sion in new-home building under the FILA program is shown by the broad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21

we had to go far north to avoid nin@ fields laid in the waters" He aid that Europe was very uneasy when he left.
 After the hunting trip, the two pera stars will return to the States, where Melchoir has an engagement o sing in the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. From there he will go to the San Francisco Worlds Fair to fill an ngagement and leave shortly after wards to sing in Honolulu. From September to October the enor expects to take hunting trip n British Columbia and return to New York in time to start the 1940 fall opera season
 Melchoir sang at the Ketchikan Rotary meeting yesterday but has turned down an offer to give a con- cert at Seward. 8fs
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21
JUNEAU YOUTHS
 GET REJE(TIGN
 FROM 5T0k0W5kI
Musician Praises Talent, But Says They Have
 Lacked Opportunity

Threa, young Juneau musicians who left for Seattle a week ago tc be auditioned by Leopold Stok- cWski, director of the Philadelphia Symrhory Orchestra, who. is organ iaing an All-American Youth Or chcstra, were rejected by the fa- nous musician yesterday according to Mrs. Trevor Davis who received telegram from her daughter last night
 Sylvia Davis, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Trevor Davis and the sender of the telegram, said that she and her two companions. Mary Stewart and Jack Glasse, were given their addition before Stokowski yesterday morning and were the famous mu- sician's guests of honor at lunch con given at the Seattle Yacht Club.
 Stokowsky working with the IVA in his project, plans to make two months tour of South America with the orchestra when it is finally form ed, Stokowsky rejected the young musicians saying they showed tal- ent but they did not meet the re- quirements because "of lack of op- portllnity"
 He gave them valuable construc- tive criticism, she said.
 Misses Stewart and Davis intend to stay in Seattle to attend the Uni versity of Washington High School Music Institute, and will return in about five weeks.
 Young Glasse plans to stay in the states and take a vacation in the Cascades. The Rev. John A. Glasse, who accompanied his son and the two girl musicians to Seattle, will continue.'from Seattle to California while his son is vacationing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21
Solution of Yesterdays Puzzle

gains over 1889 that have been re- corded in recent weeks, MT. Me Donald declared In the week ended April 2O the 3,581 new homes being financed under FILA inspection re- presented an increase of 25 percent over the 2,863 new houses started in the like week year ago.
 For the five weeks ended April 20, the gain over 1889 levels also amounted to ,25 percent
 The outlook for continued large volume of new-home construction under the FILA program during con- ing months is supported by the peak level of applications for FILA mort gage insurance involving new homes, MT. Mcdonald declared.
 The number Of neW-home appli- cations filed thus far in 1940 for FILA mortgage insurance under Title Il of the National Housing Act has now passed the 60,O00 mark, MT. McDon- aid disclosed. Through April 20, new home applica tions had totaled 58,655 an increase of IA percent over the corresponding period of 1939.
 Tn the week ended April 20 appli- cations involving new homes num- bered 4.823, an increase of B percent over 3,619 in the like 1889 week and comparing with 5,l51 in the preced- ing week The latter total was a re- cord high. The 1889 peak of 4.26s new-home applications was surpass- ed in each of the seven weeks ended April 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-21
By BETTY CLARKE AP Feature Service Writer

Freezes of 194o wait flower scented perfumes wherever Ameri- 'can beauties go. In fact, says w. B. Neuberg, perfume authority, this is likely to be the biggest season for floral perfumes and colognes since they came into vogue.
 It's part of a general trend to- ward old fashioned things. Any way, it's time in the perfume mer- ry-go-round to return in big way to floral favorites.
 So, women are choosing roman tic fragrance which once flour ished with herbs in the garden down on the farm. The popular scents of grandmother's counting days included lily-of- -the-valley, hyacinth, iris, rose, lilac, violet,