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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

There was another big round up when Italy entered the war snd it was after the second roundup that the men of Canada's finest police force began to shed their uniforms.
 Windsor, Ontario, proved parti- cularly vulnerable to sabotage. It was separated from the United States only by the Detroit river Quick moving visitors from across the border could cause a lot of damage in the highly industrialized areas.
 JOINS COMMUNISTS
 TO GET EVIDENCE
 Very little is heard about this ac- tivity but it is known there are fly ing squads of specially trained men on call 24 hours a day ready to re- port immediately on the scene if there are disturbances or suspicious actions in any of the factories.
 E. w. Bavin of the R. c. M. P. Intelligence branch is chief of Can- ada's secret service. His righthand man is Staff Sergeant John Leo- pold, who exposed the inner work ings of the Communist party in Canada several years ago. Leopold joined the party, worked so hard he was elected secretary, where he gathered evidence to jail the gen. eral secretary, Tim Buck.
 Canada's finest, famous in peace time for always getting their men are proving their worth in war as well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
BY WILLIAM AUSTIN NEA Special Correspondent


 Ottawa, Oct. 16-The flaming red coats of the Canadian "mounties" are in moth balls for the "dura- tion." For the Royal Canadian Mounted Police face the greatest task of their career in the indus trial towns of Canada where ene- mics of the British empire, spies. saboteurs and fifth columnists gather like termites in soft lumber
 Not that the ''mountieS" have turned spies. Far from it, they have simply shed their glittering uni-, forms and have taken their place in the ranks of workmen in indus try to see that German agents do not get into Canadian industry
 You don't catch German agents when you're wearing bright red coat.
 The "mounties" are working in conjunction with municipal and provincial criminal Investigation departments. They bring with them a thorough Knowledge ot scientific crime detection and invaluable connections both with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Wash ington, D. O.. and with Scotland Yard in London.
 WINDSOR }
 VULNERABLE
 With the declaration of the war on Germany, the mounted police quickly moved Into action
 Chief undercover agents of Ger many in Canada were known. They were rounded 'lp and millionaire and pauper alike were lodged be- hind barbed wire fences in concen- tration camps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
Elm Elm

Eppy Gagain, one of the most regular fellows who ever made the rounds in Waterve will be deservedly honored at testimonial dinner next Saturday evening at Forester's Hall in Watervie The party is being arranged for the ikeable Chase Company truck driver in honor of recent appointment to the Waterbury Fire Department Joe Lanouette Jack Drsco George Laura anc William B. Carney seeing to it that tickets are placed in the right hands. With such sterling group handling arrangements for such grand fellow good time will be had by a The Tower is more than pleased to know that Eppy has been appointed He should make an ideal smokeater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Thirty-one to seventeen . When November rolls around this year there will be the usual debates about the date to observe Thanksgiving So far it's thirty against seventeen. That is, there will be thirty observing Thanksgiving Thursday the 21st of the month instead of the 18th Connecticut is one of the seventeen states with the later old date Tue rest of them are Arkansas, Florida Iowa, Kansas Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Caro- lima, Oklahoma Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee Vermont, and Wisconsin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
DAUGHTER HUNTED AFooT

Philadelphia -(UP)- David M. Robinson of Tomah, Wis, is making a hitch hiking tour of the nation in quest of his missing daughter, Reba, who disappeared from a nurses home at Baldwin, L. I. Dur ing his stop at Philadelphia Robin son enlisted the cad of Philadelphia police in his search for his 20-year- old daughter because she once was employed here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Cross section of life it is lived today. About 20 100000 enlist in country'S first involuntary enlistment Life With Father" gay comedy of the 'SO's plays and in three major cities 1ew York Boston and Chicago. Britain is bombed in worst air attack yet Berlin is bombed. :. PadereWskl IS detained in Portugal Charlie Chaplin makes per sona appearances at his picture The Great Dictator" .. Cars jam the Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts) over weekend. . . Joseph Kennedy, American Ambassador to England plans to come to this country for ference Alfred E. Smith goes to Charlie Chaplin opening. Last lap of East Side boulevard parkway Tn New York City is started . Worlds Fair does biggest weekend business since it opened. Tom Mix has sudden fadeout and becomes a memory. Russian Ballet opens in New York City Harvard University snap beans are abundant in the market right now H. Hooking, yearold long distance walker took sack N J., to Bear Mountain Inn only ffy-four miles,
 bomb Zone of quite few circuating) knocked man over house in London, literally blew him over
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Rosalind Russells sister Mary Jane, has joined the new Stage Magazine to preview pictures Eldor- ado Council K of C., of Branford observed its annual Communion Breakfast last Sunday with it's chaplain, the mass prior to the breakfast Steve Murray of New Haven welknown in Waterbury for his work in K of C. and Columbian Squire circles the guest speaker at the event Winnie Maloney of Bunker Hill made another notch his leather belt this week to signal the passing of one more birthday Nfor the Crosby High "soph'.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
Q ANSWERS TO
 cRANlUAAc CRACKERS
Questions olf Comic Page

Questions On Comic Page
 1. Carl Snavely is head coach at Cornell university.
 2. The Army's mascot is the mule; the Navy's, the goat.
 3. Nile Kinnick played for Iowa.
 4. Rose Bowl-Pasadepa, Salif.; Sugar Bowl-New Orleans, La.; Orange Bowl-Miami, Fla; Sun Bowl-El Paso, Texas; Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas.
 5. The New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers led their divisions at the end of the 1889 season. s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Evelyn F. 2osen of Pennington Avenue is one of the 17 Connecticut students enrolled this fall at Northwest ern University in Evanston, H. . The field of study which she is succumbng to is liberal arts John J. Lnskey of the Winthrop Terrace Lnskeys in Naugatuck is taking education at the institution
 Louise Crelo of St. Joseph Avenue will be 20 years old October 2O so in honor of the natal day she's plan ming to entertain at her home the evening before. Elizabeth Allen, Harry D. Finley, Aida Bloodgood, Hazeruth Durner, Marion Alexander Jane Peck June Mcbride Lois Cook and Bernce Prillwitz have earned credit certificates for passing courses at the Baptist Summer Assembly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Earl P. Hall of 219 South Main Street is a fond believer the adage that it rains but it pours For the second time in many weeks State Policeman George Fray of Danbury arrested Earl and charged him with reckless driving The local man, driver for the Flying Eagle -Whtway Bus Company nabbed October sixth after complaint that he had forced another car off the road in the Hat Town Yesterday he was pulled in again the complaint on the same road and in the same town Bond fixed at $100 pending his arragnment at the next traffic court session in Danbury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
Good evening.
SONG FOR OCTOBER
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

We sing of the last marigolds bright yellow Of October sunsets, brilliant now mellow of the sleek mink coat we'd like to buy, Of caulifower and pumpkin pie Our thoughts are busy the books are dusted As we set about mending things that are Dusteo We lug the last porch chair to the attic, We get a service for the radio static We busily paste labels for jelhes and pickles, Do up peaches and pears, Bartletts and SlcKles, Hem new drapes wash the paint, Rearrange the which looking rather quaint We sing of bittersweet those orange berries Cider eggnog Tom and Jerrys, Football tickets, soda and rye, Sweet potato puff and pumpkin pie
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

Mrs. Louise M. Reid, wife of William R. Reid of bequest in the will of the late Ralph Emerson Page, West Hartford hardware merchant for many years stipulation in the bequest requests tha she $10OO of this amount for the education of her son. William R. Reid IT, The gift to the local woman was made in memory of his wife, the late May Dickinson Page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
|HeudlineF Folk
And What
They Do
The British Change
Grimms' Portrayal
Of the Black Forest
BY LEMUEL +. PARTON.

Cloud-hidden Britons drop fam
ing destruction in the Black Forest
and the simple people of tie Grimm
brothers Schwarzwald may easily
be forgiven if they fear the return
OF laundering Warlocks.
The Black Forest has been rooted
| to German soil between the Rhine
and the Neckar since long before
| Caesars marauding Romans called
it at the Silva Nigra. Its frs and
pines and shining beeches have
grown in silence while hopeful men
raised, first homes, then cities. The
Grimm brothers peopled it with
| poor woodcutters and witches and
babes in the woods. The Nazis have
used it's gloomy reaches to hide
munition stores and factories and
these the British long-range bomb
ers now seek out.
The forest is upwards of 100 miles
! long, between 80 and As miles wide.
A fifth of its area has been cleared,
and it incloseS half a dozen towns
of 10000 or Whereabouts and biggish
Freiburg, where 100000 live. In its
Swallowed farms gypsy caravans still
roll, and women still wear the
broad -ribboned caps, the Basque
waists. the wide skirts and lowered
aprons of tradition. Husbands Of
these women work their small clear
lu
of which is held in communal own
ership. Wives and husbands both
must wonder what price Hitler! as
their homes fall apart along with
munition factories.
The calm Scotch voice of Prime
Minister Peter Fraser warns that
all must buckle to if they want to
win the war, and for all the calm
ness New Zealanders know he means
business.
Peter Fraser is a Socialist, and,
according to tradition, ought to talk
in exclamation points. But he has
been calm, and deliberate and
courteous and a model of patience
ever since he quit Glasgow for Auck-
land. His voice is family metal
lie, but his flow of words is almost
Oxonian in its even clarity, and he
hardly ever gets tough. Any time
the other fellow is willing to give
a little he will give a little, too
A firSt-rate tit-for-tat man!
Although he makes an exception
in the current crisis. He comedies
Hitler nothing. He has gone of
the deep end for a British victory
even though it means food ration
ing. price pegging.
Prime Minister since last April,
Fraser has been actual leader of
New Zealand since 1899. He worked
up to- that top role over long, pa
tent years He has had a seat
in the island Parliament since 1918,
and one time and another has been
president of Auckland's General La
borers' Union and editor of the pro-
letariat paper, the Maoriland
Worker. ..a.4.. ...
consolidated News Features, Incl
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been some murmurings about the
amateurs" which refers to the
Willkie volunteers as distinguished
from the regular organization men.
The nominee himself Strengthened
this out last week at ElWood when
he told the professionals there was
need of the volunteer effort and
enough glory would be available for
everybody if the victory was won.
AS between the So-called profess
SIGNALS or regulars and the volun-
teers, it is the latter who can do a
better job of vote-getting but it is
the combined energies of both kinds
of workers that is important in
lining up the vote.
One of the most important factors
in a campaign is morale. The New
Deal side of the campaign has been
dragging along without enthusiasm
inside but there has been enough
knowledge left on how to spread
propaganda in the enemy's camp.
The New Dealers thus in the last
two weeks have spread rumors
about the Willkie campaign begging
down. The Republican profess
SIGNALS again have been caught nap
ping on the counterattack for there
is a greater weakness inside the
New Deal ranks on account of the
third-term issue and the dictated
nomination of Wallace which spells
plenty of trouble for the Roosevelt
candidacy.
Sound Piece of Strategy.
In August the biggest competitor
Willkie faced was the battle of
Britain. War psychology makes it
hard to focus attention on domestic
issues. WILKES idea of agreeing
with Roosevelt on foreign policy and
trying to eliminate the war Itself
from the campaign is a sound piece
of strategy and it naturally permits
him to hammer home on the main
issue of the campaign-the incom-
petence of the New Deal in the
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American Smelling
Mexican Office Robbed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Chihuahua,
Mexico, Sept. 9.-The Chihuahua at
torney generals Office was advised
early today that group Of armed
men had robbed the Aquiles Serbian
Offices of the American Smelling &
Refining Co.
Aquiles Serbian is a mining town
about 80 miles south. The bandits
tied UP a Waterman and looted the
company's safe, escaping with more
than 5000 pesos last night.
Federal troops are seeking a gang
which seized an 18,0OO-peso payroll
(about $1,000 Of the Los Azules
mines. south of Parral and owned
by a British concern, Friday. Two
suspects were reported arrested
near the Durango Chihuahua state
boundary.
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Foreign Policy Approved.

Congressional opposition to the
British deStroyers-bases deal has so
far been confined to shipping attacks
in the House. The Senate isolation
ist group has uttered scarcely a
murmur Of disapproval, though some
of its shining lights in remarks for
publication echo the charge of die
tatorship." The Nation by and large.
irrespective of politics. as reflected
by bipartisan newspaper opinion,
acclaims President Roosevelt's bold
and sagacious initiative in striking
so vital national defense bargain.
Referring to congressional delay on
CONSUMPTION, Ed r. reminded his
press conference that time flies" 1t
was his realization that time is Bit
terly of the essence, which inspired
him to barter with Britain before
her fate might be sealed by the furi-
Gus battle she is waging for sur
vival. Should circumstances impel
the President to feature the pact in
his campaign for reelection. this
observer ventures the prophecy it
will rebound to his benefit at the
polls. AS of today, it has all the ear
marks of winning issue Some
members of Congress may discover
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09

ennial seasonal Frederic william VILE.
malady. Not in years has so little
campaigning time been at their
disposal. Optimists hope adjourn
ment may ensue by September Is.
That would leave 1are six weeks for
contacts with the folks whose sup
port is requisite If statesmen are
to receive new leases of official life.
No responsible authority can pre-
dict with assurance when the Sew
enty-sixth Congress can adjourn
sine die. The draft bill controversy
between the two houses contains
the possibility of delay. Members
are burning with anxiety to learn at
first hand how their votes on con-
scription will affect them back
home"
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Good Defense Record.

On the whole, the expiring House
and Senate have chalked up a
creditable record, especially on pro-
visions for national defense-or will
have done so If they proceed, with
out further waste of time, to agree
upon an adequate military service
law and legislate for its immediate
enforcement. Impartial observers
concede probable Republican gains
in the lower branch and possibly a
handful of senatorial victories,
though Democrats don't share Zoe
Martins sunny outlook about condi-
tons from which he would emerge
as next Speaker of the House. Con-
gressional results are expected to fol-
low the presidential trend. If
Roosevelt wins third term by
stable majority. innu,nerable con-
gressional candidates will ride back
into Office on his coattails. If it
turns out to be Wilkes year, the
victor will probably carry Repub-
lican majority into the next House.
Democratic loss of Senate control is
impossible until 1912.
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realm of Rindustrial operations so
necessary to defense and the pre-
vention of attacks that may lead us
into war.
This becomes all the more vital
because of the growing belief that
America will formally enter the war
after election if the President is re-
elected. The first hint of this came
in the Wallace speech and the
fears of such a contingency will
grow as the campaign develops.
America has a handful of planes
but the assumption is that the Navy
will bear the chief brunt of the
wars problems. Delays in building
up the Navy may be factor in crys-
talizing sentiment in mid-October.
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Maryland Police Open
Sessions at Ocean CITY
BY the Associated Press.

OCEAN CITY. Md, Sept. 9.-The
Maryland Police Associations third
quarterly meeting opened here to-
day.
Marcus H. Miles, Sparrows Point
chief of police, said J. Edgar Hoover,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
chief; Gov. O'Conor and Mayor
Jackson of Baltimore had been in
vited to speak briefly.
Other speakers include Judge T.
Owen Knots, second judicial circuit,
Denton; States Attorney William G.
Kerbin. jr, of Worcester County
and State Senator Thomas F. John.
son.
The convention session will con-
tinue through tomorrow.
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to the last brief platform appear
ance at the lowliest whistle stop.
Instead of his usual campaiGn-
ing activities, in short, the President
is artfully presenting himself to the
public as the busy leader of q great
Nation, too preoccupied with his in
Vulnerable duties even to answer
his opponent. Of course, behind the
scenes. he is quietly directing the
campaigns course. The speaking
trims of Vice Presidential Candidate
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Invasion of Indo-China
Denied by Chinese
Be the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING, China, Sept O.
Chinese military circles denied to-
day a French report that Chinese
had crossed the frontier into French
Indo-China. They declared the re-
port was Japanese-inspired.
"a dispatch from Hanoi, Indo-
China. to the Vichy government
Saturday said Chinese troops
were repulsed by French colonial
forces after a sharp engagement
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
conferred at length today with his
ministers regarding the situation in
Indo-C China, where Japan Is seek
ing passage for troops to the Chinese
border.
Severe fighting was reported in
Shansi Province, where the Chinese
claim 5000 Japanese were killed.
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In truth the PRESIDENTS changed system OF campaignng implies
influential Dealers
cabinet
problems departments largely settled by direct dealing
heads Even the national defense which
wished part being handled the
Defense Commission without interference except from the President
l. Wllie the
hey be
Released by the nth
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Willkie Honeymoon Over?
Rightly or wrongly, wide impress
sion has taken root that Wendell
WILKES honeymoon is over-that
his candidacy is In diminuendo. The
enthusiasm which greeted his whirl-
wind nomination has Enthusiastically
decreased in fervor. His real testing
time is now at hand. He must show,
during his impending maiden swing
around the circle, whether he has
what 1t takes. His hackers profess
confidence Willkie will grow in
strength with every public appear
ance, especially in the pivotal West.
Authorities who discern a slump in
his mid-campaign fortunes attribute
it partially to indications that
Willkie is not working in 100 per
cent harness with old-line Republi-
can stalwarts. Having been soundly
trounced at Philadelphia, these
hardboiled organizationists are far
from resigned to the fate that over
took them. In retaliation they are
viewed as giving the rank outsider
who overwhelmed them lukewarm
support. The Democratic national
management, comparatively quies-
cent to date, has plenty of rods in
pickle for Willkie. They will be
mercilessly numbered against the
so-called utilities candidate" as
the fray wakes hotter. What some
authorities consider the Republican
nominees grudging support of Roose-
welt defense moves will probably be
heavily lambasted, too.
Jim Farley's walk"
Politicians are watching for the
effect of Jim Farley's departure from
the Democratic helm. He be-
queathed to his successor a fully
functioning campaign setup, but
whether Ed Flynn is capable of
making it tick VIGOROUSLY for the
third time remains to be proved.
Despite his anti-third term views.
Farley remains unalterably loyal to
his party and the national ticket.
His ardent enthusiasm and whole
time energies not being available
this year, many a New Dealer is
fretfully wondering what difference
that's going to make.
Fruits of Havana.
Costa Rica's offer to lease us Co.
cos Island as naval and air base
on the Pacific flank of the Panama
Canal is one of the early fruits of
the Havana conference. 1t supplies
tangible and timely evidence that
the United States good neighbor
policy has generated something
more than mere sentiment among
the sister republics. Inter-Ameri-
can authorities are confident Costa
Rica's example will, if necessary, be
followed by other nations on both
sides of the Isthmus of Panama, all
Of which have Just been assured
that the Atlantic bases we have Sc
cured from Britain are available to
them as well.
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the President in ideas than his own
arms are in motion. Their relation
ship to him was well expressed in
Hopkins explanation to a friend
that he had remained close to the
President for so long because he
talked of light matters whenever
his chief seemed disinclined to dis
cuss an important topic. And there
is no sign of the appearance of new
men to inherit the positions of the
CorcoranS and Cohens OF the past.
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e q & e r n SIS OF
both Republican
and Democratic
members of Con-
gress to leave
Washington and
start electioneer-
ing. Twenty-od
S e n a tors and
roundly 400 Rep
resentatives are
up for self-per-
petuation. Most
of them are suf-
fering from po-
litical HON e -
Sickness hi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Milk Stolen at Source

MADISON, Wis. (P.-Farmer Ed
ward Oscar, puzzled because milk
productio nof some of his prize COWS
had diminished, finally found the
cause. A group of boys. their appe-
ties whetted by camp life, had been
milking whatever cows strayed by
their tents.
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% e ii e V e IN tne
pro ira C t e d
efforts that have
C h a r a C terized
previous contests
and t h a t this
year the battle
will work up to
a climax in mid
October.
This accounts
In part for the
so-called slo Wa
ness of the cam
paign of b 9th
parties to date.
H u n d e d S of
thousands of ner-