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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
LOCAL DEFENSE
 BOARD TO MEET
First Session Scheduled for 5 p. m. Today; 3l
 Members on It

The Waterbury Local Defense Committee. appointed late last month by Mayor Vincent A. Scully, was to hold its first meeting at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The initial meeting was to be concerned prin- cipally with an outline of the com mittee's functions and with general plans for cooperating with state de- fense agencies.
 It was expected that the commit tee would offer its services in lo- cal enforcement Of the conscription act. The local draft set-up has still not been officially announced, action being awaited from state and na- tional authorities at Hartford and Washington.
 The 31-member defense committee was appoined by the mayor at the request of Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin. The mayor is chairman, but super vision of the committees affairs will be largely in the hands of Attorney Finton J. Phelan. chairman of the board of fire commissioners.
 Committees similar to the one in Waterbury are being set up in. cities and towns about the state, the gov- ernor having requested that they be established.
 The personnel of the local defense committee along with the fields the members represent, is as follows:
 Chairman-Vincent A. Scully.
 Vice. -Chairman-Finton J. Phelan.
 City Government = Police Supt
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
FLAGSHIP MAY GO
 TO SINGAPORE

Tsingtao, China. Sept. 23.-(UP) --The cruiser Augusta, fiagship oi the United States Asiatic fleet, may visit Singapore next month to "un- dergo repairs" ct that great British Far Eastern naval base. it was res ported today.
 The Augusta was slightly dams aged in the Philippines several months ago, and lt was said that any visit would be based on the necbs. nIty for repairs which otherwise would lsoee6sltate the ships return across the Pacific to the United States,
 Remaining nhlps ei the Aslaiie feet let THlnglao today lor Manila with the exception Of the Yanelll river patFel ailips aild the Augusta
 Adm. Thomas Q, Mart, o0insnals aefsinsehl6fl lefl ln tho Augusta fol Shanghai
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
Spectacular Abduction
 Ends In Child's Return
Kidnaper Manfandled By Lumberiacks When He Gets on Dead End Road in Sierras- 3-Year=Old Child
 Returned Safely to Father and Mother
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

Hillsborough, Calif., Sept. g - (UP) - Three-year-old Marc De Tristan, Jr., rescued unharmed from a kidnaper by two woodsmen in the Sierra Foothills, romped across the estate of his nobleman father again today, bringing 8 happy ending to one of the most spectacular abduc- tions since the Lindbergh case.
 The kidnaper, reportedly given "the beating of his life" by moun- tain town lumberjacks before he was turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was identified as Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, 40, German alien. G-men held him at an undisclosed place, Investigating his background to learn if he were literate enough to have written the scholarly, 600-word note demanding $100,O00 ransom from the child's family, or whether he had accom- plces.
 Get Confession
 FBI men said they had obtained a signed confession from Mullen broich, who, like Bruno Richard HauptmaYln. kidnaper slayer of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jrs was an alien from Germany. Mtllllenbroich entered this country in 1885.
 For this elaborately plotted and boldly executed crime, the kidnap- per got no $100,O00 but he got g black eye, a gashed head, bruised body, and he faces almost certain imprisonment. for life. The lumber men of Eldorado County man. handled him when they found him and the child in an automobile on dead-end road yesterday.
 Muhlenbroich was blubbering when G-men arrived at the hamlet of River Pine, 125 miles east of here, to handcuff him and rush him to prison in a city they refused to name.
 Return Is Cheered
 Count De Tristan, who received his child in San Francisco late last night, rolled into the gravel drive of his estate to the cheers of his neigh bors, who had waited hours for the return of the golden-haired baby.
 The countess, daughter of one of the vests great families, rushed down the front steps, held her sleepy baby to her breast and smothered him with kisses while photogra- phers' flash bulbs boomed and weary officers grinned.
 The curly-haired child was un- harmed. The kidnaper had carried out his written promise to treat his captive most charmingy." The child's only worry was the airplane
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
RECEPTION POSTS
 FOR CONSCRIPTS
Devens Designated for l,= 800 Youths in First
 Corps Area

Washington, Sept. 2S.-UP)-The War Department has selected 13 re- ception centers where the first con- scripts will be mobilized in Novem- Der, it was learned today. I They will be at existing forts in the nine army corps. areas. Small army posts will serve as temporary receiving stations in the most popu- lous areas. Existing buildings will be supplemented.
 The new recruits will remain at the reception center four or five days for elementary military train ing and for classification as to ap- titudes. After that they will be as- signed to units of the regular army or national guard tor their basic and advanced training.
 Sites chosen and their capacities included:
 1st Corps area (Me. N. H., Vt, Mass, Conn.,, part of Long Island) Fort Devens, Mass, 1,500.
 End (N. Y, N. l., Del) --FOrt Dix, N. J., 1.500.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
FISHERMAN, ADRIFT
 eDAYS, IS SAVED

Chatham, Mass, Sept. 23-(UP) Theodore Meyers, b0-year.old puclgsp0Ft, Me- fisherman who was &dfift for eight days h his open na0togboat, 'wns recovering today from neaF.staFyation end exhans- ton, ttr#.r
 iIe was Eescued Last night ofl Caps cod by the coastal steamer Malane after drifting south from Maine waters. Coast guards. nos titled of his renelie, removed hhi from the Malnng and brought him 10 iho fiatloA here for Inodionl aid,
 MayeIS nald li|s eaB9Iins supply became exhausted while he Was fishing off UncAlloft sept. ff and ihnt hl1 dlalrpee ilaf1g he'd failed e attract attention q, passing Fess ANAN ..4. .4.l I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
POPULATION TO
 BECOME STATIC
High of l5O,OOO,OOO Be- tween l97O=8O Predict
 ed for U. s. A.

Washington, Sept. 23-UP)-The population of the United States will become static at approximately 150000,000 between 1870 and 1880, census bureau officials predicted to- day.
 They based their prediction on the 1940 count announced yesterday, which showed that the increase from 1880 to 1940 was only seven per cent, the smallest recorded since the first census in 1790.
 On April 1, the figures showed, 13l, ,409, ,881 persons lived in contin- ental United States, an increase of only 8,643,835 instead of the antic- ipated 100000 since 1880.
 Chief factor in the showdown. officials said, was the declining birthrate. Supplementing this were the more stringent immigra- tion regulations that have been ap- piled sine, the 1880 census.
 For the first time in history, six states showed actual numerical de- creases, compared with the previous record of three. Five of these states, the so-called "dust boww belt, were depopulated an average of five per cent. The exodus of dust refugees from North and South Dakota, Neb- raska, Kansas, and Oklahoma cost
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
HURLEY CAMPAIGN
 GOES INTO 'HICH'
Democratic Nominee Hits at Governor Baldwin in
 Four Rallies

Bridgeport, Conn. Sept. 23.-(UP) The Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Public Works Director Robert A. Hurley slipped into high gear over the weekend as he de- livered severe criticisms at four state rallies against Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and Presidential Nom inee Wendell L. Willkie.
 Speaking in his home town, Bridgeport, Hurley charged that "if Wendell Willkie organized national defense as he has organized his own campaign, l hate to think what would happen to the United States if he were elected President"
 The nominee, he declared, twas going about the country endorsing and espousing the accomplishments Of the Democratic administration, 1" while at the same time, Governor Baldwin end other Willkie adheg- ents gre going about condemnlng the very same policies and accom-. plishments."
 The presidential candidate, he said. Twas only about four months late" in deciding in favor Of elvIne aid to England. evidently" he Haid. ''he ls not aware of what President Roosevelt hes done or what hls own eongressmen are trys lng to prevent President Roosevelt from doing"
 T'bo lndualFlal upsWing ln cen- Ileeilouf, HuFIey declared, was ats lEibulable lo the national AdminIn- lfatlon. and not tho efforts of oov, Baldwin,
 At lhe lFnek dflyefs' outing ai kaes Hartford, HuTley pledged hle support le InboE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
Ex RESIDENT SOUGHT BIN. Y. POLICE IN DEATH. Arrest on Sight of George Chapman Is Order Is-
 sued Today WANTED FOR PROBE
 IN FATAL PLUNGE Alleged to Have Fought With Man Killed in Apart=
 ment House Fall

Police today were ordered to arrest on sight George Chapman, g, of 165 West 95th street, New York, for merly of Waterbury, who is wanted for questioning in the New York death early Satur- day of James Fitzgerald, 38, who plunged from a fifth floor apartment during a fight with Chapman. Detec- tive Lieut.. William F. Pollard, in charge at detective head quarters during the absence of Capt. J. P. Stevens, siad New York police communicated with him today and asked him to keep lookout for Chapman. Lieut.. Pollard said. how ever, that Chapman has not been in this city for two or three years, following the death of his mother, an ernploye in the tax collectors Of flee.
 Meanwhile, New York police held in the wome1's detention room Lu- ciile Edwards, of Chapman's ad- dress. for further questioning. Miss Edwards said Fitzgerald either fell or was pushed from the window of his apartment, 124 West S3d street. while fighting with Chapman.
 The fight, Miss Edwards said,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
MOTHER OF FOUR SAVED FROM GAS
Accidentally Overcome at Home; lnhalator Re-
 wives Her

Carmela Mastronunzo, 35, mother of four children, was revived by the inhalator crew of the fire department today after she was ac- cidentally overcome by Illuminating gas in the kitchen of her home at 70 1-2 Ward street.
 | Fire Marshal Den Lahey said the woman was overcome after she had succeeded in shutting-off the jets of the kitchen range.
 Mrs. Mastronunzo, who occupies the first floor of the two-family house, was found unconscious in the kitchen by Nellie Niclario, 15, and a laundryman, both of whom had smelled gas fumes and traced them to the Mastronunzo apart ment.
 Miss Niclario called Dr. Thomas Cottiero who called the fire depart ment as soon as he saw Mrs. Mas tronunzo's condition. The inhalator crew, directed by Deputy Chief J. Champion and consisting of Privates Joseph Wood and Thomas ODea, removed Mrs. Mastronunzo to the front room of Michael Niclario, up- stairs, where they revived her.
 Mrs. Mastronunzo was not taken to a hospital, but was left in the Niclario apartment.
 Marshal Lahey said that appar. ently Mrs. Mastronunzo smelled the gas and hurried to the kitchen not realizing that she was partly over- come. After she shut off the jets. according to the marshal's theory, the gas she had already inhaled fin- ally overcame her and she dropped to the floor. The marshal expressed no opinion as to why the gas was on in the first place, but; called the happening accidental.
 Mrs. Mastronunso's husband, Emil and her four children were out of the house at the time. Miss Niclario was visiting upstairs when she snaelled the gas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
15 NaziP lanes Are Reported Downed In Savage Fighting
Belief Grows Invasion By Sea Now Is Impossible; R. A. F. Bombs Long
 Range Guns Along French Coast
By DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Sept. 23-(UP)-Four great fleets of German planes turned back in disorder today from an attempted attack on London as a surge of predictions swept the country that Adolf Hitler had lost his best chance to invade the British Isles this year.
 It was reported unoficialy that at least Is Gere man planes had been shot down in series of savage fights
 The Germans had announced at Berlin that big forces of their planes the way to attack England.
 The four fleets, in one of which single forma- ton of 30 planes counted, in the Kent and Essex coasts and up the Thames estuary.
 Guns Lead Counter-Attack
 They were met first by the anti-aircraft guns Then British fighter planes arrived These broke up the Naz formations. The Germans broke off the engage. ments and fled in disorder back the Channel Dur ing the fighting, empty machine gun shells and spent bullets fell in the streets of Kentish town.
 Alderman Messerschmdt fighter crashed into field in Kent Its pilot landed by parachute Asecond fell near the coast with British Spitfires pouring machine gun bull lets into it. third smashed into the beside Folke- stone breakwater Two crashed into the off Thames estuary town. Three aviators parachuted.
 London't First Daylight Alarm
 The German attempts brought London it's first day. light of the day. In the invasion there and less belief that the Germans could hope to make successful attack by sea on this country
 A strong wind whipped the Channel, the was waning and the crossed the equinox at (mid- night EDT).
 Conditions in the Channel were ideal yesterday morn- ing for the invasion attempt which British authorities all their strengthened defense forces still the alert have challenged Germany to hazard But the day progressed southwestery breeze turned into strong wind Drizzng rain turned into heavy rain. The Now the weather should get progressively worse
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
Democrats Will Hold 5 Conventions onight
Senatorial Candidates to Be Named Formally Town Convention May Prove Lively -COngre gressional,
 Probate Sessions to Name Delegates

Waterbury Democrats will hold five conventions at the city hall to- night, with three of them scheduled to nominate a total of four candi- dates for the state legislature and two of them scheduled to elect local delegates to district conventions to be held at later date. Proceedings of at least four of the conventions promised to be only routine, the only possible fireworks coming in the town convention, which will nomi- nate two candidates for state repre- sentative.
 Attorney Michael V. Blansfield and Senator Edward P. Egan will be formally nominated for the state senate from the 18th and 18th dis trictS, respectively, by delegates elected on their tickets in last We'd nesday's primaries. The two senator ial conventions will be held at 7:30 p. m. The 18th district gathering will be held in the probate court, with State Central Committeeman J. Gregory Lynch as temporary chairman. The 18th district gather ing will be held at the alderrnanic chamber, with Town Chairman Maurice F. Tangney as temporary chairman. The two candidates are expec ted d to make acceptance speeches.
 Tn probate convention, to be held at 8 o'clock at the mayors office, will elect local delegates to probate district convention which will later renominate Judge Patrick Healey.
 The congressional convention will be held at 8:15 in the city court room, and will elect Al local dele gates to the fifth district congress sional convention. to be held in Tor rington Oct. 5. This convention will renominate Congressman J. Joseph Smith.
 The town convention will be held at 0:30 at the aldermaIlic chamber. and will nominate two candidates for representative and 8 candidates for justices of the peace. Pre-convention talk has centered mostly on Wil- liam J. Dunplly and Atty. John MeInbrino as the candidates for re- Epresentative. though several other names have been mentioned, among them that of Atty. Clarence V. Bal anda.
 Town Chairman Tangney will pre- side temporarily at the congression- al. probate and town conventions. After each convention has been for- inally opened, 1t will choose its own regular officers.
 The delegates to the congressional. probate and town conventions to- night were elected last week with
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
SURVIVORS TELL
 OF SEA HORRORS
Child Refugee Liner TOr= pedOed-112 of 4O6 on
 Ship Saved

At a Northern British Port, Sept 23.-(UP)-Twenty-four hours of horror were described today by sur vivors of a child refugee liner which was torpedoed without warning in a stormy sea at 10 o'clock at night 600 miles from land.
 The ship sank within 20 minutes. Some of those aboard were killed by the torpedo. Some went over board trying to get in lifeboats. Some drowned when boats they had taken were swamped by heavy waves. Many died of exposllre jn the boats before a WarShip arrived.
 In all 112 persons were saved out of 406 aboard. Out of 90 refugee children, seven were saved. Of eight other children aboard, six were saved. Seven of the nine wo- men who were caring for the chil- dren perished. Of the total of 191 passengers ,16 women and 45 men were saved; of the crew of 2l5, 36 were saved.
 Among those who died were five children of a single family, whose mother and father are refugees in London because their home has been destroyed by German bombs.
 Among the grown-ups who died were Col. J. Baldwin Webb, member of the House of Commons: Dr. Gallinsky, on his way to Washing ton to be charge d'affairs of the Polish embassy; Rudolf Olden, pre- Hitler publisher of the then famous Berlin newspaper Tageblatt, and Mrs. Olden.
 Among those saved were Arthur Wimperis, playwright, on his way to Hollywood to confer with Alex ander Korda, and Prof. G. P. Day, professor of economies at McGill university, Canada.
 Two of the children who died. Patricia Allen and Michael Brooker, had been on an evacuation ship which the Germans torpedoed last month.
 The youngest of the refugee chil- dren was five; the oldest IS. One of the survivors was a 71-year old wo- man, on her way to visit a married son in Canada.
 Survivors hold how, in the moon light which prevailed at first after the toTpedoing, they could see the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
MARTIAL LAW IN ! EGYPT DECLARED
Replaces State of Siege Decree Gives Cabinet
 Leeway for Action

Cairo, Sept. .23 - CU.P) - Mar tial law was declared in all Egypt today by Premier Sasan Sabry Pa- sha.
 The proclamation substituted for 6 decree published September l, 1899, declaring 6 state of siege.
 Another proclamation signed by the premier imposed six months iIn- prisonment on any public servant interfering with national defense by failing to do his duty.
 It was believed that 1t was merely Q precautionary step designed to give the cabinet Q maximum Of power for any eventuality.
 In Q lightning tour Of the center of Cairo, everything proved normal, with no signs of additional sentries ct publish buildings.
 Italian, troops have been enc tronched for . week at Bldi Bar. raIil, '7S miles eegt of the Llbyan border but no further advance lad bseIi reported as the martial lev proclamation came.
 Prom lEalfa, Palestine, it Wan learned that Italian raiders Whe bombed ihe city Saturday Also dFops
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
JAP, FRENCH
 CLASH ALONG
 BORDER ENDS ndO-China Frontier Out=
 break Halted After
 Casualties JAPANESE GENERAL
 TO MAKE SETTLEMENT French Claim Attack Was Launched After COnces-
 siOns Pact Is Signed

Hanoi, Sept. 23.-(UP)- Fighting between Japanese and French forces on the Indo-C China frontier halted today after a clash in which both sides suffered casual ties. Maj. Gen. Issaku Mi Shihara sent a Jason officer to the scene of the clash at Dong Dang on the Manning Hanoi railroad where Japan ese Canton army troops crossed over into Indo- China. The officer was instructed to at tempt to arrange a settlement.
 It was reported that the Jap anese made attacks on three out posts, at Dong Dang, Bin-Hai and Chin-ma.
 The French government issued an official c0mfnaln iqale xepnrting that the Canton forces had attacked the French after receiving formal notification that the agreement be- tween the French and Japanese for Japanese military and naval conces- sions in Indo-C China had been signed.
 French Aroused
 The French populace was aroused by the Japanese action and there was speculation that negotiations with the Japanese might be started anew.
 Nishihara was delaying for the time being putting into effect terms of the agreement. The landing of Japanese troops at Haiphong, as permitted by the agreement, was postponed.
 It was learned that NiShihara sent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
TWO KILLED AT
 ARMY ARSENAL

Dover, N. J.. Sept. 23.-(upl--Two civilian employees were killed and it others were injured today ln an eKs plo6lon at the Pieatlnny Army AT. eenal near here.
 The men were taking apart fuses left over from World War stocks when the blast occurred la building No. aii. which Was slightly damaged
 pieallnny arsenal lH not laf fFnm ihe EIaletlea Powder Company plant at kentlI which WAS Nf1fhfd Sept f1 bY a series ol explosions |n which |le nion WeTl falally injured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
WAR IN EUROPE,
 A YEAR AGO, lt SEPT. @, 1889
lny TjnlteA prenI

lBy UnlteA PrsssD
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Sept 2S. - (UP) = Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Sept. 20. compared with year ago: This Nenr Expenses Lnaf YenR $2,099. .516, ,959.67 s2.209. .s97. .72s.23
 Receipts
 $1,sS3, ,143,0 ,042.4S $1.341, ,470, ,ei7.eo
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-23

RAF On Attack.
 Through the black night, British royal air force planes droned across the Channel above the rain clouds and loosed a devastating bombard- ment against Ostend, Dunkirk, Bou- logne, Calais and other invasion bases They attacked German bases in France and Belgium gem erally and. the air ministry said of f1cially, bombed 'an important tar- get" in Germany proper. The same invasion targets had been bombed the night before. Reports from Dover said late last night that 8 great fire was seen in the direction of Boulogne.
 It was announced tha King George would broadcast a speech to the world at p. m. q p. m. EDT).
 Speech Unexplained.
 Nothing was made public of the nature of his speech. and there was speculation as to whether he would make purely general statement or would go into such details as tho Gerr,s:. i.-Ecsic,. Scrres, .,e p<-asE- tent bombing of London, or the sinking of a child refugee ship by the Germans.
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The Weather

Fair Tonight; Cloudy,
 Warmer Tuesday. Full Westlsr Report Page 3
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