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been placed on the railway lines to
Leningrad which are needed now
both for the population Of the city
itself and for maintenance of Soviet
troops on the isthmus."
Leningrad, city of 2,776,000, is
about so miles southeast Of this
front.
Coolest Winter in 10 Years.
The officer declined to speculate
on the ultimate result Of the Rus
slams transport difficulties but for
eign observers familiar with peace
time difficulties suggested that the
question might be answered in the
Finnish favor-just as the numbing
cold has worked for the defenders
elsewhere.
While by ordinary standards the
Is degrees below on the Karelian
front might by considered a terrific
handicap to military operations the
hardships here by no means compare
with those brought by the 40-below
in the far north.
Finland is undergoing the coolest
WeaCner IN III years.
With the Russian troops apparent
ly largely busy digging in and trying
to keep warm there was only
desultory artillery fire yesterday.
Meanwhile Finnish ski patrols were
reported active at several points be-
yond the Russian border in the
north.
The war seems to be settling down
again to guerrilla combat and artil-
lery dueling on the front lines and
attempts by the Russian air forces
to crush civilian morale-as well as
military targets-behind the fronts.
Karelian Front Quiet.
Indeed the Karelian front appears
quite as peaceful as the Finnish
cities which have been swept this
week by Russian bombing planes.
More than a score of cities were
bombed yesterday. The hardest hit
Of the larger places were Viipuri and
Turku on the southern coast. Bombs
also were reported dropped on the
outskirts of Helsinki.
At least two persons were killed
and many wounded at Viipurl
through which this correspondent
and his party passed en- route to
the Karelian front, 20 or Is miles
away. One whole street of shops
was demolished and some buildings
were set aflre.
We left our automobile parked
and took refuge in a private home
because Of the difficulty of reaching
air raid shelters amid the 500-pound
bombs which 81 raiding planes were
loosing over the city.
One bomb landed near our refuge
and nearer our automobile. When
we came out from cover the ma
chine was mass Of twisted steel.
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er my recommendation made to
the Congress some months ago,
for enlarging the revolving fund
in a relatively small sum, for
relatively small loans, should be
considered. 1t goes without say
ing that if the applications for
loans can be acted upon favor
ably by the Congress this matter
will be kept within the realm of
our neutrality laws and our neu-
trality policies.
An extension of credit at this
time does not in any way con-
stitute or threaten any so-called
involvement" in European wars.
That much can be taken for
granted.
Could Raise Banks Fund.
1t seems to me that the most
reasonable approach would be
action by the Congress authoriz-
ing an increase in the revolving
credit fund of the Export-Import
Bank and authorizing the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. to pur-
chase loans and securities from
the Export-Import Bank to en-
able it to finance expectation Of
agricultural surpluses and manu-
factured products, not including
implements of war.
It is wholly within the discre-
ton Of the Congress to place q
ceiling on the amount Of such
loans. Whether this legislation
should include an additional in
crease in the revolving credit
fund of the Export Import Bank,
in order to provide for additional
loans to increase our trade with
South and Central America, Is
also within the discretion Of the
Congress.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
U. S. Seaman Reported
Drowned at Shanghai
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 16.-A crew.
man Of the American President
Liner President Coolidge was be-
leved drowned today when launch
returning him to his ship collided
with tug and capsized. Two Chi
nese from the launch also were lost.
A lighter rescued James B. Con-
roy, 26, of San Francisco, messman
on the President Coolidge.
The line reported it could not
identify the crewman pending
check of possible stragglers who re-
mained in Shanghai when the
President Coolidge sailed for Japan
today
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Destruction of Two Subs
Announced in Berlin

BERLIN, Jan. Is P.-It was off,
cially announced that two British
submarines, the Undine and the
Starfsh, had been destroyed in
German (HelgolanO Blight and
parts of the crews rescued.
The actions took place yesterday
but were reported in this mornings
high command communique which
first noted, "On the Western front
no special events" and then added:
"The British U-boats Starflsh and
Undine were destroyed through
German defense measures in the
German Blight. Part Of the crews
were rescued"
No further details were available.
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tack without warning and the next
day struck the 6,00o-ton German
cruiser Leipzig and another German
cruiser with torpedoes.
Last night the British announced
a salvo of bombs from a British
plane was believed to have sunk a
German submarine in the North
Sea. A patch of grease and bubbles
rose after the bombs were dropped,
the announcement said.
The admiralty has acknowledged
the loss Of the submarine Oxley.
victim Of an explosion the first week
Of the war, but insisted this was
not due to enemy action. -Four Of
ficers and 40 men were lost with the
Oxley.
French Attack U-Boat.
Meanwhile French naval officials
in Paris said a French patrol ship
had attacked . German submarine
with great chances of success"
Conclusive evidence of the U-boat's
destruction was lacking, however.
The French admiralty announced
Evening star., 1940-01-16
II Held in S850,000
Bail on Charges Of
Plotting Against u. 5.
Four Groups Press Probes;
Other Alleged Members
Of Syndicate Sought
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 16-A woe-be-
gone group of II men accused Of
plotting to overthrow the United
States Government fretted in Jail
today, unable to raise $4,000 bail
each, as Federal agents sought other
alleged conspirators of the "revolu-
tionary" syndicate.
While Federal, State, National
Guard and New York City Police
authorities pressed investigations of
the fantastic scheme to launch an
anti-Semitic pogrom, assassinate a
dozen members of Congress and set
up a Hitleresque dictatorship in this
country, Jail attendants described
the II prisoners as greatly subdued.
All pleaded innocent yesterday
when they were arraigned on a
charge of seditious conspiracy, num-
bling their pleas with the exception
Of William G. Bishop. alleged ring
leader, who shouted in voice heard
outside the courtroom:
mot guilty!"
Expresses beWllderment.
One Of the group, George Kelly,
"a, a hotel worker, expressed be-
wilderment at the G-men's charges,
complaining:
Il don't know whether I'm
against communism or not. I don't
know what it's all about"
j. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. chief,
said he had evidence to support
every jot of the charge that a con-
spiracy was aimed at establishing
q dictatorship.
"It took only % men to overthrow
Russia" Mr.. Hoover reminded
skeptics.
Harsher Penalty Asked.
Meanwhile Representative Eman-
uel Celler, Democrat, of New York
demanded legislation to stiffen the
penalty for peacetime sedition-now
six years in prison and $4,000 fine.
Mayor La Guardia of New York
stuck to his scofflng comment:
II don't think the United States
Government is in much danger from
II guys like these"
In Boston police swung into action
with a raid on New England Front
headquarters, seizing membership
cards and pamphlets which Police
Supt. Edward w. Fallon described as
"evidence that the group was anti
Semitic"
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a German freighter had been scut-
tied by her crew to avoid capture
when intercepted by a French war
ship. The name of the freighter
was believed to be the Janus.
The Starflsh and Seahorse we're
sisterships, belonging to the sea-
going Swordflsh class and having
normal compliments of 40 men
each. Their surface displacement
was GAO tons,
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picked up the crew Of 80 and headed
for Lisbon.

Tor LISBON.
The Netherlands has made rep
resentations to Germany over tho
torpedoing Of the tanker Sliedrecht
In the Atlantic November 16 and
the sinking of the steamer Tajan.
doen in the English Channel. De.
cember Z is under investigation.
A Belgian government spokesman
said that official tension at Brussels
was easing, but that Belgium's armed
forces would be kept in a state Of
semi-alarm for several days.
1t was estimated unoficially that
nearly 1000, 900 men were at stations
along the German frontiers of Bel
gium and the Netherlands as re-
suit Of joint preparedness moves.
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul
Henri Spaak said that the interna-
tional situation had improved" but
would have to be watched.
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Degree to Be Conferred

Edward L. Payne, master Of Leb-
anon Masonic Lodge, will confer
the Master Mason's degree at 7:30
pm. Friday. The Fellowcraft Club
will elect officers and have an install
lation dinner Monday at Herzog's
Restaurant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
Are We Giving Youth Our Best?

In a time when everything is changing, education as we have known 1t In the past may have to change too. The United States has always been proud Of its free schools. The fact that every child, whether of poor or rich parents, can nave at public expense the elements of an edu- cation is one of the things of which America has been justly proud. The old time high school education was "liberal'. That is, it aimed at a grounding in gen. eral culture which would prepare the student for college, give him heightened appreciation of "the finer things Of life" prepare him for "white-collar" jobs or tur- ther self-devolopment if he could not go farther in school.
 Todavs world is different. Different temporarily, one hopes, yet we cannot be sure. So there has been growing pres sure to make high school education more practical" that is, make it preparation for the kind of life the student is most likely to have to lead. Ten educators have been studying the problem, and have made report to the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education. Director Reeves of the commission believes it is an import ant study. It says that the needs of 6,5OO,OO0 boys and girls in high school are not being met by those schools today.
 One-third of all the unemployed today, the report claims, are between l5 ana A years old - perhaps four million of them if you consider people unemployed at 15. Yet, the report insists, present-day high school education in such as raises in them the hope of white-collar jobs that are growing increasingly scarce. Labor IS the lot of man." says the report, "and 1t has not been recognized as it should have been in arranging institutional edu- cation"
 The report holds that algebra, geome- try, English composition, and foreign languages are often taught today in form which cannot be defended in the light of modern conditions" Actual work experience as part of high school work is recommended with more empha- sis on social studies and personal prob lemS
 Every institution today is on trial. Every institution faces the test of its value to the world today It is always gratifying to see educators wrestling with the prob lem of making education serve the youth for whose service it is devised. Any instl- tuition which undergoes continual self criticism gives hope that its usefulness may increase, not decrease, in the face ot new conditions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
The World Turned Upside Down

When CornWalliS' troops marched out of Yorktown to surrender to the besleg- ing Americans, their bands played tune called "The World Turned Upside Down." So it must have seemed to these veteran British regulars, laying down their arms to the rabble of rebels that they had held in such contempt. But if the world seemed upside down on that October day of 1781, let us think moment of how upside down it is today as compared with early August only 26 years ago. War had just broken out in Europe. Beyond a feeling that this was Big Stuff, Ameri- cans cared little, knew less of what lay behind that war
 On August 8, the Literary Digest had rallied enough to make it's first survey of newspaper opinion on the European war. They led off the weeks issue thus: "Our isolated position and freedom from entangling alliances inspire our press with the cheering assurance that we are in no peril of being drawn into the European quarrel. But the closing of our stock exchanges, the exportatlon of gold to Europe, the rise in wheat and corn, the failure of business firms, help to remind our editors that a war which involved all Europe could not but have it's effects among us"
 That was August, 1914 Now it is August, 1940. "Our isolated position" is now freely challenged Our freedom from entangling alliances" no longer means what it did then. Those 1914 editors meant formal military alliances like those which drew the French in after the Russians, the Germans in after the Austrians.
 Today there are no cheering assur- ances" that we are "in no peril of being drawn into the European quarrel" To- day our stock exchanges are not closed, but open = and listless. Today gold is not being exported to Europe, put accu- rnulates here to suffocation. There is no rise in wheat and corn, no wave of business failures. Only that vague premonition that "a war which involved all Europe could not but have it's effects anaonr us" remains as truth magnified.
 Today even the definition of being drawn Into" Europe's war has changed. In these simple days, one was m" or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
Looking Way Ahead

Attention in Waterbury has been cen tered on bridge problems of recent weeks. It is indeed a problem and one that requires considerable thought on the part of our officials But judging from what has been transpiring at various civic boards meetings there is consideration being given the matter. However, it is becoming apparent that long-range bridge replacement program must be dis cusSed and planned. As a matter of fact the physical development of our munich pality almost seems to call for master plan that should be started in part or en- -tirety as soon as possible.
 No doubt the City Plan Commission has some such matter under conSidera- ton and at the proper moment will make known it's recommendations. To any such general proposal for city-wide re- pairs, replacement, and expansion of existing projects all taxpayers should give ready consent. It is as necessary as that the home-owner should periodically bring his own house and adjacent land into order. With big city, spread over great territory, the regular repair and improvement program is more compl1- cated and more extensive.
 We have bridges to build here in Wa terbury; we have other things to do, notably make our great water supplies equally available to all taxpayers in the city. That is an expensive and lengthy task, but it is one that should be of major importance and high on any list of im- provements to come, even though it does involve the completion of second pipe line from the city's reservoirs. Elimina- tion of stream pollution also comes under the heading of urgent. And there are countless minor difficulties to be sur mounted We look forward, though, to wise approach and an equable solution under Our present city government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17

With attention centered locally on a plan to put our Fire Department on a six-day week, it might not be amiss to see what happened over in New Britain when the Police force there went on a six-day week. It necessitated a special tax being levied to raise $8,150 which the time change added to the departmental appropriation for the current fiscal year. There were complaints about this, but the Board of Police Commissioners car ried the day and apparently public opin- ion was not averse. Public service de- partments, like police and fire, have been Slow to get into step with labor reforms such as the six-day week, forty-hour week, etc. There probably is a reason for this, for after all member of the police or fire department is public servant, drawing his pay from the taxes he him. self and his fellow citizens contribute. But no one has the right to argue that such public service is based on endless performance of duty without some cessa- ton in the daily grind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17

All sorts of provisions are being urged on Congress as part of the universal conscription bill. One of the latest, pro- posed by Senator Sheridan Downey of California would have the boys in the training camps used on gigantic road construction program. He wants a sys- tenn of super-highways built all over the United States and he thinks that the conscripts could be used very profltaoly to do this work. We'd like to see Just such a network of roada built and nave often advocated super-transcontinental routes. But we doubt if the purpose of universal military training is to make road-builders out of our young men, although such training would certainly toughen them up. Why not use idle hands for such program?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17

1t cannot be won by the old-
 line politicians.
 3. That he was advised that
 the politicos had moved in on
 Landon in 1886 and had made a
 botch of his campaign.
 For these reasons, Wilikie ar gued, it was necessary to conduct an entirely different kind of cam paign with a new type of leader ship, and as the chosen standard bearer he intended to see that this was done. He expressed con- fidence that under Martins com mand the old and the new, that is the Willkie clubs and the regular organization, could be harmon ized to work together.
 Faced with this adamant stand, the National Committee chiefs dropped Hamilton. And Joe Mar tin, chiefly through the urging of his close friend Landon, finally agreed to become chairman. UNDERCOvER GRINDING
 
 Although there was nothing the politicos could do to prevent Willkie from setting up his new machinery, there are undercover indications that he and Martin have their work cut out for them making it click. A lot of the boys don't like the idea of being side- tracked for that bunch of anna teurs", as they call the Willkie men.
 For eight years the professionals, in the precincts, counties and dis tricts, have been grimly hanging on and plugging away hoping for turn in the tide. Now, with prospects bright for that turn. it sours them to the core to play second fiddle to crew of new corners, many of them Demo- crats.
 Martin could solve a lot of his troubles if he would pass the word down the line assuring the regulars that they will handle patronage. But that would be sure to leak out and would raise hob with the Will kie clubs. So he is standing pat and making no promises-to the anguish of the professionals. KENTUCKY FEUD
 Illustrative of these local clashes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17

bridge; my evenings spend in the movies When die I shall be buried from an undertaking establishment. All I need is a garage" @
 Many people are asking today what is the matter with America? One thing desperately the matter with it is that too many people are living this way. We are intended to live in homes. Marriage is most happy when it is most stable. Most divorces are not the result of any of the charges which one of the parties makes against another, but purely because the contracting par ties have got desperately sick and tired of each other. It is not to be wondered at when they live in a way that would shame the gypSies.
 Stability may seem rather proSy and uninteresting to some, but peo- pie can never be happy without 1t.
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 Newspaper Syndicate. ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
EXPLORER COOK (Hartford Times)

The death of Dr. Frederick Cook, explorer, recalls the fact that no incident involving modern explora- tion feats radiated so much con- troversial heat as his claim that, in 1908, he had discovered the North Pole. His antagonist was Robert E. Peary, who subsequently, was given credit by an Investigating committee for having been the true discoverer.
 The public was long and deeply torn between two emotions. It did not want to withhold credit from Dr. Cook if his claims were true but neither did 1t wish to be imposed upon by one whose claims were not subject to easy refutation. Many readers of the hectic controversy found himself inwardly divided be- tween the emotion of Q heFo-worship. CT and chasrin at being made q sucker.
 Dr. Cook was c hard fighter. n view of his personal qualities he might well have found the Pole. He was that kind Of persistent fellow. Whether he actually did locate the spot recognized as being the true central point of the proof of the world has had to ho left to egpeEis and they have decided thet not pf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
The Russell Manufacturing

The Russell Manufacturing Company of Middletown wants to know where it's employees dollars go. So when it paid off this week it paid off in silver dollars. By using the good old-fashioned cart wheels it, was believed that anyone could tell very shortly just how this group Of workers was spending its money After employees have carted big bag of silver dollars around for time, though, they'll probably ask the company for special Silver dollar containers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
HORSE SENSE (New London Day)

One might say that 1t seems that Tom, a dapple grey horse working about Fulton Fish market in New York city, has more sense than some of the human beings about him. In any event Tom broke loose from wagon on the hottest day New York has had in years, ran away and jumped into the East river. It took the combined efforts of several dozen men, a derrick from the de- partment of sanitation, and some little cooperation from Tom to fish him out again. No one seems to know why the horse suddenly bolt ed; 1t is agreed, however, that he seemed to be fully aware of what he was doing when he dashed of the end of a pier. There was ample time for him to see the drop, and plenty of other directions in which he could have run. yet he chose the river.
 Tom. in fact. not only got cooled of but the rescuers. after fishing him out of the water, decided that he ought to have the rest of the day of. SO back he went to the stables which. one may hope. were cool and comfortable.
 If there is any moral at all in the story. 1t ought to be that more An- orleans should cast cares aside and seek relief from the heat when the heat is at its worst. not just on week ends and holidays. Of course tlie answer Is that jobs and busi- nesses won't permit it. yet when the weather is as hot as tt was 9atur- dag there ought to he some means of setting up new ssFios of e,if1i- mor FiileD-and not just Cor horses. Tom tho horss seems to have hcrse
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17
Current Comment

Any atempt to keep the hand of the past on the pulse of the future, to solve the problems of tomorrow with the mechanisms of yesterday, can. at best. be only indifferently successful.
 John D. Rockefeller. Jr. on
 retiring as chairman of the
 board of the Rockefeller
 Foundation.
 
 We have reached . perfect iden. tity Of views. not only in the poli- teal but in the moral field in ex- amining ail present European prob- lens.
 - Count ualeazzo Ciano. Italian foreign minister discussing Mun- earian talks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-17

mot in." But today, with Germany claiming influence in every country and trying to exercise it, many countries which are certainly not "in" the war can scarcely claim that they are mot in" either. For in today's war the military phase is only the active phase of war In which every country is being compelled to participate, if only to resist effects among us" which strike deeply at our chosen and accustomed way of life.