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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Nazis Claim French
 Stronghold Wiped Out
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coast to cut off the German ships and a United Press correspondent inspecting shipments at Narvik re- ported that Germany was diverting ore from Narvik to the Swedish port of Duleaa.
 British Pressure Hurts
 The survey indicated that the British naval pressure had inter fered with the German shipments from Narvik but when the Gulf of Bothnia is free of ice within short time the ore can be shipped from Luleaa without fear of British at tack.
 Still another phase of the econ- omic struggle was reported by the London Daily Mail, which said that Allied experts were working out a permanent British French partner ship that would create such pow erful bloc after the war that no aggressor would dare challenge it.
 The British French plans are much more far reaching than is generally believed, the correspondent said, indicating that 1t was planned to weld the two empires into one vast military and economic force as stabilizing factor in international affairs after peace is restored.
 Britain Is Now Ready
 London, April 5. - CUP) - Gen. eral Sir Edmund Ironside chief of the imperial general staff, said at a press conference today that Britain was now fully prepared for an at tack, although she was completely unprepared when war began.
 "Thank goodness that Germany did not attack us during the first seven months" he said
 q tremble to think what would have happened if Germany had at tackled at the start" he said, "be- cause we did not have much of an army then. But in seven months Britain has made fine army, built on the basis of what was seen would happen before the war"
 Paraphrasing Prime Minister
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PLEDGED TO FUND

Boston, April 5.-(UP) - Three federal government checks for $5 each, the fees paid to three New England Communists who testified before the Dies committee, have been pledged to the Earl Browder defense fund" Miss Anne Burlak, administrative secretary of the New England Communist party, made known today.
 Miss Burlak, acting head of the New England party, said thep ractice of pledging witness cheeks to the Communist defense fund was not a fixed policy but voluntary proce- dure.
 At the same time, she issued a statement terming Chairman Mar tin Dies action in citing Phil Frank field, secretary of the New England Communist party, for contempt "a most brazen display of un-Demo- cratic procedure"
 Frankfeld was cited for contempt yesterday at Washington for re- fusing to answer questions before he was permitted to read a resolution adorted, he said, by 10000 Massa- chusetts citizens.
 Two days ago, Pat ODea, head of the Massachusetts Young Commit mist league, was cited for contempt for refusing to reveal names of party members in New England colleges.
 Checks of Frankfeld, ODea and Mist Burlak have been pledged to the fund.
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as the new town chairman if he is willing to accept, it appeared today MT. Driscoll declined any comment for publication, saying that he may have statement before the meet ing.
 Reliable reports have it that MT Driscoll has the backing of Mayor Vincent A. Scully. With supporters of the mayor predominating on the new town committee, MT. Driscoll is apparently certain of becoming town chairman if he allows his name to be offered.
 An interesting sidelight is that MT Driscoll had planned to withdraw as member of the town committee after MT. Mulville announced his plans for retirement. He was pre- vailed upon to remain, and was re- elected to the town committee by the town convention Monday night.
 Mistake Corrected
 Reports that membership on the town committee makes one ineligible to hold party office are incorrect. The rules clearly state that the chairman and other officers may or may not be members of the town committee.
 William H. Dunlavey, who was dropped as a member of the town committee, is also out as vice-chair-
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LOCAL HOUSING
 PROJECT ALIVE
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City Must Give Site

The mayor pointed out that the city must supply the site for the housing units and must offer a guar antee that the property will be tax free for period of 60 years.
 The housing plan was voted down by the Board of Aldermen after a stormy public hearing a years ago. Principal opponents were real estate dealers and property owners. The site proposed at that time was on Chase avenue, on land donated by Miss Edith Chase.
 The Waterbury Housing Authority, which had been created by Mayor Frank Hayes, ceased to function after the FILA program was turned down. However, this year the mayor has received requests that a new local Housing Authority to set up and a further study of local housing problems made. Among those mak- ing the requests for such action were the Citizens Committee on Housing, composed of representatives of sev- eral civic and labor groups, as well is several individual unions.
 Mayor Scully pointed out to the board yesterday that projects fi- nanced by the Federal Housing Ad- lministration are now underway tn several Connecticut cities.
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didn't know there was anything wrong with my wife. She was per- feet mother and loved her children.
 "She had been sick. The doctors said it was anemia. She had been taking treatments"
 He told police he had arisen at about 6:30 a. m. yesterday, kissed his wife goodbye and gone to work. Everything was all right, he said, when he left.
 As he talked to police, Chloe in- terrupted occasionally and told him to "buck up."
 Chloe Tells Her Story
 Chloe's story was.
 Her mother and her sisters and brothers were all still in bed when her father went to work yesterday morning. Her mother then got up and began dressing. Meanwhile the older girls had taken Mark from his bed and Mark and Ann were in the kitchen. Her mother appeared, part ly dressed in the kitchen, grabbed up the claw hammer and beat Mark and Ann on the head. She then went to the bathroom and found Daphne in the tub. With few blows she crushed her skull and Daphne collapsed face down in the water.
 Chloe heard disturbance, and, in pajamas, ran into the hallway where she met her mother. Here mother swung at her with the ham, mer but she moved and the ham, mer only grazed her head.
 I'm doing this for your own good they're after us" Mrs. Davis said. T love you so much that I have to kill you to save your souls." Mother Gave Her Hammer Mrs. Davis then handed her the hammer and ordered her to help drag mattress into the hall. Mrs Davis lay on the mattress, set fire to her hair and night dress, and shouted at Chloe to beat her until she breathed no more. Chloe started to beat her on the head with the hammer. She hit her again and again-perhaps 20 times, The head flew off the handle, and, her mother urging her on, she beat her with the crow head of the ham, mer.
 The exertion made her thirsty and she went to the bath room, got glass of water, drank some, gave the glass for her mother to drink. Her mother was crying with the pain Of the blows and the fire, which had been burning right along, and she resumed beating her. After a while, she was thirsty again and this time went to the kitchen for water. Mark was still alive, moaning. She asked her mo- ther if she shouldn't put Mark out of his misery and her mother nod ded.
 So I went back and hit him until he was still"
 Resumes Beating of Mother
 Returning, she resumed beating her mother. At last her mother was still, so she washed her face, combed her hair, and decided to report to her father. She went to the neigh bor's to use the telephone, returned and sat on the doorstep waiting for her father. He arrived, went into the house, emerged a few seconds later, screaming.
 ,"1 told him, you mustn't get ex- cited. Let's go for a little walk"
 Chloe told this story over and over again. The detail of Marks end, however, was not entered until after she had been questioned for some time. She had forgotten to mention 1t before, she said.
 Police said they had learned that Mrs. Davis had been ill. She was anemic and two weeks ago a physi- clan had prescribed injections.
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and the pair were taken at once to the U. s. attorneys ohlce.
 ODea refused to answer commit tee questions Thursday. Frankfeld yesterday defled the committee in an uproarious session and tried to read resolution denouncing the Dies group.
 Stripling said the warrant charged them with violating Title 2 Section 192 of the United States code, cov- ering contemptuous conduct toward senate and house investigative bod ieS.
 In the cases of other Communists who refused to answer questions, the Dies committee had the house ap- prove contempt citations, which then were referred to the federal grand jury. That procedure was cut short in connection with Frankfeld and O'Dea, whose cases have not been voted on by the house.
 Frankfeld and O'Dea were ex- pected to be taken before U. S. Com missioner Needham c. Tlrnage later today for arraignment. Government attorneys said they would ask $l,0OO bond.
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NCOQClnueQ rom PdRe U in favor of one or the other side in the European war.
 Interest in the senate propaganda was precipitated yesterday by a speech by Gordon Conant, attorney general of Ontario, urging Canada to seek United States entrance into the war on the side of the allies. That also revived the controversy over the recent address of U. s. min- ister to Canada, James H. R. Crom- well, in which he denounced Ger many and praised the allies.
 "The Canadian people are no more responsible for Conant's statement than we are for the statements of Cromwell, Bullitt and the other tea hounds who are serving in this country's diplomatic corps as the re- suit of campaign contributions"
 Senator Pat McCarran, D., New, supported Holt and advocated early action on Clark's resolution and said that the senate should investi- gate propaganda right now"
 Assembling Stories
 Holt said he had been assembling information on the arrival of for eign agents and that he hoped to present his statistics to thei nvesti- gating committee when it is author lzed. He said that he had checked ship arrivals lists, and had noted that "the English have changed from sending us top flight proga- gandists to middle raters to keep from being too noticeable"
 "The purpose of propaganda" he said, lis to get us into war and the purpose of exposing propaganda is to keep us out. All of it should be exposed, but regret to say that the most effective propagandists for England are our own American citi- ZenS."
 Cromwell's address brought a stern public rebuke from his superior, Sec retary of State Cordell Hull. Of Conant's speech, Hull said that the "nondescript utterances" of minor officials or individuals in foreign countries would have no effect upon this country's foreign policy.
 COnant, Cromwell Hit
 Senator Rush D. Holt, D., W. Va, combined a denunciation of Conant with an attack on Cromwell and the U. s. ambassador to France, William c. Bullitt.
 Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y, ranking minority member of the house foreign affairs committee, also criticized Conant and charged that he was putting up the Alaskan highway and the St. Lawrence sea- way as bait"
 "Is the United States going to be put on the auction block and sold to the highest bidder in the Euro pean war" Fish asked. Are the lives of our youth to be sacrificed on the battlefields of Europe in order to build the St. Lawrence seaway or because of . highway to Alaskap That Is carrying propaganda a little too far but it is typical of what is going on in America at the present time."
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Silver Shirt Leader
 Must Return to N. C..
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Policy, that evidence of the alleged conspiracy was not admissible be- cause the issue of the habeas corpus hearing was confined to correctness of papers forwarded here by North Carolina authorities. The hearing is on Pelley's request for a writ to forestall his return to North Caro- lima.
 Says Dies COnspired
 North Carolina authorities con- tended that Pelley violated condi- tions of 8 suspended sentence im- posed five years ago on conviction of fradulent selling of securities in a publishing venture. O'Connell argued that there is conspiracy to subject his client to private prosecution" in North Carolina and that Dies conspired to facilitate such return. Policy was arrested after teStifying before the Dies commit tee in February.
 While att he court building Dies appeared briefly before the grand jury which is considering contempt citations against two Pennsylvania Communist leaders, James H. Dol sen and George Powers. The house has cited them for contempt of the Dies committee and has turned the matter over to the grand jury. Dies plans to ask the house for formal citations against three more Con- munists who refused to answer com- mittee questions, Dr. Albert E. Blum berg, Baltimore, and Patrick ODea and Phil Frankfeld, both of Bos- ton.
 Dies postponed temporarily a ses- sion of his committee today because witnesses were not available imme- diately.
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NEW SPINDLE
 ON OLD ANGLES
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Second Letter Comes

Second Letter Comes
 A week or two later comes a sec- ond letter, explaining the situation in detail. The prisoner says that be- fore his arrest he shipped a trunk, containing $185,000 in cash, to an unnamed city in the United States. The check for the trunk, along with a negotiable check for $25,000, is in the false bottom of a travelling bag which was siezed when he was ar rested.
 The prisoner this time encloses a new paper clipping relating the ar rest and conviction of one Ricardo Maude, and also encloSeS a purport- ed copy of the court record of his conviction. He has been sentenceA to three years, he says, and has been fined $3,375. If the fine Is not paid by May 2, his travelling bag will be auctioned off and he fears that the check and the receipt for the trunk will be found. He asks that the recipient of the letter pay his fine, thus freeing the travelling bag.
 Must Go To Mexico
 The person willing to help is sup posed to go to Mexico with the money for the fine, meet the priS- oner's daughter and get the bag. With her he is to get the $25 ,000 check, then present the trunk re- ceipt in the United States city and get the $185,0OO. For this favor, the prisoner offers one third of all the money, or about $70,000.
 But here are the master touches: The prisoner says the check was drawn on a Texas bank, and says he will allow his new friend to tele- graph the bank to verify its exist ence: furthermore he will allow him to telegraph to the United States city where the trunk is stored, to verify its existence.
 Sounds Plausible
 These two features make the scheme sound plausible, but author ities say that any one of a dozen different methods would be used to swindle the person so foolish as to go to Mexico with the money for the fine"
 The writer recommends that the recipient of the letter go to a speci- fled hotel in Mexico City where he will be met and receive final instruc- tions.
 The person receiving the letter is told that his name was given the prisoner by a fellow-prisoner, an American, who comes from the same city as the recipient. The American prisoner is unwilling to allow his name to be used because of the dis grace that would be brought on his family, the letter states.
 It is the American prisoner" who offers the real tip off" on the scheme, for in the two letters re- ported to the Chamber of Commerce he halls from two different Con- necticut cities.
 Persons in Waterbury or suburban towns who have received any of the Mexican letters are asked to get in touch with MT. Green or with MT. Platt.
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the provocateur, lived in the Bronx"
 The attorney said that witnesses would testify that Provocateur No. 1 never would tell his name, but claimed he fought with Lawrence Of Arabia and that he had been a sec- retary to General Franco in Spain.
 Healy said that "provocateur No. 1" spoke five languages, tried un- successfully to join the Christian Front and attended their meetings.
 "One night" Healy said, "he would attend 8 Christian Front meeting and the next night he would speaI, at Communist meet ings, which latter were always att tended by government agents"
 Introduces Clients
 Healy introduced his defendants, one by one, to the jury and dis cusSed each at the introduction.
 Kennedy told the court he want ed to make it plain that the Chris tian front was not on trial, "nor is any race, creed or religion"
 "The only thing we are interested in here," he said, lis determination of whether these defendants planned to overthrow the U. $. govern ment."
 He said the Christian Front was formed in Brooklyn in the early spring of 1889 and planned military training for "a small group"
 Opening of the trial was delayed 40 minutes while Judge Campbell, defense attorneys and representa- tives of the Associated Press con- ferred.
 The conference, it was under stood, concerned an Associated Press dispatch which attributed to Kennedy statement that he would seek an all-Protestant jury.
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door. A pint bottle crammed with the bodies of small birds was hang ing on peg outside the door. Ap- parently they had forgotten about the bottle until they were too weak to crawl from their hunks.
 They had checked of the days since their arrival (July 30) on a calendar drawn on the wall.
 Wild canaries flew from the cabin in swarms when we entered.
 The bodies were held nere, pend- ing completion of funeral arrange ments. It was understood that Coombs' family had asked for a military plane to fly his body to Vancouver. He was a member of the provincial militia, but had left for the woods before the war started. His mother, prostrated by news of his death, was in Vancouver hos Dital
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being rushed by the Allied gov- ernments as important phrases of their blockade network which now is being extended around the world and which, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hopes, will soon facili- tate the Allier problem by impress ing the neutral nations with the un- favorable prospects of the Germans.
 Nazis Lose 55 Submarines
 An Allied claim that Germany has lost nearly 55 of her pre-war of- ficial total of 65 submarines and ef- ficient convoy work were cited today as major factors in cutting March ship losses to the lowest rate since the outbreak of hostilities.
 Official figures for March as pub lished here show the loss of only 34 vessels totaling 9o,397 tons. The figure includes both Allied and neu- tral shipping.
 This figure is only half that for December and January, the best two previous months. The sharp re- duction was achieved after the worst month of the war for shipping loss es-February. In that month the British officially admitted combined Allied and neutral sinkings of 212,- 856 tons.
 The British claimed that the March record resulted from in- creasing effectiveness of the convoy system and dwindling of Germany's U-boat fleet under repeated attack.
 British official figures on ship ping losses generally are lower than those from other sources. For ex- ample, an independent United Press tabulation showed March Allied neutral losses of 143,643 tons. The figure included, however, some ves- sels sunk in previous months but unreported until March. The Bri- tish official Allied-neutral loss from the start of the war to March 30 is 1,214,O13 tons. The United Press tabulation shows losses of 1863 ,554 tons).
 Whatever the cause in March far fewer submarine sinkings were re- ported, particularly in the final weeks of the month.
 Due to Several Factors
 This may have been due to Sev- eral factors. Nazi submarines oper- crate in waves" and there are periods when most of them are back in home ports for refitting. The British convoy system has de- creased the effectiveness of U-boats, the British admiralty claims. New devices, such as cables strung around the hulls of ships, have been rigged up by the British to decrease thee ffectiveness of Nazi magnetic mines. Many small British ships have been armed against aerial at tack.
 Another phase of the conflict was reported from the Norwegian port of Narvik, where German and Bri- tish ships have been loading Swedish iron ore. In recent weeks, the Bri- tish naval forces have crowded closer and closer to the Norwegian
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Neville Chamberlain, Ironside said, Thank goodness Hitler did miss the bus"
 During the last fortnight we have turned the corner" he said.
 Ironside said that the German army "is wonderful machine, but it Tasks commanding officers"
 "No German commander now was above the rank of captain in the World War, whereas Britain and France have many more experienced commanders - colonels and generals galore" he said.
 "There may be genius in Germany but I do not know of it."
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Children of Nassau, in the Ba- hamas, buy sugar cane by the foot or yard, with a penny foot as the usual rate.
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WOLF AT DOOR PAYS

Duncan, Okla. - (UP) - Lots of people work at keeping the wolf away from the door, but E. G. Thomas goes out to bring him back alive and makes a living doing 1t. Thomas, a government game trap per, captured more than 40 wolves last year and has caught nine so far in 1940
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man, which post he held for many years. MT. Dunlavey served briefly as town chairman last fall.
 The status of Dennis J. Clancy, veteran secretary of the town com- mittee, is uncertain. It is under stood that he has no great regard for the new town committee align ment, but he may be willing to serve another term in the interests of party harmony.
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On the island of Bali, none but natives may own real estate.
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AWAITED PLANE,
 TRAPPERS HEARSE

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ATTORNEY SPEAKS
 FOR ACCUSED

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RESIGNATION OF
 MULVILLE FIRM

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PROPAGANDA OF
 FOREIGN POWERS

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-15
ing their case today before High
Mav Commissioner Henry c. Shirley.

ing their case today before High
way Commissioner Henry G. Shirley
The group will have two conference
es with the State Highway Com
mission. Representatives from the
Northern Neck, who are in the Fred
ericksburg Road district, will have
the first say this morning, with the
meeting scheduled from 1920 a. m.
to noon. The Eastern Shore delega-
ton, included in the Suffolk Road dis
trict, will be given hearing from 1 to
2:30 p. m.
The 15-man committee represent
ing the three sections of the State was
organized following a recent meeting
in Onancok, at which the Importance
of establishing a ferry line between
the Northern Neck and the Eastern