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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-08
Ah.Star BowIers
Score Sixth
Straight Victory

Ell Centro's all-star bowling team
scored its sixth straight victory
Wednesday night, defeating Brawley
80 in an exhibition match playel
at the Ell Centro academy.
The e. Centrans play in River
side Sunday
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-08
Hurst Strengthens A||-Star
Lineup for SD. Came Here
'Tunney Williams. Jack Fleming OF
BrawIey Secured for Tilt Against
Campbell Dentists Friday Night

Joe "The Fox Hurst, pitcher manager OF In tne ,+ ~.
Centro a-stars, with vastly stronger t1 noh
lineup Thursday and planned to throw the fulsrength
roster against Campbell Dentists of San Diego III fro'y
nights game at Ell Centre stadium.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-08
THE POST-PRESS
SPORTS
Dod gers Score 9Th
Polo Grounds Wi n
Over New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (UP)-The wrong teams play
ing in the Polo Grounds The Dodgers should adopt the
oval-shaped underneath Coogan's Bluff their
home field They look like champions every time they
there The Dodgers record at the Polo Grounds
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
R-DAY PLANS ARE
 READY TO START
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(Continued from Page D plans for securing office quarters and clerical help. The boards are to begin functioning once registration is ended.
 Dinner Meeting
 Draft board chairmen from Wat erbury and other parts of western Connecticut will have a dinner meeting at The Elton tomorrow night with Lieut.-Col. George R. Sturges, of Woodbury member of the state selective service board. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30.
 Col. Sturges last night was at Wilby high school to address a meeting of veterans and other vol unteers who will man the third reg istration day shift tomorrow. They will work from to g p. m. Teach CTS will fill the first two shifts, from ' a. m. to noon, and noon to 5 p. m.
 Lieut.. H. L. Davidson, of Ansonia, a naval officer, will represent the federal government in Waterbury tomorrow. He will have state pol ice escort.
 Blanks Distributed
 Registration forms, blanks, and other official material was being distributed to the various registra- tion centers today. Buttons provid- ed by the state, which will be given to all registrantS, were also being sent to the registration centers.
 Mayor Vincent A. Scully issued an appeal for compliance with the re- gistration provisions of the selective service act in a radio talk over WATR at 12:30 today. He will deliv- CT another radio talk tonight.
 City hall operators will go on duty at 6:30 a. m. tomorrow and remain at their switchboards until after g D. m. to facilitate handling of reg istration inquiries.
 Arrests Ordered
 Col. Sturges last night instructed the volunteers to order the arrest of any eligibles who refused to an- swer questions or to sign registra- tion cards. The federal manual of instructions tells registrars to be ex- tremely careful in this regard. It is suggested that the eligible be warned he is violating the law, that he be given a chance to reconsider, and that witnesses be secured if he per- Sists in refusing.
 The list of registration places for eligibles in each voting district will be found elsewhere in tonight's Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
CONAN SISTERS
 HURT IN CRASH
NaugatuCk Girls in HOspi- tai After Car Overturns
 on StraitsviIIe Road

Two Naugatuck girls, injured in an automobile accident on the Straitsville road near the Naugatuck- Prospect line last night, were re- ported in good" condition at the Waterbury hospital today. The girls, Ruth Cowan, 16, and her sister, Margaret Cowan, IA, of Allerton Farms road, suffered face and other cuts.
 Raymond Benjamin, Jr., IS, of 226 Willow street, Waterbury, said he lost control of his car when it hit a lot of stones" He was held on a charge of reckless driving by state police.
 Henry Alsdorf, 1S, of Waterbury, another passenger who was injured when the car overturned, was dis charged after treatment at the hos pitaL.
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destroyers was attacked and disper- Sed this morning.
 The attack followed announce ment by the high command that two British submarine chasers and two small merchant ships had been destroyed in German torpedo boat attack on the English Channel coast several days ago, when 40 Britons were made prisoner.
 The German attack on London was said to have concentrated on railroad stations and objectives be- tween Hyde Park and the India Docks.
 Four British planes and one Ger man plane were shot down yester- day, according to Nazi reports. A high command communicate on two raids on Berlin during the night said:
 "British planes flew in over North Germany. Some reached Berlin and dropped bombs, damaging several dwelling houses Virchow hospital was struck by bombs without cas- ualties. Other air attacks were driven off by anti-aircraft fire. Three enemy planes were shot down in flames by night fighters on the way to Berlin"
 Berlin was quiet during the first raid. During the second heavy gun fire was heard and planes flew low over the city. Shell fragments spat- tered down on houses.
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ploS1ve bombs. In addition they utilized every other type of bomb, incendiary, high explosive and screamer during the long night hours of what must have been one of the great bombardmentS of his- tory.
 London Uttered
 At dawn London was filtered with bomb-shattered homes and business buildings. Great bomb craters were in some streets; debris was piled high in others; many homes were shells which fire had gutted. Some streets were blocked by craters and debris. Some buildings had col lapsed utterly.
 Four hours there was hardly a moment when the drone of planes could not be heard overhead, and the bombs rained down. The peak of the attack was reached before midnight and there was long lull during the morning hours until the "all clear" signal came and then, soon afterward, the 39th straight day of attacks began.
 Direct Hits Made
 A crowded movie house, a great department store which is a land mark, a well known church, res- taurant, a club, a theater well known to American tourists and a hotel suffered direct hits.
 Army engineers, labor battalions and unemployed men recruited to aid them had worked throughout the night, whenever bombs were not actually dropping near them, to clear the streets of wreckage, but the rush hour found traffic still dis located both because of blocks of craters and debris and because of time bombs which lay in the streets.
 Thousands of bombs had rained on 56 areas of Greater London, on the Midlands and on England gen. erally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15


 who delivered goods to my apart ment in New York. He was well educated and used to sit and talk with me, and he said once, This is America. In Germany I would leave parcel at the servants en- trance and never be able to sit in 8 room like this and talk, man to man, to a person like you"
 I believe in this way of life, in what America does for people, and in our democracy. We have built a sort of society in which all can make the most of themselves in the way they want and are able to.
 Our democracy to me is our most precious possession. It and not na- tiQnal wealth or foreign trade is America. It can be taken from us in two ways-by a discipline im- posed on us by some man or group, the Nazi and Fascist, way, or by our failing to use self discipline.
 I do not believe that democracy and what I call the American Dream must fail. We can preserve them if we want to, but in order to do so we must discipline ourselves, orsssomebody will discipline us and take our way of life from us.
 We need leaders, but they will be of. no avail if we have not got de- cency, morality, and self-reliance ourselves.
 Democracy cannot win out in this world of today, nor can we main tain our freedom if we are not free incur own souls and lives, and we are not free in our souls if we are looking. for easy money, easy jobs, dirty political deals, feeding at the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
MAJOR PARTIES IN
 STATE WARM UP
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\COllLlI1u6Q 1IOIII EdSC " incompetent" and could not be trusted with American defense.
 Trinity Prof. Odell Shepard, Dem- ocratic candidate for lieutenant,gov ernor, said, "there would be no third term issue if a Republican instead of Democrat were running for a third term"
 Republicans, he charged, were not so much concerned with the third term as with stopping Roosevelt"
 Tt is not the sacred American past that is so dear to them," he said, "but rather their own financial and political interests in the months and years directly ahead. Their real question, now as always, is "A third term for whom?"
 Democratic candidate for gover- nor, Robert A. Hurley, told a Suf- field rally that "state milk control policies have failed both the pro- ducers and the consumers under the Baldwin administration.
 These policies, he said, "have stuffed the pocketbooks of the milk dealers at the expense Of the dairy farmers and the customer"
 He called for an increase in pur- chasing power of dairy farmers and extended research facilities to to- bacco growers.
 At New Haven, Major Ranulf Compton, Republican candidate for congress from the third district, charged the New Deal was ready to "wilfully spill the blood of this na- tion'S youth to blot out evidence of its own wanton abuse of public trust during the past eight years"
 Maj. Compton agreed with the need for a national defense, but declared i've shall not pick that fight"
 Republicans announced that Sen. Ralph O. Brewster, Maine, would speak at Stamford and Norwalk rallies Oct. 26. Democrats said An- thony J. Drexel Riddle, ambassador to Poland during the German in- vasion. would come to Connecticut Oct. 28 and Nov. 4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
Odd Fellows Open
 Grand Encampment
Naugatuck Man May Be Named Patriarch Today to
 Succeed J. William Gardner of Waterbury

chief business feature of the after noon session. It is expected that Grand High Priest Warren D. Abel of Naugatuc. will be ,slosen grand patriarch, succeeding J. William Gardner of Waterbury.
 Members of Winor.a Rebekah Lodge served luncheon to the dele gates at noon today. Ansantawae EncampmenC, which was instituted here 87 years ago was the official host for tie convention today. Last evening in Temple hall more than TOO delegates, members and friends gathered for reception to Grand Patriarch J. William Gard- ner. He was presented with several gifts in appreciation of his leader ship during the past year and his B years of loyal affiliation with the order. He has held numerous of- fees of disti:-cLion during his long membership.
 Attorney John s. Monagan, preSi- dent of the board of aldermen, was in attendance as representative of Mayor Vincent A. Scully. Officers of the various lodges were called upon to speak and all paid tribute to MT. Gardner's faithfulness and efficiency. Karl L. Winters, grand patriarch thirty years ago, officiated as master of ceremonies.
 William J. Maton is chairman of the general convention committee which includes: chairman, Casper M. Spearo: secretary, Fran cis J. Merkle, and treasurer, Will liam w. Wood. Judge Arthur '. ELS is chairman of the reception committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

(COnunued rom rage U its power and navigation possibili- ties. But it has been a much-de- bated subject in Congress. A treaty providing for navigation and power development of the river was signed by representatives of the two coun- tries on July IS, 1882, but was re- jected by the Senate.
 The immediate exchange of waters the state department said, will per- init Canada to use additional water to generate power at Niagara Falls, contingent upon diversion of an equivalent amount of water which normally flows into Hudson Bay, to the Great Lakes.
 The water exchange, it- said. had been agreed to by this country pending the conclusion of final Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin agreement. Likewise the preliminary investigations win be made imme- diately in order to save time "whcn final decision is reached between the two governments"
 The preliminary engineering work will be done in that part Of the Basin which is located ln the lnHr- national rapids section of the Bt Lawrence river.
 Other joint United states. Cana. dian moves for strengthening hem- iApheric defenses were expected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
German Flyers Roar Over Coast In Waves
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some fleets attacked the London area, others attacked Liverpool and Midland towns, dropping high ex- plosive, incendiary and oil con- tainer bombs.
 Three German planes, diving from clouds, machine gunned streets during the first daylight raid on London.
 No Time for Shelter
 Many workers had not even time to go to shelters before bombs start ed, and threw themselves prone in the streets.
 The first daylight alarm came at the peak of the rush hour, after only brief respite, as workers went to their jobs past, around and over piles of debris from buildings of every sort which had been leveled during the hours that the German planes had spent over the city dur ing the night.
 For the first time the Germans used new combined high explosive and incendiary bomb They used their new bomb baskets from which showered dozens of small high ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

(COnt1nued from Page D make any Russian campaign ex- tremely difficult.
 The influx of German troops con- tinued steadily. More than 45,000 of them have arrived. One whole German motorized division of 15,0OO men was at Ploesti, in the oil field area. Another 1,200 were reported at the Danubian port of Giurgiu, south of Bucharest, from where a party of Britons left yesterday for Bulgaria.
 A German naval mission was in Bucharest, reportedly to supervise the construction of submarines at Galatz and a naval base at Lake Tasatll, where hotel was reserved as German naval headquarters.
 It was understood that several large camps were being prepared to receive Jews. Several words were censored her.)
 (At Berlin, newspapers said Ger many again had beaten Britain to the draw" in sending troops to SudIQ 1Vu11ld114d Ol1 1ICluo. 41l4OI = nation made available to the for eign press in Berlin indicated that Germany expected Rumania and Hungary to settle their dispute over Transylvanian minorities between themselves, and quickly)
 The fire that destroyed three oil wells near Baicoi were described by & Rumanian official last night as accidental Two of the wells were owned by Rumanian company, the other by a German firm. German fire fighters recently installed at Ploesti rushed to the scene to help Rumanian firemen. Much ground equipment was destroyed during the three-hour blaze.
 It was learned that Alexander Miller, one of the five British oil men arrested recently for suspicion of espionage, had been released and had left by ferry for Bulgaria yes terday. The other four BritonS were still detained.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
FOUR COUNTRY
Americans Need Only Change Of Heart, Not of Government, Writes James TruSlOW Adams

public trough at someone else's ex- pense if we can work ourselves, and all the rest of what has been re- placing what the Frenchman l started with found here. I am not speaking of the necessarily unem- ployed at the moment or of poli- tics, but of fundamental morality.
 Democracy is the only form of life humanity has found in which it can have freedom of speech, thought, religion, and the right to be ones self. If that goes, all I care for in life goes.
 The trouble is not with demo- cracy, as I see it, but with the de- terioration of our own characters. What we need to make us an eff1- cient and powerful nation is not a change in our form of government, but change in our own hearts and desires.
 I am not preaching a sermon, but talking only as an American pro- feSsional man who loves America and wants to keep alive the Am erican Dream which has been the finest mankind has yet dreamed.
 I am not speaking of candidates or leaders of other sorts. I am think ing of just every one of us in private life and as I have watched demo- cracy and America here, and been in many other countries, more and more believe that the fate of demo- cracy in the world and of life for free men lies with no leader, no conqueror, but just with you and me and all the rest of us ordinary Am ericans, and how well we can dis cipline ourselves in our lives and what kind of people we turn out to be.
 Rex Beach takes a look at Hit
 ler's blueprint for living, and
 comes up with greater apprecia-
 tion for the American way of life,
 in the next article of this series
 on "Our Country"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
F.D.R. TALKS ON
 REGISTRATION
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draft law at their local boards.
 Sometime before the registration day ends, President Roosevelt will appoint local draft boards for IT more states. Those for 31 states and the District of Columbia have been named.
 The average registration time an- ticipated is 20 minutes for each man, but it allows as much as an hour for illiterates and persons with inadequate English. Literate per- sons who speak English will be able to register in about five minutes, it was believed.
 Major Daniel H. Gould, in charge of registration preparations, said that in some states, governors have proclaimed state holidays while others have asked employers to CO., operate by giving their employees time to register.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

Continued from Page D
 South American countries which n would bring up to potential needs the defensive facilities of the coun- tries concerned, and 9 would place these facilities at the disposal of not only the United States but all the American republics for any com- mon defense action which might become necessary.
 The first step taken by the United States, it was said, was to inquire of certain South American coun- tries exactly what facilities as bases for naval and military defense in the event that they felt it necessary to ask for aid against possible outside aggresSor.
 But it was understood from the start that these facilities would be made available to all American na- tions. It was never intended to make them available only for the United States, it was said, if for no other reason than that such an agreement might have been re- garded as an infringement of sov- ereignty by nations which were asked to provide the bases.
 It was understood that the var ious visits of military representa- tives of the United States to South American countries had been made so that United States defense au- thorities could get reports of exist ing defense facilities.
 Explaining that up to the pres ent inter-American negotiations had been largely preliminary, and at the same time of technical char acter, the United Press informant said that they had naturally been conducted in the greatest secrecy.
 It was understood that the sec- ond phase of negotiations, involving more definite conversations, would be started soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
FRANK JOHNSON 7
 ON WATR TONIGHT

The first of series of radio cam paign addresses will be delivered to- night by Frank T. Johnson, Repub- lican candidate for congressman in the fifth district. He will speak over stations WATR and VERY from to 7:15 p. m.
 MT. Johnson will make six more radio addresses during the course of the campaign.
 Yesterday the congressional candi- date and Paul Cornell, candidate for U. s. senator spoke from a sound truck to workers at factory gates in Torrington and Winsted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

duced a black notebook which, he said, was used by Chapman to record Mrs. Reilley payments from time to time. Once the prosecutor said, Chapman sent Mrs. Reilley a certain sum which he told her was interest" In this way, Fitzgerald said, Chapman kept up the swindle.
 States Attorney Fitzgerald said that Mrs. Reilley did not discover the swindle until Oct. ' when she went to the factory to withdraw some of the money which she had believed she was keeping in a sav- ings account
 Asked by Judge Baldwin whether he ever invested any of the money, Chapman replied that he had not.
 You spent it, is that it?" asked the judge and received an affirma- tive reply.
 The judge then declared that Chapman had exhibited low, crim- nal characteristics, which entitled him to no leniency at all.
 Think of the widows situation" the judge said, noting that the swindle had wrung from her all her money, leaving her only with an equity in her house and her furnishings.
 The judge imposed the following sentence which was said by MT. Fitzgerald to mean to g years. On the first count. the judge imposed a sentence of l to years; he inn posed a sentence of years each on the second, third, and fourth counts, and of one year each on the fifth, sixth, and seventh counts. The first four counts are to run consecutively and the last three counts concurrently.
 Chapman had no previous record.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15


 and fires could be seen. simultan- eauSly in several parts of the target area.
 "A direct hit with a heavy bomb was scored on a railroad siding near the Lehrter station about a mile from Brandenburger Tor (the fa- nous Brandenburger gate in the center of Berlin, not far from Adolf Hitler's chancellery).
 "A slight haze lay over the city when the first raiders penetrated the outer ring of Berlin's powerful defenses soon after a. m, and circled high over the capital.
 "A moon which helped the raid- ing force on their 600-miles flight from England lit up the Sprawling city,"
 The points in Berlin that the ministry said were bombed indi- cated that the attack was one of the most severe yet staged.
 Berlin, Oct. 15-(UP)-Heavy damage by British air raiders at- tacking Berlin last night was ad- mitted by the official German news agency D. N. B.. which said today that many homes, especially in the western districts of the capital, had been destroyed. Many dead were feared buried beneath debris.
 The high command, in addition to admitting British raids on Ber- lin and other German points, said that particularly violent destruc- ton" was caused by British bombers during the past few days at To Havre and in Netherlands territory making parts of the siviiian popu- lation homeless"
 In connection with the high com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

mand's admission that the Rudolf Virchoow hospital had been struck D. N. B. said:
 Hardly a hospital is left in Ber- lin which has not been hit by Brit ish night gangsters Hospital Vir- chow which was hit for the third time, was struck last night by four explosive bombs dropped among hospital buildings. Hitherto 1t had been struck only by incendiary bombs. This time there were no dead, only several persons slightly wounded"
 The high command said that of six British planes lost yesterday three were shot down by German night fighters and one by Q gun- boat in the English Channel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15
PRICE OF BREAD
 LOWERED A CENT

The one-cent reduction in bread prices announced in newspapers yesterday by major baking concerns of the city is in keeping with the policy of price cuts established throughout the New England states.
 No particular reason for the re- duction was given, but is was as- sumed that it was most likely at- tributed to the great wheat harvest and "carry-over" stock accumulated in the United States and Canada the past year due to curtailment of shipments to Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-15

The 97th annual session of the Grand Encamrment of Odd Fellows of Connecticut formally opened here this morning at 10 o'clock in Odd Fellows hall. Thirty-four local units were represented by more than 125