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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05

Dispatches from London said that Prime Minister Winston Churchill'S warning that Britons must keep on their toes against the continued threat of invasion was followed by reports of Nazi military activity in Norway (wilere troops were being trained in landing operationS) and by meteorological conditions whcih for several days notably from Aug ust 8 to August 10-would favor an invasion attempt.
 Similar reports, including infor- nation regarding extensive Nazi precautions in occupied France, have been circulated in recent days. On the basis of past events there was 8 general tendency to accept the reports as accurate, but it was pointed out that it was the Nazi technique to make threats in 8 num- Der of directions and at various times in order to conceal both the time aid method of striking at the enemy.
 Hitler Is Enigma
 mus IL COuLnueO 1IupSStplc 1ux Britons to find any definite sign as to Adolf Hitler's immediate inten- tions or his decision-if it is yet made-aS to whether Germany would attempt an invasion or seek to defeat Britain by aerial blockade.
 The Nazi high command reported that German airplanes last night sank British merchant ship at the entrance to St. Georges channel between England and Ireland, and bombed oil depots at the Sheerness naval base. The Thane estuary re- zion also was bombed again.
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| War Moves On
 |Today's Board
BY J. w. T. MASON United Press War Expert)

Further indications that the total itarian powers have abandoned ex- pectation of quick blitzkrieg vic- tory this summer are contained in reports from Rome that Italy is pre- pairing for long term war. Italian commentators say Italy intends to invade Palestine next year and they likewise assert major Italian mili- tary operations in Africa will not be- gin until the summer heat gives way to cooler weather.
 Mussolini is preparing the Italian people in this way for continuation of unimportant minor activities in- stead of the combined German Italian push which had been prom ised to annihilate Great Britain be- fore the first anniversary of the wars beginning. There are reports, too, from Berlin of perplexity among the German people at the apparent condition of talemate into which the war is drifting. The totalitarian leaders thus gradually are being forced to face a questioning attitude anon gtheir followes as the war approaches the commencement of the second year of operations.
 Hitler's Desperate Move
 This fact makes possible des- perate attempt by Hitler to invade the British Isles before next months rough weather increases the diffi- culties of ferrying an army across the channel and the North Sea. Al rules of military strategy are against the success of an invasion now thai the British people have had sufficient time to prepare for it. But, Hitler'' trust in his star has been absolute Rhineland against German militar, since his successful invasion of thu advice, when he first came to power
 It would appear from the repeated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05

Kansas City. Mo. August 5-(UP) Mrs. Grace Wynne, {, who played the organ in a New Orleans church for five years while police were looking for her for murder, appears in court today for a sanity hearing.
 The outcome will determine whether she will stand trial for staying her first husbands second wife or is recommitted to the insane hospital from which she escaped.
 Mrs. Wynne is charged with wait- ing at the home of John A. Thomp- son the night of Sept. l3. 1884. for he and his wife to return. When Mrs. Thompson appeared, Mrs. Wynne shot her three times with a small pistol. She died three days later.
 Mrs. Wynne told police that she had divorced her second husband "A. c. Wynne. and had returned to Kansas City In 1881. Thompson had been supporting her and had visited her slnicst daily. although he had refused to divorce hls wife and re-
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MAKING HER WAR CLAIMS
Her Air Forces Sent Down 10 British BOmbers on
 Libya Frontier

Rome, Aug. 5 - (U.P0 A high command conznunique asserted to- day that 10 British bomber and fighter planes had been shot down by Italian aircraft while attempting to bomb Italian troops marching along the Libya- Egypt frontier.
 The communique reported des- truction of a total of IA British planes in African operations.
 Tn North Africa an Italian form ation of bomber and chaser planes engaged in battle against large enemy formation which was at tempting to bomb Libyan troops marching along the frontier" the communique said.
 Tn a battle in which our aviation participated with great violence, 10 enemy planes-seven Gloucesters and three BlenheimS - were shot down.
 Ten enemy automobile units were hit and caught fire.
 Another British pursuit plane was shot down by one of our bomb- CTS which had effectively bombed the environs of Marsa Matruh."
 In East Africa, according to the communique, an attack by the Brit ish Mamaraput, on the Sudanese boundary near Lake Rudolf, was re- pulsed with the aid of the local population"
 Italian planes bombed the port of Berbera, British Somaliland, the communique said, and one British ship was hit.
 Four persons were hit and 30 wounded, including Il Africa troops
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GERMANY ISSUES
 BRIEF REPORTS
German Planes Last Night Sank British Merchants
 man in Channel

Berlin, Aug. 5.-CUP)-German airplanes last night sank British merchantmen at the entrance to St. Georges Channel, between Eng land and Ireland, and bombed oil depots at the Sheerness naval base and anti-aircraft defenses in the same general region, the high com- mand said today.
 German planes also made exten- sive reconnaissance flights over England, Scotland and neighboring seas. the high command saic, while British planes were bombing points in Western Germany, setting farm buildings on fire near Borken and killing one civilian but otherwise causing slight damage"
 The British merchant ship was bombed and sunk about 100 miles southwest of Pembroke, the com munique said. Other German bombers attacked anti-aircraft bat teries near North Killingholm and similar defense positions at the mouth of the Thames.
 Well informed German quarters added that the German air force had sunk an 8.000-ton enemy nier- chantman with repeated hits by 500-pound bombs.
 It was added that British planes yesterday raided . fiotilla Of Ger. man minesweepers in the English Channel without doing any damage
 CThe German wireless said that i Adolf Hitler had returned Co Bcrllr on Sunday and conferred witf Reich Marshal Hermann doering Field Marshal Walther Won Brauch' itsch and Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop.l
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lecture platform, to win the recog- milton which scientific societies and his contemporaries had denied him.
 But the public was apethetic. and he dropped out of the spotlight un- til 1923 when he was sentenced to l2 years in prison for selling worth less oil stock in Texas. Paroled in 1880, he began his fight all over again.
 Near Final Blow
 Last May 3, what appeared then to be the final blow fell. Dr. Cook whose career as explorer had stem med from an earlier career as phy- sician, had gone to the home of his friend and colleague, Ralph Shain- wald von Ahlefeldt, to treat Mrs. Ahlefeldt, who was i'll.
 He sat by her bedside night and day and was exhausted when, fin- ally, she died. He attended the funeral but on the day she was buried fell ill himself. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy from which he never recovered.
 But while he was i'll at Ahlefeldt,s home in Larchmont, N. Y. lying most of the time in a coma, the explorers friends were busy. They
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05
AGED MAN KILLS HIS OLD FRIEND
Clam Digger Knifed His Old Friend, Prosperous
 Keeper of Inn
(NEA Telephoto)

South Chatham, Mass, August 5 -UP)-An 82-year-old recluse was held on murder charge today in connection with the knife-slaying of his chum from boyhood, Edward N. Johnson, 76-year-old prosperous innkeeper.
 Lewis Rogers, former clamdigger and until recently an old-age assis- tance recipient, was to be arraigned in Provincetown district court this morning.
 The suspect constantly protested his innocence.
 Johnson's body was found yester- day by 8 son, Frederick in the kitchen of Rogers woodland cabin when the son went to find why his father had not returned after talk ing his friend home Saturday night. The victims empty wallet lay on 8 table nearby.
 Police said Rogers had more than $500 in his pockets when seized as he walked along country road. This money, Rogers insisted, was the proceeds from a recent real es- tate transaction and authorities said this apparently was true.
 His Story of Blood
 A bloodstained shirt and coat found in a woodshed near the cot
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Defense Of England Is Not Only Threat F laced by Nation
Mediterranean, Far East Becoming Serious; British Air Forces Still At
 tack; Germany, Italy Retaliate
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor)

Great Britain aimed new aerial offensive blows against Germany today the empire battled increas- ing military and economic pressure in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Far East Military operations on vastly bigger scale appeared in preparation British fighting planes described by the London air ministry carrying the war Unto the enemy's camp" by shooting down two Nazi Messerschmitt planes the Cerman-occupied continental side of the English Channel.
 Other British Dangers
 Warfare with Italy in the Mediterranean and in Africa well diplomatic conflict with Japan likewise was in- tensified Rome communque reported IA British planes shot down in Africa and British communque at Cairo said that Italian craft had been destroyed in two big air battles along the Lbyan frontier where Italian troops reported massing apparently for an offensive.
 Axis Powers Building
 Both the comment in Italian newspapers and the ln creased aerial activity in the Egyptian desert fronter-dicated that the Axis powers bud ing up the threat of big military campaign in the Medi- erranean simultaneously with the continued threat of climatic blow against the British Isles.
 Germany Does Not Let Up
 Germany continued the Nazi campaign of scattered but unceasng aerial attack British shipping and land objectives but suffered loss of three planes this morning on the southeast England coast and felt the power of persistent British counter attacks bases from which bitzkreg invasion of Britain might be launched.
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JAPAN PRESSING
 HARD ON BRITAIN
May Demand Release of All Arrested Japanese;
 Relations Strained
BY H. o. THOMPSON Jnited Press Staff Correspondent

(OHLCu 1ICSS 6tdh SUAACSPoAAAV
 Tokyo, Aug. 5-(UP)-Japan has determined to take drastic measures in event of further deterioration of Japanese British relations over the repeated, illegal arrests" of Jap anese subjects in the British em- pire, the well-informed Domei News Agency said today.
 The foreign office admitted that Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had discussed counter measures with foreign office bureau chiefs, but declined details and said that Mat suoka awaited additional informa- ton before taking formal action in & talk with Sir Robert Craig1e British Ambassador.
 Foreign and army and navy lead CTS had already conferred on pos sible retaliator measures, 1t was known, and Prince Fumimari Kon- eye, premier, had motored to Hay anna to consult Emperor Hirohito at the imperial summer villa.
 Doemi said official dispatches to Tokyo showed nine Japanese na- tionals in all had been arrested by the British, including four at Lon- don, three at Rangoon, one at Sing apore and one at Hong Kong. The Japanese arrested at Singapore was Domei's representative there, the news agency said, adding that Brit ish authorities searched his resi- dence and the Doemi office and seiz- ed his private correspondenceO
 Will Demand Release
 Chugai, leading commercial news paper organ of Japan, asserted thai the government would demand that Britain release all Japanese detain' ed. and guarantee against further
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05
COOK kCLAIMED DISCOVERY OF !. 'NORTH POLE'' Robert E. Peary at Once Disputed Claim Made
 By Dr. Cook PEARY CLAIM WAS
 LATER ON UPHELD Dr. Cook Has Several Court Fights in Attempt
 to Prove His Claim

New Rochelle, N. Y, Aug. 5.-(UP)-Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who spent half a life time trying to prove the dis puted claim that he discov- cred the North Pole, died i'll New Rochelle hospital today without having won his fight blyt with the assurance that it would be carried on. Three weeks ago Sir Hubert Will kinS the noted British diocoverer, announced at the home where Cook lay i'll that he would seek to raise funds with which to prove that the dying explorers 32- year old claim was just.
 For decades the 75-year-old son of a New York country doctor had been seeking, in court and on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05
FRENCH SUPREME
 COURT IN ACTION
Former Premier Daladier Charged With Declaring
 War Without Authority
By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent)


 vichy, France, Aug. S. UP) = Frances new supreme court, a trib- unal from which there can be no appeal, will hear this week that Former Premier Edouard Daladier declared war or Germany without authority.
 The supreme Court, named by the authoritarian government of Mar shal Henri Philippe Petain, goes into session at Riom on Thursday to fix the "war responsibility" of Daladier, former premiers. Paul Reynaud and Leon Blum, former allied comman- der-in-chief, Maurice Gamelin. and former minister of interior, Georges Mandel. Its duty is to find the why and wherefore of the war with Ger many and to establish who was re- sponsible for Frances ignominous defeat. It also is to determine to what extent the leaders of Great Britain influenced Frances leaders at the start of the war.
 Story Behind 1t All
 The story behind the French dee claration of war Is one that has never been told. It concerns Britain's rejection of ilth hour peace appealt by Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy Chronologically. the story begins or Aug. 3i, 1889.
 On that date. according to French 
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frontier in the Bir Fl Gobit sector. not far from the Mediterranean coast.
 Six Italian airplanes were shot down in two air battles over the western desert area of Egypt fac ing Italian Libya.
 (In Rome, a communlque re- ported that ten British planes had been shot down in a furious battle with Italian aircraft after the British attempted to attack a marching column of Italians on the Libyan border four other British planes making a total of 14-were reported shot down.
 (Intensified warfare on most African fronts, including the Sudan, was reported in Rome dispatches which quoted the Fascist press as saying that a big Italian drive was near against the rich British Kenya colony in East Africa. Italian forces previously had penetrated about 50 miles into Kenya.)
 Fifty Italian fighting planes were said to have attacked one British reconnaissance plane, escorted oy four fighting craft in the Bir Fl Gubi area. Three Italian planes were shot down, the communique said.
 Italian Air Activity
 Royal Air Force sources indicated that the increased Italian air activ- ity was designed to prevent British reconnaissance planes from discov-
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MISSING ARMY
 PLANE LANDED

Mitchell Field, N. Y, Aug. 5- (UP)-An army plane reported missing last night on e flight from Middletown, Pa. to Mitchell field landed without damage ct Beverly, Mass, when the pilot lost his course, army officers said today.
 The plane. a North American BT-l4. was piloted by Second Lieut.. Jack N. Adams of the cir reserve who left Mitchell field yesterday on cross-country training filRht. On the return hop from Middlctown he became lost and landed at Beverly, north Of Boston. Field ofiieials here said he would return today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO
 AUG. s, 1915
lBy Unlled Pressl

(By United PressD Austro- German army held War saw and lvangorod.
 Turks. ln control of Van. Armenia.
 Germans bombed and eMp- tured Llhau on couFland coast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05
Britain Meets Stiff Resistance From Italy
Italian Forces Concentrate in Great Numbers on De- sert Frontier-Great Air Battles Fought-British
 Cross Channel to Hit Germans
BY JAN HINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent

Cairo, Egypt, Aug 5-UP)-Italian forces in great strength were reported concentrating the desert iron tier today after British and Italian planes fought the pig gest aerial battle of the in Africa The Italian con cenraons which British sources believed were for an offensive were reported on the EgyptianLbyan
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. 5-(UP)-Gov-l ernment expenses and receipts Tor the current fiscal year through Aus End, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Xe48 $s90, ,556,715.77 $s6s,oslsIz4.ze
 Receipts
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

there 10 change hts mind and 90 take
ais course By land through the Cnican-
saw country Although he appeared
somewhat relieved. Mr.. Nicely kindly
determined 10 accompany hlTn and
watch over him Unfortunately. at
their encampment, after having passed
the Tennessee one days journey, they
lost two horses, which obliged Mr..
Neely to halt for their recovery, the
governor proceeding under the prom
fse to walt for him at the house OF
the first white inhabitant on his road.
HE stopped at the house Of Mr..
Grinder. who. not being home, his
wife alarmed at the symptoms OF de-
ranoement she discovered, gave him
IN the house and retired TO rest her
self IN an clubhouse. the governors and
Neelys servants lodging in another.
About 3 o'clock in the night he did
the deed which plunged his fr1endB
into affliction and deprived the cotin-
try of one Of her most valued citizens
whose valor and intelligence would
now have been employed in aveng1ng
the wrongs of his country and IN
emulating by bland the splendid deeds
which have honored her arms on the
ocean. It lost, too, to the nation the
benefit of receiving from his own hand
the narrative now offered OF his SUI
ferings and successes in endeaV0ring
to extend the boundaries OF science
and to present to their knowledge that
vast and fertile country which their
sons are destined to fill with arts, with
science. with freedom and happiness.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
Relics of Old West
VIII Be on Display
At Falls Fairgrounds

Numerous articles have been do
mated for a collection of early day
cattle country relics for the memorial
to Montana cowboys and cattlemen,
say officers of the Montana cowboys
association. The memorial will be In
the agricultural building at the North
Montana State fairgrounds at Great
Falls.
S. A. Willis is chairman Of the me-
mortal committee of the association.
Preparation of the exhibit, which will
be permanent, commenced few weeks
ago. Items already donated include the
following:
Donald Kerr of Dutton, pioneer
rancher, an old-time muzzle- loading
rifle brought to Montana on a Missouri
river steamboat
Byron Brown of Great Falls, former
Geyser rancher, an OK yoke, few OF
which remain in Montana.
william Yarnell OF Great Falls, pair
of brass spurs, brought to Montana by
his father.
Pat Reed of Harlem, a buffalo robe.
John Brinkman of Chester and Hay
coulee, an early day branding and
running iron of territorial days.
John Survant Of Malta. bear fur.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

The current decennial enumera-
ton of Montana's pOpulattOn-0r,
in brief language, the state census
lis the eighth "cOunt Of noses I'm
what is now the state of Montana.
The first was In 1870, when state
hood had not been achieved. When
the 1870 count was made, what
now Montana was included IN
Washington territory, and the only
population In the region consisted
of fur traders, trappers, perhaps
a few prOspectOrs In the streams
of the western part of the state,
and Indians.
There were no trails or regular roads
leading into the territory then, ana
travel to and from this section prln-
cipally was by Missouri river boats ana
via Fort Union, at the mouth OF the
Yellowstone. What is now Montana was
a far cry from civilization. Outside OF
the trappers and hunters who came
here and few more permanent set
tiers in the far western part, where
the devoted Jesuits had carried the
message of Christianity, none there
we're to enumerate. In the whole ter
ritory of Washington in 1850 there
were only II, 594 people.
The first signs of the coming civil
ization, which was to give the territory
sufficient people to call for an enumer-
alton at census taking time, was seen
when the territory of Idaho" was Gre
ated and the district now IN Montana
was included.
Discovery of gold in Idaho had
drawn the attention of prospectors and
brought an influx of pioneers that gave
the district until then the land OF the
Indian, sufficient white population to
warrant a place in the galaxy OF ter
ritories.
Idaho gold discoveries were followed
in 1862 by the first discovery Of gold
on Gold creek in what Is now Montana
by Granville Stuart and soon there
after by the discoveries at Bannack,
Alder gulch and in Last Chance gllch.
The rush to the gold fields brought a
great influx of people and IN a very
short time Bannack became town
OF 500 population, while estimates were
that at least 10000 people were In
what Is now Madison county.
Creation of the Territory
The move for territorial segregation
followed soon after the creation OF
Idaho and through the efforts Of the
people of the gold camps congress was
Induced to establish the territory OF
Montana. On the 26th Of May, 1864,
Abraham Lincoln, president of the
United States, signed the bill creating
the territory of Montana.
In a country so new and with such
a changing population as was charac-
teriStic of early day mining camps,
it is hard to tell just how many people
were in the territory. Governor
Meagher, in a message to the legiSla-
ture the following winter, estimated
the number at 10000. The reasonable
ness of the estimate is seen in the fact
that in the election of 1854 the total
vote cast for delegate to congress
was 1854
BY an act of the legislature of Idaho,
while this territory was still a part of
it, there were created the counties of
Missoula, Deer Lodge, Dawson, Beaver
head, Madison, Chouteau and Big
Horn. The location of Montana coun-
ties bearing these names gives an idea
of the section Of the state covered by
them, although, of course, they includ-
ed far greater areas.
The only counties with sufficient