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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-18

which now are using the base, be- trays undue nervousness and an al- most childish desire to have Some- thing to boast about"
 Was No Slkirmish
 But the raid on the tiny Orkney Island villages was no "skirmish" to the villagers. It was estimated that over 100 bombs were dropped by IA planes, many of the mincen- diary.
 Three cottages were completely destroyed in the village of Bridge of Waith, six miles from Scapa Flow, and two others were damaged. Resi- dents told of showers of shell frag- ments, the din of roaring motors and the flash of red hot steel splint- CTS.
 The civilian fatality was William Ishister, 40-year-old laborer at the Orkney civilian air station at Kirk wall.
 German Claims
 Berlin, March 18.-(UP)-Ger- mans claimed direct hits by the largest bombs" on the British H0eo3C CAuAoCAo 11OVAS 1tCPuAoC uA10 Renown and an unnamed cruiser ill Saturday nights raid on Scapa Flow. Newspapers warned that it was just a sample of what the Bri- tish could expect.
 Major Albert Doensch, commander of the bomber squadron said it con- sisted of about IA Heinkel Ill type bombers. all of which returned all though some slightly damaged"
 Other officers on the flight said that at least one British airport was set afire by bombs. They said the weather was "ideap and that only a few British pursuit ships attempt ed to intercept them. The major part of the defense was left to anti aircraft guns of ships and shore batteries, they said.
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LINER FINALLY
 STARTS ON TRIP

New York, March 18.-(UP)-The Norwegian : America liner Bergens- fjord sailed for Europe today after a two-day delay caused by contro- versy with U. s. Postoffice officials over her carrying United States Mails.
 The ship was scheduled to sail Saturday but clearance papers were refused because the liner refused to load mail aboard, thereby hoping to avoid the British contraband con- trol. Line officials refused to conn., ment on reports that the contro- versy had been adjusted. Other sources said that ship sailed on its regular sourse to Bergen and car- ried only a few pouches of diplo- matic mail.
 Tentative plans reached earlier, whereby the ship would proceed to the relative safety of Belfast for contraband examination, apparently were abandoned. The ship carried 268 passengers.
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FINLAND FACES
 TOUCH PROBLEM
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Continued from Page D Ladoga also gave Russia the lleav- fest burden of meeting the danger of epidemics since most of the dead were killed on territory now Russian.
 But the Films were taking no chances and they were determined to have ample medical supplies on hand should Typhus or plague ap- pear.
 During the war months, it was disclosed, the Finnish army spent much time burying the dead. Rus sian bodies were inferred in huge, common graves, and wherever pos- sible Finnish bodies were sent "back home."
 The task of caring for the living was tremendous.
 Hospitals were filled with Finnish wounded and new homes and work had to be found for tens of thous- ands of people.
 A0,OOO Films Wounded
 (In Copenhagen the newspaper Politiken reported from Helsinki that there were 40,000 wounded Fin nish soldiers in various hospitals throughout the country.) The Films who lost their homes as result of the peace treaty have no time to lose. The task of saving what can be saved from towns and villages which soon will be in the Soviet Union requires speed.
 The Russians were anxious to take possession of the land ceded to them at Moscow. When the 10 days re- spite agreed upon at Moscow dur ing the peace conference expires at midnight, March g, every piece of machinery, furniture an6 other pri- vate property which remains east of the new border will become Rus sian.
 The Finnish government has formed a special committee to assist the population in the evacuation. Requisitioned motor vehicles from all parts of the country have been sent to the evacuation area to speed up the transport of goods and men.
 Use of Cars, Trucks
 A new requisition order published yesterday asked all owners of cars and trucks in Helsinki to place them at the disposal of the govern ment which will provide gasoline and oil and pay for the use of the vehicles.
 The government also pushed a program of national prepardedness.
 Newspapers said that Finland, after war, faces now merely an armed peace.
 There were demands for a strong man" as leader and the newspaper uusi suomi proposed editorially that Marshall Carl Baron Emil von Mannerheip, Finnish commander in chief, now lead the country in peace as he did in war. It was too early to predict whether the proposal would materialize.
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 some were slightly damagedo
 It was suggested here that the raid might have been in retaliation for successful reconnaissance flights over the German naval base in Hell goland Eight Saturday in which British planes bombed German naval vessels. Several individual combats during that flight were re- ported but both sides emegred with out loss.
 Bombs On Scottish Coast Tn addition to the Scapa Flow raid Saturday evening, German bombers attempted to bomb naval and military objectives all around the Scottish coast. Three trawlers and a collier fought off attacks off Aberdeen and Heinkel bofnbers tried to reach the Firth of Forth Bridge but were beaten off by Bri- tish fighters.
 Naval circles, apparently in reply to criticism of Scapa Flows de- lenses, said 1t was significant that the German raiders were "content to kill and wound civilians in small villages five or six miles from the harbor rather than face the fire of ships batteries.
 'The fact that the German high command is so eager to magnify the air skirmish over Scapa Flow and their ridiculous claims of inflicting damage on units of the British fleet
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George Dietrich Able
 Defender of Brother
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which Phillips praised Coster for McKeson & Robbins financial gains. The letters purpoted to show that Phillips had complete confidence in Coster.
 Contents of Phillips Letter
 In one of the letters, Phillips told Coster, You are one of the great est men at the present time in America" Another was a request for CoSter's picture which Phillips said he wanted to hang in his of flee.
 we will concede," Irving R. Kaufman of government counsel said, as spectators Uttered, that there was a love affair between them"
 Dietrich said that ,an earlier re- ference to bankers bowling at Cast CT for bigger profits" did not refer to Phillips but to the real big boys down in Wall street"
 Referring to the imitation as as-- sets in the drug firm as result of Coster's manipulations," Dietrich said:
 About 75 per cent of those in McKesson & Robbins knew of 1t. l didn't tell my own wife of the in- flation and that's my big headache now"
 Anybody Should Know
 The fictitious accounts of McKes- son & Robbins under the regime of the late F. Donald Coster-Musica stood out like a sore thumb" and any person in contact with them would know they were false, Die trich testified.
 Referring to the financial specu- lations of his suicide brother who rose from petty bootlegging to head the venerable and powerful drug firm, Dietrich said he went on "liv- ing in hopes" that the pyramided fictitious profits he had piled up for the firm would never be uncovered. The three Musica brothers, he said, knew of those deals and he said he could not sec how anyone handling the transactions could have failed to detect them.
 "Coster was always living in hope that the stock market would come back and that the inflated as- sets would be cut down." he testi- fled. One market drop, he said, wiped out about $2,000,000 of those "aSSets."
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money on some pretext or other and turn 1t into his brogerage account?" Medalie asked the witness.
 "No, sir" Dietrich replied, then adding with a shout, T want to make 1t clear that Coster was worth $6,50O, 900 in those days and that he didn't need any money froetaoln didn't need any $l70,00o from George Vernard.
 After referring tn another occas- ion when "Coster got $144y00O for his brogerage account" Medalie asked:
 Isn't it true that the total loss to McKeSson & Robbins in this manner was $644,000?"
 "No, sir" Dietrich replied.
 Phillips Letters Identified
 Counsel for Phillips, croSs-e -examin- ing Dietrich, had the witness iden- tify several letters exchanged be- tween Phillips and Coster. Most were of a congratulatory nature, in
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$5 or $lO.
 Detectives were still rounding up alleged employees and customers of the syndicate today.
 Tn Los Angeles, Irving Cohen, S7, a motion picture bit player who ap- peared in the movie, Golden Boy" was arrested early. today on srispi- cion of first degree murder at the request of O'Dwyer. He went there three years ago from Brooklyn. ODwyer did not comment on his arrest.
 The syndicate operated from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, one of the worst slums in New York city notorious for its crime. Tn GUS. tody were Martin (BuggsO Gold stein and Seymour Magoon, leaders of the dominant Brownsville mob of hoodlums and racketeers, Abra- ham Reles, Harry (Happy) Malone, Harry Pittsburgh PhiD Strauss, al- legged to be leaders of the syndicate, and the unnamed head of the sym dicate.
 Two "Punks" SqueaI Also in custody were two "punks' i, Anthony (Duke) Maffetore, 9, and Abraham (Pretty) Levine, g, who, O'Dwyer said, had confessed fully because they had had reason to be- heve that they were about to go the way of their predecessors as the syndicate's trigger
 O'Dwyer did not name the others in custody.
 ODwyer said that Buchalter and his partner Jacob (Gurrah) Shapi- TO had engaged the syndicate to rub out all the witnesses District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey had found to their racket activities. At least eight of the victims were ac. tual or prospective witnesses. An- other was Isadore Penn a respected executive for music publisher, who was mistaken by the assassins for one of Buchalter's former associates.
 Cohen Arrested
 Hollywood, March 10--(Up)-Irv- ing Cohen. 37, motion picture bit player and stunt man. was arrested early today at the request of District Attorney William O,Dwyer of Kings county, Brooklyn, New York, and booked on suspicion of first degree 
 Deputy sherlffs arrested Cohen in his apartment shortly after Teceiv- Ing . telegram requesting urgent" action.
 They said 0,Dwyer did not dis. close details of the case for which Cohen is wanted.
 oDWyer's telegram said:
 ~Wanted for murder Slrst degree, Irving Cohen, alias Jack Cohen, alias Big danei. @ years old. Ave Icot il, 1zo pounds. former address
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NCOllUluueu lTOHl rage U
 few days have been considerably in favor of the New Deal organizers of draft Roosevelt strategy although 1t is not knowr here, even yet, wheth- CT MT. Roosevelt intends to run again or merely wants to accumu- late big bloc of delegates so that he may try to name bis successor.
 The first major preferential pri- mary will take place two weeks from tomorrow in Wisconsin where both Democratic and Republicans stakes are high. Without suggesting that there is a coalition or anything of the kind between Sen. Arthur H. VandenberC, R., Mich, and Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., it is fairly obvious nov that both hope the Wisconsin primary will begin to subnerge District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's 1940 hopes.
 Taft is staying out of Wisconsin so Vandenberg has a clear field against Dewey. Dewey strategists evidentaly are aware of the situa- tion because their man is going to the mid-wess again for some pre- primary campaigning.
 New Hampshire Ignored
 No great significance is attached here to last weeks New Hampshire primary endorsement of third term. Politicians were impressed by the comparatively slight Democratic vote compared to that cast in the that both Farley and Garner had partial representation among the Democratic candidates and that their men were defeated apparent ly does not mean much. The Gar ner organization did not desire to make New Hampshire contest and attempted to persuade their rooter to get out of the race.
 But the continued refusal of Democratic candidates other than Garner to come out in the open with their anti-third term views seems to be hurting the Texans prospects. Entry of an anti-third term Farley slate in Ohio would have improved that situation ma terially. Gamers reaction to the situation is to redouble his efforts in suche states as Wisconsin, Illi- nois, Oregon and California where there will be direct Democratic primary contests between draft Roosevelt and anti-third term forc- eS
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TUBERCULOSIS IS
 BEING DISCUSSED

New Haven, Conn, March 18 = (UP)-Control of tuberculosis was the theme of 6 two-week program of the National Tuberculosis Associa- ton and the Yale Department of Public Health, which opened here today.
 Speakers this week included Dr. Henry D. Chadwick, Boston. pres- ident of the National Association; Dr. Herbert R. Edwards. New York: Ruth Houlton. associate director of the National Organization For Pulp lic Health Nursing; Frederick D. Hopkins, executive secretary of the N. q. A., and Bernard 8. Coleman, secretary of the tuberculosis com. mittee. New York City Tuberculosis and Health Association.
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Brooklyn. Appeared in picture Golden Boy'."
 Cohen had portrayed policeman roles in pictures.
 Although he had used the name of Jack Gordon here, Cohen readily admitted his identity. deputy sher- ifs said. He told them thta he came here from Brooklyn in June, 1886, worked six months as a salesman under his own name and then be- came an extra. He exhibited a card showing that he had joined the Screen Actors Guild in January, 1887, and said he had not been east since.
 He denied there was basis for a murder charge against him in Brooklyn and said he would fight extradition.
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Josnson, a member of the Senate committee that heard Barlow last week, summed up the position of most members:
 "This man is either a crackpot or he has something. He is either in- sane or he has something that is so horrible it will prevent war, and I believe the committee should find out"
 Much of the controversy between Barlow and military officials re- wolves around safe methods of handling such a powerful explosive. Barlow claims that the Germans used a similar combination of liquid oxygen and carbon in the Spanish civil war, but that it Was impractic- al because they didn't know how to transport it safely. He claims that he has solved that problem and that bombs or mines made with his ex- plosive are perfectly safe."
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(Continued from Page D from gas inhalation or shock. Of these 20 remained in hospitals today.
 The mine is two miles from this town which is six miles from Bel -laire, O., and 10 miles from Wheel ing, w. Va.
 A vertical air shaft leads into the mine from the top of the hill and through this shaft the rescue work CTS attempted to reach the en- tombed until yesterday afternoon when gas drove them out. The res- cue work then shifted to one of the horizontal tunnels.
 Not a Chance
 John Owens, president of the United Mine Workers of Ohio, said the entombed men did not have "a ghost of a chance" James Berry, former state mine inspector, said: There's no hope for any living thing In the mire."
 Pathetic women and children grouped as near the mine entrances as police would permit them, forlorn, weeping. They were the families of the entombed.
 The rescue work is being directed by officials of the state mine de- partment and the workers were Ham Coal company employees. They were equipped with oxygen tanks, gas masks and every mine tool.
 Company officials believed that the coal diggers had struck an old gas well and that spark from pick had set off the explosion.
 Two of the dead were John Rich ards, mine superintendent and How ard Sanders, tipple foreman, who went into the mine soon after the explosion and were choked by death.
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WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE.

Wisheu& Calemel-And Yeu'll Jump Out ol
 Bed in the Morning Karin to Go liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile Is not flowing freely. your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get consti- pated. You feel sour. sunk and the world looks punk.
 It takes those good. old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these tyo pints of bile flowing freely to make you feel ''up and up." Amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. i0e and 25f. Stubborniy refuse anything else
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For smuggling pigs feet and pigs heads into Erie. James Savage was fined oi ,030 in Dundalk.
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Germany shipped over 45,000 pounds of raw and scrap amber to other countries last year.
 Northern Ireland has fewer un- emnloved than a wear aon
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BARLOW TALKS
 TO COMMITTEES

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SCAPA FLOW IN
 BIG NAZI RAID

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MURDER GROUP
 KILLS2O VICTIMS

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RUMORS OF THIRD
 TERM CONTINUE

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SLXTY-NINE MEN
 BELIEVED DEAD

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-08
Tacoma Students
On U Committee

Spring committees for Associ-
sted Women Students on the
University of Washington campus
were announced Thursday by lead
srs Of the group. Several Tacoma
goods are assisting in plans for
the organizations activities for
the quarter.
Miss Shirley Robbins, Tacoma
sophomore. holds the position OF
activity chairman. Miss X y
Kelly, also sophomore, Is
clothes commentator, and Miss
Marjorie Guenther. formerly of
Tacoma. is social chairman.
Other members of committees
chosen include Misses Phylh 8
Jackson and Virginia Haines,
clothes; Kay King and Virginia
Haines, concert patrons; Char
Iotte Ann Thompson, publicity;
Violet Crowder, office manager,
and Constance Halliday, speak
ers committee.
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Miss Mexican Awarded
Fellowship in East

Miss Gertrude Mexican Of ia
coma next year win pursue hes
studies II Clark university IN
Worcester. Mas. This week she
was awarded . fellowship In The
univsrpity's Graduate school Of
Geography for 1904.
/ Miss Mexican 10 the second
northwest student 10 receive such
a fellowship. She Ia now : teach.
llng fellow IN the University Of
Washington department Of gsog.
faphy while working for her maa.
tiers degree In geography and his
tory.
In 1889 Aiss Mexican was
graduated from the university
magma cum lauds. She won the
Neufsldsr prize which 10 awarded
each year 10 some graduate stu.
dent on the basis OF an excellent
scholastic record.
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American Lake Garden Club
To Meet Wednesday

Members Of the American Lake
South Garden club will meet We'd
nesday with Mrs. Codfrid Olson
for a 1 o'clock luncheon. Mrs.
n. NJ. Bona will be the assisting
hostess. Mrs. John X. Mas and
Mrs. Henry Drum will be study
leaders for the program on the
Planting and Growth Of a vege-
table Garden" Mrs. Mas, club
president, will preside.
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College Senior
Reveals TrOth
Cora Atkinson TO Be Bride
OF Mr.. HERMAN in June

The engagement of Miss
Cora Atkinson, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Atkinson
to Mr.. Walter Hertzman, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Barney
Hertzman. was revealed to
friends of the bride-elect al
luncheon given in the Pine
Tree tea room in Seattle Sat-
urday. The engagem en- t,
which is of interest to Miss
Atkinson's many friends in
Tacoma, and especially to
those at the College of Puget
Sound, where she is a senior,
was revealed when guests
opened the tiny envelopes con-
cealed in corsages at each
place.
Both Miss Atkinson and Mr..
Hertzman are from Seattle. and
after their Forthcoming wedding
In June they will make their
home in Seattle. The bride-to-be
is attending the College Of Puget
Sound, where she has been inter-
ested in many activities. being
secretary for her sorority, Kappa
Sigma Theta, a member OF the
college Y. w. c. A. and of La
Mesa Redonda. Her fiance at
tended Washington State college,
where he was affiliated with Delta
Epsilon fraternity.
Guests at the luncheon were the
Mesdames c. A. Atkinson. Barney
Hertzman. c. n. Bergesen. John
Mcnamara. and the Misses Nir-
ginia Weston. Noreen Savage.
Marilyn Savage, sigma Gustaf-
son. Lillian Maitson. Valerie Cru
yer, Mary Hertzmsn. Neral At
kinson. Dolores Goodman, Liy
Meyers, Phyllis Denton. Florence
Mclean. Dorothy Agor. Jane
Agor, Idabelle Arnold and Flor
ence Darrow.
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Miss Jeanne Comfort M: Rawlings We'd Holy Cross May 81
Spinsier Dinner
Given Friday
Mrs. Anderson Feies
Attendant; Party Saturday

For her bridal attendants,
Miss Lucille Anderson. dangh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
Anderson. who viii on Mon
day evening become the
bride of Mr.. Maurice Finni-
gan. entertained at the family
home on Friday evening. On
Saturday evening. after the
wedding rehearsal in Christ
Episcopal church, members of
the entire wedding party will
be entertained at a buffet
supper.
The wedding vows viii be ex-
changed at $50 Monday evening
with the Rev. Robert Fulton
Pfieffer officiating.
Bridal attendants were present
for the spinster dinner on Friday
and spent the evening Informally
in games. Decorations were car
ried out in pink and white, with
sweetpeas and lilies predominant
ing in the floral appointments,
Those present were Mrs. Burritt
Anderson. sister-in-iaw of the
hride-eleet. who is 10 be matron
Of honor: Mrs. Robert Gordon,
Miss Eleanor Brownfield, Miss
Joan Morley, Miss Marion Brush.
the bridesmaids. and Mrs. Ander-
son. mother of the bride-elect.
Joining the bridal attendants for
the after-rehearsal party Saiur-
day will be Mr.. Finnigan. the Rev.
and Mrs. Pneffer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Finnigan. parents of the bride
groom-to-be. Mr.. Dayton Finni-
gan, who will be his brothers
best man; Mr.. Burritt Anderson.
brother of the bride-elect; Mr..
Albert Finnigan. another brother
of the bridegroom-to-be: Mr.. War
rem Brownfield. Mr.. stewart
Nichols. the ushers; Mr.. Stanley
johnson of Puyallup, who win
sing, and Miss Josephine Bene-
detto.
Decorations will again carry
out the pink and white color
scheme.
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Mrs. Z. Plummer York, CO.
chairman, is in charge of the
hobby exhibits for lobbyists of all
ages which will be shown in con-
junction with the dinner.
y The feature of the evening will
be the presentation of a guest
speaker, DR.. Hjalmar Torson.
whose appropriate address will be
"co-operatives, The National Swed-
ish Hobby" Others who have
heard DR.. Torson agree he is a
brilliant humorist and completely
enthralls his audiences. He is a
professor of economics at Uppsala
University Of Sweden, known as
the oxford of Sweden" and is
now studying marketing problems
of the northwest at the University
Of Washington.
To complete the program, Miss
Sally Sicade will offer a clever
selection of acts including the art
Of magic, by Phil Garland. jr.;
accordion, Joe Spano; moving pic
lures, Charles Getzendaner. and
several singing and dancing num-
bers.
The committee working with
Mrs. Craven includes Mesdames
Phillip Farmer. r. L. Hollis, dec
orations, F. B. Friberg, Deliver
b. Jones, Ray Rittner and Miss
Sicade. Hostesses for the evening
taking care of the hospitality are
Aesdames c. J. Weller, Charles
Corbin, John Pasnick, Charles
skewis, w. F. Broom, William
Botcher, w. NJ. Smell. Alfred T.
Dockery, Charles T. Wende, Frank
Schatter, F. B. Friberg and Miss
!, Sicade.