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Evening star., 1940-03-10

Hears
French Envoy
Guest of Academy
Women's Club

ANNAPOLIS. Md, March 9.-The
French Ambassador, Count de Saint
Quentin, spent Monday here and
was the guest of honor of the Naval
Academy Womens Club at Carvel
Hall. The Ambassador made a brief
address.
The hostesses were Mrs. Brainard
M. Dobson, Mrs. William N. Thomas,
Mrs. Gerald L. Schetky and Mrs.
George G. Connolly. Assisting were
Mrs. Robert B. Crichton, Mrs. Alex
ander B. Coke, Mrs. Lyman A.,
Trackrey, Mrs. James G. Marshall,
Mrs. William Sinton. Mrs. Nova B.
Kiergan, jr.; Mrs. Phillip H. Ross,
Mrs. John G. Blanche, Mrs. Frank
" Rigler, Mrs John H. kaufman,
Mrs. George E. Mold and Mrs. Will
liam H. Brockman, jr.
Miss Corneleuette Robertson
daughter of Mrs. John C. Robert
son. is visiting her brother n-law
and sister. 1t, and Mrs. Travis Lev
erette, in Pensacola, Fla.
Mrs. Hamilton Cunningham of
Virginia is the guest of her mother,
Mrs. E. P. Howard. at Ferry Farms,
her home on the Severn River.
Capt. and Mrs. Logan
Visit in Washington.
Capt. and Mrs James A. Logan
are spending the week end in Wash
ington. Last week end Capt. and
Mrs. Logan had with them in An
napolis Capt. Robert A. Theobaid,
now on duty in Washington. Capt.
Theobald formerly was head of the
postgraduate school at the Naval
Academy.
Capt. Max De Mott. who is in
command of the U. S. S. Helena,
now at the navy yard. Brooklyn,
N. Y, arrived today for a weeks
leave with his family. who are re-
siding on King George street.
Mrs. Donald Thomas. wife Of 1t,
Thomas. has arrived from California
and is the guest of her mother. Mrs.
Douglas Howard, in the Claude
Apartments.
Mr.. James Barron of Washington.
formerly of Norfolk, spent several
DAYS this week with his aunt, Mrs.
George w. Simpson. widow of
Comdr. Simpson. in her apartment
on College avenue. Mr.. Barron re-
Gently returned from several months
stay in San Francisco.
Capt. and Mrs. Anon Bronson en-
tertained at luncheon on Sunday at
their home at Wardour.
Mrs. Cuttings Returns
From Montreal for Visit.
Mrs. Sterrett Cuttings has joined
Mr.. Cuttings for a fortnight's stay
after spending the winter in Mon
treal. Canada, where their children
are in school, Mr.. and Mrs. Git
tings will go to Montreal for the
Easter holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Hall and the
Misses Hall of Blue Fields, w. Va,
are guests of Mr.. Halls aunts, the
Misses Stockett. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall
and their daughters came to An
napolis for the Hill-Lee wedding.
Mr.. Hall is an uncle of the bride.
Commodore and Mrs. Edward
Lloyd gave luncheon on Sunday
for Capt. and Mrs. w. Taylor Smith
and Comdr. and Mrs. Duncan C.
Walton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Van Ness
we're guests here this week. Mrs.
Van Ness spent the week end with
her sister, Mrs. Mason Porter
Cusachs, at Ogle Hall Wing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
|CITY AIDED BY
 | FEDERAL FUNDS
$3,772,526' Sent Here By Uncle Sam to Promote
 Various Projects

Waterbury received a total oi $3,772,526 in WPA funds during the five years ended June 30, it was an- nounced by the state headquarters of the Works Projects Administra- tion today. The state total for the five year period was $65 ,318, ,966, which was divided among 142 Con- necticut's 169 cities and towns.
 Bridgeport received the largest amount of federal funds for WPA, having 8 total of $8,347,234. New Haven had the second highest total, $7,966,5 ,547, followed by Hartford with $6,117,763 and New Britain with $3,930,5S2. Waterbury was in fifth place, followed by Meriden and Stamford.
 The federal expenditures here were for projects of many varying types. Among the major projects here were installation of sanitary sewers on scores of streets, install lation of many storm sewers, erec- tion of the municipal athletic field on Watertown avenue. school repairs. educational and cultural projects in the libraries and schools, park devel- opment, and enlargement and devel- opment of the East Mountain golf course.
 The national WPA headquarters at Washington announced today that Tremaglo Brothers, of this city, were unsuccessful bidders for the construction of a post office at Charleston, w. Va. The local firms bid was $43O,000. The contract is be- ing awarded to the V. G. Egan Re- fract Engineering Corp, of New York, whose bid was $374,547.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Water streets.
 Their talk was scheduled for from 2:15 o'clock to 2:45 o'clock. Each will urge support for Franklin D.. Roosevelt.
 Attorney Gerard Murphy, who was formerly connected with the att torney-general's office, will ac- company them. The group will talk from an auto near the place where the old watering trough used to be at the intersection of Water and Maple streets.
 Burgess Joseph Dinneny, chairman of the Democratic Town Committee, and Warden John J. Sheridan will welcome the visitors.
 It is possible MT. Dempsey will be here at the Democratic smoker in St. Georges hall, Linden Park, to- night, and Congressman Smith will definitely speak at the smoker this evening, it was stated today. Demp- sey will be invited to referee the boxing bouts at the smoker, and it is expected many vii turn out in the hope of seeing the famous fighter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
CITIZEN PILOTS
 IN AERIAL SHOW
Demonstration Planned for Sunday to Boost WiIl-
 kie's Campaign

Connecticut's greatest flight of citizen pilots will take place on Sunday when 50 pilots from airports all over the state will fly to Hart ford, to participate in public meet ing at Brainard Field, Hartford, as part of a nationwide demonstration, "Wings for America, in the inter- est of the election of Wendell L. Willkie, Republican nominee for President of the United States.
 At the meeting at Brainard field, scheduled for 1:30 o'clock, to which the public is invited, both to watch the arrival and departure of the planes, and to hear the addresses, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin and Major Al Williams, fastest flyer in the world, will be the principal speakers.
 Local meetings will be held at several of the local airportS, to greet the returning pilots.
 Connecticut, known throughout the aircraft industry as "the Avia- ton State, is planning the great est demonstration in proportion to its population, of any of the states, MT. Williams said, and at each Of the airportS, large crowds will gather to speed the departure of the planes at noon, and to welcome them home about 3 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
Smiths Educational
 Measure Again Lauded

of production and taught them to the producers"
 Congressman Smith sponsored the educational orders bill which was enacted into law in 1888. Un- der it's provisions, contracts have been issued from that time by the government to manufacturers to acquaint them with methods of producing essential wartime prod uctS. The bill was designed to keep factories fooled up for the production of arms during 8 pe- riod when there was no market for such products.
 Military experts have comment ed that six to nine months were saved in the present production of some military equiment because the educational orders act has been in effect since 1888.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Former Assistant Secretary of War Louis A. Johnson in a radio broadcast last night cited Con- gressman J. Joseph Smith of Wa terbury's educational orders Iegis- lation as one of the principal req sons why in our current defense program, i've can do, in two years. more than Germany did in Seven."
 Replying to radio broadcast by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on Monday, Col. Johnson said, we are able on sea, in the air and on land to assure the completion of the program should defense be needed,
 We can do this because it was planned for and developed. The plants for continent were selected months ago. By educational Or- ders we have learned the methods
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
HOLLORAN APPEAL
 WITHDREW TODAY
Hearing Against Liquor Control Commission Set
 tied Without Costs

The appeal on the hearing of John J. Holloran against the Liquor Control Commission was withdrawn from the docket of superior court this morning without costs to either party. The original hearing had been assigned by Judge Frederick M. Peasley for Wednesday, October 2.
 Judge Alfred c. Baldwin has awarded Edward s. Andrews of Prospect damages of $2,410 against State Highway Commissioner Will liam J. Cox and in the memorandum of decision the magistrate suggested that the general assembly consider a change in the existing laws rela- tive to assessment of damages for land taken for highway purposes. MT Andrews had appealed from a $955 allowance made by the state.
 The state charged that MT. An- drews land was to be used solely for landscaping, side grades, clearance and the like and not for travel. If used for travel the Andrews home would have to be moved back.
 The claim of MT. Andrews that once the State takes the land it can use it for any purpose it desires and that therefore he is entitled to $2,- 40 was upheld.
 Judge Baldwin stated the legisla- ture should provide for the assess ment of damages resulting from the taking of land for landscaping and to hold in abeyance assessment of damages if the land taken is used for travel. Such action is not pos- sible now.
 Tomorrow morning at a short calendar session Judge Baldwin will be asked to extend the receivership of the Charles A. Templeton, Inc, Permission will also be asked for the payment of another dividend. Charles A. Templeton. former governor, Is the firms receiver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

eration here November 16. Carl Froelich will preside.
 Expected to attend will be: Henry Thomas of Ansonia, state president; George Trowbridge, West Haven, New England president; Fred R, Book, president of the Waterville Bible class; James Littlejohn, presi- dent of the Sunday Noon club; Fred w. Rowe. president of the First Baptist church class; Clarence Fol-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
BIBLE COMMITTEE
 TO MEET TONIGHT

4 committee meeting will be held by Bible class delegates from Wa- teFbury end surrounding towns to- night at tho Central Y at T:90 o'clock to make plans for the 18th annual convention of the Connecticut Red-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Dallas, Tex-(UP)-Awakened by a aburglar," Detective R. w. Smith reached for his revolver and crept to his porch. Smith raised his weapon but didn't fire, for the 'bur- glar" turned out to be proving 'nossum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

well, convention registration chair man; Roy Ferris. president of Wood-
 run assembly, and Charles Rietdyke, chairman of the general committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Harris once served as an internal revenue collector under President Garfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
DEMPSEY, SMITH
 BOROUGH GUESTS
Former Heavyweight BOx= ing Champ, Congressman
 Speak This Afternoon

Jack Dempsey, former heavy weight boxing champion, and Con- gressman J. Joseph Smith were scheduled to talk in Naugatuck this afternoon at the corner of Maple and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
COLLEGE LOSES OLD JANITOR

Normal, IIl.-CUP)-Carter Har- ris, Negro janitor at Illinois State Normal university, has retired from
 active service at the age of 88 after 4e years on the university staff,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

authoritatively attributed to the
Iron Guard. A 22-year-old ex-
tremist was said to have confessed
that he won" the commission to
shoot Goanga in a guard lot-draw-
ing.
Goanga was not fatally injured,
but suppressive measures took the
stern turn of mass killing, for the
attack was said to have been in
tended as the spark for rebellion.
The founder Of the Iron Guard,
Corneliu zelea Codreanu, and Is
colleagues. were in prison at the
time, serving sentences on charges
of treason growing out Of assassina-
tons of Premier Ion B. Duca, in
1888, and Mihail Stelescu, an Iron
Guardist, accused of betraying the
movement, in 1885,
Codreanu promptly was accused
of directing the rebellion" from his
prison cell.
On November 80 Codreanu and the
others were killed. The official story
at the time was that, while they
were being taken to Bucharest from
Rumnik-Sarat Prison for question:
ing in the Goanga shooting, they at
tempted to escape and all were fatal
ly shot by the guard detail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

Inc EuSlSIl Will Drive you crazy.
They are so slow. 1t takes them so
long to get around to doing any
thing"
But he said, They do get around
to it. I get worried about them. But
they get around to it,
Going down to broadcast to Amer
lea is an experience. The transmit
tiers. of course, are long way off,
but the control rooms in the studios
of the B. B. c. building are obviously
of military Importance. When the
Fascist coups first began 1t was al
ways the central broadcasting sta
ton plotters planned to take.
The B. B. c. headquarters are
better guarded than 10 Downing
Street. The building itself Is enor-
nous, modern, landmark and a
target for bombers. 1t has been hit
only once, with a medium sized
bomb that came sliding in window
six or seven stories up. 1t went
through one floor. slithered along
the next and lay still. About the
time they got a rope around 1t, it
went of. The damage was not great.
There is scaffolding on the outside
of the building where they are re-
pairing it.
B. B. C. Damage Is Fixed.
So far in London there is little
time or energy left to repair damage
to buildings that have been rem
dered uninhabitable. Even If only
all the windows are broken and
perhaps the roof cracked it is simply
abandoned. But the B. B. C. dam
age is being fixed.
The entry way is heavily sand
bagged and just inside a sentry
with a rifle and bayonet stands
outside steel bell sentry box. The
Office building, like the foyer, is
cut In two with heavy iron SCREEN
ing. And there are more guards at
the door through it.
Even Ed Murrow could not take
us through this gateway until we
had gone to a window and regis
tered our particulars. Then we went
through the screen across the foyer
and down three long flights Of
stairs. At the foot of each was a
gas door-like the waterproof COM
partment doors in ocean liners.
The broadcasting studio from
which the international news goes
out is small room not over 10
by 20, divided In the middle by a
curtain. In the half you come into
there is typewriter and sofa lit
tered with stuff. Beyond the cur
tain Is a little beige-covered table
on which a microphone stands,
brightly Lit by a hanging bell-shaded
light. On either side of the table
are kitchen chairs Beyond in the
corner Is another little table where
a very bored man sits playing with
a pencil. He's one of the censors.
Ed Murrow either brings the
script with him or sits down at the
typewriter and writes it. Then he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
Forgery Charge
Comes Before
'Country's CoN

John p. spanos wants to an
swer "the call of my country" and
join his Greek brethren in chas-
ing Italians but another "call" by
the District attorneys office here
has priority rights.
Spanos is in the Atlanta (Ga.)
penitentiary serving 21a-year SEN
tence on a charge of Transporting
Treasury Department notes, stolen
in interstate commerce.
He is eligible for parole next
month but it cannot be granted
to him because he is wanted here
for trial on another charge of forg-
cry. So Spanos dropped a note
to Assistant United States Attor-
ney Allen j. Krouse.
Il beseech you," he wrote, Ito re-
move the detainer, so the parole
board will consider my case for
deportation and thereby answer the
call of my country"
Mr.. Krouse said that SpanoS has
been convicted In Greece on SINH
lar charges and was sent back to
the United States under extradi-
ton. immigration officials say that
Spanos cannot be deported to
Greece at this time because of
troubled conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

Of q standard Airacobra. which had
just come OF the production line
Buffalo, n. Y, had been tried out
in an unusually short time by &C
celebrating normal test procedure.
For more than a week three pilots
alternately flew the single-engine,
stngle-seater plane from the Buffalo
Municipal Airport to a point In
Lake Ontario, OF Fort Niagara, and
fired at targets In the water. In all,
10000 rounds Of machine gun am
munition and 500 rounds of 37-miln-
meter cannon shells were. fired. The
tests involved about seven flights a
day.
THE Air Corps pilots who few
the plane reported great accuracy
of fire from long ranges was
achieved with the cannon which is
mounted in the nose firing through
the propeller hub" an Army report
said. 1.-THE machine guns, also
mounted in the nose, are synchro-
nized to IRE through the propeller
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Rununiu
Continued From First Page.)

has been understood to oppose vio-
lent methods, preferring to use his
personal influence to reconcile and
unite dissident elements in the ma
ton.
The brief dispatches said it was
not learned who issued the death
order, nor was it known publicly
whether any Of the condemned had
been given secret trials.
For weeks the Iron Guard COM
mission questioned former officials
regarding responsibility for anti
guard measures, but the COM
muniques indicated this was merely
a preliminary inquiry.
The firing squads went to work,
1t was reported, after the bones of
Codreanu and his neutenants were
exhumed preparatory to cere-
monial reinterment in the green
house, Bucharest Iron Guard head
quarters.
Gun Fighting Recently.
The green house itself was the
scene of gun fighting a few days ago
when right wing guardists attempted
q revolt under Codreanu's father
against the leadership of Horia
Sima. It was officially announced
that two men were wounded. Sub
Sequent unconf1rmed reports said
several of the right wing guards
were executed as traitors.
One report said all generals of
the Rumanian Army offered their
designations after learning of the
executions. The Rumanian press
up to noon today still carried no
report of the executions.
Contrasting motives were adj
vanced by close observers of Ru-
manian events for the, Guardists
act OF vengeance One theory was
that the toughest section of the
Guards, the party's semi official DO
lice. took things in their own hands.
determined to repay quickly what
they considered past wrongs with
out "bothering" the higher-ups
about it.
Another theory was that the ex-
ecutions were Endorsed by the An
tonescu-Sima administration as
possibly the easiest way to heal
the breach over inner Guardist
policies.
Guardists who had failed to get
state Jobs, who wanted to put ex-
King Carol himself on trial and
who were crowded out of the party
council, have been a source of deep
discomfort.
It was suggested that the blood
bath Of the Guards common enc
mics might tend to consolidate the
Guard again.
The Iron Guard. now In the saddle
In Rumania with German support,
made terrorism an instrument of
policy in its struggle for power.
Rumanias recent history has been
marked by q connected series of
assassinations and executions, out
growth Of the fierce struggle be-
tween the Iron Guard and the now
deposed regime Of King Carol.
Late In November, 1888, Flory
S. 0oanga, rector of Cluj Univer-
sity, was wounded In an attack
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
BY RALPH INGERSOLL.

After dinner at the Dorchester Ben Robertson and went to
find Ed Murrow who lives pleasant fiat not far from the broad
casting building talked He told about
the English bomber pilot who had sat where sitting
while waiting to broadcast about flight Berlin stick Of
bombs had down the street They'd whng
Made two three terrific explosions The bomber had said my
God What's that?" Ed told him they bombs Said the pilot
white sheet The bomber pilot said II had idea
they were like that"
Murrow told me he had anything like the the
English people took and praised their cheeulness and
pete confidence They could take
said he doubted there had been ANYTHING like it. He said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

gives it to the censor who reads 1t
and passes it back.
Broadcast Picture Is Simple.
The ritual of the international
broadcast is simple in extreme.
There is the broadcasting studios
usual clock with a large second
hand on the wall Murrow talks
first at 12;45 and again at 2:30 in
the morning. At 1885 he had fin-
ished his piece and by 12:40 the
censor had read 1t.
I sat down across the table from
him and he handed me q set Of ear
phones.
Presently the ear phones began
to tell me about something that was
being advertised In the United
States. I forgot what. Then 1t
was switched on to the carrier wave
and Ed began talking with Paul
White, who is in charge of special
programs in the Columbia office In
New York.
The conversation closed with q
brisk $50 long" The carrier wave
was switched of. The second hand
on the clock left 10 seconds more
and Ed Murrow began talking so
smoothly that I could not believe
he was reading from the copy that
lay on the table in front of him.
Sees Friends on Stretchers.
When he was through he told me
about the night the bomb came into
the B. B. c. building. 1t went of
not long before he was to go on the
air and just as he began talking
they carried two friends of his past
the studio on staretchers. They'd
taken them from the first-aid hos
pital down the hall in the base
ment.
We said good night to the censor
and went up past the home guard
with the loaded shotgun, through
the gas locks and over the feet of
sleeping men and women.
We stopped and peeked into the
great. B. B. c. concert hall. There
was the first big shelter I saw. The
seats were out of it and the whole
floor and the whole stage were car
peted solid with human figures. 1t
was almost dark in the hall and it
took a minute to grasp the scene
and understand it.
It's strange feeling to be stand
ing in the doorway and looking
into a concert hall in which people
are not listening to a concert, but
sleeping on the floor en- masse. My
first surprise was at how tight they
were packed. Later on I got used
to this. In all but the swankest
and daintiest shelters in London
people sleep packed tightly. Face
against face. Elbows overlapping.
(To Be Continued)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
Pupils to Hear Talk
On journalism

Students Of Montgomery Blair
High School, Silver Spring, Md,
will hear a talk tomorrow by Philip
H. Love, member Of the editorial
staff of The Star on the general
aspects Of journalism as career.
A talk on = similar topic was given
by Mr.. Love yesterday to a general
assembly of students Of Arlington
Hall, nearby college for girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
Edgewood Citizens Study
Extending Territory

Edgewood Citizens Association
will discuss the advisability Of ex-
tending the territory it embraces
at its bi-monthly meeting Deem
Der 8 at 8 pm. in the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Recreation Center.
A committee appointed by Presi-
dent A. Morton Thomas has been
making a study of the proposal for
two months.
The civic body recently voted to
affiliate with the Montgomery
County Civic Federation and elected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27
Army Pilots Praise
Cannon Tested on
Pursuit Plane
37-MiIIimeter Weapon
Is Found Accurate
At Long Ranges
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army reported today that
cannon carried by its Airacobra
pursuit plane had achieved great
accuracy Of fire from long ranges
in tests just concluded with salts
factory results"
Officials said that the 37-milli-
meter cannon and the machine guns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

and a relatively hign performance
was achieved with these"
The number of "Airacobras" or
dered for the Army has never been
announced officially, but 1t Is known
to run well into the hundreds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

Miss Altoona Charlton, Mr.. Thomas
and A. H. st. Denis as its dele
gates with Mrs. Elsie L, Parker,
George A. Smith and F. M. Thuney,
secretary, as the alternates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-27

A large merry-go-round Of
amusement park size has been in
stalled in the toy department Of
New York store as an inducement
TO Riddles.