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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-06
THE WORLD WAR
rs YEARS AGO,
JUNE 6, 1915

French army gained ground
between Olsne and Aisne rivers
In action near ouennevieTes.
Russian forces IN Galicia slew
y gave way before German Of
fcnsive.
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BE sure and drop In for refresh
ing Lee Cream Soda Or Sundae
Schneider's. IS East Main St.-Adv
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Furnaces cleaned. reset, repaired
Call fEomcr Therrien. waterbury
Heating Co. TEL 4-el7S--Adv.
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Fair, Cooler Tonight,
Friday Partly Cloudy
vull weather Report On Pass .
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French RetaIiate

Reynaud said the French had re-
taliated by bombing Frankfort and
ether German cities. For every
French village or town attacked by
the Germans. ne said. a German
town or village will be bombed.
Reynaud said Adolf Hitler had
brought into play. in the current
offensive. every plane and tank
the Germans have and that he was
very satisfied with the French
answer.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-11
FRED CARLSON
 IS BADLY HURT
New Haven Railroad Em- plOye Falls From Trestle
 on South Main Street

Fred Carlson, 66,. of 233 Hillside avenue, an employe of the "New Haven" railroad fell from a trestle on South Main street, near City Corners, today and suffered pos sible fractured back and skull.
 Attaches at the Waterbury hos pital said railroad employees who were working on the trestle with Carlson suddenly noticed his ab- sence and discovered him lying 1e feet below. He was given emergency treatment by Dr. A. J. Finn at the scene, removed to the Southern New England Telephone Go. con- struction department at 1140 South Main street, where the hospital ambulance picked him up.
 His name has not been placed on the danger list at the hospital where he is being treated by Dr. Harold Morrill,, company physician. X-rays were taken.
 A fall at 8:15 o'clock today proved painful for Miss Nellie Maceinas, 20 of 10l Russell street, who suffered a broken right ankle when she slip- ped at Poplar place and Washing ton avenue.
 She was taken to the Waterbury hospital where her condition is de- scribed as fair.
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Insane Mother Killed Her Two Daughters, Suicides

had gone insane over a doctors warning she was going to die. The husband said she had been des. pondent since 1888 when she was patient at Springfield, Mass. In- tirmary for treatment of a nerv- ous ailment. Sunday morning. be. fore he left for church to attend Communion with members of the Holy Name Society. he said his wife appeared in good spirits. She asked him to sharpen the butcher knife to cut q slab Of bacon.
 When he came home he found Annas body. almost decapitated. in the dining room. That Of the younger girl was in the bathroom. A second floor neighb0F summoned help, She told pqoliee slle heard screams Of "savG me, save me" coming from the iiat below but De. lleyed thes girls were playing and gave t 10 further thought until she heard the fathers hyaterieaI cries. Preparations were made today tOr triple funeral services Wednesday from st, catheriD's 8, c, church al Broad Brook, eke f'aglevieiak, came heFe % years ago whan they wefe melrif6. The eiris were nlelr ossit children,
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WASH|NCTONIS
 VERY RET|CENT
Nothing to Say as to Whether United States
 Is Peace Maker

Washington, March 11-(UP)- Administration officials maintained Ia reticent attitude today toward per- sistent reports of behind-the-sceneS activities by this governments offic. ais in Europe in behalf of peace.
 State department officials belat- edly denied reports from Germany that American ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt in Moscow had had a hand in arranging the Soviet-Finn- ish peace negotiations. The denial was issued hours after the reports were published and at about the time other reports were received here indicating that negotiations might collapse.
 Officials failed, however, to com ment on or clarify the apparently cordial conferences Steinhardt held with Soviet officials recently, fol- lowing a period of several months of strained relations between Soviet Russia and the United States.
 Much Activity
 The presence of under secretary of state Sumner Welles in Europe on a fact finding" tour of the principal capitals for President Roosevelt: the recent dispatch of Myron Taylor to the Vatican as President Roose- velt's personal representative, with
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East Windsor, Conn. March H. (U.P) - A physicians warning she had but short time to live. im- pelled Mrs. Elizabeth Eaglevich. A, wife of a tobacco plantation work e t. kill he. two daughters and herself while her husband attend. ed Sunday Communion services, state police concluded today. One of the girls. Doris. 10. an honor pupil ct Broad Brook school. was chohed unconscious and drowned in Q bath tub. Anna. 25. was hacked 10 death with a razor and a butcher knife when she was aroused from sleep by her sisters screams. After committing the murder, Mrs. Eagle. Vieh vent into the cellar and slaAheA. her throat. Returning home from church, her husband. Adam. found her kneeling On the cellar steps. praying and stabhing herself with the butehar knife, He became hyEleFieai and called nelghbors.
 Mrs, Eaglevleh Wns taken 10 Rockville City hospital ard given . blood iTafefnklon in a Vaiu efideas v0s 10 Aage her He. Her throat was ao laoeFaiea she was unable t0 speak, Before fIe died klle eDEgfyed 70 Investigations bt kleEs shat ahe
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of his body had been pahited with iodine. apparently in the initiation ceremony, but there were no bruises on his body. It was not explained why he had been unable to lift his head when he turned onto his face on his pillow.
 The fraternity Spake had joined is not recognized. Conviviality and popularity were said to be require ments for membership.
 Dr. Frederck Middlebush, presi- dent Of. the university. returns today and 1t was expected that he would appoint Q faculty committee to in- veStigate the initiation and report to him.
 Dpake returned early yesterday to the house of the Kappa sigma fra- ternlty. ol which he was also . member aid where he lived. and went lo bed. Eight hours later. two pledges on "wake iir" duty found him dead. his face ieAsed into hlA pillows. The body stili waa warm.
 Dewildered by his death. tlie
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BRITAIN, ITALY
 SETTLE DISPUTE
Fourteen Italian Ships With German Coal on'
 Board Released

London, March 1l-(UP)-Set- clement of the Anglo-Italian dispute over Italian imports of German coal makes resumption of commercial negotiations between the two coun- tries possible, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said in the House of Commons today.
 He told questioner that whether Britain in the future would supply Italy with more coal than in the past mo doubt will be the subject for luther discussion"
 Chamberlain said also that set- clement of the coal dispute, 1t was to be hoped, would open the way flor resumption of negotiations be- tween the two countries for fur therance of trade to our mutual ad- vantage"
 Italian ships carrying German coal after the British announcement that they would be seized by con- traband control authorities because of a misunderstanding on the part of
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SERUM MAY HAVE
 SAVED HER LIFE

Corning, N. Y, March ll-(UP)- A newly-developed serum, rushed here from Boston by plane and State Police patrols, aided 1S-year old Betty Jeanne Grover today to fight a rare infection threatening her life.
 The child was in critical condition from a staphylococcus infection at Corning Hospital. Her physician, Dr. Stephen E. Pierri, said the serum, known as Sulfa-methy -thy-thiazol, had given Betty Jeanne strength to combat the illness.
 The serum, dispatched yesterday afternoon from a Boston medical laboratory, was flown to Rochester, and then delivered to Corning by relays of State Police. The plane was to have landed at Syracuse, but could not because of snow and ice on the landing field.
 The drug was delivered shortly before midnight to Dr. Pierri.
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LONDON, DUBLIN
 EXPECT7 TROUBLE
Whispers of Big Events on St. Patrick's Day or
 Easter Sunday

London, March Il. (UP)-Whis- pers of "big events" on St. Patricks day or Easter Sunday spread through Ireland and down to Lon- don today.
 Throughout Treland-free and British ruled-the people were re- beating on old saying: All Ireland will be free when the Palm and the Shamrock are worn together" The palm and the Shamrock will be worn together next Sunday, when st. Patrick's day and Palm Sunday coincide for the first time since 1799.
 A week later falls the anniversary of the unsuccessful Eastern rebellion of 1916 when Irish Republican lead- CTS, including Ramon De Valera, now premier of the Irish Republic, tried to establish the republic while Britain's attention was diverted by the World War.
 Today, the outlawed Irish Repub- lican army again is urging Irishmen of Fire and Ulster, to act while Bri- tain is engaged in another war, to overthrow British rule in Ulster.
 Bombings and terroriStic acts by the IRA have increased since two IRA terrorists, Peter Barnes and
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SIX CONN. DEATHS
 FROM VIOLENCE
Three of Them Were DOu= ble Murder Suicide at
 East Windsor
lBy United Press)

Connecticut's weekend violence toll included a double murder and suicide, two automobile deaths and a fatal scalding.
 There was triple tragedy at East Windsor where Mrs. Elizabeth Eaglevitch killed her daughters Doris. 10. and Anna. 23-and her. self when driven temporarily insane by worry over her health.
 Mrs. Mary Fritz. GO. MerIden, died from Q broken neck suffered in a fall from an automobile.
 Daniel Haugh. 90. Sandy Hook. one of eight persons injured in q two-car collision at Newtown. died at Dagibury hospital where he was employed as a kitchet worker.
 Three blood tFansfusioliS failed to save the fife Of b-yera.0ld Carrie Elizabeth Hosford. who vas scaided when she knocked pan Of water from . stove at her home at Hart ford. Her brother, Ralph. {. was burned critically.
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SOviets Had Moderated Their Original Demands
 Made on Finland INDEPENDENCE ONE
 OF THINGS AT STAKE Helsinki Denies Finland Has Signed Peace;
 Films Still Fight
BY PETER c. RHODES United Press Staff COrrespOndentl

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Stockholm, March II - (UP) - Scandinavia heard today that an agreement had been reached for ending the war in Finland.
 Newspapers reported that modified terms for peace had been agreed upon by representatives of Finland and Soviet Russia meeting at the United States embassy at Moscow; that Finnish Premier Risto Ryti was flying home to win par- liamentary approval of the agree ment and that Scandinavian states would join in guarantee of Fin lands future independence.
 None of the reports was officially confirmed, and a regular war com. munique at Helsinki today said an- other 1000 Russians were killed. But the Copenhagen newspapers Ekstrabladet and Berlingske Aften- avis said the terms for peace in- cluded:
 Rumored Peace Terms
 1. A moderation of the Soviet demands for Finnish territory on the Karelian IsthmuS, north of Leningrad, which would place the new border approximately on the present fighting line from Taipalt to the Gulf of Finland, leaving Viipuri in Finland.
 2. An alternative Soviet demand for leasing of the Finnish Island oI Uto, at the mouth of the Gulf ot Finland, for 25 to 30 years, instead of cession or leasing of the tmpor- tant Finnish naval base of Hango.
 3. Moderationm k
 3. A moderation of Soviet de- mands in the far north which would permit Finland to retain an Arctic coastal frontier adjacent to Norway and to keep the port of Petsamo, in the heart of rich nickel mines.
 4. A possible revision of territory on the eastern frontier of Finland which would slice off the bulge north of Lake Ladoga but would levae the City of Sortavala in Fin nish hands. This might also involve Russian territorial concessions to Finland further north on the from tier.
 5. Abandonment by Russia of the peoples government" of Finland set up at the start of the war at Terijoki under presidency of Otto Kuusinen and with protection of the Red army.
 6. Some guarantee of Finland'S future independence and national integrity to avoid fate similar to that which befell CZechoslovakia after cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Whether Germany and Italy might participate in such a along with the Scandi- navian countries and Russia was un- certain.
 Sweden Considering
 The Swedish parliamentary for eign affairs committee was reported meeting to consider the situation.
 The Finnish legation here, denied as "groundleSS" 8 report, purported-
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Columbia, Mo, March ll-(UP)-- University of Missouri authorities were expected to investigate today the death of Hubert L. Spake, Jr.. 2i, who smothered to death in bed after being initiated into a frater. nity.
 As far as spake's parents and the law was concerned. the case was closed. There will be no inquest.
 T have no vlndictivenesS in my heart over the death Of my son. He's gone. cannot And 1t in my heart to blame or condemn them for it," his father. assistant postofiice cashier In Kansas City. said
 Coroner ". R. ToaisoD said hla inquiry was closed. Dr. M D. Neal said after ari autopsy that there was no indication Of foul play. that spake had turned over on his face Ehiie hs slept and suiIocated. Parts
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Roosevelt Must Stop
 Draft Movement T oday
Or Else He Must Be Prepared By Tomorrow to Begin Gathering Convention Delegates tlamp=
 @,aa shire Starts Tomorrow ssss.4, ,,s. .e..
BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent,
 Washington, March ll.--(UP)-- President Roosevelt must call off the third term draft movement today or be prepared tomorrow to begin accumulating convention delegates pledged or favorable to his renomin- ation.
 Lacking some word of disavowal from the White House, 1t appears now that the draft Roosevelt move ment will have a substantial bloc of delegates, well over 200, when the Democratic National. Convention meets July Is in Chicago. The Roosevelt drafters are active now m nine of IS presidential preference primary states for stake of 2So delegate votes, which is 263 short of the bare majority necessary to noln- mate.
 First Roosevelt delegates are scheduled to be elected tomorrow Ill New Hampshire's preferential prim- ary which may or may not be bind- ing according to the nature of the pledge appearing on the primary ballot. New Hampshire leads off the primary list in an election in which MT. Roosevelt is assured of at least some of the states l2 convention votes because neither vice president John N. Garner nor postmaster General James A. Farley are repre- sented by full slates.
 There . is but slight expectation here that MT. Roosevelt will recog- nize the impending New Hampshire primary with statement of his 1S4C intentions. The fact that he has re- mained silent so long and must state his position today to prevent accum- ulation of delegates has convinced some observers that MT. Roosevelt intends to withhold the big news until the Democratic Convention meets
 No Real COP Fight
 There is no real Republican con- test in the New Hampshire primary although one delegate is running as pledged to District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, despite the latter's refusal to seek New Hampshire support. Other Republican delegates are un- pledged.
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College Youth Smothers To Death After
 Being Initiated Into One Fraternity

Kappa Sigma boys said they had known he was to be initiated into the other fraternity. Some students described the faternity of a drink ing political" organization.
 Spake's father said We had a frank understanding at his frater- nity. I told those boys that had no bitterness toward anybody and made that clear to them. The im- precision of my boys death was more than anything I could say. They are coming over Wednesday to Hubert's funeral"
 "He wasn't any sissy and he wasn't any angel; just a good boy" his mother said. i've got to % down to see him today and I dread that"
 She had known he planned to join the fraternity. He had written her about 1t and seemed "qiute thrilled. !" Because q friends son also belonged to it. she thought it was ail right.
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RELIGION, STATE
 WORK TOGETHER

Detroit, March 11.-(UP)-Christ advocated a religion which protects the state," the Rev. Charles E.. Coughlin said in a Sunday sermon devoted to an account of events in the Savior's life between Palm Sum- day and Good Friday.
 Father Coughlin said present civ- ilization had tits Sanhedrin of legis- lators, its Pharises of social leaders, its Herodian communists and Nazi sadduccees" and added:
 Christ. stood (for) reli- zion which by its principles protects the state; a religion which by its principles finds entrance into the af- fairs of state; a religion which re- fuses to be used as tool of govern ment."
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at Moscow-reportedly at the United States embassy - and press reports reaching Scandinavian capitals as- serted that a successful conclu- sion had been achieved.
 A hint that settlement of the war in Finland might be near also was believed to have been given in the British House of Commons by Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain, who said that Finland had not made a direct appeal to the allied powers for aid although Britain ana France were ready to help with all their resources.
 Although Chamberlain's state ment would be of great importance if the Moscow negotiations collapse, it was believed that he was fighting a "rear guard" action ill an attempt to offset the adverse effe on the allies at present of conclusion of the Finnish Russian conflict.
 There was no official word of definite progress in the negotiations, however, and the strictest Moscow and Helsinki censorship in many years blacked out direct news of the developments in the Soviet capital. Communication with Moscow on the subject of the negotiations was vir- tually impossible and over the week end no correspondent was permitted to confirm the Helsinki announce ment that the Finnish premier and his aides were there.
 The negotiations, however, were tensely awaited in every capital of Europe, overshadowing the confer
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Nazi Envoy Won Ribbentrop Talks ToPope Plus For OverHour Today
Conversation Between the Two Was Not Disclosed
 to Public
--NEA Telephoto
BY ELEANOR PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

UMlteu FreSS Statt COFreSpOn0ent
 Rome, March 11-(UP)-Joachim = Won Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister talked with Pope Plus for 65 minutes today. ..s.,. 5. , 55'rhe visit had been regarded as the high peint'of Ribbontrop's stay in Rome, and additional importance was attached to 1t because his aud- fence was of most unusual length.
 It had been emphasized that the visit was arranged at the request of Diego Won Bergen, German ambas- sador to the Vatican.
 Emerging from the Pope's apart ments, Ribbontrop went direct to the Vatican Secretariat of State to visit Cardinal Maglione, Secretary ot State.
 Before his audience with the Pope, Ribbontrop had had a 45 minute audience with King Victor Emanuel. Military honorS were accorded him in the palace courtyard.
 Ribbontrop presented members of his staff to the King and then tal- kcd with him alone.
 Will See MusSOlini
 It was arranged for Ribbontrop to see Count Galeazzo Ciano. For eign Minister at 4:30 p. m. Q0:30 a. m., EST) and then accompany Ciano to sec Premier Benito Mus solini at 5 D. m. ell a. m. EST)
 Four Vatican automobiles were sent to take Ribbontrop and mem- bers of his staff to the Papal aud- fence from the Villa Madama, where he is staying. A secret Chamberlain of Cape and Sword accompanied the Nazi delegation to the cars, and an automobile load of German secret police accompanied the cars.
 It. was noted that contrary to usual custom the Vatican cars did not fly the intertwined flags of the Vatican and of the visitors country
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MURDER VICTIM
 BURIED TODAY

Weston, Mass, March l1.-tUP)- Funeral services for Mrs. Richard c Burleson, slain wife of a U. S. Army Colonel at Columbia. s. C., were held at the First Parish Unitarian church today with her husband and three sons among the mourners.
 The Rev. Palfrey Perkins, Minister of Kings chapel. Boston. 0fficiated. Burial was in Linwood cemetery.
 Colonel Burleson accompanied his second wife's body here yesterday The former Mrs. Frank w. Knowl- ton of Weston was slain Friday at Columbia by her husbands divorced wife.
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according to the government, re- sorted to fradulent practices. The defendants are accused of aiding him.
 Musica To Be First
 One of the first witnesses was George Musica, alias George Diet rich, brother of Philip, who plead- ed guilty. He was expected to tell of an alleged mail fraud conspiracy in connection with the sale of stock in the company.
 I pleaded guilty, along with my two brothers" he told reporters,
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SUMNER WELLES
 SEES KING GEORGE
They Talked Together for Half an HOur-Kennedy
 Was Present
BY EVERETT R. HOLES

(Unlted Press Staff C0rreSpOndent) London, March 1l.-CUP)-Sum- ner Welles. President Roosevelt's en- voy to Europe, conferred with King George at Buckingham Palace to- day after meeting with foreign sec- retary Viscount Halifax.
 He arrived at Buckingham Palace by automobile and was met by Piers Legh. the Kings equerry in waiting They recalled their meeting :n Washington last year and Legh took the American envoy to a small aud- fence chamber on the first floor of the palace.
 Knocking on the Kings study door Legh said:
 MT. Sumner Welles, sir.'
 Invited To His Study
 The King invited Welles into his study, a small panelled room with
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WINDING CLOCK
 IS ALMOST FATAL

Newburyport, Mass. March H. (UP)-Winding 8 clock nearly cost Arthur Cobb, 25. his life.
 Pinned precariously by a 5OO- pound weight on his right leg, Cobb hung for an hour high within the 6O-foot steeple of the Central Con- gregatiOnal church before being rescued yesterday. The weight, part of the striking mechanism. slipped while Cobb was winding the clock
 Rescuers. called by fellow work CT, iaboriously removed rocks and other material from the weight box Cobb was treated at a hospital.
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RETIRED sER0T. DIES

Mes Haven, Com, March it- lUP) -TaneEei services wilD be held "Wednesday foF J0ian [. MeAy0y, 7t, retired Defective Sergeant. wbo sllc' euinbed Co q heart atiaek Sunday.
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Testimony Starts In McKesson Corp. Scandal Hearing
George Musica, Alias Dietrich, Probably Viii Be Firs Witness-He Tells His Story About Guilty
 Plea to Reporters

New York March 11-(UP)-Reviewing of the bewid- erng operations of the suicide swndler Philip M Musca began today with the start of testimony at the trial of five men accused of aiding the former convict in defraudng the stockholders of the huge drug firm of cKesson Rob bins, Inc.
 The defendants each of whom held office in the con- accused of mail fraud conspiracy and violation
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of the securities and exchange act. They are Horace B. Merwin, presi- dent of the Bridgeport (Conn) City Trust Co.,; Rowley w. Phillips, head of Waterbury, Conn.,. brokerage house; John M. McGloon, an ac- counting expert, and Leonard C.. and John o. Jenkins, Musica's brothers-in-law.
 Musica was the swindler who changed his name to F. Donald Coster, became president of the $86,000,000 drug company and then,