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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-27
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From Under Car

Four-year-old Karen Pendland was
run over by an automobile on a street
at Helena and suffered only a bump
on the forehead and some dirt on
her nose
Police said the child ran out from
behind a parked automobile and d.
rectly in front of car driven bv W
E. Anderson. Anderson. it was said
had no chance to stop and the
bumper Of his car knocked Karen
down: The car passed over her with
out the wheels touching her,
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-27
Little Brown Gingerbread Man

The little wool stockings hung plump the nails
By the side of the chimney of rocks;
And the little wood dolles, with painted pigtails,
Looked prim in their calico frocks-
Twas the morn of Christmas, in time long ago,
After Sanity had called with his
And from each little stocking, with face all aglow
Peeped little Brown Gingerbread Man.
He was not much for shape, and his mouth, all agape,
Was made from large pied prune;
And his tight little eyes made of currants-ke flies
Shone the sunlight of June.
His wide little belly flat a hake;
His head was spread out like fan
For his baker baked love- than art, in the make
Of the Little Brown Gingerbread Man.
In each stocking sugar, like candy, pulled whte
With doughnuts all sprnked like snow;
And a weakened red apple for each little tike,
On the morn of time long ago.
1t cold-as the sifted in the floor
And, in tiny drifts, twisted and
But cold, ice snow, could bring chill the glow
On the face of the Gingerbread Man.
L'ENVOI
The joy bells of Sanity ring sweetly today,
AS he calls in his aeropane
But memory drifts back to the old wooden shack
And the Little Brown Gingerbread Man!
ED COONEY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
FUTILE ASKED TO
PRODUCE RECORDS
er City Treasurer
Has Not Turned Over
All to City

Alleged failure of Former City
Treasurer Edward L. Tuttle to turn
over group of city records to his
successor may lead to legal action
by the city to force his compliance
with demands which have been made
for the records since Jan. /. The
Board of Finance will be notified this
afternoon that report of the Ham
ilton Park Pavilion Sinking Fund
for 1899 is not available because Mr..
futile, who had served as city
treasurer for many years, failed to
turn over the records of this &C
count to the new city treasurer,
Serge Belanger.
Mr.. Belanger said today that eff
forts by himself, Budget Director
Thorvald E. Olsen and the park
department to secure the records
since the first of the year have all
resulted in failure. He added that
he is considering asking Mayor
Vincent A. Scully to instruct the
corporation counsel to take the
legal steps necessary to secure the
missing data.
Minor Discrepancy
A minor discrepancy IN the paw
lion sinking fund is claimed. Mr..
futile gave his successor a check
CONTINUED on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
LABOR UNIONS In
AN EVEN BREAK
Clio Has Won Election In
Bristol==A. F. of L. Takes
Over In Meriden

Bristol, Conn, April 10 CUP =
The American Federation of Labor
and the CLIO won separate elections
today as the negotiating agencies
of employees of two New Departure
division plants of General Motors
Co., here and at Meriden.
The Bristol plant chose the CLIO
as it's bargaining medium, while the
Meriden plant endorsed the A. F.
of L.
The elections, held under auspices
of the National Labor Relations
Board, showed the vote at Bristol
as:
CLIO 2.263; AFL $50; neither S02.
At Meriden the result was:
AFL 1000: CLIO 636; neither lit.
There were 3,343 eligible voters at
Bristol and 1888 at Meriden, all OF
whom did not cast ballots. ,'-
The elections were undertaken in
nearly 60 other General Motors
plants throughout the country ON
identical issues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
''Uncrowned Princess" OF
Austria Died Last Night

it was said over the cups in the
Vienna coffee houses had herself
introduced "Kathi" to the emperor.
Fabulous offers from publishers were
respected by Madame De Kiss, Ka-
this real name, as she lived her
later years in declining circum-
stances. Nothing would induce her
to tell the intimate story of the
days at the court and her COM
partnership with the Emperor. In
stead, she sold her jewelry and her
furniture, bit by bit.
When friends told her, in her lit
tie villa near Schoenbrunn Castle
that the Nazis had marched In and
that Austria was now part Of
Germany she asked with puzzled
sigh "Oh, dear, where are the good
old times?" Then she went back
to the jigsaw puzzles with which
she wiled away the idle hours OF
old age. The Nazis did not bother
her way of life and she was still
to be seen until recently, a tall,
white-haired very erect old lady,
strolling near her villa, stopping
occasionally to chat "Of the good old
times" !,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

Vienna, April 18-(UP)-"Kathr
Schratt, the once beautiful mistress
of Emperor Franz Joseph and I'm
crowned Empress of Austria" died
last night. She was 81 and her last
wears were spent in seclusion at a
little villa where old friends often
called and chatted Of the old Aus
tria. of the glamorous Hapsburg
court, of the opera, of the coffee
shops-the Austria which "Kathi'
typified but which had died long
before her own life ended.
Funeral services for Kathi will be
conducted Monday and in the REM
nants of the old Austria that sur
yiye there will be sadness. "Kathi
never welded power in the political
sense Of a Du Barry or Pompa-
dour. Instead, she was loved by the
kindly Austrians of the slow-spaced,
gentle days before the world war
when the tinsel and glitter OF the
Hapsbury court made Vienna the
. gayest spot in Europe.
To the Viennese "Kathi" was
known at the "Gnadige Faru." The
companion of the Emperor she was
also the friend Of the Empress who,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Italy Has Not Yet Decided
What Nation To Support
Germany Tightens Military Ties With
ItaIy-At Same Time Giving Blow
For Blow to Allies
BOTH GERMANY, BRITAIN
HAVE PREPARED TACTICS
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
UNITED Press Foreign News Editor)

Germany frightened military ties with an ncreas-
ingly belligerent Italy today and sought to return
bloW for blow against the allied counter offensive in
Norway. The intentions of Premier Bento Mussolnl
and his Fascist military machine became more CON-
plicated with announcement in Rome that Nazs and
Fascists were exchanging military missions Some
German officers already having arrived in Italy
British, French Near Demand
For several days the British and French have swung
between indirect demands that Italy act the part OF
neutral in fact as we'll theory and indirect efforts TO
maintain friendly relations with the Fascist state The a-
est word from London that Britain hoped for friendly
relations.
Present Status of Italy
The present status of Italy including recent reports
that Mussoin would order additional moblzatlon does
not necessarily that the Fascss will leap into the war
on Germanys side but it obviously is intended TO create
Allied concern as that possibility. Such move some
suggested would be intended to divert the
Allied attention and possibly Allied forces from the coun-
ter attack Nazis in Norway.
Italy Has Much Power
Italy tremendous airpower and considerable naval
power which could be thrown into the struggle In the
Mediterranean but in many other wascoa supplies raw
materials defense of her vulnerable position she Is not
in position to recklessly enter the conflict.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Rowley w. Phillips Is
Ready To Take Stand
Accused Local Broker May Begin Testimony In NC
Kesson Case Late Today - John H. McGloon
Still On Stand
(Special to The DemOcrat)

New York, April 10. - (By a
Democrat Staff Correspondent -
Rowley w. Phillips, prominent Wa
terbury broker, one of the four re-
defendants in an alleged
$21 900 900 conspiracy by the McKes-
son and Robbins Drug Company
was expected to take the stand late
today in federal court here.
Mr.. Phillips will follow John H
McGloon, former controller OF the
firm in the hey-day of F. Donald
Coster, who committed suicide when
his past life as Philip Musica
crashed down on him, to the stand.
Mr.. McGloon was still on the stand
today undergoing a gruelling cross
examination at the hands OF Assist
ant United States Attorney-General
Howard Corcoran, brother of the
famous Tommy the Cork" Corcoran,
one of President F. D. Roosevelt'S
intimate advisers.
The McKesson trial is now being
conducted in a small courtroom on
the ninth floor of the Federal build
ing in Foley Square with seating
room for witnesses, court attaches,
the press, and spectators at a premi-
UNI. Previously it was conducted IN
a larger room, but was forced to
move so that case involving a
great many witnesses might be held
there. .,-.
McGl0On Testifying
New York, April 18.--(UP)-John
H. McGloon, one of five men accused
of completely in an alleged $21 ,0O0,-
600 swindle of the McKesson and
Robbins Drug company, admitted
in federal court today that, as an
employee of a firm which audited
the McKesson books, he accepted
gifts of money from the late Philip
MuSica.
The government contends that eX-
convict Musica, as F. Donald Coster
president of the drug company, 81
phoned away McKesson profits by
means of dummy subsidiaries al
legedly set up with McGloon's aid
Coster committed suicide when his
depradations and identity were ex-
posed in December, 1888.
Under cross-examination by the
government, McGloon admitted thai
he accepted between $500 and $1,000
from Coster in 1926 and from $1,000
to 1900 in 1927 when he was work
ing for Price, Waterhouse g. Co., ar
auditing firm. The witness, who Ia
ter became vice president in charge
OF accounting and controller of Nc
Kesson And Robbins, admitted fur
ther that Price, Waterhouse had
Continued on Page p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

London, April 18-(UP)-EngVard
O. Rydningen, Norwegian survivor
of torpoed British ship, asserted
to interviewing newSpapermen to-
day that the giant liner Bremen hao
been sunk with $4,000 German
troops abord in Norwegian waters.
Rydningen's statement was not
confirmed. The loss of the Bremen,
in circumstances similar to those
related by Rydningen, had been re-
ported persistently last week. and
firmly denied by Berlin.
Rydningen said that a previously
prepared letter, found in pocket
of the Bremen captains uniform,
and saying that he had arrived
safely" had been forwarded to Ger
many by Norwegian authorities.
ct was assumed that Rydnlngen
meant that the captains body had
been found)
Rydningen was survivor OF the
London steamship Stancliffe, which
the Germans torpoed off northern
Scotland last Friday.
Rydningen declared that ne had
been shipwrecked five times. He
said he was finally taken aboard .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Kid Mccoy Found
Dead In His Hotel

Detroit, April Is. - (UP) -
Norman Selby, who achieved
fistic fame under the name Of
Kid Mccoy, was found dead to-
day in a downtown hotel. The
body was found in the fuller
Hotel by the manager. Cause
of death was not Immediately
known. Mccoy, one of the most
colQrful fighters of a past era,
was light heavyweight cham
piOn of the world in the '90s,
having hung up a record of 200
fights with but six losses.
He served a term in San
Quentin prison for the Staying
OF woman but was paroled in
1882 and since then had been
an employee of the Ford Motor
company. He had been married
nine times. Mccoy had left a
call at his hotel for 10 a. m.
The body was discovered when
the hotel manager investigated
his failure to answer the call.
Mccoy was a suicide by
poison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
JAPAN TOLD TO
KEEP HANDS OFF
President Backs Secretary
Hull In Stand About
East Indies
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN
limited Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, April 10 CUP -
President Roosevelt today joined
Secretary of State Cordell Hull IN
warning Japan and the rest OF the
world to keep hands off the Neither
lands East Indies.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his press con-
ference that he agreed fully with
Hull's expressed hope that the status
quo of the rich Pacific islands will
be maintained in the interest OF
peace.
He said that Hull's statement is
sued last night covers the SITUATION
most adequately.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Roosevelt pro-
ceeded to paraphrase the statement,
saving that the United States want
ed the status quo maintained in the
interest of peace in the already war
torn Pacific area.
Going to Warm Springs
The president disclosed that he
plans to leave tonight for another
Georgia vacation at Warm Springs
However, he said, his special train
will be held in readiness for a quick
dash back to Washington.
Developments abroad will deter
mine whether he will have to cut the
vacation short, he added.
He recalled that a year ago he
told an audience at Warm Springs
Ga, that he would be back IF We
don't have a war;" and that the
statement had been criticized widely
by persons who claimed to have bet
ter information than his own.
This year, he said, he is going t.
Warm Springs with no fear of sim
liar criticism.
He made it clear that during hi!
visit to Warm Springs he will main
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
LOCAL LAWYERS
STILL OWE FEES
$l,153.37 Due City Court
From Attorneys Up to
December 81, 1889

Despite strenuous efforts at COL
lection last year, local lawyers owed
fees of $1,153.37 to the city court
as of December 81, 1889, the Board
of Finance was to be informed this
afternoon. The names of So delin-
quent lawyers are listed in audit re-
port by Budget Director Thorvald E.
Olsen, which the board was to re-
ceive this afternoon.
The amounts owed by lawyers
Several owe substantial amounts in
range from SO cents to almost 5000,
fees and charges.
The report states that Clerk Al
bert Bronsky of the city court made
every effort to collect back accounts
after taking office July /, 1899, and
says that most of the bills were in
CURED during terms Of his predeces-
SorS.
Sharp Controversy
Alleged. delinquency in payment
of city court fees was the cause OF
a sharp controversy between law
yers and the city government during
the term of the late Controller Sher-
wood L. Rowland. The Bar Associa-
ton entered the dispute, claiming
(Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Bremen Reported Sunk With
$4,000 Nazi Troops Aboard

German submarine because could
speak little German"
1.-The Nazi commander told me You
are a Norwegian. You should go
back to Norway. We are protecting
YOU replied You sank two Of our
destroyers.' The commander inter-
rupted me to say The British sank
one of our troopships."
Rydningen was landed with Is
other survivors at a northeastern
Scottish port after eight crew men,
bers had dide of exposure. Seven OF
the eight were negroes.
The press association asserted that
the commander of the submarine
which sank the Stancliffe warned
that the Germans will "sing ali
shipping at sight and spare nobody
after the month Of May" At the
same time the commander Offered
the Stancliffe survivors bottle Of
rum and 500 cigarettes,
British naval circles offered nc
comment on the Bremen report.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
GERMANS CLAIM
NARvIK UNTAKEN
Admit Two Nazi Destroy
ers Were Sunk - No
Landing Made By British
BY GEORGE KIDD
United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

\
Berlin, April 18.-(UP)-The Ger
man high command insisted today
that "Narvik and vicinity are in
German hands, but admitted that
two German destroyers had been
sunk by the British in the north
Norwegian port.
British naval units have SO far
only unSuccessfully bombarded Mar
vik," official sources said in connec-
ton with the high commands
statement, which reviewed recent
German air attacks on British war
ships including cruisers of the Suf-
folk and London class and said that
bombing attacks on Stavanger and
Trondheim had been repulsed.
There were no landing attempts
by the British near Narvik on April
is. Narvik was on April 16 and still
is today completely in German
hands. This is true of the harbor
and of the city.
Norwegian troops which the Brit
ish alleged caught the Germans in
pincers movement were, in fact,
killed or dispersed or taken prisoner
(Continued ON Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
ASKS
$975,0OO,OOO
Sum Will Be Used For Re-
lief In l94l Fiscal Year
He Says
Ry JOHN r. BEAL

(Unitedl Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, April 10 CUP -
President Roosevelt asked congress
today to appropriate $975 100000 for
relief in the 1941 fiscal year with
the understanding that the entire
sum could be spent in the first eight
months of the year.
Mr.. Roosevelt's plan would permit
the entire fund, if necessary, to be
spent by WPA between July 1, 1910,
and March /, 1941. This would hold
the immediate appropriation within
the present budget limit, and would
delay until next year a decision
whether the budget has to be ex-
ceeded.
WPA this fiscal year is spending
81, 500 100000. The 1915, 100000, If
spent in eight months, would provide
about the same monthly amount for
WPA.
Expressing the hope that employ
ment conditions in the next fiscal
year will be at least as good as dur
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
$37O,261 Asked
By Federal Govt.
From Leary, Wife
Other Local People. Some Not Connected With Con-
spiracy Case, May Be Involved Blanket Lien
4 On Property of Mr.. and Mrs. Leary

Action against Waterburians among them several
who were not principals in the local conspiracy trial is
follow the federal governments step yesterday
filing claims totalng 1910, 261 SO against former Con
troer Daniel Leary and his wife, Sadie Leary agents
of the Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Depart
en been at work in this city for more than two
years. have filed voluminous reports at washington ana
more claims tax shortages expected soon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Italy Has Much Power

The fog of war and censorship
continued to cloud military devel-
opmentS on the new northern bat
tlefield but it was becoming OBJ
vious that the race for position IN
Scandinavia would be long and
desperate one instead of lightning
stab by either side.
British Tactics
British tactics appeared to be
three-fold:-
IA series of aerial and naval
blows designed to shatter German
bases and communication lines in
Norway. These have been only
partly successful but the air minis
try at London said more royal all
force raids last night had damaged
the Stavanger Airport, hit U-boat
off the coast and a German supply
ship, at a cost of three British
planes. These raids obviously will
be intensified henceforth.
Handing of Allied expeditionary
forces such as already are operat-
ing in the Narvik district and have
been reported in the Namsos Fjord,
north of Trondheim. This is going
to be slow work.
ga stiff but not unfriendly at
titude toward Italy to keep the
Fascist government from joining up
with the Germans as active mill
tary Allies and to reduce Italian re-
exports to the Reich. Official
sources said today that the British
attitude toward Italy, in the light
of speech by Minister of Economic
Warfare Ronald Cross warning Italy
to Act like a neutral" was that the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

The treasury department, which
late yesterday filed at the town
clerks office. a blanket lien on all
property and income of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leary, today filed in superior
court technical levy against Clerk
George S. Freeman. The purpose
is to protect the governments ms
terests in superior court, where a
100000 suit by the Citizens Good
Government association against
LeRry is pending.
Formal Demand Made
Thomas S. Smith, collector OF in
ternal revenue for Connecticut, told
The Democrat today that formal
demand has been made on Mr.. and
MIS-. Leary for payment of addi-
tioa1al income taxes for 1888, 1884
and 1885, along with penalties and
interest to April Is. The procedure
is now routine, according to Mr..
Smith. Presumably Mr.. and Mrs.
Leary will be given time to settle
the claim and, if they do not do SO,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
Reports Nazis
Are In Full Retreat
Fighting Desperately In Narvik Area-Pocket Battle
ship Deutschland Aground at Norway;
Nazis Draft All NOrWegians
BY PETER C. RHODES
United Press Staff Correspondent


Luleaa, Sweden, April 10. - Cup
- CUP - German troops are fight
ing a desperate retreating action In
the Narvik area in Arctic Norway,
it was reported today, against
merciless British-Norwegian drive.
The battle by a combined British
Norwegian force to wipe out all Ger
mans in the entire Narvik area from
the Rombakfjord on the North Sea
coast to the Swedish frontier began
late Yesterday, it was understood.
British landing forces were re-
ported in action both north and
south of Narvik as well as in the
town.
Fighting was reported in progress
along the Narvik-SWedish frontier
railroad as we'll as in the imme-
diate vicinity OF NarVik.
Amsterdam picked up radio
Stockholm report that the fighting
had extended all along the railroad
and that the British were advance
ing0
Norwegian troops Joined the Brit
An
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
British, Nazis Both
Claiming Victories
BRITAIN STATES
SUBMARINE HIT
Supply Ship Attacked,
Two Bombings of Nazi
Airbase at Stavanger
BY REUEL S. MOORE

(Unlted PreSS StaH contemporary
London April 18.-UP)-The air
ministry said today that R. A. F.
planes lag night scored hit on a
German submarine of the Nor
Wegian coast attacked a German
supply ship and twice bombed
Stavanger airport.
The ministry reported that three
planes failed to return from the
raids.
The air ministry reported great
activity by r. A. F. bombing planes.
The attack on the submarine was
a low level bombing assault and R.
A. F. airmen reported they observed
one hit on it.
Direct hits ON Stavanger airport
which has been bombed repeatedly
by the r. A. F. and yesterday by
fleet units were reported in the lat
est raids.
Bombs Seen to Explode
Bombs were seen to explode along
the runways of the airdome, r. A. F..
pilots advised, and also burst among
transport planes parked on the
southwest side of the airbase.
The first attack on the air base
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April IS UP)-Gov-
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year through April
10th, compared with n year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Year
81 sos, 1886, 9624O $7,25S,l29,771.5
Receipts
$4,594, 763,74S.S3 $4,5S6,442,S54Oo
Gross Deficit
$3,O1s, ,21s,57 $2,721,GS6,s17,5O
Net Deficit
$2,93s, 1887 $2,6S5, 611, 267.5O
Cash Balance
$2,s24,59 1882 $3,114, 500, 922.20
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
BELIEVED SUI eide

Darein, Conn.,, April 18-(UP)-
Police believed today Walter Hook,
80, committed suicide by setting off
two sticks of dynamite he held in
his hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
THE WORLD WAR
Is YEARS AGO,
APRIL Is, 1915
(By United Press

(By United PreSS)
Battle Of the Carpathians be-
tween Russian and Austrian
armies approached q crisis.
: First affair at Haff1 KOr,
Northwest frontier Of India.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

Red Cross Shoes add smartness to
spring outfits. Only $3.50 pair. ].
Solo Co, log Grand StEeet-Ady,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

Our new store will open next week
at IS East Main st. Watch for open
ing announcement. SchneiderH, Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18
The Weather

Rain, Warmer Tonight;
Friday Occasional Rain
Full Weather Report Page 3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-18

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