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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

Goering painted an inspiring pic- ture of the adventures which await ed boys destined for the air force.
 Youths Hear of Future
 Some of you boys will enter the bombing service and with steely nerves break through strong de- fense, and drop your terrible load of bombs on the enemy" he said. "Others will swoop like eagles in swift pursuit planes against enemy machines-meet them, fight them, defeat them. Some wlu hold out in face of seemingly inSuperable ob- Stacles and perform reconnaissance objectiveS set by the command. Some will have the greatest good fortune, to be assigned to destroyer plane squadrons-thatm most terrible weap- on of the air against whose light ming smashes no enemy can stand"
 No particular political or military significance was attached to Goer- ing's speech. It was pointed out that even his strongest remarks had been made on previous occasions.
 It was not considered in diplo- matic quarters that his mention of German blow against the allies when the time came" was meant to convey any definite hint of Ger many's plans, but rather general threat and pep talk.
 Goering was speaking to German youth generally and particularly those in the air service, including anti-aircraft defense.
 Alluding to the possibility that the German armed forces might find themselves fighting on enemy soil, he said:
 Praises Aircraft
 "Our anti-aircraft defense is only in the interior for the present. The main duty of the air force is at the front. In Poland anti aircraft showed itself to be sometimes the last backbone of resistance"
 Goering recalled the period at the end of the World war when Ger many lay in deepest impotence" when "men who were brave in the first years of the war deserted in the last"
 The youth of that time was not real German youth" he said be cause it became evil and diseased"
 Goering told the boys of Ger many's rearmament under the Nazis and of the building of the air force "a monumental task which Goering had started and which he carried through under a mandate from Hit Ter starting with no planes at all and ending with perhap sthe most powerful air force in the world.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
ASSESSMENT FOR
 SEWERS TOO HIGH
S2.5O a Front Foot Is Ex= cessive, Board of Works

The assessment rate of $2.50 a front foot levied by the city of Wa terbury for sewers is excessively high, declared Delphi Maynard at assessment hearing before the board of works. Mr. Maynard objected to the levying of an assessment againt property he owns on Circuit avenue.
 "The WPA does all the work of installing sewers" said MT. May nard, "yet the city has made no re- duction in the price in charges. The city only has to supply the mate rials, and yet it charges the same rate as when it had to supply the work as we'll as the materials. In other cities and towns they don't have to pay $2,50 front foot, which is equal to $5 a street foot. Why hasn't any reduction been made? Why is the assessment still $2.50 8 front foot?"
 Referred to Engineer
 Mayor Vincent Scully presiding at the hearings, referred the question to Henry Whitlock, assistant city engineer, who said that the $2.50 rate is fixed by law. The city, he said, has to pay 25 per cent of the cost of every WPA project.
 The mayor recalled that the $2.50 assessment rate was argued at length 8 year ago, when Senator George T. Culhane's sewer assess ment moratorium bill was before the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
EARL OF ATHLONE GOES TO CANADA Brother of Queen Mary Is New Gov. General in
 Dominion

London, April 3-(UP)-The Earl of Athlone was appointed gover- nor general of Canada today.
 He succeeds the late Lord Tweeds- muir, who died in office.
 The appointment of the Earl of Athlone was approved by King George VI upon recommendation of the government.
 The Earl of Athlone, 66. is the youngest son of the late Duke of Teck and his duchess. He is the brother of Queen Mary and was born at Kensington palace.
 Better known as Prince Alexander of Teck, the new governor general is a renowned soldier. He has served as governor general and commander in chief of the Union of South Africa. ,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
LOCAL CENSUS GOING NICELY
Supervisor Byrnes Says He Is Getting Best of
 Cooperation

The federal census in the Water bury area is progressing smoothly, Supervisor w. Harry Byrnes said to- day after studying reports of the progress made in the first "A hours of the decennial count of popula- tion. The public is cooperating splendidly and enumerators have been having no difficulty in secur- ing the requested information, MT. Byrnes said.
 Many of the householders visited by enumerators have expressed great surprise at the brevity of the questioning. There have been no official reports of any complaints about the inquiries made, though presumably some of those visited have asked to exercise the privilege of answering questions about income by mail.
 Staff Over 100
 A staff of more than 100, includ- ing 99 house-to-house canvassers, is taking the Waterbury census. An additional 150 are securing the data in other cities and towns of the fifth congressional district.
 Every effort will be made to com- plete the Waterbury census work by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
Three English BOmbers Attack Nine German
 Craft Over Germany THREE NAZI PLANES
 WERE SHOT DOWN Nazis Claim Victory in At= tack on Scapa Flow, But
 British Deny It
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
 With British Air Force, in France, April 3. - (UP) - Three British fighting planes engaged nine German craft over the German lines and shot down three, it was dis closed today. The British planes, all of the hurricane type, returned without losses after shooting down three German Messerscnmitt 109 planes, the announcement said.
 The encounter increased the total of German destroyer planes brought down since Friday to four, and possibly five.
 The patrolling Hurricane craft intercepted the German planes when they were speeding westward, seek ing revenge for previous defeats by British craft, according to British pilots.
 A shrapnel splinter wounded one of the British pilots in the face but he carried on his attack until he had seen one of the twin-engined Ger man planes spinning to the earth Then he eluded another Messer- schmitt and returned to his base
 An Australian flying officer, pi- loting another British plane, dived into the fight and held to the tail of a German plane until his bullets exploded the petrol tank and the craft burst into flames He followed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
ROOSEVELT IS
 VOTERS CHOICE
Leads in Wisconsin, New York Primaries; Dewey
 Is C. 0. P. Choice
BY LYLE c. WILSON nited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)


 Washington, April 3. (UP) - Primary voters ill New York and Wisconsin today piled up support for a Roosevelt third term and indi- cated a Republican presidential preference for District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
 The primaries were in Wisconsin and New York. Returns were neither conclusive nor complete. But early trends favoring a third term and supporting DeWey's Republican can- didacy were being maintained.
 Anti-third term candidates for election to the Democratic National Convention apparently were defeated in four New York State congress sional districts. They were pledged to Vice-President John N. Garner. In the single district where the third term issue was wholly clear cut, third term candidates won by mar gin of 2-to-1.
 It appeared that Dewey would have a first ballot support of " of New York's 92 delegates to the Re- DllDllCdu NdGlOlldl NOlAfSAAVioAA although the states delegation will not be instructed. Frank E. Gan nett, publisher candidate for the Republican presidential nomlna- ton, obtained two or more upstate delegates.
 Tammany For Third Term
 Tammany favors third term and outside New York City the dele gate slates were friendly to Post master General James A. Farley But New York dispatches reported the states Democratic delegates probably would go along with third term movement if MT. Roosevelt ran again.
 Wisconsin's complicated primary poll jared the presidential asplra- tions of Senator Arthur H. Vanden- berg, Republican, Michigan, Wno was entered against Dewey. Dewey apparently won 23 of the states "A
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
Germany Called IronBlock'; British Planes Whip NaZis
Field Marshal Goering Tells Nazl Youths, German Public Again Will
 Be Greatest People on Earth
By RICHARD c. HOTTELET Limited Press Staff CorreSp0ndent)

Berlin, April 3-UP)- )-MarshaI Hermann Goering declared today that when Adolf Hitler gives the word Germany's armed forces will strike the blow" that will win the war in the west as decisivey as Nazis triumphed over Poland in the east.
 Stands Like "Iron Block"
 Germany's machine stands like closed iron block" facing Britain and France in the west with thelr (Germanys) back and Hanks ree from danger the MO- Nazi told German youth.
 Decisive Blow In West
 'Here Gin the west) the decisive blow must fall, Goerng said this decision the Fuehrer has mobzed all powers. blow-it my sacred conviction against the others, when the time to show that Germany is determined tn nut an end to the war"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
DIARY TELLS OF
 DEATH TRAGEDY
Bodies of Two Men, One Dead of Starvation,
 Other Suicide

zeballos, B. C., April 3.-UP)- A diary found between the shriv- eled bodies of two trappers told to- day how one had watched the other die of starvation. The one who had been strong enough to survive the longer had no desire for such a death. So he had killed himself.
 All but two pages of the diary were written by Lloyd Coombs. 27' who had been flown to lonely Van couver Island last August with James Ryckman, 56. They disap- peared into the wilderness to trap and that was the last seen of them. A searching party found their bodies yesterday after an airplane pilot had sighted them. It was Ryck- man, the older man, who starved; Coombs who committed suicide.
 The last entry in the diary was dated March IT, the day Ryckman died.
 If I do anything shouldn't, l hope that it will be forgiven" <" Coombs wrote. "I'd like to have my Bible. It's in the bottom of my pack
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
Communist Leader Of Gives l estinony
Patrick O'Dea Refuses to Answer Certain Questions Names Five Colleges Where Members of His
 League Are Now Enrolled as Students

Washington, April 8. (UP) = Patrick O'Dea of Boston, president Of the Massachusetts young Com munist League, refused today to tell the Dies Committee the name of the state party secretary, but said that "50 or 60 Communists" attend Har- yard University.
 His defiance of the committee, he said, was on the grounds that dis closure of Communist party mem bers would subject them to "a blacklist" by employers. He was the fourth Communist witness to defy the committee. Contempt citations have been filed or are pending against the other three.
 O'Dea testified that he knew the name of the state party secretary but he would not permit this person to be subjected to Economic persecution. ,
 The witness, who is Communist party candidate for secretary of state in Massachusetts, said he did not know whether the "50 or 60" Communists attending Harvard were secret members of the party. He estimated that there 300 to $50 young Communist League members in Massachusetts, but he could not name them, he said, because he keeps no records of the member ship or the dues payments which range from 10 to 25 cents month. = O'Dea, who is 25 years old, said that he keeps in touch with party affairs in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont as well as in his own state.
 Newspaper Information
 O'Dea told J. B. Matthews, the committees chief investigator. that his local organization had issued leaflets" but certainly nothing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

New York, April 3-(UP)-Seven- teen men go on trial today charged
 with conSpiring to overthrow the United States Government. They were arrested in January by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation who, on the orders of then Attorney General Frank Murphy, had begun an inquiry three months earlier into the activities of anti semitic and other groups. Fourteen of the prisoners were described by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G. men, as members of the Christian Front, an anti-Semitic group active in the east for two years. .
 How so small group hoped to carry out a revolution in a city whose police force alone numbers 18000 has not been stated. An arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives they had collected was conf1scated.
 The munitions included 12 Spring field rifles, $500 rounds of ammuni- tion, IS cans of explosives and an assortment of other arms. Six of the defendants are present or for mer members of the National Guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
SUNDAY SELLING
 CROCERS ESCAPE
Samuel Nejane Had Sen= tence Suspended; George
 Haddad Is Discharged

Attorney Morris Robin told City Court Judge John L. Gaffney to- day that his client Samuel Nejame, 48, of 226 Willow street, was so "dazed" from overWork that he didn't know he was violating the law by selling certain groceries and two cans of beer on Sunday, March IT.
 Nejame entered a plea of nolo contendere and received a suspen- ded sentence. George Haddad, 52, of 34. West Main street, also accused of violating the Sunday sales stat ute March IT, was discharged after he told the court that his clerk mistook the identity of a "custo- mer."
 Was OverwOrked
 Attorney Robin said & clerk hired by Nejame was sick with the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

Hollywood, April 3-(UP)-Dlck Brunnenkamp who handcufted him. self to Ann Sheridan and swallowed the key reported today that he was suffering from a slight stomach ache. He said he didn't know whether it was caused by the hard ware, or a midnight supper the "Oomph" girl bought him after locksmith severed their bonds. Brunnenkamp, 19-year-old junior at the University of California at Los Angeles, spotted the red headed Ann as she entered the preview of her first starring picture last night. slipped handcuffs around her wrist and his, popped the key in his mouth, and gulped. The key slid down nearly as easily as a gold- fish would have.
 Fans stood pop-eyed in the lobby of the Hollywood theater while Richard looked at his victim and breathed, like swain of the sil- yer sheet: tat last"
 II ought to slap you down." said the startled Miss Sheridan!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
TAVERN OWNER
 SWINDLER PAYS

Bridgeport. Conn.,, April 3. UP)- Anthony Cascaviello, 58, Newark, N. J., was taken to states prison today to begin one to two years term for swindling tavern owner of $1,200.
 Cascaviello and a companion were accused of defrauding the tavern proprietor in 1886 by proposing the three pool their funds to obtain 8 liquor license.
 What appeared to be the money was put in a tin box and left with the owner as a token of confidence. When it was opened it was found to contain a bundle of worthless papers.
 Cascaviello's accomplice was later apprehended and sent to prison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
WATERS RECEDE
 IN FLOOD ZONES
Thousands of Refugees in Penn. Struggling Back
 to Their Homes
By JOSEPH BANKS nifed Press Staff C0rreSn0ndeT


 Sudbury, Pa, April 8 UP)- Thousands of flood refugees strag- gled back to the soaked, silt-covered homes today as waters receded from a 2OO-mile stretch of the Susque- hanna river basin.
 Damage throughout the area was estimated at from $5,O00,00 0to $10,- 100000, half of it to highways and bridges. Twelve persons were dead and six missing.
 At this town of 17,000, where $500 had been routed from their homes to take shelter with friends living on higher ground, or in refugee cen- ters at the junior high school build- ing, the Lutheran church and the national guard armory, water was still four feet deep in the main street early today but was receding steadily and was expected to be mostly gone by noon.
 The danger appeared past, as the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

cut men accused of complicity in an alleged $21 1,O00,O ,OO0 swindle of McKes- son and Robbins stockholders.
 The master mind of the Swindle was the late Philip Musica who, as F. Donald Coster, president of the company, devised numerous dummy subsidiaries for which stock issues were floated. CoSter committed suicide when he was exposed in December, 1888, and his three sur viving brothers pleaded guilty to the governments charges.
 One of them, who called himself Robert Dietrich, was in charge of checking the vast physical inven- tories of the company, a large part of which never existed Geiger said.
 Geiger said his department made "thyee checks" twice a year of Dietrich's reports but never discov- cred anything wrong. Dietrich's tickets purported to represent stocks in warehouses situated in Canada, Hamburg, Germany, and many United States cities.
 Evidence was introduced to show records of 52 McKesson warehouses as of December 31, 1897. Not all of them, however, were fictitious.
 The defendants, who the govern ment contends could not have been ignorant of the Musicas' depreda- tions, are Horace B. Merwin of Bridgeport and Rowley w. Phillips of Waterbury, bankers; former Nc Kesson controller John H. McGloon, and Leonard and John Jenkins, brothers of Coster's widow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

Hartford, Conn.,, April 3.-(UP)- The state personnel advisory con- mittee has received "A applications for the position of state personnel director, soon to be vacated by Di- rector Harry w. Marsh, State Treas urer Joseph E. Talbot said today.
 Eight of the applications are from Connecticut persons, Talbot said. Deadline for filing of applications is Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
Musica Brothers Were Very Clever
 At Covering-Up
False Statements of NOn=Exstent Inventories in Their
 Imitation of McKessOn Corp; Government Claims Accused Could Not Be Ignorant

New York; April 3. = (UP) - The Musica brothers clever at covering up false statements of existent inventories in their imitation of McKesson and Robbins Drug Company assets witness testified in Federal Court today that frequent checks by the cost department failed to expose their bogus nature The witness Albert U Geger head of the McKesson cost department
 ed government witness in the trial of five Connect
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 3-UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through April 1 st, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,S42,SsS, ,19797
 Receipts $4,Ss7,71s,SSO.s1
 Gross Deficit s2,74o,s2s, 6O9.S7 s2,444,673,s57.1s
 Net Deficit s2,67O,sss,2o9 $2,4O9,24S.s57.16
 Cash Balance s2,519,91o,s73.02 $S,S77,s15.S2s.21
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO,
 APRIL 3, 1915
lBx United Pressl

Intense activity on Western Front along St. Mihiel salient %ith French army attacking.
 Austrians and Russians dead OckeN in 18th day of the Battle of the Carpathians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

The birthstone for April is . 8ia- mOnd and Pierpont's, 15S Bank st., have a lovely selection. -Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

On Apri l23, we will be located at our new store. 85 K. Main St., Schneider's Bakery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

Prepare to answer the employers question: What can you dO?" En- ter Post Junior COllege.-Ady.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-03

Red Cross Shoes. in all newest styles are sold exclusively in Waterbury by !. Solo Co.,, 106 Grand St-Ady
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The Weather

Rain, Warmer Tonight; Thur. Showers, Warmer Fun Weather Report Page 3
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Evening star., 1940-01-21
WoIfert
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suits were scandalousy. He hasn't
had a hit since the depression was
bear cub. Fannie Brice is wasting
her time on the radio. George M.
Cohan is great pleasure for mod
ern audiences-but in another play
wright's play, or singing another
mans songs.
Bobby Clark is working, but he
hasn't carpeted the aisles with GUS
toms in a long time. Elsie Janis
had brief revival and went back
into retirement. Al Woods Is smok-
ing nickel cigars. Belle Baker is
doing odd things. AL Jolson Is all
wrapped up in celluloid-like an
old-fashioned collar. All we hear
from Eddie Cantor is that his
daughters are getting married or
not getting married. Ed Wynn is
being sad over income tax and a
broken marriage. And, if you want
to know the plain truth-the one
his Hollywood biographers left out
the public soured on Ziegfeld some
few years before the good old days
were good and dead.
None of those listed above is any
less talented than they were. Those
who have slipped because of age
are not listed. If you ask any of
them what the matter is, they'll tell
you df they're frank that the pub
lie taste has changed. Some put it
this way: The public doesn't like
good things anymore. Well let it
stand that way-to be kind.
An exception that proves the rule
about the good old days is Juno
and the Paycock." This fine play
by Sean O'Casey, first produced in
Dublin by the Abbey Players in
1924, has been revived now with
Barry Fitzgerald and Sara Allgood
to make it seem as good as ever.
This is the play about the drunk
en- scalawag-"a' darrrlin', darrrlin'
man"-who loses bis wife, his
daughter and his son, his house and
all the furniture therein and, fall
ing to understand what 1t is all
about-concludes "the world is in
horrible state Of chassis"
It's a play filled with memorable
character studies that bite deep into
Ireland and its belongs to, today
much more than does THE Man
Who Came to Dinner" The Kauf-
man-Hart play does not belong to
today at all, but only to a moment
thereof.
released by the North American News
paper Alliance1
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Fred Astaire
Calls RurnOrs
Just Talk
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
All this business about disagree
ments with Ginger Rogers and no
more co-starring pictures is, says
nimble Fred Astaire. just so much
small talk.
We've had such success" he says,
that we can't take a chance on any
thing but an exceptional picture.
Each time we're together the fans
expect it to be better than before.
So far as I'm concerned, and 7 think
Ginger. too, when really good story
comes along. we'll make it."
Fred things he'll go on dancing
for quite a spell yet. He's just fin-
ished q piece with Eleanor Powell.
But when. and II, his routines
give out or his legs give out, or
both, he still hopes to stay in Aims.
He's received some compliments on
his flair for light comedy and even
some offers for non-dancing roles.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
In Cantor Film

Oscar O'Shea, distinguished Irish
character actor. with Esther Dale,
James McNamara, Henry Sylvester,
Edward G. Brady and Arthur Miles,
have been added to the. cast Of
Forty Little Mothers" the Eddie
Cantor starring vehicle at M-G-M.
Judith Anderson, famed stage star;
Rita johnson, Martha ODriscoll
Evening star., 1940-01-21

in daily conference with Producer
Jack Cummings, preparing a stage
unit based on comedy ideas planned
for their new vehicle. Go West"
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Marxes Again

Another "tryout tour" is being
readied by the Marx Bros. With the
idea of testing their gags" before
actual audiences the comedians are
Evening star., 1940-01-21

and Diana Lewis have already been
announced for this production which
is being directed by Busby Berkeley.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
FRIDAY
The Underpup"
OII.Roaf % ~

James CAgney and
Pat OBrten In
The Fighting Goth"