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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
HOLY NAME MEN ! SEAT OFFICERS
Rev. James NOOnan Is Speaker at St. Francis
 Exercises Sunday


 Impressive ceremonies marked the installation of officers of the St. Francis Holy Name society at the regular monthly meeting of the society in the parish hall last night. Martin J. Tehan, former president of the society, was installing officer and gave the oath of office to the following officers for the coming year; president Edward Goggins. vice president James J. Gladney, treasurer William 0erwin, financial secretary Henry Hayden, Jr., record ing secretary Walter Neighbor, ban. ner bearer Dennis Tehan, marshal James Cusick and chaplain Rev. David O'Keefe.
 Rev. James Noonan, a native of Washington Hill and now pastor in North Carolina, was the principal speaker and gave an interesting talk on the church work done by the priests and missionaries in North Carolina.
 A membership committee of the following members was named by President Goggins; Henry Hayden, Lester Coughlin, Thomas Scadden, James Cusick, Ted Donahue, Walter Neighbor and James Gladney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
TRAINING SCHOOL
 SESSION TONIGHT

The second session of the leader. ship training school will be held this evening at the Second Congre- gational Church with Rev. R. H. Gaekwad of Bombay, India, speak, ing on the subject, The Ways to a World Outlook
 Other lecturers who will be heard on tonight's program will be: Miss Carolyn E. Muller, Rev. John R. Coombs, Frederick L. Fay and R. Stanley Kendig. The school will continue for five successive Monday evenings from 7'30 to 9:30 p. m. Rev. Oscar Locke is dean and Rev. pr. John N. Lewis is chaplain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15

Also elected were the following:
 First vice president, William Borchardt; second vice-president, Alfred Bother; recording secretary, Conrad Tauber; financial secretary, Lambert Biender; corresponding sec- retary, Eric Kuegler; treasurer, Otto Moulette; librarian, Ernest Mueller; trustee, John O. Borchardt; musical director, Max Deutzmann; assistant director, John Borchardt. Gustave Lange and Paul Schauland were elected honorary members.
 MT. Hench announced that plans will be started soon for a celebra- ton of the clubs 18th anniversary in May of next year.
 Retiring President Willia m Mueskes cited the establishment of new headquarters, with spacious so- cial rooms and large hall, as the outstanding achievement of the year.
 Reports on the Christmas and New Years eve parties were given. Plans were announced for the so- cietys annual masquerade and ball, to be held late this month. John Kirschbaum is chairman of the ar- engagements committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15

ervxisory committee, William Bragg, Paul Meehan and John Sullivan.
 Annual Meeting
 The Scovill Mfg. Go. credit union unit, No. 9, will hold their annual meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Doolittle Alley Hall.
 A dividend of and one-half per cent will be declared by the union in view of the earnings for the year.
 New officers of the board of dir ectors, credit and supervision com- will be elected. Refreshments will be served, and there will be a motion picture showing the Yale Harvard football game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15

A radio broadcast this evening at 6:3O o'clock will signalize the open- ing here of the campaign against Infantile paralysis and formal prep araticns for staging the annual ball in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday. Mayor Vim cent Scully will formally open the campaign in an address over Sta- tion VERY. The ball will be held Tuesday evening, January S0th, at Hamilton Park. Both events, it is expected, will arouse keen local in- terest in the success of '"The March of Dimes. Fifty per cent of the money collected here will be as- signed to the national foundation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
Full Weather Report

Boston, Jan. 1E-(UP)-Weath- CT fOrecasts
 CONNECTICUT-G fair and colder tonight and Tuesday, except light local sn0ws in the north portion.
 MASSACHUSETTS - Generally fair and colder in the extreme ast. Local snows and colder in west and central portions tonight and Tuesday.
 Rhode Island - Generally fair and colder tonight and Tuesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
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Social Clothes For Young Men = Tux. Suits $24.75 - From the Style Studio of "Sompeck." " In Prep Shop" Second Floor. For post holiday functions you need your dress clothes to properly discharge your social obligations before the season of soekeloth and oshes, Februory Seven - ending March Twenty-Four.
 You'll find this smart, streom-Iine suove double breasted Tux Suit ct $24.75 from the style studio of "Sampeek" just the lost word in style. drope tailoring, dress dignity and deeorum in sizes to 40 -r reg ulors, longs, and shorts.
 Collar ott0ched. pIeoted Tux Shirts $500 I'M Ties $l.00. Dress Hose 50 cents, Dress Shoes, $500 to $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
INDIANS GET NEEDED SKINS

Spokane, Wash. (UP)-White hunters in northeastern, Washing ton who bagged deer this season and didn't want the hides donated them to Indians, who in the last few years haven't had enough skins to clothe them adequately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
CuRFEw SPEEDS wREsTLERs

Philadelphia (UP)-Wrestlers may grunt and groan in Philadelphia to their hearts content, but they must do 1t fast, for curfew rings at 11:30 p. m. The state athletic commis- sion set the new deadlAne for end- ing bouts, and ruled that final matches must start no later than 10 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
IDA MAKEUP EXPERT

Ida Lupinc, who appears with Ronald Colman in Paramount's "The Light That Failed" prefers playing characters roles that require Q lot of makeup, and once played ah &C., year-old man on the stage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
CONCORDIAS PLAN
 DIAMOND JUBILEE
Hench Chosen President at Annual Meeting of
 Society

Joseph F. Hench was elected pres ident of the Concordia Singing so- ciety at the organizations annual meeting yesterday at its rooms on Bank street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15

The surface of the human body is approximately 16 square feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15

We're losing ground fast. Twen- ty-one people died in Southbury while eighteen were born in 1899.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
DR.. Rasmussen 10 Talk
On 'Riqhteous INDIGNATION

DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen, pastor at
Luther Place Church, will preach on
What Is Righteous Indignation?"
at II am. tomorrow. At $3.50 am.
the Rev. Carl w. Folkemer, assistant
pastor, will preach on Looking for
Something New" Miss Ann Burger,
who is supplying for Mrs. Cor
nelia L. Kinsella at the organ, will
accompany Paul Ledig's offertory
solo, when Consider the Heavens"
Mr.. Ledig will sing at both services.
The Luther Leagues will have a
buffet supper at the home of DR..
and Mrs. Gould Wickey, 7516 Six
teenth street NV, at $50 pm. Fol-
lowing the supper, Miss Katherine
Wickey will tell of her experiences
at the youth conference at Toronto.
The World Service Society will
leave the church at pm. Tuesday
for picnic supper at Hams Point.
Features of the evening program
are discussion of the current refu-
gee problem, devotional service led
by Miss Geraldine Thornton and a
magazine quiz led by Miss Gladys
Hagen.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Roosevelt Foreign Policy
Invites War, Nye Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTeSA-
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, assailing peacetime con-
scription, told a radio audience last
night the Administrations foreign
policy, carried to its logical ex-
treme, can do nothing else but in
vite war for us long before we
are ready for it,"
"Peacetime conscription and draft
of manpower such as is now being
advanced in a legislative way" said
the North Dakotan, would be most
direct contribution to the creation
of dictatorship"
Asserting national defense was
one issue and the foreign policy of
President Roosevelt another, Sena-
tor Nye continued:
There is only one point where
the two issues may be said to inter-
lock. The foreign policy has made
it essential that we make all speed
to replace, the chip on Uncle Sans
shoulders with sizable cannons. -"
Having strutted along the sidelines
of the European war, wearing chip,
and not thing else, yelling threats
at some of the belligerents, we have
been forced to show our card in the
hole. Unfortunately that card seems
to be admittedly military deuce.
Our job at hand now, by reason OF
this strutting and posing, is to
shuttle the pack quickly and deal
ourselves a new hand at a price
in billions"
Evening star., 1940-08-10
San Miguel, Rich Cuban,
Once Kidnap Victim, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, Aug. 10.-Antonio San
Miguel. IS, victim five years ago of
a kidnapping by revolutionary
group, died yesterday, leaving a for
tune estimated at $8,000,0OO.
The capitalist was abducted in
June, 1885, by revolutionaries who
demanded $187,000 ransom with
which they intended to finance an
uprising.
When police seized the ransom
just as San Miguel's business asso-
ciates were about to deliver it, the
kidnapers released him on his prom
Use to pay. Police never determined
whether he actually paid.
Subsequently two persons were
sentenced to death for the kidnap-
ing but were. freed under a later
general amnesty decree.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Lithuanian Envoy's
Opposition 10 Russia
Problem for Nazis
Berlin Must Decide
Whether Soviet Has
Right to Legation
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Aug. 10.-Tiny Lith-
uania's Berlin Legation maintained
opposition today to Soviet Russian
demands 70 surrender and ap-
peared likely to raise q ticklish
problem for Germany.
The German Foreign Office, un-
officially at least, was confronted
with the task of deciding whether
or not Russia, through incorpora-
ton of Lithuania in the Soviet
Union, has the right to take over
the Legation.
1t was learned at the Legation
that so far there have been no Of
fetal exchanges with the German
Foreign Office respecting the Lith-
uanian position.
The Lithuanian Legation was
heartened by United States refusal
to recognize the absorption of the
little Baltic states into the Soviet
Union.
Oficials of the Russian Embassy,
who already had occupied the Lat
Wan and Estonian Legations, called
yesterday at the Lithuanian EN-
bassy and demanded the property
be surrendered. Lithuanian officials
told them to go peddle their
papers"
In the early morning, Lithuanian
Minister Kazys Skirpa, who escaped
from Lithuania just ahead of the
Russian forces of occupation, rushed
off in an automobile to an unan-
nounced destination.
Other Lithuanian ENJOYS, includ-
ing the Minister to Washington,
have joined Skirpa in protests to
their government over its submis-
sion to Russia.
That situation apparently makes
it certain the Berlin Legation will
not return willingly to Kaunas, the
Lithuanian capital.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
5000 in Montgomery
Would Be Registered
In Event Of Draft
Election Supervisors
Make Estimate After
Baltimore Conference

Approximately 5000 Montgomery
County men between 81 and 80, in
elusive, would be registered through
the machinery of the county elec-
ton boards in the event conscrip-
tion is enacted by Congress, ac-
cording to estimates of. the War
and Navy Departments.
Returning from a conference in
Baltimore yesterday, members of
Montgomery County's Board Of
Election Supervisors said the reg
istration probably would take one
day and would be scheduled 10 days
to two weeks after presidential
proclamation set conscription ma
chinery in operation.
Attending the conference yester-
day were 1t. Comdr. Charles H
Bryant, Navy liaison officer for the
conscription program, and Donald
Bowie, jr., chairman; Carey King
don and Delaney Brown, members
and Alfred D. Noyes, clerk, of the
election supervisors.
The registration would be held
in the 68 places usually used in elec-
tions and additional places if nee
essary. Election officials will form
the basis for the registration staff
but others may be named as re-
quired, and volunteers may be used
wherever available.
Draft boards will be established
after registration has been COM
pleted. During the World War, one
such board served for the entire
county, but due to the increase in
population in the past 20 years il
is expected that three would he set
up, one in Rockville, another in
Bethesda and a third in Silver
Spring.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Census Lists 256
Religious Sects and
55,S07,366 Members
Figure, Bosed on
1886 Statistics, Shows
Million Gain Over 1926
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau today listed
256 religious denominations in the
United States, with 55,S07 1866 men,
bers.
This count-nearly half the
population-was based on 1896 sta
tistics, which have just been COM
pleted The count was made by
correspondence with officers of the
different denominations.
The membership total was about
million larger than a similar
count in 1926, which showed 54,576,-
346. No major shifts were shown
among major religious branches,
however.
Economies forced on churches by
the depression, while not shown in
membership figures, were demon
strated by a s518.953,571 calculation
Of total church expenditures in 1896.
In 1926 the total was S817,214,528.
Value of church edifices also
dropped from 1888, ,5OO,61O in 1926
to S3,411 ,875, ,467 in 1886.
The largest single denomination
was Roman Catholic with 19914,e37
members.
Other large denominations in
cluded: Jewish, 4,641, ,184; Negro
Baptists, 1882, ,464; Methodist Epis-
copal Church, 3,509, 1853; Southern
Baptist Convention, 2,700,155; Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, g.
06l ,683; Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, 1877 927;
Protestant Episcopal Church, 1,735,-
1886; Northern Baptist Convention
1926 United Lutheran Church
in America, 1,286,6l2; Disciples OF
Christ. l,l96,315; Evangelical Luth-
eran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and
other States, 1892 ,553, and Congre-
gational and Christian Churches
976,3SS
Smallest denomination listed was
the Friends (Primitive)," with
church and IA members.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
1900 Marines
Al Quantico Base
Ordered 10 Cuba
Contingent in 'Troinine'
Will Be Near CunuI
And South America
BY the Associated Press.


Amid far-reaching plans to
strengthen United States defenses
in the Caribbean, the Navy is
ordering 1900 Marines to Guantan-
amo Bay, Cuba, for intensive train
ing maneuvers.
The contingent-the 1st Marine
Brigade of Quantico, Va.-would be
in a position to reach Central or
South America quickly, should any
trouble requiring their presence
arise.
The Navy already has undertaken
conversion of four fast American
ships into destroyer transports"
SO the brigade could be moved
swiftly.
The action comes shortly after
the adoption at the Havana Pam
American Conference of resolu-
ton expressing opposition to the
transfer to other on-American
nations of foreign possessions in
this hemisphere. The conference
voted to let one or more of the
American republics establish a pro-
visional administration over any
possession affected.
Transfer of the Quantico brigade,
Navy officials said, is "for the pur-
pose of preliminary training of this
force in view of extensive maneuv-
ers planned during the winter in
the Caribbean area"
The maneuvers-similar to those
conducted each year-involve land
ings and other operations. Guam
tanamo provides a base from which
ships may operate in carrying out
one of the Nays missions; keep
ing any enemy aircraft carrier from
getting within 1000 miles of the
Panama Canal.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
British Urged
To Tune Out
Lord How How
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug 10.-The Minis
try of Information is trying to
persuade Britons that Lord Haw
Haw, Germany's ace English Ian
guage propaganda broadcaster, ism t
worth listening to.
One ministry advertisement gives
this answer to the question of
What do I do If I come across
German or Italian broadcasts wher
tuning my wireless:
Il say to myself, Now this blighter
wants me to listen to him. Am I
going 20 do what he wants?' I re-
member that German lies over the
air are like parachute troops drop
ping down on Britain-they are all
part of plan to get us down
which they won't.
Il remember nobody can trust
a word Haw Haw says. So, just
to make them waste their time. l
switch 'em of or tune 'em out!"
Evening star., 1940-08-10
|Author Vaughan
Expected to Join
Refugees in u. S.

w. Somerset Vaughan, 66-year-
old British author, is expected to
join the growing colony of refugee
celebrities in the United States late
this month.
y Friends in Washington were ad-
vtsed that the famous writer plans
to join his daughter Liza and his
2-year- grandson, Nicholas Vim
cent Somerset Paravicini, who are
now guests on the Long Island
estate of Mrs. Nelson Doubleday.
Mr.. Vaughan was one of large
group of residents of Southern
France forced to flee their villas
before the German advance.
The escape to England was made
aboard a collier crowded with refu-
gees and delayed again and again
under distressing circumstances.
1T was not known whether Mr..
Vaughan, like Noel Coward, the
British playwright and author, will
have an official capacity with the
British government. Mr.. Coward
arrived recently on a mission for
the British Ministry of Information.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Two Bandits Caught
After Hurting Dead
Woman From Car
Okluhomo Fueitives Shoot
Police Chief and Kidnup
Former in Wild Chase
By tie Associated Press.

OILTON, Okla, Aug. 1O-Two
prison fugitives who hurled the
shot-torn body Of woman clad In
red from their speeding automobile,
wounded Oiltons police chief and
kidnapped a farmer, were held here
today.
The gunman, Bill Hall, 25, and Joe
Lovelace, "a, surrendered to high
way patrolmen west of here last
night after running gunflght. Hall
had been shot five times.
Bill Gimp Of Drumright. the
farmer hostage, had a flesh wound
IN one leg. Patrolmen mistook him
for one of the fueitives.
Sheriff l.. L. Fisher said I,oyelace
declared the slain woman, whom
he identified as Jeanne Culp, 30.
Asher, Okla, was thrown from the
car because "she seemed to be dead"
Restaurant Robbery Started Chase.
Police Chief Clark and Constable
G. l.. Irwin, hunting three men who
robbed an Oilton restaurant earlier
in the day, halted black sedan in
which Hall, Lovelace, the woman
and colored man were riding.
The officers leaped to the running
boards A point-blank shotgun
charge knocked Chief Clark to the
pavement. Constable Irwin emptied
his pistol into the car, fell of as
it sped away.
The body of the attractive, red
haired young woman was found on
a business street a short time later.
Constable Irwin expressed belief she
was a sweetheart of Hall and was
slain accidentally in the exchange.
Commander Two Autos.
Speeding southwark over a coun-
try road, the gunmen took another
car from Earl Williams. Oilton.
Later, near Drumright. they kid
naped Mr.. Gimp and comman-
deered his 1l-year-old automobile.
The colored man was gone when
the fugitives reached Mr.. Glimp's
farm, and Lovelace told Sheriff
Fisher he apparently jumped out
OF the car after the Oilton gunfight.
Forcing Mr., Gimp to replace the
wounded Hall behind the wheel,
the gunmen speed southwark. Near
Perkins they were challenged by
Highway Patrolmen John Boyd and
]. r Butler.
After short chase the car was
stopped. Mr.. Gimp darted out and
was shot in one leg. Hall and
Lovelace came out with their hands
high.
Hall Seriously Wounded.
Hall, who escaped from the Okla
homa State Prison last July 7 while
serving a 10-year term for bur-
glary, was taken to a Saltwater
hospital. His condition was report
ed dangerous.
Lovelace, who on July 26 fled
the Nebraska State Prison Farm,
where he was doing five years for
forgery, was placed in Jail at Still
water.
Sheriff Fisher said Lovelace re-
lated that he and Hall planned
the restaurant robbery, leaving the
woman in a field before the holdup
and going back for her afterward.
They met the colored man when
they went back for the woman, he
added
He wanted to come along with
us and he had a shotgun, so we
took him." Sheriff Fisher quoted the
| fugitive.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Pan-American Again Using
Land Planes for Sea HOPS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 6.-After IL
years Of passenger service above the
Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico, Pan-American Airways has
started a trend back to land planes
for over-water flights.
1t was a land plane that Pan
American used in 1928 to span the
unheard-of distance-9O miles
from Key West to Havana in the
first important American over
water air passenger schedule.
During most of the succeeding
dozen years, Pan-American depend
ed on huge seaplanes, equipped
with big pontoons and unsuitable
hulls in the development of q net
work of lines throughout Latin
America and across both the Allan
tic and Pacific and to Alaska.
The return to land planes began
with the purchase of three huge
stratoclippers-the Flying Cloud, the
Rainbow and the Comet-for 1900
mile over-water hops from Miami
to the northern coast of South
America.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Nozi Tells Of Seeing Balloons
Guarding Convoy Shot Down

They were at height of 1000 me-
ters. (6,560 feet, just below the
cloud ceiling.
when our first Heinkels reached
the balloons, volleys from their ma
chine-guns tore up the well-rounded
envelopes and moment later
blurred flames quivered from within
them.
while the first balloon was quick
ly enve)oped in flames and de-
scended British crews below at
motor winches tried in vain to pull
down the others or to release them
so they could ascend into the clouds
out Of our view.
But we were too fast and volley
after volley penetrated the bal
looms"
Evening star., 1940-08-10
transportation Bill
Action to Be Opposed
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
A group of House members de-
cided yesterday to oppose final ac-
tion on general transportation leg
islation next week because of the
omission of an amendment by Rep
resentative Wadsworth, Republican,
of New York designed to protect
waterways.
Mr.. Wadsworth said about 80
members of Congress decided at a
meeting to try to send a Senate
House conference report back to
committee with instructions to re-
instate the provision.
The section would permit all car
riers to charge compensatory
rates'-which would permit water
ways, brought under Federal regu-
la1tion like railroads, to reduce their
rates to meet any competition.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Congressional Record
Is Strong for Farley
Nv the ssoris ted presc

bs the hSSOCldleQ fTeSS.
The Congressional Record, chroni-
Gle of the proceedings of Congress,
blossomed out yesterday in what
might be called a Jim Farley edi-
ton. Forty and one-half pages of
the 108-page issue are devoted to
laudatory editorials and articles
from newspapers praising the retir-
ing Democratic National Committee
chairman and Postmaster General.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, on behalf of his colleague,
Senator Glass, who placed Mr.. Far
ley's name before the Chicago con-
vention for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination, obtained unani-
nous consent of the Senate to insert
the ITS newspaper clippings in the
Record.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 10 CVia Radio) A
Nazi pilot who participated in
Thursdays first air attack on a
balloon barrage protected British
convoy told in German broadcast
today watching six Of the big rub
Der balls crash in blue and red
flames.
The pilot was identified as Avia-
tor-Reporter Hans Theodor Wagner.
six went down." he said, leaving
long sheets OF smoke behind them.
Those miles OF steel cables must
have caused confusion and damage
when they crashed down.
"A number Of the barrier balloons
were plainly visible near Dover
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Miss Ida Richter Dies

GERMANTOWN, Md, Aug. 10
(SpeciaD Miss Ida F. Richter, rs,
lifelong resident of this vicinity,
died at her home here yesterday
after a short illness. She was a
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Hartman Richter OF Ger
mantown. She is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Daisy Murphy, Ger
mantown. and Mrs. Mamie Keefer,
Washington, and two brothers, Will
liam r. Richter, Washington, and
Hershey J. Richtsr. Germantown.