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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

stop light get official matter Boxing Association
 tells the NBA body has rule about seconds tossing towels in the each that matter with it's rule In Connecticut second stop bout with towel climbing in the he thinks his boy being beaten badly final tell Young Republicans of Hartford about the short golf and
 them movies of the better players All this Friday the
 Thanks to Anthony Mazzaupo of St. Lucy Holy league for his invitation Two of the national professional football league Posy Clark who back with Detroit Lions the Cleveland Correction Bowling League banquet scheduled for Quaker day. April 13 while the Mixed Dusty Waverly 12.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
VALENTI SIGNS
 ARMSTRONG-JUNIOR

Boston, April 4-(UP)-Match- maker Rip Valenti of the Goodwin A. c. anuonced today that Henry Armstrong, Worlds Welterweight Champion, would defend his title at Boston Garden April 26 against Paul Junior of Lewiston, Me-, New England titleholder.
 Valenti said the match was closed when Armstrong agreed to accept a $15,0O0 guarantee or AS per cent of the receipts if the gate exceeds the guarantee. Junior will receive about IS per cent of the gate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
ThiSSpOrting
 World
Horse Laughs
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY

Scuy eminent bridge player the Scuy system of four noup double in spades anknG the other F. M before  steer Kentucky Derby. Which this which Smiths Sunday suit is gospel truth:
 Florida time with broher-in-law" having nice day. About $50 along pretty pack up his and with both the both pretty good price, favore $50 the total SO according to mathematics When the horses hit the onetWo with daylight of the field My brothern-aw Dave tonight with tonight of field passed shot and other carried of the
 seconds, about $500 that bill pocket vanished thin air up a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
"CRUSHER" CASEY AT
 ARENA FRIDAY EVE

New Haven, April 4-Marvin Wes- tenberg, Tacoma, Wash, Swedish star, gets his first crack at Steve (CruSher' Casey of Ireland, worlds heavyweight title claimant, at the Arena on Friday night. The pair collide in a two-out-of- three falls main event on Joe Zonsin'S all-star wrestling bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
UNITEDS AT YALE
 FIELD SATURDAY

Waterbury Uniteds Soccer foot ball club, winner of the Yale Invi- tation cup last season meet the Yale kickers in the first game of the invitation play this season Sat- urday afternoon at New Haven. The game is called for 3 o'clock with the following local players to make the trip: John Surgener, goalie; the Herman brothers, John, Tom and Fran, Vincent Brown, John Woods, Big 6" Mclaughlin Jack Marshall, George Brown, T. Murn- ing and J. McDonald.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Giants-Indians

WaycroSs, Ga; April 4-(UP)- The first the annual Bob Feelleer- Carl Hubbell spring pitching duels begins today when the New York Giants and Cleveland Indians con- tinue their exhibition series. The Indians clubbeed out 19 hits yester- day, to win, 9-5. The Giants weree held to eight hits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
SOCCER FOOTBALL

Boston, April 4-(UP)-The third game between the Lusitania Rec- reation Soccer club of Cambridge and the Fall River Firestones to determine a National Amateur Cup Semi-finalist will be played at Tiverton, R. T., it was announced today. The two previous matches finished in ties after 8 total of five hours play.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

the day he took the riding from Gabby Gus Gardella, who came from the dugout to pinch hit and Rorty announced: "Gardella batting for EXERCISE" Those were the days. Believe 1t or ooubt, but Red was a bricklayer by trade, and took up baseball umpiring after he learned how to handle bricks as red as his hair. He's not through yet, by two base hit, and will be the subject of a Once In A Lifetime" yarn over WTIC Friday night, 7:30 p. m. as told by Jack Stevens. Tune in on 1t, for 8 real treat and for many of you, most pleasant memories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Bees
PUBLIC PARKS MEET

The Public Parks Baseball teams will hold its first session Tuesday April g at the Central Y. M. c. A. Pres. Pete RoSato wants this meet ing to be held at 6:30 p. m. so that the managers and officials can atterd the K of L. and Speedboys game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Halian-American League

Attention all bowlers of the Ital- ian-American League! There will be a special meeting Thursday night at 7:45 o'clock, April 4, at the Grand alleys to elect officers for the com- ing year and also finale meeting for the banquet arrangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
At The Training Camps
Reds YS Red SOx

Winston Salem, N. C., April A. (UP)-It will be veteran against rookie today as Paul Derringer of the Cincinnati Reds pitches against rookie Emerson Dickmen of the Boston Red Sox. The homeward tour series of the clubs stands even at two wins apiece with the Reds leading, 25 runs to "A, following their 13-7 victory yesterday beforee 3,185 fans at Statesville. Lonnie Frey of the Reds and Bobby Doer of the Sox hammered out four hits apiece.
 Red SOx
 Winston Salem, N. C., April A. (UP)-With the Boston RFed SoX leading the Cincinnatti Reds four games to two, the inter-league rivals resume their transforming series today. Both Emerson Dickman of the Sox and the Reds Paul Derrin- ger will attempt to go nine innings. The Red Sox made five errors in 6 sloppy exhibition as they dropped a 1877 decision to the Reds at States vile yesterday. Jimmy Foxx got homer and Bobby Doer made four hits for the losers.
 Bees
 Orlando, Fla, April 4-(UP)-Big Jim Tobin, formerly of the Pitts burgh Pirates, attempts to put the Boston Bees back in the win col- umn against the Washington Sen- ators here today. The Bees, heading northward, were outslugged by the Newark Bears, 10-4, at Sebring yes- terday, Bill Posdel, their most re- liable spring pitcher, was banged for sixe hits in three innings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

Gents Even Series
 The Gents of the Hill Juniors evened their junior league cham pionship series with the Cadets by winning the prelim game last night, 18 to IS. The Cadets copped the first game and the deciding game will be played next week. The win ners will receive a trip to New York to witness major league baseball game.
 The hox score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Just A Few Lines

Several local fight fans have had quite a discussion as to whether or not a second of a fighter can stop the fight by toss- ing in 8 towel as was done for many years. Some claim there is A new r1lle that no nne hllt a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

After successful season the boys are raring to have a good time and spend some money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

The Italian American Bowling league will hold their 5th annual banquet at Gospel Hall, Bank Sts., Saturday night, April 6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

Schedule For Saturday Evening
 9:0O-Song by the Colgate team quintet: E. Cont, Joe Lombardi, Geneva and Piedmonte, It's hap, happy day to finish in first place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04

ASVeSAO A 2U Score at half time: Bombers IS, Gamma 14-Referee Johnny Ward Time: Four eight-minute periods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Remember Red Rorty?

Old Timers who paid 86 cents pennant of the Eastern League in the most colorful figures of them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-04
Local Skiers Not Done Yet

Though most Waterbury people inter last look at basketball and reading and Ski club, despite spring weather has md There's plenty of snow yet" meaninl plan to take advantage of.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

named Hitler, who dreamed of world
empire. But Hndenburg was to
know him years later. when as
President. he called upon him to be
Reichschancellor.
During 1916 E L. Cole of Bangor,
Calf, was to receive letter written
to him by his brother on December
2, 1864-and he was to prove it,
much to the chagrin of the POST
master General. Mr.. Cole, it is
likely. was to be more interested in
that strange circumstance than in
the appointment of David LLOYD
George as Prime Minister of Great
Britain, or that Congress was to
pass the Adamson eight-hour law
for the railroad workers. But both
events were to prove to be quite
important indeed.
There were to be interesting
birthdays in 1916, too, that would
call for celebration. For example,
Lily Langtry was to be "a, ex-Vice
President Levi P, Morton would be
80, John D. Rockefeller was to be
feeling fit at IT, Sarah Bernhardt
was to have II candles on her cake
and Lotta Crabtree would be SO.
Legendary figures!
Worth a "box" in anybody's news
paper in 1916 would be the story
from Holland of one Tiemen Shepel,
who was older than his own grand
mother. His grandfather, aged 72,
married girl 10 years old Then
there was to be the authenticated
report from Greenwich, Conn, of
a. woman who gave five separate
births within five months time and
the story of Mrs. Margaret Bischoff
Of York, Pa, who owned an apple
that was 20 years old. CWonder
whether it's still preserved, Is years
after that yarn made the news
papersO
Taken all in all, 1916 was to be
some" year, as young America then
talked, just as full of tragedy and
comedy, of highlights and shadows
OF things grave and gay tremendous
ly important and delightfully."- trivial,
as any in mans long annals.
Unknown are the events which
I941 has. in store, but it is a safe
wager indeed that the year. will
match 1916 in the vastness of the
stage across which they will march
and in their infinite variety.
! So ring up the curtain! Let the
show beginl
Evening star., 1940-12-29

where depth of water and danger
to navigation require a constant
watch, Is the most hazardous task
known to seafaring men. 1t re-
quires great experience and fine
sense of judgment. Only slight
error in judgment, in position,
means disaster. Paradoxically as it
may seem, there is more danger in
bringing a ship to port than there
is in taking it over the ocean. Out
on the high seas safety reigns.
Danger turks in the approach to
land, in making harbor.
That is why pilots, especially
members of the American Pilots
Association, must undergo such rigid
training. Any man or boy who hopes
to become part of this service must
serve seven-year apprenticeship
three years longer than the course
in the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Seven years-one for each of the
Evening star., 1940-12-29

shall say that in his case the future
was not foreshadowed by the past?
No more than we can know today
what 1941 holds in store could the
New Year merrymakers of Decem-
ber 81. 1915, foretell the great events
of 1916-but the yellowing files re-
veal that it was to become memoir
able year.
twenty-five years ago D. w.
Griffith was to produce one OF the
great motion pictures, Intolerance"
Mary Roberts Rinehart was to in
troduce lovable, cantankerous "Tish"
to world eager to- laugh; and a pre-
Sonny Boy" Al Jolson was to cavort
about the stage of the Winter Gar
den in Robinson Crusoe, Jr." This
was the year when the national debt
stood at s1,22o,0O0,000; when "Old
Lady 81" and Turn to the Right"
enlivened Broadway and Taylor
Holmes packed 'em in with His
Majesty Bunker Bean" Up the
street, S. L. Rothapfel opened his
Ae2oAoo, PioAiCCAAAS d ucW llclO III
motion picture presentation. Mr..
Rothapfel became better known
years after as Roxy"
At Home and Abroad.
Nineteen-s sixteen was to see Italy
declare war on Germany and to
find a radical Socialist editor named
Benito Mussolini in constant trouble
with King Victor Emmanuel's police:
Germany would overrun Rumania;
and foreign influences were to reach
into the American presidential CAM
paign. 1t was rs years ago that
Charles Evans Hughes retired on
election night as President-elect and
awakened next morning to find the
decision reversed by California's be-
lated returns. Three weeks hence,
Chief Justice Hughes will administer
the oath of Office for the third time
to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy in
woodrow Wilson's cabinet.
Front page news today are reports
of German propaganda, and worse.
in this country.
Twenty-Five years ago the prop
agandist activities of the National
German-American Alliance were ex-
posed, and following on the heels
of this exposure came documentary
proof Of activities paid for by the
German government, through Am.
bassador Won Bernstor1, to sway
Evening star., 1940-12-29

though perfect stranger, has
turned over to the pilot the safety
of passengers, cargo, crew and ship.
While steam has triumphed over
sail, the motorship now supplant-
ing steam, the machinery of COM
merce sped up, the pilots outlook
on 1t all has undergone little change.
First of all, he must know every
detail of his business-whether he
handles 8 sailing vessel Or an ocean
liner. Life on any bridge is never
scribes it: Picture pilot, some
thick night, on the bridge of a
500-foot liner inwardbound. Many
lives and valuable property are on
his head. He stands there, or
PAGES up and down, and peers into
the gloom and haze that surround
him. He has to decide on the in
slant whether that faint elusive
glimmer he can just make out down
there in the darkness is a buoy
light or the lantern of some small
craft. How he makes this decision
tells the calber of the man-and
pilots usually come out all right"
Wide Range Of Duties.
With the human equation in mind,
all those who know of pilotage serv-
ice claim it is difficult to overesti-
mate the Importance of pilots du-
ties. They cover a wide range. The
pilotage system of America has been
placed in the same relationship to
Its water-borne commerce that the
United States Navy bears to the
safety of the American people.
AS the first TO greet incoming
vessels, members of the American
Pilots Association are the first to
know if there is any dangerous dis
ease aboard. As they cooperate with
the United States Health Serv-
ice, this is the great barrier
against disease entering the coun-
try. They know something, too, of
secret service-and many a spy has
been reported by vigilant pilots.
Since pilot regulations are regu-
lations of commerce. pilot as
much a part of the merchant ma
rine as the hull of the ship and
the helm by which he guides it
they have, naturally, come down
from antiquity and are to be found
in the laws of most commercial
states. 1t is obligatory on the part
of the captain of an incoming YES
sci to take on a pilot or be re-
sponsible for the damages that
might ensue. Even this goes back
to Roman law. The Hanseatic or
dinances, which go back to the Han
seattle League, a trading guild of the
14th and 18th centuries. required a
captain to take pilot under pen
atty Of a mark of gold. Later the
maritime law of Sweden imposed a
penalty of $50 thalers for refusing
a pilot-one-third to the informer,
one-third to the pilot who offered
his services and one-third to the
poor mariners.
In the reign of Louis XIV, France
imposed corporal punishment for
refusal to take pilot, the vessel to
pay so lires, to be applied to the
use of the marine hospital Eng
land had fine of 20 pounds, to be
collected for the use of superan-
nuated pilots or the widows of pi-
lots. In America the earliest of
Evening star., 1940-12-29

seven seas-must the embryo pilots
study while learning the trade, the
business, or the art and science of
navigation and all that the term i'm
plies. They are seven years Of
strenuous endeavor. With all this
labor behind them, with high honors
attached to the very title they bear,
the American pilots who board
strange vessels that seek to make
harbor in American waters carry no
distinguishing badge to denote them
as different from other men-not
even uniform.
When pilot drops over the side
of his own ship, heaves away from
his floating home on the pilot boat,
in answer to the call of an incoming
vessel, he carries with him only
little black bag; much the same as
the old family physician took along
on his call of mercy.
In that little black bag is pair
Evening star., 1940-12-29
"A. P. Photo.

of rubber boots, a sou'wester and a
shaving kit-for the pilot never
knows how long it will before he
makes port. Whatever time he re-
mains on duty he never gets wink
of sleep-except in cases of duress,
when attempts to make port, for the
time being, are abandoned.
Like an Adventurer.
So the pilot goes like real ad-
venturer on each one of his trips,
his two guardians along with him
physical and mental strength.
Along with his expert knowledge
he must have energy and resource
fulness; for the sea is a treacherous
old lady and no one knows what will
happen when anything upsets her.
Heavy combers of the ocean or the
swirling waters of rivers on their
way to the sea must all be contended
with by these men, who grasp the
spokes of ships wheels with the
Evening star., 1940-12-29

press opinion in this country in be-
half of the violators Of Belgium's S
neutrality. Further, an aroused
American press unearthed and pub
lished documents showing detailed
German plans to influence the presi-
dental and congressional elections
Of 1916.
When 1916 had run its course
Americans knew that soon or late
a stand would have to be taken for
the preservation Of our national
rights, at home, on the seas, and
abroad.
It was in 1916 that Virginia was
to become the eighteenth dry
State, but national prohibition was
yet to come, and that same year was
to witness the establishment by
w. r. Bagley of Muncie, Ind, of a
record for continuous piano playing
so hours and minutes. Quad
ruplets were to be born in Cleveland,
Ohio, and out in Perry, Iowa, a
woman who was stunned by stroke
of lightning had her hearing re-
stored. DR.. Alexander Graham Bell.
inventor of the telephone, was to
make an investigation which led to
his conviction that 100 years was the
greatest authentic age ever attained.
Death of Emperor.
In the same days newspaper the
1916 reader was to learn that the
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary had passed away after a
long and tragic life, and that
Godfrey E. Lundberg of Spokane,
Wash, had engraved the Lords
Prayer On the head of a gold pin
less than half an inch in diameter
This was to be the year when
Germanys Chancellor Bethmann.
Hollweg announced that after the
war his country would cooperate
in an endeavor to find a practical
means for procuring world peace by
means of an international league;
when David Warfleld would revive
his unforgettable "The Music
Master; when H. G.. Wells was to
publish 'Mr. Britling Sees 1t
Through" and when Rex Beach,
Emerson Hough, Harold Bell Wright
Annie Fellows Johnston, Peter B
Kyne, Charles E. Van Loan and
Rupert Hughes were writing best
sellers, and Ellen Glasgow, William
Dean Howells, Arnold Bennett, Edith
Wharton and George Moore werl
Evening star., 1940-12-29

ed as one of the greatest of living
Americans.
Automobile accidents were to be-
come an increasingly serious prob
lem in 1916, with more than 5000
deaths. Sales of cars took a tre-
mendous leap of nearly 100000 to
1903 900, and there no longer was
any doubt that the automobile was
here to stay. Many Improvements
were to be made in those cars of
Is years ago, but they were still
cons removed from the comfort,
dependability and appearance of
today. And tire blowouts still we're
to remain thrice-a-day occurrences.
But any one who would have
suggested wireless set in an auto
mobile-or anything approximating
today's radio broadcasting-would
have been denounced out of hand as
one of those idle dreamers who
would be the ruination of the coun-
try.
As Lord Kitchener observed New
Year on December 81, 1915, he
thankfully could not know that six
months later, on June 5, he and his
entire staff were to perish aboard
the British cruiser Hampshire, sunk
off the Orkney Islands.
And then there was to be Mexico.
There were to be fights between
Carranza troops and Americans, be-
tween Carranzistas and Zapatistas,
and Gen. John j. Pershing was to
be off to the border in pursuit of the
bandit, Pancho Villa. 1t all was
finally settled without war and Ger
man agitators failed in their efforts
to divert American attention from
the European scene with its larger
implications.
Mass Slaughter.
From day to day the public here
followed the war abroad, a war
which had become mass slaughter
with vast armies begged down in
the mud of France and Flanders.
On the western front the war was
q stalemate; in the East the German
war machine was crushing Russian
and Balkan opposition without diff
f1culty. Then, on August 80, the
once obscure Won Hindenburg lin
retirement when the war began)
was given supreme command of the
German armies. succeeding Won
Falkenhayn. Neither ever had heard
Of . brooding. hysterte1 corporal
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Pilot s.
Worlds Greatest Maritime Adjunct
Has Exceptional Record Along Coast
Credited With Guiding Commerce Bearers to
Port With Minimum of Water Casualties
Task Is Considered Most Hazardous
Task Is Considered Most Hazardous

August 7, that same year, assumed
power over interstate and foreign
commerce.
That act read: until further pro-
vision is made by Congress, all pilots
in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors
and ports of the United States shall
continue to be regulated in con-
formity with the existing laws of the
States wherein such pilots may be,
or with such laws as the States may
respectively enact for the purpose"
While the various States, one by
one, have made provisions for pilots
training and licensing. and adopted
regulations for the craft, it is the
pride of this service that no Con-
gress since the very beginning Of
the nation has seen fit to change a
letter in the original law laid down
by the forefathers.
Proud Of Record.
Were mighty proud of that rec
ord" Captain Delano said the other
day after he had called on his Com
mander- -in-Chief at the White
House. 1T means that we have
held relgiously to the first prin-
ciples laid down by the pilots who
preceded us, the men who placed the
foundations for what we believe to
be the greatest pilotage service In
the world. AS a wealthy country.
naturally, American commerce leads
all others. For instance, in the
year 1899 there were more than 100,-
900 ship movements into the ports
of America. That meant our boys
were on the job every minute of
the hour, every hour of the day, ev-
cry day of the week, month and year.
1t had to be uninterrupted service,
through the stress Of storm as well
as In calmer weather. With all the
hazards, the casualty rating was a
mere 1}25th of l per cent. Figure
that out for yourself. Even that
almost infinitesimal figure had to
do mostly with groundings. Col
lisions were practically negligible"
Though the pilots have done little
damage on their own account they
have been called upon, from time to
time, to figure in the rescue of life
and property-and the record of re-
lief is like an escutcheon of honor.
In helping others, the men have
sometimes lost their hves-but that.
too, is all part of the game. Men
who 60 down to the sea in ships
have adventure emblazoned on their
souls. They rather welcome the un-
usual, and they get it 9 times
out of 10.
Very Hazardous Work.
OF all the forms of navigation, ex-
pertS admit that plotting, in the
modern sense of the word, which
means to bring vessel into chan
nels and harbors and along coasts