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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
Heads Record
Department

Coincident with the release Of
the Victor oompanys new record
line, the Black Label classics. the
Ted Brown Music company an
nounces appointment Of Miss Edith
Anderson 10 have charge OF the
record department Miss Ander-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
Written in Emergency, Hail
Columbia" Saved Singers Bacon
Also Made Peace Between Republicans and
FederaIs Over Freneh-Eneish Row

gressmen joined them In singing
the new national song.
II is not a great song, perhaps.
and possibly ii has endured beyond
any merit OF its own. and as Hop
kinson says, beyond his expecta-
ton. But the song which kindled
and kept alive an American spirit,
when such a spirit was vital to
national honor and peace. Is a song
which should live always in the
good will of the American people.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
sIGN PowEa CONTRACT

PORTLAND Tliiamosgk County
Peoples Unity District and the
Bonneville sdm ! n istrstion an
nouncea today the signing q =
contract. whereby the county Viil
receive 1000 kiioNatts u firm
power and an undetermined
amount Of dump power.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
BY j. w. BIXEL

1t is one of the curiosities Of
music history that the first Ameri-
can song of a national character
was written for the purpose of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
Lincoln Singers at
First Presbyterian

Lincoln a Cappella choir, under
the direction of Mrs. Margaret
Rawson Goheen, will present a
group of five songs at the First
Presbyterian church next Sunday
for the regular morning service.
In one number. Psalm CT. Lincoln
choir will be joined by the First
Presbyterian choir, the Sanctuary
Singers, under the direction of Mr..
Frank Nurding.
PROGRAM
Hear NY Cry, o God ...,,, Kopyloff
Sinner Please Don't Let This Har-
vest Pass ...........s. Montague
Day of judgment 49,. Ark -Hangelsky
tIdsei s.s.ss- houitN
Music of Life .........H Noble Cain
Lincoln a Cappella Choir
150th Psalm ........C Cesar Franck
Sanctuary Singers
Lincoln a Cappella Choir
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18
Choir of the West to Close
Season Monday Night

J Malmin. head Of the music de.
partment at Pacific Lutheran col.
lege. Falkland. will conduct Prof,
Malmin came here three years ago
succeeding Joseph Edwards, who
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18

Walter Hopkins u Fealastins
pupil Ut L-ssnafsi Ja3ohnnn and
musle a4a yof a. tbs coliszs u
Puget ssanaa. vii h. presented IN
hIs senior recital Thursday ere,
ming. May -. II si5 IN Jones
hai. sssn he ~ln play ths fol-
lfyulng program
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-18

a4..#4ssa4ss.s ntFAttsNs t9flax nal
NJ Hopkins u accompanies fer
the Aaslphian Choral sTtsty ami
pianist 1t PIigrim Congregational
church
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
DR. BUTTERFIELD
 DIED YESTERDAY
Former State Commits siOner of Education
 Passed in Hartford

Hartford, Conn.,, April 29-CUP)- Pnneumonia, which developed af- ter an operation, caused the death of former State Commissioner of Education pr. Ernest w. Butter field, 65, Sunday at Hartford hos pital.
 Dr. Butterfield, who served as superintendent of Bloomfield schools since his resignation from the state office in 1888, had been education commissioner for eight years. He came to Connecticut in 1882 after being commissioner of education in New Hampshire since 1917. Under his administration in this state the teachers training program was ex- banded, vocational training schools were encouraged and many consol- idations were affected in rural re- gions which caused abandonment of virtually all one-room school houses. His resignation was the re- suit of pressure by the legislature which disapproved of plan to keep courses at all but one of the state teachers colleges to two years.
 Dr. Butterfield was a native of Wethersfield, Vt. He was Dart mouth graduate and . an educator for 43 years.
 His widow, two sons and two daughters survive. Funeral services will be held at West Hartford Tues day and burial will be at WetherS- field
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
COTS, WEAVER TO DIE DURING WEEK
States Prison Warden Will Announce Date of
 Death This Afternoon

Wethersfield, Conn, April 29.- (UP)-The lives of two men who murdered a Middletown Ttorekeepe1 for $6 were in the hands today oi States Prison Warden Ralph H. Walker. At a conference with news papermen the warden will announce the day and time of their execution the states first double electrocu- tion since the chair as substituted for the gallo&s four years ago.
 The men, Vincent Cots, Jr., 32 Middletown, and Ira Allen Weaver 35, Kinks County, N. C., will die during the next five days for the staying of Joseph G. Dripps, who was shot to death while resisting a holdup January q, 1889.
 Cots was convicted as the actual slayer. Weaver admitted accom- panying him to Dripps' store and waiting in an automobile until his companion completed the robbery.
 Reprieves and appeals for, new trials-the latter denied, neceSsitated re-sentencing of the men three times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
Worden Strikers Will Start Street Parade
Central Labor Union~Makes That Announcement President McElligOtt Says Strikers Were AutO-
 matically Dismissed By Company

Plans for parade to show the sympathy of organized labor with striking employees of R. F. Worden & Sons, Inc, were announced today by the Central Labor Union as the dairy and the International Broth erhood of TeamsCers and Chauffeurs remained in a deadlock. Neither side would give ground as the strike en- tered it's second week.
 Rudolph Tata, business agent for the union, charged that the dairy had been ordering materials used in the manufacture of ice cream in the name of the McElligott Fuel Corp, a concern headed by Edward Mo- Elligott, who is also president of Worden's. MT. Tara said that union drivers had refused to deliver the goods to the fuel company.
 McElligOtt Emphatic
 MT. McElligott maintained his stand that the striking drivers were automatically dismissed when they failed to return to work. He claims that majority of the dairy employ es are opposed to union contract, the non-renewal of which precipi- tated the strike.
 The parade is planned for Sum- day, with members of all local unions to take part. An application for a parade permit was to be filed with Police Superintendent William J. Roach this afternoon.
 Use Sound Trucks
 The union will use sound trucks in the streets to give its side of the strike argument, MT. Tata said. striking employees are still making house . to . house canvasses to ask Worden customers to cancel their or ders and place them with union dairies.
 It is expected that the state labor will enter the picture within few days if neither side seeks to open negotiations. The de- partment has withheld action thus far.
 The union has filed complaints with the state board of mediation and with the National Labor Rela- tions Board, charging that the dairy "intimidated" and CO., creed" employees into signing peti- tion opposing the union contract.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
PALLOTTI RULES
 ON CONVENTION

Hartford, Conn, April 29 - (U P) - Attorney General Francis A. Pallotti ruled today that separate nominating petitions must be filed for congressional, state and muni- cipal offices in the November cleo tions. In the opinion, given Secre- tary of State Mrs. Sara B. Craw- ford, he said:
 "No candiate for U. s. senator or representative in the U. s. congress may be nominated in the same peti- tion in which will be nominated candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary, treasurer and comptroller; and that separate peti- tions must be filed for the candid acy of each person intending to contest for the respective offices of state senator, representative in the state legislature, judge of probate or justice of the peace"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
German News Agency Ad- mits They Meet Stub-
 born Resistance
BATTLE IS RAGING
 OVER FIVE FRONTS
Hundreds of Allied Trucks Are Racing Supplies to
 Bloody NansOs Front
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News EditOr)

United Press Foreign News Editor)
 The Allies fought back with increasing power today against the German military grip on central Norway.
 The Scandinavian fight ing front still were scattered after three weeks of war in the north but for the first time the British, French and Norwegian forces were block ing the German advance at i'm portant points and the German of ficial news agency admitted that stubborn resistance had been en- countered. Nevertheless, the fight ing surged perilously close to the main Allied railroad line at Hjerk- inn, toward which the Nazis were battling.
 War in the air and on the sea lanes which are vital avenues of supply for both sides still remained the greatest single factor in the con- flict and in those fields both sides claimed successes. The British said they had sunk three more German supply ships (making total of 31 transport and supply craft they claim to have Suny since the Nor way campaign Started0
 The German high command said two more British cruisers and Il transports had bene bombed in the Nazi aerial offensive to destroy AL lied communication lines and the German press added up a totla of 94 ships lost by the Allies since April g. Dr. Robert Ley, Nazi labor front leader said these losses made the Norwegian coast the graveyard of the British fleet and that Germany would fight to destroy the British
 Five Main Fronts
 The German military operations were on five main fronts where the Nazi forces, led by airplanes, had spread out in the rough shape of huge hand gripping the southern and Central parts of Norway.
 The most important fighting ap- peared to be at Hjerkinn, where bold German thrust through the mountains was being fought of by British and French troops after 1t had come within striking distance of the Dombaas-Stoeren railroad which is a vital allied communica- tionS line.
 6O,O0O Nazis, 45,00O Allies
 With about 60,000 German and 45,000 allied troops reported in Norway, the five finger-alike thrusts made by the Germans were as fol- lows:
 South Norway-Nazi columns ad- vanced from Oslo northwestward to- ward Gulsvik and VoSs, while an- other German column moved north eastward from Bergen (taking Voss) in an effort to join with the Oslo forces. Norwegian resistance was comparatively weak, but continued sporadically in the form of guerrilla 
 Gudsbrand Valley-The German troops moving northward from Oslo
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
ALLIED TROOPS
 DIG IN AT NANSOS
Ten to Twelve Thousand Ready for Action; French
 Are Right in There
BY FREDERICK LAUDON United Press Staff Correspondent

'
 Stockholm, April 29-(UP)-Ten to twelve thousand Allied troops are digging in on Namsos front, north of Trodheim, a neutral source re- ported today as frontier dispatches told of a battle between British and German troops at Hjerkinn on the vital Bombaas-Stoeren railroad.
 The Hjerkinn battle may deter mine whether the Allies can main- tain control of the railroad which is of prime strategic importance to their positions south of Trondheim.
 The report of Allied reinforce mentS at Namsos was telephoned here by a neutral observer who had just come from Namsos.
 He said that about 2000 British territorial troops and 5000 to 10000 French regulars, most of them Al pine Chasseurs-the famous French Blue Devils-have now taken up positions around NamsoS.
 Excellent Artillery
 The NamsoSS troops, the neutral source said, are equipped with excel lent artillery, including anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank batteries.
 They are supported by British pursuit aircraft which were descrlb- ed as arriving in a steady flow. The arrival of the British fighter planes was said to have discouraged Ger man air raids on NamSoS which last week damaged the port Severly.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
NEGRO CONGRESS
 SCORED BY A.F.L.
American Labor Federa= ton Accuses It of Taking
 Communists Money
BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE United Press Staff COrreSDOndent)


 Washington, April o. CUP) - American Federation of Labor mem- berS were urged today to bolt the National Negro Congress which, dur ing its weekend annual meeting, accepted money from the Commun- lst party, pledged political coopera- tion with the Congress of Industrial organizations and denounced Presi- dent Roosevelt's foreign policy.
 A. Philip Randolph, New York, head of the AFL's brotherhood of sleeping car porters, declined reelec- ton for third term as President and resigned from the Congress be- cause it accepted financial contri- buttons from the Communist party and CIO unions, and because the delegates applauded defense of Soviet Russia and a declaration that negroes would not aid the United States in a war with Russia.
 Cornelius Maiden. Birmingham, Ala, AFL negro organizer who said that he attended the congress ses- sions as personal representative of AFL President William Green, said he would confer with Green this week to urge that the federa- tion's executive council forbid AFL members to join the Congress.
 Negro President Kissed
 Edgar Brown, bearded negro presi- dent of the unaffiliated United Gov-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
VERNON HALL
 AS COP CHAIRMAN
Republican Town COn1mit= tee Will Probably Elect
 Him This Evening

Election of Vernon Hall as Re- publican town chairman to succeed J. Warren Upson was viewed as 8 certainty by G. O. P. leaders today as the new town committee pre- pared to meet tonight. A committee named to study the list of candi- dates is slated to recommend that MT. Hall, now secretary of the com mittee, be advanced to the chair manShip.
 Reelection of Mrs. William " Gerardi as vice-chairman is eXpec- ted, but wide open battle for the posts of secretary and treasurer was underway. Efforts were being made to have Harold B. Post, for mer president of the Young Mems Republican club, accept one of the offices, but the dopesters had it that George Scott and Yale Matz- kin were the leading candidates for the places. Others being mentioned for secretary or treasurer were AL derman Joseph Reiner, Attorney Maurice Wrenn, Capt. J. Peter Cos tigan and Michael J'Anthony.
 Prefers Secretary
 MT. Hall would have preferred to remain as secretary, but has ex- pressed his willingness to accept the chiarmanShip to preserve har- mong in Republican ranks. He is well-liked, cnd will have support from the warning factions in the G. o. P.
 The members of the old town committee were all reelected, with one exception, at the spring prima- ris and caucuseS last week. The only new members is Mrs. Ann Van Valkenburg, who represents the Wa terville section.
 The retiring chairman, MT. Upson has declined requests that he run for another term as head of the party organization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
MIME. TETRAZZINI
 DIED YESTERDAY
World of Opera MOurns for Most GlamOrOus SO-
 pranO of All History

Milan, Italy, April 29-(UP)-The world of opera mourned today for Luisa Tetrazhirci, one of the most glamorous divaS of the golden days. She died yesterday at 68 from a cer- ebral hemorrhage complicated by bronchitis.
 In her autobiography, written in 1921, Mime Tetrazzini wrote that her voice had earned her $5,0O0,O0O. She reached her peak during the days of Caruso and Melba.
 Tetrazzini was a star from the "L'Africaine" in the early 1S00's. time of her debut in Meyerbeer's She went to the United States in 1908 and took the country by storm, not only with her voice but with an irrepreSSible sense of humor. She once said that she rather be fat and 40 than young, svelte and unable to sing.
 Although she once described her life as a path of roses" it was not altogether SO. She was married twice and was devoted to her hus- band, the late J. G. Bazelli. Her second husband was Pietro Vernati, from whom she was estranged. He once sued her to prevent her from handling her financial affairs, claiming she was incompetent. She brought 8 counter suit, accusing him of extcrtion, and he later drop ped his suit.
 Mime. Tetrazzini was a star in grand opera in the United States, having sung at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Chicago Civic Opera and in San Francisco. Later, she toured the country on the con- cert stage.
 In 1888, she made a recording which was broadcast to the United States. She listened to it from her bed ;n a villa which she shared with some students of music. She wrote book entitled, How to Sing"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
ITALY CHANGES
 AMBASSADORS

Rome, April 29 - (U.P) - The Italian government officially an nounced today the appointment of Dino Alfieri, new ambassador to the Vatican, as ambassador to Berlin.
 Alfieri, known to be a strong champion of the Axis, replaces Ser inardo Attolico, who has been Ber- lin ambassador since 1885 and is in i'll health at present. Attolico is not considered strongly pro-German.
 Attolico has been named ambass- ador to the Vatican, the Italian government later announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
Hull, Farley Combination Coming Forward Into Public Cognizance
Only Requires Word of Roosevelt to Sweep Chi-
 cagO Convention
-NEA Radiophoto
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Cnrresnnndentl

tUnited Press Staff Correspandentl
 Washington, April 29.-(UP)- Secretary of State Cordell Hull was said today by close friends to be wholly available for the Democratic presidential nomination and willing to take it. He has said he is not a candidate.
 This informa ton appeared to be better founded than the intermittent report that Hull would not expose his family to the vicissitudes of a presidential campaign. But it falls far short of clarifying the remark able clouded Democratic situation.
 President Roosevelt must be heard from before it can be known wheth- CT the Democrats in Chicago July 15 will meet in comparative amity or engage in the bitterest national po- litical convention since prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan and kindred is- sues staggered the party in 1924.
 Roosevelt Holds Key
 It appears here that MT. Roosevelt could renominate himself or accept some compromise candidate such as Hull, Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, or possibly, Postmaster James A. Farley without shattering the party into battling factions.
 Those three are not the only elig- ible Democrats. But many persons here believe they are almost the only Democrats upon whom the conven- tion would be able to agree without real trouble. Vice President John N. Garner is in the White House black book both as a conservative and,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29

high command asserted that two more British cruisers and eleven tranports and supply ships totaling 50,000 tons had been bombed by German airplanes, and that sev- eral of them had been destroyed.
 The newspaper zwoelf Uhr Blatt asserted that since April g, when Germany invaded Norway, the Allies had lost 94 ships, including five cruisers, seven destroyers and IT submarines and 59 airplanes.
 Tn England are capitalists, pluto crats, monied aristocrats, people whose only God is their money and their capital and who know nothing but profits" Ley said. They beP grudge the German people its free dom and the nation its existence They begrudge you, German youth your future. They blockade us, they want to Starve us and make us soft They will not succeed.
 Will Destroy Engand
 eve will destroy England, thrash England. Every German worker is racially more worthy than an Eng fish lord. That is true. We can not tolerate that one people on earth, by the strength of it's fleet, can and wished to withhold our daily bread from us. No? And we will destroy this fleet and we see in these very days the deep gorges in Norway'S coast - they have become the grave yard of the English grand fleet"
 Addressing himself to delegation of Italian teachers present at the factory, Ley aid:
 "Italy is in the same poition as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29

polnCS or eVldence presented by pre- vious witnesses as to his (Phil- lips) alleged complicity in the drug firm fraud manipulated by the late F. Donald Coster.
 Towards the end of the morning MT. Phillips had denied that he had anything to do with the banking firm of Manning & O., of Montreal, which was rigged up as a dummy corporation to cover up for McKes- sons, Ltd, the Canadian branch which never engaged in any manu- featuring activities but always showed an astounding profit.
 The witness said that he was present at the McKesson meeting where a resolution was passed mak- ing Manning and Company the de- pository for tte drug house. He al- so said he voted for it, although he had never heard Of the firm nor of W. w. Smith & Co.,, its New York affiliate. He did say that he recalled hearing the name of the Smith firm mentioned in report of Julian Thompson read in 1926.
 Gave Testimony Before
 After the McKesson crash in 1888 MT. Phillips said he was called by the New York State Attorney Gen eral and testified at that time he had never heard of Manning & Co.,, having forgotten, he said, that he voted for it. He was later called by the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission and testified there he knew about Manning and admit ted approving it as the McKesson depository.
 He said that he discovered this ill conversation with Jonathan Grout, a Bridgeport attorney, who looked up minutes of several Mo- Kesson meetings and relayed in- formation to MT. Phillips relative to what took place at them, among the items the fact that he was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
NORWAY EXPOSES
 CERMANY'S PLANS
Has Irrefutable Proof of GuiIt-InvasiOn of NOr=
 way Was Nazi Trick
BY PETER c. RHODES Nnited Press Staff COrrespOndentl

Stockholm, Sweden, April 29 - U.P0 - c. J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian parliament, says that Norway now has irrefutable proof that Germany long planned its in- vasion and that, while Germany was making it's plans, the German minister was expressing to the Nor wegian government his sympathy for Norway and his eagerness to help her remain neutral.
 In a bitter refutation of charges that the Allies, with Norwegian connivance, had themselves planned an invasion, Hambro said that Nor way has received disastrous proof that Britain was totally unprepared even to meet a German invasion.
 Hambro charged that Big Ger man whaler which entered Narvik harbor the night before the inva- sion, crowded with hidden German troops and war materials, flew the American flag and had American Nationality marks painted on it.
 He disclosed that Norway intend ed to issue a diplomatic white book to show that Germany planned its invasion a month in advance.
 Proves Opposite
 Joachim Won Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, in his charge Sat- urday of Allied-Norwegian plotting, had proved the opposite of what he intended, Hambro said.
 "Germany's justification of its act appears to us like band of gang sters and blackmailers who, when they have found that their victim has made slight attempt to or ganiZe his own defense and discuss
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