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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
Many Business Records Set During December
Upturn in Last Months of lo30 Reaches Height in This Month, Chamber of Commerce Annual Survey,
 Monthly Report Indicates; All Time Phone Record

A business upturn through the last six months of 1889, with the peak being reached in December, Is reflected in the annual business survey prepared by the Waterbury Chamber of Commerce. The an- nual report Is combined with the monthly survey for December, if which month employment hit the highest total since the spring of 1887. ,.
 An all-time record for number of telephones In the city was set, with 10,434 phones reported in service. Electricity consumption and gas consumption were close to the rec ord figures of 1037, while postal receipts also approached the record total.
 Gains were also registered during the year in bank clearlngs, bank savings and bank debits, also in freight tonnage. Building activity was the only index tagging behind 1888.
 Tn the month of December there WCAO OVioa' pVAoSiio ASBuAhAiy SAh~ ployed in the city. gain of 252 over November and a gain of more than 4,500 over the figure for De- cember year ago. The employ inent figure was the highest of any month in the year.
 The combined annual and month- ly reports of the Chamber of Com ii1erce are as follows
 The total bank clearings for the month of December amounted to $B, B,402, ,600.00. an increase of $i,. l06,300.00 as compared with the month of November, and an in- crease of S25S,000.00 as compared with the month of December, 1038.
 The total bank clearings for the entire year amounted to S8l ,838,-
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 "We were on routine instrument flight and were up between 5000 and 10000 feet. As we emerged into a clear space the other plane clipped into our right wing. At least five feet of the wing broke off, I jumped as we started to fall"
 James Addison Crowson, "A, Maysville, Ala, was killed. Harold Funk, 25, of Ray, Colo, was injured so that he required hospital treat ment.
 Walter Glenn Barnes, Jr., pilot of one of the ships still was reported missing today.
 Funk is an ensign in the naval reserve and was piloting one of the planes.
 Navy headquarters at first was advised that Barnes was en route to a hospital at El Centro but when he had not appeared there several hours after the crash there ap- peared a possibled that mistake had been made and that he still was missing.
 Lhe SurVlVorS were,
 g'aul Eugene Dickson, 26, aviation nachinist's mate, 1st class, Spring. field, O., second pilot; Charles Wes- lev Post, 24 radioman, End class. Troutdale, Ore, Elmer Edwin Jack son, 22, radioman, 3rd class, Hem dersonville, N. c.
 The planes were from the air. plane carrier Saratoga, based here. They are type TBD-1-conventional land type planes, all metal. Equipped to carry either torpedoes or bombs. With single 1000 horsepower eil.. zines, they have a maximum speed of over 200 miles an hour. They were on pas routine bSttai1in9 flight and were returning to their base when the accident occurred. The crash came so suddenly that the radiomen were unable to communi- cate to the base station. Only one message was received.
 1.-TWO members bailing out" 1t said. The plane from which the message came was not ideI,tified ana nothing more was heard.
 Post and Jackson were the first to be found.
 "The planes seemed to strike down draft" Jackson said, It hap rened so suddenly we didn't re- alize the situation. The planes
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
Endorsements Arriving From Spain and Italy
 RumOred WAR LIKELY TO BE HELD UP BY WINTER First Phase of War De. cIared Ended With Re-
 cent ROuts
BY LOUIS r. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

The aid which the em- battled Films need to drive the invading Russian armies from their soil apparently is beginning to flow in a steady quantity from allied and neutral countries. Paris re- ports that large shipments of munitions and equipment are passing through that coun- try, destined for Finland and that volunteers for Flnland's fighting forces are heading northward in in- creasing numbers.
 The origin of the reinforcementA was not specified. but they appar- ently come mostly from Italy and Spain and from the countries of southeastern Europe who are in agreement with Italy on the fieccs-, sity of protecting themselves against possible Russian aggression.
 England Aids
 England also is understood to be carrying out Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's pledge Of substantial aid, probably by large shipments Of airplanes and materials.
 Both men and materials have to pass through Norway and Sweden to get to Finland. since Germany apparentlyl has decided not to aai-. tagoniSe her axis partner by letting such things as Itall&n planes slip through. i
 Norway and Sweden. while pro- claiming their neutrality. are giving oil the aid possible to their be- leaguered nelghbor, apparently un- moved by threats in the German press. They also are strengthening their defenSeS against extension of the war to their countries,
 War Stalemated
 The prospects that the Finn war will be stalemated for the rest of the winter are considered good in London and Paris as the requested reinforcemerltS are hurried along to Finland.
 Gen. Victor Charles Duval. out. standing French military analyst. expressed the opinion that the rout of two Russian divisions and the partial defeat of c third has ended the first phase of the war
 General Duval predicted the Red Army would dig In and try to hold their present positions until spring because chaotic Russian transport conditions prevent sizeable Noodles of troops from advancing to bases for further operations in the snow.
 Duval contends that the net re- suit of the first 40 days of opera tons has been 10 lower the prestige of the Russian army without the slightest strategic gains. It has, he believes, given the Films enough modern captured war material to equip three divisions and thereby relieving their most serious weak
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
CITY BOARDS ON
 OWN JURISDICTION
Mayor Scully Officially Turns Over Dept. Man.
 agement at Meetings

Responsibility for departments under their Jurisdiction rests with them, Mayor Vincent A. scully warned members Of four new city board at meetings last night. Mem- bers of the health, welfare, police and fire boards were sworn in. The health board provided the principal surprise by dropping pr. Richard J. iinchey, city physician for the poor for the past 18 years, and re- placing him with pr. Raymond J. Quinn. The same board reappoif1ted pr. Edward J. Godfrey as city health officer.
 The Board Of Public Welfare re- appointed Miss Grace White as supervisor of welfare, and also re- named the following: Matthew Doyle as superintendent of Brook side Home, his wife. Mrs. Catherine Doyle. aS matron at Brookside, ana Martin J. Hayden as clerk Of the board.
 Father Cryne Chairman
 Rev. pr. Eugene Cryne, pastor ot St. Patricks Church, was elected chairman cf the welfare board. pr. Andrew J. Jackson was reelected chairman of the Board of Health. Attorney Finton J. Phelan was chosen chairman of the fire board. William J. Verriker was named chairman of the police board.
 The appointees are virtually all new members. The only former board members reappointed was Commissioner Wendell Gross of the police board and the professional members of the health board.
 Designation Praised
 Destination of Father Cryne as welfare board chairman was highly praised by another board member, Rev. pr. John N. Lewis, rector Q! St. Johns Episcopal church, who de- clared that no one was better quail. fled by experience and ability for the pogt.
 Mayor scully urged the board to see to 1t that the welfare depart- ment operate within it's budget as far as possible. If the relief Situ- ation becomes acute, however, he said, he would ask that other de- partments make funds available rom their appropriations for transfer to the welfare department. He told the board members that he would not attempt to influence them in any way, that the management of
 
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Neutral Countries Also Believed Sending Men, Materials To Finns
Rats Outnun1ber
 Humans In U. 5.

Washington, Jan. l3-(UP)- The American Chemical Society reported today that rats out number the human population In the United States almost two Co one.
 The estimate was made In Q report of the society on the de- velOpment of insecticides. lt said that each rat does at least S2 damage . year-a total of $500, ,O0O, 900.
 That would place the number of rats at about 2bO,0OO, 900, whereas the popula ton at the last census was about 131 ,000,. 900.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
LEWIS IS COUNTED
 OUT OF NEW DEAL
Expected to Be in Presi. dentiaI Camp of Sen.
 Burton K. Wheeler
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

Washington. Jan. i3 - (U,PJ -. John L. Lewis of the Congress of Industrial Organizations today Is being counted out of the Roosevelt new deal army which he helped drill and feed in past campaigns.
 And 1t appears now that Lewis has found place to hang his poe litical hat in the pre"convention campaign quarters Of Senator Bur ton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, who IS conducting an un.announced cam- paign for the Democratic presiden- tial' nomination.
 Last October Lewis found occasion for abrupt and eager acc ceptance of Whtie House intima- tons that President Roosevelt would not be q third term candi- date. That was when Presidential Secretary stephen T. Early rebuked Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace for third term talk on the west coast.
 "Well, that's that" Lewis said, In effect, in c snappy statement de- nouneing q proposed 1i.state vest ern progressive conference on the grounds that it was ar under"cover third term movement in which Wheeler and other liberals had been ignored. Lewis did not name any of his other liberals in that state- ment and Washington suspected that the busty-broWed boss of the F,YFN 4iaa TT,aiAAd AhtAa yyAVka apa ana iabor's non partisan league had de- cided Wheeler could become the man of the year.
 That suspicion increased consid. erabiy yesterday when Wheeler'S otfice announced that Lewis had in- vited the senator to address the 60th aniversary convention of the United Mine Workers in Columbus. o.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
MEXICO DOESN'T
 WANT OUR AID
Monroe Doctrine Not Rec. ognized, Claims Presi.
 dent CardenaS
BY WILLIAM If. LANDER (Lnlted Press Staff Correspondent

Mexico City January l3-(UP)-- President Lazaro Cardenas today announced Mexico's refusal to recog- nize the Monroe Doctrine and de- clare that Mexico would solve Us oil problem involving $400000, 900 worth of foreign oil properties ex- proprlated by the government in US own way,
 President CardenaS commented that reports the United States would send warships to tee that MeXicos neutrality was not violated were absolutely false,
 Regarding the Monroe Doctrine, he said:
 "The Monroe Doctrine never was recognlzed nor could be recognized by Mexico and other Spanish Amer ican nations. It was only ah ex- pression of a unilateral policy which the United States adopted With the double purpose of excluding Euro. pean countries from thls hemis- phere and defending It's own m- terestS.
 Pretext For Intervention
 "such a doctrine, badly interpreted and applied beyond it's original scope, sometimes converts Itself into a pretext for intervention In the af- fairs of other nations. When the protocol against intervention in' each others affairs was proposed Dy Mexico at the Buenos Aires Pan American Conference of 1030, and signed by all the American republics, 1t was considered ttAt the Monroe Doctrine had pceasad to. .axiAtsin sata previous form"
 Cardenas pointed out that the suenos Aires declaration was made against direct or indirect interYen- ton by one American nation itl the affairs of another, and that 1t es.. abolished the principle of mutual consultation among the republics.
 1nter.Dependencc Seen
 "In case any one of the Signatory countries should find Itself In dan- ger of aggression, this method, far from admitting the right of one country to protect another with or without consent of the second na- ton, recognizes the nter-dependenee and solidarity Of American nations and the obligation that each has to Judge for itself regarding any threats or dangers. Later on, ct the Panama conference, this idea was rearmed, and was complemented by the establishment of the doctrine that In event any region of America now under the Jurisdiction of 6 for- eign state should change sovereignty and In doing 50 created danger to the security of this hemisphere the republics should consult. The result of oil this was that the Monroe Doe- trine was excluded, and American solidarity substituted for it."
 No Compromise
 Discussing the oil situation tho president referred to newspaper ar- ticles quoting Donald Riehberg, ct. torney for American oil interests in Mexico, as saying that there was no prospect of compromise be- tween the companies and the Mexi- can government, and intimating a desire for international arbitration
 Cardenas said that negotiations with Richberg had been terminated and that he was no longer regarded here as c representative of the com- panies. Hence, CardenaS said. ms statement lacked weight, Mexico VIII settle the oil problem by paying the companies for properties expro' priated CardenaS said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
RELIEF LOAD OFF
 DURING PAST YEAR

Hartford, Conn. Jan. i3--tUP)-- State Welfare Commissioner Robert J. Smith announced today Connec- ticut's aggregate relief load dropped 1924 per cent during the past year. The cost to the state of supporting the poor dropped 1922 per cent dur ing the same period, he said.
 Informed of this development, Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin said:
 T am highly gratifled that im- proved business conditions are re- fiected in this substantial decrease in the relief load. It means that more people have gotten back to jobs In private industry"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13

West Hartford, Conn. Jan. i3-- (uP)-Funeral services will be held today for o. Edward Beach, 77, well known engineer and former mesn- ber of the general assembly, who died yesterday after an illness. He leaves two sons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
FALLS ON SAW

Warehouse Point, Conn, Jan. l3- (UP)-Funeral services will be held Monday for William s. Sherris, sO, who was injured fatally late yester- day when he fell on c gasoline driven saw,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13

Fairfield, Conn, Jan. l3-(JP)-- The Falrfisld Democratic tows con- mittee today approved e resolution endorsing President Roosevelt for a third term.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
Powerful Draft
 Causes Planes To Crash In Mid-Air
One Man Killed in California Air Collision; One Man Is Missing; Four Survivors Tell StOry-PilOt
 of One of Planes Can't Be Found
San Diego, Cal, January IS. -

San Diego Cal. January 1s. - CUPC - Survivors of
 spectacular mdar naval arplane crash expressed the belief today the accident caused by sudden and extremely powerful down-draft in the air. One killed in the crash missing and the other four members parachuted to safety Elmer Edwin Jackson radoman said he believed the downdra caused the crash "The air force strong could hardly bail out he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
BANDITS NERVOUS

Mansfield, Mass, Jan. 13- tUP) = Two nervous bandits dropped $4O last night as they fled after getting s7O in store hold-up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13
THE WORLD WAR
 25 YEARS AGO, z JAN. 12, 1915
tBy United Press)

Battle of soissODs entered fifth day.
 French and German forces stili locked in first battle Of Champagne,
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The Wsathsr

Cloudy Today; Snow Late Tomorrow
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Evening star., 1940-09-03
WASHINGTON c. TUESDAY g.

the village was away. An Indian
calling himself Charlie Smith took
charge of me. The treatments he
| administered helped me.
I showed him IS bills and made
signs I wanted to be taken to the
Chucunaque River. He nodded. At
4 the the morning the women began
to prepare food, and I knew we were
going on a journey. Shortly after
daylight I rose and staggered to
the boat. AS the day progressed I
felt better. In the late afternoon
we reached the junction of a larger
river. I paid the Indians and they
left me with a generous supply of
cocoa cake and plantain.
The next day I built a rude raft,
but rains prevented me from using
it. Perhaps 1t was as well, for two
Indians came by with a boatload
of plantains. They drew up at the
gravel bar where I waited with my
raft as If they had expected me.
I offered them $40 to take me down
the river. It turned out to be the
Chucunaque. For the next four
days we poled and padded down
the beautiful stream.
Different Types of People.
Then we reached the village of
Yavisa, home of colored people and
tribe of Indians entirely different
from my boatmen. 1t seemed thou
sands OF. miles back to Panama-22
days the way had come. Actually
1t was less than 200 miles.
What a change the highway will
make in that region! The village
of 300 or 400 has no form of wheeled
vehicle in use.
At the village I stocked up at a
Chinese store with food, supplies
and clothing-my own was in rags.
1 met two Panamanians who were
going UP the Tuyra River and across
divide into Colombia. For days
we moved up the river, and turned
into the Paya River. At the village
of Paya we slept in an open-air
kitchen.
The village probably will lie close
to the highway. 1t Is the focal
point from several directions in
Panama. In Colombia a road is
being built toward the village.
We left our boat at Paya. and a
day later came by a muddy trail
into the hills about 10 miles to the
east. Here We saw a formal marker
on the Colombian border. For once
l knew where I was! I was a day
and half walking down the slope
to the Atrato River in Colombia.
The river is navigated by small
boats.
Having traversed Panama's un-
explored route for the highway, as
Evening star., 1940-09-03
By RICHARD TEWKESBURY.

After journeying for days through
the sparsely settled Indian country
with the aid of friendly savages,
dismissed my guides when it be-
came evident they were ushering me
out of the mysterious interior and
down from the mountains toward
the San Bias coast on the Atlantic.
Despite the anxiety of the In
dians to get me out Of their terri
tory in the higher hills of the Cor
dillera and back to the coast, was
determined to continue my south
easterly course to learn as much as
possible about the area through
which the Pan-American highway
eventually will be built.
My Indians left me after I paid
them $8 and indicated / would de-
scend to the coast. Yet to be alone
in the dripping jungle, dwarfed by
the magnitude of the trees and
mountains, is no comfortable feel
ing. The greatest obstacle is fear
mental agony. In traverSing un-
known and uncertain country, it
can be more difficult to overcome
mental than physical hazards.
Compasses Under Suspicion.
There was no way of seeing where
I was going. Judgment and dead
reckoning by compass were my only
guides. Sometimes I doubted my
compasses, and this self confusion
was the most difficult of all.
For seven days, alone, wandering,
perhaps lost, plodded up hills.
down dales, waded streams, slept
under makeshift shelters, always in
the continual rain.
I detoured thorny patches OF
palms, slid into small streams
through an entangled mass of low
hills deadly still except for the oc-
casional chatter of birds and the
crash of a limb.
Even then I kept imagining the
shining stream of motor cars which
one day would thread the jungle
Certainly this must be true If
hemisphere defense is to become a
reality.
My food stock was getting as low
as my spirits. but I headed South
into the interior, knowing any
stream in this region probably
would lead me to the Chucunaque
River. Late one afternoon I reached
the village of Chakate, a few grass
houses on a small stream.
The Indians there bore a resem-
blance to the San Bias tribe. When
I asked for the Chucunaque they
pointed downstream.
Strain Brings Illness.
It was not until late evening that
I finally gave up trying to orient
myself and went into a complete
mental and physical collapse. My
head roared, the village swirled
around me and I vomited. A fever
developed and streams of perspira-
ton ran from me as I lay on the
floor of a hut. I concluded I had
suffered let down after days Of
strain. Apparently the. chief OF
Evening star., 1940-09-03

I had originally planned, I could
recall no physical barrier that engi-
neers could not overcome. The
crossing of the three great rivers in
the region can be avoided. Their
20 to 80 foot floor stages can, too,
be avoided by building the highway
a few miles from the streams.
There remains the Indian prob
lem, one which can be solved in
some manner suitable to the Indians
and Panama. In general I found
the Indians of the interior Of
Darien very friendly group. They
will stand their ground until they
are sure of the travellers mission.
II, they approve they will consider
him one of themselves and welcome
him among them.
The Indians were friendly and
helpful. They fed me and guided
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Friendly Indians
Are Found in WiIds
Will Pierce
Amateur Explorer Sees
No impossible Barrier on
Pun-Americun Route

Richard Tepkesbury. 80, Is a
mathematics instructor at Hard
ing High School, Charlotte, N. C.
Small OF stature and slight OF
build, he has gone among the
reputedly dangerous Indians of
the almost unknoiun Darien re-
gion OF Panama to look ouer the
route for the projected Pan
American highway. He made
friends ,Oith the indians and his
report of tDhat he found on the
first kno1Dn trip by a 1Dhite man
through the area is of great razue
to the planners OF the Pan
American htghDay, officials here
say. Mr.. TeWkeSbury financed
his own one-man expeditions in
Panama. This is the last of a
series OF articles By him.
Evening star., 1940-09-03

me on my journey. Life in their
villages has dignity and order. They
act like normal human beings, too.
Wanting to satisfy the needs Of
others; they exchange gifts, laugh,
play and joke with their friends.
I fear no man who hands out a
banana or a mango to q hungry
stranger. I regret that I could not
speak their language so I could
have enpoyed my association with
them more.
1t is to be hoped that those in
charge of routing the Pan-American
highway will respect the desires of
the Darien Indians so they will still
cling to their river retreats at a
safe distance from the roaring
stream of international traffic that
is bound to result from the great
highway.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Dempsey's III Daughter
Flying to New York
3y the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Jack
Dempsey's daughter, Barbara, 4,
was reported sufficiently recovered
from a sore throat and high fever
to undertake an airplane trip to
New York today.
The former heavyweight cham
pion and Barbara and his other
daughter, Joan, 6, arrived from Salt
Lake City yesterday. Barbara, whose
tonsils were removed recently, de-
Evening star., 1940-09-03
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