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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
MISS REMINGTON AWARDED DEGREE
Watertown Student al Bread School to, Be
 Honored Tonight

Middlebury, Vt, August 13-Miss Edith H. Harrington, Watertown, Conn, will be awarded a master of Arts degree in English at the annual commencement of the Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of Eng fish, here this evening. Miss Ham, ington attended the University of Maine from which she was gradu- ated with an A. B. degree.
 Miss Harrington has spent three summers at the Bread Loaf School of English, and among the promi- nent figures with whom she has had contact in lecture and classes are: Dr. Robert M. Gay, head of the Eng lish department of Simmons col- lege; Alfred Kreymborg, well known poet and playwright; Robert Frost, famed New England poet: John Mason Brown, dramatic critic; Allen Tate, critic and author; Marjorie Nicolson, dean of Smith college; Ed ward Weeks. editor of the, Atlantic Monthly; Paul Rosenfield, critic and author; Hervey Allen, author of Anthony Adverse; Walter Prich- ard Eaton, critic and essayist; and Edith Mirrieless, short story critic and eSsayiSt.
 The Bread Loaf School of English is located in the heart of the Green Mountains in a 30,O00 tract of forest reservation, owned by Middlebury college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
|DR. WESTRICK IS | CAUSE OF TROUBLE
$lOO,OOO a Year Chair- man of Oil Co. Loses
 Job Over Nazi Envoy

New York, Aug. 13.-(UP)-The mysterious activities of Dr. Gerhard AloiS WeStrick, trade counselor to the German Embassy, resulted to- day in the chairman of the board of directors of one of the nations largest oil companies, losing his job. The Texas Oil Corp. announced the resignation of Captain Torkild Rieber, a Norwegian immigrant who rose from a deck hand on an oil tanker to head of the corporation at a $100000 annual salary, because of existing circumstances"
 Rieber's connection with the Nazi envoy was disclosed two weeks ago last Friday, it was testified at a hearing before officials of the State Motor Vehicle Bureau that he had ordered $1,570 automobile for Westrick with Texas company mon- ey. The bureau had questioned the validity of Westrick's application for a drivers license, registration cer- tificate and license plates. They were revoked when it became known that Westrick had given false in- formation in his applications. Dewey Got Testimony. The bureau yesterday announced that transcript of the testimony given at the hearing would be sent to District Attorney Thomas E.. Dewey for appropriate action" say ing this procedure was customary. Harold M. Olds, chief engineer of the Texas company's export division, had testified that Westrick had transferred ownership of the auto mobile to his wife, but that 1t ac- tually was the property of the com pany.
 The much publicized activities of Westrick, who said he was in this country only to promote United States German trade "after the war;" disclosed that he had been given Texas company offices as 8 business address.
 "It was good business to loan Westrick an automobile and help him obtain his automobile license" !" Rieber explained then. T sent some of the boys around to help him get his license. I considered 1t simply good business"
 Rieber's Statement.
 Insisting that his relations with the German emissary had mo poli- tical significance" Rieber said that the automobile merely was a cour- tesy which the company would ex- tend any foreigner with which 1t had business. A company spokesman explained, however, that 1t had had no investments in Germany for more than 20 years, and quoted Rieber that no oil had been deliv- cred to the German government since before the start of the war.
 At the board meeting at which he resigned, Rieber said that because of exchange regulations which had complicated Westrick's finance he had advanced company money for the car and that the company was | to be repaid. Last week 1t was charged that a $5,000,0 900 bank &C., count had been opened in Westrick,s name in San Francisco shortly after | his arrival there.
 Deniec Business Deals. Rieber said he had seen Westrick three times since June II. but de- |nied he had business dealings with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

public is looking for results, and we've got to get them .. F. You don't know of any ex-G-men who are looking for jobs, do you?"
 Stanley is in position to put the squeeze on my local prosecutor, who as a hold-over from the Long re- gime, may try to sabotage the in- vestigation. By queer twist of fate it is a law passed by Huey Long himself that enables him to do so. LAWSUIT
 AIDED VICTORY
 Back in the early '30s, Stanley was district attorney in New Or leans. Huey was just then putting through the various stranglehold laws which gave the state house control over local governments. One was a law providing that district attorneys staff be chosen, not by the district attorney himself, but by the attorney general.
 Stanley, who was one of the independent district attorneys the law aimed at, resigned in protest. The law stayed on the books and is still unrepealed - and now, as att torney general, Stanley can use it if he needs it.
 Incidentally, it was a lawsuit filed by Stanley two years ago that made Jones' victory possible. The situation which that lawsuit was directed against is worth look ing at, because it explains why the Long regime was able to main- tain its dictatorship for five years after Huey himself, the brains and driving force of the whole com- bine, was dead.
 In 1884, Huey amended an old law governing the GA parish boards of election supervisors. The effect of his amendment was to give his appointees the sole power to name election commissioners, watchers at the polls, and so on; result was that the machine was able to run the polling booths and count the ballots afterward without the slightest interference or super vision.
 This law simply made the ma chine unbeatable. Under it, Allen Ellender was elected to the U. S.. Senate in 1886 and Dick Leche was elected governor. Jones says today that if that law were still on the books he himself could not have hoped to be elected. But in 1888 Stanley filed suit against it, carried his lawsuit ot the state supreme court, and got the law knocked out.
 It was in recognition of this service that Jones last year re- fused to run for governor unless Stanley would run for attorney general.
 stanley's investigation, which is to begin immediately, has an unbelievably rich field to exploit Louisiana graft was of high, low and middle degrees; nothing was too little to steal, and no form ot thievery was too fanciful.
 Padded payrolls were almost universal. There is, for instance the quaint case of family which had nine of its members (one 8 child of D on the state payroll There is another case of a favored gentleman who simultaneously drew $500 a month from the state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
POLI'S

Tomorrow night at g o'clock the Loew Poli Theater will present Har- lem Rhythm an all colored star re- vue direct from their engagement at the Harlem club in New York City This all star all colored musical revue has 8 cast of 20 workers featuring Poke -Hoke- -Moke, the emperors of comedy; Hilda Gray, tall tan terrific songstress, Go Get Elm Rogers, Amer ica'S premier eccentric dancer; Ur- sula Brown, Chocolate Mae West; Artie Brooks, dancer par excellence; and Nose Browns original Dixieland Band.
 And on the Loew Pou screen start ing tomorrow for three day engage men a drama of unmatched appeal the new 20th Century Fox film, "The Man I Married" Preview audiences were stirred by the dramatic revela- tion of beautiful girls experiences with the husband she thought she knew.
 Based on Oscar Schisgall's power full story in Liberty Magazine" "The Man I Married" is rich in possibili- ties for dramatic entertainment. The films unique and unforgettable char acters are played by some of the top names on Hollywood's horizon, in- cluding Joan Bennett, Francis Led erer, Lloyd Nolan and Anna Sten- all of whom are starred.
 loans performance as the young and beautiful wife who suddenly finds her husband a stranger has re- ceived much favorable advance com- ment, while Francis Lederer, in his portrayal of the husband, is said to provide one of the films outstanding highlights.
 Lloyd Nolan as the American for eign correspondent and Anna Sten as the "other" woman are said to give sterling performances in exact- ing roles.
 Others who are featured include Otto Kruger and Maria Ouspenskaya two of the screens most adroit in terpreters of difficult character roles.
 And tonight for the last time you will be able to see Pride and Preju- dice" and Three Faces Vest"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
Officials In
 Joint Conference
Mrs. Florence Kerr to Address Heads of Professional
 Service Divisions at Hotel Taft Wednesday

Louisiana. Tn Iowa, she served as a member of the Governors Com- mittee for Unemployment Relief be- fore her appointment to the WFA reQional ofice in Chicago.
 Under Mrs. Kerr,s Division come such projects as Art. Music, and writing: Education, Recreation, Re- search, Library, Public Administra- ton projects, such as real property appraisals, tax delinquency surveys. and codification of laws; School Lunch for needy children. Nursing and Public Health: Housekeeping Aide and Household workers Train- ing: Historical Records, Archaeolog- ical Surveys; Sewing, and ether im- portant programs. These projects provide employment for nearly half d million persons. well over 30 per cent of whom are women.
 As WPA Assistant Commissioner, Mrs. Kerr employs more people than any other woman in the WorlqS and she employs more women than any other. person in the world-- man OR woman. ts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
RESTAURANT HERE
 LISTS NO ASSETS

Liabilities totalling $12,135, but no assets, were listed. by Louis Chronis, operator of the defunct St. Regis restaurant, in his voluntary petition of bankruptcy filed with the clerk of the U. s. district court in New Haven. The restaurant was closed last week for failure to, pay its taxes to the city.
 The restaurant owes the federal government $179 in taxes, owes $172 to the state, and $1,044 to the city. There are also secured claims amounting to $5,000; unsecured claims of $5,S53, and notes amount ing to $383.
 Among the larger unsecured cred itorS are: Brock Hall Dairy, $6ll; Worden Dairy, $708: H. E. Dutton. SPA; Loomis, Wilson Co, Hartford, $262; Arabon Coffee Co, Boston, $l04; P. Berry & Sons, $lS4; Lewis Bros, 107; Monterey Coffee O., New Haven, $602: Connecticut Light & Power Co, $32l; Merritt |. Ben-, ton, New Haven, rent, $8s0: New Amsterdam Casualty O., $2l2; City Sea Food Market, $i20.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

Mrs. Florence Kerr, Assistant Commissioner of the Work Projects Administration, Washington. D. C., will arrive in New Haven Wednes- day morning for an all-day joint conference with the Connecticut and Rhode Island heads of Profes- sional and Service Divisions of the WPA. Mrs. Kerr is the national head of this division and as such employs nearly half a million per- sons-more than fifty per cent of whom are women.
 The conference will be held at the Hotel Taft, opening at lO:30 a. m.. and continuing through luncheon until 4s30 D. m. From 4:45 to 5:O0, Mrs. Kerr will deliver a radio address on the work of her division, from the New Haven stu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

A threat to start hauling all ma terials by truck or barge has taken care of that.
 PLAIN
 AND FANCY
 There was graft in real estate as- sessments. That worked like. this:
 You own property in New Or leans, say, worth $100,0O0. Presently the state reassesses 1t at $200, ,000. You kick, but get nowhere. Then fixer comes to you and offers to get it put back to $100,000 = if you will just split the saving with him.
 One of the most fantastic bits of grating was comprised in the fam ous Hotel Bienville case. A ring of state officials and their friends ped-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

dock board, $400 a month from the levee board and $200 a month from the board of health. The dock board had 2,800 employees at the time of the last election; it has since been found that the work can be done by 1,200.
 The highway department paid 90 cents cubic yard, uniformly, for its gravel; Governor Jones has found that the stuff can be bought for 35 cents. He has also found that for hauling its highway ma terials the state has been paying the railroad rates which run sometimes four times as high as those paid for similar hauls by the neighboring state of Arkansas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

him.
 The whereabouts of Westrick and his family could not be determined. He checked out of his hotel and re- quested hotel officials not to disclose his address. Recently he had been asked to leave the summer home which he had rented in Scarsdale. N. r.
 Rieber was born in, Norway in 1882 and went to sea when he was IA. At 2ls te was captain of an oil tanker, then joined the Texas Corp. When elected chairman of the board, he was vice-presidentl in charge of marine and export, actiyit- ties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

A monthly meeting of, Casper g. Davis, American Legion Post will be held tonight, at Fraternity han, with. Commander Andrew w. Bell, presiding. Election of officers will also take place and a slate of ofii-. cers presented by a nominating. committee of John. Byrnes, Walter Painter and Harry Simpson.
 Plans will also be discussed for the coming Flower Show, of Sep- ternber 11th and 18th.
 The following girls were registered at the Girl Scout Camp Wequapau- set on Sunday for the final period of camping: Happy Hollow Unit: Grace Collins, Ann Donston. zeno- bia Hodkoski. Mary Hogan, Mar garet Humiston, Olive Jenkins. Janet Kiefer, Murial Lynch, Betty Mclean, Jean Platt, Joan Rice, Shirley Rice, Fay Schandelmaier, Mary Upson, Therese Vauerand and Janet Bowen. Tip Top Unit v Mary Driscoll, Marilyn Earls, Ann Farist, Patricia Herman, Joan Hutton, Joyce Kilbourn, Beverly LaBreque, Carolyn Mills, Kathleen Moore, Grace. Soukup, Barbara Tracy, Elaine Turner, Alice, Van, Horsten. Joan Weyand, Ruth Andrew and Vivian Cronk. Sky High Unit-Dor- othy Fuller, Marguerite McEnnerney Mildred Manke, Joan Murphy, Dor- othy O'Brien, Irene Pearson, Rose mary Riley, Roberta Javecchia and Myrtle Hansen. In Trails End = Barbara Bowen, Betty Brennan, Betty Donahue, Pauline Francis, Joan Grady, Priscilla Henchel, Mary Louise Lawlor. and Jane ODonnell. Picnic suppers were held in each unit kitchen Sunday night.
 Visitors day will be Thursday, August 18th, at which time there will be a special program from 3 to in the afternoon.
 Mrs. Louise Dadario and Mrs. Georgiana Grenier, recently visited Mrs. Charles Denehy who is g pa- tient at the sanitarium, "Uncas On the Thames, Mrs. Denehy is Q former resident of Waterville and has many friends living here. She was reported to be greatly improved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
In The Local Theaters
dly, tolerant character Professor

kindly, tolerant character Professor Roth.
 Robert Young, one of the. screens most versatile actors, follows his hit performance in Northwest Passage" with another outstanding role. Others important in the cast include Robert Stack, Bonita Gram vile, Irene Rich and Gene Rey- holds.
 Those Were the Days," a comedy romance about college life, will CO., feature the program and boasts a star-studded cast composed of Will liam Holden, Ezra Stone and Judith Barrett.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
WATERBURY SAVINGS BANK
 STATEMENT AUGUST l, 1940

This Bank owes its depositors To pay its depositors the Bank has: Cash in vault and on deposit in New York, Boston and Waterbury banks United States Bonds ............ Bonds. Direct obligations of towns and cities, mostly in Con- Canadian Bonds. Bonds of the Do- minion of Canada and it's Provinces, payable in United States Dollars :. Railroad Bonds. Mortgage liens on railroad properties in the United Public Utility Bonds. Bonds of the best electric light, gas, water and telephone companies, as a rule secured by first mortgage on plant of the Company .................. Bank Stocks. Capital stock of banks in New York, Boston and Con-
 necticuC ............s.... Real Estate Loans. First mortgages on real estate in Waterbury and surrounding towns ................. Collateral Loans. Loans on stocks and bonds pledged as security, .... Pass Book Loans. Loans on savings bank pass books pledged as security Personal Leans. Unsecured joint notes of responsible individuals ...
 The Mutual Savings Banks Central Fund, Inc. A fund created for the purpose of making sure the pay- ment of deposits in Connecticut savings banks ................... Banking Houses ...................
 Other Real Estate. Most of this prop erty is income producing and it is believed will be sold for more than DOCK Value .................
 Real Estate Sold Under Contract ..
 Surplus. This is a guarantee fund, accumulated from surplus earnings and is the amount this bank has in reserve above the amount owing its depositors ........................
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
BOY OF fl SUFFERS GouT

Sydney, Australia. = (UP) = The Sydney University Medical Journal of Australia is making much ado about a boy of IA who has the gout. None of his relatives ever had the gout, and his parents as well as himself have always. been total abstainers. The Journal states that gout in children is exceedingly rare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
WOMEN PLANNING
 COUNTY MEETING

Ameeting of the Waterbury Wom- ems Democratic club will be held at 8:l5 tonight at the Elton, with plans to be made for representation. at a county meeting next Tuesday at the Oakdale tavern, Wallingford.
 Principal speakers at the county session will be Mrs. Chase G. Wood house, president of the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's club, and Martha Moore, state vice. chairman and one of the organizers of the federation.
 Mrs. Henry A. Hayden of this city, county president. will be in charge of the county meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

About an hour later the editor got . call from correspondent il X town & score of miles away iron fine first town. The parade was picking up strength as it went along: there were now 300 cars In line. with more joining up al every crossroads.
 Next the editor heard was press association message from up state: state police had had to block off the roads because of one ot the worst traffic jams in history, with thousands of autos in mad nrocession, It seemed as if every one who had a car joined the parade as soon as he saw 1t; those who had no cars stood by the roadside to cheer, some of them even kneeling to pray in thanks giving.
 BIG JOB FOR NEW
 ATTORNEY GENERAL
 The Long machine denied civil liberties, inflicted all kinds of petty injustices on ordinary folk-and, as everyone knew, stole the state blind.
 Governor Jones estimates that in the four years before he LOOK office the old Long machine stole between 50 and 75 millions. He wants to recover as much of that money as possible and to punish the crooks who got it.
 This job is up to Eugene Stan- ley, newly elected attorney gen. eral of Louisiana. He will take up where the U. S. Justice Depart ment's John Rogge left off. Rogge took care of a lot of the big shots --ex-Governor Richard Leche, Hotel man Seymour Weiss, ex-Levee Board President Anne Shushan, former Conservation Commissioner William Rankin, former Louisiana State University President James Monroe Smith, and others-where federal law violations could be proved.
 That, however, only scratches the surface. The stealing that went on in Louisiana was conscienceless, m- genious and unceasing; real clean up depends on state action, which Is what Stanley is out to provide. SEABURY
 HELPED
 Stanley began by writing to Judge Samuel Seabury, who became fam ous eight years ago by his inveStiga. tion of Tammany corruption 1T New York. Stanley sketched in th' situation that faced him and asked Judge Seabury if he could forward an outline of the way he proceeded plus any suggestions he might have Seabury sent him mass of mater ial, and Stanley is preparing t model his investigation on the Sea bury probe.
 He will have plenty of money Governor Jones put through 8 law setting up a state crime commis' sion = composed of the governor the attorney general and the gov. ernor's executive council -. ane appropriaing $500,000 for two-yeal investigation. This appropriation drew howl from Jones predeces' sor, ex-Governor Earl Long, brother of the lamented Huey, who protest ed that 1t was a dire waste of thu taxpayers money. But since Lonl had just been indicted himself fo carrying "dead-head" employees or the state dock board payroll, no body paid much attention.
 Stanley is now setting up spe' cial department, with its own staf of investigators.
 We went into this like men go ing into 8 wilderness without |, map" he says. We didn't knov what we'd find. There's a lot WI don't know yet, for that matter But we're going to find out.
 Selecting our investigating staf is going to be a problem. It ism easy to get competent men. Tn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

dled this New Orleans building, with its furniture to the complaisant Louisiana State University. for a rattling good price. Then, remem- bering something they had forgot ten, the same ring resold the same furniture to the same university for an added sum.
 Some of these rackets were petty. some were immense. Governor Jones told me that he figured the state had been bilked of the biggest sums in connection with "hot oil' trans actions which immediately brings up the strange figure of Bob Macs tri, mayor of New Orleans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
BY BRUCE CAPTION NEA Service Staff Correspondent

New Orleans Aug. 13-Dont let anybody tell you the people of Louisiana weren't glad to see the Huey Long machine broken.
 The day after Sam Jones elected governor a few men in little upstate town started an impromptu victory narade Filling into autos they set out to tour the surrounding towns and whoop it up Before starting they called New Orleans newspaper editor and told him about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

On the Hawaiian island of
 Maui. 562 inches of rain fell on, the upper slopes of Puu Kukui in
 1918, and only 29 inches fell nine miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
Next Job: Recovery Of Huey Long Craft
Up To Attorney General To Provide Action Louisiana Thinks He Can Do It
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This of political ruption decency the state of Louisiana
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13
PRIDE OF WELCh
 TOHOLDOUTING'
Busses Leave at 6 P. M; Legion to Elect Officers
 Tonight
WATERVILLE
Correspondent-NErs. R. ". Henion, Telephone s-5Ase

Waterville, Aug. 13 = The Pride of Welch Circle, Companions of the Forest will hold its annual outing tonight, at Savin Rock. A bus will leave Foresters' hall, at 6 o'clock, for the members in the vicinity of Han- over street. and will stop for those in the section of upper Thomaston avenue, at the corner of Carney's Drug Store, where they are asked to wait.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

South Africa has . Fifth Column scare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

NEXT: Mayor Maestri.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-10
81. Leo S Alumnae
Will Entertain
Miss Sehroedel. Miss kovsl
Head Dance Committee

Miss Ruth Schrocdel and
Miss Frances koval have been
chosen by 81. I.eo's alumnae
70 plan that groups annual
alumnae dance. The cabaret
style affair will be given IN
the Crystal ballroom Of Hotel
Winthrop on oCt. 20. All de-
tails concerning the dance
will be revealed 10 the alum
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ing which n 10 be held Sept.
II In the school hall.
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present at tho meeting ta welcome
Sister Eunics. O = y. a. nss
principal ~ the school
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plans for the dance consists ~ the
Misses Gloria cineiil Anita Achs.
klK. Margaret Marcos. Jeanne KIT
rich. Loretta Macdonald. Elaine
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nrosamsf. Frances AchtsiE. Evelyn
Olson. Elaine SULLIVAN. Marie be
aarla. nsnora Fuchs and Ines
Nangi
The COMMITTEES met recently Al
Mas achroedera homs 70 make ar
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