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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
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Boston, October IT. (UP) -I Federal Court action was awaited today on the cases of two Boston clergymen who refused as consci- entious obiectors to register for se- lective service yesterday.
 The Rev. Harry H. Kruener, pas tor of the First Baptist church, and the Rev. Keith c. Kanaga. assistant pastor of the Mount Vernon Con- gregational church, were believed the only two eligible men to take such action in Boston.
 They appeared together yesterday afternoon at the Prince school in the Back Bay. Lacking instructions for such cases, the registrars declined to accept the clerygmen's statements.
 Rev. Kanaga said both had sub mitted copies of the statements Tuesday to Federal authorities and were told by Assistant U. s. Attor- ney Henry M. Leen they undoubt- edly would receive court summons. Leen declined to discuss the case last night.
 Rev. Kruener,s statement declared he considered conscription "the first step toward the building of a phi losophy of lire. That would exalt brute froce above those moral forces of love and righteousness which }. must champion.
 Rev. Kanaga stated he was "un- able in my own conscience to accept war or an active or passive support of such evils, as part of my en- deavor to follow Gods will for me"
 New York, October It, (UP) - The nations biggest city registered
 1,OOl,375 men, Colonel Arthur V.
 McDermott, local administrator,
 announced today.
 Manhattan registered 257,473;
 Brooklyn, 355,214; Queens, 170,O52;
 Bronx, 17S,SO6; and Staten Island 20,7O2.
 The total includes 4,128 transient
 registrations
 The figure does not include an
 estimated 15,0OO more who were
 registered at hospitals, colleges
 and penal institutions. Boston, October IT. = (UP) = Cards of an estimated more than 1,060,000 selective service registrants in New England went to local draft boards today fer the shuffle that ! will give each man number. From corresponding lists of num- berS in Washington within a fort night will come the order - by lot tery - in which these men must submit data as basis for the actual draft.
 Early state totals as reported at the six capitals this morning were Maine 96,119, New Hampshire 55, ,333, Vermont 39,894, Rhode Island 84,- 487, Connecticut nearly 225 900 and Massachusetts ito go over 800, 900"
 The Massachusetts estimate. given by Adjutant- General Edgar c. Erickson, was based on figures rom 30 per cent of the 351 cities and towns which gave an actual total of 461 ,139.
 The figures averaged 10 per cent below totals anticipated earlier, but officials believed there was no widespread failure of eligible men to register.
 without disorder or demonstration lines of eligibles in most cases moved steadily and undeayed during II hours of registration. Longest wait in line reported was four hours. Most large communities reported the joE about half done at noon.
 Hartford, Conn.,, October 17. -
 (UP) = Richard BedelL East
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
224,75l REGISTER
 FOR CONN. DRAFT
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(COnt1nued rom Page 1) dents at Middletown said they swere conscientious objectors and in- sisted the fact be inscribed on their regiStration cards.
 Col. Ernest L. Averill, director of 6electiye service, issued this state 1nent: "The registration was a Remarkable piece of work all around
 It was very evident that the pub- ~licity given through the press and sradio of the state was responsible flor the response to registration and @the smoothness with which it has gone."
 The town of Union, with a pop ulation of 234, was the first com- Nmunity in the state to complete its Registration. At 7:30 a. m, the towns Aentire male population eligible for 1registration, 24 in number, had reg istered.
 Hartford led the state with 24,188 registered; New Haven, 22,220; Bridgeport. 21,97s; Waterbury, 12- 300; Torrington 4l10; Bristol, 4348; Norwalk, 5571: Stamford, 9061 and Greenwich, 4254.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
ly to the office of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.
 Takes Oath

Dykstra took his oath of office at a ceremony in Stimson's office. Present were Stimson, Assistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patter- son, Maj. Gen. Allen w. Gullion, judge advocate general of the army and the new officials brother, s. H. Dykstra of the federal wage-hour division.
 The oath was the standard pledge of faithful service to the Constitu- tion and the nation. Dykstra an- swered in clear, loud voice, T do' after Assistant Chief Clerk Frank Hoadley read:
 T do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitu- ton of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and all legiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which am about to enter, so help me God"
 Dykstra then called a press con- ference.
 Number Yet Unknown
 There was no indication yet how many men had gone to schools, town halls, fire stations and other registration places. The figures will not be available for week or 10 days. But the census bureau esti- mated that there were 16,404, ,000 men within the age limits. Two hours before registration ended on the Pacific coast, selective service officials estimated that 14,000, ,000 already had signed cards.
 There could be no indication of how many men had failed to regis ter. There were no reports of seri- ous incidents of resistance. Officials anticipated some cases of evasion and many cases of persons being unable to register because of cir cumstances beyond their control.
 Evasion Figured
 A difference of million or more from the census bureau estimate in the actual registration figures would indicate widespread evasion, off, cials said.
 But the registration went of smoothly according to reports tc headquarters here. In metropolitan areas there were delays-some men waited as long as four hours and there were a few demonstrations by conscientious projectors. But most of them registered, reserving until the time prescribed by the law the right to express their abhor- renee of war.
 Local Board in Charge
 It is the local boards, nominated by state governors and appointed by MT. Roosevelt, who take over the draft today.
 Master sheets" will be prepared giving the name of each registrar and his number. They will be post cd outside local board headquarteri so every man can sec what hi numbr is.
 Meanwhile plans will proceed her, for the lottery which will determine the sequence in which men CT, called up.
 Hut even if his number ls nmonl the iirBt drawn, Q man lA Atill [ long way off from induction int the army. lie must then Al out ei eight page questionnalre, listing hll employment. physical condition training and dependents. Only thoel who are unencumbered, in ooos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

fH GeEDeE ana our 1eel1nS Uf insecurity that makes this so. But 1t is true. And how we work for our own group. We pay dues, we pay special assessments, we plan benefits, build places of meeting, try to gain new members, vote, appoint or elect officers, critize, praise, talk shop. We belong. Lawyers, doctors, writers, artisans, engineers, teachers, stud- ents, laborers, designers, merchants ---how we love to belong!
 But that biggest club of all, that vast and inclusive union to which every one of us belongs-that one we have lately got into the habit of treating with neglect, or contempt, or disrespect or mere carelessness. The strongest and most sustaining organization in the world, to which we here in America have been priv Neged to affiliate ourselves, has been allowed, by the great majority of us, to get along as best it could with out our help.
 ;. That club, union, guild. home, re- 3uge is known as the United States of America. Its dues are called taxes, its officers are called president, sen- ator, congressman, governor, mayor and many more titles. Its passwords and freedom and equality and lib- erty, and the organization lives up to its slogan, though its. individual members frequently do not.
 . Its members keep pushing fellow members in the face. They want to belong, but they don't want to work at it. So, then, little by little, with magnificent help from Hitler and Etalin, we have built fine machine of destruction, we have bred gang whose object is to destroy our guild our union. One section of the coun- try has been stirred up against Another; religion has been set against religion, class against class national origin against national origin.
 The very worst thing that could possibly happen to Hitler would be to see a United States of America N United States of America. There { WAC CCl btAAAA l VC oCCAA UAANA OWL in the past five or 10 years, and Tn Sick of seeing them. I'm resentfu nf seeing labor set against labor, two camps defying each other through Their power-hungry leaders. Why doesn't labor, as one man, stand ul nn it's hind legs and say which i wants and what it wants, and ther Function again as the thing it trul. ds--the most vital muscle in thu whole body of America-the hear that pumps the life blood through the United States.
 < The vast majority of us hate thu plan on which the German govern anent is conducted, we despise tht ronduct of the Italian dictator ant his crew. We have here in thu United States, according to recen and reliable figures, between 15 anC 20 millions of Germans and abou B millions of Italians. They and theil schildren aren't here because the.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
Echoes From '.R-Day"
 Actiuities Locally
(NEA Telephoto)

county building. He visited many of the registration centers yester- day.
 The boards of police and fire commissioners each had one member who wore draft pin" to meetings yesterday. The police boards registered member was Martin Sullivan; the fire boards John Brodie. City Clerk Joseph M. Shea also wore his pin to the meetings.
 Mimic wars were started by groups of small boys outside several of the registration centers. The air was filled with shouts of Bang, Bang" as the eligibles were signing up for possible service.
 Many of those signing up were surprised at the few questions asked of them by the registrars. The average time taken for each registrant was only about half of the 2O-minute period that had been estimated.
 Police cars were used to bring a number of sick persons to their registration places. Mayor Scully ordered the cars held ready for service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
FRANCO APPOINTS
 BROTHER R-IN-LAW
Named Foreign Minister !; Assumes Interior Minis
 terate Himself

Madrid, Oct. 17.-(UP) - Gen. Francisco Franco today named his brother-in-law, Ramon Serrano Suner, foreign minister and himself assumed Serrano Suner's post of minister of interior.
 The shift was made as part of a long expected cabinet reorganiza- tion.
 Serrano Suner, only recently re- turned from visits to Germany and Italy, succeeds Col. Juan Beigeder Atienza in the foreign ministry.
 Spanish newspapers reported that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German Gestapo or secret po- lice, would arrive in Madrid Sum- day.
 Himmler,s visits abroad have sometimes, but not always, preced- ed visits by Adolf Hitler.
 Franco, who is leader of the empire, chief of state, commander in chief of the army, premier and head of the military directorate, delegated Jose Lorent, under sec- retary of interior, to handle the routine affairs of the ministry for him.
 Demetrio Carceller, provincial chief of the Falange Spanish Fas- cist organization), was named min ister for commerce and industry, in place of Luis Alarcon De La Lastra
 Official decrees were published terminating the duties of Beig- beder and La LaStra.
 A United Press London dispatch said that the appointment of Ser rano Suner to the Spanish foreign ministry was received there with reserve because he was regarded as sympathetic to the German-Italiar axis, whereas Col. Beigbeder, his predecessor, had been friendly to Great Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
R-Day News Briefs
Boston CIergymen Object, Face Court Action IN Y. City Registers Over
 Million Men.

Hartford aviation worker, dashed into seIective service headquarters shortly before midnight last night and said he had failed to register.
 They asked him why.
 BedeIl replied he went to sleep in the afternoon, leaving instruc- tiOns to be awakened before the g D. m. closing of registration booths.
 Someone forgot to wake him up He was thereupon registered at headquarters at midnight.
 Washington, October IT. - CUP. = The first man to be asked for hi; card proving he had registered fol military service was MinnesotaS new senator, Joseph H. Ball and he had to show it to new conscription boss, Clarence A. Dykstra.
 Ball and Dykstra rode to the cap ital on the same train today. They had not met before.
 Dykstra, advised that Senator Ball was within the registration age, waited on a platform at Union Sta tion and asked the new senator to show his card.
 Ball fumbled through some papers in his wallet and then showed the important card.
 After a brief talk with Dykstra, Ball told newspapermen he would not comment on any legislative mat ters.
 q know the rule for freshmen senator's" he explained.
 Washington. October 17.-(UP) - Men who failed to register for the draft yesterday should report to their local boards today, stat ing their reasons.
 If the boards find that the ex- cuses are tenable and reasonable, they will give the men the privi- Iege of registering late. Otherwise they may turn them over to local courts for prosecution.
 No estimates were available on the number of men who did not register for one reason or an other, but 1t was expected that there would be some.
 WilfulI failure to register is punishable by . $10,OOO fine or five years imprisonment, or both.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
NEW PRESIDENT AT
 SMITH COLLEGE

Northampton. Mass. Oct. iT-(up) Herbert John Davis. 47, formerly chairman of the English department at Cornell university, was inducted today as the fourth president Of smith college, the nations largest women's college.
 Davis succeeds uT. William Allan Nelson. retired.
 fn behalf Of the trustees, Mrs, Dwight v. Morrow, mother of Airs, charlas 4. Llndbefen, presented
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

out in a search for further as- suranc /. We join a school, a gang, 8 club, a guild, a religious sect, 8 business group, a profes- sion, a union. And we work for them.
 How we work for them. We Americans a T e the gre a t e s t joiners in the world. Perhaps it's our newness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

cd to consult and cooperate with Canadian Governmental Agencies, The engineers were instructed to begin preliminary Investigations inn- medIatoly and to mako periodic rec ports Co the White House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Twenty-second of "A articles on s'Our Country" written exclusively for NEA Service and The Water bury Democrat by the nations
 most famous authors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
DRAFT LOTTERY
 TO BE SPEEDED
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Here is what happens now:
 The local boards shuffle the cards and number them serially, begin- ming with one. If 1900 persons have registered in the area, the last num- Der will be 1900.
 Each local board submits the numbers to draft headquarters for their state. The state then tells selective service headquarters in Washington the highest number allotted.
 Washington headquarters then de- termines the highest number in the entire country. Slips of paper are then numbered from one to the final number. The slips are fitted into capsules and placed in a bowl which will be carried to the public place where the. lottery is held. National officials, possibly starting with President Roosevelt, will draw the capsules. All of the drawers will be blindfolded.
 The capsules will be drawn singly and opened individually. If the first number drawn is e56, then every registrant in the United States hav- ing that figure on his registration card vii be given order No. 1. It means that they will be the first to receive questionnaires to deter mine their availability for military service. Those holding order No. 1 and who have no dependents or other reasons for deferment, would be the first inducted into the army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
GREAT FIRES ARE
 SEEN AT BASES

London, Oct. 17 = UP) = Brit ish bombing squadrons caused ex- tensive fires at Germany's. great Kiel Naval base and bombed naval bases and docks at Hamburg, Bre- men, and Cuxhaven during the night, the air ministry Reid todsy.
 Attacks on Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhaven had god results, 1t was said.
 Other British squadrons made concentrated attack on synthetic oil production plant at Leuna, the ministry said, and scored direct hifs on munitions factories and power stations in Saxony.
 The raids were made despite un- favorable weather, the ministry said
 It was admitted that five planes failed to return to bases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Davis with the charter, seal and key, symbolic of his new ofiice. It marked the first time that an incoming pres ident had received the insignia from an alumna.
 Davis, in his inaugural address, endorsed the idea of dividing the colleges academic work into two sec- tons: to offer to the majority geE- eral courses leading to the ordinary degree, and to provide for those who desire it and are equipped for it special honors work, ct least In their junior and senior years, leading to on honors degree.
 -kAt us admit frankly" he said, "lhat most students come % college for on experience, Q general pfopA- ration for fife. not because they afo passionalely devoted to learning"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
BY EDNA FERBER

Author of "MOther hnOWS bcst'
 Show Boat" "CimarrOn," etc.
 Everybody wants to belong. From birth our instinct is to join with someone or something that will sus- tain and reassure us. While were infants we want to belong to our parents and our home. To these we cling for physical and economic and mental support. Then was branch
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
Head Of Draft Service
 In I High Praise of Youth
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health and not holding an essen- tial job will be taken from civil life. Those with numbers far down may never be called.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
Registration Figures From Towns

Registration totals for nearby towns in western Connecticut yesterday were as follows:
 DISTRICT 14A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

In the Sailors Church ct Koch ester England, a plaque is to b. placed in memory of John E. At kins, fifteen-year-old barge hand, who was killed in the Dunkirk evacuation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17

Draft District 15a, Ward 1 and districts 2-4, 2-5, 2-6 and 2-7 of Ward 2 .......... 4,358 Draft District 15b, Ward 3 and districts 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 of Ward ? 3,848
 Draft District 16a Ward 4 4........................ 2,2O1
 Draft District 16b Ward SJo4O
 Grand total, g districts 12,8OO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
DEVELOPMENT OF
 RIVER IS URGED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
BURMA ROAD IS
 ACTIVE TODAY

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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-18
FOOD STAMPS PLAN
THEME OF FARLEY
Finance Board to Discuss
Idea at Meeting This
Afternoon

The federal food stamp plan will
be discussed by the Board of FL
nance at a meeting late this after
noon. Mayor Vincent A. Scully
brought the plan to the boards at
tention at a recent meeting, and to-
day an investigating committee will
report that it favors the establish
ment Of the plan here if the neces-
sary funds are available.
Several steps would be necessary
before the plan could be put into
operation here. The approval of the
department of agriculture would
first be needed, then the banks must
agree to handle the stamps without
any fee. The city would then have
supply funds for a revolving stamp
fund and maintain a stamp office.
Approval of the $500 transfer to
allow the WPA sanitary sewer pro-
ject to continue will be asked of the
board. The transfer has been recon-
mended by the Board of Public
Works,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-18
BOULDER HURLED
THROUGH WINDOW
Strelkauskas Fined, Blu t
Goes to Jail to Work
Out Penalty

An unofficial record for the shot
put was set last night by Anthony
Strelkauskas, 80, of lat Washington
avenue, who, with the aid of slim
ulant, picked up a Is pound boulder
and hurled 1t through tavern win
dow at 159 Washington avenue.
Police who were summoned to the
scene by the angry and astonished
proprietor said they found the shot
putter stumbling around Outside the
tavern. He was cut about the fore
head, and as no word was forth
coming as to the way he was hurt
police assumed the cut was a back
fire from the powerful eXertion.
While the massive rock lay on ex-
hibition on a city court table today,
Strelkauskas pleaded guilty to
charges of breach of the peace and
intoxication and, unable to pay a fine
of $40 and costs, was sent to Jail to
work out the penalty.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-18
INVALUABLE DATA
SOUGHT BY BOARD
Public School Principals
to Be Given Questions
On School Conditions

Recommendation to have, each
public school principal of Water
bury fill out a QUESTIONABLE about
the condition of his school will be
made at a future meeting of the
Board of Education, it was learned
from a reliable source today.
The QUESTIONABLE would cover
every department of the schools,
the teaching staff, physical equip
ment, pupil morale and so forth,
and would provide the Board with
invaluable data.
The recommendation would be in
conformity with the policy of the
new board to obtain statistics about
every branch of the department of
education in the city.
1t is expected that the question:
>aire would be- drawn up by the
full board and then submitted TO
each principal
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-18

The Y. Nj. C. A. Chess Clubs
Ladder Tournament is under way
and running very successfully
under the direction of Kinksley P.
KeillOr, well-knOwn chess enthu-
si0st, and is being ably assisted
by the industrious Charles Powers.
The tourney is huge success,
having over twenty-five contest
ants. Believed to be the largest
ever to participate in an event of
this kind in the city. This is a
continuous affair under which
everyone plays everyone else and
will serve as guide of individual
playing strength.
Those participating are: John
Stanwick, Lawrence L. Lewis, Ray
mond Walsh, William Kenney,
George Cachman, John Perazella,
Fred Norling, John Luke, Nathan
Cornell, Kingsley KeillOr, Ed.
Steinnagel, and George Harel.
Roy Walch, Donald Harrison,
George eastman, Pohn Perazella.
Armand, Delage, Robert Gillette,
Gabriel Del Monico, Francis Nash,
William MatsOn, Daniel YelSky,
Oscar Hamilton.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-18
Case With Familiar
Triangle Features
Presents New Twist
Court Expresses Sympathy For Exiled 1usband-Lat-
ter Slept On Four Chairs, BOarder Given
Soft COuch-LawyerS Clash

The story of the rise of the "stoar
boarder" who virtually took over
the affairs of the home, bossed the
children, and slept on couch while
he master" slept on flour chairs
was unfolded before Judge John L.
Gaffney in City Court today.
The supplanted husband and
father of two girls who was brought
to court, accused of non-support,
was granted discharge when both
prosecutor and defense counsel
agreed that the star boarder was
the root of the evil. The husband
was James Boulder, who resides
at % Cottage, place, while the star
boarder manages his wife and fam
lily at Bishop street dwelling.
Gratitude
Ironic testimony was given to
the effect that Boulder befriended
the boarder, took his in when he
was Without work. It was not long,
however, when the boarder, whose
name was given as Clifford Tyrrell,
alienated Boulden's wife's affections,
began to direct the affairs of the