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INCOME FROM CHARMS

The sale of charms is one of the principal means of income for Chi neSe priests. One of these charms consists of a drawing of a horse on a sheet of yellow paper, sold to parents who have sick children.
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AaERIcA's FIRST IRON

m ie3i, near Richmond, Va, the first attempt was made to manufae- tlire iron iI America. The venture ended lH disasler when the work men Eeye maasacred hy fsi6..Assss.
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Pat Kelley and daughter, Barbara Ann of Baldwin MaTgere O w is there. Pat affiliated with the Chemical Company in Nau- gauuck Ed Theriault most popular fellow to the chiefs hat for the Wocott Volunteer Fire Department forwards two tickets for the benefit card party the smoke eaters will stage at he Chase Country club this evening The proceeds will go towards the departments building fund possibly fire house The club has been donated through the courtesy of Mrs. Bruno Heitz.
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Mr. and Mrs Eugene T. Oviatt of Tracy Avenue spent ideal weekend in New York where they registered the Hotel New Yorker Saturday they attended the col orfu performance of Faust at Metropolitan Opera House Attorney Carmen Cipriano has been made an honor ary member of the American Italian Civic Club in appre Italian people of the city Michael A. Connor commits sioner of motor vehicles will discuss Highway Safety at the KWanis Club luncheon at the Elton Wednesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-18

Two springs year Old Man Weather played strange trick in Grand Canyon National Park during 1889 After the Park had burst into it's usual Spring blOOm drought prevailed all Summer. No rain fell what in August usually the month of heaviest rainfall But September brought the heaviest rainfall for that month since records have been kept at the Park total of 864 inches This followed by period of daily sum- shine until the first snowfall of the winter As result of these exceptional weather conditions, the Grand Canyon region registered second spring Redbud cliff and rabbit brush all burst into bloom From the National Wildlife Federation
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Good evening.
LADIES PREFER PRINTS
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

To be absolutely right this Easter, Be wise and take these hints, Gentlemen may fancy cheviots - But ladies prefer prints The newest tilt to fedoraS,
 A topcoat of camel hair, These you'll see on the well-dresSed man Who for fine fabrics has flair Gentlemen prefer sober colors, But ladies like livelier tints, And we read that the well dressed women This Easter will parade in prints.
 -Em Elm.
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AnslUers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6.
 1. Six-One each in Treasury, War, Navy and Commerce de- partments and two in Justice. 2. John Jay of New York.
 3. Flax.
 4. Annapolis, capital of Mary land.
 5. More than one-half.
 6. Deed. 2. Warren G. Harding owned the Marion (OhiO) Star.
 8. The liver.
 9. March 20.
 10. Spring.
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Nomination, However, for
Vice-President May
Last Until Tonight
MANY ASPIRANTS
ARE DROPPING OUT
General Opinion Seems to
Favor Wallace AS Sec-
Ond Man on Ticket
BY LYLE C. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

BY LYLE C. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Chicago, July Is. - CUP
= Administration men in
control of the 1910 Demo-
cratic National Convention
today named a ticket Of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Henry A. Wallace to make an
unprecedented third term bid
for the White House Wal
lace's nomination will be
made at a convention ses-
sion meeting at 3 p. m, EDIT.
Indications were that the former
Iowa Republican and present sec
rotary of agriculture would go over
on first ballot sweep.
The question of whether Mr..
Roosevelt would address special
convention session tonight by radio
was still open. Senator James +.
Byrnes, one of the draft Roosevelt
managers, said he would read to
the convention this afternoon a tel
egram from the President on the
third term draft.
Roosevelt Notified
Byrnes formally notified Mr..
Roosevelt in Q telephone CONVERSE
ton about noon of his nomination.
He said Mr.. Roosevelt was sending
telegram expressing his views
which would be read to the convene
ton. He declined to say whether
this upset tentative plans for the
president to make a radio address
this evening.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
reported to he planning to fly west
to attend the anticipated night ses-
sion.
AS soon as word of Wallace's selec-
ton started to fly through the hotel
Hobbies the others in the vice presi-
Dental field began to drop out. First
to omit was Federal Security Adj
ministrator Paul ". McNutt. Next
was Governor Lloyd G. Stark Of Mis-
souri,.
However, it was apparent that sev-
eral names would go before the con-
vention. Most substantial backing
appeared to be for Federal Loan ADJ
ministrator Jesse H. Jones of Texas
who has National Chairman James
A. Farley's blessing.
Speaker William B. Bankhead OF
Alabama, whose name will be the
Continued on Page l0)
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Gasoline Retailers Of
City Appeal To Mayor
Ask His Honor TO Declare Tw0Year Moratorium on
Issuance Of Permits for Stations = lnde-
pendents May Be Forced Out

The Waterbury Gasoline Retailers
association today called on Mayor
Vincent A. Scully to declare a two
year moratorium on the issuance
of new gasoline station permits, de-
claring that unless the granting of
new permits is forbidden all inde-
pendent dealers will be forced out of
business. The association, In Its
publication, The Gasoline Bulletin,
charges that major oil companies are
fomenting price wars which are driv-
ing independent dealers to the wall
and declares that drastic action" Is
necessary unless the city wishes to
hand all the gasoline business here
to the major oil companies on q
silver platter"
Reported plans OF the Waterbury
hospital to sci lor least part of its
property at Watertown avenue and
Robbins street to the Gull Oil Co.,
for a gasoline station are sharply
attacked in the publication. It is
claimed that the mayor should re-
fuse to issue the permit, on the
ground that 1t would create dan
gerous traffic hazard.
viii Not Aid Hospital
The association threatens that its
members will refuse to make any
contributions to the Waterbury hos
pital in future appeals If the gaso-
line station transaction is COM
pleted.
Two major oil companies are
named as responsible for the gaso-
line price wars which have pre-
vailed here. The association admits
that it "has for the time being lost
control of the price situation and
now it is every man for himself"
1t Is claimed that independent deal
ers cannot make living with prices
att he present levels.
Waterbury Hospital Permit
The Gasoline Bulletin speaks of
the the station on the Waterbury
Continued on Page %
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BOOM JOE KENNEDY
FOR FARLEY'S JOB
Mass. Delegation Starts 1t
Going; Delegates In
dulge in Floor Scrap

Chicago, July 18-(UP)-MaSsa-
chusetts delegates turned their at
tention today to obtaining the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic ma
tional committee for Joseph P. Ken
nedy, ambassador to Great Britain.
Following the suggestion of former
Gov. Charles F. Hurley at a caucus
preceding last nights convention
session, the delegation voted to In
struct its representatives on the ma
tional committee to vote for Ken
nedy whose son, Joseph P. Kennedy,
Jr., is a delegate to the convention.
Hurley said he had not discussed
the matter with Kennedy but that
he had talked with several others
In the delegation and In the state
who are in favor Of the idea.
Young Kennedy, q student at
Harvard university. cast one OF the
IL Ia votes the state gave James
A. Farley. When the delegation was
polled on the floor. Kennedy told
the convention:
II am pledged 10 Farley and ]
am voting for Farley"
The pro-Rooseveit forces and the
anti-third termers In the delegation
nearly came to blows on the Moor
when FaTley's name was placed IN
nomination BY Sen. Carter Glass OF
virginia.
As dlaas spoke Farley's name into
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'bL|TzKR|EG'
ON BRITAIN IS
STILL DELAYED.
Britain Answers B o m b
Terror of Axis By ThrOw-
Ing Some Herself
COMMANDMENT OF
ITALIANS IN AFRICA
Both Germany and Italy
Shower Down Deadly
Missiles Everywhere
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

NOHtcu EEeoS FOfcISH NEWS EuASUEI
The axis powers pressed a
war of aerial bombs and
threats today against a Brit
ish Empire that expressed in
creasing defiance for Adolf
Hitler's long-threatened -
but still delayed - blitzkrieg
offensive against the British
Isles. Airplanes believd to be
Italian again bombed Gibral-
tar, causing some damage
to the Great British base
and killing three civilians. General
Francisco Franco cooperated with
his axis allies by limiting that Spain
wanted Gibraltar and former North
African possessions, thus raising the
threat of spectacular military bow
at THE Rock.
Germans were reported to have
bombarded the British military
training camp at Aldershot, within
IS miles of London; to have occu-
pied the Island Of Ushant off Brit
tany as a possible addition to what
the German high command described
as ten good bases for attack on the
British Isles; and to have started
many big fires by aerial attack IN
Southern England.
Italy claimed to be pursuing Brit
ish forces that Withdrew from Moy-
ale, on the Ethiopian frontier Of
Kenya Colony, and to have bombed
British African bases with "satiSfac-
tory results" while Rome news
papers published reports that thous-
ands Of armed Arabian warriors
were concentrated on the Palestine
frontier in preparation for an in
vasion Of the Holy Land.
British bombing planes battled to
wrest the initiative from the Ger
mans and Italians by regular raids
on vital bases and production areas
In the Reich, but for the most part
the European war was marking time
in preparation for the threatened
invasion Of the British Isles.
Britain Bomb Report
The British Air Force reported to-
day the heavy aerial bombardment
of Tobruk, Italy's major North
African base, for the third success
sive day. It claimed that great
columns of smoke rose from the
Tohruk submarine jetty and that
bombs fell close to fuel tanks.
Reports meanwhile said that one
of six German planes attempting to
raid shipping off the southeast coast
of England was downed today and
that the other planes caused no
damage.
Continued On Pare Oh
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BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE

BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE.
Chicago, July 18-(UP)-Demo-
Gratis offered American voters today
a more specific anti-war platform
plank than Republicans, as the 1910
campaign for the presidency began.
Democrats said that 1.-THE Amer
lean people are determined that
war, raging in Europe, Asia, and
Africa, shall not come to America"
and pledged that I'VE viii not send
our army, naval or air forces to fight
in foreign lands outside the Amer
icas, except in case of attack"
The Republican party described it
self as.'the party of "Americanism,
preparedness and peace" and said
that they were firmly opposed to
involving this nation in foreign
war;" but their platform committee
did ont include a specific pledge
that United States aid to aggression
resisting nations should prohibit
sending soldiers to foreign soil.
Both platforms bid for the peace
vote and both also ask the support
Of those Americans who believe this
nation should help Great Britain
stop Hitler and Mussolini.
The Democratic platform dealt
with one subject the Republican
platform didn't-electric power. The
reason was stated as follows: ''The
nomination # q utility executive by
the Republican party as its presi-
Dental candidate raises square the
issue, whether the nations water
power shall Re used for all the peo-
pie or for the selfish interests Of Q
few. We accept that ISSUE"
The statement said the Democra-
tic party had won the first major
victories OF the people against the
power monopoly" that this had re-
suited In recognition Of these princi-
pies: that water power sites belongs
to all the people: that the people
have the right to develop these
power sites; that public utilities
holding companies must not be used
as q means tor q few men 10 con-
troll vast power empires"
II condemned THE Republican
policies" which, II said. had permit.
ted the victimizing OF investors r.
power securities. and the exploitation
! Of the pubic ny high rates. u chakg'
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BRUTAL MURDER
OF YOUNG WOMAN
l8-Year Old Rita Wheaton
Killed by Hugh Ken
yon AT Grot0n

Groton, Conn, July 18-(UP)-
Hugh B. Kenyon, 20, Pawcatuck,
was arrested on murder charge
today after state police found the
dubbed body of Miss Rita Wheaton,
10, 6 Rose avenue, Westerly, r. L.,
in brook near here.
Kenyon was apprehended after he
allegedly confessed the killing to a
Catholic priest who notified the au-
thorities.
The girls body, beaten on the
head with homemade blackjack
and weighted with stone, was
found in shallow water. A 25-pound
rock rested on her chest.
According to State Police Lieut..
Arthur T. Whitmarsh, the youth said
he killed Miss Wheaton when he
became infuriated over her refusal
to marry him.
Whitmarsh said Kenyon told him
he called for Miss Wheaton last
night to take her for an automobile
ride. They drove to spot of the
main highway and got out OF the
car to talk.
Refused to Marry Him
Miss Wheaton refused to marry
him, Kenyon was reported to have
said, because she and sister were
the sole support of several younger
children in the family.
She started to get back into the
car. Whitmarsh said Kenyon hit her
on the head with the blackjack
made with wood weighted with lead
and inflicted severe cuts. Then
they sat down ON the running board
of the car to talk again.
An automobile passed on the near
by highway and Kenyon said he hid
behind q stone wall until 1t disap-
peared. Returning to the car he
said he struck the girl again on the
head. dragged her AZ feet to an EN-
bankment and rolled her into the
brook. forcing her under the water
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Secretary OF Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace Was Choice OF Roosevelt
Democrats Pick
Roosevelt Again
BY LYLE C. WILSON
UNITED Press staff Correspondent

Stadium, Chicago, July 1s-(UP)-The Demo
cratic national convention today drafted Franklin
Delano Roosevelt to challenge Republican candidate
Wendell L. Wilke and the third term tradition, and
at 3 p. m. (E.D.T) it begins choosing vice pres-
Dental running mate for the next New Deal cam
paign The delegates yelled and sweated through
the hot and humid night until at 2:41 a: m (EDI)
their major Job was done and the chair let them go
home under orders to be back at p. m. (EDT).
Wallace May Be Favored
The word was out that Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace had the Roosevelt nod for second place on the
ticket White House spokesman here said the race was
wide open Postmaster General James Farley repotedy
was backing the presidential canddac OF Federal
Loan Administrator Jones Mr. Roosevelt has not
accepted his nomination but his managers here promised
that he would.
Committee Of Notification
Senator James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina floor
manager of the third term battalions and himself vice
presidential candidate moved before this mornings ad
iournment that committee be named to tell the President
what had happened here.
"He may not have heard of it," said Byrnes with a
broad smile
His motion carried, and these will bear the news
Brynes, Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Iowa, Governor
Culber Osen California Charles Sawyer, Ohio, Mayor
Edward J. Kellv Chicago.
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cept his partys draft" to oppose
Republican nominee, Wendell L.
Willkie In the 1910 campaign.
Surrounded by old friends political
advisors and members Of his staff,
Mr.. Roosevelt reached the show
down on the third term issue at
2:38 a. m. (EDT) today after nearly
three years Of equivocating on the
question. Shedding the air Of de-
tachment with which he has viewed
political developments IN recent
weeks, Mr.. Roosevelt sat close by a
radio to hear the convention roll
call Of states and, finally, his NOM
nation by reclamation.
WithhoIds Statement
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early announced early today that
the President would withhold any
statement until he has received Off
cial notification that he is the DEM
ocratic party's nominee. But he
said he expected the official noti-
fication to arrive during the fore
noon by telephone or telegraph -
thus clearing the way for Mr.. Roose-
velt's reply later in the day.
Facing a crowd of Is correspond
ents in the half-lihted lobby of the
White House at $3.50 a. m. (EDT)
early described the intimate radio
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jim FARLEY MADE
VOTE UNANIMOUS
Speaks With Breaking
Voice As He Bids Fare
we'll to Political Life
SANDOR s. KLEIN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
Stadium, Chicago, July 18.-(UP)
Jim Farley is outward bound to-
day toward the field Of professional
sports repeatedly to take up the
presidency Of the Yankee baseball
team of New York, where he left
off being a boxing commissioner.
In between, Farley went places.
He ranged the country In 1880 col
lecting delegate votes for Franklin
D. Roosevelt who, up in Albany, was
governor of New York.
They were a great team once,
Roosevelt, Farley and Co., and they
admitted John Nance Garner, OF
Texas, into the partnership. AL that
was dissolved today when the DEM
ocratic national convention f1atten-
ed Farley's and Gamers presiden-
tial aspirations to renominate Mr..
Roosevelt for a third term. Even
the veteran Sen. Carter Glass, D.,
Va, who put Farley in nomination
got scant attention and some dis
respect for his pains.
Resigns by Sept.
Farley is expected to resign the
national committee Craftsmanship
and his cabinet post by Sept. /.
Farley was the political strategist
who aided the New Deal to its first
triumph in 1882, helped it to a-46-
to-2-states triumph in 1896, but re-
fused to go along a third time. The
Republicans had used his name,
Farleyism, as a campaign issue, but
no man enjoyed greater esteem
among these delegates who were de-
feating him. He had been a FORE
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1.-THE president has never had,
has not today, any desire or pur-
pose to continue in the Office OF
president'-that is what national
convention chairman Alben w.
Barley told these perspiring dele
gates and alternates Tuesday night
in a message direct from their chief.
But at 2::38 a. m. (EDT) today the
convention made Mr.. RooSevelt's
denomination unanimous. And what
happened in between does not make
much difference now, although
some weeks must pass and perhaps
November may come before 1t can
be determined whether it was a lit
tie band of willful men or the
spokesman of a great army of pro.
testing Democrats who have beer
campaigning here for some days
against the Roosevelt boom.
The draft was on when the first
delegate got here days ago. 1t was
more than a hatful of wind wher
Postmaster General James A. Far.
ley stepped off his train here almost
a fortnight ago. 1t was half gale
when the first gavel tapped last
Monday; and in the early hours Of
this. morning the barometer fell tt
nothing minus and the hurricane
was on.
Glass Blisters Third Term
Putting Farley in nomination
Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va, blisteret
the third term idea. There was ref
erence by the anti-draft brigade Il
their men and the way they KEEP
their word. But this convention
would have none of that.
1t wanted Mr.. Roosevelt and i
got him at 1:55 a. m. (EDT) wher
New York's fat delegation Of 81
votes delivered "a l-2 votes for thu
Continued on Page 81
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ARMORY FAVORED
AT U. OF CONN.

Hartford. Conn.,, July l8-(UP)-
A request for federal funds to con-
struct r. o. T. O.. Armory at Uni
versity Of Connecticut and q Uni
versity hangar at Wiilimantic arr
port, had the approval today OF
Gov. Baldwin and the Connecticut
council for national defense.
Size Of an appropriation necessary
for the two projects was not dis
closed.
The Governor said the state
public works department had been
asked to Immediately prepare plans
for the structures. The armory VIII
replace o drill shed now considered
inadequate foF training needs. The
airport hangar was required 70 con.
tinue the Unlversity's student-pilot
training program under federal ci-
william aeronautics authority SUPER
vision.
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| War Moves On
Today's Board
By ]. w. T. MASON
UNITED Press War Expert)

General Frances pronouncement
that it is SPANS mission to recover
Gibraltar and expand territorialIy in
North Africa is significant in that
it does not make the return OF
Gibraltar an immediate essential OF
any revival of Spanish imperialism.
BY associating Spanish ambitions in
Africa with claims to Gibraltar Gen.
Franco may be tentatively feeling
for q way to hold off a declaration
Of war against Great Britain.
1t would be too serious an UNDER
taking for Spain to attempt to con-
quer Gibraltar and begin sinul~
taneously a colonial campaign In
North Africa. To concentrate on
one or the other as an initial ef-
fort would be better strategy, and
more In keeping with Spanish
strength. General Franco. 1t seems,
has now thrown open for discussion
among Spanish imperialists the
problem Of priority. This may be
an astute move on his part 70 post
pone for at least time any belli-
gerent action BY Spain.
Franco Is Aware
General Franco Is understood
10 be aware Of the haydshlps theb
would result to the Spanish people
IL spain were 10 become an active
beIligerenf. spain Is very short 81
food reserves and Il has been
claimed that lf the Nfliifh he4an =
| close blockade Of Spanish pe{ff N'1
Spanish poople would begin = fssE
lQonllnued q nazl q
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WARPLANES CAN
Be BUILT RAPIDLY

washington. July l8.-(UP)-The
War department said today that
private industry can turn out suf-
ficient warplanes to meet Army and
Navy needs without the construc-
ton Of additional aircraft manufac-
turing facilities BY the government.
The statement was made In re-
ply to letters from municipalities
and local organizations urging the
department to locate new aircraft
plants In their communities. The
department originally had planned
10 erect some 30 plants In strategi.
cally located inland sites.
The department meanwhile estah.
llshed machinery for determining
pTiOTItles on crucial defense ORDER
10 protect them against delays and
shortages resulting from commercial
CONTINUED On Page -
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WILLKIE PLEASED
OVER ROOSEVELT
Rx PAUL T. SMITH

limited Press STAN COrrespOn0ent)
Colorado Springs, olo.. July i8-
(UP)-Wendel L. Willkie. as the
Republican presidential nominee, to-
day welcomed the issue Of q CAM
palgn against third term for Pres
dent Roosevelt and the New Deal.
II am greatly gratified," he said.
1T ought TO be q great campaign"
willkie was attending perform
ance Of THE Battered Bride" at
Central City. Colo.,. when the news
OF Mr.. Roosevelts overwhelming
draft reached him. He left after the
puerformanee for his vacation head
quarters here.
1--WE viii have presented 70 the
voters OF the country the issues
which have been created W Ne New
DEAL, advocated Tor the New Deal
By the author and ablest advocate
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THE WORLD WAR
Is YEARS AGO,
JULY Is, 1915

my United fte9sD
Austrian submarine sank HAL
Ian cruiser Giuseppe 0aribaidi
Of caiiaFo.
Russians defeated e KEasne-
tow. PeIandi Germans captured
Windnu.
U-bsai shslIsd town IN Gambler
lana county. England.