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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
WPA WORKERS
 GIVEN WARNING
Com. Harrington Says Their Votes in Election
 Their Own Business

Washington, April D. UP) =. Works projects administration sup ervisors and 100000 WPA workers received notice from WPA Commis- sioner F. 0. Harrington today that their votes in the coming elections are your own business"
 Harrington assured WPA workers they are free to vote as they choose without reprisals, or to refrain from voting if they so desire. He warned supervisor and administrative em- ployes that their participation in politics would not be tolerated.
 The instructions were issued Ill a letter which Harrington said would be posted on all WPA bulletin boards and handed to each worker with his next paycheck.
 "WPA is not in politics and does not take part in politics, either dir ectly or indirectly" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
INDEPENDENTS
 TO HOLD CAUCUS
Meeting Scheduled for Tuesday Night at
 Moose Hall

Recurrent rumors of reallgnment of forces, within the local Demo- cratic ranks were supported today by news that the Independent Dem- ocratic party will hold caucus at Moose hall tomorrow night. A new town committee is to be elected, and changes in the party rules will be proposed.
 Removal of Town Chairman James J. Hartley is being sought by a large group within the Indepen- dent Democratic faction. This group charged that an endorsement of the regular Democratic ticket last fall was voted illegally and charged MT. Hartley with violating party rules.
 Election May Delay
 However, it is understood that &C., tion on the election of town chair man will not be taken tomorrow night but will be delayed until after the new town committee has been organized. One of the changes to be proposed in the party rules will be that the town committee be en- larged to 32 members from tine pre- sent 20.
 The only ones allowed to vote at the caucus will be Independent Democrats who signed the party $ original petition in 1885, according to Secretary Joseph De Luca. This will serve to limit greatly the voting.
 Independent Democratic leaders were reluctant to discuss the cau- GUS today, and apparently it had been hoped that the gathering would be kept secret.
 Party Policy
 Matters of party policy will be left for the new town committee to de- eide, but observers believe an at tempt will be made soon to make the party again an active factor in the local political picture.
 The Independent Democrats nom- mated Roger V. Connor for mayor in 1885, and were responsible for a greatly reduced plurality for Mayor Frank Hayes. In 1887 they joined with the Republicans to back Sena- tor George T. Culhane, who lost by only a handful of votes. Last fall the party was on record as backing Mayor Scully though many party members protested.
 There have been reports for sev- eral months that several persons formerly high in the regular Demo- cratic organization were ready to swing their backing to the 1ndepen- dents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
British To ThrowO Over Ten Billion
 Dollars Into War Pot To Beat Nazis
Workers of Britain Must Pay Their Share Toward
 War Contributions
BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, April 22-(UP) - Great Britain, preparing to throw be- tween $1O,00o, 100000 and $12,000,- 900 1000 into the scales against Ger many, asserted today that combined Allied Norwegian operations in southern Norway had been tex tremely successful and had been carried out "even more rapidly than Allied tacticians had anticipated"
 A spokesman refused to discuss Stockholm reports that Allied fore es had recaptured Hamar and FL verum, north of Oslo, but dismissed as false German intimations that Norwegian resistance in that re- zion had beer broken. Morale of Norwegian officers and men had been high wherever British forces had contacted them, the spokesman said.
 The press association reported that Norwegian troops still held a line near Lake Miosa, in the Hamar area, and Stockholm reported that British trops, proceeding down the railroad from Andalsnes on the Norwegian North Sea coast, now controlled the railroad leading down past Do:naaS to Dovre in the di- rection of Lillehammer.
 British Air Raids
 Air ministry communiques report ing blasting British air force raids on Aaloorg, Denmark, chief Ger man air base for Norwegian opera tions; KristianSand, on the Nor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
MAYOR SCULLY IN
 NO CONTROVERSY
Will Have No Arguments With WPA Over Streets
 of City

Mayor Vincent A. Scully said to- day that the city administration will not enter any controversy with the WPA over the condition of local streets where sanitary sewers have been installed as WPA projects. That's the end of it as far as I'm concerned" he said in reference to a. statement Saturday by State WPA Administrator Vincent J. Sullivan blaming the street department for hazardous conditions. MT. Sullivan's statement was in reply to charges by Supt. of Streets Herbert Scott Smith that excavations had not been filled in properly by the WPA after sewers had been installed.
 The mayor said he was not fami- liar with the provisions of the city's contracts with the WPA. MT. Sulli- van asserted that the local contracts made no provision for maintaining streets after sewers had been con- structed, stating that other cities ask for such provision but Water bury did not. MT. Sullivan also denied claims of MT. Scott-Smith that trenches had been improperly filled in by WPA workmen.
 Supt. Scott- Smith, in his quarter ly report, said that streets on which sewers had been installed by the WPA were left in dangerous shape and that repairs by the street de- partment were necessary.
 MT. Sullivan retorted that the problem of maintaining the streets was for the city to solve, since pro- ject applications did not ask that |the WPA do this work. He declared |that the WPA could not be blamed |of the city were lax" insubmittine |its project applications.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
Great Allied Forces MoveAgainst Germans
Nazi Occupied Norwegian Port of Irondheim Is Iar= get-Big Battle Already May Be Raging Close
 to Beseged Port
BY RALPH FORTE United Press Staff Co--espOndent)

Stockholm, Sweden, April g - (UP) - Allied expeditionary troops moved in force agianst the Ger man-occupied Norwegian port of Trondheim today and British commander in the north warned that an immediate attack would be launched by land, sea and air on the Arctic port of Narvik.
 The offenSvies against Trondheim and Narvik gathered momentum coincidentally with reports of the first American casualty in the Scan- dinavian war Capt. Robert M. Losey, United States air attache, killed n a German bombardment in central Norway, where Norwegian troops aided by British officers were fighting back strongly against the Germans northeast of Olso.
 Fighting in which British and Norwegian forces threw back the Germans north of NarVik was re- ported by refugees arriving at the Swedish frontier and the British naval commander in the Narvik zone warned Norwegians to leave that port because it would be at tackled without delay in an effort to blast out the German forces there.
 Land More Troops
 The British commander broad cast from Tromsoe, north of Mar vik, where it appeared the Allies had landed additional troops for op- erations against the Germans hem med in at the iron-ore port. Refu- gees reaching the frontier said that there had been considerable fight ing north of Narvik, at Oesvattn and that the Germans had been driven back.
 The newspaper Norbotten Kurien of Luieaa reported without confir- nation that 600 German soldiers already had crossed the Swedish frontier and been interned after fighting in the Narvik region.
 In the Trondheim zone, the Brit ish troops were reported in tel ephone dispatch from Roeros to be moving in considerable numbers toward Trondheim to attack from the south while other British and Norwegian troops, operating out of NamSos, attacked from the north. . Meanwhile, the continued flights of German planes-several of which have been shot down-over Swed- iSh territory was protested by Swed- en in an official note to Germany. The protest was described as strong"
 Sweden Makes Protest
 The Swedish protest to Germany said that all violations of Swedish territory by the FGerman air force would be met with all the protec- tive means at the disposal of Swed-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
States Attorney Has
 Lost Motion To Quash
Judge Carl Foster Rules Against Him in Controversy Over Police Records s-Merits of Case, How-
 ever, Not Yet Decided 'f'

Judge Carl A. Foster of superior court overruled the motion to quash in memorandum of decision handed down this morning in the case of the States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald and Joseph Doherty against Police Superintendent Will liam J. Roach. The reasons set forth in the motion were not held sound by Judge Foster who did not make final decision on this case, just ruling on the motion.
 Judge Foster said that it would seem that the petitioner should be allowed to see the records unless some injury may be thereby done to somone and it would be unfortunate for Police Department to find it. self in the position of concealing facts that would disclose the truth and cause full justice to pc done when such disclosure would do il- jury to no one.
 The decision this morning follow ed writ of mandamus issued by superior court at the request Of States Attorney William F. Fitzger- aid requiring Superintendent of Police Roacn to allow Attorney Will liam Wertneimer, counsel for Ed ward Doherty, 5, run over by a truck last December operated by Joseph Padula, to inspect records of the accident which were on file at police headquarters.
 Attorney Werthermier's Plea
 Attorney Wertheimer last month asked Supt. Roach for an inSpec- ton of the data on the accident which were in the police files, but was refused. The request was made pending the civil action, brought by the boys father, Joseph Doherty, against Liberato and Joseph Padula. In city court Joseph Padula received a nolie for. violation of the rules of the road.
 Judge Foster stated in his decision that this question in the past has been raised in different jurisdictions under varying circumstances. Gen. orally speaking, the courts have re- fused to frame any such rule overn-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
Captain Robert M. Losey Is First American Casualty"
Splinter From Bomb Pierced Heart of American Attache; Was Observer of
 Battle Just Developing
CAPT. LOSEY CONSIDERED AN EXPERT IN AIR SERVICE

Stockholm April 22-W.P.)- Captain Robert M Losey, U. s. Air Attache, was killed by German bomb splinter yesterday at Dombaas, Norway-first American casualty of the in Scandinavia. Losey was killed by bomb splinter which struck him in the heart as he stood outside tunnel at Dombaas watch ing an air attack Others in the group took shelter in the tunnel and were not injured.
 40 Miles from British Zone
 Dombaas is only 40 miles southeast of Andalsnes the railroad, one branch running north to Trondheim which the Germans control and running south to Lemamer where Norwegian defense forces are concen trated
 Came to Observe Battle
 It is along the Andalsnes Dombaas Lillehammer rail road that juncture of British and Norwegian forces would $, ~ (Contin, edorP A-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
ELEVEN CRUSHED.
 BODIES IN MORCUE
Greatest Toll of Death in Any Highway Accident
 in Nation

Slayton, Minn., April 22-(UP)- Eleven crushed bodies lay in morgue today.
 Saturday they were the sons anc daughters of farmers and smal merchants in this neighborhood.
 The youngest, IT, planned to go tc college next year and play football like his big brother.
 But today they are dead and theil parents are grieving for victims o1 what the Minnesota highway de- partment called youth at the wheel"
 The National Safety council al Chicago said it was "the greatest toll of human lives ever taken ir this country in a highway accident involving two pleasure cars"
 The council hoped 1t would be challenge to "every parent in the country"
 The eleven died swiftly in the grinding head-on impact of two speeding automobiles early Sunday Some of them were hurled 65 feet, others died horribly in the twisted steel of the two machines
 It had started out to be gay evening for both parties. Four boys and two girls in one group went dancing. They were on their way home, laughing and joking as tht driver pressed his foot on the ac. celerator until the speedometer reac "8O'' and the car careened on thu curves of the oiled gravel road.
 The other group consisted of sever boys who had been driving around Slayton visiting friends. They too thought 1t fun when their car rocked around curves and slowed on tht gravel surface at break-neck speed
 Meet On a Curve
 Near the city limits the two car met on a curve. Police theorizeC that one of them must have skiddeC far over the safety line into the patf of the on-rushing machine.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
DEVERE ALLEN
 IS NOMINATED

New Haven, Conn, April 22 = (U 'P.) = Devere Allen, Wilton author was the gubernatorial nominee to- day of the Labor Party of Connec- ticut a left-wing faction of the State Socialist party.
 Allen, who unsuccesfully chal- lenged the right of Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy tc use the Socialist party label in the l938 state elections, was prepared to appeal to the courts again this year on the same issue. The labor party supports the National Socialist party which divorced the McLevy element two years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22

MT. Phillips stated unqualifiedly that never at any time did he or members of the R. F. Griggs com- pany entertain the slightest doubt as to the business integrity of the Mc- Kesson firm or any of its subsidi- aries. Had there been any such suspicious, he stated, the Waterbury brokerage firm would not have en- tered into any of the plans for floating stock
 He related how he first met the late Philip Musica wilo as F. Don- aid Coster rose to the head of the huge McKesson firm. He also said that he met George Dietrich at the same time but never knew of the re- lationship between the two men url- til the company scandal broke in December, 1888. He said he believed that he was doing business with honest, upright and efficient men.
 Most Surprised Man
 q was the most surprised man in the world when that crash came" said MT. Phillips in reply to ques- tioning by his counsel, Attorney Harold Corbin.
 The meeting with the Musica bro thers (not known to Phillips by that name then) took place at the Cir ard and Company plant in the out skirts of Fairfield. MT. Phillips went there with Horace Merwin and c. Barnum Seeley, Bridgeport bankers and brokers, who were instrumental io interesting the R. F. Griggs Con- pany in foa ting stock for the Mo- Kesson subsidiary. Both the Bridge porters were among the witnesses heard last Friday when it was brought out that part of the stock fiotation plan for Girard and Com pany was formed in Waterbury.
 Defends Griggs Go.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
TY..DEAD IN
 RAILWAY WRECK
Investigations Have Be- gun Into Cause of Fatal
 Catastrophe
BY PAUL H, KING
ited Press Staff Correspondel

Limited Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Little Falls, N. Y. April 22-(UP) Three agnecieS pushed separate Investigations today into the wreck of the Lake Shore Limited, crack New York Chicago express of the New York Central Railroad system, in which 30 persons were killed.
 Two inspectors of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has general jurisdiction over railroads and their operations, aided by a number of technical assistants, were combing the wreckage for clues to the cause.
 The New York Central's manage ment pressed its own investigation which was private and its progress was not made public. But the man. agement had already announced that the limited's engineer, Jesse Earl, was hurtling the tons of locomotive and Pullman cars through the rainy Friday night at excessive speed when the locomotive jumped the tracks on the sharpest curve in the system.
 Inspectors of the state public ser- vice commission were aiding the 1CC men.
 Third Probe
 Coroner Fred c. Sabin and District Attorney Carl Peterson of Herkimer County pursued the third investiga- tion which was more or less SuS- pended pending the recovery of An- drew Bayreuther, foreman engineer of the New York Central, who was riding in the limited's cab.
 Bayreuther, before he became un- conscious from his serious injuries, had told Sabin that engineer Earl was not travelling at excessive speed, though trying to make up lost time. The wreck ocurred at 11:33 p. m. and the train had been due in Utica. 20 miles away,'at 11:29 p. m. The systems New York-C Chicago express ses operate on a most eXacting schedule.
 The New York Central had an- nounced that Earl's speed had been established at 59 miles an hour by the tape punched by the speed rec ording device in the cab. The Sys- tem's locomotives are equipped with a large dial on which a needle rec ords the varying speeds, and, in addition, 8 complementary device punches into tape each change in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
NAz|S REPORT
 NEW VICTORIES
Two More Submarines Are Sunk - British Have
 Lost Heavily
BY RICHARD c. HOTTELET United Press Staff COrrespondent)


 Berlin, April 22.-(UP)-The high command said today that two more Alled submarines and two Allied merchant ships had been destroyed and a British destroyer had been bombed.
 The newspaper Zwoelf Uhr Blatt claimed that in the first 12 days of the Scandinavian campaign, up to last night, Great Britain had lost 29 airplanes and 61 warships as fol- lows: Four battleShips, two battle cruisers, one airplane carrier, four heavy cruisers, 10 other cruisers, 12 destroyes, 13 submarines and 15 transport ship.
 The high command said that German flyers again successfully attacked British troops attempting to land at Namsos and Andalsnes" :; that German troops had reached new important points" in the vii cinity of Trondheim; that German troops at Oslo and Stavanger had established contact by way of Kris: tiansand and that other German forces had captured the towns ot Lillehammer, 78 miles north of Oslo, and Gjoevik, F miles northwest of Hamar, and the height of Lunde- haedge, "inflicting heavy losses on the enemy"
 Capture of Arms
 "In the vicinity of Bergen, more modern artillery and other material were captured" the high command said.
 The official news agency said Ger mans had confiscated 10000 pairs of military boots at Bergen Saturday. The boots were destined for Britain, the agency said, adding Booty be- yond all expectation has been cap- tured in search of harbors and de- pots"
 The high command said Allied naval forces had bombarded Mar vik again yesterday without at- tempting to land troops.
 The Zwoelf Uhr Blatt said all 90 British losses occurred in Norwegian waters and that 57 of them were air. planes that crashed or ships that sank or were stranded within range of German guns. These 57 com plete losses," according to the news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
RADIO PRIEST IN
 ATTACK ON GOLD
Claims Purchasing PrO= gram of U. s. Helps Fi=
 nance European War

Detroit, April 22- CUP) - Rev. Charles E. Coughlin urged Sunday the abandonment of the govern ment's gold purchasing program and it's contribution to the stabilization fund on grounds those policies help ed finance the European war to the detriment of Americans.
 He charged in his regular Sunday broadcast-reduced to half an hour for the summer months-that Am erican taxpayers had made the Greatest single known contribution to war chest in the history of the world" through gold purchases.
 He said $6,O00, 100000 in profits to European countries was realized through sale of foreign gold costing producers mo more than $2O,67 an ounce" to the United States for $35 an ounce. These purchases since 1884, he said, had involved this country in the economic war"
 Great Britain, probably the larg- est manipulator in Wall street to- day, used her billions of dollars of profit gained in gold manipulation to secure a hold on American in- dustry, on American labor, on American transportation" on Amer ican life," he said concerning re- ports that Britain had comman- deered U. s. stocks and bonds from private holdings.
 America has the gold and the unemployment" he said. Foreigners have the profit for the conduct ot the war"
 Father Coughlin said the stabili- zation fund had been employed tc hold British and French currencies at a low level to the detriment oi Americans. He said the reciprocal trade agreements had likewise bene- fitted foreigners" ct the expense of this nation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 22 (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through April 18th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $7,706, ,991, ,S57.76 $7,344, 4,SS7,13S.S7
 Receipts $4,635, ,99s,1S9.S1 $4,567,5S6, ,sO4.29
 Gross Deficit $S,O7o,992,s67.95 $9,777,sOO,SS4.5S Net Deficit $2,995, 5,572,617.95 s2,741, ,OO2.7S4.5S
 Cash Balance S2,2SO,26O,691.S5 $3,1S7,52s,4S1.67
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22

New Haven, Conn.,, April 22-tUP) The Socialist Labor party sched- uled its state nominating conven- tion today for May 12 at West Ha- ven. Keynoter will be Eric Hass, New York, editor of the. party'S of ficial newspaper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
24o ARE DROWNED

Chungking, April 22-UP)-Ap- proximately 240 persons were drowned Saturday when 8 passenger steamer capsized in the. Chiahng river 12 miles from Chungking. Sixty persons were rescued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
OLD CONSUL DIES

Lyndon Center, Vt, April 22- tUP) P)-Franklin D. Hale, 86. former member of the U. s. consular service and staet auditor from 1892 to 1893, died yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO,
 APRIL p, 1915
fBy United Press)

Germans released first poison gas chlorine at Ypres.
 Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge, Ypres, begun.
 Austrian German attacks tn Uxsdk valley repulsed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22

Our new store will open next week
 at S5 East Main st. Watch for open ing announcement. Schneiders. Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
Local Broker On Witness Stand In
 Mckesson Case
Relates How He First Met Late Philip Musica- -Griggs Company Would Never Have Done Business With
 Girard Had They Known
(By Democrat Staff Correspondent

New York, April a. Especial to The Democrat) )- Rowley w. Phillips, prominent Waterbury broker who is the five accused by the federal govern men of conspring to defraud the public in connection with the recent McKesson Robbins drug scandal again resumed testimony in his behalf in district court
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22

Choose . diamond at PierpOnt's, 159 Bank St., and know that your choice is . stone of fine Quality.-Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22

Want A Position? If you are not ready we would like to train you.
 Post Junior COIlege.-Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-22
The Weather

Cloudy, Cold Tonight;
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