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The people's voice., 1940-11-27
An Open Letter to Farm Union Locals

PEOPLE-remaining on the farm to
circulate.
We invite your cooperation in this
cause and trust that you will exert
every honorable effort to the con-
,tinued progress of your own insur-
ance company. Select an intelligent
port at local and county meetings.
Insist on him keeping the service be-
fore the public. Information may be
secured from Peter Bokma at Conrad.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27

: 1t seems that Nultee Aircraft
owned by vultures
ON THE ONE HAND
A handful of millionaires control tn
ports.
While the rest of the country live
from hand to mouth.
| The ticker ran several minutes be
hind recently as a surge of profit
taking engulfed the Stock Exchange
AS you know, when workers arr
speeded up the ticker runs behind.
THE QUALITY OF MERCY-1940
Declaring that conscription runs
counter to their conscience, eight di
vinity students received year-and-a.
day sentences for failure to register
for the draft
Now it's against the law to have a
conscience.
An extensive survey of the coffin
industry as part of the long-range de-
fense program was recently com
pleted.
Never let it be said that army Off
cials haven't the interests of the
draftees at heart.
DON'T SAY lT-PLAY 1T
Reports indicate that the majority
Of college presidents are infected with
war hysteria.
A notable exception: Kay Kyser,
president of the College of Musical
knowledge.
Willkie, who was spontaneously"
nominated as the peoples choice, has
been forgotten just as spontaneously
TO WHICH ADD
THE GREATEST IRONY
Wendell L. Willkie is now unem-
ployed.
They say the new member of the
NLRB is genius at compromise.
Maybe he can pass out few tips
on how to stave off the landlord, the
butcher and the baker.
STORY OF THE WEEK
In the slums, window plants get so
little sun that they must be kept alive
with hot hotfoots.
A painter who has braved lead poi
soning for IL years swears to this:
One lung said to his other lung:
We'll, it's been nice knowing you"
Then it collapsed.
WONDERS
Whether the man who attacked
Cecil B. DeMille in the lobby of a
Chicago hotel recently could have
been simply a member of the irate
public trying (as so many of us have
so often said we would to get his
money back.
Whether the fact that Max Factor
Jr. reports women will go for men of |
Latin types in 1941 is a reaction |
against the European trend toward |
blonde Aryanism
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
CORN CROP REPORT

The federal department of agricul-
ture has reported that favorable Oc-
tober weather boosted the nations
corn crop S1,OOO,OOO bushels to 2,433.-
423,000 bushels and raised production
figures on several other crops as
much as five percent.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
IT'S A
GREAT SYSTEM!
By JOHN PAINE and
DAVID DACHS

Federated Press)
1t seems that Vultee Aircraft
owned by vultures.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
WOMAN'S NAME ADDED

The Montana land board last week,
for the first time in its history, issued
a coal mining lease to woman, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hoppe Of Havre. Mrs.
Hoppe will operate her coal mining
enterprise on 160 acres of Hill county
land
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
CHICKENPOX HEADS LIST

DIR. B. K. Kilbourne, state epidemi
logist, reported last week II cases OF
chickenpox led the list of communica
BILE ills in the state with other dis
eases at a minimum.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
The
of the F. u. c.. t. A.
Our Mountain Men

Delegates from those states neare
sea level who attended the annual con
vention Of the Farmers Educationa
and Cooperative Union of America a
Denver, Colorado, the week ending
November 20, have some understand
ing as to why the Greeks are sucf
fighters and why the Swiss are no
being presented with any ultimatums
by the dictators which surround them
The man from the lowlands discovers
that it takes two gasps to get full
breath. The air is thinner up there
in the mountains among which Denver
sits and mans lungs get developed
by having constantly to reach for
enough of the rarefied stuff to provide
him with the oxygen and ozone he
neds. Those men from the noun
tains develop strong lungs and stout
hearts and take no back talk from
anybody. The mountains give them
independence of thought and action
and there is none to make them
afraid
Twenty Wild Pipers
Perhaps that atmosphere had some
thing to do with the outcome of this
convention. which may prove to be
the turning point in the career of the
Farmers Union. First of all, the Sc
lection of James J. Patton of Denver,
as National President for the ensuing
IN, nf 70
and drive. He has been a member of
the National Board of Directors and
knows what must be done to get the
national body into direct action. The
state organizations have been too in
different to, or independent of, the
national body They have been like
the Twenty Wild Pipers" of the old
Scotch song:
"At the wedding of Shan Mclean
Twenty wild pipers togetheri
Strutting like cocks they crew
Each one his own strain blew
Twenty wild pipers together"
Policy of Pretense
That was it! Each state, while pos
5ibly even approving or voting for the
adopted as course and
guide by the national organization,
went blithely home and followed the
national program or not as it pleased.
Each state blew it's own strain; each
looted it's own tune on economics, on
legislative matters and on policy. But
he states boasted of being Together,
Continued on Page Four)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
AIRPLANE CRASH
 $4OO,OOO SUIT

Hatford, Conn, April 1.-CUP)- A federal petit jury was scheduled to begin hearing today in four damage suits aggregating $4O0,0O0, resulting from an airplane crash near Cleveland, O., in May 1888, in which ten persons were killed.
 The suits were brought in behalf of the eStaets of L. Arthur Doty, Watertown, Mass; E. H. Veblen, Los Angeles, Calf, chief test pilot of Douglas Aircraft Corp; Richard C. Lewis, Ansonia, and John Brous- tuen, Republican state chairman of North Dakota.
 Defendants in the suits were the United Air Lines, the Pratt & Whit ney division of United Aircraft Corp. and the Bethlehem Steel Cor poration.
 The crash, it was alleged, was caused by a cracked cylinder. Be- cause of this complaint, the Pratt & Whitney division was named a defendant because 1t manufactured the motor, and the Bethlehem Steel Corp, because it supplied the ma terial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
YOUTH IS KILLED
 BY STATE POLICE
Believed to' Be Murderer of Gas Station Youth
 Fought Police

Keene, N. H., April 1-(UP)-A youth, shot to death after a TO- mile-an-hour chase in stolen au- to, beyond any reasonable doubt" was the murderer of a filling sta- ticn proprietor, authorities said to- day.
 Arthur Pellerin, 19, Keene odd jobsman, was killed in a gun-battle with a state trooper last night as 70 police and sheriff's deputies sought the alleged slayer of Walter I. Coombs, 29, who was shot in the head in $35 robbery Saturday. Pellerin shot it out after Wrecking beach wagon stolen ill North SWanzey.
 The search narrowed from 30 sus- poets when State Police Lieutenant T. Dwight Comstock reported that Pellerin had fled from his home as the officer waited for the youth ito get my hat" Comstock had told Pellerin he was wanted for ques- tioning in the Coombs murder.
 When Comstock reported that Pellerin had fled yesterday after noon, 35 National Guardsmen, five state troopers, 20 constables and 10 Keene policemen were marshaled for the chase. They established a watch of all roads leading out of Keene.
 About 8 p. m. speeding beach wagon nearly struck Police Chief John Raitto of Troy. State Trooper CT William F. Smith, following the beach wagon picked up Raitto and chased the fleeing machine for eight miles along the road toward Bos- ton. Attempting to loop back to- ward Keene, the fugitive rammed the beach wagon into a tree.
 Apparently unhurt, Pellerin leap ed out and, witnesses said, fired four shots at Smith and Raitto. Smith fired once and Pellerin drop ped, a bullet in his chest. He died soon afterWard at a hospital with out regaining consciousness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01

points addressed to "employes anc all ether persons whomscever" call. ing attention to a 1882 federal in. junction prohibiting anyone from interfering with the management ol possession of the company's receiver Thomas E. Murray, the receiver pointed out that this injunction stil was effective.
 The cause of the crisis was com pleX. There are three subway lines connecting the four boroughs, Man. hattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn (Staten Island, the Fifth Borough is connected to the others by ferry J One is the Independent which k municipally owned. The other two are the Interborough Rapid Transit and the Brooklyn Manhattan Tran. sit which are to be taken over by tht city June l and unified with tht Independent.
 Closed Shop Contracts
 The union has closed shop con. tracts with the IRT and BMT. The employees of the Independent arc civil service employees and are not unionized. When the city takes over the IRT and BMT employees will be "blanketed" into civil service, Witt the assured tenure, pensions, anc other benefits which the civil service law assures. City officials maintain that the city can neither legally recognize the closed shop for civi service employees, who are required under the civil law, to obtain theil posts by competitive examination nor the right to strike against the government. The union is striking to force the city to recognize its contracts and operate the IRT ane BMT on a closed shop basis.
 Approximately 27,000 IRT anc BMT employes were subject to tht strike call - train crews, station agents and employees, power house workers, and the employees of the subsidiary bus and elevated lines op- erated by the companies. If all re. spond, it was authoritatively stated that it would be impossible to op. crate the high-speed, complex trans. portation system because there wouldn't be enough skilled mer available.
 In the face of this crisis, Mayor LaGlardia worked through the nigh -ostensibly on the budget-calmly assuring everyone that a strike would be stupid "the trouble vii be ironed out" He would like tt submit the dispute to the courts tt determine if the city can recognize the contracts and the closed shor lnder the Constitution, but Johr H. Delaney, chairman of the boare of transportation, refused to recog. nize the contracts or go to court ane it is against them primarily tha the strike will be directed. Delaney was calm too and would say noth' ing. Quill, a former alderman, { hard, pugnacious Irishman Wht fought his way up from the ranks said: All preparations for neces, sary strike action have been com. pleted."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
YOUNG BUCKNER
 MARRIED IN FEB,
Playboy Broker Welded to Adelaide MOffet, Cape
 SOCialite

New York, April 1.-(UP)-Wiliam P. Buckner, JN, the playboy-broker now serving two-year term for mail fraud in the Philippine Rail- ways bonds scandal, married Ade- laide Moffett, night club singer and heiress to Standard Oil millions last Feb. 8, it became known today.
 Friends Wormed an admission of the secret ceremony from the beau- tlful blonde cafe socialite last night when she appeared with a wedding ring on her finger. Buckner sur rendered to Federal authorities last week and was placed in the Federal House of detention. He will be taken to the LeWiSburg, Pa., penitentiary Wednesday.
 Miss Moffett is the daughter of former federal administrator James A. Moffett. When news of her mar riage reached federal officials today they said they would re-examine Buckner, who had proclaimed his inability to meet a $2,500 fine. How ever, Miss Moffett filed a petition in bankruptcy in April 1888 alleging she owed about $8,o00 above her assets of $1,800, and it was not believed that she could be made to pay her husbands fine.
 Buckner was convicted of mail fraud involving huge loss to Phil ippine bonds investors, who were led to believe the railway bonds were going to be redeemed by the government. Evidence at his trail dwelt on "show girl lobby'' which Buckner took to Washington when he entertained legislators.
 When Buckner gave himself up last week after a futile appeal to the supreme court and request for delay in execution of sentence because of a "heart condition" he said he had resigned himself to prison life and would use his term at Lewisburg to evolve "neW philosophy of living
 From the time of his conviction until his name was linked with several women. Prior to the trial Buckner's big romance was Loretta Young, the screen star, whom he called by transcontinental telephone when he was arrested and later visited on the coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01

Continued from Page D
 At last we seem to be getting somewhere. District Attorney ODWyer. is concentrating in rouno- ing up the killers and bringing them to justice do your duty, fairly intel ligently and fearlessly. This must be a winning fight, where guilt is shown. The skull and crossbones of the underworld must come down. By what we do, may we not only restore law and order so far as or ganized murder here is concerned, but set an example for other con- munities similarly afflicted to fol- low"
 There were reports today that the executives of Murder, Inc, were dir ecting business from prison cells where they had been taken on charges ranging from vagrancy to murder.
 Intended Victims In Jail
 Two intended victims Of the mur- der gang arc in Brooklyn jails where they asked admittance after invita- tlons" to take a ride out on Long Island until the heat goes off," It was disclosed by one of htem that Harry (Happy) Malone, who is in Tombs prison charged with one of the 30 murders attributed to Mur- der Inc, put the finger on Joseph (The Baker) Liberto and Angelo (Julie) Catalano from his cell.
 Catalano declined his ride" Lib erto accepted but escaped through the back window of a store on Long Island, where Vito Gurino, lis es- cort who is sought as Murder, Inc. eXecutioner, had permitted him to buy cigarettes, and ended his flight at the office of District Attorney William ODWyer ill Brooklyn.
 Malone was believed to have given instructions for the elimination of Catalano and Liberto through the prison grapevine.
 Assistant District Attorney Burton B. Turkus questioned Evelyn Mittle- man. 25, girl friend of Harry (Pitts- burgh PhiD Strauss, believed to be Murder, Inc, executive and named in two murder indictments, and will seek to hold her in $1O0,O00 bail as a material witness against the ring.
 Turkus said Miss Mittleman told him she was sorry Strauss had not followed the example of Abe Reies Murder, Inc, vice-president, who has been singing" to police hoping to escape the electric chair.
 Two Grand Juries
 Two grand juries were to be sworn ir today to handle the Murder, Inc, cases. Judge William J. Coon of Cortland County was expected to sit in as an extra judge to expedite their disposition.
 Detectives from O'DWyer's staff meanwhile arrested and held as ma terial witnesses in the investigation Louis uouie the barber) Martarello 27, Zaccerino Cavitolo, 61, and Cavi- tolo's wife, Antoinette, AZ.
 Coney Island police said that the three were to be questioned about the Sept. l3, 1886 murder of Joseph Rosen in his Brooklyn candy store Authorities described Rosen as a former partner in a clothing truck ing business and witness in Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's investigation of the trucking racket
 Martarello is brother-in-law of Louis Capone. who is being held in default of $100,00O bail as material witness in the staying of Alexander tRedD Albert on Nov. "A, 1883.
 AS his assistants, with~a a stenographer had gone to Sing Sing Prison to question several prisoners in con- nection with the murder rings ac- tivities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
employment, occupations, standards of housing and distribution of wages.
 Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding
 Considerable misunderstanding has arisen concerning the compara- lively few new questions to be asked in this census. I welcome this op- portunity to clear up any miscon- captions which may be in the minds of those who are about to play an active part nthis orderly process of Democratic government by answer ing the census questions.
 The questions on income have created widespread attention and there has been much misrepresent- ation about them. In the first place, let me emphasize that no question IS asked concerning total income. The first of the two questions calls for the amount of wages or salary re- ceived up to $5,000; amounts over $5,O0O are to be returned C CT $5,00O." The second of the income inquiries merely calls for "yes" or mo" answer to the question, "did this person receive income of $50.0O or more from sources other than wages or salary?" The amount of such income is not to be specified. The wage income information fur nished the census bureau will be used only for the compilation of statistical tables for correlation with other facts about the nations most pressing problems.
 All In Confidence
 I cannot stress too strongly the confidential nature of individual census reports. They cannot be used for purpose of taxation, regulation or investigation. They cannot be fur nished to any other agency of the government. They are made confi- dential by act of Congress. Ill view of certain misstatements on this subject, I wish to point out that acts of Congress cannot be set aside by executive order. /
 The 1940 census will provide a standard of measurement for our country and our cities for the next ten years. It is the duty of every re- sident of the United States to help make this an accurate, complete in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
MURDERER BEGS
 RECONCILIATION
Kills Man He Discovered With His Common Law
 Wife, Saturday

Newton, N. J., April 1-UP)- Leonard Dubee was held on a mur- der charge today, still begging re- conciliation with his common law wife, who turned him over to po- lice after he had killed the man he trapped with her in a Lakeside summer cabin.
 Sussex County authorities said Dubee, 28, a New York apartment house superintendent, emptied a gun three times into the head and body of Richard c. Schween, 34, in Swartswood, N. J., cabin.
 Dubee said he became madly jeal- ous when informed that Yvonne De- finod, with whom he had lived for more than two years, was spending Week-ends in the cabin with SchWeen. He went there Saturday night and waited all night until they arrived. He shot Schween and took the girl into another room. He got mad again, reloaded the gun and returned to where Schween lay, still alive, and emptied it into SchWen'S head. He returned a second time and fired six more shots into Schween's skull.
 He forced Miss Defined to drive with him to Glen Falls, N. Y, where he permitted her to go into beau- ty shop oStensibly to have her hair fixed. She called police.
 Sussex police did not know a murder had been committed until Glen Falls authorities informed them.
 Dubee begged that she forgive him during the 18O-mile ride to Glen Falls and at the police sta- tlon there, but she scorned him.
 Miss Defined was held as ma- terial witness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
Allied Powers Ready
 For Blockade Testing
Continued From Page p

On the surface, at least, that atti- tude would mean success for Hit ler's effots to conf1ne the military phase of wa. fare to the western front and tte North Sea and would force both sides to resot to still more ruthless economic warfare in other fields.
 The allies apparently believe that they are prepared for such econ- omic warfare and can afford to wait until the blockade drives the Nazis to some desperate act that will open the way for a f1anking attack on Germany. Thus, German effort to use military power to enforce its economic demands on the Scan- dinavians or on a Balakn nation eff Hitler became that desperate) would give the allies the legal excuse they want for a flanking thrust around the Siegfried line.
 Except for increasingly frequent aerial and naval stabs at the enemy, it appeared likely that this policy would result this spring in only enough fighting (of spectacular character) to meet the public and parliamentary demands for action on the battlefield. But there was wide difference of opinion in neutral countries as to whethe Germany or the allies was best prepared for such an economic stuggle and as to whether the British and French could make their blockade felt swiftly enough without creating a new war front.
 Pressure on Neutrals
 Int strategy, it was indicated, will be to bring increasing pressure against the small neutrals adjacent to Germany in order to persuade them to brow-beat them into cut ting down their trade with the Reich. One method will be to offer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
MAYOR SCULLY
 LIKES MULVILLE
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Continued from Page D
 The status of several members Of the town committee who offered their resignations last fall is un- certain. No action on the resigna- tions was ever taken, and it may be that the men in question will re- main on the town committee.
 The convention was adjourned a week ago when Delegate William Doucette died suddenly i'll the meet ing room after suffering a heart attack.
 Legality of Rules
 Talk was heard again today that questions of the legality of the new party rules and of the election of new town committee would be raised tonight. Possibility of the matter being taken to the courts was being discussed, but no dele gates would commit themselves on this question.
 Mayor Scully indicated plainly that he would like to see MT. Null vile reconsider his decision, but this was believed impossible. Men, ton of MT. Blansfield for town chairman came from ordinarily re- liable sources.
 The procedure to be followed is this, in brief:
 The town convention tonight will elect 32 town committeeman. The 32 men will/meet during the week and elect 32 town committeewomen The GA members of the town committee will then elect an executive com- mittee of 15, and then choose chairman and other officers.
 Mayor Scully was visited today by delegates of the Women's Democratic Club and the Women's Democratic Booster Club. Each ar- gued for representation on the women's side of the new town com mittee. The mayor had no comment after the conferences.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
RUSSELL RULING
 MAY EB APPEALED

New York, April - (U.P) The Board of Higher Education confers with counsel today to decide whe- ther it will appeal the cancellation of Bertrand Oord) Russells ap- pointment as a professor of mathe- matics and philosophy at the Col lege of the City of New York.
 The appointment of the British Peer and philosopher was revoked Saturday by Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan who studied some of Russell's writings and de- cided he was unfit because of re- ligious and moral advocates to dis cuss mathematics and logic before college students. He charged, in a decision granting the application of Mrs. Jean Kay, Brooklyn housewife, for an order to revoke the appoint ment. that the appointment would establish a chair of indecency."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-01
Doctors Formula Helps Liver Bile
 Flow Freely

Right Way To Relieve Constipation
 and Feel ''Tip-Top'' In Morning
 If liver bile doesn't flow freely eresy day into your intestines- constipation with its headaches and that "half-alive" feeling often result So step up that liver bile and see how much better you should feel! Just try Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, used so successfully for years by Dr. F. M. Edwards for his patients with constipation and sluggish bile.
 Olive Tablets, being purely vegetable. are wonderful! They not only stimulate bile flow to help digest fatty foods but ALSO help elimination. Get a box TODAYl 15e, 3of. 6of. All dEugstores.