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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
ISIXLANGUAGES
 VOICE WARNING
Highway Safety COnlmis- sion DediCates Radio PrO-
 grams to Pedestrians

Radio announcements in six lan- guages are warning pedestrians of the hazards to foot travellers in traf- f1c, as part of the pedestrian acci- dent reduction campaign being con- ducted by the Connecticut Highway Safety Commission during the two final weeks of this year.
 Connecticut'S nine radio stations are cooperating in the broadcast of a pedestrian safety message in five foreign tongues, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Italian and Jewish. Each of the five separate announcements includes translation into English
 The messages, transcribed, were recorded at WTIC, the broadcast ing station of the Travellers Insur- ance Company, by group of vol unteer interpreters, whose partici- patton was enlisted through the as- sistance of Judge William J. Burke and Interpreter Samuel R. Wittel ot the City Police Court of Hartford.
 The volunteer foreign language announcers were: Polish, John Mok- rzycki, radio announcer, Hartford Lithuanian, Justin Balsis, organist at the Holy Trinity church, Hart ford; Russian, the Reverend Nich- olas G. Wasilieff, Hartford; Italian Joseph M. Muzio. Interpreter, City Police Court of Hartford; and Jew ish, Abraham Goldstein of West Hartford, insurance man.
 Richard Walsh of the State De- velopment Commission arranged for the participation of the radio sta tionS in this part of the statewide pedestrian accident reduction cam paign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Modern Aggressive
 War Theme Of Book
Rev. Dr. Ryan of Catholic University Holds Conflict Without Justification; Political Objectives Scored

Modern aggressive war, war used as an instrument of national policy cannot be justified in the light 'oi the tradition of the Catholic ethic of war, writes Rev. Dr. John K. Ryan assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C., in new book Modern War and Basic Ethics, just off the press.
 Father Ryan, after careful study of the causes and conditions of mod ern war, has come to the conclusion that "the demands of the natural moral law for just war (can not be met under the conditions that obtain when the decision is made tc wage aggressive war as an instru- ment of national policy" and that "a completely modern war (can not) be decided on and used as a legiti- mate means to some theological or political end"
 Just Cause
 To-day as formerly, war requires Ia just cause, good to be obtained that will far outweigh the evils which inevitably and necessarily follow" writes Dr. Ryan. Tn the modern world no search can reveal a cause proportionate to the destru- ction wrought in every order, phy- sical, political, social, moral, and spiritual, by war such as the last A war, completely modern in char acter and universal in scope, is Pope Plus XI has said, "so mon- strously murdreous and almost cer- tainly suicidal" that for a statesman or government initiating aggressive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
BETTY BARROWS ON NEG FRIDAY 
Local Girl to Appear With Mount HOIyOke College
 Carol Choir

The Mount Holyoke college carol choir gave its annual Christmas carol concert in the Abbey Memorial chapel Tuesday night. The choir will repeat the concer t tomorrow night in New York at Town Hall, and will broadcast over the Red net work of NEG from to 1:15 p. m. Friday.
 Girls from the vicinity of Hart ford who are singing in the choirs are Miss Lucy Bugbee, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Lloyd Bugbee of West Hartford; Miss Elizabeth Barrows, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Walter L. Barrows of Waterbury; Miss Bar bara Rodenbach, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles P. Rodenbach of Naugatnck; Miss Eleanor Say daughter of MT. and Mrs. William F. Say of Rockville; Miss Louise Burr, daughter of MT. and Mrs. N A. Burr of Manchester; Miss Carol Rose, daughter of MT. and Mrs Philip M Rose of Glastonbury; and Miss Virginia Starquist, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Elias Starquist ot Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
GEORGE COREY IS
 STILL AT LARGE
College Graduate Sought for Murder of Former
 Hockey Star

Hull, Mass, Dec. 19-(UP)-A nation wide search continued today for George Corey, 27, of Salem Northeastern University honor grad uate wanted on warrant charging him with the murder of Kenneth S. Legro, 30, former Dartmouth Col lege hockey player, in an alleged triangle" tragedy.
 Police believed Corey may bt headed for southern town. Though authorities declined to reveal the name of the town, they said he had friends there.
 The police theory was substan. tiated ill part by a message from New York City authorities who said 8 man had reported seeing an auto which bore the same registration as the car that Corey rented from a Salem garage few hours before Mondays staying.
 Four men were reportedly in the auto which was seen travelling a. long Lexington Avenue mar Est 4tr Stret yesterdy. New York police
 
 the Massachusetts auto.
 Earlier, Connecticut state police reported that a man resembling Corey's description had bought a quart of liquor at Danielson Conn. package store Tuesday night The store proprietor made the re- port after seeing Corey,s picture ir a Boston morning newspaper.
 A search of qua1TieS, beaches anc woods from Peabody to Scituate was started as routine check, police said, on the possibility that Corey might have taken his life in it oi despondency.
 Funeral of .LegrO
 Meanwhile, it was announced that funeral services for Legro will bt held tomorrow from the Peabody home of his parents. Burial will be at Cedar Grove cemetery. His 26. |year-old bride of three months will remain in seclusion until the flu, neral.
 Legro, an accountant, was shot tC death as he climbed the steps ot his NantaSket cottage, returning from work. Mrs. Legro, the former Marie Chenery who attended higl school with both Legro and Corey told police that as she opened tht door in response to a rap, her hus- band toppled backward from the tor step. Legro died almost instantly from three bullet wounds. ,45
 Police described Corey as a rejec. ted suitor of Mrs. Legro, the daugll. ter of a CIO union official. They belived Corey's love for her nevel had waned despite her September marriage to Legro. The two men hat argued several times previous to tht marriage and on one occasion, police said, the prospective bride was war. ned she would be widow in { 4month" if she married Legro.
 There were no witnesses to thu shooting.
 Corey had purchased severa Christmas presents including a dol for a five year old niece before hir ing the auto at Salem and leaving his own car outside the garage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

Denver, Dec. 19-(UP)-Dr. Doug las Miller, for Is years commercial attache in the U. s. Embassy at Berlin, said today that the German government had placed hundreds of students in American universities to work as propagandists.
 Miller, who resigned two years ago, now is a Professor at Denver University where Karl Scheuring is student. Scheuring, 18, "A good Nazi," was ordered expelled to Ger many Tuesday by the Department of Justice.
 Selection of the students to come here and direction of their activities was controlled by a special branch of the German foreign office, Miller said, fin charge of an official named Bohle, formerly stationed in South Africa"
 The quiet program of propagan- da" was being carried on by Ger man Nal youths of high intelligence and extended into principal univer- sites and colleges throughout the country, Miller said.
 He said he had no idea how many such students were here now but es- timated that there were several hundred" Their activities are not fragrant, he said, and consist princi- pally of making good impression with other students.
 "The program is in line witse the Nazi plan of putting the best foot forward,' Milla' sr - tie cited Scheuring as an example.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
GUEST SPEAKERS
 ANNOUNCED TODAY


 The Waterbury School of Religion will get underway January 13 and will continue every Monday there after until February IT, it was an- nounced this morning by Mrs. Perci- val E. Dixon, director. The guest speakers in the order in which they will appear here fol- low: "The Chfld's Approach to Relig- ion"-Dr. Edna Baxter, Hartford Seminary.
 Resource Materials for Junior Teachers"-MissB Barbara Peck, West Hartford.
 Teaching Intermediate" Rev. Gibson I. Daniels, Hartford.
 Improving the Church School Rev. R. Stanley Kendig, Hartford. "The Nature of the Church" Rev. Floyd Tompkins, Washington. Conn. y"Major Teachings of Jesus"-Dr. E. F. Scott, Union Seminary, New York.
 "The Gospel According to Paul" -Dr. Millar Burrows, Yale Divinity School, New Haven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

war to attempt to assign to it pro- portionate cause is vain even to the point of folly and malice"
 "A just cause, according to the re- quirements of a rational ethic, must not only be objectively just and adequate, it must also be known with certainty. Yet it is the modern theory. and worse, the modern fact, that too often known justice comes not first but. last, not before but after the war" For the actual combatants even the distinction be- tween defense and offense has dis appeared, for both sides are equally on the offensive and defensive. Hence it sometimes happens that only after the struggle is over, if even then, it is possible to discern moral realities, to establish which of the two contestants was actually acting in just self defense"
 Formally Right
 "The intention of those who de- eide for war depends upon fullness of knowledge, if it is to be com pletely and formally right Where the one is wanting, so also is the other absent. Hence to have a genu- inely right intention-the intention to preserve or to recover peace = those who decide for war must be possessed of sure knowledge of the jutlce of their cause, certain that the evils that they seek to avoid ol remove are greater than the de- truction, the moral evil, and the physical suffering that will follow their decision, more hopeful of vic tory than fearful of defeat. and de- termined to use only morally licit means to attain their end"
 "If such fullness of knowledge and rectitude of intention cannot be found in those who bring on a war, they can best be exculpated on the ground that they act in in- vincible ignorance or in a mere me- chanical fashion, powerless to con- trol the forces that make modern war possible. Yet such invincible error does not make the war ob- 1ectively just, nor does it undo the damage that it works.
 Aggressive War
 "A fourth reason for the con- demnation of modern aggressive wal as an actual fact is its use of mor- ally illicit means. It adapts to its use the findings of modern science and turns these weapons not only upon armies of combatants but upor non-combatants as well. Merely ex- perimental and incidental in the first World War, such direct at- tacks upon civil population are 8 most striking feature of the tota warfare of today"
 Finally. modern war is not a final and ineluctable resort, means taken only in situation of extreme gravity and necessity from which es- cape is possible only by the dan- gerous and disastrous ways of arms Institutions already exist--the chie1 among them of divine foundation and guidance-that can effect the peaceful, equitable and prosperous settlement of international dispute
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
NEW LEGISLATION FOR AIR PROGRAM
Six New England States to Be Asked to Adopt Favor
 able Airport Laws

Boston, Dec 19.-(UP)-State aviation officials from throughout New England today began 8 drive for new legislation in each of the six states to implement the areas new airport program.
 Crocker Snow, Massachusetts aeronautics director and chairman of the New England Conference of State Aviation Officials, said after conference meeting yesterday that each official, agreed to work for early enactment of new laws and for llni- form procedures for the establish ment and operation of airportS. Proposed new laws would provide:
 1.-Zoning for control of. airport approaches.
 2.-Authority to- counties, cities and towns to work together in es- tablishing, maintaining and operat- ing airports. '
 3.-Authority to states to estab- fish, own and operate airports and to assign broad powers to state aero nautics bodies. es
 flax exemption for publicly owned airports.
 5. Authority to communities to acquire land outside. their boun- darieS for public airports. 6.-Authority for title transfers in eases whre land for airports must he sRkex by enetrezs Eosrai-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
TWO SENTENCED
 TO LONG TERMS

Providence, R. l., Dec. 19.-(UP) Superior Judge G. Frederick Frost today sentenced two Pawtucket men to long terms in state prison after both pleaded nolo contendere to four armed robbery charges.
 Alfred w. Lemieux, q. was given Is years and Henry J. F. L. Staff ford, Jr., 27, IA years for holdups which police said netted total $128. The state charged that Le- mieux entered the victims stores while Stafford waited at the wheel of their getaway auto.
 Stanley M. Kieon, A, of South Attleboro, Mass, alleged owner of the auto used in three of the rob- berries, will be arraigned tomorrow on accessory charges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
JACOB BREUER
 SOCIETY HEAD
Treundschafts Elect Cram= CT Secretary, Ed TOller
 Treasurer

The yearly meeting of Friendship Lodge No. was held last night in Turn Hall. The election of officers for 1941 was held. The officers are: Jacob Breuer, president; Albert Mitchell, president; Edward Cramer, secretary; Emil Katzmeier financial secretary; Alex Drapatin financial secretary of the voluntary sick benefit fund; and Ed Toller treasurer
 The past treasurer, L. Cramer, ST has retired after service of 30 years
 The society will hold its annual masquerade Feb. g at the Turn Hall on North Main Street, combin- ing with the sister lodge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
HARVARD CHECKS
 ON NEW COMET


 Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 19 (U. P.) = Harvard obvservatory scien- tists said today their most-recent photographs of the Cunningham comet showed its tail is forked and increasing 5O0,O00 miles in length every 24 hours.
 Dr. Fletcher Watson said the tail is now about 5,0O0,O00 miles long but not yet visible to the naked eye. Its head appears in the western sky as a small hay star.
 A time exposure photograph cov- ering l 1-2 hours revealed the gas- eous body has a two-pronged tail. One fork is much longer and thin- ner than the other which projects of teh main fork several hundred thousand miles down its length.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
PATTERSON PROMOTED

Washington, Dec. 19 -- (UP) - President Roosevelt today promoted Robert P. Patterson. New York, from Assistant Secretary of War to the new post of Undersecretary of War.
 MT. Roosevelt sent the nomination of Patterson to the Senate ta noon, The new post of Undersecretary of War was created by Congress at the request Of the president.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Market Declines Over
 IF oint At Beginning
SteeIs Were Not Strong; Motor Shares Showed Up
 Better; Rails Were Fairly Steady at Start
BY ELMER c. WAbZER fTfutfAi1 preSr EfmarnefaI Es1;fn

New York, Dec. I9.-UP)-Stocks declined fractions to more than point in morning trading today.
 Bethlehem was at the previous close of S5 and U. s. Steel at 67lz of II net and up E point from the early low.
 Motor shares held well slightly be- low the previous close.
 Glenn Martin 29h off |; American Locomotive Preferred 87 off 1; American Woolen Preferred 52 of IFS; Crucible Steel 431s of IS; General Steel Castings Preferred 541s of 1% and Thompson Products 31, ex-dividend, off 1K.
 Union Pacific had a small gain and other rails were about steady Utilities were about unchanged.
 Commonwealth & Southern opened 2,OO0 shares at 75 cents share, and later block of 4,600 shares sold at the same price. Radio Corporation opened 1000 shares at AS off 1-16; Canadian Pacific 1000 at 3A unchanged; Radio-Keith- Or pheum HOO shares at 31s un- changed; Packard 1000 at SIS un- changed and International Tele- phone 1000 at 2ss up %.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
LEAHY SAILS MONDAY

Washington, Dec. 19 = (UP9 = Admiral William D. Leahy, new United States Ambassador to France, announced at the White House today that he would sail for his new post from Norfolk, Va, Mon- day on U. s. naval cruiser,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Cars Collide

Thurman Walton, of 32 Lafay- ettestreet was notified to appear in city court tomorrow by Motor Patrolman John Murphy after his car collided with a Bro0kside -dairy truck at Waterviile and Homer streets. The driver of the dairy truck was William P. Whel- an, of 2784 East Main street. Motor Patrolman Murphy said that damage was slight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
GOOD SAMARITAN ROLE

The troubles of a helpful niece in trying to get her uncle out of some feminine difficulties motivates Anna Neagle's newest RKO Radio vehicle, "No, No, Nanette." Richard Carlson heads the supporting cast, with Vic- tor Mature and Robert Young.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Makes God a Partner !. Their Business Rooms
Big Manufacturer
 ExhOrtS Workers, Creates Foundation To Spread Gospel

EDITORS NOTE: This is the story of an unusual man with an unusual way of doing buSi- ness. About 10 years ago R. G. LeTOurneau returned home from hearing an evangelist speak. That night invented 2 machine that got him out of the red. So when he prOs-' pered he took God into working partnership. Here's the yarn:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
German Youths In Colleges To Act As Propagandists

"Scheuring is healthy and intel ligent," he said. Tt is apparent that the party would not have allowed him to leave Germany unless il wanted him in this country for g special purpose"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
FATAL ACCIDENT

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 19-(UP)- Mrs. Julia Martell, 62, died early to- day of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile Dec. 15. Thomas Tighe, 24, was held as the driver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

In an explosion at Monorgah, West Virginia, in December of 1907, 358 men were killed-the greatest loss of lives in any United States mine disaster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Cotton Futures.

New York, Dec. 19.-CUP)-Cotton futures regained nearly all of an early moderate decline in quiet fore noon dealings today.
 Around mid-day prices were to 3 points net lower.
 After a steady opening, the mar ket ran into a brief influx of Bom- bay and Southern selling and the list sold of to losses ranging to 40 cents a bale, but local buying and trade support on the scale down brought about a recovery.
 Worth street cotton goods mar kets were quiet, with prices holding steady.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Wool Market.

Boston, Dec. 19.-(UP)-Fine and half blood grades of foreign wools were receiving some demand in Boston at firm prices otday, the U. s. agriculture department reported. Similar grades domestic wools were quiet largely because supplies in volume desired were not available. Buyers in a few cases had indicated they would pay up to $1.05 secured basis on good French combing length fine territory wools. Some users however were not interested in these wools at prices over $l secured basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

The dry spell of 1880 exceeded in duration and aridity any ever recorded in e5 years of U. S. 'zeathar Bureau records.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

put salt between the blanks Of a ship for the preservation Of the timber.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
HOUSING PROJECT
STRIKE DEVELOPS
Fifteen Men Stage Walkout
For Closed Shop On Fairview
Homes Job In Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 26- Up "A
strike developed today at Fairview
homes, big negro slum clearance
project of the Charlotte Housing Au.
thority under construction here. The
strike is for a closed shop.
Fifteen men - four carpenters. q
mortar-mixer and ten bricklayers
helpers-struck. Workers on the
payroll before the strike was called
included % carpenters, SO brick.
layers, IS bricklayers' helpers, five
roofers, three electricians and Is
common laborers.
All the workers were on the jot
today except the fifteen who struck
The workers r all unionized ex
cept the carpenters. The strike was
called by the Building Trades Coun
Gil. The project was picketed al
day.
H. L. Kizer, business agent fol
the council, said that on December
Is last the construction company
promised that all additional mel
employed would be placed through
the Building Trades Council, but
that the company failed to live ur
to its agreement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
HIGH SCHOOL RING
TEAM PRACTICES
Cats Prepare For Meet With
Burgaw Boxers Here To-
morrow Night

Coach Howard Mcdonald of the
New Hanover High school boxing
team put his charges through one
Of the longest workouts of the sea.
son on yesterday afternoon prepar.
ing them for the match with Bur-
gaw High schools battling punch.
ers.
On Wednesday night at 8 o'clock
the Wildcats will touch gloves with
the visiting Fender county lads in
the hici school ring.
There are several fighters on the
local squad who have been working
hard all season, but have not had
a match so far. Wetzel Holt, Joe
Starkey and a few other stalwarts,
are keeping their fingers crossed
in hopes Of getting matches to-
morrow night. Coach Mcdonald will
throw Bobby Lee, Irby King, Jack
Nall, Jack Griffith, Hugh Griffith,
Jack Bryant, Joe Walker, Kenneth
Davis, Norman Davis, Jim Fennell,
Billy Mead and Herbert Houston
against the visitors in order to
make the count cor vincingly in the
locals favor.
The team will work out again
this afternoon in the ring which
has been set up in the Isaac Bear
school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
PLEA REJECTED

WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. Up -
The supreme court today tersely
rejected a plea from Martin T
Manton to give him a last chance
to vindicate himself "for the honor
of the American judiciary"
The court refused to hear his
appeal from a conviction for con-
spiracy to sell judicial favors when
he was senior judge of the federal
circuit court of appeals at New
York, on which he had served %
years.
Manton was sentenced last June
to serve two years in prison an6
pay a $4,000 fine-the maximum
sentence under the charge-bu1
has been free in $4,000 bail pend
ing final appeal. He might file a
petition for a rehearing by the su-
preme court within Is days but
the action would not require the
New York court to grant him a
further stay from prison.
In discretionary matters Of this
kind, the supreme court is not
required to announce the reasons
for it's actions nor how it's nine
justices voted, and it did not dc
so in this case. It rejected the
appeals of Manton and George M
Spector, an insurance agent con.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27

victed with him, with the curt no.
tation:
1.-THE petitions for writs OF
certiorari in these cases are de-
MED. Mr.. Justice Stone and Mr..
Justice Murphy took no part in
the consideration and decision OF
these applications"
Manton's lawyers had attacked
his conviction on ten technical
grounds and argued that from a
broad viewpoint it serves no pub
lie policy for a high judicial off,
Ger to be convicted of a judicial
crime. 1t tends to destroy the
confidence of the people in the
courts"
"The case started in the New
York county district attorneys Of
flee, by his investigation" they
said, "and it is not impossible that
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-27
Clarkton Cagers Capture
Bladen Schools Titles
F. D. r. To Arrive At
Balboa This Morning

ABOARD U. S. S. LANG, AT
SEA, Feb. 26-R-(via ~wireless)-
President Roosevelt will arrive early
tomorrow morning at Balboa for a
series Of conferences OF Panama
Canal d~efenses with American naval,
military and civilian officials and
talks with President Augusta Boyd
Of Panama and Panamanian poll
teal leaders.
Concluding his personal survey
aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa of
distant and nearby canal defenses,
Mr.. Roosevelt will inspect army and
navy installations at the Pacific end,
transit the canal and probably head
toward the United States by dusk.
The chief executive has been
studying additional distant canal de-
lenses and fishing occasionally since
leaving Cocos Island. This afternoon
the ships in the Presidential party
were anchored off the Panamanian
coast.