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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28

@. Which Federal Government
executive department has the great
est number OF employees?
A. The Post ONCE Department,
which has 29i 900 The War De-
partment has 88,205 the Navy De-
partment and the Department OF
Agriculture have slightly more
than $4,000 employees each, and the
Treasury Department has about
50,626.
q. How many banks in the
United States have failed In l9402
A. Five failed In the FIRST three
months. They had deposits amounts
Ing TO $i,el7,00o.
@. Does the Federal Government
own any mines?
A. II owns property on which
there are mineral deposits. but min
Ing operations are carried on by pri-
vate corporations or individuals,
under leases.
u. What are the dimensions OF
the Mediterranean Sea?
A. II Is 1890 miles long. with @
maximum width Of 1900 miles. In
GLIDING the Adriatic and Aegean
Seas the area Is about 1,i45,000
square miles. The depth varies from
30 to 2,i50 fathorns.
|
Q. What fuel feeds the flame In
the urn ct the top Of the Eternal
Light Peace Memorial, at Gettys-
burg?
A. Natural gas.
II you want copy Of the booklet
"Cool Dishes, Drinks and Desserts"
send TO The waterbury Democrats
Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth
street, Washington, ID. @. Enclose
| ten cents In hostage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28

London has had TO retrench In more
ways than one. With conditions such as
they are the penny bus fares have gone
up Fares are TO be increased 70 penny
and @ half which would be three cents In
our money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28
A Thought for Today

But say unto you. Love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good 10 them that hate
you, and pray for them which dcSpitefully use
yOu.-Matthew 5:H.
merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the
feconciled one Is truly anquiShed-Schiler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28
Washington Merry Go-Round &c
DREW PEAR 8 o n
ROBERT s. ALLEN

convention
generally
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28
BY BRUCE CATION
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

Philadelphia, June 2e-If you want
to take q beating, Just try running
for presidential nomination some
time.
The candidates at this Republican
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR
DO not say, I'VE decided to do
away with the Office Of Re.
corder"; say, abolish"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28

| kGk q IlhklhDklhhGg
exchange o few words and in gen.
cral see what makes great man
tick.
] spent a day watching Taft,
Dewey and Villkie In action, and
came away wondering that any
three men could take 1t that way.
It's like being the main event In
q popular sidchow or being
father-confessor TO the multitude
or living In nadhouse.
TAFT KEEPS COOL
AND CALM
Senator Taft held forth in a
bare little hotel room whose furni-
ture consisted OF half dozen chairs,
q little table, q telephone, q stack
Of card indexes and harried CAM
palgn manager. In o long corridor
outside battery OF SECRETARIES Sort
ed out the visitors. Nobody wearing
a delegates badge was turned
away.
A delegation would be admitted.
|. Handshakes, smiles, perhaps q
few questions about this or that
point Of policy, perhaps O frank
appeal by the candidate for support
|. then out they'd 80, TO be re-
placed by q new group.
Midday brought lunch; o chicken
sandwich, glass Of milk, vanilla ice
cream. With II came o little group
OF mid-western politics. Talk and
lunch went 10 together on the old
1910 ratio: 10 sentences TO one
bite OF food.
Mr.. Taft kept his coat on and
looked cool and iinrufflcd. outside,
q secretary remarked: TITS like this
all the time. He was up until 2
this morning, and started In again
at $3.50. Don't ask mo how he does
IT,"
WILLKIE RUMPLED
AND HAPPY
The jam at the Taft suite was
orderly, controlled. AT the WIllkie
rooms, 10 floors up In the same
hotel, II was Just the reverse.
There were three small rooms
at the end OF q corridor. Mr.. Willkie
would talk TO callers In one room,
while newcomers filled up the other
two; then he would shoulder his
way through the crush, looking
rather like o happy halfback going
over the goal line, 10 take on o Sec
ond roomful. He seemed TO be
honestly enjoying himself. He got
ruinpIed and had TO borrow o comb
repeatedly. He practically never sat
down or had more than four square
feet OF floor space TO himself.
DEWEY COURTEOUS
AND ATTENTIVE
In another hotel, Mr.. Dewey,
lodged In an unprctentioiB suite.
The delegations started calling on
him about 10 o'clock; by dusk. he
had seen II different state groups,
sitting at his case with each OF
them, talking 10 them as long as
anybody had anything 10 ask him
or anything 10 tell him, leaning
forward attentively, somehow con-
yeying the impression 10 each set
OF callers that they, In all the
mob. were the ones he most wanted
10 talk 10.
Somewhere IN the middle OF the
day he stole 20 minutes and went
out 10 lunch, all alone; 1t was the
only Ict-up. His secretaries and
contact men wilted and Sweated.
Mr.. Dewey, unaccountably, did
neither.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-28

Copyright. 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate, fnc)
Evening star., 1940-05-31
Great Counter-BIow Expected
Of Weygond by French People
Gibbs Holds Britons Deserve News
Of Trapped Army From Lord Gort

black side of wars internal picture.
Too little has been said about 1t.
There are people still who do not
realize the inferno which has swept
over Europe.
There is a brighter side, too. It
is the spirit of faith and even Of
confidence which burns in the minds
of every man and woman to whom
I speak in France. They are dis
appointed that it was impossible to
strike northward from the Somme
and the Aisne in time to cut through
the German columns on their way
to the coast and link up with the
Allied troops between Peronne and
Cambria.
Predict Action by Weygand.
That hope and chance have gone,
but the man in the street and the
man in the cafe here in France are
certain that Gen. Maxine Weygand
will, in good time, strike the great
counterblow. He will not attack
in small pockets" they say. That
mistake cost us dearly in the last
war"
They are patient in the belief
that Gen. Weygand will choose the
right moment to turn the tide. May
that faith be justified before many
days have passed. Certain it is that
the Germans have had enormous
losses; they are not so strong as
they were 81 days ago, although still
with immense reserves behind
them. France also has immense
reserves.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-05-31
BY SIR PHILLIP GIBBS,
British War Correspondent.

PARIS, May 81 (by wireless).-
The British Expeditionary Forces
IN Flanders are making last stand
with their backs to the sea and the
enemy pressing hard upon them
from three sides. Among them are
the guardS--the Grenadier, Cold
stream and Welsh Guards-High-
landers, Irish Fusiliers and men of
all the English country regiments.
With them also are the cavalry,
who left their horses for light tanks
and made the first reconnaissance in
Belgium, and the black beret men
OF the Royal Tank Regiment, with
medium tanks that are no match in
weight for the German monsters.
Artillery, anti-aircraft batteries,
ambulances, mechanical excavators
and a mass of men and material
which a modern army needs for its
life and equipment have been caught
In this dreadful man-trap which
closes in upon them with steel,
now that the Belgian Army has laid
down its arms by the order of a
craven who has betrayed his Allies.
That British Army in Flanders,
from whom I have been cut off on
the south side of the Somme after
being with them since the beginning
OF the war and through the long,
grim winter, is in the direst peril,
as all the world knows.
Fipht in Haunted E;oIJs
They have been fighting back for
q days from the east of Brussels by
way of Louvain to Cambria and
Bapaume and across the fields of
Flanders, haunted forever by the
thoughts of the last war-their own
fathers and elder brothers-to Ypres
and Menin and Cassel on the hill
top. They have been pursued all
the way by German bombers, those
black bats OF death which seem in
Vulnerable, although they are
caught and killed in great numbers
by our young pilots.
They have been without rest or
respite for those 81 days and nights,
and God alone knows what happens
to their wounded. God does not tell,
nor does Lord Gort, from whom no
word comes.
1t is time now, surely. that the
commander in chief of this heroic
army should send the nation some
tidings of their sons, fighting and
dying in this last stand, due partly
at least to the apparent treachery
OF weak young King whom the
world till then thought very noble
and very chivalrous.
The cemetries where our dead of
the last war lay in peace with their
white crosses have been plowed up
and ravaged by shell fire and bombs.
Reconstruction Wrecked.
The war memorials have crashed.
The cities newly built after the last
war-Cambrai, Arras, Amiens and
many more are in ruins again. Bou-
logne and Calais are greatly dam
aged by frightful bombing. Many
French villages, untouched by the
last war and lovely in their peaceful
countryside in this month of beauty,
have been visited by German bomb
ers and their terror from the sky.
In one Of them I heard from a
young girl how she and her fellow
refugees had been raked by ma
chine-gun fire from low-fying
planes as their farm carts crawled
down the roads on their way of
escape.
There is no doubt about these
things. too horrible to believe. I
have the evidence of them from
simple and honest folk.
It is necessary now to give this
Evening star., 1940-05-31
Memorial Day Crowds
Set Worlds Fair Record

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 31.-Memorial
Day throngs totaling 3l6,899 set a
new record for paid attendance at
the 1910 Worlds Fair yesterday and
topped last years figures for the
holiday by more than 100000.
The holiday was the first sunny
day here in nine days. 1t was not
until August q last year that the
number of visitors passed the 1000
mark on any one day.
Evening star., 1940-05-31
Wushinoton Editor Dies

LONGVIEW, Wash, May 81 (P.-
D. M. Simonsen, 81, managing editor
of the Longview Daily News, died
last night. He suffered a paralytic
stroke earlier in the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

"falsehood" in accusing the Justice
Department of reopening an "old
case and citing the matter as indi-
eating the difficulty that industry
has in dealing with the Government.
He added that the issue is one
that will be fought as long as 1 am
here"
Under cost-plus and bonus ar
rangement, Bethlehem, which al
ready has received profits of nearly
S20000,000 on a 6e-ship contract in
volving a cost of approximately $685.
900 600, according to the Govern
ment, is seeking s7,50O,O0O addi-
tional. The company won in lower
courts and the Government now is
asking the Supreme Court for a re-
view. The court is expected to pass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

the squadron as commander after
lapse of "a years.
Commanding the integrated Sd
Regiment is Col. w. w. Gordon.
The newly arrived cavalrymen. nine
officers and ITS men, were assigned
to new barracks. Their transfer
was part of program to strengthen
the defenses of Washington.
The Sd Cavalry will remain, at
least for the present, as mounted
soldiers. The War Department has
not yet revealed plans to mechan-
ize the regiment. 1t now has a
strength of 548 men, AZ officers and
632 horses.
The outfit has a distinguished
record reaching far back into the
countrys military history. During
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
jackson Says Ship Case
Will Affect Plant Draft

The action of the Supreme Court
On the Governments appeal from a
$7,5OO,0co judgment obtained by the
Bethlehem Ship Building Corp. for
World War ship construction will
have an important bearing on the
administration of the CONSUMPTION
bill provision allowing the Govern
ment to take over recalcitrant in
dustries needed for defense purposes,
Attorney General Jackson said yes
terday.
In a press conference discussion,
he declared critics are guilty of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Third Cavalry Reunited,
Split Since World War

After being divided since the close
Of the World War, the Sd Cavalry
Of the Regular Army was modified
again yesterday at its headquarters
at Fort Myer.
Two missing troops, A and
B, arrived last night from Fort
Ethan Allen, VT, where they had
been stationed since 1919. The
two troops, forming the End Squad
ron, made the journey by train
1t. Col. Rexford E. Willoughby, who
was corporal in Troop B on the
Mexican border in 1916, rejoined
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
CumeIs Become Pest

Despite their popularity since the
rationing of gasoline has restricted
motor transport, camels have be-
come such a pest in parts of Aus
tralia that they are being shot on
sight. In other parts they are being
used for freight transport and are
recruited into caravans of 20 to 30
"ships of the desert" tied nose to
tail, according to reports received
in Melbourne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Alien Registrations
AVERAGE $4,000 Daily

Aliens are registering under the
new law at the rate of more than
$4,000 daily, the Justice Department
said yesterday. The department had
estimated previously that a daily
average of. $4,000 would complete
the registration by the December 26
deadline.
In making the figures public at
press conference yesterday. Attorney
General Jackson said that in the
registration, which started August
81, ASH aliens had filled out the
forms as of September 8, according
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

on the matter early in the new term
opening next month.
Bethlehem, according to the Gov
eminent, had the only facilities
available to meet the Government
ship-building needs and forced a
bargain accordingly. The litigation
has been pending since 1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Sees so Grcnd Nationals

Having seen over so Grand Ma.
tional horse races and over so
Waterloo Cup football finals, Will
liam Lyon of Holneswood, England.
declared on his Both birthday an
niversary that he hopes to see many
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

to latest reports to the department.
but that the figures probably were
better than this because all the re-
turns were not yet in.
The Attorney General again urged
that those subject to the registra-
ton law comply, adding that the
department had no other alternative
than to enforce penalties for non
observance. Criminal prosecution
and deportation are possible for
violations.
AS of September 9, the District
of Columbia reported 2251 alien
registrations; Maryland, 6,021, and
Virginia, l,207.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

the World War it served in France
one of the few cavalry units to re-
main mounted at a time when most
cavalry was turned into field artil-
lery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13

Australia lays claim to a large
part of the Antarctic continent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
GERMANY DELAYS
ENGLISH INVASION
Continued From Page One)

mania in a revised southeastern Eu-
rope, Nazi bombers and sea-raiding
speedboats hacked with new fury at
embattled England.
Although Adolf Hitler's %airforce
struck repeatedly despite uufavor-
able weather, official quarters indi-
Gated the grand assault on Britain
was still to come.
The Fuehrer himself was busy
with the r~e-casting of roles which
Balkan nations will play in the new
made-in-Germany Europe.
On the war front, air raids on
British oil-tank concentrations be-
low London have become an almost
daily occurrence, while Nazi bomb
ers continue to attack port facili-
ties, airports and radio stations in
various parts of England.
During the past week at least
200,0 900 tons of shipping has been
sunk by Nazi speedboats or subma-
rines, the high command said. DNB,
the official German news agency,
reported that "the convoy system
successful in the World War has
lost it's former reliability"
Without comment DNB reported
German short-term liabilities climb
ed from IS, 500. 900, 900 marks in May
to 81, 0 900, 900 marks in July.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
FORTUNE IN GEMS
FLOWS INTO U. S.
Precious Stones, As Well AS
Gold, In Full Flight
From War Zones
BY MARK BARRON

NEW YORK, July 81. LIP In
flight from war-torn Europe a fabu-
lous fortune in diamonds and other
precious stones, along with the con-
tinuous influx Of foreign gold re-
serves, is flowing daily into the
haven of American jewel centers.
One of the ironic fortunes of war,
this movement seems destined tc
center at least for the next few
years the world diamond market in
New York. Prices of some types Of
valuable stones are increasing as
much as zoe per cent because OF
temporary scarcity while the prin-
cipal market is shifting to New York
from Belgium and Holland, and be
cause of high shipping costs.
Three things are apparent in the
diamond market in its present state
OF readjustment in this country:
1. There is a comparatively boun
tiful supply of both rough and fin
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
James King And Six
Others Giuen Paroles

EALEIGH, July 27.-(R-seven
tiolt'term prisoners were parolled
Ia ny Governor Hoey. They we're:
in 'nlnes King, convicted last october
nor brunswick county for selling liq-
G VI ana sentenced to IS months; Leo
1as. '.oAes, sent up from Pitt county
n' month to serve four months for
tan alihen driving; Otis Moore, sen.
oiiveo last April in Harnett county
pnb bA months for injury to property,
Of oeV,ic drunkenness and two counts
Semi 4~sofderly conduct; E. N. Allen,
AMI, up from Guilford county last
bow, u serve six months for EN-.
las+ e,nent Ray W. Boyd, convicted
erst April in CASTOR county of on
tba Ing an automobile while under
70 tne influence of liquor and sentenced
last year; Ellis L. Lanier, convicted
d hS, month in Robson county of
fo' r.'Aen driving and sentenced to
Earn months; and Bruce Lamont
imnna1n rat' serving a - month term
nalS last April for forcib1e t tresl
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
Charlotte, Sacramento
Reach 100000 Class

WASHINGTON, July 27.-R-
Two cities climbed into the 100, 900
population class between 1880 and
1910 while two others fell below
six figures, preliminary tabulations
of the census bureau indicated to-
day.
Sacramento, Calf, climbed from
SO, $50 to los, $50 and Charlotte, N.
c., from 2 ,675 to 100, 1927.
Lynn, Mass, dropped from 102,
800 to 98,072 and Ell Paso, Tex,
fell from 1O2, 421 to 96,677, between
1880 and 1910. This left unchanged
at Sc the number of cities between
100, 900 and $50, 600, but a possible
decline of one remained because
Gary, Ind, which was on the bor-
der line with 100, 426 in 1880 has
not yet been reported.
The only city to climb into the
$50, 900 class was San Antonio, Tex
as, which rose from 231, $40 in 1880
to 253, 143. Akron, Ohio, declined
from 255, 040 to 243, 100.
There are 81 cities over $780,
900. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
California Population
Shows II p. c. Gain

SAN FRANCISCO, July 27-tR1
California gained 1,196, $50, or 21.o8
per cent, in population during the
last ten years, preliminary CEN
sus figures disclosed today.
The 1910 figure is 6~,873,o11, COM
pared to 5,677,251 in 1880.
Largest numerical increase was
IN Los Angeles county, which went
up 568, 719, or 25.7 per cent, to a.
777,2ll. Shasta county, where the
central valleys irrigation project
brought an influx of workers., had
the largest percentage increase,
1865.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
'Scottsboro' Negro
Charged With Attack

DETROIT, July 27-R-O e n
Montgomery, %, identified by Off
Gals of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People as one of the nine defend
ants in the celebrated Scottsboro
case, was arrested today on the
charge of criminally assaulting a
26-year-old negress.
Policewoman Sally Darden said
Montgomery was arrested after the
woman had run into a police station
and declared she had been attacked
after Montgomery threatened her
with a knife.
Montgomery admitted he was one
of the group of Scottsboro youths
whose death sentences were re-
versed or committed f o l i n G
charges of assault upon two white
girls in Alabama in 1881, but he
denied the charge on which he
was arrested today. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28

ished stones in this country to sup.
ply the normal market for the next
several years.
2. While a small section of the
diamond market has increased prices
as much as 200 per cent, most of
the market is firm with prices
fluctuating no more than normal.
3. The supply of diamond cut
tiers in the United States Is ade-
quate for present needs and will be
increased during the next several
months as skilled refugee cutters
from Belgium and Holland are ad-
mitted under the immigration quo
tas.
Aside from the diamond and other
precious gem imports being brought
to New York by commercial firms,
many private citizens from warning
nations are coming in with rich per-
sonal collections.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
PLUMBERS CLOSE
BEACH SESSIONS
a,u4;op of 1941 Convention
City Left With The
Directors

North Carolina Association of
Nhinc and Heating Contractors
PUN its goth annual convention
cloSsU meeting of the board of di-
Wl'n Yesterday at the Ocean Ter
rec'0' hotel, Wrightsville Beach.
race officers, elected at a closed
Ming Friday, met with the board
ol association did not select it's
Inv INC place for next year, leav-
metz 'hst decision to the board dur
lns meeting next winter.
M 5,are than 200 delegates attended
the Thomas Parran, United States
.lroon general, came in during the
s1ention. but did not speak.
cO princjpal speaker during the
ting was e. c. Brooks, Jr., of
llsst' state senator-elect, who
D ,,lod for rigid enforcement of the
cautD nlumbing and sanitary regula:.
.;opc
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
British Plane On Way
To u. S. From Foynes

MEM YORK, July 27-R-A Bril-
fish plane was reported at LaGuar-
dia field today to be enroute here
from Foynes, Ireland, and expected
to land tomorrow attire a brief stop
over at Montreal.
Details of the type of plane, its
ownership or the purpose of the
flight were not available at the
airport. Officials there said e
plane would not be in contact with
the airport until it was within 80
miles of the field. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
MISERABLE

VICHY-Rene Fonck, French ace
who was credited with IS victories
in the World war. said today the
French air force had made a mis-
cradle showing in the current war
because money intended for strength
ing it had apparently never been
used for that purpose.
Sufficient credits were voted by
the government to build an air
force equal to Germany's, Fonck
said, and added mo one knew
where the money went"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
PROTEST

TOKYO-Domei, Japanese news
agency, reported today the gov
eminent is preparing a vigorous
protest against an incident at
Magelahg, Central Java in the
Dutch East Indies. in which six
Dutch soldiers are charged with
attacking a Japanese retailer on
july %.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
East Wilmington Club
Meets With Mrs. Rose

Mrs. Fred G. Rose was hostess to
members of the East Wilmington
Home Demonstration club Tuesday
afternoon.
During the meeting a motion pic
ture of the latest refrigeration was
shown by James Caruth.
After refreshments of sliced water
melon, the club was conducted
through a modern ice plant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28
STABLES SEIZED

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt-Close as
sociates of wealthy Aga Khan,
spiritual leader of Mohammedans
India and East Africa, and of
his son, Prince Ally Khan, said to-
day their famous racing stables in
France have been seized by the
The prince, who recent
ly quit the French army in Syria,
is now in Egypt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28

A line of meters, known as Ro-
tameters, just placed on the mar
ket, register fuel flow rate, rate
of flow of anit-icing liquid, re-
mote reading fuel meters, and spe-
cial meters for engine and instru-
ment overhaul service.