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Evening star., 1940-10-16
Celebrities Applaud
Chap|in's Dictator
Al Films Premiere
Enthusiastic Reception
Given His First Movie
In Four Years
Py the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct l6-A first
night audience glittering with
names from Broadway and Holly
wood, Park avenues social register
and Capitol Hill of Washington
laughed and applauded last night
at the formal premiere of Charlie
Chaplin's first movie in more than
four years. The Great Dictator
His comical ribbing of totalitarian
dictators in "mythical' Kingdoms
drew roars of laughter from the first
nighters as he played the role of
Adenoid Hynkel. a dictator shouting
in double-t talk, In competition with
a rival dictator. Benzino Napolini
played by Jack Oakie.
Chaplin. Oakie and Pauline God
dard twho plays the ghetto ro-
nance of Jewish barber who is a
double for the Aryan Adenoid Hyn-
kelD were present at the opening
And so were scores of other celebri-
ties, including Irving Berlin, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, jr.; Joan Crawford
James A Farley. Douglas Fairbanks.
jr.: Al Smith Cwearing a Wendell
Willkie button). Marian Marsh and
Brenda Frazier.
The cost of making The Dicta-
tor is estimated at $4,000 600, Chap
lin, who appeared at both theaters
where the premieres were held sinful
taneously, called to the crowds, Il
hope you like it." and they pressed
about him so tightly he was thrown
to his knees before he and Miss
Goddard were escorted out a side
door
Chaplin wouldn't say how much
the picture cost, but did say. It's all
my money, and wasn't financed by
my bankers
Reception of the picture was en-
thusiastic, much as the critic of the
New York Times commented:
g" 1t turns out to be a truly
superb accomplishment by truly
great artist-and. from one point of
view, perhaps the most significant
film ever produced"
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Mrs. Mary Wight Dies;
Actress Was 102
BY the Associated Press.

6S lHt hSSOC!dttC fIebS.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 16.-Mrs.
Mary Wight. an actress in the pre-
Civil War Laura Keene stock COM
pany. died here yesterday at the
age of 1902
The centenarian. who acted under
the name of Carrie Novarre. was
born in Osceola, Ark. February 18.
1888. She joined a stock company
in Cincinnati at an early age and
at 26 married Edwin Wight, a
ShakeSpearean actor.
She was a member of the Laura
Keene company several years prior
to the time it appeared in the Ford
Theater at Washington. where
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
occurred
Mrs Wight could recall in detail
the Chicago fire and how. with two
babies in her arms, she huddled at
the lake front with a wet sheet COW
ering her to protect her from the
intense neat of the holocaust.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Increases in Pay
Recommended for
Navy Yard Workers
Employees Here to Share
Boosts Proposed by
Wage Review Boord

Recommendations of the Wage
Review Board for new pay sched-
ules for Navy Yard workers have
been sent to the Secretary of Navy.
it was learned today. Navy Yard
workers. including several thousand
here, may receive considerable pay
increases However, the findings of
the board are confidential.
Navy officials said there are more
than $4,000 employees at the Wash
ington Navy Yard. but that not all
of them would be affected by the
boards findings. At the Yard a rep
resentative of the personnel section
said no estimate could be given at
this time of the number to be af-
fected until after the Secretary takes
action. 1t was pointed out that
not all workers at the Yard would
be affected.
The Review Board began hearings
last June here. The last previous
wage schedule adjustments, it was
said at the Yard here, were made
in 1923. During the hearings last
summer the board received testi-
mony from union officials and Yard
workers asking pay increases. At
the time, it was pointed out. the
salary schedules were much lower
than the living scale needed by
workers.
1t also was pointed out that the
Government would have difficulty in
holding workers, because civilian
wages were higher, due TO expand
ing work in private industry under
the defense program and the in
creased demand for skilled workers.
At the Navy Department there
was no indication today as to when
the Secretary would take action.
Capt. J. A. Furer is head of the
Review Board. which includes Frank
w. Dyer, Jacob Baker, w. c. Calvin
and w. D. Bergman.
Evening star., 1940-10-16


The disturbance over the New England
States has advanced rapidly northeast
ward beyond the field Of observation with
trough and cold front extending SOUTH
ward to about latitude s5". thence west
southwestward to a developing disturbance
OF the Carolina coast. a ship, about 50
miles east of Charleston, S c. 1.o0a o
millibars (29.s0 inches. Another trough
Of low pressure is advancing eastward
over the northern Plains States. Penn.
bina. N. Oak. l,0112 milibars co So
inches: A mass OF cold air and high ign
presSure pressure Is suPaHeins e, eaSywara over We
1925 millibars C3O.40 inches. with
wedge extending southwark to the West
Gulf States, Fort Worth. Tex, l0o54
millibars (30.2S inches. During the last
"a hours light to moderate rains have
occurred almost generally over the East
ern States, with light snow reported in
sections of New England. The weather has
become much colder from the West Gulf
States and the lower Mississippi Valley
northeastward to the Middle Atlantic and
North Atlantic States. while there has
been a quick reaction to higher tempera-
lures over the western Plains States and
the upper Missippi Valley
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Lower Living Standard
Through Tool Shortage
Feared by Knudsen
Seriousness Stressed
At Conference Of
Leading IndustrioIists
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTeSS
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-William S.
Knudsen of the National Advisory
Defense Commission described ma
chine tools yesterday as the No.
production problem facing defense
planners and limited tool shortage
might impede business efforts TO
maintain the American standard Of
living.
Speaking to a gathering of many
of the top men who control ard
operate Americas great industrial
machine, the former production
chief of General Motors Corp. said:i
The entire output of the machine
tool industry for the next year is
sold out right now"
Declared Serious Situation.
IF you gentlemen figure you are
going to need a lot of machine tools
in order to carry on your American
way of life, you had better take
another look I say this frankly
because think we ought to appre-
ciate the seriousness of the situa-
ton as far as :he tools are con-
cerned"
Confronting former business COL
leagues after a luncheon forum on
defense arranged by General Motors
as part of automobile show week,
the tall veteran of many produc-
ton battle on the industrial front
pleaded for support and drew ap-
plause when he added:
Il am going to push and when
the tools are ready I am going TO
push and I am jdst going TO keep
on pushing. See?"
Alfred P. Sloan, jr.. chairman OF
General Motors. introducing the
discussion, said the Nation should
defend the high American standard
of living as we'll as strengthen its
military position and provide AL
possible material assistance to Great
Britain"
In the initial stages of the defense
program at least. he contended.
general productivity should be eX-
panded to take up employment
slack.
~ al dS L all NOLlJCAllCd4 wi
Sloan asserted, Il have no reserva-
ton that, given reasonable amount
of time, we can develop and will
develop a most effective defense on
the military side.
But on the economic side I have
grave apprehension. l believe that
the greatest danger and the most
~ i@c,,It ,Navt nF o,,r IaFny,cn ,,ei,,1
that term in its broader sense. is the
protection of the American way Of
living against attacks from Within
not from without"
Other Speakers.
High spots in defense proposals Of
forum speakers included:
Charles F. Kettering, vice presi-
dent of General Motors in charge
Of research-" "StandardiZe proven
military products for mass output"
Paul G. Hoffman, president of the
Studebaker Corp, South Bend
Our big job is to revive the old
American spirit of team play"
Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president
Of Brookings Institution. Washing
ton-"The surest means of prevent
ing defation after the emergency
is over is to prevent imitation during
the emergency"
DR.. Sumner H. Snchter. economist,
Harvard University-"Increase in
dustrial research and encourage pri-
vate enterprise to be more enter
prising"
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Roll Call Intensified,
With 10000 Members
Needed 10 Reach Goal
Expansion Of First
Aid Instruction
Is Planned

Red Cross workers must enroll TO-
900 new members a day for the next
four days in order to reach the goal
of 10000, it was announced today.
1t was said that enrollments fell be-
hind the comparative returns for
1899, when only 2,sl7 were enrolled
yesterday. However, it was expected
that heavier returns would follow
the Government payday.
The Red Cross Roll Call this
morning received 1902 memberships,
nearly twice the total for the entire
day yesterday. This places the
total of the campaign to date at
95,279. Today's returns are expected
to set record for the campaign
with the Government payday re-
turns being made.
First Aid Courses.
Expansion in the first aid instruc-
ton is being planned. DR.. Roy Lyman
Sexton, chairman of first aid, life
saving, accident and prevention. an
nounced that the national defense
program had brought about wide in
tereSt of first aid work, and said that
the local chapter is recruiting 200
additional first line volunteer first
aid instructors.
The position of the American Red
Cross as to relief work in occupied
territory was clarified yesterday by
Chairman Norman H. Davis in an
swer to questions raised by members
of the Women's National Press Club.
Mr.. Davis stressed the practical as
poets of relief shipments to occupied
territory, pointing out that safe con-
duct of shipments and British ap-
proval to pass the blockade are
prime considerations.
Professional Leaders Meet.
Last night leaders of all the pro-
feSsions met with E. Barrett Pretty
man, Roll Call professional chair
man, and mapped plans for speed
ing enrolment efforts in the final
days of the drive. The following
were the dinner guests of last eve
ming: Preston B. Kavanaugh. vice
chairman; Simon M. Levitan, &C
countant; F. Wallace Dixon. archi-
tectS: Mrs. John B Gordan. as
sOciations; Mrs. Tyree Rivers
Catholic clergy; DR.. H. S. Anderson,
Protestant clergy: DR.. NJ. NJ Alex
ander. dentists; DR.. John w. War
ner doctors. DIR Howard NJ Payne
(colored, doctors; Miss Janet Fish,
nurses: Guy Mason, general law
yers; Allen Redrow, patent lawyers:
Mrs. Elizabeth Cox, women lawyers;
Mrs. T. j. Howerton, osteopaths;
P. A. Walker, colleges and uni
versities; Albert E. Rogers. private
schools; Maj. Charles Dodd and
Dan c. Eberly, social agencies:
Rabbi Solomon Metz. Jewish con-
gregations; Theodore Wiprud, Medi-
cal Society.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Death No Act of God,
Actors Council Holds
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Death is
no act of God under ruling of the
Council of Actors Equity.
The council denied an applica-
ton of Producer Sam H. Harris yes
terday to escape paying salaries to
the cast of George Washington
Slept Here" for weeks delay in
opening caused by the death of
Berton Churchill, featured player.
Mr. Harris sought to invoke an
"act of God" clause in contracts
between players and the manage
ment.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Essay Award Made

Miss JacQueline Jones Of Coppin
Teachers College, Baltimore, was
announced today as the winner of
the fourth annual tuberculosis essay
contest for students of Maryland
Negro Colleges. sponsored by the
State tuberculosis Association.
Hugh NJ. Smith of Morgan Col
lege won second place.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
q Saved From Peril
OF Bomb, Drowning
And EIectrocution
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. l6.-A London
rescue squad saved a family Of
four today after they had
escaped death by explosion,
drowning and electrocution.
With their house smashed
over them, the four waited for
rescuers in a basement shelter
while water spouting from a
broken main rose to a depth of
4 feet. Just before they were
pulled out, they suffered slight
shock from an electric cable
which touched the water.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Viehy Bans Manufacture
Of All War Materials
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Oct. 1.-two
DEGREES forbidding manufacture,
export, import or moving of war
materials in France or French ter
ritory for the duration of the Euro
pean War were enacted today by
the French government
Explosives are permitted only for
industrial use or fireworks and must
be manufactured under government
license.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Boptists Making Plans
For Shanghai Evacuation
1y the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. Oct. 16.-Oft-
cials of the Southern Baptist For
eign Mission Board in Shanghai
are proceeding with tentative plans
for the evacuation Of woman mis-
sionaries with children. Dr. w T
Rankin, the boards secretary Of the
Orient. Yesterday cabled DR.. Charles
E Maddry, executive secretary in
Richmond.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Weather Report
Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau)

o.
cold northeast
Maryland-Cloudy continued cold with occasional light
ending portion
row fair, not quite so cold
VgniaCoudy light this afternoon and in southeast portion
quite cold in the interior.
Vreinia-Fair
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Seven Sons Listed

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa, Oct. 16 (P).-
The seven sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas P. Joynt of Clear Lake reg
istered today for the draft. Two live
here and the others in Mason City,
10 miles east.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Lonhum Study Club Meets

Mrs. Ralph Shelter, county well
fare chairman, will address the Lam
ham Md Study Club this after
noon at the home of Mrs. Guy
Meloy.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
camp to Gen. Gouraud for many

camp to Gen. Gouraud Tor many
years.
LAS to Mr.. Etienne Sicard, he is a
young officer who distinguished him.
self in the service of the French
Navy. He is now en- route to Toxic
where he will occupy the post of As
sistant Naval Attache.
The French Ambassador is sorry
to cut short such a good thriller"
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday TO noon today)
Highest, -. l pm. yesterday. Year
aeo. 81.
Lowest, As, 1880 am. today. Year
ago, 30.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 100, on July %.
Lowest, :. on January 90.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayo
Hiehest, 81 per cent, at Z pm. yes
terday
Lowest, A per cent. at . m. yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Evening star., 1940-10-16

Automobile lights must be turned or
one-half hour after sunset.
precipit2tiOn
Evening star., 1940-10-16

Monthly precipitation in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
TWELVE VIOLENT
DEATHS in CONN.
Worst Auto Crash of All
Happened in Cheshire
Early Sunday

Automobiles accounted for eight
Of IL violent deaths IN Connecticut
over this weekend.
Two other persons were drowned,
another died as result Of fall and
there was one suicide.
The worst automobile crash was
at Cheshire where John F. Foran,
Jr., 10, Hamden, and Rita Quinn,
IS, daughter of Meriden police
lieutenant, died in headon COL
lision.
Stanley Staunis, 81, Ansonia, was
injured fatally by car operated by
Walter Wadyka. Ansonia.
The Rev. Frederick G. Shutter,
81, Hamden, died after car in
which he was riding struck pole.
Henry O'Neil, "a, Wallingford,
succumbed to skull fracture when
his car hit a tree at North Haven.
Isadore Alex, 81, 1899 Riverdale
Ave0, Brooklyn, N. Y, died after
being sideswiped by another car
while changing a tire ON his auto
mobile at Meriden.
Ralph Thomas, %, New Haven
was killed in an overturned car at
East Haven.
Corinne M. Taylor, S, Stratford,
was killed by truck.
Bryce Thurston Smith, l6, East
Hampton, drowned In Connecticut
river at Haddam Neck. A body
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
FRANCE APPEALS
TOU.S. RED CROSS

Washington, June 10-(UP)-The
American Red Cross has received an
urgent" appeal from its Paris rep
resentative for supplies to clothe
and feed millions of refugees pour
ing into central and southern
France"
Richard Allen, Red Cross delegate
in Paris, cabled headquarters here
that 1t was impossible to overs.ate
the refugee problems" and that the
condition of more than a mill m
of those arriving from the north
was desperate.
He listed, in the order of Their
urgency and scarcity" the follow
ing foods and supplies; canned milk,
chocolate, cocoa, blankets, bed sacks,
shoes, socks, underwear, dresses,
towels, unbleached muslin and laun-
dry soap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
AMERICAN LINER
SAFE in HARBOR

New York, June 1O.-fUP)-War
refugee passengers of the liner Pres
ident Roosevelt said today they had
been so beset by fears ON their voy-
age home that many OF them hac
slept in deck chairs with life pre-
servers beside them.
The United States rescue liner ar
rived at 8:45 (EDT) last night from
Galway, Ireland. She brought US
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
State Chairman Smith
To Quit His Position
Will Announce His Retirement at a Meeting of Demo-
crat State Central Committee in Waterbury
Tomorrow Evening
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK
democrat Staff RepOrter)

State Chairman j. Francis Smith
will announce his retirement at a
meeting Of the Democratic state
central committee here tomorrow
night and will refuse to accept re-
election under any circumstance"
authoritative. sources said today. His
refusal to accept reelection will end
six years as head of the party state
organization.
Speculation about MIR. Smiths
successor immediately centered on
John Mccarthy, of Newtown, Fair
field county Democratic leader.
Some Democratic leaders believed
that he might be without opposition
for the Craftsmanship.
Mrs. Harris Sure Of Place
Mrs. Nora Mahaney Harris, of
New Haven, formerly of Waterbury,
is considered certain Of reelection as
vice-chairman, but the places OF j.
Walter barley, of Higganunl, COM
mittee secretary, and William j.
Farley, of New Britain, treasurer,
are believed to be in doubt. The
secretaryship is a full-time, paid
position.
State Chairman Smith declined
comment about bis impending re-
tiremeilt,, referring only to his state
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
Italy Can Help Hitler
With Powerful Force

canese islands off the Turkish coast
with a garrison of $4,000 to 100000
men; and Sardinia and Sicily where
forces OF unknown strength are dis
posed.
The Italian navy Is presumed to
be largely in Mediterranean and
Adriatic waters. 1t comprises two
brand new 35,000-ton battleships-
The Littorio and the Vittorio Veneto
which mount nine 15-inch guns, and
four old but modernized battleships
there are 81 cruisers with IA or IL
building, 10 submarines with 81
or more building, 1870 destroyers aro
gunboats and 100 or more speedy
motor mosquito boats.
! The air force has total strength
of 5000 to 5000 planes of which
$500 to $500 are first line ships
There are about 10000 trained pilots.
The Italian replacement rate Is
about 300 planes month but
might be expanded.
Feet Attack On Francl
The italian troops on the northern
frontier could be employed in a
direct attack on France with the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
lBy United Pressl

Italy can bring to Germany's side
an army of probably 100000 men
first line air force of $500 to $500
planes and navy of six dread
naughts, 81 cruisers, ITO submarines
and 200 to 300 minor warships.
italian forces are deployed in three
principal theaters:
The northern frontier along the
chain Of Alps between France ane
Italy.
At key points in the Mediterran
can.
Tn Africa s-sse'-- a-a4sts'- AZ s''
The largest concentration of Ital
ian troops, possibly a million men
Is believed to be in position along
the so-called Littorio line on thu
French Frontier.
The second great troop concen-
tration Is In Africa. italy has prob
ably 100000 to 100000 white and
native troops in Libya and another
100000 or more in Italian East
Africa and Ethiopia.
Other italian Troops
Other italian troops are in Albania
where $4,000 and possibly consider
ably more are stationed! the Dode-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
BRITISH RUSH TO
HELP OF FRANCE
More Troops Are Hurried
to French Front; France
in Deadly Peril
BY WALLACE CARROLL
United Press staff Correspondent

UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
London, June 10 - (UP)-Great
Britain has sent fresh troops to the
aid of the hard-pressed French
army and is sneding more soon, 1t
was announced today.
Prime Minister Winston Church.
Ill advised Premier Paul Reynaud
of France of the dispatch of the
troops In special message. and
promised that more would follow.
1.-THE maximum possible support
is being given by British forces in
the great battle which the French
armies are now conducting with
such undaunted courage" the prime
minister said.
"All available means are being
used to give help on land, at sea
and in the air.
1.-The Royal Air Force has been
continually engaged over the bat
tlefields, and within the last few
days fresh British forces have been
landed in France to take their place
with those already engaged in the
common struggle, whilst further ex-
tensive achievements ar beeing
rapidly organized and will shortly
be available"
France In Deadly Peril
Churchill made his announce
ment at moment when British
military quarters were saying that
France was In deadlier peril than at
any time In the last war, with her
main hope that Adolph Hitler had
now thrown everything Germany
had into the fight and that II
France stood fast the German blitz-
krieg might bog down OF Its own
weight.
Authorized British military quar-
ma. Mara
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-10
France, Germany Are
Locked In Death Grip
French Know That Fate Of Country Is at Stake-Ger-
mans Have Massed Everything for Blow
That Means Victory or Defeat
BY RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED Press staff CORRESPONDENT


Paris, June 10-(UP)-The French
army, with every man in 1t knowing
that his country's fate was at stake
fought grimly today against Ger
man attack into which Adolf Hitler
threw 100 infantry divisions, total
ling 100000 men, and eight arm
ored divisions with 1000 tanks.
Across France from the English
channel to the Argonne forest, ever
closer to Paris, the German army
Its reserves now thrown into battle
smashed at the French line with the
terrific force of war machine that
the Nazis had been building for
seven years against 1.-The day"
Gen. Maxine Weygand, studying
battle maps at his headquarters
waiting for some opportunity to
strike back, urged every officer and
man to stand at his post.
The war Office communique this
morning, No. SCI of the war, was
eloquently brief:
From the sea to the Argonne the
battle continues more and more
violently"
AS eloquent was the cancellation
OF the customary morning war Of
flee conference with newspaper cor
respondents.
Critical Phase Reached
All that the country knew was
that the battle Of France had en-
tered its critical phase and that the
pick of its men was in the battle
line aking price for each mile the
Germans gained-a price. it was
hoped, that would prove impossibly
high for the success of the Nazi
blitzkreig.
1t was indicated strongly that at
the west end of their line the Ger
mans were seeking to force the
French to retire, in the Seine river
area. from the sea to the junction
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