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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Social Security

Keeping the records OF N.
100000 or more workers who
employed in jobs covered \,
Social Security Act will be IN
when the Seventy-Five Years
Negro Progress exposition IL
in Detroit later this month
Negro employees OF the Fed
Social Security Board will hs :,
to Detroit to show AZ frs, /
just just how the records are !
The machines which are useI
punching the cards which hec
part OF the worlds higgest 4,
keeping job will be operated
ing the convention by Federal
ployees who do this work in p
more. Md.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Storm Branch

The sunday morning service was
opened with a PRAYER by the Rev.
Mr.. Cannon. The Rev. c. Thom2-
SON pastor. preacher the enjoy
able sermon: he chose his text
from Romans l0:f.
Communion service WAS held at
$50 y. m.
The BYPI' held their regular
meeting at 6 p. m.
AZ the evening service the
Rev. Thompson spoke on Fin
ancing the church Nal 3:S.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Mary Bethune Club
Gives Bingo Party

The Mary Mcleod Rethunc club
will entertain AZ a Birgo party on
Saturday. Nav Is al the Democrat
ic club Headquarters on Warren.
Hosiesses for the occasion will he
Mrs. Charles G Digs. the club
supervisor; Sadie Siraughn. presi-
dent: Lydia Iichtfoot vice presil
dent: Viola Carson secretary: Mat
tie I'M. trcasurcri lnez Perry,
corresponding secretary and 9TH
ers. The club invites its frierds to
attend
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11

Prosecuting Atty John Roach
whose office hardled The indlct-
men's of fifiy-one law violaiors
and K now handling nineteen nous
es q. vice made wonderful' speech
io he Young Republicans law
Nonaaav night in Circuit Judge
Bishops cornt room.
Joha Beagle is president OF the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Canaan Baptist

Re, Mr. Scop ~ ne apaaN
Rapii-' chgseh ps'a'afd to ? 'aps.
rt, house Ar Meek rsfiNai ~
canaan ,eursh las' week It's scr
mons tafR Night We're N'it
>pifirg
fhe Rev " Scott spoke a. ne
Golden Leaf ,tgrca lasi SHnaaA
afternoon ana u hi- TAN no Sia'el
thai he mao freN' "a eNf''f
an nter fne rnlrfrN.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Wedding Vows

very large wedding ceremony
wAs beld Al Canaan Baptist churcn
on April 20 when Mrs Terradell
Hogan became the bride OF Isaac
washington. superintendent OF the
SUNDAY school. The church was
heaatifnliy decorated with ferns
and sprink flowers The Rev. Mr.
Scott. pastor OF the church, oric'
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-05-11
Strictly Personal

Mrs Lula Frilo' who Is a
.tannch member oi he Busy bee
.,nb Ava ain outstanding daush'c'
r, ina riks lodge. is row al home.
f.es Lem street. rccuperatlng from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
'JIM' FULTON
 DIES SUDDENLY
Old.Time Band Leader in This City Was Familiar
 Figure Here

James M. Fulton, 67, prominent musician and composer, once known as the March King of New Eng land" and e familiar figure here In Waterbury for Q quarter of a cen- tury, died at his home, 224 Trapelo Road, Belmont, Massachusetts, yes- terday, after c sudden heart attack. "Jim" Fulton was known to hum dreds of Waterburians in the early part of this century as the organizer and conductor of Fultons American Band, proprietor of the Fulton Music Company, and director of scores of musical activities in this city, as well as throughout the Naugatuck Valley.
 Born in Washington, Pa. MT. Full ton came to Waterbury about 1890. He soon was known here as e mu- sician of note. He composed much music while In this city, but his greatest fame was achieved as Q director of the band that bore his name and his connection with various forms of musical entertainment here as a director.
 Throughout his entire career as a band director and organizer he continued to make arrangements for some of the most noted musical groups in the nation and the title, March King of New England" was well merited.
 Left Here Years Ago
 He left Waterbury about 1913 or 1914 to go to Waltham. Mass. where for some years he directed the Waltham Watch Company Band, a famous Bay State organiza-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
FIREBUCS GIVEN
 BLAME FOR SWEEP

Barnstable, Mass. May 7.-(UP) -Firebugs were blamed today for a series of fires which merged into 1000 acres of woodlands on Cape Cod yesterday.
 Hundreds of firemen and volun- teers worked from mid-afternoon until midnight before controlling the fires which spread across the Cape from Mashpee to West Barnstable. Areas were burned in Marstons Mills. Cotuit. Bourne. Barnstable and Sandwich.
 Several summer homes and the Marstons Mills airport were en- dangered. One of the fires skirted one end Of the Massachusetts Na- tional Guard Camp at Bourne. Aid was called from Hyannis. Center stable, Bourne and Sandwich.
 xhs fires started near Mashpee and were merged by . brisk wind Columns of smoke from burning pines were visible at Plymouth. 90 miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
WORDEN STRIKE
 TOOK NEW ANGLE
Restaurant That Refused to Stop Using Milk Has
 Sit Down Affair

Union sympathizers with Worden Dairy strikers introduced a new strike technique to Waterbury by staging a "sit-down" which halted normal business at the K & J rest taurant, 88 East Main street. during the noon hour rush today. Truck drivers and members of other unions which are supporting the striking dairymen. entered the restaurant shortly before noon, took almost all the available seats. ordered crullers or rolls, and munched them with world-record slowness. Regular GUS. toners were unable to find seats.
 Rudolph Tata. business agent for the Truck Drivers local, said that the restaurant had declined to can- eel its order for Worden's milk, though all other downtown restaur- ants had done so. It was indicated that the "sit-down" of customers will be continued at busy hours until the restaurant management capit- ulates.
 Cow Taken for Ride
 A union truck, carrying a COW,
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Pasadena, Cal. May 7.-(UP)- The South Pasadena Junior High School was closed today while police investigated an arsenal in the cafe- teria where verlin Spencer. 37, the principal, tried to kill himself after staying four colleagues. He was an expert pistol shot with half a dozen marksmanship medals and had an extensive collection of guns. It was understood that many guns and i50 rounds of shells had been stored in the cafeteria as if for a seige.
 Spencer attended a meeting of administrators of South Pasadena Junior and Senior High Schools late yesterday to shoot and kill George c. Bush, 53, city superintendent of schools, John E. Alman. SO. prin- cipai of the high school. and Wn- liam epecr, 43. business manager Of city schools. with a .22 target pis- tol. Dorothea Talbert. 90. Bush's secretary was wounded. Before or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Forced to Desist From Talking Once as Out.
 burst Is VOciferous WARNS BRITAIN OF
 BLOW YET TO COME His Statement of Present Conditions Failed to Give
 Any Satisfaction
BY WEBB MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, May 2. - (UP) - Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain today named aggres- sive Winston Churchill to supervise Great Britain's armed force in the war against Germany and called upon an angry, heckling House of Commons to close ranks and "set our teeth" in the face of imminent danger that Adolf Hitler will strike again.
 Shouts of "resigni" and cries of "Who missed the Busp" interrupted Chamberlain as he sought to ex- plain to the House of Commons how Nazi aggression and superior air power had caused the failure of the Allied expeditionary campaign in central Norway.
 That campaign, he contended, still is unfinished, the Norwegian government and King Haakon still are in Norway and the Allied powers will give the Norwegians all the aid possible as rapidly as possible.
 But, he said, the British people apparently fail to realize the danger o fanother German blow, possibly directed against the British Isles, and the Allied leaders will not relax their precautions in other parts of Europe. Then he announced that Churchill, the fiery First Lord of the admiralty, henceforth would have responsibility for supervision of military operations from day to day.
 His announcement and his ex- planation failed to satisfy the op- position and he immediately was assailed by opposition leaders for complacency in the face of "a re- verse" and Q "rebuff" in Norway. Churchill also was criticized as "too optimistic"
 Attlee Attacks Him
 Clement R. Attlee, labor leader, opened the counter attack on Chamberlain's explanation, charg- ing the government with having made misleading speeches and said that Chamberlains speech was "one of excuse and explanation"
 "The withdrawals from Southern Norway were a rebuff and represent a setback" Attlee said.
 "The prime minister's speech of last Thursday was over optimistic and over-complaoement. MT. Chur- chill is far too optimistic.
 We have got to face the facts. This Is @ reverse.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Walter Johnson Leads In Political Contest
Old Major League Pitching Star Closely Pressed in Maryland California Is Having Hot
 Battle Today

Baltimore, Md, May 7-(UP)- Walter Johnson, who won fame as major league baseball's "big train' held a slight lead early today in his first big league political contest.
 Johnson. who retired to his farm in Montgomery county four years ago after 28 years in baseball, was a candidate in yesterdays Maryland primary for the Republican nomi- nation to congress from the sixth congressional district.
 Returns from the eastern part of the state had given Johnson com- manding lead, but that was cut down sharply as the count came in from western counties.
 Returns from 246 of the 208 elec- ton precincts in the district gave Johnson 6y084: A. Charles Stewart. the nearest of his three opponents. 5,3e6.
 District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the only can- didate in either party to file in the presidential preference primary, gathered in Maryland's l6 delegates to the Republican national conven- ton. Voters chose between dele gates pledged to Dewey and an un- pledged delegation. The balloting was more than to in Deweys favor.
 With the vote complete for ap- proximately two-thirds of the states
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Principal Of High School Murders Four Colleagues

after attending the meeting--police had not ascertained the sequence he killed V. v. Vanderlip, 45, print ing instructor at his school. and gravely wounded Ruth Barnett Sturgeon. 46. an art instructor. Then. in the cafeteria. he shot him. self. Mrs. Spencer, grief stricken. tried to explain her husbands sud- den, maniacal fury. "Verlin was . very sensitive and intelligent mar" :" she said. land his intelligence must have driven him too far. Overwork must have turned him into a mani- ac. because only maniac could do such a thing"
 Officials believed he had been goaded by an obsession that he was persecuted. Several friends said he had spoken frequently to them of being persecuted by his colleagues.
 ae had said Miss Sturgeon and Vanderlip refused to co-operate.' 7 He had suspected that his slperiors were trying to set me out of here" 1"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07

Mother and son. Allan, IA months, who escaped being asphyxiated in Bank street home today.
 Unable to force the door. LaSelva began to pound on 1t. the noise arousing Mrs. Albino who was not quite unconscious. The young moth- CT, also is expecting another child, crawled slowly to the door and managed to open 1t. before suc- cumbling.
 It took Mrs. Albino more than 10 minutes to crawl the short dis tance from the bedroom where all four were sleeping. to the kitchen door, a matter of a few feet.
 Driven Back By Fumes LeSelva was driven back by the fumes, and was not able to get to the bedroom until the air cleared a little. Meanwhile, Mrs. Frances Iorio, third floor residents, was reused by the commotion, and she sounded the alarm.
 The pulmotor squad of the fire department. under the direction or Deputy Chief Martin J. Campion, responded, but emergency treatment was not given at the scene, the Albinos being rushed instead to the Waterbury Hospital.
 According to Fire Marshal Den Lahey, all windows in the apart ment were tightly closed when La- Selva arrived and 1t was only with
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
VANDENBERC IS
 JEST, SAYS ME

Grand Rapids. Mich, May 7- (UP)-Sen. Gerald P. Nye. R. N. D., here to address a convocation of the White Shrine of Jerusalem. said to- day that Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich. is the party's best choice for the presidential nomination.
 His chances have not suffered by his showing in the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries. which New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey won, Nye said.
 Nye said vandenberg would have won hands down" had he cam paigned in those states instead of remaining ct his daak in wAahing- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07

Washington. May 7.-(UP)-The navy will ask Congress before ad- journment for funds to begin con- struction of all unauthorized but un- built tonnage. Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations re- vealed today. Stark's disclosure that the navy will seek to begin work im- mediately on Its remaining 2ee.635 authorized tons was contained in a letter to Sen. Allen J. Ellender. D.. La. It was made public as the Sem ate naval affairs committee called Secretary of the Navy Charles Edi- son to explain his statement that airplanes now hold temporary ad- vantage" over battleships.
 Edison's statement was made at a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
HOME IS OFFERED
 TO PRINCESSES

Greenwich, Conn. May 7.-(UP) Hendrix Willem Van Loon. author and historian, offered his home here as a refuge for the two children of Princess Juliana of the Nether- lands, in event of the invasion of that country by Germany. it became known today.
 The disclosure was made by Kath- arine Royce Leeds. member of the Overseas Press Club of America. in a Bridgeport radio address.
 Van Loon. she said. received a ca- bled refusal of his kind offer" and was informed that members of the royal household were mot exactly in the habit or running away from danger"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Shouts Of Resign" As Heckling House Began
 To Explode Its Anger
Liner Bremen Bombed, Sunk,
 Crew Interned On April 9th

New York; May 7PA letter from the former chief engine room mate luxury liner Bremen saying tour ship and sunk April and we are now inened was re. here today. .
 cooborate reports that the 6Slton pride of the Norwegian coast another vessel without advising relatives here.
 April Johann Gaertne of Bremen haven Germany nephew Willy Bold restaurant proprietor concentration at Edinburgh Scotland and primarily designed a request for cgarets.
 date mentioned by Gaertner reports first cir. London that the Bremen had been by Berlin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07


 No cause had been established by preliminary investigation. The kitchen of the apartment was equip- ped with both o gas range and an oil-burning heating cabinet, either Of which may have sent out the deadly fumes.
 The timely advent of Anthony LaSelva, of l2S Scovill street, an employe In Albino's shoe repairing and hat-cleaning establishment at 1855 East Main street, was regarded as the factor which saved the Alb!nos.
 Friend Discovers Victim
 Worried because Mir. Albino had not appeared for work early this morning, LaSelva went out to the Bank street home to investigate. He was met by locked doors and the gas fumes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Comparison of Navies Made Through Admiral Stark

press conference last week after his return from an inspection tour of naval maneuvers in the Pacific. He said he believed that in the light of aviation developments in the Euro pean war warships would have to be re-designed to provide for a streamlined top-deck. Naval Com mittee Chairman David I. Walsh de- cided to reopen hearings on Q $655.- 100000 expansion authorization bill after Edison's announcement. Stark's
 proposal would have no effect on
 this bill. In his letter to Ellender
 Stark sent a chart showing naval
 construction by the six naval pow
 CTS since the Washington treaty va!
 signed Feb. 6. 1929. It follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Horace B. Merwin Begins To
 Tell His Story Of McKesson
He Follows Rowley w. Phillips Who Ended Tes.
 timony Yesterday

Horace B. Merwin, president of the Bridgeport City Trust Co.,. who Is charged with Rowley W. Phillips of this city, prominent local broker, and three other men with conspiracy In the $2l 100000 McKesson and Robbins case told a jury in the fed- eral court in New York yesterday where all five men are on trial, that P. Donald Coster. the alleged mas ter swindler in the case who com mitted suicide, became very indig- nant when he was questioned about reported bootlegging at the Girarc and Go. plant. a part of the Mckes- son setup.
 Mir. Merwin followed MT. Phillips on the witness stand. He said that in 1926 he knew that there was talk about 1t and that a friend of his in Fairfield told him of the large amounts of alcohol being carried into the Girard plant, which is near the Fairfield Bridgeport borderline.
 Talked About Matter
 Merwin said that he and c. Bar mum Seeley, another Bridgeport banker and McKesson dirctor, talked about he matter with the result that Coster was invited to come to the Bridgeport Trust Company to talk about the matter.
 "Coster became indignant" Mer- win said. He then. went on to tell how Coster explained that Girard and Co. had to use much alcohol In the products 1t was manufacturing and explained that he had an alco- hol permit from the government which was renewed from time to time by government officials with out question.
 Merwin testified that after Coster finished talking with him and See- fNosafinsiAd m Page 2)
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workers, was attributed to Rotter- dam reports which British naval quarters credited.
 It was reported that the Robert Ley was sunk in the Kragerrak on the night of April l2-l3 and that the Sayn,l 2,32l tons and an uni- identified ship were sunk the same night.
 German mercantile tonnage definitely accounted for as cap- tured, sunk or scuttled now amounts to 454,00o tons." the admiralty said. Tn addition 1t Is estimated at a further 30 unidentified ships of approxima tely l50.000 tons have been sunk by Allied submarines, mines or aircraft"
 The Admiralty statement indi- cated that Germany has lost about IS per cent of her pre-war shipping tonnage.
 Allied, Neutral Losses
 Allied and neutral merchant ship ping losses for the week ending April 28 were given as seven vessels totaling s,445 tons, of which four of 6,689 tons were British. one of 1.458 was Allied and two of 298 tons were neutral.
 The Admiralty said that up to May l9,038 ships had been conveyed by the British with loss of 3l ships, or a ratio of 1 to 6l6. Neu- trai ships conveyed totalled 2,sl2 with a loss of three, or a ratio Of 1 to 97O. French conveys in the same period handled 3,457 ships with 6 loss of seven.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Three Stories Of War
 From As Many Nations
3O0,OOO Tons or Shipping Lost By Nazis Since War Started d-More British Ships Are Sunk
 By German Report

London, May 2. - (UP) = Germany has lost 300 900 tons of merchant shipping since April probably including 26s tons the Admiralty said today Almost all of the soooo tons 1t was asserted had been sunk during Nor
 The report of the sinking of the Robert Ley the ship which in peace time the Nazs vacation cruiser for star
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
THE WORLD WAR 25 YEARS AGO,
 MAY ', 1915
(By United PressD

tBy United EfesSl
 British Cunard liner Lusi- tania torpedoed without warn ing by U-beat of Irish coast. Of l,els persons aboard, l.l5s were lost, including lls Americans.
 German forces aislodged se- treating Russians from position oR eastern bank ef Che Wisloka.
 Germans permanently 0ccu- pied Libau on the Baltic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
ITALY REVEALS
 MANY SECRETS
Mussolini Asked By Bri. tain to State His Posi-.
 tion By May l6
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

(UnIte0 freSS St2Ix COrEeSpOnoenv)
 Rome. May 7.-(UP)-Diploma- tic circles regarded as authoritative reported today that Great Britain had asked Italy to define It's exact position regarding the war and had expressed firm hope that a reply would be made by May l6.
 Informants asserted that Sir Noel Charles. British charge d'af- faires had made the request to Count Galeazzo Ciano, foreign min- ister, May 1, and might have been in connection with the dispatch of Allied naval endorsements to the Mediterranean.
 The newspaper Messaggero quoted in a dispatch from Sofia, as Italy expressed increasing interest in the possibility of extension of the war to southeast Europe, rumors that Great Britain had promised Bull garia restitution of the Dobrudja
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. May 7-(UP)-Gov. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 9th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $S,7l,148,O76.19 $7,7iS,39S,si9.6S
 Receipts $4,s52,s9o,77s.35 S4,7si.6Ss.56s.66
 Gross Deficit $3.21s.157,s29.s4 .$2.936,7i0.seo.o6 ,s,lss.o7s,sss.ss ss.soo.iso.7io.os
 Cash Balance s2.ai7. 1905. sss.22 sS.o7s. s.osl. .4as.sl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
Family Stricken By Gas Fumes Is
 Rescued In Time
George Abino His Wife Mary Their Two Little Chil- dren, George, Allan, Were All Recovering at
 Waterbury Hospital Today

Gas overcame family of four in secondfoor apart ent at 1880 Bank Street this morning but made in time to save all lives George Abino 2s his wife, i4 months oId were ali recovering at the Waterbury Hos pita, although Mr. Abno still being given oxygen at noe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07

Visit cur new store at sS East hfaiF Street. Watch fer daily speciais Schneider's-Adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07

 naval compiled this country April sa0 rior the German Norwegian warl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07
The Weather

Fair, Cool Tonight; Wednesday Fair
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Moose Pass miner., 1940-01-24
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(Cont inued from page one idle workers.
 For instance, while cert tain silk fabrics declined from 386 mi l1ion square yards in 1927 to lo9 mil lion in 1887, rayon fabric ? advanced from 66 mi illion square yards to e74 mil lion. Men's go1fing
 knickers went from the peak of 2l mi llion pairs if 1927 to 10 million in l937i At the same time, slacks rose from unimportance to 20 mi Hi on pairs.
 The most severe drop inl the birth rate has come inl the northern sect lions and in the big cities. With that drop in the birth rat has been a start ling rise in the average age of Am orleans and their life ex-I pectancy. Persons of 65 or over constituted only 3.4 per cent of our popu- lation in 1880. In 1880 they were 5.5 per cent. Census figures reveal that life expectancy today is 59.o6 years for male babieI and 62.65 years for female babies. Only 30 years ago, those figures were
 48.23 years and 51. .o8
 years. Credit for that achievement is stati stical' ly traceab1e to medical
 science. Di seases such as tubercu1o sis ,typhoid,
 smallpox, measles,scarlet fever, diphtheris, influ- enza and pneumonia are
 gradually being conquered.