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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
Queen Elizabeth Joins Ghost|y Fleet
0fLuxury Liners for Duration of War

licemen were detailed to the water
front and all visitors were barred
from the ship for her entire stay.
Capt John c. ToWnley. the Queen
Elizabeths skipper. had cleared up
several points of the mysterious
crossing. The ship had been brought
to New York for safety. he said.
Much of her interior decorations
were incomplete. The lighting sys-
tenn was not installed and wasn't
needed anyhow, because she was
"blacked out" at nights on her
crossing.
She sailed from Greenock, Scot
land at 8 am. last Saturday. A
skeleton crew of 378 had been call
ed aboard ostensibly for boat drill.
Capt. Townley had been given seal
ed orders. He did,'t know him.
self where he was going until he
opened them. Four British war
ships escorted the liner out of the
war zone.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
17.Year Old Girl Wins Acclaim With
Voice at k.Y.'s Swankiest Night Club

NEW YORK. March 8. CUP)-
The Monte Carlo is the smartest
supper club in New York and the
logical showcase for a society sing
er, SO who do you think Fefe Ferry
the boss. hires to entertain the plat
mum plated customers?
Gloria Blake. a l7-year-old high
school girl from Queens who haC
her first contact with members of
the social register when she made
her debut at the club recently. They
think she's fine.
The poise and confidence display
ed by this brunette beauty is as
surprising as her coloratura soprano
voice considering that her previous
appearances have been principally
at the homes of friends
And that. she explained today, is
the reason why she can face a pay
ing audience night after night with
out qualms.
1t may seem funny but l never
had stage fright when l appeared
on The stage for the first time" ="
Gloria said. 1t doesn't seem right
but that's the way it is. I guess
that's because my friends are my
strongest critics. I've sung at parties
for about five years and if you can
please them YOU can please any
body"
Gloria resembles Dtanna Durbin
in appearance and Lily PonS in
voice. She sings opera arias as well
as popular numbers and can hit an
F. sharp above high C. The micro
phone is conspicuous by its alb
sence when this raven-haTed beauty
takes the floor because She is one
Of the few younger singers who can
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
1eIevision to Reconnoiter
+ EnemV Area Demonstrated

NEW YORK, March s. up
The potentia! use OF television 10
reconnolter enemy territory in war
time was demonstrated today when
an airliner equipped with telecast-
ing cameras made 45-minute sur
vey flight over New York.
The telecast of the terrain was
viewed by reporters in second
plane equipped with a receiver. by
engineers and government officials
IN the RCA building and by owners
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
Films Ready TO
Par|ey on Peace
Continued from Page y

convenience" with Stain.
For powerful reasons of self
interest, Sweden also is intensely
anxious to see an end to the war
She does not want to see Russia
push ahead and become a neigh
boring state and she fears that
continuation OF the war might draw
Sweden into the conflict as a bat
tleground for the big European
powers.
In that complicated situation, the
British and French find themselves
in a highly unpleasant quandry
Despite their great sympathy fol
the Finns they cannot view with
enthusiasm the prospect of Russian
supplies now used in Finland being
diverted to Germany. They also
would be concerned if Russia's
hands were freed for action else
where.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08

eschew use of the mechanical gad-
get and still command attention.
She began singing at the age of 2
and half. The place was neigh
borhood movie house and between
pictures the manager asked if any
of the patrons would like to sing
from the stage. Up popped Gloria
who warbled Pal of My Cradle
Days
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08

NEW York, March 3. IUP)-
The Queen Elizabeth, new and
gloomy mistress of the seas. presid-
ed today over ghost fleet of lux
ury liners tied up at the Hudson
river slips awaiting the end of war.
Safe now from German bombs,
whose peril had driven her from
Scottish shipyard in secret, zig
gag maiden voyage before she had
even had trial run to shade her
down, the 5000 ton Cunard White
Star super-liner's only dangers now
were sabotage and souvenir hunt
ing. To guard against these, 33 po-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08

getting the money. Mrs. Briggs said
the sum mentioned N the letter is
the net estate. with German taxes
deducted, and only U. S. taxes re-
main to b. paid But German eX-
change restrictions reportedly are 50
strict that it may prove impossible
TO get the inheritance out Of the
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
ENGLAND SPEEDS
Up MOBILIZATION

LONDON, March 8. IUP)-Great
Britain suddenly and Unexpectedly
sDeeded up mobilization of armed
man power tooay by calling % year
Old reserves tC the colorS.
The 90 year old youths were reg
istered only February II. About
25O,OO0 are affected, some of them
being ordered to report today
All will be absorbed in the armed
forces within two weeks.
Meanwhile. the new class of "a
year old reserves, estimated at 3O0,-
600. will register tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
New Air Route frorEs;ii
/. A. North Planned

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.
UP)-Three California central
coast cities were bidding today for
an airport beacon and radio range
guide installation for a proposed
coastline air route linking San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
So far as could be learned from
Washington and from Los Angeles
headquarters of the Civil Aeronau-
tics Authority no decision has been
made.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
Italian Steamer
Sunk by Bombs
From kazi Plane
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town with the % men. .Ambulances
were waiting n a pier for the
wounded.
Bombs Explode
People in coastal town hearG
the explosion of six bombs and saw
the bomb flashes. Then. they re-
ported. they heard machine gun fire.
The attack was made at dusk. The
German plane first flew over the
Amelia Lauro. then flew away, only
10 return and start bombing. 1t
was asserted that the Italian flag
painted on the ships side was light
ed brightly to identify it.
Two EXPLOSIONS were heard after
The Amelia Lauro'S crew were res
cued and it was believed that the
ship had blown up.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH

DETROIT. March 8. eUP)-A
woman who wrote exit smiling on
the wall of her hotel room in bril-
liant lipstick then leaped II floors
t oher death today, was identified
as Mrs. Geraldine Borque, the for
mer Geraldine Kenyon, %, of Pom
tiac, Mich.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08

SOutheTn CaIHOTHId.-FdII tdaV
and unsettled west portion tonight
and Saturday; SHOWS over high
mountains; cooler east portion Sat-
urday: moderate to fresh west to
northwest wind off coast.
Los Angeles and Vicinity - In
creasing cloudiness Friday night
and Saturday; moderate tempera-
ture with little change; moderate to
fresh west to northwest wind.
Record for "a hours ending at
High Low
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
CRUELTY CHARGED
IN DIVORCE DECREE

A final divorce decree was grant,
ed in superior court Friday to Vir
ginia Porter Mayfield in her suit
against William Preston Mayfield
She accused him of extreme cruel
ty.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
NON-SUPPORT GROUNDS
FOR DIVORCE DECREE

Christina L. Harris was granted
an interlocutory divorce decree
from o. L. Harris Friday on the
grounds of extreme cruelty and
nOn-SuppOrt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-08
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Humidity 23
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

after returning from visit there
that she suddenly discovered S.
900 tons of dirt piled up in her
front yard. 1t had been placed
there by Daisy's close friends and
fellow Democrat, the late Ray
Baker, who was digging cellar
nearby. Democrats can engage
in mortal and meteoric combat
as the New Deal can bear witness
and there ensued a social feud
which convulsed Washington for
months.
MIR. Baker claimed that Mrs.
Harriman's front lawn was too
low and he was only trying to
help her grade it. But Mrs.
Hartman claimed that she had
planned a sunken garden and
didn't need any landscaping
ideas from her fellow Democrat
so they went to court.
In the end, the contractor en-
ployed by Baker was obliged to
remove the dirt.
SHE FOUGHT ROOSEVELT
1t was a political paradox that
having kept Democratic enthusi-
asm flaming during the lean and
hungry years from Harding to
Hoover, Mrs. Hartman at first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
Good and Bad

A political group down in Stratford,
where Governor Raymond E. Bald
win lives, did it's best the other day to
stand on two sides of question at one
and the same time. The Eighth District
Republican Association drew up resolu-
ton in which it sought to condemn the
present motor vehicle inspections, yet
at the same time admit that inspections
were not such a bad institution. Maybe
if the inspections had been conceived
by Republican sources or the present Mo-
tor Vehicle Commissioner were Repub-
lican appointee the club would not be so
voluble today.
AS it is it blames the Democrats for the
automobile inspections. If we were the
sole Democrat responsible for them our
chest would swell with pride, for we think
the tests are an integral part OF this
states safety program and without them
we can never achieve the perfection along
our highways towards which we are so
constantly pushing. Democrats need not
be ashamed of the part they played IN
bringing about motor vehicle inspections
nor in their continued espousal of them.
The resolution adopted calls attention
to the fact that it is the Motor Vehicle
Commissioner into whose hands IS en-
trusted the inspection law enforcement
and not the governors. The only implica--
ton we can draw from the wording OF
the resolution is that if the governor had
the final say about putting the law into
operation, he would not do his duty, but
would be derelict. BY the same token it
criticizes the Commissioner for doing
what he is supposed to do under our state
laws. All of which is most confusing and
if it isn't typical party "beef", we never
heard one before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

a losing battle. Unframed personnel, wet
weather, bad breaks, forced the defenders
to retire before the deadly mosquito.
Widespread epidemics, with more than
100000 people treated for severe cases,
followed. Defense forces brought up their
reserves.
More than 1000 doctors, technicians,
scouts, inspectors and guards were rushed
into the front lines. Frontiers of the in
tested region we're marked by fumigation
posts, medical Maginot Line. Breeding
places in Stagnant water were eliminated.
Planes roared overhead, mapping with
the camera unsupported breeding places
Houses, automobiles, boats were halted
and sprayed.
The advance of the deadly mosquito
has been halted. But now another rainy
season impends. The offensive must be
launched again with redoubled vigor.
This is a war to the death, for until the
last surviving pair of gambiae is dead,
millions of people in the Western Heml-
sphere cannot be safe.
Such a campaign, such war is worthy
of mankind, showing him at his best, just
as wars among men show him at his
worst. Strange indeed is man, who can
fight so CALAMITY to save mems lives, and
in the same moment strive so Savagely
to kill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
In Today's Mail
LATE DIR. LEWIS WAS UN-
ASSUMING, GENEROUS
BENEFACTOR TO
FELLOWMEN

Editor, Democrat:
There is an insistent urge within
which compels me to add my hum
BILE bit to the well meritied praises
being heaped upon the character of
our late iamented fellow Christian,
Reverend John N. Lewis.
If he were alive I would not dare
mention these concealed charities OF
Doctor Lewis for fear of his dis
pleasure.
Doctor John was not publicity
seeker. Many "doWn and cutters,
| felloWmen to Doctor Lewis, have
been helped across the bumps OF
life's highways = whole families,
father, mother, with broods of six
sometimes more, have been WEI
| comed to my humble establishment
always were they accompanied with
the Good Samaritans assurance, II
on my return, will repay thee for all
needed over and above"
These truly Christian actions were
not of recent origin, memory re-
calls beyond thirty years the same
Christian trait in our recently de-
ceased friend. =
While of different religious faith
his humble, gentle, yet manly lift
compels my willing prayers to AL.
mighty God for his souls eterna
happiness. May he rest in peace.
/ Yours truly,
/ George M. Corcoran.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
Reapportionment Soon

With the results of the 1910 federal
census due to flood the Census Bureau
at Washington in the next few weeks, it
won't be long before Congress has taken
steps to reapportion its membership in
the House of Representatives. And those
who claim to be statistically-minded say
that New England may lose at least two
members of its present delegation. Mas
sachusettS and Connecticut are the states
mentioned as destined, perhaps, to lose
one member. If this be so, then the
wisdom of those who counSeled the crea-
ton of the post of at-large
will be upheld We have long questioned
1t.
The reason cited for the decreased
New England congressional delegation
is a proposal to exclude aliens in the re-
apportionment count This would nat
urally lower the population count Tor
New England with the two states men
toned above bearing the brunt of it. 1t
would not take too great a decrease IN
the Connecticut population figures to cut
out one representative here. Normally,
though, this would not occur, as we may
expect a slight increase over our 1880
census figures for the entire state which
should be ample to maintain our ratio OF
six representatives.
This may be false alarm, though, as
there is no definite indication that the
alien amendment to the reapportionment
bill will be adopted. If it isn't we would
hold our own here despite the fact New
England's population growth, as ex-
pressed in percentages figures, will be
the lowest for the past decade since the
first time census was taken in 1870. We
have seen indications of this in many
directors - birth and death rates and
noticeably school attendance figures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
Maginot Line Against Malaria

Dramatic are the accounts of desperate
air forays over the North Sea. Men fight,
and men die in a quick blurt OF machine
gun fire and swift plunge into the sea.
But in Brazil there is battle no less
dramatic, battle not to kill but to save,
not for death, but for life. 1t is relent-
less war to exterminate the anopheles
gambiae, dread notwithstanding mos
quito brought from Africa to Brazil about
10 years ago.
Scientists are not given to hysteria.
But Dr. M. A. Barber, distinguished ma
lariologist, states his considered belief
that "this invasion of gambiae threatens
the Americas with a catastrophe in COM
parison with which ordinary pestilence
conflagration and even war are but small
and temporary calamities." Once given
a foothold, this malarial strain would
enter the very veins of country and
plague it for centuries. No other country
having normal intercourse with it would
be safe. Untold millions of lives may be
at stake in such a battle.
The government of Brazil declared war
on this malaria peril The Rockefeller
Foundation rushed to help with 100000
in 1885,, and $230,O00 in 1870 Founda-
ton and government are working closely
together. Throughout early 1889 it was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
The New Forest

Try to imagine forest SO vast that
you can easily pick it out on small map
of the United States. Imagine it stretch
ing from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, then
down to Charleston, w. Va, across to
Columbus and back to Cleveland. Try to
imagine all this being planted during
the past five years or SO, staggering
new physical feature of our country. 1t
is not entirely fantasy. This spring the
millionaire mark will be passed in tree
planting on national forest lands. That's
15OO-odd square miles. And that is a
square roughly 1875 miles on each side,
It would show up on the map something
like the rough rectangle described above.
Of course in reality the tracts are in diff
ferent places, not all in one. Every man,
woman and child in the country is richer
today, more secure in his country's
future, for this planting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

should have been unrewarded by
the Roosevelt administration.
There was an interesting rea-
son for this. Daisy had been an
ardent opponent of Franklin d.
Roosevelt before the 1882 con-
vention. She had worked Wig
Orously for Newton ID. Baker,
and led faction of the District
of Columbia delegation in voting
against Roosevelt at Chicago.
So when Roosevelt adopted the
policy of awarding his "B. c."
Before Chicago friends, Daisy
was out of luck. She remained
out of luck for five years, despite
many effort by powerful friends
to win her an appointment in the
Roosevelt fold.
Finally, thanks to the persua-
sive influence of Sumner Welles,
Roosevelt relented. Daisy Harri-
man was appointed Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary to NorWay-a quiet and
unimportant post to which it was
considered safe to send woman.
copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS
Face Transition or
Perish, Says Wells

That H. G. Wells has written an
other book is scarcely news.
But "The New World Order"
(Knopf: $1.5O) is news. 1t is
daringly critical of present
British policies, but scarcely
less SO of those of the rulers
of other countries. Present
conditions can resolve only
into a new and revolutionary
world order of cOllectivism,
Wells believes. The book is
an attempt to create a men
tai climate" wherein this will
be achieved with as little dis
location as possible. This ex-
cerpt gives a hint of the
books tenor:
World peace means revolu-
ton. More and more of us begin
to realize that it cannot mean less.
The first thing, therefore, that
has to be done in thinking out
the primary problems of world
peace is to realize this: that we
are living in the end of a definite
period of history, the period of
the sovereign states. AS we used
to say in the eighties with ever
increasing truth: I'VE are in an
age OF transition" Now we get
some measure of the acuteness
O., the transition. 1t is a phase of
human life which may lead, as 1
am trying to show, either to q
new way of living for our species
or else to a longer or briefer de-
gringolade of violence, misery,
destruction, death, and the ex-
tinction of mankind. i. ..
That is the issue before us. It
is not small affair of parlor poll
tics we have to consider. AS I
write, in this moment, thousands
of people are being killed, wound
ed, hunted, tormented, ill-treated,
delivered up to the most intol-
cradle and hopeless anxiety, and
destroyed mentally and morally,
and there is nothing in sight at
present to arrest this spreading
process. 1t is coming for you and
yours at a great pace. Plainly in
so far as we are rational FORE
seeing creatures there is nothing
for any of us now but to make
this world-peace problem the rul-
ing interest and direction of our
live If we run away from it, it
will pursue and get us. We have
to face it or be destroyed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13
Selected Poem
APRIL IN NEW ENGLAND
(Julia E. Goodwin in the Poets Corner,
Hartford TimeS)

(Julia f. Goodwin in the Poets Corner,
Hartford Times)
April in New England and countless buds are
swelling,
Spreading diaphanous lavender wells over the blue
hills,
With here and there the cream-white shadows
telling
Robbins where to find feast some day!
April in New England, and from the marshes
rising,
While the day is drifting dreamlly from twilight
into night,
Winters gone and spring has come to stay!
April in New England, and stabbed herds are
lowing,
Longing for upland pastures, and the freedom of
Wind-sWept heights
Where day by day the fresh green grass is growing
And violets are waiting for the May!
April in New England, and memories are
Dear memories of distant In the land OF
my youthful dreams,
Never an April dawn but am wanting,
To see again my homeland, far away!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

At long last decision has been reached
as to the location of the proposed new
bridge across the Thames River between
New London and Groton. 1t will be built
very close to the present railroad trestle
across the stream. A survey was recently
completed and its results decided the
commission in this fashion. Behring'S OF
the river at the point are to be made
shortly and until they are completed there
will be no reliable estimate of how much
the long-demanded structure will cost.
Local traffic comprises the bulk of that
passing across the present highway
bridge, the survey indicated and it was
with this information before it that the
commission decided that the new bridge
should be thrown across the stream just
above the railroad crossing. Rellef OF
traffic congestion in and around the
bridge approaches now should be Just
one of many blessings coming with the
new span.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

Great pipe lines conveying water hun
dreds of miles from reservoirs are not I'M
common in this part of country, but we've
never had big oil pipe line. However,
one will be built soon in Massachusetts
and no doubt it's construction and opera
ton will be watched with great interest
for many years to come. The pipe IS to
extend from Fall River to Worcester ana
Boston. Tankers will unload at Fail
. River and the oil will then be pumped
through the long pipe lines to loading
centers in the big cities. This Will be a
stretch of IS miles and will rival the great
water pipe line supplying the metropoll,,
tan area of Boston with waters tapped
from the Swift and Ware rivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

This is the time of the year to improve
YOUR home and surrounding property.
The first step to take in this direction
is thorough job of cleaning and paint
ING. After thorough cleanup nothing
makes so much of a difference in home
than little paint judiciously applied.
Whether it is an entire job or just some
here and there the results are always
good. Follow up your spring cleaning
with little frightening of colors gone
dim and faded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-13

them and decided to merge their
responsibilities as we'll as their af-
fections in joint ownership. They
all housed him, fed him, and-pos-
sibly-bathed him, in turn. Then
they applied for a license. But
whose dog was it? To whom should
the license be granted? One of the
boys-no doubt of his American
background-solved the question.
The clerk made out a license to all
three, incorporated"
There have been partnerships in
dogs before, as the famed House of
Morgan was a partnership in fin
ance. But both this firm and that
of Knight, Richmond and Schmidt
are now corporations. And it would
be hard to say which of the two
feels richer in its possessions.