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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-12

Smokey Jensen has a water
bucket turned upside down on top
of his chimney to catch creosote
from the smoke. Trimmed with
kerosene, this CONCEALED SCOT
makes an excellent tobacco-juice-
brown shingle stain that, when ap-
piled to a newly shingled roof,
makes it look old. Old roofs make
for lower assessments and easier
taxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
MINE FIELD IS PLACED
Heavy German Transports
Are Passing Through
The Kiel Canal

STOCKHOLM, May -. - Up -
Heavy German troopship transports
were reported passing through the
Kiel canal tonight and Sweden, sud
denly alarmed, ordered a complete
blackout of the whole country for
an indefinite period, darkened the
lighthouses on her east coast and
announced a mine field had been
laid in a section of the Oresund
channel.
The mines were laid near Malmo
in the narrow. channel which sepa-
rates Sweden frmo German-occupied
Air Threat RumOred
These precautions led to rumors
that a sudden air attack was feared
by Swedish authorities.
For a month, Sweden was poised
on the fringe of the Norwegian in
vasion, but had breathed easier
when the war suddenly turned to-
ward the Netherlands and Belgium.
It was assumed Germany would be
occupied in that direction. Toda-',
however, the press expressed general
pessimism.
The governments blackout order
included all areas not heretofore
BACKED out, and came as a surprise
because most sources had regarded
Sweden's position in the European
as eased with tn Germans con-
trolling most of Norway and occu-
pied in attacks against Holland and
Belgium.
A small force of Germans still is
besieged at Narvik, far northern
Norwegian ore port, however.
The blackout particularly affected
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
ESQ Persons
Hurt In N. Y.
Train Wreck
Few Are Seriously Injured
When Erie Special Train
Strikes Another
MANY CONTINUE TRIP
Crash AT Port Jervis Be-
Teved Caused By Fast
Approach On Sigma.

poRT JERVIs, N. Y, May r.
y-About $50 persons were injured
todav. most of them specifically,
wben n of five Erie railroad
snecial trains carrying information
II business machine employees to
tbo New York Worlds Fair crash
cd into the rear car of another.
Manv of the injured resumed the
trim on another train after they
we're treated at hospitals, physl-
clans offices and drug stores. Sew
eral remained in Port Jervis hos
pjtals but their injuries were re-
ported not critical.
Train At Station
One of the special trains, en-
route from Endicatt, N. Y, to the
fair for |. B. M. day tomorrow, was
standing in the station here when
the special directly behind crash
ed into it.
The railroad said the second
train apparently had run through
a signal.
The l. B. M. corporation an
nounced III injured had been treat
ee at Port Jervis, Of whom Is
were hospitalized but their injuries
were not serious. Seven doctors
in New York city treated 215 OF
the group on their arrival for slight
injuries, including those previously
given aid at Port Jervis.
The railroads statement:
Preliminary reports indicate
that signals functioned properly
and that the engineer of the Sec
ond train apparently approached
toe fast.
Investigation develops that this
engineer had been tested on signal
observance four times in the year
1889 and responded satisfactorily
and was examined on all the rules
in April( 1910.
THE accident is regretted and
everything humany possible is be-
ing done for the comfort of those
injured. A full and complete in
%vestlgation will be commenced inn
mediately."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
Attacked Head-On
Between Forbach And
Vosges Mountains
FRANCE

PARIS, May 2.-R-Adolf Hit
ler's gray-clad German troops
laid lethal siege to Allied defenses
in three countries today, breaking
through the first Belgian defense
line, hammering at Frances Magi-
not Line along a 40-mile front,
and creating apparent chaos in
Hollands interior with swarms CT
parachute soldiers.
The military situation in the
west, on the basis of French and
Allied reports, was:
France-Large German forces
attacked head = on between For
bach and the Vosges Mountains
after heavy artillery preparations
which began before dawn. It was
not Immediately determined
whether the assault meant prolong-
ed attack on the Maginot Line or
was a feint to divert French troops
from operations to the north.
Situation In Belgium
Belgium Having reorganized
their lines after the Germans broke
through the Albert canal defenses
in the Maastricht region, Belgian
divisions west Of Maastricht, D
troops counter = attacked German
divisions west of Maastrict,
Dutch border city held by the Ger
mans. German troops e report
ed forced to withdraw to prevent
being cut off from their bases. The
battle is continuing.
The Observation-Disclosures is in
confusion resulting principally
from German %incursions by plane
and parachutes in Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, and The Hague as well
a soutlying towns and sections.
Thousands of Germans were re-
ported landed by parachute during
the night. Meanwhile, German
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
ITALY TO BOOST
LITT0RI0 FRONT
Mussolini Orders Generals
To Strengthen Line On
Western Frontier

ROME, May 12-lR-Premier Mus
solini today ordered further strength
ening of Italy's "Littorio Line" of
Notifications on the western Alpine
frontier.
II Duce's order was given to Cen
erals Piertro Pintor and Alfredo
Guzzoni, whom he received along
with Marshal Rodolfo GRAHAM, army
chief of staff, and General Ubaldo
Soddu, undersecretary of "a
The army chiefs who are in COM
mand Of zones along the French
forntier reported to Mussolini on
military questions concerning their
armies" an official announcement
said.
Italy's fortified line which is to
to be further perfected takes it's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
CABINET IS COMPLETED
London Claims Successful
Attacks On Land, From
Air Against Nazis
ADVANCE CONTINUES
BRITAIN
By TOM Y%ARBROUGH

by 1ON1 I'LL
LONDON, May 13-(Mon-
day)-(AP)-Successful at
tacks on land and from the
air against the German in
vasion Of Holland and Bel
GUM were reported officially
today by Great Britain while,
at home, Scotland Yard
rounded up thousands Of
enemy aliens and Britain's
new prime minister COM
pleted organization of his
Twin the war; government.
A communique from the
British general headquarters
said that "the successful adj
vance of the British expedi-
tionary force into Belgium in
conjunction with the French
forces is continuing as plan
ned. Minor encounters be-
tween our cavalry (motor-
lied units, which carry out
advance guard actions) and
the enemy have ended to our
advantage"
As Planes Downed
The air ministry reported
As German planes have been
shot down since Saturday
morning and that "it can be
safely assumed that as many
again have been destroyed or
damaged"
The ministry also said Ger
man railway communications
have been interrupted by
British air fighters and that
important road and railway
damage also was caused in
Germany between the Rhine
and the Dutch frontier, in
Guiding damage to supply
trains and a railway station"
Earlier reports from cor
respondents with the British
air force told how Britain's
Blenheim bombers hammered
German concentrations in
dawn raids in Belgium.
Thirty-five British planes
so far have failed to return
but some are known to have
made forced landings in Bel
GUM and France.
To make the home front
as secure as possible against
a blitzkrieg invasion through
the air such as was visited
upon Holland, Belgium and
Friday, the
Confined on Page TEN
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
Sweden Fears Invasion,
Orders Broad BlackOut
Hoover Asserts Reds
Inspired 'Falsehoods'

BOSTON, May H. Jap j.
Edgar Hoover charged tonight
that communists had inspired
''falsehoods" that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation "has de-
veloped into an OGPU or Ges-
tapo."
Addressing 1000 delegates at a
B'Nai Birth district convention,
the FBI chief said in a prepared
address that "the foul prOpagan-
da which has emanated from
these banner carriers of foreign
isms has been at work in a vi
cious campaign of chicanery,
falsehood, and the spreading of
misinfOrmatiOn.
"The FBI -. does not violate
the lawful rights of any indi-
vidual. 1t has never engaged in
unlawful activity. I pledge you
it never will"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
ADMIT LOSSES
Mop Up Trojan Horse
Traitors And Parachute
Troops In Interior
FRENCH BATTLE NAILS
HOLLAND
BY MAX HARRISON

10y Nlf1A
May 13-
(AP) - The fighting Dutch,
hopping up "Trojan horse
traitors and nazi parachute
troops in the interior, fell
back in central and southern
Holland today before the
merciless German pounding
which carried Adolf Hitler's
blitzkrieg veterans across the
Mas and Ijssel rivers and
deeper into the northern
Netherlands provinces.
The Dutch high command
acknowledged these reverses
in a c~ommunique which said
the Germans had made their
way over the Mas and 1jssel
rivers "at various points,"
French Fight Enemy
But, the high command adj
ded, French troops are fight
ing the enemy in East Bra
bant to the south and earlier
reports said 10000 British
troops had been fed into the
land and flood-Water defenses
of the Dutch.
The advancing Germans
were being bombed by Dutch
planes and fresh parachute
troops landed in the interior
have been "overcome," the
c%ommunique added.
The Dutch command failed
to give the extent Of the
withdrawal from the frontier
lines, but it said that the
troops have been partly
withdrawn"
Troops in the undefended
northern provinces fulfilled
their mission by slowing up
the oncoming Germans as
they fell back to the interior,
the communique reported.
Claiming the upper hand
over air-landed German
troops in the seaport City OF
Rotterdam and smashing an
uprising of Germans in the
Hague, seat of government,
with armored cars and she'll
fire, the authorities went to
work today to clean up Ans
terdam with a vengeance.
While a sabotaged AFRAID
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13

BERNIE, Switzerland, May
IL. - Up Neutral military at
taches to Switzerland, who
handle much of the wars mill
tary information, reported to-
day that the 'new weapon"
which Germans used to capture
the powerful fort of Eben
Emael and break through the
Albert canal line was believed
by them to be ''nerve gas"
Some such gas is known to
have been developed in Ger
many and studied elsewhere
in recent months.
1t affects the nerves of those
inhaling it and brings lassitude
and inability to coordinate the
muscles, these sources said.
Mt was said the "new meth
cd" apparently enabled the
Germans to take forts and
whole garrisons with little ef-
fort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
PRESS CLAIMS DRIVE
PRELUDE TO RECORD BATTLE

Belgium was reported to have
rallied and counter-attacked,
forcing the Germans back.
lin Amsterdam, there was no
news of the military situation
but 10000 British troops were
said to have arrived to bolster
the Netherlands defenses).
The Germans reported they
had made a partial penetration
of the historic forts of Liege in
Belgium, where Kaiser Viii.
helms army was stopped for
more than a week in 1914, and
that they were forcing breaches
through the Albert canal fortifi.
cations, the strongest line of de-
Tense between Liege and Ant.
werp, OH the west coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13

With a mysterious new wea-
pom at his disposal, Adolf Hitler
was sending a mighty air force
over Belgian, French and Dutch
military strongholds in waves.
The weapon was given much
credit for taking the Belgian
Fort Eben Emael at Liege but
nothing concerning it's nature
was divulged.
It was reported officially that
So enemy planes were shot down
this morning. among them 20 of
Britain's Spitfires. Tremendous
air activity on both sides was in
Dictated by the German commu-
niques, which said 300 enemy
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13

"There is no profession greater
than that which devotes itself to
the alienation of human suffer-
ing" Governor Clyde R: Hoey de-
clared in his address before the
graduating class of the James Wal
Ser Memorial hospital School of
Nursing at the First Baptist church
last night.
A crowd that OVERLOOKED the
main auditorium of the church and
even left no DON for standing
heard the Governor pay tribute to
the great service being rendered
bv the hospitals and nurses today.
.aThere are three essentials in the
making of a nurse" Governor
Hoey said. "they r industry, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
Gov. Hoey Lauds Nurses
Tn Talk To Grads Here

tegrity and intelligence. You gain
these through perseverance, hard
work and a conscientious study OF
vo,1r profession, your patient and
yourself. Together with these you
add that feeling for humanity, so
necessary to your work"
The nurse must bear the sorrow
of each of her patients, he said,
pointing out that in their hands
lie the life of many persons.
'.Nurses have as fine an opportunl-
ty as I know to do good In this
world" he said.
The Governor outlined the many
activities and services OF the nos
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
BY LYNN

BERLIN, May 12.-LR-Ger-
man troops have taken over the
grand duchy Of Luxembourg,
swarmed over Holland to the
east shore of the Ijsselmeer
(Zuider Zee) and Numbered their
challenge to the Allies only a
few miles from Utrecht, the high
command announced today.
AT the same time, the German
press advised its readers that
the offensive in the west so far
is only a prelude to 'the great
est battle of war history"
In Paris, however, French
forces in Luxembourg were said
to have inflicted heavy losses on
German attackers Saturday, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
Hammers Maginot
Mile Front
Troop Transport Sunk
By German Air Force

BERLIN, May 12.-(AP)HThe
German air force sank a troop
transport off The Netherlands
coast this afternoon and set
afire six other ships, DNB, Off
cial German news agency report
ed tonight.
The text of the announcement
follows:
"The German air force scored
an extraordinary success this
afternoon against enemy ships
before the Holland coast.
"DNB learns a large troop
transport of $4,000 tons vas sunk
by the German air force. Six
other ships burned brightly as a
result of bomb hits"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
NAZH ADVANCE IN NORTHERN
PROVINCES OF NETHERLANDS;
ALLIES RUSH MEN TO FRONT
Cas- Is Believed
Reich'S Secret Weapon

The gas has no lasting effect
and soldiers can be protected
only by certain types Of gas
masks, they said. The fortress
troops at Eben Emael had only
standard Belgian army filter
masks.
Soldiers inhaling the gas
stagger and fall, it was said.
The gas was reported to have
a faint smell similar to a gera-
mum and is almost beyond de-
lection.
The military experts said
that it might be the Nazis'
much-vaunted weapon but that
its scope was limited to forts
like Eben Emael, where the
ventilating system may not be
as thorough as that Of the
French Maginot line forts.
Allied and Belgian forces are
MOntin1yo6 IN Papo Tpn\
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
Millions Of People
Want Ads .

Firms and individuals in every
highly civilized country have
successfully used Want Ads TO
sell and rent since the 17tl
century.
Star and News Wants Ads
costing as little as 30c a day
Especial Is day rate for 10
words), will quickly find buyers
or tenants for anything for
which there is a demand.
If you haven't been using the
Want Ads to buy and sell, rent
or hire, do SO now! You'll find
that they are the quickest and
most inexpensive means of e
curing a tenant or buyer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
REDMEN TO OPEN
SESSIONS TODAY
approximately 100 Dele
gates To Meet OF State
Organization Arrive

Approximately 100 delegates to the
annual convention of the North
carolina Council of Redmen, which
VIII convene here today, had arrived
IN the city last night.
ABOUT 300 delegates are expected
70 attend the three-day meeting.
headquarters for the convention will
Vt at the Cape Fear hotel.
registration will open this after
loon at 2 o'clock and at $3.50 o'clock
.le death benefit department will
-Neec In the ballroom of the hotel,
WIN the annual memorial services
loio"lhg' A square dance for the
N''ors and members of the order
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
WEED EXPORTS HIT
BY EUROPEAN WAR
Conditions Cut Value OF
Shipments To One Third
OF Usual Amount

WASHINGTON, May 12- Up -
Troubled European conditions have
cut sharply into United States 10
bacco exports during the last slA
months, reducing their value 10 al
most one-third of the Ior
the corresponding periods of the
last two years.
During the six months from last
October 1 to last March 3l-the
period of heaviest exports in all
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13
WEATHER

yort, FORECAST
Fair ena Carolina and South Carolina :
"4u warmer Monday and Tuesday.
en ddihnesse9or9elogical data for the "a hours
''oo p. m. Yesterday.
1.9o Temperature
m. Ga. d. m; 81; 1870 a. m. 81; 1:3O p.
minimnm' '5 81 p. M. G4; maximum IS;
'Dni IS; mean So; normal 70,
Ian Humidity
m, "a. d IN m. 50: 7:3O a. m. 81; 1:3O D.
Toto, Precipitation
none, ta ,er a hours ending 7:30 p. M,
0G2 jnc lo.al since first Of the month,
Tides For Today
Wilming ton High Dow
-- 1:54a 9:35a
"as0nbOro Inlet 2:o7p s:Ssp
rise su1 IN 5:12a; sunset 7:o5p. NOON noon
VITA; moonset -
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-13

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The Omaha guide., 1940-10-12
LOOK FOR THIS PLACARD-

In the stores where you see this placard as
printed to the right-Ask for your FREE Tickets to
The Omaha Guides Food Show. 8 Big nights from
October Il, through the 10Th. Loads of prizes each
night at The Omaha Guides Food Show at the new
Elks Hall, 2420 Lake Street. For further inform
alton call The Omaha Guide Office, WE. 1917.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Seattle Now Second
To n. Y. as a Port
For Motor Boats

The first four months of 1910
which have brought an increase of
7.243 motor boats on Federal waters
throughout the country, also have
created shift among the Nations S
ranking motor boat ports. the De-
partment of Commerce has an
nounced.
New York City, with 32.5l8 craft,
continues in first position by a wide
margin. but Seattle. Wash. has gone
ahead of Baltimore, Md, in second
place; Tampa. Fla, takes fourth
place ahead of Philadelphia. and
Cleveland, Ohio. and Norfolk, Va,
move in front of Boston. Mass, the
latter dropping from eighth to tenth
place.
There were a total of 1856 900 num-
bered motor boats in the United
States on May l. The IL ranking
ports, in addition to New York, fol-
low: Seattle, 1878; Baltimore,
16.528; Tampa, l5,409; Philadelphia,
1927; Detroit, 1854; San Fran
cisco, 1888; Cleveland, 10,781:
Norfolk. 10,558: Boston. 10,479; New
Orleans, 10,29l, and Portland, Me,
8,288.
Evening star., 1940-07-12

suffocation when their head is under
water and Immediately become
terrified. To overcome this. stand
in shallow water and duck your
head under the surface to get used
to the feeling of pressure. Then,
holding the breath, if necessary
with the fingers holding the nose,
squat under the water, open your
eyes and look at your hand. Keep
ing the eyes open adds to the feeling
of confidence.
Correct form in the water cannot
be obtained without correct breath
ing. The first thing to remember
is that breathing in the water is
exactly the opposite of breathing
on land. For swimming, you inhale
through the mouth. eXhale through
the nose. In practically all strokes
except the breast stroke. the head
is under water much of the time, so
it is obvious that inhalation through
the nose is impossible.
Practice inhaling through the
mouth and eXhaling through the
nose before entering the water then
practice it in the water. Take a
breath through the mouth. submerge
and blow out the air through the
nose. If this correct method of
breathing is used, the swimmer will
be able to develop confidence, rhy-
thm and speed, also the relaxation
which is an essential part of good
swimming
(Second in a series.)
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Damned Waters Bring Sailing
Boom to Land of Cowboys,
Making Yachting National

eter and divided in the middle by
concrete barrier. One side is given
over to motor boats, the other to sail
boats. They have organized there
the Sequoia Yacht Club.
At Fort Worth they now have
Eagle Mountain Lake. a body of
water 38 miles long and two or three
miles wide. They built yacht club
and docks even before the water
was turned in. One class of 90
footers here, the longhorn class,
with Marconi rig is flourishing and
the shippers there think so well of
their skippering that they contem-
plate challenging the international
class of Long Island Sound for an
intersectional series.
Snappy Shippers Dress Part.
They are sailing now" says Bill
Crosby. lat Wichita. Kans. and
at Wichita Falls. Tex. At Kansas
City, Mo, the Missouri Yacht Club
is flourishing organization. I
discovered the San Antonio Sailing
Association in Texas and at Alton
H.. where they have damned the
Mississippi is an immense sailing
area which is being utilized. They
don't wear l0-gallon hats and chaps
aboard their yachts in the South
west. They are dressed cap-a-pie in
the yachting mode; and let me tell
you they are as nippy shippers as
you want to see. sailed with some
of them and I know.
with respect to the Eagle Noun
tain Lake at Fort Worth, don't get
the idea that Dallas is being left
behind. In fact, Fort Worth merely
is catching up with Dallas, which has
been following the sport of wind
jamming through the Rock Lake
Sail Yacht Club for the last few
years. But it is all great impulse,
and its significance is that the sport
of yachting is going to be national
within a few years"
tReleased by Consolidated News Service)
Evening star., 1940-07-12
Only An.British Yacht
In D. {. Bought by
Don | Lamborne
Built for Worldwide
Cruising, Croft Here
For Nine Months

Washington's only all-Britisfl SAIL
ing yacht, the 40-foot schooner
Strombus, was prepared to get
under way late today from its berth
at Yacht Basin No. following lay
over here of nine months.
The boats next port of call how
ever, will not be any mine-infested
port of England.
Strombus, which has been pur-
chased by Don Lamborne, local heat
ing engineer, will sail for summer
base at the relatively peaceful West
River on Chesapeake Bay Crew for
the trip around to the bay will in
clude 1t. Jim Alger, United States
Coast Guard, prominent small-boat
skipper here, and Arden Anderson.
intercollegiate dinghy sailor of
George Washington University.
The boat, built in Littlehampton,
England, in 1888, arrived in this
country last May on the deck of
freighter. It's owner cruised Long
Island Sound and the bay before
arriving here in October.
Meanwhile its former owner, an
Englishman, has retired to a nearby
Virginia estate.
Virtually all of the yacht, from its
Diesel engine to the typically
British-dyed sails, is English. The
boat was designed by David Hillyard
for 'round-the-world cruising.
The new owner, however, has no
such plans at this date, although
there is talk of a South American
voyage some time in the future.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
UIbrickson's Old Fell
Hat Keeps Out Rain
And Brings Luck
BY the Associated Press.


SEATTLE.-Add Coach AL Ul-
brickson's battered gray felt hat
to the growing list of University
of Washington rowing traditions.
Before going out in the crew
launch to direct his oarsmen, the
impeccably dressed Ulbrickson al
ways lays aside his new snap-brim
fedora in his shellhouse Office and
pulls the old gray hat down over
his eyes.
We'll, I suppose there is a bit OF
tradition or superstition about that
hat" Al admits. "Of course, wear
it mainly to keep the rain out Of
my eyes. never wear one of those
sou'westerns. But I guess it has been
kind of lucky -
The records bear out Ulbrickson
on the luck score.
Since he started wearing the hat
in 1888 his varsity crews have won
eight out of nine races against
California in the annual Pacific
Coast Regatta, and have finished
first three times, second three times
and third once in the Hudson re-
gattas at Poughkeepsie
Ulbrickson wore the hat when his
Washington oarsmen won the re.
cent Poughkeepsie regatta.