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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
Trust unds Provided In Mrs. Anna LilleyWill
No Major Provisions Made for Deceaseds Grandchil= dren; Reports of Contest Heard-Many Separate
 Requests in Lengthy Document

The will of Mrs. Anna E. H. Lilley providing for the establishment of a trust fund for her sons, Frederick and Theodore, was admitted to pro- bate today by Judge Patrick Heal aey.s Mrs. LailleE was the widow of George L. LilIe5, for years one of the city's leading business men and for whom the Lilley building on West Main street is named.
 No major provision is made in the will, a lengthy and involved docu- ment, for the children of Theodore Lilley by his first marriage, or for the children of the late John Lil- ley, who died several years ago. There are reports that contest against the will is to be instituted in superior court.
 The will directs that to the son, Frederick, shall go a diamond din- ner ring, platinum wrist watch, dia- mond bar pin and platinum and diamond bracelet, and to the son, Theodore, a three-stone diamond ring and a piano, and to Sylvia Page Lilley, wife of Theodore, a mink coat and a diamond studded wrist watch. The rest of Mrs. Lil- ley's jewelry and furniture is to be shared by the two sons.
 It is directed that $100 be given to each grandchild. A bequest of $5,000 is left to Leonard H. Howe.
 The rest of the estate, the will directs, is to be held in trust by the Citizens and Manufacturers Nation al bank and the two sons. The net income of the fund is to be divided between the sons during their life times.
 When either son dies, his share of the fund is tc be held in trust for his children until 21 years after his death, when his share is to be di- vided among the children. It is directed specifically in the will that the children of Theodore Lilley to benefit by this provision must <be born to his second wife, Sylvia Page Lilley.
 Another clause provides that after the death of Theodore Lilley, the net income of his share of the trust fund shall be paid to his wife, Syl- via Page Liliey. so long as she does not marry again, and that after the death of Frederick Lilley the income of his share of the fund shall be paid to his wife, Elsie Lilley, unless she marries again.
 The will stipulates that the trus- tees must not sell or otherwise aS- sign any of the trust fund shares in the George L. Lilley Go.
 The majority of trustees, says the will, can decide on any course of action in connection with the funds of the estate.
 Attorney Terence F. Carmody and Theodore and Frederick Lilley are named executors of the will, which was drawn June IA, 1888. The size of the estate will not be known un- til after an inventory has been made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
VOTING
 LIST EXPECTED
2,305 New Electors Sworn in Since Beginning
 of 194O

There have been 2,395 new vot- CTS sworn in since the 1889 elec- tion, figures compiled by Registrar of Voters John T. Defwin showed today. The list will be further swelled by additions resulting from the making" of new voters at the City Hall today, Monday and Tues day. The Board of Registration has sworn in 901 persons in the first four days of the annual seven- day series of sessions before elec- tion. The rest of the total was ac- counted for by the regular monthly sessions now held for the admission of new voters.
 It is expected that the voting list this year may contain more than 47,OOO names, which would be record registration list for the city. The previous high. mark was n 1886. the year of the last presiden- tial election.
 Names or List.
 Yesterday, Registrar Derwin and Registrar Albert o. Taller removed more than 15O names from the yot- ing list. The names were listed in complaints filed by Republican par ty workers. who claimed that they did no. live at the addresses given. Notices to those named in the com plaints were delivered by police to the last known addresses. directing them to appear before the regis trars yesterday to show cause why
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
LOCAL DELEGATION
 AT STATE MEETING

Miss Doris Weiss preside9 of the Lutheran League of til First Lutheran Church heads a large local committee in attendance at the state convention of the league in Bridgeport Saturday and Sunday. Registration today at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, was sceduled with business sessions and election of officers this afternoon and a ban quet at Masonic Temple, Stratford tonight at p. m.
 Tomorrow services will be held in the morning at St. Pau1's Lutheran Church and in the afternoon there will be rally at the First English Church. Officers will be installed at candlelight service tomorrow evening at the First English Church.
 Those who will attend from Wa terbury; Ida zech, John Bender. Henry Klies, Elsie Beck. Doris Weiss, Carl Hermann, Dick Hett- finger, Edith Hettlinger. Hazel Rutishauser, Erna Zurich, Sill Brade, Elsie Hermann, Elsie Besh, Emil Kuhn, Edward Schnitnal, Augie Kiesel Tillie Sechow Doro- thy Kukas. Herbert Pinter and Fred Cramer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
SURPLUS FUNDS
 UNDER ESTIMATE
Budget Director Plan Pre- pairing Figures-May
 Reach $4OO,OOO

An official estimate of the city,s surplus for 1940 is now being pre- pared by Budget Director Thorvald E. Olsen and will be ready for sub- mission to Mayor Vincent A. Scully and the board of finance next week. The figure, which will be an import ant factor in deciding the city tax rate for 1941, is expected to be be- tween $500, 900 and $40O,O00.
 The budget director is also pre- pairing his recommended city bud- get for next year. Under new city charter provisions, he must set up a separate budget which he recom- mentS, but which is subject to change by the board of finance. All departmental appropriation requests for next year have been received except that of the city plan com mission. The commission, with a $l0,000 appropriation for this year, has thus far spent only $50.
 City hall circles report that the proposed budget for 1941. which must receive final approval from the board of aldermen, will contain an emergency item" of $25, ,000 or more. This sum would be in the nature of a contingency fund, to be spent only for some special purpose that may be necessary. Approval of the boards of finance and aldermen would be necessary before any or all of 1t could be spent.
 The city's grand list, on which l94l's tax rate will be based, is exc pected to total about $i6o 100000. This would mean an increase of S2b00,0O0 over the grand list on which this years tax rate of 326 mills was based.
 Budget Director Olsen's proposed budget will be submitted to the a. nance board late this month, prob- ably during the week of the 20th, Meantime the finance board will be drawing up lts own proposed buds get. The charter now requires that the budget, ln final recommended form, be ln the hands Of the board of aldermen during the fourth week Of November,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
NAVAL RESERVES
 ARE GIVEN EXAMS
Go Into Service in Asiatic Fleet-Americans Pre-
 pare to Leave

Shanghai, Oct. 12 CUP) - Seventy United States naval reserv- ists were given physical examina- tions at headquarters of the Fourth Marine Regiment today. Those found fit were ordered to report for duty Monday aboard the Cruiser Augusta, flagship of the Assiatic fleet.
 It was reported that only four of the 70 failed to pass the test.
 A Dome (Japanese) news agency dispatch reported that Americans would be evacuated from the Man. king area, up the Yangstze river, in United States gunboats which were being sent from Hankow.
 Families of employees of American concerns, including Standard Oil Company and Anglo-American Tob- acco Company, will be evacuated, the dispatch said, and the employees themselves will be evacuated If fu- ture developments necessitate."
 Thirty American missionaries have decided to remain at their posts, the dispatch said.
 N11dA4hOW ID up OA1C xdIlBOb1C 1AOlAA Nanking. If the gunboats evacuated all Americans they might be held at Shanghai instead of returning up river.)
 Japanese organs in what appeared to mark the beginning of an in- spired campaign, demanded today that the Japanese army seize the international settlement and the French concession here and presum- ably the British and French con. sessions at Tientsin and the lega- ton quarter at Peiping.
 Pro-Japanese newspapers blamed the Chinese government for the as- sasslnation of Mayor Flu.
 Demands for the overriding of the foreign areas came amid ruEnors. Te- ported by the United Press yester. day, that the Japanese intended to occupy them October i7, when bFl- tain reopens the Burma road to China, and that tho Japanese were building interment camps near Shanghai for foreigners, Co be used ln event Of Japanese Involvement ln the var booanse of American intlrs venilnn saN oVitalse'a hahe"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
APPOINTMENT
 IS PROTESTED

Fall River, Mass, Oct. l2 - U P0 - Dr. Antonio 6. Ventura, whose appointment as medical ex- pert to the local draft board Is pro- tested because of a Fascist salute he gave three years ago, said today he made the gesture "as Q joke"
 Appointment of the physician was protested to Governor Leverett Sale tonstall by Commander Thomas Hutehings of the Fall River Council Of Wer Veterans organizations. Hutchins charged that Dr. Ventura gave the Fascist saluate as he paks- cd City Hall as marshal Of the ftals tan division 0i the ArmiStiee day parade in io37,
 "tt was more of a Joke than any. thing else" Dr. Ventura told feWss men when informed of the protest
 "fhnre Wns no aftront intended and realize nov it was Q mistake ! conaldei myself 100 per cent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12

velt's first visit in four years to Columbus, where he began his first presidential campaign, in 1882.
 MT. Roosevelt talked briefly with Republican Governor John w. Bricker after his special train ar rived at the Union station. After Bricker left the presidential train. the President continued to talk for some time with prominent Ohio Democrats.
 Davey, Bricker There
 Martin L. Davey, former Ohio governor and again the Democratic candiate for the governorship, fol- lowed Bricker into the presidents car. Others who talked with MT. Roosevelt were John McSweeney, Democratic senatorial candidate, and Stephen M. Young and Fran cis Durbin. Democratic congression- al candidates.
 Democratic National Committee man Charles Sawyer of Cincinnati was on the presidents train when 1t arrived here.
 Governor Bricker and former Governor Davey, opponents in this campaign, stood 10 feet apart out side the presidential train but ig- nored each other. Davey was a new deal critic during his two terms as governor but has supported Pres- idert Roosevelt this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
BRITISH STILL
 CONTINUE RAIDS
Widespread Bombing All Last Night-C Channel
 Guns, in Duel

London, October 12. (UP) = Royal Air Force bombing planes attacked oil plants, factories, docks and airdromes in Germany and, Ger man occupied territory during the night despite unfayorable weather and returned safe, the air ministry said today.
 Kiel, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Wesermunde, Wilhelmshaven and ports all the way from Rotterdam, Holland, to Cherbourg on the French coast were among the towns attacked, it was said.
 German big guns shelled the Dover area angrily today after a night in which British guns and planes worked together in a blazing bom- bardment of French invasion ports.
 German guns started a lombard ment of the English coast last night, from newly emplaced batteries.
 British guns retorted and for hours there was violent duel across the moonlit channel.
 Late in the evening big force of British bombing planes heavily bombed the German gun emplace- ments while the British big guns continued their cannonade. Houses on the British side of the channel shook from the force of the ex- piosions.
 Then British planes early this morning made second punishing attack on the gun emplacements and other targets along the invasion coast.
 German guns in the Cape Griz Neg area continued firing despite the blasts from the planes, and German
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
Leipzig, Nienburg=On=the- SaaIe Among Those
 Attacked QUEEN WILHELMIN
 IS AIDING BRITISH Nazis Concentrating Eng fish Attacks on London, Liverpool, Manchester
BY FREDERICK c. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent,

BY FREDERICK c. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent,
 Berlin, October 12. =. (UP) British planes bombed II Dutch coastal towns and Leipzig, Nienburg- on-the-Saale and other cities in Germany during the night, Nazi informants said today. Seven persons were killed and 13 wounded in the Neth- erlandS attacks, NaziS said, and in Germany, the British planes dropped bombs on residential sec tion in one city before they were driven off by anti-aircraft gun fire.
 It was belatedly announced that in raids the previous night the Brit ish had bombed Essen, Dusseldorf, Cologne and other cities in addi- tion to Hamburg.
 New Type Bombs
 The Official News Agency said that the British planes dropped 8 new type of incendiary slab or disc six times as big as those they had used previously. The earlier ones were about the size of the palm of B mans hand.
 Commenting on the British raid on the Netherlands, Nazi spokes- man said that Queen Wilhelmina, 8 refugee in England, was putting large sums of money at the disposal of the Royal Air Force.
 Royal Air Force losses must have been most disastrous if they have to seek loans from refugees, and Dutchmen will hardly be delighted to be bombed by planes built with their own tax funds" eSaid.
 A NaI informant said that since early morning German planes had been flying over south and central England and the south and west coasts, observing the effects of an all night bombing and watching ship movements.
 The nights raids, the informant said, were concentrated on London, Liverpool and Manchester, and har- borS, railroads and factories were att tackled. Conveys were surprised at sea also, the spokesman said.
 The official news agency said that 3.e50 British planes had been de- stroyed during July, August, Sep tember and the first 12 days of Oc- tober, according to precise analy- sis by the best informed sources"
 The informant put British losses at 2,900 fighter planes and 1,050 heavy and light bombing planes, worth in all $464,00,000.
 Nazis asserted that German planes had dropped 444, 400 pounds of bombs on London during the night and 26,400 pounds yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
AMERICANS IN
 JAPAN LEAVING
Premier KOnoye Calls on All Japs to Work
 Together
By H. O. THOMPSON United Press Stan COrrespondent)

United Press Stan COrreSpOnuentD
 Tokyo, Oct. 12-CUP)-Wives and children of Americans in Japan be- gan leaving the country today as Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the pre- mier, called on all Japanese to work together in what he called a great turning point in the nations 2,600 years of history.
 The first Americans to follow the advice of the state department to get out of the Far East. sailed from Yokohama in the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia.
 Others sought vainly to get &C., commodations in the liner which was booked to capacity.
 Prince Konoye, addressing the in- augural meeting of the National Service association which the gov- ernment instituted to carry out es- tablishment of the new political structure" said that Japan was now facing great turning point in which the situation was of ser- iousness equal to that of the restor- ation of power to the emperorS in the last century-the start of mod- ern Japan.
 Because of that, he said, the CO., operation of the entire nation was necessary.
 It was the purpose of the new national structure, he said. to estab- fish . greater East Asia and new order through the promotion of friendly relations with neighboring states and the placing of the entire nation on a basis of complete serv- ice to the state by discarding "the old liberalism"
 Asserting that the outcome of the present movement would decide the nations fate, Prince Konoye said:
 The movement is confronted by many obstacles. Whatever tempest may lie ahead, our ship of state must be steered clear of the storm to reach its destination.
 The platform of the present movement, he said, could be em- bodied in a few words: Observance
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
DEFENSE NEEDS
 OF U. 5. FIRST
Nation to Acquisition War Materials Ordered By
 Foreign Nations

Washington, Oct 12-OUP)-The United States today placed its own defense needs above those of other neutrals and prepared to requisition millions of dollars worth of planes, manufactured for other nations.
 Approximately 800 bombers and pursuit planes completed and ready for shipment to Sweden probably will be the first to revert to Amer ican ownership. Their shipment has been held up for some time under the export licensing system inaug- urated in July.
 Now, under the new law signed by President Roosevelt on Thurs day, the government plans to take them over with compensation to the manufacturer who in turn will pay back Sweden. The planes were ordered from Republic Aviation Corp. and Vultee Aircraft Corp. in the spring of l99, More than 300 were contracted, almost all are built; comparatively few were de- layed.
 Operation of the new law III con" junction with or separate from the export licensing system has numer- otis diplomatic implications.
 A case in point was the halting In Manila Of 10 American planes consianed to Thailand (slam) which Is making persistent demands for territorial concessions In French fndo- China. 10 was indicated that the 10 planes would receive the same treatment accorded the ewed. lsh orders.
 More important Htlll. Soviet Russ aIa has an order and manufactured Of thousands of dollars in American machinery and machine
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
Nazi Information Says
 New T ype Of Bomb Is Being Used By Raiders
First Hunting
 Death In Conn.

Stafford Springs, Conn.,, Oct. 12.-UP)-An unusual hunt ing accident was blamed today for the death of Joseph Met sack, 28, Staffordville.
 Metsack wounded an eight point buck which, in its dying rage, charged him. Unable to shoulder his rife for another shot, Metsack clubbed the deer with the butt of the gun. The force of the blow caused the rifle to discharge and the bull let pierced his heart. The bodies of Metsack and the deer lying six feet apart, were found by friend last night in a woods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
BRITISH, NAzI
 PLANES BATTLE
Four Daylight Alarms in London; Germans Come
 in Over Kentish Coast
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent


 London. Oct. 12 = U.P) = Brit ish and German planes fought sav- agely over southeastern England to- day. German bombing formations, thrusting over the Kentish coast again, and again, caused four day light afraid alarms in London within a few hours
 One plane, believed to be a Ger man bomber was shot to pieces miles in the air over the country side and bits of its scattered over big area.
 Londonerss could see planes high over head, and the London defense guns blazed at them furiously.
 Bombs crashed into London dis tricts during the second raid. A passenger filled bus had been thrown through a shop window by bomb which struck it's during the night raiding.
 No German planes were seen dur ing the first. daylight attack, and it was evident that anti-aircraft guns and fighter planes had turned back the raiders as they came up the Thames.
 In the second raid, bombs smash ed down in one outer London dis trict as anti-aircraft guns blazed. Several homes were wrecked by bombs which fell in gardens, but casualties were light.
 Thirty-f1ve London districts and 12 provincial areas were bombed during the night but the two night raids were unusually light and the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
GAS EXPLODED,
 LITTLE DAMAGE

Boston, Oct l2-(UP)-Illuminat- ing gas escaping from Q gas main exploded in Boston navy yard early today, but caused no damage.
 Navy yard officials said no one was in the vicinity of the building i4e in front oi which the blast oc- cured. They believed the fumes might have been ign!ted by c ian- tern.
 Bremen were called when yard fire-fighters had difficulty in ex- tingulahlng the blazing gas escaping from the main, but tho flames diod when the supply was cut off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
LEAVE BEFORE
 ITS TOO LATE
Britons in Rumania Get Urgent Warnings From
 Legation
BY HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent

kODIGeu FEcSS OtdH OOTEcSpOHuCuLJ
 Bucharest, Rumania, Oct. 12 = (UP)- The British legation today urgently advised all Britons. includ- ing newspaper men, to get out Of the country before it is too late". More than 100 German-type air. planes, including the heaviest type of Heinkel bombers and Messerschmitt fighters. were in the air over Bucharest this morn- ing. Rumanian colors were painted on them. They went south. It was believed merely a repetition of yes terday's aerial display which off, ials said had been put on exclusive ly by Rumanian planes.
 Officers Arriving
 German army staff officers were arriving in Bucharest in their regu- lation, dull gray cars. They appar- ently were coming directly from Germany Eight of the staff cars were lined up in front of the Palace hotel. The officers were attended by steel-helmeted aides.
 The United Press was informed by the highest sources that British Rumanian relations were almost certain to be broken. The British legation was understood to have told Britons that starting some time to- day, most roads would go under the control of military elements. pre- sumabiy German troops
 Come By Train
 It was reported that German troops were arriving in Bucharest by train this afternoon. It had been reported that German troop train was due at Chitila, six miles from Bucharest this morning, but com- munications were disrupted by the military situation and it was not learned whether they had arrived.
 The flow of German troops into the Balkans was partially obscured by a new crisis between Rumania and Hungary over the Transylvan- ian situation, and by disturbing re- ports from every Balkan country
 Flare-Up Expected
 Diplomatic quarters openly dis cuSsed tie likelihood of Balkan hare-up within week, probably centering around Jugoslavia and Greece. Jugoslav circles here were nervous over reports that Jugoslavia was mobilizing more troops with the apparent intention of aiding Greece if she were attacked by Italy
 The flow of German military equipment to Rumania was said now to include 300 airplaneS, which were stationed at ategic points throughout the country.
 British quarters here reported large concentrations of Bulgarian troops on the Turkish border and the arrival of German airplanes in Bulgaria.
 (Sofia dispatches denied that Bulgaria had strengthened its bor- der with Turkey since 1938).
 March Through Hungary
 (At Budapect, Hungary, there were reports, attributed to London, that German troops were marching through Hungary. nsible Hungarian quarters refused to con- firm or deny that Hungary had thrown open her frontier to Ger man troops but a spokesman ad- mitted that if any more German troops wanted to cross hungary to reach Rumania, some formula prob ably would be found to explain them
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
WAR IN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 OCT. i2, 1889
(By United pFeasD

lBy United FreasD , Adolf Hitler sent cut "fesleFs" TegaTding . peace conference, BFilaln, through Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, save 90 haDe ef sueh . conference.
 German de luAe liner Bremen rovnalod ns safe nt hiuFmanek, nuasla, after running tbe Brit iab hloeks4a from hew xeFk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
% BANK ACCOUNTS

Salem. Mas, tset. i2--tUp)-An inventor y0f tho estate of Horace cloon, Marblehead hardware dealer on ille ln probate court today showed he left deposits tolallng oa2b.0oo ln O9 bank aaeounla, Clam dled AnFil q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-12
RECORD ENDS

New Haven, conn, Oct. i2-fuP)
 New Ravens b7.day automobile fatalitysfTee record was brokn tos day with the death Of 7l year old Thomas DrnekeD, IIe was killed last nlght while crossing 6 central thasouahiare,