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Evening star., 1941-04-15
.Ex-V. N. !. Athlete
Accused Of Murder
On Norfolk Steamer
Raymond Reutt Charged
Following Disappearance
Of Harry B. Murphy

Raymond F. Reutt, "a, of Norfolk
va, former football and wrestling
star at Virginia Military Institute
today was held in Norfolk on q
charge of murder growing out of the
disappearance of Harry B. Murphy
At, of 1416 Holbrook street NE, first
mate on the Norfolk and Washing
ton steamer Northland, who was
lost overheard on trip down the
Potomac Sunday night.
Mr.. Ruett's bond was set at $2,50(
which he furnished shortly after
his arrest yesterday, climaxing day
of police investigation into the events
aboard the Northland as she sailec
down the river from Washington
The trip was interrupted for two
hours while the crew made a vair
search for Mr.. Murphy.
A hearing will be held tomorrow
at 9 am. before Justice Clyde H
Jacob, in Norfolk Police Court, tht
Associated Press reported. It is ex.
pected authorities from Charles
County. Md. will attend the hearing
since the affair occurred about &
mile south Of Matthias light, or abou
3 miles upstream from the Morgan.
town Bridge. In the legal jurisdiction
of Charles County.
Mr.. Reutt is charged specificall,
with knocking First Ofhcer Murph!
overheard from the Northland's tor
deck, while both the mate and Capt
T. j.. Hewitt, master of the ship
assertedly sought to persuade him t.
return to his room.
Tells of ScufIIe.
According to Capt. Hewitt's state.
ment to the Norfolk police, he wa
informed by the salon watchmaY
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Dr.. Doherty Joins
Planning Boord

DIR. Robert e. Doherty, president
of the Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology, was named chairman OF the
Production Planning Board of the
Once of Production Management
today.
He will replace Samuel r. Fuller,
jr., board chairman since its es-
tablishment on February 20. Mr.
Fuller recently resigned to become
chief Of the materials branch Of
the o. p. M.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Dr.. Ware to Speak

DR.. Caroline Ware, assistant 10
the consumer commissioner of the
Advisory Commission for the Coun-
ell of National Defense, win speak
on the high cost of living at 8 pm.
tomorrow in the Home Economics
Building at the University of Mary
land. The talk Is sponsored BY the
Consumers Study Group Of tho
American Association OF, University
Women. College Park branch.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Commissioners Oppose
Pan-American Annex Plan

Formal opposition to the plan to
rearrange Virginia avenue NV. to
permit construction of an annex TO
the Pan-American Union so the
building would not block the view
between Constitution avenue and
the Interior Department Building
was registered today by the Commits
sioners in letters to Congress.
The Commissioners wrote TO
Chairman Maloney and Chairman
Lanham of the Senate and House
Committees on Public Buildings and
Grounds that the proposed legisla-
ton would have an adverse effect on
traffic.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Arlington Cantonment
Troops Beat Invader
Back Into River
18th Intontry Bottolion
RepuIses Enemy in
Woodland Fighting
By JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

EDGEWOOD ARSENAL. Md,
April 15.-A large enemy" landing
force in the wooded section along
Chesapeake Bay, north of Baltimore,
was beaten back yesterday by mo-
torized columns of American in
fantry from the Arlington (Va0
Cantonment.
Warning of the enemy" attack
came when submarines were sighted
in the lower bay Sunday night.
More than 400 men of the 18th In
fantry, stationed at the Virginia post,
rushed to the scene of the landing
with 37-millimeter guns, heavy and
light machine guns and rifles, the
oretically pushed enemy into the bay
The tactical problem was planned
by Mai. John D. Grinstead and was
carried out by the Sd Battalion, 18th
Infantry, commanded by Maj. S. T.
Sutton.
The convoy left the cantonment at
S IN. yesterday and made almost
record convoy time to the arsenal,
about Is miles north of Baltimore,
where the maneuver took place Ap-
proximately 40 trucks were in the
line.
Enemy" Lands on Peninsula.
Troops were told the enemy" had
already landed some men on Wilson
Point-a peninsula surrounded on
three sides by the Bush River and
Chesapeake Bay. Eleven floats, rep
resenting a troopship and 10 assault
boats, were anchored off the point
for the target practice portion of the
maneuver.
Company commanders led their
men on foot up Ricketts, Point road,
bisecting the peninsula, where they
deployed into defense positions in
line with Wilson Point road, perpen-
dicular to Ricketts, road.
The terrain, fairly difficult for
motor transport, was studded with
targets of different shapes, including
'bobup' and moving objectives.
JUDGES studied the speed with
which gun crews for their .37-milli-
meter weapons into action. Tactical
observers also noted distribution of
fire power, accuracy and range of
oattle ground covered by the bar
RACES.
The 100-yard front given the 18th
Infantrymen to defend the wooded
to the waters edge. The Americans
were deployed at the land-end of
an 800-yard stretch of open ground
over which the enemy" had to pass
to gain the road to Baltimore.
Officers Watch in Towers.
At given signals-while officers
watched from 70-foot towers-the
"bobups" and movable targets went
into action and the troops opened
fire with theoretical deadly effect.
Some gun crews did not move up
to firing position as fast as might
be desired, observers said, for which
reason the American casualties were
adjudged small. Others showed sur
prisine speed and accuracy, knocked
out their targets or assault boats
almost Immediately.
Lieut.. ]. Logan Schultz. public re-
laticns officer for Col. o. H. Saun-
ders' 18th Infantry Regiment, ex-
planned the problem was part of the
cantonment's April training.
Observing officers, after studying
troop movements of Americans and
enemy" decided the invaders had
been repulsed with heavy losses Of
men and assault boats.
For economy reasons the .37s were
fitted with 30-caliber bores and
tracer bullets ricocheted into ad-
joining woods and started fire.
Volunteer troops put out the fire In
short order.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Three Convicts Escape

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April Is Cp).
Police of Maryland and nearby
States were on the lookout today
for three men who escaped from the
State penal farm at Roxbury.
Prison officials said one of the men
was serving time for robbery, an
other for burglary and the third for
assault to rob.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Toll In Previous Months.

In April Beware OF:
Stepping out between parked
cars to cross a street at point
other than a crosswalk. 1t was
this action, at pm. of rainy
day. that led to the death OF the
35-year-old pedestrian who was
the Districts only traffic victim
in April, 1910
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Bond Concert

BY the Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra in the Marine Barracks
auditorium tomorrow at 8:15 pm.
Capt. William F. Santelmann, con-
ductor.
Program.
Overture, "Euryanthe" Weber
"On the Trail from Grand Canyon
Suite" Grofe
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Selections from "The King Steps
Out" Kreisler
Poem" for flute and orchestra,
Critics
Musician Merritt Langdon, soloist.
Suite No. 2. Peer Gynt" Grieg
Valse de concert. Danube Waves"
Ivanovici
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13"-Liszt
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1941-04-15

by the parent or guardian OF any
person or agency responsible for the
care of such children" $40
The proposed legislation, the
Commissioners pointed out. will not
increase the local budget.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Peace. Without Victory

There was point during the first World War when Woodrow Wilson ad- vanced the suggestion that the best out come of that war would be peace with out victory" Only little more than two months before he came to the American Congress asking declaration of war on Germany, he came to the Senate to propose peace. Since 1t has been proposed by several sources, most recently by John Cudahy, former U. s. diplomat, that the United States ought to take the lead in making some kind of peace proposal, let's review the Wilson proposal.
 Wilson argued that no worthwhile peace could be arranged without the United States and other American nations talk ing part First of all," he went on, it must be a peace without victory. . Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished Only peace between equals can last. :" After this prophetic warning, Wilson then enviSioned his peace. An international organization to create and jointly administer peace. Dis armament. Territorial adjustment based on national needs and rights. Freedom of the seas. Equal rights for all nations, small ana weak, great ana strong. NelCner side seriously considered Wilson's pro- posals.
 Would such proposals, made now, have any influence in Europe? Is either side in any mood to listen to them? Could the peoples to whom they might be ad- dressed be reached at all? Would Ger man government which has won an un- interrupted string of victories for two years be inclined to listen to any terms which implied giving freedom back to peoples from whom they have stolen it, and whom they have declared unworthy to possess it? Could terms be devised which would make the British peoples eel secure, or any peoples in the world .eel secure, as long as so terrible a military 'orce as that developed by the NaziS re- mains?
 And, most important of all, does either tide want peace badly enough to make sacrifices to get it? Would either side be willing to embrace a formula of peace without victory? The obstacles which baked Wilson's proposal in 1917 are doubled and redoubled today. Yet if some leader were able to put before the peoples of the world project for work able peace, who knows what response he might arouse?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
A Thought for Today
Priority Rights

Latest dispatches indicate that steel needed for construction of the new high way bridges over the Connecticut and Thames rivers will not be held up as was indicated a week or so ago. They are classed as vital to defense manufacturing in Connecticut and New England and as a result will have steel priority rights. There should be no distinction between these projects then and Waterbury's pipeline and reservoir. They are vital to defense manufacturing right here in Waterbury and any anticipated delay i'll securing materials should be taken care of now.
 Mayor Scully is taking the right step in demanding priority rights for the proj- ect now under way - the pipeline -.and the reservoir which may get started this fall or early winter. According to all reports in engineering circles laying of the pipeline will amaze the average lay man by the rapidity with which the trench is laid, the pipe placed, and the opening then filled in. All this, too, at no sacrifice in efficiency. But if the neces- contractor nothing can be accomplished. contractor nohting can be accomplished.
 Of course many manufacturers and many municipalities are demanding prl- ority rights It's necessary for govern ment officials to pass careful Judgment on all the claims. Perhaps the local one is no better than many other But it is certainly just as good a one. The city and all it's citizens regard completion of it's water system as most urgent and nec essary to both peace of mind of all of us and the future development of the com munity and the district in which Water bury is the main community.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
In Today's Mail

Ia community'S high humanitarian privilege that there should be a willingness to cooperate with the State Hospital in every possible way. It is most assuredly the wish of every progressive psychiatric admin istrator that the hospital service should be witness to the commun- ity of the newer forces dominating pSychiatry through early release of approved cases. Hospital wards are overcrowded = unnecessarily overcrowded one way to help the mentally i'll back to health and at the same time reduce the cost of maintaining these expensive in- stitutions, is through family care.
 There are many cases where patients could be released to their relatives but these relatives are un- able to bear the financial burden of their maintenance. This is where the family care system comes in In every community worthy of the name are one or more families to whom patients may be paroled. In every State Hospital are patients carried fin residence" merely be- cause of the unwillingness of rela- tives or frineds to sign the neces- cary papers for their release with the result that the "saIie insane" are still with us in large numbers. Many hospitalized men and women have valuable assets which may be developed in the community and too often retarded in the institu- ton.
 EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD, Everett, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

ister no doubt considered long and thor oughly the after-effects of their pro nouncementS It may be part of gen. eral plan to which they have agreed. But for the self-respect of the American nation, let's hope that we aren'e being sold short as we certainly were twenty three years ago. The United States emerged from the last World War with some sort of a notion that it had proved of vast and incalculable assistance to the allies in putting down the threat of Ger many.
 Later events showed that all our ef- forts and all our money and all our ship mentS were considered an American con- tribution towards crusade which was, in the light of preSnt-day events, practically total failure. Those events translated as they have been by world happenings of the last twenty years make a lot of us today Scarey and fidgety. We remain suspicious even when we sympathize with the plight and lot of various European nations We want to help, to cast our lot with the under-dog, but we don't want to be taken in twice by the same world predicament.
 Here in the United States most people don't want to see the world recarved so that we can have new and tender DOT tions We have no pretensions towards territorial expansion We would like to live in peace with our neighbors and do business with them on an equal basis. If by our participation in international af- fairs this typically American attitude can be communicated far and wide we will be glad to have our President hobnob with Englands rulers or those of any other nation who can bring a peaceable end to this too-general holocaust.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

Officials of Derby, Ansonia, Shelton, and Seymour have received letters of complaint from Representative Alton s. Degnan of Derby about the condition of the Housatonic River on weekends That may seem little odd to those not in the know, but it develops that on Saturdays and Sundays there is no overflow on the Stevenson Dam. The overflow is shut off by the Connecticut Light and Power Con- pany which controls the water rights for power development. As a result of the shut-off, so Representative Degnan claims, the river from the dam down to it's junction with the Naugatuck becomes sluggish and unhealthy for recreational purposes He wants the town officials to join him in joint protest and to get Governor Robert A. Hurley and other state officials to put bit of pressure on the power company to keep sufficient flow of water from Stevenson Dam at all times. Health statutes could probably be invoked if there was anything to back up the claims from down the valley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
More Jobs Than Ever

Right at the time when everybody is worried about men being laid off in small plants producing non-defense items, comes word that more men are holding jibs today than ever before Elm ployment reached it's highest peak in history in June, the National Industrial Conference Board estimating that 53,- 100000 held jobs. If that estimate is cor rect, it is 5,000,000 above the average for 1929, the year hitherto set up as the summit. of good times.
 All our former records of production are being shattered. It's bigger coun- try than ever before, and the records of the past mean little or nothing They must all be broken again and again. It's bigger country in every way. Our job is to make it also better country in every way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Current Comment

 We have to explain our institu- tions to our people so that there Is a pride in American life and thought.
 -Rev. John Walter Houck, Bronx, New York.
 e It twill be a battle of manpower in the end.
 General Wavell, new British commander in India. We can have the necessities of life and all-out defense, too. But we cannot have the luxurles of life and all-out defense, too.
 Robert E. Mcconnell, chief of conservation section, OPM.
  No major war really has on eco- nonlc cause.
 --Leonard ". Cronkhlts, World Peace Foundation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Don't Carve Up the World

Churchill announcement to the world that they had made disposition of Nazi- ism after It's defeat may be entirely lost on Herr Hitler. Judging by his past actions 1t will probably stir him to a frenzy that will be expressed In terms that only he and his legions know today --destruction of countryside, enslave- ment of a race. The effect on the Ameri- can and English peoples should be, of course, good, but In our own instance we almost feel like telling ali the soldiers to come home, the wars over.
 The President and English Prime Min
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

This sounds almost like a campaign promise, but Mayor John w. Murphy of New Haven says there is chance of slight reduction in the Elm City'S tax rate for the next year. He is in favor of it, even if it's only very small fractional one Most candidates for the mayoralty are in favor of tax reductions, particu- larly in the large cities where tax rates are all-inclusive and usually fairly high. Down in New Haven the rate is $28.5O per thousand which is a few mills lower than the existing one at Waterbury. It now remains to be seen what the COP mayor alty candidate will say about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
MORE. COMMUNITY INTEREST IN CARE OF MENTALLY
 ILL URGED

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 In our modern care of the men, tally i'll we must constantly draw attention to the need of a greater community interest in the State Hospitals. Dr. Leonard Gold of the Willard State Hospital Willard, New York, in an article published in Mental Hygiene News" of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, writes:
 Tn the course of carrying out a program of treatment for its patients, the mental hospital dis covers that in many of its cases, there arises the necessity of assist ance from the community and its agencies. If the therapeutic program of the State Hospital is to be utilized to its utmost, at certain point in the progress of patient, the need appears for some agency in the community to continue the rehabil- itation along the lines begun in the hospital"
 Waterbury and other Connecticut cities have done much to cooperate with the State Hospitals and in this part of the country such valuable organizations as the Waterbury Branch of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene are doing much to assist in the rehabilitation of the ill in mind, both by supervising cases released from the mental in- stitutions and in the important work of preventing mental illness through mental hygiene clinics. The community can assist by approved families being willing to take into their homes mental hos- pital patients well enough to be sboarded out" Family care of the mentally i'll is an important step in the care of the metrtally Ill and certainly means less overcrowding of the hospital wards ard less of an expense to the State. It should be utilized on. a more. extensive scale. Every community should get in touch with the nearest State Hospital and give 0 list of Quali- fled families agreeable to boarding mental patients. Tn the larger cities like Waterbury placements could be arranged through the Society for Mental Hygiene or Clinic.
 It is most assuredly Q step forward ili the care of the mentally ili to remove them from the hospital en- vironment at the earliest possible moment And it b most Assuredly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Daily Almanac

Moon rises i2:s4 a. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 6:02 a. m.; sets 7:51 p. m. day light tlme).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 High tide at Milford Saturday, Aug. i0. SIS .. m. low tide, i2:30 D. m. (daylight
 This cold snap VIC haven't been enjoying hmel.
 viii more or less ruin late summer prospects Despite the warm days we'll stiil get, the general tone og summer will be pitched lower down the thermometer from now on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

something else again. Instead of steamrolling the boys into an. in- surrection, the plot boomeranged. In the end Joe Martin was given rouSing vote Or confidence by all but Fish and his little group.
 Next day Fish got another set- back when his resolution for a new Republican statement of foreign policy was presented to the COP caucus by Crowther sof New York. Tn reply, Rep. James Wadsworth of New York, senior statesman of the party, demand ed that all personal references to Roosevelt be stricken out of the resolutions text.
 "The charge thatt he Presi- dent is f0menting war by pro- v0cative statements is unfair and untrue" Wadsw0rth de- clared. .1t would be mfortun- ate if the Republican Party should go on record with such prejudiced and unfounded declaration against the leader of our country at critical time like this."
 Representative Bertrand Gear hart of California, Leonard Hall of New York and others joined in attacking Fish's resolution. Gear hart stated that the party should not Ego out on a limb with dy- mamie declarations about unfore- seen events"
 By an overwhelming vote all of the blasts were eliminated from the Fish resolution.
 NOTE = Martin, who presided at the caucus, maintained silence until someone suggested that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

That new pavement surfacing tried out on Freight, and Robbins Streets seems to be pretty good. Of course for some time it'll be necessary to do some sweep ing of the crushed stone back into the center of the streets, but even State High way maintenance crews have to do this where they have adopted this type of surfacing. It's reputed to be cheaper, because it will outlast the other types and stand more wear and tear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Press Comment
SAFETY FACTOR
Boston post)

(Boston post)
 On of the best of the rules for automobilists on the Merritt Park way, Connecticut. daily tTaversed by hundreds of Massachusetts drivers might wedd be adopted by the state Highway Department of this Stats for the guidance of motorists on certain of OUT trunk highways. Signs direct drivers who have to repair their machines, as for instance, changing tires. to turn tho cars off the road onto the grass plots as the side. Any stopping of tho vehicles on the pavement is thus forbldAen, with Q great reduction in the chance of accidents from Tear-end collisions by day and night. similar re8ula- tons might wei he made for the Worcester Turnpike, the Concord Highway and other improved main highways in thia state where thore are grass plots at the y0adalde. Whatever harm might he done to the iaudEeaping ig more than made up ba the Maea safsly taGtgSs