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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

The Daily Mail allegations were indicative of the increasing public alarm over Great Britain's position in the middle east and the Mediter- ranean generally.
 Papers Want to Know
 Some newspapers began to demand that the goverenment explain how Germany managed to ship across the sicilian Straits Q force big enough to push the British army back 300 miles in 10 days and to I.threaten Alexandria and the, sue2 Canal MT '" v w %
 Military commentator emphasized the increasing danger of German airplane bornbings of Alexandria and the Sieg Canal.
 Radio reports from Turkey were that Sir Archibald Wavell, the Brit ish commander in chief. had ordered the withdrawal of all British Em- pire forces to Marsa Matrrh, l20 miles inside the Egyptian frontier, without defending Sidi Barrani.
 The Daily Mail suggested that the German armored divisions sailed from Sicily to the French Tunisian Coast and then kept in French ter- ritorial waters to Tripoli, Libya, with the conivance of the vichy govern- ineiat.
 Darlan Is Blamed
 Blaming Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, vice premier of France, for the alleged connivance, the Daily Mail said:
 We cannot afford to ignore any threat from the pro.Nazi intrigues of this would-be dictator of unoccu- pied France. Neither can we afford to handle him with kid gloves"
 The Daily Mail cited reports that Darlan was permitting Germans to infiltrate not only into French North Africa but Into Syria in the guise of tourists.
 Events in Syria and 1raq display all the symptoms of the German process of disintegration from with in before aggression from without" the newspaper said.
 It expressed belief that Hitler
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DIVORCES
 GIVEN IN STATE
That Was Sum Total of Separations Granted for
 Year of 194O

Hartford. Conn, April l5. - (UP) - Desertion and cruelty were the principal grounds for the 1887 di- vorces granted in Connecticut dur ing 194O, the State Health Depart ment reported today.
 Decrees were awarded for deser- tion in 80l cases, and for intolerable cruelty in TOT cases. There were also six annulments. Fairfield county led in the number of divorces with 587; Hartford County AT; New Haven County 38S; New London County 123: Windham County 43; Litchfield County 80; Middlesex County 46, and Holland County lS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

Among these IS @ deflnite Word- ing for the pension bill for Mary E. Luddy, mother of the late Pa- trolman Edward Luddy, which was introduced in duplicate form, but with a confusion in the names. Senator Sullivan has indicated that no pension bill will be reported out until the wording of the measure has been cleared up.
 Early action on the charter bill and the one granting a pension to Mrs. Kathryn Lynch, widow of the lote Fire Chief Thomas Lynch, was elso indicated at the Capitol today, although House Republicans on the Cities and Boroughs commit tee said they didn't see how either one could be reported out now much before next week.
 Lynch Substitute Bill
 Tho Democrat learned that the Houss Committee is prepared to re- port olt a substitute pension bill for Mrs. Lynch granting her at least $500 a year and retroactive to 1887.
 ono ranking COP member sof, ,... the committee told The Democrat that he could understand the position that Mayor Vincent Scully and other officials Of Waterbury had adopted with regard to: this pension, and that 1t was committee policy to respect such 8 stand and not go contrary to 1t and thus force @ pre- cedent on Q municipality. But. he added, the city has itself adopted a contrary attitude In having a bill raised setting up ft$ pension rights for Private Harold Parker of the Waterbury Fire Department. He said he expected that the committee would compromise on the Lynch pension bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Stimson Says Army, Navy Must Be Ready to
 Fight Anywhere
IN GREATER DANGER
 THAN WORLD WAN
Knox Urged Settlement of Strikes By Mediation
 But Not COmpulsiOn
BY LOUIS J. SCHAEFLE United Press staff Correspondent)

BY LOUIS J. SCHAEFLE United Press staff Correspondent)
 Washington, April 15. - Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that the Army and Navy must be pre- pared to fight in any part of North, South or Central America, "or even possibly other regions" where it may be necessary to use them in defense of this country and its possessions.
 Stimson spoke at the opening meeting of the special Senate con- mittee's investigation of the defense program. He did not elaborate on "other regions" but committee members were expected to- question him about that when he completed his prepared statement.
 His reference to the necessity Of training forces "for the possibilities of war in many and varied terrains," followed a warning that the United States faces an infinitely greater danger than 1t did during World War days. However, he said, there were many encouraging factors in the defense situation, because of the intelligent advance planning of the War Department in collabora. tion with industry.
 Preparing Since 1883
 Stimson pointed out that Ger-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Four Men Were Killed In New Mine Violence
Seven Wounded in Battle Between Union Non-Union Soft Coal Workers in Kentucky-Many
 Strikes Being Settled
(By United Press)

Four men were Killed today in a new outburst of violence growing out of the soft coal mine work stoppage.
 Authorities reported that two mine officials, deputy sheriff and @ miner were killed in 8 gun battle along the Kentucky Tennessee bor- der south of Middlesboro, Ky, when CIO-United Mino Workers attempted to organize laborers at the Fork Ridge, Tenh., mine which had been operating while most of the mines in 12 states were idle.
 The Fork Ridge mine was not uil- der union contract, Kentucky ofii- cers said.
 Today's fighting brought to nine the number of men killed in mine strife while coal operators and miners union heads negotiated a new wage contract at New York. Five were killed in Harlan county rioting April l and 2.
 The violence came while negoti- ators, prompted by new signs of government interest, were speeding efforts to open the mines.
 Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins told a contract meeting of northern coal operators and the United Mine Workers that the gov ernment wants the mines reopened to avoid fuel shortage which would hamper the rearmament pro- gram.
 Only Few Mines Open
 All but a handful of mines in F states were idle as 100000 miners waited results of meetings at New York on their demands for a $1-a- day wage increase and paid vaca- tions and some Pittsburgh coke ovens had shut down, lacking fuel Most major industrial areas, how ever, reported sufficient coal for al least a month.
 The defense mediation board meanwhile was decreasing the strikes at plants holding defense contracts. The board announced settlement of walkouts at two of 14 plants now strike-bound.
 The agreements negotiated by the board in walkouts at the Sno- oualmie Falls, Wash, Lumber Go. and the Phelps Dodge Copper Prod ucts Corp, Bayway, N. J.. were submitted to union memberships for ratification.
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Gangsters Supplied Guns Convicts Fired
Two of Them Arrested-TwO Were Arraigned Today; They Confessed to Plot-Gave Details of
 Shipping in Pistols

Ossining. N. Y, April l5-(UP)- Two outside helpers" in the Sing Sing prison break that cost the lives of & guard, policeman and Q convict were charged with mur- der today and faced the electric chair with two recaptured convicts.
 Approaching @ solution of the bloodiest break in Sing Sings 116- year history, police learned that the automatic pistols used by the three convicts who shot their way out of the walled prison early yes- terday after nine months of careful plotting, had been smuggled in tied to the rear axle of milk truck without the drivers knowledge, on March 9. t
 Arraigned Today
 William Wade, 32, and Edward Kiernan, 33. New York gangsters. the "outside helpers" were ar- raigned before Police Judge Vincent Fuller early today on two murder charges each. They admitted hav- ing made up the package of three auCOmaClc pLSJolSs aiLliiuiiitlOn anu three sets of handcuffs used in the break, and having tied 1t to the milk truck when 1t was parked in New burgh, N. Y. They had trailed the truck on three Saturdays to observe the drivers habits. They also had stolen an automobile, put a sub machine gun in it and parked 1t at the railway station here for the fugitives to use in their escape. The planting of the automobile was the one detail in the whole elaborate scheme that went wrong. After one fugitive had been slain in 8 battle with policemen in the street, the other two ran to the. Hudson river dock at the foot of Main
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
CONVOY DEFENSE
 IS DISCUSSED
Would Develop By U. s. Extension of Protection
 to Greenland
BY LYLE c. WILSON Emitted Press Staff COrresuOndent

United Press StaH COrreSpOn0enC)
 Washington, April IS - (U.P) - An informal convoy arrangement to protect American munitions en route to Great Britain was suggest ed today by a highly placed national defense official.
 It would develop from the exten- sion of United States protection to Greenland. It was indicated, how ever, that American surface and air. craft would function as patrol ra- ther than as active convoy units. They would extend western heini- sphere defense lines east of Green land, almost touching the combat zone delimited by Germany.
 Actual United States participation in conveys still is judged here to be a matter for future decision, some thing the administration emphati- cally insists it is anxious to avoid. Not extension of American pro- lection to Greenland, the opening of the Red Sea to American mer- chant ships and seizure of Danish and Axis vessels appear to be de- velopments in United States policy which in some degree challenge the Axis effort to blockade the British at home and in the Balkans and Africa.
 Still A Secret
 How soon the Greenland patrol and the garrisoning of United States armed forces on that island can be translated from paper agreement, remained an administration secret. But there were persuasive reports here that little progress toward es- tablishing American military bases on the Island had been made when tn eagreement was announced last week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
SCHOOL
 PROJECT NEAR
Committee Expects to Make Favorable Report
 on Bill for School
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK aa..

BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Reporter) State Capitol, Hartford, April l5--- Waterbury's State Trade School was a step nearer reality today as Sem ator Joseph B. Downes. chairman of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee, announced that his committee expected to bring out a favorable re- port On the cityy bilf requesting the state to set up a $500,000 appropria- ton for such an institution.
 The committee will also probably report out favorably similar bill calling for an appropriation for Q trade school in Norwich.
 Passage of such an appropriation bill is the only step necessary now to insure the beginning of work on the actual school itself. The bill al- lowing the City of Waterbury to is- sue $l00,000 in trade school bonds is already law, having been duly passed and signed by the governor. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 15 (UP)-Gov- crnment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through April 12th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Lnst Year $9,S3S, ,47S, S67.01 $7,506,2S0, 762.3S
 Receipts
 $5.54O,6S0,152.62 $4569, ,el44o
 Gross Deficit $3,797,79S,714.s9 $2.2S6,696,547.
 Net Deficit s,752,71s,9s4,sS $2,s62, JOS, ,9s7.Ss s2,275,1s2,4ss.SI S2,ss2.ss9, ,Ss7.9s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
COLLEGE PROFESSOR DIES

New Haven, Conn, April IS - CU. p - Dr. Mary A. Jordan, 85, pro- lessor emeritus of English at Smith College, died late yesterday after Q long illness.
 Dr. Jordan was librarian at Vas sar before joining the smith fac- ulty in 1884. she retired in lo2ls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
WAR TN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 APRIL IS, 194O
By United Press

By United Press
 Britain announced arrival oT forces on Norwegian coast to fight German invaders.
 The German high command ad- mitted ''strong units" of the Brit ish navy had bl0ckaded the en- trance to Narvik harbOr.
 Ingolf Elser Christensen. for mer governor of Oslo province, replaced Major Vidkun Quisiing as Norwegian premier.
 President Albert Lebrun, in ' message to King Haakon, declared lhat France. In full accord with ihe Allies, would give Norway ssthc most complete and most ef- flcaclous aid in all fields by all weana in her poweFss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
HITLER AIMING
 AT DESTRUCTION
Present Drive of Hitler's Crack Forces Expects to
 Destroy British Forces
By JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. United Press Stan Correspondent


 Berlin, April 15-(UP)-- German armed forces led by Adolf Hitler's crack SS troops smashed both ends of the Greek defense line, the high command reported today, and repulsed British motorized columns northwest of famed Mount Olympus in a 60-mile drive into Greece.
 Two German columns striking southward through the Phlorina sector and along Salonika Gulf captured the Geek towns of Ptole- mais and Kozane and crossed the Aliakmon River in two places-one north of Servia which lies about 17 miles northwest of Mount Olympus. and the other on the lower reaches of the river.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
City Charter Bill Changes May Be
 Made During Day
Corporation Counsel J. Gregory Lynch Was Scheduled to Confer With Senator John L. Sullivan,
 Committee Chairman During Day
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Reporter)

State Capitol Hartford April 15 Corporation Coul- sel Gregory Lynch of Waterbury scheduled to confer with Senator John L. Sullivan of New Britain chairman of the Senate Cities and Boroughs Committee late this after which time it expected minor changes would be made in several of the proposed charter changes which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Secretaries Of War, Navy Give Warning To Every American
British Public Alarm
 Is ully Awakened
Some Slight Successes Have Been Recorded; News papers Want to Know Why British Army
 Was Pushed Back Over 300 Miles
BY NED RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent

London April 15 -. UP) -M Military authorities asserted today that British forces in Tobruk the Lbyan coast had captured between 200 and 300 Germans in counter-attack. Twleve Germantalian airpanes were shot down in raid Tobruk the authorities said The that Germany had had the tact aid of France in moving to Africa the forces which had driven beyond Lbya into
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09
LIBERTY OR poLEs

Nothing is ever going to be free
in this country" wrote Poul E. Goldman,
Economist Of the American Bankers As
sociotion, recently. Somebody will
have to poy. To the extent to which
the government dispenses bounty of
all kinds, and for all purposes, the bur-
den on those who work and save will
increase. When the rich, as Gloss,
have been reduced to bankruptcy, and
when the middle Gloss have been drv-
en- to dependence, further contribution
will be forced In the form of compuI-
sorry Iooor. The skilled will be COM
PEELED to offer their best. The unskiII-
ed will be driven to offer the little which
they have, and the whip Of the super
government will be the incentive to
human Effort"
Thot is dark picture, but history
fully justifies it. When any notion
divides the wealth, the result is to null
tiPly the poverty. The price we Poy
for super-stote is the uItimote COM
plete loss of all liberty. Germany and
ltoy, with their slave economies, are
SO''ISiC'U )IOOI OI VUS.
Today we have government in Gre
dit, government in business, govern
nnent in forming, government in all
lines Of endeovor. Let that trend con-
tinue and increases il will unless
an awakened public stops it-ond the
future envisoned by Dr. Goldman will
come true. In our search for some
thing for nothing, we have lost sight
Of our traditions, Of our system Of free
enterprise, Of all thot history teaches.
We ore destroying the sources of
weoIth-which means we are destroy
ing the sources Of employment and
progress. That is the road to Dictator
ship with. q vengeance. Liberty or
doles-the choice is yours.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

of the greatest number of Mas
ter Points.
In my opinion Burnstone was
always one Of the greatest match
point players in the country
Certainly, his team, the Four
Aces, has won more team-of-
four championships than any
other team. Today's hand helped
Burnstone and his teammates
win the All-Western team event.
The ace of clubs won the
king. Burnstone (South) cashed
the ace and king Of diamonds
and then led q third diamond 10
ruff In his own hand. When the
diamonds split, Burnstone real
lied the board might already
have been lost through the con-
servatism In TIE bidding.
He decided that the other team
would probably reach game.
Hence all he could hope for was
to find q bad break In spades,
and the heart ace over the king
else four spades would be 4
laydown.
The play for game would be
TO cash the ace Of spades, lead
low to the king end cash dia-
monds. Burnstone deliberately
avoided this line. He cashsd the
queen Of clubs and ruffed out his
loser. Then he cashed the
king Of trumps and started lead
ing diamonds. East ruffed at
once end Burnstone overruffed.
then led q trump.
Each could take his two
trumps and Gee Of hearts, but
could not prevent declareI from
winning two m0fe trSehA Thus
Burnstens IMs6e four. The ether
team BID Ne game but went
down one.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09
eTODAY'S SCREEN NEWS

In THE Sea Wolf" she 10 CO.
starred with Edward G.. Robin
son and John Garfield. She was
chosen for the role of heroine
in the screen version of Jack
Londons famous novel because
of her brilliant work in High
Sierra" and They Brive BY
Night"
Mussolini is also one of Ida s
discoveries. He has been watch
ing her work over a period of
time. letter from one of his
representatives stated. As a good
old Lupino, which is certainly
Italian. she owed il to her
country of origin to come there
and make a movie, the letter
concluded.
Ida didn't bother to answer
that the Lupino's had been kick
ed out of Italy more than four
centuries ago. Nor had her father
was now fire warden on the
night patrol in London.
Ida has been discovered in
England from time to time by
her countrymen. She made her
stage debut at the Palladium,
where numerous bupinos before
her made their first bows. She
was about the age when girls
begin to wear their first long
dresses. Ida had her first star
ring role in motion picture -
Her First Affair"
Thereafter Ida's memory Is a
confusion of plays and roles. It
all clears up at the point where
she worked with Ann Sheridan
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09

Medical science often takes time
out to explain some Of the less intr-
cote curotives to the general public
curotives which anyone con solely use
in cose Of emergency. Ar|ie |. Moon,
N. D., tells in q recent article in Life
q Health, the proper treatment for
burns: tn the early treotment OF mild
burns soothing burn ointment may
be quickly applied on eouze dressing
and placed over the effected part and
held in place With bondoee. One of
the newer remedies which is BEING op-
piled to burns, with apparently very ex-
celIent results, is cod liver oil. The
vitomins present in this preparation
seem to have some effect on the skin,
which hostens the healing process.
IF q burn is at all extensive or Sc
we're it is best not to apply on ointment
or any greasy material, as the physi-
cion may wish to make use Of q 5 per
cent tonnic ocid sproy to the effected
oreo, which forms tough, dark coat
ing over the skin and protects it from
the dir and hostens the healing process.
This preparation is not effective when
an ointment hos been applied, and the
greasy material must first be removed,
which is q difficult. painful process.
However, baking soda may be moisten-
ed with woter, which hos preferably
been boiled, as this renders the water
sterile and helps to prevent infection.
The voter should be warm, and the
moistened baking soda should be pIoc-
ed on souze dressings and applied to
the effected oreo. This will give con-
siderable relief. II the burned area
covers considerable portion of the
body the person may be placed in q
rub OF warm water, which will give
greet relief os on emergency measure"
In very recent years, the medical
profession hos made remarkable pro-
9ress in the treatment Of burns-mony
severe coses which would have proved
totoI not so long ooo. are now soved,
ond disfigurino seors ore largely pre-
vented This Is Just one Of the many
CHOPPERS IN the book OF achievement OF
private npedieins In this country.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09

now. There is little doubt that Brit4in
would give enthusiastic permission il
the right to do this were requested.
There is oIso toIk to the effect thot
Hitler may persuade Jopon to ottock
Asiotic Russia. That too would be q
tough assignment Russio is powerful
in the eost. and the japanese Army
isn't regarded too highly by the mill
tory experts. However, those who
know the japanese character think it
very possible thot the Nipponese war
lords may have finoIly decided to shoot
the works, even If thot eventually in
voIved national suicide, and the reduc-
ton Of Japan TO the stotus Of q third
Gloss power.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09

in Search For Beauty" She
watched Ann getting discovered
and decided that the motion
picture business was slightly
cockeyed, so tested for a role
OF the 70 year old Mary Morris
In Double Door," She got the
role. She was less than twenty at
the time.
II sure felt TO-" the youngster
explained.
Seventy or no seventy, she
couldn't cry. The role demanded
a lot of it: The only way she
could cry without glycerine
tears was to hold Ann Sheridan's
hand.
She doesn't know what she
would have done If Ann wash t
in the same cast. A year later
she found she could cry alone
and she was happy.
Ida is married to Louis Hay
ward, also an actor. She is not
afraid to reveal that she is
twenty-four years old.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09
STORIES :
eIN STAMPS

A NEW service hes BEN insug.
= urstsd by the poetce1ce D.
pArtmsnt end will b welcome By
collectors. Bulletins announcing
issues removed from sale 1t the
philatelic agency will be pasted
in oil first, seeonA and third class
postoffices.
Two high.vaiue stamps have
been Issued BY China, 90 green
and black, and so red-violet and
black. This u part Of the regular
Sun Yat-ssn series.
Haiti has issued four stamps 70
commemorate the Caribbean Con.
grsss. The set comprises loc and
2Sc values and two airrnsils, COO
and l.2s gourdes.
Simon Bolivar, Venesuela's M.
tionsl hero, has been honored
philatelically In two new stamps.
The 20 centavo, printed In lifht
blue, pictures the facade Of the
house In Caracas whore Bolivar
was born. The soc lilac STAMP
shows the courtyard Of the same
house, which b now . national
museum.
A cachet depicting the BON.
bardmsnt q FORT MclIensy, S1pt.
IL 1914, and Ne Arst stsnsa q Ne
Star-8ponSled Bonner" VA -
1ssuoo IN conjunction with ~
American Philstelic Soetesy eoA.
vsntiea N Baltimore. Ans. -,