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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
Travelling Conditions
 Most Dangerous City
 HasWitnessed In Years
Street Department Employees Utilities Crews Kept on AIert-NO Serious Auto Accidents Reported;
 Few Telephones Out of Commission

Motorists and pedestrians faced the most hazardous travelling con- ditions of the winter today after a storm that combined snow, sleet, and rain and left in its wake a glare of ice Electric light and tele- phone companies said they had es- capped major trouble, but busses were running behind schedule, many of them damned to the doors with passengers.
 Crews Busy
 Street department crews were still busy sanding hills and intersec- tions this afternoon, after working all night and morning. Flows were being used where enough snow had accumulated to allow their use. Off, f1cials said that absence of parked cars from main streets due to the new ban on all-night parking aided the workers great deal during the night.
 The Southern New England Telephone Co. reported that six of its lines were down as result of the storm, placing g phones out of service. Repairs were made as speedily as possible. The Connetci- cut Light & Power Co. said 1t had relatively little trouble" in the city proper though there had been more storm damage in Watertown, Vol colt and Middlebury. Both utilities said that ice forming on wires and tree branches weighted down with ice pressing against wires brought on all their difficulties.
 Capt. William P. Duggan, head of the police accident bureau, said this afternoon that there had been no serious accidents caused by the treacherous road surfaces but that there had been many minor acci- dents, most of them resulting from skids On slippery pavements.
 Numerous Falls
 Many pedestrian falls were re- ported on slippery sidewalks but nc serious injuries were reported.
 The Democrat received two com plaints by telephone that busses or the Willow street route of the c. R. & Line Lines were dangerously over crowded this morning.
 Complaints of unshovelled and unsanded sidewalks about the city including the downtown section were also received. Sidewalks in front o1 & number of downtown establish. ments were still covered with ics this noon.
 Trees sheathed with ice offered perhaps the most picturesque scene. of the winter today. Branches pulled down by ice formed bizarre patterns giving a fairyland touch overhead as cars skidded and pedestrians slith- cred below.
 Sleet, Rain Tonight
 The storm began with snow yes- terday morning, paused briefly, then resumed as snow. It turned to Sleet in mid-afternoon, and automobile drivers soon found their windshields covered with ice. Sleet fell steadily, whipped a brisk wind, to be followed late last night by a drizzling rain that froze as 1t landed.
 Bad news is offered by the wealth erman, the prediction being for sleet and rain tonight, followed by sloudy and colder weather tomor- row.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
No Serious Damage From Storm Reported
NEGRO WOMEN
 FARLEY TOPIC
Mrs. L. T. Alexander Speaker at Pearl Street
 Clubs Social Meeting

The Women's Social and Study club held its regular meeting at Pearl St. Neighborhood House, yes- 'erday afternoon.
 The topic for the afternoon pro- ram was selected from articles by the Cuban scholars published in the Women's Archives and Seminar Is- sue of the Aframerican Woman's Journal.
 Mrs. Leila T. Alexander gave the objectives of the National Council of Objective, Negro Women and on the delegation of five members from the council who visited Cuba, August 1940, as guests of the Women's Gull tural Association of Cuba.
 The Seminar included nine confer enceS on various phases of Cuban Negro history and achievement.
 Miss Elizabeth Roscoe presented the topic, ''The Cuban Negro in the Arts-Painting and Sculpture" Both presentations were discussed by Mrs. Florence Fisher, Miss Lucille Nesbitt, Mrs. Laura Harvey and Mrs. Maybelle H. Ward.
 The next regular meeting will be held February 6.
 Free dancing for the Jitterbug group of Pearl Street, a weekly fea- ture Thursday evenings, was ini- tiated last night in spite of the in- clement weather and more than twenty young couples enjoyed the evening.
 Chauncey Carethers, gym worker, was in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

With their productions, Theater- on-Film, Inc, will perpetuate OH film the great art of the living drama. Its aim is to enrich the world by creating permanent lib- rary of great plays comparable to the existing store of recorded great music, fine literature, and the mas terpieces of art.
 All Theater- Film productions will be made exclusively for 16 mil limeter non-theatrical showings. At present, approximately 99 per cent of all 16 millimeter full-length films have been scaled down from wider gauge film which has already served its entertainment purpose in the motion picture theaters and which has consequently, been seen by large majority of potential 16 milli- meter film audiences. Theater-on-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
FORD MOTOR co.
 STILL REFUSES
Turns Request of National Labor Board for Election
 in Lincoln Plant

Detroit, Jan. 17.-(UP)-The Ford Motor Company today denied a Na- tional Labor Relations Board request for consent to hold a collective bar gaining election at the company'S Lincoln plant, where strike author ization has been voted.
 The Ford statement was made in letter to NLRB Regional Director Frank Bowen. I. A. Capizz, Ford general counsel, said in the letter Pleased be advised that my client will not enter into any such stipula- tion."
 The Ford statement was in reply to an NLRB request made after the union had filed petition for an elec- tion at Lincoln.
 A dispute concerning the dismis- sals awaited settlement. Federal La- bor Conciliator James F. Dewey had been conducting conferences with the company and the union until a week ago, when his attention was turned to a strike at five plants of the Eaton Manufacturing company. The dispute started last Decem- Der and temporary truce was ar ranged after Dewey had conferred with union representatives and Harry Bennett, Ford personal director Bennett had maintained that the dismissals at Lincoln were season. al, resulting from 8 decline in pro- duction.
 The United Automobile Workers | (CIO) has voted to authorize the strike on charges that the company had discrimirated against the union through dismissal of between 250 and 300 workers.
 Ford previously had denied a re- quest by the UAW-CIO for permis- sion to hold elections at the Lincoln and River Rouge plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
MAJOR SPEAKER
 AT FORUM HERE
Allan MacfarIan to Show European Picture at
 Second Church

Major Allan A. Macfarlan, F. R. G. S., will be the speaker at the Forum of the Second Congre- gational Church Sunday evening, January 19, at 7:30 o'clock. His lecture, Picture Towns of Europe" will be illustrated with magnifi- gently colored slides. Many of the worlds most picturesque towns take vivid form, in word and beautifully colored screen pictures. Clovelly is England's most picturesque town; medieval Bruges is known for its gabled sixteenth century houses, peaceful canals and belfry "old and brown; CarcaSsonne from its sixth century northern wall to it's pie turesque narrow streets is indeed a shining dream of the Middle Ages; Ronda, Rothenburg, San Gimig- lano, Chester. Rye, Middleourg, Hildeshei1n, Nuremberg, Mont Saint Michel and Rouen are also visited.
 Major Allan is a former Interaa- tional Boy Scout Commissioner and has been in close touch with the Boy Scout and other youth movements, not only throughout Europe but also i nthe Orient. He was in the Inter Allied Intelligence Service during the First World War and speaks French, German and several other languages. He has been awarded diplomas for study at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Heidelberg and Lon- don. From 1918 to 1884, MT. Mac farlan twice circled the earth and spent exciting months along the Lost Horizon of forbidden" Tibet. in the cold harshness of Mongolia, in the savage density of West Africa. Out of this daily contact with un- usual people has come a remarkable collection of startling information and rare pictures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
WOMAN KIDNAPER
 IS BEING SOUGHT
Sick Baby Was Victim of Abduction; l4=Year=Old
 Boy Halts It

Boston, Jan. IT - (U.P0 - A wo- man was sought today as the kid naper of year-old Joan Marie Hav- lin whose blanket-drapped form was found on a sleet-swept garage drive way after her mother discovered the sick chiId's crib empty last night.
 The child, convalescing from a mastoid operation, was believed safe from possible pneumonia as result of the sharp hearing of 14-year-old Richard Sheehan who heard a untitled cry while putting out the family laundry at his home three blocks from the Havlin house in Dorchester.
 Police said woman's footprints led from the street to the spot where the baby was found.
 The mother, Mary separated from her husband for year, said a strange woman had threatened by telephone to harm the infant. The father, police said, was at work when the abduction occurred.
 Mrs. Havlin said she had gone across the street to a store about 8:30 D. m. leaving the front door unlocked and her mother. Mrs. Winifred Cuneo, and an uncle, An drew Cuneo, listening to the radio in the kitchen.
 Returning, she went to make sure Joan was covered and found the crib empty and a window she said was closed previously, open. An- other child Denise, 3, was sleeping in a crib in the same room.
 As cruising cars searched the dis trict. Mrs. Francis X. Sheehan, wife of a deputy federal income tax col lector, telephoned that her son had found the child. The boy said he saw an auto, which he believed con- tained man and a woman, slow down and then speed away as he followed the baby's cries with a | flaShlight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
l94l PROSPERITY
 WILL BEAT 1929
Govt. Economists Predict ed That Will Be Result
 This Year
Washington, January 1T. - CUP,

Washington, January 1T. - CUP. - Government economists pre- dicted today that national prosper ity during 1941 surpasses the fabu lous boom year" of 1929. Defens spending will be primarily responsi ble.
 | National income will be about tht same as 1929, but, because of lowel prices, real purchasing power" vii be about 10 to IS per cent higher i the Bureau of Agricultural Eco monies said.
 Bureau economists said that al- though the nation is starting on a rapid rise in prosperity there is little basis for expecting a price rise of inflationary proportion in the near future"
 New defense jobs largely have been responsible for raising non agricultural employment, excluding the military, to the highest point since 1929. Prices received by farm CTS are increasing and total in- come this year may be the highest in II years, the bureau said. The bureau estimated that 5000, 900 more persons will be employed this year than in 1929. The estimated includes 3,000,000 more in the military serv- ices, trade and industry and 2,000,- 900 more on federal relief prof. ects. The economists said unem- ployment in 1941 will average about half that of 1940. The estimated that more than 100000 persons found jobs in private employment when 6,000,000 still were unem- ployed.
 However" the bureau added because there are 6,000,000 tc 1000 900 more workers in the na- tion than in 1929, the number re- ceiving assistance under Social Se- curity and General Relief Programs probably will be 3,000O00 larger"
 The income of industrial workers with the defense program just get ting under way, was the highest in the final quarter of 1940 for any comparable period since 1929, the bureau said. Farm income like wise was at a 10-year high.
 While industrial workers vii profit by increased armament ex. ports in 1941, farmers can expec' no substantial improvement in theil export situation, it was said. The value of farm exports has been re- duced more than 50 per cent by thu war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
Marriage Intentions

The following marriage inten- tions have been filed at the office of Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmar- tin:
 Frederic Violette, A East Dover street, and Marie J. Noel, 277 Ri- yer street.
 James Ryan, 712 East Main street, and Eleanor Vaitkus, g South Leonard street.
 Japhros A. Clapp, 61 Bishop street and Ella M. Wright, 46 Pearl street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

President
 St. Margaret's Holy Name so- ciety has selected Monday even- ing, February 17th, as the date of its annual entertainment and smoker. The event, always one of the most popular of the sea- son, will be held ill the auditorium of the school. The attraction as usual will include several acts of vaudeville specialties, boxing and wrestling and refreshments. The committee named by President Harold v. Brennan will take same precautions as in former years to make the event one of the best
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
Compensation Agreements

The following agreements were filed today with Compensation Commissioner Joseph E. Talbot:
 Clarence R. Fuller of Water bury Baking Company of Water bury, $15.57, starting January 2, for fractures of the right knee.
 Elmer c. LinelI of Winsted against the Jewell Brothers, of Winsted, S25.00, beginning De- cember 25, for injury to the left leg.
 Henry J. Weber of Winsted against the Connecticut Light and Power Company of Hartford, S22.91, starting January II, for fracture of the left leg.
 John S. Dr0st of Meriden against the Consolidated Motor Lines, Inc, $18.22, beginning De- cember 20, for injury to the back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
oUTLAWED JEHovAHs

Canberra, Australia, Jan. 1T -CU. P.) = Attorney General William M. Hughes today outlawed the religious sect, Jehovah's Witnesses on me grounds that it was spreading dis affection and hindering the war ef- fort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

enjoyed smokers in many months. Freddy Hall will be the master of ceremonies.
 Michae1 Ryle is chairman of the general committee: Patrolman Dick Baldwin will sign up the wrestlers and Henry Loughrin, the fighters. William T. Harrington will present the entertainment. Other members in charge will be John Kerwan, Joseph Conlon, Timothy Callahan, Thomas Mag ner, James Carr, James Canfield, Patrick Crean, Michael Whelan, Raymond Havican, John Moran and Charles Synnott.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
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Reminds me of Charlie Chan's crack: 'No poison like ink"
 Friend of mine, who was in that Slapsie- -Maxie's gambling raid, just flew back and told me this: That one of the owners Cat the time of the raid) was playing a game of "klobb" in the kitchen with a stooge. They played for $1 a game |. The owner lost his temper and hollered his head off when he lost the last trick which cost him another game In came one of his aides to humble that the cops had just grabbed $27,00O off the tables :. "Oh, the hell with that!" he shrieked, "this bum's won fourteen straight games!"
 Amusing case of Cafe Souseiety mixed doubles last night at Copa- cabana J. Paterno, Jr., was there with Honeychile Wilder, named by Mrs. Paterno in the sep aration action. A few congas away was Mrs. Paterno herself with a store exec, who two nights before had squired Honeychile to the same joynt Each pair nonchaalantly pretended the place was emptly which it was far from, bleev me. Harry Salter's Song of Your Life" show (via NEG Saturday eves0 is as human interesting as ever, despite the tune war. It dramatizes the songs in peoples lives-really novelty Times Jan. 18th issue has you reporting that "the Italian troops would retreat to the Vati- can to be protected by the Swiss Guards" .. My Gahd! Don't they know a gag over at Time when they see one?
 It probably never happened, but maybe you can check with your friens in Washington A naval officer is telling it to chums That when F'DR was on the Tus- caloosa anchored off one of the West Indies ports waiting for the Duke of Winsor this is SUD- posed to have happened The tops of gun turrets (next morn ing) were found covered with red swastikas - painted hastily. My friend said he thought some Nazi on board did it hoping plane from a British warship might mis- take the Tuscaloosa for German raider and start laying eggs-until one hit he President, etc =. That reminds me of this retort to FDR's critics: "Roosevelt's plan to spend billions for Britain will not make America rich, but 1t won't make America Reich!
 YOUR GIRL FRIDAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

COLORADO TEMPERATURES
 The mean annual temperature in the state of Colorado varies from 31 degrees in some areas to 54 degrees in others, while rainfall varies from 6 1-2 inches to 40 inches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17
Broadway Plays Now
 Reproduced In Films
Exact Reproduction of Latest Plays Available to 25,
 900 or More Owners of l6 Nm. Sound Projectors

time it will possible to see the country through the reproductions of plays filmed with stage at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

Russia reports that 55 types of new textile machines will be pro- duced there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-17

Film, Inc, has chosen this field be- cause of its urgent need for new, or iginal, never-before-shown feature films.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18
Flying Colonel Says y. S.
Aid Will Not Alter Fote
Says British Collapse Tragedy
for the World But Inevitable

oCHICAGO, April 10 - R -
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh be-
lieves that England and France
were vanquished before they be-
gan to fight and that Britain
cannot win even with all the
resources of the United States.
His opinion that a Nazi vic
tory was an accomplished fact
was expressed last night in an
address. delivered at rally
sponsored by the America First
committee.
Making an appeal for unity
among those groups which OPP
pose u. S. Intervention in the
war, Lindbergh asserted that
minority has led the nation
toward war Through misinfor-
nation and confusion of the
issues involved"
"War is not inevitable for
this country" he said. 1.-THE
claim that our participation is
inevitable is simply propagan-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18
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tons were received at the meet
ing.
If the management grants the
request to reopen the plant,
Reese said Cooperative members
won't attempt to fight their
way through possible picket
lines.
He said he believed a strike
solution possible if the manage
ment would sit down" with
all factions.
Polio said a capacity audience
heard Charles Miller, a Mount
Clemens attorney, DR.. Victor
Hugo Wolfson, a Mount Glenn
ems physician, and DR.. I. Rus
kin, of Detroit, at a CLIO meet
ing held last night.
Meanwhile, pickets paraded
slowly in the roadway outside
the struck plant.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18
Deiroiiers Injured
When Iruk Rolls Over

1.-TWO Detroiters were slightly
injured when the light truck in
which they were riding rolled
over on the highway near the
intersection of Gratiot and Ma
sonic boulevard this morning.
The driver, Wyman Finney;
26, told officers that the truck
turned over after hitting q pile
of dirt alongside the highway
after turning onto Gratiot from
the boulevard.
Finney and Vincent Albane,
Is, the other occupant of the We
hicle, were treated for injuries
at st. Joseph's hospital and re-
leased.
The accident occurred shortly
after 10 o'clock.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18

derful time you had-even
though you think you can make
it all right by saying, Il wish
you could have been here. Then
it would have been perfect" He
couldn't-so skip it.
MAKE HIM WANT
TO WRITE YOU
Encourage him to write about
the funny things that happen in
camp - and about his new
pals" If you can do that, you'll
hear from him more often.
Tell him you miss him. That
one thing everyone likes to
hear. And don't write more than
two or three pages. Make him
wish you'd written more.
And remember, your letters
are really important. More than
one girl has held onto her man
through the ability to put oomph
into her letters.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18

da by those who want to get us
in"
I'VE must face the fact that
England is In q desperate posi-.
tion," he continued. "Up to date
she has lost every major cam
paign in which she has partici-
pated. Her shipping losses are
of the utmost seriousness, and
her cities have been devastated
by bombs. : -
Personally, believe it will
be q tragedy to the world - q
tragedy even to Germany - II
the British empire collapses.
But ! must tell you frankly that
I believe this war was lost by
England and France even be-
fore 1t was declared, and that
it is not within our power in
America today to win the war
for England, even though we
throw the entire resources of
our nation into the conflict"
Lindbergh characterized the
sending of arms to Europe q
mistake" which has weakened
the nations position, added to
bloodshed in European countries
and failed to alter the course
of the war. He said that the
United States must keep its
fleet out Of the war zones and
stop sending most of our mod
ern fighting planes abroad" if
it is to maintain the ability to
defend itself in the future.
Lindbergh said that the miss
ion of the America First COM
mittee, of which he is a men,
Der, was to clarity the issues"
to build self confidence and
strength in America" and to
keep the nation out of the war.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18
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Continued From Page II

new licenses are made by
licensees he notify the local
newspaper in his community so
that other licensees and the pub
lie are informed of the proposed
application.
6-That the next convention
be held at Port Huron.
Official registration figure
was $50. Delegates and guests,
however, totaled well over 700.
Approximately AS delegates
attended the convention at Tas-
sic Tavern last night. Governor
Murray D. Van Wagner, who
was to be the principal speaker
at the banquet, was unable to at
tend becuse of road commits
sion meeting in Detroit. Lieut..
Gov. Frank Murphy represented
the state.
The convention wound up to-
day with a meeting of officers in
the Medea.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18

koseviIls Youth
Admits chavss

NLess than six hours after he
violated his probation by steal
ing 3 radio from an automobile
parked in Roseville, Harry Ull-
rich. Is, Of Roseville. admitted
the charge upon arraignment be-
fore Circuit Judge James E.
Spier.
Ullrich, on probation on a 1888
breaking and entering charge.
stole the radio at $50 q. m. A
half hour later he was arrested
by Roseville police.
The youth was remanded to-
the county jail pending a report
from Roseville police. Assistant
Prosecutor Herman L. Brys pre-
sented the states case.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-18
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defense orders, an estimated
$442,5O0,000.
Walter p. Reuther, director of
the UAW-CIO's General Motors
department, said that in other
plants the local arrangements
would be asked to name the men
required to operate defense jobs
and these would not be called
out in event of a strike.
The union estimated that Gen.
eral Motors defense orders, in
all aggregate 1888, 900, 900.
WIDE EFFECT
While the notice of intent to
strike relates only to Michigan
plants, Thomas said that if a
strike is called in Michigan sit
will probably be called in all of
them" The strike votes in the 81
plants must be completed by
next Thursday, Thomas said.
Thomas and Reuther informed
the locals at the 81 plants that
the international union and
your national GIN negotiating
committee, after exhausting
every means to arrive at fair
settlement, is compelled to ask
a strike vote in support of the
demands"
The union officers, enumerat-
ing demands which they said the
corporation had turned down,
listed the union shop, ten
cents an hour wage increase, ad-
ditional vacation allowances, a
family hospital plan," Stewart
system, and "other reasonable
demands"