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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

I the St. Mary's of 1909 boasted \ courageous little personnel of i4 Of the seven Sisters of St. Joseph who came down to Waterbury from Hartford, led by Mother Xavier, five were registered nurses. There were two graduate nurses to assist them. There was pr. McGrath, the resi- dent physician, and two male and two female employees.
 Today the hospital Shelters 0 total of 277 employees, consisting Of 3i nuns, 2l Of them registered nurses; g graduate nurses and technicians; i08 student nurses; 77 female employees; and 3i male em- ployes.
 The modest little institution of 32 years ago has indeed become . throbbing, pulsing life.giving or- ganism, necessary to the growth and well i-being of the community from which 1t drew It's first inspiration and support. From these men and women who have devoted their lives to the task of maintaining the well- being of their fellowmen have been drawn the qualities of Christian courage, calm fortitude, skill, pas tience and determination, vital to the successful management of Q hospital like St. Mary's.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

1 hospital expansion of 1922 was larger and more adequate quarters for the nursing staff. So on May 1, 1927, the handsome edihce on South Elm street was dedicated and thrown open to the use of the nursing staff.
 It was inevitable that the spread of the hospital-aid plan through ir- dustry and business houses would place an ever-increasing demand on the facilities of our local ifstitu- tions. Both have met them and St. Mary's took the step demanded, and which 1t had recognized, on March 24. 1040, when the first spadeful of earth was turned for construction of the north wing which today becomes 50 handsome
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

ianS.
 Before this date, though, Q inaxl- mum of thought and effort had gone Into the planning of this hospital addition. The leading citizens of the community had actually loan- ed their considerable talents and their possessions, as each could af- ford, that the necessary funds might be provided to build and equip the addition which was to more than double the bed capacity of the growing St. Marys.
 New Nurses Home
 More beds mean more patients; more patients mean more attend- ance: more attendance means more nurses. The natural step after this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

and 50 useful an adjunct of the entire hospital.
 The telling of 1t is most prosaic, but the history of St. Mary'g HoSpi. tai is as beautiful as 1t is endur- ing. Some day there will be prop. erly and Beautifully brought within the confines Of the printed page It's lIfe-story, bound with the slnews of those who have labored in its bosom, written in the blood of the count- less patients who have known It's sanctuary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
First Baby Born
 On April l6, 1909

The first baby born in St. Mary's Hospital arrived on April ie, 1909, about one month and . half after the hospital opened It's doors. It was . baby girl, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. E. L. Farley. The baptism took place In St. Williams Chapel, the first there, on April go.
 The first boy did not arrive until May 10, but veteran mem- bers of the staff relate today that this first boy ls now . Chi. cago physician.
 Since the hospital opening In 1909 to April 30, l04i, the population has been increased by l0,253 babies born in St. Mary's Hospital, on envIable record for the period. In this total there gre 2l4 sets of twins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

clans, neurologists and pSychiatristS obstetricians, otorhinolaryngo gologists, gaStrologists, radiologists, anesthet- fists, pathologists, bronchoscoplsts, cardioiogistS and physiotherapists.
 Tn addition to Dr. Godfrey the present officers include Dr. Robert A. Bonner, ST., vice president; and pr. Edward A. Post, secretary.
 Besides the staff of medical men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
first president of the hospital staff
 Nurses School Opens

The years are many since then, but fleeting as they arc recollec- ton brings up the opening of the School of Nursing on March ,, 1909, with one nurse enrolled and Q nurses home In March of 1912.
 The jump to the fall of 1920 when the foundation for the cen- tral wing was laid Is easy to make in an historical record, but 1t con- tains volumes for the researcher. The wing was opened on May 3, 1929, with Auxiliary Bishop John c, Murray, now archbishop, officiating at the ceremonies which once again attracted both dignitaries and civil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19

SPRING LETTUCE PROFITABLE
 Phoenix, AriS. - (UP)-Arizona's spring lettuce deal netted $4,800,- 900 and totaled 10000 cars, ac- cording to the federal-state mar. ket news service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
Institution Has Kept
 Pace With Demands
 Made During Years
in Development Marked By Community Spirit, EndeaVOr

The growth of St. Marys Hospital from the small and ambitious institution of 1909 to the present farhung group of structures embracing almost entire block within the confines of four streets of which the entire city be proud Like most hospitals St. Marys product of community need and has always met the demands placed
Evening star., 1941-05-19
IruQ
CONTINUED From First Paee.)

to have forbidden troops and civil
lians alike to fire On planes of
doubtful nationality.
Advices from Baghdad indicated
that Maj. Won Blomberg, son of the
German field marshal and former
war minister, had died last week
aboard a German plane as result
of such fire.
Dentz Calls for Resistance.
Gen. Henri Dentz, high commits
sioner of French-mandated Syria
and Lebanon. has issued a proc
lamation calling on the people of
Syria to resist criminal aggres-
sions" of the British.
The high commissioner in a radio
broadcast last night declared that
"once again after Mers-El- -Kebir
and Dakar England sheds French
blood
This was in reference TO the Brit
ish fleets attacks last July against
units of the French fleet.
At the same time that Chief of
State Marshal Petain was broad
casting the French desire for peace
last week, Gen. Dentz asserted, the
British started attacking our air.
dromes without warning.
CThe British said airdromes in
Syria, next door -neighbor of Iraq,
were being used by Axis planes
flying to the aid of the IraqisD
Gen. Dentz said that, according
to the British, the French should
have repulSed by force German
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Volunteers From Soviet
Reported in Iroq

1STANBUL, Turkey, May 10 IP.-
German quarters declared yesterday
that Russian volunteers" already
are in Iraq-despite previous Soviet
denials-and expressed unconcealed
satisfaction over the prospects of
joint Russian Axis Intervention
against the British in the Near East
battle for oil.
The Germans contended that
among Soviet volunteers permitted
by Moscow to 60 to Iraq were pilots
to join the Iraq air force, already
declared by the British to have been
augmented by Axis planes and
technicians flown across French
ruled Syria.
tTasS, Soviet officials news
Evening star., 1941-05-19

which Fox created In 1882 with as
sets of 100000. His wife was
president of the corporation. Four
years later Fox filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy at Atlantic
City, N. ]. Phases of that case
along with several others involving
Fox interests came before the Cir
cult Court on appeals.
Creditors had charged that Fox
created the corporation for the pur-
pose of "defrauding" them. Fox
denied this and told the United
States District Court that he was
"abundantly solvent" when he pre-
sented the corporation to his wife
and two daughters.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Nearly every plane from Lisbon
brings an addition, so four Ameri-
cans standing on the Embassy steps
were stumped today when a group
of United States attaches passed.
who are they?" one of those
on the steps asked.
Heaven knows" was the answer.
after all, I have been away to
lunch"
The Embassy is a big apartment
house on Grosvenor Square and
upper floors are leased out as apart
ments.
If permission is granted to expand
it is expected the tenants will be
asked to move.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

planes which flew over Syria and
which occasionally landed"
Nothing justifles that position,
the high commissioner declared.
Marshal Petain said that France
has no aggressive intentions against
England or her empire"
German landings in Syria, he said,
were the results of the application
of the armistice, and the British ac-
cusations were nothing but inven-
ton and outrageous calumny."
you will resist any aggression. "
Gen. Dentz told the people. I've
been ordered 10 defend the sky and
the land of the Levant states That
mission I'll carry out infiexibly"
The Army Of the Levant," he con-
tinued, lis ready to oppose force
with force"
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Judge Davis Counsel
Loses Move in Trial
Al Philadelphia
Pleu Of Innocent Is
Entered Again After
Muneuver Fails
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May ia de-
fense maneuver aimed at challeng-
ing indictments returned against
Judge J. Warren Davis, retired
jurist of the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals, was overruled today and
he Immediately was placed on trial
in Federal Court on criminal
charges.
AS the case was called earlier,
counsel for Judge Davis and Morgan
S, kaufman, Scranton, (PaD attor-
ney. petitioned District Judge
Robert N Pollard of Richmond. Va,
to permit them to withdraw pleas
of innocent and to file demurrers,
challenging validity of the indict-
mentS.
Judge Davis, kaufman and Will
liam S. Fox. bankrupt movie mag
nate, were indicted March % on
charges of conspiracy to obstruct
justice and defraud the United
States. Fox at once pleaded guilty
and is awaiting sentence.
Judge Pollard today permitted
Judge Davis and kaufman to with
draw their pleas of innocent, but
he denied their motions for de-
murrer.
Both defendants were i'm
mediately rearranged and both
again pleaded innocent.
Judge Pollard had recessed the
trial to consider the petitions. He
was especially appointed by Chief
Justice Hughes to hear the case
second time in the Nations history a
Federal jurist has been held on
criminal charges.
Judge Davis. 74-year-old Law
renceville IN. j. man, was ap-
pointed to the bench in 1920 by
President Wilson.
The grand jury, which received
instructions from Attorney General
Jackson, reported it had found evi-
dence that Judge Davis had accept
ed sums of money" from Fox and
Kaufman in return for action favor
able to the 62-year-old movie pro-
ducer who was involved in bank
ruptcy proceedings before the
Circuit Court while Davis still was
on the bench. He retired two years
ago.
The only other similar case in
the l54-year-old Federal judiciary
system resulted in convictions un-
der the same statute of Circuit
Judge Martin T. Manton of New
York. The maximum penalty is
two years Imprisonment and a pos
sible $4,000 fine
Panel of 100 Drawn.
A special panel of 100 veniremen
was drawn for selection of the jury
and two alternates. Walter H. Ga
hagan, lr., special assistant to the
Attorney General, has said the
Governments case might take two
or three weeks. or even longer.
The 17-page Federal indictment
charged that Judge Davis accepted
s12,500 from Fox in 1896, that
kaufman accepted $4,000 from Fox
in the same year and that later the
attorney turned over to Judge Da-
Wis "a sum of money
The grand jury also charged that
kaufman, a former United States
referee in bankruptcy, lent $4,000
to relative of Davis at the judge S
request and that loan was not re-
paid during the time of the alleged
conspiracy.
Innocence Proclaimed.
Judge Davis asserted in a state
ment after the indictment that he
was absolutely innocent of the
charges and asked my friends
and the public to suspend judgment
until the final disposition of the
case"
The Fox bankruptcy proceedings
involved the All-Continent Corp
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Col. <. W. Jordan Elected

OLD POINT, Va, May 10 (PI-
The Virginia department, Reserve
Officers Association, elected Col. E.
w. Jordan of Roanoke president
to succeed Col. George B. West of
the Sd Corps area surgeons Office
in Baltimore, at the departments S
Evening star., 1941-05-19
U. s. Embassy in London,
Crowded, Asks More Space

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 19.-The United
States Embassy today asked Wash
ington for permission to sign new
leases for more working space.
The Embassy staff has grown so
now numbering about $50, that the
staid corridors are jammed with
traffic.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

agency, last Friday branded as
"fabrications" Iraq newspaper re-
ports that Russian pilots were
joining the Iraq air forceD
Supporting Nazi suggestions that
Russia might join Germany and
Italy-unofficially-in the Near
East warfare was the disclosure
that German Ambassador Franz Won
Papen held a long conference yes
terday with Soviet Ambassador M
S. Vinogradov.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Five-Yeur PIun Progresses

Most of the plants initiated under
Turkeys five-year industrialization
program of 1884 have been COM
plpt e6
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Americans Told to Leave.
JERUSALEM, May 10 R.-Re-
ports from Beirut said today that
United States. British and Pales-
tinian citizens had been advised to
Evening star., 1941-05-19

leave French inundated Lebanon at
once.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04

Of a great surgeon who didn't know
his own kids didn't score as a story but
it was rated high for trouping and cross
fire. John Anderson rejoiced in the
Junnel-American TO find it 'wittily anus
ing and brilliantly played The trailer
was Brooklyn Blarritz," which is round
about way of saying Coney Island Ann
Loring and Bertram Thorn were among
the players who strolled its boardwalk.
The Times found it amiable, but 1T never
rouses itself into drama" :. Several labor
unions think enough of the anti-Nazi raps
in Elmer Rice's Flight to the West to
finance its continuance. The play. slated
to close, will sell for less, too. so that its
warning against the undenniners will
reach more hearers g. Jos. Wood krutch.
president of the Critics Circle, has revolted
against the phrase interesting expert
ment' to describe a show. A phrase, he
finds. reserved almost exclusively for
occasions when experiment really means
'regrettable error in judgment and in
teresting' really means everybody was
bored stiff"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04

Easier to Get a Pistol Than
q Divorce" Impatient. Trigger
Pulling Wives Who Have Be-
como Self-Made Widows BY
Shooting Their Husbands, Dis
turb Authorities Of q Midwest
ern City Who Fear . Wave of
Such Short Cuts to Freedom In
less Juries Stop Acquiring the
Ladies'. See This Illustrated Fea-
ture In The American Weekly,
the Magazine Distributed with
Next Sundays issue of The De-
troit Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
Duce, the Axis Press Aqen+

THE FRONT PAGES: Dot Thompson kept Wheeler after
school because know about English
than coyumist The said Canada colony
history Mussolni who used below about the glory
of facSm has been reegad boosting the strength
nazism In short he's longer Axis Axis
agent Hers Gayda Grisy timing by the New Yorker
the headlines shouted the Georgia plane full
ths purports
plane crash Gayda the British the futile
Africa That reminds of the old about the gn down
the floor bloody and swollen from terrific shelackng He looked
at his victorious opponent and mubed Have had enough?
Tune In WALTER WINCHELL BROADCAST each Sunday,
Q to 9:15 p. mq station WXYZ, Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
Idea of No READING at All

THE STORY TELLERS One mans idea Of reading all is the
published book the Maginot Line. like handing
swmmergong down the third tmea The Life of
Weissmuler Good describing of by Ellis St Joseph
Story His long feshess frame clothes
tree which hung silk hat frock coat striped trousers But the
mans sharp angular memorabilia vertab blue
intelligence" Correction James Streets short They
credited Liberty appeared in Golfers Times February "a
Walker divorce
plan. Time report that Mrs. Walker the first
second Beverly r. Tucker Tin Everybod
the case Of woman 81 years old who became child This
attributed inability cope adult problems
We've become babies after Cuba
Libre.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
Something for No+hinq

HiE WIRELESS Elmer Davis tipped off Toxic the other roundup
that country get hurt listening to Berlin The last nation
that played thing the reminded Italy War
and Broadway find softest somebody looking
something for nothing You cheer the spirit of the Free
Company. offering Sunday m. plays. It's slap
alien propaganda plug life Nancy Kelly, Burgess
Meredith John Garfield donated
that flood film credits the finish will make their show trailer
they don't watch Senator Gillette IaD offering bill
making the of handouts tell their and address
the plan advocated by Morris Ernst with takers
Forum Jeca Tandy of the better from
London putting the Mildred Of Human Bondage
which is soap-serialed in the daytime.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
Fresh Batch Of SaIaams

THE MAGIC LANTERNS: Preston Srgess desinys Westof-
the Rockies collected for The
Lady Eve" It's all merry gaop with b. Stanwyck and IL.
Fonda who usually look the sober side chunng the comedy
like majors so Ends Our Night pictures the mseres
of the exes fleeing from Naz prosecutions grim maybe
because it's 1t makes for good cinema SULLIVAN and
March being their talented Come With Me-
another deportation
duck Ellis Island evenchl lily love she the $3.50
weekly fee she for his It's uphill going of the
Basil Rathbone makes the murder of hobby
The Mad Doctor but he finally gets hn 1T Happened to
One Man British hodover from eaceme shouldn't happen
double bill Meet the Chup shows hoodums putting the
Hugh Herbert and they chase too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
AirpIdne Factory
Houses Glasses
For Workers

With students overfowing the
technical facilities Of Detroit
schools. defense vocational officials
have opened classes n the former
Barkley-Grow airplane plant At
the City Airport TO Train aircraft
workers and soon will have them
on a 24-hour basis.
Two classes were held yesterday
with 20 students in each class.
Within two weeks. when the
school is IN full swing II Is eN-
pected that 500 students A day VIII
he in training IN the big plant
Courses viii include every phase
Of airplane construction from lay
ont through Welding. riNctinG,
woodwork and machining. STU
dents who take The entire course
will be graduated as all-round
airplane mechanics.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
MOSTLY SPECIALIZED

Most Of the work. however. will
be intensive examining courses for
different branches of airplane
work. Some students will special
ize in each phase 50 that expert
workmen can be turned out IN a
short time TO meet the expanding
need for skilled hands
The shortage Of men has been
emphasized as the flow Of defense
orders 10 Detroit continues More
than two billions Of defense orders
have been allotted To plants in the
Detroit area
Three agencies are cooperating
In the training program. The
building was leased by the Ma
tional Youth Administration. IN
der its program youths from is to
"a are taught trades. Also using
the plant viii be the Vocational
Educational Program of the Ma
tional Defense Advisory Commits
sion. Other classes are sponsored
by the Training Within Industry
program
YEP students are drawn largely
from WPA rolls and the Michigan
State Employment Service. TWI
students are men now employed in
factories who are taking special
courses TO fit themselves for more
skilled jobs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-04
DETRoIT0EvENING TIMES (PAONE CHERRY $500
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Notes Of an Innocent Bystander

VIE NIGHTS pioneers hit the long trail Lent
s Behrman dialogue velvet authored
Mondays is Taley Method and it the
Of masthead
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-06
3S LEAVE ON ALASKA FOR
 SOUTH PORTS

Bringing to Juneau only seven passengers from the Westward, the southbound steamer Alaska docked here at 7:30 o'clock this morning and sailed for Seattle at 10 o'clock this morning with 38 passengers from Juneau booked for the South. Captain of the vessel is O. c. Ander- son and purser is Dave Doran
 Passengers arriving in Juneau were J. R. Henshaw, K F. Macleod, l. F. Demmarth, F. S. Hanson, H. Miller, Dan Noonan and G. Collins.
 Passengers sailing from Juneau for Seattle were Olive TroWer, Anna Arm, Mabel Padden, Fred Jones, MT and Mrs. William Miller, John Fox, J. D. Organ, Lynn Smith, L. L. Ash croft, MT. and Mrs. John Beers, T. M. Piggott, H J. Avis, MT and Mrs John Kennedy, MT and Mrs. V. M Hills, Mrs. O. Johnson, Alma Lar son, c. H. Magnusson, H. J. Thomp- son, David Thompson, E. Letvale, E. Peterson, Frank Smith, MT. and Mrs. E. B. Fisher, Reva Madsen, John Kennedy and B. Hemp.
 For Wrangell-A. Van Mavern, w. G. Spradden, Mrs. L. Reinke, H. B. Crewson and Robert Sheldon.
 For Ketchikan-M. Blackerby
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-06
200 PASSENGERS
 ABOARD LOUISE
 INTERIOR BOUND

Carrying a giant power shovel and other mining equipment for the placer operations at Atlin, the Can adian Pacific steamer Princess Louise, Capt s. K. Gray, Purser E. Cornelius, docked in Juneau from the South at 7:30 o'clock last night with 26 passengers for Juneau.
 Over 200 passengers, including nine roundtrippers, were on board the vessel Many of those on the ship are on their way to river opera tions on the Yukon and are going into the Interior for the coming summer season.
 The vessel will return to Juneau southbound from Skagway at 2 o'clock Thursday morning and will sail for the South at 10 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-06

Afrisa, discussed the paradoxical situation of Christianity benefitting directly by the war which it opposes
 He sees, in what he calls "the most striking compressed migration in history" million Chinese brought in contact with the church as they moved from occupied to free China after beginning of the in cident" with Japan E
 Were Greatly Impressed
 Hungry, sick and impoverished the Chinese were greatly impressed by the churchs work in healing feeding and educating them, he as- serts.
 In Japan, according to Ross, the outside force of stronger feeling of nationalism has taken Christian ity along as a fellow traveller.
 But we are long way from out of the woods yet says Ross. The gains are small. In China, Chris tianity has touched only 618,000 of 422, 2,7O7,8o0 people; in Japan, less than one half of one per cent of the population, by Ross estimate, has been converted.
 Pool Their Resources
 Another war gain recounted by Ross developed in the Dutch East Indies, where 12 of an original IS European and American mission aries are working comparatively, pooling their war-shortened re- sources.
 Loss of life among the mission aries has not reached alarming pro- portions.
 All the gains, unusual and un- anticipated as they are, have no greater importance to Ross than this:
 ''Of all the international relation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-06
CHRISTIANITY E
 NOT DISRUPTED
 BY PRESENT WAR
By RAY PEACOCK

NEW YORK, May World events have placed Christianity in position stronger today than at any time in history, in the opinion of Emory Ross, general secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
 The gain, however, has not been without cost of life, hardship, in hold ground gained, and greater ex- pense to church members in the United States who have been left almost alone to support church work.
 Ross, gray haired veteran of mis- sicnary work, including 22 years in