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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-24
SCANDAL AIRED IN
 HIGH BRITISH LIFE
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(Contirued from Page D not give his estate or an allowance, that she could go live with Erroll.
 ErrOll Found Dead
 It was a few hours after the din- ner party that Erroll was found dead, his body in the front seat of his automobile which was abandoned on a bush-country road. There were two bullet wounds in his head.
 Broughton has denied any knowl- edge of the manner of Erroll's death. He said Erroll drove Lady Brough- ton home while he took another guest home in separate automobile.
 In a statement to police, made public at the trial, Broughton how ever, said his bride told him she was in love with the Earl and want ed to go away with him. At her request, he said, he dropped fare- well note from her in Erroll's grave.
 Authorities apparently based the case against Broughton on the mys- terious disappearance of two re- volvers from the mantel in his bed- room d short while before the Earl was found dead
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and tooling, that we have to go through.
 "Once we surmount that there isn't any question in my mind that we can make twice as much as any, body else can make; and say that advisedly. I have been in the coufl- tries over there. I have seen the plants. have operated plants over there; and when 1t comes to getting fooled up, after we do that over here you won't have to be concerned about the output, I am quite sure."
 Will Facilitate Work
 Knudsen told the committee that if Congress makes the full $7,000,- 100000 immediately available in cash, 1t will facilitate quicker and cheaper production of war mate- rials. This would not be so if the outlay were broken up into several appropriations, he said.
 Replying to criticism by Senators Richard B. Russell, D., Ga, and Mo- Kellar, D., Tenn, that their states had been overlooked in the placing of huge defense orders, Knudsen told them that the new American British war purchases would be spread all over the United States.
 Knudsen estimated that the ex- pansion of the defense program would place another 5000, 900 unem- ployed men in jobs "b1 ore the end of the summer"
 Release of the secret testimony and approaching debate on the ST. OOO,0OO000 appropriation cam e amidst renewed opposition demands fo ra realistic" tax bill to meet the spending program.
 Secretary of War Stimson men, toned the tax program briefly dur ing his testimony, saying that If Congress made the full $7,000, ,000,- 900 available in cash, "a tax plan can be more definitely based upon such an appropriation"
 Could Use Them Here
 Stimson said that 95 per cent of the materials to be purchased un- der the war-aid program "are for weapons and munitions which could be used in our own army and which would thus be vitally useful to this nation In case we were ever left alone to defend the western hemi- sphere"
 He said the other five per cent would be weapons of purely British type, but that the plants producing these--such as 1903 rifles-could be transformed to the production of 30 caliber size rifles in about three months.
 Another fact to which wish to call your attention is that in this work for the British there are a number of important improvements that we have derived from their irl- ventions," Stimson said.
 Among those that have been made public, that we have obtained from the British and are now using in our planes and our tanks is a very important improvement in the form of a revolving turret. That in- vention and that plan came to us from Great Britain"
 Precise figures on materiel pur- chases were deleted from the com- mittee record because of Stimson's s explanation that secrecy is neces- hary."
 No Discussion
 None of the cabinet officers would discuss the terms of the arms trans actions between Britain and the United States, explaining that no decision would be reached by the President on such matters until the materials come off the production line many months hence.
 Sen. Russell asked whether 1t would be possible flor the congress to put a limitation on the appro- priations, to make the delivery of these articles contingent upon the
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command said today.
 The high command credited U. boats with having destroyed 27,50O tons of merchant shipping, includ- ing three tankers, in the Atlantic, and said German aircraft in vide spread operations had sunk two vessels totaling 2,500 tons, left two 6,000-tonners in sinking condition and successfully attacked another 6,000-ton ship.
 German bombers, in a raid on the Mediterranean island of Malta, were reported to have attacked a convoy. Hits with bombs of the heaviest caliber were scored on five large freighters and passenger un- CTS and direct hit was made on cruiser escorting the convoy, the high command said.
 British Advance
 Nairobi, Kenya, March 24-(UP) British empire forces, seeking to cut the important Addis Ababa. Djibouti railway, last line of conl- munications for the Ethiopian cap- ital, occupied Marda Pass, only 60 miles from the railroad, an official communique said today.
 Marda Pass, 10 miles west of Jig jiga, was captured after strong op- position bod been overcome, the communique said. Italian forces, retreating from Jigjiga, had dug in at Marda Pass for desperate eg- fort to stem the British advance.
 "Our casualties are slight and op- erations are continuing" the com- munique said.
 The road from Hargeisa to Ber- beran. chief city of British Somali- land, Is now open, the communique said, reporting that British Somall- land now was entirely in British hands.
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nent matters at hand" He said he would submit Capizzi's argument to the NLRB at Washington.
 The hearing was conducted on the UAW-CIO demand for collective bargaining elections at Ford's River Rouge, Highland Park and Lincoln plants. The union has threatened to strike at all three plants, which have total of $l54 ,000. 900 worth of defense orders.
 Today's hearing was on the River Rouge and Lincoln plants em- ploying a total of about S9,00O workers. The NLRB deferred until later the demand for an election at the Highland Park plant. employing about 4.O00 additional.
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when they saw the marking on the planes.
 Only a few German planes flew over Britain during the night and London had its third raid-free night.
 The air and home security min- istries said a few bombs were dropped on eastern England, dam aging homes and causing some cas- ualties.
 Lord Beaverbrook's statement that Britain has more bombing and fighting planes than at any previ- ous time indicated that the oper- ational strength had passed above total of 23,000 planes, with first line strength of 5000. This was the approximate strength at the end of the last wear. Authoritative British sources estimate that Ger many has now an operational strength of 35,000 planes and first line of 5000
 Flown From U. $.
 At the time Beaverbrook made his statement, the aircraft production ministry disclosed that it was now receiving deliveries of four-motored bombers flown from the United States: Tine first types to arrive were Consolidated Liberators.
 Beaverbrook said Britain had planes massed in secret storehouses throughout the country.
 Beaverbrook said the total of air. craft "all ready for action, ready for immediate operations, is record surpassing anything that has gone before"
 This accumulation of aircraft in storage applies to fighters and bombers alike" he said. Both types have reached the highest total in our history. As for new production we had a record February in both fighters and bombers. Anyway you like to make the calculation the output was bigger than anything that had gone before. Engine pro- duction that month was very fine, too, although 1t was not & record"
 Beaverbrook said that nine new types of planes had been brought into operation in the last nine months, that the crack Hurricane and Spitfire fighters had been im- proved, that two more new types were now passing from the develop ment stage, that several others were on the way and that five new en- zines had been brought from the experimental to the manufacturing stage within five months.
 Germany Admits Raid
 Berlin, March 24-(UP) British planes dropped explosive and in- cendiary bombs indiscriminately in the heart of Berlin, causing irsig- nificant damage and killing or wounding several civilians, 8 com munique said today. Several attic fires were caused but were put out quickly, 1t was said.
 The communique said:
 British bombers last night flew in over northern Germany. A num- Der attempted to attach the Reich capital. Individual planes succeed cd in penetrating to the heart of the city. They dropped inddscrimi- nately and from great height in- cendiary and in some cases explo- sdve bombs which only hit residen- tial quarters in the heart of the city and the outskirts. Damage was insignificant. Several attic fires were quickly extinguished. Among the civilian population several were killed or wounded"
 (Germany does not permit cor- respondents to transmit reports of air raids except on the basis of of- ficial communiques.)
 Berlin, March 24-(UP)-An of- ficial news agency dispatch said to- day that British planes raided Kiel during the night, causing some damage in residential areas" and killing or wounding @ number of oiyi1ioyc
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GROW WEEDS TO INCREASE CROPS

This year Dr. Blakeslee holds one of the highest oces in American science, the presidency of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. He Is also playing an important role in the work of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Blakeslee can be picked out of scientific groups by his closely cropped goatee and alert and friendly manner.
 On a typical day in the experi-
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mental gardens and greenhouses O. his laboratory at Cold Spring Har- Dor, the 67-year-old scientist may be found among his associates and graduate students watching over plants upon which important and perhaps crucial experiments are be- ing performed. From these scien- tifically pampered weeds are likely to come knowledge which not only will affect the food crops of the fu- ture but even the tomorrows of the human race.
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resignation of Rep. Joseph w. Mar tin, Jr., as chairman and continued him in office.
 The resignation of the Massachu- sets congressman was rejected on motion of William r. Knowland. na. tional committeeman from Call fornia.
 The action was taken at closed meeting of the committe called by Martin in an attempt 70 find a slc- cessor as chairman SO that he could carry out his intention. announced after the November election. of step l ping out of the party chairmanship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-24
MASSED LABOR MARCHED TO WORK
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 By 7:15 a. m.-25 minutes after the gates were thrown open - AFL Regional Director Harry O'Reilly es- timated more than $500 AFL men had reported to work. The plant em- ployed $500 when 1t was closed.
 Strike Is Broken
 Members of the farm equipment workers organizing committee, af- filiated with the Congress of In- dustrial Organizations, made no mass effort to stop returning work CTS. Flying squadrons of CIO men sped through streets near the plant shouting to workers: Don't go near the plant. Get back on the street cars and avoid trouble. Don't be a scab."
 Streets near respective union headquarters were scenes of great
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-24
. Americas Men of Science
Dr. A. F. Blakeslee---Gives Plants
 Poison To Grow Bigger Vegetables
This is the first of 8 series of 12 articles introducing you to America's foremost scientists.
BY WATSON DAVIS
 Director, Science Service Written for NEA Service

A few years hence, when bigger and better pears, peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, as well as more prosaic vegetables, come to your dinner table, you may remem- Der that the man who took the first botanical steps toward them was Dr. Albert r. Blakeslee, geneticist who heads Carnegie Institution of Wash ingtons department of genetics, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.
 An old-fashioned gout cure, eX- tracted from the bulb of autumn Towering crocus, called the meadow saffron because of its beautiful yell low flowers, is responsible for a promising spurt in plant breeding. This drug is called colchicine.
 Dr. Blakeslee used 1t first on handy but not particularly useful plants like jimsonweed and chick weed with which he had been eX- perimenting for years. The hered- ity of these plants, the way in which their chromosomes were passed on from generation to gen. eration, was intimately known. PRODUCES
 PLANT GIANTS
 From his tests on few miscel- laneous plants ranging from rad ishes to phlox, Dr. Blakeslee soon became keenly aware of the prac- tical possibilities of using the poi sonous co!chicine for creating new varieties of plants. Today scores of scientists in the U. s. Department of Agriculture and elsewhere are injecting, spraying or washing this drug on the levaes and stems and flowers of plants in the hope of producing new giants for field and garden.
 The trick that colchicine per- forms Is, the doubling of the chromosomes, which produces a giant generation, capable of being perpetuated. Many ordinary hy- brids are sterile. But colchicine- produced giants can be made to breed true, which Is what the com- mercial plant grower is looking for.
 Dr. Blakeslee has been one of those who has greatly speeded mans control over experimental evolution.
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It Is reported that fin i2 states
 there are laws against driving toe slowly.
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Resignatlon Rejected

Washington. March 24.-CUP)-- The Republican National Commit tee today unanimously rejected the
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-23
woMAN's PURSE TAKEN

y a1sG hnAk<N
A thief reached through an open
window OF the Imperial apart
ments Mt gisis SO. Yakima ave.
Sunday afternoon and took a purse
owned by Mrs. Robert Carney,
police were told. The purse, minus
IS cents in change. later was found
in the basement of the apartment.
Or. Philip c. .yi:; A.. r.~,m.a
practice. Llmited 70 obstetrics and
rynecology. itN Medical Ara
building. sdv.
eYao oss;sssiMxs pAsTY
Tacoma cyro club msmbers viii
have their annual Christmas party
Wednesday noon at Hotel Win
throp. Present vii b exchanged.
Butter /. cheaper ., Cow Butter
Store. adv
ANGLO-sAxOSs CANCEL
There will be no meetings Of
the Anglo-Saxon federation at
Hotel Winthrop during the holiday
season. IL was announced Monday.
rHREE BicycLEs STOLEN
Bicycles owned by Leonard Jor-
genson OF 1903 So. Warner. Bsr.
wyn Carver Of 7020 So. G. st. and
Gilbert Thiel Of 1898 80. G st.
were stolen over the weekend.
according 10 their reports 10 police.
TWO SEw fAT.oLmEs
Two new members were ADDED
10 the Tacoma police department
Monday. They are Pstrolmsn Lee
p knight and Eugene p. Reardon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-23
Subsiaiion Will
Cost a Million
Power Authority
To Build in Tucomo

Work soon Will be under way
either in Taeoms or At IN. north
east city limits on $1,000. 600
power suhststion for the purpose of
bringing Bonneville power To Ia
coma.
At the present time there w no
way TO transport power from the
big Columbia river plant 10 Tacoma
other than by q feed back through
the seattie-Tacoms city light tie-in
line.
The new suhststion Will handle
power taken from a ii5-volt line
under construction between Taco
ma and the Bonneville substation
at covington, east q Auburn on
the Bonneville Seattle line.
Main purpose Of the big sub
station. according to the announce
ment by Paul J. Rsver. Bonneville
administrator. will he IN feed Co
lumbis river electric power to the
aluminium reduction plant about
ready for construction on the Taco
ma tidenss.
The 100000 pound plant will
be tied In with the Tacoma light
system but will take power which
Tacoma does not now have TO de.
liver. The tract chosen for II Ia
near the end Of Hylebos waterway.
not far from the northeast bound
airy Of the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-23

VA SHIN ITO >-The u. s.
army. pronting BY experiences in
Europe. il expediting development
81 a powerful long-rsnge air force
Of such size and mobility that u
can strike AZ any attempted naval
attack from overseas OF South
America. Secretary Of War Henry
l. Stimson said Monday.
He emphasized the development
Of air forces in his annual report.
which was written in November.
prior "a the surprise japanese at
tack on Pearl Hsrhor. Hawaii, on
Dec. !. That attack resulted In
assignment Of Lieut.. Gen. Delos c.
Emmons. chief OF the Army's air
force combat command. as COM
mander Of the srmy's forces Al
Hawaii.
Opposes independent force
The recently demonstrated ef-
fectiveness Of air power as against
sea power in the confined limits
of the Mediterranean has suggest
ed revolutionary possibilities for
the defense OF American interests
In the similar seas Of the south
western Pacific" stimson said.
1T has also suggested the enor-
nous powers Of a hemisphere de-
Tense which, radisting out from
the manufacturers and training
grounds Of the United States and
taking advantage Of our now sx-
listing ocean and continental bases.
may strike at and ward off hostile
sea power long before II is able to
approach our shores"
Stimson reported that the army
Is pursuing a policy of unifying
command of air. ground and sea
forces for special theaters Of sc-
ton. but he opposed creation If an
independent air force such as some
congressional sources have urged.
He said there must be a single
head for the army as a whole"
for both air and ground forces.
Resulss Pleasing
AT the recent maneuvers In
Louisiana. there were employed at
least four types OF combat planes
which were concededly superior TO
any yet produced by the warning
nations of Europe" he said.
In their work OF cooperation
with the ground forces at those
msneuvers our sirmen displayed a
spirit and technique Of cooperation
which, in the light of their COM
paratively brief training was as
tonishing. An organization which
can produce such results in so
brief a time should not he sub
jected 10 the destructive efforts Of
hasty legislation.
we have been progressing by
an orderly and good-tempered evo-
luton. n is no time for the inter-
vention Of arbitrary or ill-sdvised
experiments"
Discussing the army In general.
Stimson said the major purposes
are to develop:
IA powerful long range air
force of such size and mo-
bility .that, operating centrally
from the United States but using
as stepping stones our Atlantic
and Pacific outposts. 1t can effect
lively strike at any naval attack
from overseas or South America 4"
0-"Well-trained teams OF air and
4 ground forces which not only
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Hunt Jap Subs
Off West Coast
American Ships
Shelled by Foe

san FRANCISCO - Tn. navy
pressed Monday with every ia
eihty At It's command air. surface
and underses ersft-a relentless
hunt for the enemy submarines
which dared 10 attack American
shipping within 20 miles Of IN.
California coast.
The e.ei2-ton General Petroleum
company tanker Emidio was
shelled and torpedocs Saturday 20
miles off Cape Mendoeino. 200
miles north Of San Francisco.
within an hour after the s.771-
ton tanker Agwiworld Of the
Richfield On company was shelied
20 miles off Monterey. so miles
eouth Of San Francisco. Uncon-
firmed were reports of an attack
on the Uion oil tanker L. T. st
Clair. which fled into the mouth
of the Columbia river.
The Emidio was damaged
besefftN hnu US tfeW to"S v"
lifeboats, three OF which were
sunk nv the submarine
A brief navy communique said
the Emidio had a crew of 81 of
which % were missing. but west
coast shipping experts said no
tanker operating out of Pacific
ports carried that large a crew.
that the usual complement for
ship of the Emidio's size was 81.
General Petroleum said only five
were missing from the Emidio.
Navy Remains Quiet
The navy made no announce
ment of what IT was doing to
track down the submarines, which
It presumed were Japanese. Like
wise there were no indications
what steps IT might be contem-
plating to protect coastwise ship
ping which has been operating
without convoy. But in Washing
ton, Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox said. Our naval forces
have already effectively dealt with
several Japanese submarines"
Guarded by the navy were
details Of the fate of the
Emidio. The last official re-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-23
U. S. Army Is Developing
Most Powerful Air Force
Will Be Able TO Strike at Any
Attempted Aitock From Oversees

can Immediately meet any hostile
feFoes threatening Tire western con
tinent but which car also furnish
the reserves and csdres Of trained
men and weapons necessary 10
save eur own country from con-
quest In the critical event II q
threatened mass invasion q our
boundaries
He charged Germany with
eald-hlecaed development ef .
pisa fer complete world dcm-
ination" under . military des-
potism for four sesrs prior Ia
1889. when the current war
h>gsn. NE said that never In
history has there he~r sach -
carefully planned and powerful
aggression"
The collapse 81 France. he con-
tinusd. brought the menace 10 the
western hemisphere closer because
of the grave threat az the collapse
Of British seapowsr. which vas
then guarding the Atlantic. But
sending Of lend-lease supplies. ac-
QUESTION Of new Atlantic bases
from the British in exchange for so
average destroyers. creation Of
air and ground forces on Iceland
and Greenland. and the conveying
of war materials has strengt hened
this eountrys position. he wrote.
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BY BEET HENDERSON

port was from the coast guard
that she was sighted nine
miles norths of Cape Mendo-
elmo riding low In the water"
II was believed she was In tow
en- route to an undisclosed
port.
Eight shells were fired at the
Agwiworld but all missed. Captain
F. p. Goncalves attributed his
ships escape to the heavy seas
which made the Japs' aim a little
too high"
IF we'd had a gun" he said,
there might have been one less
submarine. All we had were two
pistols"
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