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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
WILKES RIGHT | NAME IS WILuCKE
Purely of German Descent
 He Says as He Returns From Trip Abroad

Lisbon, Portugal. Feb. e--CUP)-- Wendell L. Wilikie. was enroute home today aboard the Pan- -Ameri- can Airways Dixie Clipper to tell Americans what he had seen and heard in a line-day, whirlwind tour Of inspections and conferences ln Great Britain.
 Flying the alrline's new South At- lantic route, the Dixie Clipper was due at D0laiia, Portuguese Guiana, on the West African coast, about 1880 D. m. (e:30 c. fii. EBT) and was to take off about ( D. fa. (noor, HlgT) for Trinidad, ln tho West indies. where it Is due Friday Tporning. 1'hg plane left here At 1 c. Fa. co D. ui. Wendesday EBT).
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
British-A Aid Bill Would Weaken Our Defenses, Causing Invasion
S42,O0O,O0O IS
 SPENT DAILY
$2,4OO,O 100000 for Cur- rent Financial Year to
 Carry on This War

London, Feb. 6-(UP)-Chance of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood disclosed in the House of Commons tody that Britain's war effort now was costing more than &1O,50O, 900 ($42, ,000,00O) day. He asked parlia- ment to vote supplemental appro- priationS.
 The Chancellor asked for &6OO,- 100000 ($2,400,0 ,00O,00O for the cur rent financial year ending March 31 and an initial vote of 21, 900 900 900 (($4, 900, ,O00,00O for the 1941-42 f1- nancial year. He said that the total national expenditure for all purposes averages G12, ,25O, GOO ($49, ,OO0, ,OO0) per day.
 Sir Kingsley said that the present war was the most cosly in British history. -..
 we already have passed the highest amount of expenditure in the last war and the pace is still growing" he said, citing the budget figures. He said that if the credit of f600,000,O00 he requested was voted the expenditure for the cur rent financial year would be f3, ,30O,- 100000 ($13 200, ,000, ,0O0).
 'The largest sum actually spent during the last war was 2,432, ,O00,- 0O0 in 1917," he said.
 The Chancellor, citing evidence of the quickened pace in Britain's "all- out" war effort, said that 8 year ago the daily expenditure was f5,- 900, 900, of which f4,0O0,O00 was for the fighting services.
 Daily Rate Growing
 To-day the daily rate is more than E10, ,5OO,0OO, of which f8,0OO,000 is for the fighting services and &2,500.- 600 for other war services" he said.
 He sad that daily expenditure had increased by 21,50O,O00 since last October.
 T cannot now forecast what the expenditure will be in the early of the next financial year." Wood said. T again ask f1 900 ,000,- 900 because it is the largest sum that I can reasonably ask to be granted at one time.
 These tremendous figures indeed are striking proof of the country,s
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
Governor Accepts Federal Plan For Housing Projects
Information on Proposed Projects for Waterbury, Other Connecticut Cities Still Missing; Sur-
 veys Called for iq Federal Plans
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Reporter)

State Capitol, Hartford Robert A. Hurley told The accepted a request from the Bureau at Washington to al duct surveys and supervise cities, including Waterbury, projects have been approved
 Word was received in Waterbury Monday that a 300-unit housing project for this city had been ap- proved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 The governor announced the agreement with the federal author ities after a conference with William 0. Loring, Field Representative of the Bureau. He also said that he had agreed to the appointment of Housing Directors for Hartford, New London, and Bridgeport. He is ready to sanction similar appoint ments in Waterbury and New Britain.
 Mayor In Doubt
 Governor Hurley said he had con- ferred with Mayor Vincent Scully of Waterbury yesterday afternoon and was told by the latter that nothing was known in Waterbury of the housing project. The governor said that he and the mayor agreed to seek further information from Con- gressman J. Joseph Smith of Wa terbuEy.
 In the course of his remarks to- day the governor stated that 1t was his belief that no defense housing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
British Forces Advancing Along Three Routes In Libya Warfare
Italian Soldiers Are in De- mOralized Conditions
 Still in Flight
BY H. L. PERCY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff C0rreSpOndent)
 London, Feb. 6.-(UP)-British forces, advancing through Libya along three roads with thousands of remoralized Italian soldiers fleeing before them, may reach Benghal, capital of Cyrena.ca, within six days it was reported today.
 Dispatched disclosed that long motor truck trains already were moving westward from the Benghazi area in anticipation of a British attack.
 AS one British empire army moved along the coastal road from Derna toward Benghazi, making 20 to 30 miles a day for the present, a second proceeded along a road slightly inland across the Gebel el Akhdar plateau and a third marched straight westward toward Benghazi through the interior des- ert by way of Mekhili. The force proceeding along the Akhdar plateau would join the main costal force at Barce.
 The Italian retreat, now approxi- mating a rout, was Speeded at Barce when a railroad runs to Benghazi. Royal Air Force planes kept the railroad under almost con- stant attack, however.
 It was not known whether the motor transport which had started to move westward from Benghazi was taking soldiers and war equip- ment of only civilians. But doubt increased here that the Italians could stop their retreat and or ganize any effective defense of BenghaI.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
WAR IN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 FEB. 6, 104O
(Dy United Press)

tIBy United Press)
 Britain announced ratIonlng of fresh meat to start March 1l.
 Red army hurled five heavy attacks against Finnish ilnes. Re- treats along balla front cost Rus. kla lo.e00 troops. Finnish mili- leaders estimated.
 Ilum0Fs in Scandinavia said Germany might undertake new nsAee moves Berlin denied any sufh pian.
 Losses Rt sea- Swedish steam. ship Virgo and Drlusb tanker British Councillor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
England, He Asserts, Is Not in Position to Win
 Present War ENGLISH VICTORY
 IS YEARS OF WAR Danger to America Lies at Home, Not in Any Ger
 man Invasion
BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE United Press Staff Correspondent)

BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE United Press Staff Corrcspondent)
 Washington, February G.. (UP) = Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh said today that the administrations British Aid bill would weaken American defenses "still fur ther" and might result in an invasion of the United States. Personally, I don't believe that England is in a position to win the war;" he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
 ''If we deplete our forces still further, as this bill indicates, we may, and if England loses the war, then, gentlemen, I think we may be in danger of invasion, although I do not believe we are today.
 "If we ever are invaded in Amer ica, the responsibility will lie upon those who send our arms abroad"
 He said he opposed the bill be- cause it endorses a policy that will lead to failure in war, and to con- ditions in our own country as bad or worse than those we now desire to overthrow in Nazi Germany"
 He repeated his preference for a negotiated peace to complete vic- tory for either Great Britain or Germany.
 He testified after Col. Robert B. Mccormick, publisher of the Chi- cago Tribune, said 'it is fantastic to suggest that we are in any danger of attack
 Denies Indifference
 Lindbergh denied that he had ever taken the position that 1t makes no difference to us" who wins the war.
 Tt does make a difference to us, great difference" he said. But I do not believe that it is either possible or desirable for us in Amer ica to control the outcome of Eu- ropean wars.
 When I am asked which side x would like to have win, 1t would be very easy to say, the English. But gentlemen, English victory, if it were possible at all, would neces- Sitate years of war and an invasion of the continent of Europe. I be- leive this would create prostration, famine, and disease in Europe and probably in America-such as the whole world has never experi- enced before.
 That is why I say that prefer a negotiated peace to complete victory by either side.
 Danger Lies at Home
 T do not believe that the dan- ger to America lies in an invasion from abroad. I believe it lies here at home in our own midst, and that it is exemplified by the terms of this bill = the placing of our security in the success of foreign armies, and the removal of power from the representatives of the people in our own land"
 He said our army and air force are poorly equipped on modern standards" and that our navy is in urgent need" of new equipment.
 What we are doing in fofoiwnag our present policy is giving up al ideal defensive position in Ameflce for very precarious offensive posi-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
GOVERNOR ASKS
 MAYOR TOKEEP ON
Waterbury Defense Com. to Continue; Judge COn-
 way Resolution Starred
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK

Democrat Legislative RepOrter)
 State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. G. Governor Robert 4. Hurley an- nounced this morning that he had advised Mayor Vincent Scully of Waterbury at a conference held at the Capitol yesterday afternoon to allow the Waterbury defense com- mittee to function as in the past for the time being, pending Washington advices on the set-up recommended by the National Defense Council.
 The governor has withheld plac- ing any state defense commission plans before the Legislature until he has definite information from Wash ington. He said that he hopes the program can be arranged to provide the maximum cooperation between the state and local defense commit tees.
 It appeared as if Mayor Scully had asked the governor whether local committees should cease function
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN Limited Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood, Feb. 6-(UP)-Marion Talley charged her husband today with offering to keep quiet concern ing his accusations against her and seven men---iS she'd give him $780, 900 and custody of their child.
 The once buxom Missouri girl, who became Q Metropolitan Opera prirna donna, told the superior court she considered this offer blackmail. She turned It down. Her husband, Adolph Eckstrom, New York music teacher then filed c court suit tn New York, naming Edgar Bergen and six others. And accusing her Of "actS of iiiibcon. duct" with them all. Yesterday q New York court refused 70 dismiss this suit ia which Eckstrom seeks . separation and custody Of their child.
 That turned the cato ot the MarIon'-wiio had t0 shed 20 pounds
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Feb. 6-(UPy-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Feb. 4th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,445,SSS, ,422.75 $5,57s,772, ,764.63 s,SS2.4s1,57s.ss $s,111,745,s1s.l ss.112.ss1. .s4s.ss ss.ss7, ,oe7, ,4si.So ss.O7l. .ss1. .sss.ss ss.4ls,ss7. 1si.5o
 Cash Balance
 ss'Oco.iss,47Ai7 s2.sio,2s2.s7s.es
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Cloudy, Warm Tonight; Clearing, Cold Friday
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18

and special activities including
such avocations as hosteling, as
tronomy, gardening and model
trains. Third was cultural activi-
ties such as music, painting,
drama, woodcuts, etc. Last Is a
committee concerned with or
ganizing group activities within
individual business offices, fac
tories and schools.
A central office will backstop
work of the field staff and act
as liaison agent between the rec
reational agents of the city. Spe-
cialists in many fields indicate
they will be glad to devote some
time to leading others into the
greener fields of leisure.
It's spreading in Chicago and
may spread to your town, so get
ready to trade your drinking suit
for a tennis racket or ticket to
the opera. Because leisure's on
the march-but chaperoned.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18

Dr.. "A. j. T0ddwaS no surprise
to the boys in the back room.
What surprised them was that
it took five years to discover it.
But it did startle the city's
business, professional and civic
leaders. They organized The
Leisure Foundation o; Chicago
to interest adults in fun without
benefit 81 booze, baccarat or bag
MOS.
These people were not profess
sional reformers, shoppers or
bodies. They just wanted
people to put to better. use the
free time so many more persons
have today.
The Leisure Foundation lead
ers are out for more trap shoot
ing and less crap shooting, more
book reading and less bookmak-
ing, more pops from q baseball
bat and fewer bats by alcoholic
pops.
WHY MOST PEOPLE
WASTE FREE TIME
The ball started rolling under
the guidance of such persons
as DR.. Arthur J. Todd of North
western University, now director
of the Foundation; Avery Brund-
age, president of the American
Olympic Games Committee
Judge John p. McGoorty OF
Cook County Superior Court;
President Agnes Nestor of the
Chicago Women's Trade Union
League; and Francis Mcknight,
vice president of one of the city's
largest banks.
The got the c. I. O. together
with the A. F. of L., and both
with the Chicago Association OF
Commerce and the Illinois Man.
ufacturers Association. Also
joining in were such groups as
the Board of Education, Illinois
Library Association, and KiWan-
Is, Rotary and Lions Clubs.
Director Todd decided most
Chicagoans wasted tn cir free
time because they didn't have an
opportunity to spend it any other
way. That left the job one OF pro-
viding recreation for leisure time
and letting people know about it.
Employed men and women In
American cities have more un-
filled time than AZ sim la r
group of adults ever before en-
loved" Todd says. 1--WE believe
they can be attracted to join So
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
Nations Lend-Lease Data IS All in Big Black Book
Pupils

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Marjorie Stobber, high school
treasurer.
Louis Devantier gave a schol-
arly valedictory in which he
aid, "Yet to come are the les
sons of honest and Arm convic-
ton which will give us a mighty
weapon, mightier than the steel
weapon that fires metal shot,
with which to combat the evil
forces that most surely will as
sail Us"
Sadie Elkins, class salutatorian,
welcomed the capacity audience
composed largely of parents.
She described education, envi-
ronment and ambition as the
principal implements of society
in urging that graduates "em-
ploy them to the best OF our ca
pacities."
Yolanda Van BeverslUys, class
yice-president, described the
determination to succeed" as the
hrst requirement to success IN
giving the presidents address.
She charged that nothing worth
having ever comes to one with
out hard work.
A receipt for the class memo
rial-a huge ceiling for the gym
nasium-was presented to Bob
Klein, president of the student
council, by Harvey Neiswander.
Anna Laura Fulton read the
class history, which proved ex-
tremely interesting. She had
been assisted in preparing the
history by Betty Davis, Harold
Elliott, Jr., Doris Elkins and
Walter Bobcean.
The program was opened and
closed when Clare A WigelPs
band played two stirring num-
bers. Also enjoyable was with
in . Dreaming Harbor," sung
by the Girls Glee Club and "A
Chant for Chloe" sung by the
BoyS' Glee Club. Nancy Lewark
accompanied the girls. Kenneth
.Heddeld the boys.
The annual Junior-Senior
dance will be held tonight and
Commencement is schedule for
Thursday at 8 pm. in the school
auditorium. DR.. Louis Anspach,
president of Central State
Teachers College, will deliver
the address and Superintendent
L. Wade Fast will present the
diplomas.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
New Old Age Benefit
Law Lacks Paying Power

CLEANSING, June ia (R -
With the Michigan old age as
sistance case load at its highest
point in history, F. F. Fauri,
state SOCIAL security supervisor,
today warned county old age as
sistance bureaus the governors
signature to a bill extending the
old age assistance maximum
benefit may result in an ava
lanche of new applications.
Fauri told the counties to
warn applicants that the law
does not become effective for 90
days and that there are no funds
to pay the maximum benefit of
$40 a month provided for the
bill. Recently, the bureau dis.
closed the average benefit for
Michigan was approximately
$18, although some cases came
near to the previous maximum
of $50.
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LOcatOrs
Continued from Page II

Autumn in the terrific air war
and that its increasing use had
a bearing on the recent lull in
Nazi activity over Britain.
Previously detectors were OF
the mechanical ear type-pick-
ing up and simplifying the sound
of airplane motors overhead or
near.
According to the official ex-
PLANTATION, the new radiolocators
send out electric waves which
signal the locating and course OF
planes miles away.
Il was said unofficially that
virtually the same principle has
been applied in submarine de-
lection.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
Only Two Copies Exist;
dnd You Cont See Them!
But off;eieI Records ore Due
for Airing When Emergency Ends

lend-lease act, although payment
in some other kind Of usabls
merchandise might also be con-
sidered.
Activities of the lend lease ad-
ministration are 30 secret, that
officials will say nothing about
their work. It took permission
from the White~House to obtain
these few facts.
The "big, black book" was de-
scribed by Major General James
H. Burns, executive officer Of
the "office Of defense aid re-
ports illegal name Of the lend.
lease administration) and Philip
Young, his chief assistant. Even
Burns doesn't have q copy, and
all Young has are the rough
worksheets and the microfilm
negatives-all locked up in =
vault.
GENERAL STORE
AS Young explained il, what
we have here Is really q $1,000.
100000 general store dealing IN
everything from eggs to tanks"
General Burns interpolated,
Eyes, and not long ago we filled
British order for rubber bands,
pencils, writing paper ink, and
pens"-all needed for q certain
British army headquarters.
Besides the big, black book"
other and much more volumi.
nous records of all sorts are be-
ing kept, in compliance with q
promise of Budget Director Har-
old D. Smith to congress.
The procedure is still being
ironed out to simplify and ex-
pedite 1t. Now, II takes on the
average, about 10 days for =
British requisition to 60 through
the mill. But in emergencies, It
has been speeded up to Q record.
in one instance, of three hours.
THEY DO 1T
The two men who attend to
the details-they have q staff Of
only IS, one of the smallest In
Washington - are q contrast.
Burns is IS, an iron-haired vet
eran of q lifetime in the army.
He graduated from West Point
in 1908, started specializing In
ordnance in 1910, won the dis
tinguished service medal for his
powder and explosive procure
ment work in the World War.
Young, however, was born but
81 years ago and has been
working for the securities COM
mission and treasury almost
since the day he got out Of COL
lege. But he is not new to big
business, because his father 10
Owen D. Young, retired presi-
dent of General Electric COM
pany.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
BY IRVING PERLMETER

~ AsSv 1ANN A~3SA~"es~ N1s
owASHINGToN. June ls-lR,
The story of United States
lend-lease aid to Great Britain is
in q big black book.
You can't look in the book,
because 1t has q very exclusive
circulation. There are only two
copies, to begin with. President
Roosevelt has one and Harry L.
Hopkins, his assistant in charge
Of lend-lease, has the other.
You might find it dull reading,
anyway. II Is packed 50 full of
figures that microfilm pictures Of
the huge statistical tables were
inserted in the books to keep
them down to reasonable size.
Each book Is q loose leaf
binder, about ID inches long, z
inches wide and 4 inches thick.
More pages will be added as the
war continues.
DUE FOR AIRING
But, after the war, the book
will have to get a thorough air
ing because it is the record of
what presumably must be paid
back. Britain is expected to pay
back plane for plane and tank
for tank, under the theory of the
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Alert
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NSVhSAuuVu AAVAh 06C ~
is aimed at obtaining $4,000 to
$4,000 men a month, instead Of
the present approximately 5000
Thenavy's present strength is
264,798 officers and men and
the demand for trained man
power has remained urgent as
new warships were commissioned
crews increased and auxiliary
vessels added to. the naval
forces.
Captain Abel T. Ridwell, as
sistant chief of the bureau Of
navigation, told reporters I'VE
think we can get all the men We
want" without calling on the
selective service for recruits.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
of German nationals now in the
United States.
Raj ACTIVE

OF herman ndtlOHdiS HoW Ill VIC
United States.
Raj ACTIVE
Britain, while disclosing the
use Of q new radiolocator to de-
tect raiding planes, kept up her
aerial blows at the Reich.
The Raj, bolstered by q
stream of American-built planes.
raided the Boulogne area of the
German held coast of France
early last night and then struck
for the seventh consecutive night
into industrial western Ger
many.
German air attacks on Eng
land overnight were limited
largely to the east coast.
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's
minister of state, called for 49,
600 volunteers to help make and
operate the radio-wave airplane
detectors, which the British have
kept secret for months.
CHECK FRENCH
In the middle east, British and
Free French forces declared they
had checked French counter-at-
tacks in Lebanon and Syria by
rushing up reinforcements.
British said the counter-at-
tacks had not interfered serious
ly with the general scope of their
operations against Damascus,
and that British troops already
were on heights overlooking the
Syrian capital.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18

little 6 n I on
the subject and
the neighbors.
After q five,
year surv e y
they found the
pleasures most
e n ] oy e d by a
majority of the
Chicago areas
5000, adults
were drinking,
"a m bling and
vice to the tune
Of $2O5,O00,000
MI L
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18

NEA Service staff Correspondent
CHIC AGO - Some of
the good citizens of this for
mer midwestern citadel of sin
and crime took look at the
after dark activities of their
neighbors and decided to shed a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
Moscow


psian is being conducted Is pro-
vided by the latest Russian
movie. Girls ut the Front" 1t
alorifies the exploits OF . ~
year-old~ Leningrad working
girl. Natasha Matveyeva, who
volunteered for ambulance work
during the Russian. Finnish war.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
Protest


Continued from Page II
man Trans-O Ocean News Serv-
ice.
CITE TREATY
The protest was understood to
contend that the blanket order
expclling German consuls vio-
lated a German-American con-
sular treaty of 1923 and amount
ed to q denunciation OF this
treaty without the required one
year notice.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-18
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under treaty law and will simp-
ly be stored"
DR.. Baer asserted he had no
official instructions from Ber-
lin as yet relative to the closing
order. q
II am following and obeying
instructions from -aerlin, ne
said, land until they come
carry on business - usual.