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Attack Made On Wilby School Is Populated
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made last night, pointed out that the high school age group Is par ticularly susceptible to the tubercle bacillus and investigators find many cases among boys and girls of the high school ages.
 Charge by Com. Hitchcock
 Last night, at the Board of Edu- cation meeting at Crosby high school, Com. Hitchcock voiced the contention that the disease was reaching shocking dimensions at the school. When asked for details and names, she admitted that her information came from someone who had attended the annual meet ing of the Waterbury Anti-Tuber- culosis association yesterday after noon.
 Dr. Thomas J. Condon, superin- tendent of schools, admitted he also attended the association meeting, but denied that anything in the line of figures for the Waterbury schools was made at the gathering.
 MI. Harris, who made public the report of the association late yes- terday afternoon, said that he spoke to Dr. Godfrey this morning over the phone and expressed the hope and wish that in the near future medical education in Waterbury schools would be increasingly im- proved
 Tt is better" he said, "that the youth of this city be educated to the dangers of disease at an early date rather than to let the boys and girls learn from haphaz- ard readings"
 Only 10 Have Died
 "As for tuberculosis deaths in the high schools during the past year, our reports show that 10 boys and girls in all three public high schools died from tuberculosis, which is not figure to cause alarm. There is no indication as to how many of these deaths are of students from Wilby, but 1t is safe to say that Wilby suffered no more than the other two schools"
 Deaths from the disease in Wat erbury for the year 1940 was 52, MT. Harris reported at the meeting yesterday. This figure indicates a rise of IS over the previous year, which was 37.
 Dr. Edward J. Godfrey, city
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health officer, Raymond Ganung and Mrs. Fred J. Hadden were elec- ted directors of the association foi three years. They, and the other , directors, will elect officers at the next directors meeting, to be held soon.
 The establishment of city tuber- culosis clinic will be taken up at 6 meeting between W. J. Pape, pres- ident, Dr. Godfrey and MT. Harris 1t was announced. The purpose oi the clinic would be to begin a cam paign here to educate the commun- fly to the dangers of the disease with earlier treatment of patients the aim of the clinic.
 The sale of seals the past veal was reported to be above the aver age, $6,500 having been received and turned into the treasury.
 It was announced that Mrs George Jackson, the head nurse oi the association for the past 9 years, is now retiring and a sue. cessor must be appointed.
 Doctor Godfrey Speaks
 Dr. Godfrey's statement today follows in full:
 "T'here is probably no more tuber. culosis in Wilby than in the other high schools and while 1t is true that more cases of tuberculosis have been found in high schools recently the reason is because of the in. creased activities in the tuberculosis program-we are looking for more cases and 1t is only natural that we find more. The high school grour is one of the groups where we fint tuberculosis is prevalent. In all oi these cases, family contacts have been examined and are being fol. lowed up, as well as what social con. tacts we could find, even though so. cial contacts are @ little harder tt find than family contacts.
 "As far as Wilby goes, MT. Ken. nedy is to be complimented ant congratulated on the effort he hal made to assist the ATL by proces, of education, moving pictures, etc and 1t must be remembered that tuberculosis is hard to diagnose sometimes, even by trained physi. clans, and for that reason very lit. tie help can be expected from teachers who have had absolutely no training in tuberculosis, except to refer cases that may in theii opinion be slisDiciotis."
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 proportions, particularly in those areas where there are minority Ger mans"
 Evacuation of German Nationals was said to be almost completed and there are no plans at present for the evacuation of the 500,000 or so German minority members in Ju- goslavia. However, according to re- ports published here, many of them already have crossed the frontiers into Germany, Hungary and Ru- mania.
 Jugoslav denials of persecution of Germans were rejected by Nazi spokesmen.
 Most German correspondents have left Belgrade but Jugoslav corre- spondents still are in Berlin.
 Victor Won Heeren, German min- ister to Jugoslavia, who left Bel grade last night, is expected here today to report" 1t was said. Linking the departure of Heeren to Germany from Berlin last week. end, a spokesman said:
 "The fact of the departure of the German minister from Belgrade and the Jugoslav minister from Berlin can only be regarded as an indica- tion of the gravity of the German Jugoslav crisis" Anti-G German demonstrations and outbursts in Jugoslavia are not only continuing but are getting worse, A spokesman said.
 "T'he whole German -Jugoslav problem has now passed into the hands of street mobs and ultra nationalist Serb German -haters. "Beatings up and attacks on Ger mans, and the burning down of farms and villages in the German minority area, are getting constant ly worse"
 Change Is Decided
 The change in tone from last night was decided. Then German informants had said that the gov- ernment was maintaining an atti- tude of lice cold observation.
 An Official News Agency dispatch reported that the last members of the German colony had left Serb districts or Jugoslavia last night by special train, and that the last 1tal- ians left at the same time.
 It said some German refugees" had been pursued by Jugoslav gen. darmes as they fled across the Hun garion frontier at Geyekenyes. German sources asserted definite ly that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Sir John G. Dill, chief of the British Imper- ial General Staff, arrived in Bel grade today.
 Tt is assumed that they began to contact high Jugoslav army officers" i" a spokesman said
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night. They penetrate everything including our own bodies. They car " the rnightiest packet of energy yet known to science. They give rise to bursts of material particles, in- cluding positrons. They are the sub. stance of one of the great mysteries. Years of research have piled III experimental facts. Theories havv been spun and debated. Cosmic rayr promise eventually to bring us mess. ages from the far reaches of thA universe that we shall be able to de- code, messages that may solve some of the unknowns of time and space,
 Tn this Dr. Anderson will con- tinue to play an important role. For his position is gaining import ance with the years, even if 1t is admittedly the shortest-l lived thing in the universe. Born of radiation, 1t is almost ilstantaneously ab-' sorbed by surrounding matter, giv. ing birth to new matter in the act of its death.
 The interval between its birth and death of the order of Q billionth of e second here on earth. Only in the old, empty reaches of >interstellar space do positrons live to respectable old age.
 NEXT: Linking living and non-
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FIRE DEPARTMENT BEING INSPECTED
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anaugh, Police Chief William J. Roach, Fire Marshal D. J. Lahey, and other officers stationed at head quarters, as well as Street Super intendent Herbert Scott-Smith, Building Inspector John T. Hartley and others.
 The visit of the representatives of the underwriters follows the de- mand made for such a survey of the city last fall by the Waterbury Taxpayers Association, in which was contained considerable criti- clsm of the general set-up of the Fire Department.
 The sizc of the personnel was ob- jected to as too large. while it was also recommended that existing fire- houses be closed in the interest oi economy and better protection.
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 ian cruisers were at sea southeast of Sicily sent the British feet into action.
 About midday March 27 our air reconnaissance reported enemy cruisers at sea southeastward of Sicily" the spokesman said.
 "The commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean was then at Alex andria with the main body of his fleet. It was immediately clear tc him that these enemy cruisers could not be up to any good and he concluded that their probable in- tentions were to attack our conveys between Egypt and Greece"
 The spokesman said that in all the battleship was hit at least foul times with torpedoes and sustained serious underwater damage.
 Tt appears probable that during the night the battleship of the Lit. torio class became heavily engaged with its own forces as heavy gum fire was heard at a time and from 0 QACCOhOAA WAlACkl AAhdC " kutPoo- sible for any of our forces to be en. gagged" the spokesman said.
 Meanwhile, it was said, a Greek destroyer force steamed westward in hope of intercepting Italian ship: trying to escape into the Adriatic But this had been precluded by the Italian line of retreat.
 "An extensive air search in the morning failed to disclose any re- niaining Italian ships. which must have escaped under the cover oi darkness" the spokesman said.
 He emphasized that the engage ment was of historic importance since it marked the first occasion in naval history in which such losses had been imposed on an en- cmy while the attacking forces 70. main6d s'completely unscathed."
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United States would prosecute some of the crews for sabotaging their ships in violation of the 1917 espionage act. That act provides a $l0,000 fine, two years imprison- ment, or both, for persons who sabotage ships in American ports, even if they own the ships.
 The engines and other machinery of 20 Italian ships were smashed by their crews, on orders of the 1tal- ian naval attache here. Boston Coast Guard officials said the Ger man vessel seized there was dam aged. The sabotage is being inves- tigated by the federal bureau of in- vestigation.
 The state department did not make public the German and Ital. ian protests, delivered late yester- day. But the justice departments determination to prosecute some of the German and Italian sailors for sabotage, and the arrest of all of them for deportation proceed ings, was considered an answer.
 Warrants for the arrest of the 875 Italian and German seamen were issued by the justice departments immigration division. The charge was that the 875-about 100 Ger mans and ITS Italians-had over- stayed the 60 days foreign seamen are permitted legally to spend in American ports. Most of them had been here for a year or more.
 May Seize French Ships
 The question of seizing French ships was expected to engage the presidents attention upon his re- turn. MT. Roosevelt also may have something to say about the matter of using the seized German, Italian and Danish vessels in the American flag service, relieving an equal number of American ships for Brit ish service.
 The French freighter He de Ques- sarlt, in New York applied for clear ance last Saturday, for a voyage to Martinique. The permission was granted, then suddenly revoked yesterday before the ship could leave.
 we have nothing against the vessel" the treasury spokesman said. We merely want to inquire very carefully into the reasons and purposes behind the departure of French vessels"
 The seizure of the 39 Danish ships evoked no protest from that governments representatives. Povl Bang-Jensen, Danish legation att tache, said Danish seamen "feel very bad that they were associated in the mind of the public with sail- ors who sabotaged their ships. No Danish sailor had any intention of harming his ship. nor was any harm done. It must be remembered that 5000 Danish sailors are now sailing for Great Britain.
 Bang-Jensen said only skeleton crews were aboard the seized Daii- ish ships, about 200 or 300 in all The captains of each vessel and a maximum of six seamen have been allowed to remain aboard by the treasury as a matter of courtesy" Nevertheless, deportation proceed ings will be instituted against the Danes as well as the Germans and Italians. Tie outcome of ifoss proceedings is expected to be il1l
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BY WATSON DAVIS Director, Science Service
Written for NEA Service

Wrtttcn TOT NEA SerVtco
 From cosmic rays bombarding earth from the very depths of the universe, Dr. Carl D. Ander. son snatched @ new building block of all, matter, the atomic particle called the positron.
 The positive electron or positron proved to be one of the three fun- damentals of everything about us, as all atoms are believed to con- sist of neutrons and electrons plus positrons.
 Ills Pm. D. from famous Call fornia Institute of Technology was new and shiny, only two years old. when Dr. Anderson discovered the positron through catching Is pho- tographic portrait, on August 2, 1882. This was one of the most famous pictures in scientific history. Dr. Anderson had not yet reached his 27th birthday.
 In 1e3e, at the age of s1, pr. Anderson was awarded the NobA prize in physics for his great dis- covery.
 He joined the select ranks of scientific immortals to which his teacher and leader In cosmic ray studies, Dr. Robert Andrews Mil- likan, had been admitted years earlier for his researches upon the negative or ordinary electron. COSMIC RAYS
 STILL A MYSTERY
 Cosmic rays, which sired the posi- tron, lombard the earth from outer space every second of the day and
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CONouEROR POLAND

London, April 1.-(UP)-Gen Siegmund List, "conqueror of Po- land" now German commander irl chief in Bulgaria, has flown to Der lin to consult Adolf Hitler and the German high command in prepara- ton for a German attack on Greece and Jugoslavia within the next few days. diplomatic quarters reported today.
 Growing suspicion was expressed in British quarters that in addition to : rreparing for an attack or .Jugoslavia, Germany was putting pressure on France in hope Of ob- taihing the French fleet.
 The feeling was growing in Brit fish and foreign diplomatic quarters that Germany must act promptly M retrieve the disasters which have oyertaken Italy in the Medtter- ranean and Africa and the grave blow to German prestige admin1s- tered by Jugoslavia.
 Reports that Germany had pre- gented Jugoslavia with a new ulti- matum, and that Jugoslavia had al- ready decided that 1t would not CO., operate with Germany, were watch. cd with interest.
 German Attack Sure
 Even aside from such factors there was growing belief that ar attack by Germany on Jugoslavia was most likely If not even inevit' able because of the pressure o events.
 There was every indication tha Great Britain was ready to giv' ,Jugoslavia instant and importan aid in event of German attack.
 The Daily Mail reported in a dis patch from Belgrade that Milan Gabrilovitch, Jugoslav minister t' Russia, was either taking or for warding to his government a draf |of e Jugoslav-Russtan friendship
 3eclaration which would be pub lished immediately If Germany ak send Jugoslavia an ultimatum. According to diplomatic report here, Germany either had or wa likely to demand that Jugoslavia de mobilize within g. brief time, witt war the alternative.
 Germany had troops on tn Greek, Jugoslav and Turkish iron tiers and was in position to strik at any or all.
 For that reason there was grow inG speculation over the possibilit; of q sudden mutual defense agree ment among the three Balkan coun tries.
 The return to Athens of Britisl Foreign Secretary Anthony Edel
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Jugosiav Order No. |

gently he was the agency's Moscow correspondent.
 Jugosiav Order No.
 The calm determination of the nOvernment was shown by the Or. der No. 1" which Premier Gen. Rich- ard Dusan- -Simovitch issued to the nation last night:
 ''Tn connection with alarmist news being spread in our country by for eIen agents for the purpose of cre- ating confusion among our people and state employees, I order that il 1 should be made known to everybody that people should not be influenced | by these incorrect but cleverly dis ! seminated rtrnors and that there ls 1 no reason for alarm.
 .The royal Jugoslav government I follows a friendly policy with all its neighbors and intends to continue l to maintain with them the best ' friendly and neighborly relations I and do everything within the limits I of possibility to continue to follow ] this policy in future.
 "Ail our people have to do is re- ! main calm and continue their cur rent affairs, and not be excited by baseiess rumors spread either from | abroad or inside the country. Therefore forbid any evacuation from any place, or the leaving ot | homes, because there is no reason l for this and 1t could only create bad \ consequences. In the interests of the state I demand that everybody keep to his home and If 1t Is neces- sary that this should be his fate to ESdie at the door of his home for the good of his country, king and people. aT They Are All Ready
 "The army, air forces and navy of our kingdom are ready to fulfill their duties.
 "All government authorities, and ' especially municipal authorities and priests, must stay at their posts in any event. Responsible ministers will permit only such evacuations as are in accordance with plans, and Tor these only a written order is valid. I aThe minister of interior must take all necessary measures to forbid all meetings which are not in har- mony with the present situation l and also to forbid the gathering of crowds at any place outdoors. All 1 other ministers must take the meas l ures necessary to carry out the pres- ent order.
 Tt is especially necessary to warn government employees that they must continue diligently their work 2 4n these difficult moments and that they must prevent the spreading Of baseless reports and maintain the peoples spirit at the necessary level"
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Saved Just In Time

Boston, Apil 1.-(UP)-The Ger man tanker Pauline Friederich, one of six foreign ships seized by the U. s. Government in New England wtaers, soon would have been scut- tied but for the intervention of coast guards, authorities said today.
 An inspection revealed sabotage so extensive aboard the Nazi craft that the 20-year old hulk was be- lieved fit only for scrap metal. Esti- mates for refitting ran from $175,- 900 to $800,000.
 Authorities said sabotage attempts were made aboard the Italian freighter Dino, but that three Dan- ish ships helde here and a fourth at Portland, Me, seemed in good condition. Investigators said en- zine control mechanism aboard the Dino had been filed away but c6usd be replaced easily.
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GERMANS BURN sHIPs

Callao, Peru, April 1.-(UP)-A Peruvian warsl1ip interveTled early today when two German merchant ships attempted to leave the harbor and escape to sea. Their German crews immediately set fire to their vessels.
 Loaded with cotton, the ships were burning fiercely, Illuminating the water. front. It appeared that both would be a total loss. The crews rowed ashore in small boats. The cruiser Colonel Bolognesi, which had frustrated their escape, stood by.
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French Crews Loyal

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 New York, April 1-(UP)-The crews of French ships in American ports would have not the slightest objection to the United States seiz- ing their ships because they regard the United States as the "savior of France" the United Press was in- formed today on the most reliable authority,
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City officials, particularly mem- bers of the Board of Fire Conmis- sioners, were quick to object and the present visit of the Board of Fire Underwriters is the direct result of this stand.
 AS in the case in all such sur- veys it Is expected to be most com plete and comprehensive and will take three weeks to & month.
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Increase State Police

Hartford, Conn, April l-(UP)- The House judiciary committee re- ported favorably today-on bill in- creasing the personnel of the state police force from 225 to 275, includ- ing two policewomen.
 Another state police bill favorably reported provided for fine of $100, jail term of six months, or both, and a dishonorable discharge, for any officer accepting bribe.
 It also was reported favorably to increase the pay of jurors from $4 to $5 day.
 Unfavorable reports were on bills setting legal minimum of $3 for the daily expenses of legislators, and granting unemployment com- pensation benefits to state employees drafted into military service.
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SEN. BLANSFIELD | ASKS INSURANCE
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proposal from Senator George L. Warncke of Wilton for some type of blanket insurance for motorists.
 Under the Blansfield plan $2.50 of the 8 license fee would go into the insurance fund. He claims that there Is evidence of support for 1t in both houses.
 His proposal today was that the Judiciary committee should raise such bill in committee.
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Waterbury calling for changes in the method of appointment of mi- nority members of Waterbury city boards. He also said that there was considerable Republican sentiment on the committee for the principle of the measures, but not for their present texts.
 Under the present wording the bills would require that minority appointments to boards by the mayor must be approved by five mi- nority members of the Board of Aldermen. Senator Sullivan said that this type of legislation is often more dangerous than it Is good. He also said that 1t might make such appointments become hopeiessly in- volved in politics.
 He also reported that members of the committee were aware of the fact that Mayor Vincent Scully's minority appointments in the last two years had won much praise in Waterbury.
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IInfayarahle RenOrt

Unfavorable Report
 Hartford, Conn, April 1-(UP)- The Senate today received an un- favorable judiciary committee re- port on a bill prohibiting members of the General Assembly from hold ing any other public office.
 Other unfavorable reports were on bills requiring state employees coming in contact with contagious diseases to take a physical exann- ination every six months; eliminat- ing the job of state statute revision commissioner and transferring the duties to the secretary of state, and requiring the state to pay for the uniforms of state employees required to wear special dress.
 The House. e-approved bill reducing the cost of automobile drivers H. censes from $3 to 50 cents. year was tabled for printing on the cal- endar.
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OWEN SELECTED

Reginald Owen joins the stellar galaxy in Lady Be oood.'
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s~Americo's Men of Science
Dr. c. D. Anderson Snapped Picture Of Atomic Particle

This is the eighth of @ series of 12 articles introducing you to Americas foremost scientists.
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Nineteen Vessels Of
 France Are Watched
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internment of the seamen, since deportation virtually is impossible at this time.
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No JuiIgeships

Gov. Robert A. Hurley said today that he had not yet made his plans for an appointment in the Common Pleas Court of Waterbury. The term of Judge Miles F. McNiff expires on April 25 and it is expected that prior to that time the governor will
 either send in Judge McNiff's name for confirmation or will name a Democrat in the court. Judge McNiff has been endorsed l by both Democrats and Republicans | In Waterbury with all the local leg-
 islators. likewise. speaking in favor log him.
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may be a light to the public mind and the conscience of the state. In all things, sustain them with lofty sense of responsibility, dealing not as those who make merchandise of truth, but as those who hold the regulations, hopes and aspirations of mankind within the sa cred chalice of their words"
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new men into key posts. Until re- gently he was the agency's Moscow correspondent.