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Mile o' Dimes Need Every Dime To Aid In Fight U. S. Weather Forecast Connecticut Fair and continued cold Sunday: Monday snow and slightly warmer. Full Report Pace 13, Part II ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. DAILY EDITION CV HARTFORD, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1941.

86 PAGES IN 7 PARTS Member or th Aiworla tfd Prrxt PRICE 10 CENTS On Infantile Paralysis Start Every Day flfT ApA 1 Right 1 IJJIJV Nazi Airman, Nabbed In Ogdensburg, Predicts Fall of Britain By September Hurley Asks 'Wholesome Propaganda' Getting Air Base Is No Sensation In Windsor Locks British Enter Derna Italian Riots Reported Bullitt Fears Invasion etion deeded to Loun-and BrlUsh capltuiation by ScP-teract Intolerance, Ha- jtember, left for New York City to- One of 30 to Pass Bar Examinations Testifies in Behalf Of Lease-Lend Bill 3 Generals JW t- dry of AP Wlrephotos. BARON FRANZ VON WERRA. Ing with transporting of troops by gilders, bombers towing the craft in tandem. Each glider, he asserted, carries 45 to 50 men. The glld- are released over a specified lo- Town Views With Mixed Emotions Taking Over of Tract in Bull Run Section Housing, Traffic Problems Foremost Community, Rents Now Unattainable, 1 -ers Building- Expansion as Sure to Develop BY WILLIAM K.

PAYNTER. Windsor Locks, Jan. 25. Windsor Locks Is being put on the map by, Uncle Sam, but not every one Is sure it wants to be there. The Army is going to take a little more than a third of the area of the town and convert It Into a buzzing hive of defense activity, but Windsor Locks can't decide whether to yawn, weep or cheer.

Varied Comment. The Army's plan to move In a couple of thousand soldiers and scores of airplanes to make the place a key spot in the defense of the entire northeastern quarter of the nation brings comments like these: "My kids have been making their spending money and enough to buy clothes by working summers In the tobacco fields. After this there won't be any tobacco fields." -we are going 10 lose ociwrrn 52UO.uuu ana jjau.uuu irom ine ffvonH Wt onrf eke will AP Wlrephotos, WILLIAM C. BULLITT. Mrs.Hubbard, Ogdenburg, N.

Jan. 35. (AP,) A 26-year-old German pursuit pilot, who predicted a "knockout night after escaping two days ago from a Canadian prison train. The slim, smiling llght-halred flyer, Baron Frani von Werra, boarded a train after his release on $5000 bond pasted by the German Consulate in New York City. He was accompanied by an Ogdenburg attorney.

He was arrested last night on a downtown Ogdensburg street and waived examination this afternoon on a charge of "entering this covin try without reporting to a United States immigration officer." He Is scheduled to appear before a Federal grand Jury convening In Al- jbany January 30t werra, nis ears irozen told 'authorities he fled from two Brit Ish prison camps after being forced down in England September 7. He claimed he entered the United States by crossing the St. Lawrence River in a rowboat. Sneakine nerfeel the jMesserschmldt squadron leader told reporters he escaped so that could return to Oermany in time to join in a "knockout blow against England In March. He added he had flown over England "so many times" he was unable to count the flights, He said the Nazis are experlment- Mile o' Dimes Pace Slows, 23,151 More Needed to Reach Coal by Thursday; Radio Stars Continue to Aid Drive MILE DIMES Receipts Dimes Amount Previous total ....62,058 $6205.80 Saturday to 1 p.

m. 4,863 466.30 Total to date 66,721 $6672.10 Progress of the WTIC-Hartford Courant Mile o' Dimes slackened Saturday, following Friday's record welcome to Elsie the Cow, but re- ceiDt of 4663 more dimes from tJ groups and Individuals brought the jtotal to 66.721. leaving 23,151 dimes; to go if the drive to help paralysis. victims is to reach its goal by next! Thursday. High point of the day's radio pro- gram, during which seven broadcast I were presented directly from the Mile stand on Main Street, was the appearance of Elisha Wright and Zeke Peck, whose "Wrightvilie Sketches" are well known to WTIC audiences.

Ellsha and Zeke drove up State Street in a horse and chaise, pulled up at the stand and gave a sizable crowd 15 minutes of brought to the Mile line 750 dimes, the contribution of Hartford Elec trie Light Company employees. Ride In Ancient Chaise. The chaise in which Ellsha and Zeke rode has a pedigree of Its own tnr th. wii. wngmaiiy O-wj i uncicr circumstances suggesting thai a cation'11 hrfn Fascists, f- ITp 1 ri 1 During the day they met no re At x.

i mj a Mjslstnnce so far as could be learned. I. MRS- DALIN. 30 Out Of 57 Successful In Bar Exams Number Passing Consid- 1 i C. I taeu xngii iur ueteiuv Der State leStSJ seven From Greater Hartford December Connecticut Bar uuus weie passcu uy oui Greeorv Denne C.

Merritt I.anei an(i Wife of Manufacturers Assn. Head Had Wide Cultural Interests; Fu neral Plans Incomplete Mlddletown. Jan. 25, (Special) Mrs. Helen Keep (Otis) Hubbard, wife of E.

Kent Hubbard, president of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut, died Saturday at tred, Governor bays in Nationwide Broadcast Plans New Body For State's Unity Lauds Progress Made by Baldwin in Defense Work Here; Flays To- talitarian Agents New York, Jan. 25. w.rnh. that Am.riro i "now nn- aer aiiacn ay voiunuuinii (iiupn- ganda whose purpose is to divide her people by stirring up intoler ance and hatred, Connecticut's Gov ernor Hurley, in. a nationwide ra- dio address here, today called lor a counter-campaign of wholesome propaganda" to insure national, health.

To help conquer "the first enemy we have to face, these ignorant ar mies enrolled under the flags of hatred," the Governor disclosed, his intention of establishing in Connecticut "a special commission which will have as its main objective the uniting of creeds, races and classes under the Stars and Stripes." "I suggest that every state might well establish such a commission at once," he said in a talk before the National Democratic Club broadcast over a coast-to-coast net- work. "Nothing, I think, could more "llTl111111! need in our national defense." All America, Governor Hurley de clared, is "waiting for a blue-print" that will Insure the success of the national defense program. "I say this anxiously, perhaps impatiently, but without any intention of blame We haven't had much time." Lauds Baldwin's Work. Asserting that it is the duly of every citizen to help make this blueprint, he went on "National unity for national defense is not something that can be worked up by a committee down In Washington, enacted in the two ZTZ handed to the country as a finished I article. Neither is it something selves.

"And any one of us who blocks this effort by clinging to some pet ty hatred or fear, by working for any interest other than the final good of his whole country, such a person is no less a traitor and a coward than the soldier who throws down his gun and runs away." Governor Hurley praised the Connecticut national defense program of his Republican predecessor, former Governor Baldwin, as "indispensable preliminary work of which the administration that planned it and the many citizens who carried it through have reason to be proud," and a program which has served- well as a modoj for other states. But, he said: try to believe that when we (Concluded on Page 12.) Merchants Say 'Million Dollar Days' Success Report 'Get Acquainted' Sales Event Drew Large Patronage In spite of the snow, customers in Hartford stores Saturday continued the pace set Friday In the "Million Dollar Hartford Days." Although held back in the morning by the have to pay those taxes." candidates in a field of 57, it was But with all the comment of announced Saturday by William B. those w'ho are not convinced that Boardman of Bridgeport, secretary the airport is the best thing that ever happened to the town, there oi tne Examining Committee, is outspoken sentiment that the Seven of the successful candidates new field appeals to the civic pride are from Greater Hartford. They of everybody. include Marvin Apter, Barbara The Chamber of Commerce Is hoping for big things in the way Dalin.

Francis J. McVane and Jo-of town expansion and develop- seph Scarcia, of Hartford, and R. Army, Navv Chiefs To Be Heard Next General Marshall and Admiral Stark Will Testify at Closed Meeting Monday rv TT lernuie urgency Seen By Envoy War Entry at Once Urged by O'Ryan; Ocean No Longer Barrier, Says Mrs. Harriman Washington, Jan. clarlng that the United States is faced with a "terrible, terrible urgency." William Bullitt told the House Foreign Affairs Committee today that if this country stepped up its production of military equip ment to war-time levels Great Britain could defeat Germany.

The House conunlitre concluded Its open hearings on the bill with the end of today's session, but will hear General Ororge C. Marshall, Army chief of staff. Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, and perhaps other service officers at a closed meeting on Monday. Senate Hearing Monday, Chairman George, Democrat, Georgia, of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee, which will start hearings on the? lease-lend bill Monday, said that the group would hear some testimony from Secretary Hull in closed session.

Hull also will be the first witness heard In open meeting Monday. If Britain falls, the former am-bnssudor said, Invasion of the Wrst- Hemisphere is "almost certain" and encirclement of the United! 'rt sured The foremost of a half dozen witnesses to testify today In behalf of the Administration's British aid bill, Bullitt read a prepared statement and then settled himself In a chair for nearly four hours to answer searching questions covering almost every aspect of the diplomatic world. As his testimony ended, Bullitt picked up the leather brief case from which he had drawn Innumerable papers, Including a letter from former Premier of France Daladler to President Roosevelt, arose, faced the committee and declared solemnly: "I feel this is a terrible, terrible urgency. I feel that the skipper has set the course of our ship. All of you gentlemen are officers and those of us who are out of office are the crew, and the cargo Is America." Bullitt Applaudrd.

Chairman Bloom. Democrat, New York, standing with gavel raised, (Concluded on Page 14.) Ships, Supplies Needed By Britain Declares Halifax rp I 1 ells New Ambassador HOW U. S. Can Confers With Hull Washington, Jan. 25.

(AP.) -Vis count Halifax, new ambassador and member of the British wsr cabinet, isald today that the greatest aid thej United States could provide his em-j batt ed home and was speedy 'mo blllzatlon of your great industrial strength and its translation into action In supplying us with 2:30 m. at the Lake Wales, British command gave little lnfor. hospital to which she was admlttedp'atlon of what had happened at Thursday. jDerrm, but the fact that RAF rec Mr. and Mrs.

Hubbard left for a onnalssnnce planes rcpord spot. Florida vacation January 10 after e'Kht Italian planes burning on uy mC noiu nu Mr. Hubbard had recovered from an Illness. They were visiting at the winter home of John H. Goss of Waterbury, vice-president of the Manufacturers Association, when Mrs.

Hubbard was stricken. Funeral arrangement are incomplete. Besides her husband, Mrs, Hub bard leaves two sons, Oils Living cality and land. Von Werra said United States help was "too late" to "save" England. He lauded British morale and declared damage to London In flicted by NaJii bombers was rifle." 'ter- Sees States Responsible For Housing Conn.

Legislator Would Decentralize Gov't. Authority; Plans to Introduce Bill Here New York, Jan. 25. fSpeclal.l Addressing the National Public Housing Conference here Saturday, State Senator Alfred M. Bingham of Salem, urged that state governments take the Initiative in social legislation as the "best way" to meet the dangers inherent In centralization of authority In Washington.

He said he plans to introduce In the Connecticut State Sen- te In the near future a bill setting up a state housing authoritv Senator Bingham shared Ithe plat- form with Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt, who said local governments in some centers have failed to provide sfhnnls hiwiiltals and medical cure for defense workerS- other speakers were United States Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York and Administrator Nathan Straus of the United States Housing Authority. Addressing a luncheon meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel, Senator Bingham asserted: "Our present housing in Connecticut would not exist If we had not left all the ini- tc Publlc housing to the Federal Government.

Today Con nectlcut, with its important defense Industries, Is acutely aware of the need for new housing. If we had had a state housing agency before the present crisis arose, we could have had all the machinery for quick )h. mo permanent program or govern mentally-encouraged home build- Ing. Aid io Loral, Federal Plans. "There Is no need to build barracks to house defense workers, nor Is there any reason why housing put up In this emergency should not be a permanent asset to the community," he said.

"It is all the more important that permanent agencies be available, whether state, local or national, to make sure that defense housing projects shall fit in with longer rane plans." 'Much progress has been made In Connecticut, as throughout the (Concluded on Te 6.) ft Said Killed By Revolters Fascists Apparently Abandoned Libyan Town; Defending Tank Column Is Broken Up Cruiser Sinking Claimed By Rome Rumanian Rebels Offered Suicide Alternative, Sima Said Arrested or in Russia Culro, Egypt, Jan, 2.1fAP,) British armored cars, having fallen upon and broken an Italian tanlc column, were reported tonight to have reached Derna, Libya, 173 miles beyond the Egyptian frontier, The Italian tanks were dispersed yesterday. While troops and guns were belnjt advanced along the coast road west of Tobruk as fast as trucks could jcany them, armored cars and llghl niccnaniisca umis swept pssi Mr tuba Airdrome, which the Italian had been occupying only thre nights ago. Beyond stating that operations were "proceeding (iaUsfactorl)yM the the landing ground there was con. sldercd significant. It appeared that the Italians had fired the planes before retreating.

New British and Allied successei across half the continent of Africa, to the south, also were reported. Pursuing Italians Into the Erltre. an foothills, the British were reported over 100 miles inside thai East African offensive; the British' were pushing into Ethiopia proper opposite Gallabat. Riots In North Italy. New York, Jan.

Winston Burdett, CBS correspond-ent In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, report, ed tonight that reports from Italy said three Italian generals were killed and several hundred persons were wounded today in rioting In Milan and Turin and smaller cities In ihe Italian Po valley. Burdett's information was cabled to New York and broadcast here by CBS. He said foreign diplomatio sources in Belgrade were informed the three Italian officers were slain by intervening German troops during street riots In Milan. (About three hours after the broadcast, the Associated Press had not received any Information on the reports from its correspondents in heavily-censored Italy or In neighboring countries.) Burdett said the reports stated the disorders, grave and far-; reaching, began 24 hours ago and were continuing tonight. The information reaching Bel; grade, Burdett reported, said Ger-' man forces took the main hand in (Concluded on Page 14.) Submarine Alarm Is -Helieved 'Phoney' Los Angeles, Jan.

25. (AP.) The Mackay Radio reported tonight it had picked up an "SSS" message (submarine sighted) from a source giving the call letters listed a United States ship, the Arcadia, but a further check showed they had been canceled in June. "It now appears the call ltely was a phoney," Mackay officials said. A yacht named Arcadia, 578 gross tons, was reported sold by its Arner lean owner last year to Stuart Playfalr of Toronto, Canada, where it was believed the yacht was to be used for patrol service. The American owner was Mrs.

I i ston Hubbard of Chicago, and "1 w.wiyjmriu.jr, Chauncey Keep Hubbard of NewW half-way to the Red Sea port of York City; two daughters, Mrs. Hel- Massawa, en Hubbard Dodge of Greenwich, In the southwest sector of the whose farm included all of what Is facilities where needed, now Ensign Street. East Hartford.lnd should not have had to wait for the chaise was later owned by the the Federal government to give us Risley family, relatives of the Welles, our cue" and is now owned by Jared Butler Senator Bingham stressed the Im-Standish. Wethersfleld, who lent Importance of fitting the defense for Saturday's program. housing program Into a long-range, ment, and some of its members i can naraiy contain uieir enuiu- their enthu But some of the town of- Windsor Locks began worrying mis way on rriuay mien me utu-; eral Assembly passed a bill author-1 izing the state to condemn up to: 2000 acres in the northwest part of; the town and adjoining towns to create the Army a huge new air field.

The Army, In turn, disclosed plans for starting to work on the site at once and having fighting air units there by May. The huge tract of land is in the Bull Run section of the town, about two miles west of the industrial community which nestles along the banks of the Connecticut River and the canal that was dug years ago to provide river boats a passage around the long rapids down rrm Thftmncnndllfl Three Towns Affected. Bull Run is at the intersection of State highway routes 20 and 75. Army engineers, who have been at work for about two weeks making contour maps of the tract, say the airport plans call for its location east of Route 75 and extending about half a mile south and a mile north of Route 20. The tract, It is estimated, will take about 1500 acres of Windsor Locks and 200 or 300 acres each from the towns of Suffleld, to the north, and East Granby to the vest.

About a third of the area is owned by the America Sumatra Tobacco which raises shade grown leaf there. The rest Is scrub woods or nearly useless cleared land. The soli is sandy and has always required much fertilization to be useful for farming, local residents say. Across the tract ran the first road up the Connecticut Valley, the "old stagecoach road," built in 1656 from Hartford to Northampton. George Washington rode along the highway from Philadelphia to Boston and was sufficiently impressed with the tract that he commented In his diary about the "great plains" which extended across five flat miles of his trip.

The land, the engineers said, is about 170 feet above sea level, and Is ideally suited to the long, level runways that modern military planes require. Route 20. a road that Is envisioned by the State Highway Department as the eventual main artery east and west across the center of the state, will have to change its route with the new airport plans. As it travels across the "great plain" it is paved with macadam, about 15 years old. Traffic Jam.

The Highway Departm: has not yet studied the problem enough to know whether the road will be relocated north or south of the airport, but It is expected that the new construction will be used as a basis to attempt a solution of the old traffic problem of Windsor Locks, often described as the state's worst bottleneck. Where Route 20 crosses the river It must pass over the narrow bank between the river and the ransl, on (Concluded on Tare 1 Mr. Boartmn said the number December tests. He com- "suie ut-teuiocr, mj. hen 28 of 66 passed, and to uecemoer, isjh, wnen oniy a om oi 79 were successful.

June examina tions are taken by many candidate? fresh from Law School, a factor which is reflected in the higher percentage passing. In June 1940, 56 out of 96 passed, while in June 1939, 51 out of 87 were successful. The candidates will be sworn in as attorneys and as commissionerr of the Superior Court at the court here Tuesday. The examinations were taken December 27 and 28. Greater Hartford Candidates.

Biographies of the seven candidates from Greater Hartford follow: Barbara R. Dalin (Mrs. George A. Dalin), of 57 Garden Street, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Roose, of New York City, and a member of the New York State Bar. She Is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia Law School, 1938. Melville R. Shulthless. of 50 Beverly Road, West Hartford, was graduated from the Hartford Public High School In 1914.

Trinity College in 1919 and the Hartford College of Law in 1938. While a student at Trinity, he w'as absent foi a year-, when he served with the United States Army. He is married and has two children and is em- (Conrluded on Page 6.) News Index The Courant today consists of 86 pages in seven parts. PART I. General news.

PART II. Editorials. Feminine Topics. Radio. Theaters.

Society, personal and club notes. Obituaries. Resorts. Conn. Chess League.

Checker news. Winning Contract. Statewide news. Greater Hartford news. PART ill.

Homes. Real Estate. Garden notes. Finance and business. Classified Advertisements.

Frederic J. Haskln. PART IV. Sports and sports comment. Automobiles.

Weekly War Review. Hartford County Bridge. PART V. Feature articles. Parade of Youth.

PART VI. Art Gravure, PART VII. Colored comics. Mr. Standish revealed that his chaise is one of the first of its tvDe to De Duut, since the earliest on record, owned by Benjamin Franklin, was built in 1748.

The horse that pulled the chaise was lent by Burton Harris, of Wethersfleld. The Saturday noon broadcast brought to the microphone Glenn Miller, taking time from rehearsal for appearances of his band at the State Theater to do his bit for sufferers from infantile paralysis. uienn was interviewed by an (Concluded on Tage 2.) ft and Miss Mildred doKovcn Hubbard of Mlddletown; and five grandchildren. Mrs. Hubbard was born In Chicago October 1.

1874. a daughter of the late George Livingston and Mary W. Keep Otis. She was graduated from the University of Chicago and after extensive travels Europe married Mr. Hubbard in Chicago January 15, 1901.

She had lived in Mlddletown ever since. Mrs. Hubbard was interested In playground and musical activities here. She was a director of the Hnrtford Symphony 8oclety and the Symphony Society of Connecticut and was a member of the Connecticut Valley Garden Club. Deeply Interested In the Russell Library lii Mlddletown she also contributed to the upbuilding of a library in Camden, where her mother had a summer home, and showed great interest In musical events there.

The Hubbards made their home In their estate, off Newfleld Street. 11V tit Wire Flashes K. F. Simpson Dies New York, Jan. 25.

(AP.) Ken neth F. Simpson, 44. Republican ri.tri. nri fnrmpr tn. Cruiser Brings Gold Washington, Jan.

25. (AP.) A terse Treasury-Navy Department announcement tonight disclosed that the cruiser Louisville brought "a sum of gold" which the United States had purchased "sometime ago" from South Africa when it docked at New York last Thursday. tturied in Coal New York, Jan. 25. (AP.) Scores of police and firemen worked frantically and vainly for four hours today to stem an avalanche of storm, early afternoon sohppers had nouncer Bob Steele, who asked for flocked Into Hartford and in mostand promptly received a dime for cases, Fridays large volume of sales every niember of Mlllfrt organlza.

was surpassed. Hartford merchants and store managers were unanimous in proclaiming the get-acquainted sales throughout the city a huge success. Connecticut Company officials said that although morning traffic was only normal, the heavy early afternoon volume was surprisingly large In view of the sub-normal road conditions. The only regret expressed by Hartford merchants was the feeling that out-of-town customers who otherwise would have taken advantage of Uie "Million Dollar Hartford Days," stayed at home because of the storm. 43d Division Induction Again Set for Feb.

24 New Haven. Jan. 25. (AP.) Major General Morris B. Payne announced today that the induction date for the 43d Division had been returned to February 24 and the 12.000 men-of the division would reach Camp Blanding, about March 1.

The state of preparations at the camp will not permit, the week's advancement in the induction date contemplated last week, he said. A convoy will accompany the division's motorized equipment southward. Approximately 10,000 men will travel by train. The Circulation of The Sunday Edition of It Parlfflfi) ramt Now Exceeds 75,000 net paid This is the largest circulation of any newspaper in Connecticut ships and supplies we need." The tall envoy's statement was made to reporters after he had talked for more than an hour with Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, a talk which Halifax said covered the whole range of international affairs of vital interest to the two nations. Hie ambassador, who was making his first formal call Secretary Hull, said he believed "we see things very much alike." Asked what hU major efforts as ambassador would be, Lord Halifax replied: "Since I have bern a member of the war cabinet from the beginning of the war.

and remain a member. I feel that I can translate England's feelings and needs so that they may be well understood in the United States. "We need help, but make no mis take alw.it It, England is of good heart. When I walked through the streets of London Just before I left I was Impressed with the fact that If the Germans thought they could upset the British people by bombing they have erred greatly." buckwheat coal which trapped and untlngton Recd Hardwick of then suffocated John Seery, 32, a Brooklltie Mass stoker who stumbled Into the huge: m'ud; miM vcssel, 103 hopper in the sub-basement of theiton, bv tne samf name 0WIied by-New Life Insurance Lo'pnz Brtsen Company and pany building. from Tacoma.

Wash. A moment after a hypodermic LIovcr, at shipping doer was administered to ease his paln.lnol u'st an Arcadia. another pile cascaded down and! Seery was buried deeper than ever. Flnkelstein's Open today, Men snl At nightfall the body was recovered. I boys outfitters.

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