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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

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"FRIFNDIY NEIGHBORS." With Weaver
Bros. 4 ENiry. Plus MISSING PEOPLE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EvERYBO,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

prCCNT-woodwsrd at Grand Blvd.
hLuLNi SAT MAT. A EVENING.
5 ACTS PROFESSIONAL VOSIIL. Plus
STAGE BAND and BIG FEATURES.
NO ADVANCE IN PRICESl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
London Badly Raided
 Again Last Evening
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The first wave of German planes dropped flares and by their light succeeding waves bombed the city.
 Some planes made glide attacks, others roared down in power dives, some flew low to sweep streets with their machine guns.
 The German planes began drop ping containers in each of which were many small incendiary bombs. They used all sorts of tactics in an attempt to confuse the defense bat teries. They attacked Singly and came over in groups of three and four.
 Fires Fought Hard
 Heavy as was the attack, the fires were nearly all put out promptly. As soon as it became apparent that the raid was one of great intensity civilian volunteers joined air raid wardens, firemen and policemen in fighting them.
 Soldiers aided in the defense, and barrage balloon crews joined the fire fighters.
 Despite the danger porters in ho- tels and apartment houses stayed on roofs to put out fire bombs.
 One big bomb leveled 10 homes and wrecked others.
 At one spot German plane drop ped a circle of flares and then dumped its load of explosive bombs inside, the circle of fire.
 Casualty and damage reports
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
Sea War Raging Near Western Hemisphere
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Spec. The Graf Spec fled into Mon- tevideo Harbor and her master set her on fire rather than take his damaged ship to sea for another battle.
 New Plates in Hull
 The Carnarvon Castle was having new plates welded into her hull to replace those shattered by German cannon fire. It was understood in Montevideo that the plates had been salvaged from the Graf Spec Her remains had been sold to an Ar- genuine salvager.
 Meanwhile, the German attacks on British shipping continued. The British freighter Empire Jaguar re- ported at $40 p. m. yesterday that she had been torpedoed off the coast of Senegal, French West Africa Nothing more has been heard from her. The Norwegian freighter, Hidle- fjord, in the British service, reported at 7:10 p. m. that she was being fired upon by an unidentified ship. Noth- ing more has been heard from her either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
Italian Stronghold
 Stormed, Captured
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the withdrawing Italian troops had the road to themselves.
 It was reported that the Italians ringed the Argyrokastron area with hundreds of airplanes to cover the withdrawal. taking possession of the sky all day and protecting all roads and passes leading north.
 Tirana dispatches said the with drawal was carried out across snow covered roads and mountains, in bit- ter weather, after the bloodiest hand-to-hand fighting of the war. A rear guard action, aided by airplanes held back the Greeks while the main force withdrew, it was said.
 Greeks Are Repulsed
 Tn the sector of the ninth Italian army, Greeks attacked repeatedly but were repulsed by the Italians who launched numerous, successful counter attacks" the communique continued.
 It said British planes attacked the airport at Tripoli and other places in the same region, killing one, wounding five and causing some ma Lerlal damage, ana CLlaC they aC- tackled the airport at Benghazi, Libya, damaging a hangar.
 Three British planes were shot down by Italian chasers and an- other by Italian anti-aircraft fire, and Italian planes, despite bad wea- ther, bomber military objectives at Santa Maura in the Greek Gulf of Arta, the communique said.
 The wreckage of an enemy plane, reported in a previous communiQue as badly damaged, was found in our territory. The British pilot who had parachuted was found seriously wounded" it continued.
 Tn North Africa enemy columns and mechanized units were put to flight by our artillery fire southeast of Adam Rabia.
 Tn East Africa enemy air raids on Gallant and Gherrila, in Somali- land, killed one and wounded sev- eral. Other air raids on Moyale and Mega caused neither victims nor damages"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
ROOSEVELT HAD
 BIG CONFERENCE
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The President was estimated to be about 1900 miles from the place in the western Caribbean where a Bri- tish cruiser captured the German freighter Idarwald, off the south coast of Cuba.
 Before going to Martinique, MT Roosevelt called on St. Lucia Island 25 miles south of the French pos session, to inspect the base acquired by the United States in the destroyer trade with Great Britain.
 The Tuscaloosa anchored off Port Cartries, St. Lucia, about 9 a m. Sunday. Sir Henry B. Popham St. Lucia governor, went aboard accompanied by A. A. Wright. Col onial administrator and Allen B. Pet ter, United States consular agent ct Port Castries. One United States neutrality patrol plane was an- chared'at Port Castries and another at Gros Islet bay, Q few miles down the island where a l20-acre site for anchoring seaplaneS and tenders has been loaned to the United States.
 MT. Roosevelt went by launch into Castries harbor. inspecting anchor ages for small vessels. and later went around the island in the Tus- caloosa for a close. general inpectlon. Later, he aid he and the British officials had discussed aviation ia. cilities, water supplies and artillery protection for the island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
ELEVEN PERSONS
 DIE ON HIGHWAY

Boston, December g - (UP) -- Highway mishaps killed Il persons including three members of one family and increased New England's $ weekend toll of violent deaths to 20 Two Worcester youths drowned while skating and seven others died in miscellaneous accidents.
 At Pawlet, Vt. eight-year-old Fred Rickett, Jr., wandered half frozen through woods to a farm- house where he told an incoherent story that eventually led searchers to truck submerged in Flower Brook. Inside were the bodies of Fred Ricket, S7. Pawlet farmland, his wife, Beatrice, z4, and a son, Charles. s. The truck apparently had skidded.
 Raymond Supernor. le, and John Manoff, i6. both of Worcester broke through thaw-weakened Ice of Lake Quinsieamond and drowned in sight of Supernor's sister Edith. a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
BRITISH BOMBS BLAST GERMANY
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Last night R.AF. bombers re. new attacks on industrial and mili- tary targets in the Dusseldorf area" the air ministry said.
 Other forces bombed the sub marine base at Lorient and the shipping and harbor installations at Bordeaux and Brest (from which Nazi U-boats have been operating in the Atlantic).
 Other targets attacked included ports of Flushing, Dunkirk and Gravelines and several enemy air. dromes. Two of our planes are missing"
 Details Are Delayed.
 Details of the raids, promised later in the day, were expected to disclose that large forces of heavy bombers had struck at the bases from which German submarines set out to attack British shipping in the North Atlantic and German air. planes take off for their attacks on London and other British cities.
 It was believed possible that a sudden cessation of a heavy Ger man attack on London during the night, though attributed to bad weather, might have been caused partly by damage inflicted by royal air force planes on the German bases in occupied territory.
 During the weekend British planes had attacked Axis objectiveS all the way from the Ruhr area to Italian Libya. :
 A particularly heavy attack was made on Dusseldorf, second in im- portance only to Essen in the in- dustrial Ruhr valley. Nearly 4,OOO incendiary bombs and many explo- sive bombs were loosed on two great blast furnaces and steel works, those of the Press and Walzewerke companies, it was asserted.
 "The whole works were encircled by wall of flame half mile in circumference" the air ministry as- serted.
 Heaps of Bubble.
 Pilots reported that only heaps of rubble remained to show the site of some factories. Some said they had never seen such big fires before. Fires started by the first wave of planes gave good visibility for those which followed. Forty miles from the city, on their way home, the plane crews could still see the great fires burning. Two planes which did not return radioed before they crashed: Mission completed"
 In this area British planes also attacked the invasion ports of Ant werp, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne; several German airdromes in occu- pied Holland, Belgium and France. and naval shipyardS and docks at the French naval bases of Lorient and Brest.
 Brest was battered severely, the air ministry said, and fires were started at the docks, the naval school, the infantry barracks and other buildings.
 Fifteen fires were counted at one part of the naval station at Lor- tent, it was said.
 British planes based in the East. etn Mediterranean severely attacked the big Italian airplane base at Castel Benito, near Tripoli, Italy's chief base in northern Africa. Hits were made with incendiary and high explosive bombs on all of its five big hangars, air ministry reports said. At least eight planes outside the hangars were destroyed, and others were damaged, 1t was assert ed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
HITCH-HIKERs IN HURRY

Portales, N. M. - (UP) Two Eastern New Mexico College stu- dents are back in class after hitch-hiking through l3 states in five days at a cost of s5 each. Hu- bert Carruthers and Quentin Nell son went on a tour whoch covered Texas. Oklahoma. Kansas. Missouri, Mississippi. Illiaois. Indiana. Ken- lucky, North Carolina. Georgia. Ala bama, Louisiana and New Mexico.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
OLD EDITOR DIES

Portland, Me, December s. - (UP) - Colonel Harry M. Bigelow, 6S, editor of the Portland Press Herald for 20 years until he retired five years ago and former com- mander of the Maine National Guard. died yesterday of Heart disease.
 A native Oe clinton. he was c lieutenant on the Monitor Mon. tux in the Spanish. American War. He served one term in the state legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
NEW NAVY CHIEF
 PICKED BY ITALY
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 lero. and Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi, governor of the Dodecanese Islands and military commander in the Aegian area. was replaced Sat- urday by Gen. Ettore Bastico.
 Riccardi taught naval strategy as the Leghorn Naval Academy many years and developed e theory where. by Q naval squadron's potential power could be strengthened three to five times by the addition oi planes. A numbe rof his theories ete saiE tc ksave seeH testee sE etg- naval battles with the British in tiie Mediterranean after Benitc Musso. lini approved them.
 The naval shake-up vied for at-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

and was made public as authentic. The navy refused to say where its information came from or to give further details.
 The navy announcement came hours after Cuban radio stations heard on the Idarwald radio that i've are being fired on by British cruiser" and later, that the 1darwald was sinking and the crew was taking to life boats.
 Nazi Freighter Lost
 Unaccounted for was the 5000 ton German freighter Rhein which left Tampico with the Idarwald under circumstances of such apparent ur- gency as to suggest that one or both were assigned to refuel and revictual a sea raider at some secret rendez- vous at sea. The fact that the Rhein was no longer sailing with the Idar- wald when the Diomede found her suggested to some maritime author ities that the Idarwald had been sacrificed in order to occupy the British cruiser and permit the Rhein to escape.
 The Idarwald, in company win the German freighters, Phrygia, Rhein and Orinoco, left Tampico, Mexico Nov. 19 to run the British blockade Just outside Mexican territorial waters, they saw warships which they thought. were British. The Phrygia's crew scuttIed her and the others fled back to Tampico where they insisted the warships were Brit ish and Mexican authorities said they merely were American destroy CTS on neutrality patrol.
 Try It Again
 On Nov. 29, the Idarwald and the Rhein left Tampico to try it again They were last seen steaming southward down the Mexican coast followed by warship which Mex ican sources identified as an Amer ican destroyer on neutrality patrol
 On Dec. 1, the Rhein was heard frantically trying to contact a Mex ican radio station. Then there was utter silence from the German ships until yesterday afternoon when the Idarwaldis radio announced her predicament.
 Disaster overlook the 1darwah of the coast of Santa Clara province, Southern, Central Cuba. On Satur- day there had been rumors that she was passing through the Yucatan Channel, which is 1z0 miles wide, with the western tip of Cuba, Cape Catoche on one side, and Cape San Antonio, Mexico, on the other. She was being trailed then by warship, it was said.
 Had to Come Out
 Cuban sources reported that the Idarwald kept so close to the Cuban shore that the trailing warship couldn't attack her without violating Cuban territorial waters. But when she reached Cortes Bay, Pinar Del Rio province, she was forced by the shadows there to head out into the Caribbean, toward the Isle of Pines, 40 miles of the southern coast of Cuba. These Cuban sources suggest ed that the Diomede raced around the island and encountered the Idarwald again in the open sea, some 30 to 50 miles of Cuba.
 In Montevideo, there were uncon- firmed reports that the Warspite and the Enterprise were closing in on a German sea raider and that a new Battle of the River Plate" was imminent. Both warshipS wete known to be in those waters-both had been seen racing northward un- der full steam and, it was believed, the German ship which fought the Carnarvon Castle was not far away. The first battle of the River Plate was fought last December between three British cruisers and the Ger man pocket battleship, Admiral Graf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

tention during the weekend with news of the deaths of two of 1taly's best known generals-members of the Italian-French armistice com- mission, in an airplane crash. They were air Gen. Aldo Pellegrini, sec- ond in command in Marshal Italo Balbo's mass flight from Rome to Chicago in 1883, former chief of the cabinet air ministry, former com- mander of the third air squadron and member of the armistice com- mission, and Army Gen. Pierto Pin- tor, president of the arrnistice com- mission, former chief of the train- ing office of the artillery command at Tripoli and former commander of Libyan army corps.
 1t was announced that their plane. en route from Rome to Tu- rin, crashed. at 1 p. m. Saturday near Acqui. Cause Of the crash was not given. All aboard were killed, the announcement said, but tt did not say who else was aboard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

phone wires. From an inner room g radio transmitter spluttered oui news of the btatle, or transmitted fresh orders from the high com- mand somewhere behind us.
 Owned By Greek Sailor Calendars from the United State; adorned the walls. The house be- longed to a Greek sailor, Athanas Kystis. One calendar showed the City Bottling Works of Pittsburgh Mass. Photographs of Mystis ano his relatives taken in Worcester Mass, lined one wall. The carved wooden ceiling was done in the Greek national colors - blue anc white.
 On our visit there Mrs. Kystis was making coffee for the Greek officers She wore the attractive Greek cos tune with white headdress anc blue skirt. During Italian occupa- ton she had kept the costume hid den.
 To file this dispatch we had te wait six hours while Greek engin- eers threw up wooden bridge ovel a rain-swollen river, replacing 6 stone bridge the Italians had blowr up. The roads were jammed witt horse and mule trains, ankle deep IT mud. We had to pull out of the roac more than once as captured Italian lorries repainted with Greek arm, registration numbers, rumbled past dushing supplies to keep up witt the relentless Greek advance.
 Italy Admits Loss
 Rome, Dec. g - (UP0 = Italy acknowledged the loss of Argyroka' stron, her main base in South AL bania, today and indicated that tht new battle line would defend Valons second largest Albanian port, 5l miles up the coast from captured Porto Edda.
 News of the Greek capture ot Argyrokastron was broken to thu Italian public in a communiqut reading, the Italian 11th army com pleted without the loss of men ol material in an orderly withdrawa along a line north of Argyrokastror and minor surrounding localities
 Dispatches from Tirana sait Argyrokastron's civil population O IS 900 had been evacuated at the be- ginning of last week, travelling b! busses, donkeys and afoot, so tha
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

tax rates, and unless we plan for the future there is danger of re- beating the experience" of the 1920's.
 Gov. Elect Robert A. Hurley att tended the conference and said municipalities should consider a new assessment on old age assist ance taxes. Some communities, he said, were collecting more taxes than they were assessed, while oth- CTS collected less.
 He suggested that the collections might be turned over to the state, thus relieving the towns and cities of responsibility entirely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

Firlough. army term for leave of absence. comes from the Dutch "ver lof," which means flor leave"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

Failure to dispose of its surplus coffee crop has adversely affected fiscal, economic and financial con- dltions in Haiti.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

Wood-gas generators are being in- stalled in fishing boats in Finland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
BACK TAXES TO
 BE COLLECTED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 0-(UP- Bulgaria desiring to stay out of the War. is willing to meet Turkey more than half way to better relations, well informed sources said today.
 It was believed that fl negotia- Hons were agEaneed, Bulgaria would suggest discussion of mutual with- frRwni Of troops from frontier nonGs and oxpansion Of trade.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Political Study Club
To Hear Capper on
d. C. Problems

Senator Capper win discuss dis
trict Of Columbia's Political and
Economic Problems" at . meeting
Of the Political Study Club Satur-
day at the Washington Club.
Guests Of honor will include Mrs.
Charles McNary, wife Of Senator
McNary of Oregon; Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
Mrs. Henry Albers and Mrs. James
G. Wilkes. Mrs. Edgar Boyd Kay
will preside and Mrs. Harry Engle-
bright will introduce the guests.
A musical program will be pre-
sented by the Hawaiian Trio-Ken-
meth White, Hardy Broderick and
Ainnah Bryant.
Mrs. William Theophilus, Mrs.
Alva E. Thompson and Mrs. w. T.
Nishwitz will preside at the tea
tables, assisted by Mrs. Charles E.
Riordon, Mrs. Guy Mason, Miss Lucy
Witherspoon and Mrs. Dora Bailey.
Mrs. William A. Boss. Mrs. Henry
Gordon Clay and Mrs. Edward
Campbell Shields have been elected
as delegates to the Federation of
Women's Clubs, with Mrs. James A.
Councillor, Mrs. Harry j., Landrus
and Mrs. Harry L. Englebrisht a
'u1tefn2AeB.''' ae,f:'t
Recently elected members Of the
club include Mrs. Harold Brown,
Mrs. Waiter J. Hayes, Mrs. r. L.
Shanafelt, Mrs. b. Frank Murphy,
Mrs. Helen p. Weldon and Mrs. p.
B. Cromelin.
Reservations are now being made
for the annual club breakfast to be
held at the Maydower Hotel May IL.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
City Club Hostess
To DELEGATES Today

Visiting delegates to the D. A. r.
Congress are being invited to the
tea to be given by the womens
City Club today at 4:30 O'Clock.
Hostesses will include Mrs. Sydney
r. Jacobs, Mrs. Curtis r. Perry,
Mrs. George Eastment, Mrs. Grattan
Kerans. Mrs. Lila B. Graves and Mrs.
John M. Glover. Mrs. Helen M.
Montague and Miss Gladys Gordon
will preside at the tea table.
A program of readings will be
given by the club president, Miss
Marjorie Webster.
A lecture, Ancient Pleasure Gar
dens in the Vale Of Kashmir," will
be given Tuesday at 8 pm. by Mrs.
Josephine c. Horner at the club.
Colored movies Of the gardens will
be shown and q group of Indian love
songs will be presented by Mrs. Ruth
Snodgrass, who with Mrs. Homer
will appear In Indian costume. The
program Is under the auspices of the
Book Hour Committee and funds
realized will be contributed to the
club fund.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Housekeepers' Unit
To Hear DR.. Moore

Dr.. Polly Moore Of the University
Of Maryland and Mrs. John w.
Frizzell, chairman of the Pioneer
Clubwomen for the District Golden
Jubilee Committee of the General
Federation of Womens Clubs, will
be guest speakers at the meeting Of
the Housekeepers' Alliance Tuesday
at 2 pm. at the Y. w. C. A.
DR.. Moore will speak twice on the
program. discussing both "Your Flu.
ture Wardrobe, Madame" and La.
bels of the Future" Mrs. Frizzell
will speak on the system Of awards
for pioneer clubwomen.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley and Mrs.
Lyman F. Kebler, pioneer members.
Of the alliance, will be presented
with medals in honor of their long
and continuous service by Mrs,
Frederic Newburgh, club president
Peter j. Slevin, Irish tenor, will,
entertain with q group of songs, ac-l
companied by Mrs. Fred L. Knob
lock.
Reports will be given of welfare
work done by Mrs. Mary Harris,
Hoar and Mrs. R. King Stone.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Henry.
Morton Phillips, hospitality chair
man, and Mrs. Wallace N. Streeter,
recording secretary.
Announcement has been made Of
the appointment of Mrs. l.. G. Ash
craft, q new member, to serve in
the welfare department, and Of Mrs.
B. F. Meyer as chairman of the edu-
cation department, succeeding MRS.
Henry Van Arsdale, resigned.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Voteless League
To Hear Talk on
City Government

Morton L. Wallerstein, executive
director Of the League Of Virginia
Municipalities, will discuss what Is
q Good Municipal Government in
1902" before members Of the Vote
less District League of Women
Voters, at 1915 pm. Thursday, at
the Y. w. c. A.
He will be presented at the an
nual open luncheon meeting of the
Department Of Government and Its
Operation, which has been making
a special study Of the history of the
District government and proposals
for its reorganization.
The league has announced it
favors plan of reorganization
which would provide an elected city
council and trained city manager
to be selected by the council.
Mrs. Joseph Low, chairman Of the
department, is In charge of arrange
ments for the luncheon. Mr.. WAL
lerstein is a past president and di-
rector of the American Society Of
Planning Omcials.
Announcement also has been made
that section 2 of the Department
Of Government and Foreign Policy,
chosen by the national league Is =
typical study group last week, will
be photographed for representation
In the exhibit Of the biennial league
convention, to7be held In New York,
April 29-May 3. Mrs. C. 8. Duncan
Is department chairman.