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Evening star., 1940-12-13
New York Produce

NEW YORK Dec, ~ F.-Egss, 7,7pp
Irregular. Mixed colors, fancy to extra
fancy. 2Sl2-B0: extras. os: GRADED frsts,
26-@6iz; seconds, "5-25'a: mediums 23i.
eirties, No: !. 22-22la average checks.
fancy. @412-25ta; extras, 23ia-"4; stand
ards, 23-33l2. 1rsts. 22l5; seconds, ~ Ia
-; mediums u: dirtes, q.
Whites tressles of premium marks, al
33i2: nearby and Midwestern premium
marks. "9-3Oi2: specials 2Sl2; standards,
IS; reSales of exchange to fancy heavier
mediums @6ia-2gD: mediums. 26: bullets
"a RefrRerator, nearby and Midwestern
specials. 26-2S; standards, 24l225 frsts
22i2-23; mediums. 93-23ls
Browns, nearby and MidweStern, fancy
10 extra fancy 3ai2-30. specials. %
standards, Is; mediums. 24ia95; pulets
22i2-33
Duck eggs, 2s-20.
Butter 454 7g3; steady Creamery
higher than % score and premium marks,
364-31: % score. cash market. 3514 30:
ss9l score. 34-35ia; s4-s7 score, 81 Ia
33iz
Cheese, 213,5s9; firm. Prices un-
changed.
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Washington Exchange
SALES.

American Fire insurance. at 1875.
Capital Transit Cos at 1914.
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Auto Production
Reported Above
Week Ago
BY the Associated Press.

DS lIlt fSSOCldlcu FItSS
DETROIT, Dec. l3-An increase
in car and truck production was re-
ported today by Wards Reports,
Inc, in its weekly survey of activity
in automobile factories.
This weeks assemblies were esti-
mated at l25,625 motor vehicles. A
week ago l24790 cars and trucks
rolled off assembly lines.
Wards commented that the out
put is exceptionally high for De-
cember and that the present rate of
assemblies is making it possible for
dealers to catch up on their back
orders.
In the comparative week of 1899
a total of 1l8,405 cars and trucks
was constructed.
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Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Dec II tFT.--Nstonsi As
soclation Securities Dealers, Inc.
Noon quotations.
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Chicago Produce
tReported by Smith. B

30 trucks. steady: ducks Az pounds up
colored. l2la; white 1872 geese, over Il
pounds. | /. Other prices unchanged.
Butter receipts, o63 OPS. firm; market
UNCHANGED
ERes receipts 3.5i4 firm: current re-
celpts. 24l2: refrigerator extras. 2234: re-
friserator standards. 2@l2. Other prices
UNCHANGED
Potatoes-Arrivals 1Oc; total on track
3"5: total u. s. shipments 443; supplies
moderate demand slow market steady;
Idaho Russet Burbanks. U. S. No. l. l A.
51l,; Colorado Red McClures. U. S. No. /.
40; Minnesota and North Dakota Cob
bers. 15-S5 per cent Z. S. No. |. % l2-1 O5:
Early Ohios. 7o-s0 per cent U. S, No !.
20 90: Bliss Triumphs 10 per cent or
more Y. s. No. /. I.QO-45.
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$50 Tons Of Lead Sold

NEW YORK, Dec. l3 tP)-St
Joseph Lead Co. reported 500 tons
of Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
yesterday at S5.35 per 100 pounds
East st. Louis and $50 tons at the
New York average.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Cross, Hurley Backers
 Are Asking No Quarter
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Acceptance by Mayor Coyle of an invitation to second the Cross nom- ination is claimed as another break in Hartford County support for Hurley. The Cross supporters claim heavy strength in Bristol, New Bri- tain and the northern part of the county. They also claim big ma- jority in Litchfield county, whose delegates avoided a commitment at county meeting last night. Cross votes in eastern Connecticut and in rural areas in many parts of the state are being claimed.
 Fairfield county, center of Hurley support. has 219 votes, and he is being conceded a large majority of these. The cities of New Haven and Hartford are also listed in the Hurley column. Waterbury, with 41 votes, will be for Cross, with Mayor Vincent A. Scully being slated to make the nominating speech for the former governor.
 There will be 1.080 votes at the convention, with 541 needed to win. State Chairman John T. McCar- thy has announced that Paul V. McNutt, Social Security Adminis- trator, will be the keynote speaker as the convention opens Friday night. This had been predicted in Satur- days Democrat.
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an Essex town. and 8 Norfolk vil- lage. A South Wales dockyard was attacked and an oil tank set on fire. RAF fighters were reported to have downed two Germans in this raid.
 The RAF lost fighter when 1t hit the North London balloon barrage and crashed in flames. The pilot bailed out.
 Observers in 8 southeast coast town reported a new secret weapon" of the Germans-a time bomb said to spread death widely without making a crater. A witt ness said that almost every mem- Der of a football team was killed by a bomb which left not even a dent on the playing field.
 Could Shell London
 London, Aug. 20.-(UP)-Military quarters today said that German artillery on the French Channel coast could shell London and be- lief was expressed that already high velocity guns had been smelling the coast of southeast England.
 Experts expressed opinion that there would be no technical diffi- culty in making a gun with range of 100 miles but they said the cost would be enormous and that a gun with such range would be inaccur- ate.
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without any air raid alarm three times in the past two weeks. It was reported that they were shooting at German planes which had strayed into forbidden zones. Unreasonable bad weather im- peded the aerial war against Bri- tian yesterday, German spokesmen said, but the day was not important, since German airplane production was going at full blast. With Ger. man aerial superiority increasing all the time, a delay of even 10 days Or two weeks at this time would have no effect on the outcome of the fight, they said.
 Nazi Prisoner Escapes Somewhere in Ontario. Aug. 20.-- (UP)-A high military authority said today that the German mili- tary prisoner who escaped from an internment camp had doubtless re- ceived help from Canadian Fifth Columnists." He had ripped up the flooring in his room, tunneled un- der two buildings and beyond a barbed wire fence, and come up in cornfield. There, he is believed to have been given civilian clothes. The escaped man was Lieut.. w. Kocke, 28, of the German army.
 Hundreds of police, deputized cit izens, and civilians joined today in a manhunt for him. They expected to connect him with Q powerful radio transmitting set found under the roof of the camp.
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(Continued from Page D amount of data on the subject he said and members of the board are welcome to examine it.
 The hearing on the ordinance will be held before a committee consist ing of Aldermen Patrick Shea Hen- ry Minicucci and c. Arthur DuBois.
 Favored Plan.
 Representative of community clubs favoring the plan were intro- duced to the board by MT. Kelly as follows:
 John Dzicl, chairman of the com- mittee representing all clubs; MT. and Mrs. Wilbur Seeley, Miss May Gaffney of the Hopeville club; Har- " Mclean, F. c. McDonaid and Mrs. William Desserault of the Platts Mills club; Thomas Mccarthy of the North End club: James oiad- |ney, Henry Hayden, IT,. Prank Mc- orath, and James Carroll of the WAshington Hiil club, William 0hent, Henry Milosky. Lawrence Kenney, and John Cote of the Hast End club. and John q. Hartley cs lthe Bouiey Manor club.
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NORWICH LODGE
 OF ELKS CALLED
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matically become members of the recreation association when it was first formed in 1884 and continued to belong to it when the name was changed to the Norwich Recrea- tion association. Daniels says the association was formed Tn order to avoid the. liabilities of the lodge, to defraud creditors, and to con- ceal their assets.
 The plaintiff is seeking $100,000 damages for the negligence of the defendants in not fixing an eight inch hole in the track. which in- stead they attempted to cover over with dirt, in not having the track inspected before the race. and in no securing a permit for racing there. AS a result of this criminal negligence, he charges, he suffered a fractured spine when his motor cycle hit the depression in the track. He is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and will be confined to his bed for the rest of his life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

The Cross camp today repeated its claim of yesterday that major ity of the delegates in seven of the eight counties in the state will be for their candidate at the conven- tion, with Fairfield county as the lone exception.
 Muttered claim of raids" on del egations by one side or the other were heard today, but there were no open claims. All signs point to a bitter battle on the convention floor at the New Haven Arena Friday and Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Britain Is Stronger
 Today Than Before
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Although up to the present the loss of life has been mercifully dimionished," Churchill said, "the decisions reached in the course of the struggle are even more pro- found upon the fate of nations than anything which has happened since barbaric times"
 "The moves" Churchill said, "are made upon scientific and strategic boards and the advantages are gain- ed by mechanical means as a re- suit of which scores of millions of men become incapable Of further resistance or judge themselves tn- capable of further resistance and fearful as the game of chess pro- ceeds from check to mate by which the unhappy players seem to be tn- exorably bound"
 Most United Nation
 'Tf it was the case of whole na- tions fighting and suffering to- gether", Churchill said, "that ought to suit us because we are the most united of nations. We are products not of totalitarian uniformity but of tolerance and variety.
 "If all these qualities are turned as they are being turned-to arts of war we may be able to show the enemy quite a lot of things they have not thought of yet.
 Since the Germans drove out the Jews and lowered their technical standards our science is definitely ahead of theirs. Our geographical position, command of the sea and friendship of the United States en- ables us to draw resources from the whole world"
 His reference to the United States drew cheers.
 "There seems to be every reason to believe that this new kind of war is well suited to the genius and re- sources of the British nation" he said, "and once we get properly equipped and properly started war of this kind will be more favorable to us than the somber mass slaugh- tarr If Coy,oroe and PaSchendaele" "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
ICKES REPLIES
 TO WILLKIE
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(Continued from Page D only to have his request for defense appropriations attacked again and again as excessive and unnecessary; only to have his warnings met again and again with jibes and jeers from MT. Willkie's new found friends, to be accused, as MT. Willkie shabbily accused him on Saturday, of invent ing war scares for selfish political purposes"
 He charged that Willkie was mo realization of the fact that America faces today, not only World War, but a worldwide social revolution" " This country's last line of defense, which is right here in America" is being thoroughly organized and strongly held through New Deal reforms, he asserted.
 Where Was Willlkie
 Referring to Willkie's endorsement of the principles of some New Deal social reforTls, Ickes asked where the nominee was while the admins tration was fighting for the legis- lation and when Republicans were fighting tooth-and-nail against it.
 "All through this period, he was doing his very able best to prevent the most dynamic and hopeful pro- ject of whole New Deal-the Ten nessee Valley Authority-from functioning," Ickes declared.
 He said Willkie's record as a private utility magnate stands in all its unashamed opposition to the public interest" Commenting on Wilkie's statement that he favored unlimited opportunity for free en- terprise, Ickes said that as the top executive of the Commonwealth & Southern Utilities company, the op- portunity which the nominee gave to free enterprise "has consisted in cutting the throat of small tnde- pendent power companies"
 Ickes quoted from speech Will kie made before the Economic club of New York five years ago in which he said that his greatest duty in k3e pas to do what he could for the preservation of public utilities privately owned.
 "Thus spoke willkie. the rich mans Roosevelt; Willkie, the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer" 1ckes added.
 Had Praised Insul
 Ickes said that in a speech before the Economic Club of New York Wilkie had referred to the late Samuel Insull, head of a midwest utility empire which collapsed with losses to thousands of stockholders, as a "forceful, dynamic and att tractive figure"
 He said the Republican party in 194O is the American counterpart of Englands and Frances pro- Nazi Munich appeasers of 1938-the men with the black umbrellas"
 "Mr. Willkie's current party in- cludes the men who think that big business should be allowed to capi- talize grave national cricis for its own private profit; that. some how or other, the country vii mud dle through if only the party f big business and appeasement is given an exclusive right to handle the de- fense program" he contended.
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 and said that German losses were not yet known. The agency said that British anti-aircratt batteries on the coast were active.
 Makes Little of British
 The Germans minimized the Brit ish raid on the Berlin area today and said that one of the British planes dropped a flare over the suburb of Tegel, north of the ca pital.
 DINE said the plane which was shot down was Bristol Blenheim bomber and that after being hit by ground fire 1t crashed in flames in a meadow near Oldenburg.
 The British planes appeared over the Berlin area shortly after mid night.
 This was the explanation for an air raid alarm that lasted from 12:45 a. m. to 2:22 a. m. throughout the German capital. It was the fourth air alarm in Berlin since the war started.
 A spokesman said neither of the planes reached the Berlin closed zone" and that no bombs were dropped. Anti-aircraft fire was re- ported heard in the western sub- urbs. The sky was heavily overcast and no planes could be seen from the city proper.
 A United Press correspondent liv- ing in the west end of the city heard about 40 explosions, believed to have been anti-aircraft fire, far west of the city at 2:10 a. m. It was the fourth air raid alarm in Berlin since the war started Only once, so far as was known, had the British dropped any bombs. Two months ago, Babelsberg, west of Berlin near Potsdam, was bombed but the Germans said damage was insignificant. However, Berlin anti- aircraft gunners have opened fire
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
PROBE OF POLICE
 DEPT. ARGUED
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of any time they want it. They're the favorites. If the men ask fo, time of, Roach sends them tc Hickey and he turns them down. Il they have courage enough and ask him why, Hickey says, I'm running this damned department!"
 Alderman Martin Sullivan, Demo- crat, and member of the police board, making his bow as an alder manic speaker, declared that the question was one for the police board to handle. Naturally the men go to Capt. Hickey" he said. Tt happens that he's night superintendent Roach is running the department and he's doing well. Any complaints should be referred to the police board for action"
 Alderman Shea also argued that the matter was in the police boards jurisdiction.
 Alderman c. Arthur Dubois, Re- publican, said that there was noth- ing in the resolution that interfered with the police boards power. Il called only for 8 conference between an aldermanic committee and the police board, he stated, and the Democrats should have no objection to conference.
 'It's time to bring this situatss6 out in the open" said Alderman Burton Walker, Republican. "All we know are the rurnors we hear and the articles we read in the papers And I understand that the papers are right. It's a terribly serious situ- ation when money is stolen from g location in the police department available only to policemen, money for a benefit fund for the three boys killed by lightning at Wash ington park. A matter of this sort is certainly the public's business" Alderman George L. Kingston, Re- publican, expressed similar senti- ments.
 The vote was taken by roll-call with the seven Republicans agains' the motion to table and the eight Democrats in favor. The eighth vote for tabling was cast by Alder. manic President John s. Monagan A battle was almost precipitated just after Alderman Reiner had in. troduced his resolution, when Pres ident Monagan claimed it had moi been seconded and asked for a mo- tion to adjourn.
 The text of the defeated resolu- ton was as follows:
 Whereas, it has come to the at- tention of the members of this Board that certain irregularities
 exist within the police depart ment, and
 Whereas, no immediate proof of
 such irregularities has yet been
 submitted,
 Be it resolved that 2 committee
 of five members of this Board be
 named to confer with the Board of Police Commissioners with re- spect to this matter for the pur-
 pose of determining whether or
 not there is any ground for the preferment of charges and the in-
 vestigation of the Police Depart
 ment by this Board; and
 That this committee report back
 at the next regular meeting of this Rn0rN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
WAR MOVES ON
 T0DAY'S BOARD
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 lively in the Gulf of Alden and the Red Sea than before. The whole of Italian East Africa, including Soma Hand, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, is isolated by nearly 1000 miles of British controlled land and desert from the Mediterranean.
 will Add Prestige
 Politically, however, Mussolini now has a success to his credit which will be advantageous at home and will add some needed Italian prestige to the totalitarian partner ship. Mussolini henceforth can talk to Hitler with less sense of ir- equality.
 There have been recent signs of dissatisfaction in Germany with Italy's part in the war. The Ital- ians have been claiming control of the Mediterranean and voicing their intention to march into Egypt and seize the Suez Canal. But they have shown no concrete evil dence of superiority over the Brit ish Mediterranean fleet and have been hesitant about the Egyptian campaign
 Only few days ago British war ships heavily bombarded Bardia Italy's coastal port in Libya, which Is the key base for an Egyptian of- fensive. Italian warships did not move from their sheltered home harbors to interfere and their air force was caught unprepared. Wondering At Inaction German commentators have been wondering at Italy's Mediterranean inaction at a time when Germany has been trying to bomb Britain into submission. Now, however Mussolini can point to Somaliland Too, he can inquire why the Ger man air blitzkrieg against the Brit ish has not been going so well and why Hitler has to give his aviators days off if the German casualty list is as insignificant as Berlin's communiques say.
 Exchanges of polite inquiries be- tween the two dictators of this character are natural when their plans against Britain at home and Britain in the Mediterranean are not going according to expectation A military alliance always moves toward recrimination when cam- paigns become precarious.
 The Somaliland occupation thus comes at @ fortunate time for Mus- solini, who must excuse his hsita- tions in tn Mditrranean; but il comes at an unfortunate moment for Hitler. The Fuehrer has an- nounced total blockade" of the British Isles and claims supremacy in the channel. Yet, a United Press correspondent went by minesweep- CT across the channel to witness an air bombardment of Boulogne and Calais and then was given an un- impeded sail through the North Sea to that of Britain. No German planes or patrol vessels were en- countered.
 Unable To Repeat
 Too, the German aviators have been unable to repeat in Britain their Polish and French victories The British retaliatory bombings not only have penetrated far afielt in Germany but also have rehchet Italy with serious effect. German criticism of Italy's meager war ef. fort can thus be answered by Mus. solini, who now has the Somnlilane argument as well.
 So. 1t would appear to be Hitler next move. But where and how he can strike for quick success oI with assurance of avoiding debili tating casualties is an increasingly grave problem for hm. Prolonged
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People of New Zealand have loaned the government ee,000.0 900
 free Of interest for the duration Of tho war. sA AllIai.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

A new company will operate 500 tugs on the Yangtse River tn China.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

inaction against sound military ad- vice. The Germans would not rec fish Mussolini,s little lead in the war against Britain remaining long on the account book.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
DANAHER QUERIED

Hartford. Conn, Aug. 20.-(UP)- The executive committee of the Hartford Chapter of the Committee to defend America by aiding the Al- lies today adopted a resolution ask ing U. s. Sen. John A. Danaher whether he intends to support the defensive needs of our country by favoring measures specifically de- signed to aid Britain in her present struggle"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
COLLECTION OF
 RUBBISH LIKELY

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
NAzI BOMBERS IN
 MORE ASSAULTS

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Evening star., 1940-11-06
Vote at q Glance
Electoral College
Divided 468-63
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Presidential-Early this afternoon
President Roosevelt led in SO States
with 468 electoral votes; Wendell l..
Willkie in 9, with 63.
Popular vote-With SO, 1853 of the
Nations precincts counted, the total
vote was 40,649 938, with Mr. Roose-
welt having 22,198,7 100 and Mr.. Will
kie 18,451 LAB.
House-Democrat elected 239,
Republicans 118, American Labor /.
The Democrats picked up II seats in
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, New York, West Virginia,
Ohio and Delaware. Republicans
gained 8 seats in Illinois. Oklahoma,
New York, California and Missouri.
Senate: Eighteen Democrats and
eight Republicans elected. Harold
H. Burton, Republican, defeated
John McSweeney, Democrat, In
Ohio; Hugh A. Butler, Republican,
defeated Robert Leroy Cochran.
Democrat, in Nebraska, and James
II. Tunnel, sr., Democrat, defeated
John G. Townsend, jr, Republican.
Henrik Shipstead, formerly Farmer
Laborite, was reelected as Re-
publican, making net turnover Of
two for the Republicans.
Governors: Fourteen Democrats
elected, sesven Republicans. Five
turnovers-in Connecticut, Michi-
gan and Rhode Island, where in
cumbent Republicans lost to DEM
ocrats and in Nebraska and Illinois,
where Republicans ousted Demo-
Gratis. q