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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
LOWEST RATE OF
 INTEREST ON LOAN
Boston Bank Offers Less Than One=Eight of One
 Per Cent

The First National Bank of Bos- ton today offered the lowest inter est rate the city has ever received for a $1,150,00O tax anticipation loan. The rate is .12 per cent, or less than one-eighth of l per cent. The city will receive the money Dec. 27 and the loan will be payable next June 5.
 The .12 per cent offer by the Bos- ton bank, is almost 50 per cent low CT that the rate of .178 which the city secured for a $1,250,O00 loan at the end of last year. That rate was lower than any the city had ever received before.
 Eight other bidders submitted figures higher than those of the First National Bank of Boston. The bids were opened by Controller Thomas M. Conlon in his office at noon, with Thomas F. Moore of the Citizens and Manufacturers Nation al Bank and Arthur L. Edmonds of the Waterbury National Bank as witnesses.
 Will Ask Acceptance
 Controller Conlon planned to rec ommend to the board of finance at a meeting late this afternoon that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
PARKING METERS
 ARE IN OPERATION
About 100 of Them Start
 Work-MOtorists Must Pay From Today On .

Parking meters were placed in operation on several downtown streets today but police were not issuing any tags for the time being. Police Superintendent William J. Roach said that the police board regulations governing the use of the meters would be made effective at once and that motorists from today on must pay for parking when they stop at points where the meters have been installed.
 It had been planned to delay en- forcement of the meter regulations until all the 665 devices now being installed had been set up, but Sup erintendent Roach directed today that each meter be placed in opera tion as soon as it has been set up.
 100 To Be Working < It was expected that over 100 meters would be in service this afternoon. Employees of the Mark Time meter concern, which has a contract with the city, began .plac- ing the meters this morning, start ing on Grand street and Field street near the City Hall. They had prot gressed to other sections this after noon.
 Curious motorists and pedestrians gathered around the meters to see how they operated. Many pennies and nickels were dropped into tine machines just to see how they oper- ated.
 Meantime Attorney John H. Cas- sidy was contemplating superior court action against the meters. He claims that the police board has no power to authorize private conn pany to install the meters on pub
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

Coincident with revelation that the British have been given 8 green light for their new orders, it be- came known that new plan de- signed to speed defense production was discussed at a White House conference yesterday between Pres ident Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secre- tary of War Robert P. Patterson and Undersecretary of the Navy. James V. ForreStal.
 Defense Council
 The plan, which administration officials said may receive favorable consideration, would provide for creation of a defense council com posed of Stimson, Knox and De- fense Production Coordinator Wil- liam s. Knudsen. President Roose- welt would delegate certain of his powers to this group so that it might act with greater authority than the present national defense commission in carrying out the re- armament program.
 The present defense commission, however, would continue in its work of coordinating all phases of de- fense work.
 Secretaries Knox and StimsonI and Mrs. Knudsen have coOperated closely on production matters in the, past" high government official. said. This cooperation may be made more formal in the future"
 Other Developments
 Other defense and British aid de- velopments in the last 24 hours inc cluded:
 1. Government officials are con- sidering making available to the British the entire output of Curtiss P-40 pursuit planes to cut the time of delivery to the Royal Air Force of the 12000 P-40's now on order. here.
 2. Administration officials Stud-'' jed proposal to take over 37 Dan- ish vessels tied up in American ports since the German occupation of Denmark and make them avail able to the British.
 3. President Roosevelt was ex-I pected shortly to issue a proclana- \ ton increasing scope of license con-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Thirty Six Hour Career As Outlaw
 Ends With Death At Hands Of Posse

out. Captured last night at Gib- son Station, Va, he told them he had left his father, sorely wounded, standing on the railroad tracks out side Wheeler. Va.
 The son was held, under heavy guard, in the Middlesboro jail. He told officers that the elder Buchan- ans arm had been broken in the fight with the three officers and that he was too sick and weak from loss of blood to travel far.
 The son dropped a pistol and sur rendered when he walked into off cers at a country store, where he had gone four times for medicine and supplies. Mrs. Ed Wheeler. who operates the store, said she had sold him supplies and mercuro- chrome, and he borrowed handag=s from neighbors at Cumberland gap to dress his fathers shoulder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Auto Industry Plans Seven-Day Work Week
But Two Conditions Are Named Before It Will Agree
 CI0 Auto Workers Appeal to Roosevelt Against ]. Ford Motor Company
, BERNARD CRANDELL

(Umlte0 freSS SI3ns COrfcSpOnucHtD
 Detroit, Dec. 19.-(UP)-The au- tomotive industry will adopt seV- en-day factory week for national defense production on two condi- tions, representatives of the indus try said today.
 Factory and shop production will be pushed "to the limit" to fulfill production Chief William S. Knud- sens plea for speed and more speed" automotiye leader said, if the government readjustS contracts to allow for the added costs and If unions permit extensive overtime work.
 Longer working hours would speed production in tagging machine tool and die shops which are the prin- cipal bottleneckS, but the workers themselves must make the decision, Ford R. Lamb, executive secretary of the American Society of Tool Engineers said.
 "The machine equipment we have has not been running full capacity but there is no reason it can't" !" Lamb said. However, operation of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

The collier, taking water in its No. 2 and holds, tried to reach a drydock in Brooklyn under her own power but filled too rapidly to complete the run. She was sent aground on the Red Hook flats about six and a half hours after the accident
 The Arkansas, on which several hundred naval reseryists had been making training cruise, proceeded to it's Hudson river berth between 1O5th and 10th streets, Manhattan, with what was described as super ficial damage.
 None of the MelroSe's 37 crew members or the battleship's person. mel was reported injured.
 The collision occurred at a time when visibility was eight miles, the seas moderate and the wind gauged at IS miles an hour.
 Naval officers said Commander J. L. Hall, Jr., of the Arkansas would make a report of the accident and that a naval board of inquiry would hear testimony and fix responsibil- ity.
 Once Most Powerful.
 The battleship, once rated the worlds most powerful with it's 12 inch guns, had been listed as average since October, 193S. It was said to have been completing its fifth training cruise of the past month, with 500 reserve mdishipmen aboard, when the collision occurred. Only skeleton crew of regular army men were aboard at the time, it was said.
 The Arkansas had sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard November 26 for training maneuvers in Cuban and Panamanian waters The bat tleship New York and the cruisers Quincy, Wichita ;nd Vincennes were assigned to the same cruise.
 The MelroSe, under command of Capt. George E. Tobin, was en route
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

Middlesboro, Ky, December 19. - (UP) - Clyde William Buchanan's 36-hour career as an outlaw-dur- ing which he had killed one officer, wounded two more and been hunted by airplanes loaded with hand gre nades, 1000 men and officers of three states - ended today in his death at the hands of a posse.
 The 40-year-old fur salesman died in a hospital after an emergency operation. He had six bullet wounds, three in the head and three in the body.
 Although he had been wounded in the first fight with the three offi- cers, he refused to surrender. He shot it out.
 The posse surprised the wounded man huddled over a dying fire in a gulley. District Attorney B. Smith of Bell County XIV leading the uar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19

ty, shouted:
 Buchanan, come out of there"
 Buchanan answered with a shot, and was wounded three times in the head and three times in the body by volley from the posse.
 Bob Perry, a deputy sheriff, wounded Buchanan before he and his son fled. The three officers had arrested him for fur theft. He whipped out a pistol, shot Chief Deputy Sheriff George Fisher of Bell County five times in the head. wounded Police Chief Charles Min ton of Middlesboro, and shot Perry in the arm, but not before Perry had broken his arm with bullet. The Buchanans then fled.
 His lS-year-old son, Clyde, Jr., who fled with him after the offi- cers were shot Tuesday night, di- rected the posse to his fathers hide
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
BRITAIN TO HAVE
 BIG ARMY IN l94l
Prime Minister Churchill Tells House of Commons
 Some New Facts
BY WALLACE CARROLL

Limited Press Stan .COrreSpOn0ent)
 London, Dec. 19.-(UP)-Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain, with the material aid of the United States, must have a great and well-trained army ready to fight at home or take the offensive against the Axis powers in 1941.
 Although the prime minister ad- mitted that Britain was a half armed" nation that had been fight ing a power that had passed the saturation point in armament, he spoke with cold. analytical optimism of the successful offensive against Italian forces in Libya and the out look for the coming year.
 In regard to the British army in 1941, Churchill said:
 we shall try and trust find op- portunities of using our forces, if not in the defense of this island then in other theaters of war where we may hope that they may be able to contend their opponents on terms, moderate perhaps in number, but O11 ICl1Lo VI CAuuIAty III CAuApiACAAo.
 The mere fact that plans were made to carry on the war until 1944, he emphasized, did not mean that it necessarily would continue that long.
 What Churchill Said
 l. The offensive into Libya is "by no means at an end" and increas- ingly strong British forces are con- fidently expected to capture the big Italian base of Bardia. British loss es were listed as 72 killed and 738 wounded up to Monday compared to more than 30,000 Italians and vast war sNeplies captured.
 2. The Axis submarine and air siege of shipping lines to the British Isles is cause for "diquietude" but i've shall steadily increase" means of fighting the counter-blockad
 3. The British defenses at home
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Milan, Italy, Plants
 Bombed By British
Genoa Docks, AirdrOme Also Under Attacks Italian Base of Barda in Africa Is About Ready
 to Fall to BritOns
BY NED RUssELL

(Unlted Press Stan COrreSpOn0enL)
 London, Dec. 19 = CUP.) - Fac tories at Milan, great Italian indus trial center, were set afire and docks and an airdrome at Genoa, Italy's largest port, were heavily att tackled by Royal Air Force bombers last night, the air ministry said to- day.
 The British also raided Mann helm, Rhine port and railroad and commercial center in Germany, for the third successive night despite unfavorable weather conditions which kept most of the German air force aground.
 Fires in Milan, bombed frequent ly by the British during the past six months, covered large area, the ministry said.
 (The Italian high command said the British had raided Milan and Genoa, damaging some buildings at Milan and causing slight damage" at Genoa. The Italians claimed there were no casualties at Genoa and that one person was killed and several wounded at Milan. Four houses were said to have been dam aged slightly at Vercelli)
 Four New Fires
 Pilots reported that four new fires were started during the third suc- cessive night raid on Mannheim.
 Smoke from the fires set by pre- vious raids still was hanging over the town" the air ministry said.
 The British also continued their raids on the German submarine base at Lorient, France.
 All the planes participating in the raids returned to their bases.
 In an earlier communique the air
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
GREEKS PURSUE
 FLEEING ITALIANS
Chief StrOngholds of Italy in Southeast Albania
 Are Abandoned
BY BEN AMEs
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Athens, Greece, December 19. - (UP) - Italian troops have fled from Tepelini and Klisura, their chief strongholds in southeast AL bania, leaving both town sin flames, a dispatch from that front said to- day.
 The area around both towns has become "No Mans Land", with Greeks and Italians fighting in the surrounding mountains, according to message from Paul Paleologos, United Press Staff Correspondent with the Greek army there. He said the Italians burned the towns before they withdrew Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
 If the Greeks occupy the towns, the Italians first line of defense will be thrown book 30 miles north west to Valona on the coast, and 30 miles north of Berat. Tepelini con- trols the northwest road; Klisura the North road. There are no towns worth defending on either road before Valona or Berat. The fierc- est fighting of the war has ragged for week around Tepelini and Klisura, only 10 miles apart, and indications today were that the Greeks were on the verge of a decisive victory.
 Greek Confidence
 A further demonstration of Greek confidence was seen in the decree of General Alexander Papagos, chief of the Greek general staff, that the law of the fugitive Albanian king, Fog, had been restored to Greek occupied Albania. He said that normal Albanian civil tribunals henceforth would administer justice; that Albanian law applied except irl- solar as it might iniure the inter ests of the Greek army of occupa- tion, and that the validity of docu- ments, deeds and laws of zog's reign was reinstated.
 Fog fled his country when the Italians invaded it last year and was last reported in London. Mo-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
WAR IN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 DEC. 19, 1889
(By United Press)

German luxury liner Colum- bus scuttIed 45O miles off Cape May; U.S.S. Tuscaloosa picked up 559 survivors.
 Argentina ordered internment of L039 officers and men of scut- tied German pocket battIeship Graf Spec.
 Red army claimed destrtuction of 12 Finnish planes, and ad- mitted loss of one Russian ship.
 Losses at sea: British trawlers Active and Jealous, British freighter City of Kobe, Norwegian freighter GIitrefjeII, Danish freighter GlitsefjelI. Danish freighters BOgoe and Jytte. and German steamer Reinbek.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
MARY COUGHLIN
 IS CANDIDATE

Hartford. Conn. Dec. 19.-(UP)- Democratic National Committee woman Mary Coughlin, Stratford, is an active candidate for appoint ment as state liquor control com missioner, qualified Democratic quarters reported today.
 The term of Samnel R. Spencer, Suffield, former Republican lieu tenant-governor, expires May 1, 1941, and he is not expected to be re- appointed by Gov elect Robert A. Hurley.
 Hurley, according to statute. has the authority to name a chairman of the liquor board who will serve during the governors term.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
ITALY WILL MAKE
 EASTMAN STAND
TObruk, Naval Base, Sl Miles From Frontier to
 Be battle-ground
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD TIritnI procc Cfaff NnrraSuondoni

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 Rome, Dec. 19.-tUP)-Italy's North African forces intend to make a last-man stand at Tobruk, naval base 80 miles from the Egyptian frontier, if the British continue their offensive in Libya, military observers reported today.
 It was understood that the de- fense of Tobruk, an important naval and supply base, has been strength ened greatly during the last week.
 Today's high communique, re- porting Italian counter attacks at Bardia. was beleived to indicate that the British continued to extert tre- mendous pressure on thaht area.
 Dispatches from Benghazi, Libya, reported that there were huge con- centrations of British mechanized units at Bardia. Extensive British endorsements, including Australian mechanical units and infantry, had been brought from Palestine, these dispatches said.
 It was understood that artillery duels were proceeding on the AL
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
12,OOO Combat Planes to be Bought At Cost Of Over Billion Dollars
British Officials Have Completed Mas ter List for United States Govt; Con-
 gress Must Now Take Action
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Dec. 19.-(UP) British officials today completed master list of $3,OO0,O0O,OOO in new orders to be placed in the future, in- cludng 12,OOO combat planes at cost of about $1, 200 OOO OOO The list was prepared for U. S. govern ment officials after the British advised by high administration authorities to place their new orders pending congressional action President Roose- vets proposal to purchase and lend war materials to Britain under "gentlemens agreement for repay. ment after the war.
 May Be Loaned Britain
 Under the Presidents plan, the United States would take these orders pay for them and lend the material to Britain. British officials worked until a. m today to complete the list Major items in the new buying program include:
 12,OOo planes, mostly two-engined bombers - $1, 0OO0000
 60 new cargo vessels-$100, ,0o0000
 Ordnance including guns tanks " ,7OO OO0
 Officials explained that the 60 vessels which the Brit sh proposed to construct here represent just start on their shipbuildng program In all likelihood they added this number will be doubled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19


 By Major Alexander P. De Seversky
 Copyright, 194O, by United Press)
 The number one puzzle of the war is the strange be- havior of the Italian Air Force. Neither the Greek nor the Egyptian campaigns give evidence of Fascist aviation in the num- bers which might logically be expected from Italian air power. On the whole the Italian fighting has followed the lines of 1914, in contrast to the 194O model battles in western Europe.
 At the outbreak of the war Italy was generally credited with possess ing $500 warplanes, and it is esti- mated that her total now is 5000. While the quality leaves much to desired, the relatively small number of aircraft at the disposal of Britain and her Allies in the Mediterranean led all observers to expect spirited Italian aviation enterprise. Had Opportunities.
 There have been magnificent op- portunities for Il Duceis aircraft to do its stuff. The Taranto epi- sode offered such an opportunity. A properly organized air force would never have permitted a British air. plane carrier, stationed so Close to the coast, to get away with impun-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec. 19--(UP)-G0v- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Deck 17th, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Lmst Year $4,381,S69, ,540. 26'
 Receipts $2,s63, ,s29. .2l4.54 $2,52s, sss, ,s62.14
 Gross Deficit $1.s77.141, ,sss.1s si,s51. sac, ,s7s.if
 Net Deficit s1.s5s,1o6.O1 sl.sss.o52,s7s.11 $1,s50.s27,54s.s4 s2,56s, ,o46, ,zs1.1s'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
Collier Beach e d. Off Brooklyn To
 Prevent Sinking.
Battleship Arkansas Was Not Badly Injured Made
 New York Eiarbor-NO One on Either Me Vessel Was Hurt

New York December 19. - (UP) - The 5, ,148-ton Collier Melrose beached off Brooklyn today to keep it from sinking in New York Harbor after collision with the steamer operated by the Mystic Steamship Company for Koppers Coal Company and the 29year-old battleshp colided about 15 miles southeast of Manasuan N J. in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-19
FLYER MUCHPUzzLED OVER ITALIANS Major Alexander P. De Seversky Mystiied By
 Aircraft Silence ITALY BELIEVED TO
 HAVE 5000 PLANES Britain, With Her Allies Are Not Nearly So We'll
 Equipped

Editors Note: Major Alexander F. De Seversky has been a leader of American aviation for two de- cades. He receives the Harmon trophy awarded annually to the worlds "Outstanding airman" from President Roosevelt today.
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The Weather

Very Cloudy, Warmer
 Tonight, Friday Fun Weather Report Page 1
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