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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-17
Strike Threat Seems
 Averted In Brass Co,
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spokesmen have declared that a strike would be called only as last resort.
 At strike polls held last week in the three cities, the union voted 81 per cent for a strike if necessary, IS per cent against 8 strike, and per cent of the ballots were rejected.
 Other Union Demands
 On the outcome of today's nego- tiations depend many other union demands for wage increases. Set- dement's with other plants have been held in abeyance pending the result of the American Brass Go. negotiations. Union units in plants here and in several nearby towns have received almost identical wage increase offers but have refused to accept them until a decision was reached on the American Brass CO. situation.
 The union has had a contract for several years with the firm, which was one of the first in major in- dustry in the northeast to sign a union agreement.
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Oninous Nazi Quiet
 May Mean Blitzkrieg
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capping operations both in Syria and the western desert where the temeprature was reported in the neighborhood of 120 degrees.
 The German and Italian high commands confirmed British re- ports of fierce fighting in the vest ern desert and the Berlin coin- munique said that strong forces were being employed by each side.
 Sixth Night of Bombing
 For the sixth night running the Royal Rir Force carried out heavy offensive bombing Of the big Ger man industrial areas in the Ruhr, and of the basese along the Ger man. 11ald French coast, particu- larly in the Calais-Boulogne area.
 The Germans admitted the scope of the British operations in report ing nine British planes shot down.
 Curiously, the Nazi luftwaffe con- tinued virtually inactive. The full in it's operations has been in effect ever since the arrival of Rudolf Hess in Britain. The British first suggested that 1t was due to bad
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weather, then that 1t might be due to diversion of Nazi airforceS to the Mediterranean front and possibly to the Russian frontier.
 The question of Russia continued to tantalize but there was no indi' cation of an early clarificatioa. Stockholm said Helsinki reported evidences of growing German-Fin- rlish collaboration and reported that some sports eevnts scheduled for this week had been cancelled and that @ noted anti-Nazi editor had resigned his post. There was much excitement in Sweden over the Rus- so- German situation, but not much light.
 It appeared that Germany has not yet determined what reprtsals to take for the United States action In freezing Axis credits here and or- dering Nazi corlsulateS closed. 1D Italy Americans were forming eat- ing clubs and pooling their food and other resources because of 1taly'g retaliatory freezing of American funds.
 NAZA0 AnbWeg Afel9uu
 Germany replied to 6 recent Fire protest against the bombing of Dub. lin asserting that @ careful investi- gation had failed to confirm that German planes were responsible.
 The reply said that Information placed at Germany's disposal by Fire authorities had been Investigated carefully but 1t had failed to prove with certainty" the responsibility of German planes.
 Authorized German quarters said the reply had admitted the possi- bility that German planes might have flown over Fire territory but, a spokesman said, there was no proof they had dropped bombs on Dublin.
 (The Fire government had assert- ed offlcially that bombs dropped on Dublin were of German origin)
 The reply was said to have prom ised further investigation, and to have said that if the responsibility of German planes were confirmed the German government would be prepared to express regrets and pay damage.
 British Smash Germany
 British planes in smashing at- tacks on the German Ruhr and Rhineland last night started huge fires, concentrating on Dusselldorf, Cologne and Duisberg. Other Royal Air Force squadrons attacked the invasion ports of Boulyogne and Dunkirk.
 The air ministry said that coast- al command bombers continued to seek out enemy shipping of the coasts of Holland and Germany.
 Two ships were seen to have been hit and each was considered to have become . total loss," . ccnmunique said.
 The ministry announced the lass of seven bombers during the night.
 The raids on the German indus. trial area marked the sixth straight night of such attacks. They follow. cd raids yesterday on the German occupied French coast. Raids on docks on the French coast were con. tinued until dawn today.
 Thus the first anniversary of the vichy arinistice with Germany was marked by the hardest and most sustained offensive of teh growing Royal Air Force since the war be- gan.
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CITY PIPE LINE
 AWAITING WORD
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Biggest City Project

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 The pipeline will be one of the biggest city projects to be attempted this year and will practically com plete the city's long-range water expansion plans made many years ago during the regime of the late City Engineer Robert Cairns. The need of @ second pipeline has been stressed more of recent years and particularly so since the national defense program included Water bury industries In Its scope.
 It was characterized as a vital necessity by Secretary of War stim- son earlier in the spring.
 Sections of the pipeline are al- ready built, but the major portions of 1t, particularly those bringing 1t into the city proper through Bun- ker Hill remain to be completed. Considerable improvement in water pressure conditions in the high water areas is expected to be one result of the additional pipeline.
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'cision, when Q similar choice must be made. and I should like to ex- press our appreciation that Canada respects our right to make our own decision without interference from without.
 "Yet, I know in my heart of hearts that you feel now, as most of us in the United States felt in your time of choosing, sure that the de- cision, when made, will be on the side of human liberty, and its de- fenSe-come what may"
 Knox spoke here in support of the Canadian Victory Loan drive. His address was broadcast throughout Canada and th, United States.
 He denounced Unit,d States iso- lationiSts, who, he said, contend that Hitler and the Nazis have al- reaCiy won the war in Europe; that BrAain faces inevitable defeat; and that if we get in now, 1t will only be inviting similar defeat"
 To argue that we must not go to war, even in a just cause, be- cause if we do, we may be licked, Is one of the best ways I know of to awaken that fighting spirit that has taken us into every war in which we have engaged, and brought us through to victory in the end" he said.
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AMOSKEAC co. IS
 CLOSED FOR GOOD

Manchester, N. H., June 17 - (U. p = Once the worlds largest man. ufacturer of cotton, the Amoskeag Company closed It's books today for the last time.
 The last chapter was written yes- terday when directors declared final dividend of 70 cents a share on 366,977 shares outstanding. The company went into bankruptcy in 1936 and since has undergone liqui- dation. There was $257 SAT for final distribution to stockholders.
 During the last war, the company had more than 1000 employees. The buildings now are occupied by more than 60 diversified industries em- ploying approximately 5000 persons.
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fered raises of six cents an hour to workers in Its plants in the three cities, on condition that the union agree not to seek any addi- tional increases for one year. The union has held out for wage boost of 10 cents an hour, without condition as to when another raise can be sought.
 The American Brass Go. was rep resented at the conference by Clark s. Judd, president; J. Harold Mad den, labor relations supervisor; William M. Clark, superintendent of the Ansonia plant; J. F. Acker- man, superintendent of the Wat erbury plant; and Arthur E. Brim- ble, superintendent of the Torring- ton plant.
 The c. I. o. unions were repre- scented by John J. Driscoll, execu- tive secretary of the Waterbury Brass Workers union and secre- tary of the State c. I. O. council; State Rep. Henry Mccormack of Ansonia, President Michael x. Bowen of the Waterbury Brass Workers union, William McEwen of Ansonia, John Mankoski of An- sonia, John Cartenuti of Torring- ton, Fred Rubelmann of Ansonia, Angelo Sardi of Torrington, Mario Vigezzi of Torrington, Elmer Hes of Waterbury and John Mirfield of Waterbury.
 Arranged By Mooney
 Today's conference was arransca by MT. Mooney, who is recognized as the ace trouble shooter of the state labor department. As predicted by The Democrat last week, the federal government yesterday announced that 1t was intervening in the situ- ton in an effort to prevent walk out. The American Brass Company, is one of the key defense industries In the nation, manufacturing shell castings and many other defense ar- ticles. It has millions of dollars In government contracts on order.
 MT. Madden, who directs the coin- pany's labor and public relations, said this afternoon that in view of the fact that negotiations are still In progress there IS no statement that the company can make at this time.
 MT. Driscoll, MT. Bowen and other union leaders said similarly that they could make no statements pending the outcome of the meet Ing.
 A walk-out al the American Brass Company plants in the three cities would seriously cripple la- tional defense production. Union
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Continued from Page D staff early this year and tore down Nazi flag
 The owners of the building can- called Wiedemann's lease and he moved the consulate into a fashion, able residential district. 1mmedi- ately, his neighbors protested that he was violating the zoning law with Q "business enterprise" and had put himself in strategic To- cation to observe military bases and ship movements.
 pr. Herbert Hoehne, German "technician," was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while carrying dispatches from Wiedemann to German consulates in South America. Hoehne was Sub- sequently released.
 Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe of Hungary, alleged confldante of prominent Nazis and Fascists, was visiting Wiedemann when she was arrested for deportation.
 Stefanie later was given permis- sion to remain in this country, be- cause she gave the state department important information.
 Finally, Mrs. Alice Crockett, di- vorced wife of a colonel in the United States army, sued him for 5000, charging he had not paid her for acting as his agent in Ber- lin. Her suit was dismissed.
 St. Louis, Mo, June 17.-(Up)- Frederick E. Mueller, lancellor of the German consulate, believed to- day that Germany would close United States consulates in retalia- tion for the closing of German of- fees here.
 T did not think it was immin- ent--yet. he said of President Roosevelt's order closing German consulates.
 Asked if Germany would "retali- ate" he said, T believe 50, believe so."
 Boston, June 17.-(UP)-Dr. Her. bert Scholz. German consul, said today he didn't know what I will do or when the consulate would be closed--all that will have to come in orders from the German embassy ct washington.
 He said he and five consulate em- ployes would return to Germany be. cause all are German citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-17
WAR DEPT. CLERK
 WAS STRANCLED
Death of Jessie Elizabeth Strieff PrObed By Agen-
 cies of Department

Washington, June 17-(UP)--The War Department turned over it's irl- telligence division resources to police today to help find the strangler and attacker of Jessie Elizabeth Strieff, g, a War Department clerk and amateur flyer.
 Three army intelligence officers conferred with police early this morning as demands were made in Congress for an investigation of Dis trict of Columbia police methods. There have been four unsolved slay- ings recently in the capitals resi- dertial area.
 Miss strieffs body, clad only in shoes and sport socks, was found yesterday at the garage of De Witt o. Croissant, professor emeritus of English at George Washington Uni- versity. Croissant is vacationing. The discovery was made by his maid.
 The talented Des Moines, Iowa, brunette had been criminally at- tackled and 6 blue mark, half-an. inch wide about her throat, showed that she had been strangled, per- haps with 8 rope or krlotted hand keTchief. Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald said she apparently had put Up "a terrific struggle" against her slayer. Tingernail marks showed on her face. Abrastons were found on her back and legs. She had been dead at least eight hours when her badly was discovered.
 Janitor Questioned
 Police questioned the 55-year -old colored janitor of the apartment house in which Miss Strieff shared rooms with another government worker. The apartment Is near the fashionable Connecticut avenue shopping district, in what once was a wealthy town house section.
 Miss StrieR left the apartment Sunday afternoon to 90 to @ store to buy butter for the dinner she had been preparing for her flance, Stanley Leblanc, 25, a clerk in the Farm Credit Administration.
 Miss Strieff wore Q blue playsuit and . bright blue raincoat when she left home. A storm broke about the time she should have been re. turning. Police believed she might have accepted 6 ride or entered Q strange house to escape the rain.
 The girls clothing has not been found. Furnaces and alleys in the vicinity of her apartment and the garage, about seven blocks away( are being searched.
 Miss Strieff worked in the Iowa State Banking Department before coming here eight months ago. Her mother, Mrs, David Strieff, and brother, David, 20, arrived by air. plane from Des Moines last night and were taken to the home of friends.
 Sen. Clyde Herring, D., Ta, whose son had been e school chum of the slain girl in DeS Moines, asked the Justice Department to put agents on the case. He was told that the Fed. eral Bureau of Investigation partici. pates in local cases only when 6 federal offense is involved. "This is federally-governed city and this was e federal employees who was involved" Herring said. Con- gress must act to change the situa- ton here. don't know of e city in the United States that Is so poor ly governed. We don't have an effi. cient police department. It seems to me that person Is safer in a little town in Iowa where they only have 6 town marshal"
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 that previously announced plan would be adhered to in view of the news that the remaining 35 passen- gers and crew members of the Robin Moor had arrived safely in Cape town, South Africa. The statement, 1t was said, might be delayed until the rest of the survivors stories were available.
 The American consul at Capetown James Q. Denby, who sent sketchy report yesterday that the missing 35 were on an unidentified British craft in the outer harbor at Cape town, was expected to file Q fuller report later and to take dispositions from the survivors there.
 Saturday Welles charged that the details already available were sufn- cient to make certain issues clear, namely, that 6 violation of interna- tional law occurred when the Ger- man submarine commander set the Robin Moor nfeboats adrift without any provision for the safety of the passengers. This is expected to be the basis of the United States pro- test although United States insist ence on freedom of the seas" was also expected to be major issue.
 Survivors Talk
 London, June 17 - (UP.) - Sur. vivors of the torpedoed United States merchantmen Robin Moor told at Capetown today how Ger man submarine commander dressed in civilian clothes had ordered their ship sunk, knowing that 1t was American, and had left them in the middle of the South Atlantic, to be saved from death by thirst or starv- ation only by the chance passing Of British ship.
 British press dispatches left no doubt, on the basis of stories of the survivors-seven passenger and % crew members--of the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Ro- bin Moor May 21
 Dispatches to teh Daily Mail and the Exchange Telegraph quoted Chief Officer Melvin Mundy that the German submarine captain had promised to wireless the position of the sinking, 50 that the survivors lifeboats would be found, but the dispatches said he obviously had no intention of doing so.
 Mundy told the Daily Mall cor- respondent that he had warned the German captain:
 You will be sorry if you carry out your threat to sink the ship"
 The German replied, according to Mundy:
 "You carry supplies for my coun-
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MEXICO EXPECTS PROPACANDSTS
British, U. s. Quarters Are Predicting Nazis Will
 Drift SOuthward
By EDWARD F. MORGAN XInifad preaa Staff C0rresnOndentl

(Umte0 FFeSS StaH COEFeSpOMueNG
 Mexico City, June 17-(UP)-Brit ish and United States quarters pre- dicted today that the closure O German consulates in the Unitet States would send German propa' ganda and espionage organization! south, hunting @ place to set ul headquarters here or in some othe1 Latin American country.
 A cabinet officer hinted tha' Mexico might follow President Roosevelt's lead and close It's Ger. man consulates.
 we were the first country actu. ally to seize Axis shops, weren't we?' the cabinet officer said.
 (Although Mexico took 12 Axis ships into custody only after sil1l- liar action by the United States, 4 converted them to It's own use im- mediately and the United States has not done so yet).
 German officials here were said to be apprehensive, especially re- gzarding a suggestion made Satur- day by GYM, the Mexican labor fed- eration, that the government ex- propriate all Axis property.
 Nazi Mexican Investments
 German investments in Mexico are estimated conservatively at $4,000,000 not including small com- mercial establishments such as drug stores and chemical shops. German interests center in drug and chem- ical manufacturing plants.
 The German banking investment in Mexico Is between $250,000 and $500,000 nearly all of which Is rep- resented by the "Banco Germanicc de America Sud-" the alleged pay master" for Nazi activities in the western hemisphere.
 No established Mexican airlines are owned by Germans, but Ger many Is said to control e small inc in the state of Chiapas, operations of which United States offlcials have termed mysterious"
 Appropriation of German prop- erty would be difficult because many owners and managers are natural ized Mexican citizens. Tn other cases, it was alleged, titles to Ger man properties have been trans- ferred recently to Mexican citizens.
 Police were attempting to suppress Illicit radio stations in one phase of the anti-propaganda campaign. They closed a sending station Sun day less than two miles from the center of the city and charged Ed- ward W. Vanderfield, United States citizen, with broadcasting Nazi prop aganda.
 Clandestine Stations
 At least three other clandestine stations were known to be operaintg in the Mexico City federal district. Police believed they were mobile transmitting units, installed in au- tomobiles. A station operating near Taxco, @ mining town in the state of Guerrero, and another in the state of Michoacan, have been using codes, police said.
 Deputy Enrique Carrola Antuna, who heads the national anti-com- munist campaign, told newspaper men that the Communist party in the United States had fgiven $5,000,- 900 to the Mexican Communist party to be used for disseminating propa. ganda from three new ofiices tn Mexico and Central America.
 Antuna displayed what he said was an original copy of decisions adopted by the Communist party ct Its recent eighth national congress-,
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KNOX TALKS TO CANADA

Montreal, que, June 7.-(UP)- United States Navy Secretary Frank Knox told the Canadian people last night that President Roosevelt's re- cent declarations on foreign affairs left mo doubt" but that the United States Is determined to travel the same route = the same self-respect- ing route-that you are travelling"
 When your hour of decision came to you and you found, as we have in a similar hour, that there were tirnid and blind citizens of your country arguing against pursuit of the all-out defense policy in which you believed, we did not as your neighbor, attempt to tell you what you ought to do," Knox said.
 ". The people of my country are now at the very hour of de-
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Aliens Not Much Affected

AAcnS NOV N1uCh AMected
 Washington, June 17-(Up)-The general order to freeze European funds in this country will have little actual effect on the average resi- dent alien, Treasury offlcials said today.
 Under 8 general license issued yesterday, resident aliens who re- sided here prior to June IT, l940 and continuously since that date will have virtually free access to their own funds.
 If their money, however, comes from one of the governments caught by the freeze order, their financial transactions will be closely re- stricted.
 Regardless of the source of the funds, each national of one of the frozen-fund countries will be per- mitted to draw $500 monthly for living expenses from his or her personal funds.
 The principal intent of the freeze order is to prevent the Axis powers Germany and Italy-from taking large sums of money from this country, and to prevent the use of their assets here to finance sub- versive activities.
 The general license covering resi- dent aliens would not apply to refugees from the frozen fund countries who have entered the United States since June 17, 1g40. But these refugees will be required to obtain individual licenses for f- nancial transactions.
 Foreign corporations covered by the freeze order may meet their current payrolls until July IS, ac- cording to other general license is- sued by the treasury. This step was taken to give these companies operating leeway while the treasury and the department of justice ex- anime individual cases on their merits.
 Later, when the treasury and the cooperating justice and state de- partments have had an opportunity to check blocked assets more close- ly, there may be new restrictions.
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GOOD NEIGHBORS
 UP IN TWISTED

Winsted, Conn, June 17-(UP)- Good neighbors made it possible to- day for Dr. Dexter D. Ashley to clear away the ruins of his fire- swept home without 1t costing him c penny.
 Twenty men volunteers, recruited by the Rev. Frank o. vancleve, ar- rived after breakfast to tackle the job. The pastor planned it as c surprise for his doctor-friend.
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try's enemy"
 Mundy told the Daily Mail that the men he saw on the submarine spoke English with c German accent and that the submarine commander gave him handages which bore oer- man markings
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ARRIVES IN LISBON

Lisbon, June 17 -(UP)-- Capt. James Roosevelt, son of the Presi- dent, arrived here today by plane from Cairo.
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It said the congress resolved ''op. position by all possible means to United Staets intervention against Germany and her allies because the United States is an imperialistic 1unAgE.N
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WlEDEMANN IS
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WILL MAKE ISSUE
 OF MOOR SINKING

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Evening star., 1941-11-09
ARE CATS SUPER SMART?
Let's watch Molle the Maltese and see
bY Elsie Mccormick

usually, the household routine was
slow in getting under way. The conse-
quent delay of her breakfast irked
Mollie down to her last gray hair She
would stalk solemnly over to our next
door neighbors' and NEW piteously at
their side door until they presented
her with saucer of milk. She hovered
over the milk with one eye on our
windows. making sure that we saw
how she had been reduced to beggary.
If she happened to have kitten on
hand - and we were seldom poor as
far as kittens were concerned - she
would bring the infant with her to
complete the impression of heart
breaking neglect. We always gave in
and called her back for her favorite
breakfast of fried liver or sausages.
Mollie the Maltese left us some