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Evening star., 1941-04-25

mond, Ind: Daleville, Va, and Price
Greek Greg.
DR. Thomas E. Jones, president
OF Fisk University, has been granted
years leave of absence to direct
the work at the Quaker camps DR..
Paul H. Bowman. president of
Bridgcwatel College. Bridgewater,
Va, will handle the Brethren camps
and DR.. Henry A Fast of Newton,
Kans. will be in charge of the Men
MONTE camps.
Other Sects TO Take Part.
Several of the second group of
camps will be operated by one of
the three groups in cooperation
with the World Peace Commission
of the Methodist Church, the Dis
ciples of Christ. the Congregational
and Christian Church, the Commits
sion on the Conscientious Objector
of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America and other in
tel tested religious bodies. The Cath
ollc Workers plan camp in New
Hampshire for Catholic objectors.
The conscientious objector goes
through the same procedure as
Selective Service trainee inducted
for military service, except that in
lieu of Uncle Sans uniform he
draws work clothes and instead of
$21 a month for the first four months
and $50 a month thereafter he will
never see pay day come around. The
law is emphatic about that. 1t goes
even further. If the objector doesn't
have an agency or religious group
that doesn't assume the obligation
for his individual maintenance in
camp, he must pay it out of his own
pocket.
Mr. French said it will cost S35
per month per boy to operate the
work camp program. The various
religious groups involved are asSum-
ing that the individual, the family,
the local church or denominational
group will desire to help his stay in
camp 'as an expression of willing
ness to make sacrifices for the things
they believe in"
Arriving at his remote work camp,
the registrant will be given a medi-
cal examination comparable to the
examination given at the military
induction center. During the week
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work camps that soon are to re-
ceive the first crop of objectors was
the result of program prepared in
cooperation between officials OF
the Selective Service System and
representatives of the National
Service Board for Religious OBJ
jectors. The board is the official
representative of all cooperating
religious agencies in dealing with
the various branches of the Fed
eral Government.
THE work camp system Is on trial
for a period of six months" said
Paul Comfy French. executive secre-
tary of the beard. IF it doesn't
fulfil hopes, the board will relin-
quish its responsibility or some other
plan will be adopted"
Uniforms for One Type.
There are two classes of con-
scientious objectors. The first are
those who are conscientiouSly able
to accept non-combatant training
and service under military authori-
ties. This includes service in any
unit which is unarmed at all times
and service in the medical depart
ment wherever performed. Numer-
Gus Quakers and Seventh Day Ad-
ventists offer no objection to wear
ing the uniform under these condi-
tions.
The extremists are the ones who
are bound for regulated work camps.
The first camps to open are at
Largo, Ind; Grottoes, Va, and in
the Patapsco State Forest, near
Baltimore
The other camps to which weekly
assignments will be made are To-
Gated at Manistee, Mich. Colorado
Springs, Colo: Magnolia, Ark, and
San Dimas, Calf.
The American Friends Service
Committee and the Mennonite Gen.
tral Committee will operate two of
the first units opened. while the
Brethren Service Committee will
operate three
Additional camps are being pre-
pared at Meron, Ind; Cooperstown,
N. Y; Stoddard, N. H; Royalstown,
Ashburnham and Petersham. Mass;
Marietta. Ohio; Cape Hatteras,
N. c.; woodward, Okla; Humptu-
lips, Wash: Bluffton, Ind: Rich
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conquered England, and George
Washington who conquered the
United States.
The President said he was awfully
sorry that people with such a men,
tality as to lump Washington and
Cromwell with the others we're in
such high places they could write
or talk.
Evening star., 1941-04-25
1000 Conscientious
Directors 10 Go Into
Work Camps May IS
1000 Expected by July;
Unused c. c. c. Loyouts
Being Prepared
BY NELSON NJ. SHEPARD.

Marking a new democratic ap-
proach to an age-old problem, about
1000 certified Selective Service men
whose religious ScrupleS exempt
them from being soldiers will start
moving into established work camps
on May IS for year of civilian
service.
They are the extremists among
the Nations conscientious objec-
torS.-a minority recognized under
the draft law that has chosen to
work in the national interests with
out pay in lieu of performing even
-combatant military service.
Seven unused C. C. C. camps in
widely scattered areaS-remote from
the Army training centers and
under the supervision of religious
agenCieS-are now ready to receive
the first group of conscientious OBJ
jectorS. BY next July it is expected
the decisions, of local draft boards
will swell their number to around
1000
Fourteen additional camps, al
ready selected, will be necessary to
accommodate this army in overallS.
With MennoniteS. Brethren and
Quakers predominating their ranks
are representative of 63 different
religious demonstrations and SectS.
Among them also are Is objectors
of no religious faith.
Each is bona fide registrant who
has been certified by local board
AS sincere in determining to serve
in the emergency according to the
dictates of his own conscience. In
official records they are the men
who have been assigned to Glass
I'VE, which stands for work of
national importance under civilian
direction
The humane consideration given
these conscientious objectors is in
marked contrast to their treatment
when the country was at war in
1917-18. Their only choice then
was to fight or go to Jail, though
thousands of QuakerS and Seventh
Day AdventiStS then, as now, en-
listed in the ranks of non-com-
batants at home and overseas.
Public prejudices were aroused to
such pitch then, according to the
newly created National Service
Board for Religious Directors. that
IA death sentences were a matter
of court record. None of these SEN
tenCeS, however. was carried out
Quaker influence is largely respon-
sible for the change that has now
come about
A Democratic Process.
Congress in the passage of the
1910 Draft Act recognized the i'm
portance of individual conscience in
a democracy and made provision
for deferment from combatant mil
itary service and the service of those
regiStrants judged by local boards
to be sincere in their conscientious
opposition to participation in war.
The act specifically provides con-
sideration for all such persons on a
basis of their individual conscien-
tious convictions and does not re-
quire membership in a religious
organization or sect as evidence of
the sincerity of their convictions.
The establishment of the seven
Evening star., 1941-04-25
Further Withdrawal
On Front in Greece
Admitted by British
Thermopyloe Forces Fight
To Protect Retreot,
London Sources Soy

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 25.-The British
forces at Thermopylae were repre-
sented today as fighting the final
stages of a grim battle to protect
the withdrawal toward Piraeus and
other ports of embarkation in re-
treat from the Balkans.
Qn Carlo, Egypt, British Middle
East headquarters announced
that empire troops had made a
further withdrawal in Greece,
"Inf1icting severe losses on the
enemy"
(The British withdraw in
Greece was described as orderly"
Evening star., 1941-04-25

Woman army workers in Northern
Ireland are protesting that their
curfeW is 10 o'clock, while the
rawest male recruits may stay out
until midnight.
Evening star., 1941-04-25

THERE'S news that will save you
IL money on orange juice.
Every quarter you pay for Florida
oranges today gives you a bargain
you can't afford to miss.
That's not just claim. It's a tested
fact.
Florida oranges today are averaging
better than 500 more juiee for the money
than other oranges bought in the same
stores!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
Bremen Have Begun
 Searching Fire Ruins
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utes until tugs had dragged the ship away.
 District Attorney William O'Dwyer said he had found workman who saw the fire start as tiny flame in a pile of sisal on the dock.
 "This man said, I could easily have put it out with pail of water or with my windbreaker if I had had it with me, but the netx instant fire was all over'," O'Dwyer said.
 Drums of oil on the docks and ship fed the fire and caused explosions which sent flames 200 feet in the air. No spectator reported hearing an explosion at the beginning of the fire, although Battalion Fire Chief Fred Myer said he reached hte pier at 11:45 a. n., one minute after the first alarm, and found boht the dock and ship in flames from end to end.
 Throughout the night police launches were unable to get within 100 feet of the grounded ship be- cause of the heat. Water about the ships plates was boiling. The miss ing men were all from the crew and from the reports of survivors, who said the ames spread so quickly through the engine room and holds that they had barely escaped, it was feared that they had been unable to reach the deck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
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the United States and forecast an extension.)
 Must Get Permission
 Ishii started out his talk on the status of Americans here by an- nouncing that they could now leave Japan only if the government gave them permission, and that each case would be considered individual ly.
 Then he took up the refusal of the government to permit the liner President Coolidge to call at Jap anese port to embark 9 American officials and more than 100 civ- ilians who desired to go home.
 Discussing the state department protest over this refusal, Ishii said the American embassy broke a promise in seeking to get the civili- ans aboard, because Japan had giv- en permission only for the of- ficials to leave.
 "Our officials said that the Americans must stand by their first promise that only 9 would leave" Ishii added.
 He said the Japanese DrOKe OH discussions for the evacuation of the g officials when the embassy sought permission for the civilians to go.
 It was disclosed that at present the government had issued new per- mits for six American officials to leave and that other Americans, of ficial and civilian, who wanted to go home awaited the governments pleasure.
 Recalls Our Order
 (Ishu recalled Washington re- ports that President Roosevelt would soon issue a proclamation requiring all United States citizens and aliens who desire to ente- or leave the United States after Septesaber 1 to secure entry or exit permits or their equivalent" Domei said, " and ex- plained that the Japanese ruling parallels the United States step which is reported to be designed to curb movements of spies, propa- gandists, fifth columnists and other travellers whose activities are detri- mental to the national interests.'D
 American Ambassador Joseph
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Continued from Page D stretch was necessary because they were too high above the pavement to allow the covering of them with asphalt. Removal of the rails may also be found necessary at other points on the street.
 Supt. Scott- Smith was quoted as saying that waiting for the company to take up the rails would result in delay, and also result in two gangs, one from the city and one from the company, working at the same lo- cation. This, he said, would cause confusion and mean inconvenience for the public.
 Mayor Scully backed up the super intendent's arguments. He said that the city, through taking up the rails itself, will take ownership of them and be able to sell them as salvage steel.
 "It seems to me that the city should do one thing or the other, 1" said Alderman Walker. Either all the rails should be left down or all should be taken up. There are grave traffic hazards now on some streets where the street department has covered the rails with paving in one section and left them uncovered in another. With the large amount of city funds available during the last two years, the company could have been made dig up all the tracks and the ctiy could have then paved over the openings. Then we'd have safer streets"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19

(COuCluueQ 1TO1m rage U ing planes across the South Atlan- tic to the Near East.
 Increasing the tempo of plane de- liveries over this route would strengthen the British F'orcves there in anticipation of fall offensive, expected to begin soon as the sum- mer heat is over.
 MT. Roosevelt said the air trans port service will be inaugurated to ''provide direct and speedy delivery of aircraft from the arsenal of Democracy to critical point in the front against aggression" His an- nouncement added:
 \, Very Important Line
 "The importance of this direct line of communication between our country and strategic outpcstN in Africa cannot be overestimated."
 The decision came as the first concrete action to follow the Roose- velt-C Churchill conferences and was believed to be directly in line with If not q direct result of--those meetings
 The pilots will ferry fighting planes to their destination over Q war-froe gone At the same time an aerial transport service from Balti- more Co Africa will carry general eargoes and spare plane parts. yts planes will bring bsek the ferry pic lota returning for new planes.
 The new developments wero aes companled by a report that Vias count Halifax, the British Amhasnas dor, win leave solne iline this week for London to confer Uiln hls neso- clnt1a. Some diplomatic eA4erq1se npoeulniof Wheibaz if1Af4x would &a f1u|RGad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
Churchill Gets Back Home After Sea Trip
.NEA Radiophoto.
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Saturday, has been attacked 102 times. Duisburg, which has been raided for three successive nights, has been attacked AT times.
 United Press dispatches from Folkestone said the RAF heavily attacked channel ports and inland objectives in northern France dur ing the night. The raids lasted from II p. m. to one a. m. The French coast from Dunkirk to Boulogne was ablaze with bursting shells, bombs, searchlights and flaming onions"
 One large deep red glow in the Dunkirk area could be seen from the English coast. Apparently 1t was fiercely burning fire. It was visible for some time.
 A communique of the air and home security ministries said Ger man air attacks on Britain last night were on a small scale, con- fined to areas on the east coasts of England and Scotland. Bombs were dropped at 9 few points.
 Some damage was done at a place in northeast Scotland and two places in northeast England, where some casualties were caused" the communique said. There in- cluded Q small number of people killed"
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(Continued from Page D two submarines and dock fully laden with locomotives at Nikolaev, the communique said. Two Russian gunbcats were sunk there.
 In attacks On Odessa harbor, Ger man planes have incapacitated nine large Russian transports and dam aged three warships including a heavy cruiser, it was added.
 Russian forces have suffered heavy losses in Kiev and Korosten sectors to the north, and since Aug. 8 the Germans have taken 17,750 prisoners, 142 tanks and 12S field guns in those areas, the coIn- munique said. j"
 It was asserted that in addition to Russian losses previously cited in the Uman sector, the Germans had taken 60,00O prisoners, 84 tanks and 530 field guns.
 Pays Tribute
 The communique, special one such as the German high com- mand issues to report great vic- tories, paid tribute to the cooper ating Rumanian, Hungarian and Italian troops in the "battle of pur- suit" in the Ukraine.
 Before the communique was is- sued, German informants had said that the Russian army of the Ukraine was approaching disSolu- tion before the relentless drive of the Axis troops and the savage at- tacks of hundreds of German planes.
 Dispatches from the Finnish front disclosed a sharply intensified Ger man. Finnish offensive in the Lake Ladoga area north of Leningrad and claimed 8 series of unmarree successes in which two Russian divisions, totaling 30,000 men, were wiped out.
 The German communique said that the Russian warships captured at Nikolaev were lon the stocks"-- that is, under construction or in dry dock for repair. It was not disclosed whether they were dam aged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19

bly, in stealing" forbidden smoke was blamed by local officials, but the government studied the pos sibility of sabotage as well as neg ligence. The Investigating board included J. Frank Stanley of the Department of Justice; Capt. R. w Dempwolf of the coast guard, and Capt. George Fried of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Naviga- tion.
 The extent of the disaster could not be determined until the sim mering hulk of the 3,570-ton cargo laden freighter Panuco had cooled enough to permit a search for bodies. Four bodies had been re- covered. Several persons believed they had seen another on the deck of the ship as it was lowed away from the pier to nearby flats, where it was burning out. Fifteen men were missing and police feared that all were lost. Of the 69 treated in hospitals, 30 were still confined and two were in critical condition
 The New York ana Cupa Mall Line ship, valued at $500.000, and its $500, 900 cargo of oil, point and sisal, a highly inflammable material used in rope, and other items, were totally lost. Pier 27 was destroyed and an estimated 18 small craft including naval lighters which were to have transferred stores for the naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba aboard the ship as soon as 1t was unloaded were damaged in varying degrees.
 Spread With Speed
 The fire sprea dalong the 6OO- foot stretch of docks and from stem to stern of the ship with almost ex- plosive speed. trapping 140 long, shoremen and the ships crew of 35 behind a wall of flame. Many jumped into the water. Others leaped to barges of the pier and stepped from one to another of the barges tied up alongside until they had reached an- other pier 100 yards away. Three of the crew, unable to swim. chung to a line on one side of the blazing ship unnoticed by rescuers for 30 min-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19

industry and to dispel the threat of q strike which might cripple tele- phone communication.
 At New York, officials of the Western Electric Company and the Association of Communication Equipment Workers agreed after conferences yesterday with Federal COnciliator James w. Fitzpatrick to meet at Washington Friday with a ';super- -panep of conciliation off cials.
 The union conducted a strike vote among its 5000 installation employees last weekend. Henry Mayor, union counsel, said other unions affiliated with the parent National Federation of Telephone Workers promised their members would refuse to pass picket lines. He said such action would paralyze telephone systems over the entire nation.
 western Electric has rejected union demands for a maintenance of membership" clause and for a revision in its wage structure.
 Representatives of labor unions and Southern California aircraft companies were conferring with de- 1enSe officials at Washington on a government sponsored regional plan to stabilize labor conditions.
 At Monessen, Pa, 1900 CIO steel workers were on strike against the Page Steel and Wire Division of the American Chain and Cable Con- pany. The union extended the strike from the wire mill to the entire plant last night to enforce demands for 8 restoration of a three-year-old wage cut. The com pany charged the strike violated a contract requiring arbitration of dis putes.
 The Pratt and Whitney Division of the United Aircraft Corporation laid off 25O of its night shift em- ployes last night because of short-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19

(Continued from Page D
 not be necessary to hold in service any individual now in training for the full 30 months permissible un- der the law, the War Department said 1t was anticipated that Ma tional Guard enlisted men and Selecteees, other than those for whom priorities are announced, will be released "after an average oi about 18 months total active service some as early as IA months"
 SeIectees and Guardsnen eligible for relase may extend their term o1 active service t othe full 30 months if they desire. Enlisted men of the Regular Army whose three-year term of service is completed prior to December 31, 1941, will be discharged unless they desire to re-enlist and are qualified for re-enlistment.
 Those eligible for release in ac- ccrdance with the priorities estab- Hshed must seek it on their own application.
 At Uniform Rate
 Release from units will be made at q uniform rate so that the efficiency of the Army will not be too seriously lowered. Except for dependency hardship or other emergency cases men vii lnot be released while their units are engaged in maneuvers or other special training exercises.
 The War Department said it pro poses to release from active serv- ice by December 10 some 150,00O National Guardsmen inducted last fall; 10000 Selectees who were in- ducted last November and Decem- Der, and 10000 reserve officers.
 Last February the department di- xected that approximately 50 per cent of the reserve officers be re- leased from active duty on the com pIetion of F months service. Dt- tails have yet to be completed for similar relief for National Guard officers. In general, the depart ment added, release of Nationa, Guard officers from active duty will be on the same basis as for the re- serve corps.
 Replace Rapidly
 AThe general purpose of the foregoing procedure" the an n0uncement explained, "is to per- init the military training of annua increments of officers and en- listed men by replacing those now in active service as rapidly as tht situation permits"
 Some time ago, the announce ment said, instructions were issued that soldiers in the Regular Army would not be allowed to re-enlist unless they were non-commissionet ezficers or had clearly demon. ekyated an ability which would war xnnt their appointment a non- com. nnissioned officers, or unless they had specialist training.
 The same standard will be ap' piled to Selectees or Nationa Guardsmen who are 28 or more anC who are seeking to continue in activ' service. This procedure, the de partment said, will result in stead. ampromevent in the quality of thu soldier on active duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
RUSSIANS ARE
 FALLING BACK
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 the 1,800-mile front and naval dis patches reported that the Soviet Black sea fleet had smashed Ger man attempts to force landings on the Ukraine coast.
 Soviet military quarters said the Red army was employing tactics worked out more than 8 century ago in the Napoleonic campaign consisting of withdrawal where necessary while inflfcting the sever est possible losses on the enemy.
 Tallinn, the Estonian capital Leningrad and Kiev, chief city of the Ukraine, were reported intepsi- flying preparations to face German forces closing in on the cities. The population of the three ancient capitals were said to be- organized ito the last man."
 Stab into Ukraine
 German and other Axis forces were reported stabbing into the Ukraine along the southern bend of the Dnieper beyond the iron ore center of Krivoi Rog and in parallel drives westward from Korosten, north of Kiev, and Belaya Tserkov, south of the Ukrainian capital.
 The communique reported the rout of a Finnish battalion of l. 900 men in an engagement on the northern front and told of tank destroyer unit that knocked out 32 German tanks in 10 days.
 Describing the methods used by tank destroyer units, the communi- que said the Russians used fuel bottles and bundles of hand gre- nades, waiting until the tanks ap- preached to close range and then hurling them under the caterpillar tracks.
 A Russian guerrilla band, in a daring night attack, was said to have wiped out an encamped Ger man motorcycle unit and captured 30 motorcycles in good condition.