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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Army Plans Big
Calf. Cantonment

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA CUP) -
Rep. Alfred j. Elliott, D., Calf, an
nounced today that the war depart
ment had decided to proceed with
construction of a $24,25O,OOO can
tonment in the vicinity of Santa
Maria-Lompoc, Calf.
He said that an armored division
and antitank battalion would be
established there along with nee
essary ordnance, quartermaster and
posi- service personnel The total
personnel will be $4,000 officers and
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

Herewith have embarked and have
made clear the stress which their
countries are respectively taking for
their safety in the face OF these
dangers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

WASHINGTON. Aug. "A CUP)-
Text of the White House statement
tabout 1000 words:
The following statement signed by
the President of the United States
and the Prime Minister Of Great
Britain is released for the infor-
nation of the press:
The President of the United
States and the Prime Minister, MIR.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Manganese Ore
Development Told

PHOENIX. Aug. ID CUP) - De-
velopment of one of the nations
largest low-grade deposits of man
ganese ore in the Artillery noun
tain peak area and sulphide iron
deposits in northwestern Arizona
was discussed today at a hearing
of a senate subcommittee on stra-
tegic minerals.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
BEAVERBROOK DUE

WASHINGTON, Aug. ID. tUP)-
The British press service here an
nouneed that Lord Beaverorook
would arrive in Washington some
time today. The service was unable
to give the time of his arrival i'm
mediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
DECLARATION ADOPTED

They have agreed upon the fol-
lowing Joint declaration:
Joint declaration of the Presl-
dent of the United States of Amer
ica and the prime minister, Mr..
Churchill, representing His Majes-
tvs government in the United King
dom, being met together, deem 1t
right to make known certain COM
mon principles in the national pol
icies of their respective countries on
which they base their hopes for a
better future for the world.
First, their countries seek no ag-
grandizement, territorial or other:
Second, they desire to see no ter
ritorial changes that DO not accord
with the freely expressed wishes
of the peoples concerned.
Third. they respect the right OF
all peoples to choose the form of
government under which they will
live; and they wish to see sovereign
rights and self government restored
to those who have been forcibly
deprived of them;
Fourth, they will endeavor, with
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

ment IN IOnQOn LOT lehJ lucoudy'
CONTRAST TO AXIS
The meeting was in dramatic con-
trast to the fanfare of meetings OF
Axis leaders in the past.
Unlike the Brenner meetings,
there was no fanfare, no lines OF
steel helmeted guards, no swarms
of generals, no little girls with
posies. There was just the empty
Atlantic, which the British and
American navies still control. On
it Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill
talked.
The Brenner meetings always
have ended with sharp action by
Germany or Italy or both. The
potentialities for action in the
meeting of American and British
statesmen embraced five continents
and all the seas of the globe. But
the world is apt to be kept guessing
for a while at least, on just what
was said and done.
For days uncertainty about just
what was happening on the Allan
tic seemed to have frozen AXIS
diplomacy and to have put the
brakes on japanese expansion in
the Far East.
CONFEREES MYSTIFIED
It was diclosed today that Chur-
chill was accompanied by a party
of %. His departure was so secret
that even some members Of the
party did not know where they were
going when they left.
On the American side no news
papermen were present. The Brit
ish had press representatives but
they were members of the ministry
of information, sent to do official
descriptions.
AXIS curiosity will be satisfied by
nothing which the British ministry
of information men will write.
For more than week the world
has speculated as to whether Roose-
welt and Churchill really were
meeting. And there are some in
London who thought that "leak"
permitting such speculation was
sufficient to act as
red light to Japan, particularly.
The meeting at sea has been de-
scribed as the worlds worst-kept
secret because Of the leak.
Newspapermen were put on their
mettle some days ago when well
known British politician tippeo
them TO watch for one of the wars
biggest stories. A hint in a British
correspondents dlSpatch from
Washington and the disappearance
of certain well known British and
American figures was followed by
announcement that Attlee and not
Churchill would address the house
Of commons on the state Of the war
last week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
SCHOOL NURSES ! IN MANY VISITS
Health Officer Godfrey's Annual Report Shows
 Heavy Program

- School nurses made a total of 320,302 individual inspections of children during the year ending Aug. 3l according to the annual health department report of pr. Ed ward J. Godfrey, city health officer These were in addition to 25,62s group inspections. Dr, Godfrey cit- ed the figures as an illustration of the steadily expanding program oi school doctors and nurses in the fields of general and oral health.
 The seven school doctors eXanl- med l3,784 children during the year The examinations disclosed the fol- lowing defects: 1884 cases of dis eased adeno.ds and tonsils; l66 cas- es of heart disturbance; 405 in- stances of dental defects; and l87 ailments of various sorts. There were 546 toxois administrations giv- en.
 Tn cases where medical examina- ton showed defects, school nurses went to the children's homes to consult with their parents.
 The nurses inspections resulted in 5,3l3 youngsters being referred to their own dentist, 1893 to their own doctor and 4,949 to the dispen- sary. There were 2,693 children ex- cluded from schools for usually brief periods because of suspicion of communicable disease.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
SINKING OF BOAT
 AIDS ROOSEVELT

Washington, Oct. 4-(UP)-The torpedoing of the American-owned tanker I. c. White with the possible loss of 20 American lives within the western hemisphcric defense zone, was seen by administration senators today as strengthening President Roosevelt's hand in any revision of the neutrality act which he may seek of Congress.
 While she was the eighth Ameri- can flag or American owned ship to be sunk by Axis action in this war, she was the first in which the loss of a large number of American lives was apparently involved. She was torpedoed. presumably by an Axis submarine, between Brazil and the western bulge of Africa on septem- Der 2T and freighter picked up one of her lifeboats containing IS men There remained possibility that the missing Americans were in an- other nfeboat. not yet picked up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
DEATH PENALTY
 FOR SABOTAGE
BeIgians Face Execution By Nazis; Decree Issued
 By Commander

Berlin, Oct. 4-(UP)-Gen. Alex ander Won Falkenhausen, German occupation troop commander for Belgium and northern France, has decreed penalties up to death for Belgians who enlist in or recruit others for service in armies fight ing Germany, the German-domi- mated Brussels newspaper Switung announced today.
 Falkenhausen said that in "iso- lated" cases young men had att tempted illegally" to reach Great Britain from occupied territories in order to enlist in enemy" armies,
 The Germans were unable to tolerate this, Falkenhausen said because "all but small fraction of the Belgian army has been graci- ously released in confidence in the loyal behavior of the Belgian pub lic."
 Whoever attempts to enlist ir the army of a nation at war with Germany, or to participate in this war. and whoever misleads another into such action, will be punished by death unless there are excep. tional circumstances, in whict there will be a penitentiary sem tence," he said.
 From Holland came news tha German occupation authorities "clarlfylng a previous decree" haS banned all dancing throughout thu Netherlands except for dancing lessons and evening practise ans balls connected with such lessons. Attendance was limited to persona registered as dancing students.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
Democ cratic Slate
 For 1941 Election
Mayor--vIncent A. scully.

May0r-Vmcent A. ScuIIy.
 ControlIer-Thomas M. COnlonl
 City Clerk-Joseph M. Shea.
 City Treasurer--serge A. Be- langer.
 Tax ColIector--Humbert Man gini.
 City Sheriff-CIayton BriOtti.
 Town Clerk - Mary c. KiI- martin.
 Registrar of Voters-John T. Derwin.
 Board of Aldermen - John S. Monagan, Patrick F. Shea, Ed- ward P. Rafferty, Daniel J. Dris- coll, Martin F. Sullivan, Edward L.Lasky, John Kopcha and Henry Minicucci.
 Board of Education - Dr. Francis P. Barnes, Perry Gracier- stein, Anna D. Hadden, Raymond F. Stone and George J. McDuff.
 Selectmen-Aleck w. Koskey and Albert Rice.
 Constables - FrencescO DiSom- ma, Italo Delfino, Samuel Ershler and Frank J. McCann.
 Beard of Library Agents - E. Vincent Maloncy.
 Board of Tax Review = Bernard J. Rielly and Michael Toma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
RELIGIOUS ISSUE
 BROUGHT TO REDS
British Ambassador Raises Question in Discussion
 With Leaders

London, Oct. 4-(UP)-Sir Staff ford Cripps, British ambassador to Russia, has raised the question of religious tolerance in recent con- versations with Soviet leaders, 1t was said today in a reliable quar- ter.
 It was understood the Cripps pointed out what the British gov ernment believed would be the ben eficial results of suppression by the Russian government of atheistic propaganda.
 Informants emphasized tn at greater Russian forbearance in re- ligious matters would strengthen both Russian and allied positions in the United States and also in such Catholic regions as Latin America and Spain.
 Cripp's representations, as in- formants termed them, appeared to have coincided with those of Averill Hartman, head of the American misison in Moscow, and the visit to the Vatican and to London of Myron c. Taylor, Presi- dent Roosevelt's personal envoy to the Vatican.
 It was reported that in talks with government leaders here this week Sir Samuel Hoare, British am- bassador to Spain, emphasized the importance of assuring the friend- ship of Spain's influential Catho- lies, and that he alluded to Russia in his talks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
BANDIT GANG
 ROAMS GEORGIA } Escaped COnvicts, Gun Girl Object of Hunt; May
 Be Wiley Slayers

Columbus, Ga, Oct. 4--(UP)- Three escaped convicts and @ gun girl, led by a young desperado as daring, imaginative, and ruthless as the late John Dillinger roamed the Georgia highways today in an automobile that was 0 rolling arr senal.
 They had TOUT sub-maehine guns, three rifles, gunny-sack filled with pistols, and case of dynamite,
 They were already suspected of the murder of Marion Miley, 29 top- flight woman golfer, and her mother, Mrs, Fred Miley, in Lexington, Ky, and authorities feared there would be a chain of violent crimes before they were captured.
 The state highway police, aug mented by locality police, were pa- trolling highways and laying traps for them, without much hope of catching them at once: They had released two hostages taken in Q daring raid on a gang of prisoners working on c highway yesterday, in which one of the three was liberated to join the gang.
 The leader was Forrest Turner, 26, who believes he is q lady killer as Dillinger did, who likes dancing and golf and has escaped from Georgia prison camps Ave times one of his companions is Sim Scarborough, 0 murderer, who hos escaped from prisons eight times These two are suspects in the Miley murders. Yesterday, with their girl, they rescued Fred Stewart, who was serving a long term for banditry.
 Inspector Claude Altman, of the Georgiaa state prison system, and Guard Neal Hutchinson were rec leased by the convictS in q woods near here at dusk yesterday, after several hours of roaming the high ways in a heavily armed sedan and two hours of hiding in the woods. They hadn't been harmed.
 At one time during the flight from the section Of highway in Harris county where Stewart was freed, Turner, who was driving, handed Stewart q stick of dynamite.
 If anybody catches Up with us
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
TWO HELD IN
 SAILORS DEATH
Widow, Young Married Man Seized By Boston
 Police

Boston. Oct. 4-(UP)-A middle aged widow and a young married man were seized by state detectives here early today and held Ion sus- picion of being accessories after a murder" in connection with the strange death of Sic H. Kuchera 30, of Nashville, Neb., a boa atswain's s mate in the U. s. navy.
 After Kuchera'S body was discov- cred a week ago last night in a thicket at the end of a lonely lane in suburban Reading, puzzled inves- tigators reported successively that he had been beaten to death, that he had died of a heart attack, and that carbon monoxide had killed him. State Pathologist Alan R Moritz still is analyzing the vital organs for traces of poison and po- lice leaned today to theory of foul play. Robbery, they said, may have been the motive.
 The 5l year old CharleStowr widow was seized after police had checked her claim that she owned no auto and found that she had one in storage. It has been established that Kuchera died elsewhere ano that his body was taken by auto to the spot where it was found. Ku- chera's wife, who came here recent ly from Nebraska to visit him, told police she saw his duffle bag in the widows apartment. The widow de- nied the bag had been there.
 Kuchera was attached to des- troyer at Boston Navy Yard, only q short distance from the widows home.
 The man held is q years old and has one child. He had been em- ployed as an attendant at an out. of-state hospital but returned hert Sept. 24, the day Kuchera is be- lieved to have died.
 In his alibi for the night of thu 24th. he told police he went to Nortt station at 6 p. m. and met Lowel girl whom he refused to name. They attended a movie, he said, and ther he accompanied her back to tn station where she boraded a traiI shortly before midnight. He re fused to account for his time be- tween then and 2:30 a. m., whel he arrived home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
Russians Smash Hitler Destruction" Claim By
 Vicious Counter Attacks, Regaining 30 Villages
Large Scale Operations On All Fronts Are Succeeding
Inspection Tests
 End January 17

A request that all state and municipal cars be inspected be- fore November l was made by Motor Vehicles Commissioner John T. Mccarthy today.
 Tn 8 letter to state depart ment heads and to the chief executives of Connecticut com munities, the commissioner pointed out that business at the lanes would be increasing ly heavy after that date.
 The commissioner asked state and local authorities to urge those in their departments or communities who have been assigned cars to have them brought to the lanes before November 1. The fall inspec- ticn period ends on January F.
 Up to September 27, the end of the sixth week of the fall period, 112,354 cars had been passed at the lanes. At the end of the sixth week of the spring period, 11O,145 cars had been passed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
SURVIVORS TO
 LAND AT RIO
American Tanker Presunl' ably Sunk By Axis Sub
 Inside Neutrality Zone
BY J. ALAN CooGAN
,v,n,..S pro.s s.ow corrcsrondent,

l United Press StaH COrreSponuenCD
 Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 4-(UP) - The American freighter West Nilus lands here today IS survivors of the American owned, Panamanian tank CT I. c. White, which was tropedoed and sunk inside the American 1leu- trality zone, presumably by an AXIS submarine.
 Half of the 7,o52-ton I. c. Whites crew was missing, she having car- ried 37 officers and men, 36 of whom were Americans and one Canadi- an. Grave fears were held here for their lives.
 There may have been more men aboard. Tn Standard oil Company of New Jersey, which formerly op- erated the boat, said the regular crew was 37, but additional mon may have been added since she be- gan sailing under British orders.
 The Moore-McCormack lines ship Mormacrey docked today without any of the I. c. Whites survivors. There had been reports that the Mormacrey had picked up 16, but these reports were attributed to con- fusion of the maritime police.
 The master of the West Nilus, a 5.495-ton vessel registered out of San Francisco. radioed the United States consul at Pernambuco yes- terday that he had rescued the sur vivors, all packed into one lifeboat.
 The. message said the ship had been torpedoed Sept. 27, and the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
JAMES P. M'CRATH
 DRAFTED TO RUN
Former Internal Revenue Collector Seen as Likely
 COP Candidate
By RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Political RenOrterl

James P. McGrath, former col- lector of internal revenue, has been drafted" by Republican leaders for @ place on the G. o. P. ticket on the city election. He will be nomi- mated Tuesday night for either city controller or tax collector, with odds favoring the former.
 The draft" was made by Will liam J, Pape, local publisher, and Vernon L. Hall, chairman of the Republican town committee. Earlier, MT. McGrath had been unwilling to seek any office in this years elec- tion. A month or more ago he re- jected overtures that he be the Re- publican candidate for mayer.
 MT. McGrath told The Democrat today that he had decided to accept nomination after appeals by party leaders. He said he had been re- luctant to run but yielded to pleas that he allow his name to be offered.
 MT. Pape is said to favor having MT. McGarth run for the office of controller, in which case he would oppose Controller Thomas M. Con- lon, who was renominated by the Democrats last night. If MT. Mo- Grath is nominated for controller, 1t is likely that a Republican of Ital- ian descent will be the nominee for tax collector, opposing Tax Col lector Humbert Mangini.
 The Republican conventions at the Y. M. 0. A. Tuesday night will nominate ex-Mayor Patrick M. Per- riello for mayor and Mrs. Sherwood Rowland, widow of the late city con- troller, for town clerk.
 John w. McGurk, A. F. of L. leader, is regarded as a leading can- didate for the nomination for city clerk.
 The Independent Democrats, who will endorse most of the Republican candidates at a caucus Tuesday night, are seeking Republican back ing for their candidates for city sheriff and for places on the boards of aldermen and education. The In- dependents will name their own candidate for registrar of voters, probably James E. Watts.
 The announcement of Roger V. Connor, leading figure in the Inde- pendent movement. that he will support Mayor Scully has made some Republicans dubious of the wisdom of a "trade" with the Inde- pendents. but negotiations have progressed so far that the Repub- licans can hardly drop them now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
|NO PRISONER EXCHANGE YET
Tranfer Halted as Berlin Demand Concerning Ex-
 change Is Received
BY JOHN A. PARRIS, JR. United Press Statff Correspondent)

(OLlAVeu EEeeS SttStH NUEFtSVuAtuGHtJ
 Newhaven, England, Oct. 4-(UP) Exchange of 5000 British and German prisoners, many of them maimed, most of them wounded CT ill, hinged today on the receipt from Berlin of Q German government message which was reported to con- cern a demand for the inclusion of additional civilians in the Germany party.
 Reports that Adolf Hitler had de. manded the inclusion of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi who flew to Scot- land for reasons which never have been explained, were unconfirmanle here or in London.
 Due to sail last night from this Sussex port on the English channel, the first batch of German prisoners, including aviators and navy men, were aboard the hospital ship Din- ard, thinking forlornly of Dieppe, on the French invasion coast, where they had expected to land, free men, this morning.
 The yar office had announced last night 6 hitch in the plan to cx- change l,5oo German for i,boo Brit ish prisoners.
 It had been expected that at any moment the situation would be clar- flied and that the Dinard, once in the Irish sea ferry service, would start out for France.
 The report swept Newhaven this morning, and spread to London, that Hitler had demanded the inclusion of Hess, his second heir, among the Germans, and 1t was even said that Hitler asked for Hess at the request of the German Gestapo.
 London reported that the hitch in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
SMASHING SUCCESS
 CLAIMED BY REDS
Nazis, Rumanians Routed on Ukraine Front, Rus-
 sians Maintain

Moscow, Oct. 4.-(UP) - Russia claimed 8 series of smashing suc- cesSeS today against German and Rumanian forces on the central and Ukrainian fronts and asserted that Russian warships of the northern fleet had sunk German submarine.
 The afternoon war communique claimed a serious defeat of a large German motorized and infantry force as the result of which 800 German armored cars and 250 mo- torcycles were destroyed, and said 750 Germans were blown up by land mines at another point.
 It said that in the Odessa zone the Russians destroyed 45 enemy field guns and heavy long range battery.
 The. conmunique said that afr planes operating in the south had destroyed IT tanks, three artillery batteries, four armored cars, four anti-aircraft guns and two fuel dumps.
 Guerrillas operating behind the German lines on the Leningrad front destroyed 9 German tractors, three armored cars and two motor- cyc'es, blew up a bridge and a mill used by the Germans. cut wires and attacked German outposts, 1t was asserted.
 Special dispatches from the front said the central army of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko had captured dozens of settlements in some sec- tors weher he is counter-attackina and had advanced upwards Of is miles.
 The early war conlmunique claimed that on the southern front the Russians had recaptured IS VII. lages, advanced i2 to % miles, de- stroyed two Rumanian brigades ol possibly 1900 men and inflicted fflontinaaad aFA Rana 1l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
CROAT MILITIA
 LOSE BEST MEN

Rome, Oct. 4-(UP)-Anti Pave lie, chief of the Croat state" said in an interview in the newspaper Popolo Di Roma today that the Croat militia were losing some Of their best men in fighting Serb rebels" hidden in the woods and through the countryside in Croatia.
 "Our men are beating the countryside and the forests att tacking the Serb rebels in their hideouts." Pavelic said. we are losing some of our best men bat final victory is near. The 1900 GOO Serbs who live within our borders must adapt themselves Co new conditions or disappear"