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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
PETAIN ARRESTS
 MANY FRENCHMEN
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 He was said to have deferred acc ton on the case of Pierre Cot, an- other former air minister, who is now In the United States.
 InformantS said that petain made his decision after consulting mem. bers of his inner cabinet.
 There was no right of appeal from the decree.
 Petain acted on recommendation of c ''council for political justice" which he had appointed to consider the cases of men he holds guilty for France entering the war and her defeat.
 Considerable concern was felt by Hlum's friends because of the alti- tude of the Pourtalet fortress. He is 60 and his heart Is not strong. Gamelin also is 60. Reynaud is 6S, Daladier Is 67 and Mandel Is 66.
 1,641 Executed
 Berlin, Oct. 16--(UP)-At least i,- 64l persons have been shot or hanged in Germany, occupied ter- ritory-not including Russla--aHid in Hungary and Rumania since the beginning of the Russian German war, a compilation of ofacial and authorized reports showed today
 Of these, 2S0 have been executed in the protectorate of Bohemia Moravia, and PA have been put to death in the last two weeks. Nevertheless, the Serbs continue what the Germans describe as Q Communist -inspired revolt begun immediately after the downfall of Yugoslavia.
 Thirteen new executions were announced yesterday eight at Prague and Brunn for sabotage and preparation for high treason" 1" and five ct Budapest for spying for Russia.
 Many others have been con- demned in Bohemia -Moravia and are awaiting execution. They inc clude the former premier, Gen, Alois Elias.
 Old Frenchman Dies
 Vichy, October 1e-(UP)-Lieut. Gen. Ernst Won schaumburg, Ger man commander In Paris, announce ed today that Leon Albert Liquist, 7e, had been court-martialed and executed at Le Havre for compile. ity with the enemy ili Communist agitation against the army of oc. cupation."
 Police in Paris announced the discovery of @ new De Gaullist plot" and announced that six leaders had been arrested and charged with distribution of arms and tracts.
 They had connived to form a Free France group with headquar- ters in the Pelleport subway station; 1t was reported, and the station master, Lucien Noel, recruited fol- lowers for secret action against oc- cupation forces. Others arrested in- cluded architects, businessmen and travelling men, 1t was said
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Pacific Crisis Being
 Pushed To Tragic End
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1 and then was received by Emperor Hlrohito.
 The cabinet had been just under three months in office and was the shortest-lived in modern Japanese history. i.,
 Before the cabinet resigned, news papers, which had waited inc patiently for the outcome of nego- tiatlons between the United States and Japan, renewed an anti-Ameri- can campaign.
 Yesterday the highly nationalist Tohclsai organization, formed to pro- mote Japan's domination of East Asia, called upon Konoye and Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda to end the negotiations and made public explanation of prog ress to date.
 Sixty members of the House of Representative met in emergency session yesterday and voted to en- courage Japan's program in the Far East.
 Otter events leading up to the resignation, included important re- shuff!os in high army and navy per- sonnel and privy council order to shorten college and university terms in order to speed entry of students Into the armed forces.
 Konoye has been premier three times but whether he would be ir- vitcd to form a new government, was not immediately clear. There was some speculation as to whether the army finally would take over avcwed control and drop Konoye, who in the recent past has been re. gardeG as the only civilian suffi. oiently strong, to form cabinet.
 As the cabinet quit, ASahi, 6 lead. ing Tokyo newspaper, displayed prominently an account of a lecture last night at Kyoto by Captain Hi- deo Hiraide, navy spokesman. Hi- raide said relations between Japan and the United, States were "ex- tremely critical" and that Japan must adopt an attitude of "firmest determination"
 Gn connection with the resigna- ton 1t was recalled that recently there have been many reports of intensified German pressure on Japan to abandon a policy of watch full waiting and play a more active role in the Axis, which 1t joined little more than a year ago.
 (Scme reports said that Germany had demanded Japanese action against Russia in Siberia or di- version in the Pacific which would keep the United States from concen- trating on the Atlantic. Far east ern reports have said that Japan was anxious over the Russian situa- ton and some Japanese army offi- cerS Rdvoated e Japanese occupa- ton of eastern Siberia in order to put Japanese forces on the ground there before German troops could Err!vc.l
 'r his lecture last night Hlraide said the United States was expand- Ing It's navy on large scale but still was unable to conduct simultaneous operations in the Atlantic and Pa- cific.
 After four years of the holy war tagalnst China) the Japanese navy hos fared very well and Is actually becoming stronger" he said. "ThiS very fact has brought about ten- dency to consider whether war may not be averted between Japan and the United States"
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cut. Judge Carroll o. Hincks made his home here for many years, and Congressman Smith lived here until after his marriage and still main- tains his law office here. He now lives in Prospect with his wife and son.
 Congressman Smith was born in Waterbury Jan. 25, 1904. He attend ed public grammar schools and Crosby high school, then entered Yale, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1925. He received his law degree at Yale in 1927 and was admitted to the state bar the same year.
 He was Q research fellow at Yale
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CContlnued from Page D sector to the west and the Kaiuga- Tula sector to the south.
 Hitler, believing that hO must win a decisive victory at once, was reported to have withdrawn every man and every weapon no could from occupied countries, the Ger man army in Germany and the armies attacking in the Leningrad area and in the Ukraine, for hiS blow ct Moscow.
 There was but one encouraging indication. The great central RuS- sian army under Marshal Semycn Timoshenko was withdrawing in good order, maintaining its line and making gallant stand against s1- perior numbers and weight Of weap. ons--and 1t was infilcting frightful casualties on the attackers. As regards the defense of MoSs COW, military experts said they be- lieved the Russians would never surrender it aa the French did Paris. But they pointed out that t4AC SVAAAAkA6 4AstA oeA8 WASA NAA~ nounced object was not merely to gain territory but to knock out the entire Russian army as c fighting force.
 The Russian central army, as well aS Moscow, was now threatened from north, west and south, experts said, and the Germans seemed to hope to thrust their northern and southern wings eastward to Moscow to effect contact and isolate both the city and Marshal TimoshenkoS army.
 Main Striking Force
 The main German striking force was aimed eastward from the Mozhaisk- -Borodino direction, ex. perts said, in Q frontal attack against Thnoshenko's forces.
 For that reason experts said the Russians might be compelled to dc. eide within the next two weeks, if not within the next days, whether to stake everything on Q stand be- fore Moscow.
 The great reason for deciding to make the stand, experts said, would be belief that a continued Rus- sian defense as stout as the present one would crack the German attack, now in its 18th day. It was q ques- ton, according to these iYlformants, whether Hitler was making Q final, desperate attack in which he was already stalking his last reservoirs of available strength.
 There was nothing SO far to irldi- cate that the German striking power was nearing exhaustion, they said, or that the Nazi armies were near ing the point where they would have to seek a respite to rest men and recondition machines.
 Informants emphasized that the question which Premier Stalin and the Russian command might be called on to decide soon was whether to make their great stand before or behind Moscow, in order to prevent the possible destruction Of the cer1- tral army.
 We'll aware of Russian determine ton, experts said they believed that If the Russians were faced with the decision, and decided to retire, they would leave Q rear guard to de- fend Moscow street by street, and destroy the capital, Russlas great est city, as their Czarist predeces- sors had done rather than leave 1t for Napolon in 1872.
 It was suggested here that if the Russians were called upon to make such decision, in order to preserve their armies, the British and Arneri- can military attaches would be ad- vised in advance because of it's connection with the supply of weapons for Russia for the campaign next spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
REGISTRATIONS
 HAVE BIRTHDAY
One Year Ago Today First Peace Time Draft Army
 Was Started

Hartford, Conn, Oct. 16-(UP)- It was just year ago today that registrations began for the country's first peace-time draft army, and the anniversary found more than li,000 Connecticut young men in the var ious branches of the armed service.
 A year ago 1885 men between the ages of 3l and 35 registered with their draft boards. This total was swelied by another 15,005 who became of age on or before July l, this year.
 The 65 local boards have classified l75,63l, registrants to date and ex- pect to complete the classification within the next two months. Since congress lowered the age limit to 28 years. 0eS6 men have been placed in class HI, deferring them until an mergency which would can them back into service through 6 pres idential proclamation.
 Dependence placed l06.O00 in class 3 and another l4.OO0 were placed in one of the two divisions of class 2 because of their particular occuoa- tons.
 The medical board has passed on 0,TOO men, of whom l0,T79 have been rejected. Rejections at tnduc- ton centers amounted Co only ll07, or an average of e.2 per cent.
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Continued from Page D Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Hen- " L. Stimson, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, Gen. George c. Mar shall, army chief of staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chic of naval ops erations, and lend-lease supervisor Harry L. Hopkins.
 Hull had Q separate conference with the president at noon.
 News of the Konoye cabinets resignation stirred the state depart ment and White House to re- doubled activity.
 Doubtful of Reaction
 Although administration leaders, as exemplifled by Rayburn and Me- Cormack, were confident of & fa- vorable house vote on the resolution, they sail were doubtful of the reac- ton to be expectd whn Congrss is askd to allow the armed merchant ships to sail into belligerent zones
 The leaders ordered 6 survey by Democratic whips of the congress sional rank and file. How and when they will attempt to carry out Pres ident Roosevelt's recommendation for repeal of the combat zone re- strictions probably will hinge on that poll.
 The House was called to meet an hour earlier than uSual-1l q. m. EST--to begin the debate, which will continue all day. An hour more of debate will be allowed tomorrow before consideration of amendments The vote is expected lat tomorrow aftrnoon or night.
 A few hours after the House For eign Affairs reported the bill yester- day as "a matter of extreme urgen. cy," Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that the Navy wai ready to put guns merchant ships and man them with trained crews aS soon as Congress approves.
 The committee majority, headed by Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. Y. said that "the recent piratical at. tacks by German submarines ar1e aircraft on American vessels makes 1t necessary" to repeal section sls of the neutrality act which prohibitI the arming of the merchant marine
 Safety of Crews
 "The safety of the crews of suct vessels and the success of our pro gram of all-out aid to those nationI resisting aggression makes such { repeal Q matter of extreme urgeu' cy," the majority report said.
 Six of the 10 Republican member of the F'oreigng Affairs Committed signed 6 minroity report asking tol recomrnital of the'blli for "adequat' hearings" and proposed substitute that would allow President Roose welt to give Great Britain Inerchan ships under the lend.lease act.
 The minority argued that arm ing American merchant ships wolilt not furnishe effective protection tt theh crews, charged that the pro posal was "part of on administers ton plan to put Us Into war by sub terfuge," and protested "piecemea emasculation" of the neutrality Act
 The six Republicans were Reps George Holden Tinkhayll, Mass, Ro bert B. Chiperfield, Ill. John N Vorys, O., Karl Mundt, s. D., Bar tel J. Konkman, Mich, and France P. Bolton, o.
 Four Republicans did not sign ei ther report-Reps. Hamilton Fish, N Y., Charles A. Eaton, N. J., Editi NourSe Rogers, Mass, and Foste' stearnes, N. H.
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FIRST DIVISION
 OF DEVENS THERE
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 The sixth corps yesterday coil- pleted a smashing flank attack on a theoretical invader of the Atlantic coastiine in the Fort Bragg, N. O., sector. The maneuver was Q test of the army's actual plan for repelling on invader anywhere along the coast - encirclement by a wide fiankink maneuver and a Simultafie. ouS attack on two fronts.
 The sixth presumably threw the invader into confusion by hard-hit- ting assaults from two sides, forciny him to fall back toward the coast.
 The forty-fourth division, which participated in this problem, rested after returning to its own blvouac area near Wadesboro, N. c.
 Meanwhile, a mass armored car assault produced at leas tone hero as the second corps continued It's problem for the week. Corp. James c. Ellis, 20, of Raleigh, N. O., e member of the eighth. divisions 34tll infantry, was commended by Maj. Gen. Charles P. Thompson for the manner in which he kept his anti tank crew blazing at 48 advancing armored cars.
 Gen. Thompson said, we want more of that sort of spirit"
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 242 Baldwin street, Francis c. Riach, 25 Wildemere avenue, Joheph Santa Maria, 27S3 East Main street, Ed. ward Jankowski, 270i East Main street (leader), Andrew Cerullo, A North BeaSon street, Thomas Fran. cis Hagerty, 1879 Hamilton avenue, Russell P. Blanchard, l0S Blanchard street.
 Board iS-A: Mortimer Herman Nadel, 0l Clinton St.; Alexander Konavaluk. 30 High St.; Edward Theodore Racynski, l12 Rose st.: Thomas Joseph Rurkowski, " Monmouth Ave; Francis Vincent Lorusso, 0i Easton Ave; Andrew John Lucewicz, 233 Bishop St.; John Harnick, 02 Hili St.: Wllfred Joseph Cabana, 80 Hill st.; Walter Amatruda, 86 Giles St.; NiJazi Abb. dulla Fazo, 20 North Elm St.; Charles Arthur pugliese, 4e Ives St.; Harry Enrico Quintaglie, l62 Easton Ave-; Ar1nond Constant Di" Teta, 6l walnut St.; Michael Dom- mic Lasalata, 169 Orange St.; John Michael Yacovino, 3l Brewster St.; Frank Rosa, { Hazel St.; Anthony Rinaldi, 7eo North Main St; Vin- cent Joseph Chlemowicz, 69 York st.; Richard Pa(ll Adduci, 13b
 Board i5-B: Philip Houghton, 14 Mitchell Ave-; William Phillips, Clough road, R. ?. D. No. 3; Harry Normand, 97 Elmwood Ave; John McNaught, A Waterville St.: An- thony Bauser, S7 Green St.; George Jones, l95 North Main St.: Louis DiRienzo, 463 wilson St William Demers, 10 Willow Court; Charles Newman, Middlebury Rd.; Middle bury: Benjamin Caruso, 27 West Porter St.; Bertram Horton, 602 Bunker Hill Ave; Franklyn Danen. 259 Pine St.; Vito Sarafinas, 621 Washington Ave; Daniel LePage, 58 Clematis Ave; Rudolph Plumb, 67 Watertown Ave-; Joseph Paulius, 677 No. Riverside St.; Donald Mo- Ternan, lO6 Columbia Blvd: Wil- liam Walker, 252 Hillside Ave; Wil- liam Moran, 143 Willow St.: Salva- tore Atonelli, 83 French St.: Wa tertown; James Cunningham. 135 West Main St.: Nicholas Morea, 5e sperry St.; Etalo Pannoni, 1909 Bank St.: William Butler, 160 Chestnut Ave: Henry Mulligan, 104 Fairview St.; Donald Grove, 52 Clough road; Leo Raymond, SIS Willow St.; Frederick Sadore, 232 Plaza Ave; William Amberg, 5S Euclid Ave: John Arminas, 600 No Riverside St.
 l3S Accepted
 Three Oakviile me were among l3S from 70 Connecticut communi- ties accepted yesterday at the Hart ford induction center. They are Maurice Woik, William c. McGow- an and Edmund J. Podobinski. Twelve were rejected. Others from this vicinity ware:
 New Milford: Lawrence Jack son, Jr., Raymond |. Worthing- ton, Carroll T. Benjamin, Archie J. Golden, Claude D. Decker. Thomaston: Edmund H. pomi- toslt. steven 6. Tycsenskl. Alex
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
A.F.L. PREPARES TO
 END CONVENTION
Members Ousted George E. Browne, Alleged Ex'
 tOrtionist, as Vice-Pres.
By WILLIS s. DUNIWAY United Press Staff CorrespOndcnt)

. United Press Stan C0rrespOnuchu
 Seattle, Wash, Oct, l6.-[UP)-- eThe American Federation of Labor prepared today to wind up its 6lst annual convention after busting George E. Browne. alleged extor- tionlst, as vice president and mem- Der of the executive council and urging removal of all racketeering labor officials.
 Only major resolution remaining . for discussion was the executive !. council, recommendation that the 2 federation approve aid to the Soviet
 Union as urgent and expedient but without any pretense that the
 United States and Russia are or ever can be friends.
 5 The federatio reelected without opposition President William Green , for lis 18th term and l2 vice presi- dentW, and chose Toronto for It's next convention.
 The convention last week reduce ed the number of vice presidents from IS to l5 intending to remove Browne painlessly by failing to re- nominate him. But delegates of the { International Association of Thea tricd Stage Employees, of which he
 Ls president, offered him aS candi- 2 date against another vice president { Edward Fibre, Of Buffalo, N. Y. Only the HATsE delegates and George W. Brayfield, c member oi the IATSE and delegate from the : Colorado State Federation Of Labor voted for Browne. The count was s7,944 for Fibre; 42l for Browne. Members of the Hod Carriers union, four Of whose officers are un- der indictment in St. Louis for mis. appropriating initiation fees of de. , fense workers. did not vote. Browne is on trial in New York charged with extorting $S50,O0o from
 motion picture producers on threat ! of buSiness-destroying strikes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
You May Be CoIlstipated If-

you don't correct faulty living habits. In the meantime to help insure gentle yet thorough bowel movements s-- take DT. Edwards' Olive Tablets.
 Olive Tablets are simply trondsrIuI not only to relieve constipation but also Go stir up liver bile secretion and tone up intestinal muscular action. 1sS. aot, 6oT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
INQUEST FALL
 RIVER BURNING

Boston, Oct. i6-(UP)-An in' quest into Sundays 9i3,000,000 fira at the Firestone Rubber and Latex Corp. plant will be held at Fall River ire headquarters tomorrow in an attempt to establish the exact cause according to State Fire Marshal stephen c. Clarity.
 The marshal definitely eliminated sabotage after exhaustive inquiriei by federal, state and local officials indicated an industrial accident' caused the fire.
 Mexico expects an acute shcrtagA nR rnH,nta
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
DELLA MoRIARTY.
 Rankfupt

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. In the Matter of
 DELLA MoRIARTY.
 Bankrupt
 In Bankruptcy No. 210G9 To the creditors of DELl.A NOR. IARTY, of WATERBURY, in tht County of New Haven and dissii'f aforesaid, a bankrupt.
 This Is To Give Notice, Thct on October 10, 1941, said Della Moriartyi was duly adjudlcated bankrupt. and tors will be held at the County Court House. Waterbury. Conn. Mon, day, October 27th. 194i, at lo;O0 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, au- thorixe the sale of property of the said estate, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said mses"
 WALTER r. TORRANCE.
 Referee In Bankruptcys Waterbury, Conn.,,
 October 18th, 19als 1e-xe-As
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tain against further forcible ex pangaon in the Orient.

tain against further forcible OK. panaon in the Orient
 How much closer probably will de- pend upon the success Of axis pres- sure and the character of the new cabinet, which most Tokyo obScrv- CTS believed would be Q strong mill. tary-navy government with the naval leaders seeking to exeEcise . restraining influence on the pro- Nazi army extremists.
 Tn an event, 1t meant the failure at least for the time being of ef- forts toward on agreement with Washington to relax tension in the Pacific and 1t strongly indicated q gain for extremist clements which want to defy the United States and try to cash in on the military plight of Russia and Britain and the preoccupation of the United States in the Atlantic.
 The Konoye resignation came as the Tokyo press gave prominence to the statement Of Naval Capt. Hideo Hiraide that the Japanese navy is Itching for action" and that Japan is the crossroads in relations with the United States.
 Pressure On Japan
 The Germans are known to have been putting pressure on Japan to quit dickering with the United States and Britain and strike 6 blow for her axis partners. There seemed no doubt that the NaZis were enn. ploying their military success around Moscow as 6 potent argument for Japanese action.
 The Moscow situation as reported by the Russians was increasingly grave. Russian forces were falling back slowly but constantly under Nazi pressure and @ German break through of apparent importance had occurred somewhere along the vest ern front. Moscow said the military situation had changed for the worse" and that the Nazis continue to pour new reserves into the fight.
 The Russians, 1t appeared, have warned all foreign embassies in Moscow to be prepared to evacuate to safer points in the east. Tokyo reported that the Japanese embassy was told to be ready to leave the capital by last midnight.
 Nazi propagandists seized on these reports to hint that Moscow already has been encircled by German rapid troops and Panzer Spearheads so that discussion of evacuation plans is now useless.
 The German spokesman said that the Nazi high command presently would make a "bombshell" an- nouncement which would make this clear.
 Actually, there was nothing in military reports from either the Russian or German side to indicate that Moscow has been encircled. However. there was no doubt that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16
Unclaimed Deposits

Balance in the Waterbury Savings Bank belonging to the following persons have been inactive for thirty years and under the law must be turned to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut November l, 104 unless the passbOOks presented before that date information given the bank that depOsitOr is living:
 Laurence AdOlphs Abbott William Nelson Jackson Giovanni Amenta Evsevi Janczar Sarah F. Bennett Harry T. Kelly Harriet J. Blot Leo Kozeshnik Howard P. Brooks Frank Martin Henry B. Bunne1 Mary A. Martin Clarence T. Clyne Marguerite Merritt Charles Daley Patrick Murphy Nellie Dest James P. Ney Peter Albert D0scher or Joseph O'COnnell Katherine Ursula DOscher AnfOnsO Ortone Max Dremar George A. Ostrom Ida Finkele Frank A. Pickett Julia A. Fitzpatrick Israel Rabn0w Sophie Godreau Chas. H. Robertson AttiliO GreguOli w. Louis Shepard Samuel Goldman John T. Stoecke Mae A. Hayes Dawson N. Tate Archibald F. Henderson Richard Porter Wood WATERBURY SAVINGS BANK
 Main office: Branch:
 co North Main Street 79S Bank Street
 WATERBURY. CONNECTICUT.
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ander Kovalesixi, Edmund E. Duz- ack.
 Roxbury: David D, Coyle.
 pequabuck: Dominick F. Sien- ski, Fred V. Prill.
 Watertown: Michael zublk, John W. Hlavna, Michael Ruslowski.
 Plymouth: Lewis N. Skiltcn.
 Gaylordsville: Barton L. Stgid, Richard r. Thomas.
 Terryville: Max Krenicki. Be-r nard !. swickias. William A. Hed- narski.
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Full Weather Report

CONNECTICUT-Fa and cooler tonight with light frost in exposed
 Boston, Oct. 1e- (UP) Weather forecast:
 MAsSA AcHUsETTS and RHoD F IslAAND--Fair and cooler with light frost in open exposed places in the interiop tonight. Friday fair.