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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
Miss Russell Is
 Not Wed She Says

Hollywood, Aug. 12-(UP)- Having quieted rumOrs that she was a bride, ROsalind Russell commenced work on a new pic- ture today. The rumors, start ed Friday night when a traf- fic policeman i'm Pasadena, Cal, stopped her for speeding and reported she had told him she was on her way to Las Vegas, the Nevada marriage center. Miss Russell said later that she had been riding with . young man, but had no in- tentiOn of going to Las Vegas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
Work Records In History Of City Are All Eclipsed
14th Consecutive Month Figures, For Employment Have Climbed, According to Survey Just
 Compiled By Chamber of Commerce

Employment in Waterbury continued to gain during July the monthly business survey of the Chamber of Com
 disclosing increase of 53 in the number of per sos steadily employed The gain brought the total of those history It was the 14t consecutive month in which employment had climbed the upturn beginning in June, 194O and maintaining steady pace since then defense orders poured in to local plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
Attack On ThaiIand Means Threat to Singapore Is
 British Warning JAPAN ANXIOUS ABOUT
 SUPPLIES FROM U. s. U. s. Air Force Chief In Philippines COnfers With
 Australian Officers
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff Corresponde


 United Press Staff CoFrespondentl
 Tokyo, August P. = (UPl United States and British policy regarding further Jap anese moves southward was outlined to Japan by their ambassadors to Tokyo during the past week, it was learned today as an official Japanese announcement said that Ja- pan was urgently concerned over the shipment of American sup- plies to Russia by way of Vladi- vostok.
 Reliable quarters said that D. 6. Ambassador Joseph c. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert l.. Craigie made the positions of their governments clear in foreign offic8 discussions, which were topped OfK yesterday by a 30-minute confer ence between Cragie and Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda. A reliable source that that Craigie told Toyoda that any Japa- nese action threatening Thailand would threaten Singapore and would result in "a most serious Anglo-Japanese situation Craigie was reported to have expressed hope to Toyoda that Japan would heed the British warning.
 Announcement of Japan's concern over American shipments to Vladi- vostok was made by Koh Istii, chief government spokesman. He said it did not matter whether Russian or American ships transported Amer ican supplies to Vladivostok. The question, he said, was the same. He would not discuss what meas ure Japan might take to halt ths shipments.
 Ridicules Iceland
 The newspaper Yomiuri today said that Britain and the United States had failed to take advantage of the Russo Germas war except for the landing of United States troops in Iceland.
 What good has this done to halt the Germans?" the newspaper said. in an editorial directed at ThaiIand. If the British and Americans ar0 only clamoring from afar without serious intentions, countries which plunge into the fire will only bs sacrificed. We are extremely sorry for any country joining the Anglo-American camp" Disclosure of British and Amer ican pressure on the foreign ofica and continued Japanese interest in Thailand and VladivoStok coincided with an audience granted to War Minister Hideki Tojo by Emperor Hirohito. The audience lasted mora than an hour and a half and dis- cussions were said to have involved matters within the war minister's jurisdiction
 In connection with expression O1 Japanese concern over American shipments to VladivoStok Ishii re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. 12-(UP9 ssov- ernment expenses and receipts For the current fiscal year through Aug 9th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last xeN1 $2,151, ,9SO,198.70 $1,074,594, ,08s.23 s5s2, ,s2o, ,ss2.ss sss7.sss.s7 q ,5ss, ,o5s ,2ss.oi ss17,o24.1Is.s s1,544,7os, ,4ss.Oi s5o4. .oso.ss2.ss
 Cash Balance
 $2.sss. .4os. s.5Os.5s s2.577.O54. .4os.1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
Nazi, Soviet Reports
GERMANY
By JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. wN- CAo e Cn-v.nSxNnva a HaxaA

By JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Berlin, Aug. 12.-(UP)-The high command said today that German planes bombed Moscow last night and attacked several important rail- road functions. It added that op- erations on the eastern front were continuing satisfactorily"
 The raids on Moscow caused large fires and explosions, 8 communiQue said. Other reports indicated great aerial activity at several points. Dis patches from the Ukrainian front indicated that large Russian forces were succeeding in making an or- derly withdrawal before the new German offensive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
Extension Of Service Gained Some Support
Ranking Republican Member of Military Affairs COn= mttee Comes Out For It-HOuse May Vote
 On It Before Night
(NEA Telephoto)
BY JAMES SHEPLEY United PreSS Staff COrreSpOndel


 Washington, Aug. 12 - (U.P) = The administrators military serv- ice extension resolution won a meas ure of bipartisan support in the house today as Representative Wal ter c. Andrews of New York, rank ing Republican member of the mili- tary affairs committe, said 1t was necessary in view of the critical in ternationai situation.
 Andrews supported the extension resolution during the concluding de- bate as administration leaders pre- pared to bring it to a final vote be- fore night.
 The extension still faced substan- tial opposition, but the leaders hoped to obtain at least 18-month exten- sion of the one-year terms of selec- tees, national guardSmen and re- Servists. The 18-month extension was passed by the senate as a com promise instead of the original measure for an unlimited extension Representative Ewing Thomson D., Tex, ranking Democrat. on the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
RUSSIA
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

 United Press Staff C0rrespondent) Moscow, August 12. = (UP) - German armored forces, unleashing their third great offensive of the war in an effort to score decision before the early Russian winter sets in, struck powerfully toward Lenin- grad and Kiev today, but were re- ported thrown back some distance from Smolensk on the Moscow front.
 Private Russian advices reported that the Red Army had hurled back German Panzer and infantry forces some distance" from Smolensk on the road to Moscow, 235 miles dis tant, and war communiQue de-
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Evening star., 1941-08-13

lowed itself to be dragooned into
a controversy that now has tied up
important national defense work.
Had the board insisted that the
open or closed shop issue be post
poned and not settled at all dur
ing the war emergency. upholding
closed shops only where they al
ready existed, there would have
= been no defense strikes on that
point.
But the Defense Board is prov
ing to be unequal to the task be-
fore it. The panels of three con-
sist largely of partisans who think
the way out of a dispute is for one
side to surrender completely to the
other and let the work 60 on. Un-
fortunately, most of the so-called
members of the Defense Board were
selected because of their previously
indicated friendllness for labor and
as for the employer members, these
were for the most part selected
from middle of the road persons who
could not be expected to take an
adamant position in behalf of en-
ployerS. The union representatives
are, of course, officers of the labor
unions. The result is that the
board in its mistaken zeal to please
the labor groups has tackled the
hottest potato in the whole history
Evening star., 1941-08-13

of the American labor movement
the closed shop-and the result Is
that a prominent American en-
ployer has decided to throw up the
sponge and let the Government run
the plants. Thus is labor states
manship slowly forcing fascistic Ia
Dor controls in which neither en-
ployer nor unions will have much to
say and in which State capitalism
and Government operation of ma
jor industries will become the GUS
tomary system in large scale enter
prises. The unanswered questions
are: Why was it necessary for the
C. I. o. to make this an issue now
and why do the Defense Board
panels feel that the way out is to
grant all union demands? The
Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock
case brings a climax which will
mark a milestone in American in
dustrial history.
Decentralization Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1941-08-13

When I have gone away and
think back on this day I will
think of the city where, when it
was leveled to the ground, the
people-young and old-came out
upon this love hoe overlooking
the harbor and each day at dusk
listened to music and danced to-
gether.
When I had walked where the
streets once were and stood
where homes once were and had
seen the tangled, rusted heaps
of steel where factories and
shops once were-when I saw st.
Andrews violated walls, I asked
whether anything still stood un-
touched in Plymouth. I was
brought here to see the May
flower steps and the Mayt1ower
monument, which destruction
did not touch.
From these steps 300 years
ago band of Pilgrims set out
for the New World. You have
commemorated their going with
modest monument and bronze
inscription. And over there
across the ocean is another Ply
mouth with another inscription
upon a rock. That inscription
says something like this: This
rock marks the first landing
place of the Pilgrims of the
Mayflower. In hunger and cold,
battling Indians and the wilder
ness and burying their dead In
common graves lest the Indians
should know how many had per-
ished they here laid the founda-
tions Of a State in which
through countless ages men
should have liberty and free
dom in their worship of God.
Remember the Pilgrims"
The rock admonishes all who
pass to remember the Pilgrims
and not rest until liberty is es-
tablished throughout the earth"
Now you, too, have battled
savagery and in the wilderness
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gotten rid of their responsibility.
Certainly there was justification
for resentment. Instead of getting
aid, counsel and support from the
White House and the Treasury, they
were treated to an extraordinary
exhibition of confused thinking and
conflicting attitudes, eliminating in
the Presidents letter urging certain
changes upon Chairman Doughton
but written after the bill was re-
ported and it was too late to do
anything about it. In this letter
Mr.. Roosevelt not only differed with
his Treasury officials and dissented
from the expressed views of Chair
man Eccles of the Federal Reserve
Board and Mr.. Leon Henderson, the
price controller, but. as Mr.. Dough-
ton respectfully pointed out, differed
from himself.
Under such circumstances, men,
bers of the Ways and Means Com
mittee would hardly be human if
they were not a little bitter. They
have reason to be, although one of
the belated presidential recon-
mendations, in which Mr.. Morgen-
thau now heartily concurs, is almost
too sound to dispute-to wit, that
of broadening the tax base by low
ering the exemptions.
Had the President made this sug-
gestion while the bill was being
framed. or had his Treasury officials
not then exhibited hostility to the
idea, it would, have been in the
measure before it came out of the
committee. But he-and they
waited until there was no chance
for action without tearing it to
pieces-before urging change
which Treasury representatives had
opposed and to which, in the past,
Mr. Roosevelt himself had been
consistently inimical
Considering these things, the feel
ing of House leaders of having been
dealt with deceptively is natural.
Natural, too, is the doubt as to how
much the President really wants his
own recommendations adopted. If
he is wholly sincere about this
broadening of the base proposal.
there is not the least doubt that it
will be adopted. All he has to do
is to let his rubber stamp senatorial
friends, such as Senators Barkley
and Pepper, know that there is a
solid desire back of that futile House
gesture. If he does that, it will go
through the Senate with great speed
and by a decisive vote.
AS a matter of fact, one day five
years ago the Senate passed a
broadening ng-of-the-base amendment.
only to rescind 1t the next day un-
der presidential pressure. With Mr.,
Roosevelt now for the plan he for
merly opposed, there would seem no
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Strongest Bridge-of Hopes-ls Invisible Link
Between MuyfIower Monument ond Plymouth Rock

of rock and rubble that your
city has become, you, too, have
buried uncounted dead. But
you, too, are building out of
ashes a world in which through
countless ages men shall have
liberty.
Between the Mayf1ower steps
and Plymouth Rock there was
once sea that only the ad-
venturous dared cross. Today a
channel spanned by planes in
few hours separates the steps
from the rock, and behind the
rock lies a continent, and the
Pilgrim band has grown into
13o,000.O00 people who live in
liberty.
The wilderness did not stifie
the Pilgrims, and the grass that
grew over their graves did not
blot out their memory. In the
generations that passed men
came to join them from all the
nations of Europe as today free
men from all nations of Europe
come to join you.
Daily French fishermen, jealous
for liberty, slide into your ports
under German guns to join the
fighting forces of a land of free
boats that come to England and
carry not only guns and food,
but Dutchmen, Poles, Norwegians
and Czechs who are the Pilgrim
Fathers of today. They come to
fight from here for states in
which through countless ages
men shall know liberty.
Strongest Bridge Invisible.
I, too, come as a Pilgrim re-
turning to the steps from the
Rock. I come to say that ships
and planes are not the only
bridge between here and there.
The strongest bridge is invisible.
1t is built of hopes blasted and
reborn, of dreams forgotten, and
the returning of bodies buried,
but remembered-of heroes for
whom the bell always tolls.
brakes st. Andrews is blasted,
but its bell still rings. 1t rang in
the victors of the Armada and
will ring in the victors again
for those who fight with the
whole world of free men on
their side will come home at
last in triumph.
Then we must build together
from the steps and from the
rock the world that is always un-
finished-a world in which there
is work for all of us and church
for all Of us, and freedom for all
of us. We must build new
Plymouth here above the sea, a
city of churches, factories and
shops and homes as monument
to the steps and the rock-to the
dream of countless ages, to the
cry for liberty that has been
heard and that has been granted.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-08-13
France at Germony's Side
Petoin's Order to Nation Apparently Is Final
Attempt to Save What's Left of Looted Country

By the Associated Press.
France, with a sword at her throat
for more than a year, has been
ordered bluntly by Chief of State
Marshal Philippe Petain to help
Germany revamp the world.
The old marshals decision ap-
parently Is final attempt to save
what is left of q tattered, hungry
and looted nation by stringing along
with Germany's political ambitions
If not her military plans.
Also, 1t no doubt is decision born
Of a belief that Germany is going
to win the war now that the Nazis
have overrun most of Europe and
have torn great chunks out of Soviet
Russia-especially in the Ukraine
"breadbasket."
Petain has threatened ruthless
treatment of any French opposition
encountered.
Just how far France will 60 in
collaborating with Germany is not
known. The moral implications will
be far-reaching; any military course
apparently depends on what action
the United States and Britain take
and the results of a careful "educa.
tion" of the French people in their
proclaimed new role.
Might Ask Military Aid.
Should Britain or the United
States make feint at French
Africa, the implication is that
France would become a full military
partner of the Reich in defending
those colonies there. France already
is mutual defense" partner OF
Japan in French Indo-China.
Ever since that fateful Sunday
June 16, 1910, when Paul Reynaud'
retreating cabinet resigned at Bor
deaux and Petain became Premier
the 85-year-old hero Of Verdun'
has tried vainly TO get Germany
| consent to do these things:
l. Relax the restrictions on tn,
demarcation line separating occu
pied and unoccupied France. Stric
German control of that borde
strangled Frances food shipments
but caused no hardship to Ger
many. 1t has been one of the man,
Nazi levers controlling Vichy poll
| cies.
2. Relax the armiStice term
whereby France staggered under tn,
heavy cost of the Germany army
OF occupation.
3. Allow between 1000, 900 snc
1000, 900 French war prisoners t.
return from German concentration
camps. This latter German devic,
has kept French farms from full
production, caused untold family
hardships and further contributed
to Frances falling birth rate.
Cabinet Asked Armistice.
Apparently Petain did not fore
see continued British resistanc,
when he asked Germany for armi
stice terms. The cabinet vote which
caused the eclipse of Reynauo tha
Sunday night was 13 to II in favo
Of asking an armistice.
Reynaud wanted to 60 TO French
Africa and continue the fight from
| there Former Premier Edouart
Daladier and Colonial Ministe
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Rockefeller Grandson
Married in Alabama
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fleSS.
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. Aug. l3.-
1t. John D. Rockefeller Prentice
SO, grandson of the late John D.
Rockefeller, and Miss Abbie Blanche
Cantrill, %, were married here Mon
day by Probate Judge J. S. Benson
1t. Prentice, former member of a
Chicago law firm, is stationed with
the 58th Brigade, 124th Field Ar
tillery at Camp Forrest, Tenn. Chi
cago friends said the bride was a
receptionist in 1t. Prentice's law
Office
Evening star., 1941-08-13

Georges Mandel, in fact, sailed for
Africa in the belief the French
would fight on from that base.
Reynaud, Daladier, Mandel, for
mer Socialist Premier Leon Blum,
Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin and
others in the meantime have been
imprisoned by the Petain regime on
war guilt" charges. Their friends
saw them jailed as scapegoats for
Frances defeat and as an obvious
sop to Adolf Hitler.
Marshal Petain gained an srmi-
stice June % with Germany, and on
July "a with Italy.
Marshal Petain killed the parlia-
mentary French Third Republic and
quickly transformed France into an
authoritarian regime with himself
at the head and Pierre Laval as his
designated successor.
Laval, the story goes, was infiuen-
tial in seeing that the Reynaud
cabinet voted itself out at Bordeaux.
and he never has made any secret of
his dislike for Britain and his desire
for an understanding with the Axis
powers.
DlstruSted by both the British and
French people, Laval was the man
who put the new authoritarian pat
|
tern before the French Parliament
July g. The Chamber of Deputies
voted 395 to to give the aged Mar
shall Petain full powers to establish
a new constitution based on family,
labor and fatherland."
The Senate DEATH warrant vote
was 225 to /.
Marshal Petain had considered
Vichy only temporary capital in
the belief that the Germans would
allow his government TO return to
Paris. He still has hopes of moving
De Brinon Sent TO Paris.
Meanwhile Fernand De Brinon, a
notorious pro-German, was sent to
Paris as Vichy ambassador to the
| German occupation forces. His
contact there was with Otto Abetz
who had been expelled from France
just before the war as head of the
German fifth column.
Laval also was in close contact
with Abetz and other German Off
cials in Paris during the first five
/ months of Petain's regime. Then
on December II, Laval was dis
missed by Petain "for high reasons
of internal policy"
The story was that Laval ex-
ceeded his authority in dealing with
the Germans. For a while Laval
even was taken into custody al
Petain's orders, but quickly was re-
leased when Abetz intervened.
A Rightist, Pierre Etienne Elan.
din, succeeded Laval but he re-
signed February 9, 1941, and made
way for Admiral Darlan. perhaps
the most bitter Anglophobe II
France today.
The reasons for Darlans deer
hatred of England are obscure. but
he has lost no opportunity to brand
Britain with responsibility for the
war and has proclaimed publicly
that Frances only hope for the fu-
ture is in collaboration with Ger
nany
Evening star., 1941-08-13
The Great Game of Politics
Lack Of Coherent Economic Policy Seen
In Handling Of Gigantic Tax Bill

doubt about its passage. The only
doubt is about him.
Even in normal times there never
were any save demagogic and un-
worthy reasons for opposing the
base-broadening proposal. One big
reason was that keeping the ex-
emptions high promoted the idea
that the Roosevelt Administration
was determined to soak the rich"
and give the poor a free ride.
That, while certainly a delusion,
was delusion which the New Deal
ers made pay big political dividends
In every campaign from 1894 to 1940
Another big reason was the we'll
founded conviction that if more tax
payers were created the sentiment
against the New Deal spending
policies and in favor of economy in
governmental expenditures would
be enhanced. This was regarded as
eminently undesirable by the strate-
gists of the Roosevelt regime, and
every effort to promote a fair, sound,
scientific and more productive tax
system was blocked on the entirely
false pretense that the administra-
ton was protecting the poor man
against the greedy rich.
The falsity consisted in the fact
that hidden taxes were piled up on
the poor while no effective way of
plugging the loopholes through
which the very rich evade taxes was
or has been-devised. All the ad-
ministration did was to increase the
rates but still confine the direct
tax payers to approximately 1000 900
individuals of the 10000, 900 popula-
ton, thus exempting from direct
taxes the vast bulk of the wage
earning citizens, who receive most
of the national income.
Now the President and Mr.. Nor
genthau ask that some 100000 Of
these be brought in by lowering the
exemption for single persons from
$500 to $3.50 and for married persons
from $4,000 to 500.
Attitude Reversed.
This, of course, is slight reduc-
tion, but that Mr.. Roosevelt should
urge any at all is a significant re-
versal of his former attitude. Un-
less he "back-caps' his own recon-
mendation (and he has been known
to do that, the chances all are that
the Senate will make the reduction
and that the House will accept.
1t is, in fact, difficult to see how
Congress, now that presidential
opposition no longer stands in the
way, can avoid this action, as added
TO the other favoring reasons is the
very weighty one that by lessening
the purchasing power of the con-
sumner masses, to whom most of the
defense money now pouring out will
flow, it would be very greatly
needed brake on imitation.
There is also the impelling neces-
sity of finding revenue to take the
place of the estimated $500, 900 900
which would have been produced by
the joint-tax return provision,
knocked out in the House. Despite
the Treasury recommendation, it is
not likely that this will be restored
in the Senate. Nor has the Presi-
dents request that it be modified
so as to exempt earned income"
been received with much favor.
1t was the Richmond Times Dis
patch which first made the point
that sense of delicacy should have
restrained Mr.. Roosevelt from max
ing that suggestion. If it should be
adopted, no other couple in the
country would profit as much as he
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
(Copyright.1941