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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
JAPANESE RUNS
 AMUK IN SHANGHAI
Shoots Britisher in Riot That Started Over Tax
 payers Protest

Shanghai, January g. - (UP) - Three members of the Shanghai municipal council were shot and wounded today and two, including w. J. Carney of Ithaca, N. Y., were struck by flying chairs a few min utes after the council, over the pro test of Japanese taxpayers, had voted a 40 per cent increase in Shanghai International Settlement taxes.
 The meeting was held at the mu nicipal race course. Five thousand taxpayers, including 2,000 Japanese, attended the meeting and folding chairs had been provided.
 Y. Hayashi, chairman of the Japa- nese Taxpayers Association, vainly offered a series of amendments to whittle down the increases.
 Soon after the increases were ap- proved, Hayashi continued his pro- test by producing pistol and shooting at council members on the platform.
 W. J. Keswick, British chairman of the council, who inadvertently had left his bullet proof vest at home, was wounded in the chest and forearm, not critically and was taken to hospital. where an oper- ation was performed. O. Okamoto, Japanese council member, was wounded in the hand and K. Ikeda, Japanese secretary of the council, was slightly wounded when he tried i to restrain Hayashi.
 Japanese voters surged toward !, the platform, hurling their folding 1 chairs as they went. Carney, who sat next to Chairman Keskick, was struck by one. R. G. Mcdonald, British councilman, was cut about ! the head by another.
 i Carney hastily declared the meet i ing adjourned. H. Araki, deputy commissioner of police, jumped to the platform and addressed the an- gry crowd, appealing to the Japa- ! nese to be orderly.
 American Consul General Frank P. Lockhart and Consul Monroe B. Hall watched the brief riot and its dissipation.
 Hayashi was handed over to Jap
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
Local Bank Defendant
 In Action Brought By
 Woman Hurt In Fall
Accident in Torrington Basis of $35,OOO Suit; Boy Victim Confined to Home for Crippled Chil-
 dren, Father Alleges in Complaint

pair and in dangerous condition. A rubber mat at the head of the stairway caused the plaintiff to trip and fall down the entire flight.
 Fractured Leg
 As a result of the accident, the Spallone woman sustained a frac- ture of the left leg, it is alleged, and claims permanent lameness.
 She further seeks to recover for expenses incurred while patient at the Waterbury hospital, where she remained for one month following the accident.
 Former Compensation Commis- sioner James M. Lynch filed for the plaintiff.
 William Vito DiLeo, through his father, Michael DiLeo of Torring- ton, seeks damages of $35, ,000 in a civil action filed in superior court today against Morris H. Dolinsky of Winsted. MT. Dolinsky operates a bushes in Winsted under the name of the Standard Cycle and Auto Supply Go.
 In the complaint filed by DiLeo, plaintiff alleges permanent injuries as the result of an automobile &C., cident which occurred at 8 street intersection in Torrington on April 19, 1940.
 Hospital Patient
 Charging that the driver of Do- linsky's truck, Ernest Kuchta, was negligent in that he operated the truck at an unwarranted rate ot speed and had no regard for the safety of children walking on the street, among whom was the DiLeo boy, plaintiff claims his son sus- tained numerous bruises and cuts as result of which two serious diseases have developed: erysipilas of the left arm and osteomyelitis in the fractured bone of the left arm.
 At present the boy is patient al the Newington Home for Crippled Children.
 Judge Edward Mascolo filed fol the plaintiff. The action is return able in superior court early next month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
N 0 NEW 'FLU'' CASES REPORTED.
Thirteen Local Total; School Situation We'll in
 Hand Says COndOn

No new cases of influenza in this city were reported up to press time today by City Health Officer Dr. Ed ward J. Godfrey who reported that the total since the wave began to sweep through Connecticut several weeks ago remains at 13.
 The wave of flu and grippe has not become an epidemic, asserted Dr. Godfrey, who said he and his staff are doing everything possible to prevent a further spread local ly. However, the danger of conta- zion is still present and health off, cialS advise everyone to exercise eX- traordinary precautions to avoid the disease and its complications.
 The number of influenza cases here is comparatively small to other cities of Connecticut its size. It was reported that about 19 per cent of the the enrolment in the three To- cal high schools was absent on &C., count of ills yesterday. The total enrolment of Wilby, Crosby and Leavenworth is approximately 4,500 In the grammar schools Wednesday about 330 boys and girls missed classes for the same reason while approximately 1855 parochial school childrn stayed home yesterday nurs- ing colds.
 The public school situation, stated Superintedent of Schools Dr. Thomas J. Condon, is not one that will cause classes to be sus- pended. The health of children is being guarded very closely by teach CTS and any child showing signs of a cold is immediately dismissed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
$55, ,OOO Asked In Damage Suits Filed Here
Full Weather Report
Boston. Jan. 2s-UP)-weath-

Boston, Jan. 2s-(UP)-weath- CT forecasts
 colder tonight with lowest tenn pernture from IS to 25 degrees. Friday fair and colder.
 MASSACHUSETTS, and RHODH except snow fiurrieS in the Berkshires. Much colder to. night. Lowest temperature IS to 25 Friday fair and colder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Claiming she fell down a flight of stairs on property owned by the the Waterbury Savings bank, An- gelina Spallone of Waterbury today filed suit for damages of $20, ,000 against the bank in the court of common pleas.
 On September g, 1940, states the complaint, Angelina went visiting a friend who lives on the second floor of the defendants property at 424 Washington avenue. The stairway is alleged to have been in poor re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
zINDAH CROTTO
 APPOINTS ERIK

The members of Zindah Grotto's patrol held their annual meeting and election of officers for l94l Tuesday evening in the Grotto rooms at the Masonic temple.
 The following officers were elec- ted and installed: President, John s Crabtree of Ansonia; rice-presi- dent, George O. Erk, Waterbury; captain, Edward A. Hermonat, Nau- gatuck; secretary, Clarence w. Sla- ter. Waterbury, and treasurer, Alex ander Collins, Oakville.
 Arrangements were made for the patrols annual dinner dance party to be held at an early date.
 Britain has established 19 offi- cial training centers which will turn out 50,000 engineers a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
President

the secretary who now holds office, Patrolman Patrick Kennedy. Seven consecutive years a spresident of the association have been compile ted by Patrolman Carroll.
 Voting started early this morning and will continue on into late to- night. Regular members of the de- partment are entitled to vote.
 Nominations also include: Vice. president, Joseph Collins; treasurer, Patrick Hughes; second vice-presi- dent, of which each shift is repre- scented by one man, Harold Meaney Harold Lawlor, Thomas Phelan and Paul Moynihali,
 Committee appointed to super wise the election are: Lieut.. Henry Johnson, Sergt. George Gooding PatrolInen Edmund L. Cass, Joseph T. Phelar, Joseph F. Phelan and Albert Lacey.
 Appointed tellers are: Sergt Gooding, Patrolmen CasS and Lacey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
POLICE VOTING
 ON AID STAFF
Martin Opposes Carroll for Presidency; Fight for
 Secretaryship

Heavy balloting" featured the annual elections of the Waterbury Police Mutual Aid association today at police headquarters.
 Opposition to the present presi- dent, Patrolman Michael Carroll, is being carried on by Patrolman Harry Martin, while Motor Patrol man John Mcdonnell will oppose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
Governor Hurley in
 Nationwide Address

Gov. Robert A. Hurley will be heard in his first nationwide radio address when he speaks on the Ma tional Democratic Forum program from 2:30 to o'clock Saturday aft ernoon. The program will be carried by WOE and the coast-to-coast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Quentin Reynolds, who recently returned from the London bombings and blitzes was speeding to a re- hearsal fer his engagement at the Strand theater. A cop stopped him .. "Where you going" he asked, s3to a fire?"
 "Nope," said Quent, "I've just re- turned from one."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
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 This is the tale of a Hollywood big-shot, whose relatives and whose wife's parasites descended in droyes when the gold started to pour in =. Lucille. Johnson, the thrush who tells 1t, says they stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed i. One day, however, one kinsman, who had been living off the pair for seven years, up and died, and they gave him a fancy funeral :. Returning from the cemetery, the wife treid to console her groom, who was very depressed :. :, "After all, honey" she cooed, 'your uncle was a pretty old man" . My uncle?" he screamed, q thought he was your uncle!"
 Quentin Reynolds, who recently returned from the London bombings and blitzes was speeding to a re- hearsal fer his engagement at the Strand theater. A cop stopped him Where you going,' he asked, '4to fire?"
 "Nope," said Quent, "Ive just re- turned from one"
 OuId Acquaintance Dept: Thirty three years ago Billy Evans of the song and dance team of Evans and White, got Madeline Ruffolo her first stage job dancing in vaudeville unit at the request of her father, vet trouper Evans 1t was who he'd her hand (she was B at the time and wore long dresses to fool the Gerry Society," beforc she made her first entrance.
 And Evans it is, who greets her each evening at the Broadhurst theater. where he is backstage doorman for Ed Wynn's hit ("Boys and Girls Together )-and where Madeline Ruffolo is-wardrobe mis- treSs.
 The least welcome backstage visi- tor at that hit was mouse-which 3etl-or was Shuved-into a waste basket-the other performance. ct happened in the undressing room of the Cocktail Hour Girls.) It im- mediately began running around in circles, trying to get out of the darn basket The gals did a little screaming and running themselves =. It was Dell Parker, five feet nine in her seamless stocking toot- sies, who rushed up to Ed Wynn and breathlessly inquired: What would you do if you had a mouse In your dressing room?" What would I do?" said Ed, "I'd let him in to see the show"
 Here Is charming Broadway story, think. about the new hit, Arsenic and Old Lace" which the critics call a thing of beauty from start to end-even up to the cur tain calls One of the curtain | calls is for the twelve murdered men, who are constantly being talked about as being buried in the cellar They race around the stage | in flash (during the curtain calls) | surprising the audeince, which is still oonculsed Tennyrate, ti seems that one old man developed a limp and couldn't race around with the others .. They tried put ting him on then en doft he line, SO he wouldn't retard- the procession, but that didn't help <. So pro- ducery Grouse and Lindsay had to substitute sprightlier old gent-but they made this gesture to the limp ing veteran They made him of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

ficial understudy" to the others lat full pay!
 The Daily Workers review or that show is almost as hilarious as the hit The Communist or gan's revolver reported: Theodore Roosevelt's pomposity always need- ed a bit of deflating, and this play does the trick"
 The dope. He refers to John Alex ander, one of the dim -witted mem bers of the family in the play, who isn't T. R. He just thinks he is!
 Enrica Soma is II years old. Her folks own Tony's Wife, a West Sand Street joynt .. In the current issue of Stage, the 11-year old En- rica is the author of a drama cri- ticism Tony was boasting oi her genius /. We knew" he said "she had. the makings of critic when she was six-because she al- ways walked out when her older sister started doing recitations."
 Shirley Booth, the actress, relays this one about the two seedy, starv- ing, badly dressed ex-critics, who were watching various stars and players going into the Algonquin the other noontine /. Look at all the theatrical people going in there, said one of the ex-critics, "they have money, beautiful clothes, live at the best hotels, and own their own cars. They have everything!"
 But" parked the other stiffly "can they act?"
 It happened the other night in front of "The Rustic Bar and Grill' on West 44th Street. New York A genuine-real-McC oy-on- -the-up- and-up red-blooded American h. dian panhand,er got into squabble You must have seen him about midtown with back-feathers blanket and waddle.
 "Scram, bum git movin'!" heckled bunch of lushes.
 "Scram, yourself" was the retort you lousy foreigners!"
 That one reminds us of the incl dent at Club Maxim the other mid night, when couple of barroom generals were telling each other how the war should be run Julie the bartender, finally wearied of the gab =. Hey" he said, "where'd you ginks get your army training lover at the newsreels?"
 The late Senator Lundeen, we said, was palsy-walsy with Nazi of- ficials in this country Other Senators threatened to investigate us for saying such things about a poor dead man" We said we had made similar statements about Lundeen when he was alive so why not say them when he wasn't? :. He was a Nazi sym pathizer-and what do his col leagues want to make of that? We wondered why they didn't put Winchell through the wringer," as McCarron and Clark threatened-tc the boys in the Senate press gall lery .. Well, now we know why Lundeen was not only a buddy of the Nazis but he also cooper ated with the Communists =. According to Congressman Dies Trojan Horse in America" book on page 93 Yet Senator Wheeler has the gall to defend him and and claim that newspapermen have nbeled his poor friend Poor?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

network of the Mutual Broadcast ing System.
 National Unity and National Defense" will be the subpect of Gov. Hurley's talk. The broadcast will originate at the National Democra- tic club, New York The organiza- tion sponsors the National Demo- cratic Forum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

anese consular police and the crowd dispersed quietly, commanded by the drawn revolvers of policemen.
 A Japanese embassy spokesman said that Hayashi would be placed under formal arrest if Investigation warranted. Regret was expressed that a Japanese had caused the dis turbance and prosecution was prom iSed under Japanese laws.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Algeria has decreed that dried figs must not leave the country un- less under government permit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
BRIEFS:

Rome: 1t was predicted in Rome
that Myron C. Taylor would be made
a fuIl-fedged ambassador and would
represent the nation at the Vatican.
New York: Helen Morgan, famous
singer, who drew repeatedly sal
aries as high as $3,500ia week, died
penniless, it was revealed Friends
raised 5000 to pay her hotel bill.
Baltimore: The duke and duchess
of Windsor (the duchess a former
Baltimore debutante, Wallis War
field) were welcomed by thousands
on their visit to this city. It was
the duchess first trip to Maryland
in more than 20 years.
New York: In the navy were all
sorts of including South
Carolina legislator, Stratton Chris
Hansen; Robert Train, famous Yale
end; Maury Maverick McGarragh,
nephew of the former mayor of San
Antonio.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
CHINA:
On the MOUe

Chungking issued reports showing
that her military effort was begin
ming to shove the Japanese back
toward the coast.
The town Of Ichang, high-water
mark of the Japanese advance into
China was reported recaptured, and
the garrison Of 1000 Nipponese sur
rounded and placed under artillery
fire in a fortress.
A Japanese plane passed over
head, dropping eight men in para
chutes, evidently with orders for the
garrison. The Chinese said they cap
tured two and shot six to death be-
fore they landed.
Subsequent reports had declared
that the Japanese were on the re-
treat in Human Province, and that
the drive toward Changsha, impor-
tant objective, had been put into re-
verse.
Two-thirds Of the Japanese adj
vance in this province had been
wiped out, the reports stated.
Chungking was in a state Of wild
celebration at the news.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
RUSSIANS:
Deep Trouble

AS the Nazi blitz moved into high
gear on the central and south fronts
of the great battle of the east front,
the question began to be seriously
asked whether Russia, like France,
Greece and so many other nations,
was going to be forced out OF the
war as a combatant, whiting before
the heat and ferocity of the Nazi
war machine.
Indeed, when the German spear
heads had been announced 65 miles
away from Moscow, the stories of
peace and truce offers began to
come over the cables, and one of
them even declared that Stain was
considering an armistice.
However, these rumors were
promptly denied from Berlin, Italy,
London and Moscow, the Axis de-
malls stating that detectives were
far from being reached, and London
and Moscow sources declaring the
Russians were still able to fight.
Be that as it may, it was obvious
that the crisis was being reached,
and that once again the great man.
power of Russia must decide if it
were better to give in to the Nazi,
or to battle it out as the Chinese
did against the Japs.
Few believed that Germany or any
group of European powers could
finally defeat Russia with the back
ing of England and the United
States, provided Russia were willing
to fight the sort of rear-guard ac-
ton that China used with such sue
cess.
But whether the willingness was
there, or the philosophical tempera-
ment needed for such defense was
a question.
Hartman, American envoy to the
U. S. mission to Moscow, answered
it this way:
81 believe the leaders of Russia
will lead the people to fight on"
Beaverbrook felt the same way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
JAPAN:
Moves Again

Considerable alarm about the
Pacific situation was caused when
Tokyo made another move associat-
ed with her expansion into Indo
China.
The Japanese demanded control
of the Indo Chinese railway system.
They also had demanded the right
to control customs collections and
postal censorship.
At the same time the Japanese
demanded the arsenal at Saigon,
and this was considered highly sig
nificant because at this arsenal the
French had set up what was re-
garded as the most powerful radio
direction-fnding outfits in the Orient.
The Japanese armed forces in
Indo China were continuing their
maneuvers along the Thailand from
tier, back of which, and in Malaga,
there were heavy concentrations of
British troops.
The Saigon moves, the British
said, were being closely watched,
because of the likelihood that if any
plane attacks were to be made
against Singapore or Manila, Saigon
would be the proper hopping-off
spot.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
STRIKES:
Menace Again

Though the strike front in the
United States had been at quiet
ebb for some time, the labor situa-
ton was anything but peaceful in
the United States, and seething I'M
der the surface were many diff
culties that had not yet fared into
strikes.
Barring a couple of rubber fac
tory troubles and a small row in
an airplane accessory plant, the
Mediation Board was having rela-
lively easy time of it.
But the type of thing that was
worrying the OPM was the Detroit
case, in which on Sidney Hillman's
recommendation, a contract was
withheld from the low bidder on the
ground that he was unfair to the
building trades.
Now came the protest from CLIO.
quarters that Hillman favored the
ALL. building unions and the
working out of this case in Detroit
was envisioned by many labor lead
ers as packed with dynamite for
labor peace.
An oddity in the situation was an
article in the Daily Worker, Com
munist daily, entitled Every Fac
tory Part of the Battle Front
Against Hitler" and continuing:
Interference with production of
needed war materials can only help
Hitler and weaken the United
States"
This was a loud cutlery against
strikes-and coming from the chief
Communist paper.
ALI union circles agreed that
Hitler victory would mean dis
aster to organized labor, yet during
Russia's partnership with Hitler the
Communists had been accused of
obstructing the defense effort-now
they were not only aiding it, but.
eschewing strikes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
VIERECK:
Revelations

What many believed to be true,
that Nazi agents in the United
States were using the non-interven-
tionists, the isolationists and other
enemies of the Presidents foreign
policy for their own ends was de-
clared to be fact by George Syl-
vester Viereck, author, poet and
registered Nazi agent.
Viereck was being tried in Wash
ington on charges that he had not
told the state department the whole
story about his activities.
It was perhaps a joke, but at all
events a sensation when, at the out
set of his trial, he was asked to
name his associates" and he list
ed two assistants of Secretary Hull,
Joseph Davies, former ambassador
to Russia, and William Phillips,
now ambassador to Rome.
The nub of the case against
viereck was that he listed his activ-
tiles only as an employee, of the Ger
man library of information; as cor
respondent for Munich newspaper.
The library had been closed down
by the government for alleged i'm
proper activities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
NAVY:
Takes Prisoners

The United States came it's closest
to actual participation in the war
when the navy announced that it
had taken prisoner about 20
s'Nazis," whether actual German
citizens or Norwegians under Ger
man domination was not immediate
ly clear.
The American naval patrol, in
Guiding Iceland and Greenland in it's
orbit, was searching the coastline
of the latter island for an alleged
German submarine base when it
came upon small Norwegian YES
sci.
The ship was stopped, questions
were put to its crew and the vessel
was thoroughly searched. Not only
did the navy announce that it was
determined that the men were Nazi
agents under the direction of the
Gestapo, but the questioning led to
the finding of radio station set up
on the mainland of Greenland.
This station, apparently, was being
set up by the Germans, the report
had stated, for the purpose of broad
casting weather information to the
Nazis.
The purpose might have been for
the flights of planes that had been
''strafng" shipping in the north At
lantic; it might have been for guild
ance of submarines; it might have
been to give locations of lease-lend
ships to surface raiders, planes or
U-boats.
At all events ship, crew and radio
station were all taken over by the
navy, which announced that all were
on their way to the United States.
It had been the first move of this
type since President Roosevelt had
issued the 'shoot on sight" order.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-24
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