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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-21
SERVICES HELD AT
 MT. OLIVE CHURCH

Rev. s. D. Weller preached on ''The Blessing of the Peace" at Q spe- cial Thanksgiving day service yes- terdayl at the Mount Olive A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Leila T. Alexan- der, social director Of the Pearl Street Neighborhood House, spoke on ~Thank God for the Years" and Miss Helena Durham read Governor Hurley's Thanksgiving proclamation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-21

Ar services in Ecuador are being
 aTeatly increased
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Ben9hazi Next
AS Dernu Falls

CAIRO, Jan. 30. (UP)-British
general headquarters reported to-
day that the capture of Derna
was completed this morning.
The capture of Derna, 130 miles
west of Tobruk, which was taken
with $4,000 prisoners by the Brit
ish only last week, leaves Ben
ghazi as the only major point in
Eastern Libya still in the hands of
the Italians. British troops already
ara well on their way to the at
tack of Benghazi, beyond which
the Italians face only desert be-
tween Cyrenaica and Tripolitania.
Derna is the port for a fertile
area heavily coloniZed by the Fas-
cist regime and developed at great
expense by Premier Benito Musso-
nni. 1t is one of the most important
fresh water sources in North Africa.
British headquarters said that
'in italian Soma1liand, In all sec
tors, work is progressing on i'm
proved forward roads in support of
our advanced patrols whose activi-
ties across the frontier are contin-
ued unabated'
The communique said that in
Eritrea the concentration of British
forces in the Agordat- -Barentu Sec
tor was proceeding smoothly. 1t
was said that "in Ethiopia inten-
sive patrolling continues east of
Metemma."
Britains army of the Nile is near
ing Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica,
after daring dash across the Liby-
an desert and may already be with
in striking distance, dispatches from
the African front indicated in Lon
don.
Military informants expressed be-
lief that the British Empire forces
would try to take Benghazi in a
lightning attack before italian air
force reinforcements from Sicily,
including German dive bombers,
could arrive in force and catch the
British forces in the open, shelter
less desert.
These forces had met more than
the expected resistance from Italian
motorized units in the Mekhili de-
Sert region south of Derna, on the
urect interior route to BenghaZi.
Inc Italians were believed to have
peen ordered to hold up the Brit
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Berlin Chimes In
With Criticisms
Of vichy Regime

BERLIN, Jan. 80. (UP)-Author-
lied Nazi sources said today that
they agreed with criticisms of the
Vichy regime which had appeared
in Paris newspaper, including the
question whether France really
wanted to cooperate with Germany
and the restoration of Pierre Laval
to the cabinet.
A spokesman said that criticisms
in the Paris newspapers, in occu-
pied territory, had been fully JUS
titled" and continued
Il do not want to identify the
German foreign office with the
Paris press, but we do consider both
the content of the criticism and its
sharpness fully justified.
ut is with right that the press
brings up such questions as whether
Vichy really wants to cooperate
with Germany"
Asked if he agreed with the Par
is newspaper demands that Laval
be restored to cabinet status, the
spokesman said:
Laval is an exponent of Ger
man-French cooperation. There
fore we naturally consider this point
equally justified. When Laval left
the government we considered it nc
more than an episode, to which nc
permanent significance could be
attached. But it has been steadily
losing the character of an episode.
THE development of relations be-
tween Germany and France has
been marked by so many things
which are not clear to us that we
are forced to agree with the Paris
press"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Whittier Guard
Begins Sentence

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. CUP)-
w. d. Cavitt, guard at the Whittier
school for boys, today began serving
225 days in the city jail for inflict-
ing brutal treatment upon the
young inmates.
Municipal Judge r. M. Galbreth
pronounced sentence after refusing
Cavitt a new trial. He granted the
guard a stay of execution to per-
NIT an appeal to the county superior
court. Cavitt posted $1,000 appeal
bond.
Cavitt was sentenced to serve 1870
days on a count of inflicting cruel
and corporal punishment upon IA
year-old Edward Leiva, one of two
boys who committed suicide in the
lost privilege cottage" at the
school, An additional 20 days was
given him on one count of battery
against Leiva. The other rs days
were for battery counts involving
Robert Reynolds, Lawrence Amaral,
and Edwin zallanach, all Is years
OF age.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

ish advance as long as possible. But
it was believed that this line of
resistance had already been liqui-
dated and that British forces were
approaching Benghazi
Little real resistance, compared
to that at Tobruk and Bardia, was
found in the Derna area. Royal Air
Force reconnaissance planes re-
ported that the main body of de-
lenders apparently were already
falling back along the coastal road
to Benghazi.
1t was disclosed that Sir Archi-
bald Wavell, British commander in
chief in the Near East, had sent
reinforcements from the Egyptian
front to Eritrea, 1,200 miles.
There seemed no belief here that
the Italians would be able TO make
a successful stand, partly because
Agordat, on the main railroad to
the Red Sea, has no natural de-
fenses. If the British took the town
they would be expected to drive
straight along the railroad to As
mara and Massawa, on the Red Sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Fair S Premium
List Announced:
Entries Due Now

Premium allotments for the In
perial county fair which opens Mar
l were announced Thursday by
Secretary Manager Dorman v
Stewart.
The total of $2O,O21 will be ap-
portioned:
Horses and mules, $2964; dairy
cattle, 5000; swine and sheep, 1864:
poultry $400; dairy produce $459;
agriculture exhibits 1894; horticul-
tural exhibits, $3.50; Farm Bureau
booth exhibits, $40: Horticulture,
$553; domestic arts, 1892; domestic
science, $529; minerals and mining,
S549; All club boy and girls, $2553;
Future Farmers of America, horse
show premiums, $1955.
Stewart stressed the Importance
of making entries. This will avoid
much confusion during the closing
days of the fair, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Trouble Maker at
Work in India

NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 30. CUP
The Fakir of Ipi, who for more
than 20 years has fomented tribal
uprisings on the northwest frontier
was reported today to be in contact
with German agents in Afghanistan
German activities have shown
marked increase in AfghaniStan. it
is reported, and many German
leaflets and pamphlets have been
distributed there. Some have fill
tered through to tribal areas of
northwest India.
For years the fakir has stirred
up revolt in Waziristan on the tur-
bulent northwest frontier opposite
Afghanistan. British troops have
engaged in numerous expeditions
against him but he makes it his
habit to retreat into Afghanistan
until they have gone back to base.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Nazi Naval Base
Again Bombed

LONDON, Jan. 30. OUP)-British
planes, reSuming offensive opera
tions against Germany, bombed tar
gets in the zone of the great Will
helmShaven naval base during the
night, reliable sources said today.
Air circles understood that Will
helmshaven was well hammered in
last nights raids.
1t was remarked that the RAF'
soon had fulfilled recent radio
cast warning to German dock work.
ers by German Grand Admiral Eric
Raeder.
"The danger of air attacks is
growing" Raeder had said.
Since the start of the war Will
helmshaven has been bombed AZ
times by the British.
British planes attacked Hanover,
Germany, Sunday night but there
after bad weather hampered their
activities until last nights raid on
WilhelmShaven
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Germans Return to
Aerial Assault on
Isles, Shell Dover
inv SIDNEY I WILLIAMS

LONDON, Jan. 30. (UP)-Ger-
man planes, droning high over the
London area. sent antiaircraft bat
teries into action today while Ger
man long range guns steadily she'll
ed the Dover area from the French
invasion coast.
There had been but sporadic
German activity over Britain for
10 days past, but improving Wea-
ther conditions brought successive
formations of raiding planes up thc
Thames Estuary during the morn
ing.
The first air raid alarm, just at
the end of the morning rush per-
iod, was caused by the flight of a
few raiders up the Thames, appar-
entlv observing weather conditions.
They turned back without bomb
ing. But little more than an hour
after the "all clear" the air raid
sirens Shrieked again and antiair-
craft guns burst into heavy fire.
This time, while Britons thought
of warnings that the Germans
might at any time resume blitz-
krieg aerial activity as the first
phase of an invasion attempt, Ger
man planes were heard over Lon
don.
On the Dover coast German shells
were crashing steadily. one at a
time, from batteries on the inva-
sion coast across the narrow strait.
The German guns started firing
at 9.30 last night The shells had
crashed at brief intervals until the
early hours of this morning.
There was a brief bombardment
across the fog-bomd strait lust
before dawn.
Later the shelling was resumed.
The shells came over at intervals
which Indicated that only one gun
at a time might be in action.
Seven persons had been killed
and number wounded when
bombs crushed homes in a Thames
Estuary town last night in the first
night raid in 10 days in the metro
polltan area. Fire added to the
difficulties of rescue squads who
tried to dig victims from the ruins.
AT least one person was killed and
several were wounded by a bomb
which struck the home Of a physi.
clan adjoining a London hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
French Raiders
Roaming Desert

italian soldier. But at Marzuck the
alarm was given and the Italian
garrison ran into their fortress
to fire through loopnoles in the
walls or from the rooftop. The
French surrounded the fortress to
hold the italians while detach-
ment of French Officers spent an
entire day burning and dynamit-
ing the italian air base. Planes
were crushed in hangers which
crashed on them. All barracks were
leveled. The water supply and gas
oline reservoirs were dynamited.
Those Italians who escaped were
left isolated, and Italys army was
blinded SO far as far southern
LlDya was concerned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
By RALPH HEINZEN

V1CHY, France, Jan. 81. tUP)-
A Free French force which invaded
Libya from the Lake Chad region
not only has destroyed Italy's only
airplane base in the far south of
Libya but is now roaming the deS-
ert on a mission of destruction and
conquest which may bring it into
the news at any time, it was re-
ported today.
Details of the expeditions amaz-
ing journey to the Marzuck oasis
through the Tibesti mountains
whose peaks rise to as high as a.
600 feet, said that the Free French
force had wiped out an air base
from which the Italians had watch
ed British and French maneuvers
in Central Africa and might at any
time have become a menace to
the allied lines of communication
from Nigeria through Fort Maly,
on Lake Chad, to Khartoum on
the Nile.
1t was disclosed that the eXpedi-
ton had consisted of French Off
GERS and non-commisSioned Off
GERS and Touareg warriors-the
mysterious blue-veiled Jrlpesmen
known as the best fighting men
in the Sahara.
A motorized column was flanked
on each side by camel columns,
using the famous speedy Mehari
camels. Carrying their own water
and gasoline the raiding force made
It's way over trackless desert and
towering mountains more than 600
miles in all from Fort Lamy on
Lake Chad.
The raiders occupied Tummo, the
Italian outpost OH che frontier.
and Gatroun, between there and
Malzuck, without even sighting an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Fascists Claim
Fort Recapfured

ROME, Jan. 80. (UP)-A high
command communique said today
that Italian troops had retaken one
locality on the Eritrean front, cap
turing Australian prisoners and
arms. and had thrown back British
columns ON three sectors of the
southern Ethiopian front.
In Cyrenaica there was intense
activity by artillery, patrols and
airplanes, the communique said.
The Italians captured prisoners
and arms in local actions by large
patrols on the Albanian front, the
communique said, though bad
weather hampered operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
An1nesia Victim
Still Mystified

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 80
CUP)-Vernon Smith. 2S, knew his
name today, but said that it doesn't
mean anything to him.
The man, fingerprinted here last
week after he told police he had
suffered amnesia several weeks ago
was identified by his wife in a tele-
phone call from Los Angeles. She
said that he was the father of two
children, one born since he left
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
King Receives
Rooseve|fs Envoy

LONDON, Jan. 30. UP)-King
George vi received Harry L. Hop
klns, President Roosevelt's personal
observer, at Buckingham Palace to-
day and after a conference Hopkins
had luncheon with the king and
queen.
The audience was interpreted as
meaning that Hopkins visit to Brit
ain was nearing its end.
The king will receive Wendell L.
Wlllkle next week but the day has
not yet been fixed.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
National University
Debate Team Chosen

Representing National University
on the debating team this year will
be Justin Brande, Murray Cameron,
James E. Duree, Charles Garlock,
Irving Frank, Robert v. Hughes,
Ernest Kipins and John F. Leahy,
DR.. Frank Smith, professor Of pub
lie speaking at the university, an
nounced.
Members of the team will be di.
vided into two groups and will de-
bate the subject Resolved, That the
Federal Government should regulate
by law all labor unions in the United
S.ates-constitutionality conceded y
the topic selected for intercollegiate
debating this year.
Debates are being scheduled with
Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, Mary
land. Carnegie Institute of Technol-
ogy. City College of New York, Buck
nell and Temple Universities.
Mr.. Cameron has been named
student manager and is in charge
of arrangements. The team Will be
available for civic and fraternal or
ganiZations whose programs include
the subject of labor union regula-
ton.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Recreation Equi pmenf
To Go 10 Atlantic Bases

Uncle Sans armed forces IN
Alaska and at North Atlantic bases
will not lack for recreation in the
long winter months ahead.
The American Red Cross is pur-
chasing and shortly will ship $140,-
600 worth of recreation equipment
to these outposts OF our defense,
Chairman Norman H. Davis an
nounced yesterday.
OF the total purchases, 10000
worth of supplies will be sent to
Alaska and 100000 to the Atlantic
bases. The latter is in addition to
q rush order of $4,000 dispatched
TO Iceland last month
The shipping list includes motion
picture projectors, monographs and
records, pool tables, reading lamps,
writing tables and day room furni-
lure, according to the Red Cross.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
American University
Chooses DEBATING Teams

Interteam as we'll as intercol-
legiate debates have been scheduled
this year at the College of Arts and
Sciences OF American University,
John c. Slower, debate coach, an
nounced. Interteam debates will
begin next week. while the collegiate
debaters will not swing into action
until the beginning of next Sc
meSter.
Following two weeks of tryouts
the following were elected to the
varsity debate squad: Walter Bark
dull, Mimi Berman, Eleanor Case,
Reuben Ginsberg, Leon Glatt, Ruth
Gross, Edgar Keller, Robert Lake,
Hugh Leidell, Jeanne Matthews,
Grant Price, Charles Richmond,
Glenn Riddell, Richard Scatterday
Doris Schostal. Caroline Sulzer, Ar
mand Valliers and Herb Wood.
Freshman debate squad members
include William Posien. Marcia
Crouter, Betty Erhardt, John Har-
riSOn, Barbara Hulfish. Irene ia
worowski, Annette Nelson, Leonard
Reuben, Theodore Sander and ia
net Segal
1t is expected that A. U. students
will meet representatives from
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Wooster
Ohio Wesleyan, Boston University
and the University of Florida. As
in the past. the university will send
representatives to debate tourna-
ments at Winthrop College, Rock Hill
S. c., and Shippensburg State
Teachers College, Shippensburg, Pa
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Columbus Accountuncy
Seniors Name Officers

The senior class of the school OF
accountancy at Columbus Univer-
sity has elected Victor B. Brown
president for the current school
year.
Other officers are Thomas W..
Stack, vice president; Miss Lois
Murray, secretary, and John A..
Quigley, treasurer. These officers
have been appointed members OF
the prom committee of the senior
classes, whose dance will be held
in early December.
The alumni members of Chi
Omega Mu fraternity have formed
an alumni chapter This chapter
has taken as its principal aim the
aiding in the development of the
school of accountancy. Officers elect
ed were Edward Mclean, president;
William F. Parker, first vice presi-
dent, Thomas Cribbin, second vice
president; r. Donald Rogers, cor
responding secretary; Larry Cook,
recording secretary, and Walter j.
Kennevan, treasurer
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Many Students Released
For Religious Education

Nearly 500 communities of all
sizes in all parts of the country
now release children from public
schools for religious education
study by the United States ONCE
of Education reveals.
Reports show 282 city school sys-
TENS and 238 schools in rural areas
following this practice. Children in
one of every eight town and city
school systems are released on their
parents request. The probability of
such reelase is more remote for chill
dren in rural areas.
Reports for the study were re-
ceived from the chief State school
officers of As States, the District of
Columbia, the islands and Terri
tories, from nearly three -fourths of
all town and city school superin-
tendents in the United States and
from about half Of the superintend-
snts o. bosantv, schooak
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Western High Presents
Music Proqram Friday

Western High School will present
its annual music program at pm.
Friday.
More than 125 pupils will partici-
pate in the production in the school
auditorium. The presentation will
have a patriotic theme and will last
about one and one-half hours.
The school band, orchestra, boys
glee club, girls glee club and cho-
rus each will present several Sc
lections. Both vocal and instru-
mental solos will be given. The cho-
rus will feature pantomimes with
their songs. Accompanied by the
school band, the mixed chorus will
sing several patriotic numbers. The
finale will also be patriotic and will
be presented by the orchestra and
chorus.
The program is under the direc-
ton of Miss Lucy Lynch, Don P.
McAdoo and Harmon Nicodemus.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Drumu Exhibit

A group of students from the Cor
coran School of Art have made
drawings of scenes from Robert
Ardreys Thunder Rock" presented
by the Washington Civic Theater,
which opened this week in the
Wardman Park. The play will con-
tinue for three weeks with perform
ances given every Wednesday.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights
The studies are done In the i'm
pressionistic style. The exhibit
hangs in the lobby OF the theater.
The sketches were made under the
direction of Eugen Weisz, vice prin-
cipal of the school
Evening star., 1941-11-09

lcC1bdl Wlileli 10 9OiASNuASA w SeSHAA
at $50 o'clock.
The recital is sponsored by the
Washington chapter of Trinity Col
lege Alumnae and Is one Of series
of Nationwide benefits to raise
funds for a science building.
Mrs. John Lane is chairman OF
the committee arranging the bene-
fit and is assisted by Mrs. Richard
Galiher, Miss Marta Haulihan, Mrs.
E. D. Ferguson. jr.: Miss Florence
ODonnaghue, Miss Marie Lee, Mrs.
Malcolm D. Lamborne, jr.; Mrs. Ed
ward Camm. Mrs. Shane Mccarthy
Miss Borzi made her opera debut
with the Philadelphia La Scala
Opera group in 1888, following an
European tour the same year.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Wilson Teachers
Outline Program
For Education Week
Series Of Discussions
And Visits to District
Schools Planned

Observance of Education Week at
Wilson Teachers College will in
clude a day of visitation in WASH
ington schools, series of discus
sion groups and two special con-
vocations, according to plans an
nounced by Miss Ethel Sunny,
chairman of the Education Week
Committee and instructor in edu-
cation.
The committee has announced
that visitors will be welcome at the
college tomorrow, Wednesday and
Friday, especially al the afternoon
meetings, which will be held at 8
o'clock.
Bearing out the theme of Edu-
cation Week, l94l, Education for a
Strong America" discussion groups
emphasizing the place of education
in democracy will be held tomor-
row. The student body has been
divided into approximately II
groups, each having a student CO.
chairman and a faculty cochair-
man. Subjects to be discussed in
clude such problems as the totali-
tartan menace to democracy, how to
teach democracy and the place of
democracy in the administration of
schools. DR.. Clyde NJ Huber, reg
iStrar of the college, is in general
charge Of the discussion groups.
ConvOcatiOn Wednesday.
The Catherine Watkins Education
Club of Wilson Teachers College is
sponsoring a convocation Wednes-
day at pm. Robert Sutton, pres
ident of the club, will preside. In
troductory talks on The Relation Of
the Wilson Education Club to the
Education Association of the Dis
trict, The National Education Asso-
citation" and The Future Teachers
of Americas" will be delivered, re-
spectively, by Norman Nelson, prin-
cipal of Woodrow Wilson High
School Mrs. Mary Resh, principal
of the Dennison Vocational School
and DR.. J. E. Morgan, editor of the
N. E. A. Journal
DR.. Mary Dabney Davis, an ex-
pert in primary education. will de-
liver a tribute to Miss Catherine
Watkins, former head of the kinder
garten department of the Wilson
Normal School, for whom the Will
son Club is named Miss Watkins
will be introduced by Robert Hay
cock, first assistant superintendent
of schools.
In order that the students of Will
son Teachers College may become
acquainted with the various educa-
tional facilities of the city, classes
will be suspended Thursday SO all
students may visit the schools. Care
full plans for the visit have beer
made and opportunities arranged
for different groups to visit during
the morning in elementary, junior
high, health, AmericaniZation oc-
cupational and vocational schools.
Faculty to Entertain.
At noon the faculty of Wilson will
entertain at luncheon principals
teachers and supervisors Of the par
ticipating schools. Following the
luncheon each group of students
will meet with faculty member and
the teacher visited to discuss what
was seen in the morning visitation.
eliminating Wilson's observance
of Education Week will be a formal
assembly at 3 pm. Friday. The
Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor Of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. will be the speaker. Also on
the program will be To a New
Youth" song written and COM
posed by Mrs. Bernice Angelica and
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Administrators to Hear
@. P. M. Training Plan

A new o. P. M. method of train
ing defense agency supervisors will
Be presented at a dinner meeting of
the Society for Personnel Admins
tration at $50 pm. Wednesday at
the Y. w. C. A., Seventeenth and
K streets NV, according to R. r.
Zimmerman, program chairman.
The method, said to be applicable
for training over 100000 supervisors
in Federal offices, shipyards and ar
senals, was developed by c. R.
Dooley, director, and Michael j.
Kane and william Conover, assistant
directors, and others in the o. P. M. s
training within industry section.
Messrs. Dooley Kane and Conover
are to give a demonstration at
Wednesdays meeting.