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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

At recent meeting retailers en-
dorsed full participation in Retail
ers for Defense" Week, September
rs to 20. when the stores of every
state will concentrate their efforts
to enlist customers to buy Defense
Savings Stamps. Before that time,
most stores from coast to coast are
expected to have Defense Stamps ON
sale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

The English have been uneasy
since they downed German COM
bat plane with 5000 h. D. motor.
And we're proud of one that has
1.150 b. p.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

When a bride has been married
about three months she begins to
write home for the old clothes she
thought she would never have occa-
sion to nse again.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

The danger is that people will
finally welcome war as the only
means of stopping so much useless
talk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

No wonder our policy is confused.
We can't get over the habit of trust
ing the people whose government
we are mad at.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

Do your share to preserve the
American way of life. Invest regu-
larly in Defense Savings Bonds and
Stamps.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

Add Defense Savings Bonds to
your investments. Serve your ccun-
try and conserve your earnings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

To Keep 'em Flying" you must
Keep on Buying" Defense Savings
Bonds and Stamps regularly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

It's a fortunate thing for the av-
erage man that all his prayers are
not answered,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

Woman's reaction to the silk sit
uation: Darn stockings. Mans
reaction; Darn Hitlara
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05

The latest statistics show that rs
per cent of all automobile trips are
for necessary purposes and that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-05
The Presidents Mystery Man

Harry Hopkins is Confidential
and personal" representative of
President Roosevelt. He was the
man who fixed up arrangements for
the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at
sea. So far he hasn't made a slip,
and he may do a great deal better
than Colonel House who lost favor
with President Wilson before the
latter finished his term of office.
When Hopkins returned to Wash
ington a few days ago he was wear
ing Winston s. Churchill's hat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
Eighty Three More
 Youths Leave Today
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the scheduled departure.
 Train windows were thrown open and there were waves and shouts. The band struck up You're in the Army Now, and the train left the station.
 Stop at Hartford.
 The train carried the group to Hartford, where medical examina- tions were to be given by army doc tors. Those passing the tests suc- cessfully were to head this afternoon for the army reception center at Fort Devens, Mass, there to remain until assigned to permanent posts for their years training.
 The citv's quota for today's cal was 85. One of the selectees failed to report, while the other, Andrew Masone, was given a days post ponement to play role in tonight's performance of "The Fireman's Flame" by the Civic theater.
 The next quota of selectees from here will leave Feb. 19. Plans to give them farewell demonstration and also one for national. guardsmen who will leave early in March will be made at a meeting at the Amer ican Legion home tomorrow night d T o'clock,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07

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 that he is popular in the fleet and had navy backing for his political ambitions, which are great.
 Darlan has been against Great Britain, especially since the attacks on the French fleet of the African coast. He believes the British fleet to be over-rated. He is not as great an admirer of Germany and Italy as is Laval but he believes that French collaboration with those countries is necessary.
 No matter what happens, it was believed that he had made up his mind never voluntarily to surrender the fleet or any French naval base, and to order the scuttling of the fleet or finish fight if necessary.
 Vichy, France, Feb. 7.-UP)- Gen. Maxine Weygand, comman- der of Frances North African forces denied today in 8 broadcast speech in Algiers that France would turn over her naval base of Bizerte tc Germany.
 He also denied in the name of the French government that Germany would be permitted to use Bizerte t land troops there to bolster the re- treating Italian forces in Libya.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07

(Continued from Page D national Brotherhood of Bremen and Oilers, Brotherhood of Rail- road and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Elm ployes, Brotherhood of Mainte- nance of Way Employes. Interna- tional Association of Machinists, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America, National Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots ot America, National Marine Engl- neers' Beneficial Association, In- ternational Long-shoremen's As sociation.
 Jewell, who also is president of the Railway Engineers Department of the AFL, said the IA chiefs would decide on "a future course of &C., ton" after counting the strike vote.
 The railroad labor law provides for a 60-day waiting period after the strike tally before strik, can be called. President Roosevelt could appoint a board to investi- gate and make a report within 90 days. Another 30 days would have to elapse after the report before strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
British Armies Drive
 16O Miles In 7 Days
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rani and there halted to organize a triumphal march to Suea.
 In the early days of December British and Australian troops moved quietly out into the desert, marching by night and digging in- to the desert, marching by night and digging into the sand to hide themselves by day.
 The best colonial fighters in the British empire had drafted battle plans.
 At dawn on December g the army of the Nile struck. It might have been only a big scale border raid had the Italains shown strength. But the British high command sensed weakness, and the border raid turned into great offensive.
 Sidi Barrani and 6olfum on the Egyptian side of the frontier fell to the army of the Nile. Bardia, To- bruk, Derna on the Libyan side were taken in turn. Resistance had become less each time. At Derna the Italian retreat became a rous and according to all reports the en- tire Italian army on that front was racing, afoot, by motor truck and by railroad toward Tripoli and the Tunisia border.
 The British empire forces pro- ceeded as fast as they could march and keep their communications in- tact, two forces along parallel coast al roads which at times came to- gether: third force straight through the desert.
 A Rome radio broadcast, picked up here soon after the fall of Ben- ghazi was announced, noted fierce fighting south of Benghazi- pos sible indication that thousands of Italians had been cut off.
 By taking Benghazi, the British frightened their grip on the entire eastern Mediterranean aside from gaining control of the entire pro- vince of Cyrenacia.
 In Benghazi they had a big, pros porous city, an excellent port and a good naval base, on which Mus solini had spent millions of dollars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
FIRST DOUCHBOY
 AS AMBASSADOR
John G. Winant Is Also Described By Papers as
 Worst Dressed Man

London, Feb. T-CUP)-Newspa- pers today described John G. Wiant as ''the, first doughboy ann bassador to the Court of St. James"
 Winant's nomination by President Roosevelt to be the new United States ambassador here, succeeding Joseph P. Kennedy, was received warmly. The Daily Express said, His resemblance to Lincoln is not only physical. If he was not born of the people he certainly is for the people and beloved by the peo- pie. Winant is being sent to Britain as a friend of labor as much for the effect in America as in England"
 Winant, former Republican gov- ernor of New Hampshire, has been 8 director of the International Labor Office of Geneva since 1939.
 The Daily Telegraph said: 'The only possible lack of experience which might be attributed to the new ambassador is business knowl- edge which is growing in importance now that the United States has become the arsenal of the democra- cies. This lack may be offset by the appointment of a prominent buSinSS man as minister"
 The Daily Telegraph mentioned w. Averall Hartman, New York financier, as the type of business man who might be named minister.
 Winant, the newspaper said, "un- less he changes his habits, should son acquire the reputation of the worst dressed man in English pub lie life. He seldom has his trousers pressed and his friends often have wondered how any man could pos sess so many blue shirts frayed at the collars and cuffs"
 The Daily Mail said, Roosevelt wanted a man who knows and speaks the language of British labor, not business man, also a man in thorough sympathy with British war thought. Wiant has precisely those qualities there's nothing fashy about Winant."
 The Daily Herald said Britain well comes Winant with the same enthu- siasm the United States welcomed Lord Halifax, the new British am- bassador there, "as something far more than a mere representative of foreign government.
 The Times described Winant as "a man slow to reach a decision but inflexib'e when convinced, and to- day as fully awake to the tremendous moral and social isues of the con- f1ict of which he will be spectator as anyone alive Britons will discover they are dealing with a man in whom condolences can be placed unhesitatingly."
 The News Chronicle said, Tt may be reasonable to expect from Winant few fireworks and much diligence" 7"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07

while others have only a handful of cases during the year.
 Features of Plan
 Principal features of the plan in- clude:
 1. Common pleas court judges will rotate between the various courts, as the superior court judges do at present. The common pleas judges now preside only in their own counties or, in Waterbury's case only in their own judicial district
 2. Jurisdiction will be made uni form, with perhaps maximum oi $5,000 in civil cases.
 3. Salaries of all judges will be the same.
 Representative William L. Hadden of Orange, Republican leader of the House, has expressed himself in favor of the plan and can swing powerful support in its favor.
 The proposed legislation may in- volve elimination of the Waterbury judicial district for the common pleas court and make the court here only part of the New Haven County branch of the statewide common pleas court system, but no final decision on this point has been reached.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
WILLKIE ASKED TO
 SCOURCE HITLER

New York, Feb. - O.P) The American Congress for Democracy today asked Wendell L. Willkie to "arouse 25,000,O00 Ameri- cans of German birth or ancestry to a sense of terrible danger of Hit Ter and Hitlreism in this country"
 The group telegraphed Willkie: No one is as well fitted as you are, by reason of German ancestry and political position, to instruct and in- fiuence the German-American ele- ment in this country"
 Many of this group have been for eight years past dangerously misled by Hitler propaganda our work is nowhere so much needed as in the middle west. The German Americna group is the decisive fac- tor in the middle west and that great region in this crisis is and will be a decisive factor in the nation"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
WATCHMAN FOR
 DEVENS PRAISED

Fort DevenS, Mass, Feb. 7-(UP) Peter Conway, civilian watch man, was commended today for his "correct performance of duty in seizing Brig. Gen. John MaGruder, post commander, and his wife and taking them to Harvard jail in a passing truck. The commendation by the general himself-was con- tained in a letter to police chief Hugh Belts of Harvard, head of construction police at the camp.
 Conway, the generals letter said, was "unconvinced by what he be- lieved to be my cock and bull story"
 Gen. MaGruder said he and his wife, clad in ski clothing, were ex- ercising Sunday in the artillery cantonment area when Conway approached and asked if he had a pass. The general said he didn't but revealed his identity to the un- convinced guard. Gen. MaGruder was freed after military police iden- tified him at the jail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07

(Continued from Page D range) established themselves astride Italian lines of communica- ton leading southward from Beng hazi.
 At the same time Australian troops advancing from Berna gave the retreating enemy force no re- spite.
 The demoralized, out-maneuvered enemy was unable to put into ef- feet his plans for the defense of Benghazi.
 'In Eritrea the situation about Keren is developing satisfactorily The total number of prisoners since our troops entered Eritrea already exceeds $500 with many more con- ing in.
 Uttered By Munitions
 Operations east of a line between Agordat and Barentu are over ter rain Uttered by Italian war mater ials either destroyed by our action or jettisoned by the enemy.
 "In Abyssinia (Ethiopia) our ad- vance along the Gondar road is progressing. Prisoners also have been taken in this sector.
 Tn Italian Somaliland,, along the whole front, our patrols are success fully enlarging the area of their penetration"
 Official announcement of the fall of the great Italian military naval, air and commercial base in North Africa was made today here and in London.
 (The Italian high command s Rome communique asserted today that violent battle was progress ing south of the city)
 Occupation of the city by the British was the climax of two months campaign 500 airline miles across the Egyptian and Libyan des- erts. That campaign began Decem- Ger with what the British army insisted was merely a raid in force against Italian positions in and around Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
 By a brilliant operation British armoured forces moving south from the Jebel Fl Akbar (mountair range established themselve; astride Italian lines of communica- tion leading southward from Ben. ghazi," todays headquarters com munique said to the fall of the Cyrenaican capital.
 Italy Admits Loss
 Rome, February '. - (UP) - 4 violent battle is progressing south of Benghazi between Italian anc British troops. the high command said in q communique today.
 (The British in Cairo and Lon. don announced the capture oi Benghazl. capital of Cyrenaica)
 The high commands reference tS "a violent battle" south of Ben ghazi seemed an admission thai Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Italian commander in chief in North Africa had lost the city to British Imperia forces.
 The communlque said that fight. ing was continuing around Kre' nen, Eritrea, only 30 miles iron
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07

ern Mediterranean appeared to lie in a thrust through the Balkans. But even if he went as far as Is- tanbul he would still be more than 300 miles from Suez.
 Stiffest Blow Yet
 Further, the loss of Benghazi, name known to every Italian, was regarded here as the stiffest blow yet to the Fascist regime and to Italian civilian and military morale. It was set back for Germany be- cause German planes had been sent to try to impede the British ad- vance.
 Oflcial quarters here said that the port of Benghazi would be par ticularly valuable to the Navy since it accommodates large vessels. The town is important as supply base. It is a clean, modern city, the cap- ital of 8 province and the center of communications for the prov ince, it was said.
 .Benghazi's excellent air fields were emphasized by the British here. In addition to the modern airdrome at Benina there is a sea- plane base. Coast defense batteries defend the port and the supply of fresh water is ample and good.
 Both roads and the only railroad in Cyrenaica radiate from Beng hazi.
 Because of its position at the east end of the Jebel Fl Akbar mountain range all communications between eastern and western Cyrenaica pass through Benghazi.
 Beyond Benghazi, to the west, a narrow belt of fertile land extends approximately 100 miles as far as the desert of Syrte, separating Cyrenaica from the habitable por- tions of Tripolitania.
 It was indicated that the British empire forces met not the slightest organized resistance in the last stage of their drive. They were op- posed, it was believed, only by the binding choking dust raised by the desert winds as their advance fore es, entered the second city of Libya, with a population of 64,000 includ- ing l9,4OO Italian civilians.
 Italy's shattered north African army, including Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, was fleeing along the coastal road toward Tripoli, 600 miles along the twisting coast op- posite French TuniSia.
 The fleeing remnants were ln lm- minent danger of being cut off along the coast between Benghazi and Agedabia, 100 miles away, be- cause the coast turns southward there and there was a possibility that British forces driving through the desert might intercept the 1tal- ians.
 No details were immediately available of a great and possibly historic victory. General headquar- ters at Cairo merely announced the capture of Benghazi in a special communique.
 But the British empire forces, Britons, Australians, Free French, who started out from their lines at Marsah Matruh to feel out the strength of the big Italian North African army had conquered Cryne- acia and had only to decide wheth- CT to stop there or continue west ward to try to take Tripon.
 Suez Canal Joke
 Only a few months ago, Mussolini talked of an advance to the Suez canal. Early in the war his men had driven across the lightly de- tended Egyptian frontier on the first stage. The British had elected to defend Marsa Matruh, 80 miles inside the Egyptian frnotier. The Italians drove as far as Sidi Bar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
BRIG. GEN. RUSH
 ON INSPECTION

Boston, Feb. 7.-UP)-Brig. Gen Rush B. Lincoln. supervisor of me- chanics schools for the U. s. army air corps, began an inspection today of New England schools training men for the army.
 Accompanied by his staff, Gen Lincoln flew here yesterday from Chanute Field. Rantoul, Ill, in a new B-23 bomber in record time oi 3 l-2 hours, two hours under the usual time of Ia hours required for the 000-mile flight.
 He begins his two-day visit by at. tending graduation Of group oi mechanics from the New England aircraft school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
CRASH OF FLYING
 FORTRESS PROBED
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(COQCmueQ 1TOLl rage IL want the wreckage touched until the board had thoroughly examined it. Officers admitted that the plane carried the zealously guarded Nor den bomb sight and "other secret continent"
 Army officials in Washington de- nied that there had been any in crease in the rate of airplane acci- dents. There had been a greater number, they said, because there were more army planes flying and more men flying them because Of the defense program.
 Many Accidents
 These service accidents have oc- cured since Jan. l: Jan. 2, army plane crashed at Laredo, Tex, two killed; Jan. 2, part of crew of naval bomber about to make a forced landing near Edinburg, Tex, bailed out and one was killed; Jan. 4, naval transport plane crashed near San Diego, killing II; Jan. 6, two army planes collided at Honolulu, one man killed; Jan. 6, army plane crashed at Barksdale Field, La, killing pilot; Jan. 16, army bomber crashed into mountain, killing sev- en; Feb. 4, army plane crashed near New York City, killing one; Feb. G., flying fortress crashed near here, killing eight; Feb. 6, two army planes collide near New York City, killing one.
 The flying fortress crashed yes- terday morning, 90 minutes after its takeoff. Killed were: Captain Rich ard S. Freedman, B, pilot, of Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska. He was a graduate of West Point and Kelly field, and President Roosevelt awarded him the Mackay trophy in 1940 for outstanding aircraft en- gineering on the 1889 good will flight of six flying fortresses to Rio De Janeiro.
 First Lieutenant Edward w. Ket- cham, 30, co-pilot, Ladd Field; Technical Sergeant K. H. Gilreath, Staff Sergeant Everett Crabb, Ser geant J. P. Davies of Dayton, O., Sergeant E. s. Trainer, Sergeant F. s. Widen of Haines City, Fla, and Private c. E. Applegate, Canon City, Colo.
 The scene was within 75 yards of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp and 20 youths were working three miles away when it crashed against the 1000 foot mountain and ex- ploded.
 Dived At Great Speed
 The bomber came out of heavy cloudbank and dived at considerable speed right onto the western slope of Ragged Top Mountain" Foreman James Nelson said.
 Nelson and his crew rushed to the scene in a truck. Great flames were leaping above the wreckage when they arrived, The plane was in small canyon.
 The men could see one officer in the cockpit, but because of the heat were unable to approach" he said.
 The frame of the plane was rest ing in normal position as though it was leveling oil when it hit. Three engines had been crumpled back in- to the wing and the fourth was some distance away. Small charred bits were scattered over a 25-yard radius"
 Six bodies, burned and mutilated, remained in the wreck. Two were thrown among the sagebrush and rocks.
 Seven victims were members Of the crew that flew the % 1-2-ton bomber from Fairbanks two weeks ago. Sergeant Crabb was q weather observer, who, it was understood, had come from Santa Clara uni- verSity on the detached enlisted mems list Enlisted men are tre- quently given free passage on planes flying east from Sacramento.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
GERMAN INVASION
 BASES BLASTED
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(Continued from Page D chief targets. Pilots reported many bombs burst in the dock areas and that several large fires were started
 The raid was made despite bad weather.
 German raiders were inactive during the night.
 Air Commodore R. V. Goddard said in a broadcast last night that British fighter planes and ground defenses had brought down 140 Ger man night raiding planes since June and that in the middle east the British had shot down $50 Italian planes and destroyed about the same number on the ground.
 Some War Flashes
 Rome, Feb. 2 - CUP0 = Hun dreds of Italian troops were sta- toned around the United States embassy today as University stu- dents paraded the streets, demon strating against democracies and plutocracies."
 The troops around the embassy and the nearby United States con- sulate general were in full wal equipment. It was estimated that 500 soldiers had been ordered to re- enforce the usual formal guard ot Carabinieri.
 The demonstrations followed those in the Piazza Di Espagna yes l terday in which the students did not approach the embassy. There was no reinforcement of the guard at the embassy then.
 Demonstrators today protested thu British Aid bill now being debated by congress nj Washington.
 For the most part the demonstra' tionS were orderly.
 The students sang patriotic song! as they marched through the mair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-07
CENTRAL LABOR
 COUNCIL OBJECTS

New Haven, Conn. Feb. 2 = GU. PJ - A resolution approved by the New Haven Central Labor Council today called on Governor Hurley not to reappoint State Public Utilities Commissioner Alvan Waldo Hyde and Edwy l.. Taylor.
 "tI is tn eopinlon of the Centra Labor Council" the resolution said 't'hta these men do not represent the public, but do, however, repre- sent the private utility interests"
 The resolution was introduced by Senator Joseph T. Rourke. D.. Slew Haven