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purposes Why should he? National security was the best reason he could cite for the enormous rifces which he imposed on the Russian people. His planes, tanks and heavy guns not hidden under bushel If considerable part of the outside world insisted on regarding the Ffve-Year Plans and the enslavement of the peasantry as economics, it not Stans fault; and it certainly did him no harm.
 Now the moment is at hand when the Russian people will find out whether the huge price it has paid for Staln ndustrialization and collectvzation program was measuraby justified. Opinion in this country is of two schools. There some who say that up to now Hitler has met nowhere on the Con- tinent anything like his equal in mechanical pre- paredness. Soviet planes and tanks ought to give a fair account of themselves.
 Other people expect swift Russian collapse The latter one would say, are in the majority, to judge from the way people are marking back to Napoleon and 1872. Perhaps it is old habit but the first impulse seems to be to forget the new mechan ized Russia of the Ffve-Year Plans and to think of primitive Russias great spaces, her enormous sources in man power the sturdy fighting qualities of her soldiers given any kind of decent leadership and equipment People hark back to Russia's old ally General Winter, if only Hitler be kept busy till the autumn
 People are recalling that Russia defeated Ma poleon by setting it's Moscow fire. This is task Nazi incendiary bombs may conceivably spare the Russians, but there is something else which the Russian people may decide to set fire to check mate the new conqueror, and that is Russia's own oil wells. It is suspected that Hitler wants the Caucasus oil much more than the Ukrainian wheat.
 By giving up their oil fields to the flames the Russians would be passing sentence of famine on themselves; for Soviet agriculture is mechan- ized But after all, the Ffve-Year Plans and the farm colectvization cost great many million lives, and it was all for national defense
 This, at any rate is what breathess world will be waiting to see these coming weeks and months-whether the defense of the Russian soil against Hitler will be a new Soviet defense or an old-style defense by the Russian people
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LONG-AWAITED TEST

Hitler's invasion of Russia has at last brought the Soviet face to face with the test which it's leaders have expecting from the very beginning and for which they have been feverishly preparing period of more than dozen years. This is the famous 'imperialist- t-capitaist" attack the first Socialist State in history. There times when Moscow played up that worldwide conspiracy against the Soviet Union for of domestic politics, but the whole we may take it that the fear has been genuine enough. To make the Soviet Union safe against the inevitable assault by capitalist bandits has been the chief goal of the Stalinte policies. But it not purpose of which very many people outside of Russia aware
 One might go so far as to say that national de- really shaped the Soviet Russia which has held possession of peoples minds these many years Everything before 1928, the year when Stalin took complete charge of Soviet destinies faded into vague memory The thing which enormously im- posed itself the imagination of the world was the Soviet Russia of the FiveYear ndustrialzation plans and the Soviet Russia of forced farm collec- tivzation.
 Stalin's vast experiment, carried on regardless of cost in human life and treasure, happened to coin eide in time with period of economic collapse in the capitalist world The contrast only lent added prestige the doctrine of coectvized and planned economy. Whereas old competitive order seemed sliding down to chaos and death, Stalm was building social and economic order He started in 1928. He enabled to go on for almost half dozen years before Hitler came the scene to suggest that there may be more than one kind of collective life and more than one type of plutocrat hater.
 Only in the last few years has enlightenment come by grace of Hitler It began to dawn on peo- pie in this country that Soviet planned economies was really planned military defense The ferocious tempo of Stalins forced industrialization the mad race to "overake and outstrp all other industrial nations, including the United States; the forced col lectvization which designed to provide the money and labor the forced industrialization the short rations imposed on the Russian people to pay for the huge industrial plants-all this primarily intended to make the Soviet Fatherland mpregnable against capitalist-mpera attack.
 To do Staln justice, he made secret of his
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turnover and migration.

turnover and migration.
 NOTE-The extent of labor pi- racy is revealed in tn elatest re- port of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, which shows that POS of every 100 workers on industrial payrolls switched jobs last month, the high est proportion on record
 MERRY ROUND
 Ben Welles, son of Under Secret ary of State Sumner We1les, is working as newsman in Panama Nelson Rockefeller, government worker, gets up at five in the morn ing, shuns parties, goes to bed. at ten. The Rockefeller Office has been flooded with requests from movie stars who want to tour Latin America. <. When Senators fail to pay their bills t the Senate sta- tionary room, the Disbursing Office, instead of dunning them, merely docks the amount from their pay checks
 (Copyrite, 1941, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
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not know it, but its officials form ally supplied the maps to the Am erican Embassy in Berlin by which the United States is fortifying Trinidad against Germany. This is how it happened:
 When U. s. architects went to Trinidad to plan the new American bases, they found that neither the British nor the American govern ments had aerial maps of the is- land. They learned, however, that the Germans did have such maps, made while the Germans were op- erating commercial airline in that region.
 So through the American Embas- sy in Berlin the Army formally re- quested the proper German auth critics for copies of the maps-and they were forthcoming.
 NOTE = The maps are being checked for accuracy.
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not c0n,pet
FRIDAY. JULY IS


 Adverse planetary aspects rule today. It is a date for disappoint- merit and delays in important plans. Women should be most eau tious. Acidents may be numerous under this rule of the stars.
 HEART AND HOME: This is an il-omened sway for women who should be most careful in all their activities. Special caution should be exercised in letters or contracts. Bad news may come to many girls who have placed too much confi- dence in summer flirtationS. The stars seem to presage far journeys for young men in the Navy and in the aviation service. Mothers may have axieties regarding their sons. It has been foretold for many months that war demands upon the United States would not be limited to home work.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: New for tunes will pile up East and West, North and South, while the level of wages rises in the course of the most vast and intensive manufac- turing projects ever attempted. The seers warn that the spirit of dem- )cracy must be manifested among Americans of every class, since the end of an era has been reached and the general leveling of social and economic inequalities is pfe- saged by the stars The Autumn, like the Summer, will prove the marvellous efficiency of merchants and manufacturers who belong to the nation.
 | NATIONAL ISSUES: Realization of the peril of war now will be gen. eral in the United States and the Autumn will be marked by complete unity among thinking Americans who are outside organizations af- fected by subversive influences. Op- position to the Presidents foreign policies will weaken as tinternatiod- al events reveal dangers which can not be ignored. Again warning lis given against special privileges which may be sought by selectees who have political influence. Army, Navy and aviation services must be patterns of real democracy, the seers declare.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR s: There is sign read as presaging some sort of international settle ment effort which will be made when the Sun enters Libra for the Autumn quarter. The element of surprising drama in events attend ing the second world war will be evident as amazing incidents multi ply. What has been will be, accord ing to the philosophy of history, but the world is writing strange chapters in human experience never before recorded. Supreme power among nations again is forecast for the United States.
 have the augury of year of many benefits attended by extraordinary circumstances. Reckless spending of money should be avoided.
 Children born on this day prob- ably will be exceptionally talented. Success and good fortune all their lives are indicated. s Copyright, 194D. so4sns
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In anticipation of bomb damage to strategic roads, equipment for quick repairs has been stored at intervals. Prefabricated temporary bridges also are on hand.
 Distractions against the landing of enemy aircraft, such as trenches, concrete posts and trip cables, have been placed in all open fields. Stone and concrete road blocks have been built and bridges cambered at strategic locations. so that demoli- tion charges can be placed quickly should the Nazis gain a foothold on the coast.
 Editors note Murrow is the former Washington State Highway Director, and visited Juneau just a year ago).
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TlUU[KN LliUULIlL ROBERTA LEE

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LABOR PIRATES

The exploitation of defense labor by private employment agencies comes in for severe criticism in a confidential report sent to the House Labor Committee by Se- cretary of War Henry Stimson.
 He strongly urges the committee to get behind the bill introduced by Representative John Tolan of California. chairman of a special committee investigating migrant labor, giving the Government au- thority to regulate the fees and practices of interstate job agencies and to curb piracy of skilled work CTS by big industrial plants.
 Stimson charges that much of the shortage in skilled labor in key employment brokers" They get a fee for each job placement and therefore encourage frequent labor
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20 YEARS AGO fME {rfm EMPIRE

IIY R. Gold Mining by of the committee collecting exhibit for the American Mining in Chicago. planned to leave with her two children the strawberries being promised from various ranches coming parties caught less than 100 trout The 
 
 Louise Fazenda was playing comedy Theatre.
 Weather High 62 low,
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D E koNn E E N $ E QUIZ

O. Can children buy Defense Savings Stamps?
 Yes Hundreds of thousands American children buying
 regularly their in the national After child has collected enough Stamps exchange the'Bond registered in child's 9e Mss Yes minor Defense Savings parents
 registering Bonds in their chidrens prepare
 educational needs fE+4
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JULY IT
 Everett Novel; Damaris Irene Davis Mrs. Dan Ross Elliott Fremming James Carlson Alfred G. Johnson Mrs. David Wallace Isabel Delaney Verne c. Dick
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

ISUSED "The audience at the prize fight uny" Say "The prize fight u AUDIENCE listeners
 MISPRONOUNCED Auxiliary Pronounce og-zi-ya-r o OR, both ASK unresed syllable.
 OFTEN MIssPEILED dmprudent) pact.
 bland oily,
 a mastering Today STABILITY state quality of being firmly established Every something stability
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Far East; sugar from Cuba and the Pacific islands: drugs from Asa, Africa, and other far-away places. Shipping space to bring them to the U. s. is scarce, and where obtain able is much more expensive than in normal times.
 The freight rate on sugar from Cuba is three times what it was in July, 1889. Burlap now costs 78 cents per yard to ship to the Pacific Coast, compared to 9 cents two years ago. Chrome ore from Africa now costs $15 a ton to haul-in 1889 1t was $5.40
 Naturally, such charges send the prices skyward. But that isn't all. With supplies limited and demand soaring, prices are bound to go up anyway.
 Botanical drugs, such as belladon- ma, used widely in prescriptions and patent medicines, are up 20 times over pre-war levels. Olive oil, chief ly imported from Italy, is up 400 per cent. Burlap now costs 12 cents a yard, compared to cents before the war
 To attempt to control prices by freezing them as of given date is obviously begging an explosion That is why they are quietly con ferring with congressional leaders on the cost factors" that should be taken into consideration in fix ing price ceilings.
 Hottest potato is whether wages should be included in the price ceiling law. Wages are an important cost element in some prices, not in others. Labor is violently opposed to any ceiling on pay scales anc will fight to the death against it GERMANS FORTY TRINIDAD
 The German Government may
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Washington Merry
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LOOK and LEARN s%y C. GORDON

1. What bird is the greatest enemy of rats? 2. In what State is Pikes Peak? 3 In which opera is the Pilgrims Chorus sung? 4 What is a campanie? 5. Who was the original Boston Strong Boy?
 ANSWERS: 1. The barn-owl 9. Colorado 3. Wagner's '"Tannhauser" 4. bell tower. John L. Sullivan heavyweight boxing champion from 1889
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10

don't believe this years will be 1t. The Grand Army isn't dead yet by Q long shot--and 1t doesn't like to read It's obituary"
 Trip to Be ArduOus
 It will be tottering group of vet erans that will arrive in Columbus the weekend prior to the convention opening Sept. IA. Some, more feeble than the majority, will have to start their journeys to Columbus as much as a week before opening day.
 The youths who ran away from home to soldier with the Union Army are old men today and long journeys are strength sapping. Their ages vary from 93 to as much as no and the age of the average G. A. R. member is 95 years, s months.
 A great many will be unable to come because of i'll health and A. nancial disability, Miss Lucas said.
 Two previous Grand Army na- tional encampments have been held in Columbus, the first in 1888 and the last in 1919, but attendance ct this years diamond jubilee will not compare with the number of veter- ans attending either of the two previous Columbus conventions. The 1888 encampment attracted 372,9eo veterans and i10,357 registered ct the 1919 convention.
 Total Around 1000
 Miss Lucas estimated that of the i,70l Grand Army members who at- tnded the 1899 encampment in Pittsburgh, not more than 1000 are left throughout the nation.
 "Of those you can safely say that about one-half will attend this years convention which would make the total about 400 or 600," Miss Lucas said.
 If attendance at the Ohio depart- mental encampment here last June is an indication hardly more than 300 veterans will appear for the na-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
CHARTERS GIVEN
 NEW CIO LOCALS
Reid Robinson Assails Con. gressman Dies at Rally
 Held Here

Three new locals of the Tnterna- tional Union of Mine, Mill & Smell ter Workers were presented charters by President Reid Robinson, of Dem yer, at a mass meeting ofunion brass workers last night at Buckingham hall. Granting of the charters gives this city six CIO locals, ,theprevious three being the Waterbury Brass Workers union, the State, County and Municipal Employes local, and the Waterbury Newspaper Guild.
 Given their charters last night were locals of the Scovill Mfg Co.,, Chase Brass & Copper and Clock Mfg. Go. The charters were ac:ept- ed for Scovill workers by Edward McGrath, for Chase workers by Wil- liam Stanton and for Lux workers by Samuel Cipriano. Guests on the platform were John J. Driscoll, exc. cutive secretary of the Waterbury Brass Workers union and Thomas R. Molloy, president of the state 0. I. o. council.
 MT. Robinson asserted that charges that the O.. I. O. Is communiStic were ridiculous, declaring that "our organization was not born in Mos cow" He charged that Congressman Martin Dies was e tool of "proflt hungry operators and their stooges." He praised the work of the Brass Workers Organizing Committee, which is now campaigning to or- ganiZe hitherto non-union plants In the state.
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C. A. R. To Muster Thin Blue Line
 For 18th Encampment Sept. l4-l9

tionai convention. According to figures compiled by Miss Lucas only ii of the 35 Ohio members attended the state convention. If similar proportion of nationwide. member ship attended the national encamp- nent the total attendance would be only a little more than 300.
 For those who attend, however, the program will be an old story as old as the c. A. R. itself. A pro- gram form initiated at the first national encampment at Indianap- oils in 1866 has been followed al- most implicitly. There will be a eemi-annual greetings meeting, a fathers and daughters banquet, the usual camp fire get-together, 0 pub- lie evening memorial service in honor of the Civil War dead, @ con- cert by the U. s. Marine band, and o parade.
 VIII Be Parade
 Asked If there would be Q parade this year as usual, Miss Lucas re- piled:
 "A parade this yearp Of course, there'll always be a parade as long as there Is anyone left to take part in it."
 During the last National c. A. R.. encampment held in Columbus in 1919 an estimated 10000 veterans marched and 4000 rode through downtown streets for several hours in a driving rain. According to Miss Lucas they steadfastly maintained i've are soldiers" and refused all of- fers of shelter.
 "And they'll do the same thing again if they have to-" she added.
 Auxiliary organizations, which will convene simultaneous with the Grand Army, are the Women's Re- lief Corps, Sons of Union Veterans, Ladies of the c. A. R., Daughters of Union Veterans and Federated Pa triotic Societies. These groups to- fether are expected to bring an es- timated 1000 persons to Columbus. Honor guests at the six-day con. vention will be Gov. and Mrs. John w. Bricker of Ohio, Commanding Chief William w. Nixon of Topeka, KaS., and Robert M. Rownd of New York, past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
l6 WATERBURIANS AT MIDDLEBURY

Sixteen students will represent Waterbury and its environs at Mid- dlebury college, Middlebury, Vt., for the coming year. The college regularly draws a large quota from this area.
 Included in the local contingent returning to Middlebury are Thomas F. Cruess, 157 Madison street; George L. Montagno, 82 South street; William D. Neale, PAS Robbins street, Charles L. Sanford, RED. No. 3, Lois Schneider, 245 Country Club road and Harold Walch, 688 Chase Parkway. Also, Truman H. Thomas and Mary E. Hickcox of Watertown and Jeanne Chatfield of Woodbury.
 Among those entering the cole lege this fall, including the young CT sisters and brothers of several of those named above, are: Ben- jamin F. Bradley, 95 Chester ave- nue; William N. Margolis, 232 Plaza avenue, Raymond B. Tieiney, 10l Highland avenue and Raymond E. Walch, 688 Chase Parkway; Charlotte P. Hickox and Selden c. Thomas of Watertown and Arthur J. Kelley, Jr., of Torrington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
.EX -POLICE CHIEF
 LOOKS BACKWARD
George M. Beach S4 Today -Reminisces on Events
 of By-GOne Years

George M. Beach, superintendent of the local police department for 20 years until hSs retirement in 1926, today observed his 84th birth. day at the home of his son, Arthur e, Beach of l04 Main street, Wa tertown. Many of his friends who were active in his time, dropped in to congratulate him and chat over some of the hectic days when he headed the Waterbury police.
 MT. Beach witnessed the strike riots in Waterbury in 1920, in which the rlngleader was shot and ten policemen wounded. MT, Beach explained that the riots were caused by the I. W. W. and were termed in those days as Reds" Waterbury, the former superin. tendent of police said, was the first in adopting the flngerprlnting system in Connecticut and at that time police chiefs ridiculed the idea, he added. Those same police heads fell into line when Water bury's system proved successful ln apprehending wrong-doers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
But They Laughed At The Wright Brothers, Tool

After the plane had refused to turn over for It's "test flight" Yung Ho Koun-"Chariie" to his airport pals-retained his Oriental imperturbabllity and declared he would continue to tinker with his chinese puzzle until 1t started to fly.
 But experts said that was most unlikely. They said the Flying Junk" violated the basic principles of aerodynanics. As for the helium and air tanks, on whlch Charlie is heavily relying-they pointed out that two bags of helium would lift only 10 pounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10

would have to land at NikolaeySk from whence either by small boats or barges the cargo would be trans shipped to Komsomolsk and thence by rail. The Russian embassy here refused either to confirm or deny that this city had been chosen. The reply was that the Soviet was at war and hence they could not discuss the matter.
 CITY'S RISE REMINISCENT
 OF THE AMERICAN WEST
 Komsomolsk is one of the 230 new cities that the Soviet has created in Russia and Siberis. in the past 20 years. In many ways, in Its origin and quick rise. 1t Is reminiscent of the magic cit- les which used to Spring up in the American West.I Only II years ago 1t existed only on a map. Paths in the primeval for- est were marked "Lenin Ave- nue." Moscow Avenue" "Stalin Public Square" etc. The futre city got Its name from the Kon- somol the League of Soviet Youth which undertook to send some of It's young men to bring 1 the dream of a city to fruition.
 Then Valentino Khetagurova, wife of @ Red Army commander, called upon the young women of the Komsomol also to go out Into ths wilderness and work. They did. They found real wilderness, Out beyond them dwelled the Evenks, a .Mongolian tribe which travelled on the rivers in canoes that resemble those used by the North American Indians. In the forests were not only fur-bearing animals like the sable, silver and red fox, ermine, otter and lynx, but dangerous bigger beasts like bears Siberian tigers and snow leopards. Today this "city of youth" as the Russians call 1t, has 75,o00 population, wide streets, modern flat buildings, a big iron and steel smelter plant, @ shipbuild- ing plant and a machine-buildlag factory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
WAR IN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 SEPT. 10, 1940

British fighter planes battled German bCmbers over the heart of London during four daylight raids which followed . third consecutive night Of naassed at- tack.
 The German high command admitted that the R.A.F. had bombed Berlin, north German towns and other areas in tho Reich.
 The British admiralty Announc- cd ship losses for the first year of the war, as follows: British 1,SS9,19e tons; neutral, S69,2lS tons, and allied, A62,92A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-10
UNICOCLUB NAMES
 FIVE DELEGATES

The national convention of the Unico club will be attended by five delegates from the local branch which is to be held in Trenton, N. j., on Sept. 20 and 2i.
 The group chosen last night at meeting held at The Elton were: Atty. Pasquale Di Cicco, Joseph Rinzoni, Amodeo Pelosi, Fred Ro- manelli, and Louis Scigliano. Be- sides the delegates who will go to the convention, James Gioiella, president of the club said 25 local members have voiced their inten- tions of attending the convention
 Joseph Manganaro, who is a mem- Der of the Waterbury club, is treasurer of the national organ ization.