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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-14
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Wars Most Kept Secret Ended With Official An- nonncement TOday-NOthing Disclosed of
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By NED RUSSELL United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

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 London, Aug. 14-(UP)-Pr Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win ston Churchill met on "the calm blue seas" of the Atlantic for three days last weekend, it was disclosed today, upon the express personal invitation of the Chief Executive of the United States.
 The wars worst kept" secret ended with officil announcement of the meeting, which was held as a result of American initiative In which Harry L. Hopkins, lend-lease bill administrator, took an import ant part.
 Nothing was disclosed in regard to how the principal figures trav- elled-by boat or airplane-but it was stated that they met where "only the calm blue seas encircled them" Churchills present where abouts was undisclosed but he has an engagement in London for next Tuesday.
 The meeting was in dramatic contrast to the fanfare of meet ingS of Axis leaders Ill the past.
 Was No Fanfare :.
 Unlike the Brenner meetings there was no fanfare, no lines oi steel helmeted guards, no swarmS of generals, no little girls with pos les. There was just the empty At lantic, which the British and American navies still control. On it Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill talked.
 The Brenner meetings always have ended with sharp action by Germany or Italy or both. The po- tentialities for action in the meet ing of American and British states men embraced flee continents and all the seas of the globes. But the world is apt to be kept guessing fol 8 while at least, on just what was said and done.
 For days uncertainty about just what was happening on the Atlan- tic seemed to have frozen Axis di- plomacy and to have put the
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. 14-(UP)-Gov- ernmert expenses and receipts for the current fiscal fiscal year through Aug. 12, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year S2,2e1,041,784.O9 $1, I34, ,947, ,798.02
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Peace Aims Alter NaZiS
 Are Defeated Disclosed
By SANDOR s. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 14.-(UP) President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill series of historic ferences at have agreed eight peace aims that they intend to apply "after the final destruction of the Na tyranny"
 They also examined ways to increase the flow of American munitions Britain and her aes notably Rus sa The premier and leader of Russia Josef Staln reportedy advised of the joining U S-British deca ratons in personal message from Mir. Roosevelt and Churchill.
 The two leaders, accompanied by their ranking mi- tary naval and air chieftans secret rendezvous where in the Atlantic drafted joint declaration of pol icy, embodying the eight peace aims including "disarma ment" of the axis power after the war.
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MoR0ENTHAU APPROVES

i Washington, Aug. i4--(uP) )--gec- retary of Treasury Henry Morgeii. thau, Jr., today expressed approval cg proposals to increase social secur- ity assessments as e part of the pro- gram to curb imitation.
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was made simultaneously today m Washington, London and Ottawa, ending mystery which had lkept the ssoFld guessing for more than week. In addition to disarmament of aggressors the U SBrlt ish peace aims proclaimed to the world by Mr. RoOse- welt and Churchill featured:
 WHAT THEY DEMAND OF AXIS
 Opposition to forcefuI territorial conquest;
 Guarantees of freedom of the seas;
 Improved labor standards, economic advance ment and social security;
 Access for all, victor or vanquished, to world trade and materials.
 Restoration of their chosen forms of government to people "who have been forcibly deprived of them";
 Neither Britain nor the United States seek lag grandizement territorial or other;
 Freedom for all from "fear and want"
 sPURNs AXIS PEACE OFFER any future axis peace offer which does not entail conn plete capituation to Britain and her aes contained no mention of any American military action or of strategy winch might be followed by the United States in the battle of the Atlantic or on other fronts
 DANGERS OF WORLD CONQUEST
 The announcement of the meeting declared that the question of American war-aid under the lease- lend act had been discussed and that Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill had 'considered the dangers to world civilization arising from the policies of military dc nation by conquest upon winch the Hitlerte govern ment of Germany and other governments associated herewith have embarked
 MADE STEPS VERY CLEAR
 In that connection, the statement said, the two leaders made clear the steps (which their countries are respectively taking for their safety in the face o these dangers" Other than the mention of Ger many" the Roosevelt Churchill declaration Con. which they base their hopes for better future for the world" did not name the axis nations.
 Lord Beaverbrook Was There
 "Lord Beaverbrook the Minister of Supply of the British government joined in these conferences the statement said He going to proceed to Washington to discuss further details with appropriate officials o1 the United States These conferences will also cover the supply problems of the Soviet Union.
 World Civilization Endangered
 The announcement said that the President and the British Prime Minister considered the dangers to world civilization arising from the policies of military domina ton by conquest upon which the Hiterite government of Germany and other governments associated herewith have embarked
 Made Public To Both Nations
 The joint declaration made public in Washington. London and Ottawa simultaneously said that the President and the Prime Minister deemed it fright" 60 make known certain principles in the national policies ol lne& respective countries which they pinned their hope& W
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SPURNS AXIS PEACE OFFER

l The joint declaration spurning by implication any future axis peace offer which does not entail conn pete capituation Britain and her allies, contained no mention of any American military action or of strategy winch might be followed by the United States in the battle of the Atlantic other fronts.
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square-mile area, aided local police and firemen in probing the rubble for the dead and injured.
 When It. John Bucley was rescued at 3 a. m. he said he could not hear any of the trapped men talking.
 Deputy Fire Chief Saves
 A dozen firemen probably owed their lives to Deputy Fire Chief John Murphy who few minutes be- fore the roof collapsed ordered his hose company out of the area.
 Theater Manager Frank Clements was seeking permission from firemen to recover 5000 receipts from a safe when the office was buried under falling girders.
 State Fire Marshal stephen Q. Garrity arrived before the blaze was controlled and began an investiga- ton.
 Brockton firemen were aided by firemen from Easton, Abingdon, Canton, Stoughton. Bridgewater, Weymouth and Whitman.
 Catholic Priest Gave Service
 Breton, Mass, March i0-(UP)-- The Rev. Lawrence P. Morrisroe of St. Patrick's (Catholic) church gave general absolution at the Strand theater fire today-just as he did In 1925 in Boston's Pickwick club dis ester which took 50 lives.
 One of the first to arrive at the theater, Father Morrisroe donned a fireman's helmet and strode into the crumbling structure. First he per- formed services for those injured who could be seen then gave gen. eral absolution for all those pinned in the debris.
 On July 4, 1925, Father Morrisroe hastened from a Boston church where he was curate to render physical as well as spiritual assist ance to those trapped and injured when the floor of the club collapsed during a holiday dancing party.
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Leaders are not expected to per- init any procedure which would al- low any alteration of senate amendments, since 1t would mean that after house approval, the bill would have to go back to the sen- ate for approval of the house changes.
 Fish said that except for the El- lender amendment compromise, which he described as utterly meaningless" the other senate changes improve the bill with re- spect to congressional control of the purse strings"
 But even so, he said, the bill still is dictator and war" bill, and Its enactment will narrow the issue be- fore the people to the transcendent one of enterng or staying out of war.
 That issue ought to be taken di- rectly to the people so that they will oppose any effort to get us into war" he said.
 In this he echoed the sentiment of the losers of the 18-day senate battle. Sel. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, said the senate oppo- nents will meet today to continue what he said was their fight to keep the president from plunging the nation into war"
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(Continued from Page D patrolled the English Channel while the boinbers were carrying out their sweep.
 Calais apparently was one of the principal objectives of the sweep.
 Waves of fighters flew above the bombers at great height to pro- tect them against the attack by German pursuit craft.
 The vapor trails of the planes stretched for miles across the sky.
 Explosions from the French coast continued for more than an hour.
 The British bombers appeared to be concentrating on Calais and Boulogne.
 British planes carried out an of- fensive sweep over the Strait of Dover today, 1t was reported. Nu- merous bombing planes flew over the strait in brilliant sunshine. Soon afterward heavy explosions were heard from the direction of the French coast. Strong patrols of British fighter planes patroled the English Channel.
 London Raided
 London, March 10-(UP)-Ger- man planes raided London heavily during the night and ranged along the coasts from northeastern Scot land to South Wales in big scale resumption offensive operations.
 One south coast town was sub jected to a concentrated attack and German guns, firing from the French coast, bombarded the shores of southeast England.
 London had received its heaviest raid in three months Saturday night, and one great explosive bomb had smashed square through the roof of an internationally famous night club, killing or wounding scores of men and women in evening dress
 Last night though the German planes dropped many incendiary and explosive bombs they did compara- lively little damage and there were almost no casualties. /.
 London had three raid alarms, but the bombing was done during the first one.
 Many incendiary bombs fell in residential areas but because of the increased efficiency of the fire watch they were quickly put out. Nurses doused one which fell in the garden of maternity hospital. An eXplo- sive bomb fell in the grounds of a mental hospital in southeast Eng land without causing casualties.
 The bombing was severe in the London area for while before mid night. There was 0 heavy anti-air- craft gun barrage and soldiers atop buildings shot down parachute flares which the German planes dropped.
 The air and home security min- istries said in joint communique that the raid on London was fairly heavy but that damage and casual ties were comparatively few. They said that bombs were dropped in home counties, surrounding London, and along the south coast. Damage was done at a number of points, the communique said, but there was no extensive damage anywhere and casualties were not numerous.
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 T can not say anything until tho child is actually born," spokes- man explained. Anyway on the basis of two months oi debate I cannot say we are exactly surprised by the passage"
 Italy Claims Victory
 Rome, March 10--(UP)-Capture of prisoners and arms by the Ital. ian 9th Army in Albania was re- ported today by the high command. A communiQue said also that there was activity by infantry and artil. lery in various sectors of the 1lth Army in Albania.
 It was asserted that numerous Italian air formations had illten- sively bombed and machine gunned Greek artillery enplacements, trenches, trucks an dencampments and that an important Greek base had been hit. It was claimed that four British fighter planes had been shot down in air fights.
 The cornmuniQue reported that in Libya Italian artillery repulsed British armored car attachments which attacked the 0iarabub oasis.
 British planes in a raid on Tripoi and Zuara in Libya killed three presons, wounded two and ddd slight material damage, 1t was said.
 Italian planes bombed British naval and air bases in Libya, the co;nmunique said, and German planes machine gunTled British truck concentrations Saturday.
 Intense patrol activity was noted on the Eritrean front.
 British planes raided Harar and Diredawa In Ethiopian but did no damage, 1t was reported.
 A special communique issued last night reported that on the basis of reports so far received the Italian army lost 2595 dead, 5,46o wounded and l7,988 missing in Albania and Africa curing February. The air force lost 37 killed, 87 wounded and l65 missing, 1t was said, and the navy lost 35 dead, 20 wounded and 142 nissing--a grand total of 26,53s casualties.
 It was admitted that the figures were still incomplete due to the dif- ficulty of getting final reports, es. pecially from Libya.
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French ship since January 1. The ship was an empty freighter sailing to Madagascar from Dakar.
 Such Q state of affairs, Darlan said, can not be allowed to continue.
 Darlan indicated he will give Bri- tain two or three weeks to recon- sider her position before acting. But he said that the minimum need of france was 500,000 tons of wheat. Petain than added that he had been out walking In the country yester- day and had seen for himself that Frances new wheat crop was spind- ly and would not feed the popula- ton during the coming year.
 French refusal to grant Germany bases nj North Africa might evapo- rate quickly in the heated atmo- sphere of new seq closhes with the British.
 In the Balkans events today ap- peared to be marking time. Next on the schedule, according to meny Balkan sources, will be a German Jugoslav non- aggression pact. Jugo- slavia was reported to be taking widespread defense measures and there were reports there might be slight delay on the n-aggression pact. But other reports said high Jugoslav statesmen may go to Ger many tonight or tomorrow.
 Turkey May Decide
 The Turkish parliament meets to- day and a statement on Turkeys position may be forthcoming. Turk ish reports said German dive-bomb- CTS have arrived in the Dodecanese Iclands just of the Turkish coast. Athens reported fresh victories over the Italians in the Tepelini area of Albania.
 In Africa the British drive against Italian East Africa made fresh in- roads in that Italian colony. A col- umn from Italian Somaliland has pushed l35 miles into Ethiopia in a thrust toward the Addis Ababa-Dji- bout railroad.
 Berlin comment on the senate passage of the lend-lease bill was skimpy but the always vocal Vir- ginio Gayda, often a spokesman for Benito Mussolini, said it was equiv- alent to United States intervention in the war and might bring Japan in on the side of the Axis.
 Greece Will Fight
 Athens, March 10 (U.P0 - Premier Alexander Korizis, 1t be- came known today, has placed him. self on record against cession of "a single foot of Greek soil to any ag- gressor" and for continuance of Greece's struggle for "honor, inde- pence and liberty"
 Korizis stated his position in 8 re- ply yesterday to the National Lab- orers Association which had sent a message to King George assuring him of the support of 00.000 mem- bers of the working class to carry on the war.
 we will not cede a single foot of Greek soil to any aggressor." Korlzis said. This assurance from the Greek workers gives us the best proof that the spirit of rsistance is not dead.
 We will continue the struggle absolutely sure that we will force our enemies to respect our honor independence and liberty"
 The message from the laborers as- sociation said that:
 "T'he working classes through their representative wish to ex- press their will to fight against any
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Theater Roof Falls
 Burying 12 Bremen
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Buckley, AS. broken leg and burns; William Hogan, 41, crushed back; William Kelleher, 43, burns; Jere- miah Sheehan, 38, burns, and John Cashman, 39, burns.
 Quarter of Fire Dept.
 More than a quarter of the city's 12l firemen were killed or injured, and nearly 90 children were left fathcrless by the tragedy.
 Damage to the theater, a three- story brick building in the business district, was estimated unofficially at more than $25 ,000, with about the same loss from smoke and water to three adjacent department and jew elry stores.
 Rescue workers feared that still another fireman had perished when rubber boot, containing a severed leg, was extricated from beneath q beam. It developed, however, that the leg was that of a victim whose body previously had been recovered.
 Most of the bodies were so badly mangled and burned that they were unrecognizable. Identifications were established through wrist watches and other irdestructible belongings.
 Pinioned beneath a heay beam, Buckley talked with his rescuers for more than a half hour before being rescued, severely hurt.
 Most of the firemen who were killed, injured or trapped were bat ting the blaze from the balcony of the theater when the roof fell.
 A group of policemen. firemen, newsmen and other civilians were standing on the theater's stage watching the crew battling the flames from the balcony when the ceiling collapsed.
 Rescue Squads At Work
 Rescue squads were formed swift ly and groups went, needless of dan ger to themselves, into the inferno of falling embers and debris to dig out the injured.
 Pieces of plaster and structural material continued to fall about the rescuers during their frantic strug- gle to reach the trapped men.
 The state police radio transmitter at nearby Bridgewater was. called into service and began rounding up all available help in the South Shore area. First call brought in all troop CTS on patrol within a radius of about 20 miles. A few minutes late. six ambulances were ordered to tho scene.
 All local hospitals were notified and other ambulances. physicians and nurses were mobilized.
 The first two injured men removed were taken to police headquarters to permit their rescuers and ambu- lances to return. 4 total Of nine men were taken out within a half hour. All were unconscious"
 Telenhnne calls hro,l0ht all avail-
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able fire apparatus from Abingdon, West Bridgewater and Stoughton to continue the battle against the fire. Firemen sought to save adjoining business blocks.
 Taken To Hospitals
 At 2:30 a. n., a dozen men had been taken to hospitals. Witnesses said other trapped firemer could be heard calling for aid from beneath the debris. Only basis at first for estimating the number of men caught was witnesses guess that about 20 men were standing on the balcony when the roof collapsed.
 A frst-aid station was set up at police headquarters a few doors from the theater and most of the rescued received preliminary treat ment before going to hospitals.
 Six hours after the collapse res- cuers still were seeking more bodies or injured and streams of water were being directed into the ruins.
 The fire was discovered in the basement about 1 a. m. by Caretak- CT Christopher Moore and his help CT Roger Trunant. Cleaning up on the second floor about an hour and a half after the last of the Sunday night crowd had left, the two men smelled smoke.
 By the time they had found it's source, the flames poured through the walls and broke upward into the orchestra pit. Second and third alarms were sounded quickly after firemen arrived.
 A blaze of flame greeted fire fighters as they sought to enter the cellar and a hot-air explosion oc- cured when an inner door was opened.
 At one time, firemen believed the flames were under control but the fire suddenly broke out again in the rear of the theater and swept out of control.
 It was then that the large crew of fire-fighters ran into the balcony and began directing their hoses into the flames below and at the roof above in an attempt to keep the fire
 
 from gaining headway in the offices on upper floors.
 Heard Crash Of Roof
 A throng of some 1000 persons. gathered outside. heard the crash of the falling roof.
 Manager Frank Clements said the theater had been closed about an hoiir hefore tho fire startad ua ha lieved the fire must have originated near the heating plant.
 Mayor Fred D. Rowe announced he would call special session of the city council and prominent cit- izens. probably for tonight. to arr range a community funeral for the victims and the collection of a re- lief fund for their families.
 State police summoned from 50.
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 laws" by the legislature of that state might have an important bear ing on the committees views, he sadi.
 Delegation Expected
 At the original hearing. held two weeks ago. the only proponents of the measure were Senators Blans- field and Egan and Rep. Ebert G. Manchester of Winchester (Win- sted). Should the judiciary commit tee agree to he-hear the bill, delegation of local retail store op- orators may attend and urge it's passage. The measure would allow sale of meat and groceries between 6 m. and 1 D. m. on Sunday Such sales, except of perishable goods and a few excluded items, are now ban ned.
 Senator Blansfield declared at the original committee hearing and again on the Senate floor last week that the law is being enforced only in Waterbury and iWnsted. Both he and Senator Egan declared that the present blue law" is outmoded and archaic. and that 1t works incon- venience on householders and caus- es loss to merchants.