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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22

Union officials predicted unaai. nous support Of LewiS's stand, pointing out that the committee on four previous occasions had enc dorsed his demand for . union shop for the 6S,000 captive miners-the only point at issue.
 Two Alternatives
 The President offered two alter. natives-freeZing Of the open shop status for duration Of the amerg- eney or submission of the union shop issue to arbitration. When 1t iS rejected, the next move will Do up to MT. Roosevelt, who has de- clared 1t his '1ndisputable obliga- ton" to safeguard the defense pro- gram from a prolonged coal stor-
 He told his press conference yes- terday that he plans no action un- til after he has received the com- mittee's decision. This should reach him before noon.
 Administration congressional lead- CTS said they expected Mir. Roose- welt to take direct action" not later than Monday or Tuesday if his pro- posals are rejected by the miners.
 Radio Appeal
 His action the said, may be a radio appeal to the workers over the head Of Lewis to return to thelS jobs as patriotic Americans under Q government guarantee of protec- ton.
 These sources said Mir. Roosevelt might tell the miners that their towns and villages would be policed by federal troops, if necessary, to maintain order and prevent vio- lence.
 Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y, author of the National Labor Re- lations act, who has been i'll for several months, will make e nation- wdde broadcast on the coal strike at 10 D. m. (ESTC tomorrow over the Mutual network from New York. Ills subject will be Come, Let Us Reason Together"
 May Repeal Act
 Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex, sug- gested that Congress might well rec peal the Guffey coal act If the cap- tive mine strikers cant make some slight sacrifices for their country in time of peril" He pointed out that the law, which permits price, fixing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Hope for Complete Britlsl Sweep on Tunisian Bore ]
 der Expressed AMERIC ICAN.MADE
 TANKS, PLANES USED, Gen. ROmmeIl's PanzeF Division Split in Two.
 Penned Up
BY WALTER CoLHHNs

United Press Staff Corespondenagb !
 Cairo, November 22.--(UPlh Great Britain's Americana equipped Sth Army was be- lieved today to have de- stroyed half the Axis tank < force in Eastern Libya, split ! ting General Erwin RornSnel's l Panzer forces into two pen- ned up groups, and clearing 1 the way for the relief of tho ! Tobruk garrison.
 So sweeping was the British aass, cess - achieved in the greates armored battle ever fought azk Africa -- that optilnism Saounb for British sweep all the way t@ the border as the opening danahat c& 2 possible invasion of sicily and Italy. X
 (At Melbourne Maj. Gen. Thowsg Blamey, commander Of Auatxa1ias forces in hte Near East, who had just arrived there from Cairo, geal ported that destruction gE ha19 azaa enemys effective tank struna means Britain has won the tan battle upon which the result os tassi whole offensive hinges.)
 American-AEades Eucpee6
 American tanks and planes weN reported to have swept through their baptism of fire with @fiyina colors," playing Q major part in tiln5 destruction of the 220 Axis armorad fighting machines thus far rapeFt3 cd.
 The Germans, attemptlng desnsFe ately to stem the British advance. were reported rushing in FeinfQEce-i ments by fleets of Junkers JUUz5 transport planes from their hams bases in western Libya and by azid@ Y or trains from Crete.
 Reports Filed
 Reports from the British gensxa headquarters and correspondents ilS, the western desert gave this ptctux9 of the offensive thus far:
 1-Rommel'S Pan1er divisions dlwms ided and cut off by British ar1noreA spearheads which have repulsed aA Nazi efforts to break out of enAg circlement. One German Pense@l division trapped in the Bardia arsa has suffered heavy losses in c hakss tie with U. S. made tanks. The seos ond imperiled in in the TChruk re- ! zion.
 2-Italy's Ariete arznored davlaies virtually knocked out of the battle after an encounter with the BxitiaAa < in which 1t lost 57 of it's l35 tanks. X
 Many Tanks Destroyed
 S-A total of i30 German taxzns. 1 8 German armored cars and 6a '
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
STEEL MILLS
 MAY SHUT DOWN
Lack of Coal Already Felt By Industry; Defense Or.
 ders Suffer

Pittsburgh, Nov. 22 - (U.P.) - Virtual suspension of coal produc- ton in the Captive" mines today increasingly threatened operations of steel mills working day and night on defense orders.
 As Carnegie Illinois Steel Corpora ton prepared to shut down It's sG0,- 000,000 Irwin Works, Governor Ar- thur F. James of Pennsylvania re- fused to intervene in Fayette Coun- ", where, in the latest incident of violence there, li United Mine Workers of American CCfO) plcketS were wounded from ambush yester- day. The situation was tense in Faye cite County where . few captive mines were trying to operate and more violence was feared. Elsewhere, the captive mine strike was almost 100 per cent effective,
 Carnegie. Illinois officials indi- cated that the great Irwin Works, which Is @ processing mill for steel ingots produced in other plants, would be entirely closed over the weekend. It is one Of the largest producers of sheet, strip, and tin plate in the country, normally em- ploys 4,400 workers, and, according to the corporation, virtually all its output is for national defense.
 The strike against the Steel Corp oration's captive" mines began last Monday and very little coal has been dug in them since. By Wednesday, two blast furnaces which produce the stel ingotS from which steel plates are rolled, had been forced to close. Thursday more followed and yesterday Carnegie Illinois, which is Q subsidiary Of the United States Steel Corporation, announced that Q shortage of coal was forcing 1t to reduce operations at its coke by- products plant at Clarion. This, in turn, 1t announced, forced the clos- ing of five more blast furnaces, two at Clarion and one each at Youngs- town, O., Rankin, Pay and Du- quesne, Pa. This brought the total of blast furnaces closed to ii for the week.
 Carnegie Illinois also was curtail- ing open-hearth and Bessemer op- erations, which, together with the closing of blast furnaces, will cut its ingot production to 30 per cent of capacity, 1t estimated.
 A survey indicated that 4o,000 commercial miners were striking in sympathy for the captive miners, in Kentucky; 61,000 in Pennsylvania, 48OOO in West Virginia. 1,20O in Ohio. and 5000 in Maryland-a to- tai of 6l,000. There are approxi- mately 300,O0O commercial soft coal miners in all. Approximately 52.000 miners are employed in the captive" mines and all but @ 1000 or 50 were on strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
HOLLYWOOD PLAYS
 HOST TO SANTA
Great Parade of Movie CeIebS Witnessed By
 l,OOO,OOO Spectators
BY FREDERICK c. OTHNTlAN Limited Press Hollywood
 CnrreGn0ndentl :,

Hollywood, Nov. 9 --(UP)-- You know about Hollywood, where every thing is bigger and better than anywhere else. Wei sir, Santa Claus rode down Hollywood boule- yard last night in a $25,000 sleigh that generated its own show. And he had Baby Snooks on his knee.
 Almost 100000 persons turned out to cheer him. They still were trying to get home early today after one of the most magnificent traffic jams this side of Tobruk.
 Mir. Claus was more than month ahead of time, but that was in the Hollywood tradition. All the movies concerning Christmas were shipped out last summer.
 So the snow sifted through the palm trees and got down the citi- zens' neck and made them itch. The emi-tropic moon gleamed on mile of tin Christmas trees. A stiff breeze from the Pacific made the tinsel whistle and caused many 8 drum majorette to wish she had q mink coat.
 Santa was the climax of a parade that could only have happened here. Red Skelton and Edna (the wife who writes his jokes) rode a load of corn. Edna's idea. Bob Hope wore baby blue jockey suit and cantered down the boulevard astride the movies celebrated sway-backed horse. Edgar Bergen,s Charlie Mo- Carthy made snide remarks via a perambulating microphone. Roches- ter had engine trouble with his Maxwell and he wasn't fooling.
 All the cowboys, including Leo Carlilo, HopaIong Boyd, Andy Clyde, Smiley Brunette, Preston Poster and many another, chased imaginary Indians under the neon lights. Grand Marshall Irene Rich. in white buckskin pants, was astride c white
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
NAzIS MOVE ON
 TOWARDS HULA
Soviet Press Claims Pres. ent Offensive Is Serious
 Threat Along South
BY HENRY SHAPIRO (United Press staff C0Erespondent)

Kulhyshev, Russia, November 2i,
 - l0:S0 p, m. = (UPl - Soviet reports said tonight that German forces have fought their way to the outskirts of Tula in the fourth and most serious offensive yet launched against this southern bastion of the Moscow defense line.
 A spokesman said Russian forces had halted GermAny's drive on the capital Q month ago and the Red Army is in better shape today to bring the German army to Q stand- still again,
 s. A. Lozovsky, Soviet press spokesman, claimed German killed and wounded in the Russian war to date number almost 5000, ,000" and said German hopes of achieving a stabilized winter front In order to turn against Britain will tail.
 we shall not give them peace all winter long" he said,
 "Our task Is to exhaust Germany" he said. "The Red Army already has done much in that direction, The Germany casualty rates are rising"
 The report on the critical Tula front was given by Major General A. Yerniokoy, commander of the front which is bearing the brunt of an all out Maxi attack.
 Writing In the army organ, Red Star, Yermakov said the fight on his front has gone on almost con- tinuously since october 8 with the exception of brief periods in which the Germans reoreanized and filled gaps with fresh units.
 He made plain the magnitude of the forces being employed against Tula in the latest drive which press dispatches said has punctured Rus sian lines at Point D." intensity ing a most serious" situation.
 The first attack October 3 was launched from three directions. One thrust was along tho Orel High way with $50 tanks, two motorized divisions and considerable air sup port. The second was from the die rection of Belev with 30 to 100 tanks. and one motorized division. The third was from Kakuclli.
 The Red air force in this period was credited with destroying lis tanks, 1000 trucks and 3S9 planes,
 The first phase of the battle was estimated to have cost the Germans 250 tanks, 7,500 men killed and wounded and i74 guns.
 The second attack was launched October 22 from the directions of Orei and Belev with a series of land and air attacks which forced
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
CURLEY TO WAGE
 FIGHT IN COURT

Boston, No. 22 --(Upl - Former Gov. James N. Curley reiterated to- day that he VIII carry to the courts his light against irregularities and fraud" ias the recent election in which he failed to uEseat youthful Mayor Maurice J.s robin Of Boston.
 A recount. requested by Curley and completed yesterday, showed that Tpbin's margin Of victory was os350 votes. This was only 2S9 votes fewer than the original count.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Pearson And Allen Today Present A Vital And Revealing Pen Portrait of John L. Lewis

John L. Lewis is today engaged in mighty "tug of war; with the elected head of the United States. Never perhaps in the history of Republic has any man dared issue such challenge.
 What is the secret of Lewis power? How has he become what he is? What likely to be the results of this battle of Titans?
 The answer is contained in today's WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND on page 6, which presents vital and revealing pen portrait of the Labor Czar. It Is true story that every American should read in this time of crisis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
AM. HARDWARE
 CO GRANTS BONUS

New Britain, Conn. Nov. 22-(uP) The American Hardware Corp. aIi- nounced today 1t would grant c bonus of 70 hours wages to eln- ployes of six months or more, and % hours wages to these endpa6yed from two to six n1ontl1s. The bonus will bc paid during the week of Dec. IS.
 The concern also voted q year-end dividend of 25 cents, plus an extra of 26 cents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
HURLEY, BALDWIN,
 CROSS CHAIRMEN

Hartford, Conn, Nov. 22-(UP)-- The Connecticut Fight for Freedom Committee today announced election of Gov. Robert A. Hurley, and Former Governors Raymond ., Baldwin and Wilbur l.. Gross as honorary chairman.
 Secretary of state Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse was named hone orafy secretary, and e. Horold Waieh. New Haven. HeaaukeE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Republican Breach Widens Over Dispute On Finances
Frasle CoRSssrfprd
 b Seriously Hl

Boston, Nov. s1-(UP)- Prank D. Comereord, 6s, presl. Gcnt Oe the Beston Edisen Co.,, vas reported resting comfort abIy7 teddy at New England Baptist hospital where he Is critically 80 with . heart ale ment and complications.
 The Worcester born utility man and noted Catholic lay- man entered the hospital . week age. EEe resigned last year as chairman ef the. beard Of the New England Power assoeia. ton.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH

Maiden, Mass, Nov. a = Cu.P) - swerving Co avoid hitting a boy, a truck ran onto a sidewalk here last night. plned Miss Dorothy Bern stein. %, ol Maiden, against a hulld- lno. and crushed her so death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
FALLS INTO HoEE

Arookline, aEmss., Nov. a =. CU.PJ -podelng an auto, hGTs. Marion Hanley and her z-1ear-old son Richard stepped backward Into ah unen mnuhsis Rollc4 rescued tholu.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Greatest Armored Battles Fought In Africa Going On
Miners Due To
 Reject FDR Plan
BY FRED BAILEY
United Press s

Washington 2a(UPl-Ths United Mine WOrke policy committee expected Aaty reject President ROOsevelgs point proposal for ending the captive mne strike at It's meeting this morning.
 Converting at 10 against baCkdp gunfEe and violence the fields the sOOman committee will be handed he presidents proposal by UW President John Lewis who has personally elected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Bigger DeEnond For Used Things

mlgha nov it's an easy mat ter e sen used heasehold gods. Aeys. 0aAee equipment, mnsaeal instrumsnss. etc. More people have mensy te spend but because sf higher prices many are buying used thlngA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22

Telsphsne G-sla1 ana start yUuw ma Gm ths lsw 2 day rnAestp ehe d when e hFlaHs rssulAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
Ihs Weather

Cloudy Tonight Rain Sunday
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Evening star., 1941-12-10
Funeral Rites Set Today
For Burtis W. Sommers

Funeral services for Burtis War
rington Sommers, 73, patent attor-
ney, who died Monday at his home,
211 Elm street. Chevy Chase. Nd,
were to be held at pm. today at
his home He had been in i'll health
for two years and had been confined
to his home for month.
A native of this city, he attended
District schools and later became a
specialist on foreign patents. At the
time of his retirement two years ago
he was a member of the firm of
Sommers and Young. He was a
member of Acacia Lodge Masons.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Emma
Sommers, he leaves daughter, Mrs
Walter Young; a sister, Miss Eliza
beth Sommers, and four grandchil-
dren, all of this city. Another sis
ter, Mrs. j. P. Gale, lives in Grin
nell, Iowa.
The Rev. Henry Teller Cooke, rec
tor of All Saints Episcopal Church
was to offciate at the services and
burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
tery.
Evening star., 1941-12-10


called here by the President to
serve with the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board and later was trans
ferred to the r. F. c.
He also was a director of the De-
fense Plant Corp. Rubber Reserve
Co, Defense Supplies Corp, Defense
Homes Corp, Federal National
Mortgages Association and r. F. c.
Mortgage Co. In addition, he served
as vice president and director Of the
Metals Reserve Co and as a trustee
of the EXport-Import Bank.
Active in Civic Work.
In 1917 and 1918 Mr.. Merriam
worked with Secretary of Commerce
Jones here in Red Cross activities
After the war he served as director
of personnel for the Kansas Power
e. Light Co. and later became chair
man of the board of the Central
Trust Co.
He also was connected with the
Central States Fire Insurance Co.,
Federal Home Loan Bank of To-
peka and the Central National
Bank.
Mr.. Merriam was interested in in
fantile paralysis work and was a
trustee of the Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis and a member of
the Board of Directors of the So
ciety for Crippled Children OF
Kansas.
Served as College Trustee.
He also served on the directorate
of the Topeka Public Library and
was a regent of the Kansas State
Educational Institutions, as well as
being a trustee for Washburn Col
lege.
He was a member of the Topeka
Country Club, the National Press
Club and the Burning Tree Country
Club. He was Republican and an
Episcopalian.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Mar
guerite B. Merriam, he Is survived
by a son, John E. Merriam of To-
peka. Funeral services will be held
Friday in Topeka.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Navy Order
lin Effect Starts
| |Seven-Doy Week

Undersecretary of the Navy For
restal today sent a letter to all bu-
reaus and Offices of the Navy which
in effect places the Navy on seven-
day-week for the duration Of the
war.
The letter called attention to the
necessity of taking all steps possible
to increase to the maximum the
speed with which materials required
by the Navy are procured. 1t di-
rected that immediate necessary &C
tions be taken.
Although the text of the letter
was not made public, the brief Navy
announcement of Mr.. Forrestals ac-
ton said:
Among other actions, he directed
that all bureaus and Offices should
have sufficient force of personnel
to work as many hours each day o1
the week, including Saturdays ano
Sundays, as is essential to attain ths
objective"
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Trade Unit Acts 10 Obtain
Vacancies for Visitors

Despite the large number OF busi-
nessmen coming here on defense
matters, there have been only
few days when the number Of hotel
rooms in the city has approached
exhaustion, the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Board OF
Trade announced today.
At the same time the committee
announced operation Of service
to transfer visitors from d filed
hotel to q vacancy in another one.
There is no adequate service Of
this kind at present, the committee
said, and the new plan will put an
end to the embarrassment OF
visitors.
A survey of more than 100 tourist
homes has been completed and q
number of vacancies were found In
the downtown area, the committee
reported. If no hotel rooms are
available the visitors will be re-
fered to tourist homes.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Waste Paper Collections Jump
In Campaign at Schools

Collections Monday that doubled
those for the three days of last week
and indications yesterday Of still
further increase have combined with
the present war emergency to stim-
ulate interest in the Districts waste
paper campaign, now in progress
among its public schools.
The dealer who has agreed to buy
all papers, magazines and books
brought in by school children and
to pay prevailing rates of them, re-
ported that his truck now has
reached schedule under which it
is able to visit all of the schools
listed on its daily rounds, as pub
nShed in The Star.
Directors of the drive, sponsored
both as an aid to national defense
and in order to raise funds for par
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Paper Collections
for 7 omorroW

BeloD is the list OF schools and
the order OF collection in the
PIT. A.-EUening Star paper SAL
pdge program tomorrow.
District No. 1.
Oyster, Eaton, Hearst, Murch, z. v
Brown, Lafayette, Deal Junior High
Woodrow Wilson High, Janney. Reno
Mann, Key, Stoddert, Gordon Junior
High, Fillmore, jackson, western
High, Hardy, Chain Bridge, Curtis
Hyde, Addison, Wormley, Briggs,
Corcoran, Montgomery, Phillips,
Francis Junior High, Weightman.
Grant and Stevens.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Scientists Concede
lis Difficult 10 Tell
laps From Chinese
Can Distinguish Races
Sixty Per Cent Of Time,
Dr.. HrdIicko Declares

It's extremely difficult for Ameri-
cans to distinguish their enemy, the
Japanese, from their friends, the
Chinese, DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, famous
anthropologists of the Smithsonian
Institution and a wide traveller in
the Orient. pointed out today.
There are no physical character
istics that you can put your finger
on, and say, this is different from
this in the two" he explained. But
we who know them can tell !he diff
ference perhaps so to 10 per cent
of the time in the average case
by facial expressions, mannerisms
and ways of speech"
DR.. Hrdlicka pointed out that jap
anese, Chinese and Filipinos all
came from Mongoloid stock and
have the same general physical
characteristics.
Several Chinese in Washington
have been embarrassed since the war
started by being mistaken for Jap
anese. Joseph Chang, Washington
correspondent for the Chinese Ma
tionalist Daily, showed up at the
White House pressroom yesterday
with a penciled note pinned to his
coat lapel reading: Chinese report
er-not Japanese-please."
Chinese on the West Coast are re-
ported considering the manufacture
of a special identifying button.
j. M. Elizalde, resident commits
sioner of the Philippines, appealed to
Washingtonians not to discriminate
against Filipinos Several local Fill
ipinos have reported to him that
they were encountering difficulty In
carrying on their regular work be-
cause they were mistaken for JAP
anese.
The commissioners Office ex-
planned that a number of Filipinos
drive taxicabs in the Capital and
they are the only Orientals in that
business here, 1t was added. Fill
pinos, while not citizens OF the
United States. are defined legally as
nationals" owing allegiance to thi:
country and entitled to its protection
Evening star., 1941-12-10
1t. Rouzee and Family
Uniniured at Honolulu

1t. George M. Rouzee, U. S. N.
of Washington, who is stationed in
Honolulu, and his wife and two chill
dren were unharmed in the Japan
ese attack Sunday, according to
word received here by members OF
his family.
Mrs. Rouzee was the former Miss
Julie Brett, daughter OF Homer
Brett, former United States Consul
General at Lima, Peru.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

ent-teacher and home and school
associations, advised that schools
should make note of the approximate
time the truck appears in order to
estimate when parents and teachers
in charge of the individual collec-
tions should be on duty to supervise
the weighing.
Beginning today, the truck will
repeat the daily schedules it started
at the opening Of the campaign a
week ago. Today's collections will
be in district 3.
AS strong winter winds have be-
gun to blow, school children were
reminded anew that the papers
should be tied securely in bundles to
avoid both fire hazard and litter
Newspapers should be wrapped sepa-
rately from magazines and similar
material.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
| Japanese Credit
|Howoii Attack to
|ISujcjde' Airmen

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-The Vichy
radio broadcast Toxic dispatch
today asserting that the Japanese
naval airmen who attacked the
United States fleet at Pearl Har-
Dor released their torpedoes and
then flung their planes straight at
their objectives, thus repeating the
famous exploit Of three human tor
pedoes' which marked the Japanese
attack on Shanghai"
The dispatch, quoting the news
paper Nichi Nichi. said Japanese
flying boats flew an unprecedented
distance to reach Pearl Harbor"
and that mot a single one OF our
airmen expected to return alive.
The three human torpedoes,
according to the japanese Army
account, were three privates who
thrust lengths of bamboo filled with
explosives under the Chinese barbed
wire at Shanghai in 1882 and died
in the blast. But, the Japanese say
they opened a way through the wire
for an infantry assault.
A huge statuary depicting the feat
stands before the War once II
/, Toxic,