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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-13
4,OOO Japanese Soldiers Reported Lost in Boat
 Sinkings LAPS CLAIM ADVANCE MADE AT HONG KONG Dutch and Australian Air Forces Thrown Into
 Action at Singapore
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS (Unlted Press Foreign Editorl

American defense forces continued to hold off Japa- nese attacks on Luzon, Wake, Midway and Guam islands today and Dutch submarines sank four enemy troop ships in the Gulf of Siam with loss of about 4,000 Japanese troops. In Malaya, the Brit lsh defense forces fell back slightly In the northern Kedah secs tor, adjacent to Thailand, but held all other defense lines before Slnga- pore and heavily bombed Japanese Spearheads and rear lines. Tokyo claimed the sinking of a British destroyer off Malaya. @
 Lines Broken NJ
 h Hong Kong, the Japaneso claimed to have broken the Kow- loon defense lines on the mainland and to be striking across . narrow water gap against Victoria island on which Hong Kong is located. Three British merchant ships md 6 Runboat have been sunk iia aerial bombing of Hong Kong, Tokyo claimed.
 The Japanese propaganda hroad- casts also claimed that the 32.600- ton United states battleshlp Arl- Eona had been sunk Apparently In the original attack on Hawaii) but Premier Hideki Tojo warned tho Japanese people to expect long, hard war.
 Dispatches from Singapore said that both Dutch and Australian air and naval forces wore going Into action on on increasingly inaportAaat scale to supplement the British de- fense of Singapore, key to control of the East Indies.
 Dutch Subs Active
 Netherlands submarines lurking of the coast of eastern Malaya and southeastern Thailand, where Jap- ai1ese transports have been carry ing Feinforeements for the Malaya offensive, reported that they had sent four enemy ships loaded with soldiers to the bottom oR Patanl, hA Thailand.
 Chinese forces also were attemne- ing to divert the Japanese in south China and radio Halifax broadcast c report that they had bombed Canton. About 500 American alr- men had been reported ready for action along the Burma road be- for the Pacific war started and it was believed that the Americans may have carried out the attack.
 The fighting for the Philippines Islands as well as Guam, Wake and
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An -the-elock schedule al- SO was instituted ct the S6e,b00 900 plans near Ypsilanti, Mich, Whien will be turning out consolidated B. 24E bombers by spring, It's air field, in the engineering laboratory, tool and die plant mad magnesium foun. dry.
 Aiding Government
 we have taken this action in response to the governments decla- ratoin Of all-out effort Q nthe war; Ford said. We have asked employees in the present defense operations to volunteer for Q seven-dAy wek un- til we can train additional men so that the seven-day schedule can be maintained for the shop while hte individual employees puts In only the normal week. The response to this request has been unanimous"
 Vice President B, D. Kunkle Of General Motors Corporation tele- graphed Walter Reuther, d.-M. d. rector Of the United Automobile Workers (C1O) that his company was ready to begin working seven days a week, if men and material are available and an agreement cen be reached about extra pay for Sat- urday and Sunday.
 Asked for Increase
 Reuther telegraphed Ford, den- eral Motors and the Chrysler Cor poration from New York Thursday asking them to institute 24 hours Q day, seven days a week schedules on defense orders. He said the union was willing, if on agreement on the extra pay question couldn't be reached in 10 days, to let an arhl- trator settle 1t.
 The automobile industry was clos. ing down plants no longer needed because of restricted passenger car quotas, but Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner of Michigan said at Lan- sing that he did not believe layoffs would cause much unemployment. The war would speed Up arms pro- duction, he said, and they would be absorbed by defense plants.
 Close Non. Defense Plants
 Harry Bennett, Ford personnel de rector, said the company would close most Of It's non-defense plants next week. It has i6 branches throughout the country, and employs about i0S,. 900 men, e2,ee6 of them tthe big River Rouge plant. About 5000 oi those at the River Rouge plant work in the plane engine factory. The new bomber plant is expected tc hire 5000 workers when 1t coni- cesfproduction.
 Charles E. Wilson, president oi General Motors, has estimated that DO,OO0 of the corporations 300,0OC employees throughout tine nation viii have to be laid off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-13
DEMOCRAT, ELKS
 CUW CEHAIXY MATC DEL CnUW DAlE
Annual Benefit at LOew's POIi Theater to Take
 Place Dec. 22
'Tgey feliasI Whaddya knowI"

Hey fellaSl Whaddya knowl"
 The Waterbury Lodge Of Elks, LoeW's Poll theater and the Water- bury Democrat again will sponsor a free movie for Us so we can help bring Christmas cheer to many needy Waterbury families
 Isn't that the berFieg2 Each and every kid In Waterbury who attends this show will be doing Q good deed, for the donations of canned goods which the sponsors are asking Of IS In place Of . price of admission will be distributed the day before Christ mas iEl galy-decorated baskets to some poor and deserving family
 Yes, folks, that's the way young. sters are referring to the mammoth morning show at Loew's Poii Mon- day, December a, the first day of winter. Usually this party is held the Saturday before Christmas, but ewing to the fact that many young Sters peddle papers and work sat- Iirday mornings doing errands in downtown stores for the Christmas holidays, the Monday date was ee- lected this year.
 Every yoIIngster of School age, boys and girls, are eligible to att tend this special morning show at which Mickey Mouse will again de- llght as master of ceremonies, No one will be asked to buy ticket, tuet as lol4g as he or she has q can or corn, string beans, tomatoes, pineapple juice, or the like. This will serve. as an admission ticket.
 As each youngster enters the the-
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DEATHS BLAMED ON
 LACK OF REGARD

New Haven, Conn, Dec. aegu. p - A coroner's finding aanY blamed the asphyxiation of @kanley M. Pickering Ito use the most full~ damental regard for his own safety and comfort"
 ' The couple were overcome by carbon nionoxide gas fumes in m tourist cabin at Branford NoversS Der %. Coroner James !. CoErlgnn said that while the gas heater was in use, Pickering had negiectad to open . window or door 60 that theI fumes could escape.
 Tn another finding, Coroner Cor rlgan held Stanley R. Latshnw. Haddafn, criminally responsible for the death of Arthur Pretzsch, or, ange, in an automobile accident No~ vember l6, Pretzsch was run down by Latshaw's car on the Derby Turnpike at Orange.
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SPIES
 FACE SENTENCES
Found Guilty Last Night IA Persons Can Receive
 as High as P Years
By BRUCE MUNN Limited Press Stan CoFresp0ndent)

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 New York, Dec. l3-(UPJ- --Four- teen persons convicted Of tranSmits ting information on United States desenSes to Germany and falling to register as foreign agents awaited sentencing today ct the end of the first espionage trial of the war.
 X federal jury in Brooklyn found them guilty after more than nine hours deiibeFation. It returned It's verdict shortly before last midnight, l4 weeks to the day after the trial started. Federal Judge Mortimer W. Byers remanded the i4 to jail until Monday, which he set for Sen- tencing.
 They face c maximum jail sen- tence of % years each.
 Attorneys for Edmund Heine, who once earned s30,000 year as managing director Of the Ford Mo- tor company in Germany, said he would appeal the verdict. Other defense counsel made no immediate statement.
 The conviction waE the climax of Federal Bureau of Investigation counter espionage activities which began in February, 1040, when Wil- liam sebold, key states witness rec turned from Germany and informed
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OFFENSIVE BY GREAT GERMAN ARMY SMASHED Sl Divisions Said to Have Been Routed, Put to
 Flight MANY TOWNS ARE
 RETAKEN BY REDS Great Quantities of War Equipment Captured Dur.
 ing Furious Attack
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespondent)


 Kuibyshev, Russia, Decem- Der IS. - (UP) - Russia claimed one of the greatest military victories in modern history today, asserting 1t had definitely smashed an offensive by 5l German divis- ions, upwards of 750, ,000 men, on Moscow and the Germans were fleeing
 It was disclosed that the Russians started 0 counters offensive one week ago today and after stopping the Germans who had esSayed their greatest drive Of the war in an attempt to take the Soviet capital, had recaptured 400 towns and vile lages, extending from the north to the south of tho capital in c great seIni-circle.
 Further, 1t was asserted that on the southern front the armies of Marshal sefnyon Timoshenko were sttll in full pursuit of the Germans west of Tagarrog and were iEnpeded only by German dead and smashed tanks and trucks which filtered the roads and fields.
 Success On All Fronts
 (RuEsias noon communique, heard by the United Press at London, said that the Russian southern armies in the south had won further suc- cesses and had recaptured addition al towns and villages. It reported the German 60th infantry regiment routed with 100 killed),
 Detailed reports made it clear that on the Moscow front, the Rus. sians had won victory cverSha- dowing that ct Rostov.on Don,
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THE PRESIDENT
 CALLS HIM 'CHIEF

JosEPHUs DANIELS, whom President Roosevelt addresses as "Chief," easily qualities As AmcFlca's leading elder states man. Agile of body and vital ln mind, he has just retired as Ambassador to Mexico after performing what has been de. scFlbed Rs "the toughest as- slgnment" ever given an Amer. ican statesman.
 Mexican citizens attempted to stone him when he reached thclr capital. They wept when he left. He resigned because Cs the illness of Mrs. Daniels and his keen desire to return Co his post as the publisher of one Of the south's great newspapers, the Raleigh, N. O., News and Observer.
 Mir. Daniels ls the only living x-SecretaFy of the Navy. President Roosevelt was hls as. slstant during World War One. No one, the President lnclud- ed, is more emlnently qualified to speak of public reaction to tho present naval situation tkan MT. Daniels.
 Recently he rRmbled up to his office in Raleigh in Q 1886 vintage Ford. He climbed the IA steps to hls office and there agreed to write, exclusively for NEA Service and the Water bury Democrat the first story he has written for publication since he went to Mexico.
 Ex-secFctaFy of the Navy Danlels' stirring message ap- pears on Page 10 of tOday'S Waterbury Democrat.
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FLAG DISPLAY IS
 URGED BY HURLEY

Hartford, Conn, Dec. i3-(UP)- Governor Hurley today urged the display of the American nag from homes and business establishments every day as Q reminder Of the war purposes.
 'eIoO many people" said the goy- seacg, c veteran oe the first World War, perhaps forget what our flag gtands for: liberty, equality and hu-l naanitv."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-13
RYAN NOT OUT
 OF CONGRESS RACE
ThOnlastOn Candidate Will Campaign on Domestic
 Issues, He Says

Edward J. Ryan of Thomaston, nominated by petition as the Amer ican Progressive candidate for con- gross in the fifth district special election Jan. 20, today denied that he will withdraw from the race. Originally announcing himself as al "anti-war" candidate, MT. Ryan now plans to concentrate on domes- tic issues. "The war issue has been settled, he declared in Q formal statement" and pray God for an early victory"
 Hitting at published hints that he had offered endorsement to the likely Republican candidate, Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck, and had been rejected, Mir. Ryan said 1t might be entirely proper for Q candidate to walt until an endorsement was of- fered him before he released pub- lie statement to the effect that he might refuse such ail endorsement. 1" Mir. Ryan likewise denied that he had preferred any endorsement to the leading candidate for the Dem- ocratlc nomination, Attorney John s. Monagan.
 The statement issued by MT. Ryan follows:
 "There are those who would still participate in cheap politics at a time like the present when our every effort should be to show 6 strong and united front to the eTl- tire world. There are rurnors be- ing circulated to the effect that plan to endorse either John Mon- agal1 or Joseph Talbot.
 The answer to those rumors Is plain and simple I have never cf- fered any such endorsement, no such endorsement shall ever be made, and it might be entire- ly proper for 8 candidate to wait until an endorsement was of- fered him before he released public statement to the effect that he might refuse such an endorse ment.
 "The var issue has been settlted and I pray God for an early vic- tory for these United States.
 "1n. the past I have opposed the foreign policy of tho president of
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BULGARIA. HAS
 DECLARED WAR
Announcement of Attitude Towards Britain, U. s.
 A. Anticipated

Bulgaria declared war on the United States and Great Britain to- day, the German official news agen- cy said in a Sofia dispatch.
 The Berlin radio, heard by the United Press in London, broadcast the dispatch.
 The Bulgarian parliament had been called Into extraordinary ses- sion today, and the war announce Enent had been anticipated.
 Significance was attached to the decalration because of Turkeys del- icate status aa Q neutral allied 70 Great Britain.
 Germany hes maased important forces In Bulgaria within striking
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Civilian Defense Measures Rushed

Hartford Conn., ISUP-an protection measures were veFhy being whipped completion the state posted backout pecauton began mobilization Of civil ar patFo and considered plans consucOn units to overcome possible water shortage i.Ef
 HlaekOut instructions tO listed a standard Tor Ehe nation. <. Fs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-13
Ford Plants To
 Turn Out Arms

Detroit Dec 12-P)-ThG company, tracts totang than SOOO0OO the Axis on 4-hOuF seven day week schedule today.
 Edse Ford president Of the the said t in effect wherever practical Pratt and Whitney aane engine factory River Rouge h D WO, iO.hO n week
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sTORAr WARNINGS

Washington, Dec. 1s-( -(UP)-The weather bureau today ordered northeast storm warnings displayed from south oE Block Teland to Cape NatteEaa.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12

Dr. Rood has had conspiciouS suc- cess as pastor, organizer, teacher and evangelist. In Seattle he came to church with heavy debt and left 1t free of all encumbrances. While in Seattle he organized and conducted the Sammanish Summer Bible Conference, which is one of the outstanding conferences of America. In Trulock, California, he was instrumental in securing a block of ground near the center of the city and building a beautiful and practical church edific. As pres- ident of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, one of the great schools of the country, and as editor of the Kings Business Magazine, he gained recognition as an executive, educa- tor and editor Some of his books are, Let the Fire Fall" "The Heav- enly Home" and Can We Expect a World Wide Revival?"
 Dr. Rood has conducted evange- listic campaigns that have brought thousands to Christ. He is in con- stant demand as Bible teacher in conferences, also. He is a dynamic and eloquent preacher with a voice of unusual resonance and clarity that reaches every part of the larg- est auditoriums. He has a prophetic ministry for the nation. Some of his subjects are: The European War in the Light of Prophecy The Greatest Business in the World How to Study the Bible ana Are the Days of Revival Over?'.
 Dr. Rood was very well received everywhere in his visit to Few Eng land a year ago. and many are look
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of the Columbia Scholastic Press as- socitalon to be held ct Columbia University, New York City, March l3, 14 and IS.
 The Crosby delegation consists of; Dorothy Butler. Adla Shaker, Janet Elwin, Richard Traurig, Seymour Bromberg, Arthur Schwartz, Rich- ard Ozaruff, Sanford Kravitz David Gigson. Jane Donovan, Franklyn Litzky, and Alvin Movshovitz. Also Monroe Rhodes. Accompanying the delegation will be faculty advisors Charles s. Mccarthy and Joseph E.. Feeney.
 This is the first year the French paper is represented at the corven- tion. It is expected to make very favorable impression with other foreign language papers at the meeting.
 More than 2,5O0 delegates from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
JEWRY OBSERVING
 CAYEST HOLIDAY
Festival Of Purim Occa. sion For Merry-Making,
 Exchange Of Gifts

Tonight in synagogues and homes the festival of Purim, or lots, will be celebrated, and all day tomor- row plays, masquerades, exchange of gifts and general nlegTymaking will mark the annual observance of one of the gayeSt Jewish holidays.
 The name Purim, means lots, de- rived from the same which was scheduled to be drawn for the wholesale destruction of Jews in Persia: The story relates how the king of Persia, Ahasuerus, was on the verge of unwittingly authorizing the slaughter, but his queen, Ester, Jewess, discovered the plan just in time, and. disclosing it to her husband, was instrumental in the overthrow of the plot.
 This story is related in the Book of Ester, written on a scroll known as the Megillah, which will be read at the local services marking the holiday.
 At the Beth Israel Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf will conduct the serv- ice at sundown; Rabbi William P. Greenfield will officiate at Beth Fl; and Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond will speak at the gathering in Temple Israel on Willow street.
 At all of these meeting syna- gogues. various plans have been made for parties and celebrations to be held for children and parents throughout the Purim period.
 A feature of this years festivities is the annual entertainment and dance given by the Waterbury Hebrew Institute Sunday night at the Temple hall. A Yiddish comic opera is scheduled to be heard at that time, produced under the di- rectorship of Bernard Holczar. Pro- ceeds will be used to further the work of the Waterbury Hebrew Free school.
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wouldn't be good for me, but I wanted 1t SO! And then I had It. The lovely pink stuff was just just sawdust in my mouth" She looked up at him appealingly. 1t had no taste, Clarence. It just melted, without anything to 1t. I guess 1t really was sawdust. And well-that's my life, too. Taking cruise and thinking it'll be won- derful. It's not. One thing after another like that, turning into sawdust."
 Ashes, carissima," said Clar- ence. That is the classical ex- pression, I believe. But this is not serious, really. It will pass. After we are married"
 She dropped her eyes. A sharp little ache of disappointment stung her. Almost, she had hoped that beneath Clarence's fattery and lovemaking - beneath the polished manners, the amusing little tricks - she would find some depth to comfort her some sympathy that would warm her, something real and strong to evoke response.
 Clarence" she said lightly at last. "It's the same old trouble. Tired business men have 1t with their wives, darling, and rich girls like me have 1t with their fiances. You don't understand mel"
 "Ahl A moment ago, you thought I understood all too we'll"
 Lets leave it," she said.
 But somehow, 1t could not be left. Even while they sat together in her car, and Jenkins drove to the club where Clarence lived, it nagged at her. At last she burst out, "Clar- ence, think I'll go in for good works. Those social workers have always taken my checks but never let me do anything. I'm going to fix that! I want to do something! It's the people who work who al- ways seem to be so happy"
 Work to do in the world?" he scoffed. "Ah, love, it's not the people who work who seem so happy. It is only the people who , are not happy who, looking at other people, think they are hap py. You must know, to 8 girl in a five-and-ten-cent store, you ap- pear to be the happiest creature in the world"
 T wish I were a girl in a Ave- and-ten-cent store!" she cried "I'd live. I'd worry. I'd fall ir love - I'd have some real feelings some real en1otionsl"
 "You are having some real emo. tions now" said Clarence, very softly. "Of course, you want tc live!" His arms reached for her and he held her tight. with me you shall live. I shall teach you what life is, Beatrice. I love you I love these little hands and your bright hair and your bad little temper"
 He put g. finger under her chir and lifted her face until her eyes met his. There was 8 fire in his eyes, a dark and burning look that could not be false. Yes, he loved her. That much was true.
 "Kiss me, little Beatrice. Kiss me and then dare to say you can. not have a real emotion?" ! Afterward, he did not let her 90 His lips against her hair, his voict husky with feeling, he said, "Nt more running away, Beatrice Next week, we shall be married" (T0 Be Continued)
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Something has happened to you. Someone has been unkind, is 1t not? Tell me, sweet. Was 1t the old Weeming?"
 "Of course not! It's nothing" She slipped her drink.
 Clarence was in love with her. He had to be, to have given up Mimi Frothingham who had just as much money and would have been easier to manage. In a way, Clarence was amazingly percep- tive. She twirled the slim glass in her fingers. Clarence" she said softly, Clarence, suppose l told you I'm unhappy, bored, rest less. What would you say?"
 "Say?" The black eyes glowed, and his hands reached for hers. T would say my little bird needs relaxation, happiness, new scenes, love, tenderness. In short, Bea- trice, I would say that 1t is time for the honeymoon"
 She drew her hands away. But uOh WdHO UO BcO uidIIleu JuSt yet, Clarence. I -- I can't really see that it's going to be any differ ent after we're married. Except for the house at Westbury, of course. But that" Her voice trailed of She looked down into her glass in- tently. Perhaps, after all, Clarence might understand.
 My life is so pointless, Clar- ence. I've been thinking, this afternoon. It's like a pink cotton candy lollypop I wanted once at the circus. Grandfather said 1t
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Mexico will regulate bread prices
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