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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
FIRE RAGING ON
 BROOKLYN PIER
Freighter Already Envel- oped in Flames; Ship,
 Pier Thought Destroyed

New York, Aug. 18-(UP)-Fire which swept suddenly over a Brook lyn pier today spread to the S,57o- ton freighter Ponuco of the New York and Cuba mail line, threaten ing the lives of longshoremen at work in the vessels hold. A man who escaped rom the ship by jump ing overheard said six longShore- man gangs of 20 men each were working on the vessel when the fire started. Many of them were in the ships hold, he added. The fire started on pier 27 and spread along its entire length, leaping to the tied-up ship. The Ponuco, which plies between Havana and New York, arrived in port yesterday with a cargo which included large quan- titles of highly inflammable sisal and ixtle (CQ) hemp from Mexico.
 The fire spread to 8 number of bargeS and to other structures along the waterfront. Smoke and flame billowed 25O feet above the pier. Oc- casional untitled explosions shot masses of flame in all directions. The smoke pail was visible from downtown New York. Al Timara, a longshoreman who escaped by driving a small tractor through a wall of flame, said the fire broke out at the entrance of the pier and spread so rapidly that escape would have been impossible on foot.
 There were quite 8 number of men working on the pier and there must have been large number on the ship" he said. T saw them running aimlessly about the pier. Many of them jumped into the wa ter.n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
COMPLAINTS ON
 RENTS ON FILE.
Between 60 and 65 Ready to Be Considered; Only
 One Side Given

Between 60 and 65 complaints of unjustified increases in rents have been made to the fair rent commit tee, Mayor Vincent A. Scully said today. Emphasizing that the com plaints give only one side of the picture and may not be borne out by the facts, the mayor, speaking as chairman of the committee, said that all are being carefully investi- gated.
 About 20 more tenants have pro- tested against trent lacking" since the fair rent committee held its first meeting. At that time the commit tee was informed that 42 complaints had been received.
 Each complain is being probed carefully by an investigator hired by the committee. Information is secured from both the complainant and he landlord and other facts are ascertained. Then a report is prepared for submission to the con- mittee.
 Tentative plans call for hearings by the full Remember committee of each complaint that appears to have justification in fact. Both the landlord and the tenant will be given an opportunity to be heard.
 The committee has no power to "crack down" on any landlord it finds guilty of rent "gouging" but publicity will probably be used as a medium to force him into line. Voluntary cooperation on the part of most landlords is expected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
JAPAN NOT IN
 PLEASING MOOD
Ambassador Grew Holding Conference; Americans
 Held By Japan
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Tokyo, Aug. IS. - (UP) - United States Ambassador Joseph c. Grew and Foreign Minister Admiral Tie- jiro Toyoda were reported to have discussed subjects of utmost impor- tatnce at 8 long conference today conincident with notifications that all foreigners must obtain special permission to leave Japan.
 The Japanese press took grave view of the impending American British Russian war conferences at Moscow and charged that British American plans to send war supplies to Russia by way of Vladivostok were a crafty scheme" directed against Japan. Japan will not re- mani silent in event of "any disturb ance" of the Sea of Japan as a re- suit of shipments to VladivoStok, the newspaper Miyako said.
 Grew met with the Japanese for eign minister late this afternoon for an unusually long talk, the subject of which was not disclosed officially. At the same time Eugene Dooman, of the United States embassy, con- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Nazi- Soviet Reports
GERMANY
BY JOSEPH W. GREGG, JR.

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Berlin, Aug. 18-(UP)- German armies, sparked by powerful Luft- waffle bombing raids, today were re- ported pursuing the main Russian forces southeastward through the Ukraine toward the lower Dnieper river seaports and industrial areas which the Nazis apparently are anxious to secure before a possible winter Stalemate.
 CThis was the first mention in a Berlin dispatch of a possible winter stalemate.)
 The immediate German objective, it was stated in informed sources, is not only to secure all of the Ukraine west of the Dnieper but to prevent the depleted and battered forces of Marshal Semyon Budenny from establishing new defense line on the east bank of the river to protect the main Russian industries in the Donetz basin.
 Menaced by NaziS
 The bulk of Budenny'S forces are retreating southeaStward toward the Dnieper estuary, in the Emerson sector, it was stated, instead of eastward toward the big Dnepro- petrovsk industrial section, which is now more or less directly men, aced by the Germans.
 (The main Russian industrial center begins about 100 miles east of the Dnieper river, although there are important industries at Dnepro- jetrovsk and on the lower Dnieper. German bombers based along the Dnieper river bend would be with in easy reach of the big war indus tries centered around the DonetZ baSin.)
 German sources, expressing con- fldence that all the Ukraine west of the Dnieper soon would be occupied, said they did not yet know how much industrial destruction the Russians had been able to carry out
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
DETERRENT BILL
 WILL BE SIGNED
President Will Make It Law Today; Men 2S Will
 Be Let Out

Washington, Aug. IS. < (UP) - President Roosevelt has signed legis- lation deferring from military ser- vice all men who were 28 years old or more on this July l, it was an- nounced today.
 The draft deferment bill was sign ed Saturday. Sometime today the President was expected to sign the bill extending the term of all army men by 18 months. This bill, which passed the House by only one vote, would permit the government to hold selectees, National Guardsmen and reservists in service total of two and one-half years. For regu- lars, 1t would mean a term of four and one-half years instead of three years.
 The deferment bill provides for them Gas soon S- practicable and automatic annual deferment of men who become 28 during future years.
 The new law also provides for the Secretary of War to dismiss from service selectees who reached 28 on or before July l, 1941. The selectees must apply for such discharge and the secretary is required to dismiss when not in conflict with the inter (C0ntinI1ed 0n Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
SHEPPARD STRIKE
 IS BEING STUDIED
President Has Not Issued Orders to Take Over
 Kearny Plant
BY JOHN D. GONZALES Limited Press Staff COresuonden

United Press Staff Corespondent)
 Washington, August 18 - (UP)- President Roosevelt today delayed immediate intervention in the strike of CIO workers at the Fed eral Shipbuilding and Drydock O.. Kearny, N. J., pending further study of the situation.
 His secretary, Stephen T. Early said the work stoppage on $493,- 100000 of naval and merchant ves- sels lis one of the things which the president will work on today"
 "It seems that conferences are still going on," Early said, refer ring to talks among government officials, strike leaders and company representatives. "The president wants to go into the question to- day."
 It was expected that Mir. Roose- velt's first action in regard to the strike might be an appeal for i'm. mediate resumption of work at the huge shipyard which has been clos ed down for 12 days.
 Order May Come
 If the appeal fails it was un- derstood an executive order author izing the navy to take over the plant would be issued at once.
 Special top-ranking officials oi the ofice of production management the navy the maritime commission
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
GOV. HURLEY IS
 DENYING CHARGE
Mayor LaGuardia Claims Conn. Is Only 58 Per
 Cent Ready

Hartford. Conn, Aug. 18.-(UP)- An accusation by National Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. La- Guardia that Connecticut's civilian defense was "58 per cent not organ ized," was denied today by Gov. Rob- ert A. Hurley. Said the governor: 'This should read zero. I am sure that the war department will be pleased to know that the civilian participation in Connecticut Is such that the words fully organized can be written alongside the name of our state"
 Gov. Hurley said there were ie6 observation posts throughout the state, lO6 of which were fully manned. The others, he said, were partially manned and would have a full personnel within a couple of days" These observation posts, used to spot enemy alscfaft, will take part ln air mnneuvers over New England September 1, according to the govet- nor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

gave almost the same figure. Com pilations made by his office, he said, Indicate a population of "just about IO3,00O".
 The population gain here is far less than in such cities as Bridge port and Hartford, where thous- Rnds have Hooked from all parts of the country to take jobs in de- fense industry. MT. Green believes that this very absence of 8 huge population gain is a good thing for Waterbury, since it means a more stable industrial situation and the lack of many problems that would attend a mushroom growth.
 No Migration Problem
 There is no great migration problem here, said MT. Green. Though defense plants are at a high rate of production we do not have hundreds of job-seekers pour ing in. Our growth has been stea- dy. Most of the new jobs created by the defense program have gone to Waterbury people who were pre- viouSiy unemployed or on relief. There is, of course, need for spe- cialists in many lines and they have to be brought in but otherwise the new jobs have gone to people of our own city and the nearby territory"
 MT. Green denied flatly the re- current reports that help was being imported by one or more local plants in wholesale lots from dist ant states.
 "The policy of our local factories has been to employ local people as possible, he said. That policy, l
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
SPEED SHIPS IN
 INDO-CHTNA

Saigon, Indo-C China, Aug. l0-- (UP)-A Japanese freighter which had been loading rice since Satur- day suddenly unloaded it's cargo and started hastily for Japan today on instructions from Tokyo. The de- parture was not explained.
 American oil companies here arc transferring their staffs as rapidly as possible from fndo-China to Hcngkong, Manila and Singapore as n result Of the Far Eastern tension. They said the action was due to cessation ol business ae c result Of the Japanese occupation of Indo- china.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Strained Relations With Japanese Talked Over With Secretary Hull AMERICANS STILL
 DETAINED BY JAPAN 100000 Japanese in U. s. Can Be Held Here in
 Retaliation
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

D1 JO11Ie A. NE4Nk1IWkA1NN United Press Staff CorrespOndentl
 Washington, Aug. 18.- (UP)-President Roosevelt called Senate and House lead CTS to the White House to- day to give them ian ac- counting" on foreign policy developments of the last two weeks, including details of his conference at sea with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
 The group included Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Senate Democra- tic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex, of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee, Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga, of the Senate finance committee, Acting Speaker Clifton Woodrum, D., Va, and Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. F., of the House Foreign Affairs COna- mittee.
 Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Majority Leader John McCormacl, D., Mass, were not included be- cause of their absence from the city.
 White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the conference was called primarily to deal with foreign affairs.
 Anxious to Catch Up
 Anxious to catch up on paper work which had accumuated dur ing his two weeks absence at sea- MT. Roosevelt scheduled no engage ments except for the conference with legislative leaders.
 But it was blieved that he would hold an unscheduled luncheon con- ference with lend-1ease Administers tor Harry L. Hopkins, who yester- day opened conversations with Lord Beavenbrook, the British ministry of supply, on means of speeding up U. s. aid for Britain and Russia.
 MT. Roosevelt and his aides were prepared to translate into action his agreement to step up the flow of American supply to Britain and her. allies as 8 means of stiffening re- SiStance to Axis aggression.
 The President likewise was coT1- cerned ovr strained U. s. rela- tions with Japan. He manifested that concern when he returned to the capital yesterday after his his historic meeting with Churchill, go- ing immediately into conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
 The discussion was said to have gone far beyond Japan'S action in refusing to permit 100 American citizens to leave the country. They were said to have canvassed the en- tire Far Eastern situation in the light of MT. Roosevelt's earlier State- ment that his talks with Churchill had brought complete Anglo-Amer- ican agreement regarding the situ. ation on every continent
 Harry Hopkins, administrator oi the lend-lease program, conferred with Lord Beaverbrook. British sup ply minister,f1 presumably on meth, odS of obtaining and transporting
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
President Returns Home To
 Tackle Gravest Problems
CHURCHILL IS READY TO START Return Home to England Prepared to Put Plans
 Into Action
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. (IInited Press Staff COrrespondentl

4 @ASp United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Aug. 18-(UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill re- turned today from his historic meet ing with President Roosevelt to place in operation their eight-point victory program and intensity Ang- lo-A -American-Soviet collaboration to smash "Nazi tyranny"
 Political quarters said Churchill might make a radio speech on the conference tomorrow. It was under stood that he inspected the Amer ican and British garrison at Ice land on his return.
 Confronting the Prime Minister were reports that the German of- fensive was thrusting with renewed momentum into the Ukraine, that Japan was intensifying the Pacific war of nerves, and that a second warning had to be served on Iran regarding German infiltration.
 The first problem Churchill is ex- pected to tackle is that of aid to Russia, in the belief that it is of urgent importance to move swiftly. It was believed he would send For eign Secretary Anthony Eden to Moscow for the schedudled Anglo American talks with loser Sta1in.
 The Anglo-American leaders were reported to have had one of the biggest concentrati tions of naval forc- es ever assembled to protect them when they conferred at sea week ago.
 Cheered by Crowds
 Churchill and his party were cheered by crowds as they left a British port byb special train.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
RUSSIA
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, Aug. 18.-(UP)-German armored columns have captured the big port of Nikolaev and the great iron ore center of Krivoi Rog, but Red Army forces, retreating slowly in the Ukraine, were reported today to be carrying out Josef Stalin's "scorched earth" policy on large scale.
 A communique reported that heavy fighting ragged along the entire 1,8O0- mile eastern front, but the weight of the German onslaught appeared to be aimed at the Ukraine with its rich agricultural, industrial and mineral prizes.
 Reports on the Ukraine fighting indicated that the armies of Mar shal Semyon Budenny were resisting strongly and leaving the advancing German and other Axis forces only scorched crops and the burned and twisted wreckage of industrial plants and ship-yards.
 The Russian Black Sea fleet was reported to have sunk two large Ru- manian transports, presumably in- tended to land Axis forces at Odessa or Nikolaev
 Split Up Germans
 Frontier dispatches reported that a Red division, split by the Germans two weeks ago, attacked at two ends of the Nazi trap and with the aid of guerrillas broke through the en- circlement to rejoin the main Rus sian forces after inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
 Russians at home did everything to increase the output of armaments and provisions for the fighting forces. Several million youths passed up rest days to remain at work and 100000 men and women in the Moscow district gathered scrap metal.
 A big German artillery dump, 30
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Secretary Green Informs Govt.
 Officials Recently
Conference of U. s. Officials, He Had Stated Population Was Less Than lO3,OOO

Waterbury's present population is in the neghborhood of 1O2 900 or 1o3OoO as compared with official figure of 993l4 after the 1940 census according to Frank Green secretary of the Chamber of Commerce In n tervew today MT Green said he could best give popu at recent conference namely the population than 1O3 OOOn Dr. Edward J Godfrey city health officer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
a.OOO FIRE CHIEFS

Boston, Aug. ls.-(up)-The van- guard of nearly 2,000 fire chiefs gathered here today for the open- ing tomorrow of the seth annual conference of the International As- scciatlon Of Fire Chiefs.
 4 symposium on methods of flght- ing incendiarism and fro sabotage viii feature the ezaons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. IS -(Up)-> expenses and receiptg for the current fiscal year through Aug. 15, compared with a year ag0i This Year Expenses Last YemY $2, 2,431, ,se7, 729.66 $1,1S6, 6,424,740 ss45. 1894. .sss.1s ssss, ,477. .o25.4a sI.7ss. .7ss.sO ssSs.s47.7ia.ss s1.7b7.7sO.Sss;sO s5ss. .4l7.sss.ss ss.ss5,s45,2S7.ss ss.so4.ssS.s7o.gs
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Evening star., 1941-02-21
Cards 10 Double Up
In Seeking Honors
In Track Meet
Will Be in Many Tests,
Including Mile Relay
Race at Chapel Hill

Catholic University will be repre-
sented by small squad in the open
division of the Southern Conference
indoor games tomorrow at Chapel
Hill, N. c., but by the simple expe-
dent of doubling up the Cards will
have their feet in most events.
Coach Dorsey Griffith will pick a
mile relay team from among John
Weschler, Joe Street, Johnny Cor
bett, Charley O'Keefe and Jim Ma
laney and two of them also will toe
the mark in the $50. The matter
has not been settled definitely but
Corbett and Street probably will get
the nominations.
Weschler is entered in the 60-yard
dash along with Charley Moutenot
and the latter is doubling up in the
pole vault. Charley hasn't been able
to get in any practice on the pole
but has been squeezing an ordinary
relay baton all week to strengthen
his forearm muscles.
Leo Wall and Johnny Hutton will
try their luck-and legs-in the
hurdles and Jim Rhodes and Vince
Companella are entered in the 60
yard dash for freshmen. Another
yearling, Jack Curran, will face
the barrier in the 34-mile jaunt.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Eight Quints in Rec
Court Loop Better
Their Standing

Eight teams in the District Recre-
alton League tournament today
have improved their record in loop
play after seeing action last night.
At the Roosevelt gym Washing
ton Flour. led by Dick Goodman
and "Rollicking" Joe Branzell, de-
feated General Tire, 1927, in a
game that highlighted the evenings
action. In other games Jewish Com
munity Center nipped Bellman
Fuel, 1913. in another close game,
and General Accounting topped
Mclean, 1921.
Arlington MaccabeeS noSed out
Maryland Park Sports Club, 1890,
in the feature battle at Eastern
gym, while Call Radio routed
Briggs A. c., 1927, and Post Office
Mailing defeated Ballards, 42-30,
in other tilts.
Central gym play saw Mount
Vernon turn back Herbys, 27-23,
and Railroad Retirement defeat
Treasury, 21-15.
Evening star., 1941-02-21

A wholesale assault on Southern
Conference indoor records is ex-
pected tomorrow at Chapel Hill,
N. c., where a star-studded field will
toe the mark in the 18th annual
championship meet.
The affair shapes up as the big
gest since the meets inception, what
with 476 athletes entered from SO
schools. These figures embrace nom
conference and scholastic teams as
well as regular association members
and the field will be divided into
three groups. But it's still lot of
talent to have under one roof on
any one night.
It is not easy to predict which
marks will topple, If any, but it's
safe to say there are few that
will take lot of running to beat.
One is Earl Widmyer's record of
SO for the 50-yard dash, one of
four marks held by Maryland men.
Earls greased-lightning sprint has
stood up since 1888, when his flying
feet scratched it into the book. It's
only 2 no of a second off the world
figure made by Albert Francisco and
Chester Bowman in 1926, so you can
see it'll be broken only by an
extraordinary sprinter.
Terps Are RecordhoIders.
Alan Miller's 51-second record for
the 440 is within reach of some
mercury -limbed youngster, but there
doesn't seem to be anybody in the
conference this year who can break
it. Ditto for Jim Kehoe's 880-yard
Evening star., 1941-02-21
BY GEORGE HUBER.

A basket ball tournament without
a favorite is the setup tonight as
four teams begin the playoff series
at Tech for the 1941 District public
school championship.
Each of the schools-Roosevelt,
Eastern. Tech and Western-has
points in its favor and no matter
who wins or loses there hardly can
be an upset. Schoolboy followers
trying to pick winner are getting
nowhere and only are turning in
high-class jobs Of fence straddling.
Riders and Raiders Play First.
The short series opens tonight at
Tech gym at 7:30 with Roosevelt,
last years winner. taking on West
ern. Afterward Eastern, champion
in 1899, tangles with Tech. The two
winners will meet tomorrow night
for the title, while the losers battle
in a preliminary for consolation
honors.
Roosevelt probably would have
been a slight favorite, largely on the
strength of being defending cham
pion. but during regular season play
it was defeated by Western, which
it meets in tonight's opener Then
Westerns victory over Roosevelt
might have made it a choice, only
Evening star., 1941-02-21
No Choice Seen as Roosevelt
Faces Western, Eastern Plays
Tech to Open Court Finals

the Red Raiders managed to lose
three games over the 6-game series
stretch to finish as the fourth-rank-
ing team in the playoffs. At that
Western on paper still may rate as
potentially the best team. although
many times this year it disappointed
by haphazard playing.
The Riders have been winning
when the chips were down, however,
and that's what counts. Points in
Eastern's favor are many. The
Ramblers have the highest per-
centage standing of any high school
team in the Washington area with
Is victories and only two defeats,
but one of these defeats was by
Roosevelt. They will be carrying a
nine-game winning streak into to-
nights action, and it could be said
that it's about time they were halted
or. on the other hand, that they
have a habit of winning.
Tech Dangerous PIugger.
Tech has the plugging team that
could upset everything and win with
out any one really being surprised.
It's two losses in series play were to
Eastern and Roosevelt, but it Graves
another crack at each. Tech gets its
second shot at Eastern tonight, and
if the victor, easily might face Roose-
welt again.