The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-16

board, ordered cancellation Of the Santa Anita park turf meeting, scheduled to start December 3i, at the request Of Gov. Culbert l., Olson.
 olson Issued hls request on the advice Of Lieut. Gen. John l.. Des Weltt, commanding general Of the western defense forces, who is pre- venting crowds of more than 1000 persons.
 Olson asked Los Angeles to cans eel . professional Ail.Star football game scheduled January {.
 Olson prepared to call the iegiss iature Into special session, probably Friday, to appropriate perhaps 140,s 100000 for wartime defense needs. Already he has proclaimed . state Of emergency to give civil authoris ties the power to enforce orders Of state and local defense coun. cilg.
 Enforce WaEnings
 The San Efancisco board of sue pervlsors passed an ordinance to enforce air raid warnings and black outs, with fines ID to $500 and jail sentences up to three months for violators.
 Los Angeles called in motion pic- turc technlcianS to consult on the installation of at least 90 sirens to cover the Al square mile city, Mayor Fletcher Bowron moved to standardlze city, county and army blackout signals.
 San Francisco wholesalers Te- veaied that they sold more thah S.. 900 1000 square feet of black paper to darken windows-to retailers durs ing the week and could have sold four to six times as much # 1t had been available.
 From bay area factories and the east a shipment of eight carloads, 100000 square feet to the car, !S expected this week.
 Officials of the state guard Issued Q plea for veterans of World /War to lend their steel helmets until helmets can be obtained from the government.
 Consolidated Aircraft Corp. at San Diego added Sunday shift of A. 900 workers to its final assembly line. Ryan Aircraft, also ct Sar Diego, went On three-shift, six- day wee karld indicated 1t soon would be on a seven day week.
 TwO.Man Submarines
 Washington, Dec. l6.-(Up)-Al- lied naval forces in the Pacific may find pitted against them "schools' of tiny, two-Inan submarines-prob- ably no bigger than q whale.
 Until today that Japanese secret weapon was only a rlimor. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox revealed that they were used in the sneak" ate tack on Pearl Harhor Q week ago Sunday.
 Knox said one was destroyed by depth charges and another was cap- tured.
 Naval experts estimate these tiny subs are about 50 feet long. seven feet wide, and have 6 displacement of about 50 tons.
 There is no indication as to how many were used in Pearl Harbor but they apparently did no dam age. At least one, however, did succeed in penetrating the harbor defenses and coming within "a few yards" of an American ship before 1t was destroyed.
 Submarines the siSe of the Jap- anese two-man craft are too small to operate over distances greater than a few hundred miles. Naval experts assume that those engaged in the attack against Pearl HarboE were operating from a mother ship stationed out at sea. This ship. prob ably a reconditioned freighter, would be large enough [ ocarry sev- eral of these ''baby subs" naval experts said.
 It was assumed that the mother ship carries them within cruising range of their objective and then lowers them into the sea. That would present no technical problem, since the D. S. crane ship Kearsage has cranes that can lift 200 ton weights.
 The chief asset of such tiny craft Is their ability to okeaAse ln alaal.