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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11

tomorrow night at Goodyear hall, Awards win be made and refresho nents served. A short business ses- sion will precede the card playing.
 The annual meeting of the Ladles Aid Society Of the Salem Lutheran church will he held tonight in Che church hall, with Q supper being served at 0;3O D. mi Officers will be elected and reports for the year given.
 Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. Mat thew Erickson, Mrs. Victor Olson and Mrs. Gunnard Anderson form the committee in charge of the supper.
 Mary Mizyiewski has sold c piece of land in the rear of the Socony VaccuIn oil Company station on North Main street to the Socony Company according to Q warranty deed filed recently ct the office of Town Clerk Raymond J. St. John,
 Cleveland D. D0ollttIe has sold Q lot on the opposed road to be known Ms Warren avenue, off New Haven Road, to John and Helen GyuFik, ac. cOrdlng Co . warranty deed filed re- gently at th office Oe Town Clerk Raymond J. SC. John.
 Work of installing Q sanitary sewer on Russell street is underway this week, with street department work CTS doing che job.
 Club l7 has chosen Maxie's ress taurant on Rubber avenue as the scene of its Christmas party to he held Sunday afternoon. Plans for this affair have been completed, Henry Rodman, chairman, has ans nuonced. It is expected more than 100 will attend.
 Paul Tourangeau heads the enter- tainment committee.
 The American Home Department of the Naugatuck W0man's Club wil linear Q talk on "IE0me Ec0n0m. ics and National Defense" tonight by Mrs. Gertrude Seward Wilken. son, former supervisor of home making at Pratt Instltute, Brock lyn, N. Y. Mrs. Wilkenson is . member of the New York state and Connecticut Federation of WOmen's Clubs. The meeting will be at the office of the Connecticut Light and Power Company, Maple street.
 An enjoyable Christmas party was held last night at the Immanuel Lutheran church hall by the Ladies Aid Society. Mrs. Alice Luschenat and Mrs. Joseph Gerber had charge of the affair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11
Borough Funerals

Naugatuck, Dec. ll.-The funeral of Mrs. Helen (Karbcwicz) Roskosz of Bridge street, who died Tuesday night at St. Mary's hospital, Water bury after Q abort illness, will be held Saturday morning ct e:iS from the Fitzgerald funeral home, 320 North Main street, Co st. Hedwlg's church at 9 o'clock. where q solemn high mass Of requiem will be cele- brated. Burial will be in st. Jaraes' cemetery. Friends may can at the funeral home after D. In. today and until the fim0 of the funeral.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11
Fire House Farley
 Tonight Postponed To Speed Up Plans
Activities of Afr Wardens to Be Featured Because of
 Rapid Developments in Defense Program; Civilian Council Announces OfAcial Warning Signal

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
TAVERN KEEPER #
 SLAYER UNCAUCHT

Bridgeport, ConN sAnt IT'D, Police continued/ tnt,ev to s,,ss,tn,, various persons in c,onrsc,,c,, e vi ,,,,t,, the staying of Mich~sei ~ TSa rosr w.IA r,., 4s. 8 tavernskeeH Her d,irin1 s ho,d,,r attempt.
 At least 6 sGore os rersors e,roadv nave peen Questioned in connection VIII, VII .ne case, police said. They were looking especially for two men who were seen Eurrying from tavern. Keeper, ouring holdup attempt.
 At least a score of persons already nave Deen questioned in connection Witn .ne case, police said. They were looking especially for two men who were seen hurrying from tavern area .eerly yesterday, shortly after the shooting.
 A Paper bag containing $65 and Q valet with sll5 in 1t were found near he body, police said, indicat- ing the holdup men fled in haste.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
German Divisions N
 Suffering Big Losses
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chamber of deputies who had switched to the collabofatl atlonist party of Jacques Doriot, also 6 for- iner communist, was shot by an as- sassin and wounded 90 severely he may die. r.
 These outbreaks made 1t likely that the Germans will impose sweeping reprisals on the large numbers of French who now are held as hostages for the good be- havior of their countrymen. The first death sentence by Q French terrorist" court may be imposed today on Gabriel Peri, an editor of the pre-war communist newspaper Humanite who is charged in Paris with re-entering communist activ- fly.
 Finnish City Wrecked
 Holger Hansen, United Press staff correspondent, reported from Viipu- ri, Finnish city on the Karelian Isthmus occupied by the Films, that the one-tine prosperous raanufac- turing city had Been wrecked by the retreating Russians and that not Q single person remained in the debris-filled streets. Even rats, cats and dogs, he said, have aban- doned the town after fighting in the streets for the few remaining scraps of food. He said the Films placed Soviet casualties In the Kare- ian fighting ct S0,00O killed, 30000 wounded and 10000 captured.
 Henry T. Gorrell, United Press staff correspondent in Tran, inter- viewed Gen. Max sinenko, Soviet commander of the Russian occupa- ton troops at Kazvin. He found Sinenko filled with confidence in Russia's ability to cope with the German army and convinced that Nazi blitz tactics already had been beaten.
 sinenko believed that the Russo British occupation of Iran had checkmated German plans for of- fensive action in the middle east.
 Tn the Mediterranean there was a flare-up of action. Rome reported British air attacks on Crotone, Ca- labria and Catania, Sicily, both of them believed to be bases from which Italian planes attack British shipping.
 The Italians claimed that in heavy air battles over Malta and the Sicily Straits 22 British planes were shot down with Q loss of three Fascist machines.
 London said that British subma. rine had torpedoed Q 10000 ton Ital- Han cruiser near the Messina Straits
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PAROLEE IS NOT
 YET AT LIBERTY
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When the Coakley trial resumes, 1t Is expected an early witness will be former Governor Charles F. Hur- ley who was named yesterday as the person who ordered the papers rushed through 50 that Patriarca might be freed the same day he was pardoned.
 Habeas Corpus Secured
 District Attorney William J. Foley who obtained the habeas corpus on which Patriarca was presented be- fore Superior Judge Edward F Hanify, told the court that when Patriarca was indicted on he armed robbery and assault charges, bal was set at $l0,000 and the surety was property. In violation of state law, he said, the property since hai been encumbered with mortgages.
 At Foley's recommendation, Judge Hanify set bail at $5,000 double surety on each of the two indict. ments. This followed a plea by defense counsel Herbert 2. Gala. han that the original surety be con. tinued on grounds the person whc posted the property still had more than $l5,000 equity.
 Following the hearing Patriarcs was returned to East Cambridge jail. Unless bail is posted, by to- morrow he will be transferred tc the Boston jail to await trial on the indictments.
 If bail is posted he will be per- mitted by the state parole board tc go to his Providence home where his parole would be superintended not only by Massachusetts, but also by Rhode Island authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
RUSSIAN ARMY
 HALTS GERMANS
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 Marshal Semyon Budenny, com mander in chier of the Russina army of the Ukraine, was reported to have thrown thousands of Cossack cav- alrymen into counters attacks along the Dnieper river.
 Stockholm dispatches indicated that the Germans and Films faced a serious threat at the Arctic end of the eastern front, where Russian marines were reported to have landed up the coast within a few miles of Petsamo, Finland's Ice free Arctic harbor 12 miles inside the
 May Gut German Lines
 The dispatches indicated that the Russians aimed at cutting struggling German supply lines in the diffi- cut strip of territory between the Russian Arctice frontier and Nor- way, where neither tanks nor motor trucks can be used.
 Loss of Petsamo would be a great blow to the German northern life line" military men, said, because it's fall would mean disaster for the Austrian Alipe troops in the Arc- tic area who have their main base at Patsamo.
 In the central part of the front the Russians seemed to experts to be taking every opportunity to strike at the weakest point of the Grman lines, and at the same time make big and small counter-attacks at numerous points in order to keep the German forces scattered and prevent them from swinging many men from one sector to another.
 Some German forces in the cen- tral area were now believed to be in danger of encirclement unless they obtained endorsements or retreated a considerable distance.
 Italy Admits Battles
 Rome, Sept. 5.-(UP)-Russian forces are counter attacking fierce ly on the Leningrad front in the heaviest fighting of the entire war, an official news agency dispatch from the front said today.
 German artillery is hitting the formidable troop concentrations which the Soviet command is em- ploying in continuous counter-of- fensive blows" the dispatch said.
 "One can say that in this battle the Soviet command employs h1- man material like an inexhaustible source for resistance and defense. For this reason losses are .irn- mense."
 The disnatch said the fighting centered along the railroads which extend south and southeastward from Leningrad. The Russians. in their attacks hoped to weaken the position of the Germans south of Lenifagrad where such important advances have been achieved as to jeopardize the resistance of the So- viets."
 The dispatch said the Russians had now concentrated formidable masses of troops and artillery" in their maneuver.
 It was added that Finnish troops attacking Leninsrad from Ghe' north were rapidly nearing the city" and kept q large number of Russians enc gagged against them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
Phillip Curran, 50, of % flaw. thorne, Stamford.
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Phillip Currail, 6e, of % Haw' thorne, Stamford.
 Joseph KenneAH, 30, of i39 Morn. ingside avenue, Yonkers, N. E.
 The three others for whom war rants were Issued but were not To- cated are: Joseph Lyman of the Connecticut hotel; George Lesion ot S6 Coiley street, and Abe Furman of plantsvllle.
 Although many of the men HloN- fled gave city addresses, Plumbing Inspector Walker said he understood that most of the workmen came from New York state and were brought in by the contractor.
 W. L. Harmony of YonkeTs, N. Y, master plumber and Maj. John L. Lee, federal construction engineer in charge of the federal project, would possibly go to Washington to seek aid in ironing out the recent legal situation which developed at the housing project.
 Recently Inspector Walker was involved in c controversial tilt with the federal housing author tiles over the plumbing being in- stalled on the two projects and tried to secure warrants several months ago against the master plumber, w. L. Harmony. His ef- forts then were fruitless and then he appeared before the board of works to revoke the master plumb CTS licenses which Harmony had secured for himself and his fore- man. The request was referred to q committee about four weeks ago and hearing set for Sept. 16.
 The plumbing inspector voiced in his request that MT. Harmony and the foreman were not con- forming to their agreement, there fore they were violating the city's plumbing ordinance.
 Yesterdays warrants were issued because of the violation of the two following sections:
 Section l. ." No person shall here. after follow, engage in or work At the trade or occupation of pluMp-
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France Still Keeps
 Up Assassinations
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was shot in the back while walking with his fiancee at i0:26 p. m. We'd nesday, within view of an armed Ger man sentry guarding a hotel doorway, He was not seriously wounded.
 The Paris terrorist court, empow- cred to order summary executions of communists and saboteurs, tried 10 communists for distributing propa- ganda and other offenses at It's fourth sitting yesterday. Marguerite Street Kroef was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Other prisoners drew severe sentences but none was sentenced to death.
 Paris newspapers said that a Polish Jew. interned near Orleans, had been arrested for attacking an Ar- van girl on road near his concen- tration camp.
 The high commissioner for Jewish affairs. Xavier Vallat, said that 1,50o Jewish firms in Paris had been Ar yanized" by confiscation and the ap- pointment of Aryan administrators to sell out the Jewish owners.
 Paris newspapers said the Vichy government planned to submit to the United States embassy a declar- ation signed by a number of De- Gaullist officers taken prisoner dur ing the Syrian campaign, expressing their desire not to return to DeGaul- list or British forces under the Armistice provision for exchanging prisoners. These DeGaullists have been held as hostages for several French civil functionaries in Syria whom the British arrested when they refused to serve under British occupation. Paris newspapers said plans to exchange these hostages were complicated by the fact that the DeGaullists did not want to re- turn to the British armies. The United States Embassy in Vichy said it had not received such dec- laration.
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(Continued rom Page D questioning on the east coast short- age, and Senator W. Lee O,Daniel, Democrat. Texas, promised to use "every possible means" of defeating proposals to construct a pipe line from Texas to New Jersey.
 ODaniel, a member of the com mittee, said testimony by govern ment officials and representatives of the railroads demonstrated con- clusively" that the pipe line is not needed.
 He said dimensions outlined for the proposed line give rise to the well-founded suspicion that it will later be used to carry natural gas-- a proposition that my state has always opposed"
 Comimttee Chairman Francis T.. Maloney, Democrat, Connecticut. has said the group may consult with OPM officials on the seriousness" of divertlng large amounts Of steel from ghipbullding and railroad car building to construct a pipeline.
 It was understood that Henderson would be questioned on recent gas- ollne increases at scattered points along the seaboard and that Dowd would testify on the availability Of tank cars to service the area.
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and that Soviet counter attacks on the central front are so heavy that the Germans may be forced to with draw some of their assault forces in on effort Co stem Soviet advances.
 MOSCOW MAKES CLAIM
 Moscow said that the Leni1grad peoples army had thrown back the Germans, south of the city. Rome, in an official news agency dispatch reported that fierce Soviet counter attacks are being hurled against the Naz advance guard and that the fighting is the heaviest of the war.
 The Italians reported casualties on both sides are "immense."
 The Ge Anans tacitly admitted the same thiYu'. They said the Russians are resisting ferociousiy around Leningrad. The chief Berlin news paper headlines were given to al- legged Finnish gains on the Karelian Isthmus.
 The whole Russian front appeared to be in action from the Arctic coast to the Black Sea reaches of the Dnieper.
 London heard thaS c little-report- ed Soviet offensive in the Arctic is now nearing Petsanlo, Finland's out- let to the Arctic Sea. This offensive, should 1t result in capture Of Pet- Sarno, would be of major importance as it would give the Russians anoth- CT major entry port for supplies from Britain and the United States. It also would afford and advanced base for future operations toward far northern Norway, possibly in cooperation with British seq opera tons on the same front.
 Not Only Offensive
 But this was not the only Soviet offensive operation. On the l76- mile jagged sector of front in the smoiensk- Gomel area the Russians still were attacking and, according to reports, forcing the Germans back. The Germans claimed that the front was fluid" in this area and that ct some points they had retired as much as IS miles for piir- poses of trapping" the Russians.
 The Russians reported that two German thrusts across the Dnieper were repulsed and that the 263rd German infantry division had been smashed with Q loss of 1000 men in Q six day battle. Some "A German planes were said to have been de- stroyed ct Naxi bases west of Lake linen.
 There was new ana serious tlir- moi in France. Marcel Clifton, . former communist member of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
AID. WALKER
 TOBE PROPOSED
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A principal purpose of the outing is to bring the insurgents back into the fold, but leaders of this faction say they are committed to a primary contest. They claim that even if they lose they will be doing the party a service by battling the pres- ent leadership and laying the groundwork for election of new town committee officers and mem- bers next spring.
 During the past several years Al- derman Walker has been an out- spoken advocate of better wages and equipment for policemen and fire men. and in recent months has been a leader in the move to win higher salaries for all city employees.
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Accused Plumbers To, Have Trial Sept. 19
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
NO CUPID

What happens when an old friend comes to stay with . young married couple. and stays and stays and stays. furnishes the fun in Week end for Three" RESO Radios new- est comedy feature. Dennis O'Keefe. Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed. Edward Everett Horton and zaSu Pitts head the cast.
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(Continued from Page D other enemy convoy off sicily. The Italian supply ship Aquitania, 4,- 97i tons and in the same convoy, was hit by torpedoes and severe ly damaged.
 "A supply ship of about 5000 tons also was torpedoed and sunk by one of our submarines In the central Mediterranean"
 May Invade Sicily
 London, Sept. 5-(UP)- George Gibson. chairman of the Trades Union congress, numbering b,O00,- 900 members, called today for Q British invasion of Sicily or the Italian mainland and "both large and small scale raids on the coasts of Europe from Norway to Brest."
 Writing in the Star Gibson re- flected opinion that British blows against Germany were falling short.
 Gibson also urged greater aid to Russia to enable the Red army to hold It's front and possibly drive Into Rumania.
 He demanded 6 British diplo- matte offensive and military as- sistance to Turkey to strengthen Turkish resistance and Q strong attempt to get Finland out of the war.
 Gibson argued that Axis morale had been lowered by Russian re- sistance, the prospect of increased United States aid and the inten- sive bombings by the RAF of Ger many and Italy.
 "A half dozen shrewd blows and Hitler's inverted pyramid will top- pie over," Gibson wrote. Speaking as e Trades Uniondst and the free man of free country 1t is ifn- possible for me to conceive that Hitler'S helots can resist an ate tack launched by free men well equipped with faith in their cause"
 Berlin Reports Raid
 Berlin, Sept. 6-(UP)- Russian planes attempted to raid Berlin and northeast Germany last night, the German high command said, but the attack was ineffective"
 An official announcement said that 30 persons were killed and a injured when British planes raid- ed Berlin Wednesday night. The announcement said that some of the wounded were not expected to recover and 1t pointed out that all of the victims of the raid had failed to take refuge In shelters.
 A communique on last nights raid said:
 "A small number of Soviet bomb. CTS attempted to attack the Reich capital during the night of Sept. 4-6. Of two enemy planes, one was shot down by anti-alrcraft fire. Bomb droppings were not report cd"
 Berlin, Sept. 6--(UP)-The off, cial news agency said that the Luftwaffe had sunk the 6,0o0-ton merchantmen City of Oakland in the Gulf of Suez, but failed 4, specify either the nationality or owners of the vessel
 (The vessel presumably was car. rying war materials to British forc- eS in the Middle East, where much American goods recently has nr. rived.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
cAT pTLRs UP MILEAGE

Hafpsveli, Ne. tOFj-sIncugh oily 2 years old, 'Coonie." a Florida born cat owned by Mrs. L. H. Morgan os Harpswell has trayeled 5000 miles. The cat Is Mrs. Morsail's companion on her annual trips so and from Sarasota
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05

Women in South Africa have protested that soldiers in camp cannot buy less than a quart of bere ct e time at eanteens. which makes it too expensive for re- crults.
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show down follows attack by U- boat" and "U-boat attacks U. s. destroyer: Incident unlikely to drag U. s. into war, say senators" were typical headlines.
 Germany Knows Nothing
 Berlin, Sept. 5.-(uP)-Authorized sources said today that they had no knowledge of the reported sub- marine attack on the U. S. s. Greer but that the Washington statement had "very sklllfully avoided" mak- ing the circumstances clear.
 '~rhero is nothing but thor oughly vague and unclear report from Washington. which does not even indicate definitely whether an oGIlclal statement was Issued there.' c spokesman said.
 "In view Of these circumstances it Is impossible to give any reaction heEe."
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that Communists shot him in re- venge for his desertion of the party,
 Details of the shooting were not given immediately but 1t was as- sumed he was shot from ambush, as was a German sergeant on a Paris street Wednesday night,
 Clifton sat in the chamber for the Paris department. When commu- nists were elected from the cham Der, at the outbreak of the war, Clifton was arrested. He renounced the communist party. The chamber refused to reseat him so he joined Jacques Doriot's French Populist party, an anti-communist, anti-De- gaullist, anti-Jewish faction on the Russian front.
 The recruiting of these volunteers has Set off a series of assassination attempts.
 First, Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat were shot while reviewing the first volunteer contingent at Ver- sailles two weeks ago. Then 8 Ger man naval ensign was shot to death in 8 Paris subway. Now, in quick succession came the shooting of the sergeant and Clifton. Favored Joining Germany
 Clifton recently wrote 8 series of articles favoring collaboration with Germany and the formation of a strong nationalist government for France. During the war he served as lieutenant and had an excellent war record.
 Another former communist deputy Gabriel Peri, political editor of the newspaper Humanite and one of the five ranking leaders of the party in France, faced 8 terrorist court in Paris today charged with reforming dissolved communist cells and dis tributing propaganda. The verdict was due tonight and 1t was expected to be death. If it is, it will be car- ried out immediately as there is no appeal.
 In spite of the anti German flare ups, German officials in Paris were seeking labor, military and political aid from the French. Campaigns were under way to recruit French men for labor service in Germany, to mobilize more Frenchmen for mili- tary service against Russia, and to solidify French Fascist political fac- tions.
 No Arrests Made
 Meanwhile, German military police Investigating the shooting of the ser- geant on the boulevard Sebastapol, had made m arrests Tho sergeant
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SUBMARINES OF
 BRITAIN BUSY

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GAS SHORTAGE
 TOBE STOPPED

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Meanwhile, German military police Investigating the shooting of the ser- geant on the boulevard Sebastapol, had made no arrests. The sergeant