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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-08
DEFENSE
 BOND Quiz

e. I'm too old to fight or work hard in the National Defense. How can I help
 A. By helping to supply the need- ed money. The best way to do this is by buying Defense Bonds.
 c. am too young to enlist. What can do?
 A. Save all the dimes and quar- ters you possibly can, and buy De- fense Stamps. When you album is full, exchange 1t quickly for a De- fense Bond, and then start filling another album.
 NOTE:-- To purchase Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to the nearest post office or bank, or write for information to the Treasurer of Che United States, Washington, D. c.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-08
Cody's Kin in Infantry

Camp WolterS, Tex. (UP)-Buffa- 10 Bill Cody, . cavalryman first, last and always, probably wouldn't like this. but it's true nevertheless One of the illustrious Indian fighters grandsons is an army lieutenant and in the infantry, of all things.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
senger service to the key bases In
the Caribbean defense ring about
the Panama Canal.

senger service to the key bases In
the Caribbean defense ring about
the Panama Canal.
Now Uses Natal Airport.
Pan American now uses the Bra
lillian government airport at Natal.
as does the Italian line operating to
Africa some 1900 miles away. The
Italians use the old German base
in the Cape Verde Islands en- route
to the Western Mediterranean.
A French airline, since abandoned,
used a base on small islands about
200 miles off the coast of Brazil.
On the eastern bulge OF Africa
Pan American probably will use
Bathurst or Freetown as base.
Commercial ships will provide a
passenger service to Liberia, where
a great rubber plantation has been
developed by Firestone. War con-
ditions have almost cut of the
country from ocean routes to the
United States.
The tranS-African service prob
ably will be operated under diff
ferent setup from the trans-At-
lantic. The route, it was said, will
lie from Monrovia, Liberia, along
the French Ivory Coast to Takaradi
on the British Gold Coast and Lagos
in Nigeria. The route would then
turn inland to Kano in Northern
Nigeria, to Fort Lamy near Lake
Chad in French Equitorial Africa,
and to Ell flasher in the Mara
Mountains Of the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan.
Avoids Warfare Zones.
The line probably will pass
through Khartoum on the Nile AZ
the junction of the Blue Nile, and
thence north over the Nubian Desert
to Cairo.
The route has been planned so
that it will avoid zones of actual
warfare. The small part of French
territory crossed, it was said, is
controlled by Free French forces.
Transports will be available for
the return of ferry pilots and for
freighting airplane parts and other
key supplies. Land planes will be
used on the trans-African route.
The project marks the first active
entry of the Government into the
Evening star., 1941-08-20
II Ordered to Report
For Physical Tests
pecial Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, Aug. 20-The
Prince William County Selective
Service Board has ordered IL men
to report for physical examinations
this week.
DR.. John Williams today will
examine, Charles Parker, Mason
Earl Garnett and Willard Roy
Brown, Manassas; William Henry
Jones, Haymarket; Daniel Willis,
Catharpin, and Henry Wilson john
son, Gainesville.
Saturday the following white men
will be examined by DR.. j. McIyer
jackson: Francis Cannon, Virgil
Vurdine Street, Ralph Franklin Fox
and Noel Wilson Altman, Manassas:
Roy Mitchell Patterson, Wood
bridge; Wallace S. Bourne, Quantico
Evening star., 1941-08-20

operation OF a commercial air line,
it was said International airlines
of other. nations are operated al
most wholly by their governments.
In announcing the new service,
the White House said, "the import
ance OF this direct line of COM
munication" between the arsenal
of democracy" and strategic out
posts in Africa cannot be overesti-
mated"
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Nelson T. Johnson
Soils for Sydney
nv III. Associat.d prsxs

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-Nel'
son T. Johnson, new Minister tt
Australia, told interviewers yester'
day "any man is a fool to try to pre-
dict whether this country will en-
gage in a war In the Pacific"
But the Pacific situation will
work out all right in the end" N
asserted.
The veteran Far Eastern diploma
sailed for Sydney aboard the line
Monterey.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Maine Governor Asks
Two GosIess Sunduys

BY the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Me, Aug. 20.-Maine
moved today toward gasless Sum-
days
Asserting the State must save the
equivalent Of three days consump-
ton to get by the month of August
under the Federal rationing plan,
Gov. Sumner Sewall asked filling
stations to close August "a and 81.
The night blackout-7 pm. to 7
a.m.-already Is in effect in the Pine
Tree State.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
Heads Celebration Unit

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 20 (P.-
Delegate Howard Holleman of Surry
yesterday was elected chairman of
a commission created by the 1910
Legislature to arrange 1914 cele-
bration in observance of the 325th
anniversary of the first legislative
assembly in the New World at
Jamestown in 1873.
Evening star., 1941-08-20
IT TAKES
-FOUR MEN
7 0 M 4 X f
A s ALA D

Says an old Spanish proverh.
"A spendthrift for oil, miser
for vinegar, q counsellor for
salt, and a nadman to STIR
them all up.
Nowadays it takes only one
men to make a superb salad
dressing, provided he knows
about Lea g. Perrins Sauce,
the original Worcestershire.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
DAYLIGHT BOMBING

BERLIN. Feb. 1.-UNS)-Ger-
man planes successfully bombed
several "war-important" British
detectives, including airdromes.
during yesterdays daylight at
tacks. the German high command
announced today
The war bulletin said the air
drome at Wattisham was attacked
especially heavily and that ham
CARS. barracks and anti-aircraft
batteries there were hit
One factory was destroyed. the
communique added and oil tanks
at Southampton were set on fire.
Soldiers and Notifications at OK
ford Ness on the English east
coast were machine-gunned, ii was
stated.
The high command also said
German planes yesterday sank two
merchant ships totaling 10000
tons northwest of Ireland and
severely hit a 3.000-ton ship SOUTH
west of Harwich. Another 1000
ton ship was hit Lowestoft
fhfafbef. the eeHIHtHieHe said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
ATHENS CLAIMS VICTORY

ATHENS, Feb. 1.-QNS)-The
greatest single victory of the Italo-
Greek war was claimed for Hell
lenic forces today in dispatches
which told of the capture of a
great section of Italian fortiiica-
tons on the central front.
The series of Fascist positions,
captured yesterday. opens the way
for a Greek advance toward the
Plain of Berat and brings them
into a most favorable position
northeast of Valona, it was said.
Military experts in Athens said
the sweeping new victory gave
Green forces the key TO the gate
of central Albania and opened up
new potentialities for attack of
the enemys most vulnerable posi-
tons.
Italian troops north of Tepelini
estimated at more than one d.
vision-were reported to have
been isolated. and some reports
said they were desperately trying
TO break through to avoid COM
plete encirelement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
British in Libyd
Halted Rome
Ir,,rn.,,on.l N,r. ser,,ee cable

International news SerNfce NaDtc
ROME, Feb. British mechan-
lied troops, seeking TO drive west
ward into Libya, were forced to
retreat in the face of a fierce
counter-drive by Italian armored
units, the Italian high command
announced today.
Aided by dive-bombers which
strafed the British columns. the
Fascist troops forced the British
TO abandon their desert positions,
and fall back on secondary defense
lines, the war bulletin said.
Both British and Italian troops
suffered heavy losses on the north
ern frontier of Italian east Africa,
the communique reported. Italian
warplanes were reported to have
participated in the border fighting.
On the Greek front Italian
bombers were reported to have
bombed Greek troops in low
altitude attacks.
Italian torpedo-boats. operating
in the Aegean Sea. attacked an
armed convoy during the night
and sank a steamer of 10000 tons.
The italian squadron. under Com
mander Francesca Mimbelli, safely
returned TO its base despite the
heavy shell fire of the convoy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Yours respectfully,
JAMES {. FITZGIBBON

San Antonio, Texas. Jan. IS, 1871
Mr.. VIM. Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon, Calf.
Dear Sir:
A BOUT this labor and strike sit.
"A uation during these war prep
arations. Lincoln handled IL this
way.
a railroad strike in New York
state halted delivery OF military
supplies.
He finally sent for the heads OF
railroad and labor, and when they
appeared he said:
rGentlemcR: / am going
TO place you under arrest,
and make It imperative for
p hours. n you hdueR't
concluded the trouble in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Nazi BomberS
Over Liverpool
International New, service cabIe

thffhhttohat NtNs sffNttr tabf
LONDON, Feb. Sweeping
far inland. German warplanes
this afternoon were reported over
Liverpool and east Anglican towns.
First dispatches reported that
bombs were dropped in the east
Anglican area Up until mid-after-
noon, no raid warnings had
sounded in London.
German air activity over the
British Isles during the night was
confined to armed reconnaissance,
the air ministry reported.
There was slight enemy air
activity In the early hours OF
darkness last night but no
bombs %ere dr0pDed," war
bulletin said. apart from this
there Is nothing to report"
II was understood that weather
conditions over the continent pre-
vented Raj bombing activity last
night
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Saturday Symposium

that time, you both 90 to
jail -
Your Uncle Sam must cease to
be Santa Claus to any set of men,
but IL may and should be his job
to keep order II local authorities
fail.
He who will not pillow because
of the cold, will beg at harvest.
Yours very truly,
r. J. HOLMGREEN,
1877 Waharton st.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01

Sweeping over half the world
Like a flaming meteor.
Silver fingers point the way
As anti-aircraft rend the sky;
Christ was born on Christmas Day
And helpless millions doomed to
die.
Yet. they kneel in fervent prayer;
God have mercy on their plight;
Cries of anguish fill the air
Death has found its mark tonight
peace on earth" the living sing
From the ruins of Coventry
GhOstly figures listening
Laugh in hollow mockery.
MARTIN +. OWENS,
800 Lafayette Bldg, Detroit, Mich
$50 Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, Jan. 10. 1871.
A LETTER WRITTEN 118
YEARS AGO
My Dear Mr.. Hearst:
I HAVE read so many interesting
i letters in your column all OF
which were written this very era.
How would you like to have your
readers view an Illuminating vital
and penetrating letter that was
written on Feb. 10. 1928, or about
11S years ago" This letter was
written by Sidney Smith to Count
ess Gray and il is as apropos as IL
the epistle was penned today. Here
IL is:
For Gods sake. do not
drag ne into another 1Cdr.
I am UorH dOlCn and 1Corn
ont cith ctusddiRg and de-
feadiRg Europe and pro-
tectihg mankind. / am
SorrH for the SpaRinrdS. l
am sorry for the Greeks. I
deplore the fate Of the JeaCS.
The people, Of the Sand
Wicb Islands are grooming
mlder the most deteStdble
+ tyranny. Bdgddd is OPP
pressed. I do not like the
present state Of the Delta.
Tibet is not comfortable.
Am I to fight for all
these people? The World is
bursting with sin and sor-
rOW. Am | to be the cham
pion Of the DecalOg and to
be eterRalIy raising fleets
and armies to make oil men
good and happy? We hare
Just done SaUiag Europe,
and I am afraid that the
consequence lCiH be that nee
shall all cut each Others
Threats"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
S709 West Olympic Blvd,


Los Angeles, Cal.
January %, 1871.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
I HAVE just finished reading your
i editorial In today's Examiner
In regards to John Nance Garner.
The thoughts expressed by you
In today's Examiner coincide with
mine 100So. Tonly wish that I had
the ability to express my thoughts
in the fine manner in which you
have expressed yours. I would like
you TO further know that I am a
southern Democrat, born and
raised in Texas, and l can remem-
Der years back when l disagreed
with many things that you APP
proved of. am afraid. as you
limited in your column, that per-
haps you and Nance Garner and
myself and some twenty million
other people in this country are
out Of step, but at any rate it is
very pleasing to me and a great
many other people to have a
champion Of real democracy, who
still has the courage and the news
papers to voice our thoughts.
1 personally would not know
how long you would be able to ex-
ercise freedom of the press, but !
sincerely hope and trust that SO
long as you have that privilege
that you continue.
With kindest regards and best
wishes, | am
Yours sincerely,
CHASE TRAWEEK
239 f. Main ST.,
New Rochelle, n. Y
Jan. 81. 1871.
Mr.. William X. Hearst,
San Simeon, Cal.
Dear Sir:
TOR twenty-eight years, 1 have
i read your New York Ameri-
can Oately JOurnal-American) and
after having read your two great
columns of yesterday and today
I'm the News" l can congratulate
myself for being so smart.
Please, at your earliest cOnven-
fence, at the above address, mail
me a frameable photograph OF
yourself. | honestly assure you. II
will be displayed and kept in my
shop, in the most prominent place,
as long as I will be alive.
Quoting Dante:
tn sci 10 MIC maestro, 10
MIC dutOre. tn sci solo
cOlui, dd Ell 10 tolsi 10 belIo
Stiie che m'he fdtto OHOre."
Please. repeat those articles
May be the legislative part of our
government might get TO read
them and heed them.
Very respectfully yours,
SALVATORE AMOROSO.
p. s. Don't forget your picture,
Thank you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
'rain Gnds for All Out Daylight Bombngs Increase
Italian
|TrOOpship
Sunk
international New. Service Gable

international News Service Cable
BELGRADE, Feb Am I'M
identified submarine, believed to
be Greek or British, sank an Ital-
liam troopship in the Adriatic Sea
off the Yugoslavian port of Bar
near the northern Albanian border
dispatches reaching Belgrade said
today.
Two other Italian troopships
travelling in the same convoy
lodged torpedoes and safely
reached an Albanian port, the dis
patches said.
There was no indication whether
the sunken transport was carrying
troops.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01


Mr.. William Randolph Hearst.
San Simeon, Calf.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
VOU publish a letter from w. r.
j Farrell of Chicago advocating
a revitaIized League of Nations,
The following defects may be
found In the League concept:
1t contravenes the democratic
principle of government by pop
ular and majority rule, since in a
league the state constitutes the
unit whereas in "A democracy the
individual is the unit. Small states
such as Panama or Switzerland
would exercise a. much authority
as the United States. which con-
tains 1871 100000 people. Hence.
there is no representation in pro-
portion to population. Moreover,
the implied or explicit right of a
member state to secede or with
draw renders the hope of perma-
nency delusive.
Nevertheless. league organized
simply as a consultative, mediatOry
and research agency-a debating
society, IL you please-might
evolve into something more effec-
tive. On the basis proposed the
United States would join without
commitment a. to military or
economic sanctions and I suspect
that you would then personally
approve of our adherence.
Very truly,
NJ. \. GOLDSTONE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01

Schodaek Landing, y. u.
Jan. %, I941
Mr.. W. X. Hearst,
San Simeon, Cal.
Dear Sir:
or ALL the papers that abuse
" the freedom OF press yours
1 think are the worst. Their work
In connection with discrediting
and finally disintegrating OF
League OF Nations will stand
against them for long time to
come. Glad Mr.. w. +. Farrell
brought IL up. For these reasons
and numerous others, l have not
got too much love for your publ
cations and the only reason why !
subscribe TO them is because my
kids like the funny sheets and
when I want TO know what the
other side has to say. I'll apologize
for this when time or you will
prove that l was wrong.
However, in all fairness IL must
be said that your article on Messrs
Roosevelt and Wilikie parties
should be framed by every citizen
and read when election time
comes around again. II ought to
serve as damper on the excite
ment.
In this era OF great powerful
men, striving TO build empires or
keep them, when there is so much
talk about destruction of civiliza-
ton that keeps us on the bug
house doorsteps, IL is relief to
read about a man that really was
great. History of George Washing
ton in your I'm the News" column
timely and patriotic.
used to live in n country OF
little humble men ruled by great
men. l had TO sing Colt erhaltt
Gott beshutze unser Kaiser unseI
land, understand now Kaiser first
land last people not mentioned and
even had to fight TO preserve
that system. May be some people
liked II. may be some did not, but
sure heard lots of 'em talk about
America, a country where all the
men were great as long as they
made an honest living. We'll
George Washington too could have
them singing George first you
last" IL was offered to him.
He did not want that. His mind
was not set on a great powerful
empire whereby to keep all the
neighbors scared out of their wits
he did net want TO dominate the
world, he only wanted to be a cit.
izen Of great country, full OF
happy people whose motto is Live
and let live" He fought for that
ideal and wonder u anything less
than that is worth fighting for.
Sincerely yours.
JOSEPH SUKUP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE

Silent night. holy night.
Bombers droning overhead;
God In heaven. stay their flight.
Ere they leave a swath of dead,
Scattered DER the countryside.
In the village. down the glen.
Faithful sing this Christmastide,
peace on earth, goodwill towar,
men,"
Crimson banners are unfurled
BY the fearsome hand of war,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Very Sincerely yours,
CHAS. MELVILLE MUELLER,
Retired Sergeant Of Police, City OF
Chicago.

January IS, 194I.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
You are a voice In the wilder
i ness. I pray every day that
nothing nor no one will silence
that voice.
In the midst OF the general hys-
terra Of pro this and pro that and
con this and con that, II Is won
derfuI to find someone who has
kept his head, and who Is purely
and simply pro-American.
Someone who has the good of
our country at heart, and Is sin
cerely DESTROYS OF keeping us out
Of foreign entangIements.
Someone who remembers what
the last war cost us, and who
wants TO prevent our making the
same mistake again.
Please, Mr.. Hearst, continue
blasting away with your truths.
They may penetrate through the
general fog of propaganda intoxi-
cation, and sober up few of our
people.
Continue being pro-American;
snti-war and genuinely sane.
We can do with huge doses of
these things nowadays.
With appreciation and gratitude,
Sincerely,
G. II. CREWS.
r. s. There Is too much war
propaganda on the screen these
days. Can't something be done
about this? These hate" films are
doing more to stir our people up TO
war fever than anything else.
4 Movies should be for entertain
ment and rclaxation--not one
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
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cure: and above all, the
British ports had to be
guarded at all costs-eUen
though the Germans Were
not attacking England. ;"
"The answer of the Brit
iSh officers should be con-
sidered carefully, because
IL is Just such a policy of
home defense first, from
1chich England IS noU ask
ing America to devidte. In
other words. When France
needed aid, Britain refused
to sacrifice her home de-
lenses, bat noW that IL is
the British themselves that
need the aid, Americans
are told that such a policy is
unsound. We are told that
Britain is our first line of
defense; that ne should
give them our planes and
our WarShips. But, If this is
the better policy, ,Ohy aooS
not France Britdin's first
line of defense?
"The dns1Uer is simple.
The British knoU that a
home defense first policy
is Sound-ther brilliant
stand against Germany
these past sir months has
proved that. But naturally,
for their oi0n reasons, Eng
land does not rant America
to adopt it,"
NArx Gs.nArAlx,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
Appropriation Bill Passes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-QNS)
The House passed today a
S1.404. 275,8 1913 appropriation bill to
finance the operations of indepen-
dent federal agencies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
T. o. Box 1870. San Francisco,

Jan. ~, lJ4l.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon. Cal.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
TN YOUR column of Jan. 20. 1941,
you have brought to public at
tention a most significant fact
that citizens opposed to such cur
rent policies as destruction OF
states rights. Specialization of pri-
vate property and intervention in
foreign wars have no party to rep
resent them.
And on the next day you
showed that, although 88 per cent
OF the people favor keeping out OF
such foreign wars, the leaders OF
both of our ma jOr parties are ad-
vocating measures that possess
every potentially of involving us
therein.
The writer and several of his as
sOciates have believed ever since
last November that a new party,
TO be known a. the American
Party or something similar. should
be formed before our country is
completely wrecked; and, despite
the magnitude of the task, have
frequently discussed the advisa-
bility of attempting to form one.
II may be proper TO add that the
writer is a member of the Sons OF
the American Revolution and OF
the state bar of California. He has
been in the employ of a San Fran
cisco publishing company for the
last ten years, and is still so en-
plOyed. He is 81 years of age.
Yours truly.
W. F. HARDENBURG, Director
January II, 1941
Editor OF the Examiner:
hNR. HEARST'S very interesting
IVA and timely article OF above
date, dealing with the Tories and
traitors Of Revolutionary Wal
days, states:
"These Tories Were, as a
rule, the society cijqueS or
the financial classes WhO
enjoyed some advantages
from English yuie.'
This shows how little we have
changed in 165 years.
These same groups today are
most active in trying to beguile us
again into Britain's war.
In every dispute-between our
country and England, they are on
England's side.
At this critical time, patriotic
Americans should study and follow
the inspired advice given by
George Washington i'm his farewell
speech TO Congress.
Fortunately, the fifth column
nists who opposed the revolution.
AIRY patriots did not prevail.
In Washington's time, the dis.
loyal Americans did not hold any
important office. hence the worst
they could do was cOnspire TO lose
a battle or surrender a fort, and
the genius. the patriotism and the
honesty of the immortal Washing
ton triumphed.
God save America. -
r. G. HUNTER,
f24i 31st Ave, San Francisco
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-01
GRAHAM Masses
$4,000 10 Stem
British Drive
BY W. p. SAPPHIRE
Intl New. seryie. stan Correspondent


CAIRO. Feb. 1.-Amid official
British acknowledgment of stiff
fleming Italian resistance west OF
the fallen Fascist base of Derna.
Marshal Rodolfo GRAHAM today
was reported massing $4,000 troops
at Bengazi for an attempt to check
the westward British drive across
Libya.
Although few dispatches from
the desert front trickled into
Cairo. the British command re-
ported that operations were con-
tinuing to develop to "our advan-
tage." Royal Air Force bombers
were reported carrying out heavy
raids on Italian bases in western
Cyrenaica.