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Evening star., 1941-07-20
Information on Plot
Awaited Eagerly Here
Ey the Associated Press

bS me ASSOCIATED Press.
DR.. Don Luis Fernando Guachal-
ls. the Bolivian Minister, and State
Department officials eagerly awaited
offlcial information on the reported
totalltarian plot in Bolivia and the
ensuing governmental action.
The country furnishes supplies Of
tin and tungsten. an alloy for hard
enlng steel, which are vital in the
United States defense economy and
the British aid program.
The Metals Reserve Corp. q
subsidiary of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, contracted last
February for sufficient Bolivian
concentrates to smelt 1900 tons
of fine tin annually for the reXt
five years. In this connection a
snelter is being built at Galveston
Tex.
In May the Metals Reserve Corp
announced a s25,G00000 deal for
Bolivian tungsten which would give
this country virtually the entire
Bolivian output of this important
armament ore, about 4,400 tons q
year, for the next three years.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Warning of Gun Practice
In Three Areas Issued
Nv tho Associated presS

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy Department warned
shipping yesterday of practice gun
firing off Fort Monroe, Va, Fort
Hancock, N. j., and Camp Pendle-
ton, Va.
The Fort Hancock exercises will
be held in the daylight hours from
July 81 to August l. inclusive, ex-
cept July 27. with the danger area
extending 10000 yards off Sandy
Hook Light.
The danger area at Fort Monroe
will extend 10000 yards offshore
from Old Point Comfort Light
house, the firing to continue from
July 81 to 26, inclusive.
The Camp Pendleton firing will
take place July 81 to Is, inclusive,
and July % to August 8. inclusive.
and will extend q distance Of 10000
yards on Rudy Inlet.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Wartime Restrictions
On Swiss,ReIaxed BY
German Trade Pact
Nozis Also Are Granted
Freedom of Choice in
Purchase of Products
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERN, July 19-After six weeks
OF negotiations, Germany and
Switzerland concluded today COM
mercial agreement which from the
first official outline appeared to re-
lax to some degree wartime reStric-
tions which were threatening Sc
rlously to cripple the foreign trade
by which Switzerland lives.
Some observers said, however, that
the practical benefits would depend
somewhat on how the agreement is
administered. The administrative
regulations have not yet been is
sued.
A communique said Germany was
granted the privilege of buying mer-
chandise according to its choice
and within certain limits" a pro-
vision termed by one foreign source
as an unequal arrangement not
accorded other nations.
From the Swiss viewpoint one Of
the most important clauses of the
accord which extends until the end
of 1912 the clearing arrangement
between the two countries, is a
provision eXempting certain goods,
including fine watch movements
and some electrical machinery
from requirement of German per-
mits for export and reducing what
a communique described as him
drances in delivery of transit GER
tificates.
1t was recently reported that Ger
man authorities had virtually
stopped granting transit permits
which were required beginning Sep
tember l, 1910. as CONFERENCE.-THE
TO the British blockade and were
extended the following october 10
cover shipments through France.
The list of products for which
permits were required covered al
most the entire field of Swiss man.
ufactures and especially affected the
watch industry, the exports OF
which to the United States alone
formerly constituted a third of Swiss
exports.
While the communiQue SAID
Switzerland is able to obtain great
facilities for the export of its prod
ucts to third countries the state
ment gave scant information as tC
what Switzerland would furnish
Germany in return.
1t said Switzerland would de-
liver cattle. fruits and "a certain
quantity of milk products. but il
did not mention manufactures
Nothing was said of reports that
Germany was asking credits for the
purchase of Swiss goods and that
large number of skilled Swiss
workmen were at work in German
factories.
Other major terms included:
German-SWiss clearing arrange
hnents are extended to cover Alsace-
Lorraine, Luxembourg and German
territory in Yugoslavia. They con-
t1nue to cover Belgium, the Meth
erlsnds and Norway.
Germany agreed to furnish coal
and iron to Switzerland to the end
of 1912 and promised moreover
that deliveries would continue even
after that time"
Germany agreed to facilitate i'm
ports of motor fuel from the Bal
kans, where Switzerland had large
reserves in Budapest, and imports
from the occupied territories.
Germany will deliver sugar. seeds.
potatoes, alcohol and poultry feed.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Accused Man Slain
In Texas Courtroom
Pvfhe Ac,ocia.aG prnss

bE IIt AE~Ot.t "a FFFNN.
WICHITA FALLS, Tex, July 19.
Burt Thprmond. 81. shot and
killed Harold Reynolds. % in the
county courtroom today as Reynolds
awaited a sanity hearing in con-
nection with an alleged morals Of
fense against MI. Thurmond's 10
year-old son.
Mr.. Thurmond was charged with
murder and released on $1,000 bail
signed by volunteer bondSmen
Deputy Sheriff j. j. McCarter. who
disarmed him. said Mr.. Thurmond
shot Reynolds twice in the chest
Reynolds attorney had asked the
sanity hearing.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Pennsylvania Town
Joins " for Victory
Drive Aqoinst Nozis
Ey the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
INDIANA, Pa. July by"
for Victory Day" on the Ger
man-occupied European Conti-
nent will have its counterpart
In this placid western Penn
sylvania community.
High on the Indiana County
Court House, a 10-foot alumni
num-painted w" was placed
this evening. 300 feet above the
heads of curious toWnsmen who
were quick to grasp its signifi-
canoe. The usual crowd of Sat-
urday night shoppers and thea
ter-goers stopped and craned
necks at the sign. bathed in
the glare of several f1oodlights.
The originator of the idea,
Alex Stewart OF Indiana, said
the sign would stay UP till wars
end.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Berlin
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'COnllnueQ from F1rSt Page.)
northern shores of Lake Ladoga)
and in the vicinity of Kiev tobjec-
! tive of Ukrainian offensive are
no less significant"
Dienst declared that on all three
sectors of the Baltic Black Sea
front German military observers re-
ported the Russians last reserves
were moving into action.
With numerous counterthrusts.
it said. they seek TO hold up the
German advance or get out of more
or less complete encirclement oper-
atiOnS. The action requires the
utmost ability on both sides to work
out problems in strategy Perhaps
never before in military history have
such complicated considerations
been presented to general staffs"
Germans express belief that they
hold the advantage in these prob
lens, regarding both their leader
ship and discipline as superior TO
the Russians.
Red Confusion Stressed.
Escaping encirclement movements
over vast terrain requires good
communications, and the Germans
report Russian military communi-
cations right at the front are al
most completely disrupted.
Confusion in Red Army ranks is
stressed in Nazi reports. and pris-
oners are quoted as telling of the
destruction of aerial. rail. highway
and wire services, largely by the
Luftwaffe.
At one point, Germans said. Rus
SLAMS were so uncertain of the po-
sition of their own and German
forces that one Soviet division start
ed firing on another.
Correspondence of a Soviet po-
litical commissar seized in bunker
| presumably in the Stain Line)
consisted partly of letters to Mos
cow complaining of lack of planes
and telephone lines, the Germans
said.
Today's communique devoted a
brief sentence to fighting on the
Bessarabian Ukrainian frontier:
German and Rumanian troops ad-
vancing from Bessarabia forced a
crossing over the DnieSter in sew
eral places"
Previously the Dniester had been
reported crossed days ago.
Students Declared Captured.
From the northern sector the
| Germans announced the capture of
| a large part of the student body of
the Leningrad Military Academy.
The students, who had hoped to get
commissions in the Soviet Army,
were armed only with training
weapons when they were called from
classes and thrown into the fight
ing, Germans said.
A dispatch from Smolensk said
! that city was smoking scene of
desolation. wrecked and burned by
retiring Russian troops.
1t charged that hundreds of dead
were found in the city's jailS, ldep-
tifying them as persons accused of
treachery by the Russians and killed
as the German approached.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Mop-Moking Soldiers
Rescued by Boy Scouts

By the Associeted Press.
ROCKLAND, Mass, July l9-
Thanks to a group of Rockland Boy
Scouts, so map-making soldiers from
Camp Edwards reached their OBJ
jective.
The Scouts reported they came on
the soldiers poring over maps in
unfamiliar territory. amid miles of
scrub pines and ponds. Spreading
their own maps. the Scouts, with the
aid of pocket compasses. directed the
lost battalion" to its destination.
The soldiers were on a map
making assignment.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

An estimated 100000 homes in
the United States, some in New
York City, still are lighted by kero-
Sene lamps.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Bolivia

CONTINUED From First Page J
Evening star., 1941-07-20

about 20 tanks were destroyed. The
remnants retreated toward their ad-
vance motor troops, which were now
approaching our town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10

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 where in Germany and in Rus. sia you see labor enslaved," he said, you also behold religion suppressed. Labor can never calmly stand aside and behold religion oppressed with out realizing with tindeniable logic that labor itself X the next slated victim"
 He branded Communist pAcpa- gandistS as O sixth column" which, he said, was "writhing its slimy way into the deliberations of labor councils, into the p.annings of poli- ticians, into the very precincts of our legislative halls, and into the bureaucratic chambers of our cen- tralized government.
 Exert every seffort to stamp 1t our Or know, men of labor, that your movement is doomed and unionism is condemned to die," he said,
 The AFL executive council has recommended that the convention approve aid to Russia as practical and expedient but without the slightest pretense that the United States and Soviet Russia are or can be friends"
 Convention action on the council report Is expected next week.
 Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury Herbert E. Gaston yesterday warned the convention that still heavier taxation for the American people Is mot only possible, but probable"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10

 us carry the fight into France. Let us fight on the beaches and every where the German raises his beaStly head"
 British sources reported that Brit ish and American ships were now arriving daily in the Persian gulf with supplies a good part Of which was destined for Russia.
 (The British radio, heard in New York by the United Press listening post, said that 2O00 trucks had ar- rived in the gulf and that improved railroad service in Iran would per- init the transport of 5000 tons of material a day for Russta.)
 Reflects Public Opinion
 The newspaper demand for the creation of new front in aid of Russia was . reflection of popular sentiment.
 A United Press canvass of ordi- nary men and women in London showed that the cor1census was about as follows:
 When are we going to do Sone- thing? Russia is in serious situa- ton and 1t is time we swung into action instead of sitting idly by pre- dieting that Russia will take care of Hitler"
 It was forecast that if Churchill permitted a. commons debate on Shinwell's question there would be demands from all parts of the house, Conservative as well as Labor and Liberal, for immediate British military action on the continent which might relieve pressure on Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10

(Conti1ued rom Page I)
 ton conversations will result in . guarantee of Japan's objectives in East Asia.
 Japanese military authorities and high government officials were busy speeding up emergency preparations, particularly air raid precautions and food storage arrangements which the press said would put Japan on g complete w9r-time footing to meet an early crisis.
 Japan News-Week, which often reflects foreign ofacial opinion, urged that defense authorities con- struct additional air raid shelters for civilians. Already air raid shell terS are being built in public parks and near government ofiices. on. cials embarked on a program of radio lectures to the nation on procedure to be followed in a l2- day air raid drill which starts Sum- day.
 Japanese military reports insisted that the autumn offensive in China has rendered 6 fatal blow" to Chunkking'S troops, thus freeing Japanese forces for duty elsewhere. !"
 The press. envisaging an early decision in the Russo German war, cautioned that the materials which Japan requires as Q result of the Anglo American Dutch embargoes can be obtained for the most part only in the South Pacific.
 However, some editorials noted that the Anglo-American stand against Japan is primarily in the South Pacific rather than the North Pacific and suggest that "any meas ureS Japan might be forced to adopt" in the north to meet the changing situation" might prove less objectionable to Washington and London than a southward move.
 Some newspapers, predicting Rus sia's collapse, said that in the past the United States has abandoned" all the nations to which 1t has prom ised aid as soon as their military resistance ended.
 A large group of German news agency men, embassy and commer- cial experts arrived at Yokohama from Mexico, indicating that the Germans may be preparing to draft new economic plans for Japan predicated on the possibility that Russian collapse will end Japans isolation from Germany.
 The German economic Avnark Hellmuth Wolthat, still is here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 10-The outstanding work being accom- piished by 6 regiment of Connecti- cut Red Cross men and women, trained and prepared to safeguard the life and health of state civil iRns, Is cited by Eastern Connecti- cut Field Representative Harry T.. Bredenberg in the current issue Of the Connecticut State Medical Jour- nal.
 Behind the front lines of United States defenseS a civilian army Of more than 100000 American Red Cross volunteers is swinging into action," he states in an article writ ten for the Journal of the Con- necticut State Medical society. Thousands of Connecticut m n and women have regiment all their own in this great battle force"
 The volunteers are assigned the tasks of aiding army men and their families adjust to difficulties caused by Selective Service; maintaining field directors at military stations and special workers at military hos pitals: collecting blood plasma; pro- viding millions of surgical dressings and performing applied duties.
 Tn the fiscal year just closed there were trained in Connecticut of other women and girls all the eime," said Bredenberg. Adult holders of Red Cross First Aid cer- tificates during that same period numbered 8,535 and new classes are constantly increasing the total"
 He states that IS chapters of the organization in the state have al- ready organized motor corps while volunteer nurses aides are assisting doctors and nurses in hospitals. Many physicians aid the program to instruct in first aid.
 Bredenberg says that "Connecti- cut chapters are active in enrolling medical technologistS for the Army and Navy and in the southern part
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10
MISSING BOYS
 CASE CLOSED
Continued from Page D

in Denver, was blamed by Supt. Roach for the brothers flight from a Denver hotel. Police missed them by only 8 few hours, going to the hotel after a request by Suppl Roach, sent by air mail Tuesday morning, that they be picked up and told that their parents wanted them to come home.
 The boys mother told police that George had been afraid he would be called in the draft. When he turned in his questionnaire he told friends that he said he was suffering from heart and lung ailmncts.
 Second Letter Received
 Capt. Hugh Cunningham of the fire department, who furnished po- lice with the first clue that the boys were alive, received 8 second letter from the pair yesterday. Postmarked at Denver, 1t said:
 Dear Hugh,
 Sorry to put you through all
 that trouble. We appreciate your
 help very much.
 Please tell our folks not to
 write any more letters.
 Tom and Charles Jurgins.
 F. s. We got your letter"
 "JurginS" was a name used by the boys. Capt. Cunningham said he had not written to them.
 Left. Sept. 10
 The boys left Waterbury for Q camping trip to New Hampshire Sept. 10. They were last seen Sept. l3. The following day 8 canoe they had rented was found overturned on the shore of Lake Winnepesaukee, near Laconia, N. H. The boys car, camping equipment, clothing and about $7 in money was found at their camp and 1t was supposed they had been drowned.
 Monday Capt. Cunningham re- ceived letter from Denver in hand writing identified as that of one of the brothers, and informed their parents and the police Monday night. That same night Mrs. Vosy- lius sent the boys the letter that led them to flee from Denver. Their hotel room was found empty yes- terday morning by Denver detec- tives.
 First news that the boys were alive and safe, instead of having been drowned, was published Tuesday in the Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10
CORNERSTONE OF
 CHURCH TO BE LAID
Continued from Page D


 Ground for the new church was broken on June IS, l041, after the state had concluded negotiations with Rev. Jerome Cook relative to the sale of the first church, which has since been taken down to make way for the new highway that will connect Beacon Falls with Nauga- tuck and Waterbury.
 The new church is stone struc- ture, built of Chelmsford granite and specially designed to take care of not only the spiritual needs of the congregation but also, with its new type of basement hall, the so- cial activities of the parish.
 The architect is Joseph A. Jack son of New Haven, who has de- signed Q number of churches in this diocese. By a strange coinci- dence MT. Jackson was the archi- tect for the first St. Michael'S al- most fifty years ago.
 The Abbadessa Construction Com- pany of New Haven is doing the general contract work for the new church, which is expected to be ready by Christmas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10
GERMANS STILL
 BREAK THROUGH
tContinued from Page l)


 The Germans started a big scale attack Wednesday, the agency said, when artillery opened 6 barrage on woods and thickets through which the Russians were attempting to retreat.
 At the same time, 1t was assert ed, German machine guns inflict- ed heavy casualties on Russians who tried to resist.
 "Thousands of Russian corpses were left on the battlefield" the agency said.
 German infantry carried out a flanlxing attack and drove the Rus- sians into "the middle of g pocket" where they received the full weight of concentric blows," the agency related.
 "Only a few wounded Russians survived and were captured" it added.
 It was asserted that the German air force was ceaselessly attacking Russian railroads in order to pre-. vent the arrival of achievements or the retreat of large Russian units and that at least 20 railroad trains had been destroyed yesterday.
 Russian locomotive and arma. ment works in the Donets river basin were said to have been at tackled heavily.
 Informants reported that Nazi armored units were ripping relent- lessly into death traps" in which hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were isolated.
 Infantry masses were pouring through the Russian lines behind the tanks, making good official German statements that mNitarily Russia was through, it was said.
 Informants, though they report. ed Russian resistance broken, ad. mitted that big and severe battles were to come. These battles, they insisted, would only indicate the desperation of vain Russian at- temptS to escape.
 They said they were confident that within a few days the high command would be able to an- nounce the capture of hundreds of thousands of Russia's best troops and inestimable quantities of war material.
 It was as yet unclear, informants said, whether Adolf Hitler would seek to press on in an attempt to capture the great industrial centers of Moscow, Leningrad and the Don Basin before winter set in.
 Hitler had said in his order of the day to the attacking German forces, that this was the last great decisive battle of the year. This generally was interpreted to mean that 1t was the last battle intended to crack effective resistance be- fore winter. What new operations If any y- Hitler envisaged within the next few weeks in the event that he succeeded in making good his plans on the central front, were known only to him and the high command.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10
Press Dispatches Say Encirclement Hindered
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Moscow was not only to stop the enemy but ito break his power by mass destruction"
 "BOld counter-attaclEs are Iaeets ing the enemy offensive in the di- rection of vyam1a," the newspaper said.
 The Red Star added: 'The Fas- cist command haStened to betcg and deceive the German people by declaring that all roads were open to Moscow. But thousands Of new graves of German officers and men and thousands of new hospital trains enroute to Germany deny this delirium,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10
ALUMINIUM co.
 RESOLVED TODAY
Federal Judge Needed 9 Days to Dictate His
 Decision

New York, October 10-(UP) - A decision, which had taken Fed eral Judge Francis G. Caffey g days to dictate, today absolved the Aluminium Company of America and 48 other defendants of charges of violating the sherman anti- trust law. 4y
 "The evidence compels the con- clusion that it has not been shown that Alcoa is guilty of any viola ton of the Sherman act as was charged in the governments bill; that the government has failed to prove its charges in any of the three phases into which 1t divided the case: namely: CD monopoliza- ton, (2) conspiracy, and (3 other misconduct" Judge Caffey ruled.
 Tn my judgment, 1t would be greatly contrary to the public in- terest to dissolve or enjoin Alcoa. There is no warrant in the fact or in law for dissolving Alcoa. l have assumed since found out what the case before me was that whatever the decision, there would be an appeal. That is a great com- fort to me, recognizing as I do my responsibility, although my deci- sion is right"
 Thus Judge Caffey disposed of the department of justices action, begun April 23, 1887. to dissolve Alcoa and split Is holdings among four new corporations that would engage competitively in various branches of the Aluminium industry. The trial opened on Jurie l, 1888, and the evidence, when 1t was completed last March 12, amounted to 4o,7o8 pages. Another 4-787 printed pages were filed to cover 1903 exhibits.
 The defendants included Alcoa; Aluminium, Ltd, a Canadian cor- poration headed by Edward K. Davis, brother of Arthur V. Davis, chairman of Alcoa; Three Aluri- mum, It., Ofticials Aluminium Man. ufacturers, Inc, Aluminium Goods Manufacturing company, and sev- eral Alcoa ofiicials and other. sub- sidiarieS.
 Judge Caffey said there were adequate supplies of bauxtite and water power in this country for competitors to enter the aluminium manufacturing field, and competi- tors might expect to meet compe- tition, but the Sherman act was intended to encourage competition, not stif1e 1t.
 Thurman Arnold, head of the de- partment of justice antitrust de- cision, announced that he would appeal the decision.
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