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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
ARCH RODGERS
 t DIES IN N. Y.
United Press Foreign Edi- tor Passes Away Today
 After an Operation

New York, Oct. IA (UP)-Arch Rodgers, foreign editor of the Unit ed Press, died in the Mount Vernon hospital on his 42nd birthday anni- versary today after an emergency operation for pancreatic hemor- rhage.
 Rodgers was native of Missouri and a graduate of the University in that state. He had represented the United Press as correspondent ir South America and Europe for a decade before returning to the New York bureau to direct news reports going to paprs in foreign countries.
 Before joining the United Press Rodgers worked for the Peoria (Ill) Journal, the San Angelo (Texas) Standard, and the Sweetwater (Texas) Reporter. He entered the United Press foreign department in 1925 and went to Buenos Aires in the same year.
 Rodgers had sailed for Argentina on 40 hours notice. He remained there a year and was transferred to Rio De Janeiro at a time when transatlantic flyers were swarming down on that Brazilian port from Europe, by way of Africa. During thi: | period he also covered the sinking of the s. s. Principeasa Mafalda, sea disaster that kept him and hiS staff at their desks for 60 hours.
 From South America, Rodgers went to Paris and there joined the staff of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Tn 1928 he re- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
FRANK s. COSKEY
 HEARS FROM N. Y.
Boxing Commission to Give Hearing to Coskey;
 Wright EmbrOgliO

Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. 14.-UP)- Athletic Commissioner Prank s. Coskcy said today he had been ro- tified the New York; state boxing commission would hold a hearing Friday on the refusad of Feather weight Champion Chalky Wright to go through with lS-round title bout here against Bobby (Poison) Ivy Sept. 90.
 John J. Phelan, chairman of the New York commission, wrote Coskey he had talked with Wright's man. ager, Eddie Walker, who was sus- pended last week in Connecticut and that "he made certain state- ments relative to the agreement which was made to box Ivy, and this commission deems advisable that further hearing be held"
 Walker had charged that while his signature appeared on the con- tract, he had never seen the agree ment, nor was he acquainted with the etrms 1t contained.
 Coskey, after suspending Walker, and Wright, asked the NBA to fol- low through in A other states, but Abe Greene, president of the asSo- ciation adopted the same attitude as that of the New York commission and preferred to look further into the contract before issuing a gen. eral suspension.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
AMERICAN WAR
 SUPPLIES SPEED
They Are Crossing to Russ sia Rapidly Now; COn-
 fidence in Soviet Armies
BY JOHN R. BEAL
Limited Press staff Corresuondent

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Washington, Oct. 14.-(UP)-The speeding of American tanks, planes and trucks to Russia coincided today with the start of Senate hearings on the new $5, ,9e5 ,o00, 900 lend-lease appropriation bill and reports that additional financial aid for the So- viet may be announced soon.
 Lend-lease Administrator Ed ward R. Stettinius was scheduled to testify in private before 8 sem ate appropriations subcommittee on the appropriation bill which lead CTS hope to bring to the Senate floor for debate early next week.
 President Roosevelt emphasized the extent of American aid to the Soviet republic by the unusual pro- cedure of issuing a statement re- vealing that constant stream ot American supplies is flowing to Rus sia, including large shipping during the last few days
 Simultaneously informed admin istration quarters reported that new financial aid would be announced shortly. No details were available So far Russia has been loaned $l0,. 100000 through an advance on golc purchases.
 Congressional leaders who visited the White House yesterday for 6 conference on the lend-leaSe ap- propriation pictured the President 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14

Fl Paso, Tex, Oct. 14.--(UP)-- Eldon Gerald Smith, a Colorado rancher who defied a draft board and then enlisted, said today that he had won a moral victory. He had proved that government red tape is not sacred.
 Smith, 'the stubbornest man" with whom officials said they ever had to deal, was spending his first week in the army pushing mop at the Fort Bless reception center where he arrived Friday.
 smith, who is 3l, had refused to fill out his questionnaire. He told the Eagle county, Colo, draft board that as much as he favored the draft and the defense program, 1t was none of the boards business how much money he earned. Their pIeadings and those Of the United States. district attorney failed to budge him.
 He was indicted for violating the selective service act and faced con- viction when Attorney General Francis Riddle anashad the indiear
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
Nazi HOrdes Smashing With All Their Strength
 to Beat Down SOviets RED ARMIES CRASH
 BACK INVADING NAzIS FrightfuI Losses Being ln- flicted on Germans as
 They Keep Moving On
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, October IA. (UP) - Russian and Ger. man forces are fighting a ferocious and passibly decis- i've battle in the BorodinG area, 70 miles from the out skirts of Moscow, where Na- poleon 129 years ago won the battle which opened the way to the city but cost him his empire, authoritative inform ants said today.
 Advices received here said the Germans had driven their nassed tank wedge to Mozhaisk, only 63 miles from the suburbs of Moscow and seven miles closed to the capi- tai than Boridino, but 1t was added that the Russians, presenting a stone wall defense, had thrown the Germans back with heavy losses.
 The Germans were reported drtv- ing with all their strength on a narrow front in an attempt to ex- ploit recent gains.
 At Mozhaisl, 1t was said, the Ger mans met a powerful and determ- ined Russian force which stopped them and then threw them out of the village.
 Heavy fighting was reported ccr- tinuing in the vicinity.
 Make Some Progress
 The Germans were reported to be making some progress" in a new drive toward Moscow from the Rzhev area, 1s5 miles to the north- west.
 Tn the Bryansk- -Oreal sector, where the Germans were driving on the Russian capital from the south- west. 1t was reported authoritatively that despite the strength and sav- agery of the attack the Russians appeared to have the situation in nand.
 Authoritative advices said that the battle on the central front, nearing the end of its second week, was mov- ing to a crisis and that the Germans were making every effort to gain . decision quickly.
 The were centering all their strk- ing power in the central area, 1t was said, and for the moment at least the drive from the Rzhev direction was secondary.
 Experts said that in their first three weeks or more after the Rus sians had slowed them.
 This time, 1t was asserted, they could not afford to stop because they would not only give the Russian time to marshal srtong defense but risk the arrival of winter.
 Military quarters said that the battle for Moscow might hinge on the arrival of achievements. Both the Russian and the German con1- mand were reported rusing tens of thousands of men to the fighting line to replace exhausted shceA units which were now in the 18th day of continuous ferocious Aghtr ing.
 Naxis Losses Frightful
 Losses in the Vyazma- -Bryansk fighting were frightful, according te | (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
Germany Keeps Right
 Along Pushing Ahead
German Papers Have Already Begun to Boast of What Will Happen to Britain When Russia Finally
 Goes Down
By JOSEPH W. GREGG JR.

United Press StaH COrreSpondent)
 Berlin, Oct. l4.-(UP)-German forces, Surging forward in a gigan- tic pincers operation, were report ed today by Nazi informants to be nearing the Moscow-Leningrad rail- way and to have driven within arr tillery range of the capitals. tex treme outer defense ring"
 The northern claw of the pincers, driving from the Valdai Hills, was said by these sources to be ap- preaching the important railway line on which Kalinin, 100 miles north of Moscow, is located. It vas not stated, however, how close the Germans were to Kalinin.
 The informants, although report- ing the extreme outer defense ring" of Moscow within range of heavy German artillery, admitted that the defenses extended well over" 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) from the cen- ter of the capital.
 The southern arm of the Nazi 'nut-cracker" was reported punch ing forward in the vicinity of Kaluga, 100 miles southeast of Mos COW. Na1 informants indicated that German forces had driven around and past the town, leaving its cap- ture to later operations,
 Dividing Them Up
 The high command claimed that destruction of Russian forces cut up into small groups in tlFe woods near Bryansk was continuing stead- fly, but there was little news of operations in the center of the pinc- CTS.
 Front dispatches said Russians trapped in pockets in the Vyazma- Bryansk area continued desperate but vain attempts to break through to rejoin the main forces of the Russian central army.
 Newspapers suddenly burst into jubilant series of editorials aS- serting that Great Britain was los ing its last European ally, that Ger
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
Nearly $6,OOO,OOO In Awards To Factories
Waterbury Factories Are Getting Many Contracts; Million Dollar Defense Order Reaches American
 Brass Co. Today

The latest compilation of defense contracts issued by the Bureau or Research and Statistics, Ofhce or Prediction Management, lists con- tract awards totalling 5,723, ,867 for Waterbury factories and $644,552 for plants In nearby towns. In addition, the Scovill Mfg. Go. received certi- Acate of necessity for plant expan- sion costing $26o,ooo.
 Orders listed in the compilation are those which received final ap- proyal between Aug. 24 and Sept. 20. A number Of orders have been received by local plants since that time.
 Three contracts placed with the Waterbury Tool Go. division of Vickers, inc, account for half the local total. They include one or S2, ,l2i ,30s for electrical equipment, one of $lO44,9l2 for similar equip ment and another Of $Sl0,OOO TOT gears. ceiyed a $670,O00 allocation for in creased production facilities.
 Other Contracts
 Other local contrasts included; American Brass CO, bands, $52'622; scovill Mfg. Co, cartridge cups cases and brass, $34O,000; Mattatuck Mfg. Go, copper parts, $l71 ,S4S; Water bury Clock CO, fuse bodies, $970, 900; Chase Brass & Copper Co, tubing, $87, 7,25O.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
BOMBING ATTACK
 ON NEW ENGLAND
"All-Out" Smash Today on We'll Populated Cities,
 Industry Areas
(NEA Telephoto)

Boston, Oct. 14 - U.P) -- An "all-out" simulated bombing attack on New Englands densely- -popu- lated cities and industrial areas was launched by the U. s. Army Air Corps today in a test of civilian de- lenses.
 AS heavy and medium bombers seek to penetrate the coast-line de. lenses, speedy interceptors warned of their approach will take to the air to drive them of.
 The efficiency of the afraid warning system set up by civilian defense agencies will be proved by the success which the interceptors have in meeting the invading bonb- CTS for battle.
 Practice tests preluding the actu- al command post exercise were com- pleted last night when 40 army bombers staged an attack" on Bos- ton. Anti-aircraft guns were drawn up by army land forces, but were not used, though the air above the metropolitan area was a blaze of white light as searchlight batteries trained their beams on the "invad- ers."
 A fifth columnist" problem also will be worked out during the air maneuvers with army, naval and federal bureau of investigation agents dealing with the enemy" spies and saboteurs.
 Massachusetts alone has 29 dis trict warning centers and l89 re- port centers in its air-raid warning set-up, the whole manned by 15,00O civilian volunteers. Various local ities will be given particular assign ments such as theoretical evacua- ton of citizens from danger zones treatment of injured, repairs of property damage and restoration of public utilities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14

canes. Machine guns on the field riddled its fuselage, but the plane landed successfully.
 Two Dutchmen alighted and told of stealing the plane and flying across the channel, where they met British fighter planes which nearly shot them down. One of the fliers joined the Royal air force as a pilot officer and the other is working for the Netherlands government-in- exile, the Agency said
 Twelve hours later, the dispatch continued, a Fokker hydroplane ar- rived in England; piloted by a Dutchman who never had flown a flying boat before.
 Signs of Unrest
 Signs of unrest multiplied in other parts of erman-occupied Europe. The Berlin newspaper Voelkischer Beohachter reported that Norwegian PolGe Chief Jonas Lie has arrived in Berlin to study German police organization and methods at the in- vitatlon of Reinhardt Heydrtch, destapo protector" of former CzechosioYakiR. Norwegian dis- patches only yesterday reported dis- covefy of extensive sabotage in aTiti- invasion installations in Norway.
 Ths Stockholm newspaper Social Demokraten reported that schools had been closed in Oslo, because the students sang the Norwegt Il national anthem and demonstrated against their Nazi headmaster dur ing C British air raid.
 It eaid there had been many new arrests in Oslo, including the head master of a school, 8 lecturer, 6 film censor and flower dealer who was seized because he had sent flowers to 6 British aviator in a hospital.
 German military authorities in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
Furious Fight Raging Over Old Napoleon Battlefield
Right Rev. Fulton J. Sheen
 Writes On U. s. Aid To Russia

New York Oct 14-CUP)-The Right Rev. Fulton J. Sheen member University of America faculty and leading article to In the Oct issue there difference between Russia and Communism.
 Discussing aid to Russia for America, in Jesuit publication said it should be gven ony on three con- ditiOns"
 Russia must grant liberty concentration and prisons religious beliefs and restore church property religion for America to Is aiding not Communism is by aidng Russia in Russia Russia Finally Russia, if 1t mains given place the council of nations after this war to assist in the temakng of Europe"
 He ponted out that ordered prayers Russia at the end of each low Mass bu said the church had condemned cism Italy; Nazism but not Germany.
 Charging religion still persecued in Russia despite Soviet pictures said that this years AnnuarO Pon that of 13 apostolic administrators in Russia prison concentration and 1t not where two are"
 Regarding Communism in the United States he said
 something right 1t will have to face pcssbyhen falls the center of international will be in New York City"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
PRISONERS ON
 AMERICAN SHIP
Twenty Germans Arrived in Boston Today; Seized
 at Radio Station
BY GARDNER FROST United Press stan COrrespOndent)

United Press stan COrTeSpOndent)
 Boston, Oct. IA - (UP.) - Rear. Admiral Richard E, Byrd's former flagship Bear, now a naval patrol boat, arrived here today with the small Norwegian freighter Busko and some 20 Nazl prisoners seized while operating a hidden radio out post in Greenland.
 Nearly five hours after the two vessels had slipped quietly into BoI- ton harbor, the prisoners, including a representative of the German ges- tapo, were hustled of to the East Boston immigration station under Q detail of ie-toting marines.
 The prisoners, unkempt in their dungarees and rough seamen's garb, were held incommunicado. Newsmen wh sailed down harbor in a police boat were not permitted to ap- proach closer than 25 feet to the Bear, on whose deck the prisoners were lined up preparatory to the transfer.
 Ran Aground
 The coast guard cutter 4o9, while speeding ashore with the prisoners, ran aground on amud shoal 800 feet of the immigration station but freed itself before aid arrived. It was believed that the prisoners, brought here for examination" would be interned with several hun"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
WETHERSFIELD
 FUGITIVE CAUGHT
Gilbert Mead, Jr., Escaped Last Sept. Was Former
 Journalist

New York, Oct. l4-(UP)-Gilbert Mead, Jr., who divides his time be- tween invention and robbery, was under arrest today as fugitive from Wethersfield prison in Con- necticut from which he escaped last September after serving only Q few months of five to 10 year sentence. N
 Mead was picked up in a pawn shop while trying to dispose of jewelry. Detectives who visited his room in Larchmont, N. Yc Said they found 10 suitcases containing sl5,O00 in articles stolen from the homes of wealthy Westchester coun- ty residents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
BIG TOBACCO CROP

Boston, Oct. l4-(UP)-The New England crop reporting service fore cast a Connecticut valley tobacco crop of 35.274.0O0 pounds. 6 per cent greater than last year and IA per cent greater than the i0-year average.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Oct. 14-(UP)-Gov. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Oct. l1th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $5,S3S,614, S02.23 $2,636, ,54s.771.S2
 Defense Spending $2,ssO. .sss, ,2S4.22 s7s2. .Oss. .s1s.4e $2,127, ,O27.s9 $1,645,291,513.26 ss,sss, s,15l.o74.sl $s74.sse. .sos.5s
 Cash Balance
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
Planes Seized By Dutch. In Holland
 Flown To England
Signs of Unrest Continued to Mount Throughout All German Ocucpied Territory; More Executions
 Are Taking Place Every Day
(By United Pressl

The Dutch stealing warplanes under the eyes of German guards at Hollands air1eds and flying them to Britain, dispatch of the Netherlands News Agency dis closed today At least two planes have been blown from the Germa-occuped Netherlands the dispatch said One twn-engtned plane bearing German markings suddenly lived Suffolk aireld pursued by the British hurri
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14

Furnaces cleaned and repaired by experts. chimneys cleaned. WsEer- huzy naaiinR ce. khsne Aseaaass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
The Weather

Clearing, Cool Tonight;
 Wed. Fair, Cooler Full Weather Report Page 3
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Evening star., 1941-10-02
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Or; News; D. Patrol Massachusetts

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Evening star., 1941-10-02

East had a minimum opening bid,
and West had less-than-average
strength. Left to their own devices.
they would have played at some
part-score contract. But West was
delighted at the opportunity to
double two clubs instead Of being
satisfied with a part score. He was
right, of course, for fairly routine
play set the contract three tricks.
There's a big difference between col
lecting 500 points and just making
small PARTIAL
Now let's look at South'S bid to
see what was wrong with 1t. South
maintained he had just stumbled into
bad luck: he had as good as an
opening bid, and if that wasn't
worth an overcall what was? The
answer was quite easy: Many hands
which are worth an opening bid are
not worth an overcall. Opening bids
are governed largely by high-card
strength; overcalls, by playing
strength.
In view of Norths original pass,
could South hope for game with
his hand? Surely not, so he was
risking a severe penalty when all
he could gain was making partial
himself instead of letting the enemy
make one. It's bad bridge, Just as
it's bad business. to take big risk
when all you stand to gain is a
trifie.
Yesterday you we're Merwin Maier's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you held:
Ak J73
%
o Q 10 64
IJ852
The bidding:
Maier Jacoby You Schenken
IA Pass "a Pass
80 Pass CD
AnsWer-Bid four spades. Your
partners bid asks whether you have
weak or a strong raise to two
spades, and suggests that you attach
special value to diamond strength.
You have fairly strong hand for
your simple raise, and you have
strength in diamonds. You show
this by jumping to four spades in
stead of showing mere preference
of three spades.
Score 100 per cent for four spades,
so per cent for four diamonds, 80
per cent for three spades.
tfFa~ Question No. $50.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is quite different:
Maier Jacoby You Schenken
10 Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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POINTS FOR PARENTS
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE,

II decisions are to be just, they
should be the result of clear
thinking rather than the 1Day the
decider happens to feel at the
moment.