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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
Axis Powers Crashed
 Through British Trap
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alter our confidence" the spokeS- man said. We are going through an up and down fight. The battle front in the Sidi Re2egh sector is still fluid and endorsements may decide the outcome"
 An RAF communique said that eight enemy planes were shot down and several others severely dam aged in the last 24 hours. Eight RAF planes were missing, indicating that the Germans had reinforced their air squadrons in Libya.
 The British, however, still hold numerical superiority in tanks.
 (In London, an authoritative source said that figures regarding tank losses as issued by Axis sources were fantastic. Berlin reported 8l4 British vehicles and 127 air planes had been destroyed. Lon- don acknowledged that the Ger which they probably could break mans now were in position from westward to more favorable posi- tions if they desired, but 1t was said the Axis forces apparently chose to continue the battle on the desert0
 The German forces, the 18th and Fist tank divisions, effected their junction yesterday. the communi- que said, after advancing from the south and southwest around Zaar- an.
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Continued from Page i) anti-war appeal, secured almost 5000 signatures on his nominating petition. Entrance of e Socialist nominee will complicate the situa- ton still further.
 Conventions Dec. 20
 Republicans and Democrats will hold their nominating conventions Dec. 20, the Republicans at The Fl. ton and the Democrats at the Tor rington city hall. Nominations Of MT. Talbot and Mfr Monagan seem. assured, though contests may de. Veiop ct each convention,
 MT. Ryan's name may be offered for the Republican nomination, and Col. Roy E. Rice Of Woodhury Is another aSpirant.
 On the Democratic side, the can- didates include Rep. Henry McCor. mack of Ansonia, Anthony TeleSca of Torrington, William O'Connor Of Norfolk and Mayor Cornelius Cald- well of Derby. With POI votes in the convention, WatGrbury's 46 votes will give Mir. Monagan . decided edge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
BILLY SOOSE TO
 WED COLLEGE GIRL

Northampton, Mass, Dec. 2. = (UP)-Miss Margaret Louise Unger, l9, of East Greenville, Pa, Smith College senior, confirmed today a Hollywood report that she is en- gagged to Billy Soose, of Scranton, Pa. college-educated middleweight boxer.
 Sure it's true" said Miss Unger in disclosing that she planned a reunion here with the handsome title contender at an early date.
 The wedding date was not an- nounced. but Mss Unger. q blue eyed blonde, said her father, a Pennsylvania manufacturer, and mother had met soose and admired him.
 Miss Unger said she had known soose two years and that they met while she was vacationing at Lake Wallentpack near her home town.
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Churchill Calls For Mobilization Of All
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we must needs keep our engage. ment to send Q substantial supply of tanks, airplaneS and other war commodities to Russia in order to help make good the loss Of muni- ttonS making capacity Russia has sustained by the German invasion" he said.
 we have to forego very impor- tant supplies expected from the United States, which have been with our consent diverted to Russia. We have to recognize that United States production is only now gets ting fully under way"
 Discussing soberly the possibility that Germany in desperation might attack the British Isles, and the prospect of British supertorty in arms for general warfare, he said:
 Taste of Own Medicine
 Tn future the Kun will feel in his own person the sharpness og the weapons with which he has subjus gated Q disorganlzed Europe and imagined he was about to subjugate the world. 4 heavy burden falls on us in ieA2. We shall not be found unequal to 1t ...
 Tn the Home Guard we have nearly 100000 men, tho bulk of them well armed and spread over the entire country In the sum mer of last year VIC were practically an unarmed people. If Q parachute list come down now he comes down into Q hornets nest.
 TWO vultures will hang over Us until the end Of the war. We do not fear them.
 "The first is invaSion-which may never come but which will only b. held off by our having Q large and well trained mobile force and many other preparations at . constant high state of readiness. Moreover If we are to use striking forces overseas at any period of the wal we must be sure that those who re- main at home are in sudlcieni strength.
 We do not want the horrors which have been perpetrated by thG Germans wherever they go in SC many countries to be thrust upon us here, to the utter ruin not only of ourselves but of the world a' large"
 The second vulture, he said, wa the air raider.
 Discussing the problem of maI power and women power, he said:
 The crisis in man power anS woman power will dominate ths year 1o42.
 "The year i94l has seen the ma. jor problems of creating war pro- duction capacity and Inanufactur- ing equipment largely solved or on the road to a solution. The crisis In equipment is largely over and an ever-broadening flow is nov as- sured."
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of them would not be surprised If military action, rather than e for- nal diplomatic dispatch, turned out to be Japan's answer to the "docu- ment" that was handed the Jap- anese envoys, Saburo Kurusu and Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, Wednesday.
 Kurusu and Nomura continued discussions with Secretary of State Cordell Hull yesterday under cir cumstances made more tense than usual by the hurried return of PreSi- dent Roosevelt from Georgia.
 Usually well informed sources re- ported that the two eavoys would return to the State Department to- day for further conversations with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles.
 Resumption of the conversations yesterday surprised the capital which was prepared for a Japanese rejection of the American statement Of principles which must govern any settlement of outstanding issues
 1EOOp MOVemenkS
 Heavy troop movements have been reported in the vicinity of French do-China and reports available here last week indicated that the Japanese military forces were pre- pared to invade Thailand at any mo- ment. However, Tokyo may have concelled such plans in favor of con- tinued negotiations with this coun- try.
 Japan still has not formally an- swered the American demands set forth last week. They were under stood to have made Japanese with drawal from French Indo- China and China the price of American conces- sions.
 Yesterday, a day of intense of- ficial activity. produced no public announcement of consequence on the far eastern crisis, but some ob- servers believed the situation was deteriorating.
 Hull conferred more than an hour with the Japanese envoys. They left his office in a serious mood.
 Immediately, Hull hurried to the White House for an hours confer ence with Mir. Roosevelt and Ad- miral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations.
 Later, WeIles conferred with the President for one and one-half hours. He had conferred briefly before with the British ambassador, Lord Halifax. These visits, too, were regarded as dealing with the far eastern situation.
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Japan Not Yet Ready
 To Answer Demands
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belligerent, the actual words, they said, were not in that vein.
 The statement should have been translated to say that "the practice of European powers of checkmatlng one Oriental power against another must be eliminated" they said, add Ing that the speech was prepared for Tojo and delivered by proxy in his name.
 Kurusu was asked If he thought he still has a lighting chance" of success in the conversations with the United States. Those were the words he used when he arrived in Washington Nov. IS.
 T don't give up that easily Kurusu said today.
 No Time for Reply
 There was no indication when the Japanese government would be ready to give its official reply to the mem- orandum handed to Kurusu and No- mura last Wednesday. The memo randum, prepared by Hull, informed them that Japan's withdrawal from the Axis and abandonment of ag- gression in China were necessary preliminaries to any discussion for restoration of American commercial relations with Japan.
 Meantime, Chairman Andrew J May, D., Ky, of the House military affairs committee suggested to re- ,.A~ta,.o khak nrae{dav1f 1NOaaua1f tell the Japanese people to renounce their ambitions for an empire in south Asia or the United States will blast them off the land and blow them off the water"
 Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont. leader of the opposition to the Presi- dents foreign policy, said the "only excuse" for getting into var with Japan would be to protect the British empire"
 Congress will support a declara- tion of war now if Japan moves southward," May told reporters, who had asked his opinion of the pres ent situation in the Far East.
 'The American people are sorer dO btAC JdpaAACcO tAAuh sAASJ CAV 0u Hitler. They're nothing but war like bunch.
 If American planes are used to guard the Burma road. they also could be used to bomb Tokyo. That would be guarding the Burma road, wouldn't it?"
 May is an influential administra- lion leader in the House. His committee passes on all legislation taining to policies of the military establishment.
 Wheeler Talks More
 Wheeler, asked by reporters for his opinion. charged that only when British possessions are threatened do i've talk about war with Japan.
 We never went to war when Ja- pan took Manchukuo, Picking, Man. king or Canton" he said, "but we kept on furnishing her with oil and gas and scrap Iron and copper and all kinds of materials with which to carry on her warfare with China.
 These statements were made in the midst of delicate diplomatic conversations that observers believe may decide whether there will be war or peace between Japan and the United states.
 Administration officials were keeping a close watch of dispatches from tho Far East for reports Of Japanese military operations which might touch off what they eoncede has become a ''pQwer ks8". Some
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This army is now getting into Q deadly pocket. It has been snitten from the direction of Rostov and from the north. Now 1t is outflanked from the west.
 "Our r-offensive was well prepared. At many places the Ger mans were caught by surprise. The first populated points were taken practically without fighting. Tn par- ticularly successful night fighting one force covered 2 l.2 miles over open fields in three hours and ct once engaged the enemy"
 You don't capture many rifles unless the enemy is retreating in immediate order," e spokesman said. Military experts said the great Russian victory probably had saved the Caucasus from any serious threat for some months, and almost certainly for the winter.
 It was suggested that the safety of Moscow might be asured for q similar period unless the Germans made q stand soon.
 A continued Russian advance, and consolidation of gains, would also permit the British to fight out the Lrihyan campaign without having to provide for the possibility of divert ing men to check Q German Cau. eaSus drive, 1t was said.
 There was belief here that Timo- shenko might widen the scope of his offensive. It was believed he had Q sufficient force to thrust left and right as well as forward, in an at- tempt to bring disaster to the Germans along the coastal roads. among the factors responsible for the rapidity of the Russian advance was the mechanical and physical exhaustion of the German forces.
 The Russians appeared to be us- ing fresh men and materials sent from the Ural Mountains, the re. ports said, while the German tanks, artillery and trucks seemed badly in need of overhaullng and the troops were fleeing the effect of long and exhausting operations.
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NOTICE

The Estimates of the Resources Appropriations and Tax Rate of the City of Waterbury for the year i042 have been made in accordance with Section l0 of Substitute for Senate Bill NO. %. which Section amends Section ee of the Charter of the City of Waterbury. and 8 copy may be procured ct the City Clerks Of- flee, City Hall Building. City Of Waterbury, on or after Wednesday. December 3rd, l04i.
 A public hearing on the proposed budget Estimates will be held before the Board of Aldermen ct o'clock D. m. on Tuesday, December oths feal. in the Alderznanic Chamber, City Hall Building, Grand Street. Waterbury.
 Attest:
 JOSEPH Az. gznA, a2-1s9k Nlly Clark
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6iyisions under Gen. Erwin Rommel and the Italian Ariete armored di- vision had broken through at least part of the desert trap and joined other Axis units.
 On the eastern front, the Red army offensive before Rostov was reported driving the Germans back into the Taganrog area, breaking up crack PanZer divisions and threat eninR them with disaster. The Rus sians gave no definite positions, however. and the Germans merely said that stiff fighting continued.
 On the Moscow front, the Rus- sians acknowledged German gains ia1 the Klin-Vo Volokolamsk sector to inc northwest but said that the Red army was on the offensive south of the capital and had seized several more villages in the Tula region.
 Libyan British Loss
 Cairo. Dec. 2-(UP)-A powerful Axis tank attack broke through the British trap in the Libyan desert, an offlcial spokesman said today, renewed the siege of Tohruk and drove British Imperials from Sioi RezeRh and Sir Fl Hamid.
 ''The Germans nipped of the very end of the appendix that barred their way westward and made a junction in the Sidi Rez- egh-Bir Fl Hamid-zaaran triangle" the spokesman said in describing the setback.
 (In London, a British military spokesman said that this is one round for them but the next round Is coming up and it can be assumed that operations are now taking place to restore the corridor from Tobruk to Sidi Rezegh." Heavy British tank and infantry reinforce ulents were rushing into the battle zozae)
 The Germans under Gen. Erwin Rommel and the Italian Ariete (haftering yam) division, all of which repeatedly had been attacked hw the British, joined to make the AxIn attack on a narrow front, ac- anrding to c communique.
 Confident 6till
 s.These developments in no way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
RAILROAD STRIKE
 THREAT IS OVER
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NSSAANAAAASNl AAOAkA q NEN ~
 
 had asked for 30 per cent wage increase; the non-operators for Q 90 oants ar hour increase.
 The fact-flnding board, after hearings in Chicago, recommended an increase of 2 Ia per cent - roughly fl to 63 cents a day - Tor operating employees and a nine cents an hour increase-l3 l-2 per cent for non-operators.
 Direct Discussion
 Management accepted the fact. finding board recommendations and when the union rejected them Pres ident Roosevelt called both parties here for direct negotiations. Later, he sent the fact-hnding board back to mediate the dispute, asserting that there could be no railroad strike to jeopardi2e the national de- fense program.
 Last week, 1t was understood, the unions lowered their demands to 0 flat Si 0 day increase, and early yesterday the management was re- ported to have offered an increase of 72 cents e day. The final agreement was reached after two days and a night of nearly continuous meetings at q local hotel, Beginning at 9:S0 e. In., Sunday, the negotlators took only a one and one. half hour breakfast recess until the announcement of the settlement was made last night.
 Morse immediately notified MT. Roosevelt that the strike had been averted and arranged to see him to- day to report the final terms which probably will be made public at that time.
 The operating brotherhoods had scheduled . strike starting Dec, C.. The incorporating brotherhoods had voted to strike but had set no date.
 Morse, after talking to Mir. Roose- welt, dictated the following state- ment to reporters:
 After the board presented to the parties It's suggestions for a media- ton settlement of the dispute all of the representatives of the rail- roads and their employees who had authority to there and then accept the suggestions of the board d'd so,
 Those representatives who under the rules of their organizations are required to refer proposals for me- diation settlements to their consti- tuents for approval and acceptance stated that they would proceed without delay to recommend the approval and adoption of the boards recommendations.
 "The chairman stated that to all practical effects the position taken by the representatives of the various parties was itself an assurance that there would not be a railroad strike"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
BOSSY ClLLIS IS
 AGAIN IN RACE

Boston, Dec. 2.-(UP)-An at- tempt by Andrew J. tBossy) Gillis, 47, to win Q fourth term as New. buryport's mayor while still in jail featured municipal elections in nine Massachusetts cities today.
 Gillis, who has served four months of Q nine-month sentence on libel charge, was opposed by former City Councillor John M. Kelleher. Voters heard Gillis' first campaign address last night when c Salem radio sta- ton broadcast a transcribed speech which the red-haired politician re- corded in his cell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
JACKSON CO-EDS
 SHOWED UP TUFTS

Medford, Mass. Dec. 2.-(UP)- Jackson co-eds today paraded this hill-top campus atttred in tattered coats and trousers and some smoked pipes in an attempt to show what college life would be like if they really were as "unglamorous" as Tufts men charged.
 4 letter to the Tufts Weekly, uri- dergraduate newspaper, said that Tufts men have to turn to burlesQue theaters for the glamour which Jackson girls aail to supply. 1t vas signed Miss Anne Thorpe"
 Yesterday the girls said "Anne" actually waG Larry nommaEito of
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NORWICH STATE
 HOSPITAL PROBE
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that "so far as we can determine from extensive consultations with the superintendentS there Is no cause for serious alarm on the part of the inmates or their friends or relatives.
 Outrageous Affair
 "The Fairfield incident was out- rageous and has been thoroughly investigated by the state oplce and Is In the hands of the states attor" ney, It does not represent any pol icy CT any private practice that Is tolerated in any degree whatsoever by the management of our institu- tons.
 The council reported "there Is Q serious problem, however, of a short- age of personnel of all classes which increases the difficulty of proper training of attendants, etc., and in. creases the exposure of taking on improper persons. Everything posst- ble should be done to alleviate this situation and to improve the morale of the present personnel which we all know is considerably overloaded"
 Fairfield county Coroner Theo- dore E. Stelher'S finding yesterday attributed the Hoyt death to the ''low type of attendants which the hospital was compelled to hire.
 The council reported to the gov- ernoP that 1t would submit an "emer . gency report fn a week or ten days, rounding up all available facts, but that "a long range report will rec uuire several months to produce. The latter, int was said, would con- tain definite recommendations for Improvements at all of the hospitals,
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DONE LEWIS
 ESCAPES JAIL
Director of LitchfeId Play.
 house Has 30 Days Sus. 1 pended; Fine Stands
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N9NENNANAA W AsAN N~Ns--~N-N Danhury, Dec. 2--dranted retrial hv the local trafac court after being given Q jail sentence before Traffic Court Jucge Thomas A. Keating, on Nov. 10, Miss Dione Lewis, 24, of New York City, and operator of the Litchfleld Hills summer theater, last nisht was fined $250, but given < suspended sentence of 30 days in jail.
 Miss Lewis pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle 50 as to cause loss of life. Judge Keatlng suspended the jail sentence after her attorney, Mitchell Meyers of Waterbury, made Q plea for len. iency on the grounds that she had already suffered great remorse. An elderly New York couple were Killed by Miss Lewis car in an accident here Sept. II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
JAPANESE ALIEN
 NETTED IN RAID

Boston. Dec. 2.-WP)-Seized in 8 police raid at the Empero Hiro- hito club early today, was Kamada 60, a Japanese butler, later was charged with not registering as an alien and was turned over to i'm. migration authorities.
 Police quoted Kamada as saying he jumped ship in Boston 22 years ago. Four registered aliens also were at the club. a south end or ganization to which 400 Japanese students belong. They kere not de. tained.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
BURMA ROAD WILL
 BE BOMBED AGAIN

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 Reliable Japanese sources said the Japanese army and navy and the Central China office of the Japan- ese China planning board were es- tablishing Q Central China ship. ping commission to take over con- trol of all Japanese private shipping In China coastal and interior wa. ters.
 All shipping which now will come under official control in Chinese coastal and interior waters will be be used as military transport, 1t was learned.
 Akiyama said the Japanese had not considered taking over Shang- hai.
 Fleet off Singapore
 Singapore, December ?. .- (Up) - A considerable British fleet, in- cluding battleships, appeared off Singapore today.
 The war fleet appeared from the west and steamed through the Singapore outer channel in an east erly direction towards the Singa- pore naval base. It was clearly vis- ible from the offices of the Straits Times, newspaper in the heart of Singapore.
 Steaming at the head of the long column of the men o'war was the battleship Prince of Wales, now the flagship of the British Far Eastern fleet, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips commanding. The Prince of Wales is a ship of 35,000 tons and was laid down in 1889. It carries 1,500 officers and men.
 A proclamation today established state of emergency in Johore. Thus all of Malaya and the Straits Settle ments were prepared for action at any time. Volunteer troops and de- fense corps were called up in the settlements and the federated Malay states yesterday in proclamations similar to that issued in Johore to- day.
 TOrpedOed, Sunk
 Melbourne, Australia, December 2 -(UP) - H. M. A. s. Parramatta, one of the most modern sloops in the Australian navy. has been tor- pedced and sunk with a loss of l41 of its complement of 161, 1t was an- nounced today. The vessel joined the British Mediterranean fleet only yesterday.
 The Parranatta was the second Australian naval vessel announced lost today. Earlier 1t was revealed the light cruiser Sydney had been lost last month after 1t had sunk a formidable German raider.
 The Parramatta. of I.O6O tons, was laid down in 1889 and completed in loeO. It carried two z-iich guns which could be used either as naval artillery or anti-aircraft guns and was equipped with multiple machine guns.
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Banana diseases are invading many Central American countries and may kill banana production lheEN.
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Medlcrd, a Tufts student, SO they grabbed him, handcuiied him and tied him to a library pillar. Later. he was released and forced to run a gauntlet oe brooms and paddles along College Avenue.
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Nine steel mlnesweepers arc to ha constEuesed in Nov Zealand.
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SOCIALISTS TO
 GET IN ELECTION

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tore closes at PM every day this week except SatuE Fs Saturday night.
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A epECahA uthtAtcA tD t&Ag A4uagoW newspaper pravdM said:
 ''Ekleist's group was Q whole army, with big tank formations, hundreds oG cannon and lhonsalldA ol trucks.