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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
British Shipping Is Suffering Big Losses
Over 5,OOO,OOO Tons Have Been Sunk By Nazi Raid- CTS Since War Started-Nazi Sea Bitz-
 kreg Taking Toll
By HARRISON SALISBURY prass StaH ('OrreSnOndent

(UultcU TEOSS SNhl NVIVSpohuehT
 Indications appeared today that the war at sea. and Germany's promised spring submarine blitz- krieg may be the grimmest phase of the great offensive about to start.
 The British admiralty revealed today that up to March 9 Britain had lost more than 5,000000 tons of shipping since the start of the war, counting her own fiagships, those of allies and neutral ships In her service.
 This figure is almost % per cent of the British flag shipping with which the empire entered the war However, the percentage has been reduced strikingly by acquisition oi shipping from allies and neutralS and by new construction.
 The loss, however, Is greater than that suffered by Britain and her allies in the first 31 months of the World War. The current British losses were suffered in a little more than l-8 months.
 The admiralty revealed that the first two weeks of intensified sub- marine warfare cost Britain some 250,000 tons of shipping. If the rate is continued or increased slightly 1t will come close to equal- ling the record shipping losses of the desperate early weeks of 1917.
 Official Total
 Losses for the week ended March Q were given by the admiralty as 9s,s32 tons, comprising 25 ships. This brought the official total to 5,06l ,O89 tons. The 5.000,000-ton figure does not include losses of ships caused by accidents incidental to war, such as collisions caused by the blackout, sinkings due to lack
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
BRITAIN MOVES GREAT CONvOyS
Secretly Carried Out Across Seas Between
 Egypt, Greece
BY HOMER JENKS

| Limited Press Stan COrTespOnNeutl
 London, March Ia --- Cu,P0 The British public received its first news today that heavily guarded British conveys arc passing across the east ern Mediterranean and Aegean Seas between Egypt and Greece.
 British correspondents with the empire forces In the Near East had been permitted to report In today's newspapers that a dramatic military movement was in progress,
 For reasons of military secrecy correspondents were able only to hint in vague terms at what was obviously grand scale movement of troops and war materials.
 The correspondents disclosed that stores, munitions, supplies and transport" (Troops) - were on the move and that as they passed just east of the Greek Island Of Crete, navy planes cooperating with conveys were flashing savage ly at the Italian Dodecanese Islands to prevent Italian planes from at tacking.
 Conveys Move Ahead
 The dispatches disclosed that the conveys were moving on the di- rect route between Alexandria. Egypt, and Piraeus, the port Of Athens, and that the movement had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
EAGLE SQUADRON
 OF U. s. FLYERS

Somewhere in England, March IS. - (UP) - The United States Eagle Squadron, composed of American flyers, now is a first line Royal Air Force fighter unit.
 Pilots of the Eagle Squadron stood by today at fighter station, ready to attack planes of the German air force if they appeared over the British Isles.
 The commanding officer of the station described the American air. men as excellent pilots; a damn good crowd"
 Nov that the Eagle Squadron is operational they are ready to take to the air at n moments notice m exactly the same manner as our fighter squadrons." he added.
 "I know they will behave as gall lantly in combat"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
Zone of Sinking About 800 Miles East of Cape Race,
 New FOundland SCARE OF SUBMARINE
 HAD REACHED U. s. Churchill Told Audience of Americans in London, Greeting J. G. Winant
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent

NSAsSN . ANSo esssAs ~SssS
 London, March IS. - (UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared today that German submarines and bat tie cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic" and sunk ships as far west as the "42nd meridian of longi u d e. " Churchill did not specify operations on the American side" of the Atlantic but the 42nd degrees of longitude is about 500 miles east oi Cape Race, Newfoundland.
 In the northern attitudes the 42nd degree of longitude is consid- erably cast of the American neu- trality zone which follows the 60- degree parallel to the West Indies.
 The neutrality zone. however, bulges far east of the 42nd degree in South American waters. Any Sinkings as far west as the 42nd de- gree would be within the hemis- pheric neutrality zone if they oc- cured south of the northernmost point of South America.
 U-Boats. Cruisers Cross
 "Not only German U-Boats but German batte-cruisers," said Churchill, "have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our tn- dependently routed ships not sail- ing In convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42lid meridian of longitude"
 (Churchill's revelation came only a few hours after report was heard in Washington that Germany was sending at least one long range submarine to operate against ship ping close to the American Atlantic coast. The United States neutrality patrol was put on redoubled vigil lance to watch for any such marauders.)
 Churchill asserted that Adolf Hitler had TOW embarked on an at tempt to win the Battle of The Atlantic" by cutting "the sea roads between Britain and the United States. and, having divided these mighty powers, to destroy them one by one"
 But, he said, Britain no longer stands alone since the ocean borne trumpet call" of President Roosevelt's Saturday night address.
 Battle of Atlantic
 "The Battle of The Atlantic" he
 Battle of Atlantic sail, must be won in decisive manner It must be won beyond all doubt if the declared policies of the government and people of the United States are not to be for" cibly frustrated.
 Speaking to a gathering of the Pilgrims Society at which United States Ambassador John G. Winant and W. Averill Hartman, President
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
THIRTY STRIKES
 HURT PROJECTS
$1OO,OOO,OOO in Defense Work Is Being Badly
 Handicapped
(By United Press)

Thirty strikes in progress today at factories and projects were disrupt- ing production on national defense orders worth more than $l00 0,000, ,00O'
 Formation of a new defense labor mediation board progress at Wash ington under direction of President Roosevelt who conferred with labor advisers Monday, presumably to de- termine the personnel of the ll-man agency. Neither Associate Director Sidney Hillman of the office of pro- duction management nor Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins would speculate on the membership of the proposed board.
 The war department declined to discuss reports that 8 settlement was imminent In the strike of Building Trades Workers (AFL) that has delayed for two weeks construc- ton of a U. s. army aviation testing center at Wright Field, Dayton, O.. The Building Trades Council called the strike in protest against employ ment of CIO electricians. A spokes- man for the AFL unions said yester-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Stan CorrespOndent)

Washington, March IS -(UP)- Great Britain and the United States appeared virtually agreed to- day to permit American food to reach unoccupied France. Plans were being made to send two French ships from New York with American bread grains, through the British blockade. Completion of the plan depended on official permis- sion from Great Britain for the ships to pass through its blockade, and a pledge from the Vichy gov ernment that all the food would be consumed in unoccupied France.
 After new series of conferences between spokesmen for the govern- ments involved. Britain was repre- sented in diplomatic quarters here as being willing to pass food ship ments through the blockade, pro- vided:
 1. That none of the food will be used to the direct or indirect bene- fit of Germany or the Germans in occupied France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
BOMBS DROPPED
 ON BOTH SIDES

London, March l8.--(UP)--BritisA Royal Air Force planes raided the German ports and naval bases Of Bremen and Wilhemshaven on q fairly heavy Gcale during the night, the air ministry said today.
 It was the 59th British airplane raid on Bremen and the 34th on WilhelmShaven.
 German planes bombed port and rock works at Newcastle-on-Tyne during the night, the high command said in Its daily communique. Other German planes bombed ports on the east coast of Scotland. German planes yesterday shot down four barrage balloons over Dover, the communique added.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
FOUR SUITS FOR
 DAMAGES ENDED
They Totaled $l2O,45O
 When Started; Terms Not Disclosed

Four damage suits totahng $120,- 45O were today withdrawn from the dockets of superior court and the court of common pleas. Settlement terms in all cases were not dis closed.
 Benjamin Bobienski, 3l, of Wa. terbury, sought damages of 00,O0C in the court of common pleas from Robert Nolan and George L. and Emil Gaugler, also of this city, for alleged permanent injuries he suf- fered when the Gaugler car, operat- ed by Nolan, struck him as he was walking along the Waterbury -Pros- pect road.
 Plaintiff Bobienski's complaint states that Nolan operated the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
OLD BOND ISSUE
 TO BE NULL|F|ED
Mayor Scully Had Re. quested $5O,OOO Refund-
 ing Bond Dropped
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK Democrat Legislative Rep0rter)

State Capitol, dart1oro, MATCH lo--
 Under suspension of rules the Senate today passed q bill which was raised by the finance commit- tee at the request of Mayor Vin- cent Scully of Waterbury. The bill repealed the authorization granted tlls city by the legislature of 1859 to issue $5O,00O in refundtng bonds.
 Last week Mayor Scully explained ut q committee hearing that the city did not intend to sell these bonds. They were originally plan ned to be used to retire an old is- sue of Center School District bonds on which q high rate Of interest Is being paiG by the city. Mayor Scully said that lie had found that the city had no right to call in the old bonds in this fashion.
 Assembly Briefs
 MrG. Michael V. Blansfleld of Waterbury and John Y. Tansil, U. 8. Attorney of Montana, were the guests of Senator Michael V. Blans- field at the Capitol today. During the senate session they were seated on the rostium and were intro- duced by Lieutenant Governor Odell Shepard to the senate.
 Senator Michael V. Blansfeld
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
WAR IN EUROPE A YEAR AGO,
 MARCH 18, 194O
By United Press

By United Press
 Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso- linl talked for 90 minutes aboard the Italian premier's armored train at the Hrenncr Pass.
 Sumner Welles. U. S. undersec- tetary of state, discussed German seacc proposals with Pope Plus. French reported blocking Ger man attempt to pass through de- sensc lines on the Moselle river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
DIED
 FROM GOLD WAVE
Mercury Has Now Begun to Rise; Warmer Wealth
 CT Is Looked For
lBy United Press)

Temperatures rose across the Middle West today as the front of a cold wave and storm that caused the deaths of at least 72 persons moved on the Atlantic coast.
 Northwest gales that pushed the cold down from the Canadian Arc tic Subsided in the Ohio River val ley and over the Great Lakes and from the Rockies, spring like winds blew eastward bringing relief from the biting cold in the Plains region. Temperatures were somewhat low
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. March IS (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through March 18th, compared with n year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $S,00S, ,152,920.93 S6,516,757 ,O46.OS s4s22,21s,2sO.sf $S,s3s,4s4, ,6s2.ls
 Gross Deficit
 $S,6S5, ,9s4,G4O.59 $9,67s,272,S5s.so ss,642,16s,59O.5s s2,s57,4e5, ,s5s.so
 Cash Balance
 $1,s51, ,262, ,193.67 $2,3S3,O11,7o2.is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-18
$2,1OO,OOO Bond
 Bills Pass Senate; Tabled In House
S1OO OOO for State Trade School Is Included House Tabled Question Until Tomorrow; Passage
 Almost Assured
BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK CDemocrat Legislatlve RepOrter)

State Capitol, Hartford, March 1S - Under suspension of rules the Senate this forenoon passed the Waterbury bond bs calling for issuance of to defray cost of water-works Improvements and 900 for establish
 m.nt of State Trade School in Waterbury The bills mme- diatev were sent to the House where upon motion Of
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Evening star., 1941-08-10

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reorganiSeo unoer
Bankruptcy Act securities assumed by such companies
Rates dividends the foreaoine table annual dis
buseents the quarterly declsrs
included
II dividends Ex rights Also extra OK extras Cash
stock year PAYABLE Declared paid
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Evening star., 1941-08-10

In bankruptcy or receivershIp, or being
reore anized under the Bankruptcy Act, or
securities assumed by such companies.
Rates OF dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly OF semi-annual declaration.
Unless otherwise noted, special or extra
dividends are not included Also extra or
extras Cash or stock Paid last year
PAYABLE in stock gDeclared or paid so
far this year hPayable in Canadian funds.
Z Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. w With warrants. xu With
out Warrants war Warrants. sUnit ef
trading less than 100 shares: sales are
given IA full
Evening star., 1941-08-10
BON DS

By private wire direct TO rhe star
Transactions in Bonds on the New
York Stock Exchange on Saturday,
Aug. 8, 1941.
Evening star., 1941-08-10
G u R B

BY private wire direct to The Star.
Transactions on the New York
Curb Exchange on Saturday, Aug.
8, 1941.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
PhiIIies Beat Mats
By S-to-3 Score
In Return Game
SIipshod Defensive Pluy
Of Washington Aids
In Downfall
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN,
Star staff Correspondent.

ORLANDO, Fla, April 5.-The
Philadelphia Phillies gained revenge
for a beating on their home grounds
at Miami today by invading the Ma
tionals' park and winning an 8-to-3
victory in Washington's final home
game in Florida.
The Mats defensive play was slip
shod and the pitching of Rookie Joe
Beck in the last two innings was not
exactly inspiring.
FIRST INNING.
PHILADELPHIA - Bragan dou-
bled to left. Bloodworth threw out
Marty, Bragan taking third. Ben
iamin famed and had to be thrown
out at first. Travis threw out Lit
whiler.
WASHINGTON - Case walked.
Cramer sacrificed, May to Etten, but
when Case tried to make third he
was out, Etten to Livingston, who
covered the bag. Chapman popped
to Bragan.
SECOND INNING.
PHILADELPHIA walked
Mueller forced Etten, Lewis to
Bloodworth. May forced Mueller,
Lewis TO Bloodworth. Livingston
walked. Blanton struck out
WASHINGTON-Lewis grounded
(See BASEBALL, Page 2-XO
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Robert |. Captures
$4,000 Bowie by Nose
Over Maechance
1900 Thrill to See
Fovorite Come From
Fourth Place in SIop
special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
BOWIE, Md, April 5.-Twelve
thousand fans got the thrill of their
lives this afternoon when j. B
Partridges Robert L., favorite, got
up to win the Bowie Handicap by
a nose from Glen Felkner's Mae
chance after they had run the dis
tance in 1:462s over sloppy track.
Maechance took a long lead after
going three e-quarters, being )
lengths in front, with Robert L. In
fourth place. The latter started
to run turning for home and. under
Willie Garner's energetic riding, got
up to win in the final stride Mrs
A. J. Abel's Honey Cloud was third
Robert LIS victory netted his
owner s3925. He paid $40.
D. A. Woods Adolf ran off with
the e-quarter-m opener. He
splashed through the slop in Ills
to pay $3.50. At the end he was
only galloping to win from H. G
Bedwell's Apprehend, with William
F. Hits Razacla finishing third
Sterling Young, who rode Adolf
registered his fifth victory in as
many days. The gelding was the
first double winner of the meeting
When j. H. Stotler's Ginobi won
the three-quarters of the second, he
brought the total of winning favo-
(See BOWIE. Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1941-04-05
'Rdcketeer' Conviction of Union
Reversed by Court Of Appeals

leged, addeQ nearly Sl,OOO,UUU yearly
to the cost of trucking food into the
city.
The higher courts majority opin-
ion. written by Judge Learned Hand,
said in part:
THE history of labor disputes is
studded with violence. which, unhap-
PLY, is not yet obsolete; but, al
though the means employed may be
the same as those here condemned,
the end is always different, for it is
to secure work on better terms. That
purpose may indeed lead far afield,
even to the domination of a whole
industry, but the stake is always the
same; and it is a different thing to
seek to secure work or higher wages,
from extorting money without pro-
posing to give anything in return" "
Judge Charles E. Clark, in an af-
firming opinion, held that the anti
racketeering law was incorrect so
far as it affected unincorporated
unions.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Yugosloy Peace Hopes
Rest on Italian Needs i
B.. tie Associated Press.

4
BERN, Switzerland. April 5.-The
slight hope for peace in Hugoslavia
rested tonight on Italy's great need
for the Balkan Kingdoms products
and railways in her own war effort.
Italian diplomats. unlike Ger
many's, are still in Belgrade. work.
ing hard to find some face-saving
devices for both King Peter II OF
Yugoslavia and Adolf Hitler.
There were these other reasons
for the Italian desire to keep Yugo-
slavia peaceful:
l. Italy. hard-pressed by the
Greeks in Albania. wants no Yugo-
slav armies pouring into Northern
Albania against her.
2. Italy needs YugoSlavia's cattle,
pigs. copper. wheat and corn because
she is barred from overseas supplies,
and Germany has a stranglehold on
other Balkan markets.
3. Rumania now is Italy's only
source of petroleum products and
traffic can come only across Yugo-
slavia since Hungary's railways are
jammed with Nazi traffic.
Whether or not Mussolini's diplo-
mats succeed, it is believed here that
Italy might not enter the war against
Yugoslavia even if Germany does.
II Duce is believed to want to
make the bulk of his war effort in
North Africa. Also italian cities
are in close bombing range for
Yugoslavia. whereas the Reich's
cities are farther away and better
protected.
Italy. too, has a legal argument
for neutrality toward Yugosiavia.
The two nations on March 25, 1887,
pledged to respect their common
frontiers on land and in the Adriatic
and if either should be the object
of unprovoked aggression by one or
more powers. the other will abstain
from action calculated to benefit the
aggreSSor."
However, the word "unprovoked'
provides a loophole for Mussolini
since Hitler is insisting that Yugo-
slavia's failure to fulfill terms Of the
axis pact constitutes "provocation'
of the axis members.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Berserk Man Smushes Models
Worth $15O,OOO at Bendix;
DELAYS War Work Months

News reported that one of the objects
destroyed was the model of a drift
indicator, completed after months OF
work.
The inspector launched his attack
during the lunch hour which started
at 11:10 pm. Stunned at first, en-
ployes rushed the man and had to
knock him unconscious to subdue
him.
Damage at Least S150,00O.'
"At least Sl50,000" was an official
estimate of the damage, although
from an unquotable source. The
Herald-News reported it might range
as high as S250,000 and said the de-
lays in production of some items
might reach four months.
Two divisions, the Eclipse Avi-
alton and the Pioneer Instrument,
comprise the plant. They are sepa-
rated only by a partition and the
inspector. who worked for Eclipse,
climbed through a window into the
adjacent division.
Due at the plant at $50 pm, he
had not reported until II, when he
told the chief inspector. Midnight
tonights my deadline," the Passaic
newspaper said. Fellow employees
noticed that his hands were shak-
ing.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Damaged Planes Found.
British Officials Reticent
On Outlook in Libyo

LONDON, April S CR.-Although
the report that Britain's Army of
the Nile had checked an axis panzer
thrust on the Libyan frontier was
called "reassuring,' British military
circles hesitated to interpret the
news tonight as complete release
from the threat of German and
italian motorized columns there.
That the situation is well in
hand was taken to mean for the
moment only. These sources said
there was no intention to create the
impression it may not be necessary
to yield more ground to fulfill Gen.
Sir Archibald P. Wavell's plan Of
fighting on q battlefield of British
choice
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Solemn Crowd Sees Capitals
Largest Army Day Parade
Sun Breaks Through Clouds Shortly After
Stort of March Along Constitution Avenue

The grim note of helmeted troops
equipped for battle with their mech
anized war paraphernala was re-
lieved to certain extent by the
antics of a score of pretty, bare
legged drum majorettes leading
bands of patriotic units.
Sun Breaks Through.
Lowering skies and faint drizzle
greeted the marchers as they swung
from the Capitol Plaza into the
broad expanse of Constitution ave-
nue.. AS the parade continued, how
ever, flashes of sunlight fell on the
marching column and turned its
banners into bright flecks of color.
The head of the parade reached
the official reviewing stand at Six
teenth street and Constitution ave-
nue. shortly after 2:15 o'clock and
40 minutes later the entire column
had passed on to the disbanding
point at Seventeenth street.
In the reviewing stand were Sec
retary Stimson, who also served as
President Roosevelt's personal rep
resentative; Gen. George c. Mar
(See ARMY DAY Page 2-X)
Evening star., 1941-04-05
3, tie Associated Press.

5N IIsF hsSOCldlCo TlCSS-
BENDIX, N. j., April 5.-A civilian
inspector ran amok IN the Bendix
Aviation Corp. plant here late last
night. destroying machinery and
models valued at "at least $50 0OO'
and setting back production OF some
defense articles for months.
The Federal Bureau OF 1nvestlga-
tons field Office at Newark took
charge of the case. but officials of
neither it nor the company would
be quoted.
Donald Converse, 36, native of
Lafayette, Ind, and said to be of old
American stock. was taken to the
psychiatric ward of the Bergen
County Hospital, Paramus. as the
man who did the damage. Physicians
examined him today. No charges
had been preferred.
Swings Metal Housing.
The damage was done in Bendix's
Pioneer Instrument Division as a
man ran through, swinging in each
hand a metal housing which weighed
more than 10 pounds.
The division is devoted to the
making of precision airplane instru-
ments, including parts for a secret
bomb sight. The Passaic Herald
Evening star., 1941-04-05
q. ttskssociated Press.

NEW YORK. April 5-The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals to-
day reversed the convictions of Local
s07 of the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stable
men and Helpers of America "a. F.
L. and 26 individual members on
charges of violating Federal anti
trust and anti-racketeering laws.
t The union and individuals had
been convicted in Federal Court last
MAY "a and were sentenced on June
1o. Judge Murray Hubert fining the
union $4,000 and levying prison
terms up to two years on the union
members.
p The Government had charged that
the defendants interfered with in
terstate transportation by employing
threats and violence to force out-of-
town truckers to employ members OF
Local BOT to unload trucks in New
York. Their activities. it was al