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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

kAOAlLAAAULQ AAQ11A 4A6B ~ the term of Petain at a maximum of 10 to 12 years.
 The commissinon was reported to have been almost unanimous against making France a dictatorship or a monarchy.
 Especially the commission was re- ported to have decided against giv- ing the chef of state any special title such as Header" or "con- ductor" and that he retain the pres- ent title, which Petain himself se- lected when he took over leadership after the collapse of l40.
 Informants said the commission interpreted Petain's mission, as as- signed to him by parliament July fO, l04O, as limited to preparation Of a new constitution for the re. public and that therefore the Petain constitution could not legally change tho form of the regime as 1t is now.
 Tho decision of the commission is not binding on peeain and he may ennnk iA ohanna ik ag reject N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

J. Kincaid, district director of the SFOC, and other high union off, cials had not kept their agreement to reinstate their leaders.
 "That means we're not going back to york;" they said.
 The tentative agreement to re- turn to work was reached by the strikers last night after they booed high union officials, including Re- gional Director John Doherty, who warned that federal troops were pre- pared to seize the plant unless pro- duction was resumed.
 The strike was called last Wednes- day when the workers charged that they had been "sold out" to the com pany in contract negotiations. Com pany and union officials and Federal Ccncilator James F. Dewey called the contract ''the best in the an- dustry".
 It was the fourth walkOut in as many months by the workers protesting that the steel workers wage scale is below that of the asl- tOnnOhlle workers. The shutdowns have cgwtalled production on high tanalla steel vital 70 defense work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

untry that we cease giving thu iefinite assistance which we arr N0W giving to the aggressors. For 1T efRect, we are inviting their con teol of the seas by keeping oul ships out of the ports of our owT friends"
 Before Reed, the first opposition witness, went into the Senate for nlgn relations committees Secret Bession, he tld newspapermen tha' m@ favored retaining the ban or Arming merchant ships. He saic That to keep this ban would give khe United States greater Influence tn bringing about @ just peace afer the war. Reed added that ht kezarded the bill as 8 "step toward Nar."
 Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D. ssolationist leader who was stand Mg beside Reed, asked:
 "A step or Q jump2"
 A sort of sideways movement Reed replied.
 ''T want to see my country stay 90 peace for many reasons, not she least of which is that if we stay out of the war our influence fn just peace will be greater Reed continued. If we arm our shlps 1t gives them the status oi var vessels. When we come to a final accounting with Hitler our position will be weaker.
 Besides, arming of ships is in- n1fectual. It has been brought out lli the last war no armed merchant ship sank Q submarine"
 Reed will be followed by pr. Ale bert w. Palmer, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and Or. Harold Boseley, Baltimore representing the Ministers No War Committeefi pr. H. N. Mo- Cracken, president of vassar; Esaac Pennypacker, Philadelphia lawyer; and George N. Peek, Mo- line, H., manufacturer.
 20 Sunk In Old War
 Twenty American ships were sunk between Jan. 28, 1915 and April c, 1917. The ninth and tenth sinkings of American operated ships since Sept. 1889 were an- nounced yesterday-the Lehigh, an American flag ship, and the Bold Venture, flying the Panaman- iAn flag.
 The latest sinkings brought de- gnands from administration sources for quick retaliation against Ger many whose submarines were blamed for the loss of both ships.
 TWO ships for every American ship lost demanded Sen. Claude Pepper, D.. Fla.
 "An armed ship has a chance; an tinarmed ship has ilone," said Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex, of the Senate foreign relations committee which is now consider ing the bill to authorize the arm ing oe American flag ships that hes been passed by the House.
 Administration opponents were ssdlsturbed" and thought the latest pfiakings were without justification, D But believed they would not change the vote in the senate committee pending bill or lead to enlargement of it to include repeal of the com- bat zone restrictions of the neutral aty ast.
 Bus there were increased demands 1R many quarters, including an ap- peal signed by Wendell L. Willkie, lD4O Republican presidential candi- date, and Q number of prominent Republicans, for immediate repeal of the entire act.
 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said in Q radio address last night that the only hope of peace lies in "the brutal necessity of countering force with force"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
FALL OF RUSSIA
 MEANS DISASTER
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(Contlnued from Page D of democratic attack ultimately could be hurled ct Germany from the east.
 Doubt that Great Britain would risk a diversion" landing opera ton against Germany in the west for many months more, increased with an announcement in London that Anglo American production would have to be tripled or quad- rupled before the British could uIa- dertake Q land attack.
 Officials here foregaw some time ago the probable necessity of trans- ferring to the Soviet Union funds earmarked in the pending lend- lease bill for Great Britain, China, or, possibly, South America. The Senate Appropriations committee yesterday approved the big war aid bill with the $5,oS5, ,000, 900 lend-lease figure intact.
 Some minor changes and addi- tlons were made in other items in the bill, including provision of $l,- 100000 for the Coast Guard train- ing school ct New London, Conn. As approved by the committee 1t carries $6,160, ,620, 0,306. The senate will begin consideration of the bill tomorrow.
 No Funds Sought Published senate appropriations committee testimony heard In see cret revealed that no funds were sought for the Soviet Union but that oscar Cox, lend-lease general counsel, foresaw the possibility of diversion.
 At the time this was made up," Cox said, 1t appeared Russia would be able to purchase her require- ments out of her own funds. It is possible that we may have to divert some of the funds in the requested appropriations"
 Harriman's report to MT. Roose- welt at yesterdays aid-to-R Russia conference was optimistic and in- sistent upon the cold determine ton of the Russian people to fight 1t out. After the conference he ducked questions about the results, if any, of his inquiries in Moscow regarding religious freedom. He rec ferred that issue to MT. Roosevelt who instructed him to raise 1t in Moscow coincident with the arna- ment discussion from which he has just returned.
 What Russia Needs
 'The Russian government needs substantial quantities of munitions and raw materials" Hartman told questioners. We analysed their re- quests and found them reasonable.
 Tn addition, we were able to promise delivery either from Brit ain or the United States of substan- tially all the materials that Josef Stalin asked for in the next months. Since my return l have been very much gratified and satisfied at the aggressive steps taken by this gov- ernment to see that Russian re- quirements are being shipped. They are going forward in large quan- titles.
 Tn what we saw in the Soviet Union, we found morale extraordin- arily high. American army officers reported that at airfields, nechan- les worked 14 hours . day in sleet and in cold and their work is up to American standards. found that although the work week was six days, some workmen came back on Sundays and worked without pay"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

said.
 under the armistice we laid down our arms and we have not the right to take them up again and strike the Germans In the back.
 Save 100 Frenchmen
 ssKf the assassins are caught 100 F'renchmen can be saved. Do not let harm hefau France. Take Q stand against the plot"
 Petain was believed, in speaking of 100 Frenchmen, to refer to 50 more who are to be shot If Holtz assaSsins ere not arrested by to- morrow midnight and to 50 reported seized at Bordeaux.
 It was understood that Petain and Darlan had appealed to the Ger mans to limit" theSr reprisals for the Nantes and Bordeaux killings. Petain arranged to make four speeches in all during the day, ap- pealing for an end of attacks on Germans.
 The German major killed at Bordeaux was shot in the boulevard st. George while 1t was still daylight at 7:46 D. m. yesterday. Two assasinS attacked him, shooting him in the back according to the Vichy yer. sion. Two others held four bicycles nearby, and all escaped through the crowded boulevard. The method usec here was that which had been used in recent Paris attacks.
 Attackers Are Youths
 Witnesses described the attackers as youths of from IS to 20 years.
 As Petain and Darlan made theil radio appeals, prefectural and yniini. cipal authorities at Nantes Issued proclamations praising the German Commander HoetZ as a just, gooc and kind man" who had showI intelligent comprehenson" and witt whom Vichy authorities were or "the best of terms"
 They promised to do all they coult to arrest the killers and ppealed k the French to help them. It was announced that specia Viciy tribunal at Paris had sentenc' ed two communists" to life i'm pI1oO1lIlCAAJ 6b AAdA0 A@SOA SOA0J three to IS years, three to 10 years one to eight years, four to six year and one woman to five years.
 The government here announced severe penalties against industrial ists accused of sabotage and warn ed that a new Vichy stndustria police" force was now functioning Evasions of decrees controlling dis tribution of coal and raw materiali were charged.
 Terse dispatches received herr from Dakar, on the French WeS African coast, said Vichy mill. tary court had sentenced four meT to be executed for taking part ir aggression against several Euro. peans in e hotel Aug. 3 and killing five of them." The nationality oI the "Europeans" was not specified
 Fifty Frenchmen who had beer held as hostages were shot sum- marily by order of Gen. Joachim Stuelpnagel. commanding German forces in occupied France, becAilsl the killers of Lieut.. Col. Karl Fried rich H0ltx. commanding tie uOT'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
Congress Is Asked To lit Neutrality Act
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The armed ship bill probably vii be ready for presentation on thu senate floor this week. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and navy anc maritime commission officials pre-. sented the administration case yes. terday; opposition witnesses, includ. ing the former ambassador to Bel gium, John Cudahy, will be hearc by the committee today.
 The Lehigh and Bold Venture slnkings were announced at about the time chief of naval operations Harold R. Stark was telling the com mittee that the U. s. destroyer Kearney was escorting convoy when 1t was torpedoed and damaged last week. There was some specula' ton that the Bold Venture might have been in that convoy.
 TorpedOed Sunday Night
 President Roosevelt announced at his press conference yesterday af- ternoon that the Lehigh was tor pedoed Sunday night about 10C miles west of F'reetown, South Af-
 rica. An hour later the state de- partment revealed that the Bold Venture, one of the ships seized from Denmark, had been torpedoed last Thursday about 700 miles southwest of Iceland.
 The Lehigh had Q crew of 39, Twenty-two have been rescued. Two lifeboats carrying the other mem bers of the crew have not been found. None of the bold Ventures crew of 32 was an American. Of that ships crew 17 have been landed at Reykjavik and the other IA are missing.
 Hull earlier had told the senate committee that 1t was absurd" to prohibit the arming of merchant men against piracy" and MT. Roose- welt took the same view. He said it emphasized the urgency of the situation, adding that as things are going now Q ship will have to be armed If 1t is on simple freight ing trip between the United States and Cuba.
 He revealed that the Lehigh, e 5000 ton vessel, was en route in ballast to the West African coast to pick up ore for the United States, after 6 trading voyage to Bilboa, Spain. He pointed out that Spain and West Africa were outside all combat zones and agreed with a re- porter who said this incident seemed to establish that merely keeping ships out of combat areas does not protect them from attack.
 MT. Roosevelt said one lifeboat with 9 men from the Lehigh had been picked up and that two others were being sought. He said he be- lieved no one had been killed but that several persons might have been injured when the torpedo ex- ploded.
 The Maritime Commission said 3,222 tons, was carrying cotton, steel, copper and general cargo; that 1t was sunk by submarine, appar- ently German.
 Fourth American Flag Vessel
 The Bold Venture was the sixth American-owned ship of Panamar- ian registry to be sunk. The Lehigh was the fourth American flag vessel to go to the bottom.
 Sen. Arthur Capper, R., Kars., Q member of the senate foreign rela- tons committee said the new sink ings disturb me a lot" but did not change his opposition to the arm ing of merchant ships. Another op- position senator, Robert A. Taft, R., O., said the Lehigh incident ap- peared to be without justification" effect on the Senate vote on the but doubted that 1t would have any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
EGGS WITH ACTORS

Penny Singleton, star of Colum- bias Blonde" pictures, drives to the studio every day with e load of eggs from her chicken ranch. She supplies dozens of actors, directors and others with the hen fruit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

effect on the senate vote on the armed ship bill.
 Pepper said that as g rule of thumb" the United States should authorize the navy to sink two Ger. man ships for each attack, ito avenge the blood of American sail- ors."
 "They are sinking our ships any, where they can get to them" Con- nally said. That is why we need this bill. An armed ship has a chance; an unarmed ship has no chance. Every time they sink Q ship 1t makes 1t more important that we arm our ships"
 Germany Skeptical
 Berlin, Oct. 22-(UP)-Authorized quarters said today that reports of the sinkings of the American Flag Ship Lehigh and the American owned Bold Venture could only be regarded in Germany with theh deepest skepticism."
 "All recent allegations of United States statesmen regarding ship sinkingS have proved to have been fakes and inventions" an authorized spokesman said.
 The spokesman that originally re- ports on incidents involving the United States destroyers Greer and Kearny differed materially from subsequent official United States states announcements, Nobody to this day knows whether the incidents occurred or not" the spokesman said. "One can only regard with the deepest skep- ticism these and all future incl 1 dents"
 The spokesman said that official American announcements on incl dents involving American vessels at sea were intended only to stir up pro-war feelings in the United States and to drive legislation de1 sired by President Roosevelt through Congress.
 "One can only say that the Unit ed States people must have be- come so SSirred up they have had their heads turned so that they cannot face the truth" an author ized spokesman said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
British Raid Italy

Rome, Oct. 22-- (UP) -- British planes raided Naples for five hours during the night and killed IA per- sons and wounded 27, a high coin- mand communique said today.
 The British planes, raiding in five waves, dropped hundreds of explo- sive and incendiary bombs ana caused heavy damage to buildings, 1t was admitted.
 Fires which the incendiary bombs started were immediately" con- trolled, the coinmunique said.
 British planes also raided the Catania and Acireale areas of Sic- lily, the high command communique said, and killed one person and wounded four. Some" houses were damaged, 1t was said.
 One British plane was shot down Tn the Catania raid, 1t was said.
 On the African front, British planes were reported to have killed eight persons and wounded seven among the native population" ir several raids on Benghazi, chief nity of Libya.
 The high command said the peo. pie of Naples displayed admirable calm and discipline"
 The communique said that on the Tobruk front Italian artillery was active and Italian guns and Ger. man planes shot down two British aircraft.
 Italian planes last night bombed La valletta, capital of the British Mediterranean island of Malta, the comnunique said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
stonned Nazl Advance

London, Oct. 22-(UP)-The of- ficial Russian news agency TaSs in a broadcast from Moscow said ro- day that Russian troops on the southern front had stopped the Ger.
 man advance on Rostov.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
NO NAME FOR VERONICA

Although co-starred in "sulllvan's Travels" at Paramount, Veronics Lake has no character naIma throughout the picture. She k known only as The Girl and no One ever calls her by mama
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
German Army Major
 Was Assassinated
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man base ct Nantes, had not been arrested.
 Stuelpnagel ordered the exeeu- ton of 50 additional Frenchmen If the killers are not arrested by mid- night tomorrow. He had offered a reward of 100000 francs tper- haps $500 000) for information which would aid the Germans in arrest ing the killers.
 As c special dispensation. Stuelp-, nagel ordered that all victims of his hostage killing order be per- mitted to see priests before their death.
 13I Erenchmen Executed The Nantes executions brought to l3l the number of Frenchmen shot or hanged by the Germans since mid-August.
 Stuelpnagels order regarding the Nantes killing said:
 "Cowardly criminals in the pay of Great Britain and Moscow have shot in the back the field com- mandant at Nantes Oct. 20. Until now the assassins have not been caught.
 Tn expiatlon of the crime have ordered first the shooting of 50 hostages, because of the gravity of the crime.
 "A further 50 hostages will be shot if the guilty persons are not arrested by the latest at midnight Oct. g.
 T have offered Q reward of i5,- 100000 francs to the inhabitants of the region for giving information contributing to the arrest of the as- saSsins.
 Appropriate information can be given to either German or French police.
 "On request, such information will be treated confidentially.
 "Stuelpnagel."
 GERMANY AWAITS WORD
 Berlin, Oct. 22.-(UP)-Author, ized informants, awaiting official re- ports of the killing of German army major at Bordeaux today, said that they had received unofncial word that three men had shot him and that he ad died of wounds dur. ing the night.
 Defending the shooting of a French hostages for the killing oi a German lieutenant colonel at Nantes, a spokesman said:
 'The blood guilt rests with wire lpullers behind these events, who ars not in France alone.
 ''No country at war would permit such assassinationS in occupied ter- pEitordes.'
 The spokesman added that ths mayor and prefect of Nantes had "co-operated loyally and warm heartedly with German authorities
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

Handbooks on Street Fighting" are being sold in Dublin bookShops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
FOURTH FRENCH
 REPUBLIC ASKED

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SOME STRIKERS
 RETURN TO WORK

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Red Army Turns Back All German Attacks
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aided the Russians to slow the Ger man offensive, now in its 2lSt day, and that toward the south of the line roads were almost impassable.
 Russia admitted that in some areas its troops had withdrawn to new and stronger lines to oppose the German attack which, still in full fury, had been strengthened by fresh masses of shock troop re- serves.
 A special dispatch of the official Russian news agency Tass said that i'll the MozkaiS:k sector west of Mos- COW, where the Germans had thrown great forces of tanks and motor ized infantry into the battle, there was hardly Q foot of ground in front of the Russian line not lit- tered with German dead and twist ed wreckage of tanks and trucks.
 A Tass dispatch said the entire countryside west of Moscow was now buried under the first big snow of winter and that deterioration of German morale seemed apparent.
 Russian Planes Active
 Despite the bad weather, Tass reported, Russian planes continued active and had destroyed 90 tanks, ITO infantry and ammunition trucks and % German planes in one day in th0 MozhaiSk- MaloyaroslavetS areas.
 Dispatches said Russian infantry and tank units, in daring gortieH from their lines In face of superior numbers, were dealing heavy blows.
 The Russian dispatches made no attempt to minimize the continued gravity of the German threat but said the Russians were holding ten- aciously against attacks by tanks in wedges of 10 to 60 and had start-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

ed vigorous counter-attacks at nu- merouS points.
 German tanks attacking a town designated as wv" were repulsed with sainginary losses, 1t was as- serted, and Russian troops near Mozhaisk charged with the bayonet and, after recapturing village, sent the Germans in flight to the oppo- site bank of nearby river, captur- ing 30 motorcycles, 10 trucks, two staff cars with documents, more than 300 bicycles, five anti-tank guns, 10 machine guns and a large quantity of uniforms.
 Dispatches said the Germans were attacking with tanks, infantry, nlo- torcyclists and bicycnsts under cov- CT of dive bombing planes, artillery and mine throwers in @ desperate attempt to get ahead, and that prisoners said their officers were now urging them on by every means, saying that to be stopped would be tantamount to being defeated.
 "One can not help agreeing" the newspaper Pravda commented.
 All dispatches asserted that the Germans were losing men in great CT proportion than ever and that their losses were far higher than those of the Red army.
 Workers Dig Trenches
 Special reports said that work CTS battalions of metal workers, en- gineers, plumbers and woodworkers, among others of Moscow factory volunteer contingents, were digging trenches and building barricades for hours every night In the suburbs after they had finished their shifts.
 Radio Moscow said every cross roads between Moscow and the front was now fortified, hristling with field, anti-tank and machine guns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
MOVIE LEADER
 GOOD FRIEND

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GERMANS HAVE
 BEEN SLOWED
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