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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
Aluminium F or Defense Collection Booming
While Mayor Vincent A. ScuIlysls Absent From City, Party Officials Aid in Management of Local Drive;
 Good Response in All Districts

Waterbury's aluminium for de- fense" collection drive was pro- ceeding ct top speed today, with scores of volunteers working in every section of the city. The first day procedural wrinkles of yesterday had been rapidly ironed out and the city-wide and voting district organizations were func- tioning smoothly today.
 Armful after armful of used aluminium was being brought to schools and firehouses by collec- tors ard contributors, and truck load after truckload was being transported to the city hall plaza, there to be dumped into the huge central collection bin.
 Maloney in Charge
 With Mayor Vincent A. Scully absent on city business in Boston, the campaign was being directed by Cornelius F. Maloney, manag- ing editor of The Democrat and secretary-treasurer of the Demo- cratic town committee, and George J. Scott, treasurer of the Republi- can town committee. Thomas F.
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American Technicians, North Ireland
 Signed Up For Averageo of $9O Weekly

hogs from New York. powder-boys dynamite carriers) and blasters who worked on Boulder dam, riveters from the west coast. pipe-layers and even divers. Their ages range from % up to the sos.
 I found three Rhode Islanders trying to pass the time playing ta- ble tennis in 6 hotel lounge. One of them was Jim Parsons, 2S, a plpe- layer from Providence. He, ike the others. took the Job without even knowing where he was going. They didn't flnd out until their ship, which came over in Q convoy, landed them here.
 Hs signed up for one year but ex- poets to bo here At least two.
 ''AGeat of us take 10 or ib dollars Q week and have the rest sent home, he said. Tuesday is pay aay but ialialiy hy Wednesday we're nFeke." 1"
 Al WnaeEa. a pllmshsg an aakAaua
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dealer from Providence. is c section boss.
 Most of us signed on just for the hell of 1t and because we wanted to see what was going on" he said. We're a little disappointed ct not being nearer the front line. but we're planning trip to London some time soon t0 look around"
 There's some grlmbllng about the food. The Americans say the food here is not up to the standard they were aecuat0gned to at home.
 T told the boys to stick until our own supplies arrive, then see what onF cocks can do," walters said. 'Arha naval and military people we meet are terribly nlee. The toWn- folk seem Q little high hat co fag but ! understand that's just lhnlF native caution. llla lls New Enslnnaersv
 EIo said they'd been cautioned uol to dlneuas the gar but that '@geS1~ |ema e1 ua is peoaHxllAAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
THREE RAILWAY
 EMPLOYES DEAD
Were Killed Today When Locomotive Exploded in
 New York

Coblesaill, N. F., July 15.-(UP)-. Three railroad employees were killed instantly today when 6 Delaware and Hudson freight locomotive ex- ploded at dawn on sharp grade three miles south of Cobleskill.
 Railroad officials said the dead were Engineman Charles K. Smith, 65, Fireman Hilbert J. Price, 49, and ,Trainman James M. Cleary, A, all of Binghamton.
 All were in the heavy locomo- tive, which was drawing 45 freight cars. The cause of the explosion could not be determined immediate ly.
 The locomotive was described as "a mass Of wreckage."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
British Ship Losses Are Greatly Reduced
Battle of the Atlantic" Begins to Change in Favor of Britain; June Was Lowest Month, But
 One in Whole Year

London, July 15-(UP)-The Ad- miralty, releasing ship losses for June, revealed today a decided irl- provement in Britain's position in "the battle of the Atlantic"
 Total shipping losses for June were reported by the Admiralty at 329,296 tons, a total of 79 ships, only a little more than half as great as those for the peak months this year.
 The British losses were the low est for any month in the last 12 except January and the losses Of Britain, her allies, and neutrals was the lowest since January.
 The Admiralty disclosed that British, allied, and neutral ship ping losses for the entire war passed 100000 tons in June.
 Authoritative sources expressed confidence that the substantial de- crease in losses shown in June would continue progressively be- cause of ever increasing British sea and air patrols and because of United States cooperation in the battle of the Atlantic.
 These sources emphasized that the large scale tonnage replace mentS coming from British, United States, and Dominion ship yards were helping to counter balance losses. It was pointed out that on the other hand, enemy losses were increasing steadily because persistent Royal Air Force attacks on German railroads were forcing the Germans to increase their coast wise traffic.
 52 Ships in June
 June losses were put at 52 Brit ish ships, totaling 228,284 tons, i9 allied ships, totaling 82,727 tons, and eight neutral ships, totaling lS,285 tons-a grand total of 79 ships end S29.2o6 tons.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15

The two most important of the Axis agents and a'party of IA were flying here from San Francisco in three United Air Lines transport planes so that all can sail in the West Point. They were Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who Is close to Adolf Hitler, and was the German Consul General in San Francisco, and Johannes Borchers, who was the German Consul General here.
 Missed Japanese Boat
 They had wanted to sail in Jap Rnese liner for the Orient where they had been assigned new posts. They missed 8 boat Sunday because the British were inexplicibly slow in granting them safe conducts, and until last night were under the tIt1- pression that they had permission of thu State Department to remain until July 3l when the next Japa- nese boat sails. Then something happened that reversed their plans and a few hours later they were fly ing to New York with their wives, their assistants, i29 pieces of lug- gage, and four dogs. The State De- partment would not comment.
 Considerable mystery surrounded the sailing of the West Point. A heavy police guard around the Hud- son river pier prevented all un- authorized persons from even ape preaching the former United States luxury liner, America, hardly recog- nizable in her dress of battleship gray.
 News Service Men Included
 The New York Herald Tribune said that additions to the passenger
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RUSSIA HURLED
 BACK NAzI FORCE
Vital Moscow Front Saved in One of Greatest Count
 CT Offensives
RY HENRY SHAPIRO

Limited Press Stan COrreSp0ndentl
 Moscow, July IS - (U.P9 - Rus sian forces have hurled back the Germans 20 miles west of the Dnieper river in the Bobruisk sec- tor of the vital Moscow front in one of their greatest counter r-of- fensives of the war, correspond ent of the official newspaper Izves- tia telephoned from the front today.
 Russia's early morning communi- que yesterday had reported tersely that Russian troops. had recaptured Rogachev, g miles east of Be- bruisk, and zholobtn, 12 miles south of Rogachev.
 Actually, the Izvestia correspond ent telephoned, the Russians not only drove back the Germans 20 miles at that point but forced them back from the Dnieper river at several places north of Rogachev after silencing artillery and rout- ing tanks which had been pressing to the attack.
 Civilians returned to Rogachev last night, the correspondent said, to find that the Germans had loot (Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
LIEUT.. MALONEY
 IS ASSIGNED
Local Flying Cadet, Who Graduated Friday, Goes
 to Langley Field
lsneclal to The pemocratl

Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala bama, July IS - Second Lieutenant J. Benedict Maloney of Waterbury, Connecticut, who graduated from the flying school for cadets last Fri day today was assigned to duty at Langley Field, Virginia. He will re port there immediately, it was learned by The Democrat. The ex- act duties to which Lieutenant Ma loney will be assigned were not di- vulged, but 1t was believed that he will be detailed to bombaydment training and pursuit flying, Q branch in which he showed particu- lar aptitude in the latter days of his preliminary courses at Maxwell Field and prior to that at Darr Aero Tech, Inc.
 Lieutenant Maloney is the son of pr. and Mrs. D J. Maloney of 1l7 Cooke street, Waterbury. He was as- sociated with the Welfare Depart ment of the City of Waterbury prior to enlisting last fall. Before train ing at Maxwell Field in Alabama he was stationed in Georgia.
 Attending the exercises last week when he received his wings and commission in the U. s. Army Air Corps Reserves were his sister, Miss Emily Maloney and Miss Lauxaine Dill, both of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
DEATH VALLEY
 SCOTTY HASLOST
Wealthy New York Broker, Who Grubstaked Him,
 Wins His Mines

Los Angeles. July 15.-(UP)- Death Valley Scotty today lost his last tangible assets to Julian M. Gerard, wealthy CIV York broker who grubstaked him 40 years ago because he believed Scotty had discovered fabulous gold mine.
 Federal Judge Benjamin Harrison awarded Gerard IT mining claims to a judgment ending Gerard's suit for 22 i-2 per cent of Scotty's assets in return for the $l0,000 grubstake.
 The judge said the unworked claims were worthless but he was transferring their ownership to Gerard as the only tangible asset he could discover to Scotty's credit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15

Washington, July lb.-(uPl-Rep. Warren Q. Magnuson. D.. wash., re- turned to the capital after c tour Of AlaslEan defenses, Raid today that the possibility of 0eFman.Japanese military collaboration Inenaees tnat strategic American outpost.
 Ne nMld tho Axis pmrtneEs-in the event Of . victory oyer Russia-- probably woul6 follow this lIne cf action against tho United States;
 1. Japan would attack upon the Dutch East Indies. lohief og stau 0eorge c. Marshall advised eea- hxeknl0nal leaders iask week kllAs enc army feared such Rn msaaek)
 1 The German ngIny-Wlth the aHansr Siberian railroad as Q supply llmn 0sliA nitnek G&ma&n mEla 6Rn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
Nation Has "GOne Good Distance" Toward Goal
 of Superior Force PRODUCTIVE WORK IS
 BEHIND AT PRESENT America Is Not Yet Adea quately Armed or Even
 Prepared He Said
BY MACK JOHNSON fYynlkAd preaa staff Coareennnd,

NUnAced Press StaIk C0EfespOnuenvH
 Washington, July IS. - (UP) - Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that the United States has "gone a good distance" toward its goal of an army superior to that of any other nation in organization and equipment. He told the Sem ate Defense Investigating Committee that economic life and civilian supply stores face greater dislocatton than has been felt thus far. He was called by the commit tee to tell of results achieved from expenditure of billions of dollars for defense since the fall of France in June, lS40.
 He said that the defense effort contemplated for the coming year will mean fewer civilian Rutonno~ piles, refrigerators and 50 oIl," and the use of substitutes for many non- defense manufactures. But this he added, should result in spread ing of business among more now idle firms.
 T doubt that more than IS per cent of Americas productive capac- ity is devoted to defense york;" he said. "If we expect to equal and surpass other countries, far more of our machines and labor must be placed at the service of the War and Navy departments"
 Achievements of Year
 Discussing achievements of the last year, he said the Army has made great progress"
 T do not claim that America as yet is adequately armed or pre- pared" he said, Tor that we have become thoroughly stocked and sufficiently productive arsenal for ourselves and for other Democratic nations as well. But we have gone Q good distance.
 Before long, the work which we have already done in planning and ordering equipment and in provid- ing manufacturing facilities will pIOuuI1Cc III SVSE 4AC1CaSAkAe nlGdS1kO the results which wes all desire"
 He conceded that the emphasis on speed has caused some ''errors Of judgment" but he added that "singling out of our mistakes to the exclusion of proportionate consider ation of our correct decisions and success" would be unfair" to the war department and discouraging to the public. It also would be 'stin- ulating beyond warrant to the morale of those who do not wish us well," he said.
 "Our plans from the start of the emergency have called for modern equipment equal and superior to what is be ing used in Europe" he testified.
 Never Enough Munitions
 "We have been asking for appro- priations in increasing amounts and are placing orders for addseional ordnance and aircraft. We must bear in mind that for total warfare
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Under-Secretary Of War Patterson Asks More Speed
GERMAN GOVT.
 WAS INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury Has Included Reich in Spy
 Ring Expose

New York, Jury 15-(UP)-A fed- eral grand jury today named "the government of the Brennan Reich" as Q co-conspirator with B men and women indicted on charges of espionage against the United States.
 The grand jury, in Brooklyn fed- eral court, charged 3l of the de- fendants, all of whom were rounded up last month, with failure to reg ister as agents of a foreign power and the entire 33 with transmitting United States defense information to @ foreign power.
 Tn count one of the indictment, detailing the alleged rings esplon- age practices, the B defendants were accused of conspiring with each other and with the govern ment of the German Reich" to violate Section 233 of Title 9 of the United Sttaes code.
 The defendants included two men who formerly worked in United States bomb sight factories, professional spy with . record dating back to before the World War, Frederick Joubert Duquesne; several alleged s'couriers" who worked on Transatlantic passenger liners, a Pan American Clipper Steward accused of smuggling plat mum to the Axis, and three women.
 Started In 1936
 The spy ring, according to the indictment, had its inception April 1, 1886, when the German govern ment, through a network which had ramifications "thr ughout the world" started collecting and re- ceiving information and material from the United States of rnili- tary, naval commercial and indus trial nature"
 The German government, through its military departments, represent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
GERMANY WHIPS
 RUSSIAN TANKS
Official Nazi Report on What Is Taking Place
 on All Fronts
By JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. TIr;tad prass Staff Corresnondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Berlin, July 15-(UP)- Official Nazi reports claimed today that great Russian tank counter -of- fensive in the Kiev sector has been smashed and that Nazi troops have sliced through secondary de- lenses in the Dnieper-Dvina area, continuing their drive on Lenin- grad.
 The official news agency report ed that the Russians had attempt ed to establish 8 secondary defense line behind the Stalin fortifica- tions in the Dnieper-Dvina sector but that the attempt was frustrat- ed by fast-movirg German troops.
 "The advance of German troops upon St. Petersburg Leningrad) continues without halt" the offi- cial agency said.
 The high command confined it. self to the cryptic statement that operations on the eastern front are progressing steadily"
 On the Ukraine front, said the official agency, fleet of hundreds of gigantic Soviet tanks, some of them mounting six-inch guns, att tempted to counter attack and
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GOV. HURLEY HAS REACHED FLORIDA Arrives With Party of 25 for Inspection of Military
 Encampments
By WILLIAM D. CLARK,

 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Jacksonville. Fla. July iS-(uP) Gov. Robert A. Hurley and a party of 25 arrived here today af- ter, q 22-hour train ride from Hartford, and immediately went to Jacksonville airport to inspect quarters of the Ii8th observation squadron.
 The squadron consisted Of Con. necticut alrmen. under the cosa- mand Of Maj. Harry w. Generous. After the airport tour, the goveg- nor's party had lunch at the squad- T0n's headquarters, and then pre-. pared to 90 to Camp Banding, several miles out of town, where thousands Of Connecticut troops were stationed.
 Maj. Gen. Morris B. Payne, New London, commander of the lsrd New England diVlelon stationed at BlanAlng. greeted Nov. and Mrs. Hurley aS their train pulled Into Jacksonville station this morning.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
BY HARRY L. PERCY United Press Stan CorFespondent)

A Northern Island town, July iS. -(UP)-The first contingent of United States technicians hired by the British government for a big project in northern Ireland hes been here for three weeks.
 These Americans signed up for aS, average Of se0 . week. for adyeEi- ture, and, as . section boss from Providence. R. T., put t. "tust foF the hell of tt."
 But their material hasn't arrived and. although they have no coiai- plaints about the way they've been treated. they have found only bore. dom co for. They are. ci course, not allowed 10 discuss the pEojeeg. Many of them recently were employed eEl the hi9 United States naval aiF base at alsonDet Point, R. I.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
STATE IS SAVED
 $l2,OOO YEARLY
( Commissioner of Finance Phelps Drops o. Glenn.
 Saxon, LIewelyn Reed
By JACK AMMAN limited Press Staff C0rrespOndent)

(Uniteo Press Stau GoEEesPOnuSnJ
 Hartford, Conn, July l5.-(UP)-- State Finance Commissioners Lewis Wv. Phelps, who has been in ofiice less than three weeks, has instituted a special survey of the states finan- cial sett-up which already has saved Sl2,0OO, and carries the pros pect of further widespread savings, the United Press learned today.
 Makes Three Moves
 Phelps, a former state auditor who Is well-versed in how the state op- crates its financial system, has made the following three moves:
 1. Former State Finance Com missioner O. Glenn Saxon, Yale Uni- versity economics professor, has been dropped as 8 special "adviser" to the state. Saxon for about a year has been receiving $500 a month from the state under con- tract first signed by former Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and then re- newed by Gov. Hurley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
POTATO CROP LESS

Boston, July i6.--(UP)- Total acreage of potatoes for harvest in the United States is estimated as 2,o0A, 300 acres, or s per cent small CT than last year, the New England Crop Reporting Service said today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, July 15 (UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through July 12th. compared with a year ago:
 This Year Expenses Last Year s670. 3,o2e.2s sss7,3s0,6ss.es sisO.ss4s4s.s7 slSs.iss.sii.ss s4ss.sIs.t7s.ss ssla.sso.iis.ss s4ss.sss.sas.ss sss7.OSziizss ss.sB7. 7.sss.sil.ss si.Sls.Sls.se .ses.sf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-15
Expelled Envoys Will Include All Consuls In U. s.
Capt. Fritz Weidemann of San Francisco, Johannes Borchers of New York, Also Will Be Among
 45O to Leave Country
BY JOSEPH [. MYLER Limited Press Staff COFregpondent)

New York July Is. - CUP) - Expelled Axis consular and propagandists sail for their hoeads today the naval transport West Point As they boarded
 s United States consular representatives were preparing leave Germany and Italy They had been expelled in wicaI
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The Weather

Fair, Warm TOnights
 Wednesday Cloudy Fun weather Report Page '
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

on the principle of free trade, to
follow the war - elimination of
trade restrictions of all sorts; nom
discrimination in commercial rela-
tons; raw materials available to
all nations on equal terms; inter-
national regulation of commodity
supply; international financial ar
rangements to support all essential
trade.
President Roosevelt followed this
with reiteration of his four free
doms-freedom of speech and ex-
preston; freedom of every person
to worship God in his own way,
freedom from want; freedom from
fear.
Anthony Eden, the British For
eign Minister, on Thursday SUBJ
scribed fully to all of these Amer
lean points and added substantially
to them. Most important from a
practical standpoint was his am
pliflcation of the Roosevelt pledge
of freedom from want" with a
picture of vast food SURPRISES in
the United States, the British over
seas dominions and South America,
ready for shipment to starving
peoples everywhere the moment
the wars end.
Won't Return to Old World.
Germany, even If victorious, he
said, would have no food to supply
and no means of fostering a resto-
ration of world trade except as
she was aided by the free Anglo
Saxon nations.
Eden particularly sought to meet
the contention. increasingly heard
in the conquered "have-not" ma
tons, that there is little to choose
between Germany and the rich
Anglo-Saxons in the matter of
after-war exploitation-that Ger
many, Italy and Japan after all
are fellow have-notS.
Let no one suppose" Mr.. Eden
said, that we. for our part, intend
to return to the chaos of the old
world" and then promising in effect
that gold. which only the democ-
racies now possess, will not rule
in the postwar world, he added
significantly: I'VE should hope to
see the development of a system of
international exchange in which the
trading Of goods and services will
be the essential feature"
Coincidentally there was a con-
certed British-American appeal for
support of black, brown and yellow
peoples. Mr.. Eden pledged his gov
eminent to support an independent
Syria and a unified Arabia. The
Marques of Linlithgow, Viceroy of
India, promised new steps toward
Indian self-government. Secretary
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This Changing World
Operations Against Iroq and Palestine
Believed Scheduled Before Middle of June

war material there for future OPP
erations.
French planes in Syria are re-
ported to have been placed at the
disposal Of the Reich authorities
at the same time that Vichy an
nounced that all airdrome facil-
tiles would be made available to
German warplanes.
French Troops on War Footing.
The troops under the command
of Gen. Dentz once more are on a
war footing and the war ma
terials which had been placed
under control of Frances former
enemies have been released to
the French forces. 1t is true that
the planes are outmoded and the
French colonial Senegalese, Mo-
roccan and Algerian forces could
not be described as first class
units. All the same they have
been good fighters in the past,
and supplied with modern arma-
ment they might be good fighters
again.
The metropolitan regiments
which had been sent there in
November, 1899, TO form the
famous Army of the Levant"
under Gen. Weygand have all
been repatriated. According to
military observers who know the
French Army, the colonial and
African troops could be better
relied upon in war against
Great Britain than the soldiers
Of European France.
There is no doubt that Herr
Hitler has played his cards well
so far as France is concerned.
He had said long before the war
began that the French people
would look upon him as their
savior after the German armies
had defeated them. In less than
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year since the signature of the
armistice, the French government
has come to that conclusion. He
has become now, in the eyes of
Vichy's rulers, the only hope of
French renaissance.
Admiral Darlan does not expect
to spend another winter in the
cold. uncomfortable, temporary
capital at Vichy. Reports from
Berlin and Vichy indicate that
conversations are now in prog
ress to transfer the French gov
eminent back to Paris as soon
as the last details of the Franco
German Axis have been drafted
and Hitler is convinced of the
unQuestionable loyalty of the
French government.