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(Continued from Page D veloping we'll" headquarters said of southeastern Somaliland.
 "On other fronts there has been no change"
 Crossing of the Juba river was aided by attacks on Italian posi- tions made during the past several days by units of the South African air force. ~z s.
 North of Chisimaio, the Juba river is 11O miles from the Kenya border. From positions on it's east bank British forces will be able to strike due eastwards against Mogadiscio, while empire troops now in posses sion of Chisimiao can move north eastward up the coast against the Italian Somaliland capital.
 Should the empire forces choose, they can send troops up the Juba river valley to the Ethiopian border The Juba enters Somaliland from Ethiopia at Dolo. Two routes into Ethiopia are available from there, one northwestward to Addis Ababa and another straight north to Harar and Dire Dawa, the latter on the Addis Ababa -Djibouti railway. This route also offers access to British Somaliland, now under Italian oc- cupation.
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these athletes compensation pay ments when their jobs folded up
 Breaks Monot0ny.
 Hartford, Conn, Feb. 20.-(UP)- To break the monotony of work less session, Rep. Charles S. Ingham, R., Haddam, arose in the House to- day and oqered 6 resolution facet iouSly suggesting:
 That chairmen of committees be allowed double mileage while seek ing stenographers for their com- mittees.
 That they shall be paid the cost of such refreshments, both liquid and solid, as is needed to prevent overstrain and exhaustion while engaged in this duty"
 And that the expense be charged to the personnel department and paid from the highway fund.
 Speaker Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., R., Sufdeld, referred the resolution to the committee on forfeited rights.
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Twenty-Two Persons
 Killed In Hospital
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as the floors collapsed.
 CuriouSly the fourth story, which was the only one empty, was un- touched.
 80 Persons There
 There were at least 30 persons in the three wards, in addition to nurses and other members of the staff and none escaped unwounded.
 Soldiers and some policemen att tending the dance in the nurses quarters rushed with the dance frocked nurses to aid in the rescue work.
 Soldiers erected a ladder along side an elevator and brought down some of the wounded.
 Nurse Maizie Christian, who had been sitting on a chair in the mid dle of the ward in the third story was found still sitting in the chair on the ground floor, gravely wounded.
 Rescuers had to climb through ground floor windows and over and through piles of debris to reach the victims.
 Some wounded men were carried across an iron communication bridge to another part of the hos pital.
 Staff Member Reports
 A member of the hospital staff said:
 T was standing in the lodge be- fore the hospital when I heard a crash and then a thud-the expo- sive bomb and the time bomb. The time bomb dropped in the hospital garden. We all dropped everything and ran to help. We had to climb through windows and over debris amid the clouds of dust and the still falling bricks
 Fortunately there was no fire. Our task would have been easier in g. sense if all the wards had col lapsed to the ground floor so that we could have dragged the patients and nurses quickly from the debris. As 1t was only a part Of each floor collapsed"
 A majority of the hospital victims were poor. The hospital was in the general free category with patients paying what they could, sometimes a pence or two but usually noth- ing. The victims, of all ages, suffer- ed various illnesses.
 A rescue worker said:
 T have never seen such magnifi- cent bravery as was shown by the patients. Many of them had been seriously ill, but the courage of their reaction when the bomb struck was something to awe one" Clergymen were soon at the scene to aid rescue workers and try to give comfort to the wounded.
 Patients in undamaged sections of the hospital were evacuated while royal engineers started to remove or immunize the time bomb.
 "Two floors were filled with male patients when the bomb struck and went through the roof. Half of the floors, with the patients on them, crashed down in a great tangle of wood work and masonry.
 'The other half remained in po- Sition like shelves.
 T went up to second floor ward and found several male patients who had been killed in their beds by the blast.
 While rescue workers were re- leasing trapped men with the aid of flash lights, surgeons carried out emergency operations in operating theaters which were undamaged."
 A notice was posted outside the hospital that all women patients were safe.
 The entire hospital was cordoned of because of the time bomb and police refused to permit even news paper men to approach.
 While London was undergoing its night raid, German planes flying in towns bombed Swansea, South Wales, for hours Casualties were heavy and damage was considera- ble.
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Tokyo In Angry Mood
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most critical. The British, he said were excessively and needlessly nerv- ous over "a bogey of their owr creation because there was no req son for alarm over the Far Eastern situation.
 Admitting that the British were free to move their forces within their own territory, the spokesman said Japan would be firm toward any attempt to threaten it.
 Japan Has Done Nothing.
 Japan has not done anything to warrant warnings from any power ' he said. "Ow policies including those in the South Seas are entirely peaceful"
 Gn Shanghai, the Ja. ,anese army organ, Sin -Shun-Pao, said editorially that the angry waves" which Brit ish and America were creating in the Pacific interfered with Japan's southward expansion plans but that it was unlikely that Japan would change them. If Britain and Amer ica 'goaded' Pacific ares and opposed Japan's "co-prosperity sphere the time would come for Japan to use force and Britain and America would be reSponSible.)
 The newspaper Asahi said that the United States and Britain jointly were trying to throw a defense line'' against Japan's economic advance before it's negotiations with French Indo-China and Thailand could at tain results. It alleged that Britain and America were trying to drive a political and economic wedge into Indo-China and said the Japanese government was sternly watching these "machinations."
 Between Two Fires
 Yomiuri featured on dispatch from Washington reporting that Americas condition for adjustment of Japanese-American relations was Japan's withdrawal from it's alliance with Germany and Italy and an- other. from Berlin, asserting that Germany was "watchful'' against "Anglo-American maneuvers toward undermining the Axis"
 The cabinet information bureau announced that Russian Japanese trade negotiations started at Mos COW Monday.
 As additional Americans needed state department warnings to start home, it was understood that the American school here intended to close at the end of the present term, in June.
 The school has been operating for 40 years. It used to have 200 pu- pils: now it has 76. It is the last of the once numerous American and British managed schools in Japan.
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Continued from Page D compensation. Labor organizations urged extension of the period for payments from 13 to 20 weeks, and increasing maximum payments weekly from $15 to $20. Employer representatives were more conserv- ative in the recommended increases.
 Other recommendations were to extend coverage of the act to types of employees now exempt, reducing or eliminating the waiting period, abolition of the merit rating system for employers, and some assistance to strikers.
 The senate committee raised a bill providing benefits to strikers who are kept unemployed by "dilatory tactics" of employers.
 Meantime, it was announced that Charles Henchel, New Haven Dem- ocrat. has been appointed assistant statute revision commissioner, suc- ceeding Matthew A. Kenealy, Stam- ford Republican.
 College Athletes
 Hartford, Conn, Feb. 20-UP)- The judiciary committee today con- sidered an amendment to the state unemployment compensation law which would qualify college athletes for benef1ts-if they receive more than $45 during a semester.
 The amendment was not aimed particularly at athletes. It was de- signed to clarify an administrative point concerning employees of edu- cational institutions. But legal ex- perts said college athletes who re- ceive jobs on the side as subsidy would come under provisions of the law.
 The amendment would grant
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NO REDUCTION
 IN CITY TAXES

Continued from Page D necessary the retention of Water bury's tax rate throughout the life of the refunding bond issue that was originally suggested this year. It does not affect, however, the present bond plan that the city has presented in the Legislature.
 At present. he Bridgeport tax rate is 28.3, but city officials ex- pect to drop it to an even 28 miAs if they secure the refunding bond issue. Under the governors plan the Bridgeport tax rate would have to remain at 28.3 mills until the refunding bonds had been com pletely retired.
 Resolutions Referred
 The Senate today referred to the judiciary committee resolution naming Frederick w. Palomba judge of the Waterbury city court.
 Similar action was taken on a resolution naming Edward Pracny judge of the Wolcott town court.
 Mrs Leila T.. Alexander, director of the Pearl Street Neighborhood House, was at the Capitol today, to attend hearings on bills concerning racial and religious discrimination.
 The House today approved the transfer of bill allowing the Town of Prospect to issue school bonds from the cities and boroughs committee to the finance.
 There will be a hearing before the House judiciary committee on March IA of the bill urging the state to buy wildlife painting of Rex Brasher. In the Senate this bill will be heard by the state admin istration committee on the same day. This is new committee and oV, l1, iY, f1Na Senate
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SINGAPORE BASE
 HARD FOR JAPAN
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right capture would leave Japan too weakened to capitalize if it suc- ceeded on its gain
 The possibilities of a Japanese i attack on Singapore were discussed in the house yesterday during de- bate on a $245 ,288, 800 authorization for defense improvements at Amer ican outposts, including the Pacific Islands of Guam and Samo The house last year rejected proposals to fortify Guam because it didn't want to offend Japan
 The bill was passed after chief naval operations Harold R. Stark wrote the committee that any of- fense Japan might take would be "unwarranted, unmerited, and should, in my opinion, be totally disregarded."
 The debate included defiant speeches by several members. Rep. Charles FaddiS, D., Pa, urged the United States to serve mo- tice on Japan that if it strikes against Singapore "the American navy will cut their Japanese SUD- ply lines, and will move in on their principal cities and industrial cen- ters and destroy them"
 Rep. Albert Gore, D., Tenn, ap- proved of Faddis' suggested, add :. ing: You are paying your respects to those scrubby, contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the rising sun" 1"
 Tt is time for this nation to do a little saber rattling of its own," Faddis said. We do not need to worry about Japan taking Singa- pore. She has never fought a first class power and has no intention of doing so unless she is forced to-" There was only one vote against the bill-that of Rep. Vito Marcan- tonic, American-Laborite, N Y. The first press conference here of the new Japanese ambassador, Ad-
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the Army had planned to activate several Negro units in the near fu- ture but in an attempt to ease the situation in Connecticut the corps area commander, Major General James A. Woodruff had advanced the date for this by ordering facili- ties to be made available at once, Colonel Collier said that other New England states also will send draf- tees. Rhode Island will furnish eight, Maine three, New Hampshire two and Vermont two. Massachu- sets already has furnished 50 and will not be included in the present quota, he said, because it is en- gagged in enlisting Negroes for its own National Guard units contain ing members of that race.
 Whether the army treats the re- quisition as a Negro quota Or a Special call'' it will not be so re- garded by State selective headQuar- ters, it was indicated there and the number of Negroes requested will be filled as they appear in the draft lists in the usual manner.
 The controversy which came to head last week, resulted when the Army refused to take more than 36 Negroes in the draft this month although more than 2000 white men are being called. Colonel Averill said that the simple language of the selective. service and training act requires that men be taken in the order in which their draft numbers appear, providing they can meet all the requirements. He refused tc recognize the Army's right to re- ject Negroes on racial grounds alone and rejected the Arrny's re- quisitions to fill their places with white men.
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shell of the building was filled with debris, bricks and jagged floor boards and beams. which hung precarious- ly. An old fashioned iron cooker swayed drunkenly from the second floor.
 That was all that remained of the part of the hospital where bomb had struck squarely on the side of the building.
 The bomb struck at about 10 D. m. It hit the side wall at the level of the second floor.
 Patients and nurses were blasted through the windows of the second and third floors to the ground floor
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Feeling in Japan.

Feeling in Japan.
 Tokyo, Feb. 20.-(UP)-Japanese today denounced United States plans to strengthen the defenses of Guam and Samo Islands and British rein- forcement of Singapore.
 They charged that America and Britain in concert were trying to in- timidate Jap, and, as regards the United States, said it would be sole ly responsible in the event of the worst developments"-an increas- ingly popular euphemism for war.
 A government spokesman said tartly that the Japanese people were getting somewhat tired" of state ments such as one made in the American congress that Japan 1n- tended to attack in the South Seas, including Singapore, Branding this and similar statements irresponsi- ble, the spokesman asked: When has Japan declared she would make such an attack?"
 Japan Much Concerned.
 As regards Guam and Samo, the spokesman would say only:
 Naturally the Japanese will be more concerned at the prospect of additional American defenses near Japan"
 The spokesman said Japan's posi- tion on the present situation was that expressed in a statement Tues day by Koh Ishii, chief of the cab met information service that if the United States could only be per- suaded to restrict it's activities to the western hemisphere the situation would be greatly mitigated,
 Generally. the view was taken that Americans defense plans were certain to aggravate relations.
 The government spokesman said that the landing of Australian troops at Singapore was another British demonstration to give the impression that the Far Eastern situation was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-20
British Ships Damaged

Berlin, Feb. 20-(UP)-FOur large British steamers were damaged in an attack by German planes on a convoy north of the HebrideS, the German high command said today German planes also set fire to a British destroyer of Harwich and German speedboat sank two Brit ish ships totaling 10000 tons in the North Sea, it said.
 Conveys also were attacked of the British east and southeast coasts, the high command said, and bomb CTS last night attacked docks at London, Swansea, Plymouth and Chatham.
 Airfelds in the Midlands were bombed effectively" and harbo1 works on the Isle of Wight and factories in Scotland were attacked
 In the Mediterranean, according to the communique, German bomb CTS scored hits on two large mer- chant vessels during a raid on BenghaZi harbor.
 The British were said to have flown into German occupied terri tory last night with weak forces.
 It was claimed that five British fighters were shot down in the Med | iterranean. Two German planes were missing, it was admitted.
 Informed German quarters said that German speedboat yesterday sank two merchant ships totalling 10000 tons in the southern reaches of the North Sea.
 According to informed quarters, a freight train near York was at- tackled by German bombers yester- day.
 Rome, Feb. 20 - (U.PD - Ger man planes, in a dive attack on British steamships in the Medier- ranean, reported direct hits on two of 5000 tons each and on several smaller ships, the high command communique said today.
 It was asserted that a British mo- torized column which attempted to approach" Italian positions in the Kufra Oasis zone of Ltbya was forced to retreat with considerable losses when the Italians counter-at. tackled.
 British forces were reported to be making repeated violent attacks ln southern Italian Somaliland in an attempt to force passage across the juba river.
 On the Greek front, the com Tiunique said, there was no action worthy of special mention.
 German planes bombed and machine gnnned numerous British inechaniSed Yehjcly snd battery emplaeements in northern Afrlol with effective results, the communi- cue said, md shot down five British chaser planes.
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ITALIAN FORCES
 WERE AMBUSHED
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Benito MuSsolini'S East African EnpIie now was in sight. It was pre- dicted that the Italians soon would withdraw from the lowland fringes of outer Ethiopia to the central low lands.0
 Believed Natives
 The Italians ambushed between Enjabara and Burye were believed to have been 2,OO0 native Askar! troops commanded by Italian off, cers. They were reported to have been attacked while still 20 miles from Burye, site of a major Italian aidrome.
 Trees had been felled across the road by Philippians to hamper the Italians retreat and to make more effective the ambush by Philippians hiding in the hills.
 The occupation of Enjabars brought the Ethiopian rebels within 190 miles of Addis Ababa by road. Il also cut the road from Addis Ababs to Gondar, north of Lake Tana compelling Italians to supply theil forces in the north over a long winding road which makes a bis detour east of Lake Tana.
 Un Rome the official Italian new! agency, Stefani, admitting tha Ethiopian tribesmen led by Emperor Halle Selassie were in revolt, re ported from Addis Ababa that tht Duke of Aosta, Italian Viceroy, was rallying Selassie's old enemies tc help in the battle against rebellion
 Chiefs Mobilizing
 (Stefani said that Ras Hailu, Ras Gugsa, Ras Seyoum, Ras Aialu anc other Ethiopian chiefs were mobiliz- ing their own warriors to wal against Halle Selassie's attempts tc win back his throne. The Italian news agency said that Ethiopian Moslems especially hated" the Negus Negusti and had sided witE Italy0
 (In London it was reported that the Italian commander in East Africa again were considering ask ing the British for an armistice to save their troops and colonists from massacre. The British, i! was said in London, were prepared to adopt a generous attitude to- wards Italians in East Africa only if they would renounce protection of the Italian military and place themselves entirely in British hands It was indicated that no ar1nistice would be granted to Italian military forcesD
 Enjabara is a fortified market town at an altitude of 10000 feet 30 miles from Dangila. It is To- cated on a well-built Italian road.
 The forts was studded with ma chine-gun posts which covered all approaches up the bare lava slopes However, British-led Philippians harassed the Italians with guerella tactics and Royal Air Force planes dropped leaflets reporting Italian defeats in Africa.
 Many Italians deserted their posts and the town was evacuated with out a fight.
 Capture Town
 Nairobi. Kenya, Feb. 20.-(UP)- South African British forces have captured the important southern Ethiopian town of Mega, 55 miles northwest Of Moyale. 1t was ar- nounced officially today. The vic- tory begins a new British pene- tration of Ethiopia on the south. ern front.
 Tn taking Mega, the South Airi- cans took "more than 600 prisoners the majority Of whom were Flu. ropeang," many guns and machine guns, the conmunique said.
 Mega is east of the Lake Stefanie area into which empire forces al. ready have penetrated 10 e depth Of at least SO miles. Mega Itself Is 90 miles inside the Ethiopian border with Kenya,
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TWO SENATORS
 IN AGREEMENT
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- -~.=----~rs-s----@~aa-- administration, and this presumably was Q reason for Senator BlanS. fields decision 10 withdraw his bill.
 Gov. Robert 4. Hurley hag stated that t legislative approval for q Waterbury trade school Is voted he will make available Rn appropriation even though there Is no provision for one iii the budget for tho next blcnniuin which ho hRs submitted to 1le penagai Assembly.
 Senator Egaa said today tint present plans for tho Waterbury Institution cell for erection Of flVe osle'StoFy bulldInsB.
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miral Kichisaburo Momura, pre- sented quite a contrast to this heat ed debate.
 He insisted that war between Ja- pan and either Great Britain or the United States could be avoided and said Japan had no intentions of fighting either country.
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regarded the nbie, As . genuine peace move, British lif0Fmanls said lt was 70 vague that they could not tell which war Japan wanted to end.
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ported that the Dutch are preparing for . finish fight in defense of their islands and that they are pre- pared to dynamite the rich East Indies oil wells rather than let them fall into the hands of Japan.
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BRITAIN PLANS
 TO HALT JAPAN

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NEGRO DRAFT IS
 SETTLED IN CITY

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BRITISH TROOPS
 CROSS JUB RIVER

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 COMPENSATION

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-01
zOIH CENTURY E PRESENTING REAL
 COMEDY, } DAYS
He Married His Wife with Fun-Mdking Cast
 Opens Here Sunday

With Playright Sam Hellman and Author John O'Hara collaborating with seasoned Scenarists Darrell Ware and Lynn Startling on the screen play of 20th Century Fox's new light comedy. He Married His Wife Juneau seemingly has a fine bit of entertainment in store for Sunday when the picture will open at the 20th Century Thea tre.
 Joel McCrea and Nancy Kelly are co-starred in the film, with Dar- ryl F. zanuck in charge of pro- duction, and their roles are said to be completely different from those which brought them both to screen fame.
 Other favorite names are includ- ed in the latest appearances of Ro- land Young, Mary Roland and Ce- sar Romero. Also featured are Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, Elisha Cook Jr., and Barnett Parker. I
 The original story by Erna La- 5 zaru and Scott Darling is a gay,s. informal tale which opens on az scene between Joel and Nancy, cel-.t ebrating the first anniversary of, their divorce. Joel, who is liable, for a phenomenal amount of ali- mony, is bit behind in his latestii payment and Nancy immediately has him jailed. She does this not cut of a vindictive spirit, however, but because she still loves him ano wants to bring Joel to his senses ifq possible. Then hilarious develop-4 ments begin to occur.