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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
SEVEN COLLEGES
 VOTE ABOUT WAR
Show Different Views Over Declaring War or
 Staying Out Entirely

Middletown, Conn, Nov. 3--(UP) A poll of 5,649 students in seven colleges, conducted by the Wesleyan Argus, showed today that 23.5 per cent favored an immediate declara- ton of war on Germany and 51.l Der cent believed c Hitler victory over Britain would mean the end of American democracy.
 Participating in the poll were students from wesleyan Trinity Williams, Rhode Island State Springfield, Connecticut College and New Jersey College for women.
 Expansion of the lend-lease pro- gram was favored by % per cent; another 24.5 per cent favored con- tinuation of current policies; l76 per cent were for revision of the Neutrality Act; 85 believed in re- stricted shipments to Britain and abandonment of the Navy patrol system.
 A majority, or 72.5 per cent, be- lleved a League of Nations with po- 1ice power would bring about the best world situation after the war while 14.B endorsed Q world domin- ated by the Enelish-speakine powers. Forty-four per cent be- heved the United States should take an active part in the postwar system of world organization.
 Another 42 per cent favored legis- 1ation empowering the president to end defense strikes and 39,6 per cent believed the president should have authority to take over strike-bound defense plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
1 JAPAN GROWING
 RILED ONCE MORE
United States Is Seeking to Crush Japan Says
 Nippon Press
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United Press Staff CoEresp0ndent)
 Tokyo, Nov. 3--(UP)-The Jap- anese press clarioned today that the United States seeks to "crlish Japan in the far East" and said the gov- ernment shortly will issue c s'fnost important" declaration on the dead- lock in Japanese-American rela- tions.
 The tone of press comment, 6 re- liable barometer of Japanese opin- ion, was assuming 6 more and more truculent tone toward the united States. There was no comment on Germany's statement that America has attacked Germany" or JnpanB obligations under the tripartite pact but the deadlock in United States Japan relations was called JapanB "chief obstacle"
 (Columbia Broadcasting System heard the Tokyo radio quote the newspaper Yoinuirl that sinking of the Reuben James semphasl2ed the United States inability to prepare t. self for defense In both the Pacific and the Atlantic. As long as the situation in the Pacific is not if1- proved, America's ability to reinforce the Atlantic patrol force remains limited. This is the united states weak point.")
 Japan Must Not Walt
 The press declared that the forth- coming session of parliament will Do "one of the most important in Japans history" and insisted Japan cannot afford uselessly to "walt" for changes In the American atti- tude.
 The press campaign was keyed to the national holiday celebrating the birth of the Emperor Meiji under whose regime Japan rose to c world power.
 Asahi's typical headline declared:
 Look at the many anti-Japanese acts of the United States: the Jap- anese government in conference; now is the time when our 0O,000, 900 people should become one."
 The influential Nichi asserted that the traditional selfish diplomacy" of the United States "insisted on distorting our mission" and added that America was "fattening It's purse" to the detriment of other countries.
 Yomuiri said that negotiations with the United States are at a do. clsive stage"
 There Is A Limit
 "There is Q limit at overlooking trlcks,O 1t added. 'T'he determinA. ton of the imperial army is firm"
 The highly nationalistic Kokumin (which reflects radical army posiey) said:
 aif the United States does not change It's antl.Japanese, enemy at. titude, the rest may be inferred. It Is now impossible to permit tne present status of relations to drift along" ..
 The newspapers said that the diet session would be most important enc that it would rouse the people to the tAgk of "breaking through With un' defeatble conviction the unprese" dentod obstacles" which confront the nAtlons
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
JOHN ROOSEVELT
 HOME IS GUARDED

Coronado. Calf, Nov. 3.-(UP)-- MhisIgn John Roosevelt, youngest yun of hte president, said today that secret service agents were guarding lis home here to protect his 10- month old son.
 Presence of the agents was rec yealed when the staff was increased b two recently. The first agent had been on duty for more than year md the second was added so that hey could give each other an oc- Daeional day of, Roosevelt said.
 Both Roosevelt, an assistant com- munications ofticer at North Island naval air station, and Arthur Grube regional secret service director, said Inc guard comprised the routine pro- lection furnished members of the presidents family. They said there has been no incidents to inspire the guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03

Independent Democratic spokes- men claim their ticket will poll from 5000 to 5000 votes.
 The campaign went along in low gear until last weekend, when the candidates began hurling charges and counter charges Much has been made during the last few days of 6 racial issue, each major party blaming the other party for intro ducing it.
 Mayor SculIy Asks Test
 Mayor Scully has campaigned on the basis that the election Is Q test of whether or not the people want a continuance of the policy and program of his administration, He has cited such accomplishments as the Baldwin street bridge, the East End gym, street paving, the sec- ond pipe line, the proposed trade scholo project and the excellent state of city finances. He has point ed to a tax reduction being ef- fected while city services were be- tng continued.
 Mir. Perrtello had claimed that in his term in ofIlce the foundation vas laid for the financial progress made by the city. He has assailed epatch" improvements made by the administration, failure to secure a gstleral housing project, lack of a rubbish collection system and a shortage of recreational facilities. Ee has claimed that the same old crowd" remains at the city hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
WOMAN EMPLOYE
 GRANTED AWARD

According to the terms of . find- ing and award approved today by Compensation Commissioner Joseph D. Talbot, Jennie Egan of Ansonia will receive the sum of seo4.e0. The claimant, an employe Of the An sonia o. and Q. O., allegedly sus' taIned on Injury leading to trau. matte arthritis of the right hip on March 3, 1889.
 Tn ruling upon the ylrtues Of tht Ansonla womans claim, Comsf, albot declared himself satisfied nat the claimant now has Q GO per" ( mt loss of use of her entire right leg" and that ordinary walking or standing now causes her pain. Pay" merts of S7,2B will be made weekly for i24.8 weeks. Tn addition, the claimant will be reimbursed for ell medical, surgical and hospital care neceSSitated by the Injury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
Smashing Battles
 Near Moscow, Crilnea
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Russians report they Stlll were holding of the Nazis with the aid of muddy reads. Berlin made no new claims after Saturdays report that there had been Q break through at an unspeeifed point on the upper DonetS, but the high command said that the, city of Kurski, midway between KhArhav and Orel on the hinge Of the cen. ter.southern fronts had been taken. On the Moscow front, the battle lines were little changed, with the Russians Still holding on a waver- ing line running from the Tula sec- tor to near Kaluga, to Serpukhov, Maloyarocalvets, Mozhaisk, Kolkol. disk and Kalinin.
 Exact positions were uncertain as both Berlin and Moscow spoke of fighting in these sectors in general terms, but 1t was indicated by both Moscow and London that c big-scale German drive was being renewed to encircle the Soviet capital and the onslaught apparently was already in progress.
 On the air and sea front, the British were again taking the offen- slve in attacks ranging from Nor- way to North Africa, while the Ger. mans claimed to have bombed six more British merchant ships, sink. ing at least one, and to have batter. cd Great Yarmouth during the night
 The Films also reported successes against the Soviet Navy. claiming that three of seven Russian destroy- CTS that broke out of the Gulf of Finland had been sunk in heavy fighting in Baltic waters.
 Royal Air Force Busy
 The Royal Air Force reported that over the weekend 1t had rained bombs on German shipping in the North Sea, sinking g ships in the last 72 hours; bombed Kiel as well as targets in France and Holland; smashed at the Italian cities of Na- pies and Palermo and raided Axis positions on the North Africa coast.
 There was, however, still no sign of 6 British drive into Libya or other British initiative in the Mid de East, where shere had been pub- lie demands for dispatch of troops to the Caucasus to aid the Red army. In London, it was disclosed that the RAF had turned down ap appeal by an American Eagle squad. ron to be sent to Russia to fight, al. though Swedish reports said thai large British aerial forces were aT. irving at Archangel to aid the So. viets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03

(Contlnued from PaBe D oil parties were making prepara- tons.
 The Boredom and the deafening silence accompanying the election campaigns in the four cities worried political experts, who explained that high wages, widespread employment, and accompanying boom" factorSS-. and, of course, the international situation-had combined to wreck the municipal campaigns.
 Mayor Incumbents Favored
 However, observers predicted that all four incumbent mayors would be reelected, some by votes closer than generally expected.
 New Haven: Democratic Mayor John W. Murphy, seeking his sixth term, probably will be reelected by Q substantial majority Of between 7,B00 and 10000 over Republican nominee Thomas R. FitzsimmonB. Mayor Murphy's campaign got 0 boost from the State Public Utilities Commission, which threw out c rate increase granted the New Haven Water Company in 1889, an issue pressed by the mayor.
 Hartford: Democratic Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, seeking 6 fourth term, probably will be reelected over Republican Joseph 3. 0rifiln, who AlSo-ran two years ago. Spell lacy'S majority over driffin may be in the neighborhood of 5000 to 7,Bo0 votes.
 Incidentally, . fight over the elec- ton of e member of the board of education was creating more interest at Hartford than the mayoralty fight.
 Bridgeport: Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy, seeking Q fifth term, was regarded as c "sure thing" to win. Both Democrats and Republicans have been unable to break "the Great Jasper's" popularity with the voters. The Democratic candidate is Milton M. Mcdonald, and the Re- publican nominee is Nelson A. Park CT.
 Two years ago, McLevy won with . plurality Of i2,000 votes. Ills bal- lot this year may equal or stirpaSs that. A Democratic primary fight has aided him, and Republican liSt- iessness is still evident.
 Waterbury: Democratic Mayor Vincent A. scully, seeking his sec- crid term, probably will be reelected over Republican nominee Patrick J. Perriello, who was mayor for four months after the resignation of former Mayor T. Frank Hayes.
 Democrats complained Perriello was directing his appeal to Italian voters, and conceded he would at- tract many of these voters. However, Waterbury Republicans have been split for some time, and Mayor ecully's advisers believed he would draw hundreds of disgruntled Re- publican yoteG
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
SUIT AGAINST
 LEARY CLOSED

Continued from Page D tween Mir. Lynch and c representa- tive of the Maryland concern. Sev- eral efforts at arriving at c corl- promise agreement proved frultleSS last June when the bonding company failed to respond to letters from Mr. Lynch, urging that the litigarlts corl- fer on Q possible settlement.
 Tn recommending that the finance board accept the s70,000 offer, t was pointed out that the most the city could hope to recover in the event that the case went to trial, was between S75,000 and $e0,000, at an optimistic estimate. This would involve extensive preparation and expense, and would leave the out come of Q length court trial still iil doubt.
 The committee to which MT, Lynch submitted the offer stated that, After numerous conferences, the Maryland Casualty Company has given q final offer of settlement in the amount of s70,000. Since the maximum net recovery would in no event exceed that offer by more than 6 few thousand dollars, we feel that 1t would Do poor business to risk the loss of e70,000 plus the expenses of trial in the hope for recovering 50 little more than the offer"
 The four bonds issued by the surety concern were for e26, ,0OO each, and were posted ct various times during Leary's sincumbency: February 20, ie30; January 13, 1052; January 6, ies4; and December is, lose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03

with loss of 5000 men including Gen. Otto Ernest 0ttenbaeher.
 The Germans captured the town on october le, but since the Rus. slams repeatedly have countersats tackled and fought their way into the outskirts on several occasions, The London radio reported this morning that Red Army forces had virtually" surrounded Kailnln but other dispatches said that the Nazis had YaAgs0d heavy achievements both there and in the Tula sector, south of Moscow, for e new offen- slve that probably Is already in progress.
 Anticipating this drive over the frozen ground around Moscow, the Red army and the Red air force has been striking heavily at the enemy concentrations and reported that scores of German tanks and several battalionB of motorized infantry had been wiped out.
 Both Moscow and Berlin reported impressive German gains on the border of tho Black Sea and Q per- iod of freezing weather following heavy rain and sleet storms on the central front appeared to be pre-. pairing the way for another final drive by the Germans against the Russian capital.
 Germans Break Through
 In the Crimea, the Germans re- ported that they had broken" the Russian defenses on the entire northern, northeastern and central fronts, sweeping to the Haila moun- tains within 30 air miles of sevasto. pol, which may be defended for some time but which already has been made almost useless as naval base because of heavy Nazl dive bomber attacks.
 Hitler's high command said that B3,l76 prisoners had been taken in the Crimea and that 230 tanks and 2l8 guns had been captured or de. stroyed, while the remainder of the Russian army of some 600O00 was described as beaten" or attempting to evacuate by sea under furious aerial attack.
 Twenty-four Russian transports were reported hit by German bomb- CTS, including 10 ships of 38,OOO tons which were said to have been sunk.
 Moscow radio as well as dis- patches from Kuibyshev said that the Russians had been forced back by the powerful German drive into the peninsula but that pockets of Red army troops continued to fight in the north and that Marshal Seinyon Timoshenko was massing other units for defense Of Kerch.
 Loss of Kerch would open the way for a German thrust across the four-mile strait of Kerch to the mainland north of NovoTossisk, an important port, threaten the erciT- element from the south Of Rostov and put the Nazis on the road to he Caucasus Oil fields.
 More Important
 Still more important, London Ob- servers believed, would be the loss of the main defense line on the road to Agtrakhan, on the Caspian sea. If the Germans can break through the Donets and Don river areas at Rostov they would be in a position to strike ak Astrakhau and sever the main line for British end American war supplies through
 on the Rostov front, and north ward along the ponets TlVeEs khe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
Democrats Feel Very
 Confident Of Result
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MT. Wall has sought support on the ground that his party is the only one governmed by its mem- bers. He has hit at closed caucuses and hand-picked tickets of the major parties and has claimed that only his party can give o real peoples administration.
 Speculation on election eve cen- ters largely on how the vote will go in "silk stocking" districts which are normally heavily Republican, G. o. P. leaders have worked hard to keep these districts Gin line" after reports that they were not respond ing to MT. Portfolios campaign.
 Italian Vote
 Most of the Italian vote is ex- pected to go to the Republican can- didate, since 1t is the first time that 0 member of the race has ever been nominated for such high of- flee here. Democrats, however, dis pute claims of the strength of the Italian vote for MT. Perriello and claim they will more than make 1t up by Republican votes cast for Mir. Scully.
 There are the usual reports of much ticket-splitting being planned. This time the reports may be borne out, for 1t is know that "cuts" are being sought for several Republican candidates, especially James Nc. Grath, candidate for tax collector, Henry Barry, candidate for city sheriff, and Harold V. Boyce, can- didate for the board of tax review.
 There are 47,393 voters registered as eligible to ballot tomorrow. A 70 per cent turnout would mean about 33,o0O votes being cast, a fig ure that some observers set. Heads of the major parties claim the vote will be considerably higher.
 The polls in the 32 districts will be open from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03
America Will Not Be
 First To Declare War
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Americas entrance into the first war -- and 1941, observers found little comparison. When the United States declared war 24 years ago, but a single shot had been exchanged be- tween United States ship and 0 German war vessel.
 To date Il American owned ves- sels have been sunk in this war. One United States destroyer on con- Voy duty, the Kearney, has been seriously damaged by torpedo fire and II lives lost. Another, the Reu- ben James, has been sunk with only A of her 12l men reported safe.
 Long before anything as serious as these incidents had happened in 1917, diplomatic relations were broken. Count Joachim Heinrich von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, was handed his papers on February B. 1917.
 Two months later, the United States declared war on Germany.
 American War Weapons
 Arkara, Turkey, Nov. 3 (U.P)- Persistent reports in diplomatic cir- cles today said that a German drive toward the Caucasus oil fields would be opposed by joint British-Ru military operations in which the Nazis for the first time will meet a force principally equipped with American war weapons.
 Diplomats said they were advised that the Allied Middle East armed forces were rapidly becoming "a United States army as far as mater ials are concerned"
 British, Australian, South African and Indian troops were reported be- Ing prepared to resist the Germans If they break through the Ukraine defenses or complete the conquest of the Crimea and sweep southWard against the caucasus area.
 There have been reliable reports that British and Russian staff ofti- cers already had held extensive con- ferences in Tiflis and elsewhere in the threatened region in regard to joint defense measures.
 Travellers arriving here said that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-03

Continued from Page D rear of the ship made when the tail structure was ripped away. Isom said he saw two other ner leave the ship as 1t broke to pieces bit by bit.
 Vivid Story of Escape
 lsom and Stookey told vivio story of their escape from the crumbling plane,
 "The bomber was flying at about i2,000 feet in heavy weather wher 1t struck @ downdraft," 1som said We were sucked more than l,00C feet toward the ground, Then the ship got out Of the suction Into ar, updraft. walker and Mode were fighting to keep the ship under con- trol. Suddenly the tail structure cracked off.
 T was thrown through the rear gunner's top turret. I went through 1t, glass and all. As l shot Into the snowstorm, I pulled the ripcord and tried desperately to see what was happening to the ship. I couldn't see q thing. Stookey and I hit the ground close together. We found some Christmas tree cutters whC took us to the ranger station"
 T was near the tall of the ship, Stookey said. First was pulled IT and plastered against the top of the fuselage by the plunge of the ship in defiance of all laws of gravity Then as the ship broke, I was dumped through the hole where the tall had been. I don't know how got trough that jagged hole with out damaging my chute or cutting myself"
 Others Who Dropped
 The other crew members who landed safely were End Lieut.. J. R. Mode of Fort Worth, Tex, the cos pilot, Staff Sergeant Eugene M Clemens of Chamberlain, s. D.. Corp. Walter B. Glamz of Salt Lake City and Privates Harold Salisbury of Bangor Me, Fred Pekuri oi Portland, Ore, and Mosely, the in- jured man.
 Walker was the pilot of the ShlE
 An ambulance was sent into the area from Mcclellan field to pick UT MoSely.
 Two P-50 pursuit planes, attached to bad luck squadron from Wind. sor Locks, Conn, crashed and burn- ed on fog-shrouded mountain near San Rafael, Cal. They were ir formation of l3 planes enroutC from Medford, Ore, to Fresno, Gal
 Two army training planes ane three flyers attached to Moffett field, Sunnyvale, Cal, were missing on flights from their home base.
 Another bomber crew escaped death when their ship clipped 6 mountatin-top IS miles from Pen. dleton, Ore, and bounced 1000 feet down q slope. The crew of three was shaken up.
 Lleuts. R. E. steckman and Thomas Leroy Truax died instantly when their pursuit planes struck ( hillside in Marin county, 20 miles north of San Francisco, in Q heavy fog.
 They belonged to an origina, squadron of 10 planes which first encountered tragedy 10 days ago or 6 flight from March field, Cal, tc Mcclellan field, Sacramento. Five planes were lost and nine made forced landings after running into bad flying weather. One of the pi. lots was killed, three others para. chuted to safety, and the fifth still is missing