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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Brave American, Filipino Fighters Repulse Attacks
Battle For Singapore Grows More Furious As Zero Hour Approaches
Gen. Wavell Ordered Fight to Finish-Must Save
 Naval Base
By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent


 Singapore, Feb. 4-(UP)-Japa- nese bombers heavily attacked Sin gapore again today but British ar- tillery pounded enemy forces across the Johore straits in a battle to hold out until endorsements reach this besieged island.
 (Gen. Sir Archibald Waveill, in a radio broadcast, called for defense ofg Singapore island without fur ther thought of retreat until great endorsements enroute from Amer ica and Britain arrive on the south western Pacific front to turn the tide against Japan).
 Heavy explosions shook the resi- dential area of Singapore Wghen 16 Japanese bombers dumped high ex- plosives and incendiary bombs on the city this afternoon.
 Smoke and clouds of dust rose over the residential area and the blasts of bombs shook solid build ings in the business district.
 Ambulances raced into the dam- aged area and fire fighting services went into action. Casualties were believed to be high.
 British guns heavily shelled en- enly units near Johore Bahru.
 It was believed that the guns were blasting not only at Japanese troop truck columns, moving into the Johore Bahru area directly across the causeway but at invasion craft which the Japanese were reported assembling on the Johore shore.
 A general headquarters com munique said:
 There Is no change to report in the situation.
 Our artillery engaged enemy transport at Johore Bharu.
 Enemy aircraft made number of raids On the island, causing some damage but few military casualties,
 Our anti-aircraft defenses in the period between January 31 and Feb ruary 4 shot down two enemy air craft for certain and three prob ably"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
CITY DELEGATION IS IN HARTFORD
Mayor Scully, ( of ( Sec retary Green Head Group
 at Conference
(NEA Telephoto)

Mayor Vincent A. Scully and Secretary Frank J. Green of the Waterbury Chamber of Commerce headed Q local delegation attending d meeting on rent control and hous- ing problems at Hartford. Several members of the Fair Rent Commit tee were in the group.
 The meeting was called by Col. Samuel H. Fisher, head of the State Defense Council, who proposed that Q statewide program be adopted to put teeth into rent and housing regulations. Otherwise, he said, teo- eral intervention is certain, since a wartime emergency act empowers Price Administrator Leon Tender son to appoint state administra- tor unless satisfactory action is taken within 60 days.
 Waterbury has felt an acute hous- ing shortage since the start of the defense boom a year and a half ago. The government has built 300 de- fense housing units but applications far beyond that number were re- ceived.
 MT. Henderson is empowered to fix rent ceilings and to order hols- ing changes in defense areas. Col. Fishers aim has been to ward off federal interven tion by having the communities of the state handle their own rental and housing prob- lems
 Since it was formed last year, the Waterbury Fair Rent Committee, of which MT. Green is secretary, has received 160 complaints against rent increases. The committee has settled mary of the cases on voluntary basis, but has been unable to handle other cases because of lack of au- thOrity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
JAPANESE TRIED TO KILL EMPLOYERS

New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. 4-(UP) -PakeZi Suza, 20, Japanese kitchen helper at Sakis restaurant, attacked manager Fred Jacoby, 57, and wait- ress Edna Began, 35, with meat cleaver today and then cut his throat.
 Police said Suza had been upset by the war news and recent Yale student demonstration in the res taurant following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 Jacoby and Miss Began suffered severe decorations of the face and head. Suza's condition was regarded as serious at New Haven hospital, where all three were taken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
"PAWNEE BILL"
 DIED LAST NIGHT
Last of "Old West" Lies Dead in His Red Stone
 Ranch House

Pawnee, Okla, Feb. 4(UP)-The last of the old west lay dead today in the red stone ranch house atop Blue Hawk hill.
 It was personified in 'Pawnee Bill and Pawnee Bill died last night on his 2,0OO-acre ranch in his 82nd year.
 Born Gordon w. Lillie, he was the last survivor of the doughty from tiersmen- Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Deadwood Dick, Wild Bill Hickok, and the other heroes in buckskin who opened up the west.
 Pawnee Bill, the white chief" of the Pawnee Indians, was read-shot with rife or six-shooter, superb horseman, snowman whose name was known all over the world, and he also was 8 prime mover of first rate imortance in American history. Largely through his efforts, the vast plain which is now Oklahoma was opened to white settlement anal be-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
GERMANS SWEEP
 BRITISH BACK
Gen. RGmmel Has Covered 325 Miles in an Axis
 COunter=Offensive

London, Feb. 4-(UP)-Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's sweeping 325- mile Axis counter-offensive across Libya drove the British out of the port of Derna today and stretched the north African front in an tex traordinaly' fluid line from a point southeast of Benghazi to within 100 miles of Tobruk,
 The British right flank was smashed back 30 miles in two days and imperial forces left Derna, a military commentator said, but on the left flank the British mobile units were still attacking in the Msus sector, 90 miles southeast of Benghazi.
 Derra is 150 miles east of Beng hal and if the Axis forces have reached that port it would mean they had advanced almost 325 miles in their nter-offensive. Derna is about 100 miles west of Tobruk.
 Our right flank appears to have gone back 50 miles in two days while our left flank has re- mained stationary" the commen- tation said.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Bundles For Congress
 Gets Beyond Control
Senators, Representatives Are Taking Movement Ser icus, or Otherwise, Perhaps in Angry Mood
 Plan Has Spread Like Wdfire
BY JOSEPH l.. MYLER

BY JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Feb. 4.-(UP)-Sen- ators and representatives greeted the Bundles for Congress" move ment today with:
 l. Bundles of Silence:
 2. Explanatory Statements;
 3. Hearty laughter, or
 4. X combination of 2 and 3. Bundles for Congress was organ ized by the Athletic Round Table of Spokane, Wash, to rib congressman who recently enacted retirement pay plan for themselves. The Bun- dles for Congress motto is: Keep Elm Laughing"
 Some congressman, however, saw the BEG as an invidious slap at an important branch of the govern ment; many refused to talk about 1t: Q few thought it was effective contribution to good clean fun, meeting a long-felt want.
 Not So Amusing
 Rep. Robert RarnSpeck, D., Ga, author of the bill. which President Roosevelt signed Jan. "A, and Sen. James M. Mead, D., N. r., who spon- Sored it in the Senate, were not among those who found the BEG amusing.
 i've got no objection to their having all the fun they want to-" Ramspeck said, "but don't think it serves any good purpose to make sport of Congress.
 T don't think it will do the coun- try any good to make laughing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
BRITISH CABINET
 HAS FEW CHANGES
Lord Beaverbr0ok, Minis ter of War Production
 Critics Did Not Win

London, Feb. - (UP) - Lord Beaverbrook will be appointed min ister for war production, an official statement said tonight in announc- ing reorganization of the cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Church ill
 Reconstruction of the cabinet had been predicted widely upon Churchills return from the United States to face criticism of some Of his ministers and of the conduct of various phases of the war.
 Lord Beaverbrook, who partici- pated in the Washington confer ences, will have job similar to that of Donald M. Nelson, war pro- duction chief, in the United States 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
BY FRANK HEWLETT limited Press Staff COrreSDOndent)

With Gen. MacArthur's Army in the Philippines, Feb. 4.-UP)- Japanese soldiers assigned to daring attack missions against the Bataan lines, wear protective breast plates.
 I had heard reports about these breast plates but was inclined to discount them until they were con- firmed by an intelligence oficfer at the headquarters of Major Gen G. M. Parkers' army corps. This officer told me that during a luu in the battle at one point on the front, a young Japanese sergeant, wearing a breast plate, attempted to capture single handed, machine gun manned by Filipino detech- ment. The machine gun fired on the Japanese but did not stop him. Finally, as he c]imbe dinto the machine gun position. a Filipino baycnelted i;m from behind. The officer showed me a picture Of tsc sergeant which had been taken from his uniform pocket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
DUTCH FIGHTING
 HARD AT AMBOINA
Japanese Claimed Victory In That SectOr-Ameri=
 can Planes in There
RY JOHN R. MORRIS

United Press Far Eastern ManAger)
 Batavia, N. E. l., Feb. 4-(UP)-- Dutch armed forces are fighting strongly on Amboina, Celebes and Borneo Islands, official sources said today, and guerrilias are poised to attack the Japanese invaders from secret bases in the jungle.
 Despite Japanese claims of 8 complete" victory, Netherlands Indies communique reported suc- cessful defensive fighting against enemy invasion forces on Amboina Island, important Dutch naval and air base. while high Dutch mili- tary official denied that Borneo was entirely in enemy hands.
 "The Japs may control Tarakan and Ba.ik Papan and perhaps even Pontianak, but they still have quite way to go before they can make good their ridiculous claims" the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Germans Were Ordered to Stand Or Die" in Their
 Attempts to Resist
COUNTER ATTACKS OF
 NAZIS ALL REFUSED
Russia Disappointed at Allies-Puzzled at Many
 Pacific SetbaCks
BY M. s. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent)

to'AAsNN A SSo oSeSAA OOAASoPOAAuSAAp
 Moscow, February 4. - (UP) - Violent fighting in the Smolensk region has cleared many villages and towns of Germans, official Russian government reports asserted today. The Nazis were resisting desperately on the three main fronts, west and northwest of Moscow and in the south, and it was re- ported their officers had directed them to stand or die"
 The Luftwaffe was dropping food and other supplies by parachute to German troops cut off from their main forces On the northwestern front. On the Kalinin front after three days of fierce, bloody fighting, the Russians reported they had killed 2,OO0, captured g cannon, 98 light and heavy machine guns and other material.
 German resistance in the Donets Basin was desperate, with the Nazis trying to retain the villages they had won in the earlier fighting. They were falling back, however, and the Russians declared they found hundreds of frozen bodies along the retreat route.
 The approach of the Red Army in the Smolensk region caused resi- dents of occupied villages to in- crease their opposition to the in vaders, Izvestia's correspondent re- ported. He said that at Khatozha boys and girls obtained shotguns and few hand grenades and tough off the German soldiers when they returned to the village for food.
 Counter Attack Repulsed
 Efforts of the Nazis to counter attack have been repulsed, Red Star asserted, but definite information
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
19,88l DEER KILLED

Augusta, Me. Feb. 4-CUP)-Dep- uty Game Commissioner Archer Grover reported today that 19.881 deer were killed in Maine last year
 "a drop of 2320 from 1940. Cum berland county led with 893 deer reported killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Feb. 4-UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Feb End. compared with q year ago: This Year Expenses Last Yeax s14, 1896, ,099.12 s6,3S0, sos, 056.22
 War Spending $10 3.149,446.26 $2,557,791, ,1S7.08
 Receipts s 4,7ss,361,s1724 $3.27s .oo9. .67o.Ts
 Net Deficit 8 s,492,351,3S1S $3,oO1,S17,926.50
 Cash Balance $ 2,921,6s7,7S2.35 $2,oo9 2,7s3.65
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

Civil Service Classes now Organiz ing at Post Junior College of Com merce, "A Central Ayenue--Adv.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Majorette Happy,
Gets Letters From
Boys In Services

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala
(SNS)-Ralpheen Reid is just about
one of the happiest girls on the
Tuskegee campus, for during the
past week she has received more
than one hundred letters from
all sections of the country. Miss
Reid is Tuskegee's head drum mai
orette and an excellent picture OF
her appeared in the newspapers re-
Gently
Servicemefi have written from
various camps and army posts and
Ralpheen has been quite busy and
each day replying to the letters
and furnishing information about
Tuskegee Institute. Miss Reds COR
respondents are located at practi-
cally every army post and camp
in this country, and she said she
will get her greatest thrill when
she receives a letter from some sol-
der or sailor stationed abroad.
Miss Reid is a senior in the
School OF Home Economies and is
quite popular on the campus She
is lovely to look at; fairly tall,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

subtract from "a billion POUNDS oil
meat, 1-2 billion earmarked for
war needs; that leaves II IL bill
lion for the home front. That's
a whale of a lot Of meat and al
though you may not have any Of
it, there's a lot of money floating
around these days. More than
enough to buy the available sup
ply Of meat. SO who'll be getting
a lions share of the meat? Why,
the fellow with the mostest money
and the fastest feet.
But you're working Just as hard
as the next man, and you may not
have any of it, and you need the
body building qualities of meat
protein as much as anybody. How
will you get your share then? YOU,
won't get it unless a limit Is made
on the amount that each of us can
purchase. So don't grumble Meat
rationing is all for your good.
HOW WILL MEAT RATIONING
WORK? The Hoods Requirement
committee has decided that it's
2 1-2 pounds apiece per week for
grownups above II; / l-2 pounds
for children from 6 to IL years; for
children and under, it's ga of
pound. Your weekly allowance
includes meat that You, your fam
lily and your pets eat, So it's evil
dent that Pooch must become a
vegetarian for the duration.
Your weekly allowance includes
meat eaten in restaurants, meat
eaten as guests in somebody else's
house. 1t includes the bones, girls
ties and waste that come with edi-
BILE meats, So you'll have to buy
more carefully. 1t includes bacon,
sausage, and canned meats. 1t
does not include scrapple or ''varie-
ey" meats, liver, heart, Kidneys,
tripe, brains, etc. 1t does not in
clude poultry, fish, eggs, but only
beef, VEAL, lamb mutton and pork.
MAYBE THIS WHOLE business
OF rationing don't hurt you at all
That's fine. But know so many
people won't feel that they haven't
had a meal if there was no meat
available. The British get / IL
pounds a week, remember, while
the Belgians get only 5 ounces. You
might think of that when you start
complaining. Meat has no mono
ply on food value It does build
tissue, muscles and organs, but so
do the other animal foods like
chicken, eggs, fish and milk pro-
ducts. Try to make greater use of
them. Potatoes will compensate
for some Of the vitamins and min
erals Subtracted by your cut in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Race Woman
Is Sponsor
AT Launching

CHESTER, Pa.-(SNS)-To Mrs.
Alice Virginia Robinson Nelson
went the honor of being the first
of her race selected to sponsor a
big ocean-going ship at an east
coast yard. She christened one OF
the two ships launched at the Sun
Shipbuilding Company Plant on
Monday morning, December z.
These two ships were the first in
the country launched on the An
niversary of Pearl Harbor.
Mother of six children, two of
them now in the service, Mrs. Nell
son is the wife of James William
Nelson, 35, Oldest employee in
point of service in his department
at the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company's new Fourth Yard.
Mr.. Nelson has been employed at
Sun Ship for % years and months,
and is now an assistant foreman.
Life has not been easy for the
Nelson's. They came to Morton from
Washington, d. c., % years ago,
and at the little home on Broad
Street they raised three boys and
three girls. Two of the boys are
in the u. S. Army. James, Jr., is
in the 368th Engineers, at Camp
Sutton, N. C. Bernard Nelson, the
second son, is overseas in the Army
The third son, Davenport, runs a
crane in the North Yard There is
one married daughter, Mrs. Alyce
Nelson jenkins, whose husband
works at the Sun yard, Edna Mel
son, 10, and Betty, 10, who are
at home.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

Eight women ranging in age from
II To 80 all from the FIT. Worth
area have been recruited through
the United States Employment
Service and are receiving their
initial instruction from Lit. E. T..
Bachtell. Additional women are to
be hired as quickly as possible to
form school unit which will be
sent to Duncan Field, San Antonio,
Texas, for advance training.
Every mechanic learner" as the
recruits are called is paid $75 a
month during the months train
ing period following which they
will receive the salary for the Civil
Service position to which they are
assigned.
mechanic learners" receive in
structions which qualities them to
become sheet metal workers, lathe
operators, electrical inspectors. pat
tern makers. engin mechanics
the whole field of aeroplane me-
chanical work 1t is the civilian
crews Of mechanics who will IN the
future be responsible for all major
repair and maintenance work on
Army Air Corps planes in Con-
tinental United States.
The Army Air Force mechanics
whose planes they take will thus
be released for overseas duty in
combat areas. According to Capt.
Gilbert, commanding officer, the
initial group Of colored mechanic
learners" at Tarrant Sub-Depot are
of very high calibre," each having
at least high school education
and several are college trained.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Urge Women
To Train For
War Industry

WASHINGTON, ID. c. - (SNS)
'Don't wait until you need the
job, train now!' is the advice to
women now urged by Alpha Kappa
A1pha's Non-Partisan Council on
Public Affairs.
The need for taking immediate
and full advantage Of training op-
portunities in all skills and for
prompt registration with United
States Employment Service was
pointed out by Thomasina Walker
Johnson, legislative representative
OF the National Non-Partisan
Council on Public Affairs VINO de-
plored the closing OF numerous
training opportunities once open,
because et failure to use these to
full capacity.
Interested sorors and their
friends are being urged to inveS-
tigate training situations and u. s.
Employment Service registration in
their localities, to stimulate regis
tration of women for training and
employment and to follow these
registrations through training and
registration to placements in indus
try
Ivy Leaf sorors in the Atlanta
area from whom further informa-
ton may be obtained, include
Thursa Davis, Syria Francois, An
ME IL. Lang, lAllene Henderson,
Doris DAILY, Edna Simmins, Mrs.
l.. d. Shivery.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Zetas Postpone
National Meeting

INDIANAPOLIS-(A N P)--Ac-
cording to a special announcement
from the office of Nellie B. Rogers,
chairman of the executive board,
the annual boule which was to be
held in Tulsa Dec. 27-30 will be
cancelled as a result OF votes taken
by mail Such action was doomed
expedient because of the war and
travelling situation.
Although there will not be
boule the executive board will hold
a special meeting Dec. 1929 in
Chicago where chapter and general
business of Importance will be
transacted. Progress reports from
the various Zeta recreational
centers will also be heard and
recommendation for developing
the centers further will be made.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

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w Highly recommended for daily
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Feel Bad About Meat? Think Of
Be|gians On Only 5 Ounces Weekly
No Rationing Of
Poultry Or Fish
By PATSY GRAVES

SINCE SOME people always want to know the why
of everything suppose talk about the reasons for
share the meat It's quite true that farmers produc
ing meat than before, "a billion pounds but it
also that there mouths to feed There
the fighting men, both here and abroad the allies the
battle fronts plus 1913 million of here at home.
DO A arithmetic There's out
Subtract billion pounds of if youu it.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

OlQ.
The aged woman lived alone in
a small log cabin, and until her
death, performed her own house
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ular in the community for her in
teresting tales of Civil War days.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Ex-Slave, 1O7,
Taken By Death

FRANKFORT, Mo. - (ANP) Mrs.
Laura Johnson, a former slave,
died here Thursday, December TO-
She was believed to be LOT years
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Take Out Good
Looks Insurance
By HELEN JAMESON
Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Il

Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc)
Todays beauty is addressed to the young fry
those pretes who fare back forth school, with books
under their Every has its CHARM but youth has
all the other ages beaten for eye appeal Lovely buds they
and lovely blooms they'll be if they'll lend
and then to serious subjects.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Air Force Uses
Women Mechanics

FORT WORTH, Texas (SNS)-Folowing the an-
nounced Army Air Force policy to mobilize all available
civilian man power and keep 'em flying the Tarrant
Field Sub Depot here announced this week its first class
of Negro mechanics.