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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
Most Expensive Night Club Of America, Hot Spot Of Movie Stars, Closes Doors

his customers deserved the best so long as he could provide it and they could pay for it.
 And that was the immediate cause Of our closing" he said Wed paid all but $22000 Of this booze bill and We hadn't deiaulted the payments. But one of my suppliers said he wanted all his money at once. He threatened an attachment and, rather than be thrown into bankruptcy, I shut the place and called a meeting of the creditors.
 "If the worst comes, can sell al! that fancy liquor at fancy profit, though still hope to work things out so we can reopen"
 Demise of Ciro's threw out Of work 6S employees. whose tips used to add up to a bank presidents wages. There was little chance oi them finding employment else where. Only big night clubs still operating full time i'll Hollywood now are Earl Carols, home of the beautiful girls on the revolving stage and the club Mocambo. where tho live parrots decorating the wall' have watched such Hollywood wor- thies as Errol Flynn, Jimmy Fidler Mike Romanoff and Prince Dayio Mdivani settle their differences ~iti thev fists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13

occasionally by customers paying $350 for dinner ($200 for the priv ilege of sitting down, and 75 cents and up, mostly up, for drinks.
 The only loyal fans have been the autograph seekers, who crowd ed round the front door night after night, looking in vain for the Lamours, the Turner's. the Gar lands, the Sheridans, and all the other picture beauties who for two years spent more time in Ciro's than they ever did ill libraries.
 But what happened to us is only Since the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, 61 night clubs in this terrl- tory have shut down. Others, ike the Cocanut Grove, are turning on their lights on Week-ends only. There simply is no business.
 "You can talk all you want about d place like Ciro's being a movie actors second home. but the truth Is that the tourists were responsible for 70 per cent oi our business. They came to see the movie stars. Then they quit coming, when the stars quit too. so did we"
 Wilkerson said that last year when stocks Of French liquors went low, he bought $74,000 worth Of imported brandies and champagne on the lI,rG -tA-.-. ..~ait -~a -hs theory th&.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
TO GET
 CHANCE IN DRAFT

Washington, Jan. 13 -(UP)- Fathers probably will not be drafted for military service until the Army has 1000 900 or 8,0O0,000 men, Brig Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective service director. told the conference of U. s. mayors yesterday.
 Hershey said the United States probably was not capable of pro- ducing more than 10,000,000 men fit for military service. Eo co tna,, he said, obviously we're going to have to reduce many of our physi- cal requirements"
 He did not refer specially to mar ried men without children. but the policy in those cases has been to decide them in favor of defermert where the wives do not support themselves.
 Students. even though they might graduate in one year or less, will rot be deferred more than 60 days hereafter, provided they meet other requirements for service, Hershey said
 The college man owes not what the average man owes but little more" he said. T do not believe we can justify deferring student for no other reason than that it interfercs with his plan of life"
 Many states probably will begin registering the estimated 10000, 900 unregistered men between the ages of 20 and A. inclusive. for military service day of two before the officially proclaimed day of Feb. 16, Selective Service authorities said today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
BRIGHTER HIT,
 SUNK BY TORPEDO
Happened Off Coast of Nova Scotia; Italian
 Ship Sunk

Ottawa, Jan. 13.-(UP)-The tor pedoing of a freighter 160 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia was re- vealed today with the arrival here of 89 survivors.
 They said 91 persons aboard the vessel lost their lives.
 The torpedo nit the freighter within the last 36 hours.
 The name of the 10O0O-ton freighter was not disclosed.
 Two torpedoes struck the vessel, the survivors said. The survivors drifted for several hours in an open boat before they were rescued.
 Thirty-two of them were taken to a hospital for treatment, while the others were ordered to bed by doc tors who treated them for shock and exposure.
 The sinking so close to Canadian shores recalled the warning issued last fall by Naval Minister Angus Macdonald and Vice Admiral Percy Nelles, chief of Staff, that enemy submarines were operating off the North American coast.
 There had been reports of mer- cha~ shipping encountering hostile undersea craft in the vicinity of Newfoundland and one Allied vessel eluded a pursuing submarine which began stalking it 30 miles from the coast.
 Authorities said the attack off the Nova Scotian coast was the clos est to the Canadian shore of any during the present war. One ves-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
LOTTERY CASES
 OVER TO TUESDAY
Two of Accused Pleaded Guilty in Criminal High Court Today

Three men, held under bonds totalling $4,50O, and charged with selling lottery tickets, received con- tinuances until next Tuesday, Jan uary 20, after two of their num- Ger had pleaded guilty in criminal superior court today. The third, David Platt, 29, of 43 North Leon- ard street, also entered plea of guilty at the opening of the Gu- perior court criminal term last Tuesday. His case was continued until today, and Juoge Robert l.. Munger granted hin. further con- tnuance this morning.
 One of the accused, Rocco Solo, mito, 29, of 79 StIies street, was ar- rested yesterday on a bench War rant issued by Judge Munger. The remaining one of the trAo. Louis C.. Willard, 26, of 388 Watervnie street, was taken Int custooy last Satur- day, also on Q bench warrant naLded down by the superior colru Judge.
 The three. apprehendcd at var ious times, were arraigned togeth- CT in municipal court last Deccm- OCT 2, charged with selling treas ury balance tickets. Folice alleged that a quantity of treasury ticket stubs were confiscated.
 Willard i5 held on two counts; one of selling lottery tickets, and arcther of acting q. an agent for t-cir sale.
 A bond of $2,500 was set for Will iard and Solomito, and one of $2,- 000 for Platt. AttyS. Michael ". Blansfield and John F. Tobin reo- resent the defendants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (U. P. Hollywood COrrespondent)

Hollywood, January 13. = (UP) - Ciros, the plush lined hot spot of the movie stars and perhaps Amer icas most expensive night club, shut it's silver-plated doors today be- cause to quote the proprietor - the erstwhile customers have packed their ermines away and gone into mourning over Pearl Harbor.
 "The tourists used to come to see the picture actors" reported William R. Wilkerson, the owner, now there aren't any tourists. They've been scared away by the wildeyed rum ors about air raids in Hollywood. Either that or they're afraid to use LID their automobile tires.
 And there aren't any movie stars in the night spots, anyhow. They all seem to have gone into mourning over Pearl Harbor. They don't seem to think it's right any more 10 60 out and spend their money enjoying themselves. Nor have the new in come taxes helped their state Of mind
 Since December '. Wilkerson said, the Burgundy Satin walls have echoed to the footballs of lonesome walters, while his chartreuse-silk chairs have been occupied onv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
NEED SYNTHETIC
 RUBBER QUICKLY
Industry Will Pool Patents, Scientific Skill to Answer
 Govt. Demands
By DAYTON MOORE United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

\OHntcO ITCSS OtdA NUAACSpOAuCHt)
 Washington, Jan. 13-CUP)-In- dustry poled patents and scientific skilyls today answering the govern ment's demands for an increase in synthetic rubber production to a rate of 100000 tons year within IS months. This figure is about half of United States total rubber con- sumption in 194l.
 Government defense agencies also moved to increase supplies of four other strategic war materials-tin, copper, lead anal zinc. Premium prices were offered to increase pro- duction.
 The public was warned that the expansion of the synthetic rubber industry does not mean three is any prospect of lifting the rationing of tires for civilian use in the near future.
 Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones said expanded synthetic production, plus existing stocks of raw and reclaimed rubber, should take care of war and civilian needs on a reduced scale.'
 |, He explained that civilian demand 1 tires probably will decrease, be- $ use of the ban on production of new automobiles.
 The Reconstruction Finance cor poraiton will furnish the major part of the $400, 000 to be used for new plant construction in the govern ment's program for increasing the output of synthetic rubber, Jones said.
 Most Companies in It
 Most of the major rubber and oil companies already working in this field" will participate in increasing the production of synthetic rubber They include: Goodrich, U. s. Rub- Der, Firestone and Goodyear Rubber companies; Gulf Renfiing, Phillips Petroleum, Shell, Sinclair, Humble, Texas, Standard of New Jersey and Standard of Louisiana oil companies.
 The new plants probably will be built near present ones Jones said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
FIREMAN KILLED
 IN MASS. BLAZE

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 13 - tU. P.) - Snow on the roofs was cred- ited today with saving adjoining buildings in Lechmere Square when Institute Hall was swept by $l00,- 900 fire in which one fireman was killed and four were hurt. The four story hall, housing federal surplus commodities, was destroyed by flames last night and 75 persons in- cluding 12 nuns were driven from their nearby homes. A general alarm was sounded when gusts of wind threatened 10 spread the flames to church, school, houses and stores.
 William Davidson, 8, chauffeur for Deputy Fire Chief George Church collapsed on roof while fighting the fire and was pro- nounced dead of heart disease on arrival at hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
HERBERT EAGER
 GETS SIX MONTHS
Pleaded NOlO COntendere to Charge of AutOm0=
 bile Homicide

Herbert Hager, q, of 30 Gates avenue, an emp,oye of the Chase Metal Works plant, was sentenced to six months in jail, in criminal superior court today, after he had pleaded nolo contendere to 8 charge of automobile homicide.
 Hager, who entered his plea last Tuesday, at the opening of the su- perior court criminal term, was held in connection with the automobile death of Arthur Frageau, 56, of 392 Sylvan avenue, last August 25.
 The information of Asst. States Atty. Walter w. Smyth accused Hager of having engaged in an auto mobile race with William Mo.leur, 20, of 43 Raymond street, on the night of the fatality, and having collided with Frageau at point about 50 feet south of the Wash ington Park Community House, near the home of the deceased.
 The force of the impact. MT. Smyth said, hurled the body a dis tance of twenty-seven feet from the spot of the accident, into some nearby shrubbery.
 Atty. Michael Ciano, counsel for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
GOVERNMENTS IN
 EXILE GET BUSY
Nine Countries Are Plan= ming for Retribution in
 Full When War Ends
BY NED RUSSELL nited Press Staff Correspondent


 London, Jan. 13 3-~(UP)-e etepre- sentatives of nine 6overnments-in- exile denounced Germany and her Axis partners today for shooting, imprisoning, plundering and starv- ir.g the populations of occupied countries, and promised that retrl- button will be swift and complete after the war is won.
 They met to draft plans for pun- ishing the guilty and to make cer- tain none guilty of committing or ordering an atrocity shall escape.
 Their purpose was enunciated n a declaration which promised to .'exact retribution of every one, re- gardless of nationality, who is guilty of perpetrating atrocities in occu- pied countries
 Gen. Wadis.aw Sikorski, Polish premier in exile and chairman of the meeting, said the declarations immediate practical significance would be a warning to all oppress- ing, or helping to oppress, civilian populations, that there can be no crime without punishment"
 Tt also gives gleam of hope and comfort to all those millions of men and women. who, while full
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
ARGENTINA MAY
 GET ISOLATION
Country Is Not Anxious to Sever All Relations With
 Axis Powers
BY EVERETT R. HOLLIS Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 13.-UP)- Argentina may be forced into isola- ton from its American neighbors If 1t opposes a joint severance of diplo- matic relations with the Axis pow CTS at the third consultative meet ing of American foreign ministers, beginning Thursday, reliable sources said today.
 A formal break between all Amer ican nations with the exception of Argentina, and Germany, Italy and Japan was almost certain of ap- proval at the opening session of the conference in Tiradentes Palace.
 Argentina was the only dissenter Ten of the 21 American republics have declared war against the Axis and eight have taken strong stand on the side of the Uni'e z ate". Chile and Uruguay yesterday ex- pressed the need for American unity" dispelling reports that re- cent conferences at Buenos Aires had resulted in the formulation of a bloc of South American nations against joint action.
 Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, heading the United States delegation, was expected to confer with Argentine Foreign Minister En- rique Ruiz Guinazu upon Guinazu's arrival today.
 Guinazu recently reiterated his governments stubborn opposition to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
Between 40 to 50 Jap Guns Believed to Have
 Been Knocked Out
JAPANESE COMPELLED
 TO FALL FAR BACK
Heavy Fire of American, Filipino Big Guns Left
 Many Japanese Dead
BY HARRISON SALISBURY -. United Press Staff Correspondent

BY HARRISON SALISBURY -, United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, January 13.- (UP) - The War Depart ment reported today tha' Gen. Douglas MacArthur's big guns won the opening round of the battle of Ba. taan, shattering Japanese tank and infantry concen. trations, knocking out Il Japanese batteries and fore ing the enemy to fall back.
 The silencing of that many bat teries probably means that between 40 and 50 Japanese guns wer' knocked out. The usual artillery battery is four guns.
 The official American com- munique claimed a major success for MacArthur's men in the vital artillery duel in which the Japanese had hoped to soften up U. S. posi- tions iil preparation for grand as- sault.
 For 24 hours the department said on the basis of reports from Mac Arthur, the battle ragged with the sound of heavy gunfire rolling like thunder over jungles and peaks of Bataan Province.
 Columns of enemy tanks and other armored units as well as in- fantry concentrating were shattered and dispersed by our fire with heavy Japanese losses" the com munique said.
 Yankee Fire Accurate
 Eleven Japanese batteries were silenced by the accurate fire of the American guns. The Japanese were forced to withdraw their batteries well to the rear of the positions formerly occupied"
 MacArthur's feat in besting the Japanese in the artillery duel was regarded as spectacular evidence of his intimate knowledge of Philippine terrain and tactics.
 Despite the numerical infer1or1ty of the American and Philippine farces and the fact that the Japa- nese rule the air, MacArthur appar- ently was able to direct his fire S successfully that the Japanese su' perior weight of men and metal Wa more than compensated for.
 Even with the aid of dive-bomb- CTS, the communique said, the Jap anese were able to inflict relativel. little damage on the American posi- tions-further proof that these pre- viously-prepared positions were wei selected and well-camouflaged.
 Losses to American and Philip pine troops were relatively slight, the communique said.
 Despite the American success mill tary observers here cautioned again. over-optimism.
 They pointed out that the Jap anese have great reserves of me. and equipment to throw into tn battle while Macarthur must fighl with constantly dwindling forces When MacArthur's ammunition ant supplies are depleted they cAnro be replaced.
 Superior to Japanese
 However, there was no doubt tha
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
JAPANESE GET
 ONE OIL ISLAND
But Netherlands East In= dies Destroyed Oil; No
 Victory for Japs as Yet
BY JOHN K. MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

Batavia, Jan. 13 -(UP)- Dutch bombers roared out of secret jungle airdromes today in the first phase of reported all-out counter attack against Japanese warships and in- vasion forces in the East Indies.
 Japan meanwhile struck by air at the central Celebes coast and Ter nate Island, one of the Molucca group 150 miles across the Macassar Passage, indicating that new land- ings might be attempted.
 Dutch military authorities prom ised that Japanese invaders on Tar akan Island, whose fall was an- nounced by the Netherlands Indies command, would be bombed regu- larly and systematically from now on.
 It was announced officially that all oil fields and equipment on the tiny but oil-rich island had been completely destroyed before the little Dutch garrison abandoned it..
 Oil Fields Destroyed
 With the oil fields destroyed, the Japs had but one advantage in seizing Tarakan--use of its harbor,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
W|LLK|E WILL
 GET WAR POST
May Act as Umpire to As= sist New National War
 Labor Board
By FRED BAILEY Limited Press Staff Correspondent

IOHtcO TTcSS StdH OOTTcSpOHuent)
 Washington, Jan. 13-CUP)-- President Roosevelt was reported today to be considering Charles Evans Hughes, Wendell l.. Willkie, James A. Farley anc possibly Alfred E. Smith for appointment as mem- bers of supplemental board of "umpires" to assist the new national war labor board.
 The White House announced that Willkie, 1940 Republican presiden- tial candidate, was under consider ation for such appointment.
 The report regarding the others could not immediately be con- f1rmed.
 Hughes retired last year as chief justice of the United States supreme court. Farley resigned the chair manship of the Democratic Ma tional committee and the postmas- ter generalship in MT. Roosevelt's cabinet after the latter's third term nomination in July, 1940. Smith was Democratic presidential can- didate in 1928 and opposed MT. RooSevelt's nomination in 1882 and his renomination in 1886, bolting the party in the latter year in pro- test.
 Willkie had arranged to confer with MT. Roosevelt this morning but White House Secrtary Stephen Early said he did not think the possibility of Wilkes appointment was the primary purpose of the conference.
 MT. Roosevelt created the war la Dor board by executive order yester- day. The order abolished the Ma tional Defense Mediation Board and made William H. Davis chairman of the new board, as he had been of the old one.
 Early disclosed that Willkie was one among several persons on a list yet to be completed by the president
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
Abandoned Children Are Being Cared For
William Bonn or B0hn Arrested Here for Abandoning Three of the Five Youngsters; Five Were
 Living in Wnsted

A new chapter in the near-tragic story of five children found almost starving to death in Winsted was written in Waterbury today as de- tectives arrested local man on charges of abandoning three of them. Arrested by Detective-Lieuts. Henry Johnson and Joseph Bender was William Bonn, or Bohn, 32, of 26 Lafayette street, who was held for Winsted authorities.
 The children, suffering from rickets resulting from undernourish- ment, are now under care in Litch- field County Hospital, Winsted, where they were taken after well fare worker found them, shivering and hungry, in tWo-room apart ment, only one room of which was furnished, several days ago.
 The story starts on Friday. Mrs. Emily Darcey, town welfare worker, entered squalid apartment on Main street, Winsted. There she found five children, ranging in age from five months to five years,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13

Smoiensk, key town of the Moscow front, for new headquarters some where in southern Russia.
 Russian forces were known to have been within 110 miles of Smolensk, on the traffic road upon which Na- poleon's grand army died, after capturing Mosalsk.
 It was plain that the new head quarters which Hitler established there just before Christmas, when he assumed the supreme command of the army in pursuit of an timer call," were now threatened.
 A United Press dispatch from Z Kuibyshev said the Russian advance had been accelerated all along the Moscow front and that 157 inhabited places had been recaptured ill three days.
 The advance was said to be espe- cially strong on the southern flank, aimed at Smolensk, where one Red ArEy unit had advanced nine miles ill & single day.
 First Fortified Positions
 Kuibyshev reported that the Ger mans had started to abandon some fortified positions after the Russians thrgw a big force of expert ski
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
Blast Jap Tanks, Infantry; Silence Eleven Batteries
BRITISH HAVE
 SEIZED S0LUM
Lies on Frontiers of Egypt, Libya; Singapore Front
 Is Deadly Affair
BY WALTER COLLINS United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

NShASSu ASco oeoAA
 Cairo, Jan. 13,-(UP) British Im- perials have captured Solum on the Egypt-Libya frontier and are ad- vancing with considerabel progress on Fl Agheila on the Cyrenaica- Tripolitania border, where main Axis forces concentrated after withdraw ing from Agedabia, south of Beng hazi, high command communique said today.
 Capture of Solum where $50 pris- oners, about half of them German were taken, leaves only Halfaya Pass in Axis hands in eastern Libya.
 "In the future frontier area a Transvaal Scottish regiment attacked and captured the village of Colum, which was held by the enemy as an outlying post for the Halfaya posi- tion," the commlnique of British general headquarters for the mid- dle east said.
 About $50 prisoners, about half of them German, were taken
 Discussing the major British av- tivity south of Benghazi, $50 miles across the desert from Solum, the communique said British columns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
TREASURY BALANCE |

Washington, Jan. 13-(UP)-Gov ernment expenses and receipts fol the current fiscal year through Jan 10th, compared with q year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year SIP, ,247 .901.C5 f5,54O,l ,l5l.36l.i
 War Spending
 5 s,s27, ,9s0, ,S53sS s1,93s,76s,S6s.oi 3 43841s1.e76.IS ss,o57.549,7e1.ei s 7,ss9,2f2oso.s7 s2,44e,17s,2s9.s: 5 sso7 ,ooC. .44S.si si,74O,5O2,7s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13

internationally proudly displays pipe Archibald Allied in the southwest
 
 U by courtesy of Pan American Arways Gen. Wae left for 
 Kai-shek Wavells George chief. action pictures of the regularly in The Waterbury Democrat photographer presents thrilling of heroic American and Chinese civilian pilots deadly beleaguered
 Hong Kong.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
German Fuehrer Leaves Smolensk. Key Moscow Town
Will Establish Another Headquarters Somewhere in Southern Russia Recruiting Campaign to
 Bolster Eastern Front Forces
BY ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent

London, January 13. - (UP) - Adolf Hitler has fled from his headquarters at Smolensk 23O miles vest southwest of Moscow before the relentless counterrve of Russas Red Army Swiss reports said today
 Zurich dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph quoting unquestonable Berlin sources, said Hitler had left
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13

Gray -haired, mOtherIy-lOOki Mrs. Amelia Mildred Carr, above, 66, was widely known as de- voted church worker and a wealthy "angel of mercy" to the poor in Newark, N. J., where she was the wife of the president of the board of trustees of ROseville Methodist Church. When she was arrested on a charge of defraud- ing 71-year-old acquaintance out of $47OO, authorities reported that Mrs. Carr had record of arrests and Jail sentences dating back to 1891, mostly for swindling, She was held in $50,000 bail, high est ever set in Newark for woman.