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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
Qudsh Charges
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SAGINAW. May 22.--Charges
against Linwood w. Smith, re-
gional director OF the Go. and
seven other unionists arrested on
a conspiracy charge in connection
with the strike at the Wilcox-Rich
Company here in January, 194l
were dismissed today by Circuit
Judge George B. Murphy of De-
troit, sitting as a visiting jurist.
He granted the defense motion
10 dismiss, stating there was not
sufficient evidence TO hold the men
for trial on the basis Of examina-
ton evidence.
The men were all charged with
conspiracy TO keep workers from
their employment.
A provision defense motion 10
dismiss was denied by Circuit
Judge James r. O'Neill OF Saginaw.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
Death Scales
Druggists Weight Mistake
Killed Senate Chaplain
WASHINGTON. May % uNs)

WASHINGTON. May % qNS).
A coroner's jury today charged
IA 72-year-old Washington pharma-
list with causing the sudden death
1of the United States Senate chap
lain. the Rev. Ze Barney T. Phil
lips by compounding a prescription
is times the specified strength.
Basing its decision on the testi-
mony of the attending physician,
DR.. John Minor. and photostatic
copy of the prescription. the six
man jury revealed that the phar-
macist. Samuel L. Hilton, had
mistakenly used the wrong scales
in computing the content of the
prescription and gave the Rev
erend Phillips 15.43 times as much
as prescribed.
No action Is planned against
Hilton. who. in his testimony be-
fore the jury, half sobbed:
I'm too old; I've got TO get
out OF business"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
"a OF Is RESCUED

AN EAST COAST PORT, May
% INS).-Twenty-four of a 25-
man crew of small sized torpe-
doed United Nations freighter re-
counted their experiences at this
east coast port today after their
rescue by a small lobster boat.
Survivors told how a Scandinavian
seaman. trapped In the boiler
room when the hatch ladder was
blasted away by the torpedo,
calmly waited until sufficient
water seeped down and then rode
the mounting tide to the deck and
rescue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
BlaInes5th
Column i'm


NEW ORLEANS. May ~ QNS).
"A ship captain. whose vessel was
sent TO the bottom in Gulf waters
on May Is by an Axis U-boat, ac-
cording to an Eighth Naval Dis
trict announcement today, believes
that fifth column work was re-
sponsible for the accuracy Of the
The captain, A. Henry Rowe of
Aldon. Pa. in discussing the sink
ing of his ship with the loss of ~
lives, including five members of a
gun crew, said:
1.-THE sub never did appear,
which leads me to believe that
some one tipped them on as to
our sailing date-they knew the
name of the ship, came after us,
and got u.s."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
IN MARINE HOSPITAL

The captain. who is now in a
marine hospital at Galveston. Tex,
recovering from injuries. said il
was the custom OF sub command
ers TO surface and ask the name
OF a sinking ship. This sub COM
mander, however. the captain said,
never surfaced because he already
knew the answers.
Meantime, In New York. two
survivors of a submarine sinking
in the Atlantic told how they and
II others navigated their open life
boat $50 miles in IL days to reach
safety at Surinam. Dutch Guiana.
In Havana. the sinking of an
other American freighter was re-
vealed when AZ survivors reached
a Cuban port. Three crewmen are
missing.
Washington announced the sink
ing of a Norwegian cargo vessel
in the Atlantic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
Congress Probe
Of Axis Sinkings
Off u. ). Looms
BY WILLIAM 8. NEAL
Int1 News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. May %. = De-
mands for intensified action to halt
U-boats operating off American
shores, together with threats OF a
congressional investigation, were
made today by senator's. who are
deeply aroused BY the situation.
Senator Allen ]. Ellender Cd Of
Louisiana criticized Secretary OF
the Navy Knox fer stating that the
menace was being eliminated. just
before daring sinkings occurred in
the Gulf of Mexico and the St.
Lawrence River.
eff the navy can't protect the
Gulf of Mexico. when ID In sur
rounded by land, something must
be wrong, especially when the
secretary OF the navy says the
menace II ended, and then the
more he talks the more ships
are SUNK" said Ellender.
sPURNED INVENTION
He said he had been informed
that the navy was offered free or
cost an invention 10 string cable
from the tip of Florida 10 Yucatan
Channel which would detect any
ship passing over II, and refused
even 10 test the device.
Senator Ralph o. Brewster (R)
of Maine demanded more vigor-
Gus and effective measures TO
curb submarines.
Brewster told the Senate that
there has been scarcely a sinking
within 400 piles of the British
coast in the last year, because OF
effective measures taken by Brit
ain.
In advocating increased use of
small boats. Brewster said that
President Roosevelt used this
lnethod during World War No. !
when he assistant secretary Of the
navy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-22
Featherweight
WOODS
By Forstmann
1895 yard

In the group of assorted Forst-
mann Summer weight woods are
crepe and hubby weaves that tai
lor beautifully into Summer
frocks, suits. See the pastels,
dusty tones and some deeper
shades. All are 81 inches wide.
THIRD FLOOR FABRIC SHOPS
Farmsr at Crafiof-Seefion G
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-02
MACARTHUR in
| SAVAGE FIGHT
Continued from Page -

CONTINUED from Page ID
apart before the assault was well
underway, the army said.
Japs Lost Heavily
The development was repulsed
with heavy losses to the Japanese"
the communique said.
Along the west coast where the
japanese previously had been at
tempting to strike down from the
Port Binanga region the new jap
anese assaults "have now been COM
pletely mastered" the army reported.
Quoting a dispatch from Mac
Arthur, the army said that the jap
anese forces used in the desperate
venture" along the Bataan west
coast were the best that the Nip
ponese have in the Philippines.
They were the shock troops espe-
cially trained and selected" Mac
Arthur said. "They have now been
entirely destroyed.
"They resisted with the courage
which is characteristic Of japanese
troops, but at the end were glad
to surrender. They are being treat
ed with the respect and considera-
ton which their gallantry so well
merits"
Jap Plan Revealed
The War Department said that
captured aerial maps revealed the
plan and urgent character" of the
double-pronged offensive, indicat-
ing that the Japanese generals had
attempted to deliver a knockout
blow to U. s. resistance On the
Philippine mainland after suffering
enormous losses during the past
eight weeks OF fighting.
The fighting, on both tanks of the
mainland approaches to Corregidor
fortress, was said to have occurred
over a period Of several days. The
japanese forces were under COM
mand of Lieut.. Gen. Nara.
The communique identified the
participating japanese forces as the
10th division in the west and the
65th division in the easS. A Jap
anese division numbers about 49,
600 men.
The victory Of MacArthur,s forces
On the Bataan mainland pushed the
enemy back further from the north
ern approaches to Corregidor, whose
battleship-size guns have destroyed
a japanese invasion force attempt
ing TO take the forts of Manila Bay
by sea.
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tCo.1. :nued from Page u
Rios campai3nsd mal.-y OIL an
anti-Fascist platform and his vote
Of 257 $3.50 against 202,0 35 for Ibanez
was regarded as a mandate against
Germany, Italy and Japan. In view
of his weeping triumph and his
pre- election support of the United
States and its allies, many observ-
ers believed Chile soon would break
with the Axis in accordance with
the resolution approved at the Rio
de Janeiro conference of foreign
ministers. Nineteen American ma
tons already have severed relations
with the Axis, leaving Chile and
Argentina the only hold-outs.
Although Ibanez denied Axis
sympathies, his opponents declared
repeatedly that he favored it. His
supporters included the Popular So
cialist vanguard (the Chilean
Nazis) whose leader, Jorge Gonzalez
Won Mares, accompanied Ibanez
when he went to the polls.
Campaign Of Ibanez
1banez camnaiored nm an "art;.
Communist" platform and had
oyouyad fr;er1sl,i,, for 40 1r,;tad
states and nledged fulfillment If
Chile's hemisphere defense obliga-
tons He was s,,pnorted also nv
the CONSERVATIVES and Liberal mar.
ties and his own 1ndenendent Ma
tionalist movement
o.. - eor....
Nlos, whose 1ouoWers mad warned
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-02

every available space was used, with
some cars packed as many as six in
yard.
Streets without sidewalks had
cars up close to the fences or house
steps and some automobile owners
parked their cars on the front lawn.
These yards also had several cars
parked. Most Of the backyards and
vacant lots were used by motorists
for parking their cars.
A lot on Chestnut avenue had its
small area virtually covered with
seven cars parked closely together.
Highland avenue from West Main
street to Ledgeside avenue, taking
in four blocks had only three cars
there all night where prior to the
ban mere than q dozens cars used
this area.
Oak street was sprinkled with au-
tomobiles last night as was Water
vile street. Eight cars, police said,
were lined upon the edge of sand
bank on West Main street near Rus
sell school. The bank is being graded
Packed In West Side
Cars were packed in the West Side
hill section where it was noticed that
one getting into the auto or out
had to exercise caution or else the
door of the car would strike the car
alongside of the one parked.
Supt. Roach was confident that
the new ban on all-night parking
will be accepted by the public and
the same f11rnrp which attandpd the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-02
COP. ALDERMEN
FIGHT PARKING
Continued from Page y

The letters were sent by William
Stanton, president of the Chase
Brass and Copper local; Dennis Nc
Grath, president Of the Scovill Brass
Workers local; and Samuel Cipri-
ano, president of the Lux Clock
Workers local. The three unions, set
up by the Brass Workers Organizing
Committee, are affiliated with the In
ternational Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers.
The union leaders claimed that
there Is not enough garage space in
the city to house more than SO per
cent Of the cars here, and proposed
that the city set up municipal free
parking lots in each congested area
They asserted that cars parked in
backyards are more Of a fire hazard
than those parked on the streets.
Alderman Walker claimed that
public sentiment is strongly against
the all-night parking ban. He said
he believed satisfactory comprom-
Use could be easily worked out,
which would satisfy virtually all
concerned.
The Republican aldermen will
hold caucus before the aldermanic
meeting to decide on their handling
of the parking question.
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First Night Parking
Ban Was Successful
CONTINUED from Page u

at st. Margaret's church Sunday
by Rev. John Conlan, pastor, that
parking would be permitted in the
vacant lot adjacent to church prop
erty at the corner Of Willow and
Ludlow streets. Father Conlan said
cards giving permission to use these
grounds will be issued to parishion-
ers only who make application for
the same. Certain restrictions were
announced, these being that no
parking previous to 5p. m. and after
8 a. m. be allowed. Also prohibited
is repairs to cars while they are
parked in the church's grounds. No
rubbish is to be scattered while
the grounds are used for parking.
When registering cars with pastor
certain information on cars must be
supplied. Both north and south lots
are to be used with special permis-
sion required If cars are to be left
in yard after 8 a. m. or put there
before S p. m. Each car-owner Will
have an individual parking space
which will be marked off.
Will Be Enforced
Police officials pointed out the
ordinance will be enforced and that
the police have not started to tag
cars, but are issuing warning leaf
lets to automobiles parked all night.
The check made by police showed
that in some sections of the city
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-02

Indies high command communique
reported today.
The communique, released through
the Netherlands Indies news agency
reported that a Dutch flying boat
had shot down Japanese fighter
plane and was itself slightly dam
aged.
No specific reports had been re-
ceived of the situation on Amboina
Island, the naval and air base in
the Molucca Islands, or from the
Kendari area of Celebes, it was said
However, Netherlands forces were
believed resisting stoutly there as
we'll as in the Minahassa area of
Celebes.
Unconfirmed reports indicated
that the Japanese had succeeded in
occupying Pontianak on the west
coast Of Borneo, it was admitted.
Japanese planes raided airdromes
at scattered points and four persons
were killed and several wounded by
bombs which struck the native area
of one small island, the communi-
que said.
| One person was killed and four
were wounded slightly at Poso in
Central Celebes.
| The communique noted increased
air activity over Banka, rich tin is
land Off the south coast of Sumatra
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Still marveled at the ease with which
they had evacuated the peninsula.
They had looked for another Dun
kirk, l can now reveal. But they
had poured across the 60-foot cause
way under a bright moon without
having short fired at them or q
single bomb dropped.
Throughout the night, Royal All
Force planes patroled back and
forth over the almost endless col
umns of men and vehicles.
1t was 8:12 a. m. when the last
armored car rumbled over the cause
way behind the Gordons, last regi-
ment to leave the mainland, and the
skirling pipes of the Argyle and
Sutherland Highlanders who pro-
vided music for them.
No Immediate Attack
Australians whom I had met Whel,
the front was many miles up the
peninsula told me, as we lay in the
fox holes, that there had been little
action by the Japanese except fol
desultory shipping across the strait
and there had been no discerniole
Japanese preparations for an i'm
mediate attack.
It took just q minutes to reach
the front, now the north shore
from Singapore City.
I have proved something OF q
trial to the men in the lines
because my stiff right leg Guard
was wounded In the last war in
which he served as a submarine
officer prevents me from crawling
like a red Indian as does everyone
else.
AS left for Singapore, an officer
shouted to me:
"Get a bloody move on there! DC
you think you're walking on the
Brighton promenade?"
There is an atmosphere of some
restiveness because all the Imperial
troops can do now Is to wait for the
Japanese attack, leaving it to the
artillery and the planes to do the
work.
Not only the north shore but the
northeast shore and the west and
part Of the South shore Of the island
have been cleared of civilians under
order effective at p. m. Sunday to
leave no spot unprotected.
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(Continued from Page y
York on the AustraL-l northeast
coast.
Bombing Shipping
Japanese planes also bombed
shipping in the Soemba Strait south
of Koepang, but scored no hits.
One person was killed and one
wounded in the raid on Wau.
Australian planes raided Rabaul,
on New Britain in the Bismarcks
east of New Guinea and hit at least
one Japanese ship in the bay, a
communique reported.
Refugees who reached Australia
from Rabaul reported that before
they retired to the hills Australian
militiamen had succeeded In de-
stroyirg everything of military value,
including the airdrome.
The cabinet met today under Pre-
mier John Curtin, who arrived last
night from visit to western
Australia. Curtin's train, crowded
with refugees from the war zone
who had reached Australia, was 10
hours late. Curtin spent nearly II
hours of the journey without food.
A basket OF food was put aboard
for him at one station but at his re-
quest it was given to women and
children.
In Ireland
With American Forces in North
ern Ireland, Feb. 2.-(UP) - The
AEF found there was little differ
ence between a Sunday at home and
a Sunday in Ireland-except the
movies weren't open.
The Ulster people took the Ameri-
cans into their family pews for
church services. Nine soldiers had
intended visiting Ere, but called off
the trip because of Prime Minister
canon De Valera's protest against
the AER landing.
I'VE just don't like going If we
are not wanted" they said.
The AEF emerged from its first
week end in the British Isles with
many of the nurses wearing Stacks,
because their uniforms had gone
astray. Officials were checking to see
whether their outfits had been put
on the wrong train at the landing.
1t is now permissible to say that
the convoy bringing the AEF was
battered for two days by a terrific
gale which had the men eating
their meals while cHnging to their
hnrkG
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Japanese Are Savagely
Attacking Singapore
Continued from Page -

"Three small craft were engaged
by small arms off the coast of the
Island. One craft was sunk.
Air reports show considerable en-
envy movements on the mainland
Enemy air activity over Singapore
has been increased throughout the
last "a hours. Some damage has
been caused but military casualties
are slight"
Thousands of British, Australian
and Indian troops took up defensive
positions in newly dug fox holes fac.
ing the dynanited causeway, so feet
wide and three-quarters OF a mile
long. in readiness to meet an eX-
pected japanese attempt to force a
crossing. A 50-yard breach had
been blasted by Royal engineers at
the Johore end Of the carseway.
Men of the Leicestershire regi-
ment, the East Surrey regiment, the
Loyal regiment, the Argyle and the
Sutherland Highlanders and the
Gordon Highlanders went into the
lines along with such troops X
those of the Manchester regiment
who had now arrived, it Is pos
sible to reveal, in strong body Of
reinforcements.
Beside these British regulars were
the hardened men of the Australian
Imperial force and the Indians who
had fought their way down the PEN
insula from Thailand, never once in
the long weeks in equal number with
the japanese.
Japanese Moving Up
Through binoculars I watched
from a headland on this beseiged
islands northern shore the Japan
csc troops who moved up, amid the
scattered columns of smoke which
told where British bombs and shells
had found their mark.
Flames from fires on the Johore
shore brightly lighted the causeway
at night. BY day, the flag Of the
Sultan of Johore flew still on the
shimmering green-grazed roof of
his palace, indicating that he still
was in residence there.
1 watched the 50-yard breach
which the engineers mad blown in
the causeway. The tide was turn
ing and torrent raced through the
breach.
1t looked as if a lot more of
the causeway must be blown up
soon to keep back the hordes OF
japanese siege troops.
Preparing for fight which they
knew would be merciless, and ex-
pecting bombardment by mased
Japanese planes, the Imperial troops
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GERMANS DRIVE
BRITISH BACK
Continued from Page ~

ported to have checked the German
advance.
The 18th Indian brigade was fall
ing back slowly, fighting contin-
uous rearguard action, the commu-
nique indicated.
The brigade was said to have
counter-acted the German advance
forces Saturday at Maraua, 20 miles
west Of Slonta. 1t then fell back to
Slonta and counter attacked again.
British Fight On
Despite the advance of Axis
spearheads to Slonta and BARGE,
British forces still were carrying
out heavy action far to the rear of
these points. Mobile British forces
attacked the Germans northeast Of
Msus.
The Royal Air Force carried out
heavy attacks on Axis land conveys
Of trucks and troops, particularly In
the Agheila and Agedabia areas.
"The 7th Indian infantry brigade
which covered BenghaI before 1t
was evacuated has now returned to
its bases in eastern Cyrenaica al
most intact as regards its fighting
personnel" the communique re-
ported.
The middle east command re-
ported that British mobile columns
northeast of Msus about 30 miles
southwest Of Benghazi, carried out
offensive operations m which they
captured four Axis fighting vehicles
and some prisoners.
"Our fourth Indian division Is
conducting withdrawal In the Jebel
Akdar, east of BARGE, in close con-
tact with the enemy which is fol-
lowing up this movement In consid-
cradle strength" the communique
said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-02
RANCO0N BATTLE
IS BLOODY SCRAP
Continued from Page u

The attack was described as "a
most successful action.
Hundreds Of japanese dived in
to the water and swan for their
lives" 1t was reported.
Jap Guns Silenced
The Japanese attempted to at
the British planes with machine
gun fire but tehir guns were silenced
by the Blenheims. No British planes
were lost in the operation.
EvacueeS from Moulmein report
ed that an Imperial rear-guard held
off the Japanese attack until the
evacuation of the city was COM
pleted.
THE last we saw Of them they
were swimming for it under fire
from the Japanese across the Sal
ween." refugee reported.
GA Tokyo report by the German
radio, heard by the United Press
listening post in New York said, the
British are building new defense po-
sitions along the SalWeen river. The
Japanese said that ut remains to be
seen" whether the Japanese attack
on these positions will be carried out
on a broad front or by thanking
meneuvers. 1t was admitted that
the Salween provides god defen-
sive position for the British due to
It's width.
The SaliWeen was believed here
to provide fairly effective barrier
to the Japanese. 1t is swept by
strong currents and it was thought
the Japanese will require a large
force of barges to move any consid-
cradle force across.
Burma engineers reaching British
lines after having been captured by
the Japanese reported that the
enemy is forcing prisoners to move
their heavy gear through the jun
giles.
ITO Miles Away
The looping railroad line between
Rangon and Mandalay cuts east
ward at one point to within ITO
miles Of the Japanese forces at
Moulmein.
The Japanese drive around the
jagged coast OF the Gul of artaban
from Moulmein to Rangoon, prob
ably will be aimed first at the rail-
road terminal just west Of Abya. SO
miles west of Moulmein, and then
fan out for simultaneous strikes at
Rangoon and the Rangoon-Manda-
lay line.
The British, withdrawn from
Moulmain at the mouth of the SAL
ween, were in strong positions on
west bank Of the river. Off1cials said
there were preparations for .
counter offensive.
No details were given of the jap
anese attAmpted river crossing and