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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
WIPE PENNANT
 GIVEN TO CITY
Impressive Cerem0 nj e S Held on Green-City's
 Scrap Drive Praised

Impressive ceremonies were held at Victory House on the Green at l1:S0 this morning, when a WIPE pennant was presented to the City of Waterbury for its contribution to the recent scrap metal salvage cam paign. Seth Low Pierrepont, chair man of the state salvage committee presented the banner to Mayor Vim cent A. Scully in the presence of various state and local dignitaries.
 As Mayor Scully raised the flag on the Victory House flagpole, a bugle was sounded by John Riley of 246 Wood street. a member of Boy Scout Explorer troop B of the Sa- cred Heart church.
 Despite the brisk wintery weather numerous passersby stopped to witt ness the exercises and cars passing through the Center halted as the bugle was sounded.
 'The City of Waterbury has al- ways taken up each program as it came along and handled it splen- didly," MT. P.errepont stated in mak- ing the presentation. Expressing praise for the achievement of Wa terbury and New Haven county in the collection of the scrap metal, he revealed that contributions made in the county were sufficient for mak- ing at least 12 hulls for heavy cruis- CTS. The county raised about 173 pounds of metal per person.
 Mayor Scully addressed the gath ering, stating, "A very splendid job was done in the drive and a very great deal of credit is du, to a great number of people" He com- mended the work of the salvage committee and the hundreds of vol- unteers who assisted.
 Presiding at the exercises was Raymond J. Tanning, managing ed- itor of the Waterbury Americas:, who served as chairman of the drive conducted by the three local newspapers.
 Other speakers included Henry Bowling, advertising manager of the Waterbury Democrat: William J. Pape, publisher of the Water bury Republican, American: J. War ren Upson, chairman of the local salvage committee; James A. Dar- cey, president of the State Daily Newspaper association, and John Mulligan, who took charge of the industrial phase of the campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
Secret Communications Of Two Leaders Just Revealed
REDS EXPOSE GERMAN REAR
Shock Troops Take Hill, Making Nazi Position in
 Stalingrad PeriIOus
BY NJ. s, HANDLER

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 Moscow, Dec. 2 --tUp)-- Russian shock troops, taking fortified hill in the Stalingrad area by storm, have made the Germans in the city open to attack from behind, dis patches from the front said today.
 Dispatches and the noon com munique reported the capture of a German operational base southwest of Stalingrad, an important forti- fled point northwest of it and a fortified township on the Rzhev- VyaZma railroad on the central front.
 But the capture of the hill before Stalingrad seemed the big victory of the day and one of the biggest of the week.
 The hill dominates the railroad station at which the Germans had detrained troops and supplies for transport by truck into the city proper.
 For 2 l-2 months they had forti- fled it against Russia attack, build ing trench systems and artillery em- placements to protect its southern and southeastern approaches.
 The Red army shock troops took it in face of desperate resistance, The Germans, determined to get it back detached 75 tanks and an en- tire infantry division but they gave it up after seven seperate counter attacks which left the hill dotted with German dead.
 In some sectors of the Stalingrad, the infantry and armored forces met strong German counter-attacks or halted to consolidate their posi- tions and let the artillery blast at German pill boxes and dugouts in preparation for renewed attacks, but the general offensive, both in the south and on the central front, con- tinued at its furious pace.
 The entire German position northwest of Stalingrad was threat ened by the Russians who had crossed the Don from west to east and had driven deep into enemy defenses constructed on the east side of the river, to protect the rear of the Germans inside Stalingrad. Here the Russians were driving eastward along the Kharkor- -Stalin- grad railroad. attacking in the di- rection of the city.
 The Germans, numbering many divisions, were fighting with des- peration inside a triangle. facing at- tacks from west, south and east and perhaps soon, by the Russians inside Stalingrad.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
45-YEAR PRISON
 TERM FOR CRAMER
$lO,OOO Fine Also Imposed In Treason Case-Death
 Penalty Was Asked

New York, Dec. 2-(UP)-Federal Judge Henry w. Goddard today imposed a 45-year prison sentence and a $l0,000 fine upon Anthony Cramer, who was convicted of treason in aiding two of the ex- ecuted Nazi saboteurs.
 The court, turning down the gov- ernment's request for imposition of the death penalty, said it was con- vinced that Cramer, first person to be convicted of treason in aiding the saboteurs in New York, had no guilty knowledge of the projected activities of the SaboteurS.
 Cramer was convicted of aiding Edward John Kerling and Werner Thiel, two of the saboteurs landed on Long Island last June. Both were among the six saboteurs ex- ecuted in Washington.
 United States Attorney Matthias F. Correa asked for the death penalty when court convened.
 Judge Goddard told Correa and Harold R. Medina, court appointed defense attorney, that Tt does not appear that Cramer was aware that Kerling and the others were in possession of explosives. etc., or that they intended to destroy fac- tories.
 "He had no guilty knowledge of the subverSive mission of Kerling and Thiel. All he had was vague idea that they came here to agitate and spread German propaganda. If there was any real proof that they had confided in him or that he knew their real purpose for com ing, I would not have hesitated to impose the death sentence"
 The court said that imposition of the 45-year prison term upon Cramer, who is 42, was equivalent to a life sentence"
 On Monday, Helmut Leiner, 32, was freed of treason charges by Federal Judge John w. Clancy who ruled that the government had not proved six of the seven overt acts charged against him. Leiner was charged with aiding ,Kerling, and after the directed verdict of acquit- tai, was ordered detained as an enemy alien for the duration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
Criminal Negligence Indict. ments Against Several
 Considered by Law
CORRECTED DEATH LIST
 PLACES TOLL AT 400
Witnesses Testify to Ra- pidity With Which Flames
 Spread Through Club
BY CHARLES SWEENEY United Press Staff CorrespOndentl

BY CHARLES SWEENEY United Press Staff CorrespOndentD
 Boston, December 2. - (UP) - Manslaughter or criminal negligence indict- ments against several per- sons are expected to be sought next week from a Suffolk County Grand Jury which convened today at the height of a state investiga- tion of the Cocoanut Grove holocaust.
 Meanwhile, the Boston Public Safety Committee announced that corrected figures after thorough check showed taht 490 persons per- ished in Saturday nights disaster.
 The committee said that l74 of the injured were still hospitaliEed.
 Latest Developments
 Other new developments:
 1. A survey indicating that Bos- tons night club "blackout" was cost ing owners about $l25,000 per night, and that some 5000 entertainers walters and other employees were jobleSs.
 2. An announcement by the Bos- ton Licensing Board that all first class hotels in the city would be inspected and that any cocktail rooms or lounges found unsafe would be closed.
 3. A hint that the grand jury in- vestigation might be broadened to determine the actual ownership of all Boston night spots.
 4. Revival of the theory that a short-circuit may have started the holocaust. Atty.-Gen. Robert T.. Bushnell received information that wiring in the Cocoanut Groves main dining room between the actual and false ceilings was done by young shipyard worker in his spare time.
 New Theory
 5. A theory, advanced by an ex- pert fire investigator, that alcoholic fumes under the abnormally low ceilings might account for the light ping-like spread of flames. This theory believed sufficient fumes could have emanated from the liquor glasses of nearly 1000 patrons to create such a hazard.
 6. The refusal of the Licensing Board to consider the appeals of more than a dozen restaurateurs who visited the boards headquar- ters to protest the unjust" closing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
AXIS LIFELINE
 CUT BY ALLIES
Communication Between Libya? Tunis-Bizerte
 Sector Broken

London, Dec. 2. .- (UP) - Allied troops. driving to the east coast of Tunisia, have cut communication between the Axis forces in Libya and those penned at Tunis and Biz erte in the northeast corner of the country, Radio Morocco reported today.
 The news reached London as AL lied authorities awaited the immin- ently expected renewal of the Brit ish Eight Army's westward drive toward Tunisia from the Agheila line on the Gulf of Sirte 475 miles 10 the east.
 British, United States and French troops, Radio Morocco said, were in the force which reached the Tunisian east coast and were fam ing out north and south along the 60-mile stretch of road between Sfax and Gabes on the Gulf Of Gabes.
 Farther north French troops were approaching the important coastal town of Hammamet, at the top Of the gulf of that name 35 miles southeast of Tunis.
 An already furious battle for aerial supremacy, with the allies on top. grew more intense when the Ger mans threw in strong endorsements of fighter and bomber planes, and in the north. sent into the lines new light and heavy tanks.
 Lieut.. Gen. Kenneth A. N. Ander- sons First British Army, supported by United States mobile units and French regulars. was reported to be making steady but difiicult progress through thick enemy mine fields and under heavy airplane attack in the northeast corner where the main German defense force at Tunls had been isolated from that at the Bixerte naval base.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
Navy COmmunique Reports Progress by U. s.
 Troops

Washington, Dec. .2-(UP)-Amer- icon troops, continuing to mop up small isolated bands of Japanese on Guatlalcanal, killed 5l more enemy soldiOrs and captured three artillery pieces and six machine guns, the Navy announced today.
 Army planes carried out four more assaults on enemy positions pn the island.
 One army ground patrol killed Il Japanese and captured a 7o-mm. gun. A marine corps patrol wiped put s Japanese, and captured a 75-mm gun and a 30-mm. cannon along the upper Lkunga river. An- other marine patrol killed IS Jap- Anese and captured six machine guns.
 Text of Navy communique No. EOS:
 "south Pacific: (An dates east longitude)
 q. On December lst Army and Marine corps troops on Guadal- canal Island engaged in extensive patrols along the outskirts of our positions.
 "(A) An Army patrol killed II Japanese and captured . 70- millimeter gun.
 "(B) A Marine corps patrol killed 25 Japanese and captured enc 75-millimeter and one 30- millimeter gun along the upper Lunga river.
 "(C) Another Marine patrol killed IS Japanese and captured six machine guns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
By JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington. Dec. 2 = CUP) - Housewives faced a new war time headache today with announcement by the Office of Price Administration that, beginning early in le43, they must budget not only in dollars and cents but in ration points"
 Meat will be the first item ra- toned by the new system. Other articles, presently undisclosed, may follow. They are expected to include many kinds of canned goods.
 The point" system will come into effect after distribution this month of new ration book calhed War Ration Book Two. Rationing of sugar and coffee by the old method on Ration Book One will continue unchanged.
 The point" system, at first glance, looks complicated. It has been in operation for a considerable time in Great Britain and this cor- respondent found it apparently working smoothly there and heard no. complaints from British house. wives about it.
 Briefly the system works as fol- lows:
 The new ration book will contain certain number of points-prob- ably AS for each rationing period of about orc month.
 The OPA will fix a price" in points for each principal kind of meet-beef, mutton. pork and so forth. The price of some will be
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
FAMED SCHOONER
 IN US. SERVICE

Boston, Dec. 2.-CUP)-The famed Gloucester fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud will become tn flagship sf the Coast Guard corsair fleet of picket patrol boats on dut. of the Ne9 England coast, the Coast Guard Division of the First Naval District announced today.
 The schooner twice has represent cd America in international fisher mems race against the Nova Scotia nhooner Bluenose.
 Her owner and former racing skip per, Capt. Ben Pine, will officially turn over the schooner to the Coast Guard at induction ceremonies to be held at Gloucester Dec. l3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
GENOA DAMAGE
 BY BOMBS HIGH
MussOIini Tells Italians II,SS3 BIdgs Destroyed
 Refugees Leave City
(Enemy Origin - Not Filed by a
 United Press Correspondent

United Press CorreSpOnuent)
 Rome, Dec. 2-Italian Broadcast Recorded by UP in London)-Benito Mussolini told the Fascist Chamber of Passes and Corporations today that ll,883 buildings had been deS- troyed or damaged in Genoa alone in British air raids.
 (T'he German radio reported that l6 trains day were taking refugees from Genoa and that other bombed towns also were being evacuated)
 Mussclini gave war long total of 392,878 military casualties-40,- = 2l9 killed, 86,238 wounded, 232, 706 prisoners and 33,7l3 missing.
 Discussing the raids on Italian cities and Prime Minister Winston Churchills warning that Italy faced a mercileSs attack, Mussolini said Germany had promised Italy anti aircraft guns.
 He quoted Churchill's warning speech of Sunday and said:
 When one takes the dinner jacket from this Briton one finds the primitive barbarian Briton of the past, who was so thoroughly thrashed by victorious Caesar"
 Then he gave figures of the dam age done so far, the exact figures compared with congregations" He gave the warlong damage figures as:
 Civilians killed. 1881: wounded. 3,332, of whom 838 were killed and 9O4 wounded since Nov. g.
 Milan-Buildings destroyed, 30; heavily damaged, 411; slightly damaged, 1.9S7.
 Turin-DestrOyed, 161; heavily damaged, STA, slightly damaged, 2,195.
 SavOna-DestrOyed. 6, heavily damaged, A; slightly damaged. 97O.
 Genoa - Destroyed. 1S5 in the central area and 2O3 in greater Genoa: l.O06 heavily damaged in central Genoa and l,049 in great
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
Marines Continue Mopping-Up Small Jap Bands On Guadalcanal
Msgr. John Pagan Dies In hoIyoke

HOlyOke, Mass, Dec. 2-tUPl- MonsignOr John F. Pagan, S2. for 20 years pastor of St. JerOme's (Catholicl church, died here to- day after a brief illness.
 A native of North Adams, Rev. Pagan attended Drury academy and Holy Cross and received his theological training at the Grand seminary in Montreal, Que.
 He was ordained . priest Dec. ls,lSs6, and his first assignment was to St. Michael's Cathedral in Springfield.
 In 1884, st. Jerome's church was destroyed by fire but through the efforts of Rev. Pagan it was re- built into one of the most beauti- full in the Springfield diocese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
Darlan Becomes No. 1 Man in Hopes of Future
 France
PETAIN NOW PRISONER
 ACCORDING TO REPORTS
DarIan's Swing of French Africa to Allies Makes
 Him Highly Regarded
BY JOHN A. PARRIS

DA SSAAAN fAs aAASssA0 United Press stan Correspondent Copyright, I942. by United Press)
 London, December a. (UP) Marshal Henr. Philippe Petain has been in secret communication with Admiral Jean Francois Oar. Ian since the German occu, patton of all France and agrees with him whole-heart edly on the future of France under Allied direction, Amer ican authorities in North Africa informed this core. spondent.
 In North Africa, from which have just come by airplane. Ameri- can authorities believe that France regards Darlan as the No. hope of the country now that the Germans have occupied all of it.
 Petain Now Prisoner
 They told me that Petain is now a prisoner, with Laval in the drivers seat. but that since the German occupation he has been able to communicate secretly with Darlan. Even before the occupa- ton Petain was virtually pris' oner, they said.
 Petain, though he has no control over the Vichy government, remains a great symbol to the French, American informantS said, and the French look to Darlan now because of the belief that he went to North Africa direct from Petain.
 Playing For Keeps
 Darlan is playing for keeps in his assumption of French leadership in Africa. He intends to make his leadership permanent; American authorities believe that he has done invaluable service, which he alone could do, in swinging French Africa to the Allies: they believe also that he saved many lives on both sides by his action and he is convincing them he is playing ball with them 100 per cent.
 I have just returned by .airplane from North Africa, where the now sun-tanned Darlan is energetically making friends and convincing Americans that he is cooperating 100 per cent in the war to defeat the Axis.
 Great Contribution
 I have talked at length with American authorities, and it can be said that Darlan's work in bringing the Dakar air, sea and submarine base to the Allied side was re- garded as a great contribution and went far to convince Americans of his good faith.
 At Algiers saw Darlan twice. There is no reason to believe thai he will fail to dig himself in per. manently if he plays ball.
 Darlan was heavily tanned with very red cheeks and appeared to be in the best of health. He wore dark blue suit, blue tie and black felt hat. He was continually smil- ing and talking and was extremely friendly with Americans.
 Dislikes British
 Darlan still bears hard feelings against the British as a result of the Mers El-Kebir naval battle and always refers to Americans and their Allies'-never mentions the British by name.
 My sources pointed out to be that Darlan's hope of permanency in his leadership is improved by the fact that he is probably the only man with authority to throw all Africa into Allied hands and tuhn French sentiment-which was uncertain before he came oveT--to the side of the Allies, permittina
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
NEW RATIONINC
 SYSTEM COMING
Housewives Will Start DoIing 'Points" for Art-
 icIeS in I943

Joseph w. Grigg, IT,. q for mer member of the Berlin stan of the United Press, Is now as. signed to the Washington Bureau after a tour of duty in London. The following dispatch, announc- ing the forthcoming point" sys- tenn of rationing for Americans, Is written against the background of his experience with rationing in Britain,l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
YOUTH SHOOTS SELF

New Britain, Conn, Dec. 2-(UPl A verdict of suicide was given to- day in the death of Francis Amen- dola, g. who shot himself in the head at his home yesterday. The youth was said Go have been brood ing because he was turned down for military service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
SOLDIER FATALLY HURT

Middletown, Conn. Dec. 2-(UP) Pvt. Laure H. Rautt, stationed at nearby Rocky Hill, was injured ia. tally early today when struck by a taxi while crossing Q street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER DEAD

New Haven. Conn. Dec. 2-CUP) John Ostman, 67. Stonington, died late yesterday of injuries suffered Monday when he fell at a light house where he was a keeper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-02

Trained Women, Married or Single, Are Desperately Needed in Offices
 Post Junior College of Commerce.
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