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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02
SENATOR MURRAY
HAS Three SONS
IN SERVICE

Senator Murray's deep concern for
speeding up the war program is ap.
parently a family" feeling, as three
Of his sons are, at the present time
in the armed forces.
One of his sons is in the engineers
corps, presently stationed in the Pan
anna Canal Zone. Another has en-
listed in the navy and is assigned to
duty with naval intelligence. The
third son is an enlisted man in the
First Fighter Command of the Army
Air Forces
The latter, while still having only
a private's rating, because of his abil-
ity and interest in aircraft Identified
ton has been assigned to special
duties in the training of volunteer
civilian observers.
news story in the Hartford
Comm Times, has the following to
say about Murray's appearance before
gathering of more than 100 volun-
teer observers in Hartford:
AT the meeting Pvt. Murray called
the Aircraft Warning Service the
nerve center of home defense and
said the Army depends completely
upon volunteer observers for warning
of the arrival of enemy planes. He
explained that there are 1,OSO,O00 OBJ
servers in an area extending from
Maine to Florida.
1t would require 100000 soldiers
to man observation posts if there
were no volunteers he said. They
relieve soldiers we can't afford to
keep on the home front because they
are needed more on the battlefields
Of the world. 1t is upon these civilian
volunteers that the Army depends to
make sacrifices, to be loyal and help
in the war effort"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02
PILOT PLANS FOR COOP
HEALTH INSURAN(sf
ANALYzED BY Av x;TI0RITY
Various Forms Of GroupT $ tn Insurance
And Medical Care Discu : by Executive
Directors Group Health cooperative Inc;
Outlines Advantages and Disadvantages of
Existing Forms of s'Pilot Plans"

BY Of
In America, health insurance field for cooperative
development 1t is not to the movement abroad Danish,
German Indian and Serbian cooperatves have ably
represented interest this bascay important
segment of modern life. But here although Dr. j. P War
early attention the desiraby
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02

Our great task finish the unfinished task of freedom
build the fourth in the of every
muny cooperative to match the church. the school and
the hail. the symbol of economic freedom This was
the challenge of R. Bowen secretary of The Coop
League of the USA delegates gathered at the Hotel
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02
OF C0-0PS
and OVERSEEING OF
ACTIVITIES URGED

General Secretary of the Coop League in
Opening Address at Cooperative Congress
Stresses Need for Embarking On New
Programs To Meet Needs Resulting From
War Conditions; Urges Coop Banking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
BILL TO DRAFT .
 l9YEAR-OLDS IN
Senator Taft Also Asks New Office of ManpOwer
 Director

Washington, October g. (UP) - Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., intro duced today combination bill to authorize the drafting of 19-year- old youths and to set up an office of manpower director which would have sweeping powers to solve the problem of critical labor shortages.
 The Ohioan characterized his measure an answer to Americas foremost problem = shortage of workers-and said it was based on the idea of voluntary recruiting of labor for war industries and farms.
 The bill provides that the new manpower director should take over duties now performed by the selec- tive service system, the war man. power commission and the U. s, employment service.
 ''The bill provides for the making of definite plan to provide man. power not only for the Army, but for agriculture, war industry and other essential civilian activities, Taft said in introducing his measure
 T do not believe that the time has yet come when we can adopt a system of forced labor in the fac- tories and on the farms. am con. vinced that the problem can only be dealt with by proper planning and administration without force and I am equally convinced that there can be Q complete failure, ai there now Is in some other fields through incompetent administra' ton. even if compulsory powers ar' given"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
WELL-KNOWN COP
 LEGISLATORS LOSE
Park City Republicans Aid Democrats l; Rep. ThOrn-
 hill Loses Out

Hartford, Conn, Oct. 9-(UP)- Several widely-known Republican House members were defeated in Thursdays statewide caucuses, re- turns disclosed today. Bridgeport Republicans continued their cooper ation with the Democrats by nomi- hating one Republican and endors- ing Democrat to the House.
 The Bridgeport two-party move was opposed as a double e-machine" affair by Republican gubernatorial candidate Raymond E. Baldwin, but party leaders there went ahead with it nevertheless because they don't get along with Baldwin.
 Republicans at Bridgeport noipl- mated Charles Dowd from their party, and endorsed Democrat Mill ton J. Herman.
 Elsewhere in the state:
 It was estimated that about i0C of the l85 Republicans in the i94l House were renominated. but there were a few well-known representa- lives who fell by the wayside.
 Rep. John S. Thornhili, Brooktield who has been in the House anc Senate longer than the memory oi the oldest inhabitant. was defeated ln a caucus by Curtis II. Dickens.
 Rep. George Y. Van Riper, VII ton, unsuccessful candidate fol Congress in the fourth district, wal defeated for renomination.
 
 tcontinued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
AMERICANS CHECK
 SOLOMONS THREAT
Surprise Assault on Japs Smashes 10 Vessels,
 Eases Situation

Washington, October g - (UP) = A coordinated attack by a naval task force and Army bombers from Australia which caught a Japanese fleet mapping in the Solomon Is- lands and smashed 10 of the enemy vessels was believed today to have eased the threat to American posi- tions in that area.
 The Navy announced in a com- munique last night that the task force, taking advantage of "ud- favorable weather" so surprised the Japanese. last Monday that "our task force suffered no loss of per- sonnel or planes and no damage to any ship
 The communique listed five Japa- nese ships damaged by the task force which included at least one aircraft carrier, two strafed in the harbor at Shorthand Island, eight planes destroyed and an air field damaged. A communique earlier in the week from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters in Australia had listed five other enemy ships damaged and acknowledged loss oi one Allied plane in the joint attack
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
Shop Shortages
 Affecting Draft

Growing manpower shortages in local factories are reflected in an increase in the number of appeals being filed by employers on behalf of employees classified as IA. Hun dreds of factory workers have been sent into service by local draft boards during recent months, and the problem is growing more acute as additional high quotas are given the four boards.
 One board alone, 16-A. today an- nounced it had received decisions on seven appeals for occupational defer ments. Three of the appeals were granted, the men being given post ponements of six months, but the other four were rejected.
 As reported in The Democrat earl- fer this week, all four boards are nearing the end of their l-A lists. This is making necessary the re- classification of many men previous Iy listed as lvB and 3-A. The 1-B classification is for those with minor physical ailments, while the 3-A classification is for men with depen- dents.
 Decisions on the 16-A appeals were as follows:
 Romil Roberge, 335 Edgewood ave- nue, reclassified from IA to 2-B for six months.
 Francis Muraska, l68 South Leon- ard street, appeal denied.
 Edward Duassault. .26 Thompson street, appeal denied.
 Albert Bellucci. S7 Lafayette street, appeal denied.
 Joseph Gagne l9 West Liberty street, appeal denied.
 Henry Grieco. GA Yale Acres. Mer- iden, reclassified from IA to 2-B for six months.
 William. O'Neill, S70 Piedmont street, reclassified from IA to 2-B for six months.
 The men whose appeals are de- nled remain in Class l-A and are subject to immediate call for service
 Factory officials are complaining that men vitaily needed in industry are being taken by the army. Tht
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
WILLKIE MISSES
 JAPANESE SHELLS
His Train Arrived Fire Min= utes After Japs Had
 Blasted Station

Somewhere on the Chinese Front in the Yellow River Sector, Oct. g. (UP)-Wendel L. Willwkie perhaps missed death five minutes yesterday when four Japanese shells exploded near a railway station where he arrived on a tour of the Chinese battle front.
 Willkie was not the least dis turbed by the narrowness of his es- cape.
 T am much pleased by the Japa- nese Sa1utations," he said. "They are exceedingly thoughtful"
 Japanese guns were emplaced on the opposite side of the Yellow river in a sector which Willkie inspected yesterday under the guidance of Generalisimo Chiang Kai-Shek's $ 27 year old son, Capt. Chiang Wei Kuo.
 The guns blasted big craters in the earth and the echoes they set of in the nearby mountains had just faded when Willkie's train pulled into the station.
 The Japanese apparently had learned of Willkie's presence at the front.
 Twenty three Japanese planes bombed and machine-gunned a number of towns and trains along the Lunghai railway which skirts the southern bank of the Yellow river between Loyang and Tung- kwaIl.
 At Lokang, the Japanese scored e direct hit on a coach of the Blue Express-a train similar to the one carrying Willkie. Six passengers were killed and number wounded
 But Willkie at the time was in' specting underground fortiticationi with Capt. Chiang.
 For an hour Willkie toured thu suhterranean c h Q m bers, payinl closest attention to construction armament,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

The German announcements were in direct contrast to Russian com- muniques and front dispatches which said that the Germans were attacking with intensified fury at Stalingrad, throwing their men by thousands into the Red Army meat grinder, and that they were at tacking with tanks and infantry on the Moscow front and were on the offensive also at Leningrad.
 Whatever the truth or purport, Allied quarters hailed the German announcements regarding Stalin- grad as an implicit admission that Adolf Hitler had failed to make good his unequivocal promise to take the city by storm.
 Military quarters believed that the admissions might portend either desperate German offensive in another direction or a gigantic swing of forces to the west to fore stall the opening of second front The German admissions were echoed by an Italian statement in the weekly Fascist publication L'Azione Coloniale, which said that it was absurd and impossible" to expect Italian forces to control the vast area of southern Lbya and by a Japanese claim of a big victory in New Guinea which constituted tacit admission that the Japanese had been pushed back 40 miles.
 A long series of German state mentS, broadcast by official radios explaining what implied the aban. donment of the frontal assault or Stahngrad which had taken untolc thousands of German lives, was eli. maxed early today by the Berlir broadcast of the Transocean Agen. cy's routine military report iron the eastern front"
 German tactics of beating dowr remaining Soviet strongholds in tn, northern sector of Stalingrad city had experienced a certain change by the employment of heavier ans heaviest caliber German artiller, in town fighting in that sector O the eastern front" it said.
 and steadily forward to the relic of the citys defenders.
 Timoshenko's men were rootinI out and killing Germans who hal tContlnued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
CANADIAN TROOPS
 ARRIVE SAFELY

At a Northwest British Port. Oct. thousands of Ca- nadian troops arrived here recently ln a convoy which Is believed to have travelled through the Atlantic area where the Germans last week claimed to have sunk three Amer lean troop transports. it can be re- vealed today.
 The British officially denied the German claim and the Nasis. after one more attempt Co sell their story, have remained silent about it.
 The big convoy made the crossing without one exciting night" the Canadians reported.
 "We only hope we will nc pert oi a force which la going e open z second front" some ok them told neNRnapefmen eTnat Wih b1 cQnls { nawaataNM fnv FNMInN NHNF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
SPECIAL SESSION
 DECISION IS DUE
Hurley Meeting With COun. Gil Today; Plea May
 Be Denied
Especial to The Democrat)


 State Capitol. Hartford, Oct. g.. .Iovernor Robert A. Hurley was to meet with the Legislative Council this afternoon to act on pleas that 2 special session of the General As- sembly be called ot authorize exten- sion of voting hours to g p. m. on election day, November 3. Labor unions, both A. F. L. and c. I. O., nave led the demand for Q special session. claiming that thousands of workers will be unable to cast bal- !ots duirng the regular voting hours rom 6 a. m. to 6 ?. n.
 As members of the council began assembling. 1t was reported that sentiment was against a special Iession. Instead. said these reports, he governor would call on all em- ,loyers in the state to give their impioyes sufficient time of on .lection day to allow them 10 vote. Waterbury and 6 number Of ether iities and towns had planned to ex- end voting until 9 D. ri,, acting indeT an opinion by Secretary of State Chase Going WoodhouEe thas he statutes would allow this. How sver, Greenwich Republicans, op- ,oslng the time extension. took the ssue Into superior court and were iphold by Judge John A. Cornell rho judge ruled tliat the statutes V they stand. allow sotlng enly from c a, 70. ta D. iias
 A special ae1klan. etoh though fol o,liV q daV nF 1We. Wou|n ea9I fi1 rlaie l|i%Naefa pf aql'nls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

has recommended that the penQ1ng tax bill be amended to stop this increase.
 Tn a letter to Senator Walter F. George, D., Ga, chairman of the finance committee, MT. Roosevelt said that failure to allow the rate to rise to two per cent would lead to fear that claims for benefits ac- cruing under the present law may be jeopardized"
 The letter was read to the senate at the opening of the fourth days debate on the tax bill.
 Tax Decision Due
 The day was expected to bring a senate decision on the new five per cent victory tax" which would be on all gross incomes exceeding $624 Q year. This would be in addi- ticn to the record breaking normal income taxes and SurtaxeS already voted.
 This is the time to strengthen, not 10 weaken, the social security system" MT. Roosevelt said. Tt is time now to prepare for the security of workers in postwar years. As soon as the congress has disposed of the pending tax bill, am planning to submit comprehensive program for expanding and extending the whole social security system along the lines laid down in my budget message last January. This program would involve substantial further iS1n fYN Naf nf fritapNffrv1 P
 Protect More Workers
 The proposed expansion of the social security system would be de- signed to provide protection for household workers. farm labor and other categories not now covered.
 Although the president did not mention in his letter what new rates he would propose, the treas ury has been discussing an increase of the rate to five per cent each on employers and employees.
 This is one case" the president said. "in which social and fiscal ob- jectives, war and postwar aims, are in full accord. Expanded social se- curity, together with other fiscal measures, would set up bulwark of economic security for the people now and after the war and at the same time would provide anti-in- f1ationary sources for financing the war.
 Invested In Bonds
 MT. Roosevelt pointed out that revenues obtained through the ad- ditional social security taxes would be invested in government bonds "and would thereby assist in financ- ing the war"
 The president said the freezing ot the social security taxes at present levels for another year was causing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
Targets In Lille Area Are. Hit In All Day Bombing
GERMANS THROW l TANKS AT REDS
Russians Claim Defense Hasn't as Vet Cracked
 Despite Pressure
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespondent)

tUmte0 FfeSS SLAu COrFeSpOHUeHGJ
 Moscow, Oct. 9.-(UP)-The Ger mans attacked with two columns of tanks south of Stalingrad today and maintained their pressure against an industrial settlement in the northwestern section of the city, but the heroic defenders showed no signs of weakening.
 Despite German propaganda broadcasts seeking to justify to the German people an abandonment of frontal attacks on Stalingrad, there was nothing in the Russian noon communique to indicate that the at tacks had keen even modified. Rather, the communique and all dis patches from Stalingrad, now in its 46th day of siege, indicated the pressure had increased.
 No new German gain has been reported. however, since yesterday, when the Germans occupied two streets in the industrial settlement. They paid with the lives of 4.000 men and 16 tanks for it, the rec ord blood sacrifice in one of hls- tory's greatest battles.
 Twelve tanks and 800 troops pene- trated another street of the settle ment today. Nine of the tanks were destroyed, two companies of the troops killed, and the surviving tanks and Germans retreated.
 South of Stalingrad two panzer columns and heavy force of Ger man tommy-gunners tried to drive parallel wedges into Soviet de- lenses and encircle a large unit The Russians crippled 34 of the tanks and flung the enemy back.
 Above Stalingrad. in the 50-mile corridor between the Don and Volga rivers, Marshal Semyon Timoshen- kos counter offensive rolled slowly (ContiY1lled on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
ROMBERS HIT
 KISKA AGAIN
Is Tons of Bombs Dropped on Last Remaining
 Japan Base

Washington, Oct. 9-(UP)-Army bombers, continuing their aerial of- fensive against Kiska, dropped IS more tons of bombs on the sole remaining base there, the navy an- nounced today.
 Two cargo ships were attacked and one was left on fire sinking. The attack occurred on Oct. 6.
 On the same day, the Navy said, aerial reconnaissance over Attu and Agattu failed again to show any enemy activity on those islands which the Japanese were believed to have evacuated about two weeks ago.
 Text of Navy communique No. 145:
 North Pacific.
 "On Oct. 6 Army Liberator' bombers escorted by 'Airacobra' and Lightning fighters dropped approximately seven tons of bombs on the area surrounding the sea- plane hangar at Kiska. Eight more tons of bombs were dropped on the camp area and fires were started.
 g. Two cargo ships in the har- bor were attacked and one was left on fire and sinking. The radio sta- ton was damaged by straffing. One seaplane was destroyed on the water and another was damaged.
 B. Reconnaissance over Attu and Aagttu on the same date fail- ed to reveal any enemy activity on these islands.
 Atlantic:
 A. The U. s. Coast Guard cut ter Muskeget, formerly the s. s, Cornish of the Eastern Steamship Lines, has been overdue in the At lantic for some time and must be presumed to be lost.
 "5. The next of kin of the per- sonnel of the Muskget have been notified"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
MINORS CAN WORK
 IN PACKAGE STORES

Hartford. Conn, Oct. 0-(uPl-- Attorney General Francis A. fnl- lostt ruled today that hecause of tho labor shortage minors can he ems ployed 0 sell liquor in package eiofe1.
 palloltl saId the Inv forhid1 iha employment ~ minors fn loYGfrr mna other places WhHfo liquor 's consumed, but llct In paeAao1 slNFfA where H 2 merely 1e|6 @{E HI eHe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

Camp Edwards. Mass, Oct. g - tUPl-A board Of Army officers to. day ruled accidental the shooting Of Pvt. Bruno @zezyamick. 23, of Cicero, fll.. a member of an engineer ans nhlblan regiment, .N1okyanilek was Killed yesterday whom rifle being cleaned by Corp. wayne E, Wclkinel ai, Of Tabor. ta, vas accidentally d,nshafnad. nHezYamick WAs lGlna nn hls eot ln a ifai adjoining WpIs klns hl lnt llwa pf lhe pEo11'fia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
COLLEGE SENIOR DEAD

Burlington, Vt, Oct. 0-tUP)-. The body Of V. BertrAm Mott, 2i. Vermont University senior from Moofostown, N. l., was found today in hls room at the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Holiee. Cause Of death was not establinhed immediately. Mott, captain of the college track team, was found dead hy classmates Nho tried lp awaken hlin tor n|0TC. military 1filt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
Biggest Raid U. 5. Planes
 Have Staged in
 Europe FRENCH PEOPLE WERE
 WARNED VIA RADIO Formations of Hundred Planes Seen Crossing Channel By English
BY WILLIAM 3. pIcKINsoi

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSOi United Press Staff Correspondents
 London, October g. = (UPl - More than 100 American bomberS, joining in one of the wars biggest sweeps over France, attacked tar gets in the Lille area this morning, it was announced officially today. The Ameri can planes, many of them Boeing Flying FortreSseS, participated in a huge operation which included American, British, Canadian and other Allied fighter squadrons.
 Allied planes droned over north- ern France from early morning ul1- til late afternoon.
 It was the biggest American bomb ing attack yet carried out in the European war theater.
 Official announcement of the at- tack was made in a joint cOaIl~ munique from D. s. Army head- quarters and the British Air gsigas istry.
 All Day Attack
 Huge plane flights started to drone over the English channel shortly after daybreak and this of- ternoon the operation still was in progress.
 American Boeing flying fortress squadrons in large numbers were participating, and for the first tiln0 American fighter squadrons, man- ming American fighter planes were in action.
 Coastal observers said they had never before seen so large force of four -engined bombers (presum- ably fortresses) carrying out g day. light attack.
 Coastal observers estimated one. fight of bombers at not far short of 100 planes.
 of this force was composed en-, tirely of flying fortreSses it would be far larger than any bombard- ment group yet sent over Europe by the United States Army Air Force).
 Game After Warning
 The huge American attack was launched within 72 hours of spe- cial warning broadcast by the BEG, on behalf of the U. s. Army Air Force, to the French populace. The warning urged the French to move away from the vicinity of war fac- tories and other military targets be- cause of the danger of death and injury in the forthcoming American combing offensive. The fortreSSeS, it was indicated attacked their selected targets in accordance with plan and inflicted much damage. Visibility was excel- lent for high level precision bomb ing.
 In addition to American fighters | the fortreSSeS were escorted by fighters manned by British, Cana. dian, French. Norwegian. Polish and Czech pilots.
 New American Army fighters. h action for the first time, sent peopie in the Folkestone area running for air raid shelters when authorttiee failed to identify them.
 Reports spread that the fortressea were in action in greater force than at any time since they set out ou the most remarkable daylighl bombing campaigns on record.
 Lille Reported Bombed
 Unofficial reports indicated that the fortresses had attacked the key Lille industrial area of northwess- ern France.
 The Evening News reported that coastal watchers had seen more than 100 British heavy bombezs " a single formation. | (Continued on Page @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
TO SPONSOR sIEIP

New orleans, Oct. o--CuP)-MTs. Jane Hampton of CTonset road ct llopkins Lane) Orleans, Masas will sponsor tho u.HB. Lncien Young, destroyer scheduled Co be launched Sunday by the Consolidated Steel Corp, at it4 Orange, Tex, yards. the E|shfh Nafal Ulsls'ci announced 'NNY