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Evening star., 1942-05-12
Credentials Sought
For Collectors

Credentials for persons collecting
funds for civilian defense in the
Park View Citizens Association area
were urged last night in a discussion
by members. William Jeager warned
members of certain persons who
present themselves as civilian de-
ferse personnel and ask for money.
John S. Cole, secretary, pointed out
that persons who contributed to the
fund were entitled to a membership
card in the citizens association.
A motion by George E. Frech that
the president, Benjamin j. Kroger,
appoint a committee survey the
covenant situation in the neigh
borhood was passed.
The meeting, which was held in
the Park View School. was presided
over by E. l.. Hahn in the absence
of Mr.. Kroger.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Gen. Dobbie Given
Decoration by Kinq

LONDON. May IL DIT. Gen.
Sir William Dobbie, who has Just
relinquished the most-bombed COM
mand post in the world at Malta,
was decorated by the King yester-
day with one of Britain's highest
orders.
He was made a knight grand
cross of the Order of st. Michael
and st. George.
Sir William, who gave up the
Malta command to Lord Gort,
commander of the B. E. F. in
Flanders, told news correspondents
that Malta showed less sign than
ever of being rubbed out, although
the Germans had made a supreme
effort to destroy the island fortress
by air bombing
The garrison is ION its toes" and
the Germans would get "the shock
Of their lives" If they tried to in
wade the island, he added.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Veteran British Officer
To Address Alumni

1t. Col. A. E. M. Walter of the
Royal Engineers. who has seen ac-
ton on principal fronts of the war,
will speak of his British Army ex-
periences at the annual dinner
meeting of the William and Mary
College Alumni Club of Washing
ton at 7:30 pm. Thursday at the
Hamilton Hotel.
Motion pictures of the London
"blitz" and other action pictures
will be shown through the courtesy
of the British Embassy. William
and Mary, founded in 1893 at Will
liamsburg, Va. was named in honor
Of the then King and Queen of
England Next to Harvard. it is the
oldest institution of learning in the
Nations
Alumni are urged to phone Mil
dred Heinemann at Georgia 5273
to make reservations for the dinner
meeting, the final w. and M. gath
ering until the fall season.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Share-Car Plan Carries
No Liability for Drivers

Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer said in a statement today
that executives of insurance COM
panies doing business here had as
sured him that public liability in
surance would protect drivers in the
event Of injury to passengers car
ried under the share-your car plan.
Mr.. Van Duzer said that drivers
who had hesitated about carrying
others in their cars need have no
fear that they would be liable for
injuries to passengers.
At the same time, he cautioned
drivers against picking up sus-
picious looking strangers and offer
ed a suggestion to parking lot own
ers that they give preference to
automobiles which carry several
passengers.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Save this newspaper!

This little pile Of paper
would be of no use to you.
1t Is highly important in
national defense. 1t can
become a carton for machine
gun bullets or TO carry medi-
cal supplies to the front. If
you have wastepaper Of any
kind, call your nearest school
and the students will pick
: up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
31 INJURED AS
 BUS ovERTURNS
Vehicle Plunges l6 Feet Into River; Ice.Glazed
 Street Blamed

Milton, Mass, Dec. i&-(UP)-An ice-glazed street was blamed today for a highway accident in which an eastern Massachusetts street railway bus skidded through Q bridge rail- ing last night, plunged i6 feet into Neponset river and caused injuries to 3i passengers.
 Ten persons including the bus driver, Roland De Chafnplain, 29. of Taunton. were hospitalised with cuts and bruises. Twenty one others were released after emergency first aid treatment either at the Milton hospital or Q polio station.
 Police and firemen who arrived shortly after the crash rescued the trapped passengers by lowering a ladder to the rear emergency door and helping them climb out.
 DeChamplain was credited with averting panic by smashing the windshield and swimming around the bus, calming the passengers. He then re-entered the bus and opened an emergency door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
AXIS ATTACKS IN
 TUNISIA SLACKEN
Rommel Gives Up Agheila Line Without Resistance;
 Eighth Army Jubilant
By EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Dec. 14.-(UP)-A Ger man army for the first time in World War No. had abandoned a major defense line today without even putting up a fight and the vaunted Afrika Korps of Field Mar shal Erwin Rommell was in open flight westward through Libya.
 Germany admitted that Rommel had retired from his Fl Agheila line ATS miles east of Tunisia, and dis patches and communiques indicated that Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery s Eighth British army, exerting merci- less pressure in its resumed drive, was nowhere meeting Dcre Sap . show Ui resistance.
 Indications mounted that the Ger man high command had abandoned hope of holding Libya and would concentrate on holding the north- east corner of Tunisia, only 95 miles from it's supply base of Sicily.
 The Eighth army had decisively outmaneuvered Rommel, Adolf Hit ler's master desert tactician, by as- sembling such strength that fight was impossible.
 Rommel probably had done the only possible thing to avoid being cut off or pulverized wherever he made a stand.
 Jubilant over the Eighth army drive, and encouraged by the slack (ContinlIed on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
BLACKOUT COVERS
 ESTATES TONIGHT
Most Extensive Test Vet Undertaken in Country to
 Last 20 Minutes

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 14-(Up)-The nine states of the Army's seventh service command join tonight in the most extensive test blackout yet at- tempted in the United States.
 Approximately 250,000 Civilian, Defense workers will enforce the blackout over an area of 7i2,604 square miles, extending from the Mississippi River to the western slope of the Continental Divide.
 Army and Civilian Defense ob. servers will have an opportunity tc determine the effectiveness of the test both in thickly populated areas such as the St. Louis, St. Paul. Minneapolis, Kansas City, Omaha and Denver metropolitan districts and the sparsely populated areas oi the Western Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
 James Landis, director of the office of Civilian Defense, called foi the individual effort of every per- son."
 Air raid sirens, fire and trair whistles, and church and school belli will give the signal for the blackoui which will last from 10 to i0:20 p. m (C.W.T.) The blackout area covers Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and three Illinois countries adjacent to St. Louis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
BOWLING ALLEY
 MANAGERS FINED
Four Assessed for Employ ing Pin-BOys Under l6
 Years of Age

Four local bowling alley operators entered pleas of nolo contendere this morning when arraigned before Judge T. E. Conway in municipal court on charges of violating the state labor laws. Alberto Folklore of the Paramount Alleys and Eugene Casey. manager of the Mattatuck Recreation Center, were both fined $1O and costs on the first count, with execution on other counts de- ferred for three months. John Man. 90, Grand Alleys manager, and An thony DeLonges of the Tuxedo al- leys, were fined $10 without costs.
 Leo Alex, representative of the state labor commission, investigated the four alleys on November 20, and found that all were employing youths as pin-boys who were under 16 years of age. When asked by Alex how old they were. all the boys said they were over 16. and produced so- cial security cards.
 Lawyers for the defendants ex- plained that owing to the manpower situation, proprietors were forced to employ boys without checking fully into their backgrounds. They point ed out that all the boys hired had managed to get social security cards, and all had said they were 16. When asked for their birth certificates, lawyers said. the youths told their employers that they did not have time to get them. or that they had secured them but had misplaced them. In one case, it was explained the manager had called for vlun- teer pin-boys one night when two of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
INJURED OFFICER
 ON SHIP LAUDED

An East Coast Port, Dec. 14.-UP) A young officer won high praise today from survivors for his part in directing the abandonment of a me- dium-sized American merchant ves- sel which was torpedoed early in November in the Caribbean.
 Although injured, the officer di- rected his men over the side of the laundering ship. Survivors last saw him in the glare of flares, supervis- ing rescue work.
 The ship sank so swiftly that only IA of her crew were saved. One civil ian passenger and 38 of the crew were lost.
 Survivors drifted for 41 hours on rafts before they were picked up by an American warship. They were taken to an allied port. Ten of them have since been landed ct an east cnast unrt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14

Tripolitania. It said the Axis troops had laid huge mine fields to protect their retreat and had destroyed all installations before abandoning Fl Agheila.)
 German and Italian forces were thrown out of their Fl Agheila line in the first phase of the renewed Allied offensive.
 (Berlin admitted ofiicially, in c broadcast, that the Axis forces had withdrawn westward from Fl Ag- heila.)
 'The Eighth Army yesterday turned Rommel (Field Marshal Er- win Rommel, commanding the Ger man Afrika Korrs and the combined Axis forces) out of his strong posi- ton at Mersa Brega with little cost to themselves" the Middle Eastern Command communiQue said.
 'The enemy is retreating west- ward, relentlessly pursued by our forces.
 "Allied fighter and bomber planes are operating on an unprecedented scale, harassing the enemy. Axis air activity is totally ineffective in pre- venting these operations. German fighters which attempted to inter- fere in Q few instances were suc- cessfully engaged and at least six enemy aircraft were shot down."
 Montgomery's Imperial Army had hit the Axis line around its anchor point at the little port of Brega. -s miles east of Fl Agheila, and had driven through with hardly Q fight
 The Agheila line was broken and the Imperials rolled westward under the momentum of hard driving ar- mored forces and their umbrella oi Allied planes of all types.
 Sicily Attacked
 Operating far to the west of the battle area, Middle Eastern Com. mand planes attacked the great Axis reinforcement harbor of Paler. mo, Sicily, and the important port of Sousse, on the east coast of Tu. nisia, Saturday night, the commu. nique said.
 only four Allied planes were lost in all operations, including those
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
COL. ALLYN ASSUMES
 DUTIES JANUARY 6

Hartford. Conn, Dec. 14-(UP)- Col. W. Ellery Allyn, Waterford, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, will become deputy state comptroller on Jan. 6 when Republicans take over ad- ministration of the state govern ment.
 Col. Allyn. former representative and New London county party leader. was appointed to the post by Comptroller-Elect Fred R. zel- Ter, Stonington.
 State Chairman J. Kenneth Brad le- announced Allyn has resigned as paid secretary of the State Gen. tral Committee. effective Jan. 6.
 It was expected the next secre- tary WiIl serus on . rcn-nRAd hs~ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
CONGRESS READY
 FOR ADJOURNMENT
Plans JeOpardize All Pend- ing Legislation: Wednes-
 day Last Day

Washington, Dec. 14-(UPl-The first war Congress since 1918 pre- pared today for formal adjourn ment Wednesday after being in ses- sion almost continuously for nearly two years.
 House and Senate leaders were understood to have agreed tenta- lively on Wednesday. although it was possible that it might be de- layed a day or so.
 Both Democratic and Republican leaders were ready to call it quits and the only possible hitch foreSeen was that some House member by his lone objection could prevent adjournment. The House does not have a quorum and can transact business. including adoption of an adjournment resolution, only by unanimous consent.
 The leaders in canvassing the members have found the vast ma jority of those still here eager to go home with the approach of the Christmas season and there was little likelihood that the adjourn ment plan would be thwarted.
 Adjournment plans jeopardized all pending legislation. Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. Y. of the House foreign affairs committee said he would try to get House enactment today by unanimous consent of the Senate approved bin for transfer of lands and American built water and sewer facilities in Panama to the Panama government.
 The Senate Civil Service commit zee meets today in an 1lth-houI effort to work out a government overtime pay bill sufficiently non- controversial to be passed. Despite President RooSevelt'S appeal Fri day for swift action to boost the pay of federal workers not now en- titled to overtime, there was nttlt hope for action
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14

Daily News, and The Mirror, reached only those of their readers who were able to call at their plants for an over-the-counter purchase, a minute fraction of their normal circulation All drastically curtailed their press runs. The Daily News, with daily circulation of 1,950,000 was under stood to have had a press run foI one major edition of less than 5000
 The afternoon newspapers, the World Telegram, the Journal Amer ican, the Sun. and the Post, were all prepared to publish with full edi- torial and mechanical staffs func- tioning, but their prospects for dis tribution, until the strike is settled, were said to be slight.
 Two newspapers-PM. an illus trated tabloid, and the Brooklyn Eagle-were getting their normal distribution as they are not mem- bers of the Publishers Association.
 The union is an independent. Its contract with the Association ex- pired June 30. The old scale was $831 for seven hours of night work and $8.80 for eight hours of day work. The union asked SIP for the night shift and $14 for the day. The disagreement was referred to arbi- tration, as required by the expired contract, and or September II the arbiter awarded tine union a B a week increase for both day and night shifts and one week annual vacation for each worker. AS per mitted by the contract, the union rejected the award.
 The contract specified a two months period of negotiation follow. ing such a deadlock. This period expired December 2. Yesterday afternoon, the union voted at mass meeting to call an immediate strike for their original demands.
 Mayor F. H. LaGuardia said that if the strike was not submitted to the state mediation board at once he would intervene land clean ur the situation" Federal ConciliatoI Croxton was reporting to John R. Steelman, head of the federal conciliation service.
 Unlike newspapers in most cities New York newspapers are distribut- ed entirely through independent news stands and news dealers. Each newspaper operates a large fleet oi trucks to distribute its papers among these dealers. The strikers. number ing around 2,400 were the drivers and helpers employed on these trucks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
LEGISLATURES MAY
 ADJOURN APRIL Is
G0v-Elect Backs Plan as Wartime Measure; Big
 Savings Seen

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 14-CUP)- Gov-elect Raymond E. Baldwin, as a wartime measure, will ask the l9ls General Assembly to cut short it's legislative session and adjourn on April Is, it was learned today.
 It was learned on the highest au- thority that Baldwin will include the request in a message to the Legislature, probably in his inaugu- ral address.
 The General Assembly, 1t was said, may be called back in special session within a year to take care of any matters which come up. It was possible that more than one extraordinary session will be held in the next two years.
 Gov-elect Baldwin's anaugural message to the legislature. it was learned, will be ~ail war;"
 The emphasis of the new Repub- lican administration. the United Press was informed. will be to win the war as quickly as possible"
 State matters. M appeared. viii be relegated to the background foE Continued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
ALLIES AIR POWER GROWS IN NO. AFRICA
 American Planes Attack HarbOrs and Docks at Tunis, BiZerte GERMANS, ITALIANS BOMBED CONSISTENTLY Y French Squadron Being
 Formed to Fly American l Ships
BY DONALD COZ

Limited Press Staff CorrespondenO
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Dec. 1S-Delayed) (UP)-American Army Air Force planes in the biggest offensive operation of the Tunisian campaign attacked harbors and docks at TuniS, Bizerte and Sousse today. The aerial offensive, an indica- tion of growing Allied Air strength, was opened as enemy at tacks on the BritiSh-American lines anchored at Medje2-E FL -Bah, 30 miles southwest of Tunis, slackened after a series of determined thrusts aSt- uraay.
 Hour after hour relays of Boeing B-l7 flying tortresses rained bombs on Tunis and BiEerte while North American B-2S Mitchells hit docks and shipping at SouSse. on the east coast, and a force of Martin BAG Martians bombed Q key railroad bridge northwest of Sfax. down the coast from Sousse.
 Driving through furious ans-air- craft fire the fortresses hurled thesi bombs on the harhor area of Tunis Ons Axis ship was believed sunk
 Other fortresses. sweeping in mile: high over the Biserte naval base gave the Germans and Italians s taste of the hign altitude precision bombing that had smashed objec- tives in occupied France and in Naples crews reported many hits.
 One fortress. missing after the raid on Bizerte, was the only loss of the day. Another fortress was damaged and one crew member was slightly wounded.
 First Lieut.. Virgil H. smith, Mac Allen, Texas, flying one of the new Lockheed Lightning P-SS fighters which escorted the planes that raid ed the Sfax bridge. shot down 6 German Focke Wulf, ,-190. ratec Germany's best fighter plane.
 He outclimbed 1t, then cut un. dcrneath it and sent burst ot gun fire into it which wrecked it Its pilot hailed out. It was smith: fourth victim, and he has sharee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
Only Seven Bodies Oi Women Found Ascribing
 to Mems Gallantry
20 OF VICTIMS BELIEVED
 SOLDIERS OR SAIL LORS
St. Johns Hostel Burned to Ground; Blaze Inter.
 rupts Dancing
BY JOHN MEANY

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 St. Johns Newfoundland, Dec. 4.-(UP)-One hundred charred and trampled bodies gave mute testimony today to the ferocity of the fire and panic that swept the St, Johns Hostel for Service Men of the Knights of Columbus Saturday night. Authorities feared that the bones and ashes of as many as 10 bodies may be mingled in the ashes of the two story wooden building which burned to its foundations, but 100 was the official death toll until such time as checks of missing military and naval personnel and civilians estab- lishes . higher one. ~.
 Though some 600 persons were m the hostel, of whom Bizeable pro" portion were women, there were only seven bodies of women In the morgues to which the victims were taken. Authorities ascribed this to Eallantry, feeling that despite the hysterical panic which overwhelmed the Saturday night merrymakers d. most as quickly as did the fire, the men saved the lives of their women at the cost of their own.
 Tn hospitals today were l02 men and women, many of them So severe ly burned they are expected to die.
 Of the dead, the bodies of 54 of the O3 men and four the the seven women had been identified. Some % of the dead were said to be United Stats military personnel and large percentage of the remainder were Canadian servicemef. No exact fig ures in this regard were made public and no casualty list will be published
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
AMERICANS READY
 FOR JAPSR RETURN
Enemy, Smashed Three Times, at Guadalcanal,
 Expected to Try Again
By sANDoR s. KLEIN

Dy OhNDV@ D. lAA49AkN
 United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Washington, Dec. l4-(UP)-The Japanese have tried to. come back to Gaudalcanal three times this month-and three times they have been smashed by American forces.
 The latest attempt cost the Japa- nese a destroyer sunk, Q second probably sunk and six others dam aged.
 But it was not expected to deter the enemy from trying again to reinforce and supply isolated troops on the northwest corner of Guadal- canal Island. American sea and air forces know that the Japanese will return and are preparing for them.
 The last naval communique cov- cred action fin the battle of the Solomons for last Friday and Satur- day (Solomons time). Nearly as im- portant, as the smashing of the Japanese sea force Friday night anc early Saturday morning were two American air raids, on Friday and Saturday, on the enemy's new cen tral air base at Munda on New Georgia Island, only l50 miles northwest of Guadalcanal.
 Direct hits with four l.O00-pound bombs chewed up 6 new landing strip on Saturday. The day before. fiying Fortresses dropped 155 l0O- pound bombs on the airfield.
 The latest Japanese sea force headed for Guadalcanal was sighted and attacked by Douglas -daunt- less" divebombers. supported by 0ruman ~Airncobra" fighters. ct |6 D. m., Friday, apparently north of Cape Esperance. The enemy force
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
Red Star Claims 5000, ,OOO' Killed Since Start Of War
CHASE MEMBERS TO QUIT LOCAL
Influential Union Group Wants lntra-LOcal Af-
 fairs Cleared Up

An influential group with the Chase local, C1O Mine Mill & Shelter Workers union, was today reported planning threat to quit the international unless prompt ac- tion" is taken by President Reid Robinson to clear up intra local af- fairs. A union majority has all ready voted the custer of President William E, Stanton and other off, cers of the local. and has demanded the removal of International Rep rssentatives Don Harris and Lowell Hollenheck,
 At meeting of the local yester- day, 1t was voted to send & com mitte~ to Washington this week to confer with President Philip Mur- ray of tsHe CTO on charges that there was ''fraud'' in the handling of ballots in the Chase local in the recent election of international of flcers. Figures given out after the halloting stated that President Rob- inson had received 525 votes to 200- odd for John J. Driscoll of this city, his rival for the presidency.
 Meantime. the Scovill local also seethed with strife. President E,cn- is McGrath. retiring from office, announced that the membership of the local had elected a slate headed by James Sullivan. This ticket was opposed by a pro-Robinson faction headed by Joseph Graveline for president Graveline immediately protected that the election had been dishonest, and said he would take action to have the reported results 0skAllneas-~@, ss1s----ss- -rr s " F.
 Another development in GIG ranks here today was an apparently reliable report that President Stan ton, who the rebel group says has been replaced by Stephen Culhert has been rehired at the Chase Metal Works, where he quit his job last week.
 Feeling in the insurgent group Is running high, and the talk of with drawal from the MMSW interna- tional unless President Robinson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
DOCTOR AND WIFE
 PLEAD INNOCENT

East Brookfield, Mass, Dec. 14- CUP)-Dr. Ray Hester and his wife, Allie, of West Warren, were ordered held today in $6.000 total bail for Worcester county grand jury by Dis trict Judge Arthur H. Butterworth on charges of participating in an Illegal operation which took the life of Mrs. Lucien Hebert of West War ran. Roth rcaaded isnponank
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
Axis Retreating Tow ard Tripoli
(NEA Ratliophoto)
Nv LEON KAY
United Press Stan CorrespOnde

United Stan Correspondent
 Cairo Dec UP-The retreating vest ward toward Tp Sir Bernard Mot scale Allied commuque the Middle Eastern Command announced today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14

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