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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-14
RUSSIANS ATTACK
 AT STALINCRAD
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yesterday were 800 men, eight tanks and eight guns, the noon commum- que said. The Germans Nave thrown aO,OO0 to S5,000 men and hundreds of tanks and planes against the factory section, and suffered more than 4.OOO men killed in one day,
 soviet troops are counter-attack- Ing to restore position where the Germans previously had slightly ad- yaneed." the eommunique said,
 The only German advance admit ted SO far was one of 100 to 100 yards Thursday, The same day, the Russians advanced 400 yards in the northern part of Stalngrad, Northeast of Stalingrad, the Rus slanS killed several hundred more Axis troops,
 The Red Army continued its ad- vance southeast of Nalchik, and on the ether Caucasus front, northeast of Ttlapse naval base, routed a com pany of Germans and advanced,
 Southeast of Nalchik, Soviet units took several German petitions, des- troyed six tanks, two guns and ia0 of the enemy and shot down eight German planes, the noon communi- que said,
 German losses were especially heavy on tho Nalchik front. Two days ago, they lost two villages Last nights Soviet communiaIe reported the destruction of 2l German tanks ia ant.-tank guns Snd 300 men.
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DAN CAvANAUCR DIES SUDDENLY
Retired Telephone Co. Em' plOye to Be Laid tO Rest
 Tuesday MOrr'g

Daniel D. Cavanaueh aied sud. denly this morning at his houSe, lee south Elm street,
 Mir, CAvanAugh vas well known h Waterbury, where he had resided for over sixty years, He was born in Ireland, Three years ago he re- tired from the Telephone company, which he had served for % years,
 He was prominent in fraternal circles, especially the Eagles, m which he took an active Interest, He wNs Q former member of %. 0 Connecticut National Guard, Mir, CavAnauRh attended tho fmmacus late Conception church, and bee longed to lts Holy Name society,
 Besides hts wife, Mrs Mary tDyrnesl Cavanaugh, he leaves a son, Raymond !. CavanauRhs two daughters, the Misses Marie and Eileen Cavanaugh, both graduate nurses ln this city.
 The funeral will take place from the Mllville funeral home, a7o West Main street, on Tuesday morning at a time Go be announced. Burial will be in the family plot at new St. Jos. eph's cemetery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday and Monday afters moons and evenings.
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tNOuJllueQ HUH Fhsc "
 vention passed a resolution calling for continued efforts to secure Bri- tish.American-S Soviet labor unity with direct participation by the AFL, CIO and American Railway labor. Another resolution called for labor unity with maintenance or CIO gains won for workers through organizing.
 Tine delegates struck the keynote of the CIO economic program with accommodation that the cost of living be stabilized for all Amer leans and that the government make 6 simultaneous attack" on the issues of price control, overall rationing. equitable taxation and wage stabilization. The resolution called for universal rationing oi foods and other necessities and asked that wages be stabilized but not frozen.
 The convention also declared that the i042 tax legislation takes away from the low income groups money which they need to buy the bare necessities of life"
 Other resolutions called for im- snediate universal registration of women to secure information on la Dor supply and skills. support of the Indian independence movement, and organization of r-management- pFUduction committees in all war plants throughout the nation.
 The convention attacked moves to abolish the 40-hour- week as mean Aug no contribution to production but only e cut in wages and declared it's 'complete suspicion" of the mos 4ives Of those with drastic plans to F'draft labor and nothing more"
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 viously given him by Allied sources. A spokesman here said hc was being entertained" in Algiers with the dignity due hlS rank and rec ord"-and. i'll view of Cunninghams report. the spokesman's use of the word record" was given an em- phaSis. Another correspondent at Eisenhower's headquarters had re- ferred to Darlan as "a captive"
 HavaS report of the broadcast of the Algiers radio said the proc lamation was read by Yves Chatel. who was the Vichy-appointed gov ernor general of Algeria when the Americans took over. It ordered French North Africa to "stay at all governors and residents of their posts and continue their ad- ministration in conformity with ex- isting laws as in the past. It ended, Long live the marshall CHenri Philippe Petain)."
 Chatel was also said to have read a proclamation of Gen. Auguste Nogues, the Vichy appointed gov ernor general of Morocco who said Petain had given him Darlan's powers over North Africa on the as sumption that Darlan was pris- oner, but that, having arrived in Algiers to find that Darlan had full liberty of movement" he was returning the powers and placing himself at Darlan's disposal.
 It was believed here that such proclamations would be useful to American military authorities and, if authentic, they represented the third gesture Darlan had made use- full to the United Nations. He had ordered resistance to cease and he had asked the French fleet to go to French North African waters or otherwise remove itself from "the German grasp"
 Fighing French quarters here were unwilling to believe that the Americans would enter into any scheme which would result in Dar- Ian being given responsibility for French interests in Africa. They felt that any government headed by Dar!an would not be acceptable to the mass of French people loyal to the Allies. But because the Havas dispatch made no mention of Gen. Henri Giraud, French army hero whom Eisenhower had ofii- cially placed in command of a Erench army in Africa or of Gen. Charles Degaulle, head of the fighting French, these quarters did not take the Havas report as truth.
 It was pointed out here, unoffi- cially that the Havas dispatch may have been an Axis propaganda lie designed to separate the antt-AxiS French into factions.
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ports that an Axis surface fleet was bringing additional achievements for a stand in Tunisia. African headquarters reports said there were at least l5O German dive bombers based in Tunisia at the present time.
 1t Tunisia Border
 The bulk of the Allied African army was definitely at the Tunisian border late yesterday and official quarters here could not confirm apparently authentic reports reach ing London that it had crossed into the protectorate.
 The French resistance at Tunis definitely was not under Allied di- rection. nor was it an indication that the Allied entrance into the protectorate necessarily would be unopposed by the French colonials. The French garrison was battling it's ancient German and Italian en- emy. as 1t was pledged to fight in vasion. regardless of the source.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-14
S1O,OOO BOND ON SMERIGLIO
New Haven Man Nabbed in Burglary at Wholesale
 GrOcers Co.

Peter Smeriglio, 90, of 90 Columbus avenue, New Haven, charged with attempted burglary of the Nauga- tuck Valley wholesale Grocers Co. on watertown avenue last night and captured this morning in New Haven, was granted continuance until Nov. g under bond of Si0,0OO when arraignei in municipal court before Judge John l.. Gaffney. The plea for a continuance was made by Atty. Israel Jacobson of New Haven, defender of the accused.
 Smeriglio was apprehended early ehis morning in New Haven as result of a police broadcast, and was returned to this city by Chief 1n- Epector Joseph P. Stevens. Detec- tive Lieut.. John Calvin and Patrol man Joseph Cavanaugh.
 Thomas 4. ODea, manager of the firm, returned to the warehouse last night shortly before o'clock to complete some work. Upon entering the office. he was commanded to s'put out that light or we'll i'll you full of lead" ODea said that he backed behind filing cabinet and then made a break for the door. When he got outside after a strug- gle. he succeeded in closing the door and holding it. However, the men fled through a side door and along the west bank of the Nauga- tuck river to a parked automobile.
 Tn fleeing, the men did not stop to gather up their tools which in- cluded an electric portomatic drill, a crowbar and jimmie, each measur- Sing 27 inches. Lieut.. Calvin who inspected them said that the men must have been professional bur glars" and that 1t was some time since such instruments had been found in Waterbury. The detective explained that the men, who had made their entrance by climbing a pole to second floor platform, bored one hole in the upper part of the safe, and were starting an- other when surprised by ODea.
 Police today were looking for an accomplice who, according 10 O. Deas story, was with Smeriglio and assisted in the attempted robbery
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over Bougie, to the west of Bone. A communique of the British middle eastern command yesterday had disclosed the shooting down of six Italian troop-carrying planes.
 The German air force was being roughly handled by the Allies from both east and west.
 Apparently the jaws Of the Allied ut-cracker were about equidistant $50 miles-fron the nut the rem- nants of Field Marshal Erwin Rom- mel's Afrika Korps fleeing at record breaking speed across Libya. with Anderson closing in from the west. and the British Eighth Army from the east.
 The Allies were taking the strong est steps in Eastern Algeria and the Gran area to meet Axis paratroop action. which could be expected to follow an invasion of Tunisia.
 The Americans unloaded arms. munitions ard supplies at top speed along the entire North African coast from Casablanca east of Algiers.
 As a precaution. the Americans planted special troops all along the coast to guard communications and other vital installations. but no in- dication of sabotage was even hint ed.
 Contrarily. the entire populations native French, Soldiery and con- l, stabulary, was cooperating whole heartedly. As rapidly as occupations were consolidated. local authorities quickly took control and a quiet, calm atmosphere obtains every where.
 Allied headquarters anxiously awaited word of the French fleet units stationed at Toulon, as both Allies and Axis kept up a furious radio barrage over its disposition.
 First, Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower. the American com- mander-in-chief, appealed to the French fleet to sail to Gibraltar Then Admiral Jean Francois Darlan erstwhile commander of all Vichy French armed forces asked the fleet 10 sail to North Africa. Axis radios appealed to 1t to stand firm against any aggression"
 The fact that Darlan would make an appeal was present from the day he showed up in Algiers with an offer to capitulate as soon as pes Sible.
 But as far as Darlan is concerned ] the Allies don't pin much hope or him. In the Allied beck, he is an OppOrtuniSt. seeking the best spot for himself. AS long as he makes the Allies offers to their advantage however. they will accept them.
 The opinion here Is that II the French fleet joins the Allies, t will not be because of any particular lik- ing for them. but because 1t hates the Axis
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on the recommendation of a rep. resentatlve of the State Department Of Health, . committee Of repre-. senlatives of the medical, nursing and hospital administration ssAffs of St. Marys and Waterbury Hos- pitals recently met Co discuss Nhe war time program Tor the care Of the sick ln waterbury and the vics inity served hy the local hospitals, Members of st. MaryS Hospital committee are Mother Theresla, sister visitation, Doctors R, A. Bonner, Raymond J. Quinn and Richard ]. nlncheys members of the Waterbury Hospital committee, Miss Aida E. Greer, Miss Elsie D, Cantwcll. Doctors Winfield E. Wight, Edwin Reade and Joseph Hetzel.
 Hospitals are no exception to the
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 For the supplies. But who would head such a government still was unknown. Gen. Henri Honore Cir aud had taken over leadership of French forces in North Africa CO., operating with the United Nations.
 Members of the Vichy embassy stan have had TO communication from the Vichy government and re- portediy were restive at the lack of authentic news of what is going nn in France.
 Since Germany's occupation of the Vichy zone the embassy staff has faced the possibility of becoming virtual prisoners Of Germany when 1t Is yepatriated. For some members this vas 8 serious blow, because they have anti-Axis views that are well known.
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BOAT TO RE LAUNCHED

South Portland, Me, Nov, lt- fuPl - The l0.b00-ton William ysradford, the 10th Liberty freighter built by the South Portland ship building Corp. for the U, s, Mari time commission, was to be launched thls afternoon, Miss Mary F, Brad fnEd of Mediord, Mass, a direct Ascendant of Gov. William Rrad- ford Of the Plymouth colony, was inc snonaOr.
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tcontlnued from Page D widespread damage and devastation
 The trail Of the big RAF bonb- CTS was marked across Europe by the waillng of air raid sirens. Alerts lasting more than half hour in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, indicated that swarms of British planes were speeding overhead, en route to rich, inductrial northern Italy.
 The night raid followed vide spread day sweeps in which British tighter planes attacked canal barges and railway locomotives in offen- sive patrols over Holland and Brit tany.
 The planes zoomed over the enemy occupied territory. spreading havoc and destruction through the Nazt- operated communications system returned without the loss of single plane, the air ministry reported.
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south. the fortreSses penetrated a hail of anti-aircraft shells to at- tack from as low as 1000 feet The transport later was observed burn ing, the cOmmunique said. Twenty four hours earlier. fortress for nation had plastered four lcaded transports in the harbor.
 The big bombers also attacked the nearby Kahili airdrome. land ing bombs on the runway and plane dispersal area, All the American planes returned to base, the com muniQue said.
 The communiQue said that sew eral hundred Japanese bodies have been found tn the Oivi area. and spokesman said lS7 bodies were counted after the Australians smashed an enemy force two miles Soulh OI GoraTi a few days ago.
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Great Allied Army
 On Way To Bizerte
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is some good hunting to be had farther west in Libya." He reiter- ated that the United Nations would knock right out of North Africa. :"
 Dispatches from Allied North African headquarters said the French troops and civilians were battling German invasion troops at Tunls and in other sections of the French protectorate.
 The Germans were known to have landed paratroops. who con- trol the big airfield outside Tunis. ard were bringing in small 12 and l5-ton tanks by air. There were re-
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FUNERALS

The funeral of Francis P. Cronley will be held Monday morning ct e:30 from BerRin Funeral Home, 2D0 East Main street, to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Q o'clock. Burial will be in new St. Joseph's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening and to. morrow afternoon and evening.
 Funeral services for Sister Julia Vincent a teacher at st. Thomas Parochial school were held thlsmorn- ing at e:30 o'clock from St. Thcmas Convent to St. Thomas Churck. where a solemn high Mass of re- quiem was celebrated at 300 o'clock Burial was tn Community cemetery, Convent Station, N. ].
 The funeral Of William .unn father of Rev. George F Dun oS St. Francis Church, Naugatuck, was held this morning. at II o'clock, in St Justins Church, Hartford. Bur. ial was in Mount St. Benedict ceme- tery, Hartford.
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Pvt Lester c. shepard of las Falriawn avenue. k At the finance aepartment replacement training center as Fort Benjamin Harrison. He is Che son of Mir. and Mrs. Charles L. Shepard.
 Arthur J. Sullivan, son Of Mir. and Mrs. John J. Sullivan Of Greenleaf avenue, has been promoted to ser eeant. lie is stationed in Australia.
 Major Vincet A. Miller. former io- cal lawyer. Is in Scotland. accord ing to Che latest word received here. He entered the service In June, l94l.
 Pvt. David F. Carroll is with an Army chemical company at Oahu, Hawaii where he is serving as a truck driver. He entered the Army last May IS.
 George Hathaway of 2is Tracy avenue has started training as an aviation cadet. He iS the son Of Mir. and Mrs. Erwin E. Hathaway and is a graduate Of Cheshire aca- demy.
 Norman R. Crepoa, son of NIT. and Mrs. Frank H. Crepon ot 10 Wheeler street, is taking a course in me- teorology at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. He will be commissioned a second lieutenant on successful completion of the training.
 U. $. Naval Training Station, Newport. R. l., Nov. 1.-Two Wa. terbury men, having completed their basic training at this station, will be assigned to advanced dut- upcn returning here from several days leave. They are:
 Richard V. Caney, 2l, of lo46 North Main street, son of MT. and Mrs. James Canev. and Russell F. Truelove. F, of 23l Colonial avenue, son of Mir. and Mrs. Russell True love.
 Caney attended LeavenwOrth high school. where he played base ball and basketball He has been laborer and tube tester at the American Brass goods. A brother. Thomas, and another, Donald, are in the Army, and a brother. John. is with the Marines.
 Truelove was graduated this year from Crosby high school. where he was on the football and track teams. He has been an apprentice die maker for the Natinoal Die company. He seeks a rating as aviation machinist's mate.
 Pvt. Gerard J. Gagne Of 26 West Clay street, has arrived in the Fort Bragg. N. C.. Field Artillery Re-
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Highest inhabited place in the world is the Buddhist monastery oi Ilaine, in Tibet, Asia. which is IT, 900 feet above sea level.
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OBITUARY

STASAITIS-Charles Stasaitis, 26, of 6 Greenmount terrace, died at the Waterbury hospital yesterday, fol- lowing short illness. A native Of Waterbury. he had been a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, where he was well known.
 He leaves a brother, Stanley: and a sister, Mrs. Michael LaPorta. both Of this city.
 The funeral will take place from the Colasanto funeral home, e32 Bank street, Monday morning, time and other arrangements to be announced. Friends may call at the funeral home today from ' to II p. m. and tomorrow from 2 to il p. m.
 William E. Watt, 64, Of 99 Rose street. died last night at St. Mary's hospital. following a short illness. A native of Scotland, he was born on March 20. 1878.
 Mir. Watt was an employe of the Noera Mfg. Company. He attended the First Methodist church. was a member of the Waterbury Burns club. the Clan McAlpine. Waterbury Lawn Bowling, and Woodmen of the World. Mrs. Watt died on February 25, i942.
 He leaves a son, Alan k. Watt; four daughters. Miss Martha C.. William Burneister and Mrs. Vim cent Barbieri. all of Waterbury, a Watt. Mrs. Patrick Fitzpatrick. Mrs. brother, David Watt of Scotland and seven grandchildren.
 Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue. Burial will be in new Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from to 9 this evening and tomorrow from 3 to 5 and from ! to g p. m.
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BOYS IN
 THE SERVICE

ist Regiment. After his initial training he will be transferred to a field organization.
 Seret. Andrew Spagnoletu, a, son of Mir. and Mrs. Anthony Spagnolctu of Si2 South Leonard street has re. turned to the Army Air base at Jacksonville Fla. after being confined here for several weeks with illness.
 Clifford P. McGrath of 2s3 Frost Road. has been promoted te the rank of sergeant at Anderson Army Air base. $. C.. where he Is with a bOmbardment group. At present he Is completing a furlough at his home.
 Corp. Harry W. Spring of isS Walnut street, is stationed with and Army division in the Pacific. He is the son of Mir. and Mrs. Fred l.. Spring.
 Pvt. Ernest Caron Of 16l1 Thom- aston avenue, Is stationed with the Marines at Guadalcanal. according Co word received here. His brother, Albert CarOn, Is undergoing basic training at Che Marine station at Paris Island. $. C. They are the sens of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Caron.
 Arnold s. waldron of Bethlehem has been promoted to corporal at Goldsboro, N. C., where he is train ing at the Army technical scsool.
 Sergt. Walter shaw of Oakville and Adolph Petraroia of l29 Locust street. are believed to be in Eng land. Friends identify them as sol- diers appearing in photographs taken Of Mrs. Roosevelt inspecting American troops in England.
 Robert E. Brennan, son of Mir. and Mrs. John J. Brennan Of Wal nut street is completing basic training at the Marine station at Paris Island, s. C.
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NAVAL FLYERS
 RESCUE THREE
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tCOnIluCG rom Page II rescuers and others not to light matches, which might have made a funeral pyrc out Of the gasoline soaked wreck. He even gave di- rectlons for getting the others out. Rickenbacker Recovered
 Eight persons died in that crash but Rickenbacker, after a long time Sn a hospital. recovered.
 When the Second World war broke out, Rickenbacker at once of fered his services. Shortly before starting the Pacific flight, he had returned from Great Britain where he made a special study for Stim- son Of army air forces personnel and equipment in the European theater.
 He was on a similar inspection mission last october when the mes- sage reached Honolulu that his plane was running out Of fuel
 Mrs. Rickenbaeker Thankful
 New York. Nov. i4-(UP)--Mrs. Eddie Riskenbacker expressed her thanks today for tine wonderful CO., operation of the Army and Navy in rescuing her husband from the Pacific.
 T have just been advised by Gen. H. H. Arnold (chief of the Army Air Corps) of my husbands rescue" Mrs. Rickenbacker said, "Of course, the tension VIC have all been under began to be a little re- lieved yesterday by the discovery ot Capt. William T. Cherry, Jr. the pilot of the ship.
 'The War Departments thorough i ard efficient search brought about their ultimate rescue. cannot speak too highly of the wonderful cooper ation of the Army and Navy and ! wish I could thank everyone who participated personally.
 Ran Out of Gas
 Rickenbacker and his fellow crew members were flying south from Hawaii when their Army bomber disappeared. The last radio message from the plane indicated it was run- ming short of gasoline.
 From that time until this week there had been no word from the missing craft or those aboard her. This week, however. the Navy announced the rescue of Cherry, who was found in a life raft.
 Search Of the area was immedi- ately intensified.
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Robert E. Brennan, son of Mir. and Mrs. John J. Brennan Of Wal nut street is completing basic training at the Marine station at Paris Island, s. c.
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Pvt. Gerard J. Gagne of 26 West Clay street, has arrived in the Fort Bragg, N. C.. Field Artillery Re-
 placement Training Center for basic military training. He has been as- signed to Battery c, 2d Battalion,
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Arnold s. waldron of Bethlehem has been promoted to corporal at Goldsboro, N. C., where he is train ing at the Army technical scsool.
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 MADE ON LAPS

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MASS

NORRIS - Months mind high Mass of requiem will be celebrated Mon day morning, at $500 o'clock. at the Immaculate Conception Church, for the repose of the soul of the late John Norris who died in Ire land.
 CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our man: friends, relatives and neighbors especially Wire Mill, T. and K Room, Scovill Mfg. Co.,: Case Dept Waterbury Mfg. Co; and Memo Club for floral offerings and the expFes slons of sympathy and kindnee' shown us during our recent bsreave ment, the death of our beloved mother and sister, Mrs. Catherine Rielly.
 (Signed)
 The REILLY FAMILY,
 MRS. H. MAREAU,
 MRS. J. DORIAN.