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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
Elista Near Capture As Red Army Moves Forward
CIRAUD MOVES
 TO END UNREST Fighting French Leader Arrests lz; Further As.
 sassinatiOns Feared
Ny c. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Statf Correspondent


 Allied Headquarters In North At- rica. Dec. Sls--tUPl--No attemps to divide the French people in North Africa will be tolerated, a commu- nique issued from the office of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. French high commissioner, said today.
 The commmiQue followed an an- nouncement by Giraud last night that 12 prominent Frenchmen had been arrested as Q preventive meas ure. Giraud said he believed there might be attempts to aSsassinate him and Robert Murphy. American diplomatic envoy to northwest Africa.
 The communique. explaining that steps had been taken to insure tram quility behind the fighting lines, said most persons had accepted re- cent developments with perfect calm. but that & small element had been trying to cause unrest.
 The communique did not state what measures, ifany had beer. .tak- en in addition to the arrests an- lnounced by Giraud.
 Giraud revealed that among those arrested were at least two men who had given the Allies important aid when they landed Nov. 8.
 Some, including high police offl- cials, had advance knowledge of the plot to kill Admiral Jean Francois Darlan but failed to report their in- formation to their superiors, Giraud said.
 Tt is an interior cleaning" Giraud said, explaining that his action was purely . French affair. q am fol- lowing the French thesis that 1t is better to prevent than punish.
 We have arrested people who helped the Americans to land and those who helped the Germans, as well as those police who knew of the plot against Admiral Darlan but did not tell their superiors." But why arrest your friends?" Giraud was asked.
 T ordered the arrest only of those who were acting carelesSly,' the new high commissioner. successor to tho murdered Darlan, replied.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
WITNESSES NOT
 PRESENT IN COURT
Recent Union Flare-Up Is Dying; No Testimony
 Against Members

Evidence that Q few sparks. at least, of the violent fire of local labor union disputes have just about burned themselves out, was present. ed this morning in municipal court. when the complaining witnesses against James Murray and Kenneth Tracey did not appear to testify. Judge T. E. Conway granted con- tinuance until Saturday, indicating that the case would be disposed of at that time, with or without witt neS6es.
 Murray and Tracey were arrested two weeks ago on charges of as- sault and breach of the peace, af- ter aliegedly causing Q disturbance in the office of Local S65. At tho time, friends complained that the charges against the pair were rtrumped up" to prevent them from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
SPECIAL. CREWS WORK TO FIX STORM DAMAGE Broken Lines Into Water. bury Due to Be Repaired
 By Night FLOODED RIVERS
 IN MANY STATES Ohio River at Crest Fore. ing Industries to
 Shut Down

With the four-day rain and ice storm having been succeeded by crisp. windy weather that helped dry out cables, repair crews of tele- phone end electric compan- les, augmented by special crews brought from other cities, were working steadily today to restore utility serv- ice to towns in the Water bury area and to hard-hit northwestern Connecticut. officials said that repairs to broken lines in Waterbury proper would probably be completed by nightfali.
 Electric service in Prospect was stln out and may remain so for Q considerable time but telephone ser- vice In the town atop East Moun- tain was being restored. Restoration of full electric service to the Hitch cock Lake section of Wolcott. to Middlebury, Watertown. Morris and othgr towns was proceeding rapidly.
 Phones Stiil Out
 Tn Waterbury, about 450 tele- phones were still out of service, though another zoo had been placed back in operation. Completion of all local repairs by tonight is expected. The eastern part of the city was without street lights last night. but will have service restored tonight.
 Both William T. Jebb. district manager for the Connecticut Light & Power Co, and Douglas W. Lor- ing, local manager for the Southern New England Telephone Co. said that the change in the weather had helped immeasurably in speeding repairs after the damaging storm, They pointed out, however. that many roads are still impossible. and said it will be task of days to make repairs in outlying sections where wires are down or where trees or poles have brought down wires.
 The Naugatuck and Mad rivers
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
BROCKTON HAS
 $2OO,OOO BLAZE
Officials Probing General Alarm Fire Which Razed
 6-St0ry Block

Brockton, Mass, Dec. 3l--(uP)- State and city fire officials today in- vestigated a general alarm blaze that demolished a six-story shoe building in this citys business dis trict with loss set at S2O0O00.
 For more than five hours. firemen from II communities battied the flames that mounted 100 feet in the mir and spread to an adjacent block which suffered heavy water damage.
 The first alarm was. sounded at mid-evening for a small fire that started in the rear of the Wayne Leather Go, located on the third floor of the building.
 Flames raced through the strnc- tiire and additional alarms brought aid from surrounding communities.
 Fireman George Hall was hos- pitalized after sustaining 6 hand cut and several other firemen were partly overcome by smoke but were treated at the scene.
 Fire Chief Franklin F. Dickinson. who estimated the loss, said that he had asked the State Fire Marshal to aid in an investigation of the blaze.
 The building, formerly the Stacy Adams Shoe Go. factory, houses 6 shoe store and two furniture con- pan.es.
 One of these. the La Bell Flirni- ture Co. on the fourth floor, had moved in only recently after sl0.- 0o0 fire two months ago had des- troyed stock they had stored in an- other building. The fifth and sixth floors were vacant.
 The adjacent Gardner Block slis- tained slight fire damage but wa- ter was poured on the structure and ceuse6 2eavy damage te several ta Xxaznaaka 6h0a Mo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
Kalmyk Republic Cspltzl Now Almost Surrounded
 By Russians
  MUCH INHABITED
 TERRITORY FREED Great Quantities Of War Spells Taken h Ire mendOus Advance
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press sease CeFsezpeneea

Limited PEess Stair CeEsexR4nee&*3
 Moscow, December S1. (Up) - Germanyss entire front south and southwest of Stalingrad was in imnal nent danger of collapse tos day before an irreSiSeable Red Army which in As hours of unbroken advances ak lightning speed freed thou sands of square miles of ter ritory and seemed at the point ei capturing Ellsta, capital of eHe Kalinyk republic,
 (RaSllo Moscow eroa<acASe A e1iie< tin from the official Russian neNS* paper 1EreStiA reporting that fHs Russians tn the Middle Don A4N aleesasea many tnhAhatez p1AcsA z the northeastern part ot tho xlt1 industrial ard mining distz4e& &z VoroShilopzrad in the Ukraine, &4 miles west of the Rostov- Moscow railroad and leo miles southeast 1f KharkovD
 Russian tanks and intanexx smashed throughout the night 5nSa the German lines between KoleiHI~ kovski. the Stalinggad-C CaMoaksss railroad, and the volga-c Caspian ScA area.
 Scattered Resistance
 The noon communiQ0e rcpoxtS1 resistance only ey individual Ger man units, broken into fraRnaen<&. through which the Red Army con~ tinued to drive.
 within the last a hours the Rus sions had driven as miles down tne railroad from captured ko>elnikor~ ski, they had captured n towns and two district centers and had driven to within nine miles of Eiisfa, 1{0 >r,iles southeast of Kotelnik0ySkt, and were in position to swing around their left wing an q direct 6ripe x1E Rostov on Con, gateway to tho Ca{z~ casus.
 War spells In enormous quantities and great variety were falling zn1o Russian hands from tanks and ntz guns to rifles, horses and cattle.
 Steady Advance
 During the night, tho noon c9za2@ muuiQue reported, the RuS<iaxzx south of Stalingrad. ccnt1ncln* steadily to advance, St0fme6 and captured an inhabited locality and seized 9 field guns, ie trucks. ahoet 100 horses and more than % pz1&~ oners.
 1t was announced also that &z Kotemikovsd additional Spoi,s 1r<~ cluding s0 anti-tank guns. a iarKe dump of airplane bombs. eight 1zs- mantled planes. four heavy tanks. 4 fuel truck, several locomotives and one raill0ad train.
 They had routed two 0exuaMm iz~ fantsy regiments. o.oo0 u1zn N cleaning vp around KOtelnikopSHz. and yesterday in the Kalymk S<eNp0s area 10 the south they smashed DH enemy motorized division. kiIzzn& l.500 Germans and destroying IS tanks, % field guns, l2 trench nor tars and SO trucks.
 Russian artillery and trench unor~ tars. in a ferocions all-nl9ht hozn~ bsrdment. enabled the Russians <o tienaoiish several dozen- ad<litaumAz hlockhouses in Staiinerad clfS en< generally improve their posit2&x Up Co 800 German dead were xozzH4 h the hlockh0lses.
 Blsekhense Captured
 Yesterday. in StaAngr1n. 1a *&x northern faetcfy area which M 4zHx
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
Late Reservations Indicate Very Enthusiastic New Years Eve
7E7 177T17777l V 7777 7777- 7777 MY
 No PAPER TOMORROW

Following it's usual GUS tom The Democrat will not be published tomor- row, New Years Day. Pa per will be out at usual hour on Saturday, Jan uary 2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31

London, Dec. Sl - Up) - Radio Morocco reported today that the first Axis air raid of the war on Casablanca occurred last night. 4 eommunique issued at the resident generals office In casebiance said there were c number of casualties and scme damage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
Missing Troops Move On Tripoli
BY EDWARD W. BEATTTE United Press Staff Ccrrespondent

London Si-(UP)-A today advancing Tpc adding North Africa which
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Fan weather nspess faEs .
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-04-24

The three defendants were in
dicted on two counts. The first
count charged Sage, Alderman and
Chandler with preventing citizens
from occupying federally-owned
premises for which leases had been
executed. The second count charg-
ed a "seditious conspiracy to pre-
vent, hinder, and delay execution
Of any law of the United States"
Maximum penalty on the first
count is $4,000 fine and ten years
Imprisonment, and on the second
count $1,000 fine and six years
Imprisonment. The men were in
dicted for violation of civil rights
under Section 81, Title 10, U. S.
Code, and under Section 6, Title
IS, u. S. Code.
The indictment charges that the
defendants for some time prior to
February %, and up to and includ-
ing the date of presenting and
return of the Indictment, have
caused picket lines to be MAIN
tanned around the housing project
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-04-24
Big NAACP Kickoff
Dinner, Thursday

Thursday, April 30 at p. m.
Is the date and time set for the
big kickoff dinner that starts the
mammoth NAACP membership
campaign for 1912. The goal set
is 1000 members. Rev. Don C.
Stephenson, president of the Ia
coma Branch NAACP will be the
speaker.
A delicious turkey dinner, pre-
pared by Mrs. Nellie Wilson and
her committee, will be served for
fifty cents. Reports from the
thirty-odd workers will be a big
feature of the evening, and it is
hoped that this initial report will
top the one made by st. Paul.
st. Paul made an initial report Of
236 members. Surely Seattle will
not, be beaten by this mid-western
city. In 1940 Seatle's Negro pop
ulation was 1862, St Pauls around
1000. Come on Seattle! Show st.
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US. Accuses Seven, Indicts Three,
In Sojourner Truth Riot

Detroit, Mich.-Warrants were
expected to be issued Friday, APP
ril IT, for three persons indicted
by the U. s. grand jury on charges
of conspiracy to prevent Negroes
from occupying the Sojourner
Truth Housing Project here.
The indictments were returned
by the Federal grand jury April
16, and four other persons, not
indicted, were named as Cocoon
spirators. Those indicted are:
Garland L. Alderman, secretary,
National Workers League; Par
ker Sage, treasurer of the League;
and Virgil Chandler, organizer and
executive vice-president of the
Seven Mile an dFenelon Improve
Also named in the indictment as
co-conspirators were Joseph p.
Buffa, real estate dealer and pre-
sident of the Fenelon Improvement
Association; Fred e. Monasterski,
ment Association.
vice-president of the Association;
and Leonard J. Stewart, treasurer
Of the Association.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-04-24

DR.. Johnson, Underhill, Sells Reprimanded:
Firing OF H. R. Hutchen, Meat Inspector
Conduct Unbecoming To City Employees"

full consideration to the testimony
of Frank H. Underhill, DIR. James
P. Johnson and John G. Sells, and
is convinced from their testimony
that the probationer was not given
fair chance to demonstrate whe-
Their or not he had the ability to
fill this position.
,, 1t appears without dispute that
on the first certification Mr.. Poop
pie was selected to fill the posi-
ition, and it was agreed that he
would report for work the fol-
lowing Monday at which time Mr..
Sells would be sent out with him
to break him into the duties of
the position, but that this arrange
ment was cancelled by the de-
partment's advising Mr.. Poeppel
not to appear as it was impossible
for Mr.. Sells to go out with him
at that time on account OF other
duties.
Subsequently, representatives of
the Health Department appeared
before the ely Council and recon-
mended that the position, Sausage
and Processing Meat Inspector, be
abolished. In support of their po-
sition they indicated that in their
opinion none of the eligibles on he
register were qualified to fill the
position, that other arrangements
were contemplated for performing
his inspection work, and they pet
itioned the City Council to repeal
the ordinance creating the posi-
ton.
After this petition was denied,
! the department re-offered the ap-
pointment to Mr.. Poeppel, which
offer he refused as he was con-
vinced that he would not receive
a fair opportunity in the depart
ment. Following that, Mr.. Hut
chen was selected and reported
for work at the appointed time,
and Mr. Sells was directed to,
and did accompany Mr. Hutchen
for the first few days after he
assumed the duties of the posi-
ton. Later, DR.. Johnson went out
with Mr.. Hutchins on one or two
occasions.
would appear therefore that
the department, both in its at
tituude toward Mr.. Poepel and Mr..
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Americas Opportunity
The United States By Solving Its Race Problem
Will Help The World To Enduring Peace

Of democracy, it should read and
heed! We Americans are commit
ted to the Democratic principle.
In this crisis, both our views and
our interests call for us to make
this a war of all good men for all
good men.
In the past our boast of Amer
ica's supremacy has been founded
on commercial achievements. We
know now that peace will come
to the world only after exchanges
between men are made mutually
profitable. In short, the day has
come when human rights weigh
more than profits. Let's put Am
erica to work getting the world
on a basis of enduring peace.
In the past we have regretted
the so-called race problem in this
country, largely because we are
the victims of it. A long range
view of it makes us not so sure
that it is to be regretted. Here
in this country where intelligence
is high is a situation which epito-
mixes world conditions. It can be
used as a try cake. If we solve
it here we have found the way for
the nations to adjust themselves
everywhere. We set UP housekeep-
ing $50 years ago and the world
followed us into democracy. We
have conducted world wide COM
merce without aid of arms, and
again our example was compell-
ing. Maybe, nay probably, If We
demonstrate tolerance, we win es-
tablish it in the place of the armed
fist.
The obstacles in the way of real
democracy in this country are few
when weighed on impartial scales.
Here and there petty folk feed
their ego by show of authority
or a claim of divinely established
superiority. 1t is to laugh. The
substantial fact is that one man in
ten in this country is colored, yet
we in spite of all our differences,
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Mrs. E. V: c. Walker, Popular Socialite,
Becomes Wife OF Mr.. William Mcdonald

In her beautiful home, 1911 e.
Alder, Mrs. E. v. c. Walker, pop
ular matron of Seattle, became the
wife of Mr.. William M. Mcdonald,
Saturday evening, April 18th, in
the presence of a few intimate
friends:
Delicate colored lights flooded
the gorgeous floral array, shield
ing the harpist, Mrs. Ruth Os-
borne, and her soft strains of Lo-
hengrin's immortal as the bride
strikingly attired in Perry Win
kle blue gown with ripple flare,
wearing a beautiful pearl necklace,
earrings to match, and a large
corsage of sweet peas and roses,
descended the long. winding stair
way on the arm of her son, John
e. Walker.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-04-24

In a statement by Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox that Negro
volunteers would be enlisted in the
reserves of the Navy, Marine
Corps, and Coast Guard, was cri-
ticized by A. Philip Randolph in
ternational president of the Bro
therhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Mr.. Randolph called it an insult
to the race"
1T was announced by secretary
that Negro volunteers would be
enlisted in the reserves of the Ma
Wy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
but he made it clear in his official
announcement that the color line
still exists in the Navy and that
Negroes will not be enlisted on
equal basis with whites and that
even enlistment will not begin I'M
til a separate school of training
can be established. Mr.. Knox
makes it also clear that there will
be no provision made for commits
sioning Negroes as naval offic-
ers for higher rank than petty Of
ficers as yet.
while this is a change in the
policy of the Navy toward Negroes
it is not a desirable change. It
accepts and extends and CONSOLE
dates the policy of Jim Crowism
in the Navy as well as proclaims
as an accepted recognized Govern
ment theology that the Negro is
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A number of years ago, to be
exact in 1882, ON a trip to Los
Angeles from the East, I heard of
a man called Lord God Shields.
1t was prophesied that he nor his
followers would ever die =. Rev.
Shields has passed.
| I recall that during my early
childhood a group of people in my
home town gathered on the roof
of building, clad in white robes
to fulfill a prophecy that had been
made to the effect that on a GER
tain day they would fly away to
the great beyond in the flesh. A
babe in arms was killed instantly
when its mother leaped from the
building and fell to the ground.
Prophecies have always been
made and many have been full
filled. In Paul's letter to the Ro-
mans (12:6-8) he stated that some
men would have the gift of pro-
phecy and he also said in Thes.
500, "Despise not prophesyings."
Bible students claim that the pro-
phecies found In THE BOOK are
being realized now,
1t has been our good pleasure
to read many forecasts = PRO-
PHECIES-NEW AND OLD-and
it occurred to us that you would
be interested in these predictions.
This column will give to you, each
week, prophecies, some made hun
dreds Of years ago, concerning the
times in which we are living.
I told you in our Easter Mes
sage Now is the time to begin
anew. I say to you again, we are
fast approaching the END OF
THE WORLDS it has hereto
fore existed. It is our aim to prove
this statement through he pro-
this statement through he pro-
phecies of men and women who
have given much bought and stu
dy to this subject.
In this first of series of art
icles (Which will be continued each
week. I submit the prophecy Of
Isaiah. Read the entire chapter,
but read the prophecy contained
herein in the first two verses Of
the thirty-fourth chapter:
The Lord Is Angry
Come near, we naions, to hear
and hearken, we people: let the
earth hear, and all that Is there
in; the world and all things that
come forth Of it. For the indigna-
ton Of the Lord is upon all ma
tons, and his fury upon all their
armies; he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter. Isaiah, xxxiv., /, 2.
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Intolerance received no comfort
from Seattle's Civil Service Com
mission, Wednesday afternoon,
April 22nd.
The Civil Service Commission,
Henry Elliot, Jr., John Sylvester
and Robert Buchanan caustically
rebuked officials of the health de-
partment for ignoring the rules
and practice laid down by the
commission. In fact to all intent
and purposes the department of
health had seeded from the city
of Seattle and ruled its depart
ment my laws and regulations of
its own.
Then, too, the war has caused an
influx of germs, and the depart
ment must use its own discretion
and hasn't the time to respect laws
and practices of he Civil Service
Commission.
Now that the pesky germs have
been evacuated. from one district
to a wider area, the health de-
partment is no longer isolationist,
and they do not feel bound to re-
spect Civil Service Commission
rules and practices.
1t happens that the president of
the Civil Service Commission, Hen
ry Elliot, Jr., Is a Christian gen.
tleman and rules that department
by the Golden Rule. In making his
findings and restoring Hutchen to
his standing, on the eligible roll,
he was joined by commissioners
Sylvester and Buchanan.
The decision is a hint to the
health department to lay aside
their intolerance when appearing
before the Civil Service Commits
sion.
Rev. F. w. Penick, president
Seattle chapter N. A. A. C. p, and
Prentis I. Frazier, chairman Cit
liens Committee, attended the
session and voiced their approval
Of the decision.
The Civil Service Commission
has duly considered the matter #
the reported dismissal of Hutchen
r. Hutchins as probationary saul
sage and Processing Meat Inspect
or. In this connection. the Com
matter of mission has given care
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The Rev. L. R. Hayes, pastor
of the First A. M. E. Church read
the rites making the twain one.
The Matron of honor, Mrs. Clar-
ence E. Rounds, was beautiful in
blue velvet gown wearing a large
corsage of sweet peas and roses.
The best man was Mr.. Clarence e.
Rounds.
Out of town guests We're: Mrs.
Alice Roberts of Tacoma, and Mr..
Russell Jones of Los Angeles, Calf.
Assisting were: Mrs. Martha
Davis, Mrs. Edna Jackson, Mrs.
Alice Roberts.
Mrs. Mcdonald will leave the
first of the month for rest in
the mountains with friends. Later
in the summer she will visit her
nephew in Washington, D, c. and
her sister in Kansas City, Mo.
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Prophecies
New And Old
vivienne L. Penick

Greetings to you. readers, and
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The HoNEYSUCKLE RECRE-
ALTON CENTER at 203o East
Madison Street. will have to hang
out the S. o. S. sign if business