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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-09
WILLIAM J. COX CALLED TO STAND
Used as Witnesses Today
 By State in Regard to , $7,lOO Claim

Hartford, Conn, April 9-(UP)- 4 hint of what the defense might be fin the removal trial of suspended Highway Commissioner William J Cox, was suggested today as Cox was called to the witness stand by the state for questioning concern ing his approval of Q $TlO0 claim of the Gammino Construction O., Providence. R. T.. for idle equipment on two Ledyard bridge projects.
 Cox was asked by Assistant Attor- ney General Richard F. COrkey how he arrived at information contained in his letter of June 2, 1888, to the legislature's claim committee, ap- proving the GamminO claim.
 Cox said he dld not recall how the figures were arrived at, and he said most of his calculations were based on Impressions and information I received over a several months pe- riod and 8 substantial part was based on Beebe's memorandum of
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Russians, Germans In Furious Tank Battles
Fleets of NeWly-BuiIt Nazi Tanks Dive BOmbers, Are Attacking Russian Positions, All Along
 l,zOO-MiIe Front
BY M. $. HANDLER Limited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 KuibyShev, Russia, April 9.-(UP) Fleets of newly-built Nazi tanks and dive-honlbers are aSsaulting Russian positions all along l,200- mile front from Len;ngrad to the CriMea where reinforced Red armies are awaiting Gefinanys' spring of fezisive tlispatclles from the front reported today
 In the Crnnea, near besetged Sevastopol, Russian forces were said officially to have crushed the Ger mans biggest tank assault since the battle of Moscow in a battle that ragged for ten days
 The Germans hurled fleet of 100 tanks av the Russian positions in the assault that cost them 32 of the tanks, eight of which were seized by the Russians in workable condition.
 At one time during the battle the Germans drove & breach in the Rus sian lines but Soviet tanks and in- fantly regained tine position.
 Increasing numbers of enemy tanks and planes - many of the latter Junkers-98 bomberS said to have left German factories less than Q month ago-struck "feeler" blows all along the front in an appar- ent effort to Find spots for the first pushes of Adolf Hilel's spring drive.
 Every Attack Beaten
 Official dispatches said, however, that every attack had been thrown back with heavy German losses in- flicted by Russian tanks, anti-tank guns and anti-tank riflemen whose numbers have been increased dur ing the past two months.
 Reinforced squadrons of Na2i dive bombers, attacking in groups of 30 or more planes, were said to be in widespread action against the Rus
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Gen. Macarthur Made
 NoC Comment on Bataan
But He Already Has Promised That Japanese Will Be Driven Out of Philippines; Is Busy Now
 Aiding Australian Defenses
BY BRYDON c. TAVEs


 General MacArthur'S Headquarters, Australia, April g - (UP) - Gen. eral Douglas MacArthur, who pledged himself to free the Philip pines which he left to assume the supreme allied command in the southwest Pacific, studied today the news that Bataan had probably been lost.
 He made no immediate comment but he had emphasized repeatedly during the 23 days since he arrived in Australia that he remained in personal command of the Philip pines, that he was in close touch uith General Jonathan M. Vain N -ht and that he intended to dTave. the invaders out of the islands whose army he had organized and led.
 Prime Minister John Curtin an- nounced that five Japanese planes had raided Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands northeast of Australia and had dropped between 30 and 4O bombs from 5000 feet. There was some damage, he said, but there were no casualties.
 Austraha's war cabinet met in the third of a series of nnomentous United Nations conferences on broad problems of defense against an expected Japanese attack on Australia and an offensive designed to throw the enemy out of the southwest Pacific including the Philippines.
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Tanks, Filipinos Join Ranks Of Heroes In Crimson History Pages
Gallant Little Band of 36,SOO Men Stood Off for Four Months, Flower of Jap-
 anese Armies, Air, Sea Fleets
By MACK JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, April 9.-(UP )-Thrty-six thou- sand American and Filipino troops, exhausted by short ratons, disease and lack of relief over whelmed on Bataan Peninsula today by fresh and numerically superior enemy.
 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who dis closed for the first time the number and plight of the Bataan defenders unable to say how many of the 36,S53 Tanks and Filipinos were killed captured or wounded.
 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY
 The tired men of Bataan joined ranks in the crimsoned pages of history today with the btterend fighters of Alamo and the Little Big Horn. The bat tie of Bataan epic of courage, had all but ended when the War Department announced that the ex- hausted American-FiIpino defenders probably have been overcome" by Japan's invasion hordes. They went down weary, but fighting. The remnants Of Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's little army of 10000 or 25 900 men struggling to escape to the island fortress of Conegidor in Manila Bay but there were grave doubts whether many of them would make it.
 DEFENDERS MADE THEM PAY
 The War Department in Washington, in 5:15 a. m. cOmmunique made it clear that Bataan lost. But the defenders had tied from to OO of Jpan best troops and driven of Japans top generals MaSaharu HOlnma, to commit suicide because of his failure to crush resistance The German radio heard in London claimed that Wainwright had asked the Japanese commander in-chief, General TOmOyuk YamaShta, for truce but word of this the War Department in Washington The fall of Bataan had been anticipated for several days but most military observers had doubted that it would come
 MUST STILL LICK CORREGDOR
 The fall of Bataan - and the opening of the siege of rock grt COrregdor which may become the Alamo of Manila Bay probbaIy will release large numbers of Japanese troops and planes for action of the India Burma front and at the northern approaches to Australia
 However the Japanese must still knock out COrregdOr and its batteshp guns well nearby Forts Drum HUgeS and Frank either by aerial assault landings
 THEY WENT DOWN FIGHTING
 Tanks and FiipinOs on Bataan-wearied beyond human endurance - went down fighting today under ncessant pounding from land and air by overwhelming Japanese forces.
 special War Department cOmmunque before dawn announced that the situation indicates the probability that the deenSes Bataan have been overcOme It said Lieutenant General Jonathan M WainwTights were in state of complete physical exhaustion"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-09
PUT UP HELL OF A GOOD BATTLE
British tiiiitary } 0f6cer Is Sad But Enthusiastic on
 Wainwright's Men
BY WILLIAM DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent

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 London, April g = (U.P.) well they put up hell of a show," a British military officer said today as United States and British military men gloomiiy received the news from Bataan.
 American officers, thinking of friends in Bataan whom they had known from West Point days, were naturally depressed, and British officers shared their gloom.
 They had foreseen that any strong continuous Japanese attack must force back the United States and Philippines troops of General Jonathan Wainwright, because he had but few men against count less thousands, and he lacked sup plies.
 The news that the end seemed at hand on the peninsula was a shock, however.
 Generally, in both American and British military quarters, the atti- tude was one of sorrow and sym pathy but not of disappointment.
 The peninsula had held out for so much longer than anyone had dared to hope, while the Japanese
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TWO CRUISERS OF
 BRITAIN ARE SUNK
Japanese Planes Operat- ing in Bay of Bengal
 Sent Them Down
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS Limited Press Stan Correspondent


 London, April o-(UP)-An g ad- miraIty communique revealed today that the S-inch-gun heavy cruisers Cornwall and DoreStShire had been sunk by Japanese airplanes operat- ing in the Bay of Bengal and which, in their latest attack, bombed the Trincomalee Naval base on the Cey- lon coast today.
 It was believed here that the losses may be merely the prelude to the greatest naval battle of the war, exceeding both in ferocity and strategic potentialities the naval battle of Java.
 Such a battle, if it took place, naval quarters said, might decide the fate of Ceylon if not of India.
 Radio Rome reported last week that a strong British naval forma- ton. including the 31,l00 ton bat tleslaip Malaya, had left Gibraltar for the Indian Ocean.
 Dispatches from India and Ceylon reported British Naval as well as air force units ranging the Bay fo Bengal in search of the Japanese fleet. including aircraft carriers, which had attacked ships and towns of Ceylon and the Indian coast.
 No Details Given
 The admiralty gave no details of
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Important Dates
 Months Battle

Washington, April g. UP) = Here are the important dates in the four-mOnth battle of the
 Dec. 10-First Philippines land ings of Japanese troops confirmed by the war department.
 Dec. 22-Eighty enemy ships carrying from SeyO00 to 100000 troops reported In Lingayen Ray. Other landings are made South of Manila.
 Dec. 2S-AKanila Is declared an open city, but is bombed never theleSs.
 Jan. 2--Japanese enter Manila after American and Filipino forces concentrated for a qdefense of Ba- aan Peninsula.
 Jan. 2l--AmeFican and Filipino troops counterattack, retNking some lost territory and inflicting heavy casualties.
 By the end Oe JaunaEy Japanese achievements had arrived 0ff Lmzon, and the Manila Ray guns haA smashed concentration of enemy launches In tiae bay.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-09
SMITH COLLEGE
 IS QUARANTINED Frightened Today as More Cases Develop: Prof.
 Emeritus Died

Northampton. Mass, April g. (UP)- Smith College, which yester- day quarantined its 2,20O girl stu- dents, took additional precautions today to combat a virtual epidemic of measles, scarlet fever, humps and chicken-pox in Northampton.
 The day. and nursery schools attended by professors children were closed indefinitely and the college announced that on Sunday. the campused students will attend special religious services at which Protestant ministers and Catholic priests from the city wtll preside.
 An increase in the number os dic- eases at the college tnflrmary was frynmKimaaad m. pnQa aA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-09
INDIAN PROBLEM
 MAY BE SETTLED
New Proposal By ROOse- welt Envoy Pleases;
 JapS Near India
By F. D. SHARNTA Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent)

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 New Delhi, India, April 9-tUP)- A new proposal for settlement of the Indian problem today was re- ported to provide immediate estab- lishment of an Indian National government controlling all port folios, including defense.
 CThe all-Tndia radio, heard in London, said there would be mo difficulty or delay" in establishing a National government. The broad cast said the working committee of the all-India Congress would publish its reply to the British pro- poSals tomorrow, or not later than Saturday.'')
 Usually well-informed quarters said the Nationalist all-India Con- gross had decided to accept the formula, but this vas not in1medi- ately confirmed.
 It was understood the formula
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THEY WENT DOWN FIGHTING
BY MACK JOHNSON

United Press Stan Correspondens)
 Washington, April 9-(UP)-The closing days Of the battle of Ra- taan were complicated by the large number of noncombatants behind the lines, it was learned. Caring for and feeding these people was a drain on the fighting forces and may have hastened collapse.
 Outnumbered from the start, low
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
STRONG MINORITY
 PARTY ESSENTIAL
Republican Nominee for Congress Gives Three
 Campaign Speeches

Strong minority representation is needed in Congress if the Demo- cratic tWo-party system is to sur vive, Compensation Commissioner Joseph E. Talbot, Republican can didate for Congress, declared in three campaign talks yesterday. In this critical emergency, he said, it is more important than ever that the minority be given adequate repre- sentation to serve as a check on the majority.
 MT. Talbot spoke at a Republican Women's luncheon in New Milford, at meeting of the Women's Repub- lican club at The Elton, and at a meeting of the Colored Republican club at 67 Bishop street.
 About victory production can be achieved without sacrificing the gains that labor has won, he stated
 Endorsement of MT. Talbot's can didacy was voted by the Third and Fourth Ward Republican club at a meeting last night at the Brooklyn Y. M. c. A. Canvasses of districts in the wards will be made before the election next Tuesday.
 Brief talks by MT. Talbot, electric ally transcribed, were broadcast over stations in the fifth district at various times yesterday and today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
FIREMAN PANEL
 TOCONVENE HERE
U. $. Consolidation Service Taking Hand in CIO-
 ScovilI Dispute

A three-man panel of the U. $. Cancellation Service will be in Wa terbury Thursday in an attempt 10 settle q dispute between Che Scovill local of the International Union Of Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers and the management of the 5covill Man iifacturlng Company. The panel will confere with union and company representatives at The Elton at 2 D. m. Thursday.
 Dr. John R. Steelman, director of the federal conciliat:on service, ap- pointed the panel after q tele- graphed complaint by the union that the company had adopted an "uncompromising attitude" and had refused arbitration.
 The union seeks a wage increase of 10 cents an hour and bonus Of two weeks pay for Scovill workers
 As result of the failure of a mediation conference at Hartford, the union last week called on Cover nor Robert A. Hurley to diSband the state board of mediation and arbi- tration unless terms of the Victory Compact, in which management and labor agreed to arbitration Of points at issue, were followed. The company has declined comment, stating that it does not discuss la- bor negotiations while they are in progress.
 In a new demand, the union several days ago wrote to John II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
AUTO TAX STAMPS
 NOT ON SALE YET
Car Owners Must Make Purchases From Hartford
 Internal Revenue Office

Although the Revenue Act of 1941 requires all automobile owners to pay a new federal automobile tax before February lst, receiving in return a revenue stamp for dis play in their cars, none of the stamps are as yet available in Wa teIbury.
 Originally it had been planned to put the stamps on sale at post offices and at revenue collectors offices on Jan. 26, but federal auth critics have decided that a longer time for purchase of the stickers would be advisable, and announce ment has been made from Wash lngton that the tax stamps will De placed on sale before thap date.
 Postmaster Charles A, Ba D n, however said today that while he expects a shipment of the stamps within the neAy few days, none have yet been received at the post ll- ice, After their arrival here, they will be sold al the post office for cash only, aecordin to announce ment from Hartford, MT. Babin said he has not vet received any spe- oilic information about their sale,
 Upon arrival, the federal tax stamps will also be sold at the office of Thomas s, Smith, CnlleG- lor of Internal Revenue, in Haltr ford, Purchase, may be made from the collectors office by certified check or money order Cash will not bc accepted,
 According to information avail, able here, the internal revenue ntr flee in Waterbury will not receive a supply Of the stamps, and will have no part In their sale, Deputy Collector Gabriel Price said today
 The stamps will he lssned at . cost Of SaO0 Tor the period from July l, and l lorn tho latter date owners at motor vehicles ,lnpMdv ing trucks and mQlnrpyplnal muai pay the lull Lax ol sa for lhe ialr lowing fiscal year,
 It n0nld not Do learned l0aal whether payment pl lho saDD taA ls required Nl mal0rlsls whose ears are n storage Tor ihn winter, ana VIII n0l be on lbe hiphsays laf some months The probability ips peafed to bl that such owners c0uld secure deduction rom Inc charge fixed on vehicles actually in use during Inc winter months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
DEFENSE PROGRAM
 OPPOSED BY COP.
Monagan Scores Record of Republicans; Denies
 Agreement With Rival

Election of the Republican candi- date in the special election next Tuesday would mean additional rep resentation for the party which for three years consistently opposed the defense program, Attorney John S. Monagan, Democratic nominee, de- clared in a five-minute radio address last night oyer station WATR.
 Denying that there are no issues between c. o. P. candidate Joseph '. Talbot and himself, MT. Mona gan asserted that the fact that their campaigning has not made sensa- tional newspaper headlines does not mean there are not sharp and Fundamental differences of opinion between us"
 Espousal by both major party can didates of a victory program in the war was inevitable" said the al dermanic president, but does not mean that the candidates agree on other points. There is agreement on objectives, he went on, but impor- tant differences in the methods best suited to reach those oDjectives.
 MT. Monagan will make five-min- ute radio addresses each night this week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
FRATERNAL GROUP
 SPONSORING BALL
Several Hundred Guests Expected at Italian BrOth=
 erhOOd's Function

Many local fraternal, social and fled their intentions of participating in the annual ball of the Italian Brotherhood being held at the Buckingham hall next Saturday night.
 Rt Rev. Monsignor Joseph Val dambrini, Mayor Vincent Scully and other prominent citizens have been invited as honored guests for the event. Ten per cent of the ticket sales proceeds will be paid in taxes to the federal government thereby indirectly helping Americas defense efforts. Several hundred guests will be expected, due to the large mem bership of the organization and it's auxiliary, the Italian Sisterhood.
 Frank Vellucci is general chair man of the arrangement committee, which includes Frank Marucci as secretary; John Izzo, treasurer; America D'Angelis, ticket chairman: Nicola Perugini, reireshment chair man; John Sforza, president Of the society; John DePastino, Umberto Santopietro, Arcangelo Cimaglia; Agostino Agostini, Peter DeLeo, Peter DeCicco, Thomas Yanna- chino, Angelo Gambino, Michael Guglidotti, Donate Guerrero, An tonic Genoa, Luigi Giannelli, Gio- yanni Sivilla, Antonio D'Allessan- dro, Frank Izzi, Rafiaele DeLeo, James Massaro, Giuseppe Agostini, Giro Valentino, Antonio Romano, St efano Matarazzo, Domenic Man cuso, Domenic Liberatore, Cosmo Ruta, Giovanni Beccatelli, Giovanni Izzi, Ottayio Boschetti, Felix Guar ini, Giosue DiMella, Andrea Crafa
 A floor show will be special fea- ture of the Entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
II FIREMEN MARK
 23D ANNIVERSARY
Annual Get=Together Be. ing Omitted This Year
 Due to World Conditions
lBy FIRE FIGHTER)

In the Manual of the City Gov ernment you will find listed the names of eleven firemen-all pri- vates-but one; who Were appointed to the Fire department on January 18th, 19l9-and wno on January 18th, 1942-will have completed g years of Service-faithful service as members of the Waterbury Fire department. Not one of these men during all these years, have ever broken any of the laws governing this department; and not one ot them have ever been oraered ,o ap- pear beIore the Board of Fire Com miSsionerS to answer for violat.on or the rules of the department. Ma Jurally We are very mucn pleased with ourselves, because of such record, ana for the snort space of tune that remains for us we sID- eerely hope that we will be able to Keep up tne good Wolk.
 In the years gone by, on such an occasion, 1t was natural to nave a supper or get-losetner of some sort Lo ceiebrate our anniversary, and at q later date We hope to renew lniS affair But this year, que to world Wiue cona.tlons sucn as they are, we are all try.ng to do our bit inSo- lar as buying ot GelenSe DoAaS- contributing to collections - and performing some ot the many tasks mat Will lall to Us in the days to come. Also many of us a,e lur- nlsnlng man power, through the eliorIs of our sons who are m the serViee-we will not endeayor to meet as group,
 To the following named men oi che Fire department, Arthur J. Las Chance, trederlok A, hardw,og, James j, Barry Hubert F. Ray, rrank F. Carroll, John A. Conlon, Edward P. Thihodeau John P Ma .oney, William U, HapIh, Hiram N smith and Thomas F, MeGralh, who ale celebrating tnelr annlVer' sary on this date the best ol mek and good health,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
Red Cross Fund Totals $54,255

The Red Cross War Relief fund in Waterbury mounted today to $54,2 .57, with the receipt of an additional $295 .67 from the Middle bury branch, of which Miss Rose J. Ferrante IS grive chairman, and $200 from the ThinSheet Metal Co.,. in addition to q number of smaller gifts.
 Latest subscribers to the fund in- clude
 Capt Stevens $l, North Plant Freight Depot, American Brass Co. $625, Employees Fund. Thinsheet Metal Co. $20O, Alice J. Lewis $3, Eastern Color Printing Go. $l25; John Uram $1, MT. and Mrs. An thony O'Buck $3, Mrs. Fuldia Ca- pocchi $2, Mrs. A. DuBicki $l.
 Collections on Columbia boulc- yard by Mrs. Nathan Picrpont, cam 1asser, as follows: Mrs. Nathaniel Gault $10, Mrs. F. c. Smith $l, B. s. Zoe Sl0, Dr. J. w. Borchardt $5, 1itchell J. Albert 50, MT. and Mrs.
 amuel Holczer $2. Dr. E. II. John- ton $5, anonymous $11, Nathan M. 'ierpont, Jr., $1. Middlebury branch, Rose J. Ferrante, Chrm. of Emer- 3ency Fund, additional $295.67.
 Collections on Calumet street by Mrs. w. L. Loomis, canvasser, as follows: Mrs. c. A. Backman $2, Mrs Walter France $1, Mrs. Mary P. Bartcw $1, Judge and Mrs Miles McNif $10, MT. and Mrs. w. l.. Loomis $2, contributions less than $1, 85c.
 Collections on Crescent street, by Mrs. George A. King, canvasser, as follows: Mrs. William B. Brewster $5, Raymond O. Palmer $5, Mrs. R. Fl. Patterson $5, Joseph Pope $5.
 Wolcott branch, Mrs. John Full gham, chairman, additional $17, MT. and Mrs. c. Horace Baldwin $25, Phillips and Benjamin Co. $5, Hope vile Community club $5, Rowland's Insurance Agency $.
 Total for day, $78l.77. Previously reported, $53,473.80. Total to date, $54,255.57.