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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

 OF MEN CALLED
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reserve corps and diplomatic repre- sentatives.
 The registration will be conducted by duly designated registration of- ficials or local selective service boards.
 Persons subject to registration but prevented from registering on Feb l6 by circumstances beyond their control may present themselves as soon as possible thereafter.
 The President called on governors of the states and territories and local draft boards to carry out the provisions of his order.
 The first registration under the 2l-35 law took place Oct. 16, 1940, more than year before first actual American participation in the pres ent conflict. The second registra- tion was held July 1, 1541.
 Those Called
 Those ordered to register include all who have not reached their 45th birthday by Feb. 16, 1922. Men whose 45th birthday falls on the registra- tion day are excluded.
 However, in the 20-year bracket the birthday date is Dec. 31, 1941. Those who had their 20th birthday after Dec. 31 are not required to re- gister under today's proclamation.
 The amended selective service act also provides that men of 18 and 19 and 45 to GA, inclusive, are subject to registration for military service. A later date will be set for registering these groups.
 Every male citizen residing in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico who falls in the age brackets for the new registration must present himself between 2 g. m. and p. m. on Feb. 16.
 The new registration will follow the same procedure used in the two previous ones when men between the ages of 21 and 34, inclusive, were enrolled on Oct. 16, 194o, and those wi o reached 21 in the interim were registered on July l, 1941.
 Selective Boards
 Selective boards already set ur will register all eligibles on Feb. 16 The President called upon these boards and governors Of states and territories to carry out provisions of the executive order.
 The Presidents proclamation pro- vided that registration before the fixed day may be permissible if ar- engagements are mace under local board rules. If person is prevented from registering on Feb. 16 "by cir cumstances beyond his control or be- cause he is not present in the con- tinental United States, Alaska, Ha- waii or Puerto Rico," He may pre- sent himself at later date. Delayed registration, however, shall be as soon as possible after the cause for such inability ceases to exist"
 Approximately 17,500, ,000 men have been registered to date. Selective service officials have estimated that under the broader age groups 8 po- tential army of 7,500, 900 class l men can be built.
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50, 0,000 Japanese Are
 Defeated In Battle
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tons, most of them missionaries, who had remained at the Presbyter- ian and other missions. It was hoped that they had escaped to the south before the Japanese reached the city.
 Chungking was jubilant as detail- ed war communiques gave the blow by blow story of 8 major Japanese defeat.
 Last Friday spearheads of the Japanese army reached the edge of Changsha, driving in four massed columns.
 Chinese troops marched to the rescue along an 8O-mile line from
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pendence of the United States and Australia had become a tangible thing and that Australia had now obtained the closest cooperation with the United States.
 We vividly recall the statement of the commander of a United States navy squadron which recent ly visited us that you talk like US and fight like us'," Curtin said.
 That United States naval units will operate from Australian bases is a natural sequel to that declara- tion."
 "A Sydney, Australia, version of Curtins statement was that United States ships would operate from both Australian and New Zealand bases under the new unified stra- tegic agreement.)
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the east, but admittedly the situa- ton was critical. Japan already claimed the capture of the city.
 (Today he Japanese were saying that Chinese had filtered" into the city and were being liquidated).
 Met Stubborn Chinese
 The Japanese had driven dowr over the plain between the Laotal and Liuyang rivers to reach the city But they found stubborn Chimes troops who, after absorbing the i'm pact of their final drive, began en circling them, repeating tactics the had used with success before, an cutting of river crossings.
 At dawn Friday the Chinese unde a barrage of their artillery counter. attacked and inflicted 15,000 casual, ties on the Japanese closest to tho city.
 The first Japanese wiped out were contingents which had reached the east gate of Changsha disguised as Chinese. Machine gunners attended to them.
 OAA A5~tAA 0dyS OCcPC4 dtC, t1lC Odp- anese charged with the bayonet 10 separate times within few hours, while their planes bombed the city. They lost an estimated 5000 men and failed to gain a foot.
 The Japanese were running short of food and munitions, and their airplanes started to drop them SUD- plies. All the time Chinese forces were closing in, cutting off ground communications and lines of retreat.
 By yesterday morning the bulk of the Japanese were encircled in sep- arate groups, some actually inside the northern gates of the city and it was evident that to save them selves, they would have to try a general retreat.
 They waited too long. The biz Chinese force from the east ripped in. Twenty thousand Japanese were encircled in the northern city gates area, another 10000 were trapped in a suburb on another side. Changsha command sent word that the entire Japaunese drive had col- lapsed, and that the Chinese had cut off and were attacking merci- lessly parts of three Japanese divi- sions which sought to flee back to the north,
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 the Army, Navy, Maritime Con- mission, Office of Price Administra- ton and various OPM divisions, in- cluding Civilian Supply, Priorities and contract distribution, will aid in formulating the conversion program.
 Machine Tools Needed
 The joint Army-Navy announce ment said the military items in- volved in the $5,O00,O00,0O0 order, representing the combined imme- diate requirements of the two serv- ices, were such that they could be accepted not only by the big com- panies but by many varied smaller parts and accessories companies. D Machine tools were cited as one of the principal thrilled requirements on which rapid production is need ed.
 The $9,OOo,0o0O0o of war orders that the industry will have when 1t accepts the new order will be nearly three times the total value of the 4,469,354 passenger cars and trucks it made in 1940 which had a total value of $3,016,223,0 ,064.
 The broad program for convert ing the industry is expected to in- clude proposals for sub-contracting, pooling of engineering and produc- ton techniques, conversion of ex- isting equipment, restraining of workers, and creation of a floor management steering committee to supervise the whole program.
 Controversy Goes On
 The war production program and today's conferences come in the midst of an automobile labor-man- agement controversy aired through newspaper advertisements.
 President R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) had bitterly attack ed the industry and the OPM for failure to convert the industry to war production sooner. It accused the OPM of following a "business- as-usua" attitude, adding that be- cause of this, virtually all plants would be closed and 100000 work CTS would be idle by the end of the month.
 The Automobile Manufacturers Association answered these charges in newspaper advertisements this morning, charging that the labor leaders are hiding "ulterior motives behind a cloak of patriotism" It defended the industry's role in the war program, contending it had to cope with delay after delay in the war production preparation as a re- suit of changing conditions"
 The parties to the controversy including Thomas, attend today's OPM meeting, giving them chance to thrash out their differences with with more privacy.
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Fortnight Allied action on Far Eastern fronts was promised In the appointment of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, one of Britain's most brilliant soldiers, as supreme commander of all ABCD land, sea and air forces in the southwest Pacific. Next in rank, as Wavelps deputy commander, is Major Gen. George H. Brett, Chief of the U. s. Army Air Corps. Wavelps new chief of staff is It. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall noted as a man of action who, at 54, is one of Bri- tain's youngest generals. All naval operations in the area will be di- rected by Admiral Thomas c. Hart, Commander in Chief of the U. s. Asiatic Fleet. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will be supreme over land and air forces in China, Ind0- China and Thailand.
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dent Henry A. Wallace and Speaker Sam Rayburn.
 The presidents annual budget message will go to congress on Wednesday.
 The president had no other con- ferences today, keeping his sched- ule open to complete his state-of- the-union message and to make last-minute changes in the expected $50,000, ,000, ,000 budget.
 The senate was expected to make considerable changes in the house version of the price control bill be- cause when the measure passed the house, war had not yet broken fully upon the United States.
 An indication that the house would be asked to go along with stricter price legislation came when Mccormack said today that i've need price control blIf now that will operate fully in the present sit- uataon."
 Largest Budget
 MT. Roosevelt has indicated that he will ask for the largest budget In history to prosecute the war a. gainst the Axis. He is contemplating spending $50,000 O00, ,ooO this year on the war effort alone.
 There has been no indication what, If any, recommendation he will make concerning taxes. It was learned from a reliable source that the budget bureau has been urging him to recommend some form of direct consumption tax, probably a manufacturers' tax. The treasury was said to be opposing such plan, preferring to let congress work out . tax program without White House recommendations.
 The budget recommendations will follow in many respects the cuts in non-defense items outlined in the report by the joint congressional committee headed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va. Non-defense agencies will be cut to the bone, although a skeleton of most of them will be preserved. These, it was understood, include the national youth admin istration and the civilian conserva- tion corps. The works projects ad- ministration, it was said will be cut to about $200, 100000 with a provi- sion that its unused funds are to be turned back to the treasury if the need for the agency disappears.
 The pomp of peacetime congress sional convocations was somewhat subdued, with both houses ready to take up where they left off Fri day. Congress has been in almost continuous session since shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe in 1889.
 A price control bill, approved by the House Nov. 28 and strengthened by the Senate banking and currency committee to meet the menace of wartime imitation, was the first item of legislative business.
 No House Schedule
 No House schedule has been work ed out. It awaits the return of speaker Sam Rayburn from Texas But the House interstate commerce committee plans to speed action on 8 minor piece of war legislation bill authorizing the President to order nationwide daylight saving time. MT. Roosevelt said that 500,000 kilowatts of power day could be saved for war industries.
 Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky called for a lighting session in the sense that we will be fighting to win the war"
 The treasury has indicated it will present tax program to the House Ways and Means Committee soon after Jan. IS.
 Labor Legislation, started through the mill last session, was held in aheyance.
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Michael Raffetto. who makes his screen debut in Producers Releas- ing Corporations To-day ! Hang" has played the same character in One Mans Family" radio serial. for the past nine and half years.
 Others in the cast are Walter Wook King and Mona Barrie.
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citizens in that city-perhaps as many as 2,500 of them.

ClolLcIlS III llldI ClCy-pCAldPo 0o many as 2,500 of them.
 It is understood that many Amer ican women and children have found refuge in the fortress on Corregidor Island and that many other women fled to Bataan Province, behind the American-Fili lines, before the Japanese entered Manila.
 All whites in Manila have been ordered by the Japanese military to remain indoors on penalty of being shot. These disquieting developments are accompanied by an active Jap- anese campaign to raise the race is- sue against whites among Filipinos whose troops have been battling bravely against the invaders. Jap- anese flyers are dropping pamphlets containing what the war department described as abusive attacks on the white race"
 War department communique, No. A revealed Gen. Douglas MacAr- thurs report that the Japanese are discriminating even against German and Italian nationals, although those countries are allies Of Japan, and against Spaniards, whose country is friendly to the axis.
 Attackers Beaten Off
 Meantime, Japanese bombers again attacked Corregidor, the fortress at the mouth of Manila bay, with but slight results. MacArthur said four of q attacking planes were shot down anG others were dam aged. The communique also Ie- ported enemy air attacks in the area north of Manila to which American and Filipino troops have withdrawn and Japanese ground operations against U. s. Filipino forces in Pampanga province which is northwest of the city.
 Axis sources reported that the United States and Japanese fleets have joined "in the battle of the Pacific" but there was no con- firmation for that here.
 MacArthur's report on the harsh way the Japanese are treating Americans was in contrast to re- peated admonitions by President Roosevelt and others here against the persecution or harrassment of enemy aliens in this country. Ugo Carusi, executive assistant to At torney General Francis Riddle, said last night in a radio address that our own Heal of individual liberty would guide the government in It's 1i,,rc 0ryif1, oil oEnOc vo,1tral and enemy alike.
 No Discrimination
 Carusi emphasized that the ma jority of aliens are not enemies of democracy and urged that there be no discrimination against them by misguided patriots"
 The War department communique said Japanese discrimination against Americans was "in marked con- trast to the treatment previously corded Japanese civilians by American troops" .-.....-
 While the treatment of Amer ican civilians is especially harsh" the communiques said, the Jap anese are discriminating against all white residents of Manila. The oc- cupying troops have issued instruc- tions that all white civilians in Manila, irrespective of nationality, must remain indoors, under penalty of being shot if they appear on the streets. These instructions inn ply the contemplated internment of the white population of the city, without regard to citizenship.
 Propaganda pamphlets have been distributed by Japanese airplanes in an effort to persuade native SOL diers to cease resistance. Included in these pamphlets are abusive at tackS on the white race"
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ORIENTAL RODENT STUDIED

Aurora, N. Y-(UP)-An Orien- tai rodent, known as a hamster, Is being studied at Wells College here and 1t may replace the white rat for experimental purposes. The specimen is said to mature faster. Six students are working with six baby hamsters born in the labora- tory.
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Harry Langdon. veteran film comic. and Charles Rogers have been signed to co-star in an un- titled comedy for Producers Releas. ing Corporation. The film. which will be produced by Bernard B. Ray, will get under way late in December,
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Municipal court opened its session this morning with an invocation de- Hvered by Rev. George P. Reilly, assistant pastor of the Immaculate Conception church. as court at- taches and spectators bowed their
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heads as the prayer was delivered from the judges bench.
 Father Reilly stood on the left side of Judge John L. Gaffney, as he opened the session and immediately at the conclusion of the prayer, Court Officer Joseph Garvey gav-
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"annihilated' 297 soldiers, 23 off, cers and several" German spies in the past few days.
 During the two months ended January l, Guerrillas on both the Kalinin and Leningrad fronts killed $7,l52 Germans, derailed 49 train loads of troops, supplies and muni- tions and blew up S5 bridges.
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Refute Statements

Washington, Jan. 5-(UP) A navy spokesman, in formal state ment, last night denied enemy re- ports that IT American destroyers, 25 submarines and one aircraft car rier had been trapped at Cavite naval base in the Philippine islands.
 The spokesman's statement said:
 '"The official navy communique of January stated that all ships and navy personnel were removed from the Manila Cavite area prior to enemy occupation.
 statements emanating from en- emy sources alleging that r Amer ican destroyers, 25 submarines and one aircraft carrier were trapped in Cavite. Philippine islands, are entirely without foundation.
 On December 3lst the navy stat ed officially that 1t shall not in- dulge in common enemy practice of overstating the losses we inflict upon them, or understating the losses inflicted upon us. The navy will report only such facts as can be substantiated, ind intends to adhere strictly to this rule. The American people should not be con- fused by enemy propaganda eman- ating from Berlin, Tokyo and Rome. the obvious purpose of which Is to
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British withdrawal, the armored ve- hicles had been sent in, attempting by close pressure on the empire lines to impede the withdrawal and the formation of new lines.
 Despite the withdrawals, 1t was asserted that the British were ex- acting frightful casualties from the Japanese, and that British fire power was being increased now by airplane endorsements.
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BRITISH EMPIRE
 FORCES RETREAT

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AUTO INDUSTRY
 GETS WAR ORDERS

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77TH CONGRESS
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

Enid'g knees saRged with fright. Ra wasn't hard Co imagine what had happened. Nom had written that fhe and Pop usually went out on ai:s lake just kefore daylight, be- eeuse the fshing was st is bess
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BY RENE AVERSION MART

a gray depressing drizzle, and just before dark a man from the rescue squad sloshed up to the cottage in rubber boots. He said that a rowboat had been found floating bottom side up. But, he added quickly, seeing their gray faces, that didn't mean that hope was to be abandoned. If MT. and Mrs. Sharon had taken refuge on one of the is- lands when they saw the storm con- ing, their beached boat might easily have been carried back out on the lake by the high waves.
 But Enid wasn't deceived. She knew that the capsized boat wal almost certain evidence that hei parents had been drowned. She couldn't cry quietly like Lefty ol ostentatiously like Aunt Faye. Sht was too numb for tears. She coulc only move to a window and si staring out through the thicken- ing darkness toward the lake.
 If only she had spent this last month with Pop and Nom here at the lake as they had wanted her to do, instead of going of by herself. She'd never be able to forgive herself now.
 She didn't at first realize that the bobbing lights moving up the muddy road were lanterns carried by a crowd of men. and when she did she was afraid to move for a moment. The search was over. What had they found?
 Tom was ahead of the crowd He dashed up the steps to the cottage porch where Enid and Lefty and Faye Luxon had crowded He put steadying arms around Enid.
 'It's all right. honey. They've found them - aliyel But they're weak and sick. They've been wei to the skin and without food all this time. We've got to get them to a hospital"
 The hospital waiting room had drab gray walls. To brighten I up. the wicker furniture had beer lacquered Q yellowish pale greer Enid knew that shed never agalT see that sickly shade of greer without feeling III. without smell ing the odor of disinfectants ana drugs, without feeling the leader heaviness of that long hour o waiting outside the emergene! room.
 The doctor. when he finally ap peared, was grave. He said tha Nom was rallying Eplendldly, tha she'd be all right without doubt but that Pop He faced the girl frankly. ~Tts a bad case Of pneu monia. can't give you any hope Wen do what we can"
 A few minutes later . nurs beckoned to Enld and told he that the superintendent wanted tl sec her downstairs. Ensd coul0n' lnd the elevator 90 abe wake
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. SERIAL STORY
 WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
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then. And they had been caught in this mornings storm.
 She looked at the time at the head of the telegram. Eight a. m. She'd already lost nearly three precious hours.
 It was strange how, in this sud- den emergency, her mind reverted to its old channels. Not once did she think of Hank Holiday. It was Tom-Tcm. He'd take her. Enid felt calmer at once and her dazed mind began to function.
 Tom said he'd be right over when she explained things over the telephone to him. Now don't worry" he told her. There's a lot of small islands in the lake They're probably quite safe on one of them"
 The l00-mile drive to the lake seemed endless although Tom drove as fast as he dared on the wet and treacherous road. They didn't talk much.
 Once Tom said. Gee. I'm glad you're back. I missed you like h." He broke of abruptly. re- membering that she didn't like to hear him swear. well. I missed you" he finished sheepishly throwing her a sidewise grin.
 His words made Enid feel cheap and ashamed. remembering that she hadn't thought of him for days. To cover her emotion. she put her hand on his arm that was next to her. T don't know what I'd have dohe without you today Tom"
 She meant it. too. She'd never forget how glad shs'd been to see him running up the front steps in answer to her call.
 But she was too concerned about her parents for the time being to worry long about her treachery to Tom. Her eyes strained back to the road ahead Of them.
 She prayed ehildishly and si- iently. "Oh. dear God. let them be found by the time we get there" But the moment she saw Letty's face she knew they hadn't been.
 Tom said he'd go down to the lake and join in the search for the old people. Phil was already there. Enid wanted to go with him. but Aunt Faye. who had come over from her own luxurious cottage on the lake front and taken charge in her domlneering way, vetoed that
 There's nothing you can de down there" ahe told Enid. "Youc only be in the mems way. NoR take of that slieker and sit dowT here and drink some hot coffee"
 "As If coffee or anything could help" Enid thought despairingly But obediently she slipped tlls scalding liquid.
 Tgae rain continued Co gall alI day