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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
ITALIAN EMPIRE
 IN AFRICA GONE
Minister Grigg Claims Cap- ture of TripOli Turns
 Tide of War

London, January 23. -- (UP) = Britain's capture of Tripoli has turned the tide of war for both the Russian and British armies, War Minister Sir Edward Grigg said to- day in & broadcast speech.
 Grigg paid tribute to til United States for the air force and sup port sent to aid the victory, though he emphasized that the cap- ture of Tripoli, climaXing the ad- vance through Libya, was "over- whelmingly a British Empire show"
 "We believe that the tide has now firmly turned" for the Brit ish and Russian forces, he said, and added that the Italian Empire i'll Africa, covering an area l2 1-2 times the size of the British Isles, was now gone.
 "Today we had the news of the fall of Tripoli," he said. ITO all intents and purposes this completes the destruction of the Italian Elm plre Ill Afrlca.
 "The Eighth Army fulfilled the task originally assigned it. Egypt has been freed fnom fear of invas- ion and Italy has been stripped Of the last shred of its African empire.
 "In 194O, that empire was held by more than half million Italian troops; since then Mussolini has sent to Libya another eight Italian divisions to which Hitler added some five German divisions.
 Prom these hordeS we can say that in almost matter of hours not a man will be left in arms on what was once Italian soil.
 'Today from the height of their achievement new horizons open out and General Alexander's victorious troops turn their eyes on another enemy on the battle ground to the west"
 General Sir Harold R. L. O. Alexander is commander in chief in the Middle East, and thus is superior to General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who led the drive to Tripoli)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
2.Ol2 MEASURES
 TO BE CONSIDERED
House Receives l226 Bills, Senate 7S6 During Past
 Seven Days

Hartford. Conn, Jan. 23-CUP)- The General Assembly was in a weekend recess today after mem- bers, during the past seven session days, introduced 2,012 bills for con- sideration.
 The House received 1,226 meas ures, and the Senate 786. AS they were read, the measures were dis patched to committees, and hear ings will start next week.
 Also next week the Legislature was expected to begin consideration of a bill granting Gov. Baldwin wartime emergency powers to sus- pend any state statute which he deemed interfered with progress of the war effort. The Judiciary com- mittee has made favorable report on the bill.
 Another gubernatorial measure redefining and increasing the pow CTS of the State Defense Council probably will be reported favorably by the Military Affairs committed shortly.
 The governors war council bin establishing Q war cabinet of about 20 members. was passed by the Senate yesterday with some Demo- cratic support, and will be in the governors hands next week. Mem- hers of the council probably will bt named late next week.
 This council. it appeared. will have "all-Over" supervision of the states war effort, with the State Defense Council reduced Co work Ing or protective services. Tho council wili be comprised Of experts in various fields who will advise the governor on the handling of dim cut pgoblomg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

ter year. There are cases, he said, in which whole families have made no attempt to pay the annual levy since 1t was started in 1883. There of many instances of delinquencies so inexcusable that police action is the only solution, he said.
 He pointed out that the city lost over $l7,OOO in revenue last year through failure of dlinquents to pay the $3 old age tax. This has to be made up by other taxpayers, he pointed out, and places an unfair burden on them.
 The tax collectors staff is now mailing out the 1943 bills, which be- come due and payable Feb. 1. The deadline for payment is March l, with $1 penalty being added If payment is not received by that time.
 There are approximately 60,0O0 bills being mailed out, but many Of these will be ruled out for various reasons. The city has been assessed $lSO, ,637.84 by the state for the old age assistance tax fund and this amount has to be sent to Hartford whether or not the city collects that much. Collections last year totalled over $146,500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
COP, BURGLARS
 HURT IN FIGHT

Lawrence. Mass, Jan. 23-(UP)- A policeman was shot in the left leg and two of three burglars he surprised in 6 Broadway club may also have been wounded in a gun battle in downtowli Lawrence early today.
 Patrollman Daniel J. Murphy, A. who was hospitalized. said he saw two of the fugitive fall, as though wounded, but that both were able to continue their flight. He said he began shooting when the trio ignored his command to surrender after he surprised them in La Le- zion Franco o-Americaine club, and that they returned his fire.
 The burglars escaped with $50 cash, including the contents of 8 jar containing donations to Q service mems fund, but had to abandon six cases of liquor. valued at e200, which :hey had piled near q door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
New Flag Waves Over Richest Capital of
 Italian Empire
ENEMY CALCULATES BY
 BOATS FROM ZUARA
Humiliated Italians Must Accept British Charity
 for Their Bread
BY LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent

(Unlted Press Statf COrreSpOnuent)
 Cairo, January 23. - (UP) = General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth British Army captured Tripoli today and the British flag was raised over the biggest and richest capital of the Italian empire. Advanced British Army units took over Tripoli at 5 a. m. today after a sharp fight in which rear guards of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps attempted & delay ing action.
 Eighth Army armored forces captured Castel Benito Air Base, 10 miles south of the city, yester- day, and closed in on Tripoli while the infantry, advancing along the coastal road, went in from the east.
 As British Empire troops, Britons, South Africans, New zalanders, Australians and Indians, poured toward the city the Allied air force maintained a ferocious attack on the last of the Axis transport mov- ing toward the Tunisian border, 105 road miles away.
 With Tripoli fallen, the Germans and Italians tried frantically to evacpate the last. of their picked civilian and other officials by small boat from Zuara, 70 miles west of Tripoli, last port in Llbya in 1tal- ian hands.
 AirplaneS opened & heavy attack on the ships and 1t was said of1i- cially that damage was done to them.
 Throughout the night, by moon- light, the aerial attack was main- tained on the ships and on Axis transport fleeing toward the Axis. held Tunisian corridor. Ailrdromes Attacked ..
 Intruder planes ranged all the way to Sicily, attacking Axis air. dromes from which planes might have come to aid the broken Axis army.
 Announcement was made in a middle eastern command communi- que that the advanced clements of the Eighth Army entered Tripoli, Queen City of the vanished Italian African empire, early today.
 yesterday our troops occupied Castel Verdi and were closing in on
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
LACUARDIA LENDS
 TESTIMONY TODAY
New York Mayor May Be Last Witness in Edward
 J. Flynn's Hearing
BY JOHN L. CUTTER limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

! Washington, Jan. 23.-(UP)- Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia who ordered New York city's investiga- ton into alleged misuse of city, owned paving blocks by Edward J. Flynn, testifies today before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Hymns qualifications to be minister to Australia.
 He appears for questioning on the third-and possibly last-oay or the committees hearings which have been highlighted by the paving block" charges and allegations that Flynn wasted city funds and con- sorted with the enemy only two weeks before Pearl Harbor. The former Democratic national com- mittee chairman, President Roose- velt's choice as his personal repre- sentative to the southwest Pacitic, denied all charges.
 Resuming its hearings at lO:3O a. m., the committee plans to ques- ton Robert Moran, former Bronx commissioner of public orks. It then will call LaGuardia who may be the last witness.
 Chairman Tom Connally, D.. Tex, hopes to end the hearings today by Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H. Hymns leading congressional critic, contends that 8 complete examina- ton of the charges win require ad- dltional witnesses.
 William Herlands, LaGuardia's commissioner of investigation. yes. terday described Moran a "Flynn's major dOmo in the use of public property for hls own benefit" He believed Flynn was guilty ot know lngly using city-owned paving blockI and Bronx county laborers In building an antique Belgian at his Putnam County, N. Y., country home.
 It was pointed out that q Bronx County Grand Jury had inyeStlgat- Cd tho charge and failed to return
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

General Douglas MacArthur ar1- Siour1ced in communique that the last three enemy pockets of resist Ance, two flanking Sanananua Point on the north coast Of New Guinea, the third inland, had been broken and that 725 enemy dead had been counted. The day before loO Japanese had been killed when the first of the enemy pockets was taken.
 Macarthur announced also that American B-l7 Flying Fortresses and Be24 Liberators, in an amazing pre-da@n raid in which the great four-rnotored bornbers swept down like fighter planes on Rabaul, the biggest Japanese base in the South west Pacific, had destroyed four enemy ships totaling 24,000 tons.
 Sinks in { Minutes
 One of the ships, a 4,00o-ton cargo vessel, split and sank within four minutes. An S,O00-ton transport burst into flames and blew up. A 4,OOO.tonner sank in 12 minutes and a second S,OO0-ton ship, was left burning, disintegrating from a series of explosions.
 Announcing the statterlng of the remaining Japanese strongholds in Papuat MacArttur said:
 ''SaiAananda-- organized enemy resistance hes been overcome. Mop ping up is in progress. Seven huIa- tired and twenty-five enemy dead those previously reported. Many have been found in addition to nor ore yet to be counted. A con- siderable quantity of enemy mate rial and equipment have been cap- tured, including field guns, trucks and ammunition"
 The mopping tip squads moved out this morning to hunt down the Japanese survivors who singly or in tiny groups skulked through the coconut groves inland or fioundered
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
TAX COLLECTOR
 PLANNING DRIVE
5,7OO Waterburians Fail to Pay Old Age Assist
 ance Tax in I042

A drive to collect old age assist ance taxes from 5,700 Waterburians who failed to pay in l942 is to be undertaken soon, Tax Collector Humbert Mangini said today. Col lections from those delinquent for previous years will also be sought in the campaign.
 All delinquents have been given ample warning, Tax Collector Man. gini said, and there will be no more temporizing with them. He is pre- pared, he said, to ask for the issu- aIlce of warrants.
 Raymond P. Clark, deputy tax col- iector, said that many of the delin- quents have been the same year af-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
GUN ACCIDENT
 HOSPITALIZES TWO

Worcester, Mass, Jan 23-(UP)-A single bullet fired accidentally from a revolver sent two men to Q hos- pital early today.
 Police said Lester Start, Jr, Q gun collector, was allowing the pistol to two friends. Wlnthrop Esidocott, 2o, Of Worcester and Peter Barton, 2i, son of Q Worcester marufe ''i'' r when the accident occurred. The bullet passed through Baftons e.. hand and struck Mudlcott in the chest. Neither was seriously sounded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
oUARDHOUsE WAS WAITING

Camp Campbell, Cal. - (UPl - To get back into the Army, Private John Greenhouse, AWOL for i've and one-half years. headed straight for the euardhouse. During Great hQuse's long leave, he acquired Q wife and two children and Iavelen around the world. But when ms coasclenee caught mp with hln, no reported directly Co the nuaf4house ,r;d Has Npleo,aed back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
FLYNN FAvORITE

Lawren.e, Mass, Jan. 25.--(uP)- The LauFencian", monthly publiea- ton Of the students co Lawrence high school. today announced tis "fayoriles' 'of ioa2. including;
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
FIRE CHAPLAIN.

Boston, Jan. 23.-(UP)-The Rev. Henry !, O'Conneil of st. Johns Seminary, Brighton. today started his duties as Catholic chaplain for the Boston fire department-the first time the department has had such . member.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
vI0LErTE HELD

Hartford, Conn. Jan. B. CUPl-- taWrenee A. Violetfe. Lowell, Mass. was held by local police today on a charge cf non~silppeEt' Nc will ha returned Co Lowell as soon aa allr therIIIts from there arrive tn pirk lim nD. police faif
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
Australians Smash Fever 7 Ridden Jap Fugitives In Papua
siandfuI of Hungry Enemy Sole Remains of Army l5,OOO Strong Four Months Ago; Four Enemy
 Ships TOtalng 24,OOO Tons Destroyed
BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

os . UP; T American and Australian troops after smashing the last organized Japanese resistance in Papua hunted down today the handful of tattered hungry 1eve
 ri6den ft,etves who remained of an enemy army tnat four months ago. 15OoO strong, was within S2 miles or
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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Keyser Drops
Bonus Demand

The Keyser sub-local OF Local.
1874 has ceased to worry about get
ting an extra bonus. demand that
had been formulated before the
workers Joined the union. and have
gone out after a straight increase
In pay. instead. says Payton. The
demand for bonus was disallowed
bv the War Labor Board.
At a membership meeting NOV. Il
the Keyser workers, employees OF
the Potomac Worsted Spinning Mill,
voted full confidence in the lead
ership Of the Textile Workers
Union of America, and authorized
the national and local officers OF
the union to negotiate an increase
In pay for them.
Bro. Herbert Payne OF the ma
tional office accordingly opened ne
gotiations Nov. rs with Joseph
Bloom, attorney for the company,
in New York.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Wor Dept. on missing
In Action Casualties

Washington, Nov. 81 Modern
battle tactics, with widespread Of
fensives, have greatly increased the
number of casualties listed as miss
ing in action" the u. S. War Dept.
said this week. AS soon as reports
on such casualties are available,
they are forwarded to next of kin,
the Department stated, but added
that it frequently takes consider
able time to determine exactly what
has happened 10 a soldier, who
months later may be reported safe
but captured by the enemy.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06

ment, but It Is as unreasonable and
stubborn as q blue-nosed mule.
We offered to start five minutes
early and then clock out three min
utes early at the end Of the shift
in order to be through at four min
utes after. This would still give
the company eight hours work. I
might add here that the transpor-
tation facilities will not cooperate
to any extent in this period Of
emergency.
Another bad feature is the mad
rush TO the clock that is caused
by the people trying to get in the
front of the line to catch the bus.
Several people have been knocked
down in this rush and could have
been hurt seriously.
If the Safety Department at the
Celanese allows a condition such
as this to exist, 1t may as well be
abolished. II 1t will not take action
on a thing that would not cost the
company one red cent, it would not
take action on anything.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Toohey In
Lexington

Kenneth Toohey, another former
1874 member who is doing or
ganizing in Virginia, is working out
of Lynchburg under the direction Of
Regional Director Boyd E. Payton,
a third local man. Toohey is con-
centrating on the shop Of the Blue
Ridge Carpet Co., at Lexington.
This firm is a runaway from the
Philadelphia area. 1t pays its 1900
employees II to IS cents less than
the union scale per hour, and they
are in a receptive mood when union
is mentioned.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Dovy UnopPosed
For President

Roy e. Davy will continue 90
president Of Local 26, since he alone
was nominated for the full term in
elections conducted at the Begin
ming Of December.
John Chisholm was unopposed for
treasurer. The delegates to the
Western Maryland Industrial Union
Council will be Ralph G. Beard,
John E. Sharp, Harry Castle, Per-
cival Twigg, Roy Davy, Walter HUH,
Holly Scott, Odell Young, Robert
Parsons, and G. d. Mcintyre.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06

TWUA Wool1en Workefs Local
%, Martinsburg, w. Va, has ne
gotiated a 10 per cent increase In
pay with the Berkeley Woollen
Mills, says Regional Director Boyd
Il. Payton. The application was to
90 forward to the War Labor Board
Nov q.
The negotiations were conducted
TO. the union by Payton, Kenneth
Toohey. and John Edwards, Presi-
dent of the local. The increase Is
retroactive to Nov. II.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Textile Notes

organizer on the staff Of the ma
tional TWUA, expects victory in the
poll which has been set for Dec. 8
and 9 In the plant Of the Sylvania
Industrial Corp. Of Fredericksburg,
Va.
Together with Bro. Ashby Taylor
of Roanoke, who has been working
among the colored workers, he has
a majority Of the workers already
signed In the TWUA.
The vote is between TWUA and
No Union. The company union that
once existed in the plant did not
even have life enough TO get on the
plant.
Jay, who recently took . few
days ut his home In Cumber-
land, explained that there Is .
fine feeling Of cooperation be-
tween the colored and white at
the plant, and this has helped
the work enormously. The two
groups meet together and plan
policy Jointly in union meetings.
The company practiced Job seq
regation, reserving the lacquer
coating entirely for colored work.
ers, but did not manage to keep
the workers apart.
About a month ago the union
fled claims on behalf of the en-
ployes for overtime due them under
Executive Order 9240 but not yet
paid, added Jay.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Must Run TO
Cofch Bus

Discussing industrial accidents in
Rochester, N. Y, on Nov. -, Maj.
Gen. F. A. Terry of the Second
Service Command said:
every accident means victory
delayed and more names on the
memorials to those who did not
come home" He put the loss in
man-days from accidents at 1.OOO,-
900 in the first six months Of this
year, i'm plants employing 1,OO0,-
600 workers.
It Is rather ironical that the
Celanese Corp. posts safety no
tices throughout the plant, and
then keeps In effect or creates
the very conditions that make 1t
impossible to carry out their
recommendations.
For example, a bulletin recently
said, walk, Don't Run. Accidents
Help the Enemy"
You all know that 1t takes seven
minutes to clock out in w. K. II
the company can show me how
people who must catch the bus at
the Cumberland gate can walk out
in three minutes, l will gladly show
it how to fly over the moon. Two
people missed the bus last week
after running all the way, and
there have been several others in
the past.
The union has made repeated at
tempts 10 reason with the manage
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06

A sales tax would bear heavier on
the poor than on the rich-a 10 per-
cent tax on $1,000 a year means a
lot more proportionally to a work
er's family than a 10 percent tax on
$4,000 a year means to a banker.
Have you written your Congress
man and Senator's against a sales
tax?
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Warp Knit Notes
By Melvin L. Mckenzie

The party that &C" shift held in the DeIaven Tavern at
Corganve declared to be very much of by
everyone who attended The of them made
"How soon have another one?"
The is plan to have soon and thinking
of having an orchestra this time for the dance.
meeting will be held to set up permanent COM
ttee arrangements various recreation
of the credit for arranging the last party goes to
We congratulate him for doing good job
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Homecoming
Seeks Dufu

Larry Cohen of the national office
of the TWUA came to Coney to
work out the basis for the incentive
plan that is included in the con-
tract of the General Textile Mills
plant. He found. reports Payton,
that the records Of the company
were not adequate for the purpose
except in a few cases.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
with the company.

industrial the week OF November and
voted to ask a their union the UOPWA
This CLIO union with the Prudential and
bargaining where the operates except
District of Columbia Delaware and Ohio the
lastnamed being now process of organization.
establishment of National Insurance Com
mission under Labor Board.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06

II anyone gets a scratch, don't let
Quentin ("Red") Justice see the
blood. He might pass out and skin
his face all up-again.
Did all Of you know that Leslie
Kreidar is n iitterhuP?
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Jay Gets
Va. Election

The company has agreed to give
further information, and the union
Immediately took steps to see that
the workers would receive retroac-
tive pay to compensate them for
any delay.
Lester Jay of Local 1874, now an
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
Backed for
Political Post

New Orleans, Ia, Dec. Aired c.
Pieper, CLIO regional director here,
has been endorsed as a candidate
for the Democratic State Central
Committee from Jefferson parish by
the United Labor Committee of the
parish.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06
UOPWA Stands Firm
For Higher Wages

Steadfasy refusing consider signing contract that
did substantial increase in their present scale of
compensation the Cumberland industrial agents of the Eureka
Maryland Assurance Corporation of Baltimore City, sody
organized in Local SIS and Professional
their fifth week of negotiations
with the company
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-12-06

1--WE could accept a contract with lot of words
in IT," said Thomas r. Barnes, president of the
Cumberland sub-local "but we aren't going to do
it until those words add up to more money in the
pay envelope"
The company has agreed that whatever in
crease is granted will be retroactive to October ~
1913.
The main part of Local 65s membership is in
the Pittsburgh and Braddock area, and the Cum
berland agents seek conditions equal to those en-
joyed by the members there.
acknowledgements of $1,000 Prudential
Smyrna times., 1943-03-25

lished in our Service Honor Roll
under the date of March 18th. We
hope, with you, that your brothers
friends will write him often. Let
tiers from both home and friends
will mean more and more as time
passes. So you do your part in
keeping the mai lbag full. And
don't forget, the next time you
write your brother, tell him to send
in line for this column so that all
his friends may read it. In this
way the news reaches many of Our
Boys in all parts of the world.
Thank you for your kindly interest
Miss Jane, and keep this good work
up.