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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
AND TRUCK
 COLLIDE, 2 HURT
Two Others Escape Porter Street Crash With Slight
 Bruises

Two men were, critically injured this morning at 10:30 when the taxi in which they were riding collided with large truck at the intersec- ton of Porter and South Leonard streets. A third passenger and the driver of the cab escaped with only slight bruises.
 The two, James Coy, 45, of Haver- ford, Pa., and Frank Furze, 57, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, were on the dan ger list at St. Mary's hospital. Coy sustained seven fractured ribs, while his companions injuries were a concussion and possible fracture of the skull, and head laceration. Both suffered multiple abrasions.
 Samuel Sorenson, 32, of Bridge port, was treated at the hospital and discharged, while the driver of the cab, Patrick Sgrillo, 9 West Porter street, was not thought in- jured badly enough to warrant hos pital attention.
 Motor Patrolmen Thomas Red- ding and Joseph Phelan who made the investigation, reported that the taxi collided with large Diamond T truck, owned by Gagnon & Poolir Go. of Hartford. The radiator and bumper of the truck were smashed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
U. 5. BOATS SCORE
 HITS IN SOLOMONS
Three Jap DestrOyers Tar gets; Guadalcanal Ad-
 vances Reported

Washington, Jan. 14.-(UP)-U. s. motor torpedo boats, striking with lightning swiftness in the Solomons area, have scored two hits on one Japanese destroyer, single hit on another, and two possible hits on a third, the Navy announced today.
 A comunique said that an enemy surface force was intercepted by the torpedo boats on the night of Jan. 10 near Guadalcanal. The extent Of damage caused by the hits on the destroyers was not reported, but the communique said the enemy force retired to the northwest.
 How many ships were in the en- emy surface force was intercepted by the torpedo boats on the night of Jan, 10 near Guadalcanal. The extent of damage caused by the hlts on the destroyerS was not reported. but the communique said the enemy force retired to the northwest.
 How many ships were in the en- emy surface force was not reported
 On Jan. 13, force of Marauder medium bombers with Airacobra and Lightning escort bombed enemy in stallations at Rekata Bay. Results of this attack were not reported.
 The communique added that United States ground forces on Guadalcanal Island, supported by air forces, have continued to make ad- yances, but the extent of these also was unreported.
 Navy Department communique, No. 251:
 South Pacific Gall dates east longitude)
 g. During the night of Jan. To- Ii U. s. motor torpedo boats att tackled a number of Japanese de- stroyers near Guadalcanal. Two tor- pedo hits were scored on one of the enemy destroyerS tand one hit on a second destroyer. Two possible hits were reported on b third destroyer. The enemy force retired to the northwest.
 "2. On Jan. 1S e force of Marau- der medium bombers (Martin B-26) ], with Airacobra kBell. P-39) and Lightning Lockleed P-39 escort, bombed enemy installations at Rek- ata Bay. Results were not reported.
 "3. U. s. /grourd forces on Gaudalcanal island, supported by air 1nnaAp SssahSi-asAs t'--AAS ~@s'AAnn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
BETTY HANSEN
 TO TAKE STAND
Blonde Prepared to Tell Unprintable Story in
 ErrOl Flynn's Trial
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Cor
 reSDOndent)

Hollywood, Jan. 14.-(UP)-Betty Hansen, the 17-year old Nebraska school girl who ran away from home to be a movie queen and wound up Hollywood waitress, tells in court today about her evening with Erroll Flynn.
 She charged him with statutory rape, as did Peggy Satterlee, 16, who accused him of attacking her twice aboard his yatcht on the pre- text of showing her how beautiful the moon looked through a port hole.
 Flynn had a simple defense. He was ready to say, T didn't do it" his lawyers announced, and to prove it to the satisfaction of a jury con- sisting of nine women, mostly housewives, and three men-a re- tired insurance agent, an elderly civil engineer and g. gas meter reader.
 The first witness called by Prose- cutor Thomas Cochran was Miss Hansen's sister, Mrs. Patricia Mars den, who said Betty disappeared from her home last September IA and remained away for nearly g month. Next on the witness list was Police Lieutenant Robert Bowl ing, who examined the boudoir of a Bel Air mansion in which Miss Hansen said she submitted to the hero of some of the most popular movies Hollywood ever made.
 The third witness Was the blonde Miss Hansen herself, looking like a schoolgirl, who was prepared to tell a lurid and, for the most part, an unprintable story of what went on in the bedroom of a home oc- cupied by Fred McEvoy, British sportsman, and Bruce Cabot, movie actor.
 She met Flynn at a dinner party given by McEvoy, Cochran said in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
ARMY MESSENGER
 KIDNAPPED, LET GO
Four AbduCtOrs Search Truck Without Effort to
 Rob Private of Money

North Kingston, R. l., Jan. IA (UP)-Pvt. Raymond L. MoSher oi Springfield, Mass, a U. s. Army mes senger, told FBI agents, intelligence officers and state police today how he was kidnapped and searched by four men while on Army business near here.
 Mosher said he was held at gum point nearly an hour while the men searched his truck last night but was released after one of his abductors remarked:
 "It's not here"
 At no time, the soldier said, did the men make any effort to rob him of money and he said all papers were returned after being examined
 According to Mosher, he was driv- ing along the Boston Post road near the Jamestown highway when forced to stop at a traff1c light.
 Two men, he said, approached his truck and in friendly" fashion asked the way to Boston. While he was explaining, he said, one of the men drew @ revolver and said:
 Don't take your hands of the wheel"
 At this point two other men ap- preached the truck and all four got inside, Mosher said.
 The soldier said he was forced to drive some distance to @ woodland spot where the men ordered the truck halted and began their search Mosher said they examined many papers before leaving in an autonlo- bile that was parked nearby.
 Mosher said he drove directly to state police barracks here and re- ported the affair.
 An hour later, police were told that an automobile carrying four men and similar to the car that Mosher described was seen near Narragansett about IF miles from the spot where the alleged search took place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
Reds Throw 3OO,OOO Men
 In Drives On Three Fronts
R. A. F. Drops 100 Tons Of Bombs On Germany's Ruhr In 10 Minutes
Truckn1en Strike At K. /. NaUal Base

Quonset Point, R. l., Jan. 14-(UP)-A truck drivers strike with a pay rise as the point at issue was in progress at this navy station today.
 Navy officials disclosed yes- terday that about 14O of the 39O truck drivers at work on construction projects had struck. All were members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, WarehOusemen & Helpers of America (AFL).
 Financial Secretary ROderick A. McGarry of the union said that the men were dissatisfied because a scheduled wage in- crease of from 70 to 9S 1-2 cents an hour had not been approved by the War Labor Board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
FRENCH DESTROY
 Z AXIS PLANES
Germans and Italians in Libya Pounded in Wide=
 spread Attacks
By EDWARD W. BEATT1E

NCAAVOu AACSS OCSSA NOTTeSpOnucnCJ
 London, Jan. 14-(UP)-French forces in Tunisia reported new vic tories today over German and Italian troops attempting to hold strong positions in the mountainous Kairouan sector, while Allied air forces pounded the remnants of the Afrika KropS in Libya in series of widespread attacks.
 Their new gains gave the French control of 12-mlle line running through mountain passes and heights from Karachooun south to the 2,000-foto height of Djebel Bou Dabous.! The latest successes were scored about 25 miles northwest of Kairouan.
 The Axis again reported strong Allied attacks, supported with ar- mored units, in Tunisia, but an AL lied communique from North Afri- can headquarters said there had been no change in the ground sit uation.
 French infantrymen, however. re- ported they hadl destroyed an Ital- ian force encircled two days ago in a valley northwest of Kairouan, taking 80 prisoners and capturing booty. Several German pockets of resistance were destroyed in the same area.
 Other French units participating in a drive through the mountains toward the Tunisian east coast cap tured additional mountain passes on a road running southeast from Kairouar.
 For the first time the French were supported by their own air force. Members of the Lafayette Escadrille, flying P-40 Warhawk fighters furnished by the U. s. Army Air Force, aided ground operations and struck against the Axis in of- fensive sweeps.
 At least seven Axis planes-five fighters and two bombers-were de- stroyed over North Africa during the past 24 hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
CIGARETTE CAUSES
 BAD FIRE IN QUINCY

Quincy, Mass, Jan. IA. (UP)-A discarded cigarette was believed to have caused Q general-alarm fire early today that swept Jeens Coffee Shop, a South Shore night spot, with loss of $25, ,0OO.
 The blaze started only 20 minutes after the place closed and was dis covered by an eastern Massachusetts street railway bus operator who saw flames in the restaurants window.
 Fireman George Phelan was treat- ed at a hospital for a foot injury sustained in battling the fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
Mayor Not Decided Wheth= CT to Remain in Office or
 Take Alien Post

Mayor John S. Monagan announced today that he has mot yet decided" whether to remain in office to fill the unexpired portion of the term of the late Mayor Vim cent A. Scully or accept an appointment to the staff of the Alien Property Custodian. In a statement to the press, he said that he would make a decision within a reason ably short timep and that the well fare of the city would be. his chief, concern.
 The 31-year-old lawyer, who was automatically advanced to the mayoralty from his post as presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen, said that the shock or Mayor Scully's death had given him little time for consideration.
 Should MT. Monagan decide to resign, the new president of the Board of Aldermen would be the city's next mayor. Most prominent ly mentioned, in that case, are Ex- ecutive Secretary John P. Fitz- maurice and Controller Cornelius F. Maloney. Friends of ex-Senator Edward P. Egan and Park Superin- tendent James J. Curtin said today that both can be counted out as possible candidates. Still regarded as possibilities are City Treasurer Serge A. Belanger and Aldermen Patrick Shea and Daniel Driscoll.
 Mayor Monagan's statement fol- lows:
 Since last September have been carrying on, with officials of the Alien Property Custodian's Office, negotiations for the purpose of ob- taining 8 position in that branch of Government service. In Novem- Der was informed that was prac- tically assured of place and I was originally requested to come to Washington on or about December first. At that time I virtually end- ed my private legal practice. A slight technicality prevented the position from becoming available until re- gently. Mayor Scully was informed of my intentions before December first.
 T find myself faced with di- lemma. Mayor Scully's tragic death has placed upon me an obligation which I cannot lightly surrender. The shock of the past few days has given me little time for quiet con- sideration. I have not yet decided what I shall do.
 T expect to make a definite de- cision within a reasonably short time and the people of Waterbury can be sure that the welfare of this city will be a vital and present consideration"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
Monagan To Make Definite
 Mayoralty Statement Soon
Frances Farmer,
 Actress, Jailed

Hollywood, Jan. IA -(uP)- Actress Frances Farmer was in Santa Monica jail today, facing 8 six-mOnths sentence, after a 24-hOur fling that cost her a film role and ended in her ar- rest on a charge of violating probation.
 Detective Earl ReinbOld awOke her in 8 fashionable Hollywood hotel yesterday to take her into custody. He said she fled to a bathroom and made her reappearance in the nude. When SAe was booked at the jail, she listed her Oc- cupatiOn as such an unOrthO- dox one that caused the hook ing officer to jump when he read it. -7''''+ 7
 Miss Farmer had been sought for two weeks for violation of probation. A six month jail sentence for drunken driving had been suspended on con- ditiOn that she pay 8 fine and remain out of trouble for two years. She paid only half the fine and failed to appear when the balance was due.
 Edna Burge, studio hair- dresser, brought a battery conn pIaint against Miss Farmer yesterday.
 The Monogram studio later disclosed that Miss Farmer had been removed from the lead role of "NO Escape" and Mary Brian had been substituted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
SOCIETY GIRL FOUND BEATEN
Towing Dog on Roof Leads to Discovery PO-
 lice Efforts Baked

New York, Jan. 14.-(UP)-A dog bowling in the moonlight on the rooftop of a Harlem tenemont house led last night to the discovery of a dazed and beaten society girl ly- ing on an adjoining roof and raised the curtain on 8 mystery which to- day baked police efforts at splu- tion. --x---l.Sss. -z .,s,s.r--s es.A.,
 The girl told police she was Bea- trice Hudson of 277 Park avenue and that her mother was a Mrs. w. Ross" of that address. The mother removed the girl from Har- lem hospital to Doctors hospital, a private institution, and refused to speak to reporters.
 The girl told story which police described as "evasive". She could remember nothing, she said, from the time she set out last night af- ter cocktails for stroll in the dim- out past Central Park reservoir un- til she was revived at Harlem hos pital, where police said she was found to be suffering from frac- tured jaw and cereDral concussion.
 Late last night Mrs Evelyn Thomas, a Negro occupant of a Harlem tenement, heard 8 neigh bor's dog bowling. She investigated and found the girl.
 Mrs. Thomas asked what was the matter. -
 I'm cold and tired" the girl re- piled, according to Mrs. Thomas, and under further questioning said she was not ill and had not been attacked or bothered. Police said her pocketbook, untouched, was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
British Raid Essen But Lose Four BOmbers; Sup=
 ply Ships of Enemy Hit
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff COrrespOndent)


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, January IA. - (UP). - Royal Air Force bombers dropped 100 tons of high explosive and incendi- ary~ bombs in 12 minutes in the German industrial Ruhr region during the night, the Air Ministry announced to- day. The communique said British heavy bombs raided Essen, seat of the huge Krupp Works, with 100 tons of bombs in a continuance of the RATS attacks on the Ruhr, and four bombers were reported missing.
 The smash at the Ruhr was the eighth in Il nights as the British keep up their campaign to knock the edge off Germany's war pro- duction.
 One aircraft was reported missing from the fighter command after in truder operations over France and Holland, The communique said HudsonS, of the coastal command, attacked a convoy off the Dutch coast without loss and two enemy supply ships were hit.
 The authoritative statement that 100 tons of bombs were dropped on Essen confirmed a general belief that Britain 'snew tactics sending over small force of four -engined combers almost nightly-100 tons could be easily carried by perhaps 20 giant Lancas CTS, Stirlings, or HahfaxeS-to sattack indudstrlal areas ,t1arass hafd<pressed defenses, and increase the nerve strain on the workers.
 Last nights raid was the third in succession. Again the weather was not too good. Overcast skies and rain were reported over the straits
 Severe Winter Weather
 Today the weather is the worst of the winter, with heavy winds, rain, and ttc temperature dropping toward the freezing point.
 The air ministry reported scat tered German raiders dropped ex- plosive and incendiaries on three northeast coastal areas and many fell into fields doing no damage. One raider was doWned in flames and fell in a public park.
 Yesterday, the air ministry an- nounced beginning before noon and continuing until almost dusk, near ly 400 fighter planes escorted Amer
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
STATE FUEL OIL
 SUPPLY VERY LOW

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 14.-(UP)- Gov. Baldwin has telegraphed Con- necticut's members in Congress that fuel oil and anthracite coal sup plies in the state were so low that additional deliveries were "abso- lutely essential"
 The telegram said existing agen- cies in the state were doing the best they could to alleviate the situation. but emphasized that relief must "aSna srnn outside the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
SUMMA'S BILL
 BEFORE SENATE
Measure to Protect Pen- sion Rights of City EnlF
 plOyes Now in Service
lspecial to The Democratl

State Capitol, Hartford, Jan. IA Time spent in military service by city employees would be considered part of their municipal service rec ord under the terms of a charter amendment bill filed in the Senate today by Senator Frank Summa of Waterbury. The measure would protect the pension and retirement rights of city employees who are now in the service or who will enter the service before the end of the war.
 The measure also provides that all policemen, flremen and school teachers entering the service shall be guaranteed the return of their jobs at the end of the war.
 The bill would also bar from in- clusion in city-service records any time served only incidentally. such as membership on city board.
 The text of Senator Summa's pro- posed charter amendment, which will be taken up by the cities and boroughs committee of the General Assembly, follows: An Act Amending the Charter of
 the City of Waterbury
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen. eral Assembly convened:
 Section 39 of Special Act number 382 of the Special Acts of 1941 is amended to read as follows: in computing the length of service rendered the city required by any provision of the Charter of the City of Waterbury, only that time shall be counted during which the em- ployment by the city was the en1- ploye's chief occupation. Time spent as members of various boards or in other capacities rendering in- cidental service to the city shall not be included. In those cases when continuous service is required, time spent in the armed forces of the United States shall not be held to break such continuity, and such time shall be included in con- putting the length of time of service rendered the city where such ena-
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DISCUSTED JUROR
 LENDS TESTIMONY
Paving Block Scandal Charges to Be Told Sen=
 ate Foreign Relations
By RICHARD DE BROWN limited Press Staff COrrespOndentl

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Jan. 14-(UP)-Sen. H. Styles Bridges, R.. N. H.. has promised the Senate Foreign Rela- tions committee that he will pro- duce at least one juror who was disgusted with the way a Bronx Grand Jury handled the paving block scandal involving Demo- cratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn.
 Bridges, announcing ill advance the charges he will make against Flynn in the Senate today, said the unidentified juror would appear be- fore the Senate Committee and tell why Flyn was evonerated in the paving block scandal"
 He also charged that the fore man of the jury, Daniel Daly, re- ceived federal appointment in New York City about two months after the Flynn whitewash."
 Bridges charges were the latest development in the controversy over President Roosevelt's nomination of Flynn to be minister to Australia and his special envoy with rank of ambassadr in the southwest Pa cific. The controversy has reached such proportions that Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex, of the Sen- ate Foreign Relations committee said 1t had virtually relegated the war to third place oh Capitol Hill.
 Connally's committee will meet tomorrow to decide formally wheth- CT to hold a hearing on the nom-
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REDS CAPTURE PRISON CAMP FROM GERMANS Tanks With Tommy Gun- ners Rip Through Rear
 on Caucasus Front MAIN FORCES DRIVE ON
 THROUGH RAIN, SNOW Russians Preparing for Possible Offensive in
 Black Sea Area
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, January IA. = (UP) - Russian forces ad- vancing through the Cauca- sus encountered stiff resist ance today from Axis troops who stubbornly defended railroad stations and high way junctions in an attempt to block the road to Rostov, dispatches to the army news paper Red Star said.
 Despite the tenacity with which the Germans were attempting to - hold to their positions, the Red Army continued to advance = most of the time through rain and snow that left icy slush on the battle fields.
 Russian planes, flying far ahead of the Red Army forces, started a day and night offensive against Krasnodar, 150 miles south of Ros- toy, in an attempt to knock out the big German air base.
 Ire fighting became so severe overnight that Russian tanks and tommy gunners broke all the way through to the German rear on one sector of the Caucasus front and seized 8 concentration camp where Russian civilians and army men were held prisoner.
 Counter-Attacking
 The Red Star dispatches reported that the Germans not only were att tempting to cling to defense points but that at some places in the Cau- csus they even were counter attack ing in defense of railroad stations, highway functions and river bar riers.
 In the vicinity of Kumagoorsky, 8 railroad town in the north Cau- casus, fighting was especially se- we're, Red Star said. Thirty menl- bers of a Panzer unit supported by a heavy infantry force counter attacked, and the Russians brought up artillery, tanks and "armor busters"
 After sharp battle the Panzers were routed and the infantry re- treated, pursued by Cossack cavlry.
 At other defense points in the
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FRENCH INFANTRY
 GAINS IN TUNISIA
AmeriCan-Bu Planes Are Used in Smashing Axis
 Strong Points
RY PHIL AImT

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Jan. IA - (U.P.) - French infan- tryment. supported for the first time by American-built planes flown by French pilots of the Lafayette Es- cadrille, have smashed several AXIS strong points to gain control of a I2-mile line in the mountains north west of Kairouan in northeastern rl1nisia, 1t was announced official ly today.
 A French communique said the French force wiped out several Ger man and Italian pockets of resist ance in mountain passes 25 miles northwest of Kairouan.
 As a result, the French line now runs from Karachoun south through a series of passes and stra- tegic heights to the 2,00O-foot height of Diebel Bou Dabous.
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ACTING GOVERNOR

Hartford, Con-, Jan. 14.-(UP)- Lieut.. Gov. William l.. Hadden, West Haven, was acting governor today while Gov. Baldwin was at Boston, attending 8 conference with other New England governors on the fuel oil situation.
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