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WAiERBURY, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, H42
ESTABLISHED 1881 VOL. LX, NO. 247
The Weather
Light Rain, Warm
For Tonight
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Stock Quotations
Late News Flashes
Yankee Airmen
Carrying Brunt
Of Solomon Fight
For Four Days Continuously Our Bombers Have
Pounded Supply Centers; MacArthur Has
Resumed Bombing of Jap Bases
BY SANDOR g. KLEIN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
tfashintgo'n, October 21. — (UP) — American airmen
«ave bombed and strafed Japanese troop and supply con
centrations on Guadalcanal Island almost continuously
for four days and are carrying the burden of the battle of
the Solomons, a resume of official communiques showed
today. Officials here were unable to say that the offensive
of Army, Navy and Marine nyers
was responsible for the delay In the
anticipated enemy drive to take the
Island. Still the Japanese land
forces remained motionless, although
the Navy as late as Sunday an
nounced that a “strong assault"
against the air field on Guadalcanal
was expected at any time.
(Allied Planes of Gen. Mac
Arthur’s Australian command con
tinued their support of the Ameri
can Solomons forces by blasting
again at the big Japanese air base
at Buln on Bougainville Island and
shipping In the vicinity. They were
belleged to have Inflicted heavy
damage.
All signs still pointed to such
an offensive. Large numbers of
enemy warships and auxiliaries are
massed In the area. And Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox said the
Japanese have not yet thrown their
Dig punch.
There was no Indication In the
Navy reports of the effectiveness
of the American air raids on enemy
positions. Because of the thick jungle
It woe doubtful that a complete pic
iure of damage done was available
•ven to the commanders on Gaudal
canal.
News of Communiques
This much Is known' through
aaval communiques:
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HURLEY HITS JOB
DISCRIMINATION
(iovemor Names Commis
sion to Probe It; Water
bury Woman in Group
Hartford. Conn.. Oct. 21—(UP)—
dov. Hurley, today appointed a spe
;lal commission to "look into the
natter of Job discrimination In
Connecticut's war plants.”
The commission, composed of
•even members, he said, would re
oort to him personally on “all
phases of job discrimination and
will make recommendations” to
correct the conditions.
The investigation was instituted,
it was understood, because of con
tinued reluctance of many manu
facturers to employ negroes and to
Increase the number of Women in
mechanical Jobs.
The United States Employment
Service reported only last month
that employers must “reconcile!
themselves to an even wider utill- i
eatlon of women,” and pointed out!
that 2,000 women had been hired
oy war plants in that month.
Heading the governor’s commis
sion was William Ennis, director of
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24 BUND LEADERS
ARE SENTENCED
Each One of Them Gets 5
Years, But No Fines
Are Attached
New York, Oct. 21 -<UP)
Twenty-four leaders of the German
American Bund, convicted Monday
night of conspiracy to violate the
Selective Service law, were sen
tenced to prison terms of five years
each today by Federal Judge Al
fred D. Barksdale,
No fines were Imposed. The Judge
said he did not wish to Impose a
hardship on the families of the de
fendants.
The sentence was pronounced on
the group simultaneously, the Judge
asking the 24 to stand and then an
nouncing that each would be-sen
tenced to five years.
The court pointed out that the
sentences of -Gerhard Wilhelm
Kunze. national leader of the Bund,
•nd Dr. Otto Wlllumelt, Chicago
Bund leader, would run consecutive
to the terms they now are serving
after pleading guilty at Hartford,
Conn., to espionage.
Kunse received a 16-year sen
tence at Hartford and Wlllumelt a
five-year sentence. Their
twwwili total 20 and 10
FACTORIES TO
INCREASE WORK
War Production Contracts
Not to Be Taken Away,
But Grow Greater
War production In Waterbury’s
factories will continue to Increase
and the demand for new workers
here will steadily grow despite an
announcement by the War Man
power Commission that this city is
one of 66 “labor shortage" areas, a
survey by The Democrat showed to
day. Manufacturers and business
leaders expressed fear that a morn
ing paper article stating that ‘.‘addi
tional war contracts will be placed
elsewhere because of the local labor
shortage" would be widely misinter
preted. Key business leaders em
phasized that Waterbury, as a vital
war production center, will continue
to be called for an ever-increasing
amount of war goods.
The attitude of business leaders
was summarized by Frank J. Green,
secretary of the Waterbury Cham
ber of Commerce.
No Interference
Said Mr. Green: “There will be
no Interference with the operation
of Waterbury’s plants. There is, In
fact, ample evidence that increased
production here will be called for.
Manufacturers are finding addi
tional available labor dally. Any
lmpresslon that Waterbury's fac
tories wll be without war contracts
Is altogether wrong.”
Several manufacturers spoke along
similar lines. Federal contracts will
continue to come here, they stated,
and there seems no doubt that em
ployment here will continue to raise.
The successful efforts made by fac
tories to secure new employes,
among them the establishment of
training courses for women, were
cited.
The designation of Connecticut
cities as “labor shortage” areas was
denounced as unjustified In a state
ment issued at Hartford by Alfred
C. Fuller, president of the Manu
facturers Association of Connecticut.
He pointed out that there have been
no delays in filling war contracts
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I
MEN, WOMEN TO
BE MOBILIZED
Commissioner M’Nutt Says
It Must Be Done to Get
Production
BY JOHN R. BEAL
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Oct. 21—(UP)—War
Manpower Commissioner Paul V.
McNutt said today he expected
within two weeks to submit to
President Roosevelt proposed legis
lation to mobilize men and women
for war production. He said bills
now pending fail to meet such a
program’s basic requirement*.
McNutt told the Senate Military
Affairs Committee that a WMC
management-labor pollck com
mittee now is drafting the legis
lation. He said the committee does
not believe that a law should be
adopted by Congress until all in
direct means available for mobiliz
ing mnapower are exhausted.
Womanpower will be required to
solve the manpower problem, he
added, because 5,000,000 workers
must enter the labor force by the
end of 1543 if the goal of 62,000,
000 persons In employment and in
the armed forces is to be realised,
and most of the newcomers will
have to be women.
Thre Essentials
McNutt said national service
legislation “must do more than
grant sweeping authority to the
President.” He Us ted these three
essential powers that must be pro
vided:
1. Authroity to require employ
ers in any area to hire all worker*
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America’s Army Today And Tomorrow
U.' S. ARMY'S GROWTH
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POSSIBLE PEAKf j
10,—,000 Men | J
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OCT., 1940
450.000 aettvo
175.000 national
ruard and reserves
i WORLD WAK I
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1918
1920
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1925
n-1-1—r
1930 1935 1940 1943
FIGHTING TROOPS
3,300,000
7,500,000 SOLDIERS
AIR FORCES
2,200,000
IN SERVICES
TRAINING OF SUPPLY
1,000,00011,000,000
Two years after the first draftee’s number was plucked from a fishbowl
in Washington—on Oct. 29. 1940—the U. 8. Army has grown to a figure
surpassing even its greatest strength in World War I. Destined to reach
1,500,000 troops by the end of neat year, the Amy wUl assign its soldiers
as shown In bottom chart.
Japan Gives Sinister Hint
About Fate Of Yankee Flyers
(By United Press)
Japan denied today that she was aping her Axis partner, Ger
many, in ordering severe punishment for American aviators she
claimed were shot down during Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s raid
on Tokyo last April.
"The Japanese decision concerning the Americans is an inde
pendent policy, unconnected with Germany,” Tomakazu Hori, gov
ernment spokesman, said in a statement broadcast by Radio Tokyo.
“These measures will be followed in the future."
Japan broadcast Monday that the Americans—evidently fictitious
because all but one of Doolittle's planes, which subsequently landed
in Russia, returned to their “Shangri-La" base—had been found
guilty of “inhumane" conduct by courts martial. It said heavy punish
ment would be given aviators forced down during raids on Japanese
controlled territory and that they might be sentenced to death.
Concerning Washington announcements that all American
planes had been accounted for, Radio Tokyo said:
“Skeptics are advised to Inquire into the present whereabouts
of Hyth and Harlow, who are but part of the captured crews.”
The broadcast inferred that Robert Hyth—or Heiss—and Lieut.
William J. Harlow had been court martialed.
Radio Tokyo said Hori, asked about the fate of the American
airmen Japan purports to have captured, replied: ''Well, they ad
mitted they wilfully bombed hospitals and schools, didn't they?”
Legitimate Sales Of
Real Estate Allowed
New Law Dees Not Discriminate on Those Sales; But
“Phoney” Sales, in Order to Evict Tenant
Will Get Knockout
Real eat ate sales are in no way
prohibited by the new OPA regula
tion which took effect yesterday,
Atty. Wllllnam J. Secor, of the local
rent control office’s legal staff,
stated today, explaining, in answer
to hundreds of questions which have
poured into the office, that the new
restrictions apply only in those cases
where the purchaser seeks eviction
of a tenant.
Purchases of property in which
eviction is not involved are not gov
erned by the new regulations which
require down payment of 33 1-3 per
cent at the time of the sale, the
local legal advisor explained, and
such sales may continue under the
terms followed previously.
The new law, which took effect
yesterday, aims to prevent “phoney”
■ale of property, Mr. Secor stated,
and it is not its intention to de
crease legitimate sales which are
not made for the purpose of evad
ing the maximum rent regulations.
Some of Regulations
Under the regulations announced
by the OPA and taking effect Oct.
30 no landlord can seek eviction on
the ground of occupancy for a mem
ber of the family or a dependent.
Previously such eviction was per
mitted if the landlord proved that
be would not obtain rent fees from
the member of his family occupy
ing the property vacated. Personal
occupancy, however, will continue
to be allowed as a reason for evlc
i tion but strict regulations will be
i enforced regarding such eviction
where new purchase is involved.
Where such eviction, for the rea
son of personal occupancy, Is in
volved, the purchaser will be re
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GUERRILLAS IN
JUGOSLAV FIGHT
Fierce Battle Is Raging
With Axis; Yankee Bomb
ers Busy in Egypt
London, Oct. 31. (OP)—Private
advices from the headquarters of
Oen. Draja Mikhailovich. Jugoslav
Guerrilla leader, reported today that
a large scale battle was raging in
Southern Bosnia between his Chet
nik forces and Axis troops.
The reports indicated the battle
was one of the biggest yet waged
in Yugoslavia.
First reports said the towns ot
Kupres and Poca on the south bank
of the Drina river had been heavily
bombarded by artillery from both
sides and htat the towns had
changed hands.
At the same time, private advicei
revealed that one of Mikhailovich!
best offlcers, Maj. Vladimir Todor
volch, had been, killed by an inde
pendent band of "foreign" Guerril
las which infiltrated into Yugo
salvia and opposed both Mikhailo
vich and the Axis tone*.
Losses were reported heavy or
both sides in the battle at Kuprei
and Poca.
Mikhailovich, reports showed, suf
fered casaulties estimated betweei
(Continued on Page 4)
Supplies Cannot Be Driven
On Soviet Quagmired Roads
Some German Troops Aro
Reported to Be Starving
on Russian Fronts
HITLER IS HURLING IN
EVERYTHING HE HAS
Both Sides Gain, Lose in
Combat; No Let Up to
Bloody Strife
(United Press Staff Correspondents
Approaching winter and
new vigorous Russian coun
ter-attacks today multiplied
Adolf Hitler’s difficulties at
Stalingrad. Moscow re
ported that the German
forces were suffering heavily
due to the extension of their
lines of communications over
hundreds of miles of bad
Russian terrain now turning Into
a quagmire under continuous au
tumn rains.
Supply difficulties, said Moscow,
are so serious that some German
troops are "starving”. Others were
said to be reduced to eating stfay
dogs. Rain had fallen steadily, at
Stalingrad since the start of the
week, Moscow reported. In contrast
to the Germans, Red Army forces
Inside besieged Stalingrad were said
to be getting regular food supplies,
and ammunition brought In under
cover of night across the Volga
river.
The German high command In
dicated some pessimism regarding
the Russian front In Its regular
communique. It reported that Mar
shal Semyon Timoshenko had
thrown "fresh, strong Infantry and
tank forces” Into his drive north
west of Stalingrad.
The Germans claimed the attack
had been repulsed with heavy cas
ualties and the loss of 40 Russian
tanks. The sector between the Vol
ga and the Don was not the only
point of Soviet attack. The Ger
mans said that new Russian ef
forts to smash back across the Dm
were being countered while Moscow
reported that Red Army troops south
of Stalingrad had seized the Ini
tiative and were advancing.
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
troopa
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Moscow, Oct. 21—(UP) — Front
dispatches said today that the Rus
sians seized the Initiative south of
Stalingrad and drove the Germans
back across several miles of men
country amid drenching rains that
bogged the enemy’s communica
tions.
(The German high command ad
mitted significantly that Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko has sent fresh
reinforcements into his drive from
the north between the Don and the
Volga Rivers. Radio Berlin had re
ported yesterday that there were
preparations for a big attack north
west of Stalingrad).
Some of the biggest battles of the
campaign in the Stalingrad area
were being fought In the barren
and unfortified steppes for posses
sion of Isolated water wells, the
main objective of both sides. Dom
ination of a single well often meant
control of an area of hundreds of
square miles, dispatches said. Th«
wells are a necessity for the oppos
ing tank, cavalry and motor pa
trols.
South of Stalingrad, an enemy
village manned by a Rumanian gar
rison fell easily before the Russians
experienced in steppe fighting.
In Stalingrad itself, the
were throwing 30,000 storm
and 60 tanks into a narrow sector
in a frantic effort to take the city
before winter settles. The Red Army
was smashing every attack.
The Communist newspaper Pravde
reported that the food situation
among the German assault tnops
had become severe while heavy
rains that had fallen unabated fss
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Frenchmen Again Resisting Nazi
Attempt To Enlist Them For Labor
Appeal of Gen. Charles DeGaulle, Fighting French
Leader, Had More Weight Than All Threats
Made By Laval
By NED RUSSELL
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Oct. 21.—(UP)—Advices
from the continent indicated today
that the appeal of Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, fighting French leader, for
"revolt against treason” was likely
to have more success than chief of
government Pierre Laval’s demand
for 1QO.OOO more skilled Frenchmen
for German war factories.
Both leaders—one of the Free, the
other of the Vichy French—spoke to
the French nation by radio last
night. De Gaulle’s remarks were
broadcast by the British Broadcast
ing Corporation two hours after
Laval finished on radio Vichy.
Opposition to Laval’s program, de
signed to provide 150.000’ French
men for German industry, was re
ported today from throughout
France. At one place, workers re
fusing to go to Germany were de
prived of ration cards, a new anti
Nazi clandestine broadcaster on the
continent said. They rioted, and
police refused to obey orders to fire
on them.
At Lyon, police attempted to put
workers forcibly aboard a train for
Germany. At the last moment, the
train was blown apart by a mys
terious explosion and the workers
remained at Lyon. Many workers
were reported crossing the French
border into Switzerland.
De Gaulle’s Orders
The reported reaction was in line
with De Gaulle's command:
“Revolt against the leaders of
treason. France passes to general
resistance."
Laval said French workers had
the choice of going to Germany
“freely and gaining material advan
tages" or facing "humiliating forced
labor.
(Continued on Page 4)
FIELD MARSHAL
SMUTS REPORTS
Great Allied Offensive Is
Near; War May Last
Two More Years
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Oct. 21 —(UP)— Field
Marshal Jan C. Smuts, prime min
ister of South Africa, told parlia
ment today that the moment for a
great Allied offensive is approach
ing.
He said tne defensive phase of
the Allied strategy now had ended
and the moment was ripening for
the last—and offensive—stage of the
war.
“The explosive limits of endur
ance are nearing,” he said. “Wc
are approaching the point when
both the war fronts and the home
fronts in enemy countries are ripen
ing for far-reaching developments.”
Smuts addressed a Joint session
of parliament which met at a secret
place. Parliamentary procedure pre
vented him from speaking in the
regular parliamentary chambers, be
cause he is not a member of either
house.
"Once the time has come to take
the offensive and strike while the
iron is hot,” he said, “it would be
folly to delay and overprepare and
(Continued on Page 4)
Boy Replies To
Nazis By Bullet
i
—NEA Telephoto
New York City.—Konstantins
Konstantinov may look like a
youngster playing sailor, but he
is 18-years-old, has been in the
tT. S. S. R. Marines one year and
killed 74 Germans in one battle.
It was in the Battle of Leningrad,
the Germans tried a “psychologi
cal’’ attack—advancing in single
line, grinning and smoking and
smoking and firing. After every
man in Konstantlne’s unit had
I been killed, he manned the ma
chine gun and killed wave upon
1 wave of Nazis until help arrived.
He was awarded the Order of the
, Red Banner, highest military
honor. He was transferred to the
gun crew of a ship, and is now in
New York city.
RUDOLF HESS IS
PRISONER OF WAR
Will Be Tried With Other
War Criminals After
Peace Returns
London, Oct. 21—(OP)—Foreign
! Secretary Anthony Eden told the
House ol Commons today that the
government presently treated Rudolf
Hess, former No. 3 Nazi, as a pris
oner of war but saw no reason why
' he shouldn't be dealt with like other
I war criminals after the war.
' He said no request for Hess' im
mediate trial had been' received
from Russia, where agitation that
he be tried without waiting for the
end of the war was growing. An
official Russian statement to the
refugee governments in London had
suggested an immediate trial, and
the newspapers Pravada and Red
Star echoed the demand yesterday.
‘There's no cause to apply to H*a
treatment other than is being ela
borated by the United Nations for
dealing with war criminals. Hess is
treated as a prisoner of war. There
never has been or can be a question
of treating him as an envoy or giv
ing him any form of diplomatic
privileged status.”
(Continued on Page 4)
LOS ANGELES IS
SHAKEN BY QUAKE
Buildings Were Rocked By
Sideward Motion; Lasted
Full Minute
Los Angeles, Oct. 21.—(UP)—An
earthquake rocked Los Angeles at
9:24 a. m. P.W.T. (12.24 p. m. E,
W.T.) today.
The quake rocked the city with a
gentle sideward motion. The shock
lasted a full minute.
Reports from El Centro said that
a “very sharp quake” lasting ap
proximately three minutes had beer
felt there- Plaster fell in torn*
build lots.
The shock there was felt in <
north and south rocking motion. A
milder quake was felt In El Centre
at approximately 9:21 a. a.
helm, 29 miles to
Yankee Planes Smash
Japs On Kiska Island
Japanese Trying to Dig In, But Are Meeting Daily
Bombardment; Jap Radio Station That Warned
Americans, Was Blown to Pieces
i .
By RUSSELL ANNABEL
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Headquarters. Alaska Defense
Command. Oct. 21.—(UP)—Ameri
can bombers delivered another
heavy punch at the battered Jap
anese garrisons on Kiska Island last
Sunday. Army headquarters report
led today.
Twelve tons of bombs peppered
! the main camp area and adjacent
beaches while two direct hits were
scored on a cargo ship whi.h had
been an “indestructible target” dur
ing the three previous raids.
The ship was finally reported "no
■longer seaworthy” and the cargo in
its water-filled holds was believed
ruined.
Bomber crews reported so many
runs on the ship recently that they
began to call it “old indestructible”
because it still hadn’t disintegrated.
The raid Sunday was led by Cap
tain Lvnn R. Moore, who reported
large fires in the crowded main
camp area after the attack. Wind
blew a heavy smoke cloak over the
frost-pointed meadows of the Kiska
peaks.
Por ten days American bombers
have concentrated on shipping and
have sunk two Japanese destroyers
and two cargo vessels in Gertrude
Cove, and have ruined one cargo
vessel beached at Trout Lagoon. The
Japanese were seen removing us
able gear from one of the ships
sunk in Gertrude Cove.
Radio Bluff Is Called
Army flyers, who have been bomb
ing. strafing and photographing
Japanese garrisons, report increased
activity on Kiska where the enemy
has even attempted a radio blufl
to strengthen his foothold before
winter sets in.
Ip the new garrison at Gertrude
Cove, on the south side of Kiska
the flyers have observed the Jap
anese troop* “as busy as beavers'
dispersing equipment, reinforcing
gun emplacements, digging storage
holes and sinking their steep-roof
ed huts into the soil.
Tenia have been observed pitched
in bomb craters where the Japs ap
parently have sought a measure 01
safety from almost daily air at
tack until they can gat their huti
dug in. The Japanese have loa
all their fighter planes in the Aleu
Mans and hence cannot be defendet
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CONN. LAWYERS
BACK UP MALTBIE
Bar Association Has Pass
ed Resolution to Have
Gov. Name Judges
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 21—(UP)
—A resolution adopted by the Con
necticut Bar Association today
urged the appointment of minor
court Judges by the governor, and
not the General Assembly as at
present.
i The resolution was adopted by
the association only 21 hours after
State Supreme Court Chief William
M. Maltbie made a similar sugges
tion in a talk to the group.
Attorney Joseph F. Berry, Hart
ford, who defended Highway Com
missioner William J. Cox in the re
cent ouster action, was elected pres
ident of the State Bar Association,
succeeding Warren F. Cressy, Stam
ford.
Charles M. Lyman, New Haven,
; was elected vice-president in a con
test with William B. Gumbart, also
of New Haven. The contest was
unprecedented as the association :
failed to accept the recommenda
tion of a nominating committee.
Other offlcers: James E. Wheeler,
New Haven, secretary-treasurer;
Offlcers of the Board of Delegates:
Charles W. Pettengill, Greenwich,
chairman; Richard F. Corkey, New
London, vice-president; Joseph E.
Donovan, Bristol, secretary-treas
urer of the Board of Delegates;
David Goldstein, Bridgeport, and
Thomas Flood. Portland, executive
committee.
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LAUGHED M SCHOOL BURNED
Boston. October 21-(UP)-In
stead of sounding an alarm, several
hundred pupils capered with glee
in the school yard last night as a
$30,000 are swept the Cora L. Ether
tsmeou.