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WaWriTilk fflnriiutg 1 4 4 tttfinH VOLUME XXXVII NUMBER 259 WATERVILLE MAINE RIDAY JANUARY 3 1941 PRICE THREE CENTS Bombers Make Second Raid On Dublin a I i I tri i i i 1 1 I Governor Sewall Assumes Office I I 'i 1 New Governor 'r Of Maine ake Of ive Hour Battering Off Africa American Legion In Drive Tb Sinking Of British Vessel a' 1 Described By Survivors Make Draft Law Permanent ON GREECE BRITAIN WANTS OR CONVOYS Keystones laid or Making IL Arsenal Of Democracy War department Reports "go one the eve of a newlsession of Congress Storm Trapped Bomber 4' i Pilots Continue On light Newt Smart! Different! I dora and con ual they are of far more than or 1941 0 ive Men Parachute rom British Ship Sends SOS Rep I ish (R NY) disagreed Turn to 8 No Same in White 1 CHRISTMAS CLUB Governor Sumner in augural 'address trill be discussed by Richard i Hallet noted author and member of the edi torial staff of the Gannet Pub Jishing Company over station WGAN at 9 today The commentary will include the highlights of his speech and some of the proposals made by the new governor after his In auguration at a joint convention of the State Senate and House of Representatives in the state house Thursday morning The inaugural ceremony was des cribed by Mr Hallet in a special WGAN broadcast 1 'i MARINES ASK JAP APOLOGY OR ARRESTS WASHINGTON Jan Ths American Legian began a drive to day to have the draft law made per manent legislation but with com pulsory military training limited to men 18 to 21 years old The legislative committee of the 0 i fore the anticipated fall of besieged Bardia i 1 With these forces declared to do firmly holding a stretch of the road leading from Bardia to Tobruk 80 miles west of the Egyptian border the RA lashed out anew last night Turn to page 8 No 11 Todays Weather 4 Light Snow' Not So Cold ull Report On Page 7 I By The Associated Press LONDON Jan 2 A new assault by British bombers upon the Natl invasion bases along the rench coast was signaled tonight by flash es of flares and muffled explosions visible and audiblefrem across the cold and wind swept Straits of Dover 7 German positions between Calais and Boulogne appeared to be under attack with the Boulogne region and the Nazi big gun emplacements at CapiGriz Nez getting special at tention 1 In this attack the RA had to plunge through severely unfavorable weather It followed a foray in which the British were declared by the air ministry to have paid Nazi bombers back fire for fire in a tremendous raid oh the airplane factories and other industrial plants Turn to page 8 No 9 EYES EXAMINED GLASSES ITTED ORTIN Slate Registered Optometrist 40 MAIN ST TEL 405 i Broken Lenses Replaced were Lieut Hanson navy pilot who (Ordered the men to bail out and co pilot Clarke of the na val reserve Two other long range bombers which left San Diego with the miss ing plane at 6 JO a landed at Corpus Christi at 515 m' the three ships were en route to Pensa cola! la on a routine delivery flight si A radio report from the distressed plane at 3 (C T) said it was flying in a snowstorm over this west Texas prairie coun try The report added the pilots wanted to land but could' sight no lake and the plane lacked landing wheels Radio contact was lost shortly thereafter as the plane headed to ward the southeast Perry said the ship seemed to drop Turn to page 8 No 1 NAZI PILOTS AID ASSAULT NEW YORK Jan Mack ayradio reported that the steam er Galgora had radioed at 510 today that she had been "torpedo The position placed her about 500 miles northwest of Da kar (on the' coast at fWest Africa and about 500 luiles south of Ten erife in the Canary Islands There is no Gaigora listed in or other standard shipping registries A British freighter Nalgora 579 tons radioed Monday that she was traced by a mysterious ship approximately 1000 miles north of the position given in this latest call The Nalgora 'ordinarily in trade to India later cancelled the call Tuesday night a ship identifying herself as British and giving the name Zeal reported she had been torpedoed iabouL 250 miles north west of Dakar She also was unlist ed in shipping registries World War organization said Senator Sheppard (D Tex) and Rep May (D Ky) had agreed to Introduce legislation embodying this program tomorrow the first day of the new Congress The legisla tors are chairmen of the Senate and House Military committees respec tively The present draft law 1 making men 21 to 35 inclusive liable to a military training will expire in five years unless reenacted The Legion proposed an amendment changing the age limits to 18 to 21 and striking out the clause limit ing the! life "By this simple amendment uni versal military training would be made the permanent policy of the Turn to page 8 No 5 Accident Box Score Of Automobile atalitka 1939 1940 0 '1 AS JAN 3 1941 1 Waterville Savings Bank 82 Slain SL Waterville Me By The Associated Press CAIRO Egypt Jan British mechanized forces were reported penetrating 75 miles beyond the Egyptian border in Libya today in a possible prelude to an attack on the big Italian base at Tobruk even be Hallet To Discuss Sewals Address Over Station WGAN Inaugural Speech i Is Approved By Maine: Citizens which 1 they had been Imprisonedwhen their ships were sunk The 1 quartermaster Valerie said he wks at the wheel ion the morning of 'Nov 20 when he: noticed the black shape of another vessel nearby once the stranger opened fire he said The first shot crashed through the steering gear and threw the Rangltane out of control 1 Other shells screamed into' the 10172 ton vessel rapidly he said killing! six stewardesses in their Turn to page 8 No 8 1 '4 BIG SPRING Tex Jan 2 A navy patrol bomber? carrying two men unreported tonight hours after five crew men from the storm battered one 40 hisj death Three others were in jured Radioman A I Perry who landed unhurt said at Lamesa the men bailed out at 17000 feet after encountering a storm which broke the windows and sent the craft momentarily out of control The body of Percich ma mate was found! in a plow ed field near Ackerly 24 miles to the northwest His parachute was found a quarter of a away In hospitals were Radioman Li Hughes and 5 machinist's mates Neff and iReche Jr Extent of their Injuries was not determ ined The two who stayqg'with the plane through relief for the needy aged and greater opportunity for yisuth a return of the executive council to Its constitutional advisory capacity and its divorce from the personnel board completion of defense pro jects bolstering of labor benefiting programs and "judiciously distrt salary increases foY state employes was heard without dem Regarding old age assistance jthe chief executive asserted that it was the duty of the state in cooperation with the fedreal gov ernment to see to it that no needy aged person suffers" adding that 'we have failed to Implement our law with appropriations sufficient for Just reawakened national need Turn to page 3 No 13 'MELBOURNE Australia Jan 2 Destruction of the big British lirier Rangltane by a German raid er stole alongside an hour before dawn and fired without warning was described today by sur vivors disaster Six v'omen were killed' outright by the shelling and many of the sur vivors displayed wounds on faces limbs and bodies I One of the women related that fihe German captain when ushering them aboard the raider as cap tives asked you British wo men ever 1 They were among 496 survivors of seven ships who were rescued by Australian ships after being ma rooned Dec 31 oni the Island of Em irau near New Guiana by the sea raider and a Nazi supply ship on LONDON Jank Britain was said reliably tonight to be ur gently seeking additional United States i destroyers for convoy duty and to use as anti submarine pa trols on her trans Atlantic life lines' An informant who termed this one of the most important ways Jn which America cotild expand ler aid Intimated that the destroyer ques tion and the need for cargo ships to replace those being sunk would be among the first matters brought: up when Lord Halifax arrives ini Washington as the new British' ambassador British maritime circles pointed to the recent assertion of food min ister Lord Woolton that the enemy is making al direct attack on bur 'and that' danger is much worse than It wasAln the last 1 Il To all this they said the only Turn to page 8 No 7 corps had been nearly doubled In 15 the force would reach 6180 nf magnetic faflety used early In ha war before Britain devised a defease system against them They were) carried to earth by parachutes of emerald green silk also of German! manufacture 1 The 1 government Information bu reau said the iartny engineers destroy the mines riday and warn ed residents In a 3 mllg radius to open their windows Residents for a half mile about have been moved out of their hones In the 5 hour! bombing last night and this morning the department of defense listed ithesp localities os struck 1 I Tum tb page 8 No 10 I Staff Photographer Gov Sumner Sewall as he delivered his inaugural address Thursday British Mechanized orce 1 1 I Reported Penetrating Libya (About 700 planes are being produced a month and a major portion Is going to Britain) Two billion dollars worth of con tracts for tanks guns shells' and other equipment had been placed during 1940 by the ordnance de partment (These orders did not include those for fighting planes which are placed by the air corps) Actual ordnance production had increased more than 500 per cent during the last 'year over 1939 level Patterson said The ordnance department had Increased Its em ployes to more than and the supply of Garand semi automatic rifle? actually on hand had Just reached 100000 The daily production of small Turn to page 8 No 4 tion arid place tighter restrictions cn bank lending Senator Townsend (R Del) said on the Senate floor that the propo sals would a long step in the direction In which we ought to move without further "The prompt adoption of the plan by hesald go a long way toward allaying I public fears of currency and credit infla AAV UIKVU UHLU CUUKreSS step and stop purchases of gold and silver least from coun tries against which we are in other ways spending millions and millions to bring economic Rankin (p Mlss told the i Tum to ptge 8 No 6 the War Department reported to day that the foundation stones had beenlald "to 'make this country the great arsenal of At the same time the depart ment painted a mixed jilcture of progress on the $1137000000 emer gency program for building canton ments and munitions plants if ty seven were reported on time or ahead of schedule1 but de lays on other 1 housing competed postponement of the dates for in duction of more than 18000 Na tional' Guardsmen into the eder al service Torrential rains lumber strikesand conditions over which the War Department had no con were blamed for setting back Induction date one to three weeks An official accounting of the de vast expansion program was given by Robert Patterson assistant secretary of war at a press conference The former federal Judge de clined comment on statements that Chalrnian May (D Ky) of the House Military commit tee and Vinson (D Ga) of thel House Naval committee had expressed fa vor for a congressional study of thedefense program But he made these points: The? man potver of the army air BY RICHARD MASSOCK ROME Jan (A5) Italy an nounced officially today that a Ger man flying corps has reinforced II aviators on Italian Soil and Indicated this massing of Axis air men iwill intensify the assault both on tne Greeks In Albania land the British in North Africa The Germans sald( the announce ment will in the bitter aero naval fight now developing in the Mediterranean (The Brit ish have been conducting wide Tum to page 8 No 12 Irish Capital Is Assaulted Second i Time Within Day px 1 V' Dawn Bombing ollow In DUBLIN Jan Dublin was bombed before' dawn today in a hew raid following up a 5 hour assault started Wednesday) night upon an arta of 60 mile radius around this neutral capital and BLACK RUBBER BOOTS AUGUSTA Me Jan (AP) Sumner Sewall 44 yeaf old Republican grandson of a one time Demo cratic vice presidential candidate became 43rdgovernor today amid a general chorus of approval of policies he laid down in a hard hitting inauguraLspeech The former Senate president was inducted into office with traditional pomp and solemnity in a crowded House of Representatives and immediately afterwards deliv ered what veteran! legislators called one of the shortest most vigorous maiden speeches they had heard by a modern day governor 4 mother Mrs William Sewall and the wife and three children sat near the rostrum from which the governor delivered his speech is the happiest hour of my said the mother I am so happy on this said the chief ex wife Thev message of 1800 wbrds re 4 quired little less than half hour to deliver In it he asked the Legislature to surrender to the gov ernor the powef of selecting the attorney general state treasurer secretary of state and agriculture commissloher He also suggested (hat future governors should be elected for a single four yiar term in non presi year The packed house vigorously ap plauded hi1 etnphatic promise that there will beno overdraft this and cheered again when he asserted that "our citizens are entitled to kqow the truth con cerning the government which 6e i longs to tribm" P5 The rest of his address contaln I Ing recommendations for Wise Be prepared for a Joy ous in 1 94 1 By The Associated Press PEPING China Jan An apology by the Japanese Gendafm erie for their of five United States Marines in a Dec 30 cabaret incident was de 'I manded tonight1 by Col Allen I Turnage the Marine commander 5 here 1 The Japanese army command was inforined that failing Ito receive such satisfaction 'thet Americans i would refuse tef make a1 local set Turn to (page 8' No 3 WASHINGTON Jan The White House was non commltal today toward the ederal Reserve System's program for changes In monetary and banking laws while on Capitol Hill a fight appeared to be in the making Stephen Early presidential secre tary saic the Reserve re port was submittedwith the Presi dent's full knowledge but that Mr Roosevelt had not approved it be causeJt''tyi was under study both at the WhfteHouse and treasury A number of members of congress approved and somewharply disap proved the program wfiich among' other thing? would let thh presi power to devalue the dollar lapse repeal legisla ernment said on shore this I monihg lying unex ploded and menacing in the fields Some houses were damaged and it wak feared that several persons may remain buried Under thedebris I The houses hit were located on Donbre Terrace Others on Dufferin avenue had windpws 'blown out Within 45 minutes after zthb attack seven person were admitted to lone hospital for bomb inflicted in TV vJ jUl 1CO i bombs came down near Enniscorthy 60 miles southwest ol Dublin and less than 15 miles in land from the Irish Sea which sep arates Ireland and I England No damage or casualties 'were reported in this case and the identity of the raiders was not mentioned In the attacks last night how ever at least three civilians were kiled and twp injured at Knockroe County 1 Carlbw and one of the bombs was declared by the defense department to have borne German markings "The mtties'whlchfelb'nfEnnis kerry County Wicklow were said by experts to be of the German Roosevelt Defense Proposals Will Reach Congress Today As New Session Convenes iyory Senate gavel tomorrow It will be in an unfamiliar and one duplicated in! the House in recent Seeks a criss cross network of steej jams and girders has been erected t0 make sure that the roofs of the two wings of the Capitol do not fall in on the legislators The struc tural steel is a temporary safeguard apd will be removed as soon as per manent repairs can be made Speaker Raybum and Rep Mc Cormack (D Mass) Hduse majority leader got a verbal from President Roosevelt today of the chief Estate bf the "Un message to be delivered to con gress Monday Rayburn said after conferring with Mr Roosevelt at the: White House that the message wtould be While the Issues before the new congress are less numerous than us thv ar rar mrvr man nr denary importance irst of all is the question otthe foreign policy and the president's proposal for relp ibg' England when her is gone Si by lending war supplies palL for ftohxthe United States treasury the supplies t6 be repaid later in xkind IA PrevlewXT'what mlgh be ex pected in the rifewsessian when this isisue is raised developed today in thej hours of the old Rep Cox (D Gaj told the House that Mr speech of Sundiynight wjas "in effect a declaration of war" and that further assistance to BrlK ain meant "active participation in Rep ish (R NY) disagreed RA Makes i New Raids On rench Coast Shop the Easy Modem Use BUDGET PLAN ay as low as 50c down with the balance in 9 Weekly Payments (JOIN A CHRISTMAS CLUB4' TODAY JLX IHAADUIU WASHINGTON Jan On the last six months By January uvn OLOJiUU iJl VO11K 1 I at which an investigation of the fleers 7090 flying cadets aVid 83000 nPlPnSA nwvrmrft hoe boon rWrtnAt'rJ J1 1 piuHuocu ciuiMeu men ne said White House Is Non Commit al i iX i On Proposed Money Changes 1 'I By NORMAN LODGE DUBLIN Jan Invading warplanes patently German loosed new Idatjs of bombs on neutral but uneasy Ireland tonight following up a 5 hour as sault which began last night in ajX50 mile rfidius around Dublin and included Irish army headquarters Oddly the' missiles dropped froirinidentifled planes included parachute borrie sea mines which the1 Irish gov BY RICHARD TURNER WASHINGTON Jan The new session of congress will convene tomorrow at noon with President Roosevelt reported ready to ask I'SlO 000000 000 moire for defense and important questions of foreign pol icy taxation the budget and anti inflation legislation awaiting: its disposition or the House the old session one' saw the neutrality act revised the defense program begun and conscription voted ended offi cially today But Senate leaders founds it necessary to call a meeting for tdhorrow morning so that! last minuto business mjght be attended tbX I ToXend he old and start the new sesStan Vice President Garner returned MMown today to speak admiringly to 'reporters of his new hat" a grey Roosevelt! iflict on fer briefly with Presli Although sometimes in questions of New Deal po two have maintained a cordial sonal relationship When Gamer picks up the worq the I 'X jn jtlmii nnnn 1 I I I X' 5 JX fg fisss 7 I l' a QU 4Maod z4rjaoa 4 I V' Xii ''7' sM Rixafet xi 1 SI Ji TIL ii MM I I rxj 1 99 i 24S 1 1 7.