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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-19
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Val gaSped as they continued or their way. Then rage swept over her and she stamped her foot help leSsly.
 You you wretch!" she cried but they didn't even turn around.
 Val watched them until they were out of sight around a curve and then sat down on the running board. She wondered if she could change the tire herself. She got out the jack, jiggered with it ex- perimentaly and then decided she couldn't do 1t. All she could dc was sit there until someone came along. And that might not be for quite while.
 She remembered there had been 8 farmhouse couple of miles back Maybe she could get help there. Val sarted out.
 Pop Grimes was grinning widely Shell be raving a blue streak What made you do that, anyhow"
 Sudden impulse, I guess. And anyway, I've owed her one like that"
 Eddie chuckled. Did you get the look on her face when we left her standing there"
 Val was still a good quarter of a mile from the farmhouse when it started to rain. Just few drops at first, and she looked up into the sky. The sun was com pletely gone She quickened her pace, but two minutes later the clouds really opened up.
 Fly the time she reached the ho,se she was drenched. A kindly, gray -haired woman let her in and Val explained her predicament. It was an hour later before the woman sent her son, a pleasant 16-year-old lad. back with Val.
 Her hair was still soggy, her shoes heavy with damp mud. AL together she felt so miserable she could have cried.
 SNe gave the farm lad a dollar when he had changed the tire and then she started back to Prince Rupert.
 Val returned the car to the ga- rage made a couple of purchases in a drug store and took cab back to the Northern Belle. It was a bedraggled and steaming Val Douglas who marched up the gangplank.
 Steve Hansen noticed her and fololwed her to her cabin. What happened, Skipper - bump into a little rain"
 She slipped out of her coat. That isn't the half of it, Steve. Oooh, wait'll my turn comes again!"
 She told him what had hap pened. Steve Hansen spraddled chair and grined up at her.
 Honey, where's your sense of humor?'
 Sense of humor!" she almost
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CAMERA NIGHT IS
 HELD BY GRANGE
Movies Are ShOWn-Mrs. Ida HallOCk Dies in
 South Meriden
CHESHIRE NEWS
Hubert Rigney Cheshire Phone 334

Cheshire, April 19-At the Grange meeting on Wednesday evening camera night was observed under direction of Henry c. Linton and Thomas c. Smith. Movies were shown, including professional and amateur pictures by Henry Linton. A talk on photography was given by Thomas Smith. Mrs. Bernard M. Allen and Kenneth Hale won a guessing game. On Monday evening an officers rehearsal for degree work will be held in Grange hall at 8 o'clock. The third and fourth de- grees will be conferred next week. The fourth degree will be conferred by the officers and the third by the women'S degree team.
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Cn AMIlIM CnAGNE FRS
NATIONAL PARKS

NATIONAL PARKS
 You probably would have little trouble telling where Glacier and Yellowstone National parks are. Can you tell in what states the fol- lowing national parks are?
 l. Platt national park, known for Sulfur springs.
 2. Lassen Volcanic national park one of few volcanoes in United States, recently active.
 3. Grand Teton national park, includes spectacular mountain range.
 4. Carlsbad caverns, not yet ex- plored in their entirety.
 5. Zion national park, including scenic canyon.
 Answers on Back Page
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Former Resident Dies

Mrs. Ida May Hallock of South Meriden, a former resident of Cheshire, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Soucie, in South Meriden. She was a native of Portsmouth, N. H. Funeral serv- ices were held from the Flatow home in Meriden on Tuesday eve ming and burial was in Portsmouth yesterday.
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Engagement Announced

The engagement of their daughter Miss June Deming, and E. Theodore Auquillare of New Haven, has been announced by MT. and Mrs. Alfred c. Deming of Cornwall avenue.
 Miss Deming is graduate of the school of dental hygienists at the University of Pennsylvania.
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HE GOES 70 MILES TO SCHOOL

L1eadOre, Ida. (UPJ-OldLlInefS who tell of trekking miles to the little red school house have nothing on T-year-old Herbert Godfrey, who claims to be the travelingest first grader in the nation. Herbert, who leads his class in sturies, travels 70 miles day to get an education.
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Condition Better

Improvement is reported in the condition of Everett J. Pardee of Highland avenue, who was operated upon for appendicitis in St. Peters burg, Florida.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS

VAL DOUGLAS = girl sports writer, shipped on . freighter to 1nd excitement. EDDIE CAVALIER = . prize fighter headed for teh title, has . score to settle with Val CAPTAIN STEVE HANSEN - skipper of the Northern Belle. DUFFY KELSO - Cavaliers manager.
 
 YESTERDAY: The mining ma chinery is delivered safely. Eddie and Pop decide to do some road work and Val insists on driving along with them. She finds their pace to slow, goes on ahead. A tire goes fiat. Val waits for Eddie to change it, and amazed when he leaves her sitting beside the road.
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must be established after this war will
have to remedy this fatal deficiency.
Peace cannot be secured unless the nee
essary conditions of peace are estab-
lished. And of these one Of the most
fundamental is practical and con-
tinuing procedure for the amelioration
of legitimate national grievances.
So President Roosevelt has only taken
a first step. though one of great impor-
tance, in announcing that our policy
from now on will be ITO extend aid to
those governments and peoples who de-
fend themselves against aggression"
Indeed, it would be arbitrary and dan
gerous for a single nation to stop short
with such policy Hitler can and does
claim that it was in this spirit that he
annexed the Sudetenland and moved
to reincorporate Danzig in the Reich.
Resistance to aggression must be made
collective, not merely to make. it more
effective but also to insure that the
phrase is not used as a euphemism for q
narrowly selfish national policy.
And as collective resistance to ag-
gression is built up, there must simul-
taneously be established universally &C.
ceptable procedures for peaceful change.
Many Of the manifestations Of progress
are aggressive. Their validity cannot
for that reason be eatesoricslly denied.
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os Disastrous Revees Albania Africa May Upset Whole

Birmingham and Shefheld. In addition
to their thrusts at Nazi-held coastal
bases, British flyers visited their allot-
ment of destruction upon Bremen and
Dusseldorf.
Words, as well as death and destruc-
ton, were exchanged by combatant
spokesmen-Hitler for Germany. Lothian
for Britain. Both, by implication at
least, envisioned America playing q
large role In the conflict-the Nazi
chancellor appearing before workers in
munitions factory to describe this war
as theological one between "the haves
and the have-nots"
II enter the fight as the representative
of the have-nots," he boasted during
long excoriation of way of life in So
called democratic countries, naming
among them America, England, France.
1.-TWO worlds are In conflict" he as
serted, two PHILOSOPHERS of life. The
traffic signals are now placed
Hitler's as follows: Gold versus la
Tiyode bor.'
"Our capacity for work is
our gold, our capital. and with it we will
defeat the entire world"
Matching in significance Hitler's out
pouring Of words was speech prepared
by Lord Lothian and delivered for him
in Baltimore during very hours Of his
last illness on Wednesday night.
Confident but grave, Ambassador wrote
that by 1912 with your help in aero
planes, munitions, in ships and on the
sea and in the field of finance now
being discussed between your Treasury
and ours, We are sure of victory"
AS the week closed word came of tho
ousting of Pierre Laval, "the appeaser, "
as aide to Marshal Petain at Vichy.
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ness of Naz submarine attacks against
British shipping. Completely dependent
for food and raw materials upon its own
power to bring goods by ship to island,
government was anxiously aware that
German undersea raiders, reinforced by
long distance bombing planes and some
surface marauders, have been increas-
ingly effective in recent weeks.
With their fleet spread out, sometimes
thinly over all the worlds oceans, British
seemingly have been unable to maintain
convoy squadrons of sufficient strength
to obstruct damaging attacks
Near close of week for instance, Berlin
communique credited single submarine
with sinking four conveyed vessels, total
ing 10000 tons; claimed bomber had sunk
two others and damaged a third
In London, Minister of Agriculture r.
S. Hudson described Britain's present
food situation lust as
Britoin's grim" as in dark days of
SUPPLIES 1917. In April Of that year
sinkings Of commercial
ships reached peak of 430 vessels, 852, 900
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Associated Press correspondent on that
front, wrote that so great was the sur
prise OF the British operations that ordi-
nary movements of provisions were inter-
cepted in some of the Italian camps, and
the men were surrounded while eating
their breakfasts"
Most spectacular part of this operation
probably was 15-mile drive of British
motorized column around southern edge
OF 1talian-occupied territory, then swift
push northward to seacoast-effect being
to cut Sidi Barrani sector of completely
from its supply lines back to- italian
Libya.
On Wednesday, Sidi Barrani fell and
by Friday night British were claiming
from 10000 to 10000
Fall Of prisoners including five
Sidi Borroni Fascist generals, while
all other italian forces
were being rolled backward toward
Libyan frontier
Unless reversed by subsequent develop
ments, British success in this offensive
ends any serious immediate threat to
Suez, demonstrates increasing supremacy
of empire naval and air forces in what
Mussolini likes to call "our sea-" and frees
new units for greater effort at dislodging
Italians from Dodecanese Islands-per-
haps from all of Albania.
Meanwhile, the Greeks were still pour
ing it on to sorely harassed Fascist
forces in Albania.
Moving methodically from objective to
objective, four Greek columns recorded
slow but consistent progress during past
week
Pointing for Valona, one Of two sea-
ports left to Italians after loss of Porta
Edda, Greek units moving along coast
seemed to be recording greatest success.
With both Greek and British planes
claiming their bombs already have re-
duced Valona's shipping facilities to use
lessness, Greek coastal column had
fought it's way to within 80 miles of this
port by Friday-at that time reporting
itself occupying Porto Palermo and in
command of heights overlooking stra-
logically located village of Chimara.
Aioo dlllilile dl VdlOIld, SeCOnQ creek
column farther east was concentrating
its attention first upon
Greeks town of Tepelini while
Push on third finger of this offense
was making it's cautious
way through Klisura Pass. Fourth Greek
penetration was to northeast. near Yugo-
slav border, where column which cap
tured Pogradetz earlier was besieging
Elbasani-on road to Tirana.
AS has been case throughout this
Balkan conflict, Greek superiority in
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mountain fighting continued to provide
greatest advantage over Italians despite
arrival of some Alpine units from North
Italy. And joining already famed Greek
Evzone troops in effective hand-to- hand
battling with retreating Italians some
new toughies-hardy Cretans, whose
favorite weapons for close work are
knives.
increasingly serious to Italian cause
in Albania has been great loss of ma
Terrell difficult to replace while Greek and
British planes sting supply ships cross
ing Adriatic, and loss or destruction Of
suitable airfelds in this small noun
famous country. Already occupying ap-
proximately Is per cent of Albania,
Greeks claim that most airdromes in
Italian-held territory have been bombed.
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LONDON.-The turn of the British
Army has come after long months of
waiting. 1t has been its task to sweat
and toll in the dry desert unglamorously
while much coveted opportunities have
fallen to sister services and have been
fully seized.
So 1t was a year ago in France.
Throughout the winter soldiers dug and
drilled while the Royal Navy and the
r. A. r. in their more varied roles were
able in illustrious flashes to redeem the
monotony of the "phoney" war. When,
in the end, the western front was
stirred into sudden activity by the onrush
of the Germans, 1t was rather under
discipline of retreat than under the spur
of an offensive that the expeditionary
force was compelled to show its mettle.
In the intervening time, have such les
sons as were to be learned from the
technique of the Reichswehr in their
lightning campaigns been turned to good
account?
Reichswehr Technique Used.
Certainly Gen. Wavell, Gen. Wilson
and Gen. O'Connor have proved them
selves to be as much masters of strategic
surprise as Gen. Keitel, Gen. Won
Brauchitsch and Gen. Won Rundstedt.
To have sent considerable mechanized
force from Mersa Matruh across IS miles
of desert to Sidi Barrani and there to
have taken q strongly entrenched enemy
unawares is a feat which in conception
and execution rivals the sudden attack
last May on the general corps of the 9th
Army by armored units.
In some respect it excels this ma
neuver, for not only were troops moved
silently across no mans land by night,
but in order to avoid detection they
spent the whole day lying motionless
in the open. There could be no more
exacting test Of their endurance. It
vindicates both their arduous training
and their buoyant spirit that they were
on the word of command ready to spring
into Ionlike assault.
The combination of a front attack on
the eneny's main position with scythe-
like movement which swept through his
right mas yielded, as did the cutting OIL
Of the Northern armies in France, an
abundant harvest Of prisoners and
equipment.
Effective Coordination.
For the first time in British operations,
effective use has been made of low-flying
aircraft for machine cunning and bomb
ing the enemy troops motor transport.
The parts played by the two services
have dovetailed into one another with
efficiency and precision.
This, however, should not be regarded
as any improved method Of modern war
fare. No offensive today can be sue
cessfully conducted and it Is doubtful
whether any defense can be sustained
without the Use Of airplanes working in
complete harmony with ground forces.
It would seem essential on Q farsee-
ing view that the principle should now
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various cities and districts of the coun-
try. They are high-handed and con-
slider 1t to be their patriotic duty
to act ruthlessly toward those who natu-
rally complain against hardships and
lack of military victories. These en-
thusiastic servants of the Fascist regime
believe in Furnishing heavily the slightest
sign of discomfort. While such behavior
might be necessary and successful In
Germany, 1t does not 60 with the
Italians, who are more excitable and less
disciplined.
For instance, there are reports of dis
content in Naples and other cities in
Southern Italy where the population is
more nervous and inf1ammable than in
the north. The Fascist officials tell the
people that everything is going all right
No wounded are sent to that part of the
kingdom. Yet the Neapolitans wonder
why the British bombers visit them so
frequently if the reports of the Italian
press that Britain is on the verge of COL
Lapse are true. They wonder further
why the Italian planes have not been
chasing the British when they appear
over the city Frequently the response
to these questions is immediate arrest.
The soviets are reported to be making
keen use of their time and their privi-
leges as semi-allies of Italy. Agents are
everywhere urging the hungry and dis
heartened people to rise against the
present regime. The blessing of Fas-
cism, illustrated by lavish Fairgrounds
and stadiums, are now quickly forgotten
when spaghetti and parmigiano are
lacking.
Masses are Defiant.
Mussolini is sitting on a volcano. A
revolution in Italy is no longer wishful
thinking in the democratic camp. It
is strong possibility not particularly
welcomed in responsible quarters in Lon
don and in Washington. These quarters
realize fully the effect it would have all
over Europe. It might mean the be-
ginning of the much-feared era OF COM
piete chaos and anarchy which many
consider as the inevitable consequence
Of the present struggle.
1t is recognized that an ambassador,
regardless of how able he may be, cannot
prevent the disruption Of disgruntled
country. But so long as the discomfort
caused mainly by hunger is still in a
latent form, the representative of q
country willing to extend a helping hand
under specific conditions might do much
good
There are indications that the Italians
might be willing to abandon the axis
ship-if it were not for the presence Of
some 80 German divisions and about
1000 planes on the Italo- German border.
The Italians feel trapped. On the one
hand they are bombed and harassed by
the British. On the other hand, if they
made the slightest sign of deserting their
Berlin ally, they would Immediately be
invaded by the friend who. they know,
Evening star., 1940-12-15
By Constantine Br0un.

, lions had been spent since the Inflated
London Naval Conference, had not made
better showing. The admission of the
Italian navy department that commune
cations were difficult with Africa, where
Marshal Graziani's forces had been
idling since last September because of
the lack of ammunition, could not be
understood even by the public opinion
of a totalitarian state.
In the meantime, the italian debacle
in Greece has been complete Not only
has Italy lost prestige and men and war
material, but the British and the Greeks
have established air bases in Albania,
whence they plan to lombard the Italian
exempt from air raids.
Lack of Gasoline Clips Wings.
The Italian Air Force, despite it's al
legged 5000 planes, appears powerless
against the British, who have not more
than a tenth of that number in the
Levant. The reason for Italy's inactivity
in the air is the lack of octane gasoline.
The Germans have an adequate supply
but not sufficient for their ally. The
amount of synthetic gas manufactured
in Italy in one day would not be sufficient
to supply the flight of one airplane for
three hours. Furthermore, the main
plant erected by the Germans in North
ern Italy-near Turin-was badly dam
| aged in q recent British air raid.
The lack of food is acute. The Italians
| are frugal people. But even so, there
| is as little food in that country as there
is in occupied France. Even high-rank-
| ing Fascists complain that the Germans
have been hogging all the food supplies
| from the Balkans and have given Italy
| only "a poor relations" share. The Ital
| ians can get along without meat but
they need macaroni and cheese. OF the
latter they would ordinarily have an
adequate supply, had the Italian German
| economic agreement not provided that
Italy must pay in kind-fats in this par
| ticular instance-for the coal needed in
the arms factories The German coal is
coming into the country now at the rate
| of IL trains day. And they demand
ed for in the transaction, shall be de-
| livered with the same Teutonic pune
| tuality.
So long as Mussolini could hold before
his people the mirage of victory and Of
rich Italy extending all over Africa, the
easy going Italians accepted their plight
without much complaint. But the news
of the defeats is percolating to the
masses, despite the strict censorship.
Hunger and defeat are the best allies
of a revolutionary movement.
Young Fascists Engender Revolt.
It would be a mistake to assume that
Mussolini has lost his popularity within
these short weeks of reverses. The rank
and file of the 1talians-especially the
working classes and the little bourgeoisie
still believe In him. But there Is q
great discomfort and anger against the
strutting young party men" IN the
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was last of trio of Nazi vessels attempting
to get from Tampico, Mexico, to some
port friendly to axis-Idarwald being
scuttled last Sunday and Phrygia meet
ing same end last month.
On Tuesday, incidentally, Britains
Lord Lothian announced that blockade
could not be relaxed to
Aid to Europe permit entry of Ameri-
Blocked can food shipments into
German-occupied ma
tions of Europe. Recalling that these
countries had sufficient supplies prior
to German conquest Lothian declared
that any scheme for American aid to
them now must be of material assist
ance to Germans war effort and would
thereby postpone the day of liberation
of these peoples from German subjuga-
ton
For their intensified aerial warfare,
Naz bombers gave London terrific bat
tering early in week then left capital
city relatively alone as later assaults
were concentrated on seacoast town Of
Frinton and great industrial cities Of
Evening star., 1940-12-15
By Leslie Hore.Belisha.

be accepted whereunder the commander
in the field should have as much control
over tactical use of his airplanes as he
has Of his tanks, guns or any other
weapon in his armory.
This should be the case not only in
a carefully planned undertaking, such
as that at Sidi Barrani, but as a matter
Of course. The British method Is still
to allocate the aircraft to the army for
cooperating these in the army as an in
tegral part Of the striking force.
Once again, Britain demonstrated the
resourcefulness of her sea power In the
Western desert, she attacked her enemy
In all three elements simultaneously
It is significant that the Italian fleet
made no attempt to rescue Marshal
Graziani's harassed forces, who were be-
ing shelled by the British warships Thus
the dream of mare nostrum, of "our
sea-" is fading.
Italy is now compelled to realize the
disabilities she brought upon herself by
her ill-judged assault upon Greece. She
had completely compromised her stra-
tegic position in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean when the only effective base open
to the Royal Navy was Alexandria. War
ships had to steam over 800 miles before
reaching Taranto. The Italians, when
the British Fleet was in these waters,
could always calculate the number of
days after which it would be necessary
for the British to return to Alexandria to
refuel. During this interval the Italians
could ferry their supplies to Africa.
Other Advantages Gained.
The Royal Navy, now that it can oc-
cupy Sudabay and Crete, only has to
cover a distance of 500 miles to reach
Taranto. Thus, opportunities for enemy
transports making for the Libyan coast
to evade its surveillance have been les
sened.
A further advantage will result from
this lessening of the handicap of dis
tance as soon as Sudabay Is fully
equipped. The fleet would be able to
refuel in relays and its vigilance will then
become continuous.
If, then, the Italian Fleet does not
come out of harbor to fight and avenues
for provisioning Libya are narrowed, 1t
can only be question of time before
the position of Marshal Graziani's army
becomes hopeless. This day will be ad-
vanced If he is compelled to sustain a
vigorous campaign and thereby literally
encroach upon his diminishing resources.
Further south in Eritrea, Somaliland
and lAbyssinia, the prospects of the
Fascist forces are even more serious.
Bordered by the sea and British terri
tories, they will in their turn feel the
full weight Of the growing strength and
confidence Of the imperial contingents.
Italys remaining possessions in the
Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea
already are completely isolated. British
contact with the nearest Of these islands
from Alexandria involved . voyage of 300