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Evening star., 1941-06-16

was celebrated in March, 1910, DR..
Newton, the second principal, had
served a quarter century. His more
than 40 years professional life here
makes it difficult to think of him
as other than a Washingtonian.
Actually, he is a native of Massa-
chusetts, and was graduated from
Amherst College, class of '95, which
included number of outstanding
men, among them Calvin Coolidge
and Dwight Morrow. He taught
chemistry at the University of Iowa
for year, and at his alma mater
for two years, before he joined
Western High faculty, simultaneous
ly with its move from the old Curtis
School in Georgetown to the hand
some building at Thirty fifth and r
streets.
Took Medical Course.
In 1902 DR.. Newton was appointed
head of the department of chemis-
try for the white and colored high
schools, and also continued to teach
at Western. The same year he mar
ried Miss Edna Daisy ToWne, then
a teacher of English at Western
He also took a four-year course of
medicine at George Washington
University, receiving the degree of
doctor of medicine.
What remains in the memories Of
Westerns teachers and students is
not the competent service of DR.
Newton as instructor and principal
but his wise and friendly treatment
of individuals. Although the stu
dent body, less than 600 when he
became principal in 1915, is now
more than 1000. he retains the gift
of seeing each student as human
being rather than as an abstrac
symbol. Comments from those WhC
admired his portrait at the Art!
Club not only revealed memorie
but testified to the vitality of thu
likeness.
Evening star., 1941-06-16
Weather Report
Furnished BY the United states weather Bur

District OF Columbia coudine temperature
tonight and tomorrow lowest temperature tonight 6 degrees
moderate winds, mostly northwest.
VrginiaParty cloudy with moderate tonight
MarylandPary cloudy with moderate temperature tonight
tomorrow; light showers in west portion tonight.
Vrgna-Cloudy
cloudy in
Evening star., 1941-06-16
Report for Last 4S Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
rrom noon yesterday 10 noon today0
Hishest, so. at noon yesterday. Year
Lowest. 90, at 2:6o am. today. Year
ago. "A.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81 on May 2s
Lowest is, on March Is.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Trom noon yesterday to noon todayo
Hishest, 90 per cent, at 80 q. m. today.
Lowest. 45 per cent, at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy at Great
Falls today.
FURNISHED by United States Coast anc
Geodetic Survey
To-day Tomorrow.
Hish ------a 1:13 am. 2:1Q am
Low ------------ 500 am. 200 an
Low LOW - -------- s::s2 s:ss p.m. p.m. SIS pm m
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Noon Moo 'Vtddi todayo.---- 1908 am. 1907 pm
Automobile hghts must be turned or
ene-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1941-06-16

A slight disturbance is moving slowly
eastward over the North Atlantic States,
Albany. Y. 1O06S millibars (2973
inchesD, while pressure is rising over the
lumbia, Mo. 1918 millibars i3O.O6 inches).
Texas. Del Rio. 1OOps millibars (29 80
inches). During the last "a hours there
have been rather general showers in the
upper Ohio Valley, the lower Lake region
and in portions Of the Middle Atlantic and
North Atlantic States. Showers occurred
also in the Gulf States and in portions Of
the Rocky Mountain region. Tempera-
lures are somewhat below normal over
most Of the North Central States.
Evening star., 1941-06-16

England's balloon barrages have
proved deadly to migrating birds as
well as airplanes.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
COP. SENATOR
 NEAR EXPULSION
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Committee action came after ex- tended hearings on 21 charges of moral turpitude and political mis- conduct brought by North Dakota petitioners, whom Langer described as political enemies of long stand- ing.
 Hatch said the committee gave par amount consideration to three of the charges brought against Lan- ger:
 l. That as governor he prohted from the purchase, by private bond brokers of North Dakota county bonds and their subsequent resale at large profit to the state band and institutions. Langer, the petitioners charged, acted as contact man in the transactions from the gover- nor's chair.
 2. That Langer while governor assisted a Great Northern Railroad attorney in obtaining reductions of $l50,000 in property taxes for his client, receiving for his services $25 5000 disguised as payment for Mexican Land Finance Company stock, which Langer held.
 3. That Langer attempted to tamper with 0 federal judge and jury in the course of his trial in 1885 on charges of assessing the sal- aries of federal and state office holders for political purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
been indicated in the Finnish war.
 Jan Offensive Licked

Jap OEtenbAve Lickeu
 Manila. Dec. le.--(UP)-The Jap- anese offensive against the Philip. pines Is under control" and there Is no question that victory will come to our side in the end," PresI- dent Manuel Quezon said today in a broadcast to the people.
 T am confident that the United States will do everything possible to help us win the battle on this front" Quezon said in pointing out the sud. denness of the enemy attack.
 T have no doubt that victory will come to our side in the end"
 Quezon said that Americans and FilipinoS were fighting together with signal valor" under the command of Lieut.. Gen. Douglas MacArthlr lin whose courage and ability I have absolute faith"
 The government, he said, is or- ganizing the home front and has appointed all public school teachers in the Islands Q s special police to enforce laws against proiiteering, These police will prevent retailers and distributors from taking advan- tage of the emergency at the eX- pense of the public, he said. The war thus far has not ham, pered normal life in Manila where shops are open and food Is plentiful, he. pointed out.
 The government announced that the Christmas Charity Sweepstakes will be held as scheduled on Sat. urday. !
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18

Damage in the attack on zanl- blan field which is west ot Manila, was reported slight, The Japanese planes 2oomed over the field, flying to the southwest, then returned ot high altitude and dropped some bombs.
 The { D. m. communique of the U. s, Far Eastern headquarters re- ported that enemy activity vas confined to the air today"
 The cemmunlque said damage was light in the attacks no Nichols and Zamblan fields but that some casualties resulted, It said about F Japanese planes made the attack,
 Counter Attacking
 Tn both engagements, the Ameri- can forces were ounter-attaeking, In the Vigan sector, the Japanese were chased for miles and some eS- capped only because night fell, In the northern fighting, infantrymen trapped a Japanese motorized de- tachment and defeated 1t In an hours-long fight which, likewise, was ended only by darkness,
 The Vigan fight was described in thiS army communique;
 "On the afternoon of Monday, De- cember l5, . patrol of the United States forces in the Far East met and engaged a Japanese patrol somewhere south of Vigan (on the western side of Lu2on).
 Excellent morale was shown by our men, who succeeded in pushing the Japanese patrol many miles to the north.
 Darkness stopped the fighting. There were a number of enemy cas- ualties.N
 tAn army communique issued at | Washington last night said: "The American forces have the situation well in hand. Small enemy forces in the Aparri (northl Vigan (westl and Legaspi (southl areas are still under attack. Hostile vessels of the coast were attacked by army air forceS.C
 Tn the northern engagement, ac- cordlng to telephonic advices to Manila, about 100 Japanese motor- ized troops fell into a trap pre- pared for them by American forces. A fight started at p. m. When night fell, the Japanese retreated in defeat, leaving 40 men killed and several wounded. It was asserted that the American losses were only one killed and three wounded.
 Manila spent its fourth raidless night last night, and there had been no enemy planes over the capital for nearly 72 hours.
 Lull Is Broken
 The lull was broken at 1:48 D. m. today, after B hours and 48 minutes, by an air raid alarm in the Manila area. The "all clear" came at 2:29 D. m.
 Some observers attributed the Jap- anese inactivity to their concentra- tion on the Hong Kong and other attacks on the British. Some mil- itary informants were inclined to describe the attack on the Philip ! pines as an amateur attempt Co
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
Americans Win With
 Aid Of Filipinos
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carry out Q German lightning war; others said there was worse to come.
 Newspapers asserted that Ramos Mantil, a leader of the Filipino sep aratist "Ganap" organization, had gence headquarters which resulted given information to army intelli- in the arrest of S7 men of the or- ganization on Q charge of Illegal as- sociation.
 They charged that Q raid on Gdnap headquarters had resulted ir the seizure of evidence of pro-Jap- anese activities and said 1t was suspected that the organization had planned a big scale campaign of sabotage and rumor-mongering in an attempt to lower public morale It was charged also that Ganap op- eratives planned signaling system to aid Japanese airplanes.
 Japanese BrOadcasts
 Official Japanese broa dcasts, re- corded by the United Press, claimed today that Japanese forces are ad- vaneing in the Philippines and Ma laya and that heavy air attacks have been mede on Running, Ter minus of the Burma road, and Pen- ang, secondary British naval base off northwest Malaya. -
 The JapGf csc smade these claims:
 Burma Road; Japanese army bombers carried out a heavy attack on Junming, Chinese Terminus of the route, destroying military ob- jectives and disrupting Chinese preparations flor an invasion of French Indo-China,"
 Penang: Japanese hombers made a mass attack, sinking a large trans port and several smaller transports: two British fighter planes shot down.
 Malaga: Japanese forces advanc- ing down east coast from their bases at Sinfora (Thailand) and Kota Bharu.
 Burma; Japanese advance after occupying British air base at vic- toria point and other KRA IsthmuS areas.
 Philippines: Japanese advance south from. Aparri, south from Vi- gan and north from Legaspi.
 Hong Kong: Japanese army and navy attacks continue after British refuse to surrender.
 The Japanese claimed the sink ing of three enemy submarines of unspecified nationality and ad- mitted the loss of a destroyer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
CHRISTMAS IN
 FRANCE IS SAD
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 the German army uses for river crossings,
 Beer now is made without hops and barley-it looks like beer, but isn't.
 No Christmas Touch
 In the shops of France, there is nothing with the Christmas touch to entioe French Spending-if the French had Francs to spend.
 Each Frenohman is allowed 40 points a year for purchasing cloth- ing and such, To buy Q gift scarf takes nine points, Even buying a pair of socks uses up five,
 There are no restrictions on pur- chaSeS of unmounted pearls and diamonds, However, such jewels are quoted in dollars, and there is no way to obtain dollars except from the black market at l40 to 150 Francs per dollar.
 A Frenchman buying silver oI gold gifts must hand over to the jeweler the equivalent of the same metal iE return, In addition, he pays the merchants sales price.
 Only Wooden Toys
 Stores throughout France show only wooden toys, even baby dolls have wooden heads because all the doll-headS formerly used in mak- ing French dolls came from Czech- oslovaSia, and the war has killed that traffic,
 Most of the French Christmas trees came from the VosgeS moun- tains, or as far away as Finland There Is no chance of shipping then, th!s year, because railroads are needed for other things,
 Caeohoslovakia was the produc. ton center for Christmas tree trim. nings and the trimming factories now are turning out hand grenadeS or shells,
 But even If the French had trees they could not have candles on them because candles come under the fat restrictions and long ago were melted up for the common good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
Philippines, Indies
 Are Defeating Axis
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one dead. The Manila area again was attacked by enemy planes Tokyo broadcaSts claimed that three Japanese columns were advancing on Luzon Island from Vigan, Apar" ri and LegaSpi.
 The Japanese also claimed to have destroyed American barracks In the Legaspi sector and sunk three U. S. submarines.
 Malaga Japanese forces, using one-man tanks and infIltrating through the flooded rice fields, ad- vanced to e point opposite the Brit isli naval base on the Island of Penang, on the east coast of Malaga. British forces withdrew and reor. ganized while achievements ar- rived from the south for c counter- drive believed already under way. The threat to Penang was described in London as serious, On the west coast of Malaga the Japanese were driven back in fighting iIl the Kelan- tan sector, where they suffered heavy losses,
 Borneo - British and Dutch land forces held strong positions after withdrawing from the Mir oil sec- tor on the north coast, where al oil facilities were destroyed. The Allies held the Borneo airdromes, which the Japanese apparently sought to seize for attacks on Singapore and the Philippines.
 Hong Kong - British defenders rejected & second Japanese ultima tum and replied strongly to Japa- nese artillery and air bombing. Chungking reported that a Chinese drive on the mainland to relieve Singapore was progressing and that Japanese man power was running short.
 Manchukuo Soviet military maneuvers on big scale and in- cluded armored forces were in prog ress opposite the Japanese held Manchukuo frontier.
 Japan Admits Loss
 Hawaii Tokyo broadcasts &C., knowledeged loss of five small sub marines, presumably the two-man suicide craft used in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 Libya -- The British offensive cracked the remnants of Axis resist ance in the desert west of Tobruk and put the German Italian arul- ored forces into full retreat. whether the Axis units were cut off from their Derna bases still was uncer- tain but dispatches described the British success as comparable to the 1940 campaign that smashed the Italians back to Western Libya.
 Russia = The Red Army offensive on all sectors continued, with new gains reported against the Films in the north and the Germans in the Crimea on the south. Stockholm dispatches said the entire Axis line in Russia was being withdrawn about 40 miles and Russians said that it would be withdrawn still farther because we've got them licked"
 Broadcasts by radio Berlin ano dispatches to neutral countries in- dicated increasing German concern over developments on the eastern front.
 Hitler's veolkischer Beobachtei said that Germans must realize that the Axis faces serious difficulties in Russia because the Soviet military machine as much stronger than haf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
Axis In Retreat On
 Two Big War Fronts
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South of Tula sector, the Red army recaptured the town of Shch- ekino after Q furious battle in which the German 296th division was completely destroyed" ac- cording to a dispatch to Tass, the official Soviet News Agency.
 The agency said also that two other enemy divisions mo longer exist" for practical purposes and that 0 third was shattered by the Russian drives,
 The bulk of Germany's Crimear army already has been withdrawn to stiffen axis defenses around the coast city of Mariupol, ll0 miles west of RostoV, and in the Mus river area near Taganrog, the Lon- don Daily Mail declared in a dispatch quoting "semi-offieial So- viet sources"
 Break Through Lines
 Soviet troops in the garrison of Sevastopol at the southwestern tip of the Crimea were forcing a break. through of the German lines of siege while RuSsia's Black Seq fleet brought up troop reinforce ments, airplanes and munitions.
 These simultaneous moves, the Daily Mail said, would enable the ro"r ,ians to regain superiority in the Crimea and make the German posi- tions at Hariupol and Melitopol "in- ereaSingly precarious,"
 Radio Moscow said Russian in- fantry launched continuous attacks against enemy mountain positions in the Crimea, All axis batteries were said to have been silenced by artillery fire while infantry moved against enemy trenches.
 German n-held Kharkov, 400 miles southwest of Moscow, has reentered the fighting zone, 1t was said, indi- eating the Russian drive was gain- ing headway in the Donets basin,
 The Daily Mail said 1t was "un- oerstood" in Stockholm that Ger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
ON LIBYAN FIELDS

Cairo, Dec. l8.--(Up)--AXiS forces In Eastern Libya are now in full retreat, British general headquar- ters for the middle east said to- day,
 The German and Italian fronts have been broken, the colnInunique said in headquarters first use of the word retreat" since the Lihyan of fenSive was started by British 1m- perialS and Allied forces last month.
 After five days of intensive fight ing, during which all of the remain ing German and Italian resources have been thrown Into battle to try to delay our advance, the enemy's front everywhere has been broken" headquarters said.
 "YeSterday our troops relentleSSly pursued the enemy in spite of ad- verse weather conditions over dis- tanee of nearly 30 miles.
 By evening the main body of our infantry reached 6 general line on the Tmimi- -Mekili road
 Mekili is one of the most impor- tant road functions in all Libya It controls north and south and east and west communications ct Q point in the desert south of Derna.
 Headquarters said that on Dec. l3, l4 and IS German infantry and all remaining German tanks coun- ter-attacked three times with the greatest determination,
 The brunt of the attack was borne by the Fourth Indian Division at the center of the British line. Indians Beat Them
 The communique said that al- though the Germans temporarily had established considerable local numerical superiority in the area held by the Fourth Indian Division the Indian troops beat of attack after attack without giving ground
 Indeed, during three days and nights of intense fighting iE which all available German air forces also were employed In close support of their tanks lorrieS and infantry the division (the Fourth 1ndian) and particularly during the last two days the Fifth Indian Infantry brigade, actually made headway,' the communique said.
 The British troops, supported by artillery, finally defeated German counter-attacks in which about 20 German tanks and q number of Axis planes were destroyed.
 In the course of yesterdays re- treat by the enemy our armored forces operating to the flank and rear of the enemy attacked and de. stroyed Q number of columns of ine- ehanical transport, including four German tanks" headquarters said.
 The Royal Air Force obtained "ex- cellent results" yesterday In bomp- Ing operations, particularly on large concentrations of mechanical trans- port at Mekili (El MechilD where many vehicles were set afire.
 Other planes attacked detach- mentS moving westward on coastal roads running out of Derna in the direction of BenghaN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
SON OF FIRST
 HERO OF WAR
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(Continued rom Page 1) country. I desire to make a re- quest which I mako in full confi- dence that we shall achieve a glori- ous victory in the war we now are waging to preserve our democratic way of life.
 Presidents Request
 My request is that you consider the merits of a young American youth of goodly heritage Colin P. Kelly, III, for appointment as a cadet in the United States Military academy at West Point. I make this appeal in behalf of this youth as token of the nations apprecia- tion of the heroic services of ais father who met death in the line of duty at the very outset of the struggle which was thrust upon us by the perfidy of professed friend. Tn the conviction that the serv- ice and example fo Capt. Colin P. Kelly, Jr., will be long remembered, I ask for tl.is consideration in be- half of Colin P. Kelly III.
 (Signed)
 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT" Captain Kelly was 26 years old, a native of Florida and a 1887 West Point graduate. He was promoted to captain on September g, l94O, and has been hailed as the ranking heEo of the war thus far.
 Kelly's widow and young son now are in New York.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
NEW INDIAN TREATY

Salt Lake City, Utah, (UP)-Ute Indians at a tribal meeting framed a protest against White discrimina- tion in refusing the Indians per- mission to hunt oil the reservation after the Utes had given White hunters permission to hunt on reser- vation lands. Fish and Game Direc- tor Mark Anderson ilnmediatley called a meeting and signed 6 ''re- ciprocal hunting treaty" with the Indians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-18
STATE CUARDSMEN
 TO BE RELIEVED
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special duty at the armory and at key defense pointsI second school for air raid wardens was started.
 A new gas stove and an electric refrigerator were installed at the arntoly mess hall, under the super vision of Manager Clyde Jennings of the Hotel Elton. Services of cooks from The Elton were also provided.
 The state guard accepted several rev volunteers and continued its campaign for more enlistments. Major Peter E. Fox, battalion com- mander, held a long conference with Selective Service Board officials. Lieut.. Frederick c. Nonamaker, ad- tutant, was in Hartford on official business.
 The Civilian Defense Volunteer office announced g new schedule of hours for the holidays. It will be open from a. m. to D. m. to- morrow and Monday, but will be open from 9 a. m. to l2:30 D. m. next Tuesday and Wednesday. 1t will be closed Christmas Day. .. ...... ....