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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
BY EATON K. GOLDTHWAlTE

Slowly, painfully, Talcott freed his left arm. His groping left hand found a cleat, and he was free.
 The boat deck was empty. For ward the lights of the wireless shack and the tiny glow of the bin- nacle on the bridge; they couldn't have heard because of the wind The assailant had run forward, but he would scarcely run up there; of- lcers didn't take too kindly to in- terruptions in their work. He must have gone down the stairs.
 Talcott was at the foot of the stairs when the shocked scrutiny of 8 pair of old ladies brought him to an abrupt halt. Struggling, he brushed himself and smoothed his rumpled clothing.
 Inside the cocktail lounge he saw Halsey and June Paterson playing bridge with Martha Swenson and the ships doctor. He avoided the door and moved around to the oth- CT side, passing the huddIed figure of Professor Constantine, asleep in & chair.
 Passengers were there, leaning against the rail, conversing or look ing at the water. A steward came past, bearing a blanket. Talcott stopped him. Did you see man run by here?" he asked.
 Conversation at the rail was sud- denly hushed. "No, sir, can't say as did" the steward answered.
 Talcott became suddenly aware of the fixed glances. "Must've been mistaken" he grunted and unhur- riedly walked by the gauntlet of eyes.
 He was in c deck corridor when abrupt suspicion caused him to stop before the door of the ugly bald-head who called himself Web- Der. Pressing his ear against the the polished wood, he was reward ed with 8 deep, regular snore.
 No man who had been through what the attacker had been through could snore like that. Baffled, he entered his own cabin.
 He switched on the light. Mac- Dowell was apparently asleep; a blanket covered him to his chin and his face was turned to the wall. Talcott glared in the mirror. A nasty red welt showed in front of his ear; his face was smudged with soot, his collar was torn, and his once immaculate jacket was wrinkled and grimy.
 A towel end and powder repaired the damage to his face; the collar he removed, and with t the jacket The shirt, too, was beyond hope and he peeled it of, and thus far dis robed decided to complete the job and take . shower,
 Strange, how soundiy Mcdowell slept. Lucky for Mcdowell; tn his condition. sleep was the only thing that could help him.
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1 Talcott had found his robe and was at the door when footsteps sounded in the corridor. Moved by and stopped before Webber's door. A loud, double knock. The pitch of the snoring changed impercepti- ply. The double knock was repeat ed and the snoring ceased. "Yes?" in Webber's voice.
 "A wireless message for you, sir"
 "Oh. It's my wife I guess. About the business Just a moment" The click of light switch; faint scrape of the door,, and footsteps sounded again in the corridor.
 Talcott opened his door and peered out. The room steward was walking. Strange. he could have sworn that Webber's voice sounded from outside the door. It had sounded as if the steward was on the inside. But there was the steward, turning into the compan- ionway at the end of the corridor. He could have been mistaken. Tn the exhilarating needles of the shower his body relaxed, but his mind leared to double speed. Things had been happening fast; almost too fast First, Webber the hair less, caught flat-footed eavesdrop- ping. Was he just curious about his neighbors or did he fit in the picture somewhere? Talcott wished he could remember that vaguely fa- miliar race. Too ugly 70 be forgot ten; yet it remained in haze, de- flying recognition and remembrance.
 Then there was the business of the blank paper. Had Halsey play- ed cagey, substituting the real re- port and turning 1t over to the pur- ser for safekeeping? It didn't seem likely, not in the new light thrown on Halsey by June Paterson. What, then, was Struthers up to?
 And the attack. He had gone to the boat deck supposedly in re- sponse to a summons from Mac Dowell. Well, Mcdowell would have to answer that one. Grimly he towelled himself, drew on his robe and crossed to his stateroom.
 Mcdowell hadn't moved. With swiftly indraWn breath Talcott leaped to the bunk and snatched away the blanket.
 A spreading brown-red stain was creeping away from a sticky slot in the detectiye's back.
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
IN SPY FILM

Constance Bennett. in her first film since the birth of her baby, is portraying the title role in Uni- yersal's Madam Spy" Don Porter, John Ltel and Ed Brophy are also featufed in the mystery film.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
WEARS DADS SHOES
By William Ferguson

Eddie Foy, Jr., whose father was one of vaudevilie's great comedians, plays a comedy role in RKO Ra- dio's Powder Town"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

More than 300 naval vessels were under construction recently in In- diA
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Families in Path Of Marine
Reservation Given HeIp
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, Oct. 16.-Prince
William families in the area affect
ed by the expansion of the Quantico
Marine Reservation were visited
this week by volunteer agricultural
committeeman to furnish informa-
tlon and to determine needs of those
who are being asked to move from
the area by December S.
Under the supervision of County
Agent Frank D. Cox, a survey is
being made to locate farms and
housing accommodations outside of
the area. The information which
Is now being assembled is available
at the county agents office. As
slstance is also being given at the
county agents Office to those wish
ing to rent farms on a cash or share
basis.
approximately $50 Prince William
County rural families will be re-
qulred to leave their homes. Mr.,
Cox stated. An effort is being made
to encourage affected farmers to
salvage fencing, roofing and other
usuable materials.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. C. la1U, couples must
apply for q marriage license on
one day, 1Uait three full days and
receiue their license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
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Evening star., 1942-10-16

Under D. C. laU, couples must
apply for q marriage license on
one day, 1Uait three full days and
Tece1Ue their license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other daus.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
"a Colored Registrars
Will Report Tomorrow

Sixty-four colored registrants
from the District will report at 10
am. tomorrow for assignment to
Army training camps.
The men were given furloughs of
TWO weeks after being indicted Oc-
tober 3. They are:
Howard, Elias s. Cunnineham r w
Brown, Richard E. Kish, LeRoy' ir w.
Hicks. Charles B. Gillian, James p
Avery, Ebert Bush, Matfhew
Brown, William F. Williams. i r
Gttiiues Luxe Ihomas, Major T.
PxtaIr. PPas,eI. lanes n Battles, Adolphus
IsrE;Sa, George y. Anderson, r. L.
yyehhRins, James Johnson, Joseph W.
Black. Alfred Hilton. EdWard w
James, Lacey E. Tyler, Luther M
barclay, Forester c. Thorpe, James
TsSn,a,, + TTssS,os, ML.9n II. Jordan. William H.
non oniaS; Sari !. Colbert, Ignatius
niioSS, HuoS, Wm; M, sr. Wright. BENJAMIN
IIhhHnIist' Gnarles Dunmore, Joseph W.
2Dnmson; Heroert j. Wrenn. Sterling L.
6beyWaro' VIM R., jr. Bannister, Major F.
pnh;neS. phH;neS. george ~, Crump, Clarence H.
Brown, Oliver Dorsey, Charles r
johnson, Samuel w. Cox, Cortes
Mckay, Horace Move. Aaron e
Lewis, William w Lee lanes w
Haynes. McThard E. Dobey, John C.
Pugh. George Wheeler, Frank
Reeves, Keith Gayins. Solomon
Brown, Theodore H BLACKWELL Era
Cooke. BENJAMIN N Johnson. DanieI p
IaIkum, ernest Faison, Willie A.
Sioos' Alonzo Lyles. Albert
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23

future.
 When the Allies open second front, then it will be time to hope for a grace German defeat that would impel the military clique to take over from the Nazis. It is pos- sible that the British may start a massed offensive in Egypt, but the defeat of Marshal Erwin Romn1el alone might not prove sufficient to cause an internal crisis in the Reich, as long as Germany controls virtu- ally all of Europe and a large area of Russia, with her armies still in the field.
 If the day ever comes when Hitler is forced to step aside in favor of the army, the effect on German morale would be profound and per- haps disastrous. The German peo- ples have been taught to pin their faith on Hitler and his many vic- tories in three years of war have convinced many of them of his tn- vincibility.
 The younger generation in par ticuiar have been so indoctrinated with the NaM virus that they are fanatics The fall of their Fuehrer would shake the German people to the foundations.
 EAteSt Morale Report
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23

NA~gAeAAAA~A AASAAA = NGS ~ Vlsitors to wartime London have first set foot.
 The harricade was set up around She carpet. The Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes were draped on tlle barricade.
 The train arrived exactly on time and stopped with Mrs. Roosevelt'S coach sQuarely at the carpet.
 Mrs. Roosevelt was smiling as she stepped from the train. She wore long black coat, trimmed with blue 9ox fur and a cherry red hat, trim med with green feathers.
 King George, wearing the uni- form of a marshal of the Royal Air Force, was the first to greet Mrs. Roosevelt. After he had shaken hands, the Queen, wearing coat of black velvet with a black hat, shook hands warmly and chatted for a moment. For few minutes the King, Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt conversed with dignitaries eddied around them.
 No Curtsey To King
 Mrs. Roosevelt did not curtsey to the king.
 T hope you left the President in good health" the king told her.
 The king then introduced her to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
 Among those at the platform were Lieutenant General Dwight Eisen- hover and Admiral Harold R. Stark.
 Photographers took pictures dur ing the five minutes which Mrs. Roosevelt spent at the train side. She then entered car with the king and queen and was driven of. The queen greeted Mrs. Roosevelt with these, words:
 T am very pleased to meet you in this country. I have been looking forward to your visit for very long time"
 U. s. Ambassador John G. Winant and w. Averill Hartman, lend lease official, arrived on the train
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23
FLYING FORTRESS
 CREW IS RESCUED
(Continued from Page D

The story of the crew, relayed to the War Department from Australia, was released today by the War De- partment.
 Before being forced down south of New Guinea, the fortress bombed the Lukeunai airdrom at Rabaul, New Britain, and scored a hit on an enemy vessel in Rabaul harbor. Then it joined with another flying fortress to fight off an attack by 20 Japanese Zeros and during 2O- minute battle shot down five of the enemy planes.
 It was while trying to return to its base that the fortress encounter ed bad weather and ran out of gas. At about midnight of Aug. 9-after 10 1-2 hours in the air - the com- mander, Capt. Harry J. Hawthorne, of Corpus Christie, Tex, warned his crew to stand by for a crash landing.
 Landed in Water
 The landing was accomplished in two feet of water on a coral reef south of New Guinea.
 The bombing mission was Haw- thorne's first combat assignment. And for most of his crew it was the first or second combat assign ment, most of them being recent graduates of Army Air Forces train ing schools.
 Members of Hawthorne's crew were:
 End Lieut.. Paul Jones Carboro, co-pilot, Rapton, Ga.
 2nd Lieut.. Warren E. Bryant, navigator, Billerica, Mass.
 End Lieut.. Robert J. Haase, bombardier, Clintonville, Wis.
 Staff Sgt. Milton F. Kelm, engi- neer, Riverside, Calf. Corp. Michael R. Andrade, side gunner, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Corp. Walter T. Buchanan, tur- ret gunner, Bradford, Pa.
 Corp. Paul K. Harmon, tail gum ner, Baltimore, Md. Pvt. 1st Class Arnold c. Osborn, radio operator, St. Joseph, Mo. All were rescued eventually. An- QIhQe Wdo LIlc O1lAy CdoUdAtyS ouACA ing a leg injury. He was pro- fessional roller skater in private life, being part of an act billed "The Flying Daredevils."
 Here's the War Departments story of the days following their crash landing:
 With as much equipment as they could salvage piled aboard, the crew members took to life rafts and padded for shore. On the way they were overtaken by an out rigger canoe manned by five na- tives. One of the natives spoke enough English to assure the air. men they were friendly to the Americans and offered to guide them to a nearby beach.
 Tn return for cigarets, the natives gathered wood, built fires, and fur nished the Americans with coconut milk and sweet potatoes to round out their meal of emergency ration stew.
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f1ciency.
 CThe Rome radio claimed that two of the British planes were shot down)
 The RAP picked night when the moon was full, and roared over the continent with the moon gleaming down on rivers and blacked out cit- ies. Anti aircraft guns blazed up all along the route but missed their mark every time.
 Target Easily Picked
 Tn the bright moonlight the bomh- CTS had little difficulty in picking out their targets. In addition to Genoa, according to Italian reports, the big industrial center of Turin was blasted. At Turin are located some of the biggest Italian indus trial plants now closely integrated in the Nai war economy.
 Many heavy bombs were dropped on the objectives and very large fires were seen," an air ministry communique said. None of our air. craft is missing"
 Genoa is the principal port of authorization for endorsements to Field Marshal Erwin Rommeps Axis North African troops and is the site of the Ansaldo Works which man. ufactures aircraft parts and muni. tons.
 There was no official estimate of the number of planes participating in the raid, but authoritative sources said it can be assumed that it was the heaviest raid of the war on Italy"
 (Radio Rome said the British plnaes struck at Turin as well as Genoa, and admitted considerable damage" at the latter place. It said two planes were shot down.
 (The Italians said the attack was carried out in several waves, with the RAF bombers dropping explo- sives and incenditary bombs which caused damage ito civilian build ings." Hours after the raid, radio Rome reported that rescue squads still were digging civilians from the debris in Genoa).
 It was the 26th raid of the war against Italy by RAF planes based in Britain, and resumed the attack against the Italian industrial tri- angle of Turin. Milan and Genoa for the first time since April 12. It was the sixth time Genoa had been raided and the first time since September 28, 1941.
 They Answered Demands
 The raid came quickly after de- mands in the House of Commons by Sir Archibald Southby, conserva- tive, earlier this week. that Italy be bombed in reprisol for the all-out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23

rale was brought to London private ly by a neutral last month and has been made available by the British information services. This neutral, 8 man of wide political experience, had just visited the Reich and occu- pied parts of Russia, where he talked with German political and military leaders. He said:
 'The German people are deter mined to fight through to the end and many still believe in victory, but they no longer pretend to see how or when the end will come. Russian resistance has once more dashed their hopes.
 "One or two high army officers declared that the Caucasus should De occupied before the winter, that the winter would be fairly quiet and that the summer of 1o43 ought to bring the occupation of Moscow af- ter heavy and costly fighting.
 "They expressed these views in a mood which hovered between con- fidence and hope. Even on the east ern front they could no longer be certain of events and elsewhere they frankly admitted that everything was vague.
 Even to the most wishful think ing, there is no sign of a collapse of morale. The spirit of the German army is still good: the men are buoyed by the memory of past vic- tories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-23
LAPS FINDING NO
 REAL SOFT SPOT
Continued from Page D

Except for the unsuccessful Jap anese thrust at Guadalcanal last Tuesday (Solomons' time), the fight ing on. that key island continues to be in the air. The navy reported no new raids in its communique late yesterday but did say Ameri. can aircraft continued to seek out and bomb enemy troop and supply concentrations on Guadalcanal.
 79 Days of Battle
 The Battle of the Solomons has been in progress for 79 days. Ex- cept for the first few days there has been relatively little land action. The enemy flank attack Tuesday w&s the first land action reported since the marines staged two day of- fensiye beginning October 8 which resulted in extension of American positions westward of the airfield on Guadalcanal. The enemy suffered many casualties then.
 The only other action reported fol last Tuesday was the destruction of a Japanese bomber that night. apparently on reconnaissance r.ts. sion over Guadalcanal. Anti-air- craft guns brought 1t down raising to 353 the total of Japanese planes destroyed in the Solomons.
 Enemy troops which landed or Guadalcanal early last week pre-. sumably participated in the flank attack. The area in which the at. tack occurred is heavily wooded sloping ground-foothills of ths Kavo which extends through the middle of Guadalcanal like 8 back bone at height of more than B. 900 feet.
 Whether the "feeler" attack pre- saged large scale assault was just a guess. But officials here stiJ expect big battle soon.
 Rear Admiral J. s. Mccain, who directed certain air activities in the Solomons before he came here to head the Bureau of Aeronautics' told Navy labor conference:
 "Hell will break loose in the South Pacific at any moment"
 MacArthur BOmbers Aid
 General MacArthur's Headquar- ters, Australia, October g. - (UPl - Allied ground troops advanced slowly in heavy tropical rains in the Owen Stanley Mountains or New Guinea today while bombers ot the Southwest Pacific coTnInand continued their support of American NnmAaA Ia &AAA @naq@aeaA
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fire hose used to quell the diSor- der.
 Considerable furniture wal smashed and windows were broken.
 "No machine gun fire was used, nor was tear gas, nor any other form of gas reSorted to throughout the trouble. Food was prepared and served to the prisoners, some of whom went on hunger strike which lasted for two days. The shackling at Bowmanville prisoners of war camp was proceeded with. Normal prisoner of war camp life was resumed after the guard was reinforced by detachments from a nearby military camp. All has been quiet in Bowmanyille camp since 8 few days after the encounter.
 Except for mild resistance at one other camp. no further trouble has been encountered in any of the 15 other prisoners of war camps"
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with Mrs. Roosevelt, apparently having met her plane.
 Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, leader of. the WAACS. It was understood that Mrs. Hobby would inspect the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the British equivalent of the WAACS.
 Mrs. Roosevelt told King George that MT. Roosevelt was "in very good health but disappointed that he could not come across with me"
 News Announced
 News of Mrs. Roosevelt's arrival was announced by Buckingham Palace which said that the First Lady's purpose in making the trip was to learn at first hand how Brit ish women are contributing to their nations war effort and to visit the American armed forces now estab- lished in the British Isles.
 Mrs. Roosevelt will spend two or three weeks in the British Isles dur ing the initial part of her visit she will be the guest of the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace.
 The announcement by Bucking- ham Palace said:
 Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Great Britain at the invitation of the King and Queen in order to gain first hand knowledge of British women's war activity and visit the United States forces in Great Britain, Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied by Miss Malvina Thompson will be the guest of the King and Queen during the first part of her visit"
 Same Restrictions
 Mrs. Roosevelt will be under the same rationing restrictions as any one else during her visit, it was re- vealed.
 She will have an emergency food ration book, and at Buckingham Palace she will feel the effects of fuel rationing. There will be no special heating there until Novem- Der l.
 In accordance with the rules, Mrs. Roosevelt will be restricted to five inches of bath water.
 It was explained that her food ration book entitling her to sugar, cooking fats, tea, bacon and meat would aid the larder at the Palace