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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-24

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-24

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-24

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
Cruiser San Francisco Becomes Naval Hero
Licked Jap Batteship Three Times Larger Hit Many
 Times But Will Return to Fight

sonal friend and former naval aide Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan who was killed in action. A shell from the enemy battleship blew away the San Francisco's bridge and killed Callaghan and the skipper of the flagship, Capt. CaSsin Young, Another admiral was killed in that night action which President Roosevelt described as major nav- l al victory for the United States. He was Rear Admiral Norman Scott.
 The maneuver executed by the American naval forces is one of the oldest but most dangerous in naval warfare. Lord Nelson used it at the Battle of Trafalgar to gain great naval victory over France.
 Shortly after midnight last Thurs day, a powerful Japanese naval force bore down on Guadalcanal from the north to screen landing operations on the north end of the island. The enemy force was in three columns, one headed by a cruiser and each of the other two by battleships.
 The American naval commanders chose the hard but surest way of in- fticting the most damage on the enemy. They elected to run the gauntlet of Japanese ships and steamed full speed ahead into the midst of the advancing enemy, firing broadsides in both directions.
 The maneuver worked, Closing in to a range of only 2,000 yards - pistol range" as one officer here put it-the San Francisco, the leading American ship, let the first Japanese battleship have salvo after salvo. She scored IS hits from her main battery, silenced the big ships guns and prepared her for sinking by tor pedoes from American destroyers and aircraft.
 The action of the American ships so confused the Japanese that they began firing at each other. Before the San Francisco had finished she had hit two other ships, sinking one of them.
 The daring of Callaghan and Young in challenging the big bat tleship is best shown by a compari- son of the two vessels.
 The San Francisco. commissioned in 1884, displaces 9,950 tons and is 588 feet long. She carries a normal complement of 55l officers and men. Her fire power is in nine 8-inch guns three forward and six aft. Anti aircraft and other smaller guns and torpedo tubes make up the rest of her gunnery. She is protected with armor plate measuring up to eight inches around the coming tower, but only five inches amidships.
 The Kongo class of Japanese bat tleships which the San Francisco challenged are old ships. most of them having been built before World War I. But they displace 2o,- 300 tons. are 704 feet long and their armament includes eight 14-inch guns-four forward and four aft: l6 six-inch guns on the port and star board sides: eight five-inch anti aircraft guns, and machine guns, landing guns and torpedo tubes. They carry complements of 98O men and their armor ranges up to 10 inches around the turrets and eight inches at the main belt amidships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

campaign in his statement said that 1t took the Germans two weeks in June to get from Tobruk to Fl Alamein and the Eighth Army made the distance in one week.
 Tt is really we who have shown the enemy what blitz can be like" he commented.
 Things have gone quicker than we expected. The main fighting took place against the Germans and they were thrashed. It was not the Germans who were weak; 1; it was we who were strong. We surprised Rommel. He did not know when or where the blow was com ing.
 We advanced 400 miles in one week."
 It was always difficult to esti- mate an enemy's tank strength, Alexander said, because of tanks in reserve and those coming out of repair shops.
 But of the tanks the Germans had in the front line they were able to get only Is away" he said.
 "The (American) Sherman was as good a tank as any on the bat tlefield. Our fellows love 1t. Amer ican pilots contributed good deal to the victory. When I visited their landing grounds I saw their excellent planes. I could certainly say a whole lot about the American contribution"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

Washington, Nov. lS.-(UP)-An American cruiser which licked Japanese battleship three times her size and will be ready soon to fight again for her country received a place today alongside the other gall lant ships and daring heroes of American history.
 The warship was the heavy cruis- CT San Francisco. She was the spear head of an American naval force that attacked larger Japanese fleet early last Friday morning of Guadalcanal, in which the American vessels steamed at high speed through the entire Japanese fleet with guns blazing on both sides and broke the back of the enemy offen- sive.
 President Roosevelt paid tribute to the San Francisco, her officers and men in a radio address last night and also revealed that:
 '"The commander of the task force of which the San Francisco was a part has recommended that she be the first of our Navy's vessels to be decorated for outstanding service"
 The San Francisco was hit many times during its dangerous dash through the enemy fleet but Mir. Roosevelt said a lieutenant com mander brought her safely back to port "and she will fight again for her country"
 The San Francisco was the flag ship of MT. Roosevelt's close per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

tContinued from Page D request it and they are in the last half of autumn?-to-spring school year.
 Distribution of questionnaires to l8 and i9-year-old who registered in January, l942. They will be called up on the order of their birthdays. No lattery will be held.
 Hershey set up two new draft classes-II-C and III-C-for de- ferred far mworkers. Those without dependent wives. children or other grounds for dependency deferment will go in II-C. those with depen- dency into III-C.
 President Roosevelt meanwhile sent a memorandum to heads of all government departments and agen- cies directing them to cancel any draft deferments given their em- ployes because of their government jobs. He also specified that no fu- them claims for deferments by rea- son of employment should be made either by the agency or the employe'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
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doorman for the role Lorna Far rell, editor of Woman Magazine, shortwaves in German to the women of Germany .. Eddie Forman hears something big is coming off. Says he just saw Henry Kaiser talking
 to Papa Dionnel That RKO ad in the trade papers: "Showmanship in place of genius l'--is a slap at eX-staffer Orson w. Jolson is half owner of the Hampshire House on the outskirts of Miami Beach. His partner is Waiter Jacobs, whose Lora Tarleton hotel enlisted in the Army.
 The Big Time: c, ,orgie Prices medley of Cohan songs at La Conga ... Life Begins at 8:30" at the Roxy tomorrow Loretta Young ana Brian Aherne in "A Night to Rem. per- Dolores South Amerlc Il rhythms at Essex House The score by Benny Davis and Ted Murray at Copacabana. Partic: This Is New York" and Let It Be Gay" The Barrys in Count Me In" Jessel's Prof. Laber.. macher" speciality just before the Show Time" finale Crosby'5 platter of J. Van Huesen's Moon light Becomes You"
 Bigtown Smalltalk: Eileen O'Neill, eX-vocalist with H. James, and Pvt. Harvey Prael of the Army Shohw have been secretly sealed for seven weeks At the Picture Pioneers affair at the Waldorf tomorrow night Scrolls of Honor will be award- ed to persons who have done most for wartime activities this year" |. Jolson again picked a handful of winners at Belmont before the judges did {. E. Lubitsch and Mary Anita LooS are yak-yak 7. Herr J. Ramps new pamphlet called Strict ly Confidential-From the Secret Files of the F. B. T."-may be found on page 7682 of the Sept. 24 Cong. Record .. Bottle Clubs are pop ping up everywhere to take the place of the old speaks. Membership cards and you leave your own bottle on the premises-open all night, etc. . Add slogans: The Rubber You Rickenbacker!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

ahead in three main spearhead col- umns, probably led by United States Army mobile units, toward Tabarka, just inside the Tunisian border on the coast: Souk Fl Arba. road juno tion on the main highway to Bizerte and Tunis. and the east coast of Tunisia somewhere around the Gulf of Hammamet.
 "A second force was believed to be already inside Tunisia after hay ing jumped of from Tebessa, 100 miles inland on the Algerian side of the border, and to be headed for the Gulf of Gabes at a point about 100 miles from the Libyan border.
 sThe United States I2th Air Force. under Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, was advancing its air bases with amazing rapidity as the First Army drove ahead. It was apparent that its crack ground forces were moving right with the Army and preparing each airdrome taken for immediate use.
 Two Forces to Meet
 By this SWift aovance or the ar force bases. it was apparent that before long the American and Brit ish Air Forces operating from the west would be in contact with the British Imperial Air Forces following close behind the Eighth Army in Libya to put an airplane umbrella over all remaining axis-held posi- tons in Tunisia and Libya and make attempts to reinforce them from Sicily suicidal.
 Already, Berlin was offering alibis to explain the dominance of the allied air forces. The offlcial newB agency, in a dispatch broadcast by Berlin. said that "heavy storms" had hampered German and Italian bombing planes for the last 48 hours in attacks on allied shipping of North Africa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
NEW TRAINING OFFERED WOMEN
Captain B. Nj. Shaub of Army Ordnance Here Fri.
 day for Interviews

Hartford, Nov. i7,--A new pro- gram of training women to be ord- nance inspectors was announced to- day by Paul P. Kerins, special rgp- resentatlve of the U, s, Civl Serv- lee commission, who stated that ap. plicatlons from women over i8 would be received for these posi- tions.
 Successful candidates will be paid $l20 @ month while being trained by the Ordnance Department of the U. s. Army and after completing the course will be placed in local industry as Army inspectors at sis5 month.
 Captain B. M. Shaub of the U. s. Army Ordnance will be ct the local office of the U. S. Employment Serv- ice at Waterbury, Friday, Nov. 20, from l0:S0 a. m. to 2 p. m.
 To be eligible, candidates should have had two years of college and have had some training In trigonon1- etry, either in high school or col- lege.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

I fensive strength for the nortKward drive.
 GA United Press dispatch from Chungking quoted dispatch from North China to the official Chinese News Ogency as saying that Amer ican submarines were most active in the Gulf of Chihli, off the north east coast of China.
 (So serious was the situation, the dispatch said, that Japanese Navy authorities at Tientsin had forbid den ships to leave Aientsin.
 (The Japanese now fear, 1t was asserted, that the submarines may succeed in cutting the sea route be- tween China and Japan.
 (The dispatch said also that since the American airplane bombing oi the Kailin mines in northeast China Oct q the Japanese had been sound ing air raid alarms almost daily at TientSin and Peiping, and had blacked out both cities one night because of rumors of attack.
 Despite the United States Solo, mons victory over a Japanese fleet which in the words of Adm. Nimitz could muster informants said that it must be remembered that the Japanese have still an extremely strong Navy.
 The two Japanese battleships en- gagged, one of which was sunk and the other damaged, were old ones and no Japanese aircraft carriers were involved.
 It was not to be taken for granted informants said, that the Japanese would not risk newer battleships of aheir remaining carriers in fut- ure engagements.
 They said that in view of the vast expanse of ocean in the south west Pacific, further slugging match es must be expected and the car- riers must continue to be a most important element in the United States and Japanese fleets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
RICKENBACHER HAD TO RIDE ON WING
Rescuing Plane Too Tiny, So Eddie Was Lashed
 on Plane Wing

Washington. Nov. 17 - (UP) - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, who has cheated death on land, sea and air, rode 70 miles on the wing of the tiny seaplane that rescued him and two companions from Q rubber raft in the Pacific ocean.
 The first details of his rescue were revaled by the War Depart ment. The seaplane that spotted the men who had been floating on the raft for three weeks was So small that only one of the men could be taken in the cockpit. Rickenbacker and one of his companions were dashed to the wing while the plane flew to its base, 40 miles away.
 Despite the effects of floating for three weeks under the hot Pacific sun, Rickenbacker is determined to complete the mission tlat was inter- rupted when his bomber ran out of fuel october 2l and forced into the sea.
 The War Departmer s brief an- nouncement on the rescue details said a navy kingfisher observation scouting plane with a two-man crew sighted the raft at dusk at the end of another day of searching. The pilot started to land, but darkness had already fallen. He dropped flares, and by their light put the tiny craft down beside the raft.
 The pilot was Lieutenant w. F. Eadie of Evanston, Ill, accompanied by Aviation Radioman L. H. Boutte of Abbeville, La, with Rickenbacker on the raft were Colonel Hans c. Adamson, Washington, D. C., and Private John Bartek, Freehold, N. J. Adamson was crowded into the plane's small cockpit and Ricken- packer and Bartek were laShed to the wings before the plane started the sea journey to its undisclosed base.
 Rickenbacker and his seven crew members disappeared October .. while on a secret mission for Sec- retary of War Henry L. Stimson. A radio station on an island south of Oahu picked up a message from his plane saying that but one hours fuel was left. That was the last word. They had been all but given up for dead when the news was fl shed Saturday that Rickenbacker and six of his men were safe.
 The seventh, Sergeant Alexander Kacmarcyzk of Torrington, Conn, died from exposure on Rickenback- CTS raft a few days before the res- cue and was buried at sea.
 Three others, Lieutenant James c. Whitaker, Burlinghame, Calf, Lieu tenant John De Angelis, Nesquehon- ing, Pa, and Staff Sergeant James w. Reynolds, Fort Jones, Calf. were found on an island. Captain William T. Cherry, Jr.. of Abilene, Tex. pilot of the bomber, was found floating alone on a raft and his res- cue led to the discovery of the others.
 The War Department said Rick enbacker and the others will need at least two weeks disqualification to recover from exposure and other ef- fleets of their experience.
 It was hardly the first time Rick enbacker had brushed close to death. In his early days of auto racing he had survived blowouts and break neck speeds on the Indianapolis race track; as Americas premier ace in World War I he had come through scores of dogfights with outnumbering German planes, and two years ago he survived a plane crash which killed eight other pas- sengers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
MARIE BURNS
 DROPS CLAIM
Settlement Terms of $IS,- 900 Suit Against Library
 Not Revealed

Withdrawal papers were filed in superior court today in the $l5,000 damage suit brought by Marie Burns of Waterbury, against the Silas Bronson Library of Waterbury. The action was based on a hip injury sustained by the plaintiff when she fell on a stairway at the library Oct. %, l94l.
 The plaintiff claimed the stair way was structurally defective in that 1t was too steep and lights were set up so that dark shadows fell upon the stairs. She was em. ployed by the W.P.A. for a special project conducted at the library and was descending the stairs when the accident occurred. Terms of settlement were not disclosed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

NSOAAtAAAdS0 AANAlA T dBC AJ unnamed river, forced the river and continued the pursuit, these dis patches said.
 Northeast of Tuapse naval base, the other Caucasian front, Soviet scouts penetrated the rear of the enemy and smashed a company of Rumanian infantry. On another sector, the Germans attacked a height, but retreated when 60 of them were killed.
 Soviet snipers have killed 529 Germans on the Leningrad front in three days, the noon communique reported.
 Last midnight's communique had reported Russian setback on the Volkhov front, above Lake linen on the northwestern front. The Germans, after losing 5000 men in six attacks on strategic locality the Russians had recently taken, succeeded in breaking through to the outskirts on the seventh at- tempt.
 The midnight communique said Soviet attachments were engaged in stubborn street fighting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
CONCORDIA PLAN
 CONCERT NOV. 2l

The Concordia Singing Society will hold its first concert of the year Nov. 2i at the Concordia hall on Bank street. Charles Daloisio, piano accordionist and a former pupil of Pietro in New York. will be the guest artist. Both the mems and women's choruses will partici- pate. and dancing will follow the concert.
 Committee in charge of arrange ments includes: John and William Borchar, Fred Neubig, William Mueskas. Emil Marks. Ernest Muel- Ter, Frances and Cecilia Bessen- senbruck. Ursula Gugliotte, Mrs. Herman Hensel. Mrs. Harry Kane. Mrs. John Healey, and Mrs. Helen Snyder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
STATE DEMOCRATS
 HAVE NEW WORRY
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about two or three weeks ago, but this could not be confirmed.
 Meantime. 1t appeared that John Golden. New Haven public works commissioner. would succeed Fitz- Gerald as New Haven democratic leader. at least for the time being.
 Golden. New Haven sources said. could not command the support that FitzGerald did. but will take over the leadership anyway because he is on the spot. and because he was FitzGeralds' first lieutenant. The position of Mayor John w. Murphy also needed Qualification, but he was expected to cooperate with Golden for the present.
 State Sen. Joseph Rourke may make a bid for control in some New Haven districts, 1t was said. Rourke has considerable strength among lnbpr groups.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18

(COOtlnueQ rom rage U
 proving streets and all our facili- ties if we are to keep abreast of other cities. After all. the drop in the tax rate will not affect the average property owner very much. The decrease of three-quarters of mill will mean reduction in taxes of only $7.50 for one who owns a $l0.000 house. It is true, that the tax reduction will benefit the factories. and I agree that it is a step in the right direction. but it will not help the individual home owners greatly.
 q am disappointed that no pro- vision is made for capital improve ments. The city should have taken care of the repaving of .jouth Main street and Bank street two years ago. I know it has money in the paving bond fund now that could be used for this, but 1t hard to get materials now. The work should have been done two years ago when they could get materials"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
LOCOMOTIVES ATTACKED

London, Nov. IS -CUP)- Planes of the Royal Air Force fighter com mand attacked locomotives in northern France and Belgium dur ing the night and returned with out loss, the air ministry said today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
British Paratroops.
 Germans In Clashes
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ish should be able to move up their forces faster than Rommel can bring in achievements.
 British reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had returned to Africa by airplane, after a confer ence with Adolf Hitler in Germany, ir desperate attempt to reorganize his shattered Axis army caught be- tween Allied armies advancing east ward from Algeria and westward through Lbya.
 Anderson,s first British Army, re- inforced by United States Army mo- bile units, was reported driving rap- idly into Tunisia behind three spear heads on a 60 mile front in the northern coastal area while a sepa- rate force struck through the in- terior toward the Gulf of Gabes to cut of the Axis line of supply and retreat into Lbya.
 The British Libyan army had reached yesterday a point 70 miles from Benghad and 570 miles from Tunisia and advancing almost un- opposed by Axis rear guards who were concentrating on blowing up bridges and locking and mining roads.
 Few Tanks Saved
 Gen. Sir Harold Alexander. com- mander in chief in the Middle East, said at his Egyptian headquarters that the Germans had been able to get away only IS of their finest line tanks when the drive started. He estimated enemy losses so far in the Libyan offensive at 30,000 killed or wounded, 30.000 made prisoner and l5.000 missing, against total British losses of l4.000 killed or wounded.
 The German controlled radio Paris said today that Axis forces had occupied" Bizerte. Previous Axis reports had said only that Axis forces had been landed in Tunisia. r Roundabout radio reports. pur- porting to emanate from Vichy, said a French military mission had left Dakar for North Africa, presumably to negotiate the surrender to the Allies of the vast West African ter ritory neares to South America which is still nominally loyal to the Vichy regime.
 This would give the Allies. with out a struggle, the key area along the West African coast from which German submarine raids on Allied shipping to South Africa, the Middle East and India could be prevented.
 A United Press dispatch from Gran, Algeria, filed Saturday. rec ported also that French authorities were then negotiating with the American Army for the entire French army in the Gran zone to join the Allied forces for combat duty.
 Timed Program Tn their main Tunisia drive. the Allies were following 6 perfectly timed program under which: i-The British and American parachutists, carried in United States Army transport planes pro- tected by American fighters. were being landed ct many points in Tunisia to seize and hold airdromes and other bases.
 AThe parachutigts were sending out patrols to scout axis positions and report by field wireless to the main Army the strongpoints and concentration points to be attacked, 3-The main Army wes moving
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
ABANDONMENT SOUGHT

Washington, Nov. le-(UP)-The New Haven railroad today applied to the interstate commerce com- mission for authority to abandon 6 i7-miie line between Northampton. Mass. and Cheapside, Mass, ops eration of which ceased April 1. 1881. The New Haven said that abandonment would facilitate ac- |quisition of rail by the War Pro- duction Board for war purposes. It |said the line has a salvage value of |e54.260.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
CANAL REvERsEs ITSELF

Brazil has 6 canal which fiowi in one direction part of the veal and in the other direction the resl Of the year. The Cassquiare canal is . natural waterway. flowing into the Orinoco river during the floor tide of the Amazon and into the Amazon river during the flood tide of the Orinoco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-18
MRS. LUCE SHOWS HIGHEST EXPENSES
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publican candidate for governor, spent $i0O-a contribution to his home town Stratford Republican town committee. Socialist Candi- date Jasper McLevy listed 12OO ex- penses. and Joseph c. Borden. Jr., Darien. running for governor on the Socialist-Labor ticket, listed his expenditures as none"
 Lewis Shea, Stratford, agent for Gov. Elect Baldwin, reported &2.- 37O was spent for his election.