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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-07
COTTON MONSTER
 TANKS BUILDING
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 Froehel's report was corroborated by Major A. J. Seller of the Phila- delphia ordnance district. who said that by the end of 1922, Baldwin will be producing 10 times as many tanks as were expected Q year ago. when it delivered its first M-3 tank to the army.
 "Last month, Raldwin's pr0duc- ton was three-and-a-half times what 1t was when the first tank came of the line," Major Seller said, Production will go up an- other three times before the end Of the year."
 Baldwin produced the first 6O.ton tank in the United States. It has been tested and proved end will be the model for mass production,
 Tank Producing Unit
 The production at the Baldwin Works Is significant, because 1t is one of the major tank producing units ip the country, It was one 0f the first war plants opened to news. papeFmeD, who will inspect more than 30 such factories throughout the nation in q tour sponsored by the National Association of Manus lecturers,
 Moreover, Baldwin soon will Do making Q new model medium tank, the Ml4, ap improvement over the Ms, Tt will be the same size, about 2e t0ns,, but It will haFs increased AFep0WeF, g lower silhouette, Q wider angle 0f fire and improved Oblis anity-tbak Is, the tank is designed % thRs iss aFnl0Ted surfaces VIII be st angles te enemy Ire, instead es DagpeHdieulaE to lt,
 "When we switch ever from the Mse 70 the Ms4, there won't ba a drop tn production" pF0ebel sald, .nsK nleasls VII be InsesEstsd bee Ha RAid all reports inAleatAd that tho ReEfoFBallee Og American tanks Was bighlg satisfactory,
 AH Over WeFla
 sAgnaTiean tanks ere ia all nRFtf 0g the WeFld,g h9 sald, 'gfheFe haze been some medium tanks in Africa ] can't aay specifically WhetiaaE they were fFeln olig factory, but ail accounts asFee that AmeFleRn Msa'i have it eVer ether tanks Ike Blanket"
 mo baldwin WGks provide an excellent example eg tho conversion og civilian saaiisigF fe War pradlfe ten. 10 meet military needs, naia' sin doHblea the aiae 0g iss IloFaeal. |ass in aeiAs ae compared with ie4e
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FRAUDULENT GAS
 SALES NET FINE

Nsugatuck, May T- Morris GFeenblatt Of Watervllle street, Waterbury, was fined t26 and costs in borough court today on e charge of fraudulent sale Of gasoline. P0s lice alleged GFeepblatt, who OpeFs Rtes Q gas station in Union tCty, blended two types Of gasoline,
 He was arrested yesterday by State Trooper Victor Nelson, Judge Martin L, caiHe pFesldeda
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NOAlCAItuSQ 4IO1I1 rage 4I
 4. The full use by the Japanese of Manila Bay as a supply base and an operating base for submarines.
 The principal thought here was, when do we go back" There was no doubt in the minds of officials that we're going back and throw them out" That was the tenor of reaction in congress, too.
 Fate Of Defend CTS
 There was no word as to the fate of the defenders of Corregidor and the other island forts which had guarded the entrance to Manila Bay for 50 long. The last messages received from Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright indicated that casualties among the garrison had been heavy.
 The Navy disclosed that 3,845 offl- cers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps were on the island when it fell. There was as yet no estimate of Army personnel. Some authorities hazarded the estimate that about 10000 persons, including civilian evacueeS were on Corregi- dor.
 The Navy also announced the loss of three mine sweepers and two gunbaotS in the final battle. The mine sweeper Tanager and the river Gunboat Oahu were victims of ar- tillery from Bataar. The mine sweeper Pigeon was sunk by aerial bombing. The river gunboat Luzon and the mine sweeper Quail were severely damaged by shellfire and were sunk by their own crews to prevent capture.
 Japanese Report
 Tokyo, May ' - (UP) - Jap. an e Broadcast recorded by UP at San Francisco) = An Imperial headquarters coinmunique tonight announced occupation Of Corregi- dor and the other fortified islands at the mouth of Manila Bay. Com pletion of the operations came at 8 a. m. today, it said.
 Japanese army and navy units carried out Q successful landing on Corregidor at lt:l6 p. m. Tuesday despite stubborn resistance, the cominunique said. 4 surprise land- ing was made on Caballo Island, on which Fort Hughes is situated, at midnight Wednesday and Forts Drum and Mills soon fell into Jap" anese hands.
 Emperor Hirohito, recognizing the fall of Corregidor, granted an Inns perlal rescript to the commanders Of the Japanese army and navy forces in the southern regions through their respective general stalfs, according to the cosamunis que,
 "EIis imperial majesty gracious. " commended the brilliant success in the reduction of the last remain. ing American outpost tn Easl Asle," the comnuplque sald,
 Successful occupation Of MaetaE Egland-the little Island Of oiP neAl Cebu - also was reported by D0mel the oflelal news agency,
 Reporters with the Japanese na. yal forces said theiP forces landed Rt the Port Of 0p0D and had eeIl' plete control of the island within four hours, the agency added, There was no resistance tO the landing party and WhaFVes and hlllalHgl had not been damaged, 4 f0@00st0H l Oll tanker Of tha Standard oil Com paNV lad been destroyed, however
 Maetan is only about 2k miles VI elFenNfeTenee hilt lts ell he'd beer the chief supply Tor Americans aps RllIplnos stlA fighting iR the islands
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General MacArtl1ur
 Is Loud In Praise
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in the Bougainvilel island area of the Solomons group, in what Mac. Arthur called a successful attack.
 His communique disclosed that the Japanese, in a long-awaited move toward big scale offensive activity, were massing warshipS and trans- ports in the general area of Ra. baul, in New Britain island, whence fleet could essay direct attack on Forth Moresby, the valuable Al- lied advanced base in New Guinea; the American forces in New Gale. donia, or even on Australia itself.
 Simultaneously, the Japanese has suddenly diminished the intensity of their persistent, savage, but cost ly aerial attacks on Port Moresby, MacArthur noted.
 His communique, No. l6 from ihs general southewest Pacific head quarters said:
 "New Guinea-Port Moresby: enemy air activity had diminished.
 "New Britain-Rahaul: Enemy naval activity is increasing in this general area.
 solomon Islands-Allied bombers successfully engaged enemy naval units in the Boougainville area"
 Japs Conserving
 Diminishing Japanese aerial acc tivity over Port MoreSby had been taken ct first to mean that the enemy had decided to take rest af- CT losing Q high per centage of at- tacking planes to Allied fighters.
 Now it appeared that the Japan csc probably were concentrating and conserving their aerial power and 1t was known that they had received airplane endorsements.
 United States bombing planes had done terrific damage to such enemy bases as Rabaul and Lac and Sa lamaua, on the Huon gulf of north- ern New Guinea, across the island from Port Moresby.
 An army spokesman said here that 1t was believed Salamaua, used by the enemy as base for plane at- tacks on Port Moresby, had been almost wiped out.
 Raids on Rabaul and Lac, he said, had proved even more successful than first reports from pilots in- dicated.
 It was noted that the Japanese were now using obsolete fighters of Mitsubishi-39 type to reinforce their fast Navy-9 fighters, their best.
 This indicated 8 shortage of fight CTS, but 1t was understood that the enemy air corpt was being rein- forced with bombing planes of the latest type. The fall of Corregi- dor in the Philippines released many planes an dmen for service else- where.
 .... .... Slowed up JapS .. ......
 There was no doubt that the AL lied air raids had slowed the Jap anese and put back for weeks a Japanese offensive in the Aus tralasian zone.
 Now, however, there were indica- tions that the Japanese had decid- ed they must strike or face pro- gressively heavy attacks by the rgowing Allied air corps.
 A Japanese fleet could strike from the Solomon islands HOO miles southeastward toward Free French New Caledonia, where American troops are now based.
 New Caedonia, 300 miles east o1 Australia and 1000 miles north o1 New Zealand, United States south Pacific naval headquarters, is im- portant strategically to communi- cations between the United States and the southwes Pacific.
 American planes based on New Caledonia have already been in ac ion against Japanese long-rnge Reconnaissance planes, which have sought vainly to fy over the island.
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Both pMRanlls end kalEnitlq @eS nled kn0Wledea eg tlAe wlaeEeaDeN@ 0f the money
 % snspanains sentence @ tlle ease ef bnEoNlls Judge genWay eollS RaenkAd thAt ba waS saklns eo9niHs aIlea thst V was pAHau'is slfss es' fanse,
 Passmls Was rot invelEeA in the fk hTaaks which Kalvatls aamltteq he and fAo i1sNeaFseld hoR W0gk9a,
 Kalyaltls is aala t0 haEe teia pos llaa alae iIimk Aeaaag bought, among oSaer fhlnGs, 70 n0linAs Of copper wire alole1l tFom the eek g0lnt plne Company. go eela e.ley were nsad el8 by llae tnn* Aealef Nno lela lklem so ''kaep aulet aaoui itT
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Personnel is three times WhaE st Was two years ego end production is up approximately,
 At the same time, the company Is producing more locomotives to meet the transportation emergency,
 Baldwin faced meny pFoblek1s, tle majog eg which were getting mater. iRls, machine tools and trained W0ykmen, 0f9eials saad the machine tool problem had been eased, pertS ly by getting some from outside, PeyR0nnse IS the most pressing pF0hlaln now, but new workers gre steadily being tEalned,
 0theV Plants wMsg
 Many ether Philadelphia indus tries are turning cut weapons of Wag in rapidly mounting ahAnflfles wlth iMnF0Vlsea plants end mAehlne tools and c hlFf5edlv trained, bus n0lleS fhelass eaIeloDk personnel,
 one 6 the tinehQlse hleefFie 00Innanyis steam turbine plant, among the best war inahsiSiai units in tue eelibtFy,
 " D, heWbnFy, VIeeypEasleent ln charge of emergency WAF pFeallete manllfa aefuTing, said emploges 70 tho e0npanyb plants ln as cities mad igaefsas06 gBaga ~ paaeasaSae aFaFaRa ef 40N0e to A900O.
 Ige sala WasNngh0uae ilad eols siFHefe6 fellP ileW WaE plants easts lng 1oa GO 600 which tbe eeyerns mNnk lad provided They Include naval aFdnallee factories. ln 0hlo and Kentucky, Q neW cargo a9if filybfne and seer plant in the Rhila. feInIlla area, and s naval aDlo nT0u nuIslen machinery gaelogy at ar lndlesIoasd eitgs
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N~S@AseeAN~SNA form necessary functions. Those who live many miles from their of- flee Or factory will not get "B" cards if they can ride busses or street cars. "B" cards will entitle them to II, 15, or 19 basic units, depending on need.
 TX" cards will go to doctors, nurses and others who need unliln- tied amounts of fuel.
 TX" card holders can get only a reasonable" amount, determined by the dealer, who has to conserve a supply which will be cut to 50 per cent or normal on May 16.
 No ration cards will be required by civilian defense automobiles or boats, if the area "is under martial law or under enemy attack or iim- mediate threat of attack, or (if the vehicle or boat) is actually engaged in a civilian defense practice or drill"
 Boats and cars engaged in rescue activity or in emergency work will require no ration cards.
 Dealers Are "Sole Judges"
 Dealers will be ehe "sole judge" of questionable gasoline need.
 No ration card will be needed by persons buying gasoline for export or use in foreign countries.
 The OPA will set up mo mans land" around the 17-state area to prevent "bootlegging" and buying of gasoline just across the border from the restricted zone. In a zone 50 miles wide around the rationing area motorists who live in the area will be required to use ration books to buy gasoline, although they will not be restricted unless they seek unreasonable quantities.
 Officials held out little hope that the fuel shortage in the east would be eased during the duration of the war, although ration amounts may be increased after the seven-week trial program.
 May Be No Tankers
 New Orleans, May 7-(UP)- Petroleum Coordinator Harold L.. Ickes said last night that soon there may be no tankers available to carry oil to the east coast, which would then have to be supplied by land and inland water routes entirely.
 we feel that it is only prudent to prepare for the day when it may be necessary for us to rely entirely on land and inland water transpor- tation to supply oil to the eastern seaboard," he told the annual Na- tural Gas convention. T believe that the soundest national policy now dictates that we should hence forth operatep on the theory that there will be no tankers available for east coast service.
 He said tankers still are in east coast service, but that they might be called for war work in other parts of the world at any time.
 He warned that railroad facilities were nearly exhausted with 60O.0OO barrels of crude oil being moved Into eastern states daily and demands increasing for tank cars for ship ments to oregon and Washington, "now that the war is getting closer to the Pacific northwest"
 Old pipelines are being torn up to be relaid on shortened routes to the east, and barges gre being de verted from their accustomed runs to carry oil up the Mississippi and along inland routes to the east, New baFges and tugs will be built, tekeE said, but the facilities may not be enough to make driving as usual possible for some time to come, es' psclally along the Atlantic seq. board.7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-07

The admiralty and war office, an- nouncing the capture of Antsirane, said the French Naval and Military commanders had surrendered and that only pockets of resistnce re- mained to be reduced.
 Climax Reached
 The combined land, sea and air invasion of the strategic island reached its climax in the dramatic night attack in which royal marines made 8 frontal landing before the naval base, in a gallant diversional movement, while the commandos and parachutistS made the main attack from the rear.
 Diego Saurez town had fallen yes- terday.
 At nightfall the commandos and parachutists were in positions be- tween one and two miles south of Antsirane, attacking the heavily fortified positions from which the Vichy forces poured deadly fire from the famous Frenchc 75 milli- meter field guns and batteries of machine guns.
 Then the Royal Marines de- bouched onto the beaches of the bay north of Antsirane and, in 8 sacrifice attack, drew the attention of the defenders.
 This enabled the commandos and parachutistS to storm the positions.
 It was believed that the isolated pockets or resistance which re- mained were in the Orangea Penin- sula, east of Antsirane, which partly encloSes Diego Suarez Bay.
 Coastal batteries remain there in force, but are pointed to the sea and the British are attacking from the land side against defenders who cannot retreat except into the ws- ter.
 Casualties Not Heavy
 Official sources said British cas- ualtieS were not heavy for one Of the most successful Allied exploits of the war, resulting in the capture within 48 hours of the powerful naval base on the Indian ocean, which dominates the Allied sea conl- munications to Middle East and In- dia.
 The victory of the landing forces, which carried light but highly effi- cient equipment along the lines ex- pointed by the Japanese in the southwest Pacific, was made poSsi- ble 50 quickly by close airplane sup- port-also of the Japanese pattern If vas revealed officially,
 The admiralty and war office arl- nounced in their col. .Inunique, as Vichy had admitted yesterday, that Q Vichy submarine and 8 sloop had been sunk in Diego Suarez harbor.
 It was not indicated whether these were the submarine beveziers and the sloop Bougainyille, 8 converted banana transport, whose loss Vichy had admitted yesterday,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-07
ELK uORDEs LOSE FEAR
 OF MAN

Wheeler, Ore, - lU.P.l " Several large bands Of elk, with no RppegS eat fear Of man, gre feeding adJa- cent 70 the coast highway and the Eailroa6 tracks along Ealm0pbeETy canyon near Elk creek,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-07
WF.RUNNER N0F Do saIART

Nn#NF WMFI05l1 FM, - IWsEsy W WI aalf0gn0bllN crashed iUto the F0ag |0e ttae townships new slipeFsglToet eleaneR. The agtveh backed np end
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RTo BATTLE IN BURMA

OuuuSk1uBs Mdy J-SOEy - A najcr battle between reinforced Chinese troops and Japanese me- cfanlzed columns ragged today along Ehe twisting Burma road at Che. fang, 2z miles inside the Chinese frontier.
 The enemy was attempting to ad- vance on American air bases in zunnan province.
 A military spokesman said Che. fang had been a battle center since the Japanese occupied the border town of Wanting on Monday and pushed north in the general direc- kiOn of Paosllan (Yungchang), loo miles above the frontier.
 Unconflrmed reports said one enemy advance unit had reached Agangshih, 50 miles north of Wan- ting. It appeared that the imne- diate Japanese objective was Pao- shan, the base of American voiun- teer pilots who are attacking Jap- aFleSe aeriaf raiders. At least fl Dnezly planes have been downed ir faree days over Paoshan.
 The spokesman indicated thai Chinese resistance around Wanting kFidge on the frontier had virtually eeaged. He denied however, thai kile Japanese had crossed the border ct any point except on the Burma road.
 "Chinese forces have not yet de. nkrOyed the section of the Burma R0ad near the border" he said. 'aThG read is well constructed and vel surfaced, and besides we haven't had enough time to destroy it."
 The spokesman emphasized thai khe Chinese hereafter would con. eentTate on mobile warfare" fir file Burma China theateT. Remain. ang Chinese forces in Burma, hs aaid, definitely would not withdrew ag long as there were Japanese t Aght.
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Nv RALPH HEINZEN

(United Press Stan COFTespOndent)
 Vichy, France, May 7.-(UP)-of- ficiaI quarters said today that no
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fruits end vegetables probably will come under the axe, too,
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LOCAL JUNK MAN
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aeFba DV T'h0IlGan7ls

l, London, May ' - lUPl - 4 JHs g0slav refugee government mems 0Eapduln to the United States. Bgi- tain and other Allied governments today charged that Axis occupation troops in Jug0slayie had executed more than 90b000 Serbs since ocs eHpation began,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-07
EXECUTIONS OF
 FRENCH GO ON
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(Continued from Page 1) authorities ordered . genreal 2 p. m. curfew, hoping to check terror ism by keeping the French indors.
 Radio Berlin announced that Reinhardt Heydrich, deputy chief of the Gestapo, who had been appoint ed protector of Bohemia and Mo- ravia" to check terrorism In Czech- oslovakia. arrived unexpectedly in Paris today. He is known as brutally ruthless, stopping at nothing.
 70 Dutch To Die
 Another German broadcast sai8 70 members of Q clandestine Neth- erlands organization had eben sen- tenced to death for "alding and abetting enemy espionage, illega. possession of arms and explosives or breach of officers parole"
 Departing from it's usual trend Radio Berlin admitted that these Dutchmen were mot Communists nor Social" Instead, they werd former officers and reserve ofSlcerS of the Dutch Army, and the Ger mans were indignant that they had broken their word of hOnOg," pledged whe nthe armistice was concluded. that they would not op. pose the German armed forces.
 Sabotage was on the increase in Belgium. too. A transformer station was wrecked at the important Krupp Armament Works near Brus. sells and several cranes were danas aged at the locks Of the Antwerp Canal.
 In Germany, Adolf Hitler appoint. cd an "armagnent council" to speed production of material for his forces. The powers Of the council were not specided,
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RESERVES FROM ', SIBERIA IN FIGHT

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TWO TO SIX
 GALLONS OF GAS

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the river at night. Braving ex- ploding land mines and deadly ma- chine gun fire from balconies and barns of . vilalge, they broke the German first line of defense and seized the bank.
 In four days, the Russians had uaopped up the entire bank and captured several villages. They Rcrded the river and under an in- &ens0 smelling and bombardment by Che Germans, smashed defenses on ehe opposite bank and took over enemy Strongholds.
 Russians Are Ready
 Soviet military observers said the Russians were ready and able to anticipate enemy moves by large- scale attacks as soon as the weather ls suitable. The government news paper Izvestia had predicted new, great battles and a, further offen- stve in Soviet operations in the uear future"
 The communique last midnight exported only local engagements and the sinking of 5,000-ton German transport in the Parents Sea.
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TRAVEL
 IS SPOTuCHTED

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LAPS MAY CLEAN
 UP PHILIPPINES

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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-10-23
Prince Finds Princess
He Lost in Lowlands

NEW YORK.-Separated when the
German armies swept through the
Lowlands, Prince Edward Joseph
Lobkowicz and his wife were reunit-
ed recently for the first time in more
than two years.
Once leaders in the Paris inter-
national set. the couple had varied
adventures before reaching here.
The princess managed to get to
Biarritz and from there to the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lihme
of New York. The prince joined the
Czechoslovak fighting forces in
Egypt and once was reported miss
ing.
The princess was playing golf at
Watch Hill, r. l., when a messenger
brought her a telegram. She met
the plane when the prince arrived
from Miami. Prince Lobkowicz was
at one time privy councillor and lord
chamberlain to the late Emperor
Franz Joseph.