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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
GASLESS SUNDAYS
 FOR BAY STATE
Motorists Violating PrOc- Ianlation May Lose B,
 e Coupons

Boston, Dec. 12 - (U.P) - Mass achusetts motorists who fail to heed Governor Leverett Saltonstalls "gasless Sundays proclamation stand to lose their B" and "C" gas oline ration books, OPA officials in- dicated today.
 The ban on sabbath pleasure driv- Ing. marking the first step in Mas sachusettss' emergency fuel saving program, was imposed by the gover- nor last night after he returned from Washington with no promise of relief in New England's fuel oil crisis.
 Every gallon of gasoline you burn 9eans someone will go without a gallon of heating oil-perhaps your self" the governors proclamation read. "Petroleum> Administrator IckeS' staff stated to me that for every gallon of gasoline you save, a gallon of fuel oil will come instead Eo Massachusetts"
 The governor called upon Massa- chusetts citizens to abandon Sum- day driving wholeheartedly, subject to the rigid enforcement of their consciences. the only exceptions to be emergencies, war workers, and church attendance in the absence of ether transportation.
 Reliable forecast of oil deliveries
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
UNION SQUABBLE
 GOES INTO COURT

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 12-(UP)- A Superior Court temporary in- junction today restrained Herman Stewart Dodge, Business Agent of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, from interfering with the employment of the inion's for mer Business Agent, Frank E. Con. nor.
 Dodge also was made defendant in a $lO,O00 civil action brought by Connor who claimed that his em- ployer was "intimidated" by Dodge with result he was fired from his job at the Scherer Steel Co, last November.
 The litigation goes back to the spring of 1941 when the Interna- tional Union took over control of the Hartford Local after accusing its officers of violating a col.stitur tional provision that no strikes be called without approval of the In- ternational. A Civil action is pend- ing in the courts over this move.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
ATTY. ANSWERS
 SPECIAL DEFENSE
Procedural Hearing in TempletOn vs. Wtby Sav-
 ings Bank Yesterday
CU. 8. Navy Newsreel from NEA)

Another procedural hearing in the civil action brought by Charles A. Templeton. Inc. against the Wa terbury Savings bank as the result of mistakenly" paid interest took place in superior court yesterday when Attorney Lawrence Lewis, counsel for the plaintiff, an swered special defense filed by the bank.
 The case which has teen pending in the court for many months re- suited when the concern discovered 1t had been paying five and Ia per cent interest on a Sl5,000 loan re- quiring five per cent, The extra" payments were alleged to have been made from 1916 until the debt was paid in 1941. Decision on arguments presented yesterday was reserved by Judge Kenneth Wynne at the conclusion of the hearing.
 MT. Lewis argued the contract for the loan called for payment of five per cent interest and that no change had ever been suggested in the terms. The fact that the bank mailed the interest bill preceding each payment does not constitute a basis for a contractual change, ne said. T don't know of any law that would allow a party to a contract to change the terms merely by send ing a piece of paper through the mail" he stated.
 Arguments had been presented by Attorney William w, Gager, counsel for the bank, that t..e con cern by paying five and Ia per cent thereby agreed that the rate was permissible.
 Referring to the statute of linn itations, called to the courts atten- ton by the defendant. the plain tiff's lawyer stated it could not deter Q case involving mistakenly paid money. According to the stat ute institution of civil actions IS limited to the period within six years of the alleged defect.
 MT. Lewis stated If someone should take my car and keep it for six years and then asked for it l believe I could get it back" adding facetiously, unless of course the OPA passed a restraining order. ? The statute cannot apply to such an equitable action, he said.
 The case has aroused considerable interest in legal circles because of its novelty and the numerous technical and procedural considerations in- volved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
AXIS ADVANCE IS
 HALTED BY ALLIES
Hold Firm Along z5-Mile Front; Supplies Pour in
 Over Muddy Roads

London. Dec. 12-CUP) = Allied forces were reported holding firmly today along 25-mile battle front west of Tunis after 12-niile Axis advance stopped when the British, American and French troops threw the enemy for heavy losses in coun- ter-attacks.
 Supplies were pouring into the Allied lines over roads heavy with mud and the general position was reported improved but dispatches emphasized that the Axis fnain- tained aerial superiority.
 An Italian broadcast discloc d that the big Italian population of Axis-held Tunisian areas was being drafted to bolster the German and Italian forces.
 5O,OO0 Italians There
 Before the war, there were about 50,000 Italians in Tunis alone, most of them men who had undergone compulsory military training in Italy. cast report that the British Eighth
 The French Radio Dakar broad Army had opened it's offensive against the 10000 Germans holding the Agheila lire on the Gulf of Sirte in Libya.
 Neither London nor Cairo could confirm this report but dispatches from Egypt left no doubt that the offensive was going to start soon on scale calculated to break any re- sistance the Germans might be able to offer, and start the Eighth Army along the road to Tunisia, ATS miles to the west, for a junction with the Allied forces already there.
 Counter-Attack Verified A French army communiqus broadcast by Radio Morocco sup plemented yesterdays communiqul of the Allied command reporting thu counter-attack which stopped thu Germans west of Tunis and f0rceG their withdrawal.
 French forces established in tlis Medjez-el-Bab area have been at- tackled by an enemy column coming from the southeast, comprising is. fantry as well as about IS tanks. tContinued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
ALLIES PREPARE
 BIG OFFENSIVE
Will Move North From Solomons, New Guinea
 on Jap Bases

Headquarters, United tSates Pa cific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Dec. Ill., (Delayed ed-UTP)-United Nations forces are preparing a double-bar- reled offensive from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea as the re- suit of their recent successes, we'll informed quarters believed today.
 The steady hopping up Of the Japanese on Guadalcanal Island and the advances of Gen. Douglas MacArthurs American and Austral- ian trops against the Japanese beachhead at Buna on the north New Guirca coast yere believed to mean that the Allies soon would have strong springboards for real offensive.
 Supplies and equipment were re- ported moving steadily into the southern Solomons in preparation for the offensive phase of the cam paign.
 It was expected that when the time came tt'e Marines and Army men in the Guadalcanal area would start northward toward Bougain- vile at the northern end of the Sol omons, while MacArthur's men moved northeastward toward New Britain Island.
 From Guadalcanal the American troops have about $50 miles to go to Bougainville. the chief Japanese base in the northern Solomons. Prom the Buna beacanhead it is about 425 miles to Rabaul, the great enemy base on New Britain Island.
 At Rabaul and Bougainville the Allied forces would be 800 and 300 miles respectively from the Japanese naval base in the Truk Islands.
 Informants emphasized that lack of reports of large scale operations on Guadalcanal Island did not mean that there was not constant fighting.
 4 United Press correspondent re- gently returned from Guadalcanal told how a group of Marines stood listening to San Francisco news broadcast describing the current lull' on Guadalcanal.
 "Oh yeah?" commented Marine.
 All the time the broadcast was goirg on Japanese ships were stand ins off shore bombarding the Ma rine positions.
 But American air and sea super iority is such that these lombard ments have stopped now along with the flow of enemy achievements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
DIM.OUT LAW VIOLATORS ARE. TOO NUMEROUS. Stores, Business Places in Heart of City Constitute
 Worst Offenders DEMOCRAT SURVEY
 REVEALS VIOLATIONS Stores, Restaurants, Tav- erns Noticeable as Fail-
 ing to Observe Rules

Stores and other business establishments are the prin- cipal violators of local dim out regulations, a survey by The Democrat disclosed last night. Private homes are complying almost 100 per cent with the rules. The city itself is guilty of some of the most serious violations, with traffic lights blazing. No effort to shield the lights, has been done in other cities, has yet been made here.
 Sune of the stores failing to dim out are in the very heart of the city. The most fragrant violator is a store located only block from Exchange Place.
 Tayerns, Restaurants Worst
 Two reporters for The Democrat, making Q survey of sample streets east and west of the center, found that stores, restaurants, and taverns were the worst violators. In num- Der of cases absolutely no provision has been made for keeping the glow of inside and window lights from the street.
 Virtually all street lights were found shielded, but the traffic lights, with their green, amber and red lights, could be seen Tor hun- dreds of feet. It is understood that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
Iss CASUALTIES

Washington, Dec. i2.-CUP)-The Navy listed 189 New Englanders-64 dead, S1 wounded and A missing on casualty list No. l8 today. Gov ering the period Nov. l6-30 inclu- sive, the list. by states, showed these casualties: Massachusetts-35 dead 49 wounded. g missing: Rhode Isl- and-5 dead. wounded. missing New Hampshire-6 dead. 8 wounded, |3 missing: Vermont dead. wounded, none missing: Maine-e dead. g wounded. none missing Connecti-ut--e dead. IA wounded. 2 missing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12

main inland trail met resistance by big force of enemy troops about five miles from Buna and 2 1-2 miles from Sanananda, up the coast.
 The Allied troops famed out on both sides of the trail into the jun gle and thrusting in behind the Japanese. established positions be- tween the enemy and Sanananda.
 Yesterday the enemy troops re- alized their danger and tried to break through to safety. They at- tackled again and again, only to be beaten back.
 "Southwards of Sanananda the enemy repeatedly ounter-attacked but was bloodily repulsed," General Douglas MacArthur's communiquc reported today.
 The communique noted also that in the Buna area proper. Allied field guns and mortars, including the new 4-inch (105 millineter( guns, had silenced enemy anti-aircraft and machine gun positions.
 Martin B-26 Martian bombers, att tacking with bombs, machine guns and cannon the enemy landing strip airplane dispersal bays and anti aircraft gun positions in the Buna Mission area starting fires which were visible for 35 miles.
 Dispatches revealed that Martians and North American BPS Mitchells had started many small fires in an attack Thursday on the Japanese base at Lac, up the coast from Buna. The Mitchells in a follow-up attack scored more than 20 hits with 00-pound bombs and silenced several enemy anti-aircraft batter ies.
 General Macarthur. reported in the communique that Australian troops mopping up the Coma Mis- sion area, now cleared of the enemy, had counted 440 Japanese dead so far. with more still to be reported, and had taken 16 prisoners.
 These 440 enemy dead are those already buried. Many more still lie around the beaches, headquarters spokesman said.
 The communique reported also that enemy planes were still drop ping supplies to the Japanese troops on the Buna beachhead.
 At Guna, the Australians found quantities of food and ammunition, thus disproving reports that the enemy troops suffered a want of supplies there.
 For the present the weight of the Allied offensive, set at driving the Japanese out of New Guinea, was aimed directly at the Buna rear. The Japanese forces had been split between the village and the Mission just down the coast but they held strongly entrenched positions. flank ed by pill box machine gun nests and by snipers posted in cocoanut ! trees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
WOMEN URGED
 TO USE POWER

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 12.-UP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told Radcliffe's Phi Beta Kappa mem bers last night that women must throw away inferiority complexes' and use their powers to win the peace.
 Mrs. Roosevelt was presented the Gold Key. symbol of academic learning for her achievements for the cause of humanity.
 She told 250 members of the Rac- cIlffe Chapter that it was time women came 'out of the ivory tower and into tho market place"
 ''It is you who win be to blame If we find ourselves in the place we Ire today" she said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12

 high, will be outstripped this year. Present figures indicate that a rec ord of close to go per cent will be reached.
 The excess of collections over es- inmates will be added to the city's surplus for 1942. Under the charter, collections can now be estimated at no more than 92 per cent of the to- tai levy.
 This will be the third successive year in which a tax collection rec ord has been set for the city. Under Collector Mangini, r.;w records were ses in l940 and 194l, the collection total in each year going over 97 DIT cent. The record being estab- lished this year is all the mors re- markable in view of the fact that several thousand men owning cars and other personal property are now out of the city and with the armed services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
Destination Of Daylight Raiders As Yet Unknown
RUSSIANSSTORM. STRONG POINTS
Nazi First Line of Defense Taken West of Rzhev
 Sector
By M. s. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

Moscow, Dec. 12,-CUPl-RuSSian troops, advancing under cover of an artillery and mortar barrage, have forced their way across & water bar rier to capture a German first line of defense west of Rzhev in a fierce battle, the high command announced today.
 Storming the strongly fortified German positions in this key area of the central front west of Moscow, the Russians fought their way in hand to hand fighting through suc- cessive strong points and. the noon communiQue said, destroyed 15 enemy block houses and IS gun em- placements and killed 800 Germans,
 In the velikie Luki area to the west, about 75 miles from Latvia. the Russians continued fighting for the annihilation of invested German garrison" the noon communique said. in addition to repulsing enemy counter-attacks,
 This meant that the Russians were continuing their steady work of cutting into the German lines and isolating attachments which they then attacked and disposed of one by one.
 Russian planes were active over the battle area and, the communique said, shot down seven enemy planes in fighting yesterday and during the night.
 The midnight communiQue report ed the capture by the Russians in a savage fight of height "of great tactical importance" in the Vehkie Luki area, and said the Red Army men held their gains despite many counter-attackS in which the enemy lost heavily in men and materials.
 West of Rzhev. the midnight com munique said. the Russians occup- jed a number of German defense points, killed several hundred Ger mans and destroyed 2l enemy tanks.
 The communique noted that on the Leningrad front to the north the Russians had killed about 500 Germans in the last three days and their artillery had destroyed 24 enemy gun supplements. two field guns, eight machine guns and an ammunition dump.
 In the northern part of Stalingrad City, the noon communique said, the Russians during the night threw the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
FIRE COMMISSIONER
 WILL; BE WITNESS
Boston Official Calls Off Own Inquest; Death Toll
 Now 488

Boston, Dec. 12-(UP)-Fire Con- missioner William A. Reilly inter rupted his own public inquest into the Cocoanut Grove Holocaust today to appear as a witness at Atty Gen. Robert T, Bushnell's secret in- quest-the inquiry which is expected to lead to indictments against at least 27 persons.
 Indefinite suspension of his in- quest, during which HOO pages oi sworn testimony already had been taken, was announced by Reilly last night as he accepted BuShnell's invitation" to testify before the State Board this morning.
 Meanwhile, the Holocaust death toll, officially established at 487 by the Boston Public Safety committee yesterday, rose to 488 with the death at City Hospital last night of Miss Priscilla White of Brook line, 27-year-old secretary. Of III injured in the disaster, S6 still were hospitalized today, with 51 in criti- cal condition.
 Recuperating from pneumonia Barnett Welansky, 46, owner of thu Cocoanut Grove, was able. to lea { Phillips House of MaSsachusett: General Hospital yesterday. His doc. tor said he would not be able to tes. tify in the fire inquest for at ieas two weeks but state investigators eager to question him, hinted the. might seek other medical opinion on WelanSky's ph. condition.
 Among other things, investigator wished to ask Weiansky whether h. made a certain remark attrfbutes to him by a witness at the publi inquiry. This witness quoted Welan SNrxnnfssassaA sNs. 0mmm ga
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
Observers Claim Record Flight of Planes ROared
 ksS Out Over Channel BOTH ATTACK MADE
 ON TURIN IN NIGHH Naples Hit By Planes From Africa; Weather Turns
 IncIement
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS

BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff CorrespondentI
 London, December 12. (UP) - One of the biggest fleet of British bombing and fighting planes seen in months roared over to occtI- pied France in daylight today soon after Allied planes made the third attack in a week on Turin and a second great at tack on Naples.
 Watchers along the southeast coast saw fleets of great bombing planes cross to enemy occupied tsr- ritory along with swarms of pro- tecting fighters.
 A small fierce of Britain-bassd bombers had just fought through 600 miles of bad weather and Ger man gun fire to make the 39th at. tack on Turin, center of Italian var industry, raining bombs of all weights on the still-smoutdeing ruins of factories wrecked in raids Tuesday and Wednesday nights. z
 Naples Blasted
 The Middle Eastern Comma. q announced at Cairo that ALie1 planes-possibly American Army D. 24 Consolidated Liberators witch made the last raid there a week ago-had blasted Naples yesterGay.
 Yesterday Naples was bombs :. ' the communique said. Hits wsre scored on moles and merchant vsc- sels. Fires and explosions resrl'ed along the entire waterfront"
 Liberators made the first attack on Naples week ago yesterEay blasting an Italian naval squadron and opening the promised ALied offensive against southern Italy. and Italy admitted that in addition to great material damage 150 rsr- sons had been killed and 35D wounded.
 It looked as if today's dayli int raids by British -based Allied planes might assume record proportions
 Nearly Lifted Roof
 "The roar of planes nearly iiftsd the roof off my hotel" Jack Chil- vers, proprietor of a southeast coast hotel, reported. Tt was easily the biggest force I have seen pass over since the var started. They were crossing for more than an hour"
 United Press watchers reported the formations of bombers ana fighters crossed the Dover Straib at great height in brilliant sua- shine.
 Later another big force of borlbs CTS and fighters returned to tI1o Abbeville in northwest France.
 Though the Turin raiding forca was comparatively small 1t was bee lieved 1t did great damage to orl@ of Italy's chief var industry cens ters. raining demolition and frl- cendiary bombs up to 5000 pound triple block busters through gaps in the clouds, on targets of an sorts.
 Three planes were reported misssl ing-probably all, it was indicateds as the result of execrable weathee rather than of enemy gun fire.
 An authorized informant said soon after the planes crossed the English channel they met very bad weather. They fought through dense clouds. rising to x0.O0O feet and temperatures which caused se~ were icing.
 Over Turin. the planes found small gaps in the clouds and Q small number of the raid,ng force. thus able to see their targets
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
Tax Collections Exceed dEstiInates

collections 1942 already $3S0OO0 estimate this Collector Humbert Mangni
  of collections S S5,O35.620.
 up complete figures available show that collections 6 the the The levy is S5,497,55S56.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-12
Strong Jap Force Trapped At Buna
By BRYDON c. TAvES

MacArthurs Headquarters Australia. Dec 1UPAmeican
 
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-11
Supervisors
Continued From Page I

urged by Harold Lindsey, COM
Inander of Civilian Defense in
Mount Clemens, who spoke for
the county civilian defense coun-
ell. Lindsey said the council
agreed on Bennett at a meeting
held last night.
Earlier, the supervisors heard
Frank Atherton, deputy COM
mander of Civilian Defense in
Wayne, Macomb and Oakland
counties, urge establishment of
q county defense headquarters to
be manned by both paid and vol
unteer workers.
Anterior said that both Wayne
and Oakland had found central
lied control through a main Of
flee the most efficient means of
manning the protect e services.
He suggested that a competent
executive be hired along with
clerks who would be aided by
VOLUNTEER help.
A motion by Earl Tallman,
Warren supervisor, that the
boards budget committee meet
to appropriate funds necessary
for the central office was unani-
mously passed.
AS chairman of the defense
council, Bennett would co-ordi-
nate work of the protective serv-
ices, various salvage drives, ra-
tioning and other undertakings
cffecting the civilian population
during the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-11
Win orPerisk
Real Issue
Murphy Warns

FORT KNOX, KY, Aug. IL
R-'It's win or perish for US
in this war and it's going to take
the unstinted effort Of every one
of us to win" said Supreme Court
Justice Frank B. Murphy now on
active duty as a lieut.. colonel OF
infantry today.
Lean and tanned after weeks
of active duty, at Fort Benning,
Ga, and with an armored force
unit in the North Carolina man.
euvers Col. Murphy will finish
an armored force officers course
at Fort Knox, Sept. 5. From then
until court opens Oct. Is Col.
Murphy will continue his train
ing near Indio, California.
Col. Murphy's training duties
this summer has given him high
opinion of the United States SOL
der.
1.-THE American young man,
educated by our public school
system, endowed with fine
physique by a high-standard of
living and athletics. trained by
good officers and armed with the
best weapons makes a soldier
who can't be matched by any
other country in the world" the
supreme court justice opined In
an interview.