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in reasonably good shape if one were
willing to raise the ante several dol
lars above the maximum set by OPA
Administrator Leon Henderson. An
official of a taxicab company said
he has been forced to take 20 OF his
cabs off the street because he is
unable to obtain rubber for them.
I'm willing to pay almost any
price-if could only get them he
walled.
Prices vs.. Ceilings.
That the OPA ceiling has had
considerable to do with the rapid
change in the tire market Is a fair
deduction. It is a widely known fact
that before March 16, used tires were
selling for anywhere from 50 to So
more than the OPA maximum. On
March l6, the price on four-ply
O0x16 tires with 1872 OF an inch
depth left in the tread design was
pegged at $810 This was the same
kind of tire for which dealers had
been getting SIS and SIS. The low
est ceiling price for the same tire,
with 3-32 of an inch groove left, was
set at s4.45 Dealers had been get
ting from Sc to So for this kind of
tire before A top of 81 so. regard
less of size, was put on all tires that
had been worn smooth.
Most of the tire dealers in town
deny that there are any used tires
, around-at least. they say they
haven't any. Just where the tires
have stopped on their journey to
| the ultimate consumer remains
vague. Only one thing is certain
they do not appear to be reaching
the wheels of automobiles driven by
war workers.
Cars Taken OFF Roads.
The result of this shortage is that
an increasing number of auto
mobiles, with nothing wrong but
lack of rubber, are being taken out
of circulation. Used car dealers can
purchase for resale only those
automobiles that have tires good fol
at least a year of rationed driving
They are finding it necessary to re-
ject a great many cars in excellent
shape mechanically because they are
unable to get decent grade of usec
tires to put on the wheels.
We've made an effort practically
every day to get used tires" one
auto dealer said There just aren'
any. If the market were opened ul
and a higher price ceiling set OF
used tires, you'd see steady f1ov
of them around here for severa
months" This dealer thought 81
would be a reasonable ceiling on tn
best of the 6.00x16 tires.
He pointed out that he now hat
Evening star., 1942-08-16
True Confessions Heads
Summoned by Walker

PS TIE Associated Press.
Postmaster General Walker yes
terday ordered the publishers of
True Confessions magazine to show
cause at hearing August q why
their second-class mailing privilege
should not be revoked on grounds of
obscenity.
Mr.. Walker announced at the
same time that the July, August and
September issues of the magazine
had been ruled non -mailable by the
Post Office Department solicitor.
The magazine is published and en-
tered as second-class mail matter at
Louisville, KY, and Greenwich
Conn.,
The Postmaster General revoked
the authorization for second -ctass
mail privileges for the magazine
Laff on the ground the publisher had
failed to appear at hearing Au.
gust IL.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
odd Furs Sought
To Make Vests
For Seonen
f., the Associated Press.

By the hSsociate" ie''
NEW YORK. Aug. l5.-Appea.
went out to the public today Tor
donations of enough old or discarded
furs to make $4,000 fur vests for
American merchant seamen.
Lew Hahn, general manager OF
the National Retail Dry Goods AS
sociation, advised member depart
ment stores to contact customers dl-
rectly or through newspaper adver-
tisements.
The drive is being conducted by
the fur vest project of the War
Emergency Board of the fur indus
try. Nearly 5000 workers in the in
dustry have pledged 10 hours OF
their free time in manufacturing
the vests.
Here is a splendid patriotic prof.
ect for which we bespeak your CO.
operation," Mr.. Hahn told memker
stores. The fall will soon be upon
us and a vest out Of some ones olo
Jacket may save some sailors lie :.
Evening star., 1942-08-16
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same time the Polish government
announced in London the suicide of
L. M. Czerniakov, the ghetto S
mayor.
The Paris radio quoted Vichy
report saying 1000 Jews had been
deported from Unoccupied France
to Eastern Europe.
The Poles asserted Czerniakov al
ways carried poison to use whenever
German demands became 'impossi-
BILE" and added that undoubtedly
he chose death rather than fulfill
the order to prepare daily lists OF
those to be deported.
Mediation" Offer Reported.
In Slovakia, unconflrmed reports
said Hungarian Premier Nicolas
Kallay had told the foreign Affairs
Committee of the Hungarian Par
lament that Hitler was convinced
that Slovakia was unable to exist
independently and had offered to
mediate" for its Incorporation into
Hungary, provided Hungarian in
dustry was placed under German
control and food shipments to the
Reich were increased.
In Norway the ordination oi
Quisling bishops was reported te
have ceased because the traitoreus
premier wished to avoid further
conflict which would jeopardize flu
ture negotiations with the Nor.
wegian church.
Not all aspects of the European
scene were so grim.
From roundabout sources came
word that a Dutch ironmonger a,
Utrecht had filled his windows with
all the axes he had in stock ane
posted a sign:
For the day of reckoning"
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Material Shortages
May Slow Down
Auto Plants
Industry Ahead Of Schedule
But Seeks ReolIocotion
Of Row Supplies

Wide World News.
DETROIT, Aug 15.-The produc-
ton of armament in the factories
of the one-time automobile indus
try already exceeds the half-billlon
dollars level. Output
is from a couple of weeks to eight
and ten months ahead OF scheo-
ule The factories are making
,,p for the time lost in laying OUT
volume production programs year
ago.
That's what you hear on the one
hand in production circles OF the
Nations first mass production IN
dustrv. And then, in some
what scattered instances. you learn
the raw materials supply is caus-
ing worry to production engineers
Face Showdown Threat.
Men who decline to be quoted as
sert the trouble is largely ailoca- :
ton OF materials and that they
face the necessity Of slowing down
Evening star., 1942-08-16

FOUND.
FOUND A WATCH. Call II. 5S12
Evening star., 1942-08-16
Argentine Ship Rescues
Torpedoed Dutch Crew
y The Associated Press.

EH the AsSoclated Press.
BUENos AIRES, Aug. l5.-The
torpedoing and sinking of the 5,378-
ton Dutch merchant ship Kentar in
the Atlantic was disclosed today
with receipt of official word that the
Argentine freighter Rio Colorado,
bound for Buenos Aires from Puerto
Rico, had rescued seven survivors.
The survivors will be landed at a
Brazilian port The Kentar built
in 1920, is registered as out OF
Batavia.
Evening star., 1942-08-16

WRIST WATCH-Small square. rose-gold,
lady's Hamilton: lost Friday night, between
10 and 2 am. Reward. GE. 3444.
YELLOW PERSIAN CAT, lost June 9th.
very timid 45l4 Brandywine st. NV.
$40 reward. EN-. 1924.
$50 REWARD-Red pelican pin. contain
ing diamonds and sapphires, lost about Au-
gust 5. Call E. F. Herbert. MA. 1918,
12S Investment Bldg.
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destroyer were observed in the har-
Dor before the bombardment by the
United States task force. Seaplane
fighter attacks and desulatory flr-
ing of shore batteries we're the only
opposition encountered by the task
force, which received no damage to
ships and lost only one plane.
More than 5000 projectiles were
fired at the enemy's main camp
ashore and a large fire was started
which was observed still burning
the following day. The secondary
camp to the southwark and anti
aircraft emplacements at various To-
cations of the island were heavily
bombarded, resulting in the silenc-
ing of all batteries ashore"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
ALLIES HOLD AT
 MEDJEz-EL-BAB
Strategic Point Seized in Tunisia; Patrol Activity
 Increases
By EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Dec. 26.-(UP)-Ameri- can and British forces in Ttinisia held firmly today a strategic position six miles northeast of Medjez-El- Bab, from which they had hurled the enemy despite heavy rain and deep mud.
 Patrol activity was increasing, in- dicating that the tmie may .. draw ing near when the allies will begin their grand drive to throw the Ger mans and Italians aroun' Biberte and Tunis Into the sea.
 Medjez- -Bab, 27 miles southwest of Tunis, on the main railway line, Is the gateway to both Tunis and Bizerte.
 The weather. reports from allied North African headquarters yester- day said, still restricted air opera tions, but patrol fighters had att tackled enemy ground targets. in- cluding trucks, in the forward area Royal Air Force flyers shot down one enemy bomber.
 Fighting French forces were re- ported continuing their drive after having routed an enemy mechan- ized force in the Fezza area, some 800 miles south-sou.heast of Tunisia in southern Lbya.
 The Germans claimed they had repulsed strong American contingents supported by tanks, that attempted to tnra tNftswa a Anynina tin yla0ys1- tain position northeast of Medjez- El-Bab."
 At many places. the Americans penetrated into German lines but they were again driven back in fighting at close quarters" a Trans Ocean agency dispatch broadcast by radio Berlin said.
 The same dispatch said Lieut.. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery, at the eastern end of the shortening
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
BOSTON SURGEON
 SAVES MAN'SLIFE

With American Forces In New Guinea, Dec. 22--(UP)-(Del yed) "A Boston surgeon, handling his instruments as deftly as if he were still working in the Massac chusetts General hospital, saved the life Of an American soldier today In . portable field hospital. hidden in the jungle a few miles from the firing line.
 The surgeon was Maj. George Marks. Ills operating table was . canvass stretcher mounted on empty wooden ration boxes. His nurse was . shirtless enlisted man, who handed him instruments sterilized in water boiled over an open fire.
 While Marks worked fast. open. ing the soldiers abdomen, clamp ing and sewing his ruptured inc testines, First Lieut.. Frederick Ross of Boston kept him strength ened with transfusl0ns of plasma. The operation was performed with spinal anaesthetic,
 Marks said the badly wounded soldier arrived at the hospital three hours after a Japanese sharpshooter had hit him. If the hospital had been as far back as was usual in the last war, he would have died, Marks said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
4 WOUNDED IN
 NIGHT ! CLUB FIGHT
Military Police, Involved in Dispute, Are Badly
 Beaten

Great Falls, Mont, Dec. 26 - GU. p = Four civilians were wounded by gunfire and two military police men were badly beaten during Q fight early today at the Oasis Night Club near Black Eagle.
 Sheriff Andy Loberg of Cascade County said bullets from guns fired by Corporal Joe Campbell and Pri- vate John MacMillan, the military policemen, wounded Irene Dotseth. Mrs. Peggy Mitchelotti, Walter Parks and Harold Smith. The two soldiers were beaten by the crowd in the night club.
 One of the wounded was hurt cri- tically. Miss Docseth. the most ser. iously wounded, suffering shat tered right arm. Mrs. Mitchelotti was shot in the leg; Parks was hit in the shoulder, and Smith suffered a flesh wound in his head.
 The fight occurred shortly after midnight. the sheriff said. follow ing an argument between the two military policemen and a man named Roy Gardner regarding q leather military jacket Garner was wearing.
 Campbell and MacMillan entered the Oasis night club shortly before midnight and began questioning Gardner about his right to wear the jacket, according to authorities, told them the jacket was an army reject and he had purchased It at a sec- hand store.
 Bud Curwan, former Great Falls football played who was with Gard ner, protested and, according to Loberg, one of the military police men knocked him down and slugged him with a revolver. The crowd rushed them and the shooting fol- lowed.
 Parks, who was wounded in the shoulder, was said to have been standing on Q piano about 20 feet away from the soldiers, pleading with them not to use their revolv- CTS.
 The fight was stopped when Dep- ty Sheriff Ed Ugrin arrived and persuaded Campbell and MacMillan to surrender their weapons. Both were taken to the Air Base hospital.
 The fight was being investigated today by Loberg, Lieut.. Raymond Nichols of the air base and Cleve- land Hall, Deputy Attorney. Army authorities declined canamenk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
BANK HEAD IS DEAD

Henry Sterling Seeley, retired president and Q founder of the Wa |ferbury. Trust company, died this morning ct his home, 145 Bucking- ham street.
 A native of Bridgeport, he was born on June 24. 1869, the son of William E. and Jane Elizabeth <Sterling) seeley. He was gradu- |ate of the 0unnery school in Wash- #ington, Conn.
 f Coming to Waterbury for.y-three |years ago, MT. 6eeley was afiiliated For a short time with the Colonial Irrust company. While in Bridge bort he had been with the First National bank. x5e attended the First Congregational church, and ||Was Q member of Liberty ledge. |A. P. e A. M.
 \ Mir. seeley leaves his wife, Mrs. Laura Barton (Daboi) Seeley of |Ihis city; two brothers. Robert |Blinton Seeley of Bridgeport. and rancis Earl seeley of Rye. N. Y. H Funeral services will be held on
 aonday morning at II o'clock, at
 Ms home, 145 Buckingham street,
 With Rev. Kenneth Anthony of-
 ciatiMg. Burial will pe in the fann-
 V plot at Mount Grove cemete1y,
 bridgeport.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
TOBIN KEY FIGURE
 IN DELEGATION
Sen. Sunima May Go on Judiciary Con-, Tobin on
 Cities, BorOughs

Senator-e John P. Tobin, who won the Democratic nomination last fall over the last-minute objections of Mayor Vincent A. Scully and other party leaders, will be the key figure in Waterbury's delegation of four members to the General As- sembly session which starts the week after next.
 Tn an ordinary situation. the key post would probably be occupied by Senator -elect Frank Suinma. who upset Senator Michael V. Blans- field to return the 18th district to the Republican fold, but the fact that there is an assured c. o. P. majority in the upper chamber makes his chances less of winning recognition than would be the case if he were on the minority side or if the chamber were closely divided. State Republican leaders, recogniz- ing Senator-elect Sum.na's ability. intend to place him on the Judiciary committee, most important commit tee in the legislature.
 Mir. Tobin, 1t appears, will 90 on the cities and boroughs committee, where he will be able to wield great influence over proposed charter changes and bond issue for the cities and towns of the state. There is already talk. in fact, consider able talk over the possibility that Mir Tobin may be the man long awaited to blast the long standing myth of Brldeeport's so-called strong financial situation. Political observers. who have long pointed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
WAR IS BLAMED
 ON PACANISM

Boston, December %. - (UP) - Paganism is responsible fer the present war, according to William Cardinal O'Connell who believes that peace will come only when those who rule the world are irl- spired by common sense rather than brutality.
 Tn Christmas message delivered at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the dean of the Catholic hierachy in America prayed that God "send ts soon the peace which is beyond all understanding"
 , "If those who are responsible for the confusion of the war-torn, weary nations today had something of the desire for peace, this world would not be in the confusion and the destruction which we see about us today" Cardinal O'Connell said.
 He said that Christ offered peace to men of good will, not men con- sumed with vanity and the desire for power.
 T think" he said, i've can pray with honest hearts today that the rulers of the world might be pos sessed with at least common sense instead of the brutal desire to con- quer. That would be one step to- ward good will. Common sense among the rulers of the nations, which would be q step toward peace.s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
Local Cases Listed With Supreme Court
Scheduled for Hearing at January Session. Four Cases Will Be Reviewed, Among Them That of
 Man Sentenced in September

Charles Chieorellps appeal from the superior court sentence Of Ave 10 eleven years in states prison has been entered on the January docket of the State Supreme Court and will be called for assignment December 90. The case hes already been print cd ard c disposition Is expected shortly.
 The applicant was found guilty September 90 on charges Of inde- cent assault. He was arrested June iB on complaint of 6 i6-year-old step. daughter who resided ct his home at e8 Birch street.
 Three other local cases. al Of which were heard in common pleas court, have been listed on next months docket, but since none of them has been printed it is unlikely hearings will be conducted during the next term. They arc tho appeal of the City Of Waterbury from the decision which declared parking meters to be illegal; the damage bulb URHCuA VI Otiutleo Lhitltl VI Hartford against Nicholas Apalucci, Thomas Lucian, and Domenic Sac- co, all of Waterbury. and the ape peal of Mary Santa Marie from the Si2.500 damages verdict returned in favor of Joseph Magaraci of Water bury.
 The Lafiin case was heard once previously by tho higher court on m appeal taken by the defendants. The plaintiff obtained a jury verdict of s2,250 October 10. ie4i as the re- suit of injuries sustained November 25, iezo when he was allegedly as- saulted at the Legion Grill on North Main street, Q bartender, Domenic Sacco, who was employed by the other defendants. The Hart ford court found an error and re- turned the case for c second hear img which was conducted last April. eys.ae decision was returned then in slWeg of the defendants.
 The .Magaraci boy was awarded AAmages as the result of permanent Injuries received September i6, i040 when a dynamite cap he picked up on the property of the defendant exploded when he pricked 1t with a pin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
CARDBOARD MILL
 IN MASS. BURNED
$20O,0OO Damage Done in Suspicious Fire at South
 AttlebOrO

South Attleboro, Mass, Dec. 26- (UP)-A suspicious" general-alarm fire swept a three-story warehouse containing tons of corrugated card- board early today with loss esti- mated at $200,000.
 Deputy State Fire Marshal John Sullivan of Taunton and Fire Chief Fred Clark launched an immediate investigation into the blaze that demolished the building owned by the Rhode Island Cardboard Co.,, of Dudley, Mass.
 Harry Foss of Pawtucket. R. l.. 6 watchman, discovered the fire and sounded the first alarm.
 Bremen from six cities and towns responded to additional alarms and aioed Attleboro firemen in com- batting the flames.
 Several firemen sustained minor injuries but were given first aid treatment at the scene.
 Louis Emerson of Providence. R. T.. president of the company. said that the building and its contents were insured for $l50,000.
 Flames fed by the cardboard roared through the roof and could be seen for % miles. Six trucks in one section of the budding also were destroyed.
 The fire ragged more than seven hours before being controlled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
THREE FATALITIES DURING HOLIDAY
Auto Accidents Take Toll; ' Deaths on New Eng-
 land Highways

Hartford. Conn, Dec. 26-(UP)- Automobile accidents claimed the lives of three persons in Connecti- cut on Christmas Day. a compilation showed today.
 Two Hartford youths were killed when the automobile in which they were riding skidded and struck two trees here. The dead are Carol Coral, IS, and John zielinski, IS. Frank Scirica, g. another passenger, was in critical condition.
 Joseph Misiek, IS, the driver, was injured slightly.
 Joseph Kubis, 67. Torrington, was injured fatally when struck by an automobile at Torrington.
 Boston, Dec. 26-(UP)-Despite gasoline rationing, highway accfd- ents accounted for seven of New England's nine violent deaths on Christmas day.
 In both Massachusetts and Con- necticut, three persons died in high way accidents while Maine reported only a single fatality as result of an automobile collision. A suicide and an explosion in a WAT plant were responsible for the other deaths.
 Most serious accident occurred al Taunton where two soldiers were killed when their army truck went
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-26
RUSSIANS OPEN
 FIFTH OFFENSIVE
Take Big Factory in Stalin. grad in Bloody Hand.to.
 Hand Fight
By M. s. HANDLER United Press stan Correspondent

Moscow, Dee, 26-(UP)-Russia s Red army opened a fifth major Of. fensive today in the bloody streets of Stalingrad.
 While powerful Red armies drove the Germans before them In the middle Don, southwest Of Stalingrad, in the Caucasus and on the central front west of Moscow, the Russians opened their fifth drive In the fac- tory center of Stallngrad, scene of "tlie Red verdun",
 Shock troops of the famous guards, attacking with bayonet and hand grenade house by house, opened their attack during the night, the noon eommuniquc re- vealed,
 Tn the first phase of their attack they captured or destroyed l2 gun supplements and 57 pill boxes.
 They stormed Q big heavily forti- fled factory and, wiping out soc Ger mans in Q fight to the death, took the building and with 1t 22 machine guns, i08 rifles and 400 hand gren- ades.
 Tn addition to their major drives, the Russians continued on the of- fensive northwest of Stalingrad and made further progress during the week end in addition to beating oil German counter-attacks.
 The noon communique disclosed that in the great middle Don offen- sive, where they had penetrated tc the Ukraine, the Russians were now slashing into the rear of bewildered German attachments,
 They captured 5e0 men la a single unit in one Of these forays, the noor communique said.
 Yesterday, the Russians in the middle Don front had captured A.. GOO prisoners in Q single group, in addition to 5000 others. and a spe- cial communique reported that the enemy were now abandoning new heavy guns just arrived at the front
 They had brought their Iline-day total of prisoners to 49, 700 and yes- terday alone they captured 78 guns In the biddle Don fighting. Theil gains up to midnight totaled from 84 to ii8 miles.
 From Moscow, the Ukrainian gov- ernment, Premier Josef Stalin, the cabinet and the Russian Communist party, informing the Ukrainian peo- pie of the break Into Hitler's Euro pean fortress appealed to men and women to intensity guerrilla activ- fly, preparing for the complete lib- eration of their native land.'
 The Ukraine was and will be Soviet country" the appeal said.
 The noon communique reported that in the Kharkov area, l50 miles west of the Red Army's bulge into the rich Ukraine, guerrillas in a raid on a German battalion head- quarters killed Il enemy staff ofii- cers and 70 men.
 Attacking tirelessly through the night southwest of Stalingrad, the Russians captured a fortified point in one sector and knocked out 30 German tanks and killed 600 men
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