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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. II (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts foI the current fiscal year through Aug 9th, Compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $6,445,456,073.50 $2,o94, 4,099,702.0i
 War Spending $5,683.SS5,575.6O $l,32O,266,S30S.
 Receipts 5 917.S07,7S3.7S 5 56S,754,O17.1t
 Net Deficit $5,525,77S,2S9.72 sl,5o2,122,s34sJ
 Cash Balance $3,75s,S6s.so3.4 $2,sos,1s4,151.N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Building Permits


 The following permits have been issued at the office of Building Inspector John T. Hartley:-
 Sam CoIangeIo, a one-family dwelling at Geddes Terrace and Hawthorne street, $4,S0O.
 Patsy GlgIio, one-car garage at 22j Platt street, $lO0.
 Mrs. Marjorie |. Stocking, aIter- atlOn for extra apartment at 0Ol Watertown avenue, $4OO.
 Mrs. Josephine Misenti, side and rear entrance st 2SS Congress avenue, $500.
 Mrs. Mary Steshik, enclose aide maMMh HA 4A ElMaaNA H1samsAM &2kA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Marriage
 Intentions

The following couples have filed intentions at the bureau of vital statistics:-
 Alfred Vensl0vas of 103 Ander- son avenue and Helen Jurenas of 13 Edward street.
 John COsgrOve of 776 Frost road and Mary T. Casey of g Kenyon street.
 William BurghOff of Walling- ford and Helen L. Blair of $50 Robbins street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
U. s. NURSES CAN
 HOLD TO SECRETS

Somewhere In England, Aug. Il = (UP) = United States nurses in England have proved they can keep Q secret.
 Soon after they arrived in Eng land, the nurses received the strict est warnings against revealing any information of military value. The next day officers were embarrassed tO learn that one of the nurses had chatted with Queen Elizabeth on a visit, but refused to tell the Queen hGM Nn@ Ghe had h@an in EnRland
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11

Boston, Aug. 11-Thieves who stole 4450 gasoline ration books, containing coupons worth more than 100000 gallons of gasoline, from two war price and rationing board offices in Washington, D. C., may try to dispose of them in the New England area,' Regional OPA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
KACEY OUTING
 GROUP TO MEET

There will be meeting of the K. of c. outing committee at the Columbus club tonight at o'clock. Grand Knight Joseph T. Cronin re- quests that all members be present to discuss plans for the annual Family Outing scheduled to be held the latter part of the month ct Jim" Germans summer home at LAka Hitchcock,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
COMMUNITY CLUBS SUMMER SESSION
Business Meeting Slated for Tonight; Holy Day
 Mass Schedule
Washington Hill

Mrs. Patrick Sullivan of South street has returned to her home with her new son, Francis David this is the fifth child in the Sulli- van household = they have four sons and a daughter - they were running neck and neck with "Bing Crosby and his four sons. Friends wish the Sullivans the best of luck with their new arrival.
 MT. ard Mrs. James Dillon and daughter Teresa of Madison street have returned from NeWburgh, N. Y., where they attended the wedding of Miss Alice May to Staff Sergeant John R. McPhillips. The young couple are honeymooning at Port land, Me, and Mrs. McPhillips will be at home to her friends at New burgh, within the next few days.
 The 45 Holy Name card players held their cutting Sunday afternoon in spite of the bad weather at Schilden's Groove, East Waterbury Road. Although some of the feat ures had to be called off, card game was held in the shelter during the afternoon. An excellent meal was served, and the men all had a wonderful time. Guests in the per- son of the pastor, Rev. James Frederick, ard his assistants, Rev. David O'Keefe, and James O'Sulli- van, who gave some interesting talks. About seventy men attended.
 Saturday being a Holy Day, Masses at St. Francis Xavier will be held at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 o'clock. Friday being the day before a feast day, the feast of the Assumption, is day of fast and abstinence. Con- fessions vii lbe held Friday after noon from 4 to 6 and from 7:30 to 9 o'clock in the evening.
 Business meeting of the Washing ton Park Community Club will be held this evening at the Community House at o:15 o'clock. The club dis pensed with two business meetings during the hot weather, and this will be the only meeting held this month, and the regular schedule of meetings on the second and last Tuesdays or the month will be resumed in Sepr tember. President John B. Cuddy will preside.
 5,5OO,0OO women in Britain are working in industry and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11

. 5,5OO,0OO women in Britain are already working in industry and the number is mounting rapidly. Millions more, mainly housewives, are working part-ti
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Market Makes Quiet
 Recovery At Session
Several Special Offerings of Stocks Complete With
 Regulars; Leading Groups Were About Neglected

with Schenley at new high and National Distillers equaling It's l942 top. Firestone preferred made new high at 102 1-8 up 2 7-8. Transcon- tinental & Western Air equaled its high.
 George Helme, General American Investors preferred, Eastman prefer red and Associated Dry Goods first preferred had gains ranging to more than 2 points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11

Cotton Futures
 New York, Aug. 11-(UP)-Cot- ton futures maintained Q barely steady trend in quiet forenoon deal ings today following two consecu- tive sessions of heaviness. Around noon the market was to { points net lower after opening unchanged to 4 points lower.
 Traders found little in the news to influence 8 definite stand toward the market and held sideline posi- tions for the most part pending new developments.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

, certain supplies reached Malta and
Tobruk.
1--WE suffered losses an inform
ant said. You can not expect to
avoid them under conditions such
as exist in the Mediterranean. 1t is
very hazardous enterprise, not an
operation which one carries out un-
less the risk must be taken.
Merchant ships and their escorts
had to pass through areas of the
Mediterranean dominated by enemy
shore based aircraft. Ships leaving
Gibraltar come under observation
almost Immediately, and are sha-
dowed until they arrive within
range of bombers and torpedo car
riers. They are also constantly ex-
posed to U-boat attack.
when they come into the narrow
channel between Sicily and Italy's
Pantelleria Island there is the ad-
ditional danger of torpedo boats
and mines.
THE same thing applies more or
less to the convoy route from Alex
andria, which also can not have
land-based air cover all the way
The great significance of the en-
gagement as seen here, however,
was the participation of American
Army planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
HoIIywood's
Fdncies
By Paul Harrison

HOLLYWOOD, June II - For a
good many years, DcMille of de
movies has ground slowly, and of a
fineneSS sufficient to make an aW-
ful lot Of money at the box-offiee.
Most of his super -doopers have
reached back into history, and his
preparation of them has been, in
its way, almost as leisurely. He
always keeps a few ideas in the
back of his mind for seasoning, and
when one of them is brought forth
for active development, the fanfare
and whoop-te-do are reminiscent
of the selection of Tibetan bay
destined for the robes of the Grand
Llama
1t is customary Tor DeMille to
hire corps of writers and assign
them to various duties of research,
creation and polishing. The old
master now dons riding pants and
puttees and commutes between his
city home, his mountain retreat
and his office for meditation and
conferences. AS pages of the script
are submitted to him. he rewrites
them. Sketches of sets are returned
by him with notations to erect
Norman castle here and to have a
river wind out of the forested hills.
After a few months, he gathers up
a cast and starts shooting Before
the year is out new DeMil'e epic.
each one inevitably the greatest -
is on the screen.
COMES A SHOCK
Hollywood has been so accustom-
ed to this somewhat pondarous
procedure that it couldn't even be-
lieve the news that Cecil Brobding-
@nagian DeMilAc had snatched
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

brand-neW idea in 10 minutes and
had set wires buzzing all over the
country with his determination to
rush it into celluloid. Not only that,
but it's a modern story. A war
yarn, and true.
1t started during the broadcast
by President Roosevelt in which
he described the exploits of four
new American heroes. Ane of these
was DR.. Corydon E. Wassell, So
year-6ld Arkansas who had been a
medical missionary in. China and
was commissioned Navy lieuten-
ant commander after Pearl Harbor.
During the japanese occupation of
Java he evacuated nine wounded
men from the interior of the is
land during incessant bombings,
took them 1900 miles through the
enemy blockade and airplane at
tacks to safety in Australia. He
won the Navy cross for doing it.
Before the President was off the
air, DeMille was excitedly tele-
phoning Y. Frank Freeman, head of
Paramount, that he wanted to film
the story of DR. Wassell A few
minutes later they put in call for
Secretary Steve Early at the White
House. A telegram went to Navy
Secretary Frank Knox and another
to the Hays Office as a filing of
DeMille's claim to the movie rights.
An announcement from Washing
ten said DeMille would get the
story, and Nav% Relief would get
the money paid for it.
James Hilton will write the yarn
first, in book form, and the screen
play will be patterned from his
work. This seems like a pretty
roundabout procedure, but Hilton
insisted ON it, He already has in
tervieWed members of the Wassell
family and today I looked over
more than 400 pages of detailed
statments obtained from the rescu-
ed men.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
ImperiaIs Battle
Advancing Nazis
At Tobruk's Gates

CAIRO, June 17-UP) - British
forces now defending the approach
es to Tobruk and the Egyptian
frontier, have hurled back strong
Axis attacks ON the key Imperial
positions at Sidi Rezegh and Ac-
roma, middle east headquarters an
nounced today.
A communique said the British
semi-circular defense line guarding
the Tobruk perimeter still was in
tact after day-long attacks on the
Acroma outpost, 13 miles southwest
of Tobruk, all of which were re-
pulsed.
BY breaking UP an AXIS move IN
the Sidi Re2egh area, 20 miles
southeast OF Tobruk. the British at
least temporarily baked Col. Gen.
Erwin Rommels attempt to out
flank the new Imperial line and in
vest Tobruk from the east.
THIRD FORCE MASSES
The communicate said third Axis
force massed opposite British posi-
tions of Ell Adem, 18 miles directly
south Cf Tobruk, failed to attack.
Our forces yesterday broke up
an attack by enemy armored forces
on our positions at Sidi Rezegh,"
it said Attacks on our positions
at Acroma which continued thru
cut the day were repulsed. An
enemy force which formed opposite
our positions at Ell Adem failed to
attack"
In the area around Sidi Rezegh
probably will be staged a grand
scale tank battle that may deter
mine control of eastern Libya and
Tobruk itself. The initial British
success there was regarded as en-
couraging.
Should he crack British resist
ance in the Ed Duda Sid Rezegh
sector, Rommel would gain a valu-
able toehold for a possible quick
thrust at Tobruk from the south
east.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
British Send 500
Planes Over Ruhr
To Resume Raids

LONDON, June 17-CUP) - Up
wards of 300 British long range
bombers attacked German war ia
dustry targets in the Ruhr and
Rhineland during the night after
an eight day lull, due to bad wealth.
er, in their devastation raids.
1t was understood that if the i'm
proved weather continued Air Mar
shall Sir A. T. Harris would order
a resumption of raiding on a 1000
plane a night basis, and Britons
watched eagerly for the first indi-
cation that the United States Army
air force was joining in the attack,
as it had done in an air-naval bat
tie in the Mediterranean.
Eight bcmbers were lest in last
nights operations, which included
laying mines in enemy waters.
Britafns big long range planes,
carrying from five to eight tons of
bombs each, last raided Germany
on the night of June 8, when 300
attacked the Ruhr and 18 were lost.
The last 1000 plane raid-made
ny l,ooO pidlleS-WdS dBdHioI Esooch,
home of the gigantic Krupp arma-
ment works, en- the night of June
l.
The weather was not yet good
enough last night to permit an at
tack on the scale inaugurated by
the 1,030 plane raid on Cologne May
30
There had been considerable lull
in aerial fighting for days, and
even the fighter and coastal COM
mands, which had put as many as
1000 planes a day into their day
light raids On nearby coastal and
inland targets on the continent, had
been compelled to slacken their Of
fenSiYe
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Imnerial Valley Press

Established April 20, 1901. Pub
lishcd every afternoon except Sat-
urday and Sunday Saturday after
noon issue now succeeded by the
Sunday St-Press, esfahIisrod 1q2S,
by the Imperial Valley Publishing
company, 625 State Street, Ell Gem
tro. California.
Paul Jenkins. publisher. n C. john
ston. ice-president and general man.
ager; f. A. Fiiziugh, secretary and
managing editor.
West-tIollid- y Co. Inc, National Ad-
vertisng representatives..
Member, California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Entered at FL Centre, Calf, post
office as second class matter.
Subscription rates in California, Sc
per copy.
In conjunction with the Post-Press
tSundayS), per month 7!'c paid in ad-
vance. 3 months. S21O; months
$500; one year $3.50; outside Cali
fornia S1 per monih.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Darwin Suffers
Massed Jap Raid

DARWIN, Australia, June II U.R)
Twenty seven Japanese heavy
bombing planes, escorted by rs zero
fighters, dropped hundreds of
bombs on Darwin in a concentrated
one minute attack yesterday in
their fourth big raid in four days.
A vast pail of smoke and dust
obscured the entire area and those
thought the town and the great
Allied north base had been ruined.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Chinese Confess
Loss of Anchor

CHUNGKING, June II CUP) =
A Chinese communique tonight &C
knoWledged the loss of Shanghai,
eastern anchor of an 80-mile
stretch of the important Hang
chow W-Nanchang railroad still in
Chinese hands, after a heavy bat
tie that cost the Japanese more
than 5000 casualties.
The town was abandoned Mon
day after savage fighting in the
suburbs as an army of about 15O,-
600 japanese troops closed in from
east and west in a huge pincers
designed to bite off the 80-mile-
long middle section of the railroad
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Mediterranean
Success Limited

LONDON, June II CUP) = Of
ficial sources said today that the
Mediterranean air-naval battle in
which United States Army air corps
planes joined the Royal Air Force
was only a Limited success be-
cause of considerable losses to Al
lied conveys.
But it was emphasized that the
passage of conveys through such
narrow waters was always hazard
Gus and it was indicated that the
Allied losses were largely in sup
ply ships while the Italians lost
heavily in warshipS.
Naval experts believed the four
day action in which United States
Army planes first joined the Royal
Air Force, had SO reduced Benito
Mussolini's vaunted navy that it
now has only two battleships and
one heavy cruiser capable of fight
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

MOSCOW, June II CUP) - A su-
preme German attempt to knock
out Sevastopol has been crushed in
a ferocious 22-hour battle at the
southern approaches to the fortress,
where all available Nazi strength
was thrown into seven storming
attacks, official Soviet advices said
today.
German pressure on the Khar-
hov front, $50 miles north of the
beleaguered Crimean stronghold,
was eased meanwhile by a Russian
counterattack that caught the Nazis
off guard, knocked them out OF an
important village, and destroyed a
motorized column.
DESPERATE ATTMEPT
The fiercest fighting of Sevas-
topol's Ia days of Nazi siege, with
its colossal" Nazi casualties, was
said By the official army organ Red
Star to have occurred during the
past "a hours, with the Germans
making a desperate ae,empt to
overwhelm the defenders.
At 4 am. yesterday the enemy
threw all of his available reserves,
including sappers and detachments
brought up from deep in the rear,
into the storming attacks along a
highway south of the city
From then until midnight the
Nazis unleashed seven strong at
tacks, suppored by swarms of
tanks and heavy artillery, and fl
nally succeeded in seizing the first
row of Russian trenches.
THOUSANDS DEAD
The Red Star said the Germans
we're then halted by a Russian
bayonet charge, which drove the
, Nazis from the line of trenches.
Thousands of dead and dozens
of tanks bore testimony of the So
Wet determination to cling to the
fortress to the last man., the Rec
Stars front-line account said
(The German high command, ir
a communique today, said that de
spite stiff enemy resistance" the
German siege army had stormeo
and taken Siberia fortress and sew
eral other fortified positions arouno
Sevastopol The Germans earlier
had claimed the taking of Stalir
fort in the city's ring of defenses.)
On the Kharkov front the battle
ragged on, with the Germans at
tempting to launch attacks in var
ious sectors, the Red Star said.
NAZIS DRIVEN BACK
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's
troops not only held all their posi-
tions but counterattacked at sew
eral vital points and flung back
the Nazis on the seventh day oi
the German Kharkov drive, it was
said.
The Red Star said that, with
German pressure waning, the Rus
slams we're slowly taking the initia-
tive on the Kharkov-Donets battle
front.
The official government news
paper Izvestia asserted that the
Germans, fearing revolt, had re-
moved the entire Russian civilian
population from Kharkov.
The population of Sevastopol
huddled in caves, cellars and dug
outs at night under almost con-
stant aerial and artillery lombard
ment and during the day, seemingly
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Ask yourself these Questions
when you buy a laxative

Ores. What is the name of a lax
ative that has been a popular and
respected favorite with four genera
tions? Ans. Black-Draught. Ques.
Is ck-Draught purely herbal?
Ans. Yes, and you'll find it easy to
take. Ques. Is Black Draught gen.
tie in action? Ans. Yes, it usually
is, If you follow directions. That's
why it's called the friendly laxa-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Reds Turn Back
SevostopoI Drive

oblivious to the infero around
them, labored to supply the de-
tenders of the fortress.
Izvestia's correspondent, describ-
ing the "Spartan-like resistance of
the people who igorned all priva-
tions and dangers said the city
was teeming with activity with
volunteer fire fighters, mail car
riers and mechanics maintaining
services.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
NO SURFACE CONTACT

official quarters, discussing the
smashing blows at the Italian fleet
including two battleships damaged
and set afire and a 10000 ton crui-
ser sunk, said.
so far as we know the italian
battleship force which came out
of its base, presumably at Taranto,
did not get into contact with our
surface forces.
ut demonstrates again that if
you stick your nose out within
range of shore-based aircraft with
out formidable fighter cover, you
are going to catch it.
THE Japanese learned that only
in the last two weeks from the
remarkable American attacks in the
Midway Island battle and the Aleu-
tian action"
SUPPLIES LANDED.
Though they described the Medi-
terranean action as only "a limited
success" these authorized inform
ants said the net result was that
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Navy waiting0n
Weather to Clear
Islands Of laps

PEARL HARBOR, June II. CUP)
We'll informed quarters expressed
confidence today that the japanese
threat to the Aleutian islands would
be dissipated as soon as the weather
improved and that the crippled Jap
ane-e fleet would soon make an
other major mistake.
There is increasing optimism here
since the battle of Midway island.
Belief is general in we'll informed
quarters first that the Japanese
will be blasted out of their Aleutian
toe-holds and secondly that the
Japanese fleet will be caught in
another trap.
THE Japanese never learn les
son reliable informant said.
Every mistake they make, and
Midway was their prize boner, brings
the time nearer when the United
States will start a ferry service to
Tokyo"
ALEUTIANS SILENT
There had been no word from the
fog bound Aleutians since Monday
on the hide-and- operations
which started June with the enc
my landing at Attu and Kiska.
On Monday the Navy revealed
that at least six Japanese warships
had been hit by American plane
bombs and Lieut.. Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, army air corps chief, said
one japanese cruiser had been sunk
and an aircraft carrier hit
InformantS here said there was
no doubt that the japanese face
saving policy was partly responsible
for the Aleutian situation.
The northern Pacific at this seas
on is customarily blanketed in thick
fog which prevents any extensive
operations, though United States
forces have been able to maintain
contact with the Japanese, and to
carry on harassing activities to pre-
vent them from consolidating their
positions.
But it is felt that as soon as the
weather clears the enemy will find
it difficult to maintain land forces
in any CT the islands because Ameri-
cand planes operating from land
bases can make their position un-
tenable.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Black-Draught comes in powder
ed or granulated form. Many say
the granulated is even easier to
take. 25 to 40 doses cost only Csc.
Be sure to follow label directions
Get Black -Draught from your deal
er today and have it handy next
time a laxative is needed,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
SURPLUS COMMODITY
WASHINGTON, June II (UP)-
ACTIVITIES EXTENDED

The senate agriculture committee
today approved legislation EXTEND
ing through June 30, 1945, the ac-
tivities of the federal surplus COM
modities corporation. AS passed by
the house, the measure would have
continued the agency through
June 80, 1947.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
BY PETER EDSON
Monitor-leoder Washington
Correspopdent

Mrs. Roosevelt came back
from the hoirdresser's and wos
surprised to see some bags in
the hall son Elliott had
come home Unexpectedly from
Africa wasn't she surpris-
ed not even the President
had known he was coming.
Thot's the gist Of what EIeo-
nor wrote in her column, ony-
way, and the news she gave
out surprised q lot Of other
people, too.
1t was known that Elliott
was in Africa, where he had
been on duty as q major in the
Army Air Corps. What Mrs. r.
didn't tell was how the major
got back in such q hurry, which
is Q story in itself, and it might
as we'll be told since-(o) the
flight Of one major hardly con-
stitutes q troop movement;
(b) the news Of his arrival was
given out by q recognized
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
HOW KIDS FEEL

We wouldn't be nasty, for the
world. We know q lot Of school teach
ers, and they're fine folk But we did
go to schools for q lot Of years
Therefore it is with sneoking feel
ing Of eIee, in which 70 million young-
sters will share, that we read how New
York City's teachers must go to de-
Tense schools this summer, and must
stay within "a hours travel distance Of
the city, in case Of q war emergency.
The teachers deserve vacations,
and our head tells US it's q darn shame
they have to go to school. But our heart
is nonconfornoist. 1t say by next fall,
they'll know how kids feel about this
going-to-schooI business"