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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Fighting At Alamein Fierce For Seven Days
American Field Service Ambulance Driver Tells United Press Writer About That Terrific Struggle;
 Heroes Found Everywhere
BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

\
 With the British Forces at Fl Ala mein, Egypt, July 17-CUP) - An Australian army doctor who went through the hell of Crete told me that the fighting in the last seven days west of Fl Alamein was the fiercest he ever had seen.
 "Yes, this shows even more bit ter" he said. "but of course, our spirits are different. We're winning here and we've got some real weap- ons."
 The doctors view confirmed what Bob Palmer, 24-year-old American from Manhasset, N Y., told me just after he came down from Hammers Hill. He formerly was an American field service ambulance driver, and now he's driving an ambulance for the Australians and trying his hard est to get on the firing line with them.
 He said all the Australians who are helping hold the important ridge on the desert line agreed the blazing seven-day battle surpassed in intensity anything they had seen in the Middle East.
 The doctor has been kept busy treating both friend and foe and he told me one of his patients was a former German Olympic swimmer who had been shot in the left foot.
 "He wore the iron cross of the first and second class and also Ital- ian and Czechoslovakian campaign medals" the doctor said.
 A young Aussie had just died of wounds and the doctor was talking
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
FOUR FLYERS DIED IN TOUGH MALTABATTLE. Five Still Take-Off From That Most Bombed Spot
 on Earth FATHER OF HERO IS
 LIVING IN NORWICH Don Mcleod Was Shot Down, Broke His Neck,
 But Flies Again
BY WILLIAM R. DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent

(Umted PreSS SCa1f COrreSpOndent)
 London, July IT. - (UP) This is an accounting of II American pilots in the Royal Air Force who went to Malta, the most bombed spot on earth. Four are dead. Five, with a number of Ca nadians and other Britons, still take off from Malta's scared air fields to fight the Italians and Germans.
 They are Reade Tilley, "A, who has been decorated with the Dis tinguished Flying Cross, and has five enemy aircraft to his credit, of Clearwater, Fla, Ripley Jones, 27, credited with one- -and-a-haif enemy planes, of Cooperstown, N. Y.; Douglas Booth, 23, of Brook lyn; Bruce Downs, 26, of San Angelo, Texas; and Richard Mc- Han, g, who was born in Omaha, Neb., but whose family lives in Pocatello, Idaho.
 The remaining two, Jimmy Peck, 21, who was born in Calexico, Cal, and whose father lives in Berkeley, Cal, and Don Mcleod, 28, who was born in Blackston, Mass, but whose father lives in Norwich Conn. re- turned to the British Isles recently.
 They arrived in Malta with the first Americans in March when the Axis was beginning its biggest at tacks, in an effort, to blast the is-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
YARDS
 OF GERMANY HIT
Key Spots Are Smashed By Bombs That Weighed
 Nine Tons Each
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS limited Press Staff COrreSnOndentl

London, July 17-(UP)-Big Stir ling bombers, carrying nearly nine tons of bombs each, attacked two key German submarine yards at the southwest corner of the Baltic late yesterday to climax series of day. light raids on German territory, 1t was announced today.
 Separate formations of the crack Royal Air Force planes, rained bombs on submarine building yards at Lubeck and Flensburg, an air ministry communique said, at the cost of only two planes.
 Pilots reported seeing their bombs burst among the building areas es- pecially at the big yards five miles northeast of Lubeck.
 Flying without fighter escort over 400 miles of the North Sea and en- emy territory, the planes were aided by low clouds, but over their targets they found a high ceiling which made bombing conditions good.
 They split into two formations and, at less than 5000 feet, attacked their two targets, 85 miles apart simultaneously.
 The raids were a further intensi- fication of the attack on yards and factories which are building subma- rines or parts of them.
 The attack was opened when Lan- caster bombers penetrated to the heart of Bavaria and attacked the submarine part manufacturing plant at Augsburg.
 Bad weather forced delay but or July 2 a small force of long range bombers attacked Flensburg, and lUontinued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Red Force, With American Built Planes, Hit Germans
Alleged Parachutists Near Home Of President Roosevelt Not Found
Federal, State, and Local Armed Forces Have Been
 Searching Woods
BY EDMUND HOGAN United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

Rhinebeck, N. Y, July 17.-(UP) The search for several "parachut- ists,' who reportedly were seen de- scending near the Hyde Park estate of President Roosevelt, was pressed today by federal, state and local authorities deployed over 20 to 30 square mile area.
 Maps of the section helped guide an undisclosed number of search CTS through the woods and thick brush of Duchess county. All ap- brooches to the area were blocked and the army, which entered the investigation, made no disclosure of the mysterious circumstances Sur- rounding reports by an estate care taker late yesterday that "six or seven parachutists" were seen drop ping.
 Patrols along the Hudson river halted all automobiles and checked each occupant. Persons walking on state highways and back roods were required to produce Identification before they were permitted to pro- ceed.
 At the Cardinal Farley Military Academy estate, near the center of the search, priests were doubtful that any parachutists had landed. Brother Patrick O'Ryan said he neither heard nor saw anything late yesterday that would bolster reports of "parachutists."
 The academy with 950-acre grounds, is north of MT. Roose- velt,S estate.
 A caretaker, Dennis Holohan, who was working on the grounds late yesterday, said he saw no para chutes.
 However, the search continued with police of nearby states on the alert.
 The Pennsylvania State Motor Patrol was requested to watch for parachutists in northwestern Penn sylvania. New Jersey state police and special officers halted automo- piles for investigation at the Hol- land and Lincoln Tunnels between New Jersey and New York.
 Conn. State Police
 Connecticut State Police came here to aid New York state police in the search.
 Clyde Swendson, caretaker on the former John Jacob Astor estate, two
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Don't Delay
 Buy It To-day

 For want of 8 nail the shoe was lost; for want of 8 shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost
 Ben Franklin didn't write this maxim for one specific event or occurrence. To him 1t was . universal principal to he applied in his day and in days to. come.
 IndecisiOn, delay, lack of prepara tiOn-thieves i'm broad daylight.
 Never let it be said Amer ican patriots harbOred them when pressed foR action. Don't delay; buy thOse war saving starlps and bonds to- dayi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
JUCOSLAVS FIGHT
 WITH ITALIANS
GuerrilIas Are Engaged in Two Battles Near Plume,
 Trieste, Italy
BY JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent


 London, July 17-(UP)-Reliable sources said today that Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch's guerrillas were en- gagged in two battles with the Ital- ians along the border, six miles from Plume, Italy, and that his men had carried out three night raids against garrisonS near Trieste, Italy.
 Trieste is 25 miles from the Jugo- Slav border at the nearest point. Both Plume and Trieste are in northeastern Italy. The Italians, according to reports reaching Lon don, have increased their army of occupation in Croatia, along the Italian frontier, to well over 300,0O0 men.
 General Mikhailovitch, 1t was said, is concentrating the larger part of his Jugoslav army in Croatia which reportedly developed an in tense hatred for the Italians for stealing everything eatable or mov- able.
 AS result food shortage was becoming critical in Croatia, and some sources said the natives of Dalmatia were dying by the hun dredS.
 General Mikhailovitch was said to have the situation in Montenegro so well in hand that the Italians were afraid to venture from their fortresseS.
 Hundreds were reported Hooking to his army, which now was striking in widely separated places in an effort to spread out Italian occupa- tion forces.
 Barbed Wire Erected
 in frantic effort to rleet the nightly threat of guerrilla raids, Italian garrisons were reported ringing the towns of 1jubljana. Celje, Klovac, Delnice and vhrnika with barbed wire and machine guns Gf,nFtinlieA m Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
MAURY PAUL OF
 l N. Y. IS DEAD
Society Editor, Known as ChOlly KniCkerbocker,
 Dies of Heart AiIment

New York, July 17-(UP)-Maury Henry Riddle Paul, who under the name of "Chollie Knickerbocker," helped create a vogue for society gossip in newspapers, died of heart ailment today after an illness of 10 weeks.
 Paul wrote under many mons de plumes in a colorful career that began in 1914 when he used clever strategm to break into journalism on the Philadelphia Times. Turned on direct application for a job, he sent the Times rroneons social items, then appeared with the clip pings in the role of g. righteous complainant.
 He got the job and for the next three decades chronicled the big and little doings of society. But few of the figures he wrote about ever at tained his own stature as pictur- esque copy. He was elegant to an extreme, addicted to fragrant odors and especially created hats and gloves.
 Although he was society's most widely-read historian, he learned about New York's best family trees the hard way. When he came to New York to work for the New York Press he found himself covering an opening at the Metropolitan Opera House without knowing anyone by sight.
 He got his name by copying the brass name plates on the boxes around the diamond horseshoe. La- ter, Publisher Frank Munsey called him into his office.
 Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish," he said, thought you might be interested to know that you have succeeded in opening half the graves in Wood- lawn cemetery"
 Paul was born in Philadelphia,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Nazi Twin Offensive Still Smashed Towards Near
 East Oil Fields
GERMANS CLAIM THEY
 ARE PURSUING SOVIETS
British Hitting Hard at ROmmel for Whole Week
 On Two Sectors
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor)

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 The Axis twin offensiW toward the Near East oil fields was renewed ill major battles today on the Egyp- tian desert front and toward the lower Don River in Russia. Red army counter attacks, supported by squad rons of American-built air. planes, were making the enemy advance a costly one and on the northern flank at Voronezh, the Russians had broken into two Axis defense lines, seized the ini- tiative on some sectors and resumed a bloody and still undecided battle in and around the city.
 But the main German offensive still was aimed southeastWard through the Donets basin toward Rostov and Stalingrad and the Nazis claimed that they had pushed into the Kamensk sector only 30 miles from Rostov in a wide drive toward the lower Don River and the key to the northern Cau- casus.
 Our mobile formations are pur- suing the enemy east of the Donets River in the direction of the lower Don," the German high command claimed, while the Russians merely said they were withdrawing in the face of superior numbers.
 Railway Line Crossed
 '"The railroad line from the Donets basin (Starting at KamenSk) to Stalingrad has been crossed. Mo bile and infantry formations, led by airplanes, are advancing on wide front and against the enemy flank and rear. Numerous enemy divisions, greatly diminished and in confusion, are attempting to break through to the east"
 The communique indicated that the main weight of the German of- fensive had moved southWard 50 miles from Millerovo Cor had pushed eastward past VoroShilovgrad) to a point east of Kamensk, on the Donets, and was then driving along the east side of the Donets toward the lower Don at a point well east of Rostov.
 This would form semi-circle around Rostov if the Germans reach the lower Don, presumably about where the Donets empties into the longer river 65 miles east of Rostov The enemy also would be on the main railroad leading 190 miles east ward from Kamensk to Stalingrad.
 The purpose of this German of fensive, as emphasized by Moscow this week, is to isolate the Caucasus and cut off Allied war supplies via Iran as well as to press closer to the oil fields of the south. The German high command appar- ently has put Hungarian and Ru- manian troops into the Voronezh battle on the north flank and b building defensive positions there to release the NaZi assault troops f0f the thrusts at Rostov and Stalin- grad.
 In that way, the Axis strategy would be designed to attain certain geographic objcctives- es-the Volga river and the Caucasus oil fields for the time being rather than to renew last years attempts to en- circle and destroy the Red army as a fighting force.
 Strong Forces in Rear
 The Germans at present have left strong Russian forces fin their real or on their northern flank and fighting was reported more intense than ever in the Voronezh sector, where Berlin still was unable tS
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
TWO DIPLOMATS
 HAVING TROUBLE
Vichy Ambassador to Con- fer on French Fleet; Fin=
 land Gets in Bad
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, July IT. - (UP) - French Ambassador Gaston Henry Have planned to confer with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles today on the French fleet problem at Alexandria, which may provoke the first armed clash between Bri- tain and France since June, 1940.
 Not since French forces in Syria were ordered by the Vichy govern ment to battle Free French and British army have relations between the two countries ben so strained.
 French warships are docked in Alexandria, threatened by Nazi Gen. eral Erwin Rommel, and the Brit ish are determined they will not fall into German hands. That de- termination may lead to sinking of the vessels if the British have to abandon the port.
 Henry-Haye presumably will car- " to the state department of1scial word from vichy chief of govern ment Pierre Laval. Laval has de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
American Soldier To Hang
 For Australian Murders

Edward LeOnski the former srangled three because he could sOftness their hoats the beauty their vOce guilty martial sentenced to hanged.
 killed the a medical
 
 
 president said unanimous that Leonsk found guilty all three charges The defendant did not speak.
 psychiatris testified psychcO personality with  alites
 you Jekyn he then he went like them"
 victims Lconsks fascination Pauline Thomp Hoskng, He did not attack them although he ripped off their clothing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17

"The School of ThorOughness." Post Junior College of Commerce, 24 Central Aves-vAdV.
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The Weather

OccaSionaI Rain For
 Tonight
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10

A FINAL REPORT on the is
suance last week of permits for
Fall Canning sugar is announc-
ed today, together with instruc-
tons for those who failed to OBJ
tain permits last week at the
various precinct headquarters.
A total of 1880 persons were
granted permits under the pre-
cinct system, which was devised
by Mrs. Russell w. Stark, di-
rector of the Women's Division
of the Volunteer Office of CT
william Defense, to reduce con-
gestion at the rationing board
office.
Top number issued in one day
was 316, issued on Thursday at
Pct. 4 near Lincoln school, with
Mrs. Carl Pingel and Mrs. Carl
Brandenburg in charge. Second
high was Friday, when 23l per-
mits were given out at Pct. b
headquarters near Dickinson
school, under the direction of
Mrs. Francis Golden.
Those who were unable to get
their permits during the past
week are advised to fill out the
coupon appearing on this page
of the Daily Monitor-Leader and
mail it to the rationing board
in the Monitor-Leader building
on Cass avenue. Permits will be
returned to applicants by mail.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10
SuQdr Permit Vens-Robnson
Doooxt Cnon Plans Told


FRANK VEINS announces the
approaching marriage of his
daughter Dorothy Marie Vens to
Dennis H. Robinson, son of MIR.
and Mrs. Thomas Robinson of
Detroit.
The wedding is set for Sept. II
in ST. Peters rectory.
The bride-elect is a graduate
of ST.. Mary's High school, and of
st. Joseph's School of Nursing in
Mount Clemens. Mr.. Robinson
is an accountant with Western
Electric in Detroit, where they
will make their home.
REV. AND MRS. GEORGE A.
MERIFIELD and children David
and Grace returned Saturday
from two weeks spent at Rondo
Park, Ont.
MRS. A MES RANDOLPH
DOLL is patient at Jennings
Hospital, where she underwent
an appendectomy on Saturday.
MIR. AND MRS. DWIGHT
VILLRO have as their guests the
latter's sister, Mrs. Avis Kyle
and son Edward of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
MR.. AND MRS. ARTHUR
DENLER of Northlawn avenue,
Detroit, will entertain at the re-
hearsal supper Tuesday evening
for Mildred Trombley of Mount
Clemens, who will become the
bride of their son, Lieut.. War
rem A. Denler, on Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Denler returned
Saturday from Fort Benning,
Ga, where their son was grad
uated last week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10
Calendar ofGon,ing GG"snb
MODAY, AUGUST 10

MODAY, AUGUST 10
RED CROSS WORK in Mount Clemens High sewing
rooms $50 a. m to $50 p. m.
VFW AUXILIARY GAMES party Veterans hall, at
FRANZ KUHN LODGE Knights of Pythas Pythian hall,
at $50 p
BRITISH WAR RELIEF Sewing in Grace parish house, 10
a to 4 p. m.
HARRY OLLRICH POST in American Legion clubhouse, at
$50 m.
TUESDAY, AUGUST IL
RED CROSS WORK in Mount Clemens High school sewing
rooms, $50 a. m. to $50 p. m.
CITIZENSHIP CLASS at Mount Clemens High school, to
9 p. m.
CHEST CLINIC in Kings Daughters Health Center, to
11:30 p. m.
MIZPAH BIBLE CLASS picnic luncheon with guests
in the grove the home of Mrs. Roy Hoover, North
Graot avenue at IL M
MACCABEES pot-luck luncheon at of Mrs. Ulma
Moss in Ferndale Members transportation
in Barron hall at IL a
IMPORTANT MEETING of wives, mothers and sisters of
Eagles in Aerie hall at p. m.
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Varied Programs Set
for Coming Week

and Mrs. George Pingel Of
Group Five are in charge.
Tuesday evening the Jewish
Welfare Board will sponsor the
party, with Mrs. c. H. Malbin
and Mrs. Isaac Barnett in
charge. Wednesday evening a
games party will be sponsored
by Oddfellows Lodge. Mrs. Dom
aid r. Westenderf, Mrs. Thomas
c.. Longstaff and Mrs. Thomas
Babcock form Group Three, the
committee.
Thursday evening, st. Peters
Council of National Council Of
Catholic Women, under Mrs. Al
fred Henk Of Group Four, Is
planning the entertainment. The
regular Friday evening inform.
al dance is the next event, while
Saturday evening the newly
formed Saturday Night Club
will hold forth, with Mrs. Henry
w. Tryloff, Mrs. George Camp
bell and Mrs. Jacob Ullrich of
Group One, in charge.
All events will begin at 8 o.
clock.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10

THE PROGRAMMED enter
tainment system at the USO
Club on East Broadway is at
tracing large numbers of SER
vicemen for the varied program
which is planned by the senior
hostesses, who are assisted by
the junior hostesses.
The coming week will offer
events each evening. having got
ten off to a good start last night
with scavenger hunt and wat
ermelon feast The hunt was
won by Adline Van Lanken,
Helen Harrison. Pvt. Raymond
Wilkie and Pvt. Dean Hunter,
after which the group repaired
to the club for water melon.
Group Six. with Mrs. Samuel
Malbin, assisted by Thelma Ull-
rich, was in charge.
This evening is scheduled the
"fun for all" night Mrs. Fred
erick Breitmeyer. Mrs. Harold
Lindsey, Mrs. Byron Preussel
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10

JANET SHERMAN, daugh-
ter of MIR. and Mrs. Harold Sher-
man of Seminole Hills, who is
celebrating her 18th birthday
anniversary today with weiner
roast at Shadyside Park this
evening.
MR.. AND MRS. HAROLD
TESKA of Richmond who be-
came the parents of son early
this morning in st. Joseph's hos
pital.
MIR. AND MRS. RALPH BEN
ZINC of 1887 Glenwood road,
who announce the arrival of a
daughter early this morning in
st. Joseph's hospital.
MIR. AND MRS. LEONARD
SURNAN of Utica, who an
nounce the birth f son Sunday
in st. Joseph's hospital. >
MRS. PAUL MIGHION, Jones
street, upon her birthday ami
versary today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10

REV. AND MRS. WILFRED
j. JUNKE who are quietly OBJ
serving their fourth wedding an
niversary today.
MIR. AND MRS. CHARLES
GREH whose 18th wedding an
niversary is being observed to-
day.
ARVEY FARBER, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. Farber of
Eastman street. He observed his
fifth birthday anniversary Sun
day.
MIR. AND MRS. THOMAS L.
MAY of 1881 Florence boule-
ward, who celebrated their silver
wedding anniversary on Satur-
day, August 8. Members of the
Friendship Circle, of which Mrs.
May is a member, arranged
party at the May home in honor
of the occasion.
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Lorraine Covert
Becomes Bride

THE WEDDING OF Lorraine
Marie Covert, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis w. Covert of "a
Scott boulevard, and Pvt. Joseph
Norbot of st. Augustine, Fla.
took place yesterday afternoon
at 4 o'clock, with the Rev.
George A. Merifield reading the
service in Grace Episcopal
Church.
The bride, who was given in
marriage by her father, was
gowned in a pale blue silk tat
feta gown made with sweetheart
neckline and short sleeves. The
full skirt ended in a short train,
and she wore a gardenia in her
hair and a corsage of white
blooms.
Irma Wolf, her only attend
ant, was in a darker blue silk
taffeta gown of floor length
made with square neckline and
short sleeves, and wore similar
corsage. Corp. Edward Hurd of
Selfridge "ield medical corps at
tended the bridegroom. who is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
.,orbot of Export, Pa.
Mrs. Covert chose a print
frock on a navy background for
her daughters wedding. Pvt.
Norbot's parents were unable to
be present at the ceremony,
which was planned after the
bridegroom arrived for brief
furlough.
Fourteen persons attended
dinner which followed the cere-
mony, while more than 100
guests were present at the re-
ception which took place at the
brides home. A centerpiece of
white blooms, including gladioli,
mountain snow, daisies and
baby's breath was thanked by
tall white tapers, and the four
TERED Wedding cake was topped
with a bride ed groom.
Corp. and Mrs. Norbot will
leave Tuesday to return to the
bridegroom's army duties at st.
Augustine.
MIR. AND MRS. CLARENCE
LINDENBURG of Unionville
were weekend guests of Linda
Sy, and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Prefer and Louis Prefer of
Unionville spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Gust sly.
MIR. AND MRS. BYRON
PREUSSEL spent the weekend
at Camp Penlock, near Inter-
lochen, Mich, where they visit
ed their son, Jimmy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Breitmeyer, Jr.,
made the trip with them.
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Important Meeting

WIVES, mothers az sisters of
members of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles will meet for an inn
portant meeting at Aerie hall
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
MRS. j. T. ROBINSON of 222
North Walnut street, entertain
ed at a family dinner Sunday
honoring her son, Corp. Kermit
Brown, who left this morning
after enlisting for officers
training in the Army. Mrs.
Brown will remain in Mount
Clemens at their home, SO East
man street.