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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

at London said British naval units bombarded the port of Matruh early Monday for the third time in four days, damaging shipping in the har- bor and destroying dock installa- tions).
 There was no official explanation for the sudden cessation of hard fighting along the desert line, but front line reports indicated that both sides were near exhaustion and that while they gained rest they took steps to consolidate their positions. This was particularly true of the British, who hold the com- manding ridges in the north and central sectors, positions against which Field Marshal Erwin Rom- mel.s tanks and motorized infantry attacked without material result for days.
 Long Range Planes
 Long range fighter planes carried out an attack on enemy barges, protected by fighter planes, north- east of Sidi Barrani in the zone near the Libyan border, and plane crews saw them aflame, communi- que of the Middle Eastern command and the Royal Air Force said.
 In large scale attack on the enemy airdrome near Fuka, 60 miles west of the Alamein battle line, Im- perial planes scored direct hits, start ed fires and damaged about 30 enemy planes, the communique said. One Italian plane was shot down in 8 battle and others were damaged.
 Medium bombers caused fires and explosions among tanks, trucks and grounded planes in the battle area in a heavy night attack.
 A German Messerschmitt- 109 fighter plane was shot down by Brit ish fighters over Malta, 1t was said.
 Loss of five British planes in all operations, was admitted, but the communique said that pilots of two were known to be safe.
 As regards ground operations, the communique merely noted that they were confined yesterday to patrol activities.
 The British forces appeared to have strengthened their position along the Fl Alamein line after Seizing dominant ground and talk ing in Il days, 5000 prisoners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
American Bonsbers Raid

Chungking, July 21-(UP)-Amer- ican hombers have sunk two Japa- nese vessels totalling perhaps 4,000 tons in the Yangtze at Kiukiang, it was announced today as military spokesman revealed that in the battle for southeast China the Jap- anese had recaptured the port of Wenchow.
 The headquarters of Lieut.. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, commander in chief of the American forces in China, announced that the United States bombers, with pursuit es- cort, sank the two vessels, each of from 1000 to 1000 tons, in raid yesterday on the river port 90 miles north of Nanchang in Kiangsi pro- vince.
 The American planes returned to their base without damage, the communique, 18th issued by Stil- well, added.
 Wenchow reportedly was lost again only 24 hours after the Chi nese had retaken the seacoast city from the invader.
 The Chinese high command yes- terday announced that Wenchow and the neighboring port of Juian had been retaken by the Chinese after a week of Japanese occupa- tion. Most of the Japanese garri- son was evacuated by naval craft, the Chinese had said. The remain ing troops were surrounded and faced annihilation.
 Wenchow is 225 miles below Shanghai on the sea route to Hong Kong and Singapore.
 Allied submarines repeatedly have attacked Japanese transports in the Formosa strait, an important lane for Japanese shipping to the South seas, the New China Daily reported today.
 The attacks have been proceed ing for four weeks, the newspaper said, but the extent of their suc- cess has not been learned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

(Continued from Page 1.) been parked in their garages and in garages adjoining their homes"
 The defense attorney continued that the ordinance was enacted by the board of aldermen January 31, 1898 and was approved February g., 1898. He later referred to it as a "horse and buggy days ordinance"
 Prosecutor Palomba replied to the defense attorney that the prosecu- tion was based on the 1898 ordi- nance entitled "An Ordinance Con- corning Trade"
 Intent of Law
 "It is quite obvious that 1t was not the intent to apply the ordi- nance to ordinary containers att tached to automobiles" said the prosecutor. Tt was intended to ap- ply to the storage of gasoline in other containers in private resi- dences and garages"
 When Judge John L. Gaffney denied Attorney Blansfield's motion for more specific statement, from bench, the defense attorney stated that he would file a demurrer at- tacking the legality of the construc- tion of the ordinance.
 It is expected that the demurrer will be filed and argued tomorrow, in view of the fact that the case has been continued twice already, each time for tNo weeks.
 Prosecutor Palomba said that Sec ton 4 of "An Ordinance Concerning Trade" which has been the basis of the five actions against persons charged with illegal gasoline stor- age is as follows:
 Section 4
 Section 4. Illuminating Fluid Provisions de. Pentlay. No person shall manufacture, keep, sell or offer for sale within the limits of said city, any Illuminating fluid, the principle ingredient of which is ben zine; or shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale any Illuminating fluid made from petroleum, inf1ammable at less temperature or fire test than one hundred and ten degrees Fah- renheit. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay pen- alty of not less than 50 nor more than one hundreds dollars for every such offense.
 Section 5. Benzine. Definition of the Word :. Whenever the word "benzine" is mentioned in this Or dinance, 1t shall be understood as including the substances known as benzole, benzine, naptha, gasoline, and all products of crude petroleum, except parafflne in It's solid state, and refined petroleum of a standard fire test of one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit"
 Section of the ordinance provid- ed that mo person shall manufac- ture, refine, sell or keep on sale or storage in said city, any crude or re- fined petroleum, earth oil, coal or rock oil, benzine or any other inc hammable or explosive composition .. unless licensed so to do by the Fire Marshal as hereinafter provid- cd and in the Ordinance concerning licenses and permits.s .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

NCOnLl1luEQ 1IOLu EbRS 1.J of latest type lying burned out a few hundred yards from the station, with the graves of the tank crews alongside. These tanks and nine others had been smashed by the Australians.
 An Australian officer named Ham, mer, for whom Hammers Hill in this sector was named, told me how the tanks had fallen into trap.
 He took me to the top of the hiil and, with German shells falling round, pointed out to me the rail- road and station and the other part of the Hill of Jesus Ridge.
 Didn't Keep It Long
 we lost the station for an hour when German tanks crashed their way through before we had time to get down our mine fields and barbed wire, and they flattened out some of our men," he said.
 "We were sent in to counter -at- tack from this point and got it back"
 I asked him about the four tanks I had seen.
 That was a nice bit of work" |" he said. Those tanks made a dash across the railroad tracks a few hundred yards east of the sta ton and then turned west.
 'They outrange our two-pounder anti-tank guns which are stationed near here, so the artillery got to work at 2,50O yards range. It was indirect fire and the gunners could not see the tanks. But they aimed perfectly. They put one shell un- der the nose of the tank, another under each ear and on the back of the neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
FOUR GALLONS
 GAS, YOUR SHARE
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appearing for their books.
 Books were also being issued to- day to operators of fleets of trucks and to other gas users who are in special classifications.
 Distribution of "B" and 70" books to owners of private cars will be- layed until all commercial applica- tions have been disposed of. Drivers entitled to 'B" and e" will have to get along on their "A" allotments until the supplemental books are given out.
 Many stations were without gas again today. Drivers who had hoped to i'll up their tanks before the permanent program started, found 1t difdcult to get even . few gallons.
 Under the permanent program, the amount of gas which dealers may buy depends on the amount they sell Fear has been expressed that this may lead to price-cutting and cut-throat competition for business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
TAX
 RATE IS FOUGHT
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corporation profits are subject also to individual income taxes when distributed to stockholders as divi- dendS.
 Favor of Lower Tax
 ''T am in favor of lowering the normal corporation tax" Taft said.
 Taft said he had no objection to the 90 per cent excess profits rate, or the rates on individuals. In the individual tax field the House bill raises the present normal rate from four to six per cent, and surtax rates begin at 13 per cent instead of six per cent as at present.
 The new corporation rates were the subject of a last-minute fight in the House when the ways and means committee proposed lowering the effective normal rate from 45 to 40 per cent The House rejected 1t, 180 to 160. The committee also proposed increasing the excess prof its rate from 87 1-2 to 90 per cent. That was approved.
 The House then approved the bill 392 to 2.
 The present combined normal and surtax corporation rate is 31 per cent. Excess profits taxes at present are on a sliding scale with rates ranging from 35 to 60 per cent.
 Not until some time after the House acted were there any esti- mates of what the vote meant in revenue. Treasury officials finally estimated that the 3 1-2 per cent in- crease in the excess profits tax would add $127, ,0o0, 900 to the annual yield of the bill.
 Secretary of Treasurye Henry Morgenthau Jr., who will be the first witness before the Senate com mittee, intimated that he would urge enlarging the House bill to the goal originally set by the administration -$S, TOO, ,OO0, 900 in added revenue.
 That original figure" he said at a press conference, represents a minimum requirement. of revenue for the year. The president has not changed his idea and certainly we haven't"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
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the east. Conferences were in pro- gress in London, with Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill participant ing, and 1t was reported that Am erican experts were veering more definitely toward the belief that 8 second front was essential this year.
 It was acknowledged by most mili- tary experts that the undertaking would involve 8 considerable risk at present due to lack of time to make full preparations and due to the fact that Hitler has retained strong air forces and large numbers of well-equipped secondary troops in Western Europe.
 Dispatches pointed out that the Germans have probably one-third of their strength on the eastern front at present and that Hitler would not be forced to withdraw important forces unless big scale invasion were attempted by the AL lies. A smaller or diversionary in- vasion attack would not only be in much greater danger of failing but would have slight effect in forcing withdrawal of enemy power from the Russian front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

NOnJ1uUSQ rom rage 4.J strength from Russia in time to give the necessary help to the Red Army. A limited second front would be merely 8 sacrifice which would 0e without any purpose"
 Officials Are Silent Various plans for second front operations to aid the Russians have been advanced, but official sources remained silent after earlier efforts Co discount agitation for an invasion of western Europe until American forces in the British Isles were greatly strengthened.
 : One proposal was for a smaller second front in northern Norway, designed primarily to knock out German submarine and air bases from which attacks have been made on Allied conveys to Murmansk. Any small front, however, would fail of the main purpose of divert ing German strength from southern Russia, military experts pointed out
 They said that, since the Axis has only one-third or one-half ot Its total power engaged on the Rus eian front, and since the best Ger man air units are held in the west, It would be possible to force with drawal of strength from the east only by a major invasion.
 It was generally agreed in author ltatiye sources, however, that the opposition to second front which had been apparent several weeks ago was less emphatic today as a result of the Russian situation.
 Necessity for Risk
 The necessity for risk might be Increased, 1t was pointed out, by She German gains in southern Rus gia, thus making it necessary fol the allies to strike earlier than they had originally planned.
 It was believed that the con- Gerees were balancing the possible fate of the Red army in southern Russia against the risks involved ir mn immediate allied attack-at the latest this fall-somewhere in vest ern Europe.
 The conferences in which Chur- chill participated were believed tc be for combined discussion of the results obtained in several days o1 preliminary conferences during which American experts and thei1 British counterparts examined the recond front situation in their in. dividual fields.
 British consultants in these con- Serences included Naval Chief ot Stan Admiral Sir Dudley Pound Chief of the Imperial (Army) Staff Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, and Chief o. Air Staff Marshal Sir Charles F. A Portal.
 The question of whether the allie! are capable of launching seconc front in Europe in time to give tht Russians the diversionary hell which Churchill, and probably President Roosevelt, promised So' vet Foreign Commissar Viachesla' AMOlotov remained unanswered fol eAe moment.
 sEyweyNs, several weii-informet observers pointed out that the pes namism regarding early opening O n second front which was prevalen c fortnight ago had disappeared ol at least been overshadowed by thu closely guarded developments of thu past few days in London.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
ONE OF ALLEGED
 SPIES ON STAND
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cago widow and ex-flancee of sabo- teur Herbert Hans Haupt, spent some time in the barricaded sec ton of the Justice Department building where the trial Is being held.
 Shortly before the noon recess, the two women left the trial sec- ton and went to the ofices of de- fense counsel.
 Mrs. Jordan's son, Larry, a tank battalion sergeant missing in the battle of Bataan, once knocked Haupt down, explaining that "Hans is 6 NaM." Haupt was said to have used Jordan's name instead of his own after landing on the Long Is- land shoro.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
AMERICAN PLANES
 SMASH AT NAZE
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shot up every military target they could find in low-level raids from Octeville, near Le Havre, to Le Treport, 70 miles to the north. 9fle American Eagle squadron went along to bomb the racio masts at Fecamp and attack factory where Ian explosion and lot of smoke" was observed.
 The Bostons attacked Q power station in the same general area. The Wellingtons attacked objectives in northwest Germany, the air ministry said without elaboration. All the Wellingtons and Bostons re- turned. One of the fighters did not.
 Targets attacked by the Spitflres, according to the air ministry, in. cluded two factories, several gum posts. Q number of German army billetS, railroad signal boxes, a rail- road engine, an anti-aircraft tower, the railroad station north of Dieppe and an armed trawler in the Somme estuary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

Coal deposits in eastern Okla homa were partly responsible for the location and building of some of the railroads through that area in the 187O'S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21
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GAS ORDINANCE
 FACING TEST

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RUSSIA FACES
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AUSTRALIANS GET :.
 THEIR HILL BACK

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-21

corporation profits are subject also to individual income taxes when distributed to stockholders as divi- dendS.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Alexandra Masonic Units
Plan Fete for SeIectees

The Masonic Selective Service AS
sociation of Alexandria will sponsor
party for all selectees who are to
be inducted this month at pm,
October 80, in the George Washing
ton National Masonic Memorial
Other guests will include men al
ready in the service in military
camps near Alexandra, members of
the Masonic fraternity and their
wives.
The committee named by the as
sociation to arrange the program is
composed of Harry H. Newton, pro-
gram; c. Phillip He; e;shley, refresh
Elents; Edgar S. 3avol, invitations,
and j. S. Everly, publicity.
The association is composed of the
Alexandria Washington Lodge, An
drew Jackson Lodge and Henry
Kno Field Lodge, A. F.. e. A. M;
Martha Washington and Jessica
Callahan Chapters, Order of the
Eastern Star: Mount Vernon Royal
Arch Chapter, Old Dominion Com
mandery, all Scottish Rite bodies,
the Alexandria Shrine Club, Jobs
Daughters and De Molay Boys.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
No Change in Policy
lis Seen in Canadian
Cabinet 5hake-Up
Vacancies Filled, Three
Quebec Representatives
Brought Into Government
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Oct. Prime Min
lister Mackenzie King last night an
nounced a large-scale cabinet re-
organization in which he filled sev-
eral vacancies and brought three
Quebec representatives into the gov
ernment to help restore to the
French-speaking province the ira
ditional equality with Ontario.
Informed quarters saw no change
in policy in the shake-up. since the
views of the new ministers coincide
with those of the former cabinet
members on the most controversial
question-conscription.
Only one of the vacancies was due
to anti-conscription action, while
one of the new ministers opposed
the governments policy.
In the new cabinet Quebec has
five members, Ontario has six and
the other provinces are represented
as follows: Nova Scotia, one; Prince
Edward Island, one; New Bruns-
wick, one; Manitoba, two; Saskat-
cheWan, two; Alberta, one; British
Columbia, two Gncluding the gov
ernment leader in the Senate, J. H.
King, who is minister without port
folioD
Prime Minister King announced
, that War Services Minister Thor
son had resigned and had been ap-
pointed to the presidency of the
Exchequer Court of Canada.
He said the following new min
listers would be sworn into the cab
met today:
Maj. Gen. L. R. La Fleche, as
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Missing Plane With Two
Aboard F Found Wrecked
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. Civil
air patrol flyers yesterday found the
wreckage of an Ellington Field
plane, missing since Friday night.
in the heavy timber southwest of
Sheridan. in Colorado County.
The Ellington Field public rela-
tions Office made public no informa-
ton as to the fate of the two
enlisted pilots who left Ellington
Field with the plane on a training
mission.
They were Privates Theodore G..
Sneider of Hawarder, Iowa. and
Ernest B. Thomas, Jr., of Dawson.
Georgia
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Jasper Post to lnstoII
Commander Toniqht

Charles H. Pierce will be installed
as commander of Sergt. Jasper Post
Is, American Legion. at 8 O'Clock
tonight at the Legion clubhouse
2437 Fifteenth street NV.
Others to take office include
Vice chairmen, Alvin E. Shonk, H
]. Mccarthy and Asbury B. Ham.
mond; James A. O'Neill, adjutant
and Martin A. Schubert, finance
officer. Robert L. Fain will become
chaplain.
After the business meeting a grouK
Of newly enlisted WAACS will bt
sworn in by Army officers. A dance
honoring the newly inductec
WAACS and Legion officers will
follow.