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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
REDS CLOSING
IN ON KHARKOv
Capture Strong Nazi Posi-
ton Before City, Late
Reports Say
By HENRY SHAPIRO

(Om1Ve0 EEeSS StAm correspondent
Moscow, May 23-(UP)-Russian
troops have thrown back the Ger
mans several miles south of Khar-
kov and have stormed and captured
strongly fortified enemy position
before the city itself, front dis
patches reported today.
Huge masses Of German tanks and
infantrymen attacked on a wide
front in the 1zyum- Barkvenkovo
area, 10 miles south of Kharkhov,
in the fourth day Of a savage and
costly counter offensive against the
left flank Of Marshal Semyon Timo-
shenko's southern army, a special
dispatch to the army newspaper Red
Star said.
The Russians, often out-numbered
three to one, threw back innumer-
able attacks despite the arrival of
a stream Of German reinforcements
and then, selling the initiative, adj
vanced several miles in one sector
and, dislodging the Germans from
an inhabited point in another, cut
off and wiped out the retreating
SAACllly SaAAAoNAA'
Attacks by several long German
tank columns, which advanced on
marrow front in an effort to wedge
into the Russian line, were defeated
Red Star said.
The Russians after destroying 80
enemy tanks counter attacked and
pushed back the Germans to their
original f10sitions
Guards regiments, who stormed
and captured q strongly fortified
German position and sent the Ger
mans fleeing in disorder, made the
gain before KharKov, 1t was re-
ported.
Attacking behind their tanks in a
sudden thrust under cover Of night,
the Red army troops pierced the
enemy stronghold, drove out its gar
rison with bayonet and hand gren-
ade and captured quantities Of war
materials which the Germans were
compelled to abandon in their
fight.
The Russian noon communique,
reporting this success, said:
"In the Kharkov direction our
forces drove the enemy from a
strongly fortified inhabited point.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
MILITARY PAY
BILL TO PASS
Senate Figure of $42 for
Lowest Grade May Win
Approval
BY JOHN r. BEAL

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, May 23-(UP)-Con-
terees on the military pay bill ex-
pect to reach a Anal RECESSION today
with limitations that the senate bill
which provides SAL month for the
lowest grade enlisted men-will be
approved.
The house bills figure was $50.
Some members of the joint confer
ence felt that War and Navy depart
ment opposition to the larger sum
precluded it being accepted.
At present, Army privates receive
$21 a month for their first. four
months of service and are increased
to $50. Apprentice seamen are paid
$50.
Under the senate's bill, men in
the lowest grade would receive $42
monthly while those in the next
grade would be raised to $40. The
house upped these figures to $50
and $54 respectively.
It was estimated that the house
figures would add some SITS ZOO, 900
to the measures overall cost.
While conferees repeatedly favored
the senate bill after a three-hour
closed session yesterday at which
Army and Navy officials testified,
there was some doubt whether the
house would condone any surren-
der by its conferees. It was noted
that the chamber had riveted the
increases into the bill on a 33l to
% roll call vote.
Chairman Robert r. Reynolds, D.,
N. G., of the Senate Military At
fairs committee said there were sug-
gestions to make up the difference
between the $40 and $50 with pro-
visions for $4,000 insurance for the
men, or in war bonds.
The military witnesses opposed the
increase in light of budget bureau
disapproval and were understood to
have pointed out that under exist
ing law there Is an automatic 20
per cent pay increase for overseas
duty. Thus, they said, the $42-a-
month private or seaman would re-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
MEXICO READY
TO DECLARE WAR
Announcement May Come
Monday; Country En-
ragged at Ship Sinkings
BY EDWARD p. MORGAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Mexico City, May %. - (UP)-
Mexico, enraged by the ruthless
sinking of its ships, began the for
malities Of declaring war on the
Axis today.
President Manuel Avila Camacho,
after q three-hour meeting OF his
cabinet, called special session OF
Congress, and announced 1t not only
would be asked to proclaim a state
Of war with Germany, Italy and
Japan, but also to adopt related
measures" to seize Axis property
and intern Axis nationalas.
In ordering the permanent COM
mission Of Congress to convoke the
extraordinary session at once, Ca
macho set no time limit, but 1t was
believed that Mexico would be at
war with the Axis by Monday since
there was no doubt that Congress
would grant Camacho's request.
The government announcement
said that "in virtue of the agrees
sion Of which the nation has been
the victim on the part Of the ma
tons of the Axis-first by the sink
ing of the Mexican vessel, Potrero
Del Llano, and then the Faja De
Orc. The president of the republic
direct the permanent commission
to convoke Congress in special ses-
sion. In order to declare existence
of state of war between Mexico
and the Axis powers and to adopt
appropriate (other) measures"
Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla,
long an enemy Of the Axis, said
there was full unification and COM
prehension" at the cabinet meeting
which was held in the national pal
ace, the Mexican White House.
Five generals, including Cana
cho, participated, The others were
Gen. Pablo Maclas, war minister;
General Maximino Avila Camacho,
the presidents brother and minister
of communications; Gen. Heriber-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
GERMANS CLAIM
REDS BROKEN UP
(The following was not filed by
q United Press Correspondent but
is an enemy broadcast recorded
outside enemy teritOry.)

Berlin, May %. German Broad
cast recorded by UP at New York;
The high command said today
that a big Russian attack with %
infantry and cavalry divisions and
IS armored brigades had collapsed
with heavy losses and that Axis
troops for two days have been coun.
ter-attacking "along the entire
'front.'"
Supply lines Of the strongest Rus
sian attacking units have been cut
of and German and Rumanian
troops been counter-attacking along
the entire front for two days.
(Vichy radio earlier reported that
Rumanian and German forces were
exerting great pressure along the
Taganrog- Rostov Railway lines,
possibly as q prelude 70 . big at
taCk.l
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
SOLDIER KILLED
IN ODD ACCIDENT

North Kingstown, r. l., May as
(UP)-Pvt. John w. Browning, 81.
of Cawood, KY, was shot and killed
accidentally by Pvt. william ]. Dom
nell, 10, of Brooklyn, N. Y, army
authorities and medical-examiner
Richard J. Kraemer ruled today.
The accident occurred last night
while Browning was seated on his
bunk in a tent. Donnell, in an adj
joining tent, about to go no guard
duty, slipped q cartridge clip In his
rifle and one discharged. It struck
Browning in the back Of the skull
and pieyced his brain.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
Japanese Invasion Centers Are Badly Smashed By
Yankee, Australian Planes; Heavy Damage Done
Tanker, Transport, Planes,
Docks, Airdromes Struck
STTLWELL REPORTED
in INDIA NOW

London, May 23-(UP)-An
Exchange Telegraph Agency cor
respondent reported today from
Dinapur, northeastern India.
that American Lieut.. Gen.
Joseph StiIwell had arrived there
with 400 other persons after q
strenuous trek over the mountains
from Burma.
The correspondent said he met
Gen. Stilwell, who had command
ed the Chinese Fifth and Sixth
armies in Burma, while he was
eating breakfast with his Liason
officer, Maj. Gen. Franklin Sibert
yesterday, and that Gen. StilwelI
talked between mOuthfuls of bis
cult and canned cheese and gulps
Of tea from a thermOS jug.
Stilwell referred lightly to his
trip over the mountains.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
400 POLICE TO
GUARD BRIDGES

Hartford, Conn, May 23-(UP)-
Statae Police Commissioner Edward
J. Hickey said today 400 auxiliary
police have begun a 24-hour guard
over 81 bridges in strategic Connec-
tcut locations.
The guardrs, he said, are working
on a voluntary basis, and shifts OF
four hours each have been arranged.
with two men to a shift. The auxil-
iary police recently completed spe-
cial training from state police In
structOrS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
Lac, RabauI Hit in Daring
Raids; Many Bombs
Are Dropped
GREAT DOGFIGHT
BETWEEN PLANES
Jap Anti-Aircraft Batteries
Knocked Out By Invad.
ing Planes
BY DON CAsWELL

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Melbourne, May 23.-UP)
United States and Austral-
ian bombing planes have
damaged a Japanese tanker,
crippled a troop transport,
smashed at least Is enemy
planes and rained destruc-
ton on docks, shipping and
airdrome installations in
daring raids on Japan'S two
great northeastern invasion bases, 1t
was announced today.
They dived on the enemy invas-
ion base at Lac, on the north coast
of New Guinea, plastering the en-
tire area with demolition and I'M
cendiary bombs, and hurled greaj
bombs down on the Rabaul, New
Britain, base in a high-level attack
The Allied planes downed five
out Of eigh Of Japan'S best fighter
planes, Navy zeroes, which sought
to intercept them over Lac, and
one damaged plane fought off fe-
rociouS attacks by enemy planes on
its return from the Rabaul raid.
Heroic Fight s
Twice within 100 miles, the
bomber Of the Rabaul formation
was attacked by the hornet-like
Navy-O's. Machine gun bullets
ripped through its hydraulic line
and cut 1t. 1t was necessary to
close the doors Of the bomb bay
by hand.
The radio man and a turret gun-
ner chung to the catwalk and suc-
ceeded in closing the doors while 3
few inches beneath them red tracer
bullets tipped past.
Total casualties in the two raids
were one rear gunner wounded.
Smoke Clouds Thick
Smoke clouds were so thick over
Lac that the Allied aviators could
not see the result when they heav-
lily bombed o dispersal area dotted
with enemy planes, and no claim
was made Of what undoubtedly re-
suited in serious damage.
Japanese anti-aircraft batteries,
after firing furiously from the dis
persal area, suddenly went silent in
indication that they had been
knocked out. One pilot saw several
damaged planes elsewhere, prob
ably casualties in a raid the day be.
fore.
AS they left Lac, the Allied planes
bombed and machine-gunned this
tanker and put four bombs so close
that 1t was seriously damaged by
splinters and the bomb blast.
Much Damage Done
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, an
nouncing the raids today, said that
two grounded enemy boTnbers were
destroyed, a tanker was severely
damaged and five Of eight chaIleng-
ing Japanese fighter planes shoe
down at Lac, in New Guinea.
A big troop transport was Grip
pied and six heavy enemy bomberS
were badly damaged in a raid on
Rabaul, in New Britain island, he
said.
The raid on Lac was the second
in "a hours. In the previous RAID
two Japanese bomberS and q nght-
err plane were destroyed, two bombs
ers were extensively damaged and
three challenging fighters were shoe
down.
Macarthur COmmuniQue
MacArthur's communique, No. 50
from his southwest Pacific general
headquarters, said:
Northeastern Area-New GuineSs
Lac: Our air force attacked th@
airdrome and shipping. Two enemy
bornbers we're destroyed ON th@
ground. A tanker in the harboN
was severely damaged. Eight jap
anese fighters attempted intercept
ton. Five were shot down. All our
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
FATALLY INJURED

Fairfield, Conn, May 23-(UP)--
Charles s. Archer, IS, was injured
fatally early today when struck by
an automobile in Fairfield center.
The car was driven by Walter Ras-
lnusser, "a. East Norwalk, who was
held on . reckless driving charge.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-23
LOST AT SEA

Nashua, N. H., May 23-(UP)-
Robert J. Beach, Al, has been lost
at sea following the sinking Of o
steamer at the mouth OF the Mis-
sissippi, his wife Evelyn was noti-
field yesterday. He was q native Of
Berlin, NH
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Occasional Showers;
I Temp. Unchanged.
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Evening star., 1942-06-28
The Siren Returns, But She's Not the Same
Theda Bara With Her Restrained Technique Never Could
Compete With the Speedy Vampires of Today

her charms. Right away she lets
him know her mind is on romance
He shortly learns that she is the
white mans burden on this particu-
lar plantation, pretty burden but
nevertheless a dangerous one.
There ere Other Tricks.
Miss Lamar follows the 1912
speed temptress pattern. She makes
love to Pidgeon at every chance
She wears scanty clothes on most
occasions. She fights off any other
attractive females that may chance
along. She shows off her slender,
graceful figure in gowns that define
ate it best.
There are a lot of other tricks
being flashed on sound stages these
days as Hollywood struggles to put
the siren back on the celluloid map.
June Duprez finds she can't manage
Preston Foster in any other way
so she gives him some doped tea.
That happens in Little Toxic,
U. S. A." Miss Duprez broadly
demonstrates that when a man is
only partly conscious, vampire can
get in some of her best work.
No holds are barred, either in this
day or age. In Orchestra Wife -
when Ann Rutherford is about to
marry George Montgomery Che
seems beset with wicked women
(See HEFFERNAN, Page E-2)
Evening star., 1942-06-28
Today's Film Schedules

CAPITOI-This Veronica Lake and brandnew
STAR 4:35, 72o 10 pm Stage shows: 34o 625
910
CoLUMB1A-"My Sal" singing and dancing with Rita Hay
worth: 2:45, S. 7:1O, $50 m.
EARLEMy Favore Blonde Bob Rope finally wins the girl
Madeleine Carroll $780, 7:40 10 Stage shows 25 435
$50 910 pm.
KEITHS-My Spy" Kay Ellen Drew and the
Kyser band 2:29, 4:20, Gil, 8:02, 9:53 pm.
Helen Hayes
and Gary Cooper: 2:15 AIS s, 7:5O and s:4o
METROPOLTTAN"In This Life with Bette Davis opening
third week downtown: 2, 3:55, $50, 7:45, 9:45 pm.
PALACE-"Torlla with Morgan,
Tracy, ct al 2:15, 4:45. ITO and 9:40
PIXBahfu Bachelor with radio favotes Lum and Abner
405, sos, $40 and 1920 pm.
Evening star., 1942-06-28
1O>Best Film Lists Tell Tales of Taste
And It's Varied Taste for Which Prominent Solicitors
Perhaps Should Not Be Held Too Responsible

Chips" "Rebecca' and Lives of a
Bengal Lancer"
Any 1O-best list would have to
give consideration to either of two
comedies which were produced and
directed by Frank Capra, 1T Hap
pened One Night" and Mr.. Deeds
Goes to Town" One or the other
makes nearly every list. 1t is a
symptom of the mans modesty
that neither makes his 10-best list.
which with Mrs. Miniver' (which
started the whole thing, includes:
"Tabu," Birth of Nation
Seventh Heaven" The Big Pa
rade." "All Quiet on the Western
Front" The Hero "Mutiny on
the Bounty" The Story of Louis
Pasteur" and "One Hundred Men
and a Girl"
Mr.. Taylor Is Not Constrained.
One might attribute Mr.. Capra's
omission of his own pictures to an
inescapable reluctance of any one
to name his own work. If one did.
however, he would find such a gen.
tleman, fellow of such excellent
taste as Deems Taylor rising above
the constraint to select Fantasia
on his list. Mr.. Taylor, 1t is easy to
recall, was a considerable participant
in the production of that Disney
variation from the hackneyed and
conventional in motion pictures. 1t
is within the realm of modesty, of
course, that he chose it out of sheer
and deeply humble admiration for
Disney. who quite deserves universal
admiration.
One might have fine time trying
to figure out Ted Husing on the
basis of his selections. This CORE
spondent did. coming up with the
eventual conclusion that Mr.. Hus-
ing is a fellow who can't be made
heads or tails of. 1t seems only log
ical in view of his choice OF such
pictures as Dressed to Kill" "Tri-
fling Women" Behind the Door
all of which he must have listed in
a mood Of complete frivolity. Come.
come, Husing, this is no time for
that sort Of thing)
Just Capriciousness.
Critics, at the very least critics.
might find their respect for Ray
mond Gram Swing jeapordized just
slightly when they find That Ham
ilton Woman" on his list right un-
der David Copperfield.' In addi-
ton to the formers rating as
badly made piece of sensationalism,
it seems a little abrupt of dignified
Mr.. Swing to turn so decisively
from Dickens and Freddie Barthol-
omew to Vivien Leigh and her un-
doubted wi,es. It intimates a more
(See CARMODY, Page E-2l
Evening star., 1942-06-28

AS we remember her crafty man
stalking maneuvers, Theda would
have changed the flowers in her
tresses seven times, worn three bill
lowing sacklike nightgowns. busted
of score of floors with her
trains" cried over an egret feather
in her hat and neared the end OF
reel seven. If she came back today
Theda would be forced to move a
lot faster.
Director King chuckled as he re-
membered how he used to shoot
hundreds Of feet of film on a single
soulful glance of a siren.
Now we don't even use that much
footage on an entire love scene" he
commented. The change in the
tempo of the siren, of course, comes
from the tendency to speed UP
everything today. The girls we are
now converting into sirenish 60
getters must work like Hurricane
fighters in action"
Even the beauteous Hedy Lamar,
who has moved at snails pace
through such pictures as "Algiers'
has been ordered to speed up her
tactics in White Cargo" She plays
Tondelayo, perhaps the most famous
stage vampire of this age.
When Walter Pidgeon comes along
to her African rubber plantation,
she doesn't wait for him to discover
Evening star., 1942-06-28
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WOOD.
If Theda Bara were 25 years
younger and willing to step back into
her tiger-robed screen career she
could write her own ticket in Holly
wood today.
For, what the movie makers need
more than anything else right now
excepting, of course. a flock of
draft-free leading men-are some
heavy-handed ome-hither women
who can really strut their stuff be-
fore the daZzled male.
The war, with its demands for
spy. sabotage and adventure plots,
caught the film folks short on
vampires. Casting directors are
frantic. In all Hollywood there isn't
a sllken-clad male trapper of the
Theda Bara, Louise Glaum or Nita
Naldi variety. What to do? Moth
ing but transform some of the nice"
heroines, such. as Hedy Lamar,
Virginia Bruce and Osa Massen,
into wicked women.
However, the Misses Para, Glaum
and Naldi doubtless would be
shocked at the dynamic technique
pursued by this years slim lot of
screen sirens.
Wouldn't Chase a Man.
THE Theda Bara always showed
restraint" recalled Henry King who
has been directing sirens for %
years. off and on by backward
glanceS, and ogling. and enticing
smiles, they attempted to lure weak
males to their downfall.
They never once thought, how
ever, Of chasing man. They
merely used their charms to per-
suade the man to come to them
He made all the advances. 1t be-
came a struggle within his own
soul whether he would give in to
the turn of pretty ankle or go
home to his waiting wife"
Such a slow-moving technique be-
came passe many years ago, of
course, Rita Hayworth speeded up
the maneuvers of temptress by
100 per cent in Blood and Sand
of last year but even Rita operated
at slow motion compared with the
getting activities of the new
crop of sirens demanded by 1925
actionful scripts.
For instance, Osa Massen, playing
Fiji. a spy of doubtful ancestry
meets George Montgomery in a little
number called China Girl" She
asks him to dance with her. Not
20 minutes later she asks him to
kiss her. When George hesitates,
she grabs him by his brown fore
locks and holds him tight in long
embrace.
Evening star., 1942-06-28

prominent. if not exactly the best.
minds and it is being turned over
with a judicial fervor altogether out
of proportion to its actual merit
AS a diversion from Tobruk and
Sevastopol, Attu and Kiska, how
ever, it at least has the advantage
of being less a shock to the soul.
1t might even make good game for
a party if you have the heart for
or an invitation to a party. Or If
you have a speaking intimacy with
your psychiatrist it might make
list far more important in its reve-
lations than your stumbling. FUN
bling effort to narrate your dreams.
The thing, you can see, has posi-
bilities.
There is, for instance, the posi-
bility that one may discover per-
fectly execrable caste in motion
pictures on the part of some one
hitherto admired without reserva-
ton. Or discover with shocked sur
prise that the seemingly most light
hearted person one ever knew has a
SO1CILl ldStC Al PiioeOPAolo- o.
The Serious Mr.. Allen.
The latter, say. is Fred Allen,
that amusing fellow. Mr.. Allen is
a comedian, an irresistible one. He
fairly exudes the intimation that
he has no time for anything but
comedy, that his life is a perpetual
birth-pang delivering one wise
crack after another. Yet 1t takes
Mr.. Allen five pictures on his 10
best list to get down to his first
comedy. 1T Happened One Night y
Before that he chooses Mrs. Min
iver," The Informer,' Make Way
for Tomorrow" Gone With the
Wind" and the fantasy, Here
Comes Mr.. Jordan" And that,
strangely enough. is the only out
right humorous drama on his list,
the remainder of which includes
Birth OF a Nation" "Good-by, Mr..
Evening star., 1942-06-28
By Don Whifehead,
Wide World.

NEW YORh.
Pert and lovely young Kathryn
Grayson made her debut" at the
Metropolitan Opera House the other
day-but there is no glitter of dia-
monds in the horseshoe.
She sang snatches from I'll Trova-
tore" La Boheme' and Lucia di
Lammermoor" and her soaring COL
oratura soprano echoed through the
house with only. the watchman as
her critic.
This wasn't exactly the way
Kathryn had planned her first Met
ropolitan appearance.
The 19-year-old MGM movie
starlet happened to be in New York
on a sightseeing. trip and decided
to take a peek at the opera house
one morning. The watchman took
her on a tour backStage and Kath-
ryn-known to her intimates as
"Stinky'-decided she might as well
sing.
The acoustics we're excellent
she reported before hurrying down
to see the Statue Of Liberty with
Evening star., 1942-06-28

more promising singing finds. She
made her first appearance in Andy
Hardy's Private Secretary" in which
she sang three songs. and then got
fat roles in The Vanishing Vir-
ginian" and Rio Rita" in which
she shares billing with Abbott and
Costello. She received star billing
in the film she's just completed,
Seven Sweethearts." and star BILL
ing is a beautiful thing to any
actress, young or old.
Of the screen Kathryn looks
about as un-Hollywoodish as your
kid sister Emma, but she wouldn't
be a glamor girl II she could be-
cause she'd burst out laughing at
herself. It's tough to be glamorous
and have a sense of humor, too.
Prefers Stacks.
Instead of the regular routine of
night clubs and dances for a first
visit to New York, Kathryn concen-
trated on plays. the Bronx Zoo.
museums and sightseeing tours that
most name stars would consider
to naive.
Stylish clothes don't appeal too
much to Kathryn, who prefers to
(See WHITEHEAD, Page ED
Evening star., 1942-06-28
Coming Attractions

Magnificent Dope with Henry Fonda opens Thurs
day with stage show.
CoLUMBIA-"Her Cardboard with shearer and
Robert Taylor. Thursday.
a troubles with
Edward Robinson and Jane Wyman opening Friday.
THS-'Lady in JAM" with Irene Dunno.
LITTLE-he Man Who Seeks the TRUTH French film which
Raimu.
York" returns to Washington at pop
prices opening Friday.
PALACETen Gentlemen West Point about founding
of the Academy, with Maureen OHara.
PIX-"Mexcan sptnre Ghost" with the implies
Lupe valez, "Whspering Ghosts" with Milton Bere
Opens Wednesday.