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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

Hartford, Conn. Sept. 2.-(UP)-- A, widespread search by state police and FBI agents for a parachutist who was reported to have landed in the Rockyhill-W Wethersfleld area today went forward fruitlessly, but resulted In the picking up of:
 900 motorists who did not have draft registration cards.
 A soldier who had been AWoL for i3 days.
 Four enemy aliens who were traV- cling without permits.
 A man who was driving while hih license vas suspended.
 Several RpeedsteFa.
 state police said e check-up dis. elosed al those whe did not have thelF draft cards actually had reg isteFed. There was c erush at state police barracks while the telephone calls to all parts of the state and gone to MaHsaehusoftg were made
 Tha AWoL GeldleF was iiiFnec ever lo Bradley Field Army author itleE.
 Thrso oi lhs aliena sore relaas. Ice nliek questioning hY u, s. atlog.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
POTATO WASHER
 BEAT KIDNAPERS
Angry z Farmer Defeats Two Youths Who Had
 Seized His Wife

Geneva, H., Sept. '22.-(UP)-Ar angry farmer swinging potato masher thwarted the apparent kid naping plot of two youths who had held members of his family at gum point for five hours, authorities said today.
 The farmer was Edward O'Con- nell, A, who had employed the youths, Merrill Smith, IT, and Fred (Lucky) Dubay, 16,to work on his farm near here.
 O'Connell left home yesterday, leaving his wife, Jessie, 43. alone His children, Mary Catherine, IA Sue, 12, and Edward, 6, were at school. Smith, son of an Aurora H., real estate man, and Dubay who later identified himself as a fugitive from a reformatory at South Windham, Me, were digging potatoes.
 Mrs. O'Connel told authorities that she had admitted the youths to the house when they asked fol drink and they had then seized her husbands shotgun and rifle.
 "They tied me to chair" she said, land both of them kept pok- ing the guns at me and asking which child I would prefer having Kidnapped. I told them I loved them all. Lucky then said they would take Mary Catherine"
 Mrs. OConnelrs father, Charles Bracket, "A, telephoned from his
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
TAVERN ] ' RI! l 1. KEEPER. ] { !.
 HAS INJUNCTION
Thomas F. Brady Secures Temporary Stay Against
 State Liquor Board
(NEA Telephoto)

A temporary injunction restrain ing the state liquor commission and law enforcement authorities from interfering with the operation of a tavern owned by Thomas F Brady of this city was issued today in common pleas court by Judge Miles McNiff. The commission on Sept. 19 refused to renew Brady license on the ground that he was not an elector, as required by a statute adopted by last years Grand Assembly.
 Attorney John F. Tobin, repre- senting Brady, told the court that Brady has tried to become a voter, but cannot do so until October 6, when the next session for making voters is held. He argued that the commissions order is arbitrary, H. legal and discriminatory and violates the Bill of Rights.
 The restraining order is directed against State Liquor Commission CTS John J. Fitzpatrick, Julius C. Stremlau, and Francis Rohrmayer, States Atty. William B. Fitzgerald, State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey, City Court Prosecutors William k. Lawlor and Frederick w. Palomba, Police Supt. William
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
 | HIGHWAY RUSHED
I4,8OO Miles of Roadway Links Up Alaska, Argen-
 tina to Foil Japs

Washington, September 22.-CUP) - Work on an international high- way that eventually will link Alas ka and Argentina l4,800 miles apart - is being rushed for com pletion before the end of l943. The war. especially the sub marine campaign in the Atlantic, has spurred the efofrt to link the two Americas by land. The threat of a Japanese submarine campaign along the Pacific coast has been the major stimulus in construction of the iong-debated Alaska United States highway through Canada.
 Much of the route which, when completed, will connect the north ernmost tip of North America with the southernmost section of South America already is paved and in use. The major missing links" on which work Is now being rushed are:
 1. The Alaska United States highway on which work started af- ter Pearl Harbor.
 2. The Pan American highway in southern Mexico, between OaKaca and the duatemalan border.
 2. Construction of a pioneer road" to Central America.
 (. The linking Of Panama and northern Colombia by ferry to skirt the iunelss south oi the Panama Canal.
 Paved hishWnys already exist from canada through the United States to Meeis0 cify end southern Mek.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
us. MERCHANTMEN
 IN CONVOY SUNK
Two United States Ships Were in That Convoy
 Told of By Britain

Washington, Sept. 9. m (UP) - The Navy announced today that two U. S. merchantmen were sunk in the Mediterranean after enduring four days of almost uninterrupted air, land and sea attack while taking supplies in convoy to the British island of Malta.
 The attack on the convoy was an- nounced by the British early in August, but they did not reveal the sinking of the U. s. ships. The HMS Eagle, British aircraft carrier, was sunk ir the action.
 Four members of the gun crew of one of the American vessels were killed by machine gun fire, the Navy said. The ship carried complement of 107. There were no casualties among the 105 aboard the other ves- sels.
 The survivors of the two ships were taken to Malta and Gibraltar and later to England where the American members of the group ob- tained transportation to the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
PORT MORESBY
 THREAT IS BAD
Worst Bit of War News That Comes From All
 Fronts Today
By rREDsRICK OECHsNER United Press Central European
 Manarerl

ny AkEO O0AAAGM OHCAAS1SEaAe
 United Press Central European
 Manager)
 The threat to Port Moresby re- mains the outstanding bad spot ir the general pitcure of the war today, although the danger is recognized and is being prepared for.
 In the Solomons, tension is ap- preaching crisis. The Japanese are showing healthy respect for the achievements we are building up there to meet their attack. When 1t comes, both offensive and defens- i've operations will be on the slug ging scale and the outcome will be of tremendous importance in deter mining future mastery of the south western Pacific.
 Elsewhere. in the long view, things look somewhat brighter. The issue at Stalingrad remains undecided. 1t is true, but the effect of this greatest battle of history on Hitler's general strategy can no longer be argued away in Berlin or anywhere else, No propaganda can gloss over the fact that in the face of worSening weather conditions and a proSpec- tive early winter, Hitler has not completed his Volga campaign on schedule. He most certainly has not crushed either the fighting power of the Russian forces or the will-to-re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Soviet Guard Troops Smash
 Nazis In Streets Of City
Judge Gaffney Declared He Could
 Not Allow Salinardi His Liberty
With His Proclivities He Should Not Roam This
 Community

Declaring T cannot allow any man with his proclivities to roam this community" Judge John L.. Gaffney in municipal court today sentenced Frank Salinardi, 40, of 852 East Main street, to a total of more than a year in jail. Sentence was imposed after the court refused an application by Salinardi to with draw pleas of guilty which he en- tered Saturday to three counts.
 Salinardi was mumbling some thing about entering an appeal when he was rushed forcibly from the courtroom by Court Officer Joseph Garvey, who feared a disturbance. { Long Police Record
 PosseSsor of a long police record, Salinardi had two appeals pending in common pleas court when he was arrested last Friday by Patrolmen George Knowles, Joseph Sullivan and Thomas Phelan. Patrelman Knowles said that Salinardi, known as s'Tingles'', shouted at him, at- tempted to grab his gun, then ran away. Accompanied by the other officers, Patrolman Knowles found him on Chatfield avenue and ar- rested him. After the prisoner was brought to the police station, he all legedly attacked Patrolman Sulli- van. The officer, who said he was kicked in the groin by the accused, has been off duty for several days.
 In court Saturday, Judge Gaffney ordered Salinardi held without bond for sentence Monday and directed that mental examination be given him meantime. Yesterday the case was continued till today, Judge
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
HEAVY BOMBERS
 IN MIDDLE EAST
Smashing Blow Dealt To- bruk Sept. l3; Sea Trag-
 edy in That Fight
BY HENRY T. GoRRELL

United Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 With U. S. Heavy Bomber Squad rons in the Middle East, Sept. 22- (UP)-The growing strength of AL lied heavy bomber units in the Middle East, ranging as far as Sicily and Rumania for Axis objectives, was shown today by details just re- leased, of the smashing blow dealt to Tobruk on the night of Sept. IS.
 Many heavy four-motored bomb CTS, manned by both British and American crews, made a wreck of the principal advanced Axis base at Tobruk that night while very strong units including American medium bomberS simultaneously raided the port of Benghazi 235 miles to the west.
 These were the most savage raids Tobruk and Benghazi had suffered, and subsequent raids almost nightly, including an American daylight att tack on Benghazi last week. indi- acted Axis defenses would take some time to recover. During the day. light raid, for example, American flyers encountered only the weak est resistance from anti-aircraft batteries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
SECRETARY KNOX
 EXPECTS ATTACK
Looks for Jap Push" on Solomon Islands; !; Praises
 War Writers

Washington, Sept. 9. - (UPl - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that the Navy expected the Japanese to make a "big push to retake the Solomon Islands.
 Asked at his press conference about continued rrlmors of big Japanese drive on the American positions in the islands, he said:
 "Of course, that is safe and sound assumption. We operate on that basis. To do otherwise would be foolish over confidence"
 Knox, who returned last night from the American Legion conven- sion at Kansas City, Mo, said he was tremendously inspired and Rratified" by the action taken by the convention. He said he was in sympathy with about everything they did.'
 Among the actions he cited was the Legion's reiteration in favor of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
STOCKHOLMIS AUTHORITY ON HITLER STORY Report Says Hitler Is Building Defense to Hold
 Eastern Gains SEPARATE PEACE FOR
 RUSSIA IS TALKED Hitler Wants Bulk of His Armies Ready for Sec
 Ond Front Threat
BY HUBERT UxKULL United Press Staff Correspondent

Stockholm, September P. (UP) - Adolf Hitler, abandoning hope that Ger many can crush Russia, has started building defenses, to hold his eastern gains so the bulk of his army will be free to meet the threat of a sec ond fornt in the west, usually weN infromed sources said today.
 The same sources expressed be- lief that Hitler might start peace offensive this winter and tell the German people that separate peace with Russia was necessary without the total victory he had promised them. ..
 Informants said the new German defenses in the east would not De along a continuous line, like the west wall opposite France or the old French Maeinot line, but 8 chain of hedeehog like citadels designed to peFrnit a relatively few men, gar- rison troops, to hold the Russians while the main German armies moved to western Europe.
 Defenses Started
 The position of the new eastern defense line naturally was secret put
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Selection Of Dad ddona Jury Is Going Slowly
At O'Clock This Afternoon Only Two Had Been Picked; Six Were Excused By Court, One .S
 By the State

'Impaneling of a jury for the Nil chele Daddona murder trial opened in superior court before Judge John Rufus Booth this morn ing but up to l o'clock today. only two veniremen were accepted, in- dicating that the selection and the trial itself may be quite lengthy. Of nine persons, two of them wo- men, called to the witness stand and examined as prospective jurors, six were excused by the court and one by the state. Under law the defense and the states attorney are allowed to reject IS veniremen.
 The element of self-defense will enter the case 1t was indicated to- day when Atty. Edward Mascolo, counsel for the accused man who is charged with the second degree murder of Frank Caruso, 4O,. of 669 North Main street, asked a pros- pective juror if he was prejudiced against a knife as weapon. Ca- ruso's death resulted from staD- bing with 8 knife found in Dad dona's possession. Atty. Mascolo asked: can you concelVe OI a case where person would use any kind of weapon to defend himself?"
 Two Accepted
 The two jurors accepted before court adjourned are Charles A. Mannweiler. of Seymour and Berkley l.. F'risbie of Wolcott. The venire- men excused were Mrs. Hester J. Allen of Beaccn Falls, Mary E. Gill of New Haven, Charles L. Nettleton of Bethany, Olie Warner, Sr., of Hamden, William Hill of Meriden, Willis R. Barlow of Oxford, and Michael Pitre of Seymour, Burritt R. Curtis of Southbury was being examined when the court recessed until 2:l5 p. m.
 Daddona is accused of fatally stabbing Caruso, who was the father of three children. following an altercation on South Elm street, June 6. Both men had been in Pals tavern drinking before the alterca-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
lS6 FRENCHMEN
 WERE EXECUTED
70 Were Killed Today By German Orders in
 Reprisals

vichy. France, Sept. 22-UP)- The Germans have executed 70 hostages at Bordeaux in reprisal for recent activities by Frenchmen against the German army, adyices from occupied France said today.
 This brought to is6 the number of Frenchmen executed within a week by the Germans.
 Last week l16 were executed in reprisal for activities against the German army in the Paris area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
BY REP. CARL vTNSON. Chairman of the House Naval
 ANeaire GsOl,vnitkAAl

Washington, Sept. p -- (UP0 - Directly or indirectly, the first fruits of American naval expansion are already influencing the course of the war. At sea we have seizure to turn the corner. Initiative exem- plif1ed in the seizure of the Solo, mon Islands is being exercised else where in this global war. It was displayed in the big United Nations raid on Dieppe and in the increased pace of the war of attrition U. s. submarines are waging against Jap anese shipping.
 The battle of the Atlantic has definitely taken 8 turn to the ad- vantage of the United Nations. Ship sinkingS of Americas Atlantic coast have almost ceased.
 When the new land front Is
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Drive One Sector Back Over Mile and Quarter in
 Bloody Fighting TERRIFIC BATTLE IS
 RAGING EVERYWHERE For First Time in Days Soviets Are Regaining
 Part They Had Lost
BY M. s. HANDLER

Bx Ms ,. HANDLER United Press Staff COrrespOndentA
 Moscow, September 9. - (UP) - Soviet Guard troops today were reported to hava smashed Nazi positions in one district of Stalingrad and to have driven them back a mile and a quarter in a fierce charge through the city streets. The Red Army newspaper Red Star said that crack guard attachments of the army smashed through barriers set up by the Germans within Stal- tngrad.
 e The guard attachments then droYa forward, exposing the flank Of an enemy infantry unit, the report saAa. The attack was one of several in various sectors of the Stalingrad front in which Soviet forces pushed back the NaziS.
 Red Star singled out a Soviet tank unit commanded by Lieuten- ant Colonel Bubnev for special men, ton, reporting the detachment had destroyed 233 German tanks, 68 cal1- non and thousands" of Nazi troops in continuous fighting since August 4.
 Tn four battles fought in single day the unit destroyed 3S tanks and IS cannon with a loss of three Rus sian machines, Red Star said.
 BlOOdy Fighting
 Red Star reported that bloody fighting was in progress at every point where Nazi forces have pene- trated, the outskirts of Stalingrad. Frequently, 1t said, the Russians occupy one portion of house ana the Nazis the other and battle for possession with rifles. bayonets, hand grenades. and naming benzine bottles.
 The Germans were said to be bringing up steady stream of rein- forcementS by transport planes rushing the men into battle.
 The newspaper Bolshevik report- ed that Soviet armored trains steam along the front, blasting key Nazt positions. One attack by an armor- ed train was directed against q Nazi-occupied railroad station ands with the aid of Soviet infantry, the Russians managed to capture lS tanks and many German cannons.
 For the first time in days Soviet dispatches from the embattled VoAga city indicated that the Russians were regaining, in part and poss1- bly, temporarily, the initiative on several portions of the front.
 Using machine guns, hand gren- ades and even rifle butts, the S0-s viets were described as batterino their way into Nazi-held buildings and exterminating the German troops, rooa.s by room.
 Naxi L@se Heavily
 German losses were reported 70 heavy that whole regiments had vir~ tually disappeared, front reports said. The battle was being fought the Soviet youth newspaper Konl- sonaolskaya Provda said, under the most dismal conditions imaginable
 Most of Stalingrad was in rlaiTf or ahlaze from the constant rain of German fire and explosive bombs and heavy artillery shells. A cold September wind swept the skeppes driving the smoke of battle faz across the plains. Frequent driving rains were said to have set in while overhead the constant drone of naaH planes drowned the ttrumpctlnE e& fiocks of cranes on their eutuz,D flights.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
COMMUNISTS ARE
 OFF STATE TICKET
They Failed to Comply With Statutes Requiring
 Date of Filing

Hartford, Conn, Sept. 22-(up)-- The Communist party was denied . place on the state ballot today for falling to comply with the statutes requiring the filing Of nominating petitions by Sept. 2i.
 A petition was necessary, eeefe- lary Of state Mrs, Chase Going Woodhouso aaid. because the party failed Q poll sufficient votes ln the l0a0 elections to automatically en- tltls it Co recognition this year.
 Several candidates ef two yehrt aeo, however, have petlllcned Eo run fof other ofAee.
 Michael llusao. Bridgeport, Coln- mlinist candidate faF governor ln fofo. has aaked that his name ho al- loWaa 6n lhe liekat foF state repre- sentative,
 frsdege WcIry. New Haven, who
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
United Nations Able To Talk OnSea Control
Report on Course of War at Sea Prepared By Chair man VinsOn of Naval Committee, With Aid
 of U. s. Navy Department

(The following report on the course of the war at sea was pre- pared by Chairman Carl Vinson, D., of the House Naval Affairs Committee with the cooperation of the Navy Department. It is de- signed to tell as directly as pOs- sible, without violating the re- quirements of military secrecy how the United Nations now stack up against the Axis in the strug- gle for control of the worlds oceans.
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The echo., 1942-04-17
DELEGATES TO THE C. M. E. GEN
ERAL CONFERENCE TO HAVE
SPECIAL TRAIN

According to reports from Reverend
R. L. Young, the delegates and friends
going to Chicago in May will have a
special train leaving Mobile, Alabama
in the afternoon, arriving in Meridian
about $40 on Monday, May 4th.
This train will go all the way
through to Chicago. Special dining
service will be available for the many
delegates and friends. The special
car occupied by the delegates will be
equipped with radio service and spec
ial car attendants.
All persons desiring to go to Chica-
go, leaving Meridian Monday evening,
May 4th, will contact Reverend Young
Immediately. He states that Bishop
j. H. Moore has approved of this
special arrangement and many of the
delegates are expected to, ride this
special into Chicago.
Rev. A. Hawk of Mobile will bring
large number from Mobile.
The echo., 1942-04-17
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
BY Ruth Taylor

The rallying cry for American arm
les has always been remember" We
are people slow to wrath. We have
been incapable of understanding the
driving force that motivates agrees
ors. But-once our anger was arous-
ed, the pent-up rage has had explos-
i've qualities.
Remember the Alamo" and for
every life lost in that Texan court
yard, Santa Anna and his men paid
a hundred fold. Remember the
Maine" and for that sinking the
Spanish Empire went crashing down
Remember Pearl Harbor' - what
will its final cost be to the agrees
ors. The Axis war lords may well
pause and consider the price they will
have to pay.
But-that end is not yet in sight
and before it is we must remember
Pearl Harbor as a lesson to US.
After the first crushing defeats OF
the Boer War, Kipling wrote:
Let US admit it fairly, as a bust
ness people should
We have had no end of lesson
it will do US no end of good
That is the kind of remembering
we must do now. We must remem-
Der Pearl Harbor-not as a humiliat-
ing defeat, but as lesson from which
we can learn.
We must learn to be ready at all
times. Not for US the untitled lamp
or the ungirt loin. The powers of
darkness against whom we are fight
ing do not march out in battle array
with flourish or trumpet. Theirs is
the knife in the back, the thrust in
the dark, the tactics of the sneak
thief.
We must learn caution. Not for us
the moment of carelessness, the as
sumption of loyalty, the repeated ru-
NOR, the personal pride i n stating
news. We must be perpetually on
guard. Not suspicion-but caution.
We must learn patience. We must
stick by the job long after we are
tired. We must be at our posts wait
The echo., 1942-04-17
DON'T MAKE A
MISTAKE

Dear Presidents and men,
bers of the H. B. A.
Don't be so enthusiastic
in our drive for 1000 men,
bers that you take in per-
sons too old, who are a.
bove sixty years Of age.
Don't take in persons who
are sick; don't ask persons
to join this order whom
you think are unworthy.
If you do, you take upon
yourself to be fined and
suspended. Please remem-
Der that we can do our
selves good in this ami
versary if we will do the
right thing. We can do
ourselves harm if we do
the wrong thing.
If it is found that we
disobey t h e rules of the
Constitution, the e n tire
lodge, together wit h the
president is subject to fine
and suspension.
PLEASE PLEASE
BE CAREFUL
R. L. YOUNG, Secretary
The echo., 1942-04-17

Mrs. Lula Stennis is converlascing
from her home on Asylum Heights.
The echo., 1942-04-17
Remember Pearl
HarbOr

ing for endless hours on guard a.
gainst danger. We must be able to
wait for news-and not be tired by
waiting-thankfu if we are not need
ed, but there when the need comes.
We mus learn to reserve judg-
ment. Now is not the time to decide
what should or should not have been
done. Until the facts are in-we
must not make any arbitrary criti-
cisms. We must do our own work
and not the tasks of others.
The echo., 1942-04-17
To
The C. M. E.
To Have Special
Train


SPECIAL TRAIN TO CHICAGO IN
MAY
The echo., 1942-04-17
The 18th Anniversary
OF the General Pres.
OF The H.B.A. Makes
Big Gains

The Barometer is moving up fast.
Rush young, new members to the Of
flee. One thousand members is the
watch word.
Presidents Floyd OFT, E. B. Black
man, Aaron Trotter, Jasper Walker,
and many others are writing for ap-
plication blanks.