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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
NEW PROCEDURE BY AUTO OWNERS
Instructions Are GivcN for Lost, or Stolen Gas
 Ration Books

New procedure to be followed by auto owners seeking replacement of their gasoline rationing books which have been lost or stolen were announced today by James E. Mo- Knight, deputy gasoline rationing administrator.
 There has been a wave of ration ing book Ahefts from parked cars reported during the past few days, as well as numerous reports of lost books.
 A car owner whose book has been lost or stolen must first report the loss to police. He must advertise the loss, in the newspapers for three days. He must secure an affidavit form at rationing board headquart- CTS, fill 1t out, attach to 1t a copy of his advertisement, and have police make an endorsement that he has reported to them. The affidavit must then be sworn to and filed with the board.
 The board will take up the ap- plication for action 10 days after 1t has been filed.
 MT. Mcknight declared that there have been for too many reports of books lost or stolen. He pointed out
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Former Tennis Champion
 Lands Smack Against F FBl

said, 1t never entered my head to doubt It."
 Using his friendship with Tilden, Berstein established a base at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, and play ed with Charles Chaplin, Alfred c. Vanderbilt, and other Hollywood notables.
 About two months ago." Tilden said, T invited him to play some tennis, and he said:
 TT can't; I've been nicked in a commando raid"
 Hostesses vied for the 'honor" of having him grace their table.
 High point in the comedy was played when Prince Mike Domanoff, phoney member of the Russian royal family" and Bernstein, the dry goods commando ace, indulged to & few sets of tennis.
 Bernstein, shorn of his uniform but at liberty in $l,OO0 bond, refused all comment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13

Hollywood, Aug. 13 - (U.P0 - Morton M. Bernstein, former boys indoor tennis champion who had thrilled Hollywood with tales of his exploits to commando raids found today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was less gullible.
 The former tennis star was charged with impersonating a Navy officer after five months of being lionixed by movie folk.
 The only commando" raids In which he participated. investigators reported, were raids on the icebox. Bernstein, 30, now a"haberdAsher, used his knowledge of clothes to advantage. There wasn't flaw in his uniform.
 Bill Tilden, the tennis profes- kicnal, said Bernstein turned up about i've months ago and an- nounced he was lieutenant com inander,
 T knew Morty SO well," Tilden
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
BRITISH CONVOY
 HAVING BATTLE
Britain Already Admits the Loss of Aircraft Carrier;
 Italy Says More Losses
BY JAMES CHAMBERS United Press Staff COrrespOnden

NpAAAtCu AACSS cN"h SViACspOAiuCHtJ
 London, Aug. 13.-(UP) -- The Axis claimed today that large AL lied convoy and "the bulk of the British Mediterranean fleet" had suffered heavy damage in three day battle still raging in the vest ern Mediterranean where the loss of the British aircraft carrier Eagle had been acknowledged.
 The British admiralty maintained complete silence regarding the Axis boasts, contained in high command communiques and radio broadcasts, after announcing yesterday that a U-boat had sunk the 24-year-old Eagle with small loss of life.
 The announcement of the sinking of the Eagle said that lat least one U-boat opearting in the same area already has been sunk" indicting that the fight was continuing at that time.
 The Italian high command in its communique today said that "hitS" had been scored, presumably by bomberS, on additional aircraft car riers.
 The German radio late Wednes- day said eight British naval vessels including the Eagle had been sunk" but the Italians did not repeat that claim today.
 Today's broadcast of the German commundque mentioned the Med- iterranean battle only briefly: (Continued on Page E
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
l7,OOO SUSPECTS
 ON DIES RECORDS
Called Nazi Sympathizers, May Be Placed Under
 Govt. Surveillance

Washington, Aug. 13-(UP)-The Dies committee plans to transmit to President Roosevelt this week the names of 17,000 persons 1t sus- poets of NaN sympathies and to recommend that they be placed un- der strict government surveillance. 6 was learned today.
 The committee also plans to sub- Mit to the President 8 copy of a letter sent to Nazi sympathizers in this country from Germany in January, l94l, bearing the sigma ture of Walter Kappe, now the ob- ject of a nationwide search by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The letter Is said to name Kappe as head of pro- German movement in this country.
 The letter recalled that police had raided Bund summer camps. but said that 'in no case have the al- legged stocks 10 weapons or other war material imported from Ger many for the purposes of a revohl- ton by force been found"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
Thomaston Woman
 Fined $25O In Court
pended By Judge Conway; Driver of Car in
 Fatal Crash on June l9 Last X.

Mrs. Clara Florian, 59. of S9 High street, Thomaston, present librarian and former school teacher in that town, was found guilty of negligent homicide when arraigned in city court this morning before Judge Theobald Conway and fined $250. Execution of the sentence was Sus- pended.
 Mrs. Florian was the operator of a Pontiac two-door sedan which hit curb at a point 6l feet south of the intersection of First avenue and Hillside avenue, June 19, later crashing into 8 telephone pole and causing the death of a friend pas senger. Mrs. Ethel PlattS GA, who died five minutes after being ad- mitted to the Waterbury hospital.
 Judge Conway in imposing the sentence said he did not find the woman negligent, but too cautious, and believed she suffered more mental anguish during the trial and since the accident than any penalty the court could inflict.
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under strong crOSS-eXamlnat1On by Government Attorney Joseph P. Cooney, Pastor Molzahn declared heatedly:
 T love Germany with all its vir- tues, its music, the Germany of Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Liszt. That IS the Germany love"
 Then you despise the Nazis?" inquired Cooney.
 T do," he said firmly.
 The minister admitted he had re- ceived message of congratulation from German Ambassador Hans Thomsen in 1889 on his 10th anni- versary with the old Zion Lutheran church at Philadelphia.
 "Dad you return that message2" asked Cooney.
 "No," replied the clergyman, who added the message was among scores he received.
 No Member of Bund
 Tine pastor denied he was mem- Der of the German-American Bund, and declared:
 T never attended a Bund meet ing because I wasn't a member and couldn't have attended"
 Cooney then asked:
 "Yo do know the Bund used your name and represented you as a member?
 T do not know that" he answered The Rev. Molzahn contradicted the testimony of one of his own witnesses, Pastor Emil Schlick of Philadelphia, that he was present with him at two Bund meetings. Pastor Schlick is wrong" he said. The minister denied he has ever talked with his bishop, a Dr. Pfatteicher, about his divided loy- alties" concerning this country and Germany.
 C0ntradicts Bishop
 Doctor Pfatteichef is an old man and contradicts himself frequent ly," said the pastor.
 You woldn't appear as a char- acter witness for him, would you?' asked Cooney.
 "No."
 Neither would he for you," said
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
RIOTS IN INDIA
 QUILTING DOWN
Mass Arrests, Threats to Impose Death Penalties
 Have Halted Them
BY JOHN R. MORRIS

NOhAOCu 1EcSS oCuAI OUTTCSpUALNCuV
 Bombay, August 13. (UP) - Rioting subsided in India today af- ter the death toll had reached 69 in four days of Hindu disorders re- sulting from a Nationalist call for 6 civil disobedience campaign for immediate independence.
 Mass arrests, imposition of emer- gency decrees prescribing the death penalty for arson and serious as- sault, public demonstrations of strength by reinforced troop patrols and the natural tiring of mobs which included many youths and boys, con- bined to improve the situation,
 The death total was brought to 69 when one man was killed in Bombay last night and five were fatally wounded by police who fired on a mob of 2000 which stormed the district government secretariat building at Patna, in northeastern India. 285 miles northwest of Cal cutta.
 At Patna. when the mob surged up the walled grounds of the secretar- fat, the gates were marred and au- thorities tried to induce leaders to withdraw their shouting followers.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
British Bombers Hit Mainz, Germany Again
About 800 Planes Crossed Over Last Night to Pul- verize That Industrial Center; Smoke Rises
 l5,OOO Feet Over Ruins Left By Bombs
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

NOuASCU AAVSS CeSSA SuAACSpVAuCAASI
 London, Aug. 13-(UP)-"A strong force" of British bombers hammered the important German industrial and communications center of Mainz last night for the second consecu- tive night.
 Some 500 planes took part in Tuesday nights raid. Last nights was believed to have been no smaller.
 Airfields in the low countries were also attacked.
 Five bombers were missing.
 The air and home security min istries said few German bombers ranged over England and Scotland during the night, a few reaching the London area where they caused the first air raid casualties since July 30.
 The communique cited "a small number of casualties, some fatal in the greater London area. Ac- cording to authoritative reports three were killed and seven injured in one building struck by bomb on the northern outskirts of Lon don.
 A single plane dropped bombs in southeastern Scotland causing minor damage.
 The RATS sally into Germany apparently began before midngiht. The Berlin radio left the air hur- reidly at ll:45 p. m.
 The German radio today admitted the second raid on Mainz, saying buildings had been damaged in residential areas" and fires of the preceding night had been rekindled. The Germans claimed four raiders down.
 Pulverize Cities
 With its second visit to Mainz the RAF returned to Its technique of concentrating attacks on a singl' city until 1t is pulverized.
 The effectiveness of this method was demonstrated by the loss ot only five planes. The "strong force" which carried out Tuesday nights
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
Three Key Solomon Islands Are Now Within Their Grasp
Germans Slowed Down But Fury Of Their Attacks Are Not Diminished
Nazis Aim for Winter Quarters; Russia Still
 Fights to Bitter End
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE (Of the United Press War DeSk)

The more rugged territory of the Caucasian foothills into which the Germans now are advancing has slowed the momentum of their drive slightly but the fury of their attack has not lessened and they appear likely to achieve their im- mediate objectives.
 These objectiveS are the Black Sea coast and the Grozny oil fields near the Caspian. In the north the objective Is Stalingrad and the Volga river. There the Russians are holding well and 1t seems at least possible that the Germans may be stopped in front of Stalin- grad as they were before Moscow and Lef1ingrad last year.
 The Germans are fighting for time on the now broadening front, which extends from Voronezh to the Caucasus mountains. Their mini mum goal is to establish a winter line on the Volga from Stalingrad to Astrakhan; on the Black Sea coast as far south as Sukhum, and along the Caucasus foothills to G Grozny and beyond to Makhach Kala, on the Caspian.
 All this needs to be done before the winter and 1t is now mid-Aug- ust. if the Germans achieve this vast program, 'tileiR summer cam paign wilt have heen . big success with one big exception-they will not have knocked Russia out of the war.
 If the Germans reach Sukhum and Makhach Kala, their more dis tant objectives would be Batum, just short of the Turkish border, and Baku, the heart of Russia's princi- pal oil fields. Batum they may get, but 1t is quite probable that the Russians will be able to hold the defensible stretch of the Cas- plan coast from Makhach Kala to Baku, where the mountains dip down to from one to three miles of the sea.
 Their Winter Stand
 If the Germans reach the objec- tives outlined, 1t is likely that they will try to stand for the winter and divert a good part of their offen- sive strength elsewhere, probably to
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STATE POLICE PAY
 BRIDGE GUARDIANS

Hartford, Conn., August 13,-(UP) Attorney General Francis A. Pal lotti ruled today highway depart ment personnel now guarding i'm portant Connecticut bridges must be paid by the state police de- partment.
 About 172 highway department employees now are engaged in this guard duty, and Pallotti said their names must be taken from the highway departments payroll and transferred to the police roster.
 Pallottt said the highway depart ment was charged with the mainte- nance and repair of bridges. not with guarding them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
DUTCH HOSTAGES
 MAY BE EXECUTED
German Rulers in Holland Threaten to Kill l,5OO
 for Train Crash
By WILLIAM DOWNS

(United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, Aug. 13-(UP)-German authorities in Holland today threat ened wholesale execution of Dutch hostages, 1000 to 1,500 of whom are reported under arrest, unless the population surrenders those respon- sible for the wrecking of NaZi troop train and the attempted des- truction of several radio stations.
 Thus far the Germans have re- trained from reprisal executions of hostages in Holland, although there have been many killings in France, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and other occupied countries.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
Fighter Planes From America Fill Europe
With Their Yankee Pilots, They Are Being Heard From in Every Country Over There; Flying Fortresses
 Ready to Hit Germany
By NED RUSSELL

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Aug. 13.-(UP)-Ameri- can fighter planes, 1t was announc- ed officially today, have launched their initial operations in the Eu ropean theater, joining the Royal Air Force in repeated sorties along the coast of Nazi-occupied France
 A communique from the head quarters of the European theater of operations of the United States army, revealed that for the past 48 hours American fighter planes have been harassing German positions along the French coast.
 American fighters, built, manned and commanded by Americans, have joined the RAF in beating off Nad planes attempting to fly over the British coast, the communique re- vealed.
 The communique reported that American fighters have engaged in 3l separate operations in the 48- hour period in which U. s. fighter participation in the European war theater has been underway.
 GA British radio report, heard in New York by CBS, said that U. s. flying fortresses, manned by Amer ican crews, are ready to attack Ger many "any time now.)
 The communique said that in the 48-hour period from August 11th to August 18th American fighters made three operational flights over the French coast and 20 sorties in the sea area around Nazi-held Europe.
 In addition, said the communique, American fighters participated in eight Interrogation operations against NaZi planes heading for Britain.
 On A Hour Routine
 The communique revealed for the first time that American air opera tions against Europe have been placed upon a routine, 24-hour basis.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
Don't Delay;
 Buy It To-day

UncIe Sam Is taking the of- fensive. You know that for the news of the day tells of an increasing tempo wherever American troops are stationed.
 Your War Savings Bonds and stamps are doing y0eman service right now for the dOl- lars you invested In them and which will return to you in- creased in the days to come, are purchasing cartridges (lO cents buys S);. giving soldiers mess-kIts t2S cents pays for n; providing first aid kits (@l.BO pays for 1); giving sole diers blankets (s2 is the cost of 1); So makes 2 steel hel- mets available.
 Buy more bonds; buy stamps every day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
Were Nearing Capture OS Best AirdrOme Site fin
 Entire Area YANKEE SHOCK TROOPS
 BREAKING JAP HOLD Allies Hold Superiority ip Air Over Land, Sea; Mar.
 ines GO Ahead
BY DON CASWELL

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia, August 13. = (UP)-Reports spread through Australia today that United States Marines were within sight of victory in at least three key Solomon Islands and on Guadalcanal, were driving toward capture of the best airdrome sit in the entire area.
 (An Australian broadcasting com- mission correspondent said it was believed that Marines were break ing the Japanese hold on Tulagi area, that they had been strongly reinforced and that the Japanese had been driven from many of their positions in hand to hand fighting)
 (The Australian radio said "there seems to have been an improvement in the last 24 hours. There IS a general feeling that the Japanese hold on the Tulagi area Is being broken by American shock troops, That the Japanese have been driven from many of their defensive posi- tions in hand -to-hand fighting.~
 The Marines were consolidating positions in Tulagi, Florida and Guadalcanal islands, reports to Douglas MacArthur's headquarters indicated, and might now have a foothold on a fourth island, prob ably Malaita.
 On Guadlcanal, the marines were believed to be fighting across a five mile wide coastal plain on the north shore, 17h miles across the Sealark channel from Florida and Tulagi, determined to take a vitally valuable airdrome site nestled among the mountainous southern Solomons.
 Savage Fighting
 Some of the most savage fighting of the southwest Pacific was in progress on land, at sea and in thet air.
 The Japanese were battling des. perately, on this seventh day of the battle of the Solomons island, IT. defense of their bases against the first great United States offensive, backed by allied aerial and naval units.
 So important did the battle loom in the minds of Australians, that i: was beleived the Japanese might at any time start mad dog attack on the north coast of Australia as a diversion, aiming at the great allied base at Darwin.
 The Japanese have been heavily reinforced in this northwestern zona recently.
 A Chungking spokesman for the Chinese army said today that enemy transports carrying 20,00 Japanese troops had appeared in the Gulf oj Tongking on the French Indo-Ch coast Tuesday.
 Though he suggested they mignt be on the way to Burma for an Ot. fensive against India, they wer much closer to the Netherlands East Indies from which they might at' tack Australia.
 Informants said the enemy could not admit defeat in the SolomoM island battle-in which the consoli dation by marines of positions on the southern islands would mean ar American without 8 last ditch fight and Q retort in another theater.
 Present Phase of Battle
 Reports indicated that the pres ent phase of the battle:
 1. The United States attack fleeA was heavily engaged with Japaness naval units probably strongly rein' forced during the seven days since the American attack on the T0AAG area of the Solomons, started.
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Only One Leader,
 One Fuehrer And That Is "Christ"
Minister Almost Shouted This Answer as He Was Being CrOss-Examined; Not Member of
 German-American Bund
BY JACK AMMAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

Hartford, Conn.,. August 13. = (UP) = The Rev Kurt B. Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran pastor accused of spying for Germany and Japan, in voice that almost reached shout declared today he depsed the Nazs and hdnored only fuehrer and leader, and that is Christ
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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-08-06
ERICKSON IS
PRINCIPAL OF
GLASGOW HIGH
Former Superintendent, Coach
at BrocktOn Named to
Position.

G.. v. Erickson, former superin-
tendent of schools at Brockton, has
been appointed Glasgow high school
principal succeeding William A.
Collins, it was announced this week
by r. L. Irle, Glasgow superintend-
ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erickson will arrive
here later this month He is now at
tending summer session at the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Mr.. Collins re-
signed to take a position with the
Dow Chemical company in Cali
fornia.
The new principal graduated
from Moorhead, Mimi, high school
and from Concordia college in that
city, where his major study was
biology, with miners in German
and physical education. He has at
tended three summer sessions at
the University of Minnesota and
one at Montana State university.
He was high school principal at
New Leipzig, N. D., from 1884 to
1887. He taught science and math-
ematics and was coach at Brock
ton from 1887 to 1899 and then
served as superintendent until this
spring. He has officiated at a num-
Der OF athletic contests in Glasgow.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-08-06
More than 100 Local Women
To Make Surgical Dressings

One hundred-cne> women Of Glas-
gov and vicinity registered for the
making surgical dressings at the
Red Cross Don in the new county
building in court house square
Tuesday afternoon and night, Mrs.
j. L. Bjcrstad, chairman for the
project reported.
A two-day school for training
table supervisors will be held as
soon as the practice material ar.
rives, she said, and Red cross aux
iliaries in ether towns of the county
have been invited to send a chair
man and co-chairman to this
training school, who will organize
work centers in their own ccmmun-
tiles.
Mrs. Bjorstad was enthusiastic
v the response given by Glas-
gov women to the call for workers.
Because she has received so many
inquiries concerning it, Mrs. Bier
stad asked that the required rules
for dress be repeated. Each worker
must wear a white cotton dress,
have her hair completely covered
with scarf, net or cap, and her
nails free from nail polish. No I'M
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1942-08-06
BAYLOR MAN
dies AFTER
FARM M!SHAP
Broken Leg Suffered by III. III.
Hicks Results in Fatal
Blood Clot.

H. H. Hicks, &c, of Baylor, Val
ley county farmer since 1914. died
at a Glasgow hospital Monday
Eatorlling at 2:40. Death resulted
from a blood clct in the lungs.
He had been a patient at the
hospital since July "a, when he suf-
fered a broken leg in a fall while
trying to close a gate at his farm
six miles northwest CT Baylor. His
brother in = law, Henry S. Kille. a
neighbor, found him three hours
later and brought him to his home
at Baylor and later to Glasgow.
His condition became serious the
following Tuesday. Since then Mrs.
Hicks had been with him in Glas-
gov.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 at the Peter
son chapel in Glasgow. The Rev.
H. F Widen officiated.
Mr.. Hicks was born at st. Louis,
Mo-, Feb. Is, 1876. His father was
a Civil war veteran. His parents
beth died in his childhood and he
was reared by relatives.
He farmed for a while in North
Dakota, and came to Montana in
1924, homesteading near Baylor. He
was married Mar. &c, 1926 to Mir
lam A. Mayberry, who also had
a homestead in the same commun-
ity, coming to Montana in 1910. They
moved from their farm to Bay
lor in 1884, where they also oper
ated a store and Mr.. Hicks was
was postmaster.