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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
GUY E. PUCRA IS
 RECOMMENDED
Mayor Scully Suggested WOlcOtt Street Man to
 Fill Vacancy

Mayor Vincent A. Scully today recommended to Governor Robert A. Hurley the appointment of Guy F. Pugra of 95 Wolcott street to fill the vacancy in Selective Service Board 16B. The vacancy was created more than a month ago with the removal of Chairman Anthony Schiavone on orders of Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the Selective Service System.
 Arthur E. Blewitt, member of the board, has been acting chair man since the removal of MT, Schiavone Attorney Hugo Gusta- ferri was removed as a member Of the registrant's advisory board at the same time, also on orders of General Hershey. The latter was charged with accepting fees from registrants, in alleged violation of the selective service laws and the regulations concerning duties of members of the advisory boards. He claimed that he was advised by MT. SchiaVone that he was within his rights in accepting such fees.
 MT. Pugra is a native of Water bury and has been associated with the retail shoe business here for the past 40 years and is now asso- ciated with the Miller & Peck Con- pany.
 No action has been taken toward filling the vacancy on the regis trant's advisory board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

the labor department, the war pro- duction board and the Army air and ordnance divisions.
 The strike threat had immediate repercussions. Rudy Charney, finan- cial secretary of the Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers (CIO) local at Cleveland. denounced zonarich as a "meddler." and said there would be no strike under any conditions at the Cleveland plant of the Alumi- mum Company of America.
 The executive board of the Cleve- land union. which holds bargaining rights for 1000 workers. said 1t was not satisfied with the WLB decision, but was 'in no way connected with any movement to mislead the work CTS by creating strike in the in- dustry."
 The VILE in Washington remind ed the AVA that tie industry-labor agreement of last December Outaaws
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
JAMES A. FARLEY
 TRIES FOR UNITY
His Candidate Bennett Won Nomination for
 Governor of New York

New York, August 21 = (UP) = State Chairman James A. Farley, victorious in a political battle with President Roosevelt, sought today to unite Democratic ranks behind the party's candidate for governor, Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., and win the support of the American Labor party.
 Farley, who forced the nomina- ton of Bennett over Senator James M. Mead in spite of the presidents opposition, at the Democratic state convention yesterday, was conti- dent that party harmony would be restored.
 In an effort to win over the labor part, which cast 100000 votes in 1888 and provided the margin of victory for Governor Lehman, Far ley brought about the nomination of three liberals for other positions on the ticket.
 The labor party, which threatened to name its own candidate for Governor if Bennett was the choice, will make its decision tomorrow.
 Many Democratic leaders believe the party is headed for almost cer- tain defeat in the November cleo ticn unless 1t has the support of MT. Roosevelt and the ALP.
 Whether the president will accept his defeat and declare for Bennett was not known, but the customary telegram of congratulations and wishes for success hadn't arrived when the convention adjourned last night.
 Bennett's nomination was an im- portant triumph for Farley. It gives him continued control of the party in the presidents home state and 8 strong grip on New York's 04 delegates to the 1924 national convention.
 Bennett bid for President Roose- velt's support in his address acc cepting the nomination. He de- clared that he would give his wholehearted support to Mir. Roose- velt's administration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Solomon Islands Have
 Given Us Naval Base
At Least One Air Field Is Also PrOvided Marines Are MOpping Up; Japan Gives Out News That
 Is Real Surprise to Allies
By SANDOR s. KLEIN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)


 Washington, Aug. 21-(UP)-The capture of a group of islands in the Solomon archipelago has given the Allied fleet a naval base site of great potentialities and at least one air field from which bombers can ham, mer at important Japanese positions on New Britain and Bougainville islands to the northwest
 Naval observers said 1t was only logical to assume that the See-Bees, specially -trained and equipped naval construction units, will move into the occupied areas and repair or build operating bases for ships and planes
 Meanwhile, the Marines, who did the land fighting unaided by any other troops, are now mopping up the remnants of the enemy forces in the islands they stormed two weeks ago in the Allies first offensive of the Pacific war.
 In announcing the success of the assault, the Navy did not disclose the names of the occupied islands but it was believed they were Flor ida, Tulagi and Guadalcanal. all in the southeastern sector of the Solo, mon group.
 Naval observers here were of the opinion that Florida and Tulagi, both small islands and close togeth- CT, were fully occupied and that few, if any Japanese, could remain free on them. But Guadalcanal, to the south, is a much larger island and it might be possible for enemy troops to hide out in the interior.
 Nevertheless, the experts said 1t could be assumed that at least the northern portion of the island, where well-established Japanese air base was located. was completely domi- mated by Marines.
 Tulagi harbor is considered one of the best deep water anchorages in the southwest Pacific and the Jap anese were busily developing base
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

Pittsburgh, Aug. 21-(UP)-Ofh- cials of tie Aluminium Workers of America (CIO) were asking 32,000 members working in Aluminium com pany of American plants today to strike against a War Labor board decision that denied them a $1 a day wage increase.
 If they struck, the whole war pro- duction program might be strangled. An Army air force representative said the Aluminium Company of America was "our major source of supply"
 A directing conference of the in- ternational union unanimously re- jected the VILE decision yesterday and ordered a subcommittee to pre- pare a rank -and-flle vote to author iEe President N. A. zonarich to call Q strike when he deems ceceSsary".
 The conference agreed ,AS~vser, to meet again with representatives os
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Aluminium Workers Of America ClO Officials Defy War Labor Board Ruling

strikes for the duration and pointed out that wage inequalities were sub ject to negotiation by both parties
 Tt is suggested that such negotia- tions be undertaken on the basis oi a wage study which is presently be- ing made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and which will shortly be available" the VILE said.
 Alcoa has plants at New Kensing- ton, Pa; Alcoa, Tenn; Edgewater' N. J.: Badin, N. C.; Detroit; Baux- ite, Ark: Fairfield Bridgeport Conn; Vernon. Cal: Garwood, N J., and Cleveland. but bargaining rights in some are held by ClO unions other than the Aluminium Workers of America
 Although the VILE denied a wage increase, 1t ordered maintenance Of union membership at all plants ex- cept Cleveland. The company ac- cepted the daniainn unAer nratAsk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21

Forks, N. D., Sergeant Alex Szima, 9, Dayton, Ohio, and Captain Roy Murray, Berkeley, Calif., who led the Ranger detachment in the Allied raid told their stories today. and Murray summed it up:
 T saw that day everything man could sec"
 we landed right on the beach and I didn't even get my feet wet" said Stempson.
 we scaled a 150-foot cliff. l squirmed forward on my belly. We were so close we could hear the Heinie corporals calling out orders, but the Heinies fell back from the pill boxes to higher ground just be- yond.
 we silenced the pill boxes, and our biggest job then was to get back to the beach where the land- ing craft was to pick us up. We had to travel through deep gulley and the machine guns got us there. More of our boys got 1t. But we reached the beach.
 "IG was hell of bitter affair. There were only five of us at the end. The ones who were killed were English Commandos.
 "All during the fight the Royal Air Force planes were giving us protec- tion."
 T was one of the first to get ashore" said Corporal Brady.
 We scaled the cliff. But we hadn't gone far when we met heavy sniping. It was so accurate that the bullets cut across my buttocks and hit the man behind me In the teeth.
 "The Royal Air Force did grand job. The German planes appeared at times and machine gunned us. But 1t didn't last long. The Spit fires and Hurricanes just went Tn and tore them apart.
 Got Ashore Complete
 My ship got 8 couple of shells from German ground defenses but
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
SPY TRIAL HAS
 NEARED CLIMAX
Prosecutor DOdd Scored Rev. Kurt MOIzahn in
 Final Summation
BY JACK AMMAN

Limited Press Staff Correspondent)
 Hartford, Conn, Aug. 21-(UP)- Chief Government Prosec or Thomas J. Dodd, in his final sum- nation in the spy trial of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran Minister, charged today the clergyman framed the testi- mony of the Rev. Emil Schlick, Philadelphia, a defense witness, who, Dodd said, committed per- jury" on the witness stand. ''Fs'. S--''''
 "There was framed testimony" Dodd declared, between this de- pendant and that friend of his. That man committed perjury"
 Dodd's charge came in reference to the Rev. Schlick's testimony that the Rev. Molzahn told him about the flap which h.: tore from a letter written by Gerhard Will hahn Kunze, German American bund leader, on which was written the return address of the Rev. Mol zahn's old Zion church in Philadel- phia.
 Dodd also charged that the pas tor threatened" associate govern ment counsel Joseph P. Cooney when he pointed his finger at him on the witness stand and said: "I can forgive you, but I can never forget"
 This, Dodd declared, was the "Nazi Gestapo frame of mind--a threat to man like MT. Cooney. I'll never forget you. You won't have to worry MT. Cooney There are few Americans left to see they don't get you.
 "It wasn't an honest defense, /"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
TWO NAVY FLYERS
 MEET CANNIBALS
Terrifying Episode That Ended Safely After Visit
 of IS Days
BY JOE JAMES CUSTER

With the U. s. Pacific Fleet at Sea, August 2l. - (UP) - Every time Lieutenant William McGoWan, 25-year-old Navy pilot from Alex andria, Va. looked at those savages with their tattooed bodies and bone pierced noses he couldn't help thinking of what happened to the shipwrecked Chinese.
 The grandfathers perhaps the fathers = of those natives are said in South Sea legends to have seized a group of shipwrecked Chinese sailors back about 1850. put them in a stockade and eaten them one by one after fattening them on boiled sago with cocoanut oil dressing.
 T kept telling myself that it was a lot of baloney - those stories = but I couldn't help shuddering just the same as those bushy-haired fellows gathered around and looked us over," said McGowan after his rescue.
 But the natives of little Rossel island off the southeastern tip of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
German People Advised To Pay No Heed ToPropaganda
Nazi Drive To Take Stalingrad Is Turned Into Slaughter By Soviets
But Russians in Grave Position on Four Main
 BattlefrOnts
BY HENRY SHAPIRO ,nikoH Drncs CAo@ C0~roc~ondnvn

Y
 Moscow, Aug. 21-(UP)-A slaugh- ter of Germans that turned the river red with the blood of the en- emy" was reported in official dis patches today to have crushed a NaZi drive that had carried across the Don to within 40 miles of Stal- ingrad and Russia's Volga lifeline.
 Thousands of German, Italian, and Hungarian dead some ground beneath the treads of charging Soviet tanks, other bay onetted in hand-to-hand struggle were said to litter the east bank of the river southwest of Kletskaya where the Germans forced the cross ing in a massive strength.
 The Germans still clung to a bridgehead today under terrific Red army attacks ard front-lina advices reaching Moscow said that it soon would be wiped out unless the Ger mans could move across reinforce ments.
 The Germans forced the crossing yesterday, after advance units were destroyed "A hours earlier.
 The official government newspa- per Izvestia said that Russian tanks, charging Mto the Niza bridgehead on the east bank of ground down" large numbers of Germans with their treads. Russian infantry fol- lowed, bayonetting and machine gunning Axis troops and driving them back to the river bank.
 Groups of the enemy were driven into the river which was turned red with the blood of the enemy" said Izvestia.
 The newspaper reported that fighting still ragged on the east bank but that all the enemy forces had been driven back to the rivers edge.
 Uttered With Dead
 The army organ Red Star told or battlefield filtered with dead and hundreds of burned-out tanks and other vehicles.
 The earth literally rumbled" un- der the terrific shocks of constant shelling by massed artillery and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
67 WEDS 28 ARE
 HONEYMOONINC

Pittsfield. Mass. Aug. 2l - U.P) Jerome D. Greene. 67. of Cam bridge, secretary to the Harvard Corporation and former associate of the late John D. Rockefeller, was honeymooning today with his 2S- vear-old bride, the former Doro- thea Dusser De Barenne.
 The couple were married here yesterday at the home of the brides dster with only members of the family present. The bride. a native H Holland, is 8 former neliro- -phy- ncist and daughter of Professor J. H Dusser Ie Barerne of Yale Uni- versity. The couple will live in Cambridge after September IS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
BUMBLEBEE WAS
 CAUSE OF ACCIDENT

Pennington. N, H. Aug. 2i tU. P0 - The flight of the Bumblebee brings no music to the mind of Miss Blanche Cochrane of Somers- worth.
 Miss Cochrane. an employe of . local shoe concern, was at work at her bench yesterday when R bee at tackled her. She swept it onto the floor and as she looked under her bench to sec where 1t went. her hair became entangled In her machine, She was almost scalped before tho mower was turned 0R.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
VULNERABLE SPOT
 IN GERMAN ARMOR
Allied Operations Made in Europe Prove Hitler Is
 Short of Planes
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE (Of the United Press War Desk)

Allied operations in Europe since Monday, including the Dieppe raid, point to vulnerable spot in Ger many's armor that is beginning to crack. That is in the air force.
 Germany simply has not got enough planes for the operations over the vast Russian front from Murmansk to the Caucasus noun tains; for the eastern and western Mediterranean and North Africa, and foi western Europe.
 The allies are taking increasing advantage of this Achilles Heel. Important as the Dieppe raid was as a clinical test of the coming inva- sion of the continent, it was only part of week-long combined oper- ation.
 All week long the combined Brit ish and American air forces have hammered at the continent, and they have been hitting where 1t hurts. Their losses in the Dieppe raid alone were high more than 100 planes - but the offensive con- tinued unabated after that costly engagement. Yesterday. 800 British and American fighters swept over France in the greatest daylight at tack of the war, while American flying fortresses pounded the rail center of Amiens.
 In raids this week on Rouen, Ab- beville and Amiens, the flying fort resses, with their precision bomb- ing from great heights. have emerged as a major factor in the air war which the British have ini tiated. The ortresses are perfect complement to the British bomberS with their much heavier loads, which are so effective at night.
 From now on, by day and night except when the weather prevents 1t. the Germans may expect to be pounded in their own industria. areas as well as the occupied coun-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Democrats Gather At
 Polls This Afternoon
Will Settle All Disputes in Short Sharp Bitter Canl= paign in 18th and 10th Voting Districts
 of City /

Democratic voters were going to the polls today, after short but exciting and bitter campaign, to nominate candidates for state sen- ator in the 18th and 18th districts. The polls opened at 130 and will remain open until 9:30. A survey of the districts at press hour showed that early voting was light, but the voting was expected to pick up after 3 D. m., when thousands of workers leave the factories.
 Prestige of the Democratic or ganization is at stake in both pri- mary contests, for Mayor Vicent A, Scully and the town committee have openly endorsed Senator Michael ". Blansfleld and Patrick J. Wallace.
 Opposing MT. Blansfield, in the 18th district, is William J. Stanton, president of the American Brass Co. unit of the Waterbury Brass Work CTS union. He has endorsement of both the CIO and the A. F. L.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
RATION FUEL OIL
 OR NOT IS PUZZLE
Hope Exists RatiOning Can Be Averted If People
 Will Cooperate
Bv JOHN M. MECKLIN

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Aug. 21-(UP) War Production Chief Donald M. Nell son appoints a special committee today with final power to decide whether to- ration fuel oil in the east this winter.
 officials hoped the committee would be able to reach a decision before cold weather starts. A cur- rent ban on all fuel oil deliveries
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Five Rangers Of Twelve Get Back Safe Over Channel
They Were Only One Group of Yankee Troops That Went in There; Padre Calls Another Force To-
 gether Just Before They Made Landing
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent

Somewhere in England, August 21. - (UP) = Five men of United States Ranger Sergeant Kenneth D. stempsons 12man group back from Deppe but they got their pill boxes and permitted commando demolition squad to get coastal battery and blow it up Stempson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
Germany Is Trying to Find Out Time of Second
 Front Start DIEPPE RAID WAS
 NOT REAL INVASION Leaders Still Studying Re. suits; They Were Not All Very Successful
(By United Press)

The Russian radio told the German people today, in a broadcast directed to the Reich and Nazi occupied Europe, that "the second front will come very soon, sooner than German propa- ganda attempts to convince you" The Moscow broad cast, in Germany ridiculed Nazi propaganda attempts to picture the Allied raid on Dieppe as the failure of second front and pointed cut that the British warned at the outset of the attack that it was not an irl- vasion.
 Simultaneously, the Moscow radio said, Russian planes heavily bombed Danzig, Koenigsberg and Tilsit in Prussia. starting numerous fires and explosions.
 The inference of the broadcast was that the Russian air attacks followed up last night by a raid on Warsaw, according to the Ger Z mans were timed to aid the Dieppe attack.
 '"The second front will come soon very Soon-sooner than German propaganda attempts to convince you," said the Moscow radio as recorded by the United Press lis- tening post in New York.
 ''The Germans would like to know when the second front fighting will start, but this is exactly what they will not know.
 Anyway, the second front will come sooner than expected"
 The Moscow broadcast followed renewed attempts by Germany and her satellites to convince the people of the occupied countries that the Dieppe raid was an actual second front invasion landing which the Germans had defeated.
 BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, August 21-UP)-A de- tailed study of the Dieppe raid in preparation for more big-scale at- tackS on the continent convinced many observers today that the Commanders would have achieved a smashing victory instead of g moderate success if they had em. ployed dive bombers and parachut. ists.
 Although the nine-hour attack constituted the hardest-hitting most highly integrated land. sea, and air operation ever attempted by the British, an analysis of thC raid revealed that it's success was limited. particularly in regard to Allied losses.
 Dive-bombers which constitute one of the chief offensive weapons of the Germans would have been highly effective against some Ger man strong points along the six Dieppe beaches where the raiders landed. 1t was said. It was these strongpoints that accounted for large proportion of the Allied cas- ualties.
 Observers also pointed out that paraCHuClSCS dropped around Ger- man artillery batteries back from the beach could have taken the gun crews by surprise and could have seized control of bridges and june tions. preventing the enemy from rushing up endorsements to the beach.
 Despite the deficiencies, however all observers described the Dieppe raid as a worthwhile contribution to preparations for the ultimate Allied offensive that will carry the war back to the continent.
 The British still contended that their planes like the Hurricane bomber and the Kitty bomber which
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Association Organized

Ypsilanti Women's Benefit Asso-
citation was organized Tuesday eve
ming In st. Luke's Parish House, by
Mrs. Ethel Wiles, Monroe, manag-
ing deputy of the association. The
charter was closed with the men,
bership OF 29 adults, IS Juveniles.
The entire floor work was exempli-
fled by the Monroe officers and
guards. The officers indicted were
president, Pauline Graham; vice
president, Emma Volker; recording
secretary, Margaret Ross; treasur-
er, Mrs. Edna Badger; chaplain,
Mrs. Dora Ferguson; lady OF cere-
monies, Mrs. Rita Beaudette; fin
ancial secretary, Mrs. Wanda Walk
er; acting past grand president,
Ula williams; auditor, Emily Ro-
zon: sergeant, Louella Anderson;
Miss Ann, Juanita Badger; Miss
w. B. A., Rose Yukas; musician.
Grace Rowe; press correspondent,
Margaret Packard; junior supervis-
or, Doris King: inner hostess, Mar
garet McCrumb; outer hostess,
Helen Burke: captain, Edna Bad
ger
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

As an observation OF Education
Week, the second grade OF Central
School recited selections from
readers, looked at Picture Books
OF Other Lands, and presented two
dramatizations, and showed a dis
play OF dolls for the entertainment
OF their parents Wednesday from
2:00-3:30. Gail Benedict, Shirley
Nelson and Barbara Struble gave
selections from the Horn books.
Barbara Jacobson read an enter
tanning story from the New Eng
land Primer. A story from McKuf-
fey's Second was read by Judy
Weinmann. Jack Gilliland receit-
ed from the Present Day Reader
Also, the children observed Pic
ture Books OF Other Lands. Pic
lures OF Italy were shown by VIII
liam Wilburn. William Rider pre-
sented pictures of Germany. Ricn-
ard Bailey, France; Clyde Hoover,
Sweden; Donald Curtis, Russia,
and Maureen Howe. Norway. Pres
ent Day American Books were
shown by Gerald Scharp. Const-
ance Reddaway, c. w. Harrison,
and Alfred Congdon.
The second grade group gave
two dramatizations. The roles
played in Little Half Chick" were
Grace Smith. Chick; Mary Jean
Crimson, Mother Jack Gilliland,
Book: Riley Wise, Fire; James
Breitwieser, Wind.
"The Greedy Cat" was enacted
by Karen Mecklenburg, Cat; Riley
Wise, Man: Betty Curtis, Woman;
Richard Shuan, Cow; Charles Lam
bert. Wolf: Joseph Pepper, Bear
Cub; Paula Hoover, She bear;
William Wilburn. He Bear; Robert
Marsh, Billy Goat; and Clyde
Hoover, Richard Bailey, Donald
Curtis, and Lawrence Kisor played
the part OF Soldiers.
Karen Mecklenburg, recited a
prayer OF Thanksgiving and the