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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

(Continued from Page 1.) greatest river ports. It has big metal workings and chemical fac- tories and is one of the principal coal shipping centers.
 The raiding force, understood to include 8 large number of the RATS heaviest four-motored ships, dump ed 8 "big weight of high explosives and incendiaries" on the German objectives, authorities reported.
 The EAF took advantage of im- proved weather and the light of half moon to again strike at the heart of NaZi war production over which they ranged in a series of daylight raids last week. The at- tack, however, was the first night raid in force on the industrial val ley since June Is when approxi- mately 300 British planes dropped their explosives on factories and communication installations.
 An air ministry communique last night reported that RAF bombers flying singely attacked targets ir northwest Germany" during the day Tuesday and, although the targets were not identified, it was presumed that the NaZi submarine bases ir the area were bombed.
 The communique also repotred an- other sweep of fighters, including American Eagle squadrons, over tht coastal districts of occupied France and Belgium.
 Low-flying spitfires "caused havot among the German troops" the ail ministry said, as they shot up gur posts, locomotives, army lorries, ant armored cars. Knocke, Osten ant Dunkirk took the brunt of the RAF attack from which three fighter! did not return, the air ministry said
 The ministry cited the feat of ar unidentified pilot officer from Ore gon who made his first operationa flight with the second Eagle squad ron in the low-level attack. Int pilot, despite machinegun bulle in his leg, carried out his mission ] and returned safely to his base. HI i ignored waiting ambulance witt the statement that:
 There is nothing wrong with me. A squadron doctor hospitalizee him nevertheless but he was expect ed to be flying again soon.
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Are Making
 Nazis Pay Terribly
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tending in semi-circle before the city. East of the Donets river (about 50 miles from Rostov) the lower Don river has been crossed on 8 wide front.
 Weak Resistance
 "Tn the large bend of the Don (where Nazis claimed to have ad- vanced within 90 miles of Stalin- grad) the enemy is offering only weak resistance.
 North and west of Voronezh, enemy attacks were repulsed in heavy fighting"
 The enemy communique contained more specific information today than any recent day when the Axis offensive was thrusting slowly through the DonetS basin in an eff fort to isolate the Caucasus, en- circle Rostov and stab toward the war center of Stalingrad. But 1t still was exaggerated and failed to give even hint of tremendous cas- ualties inflicted on the Axis forces.
 Dispatches from Turkey elabora- ted on recent Russian reports that the Soviets were massing strength on the Don river to meet the Ger man threat to the oil rich Caucasus and to Stalngrad.
 A large army trained throughout the winter by Marshal Klementi Voroshilov in the Urals now has been moved westward to the Don river bend and is on 8 line between Voronezh and Astrakhan, above the Axis flank, it was said in military sources at Ankara. It is this army, equipped in part with American and British war materials, on which the Soviets are depending to strike at the enemy when Marshal Semyon Timoshenko gives the order. It probably will also be supported by southward attacks by the army un- der Gen. Grigori K. Zhukov, cen- tral front commander and one of Russia's most brilliant military lead CTS.
 The possibility of this fanking at- tack, 1t was pointed out, makes the Russian struggle to hold Voronezh increasingly important. Late re- ports said that the Soviets still were pressing forward on all Voronezh sectors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

erful blow on the German flank. Voronezh might be the key to this counter offensive.
 (Today's German communique claimed that the Axis forces had crossed the lower Don river about SO miles east of Rostov on a wide front and that Russian resistance in the Rostov area had collapsed, resulting in a Nazi advance on a semi circular front close to the gateway to the Caucasus.)
 The Russians gradually are clear ing the 10-mile area between the Voronezh river and the Don and are striking the German rear from the west bank, late dispatches said. They have dislodged the Germans from four principal bridgeheads and brought one of them under full pos session. They are using 1t as a wedge into which to rush reinforce ments to the west bank where they are engaged in widening the opera tional base.
 The Germans still possess a con- oAdCA dHAC SdA ASoOIL OAA UI4C CdoV DnA1h of the Don but the garrison has been cut off from its rear for several days and the Soviet troops are Slowly massacreing" the German troops there, the dispatches said.
 In the southern regions of the Don valley the Red army still is fighting a withdrawal southeast of Voroshilovgrad in the area of the Likhaya junction on the Stalingrad- Rostov railroad.
 Should the railroad be cut by the advancing Nazis, Russian sources said, Rostov communications still can be maintained by the line run ming from Stalingrad 300 miles southwest to Tikhoretz where it joins the Rostoa-Baku line.
 The Russian high command ad- mitted that a new German advance had gained some distance in the Rostov area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
Battle For Aleutian
 Islands Is Serious
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first planes had stayed 5000 feet up and dropped their loads from that height with meager success.
 The second wave by three clasely- spaced three-plane bomber sections was the Jap version of dive bomb ing.
 They dropped six sticks of the three 500-pound bombs each, shoot ing for the navy radio installation and fuel tanks. They scored on the radio, putting 1t out of commission for several hours. They achieved near misses alongside several old wooden fuel tanks and managed, believe it or not, to hit the only hospital in 800 miles.
 The planes retired northWard pursued by fighters, attack and even Catalinas. Weather defeated efforts to maintain contact with the in- vaders.
 The Catalinas stayed ill the air all night. Early the next day they came on two Jap carriers and two destroyers heading southeast 200 miles below Seguam island.
 American attack groups began to converge from every base in the is- lands and the open water. They came from as far away as Kodiak, 600 miles eastward.
 Boxing Blindfolded
 Fortress and B-26 bombers joined the Catalinas, but it was like box ing blindfolded. One fortress went out into the fog and never came back. Others went out, hunted un- til their gas gave out, landed to re- full and went back to the job. The questing planes picked up one car rier again at noon, finding two cruisers in company. Contact was established again at p. m. and yet again at g p. m.
 One bound home Cat broke out the clouds around Umnak Pass and found itself surrounded by Jap planes. He turned and scuttled back into the Murk, carrying a few new bulletholes for souvenirs.
 A few minutes later 10 Zero fight CTS, 10 dive bombing Kokekikis and eight torpedo planes were diving in- to black and yellow anti-aircraft bursts from the harbor,s guns.
 From the ceiling, then 12,OO0 feet high, the Japs came twisting down to lay their bombs in the area ot hangers, barracks, shops and fuel storage. This second days raid was more effective than the first. They made several good hits and several near misses. American casualties were few.
 The attacks were driven homo viciously, but the defenders regard ed the damage as something less than serious. No attack by so few planes can hope to knock out wei, established base.
 Except for 8 subsequent weak at. tempt against Umnak island, thS second days raid has been the last against American bases in the Aleutians-unless the occupation oi empty Kiska and Attu constitutes attack.
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U. 5. CASUALTIES
 ARE 44,143 MEN
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by all the armed forces-was made last night by Elmer Davis newly created office of wra information. It covered losses from the outbreak of hostilities to date" including those sustained during the attacg on Pearl Harbor.
 The total, which does not include the 1,O42 known prisoners of war, was broken down as follows:
 Army-902 killed, 1,413 wounded, 7,452 missing. Navy-3,42 killed, 1,1051 wounded, 7672 missing.
 Philippine Scouts+79 killed, 754 wounded, Il, ,000 missing.
 OWI said the report does not in- clude casualties sustained by the Philippine Commonwealth Army, which thus far are not accurately known" although that force war one of the largest lost in the Philippines.
 In addition to the casualty report OWI disclosed that to date names of $1,042 American prisoners of wal have been reported to Washington by the International Red Cross Only 20 of these were army per. Sonnel.
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PERMANENT GAS RATIONINC IS ON
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 of the, year starting today. the No. 2 coupons for the next two months, and so on.
 Each unit in B and 0 books Is also good for purchase of four gal Ions. Each coupon in D book, 1s- sued to motorcyclists, is good for a gallon and a half.
 s-1 and S-2 book units are for five gallons each.
 Under OPA orders, the motor1st must present his book when pur- chasing gas. Gas station attend ants are forbidden to accept de- tached coupons.
 A late ruling by the QUA allows motorists without permanent ra- tioning books to purchase gas at stations where they are known. How ever the required coupons must be turned in by July 3l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
New Russian Army

Ankara, July 22-(UP)- Neutral sources received reports from Rus sia today that Marshal Klementi Voroshilov has massed 8 large Rus sian reserve army along the Don and Volga rivers to meet the Ger man threat to the Caucasus.
 Stockholm heard similar reports that Gen. Grigori K. zhukov, con- manding on the central front, also was preparing to strike the Ger mans from the north with new army equipped with Impressive" quantities of American war ma terials.)
 It was assumed by informants here that Marshal Semyon Timo- shenko, the Russian commander-in- chief on the southern front would send Voroshilov's army into action, striking toward the south, when the Germans approached the Volga with their communication lines extending 400 miles westward to Kh arkov.
 Voroshilov, former Russian war commissar, was detached from his command on the Russian front last year at the woment when the high command sent him out into Asiatic Russia to form 8 reserve force of newly trained men.
 The Moscow reports indicated that this army might now be ready for action.
 According to infor1nants, Voroshi- lows army was massed northeast ward of the Nne running from SIcronezh c61 the upper Ion through Stalingrad on the Volga to Astrak- han, where the Volga runs into the Caspian sea.
 Thus it would be in position to strike possibly decisive blow at the German flank.
 It was believed here, assuming that the report regarding Voroshi- lows army was correct, that the Germans after cutting off the Cau- casus might drive northeastward in an attempt to destroy this Russian force, instead of continuing down into the Caucasus immediately They thought that the decision of the German high command might depend on it's need for oil.
 Diplomatic quarters suggested that if Germany's oil needs were urgent ! and the Russians kept them from the Caucasus, Turkey might be drawn into the war.
 They said that Germany might attempt an invasion of northeast Turkey along the 125-mile stretch of Black sea coast between Trebi- zond an dthe Russian front.
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said.
 These planes had spotted the big enemy vehicle concentration in the central sector of the Alamein Hne.
 With cannon and machine guns blazing, and bombs raining from them, the planes raked the concen- tration. scoring many direct hits and starting fires.
 Axis infantry, moving up to the front in trucks along the road, were dispersed, leaving dead and wound ed behind them.
 It was believed that planes of the United States army air corps took part In the bomber raid on Suda Bay, at the northwest corner of Crete nearly 500 miles from the nearest Allied base.
 The raid was carried out in day. light.
 Aside from scoring direct hits on two medium ships at a pier, the Allied flyers scored 8 near miss, calculated to cause serious damage by blast and fragments, on 8 large ship.
 Other bombers. attacked Tobruk on the Libyan coast.
 At dusk yesterday hghter-bomb- CTS attacked vehicles in the south ern sector of the Alamein line, causing fires.
 Two enemy planes were shot down in air fights yesterday and long range fighters, o!n sea reconnais- Sance, shot down an Italian Can't A-1007 heavy Seaplane- bomber near Sidt Barrani, on the coast over to- ward the Libyan border.
 Loss of five Allied planes was ad- mitted in all operations.
 As to ground activities, today's communique mentioned only that there was some artillery activity by both sides in the northern Fl Ala mein sector.
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WILLIAM J. PAPE
 LOST DAMAGE SUIT
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ment to hold 1t to the duty of in- specting to discover an icy cond!- ton, as to the duration of which there is no evidence other than the inference which might be drawn from the fact that 1t would take certain period for the icy con- dit,on to form to such an extent that the highway became not req sonably safe for public travel. There is no foundation to support a con- clusion of constructive notice to the defendant"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
BY LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, July 22-(UP)-Brit- Ash and American conferees were believed today to be urgently seek ing . decision on aggressive second front action tot divert German strength from the attack on Russia" 1"
 The situation in the Soviet Union
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
A BUSY EVENING

Ida Lupino has ben known t write a song, poem and 8 piece of music all during c single even. ing. That. she suggests, is enter taining "T.he Hard Way" which f also the name of her new picture
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
JOAN GIFTS SOLDIERS

All of the 125 soldiers stationed at Vitagraph Studios, where War ner Bros The Hard Way" com- pany has bene on location, were gifted with cigarets by Joan Leslie, one of the films stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
Late Moscow Renort

Moscow, July 22-(UP)-The bat tie for Voronezh is nearing de- cision with Russian forces attack ing the Germans in force on both sides of the River Don, dispatches from the front said today, but in the south Soviet armies are still making a fighting withdrawal before Nazi troops advancing on Rostov and Stalingrad.
 (The fighting on the Voronezh front assumed special significance in view of dispatches from Turkey re- porting that Marshal Klementi Voroshilov had massed a great re- serve army on a line from Voronezh to Stalingrad poised to strike pow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

To conserve metals. Italy has prohibited the manufacture of re. frigerators, electric stoves, radiators and bath tubs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22

Aleutians, revealing that several air attacks" have been carried out by long range Army bombers. It was impossible to observe and appraise the results of the raids, however.
 The submarine successes in the Aleutians brought to 77 the number of Japanese ships sunk or damaged by undersea boats in all waters since the war began. Fifty have been sunk, IA probably sunk and 13 dam aged.
 "War of the Mists"
 Following is another dispatch fin series by Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times about the war in the Aleutians.
 By KEITH WHEELER Copyright, 1942, by Chicago Times,
 Incl
 At Sea with Pacific Fleet (De- layed-The war of the mists be- gan June with the first Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, Americas base on Unalaska Island.
 The Japs appeared from the morning murk at 8:09 a. m., IS fighters clearing the way for four Kokekiki carrier-based bombers.
 Fighters identified as ZeroS, came down and splattered machine gun bullets on shore installation, bar racks, warehouses, the radio station and on several Catalina flying boats in the harbor. One Catalina carry ing mail for Kodiak and the main land was caught in Its takeof run and filled so full of holes that the pilot ran for the beach, carrying two dead men among the crew.
 As the seaplane went aground, strafers came back and attacked again, injuring another man and setting the Cat afire.
 The bomberS laid 8 stick of 18 200-pound bombs in the neighbor- hood for Fort Mears. Barracks and warehouses in the fort installation were hit and began to burn, a fire that smoldered three days.
 The anti-aircraft guns began to snort and below all around the harbor with the first Jap plane to break through the mist. Gunners on a seaplane tender lying in the harbor knocked down two fighters and bomber and hits were claimed on others.
 Dutch Harbor Ready
 Unlike other occasions which hiS- tory may record, Dutch Harbor was ready for attack with everything but weather.
 Out Catalinas and the Army's big fortress bombers were out searching even before the first plane appeared. Within an hour of the second att tack one Cat stumbled on one air. craft carrier lurking south of Umnak, the next big island west of Unalaska.
 By midafternoon second carrier was spotted in the Boring Sea above the island chain.
 A ranging P-39 fighter encount- cred two Jap cruiser type observa- ton planes in Umnak Pass and shot one down in flames.
 Dutch Harbor found the going hotter when the second attack ma terialized shortly after noon. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-22
GIANT BOMBS HIT
 NAZI INDUSTRY

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Limited Offensive
 Would Meet Disaster
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sat tlas British and United States
 rces could seize the country with tut suffering such major losses hat the launching of Q major in- 4asion of Europe would have to be ostpcned for a long time.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-01-16
TWO FRONTS

The United States must fight two fronts First there is
the military front American soldiers sailors
fighting and dying the Pacific They living the high
traditions of this nations military history They be
the finest battle equipment the world and they
in lavish quantity All the of this nation
and material alike must be used to that end
Second there is the home front We have said time
that fighting to defend and pepeuae freedom That
But the defense of freedom home the front
demands people who will look sqUarey at the facts matter
unpleasant they may be It demands the kind of national
toughnes that knows precisely what fighting for and that
will permit nothing to stand the Of victory the home
front no less than the military front.
We will Of necessity, demand and accept large measure of
economic dictatorship during the Whether that dictatorship
understanding of the American people The future of this
try this kind the balance The people
will decide which way the scales tipped.
The free enterprise system stake this Upon the
of free enterprise all the other demonstration
press freedom of Speech freedom Of religion hinge and depend
Anything which WeaenS and emaScuateS free enterprise the
enemy of the nation We cannot have eveXpandng bueauc
unchecked avoid collapse We
punish industry and expect to be able to do its utmost
There is nothing dramatic about these statements They
hOmey truths. The winning of this Warand the
ming of the that foOws depend how we'll the Amer
lean people understand them
There has been such unity this country pres
ent Every American stands Ody behind the President the
pledge until international gangserism destroyed
The spirit of the nation of uncOmprosing deei
and the pepetuaon of life the battlefront
There will be subverve influences both fronts Only
Weakened, people prevent their depradatiOns.
We fight for freedom then And fight for it all the
wayfght for here America less than in the broad
ches of the oceans and the lands beyond
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-01-16
ACcorr2ac News

Mr.. HI. Ames Drummond spent Sat
urday in Norfolk.
Capt. Webster Marshall of Hall
wood has returned to his home after
spending sometime in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Drumond Ayres.
Mrs. w. H. Nelson has returned
to her home in Norfolk after spending
several days with relatives here.
Mrs. Bryan Bishop has returned
after spending several days in POGO
moke City, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe White spent the
weekend in Norfolk with relatives.
Mrs. H. M. Arnold spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie L. Parks.
Mr.. James H. Young, Jr., of Fort
George G. Meade, Maryland, was at
home for several days this week.
Mrs. Mary A. Belote of Daugherty
is spending sometime with her sister,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-01-16
Patriotism The Dinner
Theme Of jackson Day
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Cured in by Senators Radcliffe and
Tydings, and other speakers, Cover
nor Herbert R. O'Conor told the as
sembled diners that Nothing is of
greater Importance at the present
time than the successful prosecution
of the wars which have been forced
upon US by the Axis powers. The best
service which we can render as indi-
viduals is to render assistance in the
defense and preparedness program.
The best service which our party can
render, is to devote itself patriotical-
ly to the interest of America without
partisanship or selfish interest.
''This is no time for strife or for
division of sentiment. Politics, in the
usual sense, should be adjourned. The
only way our nation can be victorious
is for US to advance unitedly in sup
port of the fundamental rights and
privileges which we all enjoy as A
merican citizens, irrespective of po-
litical affiliations.
True it is that the greatest danger
faces the principles which Andrew
Jackson espoused and which were SOL
ldified in American life as result of
his valor and leadership. Today, in
many parts of the world, our cardinal
principle, the liberty of the individu-
ais, stands on the brink of extinction.
"Just as there was no compromise
in Jackson's makeup with his oppo-
nents, so can there be no compromise
today with the dictator forces Oppos-
ed to our form of Government. There
is, and can be, no middle ground. The
boasts and threats of the dictators
make clear their real objective. De-
spite all the denials of purpose, de-
spite all the solemn promises by the
marauding dictators, the unacceptable
fact remains that wherever the to-
talitarian form of Government pre-
walls, there personal liberty must per-
ish.
"Just as Andrew Jackson fought
his way through to the end of a sue
cessful cause, so will our country, I'M
der another great President, Frank
D. Roosevelt, carry the fight to the
enemy. Our duty is not only to resist
the outrageous attack made upon us.
AS hberty-iving people we must end
for all time the infamous slavery of
human beings and of nations, which
has given birth to this outrage. We
must establish again not only order in
the world, but the humanities and de-
cencies, without which the liberties
of peoples are insecure"