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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
$91,409 In Unpaid
 Taxes Alleged Here
Ralph Devino, His Wife Angelina, Are So Charged By U. s. Government; Deputy Internal Revenue
 Collector Filed Claim

Unpaid income taxes, interest and penalties totalling $91, ,40936 are claimed by the U. s. government in a tax lien filed at the town clerks office against Ralph Devino, oper ator of the Waterbury Mason Sup ply & Lumber Co.,, and his wife, Angelina Devino. The Waterbury extraordinary grand jury, whose findings led to the sensational con- spiracy trial, claimed in its report that MT. Devino had received over $240 0o0 from the city government between the years 1880 and 193s, and charged that there were discrepan- cies totalling over $65,000 between the amounts shown on Devino's books as received from the city in 1884 and 1925, and the amounts as computed according to evidence given the Grand Jury.
 The lien, signed by Frank Kraemer, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector for Connecticut, claims that MT. and Mrs. Devino owe in come taxes of SGT, ,109.50 for the years 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887. In- terest and penalties of $24,300. .86 are also claimed. The lien was filed yes- terday afternoon.
 MT. Kraemer was not available at Hartford. Other U. s. Treasury Department officials said that the lien was formal step to protect the governments interests and might or might not be followed by suit in federal court.
 Grand Jury Report
 The Grand Jury report spoke of MT. Devino as follows:
 Ralph Devino, who did business under the name of the Waterbury Mason Supply Company and later under the name of the Waterbury Mason Supply & Lumber Company, according to available records, re- ceived between the years 1880 and 1885 the sum of $243, ,297.39 from the City of Waterbury"
 For the years 1884 the books of that company indicate receipt from the City of Waterbury totalling $39, ,298.92, whereas the Grand Jury
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Solomon Islands So-Named Because Of Giving Gold For King Solomon's Temple

of the 150,0OO natives have resisted European civilization, and some tribes still engage in cannibalism and head hunting expeditions against rival natives.
 Great Britain annexed a part of the islands 50 years ago, and Ger many owned part of the chain be- fore they were mandated to Aus tralia after the World war. For a long time the principal export were slaves, sent to work on Australian sugar plantations and in the Fiji copra industry.
 Later exports were copra and copra oil, used before the war in the United States in making soaps, candles and butter substitutes. The islands also provided shells for pearl buttons, ivory nuts for bone but tons and knife handles and sandal wood for cabinet work
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
AROFF FINDING
 IS COMPLETED
Lieut.. Commander Given Auto By Tony Martin,
 Soon to Know

San Francisco, Aug. 11-(UP)-A general court martial's finding on the charges against Lieut.. Comman- der Maurice N. Arof were being prepared today for review by Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox.
 The findings were not made public and will not be until Knox has passed upon them. Naval procedure differs for court martial defendants found guilty and those found not guilty. The latter are informed in pen court that they have been exonerated. The former hear the verdict after the courtroom has been cleared and nothing Is announced until the findings have been re- viewed. This last procedure was fol- lowed when Aroff's trial ended yeS- terday.
 Aroff was charged with accepting an automobile from Singer Tony Martin and cuff links from two young officers for facilitating their acceptance by the Navy. He was charged also with uttering false hoods about the automobile and the cuff links and with enlisting men who lived outside the Naval district to which Arof was assigned, in violation of regulations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Marines Holding Strongly Against Furious Japanese
German Armored Forces Driving Toward Stalingrad Industry Zone
Caucasus, Naval Bases in North Are Now in Seri-
 0us Danger
BY HENRY SHAPIRO TnSAmN pwocc cknNe C0rrMe~0~Anv4

\Um1tcU FTeSS StaH COFreSpOn0cntl
 Moscow, Aug. 11.-CUP)-German armed forces today were reported penetrating Red army positions in the Kletskaya sector and attacking with masSed tanks in the Kotelni- kovo area i'll a new twin offensive toward Stalingrad industrial center on the Volga.
 The renewed assault on the ap- breaches to Stalingrad was backed by all available Axis armored re- serves, front line dispatches said, following enemy advances in the Krasnodar and Armavir sectors of the north Caucasus where the fate of the Maikop oil fields and the big Black Sea naavl base of Novoros- sisk was at stake.
 Dispatches told of heavy German losses including more than 80 enemy tanks destroyed in repulsing two days of fierce assaults near Kotelnikovo = but on both the Caucasus front and in the river Don ben before Stalingrad the enemy made gains and continued to send heavy forces into battle.
 (The German high command claimed that the Russians had been thrown back into the Caucasus on several sectors of the Maikop oil front and that Soviet force west of Kalach, which is only 40 miles from Stalingrad, had been encircled and annihilated. The Axis also
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JAPAN READY TO
 ATTACK RUSSIA
War Experts Believe That Is True; Nazis Sore Be-
 cause Japs Don't Do It
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE
(of The United Press War Desk)

NOA AAC OAANCu \ ANSS VvdH DCsNJ
 Informed military men doubt the soundness of the theory that the American offensive in the Southwest Pacific is intended to divert Japan from an attack on Siberia.
 They still expect the Siberian at tack, and soon. The weather in that region is as suitable now for mill itary operation as it will be this year, and the prevailing conditions will not continue much beyond Sep tember.
 Japanese intentions can only be guessed and they may have other plans-India, for instance. But oper- ations against India will not be feasible until the end of the mon- soon in September. The Japanese have lost the initiative in the south Pacific and it is possible that they may not be able to regain it, unless our operations in the Solomon Is- lands end disasterously.
 Such an outcome seems improb- able, in view of the long and care full preparations which must have preceded the attack. The Japanese, therefore, unless they are . to re- main static for the reminder of the summer, must look elsewhere.
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in a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society.
 They were discovered by Span- ish expedition in 1867, and the Spanish later attempted to colonizc them. They looked for gold, but found none. It was not until 1930 that some gold was found.
 Until the arrival of the Japanese, Tulagi was the capital of the chain, and today it is in the midst of the fighting. Tulagi harbor was the scene of other fighting in this war when U. s. navy planes destroyed a section Of Japanese invasion fleet there in the beginning phase of the battle of the Coral sea.
 The islands lie east of New Guinea and roughly 1000 miles northeast of Australia about fiye-hour flight by bomber. Most
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Japs Swinging Every Available Power Trying
 to Break Marines ALLIED FORCES ARE
 HAVING TOUGH FIGHT Fifth Day of Fighting With No Very Great Victory
 Yet Won
BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Gen. MacArthur's Head- quarters, Australia, Wednes- day, August 12. - (UP) - The battle of the Solomon Islands was believed early to. day to have entered a crucial stage. The Japanese ap- parently were swinging all available power into an attempt to break the foots hold won by American armed forces in the Tulagi area.
 After five days of fighting, head quarters still had failed to produce any official information justifying positive conclusions but last reports necessarily delayed - generally were regarded as favorable and a dispatch from Adimral Robert l.. Ghormley,s headquarters at Auck- land suggested that gains were be- ing held if not extended.
 At the same time, Australian land forces threw the enemy back with stiff losses in the Kokoda sector of New Guinea and allied bombers kept up slugging attacks on Japa- nese bases and supply lines on tha 2700-mile island front north of Australia and as far west as Timor.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur appeared to be intensifying his aerial attacks on the Japanese supply areas as 9 result of indications that the enemy was attempting to bring the great est possible force to bear against the American assault troops in ths Tulagi area, whree soldiers, ma- rines, naval and air forces were co. operating.
 Conflict May Spread
 So far, MacArthur's forces hava not been involved in the Solomon battle except for the attacks on Japanese supply areas but the cons flict might spread over a greater zone that would inovlve other ac- tions. It was pointed out here thai official statements issued to date in. dicate the allied attack forces are not having an easy victory, al- though propaganda claims by ths Tokyo radio have been thoroughly discredited
 American and Australian bomber pilots reported success in theiH widespread attacks on enemy sup. ply bases.
 At Timor, Australian manned bombers flew out of the late after~ noon sun and attacked enemy shipg and harbor targets at an altitude of perhaps 50 feet.
 Our bombs made hole in one 4,O0O-ton ship and I saw Japanese diving into the water as we ma. chine gunned the vessel, which waa later seen sinking" one Australian pilot said
 The allied bombers were reported to have succeeded to a great extent in this objective. causing heavy damage in steady round-the-c raids in addition to blasting a Jap' anese destroyer at Timor and hit ting several other ships and impor' tant targets at Rabaul i'll the Bis marks.
 In regard to the SolomonS battla official reports indicated that th( most intense fighting was in prog ress with considerable losses op both sides in addition to one Amert,
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Don't Delay;
 Buy 1t Today

Waterbury's Victory House drive was a smash success. The city's quota was exceeded and when final figures are in the total will be almost a million dollars. That was raised i'm ten days and by means of unusual exhortati0n.
 The proof that every Water burian is behind the drive to sell War Savings Stamps and Bonds, though, comes in the day-tO-d -day sales without pres- sure. That's the test of patriot ism. It's the quiet, but effec- tive, every day purchases that make Uncle Sam's muscles bulge and his long arms reach out into every theater of war.
 Keep your Uncle Sam In robust shape by your regular purchase of War Savings Bonds and stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11

Dodd's statement came during arguments before Judge J. Joseph Smith on whether the defense should be permitted to confer pri- vately with three other defendants who have entered guilty pleas.
 Judge Smith permitted the defense to confer with the defendants, and assigned two public defenders to represent them during the confer encS.
 In his arguments Dodd said the other defendants were "subserviant" to tae Rev. Molzahn in the alleged spy conspiracy. He charged the de- fense was seeking to delay this case to confuse and tire out the jury"
 Defense Has Failed
 The defense, he said, almost en- tirely has failed to meet the ale gations in the indictment, present. ing only character witnesses"
 He said the case was costing the government thousand dollars 8 day and immobilizing 25 government agents, as well as the entire staff of the D. s. Attorneys office at Hart ford.
 Dodd charged the defense motion tended to further obstruct the final conclusion of this trial"
 He asked that a representative of the government be present at the defense interview of Gerhard Will helm Kunze, chief of the German American Bund; Dr. Otto Willumeit, Chicago, mid-western bund leader, and Dr. Wolfgang Ebell, Fl Paso, Tex.
 However, Judge Smith did not specify in his order that govern
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Washington, Aug. 11-(UP)-The Solomon islands, so-named because they once were believed to have furnished the gold that adorned the fabulous temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem, still contain tribes of Melanesian head-hunters and can- nibals.
 The present scene of fierce fight ing between American landing forces and Japanese troops Is a sO0-mile long double chain of ten large islands and innumerab.e smaller ones, which together have an area twice that of Massachu- sets.
 These and other items of informa- = ton about this war-torn group of Melanesia islands--Such as the fact that they are subject to severe earthquakes-were revealed today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
'RECKLESSNESS'
 CAUSE OF FIRES
Unintentional Sabotage By American People Much
 Criticized

Lawrence, Mass, Aug. 11-(UP)- The "unintentional sabotage" by American people and resultant loss by fire of millions of dollars in war materials was criticized today by Regional OCD Director Joseph M. Loughlin.
 In an address before the Lions Club, Loughlin said the enemy doesn't have to send his aSsassins to our shores in rubber boats to commit arson. Our own recklessness, our own carelessness, take care of that department very nicely. Our unintentionad sabotage helps the Axis more than a hundred boatloadS of the Berlin school of skullduggery ever could do."
 Citing the loss of 14,00O tons of rubber in 8 Fall River fire, Lough- lin said, enemy sabotage, of course must be watched for, but there is danger in concentrating all atten- tion on that to the exclusion of adequate thought to ordinary fire causes"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Five States Were Holding Their Primaries Today

Ohio: = Representative Martin L. Sweeney, Democrat. Cleveland, was opposed for renomination by Michael Fe!ghan. who accused him of pre-war isolationisfn.
 Nebraska: - Representative Harry B. Coffee was seeking the Demo- cratic senatorial nomination, &C., knowledging his opponents charge that he was a pre-war isolationist but saying that was a dead issue. His chief opponent was Foster May, a radio announcer.
 Idaho: = Senator John Thomas, Republican, Representative Comp ton I. White, Democrat, and Repre- sentative Henry c. Dworshak, Re- publican. were opposed for re-nom- ination by 8 number of opponents and all were accused of pre-war iso- lationism.
 Arkanas: Jack Holt. state Sttor- new general, and John L. Mc- Clellan were contesting for the Democratic senatorial nomination in 6 rSn-Ofs primary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
RUSSIA IS SURE
 ARMY WILL STAND
May Lose in North Cauca= sus, But Can Stand at
 Volga in Ural Mountains
BY M. s. HANDLER United Press Staff COrrespondent)


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, Aug. II. (UP)-Russia is convinced that its army will remain intact and that if it loses the north Caucasus, 1t can stand indefinitely on the Volga or, If necessary, in the Ural mountains, Admiral William H. Standley, United States ambas- sador, said today after talk with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mol otov.
 Standley saw Molotov yesterday and informed him that Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, President Roose- velt's newly arrived special envoy, had brought Premier Josef Stalin a letter from the President.
 AS the result of his visit here from Kuibyshev, where the diplo- matic corps had had its headquar- ters since soon after Russia was in- vaded, Standley had received the impression that the Russians real- ize the seriousness of their situation but do not think developments in the north Caucasus and before Stal- ingrad are decisive.
 "They are convinced that the Red Army Is intact and will remain in- tact" he said. "The Russians may continue to withdraw but there is not the slightest indication that
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(By United Press)

Five states were holding primaries today and in four, incumbent con- gressmen were being opposed for renomination on the grounds that they were isolationists before Pearl Harbor.
 The states were New York, Ohio, Nebraska, Idaho, and Arkansas.
 New York: Representative Hamilton Fish, Republican, nation ally prominent pre-war isolationist. was opposed in the 28th district. which is President Roosevelt's home district, by three opponents for Re- publican re-nomination.
 In New York City, Representative William B. Barry, Democrat, and Vito Marcantonio, American Labor party, were opposed for renomina- ton on isoIationist grounds = Barry, because he was an isolationist be- fore Pearl Harboy, Marcantorlio be- cause he was one before Germany attacked RNssaas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
MARLENE DIETRICH LED BONDS SALES

Hollywood, Aug. 11-(UP)-Mar- lene Dietrich. won recognition today as the nations leading war bond salesman when the Treasury De- partment awarded her a special ci- tation for her recent bond-selling tours.
 When Miss Dietrich called on Gov. Culbert L. Olson to sell him a bond, 8 Treasury representative an- nounced the film star had sold more bonds than any other single person in the United States. He did not divulge the amount of bonds Miss Dietrich sold.
 Film stars Rosalind Russell, Linda Darnell and Dorothy Lamour were runners-up in Hollywood's bond selling campaign, the Treasury rep resentative said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
MORE FRENCHMEN
 WERE EXECUTED
94 Have Been Shot By Germans in Occupied
 Parts of France

Vichy, Aug 11.-(UP)-Ninety- four more French dissidents have been shot by the Germans in oc- cupied France, and the people were warned that unless they promptly inform on attackers and saboteurs. the whole population will suffer-
 General Oberg, chief of the Ger man SS Corps in Paris, announced yesterday that 93 persons had been executed. The Vichy news agency reported from Paris that Israel Grumber, accused of having killed a policeman several months ago, bad been put to death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
JAMES PETRILLO
 WILL BE TESTED
Head of Musicians Union Faces Fight in Spring
 field, Mass, Stadium

Springfield, Mass, August Il. = (UP) = A test case of the powers of James Petrillo, head of teh Musi- clans Union, was seen today in the Springfield property committees de- cision to allow the Boston Symphony orchestra to play at the municipal auditorium.
 Petrillo had informed the con- mittee that he would forbid any union orchestra to play at the audi torium if the Boston orchestra, a non-union group, was allowed to ap- pear as scheduled.
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AMERICAN FLYING
 DRAGONS STRIKE
Raided Jap=Held Nanchang Truce Today; Conn. Boy
 Got His Jap
By KARL ESKELUND limited Press Staff COrresDOndent)

U. s. Army Airforce Headquart- CTS, Hengyang, Aug. 11.-(UP)-Col Robert L. Scott, commander of the 23rd pursuit group, led his Flying Dragons" in a raid on Japanese-held Nanchsng today in which they shot down three Japanese fighters and dumped 5Oo-pound bombs on their targets.
 It vas the second raid of the day fer the Americans. A few hours earlier they bombed the railway sta- ton, barracks and warehouses at Yochow without meeting opposition. The Japanese were on the alert at Nanchang however, but after three of their 97 type fighters had been shot down they relied on anti-air- craft fire for protection.
 Capt. Harry Tike of Portage, Wis, described the destruction of the
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DIES OF INJURIES

Danbury, Conn, Aug. 11.-(UP)- Mrs. Adeline w. Smith. 63. Bridge port, died late yesterday at Danbury hospital of injuries suffered in a two-car collision at Newtown Fri- day night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-11
Heavyweight In Nazi Plots Says
 Prosecutor Dodd
Led Group of Five Indicted in Transmission of Secrets to Germany, Japan; Defense Wins Strong Point;
 Mrs. MOIzahn Testifies
BY JACK AMMAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

Hartford Conn, August II. - (UP) - Chief Govern ent Prosecutor Thomas Dodd today charged the Rev Kurt E. B. Mozahn Philadelphia pastor the "heavy weight" in conspiracy to transmit important military figure" in the group of five indicted two months ago ncpiOr ocbor
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it into a sweater for some
younger member Of the family.
Yarn can be dyed. too, you
know. Be sure TO tie the SkeinS
in several places 10 prevent
tangling.
l might add. I did this in the
days when l was doing the 25-
cent menus IN the last war.
YOU'D NEVER know there
was a war on on WedneS-
day moons. eating lunch at the
Book Casino. the music playing
Beautiful Lady" and a fashion
show in progress. of pastel suits
and lovely evening gowns. It's
important TO attend such things,
TO keep you feeling that every
things going TO be all right.
WE CAN'T help marveling at
Lillian Jackson, business girl
about town young and
pretty, president of this, Secre-
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courses. runs a house and lot.
and rides hundreds of miles on
a bicycle by way OF summer
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