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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24

At an Advanced Allied Base, Aus tlalian Zone, Aug. 24.-(UP)-Mess- mates of Sergt. George Rickmann, Hopewell, Va, were discussing his chance of being alive, which did not seem good, when he walked in. They thought for moment that 1t was his ghost but Rickmann explained he had been out in the jungle after hIs medium bomber had crashed. Then Sergt, Paul Ramsey, Vincennes, Ind, walked in and hope rose that all the other members of the crew would arrive in time.
 It was two weeks ago when the plane crashed in the New Guinea jungle in a storm. The gas was run ming low and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. T saw three other 'chutes when was coming down" Hickman said. T landed in some small trese on a hillside and and made a ten with my chute. II walked throuGh beavy rain. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24

Ricciardi attempted to force the re- moval of Henley from premises at Ill Dikeman street.
 Ricciardi, represented by Attorney Michael Galullo, brought his sum- mary process action on the grounds that Henley was committing a nui- sance on the premises. Judge Con- way held, after hearing the testi- mony a week ago Friday, that there was no basis for a charge of nuisance.
 GaIullO Contention
 Thereupon Attorney Galullo brought his claim that the rent con- trol regulation providing that tenant shall not be removed from any housing accommodations by ac- ton to evict or to recover the premises by exclusion from possess sion or otherwise, except under cer- tain exceptions therein provided for" is invalid. He contended that the administrator authority under the act is confined to regulations controlling prices of rents.
 Talbot Smith, chief enforcement attorney for the OPA, and Charles w. Dunbar, regional attorney of the Boston OPA office appeared here last week representing Price Ad- ministrator Leon Henderson as Amicus Curiae, in opposition to MT. Galullo's representations. Attorney Hugo Guastaferri represented MT Henley.
 Opinion of Court
 "This court is of the opinion that the Act gives the Price Administra- tor ample authority to impose re- strictions upon the removal of enants by a landlord and the authority to prohibit the landlord
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
DRIVER IS FINED
 $lOO FOR DEATH

Fitchburg, Mass, Aug. 24-(UP)- Kenneth Pollard, AS, of Shelburne, Vt., was fined $100 and given sus- pended one-month jail sentence when he pleaded guilty in district court today to a charge of danger ous driving in connection with 8 truck crash that led to the electro cution of. Henry R. Edgarton, IS, of Concord, a Milton Academy student.
 Shortly after Pollard had given Edgarton "hitch" on his trailer truck Saturday, the vehicle swerved off the road, dropped down 40- 0oot embankment and crashed neainst a high tension wire pole. Sagarton was electrocuted by wires Sarrying 13,00O volts when the "live" door of the truck after rush. ing back to rescue the driver trapped 1p the cab.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
5OO,OOOGerman Troops Are Driving Soviets Backward
Britain Makes New Move forWinter As Russians Are Pressed Backward
New Independent Army to Face Nazis Beyond Cau=
 CasuS Fields
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE (Of the United Press War DeSk)

AS the Russians are pressed back in the Don-Volga area and the north Caucasus, the British are making evident preparations for possible action over a wide area of the middle east this winter.
 The Russian position undoubtedly is grave. The Germans have pushed their way in force across the bend of the Don to within 40 miles of Stalingrad and have made it impossible for the Russians to use the railroad between Stalingrad and Moscow.
 If the Germans reach the Volga, it means not only the fall of the important industrial center of Stal- ingrad but the severance of the great waterway, which is such an irporant link in Russia's line of supply for oil and the materials ot war from the Allies.
 If the momentum of the Ger mans should carry them past the Volga to the railway linking Astrak- han and the north, they will have dealt a crippling blow to RuSsia's southern supply route and will have cut the army of the Caucasus com pletely off from the armies of the north.
 Such an outcome would put the Germans in a position to strike past the Grozny oil fields of the Cau-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
DEPENDENT TAX
 EXEMPTION LESS
Senate Finance Committee Begins Work on PrO=
 posed New Tax Measure
BY JAMES R. SHEPLEY United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Aug 24-(UP)-The Senate Finance committee voted to- day to reduce the individual income tax exemption for each dependent from $400 to $500.
 The committee rejected an at tempt to increase the House-ap- proved exemption for single persons from $500 to $500.
 The reduction of the dependency exemption will increase the amount of the 1942 war tax bill by $220,- 100000.
 The committee did not vote on the House provision to continue for men in the army, navy and marine corps the present personal exemp- tion of $500 for married couples and $750 for single persons. It ap- proved the House action in reduc- ing these exemptions for all other taxpayers to $1200 married, and $500 single.
 These were the first actions taken by the committee as it began re- writing the $6.27O 000, 900 House bill.
 Finance Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga, indicated that the committee would consider this aft ernoon a subcommittee report on the Ruml plan to place income tax collections on 8 current basis by "forgiving" taxes on 1941 income. A subcommittee decided this morning to recommend adoption of the plan.
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pleases, chose the same print dress with red, blue and yellow flowers on 1t that she wore when she ap- piled last week for the license. She'd worn the dress many times before; she said she liked it, any how she felt 1t was lucky.
 The 28-year old Arrouge, placed upon the finger of the bride, who was eight years his elder, the same diamond and platinum ring that Irving Thalberg, the "boy wonder" of the movie business, placed there in 1928. Arrouge had had the ring remodeled with bands of gold weld ed on either side.
 Miss Shearer's 11-year old son, Irving, Jr., accompanied her down the aisle, while her daughter, Kath- erine, 2, with a wreath of pink roses in her hair preceded her. Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, ST., who flew from New York was matron Of honor. Otto Lang. one of the bride grooms skiing associates, was best man.
 Guests included Claudette Colbert.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Norma Shearer, Martin J. Arouge Were
 Having Honeymoon In Hollywood Today

Kay Francis, George zukor, MT. and Mrs. David O. SelZnick, Douglas Shearer, the brides brother, E. J.. Mannix, Sid Gruman and many an- other movie celebrity.
 After the festivities the Arrouges went to the elaborate home which Thalberg built for Miss Shearer in Santa Monica. They hope to rem main there until Arouge enters the army.
 Before the wedding Miss Shearer saw fit to announce that she in herited no $10,00O,000 from Thal- berg. She said she received from his estate $1 1,5O0,0 after tax induc- tions and that all of it was put in trust for the children.
 She added that Arrouge had signed a prenuptial agreement, in which he agreed to seek no share of the money she had earned as a movie star. Arrouge was not so formal. He said he loved his wife, that he'd always been able to earn his own living and that he wanted Miss Shearey not her cash.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
FIRST AMERICAN
 TO FIRE BULLET
Corp. Franklin Rooms of Iowa Fired First Shot
 on European Soil

London, Aug. 24-(UP)-The First American soldier to fire shot Tor liberty on European soil in World War II was revealed today to be Corp. Franklin Rooms. a 23-year-old farmer from Swea City, Iowa.
 Rooms was a member of the Amer ican Ranger troops that stormed in to Dieppe last week along with British CommandoS, to Canadian troops and few fighting French.
 There were three other Amer jeans in this group, and while he has been officially credited with firing the first shot, his compan- ions also fired at about the same time.
 With Rooms when the invasion barge grated on the Dieppe Beach were Staff Sgt. Ken Stempson. 70, former railroad employe at Rus sell, Minn.; Srgt. Alex Szima. 22, a former bartender at Dayton, O., ana Corp. Bill Brady. g, a magazine salesman from Grand Forks, N. ID.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN Limited Press Hollywood Cores
 DOndent)


 Hollywood, Aug. 24-(UP)-Norma Snearer and her ski instructor, Mar tin J. Arrouge, began today at her house by the sea a honeymoon they expect to be ended shortly by the bridegrooms induction into the army.
 Miss Shearer, one of the wealthiest women in the movie colony, and Arrouge, who taught her and her two children how to ski four years ago at Sun Valley, Idaho, were mar ried late yesterday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.
 Father John O'DonneL, who built his own church in Culver City from his wages as technical director in movies involving Catholic rituals, performed the ceremony. He had directed the bride in many movie.
 The wedding made the fashion writers gasp. Miss Shearer, who can afford to wear any clothes she
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, Aug. 24-(UP)-German tanks and motorized infantry, which have poured across the Don river 40 miles west of Stalingrad, are driving for the Moscow-Stalingrad railroad which parallels the river. 13 miles away, it was admitted today.
 The railroad, under constant ar. tillery fire as well as heavy airplane bombing, is already useless, special dispatches admitted.
 Motorized infantry crossed the river in force yesterday, southeast of Kletskaya where the Russians had made a bitter stand, in the wake of their tanks and started the drive for the railroad.
 A now serious threat to Stalin- grad was increased with the estab- lishment of tank wedge northeast of Kotelnikovski, 90 miles south east of the Volga industrial center.
 Thrusting with terrific power, the enemy tanks crossed blazing plains to wedge into the outer rim of the Russian defenses and now threat ened to bypass Stalingrad and drive to the Volga front from the south.
 On both the Kletskaya and KotelnikovSki stretches of the front. the Russians were exhorted by their officers:
 Hold At All Costs
 Hold at all costs. There 1s no place for further retreat"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
ALLIED PILOTS
 PARALYZE LAPS
Gen. Macarthur Sends Them Out to Use New
 Secret Battle Tactics
BY DON CASWELL

United Press Sta Correspondent)
 Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters Australia, Aug. 24-CUP)- Allied fighter pilots using new secret bat tie tactics shot down at least 13 Japanese planes and probably 15 or more out of an enemy fleet of AT which attacked the great North Australian base of Darwin, 1t was announced today.
 Not single Allied plane was downed.
 Curtiss .-40D planes, in what Gen. Coughs Macarthur himself called brilliant tactical interception, dived at all angles on powerful force of 20 new Japanese zero fighters and 27 heavy bombing planes.
 Holding their fire until the last, the Allied pilots smashed the Jap anese attack complete. They shot
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Judge Conway Has Upheld McDuff In Tenant Removals
Restricts Landlords From Oustng Tenants for Causes Other Than Those Permitted Under Emer=
 genCyPrice Control Act

In of the first decisions of it's type in the state Municipal Court Judge Conway today upheld the right of Rent Control Administrator George McDu to restrict landlords from removal of tenants for other than those permitted under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and the related regulations Judge Conway entered judgment for the defendant in the summary process toh of Louis Riccardi against James D. Henley in which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
HENRY J. KAISER
 ANSWERS CRITICS
Cargo Ship Builder Com= pines With Howard J.
 Hughes to Build Ships
By CHARLES R. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent

San Francisco, Aug. 24-(UP)- Henry J. Kaiser, the vests miracle builder" and Howard J. Hughes, multi-millionaire airplane designer, tool maker and speed flyer, teamed today to build 500 of the worlds largest cargo airplanes.
 The union was announced here by Russell Birdwell, Hollywood public ity man who long has represented Hughes and hereafter will handle press relations for both Kaiser and Hughes.
 Birdwell said 50-50 partnership would combine the proved produc-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Powerful Nazi Machine Is Drawing Closer to City
 of Stalingrad
"HOLD AT ALL COSTS";
 NO FURTHER RETREAT
Russian Officers ExhOrf Their Troops to Make
 Last Stand or Die
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 German troops and ar-. mored forces today smashed across the River Don in ap- parent strength and it ap- peared that the critical Rus sian battle for Stalingrad had started. Reports from the Soviet front emphasized the great size of the Nazi att tacking forces and made plain that Russian lines are slowly being forced backward under the German superiority of men and machines.
 Indications were that the Stalin- grad battle may be the most cr1ti- cal of the whole summer of heavy fighting on the Russian front. At stake is not only the industrial and manufacturing resources of the city but the vital Volga river line Of communications linking North and South Russia.
 Already, the Soviet reports ad- mitted, the Moscow-Stalingrad rail- road 13 miles west of the Volga river is virtually useless due to Nazi ar tillery bombardmetn and constant air strafing.
 Soviet reports said that the Ger mans had massed more than 500. .000 troops in the bend of the River Don and that this force is rolling ahead to points within 40 miles or less oH Stalingrad.
 The German drive was hittin0 from two directions, the Kletskay9 and the Kotelnikovski sectoss, and in both the situation appeared to be critical. The Russains admitted that a new wedge had been driven into their lines around Kotemikov. ski.
 The Nazi high command claimed that German troops had forced . crossing of the Don northwest Of Stalingrad and had pierced Soviet defense lines to great depth. The Germans said they were across the Don in major strength.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Rv JACK FLEISCHER

ny UzAOHN IT HIH1HF1 .. Limited Press Staff Correspondent Prof. Karl Boehmer, 42, the Nazi propagandist who took one drink too many and tipped off the secret of Germany's impending attack on Russia, died of wounds on the East ern front, it was revealed today.
 Boehmer died of wounds in hos pital at Crakow, the Berlin radio announced. Boehmer had been one of the most ambitious and able of Dr. Paul Jos eph Goebbels' lieutenants, until he fell into disgrace and was thrown in jail in June, 1941.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
PROF. BOEHMER IS
 KILLED AT FRONT
Drunken Nazi, Who Tipped Off Attack on Russia at
 Cocktail Party

EDITORS NOTE: Prof. Karl Boehmer, notorious Nazi propa- gandist who tipped off the secret of Germany's attack on Russia at a cocktail party, has been killed on the Eastern front, according to a Berlin radio announcement. The following dispatch was written by Jack Fleischer, member of the for mer United Press staff ill Berlin, who had frequent contacts with Boehmer in the course of his news cOverage for the United Press.
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Evening star., 1942-05-05
u. ). Naval Planes Rescue
"a British Ship Survivors
By nc Associated Press.

By nc Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, May 5.-Far- ranging
naval planes rescued more than half
of the A men, including one pas
senger, who took to lifeboats in the
Atlantic after an enemy submarine
sank British freighter on her
maiden voyage.
Twenty-four men were picked up
by planes which alighted on the
sea. Eight were flown to Bermuda
and the rest to Florida naval air
station. The remaining 20 men,
their lifeboats separated by a trop-
ical storm, were rescued by surface
ships.
Twelve OF those were landed at
Charleston, S. c., and the remain
ing eight, including Capt Harold
Richardson OF Scarborough, York
shire, went ashore in Cuba, then
came to Miami.
No one was injured in the sinking
of the medium-siZed craft. The
submarine was not seen, though its
engine exhaust was heard after it
launched the last Of two torpedoes.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Students al Gordon
Broadcast Drama
Of Guatemala
Boy Visitors Learn
Of Ancient Moyon
And Spanish Cultures

Students of the Gordon Junior
High School dramatized a journey
through Guatemala, another good
neighbor" nation of Central Amer
lea covered by The Americas" radio
series. The broadcasts are spon-
sored by The Star and the Junior
High School Radio Committee in
conjunction with the National Geo.
graphic Society. and are heard each
Monday over Station WMAL.
Entitled volcanoes in the Sun"
the dramatization told of a visit OF
two boys from the States in quest
of adventure and possible Maya
gold treasure among Guatemala's
vast jungles and rugged volcano
land. The boys learn about the
ancient Mayan and Spanish culture
of the land. see many of it's inter-
esting manifestations and even ex-
perience An earthquake, one of the
frequent such disturbances in the
tiny republic.
The script was prepared and di-
rected by Miss Mary Maciulla and
MlSS 1dIel bdyIle, anu Tie music
was directed by Miss Mary Wilkins,
also of the Gordon faculty.
Participating were Warren Rob-
inson, who initiated a parrot; Ed
mund Keeley, narrator; Rolf Sco-
veil, Virginia Steele, George Stock
ing. Bonnie Bishop, Granger Nc
Farlance, Myron Stocking, Paul
Gardeson, Raymond McCutcheon,
Michael Birla, Sandy Vandenberg,
Judy Hartshorne, Rosemary School,
er and Eric Nordholm. Sound ef-
fects were handled by Edgar Rus
sell, Raymond Writ, Walter Adams,
Carroll Tyson and Robert Bowen.
The student chorus was comprised
OF Virginia Hastings, Patricia Mar
tyn, Clara Duval, Sally Ayres, Ma
rion Brimm, Jacqueline Freer, Betsy
Rhodes, Betty Heatwole, Dorothy
Morrison, Billy Blough, Clifton Fich-
ter, Sinclair Gray, Robert Clark,
David Stolberg, Cotton Montague
and Alfred Hill, accompaniment
Evening star., 1942-05-05
More Hour Staggering
Urged by Van Duzer

With 10000 Federal and private
employees stopping work at 5 pm.
daily, the District traffic congestion
can be relieved only by further
staggering of work hours. Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer said
today.
The period from 5 to 6:l5 pm.
still produces the peak traffic jams
here, Mr.. Van Duzer said, adding
that the morning peak movement
is being handled satisfactorily With
public and parochial schools closing
within another month, the morning
trafhc load on streetcars and buses
will be substantially lightened, he
stated.
Commenting on the Capital
Transit Cos announcement that it
has secured Defense TRANSPORTATION
Agency approval of its request to
purchase 400 new buses and 100 new
streetcars, at an estimated cost of
s7000,0 900. Director Van Duzer said
additional buses and cars would not
greatly relieve the traffic Jams at
peak periods without greater stag
gering Of work hours. He reported
progress in securing Federal Gov
eminent cooperation, saying the
War Department has promised to
stagger hours in its new building in
Arlington.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Police and Postmen Test
Reclaimed Rubber Heels

A test Of whether rubber heels
are serviceable is being made for
Q. P. A. by approximately 125 Dis
trict policemen and letter carriers.
Within a few weeks the worn heels
will be turned over to the Bureau OF
Standards for scientific deductions.
For the past three weeks IS post
men and an equal number of police
officers have been pounding the
pavements in behalf of this ex-
pertinent. At the end of a period
not yet specified they will turn in,
the reclaimed rubber heels.
Officers attached to Precincts /.
2, 3 and IL and carriers working
under Supt. of Carriers Thompson
are making the tests.
Data such as the mileage walked
on and of duty over stated period
will be useful to shoe manufactur-
ers. repairmen and consumers. the
o. p. A consumer division said
Evening star., 1942-05-05
High Court Gives Owner
Trademark Breach Profit
BY the Associated Press.

b! the Associated Press.
When a trademark is infringed
"the profits made on sales of goods
bearing the infringing mark properly
belong to the owner of the mark, :"
the Supreme Court held yesterday.
Justice Frankfurter delivered the
four three opinion. 1t reversed
circuit court ruling that profits
should be restricted to sales to pur-
chasers who were induced TO buy
because they believed the goods to
be those of the trademark owner
and who otherwise would have
bought the trade-marked product.
infringement and damage hav-
ing been found" Justice Frank
furter said, the act requires the
trademark owner to prove only the
sale of articles bearing the infring-
ing mark ."
Justice Black wrote a dissenting
opinion. in which Justices Douglas
and Murphy concurred. They con-
tended that the effect of the deci-
sion was to grant a windfall."
Chief Justice Stone and Justice
Roberts did not participate.
The opinion was on a suit brought
by the Mishawaka Rubber &
Woolen Manufacturing Co. of Mish-
awaka. Ind, charging that its trade
mark for rubber heels had been in
fringed by the S. S. Kresge Co.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
New Information Unit
Continues Rush Business

Business continued brisk today at
the new United State Information
Once, Fourteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, totals of 593
visits and 3l6 telephone calls being
recorded up to 1890 am. The totals
for yesterday, opening day for the
ofiice, were $500 visits and $500
phone calls.
The information center will be
open from 8 am. to 10 pm. to assist
businessmen and other visitors seek
ing guidance about Government de-
partment locations. personnel, pro-
cedures, war contracts and other
activities.
Ofilcials and personnel were
greatly pleased by public utilization
OF services during the first day and
half OF operations in the new
quarters of the Office of Govern
ment Reports, which conducts the
oftlcial information service.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Four Children Suffer Face Cuts
AS Hail Breaks School Windows

-Four pupils at the Lee-Jackson
Elementary School. near Alexandria,
Va, were cut about the face yester-
day when the freak hailstorm in
nearby Fairfax County shattered 48
windows, sending glass splinters fly
ing through the class rooms.
Melvin B. Landes, principal, said
those hurt We're setting near the
windows. AS soon as the glass be-
gan shattering. pupils were removed
to the corridors. ls ~
Hundreds of chickens and song
birds were killed by hailstones,
which broke window panes and
damaged tops of automobiles in the
area
The 15-minute storm centered its
fury in the vicinity Of Lincolnia,
where hailstones 3 inches in dame
ter were reported.
Sergt. B. Alton Poole Of the Fair
fax police reported that the hail
beating on the roof of his chicken