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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13
Talbot Is in Conference With G. o. P. Leaders in
 Hartford Today
BY JACK AMMAN fTT~;Aad Dra.. CAnfF Corrac~ouIoy oy

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Hartford, Conn.,, July 13.-UP)- Reports were current in Republican party circles today that Cong. Jo- seph E. Talbot, Naugatuck, has de- cided not to run for reelection, and will, instead, become candidate for lieutenant governor on the Republi- can state ticket this fall.
 Talbot is conferring today and to- morrow with high party chieftains concerning his place in the fall election setup. He was in Hartford today, talking with several of his advisers, and will be at Bridgeport tomorrow to talk with State Chair man J. Kenneth Bradley and for mer Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin, who is a candidate for reelection.
 Talbot, 1t was understood, was wanted by leading party men to have a post on the state ticket be- cause of his acknowledged vote- getting ability.
 The congressman, who was elect. ed to House vacancy in a specia election early this year, was men. toned widely for the Republican gubernatorial nomination until few weeks ago. Former Governor Bal6- win, however, decided to become a candidate again, and Talbot imme- diately declared his support of the former executive.
 Talbot was elected state treas urer on the Republican ticket ill 1888, and was defeated for re- election in 1940. He was appointed workmens' compensation commits sioner in the fifth congressional dis trict by Gov. Baldwin, and held the
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ambulance drive and drove toward a Negro residential area. It was joined joined by two other automobiles, each loaded with men. Authorities beleived the cars stopped a mile from the hospital to tie Vinson to the rear of one of them before con- tinuing to the edge of this Texas Argansas border city.
 About IS men were believed to have been in the group. They dragged Vinson's body to the loading plat form of a cotton gin, tied the rope to the winch overhead and raised the body 20 feet into the air. They disappeared before authorities ar- rived.
 Mrs. Mullin telephone police and Sheriff Monroe Watts. When Watts reached the lynching scene, he found residents from nearby houses view ing the body in the dim light cast by a street light IS yards away. Many were dressed In night cloth ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13
'RAOUL MARTINEZ
 HELD BY POLICE
Alleged Thief at Scovill Co. Has Other Charges
 Against Him

Raoul Martinez, 19, of 13O North Main street, admitted in municipal court today that he stole a live fuse from the Scovill Manufacturing company because he wanted 8 souvenir of his work-just as a fellow who has few drinks wants to take home a menu, 8 napkin oI drink muddler."
 But Martinez could give no ex- cusa for his admitted theft of two sport coats and valuable identifica- tion cards from Scovili'S, as well as suitcase containing two jars ot facial cream and a baby'S sweater from the Waterbury railroad Sta- ton.
 Judge T. E. Conway continued the case until tomorrow and ordered Martinez, who was arrested July by Patroiman Joseph Guilfoile, held under bonds of $2,000. He ordered court attendants to check up on Martinez previous record and his draft status and indicated that both would be taken into consideration in his disposition of the case.
 Martinez, who has been in jail since July 3, said he came kere from New York about two and a half months ago and obtained employ ment at the Scovill Mfg. Co.
 The investigation of the case started when Patrolman John Sassc found the suitcase with the live fuse and several parts in 8 downtown doorway.
 How Arrest Came
 It was the theft of the identifica- ton cards and cases owned by a Scoyill official which led to Mar tinez's arrest, however, Patrolmar Guilfoile said.
 In company with Chief Inspector Joseph P. Stevens the officer saio he searched Martinez's room and
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"bAST|LE DAY" EXCITES FEAR WITH GESTAPO Will Be Celebrated By France in Some Way
 on Tuesday WHOLE FAMILIES OF FRENCHMEN MAY DIE Men, Women, Children Are Not Left Out of GestapO
 Threat
BY JOHN A. PARRIS Limited Press Staff COrrespondentl

NUn1te0 Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 London, July 13.-(UP)- The Gestapo, fearing mass outburSts of French terror ism on Bastille Day, ordered reprisals down to cousins against the families ot French patriots today. The 153rd anniversary of the bastille-a prison in the days of the French kings for those who criticized the government or thoss in power-is tomorrow, and the Gestapo was on 24-hour duty.
 The Germans have announced that 1t is holiday, but not fitting that nation in mourning" should celebrate 1t.
 Apparently certain that there would be celebrations and they would involve the lives of some of his agents, Paris police chief Oberg announced that henceforth not only patriots would be punished, but al- so their families.
 His decree, broadcast by radio Paris, said:
 If the culprit is not found with In 10 days after the deed is com- mitted; firstly, all male memebers of his family over IS will be shot; secondly, all female members of his family will be sent into forced labor, and thirdly, all children from the family, up to IT, will be taken into supervised houses of education"
 Oberg directed the decree against "saboteurs and attackers" in the
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Whitening Blasts From Russian Artillery Meet ing Them Blow for Blow GERMAN TROOPS ARE
 HURLED INTO ATTACKS 75,OOO Nazis in Attack on VOrOnezh; Red Army Is
 Being Hit Hard
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrreSpOndentJ

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, July 13-CUP) - The German high command today exploded a fierce new thrust against the northwest Moscow front, threw hun- dreds of tanks against the corpse-littered approaches of Voronezh and pushed two drives southeaStWard into the Don river bend against with ering blasts of Russian artil- ering blasts of Russian artillery.
 Two fresh divisions of German troops and several hundred tanks crossed the Don river and rein forced the two or three enemy di- visions already pounding at the outskirts of Voronezh but late dis patches from the front said that the four day onslaught had failed to penetrate the citys defenses.
 It was estimated that the Ger mans were using about five divisions (50,000 to 75,000 mem in the att tack on Voronezh. The newspaper Pravda said that items of thousands" of enemy troops were in the battle on narrow front on the east bank of the river but that the Russians were fighting stubbornly from every ridge, every rock and every bush.
 To the south, however, axis col umns had pressed eastward through the Boguchar sector toward the Don river bend and 8 second drive was moving southeastward from Lis- ichcansk toward Voroshilovgrad and RoStov
 Importance of Smash
 The ir .oortance of a new Ger man offs-1 sive thrust on the Kalin- in front northwest of Moscow, was not clear, but dispatches said that heavy attacks Apparently near Rzhev) had gained some ground and that Russian tanks were counter attacking consistently.
 It appeared that the enemy was attempting a major operation either in an effort to push closer to Mos- COW to divert Russian strength from the Don basin drive toward Stalin- grad and Rostov, at the entrance to the Caucasus.
 Front line dispatches said that the Russian troops were lighting desperately" on a 10-mile front from the Don River to Voronezh but that several hundred axis tanks and roora +t,aY7 on nnn ;v,fo y,fryp,o,, had crossed to the east bank to rein- force the enemy assault over roads filtered with hundreds of German corpses and burned out tanks.s Some Russian troops, however, were still fighting on the west bank of the Don and broke up axis attempts to widen their crossing.
 CA London broadcast quoted the Moscow newspaper Pravda as call- ing on the Russian troops to flight to the last and stop the enemy at the gates of Voronezh where our also vanquished their foes" The newspaper reported "gi- gantic battles" raging, with the e enemy seriously endangering' strategic Russian centers)
 The Russian position is serious the newspaper Pravda said in 3 survey of the Don basin fighting. but it also reported that blasts of artillery fire were butch. ering" mass assaults by tank-lea enemy infantry
 Uttered With Dead
 Russian press dispatches describ- ed the battle fields as filtered Eitil
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CLIO. TREASURER
 HELD UP, ROBBED

Boston, July IS. - (UP)-Three men, one toting a pistol, held up George Bordun. local president and treasurer of the United Packing House Workers Union (CIO) in the unions third-1ioor office on Black stone street in the north end today and escaped with $500 in union war bonds and $1 in cash.
 Bordun told police the men en- ,ared the offlcc immediately after 1a had opened the office safe at kA start Of the days business cnd 11at they took the money and bonds after forcing him to stand against ~sall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13
ESCAPED WHILE HE
 WAS BEING TRIED
John E. Eklund Guilty Ot Second Degree Murder
 After Recapture

Washington, July 13-(UP)-A district court jury found 25-year-old John K. Eklund, recaptured yester- day after 8 brief period of freedom, guilty of murder in the second de- gree today.
 Eklund, who showed no emotion when the verdict was read, faces a sentence of 20 years to life. There was no indication when he will be sentenced.
 Eklund was accused of being the "sniper" who shot and killed Negro from ambush here in october, 1940. He was convicted in his first trial of first degree murder but that rul- ing was set aside and he was given a second trial.
 While the jury was considering its verdict Friday night, Eklund broke from prison van returning him to jail and fled into woods bor- dering the Anacostia river in driv- ing rain.
 U. s. Marshals and police pursued him 8 mile before losing the trial
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13
Inside Story Of The Rubber Shortage

Today on page of the Waterbury Democrat Drew Pearson in the Washington Merry Go Round begins series of several articles which to the everlasting shame of those behind scandalous rubber deal tells why YOU, You and you face the prospect of walking be- fore another year rolls round.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13

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Evening star., 1942-12-13
Russian-Iurkish Relations
Reported Improving
By the Associated Press.


ANkARA, Dec. IL tdelayed-
Signalling a victory for United
States foreign policy, Russian Turk
ish relations have improved to a
point where "a concrete rapproache-
ment can be visualized,' a reliable
diplomatic source said today.
Premier Sukru Saracoglu visited
the Soviet Embassy Wednesday and
conferred two hours with Soviet
Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, The
diplomatic source. who cannot be
named, said this was among clear
indications that strained relations
between the two countries are cas-
ing.
German diplomacy in Turkey is
aimed at creating i'll will between
Turkey and Russia, whereas Amerl-
can efforts for nearly a year have
been directed toward dispelling that
antagonism.
A concrete demonstration of
friendliness now would constitute a
severe setback for German Ambas
sador Franz Won Papen. The last
obstacle to Turkish orientation with
the United Nations would be over
come and one of the last gaps in
the Allied arcs around the Reich
would be closed.
Evening star., 1942-12-13

colors. What about them?" He
said:
Casualty lists from the areas Of
actual combat, which includes men
of all colors. race and creeds, are
the best indication Of all that the
Army which has been raised through
selective service represents America
at its best
The winners of the awards for
bravery are from the North as well
as the South, and from the Middle
West and the Far West, colored as
we'll as white. and representing every
creed in the population of our great
Nation. The newspapers and other
periodicals have told the story
graphically. These qualities of brav-
cry. courage. initiative. and patriot
ism in their finest sense are not the
exclusive property of any race or
color, Of the citizens of any par
ticular economic level, or OF any
section Of the land"
Evening star., 1942-12-13
1wo-1hirds Of Loan Drive
Raised, Morgenthau Says
By the Associated Press.

bS lns ASSOClAte0 freN
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C. Dec. IL.
The Treasury has already raised
more than thirds OF the nine
billion dollars it is borrowing in
Victory loan drive this month. sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
said tonight.
Il am delighted to report to the
Nation that by today. only the 18th
business day of our drive, We have
raised more than six and half
billion dollars" Mr. Morgenthau
said at dinner marking the pre-
sentation of Treasury "T'' flags to
volunteer workers participating in
the drive.
In his address, broadcast over
the Blue network the Treasury Of
fetal also paid tribute to Represen-
tative Doughton. Democrat. Of North
Carolina, chairman OF the House
Ways and Means Committee as a
man who is devoted to his coun-
try and to the welfare Of its people"
Explaining that the Treasury in
its Victory loan campaign was try
ing to bring more idle funds into the
war effort. Mr.. Morgenthau de-
clared:
In this Victory loan drive and in
the War savings campaign that has
brought us together tonight. you in
North Carolina are doing great
things.
Evening star., 1942-12-13
and shipping. and Raj bombers
from England again attacked Turin

and shipping. and Raj bombers
from England again attacked Turin
in Northern Italy, Billy Mitchell
B-25 twin -motored bombers pounded
Sfax. the Tunis docks were battered
again by bombers from the Middle
East and Allied fighter patrols in
tercepted a large northbound Axis
air convoy and shot down at least
Is planes. eight OF them transports.
So rushed were Allied airmen that
youthful American bomber pilots,
operating at advanced bases, called
themselves air guerrillas.
Engaged in hit-and-run war
from muddy field, they said they
were operating without a squadron
commander or brieflng staff-they
just went out and picked their own
targets.
The Allied communique told OF
heavy blows by British submarines
on the enemy's supply lines. One
submarine was said to have scored
torpedo hits on four merchant ships
carrying supplies to Tunisia. while
another daringly shelled the italian
coast, destroying or damaging two
trains. oil tanks and a factory. be-
sides sinking two ships, one of them
an anti-submarine craft and the
other a former French merchant
man.
Evening star., 1942-12-13
New Draft CIussificotions
Revision Includes Group Created
By Order Deferrine Men Over 80

3-A-Registrants with dependents,
engaged in less essential industry
or less essential agriculture.
3-B-Registrants with dependents.
engaged in an activity necessary to
the war production program.
3-C-Regictrants with dependents,
engaged in essential agriculture.
4-A-Registrants who before in
duction have become As years of
age, since they registered.
4-B-Registrants who are deferred
specifically by the law itself.
4-C-Registrants who are aliens
not acceptable to the armed forces
or who waived their rights to be-
come citizens to avoid military
service.
4-D-Registrants who are minis
tiers of religion or divinity students.
4-E-Registrants who are con-
scientious objectors available only
for service in civilian work of ma
tional importance.
4-F-Registrants who are mental
ly, morally. or physically unaccept-
able to the armed forces.
4-H-Registrant who are SO to
IS years of age. New class.
Evening star., 1942-12-13

1t is possible the additional income
might change the status of 4 nom
essential worker without children.
In general, however, wives by going
to work will tend to release some
unmarried man for military serv-
ice. and thus postponed the time
when married men will be called
in large numbers. 1t should be re-
membered also that local boards in
weighing dependency deferment will
consider not only whether a wife is
working. but equally whether she
can work."
The agencies said the selective
service system told local boards to
consider reclassifying single men
with collateral dependents and
married men without children into
la, thus making them available
for call
1T should be kept in mind that
marriage itself is never basis OF
deferment, only dependency" the
Official said
Called in Some States.
In some States it was admitted
that married men were being called
but officers said generally no." in
answering the owl question. ARE
married men with dependent chill
dren being called?" 1t was ex-
planned that the calling OF such a
class requires specific authorization
of the national director of Seiective
Service and such authorize ton has
not been issued"
It was estimated that the armed
forces should get 10000 q month
from the ls-19-year-old group.
Those who are married and with
children and those whose marriage
was contracted at a time when their
selection was not imminent and
those who are essential workers in
industry and agriculture will not be
called at once
No Saturation Point.
They explained that not proba bly,
during the war will saturation
point be reached beyond which few
additional soldiers will be needed.
They said such point would de-
pend on war strategy and the
progress of the war, adding that
there will undoubtedly be need for
requirements as iJng as the Ma
ton is engaged in the war.
AS to what will happen to the
non-essential type of worker in agri-
culture and the IS essential in
dustries, the agencies said the local
boards will place them in Ia, or if
they have dependents, in ga. in the
case of the industrial workers. In
the case Of farm workers. they also
willebe place in ga If not engaged
in essential work and have depend
ents
Answering the owl question as to
Why does one see 50 many young
men still in civilian clothes?" the
agencies said many OF them have
been rejected for physical dis
abilities. which may not be apparent
The usual rejection rate for this
cause. it was explained. varies ac-
cording to age group, but average
about 80 per cent. Others are
war workers, it was pointed out.
Influence Rumor Spiked.
With reference to rumors about
influence being used with local
boards" the officials said that lot
teries have been held to guarantee
that selection of men, and the order
in which they should 60, should be
determined withou. reference to
wealth, influence, social position or
other such factors"
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey di-
rector of the WINGS Selective Serv-
ice Bureau, was called on to answer
one Owl question. There have
been rumors OF prejudice for or
against various races. creeds and
Evening star., 1942-12-13
Shipping Strike Threat
On West Coast Ended
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Dec. 12-Danger OF a
Pacific Coast shipping strike over
manning new West Coast built Lib
erty ships with East Coast crews
was ended today. a spokesman for
the Sailors Union OF the Pacific
(AFD reported
A strike would have tied up Pa
cific Coast shipping.
Ed Coester. union business agent,
said he was notified of the settle
ment in telephone call from Wash
ington, D. c.. by Harry Lundeberg,
secretary treasurer OF the Sailors
Union.
The War Shipping Administra-
tion has reallotted the disputed
ships to certain West Coast COM
panies so there can be no question
but that West Coast seafarers will
man them. Mr.. Coester quoted Mr..
Lundeberg as saying.
Evening star., 1942-12-13

the remainder Of stalingrad, where
they once held about half the city.s
The regular communique early to-
day said large groups of our forces"
attacked enemy -held blocks, wiping
out 200 Germans, artillery batteries,
and machine gun and mortar posts.
Northwest of Stalingrad where the
Germans were making their effort
to break out. the fighting was re-
ported to be Of q whipsaw character;
with neither side able to claim
clean edge in the initiative. At
points the Germans were counter
attacking, while at others the Rus
SLAMS were pushing forward.
To the southwest of the city too.
the Germans switched large forces
in an effort to break the ring, and
the Soviet communique this morn
ing said two regiments of German
infantry with 80 tanks began an
assault which petered out.
Mani Attacks Beaten Back.
On the central front west OF Rzhev
the Russians claimed to have cut
notch in the German lines by ad-
vancing across a water line and then
repulsed several counterattacks.
Many German attacks in the Velikie
Luki area also were beaten down.
One spectacular struggle for red
brick church on hill surrounded
by water on three sides was reported
on this front by Izyestia, which said
~ Red Army automatic gunners
crept across 300 yaros Of snow and
dislodged special battalion OF Ger
man officers who had barricaded
themselves inside.
Behind the lines guerrilla detach-
ments we're reported to have inten-
sified their winter campaign. killing
an estimated 7,4o0 Germans and
wrecking Is trains in Smolensk
province in the last six weeks. and
wrecking on the average one train
day in Kursk Province.
The ferocity of the Russian attack
on German air transport and bad
weather which was interfering with
that method OF supply may nave
caused the Germans to make an
effort to cut their way out northwest
OF Stalingrad.
Evening star., 1942-12-13
Russia
Continued From First PageD

Among them were 353 transport
planes.
2o5s tanks, l.5l0 of them cap
tured.
3.068 guns. 2l34 OF them captured
1892 trucks, 1906 of them cap
tured
liza mortars captured.
3ll anti-tank guns captured
So radio transmitters.
l,385 motorcycles
20,000000 cartridges and much
other military equipment.
Fifth Of Dead Rumanians.
Four-fifths OF the enemy dead on
the Staiingrad front, it was said.
were Germans and the remainder
Rumanians.
On the central front since Novem-
Der Is when the Russians began
their counterdrive to cut of Rzhev
and Velikie Luki northwest and
west of Moscow, 2,lO0 German
officers and men were taken prisoner
and $4,000 others killed, the special
communique said
1t listed this equipment captured
or destroyed on this front:
200 planes destroyed.
6l0 tanks, 1874 Of them captured.
1901 guns. $50 of them captured.
l,780 trucks. 900 of them cap
tured. and much other miscellan-
eous equipment.
For the two fronts these figures
showed s37 planes. 1858 tanks and
10,472 trucks captured or destroyed.
Fierce Fighting at Stalingrad.
The Russians apparently were
making a strong effort to dislodge
the Germans once and for all from
Evening star., 1942-12-13
Labels on Canned Goods
Ordered 10 Show Grade
By the Associated pre.s

By the Associated Press.
Price Administrator Henderson
announced yesterday that standard
lied grade labelling will be compul-
sorry on most canned fruits and
vegetables in the 1943 pack. The
first order will affect canned citrus
fruits and juices
Each can or jar will have to be
Identified by either the Government
as A, B or C. or equivalent trade
terms based on Government stand
ards.
Mr.. Henderson explained that the
grade labels will be required as part
of forthcoming price regulations to
enable housewives to ascertain
whether they are getting the quail
ity merchandise to which they are
entitled for the price paid.
Evening star., 1942-12-13
Better Hearing Puts Many
To Work on War Jobs
ADVERTISEMENT.

Thousands of men and women
today are holding important jobs in
war industry because they have
brought their hearing to war
strength by means Of . correctly
fitted Sonotone audicle. Among their
number are many in this city.
Today seeing to it that your
hearing is as eficient as science
can make it is your duty not only
to yourself and family. but to your
country. The importance Of hear
ing aids il recognised BY the United
States Government.