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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
1000 Axis Prisoners
 Seized In Ten Days
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<1ldnted newly won positions on he Knkhkhad Ridge about four and eas-hnlf miles from the coast be-
 nea El Alamein and the Hill of &rguB, the Tel Fl Elsa.
 Indian Troops In It
 1n fhe center, Indian troops hold Hg the Ruweisat Ridge made a sud- &n advance in a dusk attack, gain sA new ground and held 1t against &n enemy counter attack supported HT c few tanks.
 me Germans have attacked the &uWeisat Ridge, extending from east VI west about 10 miles south of Fl Alamein repeatedly in the last few aayB in their main counter-blows, trying to gain 8 foothold at the
 sstern end.
 At the extreme southern end of tne line, where the front approaches 1Re Qattara Salt bog depression, the Imperials made further progress.
 They were pressing the enemy ele- afents which for several days had been withdrawing slowly to shorten &zle Axis line.
 Reports from pilots indicated heavey damage had been done by Allied planes, including American Army Air Corps heavy bombers, to the enemy supply base at Tobruk on the Libya coast.
 At least three enemy supply ships have ben hit in recent raids and blazing oil from damaged tankers started oil fires which spread over the harbor. It was asserted that in a raid Friday night Allied planes started fires which appeared to merge into one big chain of flame and big explosions. Naval planes bombed Matruh, on the Egyptian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
Germans Are Making
 Greater Progress
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ward through Leningrad, which has its terminal at Novorossisk on the Black Sea, already is gravely im- periled. If the Germans cut the Volga highway and block the Cas- plan Sea route by taking Astrakhan, the result would be close to disas- trous to Russia.
 Tries to Weaken Them
 Hitler discovered last year that he cannot annihilate the Russian armies. He seems to have changed his tactics in this campaign and is striking for objectives whose loss would seriously weaken the Russian ability to continue fighting effec- lively, for lack of the tools.
 Such an outcome would be SO damaging to the whole United Na- tions cause and so likely to drag out the war for years, that if it appears likely to succeed the chiefs of staff mapping 8 second front in London may feel compelled to act at once, even if they would rather wait un- til more fully prepared.
 A Japanese attack on Siberia, which informed Washington sources believe is likely to be made at any time now, also might hasten the decision.
 There can be no doubt that sec- ond front has been agreed upon. An occasioned outburst on the subject in the Russian press may be de- signed more to make Hitler uneasy rather than an indication of Soviet mistrust of allied intentions. No of- f1cial representations on the subject have been discerned, and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov undoubt- edly fully informed of Allied plans.
 The delay in opening an attack in western Europe is due mainly to the shipping shortage and the con- SeQuent difficulty of keeping an army of 500,000 or 100000 men fully supplied in hostile country. The invasion also would have to be accompanied by domination of the air, and it is not certain that the allies can achieve that immediately
 Allied leaders unquestionably wish to avoid invading Europe and then being forced to retreat. However, if Russia's position becomes increas- ingly serious, it may be that risks will be taken which otherwise would be avoided.
 Report From Moscow Moscow, July 20. (UP)-Red army flank attacks turned back one German wedge thrust through the Donets Basin toward Rostov and gained ground on the Goronezh front today but the main axis of- fensive pressed slowly southward to- ward decisive battle at the gateway to the northern Caucasus.
 Late dispatches from the front gave only meager details of what was described as fierce defensive fighting" against the still advance ing German forces headed for the lower Don River, where Soviet Mar shal Semyon Timoshensko is report ed massing endorsements for a major stand in defense of Rostov, Stalingrad and supply lines from the oilrich Caucasus.
 (The German communique today said that pursuit" of retreating Russians on the lower Don East of Rostov, now menaced on three sides, was in full swing" again today after . delay caused by heavy rains. German bomber squadronS were re- ported heavily attacking the de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
Japanese Picked Bad
 Spot For US. Invasion
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down to 1900 feet where they could see to work. The Japs threw up an umbrella of anti-aircraft and one nberator caught chunk apparently in the bomb load. He was there in formation one second and the next he came apart in soaring blast that rocked the other planes.
 The remaining four planes revised their technique and climbed to 18,- 900 feet to drop their loads. AS they left, one heavy cruiser lay flaming in the harbor, hit squarely by heavy bombs.
 Seven Separate Attacks
 Before the day was over the Cat alinas made secen separate attacks. One Catalina caught 8 submarine on the surface enroute.. Before the sub could rig for diving the cat was on it with load of heavy bombs. The sub broke up and sank without firing a shot.
 An other Catalina got two near misses on large destroyer with 500- pounders and another did the same with light cruiser. In their turn the Japs were doing well against the bombers. Anti aircraft, which is not particularly damaging to most fast combat planes, is brutally pun ishing to ships as large and slow as the Catalinas.
 The Japs showed signs of discour- agement and their ships began to get under way. A Cat delivered Its load on the moving ships and flew on out to Attu, the last Island of the intercontinental stepping stones.
 By night the bombers noted evil dence the JapS planned a perma- nent occupation. Attu showed signs of construction work and shore based Nakajima 97 fighters rose from Kiska, to meet the American craft. The harbor was empty of ships that night, but next day they came back, appearing in increasing numbers throughout the daylight hours.
 By night Kiska's harbor held five heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, ten destroyers, two submarines, nine cargo and transport vessels, and a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20

lenses of Rostov and bombing Sov- jet columns to the east. Reports from AxiS-dominated sources said the advance Nazi units were near Novocherkassk, only 30 miles north of Rostov)
 The Russians acknowledged aban- donment of the war center of Vo- roshilovgrad, but said that ar enemy wedge driven into the Soviet battle lines south of Millerovo on the road to Rostov had been count er-attacked and frustrated in bat tie that cost the enemy more thar 1,200 dead, 15 tanks and many guns
 Drain On Ma.n Power
 The drain on German manpowel was steadily increasing, front line dispatches reported, while reports from the Volga River sector told oj large Russian endorsements, in. cluding troops from the east ana American war supplies via Iran moving up to tho Don River from for the expected decisive battle.
 American and British built tanks and United States fighter ano bomber planes were credited with striking damaging blows at the ad. vancing enemy as the Red Army threw them into the battle on larger scale.
 Most of the fighting in the love- Donets Basin was by Russian reaJ guard units, including special shocl troops and sappers who clung tc selected positions to the last man dispatches reported. Frequently small rear guard detachments were credited with delaying enemy unit. three and four times as large fol several days.
 Gondon dispatches from Stock. holm said that German dive bomber squadrons were hammering at the railroad north of Rostov, especially in the Shakhty sector, in an effort to blast path for the Nazi ad- vance. The Russians were reported cleverly concealed in favorable pos. itions from which they were fight ing strongly0
 Many towns and villages in the path of the German advance have been destroyed by the Soviet real guard and the rigid application oi scorched earth tactics has slowed up the German advance.
 On the north German flank, the Russian shock troops near Voronezi. forced the Germans on the defen. sive and seized an important bridge. head on the Don River.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20

the fort, who received them as matter f-factly as they would have so many male recruits.
 Col. Don c. Faith, commandant, headed the reception committee which met Mrs. Overta Culy Mobby, director of the WAAC, when she arrived from Washington. Mrs. Hobby, whose rank is equal to that of major, wore a trim cotton gabardine uniform with belt and two, buttoned flap breast pockets. The head of Pallas Athene, Greek Goddess of Wisdom and Virtue, was pinned on her lapel. Her cap was fashioned after that worn by the French foreign Legion.
 On the train with her were 100 WAAC from all over the nation tall Wages, short ones. blondes, brunettes, red-heads and gray-heads ranging in age from 21 to 50.
 They included housewives. steno- gfaphers, teachers, telephone opera tors, clerks and social registerites.
 Soldiers showed them to red brick, two-storied barracks which surround the parade groud. They swarmed into their barracks, in spected steel lockers and bounced on their iron cots to test them for comfort. They smoked, repaired their makeup, and examined the fort in gay summer prints, slacks and tailored suits.
 Those who arrived by noon dined in the mess hall on roast beef, mashed potatoes. gravy, peas, com bination salad, bread and butter, strawberry ice cream and lemonade served by 20 army chefs in white uniforms. As soon as the Wages get settled, they will replace the chefs.
 Christie Marguerite Tollefson, 36, of South Orange, N. J., was the first to arrive. She used to be school teacher. and has bachelor of Arts degree from Yale UnicerSity School of Drama and a Master of Rrts degree in Speech from Column bia University. The second was Bessie Mae Jarrett, 27, negro, of Las Cruces, N. M.
 Eight officers candidates Six white and two negro-received uni- forms yesterday afternoon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20

| coast, and started big fires including one in Q gasoline dump.
 Germany Raided Again
 London, July 20.-(UP)-The Roy- al Air Force attacked the big ship- building yards of northwest Ger many again last night, this time sending four~engined bombers against the submarine yards at Vegesack in the Bremen suburbs.
 An air ministry communique said that force" of the big bombers participated. Three were listed as missing.
 It was the fourth time that veI gesack has been bombed, with the Vulcan shipyards the main target for the concentrated attack.
 (Germany admitted nuisance" raids on northwest Germany and agreed with the air ministry that three British planes had been downed)
 The Vegesack raid was another in a long series of charted attacks on the German submarine building yards along the North Sea coast and in the southwest corner of the Baltic, where the ocean raiders which are taking heavy toll of al- lied shipping are turned out.
 In their raids last night, the Brit ish long range bombers struck at the Flensburg and Lubeck yards in the Baltic area, and day planes followed with raids on the Rutr in- dustrial area.
 Douglas Boston bombers manned by Royal Air Force crews made such successful attacks on northern France yesterday that the squad ron commander cabled thanks to the California factory where they were made as soon as he landed.
 Attacking one target at tree-top height, the squadron leaders Doug las was caught by cross-f1re from two German anti-aircraft batteries. A shell burst tore three freet from the front edge of the planes left wing. There was a large hole where the. wing joined the fuselage and many holes were torn in the left oil tank but the plane landed safely.
 London, July 20.- CUP) - Light British forces bombarded the Axis held port of Matruh on the Medi- terranean Friday and Saturday nights, the admiralty said today.
 We suffered no casualties or damage in either bombardment," i" the communique said, land the enemy batteries ashore replied in- effectively to the fire of our ships"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
SEVEN STITCHES
 IN HEART, LIVES

New York, July 2O-(UP)-stan ley Kolbusz. 19. was clinging to If at Sydenham hospital today, despit' seven stitches in his heart. takei after he was stabbed by three Ne groes who attacked him in Harlen early Saturday.
 pr. Edward Finestone sewed tn, heart in a delicate operation aftej & narrowing ride to the hospital 1T which his automobile skidded anc overturned. Hospital officials, givini the Holyoke, Mas. war worker aH even chance for life, said he would not be out of danger for at Least week. . 7.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
MYSTERY FIRE,
 BLAST IN MAINE
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steam having been shut down for the week end. However, they were Investigating to determine if it had been tempered with.
 The blaze first was discovered shortly before midnight. Flames roared through the one-story stone structure, bursting through the roof and windows on all sides.
 Bremen from Jay and Livermore Falls responded to telephone alarms but even as they began to pour wa ter on the building, a dull explosion wrecked the interior and sent blaz- ing embers high into the air.
 Despite a four-hour battle, the building was demolished. About $2,- 900 worth of dental equipment was destroyed as well as civilian defense records
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
MALE STENUGRAPHERS
 NEEDED

San Francisco, Cal.-(UP)-With Washington clamoring nationwide for girl stenographers, the Fourth Army here has decided to give men break and even up a little on their behalf the equality of the sexes. The Presidio Headquarters of the army has issued an urgent call for male stenographers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20


 Fort sennng July The big tank speeds aheadawe inspiring of clanng soldier directly In its path The tank driver him but doesn't slacken speed His steel mon right the soldier
 Terrific? being times day soldiers at the Infantry Officers Candidate To still papiat foxhole passage except possibly spat of that the tank reads him. LESSON WAS LEARNED IN PHILIPPINES
 nfanrymen defense 
 practical Peninsula
 Is simple Each digs standard sized oxhoe for himself and then is tank These fox holes approximately three and half feet wide and feet deep Along the tank down the soldier tank hi 
 Later nsucng own unit the student passes good along.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
Men Available For
 Hord-to-FiII Jobs

Among the thousands of peo- pie who read DEMOCRAT Help Wanted Ads there are capable men for any job.
 Az industrial workers become harder to find it is more impor- tant than ever that you go after men who are now employed on les important jobs.
 e0ss of those people who read DEMOCRAT Help Wanted Ads afp employed people seeking better opportunities.
 PHONE A-sl2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
TWO MORE SHIPS
 WERE LAUNCHED

Portland, Me, July 2o.-(UP)- Two 10,000-ton liberty ships--Ocean Rider and Ocean Athlete-slid down the ways at the Todd Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. yards yesterday, bringing to 18 the number of ves- sells launched at the yards for the British government.
 The Rider was christened by Mrs. E. T. Rees and the Athlete by Mrs. 0. w. Bowring Jr., wives of New York directors of the British min- istry of war transport. The two ships were launched 57 days after keel layings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20

A mystery man with Park ave- nue accent and lopg-shoreman's punch solves g kaffling murder in RKO Radios Highways By Night" featuring Richard Carlson and Jane Randolph.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-20
Germany Raided Again

coast, and started big fires including one in Q gasoline dump.
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FIRST SHOT FIRED
 IN WOMAN'S ARMY

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ONE DAY DRIVE
 FOR ALL SCRAP

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Evening star., 1942-12-03
| Toxic Claims
BottIeship and
Cruiser Sunk
By the Associated Press.

TOXIC From Japanese Broad
casts, Dec. 3.-Imperial headquar-
tiers today announced the sinking OF
an Allied battleship, cruiser OF
the Augusta class and two destroyers
on the night of November 30 off
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
tThe Japanese claims were not =
confirmed by any Allied sourcesD
The Japanese asserted they also
had set fire to two other Allied de-
stroyers, and acknowledged the loss
of one of their own. b..
The text of the comlnunioue:
An imperial torpedo attack flotil-
la carried out fierce attack on
powerful enemy naval unit of Lun-
ga, Guadalcanal Island, on the night
Of November 80.
The results of the engagement
are as follows:
Enemy losses-one battleship
sunk, one cruiser of the Augusta
type sunk simultaneously, two de-
stroyers sunk and two other destroy.
ers set ablaze.
Our losSes-one destroyer sunk.
"Note-This naval encounter is
designated as the night battle of
Lunga."
James Fighting Ships lists six
ships of the type of the U. S. s..
Augusta. named as the Northampton
class. They are the heavy cruisers
Augusta. Houston, Chester. Louis
vile, Chicago and Northampton, Of
1850 tons. -
Evening star., 1942-12-03
Reds Tighten StoIingrod Trap
On Foe; Gain on All Fronts
Ski Troops, BottIne in Blizzard, Drive
Nozis Back; Enemy's Tanks Freeze

slaught went into it's third week
slowed but unstopped.
From Berlin, the German high
command broadcast a commu-
nique, conceding that Nazi opera
tions in the Caucasus were i'm
peded by floods and claiming that
strong" Russian attacks in the
Don-Volga area broke down yes
terday in the face of German re-
SistanceD
A communique said Soviet troops
stormed and held another strategic
height northwest of the city. This,
with the height southwest of Stain
grad which was reported yesterday
as recaptured, gave the Russians a
field of fire over at least part of the
German corridor of escape or rein
forcement to Stalingrad.
The Germans rushed reinforce
mentS into at least three key salients
in a desperate effort to halt the
Russian advance.
Strong forces of German Alpinists
went into action east of Velikie Luki.
tSee RUSSIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1942-12-03
Duce Reported
Seriously III
Since Speech
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-Reuters said
today that the Rome radio broad
cast an appeal by Premier Musso-
lini to all italian mayors to get
to work with minimum of red
tape on the evacuation of Italian
cities"
In his broadcast answer yester-
day to British Prime Minister
Churchill's warning to Italy to get
out of the war or be bombed out,
Mussolini said Italian cities would
be cleared of civilians to leave the
military free to meet any situa-
ton.
Reuters said dispatch from a
special correspondent inside Eur
ope" reported persistent rumors in
neutral quarters that Mussolini has
been seriously i'll since he made his
speech. According to one report,
Reuters said, he had to have in
jections before speaking.
Shortly after he began his 81
minute broadcast, radio listeners
heard him coughing and breathing
heavily.
Evening star., 1942-12-03
Britain to Keep Her Colonies,
Official Tells House of Lords

'sor to Lord Lithlingow. retiring
viceroy of India, Lord Cranborne
presented a detailed report on the
colonial empire.
Observers said they presumed his
remarks were aimed at critics, in
cluding Wendell Willkie, who have
directly or indirectly accused Britain
of fighting to preserve the imperial
status quo.
Much criticism directed against
the administration of the colonial
empire since the fall of Malaga was
mainly voiced by those who, how
ever well-intentioned, have little
or no personal experience of the
colonies" Lord Cranborne said.
He said that although democracy
works well in the United States,
Scandinavia. Belgium and Holland
1t is "the most difiicult Of all po-
litical systems" which in some other
countries has not proved strikingly
successful.
Evening star., 1942-12-03
Three Marine Officers
Killed in Plane Crash
Near lndianhead
Commondont of Purris
Island Air Stotion One
Of Dead; Inquiry Begun

Three Marine Corps officers,
one of them the commander of
the Marine Air Station at Par
ris Island, S. c., were killed yes
terday when their small trans
port plane crashed in the
vicinity of Indianhead, Md, the
Navy Department announced
today.
The plane was en- route from
Washington to Paris Island, where
all of the officers were stationed
The dead are 1t. Col Harold I.
Larson, "a, Murdoch, Mimi: 1t. Col.
Joseph j. Tavern, 80, Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, and Second 1t. How
ard A. Koegler, &c. Brooklyn, N. Y
The plane was piloted by Col. Lar
son.
Probe Is Instituted.
An investigation to determine the
cause of the crash is now under way,
the Navy Department said.
Col. Larson, who was graduated
from the Naval Academy in 1881,
served with 1st Marine Aircraft
Wing at Quantico, Va, from 1889
until last August, when he became
commanding officer of the Air Sta
ton at Paris Island.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Rosalie E. Larson; a daughter Lii
liam. and son. Lawrence.
Col. Tavern was appointed a Sec
ond lieutenant in the Marine Corps
January 80, 1929. He was a member
of the Nicaraguan Electoral Mission
from 1880 to 1882.
Headed Range Detachment.
At the time of his death, he was
commanding officer of the rifle range
detachment at Paris Island He is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy
S. Tavern, and daughter, Sidney.
1t. Koegler enlisted in the Marine
Corps Reserve in 1881 and was
honorably discharged January Is,
1912 as technical sergeant to &C
cept appointment as a marine gun
ner.
He served at the Marine Corps Air
Station, Quantico, before being as
signed to duty last March at the
Paris Island station, as a radio
officer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ethel M. Koebler. and a son, George.
Evening star., 1942-12-03
MacArthur's Air Force
Repe|s Jap Warships
In 12-Hour Battle
Foe Again Fails to Aid
Hord-Pressed Troops
In Bunu-Gono Area
By c. YATES MCDANIEL,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Dec. 3.-Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's air forces, sup
porting ground troops closing in
on the Buna Coma area on the
New Guinea coast, have smashed
new japanese attempts to land
reinforcemehts in 12-hour bat
tie with four japanese destroyers
and their screen of fighter planes.
The Allied planes knocked % en-
emy fighters out of the air as they
carried the attack to sea, forcing
the destroyers to withdraw without
materially aiding their hard pressed
forces on the shallow beachhead
ringed by Allied group troops
The planes also kept up loW-level
attacks on japanese ground posi-
tions between Buna and Coma.
Brief reports from Allied airmen
described the night fight in the air
and at sea as "a great fireworks dis
play, with enemy warships shooting
CSee PACIFIC, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-12-03
BY EDDY GILMORE,
Associated Press War Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 3.-White- clad
Russian ski troops pressed the
Nazis back on blizzard swept
battleflelds west of Moscow today
while between the Don and Volga
the Red Army steadily closed the
trap on Stalingrad's besiegers
from recaptured heights north
west and southwest of the city.
Battlefront dispatches gave this
account of the steadily mounting
Russian winter drive:
South of Leningrad and west of
Moscow the Germans were reported
losing 1000 men a day as ski troop
ers armed with tommy guns clashed
with Nazi Alpinist reinforcements in
some of the fiercest fighting of the
last two weeks amid snow-blanketed
Nazi tanks and trucks, now often
abandoned and frozen
On the Stalingrad front the Ger
mans were resisting savagely in
fight for life, and the Russian on