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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
VICTORY HOUSE
 SALES SOARING
Reach Total of $84l,6lO.= 75 Today; Expect to
 Touch Million Mark

Safe of war bonds and stamps in the Victory House campaign today scared to a total of $841 ,61O.75, al- most $1O0,O00 greater than the quota assigned the city. With the drive not to close until 6 p. III. tomor- row, two days sales are yet to be added to the total.
 The unofficial goal is now $1,0C0,- 900, quarter of million dollars higher than the $750.0O0 quota as- signed the city. Victory House was opened on the Green on We'd nescay of last week, and has been manned daily by crews of volunteers selling bonds and stamps.
 Bond sales at Victory House it- self yesterday were $20,oO0. The city, wide total was $80, ,298.50.
 Chairman J. Francis Smith Of the city war bond committee expressed qualification at the success of the Victory House drive. He predicted that a surprisingly high grand total would be reached before the end of the drive tomorrow night.
 The total was swelled today when Joseph DeLauretis and other mem- bers of the arrangements commit tee for an outing of building supply dealers to be held the 18th visited Victory House to buy 50 books of stamps of varying denominations. The stamp books will be awarded as prizes at the outing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
STRANGE LIFE OF
 TWO BROTHERS
Langley COlIyer, an Elder ly Recluse, Lived Years
 With Blind Brother

New York, Aug. 7-(UP)--Lan- gley Collyer, elderly recluse who since 1909 has lived unseen in an old, barred and shuttered man. sion with his now blind and para lyzed brother, emerged today from the legend-just a softspoken old gentleman with 8 liking for pri- vacy.
 The Collyer brothers. Langley and Homer, whose ancestors came over on the Speedwell, the No. ? May flower, were about to be evicted from the house. described by negro neighbors as definitely haunted, for non-payment of an ancient mort gage. It was expected that eviction would solve the mystery.
 The mystery was half solved Wednesday night by New York Hearld Tribune reporter, Herbert Clyde Lewis, who was sitting on the front steps. of the ramshacklc mansion. He heard a creaking. of shutters and Langley Collycr ap- peared, carrying a cardboard car- ton.
 Lewis tole him bank had fore closed on the house and intended to evice him and his brother next week. It was the first Coliyer had heard of 1t.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
Huge German Armies, Massed Tanks Are Slowly Crumbling Soviet Defense
 in Caucasus; Death Struggle Is On

The Red Army was reported today to have loosed strong drives on the long-quet Rzhev and Volkhov fronts, 700 to 1000 miles north of the Don, in an effort to force diversion of German strength that is steadily crumbling the Soviet defenses in the Caucasus The new Russian attacks against the Nazis' Rzhev salient about 15O miles west of Moscow and around Volkhov which lies between Lake linen and Leningrad, was acknowledged in German official broadcasts but Russian communiques thus far have made no mention of such diversion offensive.
 Allied observers in London however beievd that the Russians striking in force in both northern sectors where German manpower, tanks and planes have been reduced to dangerous minimum that Adolf Hitler
 might go all out in his offensive to seize the Caucasus and it's oil and cut the southern lifeline of British and United States aid to the Sovies What progress the Russians making around Rzhev and Volkhov remained Naz propogandsts who said that in fierce defensive fighting Russian attacks had been broken at both points
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
NO DECISION ON
 SABOTEURS YET
Was Expected By Every body This Morning; But
 It Did Not Come
BY JOSEPH L. MYLER TnitAd PrecS Staff C0rresnOndentl

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, August '. - (UP) - President Roosevelt said today that he had not yet completed reading testimony in the trial of eight Nazi saboteurs here and could not say when he would finish the review.
 Asked if he expected to complete the review of the case today. the President told slis questioner at a 1O:30 a. m. press conference that he could not say.
 Earlier the White House had an- nounced the same thing, but had not made 1t clear whether the Pres ident would have an announcement at the time of his press conference.
 The White House announcement was prompted by publication of an unconfirmed report that six of the saboterlrs would be electrocuted at the district jail here within "A hours.
 White House Secretary William Hassett gave out this statement:
 'The President has not yet con- cluded his reading of the testimony"
 Asked if that meant that the President would not announce the saboteurs' fate today, Ha.ssett said, that's all I have to say"
 It had been expected that the President would reveal the verdict and sentences at his 10:30 a. m. press conference. Hassett's statement did not appear to eliminate the possi- bility that an announcement might be forthcoming some time today,
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The Russian drives, if actually underway in strong force, represent a new desperate attempt on the part of the Soviet high command to draw off the German forces which today struck deeper into the Cau- casus and frightened the southern claw of their pincers upon Stal- ingrad. For three weeks the Rus sians have been striking at the exposed northern flank of the Ger mans around Voronezh, but for a week there has been little Russian headway.
 The Soviets today reported sav- age Russian counter attacks on the northern Caucasus, but their lines buckled and bent back under the sheer weight of the German masses of tanks, infantry and planes at all points except in the Kletskaya sec tor, 70 miles northwest of Stalin- grad.
 Sacrifice units were thrown against the Germans armored tide in an effort to save Stalingrad, the Maikop oil fields. the oil pipeline terminus of Krasnodar, Kropotkin and Vovorossick naval base on the Caucasus Mack Sea coast.
 Tank Drives Halted
 At the same points the German tank drives were stemmed tempo rarily but they could not be stop ped.
 The fiercest fighting still ragged along 70-mile front between Bel aya Gina and Kushchevka in the western Caucasus and around Ko- telnikovsk, 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad where Russians and Germans were reported battling for the city's railroad station.
 Moscow dispatches told of des- perate fighting in an effort to pre- vent the fall of Kropotkin and, since Kropotkin lies 35 miles southeast of the important railroad junction of Titkoretsk, this tended to confirm German calims of the capture of Titkoretsk.
 The Germans claimed the capture of three more Caucasian centers- Jeisk on an arm of the sea of Azov, Timaskevskaya north of KraSnodar and Armavir, vital railroad point and junction of oil pipelines from Maikop and the Groznv Baku fields.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
MAX STEPHAN CONFIDENT HE
 WILL NOT DIE Supreme Court Will Be Asked for Reverse in
 Verdict of Death PRESIDENT IS ONLY OTHER HOPE LEFT HIM Stephan Expected to Get 10 Years; Wife to Be
 Interned
BY ANTHONY c. DE LORENZO Limited Press Staff COrrespOndentl

BY ANTHONY G. DE LORENZO United Press Staff Correspondentl
 Detroit, August 2 = (UP) = Attorneys for Max Stephan, German-born res taurateur convicted of trea- son, planned an appeal to the supreme court today while their client predicted confidently, "they won't hang me. Stephan, a naturalized citizen, was sen tenced to death yesterday for aid ing a German lieutenant escaping from Canadian internment camp Federal Judge Arthur J. Futile set November 13 as date for the execu- tion, which will be carried out at the Federal Reformatory at Milan.
 Verne 0. Anderson, attorney for Stephan, said he would go to Milan tomorrow to see Stephan and his wife and formulate appeal plans.
 Max told me yesterday before sentence was imposed that if it's death, we must appeal" Anderson said.
 Anderson said notice of appeal must be filed within five days of the verdict.
 Meanwhile, U. s. Attorney John c. Lehr sent a telegram to Attorney General Francis Riddle asking per- mission to begin proceedings to re- yoke the citizenship of Mrs. Agnes Stephan.
 Only reversal by the supreme court or intervention by President Roosevelt can prevent Stephan from becoming the first traitor to be exc cuted under the 152-year-old treason law. His conviction was the first for treason since the Pennsylvania Whisky Rebellion of 1794, but in that instance, President Washington par- doned the traitors.
 Stephan aided Oberlieutenant Hans Peter Krug, who escaped from the prison camp at Bowmanville, Ont, last April.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
Henry J. Kaiser Has Won His Battle To
 Produce 7O-Ton Flying Boats In Oregon

Higgins because Of the steel short age.
 Both the war production board and air force officers have em- phasized the need for more cargo planes, but warned that their manu- lecture should not interfere with the construction of combat planes.
 The WIPE spokesman also re- vealed that officials have investi- gated the possibility of developing a 200-ton cargo plane. although &C., ton of that will be delayed about year to contract for engineering drawings.
 Rep. J. B. Poland, D., Cal, asked MT. Roosevelt to name Kaiser to a thigh government position" be- cause of his success as . ship build CT. Kaiser, however, told To- land that he felt he ''can best serve the country by continuing as . hAlildAx."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
HAMILTON FISH DENIES CHARGE
Accused of Receiving Se- cret Retainer of $25,OOO,
 Not in Income Tax

New York, Aug. 7-(UP)-Rep. Hamilton Fish, R.. N. Y. today de- nounced as totally false" published statements that he had received Q secret retainer of $25, 900 from Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo. head of the Dom- inican Republic, in 1889, and was now attempting to explain to the Internal Revenue bureau" why he did not mention the sum in his in- come tax return for that year.
 The assertions were made by the Washington Post, in a dispatch by billiard Stokes, and James H. Causey, chairman of the independ- ent committee of the 18th district, who has been opposing Fish's cam. paign for the Republican nomina- ton from his district.
 '"That is totally false" Fish said. '"The income tax people have never asked me anything about 1t, and furthermore 1t was business trans action in which I acted as an agent in some oil transactions. As an agent I did not have to file any return. It was loss of $12.000.
 There are just three points. First, the internal revenue never asked me anything about 1t. Second. I was actnig as an agent in an oil specu- lation, and in the third place 1t was a total loss." The Internal Revenue Bureau and the Treasury refused to comment on the Washington Post article.
 Fish explained that after half the $25 900 was lost in the oil specula- ton he returned the remainder to Trujillo Fish said the charges were political smear"
 The Washington Post said Fish received the money as 6 credit sub 1 feet to his order, in the National City bank "just 8 few days after Fish made . fulsorne speech in A ]. ANa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07

Chairman Donald M. Nelson con- fcrred with President Roosevelt and said afterward that the plans would be worked out "in short time. The WIPE spokesman said that MT. Nelson Is anxious to get MT. Kaiser into business"
 Kaisers original plane-building program, outlined before congress sional committees, called for conver- sion of several shipyards besides his own Oregon yard to building planes. He said the air freighters could be built without obstructing the Lib erty ship program, possibly using facilities now idle because of the steel shortage.
 One shipyard which might con- ccivably be used in such a program is that of Andrew Jackson Higgins at New Orleans. The maritime commission recently cancelled a Gnni1snt kar 2nO LihAgkn ~hjaa Nttb
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
FLYING FORTRESS
 SMASHED UP LAPS
Shot Five Jap Planes to Pieces, When Attacked
 at Wake Island
BY WILLIAM TYREF

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 Hawaiian Air Force Headquarters, Au- 7-(UP)-The crew of a flying fortress which shot down four, per- haps five, of six Japanese planes, believe the Japanese have very little on Wake Island, where the fortress was attacked.
 The crew took pictures, converted what looked like an easy Japanese victory into a triumph for them selves and brought the flying fort ress back with only three bullet holes in 1t.
 Mai. George E. Glober, 27, of San Angelo, Tex, said the fortress made four runs over Wake before the Japanese planes, including four Navy-O,s and two he believed were German Heinkels or Messerschmitt 19S's, attacked.
 "The Zero just disintegrated and the pieces started to falling out" he said. Tt wasn't fun, but we got a lot fconfidence in our selves out of the fight. We under rated the Japs so long. We don't under-rate them now"
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Red Army Has Embossed Vicious
 Attacks To Block Nazi Advances
Airy Rohrmayer
 Is Commissioner

Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. ] - (UP) - Attorney Francis P. Rohrmayer, prominent Hart ford lawyer, today was ap- pointed State Liquor Control Commissioner, succeeding E. GaynOr Brennan, Stamford, resigned.
 Rohrmayer will serve the un- expired portion of Brennan's term until May l, 1945, at an annual salary of $6OOO.
 Rohrmayer classified himself as an Independent Republican. He said he became a lawyer i'm 1903, after attending Trinity College and Yale Law School.
 He is an expert on cOndem- nation cases.
 Brennan resigned more than a month ago to become cOun- seI for the Connecticut Whole sale Liquor Dealers Association.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
Gandhi Does Not Wish
 To Stab Britain In Back
Says He Is Still Friend of British; India Appeals 10 Roosevelt, Russia, China to Back Independence
 for India
By P. D. SHARMA
(United Press Stan Correspondentl

Limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Bombay, Aug. 7-(UP)- Mohandas K. Gandhi told the All-India Ma tionalist Congress today that T am Britain's friend" and that he has no desire to stab the British in the back although he insists upon mass passive resistance unless India Is granted immediate independence.
 Gandhi addressed the full com- mittee of the congress party as it met to approve his call for nation wide campaign of non-violent re- sistance to British rule.
 "The British may laugh, but I am their friend" he said.
 T do not want to stab them when they are in difficulty and are going down."
 Gandhi's statement of his friend ship for Britain whose rule in In- dia he has fought for 20 years was made, apparently ill reply to pro- tests abroad against his assertion in the original draft of his passive resistance resolution that India'S first move after gaining independ- ence probably would be no "nego- tiate with Japan"
 Before Gandhi spoke the party's full committee voted to send ap- peals to President Roosevelt, Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek of China, and the Soviet ambassador to London, Ivan M. Maisky, urging support for In- dian independence before it is too late"
 The All-India party full commit tee was expected to give full sup port to the call for nationwide pas- siye resistance-with the likelihood of widespread disorders-althoush deadline will be fixed for the actual start of the campaign in hopes of smoe last-minute British consent to the Nationalist demands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
YANKEE PLANES
 BLAST JAPANESE
Caught Japs FlatfoOted to Destroy Ten of Their
 Planes on Ground
BY KARL ESKELUND United Press Staff Correspondent

NOAVCU 1ECSS 0t@h NVAECSpVAAuCAsJ
 U. s. Army Air Force Base in China, Aug 2 - U.P0 - Planes of the United States Bomber Com mand caught the Japanese fatfoot- ed at an airdrome near Canton and destroyed at least 10 grounded enemy planes, 1t was reported off cially today.
 A raid in which no United States planes were lost, was announced a short time after Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, commander of the U. s. air force in China, told me the Japanese were using their best planes and specially trained pilots in a suicidal effort to drive United States air forces out of China.
 The communique said the Jap anese were taken completely by sur prise at the Tienho airdrome. Be- sides smashing the 10 planes as the bombs rained down on the parked craft, several hits were made on runways.
 'The Japs now are making an all- out effort to drive the United States air forces in Central China from their bases, but they'll run head-on against an unbreakable wall" Chem nault said.
 "They are using their best planes new model Zeros which they thought superior to U. s. pursuit ships. The zeros flown In suicide raids against our base at Heng- yang are piloted by men especially trained for combat against Amer icanS."
 Japs After Americans
 Chennault said in an interview that the Japanese were determined to oust the Americans at all costs because the United States planes based in Central China were strong threat to vital areas occupied by the Japanese, especially in the
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himself against charges he was a member of a band of five alleged conspirators who sought to collect and transmit vital American mili- tary secrets to the. Axis. [
 Among witnesses called at the morning session by the defense were Henry Steinbrecher, sexton of Rev. Molzahn's Old Zion church at Philadelphia; and Otto H. Kaupp, a veStryman.
 Several nuns were present in the courtroom and probaLsC will be summoned to testify before the Philadelphia cleric and Mrs. Mol zahh, who has been sitting in the front row each day, are called to the witness stand.
 Trial Slowing Up
 The trial was proceeding slower than expected. At the start of the week, government counsel believed the testimony and final charges would be concluded late tomorrow and the case given to the jury of eight men and four women.
 But the strong croSS-examination of defense witnesses by government attorneys has somewhat delayed the proceedings and the trial probably will go into the middle of next week.
 Thomas J. Dodd, special assistant to the U. s. Attorney General, was questioning each defense witness int ensely.
 For instance, during yesterdays session, devoted entirely by the de- fense to character witnesses for Rev. Molzahn, the government pro- duced dossiers on two of the wit Gerhard KunZe the elder
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
BRITISH BOMBERS
 HIT RUHR AGAIN
Holland, Belgium Are Also Paid Visit Germans Hit
 English Town
BY WILLIAM E. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

'
 London, August '. - CUP) - British heavy bombing planes in strong force attacked the German Ruhr for the third straight day during the night while lighter planes raided airdromes through out Holland and Belgium, it was announced today.
 Six of the planes engaged were lost and on the basis of average Royal Air Force losses of less than 5 per cent it was estimated unoffi- cially that something more than 12O planes attacked the Ruhr.
 Duisberg, one of the key towns of the Ruhr- Rhineland industrial area, one of the greatest inland ports in Europe and center of many war plants including chemicals, was the chief target.
 Germany admitted some material damage by ircendiary and bigh ex- plosive bombs.
 The Germans made savage, though small scale attack on two British areas.
 (Germany said Cambridge, an- cient universitg town and one Of the worlds great cultural centers, and Edinburgh second city of Scot
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
BY JOHN M. MECKLIN Limited Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 7.-CUP)- Henry J. Kaiser, pioneer mass pro ducer of Liberty ships, apparently had won his fight today for a con- tract to construct huge 70-ton fly ing boats to speed men and war materials to world battlefronts.
 A spokesman at the war produc- tion board said agreements may be reached with Kaiser fin the next day or two" to build flying boats Of the Mars type. There was no indication where the planes would be built, but Kaiser has proposed turning his oregon shipyard into a mass production line for the cargo carrying planes with . possible con- struction rate of 5000 a year.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
Don't Delay;
 Buy # Today

Tt has been estimated that l e2 per cent of the 34,SOO,OOO regularly employed salary earn- CTS in the United States are , participating in the payroll plan of purchasing U. s. War Bonds. Probably some of the remaining 3S per cent arc pur- chasing bonds through some other method than payroll de. auctions.
 A small percentage. it is to be hoped, are not buying bonds. It's this small percentage that Is acting as a drag on our war effort. Only full participation of every American in the pur- chase of War Savings stamps and Bonds will win this war for the United NatiOnA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
Rev. Kurt Molzahn Prepared To ell
 His Life History
Character Witnesses Testified in Morning Session; Late This Afternoon Defense Will Put Pastor
 on Stand to Defend Himself
BY JACK AMMAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

Hartford, Conn.,. August 7.- (UP) - The Rev. Kurt spying for Germany and Japan may take the stand in his defense late today Defense attorneys planned to
 sent several character witnesses for Rev. Mozahn before asking take the stand personally to defend
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, Aug. ' = tU.P) - Des- perate Russian collI 2 attacks that annihilated up to 4v per cent of advancing waxegaof German tToops in some sectors today slowed down but failed to halt Adolf3 Hities'D drive into the Caucasus and alnna the southern approaches of StaliMr
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-23
NORTHEkN LIGHT PRESBY-
TERRAIN CHURCH
REV. WILLIS r. BOOTH, Minister
Where Welcome and Worship
Meet"

REV. WILLIS r. BOOTH, Minister
Where Welcome and Worship
Meet"
Franklin at Fourth
Choir Director-George Schmidt
Acting Director-Mrs. Merle jan
ice Pitts.
Organist-Carol Berry Davis.
GAS a.m.-Sunday School. Mr.
Dudley L. Reynolds, Gen. Supt.
1880 am.-Organ Preparation for
Worship. Mrs. Carol Berry Davis
at the organ.
HOO a.m.-Divine Worship.
4:30 p.m.-The Aurora BorealiS
Club will meet at the Church and
will leave Immediately for an out
ing in the country where the meet
ing will be held around the camp
fire. The discussion subject will be
The Christian Home and the
leader will be Miss Betty Nordling.
Many of the young people will
attend the Young Peoples Summer
Conference at Wrangell Institute,
Wrangell, Alaska, June IT. Any
young person desiring to attend
must notify Rev. Mr.. Booth inn
mediately.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-23
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LESSON SERMON FOR
SERVICES ON SUNDAY

At the Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, on Sunday the subject is
Soul and Body"
The following excerpts from the
Lesson Sermon are taken from the
Bible; For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved we have a building
of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens. III
Corinthians)
From Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, by Mary
Baker Eddy: Life is the law of
Soul, even the law of the spirit
of Truth, and Soul is never with
out its representative.
To divest thought of false trusts
and material evidences in order
that the spiritual facts of being
may appear-this is the great at
tainment by means of which we
shall sweep away the false and
give place to the true. Thus we
may establish in truth the tenn
pie, or body, whose builder and
maker is God" pages 427 428)