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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

spotted Jap following me about 10 yards behind.
 T kept right on as I knew l couldn't hit anything with my Jap pistol unless I was on top of 1t.
 Jap Is Killed
 We both moved forward until l figured he was about five yards be- hind me, then l whirled around quickly and caught him completely by surprise. Before he had time to do more than get up, I put my pis- tol against his chest and pulled the trigger. The explosion knocked him over backwards.
 T knew had to get out fast, and I lunged for the underbruSh and started crawling"
 Every Japanese in the neighbor- hood had been awakened and they poured out of their camps to see what the shooting was about. Four emerged from a grass hut near a clearing. Amerine ducked behind log. Two disappeared down the trail, but the other two sat on the log behind which Amerine was crouching.
 That was just about the last straw,' he continued. All I could do was lay there while these two sat on the log talking. It was get ting close to dawn and I imagined I could see it getting light in the east. I had to be away from there by sunup.
 Two More Japs Down
 T rose up quietly and with one roundhouse swing clipped both Japs on the head with the butt of my re- volver. One of them stayed down but the other tried to get up. I hit him again and could feel his skull cave in under the impact of tht blow. I must have lost my head tenn porarily for I went back and hit tht first fellow again to make sure"
 Then a marine was able to make his way safely along the edge ol the grove and continue his journey east.
 That was the sixth day and was in pretty bad shape" he said The coral had torn my Japanese shoes to shreds; the heels had come of and the nails were cutting hole. in my feet. was just about fam. ished and was bitten all over my body by insects.
 Heard Our Planes
 q just had to make better time and I deserted the coconut grove and walked along a trail that par. alleled the coast. Overhead I coulc hear our airplanes and that madt me excited. covered 8 lot O ground that day and never saw Jap, but I did come across severa of their deserted camps.
 "The last encounter I had witt the enemy was early today when came along the trail and overtool onle going my way. came acros him so suddenly didn't see hin until he saw me. He took hast. shot at me, but before he coul, shoot again was in the brush. H didn't bother to chase me. I gues : 1t was a one man patrol, for didn't see anyone else until fe1 hours later when I stumbled int oen of our outposts. Those Marine were the best sight I ever hope t see>"
 Physicians said he would be a , fit as ever, with a few days res and a few solid meals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Soviet Guard Troops
 Smashing Nazis Back
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over 400 of the enemy and destroyed three tanks and two armored cars,' the noon communique said.
 Naturally, the Russians could as- certain only a fraction of the Ger man losses.
 But failing to take Stalingrad by storm, the Germans had set it on fire by dropping thousands of incen- diary bombs in daylight attacks, the Communist party organ Pravda re- ported.
 PalI of Smoke Over City
 A pail of smoke covered the city and ferocious fighting ragged from house to house, courtyard to court yard and street to street.
 Pravda said the Germans had hoped their shock divisions, tank and artillery would take the city quickly, but because of the unrelent- ing resistance, the Germans had in- tensified bombing attacks, and their planes still dropped incendiaries by the thousands causing many fires | in the ruins.
 Stalingrad had been bombed from the outset of the battle and shelled and bombed at the same time for days and there was little left for flames to destroy.
 The Russian air force was en- gagged in an unequal but all-out fight. Russian fighters had engaged in 55 group dog fights in the last three days, shot down 50 German planes and destroyed IS on the 1 ground.
 German and Russian positions were separated by only several yards. They fired point-blank ct each other, fought with bayonets until they were broken and then used the butts of their rifles for clubs.
 The Russians were trying to sub- due the holocaust the fire bombs had caused, and at the same time attacked the Germans in the streets and in houses. often fighting from floor to oflor, in an effort to recover lost psitins.
 Pravda said tens of thousands of German corpses filtered combat areas; they choked corridors, stair cases and courtyards of houses. each of which had been the scene of murderous hand to-hand battle.
 Break Through Germans
 The noon communique said Rus sian forces, fighting for an inhabit. cd locality on the northwestern front, had broken through and pressed the Germans back. A coun- ter-attack was repulsed. more thar 200 Germans killed. and Soviet troops captured six trench mortars several machine guns and prisoners
 However, the communique ac. knowledged that the Germans, "ai very heavy cost" had captured height and an inhabited locality ir the Mozozvh arear of the eastern Caucasus. where they were trying to drive some 60 miles to the oFoE- ny oil fields.
 Soviet forces destroyed i've Ger. man tanks ln the M0zd0k area. be- sides Killing many 0ermans,
 tfiadlo Paris broadcast German report that violent lighllng was g0' lng on ln the nzheY region. Tllt Russians began an offensive q month ago % destroy the Rzhev. 0xhatak~VyaElna salient that teeei MonooW, Rxllev Is the key point nI the sailfnt'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

universal draft of men, materials and wealth.
 Asked whether he favored such draft, Knox replied:
 "In abstract fashion, it is sound principle. Everyone must agree with it. But 1t is rather difficult to work out in detail. This administration Is working toward that goal-uni- versal sacrifice. That's what totah- tartan war means"
 Asked whether he was in sym pathy with the Legion's endorse ment of a lowering of the draft age to IS, Knox said he didn't notice" that such action had been taken. But he did recall that the Legion went on record as favoring continu- ation of voluntary enlistments to meet Navy personnel needs.
 Commenting on published reports that the armed services were assum- ing more and more the job of re- porting the war for the American press, Knox said the only such tend- ency he knew about was what the Marines were doing.
 The Marine corps, he said, is ac- cepting for enlistment some younger newspapermen and training them tc be regular fighting Marines. These men serve as combat reporters, writ ing features stories rather than cov- ering spot news.
 They write what the newspaper correspondent does not see because the combat reporters are in the thick of 1t, he said
 T think we all ought to feel { great sense of pride at the lone chance these men are taking to gel the news" he said. Tt is very ad' mirable and creditable to the pro- fession. I have to retrain my owr people-on the Chicago Daily New! from going on every commando raid"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
INTERNATIONAL
 HIGHWAY RUSHED
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 leo. Guatemala and Fl Salvador have a good connecting highway. And in South America. all coun- tries are connected by the Pan American highway.
 American engineers and construc- ton gangs are working on the Alas ka highway. which Is proceeding on schedule.
 Mexican engineers and woEkmen, aided by American machinery and credits. are paving and improving thelr part Of the highway.
 Ia central America, the United States Ia spending t2000O, 600 Co build "pl0neer" military road.
 Negotiations to bridge the final gap between Central America and South America are now proceeding. 6nee the road reaches Panama, N will encounter iuneles uheEe high
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Reporting a typical Stalngrad battle, the newspaper Red Fleet told how a detachment of NaI tommy gunners installed themselves in q four-story building.
 Russians, armed with grenades and machine guns, attacked the building. They rushed the entrance and fought their way up the stair case. cleaning 1t out room by room. By the time the Russians had won the building the ground outside was filtered with the bodies of slain Nazis, tossed from the windows.
 "In the Stalingrad area, flerce fighting continued" the Soviet noon communique said. Soviet units re- pulsed enemy attacks and on various sectors advanced"
 Nazis Fail to Gain
 The government newspaper Iz- yestia said the Germans had failed to gain in the last few days, despite the most smashing attacks they could muster. IT.. situation still was serious, Izvestia said, but the de- lenders, in the 29th day of one Of the most violent battles in history were hurling back repeated assaults and infiicting extremely heavy losses"
 Front-line dispatches reported that the Russians had counter-attackeo strongly and forced the Germans tc retreat from several districts.
 German prisoners said shock diyi- sions sent to Stalingrad had suf- fered enormous losses and many regiments had had to withdraw fol reorganization. Single battalions. the prisoners were quoted, were being formed of what had been two bat talions.
 Soviet artillery and trench nor. tar crews destroyed 10 tanks and A trucks. An artillery unit wiped ou
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(Continued from Page D home. One of the youths answered and, when Bracket appeared sus- picious, drew Mrs. O'Connell to the telephone, warning her not to re- veal her predicament.
 But when Bracket asked if she were in trouble, she answered "YeS.''
 Bracket drove to the O'Connell farm with his daughter, Harriett, 35, stopping to pick up O'Conneu at blacksmith shop.
 When they reached the farm they were confronted by the armed youths. Dubay allegedly fired at Brackets feet when Bracket recahed for a shotgun in his car.
 Then Smith and Dubay kept the family at gunpoint in the house, while they waited for the children to return from school.
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ran for U. s. senator two years ago, also wants to run for the state house of representatives.
 Sidney wilson, Hartford, is a can- didate for the state senate.
 The Socialist-Labor party filed a petition, listing a full slate of state officers. They were: Governor. JoS- eph c. Borden. Jr.: iieutenant-gov- ernor, Prank Venezia: secretary Of state, James c. Hutchin; treasurer, Otto Ruckser: comptroller, John D. Carlson, and attorney general, Charles l.. Woodin.
 Mrs, Woodhouse said a petition Of James ?. Butler. New Haven, 70 run for the state senate on the Lac Dor party Of Connecticut ticket. had been approved.
 RejecEed was joint petition Of James Y. Mccarthy and Edward o. Mlehonsky, Norwich, as candidates for state representatives 0n the so- GiglisI ticket Their petitions should have been flled Individually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
HEAVY BOMBERS
 IN MIDDLE EAST
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rn both of the Sept. 13 raids the bombers dived repeatedly to 1,500 feet to machine gun search4lgnts and the ack-ack batteries.
 Demolition and incendiary bombs turned scores of buildings over wide radius at both targets into charred rubble. Pilots said the vail of anti-aircraft fire Tobruk batteries had sent up at the start dWindleo at the end of the raid to the ire of three or four guns.
 Naval fuel tanks at Tobruk were set on fire, and huge explosions were observed in Tobruks western gasoline storage area.
 One TObruk Tragedy
 George Palmer, United Press staff correspondent accredited to the British Mediterranean fleet, was aboard a 11O-foot launch that participated in the recent sea- borne raid on TObruk and was an eyewitness to the scene described in the following dispatch.)
 With the British Mediterranean Fleet, Sept. 18-(Delayed)-lUP)- For an hour, while the destroyer Sikh cruised in an endless circle her rudder jammed but her guns barking at shore batteries ana swarms of Axis bombers, her sister ship. the Zulu, steamed at her slde yainly fighting to save l.cc--.
 It was the last battle for both They were lost in the sea-borne raid on Tobruk, Libyan port ot en- try for Axis supplies, on Sept. Is:
 When we last saw the Sikh she was ablaze at the stern. A Wnltt plume poured from the fire, mlngnne with the dense black of a smoke screen she was laying down.
 The heroic and skillful seaman, ship that went into the vain eftor' to save the Sikh and Zulu may now be revealed.
 AS flames burned fiercely in hel stern. the Sikh's gunners kept up constant barrage against the attacK ing planes, despite the beating sh' was taking from the shore guns Then her rudder jammed and sh' was seen proceeding in circle.
 The Zulu went to her aid, ne guns booming an answer to tn shore batteries. Finally, her cap tain sent a message to the Sikh:
 Sorry, We Must Leave
 Sorry. We'll have to leave vol now"
 The Zulu then had gaping hot in her side which caused a bad hs to starboard and which had force' her to abandon the battle. Unde heavy fire, her crew had passed tow to the Sikh, but a lucky shei severed the line. A second one wa secured, but the plan to bring tn Skkh home had to be abandoned.
 The Zulu limped along until, ! the late afternoon. she was hit b dive -hombers. Her personnel wa transferred to another vessel an she was taken in tow, but late sank.
 I had asked to travel aboard tn Sikh at the outset Of the expedi ton. But Allen was assigned { he- and I was assigned to tn launch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

cer Harvey took him by the shoulders and sped him from the courtroom to the eellhlock. Earlier in the hearing Judge ualfney had warned salinarai 10 stand still and tO make no disturbance,
 The accused, most oi whose Ar- resls have come from trouble with policemen, has 24 hours in which lo flle nellee ol an appeal. ii he fiies such notice, the state whl ask icF extremely high bond.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

gay construction work is out of the question.
 Engineers have decided on estabs llahing a ferry system, 70 the port oR TiiTb0, on the Gulf of UFaba, in northern oolllnhla-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22

in the courtroom for the first time in many weeks following an illness.
 one juror. Of Italian descent. was excused by the state without qlless tlonine, Many 0f the Veniremen were asked li they were pfeJudleed against the Italian Faee or would let the fact thai the principals were Italian Influence thcir opinion.
 Os 90 jurors summoned to appear thls morning eight were absent and ia were eRused beiore the qnes- Aanafuw stasfaA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Lost Marine Fighting Plane Pilot Back Safe
Lieut.. Arlerine, 23, of Laurence, Kansas, Missing
 Since Aug. 3l, Trekked Days, After Railing Out
BY ROBERT c. MILLER Limited Press Staff CorrespOndent)

Marine Headquarters in the Solomon Islands septem Amerine 2S arrived at Marine headquarters today clad rly in his shorts after killing four Japanese with rock and captured pistol and trekkng seven days tnrougn nrennu infested territory with almost no food
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
News About Moresby

NeWS ADOub VAVICSDy
 Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, Sept. 9 -(UP)- A big force of Japanese planes, signals apparently mixed, dropped tons of bombs harmleSsly in underbrush yesterday B. miles up the New Guinea coast from Port Moresby, it was announced today.
 Whether the Japanese planes ln- tended to attack Port Moresby or the Ioribaiwa area, 32 miles inland where Japanese forces had driven across the Owen Stanley mountains, was not clear.
 Twenty seven enemy medium bombing planes, escorted by fight CTS, made the raid. Their bombs all dropped harmlessly in the Red scar bay area along the coast, and caused neither damage nor cas- ualtieS.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur's me- dium bomber planes extended a big United Nations offensive to the Solomon islands, in support of the United States marine forces now holding the southern end of the is- lands.
 A communique said the bomberS had attacked airplane dispersal areas in a night raid but that dark ness prevented observation of re- suits.
 1 It was indicated that the raid waS aimed at Japanese aerial reinforce ments being sent southward to Jolr in attacks on the marines.
 Allied fighter planes continued tt smash at the communication llns of the Japanese who had driver across the Owen Stanley mountains to threaten Port Moresby.
 The fighter planes yesterday at tackled with cannon and machine guns that stretch of the enemy lint leading back to the Buna base, o1 the north New Guinea coast, iron Kokoda, on the northern slope O the mountains.
 They destroyed a bridge in addi tion to machine gunning and can nonading installations.
 Unofficial reports said that tn bridge destroyed was an lmportan wire and rope bridge over tn Kumusi river between Buna ant Kokoda.
 There was no news of fighting il the Ioribaiwa area except that pa trol activities continued and tha the main Japanese and Australian forces had not contacted.
 A headquarters spokesman an | A1lind eta vessel, torpedoed several weeks az of the York peninsula at the north eastern tip of Australia, had nov reached an Australian port and wa being reconditioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
Port Moresby Threat
 Bad Spot In War News
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is not going to be opened until Brit ish and American tacticians say we are ready to do it successfully, the remarks of Brig. Gen, Ira c. Baker, reported today, become important.
 General Baker is quoted as strongly supporting that group which believes that Germany can be destroyed from the air. There still is an impressive number of ground men" who contend that Germany can really be whipped only in the field.
 Since these latter, however, ad- init that air-raids are valuable, even essential, to softening- up the Nazis for frontal attack, why rot let the air-crowd go ahead and prove that they can eliminate the need for the ground phase. If they fail, they will, in any case, have greatly fa- cilitated the work of an invasion which might be ready for launching successfully by next spring or sum- mer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-22
COMMUNISTS ARE
 OFF STATE TICKET

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SECRETARY KNOX EXPECTS ATTACK

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JUDGE GAFFNEY
 GIVES SENTENCE

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STOCKHOLM IS
 AUTHOR OF STORY.

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POTATO WASHER
 BEAT KIDNAPERS

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UNITED NATIONS
 ON SEA CONTROL
(NEA Radiophoto)

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q froze to the spot Aue sSiVi
 yelled again and I knew darn well he was challenging me. He was only ahout i00 yards away and l could ses him in the moonlight siihouetted s~sinsk the ocean. There was only e;.e thing to do. That was to try lo bIuff hlm. so I yelled rlgnt , pack 7: sf hirn lIEe q Jap with . moushful ol .'ef ,s., nofstoes and cussed hell out Of
 siI sro make # more emphatic. @agsd my hand at him and tlsn
 ss5Fled Sallline lelsuFfly toward uls ls soronuls. figuring eacn step ~en,"
 n niy lest and tnaf k'n es1 Dh''
 Esge m,,et hove been tempofarils k.2ssiasf sr he didn't rhoot and %r6s fhs sroyt safeiy' ' started Y FsrN1 thresgll fhe pNnRYvsnhn ans .. iMa mural Ias Meg alqn& 70 aeoal }. 1h mlnuleS Nilen ! leN<ss tAsk -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-26
Old Age Tax
Quota To Be
Met--Mangmi
City May Not Reach Sl43,=
500 Item Set Up in
Budget

A prediction that Water
burians required to pay the
old age assistance tax will
pay in sufficient numbers to
meet the state-assessed quota
of $135,OO0 by the Monday
deadline was made today by
Tax Collector Humbert Man.
gini. He said he doubted,
however, that payments by
the deadline would reach the
total of $143,500 estimated
in the 1912 city budget.
Collections at press hour had
passed the 100000 mark, but Col
lector Mangini expressed the belief
that the days total would be below
yesterdays S9,647 and Tuesdays fig
ure Of Just less than that amount.
Long lines were in evidence in the
city hall today as scores flocked in
to paw the So assessment. Unless
payment is made by Monday, a
penalty Of 81 will be added.
Mr.. Mangini said that many pay
ments on delinquent personal and
real property accounts were also be-
ing made. These. he said, the the
result of thousands of notices sent
out during the past week by the city
accountants, Barrow, Wade g.
Guthrie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-26
LATE REALTY NEWS

The following papers in con-
nectiOn with real estate transac-
tiOns have been filed at the Of
flee Of Town Clerk Mary c. Kill
martin:
MORTGAGE DEEDS
DOmenic CastelanO to the First
Federal Savings & Loan AssOcia-
ton of Waterbury, property on
Glendale drive, $4,000.
WARRANTY DEEDS
The American Brass company
to Samuel and Elizabeth J.
Slater, property on White Oak
Lane, between East Main street
and Plank road.
Charles LOrensen to John G..
and Adrienne E. Niedmann, prop
erty at the corner Of Suffolk
street and Essex avenue.
QUIT CLAIM DEEDS
Michele and FilOmena Mastro-
donate to James Mastrodonato,
property on West Main street.
Home Owners Loan Corp. to
Benjamin BObienski, property on
Stanrod avenue.
MORTGAGE RELEASES
Razalia StandarOski to An
thOny Ciesinski.
COnstantiOn Clemente to Mi
chele NacleriO and Rosario Mac
IeriO.
Carrie II. LOrensen to Charles
LOrenSen.
J. E. Smith & Co., Inc, to
DOmenic CasteIanO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-26
The Heavens In March
Observe Lunar, Eclipse-Sun on Vernal Equinox;
Leo and The Sickle
BY DIR. CLEMENT S. BRAININ
OF The Columbia University Observatory Staff

junction of the three strokes of the
"Y" is the star cluster Praesepe, or
Beehive, which is visible to the lln-
aided eye, as a hazy patch of light.
A small telescope is sufficient to re-
solve it into a group of eighth mag
nitude stars, which move through
space together as gravitationally
united system.
Leo, the Lion, lies east of Cancer
and contains the first magnitude
star Regulus, the royal star. This is
a fine bluish-white star similar in
color to Rigel in Orion. 1t lies at n
distance OF about seventy light-years
from the earth and sun and its lum-
mostly Is equivalent to about one
hundred suns joined into one. Re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-26
CUBANS mime" ON THEIR FARMS
FOR WAR PRECIOUS MANGANESE ORE
nv NEA Service

BY NEA service
Scores OF Cuba's farmers have be-
come part-time miners" to help
Uncle Sam get strategic war ma
terial Number One-manganese.
Ofiicials of the Cuban American
Manganese corporation, looking
around the territory near their
mines, found that on hundreds OF
farms in the vicinity there were
outcroppings of rocks which con-
tanned manganese ore. So the word
went out TO small farmers:
Here Is new way to add to
your income. Bring the mangan-
csc ore to us and we will pay you
well for it."
The result has been that in the
farming district contiguous to the
Cuban mines it looks almost like
prison farms. Everywhere peasants
are to be seen breaking rocks, put
tingfi ore into bags and hauling
them TO designated places in OK
carts or even in wheel barroWS
These farmer miners vary in their
production from four tons per year,
on little farms, to $500 tons on big
ones. But added up, the result was
quite significant-100,00O tons of ore
last yaer.
The war has either cut off or
curtailed American imports of man
ganese from Russia, the African
Gold Coast, India and Brazil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-26
SIX ENLISTED men
KILLED IN CRASH

Enid, Okla, Feb. 26-(Up)-six
enlisted army men were killed early
today and 26 were injured when the
bus on which they were riding was
struck by q Rock Island freight
train near here during a binding
snow storm.
Of the 26 injured. 10 were hos
pitatalized. Two men were not ex-
pected to live, authorities said.
Capt. G. w. Hammond, public re-
1ations officer for the Army Air
Corps Flying school here, said the
men were returning to the base
three and one half miles southwest
of Enid aboard an Enid Transported
ton bus when the accident occurred
shortly after a. m.