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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
Yankee I Tanks Roared
 Into Libyan Battle
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could see them lying wrecked, but to make sure we sent out engineers during the night. They completed the destruction of all 25."
 This battle scene is not what one might imagine. Both sides are jockeying for position to strike the blow which will decide the issue in this corridor between the sea and the Qattara depression.
 The Germans know they must not hit too soon or without enough power, the Imperials know they must not give the enemy too much time, and that misf1red counter offensive would increase the danger of an enemy break-through.
 At this part of the front the enemy forces lie in arrowhead shape. The point is at the middle of the front, with the Hanks taper ing back toward the coast west of Fl Alamein and the depression.
 At twilight yesterday the guns were silent and the scene was like picture post card of the desert.
 At midnight, in a chill wind, we heard dogs barking somewhere in the distance.
 Picturesque Backfield
 Then the battlefield suddenly burgeoned with light. Green signal lights sputtered up from the Ger man positions. On the right flank the German guns began firing. Ly- ing in 8 camp bed I could see the red lick of gun flames and then white flares, as if molten ingots had been dropped in the sand. as the shells landed.
 The British planes started to drop flares, like giant candles suspended over the desert, and British bomb- CTS roared overhead, visible against 8 starlit sky. The bombs started to drop only five miles away. Red tracer and signal lights shot high above the German line.
 The tanks started to move out, and I could see them against the greenish- white glare along the front. Machine guns started to crackle and flames leaped up occa- sionally from 8 tank-stalking col- umn using its mobile six-pounder anti-tank guns.
 I went out to have a word with the troops and dropped down with the crew of a battery of 25-pound.- CTS.
 At dawn the gunners fried saul sages over a fire made out of a gasoline tin. They filled the tin with sand and poured gasoline over 1t.
 As he dished out the sausages to the men the battery went into action and sent its first shells screaming through the morning sunlight.
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rent rubber salvage program is completed.
 MT. Roosevelt said the rubber and gasoline problems were interwoven almost hopelessly, but that he still was clinging to the hope that a method would be found to separate them.
 Before the presidents press con- ference, two other officials de- nounced driving as usual" in ref erence to the gasoline rationing program on the east coast. Under secretary of War Robert F. Patter- son and Deputy Petroleum Coordi- nator Ralph K. Davies charged that driving as usual" was exhauSting valuable gasoline supplies in the east and was preventing war work CTS from obtaining the fuel needed to travel to and from work.
 They appealed to motorists to curtail driving as much as possible regardless of personal inconveni- ence."
 Some Happenings
 Other rubber gasoline develop ments:
 i. MT. Roosevelt reported that the yield of the scrap rubber collection campaign was better than the low est pre-campaign estimates and not vet near the highest estimates In a report released from the White House Monday, collections up to last weekend were 334, ,293 tons.
 3. Registration for the east coasts permanent, coupon gasoline ration ing will begin tomorrow in some 3O,O0O schools with more teachers and volunteers on hand than for the sugar registration of every ci- william in the IT Atlantic seaboard rationing states.
 3. oil Coordinator Harold l.. Ickea announced that he had asked the war production board to approve 8 $30, ,OOOO0O pipelinere allocation prof. ect which would bring an estimated 100000 barrels of petroleum into the eastern curtailment area daily
 Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones said that the defense plan corporation had agreed to move an eieht-inch pipeline from Texas to Florida to move gasoline across the northern part of that state.
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Bastile Day in France

0&SGhAG Day lh ETANCC
 Washington, July 8+UP)-Free French officials said today that un- derground resistance groups have broadcast an appeal to the people of unoccupied France to make Bastile day-July 14-a day of dem- onstration against the Germans.
 Copies of the appeal have been forwarded to the French National Committee (De Gaullist headquar- ters) in London.
 Those in the unoccupied zone were called on to display the French tri-color on that day, to walk about their cities wearing their colors in the afternoon and to as- semble and sing the Marseillaise, the French national anthem, at 6:3O p. m.
 Pierre Laval wants a German victory" the appeal said. You want a German defeat. Pierre Laval wants to send French work CTS to Germany. You want your prisoners to come back and you do not want to add to their num- Der.
 Pierre Laval has talked about a certain change He is think ing of replacing Germans in Ger- many by Frenchmen. What you want is to replace Germans in France by Frenchmen, and traitors by patriots"
 "The 18th of July gives you an opportunity to demonstrate your feelings while waiting to impose your will. It is the day to celebrate France and liberty. You will cele- brate 1t with greater. fervor than ever at time when your country has been sold out and liberty sup pressed.
 "Fly the French colors on your houses on the 14th of July. Who would dare reproach you for that on the day of our national fete?
 "In the afternoon go walking around the main streets of your cities displaying our three na- tional colors. At 6:30 at night as- semble and sing the Marseillaise. :"
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 Wilson.
 Request To Motorists
 Motorists are requested, as far as possible, to register in schools nearest to their residence, but 1t will be possible to procure ration books at any of the above -enumer- ated places no matter where the applicant resides.
 All motorists registering during the three-day period will receive basic "A" books. To secure the right to purchase additional gasoline they must apply to the local rationing board for supplemental rationing books. These applications will be distributed at the school regiStra- tion centerS when motorists sign up for the basic allowance cards.
 Volunteers will aid the rationing board in passing on applications for supplemental allotments, beginning next Monday. Attorney James E. Mcknight, who is in charge of se- curing volunteers, reports that many have already offered their services but that many more are still needed. Volunteers may regis ter for morning, afternoon or eve- ming work. They can offer their services by telephoning 3-0346.
 A lengthy four-page form must be filled out in detail by those seeking supplemental gas allot- ment. A principal requirements is that the applicant be using his car to transport other people to and from their work.
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KUNZE BEFORE
 FEDERAL COURT
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to violate the Selective Service Act to which he pleaded innocence was returned here to answer to an indictment charging him and four others with conspiring to divulge national defense information to Germany and Japan.
 Fuehrer of Bund
 Kunze, who became fuehrer of the Bund when Fritz Kuhn was sent to prison several years ago, was the lsst of the group named in the l lrtford indictment to be rounded up for trial. He was captured week ago in Mexico and turned over to this country by Mexican authorities who reportedly apprehended him as he made preparations to escape to the Azores in 8 sea-going launch.
 Kunze was accused here of being an emissary for the conspiracy group to get military information out of this country and to his supe- riors in Germany and Japan. Others Indicted with him were charged with gathering the information, fl- nancing his movements and aiding in his escape to Mexico.
 In the New York indictment which resulted in the round up of 57 top-hight Bund officials, Kunze was charged with failing to notify his draft board of his whereabouts conspiracy to evade the Selective Service Act by advising Bund members to resist military service in the United States, and conspiracy to conceal Bund afflnation on alien registration cards. He was placed under $50,000 bond.
 Another named in the New York indictments was Dr.. Otto Willu- melt, Chicago, mid-western Bund leader, who has pleaded guilty tc the espionage charge here. August Klapprott, Union City, N. J., east ern division Bund leader, who was 8 witness before the Hartford grand jury, also was among those indicted
 The Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran minister and one of those indicted on the eSpion- age charge, petitioned the court to- day for bill of particulars to com- pei the government to give more de- tails as to the charges.
 Judge Smith took the petition under advisement and indicted that because of the development of Kunze's arrest, the trial might have to be postponed from the 18th to some later date.
 James w. Carpenter, counsel for the pastor, said the Rev. Molzahn knew Kunze only slightly" but was "very well" acquainted with the bund leaders father who Is 8 Phil- adelphia choir master.
 The elder Kunze, said Carpenter was resolved to testify here as witness for my client"
 The Rev. Molzal1n, declared Car penter, was "baffled as Q Lutheran minister" to be suspected of espion- age when some 120O Lutherans some of them his friends, have been murdered by the Nads in Ger many"
 Arrest Of Keegan Hartford, Conn, July 6-(UP)- Wilbur V. Keegan, counsel for the German-American fund, was in GUS tody here today for federal author itieS in New York where he was in- dicted with more htan c score oi bund officers on 6 charge of con. spiracy to violate the selective ser. vice act.
 Keegan has been attorney tOT thu
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dicated that the Russians might be making their main diversion at tempt in that area, but the Nazl. dominated Vichy radio also reported that a strong Soviet counter-bloW had been aimed at the Nazis in the Taganrog area, near the coast or the Sea of Azov. That attack on the southern front might be designed to throw the enemy off balance and prevent 8 Mes drive toward RostoV.
 Nazis Throw In Reserves
 Dispatches to the Moscow news papers tonight emprasized again that the enemy was throwing great reserve strength into the drive on the south-central front, and said that the Germans also had advanc- ed on the Kalinin sector, north west of Moscow.
 Red Star said that Russian forces on the Kalinin front had thrown back three strong attacks but finally were outfianked and forced to retire to new positions, from which a counter attack recaptured three villages. The battle was continuing, however, with the Germans edging slowly forward. Other fronts were reported quiet.
 (The German high command said today that the Russians were being pushed southeastward in the Don Basin following capture of Voronezh but made no specific claims as to positions. Turkish reports said that the Germans were believed headed for Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga, in an effort to isolate the whole Caucasus sector and that 1t was rumored Soviet Marshal Sen- yon Timoshenko and British Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell had conferred on Allied operations)
 Russian counter attacks are con- tinuing relentlessly on various sec tors, and have diverted consider. able" enemy mechanical strength, dispatches from the front reported, but 1t was not yet indicated whether Timoshenko had Seen able to launch . major ounter-offensive.
 Previously, Russian counter -at- tacks had been reported develop ing northwest of Vooronzeh Gin the Orel Sector) and on the enemy's southern flank (near Kharkov) but with results uncertain"
 More Air Strength
 Both sides, however, were throw ing greater air strength into the Don river struggle, attempting to establish local air superiority in the most important battle zones. The Germans were hammering Russian formations, communication lines and railroad functions day and {, night, but were meeting formidable opposition, Soviet press dispatches said.
 Russian Stormovik planes and bombers were attacking enemy air bases and raking German troop concentrations, particularly to pre- vent establishment of bridgeheads.
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Nazis Hurled Masses
 Of Troops At Soviets
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Some Russian forces, dispatches acknowledged, have been out1anked by the enemy offensive, but most of these still are fighting and striking substantial blows" at the enemy rear lines. One such unit held city for three days against repeated enemy tank and motorized infantry assaults, battling with artillery, anti-tank guns and hand grenades until 162 enemy tanks and II planes were destroyed.
 On another sector, strong Ger man forces attacked 8 height de- tended by Soviet tanks which killed Hundreds" of enemy troops.
 "On sector to the southwest oi Stary Oskol, the Germans disre- garded losses and threw fresh re- serves into the battle" the official news agency Tass said. Thirty tanks and an infantry regiment supported by aircraft attacked our positions. Twelve tanks were de- stroyed and more than TOO soldiers killed. Prisoners also were taken. 1O Out 1OdnW0y 4AAC
 The Axis offensive, it now seemed certain, was designed to cut the Rostov- Moscow railroad line and if possible break through the hinge" between the Russian southern and central armies. That objective has not yet been attained, although the railroad may have been severed at some points.
 The German high command then would be in position to turn south toward Rostov, striking into the flank and rear of the Soviet south- ern armies or forcing them to fall back toward the Volga and the Cas- plan sea. At the same time, 1t has been indicated, the Germans would attempt to break into the Caucasus from the Crimean peninsula or cross the Black Sea.
 On Egyptian Front
 On the Egyptian front, British mobile units were reported to have stabbed as much as 30 miles west of the main battle line near Ell Alamein, to have destroyed a num- Der of enemy tanks and taken more prisoners. Richard D. McMillan, United Press correspondent at the front, reported one sector in which 25 tanks were destroyed by g Brit ish lightning column, aided by AL lied air attacks.
 That the Axis is moving up re- Inducements semed almost certain, despite heavy losses due Co British and American air bombardment. Axis planes made another heavy at- tack on the British island of Malta, where nine Axis craft were shot down and probably eight British planes were lost. This was regarded as meaning that Axis conveys were crossing the Mediterranean to Rommel.
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bund since 104O and recently ape peared as counsel for pr. Otto Will- umeit, Chicago, mid-western bund leader, who pleaded guilty to an- espionage charge in federal court at Hartford.
 FBI agents seized Keegan late last night at a hotel and held him for arraignment before s U. s. com missioner.
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NAVY MOTHER SAVES STAMPS

Santa Cruz, Cal - (UP) = Mrs. Dante Canepa, mother of five navy sons, is piling up nice postage stamp collection. Her latest letters received showed Robbie and Dante in Scotland, Manuel and Augie in theh Panama Canal zone, and Aldo at Pearl Harbor.
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SECRET GROUPS
 HARD AT WORK
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of unrest through occupied Europe.
 Sixty-two alleged Communists were sentenced to death in what the Nazi-controlled Bulgarian radio de- scribed as "the biggest political trial in Bulgaria for many years"
 In Belgium, anti-Axis violence spread rapidly despite Germany's deportation of pro-Allied patriots, underground reports reaching Lon- don disclosed.
 A factory producing war materials for the Nazis was set afire in Brus- sells.
 A time bomb was discovered on a railway between Antwerp and Ger many, disrupting services for 4S hours.
 Fascist Leader Jean De Mare, burgomaster of an unidentified Bel gian village, was reported shot and killed in his offlce by an asSailant wearing gendarme uniform.
 Increasing Naz apprehension over Allied invasion threats was re- vealed in reports from Ypres, Bel gium. There the Germans were said to have installed 8 new alarm device for use in event of an Allied channel crossing.
 The Nazis were reported to have ordered every Ypres citizen to re- turn home and bolt all windows and doors when the alarm sounds. Violators will face the death penalty the occupation authorities an- nounced.
 Armed Polish guerrillas, striking under cover of night at Nazi gar- risons, were reported to have cre- ated a new problem for depleted occupation troops. Advices reaching London said the Germans had been forced to organize their own militia to quell the Polish uprisings, re- questing in newspaper advertise ments the services of all former war veterans now too old for active duty.
 The German radio charged that anti-Axis agents in Hungary were melting discontent by spreading false reports of heavy Hungarian losses on the Russian front.
 Stockholm dispatches, quoting re- ports from Oslo, said K. J. Kris tenssen, police doctor at the Ges- tapo prison in Oslo, had been ar- rested for protesthing against all- treatment of prisoners.
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Salvador has placed 6 cefling price on kerosene which is used ex- teusively by the masses.
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One day on the planet Mercury Is equal to about seven days on our earth.
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Long Range Duel

London, July 8 -(UP)- British and German long range guns duelled across the Dover strait in the early hours today for tho first time in several WeekA
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Enemv Waters Mined

London, July 8 -(UP)- British bombers during the night and early morning mined enemy waters and attacked shipping of the Dutch coast, an air ministry communique said today.
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| ply po1nt m BrltlSn CrucKS WlCn British drivers and then set the British tank brigade with which they moved into the front line.
 The purpose of the action was to give the Americans training in actual battle practice, and thus they were in the role of "combotant ob- servers" when they swung into ac- tion against the enemy.
 An American observer who watch ed the battle said:
 we've proved that the General Grants are excellent in every re- spect and we have learned some very valuable lessons"
 Other American observers and tank experts emphasized that the tank was superior to anything the Germans possess, and said this was shown by the fact that four Axis tanks were knocked out without a loss to the Americans.
 So far as I have been able to learn, the Americans have not par ticipated in any fights since they tried out their punches that day.
 Another observer expressed re- spect for the German 88 millimeter guns and admiration for the cour- age of British crews.
 "The American tanks certainly packed terrific punch but the Nazi's 88-millimeter gun IS redoubt- able and he has plenty of them" " he said. T want to say this, that I never saw braver men than the British tank boys. They know no fear and they fight on and on."
 The American men presumably were flown here from the United States.
 PICK UP THREE
 By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
 With British armored force on the edge of No Mans Land, Egypt, July 7,-8 A. M.-UP)-British guns are keeping the German on the move while stalking parties of tanks, artillery and infantry make lightning forays against them day and night.
 From the turret of a generals armored car I watched British shells furrowing enemy tank and trans port positions until the whole hori- zon spouted smoke and dust.
 Artillery batteries are massed be- hind us in half circle, stretching across a scrubby plateau along the dry, rusty rim of the escarpment. Just across dip in the plateau more of the British guns are at work. Still farther away another lot is hammering as fast as 1t can fire from dominating high ground.
 Twenty-Five pound guns of the three concentrations put down a barrage in follow-my leader fash ion.
 The British are carrying out the slogan to hit the enemy hard wher- ever they find him.
 "Brassing Him Up"
 The general commanding this armored division, engaged in per- Sonal reconnaissance in the front line, said to me:
 We are brassing him up.
 "We have destroyed 25 German tanks here in the last two days with artillery or armored raids. We
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YOUR AUTO TIRES
 IN GRAVE DANGER

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GAS CARDS TO
 BE GIVEN OUT

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Evening star., 1942-07-12
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Ne1vs
Week End Finds Residents
Entertaining in General
Mr. and Mrs H. E. Burton Give Dinner:
Mrs. M. G.. Foster Hostess at Luncheon

guests were Mrs. Hector Lazo, Mrs
Smith McKann and Mrs. William B
Wellons of Key West, Fla. who is
the house guest of Mrs. Joseph Hey
and Miss Marjorie Schall.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Wohlgemuth were
hosts Wednesday evening at din
ner party for 10 guests In their home
on Florida street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl o. Kunde have
as their guest Miss Helen Menden-
hall of Seattle.
Mr. Edward Bowie has as his
guest Mr.. Leigh Carter of Washing
ton, who is spending several weeks
before joining his parents, Gen. and
Mrs. william v. Carter in their
summer home at Shelton Harbor,
r. I.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. Devereux
of Bradley Lane have as their guest
the formers mother, Mrs. John
Ryan Devereux, who has returned
from Atlantic City.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles Beach have
as their guest Miss Jean Royce of
New Haven, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Newbold of
Brooklyn are the house guests of
Mrs. Newbold's brother-in-law and
sister, DR.. and Mrs. r. Graham
Lamb.
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Brooks with
their daughter, Martha Jane Brooks,
left Thursday for Virginia Beach,
where they will spend one week at
the New WaverN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas r. Offen-
bacher have as their guests the
latter's sister, Mrs. George Steidel
of Hartford, Conn, and Mrs. Will
liam Kinsley Of Salem, Va.
Mrs. Andrew Snow and her
Evening star., 1942-07-12

Week ends continue to be popular
for parties in Chevy Chase and fol
q number of residents leaving or
vacation trips.
A delightful dinner party, followed
by bridge, was given by Mr.. ano
Mrs. Harold E. Burton Friday eve-
ming. The guests included Mr.. ano
Mrs. Otis B. johnson, Mr. and Mrs
Harold Dotterer, Mr.. and Mrs. G
Kibby Munson, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Helmuth and Mr.. and Mrs
Roy Joroloman,
Mrs. Miller C. Foster entertained
Friday afternoon at an attractive
luncheon in compliment to her
sister, Mrs. r. Wingo Hagood OF
Spartansburg, s. G. Later IN the
afternoon they played bridge.
Another interesting luncheon was
given by Mrs. George v. Graham in
compliment to Miss Betty Butler OF
Altoona, Pa, who is their house
guest Miss Betsy Graham will leave
today for Dahlgren, Va, where she
will be the guest of 1t. Comdr. and
Mrs. H. l.. Reiter.
Mrs. Francis Eugene Somers was
hostess Friday evening at shower
and supper party to IS guests enter
tanning in the home of her parents,
DR.. and Mrs E. Flavella Koss, in
compliment to Mrs. Robert Williams.
Mrs. Robert L. Jarnagin enter
tanned Thursday afternoon for II
guests at a luncheon and bridge
party.
Mrs. William T. Pollard enter
tanned at luncheon Wednesday in
compliment to Mrs. Frederick w.
Lemly of Haverford, Pa, who is the
house guest Of Mrs. William G.
Schofield in Bethesda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard M. Bollinger
we're hosts Tuesday evening at a
bridge and supper party In compli-
ment to Miss Virginia Seal Of
Swarthmore. Pa, who is the house
guest of her mother, Mrs. Ernest
Febrey.
Mrs. Morton l.. Ring. with Mrs.
Dwight l.. Crays, were hostesses at
a luncheon party Wednesday in the
home of Mrs. Ring. Among the