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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
The War Today

RUSSlA-Nazi drives on three
southern fronts slowed up.
EGYPT-British counter-attack
gains five miles as British
rout Nazi carrier planes.
POLAND-Gctapo chief killed in
clash with guerrillas. page p
Observation-Disclosures troops
at Port Moresby. Jap war
planes routed.
CHINA 49, United States planes
blast Jap airfields in Burma
and China. page IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Million Barrels Daily

Eastman pointed out that Mayor
Fiorello II. LaGuardia OF New
York estimated that 100000 bar
reIs of fuel oil daily could be
carried over the barge canal.
He estimated that completion Of
the Texas Illinois pipeline will free
5000 tank cars and increase the
seaboard's daily petroleum supply
by 100000 barrels. Normal con-
sumption in the II East Coast
states is about 100000 barrels a
day. but has been rationed down
to about 1.350.000, Eastman said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Envoy TO Argentina Returns

RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil. July
II tUP).-United States am
bassador TO Argentina Norman
Armour, who arrived here by plane
yesterday on route to the United
States, left today by plane for
Miami, Fla.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Hall Work on Blankets

LIMA, O.. July IL UNS).-Pro-
duction OF navy blankets was
halted today when 100 Go wcav-
crs at the Lima Wooden Mills
struck in a pay dispute and 200
other employees walked out in sup
port of them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN

WITH BRITISH IMPERIALS
IN EGYPT (delayed), July 10
British Impevials. backed by air
and artillery onslaughts, drove
Axis troops back five miles along
the coastal railroad west OF Fl
Alamein today in a whirlwind 90
minute attack that captured the
rail station of Tel-El-Eisa.
cat Cairo, it was announced
officially that the British had
advanced five miles Friday and
that the greatest Allied air at
tacks of the North African war,
with American planes participant
ing, were pounding the Axis lines
and blasting ships, including an
Italian destroyer. in the Mediter-
ranean. The Raj made 5000
sorticS in 10 days and sent as
many as 500 planes against the
enemy in one 24-hour period.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
158 Germans
Taken by FB|
As Ndzi Spies
SO Women Seized
in Roundup Over
New York Area

NEW YORK, July IL QNS.-1n
a continuation of the greatest
roundup of potential spies and
saboteurs in the nations war his
tory, the FBI tonight announced
the arrest of 158 alien members OF
the German Vocational League, an
of the German labor front.
The new arrests raised TO up
wards of 300 the number of enemy
including almost so women.
taken into custody by the FBI in
the metropolitan New York area
alone in the past several days.
Roundup of the Vocational
League members was in addition
TO the seizure of more than 100
German-American Bund members
by the F'BI this week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
TuewelI Resignation Denied

WASHINGTON, July II CUP).
Secretary Of Interior Harold l..
Ickes today denied that Rexford
Guy Tugwell would resign as gov
crnor of Puerto Rico.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Hits Virtually All

The new tax bills reach for
funds to fight the war will be felt
by virtually every individual and
corporation through their income
tax payments. But in addition most
consumer commodities not deemed
necessities of life will pay heavier
excise taxes than ever before.
The tax on cigarets has beer
increased half cent a pack. An.
other so cents has been added to-
the federal tax on a quart Of
liquor. Cigar and pipe smokers win
pay higher excise tax.
Telephone bills will carry 10
per cent. instead of 6 per cent
tax; kilograms will pay IS per
cent instead of 10 per cent.
A 5 per cent federal tax must be
paid with each bet placed In horse
race pari-mutuels. Shipments by
freight or express on land. water
or in the air will carry a per
cent war tax.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Nazis Hold Rails

The Germans had al immense
advantage in the possession of lat
eral railroads. enabling the rapid
of forces north and south,
whereas the Red army was hold
ing the roadlesS steppelands and
could use only the branch line
from Stahngrad joining the Mos
cow-RoStov railroad south Of
Voroshllovgrad.
Al the northern anchor post Of
Continued on Page Eight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
sig on 500
Seen for A.;
Surtdxes Up
Exemptions Fixed
at $500 Single,
$1,000 Married

WASHINGTON, July II (UP).
The House ways and means
committee tonight completed
drafting a S6,25O, 1000, 900 war rev.
enue bill which would impose
income taxes on 100000 Ameri-
cans starting with a Cheapest
rate of $40 for each 500 of earn.
ings in excess of small personal
exemptions
The committee stood by its
tentative decision to begin collec-
ton of individual income taxes
through pay roll deductions of 5
per cent of taxable income start.
ing next January /.
The committee voted to send
the gigantic tax bill to the floor
next Thursday and hoped to have,
it delivered to the Senate by.
SATURDAY. night. ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Real Front at Home
Dreams Surpassed

ain war performance. Amer
ica'S industrial output has far
outstrIpped the most careful fall
cuIations and fervent dreams Of
men whose only gauge was It's
peacetime schedules" Mel son
said.
There's II really no basis on
which any one can predict this
country's ability 90 produce, :"
the big. soft-Spoken man con-
tinued
"AII previous calculations OF
our productive capacity based on
peacetime performance, have
greatly undereStimated what this
country can do when IL goes TO
war.
Tribute to Ingenuity
"The engineering genius Of
American producers when turned
from peace 90 war, has proved
n reservoir no one could gauge.
when American men and ma
chimes stopped competing with
each other and turned all their
competitive energy and abilities
against Hitler and Hirohito, IL
knocked all previous calculations
Of our productive powers into a
cooked hat.
"Our productive capacity u
apparently limited only by the
raw materials available.
Our ability Ia produce -
much greater than any one
dreamed. The armament objec-
iives aS announced by President
Roosevelt last wintcr-which
seemed too vast at the time
will be readily realized"
The real problem now is not on
Of production. the calm. unemo
tional Nelson said. II is tho prob
lem Of a better distribution Of th,
materials from which war produc
ton springs.
"One bomber plant designed
10 produce 50 planes a month
can easily produce $50 II II gets
Continued on Page Eight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

Starting next January l. most
Americans will start to pay part
of their income taxes as they earn
under the bill.
From each wage. salary or divi-
dend check there would be de.
Quoted 5 per cent of the amount
in excess of a fixed personal ex-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Not Major Action

Both before and after the swift
drive 10 Tel-El-Eisa. our aerial
attacks were greatly intensified
and the enemy also increased his
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

The bill would lay a heavy hand
on every segment of the Ameri-
can people to help meet the stag
lgering costs of the war.
In an eleventh hour upset, the
committee pushed the estimated
yield of the bill $1,000, 00O, 600
closer to the treasury's $780,
100000 goal by voting to impose
even more drastic taxes on the
nations corporations than had
been originally approved.
The corporate tax reversal was
achieved by coalition of Repub-
lican and administration Demo-
Gratis who combined to make the
measure conform more. nearly
with recommendations of Secre-
tary of the Treasury Henry Nor
genthau ,Jr.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Financed Saboteur

Erasing any doubt as 10 the
dangerous nature Of the NaZified
Vocational League. the F'BI an
nouncement asserted that the
league had financed the trip "a
G erm any OF Heinrich Harm
Heinck, one OF the eight Nazi sabe-
teurs landed on the American East
Coast from submarines. who now
are on trial before military COM
mission in Washington.
As another indication Of the pos
siblc harm the league members
might have done the United States
had they not been taken into GUS
tody, the F'BI stated that many Of
the newly arrested enemy aliens
had jobs in defense plants.
Several Of the aliens were In
possession Of short wave sending
sets. five OF which were confis-
Gated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
German Veteran

One OF the men seized there
were IS women in the Vocational
League group--was found 10 be a
former German aerial photogra-
pher who served in World War l.
Specifically. the league members
were characterized by the FBI as
enemy aliens dangerous 10 The Sc
curity of the United States All
were hustled over 10 Ellis Island
pending hearings. Some may be
intcrned for the duration of the
war Others. if found 10 have ac-
lively aided the Nazi fifth column,
may face trial
Ages of the newly-Seized aliens
ranged from rs TO 90. Men and
women alike, they represented a
croSs-scction OF the city popula-
ton among them being clerks and
factory workers, office workers
and professional people.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
Nelson Sights
WarOutput at
Top in March
WPB Director
AccIaims Ford
Bomber Plant
BY INEZ ROBB

America will hit the real peak
Of her vast war production pro
gram in March. 1943. Donald Mel.
son. chief of the War Production
Board, predicted Saturday.
Within another seven or eight
months, America will. in fact, be
the great arsenal OF democracy
whose factories will constitute the
worlds primary battle front, he
added.
That front will pour out flood
Of ornaments 10 the eventual in
undation OF the AXIS.
Real Front at Home
1.-THE opening of any second.
third or fourth fronts and their
successful maintenance depends
upon the primary front Of Amer
lean production" he declared rs
he boarded a plane in Detroit 10
return 10 his desk in Washington.
Nelson had flown 10 Detroit 10
be chief speaker at the tremendous
dinner which climaxed this dis
trict's Automotive War Production
DAY.
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CONTINUED on Page Eight
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TODAY-In the Times
PART 3
PART 4

Real Estate la stamps
Cussihed 40 Financial ~
Crossword Puzzle II
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Continued on Page Eight
Evening star., 1942-02-08

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Hair Tonic goes long way to-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01

The midnight communicate, i1di-
eating that the great battle OF
Kharkov had definitely ended, said
there had been nothing Of impor-
lance on the front yesterday. Sun
days noon communique had report
ed defensive activity in the Izyum-
Barvenkova sector, center Of Ger
man counter-attacks.
Today's noon cornrnunique report
ed that there had been In important
changes during the night.
The midnight comInunique report
ed that Russian warships and planes
had sunk e German 5000 ton trans
port In the Black Sea and o trans.
port and a trawler In the Gulf Of
Finland at the eastern end Of the
Baltic.
It was asserted that 143 German
planes, instead Of "a as at first re-
ported, were destroyed Friday.
The midnight connunique said
that in offensive operations Satur-
day Russian planes destroyed or
damaged II German tanks, 10 field
and anti-aircraft guns, II anti-air-
craft machine guns, 10 troops and
supply trucks, IS ammunition cars,
~ gasoline trucks, a wireless trans
hitting station, a railroad engine
and two cars, and two provision
dumps. The planes dispersed and
killed many Of the 2,400 German in
fantrymen attacked, 1t was added.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01
Award Widow SIS, 400
For Husbands Death
Francis Sullivan Of Naugatuck Fatally Injured in Fall
From Ladder; Other Awards Announced

from a stepladder while repairing
crane.
The payments will be made ct the
rate Of el750 per week for a period
Of 3l2 weeks beginning May 8. Pro-
vision Is made In the ward for q
5000 payment for funeral expenses
and payment Of nursing, medical,
and hospital bills. A hearing ON the
claim was conducted last week.
Stipulated awards in two COM
pensation cases which were disputed
were approved today, one for e2,500
and the other for $1,000. One other
finding and award was issued today
for supplemental payments.
Steele MacCullum Of West Haven
who was injured December 10, 1889
while employed by the Barlow Bros.
Co., Inc. Of Waterbury will receive
$500 as full settlement OF the In
juries which included a liberation
Of the scalp, COMMISSIONS OF the chest,
and an injury to the left thigh.
The employe further claimed that
a heart condition and congestion Of
the lungs resulted from the acci-
dent. A provision is made for the
payment Of medical bills. The en-
ploye had received weekly payments
of $40 from the time Of the injury
to May 81 Of this year.
A $4,000 award stipulated in the
case OF Carl 4. Nelson Of Hartford
and Niles Bement Pond Co., Pratt
and Whitney Division Of West Hart
ford was approved. A hearing In the
case was assigned at the local COM
pensation office when the commits
sioner for the first district where
the case should have been heard
disqualified himself. The award was
made as the result Of lead poisoning
acquired by the empl0ye at the
concern.
In the case Of Thomas Farrell Of
SO Lounsbury avenue, Waterbury,
and the Blakeslee 90. Of Water
bury Compensation Commissioner
O'Connell ruled that the local man
should receive additional payments
as the result Of back strain and
bruised left thigh at the rate Of
1885 for the period from Febru-
airy "a to March 10. a claim for
payment Of medical bills was dis
missed on the ground that the en-
ploye failed to comply with statute
regarding change Of physicians.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01
GEN. ROMMEL
FIGHTS WAY OUT
CONTINUED from Page u

BY making his way through the
gaps, Rommel escaped what might
have been q major defeat that would
have wrecked his chances Of driv-
ing eastward toward Egypt and the
Euez Canal.
Rommel,s heavy losses have been
complicated by the fact that any
Of his armored forces which still
may remain east Of the British
mine fields are cut Off from COM
siunication with the rear. without
sources Of supply.
He still has large reserves to the
west Of the minefleld line, however,
but British military officials said
that he will have to strike quickly
because Of the heavy pounding his
forces are taking from British guns
ard bombing planes.
British losses In the dessert battle
were described as large, although
not 90 great as those Of Rommel. In
this connection, 1t Is pointed out
here that the decision Of the des-
ert battle depends on which side can
inflict the greatest destruction on
the enemy's equipment rather than
upon territory occupied.
The captured General Cruewell
whose plane was shot down inside
the British lines, commanded the
German Afrika Korps, while ROM
mel is In command Of all the Axis
forces In Libya, German and Ital-
ian.
A Rhinelander and hitherto OBJ
scure, Cruewell commanded a Ger
man panzer division in JuGoslavia
q year ago. Recently he had been
on leave in Germany, his place be-
Ding taken temporarily by Lieut..
Gen. Walter Nehring.
It was believed that as result Of
Cruewell's capture, Nehring, who
commands o German armored divi-
sion called the Gen. Georg Bismarck
2ist, win again take charge Of the
Afrika Korps.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01

NSOLIL1IluCQ 1IOlIl rage ~
Heydrich's villa. formerly owned by
Baron Won Rothschild, as soon as
he assumed office.
The arrested army officers, the
broadcast said, included several
from the STATS Of Gen. Nikolaus
Won Falkenhorst and Gen. Ernst
Won Stuelpnagle.
The quarters Of many ofilcers in
districts which had been inspected
by Heydrich In his tours Of Ger
an-occupied Europe, were said to
have been searched by the secret
police. The apartment Of German
general in Brussels was ransacked
despite protests Of Won Falkenhorst.
Heydrich, meanwhile, still was in
critical condition from the assas-
sins bullets, and the Gestapo's reign
of terror continued throughout
Czechoslovakia.
Radio Prague said 20 more per-
sons were executed there yesterday,
raising to 81 the number put to
death by the occupation authorities
since the Heydrich attack. They
we're accused, Prague said, either Of
sheltering persons not registered
with the German authorities, or Of
approving the attack on Heydrich
or adopting a hostile attitude to-
ward Germany"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01
Many Diplomats Are
Back From War Scene
tcontinued from Page y

were allowed 10 receive RED Cross
food packages, without which, they
said, they could not have survived.
Even so, losses Of weight ranged 80
pounds. In the beginning, they
said, as many as So persons were
confined to one room and only one
shower bath per week was allowed.
Ferocious dogs were turned loose
at night 10 prevent their escape
they said.
Persons leaving the camp TO joir.
the ship OF Lisbon were required tc
sign a pledge that they would not
voluntarily take UP arms against
Germany. They were told that II
they did not sign they could not
leave. It appeared that they did not
regard the pledge, exacted under
duress, seriously.
One passenger who was con.
demned to death by the Na2i mill.
tary courts In Paris more than o
year ago was Mrs. Eta Shiber, a.
year-old New Yorker, whose SEN
tence was commuted to three years
imprisonment. She was returned In
exchange for Joan Hoffman, hair
dresser on the German liner
Bremen, who had been imprisoned
In New York for espionage.
Mrs. Shiber was accused Of being
an accessory In the escape OF Brit
ish soldiers from occupied France.
MRS. shiber who went to live IN
Paris five years ago, was arrested
Nov. 26, 1910 by ~Gestapo officers
and held for investigation until
Dec. IA, and then released. She was
rearrested Dec. % and. with seven
others, taken before NaI court
martial on March Z, 104l.
Three Of the seven were sentenced
to death.
II was stunned" Mrs. shiber re-
lated. "Yet, was not afraid. I
thought Well, I've lived So years
already. guess that's enough =
Then my attorney pleaded with the
court and then an hour later the
Judge said ! would serve only three
years.
Paul Yphantis American mis-.
sionary, said that III the allies
don't win the war In Europe by
the end Of 1942 that the entire pop
ulation Of Greece win die Ct star
vation."
He estimated In January the
daily average Of deaths IN. Athena
alone was 2,200, "of which 90 per
cent were caused by starvation"
January, he said, was the worst
month and the average In other
months was about 800 q day.
This Is nothing to what viii
happen II come kind Of relief Is
not forthcoming soon," he said
Those who are still alive are 50
weakened by lack Of food that
deaths are bound to mount stag.
geringly as time goes on.
Mrs. Franklin Gunther Of Bos-
ton, Mass, widow Of the United
states minister to Rurnania, said
the Rumanians were definitely
PROBABLY and anti-Fascist."
IAN they were interested In get-i
ting was Bessarabia," she said. Nov
that they have 1t, they don't want
10 fight any more"
Mrs. Gunther. whose HUSBAND
died at his post several months agt
brought three LTeweIlyn setteFs
with her. She said she left Duch.
Arrest Jan, a and went directly x
Lisbon.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01

the realm Of international diplo-
macy.
At the outbreak Of the war
against Japan, Germany and italy,
when five Axis newspapermen were
detained In the United States, Lyle
Wilson Of the United Press and
Brian Bell, manager Of the Assoc
lated Press Washington Bureau,
called upon Attorney General Fran
els Biddle to suggest that none Of
the German and italian newspaper
men be locked up. Two foreign
newspapermen were transferred
from Ellis Island to hotel custody.
Immediately thereafter, In order
that word might get to the Axis
countries that their correspondents
were being well treated, Earl j.
Johnson, general news manager Of
the United Press, cabled the follow
ing message to United Press bureaus
in London, Zurich, Vichy, Madrid,
Lisbon and Ankara with the request
that they disseminate the inf0rn1a-
ton as widely as possible so 1t
would at least reach Berlin and
Rome authorities, II not the United
Press eorr0spUEdents IN those cap
ita1s:
estate Department announces 1t
Is arranging return Of German and
italian newsmen with Axis diplo-
mats. State Department now has all
seized Axis newsmen In hotels at
our request rather than In jatls
wherefore assume Axis capitals will
recriprocate."
United Press bureaus in the nom
belligerent capitals communicated
the information to their German
and italian embassies and legations.
United Press bureaus In Zurich and
Stockholm issued the information
as a news dispatch to the leading
Swiss and Swedish papers, all Of
whom are United Press clients, with
the request that the information
also be conveyed to those newspa-
pers' correspondents in Berlin and
Rome.
The London Bureau Of the United
Press arranged for the British
Broadcasting Co. to broadcast the
news in their German and Italian
language broadcasts directed to
Germany and Italy.
That the spreading Of this infor-
nation to the Axis countries had
the desired effect was indicated a
few days later when the United
Press in New York heard indirectly
that Reynolds Packard, Rome bur-
eau manager, originally had been
arrested In Rome, but later was re-
leased and housed in boarding
house.
The United Press advised the IN
ternational News Service and the
Associated Press OF the action It
was taking and those services kept
the United Press informed Of their
moves.
The ultimate result was that the
Axis newgpapermen returned 20
their countries and the American
! arfiQed today.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-06-01
CITY GIVEN o. K.
ON 3 NEW CARS

Eight certificates Of authorization
for the purchase Of new cars were
Issued by the local rationing board
during the week ending May %.
Only two individuals received the
certificates, the rest going to the
city government, the Waterbury
Cl0ck Co. and the scovill Mfg. Co.
The city received three certifi-
Gates, the Clock co. two and the
gcbvilie 90. one. individuals re-
celVing car-purchase authorization
were Robert B. Kelly, SIS willow
street and Charles A. Dickinson, 10
Whitehall avenue,