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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
Churchill Is Facing Most Serious Crisis
Gravest Since He Assumed Leadership in Dark Hour Following DunEIirk-Elis Govt. Blamed for
 Disaster at TObruk
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Limited Press Foreign EditOr)

Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced his graveSt crisis since he as- sumed leadership in the dark hour following Dunkirk two years ago. an angry demand in parliament and among the people that he be held responsible for "the disaster of To- bruk."
 So serious was the situation, in which even members of Churchill's Is own conservative party are demand ing shakeup, that he may fly back to London from the United States where he is engaged in council of war with President Roosevelt.
 It appeared doubtful that Chur- chill would be busted by a vote of no confidence in his conduct of the war but there was strong possibility that he might be stripped of some of his powers-he is min ister of defense as well as prime minister-and that new ministry of defense might be created.
 Churchill was warned in trans Atlantic telephone call of the angry temper over the Libyan defeat, marked today by the introduction in the House of Commons of a motion placing direct responsibil- ity on the government for the desert defeat.
 Heading the signers of the motion were a conservative Alec s. Cum ningham Reid, and an independent, w. J. Brown. The motion, which will be voted on after a full debate in parliament, said that nothing less than a complete reconstruction of the government" can restore pulp lie confidence in the government.
 Another motion of censure was introduced by group of House of Commons rebels, including Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, former War Minis ter Leslie Hore- -Belisha and a group of Laborites.
 The British anger was greater
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24

Lee, Mass, June 24-(UP) - Queen Wilhelmina of the Ncther- lands, who flew from England to Canada last week, arrived here today with her daughter, Crown Princess Juliana, and two grand daughters to establish a summer residence in the picturesque Berk- ShireS.
 The royal party travelled from Ottawa, Ont, by train via Albany, N. Y., Pittsfield and St0ckbridgc, where they entered automobiles for the last leg of the journey to the John BrOss Lloyd estate which they have leased for the summer.
 During 8 11s-hOur stOpever i'm PittsfieId, the train was guarded by Netherlands police and Massa- chuSetts state and local police and persons at the station caught glimpseS only of the granddaugh- ters, PrinCeSseS Beatrix and Irene,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
American Pursuit Plane Pilot Lost In Australian Wild Bush Jungle Four Days

an owl had flown from the trees and landed in the water.
 T Waded out in the mud and killed him with my knife. Every. thing was wet and I couldn't light a fire and I had to eat him raw. He was kind of tough and didn't chew so well. was just gnawing a leg when saw the plane come over and circle round to indicate he had seen me. I lay on the beach and cried like q baby.
 "The plane circled several times and dropped me some food. l threw the rest of the owl to a crocodile and started in on . tin of pineapple. It stung my mouth at first but I drank the juice in small sips.
 About an hour and half later another plane made a wonderful landing on a small beach and picked me up.
 T was down to my last swallow oe water. If the plane hadn't found me. things would have been pretty desperate"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
Soviets Admit Withdrawal
 From Sevastopol, Kharkov
Gen. RommePs Columns Swing
 Rapidly Toward Egyptian Border
Queen of Netherlands
 Reaches Berkshires

who peeked out of the car window while being dressed by their nurses.
 The public was barred from the estate where the royal family will spend the summer and the grounds and all approaches were heavily guarded by FBI agents.
 Shaded by huge trees, the Lloyd estate consists of a 25-rOom man. sion, large farm, a conservatory and cOlorful gardens. It is situ- ated on StOckbridge road OppO- site the GreenOck Country Club on the outskirts of this village of 4,OOO inhabitants.
 The 6l-year-Old queen, who has reigned for nearly Al years, was said to he delighted with the re- treat which her daughter had chosen for her at the foot of famed Jacobs Ladder in the HOusatOnic Valley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
BUCKSPORT, ME.
 WILL CELEBRATE Birthplace of Screen Stars William. Dustin Farnufil
 Is I5O Years Old

RucIEspoEt, Me, June 2l-(UP) = This Pepobscot river vlIlage--birth- place of silent film stars William and Dustin EaFnuEa- celebrates its ybOth anniversary tomorrow
 Founded by C0l. Jonathan Buck and partly burned by the British during the American Revolution, the town now is aia important paper manufacturing center,
 The anniversary program will De featured by dedication of ancient gglst mlll stones and parade past Buck cemetery where the founders grave ig marked by . plain granite Obelisk touched by the "Witeh's curse"
 Legend has t that while in Hay- eyhill, Mass, prior t0 coming to Maine, CcI. Buck was ordered tn an OfIicial capacity to execute . woman condemned as Q witch. She reputeds " placed e curse on him and after llis death the likeness Of . leg and foot appeared on hls granite laor- llment.
 Though the mark e believed a defect in tlie sloao, 70 reeppeays nliag ogogH s8ogk to effaro l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
OVER 10000 MEN OF NAVY MISSING
  That Is Total Casualty List Since Start-AlI Rela. lives Told

Washington, June 24. - (UPl - The navy announced last night the loss of 2207 men sin direct action with the enemy" - ee killed, eight wounded, and 3.i0i missing - bring Ing It's olIlclal casualty toll to more than 10000. Added to previous casu. alty lists, the announcement brought the naVy's losses to 3,l63 dead, 6,TeA missing and eco wounded, 2 total of lO,piT.
 A navy spokesman said, hoW- ever, that this figure Is not accurate since names aften have been moved from one casualty category to ans other, or removed from the list eTis tlFely as further information Was obtained. But he added that the total "pF0bahly ls not much more than 100 off," The latest list cov- cred those casualties reported to next Of kin between May ii and June 70. The casualties came from eVngg gtate in the union. ...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
MADE ON
 NON-AMERICANISM
z Communist Front Group, 5 Magazines, 2 Newspa-
 papers Are Accused

Washington, June 24. - CUP)- The House committee on un-Amer- ican Activities today accused 20 Communist Front" organizations, i've magazines and two newspaper of trying to discredit Congress.
 Tn a formal report issued by Rep. Joe Starnes, D., Ala, acting chair man in the absence of Martin Dies, D., Tex, the committee said it was clear that "the spearhead of the attack upon Congress as an institu- ton stems from a group of men who have had long training and experi- ence in the theology of Karl Marx"
 The magazines named were Time, New Republic, Champion, Soviet Russia Today, and "New Masses. The newspapers were PM and the Daily Worker, both of New York.
 Much of the space in the report was devoted to the Union for Denl- ocratlc Action, which recently col- IaboTated with the New Republic in publication of an article entitled "A Congress to Win the War"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
CHINESE REFUSE
 TOSTAY LICKED
They are Battling Japa- nese in C COunter-AttackS
 That Gain Ground
By ROBERT P. MARTIN
united Press Stan Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Chungking, June 24- (UP) - Counter attacking Chinese troops have re-captured the strategic town of Kweiki on the Chekiang Kiangsi Railroad after stalling a Japanese drive from the east aimed at open ing a rail route from Shanghai to Singapore, a military communique said tonight.
 Kweiki, scene of bitter fighting for days, lies along 50-mile middle stretch of the 450-mile railroad still in Chinese hands and for 10 days the Japanese have been assaulting it from east and west.
 The western prong of the Japa- nese attempt to gain complete con- trol of the railroad is in the vicinity of Shangpao.
 In southeastern Chekiang Province. south of the battle for the railroad line and near the China sea coast, the Japanese were said in tonight's communique to have launched a major drive against Lishui.
 One prong of the Japanese drive reportedly involves I5,000 or more enemy troops.
 A part of the enemy force, orig inally based at Wuyi, was said to be driving toward points northwest Of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
CARNIVAL SNAKE S
 OPERATORS DEAD
Handlers Bitten by Reptile They Had Believed to
 Be Harmless

Camden, N. J., June 24 --(UP)- John Meyers, 70, Philadelphia, car- nIvaI snake concessionaire, and Lewis c. Ringer, 42, Glen Falls, N. Y., his helper, died today of bites from 6 rattlesnake from which they believed the poisonous venom was removed.
 Robert Mayes. io. Camden. around whose neck the snake had been wrapped during an outside exhibi- ton, collapsed when he learned that 1t was one which had been taken from Q cage of four poisonous rep tiles inadvertently by Ringer.
 Ringer was struck when. he reached for the snake as 1t slipped Off the demonstration table toward scores Of spectators. He died in Q Camden hospital before he could explain how he made the mistake.
 The men were bitten as they put on benefit performance for the Gloucester Heights volunteer fire department at nearby Gloucester, ". J,
 As was the usual procedure, Ring- or had taken the snake to the table,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
VOUSIATSKY FINE
 OF $5,OOO IS OUT
Prison Sentence, 5 Years Given Russian Spy Will
 Be Executed

Hartford, Conn, June 24-(UP)-- The t5O00 fine which the govern ment added to Q i've year prison term imposed or Anastase A. Won. slatsIEy, after he pleaded guilty to taking part in an Axis spy con. spsFacy, was cancelled today because it had been improperly assessed.
 Withdrawal of the fine was made by Federal Judge J. Joseph smith, after Special Assistant Attorney General Thomas J. Dodd said It had been recommended under an old statute recently revised.
 VonsIatsky,. wealthy naturalized Russian, was being held at Hart ford county jail awaiting commit. nlent to a penitentlaFy to serve the i've years sentence,
 Meantime, pr. Otto WlllulneIt, Chicago 0ermansAmeFlcan Bund leader, who also pleaded guilty to the spy charges, was to be removed to New York to testify betoge 2 special grand jury Investigating Bund activities,
 Sentencing of Wlllumelt here vas deferred by Judge Smith until after the trial Of two associates, sched' uied to start July ib.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
Nazi Fury Mounting as They HurI Massive
 Forces at Russians
GEN. ROMMEL POURS
 TROOPS TOWARD EGYPT
Russians are Not Licked Yet-They are Putting
 up Desperate Conflict
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign Editory
 Germany's armies gaineI ground today on the SevastO- pol and Kharkov fronts in Russia and moved up to the new British desert line as- tride the Egyptian border for 8 full-force assault that may come at any hour. The news from the key fighting fronts Russia and Libya - was grim and perhaps the herald os new Axis successes.
 The Russians acknowledged that the Germans, striking in massive strength, had broken through and taken up new positions closer t0 Sevastopol on the Crimean stronghold's 18th day of siege. The Russian defenders, breaking under relentless and overwhelming pres- sure, fell back but only after an- flicting heavy losses on Colonel General Fritz Erich Won Manstein's German infantry, supported ny artillery and an estimated 2,OO0 planes.
 Presumably the new German ad- vance occurred on the north Of the Black Sea fortress, around Syver- maya Bay where the Germans boasted that "the remnants of So- viet troops are being annihilated" after Russian defenses were over run.
 AdviceS from Turkey quoted mill. tary observers there as saying that Sevastopol is nearing the end or its resistance; that its fate may DC settled within a few days.
 On the Kharkov front 800 miles north-strategically more important than Sevastopol because 1t leads to the broad northern gateway to the Caucasus-the Russians withdrew from several sectors when German infantry and Q fleet of 200 tanks drove sharp wedge in the Soviet lines and slightly pushed back" the Russians at other points.
 Although the latest advices from Moscow said that the Russians, after their withdrawals, were hold- ing ruggedly any German advance on the two fronts is a serious mat ter, inasmuch as the Germans have been close to the Donets river on the Kharkov front and virtually In the northern suburbs of Sevastopol.
 ROmmel Drives On
 On the Libyan-Egyptian battles front it appeared that Marshal Erwin Rommel might strike on to- ward Egypt and the Suez Canal after his Tobruk conquest, hoping to smash the British forces before they can reorganize and strengthen their new Egyptian frontier line.
 Rommels long-range guns ham, mered the British as they strength ened their line and columns of Ronlmel's main army roared easts ward, up to the Egyptian border. The Germans and Italians made "feeler" thrustS at the northern sec tor of the line toward the Mediter- ranean coast west of Sollum and heavy Axis troop moements were re- ported south of Gambut along the Tobruk- -Bardia coastal road. The Germans laid down heavy sheli-fire in the vicinity of Fort Capuzzo, fav- ther inland.
 Richard D. McMillan, United Press war correspondent with the British forces att the Egyptian, frontier. said there was mot much room for optimism"
 BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Star Correspondent
 Moscow. June 24.-(UP)-Germnn assaults. ever mounting in 0Eys
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
Parking Meter Damage Suit Resumed Today
Attorney John H. Cassidy Seeks $7,OOO From City Corp. Counsel Lynch, His Assistant Mcdonald
 Seem to Think It a Joke

Efforts to prove illegality of the city parking meters were resumed in common pleas court this morning by Attorney John H. Cassidy, plain tiff in a $7,OOO damage suit brough against the city. Corporation Counsel J. Gregory Lynch was called to the witness stand by At torney Lawrence Lewis, MT. Cassidy's counsel. at the start of today's hear- ing and questioned at length re- garding legal authority for installa- ton of meters on the city streets.
 When asked if any appropriation had been made in the city budget in 1889 expending money for leasing or purchasing meters. MT. Lynch stated the provision for police de- partment equipment took care or the installation. MT. Lewis was not satisfied with the answer and at- terpted to obtain a "Yes or No' answer. Mir. Lynch admitted hear ing Budget Director Thorvald Olsen testify yesterday that there was no specific item relating to parking uACCSLbs WASA kdC W. P~A seeDAN counsel at one point in the testi- mony claimed the budget authorized the meters, Mir. Lynch retorteu, This is a joke" and the ready as. sistant corporation counsel. Edward J. Mcdonald. supplied, The whole case is a joke.
 No Specific Contract
 MT. Lynch admitted that no spe- cific contract had been made for the renting of meters and that as for as he knew Mayor SculIy had not signed papers in connection with the transaction. He stated that the letter of order sent to the M. H, Rhodes Company from which the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
German Long Range Guns : Sound Advance of Nazis'
 Powerful War Machine
BY LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent


 Cairo, June 2l.--(UP)-A great dust cloud rising from the Libyan desert indicated today that Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's main columns were swinging south- eastward against the Egyptian bor- der after a series of clashes with British mobile columns near the Mediterranean coast.
 Axis units were repeatedly thrust ing at the new British defense line hinged on the strongly fortified Sol- lum coastal sector, and were engaged by British mobile columns in the north.
 But late messages from the front said that Rommel apparently was concentrating on 8 swing Southward from the Libyan town of Gambut to the Sidi Omar area, 20 miles southwest of Bardia, in an effort to encircle the main British from tier Notifications at Sollum.
 "The enemy is apparently making this move In force as huge clouds of dust are being raiesd over his rolling coluians," adviceS from the front said.
 The general headquarters conl- munique said that "our mobile col- umns were active to the west of our (frontieD positions all day Tues~ day"
 Much enemy movement was ob- served southwards of Gambut," it added. Small parties of the enemy were engaged bS our forces on the northern section of the front west of Sollum throughout the day"
 Gambut is on the main Tebruks Bardia road, which hits the coast north of the Solum- Fort Capuzzo anchor point of the northern end of the new British line.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
BY DRYDON c. TAVIs United Press staff Correspondent

A4s&Ne%W &b~R@ &S~ee
 Melbourne, June 24. - UP = 4 2l year old pursuit plane pilot from Columbia, s. c, returned 10 his base today after being lost Tn the wild bush country and reported:
 Fresh-kllled grasshoppers taste like crab meat.
 Raw owl is tough but eatable.
 Lily roots make passable salad,
 Forced down when his fuel ran low after chasing Taiding Japanese planes out to sea from Darwin, the pilot spent four days in the wilder ness where he was roasted by the sun. tortured by mosquitoes ana eyed hungFIly by predatory croco- diles.
 He was rescued because, when he landed, he had had the foresight to cut up q part of his parachute and leave part of it near his plane, pointing the way he had gone ID an attempt to reach safety.
 A plano found hlms dropped food
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24
FRS LOVE Ssj
s h . Story with
 q KNOCKOUT Finish

lt'e a slaFn.bang, eEeess country battle royal between two young alrplalye factory employee and a gang of spies eoT the bluepTInts Of a new bomber. There's R punch 6 minute alI the way uHtll the koungstsEs get the enemy on khe ropes lH
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-24

s. 0. --stenogFapheFs and Typiats needed to ca hundreds of new iohs. Fest cnlieHp es QemneEn1.--.-~..
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BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press StafR Correspondent Moscow. June 24.-(UP)-Germon assaults. ever mounting in Awv,
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The Weather
Little Change in

Temperature Fun weather Report Page 2
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Evening star., 1942-06-03

Choice Of four hover-fresh frar-
rances-June Bouquet. Jasmin Bou-
quet, Natural or Sweet Spice. Use
Hot Weather Cologne lavishly-
helps you stay cool and sweet in
spite OF sticky weather.
Evening star., 1942-06-03

Just attach 1t to your
faucet, direct the
spray rs you choose.
The handiest kind
of shower bsth-no
shower curtain need
ed. Has added benefit
Of q massage brush.
krand for shampooing
hair.
Evening star., 1942-06-03

Choose the big tin in fresh Forest
Pine or Garden Bouquet. just a spoon
fun softens and scents the water
gives you a luxury bath at little cost.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-08-28
Enlists In The Navy

Great Lakes, H., Aug. 20 -
Leon Thomas Reasoner, 20, 09l
West Rock Street, Morrilton, en-
tered training here at the U. S.
Naval Training Station this week
hs an apprentice seaman, under
the Nays recently -inaugurated
program for enlisting men of the
Negro race.
lie is now undergoing an in.
tensive training course in naval
procedure before assignment to &C
tive duty either with the U. S.
fleet at sea or at q naval shore
station.
Men taken into the Navy under
this program are quartered in
Camp Robert Smalls. named in
homer of a Negro who delivered
a Confederate ship to the U. S.
Navy during the Civil War and
served in Congress.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-08-28
Visits In The
Metropolis

Little Miss Angela Malone of
Los Angeles. California has recent
ly returned to the city of the
Angels, She was accompanied by
her aunt, Mrs. Harry Harris, for
merly, Miss Ida Lee Lovelady of
the twin cities. Mrs, Harris is a
teacher in the Public School sys-
tenn Of Los Angeles.
This charming little lady came
especially to be in the wedding Of
her aunt Miss Clara Lovelady of
New York City. who is now the
wife Of DR.. Justin Allen of Pbila-
delphia. Pa.
She was entertained with a sur.
prise party given tv her aunt.
Among the Youngsters present
were Little Misses Toni Des Yer
ne, Yvonnc Presha, Minona Horah
Mercedes Ellington, Masters Ri
cardo MARTINEZ, Kerry Williams,
and Alvin Mallord.
She is the granddaughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs William Malone Of
Little Rock, Little Miss Malone
attends the exclusive Westwood
Nursery School in Beverly Hills,
California, where she is making
an excellent record.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-08-28
CHAPTER %

She stood undecided, then got
the bottle from under the pillow
and drank. She lay on the bed, on
her stomach, her face turned SO
she could see him. He watched her
through the looking glass of the
dresser. He sharpened the pencil
and spread out the peice Of paper.
He was about to write when he
remembered that he did not have
his gloves on. Goddaml
Gimme my gloves" "EIunh ?"
Get my gloves out of the in
side of my coat pocket"
She swayed to her feet and got
gloves and stood back of his chair,
holding them Imply in her hands
Give 'em here" digger. :"
"Give me them gloves and get
back on that bed, will you?'
He snatched them from her and
gave her ashoyo and turned hack
to the dresser.
Bigger"
~ amt asking you but once
more to shutupl" He said, push
ing the knit out Of the WAY so
he could write
He put on the gloves and took
up the pencil in trembling hand
and held it poised over The paper.
lie should disguise his hand writ
ing. He changed the pencil from
his right hand to his left hand.
lie would not write 1t; he would
print IT.. He swallowed with dry
throat Now, what would be the
best kind OF note? He thought.
| want you 20 put ten thousand q.
NawH that would not do. Not IL
1t would be better to say Eve"
We got your daughter he print
cd slowly in big round letters.
That was better. lie ought to say
something to let Mr., Dalton know
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-08-28
"NatiVe Son"
BY Richard Wright

that Mary was still alive. He
wrote: She is safe Now, tell him
not TO go to the police. MOI Say
something about Mary first! He
bent and wrote. She wants to come
home. Now, tell him not to
go to the police. Don't go to the
police. Don't go to the police if
you want your daughter back
safe. Nav; that amt good. His
scalp tingled with excitement; it
seemed that he could feel every
string Of hair on his head. He read
the lire over and crossed out safe
and wrote "alive" For a NOM
ent he was frozen, still. There
was in his stomach a slow. cold,
vast rising movement, as though
he held within the embrace of his
bowels the swing Of planets thru
space, He was giddy. He caught
hold Of himself, focused his at
tention to write again. Now, a
bout money How much? Yes;
make it ten thousand. Get ten
thousand in S. and $40 dollar bills
and put it in shoe hox. That's
good. He had read that somewhere
and tomorrow night ride your car
MI land down Michigan Avenue
from S5th street to 10th street.
lie wrote: Blink your headlights
some, When you see a light in
window blink three times and
throw the box in the snow and
drive off. Do what this letter says.
Now, he would sign it. But how?
II should be signed some way that
would throw them off the trail.
Oh, yes! Sign it RED" He
printed, Red. Then, for some rea-
son, he thought that was not e.
nough. Oh, yes. He would make
enc Of these sigrs, like the one he
had seen on the Communist PAN
pElets. He wondered how they were