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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
TREASURY BALANCE
Tel. 1881

washington, May 22-(UP)-Gov-
eminent expenses mad receipts Tor
the current fiscal year through May
20 compared with a>year ago:
S26,6s4,OS2,S55.35 s10,s3O, s67, 6s7.52
War Spending
$40, 1892, ,690.35 $5,1s1,7SS,e00.O4
Receipts
$1O,119, 010,12S.O0 $6,20422S,ss1.7S
49, .oNet DEFICIT xso -. lsx "a
Cash Balance
IS, ,0s6, 43S.26 $2.03O,B4O ,S64.1S
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
UNCLE EF

1t must be a
eIief to Phil
Murray, of CLIO,
to k n o w that
the government
amt asking for
shirts, but just
shirt tails. So
ne can go right
along c0llectin'
initiation fee S
and dues from
war production
workers, = n d
keep the pre-
ReneROuaIv Of.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
COTTON FUTURES

New York, May 22-(UP)-Cot-
ton futures ductuated around the
previous close today in moderate
forenoon trading. Midday prices
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Washington with number Of indus
plants materials
prospect materiawith dearth OF
d1 nlan
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22

Helen Butler Stevens Of Water
bury who recently filed divorce
action against Charles Stevens, also
Of this city. was ordered TO file a
more specific statement on her
'cllarnas Of cruelty when she appear-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
Market Irregular In
Dwindling Dealings
Traders Took Heed of Warning From High Official
Against Over.Optimism in Present War Outlook

were 2 points higher 70 2 points
lower.
The market opened 2 to 5 psiIltA
net higher on commission llouse re.
placement buying but gu. ky
turned lower, registering lesser OF
/ to 2 points net, on selling by New
Orleans interests.
Uncertainty ever congressional
farm price legislation was & r.
rent to activity.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22
WOOL MARKET

Boston, May 22-(UP) "A fair
weight of Missouri average meGiurn
bright wool was moved at SO cents
in the grease delivered for three
eighths blood and Quarter-'1lood
combing type, the U. s. agriculture
department reported today.
Some additional quantities Of
average fine French comhing ter.
ritory woods sold spot at $l.15 to
$1.18 secured basis. The West Vir.
ginia pool of medium three -eighths
blood and quarter-blood domestic
fleece light shrinking woods were
sold at sealed bid at about SO cents
FOB.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-22

cIots shirt he 50 generously OF
feFed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
5OO,OOO Germans Are
 Smashing At Soviets
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tackled the enemy flank at every op- portunity in hope that the drive might be stopped.
 The Russians, in their noon com munique, also acknowledged new retreat on one sector southeast of of Pyatigorsk, in the north Cau- casus. That German drive was aimed toward the oil fields of Grozny, 140 miles east of Pyati- gorsk, but it was evident the Ger mans were closer to /Groszny than that.
 After weeks of costly effort, the Germans had put both men and tanks across the great bend of the Don, where it sweeps closest of industrial Stalingrad and the Volga river lifeline. The noon com munique said Soviet forces were en- gagged in fierce fighting, trying to wipe out this cross. At the same time, the Russians were tire up in desperate struggle on the west bank against German forces exert ing their utmost effort to reinforce UIllS Cl UoolIlS d1lA AAOp uO CAAC bSAAS of the Don on the west bank SC they could move across enmasse.
 Russian reports said that the mill tary situation was equally grave in the north Caucasus where a German column has moved some distance south of Krasnodar along the rail- road to the naval base of Novoros- sisk. There was no indication of theh exact position of this column
 The Nazi air force was attacking the naval bases of Novorossisk and Tuapse with intensity but was fiercely opposed by the Russian ail force
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ALLIED PIL0TS
 PARALYZE LAPS
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Continued from Page D down at least nine zeros and four bombers saw two other bombers struggling off jettisoning their bombs and trailing smoke and dam aged others so severely that it seemed highly unlikely they reached i the nearest enemy bases.
 So devastating was the Allied at tack, the enemy bombers never had a chance to drop their bombs on military targets. Such bombs as /, were not jettisoned in wild flight struck in the bush outside the Dar- win defense zone and started few grass fires. The fires were the only damage in one of the biggest Jap anese raids.
 It was the first enemy attack on Darwin since July 30. Then seven enemy fighters and two bombers were shot down out of fleet of 9 zeros and 27 bombers, total of 49, for the loss of one allied fighter.
 Thus the score in two raids was at least g and probably "A enemy planes down out of 96 for an Allied loss of one plane.
 Over the northeastern zone, while the Darwin force was smashing the enemy attack, an Allied plane unit on offensive reconnaissance bombed enemy buildings and the wharf area of Buka Island, at the northern end of the Solomons. In the same area Allied planes had dropped more than eight tons of bombs on the, great enemy base at Rabaul, in New Britain Island, in night attack in the early hours of Saturday morn ing, clustering the runway and the hangar area, and had raided the airdrome in the Lac area of New Guinea.
 In their attack on Darwin yester- day the Japanese evidently making determined attempt to knock out Hughes airdrome, possibly in prep aration for a more important at tack which might divert attention from the United States naval and marines attack in the southern Sol omons.
 It was understood that the Allied fighters put into action for the first time new interception tech- nique which proved deadly to the enemy while 1t afforded the Allied planes the maximum of protection.
 The Japanese came in high, Spe- cial dispatches from Darwin said, 1 trying to avoid the anti-aircraft fire which had caused them trouble in previous raids.
 The enemy planes were miles in the air when the American Curtiss planes dived on them.
 The zero fighter planes scattered quickly to try to head off Mac Arthur's planes but it was too late.
 Melbourne, Aug. 24-(UP)-Spe- cial arrangements have been made to bring Thanksgiving and Christ mas turkeys from the United States for American soldiers in Australia in a refrigerator ship, it was made known today.
 It was found th0t Australia might not have enough tourkeys to go round.
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BIGGEST CONVOY
 OF ALL LANDED
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which varied in number and size according to the danger of each particular ocean zone, engaged in gun practise which kept the troops amused.
 Perfect weather, a bright sun and temperature unusually mild for the route the convoy followed, favored the voyage. The closely packed troops spent much time in the fa- vorite army indoor sport of shooting dice.
 One doughboy who won $1,0OO the first two nights out hired two others at $5 a day as guards to shoo off the losers who tried to get him back in the game. The guards erect ed rope barricades around his little patch of the deck and he read In peace the rest of the way.
 Men of almost every branch of the fighting services, including many specially trained, in addition to the army air force crews, were in the convoy.
 Many thousands had been de- tached from units of task forces They had been thoroughly scram- bled at their camps in the United States so that they came from every part of the country.
 As the ships pulled into British ports the soldiers and scores of blue uniformed army nurses lined the rails.
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The newspaper Red Fleet reported that Black Sea fleet fotilla was smelling Nazi coastal positions.
 A battle for the mountain pases continued southeast of Pyatigorsk but the Russians were still falling back toward the Grozay oil fields.
 In the area of Kletskaya, a Soviet unit pentrated German positions at night and killed mere than 100 with bayonts and greandes'. the com munique asserted. While the fight ing in the Don Bend is referred to as southeast of Kletskaya, which is 75 mics northwest of Stalingrae this counter blow evidently was 1T the direct area of Kleti.saya, abou 50 miles above the crossing. A prior counter-b, had beer reported in the Kletsksya area. in dicating that the Germans hac shifted the bulk of their force south.
 Northeast of Kotelnikovski, tn, enemy concentrated a considerably number of tanks on one sector ant wedged themselves into Soviet fer ward positions the noon communi que said.
 Deep In Secret positions Twelve hours earlier, a German spearhead had driven deep inte Russian positions. Several days ags a unt of German tanks had driver into Soviet defenses, but it was an nounced they had been surrounded It was not determined, however whether they had been wiped out
 The non communique reported that Soviet tank unit had struck the enemy on the flank, northeast of Kotelnikovski, killing more thar 200 Germans. Near an inhabited locality, battalion of Rumanian' was routed.
 Although Russian counter attack. and resistance in which there waA no surrender, took a terrible toll of Germans on all fronts, they poured new endorsements into the battle and kept up their continuous assaults night and day. This was the seventh day of non. stop German assaults against ths approaches to Stalingrad.
 On the other North Caucasian battlefront, south of Krasnadar Soviet troops engaged in defen' sive battles with enemy tanks ana infantry" the noon communiquA said. The Germans are driving from south of Krasnodar toward thG Soviet Black Sea naval base oi Novorossisk, 63 miles below Krasro- i dar.
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vel indicators. showed that during June recreational highway travel was down more than 55 per cent for the nation as a whole, while general highway traffic was down more than 30 per cent. In the ra- toned area recreational travel dur ing June decrease dmore than 70 per cent and in the unrationed area approximately 50 fer cent.
 This reduction in recreational and general travel outside the ra- toned area indicates that voluntary limitation of car use is much greater than has been intimated by official statements emanating from Washington, said Thomas P. Henry of Detroit, Mich, president of the national motoring body. The A. A A. president continued:
 Travel to national parks outside the rationed area was 55.1 per cent lower in June of this year than il was during the corresponding month of 1941, while routings han dled by motor clubs outside the ra- toned area decreased STA per cent from June of last year.
 Naturally, travel reduction has been more severe in the East where motorists are reducing car use both because of the tire situation and be- cause of gasoline rationing. Along the Atlantic Seaboard motor club routings in June were 73 below the month last year and the number o1 vehicles entering national parks was about "A per cent lower.
 "The number of passenger cars traversing toll bridges was 51.4 per cent lower than in June of last year in the rationed area and about 20 per cent lower for the remainder of the country. These counts, of course, include in many instances strictly local traffic as well as highway tra- vel of comparatively longer distan- ces.
 Highway traffic counts made by the Public Roads Administration with automatic traffic counters show June traffic in the rationed area down 38.5 per cent and PA per cent lower in the -rationed area. Since these figures include all vehicles, passenger car travel is down more than this ratio since there has been a substantial in- crease in commercial vehicle traffic on the highways.
 Scattered preliminary reports for July indicate that the cut in auto mobile use will be much more pro- nounced as the summer advances.
 Tn the main, our travel findings for the mid-year indicate that motorists all over the nation are using their cars very sparingly in- deed for .recreational travel or for comparatively long-distance trips whether for business or pleasure purposes. While the reduction has been much more severe in the East, the trend toward substantial reduc- tion in highway travel is quite marked in the remainder of the country. In a word, the great maj ority of motorists are showing a marked tendency to cooperate wholeheartedly in reduction of car mileage in an effort to make their present tire equipment last as long as possible"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
DEPENDENT TAX
 EXEMPTION LESS
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 Subcommittee Chairman Bennett C. Clark. b, Mo, said, however that no decision had been reached on whether to couple the Ruml plan with an adaptation of the House. approved plan to collect part of fu- ture income taxes by withholding them from pay cheeks.
 The subcommittee had been es- tablished to study the withholding plan embodied in the House bill and to seek to modify it so that 1t would not create such difiicul bookkeep- ing task for employers.
 The Ruml plan-sponsored by J. Beardsley Ruml, New York depart ment store executive and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York-involves a bookkeeping transaction whereby taxes owed on income received in 1941 would be wiped off the books.
 Taxes being paid this year are on 1941 income, under the present inc come tax system. Ruml's plan would apply these taxes toward the amount owed on 1942 income. The final amount due would be con- puted next March. In some cases where income fell off in 1942, the taxpayer would find that he paid more than was necessary and would receive a credit from the govern ment. In other cases, the taxpayer might find he still owed more to the government in order to get the books even.
 The subcommittee rejected the treasury's proposed substitute for the Ruml plan, which called for 'forgiving" 1941 taxes up to the second surtax bracket only.
 Under the treasury's plan, tax payers whose 1941 taxable income amounted to more than $2,000 still would have been Eilled for taxes on the income in excess of that amount.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Judge Conway Upheld
 Rent Administrator
(Continued from Page D

] from evicting unless the landlord can establish a cause under one of the exceptions as contained in the regulations, comments Judge Conway.
 Tt is clear" he continued, "that If landlords were allowed to proceed to remove tenants without restric- tions such practice might very well result in manipulation of rents, ros- sible collision and probable increase of rents."
 "The regulations in this Courts opinion are reasonable and are within the purposes of the Act and within the powers given to the Price Administrator by the Act" he says
 Question Of Procedure
 Judge Conway does not go into the question of procedure raised by the federal attorneys who claim 1 that "the defendant cannot question the validity of the order in this court as the Emergency Price Con- trol let sets up method to test the validity of any regulations pass ed hereunder"
 Attorney Smith contended that proper procedure for the landlord in his claim that the regulation is invalid, would be an appeal to the Price Administrator, and if unsuc- cessful there, and appeal to the Emergency Court of Appeals which was set up under the Price Control Act.
 Decision Of Judge
 Judge ConWay's decision is as fol- lows:
 Plaintiff brought this action of Summary Process with a com- plaint containing the usual allega- tions of leasing, notice to quit the premises, failure to quit and a claim for possession of the prem iSes.
 Plaintiff filed an affidavit in accordance with the recently adopted rule of notice to the Area Rent Office and stating therein that his grounds for maintaining the action are Committing or permitting a nuisance" Plaintiff testified and presented evidence of other tenants in the premises to prove that defendant was conn., mitting or permitting nuisance. Some of the tenants testified that they had no trouble with either the defendant or his family. Oth- CTS testified that there was some trouble with the defendant and also with his children. On the issue of fact the Court finds that there was or is no nuisance.
 Regardless of the evidence of the existence or non-existence of nuisance, the palintiff is en- titled to judgment unless the provisions of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1922" and the regulations of the Price Ad- ministrator hereunder are a legal bar. The Plaintiff does not men, tion the validity of the Act and proper regulations hereunder, al- though their incidence may be unfair to great number of real estate owners, large and small, in this area.
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 ton genius of Kaiser with the s1proved aeronautical engineering ability of the 36-year-old Hughes, whose 57-passenger stratosphere plane Constellation" is under con- Struction at the Lockheed aircraft corporation plant at Burbank, Cal. Hughes owns tool plant at Hous- ton, Texas, and an aircraft plant 2n Southern California.
 It was disclosed that Lockheed Already has undertaken construction of 40 of the Constellation" type planes designed by Hughes. The Flying data of the first plane is a becret, but construction was re- gported in final stages. It was an- bounced that Huges was backing 4 khe construction with almost $20,- 100000 of his own money.
 Announcement of the Kaiser Hughes partnership was regarded as KaiSer'S first answer to critics who have described his air freighter plan naes fantastic.
 @s. Materials Doubted
 The announcement did not explain sshow they expected to obtain ma ssferials. Government authorities ghave said that Kaiser's program Elmust not interfere with other air. scraft construction.
 V Although Kaiser originally pro- posed large-scale construction of Cargo seaplanes, the Kaiser Hughes sDlaneS will be land craft, like "The sEonstellation"
 A The Constellation" originally was aaesigned as the worlds most luXur- Hfous passenger plane. It was to have :, had supercharged cabin, main- taining sea level pressure within the cabin while flying at 30,0O0 feet. It was described as the first true stratosphere plane"
 Hughes and Kaiser are working on plans for a plane twice as large as the Constellation" and larger than the B-19, worlds largest bomb er built by Douglas Aircraft com pany at Santa Monica. The B-19 weighs 30 tons loaded and has a wingspread of PIP feet.
 Kaiser originally proposed that nine shipyards, including several of his own on the west coast, be con- verted to construction of giant fly ing boats of the Gleen L. Martin Mars" type. Established aircraft builders were skeptical.
 Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production board, gave Kaiser a letter of authorization to prepare engineering plans and other data Kaiser and Hughes have been con- ferring here for several days and havO prepared general outlines of the construction plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
BRAZIL RECRUITS
 AT FEVER SPEED
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last January. One transmitter was found last week in the possession of an Italian at Saocrisovao and an- other in the possession of German at Salvador, both of which are a few miles from the coastal waters in which five Brazilian ships were sunk a week ago.
 Brazilian, British and United States planes kept up a relentless hunt for submarines off the coast. A dispatch from Montevideo last night said the submarines had been sighted off the northern coast of Uruguay by Brazilian planes.
 With Brazil
 Montevideo, Aug. 24-CUP)-Uru- quay will quickly adopt measures to implement her complete identity of views" with Brazil and put the nation in an interal state of war, but will not declare war on the Axis now, informed quarters said today
 The declaration of Uruguay's non- belligerency, 1t was understood, left the door open for more intensive support of Brazil, and especially as regards the right of Brazil to use Uruguayan ports free.
 Uruguay will also give Brazil the fullest cooperation in the use of her communications.
 Buenos Aires. Aug. 24- UP)-The cabine today fixes Argentina's po- sition in respect to Brazil's declara- tion of war on Germany and Italy
 The chancellery announced that President Ramon s. Castillo and Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Gun- iazu conferred yesterday about Bra zii's declaration.
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Rooms is heavy-set, five feet 10 inches tall and has dark hair and brown eyes. He was reared on a farm and before he went into the army he was livestock auctioneer and farmer. He thinks he killed one German at Dieppe.
 Before the raid the men were addressed by Lord Mountbatten, head of the commandos. Rooms said he didn't have any fears about the assignment after that and slept soundly until just before the order to the boats was given.
 T went to sleep again during the channel crossing and was awakened by shore fire by the Ger mans" he said. We landed on French soil after wading 30 or 40 yards through the surf. My party then travelled under cover of @ gully.
 Then there was some sniping from the Germans but no casual ties in my party and presently we got to some little farm buildings that we used for cover. They were about 200 yards from our objective, which were the coastal batteries and our first task was to clear out the farm buildings and make sure there were no jerries there"
 About this time the German fire began making itself fetl and while there were casualties in the Ameri- can party, none was killed.
 T took refuge in stable and be- gan sniping back, firing through a crack from a standing position" /" Rooms said. T fired quite number of rounds at odd, stray ferries who sometimes appeared and am pret- ty sure I got one of them"
 After the party accomplished its mission it began rear guard &C., ton as it dropped back to the beach behind the shelter of hedges, Rooms said.
 The party was under heavy gum fire and some were killed. The dead were left in France, but the wound ed were carried along to the water's $ edge where the party seized small boat. They placed the wounded aboard and then pulled into the channel where they waited for a boat to return them to Britain.
 We watched the dogfights be- tween German and Allied planes and saw one German and one Brit ash plane crash into the water" he said. we pulled the Allied aviator into our boat and discovered he was an American"
 Emden Is Raided
 London, Aug. 24-(UP)-Sensa- tlonally successful daylight bomb ing attacks on French occupied territory last week by, American army flying Fortresses were follow ca yesterday b daring dalight raid on the German Emden naval base by two big British Yelling tcn bombers.
 The planes dived through a cloud eap fo l.D00 feet altitude to dicp bombs which their crews saw burst SaAas sssn ~ A'AA AAas araA-