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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
American Strength to Strike Has Been Hidden
 Up to Present Time SPRINGBOARD TOLASH
 LAPS IN AUSTRALIA American Big BOmbers Have Already Been at
 Work On Japanese
BY BRYpoN TAYEs


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 MacArthur Headquarters, Australia, March 18. - (UP) - The Allied Armies of Aus tralia, led by General Doug las MacArthur and Sparked by growing numbers of Amer ican fighting men and ma chimes, maSSed it's maximum striking power against the Japanese today to defend this embattled continent and eventually turn it into 8 springboard for 3 smashing counter4offei1giye.
 The newest and fastest American fighter and bornbers palnes were taking leading role in the battle for air control over the island ap- breaches to Australia, including 8 new Allied bombing attack on the Japanese-held base of Koepang on Tirnor Island and an enemy bom- bardment in the Solomon Islands.
 Apparently renewing their thrusts toward the American supply line to Australia. Japanese flying boats in groups of three and IA bombed Tulagi and Florida in the Solomons without causing important damage. two or three natives were reported killed at Florida.
 But developments emphasized that the Japanese were attempting to put on still more speed for an all out attack on Port Moresby and the North Australian coast before rapidly mounting American fighting power can turn the tide.
 American Striking Power
 The extent of that American striking power previously hidden by military censorship - was indi- cated today when correspondents were permitted to say that:
 Macarthur, safely in Austria af- ter perilous 2,o00-mile flight over enemy-held areas, has assumed command of aggressive Allied forces that include the best types of American war planes as well as fly- ing fortresses operating from secret bases on the north coast.
 A mighty river" of supplies from America is rolling into this conti- nent.
 American soldiers in uniform out numbered Australian soldiers by as much as three or four to one in some cities.
 The battle for Australia. when it gets into full swing, will be largely an American show.
 Train loads of endorsements have moved up to the potential bat tlefields and tremendous work has been done in transforming desolate Australian wastes formerly almost defenseless-into a fortress from which the most devastating military offensive of this or any other wal may be launched
 American forces have spread oveJ one defense sector of 100 squara miles bolstered by shiploads o5 American airmen and technicians and equipment arriving in the last two months.
 The arrival of MacArthur, healthy but tired, was applauded by Aus- tralian officials and the press as signifying aggressive operatiois against the Japanese.
 United States army headquarters have, been operating in Australia since early January and the set up
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Allied Forces Are Massing Maximum Striking Powers
Is, ,OOO, ,OOO More Men Drafted Into
 Fighting Forces Of United> States
Draft Lottery Ended at 7:O8 This Morning, After
 Thirteen Hours
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
 United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)


 Washington, March 18-(UP)- The first World War II draft lottery ended at 7:O8 a. m. today, determin- ing the order in which 5000, 900 more men will be classified for mill itary service with armed forces that are spread from Ireland to Austra- lia.
 It was the third lottery under the present selective service law, but the first since Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Three lotteries were held during World War I.
 The drawing of all the capsules from the goldfish bowl took 13 hours ia half hour earlier than we ex- pected to finish" according to Se- lective Service Director Lewis B Hershey.
 Y There were a couple ,of hitches There were supposed to have beer 1000 capsules in the bowl. But when the last one was drawn only 6,99S had been accounted for Earlier there had been a duplication of No. 2,885.
 Hershey and his aides conferred and discovered that Nos. 2,069 and 6,342 were missing. They also de- cided that one of the 2,885s should have been 2,385.
 Straighten Errors
 To straighten out these errors, they cancelled the first 2,885 which was drawn as the 742nd number and let the second one stand. Then they placed the three numbers 2,069, 6,342 and 2,353-in the bowl and drew them out in this order:
 6.999th-6,342.
 7,0O0th-2,069.
 7,001St-2,385. ..
 Actually, the list will be revised and all numbers after the 741st will be advanced one number and the corrected list will end with 1000 instead of roof.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
Macarthur Prepares
 For Jap Showdown"
Not Only Fate of Australia, But Entire World Lies In His Hands-Eiis Philippines Successor Beats
 Off Japanese Attack
BY EVERETT R. HOLES United Press Staff COrrespOndent)


 Washington, March 18.-CUP)- Gen. Douglas MacArthur, symbol of the hopes of all the free nations, threw Australia's defense prepara- tions into high gear today amid mounting signs that Japan would unlease an attempt to knockout the continents northern bulwarks at any hour.
 Taking on q great and urgent job, the 62-yeay old hero of the Philippines prepared for a Show down involving enormous stakes not only the fate of Australia but the entire struggle against Japan csc conquest in the southwest Pa cific.
 Whether Japans sweep is to be rolled back, across Java and the Philippines an dto Japan's own islands, probably will be decided in his defense of Australia, military experts said.
 It became evident today that the Australians are depending upon the United States they asked for MacArthur to lead them in their hour of peril-to save their na- tion.
 President Roosevelt said yesterday that MacArthur, rescued" from the Philippines and rushed secretly to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
Hit-Run Driver Sought For Injury To 4-Year Old Lad

Police have undertaken an intense search for a hit-and-run driver who struck and injured 8 four year old boy on Laval street early Monday afternoon.
 The youngster, James O'Donnell, Jr., 4, son of Mir. and Mrs. James ODonnell of 10 WelleS street, was playing in front of the home o4 his grandparents at 22 Laval street. His grandfather $ Lieut.. James 2. o. Donnell of the Waterbury fire de- paEIus1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
DEVALERA
 SENDS MESSAGE
Country Needs Every Man of Military Age, That
 Freedom May Stay

Dublin, March 1S.-(UP)-Prime Minister Ramon De Valera, broad Icasting a St. aPtrick's Day message Hast night, said the country needed I"eyery man of military age" and urged the people to make sacrifices in order to retain their freedom.
 He regretted that war conditions prevented his customary St. Pat 'ricks message to "the Irish across the seas" but extended them greet ings in the name of the Irish people.
 He said the Irish must face the war situation with courage so we can hand down a proud record to generations following us" s
 with our limited resources" 2" he said, i've will need every man of
 military ago for our defense forces. Tf ne arc attacked, we mean to re- 8
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18

A number of children were play ing with the o'Donnell boy when he was struck but in the excitement no one noted the marker numbers of the car.
 The incident took place at 12:40 ID. m. Monday and the yOungster was taken immediately to Dr. John ,. Mullen for treatment. He suffered painful injuries of the nose and lip.
 Motor Patrollnau Alfred Overton is Investigating,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18

Salt Lake City, March i8.-(UP) Three thousand hungry deer roamed through Salt Lake City to- day, eating ali the green stuff in sight.
 Police were busy protecting them from residents who were busy de- manding protection from the deer. They were hazards not only to shrubbery and other plants, but were menaces to traffic fin the same category" police said, "as drunken drivers"
 UnseaSonal snow drove the deer basin into the city. They had been from the canyons of Salt Lake fed by game conservation employees through the winter and, though au- thentic waldlife, have no fear of man. Some nibbled the buds of the ahxubbery on the state capitol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
WATERBURY HAS 7,lOO ON LIST
First Number That Af= fected City Was Fourth
 One Drawn From Bowl

Registrants in last months father and son draft" some 7,100 of them in Waterbury, were learning their order numbers today and wondering if and when they may be called to active duty. The order in which they are subject to call was deter miped by a night-long lottery at washington in which capsules con- taining serial numbers were drawn.
 The first number drawn which af- fected Waterbury was the fourth taken from the bowl, the earlier nunlbeIS Seiaie Aaigher than any of those assigned by the four local Selective Service boards. It was TAI, and its local holders are: 15-A, Maurice F. Garren, of 81 High street, a toolmaker at the Water bury Clock Co.,; 15-B, Gerald F. Jones, of IS Kendrick avenue, chef; 16-A, George w. Robaittaille,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
GERMAN FORCES
 ARE ENDANGERED
Their Position in SmOIensk Area Has Become Very
 Critical Today
By M. s. HANDLER
fUnited Press stan COrrespOndent)

United Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Moscow, March 18.-(UP)-The position of German forces in the Smolepsk area of the central front was becoming increasingly critical today, as Marshal Semyon Tinlo- shensko,s army of the Ukraine heav- fly assailed the enemy south of Kharkov.
 The main road between Vyaz1na and SmolenSk was under constant Soviet artillery fire, while tank and infantry units pushed closer to it. Russian parachutiSts, dropped in the German rear, have destroyed Notifications and occupied strong points.
 The Communist party organ PraFda said a hig battle was de- veloping south of Kharkov, and it appeared to be part of operations by which Marshal TiInoShenko aimed to invest Kharkov, Russia'S fourth city and one of Its greatest Industrial centers.
 The destruction of 47 German planes on Monday was reported in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
YANKEES DON'T
 WAIT, THEY ACT
Army Officers Grab Off l0 New Autos That Were
 Lying Idle
BY DON CAsWELL

ASAnSNA T ANSS Gse4AA - SAANHSPOAANNN@SI
 General MacArthur's Headquart- CTS, Australia, March 18. = (UP) = Five American Army officers, badly in need of staff cars, walked into an automobile agency and saw 19 new cars on the floor.
 'Warmm 'em up." one of the of ficers said.
 Within 30 minutes the 19 cars had been driven away by American sol- diers and a Ilazed, salesman was fig turing out that he had earned $580 in commissions ln five minutes.
 That incident is typical of the way in which Americas rapidly eX- banding armed forces here are cut ting through red tape and delay.
 The Australians are dazed and surprised but they like it.
 You Americans really get things done," they say, and they like to- tell of incidents in which Yankee direct action and ingenuity is talk ing the short cut.
 In one town the Americans needed staff headquarters telephone quickly. They were told it would take two days.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-18
JAPANESE PUSH
 AHEAD IN BURMA
Clash With British, Chi- nese FOrCes-British Ex-
 peCt to Start Offensive
By JOHN R. MORRIS Limited Press Far Eastern

New Delhi, India, March 18.- (UP)-Strong Japanese forces drove northward along the Rangoon- Mandalay railroad toward Toungoo today, clashihg with British and Chinese forward detachments south of Kanyutkivin, about 125 miles above captured Rangoon.
 A communique from the Imperial Burma-1ndia command headquar- ters gave no details of the fighting, but said the Japanese invaders ap- peared to be advancing along the Sittang river valley toward strategic
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
.Colesed fsuth browns
CdStutiun Sun

Jack Dale, 12-year old colored
youth, was drowned Sunday after
noon at castalian. swimming POOL
He and another colored boy, Henry
Lee Galloway, were in swimming
when the accident happened. The
latter was standing on the bank and
tried to hand a stick to the drowning
youth unsucessfully.
The body was finally an hour
later by his ~stepfather. Sebe Har-
ris, and brought to a doctor here.
Efforts were made to restore his
life but proved unavailing.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday afternoon at Gags Spring
Church. Surviving are the mother
and ~stepfather, two brothers and
one sister.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20

the seventh and eighth pess4ds
Deck johnson pissed the battcrs with
q pair Of doubles and =. single
while HUMPHREYS, Hodges, Watkin,
and Taylor each ,basged 2 brace Of
blows. .f.
Buddy Renacker was the lead.
ing run-maker with four. followed
by Bates with three, Johnson, Taylor
and Freeman with two each and
Kicks and Taylor with each.
Cook and Colston headed the stick
workers for the losers with a brace
Of singles, each. Kosy registered
four markers in the opening frame
three in the fourth and one in the
fourth, fifth and ninth stanzas.
The totals for the Whippets were
10 runs, z hits and 10 errors; Du-
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
NOTICE OF

Notice is hereby given that a coun-
ty-wide primary election will be held
on Tuesday, August 25th, 1912, for
the purpose Of selecting the Demo-
cratic nominee for the office of Uni
ted States Senator from Mississippi.
Election managers to serve in the
above named primary wiIN6R
nounced later.
HAZEL BRANNON, Sec etary..
Homes County Democratic
cutiye Committee.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20

Mr.. and Mrs. George jenkins and
daughter and Mrs. Hilton Parnell and
daughter of Eldorado, Arkansas, visited
friends and relatives here Monday. Mrs.
Jenkins and Mrs. Parnell formerly lived
in Goodman having been before their
marriage, Bessie and Aileen Holley.
Miss Jean Hightower spent last week
with relatives in Mobile.
Mrs. Merrill Mitchell, who lives in
Dallas, Texas, is a guest in the home of
her mother, Mrs. Hightower.
Leroy Donald left Sunday night on a
business trip to Atlanta.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Walker came down
from Kilmichael one day last week to
visit Mrs. William Walker.
Sergeant and Mrs. Charles Daniel
spent last week with Mrs. Lee Daniel
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
DURANT BEATS K0SY
ssS0FF BALLERS 1AI0~s

Remembering the numerous de-
feats handed them by the Kosci'
usko baseball nine, the Durant team
Sunday afternoon gained some
Of vengeance as they
pounded ont seventeen safeties &C
iwalIop the Alfalfa crew, Is to 10.
Bates, newcomer to the homs
ranks, allowed the visitors only z
hits and struck out q batters as
well as pounded out a pair of knocks
including a homo run to aid in the
triumph.
Durant collected five runs in eac.
the second and fourth frames, two
in the fifth and a trio of TALES in
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
Managers Are Named
For City Election

Managers have been named for
the municipal election in Durant to
be held next Friday morning, Aug
ust 2Sth, 1912. They are J. o. Ritter,
M. E. Rhyme and w. M. Beachman.
Clerks will be Miss Mary Julia Net
ties and Mrs. J. G. Webb.
Officials we're selected by mem
bers of the Durant Democratic Ex-
ecutive Commute.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20

rant 1l-fuhs, Il Aies and 5 errefs
Players for the vie.ors included
KuykAnda1l catching; Bates pitch.
ing; Humphiies and Watkins, first
base; johnson, second base; Rem.
acker, short stop; Freeman, third
base; Hodges, left. field; Kicks. cen
ter field; Taylor. right field.
In the lineup for the Attalans
were Holmes, Walker, Stonestreet
Wyers, Colston, Ashley, Cook, Ter
ry, jackson and Blanton.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20

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With What You Save.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20

Friends here Of Frank l. (Doc)
Cplley will be Interested to learn
that he has recently been. promoted
to the rank of major in the United
States Army. He is at present in
Washington, D. c. and New York
City in an engineers outfit.
Major Culley is a brother of Mrs.
c. S. Order of Durant.
Pvt. Gordon Leard was home on
a 3-day pass last weekend. He is
with the Hath Filed Artillery regi-
ment now n maneuvers in Louisiana.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-08-20
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Evening star., 1942-05-15
BY sIGRID ARNE,
Vida World


IATTLE. May 15.-The Alasks
sourdoughs are accustomed to Mary
Joyce. She's a slim. young brunette
who persists In roaming alone over
Alaska's wild rivers and woods as
though they were merely Chicago's
busy Loop.
It's "just Mary to them.
And besides, Mary never capsizes
her boat. gets tree-ed by a bear, or
breaks q leg. She always turns up
calmly, her black locks combed, her
parka family fragrant with French
perfume, and her dogs well fed.
There's plenty Of sourdoughs who
do worse.
Bnt now there's a new. heated
argument on: Mary versus the sour
doughs.
She's been In Seattle all winter
Just to take the curse of city
monotony she has flown as an air.
liner hostess between Seattle and
Billings. Mont. But now with spring
In the air, Mary wants to point her
little boat out Of Juneau up river a.
miles to her lonesome lodge.
She's getting dozens Of letters from
all over Alaska: Shes Known from
Ketchikan (south) 10 Point Barrow
(Arctic Circle. The letters all say
the sans thing, "Stay in Seattle this
summer, Mary. We might have Japs
this year, and your lodge is pretty
far out"
Mary says. Nonsense. The lodge
Is home. Besides I know what
I'd do"
She has 1t figured out she can
load her boat in 10 minutes, and
head up stream. She points out the
route on the map, and there's not a
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THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. FRIDAY MAY 15 1912

neck 20 the rest Of tho bird Il per.
feet for the roaster. On the wing.
So she's going back.
Her hair is really black as the
ravens wing" She has . gentle
voice. She certainly Is q new sort
Of Alaska heroine. She wears .
rich. mink coat over her natty afr
liner suits.
She leaves a faint trail Of Caron's
bellodgia. cts $50 q bottle now,
isn't IT'D
Her eyes have an Irish twinkle.
Father and brother still live in
Baraboo, Wis. She knows they
think she's loco, and they're not go
ing to visit her until the highway
is finished.
Mary's place is called Taku Lodge.
That's Eskimo for windy" 1t is.
To make 1t even less tame, four
bodies of water meet near Taku.
Mary gets in and out by boat, for
shopping in Juneau. So she has to
know those waters.
Rip tides roar in. IL feet high.
Then dry spells keep the sour
doughs out, but Mary feels her way
through the sandbars with a pole.
They say she can put her boat lover
the dew on the grass"
Really, she gives of the air Of a
''befo' the wah" landed gentry Of
Virginia. She takes quiet pride
in improving Taku. and she runs 1t
methodically. She even has sweet
Evening star., 1942-05-15

figured out . way to help Mary.
It's slightly embarrassing. They
sneak onto visiting boats which tie
up in her river, and steal loaves Of
bread and pounds of butter.
There's also q COW, Muck-Luck.
She's a queer one. She's mad about
salmon. When she's finished her
own portion she raids the dogs sup
ply. Hall the time Mary's in stew
trying to get the irate Muck-Lucks
horns disentangled from doghouse
door.
Mary has been In Alaska since
1880. She saw it first in 1923 "the
right way"-from a private yacht.
She was trained nurse. and she
made her first trip to Alaska with
a rich patient and his mother.
From there on it was sheer
Evening star., 1942-05-15

The dogs seem to b Mary's real
love. They're certainly beauties.
They put her on the front pages q
few years back when they looked
so frisky Mary decided to 60 visiting
IN Fairbanks, 1000 miles away.
It was dead winter. !Taku was
buried in snow. Billiards swept the
hills. But Mary set out with dogs,
sleigh, an Indian guide, . silk sleep
ing tent that weighs pounds. grub
and q pot Of wonderful Mulligan
she makes Of moose meat, rice and
vegetables.
They plugged along for 81 days,
and made 1t. But halfway Mary
took flu, and had to lap up on the
trail two days. Worried radio tele-
phones told Alaska, MARY Joyce Is
lost"
Evening star., 1942-05-15

Then one day Mary saw Q plane
circling overhead. She was en- heI
way by then. Now. no good sour
dough gets lost. It causes others
too much trouble. Mary blushed a
deep red. and hurried on. She
learned later 1t was the famous Joe
Crosson, the flyer. who had volun-
teered to ind her.
On the return trip she took the
plane - dogs and all. The dogs
baked getting In. But then came
the first stop. The dogs scampered
out on the snow, and then rushed
back to the plane, popped into their
seats, and looked around with a
Tets go" expression.
Mary says they love sugar 50 much
they lick the sugar bowl clean; and
never break the bowl. They've also
Evening star., 1942-05-15

romance between . gt1 and Wild
scenery. The patient and his
mother saw 1t. and gave Mary her
Taku Lodge two years later.
She spends winters In Seattle, but
the rest Of the year shes at home
at Taku. She's become one Of
Alaska's celebrities. That, In Q
land of adventuresoms people.
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cream In . part Of the world where
1t costs Il . quart.
The lodge Is cedar paneled. It
can sleep 30. Sometimes its full in
the summer with people who come
to fish. Mary houses them with the
aid Of an old Tyrolian caretaker,
Louie De Forian.
Louie Is a problem. Mary and he
get into big arguments. She fires
him, but he won't stay fired So
they work together, but they don't
speak.
Last September was like that.
And September is important. Mary,
that month each year, catches,
cleans and smokes 1900 salmon for
her Eskimo dogs winter diet. Mary
and Louie did the Job last year in
dead silence.
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town for hundreds OF miles. But
Mary would turn this way and that,
up this inlet, and over. She points
out canyons which have never been
crossed by anything but moose,
Eskimos and Mary Joyce.
Besides, she can shoot we'll enough
to give a hot reception. Not Just
shoot. But nick grouse in the