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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
GOV. NOT SENDING
 CHRISTMAS CARDS

Boston, Dec. 15.-(UP)-Gov. Sal- tonstall will eliminate his custom of sending Christmas cards this year and will hold his inauguration exer- cises to a minimum because of t. ? wartime necessity of curtailing non- essential activities.
 He said last night that instead of his customary greeting cards, he and his wife will extend seasons wishes to their friends through newspapers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
RumOred Nazi Commander in Charge of Defense
 of Bizerte AXIS UNDER HEAVY
 PRESSURE IN AFRICA Problem Whether Allies Will Win TripOIi Without
 Fight For It
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Stan Correspondent)

BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Stan Correspondent)
 London, December IS. -- (UP) - The German Afrika Korps, hotly pursued across Tripolitania by the British Eighth Army, may be prepar- ing to forfeit its great base at Tripoli without a fight and retire into Tunisia for a last stand, front dispatches said today.
 There were unconfirmed reports that Marshal Erwin Rommel him. self had abandoned his retreatinU army after the British break through at Fl Agheilo and had gone to Bizerte to take charge of the defense of Tunisia. Axis troops and supplies already. are pouring into eastern Tunisia from Tripcli, front dispatches said, indicating that Adolf Hitler considered the Tunis- ian bridgehead more important than defense of what is left of Benito Mussolini's African Empire.
 Pressure Is Heavy
 The Axis was under heavy pres- sure all along the North African battle line. American planes ham, mered at German bases on the Tunisian coast and the RAF gave the retreating Africa Korps no re- spite. Radio Morocco broadcast a report that the Germans were suf- fering heavily as they fled westward along the coastal road from Fl Agheila and listed the 18th and 2lst Panzer divisions, the 54th Ger man infantry division and g Ger- man light division as being among the retreating troops.
 The Italian high command broad. cast a report that Naples waA bombed last night, indicating tho Allies may still be attempting to choke of Axis achievements from Italy but there was no confirma- tion of the report from Allied sources.
 Fight Problematical
 Whether the Allies will win Trip- oli without a fight depends chiefly on whether the Germans can reins force the Africa Korps before Geins Sir Bernard l.. Montgomery, com. mander of the British Eighth Army overcomes the problem of maintain ing communications and providing water for his rapidly advancing forces. Frnot dispacthes indicated that might cause the British more trouble than Axis resistance. There are only scattered water wells be- tween Fl Agheila and Misurata, to- ward which the British are moving.
 Once past Misurata, the British would find 1t easier going. The land between Hisurata and Tripoh is cultivated and well populated and the Eighth Army could ind supp plies.
 Whatever may be Rommel's plans for Tripoli, there is no doubt that the Axis is making a determined attempt to reinforce it's Tunisia army.
 Small Vessels Arrive
 Allied air reconnaissance deter. mined that for three days small transports, including even sailing vessels, have been arriving at Gabes, on the east Tunisia coast. from Trip- oil.
 Spanish advices from Algiers re- ported heavy motor traffic along the Axis held Libyan- Tunisian coast and said several German columns were moving into the hills where teeT
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
EDUCATION BOARD
 MEMBER RESIGNS

Hartford, Conn.,, Dec. 15.-(UP)-- Gov. Hurley was expected today to appoint a new member of the State Board of Education before 'le leaves office in two weeks.
 The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Mrs. Alice E. Howell, Bethany, who retired because of i'll health. Sine was A member R tlle board for seven years.
 Shc was former resident of Salisbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
ROBBERS SECOND
 TRY WAS FAILURE.

Worcester, Mass, Dec. 15.-(UP)-- Vincent P. O'Malley, 29, of Worces- ter was arrested early today after he allegedly attempted D rob the same grocery store twice in two nights.
 Sunday night Harry I. Tacker was robbed of S8 but it was a different story last night. Mrs. Tacker refused to give up the money, oaMe from behind | counter and slepped tAe holdup mans face three times.
 A patrolman seized O'Mailey as he grappled in the snow with Taclkar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15

ATudud4CdIldl.
 Later in the day, striking force of dive bombers and fighters at- tackled the same objectives.
 No air opposition was encountered in these attacks.
 The first attack of the current series on Munda was made Dec. g (island time). The American air men skipped the next day but thereafter they have made daily visits to the new Japanese base.
 Earlier today Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said that while he could not discuss future plans of operations against Munda, the American forces were watching the Japanese there.
 Text of Navy department com munique No. 220:
 South Pacific Gall dates East Longitude.
 q. On Dec. IA U. s. Air Forces continued to attack the Japanese installations and air field which are being constructed in the Munda area of New Georgia island.
 (a) seven Army fIyHlg fOfI- resses (Boeing BID attacked the area during the morning.
 "(b) Later in the day striking force of Douglas 'Dauntless' dive bombers and Gruman Wildcat fighters attacked the same objec- tives.
 "(c) No enemy air opposition was encountered during either att tack"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
ECONOMIST TO
 HEAD COLLEGE.

Middlebury, Vt, Dec. 15.-(UP) --Dr. Samuel s. Stratton, A. econ- mist and authority on the iron and steel industry, will become president of Middlehury College Jan. l.
 The appointment of Stratton as the 11th president in the institu- tion's 142 year history was an. nounced late yesterday. He will -s- sign as professor at Harvard Busi- ness School and as technical ad- wiser of the WIPE to take the post.
 A native of Lynn, Mass, 5trattcn has heen connected with tho steel industry since his graduation from Dartmouth in 1920, and has written
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
RESIDENCE WAIVED

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 15. (UP)- Because of the acute shortage of nurses, the Personnel Department today waved the residence require ments for three positions in the State Department of Public Health. Ordinarily the nurses would be Con- necticut residents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
Jap Air Field At Munda Blasted

airmen continuing their air field at Munda New Georgia Navy announced today BOeing Wildcat fighters (sland time).
 morning. hammered at installa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
AlliedFOrceSMOp
 UpInNewGuinea
By BRYDON TAvES United Press Staff Correspondent

Australia 15UP-Aled northeastern New Guinea having captured Buna village and
  taking the Mission strip wipng out isolated strong points, Occupation American todays
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15

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Evening star., 1942-10-09

mand is In no position to operate
land-based aviation in any theater
of operations, said Col. Knerr, and
in short all this smoke screen, such
as the Hart articles, is nothing but
propaganda arising from a desire to
command"
The retired officer, a graduate Of
the Naval Academy who later trans
ferred to the Army, said that the
day of the battleship and aircraft
carrier was gone and that naval Of
ficers knew that the chances were
they would some day be left with
nothing but "tugboats" to command.
You cannot handle air power in
the same manner you do surface
ships, Col. Knerr added.
Col. Knerr said there was need of
an autonomous" air arm as well
as a war industries agency" and
all tied together Into one COM
mand'' with the Army and Navy.
We're going to continue to lose
this war unless this is DONE" he
said, because you can't beat fell
low like Hitler who has a dominant
air force tied in closely with his
ground forces and his production
agencies"
He said he could not divulge the
source of his information that the
four-motored bombers were being
diverted to the Navy. He said the
planes previously were part of the
Army bomber program.
Col. Knerr served in the Navy
from 1908 to 1911 after graduating
from Annapolis. He served in the
Army from 1911 until his retirement
March 81, 1899.
Evening star., 1942-10-09
Heavy Army Bombers
Are Diveted 10 Navy,
Retired Officer Saws
Col. Knerr Sees Danger
In Giving SEQ Forces
Lund-Bused Aviution
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. s.-Col. Hugh
J. Knerr, retired, former chief of
staff Of the General Headquarters
Air Force, declared today that many
four -motored Army bombers are
being diverted to the Navy.
The Navy is muscling in on air
power which has been developed by
Army experts" Col. Knerr said,
whereas in every case in the past
the Navy has strangled the idea of
dominant aircraft"
Col. Knerr said it was "disappoint-
ing" to see Admiral Thomas c. Hart,
a member of the Navy's policy
making General Board, write in the
current issue of the Saturday Eve
ming Post that the Navy required
entire freedom to use landing
fields"
There is a connotation of danger
In that the weapons of land-based
aviation are being diverted from the
Army Air Corps, where they were
developed and are understood, to-
the Navy" Col. Knerr added.
admiral Hart argued against
q separate United States Air
Force, saying Royal Air Force
fighters half an hour away
failed to 60 to the aid of the Brit
ish battleships Repulse and Prince
of Wales when they were attacked
and sunk by Japanese airmen
last December.
CHe also said that Navy Air
Forces had been "fettered" by
restriction against the use of
aerodromes by combat ships.
prime Minister Churchill had
said earlier that it was impos-
sible to give support because Brit
ish aerodromes had been at
tacked)
I'm my opinion, the NAVY COM
Evening star., 1942-10-09

weakness everywhere, we may find
ourselves strong nowhere" he said.
I'VE must seek the real target and
strike ruthlessly."
America must use rough and
tough methods to win the war, he
added, declaring it was impossible
to delay for normal peacetime pro-
cedures.
"Roughshod approaches are re-
quired to overcome the intricacies
of our peacetime methods. Victory
will not be found in any prize
package wrapped in red tape"
Gen. Drum said a national service
Evening star., 1942-10-09
Drum Sees Danger in Wide
Dispersal Of U. 5. Forces

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Lt. Gen.
Hugh A. Drum, commanding the
Eastern Defense Command and First
Army, told members of the Life
Underwriters Association last night
there was danger lin the call of our
forces to be dispersed all over the
world"
TN our eagerness to overcome
Evening star., 1942-10-09
Walter Reuther to Speak

Walter Reuther, director of the
General Motors Division of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
will address luncheon meeting of
the Washington Chapter of the
League for Industrial Democracy at
1:30 pm. tomorrow at the Burling-
ton Hotel. His subject will be "A
Production Policy for Victory"
Evening star., 1942-10-09
Deaths Reported

Orlando N. Smith. s5. 1929 Columbia
rd NV.
Mary Melick. 7e. 1424 Massachusetts ave.
NV. " -
Matthew r Moody, g. 1929 18th st NV
Arthur H, RoSenfeld, 55, 923 18th St NV,
Helen M. johnson, SO, 4l6 Shepherd
st. NV.
Robert v. Frank. 40. 54S 14th st. Sc
William NJ, Drummond, 40, l24S G ST. ne
Bessie Mccoy, As. lOl st. Sc.
Samuel Jefferson, A. S12 18th St NV.
Harmon L. Stickles AZ, 333 Seaton pl. ne
Helen Hill. IS. 3l45 18th st NV.
Harriet Young. -. 4Os NJ st Sc
Mamie 8. Chapman, 64 1917 Marion
Mary E., Scott, 55 422s Gaut st. ne.
MAGGIE Thomas; 90, l1ol p st. NV.
ida 3. Grant. As, 524 25th pl ne
MarSsret r. Shepherd, 90, 776 Hobart
pl. NV.
willie Hates. 80, .725 l1th st. ne.
MaRgie Nelson, 80. Brentwood Md.
Jhelm4 B. Pippin. %, l39 st. NV
Evening star., 1942-10-09

act might be required for all able
bodied citizens and that rationing
of necessities may become more
widespread and difficult.
Evening star., 1942-10-09

Tex, when she appeared at an Army
and Navy relief show In Dallas.
A film scout saw her, and yes
terday she won court approval of
Evening star., 1942-10-09

movie contract with Warner Bros.
which will pay ner 500 to 81 600 .
week on a sliding scale over seven
years.
Evening star., 1942-10-09
Her Bit Pays Dividend

LOS ANGELES, Oct. . R.-1t
was profitable bit of work for
Lynne Baggett, 10. of Wichita Falls,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
GuayuIe Expert
Visits in Valley

L. N. Gooding of Tucson, guayule
pilot planting expert for the desert
area, including Coachella and I'M
perial Valleys and southern Arizona
was in Ell Centre Monday to obtain
cooperation for fall paintings OF
guayule.
Spring tests of one acre plots
were made in Coachella Valley and
at Drop Four on the East mesa ir
Imperial county. GCoding hopes
that in fall paintings some of the
pests and diseases the rubber-pro-
ducing plant is heir to, may be
overcome.
Test paintings already made by
l.. G. Goar at Meloland station
from seeds furnished by the state
farm at Davis indicate the plant
will flourish here. Gooding said. He
is connected with the USDA which
has pilot paintings at several Ari-
Zona locations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
Short Illness
Fata! TO Pioneer

Following a brief illness, death
took Charles N. Rhodes, Sr, mem
ber of one of Imperial Valleys
pioneer families, Sunday night in
an Ell Centro hospital
Rhodes came to the valley in 1902.
married and reared three sons here.
He is survived by his wife, Blanche,
Brawley; sons, Charles Jr' and
Thomas, Ell Centre, and Ira, Camp
Callan, private. His brother j. n.
Rhodes, lives in Ell Centre and an
other brother, william, is III san
Diego A sister, Mrs. Nan Anker'
also is resident of FL Centre
For the past three years Rhooes
was employed as a chef in a Braw-
ley hotel
Funeral services are being ar
ranged by Lemons mortuafy'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27

engine howl and they'll think what
a hell of a fight he's putting up.
Makes hero out of him before he
starts to fight.O
OUT OF SIGHT
2:50-The peak lines below now
and the Jap is out of sight. There's
glimpse of sea northward but
the bay where the Jap ships lie, if
they're still here, is solidly covered
2:5l-There he is again, higher
than us and closer than before.
We're still climbing and the alti-
meter beside the chart table says
$500 feet. nearly two miles.
2:55-He vanished again in the
murk but now he is out and hes
gone into another of his silly aerial
dances.
3;00-The top turret is firing over
cur heads. The firing stops sud
denly and the Jap crosses in front
Of us sliding into the soup. He
must have attacked but we seem
to be all right. We had a good
look at his plane, a Nakajima BIZ
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
Charges
Involve
Singer
Navy Says Officer
Accepted Auto
From Tony Martin

SAN FRANCISCO, July
27. (UP) = Lieut.. Cmdr.
Maurice N. Aroff, U.S.N.R.,
today was charged by the
Navy with receiving an auto
mobile from Tony Martin, las and
for fee, compensation and reward
for facilitating the enlistment" of
the film singer as a chief specialist
in the U. S. Naval Reserve.
Aroff was being tried by a gen
eral court martial in connection
with an investigation of "unsatis-
factory conditions" in the office OF
the director of naval officer pro-
curement here.
The allegation concerning accept
ance of the automobile-a sedan
valued at $950-from Martin was
accompanied by charges that Aroff
also accepted gifts from two naval
reserve ensigns and on two occa-
sions acted on applications OF Los
Angeles residents who gave San
Francisco addresses.
NAVY CHARGE
The navy charged that on Jan.
8, 1912, Aroff did willingly, know
ingly, wrongfully and corruptly ask,
accept and receive and take from
one Tony Martin, chief specialist,
U.SNR., Studebaker President
| Sedan automobile of the value of
about $3.50, as and for fee, COM
penSation and reward to him, the
said Aroff, for facilitating the en-
listment of the said Martin as chief
specialist in the u. S. Naval Reserve;
the United States then being in
state of war"
Flanked on either side by his at
torneyS-Lieut. Roy Robinson and
Don Marlin, Los Angeles civilian
the stocky, black haired Aroff,
former champion amateur boxer and
Olympic games Weight-lifter, faced
court martial board OF five high
ranking navy Officers and one mar
inc officer on the receiving ship
at Yerba Buena island.
FALSEHOOD CHARGE
Aroff also was charged with false
hood" in connection with his ques-
tioning by intelligence Officers of
the 18th naval district in Los An
geles, May IA, when he asserted
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27

.'lOOCnOlu on tne southern banks OF
the Don in the Caucasus.
The aerial onslaught against
Hamburg, Germany's greatest port
and submarine-building center, un-
doubtedly was undertaken as sup
port for the hard-pressed Russian
armies on the. Don front and in
partial answer to increasingly loud
er demands for the opening of an
Allied second front in western Eur
ope.
The Hamburg attack, fifth on
the great port this year, was de-
scribed as the biggest, and presum-
ably the most destructive, bombing
since the RATS 1,000-plane attacks,
the latest of which was directed
against the port of Bremen on
June 25
ACKNOWLEDGES LOSS
The British acknowledged loss of
% bombers in last nights raid, in
dicating that from 600 to 500 planes
had participated.
The British raiders sent their new
big and beautiful" two-ton bombs,
called block busters" crashing upon
Hamburg's shipyards, docks and
submarine building plants, as we'll
as tens Of thousands of fire bombs
The Germans admitted that numer-
Gus scattered" fires had been start
ed.
The 4,000-pound bombs, capable
of smashing an entire block or
buildings and carried by big Stirling
four-motor bombers, were the same
as those used with such destructive
results on Duisburg, Rostock, Lue-
beck, Cologne, and Essen.
The British press said the num-
ber Of raiders exceeded any Nazi
air fleet ever sent over England
more even than the 500 or more
planes that raided London during
the battle Of Britain, or attacked
Coventry.
The Germans retaliated with wide
ranging attacks against Britain,
by small groups of planes, and by
noon % districts throughout the
country had reported raids, although
apparently with comparatively small
| damage and casualties. London had
two breakfast-tim alarms but there
were no reports Il bombs dropped.
u. S. PILOTS FLY
On Sunday seven pilots Of the
United States Army air force, flying
wing wing with Raj fliers, join
ed in daylight sweep over north
ern France. one u. S. pilot was
lost. Americans of the British Eagle
Squadron also participated in the
Sunday attacks.
In the east, meanwhile, the Rus
sian air force, perhaps using Ameri-
can Douglas and Boeing bombers,
attacked the East Prussian capital
OF Koenigsberg The Moscow radio
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
arm
Group
Fights j
Committee Asks
U. S.HelP TO
Solve Problem

Imperial Valley farmers
fought Monday for official
certification by the u. S. EN-
plOyment Service that there
is not enough farm labor to
meet needs here-certification with
out which this county seemingly
will be unable to obtain agricultural
labor relief from Mexico when and
if it is available.
Nelson Correll, chairman of the
farm labor sub committee of the
county planning conference, spear
headed the drive to bring Mexican
field hands to the valley. His group
was supported by a special USDA
war board committee
SEND TELEGRAMS
Both Correll's committee and the
USDA war board committee sent
kilograms to w. B. Parker, economic
war council member and former
director of agriculture for Califor-
mia, asking him to press for
statement from j. j. CorSOn, EN-
ployment office director, that there
is a need for additional farm labor
in this county.
The action was taken after At
torney General Francis Biddle re-
piled to a June Is requist OF Cor
rell's committee by saying that the
department of justice would take
no action toward importation OF
Mexican farm labor until Corson de-
clared it was needed here.
Contrary to earlier rumors, it was
learned Monday that no agreement
has been reached between the Amer
lean and Mexican governments
governing importation OF labor to
this country.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
Reporter Goes Bombino
For Jops on kisko Isle

into another world of unearthly
beauty.
We still climbed, going up where
the air was thin and cold and rare
as champagne.
There's your mountain" the
whiskery bombardier said, pointing
ahead There was Kiska.
NOTES ON DEATH
The next hour and ten minutes
were busy but somehow your hands,
having nothing else to do, took
notes on this odd transaction in
death. 1t went about like this:
2:45-The navigator left his charts
when We started and now crouches
lovingly over his machinegun in
the tear-drop glass nose we occupy.
He squats suddenly and twists the
gun in its swivel.
Here he comes" he says quietly
Out there against the white cloud
rack a tiny black speck moves. 1t
moves fast, growing larger as We
stare.
2:46-We hold our course and on
either flank our other planes spread
out climb above or drop below into
attack formation.
2:47-The speck is nearer but
something's got into him. He's over
there by himself-stunting. You
wonder when he's showing off for
ut wasn't until much later that
the major offered an explanation
for the JapS odd antics. The
guys smart" the major said. He
knows his pals down there can hear
his motor but they can't see him
through the soup, They'll hear that
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
500 BRITISH B0MBERS RAID HAMBURG
GADGET SHOULD
PLEASE BABIES

If Imperial Valley babies were
worldly wise there probably
would be a rush of them to the
county hospital beginning Tues
day, but, as it is, the worldly
wise babies are too old to use
the brand new baby incubator
which arrived in Ell Centre Mon
day, and will be set up at the
hospital Tuesday.
It's air conditioned, with
temperature and humidity con-
trolls.
The incubator is the gift of
the Ell Centre SOrOptimist Club,
which raised $3.50 during two
years for its purchase. Only re-
quirement for its use Is doc
tors recommendation and the
Okay Uf one Of these SOrOpti-
mists: Mrs. DOZier Dawson,
Mrs. Genevieve Kenyon, Mrs.
Jack MattOx or Mrs. Zillah
Wandrey.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27
BY KEITH WHEELER
Copyright 1912, Chicago Times,
Inc,)

ABOARD FORTRESS BOMBER
EN- ROUTE FROM KISKA, June
26-Ten minutes ago our bomb bay
doors opened and disgorged two
tens of dynamite on the japanese
tent city at Kiska island.
Nine minutes and forty-five sec
onds ago the first bomb struck down
there under the mist. AT two-sec-
ond intervals the others followed
and laced through Kiskas tundra
valley with the insensate fury of
INT.
An hour and fcrty-five minutes
ago we roared into the soup in a
steady climb and for seven endless
minutes we bored through thick
gray nothing with no top and no
bottom. Then we broke through
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-27


of the American west, are American
built hedge-hopping fighters of the
army's cooperation command. They
will act as scouts for advancing
ground forces.
The Mustang, known in the
United States Air Corps as XP-5l,
is an all-metal, low wing monoplane
built by the North American Air
craft company at Inglewood, Calf
1t resembles Germany's Messer-
schmitt l09 to an almost embarrass-
ing extent. Both planes have square
cut tails and wings.
Its speed is a secret. But when
Royal Air Force squadron streak
ed across the field In its Mustangs
today. skimming scant six feet
above the ground, the planes were
only blur.
The Mustangs armament also is