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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
YOUR AUTO TIRES
 IN GRAVE DANGER
Should Scrap Rubber Fail Increase, All Tires May
 Be RequisitiOned
BY HILLIER KRIEGHBAUM United Press Staff Correspondent


 Washington, July 8 = (UP) = President Roosevelt's warning that the government may have to requi- sition every automobile tire in the country was expected today to touch of another campasgn for elimi- hating motoring as usual.
 For months officials have been warning the public that extraordi- nary measures should be taken to conserve the tires now on automo- piles. There may not be enough rubber for military needs, they said, let alone civilian needs.
 Government officials were believ- ed to be preparing motorists for more drastic controls over their tires. MT. Roosevelt made the first move by telling his press confer ence yesterday what may be ahead for motorists if world conditions get worse than they are now. The president said the entire na- tion could not go without tires and, if 1t becomes necessary to requisi- tioli t!Ies to save the country. he will do so. He emphasized that he was concerned about saving the country rather than saving rubber and gasoline.
 Government officials have hinted that if non-essential driving were eliminated the tires now in use might last until the synthetic rub Der program is well underway. Some weeks ago they proposed na- tionwide gasoline rationing as rubber conservation measure, but SO much opposition was raised that 1t was deferred until after the cur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
HOLLYWOOD IS
 CALLING FOR AID
Top Stars, Technicians Are Being Stolen Away From
 They by War
BY FREDERICK c. oThMAN United Press Hollywood
 COrreSnOndentl

Hollywood, July 8 -UP)- With many of its top stars carrying guns and its technicians making films for the army and navy, Hollywood was beginning to wonder today whether it could borrow some actors from the government.
 Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Robert Mont gomery, James Stewart, Vic Mature, Tyrone Power and score of other top names already have gone to war. Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and many another are banging on the army's door. Still other leading men are about to be drafted and the pro- ducers, almost without exception, are desperate for he-men.
 Universal studios has scheduled an all-woman picture. Twentieth Century Fox has completed its first big-time feature with an elderly
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
Terrific Punch Given by Americans Smashed Ger
 man Tanks, Crews ARIZONA BOY FIRED
 FIRST SHOT AT NAZIS Gen. Grant Tanks Showed Superiority in Their
 Smashing Victory

Editors Note: A closeup de. scrpition of the first battle of Americans against Germans in this war tank clash in the Libyan Desert has been Ob- tained by Richard D. McMillan, United Press correspondent who has covered almost every phase of the war in North Africa, Greece and Crete. McMillan's vivid story of what happened when the Americans went into action for the first time will be carried on this wire soon.
 BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN (COpyright, 1942, by United Press)
 With the British Army iri Egypt, July 8. - (UP) - American tanks manned by American crews roared into action "with a terrific punch" against German tanks on a wind-swept sand ridge in Libya and a boy from Arizona fired the first shot.
 When the battle was over, four German tanks were blazing wreck age on the sand. Most of their crews were dead.
 The Americans came back from the clash with all of their tanks and without serious casualties.
 lone Ahee of Tucson AriZ., was the first American to fire a shot from an American tank against 3 German tank in this war, according to the best accounts of the fight.
 The battle, which observers said showed the superiority of the Amer ican-built General Grant tanks, was witnessed from high ridge by an American observer who described 1t to me.
 How It Happened
 A sand storm was whirling over the desert at a point on the Irig Capuzzo (the road to Capuzzo) not far from the famous Knights bridge desert crossing where the Nazi Fist and 18th Panzer divisions were battling to make a junction, south of Tobruk, on June 11th. Some Italian tanks also were nearby.
 The German tanks were moving toward high ground on the Trig Capuzzo, overlooking Fl Adem. Three General Grant tanks, maned by 18 Americans, were operating with British tanks not far away.
 There was clash, with the Italians, Germans and British all joining in a clanking desert melee which was partly obscured by sand clouds.
 The American tanks were in close formation. Their commander singled out group of German tanks which were slightly at one side and with- out anti-tank or artillery protection.
 They roared forward, sliding and down the incline. They opened up with a blast from his 75- millimeter gun. The Amercians picked vulnerable enemy tank and let him have it until he burst into flames. Another one then came into the range of their sights.
 Blasted German Tanks
 One after another they blasted the German tanks to halt and saw some of them burst into flames, until they had picked of four.
 The arrival of American tank crews in the desert was not known until the battle began. They drove the front lines from a tank assem-.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
Yankee Tank Crews Roared
 Into Libyan Desert Battle
Twenty-Nine Leaders Of German
 American Bund Face Speedy Trial
They Are All in Custody Indicted Yesterday by N. Y Federal Grand Jury-SeriOus Charges
 Made Against Them

New York, July 8. - (UP) - The government, determined to smash the German American Bund, moved swiftly today to bring to trial 29 of it's leaders charges of conspng to defeat the purposes of Selece Service and violate the Alien Registration Act All of the 29 N J. attorney for the Bund since 194O He arrested
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
EIGHT ALLEGED
 SPIES ON TRIAL
Facing Almost Certain Death Before e Firing
 Squad if Found Guilty
By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, July 8.-(UP)-The secret trial of eight Nazi saboteurs, facing almost certain death before 8 firing squad, opened today in the justice department building.
 Shortly after g a. m. two vans, apparently transporting the sabo- teurs, drove through 8 gate of the justic building and disappeared down ramp.
 The saboteurs were believed to have been taken to a fifth-1oor Fed eral Bureau of Investigation assem- bly, room where the trial Is being held.
 Precautions taken by the FBI and military police shielded the sabo- teurs from public view. The fifth
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
Nazis Hurl Huge Masses Of Troops
 Against Soviets
Battle in Mammoth Cemetery of Men, Machines on Don River FrOnt-British Are Still Holding
 Lead in Egyptian Battle
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign EditOr)

The Red Army batted Axis forces in mammoth cemetery of enemy and machines the Don River front and slashed at both enemy Hanks in today to stem Hters all-out offensive toward the Caucasus. With British mobile units artillery and arpanes stabbng into the Axis lines the Egyptian desert front the immediate threat to the Near East through Africa seemed lessened but there was no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08

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Evening star., 1942-04-13
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Evening star., 1942-04-13

tory will have come to our nation. labor will count
Its dead by the Thousands other groups by the
hundreds.
The men and women Of labor have chssrfullY paid
their share Of stssply increased taxes: their eont
button In this respect Is altogether out Of proportion
to their comparative ability to pay.
Labor has voluntarily foregons It's priceless fzee.
dom Of economic action. III right 10 strike.
On the request Of President Roosevelt and Donald
NJ Nelson Chairman Of the War Production Board
labor has waived its conhactual rights to double
pay for Sundays and holidays. even though these
rights have been won through decades Of struggle
and have become part Of essential wage sruc
lures. The foregoing Of this right by labor actually
means the acceptance Of substantial wage cuts.
even In the face Of the sharply increased cost Of
living during tho past IL months.
! Labor has made sacrifices and Will continue to
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21

veteran radio announcer, who had
covered outstanding sports and po-
litical stories in his 19-year career
at the microphone, died in New
York of streptococcus infection;
and in Los Angeles, Joseph M. Web
er of the famous comedy team Of
Weber and Fields died at the age
of "a, less than a year after the
death of his partner, Lew Fields.
Eruption: Mt. Asama, Japan's
largest volcano, IS miles northwest
of Tokyo, was reported to have
erupted with great violence.
Transportation: Elimination of
duplicating railroad services on
competing lines, and of private, club
and lounge cars is rapidly approach
ing, according to ODT Director Jo-
seph Eastman. Also, all grain ship
ments over the Great Lakes have
been prohibited in order to assure
cargo space for the movement of
vitality important iron ore.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
MALTA:
More Bombs

In ceremony punctuated by fall
ing Nazi bombs, Great Britain's
Lord Gort was sworn in as the new
governor and commander-in-chi of
Malta, the "most bombed spot on
earth"
Lord Gort took his oath of office
amid the ruins of building smashed
in previous attack. Bombs were
falling throughout the proceedings
and the chief justice administering
the oath had his hand cut and bleed
ing from a wound sustained during
the raid.
More than 10000 high explosive,
armor piercing bombs have been
dropped on Malta this year, accord
ing to an Alexandria, Egypt, source.
The island, lying off the coast of
Italy in the Mediterranean, has been
under constant attack by the Nazi
bombing forces because it guards
the vital Axis supply routes to AZ
RIGA and the Middle East.
AS a result of these continuing
raids an official British check-up
shows that Malta's property losses
include 1880 homes, 70 churches.
10 converts, % schools and eight
hospitals. Seventy-five per cent of
the property in Valetta, the princi-
pal city, has been made uninhabita-
BILE by the attacks.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
GERMAN DRIVE:
In Eastern Crin1en

The long-heralded Nazi spring
drive finally began with thrust to-
ward Kerch in the eastern Crimea
Kerch is key peninsular point
along the shortest route to the Cau-
casian oil fields.
The Nazis' main effort was direct
ed, as many observers thought it
would be, at driving across the
Kerch peninsula to win the rich fuel
deposits. Too, they would be in a
position to threaten the Allied east
ern flank in Iran, another oil king
dom. Comparative quiet had pre-
vailed in the Kerch peninsula since
last December when the Russians
hurled the Germans back from the
town of Kerch.
Neutral observers stated that ap-
proximately 100000 men were in
action on the Donetz front Early
reports indicated vast Nazi strength
on the 250-mile front between Dne-
propetrovsk and the peninsula.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21

Commander of u. S. naval forces
in the great battle of the Coral sea
was Vice Admiral Herbert Fairfax
Leary of Washington, ID. G. Admiral
Leary is gunnery expert and won
the Navy Cross in World War 1.
have limped northward to their
bases in New Britain and the Solo,
mon islands following the rout.
Sweeping claims by the Japs as
to their success in the battle were
discounted by both General MacAr-
thur in Australia and by the navy
department in Washington. MacAr-
thurs headquarters described Jap
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
TRADE BARRIERS:
Impose Heavy Toll

In an action-producing message to
the Federal-State Conference on
War Restrictions, President Roose-
welt declared that legal obstacles
to commerce, arising from a desire
for regional and local advantage,
have imposed a heavy toll on the
national war effort.
Rep. Emanuel Celler of New
York, in radio broadcast, pointed
out vivid illustration of existing
trade barriers:
Rhode Island requires that all
milk brought in from neighboring
states must be colored pink Ina
CINE drinking pink milk. The OBJ
vious purpose is to keep out foreign
milk and make all drink Rhode Is
land milk"
However, trucking restrictions
were responsible for most of the
wrath.
Public Roads Commissioner Mac
Donald said the following regula-
tons would remove the most seri-
Gus stoppages of interstate truck
traffic: Maximum width for trucks,
Sc inches; height, IL feet 6 inches;
length, IS feet for single vehicles
and As feet for combina tons; load
for a single axle, $4,000 pounds;
gross weight, 10000 pounds for We
hicles having two axles and 10000
pounds for vehicles with three or
more.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
Weekly News
Axis Threat to Western Hemp Halted by Move Martinique

ma, struck hard into the exposed
rear lines of the invaders. The
maneuver cut off the main commu-
nication route and line of retreat of
the japanese units, which had split
into two columns to try to outfank
the Chinese. One of these columns
was wiped out in the first "a hours
of fighting. The other forces were
expected to be 'liquidated within a
few days." said a Chinese COM
munique.
The Chinese forces which drove
northward to meet the fleeing Japa-'
nese is the unit which earlier re-
captured Maymyo, formerly the
scene of the Allied headquarters of
Lieut. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell. 1t
was announced that the American
Volunteer Group aided in the &C.
ton, strafng motorized columns and
causing numerous fires.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
GAS RATIONED:
On Eastern Seab0ard

Approximately one-third of all au-
tomobile owners in the eastern sea-
board states have been limited to
three gallons of gasoline week by
an order from the Office of Price
Administration.
The one-third, whose use of auto
mobiles is classed as non-essential,
will be entitled to purchase a total
of 81 gallons of gasoline from May
Is to July l, when a permanent ra-
tioning plan goes into effect.
Motorists have been classified in
five categories for rationing pur-
poses. Holders of "A' cards are
nonessential. "B-1," "B-2" and
"B-3' cards have been issued to mo-
florists, including workers in arms
industries, whose cars are necessary
in pursuit of their employment. The
amount of gasoline they receive de-
Ponds upon the amount of daily mile
age they declared at registration
time. 1t ranges from SIT to 8 1T
gallons a week.
The 'X" cards were issued to
unrestricted users, including buses.
taxicabs, physicians, nurses, ambu-
lances, hearses, ministers, highway
maintenance crews and government
of municipality operated cars.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
OUESTIONS:
REPLIES Must Wait

Announcement that the war de-
partment cannot answer individual
inquiries as to the whereabouts of
army personnel or as to whether men
are casualties or have been taken
prisoner was made by Undersecre-
tary Of War Robert Patterson.
Patterson stated that the nearest
of kin Of casualties will be notified
by official telegram Immediately
upon receipt of information from the
field. It had been impossible to get
mail through the japanese blockade
of the Philippines, and almost no
mail has been received from Amer
lean forces in the islands since De.
cember 8, the war department said.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
COAL:
Reserve Supplies

Repeated warnings issued by the
nations coal dealers were strength
ened when Donald M. Nelson, war
production chief, declared that
emergency rationing of coal is prob
able unless consumers build up their
reserve supplies Immediately to the
limit of storage.
Nelson pointed out that the fuel
oil situation on the East coast and
winter transportation problems
make stockpiling operations now of
utmost importance to all consumers
who are dependent on coal for heat
ing their homes or running their
factories.
Joseph B. Eastman, director of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, stated that "there is no short
age of coal, nor will there be. But
if consumers wait until the fall and
winter months to fill their require
ments, a serious transportation
shortage will possibly result. This
we must avoid"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
HIC I'll LIC III T S

Italy: Premier Mussolini and the
king Of Italy watched a parade of
marching men and lines of war ma
chimes wind through the streets of
Rome as part of Italy's observation
of Empire day." Actually it was
the sixth anniversary of Mussolini's
formal proclamation of a new Ro-
man empire based on the conquest
of Ethiopia, which has since fallen
to the British.
Women: War Manpower Chair
man McNutt indicated that the u. S.
has an adequate supply of woman
power to train and employ in war
and essential civilian industries at
an increasing rate during the next
two years. Next year, he predicted
there will be 100000 in war jobs
out of an expected 100000 war
workers.
Deaths: The Very Rev. ZeBarney
Phillips, chaplain of the senate, died
in Washington; Graham McNamee,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
MESSENGER to Martinique.

Messenger to Martinique.
any Axis threat. The state depart
ment ignored Pierre Laval, chief of
the Vichy government, to deal di-
rectly with Robert.
Adm. John H. Hoover, represent
ing the United States, made it def
mite that this country would desire
to garrison the islands of st. Pierre
and Miquelon, off Newfoundland, in
addition to Martinique and Guade-
loupe in the Caribbean sea.
The state department emphasized
that no ultimatum was being served
on the French admiral. Robert had
been friendly with the two previous
American missions since the fall of
France in 1910,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
PROTECTORATE:
In Caribbean

Dealing directly with Adm.
Georges Robert as the ultimate
governing authority" of the French
possessions in the Caribbean and
French Guiana, the United States
moved to forestall the Axis powers
from gaining. any footho1d in the
Western hemisphere.
Upon orders from President
Roosevelt, American representatives
arrived at Martinique and informed
Admiral Robert that the United
States desired to place troops in the
French possession to guard against
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
TRAP SPRUNC:
On Jap Invaders

A stirring story Of how Japanese
invading forces on the Burma road
were sent Keeling back by surprise
blow from a trapped" Chinese
army was told by dispatches from
Chungking.
The Chinese on the Burma road
followed their prearranged plan.
They allowed the Japs to sweep into
Yunnan province and lengthen their
communication lines. The Japs ad-
vanced triumphantly.
A strong Chinese army, which the
Japs had bypassed in central Bur-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
CORAL SEA:
Heavy Toll

Exacting a toll of at least 81 Jap
anese warships in the Battle Of the
Coral Sea, American sea and air
forces combined to slap back Jap
fleet in it's first major attempt to
smash through the outer defenses of
Australia.
Advanced Allied bases reported
that at least 500 planes took part
in the five-day battle which was
fought $50 miles off the northeast
coast of Australia.
Battered remnants of the attack
ing Jap forces were reported to
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
PRIME MINISTER:
Il Report

AS he reviewed the war on the
second anniversary of his rise to the
premiership, Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill of Great Britain indi-
Gated that he believed the tide of
battle had turned in the favor of the
United Nations.
While he foresaw suffering ahead
he told his people that deserved to
hear the encouraging news that
Britain's great air force had been
constantly bombing number of
Nazi industrial cities and "would
continue to bomb them.'
Churchill warned the Nazis that
If they used poison gas against Rus
STA, that this same Raj would be
used to carry gas warfare in the
Largest possible scale against mill
tary detectives in Germany" This
remark received special attention as
less than "a hours before he spoke,
Russia had reported that the Nazis
were using gas mines in the battle
of the Crimea.
War shipments through the Arctic
supply route are definitely getting
through to Russia, said the prime
minister, although there have been
losses to the United Nations in these
conveys. He also thinks Russia S
army is growing stronger and knows
now how to fight the Nazis.
Of Japan he said that this aggres-
sor could little stand severe losses
like those sustained by her in the
great naval engagement of the Coral
sea. Combined navies of the United
States, England and Australia would
break Japan's hold in the Pacific,
he declared.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
TOKYO ATTACK:
NOw It's official

Three weeks after American
bombing planes rained bombs on
Tokyo and other Japanese cities, the
raid has been confirmed by an Off
cial U. S. war department commu-
nique The bombing flight was made
in midday, and the selected tar
gets were unmistakable and were
accurately attacked" Further, the
communique stated that military,
naval and industrial plants were the
detectives" Some of the large fires
burned at least two days.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
HOSTILE PLANES:
Over u. S. Troops

While the Raj continued its
pounding the Nazi industrial cities,
American forces in northern Ireland
had taste of aerial warfare. Enc
my planes flew over the area where
these troops are stationed and
ground forces went into immediate
action. A communique covering the
situation concluded with this: mo
incidents have been reported" 1t
was thought that the planes had in
tended no more than an observa-
ton fight.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21

The above map depicts the size
of the French island of Madagascar
by comparing it with the area of
New York state. Madagascar's inn
portance to the United Nations lies
in the fact that bases on the island
control the supply lines to India and
the Middle East. British occupation
f0restalled a possible Axis move in
that direction.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21

reports Of Allied losses as entirely
fictionaP' and the navy department
stated that while reports of the dam
age to U. S. forces was still incom-
plete, neither a u. S. aircraft car
rier nor battleship had been lost.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21
PRESIDENTS:
Visit u. S.

Two presidents arrived in the
United States at about the same
time. From Peru came President
Prado Of that country to visit Wash
ington, see President Roosevelt and
be treated to the greatest display of
military might this country has seen
fit to unfold since the war began.
From Australia to San Francisco
came President Manuel Quezon of
the Philippine Commonwealth. With
him were his family and members
of his executive staff.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-05-21

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.