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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-05

THE STORY: Kathy Kraik, moody and rebellious, has come to Kraiktower to spend couple of weeks before her marriage to George Baker, Marthe Kraik won ders why her granddaughter IS going to marry man she Ob- viously does not love. She specu- 1ates, too, on the cause of the most recent feud between Kathy and Connie, who Is married to Kathy's father. As Kathy slams out of the house on her first morning there, she almost knocks down Clint Madison, who has rented cottage on the grounds. A storm is brewing.
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 CHAPTER III
 It was breathless in the house as the storm came closer. There was simply no use in trying to get the twins to take their afternoon nap h1 that heat. Connie and took them out on the east terrace.
 Connie romped with them awhile and then she threw big ball out nn the grass and told them to chase st. She dropped down in wicker shair beside me under the awning. The twins threw the ball about, shouting and shrieking. When k got away from Judy and rolled toward the ravine that shapes the Sast lawn into triangle between t, the house and the lake, Connie called to the children to come back. But the oall rolled over the bank and the twins went after it. Connie and I started to our feet. The walls of the ravine are nearly perpendicular in places and it is no playground for three-year-o old babies.
 But before we could reach them Jack and Judy came running back, Their eyes were wide.
 "Ere's man over ere, an he asleep" Jack Japnered to Con- nie. Judy, heightened, clung to her mothers sG:rts.
 Nonsense" Connie said. Kraik- tower is five miles from the rail- road and tive from the highway. We're never bothered by tramps. Judy fah over im," Jack in- sisted.
 "You stay with Nom -mom and I'll go look" Connie said.
 She came back in a moment walking in a queer, unsteady way, and I noticed that the rosy color
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was gone from her face. She called Miss Lake and told her to take the twins in and give them cool bath. Then she turned to me and I saw that she was frightened.
 Mother" she said, and her teeth chattered, there is man there But he isn't asleep-he's dead"
 Connie and I waited until Miss Lake and the twins disappeared into the house. Then I walked with her to the edge of the ravine where Jack and Judy had gone after their ball.
 It happened to be a spot where the ravine dipped gently for some yards forming a little hollow invis- ible from the terrace. A couple of giant oak trees and number of small shrubs growing there fur ther screened it from view
 At one end of this narrow glade, footholds had oeen carved into the steepening side of the ravine leading down to natural cave at the bottom. It was a place where Kathy had loved to play as Q child. She had had den in the cave, and some rustic chairs and a table were still rotting there.
 But 1t wasn't the cliff path or the cave beyond that glued my attention. As Connie and I pushed through the first fringe of bushes we almost stumbled over the body of a man lying face downward in the tall grass. There was a cut on the back of his head which had bled considerably, mating his dark hair
 Even before l knelt on weak knees and turned his head a little so that I could see his face, I knew who it was. There was no mistaking that head of curling black hair.
 Before I could speak there came rending of the tree tops above us. cracking and snapping of branches, a splintering crash as If the very trees were falling upon us.
 On top of our newly discovered murder it was more than Comics nerves could take. She gave a shriek that echoed down the ra- vine, and toppled forward She would have fallen on the dead man if I hadn't caught her. I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-05

eased her limp weight to the ground away from the body. The next moment a man stuck his head through the bushes and rcd anXiously in our direction. His face was scratched and bleed- ...e. he followed his head into view and I saw that one arm hung limp l ly. Clint Madison had had mar row escape that time.
 His eyes moved beyond Connie to the body of the man on the trampled grass.
 That mans dead" I snapped at him. My daughter-in -in-law just found him. Then you crash over our heads and scare the rest of the wits out of her She's tainted"
 I'm sorry" ne said meekly What what can I do?" l don't know why 1t Is. Men rise heroically to most emergen- cies, but when a woman faints they're as helpless as babies.
 You can help me carry her to the house." I snapped And then we'll -- have to call the police" My mouth felt like dry ashes
 Connie came to as we laid her on the divan in the living room She looked at me, her eyes open ing wide all at once and horror darkening their depths. but she didn't say word. Clara, the maid, was whimpering and look ing for some smelling salts in a desk drawer as I had directed her. Sarah, the cook, had come in from the kitchen and was stand ing looking on. Luckily, Miss Lake had taken the twins upstairs and they didn't know what was hap pening.
 I wondered why Connie had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-05
By William
 Ferguson a

tainted After all she had been a nurse. She must have seen dead men before. Maybe she was go- ing to have another baby.
 (TO Be COntinuedD.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
The Pacific War

Despite the show of air power indicated
by the massed raid on shipping of Florida
Island by the Japanese Wednesday, the
past week has seen little more than a
continuation of the steady succession of
American bombing raids on Japanese
held bases, raids which were not only de-
structive, but highly valuable as patrol
flights to check up on Japanese shipping
concentrations. During the week, New
Ireland, Buka at the tip of the Solomons,
New Britain, New Guinea, the Shorthand
Islands, New Georgia Islands, the Aroe
Islands. closest Jap base to Australia
and other points were raided, all with
satisfying results.
Over In Burma, American planes struck
the japanese serious blow when huge
oil refinery south of Rangoon was blasted
with 13 tons of bombs which destroyed
refinery buildings and well-filled storage
tanks. The Japs had counted on this
refinery for supplies for her planes and
tanks in the Burma area. The freight
yards at Rangoon also were bombed and
various other strong points hit. On the
ground, however, results were not SO good
as the British were forced to withdraw
westward from the Kaladan River.
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Trade Act Dead|ine Nears

countries averaged 216 per cent greater
in 1889 than in 1934-5. but our imports
from other countries averaged only ILL
per cent greater.
These comparisons" says the depart
ment, reinforce the commonsense con-
clusion that the reduction of excessive
tariffs and other barriers to exchange Of
our goods for those of other nations tends
to support and enlarge our foreign trade" T"
One of the great advantages OF execu-
tive negotiation procedure over the gen.
eral revision law is that agreements can
be made during the war which will be
effective after the war. For instance,
agreements have been concluded between
Peru, Uruguay and Mexico since Pearl
Harbor.
Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles
summarized these postwar advantages in
a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly
in which he said. in part:
mo one can tell what the foreign trade
of any country will be like after this
war, but natural resources, climate and
skills are permanent and condition the
main patterns. Agreements based on
them cannot, therefore, be far wrong,
and if they err in detail they may be
mooified under the emergency clause.
which is fully developed in the Mexican
agreement, or by renewed negotiations.
That emergency clause. plus the gen.
eral right of either country to terminate
the contract at the end of the first three
years or thereafter, affords adequate
protection against unforeseen develop
ments and enables the main work to
60 ahead
TT is important that it should 60 for
ward now, so that when the fighting
stops the recuperative forces of pro-
duction and exchange may be able to
operate as freely and as rapidly as pos
sible. 1t is equally important that our
intentions for the future should be set
tied and made clear, so that the rest OF
the world, and especially those countries
which must re-create their business life
from ruins, may know what they can
count on.
The decision about the trade agree
ments authority is not the only choice,
or the most difficult. that the people of
the United States will have to make
about the foundations of the peace. But
it is fundamental and it happens to
come first in time. Our action on it
will be an acid test of our intentions"
Welles put the choice up to the Amer
lean people. 1t is the Congress, how
ever, which will be put to the "acid test"
within the next 10 weeks. Even an ex-
tension after June II could logically be
interpreted by our Allies as reluctance
to do our share in the postwar world
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regulate commerce with foreign nations u
But the Seventy-third Congress had
already delegated many powers to the
executive department., and the Demo-
Gratis, realizing that virtually every mod
ern tariff had been logrolled through
Congress by special privileged groups and
local interests, gave up this power for an
initial period of three years. There is no
evidence that the executive has abused
that delegated power during the past
nine years, in fact, criticism of the
agreements, such as the secrecy sur
rounding the negotiations, is negligible
compared with the gross inequities and
the increased cost of living which re-
suited from the congressionally imposed
tariff rates.
The secrecy surrounding the negotia-
tions-the law provides that all interested
persons shall have an opportunity to
present their views before an agreement
is signed, but the final say is up to the
President and the State Department
Is more than Offset by the fact that a
congressionally enacted tariff law would
not insure reciprocal reductions by other
countries of their tariffs and other bar
riers, including determinations against
our export trade.
The lease-lend law and the war pre-
vent an up-to-date appraisal OF the
advantages and disadvantages of the
trade agreements. The latest figures
from the State Department, however,
computed on our 1887 international COM
merce disclose substantial concessions,
including duty reductions quota increases
and binding of existing customs treat
ment.
If all concessions obtained from foreign
countries up to January /, 1943.: had been
in effect in 1887, the department says,
1874 per cent of our total exports, 48 per
cent of our exports of agricultural prod
ucts and 28.7 per cent of our non-agri-
cultural products would have been
affected in 1887.
Advantages Are Claimed.
Although other factors have, of course,
worked to increase our foreign trade, the
State Department points out that the
larger increases have been with the
trade-agreement countries.
In the two-year period 1938-39 when
16 trade agreements were in effect, the
department says, United States exports
to countries covered by agreements aver
aged 62.8 per cent greater than in 1934-5,
when only one agreement was in effect.
In 1889 our exports to all other coun-
tries were only 31.2 per cent greater than
in 1934-5.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Battle of the Atlantic

Secretary Of the Navy Knox announced
Tuesday that the toll Of Allied shipping
which was taken by the German sub
marines during March was far greater
than during February and he said that
increasing numbers of submarines and
new techniques of attack were posing a
serious problem. However, he added that
new escort destroyers and escort air.
plane carriers are expected to prove
beneficial in combating the submarines
Secretary Knox stated that the bottle
neck in engine production which has
slowed the output of the escort destroyers
has been eliminated and production
should be satisfactory from now on.
Out on the West Coast an escort carrier
Of q new type was launched In three
weeks from the time Of the laying Of
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and what gains were made were scored
by the Red Armies which pushed the
Germans back slightly at Izyum, about
10 miles southeast of Kharkov on the
Donets River front. Sharp attacks by
the Germans all along this front were
stopped with heavy losses according to
Russian reports
Down in the Kuban area, where salt
marshes, swamps and flooding river
make advances slow, the Russians claim
to have entered the suburbs Of Novoros-
sisk, the Black Sea naval base which fell
into German hands at the time of the
German advance toward the vital oil
fields,
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in the estimate of military experts-be-
yond the powers of Germany and Italy.
No such barrier to the invasion of
Europe will face the Allies after Tunis
and Bizerte are finally cleared The
Axis is worn down by almost four years
of war, while drawing on irreplaceable
supplies of raw materials. To mount a
Europe to- Africa thrust would require
stores so vast it does not seem probable
the Axis can still have them after four
years Of fighting.
The Africa -to-Europe enterprise is
possible because the Allies are fresher
in military sense. The United States
has been at war only 16 months.
At the beginning, the United States
and Britain had greater raw material re-
sources and access to more
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ping facilities with devastating effect.
Early Sunday, nearly 100 Flying For
tresses were reported to have turned 200
tons of bombs loose over Naples during
Is minutes of hell which will be more
familiar to Italy as the war progresses.
IWenty-one merchant ships, three sub
marines and many smaller vessels were
hit and 81 planes standing on an airport
were smashed. No American planes were
lost.
Monday great armada of Junkers So
transports and covering pursuits were
discovered over the Straits of Sicily. A
swarm OF American Lightnings swept out
to meet them and 18 of the Junkers and
l3 pursuits were shot down.
The fires which followed the crash
OF the transport planes into the sea led
observers to believe that
Greet Fires they were loaded with
Are Seen gasoline and oil for the
thirsty Axis mechanized
equipment. In this battle the greatest
air fight OF the campaign. IL Allied
planes were lost. Late Sunday night or
early Monday morning more bombers
returned to start anew the fires which
swept the harbor of Naples after the
big raid
On Thursday, the American 9th Air
Force bombed Palermo, and Naples and
Syracuse also were given a taste of 1t.
The jittery Germans reported that
heavy British naval force has left
Gibraltar. presumably for an attack on
the Axis in Tunisia. The Germans seek
to bolster their courage by warning that
the British must reckon with the power
ful Italian fleet which has been hiding
its power at naval bases back home for
many months, perhaps rejecting on the
unfortunate outcome of earlier clashes
with the British Navy
One correlated benefit to the United
Nations forces arising out of the sue
cess against Rommel is the tremendous
saving in shipping now possible through
shortening OF the supply line to Gen.
Montgomerys 9th Army. No longer do
they need steady stream of vessels
around Cape of Good Hope to reach him.
Now supplies can be brought up through
French North Africa along the same
routes supplying the American forces.
This is the equivalent of many thou
sands of tons of new shipping.
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Since the time of Carthage, the Tunis-
Bizerte area has seldom been off history's
stage. Now, more than ever, the Tunisian
hump" and its twin cities have star
billing in clash of continents.
Loss of Tunis and Bizerte, far more
than major defeat, means the end of
German and Italian dreams of empire
in Africa. So long as they hold it, there
Is always the possibility that the Axis
hordes can make comeback.
Once lost, the problem of African pene-
tration becomes incredibly difficult, prob
ably beyond the resources of the war
weakened relationships.
1t is always tougher to make landing
on hostile coast than to spread out
from a beachhead. Once the Axis loses
Its beachhead the road back would be
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)erpoweg Allied Strength Pushes Fading Final Showdown
Americas 10th Week of War
18Th Week of World War II
By Howard p. Bailey

perfect strategy mplemnd
h Aka korps toward the inevitable
" % AFRICA OF the enemy The loss sfax Yesterday will hasten
Inc elimination
the
various
out southern
to Italy
Won Arnm that he could
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DuTlng@Jn past week the pieces OF this
master plan were moved into place with
increasing speed until as the week ended
Rommel and Won Arnim were confined
IN narrow corridor of an average depth
of so miles and a total length under
200 miles Rommel has given up 100 miles
OF the coastal plain in the last II days
and has lost between 20 and Is per cent
Of his Afrika Korps in prisoners alone
How many more have been killed or
wounded cannot be estimated but the
figure must be large
Along the Russian front there has
been much heavy fighting but little
change in position in the past week
From England, great numbers of planes
have struck with satisfactory effect on
various German or German-controlled
industrial targets and have met with
surprisingly weak German air resistance
The famed Luftwaffe was not in evidence
Over III the Southwest Pacific where
Gen. Macarthur mourned the loss of
Bataan on its anniversary Friday, the
almost monotonous daily report of un-
opposed American raids on Japanese
bases was broken with startling sudden
ness when it was announced Wednesday
that force Of SO Japanese planes at
tackled American shipping off Florida
Island about 25 miles from Guadalcanal.
The raid cost Allied forces one destroyer,
corvette, tanker and a smaller YES
eel as well as seven planes. The Japs lost
4 ~
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the keel. On the East Coast, the U. S. S.
Cabot, a fleet plane carrier of a new
type constructed after a change in design
converted it from heavy cruiser, was
launched. She is not the first of her
class to be launched however
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The Russian Front

There was much sharp fighting
throughout the week all the way from
the Leningrad front to the Kuban
Peninsula in the Caucasus where the
Germans are now pinned down in an
area Of less than $500 square miles.
There was little movement In the fighting
Evening star., 1943-04-11
The European Front

During the night of April 3-4 the
largest force Of Flying Fortresses ever
TO sally forth on a massed raid visited
the Renault works on an island in the
Seine within view of the Eifel Tower,
and rained hundreds of tons of bombs
down on the factory with such devastat-
Ing effect that one returning flyer said
ne doubted If anything could be left,
OF 1873 Fortresses on the raid only four
were lost, while more than score of
German interceptors were shot down,
While the American flyers were over
Paris, British bombers flew to the Ger
man naval base at Kiel where MANY
OF the U-boats are assembled. One
thousand tons of bombs were dropped
with excellent results.
Monday the 9th United States Ar,ny
Air Force made daylight raid on the
Erla Airplane Works about two and a
half miles from Antwerp in Belgium
Many hits landed squarely on the target,
out on Wednesday the German radio
claimed that many bombs went wide
OF their mark, killing 1000 civilians and
destroying many homes.
continuing the air war Tuesday, the
British bombed German ships near
Dleppe, setting one afire.
Wednesday more details of the Ameri-
can raid on the submarine base at Veee-
sack March l8 were revealed. It was
stated that seven out of Is submarines
being constructed there were badly
damaged and others slightly damaged
On Thursday and Friday nights heavy
RAIDS on Duisberg and other objectives in
the Ruhr war industrial sections were re-
ported On the Thursday raid % planes
were lost, indicating stable airfeet in
volved in the raid
MOST interesting developments on the
European front, however, were in diplo-
matte fields
Apparently in the Balkans the Axis
associates are not one big happy family
nor is Italy, the junior
BoIkons member of the firm a
Are Weary whole-hearted partici-
pant in German ambi-
tions. 1t was reported Thursday that
large numbers OF German troops are being
moved into Bulgaria to bolster the de-
lenses along the Aegean Sea, but that
conference between Hitler and King
Boris failed to extract from Boris any
agreement to join more vigorously into
the war. Only should Turkey change
from her benign neutrality to actual par
ticipation in the war on the side of the
United Nations or an Allied landing in
Greece offer threat to Bulgaria's safety
will Boris agree to full-fledged fightinR,
1t was reported after the meeting.
Rumania also is showing signs of revolt
with one statement to the effect that all
but two or three divisions now serving
on the Russian front will be withdrawn
unless Germany gives definite guarantees
OF protection for Rumania against ter
ritorial claims on Transylvania by the
Hungarians. Hitler however, might find
this difficult If there is truth in the re-
ports that italy is attempting to WOO
Hungary into an agreement for an
alliance to bar further spread Of German
domination in the Adriatic.
The p,,eesrn E.or%
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-08-28

ture in other ways, because the
baby would have to reproduce a
smaller baby and so on until in n
few generations we would be mi
croscopic. So Nature provides for
growth up to the age of maturity.
But why isn't the growth steady
and gradual?
The human animal grows very
rapidly from birth to six months
increases size twice. Then it
grows steadily but slowly for two
years, so again its size is twice
that of six months. Then its
growth slows so as to be almost
imperceptible-only a ten or tif-
teen per cent increase in eight or
nine years.
The child of ten is about four
times the size of the new born
baby. Then all of a sudden at
about the age of twelve growth is
speeded up SO that in the next five
or six years the size of the in
dividual is ten times that at birth.
And then the whole darn thing
stops dead and never starts again.
Why? Nobody on earth has the
faintest idea.