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island, no miles south Of ouadal- canal.
 The navy first word on the battle came last night when 1t issued this communique:
 South Pacific:
 "I-During the last several days there have been e number of surface and air actions between U. 6. and Japaneee forces in the Solomons area.
 "2-The increased activity on the part of the Japanese indicates a major effort to regain control of the entire Solomons area.
 "3--Both U. s. and apanese forces have suffered some losses. To re- veal, at this time, details of these engagements would endanger the success of our future operations in this area"
 There had been evidence for sev. eral weeks that the enemy was up to something. There had been re- ports of heavy Japanese ship con- centratoins at Rabaul. Enemy planes, obviously on reconnaissance missions, bombed the American base ct Espiritu Santo. Japanese plane formations, in greater strength than at any time since No- vemher, bombed or attempted to bomb Guadalcanal.
 But the first real tip-off from American sources that the lid was blowing off again came in mid-ar- ternoon yesterday when the navy reported greatly intensified air acc tivity in tho islands. American bonbers carried out four raids on Japanese bases in the Solomons. A projected fifth raid by flying fort resses was turned pack when the big planes ran into 20 zeroS which shot down three. Another fortress was badly damaged. In one of the pre-. vious raids two American dive bombers were lost.
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steIIe Carey, Model,
 Killed By Torture"
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N6V6ral keys, possibly for safe de- 0otit boxes, were found In the apart ment. They were turned over t0 the states attorney general for inves. tiFatlon.
 Chiee of Detectives John L. sul. Nvan announced the arrest of Law fesice (Dago) Mangaro, king pin GhicngO gambler and former Ca- None naObster. Mangallo was close N associated with Nick Dean, for- tlaer sweetheart and business ass0- einte of Miss Carey, who was found slain In her flame-swept apart Nhent yesterday.
 Sullivan said he would question all hOodlurns frequenting the near North Side night club district where Miss Carey earned a small fortune Ws e dice girl in Deans night club.
 He said police believed relation. nhip might exist between her death and the statement she gave in 1941 to. federal authorities which led Co Dean being convicted of con. epiracy to extort more than $l,000,. 900 from movie executives.
 Acting Police Capt. William Drury disappeared after announcing that 40 was following @ clew that might establish a revenge" motive.
 Firemen found her burning body, clad In a red house coat, behind an overturned chair in the apartment yesterday afternoon. Her nose was broken, her throat slashed, and her head bruised. The slayer apparent- ~ had built fire beside the body in a nasty attempt to conceal the crime.
 Also to suggest motivation, police found evidences that Miss Carey had q number of affairs of the heart.
 Two men were questioned, the 0rst was Henry (Sonny) Goldstone, former manager of Q night club where Miss Carey had been ern" plcyed and whose name appeared on her social security card. The other man was Earl M. Weymer, enploye of Q foundry company who said he had dined with Miss Carey last Sunday.
 Police also planned to get in touch with Ted Narrett, attached to the Army Medical Corps at Fort Worth, Tex. Narrett's portrait was found pta a dresser in the dead woman's bedroom. An inscription on Its back read:
 My darling: What I leave unsaid ls so deep in my heart I can't get lt out, Yours, T. N."
 Police Captain Ryan said she had other intimate frieI.ds.
 'sThey might have been jealous Of Ted" he said. were trying to get in touch with him. He may know her other friends"
 Ryan said Miss Carey met Dean
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tenths of a pint of rice and some soybean meal each day and every 10 days we each received Q small can of vegetables. We were forced to bring up our own supplies from the beach and carry cannon toward the mountains by hand"
 Hasamoto's unit, he said, was trapped in a heavily wooded ravine. They could hear the loud speakers from the American lines calling on them to surrender, and 1t finally was decided to hold meeting and discuss a course of action. They met at night and after considerable dls- cussion 1t was voted to stay and fight 1t out. It was impossible for
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Japanese Surrender
 Guadalcanal Posts
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most of the men to move, Hasamoto said, because of wounds and malnu. triton.
 But when daylight came Hasanoto and 6 few of his comrades decided not to be bound by the decision of the previous night. They formed themselves into @ group and began walking toward the American lines with their arms raised.
 Admits Disgrace
 T will never return to Japan," HaSamoto said. T am disgraced be- cause I surrendered. When the war is over hope to go America, learn to speak English and then build houses. Japan is beaten here in the southeastern Solomon Islands. ! do not know about the rest of the war, but here Japan is beaten"
 Thee story of First Glass Private HaSamOto Is similar in many ways to that of boys from our own middle west. He was working on farm in Fukuoka prefecture when he was inducted into the army in 1040.
 After training he served briefly in China and then he was placed aboard ship and sailed with 6 unit. bound for Java. His ship, the Ka- tormi Maru, was torpedoed, but Ae was rescued. Then he was sent as part of . unit to attack the Philip pines and said he landed at Min~ danao with no casualties to his unit and with almost no opposition. Sub- sequently Hasamoto was transferred to Borneo as part of an occupation force, and then came the order to go to Guadalcanal.
 Hasamoto's unit landed at Guadal. canal to support Q battalion com. nanded by @ Colonel Ichiki. 1chi- ki's battalion was almost wiped out in the battle of Tenaru river on Aug. 2l, and the colonel burned the regimental colors and shot himself because he thought he was disgraced Hasamoto said.
 Hasamotos battalion marched in- land, skirting around the American positions. On Oct. IS he was sup. posed to take part in the battle of Lunga Ridge, but he was so III that his officers kept him out of action. On Nov. IS he went into battle in an attack on the Americans vest ern flank. In both the Luna Ridge and the Nov. IS actions, Hasamoto said, 6 heavy concentration of American artillery fire beat back the Japanese with terrific losses.
 Artillery . Surprise
 we were told that the Americans on Guadalcanal would be easy to defeat" Hasamoto said. We were not told about American artillery which was a complete surprise and which killed and wounded so many of us. We could dig ourselves into the ground and escape the American mortar fire, but there was no escape from the artillery fire.
 American rifiemen are better than we are and they nearly always hit the target. We were told that 1t would be easy to take American pris- Oners and that we would be allowed to keep all souvenirs except currency and watches which we were ordered to turn in to headquarters.'
 On Jan. IS the first of the Japa- nese had had enough. The first group surrendered on that day. Now It has become almost daily occur. renee and most of the stories told by the prisoners afe similar to the tale of Private First Glass Haseiuo- to, late of the caack 22zth Japanese Infantry Regiment.
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Hearing On COP
 Complaint Heard

Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. S-(UP) -The committee on contested elections held . hearing today on Republican complaints against the seating of two NOrwalk Dem- ocratic representatives - Mayor Frank Stack and Fred Buckley.
 Republicans charged there was an illegal use of absentee ballots in the election last November 3 which resulted in the Stack and Buckley victory.
 It was understood the commit tee will use Q report by State Referee George E. Hinman, who conducted Q one.man grand jury investigation into the NOrwalk absent ballot situation.
 Neither Stack nor Buckley have yet been sworn in as legislators. Buckley is under arrest In con. nectiOn with the absentee ballot situation.
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COCHRAN WANTS
 FLYNN REASONED
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today with all the oratorical fi- neese of which he was capable. He could not begin until this afternoon because court was in recess during the morning for the funeral of Dis- trict Attorney John F. Dockweiler, who died of pneumonia while in the midst of directing the case.
 Flynn was @ great movie star, Giesler was prepared to say, who was taken advantage of by two sharp.eyed girls, wise beyond their years. diesler claimed that Miss Hansen was a Hnovie.struck waitress, who would do anything to achieve her ambition. He held that she crawled into Hymns chair at a din- ner party, took @ small sip of his Martini cocktail, and lied in whole cloth about her alleged experience with Flynn (who wore only his shoes, she testified> in an upstairs bedroom.
 diesler held that Flynn never left the ground floor of the house and that If Miss Hansen did kiss him goodbye aS she claimed, he didn't remember 1t.
 How Giesler planned to attck the testimony of Dr. Etta Gray, who told about her medical examination oi Miss Satterlee, was something that even blase court attaches were anxious to learn. Dr. Gray testi- fled that Miss Satterlee visited her the day after the watching excursion She added 1t was her expert opinion after medical examination, that Miss Satterlee had been subjected to at- tack not more than 48 hours be. fore.
 And probably only 24 hours," pr Gray said, decisively.
 Giesler held, m any event, that Miss Satterlee's story was fabric oi falsehood and that his client had no relations with her. His state- ment will continue until late today and probably will consure most oi tomorrow. Then the state will have another say and Giesler uI1doubted' ly will take several hours more tt get in the final word.
 The jury probably will not gel the case until Monday, almost 6 full months after the trial began
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(Continued from Page D across the Don last November 10, and encircled the city four days later, to deport to slavery.
 Thousands of frozen German bodies still filtered the streets, thou sands more lay where they had fallen in fortified buildings or in the many underground field hospi- tals where they had died of wounds, disease or the cold.
 Red Army first aid men sought in these deep refuges those of the enemy wounded who still lived.
 Salvage squads collected more and more spells to add to the enormous quantities already gathered, sanitary squads started to clean up the street, burial squads tried to collect the innumerable enemy dead, those soldiers native of Stalingrad and had the time to spare wandered the streets they had freed in what a special communiqued | led last night called one of the greatest battles in the history of wars. End of Battle
 Three special announcements told of the end of the battle - an or- der of the day by Premier Josef Stalin, supreme commander in chief who himself conceived and directed the Red Army offensive and selected the site for the break through which freed the great city named for him; a proud report to "Comrade" Stalin - Battle Report No. O0T9 O/P" - in which Marshal of Artillery N. N. Voronov, repre- senting the general staff of the supreme command; Col.- Gen. R. K. Rokossovsky, commanding the troops on the Don front; Maj. Gen. Telegin, of the Don fornt military council and Lieut.. Gen. Valinin, chief of staff of the Don front, an- nouncing the victory, and the spe- cial communique reviewing the final operations.
 Stalins order of the day ad- dressed to RokoSsovsky and voronov said:
 T congratulate you and the troops of the Don front on the suc- cessful liquidation of the German Fascist troops encircled at Stalin- grad. I express my gratitude to all men, commanders and political tn- structors of the Don front for the successful battle operations"
 The special report of the com manding officers said:
 Report to Comrade Stalin:
 "Feh. 2, l043, 6:30 p. m.
 "To the supreme commander In chief of the armed forces of the Soviet Union Comrade Stalin Moscow:
 Battle Report No. O07e OF:
 Carrying out your orders troops of the Don front ct ?. nl., Feb, 2, completed the rout and annihila- grad"
 It then enumerated the four Ger. man army corps, comprising z division, and the many auxiliary units uquidated. e total Of 5so000 the 0l.0O0 prisoners taken alEicl January 70, Including 2too ofifceE. among whom were Field MaEehal Friedrich Won PauIlis, comEnandel in chief, and 25 generals. and ended
 "In view og the fuil liquidation q the enemy'6 forces enclrcied. mill' tary operations hays ceased tn ths city of etallneFnd and the etalin' grad Teglon.
 "Ths counting Of booty oontlnues1'
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VCO0G11ue0 1IOku EsdBG 4J
 ble disturbances. State Trooper Thomas Leonard has been assigned to take charge of officers at the Headquarters. The public has been warned that no personal contacts will receive attention and informa- tion or aid of any type will not be given except through telephone con- tact.
 seth Darley, state director of emergency rations, and various other state officials, have cooperated with local authorities in setting up the emergency project. Only per. sons who are in serious need ot fuel will be granted delivery and a warning was issued that persons who misrepresent needs will be prosecuted. Members of the fuel oil panel of the local civilian de- 1elase council, William WesSon, Wal ter Barrows, and Nicholas Cecil, are cooperating in the undertaking.
 Problems of delivery by dealers will be considered at special meet ing of the Waterbury Oil Dealers Association called for tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the municipal court room in City Hall. Repre- sentatives of the fuel oil panel and city officials will confer with this dealers.
 Fred A. Webb, local fuel oil ra- fion administrator, reported that 1.0OO gallons of fuel were received this morning, the largest amount since the current crisis started. and all was distributed within a half hour. Several hundred persons who had made calls could not be served because the amount was not suffi. cient to cover all of the approved demands, he said. .
 The administrator stated that 1T shipments are received each day in 5000 gallon amounts the serious. ness os the crisis may be eliminated to Q considerable extent. He stated that 25 gallons Of oil, the maximum allowed any consumer, VIII serve some families for . week, and that if the amount allotted by the state continued to come through on schedule the current demands nay hs cleared within . few days ano the situation eased.
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Iof improved weather after days of gales and storms. f
 Aviation quarters expressed belief that the raid had been one of major weight and that 1t must seriously set back German attempts to re- pair. wrecked factories.
 Tie fact that the Royal Air Force had found 1t necessary to return twice to Cologne since the May 30 1,000-plane raid was taken as evi. dence that not even the most gigan- tic air attack so far attempted could definitely knock out any major city's war effort and that fairly frequent returns must be made to hamper rec pairs to damaged factories.
 Last nights was the 1l2th raid on Cologne.
 Chief targets at Cologne include the vast submarine Diesel engine factories, the Humboldt -Deutz Mo. tor Works, the Kalk-Mauser Arms Works and the Gottfried Hagen Ac. cumulator Works where submarine batteries are made.
 In dropping 100 two-ton bombs in 20 minutes the Royal Air Force averaged one each l2 seconds in what pilots now call @ thunderbolt raid = one which strikes so fast that defenseS are confused and over- powered.
 German planes made a retort to the Cologne raid by sending planes over the southeast coast this morn- ing to bomb inland targets and to be challenged by British fighter planes which drove them back to the continent.
 At one southeast coast town some persons were killed and many wounded, and many homes and buildings were destroyed including rest center and Q warehouse.
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about n years ago and he installed her as Q dice girl in 6 night .club of which he was part owner. She acquired an interest in the conces- sion and was reported to have made a small fortune, Ryan said. This money may be in Q safe deposit box which will be opened today. Tn June, 1o41, the night club was raid- ed and closed.
 When Dean was arrested in De- cember, l941, he was held only as a witness against William BioH, fore mer Chicago panderer who headed the extortion plot against the movie executives. After Miss Carey was questioned by federal authorities, Ryan said, Dean was indicted and pleaded guilty in the conspiracy last April. He was sentenced to eight years and fined $10,OO0.
 Police said Miss Carey's name flg- ured in Weymer,s divorce case some years ago. In going through her papers, police found his name and telephone number and further if1- vestigation revealed he still was ac. quainted with her.
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ATTEMPT TO ROUT
 GERMANS CHECKED
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(Continued from Page D Eighth Army was pressing the Al. rika Korps closely along the border The Mareth line Is 50 to 65 miles inside the border.
 The Middle Eastern Command announced today that the Eighth Army occupied zelten, 20 miles from the border, yesterday and was pressing the Afrika Korps' rear guard toward Pisida, 12 miles from the border.
 Radio Vichy said today that vio- lent fighting ragged throughout cen- tral and southern Tllnisia, with American forces trying to spread out through the mountains and wrest positions the Axis had taken earlier.
 Not Major Offensive
 Both London and Algiers quarters said emphatically, however, that AL lied operations so far in Southern Tunisia were not Q major offensive, as the Axis was claiming, in order to enchance any small victories 1t might win. .#a
 Hot fighting was believed in pro- gress at Faic Pass, 90 miles North west of Gabes, and the Axis radio Paris said both sides were rushing up endorsements, and 6 big bat tle might be expected soon between Faid and Sened, A miles to the southwest.
 So far, the Americans, though using artillery, tanks and infantry, were making only small gains. Axis positions were heavily fortified and well manned.
 The Germans were holding not only the pass at Faid, but ridge that runs almost to Maknassy, 36 miles below Fatd. The Americans, who earlier had been driving to- ward Maknassy in two columns, ap- parently had postponed their drive for the time being, and were con- centrating on driving the enemy from Faid Pass and the ridge. Observers did not believe the Americans would drive on through Maknassy and to the coast, 32 miles to the east, and leave threat on their flank. Ultimately, the Amer jeans. were expected to drive to the coast, in an effort to cut off Rom. mel before he joins Col. Gen. Jur- gen Won Ar1lirn's forces in the Tunis Bizerte area.
 The Axis claimed it had "frus- trated" all attempts to drive the Germans and Italians from their positions in the Faid area. The drive toward MaknasSy stop- ped after American forces had cleaned 800 to 1000 Germans out of Sened, and withdrew.
 Although Allied headquarters said the Americans had driven the Ger mans from Eened, United Press Correspondent Donald Coe, writing 1 on the battle front, spoke of "the capture of the German garrison at Sened."
 A French communique yesterday said the Germans had suffered such heavy losses at Faid, in assaults last week against French forces, that they had not renewed them. Artil- lery dueling was reported yesterday in the Ousseltias region, west of the Port Of eousse. and small German attacks were repulsed.
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AAVAAA 4e48G ~ examinations and each time has been found not only to be sane but to have e high intelligence quotient
 Belonick's voice which was calm and confident as he made his ads dress to the court took e complete change-over after sentence was i'm" posed. He broke down in sOhs and struggled for words in renewing a plea for another chance" Judge McEvoy had listened patiently to the long presentation of the accused. longer than that of his counsel, Public Defender Edward T. Carmody. and stated at the eOnclusion that the courts time was allowed co the accused would not go to prison stats ing he vas denied c chance to be hoard.
 The jurlst described Belonicks state of mind as one Of selfapity and said his emotional condition was an excuse for refusing to do what was riRhk Ne stated he could get his chance before c higher state board AZ inia behavior warranted.
 A sentence Of 2 to years was ilns pnsod On the first count. 2 years on tho seeon6, ana the third count was ..z.4
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(Continued from Page ) sives on Cologne last night.
 It was one of the new blitz raids and all the tons of explosives were dropped in less than 20 minutes.
 Only five of the big force of Bri- tain's crack bomber planes failed to return.
 Germany, in its first reports of the attack admitted casualties, damage and some fires in western Ger many"
 Ar authorities, explaining the re- turn to Cologne, the first city to ex- perience a 1,000-plane raid, said that since that gigantic attack of last May 30, in which 2S0 factories were damaged or destroyed, the Ger mans had made urgent attempts to do repair work in one industrial center. Repair work at Cologne, 1t was said, had been more intense than anywhere else in Germany, even in submarine yards.
 However, many of the Cologne factories were engaged In one way or another in submarine output.
 Progress in factory repairs was interrupted by the British raid ot last October IS, and it was said au- thoritatively that last nights raid should have more valuable results
 It was the first night raid on Germany of the new month.
 Berlin was raided twice Saturday by daylight when rocket-like Mos. quito bombers dropped their misslei when Field Marshal Hermann Goer. Ing and Propaganda Minister Paul 0oebbels were about to make theiI speeches at q Iugubrtous cbgeTvancl of the 10th anniversary Of the Nax accession to power.
 Emden and other targets in north. western Germany also were raided then, and Q raid waS made the sanll night on Hamburg.
 70 had heen indicated that tha British planes penetrated deep into Germany last night beeause lon1 cave stations eg the Deutschland sender at Berlin. the Paris Fadlf and the Copenhasen radlo all Wenl Ion the aig, as did medium wnvl stations ct Berlin, nTa1Iau, etult. geEt Vienna. Prague snd cologn'
 in making the rald on Cologne lthe Aegai CT Rsspe iook a4lanlag'