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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-12
DoggerelD Days Arrive
WithtIne PoOcll Show

~ with b6w-wcw in the direction Of Ogden Nash)
Yesterday. IA spite Of all. the rain and fog
went 10 the Garden TO show about dog 4, e
Cont think its cause my name is Daniel
That nm partial 10 cocker spaniel II - 6"
Z the parkers s5s&a. EEt5@ r4ae$3 .slg'
Have always gone for barkers.
4 Ny heart goes out to all Schnauzers
q Who are led around ships hausers a&
And for Observation-Disclosures IA
I'm always interested in their hydrant advinchers
Bill Terry likes pigs but hope twon't make Terry blue
70 learn that I'm pusoyer for Aredale Kerry
hold out my hand and whether they don't do lick
never get mad at q pedgreed Pulk 6G
I've often knet til had weary knees
Just gaping at Great pyrenees. -iltaErst.- n
I'm known for my patience @g a
IN dealing with Dalmatience
II makes me glad to see yards 49, NE Z.
Inhabited by Briards. .s
4 And even II the "hest Of show" was won BY saluld
= I'm not the kind Of guy who'd think IL was Aukey.
also Join hands with Bess and Porgy 1
In paying tribute to the welsh Corgi
Though with barks they're stingy,
still 60 for q Basenjl
Even Il the notorious German spy, Capt Boy-Ed,
Owned one I'd still like samoyede
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tion) that the syndicate Of prospec-
tive purchasers headed by william
D. Cox, New York lumberman, Is
demanding guarantees Of player as
s1stance from the other clubs be-
fore closing the deal.
If these men are willing to gam
BILE their money on the Pills fran
chiSe In these. uncertainway days
when there Is not even definite as
surance that baseball win complete
the 1943 Season-we do not regard
the Cox demand as unreasonable.
And we consider Rickey's statements
as poorly timed, to say the least.
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NOTICE


Sealed proposals will be received
at the office of the Supervisor OF
Purchases, Room 1872, state Capitol
Hartford, for furnishing the follow
ing, not later than
fish for state institutions for the
week Of February a.. 49,.
3 p. M, February IL. 1913, feed
ana grain for the Connecticut State
Farm for Women, Mantle
10 a. M, February IL, 1898, meats
for the month of March, -.
Specifications and proposals Will
be furnished by the Supervisor OF
Purchases upon request.
The Supervisor OF Purchase re-.
serves the right to reject any and
all bids. Bidders may be present
at opening Of bids. -
EDWARD C. GETsSLER,
2-i2-lt Supervisor OF purchases.
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THORPE IMPROVED

Detroit. Feb. II = CUP) = Jim
Thorpe, So, one-time Carlisle In
dian Institute football and track
star, today was reported In q salts
factory condition by attendents at
Henry Ford hospital. Thorpe was
taken TO the hospital yesterday
after o heart attack at the Ford
River Rouge plant, where he is q
guard.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-12
.GAMMAS WIN

The newly organized Gamma In.
terminate League team took q 33-e
decision from the Vultures last
night &C the Central "Y".
Reilly 0f the Gamma took top
scoring honors By making 10 points
Berg accounted for 3.
Tonight's Hey League game will
see the Beta W Engineers ct $50
y. ~.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-12
ROWLAND. WINS

OF ~ players pagilcipating IN the
game, al but ono scored Two o.
more points ii q hoop contest that
Daw 80 palnls made Through the
nets at Barnard ngln lass nlElit:
NoNiand Hagileg defeating Sacred
Hearts s. q s., ncFain scores -
soF Ifla N|innefs, Bnfiy and RAee, -
and a. ieF ahe lner4 who waEe y
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-12
Last Nights Fights

by UmIJeu FEeSS
Boston-Willie Pep, 129, Hartford,
Conn, outpointed Davey Crawford.
127 IA, New York city (10); Buster
Beaupre, IA, Burlington, VT, out
pointed Frank McDougal, las, Bos-
ton: willard Buckles, 155, Saugus,
Mass, scored q technical knockout
over Les Matthews, 157, New York
city ca.
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BARGAIN-walnut st. Extensiohs
six city lots, all improvements
about IS fruit trees and plenty o.
grape vines. Bus, school and church
near by. Cash required 80 eoOo
w. H. HART, INC.
Realtors - General Insurance
Brown Bldg. Dial 4-S121
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b c.IlBr.I.A Ri LII u s.
Hsuses FOR sale

NEAR LUX CLOCK
lie JOHNSON ST. ~ 3 : family. u
rooms. Furnace for LIST door. All
improvements, 5 to 10 minutes Walk
from center Of city. Price 1850.
ID. T. HARRINGTON, Inc.
REALTOR
l4l West Main st. Dial s.sli2
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asinls ! 'hlnd a llall time. $50
palangv nlao daded a MARION y
llle WsM total,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-12

COMPETENT WOMEN for laundry
work. Apply waterbury Troy Steam
Laundry, Rushton Place Of South
Main ct.
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WANTED - First class auto me-
cl1al1ic and young man 49, 10 to
learn auto electrical work.
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MAN WANTED for wholesale bread
route. Apply lava Bros. Bakery,
400 Congress Ave.
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Ensploynaene
Men Wanted

MAN - To work In stock room.
Steady position. good salary. Linz
coin Store, 81 West Main st.
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Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Feb. 12.-(UP)-No
wonder the sale Of the Philadelphia
Phils hit q snag, II these two re-
ports are true: III That Gerry
Nugent, still acting as club presi-
dent, mailed out player contracts
yesterday, and ca That other Ma
tional league clubs vii mot help the
1913 Phils by parting with worth
while players.
Under these conditions, It seems
that Ford Prick and his advisors are
trying TO peddle franchise which
already Is stripped Of worthwhile
players by Nugent,s previous sales;
which can expect no help In man
power from other clubs, and which
Is additionally threatened by yes
terday's contracts.
II those contracts stipulate the
''seini-pro" salaries one could expect
we would not be surprised TO see
several Of the Phils prefer more
lucrative employment in defense
plants. OF course, II the league
manages to sell the club soon, sal
AIRY revisions might be made IN time
to keep the men In the game.
With major league talent (oe al
most any type) ct premium in
these way days. we can't understand
why League President Frick per-
mitted these contracts TO 60 out
why they weren't held up until Il
was decided definitely whether new
owners or the league would operate
the club this season.
No Players
Moreover, we doubt that yestef-
days elose-ihe-gat es-of- mercy talk
By Branch Hickey, president Of the
Dodgers, Will prove much Of an as
Klgk IN the leagues selling campaign.
Ricksy made II crystal clear that
there had BEEN no agreement among
the circuits club owners 70 help
the Phiis With nnanpoWes.
BespeeiecleA Branch, always the
essence q benlenlky Wfen bis
poekethook isn't affected, declared.
TITS 9 rule 10 set gouF oDponeni
down and keno hlnl there" well
TIE phfls have been down foF gears,
mnd kha rule taaanE work "a tie ga.
vantage az me ether National elllte,
the EhllR lack of eats npaeai ni
hone o. On Ne road eo1i1lslenfl1
cut eoHu Tie receipts q the Gshfl
sven eIH11 ogelJ YeaT. And that's
oae e ne major Fna1ong HfF ne
lfseae teaf flla franchise nNag from
MHFzNz al XHHE&NF
H'6 as.1 isill = a.|ssllsas
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There Is No Shortage

FACTORY - Rebuilt and New
Vacuum Cleaners, guaranteed. rea-
sonable. Expert repairing. 22i Bank
st. 6-l364.
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WANTED BEL1BoYs-Apply Bell
Captain. Hotel Elton.
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Help-Male or Female

CHEF - Competent. Good pay with
maintenance. Also cleaning woman.
Phone 4-6677.
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Building Lots For sale
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"a. and. EOuna

HAVING LOST my sugar ration
book. / hereby make application
for i new one. Bernard REILLY, i41
Fuller st.
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0Or.D--Nava1 Air Corps ring with
black Onyx lost near Chase Plant
in Waterville. Reward. Call S-8l24
from 8 to s. After 5 call 4-43SS.
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To sum 1t up, don't consider any dog dud hound
From sEean-ined whppet young Siberian bloodhound
Copyright 1913 King Features Syndcatel
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
U.S. Pilots Win
Great Victory
Nail rs Axis
Plones; Lose 10

LONDON, Feb. S - (Pl -
News of a smashing aerial vic
tory in which American flying
fortress bombers and lightning
fighters destroyed Is enemy
planes and damaged another 26
with a loss of only 10 of their
own number was tempered
somewhat today by the disclos-
ure that United States armored
forces had withdrawn from the
|Sened railway station in CEN
trail Tunisia, IS miles northwest
of GabeS.
Only patrol activity" was re-
ported from the Tunisian-Libyan
border area where the British
Eighth Army, is following Mar
shall Rommel's rearguards into
Tunisia.
ATTACK FOE
The air battle in which
planes scored their most decis-
i've triumph OF the Tunisian
campaign so far occurred when
the fortresses with their fighter
escort made a heavy attack on
German airdromes and auxiliary
fields at Caves yesterday and in
subsequent sweeps by lightning
fighters over AXis-held territory.
An Allied spokesman said the
American forces withdrew from
Sened, which was captured last
Tuesday, after accomplishing
the purp' sc of their mission"
The hcavily-gunned vi nj
fortresses accounted for "a Ger?
man planes L. a 50-mile running
battle after they had dumped
their explosives. Only one for
tress was reported lost, but nine
twin-engined lightning fighters
were missing.
Six or seven fires were started
at Cabs airdrome and nearby
fields. Auxiliary landing grounds
five miles west of Caves we're
left wreathed in smoke, the AL
lied spokesman said.
GROUND QUIET
Little ground action was re-
ported from the long front line
in Tunisid,
Absence of further information
from Gen. Sir Bernard Mont
gomery's British Eight Army led
observers here TO speculate that
the cautious commander might
be contemplating deep thanking
movement to the south around
the Mareth line rather than
throwing his forces directly
against Marshal Erwin ROM
mel's entrenched troops.
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FIRST JUNCTION FROM EAST TO w EST
Daring British Raiders Slash Path Through Axis Lines

1--WE had lot of fun one night
driving on a road in the opposite
direction to motor convoy.
We'd blink our lights and then
open up machine-gun fire when
the trucks blinked back at us"
The peeps each had so cali
Der machine-gun mounted on the
front end and twin-mounted 80
caliber machine-guns on the
rear.
Sergt. Cooper>said they served
we'll until the day we ran into
a bunch of Italian armored cars.
They really shot us up and We
lost two peeps.
Lucky for us they weren't
Germans or we all would have
been wiped out"
They had another bad day
when Axis planes strafed them
for four hours.
Actually they only grazed one
of our men and failed 10 hit even
one peep" Cooper said. They
See RAIDERS-Page 2
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Frenchman who quit job in the
French legation in Cairo TO join
General Charles DeGaulle's
Fighting french.
With other members of the de-
sert patrol, all former parachute
troops, they had set out in IL
peeps to disrupt Axis communi-
cations and instill constant fear
in the Germans and Italians by
daring raids from the desert.
They told how once they drove
boldly onto a Tripolitanian
coastal highway right into the
middle of an Axis motor convoy,
shot up 80 trucks with their ma
chine-guns and then faded back
into the desert.
Some of it was a lot of fun"
Lieut.. Sadler said. For ex-
ample, we spent Christmas Day
popping the Germans own land
mines into holes the Germans
themselves had dug to receive
the mines after their own forces
had withdrawn. They got some
good surprises.
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Pfc. Rick, Of Utica,
a Prisoner Of Japs

Pfc. William c. Rick, IS, re-
ported as missing on official
U. S. Army lists since the fall
OF Corregidor, today was report
ed a prisoner of war in the Phil
ippines in a message received
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Rick, 1891 Van Dyke ave-
nue., Utica.
Pvt. Rick was a member of q
Coast Artillery unit. He enlisted
in 1910. His parents were in
formed of his status as a prison
er of the Japanese government
in telegram from the War De-
partment this morning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
Draft WARNING
Brings Results
Workers Jom
\, USES. Offices


With New York City appar-
emily setting the pact to such
an extent that the Selective
Service Director there advised
against precipitate action, hun
dreds of thousands of men are
seeking War work as a result
of the warning that even though
they have dependents, those who
are in non-essential occupations
face immediate induction after
April /.
A survey by the Associated
Press showed that in nearly
all parts of the country local
offices of the United States
Employment Service have been
flooded with applications for
jobs or for information about
the status of the men in certain
jobs.
Col. Arthur v. McDermott,
the New York Selective Service
Director, counseled aga n st
hasty action and Harry Hans
brough, VINO Director in Louis
Vile, cautioned that applicants
should definitely find out the
class of work they were in be-
fore Seeking TO make wild
changes"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
Yank bombers
Score in Burma
BIast Key Jop
Bose Nsor Mondoloy

NEW DELHI, Feb. 5-(R)-
United States Bombers scored
direct hits on a strategic rail-
road bridge over the Irrawaddy
near Mandalay in Burma yes
terday, communique announc-
ed today.
The bridge at Myitgne had
been damaged in previous
raid and the japanese had been
making a major effort to re-
pair it, the communique issued
by the tenth United States
Air Force stated.
"They had succeeded in rails
ing the span from the river
bottom, but the bridge had not
been restored to service" the
communique added. Direct hits
were reported by bomber crews
all of whom returned safely"
American made Liberator
bombers of the Raj pounded
Rangoon with 1000 pound
bombs last night as British
and Japanese forces remained
locked in fierce cambat on the
Mayu Peninsula front in West
ern Burma, a British commun-
ique said today.
Docks and railway sidings
were the main targets of the
raid on Rangoon, and retudning
pilots reported they had left
large fires raging.
On the land front, the COM
munique said, British troops
beat off two fierce japanese
counter attacks in the Dondaik
sector with heavy losses yes
terday and continued to main
tain strong pressure on the
enemy.
Blenheim bombers. escorted
by fighters, meanwhile bombed
japanese positions at Rattle
See RURMA-Page 2
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Russians Split
German Army;
Tighten Trap
Pin One Segment
Against SEQ;
Push Other Beck
BY EDDIE GILMORE


MOSCOW, Feb. S - (P -
Smashing westward in the Cau-
casus, Red Army troops have
split German forces, pinning one
body against the sea and pass
ing another back toward Rostov
into a semi-circle at which So
Wet infantry, cavalry and tank
troops are pounding from east
and southeast, the Russians said
today.
One strongly fortified defense
line southeast of Rostov already
has been shattered, the Soviet
midnight war bulletin announc-
ed. (This apparently was about
80 miles southeast of Rostov, at
Kagalnitskaya)
At the top of the r u s s n
southern front, the Red Army
was driving across deep snow to
pound new wedges arou d
Kursk while behind them the
battle to annihilate the remain
der of nine enemy divisions
trapped west of Voronezh had
taken a week long toll of 1900
killed and $1,000 captured II
was announced.
This brought to 100000 the
number of Germans and their
Axis satellites killed and cap
tured in that sector since Jan.
10, the Russians said.
CHASTITY LOSSES
"a uniformed source in Lon
don said last night that Germany
and her companions in the Rus
sian war had lost more than l.
100000 men since last Nov. 10,
when the Russians began their
winter offensive.
(The source said the speed OF
the Russian advance had torn
apart the famed Nazi defense-in-
depth system and resulted in a
recasting of the Soviet High
Commands detectives, even
though the Russian rate of ad-
vance would be slowed by the
spring thaw.
On Russian army was only u
miles north of Kursk at Zolo-
tukhino and the announced cap
ture of Shchigry, 33 miles east,
and Tim, AZ miles southwest, put
two more Red Army pincers
within reach of Kursk.
In the center of the battle
front, the Russians said they had
killed l,400 of the enemy in
hopping up around Kupyansk
and had Strengthened the line
wit hthe capture of Dvurechnaya
and Borovaya, thus pushing a
wider front toward Kharkov, an
cient capital of the Ukraine and
major industrial center.
They also indicated that new
advances in the sector between
Krasny Liman and Voroshilov-
grad further promised to close
their hold around the Donets
Basin and the Ukraine.
MAJOR DISASTER
II was in the Caucasus, how
See RUSSIA-fage 2
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AP Correspondent
Victim Of U.BOat

LONDON, Feb. s. (P) Ed
ward Henry Crockett, 31-year-
old Associated Press war corre-
spondent assigned to the British
Mediterranean fleet, was fatally
wounded in the torpedoing of a
British naval vessel and died at
sea, the admiralty disclosed to-
day.
He was picked up by another
ship, from which he was buried
at sea. Beyond the fact that some
naval enlisted men also were
lost, no other details of the tor
pedoing we're released.
Crockett had succeeded Lar
ry Allen, now a prisoner of war
in Italian hands, as a rowing re-
porter with the British fleet
based at Alexandria,.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
BY holland NORGAARD

WITH u. S. FORCES IN TU-
NISIA, Jan. 30-(Delayed)-(R)
The vanguard of the British
Eighth Army-three sun-burned
and bewhiskered desert raiders
reached this outpost Of United
States and French troops in
southern Tunisia today in the
first junction of Allied forces
converging from east and west.
American officers gaped in
establishment when French
lieutenant brought the weary
and footsore men into head
quarters and announced:
These gentlemen from the
British Eighth Army have come
from Gabes to see you"
Questioning disclosed that
they were members of long,
range desert patrol which had
been travelling in American
made peeps, boldly raiding
deep in Axis territory for more
than two months.
They brought their activity to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
Alas! Adolf
is Very Much
Alive, Well

NEW YORK, Feb. s. R -
Hopeful citizens. who suspected
that Adolf Hitler might be dead
were being informed today that
der feuhrer, to the best official
knowledge, was still alive and
causing trouble.
Speaking on BC's March OF
Time" program last night, JOS
eph E. Davies, former ambassa-
dor to Russia, suggested the pos
sibility that the Nazi No. l man
was dead.
"These days of mourning and
grief in Germany, supposedly
because Of the Stalingrad de-
feat, and the fact that Hitler did
not make his tenth anniversary
speech last night suggests the
possibility that Hitler is dead"
Davies said.
Almost Immediately inquiries
poured into newspapers in many
See HITLER-Page 2
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a climax by penetrating 10 miles
north of Gabes, more than $50
miles ahead of the rear elements
of Field Marshal Rommel's re-
treating army, before they were
ambushed by a German patrol.
ESCAPE NAILS, ARABS
They abandoned their peeps to
flee afoot. evaded the enemy, es-
capped a band of hostile arabs
who attempted to beat and rob
them and then walked four days
and nights to reach friendly
lines.
The men are Lieut.. Willis
Michael Sadler. %, and Sergt.
John Cooper, 20, both from Eng
land; and Sergt. A. F. Taxis, a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
Firing Squad
Kills Killer
Utoh Volunteers
Execute Ex-Morine
BY JOSEPH d. BARBER

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. s.
(P)-Five volunteer riflemen,
paid $25 each, shot to death Wal
ter Robert Avery, sallow-faced
killer of a policeman, in the
Utah prison yard today.
The shots were fired at 8:23
a. m, Mountain War time, and
two minutes later DR.. Rich
johnson pronounced A er y
dead.
All persons condemned to
death in Utah must choose be-
tween the firing squad and the
hangman-and Avery, 34-year-
old former Marine, picked the
riflemen.
Although five rifles ratified ut
Sheriff John r. Watson's signal,
only four spat death-dealing
slugs. One of the 5000 cali
Der weapons loaded secretly by
the sheriff contained a blank
, cartridge, but none of the execu-
TONERS knew which drew this
weapon.
The riflemen stood in a cell
block adjoining the yard with a
canvas hund over the door, their
guns thrust through eight-inch
Sits.
From a range of % feet they
fired bullets into a target PIN
ned over the heart Of the con-
demned slayer who as a Ma
rine had exchanged shots with
Nicaraguan Revolution a r l e $
without getting scratch and
also had CO m e unscathed
through later brushes with the
law.
The death sentence was inn
posed on Avery for the Staying
of Detective Hoyt L. Gates in a
gun battle during chain store
grocery holdup at Ogden FEB.
IL, 104l.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-05
Secrecy Guards
Progress Of
Sea Battles
Navy Reveals
Continuing Clashes
with jap Worships
Nv the A.sociateS Pres.


First word of large Japanese
sea-borne force bearing down on
Guadalcanal island came in de-
layed dispatches from the South
Seas battlefront today as official
secrecy continued to shroud de-
velopments in an expected show
down battle between the Ameri-
can and Japanese fleets.
In Washington, the Navy re-
ported "recurrent engagements"
by opposing naval and air forces
in the Solomon Islands theater,
but declared that Tokyo radio
reports of a big naval fight al
ready in progress were false.
Amid tense hiatus. censor
passed dispatches from Guadal-
canal dated Feb. l declared:
HEAD FOR ISLAND
Aerial observers reported to-
night that a large force of jap
warships headed for Guadal-
canal. Some observers think the
Japs hope to bolster their totter-
ing Guadalcanal ground forces
with reinforcements."
The dispatch quoted Flight
1eaaer Major Marco Whitaker,
of Toxana, KY, as saying he OBJ
served between 80 and 40 ia
panese ships, many of them war
ships, in Shorthand harbor $50
miles north of Guadalcanal.
A Tokyo broadcast had pre-
viously asserted, without con-
firmation, that japanese forces
attacked American warships off
Fennell island 100 miles south Of
Guadalcanal on Feb. /, the date
of the Guadalcanal dispatch.
There was no immediate indi-
cation, either from Washington
or Guadalcanal itself, that the
japanese had been able to land
reinforcements on the prize is
land, although latest advices said
American planes strafed enemy
See SOLOMONS-Page 2