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Evening star., 1943-02-12

Commission, Leo T. Crowley. alien
property custodian; Herbert E
CASTOR, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury in charge of customs, mar
cotics and Secret Service, and Bot
Considine, sports commentator
The Supreme Courtet," q quartet
OF colored vocalists employed at the
Supreme Court, will be heard
AS usual, there will be opportunity
for the coast guardsmen, soldiers
sailors and marines to sing and put
on such impromptu acts as they
may be moved to provide. 1t. Ray
Michael, formerly of WMAL. will be
master OF ceremonies. Refresh
ments will be served. No tickets are
required.
Evening star., 1943-02-12
freedom of Air. Needs STUDY
Should Apply Only to Those Using 1t
For Benefit Of Humanity, Eliot Soys

lean air in transit from one for
eign airport to another, this
would seem to be a matter re-
quiring regulation by an inter-
nationally accepted code of rules
and is more or less new subject,
requiring careful study.
The protection Of commercial
air trafflc-the policing Of the
air. SO to speaks, of course, q
responsibility of each nation in
its own air just as the policing
of territorial waters Is a national
responsibility The air over the
high seas is an international
highway just as the high seas
themselves are an international
highway.
In time of war, neither the
sea nor the air over it can be
controlled separately; both must
be controlled together, If at all.
But 1t would be foolish to sup
pose that nations possessing
power to control movement by
air and by sea, and vitality in
terested in maintaining the
peace Of the world, will not use
that power to help maintain
the peace. OF course they will.
We must rid ourselves of the
curious notion, which so many of
us seem to cherish, that peace
will somehow maintain itself by
the sheer force of good will and
noble intentions.
Beneficent Use Of Power.
1t is Just as wrong, from the
moral point of view, to possess
the power to keep peace and yet
not us. it for that purpose, as it
is to possess the power to break
the peace and use it to despoil
ones neighbor. The future Of
the world rests, indeed, on the
proper and beneficent use of
power by those nations, including
the United States, in whose
hands as the victors in this war
the responsibility for keeping the
peace of the world will be placed.
To a great extent, the power
which they will 50 employ will be
air power. The defeated nations
will be disarmed. at least for the
time being, and part of their dis
armament must be the denial Of
their right to possess an aviation
industry. They have shown that
they cannot be trusted with such
things. AS q hard and inescap-
able fact, as a condition prece-
dent to the security of all Of us,
this must continue to be 50 until
the day when these international
bandits have demonstrated that
they have departed from their
past ways and are to be trusted
to conduct themselves as law
abiding members Of the family Of
nations.
This, too, should be included in
our thoughts when we speak of
freedom of the air" For what
we should mean by that term is
freedom to use the air for the
benefit Of free humanity, and de-
nial of its use to those who
would employ it for the destruc-
ton Of their neighbors' freedom.
tCopyright, 1913, New York Tribune. Inc
Evening star., 1943-02-12
On the Record
Signs Are Insstent Thot Bottle for Liberty
Could Degenerate Into War for U. S. Empire
y DOROTHY THOMPSON,

BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. p
SHINE REPUBLIC!
While this America settles
in the mould of its uul-
gGrtty
Heavily thickening to en-
pire
And protest, only a bubble in
the molten mass, pops
And dries out and the mass
hdrdens -
With these initial words. the
prophetic West Coast poet, Rob-
inson Jeffers, once forecast the
doom of the Pershing American
Republic.
Perhaps protest will only be
bubble in the molten mass, yet if
one loves this republic, the futile
bubble must pop. For there are
signs too inSistent to be ignored
that the war for human liberty
could degenerate with geometric
rapidity into war for American
empire . To be won at the
expense of both our enemies and
our Allies.
Mrs. Glare Booti1e Luce made
her initial speech in the House of
Representatives this week. She
advocated as war aim American
control Of the global air, Not
United Nation control, or inter-
national control freedom of the
air" is, she said, "globaloney"-
but complete domination. Mrs.
Luce, whose husbands publica-
tion recently attacked Mr..
Churchill for imperialism now
says: THE British want to put
muscles and flesh on their inter-
national air system after the war
and perhaps even some fat in
places-with lend-lease planes"
She wished this policy were
ours"
So the trouble with our British
Allies is not imperialism it is
merely British imperialism which
may conflict with Americas in
tention to be master of the world
herself.
Struggle for Air Power.
Mrs. Luce's picture is supple
mented by series of advertise
ments which have been appearing
in various publications, inserted
by American aviation companies,
notably Pan American and
American Air Lines, who are CO.
operating with the American Air
Force in laying out air bases
everywhere. One of these adver-
tisements says: Our air efforts
must not relax with victory. Inn
mediate development and expan-
sion Of Americas aviation is
necessary also to protect our
Nation at the peace conference.
There we will either be dominant
in the air, or we will be domi-
mated in the postwar air world"
From this viewpoint this is not
a struggle to make a new world
with. liberty and justice for all.
1t is just a struggle for power,
and for the instruments with
which to make power politics.
We must now prepare to "domi-
nate" our allies at the peace con-
ference.
Then there is a recent state
ment by the Secretary of the
Navy Knox. Mr.. Knox said that
we should start immediate nego-
tiations for complete postwar
control" of Sufficient aerial or
naval bases In the Pacific to pre-
vent Japan from entering upon
another war Of aggression in the
Evening star., 1943-02-12

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Evening star., 1943-02-12

Great oaks from little acorns srow
War bonds are the most promising
acorns on the market,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
Walter WiHcIleIl
 Ln Ne1C York

suited in stifling oil new bands from reaching the top rlngs. The reason: Most are made by one recording. James, for instance. He registered big with: "You Made Me Love You" Artie Shaws big click was Begin the Beguine," and then there was Tommy Dorsey's memorable version of Marie.
 
 One Palm Beach realtor reports most of the leases there have been gobbled up .. Fred Aliens latest news: That he resumes in December for the same sponsor The Caii- fornia car shortage is so acute deal- CTS are offering almost twice what they paid for their cars when new. Randy Burke turned down $l,7OO for his broken down Ford i. Some of the finest paintings in the world will be sold at auction next month. Museums will be the prin- cipal buyers, as individuals are afraid of the taxes on them i. Two film producers are regretting losing the chance to buy the rights to film Tree Grows in Brooklyn" which each could have purchased for $10,000 20th Century got 1t for $50,000 Correspondents visit ing here from Europe, Africa and elsewhere are amazed at the criti- ciSm offered by the five Senators. One scribe says the squawkS read as though they were lifted bodily from the attacks on Lincoln's hand ling of the War Between the States.
 Quentin Reynolds says the cen- Sorship in Ireland (Eire) is the toughest of all. As far as Fire is concerned there is no war going on --and they hope we win 1t |. Those chimes the steward bongs in the Santa Fe diner have NBC on them In Errol Hymns next Ca Nazi hunt in Canada) the fadeout shows his gal asking if she's the only one he ever loved. He says ives" tenderly and then looks at the audience and yells: "What am I sayingP" Josef Israels ITS book, He's in the Marine Corps Now" (McBride), has an order for 25,000 copies for all bases Al Jolson's malaria has cancelled his rejoining the Airline Hit Parade The Merry Macs start at the Strand on the 9th. The highest priced quartet of all. When MGM's Meet the People" opens, the na- ton will embrace Q lovely song called "In Times Like These" (. Walter Kerr, the Herald Trib's foreign correspondent, requested in- duction and is now Pvt. Kerr at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. .. .. Mid towners hear that one of her male dates beat up Mrs. Lonergan 6 few nights before she was slain. Hit her on the head with one of her apartment gadgets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
Crux In 0okes Case
(continued from Page l)

Barker testified, on direct exami- nation, that he discovered the sec ond print on July 19, 10 days after he found the first fingerprint. He Identified both as De Marigny's- one of the right htle finger and the other of the left. The first finger print has not been offered into evi- dence.
 The revelation brougth an objec- ton from defense Attorney God- frey W. Riggs, who contended that he had not been informed of the second fingerprint, citing British law which provides that the de- fensue must be notified before trial of al prosecution evidence.
 Riggs also charged that Barker destroyed the evidence" by making an impression of the second fin- gerprint, and demanded that he be shown the second print on the screen which stood in the court room.
 "You can't show it to me be- cause there is no second print on the screen" Higgs said. "The only evidence of it is your word that you removed the print from the screen" !"
 Riggs pointed out to the court that Barker could have taken a pie ture of the powdered impression, charging that there was no reason for lifting the fingerprint from the screen"
 Justice Daly halted the question: ing, turned to Barker, and asked:
 "Why didn't you take photo graphs of the fingerprint?"
 T did not have Q camera" the officer replied.
 Couldn't you get one from Mi- ami and have 1t flown over7"
 While Barker was considering an answer, Daly announced he would take the matter under advisemc0t and rule on it today.
 Testimony concerning the second print caused the most controversial Issue since the trial opened . week ago Monday. The first fingeTprlnt, found on the ecren the day after Sir Harry was murdered. has been linked to De Marigny hy crown wits nesses. While defense attorneys have not denied it was left by the count, they repeatedly have fndi- cated, in their cross examination Of witnesses, that ik could have been made after tne murder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
Reds Storm Over
 Steppes In Drive
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from Kremenchug on the north shore of the river occupied several additional haHnlets and punched their way deeper into Krivol Rog, big mineral center, from three sides.
 The Germans counter attacked with Hnassed. tanks and infantry in Q frantic effort to save the northern prop of the escape gap for their forces withdrawing from the east and northwest, but everywhere were thrown back with heavy losses.
 In one sector, the Russians sJr- rounded c German infantry battal- ion = normally 1000 men - and killed or captured the entire per- sonnel. Booty included eight guns and seven six-baTreled trench mor- tarS.
 Take % Towns
 Soviet columns pursuing the Ger. mans toward the Krivoi Rog gap seized more than 30 additional towns and villages southeast, south- west and west of Dnepropetrovsk, beating down ell enemy counter attacks. Some 5000 Germans were slain.
 Russian planes bombed troop con- centrations, military trains and railway targets inside the Dnieper Bend on an around the -clock sched- ule. Many fires and explosions were observed.
 West of Moscow, the Russians lashed out in local offensive and, smashing an elaborate network of defenses, cleared the Germans from the entire length of the 3e-mile Newell -Usvyat highway northwest of vitebsk on the eAaroaches to the Baltic states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

(Continued from Page D ern arm of the Allied pincers around Rabaul with a drive up the northeast coast of the island to Finschhafen - 70 miles from the western tip of New Britain.
 Bomb Offensive
 The Allied bombing offensive on the Buin- -Faisi sector began last Fri- day. By Monday, the big Kahili, Kara and Ballale airdromes on southern Bougainville apparently had been knocked out and the AL lied flyers roamed unchallenged over the area, bombing, burning and machine -gunning the enemy posi- tions.
 Simultaneously, another aerial offensive was directed at Rabaul. MacArthur's bombing fleets blasted that base Monday for the third time in four days. They heaped lS1 tons of explosives on the target and added 58 more Japanese planes to the 123 destroyed there on Fri day and Saturday.
 The Treasury Islands are a nat- ural stepping stone to Bouganville and Buka Islands, northernmost ot the Sloomons, which form the last enemy barriers on the eastern road to Rabaul.
 Flyers who participated in Mon- days attack on Bougainville re- ported that the Japanese appar- ently had been unable to repair their airfields there after the three previous raids, and 1t was not con- sidered likely they could offer any important aerial resistance to an Allied landing.
 Reduction Campaign
 Allied forces began thier cam- paign to reduce the central and northern Solomons on June 90 with q landing in the New Georgia group, more than 100 miles south of Bougainville.
 The Japanese were driven from their island positions in the cen- trial Solomons. finally abandoning Kolombangara island early in Oc- tober after suffering heavy casual ties in troops and warships in an effort to evacuate their forces to Bouganvillc.
 Japanese troops still arc installed ln Cholseul Island, southeast of Bougainvllle, but that position al- ready has been outiianked and is not believed a serious threat Co the Allied advance nogthwagd.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

NOAtAAA0O0 4kOuA 6aSG 4I ing, excited women. There were un- iformed men there, too, pretending nonchalance.
 The door opened and he walked in-the onetime Mir. Big of the box office, now Q bit player in the U. s. Army. He sat down and turned on his special brand of charm. Once again he had the famous moustache he was forced to shave off as an en- listed man.
 Fire away" he said. "What do you want to know?"
 Under their questioning he told of directing the reporting on 6O,OOO feet of color film the happenings of 8 flying fortress group in combat" He told, too, of personally shooting some of the scenes and of dropping his camera to seize a fort gun and shoot at everything that came towards lls.'
 He belittled any personal achieve ment, preferring to acclaim the men with whom he fought.
 T was scared" he said. 'When the fighters got close, certainly was scared"
 His name? Captain Clark Gable, AAF photographer-gunner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

1can ana Br1CSh heavy pompers, puC fighter -bombers and fighters ham, mered German artillery positions at Gaeta, on the west coast 18 miles behind the enemy lines, and patrols operated over the battle line.
 The Eighth Army, advancing through mountainous terrain par- ticularly favorable to defensive tac- tics, appeared to be encountering the stiffest resistance, but the An- glo.American Fifth Army troopers were running into increasingly heavy opposition.
 German medium guns and field artillery pounded into the Fifth Army lines near the west coast holding their advance down to about a mile.
 The comrnunique indicated the Fifth Army has reached the west- ern flank of the Germans "Little Rommel Line" - stretching from Mondragone on the west coast, through Venafro to Vasto on the Adriatic-along which the enemy is expected to make his major stand for Rome.
 On the Eighth Army front, the British registered gains ranging from less than a mile on the east to around four miles on their left flank, where they drove forward to capture Torella, eight miles north- west of Camp Basso.
 The British continued to expand their bridgehead across the 1rigno river near the Adriatic coast, de- spite intense enemy shellflre, the communique said, and the advances further inland brought them up to high ground dominating the south banks of the stream.
 The focal point of the Eighth Army assault was the narrow defile running northward from Boljano to Lisernia. German fiak batteries em- placed in the hills on either side of the corridor were reported throwing up a heavy barage to prevent Allied bombing of their line of retreat, while machine gun and artillery nests presented a formidable bar rier to the advancing British.
 The capture of Torella, just east of the Boljano-Iserno road, thrust 8 sharp salent into the German lines, however, and posed the threat of a fianking move against the highway.
 The communique also reported that South African fighter bombers attacked German barge traff1c of the Jugoslav coast.
 It was disclosed officially that Fifth Army anti-aircraft batteries have shot down 48 enemy planes since the beginning of the Italian campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
Advance In Italy
 Despite Resistance
Continued from Page 1.)

under intense German shellfire reached the forward slopes of high ground overlooking Q considerable stretch of the river.
 Skirmishes on the Eighth Army front involved units up to battalion strength, with infantry pushing up wooded ridges to seek out and de- stroy German positions. Artillery probably had been moved up to sup- port the advance, but tanks were useless in the rugged country.
 Fifth Army anti-aircraft fire was revealed to have destroyed 49 Ger. man planes so far in the 1talain campaign. Thirty-f1ve more were accounted as probably destroyed and 4s damaged by British and American gun crews.
 Bad Weather
 Bad weather grounded the Amer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28
Police Grill 
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(Contuue0 rom Page after volunteering to make the jour ney to "help solve the slaying of my wife"-Lonergan must be either booked or released by 4:26 ?. m. to- morrow.
 He can, however, be held merely as Q material witness or on suspi- cion.
 Long Interrogation
 The long Interrogation last night continued the questioning Lonergan has been under since his apprehen- sion in Toronto at 0:30 6. m. Mon- day, the day after his wife's body was found.
 The 2e-year-old former hfeguard stretched out on Q cot ct police headquarters to get some sleep this morning.
 Assistant District Attorney Jacob Qrumet, leaving to obtain rest him- self, said Lonergan "has admitted nothing" He said the suspect showed little emotion and remained self-possessed throughout the night.
 Lonergan legally cannot be finger printed until formal charges are brought against him.
 Fingerprints found on an antique candlestick used by the murder to bludgeon Mrs. Lonergan to death in her bedroom, however, were report ed today to be too smugged to be of great value in the investigation.
 Lonergan, technically 6 free man since no charges have been brought against him, has agreed to submit to questioning until police decide what course of action they will take in the case.
 Questioning
 Officials began questioning the RACT trainee immediately after he arrived here aboard an airliner from Buffalo, a few minutes after 5 p. m. yesterday.
 He was shown all the evidence authorities have collected and was confronted by several of the persons who have been questioned i:l con- nection with the case, but still inc sisted he knew nothing of the blud- geoning of his estrangled wife, Q cafe society playgirl, in her fashion able Beekman hill apartment last Sunday.
 Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet, in charge of the investiga- tion, personally went over the story with Lonergan, hour after hour, but the former lifeguard who married into New York's social set refused to stray from his account of his visit to New York last weekend.
 Tells Of Scratches
 He was reported to have told Can- adian authorities that he received scratches on his chin and cheek when he made unnatural advances to Q soldier he befriended and took to the apartment of 8 friend here. Police disclosed yesterday that Lon- ergan, before he entered the RCAF, had been given Q 4-F draft classifi- cation. as physically, mentally or morally unfit"
 Only twice during the night was the questioning halted temporarily about 6 D. m. and again at ii ?. m. --when sandwiches and coffee were brought in for Lonergan.
 0rumet left the questioning room several times. Once he ordered all witnesses and evidence brought in.
 Among them were Jean Murphy, pretty unemployed showglri who was with Lonergan Saturday night and Sunday afternoon; John P. Harjes, owner of the apartment where the RCAP trainee took the soldier; and Emil Peters, HaFjes' butler.
 They were taken before Lcnergan but lt was not diocloged whether the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

WOAtAAuSO AGV4n 6dBC ~
 torney John M. Comley of Bridge port, who is counsel for Lillian w. Porter, individually and aS admins tratrix of the estate of the late Thomas W. Porter and Katherine Miller; and Attorney John D. Thoms, who represents the non-ap- bearing heirs, Helen, Lucy, and Grace Porter, and Nathan Porter, Jr., both individually and as ex- ecutor of the estate of Hiland and Louis Porter.
 Although the Porter land on Mer- iden road has been condemned by the government for Q housing pro- feet for the duration, the city is carrying on the appeal in the hope of being able to establish the trade school as a postwar project.
 The special motion, which has been termed unusual" in legal cir- cles here, makes no reference to the interest of the state in the case. Attorney General Francis A. Pal lotti has been listed as the repre- sentative of the state at the hearing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

yesterday, swept 18 1-2 miles across the Steppes, overran more than % towns and villages and cut three mai roads. Some 5000 Germans were killed and % tanks and 90 guns destroyed.
 Take TimOshevka
 The Soviets captured Timoshevka, 20 miles northwest of Melitopol and only 70 miles southeast of Nikopol, vital manganese center in the Dnieper Bend already threatened by the Soviet column at Krivol Rog.
 Russian forces that have thrust half way across the Dnieper Bulge
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

thau,Jr., still is abroad.
 If Q sales tax is approved, conn- mittee members said it probably would be superlmposed on the ex- else schedule approved Tuesday with exemptions set up for the articles and services covered by the exclses. Such action would bring the total revenue yield of committee rec0nn- mendasions to over eB.oo0, 900 900 fl a five per cent sales levy is imposed or ee.D0o. .O0o.0o ig q 10 per cent im- post is voted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

Ruerrillas and Q German military train was blown up, killing 116 en- emy troops and wounding about 20 others.
 The communique said partisan troops were battling German forces in Montenegro.
 Cairo dispatches said Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch's patriot forces had gone into action against the Ger mans on four sectors of eastern and central Jugoslavia, and reported that MiIxhailovitch's troops also were bat ting partisans in central Bosnia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

INVESTIGATE PLANE CRASH
 Moultrie, Ga, Oct. 28 - UP)- Army air officers today were in- vestigating the crash of Q plane near Adel, Ga, in which Aviation Cadet Anthony George Palermo of Danbury, Conn, was killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-28

Southwest Pacific so far, he said.
 Continued shipping losses will con- fine the Japanese army more and more to the homeland and the near by continent. Nimitz said, but added that Japan's sea and air forces are "still strong enough to inflict de- structive attacks ct great distances provided he's willing to take the risks involved in far-flung adven- tures."
 Nimitz said that he doubted Jap- anese air strength ever again would reach the peak of efficiency attained when they sank the British battle ships Prince of Wales and RepuIse during the Maiayan campaign.