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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
British Bombers Are Smashing At Germany
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as well as ports on the south and southeast coast. Two freignterS of 10000 tons were claimed to have been sunk in St. Georges channel.
 German and Italian planes, it was said, scored direct hits on artillery and anti-aircraft positions around Tobruk. Mining of British harbors was said to have continued.
 Italy Makes Report
 Rome, July 2 - (UP) = British bombers attacked Palermo in Sicily yesterday afternoon, causing some damage to the port, killing three and injuring 20 among the civilian population, an Italian war coEn- munique said today.
 British planes would have had to fly at least 900 miles from their clos est land base in North Africa to at- tack Palermo.)
 Other British bombers raided Benghazi in Libya during the night, the comnunique said.
 German and Italian planes blast- ed British troop and motor vehicle concentrations southwest of Sidi Barrani and supported artillery in operations against the beSieged Li- byan port of Tobruk.
 While Italian artillery shelled British infantry and tanks at To- bruk, Axis planes dive-bombed bat teries and fortified positions, the communique said.
 T-. Al1a TTaYo1.nfIk fCnVNAori rAAfAF of Ethiopia, lively artillery activity was reported.
 British Advancing
 Cairo July 7-(UP)-The British middle east command reported to- day that British mechanical forces are advancing steadily toward Hons, important north-central Syrian City.
 Indian troops, the communique said, captured Demirkapous, 1S miles west of Telkotchek.
 In the central sector an import ant position north of Djezzine was reported captured Vile Australian troops crossed the Damour river and made contact with the main French positions south of Beirut.
 Italy's Cruisers Gone
 London, July 7-(UP)-An of Italy's cruisers of the 10,000-ton zara class were believed today to have been sunk.
 The admiralty announced yester- day that an eight-inch-gun cruiser, presumably the Gorizia, had been sunk in the Mediterranean June 2S by British submarine.
 The other ships of this claSs-the Zara, the Pola and the Plume 2343 sunk in the battle of Cape Ma japan.
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the church's rights.
 The message will be read next Sunday at number of Catholic churches in Berlin where 1t was not read yesterday, it was understood.
 Authoritative Catholic church quarters said the message, drawn up by the prseidum headed by Card- inal Archbishop Bertram of Bres- lau, did not constitute 8 pastoral letter.
 Stating that it was the duty of all Christians to defend hteir father land, he message said 1t was dif- ferent matter, however, if the faitn- full were confronted with the alter native of choosing between party doctrine or Christ's teachings.
 Therefore, the message continued, Catholics mNlst strongly oppose nay interference with the church's rights.
 The message asserted that there had been number of infringe nlentS of the Concordat between the Vatican and Reich in the treat- nent of the church in Germany.
 Alleged infringements cited were the closing of Catholic schools, the ban on religious teaching by Cath olic prisets, and the closing or re- quisitioning for purposes other than originally forseen 10 many nlon- aSterieS.
 The message aroused great ex- citement in church circles. There are an estimated 10000 Catholics in the Reich.
 It was understood that number of Catholic priests in Berlin and elsewhere refused to read the mes- sage yesterday on the ground that the last F'ulda Bishops conference in August, 1940, had agreed not to publish any pastoral letters or chancel-rail messages of political character during the remainder oi the war.
 Some priests have also declined to read the message next Sunday although in many churches it will be repeated, it was understood.
 Authoized German government quarters have declined to make any comment on the message.
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MILK HOLIDAY
 BRINGS ARRESTS
Eleven Arraigned Today in Vermont Court; Four Are
 for MansIaughter

Middlebury, Vt, July = (U.P) Eleven persons faced arraign- ment in municipal court here today -four in connection with a deputy sheriff's death and the remainder on disturbance charges resulting from violence in the milk holiday" of dairy farmers.
 Charged with manslaughter in connection with the death Thursday of Deputy Sheriff Ray Russell, 45, of Monkton were Martin Pilger, 2l, of Waltham, Donald ODonnell, g, of Ferrisburg; George M. Sullivan, 46, and William J. Sullivan, 43, both of Panton.
 The quartet were jailed after Rus sell allegedly was yanked from truck attempting to run a gauntlet of striking farmers on the Waltham- Vergennes road and tumbled be- meath the rear wheels.
 Four women and three men, who pleaded innocent before municipal Judge George Farr here yesterday to disturbance charges were to be given hearings.
 Charged by States Attorney John T. Connolly with hurling vegetables at farmers in Whiting bent on de- livering milk to creameries serving New York City were Joseph and Co., rinne Desaultells, Lawrence Lafaye and Lewis Brown, all of Whiting, and Lydia Charron, Victoria Patro and Clarabelle Bertrand, all of cornwall.
 Violence was reported at Poultney where pickets hauled F'risbie Ward of North Poultney from his truck in the village square and dumped 100 quarts of milk.
 One hundred highway patrolmen guarded Addison County roads and 50 deputy sheriffs were on duty in the area where milk deliveries were reported only about 5 per cent of normal.
 For a week the Dairy Farmers Union with 23,O00 members ill New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont has withheld milk shipments in an attempt to gain an increase to $3 of year-round price for 47 quarts of milk.
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1he hood came off the Messer- schmidt and it went straight down, crashing near a woods. It might have been a 500-pound bomb. It hit the ground and blew up with flash Rnd Q cloud of smoke"
 Several months ago the youngest member of the Eagle squadron was Gregory Augustus Raymond 19, who gave his address as the American embassy, London. The youngest eagle was credited with his first plane last week.)
 German Counter Claims
 Berlin, July 7--(UP)-The Ger man high command admitted today that British night air attacks on Western Germany caused civilian casualties and fires, particularly in Dortmund, but claimed 27 Royal Air force planes had been brought down in 24 hours of heavy air action.
 The high command said the RAF attacked various towns in Western Germany during the night, setting fires in residential" areas of Ger man cities" including Dortmund."
 During these British attacks, it claimed, and during the night Brit ish action against the French chan- nel coast eight British bombers were shot down.
 In daylight air battles along the English channel coast, it was claim ed 19 British planes were shot down.
 The high command claimed that 8S British planes were destroyed be- tween July and July 6. Of the to- tai. 58 were said to have been brought down in air battles or by night fighters. The Germans ad- mitted loss of only nine planes during that period in combat against the British.
 German night bombers were said to have raided airfields and the midland area of Britain last night
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sition" in Bessarabian fighting. Sink Mine Layers

Sink Mine Layers
 Russian destroyers, repulsing an attempt by German naval units to force the Gulf of Riga on the Lat vian coast, sank two German mine layers 1t was asserted, and Ger man submarine was sunk by Q mine in the Gulf of Finland
 The communique said there was heavy fighting throughout last night in the Ostrov, Polotsk, and Lepel sectors of the White Russian front, the communique said, and in the Bovograd Volynsk sector of the Uk- rainian front.
 In the Ostrov sector at the north. ern end of the White Russia front, Russian trops threw back repeated attempts by German mechanical and motorized forces to break through toward the northeast In an apparent drive on Leningrad, the communique said.
 In the Polotsk sector between Os- troy and Lepel, German attempts throughout the night to force a way across the Dvina river were thrown back with heavy losses, 1t was as- serted
 Numerous heavy German attacks in the Novograd Volynsk sector on the Ukranian front were likewise re- pulsed, 1t was said.
 Finally, on the Bessarabian front at the south of the long battle line, the Germans and RumanianS after suffering great losses were thrown back to their original positions.
 Counter Attack
 Russians counter attacked the Germans in the Lepel area yester- day, the communique said. There was a gigantic battle of tanks, 1t was added, with the result that during the afternoon the Germans who had been attacking persistent ly for days, were forced to take the defensive.
 A similar grand scale cash of Rus- sian and German tanks resulted when the Russians started 8 coun- ter-offensive in the Borisov area, 50 miles northeast of Minsk on the road to Moscow, the cornmunique said.
 In the same Bobruisk area, on the Berezenia river, the Russians re- pulsed with heavy losses several German attempts to force crossing of the Dnieper river, the communi. que asserted.
 In the Novograd volynsk area west of Kiev, on the Uranian front, the Russians checked German of- fensive of massed motorized units, 1t was said.
 To the south, on the Bessarabian front, the Russians fought enemy infantry and tanks which attacked in the direction of Balh, between the Pruth and Dniester rivers north of Iasi.
 The communique noted heavy fighting between motorized units in the Ostrcv sector of the Baltic front, where as in the Lepel and Borisov sectors. the Russians were counter-attacking energetically, and, it was said. infiicting considerable losses on the Germans.
 Fierce Fighting Gees On
 Fierce fighting continued through out yesterday in the 0strov area, the communique said, and the Lepel
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CATHOLIC WOMEN
 OPEN CONVENTION

Washington, July T-(Up)-T The Catholic Daughters of America opened their i0th biennial conven- ton today with delegates from 45 states, Panama, Puerto Rico, Pan- anna Canal Zone, Alaska and Cam ada registering.
 After registering the delegates at- tended services at the Ffanciscan monastery. The convention henquet will be held tonight.
 The convention viii be open fcr- mally with e pcatifoal Mas at the Cathedral of gt. Matthew the Apostle tomorrow hy the Most Rev. Alnleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos- tolic delegate to the United States
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MANUFACTURER
 WAS ONE VICTIM
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Lesnow was enroute to Eastlamp- ton, Mass, when the fatality occur red. His firm operates a shirt fac- tory in that town, and in recent weeks he had been community daily between the two points.
 Anna Lesnow, it was said at the company office at New Haven, was his aunt, and Miss Cans his private secretary.
 At New Haven Municipal Airport it was said he planned to land at Westfield, Mass.
 State aeronautics inspectors began an immediate investigation to as- semble all the facts leading to the tragedy and to fix cause for the accident.
 Another Cenn. Plane
 Springfield, Mass, July ' - (U.P.) Caught in 8 cross wind while landing, an airpIane piloted by Henry Rodalewicz, 26, of Hampstead, L. l., skinned a tree and settled on the roof of house late yesterday.
 Rodalewicz clambered unhurt from the damaged plane left the scene shortly before authorities found a note in the cabin that read:
 Anyone who flies this ship July 6 will be dead pigeon"
 Police gave no explanation of the note.
 . The plane was owned by the Con- necticut Aero Club, Inc. of Hart ford, conn. where Rodalewicz flew from Brainard Field.
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PAUL MELLON DID
 NOT AWAIT DRAF l

Washington, July 7-(UP)-Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va, sportsman and son of the former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, today entered the army as volunteer.
 Mellon, who was registered for Se- lective service, volunteered for tn- duction and reported this morning with group of other inducteeS at the National Guard armory. He was sent to Richmond, Va, for his army physical examination Mellon, ac- cording to officials, had been regis tered with the Warrenton, Va, Se- lective service board.
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 a 17-year-old New Britain girl com mitted suicide.
 Everett E. Washington, g, Rox- bury, Mass, returning home from Camp Dix with four negro com panions, died almost instantly when their car was rammed by a truck which swerved into their path after hitting another machine.
 An automobile fatality, a drown ing and a suicide occurred Sunday The victims were:
 Janet Horvath, 8, Bridgeport, who ran in front of an automobile at West Cornwall while picnicking with her family.
 George Sammis, 63, drowned in a Stamford canal.
 Miss Adele Gajek, IT, New Britain, whose body was found in the bed- room of her home. Police said she ended her life by inhaling illuminat- ing gas.
 The three e-day holiday brought url- usually heavy traffic to Connecticut highways, beaches and inland re- sorts and state police reported the heaviest travel of the year.
 More than 10000 persons jammed New London's Ocean Beach, another 26,OOO crowded Hammonasset state park on the Clinton shoreline and 10000 visited Rocky Neck state park at Lyme.
 State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey said that in view of the heavy traffic, "the accident record was remarkably good" Cars passed d given point on the Merritt Park way at the rate of 5000 an hour dur ing the Sunday rush. he said.
 One minor jam occurred on the Merritt Parkway at Stratford when four COWS were found grazing on the esplanade separating the traffic lanes. Two cars were involved in 8 minor smashup in attempting to avoid striking one of the animals.
 29 In New England
 Boston, July T The three-day holiday death toll in New England stood at 29 today. Nineteen of the fatalities resulted from highway ac- cidents.
 Three boys died yesterday under somewhat similar circumstances Anton Diehl, 2, of Winchendon died when he fell from his fathers auto; Richard Cody, 5, of Southbridge was injured fatally when he fell from a moving auto while attempting to open a window, and Marvin Smart 8, of Winchester, N. H., was killed when he fell from a portable saw rig which was being lowed along Keene, N. H. highway.
 A fourth boy, Neville P. Cavedon 4, was killed when he toddled into the path of an auto near his White River Junction, Vt., home. Louis Pensivy, 10, of Lenox drowned while swimming in a Lenox pond while Francis 6onanno, IT, of Boston drowned in the Charles river.
 Felipe Di Geronimo, S15 of May nard, motorist, and Sidney Reed 43, of Ellsworth, Me, a helper on a truck, were killed when an auto and truck collided in Wayland. Other deaths yesterday included: Lee Hayes, S8, of Peabody in an auto ac- cident at Newburyport, and William T. Nash of Van Nuys, Cal, who was struck by a train while walking along tracks at Cranston, R.
 Connecticut reported three auto fatalities, four drownings and two other violent deaths due to other causes.
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 cause the aggressors were deter mined to dominate the world.
 'The mighty conflagration which is sweeping the world will burn I'D all who are in it's path unless 1t Is extinguished," he said.
 The result of the war, Chang said. depended on the efficiency with which the anti-aggresionists combined their efforts. Hence, he held, the strength of the Asiatic. American and European democracies must be developed to the utmost through close cooperation so that the aggressors would not have time to consolidate their gains.
 Chiang said that Chinese were most thankful for American, Bri- tlsh and Russian aid and would firzn- ly hold their front with the aim of ending Japanese aggression and coa- tributlng to the future of & free world order and the development of civilization and the prosperity cf mankind.
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NS0ASNN@NeAS~A 
 here yesterday, shouting Viva Ecu- ador" and denouncing Peru. Demon. strations and mass meetings were being held in every city. The ministry of national defense said that Saturday morning Q Peruvian garrison, accompanied by civilians, crossed into Ecuadoran territory in the Huaquillas and Chacras sector. Ecuadoran patrols arrived and were received by bursts of machine gun and rifle fire, the communique said. The Ecuadorans replied and the fighting spread to Belzalito, Guabillo, Carcanon and Quebrada. It continued until 4:50 p. m. when the Ecuadorans stopped fighting.
 we had two killed" the com- munique said.
 RenewS Attack
 Yesterday, it continued, the Peru vians renewed the attack against Chacras, Balzalito, and Goabits after artillery and aerial prepara. tions in which four planes partici- pated. Infantry fire, including mor- tars, followed.
 At Chacras, a church, c private house, and a barracks were destroy. ed and two Ecuadoyan soldiers were wounded. All along the front, the Ecuadoran forces held their posi-. tions.
 Commandante Jose Octavio Ochoa with 100 Eucadoran soldiers retook the area around Aguasverdes which the Peruvians had occupied. Two Ecuadorans were wounded. The Peruvian air corps still was bombing Ecuadoran frontier posts, double crossing" and friendly countries offering to mediate the border dis pute," the communique said.
 This action of armed Peruvian forces is in form which can't be held as a mere frontier incident, but is an aggression having the political aspect of 8 prepared attack from the military point of view," the com. munique said. "T1ae government has taken consultative measures and will follow them with an equal patriotic decisions and orders the Ecuadoran army to do its duty"
 Ecuador Blamed
 Lima, Peru, July 7- (UPO The government today blamed Ecuador for fighting along their disputed border, asserting that Ecuadoran forces had attacked three Peruvian border posts.
 The chancellory announced in a communique that the Peruvian n1in- ister to Ecuador had been instructed to enter an energetic protest" It extended the governments felicita- tions to Generals Yanez and Ureta for repelling "the downright aggres- sion" of the Ecuadorans. President Manuel Prado sent a congratulatory message to the gen. erals in which he declared that the country was devoted to peace but reaffirmed Peru's "incontestable in- tention to defend and maintain re- spect for our national integrity" He called the generals guardians of the national honor"
 An authorized spokesman said the government believed that Ecuador had prepared the attacks in order to provoke new intervention by the United States, Argentina and Brazil favorable to its territorial aspira- tions. These aspirations, the spokes- man said, had failed in the face of Peru reasonable attitude" toward the first mediation proposals. Peru couldn't be blamed for the fighting, he said, because she had. proposed a non-aggression treaty to Ecuador "in a spirit of friendship and cordiality."
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BURGLAR ASLEEP
 BESIDE HIS LOOT

Philadelphia. July 2 - (uP) - George Lewis, 39. was held on burg lary charges today
 Police, called to investigate rob- beTy of Q machine shop, found LsW- 6 behind c lathe.
 He had assembled several things he decided to steal, Lewis purport- ediy confessed, but then decided to stake Q nap" until it stopped Tasn- Ing. W
 He overslept. ax
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FIRST SCHOOLS OF
 AIR RAID WARDENS

New Haven, Conn, July T-(UP) -Connecticut's first schools to train air raid wardens opened to. day at Yale University, and at the Hartford public high school
 Mrs. Humphrey Plowden, deputy chief warden of Oxford, England who came to this country recently on assignment to assist in school ing wardens; will instruct classes in btoh schools.
 Col. Samuel H. Fisher, state de- fense director, announced more than 800 persons, representing vir- tually every community, had enroll ed for instruction. Also, he said, four British citizens, all veterans of the current war. would assist in rhe teaching dudties and relate their experiences.
 The Yale school, offering siz hours of instruction a day, will con- tinue through July 10. The Hart. ford course will be held three nights week and will conclude July 25.
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Vine St; John Clark Johnson, 34 Parker St.; Charles Milia, 145 Chase Ave; Edmund Francis Kosakowski 270 Walnut St.; Harry Seymon. % Clinton St.; Harry Joseph Baker. a Winyah Ave; Albert William Victor, 38 Long Hill road: John Spino, 228 Platt St.: Michael An. gelo Calo. 45 Ward St.
 Board 15-B-
 Sidney Block, 25 Chauncey St., Anthony Francis Bauser, e7 Green St.; Anthony Francis Talbont, 677 North Riverside St.; Thomas Jamei Petteway, 2O9 Cooke St.; Edward Daniel Borxilauskas, 26 North Leon. ard St.: Francis Bernard FeeleyI 40l Meadow St. Transfer: Edward Najeeb sabbagh (nawrence, Mass.) 135 West Main st. Transfer: Petei Thomas Luddy (Broo<lyn, New YorlZl, eo Willow St.
 Board l6-A--R Rodney Ktrschnaum 04 Charles street.
 Board lG-B - Joseph ?. Rotroc clone, 76 courtland avenue.
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Russia Claims Nazis
 Are Put On Defensive
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and Novograd Volynsk sectors, pre-. viously referred to, were mentioned as the other chief centers of 6ght- ing on the front as a whole.
 In areas not specifically mention ed, the communique said the relative positions were unchanged.
 2s Mad Planes Down
 Russian planes destroyed 28 Ger man planes yesterday against eight lost by the Russians, it was said.
 (The conmunique was decidedly changed in tone from previous ones reporting the Russians generally fighting stubbornly against great masses of Gesman tanks and mo- torized infantry.
 (Its vigorous tone implied throughout that the Russians, as the Germans approached the strong Dnieper river line of defense, were no longer content with merely de- fensive tactics or with counter attacks of purely defensive nature but were hurling unused reserves in great number against presumably tiring German troops.
 (Taking the front from north to south the comrnunique reported the Russians counter-attacking in the Ostrov sector near the junction ot the IAtvian-Lithuanian borders said that there were fierce fighting throughout yesterday in the Dvina river sector, reported the GermanE on the defensive In the Lepel sec- tor, said the Russians were counter attacking in the Borisov sector, said that the Germans were thrown back in trying to cross the Dnieper in the Bobruisk area southeast of MinSlE, reported the Germans check cd in the Novograd Volynsk sector of the Ukraine front and said the Russians were fighting stuhbornly on the Bessarabian front.
 (On the basis of the con1muniQue, it might be assumed that the Ger mans were making progress only in the BesSarabian part of the line be- tween the Pruth and Dniestez riyerS.)