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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
DOCTORS TRIAL
 IS PROGRESSING
Bath, Maine Physician Is Accused Of Killing His
 Doctor Wife

Bath, Me, June 26 --(UP)-- The blood stained cellar staircase down which Dr. Luverne Harris Joss was hurled or dragged was set up in- tact today in the yard outside the tiny courtroom here where her huS- band, pr. Merrill Joss, 34, is being tried for her biudgeon-murder.
 Carpenters brought the long flight of stairs that had been taken from the ccntury-old Joss mansion at Richmond where the 38-year- -old woman physician who came to Maine from Birmingham, Ala, was slain on the evening of Marcr 27.
 When her husband, shackled to Q deputy sheriff, left the court for luncheon at the Bath police station, he passed within a few feet of the stairs that had been set up against a small truck.
 Spectators who witnessed the erection Of the staircase assumed that 1t would be used by the prose. cution in more wildly depicting the crime with which tS.e young sur. geon is charged.
 Under redirect examination by Atty. .-den Frank l. Cowan, full- faced Sheriff Floyd Umberhind Identified a dusty hat found in the cellar near the battered body of Dr. Luyerne Joss.
 That is pr. Merrill Joss hat" Umberhind said. T saw 1t for a few minutes that first night I was Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
MAIL EMPLOYE SUED FOR DIVORCE
Former Beauty Contest Victor Says She Was
 Married To Wrong Man

salem, Mass, June 2S.-(UP)-A former beauty contest winenr com pIained today she had spent ten years married to the wrong man because he drank continually. Mrs. Janice Whittier Robertson, 8, oi Newburyport, formerly Miss Ips- wich,' told Pribate Judge John V. Phelan yesterday that within an hour after she married her husband, Albert, he started drinxing and has imbibed freely ever since.
 "When he cut the wedding cake, his hand was so unsteady that l attributed 1t to nervousness" she said. "But 1t wasn't that. He was drunk that night and from that time on he has been drunk most of the time."
 Sine testified sine left him in January after he bounced a liquor bottle" off the head of their eight year old daughter. Anne.
 Asked how he "carried the mail' and held other postal jobs if he drank all the time, sine replied: rive often wondered"
 Mrs. Rchertson seeks a divorce on grounds of cruelty and intOxica- tions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
STALIN CALLED
 BLUFF OF HITLER
United Press Writer Is Just Back From Britain
 Territory

New York, June 25--(UP)-Adolf Hitler wanted only Russias grain fields In the Ukraine and he hoped to win them by bluff, but his bluH was called and now he must con- sider the conquest of all Russia, according to Leon Kay, veteran United Press European correspon- dent, just back from the Balkans. Kay arrived from Lisbon last night on the liner Exeter.
 By threat Of wholesale attack, Hitler had hoped to play on what he considered to be Stalin's fixed policy of avoiding clash with Ger many at any price" Kay said,
 "Germany was misled into these tactics by Russia's passive attitude towards Germany's conquest of the Balkans"
 Kay, whose last assignment was covering the German conquest of Jugoslavia, said that "what seemed to strengthen the opinion that Ger many had hoped to bluff Russia was the persistent report in the Balkans that a German attack on Russia was in preparation"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
British Bombers Are Smashing French Zone
Planes Thundered Across English Channel-Frightful Blasting Is Taking Place-British Troops
 Close In Upon Syria
By II, L. PERCY
United Press Staff Correspondent

Limited Press Staff Corresp0ndent)
 London, June 25,-(UP)-Large British bomber forces, heavily es- corted by frlghter formations, smashed again at the French chan. mel coast this afternoon, hammering 1t without let-up in continuation Of Q sustained night and day offensive against Germany and German-oc' cupied territory,
 The British planes thundersd across the English Channel In the direction oi the Calais Boulogne area and shortly afterward heavy explosions were heard on the Eng ligh side. Fighters patrolled the channel while the sweep was being made.
 Great explosions were heard from the British side soon after the planes crossed, indicating that the raid was . big one.
 During the night planes Of the coastal command had made one of their biggest attacks of the war on the French invasion coast.
 A fleet of long range planes ot the bomber command heavily att tackled Cologne, Dusseldorf and the Kiel naval base, the air ministry an- nounced.
 It was understood that the at- tacks were heavy and sustained.
 Loss of two British planes was ad- mitted.
 Blasting Attacks
 There were two blasting attacks on the invasion coast during the night. One started at sunset, the other before dawn. Prime Minister winston Churchill remained in the operations room Of air force general headquarters dur. ing the evening raid. An air minis try communique said he remained from the time the planes took or sEammn&aaaaarsa amnn Nnna A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
TRANSPORTATION DANGER IN N. Y.
Entire Surface, Subway System May Be Closed
 Sabotage Feared

New York. June 25-(UP)-City ofIicials today warned millions or passengers and 33,OO0 transport workers against sabotage in cotinec. lion with a possible strike that would tie up New Works entire sur face and subway transportation system.
 The board of transportation told transport workers to beware oi reckless agitators" and declared that 1t did not recognize the right to strike because they are under CIVIL service.
 The deadline is ct midnight Mon- day, when contracts with the trans port workers union (CIO expire. IL was indicated that wage coEices- sions would be granted employees of two subway lines which the city ac- cuired from private owners last year to eaualize pay on all lines. The transpcrtation board posted two sets of stern warnings on employees bulletin boards, and in each Of the e.2D4 subway, elevated, and trolley cars, and buses.
 Tine notice to employees was head lined Beware of Reckless Agita. tors" and said:
 ssThe board Of transportation is a government agency; its employees are under civil service and strikes are not recognized.
 '.Employes leaving their work without authority of the board Of transportation are subject to charges and dismissal and loss of their civil service status"
 The second notice, directed to passengers, called attention to sec- tons of the penal law which pKo- vide for % years Imprisonment Tor sabotage of transit equipment or ! leaving it unattended. -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
Nazi Mechanized Columns Suffered Heavy Losses
 In Forward Dash ! PATHWAY TO UKRAINE
 SEES BLOODY STRIFE Frightful Losses inflicted On Germans, Rumanians By Bombers, Cavalry {
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondentr
 Moscow, June 25.-(UP)-- The Red army, aided by dive bombers and charging cay- airy, was reported today to have smashed back Q Ger man drive from Rumania across the Pruth river and to have inflicted heavy losses on Nazi mechanized columns.
 Dispatches from Tiraspol said that many enemy tanks had been de- stroyed when German and RumNniAn forces crossed the river north of Galau tthe Rmanuian oil center) and that repeated Na1 efforts to cross the Pruth and capture Ger. nauti had failed, A number of German prisoners were taken, ac- oording to Soviet reports,
 (Fighnng on tho Pruth river on tho southern sector of the long Russian. German front is on the pathway to the rich Ukraine grain fields and the Soviet oil eenttfs.l \
 On the northern front, the Red air fleet was reported to have TO. pulsed a squadron of six German air raiders striking at the Russian naval base of Kronstadt, shooting down one, while Red infantry beat back . thrust from the Kuloyarva region of Finland,
 Germans Are Repulsed
 Summing up three days of fierce battles along tho entire front, the high command said that the Ger mans had been repulsed with heavy losses in six main sectors, that the Red air fleet had heavily bombed targets at five German bases in East Prussia, Poland and Runania and destroyed q total of Sei Ger. man planes, The Soviets lost to- tal of 374 planes
 tDispatches from Helsinki today said that the Soviet air force had bombed tho Helsinki capitals air. drome and other targets In Fin. lantl)
 Tho Russian newspapers carried reports, reluyeu rom LonQon. that huge transport planes had landed Soviet parachutists behind the Ger man lines to disrupt enemy ooms munioationS but this was not men. toned In the Soviet eommunique, which said small attachments of German paraehutists were being rounded up by special Soviet forces.
 In the fighting on the south front Russian dispatches said that the Germans and RumaniNns eross- cd Q bridge in the FAleha area but were attacked by Soviet dive bomb. CTS after which infantry and cavalry drove the enemy out of Faloha. Six Russian planes downed three of q formation of l8 German Messer- Schmitts, the dispatches said, but fighting ls Che arcG continued ilercely.
 Frightful Losses
 (In London, the Moscow radio was heard saying that frightful losses were inflicted on the Ger.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25

resistance" and said that time and again the Germans had to bring up heaVy-draWn siege guns to batter down the enemy defenses, Many Soviet troop manned ther position to the death, refusing to surrender, the Germans reported,
 Although the high command gave no details except to say that Red air forces bombed Memel and Koenigsherg, NaSl propagande company reporters with the troopS told of hard fighting against the soviets on the north wing in Lithu' ania.
 The German troops attacking from East Prussia found the first Soviet defense bunkers weakly manned, the NaEl dispatches said, but the Rec troops fought fieroely.
 MOvO Slowly Ahead
 After heavy guns had battered down concrete pill boxes, the Ger mans moved slowly ahead in the face of strong fire from the Red infantry which included KaiMueks from the eehtfNk ASAuu SvVpPeSs
 These men fought to tho last, one German reporter said, and many ot them died at their machine guns and rifles after refusing to surrender,
 The German forces went forward more rapidly, the reporters said. af. ter breaking the first resistance. but choking dust and blazing heat han dieapped the advance over the roll Ing lithuanian border area.
 The Soviet forces fought q rear gaurd action to enable their main forces to fall beck to prepared de- fenslve positions some distance from tho border
 SS Miles . Day
 One German reporter said that German infantry marched S5 miles a day on roads that were mere dirt tracks. These were sometimes wid. ened to 100 yards by heavy motor vehicles which skirted them to avoid
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
HELP FOR RUSSIA
 ON TOKEN BASIS
United States Short of Anything To Lend, Lease
 Or Sell Just Now
BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, June 25.-(UP)-The United States material aid to the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany was expected today to be on a talk on basis for the time being, for lack of anything to lend. lease or sell,
 In most categories, industrial pro- duction of the United States is more than 100 per cent committed In exist- ing and immediately prospective or- ders from Great Britain, China and the United States government. Furthermore, the $7,000, 0,000, 900 lend-lease funds appropriated last March largely for arining Great Bri- tain, prartjcally will have been committed by signed contracts with- in ten days.
 It was understood that the ad- ministration was studying plans for a second lend-lease appropriation and that Russian needs could be supplied from that money If Moscow is unable to pay for supplies here. MT. Roosevelt said he did not know whether assistance would be given the Soviet Union on the same basis as to Great Britain, or whether the Red army needs could be paid for here in cash. Some $40 900, 900 of frozen Soviet Union credits were re- leased yesterday by the administra- ton but that sum would not go far in terms of war purchasers.
 Items Required
 Among items likely to be required by Russia are aviation gasoline, ma chlnery, clothing, medical supplies,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
FINLAND FEELS
 SOVIET ATTACK
Russian Bombers Made Four Raids Over That
 Country This Morning
Ny HUBERT uXKULIo United PresS Staff COrroSpondel


 Helslnkl, June 26- (uPl The possibility of Q Finnish declaration of war against Russia was foreseen in well.inforMed quarters today af. ter Soviet homhers attacked the Malmi airport and brought four ar raid alarms to Helslnki,
 Soviet planes, in waves of nine, roared across Helsinki to attack the nearby Malni airport, but dropped no bombs on the capital itself, Sev- eral columns of smoke could be seen In the direction of the air. port,
 Finland has insisted since the start of tho German invasion Of Russia Sunday that she intended to he neutral, but well-informed quarters believed she might Nban. don 1t now that tho Soviets have taken the initiative in bringing hos tilities to Finland,
 Eight Soviet planes were reported shot down.
 Red air raids were reported to have been made also against Turku and LappeenrantN, A number of forest fires were started, 1t was said,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
Eucharistic Congress
 In Defense Of Labor
Employers, Employees Were Addressed Last Night Suggestion Made That Workers Be Given Shares
 Of Stocks In Firms
BY ALFRED LEIGH Limited Press StagR COrrespOndent)

Minneapolis, Minn., June 25.-- (UP) - The National Eucharistic Congress shifted attention to wom. ems service problems today after session devoted to labor, in which two high church officials proposed that workers be given a voice In in- dustrial management and Q share n profits.
 At sectional meetings on labor re- lations last night, Bishop Karl J Alter of Toledo addressed an em- pIoyes group and Bishop Gerald T Bergan of Des Moines, Ia., spoke at an employers session. Both suggested that workers be given shares oi stock in firms employing them.
 "When a corporation suffers finan- cial loss, the worker suffers tirst,' Bishop Alter said. "He may lose his job, his livelihood, his home. The Catholic church proposes now to give him a share of the profits"
 He said the church property must be widely distributed if 1t is to serve the purpose for which God created it."
 Is Not Radical
 Bishop Bcrgan said the proposal that labor be given @ share in man. agement might sound most radical but on sober thought 1t is most req sonable."
 "If 8 man works in a factory 6 number of years, has slaved day after day, certainly we might declare thai he has put himself into that busi- ness" he said. "He has helped develop it. should he not be giyer some little share in the stock, man. agemnt or profits?"
 Bishop Alter said the church re- Rarded strikes as "evil" but that they were justified when wages, hours anc working conditions were "ciearly g violation of social justice and wher employers refuse to bargain collec- lively" He urged labor to repudiatt leaders who advocate violence. Joint Organizations
 He said industrial democracy could be achieved only through formation of joint organizations of employer and employees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
Soviet Dive Bombers With Charging Cavalry Smash Back Nazi Raiders
German Armed Forces Still Driving Ahead
High Command Admits They Are Meeting With Ter rife Resistance From SOviets-RepOrts Are
 Still Very Meager
BY JOSEPH W. GREGG, JR United Press staff CoTrespondeMO

Berlin June 25,-(UP)- )-German armed forces were reported today to be driving forward the eastern front despite constantly sfening Red army resistance and the high command predicted grea successes" in the blz- kreq offensive Advices from the front nevertheless, e
 nhnsized that the Russians offering "desperate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25

At least learn typewrltlng at Post Junior College of Commerce. Sum- sae ssnsleA heglns June sos-Ady.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Juen 20 (UP)--Govs ernment expenses and receipts for tho current tscal year through June 2Srd, compared With a yoNr ago. ThIs Year Expenses Last Ye@R EXTRAORDINARY .S9,A2S, iAS,Sis.Sa
 Receipts : 7,4oT1s16si,is $5,sob,oes,S SAs.as
 Cross Deficit
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 Cash Balance
 : ,7e5,4OC,477,77 ss,olS,e35, s5S,Ss
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The Weather

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Items Required

Among items likely to be required by Russia are aviation gasoline, ma chinery, clothing, medical supplies
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-07

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19
GERMAN TELLS
OF RACE HATE

Rudolph Summers has only
been in the United States IL
months. coming here from Ger
many. Rudolph was the complain
ing witness In a vice case In lie
corder's Court Monday.
Later Rudolph, on leaving the
building. was accosted by a Tri-
bune reporter and quizzed about
colored people in Germany and
how they were treated.
The young German. who comes
from Frankfurt. said the first col
ored person he ever saw was IN
1886 when he saw Jesse owens
Dave Albritton, Archie Williams,
Cornelius Johnson. Ralph Metcalf'
and other colored stars pace the
United States to Olympic victory.
"The Germans don't like your
people" he said when asked how
colored were treated. He indicat-
ed their dislike by drawing MS
finger across his throat.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19
Il Was Just A False Runlor

"Yes. this Is the Wayne County
Morgue. No. We have no head OF a
woman found In the vicinity OF
Alfred and Hastings"
More than 1875 similar answers
we're made 10 the telephone calls
which almost submerged the
Monday evening and Tuesday at
Wayne County Morgue officials
evening and Tuesday
morning. The callers were seek
ing information about the story.
which had been racing about town
on the tongues OF rumor that q
woman's head ad been found.
Inspector John o. whitman, OF
the Homicide Squad, after recelv-
Ine number OF calls about the
head. sent two squads Of detectlv-
"a ont 10 investigate. but the off,
GERS returned without tho head.
The nearest they could get 70
anything definite was some bloody
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19
Champ Disowns
Spouse's Debts
Notice Carried
In Chicago Papers

Efforts TO effect reconciliation
between Joe Louis and his pretty
wife, Marva. were dimmed Tuesday
when personal" appeared in the
Chicago newspaper.
The notice read:
"Not resp. for debts cont. by any
one but myself. Joe Louis Barrow,
$50 4. 6lst street."
The heavyweight champions at
torncy, william II. Temple, when
questioned about the notice, stated
that 1t had been placed In the pa
pers for the champion and was in
tended as a curb to any attempt by
his wife to charge purchases to his
account.
Surprise To Mar,a
In his answer to a divorce bill
filed by Marva two weeks ago. Joe
charged her with piling up large
number OF debts In his name.
The insertion OF the notice came
as surprise to Mrs. Louis who
stated she had not expected her
husband 10 take such action. How
ever. Mrs. Louis said she expected
everything to be cleared up by Sat
urday, either through a reconcilia-
tion or absolute divorce.
The former Marva Trotter. after
declaring her love for her hus-
band. said she would mot Eight
him in the courts" She stated that
II there is to be a divorce they
would make settlement out Of
court and then ask for a decree.
Joe, has been in Oct oit
since his return from Minneapolis
where he stopped Jim Robinson In
the first round OF an exhibition
bout.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19
Funeral Rites Held
Monday For Detroiter
Who Died In The East

Funeral rites for the late Wal
ter Carney. son Of Ernest Carney,
superintendent Of Parkslde hospi-
tai in this city. were held Monday
at IL am. from McFall Funeral
Home. Young Carney was born in
Nashville. Tenn. thirty-five years
ago and moved with HIS parents 10
Detroit in early childhood. lie died
in New York City. last Thursday,
where he had resided for num-
her OF years. The body was
brought 10 Detoit for interment.
Burial was In Memorial Park
cemetery.
Surviving the deceased are his
father. Ernest Carney; hk step
mother. Mrs. Bessie Carney: two
brothers. Ernest. Jr.. OF New York.
and Dr. John Carney. Of Detroit;
also sister. Mrs. Harry Todd;
an uncle. Walter s. Fornay. and
other relatives.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19

liam Pointer, s72s Russell, and Miss
Elizabeth Ross, 81, Of 1854 Mack.
jackson was shot In the chest py
his estranged wife. Mrs. Rebecca
Jackson. 1885 McDcusall.
He told police that his wife naa
visited him. and while he was TAX.
inc her home, an argument started
about another woman. Mrs. JACK
SON charge that her husband hit
her after they arrived at her home
Going into the house Mrs. JACK
son grabbed revolver in her Ia
Tiers room. returned TO the porch
and followed her husband down the
street where she shot him.
Both Mrs. Jackson and Ross we're
held BY police pending the out
come OF their victims wounds
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19

rags found IN the vicinity.
Some guy up there must have
had a pipe dream" said Whitman,
Senior Detective George Bran
ton. N charge at the Homicide
Squad offices Monday night. said
the telephone calls began coming
in shortly after five o'clock, and
continued until he went off duty.
Detective Charles Burkholdt. Of
the Homicide squad. said one wo-
the head as that Of sister. who
man came into the office with
tears IN her eyes, ready to Identify
had disappeared.
The rumor started early Monday
afternoon and by four o'clock
every one on the Eastside was
talking about the bloody head"
Some claim they had seen a. hut
on close question admitted that
they had told Of the head BY anoth-
er person.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-07-19

night clubs, filed a counter claim
for $1,000 against Sam Carver,
whom he described as Detroit
booking agent, in Common Pleas
Court. The claim was fled Mon
day.
In a suit filed in tho same court
not so long ago Carver asked $50
of the comedian. listing the amount
as commissions. The plaintiff said
this amount was due him for oh
tanning a weeks booking al the
Granada theater for the comedian
who was paid $3.50.
In his counter claim Stepin Fet-
chit charges that Carver promised
him four weeks booking at $3.50
week. and produced only one
weeks work, which upset the
schedule the comedian had arrang-
ed.
The comedian opened at the
Granada thcater June Z. and con-
tinued there for one week. He re-
turned 10 Detroit about three weeks
ago and has since been appearing
in night clubs and neighborhood
theaters.