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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

The Japanese recognized the strategic potentialities of the area by building a major base at Para mushira, Japanese Island in the North Pacific less than 1900 miles from Dutch Harbor, and in the same position to Asia that Dutch Harbor is to North America.
 Weather has been Dutch Har- bor's chief defense up to now. Ly- ing in a barrier chain of islands which divide the Boring Sea from the North Pacific, icy winds from the Arctic alternate with warm cur- rents from the south. One of these the famed Japanese current, runs very close to Unalaska, the island in the group on which is Dutch Harbor.
 The result is a constant heavy fog like an icy blanket on all the sea and air approaches. Flying is impossible for any but the most ex- perienced pilots. Even ships must lie at anchor or be dashed against begged rocks and shoals.
 There is 8 special wind in Dutch Harbor which the natives call the Willy-Wa. It roars in from the bay at 30 miles an hour, tearing the wings off planes and the masts off ships.
 There is an occasional let-up from this weather during the win ter, but the only sustained stretch of good weather begins in late May and lasts only until August.
 Many "TalT' Stories
 Mariners told tall stories about Unalaska. For many years before
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tured two strategic points and "is now directly threatening" the Jap aneSe at Kinhwa in Chekiang prov- ince was reported by Central News Agency today as Gen. Chiang Kai- Shek conferred with three high American military leaders. r. The Chinese agency reported also that the Japanese hsa been repuls- ed in heavy fighting at the tmpor- tant railway and air base city of Chuhsien, west of F. ,lhwa, where 1t was alleged the enemy used poison gas on Wednesday. Japanese attacks on Chuhsien were intensi- fled and the Chinese position obv1- ously was grave.
 In the Kinhwa sector, the agency said that Chinese forces recaptured Shouchang, 45 miles to the north- west, which was previously the pivot of the Japanese offensive southward and westward. The town of Yungkang, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa, also was reported retaken by the Chinese.
 "The Japanese have started burn ing the railroad station at Kinhwa and nearby buildings, indicating their position is insecure" the agency said.
 The agency reports were received as conferences started with Ameri- can leaders, presumably in an ef- fort to strengthen defense of China air bases from which bombing at- tackS might be made on Tokyo.
 In Conference
 Tn conference with Chiang were Lieut.. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell commander of all the U. s. forces in China, India and Burma; Maj, Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of the U. s. air forces in India, and Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault. ommander of the American volun- teer flyers in Burma and China.
 Stilwell arrived in Chungking yes- terday from India, followed by Brereton and Chennault.
 All three American generals have played important roles h China's defense. Stilwell commanded the Chinese 5th and 9th armies in the battle of Burma. The volunteer Flying Tiger" pilots of Chennault have flown with the Chinese air force since before the United States entered the war. Brereton'S Amer ican bombers operating from Indian bases have attack Japanese naval forces in the Bay of Bengal and Japanese forces moving up through Burma.
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Dutch Harbor Always
 Dangerous To Japan
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1t became of military importance, 1t was an island of shipwreckS, of remarkable reScues of breath taking escapes, of hazardous adventures.
 The Russians discovered 1t and settled it, subjugating the few hun dreds of Aleut Indians they found there, and then intermarrying with them.
 During the Alaska gold rush oi 1898, Unalska experienced it's first great boom, when the island was used as a trans-shipmert point fol men and supplies moving across the great northern sea from Seattle to Nome.
 Unalaska,s second and latest boom came when the thousands of sol. diers, sailors and defense workers began converting 1t into an Arctic Gibraltar.
 Dutch Harbor is tightly locked into Unalaska, almost like a Swiss lake. A great bay, Unalaska By, leads into a smaller bay, Iliuliuk, which curves like flsh-hook around a winding neck of land. At its inner tip is Dutch Harbor. Mines and submarine nets guard its ape breaches by sea.
 Unalaska Island is 67 miles long and 30 miles wide. Deep fjords cut into its coast line. Great shoals and rocks jut out from 1t.
 No Vegetation
 The island is barren of vegeta- tion, except for soft tundra moss, few grasses, and even fewer stunted trees. But the bare moun- tainS rise sheer from the waters edge, especially in the neighborhood of Dutch Harbor. An extinct vol- cano, Mt. Makuskin, 5,69l feet, is the highest point on the island.
 The natives were mostly fisher men, and seal-hunters until the great defense boom came along and made them into l1otel-keepers, bar- tenders and construction workers.
 The army and navy have main- tained an air-tight vigilance over the island since the middle of 1940. No strangers are allowed. Strange craft are promptly shot at and cap- tured. But Japanese fishermen" are known to have made accurate observations of the island for many years before that.
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 drich was dead, these reprisals probably will be increased. Radio Prague reported 25 killed by the secret police yesterday-15 in the Czech capital and 10 at Brunn.
 Heydrich, whose title was deputy Reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia," was, next to his chief, Heinrich Himmler, the most feared of, the Gestapo terrorists. He was credited with having ordered the execution of 250 Czechs within two weeks of his appointment as "pro- tector," and recently took death and torture to. occupied France where Adolf Hitler sent him on a special mission to curh unrest.
 Brief Death Notice
 The announcement of Heydrich's death was contained in brief DINE dispatch under Q Prague date:
 Tt has been learned that the Deputy Reich Protector, SS Major General Heydrich, has died of wounds. An official announcement is awaited"
 Despite the offer of 6 reward of 10000, 900 crowns (about $235 5,00O) for information on Heydrich's as- sassin, and the Gestapo's bloody slaughter of Czech martyrs Czech quarters here said no clues had been discovered.
 The European Revolution radio, 8 clandestine station purportedly operated by a Prussian military clique opposing Hitler, said IA Nazi army officers had been arrested in connection with the hangman's as- sassination, and alleged that he might have been slain by members of the Nazi party.
 Successor Not Liked
 The clandestine station said Kurt Daluege, who was appointed to succeed Heydrich, has been the tar- get of an attack by Heydrich's hench- men recently, and intimated that Daluege might have arranged the assassination of the protector" It pointed out that Daluege's first of- ficial act was to confiscate Hey drich's Villa, formerly owned by Baron Won RothSchild.
 The Gestapo, setting the stage for the Czech blood bath, put all Czechoslovakia under martial law, closed the borders, restricted travel and ordered @ general curfew.
 In addition, they decreed that all male CzechS had to register anew with the secret police and any found on the streets at night with out new registration cards might be shot on sight.
 It was understood that Heydrich had conferred with officials of the puppet Czech government shortly before he was attacked, ordering 8 governmental reorganization. Un- der Q proclamation by Hitler, the government was to have delegated much of its authority to the Gesta- DO, and 1t was reported that Hey drich ordered conscription of Czech youths for labor battalions and war service with the German armies in Russia.
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svery village and town in France and patrols all rural roads.
 Nationwide Search

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 Nationwide Search
 The reorganization was effected as Q nationwide search was pressed Tor the. assassin of Albert Clement, prO-NaN editor of the Paris news paper Cri Du Peuple, who was shot to death on Paris street Tuesday night.
 Police, after questioning prisoners in connection with four incidents" in recent days, said they had dis closed that agitation was carried out ln connection with a well-organized campangn to provoke unrest among civilians already embittered by food difficulties and air raids. r~ The agitation" included last Sum- Hays food riots in which two police were killed and three wounded; the slaying of the proprietor of a small motel, accused of informing on sCommunist" agitators; the plant Ing Of 6 bomb in cafe adjoining the central police headquarters, and Elements assassination.
 It was pointed out, however, that Clement was 8 renegade Commun- ist who quit the party at the out break of war in 1889, when Premier Edouard Dalsd.er dissolved 1t. H. previously had been the militant editor of the Communist newspaper Hsinanite. He joilned Jacques Do. fiot's Cri Du Peuple.
 The two policemen killed in Sun. days food riots were buried at state expense from Notre Dame cathe- hral yesterday.
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weeks when The Democrat has at tempted to contact MT. Guastaferri.
 General Instructions
 The form which is referred to is sent to each registrant with his Ques- tionnaire. It contains general irl- structions to be followed in the filling out of the Questionnaire.
 As originally prepared the form contains, at the bottom, the follow ing message:
 "An Advisory Board for Regis trants' has been appointed under the provisions of the Selective Service Act to give you free advice and as- sistance in the preparation of your uUestionnaire.
 "Please report to any one of the following members of the Advisory Board of 16-B for assistance, free of charge, in filling out your ques- tionnaire.
 Attorney Hugo Guastafferi, S6 North Main street, Waterbury, Conn. Attorney Frank Healey. 19S Grand street, Waterbury, Conn.
 Attorney Carmine G. Cipriano, office of |. B. i6-B, Waterbury, Conn.
 Daily between { and s p. m.
 Saturdays between l2 and ]
 noon.
 "Robert.P P. Cramer, office of l.. B. l6-B, Waterbury, Conn.
 ''Daily between 6 and 6 ?. m. sAttorney Stephen A. Homick, 36 North Main street, Waterbury, Conn.
 Room 11-il:O0 a. m. to 3
 D. m"
 The form as sent to registrants during the last few weeks has red pencil lines drawn through the name and address Of Attorney Guastaferri and all information gelated Co MT. Cranaer.
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vessels was sunk and the other two escaped without damage"
 The captain of one of the ships that escaped said the submarine came to the surface and fired two shots at his vessel and chased him for more than an hour.
 The Japanese submarines attacked two ships about 35 miles from Syd- ney and @ third about 225 miles away.
 A second communique said one of the ships was sunk but the others escaped undamaged.
 Curtin told parliament tha tall four of the Japanese midget sub marines which entered Sydney had been sunk. Only one, he said, was able to make an attack, and 1t sank Q small harbor depot ship, a for nner ferry boat.
 Raised from Bottom
 The first of these midget sub marines raised to the surface of Sydney harbor by salvage crews ap- peared to have 8 beam of about five feet and 8 length of about 60 feet. Under the bows were the teeth of Q jagged net cutter.
 The two-man undersea craft did not appear sturdily constructed.
 The salvake crews carefully point cd the submarines torpedoes to the gky as they worked.
 The ship attacked 225 miles south of Sydney was of the southeast cor ner, of the Australia coast, the area where nearly all the population of the continent is centered, and on the direct shipping lane to Mel bourne.
 Melbourne lies 33O air line miles to the west on the south coast.
 EWegy Australian realized that the attack meant that the war had been brought long step toward the heart of Australia.
 It seemed certain that the midget submarines which attacked Sydney Sunday, If only to prove the strength of Its defenses, had been launched from mother ship which lay Derhaps 200 miles of the coast. Undersea Campaign
 Today's attacks, however, were taken to mean the opening of a Japanese undersea campaign against the ships which are bringing men, munitions and supplies to the United Nations forces, including in- creasing thousands of Americans.
 MacArthur's communique an- nouncing the submarine attacks also reported a devastating Allied air. plane raid on Rabaul, the great Japanese base in New Britain island.
 Attacking at dawn, the American and Australian bomber crews started large fires in the wharf and mili- tary camp area, he said.
 The communique, No. 49 from general headquarters, said in full:
 Northeastern sector
 'New Britain: Rabaul-Our air force attacked at dawn, starting large fires in the wharf and mili- tary camp area.
 Eastern sector
 Sydney: Enemy submarines at lacked two small cargo vessels 35 miles east of Sydney and another ship 225 miles south of Sydney"
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NeWp HFeAIIa RuaaenlY


 News Of the Dutch Harbor at- tacks broke suddenly. For the first time, the Navy issued more than lwo communiques in a single day. The first communique was issued tt 4:S0 D. m., EWT. It said:
 -Information has been received that Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was ate lacked by four Japanese bombers and about IS fighters at approxi- alately 6 a. m., local time today moon EWT). The attack lasted ap- proximately IS minutes. No further details are available at this time." Two hours later, the second one aas published:
 Further reports on the Japanese cir attack at Dutch Harbor, which
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Free French and Indian forces who for more than a week have protect ed the Big Hacheim outpost re- mained strong.
 stuka -bombers, the commit nidue said, were supporting the Axis advance against Sir Hacheim, but Royal Air Force planes were said to have engaged the enemy raid- CTS successfully"
 From the Bir Hacheilm Salient, the British were sending raiding columns westward to strike at the Axis rear, the conamunique revealed. These units apparently were work ing in conjunction with a column that previously drove westward and seized the important German supply base of SegnaIi, A miles west of Knightsbridge.
 Rommel apparently had repaired part of the extensive damage suf- fered during the first phase of the campaign and was gambling on eliminating the southern port of the Fl Gaxala -Bir. Hacheim line.
 "The enemy is known to have lost at least i4 tanks in this en- gagement," the headquarters an- norncement said.
 CHINESE FIGHT HARD
 Changking, June A. (UP) - A Chinese counter -attack thak gecaYl-
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AIDA WENTWORTH
 ENTERTAINS JUNE g

1Faugatuck, June 4--Members of the Fidelity Bible class of the Methodist church will hold their 9ylEe meeting next Tuesday, June 2. ct pr. Aida Wentworth's home on New Haven road. A picnic supper win be served at 6:30 and the bust hess session will follow.
 If the weather is unfavorable, the meeting will be held the following Nay. Transportation arrangements Ean be made hv calling Mrs. Her. *srt Johnson president of the Atass
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DOG LICENSES NET
 $966 IN COLLECTIONS

Naugatuck, June 4-Town Clerk Raymond J. St. John has turned over s066.S0, representing collections for dog licenses for the present year. He paid the money to Bor- ough Treasurer Anthony E. Marl- ano.
 A total of 527 dogs are registered here now and one kennel license. Five persons had to pay the extra sl fee for failing to register dogs in time.
 Naugatuck, June Collections of the tax department for April amounted to e30l0.38 of which $2.- 950.38 was in the property tax di- vision and $6O was in the old age assistance tax division, Tax Collec- tor James F. Fitzgerald has re- ported. Of the $2o60.38, $2634.3 .35 was in property taxes, 1259 was in- terest. and 957 was In Hens. Oi the &60 for old age assistance taxes, e4S was in taxes, and &AG in liens
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OFFICIALS WERE
 GIVEN REBUKE
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 that the name of Attorney Hugo Guastaferri was included. We have received no resignation from MT. Guastaferri and there has been no suspension" he said.
 "I.he local board has no author ity to cross the name of an advisor from the list," he said flatly. He said that a resignation from the ad- visory board would be filed with the Hartford headquarters and that he would know about it if such ace ton had been taken.
 Also crossed from the list of ad- visors is the name of Robert P. Cramer, an employe of the Chase Brass and Copper Company who had been serving. The reason for the removal of his name, however, IS understood to be his transfer to Cleveland. It is reported that ne left for Cleveland this week. HIS resignation has not been received at Hartford. according to Capt Phelan.
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Captaln PheIan DIdn't Kn0w

Captain Phelan sadi he knew nothing about the deletion or tne names of Attorney Guastaterri ana Mir. Cramer from the list until " was called to his attention by Ine Democrat.
 'I'm very much interested In tne authority for It." he said.
 An effort was made to contact MT. 0uastaferri to find out whether his name was removed from the list at his own request.
 But at MT. Gllastaferri'g office the reporter was told that MT. 0aiastaferTi was not in. HIS secfe- tary was asked if he was expecteo today and the reply was "No"s
 The answer has been the eaMe each time during tae past anEee
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JAPANESE SHIPS,
 TRANSPORT SUNK

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BRITISH FORCES
 HURL BACK AXIS

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FRENCH BLEW UP x, NAZI MUNITIONS

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Pacific Coast Alert
 Alaska To Panama
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tok place earlier today, state there were but few casualties. A few ware houses were set on fire but no seri- ous damage was suffered"
 Finally, shortly after 9:i5 ?. m., EWT, the third one:
 "A brief report just received in the Navy Department states that for the second time today enemy planes have attacked Dutch Harbor. The second attack was made about noon, local time, (6 D. m, EWT). six hours after the initial attack"
 Air experts said the bombers in the first attack had unusually heavy fighter protection. Four bombers protected by l5 fighters indicated, they said, that the Japanese were to have the bombers return. Fur thermore, they said, 1t appeared that this initial raid was to test the strength of the Dutch Harbor ari defenses.
 Defenders Were Ready
 Rear Admiral c. s. Freedman, commandant of the 18th naval dis- trict, said in Seattle that the first attack was mot a surprise" and that the Dutch Harbor defenders "were prepared to meet It."
 The nature of the defenses of Dutch Harbor is, of course, a mili- tary secret, but 1t is known that work to strengthen the submarine and naval base located there has been going ahead as fast a human ly possible during the last two years.
 Dutch Harbor, while the most im- portant base in the Aleutian islands, is not the most important in Alaska. More powerful is the base on Kodiak island-600 miles to the east.
 The little port of Dutch Harbor is considered unimportant commer- cially because of the fog-caused by Arctic winds meeting the warm Japanese current-and treacherous uncharted rocks in the vicinity. But it is strategically located for mili- tary purposes, being about halfway on the great circle, San Francisco to-Yokohama route. It also forms the first line of defense for the valuable and important territory Of Alaska.
 Although yesterdays attacks were the first air raids on the North American continent, 1t was not the first time that enemy shells have landed on North American soil. On Feb. g a submarine lobhed several shells ashore near Santa Barbara, Calf.
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.NAZI 'HANCMAN'
 DIES OF WOUNDS

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CKETNESE FIGHT HAH

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-10-07
Still Heavier Taxes

secretary Norgenthau talks Tx
Il mon who might think that tn
prime requisite 70 limitless re,eru.
from pocket Of the American pei.
j. merely % hakc the tree and u, .
r'pc apples Will fall in super-abyr4
'ncc. To demand six billion inll.r
more even before the current e.r ,
billion dollar revenue measure Is o.
acted into lave smacks TO some eXtc..
IT The ridiculous.
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calls that Americans lived dur,~ !.
several depression yeaIs on a na.rrr.
al inS"me Il sixty-five 70 seven.
billion dollars. and compares f. =
with the rcputed earnings II '.-
people al an estimated rs bIll,~r
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billions is 0ig enough 10 adm, Of ',.
huge and unprct edented tskinEs %.
the government under d thirty b.l.
lion tax exaction.
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contention Of government author
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-10-07
Public Is Urged
10 Have Patience

Washington. oct. T.--(hip Wi.
nam II. Davis. chairman ui IN" lann.
board. advised tho public TODAY f.
wait awhile before trying tn gcf an
WcrS To the many questions apurt
nc meaning of President RUu.cyclr.
wage and salary order.
Davis issued statement to Tho
press saying that il will bc ir,pn.
SibIc 10 answer questions until IN
board has adopted rules and rcgri,l-
IONS under the Presidents order.
We Will issue these rules and
regulations as promptly as wn can Oh.
hc said. "Wc shall try To- get them
mt" such . form that there Will hr
u minimum of mi~jntCrprcta'i,n. mi To-
understanding and confusion
IN INC mcantm" on behalf ~ -,c
board | am asking cv"rY cnr',vqr
ana employee wNo J.. affected ny 81.
order 10 be- patient