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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16

ducked until 1t had gone of and went aft. AS I got there the plane hit the water at 8 45 degree angle, going l40 knots.
 "Everything became sort of con- fused then. Both rear gunners were dead. The commander was wounded In the stomach. Aviation Machinist John Weeks, Falsbrook, Calf, was hit in the thigh. Three other men were dead.
 Ensign Lee McCleary got out. Weeks and I floated out. Aviation Machinist Mate Marsh, Alameda, Calif., got the raft and inflated 1t. We had no time to get the emer- gency rations or tn; first aid kit, but we got the commander aboard.
 Two Japanese planes returned and machine gunned us. We lodged under the raft.
 we were about $50 miles from Midway. We sat down and decided to take 1t easy. We tried to make the commander comfortable. He never lost consciousness and never complained.
 We rigged Q sail but 1t blew us toward Tokyo so we took 1t down. The boat was punctured and we had to pump air and bail water for 58 hours before we were rescued.
 "The blood that leaked through the bullet holes attracted sharks several times.
 T could feel their fins when they bumped the raft as they swaun un- derneath 1t. The last day we tried to catch goony birds and knife sharks, but we didn't get any. One shark was 16 feet long,"
 On the third day Lieut.. Norman K. Brady, p, Sanborn, Iowa, and his co-pilot Lieut.. William O'Dowd, 24, Monticello, Ind, picked up the party despite heavy Swells and a heavy load of fuel.
 Brady gave the wounded sulfanil- amide tablets and hot chocolate and bandaged their wounds before he eff fected the difficult task of taking them off the raft in the heavy sWells.
 The commander of the plane died after he reached Midway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16
American Bornbers Hit
 Some Powerful Blows
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and Alaska obviously was planned by the enemy to parallel It's at- tempt to capture Midway.
 The Nays communique last night was the first ofiicial word of the Aleutians engagement since 1t announced last Friday that the Japanese had landed on Attu and had ships in the harbor at Kiska--- both in the far west Aleutians, i500 miles from Alaska. Last nights communique made no mention of the enemy forces on those islands, indicating they were still there.
 Navy COmmunIque
 Worth Pacific Area:
 "l. The Army and Navy are con- tinuing air attacks against the Jap anese forces which recently were re- ported to have landed on western islands of the Aleutian group.
 "2. Foul weather and fog, charac- tertistic of this locality at all sea- sons, are hampering our reconnais- sance and attack operations, but re- ports to date indicate that at least three cruisers, one destroyer, one gunboat and one transport have been damaged, some of them se- verely.
 8. Except for these continuing air attacks upon the enemy landing parties and their supporting naval contingents, the general situation in the Aleutian islands appears un- changed"
 Arnold's telegram to the Martin company was made public shortly before the, naval communique was issued. It was to inform the corl- pany that its B-26 bombers were used in the attacks and said that Lieut.. Gen. Delos 0. Emmons, Ha- Waiian commander, and Maj. Gen Simon B. Buckner, Alaskan com- mander, had reported "the magnifi- cent part your bombers have played in the recent successes of Midway and the Aleutians."
 "In the Aleutians," Arnold's tele- gram said, "a group of B-26s made three attacks on the main Japan. csc force, sinking cruiser and scoring two hits with torpedoes, be- sides dropping a torpedo on the deck of a carrier"
 At the War department, air force officials would not deny that the telegram bearing Arnold's name waS sent to the Martin Go. Other off. cials said that an incentive" tele. gram had been prepared merely in' forming the Martin O., and It's em- ployes that their B-26 medium bombers had participated in the Midway battle "but that something must have happened" to the mes- sage before 1t was transmitted from the War department.
 The Arnold telegram disclosed fol the first time that some Army hombers are now equipped to dis charge torpedoes, combat func- ton hitherto confined to the Navy
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Of the 9,lOO tone southampton class.
 As heard here, Italian radios as- serted that two British conveys were attacked, each of about 70 ships, containing urgent reinforce ments for Libya."
 A United Press Vichy dispatch quoted Italian sources that United States warships were among those protecting the conveys.
 Rome quoted an official Italian news agency dispatch from an Ital- ian Mediterranean base as pictur- ing hundreds of shipwrecked British sailors in the sea in the sicily channel, the 95-mile strait between Sicily and the African coast. "These are British sailors belong ing to war vessels sunk by the Italian Air F'orce," the dispatch said. "One Italian hospital ship was try ing to save the shipwrecked sailors, but during this act of mercy the Italian hospital ship was the object of an attack by enemy aircraft"
 Various Rome broadcasts said that about 300 Italian planes took part in attacks on the conveys, nd said five Allied torpedo planes had been downed in air fights.
 Describing attacks on the conveys, Rome said that one, made up of heavily laden ships from Gibraltar. was broken up and had to return westward. It said that "only a small part with the most urgent endorsements continued on it's way"
 Rome said that the second convoy I intended to cruise the Sicily Strait and land it's achievements under cover of darkness but that 1t had been attacked by Italian and Ger man planes in the eastern Medlter- ranean.
 Good News, Says Rome
 "dood news is now awaited" Rome said.
 It reported that "snlall parts Of conveys. which daringIy entered the Sicily channel in an attempt t0 ccary out orders at all costs" Among the alleged orders. Rome said, mighf have been one for the supply Ol urgent endorsements" Tor Malta
 But these parts were attacked by the Italian fleet with a power ful force of battleshlps and 6uIil- marines" ROce said.
 "The two conveys were strongly escorted by battleslips, aircraft car' riers. heavy cruisers. light cruisers destr0yers and special warshipB, Rome said.
 "Of the escort, one battlesblp two aircraft carriers, several eruls' CTS and about 20 destT0ycrs wcs with the convoy from Gibraltar.
 ~rhe escort wtih the other wa just as strong. but it had no air craft carriers. gt had 6 large num- Der 0g cruisers.
 'Thc attack On the Gibraltar con vOy was begun simultaneously bl two sections of bOnberB, one Fly ing high and the other at medium height, and by torpedo eaFrylnl pianeB."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16
INDICTMENTS IN
 BIG LOTTERY
@ Individuals, With One Corporation Accused; 10
 States Are Affected

Detroit, June l6-(UP)-Two fed- cral grand jury indictments naming @ Individuals and one corporation from 10 states and the Republic of Cuba and Panama In what investi- gators believed "the biggest lottery operation in the country" were an- 1lounced today by U. s. District Attorney John c. Lehr.
 The indictments, charging mall with operation of the Republlca De fraud and conspiracy in connection Cuba Hospital Funds Lottery, Ha- vana, Cuba, were returned June 1, but were ordered suppressed by Fed eral Judge Ernest A. O'Brien to fa- cilitato arrest of the defendants at il a. I'm. today.
 Tho indictments climaxed a two- year .nation- wide investigation by Postal Inspectors Ernest J. Mans field of Jacksonville, Fla, and Ten ayson Jefferson of Boston, Mass.
 Mansfield said he believed the lot- tery operation was "the biggest in the country" The gross take" from it, he said, amounted to approxi- nately $l,O00,000 8 year in the Uni- ted States alone.
 The indictments, which also is naming 2l co-conspirators, most of them from Detroit and Michigan, charged 8 conspiracy to mail and transnort tickets of some 45 differ enc ntteries and Q scheme to de- fraud through use of the malls.
 Named as leaders of the group by the hbstal inspectors were defend- ants Park Mullinix of New Jersey xoyaIT. Sprague and Tyler Sprague of Illinois, and Louis Levenstein, Charles Weinberg, of New Jersey, william Dennison, Leigh Lawrence Kaninn, Louis Patalano of New York and Harry Freivfelt of Na- hants Mass.
 Tho mail fraud indictment named only a6 of the GA persons named in tho conspiracy bill.
 Thw Republica De Cuba hospital funds lottery, tickets of which were distributed in this country, was de- ecrib6h as fraud" by the investi- gators. Representations were made, they said, that $650,O00 was to be paid in prizes, whereas in fact only e32,OoO was paid" It was further charged that more than 100000 1ctteK9 vouchers instead of the genuine tickets were distributed in this Country for $250.
 Investigators charged that when uae If the defendants, Jose Luis Abalo Y Cuza, a Havana lawyer, re- ceiveH the concession for operation Of tho Cuba hospital lottery he was ''specffically instructed" by Presi- dent Tulgencio Batista that none of the Inttery tickets were to be ship ped er mailed to the United States "as Cuban officials were particular ly anxious that nothing should hap pen t0 jeopardize the good will ex- lstine between the United States md Cuba"
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Red Army Withstands Terrific Nazi Attack
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Following this artillery barrage, the Germans were said to have thrown 100 tanks in 6 frontal as- sault designed to widen 6 small gap. Russian defenders, however, were reported countering every German move with all available weapons.
 Dispatches emphasized that the situation around the key Black sea naval base rapidly was approaching climax and that the Germans were bringing endorsements from other fronts.
 Last Ditch Defense
 The garrison was said to be staging Hast ditch" defense and taking an "enormous" toll of Ger man men and material.
 CThe German high command said "only minor fighting" occurred yes- terday in the fortified region around Sevastopol)
 On the Kharkov front, the Rus sianS knocked out 180 German tanks yesterday and last midnight's Soviet communique indicated that fighting of major proportions had northwest of Moscow.
 The first communique today said that although German attacks at Kharkov and Sevastopol had been continuous during the night, there was no important change in the front, as a whole, and that at least 1850 more Germans had been killed.
 "On one sector alone (Of the Kharkov fronD units destroyed p German tanks, l8 guns and 20 lorries," the communique said. "yhe Germans lost 900 killed"
 On the Sevastopol front. 1t said, ! Russian units, with the help of the Red fleet, beat of fierce German attacks. A detachment of marines Lroke into an enemy position and killed 2b0 Germans.
 The Germans were battered from their positions on Q sector Of tsle Bryansk front with 600 killed, the cOInmunique reported. On still ail- other sector, the Russians captured | TWO luGhAbLlcss
 On LenlngrRd F'TOnt
 Tn two days fighting on the Lsl- Ingrad front, Russian units In gwo days have killed 200 Germans, she communlQue said. It added kh@t Russian artillery fire had blasted out Of action four field tortince. tons, three observation points and several heavy guns.
 Axis reports heard in London said Italians had j0lne6 Germans in Q new land, see and sir 0ffesl" slve against feningrad that already had been in progress three days. German and Italian br0adeAEtefB Rld Axis troops in invasion barges landed behind Russian lines from the Baltic, presumably while the Germans we're b0mbarding KFon- stadt fortress)
 The fact that enough tanks were ln action on the KilaFk0v front tor the Russians tO destroy or damage i00 indicated that the Germans iIl. tended making a major effort there. Field Marshal Fed0P V0n Rock has concentrated moro than b0eoe0 men on the KhaFkov front, and it seemed certain that he intended lasn Ing them soon. Thus fnF, it was he. , lleved. he has used only Q fraction ! ln Che attack that followed th9 Mill ln the battle of KhaEkovs
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BRITISH RETIRE
 TO TOBRUK BASE
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forces broke through the British de- lenses at Acroma and reached the coast, 10 miles to- the north, thus splitting the British army)
 The British first armored division beat of determined" enemy attacks throughout Sunday. the communi- que said, enabling Ritchie to with draw his first South African division and 50th British division from their Fl Gazala positions.
 Forces Are Placed
 General Ritchie has completed new dispositions of his forces" 1t added.
 At Fl Adem, IS miles south of Tobruk, the British yesterday in- flicted heavy losNes on the enemy and repulsed three strong attacks, the communique said.
 "Our mobile forces attacking the enemy on his flank played a valu- able part in this acton," 1t contin- ued.
 The British withdrawal from Fl Gazala abadoned the northern coast- al anchor of the original Imperial line which extended 50 miles south southeast to Sir Hacheiln. Axis forces last week drove Free French and British defenders of Sir Mac- helm eastward to new positions. Rommel now is expected to con- centrate on Tobruk, the city of siege which has seen more fighting, more bombing and more courage than any other single point in North Africa. Tobruk, under siege for more than seven months in l94l, has been in British hands since the first British westward sweep across the desert in 1040-41.
 It was indicated the British now were concentrating on defense of Fl Adem and the 13-mile area be- tween Acroma and Tobruk to stem the Axis advance. There were no reports of new developments in the Knightsbridge area, 28 miles southwest of Tobruk, where fierce tank fighting has ragged for three weeks.
 The communique said the Royal Air Force yesterday enjoyed "a successful day" against enemy con- centrations destroying a number of Axis tanks and transport vehicles.
 Bomb Axis Targets
 Ankara, Turkey, June 16.-(UP) --Vichy French sources reported to- day that big Allied planes had been bombing Axis targets in southeast ern Europe for several weeks before four United States army bombing planes landed in Turkey Friday
 Informants asserted that the raids had been made intermittently but that the Alleis had remained silent regarding them, and the Axis com mands in turn had decided to say nothing.
 Allied military sources said there was but one clear point regarding the United States plane raid - that there were plenty more big new United States bombers where the four which landed in Turkey had been based.
 They said the bases would be kept secret in order to keep the Axis guessing.
 Opinion here was still that the American planes had bombed the Rumanian oil fields from Middle Eastern bases and military sources said the attacl:-or attacks-meant the opening of 8 new aerial front which might force the Germans to spread their air force still thinner.
 Airn1an Nearly Frozen Persons on the spot when three American planes landed at the civil airport here said that the hands of one airman were nearly frozen.
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Three Italian Ships
 Were Lost In Battle
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CTS and two destroyers, but failed to make clear whether these were over tapping claims.
 The same communiques claimed that the Italians had damaged Il Allied ships, including several cruis- CTS and destroyers, a battleship and an aircraft carrier. It was import ant, however, that whereas the bat tleship and carrier were mentioned in Mondays communique there was no reference to them in today's Ital- ian war bulletin.
 In addition, the Italians con- fused the picture generally by des- cribing some British vessels which allegedly were hit merely as "other units"
 Tn the past admiralty commun- iques have completely exploded Italian claims. but the Italians have won in each instance to the extent of getting in their claims well in front.
 Italian Claims It First
 Today the Italian command, fol- lowing up claims of yesterday, said Italian submarines had sighted a big British convoy as soon as it left Gibraltar and had torpedoed and snk two British "units."
 At dawn Monday, it was said, two Italian light cruisers and five destroyers violently" attacked the convoy as 1t scanned toward Malta, and "beat it into retreat" even though it was escorted by two cruisers and i2 destrOyers. Tn close range fighting, the conn munique said, an Allied cruiser blew up and sank under concentrated fire from the Italian cruisers Eugenio Di Savola and Raimondo Montecuccoll and two Italian destroyers were "gravely" damaged.
 The communique said that an ad- ditional allied cruiser and a destroy CT were damaged by Italian destroy CTS.
 Thereafter the Italian navy con- tinued it's attack throughout the day. sinking second destroyer sinking four merchantmen and setting fire to tanker, t was res lated.
 A second convoy from Alexandria Egypt, was attacked by bomber and torpedo planes, the cOgnmuniquf said, and one destroyer was sunk and "seyen other large units" hit
 "An Italian heavy cruiser was lost when hit by an aerial torpedo and later by an under water torpedo, the c0lnmunique confessed. It said that another Italian "unlt" was hii but "could reach base" and that large part Of its crew were saved,
 25 Allied Planes dene 4 The coinmunlqme reported 20 AI' He'd planes shot down in the east ern Mediterranean and smother II shot down yesterday. It reported total Italian loss of four planes.
 Rome maintained tts claims thai q batleshop of the SLIGO ton Mill laya class and the aircraft carrieri Argus (i4.O00 ton liner e0nyeFtes for training pnrposesl and Eagl' l22. 2.G00 t0nel had been hit by tor pedoes. It asserted that two cruis lcrs had been sunk including olll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16
ARMY FORCED TO
 CUT RUBBER USE
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Continued from Page l) of rubber used in treads and pad- ding have created additional noise greater difficulty in production, m increase in driving problems and more maintenance difficulties.
 Patterson joined other officials in urging the collection of every bit of scrap rubber and a reduc- tio of civilian use to "bare mini num-"
 Tn a radio address last night, Sen. Harry S. Truman, D., MN.. charged that an "orgy" of consumption" of crude rubber by civilian Vsers in l94l was the chief cause for the failure to build adequate govern ment stockpiles.
 Tt is the duty of every one of us," he said, "to cooperate in every way possible" in the collection drive.
 Full Consideration
 On the same program Petroleum Coordinator Harold l.. IckeS and Chairman William R. Boyd, Jr., of SCNA cil, appealed for full cooperation.
 Truman blamed the now defunct Office of Production Management for failing to check civilian rubber consumption in 194l. AS chairman of the special senate committee in- vestigating the war program which has studied the rubber shortage, he said, "There is no sense in ration ing gasoline simply for the purpose of causing someone to understand that he must make sacrifices where gasoline is plentiful, ] be- lieve it is much more important to rigidly enforce speed laws and to require regular inspection of cars so as to prevent under-infla- ton of tries and to assure that re- pairs are given to tires when neces- sary."
 Both Truman and Patterson em- phasized the need for tires to get war workers to their jobs, and Tru- man said it may become necessary to requisition tires from private owners for this purpose, but that 1t first must be absolutely clear that voluntary rationing w impossible.
 War proc:ct.oT. board officials es- timated thaE two pounds of scrap rubber must be collected in the campaign to produce one pound of liseable reclaimed rubber.
 Price Administrator Leon Tender son warned that gerViceable tires and tubes should not be turned in
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clnc Is e big one probably far
 greater than the public has been isen reason Co suspect, Tn this connection it was recalled that Ad- iirnl Ernest J. King recently said tnat the Japanese were not in the habit of sending e ''boy on Q mans t0n.~
 There was every indication at this writing that the Aleutian battle has VI will develop into an engagement comparable in importance If not in cige-to those that preceded 1t since tie first of May, first in the Coral sea and later of Midway. Ofncials here are hoping 1t will end as dis- es6rously for the Japanese.
 And just now the battle of Mld- way has been revealed as sequel of the Coral sea battle, the thrust nt Alaska and the Aleutian islands
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against our positions but take up advantageous positions and cover their infantry by firing from the spot" Tass said.
 Describing the huge battle on the Kharkov-D -Donets front where the eCirmans were said to be holding at least 500O00 troops for big on- slaught, the Tass agency said:
 "The enemy is sustaining heavy losses without gaining any success Our tank forces by bold maneuvers compelled the enemy tanks to halt"
 Dispatches from the Crimea said the Germans were blasting at the central Soviet defense line with arr tillery of higher calibre than that which shelled Paris from long range during the first World war.
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NContinued from Page D ppse6 by President Roosevelt. Yes terday the treasury submitted to the Committee a recommendation for eArrying it out, in modified form through a 100 per cent war eAupeFtax."
 Gncome Ceiling Lowered
 The treasury proposal also would allow these deductions from the in- come ceiling:
 1. Charitable contributions in the aniount of IS per cent of income xemaAning after federal and state taxes are paid.
 2. Debt liquidation of IS per cent of tlgig net income.
 3. The taxes now being paid on 1ozl Income.
 Tf Inc taxpayer is not in debt he could apply his IS per cent debt liquidation allowance to payment of Insurance premiums or purchase of government securities, such as war bonds.
 Only current income taxes would be dsluctible. After this, the treas- ury. the taxpayer would be on warning to lay away the money to meet his obligations to the govern" ment.
 All income, including that from Federal securities issued before i94i ard from state and municipal secur- itlea, which is now exempt from ordinary federal income taxes would he subject to the super-tax.
 bE0Fgenthau HaIts Meantime, Secretary of the Treas- Nrv Henry Morgenthau, JF., by im- p|ieaklon halted hls campaign to push the new tax bill up t0 the Adlna Nlstratlon's figure of SB700, ,0O0,- 0le without adoption Of a sales tax. fzi8 treasury iS still opposed to SAlFB tag, he told press confer nalca& nlld was not sweating" be. nallse the committees bill is e2,- NIe GO 900 short of the admInlstra. K'en goal.
 4o3 Ways and Means committee NEAMd more impressed today by the
 y's supor-tax than it was l6 President Roosevelt first made slAA Suggestion in hls waF economic n'f Ke to ConRFess. it learned from |'Is lneufy that the proposal would IHN only ii 900 EinGle and mar- 'zH *axpayerS, that q single tax-
 Noi|d have to earn in excess
 0o1 before he would have ln-
 nftef taxes over a25 l0O0 and
 married taxpayer would have