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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-03
AMERICAN PLANES
 ARE FIGHTING MAD
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knock out the Army Air Force in China.
 The score for the week ending today showed: Japanese losses-l7 confirmed destroyed, four probably destroyed, at least 10 heavily dam- aged. American losses-one fighter plane, the pilot of which was saved.
 Break Back of Japs
 Chungking, Aug. 3-CUP)-Amer- ican airmen have broken the back of an elite force of Japanese bomb CTS and fighters assembled for the sole purpose of driving them out of China, 8 communique from the headquarters of It. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell indicated today.
 The air battles have been under way off and on over the American base at Hengyang for week. The climax was reached Thursday, Stil- wells communique said, when 17 Japanese bombers and new type zero fighters were shot down.
 There was still no confirmation from Stilwells headquarters but we'll informed American sources un- derstood that Chinese newspapers account of United States air raids on Hong Kong was authentic.
 These sources said a number of activities of the United States army air force in the China theater never have been mentioned in the official communiques for military reasons.
 They said that the Hong Kong raids, which supposedly took place July II, 12 and 26, had established United States air supremacy over the port and reduced it's importance as one of the chief transportation centers for Japanese forces in the south China sea.
 The naval dockyard where the Japanese were repairing scuttled British ships was said to have been the chief target of the American airmen.
 Of the HenHyang air battles the colnmunique said:
 Tn 36 hour battle over Hengyang which started before daylight July 30 wherein American fighters ac- counted for l7 Japanese bombers and improved zeros and four more probables, further details can now be released.
 "A total of 119 Japanese planes attempted to break the Hengyang air defenses. The Japanese tactics indicated their fighters had consid- erable experienc eand ability. It Is believed the enemy assembled special force of improved fighter planes and highly trained fighter pilots for the mission of wiping out the American air outpost.
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WOMEN STARTED
 RIOTS IN PARIS
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N-N1A@NAAA.~A- 3l food riot on Rue Buci commit ted by Communist elements"
 Police said the riot was melted by three groups. One group of three women attempted to arouse other women waiting in queues to pur- chase food. Three other women threw propaganda leaflets into the crowd. The third group, three men, who police said were stationed in a nearby subway entrance. to protect the women, exchanged shots with the police.
 Jacques Duriot, 54, a passer-by, was killed by a stray shot. Joseph Frieger, a German soldier, who went to the aid of police, was shot in the head. Gandarmes Honore Clous- seau and Gilbert Peyrissageut were wonded in the abdomene Only one woman was hurt.
 The women shoppers were panic stricken when the shooting began, and the agitators escaped in the commotion, police said.
 Villages Destroyed
 London, Aug. 3-(UP)-German and Italian, troops have destroyed hundreds of villages throughout Jugoslavia in an attempt to break patriot resistance, @ Jugoslav gov- erI1ment spokesman said today.
 Quoting "unimpeachable" reports the spokesman said that along the Montenegrin coast on the Adriatic Italian warships had wrecked whole villages in bombardments and that Italian planes had set fire to vil- lages in the interior with incendiary bombs.
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Second Group Of
 Inductees Leave
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street; Edward Bunce, 27 Sylvan avenue; Richard Rylander, 106 Meriden road; Anthony Davino, 32 Ridge street; Calvin Hubbard, 1o9 Plank road: Patsy Finelli, l3 Miller street; Edward O'Donnell, g Laval street; James Mobile, 1902 East Main street; Francis Hotchkiss, 62 Ayers street; Morris Antous, 9 Woodtic road.
 Theodore Gallucci, 231 Hamilton avenue; James Phelan, 783 Prospect road; Louis Annes, 173 Wolcott street; Luigi Biancardo, 89 River street; Francis Devercaux, i 0 Academy avenue; Thomas Kane, 30 Cole street: Joseph Fournier, $50 Woodtick road; Patrick Mahoney, 1894 Baldwin street: Albert Houle, 706 East Main street; Sylvester Sbordone, 25 St. Joseph avenue.
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 Rocco Francis Donate, 335 Bishop street; Virgilio Winnie Prebenna, 130 Platt street; Louis Joseph Silva, 10 St. Paul street; Joseph Henry Silva, 10 St. Paul street; Sidney Frank, 27 Pearl street; Philip Gruber Kempler, GA Elizabeth street; An thony Frank Gachewicz, 12 Spencer avenue;. Maxmillian Milton Katz, 12 Kingsbury street; George Joseph Martino, 38 Beverly avenue; Patsy Tony Digliani, 57 Maple street; Jo- seph Charles Ruzinkovic, 49 Hill street; Raymond Aloysius Nowacki, 75 Wood street; Miron Francis Gro hosli, 100 Wood street; John Kalach 13 Robinson street; George William Crowder, 21 East Hawkins street: Nathan Ganezer, 64 Elizabeth street; Floyd Edward Minis, 6l Hopkins street: John Buonocore, 290 Citizens avenue; Michael Rossi, 100 Cherry street; Wilson Edmund Dean, 626 Massachusetts avenue. Boston, Mass;
 Sven Adolf Anderson, Box 722, Waterbury: Michael Marino, 99 Bell levue street; Eugene D'Ambrose, 130 Cherry street; Henry Robert Poul- ter, 38 Platt street; Fibre Buono- core, 21 Lannen street: Manuel Ro- bert Weisman, $40 Pine street;
 Joseph Salvio, 16 Crown street; Edward James Reilly, 26 walnut street; Joseph Gregory Halloran, M Laurel street; Charles Harry Rinal0S 42 Platt street; Antonio MazZA- maruo, 82 Griggs street; FrancesO0 Lo Russo, 200 Bishop street; John Joseph Churson, 76 Oxford street; Hartford; Patrick John Kennedy, 50 Macauley avenue; Antonio Erasn1o Imbimbo, 1850 North Main street; Chester Rutkowski, R. F. D. No. 4, Bucks Hill; John Peter Burlenski, 517 North Main street; Henry Vin- cent Tarasewicz, 152 orange street; Ira Coutant DuBois, 203 Platt street John Joseph Sullivan, 147 Savings street: Stuart LeRoy Mintie, (act- ing corporaD 570 Cooke street: Irv- ing Silverman, 35 Putnam street; Paul John Burgio, 126 East Farm
 Michael Joseph Stevens. 726 Cooke street; Ferdinand Domenic Erimini, 1236 North Main street; Howard Morris, 2l Ia High street; James Evans, Jr., 133 North Elm street; Joseph Kelzun, All North Main street; Raymond echmid. T6 Phoenix avenue; John Dcbzensiki, 04l Hill street; Paul OLear, 2s Barnes street; James l.. Pinto, % Brwester street; Vincent A. Greco a 0hegzy Stxeek
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EIGHT NAZlS TO
 KNOW FATELATER
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Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, provost marshal of the Washington military district, dispelled this belief, how ever.
 Cox said "open session" meant that 1t would be a session at which the defendants, their counsel and government prosecutors would be present, as they had been during the IS trial days. A closed" session of the commission means that the sev- en generals comprising it are meet ing without the presence of the &C., cused and counsel, he said.
 At the White House, presidential secretary Stephen T. Early said he believed the commissions findings would "be delivered here today"
 He added, however, that he did not believe President Roosevelt would announce the verdict before tomor- TOT at the earliest. It was believed that MT. Roosevelt would study the commissions recommendations care fully and perhaps at considerable length before acting on them.
 The commissions session yesterday was believed to have been devoted to the drafting of its verdict and re- commentators for submission to Mir. Roosevelt. The president, under his proclamation creating the com mission, will fix the date, place. and mode of execution if the saboteurs are condemned to die. AS
 I'm Close Session
 Maj. Gen. Frank R. Mccoy, com mission president, issued the follow ing after yesterdays meeting:
 'The commission is sitting today
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ALLIED PLANES
 GUARD AUSTRALIA
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base at Port Moresby.
 They made a night raid on Lac, 20 miles from Calamaua, and scored hits on the airdrome and anti-air- craft batteries.
 Fighter planes bombed and machine gunned Japanese combat patrols which had penetrated to the area of Kokoda, midway between the Coma Mission and Port Moresby, and General Douglas MacArthur's $ communique reported that Allied parols had dispersed enemy outpost groups in jungle fighting in that sector.
 Attack Jap Cruiser
 Tn the Banda Sea between Ann- boina Island and northwest Aus tralia, Allied planes attacked 8 Jap anese cruiser after fighting of an enemy seaplane, the communique said. Results could not be observed. It was understood that the cruiser was the same which was bombed and probably hit Friday and wal bombed and machine gunned Sat- urday.
 In the northwest zone, one Allied plane which was missing Saturday returned to base safely yesterday.
 The commanding general for northern Australia told troops at g base in his zone that American pi- lots had shot down 60 Japanese planes in the area, and had lost only four pilots.
 "Wlen we first came to this area the Japanese came over daily and dropped bombs," he said. '"These Japanese were excellent material tc provide finishing training for the Americans. One day the Americana shot down all the Japanese planes which came over, and since that day the situation here has changed rad tcally. Enemy planes now fly oveI only at great heights, night or day. A headquarters spokesman said that the Japanese apparently had been unable to reinforce their 2.60t men in the Huna-G Coma zone where they landed two weeks ago. No Japanese ships had been TO. ported en route to the Gona Mission landing, he said, and land reln- forcements from the 6alamaua-IAl area would be difficult.
 1ntenMtytuE Allied aerial attackl
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Churchill In Russia To Talk Second Front
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1 portant military information which may find its way into Germany.
 Second front talk follows in gen. eral the pattern of German war scares prevailing in France and the low countries in 1940. Then there were so many false alarms. so many hints and so much planted evidence that the military intelligence or ganizations of Britain, France and low countries were hard put to dis tinguish between valuable and valueless information.
 The Germans, for their part, are countering the second front threat with parades of select troops in Paris, radio warnings to civilians of occupied countries to remain non-combatant, and forecasts of disaster for invasion troops.
 Hope for Confusion
 They apparently hope to confuse Americans and British as to wheth- CT they are diverting forces from the eastern front to counter blow in the west. They may even hope the British and Americans will at- tack the NaI defenses in the west where they are strongest.
 They may feel 1t is in their inter- est to lure the Allies on to such de- lenses and away from a possible of- fensve in the Middle East.
 That there will te United Ma tions attack in the west seems to be the most certain factor in the pie ture. The assertions of leading AL lied statesmen, the flow of planes and troops to Britain, the gather ing there of high officers, the obvi- ous value of employing actively in- stead of pasdvely the Allied strength in Britain-those things all seem to add up to 8 second front.
 The big questions remain where and when.
 The question of when depends whether 1t is better to attack at an early date with limited resources or later with greater resources.
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Russians Showing No
 Signs Of Collapse
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ss4 AAaiIEop oil fields in two great s1tagheads one directed southward, Ihc other southeastward.
 Al the Cossacks attacked, under terrific bombardment by Russian field guns, Stormovik dive bombers and even heavy long range bombers were thrown into sudden heavy attack on the tanks and motorized Infantry columns pressing up to the lines from the German rear.
 The Cossacks killed 1,5O0 Germans tn one sector, the noon communique reported, and the planes wrecked heavy damage on the German rein forcement columns.
 It was admitted that despite the kalIant attacks of the CoSsacks, the Russians generally remained on the defensive against powerful and de- teFmined enemy forces which were driving down the Rostov- Caucasus railroad and had cut the Stalingrad- Caucasus line at Salsk.
 Resistance Stiffens Nevertheless communiques an d special dispatches made 1t apparent that Russian resistance was Stiffen- ing all along the front from the area south of Rostov to Kletskaya, 10 miles northwest of Stalingrad in the north bend of the Don river where the Germans were driving for the Volga and the Stalingrad in- dustrial area.
 It was indicated that Marshal < eemyon Timoshenko was throwing . in achievements tcarefully select e ed points of key sectors and that strong forces of heavy tanks were moving to the front.
 In the Kletskaya area, the noon communique reported, the Russians repulsed several German tanks and { infantry attacks supported by air. s planes.
 Tn the Tsimlyanskaya sector mid- 2 way between Rostov and Stalingrad : the Russians were likewise holding
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of us are ashamed that is 50. If we were free people some of feel we would play a worthy and de- cisive part in the war;"
 Fight Britain to Last
 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, all- India Congress leader, told a mass meeting that i've shall fight the British government to the last.
 T hope good comes from this struggle" he said, "but if we perish, on our ashes will be laid the foun- dation of freedom.
 T hate Dominion status. do not want to occupy the same status as Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Rulnania, Australia and Canada. India's sta- tus is bouvd to be much higher than these countries"
 Gandhi in review of his party's stand said Britain must hand over control without reservation except that Allied troops may operate to stem Axis attack but with no inter- ference in Affairs of India which would be as free as Britain's.
 The support of free India would give to the Allied cause would be "limitless,' he said.
 There would be no motive left for welcoming Japanese arms" he added. "On the contrary, the In- dians must look to the Allies in order to repel Japanese or other attack unless all India by then has become non-violent."
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in closed session in the trial chamh- CTS in the Department Of Justice. The commission will reconveae to- morrow in open session nt the same place."
 At least the seven saboteurs who lost last-minute efforts to escape jurisdiction of the military commits sion by appealing to the supreme court for habeas corpus writs are be- lieved to face death, either by hang ing or shooting. The eighth--G George Jchn Dasch turned government witt ness and may win clemeucy.
 It Is possible that no announce ment will be made if deaIn Sent- ences are imposed until the execu- tons have been carried out.
 Should the saboteurs be ordered executed, 1t is likely they will be Ihauged--the usual fate of gpiess
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 bomber over the east coast yester- day afternoon.
 The Dornier was flying at 1000 feet when Gates and his comrade in fast Spitfires attacked 1t at close range, drove 1t almost to sea level, and saw pieces of debris fly from 1t before they lost sight of 1t in mist, trailing smoke. Later they saw the oil patch where 1t had crashed,
 British Spitfires on offensive pa- trols yesterday attacked railroad targets and barges in Holland and Belgium, and one plane was missing.
 The Germans started their re- prisal raids yesterday afternoon for the RATS shattering raid on Dus- seldorf Friday night. They made hit and run raids on coasta districts in southeastern. eastern and north- eastern England, sweeping low from the clouds to terrorize crowds seek ing relaxation at the seaside during the August bank holiday week end Two German planes dive-bombed a south coast town and several per- sons were killed by flying glass.
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MASKED CUNMAN
 STIRS NEW YORK
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Wolen was known to have been an associate of Louis Gepke) Buchalter, underworld czar.
 Those who remained alive in the card room of "The Goulash House, " known formally as The White House Association" and delicately terms a bridge club. after the killer left were Sam Adelman, club manager. and three players, Benja- min Fischer, Harry Kafga and Ben jamin Brooks. The players did not remain long. The killer scarcely had clattered down the stairs when they, too, were running, leaving their coats behind.
 Might Be Killer
 Outside, two men were seen to walk rapidly for a block uptown, then separate at a street corner. Po- lice thought they might have been the killer and his lookout.
 They had no special theory about blonde parked in a roadster who drove rapidly away when the shots rang out.
 They were looking for Sam Bos- ton, who once had been Greens partner and was questioned in the Rothstein murder investigation. All the Broadway regulars" were be- ing rounded up and a special check was made on persons involved in gaming homicides of the past.
 The killers gun, 38 caliber short-muzzled detective special, {" was found jammed behind a radia- tor in the card room.
 On Greens body police found $377 in cash and a check for $40. His wife, Bertha, with whom he and his young daughter lived in 8 Central Park west apartment, was taken to the card room to identify the body. She collapsed and was put to bed under doctors care.
 It Happened Fast
 The four card player and kibitzer Wolen were so engrossed in the bridge game that none looked up when the killer entered and pointed his gun at the square, mahogany card table. Adelman said things happened so fast" he could scarcely give a description of the gunman or what he did. The black silk mask covered his face SO thorough ly that not even the color of his eyes. peering through narrow slits as he took aim, could be determined.
 Wolen, a short, dark, baldish man who lived quietly with his wife on Riverside Drive, went down first, a bullet through his left ear. The killer swung his gun on Green, who half rose, lifting his arms as though to shield his face. A slug tore in- to the left forearm. Another ripped through the right index finger. He turned, looking wildly for escape and the fourth bullet crashed into his back just below the right shoul. der. Green dropped.
 Perhaps to further frighten wit. nesses, the killer fired two nor, shots. then turned and ran. One O. the shots hit a mahogany chair, tn, other went out the window.
 Greens last bridge hand was { good one. When he stood up hi automatically laid his hand, facl down on the table. He was stroni in diamonds-ace, king. queen, jacI and 10. There was also the germ of a gamblers legend in the fac that. ag the shots rang out. the act of spades fluttered to the floor.
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SEEKS HOODLUM GROUP
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< Argentine officials expressed re- ss gret. The Buenos Aires police chief, v close friend of President Ramon sS. Castillo. preferred apologies to @ Frank.
 se Delegations of liberals and intel : lectuals throughout Argentina sent = messages of good will to the pri- vate sanitarium of the Little Com Y pany of Mary, where Frank rested @ quietly while police patroled the . grounds. At the request of the z United States embassy.
 @ A group of young Argentine So- = cialists presented a manifesto at the N sanitarium, expressing "repudiation Y of this savage and brutal outrage sperpetrated by reactionary elements, which is against the Democratic @spirit of the Argentine people" q Socialist Deputy Eduardo Araujo ssvisit9d Frank and said he would pre- s.sent 6 resolution to Congress on ssWednesday, inquiring whether the s1government had ordered police pro-
 Election for Frank after declaring ashiIn persona non grata.
 PrO-Nazi Paper Guarded @ Police guarded the offices of the sspro-Nazi newspaper Pampero, re- ssfusing to permit circulation of its Mlatest edition until an article at stacking Frank was withdrawn. Fl Pampero recently described Frank ~editorially as "a wandering Jew in Ian alrplane, who was hired by the @Rockefeller committee to spread war spropaganda in the Argentine"
 ~ T suspect the campaign main- Etained against by the Nazi Fascist 1press melted the attack on my per- s.son," Frank said. T do not blame @the Argentine people for what has sghappened. but rather the poison of ssforeign ideas brought into the vcountry from abroad"
 Jose Stanek, janitor at Franks
 hotel, said six men forced him at
 gunpoint to show them to the lec-
 turers' room. Frank was alone when Sthey entered, identifying themselves las police and demanding to see his
 ApaSSport.
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on the Salamaua-Lae base area were believed to be aimed at weak ening the enemy air force so that it would be difficult to send more fighter planes to the Buna-Gona base.
 Japs Hold Village
 At An Advanced Allied Base, Aus tralian Zone, August 3-(UP) = Japanese combat patrols now hold Kokoda, New Guinea native village and airport 55 air miles from the great Allied base of Port Moresby, 1t was made know today.
 For the moment the Japanese forces had been halted by Allied jungle patrols, but Skirmishing con- tinued.
 Kokoda lies ct an elevation of 4.- 800 feet on the north side of the 7,OO0 foot pass through the Owen Stanley mountains which is the sole land approach to Pctt Moresby, on the southern coast. The mountains, aside from the Allied defeAce forceS, offered 6 formidable barrier to a continued march toward Port MogeGby.
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family. One was Digliani, whose brother, Pvt. Reynold Digliani, "A, was accidentally killed at Benicia, Calf. Funeral services were held to- day. The other postponement was given Manuel Robert Weisman.
 The list of men who left to begin military training today follows:
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 John A. Yoksa, 863 Bank street; Joseph o. Pelletier, 72 Pond street; Albert LerouX, 98 Lounsbury street; Paul Mastrianni, 264 South Leonard street; Gene Bernabe, 56, south Street; Gregory Philbert, 596 South Main street; Frank Maggie. St. Jean street; Harold c. Slater, l22 Edin street; Maurice F. Kelly, 53 South View street; Louis Damelio, 653 South Main street; Edward F. Ahearn, 222 Tracy avenue; John Paul Viens, 200 South Main street, Thomaston; George Assenza, 40 Union street; Andrew H. Santulli, AT South Leonard street;
 Leo R. Messier, 69 Sylvia street, New Bedford, Mass; Victor DeSocie, 66 Tracy avenue; Stanley Kloss, 137 Bank street, went to Devens; Nino Mattel, 233 Bank street; James Jos eph Flanagan, 31 Pearl Lake road; Michael J. Lawlor, 123 Charle s street; Walter Joseph Valencis, 145 Geddes terrace: Leon Picard, A East Dover street; John Raymond Shea, 758 Baldwin street; Albert B. Gedraitis, 24 South Riverside street; Kenneth F. Muccino, 903 Bank street: Chester R. Keister, 136 South Main street; Joseph R. Owens. 145 Hill avenue, R. F. D. No. l; James Vincent Santopietro, 1920 Baldwin street; Aloysius A. Demenski, 3l5 Colony street, Meriden, c o n h.; James T. Calvin, SIS Baldwin street, transfer from local board No. l, 116 Orange avenue. Daytona Beach, Fla, Wallace Joseph Doucette. 57 East Clay street, transfer from local board 3, Fort Kent, Me-: Lucien Loder, AIS South Main street, trans fer from local board No. 3, Fort Kent, Me.
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 Donald O'Leary, 1764 East Main street; Raymond Nolan, 349 Home stead avenue (acting corporaD Ludger Bouffard, 90 Ridge street; Hugo Dileone, 163 Edgewood ave- nue; Joseph Bowey, 203 Lounsbury