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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
British Bombers Swept
 Into Ruhr Last Night
gets Fiit-British Create New POst That May Mean Second Front
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent,


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Aug. 5.-(UP)-Royal Ali Force heavy bombing planes, resum- ing their offensive on GermanyS wal industry, attacked the Ruhr during the night.
 Fighter planes attacked railroads and other targets in German-occu- pied territory.
 Announcement by the air minis try that only one bombing plane anc one fighter were lost indicated that the Rhur raid was on small scale considering the tremendous weight of some British attacks in their de- vastation offensive.
 It was believed, however, that strong force of planes dropped big bombs, including some block bust CTS, on carefully selected targets ir the Rhur, heart of Germany's wal industry, and probably on Essen seat of the gigantic Krupp arma- ment works.
 Apparently intent on getting the British aerial offensive back on 6 24-hour a day schedule, formations of Royal Air Force fighter anc fighter bomber planes swept ovel the English Channel this morning and watchers along the coast saw them coming back half an houl later with empty bomb racks.
 Germany said that minor Brit ish plane formations dropped ex' plosive and incendiary bombs or several western German towns dur ing the night and did some" dam age to property. It claimed, as the air ministry had announced, the downing of one bomber.
 Germany reported incidentally under a Stockholm dateline cred iting reports from London, that 15( British airdromes had been put al the disposal of the United State' army air corps and that ground crews of all the fields would be ex' cTusively American army men.
 German planes in small numbers raided south coast and southwestern towns during the night, and . few of them bombed South Wales Slight damage and few casuAltiei (Continued on Page O .,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
Taxpayers Group In Report on CityF Finances
Finds Lack of Adequate, Sound Long Range Financial Plan -FluCtuating Trend of Levies and
 City Tax Rates

Lack of "adequate and sound long, range financial plan" for the City of Waterbury has resulted in wide ly fluctuating and unpredictable trends of levies and tax rates," the Waterbury Taxpayers association de- clared today in a report on survey of the period from 1918 to 1942. The report criticiZes past practices of issuing bonds for capital improve ments," increases in personnel and salaries, and alleged failure of the city to decrease the number of em- ployes after introduction of labor saving equipment.
 But for a big gain in the grand list, says the report, 1t would have been necessary to increase the tax rate three mills The increase in taxable property value from $170,- 00O,O00 to $178,780, ,944 is said to have made possible the one-fourth mill reduction that was effected. This years rate is BOTS mills, compared with 31 mills last year.
 The report, prepared by Managing Director Raymond P. Botch of the association and issued in booklet form, offers charts and analyses of trends of grand lists, tax rates and tax levies for the past 25 years There are summaries of tax and grand list policies and figures during the ad- ministrations of Mayor William B. Sandland, Mayor Francis P. Gull foile, Mayor Frank Hayes, Mayor Patrick M Periello and Mayor Vim cent A. Scully.
 The grand list has increased steadily since 1918, except for a brief period during the depression and is now the highest in the city's history, says the report. Continued increases in the grand list seem in- dicated and taxes should be steadily (COntinued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
6l,OOO TEXTILE
 WORKERS AWAIT
New England, South Dis= trict Affected by Actions
 of War Labor Board

Washington, Aug. 5.-(UP)-The
 War Labor Board today began public hearings on three mediation panel reports which indicated that the wages of 61 900 textile workers in New England and the south are sub-standard and recommend wage increases of about 1-2 cents an hour.
 Two of the cases involved New England mills employing 48,000 of the 100000 textile workers in the area and the other involved 13,O0O of the 1885 900 southern textile work CTS, but all textile employees probably would benefit by any increase granted.
 The Textile Workers Union of America (CIO) which represents workers in 28 New England mills and in all southern mills asked for a 1O-cent-an-hour increase in the north and 20 cents in the south to wipe out wage differentials.
 The United Textile Workers of America (AFL), representing Il mills at New Bedford, Mass, and Waterville, Me, also asked for a 1O-cent-an-hour increase and the elimination of regional differentials
 Employers and labor board mem- bers in the New England cases sug- gested 2 1-2 cents an hour boosts as did the employer member of the southern mediation panel. The labor board member in the south sug- gested 10 cents. Public members o1 the panels agreed there would be an increase, but made no specific recommendations.
 The panels applied the Little SteeV wage formula and found that wages still were substandard though textile workers have received more than the IS per cent wage increase necessary to match higher living costs since January, 1941.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
MARTIN J. DUNN
 GIVEN HEARING
Parole Board to Consider His Case in Wethersfield
 This Afternoon

Former Purchasing Agent Martin J. Dunn will be given hearing by the parole board at Wethersfield State prison today on his applica- ton for parole.
 He has served one and one-half years of a two to six years term im- posed by Judge Ernest A. Inglis in connection with the Waterbury con- spiracy trial.
 The parole board is holding its regular session today at Wethers- field, with Chairman Alton T. Miner presiding.
 Also scheduled to appear before the board today is John s. Johnston of New York, who is serving two to five years term in connection with the conspiracy trial. Johnston Is 8 former New York broker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
M a s s s of Parachute Troops Dropping Behind
 Main Russian Lines
TIMOSHENKO ARMY
 MAY BE BROKEN UP
Russians Making Strong Defense to Stop Capture
 of StaIingrad by Nazis
BY EVERETT R. HOLLIS United Press Cable Editor)

Russia's armies appeared to be falling back in a gen. eral although stubborn with drawal on almost all the vital sectors of the southern front today against odds which the Moscow official press de- scribed as "already over- whelming." No longer was it a question of merely de- lending the rich oil centers and communications of the Caucasus be- cause much of the oil already has been cut off by the swift Nazi drives and important stretches of the rail- road lines have been severed.
 It was battle to keep Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's armies intact and prevent them from being broken into segments and ground beneath the charges of fleets or German tanks = driving forward in some places at the rate of 50 miles day over the Caucasus plains which are almost ideal for this mechanized warfare.
 The Germans were eXerttng their full strength = parachute troops, suicide units of tommy gunners snd tanks slashing in upon the Red Army almost constantly in waves 50 and 60.
 The Russian high command &C., knowledged withdrawals in the Bic leyoglina sector only about 50 miles north of the vital railroad junction of Tikhoretsk to the south of Ros- tov. It was the second time in 12 hours that the Soviets had reported a German advance in the area.
 May Encircle Forces
 The thrust of the Germans south ward to and apparently beyond Bieleyoglina threatened the encir- clement of large Russian forces still battling around Kushchevka, 48 miles north of Bieleyoglina.
 For the first time in 12 days the Russians also admitted a German advance in the Kletskaya sector, about 70 miles northwest of Stal- III dO 1U 10 dlOAAAO &AOAoNeSJD VAAsp the Russian defense has been the strongest because Timoshenko has been able to reinforce and supply his forces there by the Volga route and from Stalingrad's war plants.
 Other Russian withdrawals oc- cured in the Tisimlyanskaya sector near the Don, midway between Ros- toy and Stalingrad, enabling the Germans to push the center of their line down closer to their ad- vances in the Kuschevka and Salsk regions.
 The German high commands claims today were at wide variance with the Russian reports and claimed a drive by SS troops that captured Kropotkin, 125 miles deep in the Caucasus, and bridgeheads on the west bank of the Don north of pipeline junction 50 miles southeast Amavir which is a railroad and e K~orOtkic,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
German Gestapo Hits French Spy Suspects
Seven French InteIleCtnas Arrested-ll French Men Women Condemned to Deatf-Entire Families
 Are Being DepOrted
(Rv United Press)


 (Undated)-The German gestapo has arrested seven internationally famous French intellectuals in a new campaign of repression in Paris University circles, reliable advices said today.
 Advices said also that the gestapo had condemned II Frenchmen and women to death, including 19- year -old boy, as members of a "Spy ring" alleged to have broadcast secretly to Great Britain.
 It was charged, according to the advices that Britain was advised five days in advance that a German fleet intended to make break through the English Channel for German ports several months ago.
 A new and ruthless campaign oi repression, the advices said, was ac- companied by sudden surge o1 anti German patiot activities in the Paris area as part of which a Ger. man sergeant was killed when pa. triots fired on a troop train as i crossed the Clamart bridge a fev miles outside Paris.
 1ntellectuals arrested were Pro. fessors Louis La Picque, physiolo. gist; Maurice Caullery, professor oi biology; Charles Mauguin, professor of physics; Charles Maurain, dear of the faculty of sciences: A. Cotton known authority on the cellular professor of physics and world construction of crystals; Lefevre professor of the Institute of Agron- omy, and J. Vendryes, dean of the faculty of letters, all of Paris Uni versity.
 One Solomon, son of left wing professor in the university, has beer executed, the advices said, and his wife had been sent to a concentra. ton camp.
 Two well-known Jewish physician. Av1 Yorn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
japan Started U. s. War Too Quickly for Him
 to Get Away
LETTERS WRITTEN BY
 KUNZE IN EVIDENCE
In One He Said That Roosevelt Had His War,
 Would Lose His Head
BY JACK AMMAN United Press Staff Correspondent


 Hartford, Conn, August s = (UP) = The outbreak of war between the United States and the Axis nations prevented Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, leader of the Ger 9nan-American Bund, from going to Japan with vital American military secrets, it was disclosed today in federal court.
 Kunze, a defendant in the spy conspiracy who has pleaded guilty wrote g. letter to Count Anastase A Vonsiatsky, another defendant who has pleaded guilty, on December 8 1941, the day after America was attacked, in which he said:
 Roosevelt finally has what he thinks he wants, but before long he will have it in the neck. If the Japanese war had waited a few weeks more I would have been 1T Japan. q
 aAs 1t is I shall have gone 1T another direction by the time thiS letter reaches you"
 Earlier in the case, Dr. Ottc Willumeit, a defendant who testi- fled for the government, said Kunzt had 6 complete picture of U. s military facilities on the fest coast including fleet dispositions, harbol installations, and possible places o1 invasion.
 The letter was admitted as evil dence in the trial of the Rev. Kurt E. B. MolZahn, Philadelphia Luth- eran minister accused of aiding in the spy conspiracy.
 Both Letters Admitted
 Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith admitted this letter, along with an- other Kunze wrote to Dr. Wolfgang Ebell, Fl PaSo, Tex, defendant
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
Don't Delay;
 Buy It Today

They say you can't buy hap piness; 1t must be achieved through earnest endeav0r and consideration for others.
 That's quite true, but Amer lea can buy the happiness of tho whole world by defeating the Axis powers now bent on subiecting everyone to 8 new order in which the individual has few rights, and those of a minor nature.
 You can help buy this hap piness by your regular and constant purchase of War Savings Stamps and Bonds. Don't let . day pass without putting your money to work aRainst Hitler, HifohitO. and such bully boys.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
By HENRY SHAPIRO nSkn1R ND~na~ Cha@ MvuAA

United Press Stan COrreSpOndemeD
 Moscow, Aug. 5.-The Germans dropped masses of parachute troops and air-borne whippet tanks deep behind the wavering Russian lines in the Caucasus today in an effort to split up the Red army forces falling back before the biggest tank assaults of the war.
 Smashing forward with waves of as many as 15O tanks against So- viet defense which often included only few if any tanks, the Ger mans forced new Russian withdraw als in the Bielayaglina sector 50 miles southwest of Salsk and around Tsimlyanska along the Don midway between Rostov and Stalingrad.
 Earlier, the Russian noon cc0s
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Evening star., 1942-05-17
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. c, MAY II, 1e42
Evidences Of this strategy, 1t was

Evidences OF this strategy, 1t was
said, are to be seen in the recent
attacks on shipping in the st. Law
renee River. where two merchant
vessels have been reported sunk,
and IN the Gulf OF Mexico where
flve sinkings have been reported.
One Of the Gulf sinkings was Of
q large United States merchantmen
a short distance of the mouth of
the Mississippi last Tuesday.
The increase in attacks in the
Gulf particularly marked a change
in U-boat strategy-a change attri-
buted here to the steadily growing
effectiveness of American defense
operations on the Atlantic coast.
In the first months of the cam
paign, the undersea raiders took a
heavy toll Of ships all along the
Middle Atlantic coast. Then de-
lenses began to grow more effective
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shipping is taking the beating.

This trend Of operations. together
with the attacks in the st. Lawrence
experts said, can mean only that
the Germans have decided to hit 1T
what they conceive to be the weak
points In the defense system, not
necessarily because the heaviest toll
Of shipping may be taken there but
because they hope thus to make the
strong point weaker by divertins
defenders.
The Limitation on defenses is that
only SO many ships, planes and
bilmps are available for anti-sub-
marine work. Secretary Of the Navy
Knox said several weeks ago that
deliveries were we'll along on a feet
of 900 new sub chasers The clear
implication was that it would be
some months before all these swift,
hard-hitting little vessels were In
service.
Meanwhile the problem Of the de-
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Celebration Of Mass
In Honor Of War Dead
Planned in Arlington
Bishop Ireton to Preach
Sermon at Services
Next Sunday

The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton,
Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond and
Titular Bishop of Cine, will preach
the sermon at the fourth annual
solemn high mass in honor OF the
war dead at the Arlington Gene
terry Amphitheatre next Sunday, 1t
was announced yesterday.
The mass IS sponsored by the
Washington General Assembly,
Fourth Degree. Knights Of Column
bus. Francis A. McCann Is general
chairman of the committee on ar
rangements.
81 Groups to Participate.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Lee M. Finn
OF Bridgeport. Conn, national chap
lain of the knights of Columbus,
will celebrate the mass and will be
assisted by the Rev. Thomas j..
Know of the Office OF chief of
chaplains, Navy Department.. and
the Rev. Christofer OHara, chap
lain at Fort Myer. Va.
Others assisting in the services
will be Navy Chaplain Paul A. Nee
and Chaplain Edward McTeague Of
Walter Reed Hospital.
Thirty-one Catholic organiza-
tions will participate in the rites
and place wreaths at the Tomb Of
the Unknown Soldier.
Luncheon to Honor Bishop.
A reception and luncheon in
honor of Bishop Ireton will be held
at the Mayf1ower Hotel following
the mass.
Members of the Arrangements
Committee are Francis j. Raj
terry, Benjamin S. Simmons. Roy
NJ Perry, Vincent A. McGarry,
Joseph B. Mccain, James A. Sulli.
van. George Prichard, Joseph Doyle
5. Fred Brady, Andrew L. Oehmann.
Henry F. Hodges, Frederick Roy,
Robert L. Sheridan, Harry P. Nc
Kay. John v. Dean, Richard Ward,
Alfred p. Neff, Charles J. Consi-
dine. James M. Butler and Francis
J. Malley.
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CoIors Will Be MaSsed
AT Cathedral Amphitheatel

The 18th annual massing of the
colors service will be held under
the joint auspices of the Military
Order Of the World War and the
Washington Cathedral in the Ca
thedral open-air amphitheater next
Sunday at pm.
The principal speaker, Represent
ative Short, Democrat, Of Missouri,
will be introduced by the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
ington. Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox
will preside as general chairman.
with commemoration for the dead
delivered by Capt. Robert D. Work
man, chief Of Navy chaplains.
1t. Col. Walter S. Welsch, COM
mander Of the orders D. c. State
detachment, will act as marshal.
Preceding the ceremonies the Ma
rine Band will play for an hour.
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Save Rubber

The worn-out tire in the corner
Of the garage, the leaky hot-water
bottle, the old galoshes ..
They aren't of any use. but they're
more precious than gold.
The Army needs every scrap Of
rubber the Nation can dig out of
its cellars and attics and garages.
1t takes three quarters of a pound
OF reclaimed rubber to make a gas
mask, 80 pounds to make a tire for
a big bomber. And $4,000 pounds
go into the building of battleship.
Those old rubbers in the hall
closet might help make a machine
gun mount.
Dig 'em out.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Large numbers Of anti.submarine

Large numbers Of anti-submarine
craft-small ships, planes and
blimps-were put in operation.
Strict controls were established over
shipping. Bright shore lights were
ordered dimmed or extinguished.
The total result of these Improved
defenses, it was said, was to make
1t more difficult for the subs to hide
by day and to find their quarry by
night. Scattered. though presum-
ably very incomplete reports Of sue
cessful counter-submarine actions,
indicated the NaZis were paying a
considerable price for the ships they
sank.
Scene Shifts to South.
In recent weeks the scene Of u
boat operations has shifted more
and more to the South. For in
stance, while there have been some
sinkings in the Caribbean all along
evidences Of more intense activities
there began to appear. Now Gulf
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tenders is regarded here q one Of
selecting for intense protection
those areas most vulnerable to at
tack and concentrating on them
while building up defenses in the
others Is rapidly Is possible.
Undersea raids in the Gulf had
been expected by naval authorities
for some time. Attacks in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of the Panama
Canal where shipping lanes con-
verge at its approaches are not un-
likely.
The point which authorities stress
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New U-boat Strateoy
Seen in s.. Lawrence
And Gulf Sinkings
Experts Believe Nozis
Hope to Divert Strong
Eust Coast Defenses

By the Associated Press.
Germany's current U-boat strategy
was described by naval experts yes
terday as designed to force a wide
dispersion Of American defenses and
thereby make the hunting more
profitable for undersea raiders all
along the coast.
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Is that no raids are isolated Incidents
without reference to other U-boet
activities. When there Is q concen-
tration in one area, almost to the
exclusion Of others, 1t is a fair as
sumption that the others became
Improbable. which Is to say too
costly.
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MAKES EN- LAUGH here making up the part
played for 80 years Danny McPride clown with Ring
ling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus He will
the big opens engagement beginning May
Twentyhrst and streets NE MCBRIDE who insisted
In following his fathers footsteps considered
best the young funmakers with
Harvard
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Buy War bonds. and when the war
Il won, cash in-0n freedom.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-06-18
INTER AMERICAN RELATIONS

If OUR NATION is to make enduring the good
neghDor relationships with the Latin American
countries, it must be upon basis of mutual agree
ment with the peoples of the southern republics.
In the countries of the Western Hemisphere, as in
All countries, the Wage-eaIners are the largest
group; and it would be fitting, therefore, that labor
De given representation in the Pan-American
Union, which deals with the interests of the ma
tiOnS Of the New World
Unless the Wage-earners have an opportunity
ITO help determine Pan-American Union policies
the spirit Of good neghborlinesS cannot prevail
nor will it prevail until all major groups concerned
lhaVc representation.
There is need not only for this participation
but also for closer relationships between the labor
movements of all our democratic countries. This
|groWS out of periodic conferences, frequent com
|municatonS and the regular exchange of fraterna
representatives.
The war creates an urgent need for confer
|enccS between the American Federation of Labor
and the labor movements of the other American
republics Such conferences should be held in order
to create better understanding and to promote CO.
Operation on the part of the workers in North
central and South America in support Of the effort
iof the United Nations to defeat and destroy the
lenemies Of mankind.-W. Green.