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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
AUSTRALIA IS DISSATISFIED
 OvERU.S $. AID In Need of Planes, Guns, Men, Ships to Help Gen.
 Macarthur AUSTRALIAN PAPERS
 BECOME SOME BITTER Protest Sending Yankee Boys to Ireland, Where
 No Fight Is on
BY DON CAsWELL

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Melbourne, May 20.-UP) - Australia renewed it's de- mand for more planes, men, guns and ships today as General Douglas Mac ArGhur's Allied Air Force con- tinued it's wide reconnais- sance flights in search of an enemy invasion fleet. One newspaper by implication criticised the United States for sending additional forces to north ern Ireland unless they are intend- ed for an immediate offensive against the German-held continent of Europe.
 Air Minister Arthur s. Drakeford in a statement, said:
 "The need for planes cannot be too strongly stressed. Our slogan should be planes, more planes and still more planes. Without them our task will be made heavier and longer.
 "The request made at London by pr, (Herbert) Evatt Australian foreign secretaryO Tor delivery oi planes to Australia as rapidly as possible needs the support Of al! Australians. It is encouraging to find that his spirited and capable appeals are meeting with public support throughout the world"
 One Comment
 The critical newspaper was the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Comment ing on the arrival of American troops in northern Ireland, 1t said
 Australia would be the first to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Battle Is Blazing Into New Fury All Along An l8OO'
 Mile Front
  SOVIETS CLAIM NAzIS FLEE BEFORE KHARKOV Germans Admit Russia Att tacks FuriOusly, But Was Thrown Back
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

United Press Staff COrresp0ndent)
 Moscow, May 20. = (UP) - The German high com mand has thrown all avail able tanks into a futile at- tempt to halt the Red Arny's crushing offensive on the Kharkov sector, radio Mos. COW said today as the battle of Russia blazed into new fury at strategic points along the whole 1,800-mile front.
 Field Marshal Fedor Won Books German forces were reported in flight along the 100-mile front be- fore Kharkov where thousands ot tanks and masses of men fought in an internal cauldron of de- struction.
 An attempted German counters offensive on the Russian left flank. 70 miles southwest of Kharkov, was being held at a standstill, accord ing to advices reaching Moscow from the front.
 Tanks and men fought in such a tangle before Kharkov that planes, engaged in war of their own over the smoke-clouded front, were ui1- able to intervene.
 Present Developments
 Advices from the fighting fronts from the Arctic to the Crinea told of these developments in the gi- gantic struggle:
 l. The Moscow radio said the Germans, still falling gack around Kharkov, are 'hurling into the bat- tie all their spring reserves and all available tanks" in a vain and cost ly attempt to halt the Russian on- slaught which already has recap tured more than 300 towns and villages.
 2. German preparations for an offensive against Murmansk-port of arrival for war supplies from the United States and Britain -- are be- ing "paralyzed" by the Soviet Arc tic fleet which has sunk 22 German ships, according to official advices,
 8. The official army organ Red Star reported that shattering of 8 Nazi attempt to open a new assault on the Leningrad front with "sev- eral scores of tanks" and infantry forces.
 4. On the central Kalinin front. the Red Star said, hand-to-hand battles were fought when the Ger mans slashed at Russian lines in an effort to find "soft spots" for major attack.
 5. In the Crimea on the Kerch peninsula, 320 miles south of Khar- kov, Russian troops have been strongly reinforced and new heavy battles are about to begin in the region of the town of Kerch" at the gateway to the Kerch straits at the Caucasus, the Moscow sa6Ao said.
 Millions of Men
 Millions of men and tanks and planes by the thousands were lock- ed in the battles of mounting ins tensity along the 1900 mile front where 1t appeared that the Ger. mans were preparing for new of, fensives in an effort to divert scms of the Russian pressure from Khar- kov.
 A dispatch from the Russian northern fleet said air-nayal com. bats were developing on the Arctic front. Dozens of German planes were said to have been shot down by Soviet fighter and naval aircraft One Russian pilot, Dimitri Safonov, was said to have brought down 22
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Chinese Are Fighting
 Against Fierce Odds
Demolition Squads, Guerrlas Stall Invasion Machine Along Burma ROad-But Eastern China In
 Gravest Danger
BY ROBERT P. MARTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

Limited Press Stan COTreSpOnuenty
 Chungking, May 20-(UP)-Chin- csc demolition squads and guerrillas have stalled Japan's invasion ma- chine along the Burma Road, but a serious new threat developed to- day in Eastern China as plane-sup- ported and reinforced enemy col umns drove toward Allied aerial and supply bases.
 A Chungking communique des- cribed bitter fighting in Chekiang province below Shanghai where the Japanese were pressing southward along five routes toward the air bases at LiShui and Chuhsien.
 There are heavy casualties on both sides and fighting is continI- ing bitterly" the communique added.
 The Japanese were passing their southward drives from Chukihsien, evacuated by the Chinese Sunday night after severe street fighting, and Fengchiao, reported taken by Japanese spearheads Tuesday. The drive also was aimed apparently at Kinhua, a distribution center for goods filtered through the Japanese blockade.
 North of Kinhua, the Chinese said their forces were making a determined stand. A fleet of bomb esr, the communique said, was sup porting the enemy attack.
 
 Japs storm Through
 Enemy forces were officially re- ported storming the town of Tunglu along the Chientang River. 30 miles south of Nanking and to the west of the heavier assault.
 "The reinforced Japanese are ad-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
LEAFLET SHOWER
 FALLSON FRANCE
Promise Made by ROOse- welt to Return French
 Territory After War
BY RALPH HEINZEN

United Press Staff COrreSp0ndenO
 Vichy, France, May 20. -(UP)- British planes dropped American printed leaflets over unoccupied France during the night, contain ing a promise by President Roose- welt that all occupied possessions would be restored after the war.
 Wave after wave, to an obligaUo of anti-aircraft gun fire, the Royal Force planes droned over the Vichy area showering their leaflets on town and countryside.
 All the leaflets bore the state ment that they were printed by the United States government and dis tributed by the British air force.
 It was half an hour before the planes, flying from north to south, ended their leaflet distribution which apparently marked the open inh of a joint Anglo-American cam paign to assure the Frenchman in the street that despite any allega- tions of Vichy collaborationists, the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
BRITISH AGAIN
 BOMB GERMANY
Mannheim In Southwest Is Smashed-St. Nazaire
 Base in France Hit
BY SIDNEY ,. WILLIAMS

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 London, May 20.-(UP)-Power- full forces of the Royal Air Forces biggest bombers, resurning their at- tacks on the Reich after Il days of bad weather, showered Mannheim, an important chemical and arma- ment-producing center in south west Germany, with explosives and incendiaries during the night.
 The submarine base at St. Ma zaire, France, which British com- mandos recently raided, also was heavily attacked.
 The size of the attacks was indi- cated by the air ministry's a1l- nouncement that 12 bombers were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
NOMINATIONS VOTED

Washington, May 20,-tUPl-Phe senate naval affairs committee to-. day approved the nominations or Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, m charge of the eastern sea frontier, and Rear Admiral J, w, Green slade, in charge of the western sea frontier, ta he vice adnairal&
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Expains Action

sentative in the Connecticut Gen. eral Assembly, has been questioned by agents of the Federau Bureau of Investigation in connection with an investigation of the practice of &C., cepting fees from regIstrants.
 Admitting that he has accepted fees and that he has been ques- toned by the F. B. l., as reported exclusively yesterday in The Demo- crat, MT. Guastaferri said:
 T was told by MT. Schiavone that I was within my rights. He told
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
Guastaferri Acted On
 Advice Of Board Chm.
Local Lawyer Claims Chairman SchiavOne Told Him Acceptance of Fees Was Legal-Admits F. B. l.
 Agents Have Questioned Him

Attorney Hugo Guastaferri told The Democrat today that he was advised by Chairman Anthony Schiavone of Selective Service Board 16-B that he was within his rights in collecting fees from draft regis trans for advice and assistance in the preparation of affidavitS related to classification changes.
 A member of the registrants' ad- visory board of Board 16-B, Attor- ney Guastaferri, 8 former repre-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-20
CHINESE GIRLS
 SEND GREETINGS

Boston, May 2O-(UP)-Six Chin ese students at Wellesley College, including Miss Alice Sze of Wash ington, D. O., broadcast greetings to China over short wave station WRUL today in observance of the 25th anniversary of Mime. Chiang Kai-Shek's graduation from the school.
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Evening star., 1942-06-03
Mutual Radio Chain Head
Opposes Changes in FEC
By tie Associated Press

~ IEt ASoOCldtcQ PreSs.
Alfred j. McCosker, New York,
head OF the Mutual Broadcasting
System, defended the Federal Com
nlunications Commissions practices
today and urged the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee to take
no action that might jeopardize free
competition in network broadcast
ing.
Testifying on legislation providing
Tor broad changes in the FEC setup,
Mr.. McCosker said free competi-
ton in network broadcasting is at
stake If legislation is passed nullify-
ing" the commissions recent net.
work regulations.
Under these regulations, now the
subject of litigation in Federal
courts, the commission sought to
curtal the activities Of the Ma
tional Broadcastiing Co. and the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Both NBC and CHS have generally
indorsed the legislation being stud
led by the committee.
Should the effectiveness of the
FEC regulations be blocked, Mr.. Nc
Cosker said, mo one outside of an
insane asylum" would in the future
attempt to operate a national net
work.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Pro-German Editor
Assassinated by
Paris Bicyc|ist
Clement Directed Organ
OF CoIIuborotionists
Headed by Doriot
BY the Associated Press.

VICHY, June 3-Revolver shots
fired by bicyclist killed Editor
Albert Clement of the newspaper
LIE Cri du Peuple on a busy street
of Nazi-occupied Paris last night in
the latest of series of attacks on
German soldiers and French COL
laborationists.
Clement was known here as a
second-rate reporter before the
occupation. LIE Cri du Peuple is
the organ of the French Popular
Party, a collaborationist movement
headed by Jacques Doriot. one-time
Communist.
The editor and his wife were
caught afoot on the Rue Vivienne
between the Bourse and the Grand
Boulevards, an area occupied by
various newspaper Offices and cut
by many side streets and alleys.
The first bullets went wild, in
juring Mrs. Clement and a passerby.
Then the bicyclist steadied, he
pressed the trigger twice. The edi-
tor fell, fatally stricken. The assas-
sin pedalled away.
The attack recalled the wounding
of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deaf.
both of whom edited collaborationist
newspapers, at the Versailles bar
racks nine months ago.
They were shot by Paul Colette,
a 29-year-old Frenchman who posed
as volunteer for a French legion
recruited to fight on the Russian
front. Both recovered. Laval be-
came chief of the Vichy government.
Colette is serving a life sentence.
Swiss dispatches said Laval had
appealed to militant workers syndi-
calist organizations for cooperation
to stop sniping, bombing and other
attacks on German occupational
forces, implying that otherwise more
hostages than ever would be shot.
Laval also was reported to have
conferred with Otto Abetz, Adolf
Hitler's representative in Paris, on
the renewed outbreaks and agitation
which the Swiss Journal de Geneye
said could have "deplorable results"
for his government.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Canterbury Raided
Again Last Night,
Germans Report
Considerable RAF Damage
Is WTeoked on Duisbure,
Berlin Acknowledges
BY the Associated Press.

Ds lht hooOCldScu EICoe.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts, June 3.-The German high
command reported today that
the English cathedral city of
Canterbury was raided again last
night and simultaneously de-
clared that Raj planes caused
considerable damage in an at
tack on the German city of Duis-
burg, Rhineland neighbor Of
Essen.
The Germans declared their planes
dropped heavy caliber bombs and
10000 incendiary missiles on Can
terbury.
They reported considerable dam
age by fire, particularly in residen-
tial quarters and public buildings,
in the RAF attacks on Western
Germany. Duisburg was cited espe-
cially.
The high command reported the
British lost "a planes yesterday and
last night-20 in raids on the chan
mel coast and by individual bombers
over the western Reich during the
day and IA bombers during the
night. The Germans lost only one
plane, the communique said.
The high command communique
raised to 200 the number of per-
sons reported killed in Saturday
nights British air raid on Cologne
Evening star., 1942-06-03
CoNiope Back
As Band
Goes on Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. June 3-The
old steam calliope that wheezed and
whistled and thrilled circus-goers
when grandpa was boy is making
a comeback under the big top of
The Greatest Show on Earth"
A strike by Al musicians in Ring
ling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey
two bands yesterday brought the
caIIope back into its own after %
years retirement-and it's going
over big with the old-timers.
''It sounds like the real old
fashioned circus now" one veteran
said. Takes me back so years"
The equally ancient chimes
wagon and recorded music are
carrying on with the calliope in
place of the musicians who were
called out on strike by the American
Federation Of Musicians, A. F. L.,
after the company refused to grant
a $3.50 a week increase.
Yesterdays performance was the
first Director Merle Evans has
missed in "a years.
The unions agreement with the
circus expired Sunday midnight.
Director Merle Evans, who missed a
performance for the first time in "a
years yesterday, said the musicians
themselves didn't want to strike, and
added:
I'VE make $47.50 a week, S55 on
Sundays" said Mr.. Evans. Were
perfectly satisfied with our salary
and working conditions. We wanted
to play today, but the union refused
to let us"
Mr.. Evans said that although the
men obeyed the unions strike order
they refused to picket the circus.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Dependent Aid Bill
Passage in House
Is Sought Today
Measure Would Ease
Hordships Of Family
Men Called to Service
By the Associated Press.

Asserting that "the time has
now come when many men with
dependents must of necessity as
sumo the responsibility of de-
Tending their country" the House
Military Affairs Committee
pressed for passage today of
legislation making financial al
loWances for families of fighting
men.
Chairman May said he hoped to
win House approval by nightfall of
bill under which servicemen with
dependents would allot part of their
pay to dependents and the Govern
ment would make supplementary
payments.
In urging passage of the measure,
the committee emphasized it did not
intend to give local draft boards the
impression that established families
should be "ndiscriminately uprooted
and torn from their mooring solely
because of the fact that their finan-
cial needs have been taken care Of"
Would Ease Hardships.
Privately, some committee men,
bers said that while the War De-
partment did not contemplate the
drafting of family heads unless abso-
lutely necessary, future develop
ments may make such action man
datory. In that event, they pointed
out, the legislation under consider
alton would lessei financial hard
ships.
The measure provides for deduc-
ton of $40 from the monthly pay of
a servicemaa in the lower paid
brackets-up to and including ser
geants in the Army and men of cor
responding Navy rank-who have
what the bill calls class A" depend
ents. These consist of a wife, chill
dren or a former wife.
To the $40 thus allotted to depend
ents, the Government would add $40
for a wife, and $40 additional for
each child, and in the case of minor
dependents only, SIS for the first
child and $40 for each additional
child. A divorced wife entitled to
alimony would receive $40 from the
Government and $50 FROM her for
mer spouse.
For so-called "class B" depend
ents, such as parents, brothers and
sisters, the Government rates would
be lower and payment would be at
the option of the serviceman.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Coffee, Banana, Beef
Imports Put Under
Priority Restrictions
WPB Order to Compel
Foreign Ships to Garry
War Essential Coreoes

BY the Associated Press.
The War Production Board has
placed imports under priority re-
strictionS. On July 2, WPB an
nounced last night. it will take
control over all imports into the
United States, compelling foreign
vessels to give preference to war
essential cargoes rather than
shipments carried primarily for
profit.
Among civilian commodities
classed at least essential imports,
which would be affected by the ac-
ton, were coffee, cocoa, bananas
and beef.
WPB spokesmen said the action,
taken in a complete revision of
previous import control orders,
would establish a priority system on
shipping space for imports through
controls over purchases in this
country.
Argentine, Chile Not in Pool.
Heretofore, controls have been ex-
ercised by the War Shipping Ad-
ministration through the maritime
pool of the United Nations. How
ever, some countries-notably in
the Western Hemisphere, Argentina
and Chile-have not entered the
pool and this Government could not
control use of their ships.
Commodities for import are listed
In three groups, with strategic ma
terlals first, essential civilian COM
modities second, and items of least
Importance third.
No person, except Government
agencies, may import items on any
of the three lists without first OBJ
tanning specific permission from the
WPB. The board will be guided in
granting permission by the relative
Importance of the goods involved.
After arrival in this country,
items on list one may be sold only
to Government agencies, or to
others on specific w. P. B. author
1ty. This is substantially the pres
ent method of handling these i'm
ports.
Items on the second list may be
sold without restriction, insofar as
the import order is concerned.
Their domestic uses are controlled
by other w. P. B. orders except
where control is not considered
necessary.
Imports may continue to be
made on existing contracts for
strategic and essential civilian COM
modities, but contracts for articles
classed as least essential will not
be allowed to stand; specific author
ization - these imports must be
obtained for all items in the third
group, regardless of existing con-
tracts.
The items on list three include
certain animal and vegetable fats,
canned and corned beef, picked or
cured beef and veal, chicle, cocoa
or cocao beans, coffee, raw cotton
and cotton fabrics and fibers, banah-
as, grapes, melons, peaches, pears,
corn, rye, certain grain prepara-
tions. horsehides, iodine and nj
trates.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Former Governors Aide
Convicted Of Conspiracy
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, June 3.-Attorneys for
John w. Greer, jr, convicted by a
Federal Court jury yesterday on
charges Of conspiring to violate
antitrust laws, will seek new trial.
A three-count indictment charged
that while purchasing agent for the
State Highway Department in the
administration of former Gov. E. D.
Rivers, Greer conspired with Hiram
w. Evans, asphalt dealer and
former Ku Klux Klan imperial
wizard, to set up monopoly in
the purchase of sand asphalt for
the State.
Evans pleaded nolo contendere to
similar charges several months ago
and paid a SIS 900 fine.
Greer managed Rivers successful
campaign for Governor in 1888 and
formerly was clerk of the Georgia
House of Representatives.
Sentence was not passed immedi-
ately by Judge E. Marvin Under
wood Maximum penalty is a years
imprisonment and a fine of $1,000
on each count. The jury deliber-
ated two and half hours.
Evening star., 1942-06-03
Registranf and Lawyer
Cleared in Draft Case
By Directed Verdict
Advisory Boord Member
Testifies He Suggested
Appeal for Sopourn

Justice James w. Morris in Dis
trict Court yesterday directed a
verdict of not guilty in favor of
Dorsey K. Offutt, an attorney, and
his client, Robert j. Sopourn,
charged with conspiring to violate
the Selective Service Act in con-
nection with Sopourn's projected
induction into the Army.
The court ordered the two de-
PENDANTS exonerated following the
testimony Of Abraham Chaifetz, an
attorney, who is a member of the
Registrants' Advisory Board of the
District selective service system.
Mr. ChaifetZ, the only witness for
the defense to take the stand, told
the court and jury that he had
advised Mr. Offutt to take action
that he took on Mr.. Sopourns S
behalf.
The witness said he told Mr.
Offutt to write a letter to the draft
board appealing for a reconsidera-
ton of Mr.. Sopourns IA claSsifica-
ton. This letter stated that Mr.
Sopourn would not report for in
duction until the appeal had been
acted upon, although Mr.. Sopourn
was scheduled to report for induc-
ton the following day.
Mr.. Chaifetz testified that he and
Mr.. Offutt called the Office of Draft
Board No. by telephone, but that
no one answered. The two of them
then went to the home of Col. Davis
G.. Arnold, then chairman of the
board, and pushed the letter under
his door. The Government con-
tended that this action still did not
relieve Sopourn of the duty to report
for induction the following day,
which he failed to do, according to
witnesses.