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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
EARL BROWDER is
FREE OF PRISON
Released From His Federal
Cell By President ROOse-
welt Late Saturday

New York, May ls-(UP)-Earl
Browder, leader Of the Communist
party In the United States, re-
leased from Atlanta federal prison
by President Roosevelt. returned to
free living today In search Of some
thing to do ITO weld unbroken ma
tioEal unity under the commander
in-chief for victory In the war"
Browder arrived yesterday after
noon from Atlanta where he was
released late Saturday after Mr.
Roosevelt had commuted his -four
year prison term for passport fraud
to time gerved-l4 months. A large
crowd OF communists. their sympa-
thizeFs, and liberals, identified with
q campaign to obtain his freedom
which got under way soon after he
was sentenced, were at q railroad
station here to give him q noisy
welcome. But he left the train at
Newark, N. j.. across the Hudson
river, and mot0red quietly with q
few friends TO his home In suburban
YOnkeTs.
That the Axis intended 10 use the
Communication In It's propaganda e.
forts 10 divide the American people
was shown yesterday when Radio
Rome, In q broadcast beamed al
this country, alleged that Soviet
Russia had put strong pressure
upon Mr.. Roosevelt to bring about
BroWder's release and that the pres
ident had reluctantly. finally con-
scented. II said II was the ilrEt time
IN United States history that q
president had ever mingled In Law
court affairs after q promulgated
legal cOndalnnatlo
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been conclusiyely demonstrated that
conditions now obtaining, after q
tr"-oue of the army's dimout regu-
lations, are still unsatisfactory. Pur-
Their restrictions are being studied
and will be applied"
Mayor p. II. LaGuardia ordered
more drastic dim0ut regulations Ell
fectiye at shutdown today. They at
feet all outdoor illuminated adyer-
Using, theaters, street lights, rail-
road yards, manufacturing plants,
shipyards and waterfront lights. All
lights which project above the hori-
zon, whether interior or exterior,
must be dimmed.
1t was not Immediately deter
mined whether night baseball
games. endorsed by President Roose
welt. would be banned. LaGuardia
expressed slight hope that they
would be permitted. II was estab-
llsbed that reflection OF the lights
at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, and the
Polo Grounds. where the Giants
play, could be seen 81 sea. The
Yankee Stadium is not equipped
Witb fl0od nGht& a ruling u Sx-
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Highlights
The highlights Of the report from
United Press correspondents are:

AHC HAkHAkkHtS Oh tne report 1rOm
United Press correspondents are:
AXIS WAR STRENGTH
Hitler has been able to muster an
estimated 100000 men into the
armed services and auxiliaries, Of
which some 21O out Of 800 divisions
Of troops are on the Russian front.
About IS to AZ divisions are required
to garrison occupied territories,
fighting guerrilIas In central Europe
and guarding against an allied in
vasiOn. This probably is a peak for
the Axis. If II fails to crack the Red
army this summer, experts doubt
that such striking power can ever
be modified by the. enemy again.
PRODUCTION
Germany is turning out between
1,1OO and $500 airpIanes month
and is to rs submarines, but the
rate is slipping downward. Hitler
may have $4,000 planes available
but many are Out-dated. He has
plenty of war materials for the
time being, but oil, cotton, wool and
other vital materials are running
short in Italy and interfering with
his efforts to make that country a
main workshop of the Axis war ma
chine. Hitler must get Russian re-
sources soon or suffer Gripping
shortages Of raw materials.
LOSSES
The Germans suffered probably
z, 500, 900 casualties In Russia, in
Guiding an estimated 100000 killed.
Two and three members Of many
have been killed.
LABOR
There is an acute shortage of la
Dor, but the Nazis expect to have
|, 100000 foreign workers In war
factories this year in addition to
| 500, 900 prisoners. Women and chill
dren are also being crowded into
but there is shortage of
500, 900 farm workers for spring
planting.
TRANSPORTATION
Deterioration of train service due
Continued on Page A.
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ITALIAN U-BOAT
SUNK TWO SHIPS
Small American Merchant
men, British Vessel; YAM
kee Crew All Saved

Miami, Fla, May IS --(UP5- A
freshly painted italian submarine in
the "black hole" of the Caribbean
broke the back" of a small Amer
lean merchantmen with torpedo
and then sank British ship stand
ing by six miles away, survivors said
today.
All 20 Of the American vessels
crew were saved. Survivors from
the British ship believed % were
lost from their vessel. Two were
landed at Key West and 10 were
picked up by ship presumably
headed for Central American
port.
"The submarine surfaced after
torpedoing u.s." Raime H. Dean, Al,
of Bates City, Mo-, second mate of
the American ship, said. "She
glistened in the early morning sun,
the rays fairly sparkling from her.
We could just make her out in the
distance. Her number was T-3l,
whereas all German submarines are
designated by U numbers"
The scene of the sinkings is
known as the Caribbean's "black
hole" because of the extreme depth
Of the sea. "Davy Jones' locker is
a long way down around there"
Harold w. Hargreaves, 80, of NAL
den, Mass, said.
Continued on Page d
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HOUSE DEMOCRAT
Whip Died TODAY
Rep. Patrick j. BOIand of
Scranton Passed Away
Very Suddenly

Scranton. Pa. May I8.-(UP)-
Rep. Patrick J. B0land, Democrats
House whip, died suddenly today.
Boland. so. died Of q heart attack
at his home shortly after 5 q. m. He
was finishing his sixth term IN the
House this year and was seeking re.
nomination In the primary tomorrow.
Boland represented Pennsylvania
nth district. He was born In ScFan-
ton Jan. 6. 1880.
During his youth he worked ~
the carpenter trade for ~ years with
his father. who was q general con-
tractor. In 1909 he established .
general contracting firm.
He was elected to his first con"
gFesslonal term while a county com
missioner. having moved into that
office after terms as a school board
member and a member Of the city
anRaneAi
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
CHINESE FORCES
KILL OFF JAPS
AnnihiIate Columns That
Had Penetrated North of
Burma Road
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN
limited Press Staff COrreSnOndentl

kOHlteu FFeSS SCaH OOrreSpOnucHtJ
Chungking, May 10 - U.PD -
Chinese forces have Completely
annihilated" the remnants of a
Japanese mobile column that pene-
trated north of the Burma road in
an attempt to outflank the defend
ers Of Young-Chang (Paoshan) and
drive upon Running, Chinese
cornnunique reported tonight.
The Japanese force was said to
have been wiped out in a five-day
battle In the Maliaopu Hung Mu
Shu sector near Lungling, 40 miles
inside ChinaS Yunnan frontier with
Burma.
Along the Burma road itself
around Lungling northward toward
Yungchang fierce fighting was re-
ported still underway.
An earlier communicate had re-
ported the wiping out of half of the
japanese column which branched
of the Burma road and swung
northward through Hung Mu Shu
in the attempt to outfiank Yung-
chang, which is q key point along
the road to Running, 220 miles fur
Their northWard.
Chinese Stand Ground
Along the Mekong river front,
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New York. May l8-OUP)-Army
officials said today that the eastern
seab0ard's dimout had been found
unsatisfactory In preventing the sill
hOuetting OF ships at sea. New York
authorities at once issued stringent
orders dimming lights OF all kinds
In the Metropolitan area.
MaJ.-Gen. Thomas A. Terry, COM
handing the second corps area
which embraces the eastern sea-
board, said army tests had shown
that existing dimout regulations
permitted q sufficient glare TO ouE'
line ships to lurking submarines,
In one test, he said, army obser-
VeFs IN Q navy patrol boat sailed
through q convoy OF freighters %
miles at sea without sighting 0
single ship. When the patrol boat
pu about. he said, the convoy was
sharply visible against the glare.
These tests have been carried out
by the army" he said, for the puf-
pose OF determining what further
restrictions. u any, must be imposed
upon exterior lighting TO reduce or
a|lmlnRta the haElNQn Sl0M. Il ha6
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
RETAIL PRICES
AT MARCH LEVELS
Thousands of COmnOdi-
ties Revert Back to When
They Once Were
BY L. w. SHOLLENBERGER

UNITED Press staff Correspondent
Washington, May 10 - (U.P0 -
The retail price on hundreds of
thousands Of commodities-virtual-
ly all the things that humans eat,
war and use-reverted today to their
highest March level.
Housewives found the cost-of-
living taking turn for the better
because the increases during April
and May were wiped out. There were
no official estimates on what the
overall increase had been since
March, but it was stable in some
commodities.
The Labor Department estimated
that retail price ceilings would es-
tablish a general price level Of
about ISL per cent of the 1934-39
average.
I'VE have drawn the battle lines
for the fight against rising cost
of living Price Administrator Leon
Henderson said.
Every retailer, as well as whole
saler and manufacturer whose price
ceilings became effective week ago,
is now a part of that front.
Today also marks the automatic
licensing of every retailer although
no physical evidence of that has
been given to any. Each is none
theless licensed and, thus, subject
to OPA action to revoke the license
in event of violations.
General Provisions
The price ceiling has been called
"the citizens charter OF security
against rising living costs" and con-
tains the following general provi-
sionS:
!. AL commodities sold at retail
excepting only those few specifically
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Convicted Thief May
Send Nephew To Chair
line Webb as SIayers of Wealthy Polish
Refugee, Mrs. Reich
BY MARTIN KANE

UNITED Press STAN Correspondent
New York, May 18-(UP)-Mur-
ray Hirschl, twice-eonvicted thief
today put the finger on his nephew
Eli Shonbrun, and Shonbrun's par
amour, Madeline Webb, as the STAY
ers of Mrs. Susie F. Reich, wealthy
Polish refugee.
Hirsch1 surprised spectators by
testifying in a complacent, almost
conversational tone, that the orig
inal plan was to rob a Mrs. Leo
pold," a distant relative Of Shon-
brun and Hirschl, and that he first
learned of the murder of Mrs. Reich
by reading of 1t in newspapers.
Hirschl, who admitted two con-
victionS for petty larceny, told the
story of the plot amid the alternate
sobs and sneers of the Webb girl.
He named her, Shonbrun and
John D. Cullen, third Defend
ant, as participants in several ses-
sionS of plotting at the Hotel SUIT
ton suite where Mrs. Reich's body
was discovered on March 5, the day
after the murder, suffocated by a
gag made of two scarves. Witnesses
have described the scarves as the
property of Miss webb and Cullen.
Accompanied Them
The witness said that two weeks
before the murder he accompanied
Shonbrun and Miss Webb to the
hotel, where Shonbrun registered
as Tied Leopold" and took a two
room suite for $40 week. There
after, he said, he visited them at
the hotel about 10 times, and on the
last two visits Cullen was present.
Two days before the murder,
(Continled on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
Left Today With City In
ductees; Rejected By
Physicians of Army
SPIRITED CONTEST
FOR CLERK is ENDED
Large Crowd Was Again
on Hand to Give Local
InduCtees Send Off

Army physicians at Hart
ford today rejected City
Clerk Joseph M. Shea, a
member of the city's last
Selective Service contingent
for May. The group, repre-
senting Board 16-B and over
twice as large as any previ-
ouSly sent by that board, left
the Union station early this
morning. Rejection of the
city clerk for army service
means that he retain his city post
end means the end Of a spirited
contest for appointment as his sue
cesSor. Numerous candidates had
been mentioned for the 5000 year
Job and filling of the prospective
vacancy had loomed as prospective
political headache for Mayor Vim
cent A. Scully.
A large crowd had been on hand
ct the Union Station for the fare
well ceremonies, many being friends
Of City Clerk Shea. Among the
spectators were many city officials,
who had attended one or more Of
several farewell testimonial dinners
for Mr.. Shea during the past few
weeks.
Other members Of the 1913 group
we're also rejected, but wartime reg
nlations forbid mention of their
number or the reasons for their
rejection.
Assembling at the city hall, the
prospective soldiers marched to the
station behind the East End Com
munity club fife, drum and bugle
corps. Mayor Vincent A. Scully and
Chairman Francis w. Orencole of
the Servicemenis committee spoke
fNnVari,A,,oN NJ Dona o.
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tinues to forge ahead" toward and
around Kharkov. portions of which
were reported aflame from artillery
bombardment, on the seventh day
Of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's
big offensive.
A fleet of 1000 or more tanks, in
GLIDING new 50-ton "land batleships"
and American triple-turret tanks,
and squadrons of Stomovik cannon
planes were reported blasting open
a path for the steady advance
which already is officially listed as
having exceeded 40 miles in some
sectors.
Sweep Over Nazi Dead
The Russian forces, advancing
over roads and fields strewn with
German dead and shattered Nazi
tanks, guns and, other equipment
were said officially to have recap
tured more than 300 villages, towns
and setlements-many of them left
In blazing ruins by the Germans.
The German parachutists were
dropped behind the Soviet lines
and many were picked off by marks
men before reaching the grounds-in
a desperate attempt to halt dis
asterous rout of Adolf Hitler's brok-
en- divisions, front line advices said.
Continued on Page A.
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CRACK GERMAN
CRUISER is HIT
Prinz Eugen Was Attacked
By British Planes While
On Way to HarbOr
BY SIDNEY ]. WILLIAMS
(yInited PROSE- STAFF Corrosuond0r

ASAAAs~A = AN@O SSA%AA SVAA SoPVhNASAeI
London, May 18-(UP)-Torped-
oes loosed by British torpedo planes
crashed into Germany's crack heavy
cruiser Prinz Eugen during the
night In a savage fight between a
British plane fleet and a German
naval and aerial force off the Nor
wy coast, the air ministry asserted
today.
Four destroyers escorting the
Prinz Eugen were raked by cannon
fire from four types of British planes
which attacked the ships. Five
German MesserSchmitt-1 and
nine British planes were down in a
series of ferocious dog fights.
Scared by bomb hits when 1t
made the daring run with the Ger
man battleships Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau past the English Channel
coast from Brest to the North Sea,
the 10,000-ton Prime Eugen had
gone to Trondheim, on the south
west Norway coast.
Continued on Page y
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ARMY BOMBER HAS
BEEN LOST AT SEA

Mitchell Field. N. Y, May 10.
(UP)-An army APO medium
bomber with a crew of five men
which disappeared at sea while on
routine submarine patrol May 10.
has been declared ofiicially lost, it
was announced today at air forces
headquarters, eastern defense COM
mand.
The craft was not previously re-
ported missing and relatives of the
three officers and two enlisted men
aboard have been notified.
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Adolf Hitler and the highest NAB
and Fascist leaders were firmly
convinced that the wars crisis was
at hand. y
The Axis is going to strike with
all Its strength and 1t can sttE
hit hard.
But the leaders know that the!
are nearing the end of their rope
unles they win quickly new re.
sources. They know that the wa
against America is unpopular; THAI
there Is defeatism in Italy, THAI
German psychology has swung I'd
the defensive. They know that thu
strain on Axis war production and
on home morale Is increasing; thai
Japan is an unpopular ally.
II they fail this summer, there a
every reason to feel confident that
increasing American war strength
will turn the tide so decisively tho
Axis will never regain the initia~
tive.
Picture Of Conditions
We came out Of Axis Europe aftes
years of reporting political and mill.
tary crises In all parts of the cons
tinent and five months of Intern
ment. We met in Lisbon with tina
United Press STATS from Berlin and
Rome. Over the week lend, we COM
pared notes and checked our infor-
nation and personal experiences IN
order to present one composite, cas-
lily understood picture Of conditions
inside the Axis.
Perhaps the most important thing
to emphasize is that 1t would be
foolhardy to believe the Axis -
cracking up or likely to crack up
before it is badly licked militarily.
The Nazis are still firmly in the
saddle and Mussolini, although
greatly weakened. is In no immedi-
ate danger as long as he is backed
by Germany's armed might.
There are many weaknesses iil~
side the Axis and in occupied terri
tories where the Gestapo has ex-
ecuted possibly 100000 persons. but
these can be increased to the point
of disaster only by an all out Allied
attack. Meanwhile, Hitler is swing
ing desperately for Knockout blow.
The Germans have massed 2l0 Of
their 300 army divisions against the
Russians. They already have suffred
an estimated 2.5O0, 900 casualties in
the east, including 100000 dead
Mary German families already
have lost two or three men.
This has put tremendous strain
on German manpower, and the Sit
uation is stretched beyond the dam
ger point in order to increase the
fighting services to about 12,000000.
This includes 100000 in the army,
i 100000 in the air force and navy
and 100000 in the auxiliary SER
vices including the labor corps.
While there is no shortage %
guns or munitions. one result of the
increase in fighting services has
been a decrease in some lines Of
especially of airplaness
in both Germany and Italy, due
both to shortage of workers and
1t is estimated that the monthly
plan production now is over l.l00
planes and under $500. The Nazia
have probably $4,000 planes in alb
now, but many are out-dated.
Italy Made Workshop
Hitler has made a great effor ito
ntrn Italy--lses vulnerable to RAE
,aids--into a workshop to bc.steA
war production. And hundreds 6
(Contiaued on Page q
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PRIVATE IS HELD
FOR Joy RIDING"

WateEville, Me-. May ls.-(UP)-
Pvt, Bernard B, Butler, 20, was
held for army authorities today
after he allegedly drove an army
leep here from Brooklyn, ~ Y,
where he was stationed, to show
his wife the diploma be won after
training three months TO become .
cook.
Butler. who repeatedly gave lifts
TO two soldiers during his t00-mile
trip north, was seized In nearby
Clinton yesterday when police were
Informed he was sightseeing In the
"a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
AMERICAN PLANES
SEEK JAP FLEET
They Are Hunting Invasion
Zones for Signs of Jap
anese Ships
BY DON CASWELL

United Press Staff Correspondent
Melbourne, May l8.-(UP)-Long
range American planes swept over
thousands of square miles of the
invasion zones today searching for
signs of a new Japanese invasion
fleet assembling for a new major
offensive.
There was increasing belief that
a new japanese move was imminent
and Australian quarters said United
States and japanese naval forma-
tons might soon be in contact
somewhere east of Australia.
American and Australian flyers
limited themselves entirely to recon-
naissance work yesterday, after
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BY FREDERICK OECHSNER AND REYNOLDS PACKAF
UNITED Press Staff Correspondentsl

Lisbon May 18.-(UP) THE Axis is stalking every
thing, including 100000 troops now in Russia
and possibly three hundred U-boats in the Atlans
tic, on lastchance onslaught against the Red army
price, in 1912 When left Germany and Italy last week
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-18
One Million Russian
Troops Storm Kharkov
German Suicide Parachute Troops Were AnnihiIated;
They Attempted to Stop Complete ROut of Ger
man Armies, Trying to Save KharkOv
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent

Moscow, May 18.-(UP)-A Russian army estimated
at nearly 900 stormed through blazing villages
the approaches to Kharkov today after annhilatng
suicide squads of German parachutsts and infantry
rushed into battle aboard traers drawn by Naz
tanks An official communque said the Red army Con
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Almost 100000 Troops
Are Now Fighting Russians
300 Submarines Are in Atlantic; Two
u. P. Writers Reveal Conditions in
Germany, Italy at Present Time

The following dispatch contains the last word what happen
behind the lines Frederick
United
the United after
challenged United
following Germany
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The Weather

Much Cooler For
This Evening
Fun weather Report Page 3
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-26
War Production SettinQ
Record, Nelson Reports
But Chairman Of WPB Warns
Marion Of Premature Boosting
BY JACKSON :. ELLIOTT
Init News Service stan Correspondent

2 Production Of aircraft in
the first six months OF 1912 ex-
ceeded production during all of
last year Plane production,
which totaled only 224 in June.
1899. reached 602 in June. 1910.
l,476 in June, 1871, and 1914
in September, 1941-the last
month in which official totals
were released for publication.
In May, 1912, plane production
was nearly 1000 as the aircraft
industry prepared to meet Presi-
dent RooSevelt's goal of $4,000
fighting planes this year.
Merchant ship tonnage de-
liVered in the first six months
of this year totaled 2.544.OOO
lightweight tons--l33 per cent
greater than during all Of 1871.
While total deliveries for the
first six months were not up 10
expectations. deliveries in May
and juno were ahead of expec-
tationS for those months. Flu
ture deliveries will depend upon
availability OF steel plates. pro-
pulsion machinery and ways.
A during the first six months
Of this year. the United States
built many more tanks. light
and medium, than during all of
last year. In May more than
500 tanks we're built.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-26
Biggest job Ahead

Industry. labor and govern
=. ment are generally doing good
job Of production" he asserted,
"but too much Boosting about
production progress il altogether
premature.
The biggest part az the job Is
still ahead. Serious raw material
shortages are looming mp ahead.
Many bottieneckS are being
broken, hut some new ones are
forming"
HighhGhtS Of Nelson's fepor
gave this overall picture
Production OF ships. tanks
guns, ammunition and all mill
tary campaign equipment was
almost three times as large in
June. 1912 as M November
1911 the month before the war
started