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Detroit evening times., 1943-09-10

As 10 the Jap they are worse
he believes. because all ~ them
not just the young fanatics '
are in hr opinion beyond hope
"They have all been taught In
school 90 hate the white man"
Van koopTan says They have
been taught 10 bctray the
whites i'm any way they can,
and l think our boys should he
taught what TO expect of the
Japs."
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-10

Van =keepglafr etTf1stea6In The
ScabceS because he knows lot
about construction work, be-
cause he knows the Malay Ian
guagc, and because bis brothers
died fighting the JapS.
They were II. Memo Van
Koopman. lost on the G. user
Java in the Battle Of the lava
Sea, and 1t. Comdr. George Van
Koopman lost al Maccassar
Straits
IL told my WIFE" Van koop-
man said "th I knew what
my father " aid say In his
grave. lie would ask me why
aren't you i'm uniform?'
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-10

Ihcy Analy !ul4nd Tie fHaPi
The Trunk Of The Japanese COOK,
who was. Of course, a Jap INTEL
hgenCe agent cor. IN plain Ian
guaGC. a spyl IN disguise. They
dcpOTtCd INN and IN The nedr-
est city, trapped seven more Jap
spies who were pretending 20 be-
grocerS, lnnkecpcrS and taxi
drivers. They wanted the Jun
tle map trrdtt-r II bufarrcd on
the government road through
Sgmatra Year later the read
was of great military value
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-10

Van hoopman, born In Amster-
dam. He spent several years I'm
the Netherlands East Indies az
superintendent of big rubber
and coffee plantation I'm SUI
matra. handling 900 native
WOrkmen.
That WAS in the l920s. hat
even then the laps were laying
their plans Ia conquer.
Once" Van KOOpman said,
II was instructed 10 take 65
men into the jungle 10 survey
IL. We were going To plant
1000 more acres Of rubber trees.
For three months didn't
see a white man. Mhen I got
back 1 had my map of the
jungle. ] put II away over
night. The next morning II was
gone" That's how close Jap
spies were watching, even then.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Center Bans
 Admission To Children

No more children will be en- rolled at the Kingsbufy Child Care Center for at least two weeks at which time the supervising author ities will decide what action to take depending on the prevalence of the dreaded disease, infantile paralysis, 1t was decided upon the recommen- dation of City Health Officer Ed ward J. Godfrey, Miss Alice Peak, director of the Visiting Nurses as- sociation, and representative of the state health department.
 This decision was made at spe- cial meting held by the above named with Miss Pauline Moor, director of the child care center yesterday afternoon.
 At the present time there are 19 children enrolled at the center and all are perfectly strong and sifealtify, said Miss Moor. Even before the disease broke out in New Haven, this organization was not accepting children with running noses. We just will not have any children brought into the center unless he or she is perfectly healthy" she stated.
 "If the child becomes i'll on the premises. we isolate the child at once and Dr. Godfrey is called upon the scene to diagnose and make his recommendations she said.
 However, the center will continue to accept applications and will keep them on waiting list until we see
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Clark Gable Makes Movie

Flying Fortress Base, England, Aug. 13-(UP)-Capt. Clark Gable is making another movie--a gum nery training film that he hopes will enable American fighting men better to defend themselves--but he shuns publicity for himself and just wants to be "one of the boys"
 Sitting before, roaring coal stove drinking coffee brewed by himself, Gable was emphatic today as he again begged reporters to leave him alone SO that he can "do the job that came over for"
 The film star, wso completed his third bomber mission over enemy territory yesterday, is winning his private battle for ananymity.
 I'm not worried what people back home think" he said. "But it matters a hell of a lot what the boys I'm working with think and it's just as important what boys I'm going to be working with in the future think.
 T am mDking gunnery training film. The government is putting lots of money into 1t along with the talents of many of Hollywood's best tecknicians.
 T am no hero and I'm not win- ming any wars. Why. I'm not even fighting any wars. But I'm doing the job the Army Air Force wants
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Moy Talk
 Pacific War
By REUEL s. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 13. - (UP) - Speculation that the Roosevelt Churchill conference in Quebec will concern the next Allied step after the fall of Sicily was being discount ed here today on the theory that it, and possibly the next series of blows in Europe, have been planned.
 However, the official Soviet Tass news agency's statement that the Soviet Union was not invited "be- cause of the nature of the confer ence' caused speculation that Pres ident Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill would concern themselves exclusively with the Pacific.
 Earlier this week, President Roos- evelt met with the Pacific war coun- Gil. He presumably discussed the conference in general terms with the council members.
 But President Roosevelt's remarks of last Tuesday were recalled. He said then that no Soviet representa- tiveS would attend the conference, but that that did not mean he wouldn't be awfully glad to have them present.
 The discounting of reports that the conference was for the purpose of planning an Allied offensive in Europe this year - maybe a knock out punch-was based on the fact that such offensives are not planned or prepared on short notice. There is always the possibility that an in- ternal collapse in Germany might hurry things along. but in general there was little basis for belief that the conference would be dealing with such operations, if not hitherto planned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13

Exercising the same precautions to avoid hitting church and histor- ical monuments as they did in their first raid on Rome July 19, the Fly ing Fortresses confined their pre- cision bombers to the San Lorenzo yards while the Mitchells and Ma rauders hit the Littorio yards.
 The first wave of American planes arrived over the Italian capital shortly after g a. m. and other waveS swept across the Eternal City for at least two hours.
 P-38 twin-engined Lightning fighters escored the all-American formations.
 The night raids on Milan and. Turin, northern Italy's two largest cities, were carried out by 8 two- hour procession of four-engined Stirlings, Lancasters and Halifaxes that sent hundreds o ftons of bombs cascading onto some of the most irn- portant arms factories in Italy.
 The brunt of the assault was borne by Milan, site of the Pirelli rubber and plastics factory, the Bianchi motor factory and scores of other war plants, but the air ministry said strong" force also attacked the royal arsenal and other objectives in Turin.
 Weather over northern Italy was good and first reports show that both attacks were well concen- trated," the air ministry said.
 The Rome raid followed aerial
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Time Grows Short For Italy To Make Up Her Mind On War
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Aug. 13-(UP)-Time is growing short for the Italians to make up their minds whether Italy is to be turned into a battlefield or capitulate.
 Dispatches from Sicily that the German evacuation is in full swing make it plain that the week end is likely to see the Allies in full con- trol there.
 There seems to be little doubt that unless Ialian Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio makes satisfactory proposals before the Churchill Roosevelt conferences end--and the time limit may actually be shorter than that--the Allies will unleash their full military, naval and air power against Italy in blitz at tack probably unparalleled since the Germans marched into Poland.
 High Allied quarters have made it clear that there is not the slight est sympathy for the IalianS as long as they prolong their share of the war. The Allied feeling is that the war schedule, despite Mussolini's overthrow, already has been set back week or 10 days by the bitter end German resistance in Sicily which was only possible with Italian acquiescence. Thus the Allies regard Badoglio responsible for the German stand which has cost the Allies not only time and trouble but lives.
 Specific Time Limit
 It is not known whether speci- fic time limit has been indicated to the Italians after which no proposal from Badoglio will be considered, But there is no doubt the Allied plans for the invasion of the Italian mainland have been showed forward simultaneously with the closing phases of the Sicilian attack,
 Naturally the Allies have given no indication where the attack is going to strike. However it Is logl- cal to expect the first Allied troops to land across the Straits of Mes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Air Attacks On Kunles Presages New Action

Since Paramushiru might comedy. ably he the base from which the enemy forces in the Aleutians have been supplies. the attack Is given added significance, especially be. cause Of the feeling here that an American invasion Of Klska Is I'm. pending,
 Bomber base
 If Kiska Is to be Invaded, it would be important for the north Pacific command to know what the Japa- nese have In tho way ot naval and air strength in the Param,lshiru area. it was recalled that during the early stages of the Attu cam. paign. the Japanese twice send land -based bomber formations against the American invasion forces. These bombers were be. lieved based in the kurilcs,
 Whatever the reason for the lat. est attack. it was definitely not an
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Lender Sues John Monroe

Washington, Aug. 13 - (U.Po - Russell Mcguire, Greenwich, Conn. has filed suit in federal district court here for affirmation of a $4,- 5O9 judgment he won in New York State supreme court against Mon- roe Kaplan. whose activities under the name of John Monroe were scrutinized last spring by a house sub Committee.
 Mcguire said in his suit that he loaned money to Kaplan some years ago to develop certain Louisiana oil lands He said the New York court granted the judgment last January.
 A house military affairs sub-com. mittee last spring investigated Monroe's activities in connection with award of certain government contracts. It deveoted some to social functions held by Monroe at his house at 2l0i R street, in fashion able northwest Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Reds Hit Kharkov
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Pres Staff COrsrespondl


 Moscow, Aug. 3-(UP)-Russian vanguards smashed into the north- ern suburbs of Kharkov today as Red armies began a final assault to capture the city and drive the Axis back to the Dnieper.
 The German garrison, only re- gently reinforced by fresh troops rushed directly from the Reich, was reported falling back steadily into a narrowing corridor southwest of the city.
 At one point southeast of the city, the German retreat had become a rout with the enemy forces fleeing in disorder, the Soviet high com- mand said. Prisoners and booty were mounting by the hour.
 The capture of Chuguev, defense anchor 22 miles southeast of Khar- kov, appeared to have sealed the fate of the big industrial city, the pittsburgh of the Ukraine"
 No Natural Defenses
 There are no natural defenses be- tween Chuguev and Kharkov and the capture of the base also opened the way for an attack from the east against the sole escape railroad re- maining in Axis hands running south from the city.
 Russian vanguards which pene- trated the northern suburbs of Kharkov were advancing through the little town of Tsirkuni, only five miles to the northeast which also fell yesterday,
 Thanking columns that by-passed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Report Musso Sunk In Sub

New York. Aug, l3-(UP)-The New York Post said today that "ac- cording to reports in circles fre- gently very well informed" Benito Mussolini was drowned in a sub marine attempting to escape from Italy,
 Mussolini, the newspaper said, was reported to have boarded the submarine probably at Leghorn, within Q short interval after his political downfall"
 "The submarine" the Post said "reportedly was spotted by Allied airmen, who bombed 1t repeatedly and sent it to the bottom"
 Whether the Allies were informed that the former Italian distator was aboard. was not known. the newspaper said.
 The Post gave no additional clue to the source Of the story which it carried without datcline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Slow Advance lin SoIomons

Allied headquarters, Southwest Pacific. Aug. 13-(UP)-A continu- ed slow advance against the Jap- anese garrison at Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island was report ed in communique today but ad- verse weather hampered air oper- ations in both the south and south- west Pacific zones.
 There were no details of the lat est developments on New Georgia where one American column was last reported pushing through en- emy resistance four and one-haif miles southwest of the harbor. last Japanese nest on the island.
 Light naval craft. probably tor- pedo boats. sank a small Japanese uXiliary vessel off Kolombngara. Is- land, northwest Of New Georgia. But Allied planes were forced to keep to the ground in the Solomons area.
 On New Guinea, Liberators brav- ed bad weather over the jungles to bomb the Salamaua Isthmus. Sev- eral skirmishes on the ground oc- cured near that enemy base on the northeast coast and artillery duels continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Charge Lad With Murder

Concord, Mass, Aug 13 - UP) Sixteen -year-old Charles Richard Ferrand of Harvard. captured here today after a two-day manhunt, al- legedly confessed to the gun staying of Maine aviation instructor on a highway between Waterville and New Sharon, Me.
 Massachusetts State Police Corp oral Robert Rhodes said that Fer rand had signed two-page pen ciled confession in which he said he shot Barnard w. Jordan, 26, to death Wednesday with a stolen re- volver and fled to Massachusetts in his victims car.
 The confession said that the body of Jordan, a Colby College graduate who was reported missing Wednesday, would be found behind a stonewall on Route "A near New Sharon, which is about 20 miles northwest of Waterville.
 Sheriff Earl Hawkens of Farming ton, Me. and some deputies left by automobile shortly before 1l:30 a. m., in an effort to locate the body.
 Police quoted the six-foot. dun garee- e-clad youth as saying that he hitch-hiked ride with Jordan Wednesday morning. They rode for some distance. he said, and when near the Waterville municipal air port. where Jordan was an instruc- tor, he tFerrand) drew a .38 caliber pistol which he had stolen here pre- viously,
 "Get Out
 Get out, I'm going to use this car" Ferrand was quoted as telling Jordan, Jordan resisted and Fer rand fired. Jordan slumped at the wheel, the youth said, and died in a few minutes.
 How did you know the man was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
BY ROBERT DOwsoN United Press Stan Correspondent

London. Aug. i3. - tUP) = High ways and railroads leading to Brit ish coastal areas have been damned with military trafiio recently. 1t was learned today as speculation mount cd throughout the country that the zero hour for an invasion of western Europe may be approaching,
 However. most observers believed the invasion would not come in the next few weeks.
 Many thousands of American and Dominion troops were reported to have been moved into new areas and additional barracks arc still under construction. Hotels and guest houses m one area notified thou sands Of vacationists that their res cryations were canceled.
 vacationists already were stream ing back from some resorts, where schools, hall sand other buildings were expected to Dc requisitioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Ballots For Soldiers

Washington, Aug. 13 (UP) - Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D., H., of the House Rules Committee said today he didn't give damn" how men and women in the armed ser vices vote, just so they get chance to cast their ballots.
 "Candidly, believe that if Presl- den Roosevelt should be drafted for fourth term. 75 per cent of the men in the service would vote for him." Ee added with smile.
 Let them vote. It's what they're fighting for"
 Sabath plans to inroduce bill making 1t mandatory for the War and Navy Departments and other agtNci to facilitate absentee vot- ing in active war theaters.
 And I don't think for one mo- ment that anything should be done to influence their vote." he said.
 In that he was joined by Sen. Theodred F. Green, D.. R. l., who said he didn't want the office of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Zero Hour For European
 Muasion May Be Nearing

Several railroad lines have refused civilian business because Of military demands.
 It was reported earlier this week that the government intended to re-lmpose n prohibition on visitors along wide stretch of the southern and eastern coasts.
 Troop Movements
 The large-Scale troop movements presumably have not passed unno- ticed by German reconnaissance planes and the London Daily Mail said intense military activity also Is visible on the continent. probably in the form of preparations 10 meet the anticipated Allied onslaught.
 Tn northern France. activity has reached fever heat" the Mail said. "The exodus Of holiday makers that now is taking place in Britain has already been carried out in ali French Atlantic resorts on orders
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Russia Not Invited To Conference
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Quebec, Cue, Aug. 13.-(UP)- Official Russian disclosure that Pre- mier Josef Stalin had been neither invited TOT was expected to par- ticipate threw new light today on the forthcoming conference of Pres ident Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Churchill in this ancient city.
 Observers could only assume from a brief announcement issued by Tass, the official Russian news agency, that matters with which Russia is not officially concerned, were to be discussed. That could only be the Pacific war. Though allied with the United States and Great Britain in the European war, Russia is at peace with Japan and hence has no part in that phase of the worldwide struggle.
 Tn view of the nature of this conference" the Tass announce ment said, participation by repre- sentatives of the Soviets govern ment at the meteing in Quebec was neither intended nor Is 1t expected"
 All preparations for the confer ence of the two leaders of the great English speaking nations were com- pleted and all that remained was the arrival of the participants. Churchill, accompanied by his daughter, Mary, visited Niagara Falls yesterday morning, going there from here by train. They left Niagara Falls, N. Y, for an undis- closed destination shortly after noon.
 Meanwhile, Canadian observers predicted that Canada might take
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Seeks New. Recordings

New York. Aug, iS-tUP)-Rep, Joseph Clark Baldwin, R., N, Y,, planned today to seek congressional action to reviev the manufacture of recordings. blocked since Aug, l, ip42 by dispute between the Ameri- can Federation of Musicians and radio stations and record makers,
 He said he would seek to revive house bill introduced by Rep, Hugh Scott, R,, Pa, which would permit the copyrighting of record- lngs and give tho performers the right to royalties it they were broadcast or played tn luke boxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
ALLIED AIRMEN LASH AT FOES Milan, Turin, Berlin And Rome Bombed;
 Tanks Battle Stubborn Rear Guards
A ROMAN B BECOMES
 A1PUG1

Los Angeles, Aug. 13-UP) Mrs. Lila Roman filed may hem charges today against the man she said had bitten off the end of her nose when she refused to go out with them.
 She appeared at a prelim- mary hearing with a well-ban- daged nose to testify against mechanic Manual Lira, 43. T had 8 Roman nose," she said. "Now it's nothing but a pug"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Womon Stays 

Memphis Tenn, Aug. l3, (UP)- Authorities said today that Mrs. Mildred Davidson. 37, admitted last night that she hacked her three children to death with an ax and an ice pick while they slept.
 Her confession came nine hours after her husband, Robert David son, an insurance agent, found the mutilated bodies of their children in their beds. yesterday morning.
 Mrs, Davidson. arrested in the street near her home. late yester- day. will be sent to psychiatric hos pital for observation and examina- ton. Attorney General Will Gerber said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
WAR MAKES
 STRANGE B BEDFELLoWS

Camp Edwards. Mass, Aug, i3-tUP)-- Pvt. Jehn !. Cxeike ef Flushing. N. Y.. thinks he ought te get some sort ef med d after he unwittingly bcdded with . skunk on . plot of pols. on Ivy.
 Cseike pitched his pup tent in the dark during \ night maneuver. When he woke up. . skunk darted out Of his tent and he discovered that he was heading for . stiff case of pol. son Ivy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13

CaplCallZlng on the second lanQ- ing behind the German lines, the United States Seventh Army drove eastward behind a shattering sea and air bombardment. The united landing force and the main army swarmed through the Cape D'Or- lando anchor of the Axis defenses and forward to occupy the towns of Naso and Brolo,
 Threaten Town
 On the east coast, the British Eighth Army moved up four miles to occupy the village of the Archi- rafi and threaten the neighboring towns of Gairre and Riposto.
 While the wings of the Allied push reached within 35 miles of Messina, the American and British forces thrusting through the cen- ter at the key junction of Ram dazzo gained about four miles in the rugged mountain pass west of the town, which already was under light artillery fire.
 Dispatches from the Sicilian front said the evacuation of Sicily by the main body of German troops was in full swing. Confirming the re- ports, authorities here said the rear guard fighting by the Axis forces still was bitter on both coasts and in the RandaZzo sector.
 Retreat Quickens
 For several days small boats, in- cluding rowboats and dories, had been ferrying Axis troops across
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Ny sAND0R $, KLEIN United Press Stan Corresp0ndent)


 Washington. Aug. i3.-tuP)-The latest American air attack on Japan's Kurile Island outposts was regarded today as the iorerunner of new offensive action in the north Pacific.
 Although the attack ostensibly was intended for the destruction Of specific targets, some observers be- lleved the mission was primarily ono of reconnaissance,
 The kuriles. a long Island chaln stretching northeastward from the Japanese homeland. are important because eventually they might pros vide more accessible stepping stones" to Tokyo than the southwest Pacific Isles.
 paramushiru. an enemy naval base in the northernmost kuriles. Is approximately i20o miles from Tokyo and 72b miles from American held Attu in tho western Aieutians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Hoisted On Own Petord

Bern. Switzerland, Aug. l3--tUP) Definite proof that the Italians grossly exaggerated damage to the Basilica San Lorenzo during the first United states bombing Of Rome. was revealed today in Italian frontier dispatches.
 The reports disclosed an an- nouncemcnt by the official Vatican organ Osseryatore Romano that high Mass was recited at San Lor- enzo Tuesday. the saints feast day and other religious functions were continuing regularly.