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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
News Of Connecticut

Hartford. Conn.,. Nov. S-UP)- Louis Kosoff. a Barbour street bar Der, and a Republican. defeated his boss, George Rogow, Democrat, for alderman from the third ward last night by l88 votes.
 Kosoff is Rogow's only employe and immediately announced he was going on a weeks vacation.
 What vacation?" exploded Ro- gow. when informed of Kosoff: intentions.
 Why doesn't somebody tell me these things2"
 Rogow, however, conceded Louis is great guy, and I wish him the best of luck"
 New London, Conn.,. Nov. B. OUP)-Walter Magruder, 51, Nor wich. went on trial before 8 su- periOr court jury today. charged with the second degree murder of his 52-years-Old wife, Pauline, last June 13.
 OchCCttOn OI hH ah-HuoAC SuAy was completed late yesterday be- fore Judge James E. Murphy.
 State claimed Magruder beat his wife to death as she lay in bed. Magruder protested he awOke the morning of June 13 to find his wife dead beside him.
 Hartford, Conn, Nov. 3-(UP)- State Milk Administrator Donald O Hammerberg declared today tllai Connecticut was 80,000 quarts ot milk a day short of its needs an6 blamed the irresponsible, uncoor' dinated actions of a few dealers for creating a situation which he regarded as extremely grave"
 Most Connecticut dealers. he said were operating on self-imposed quo- tas and drawing on New York State for emergency supplies. However others were obtaining milk from Vermont and infringing upon Bos- tons emergency supply, threatening the entire distributive system.
 Tt seems to me" he said, that is recalcitrant dealers persist in this practice of drawing heavily from emergency markets. the govern ment will have to step in and bring pressure to bear through denial oi gasoline rations, tire rations oi through the administration of num- erous federal controls and emergen- cy war powers to which business generally Is subjected"
 Hammerberg said he believed the milk situation was getting worse in this state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

A stranger in black sedan and a case of scotch whiskey added up to Q lot of trouble for William Dere- skevice, 42, Wagner Alley, in City Court this morning.
 Pleading guilty to charge of theft, and not guilty to a charge of breaking and entry, Dereskevice explained that he was passing the Seaboard Freight Lines Warehouse oa South Leonard St., on Sunday afternoon, when short, dark man beckoned to him from a car parked along the curb.
 would you like to hs e drink, said the stranger.
 T might have just one" said Dereskevice.
 Well, pick up that case and bring 1t over here" said the stranger.
 So, Dereskevice explained, he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
PROBE OF ASSESSORS
 OFFICE NEARING END

The probe of the Waterbury as. sessors' office should be completed and finding made by Nov. l8 un- less something unforeseen occurs. State Tax Comsr. Walter Walsh said yesterday.
 One more visit will be made here by officials of his department. sometime within the next two weeks. The tax commissioner ex- plained that hearings on other matters have delayed completion of the investigation here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

A dinner meeting of the S0- ciety of Residential Appraisers at The Elton tomorrow night honor ing real estate men and women of Connecticut will hear AldrO Jenks of the state tax department discuss Assessed Valuation and Its Relation to Market Value of Real Property
 George A. Baronlan is a mem- ber of the arrangements commit tee, and Prof. Ray w. Westfield of Yale's department of economies will preside.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
FIRST TO FIGHT

Months before the Declaration Of Independence was signed, long be- fore old Ironsides sailed the seas and years before the national capital was established at Washington, U. S. Marines, who celerbate their l68th anniversary on November 10, were fighting their country's battles on land and ct sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
Associate Secretary

ASSOClate SeCEetbTy
 Dr. Francis P. Barnes, associate secretary of the Waterbury Dem tai association, reporting on . meeting of representatives of three dental laboratories at The Elton last night, said 1t was the con- sensus that false teeth will be more comfortable, more adaptable, and more attractive as soon as wartime limitations cease and ma terials become plentiful. The talks last night embraced production of new materials and new techniques in dentistry, as well as problems between dentists and dental lab- Oratories,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

Tn many parts of the world where little or no was is available, auto mobile are successfully run on power generated from charcoal gas. The latter fuel developes about 20 per cent less power than gasoline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
BETA HI-Y CLUB
 CREETS MEMBERS

The Beta Hi-Y Club had an induc- ton ceremony for new members last evening. The ceremony was in charge of Gordon Gentles, club advisor. New members inducted were Jack New mann, Lee Prescott, Warren Ran dall, Edward Shaker, Edward Phil lips, Harold Anderson, Robert Hill, Joe Kelley, Alan Hansen, Howard Petersen and Fred Thornley. The club touch football team will play Sacred Heart Hi-Y tonight at 6:30. A social has been planned for Arm istice Day night. The committee in charge is Shaker, Chairman Hill and Anderson.
 Cape Province, South Africa, will build 1000 homes for returning sol- Sii
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

AS the result of the wholesale holdup of passenger automobiles and buses on the Cuauta Highway on a recent Sunday, railway trains running between Mexico City and Puebla have an increased military escort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
% ~ q
IS CITED
s s SConferences May
Sc War To Be
Shortened
HEARD IN COMMONS
Meets May Bring Post
War, Big = Power,
Collaboration
HEARD IN COMMONS

LONDON. Dec. 14.-tR-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden to d y
brought the House o. Commons a
promise of the wars shortening
and prospects Of enduring big-pow.
err collaboration for lasting peace
from the Middle East conferences
of President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, with President
Chang Kai-shek, Premier Stain
and President inonu of Turkey.
In a message of good cheer .
he reported encouragement among
Allied leaders at the outcome OF
their three conferences of world
significance.' whose value could
hardly he exaggerated" yet he
cautioned the cheering chamber
against ''easy OPTIMISM" for the
very agnitude of the plans to
beat Germany and Japan, he said,
will call for immense effort in
the coming months from each and
all of the United Nations"
Speaking lengthily in tn e alb
sence of Churchill. VINO still is en-
gagged in important work in an
undisclosed sphere where he now
is" Eden said, 'the war will be
shorteneo' by close coordination
of all our military plans.
The foundations were laid at
Teheran, h. said, for the creation
Of an international order firmer
in strength ard unity than any
enemy could seek to challenge.
Plans far more complete h n
were ever before formulated in
war have been made for the de-
feat of Japan, against whose fore
es. Eden said, the British would
fight Ito the bitter end, whatever
the cost, however long it takes. -
The confidential discussions
with Turkey at Cairo raised good
hopes that they will be found to
have established a sound basis for
future cooperation between Tur-
key, Britain, the United States and
Russia, he SAID.
Eden told Commons that con-
tinuous rain, swollen rivers and
mud had slowed the advance of
Allied armies N Italy, VIII e
American casualties up to Nov.
Is totalled 1868 and British cas-
ualties 1914.
He said the British government
looks for France to rise again and
that it does not wish to impose
horsepower will or Europe" but
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday,
Dec. Is. -P)- Allied planes have
smashed the Japanese plane base
at Gasmata. on the south central
coast of New Britain, with 248 tons
of bombs in one of the biggest
raids of the war in this area.
The Gasmata raid, announced In
General Douglas Macarthur S
communique today, was but one
of japanese points hit in air as
saults from Timor, northwest OF
Australia, to the Solomons.
On land, in New Guinea, the
Australians have repulsed three
strong japanese counterattacks in
the Ramu valley, taking heavy
toll of the enemy. On the Huon
peninsula, north of Finschhafen,
the Aussies were reported going in
Ion the village Of Lakona.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
FOURTH WAR LOAN
DRIVE PLANS SET
Wilmingtonian Is Named
Area Chairman For
Sixth Region

WINSTON-SA SALEM, Dec. 14-tR-
Three regional conferences to map
plans for the coming Fourth War
Loan drive have been announced
by c. T. Leinbach of Winston
Salem, chairman of the North
Carolina War Finance Committee.
The meetings will be held in
Raleigh on December Is, White
Lake, December Is, and Charlotte
December II. County chairmen.
vice-chairmen and key workers
of the various county committees
of Regions 4, 6, and 9 have been
invited to attend the meetings.
R. c. Kirchofer, area chairman
for region 4, will be in charge
Of the Raleigh meeting Wednes-
day night. W. H. Neal will repre-.
sent Chairman Leinbach and VIII
be the principal speaker. Other
discussions will be led by Norris
HadaWay, chairman of Promotion
and Special Events, and Jerry
Walden, agricultural manager OF
the War Finance Committee. Mr.
Walden will speak of plans beng
made by his committee to assist
in contracting farm populations lp
each county. Group 4 includes
Wake and surrounding counties
The meeting of Region 6 at White
Lake will be headed by John Sted-
man OF Lumberton, regional chair
man, and R. S. Rogers of Will
mlngton, area chairman. Princl-
pal speakers at this meetings will
be Chairman Leinbach and Va
den. Region 6 includes Bladen,
Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland
New Hanover, Fender. and Robe
son counties.
On Friday night in Charlotte,
Lelnoach, Neal, Hadaway, and
Vaden will meet with representa-
(COntlnued on Papo Three. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
Jan Base At Gasnata Hit
With 248 Tons OF Bombs

The air attack on Gasmata again
emphasized the attention the AL
lied forces have been giving New
Britain island, where also are 10
Gated the Japanese air base at
Cape Gloucester on the western
tip, and the harbor base of Ra-
baul on the northeast tip.
Gasmata was hit with 400 tons
of bombs IN raids during the latter
part of November, and Vice Ad-
1niral Thomas c. Kinkaid's de-
a adare VI shelled it two weeks ago
in The first attack on the place
by Allied surface craft.
Since late in November, more
than 1900 tons of bombs have
been dumped on Gasmata and
cane Gloucester. The latter place
is east of Huon peninsula, New Gui-
fContinued on Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
Page Col 81 Continued Five
Precdrious Maxi Front
In Dnieper Bend Cracks

For the Nazi high command re-
treat from the Dpieper bend would
Involve abandonment of the Nazi
army already trapped in the Cri-
nea. Yet withdrawal of forces
from the Kiev bulge front to prop
the lettering defense line in the
lend would invite even greater
disaster.
Despite Russian withdrawal at
Radomsyl go miles west of Kiev,
there seems to be little possibility
that the German counter offensive
against the crucial southwest seq
ment of the wide and deep Rus
sian salient west of Kiev will
achieve any important tactical or
strategic success German admis-
sion of Russian numerical superb
Gritty to the south at Cherkasy is
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
KNOX PREDICTS
PACIFIC ATTACK
America Getting Ready To
Drive Hard Blows,
He States

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA tR -
The U. S. Navy has grown so
confident of it's mastery in the
Pacific that Secretary Knox might
as well have said today. "Tojo,
here we GOMEZ"
Eve are getting ready to drive
home some hard blows Knox
told reporters, a statement that
would not have been heard for
military security reasons a year
ago. j
Now, Knox had no hesitation in
saying that ''the preliminaries are
over"
Where the new blows will land
was, of course, not disclosed. They
may hit in the Marshall islands,
under constant air attack since
U. S. forces took over the Gilberts
Knox persistently expresses
wishes these days that the Japa-
nese fleet would come out and
fight Instead, the enemy has
used only comparatively small
units in support Of outDosts
throughout the Pacific.
Those little fleets have been
smashed Systematically - sent to
the bottom or forced to turn back
to their bases badly crippled in
engagements which Knox said are
a clear part of "the whole STRAIT
egy."
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
MILD INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC LIKELY
City Expected To Get Its
Sh are Of Nation
Wide Illness

Enthusiastically our community
will get its share of the influenza
winch seems to be spreading over
the nation. 1t is possible that the
epidemic may become more VOL
ent. But at present we have no
statistics that would reveal that
the city is in the grip of the germ"
DR.. A. H. Elliot. city-county health
officer, commented Tuesday.
DIR. Elliot observed that a num-
Der of mild cases of "flu" have
come to his attention.
Il can't emphasize too strongly
the necessity for going to bed for
rest at the first signs of the sick
ness, Elliot said.
Il recommend that all of us be
on guard, get to bed, seek plenty
of rest and stay on a fluid diet for
a WHILE" he added.
| Unnlistakable signs of the all
nent seem to be severe chilly sem
sations, headaches, body aches,
perhaps sore throat. and tempera-
ture. DR.. Elliott is of the opinion
that there is not great deal that
can be done to ward off the sick
ness once it gets hold. Going to
bed seems to be the only alterna-
tive"
!, The public relations office at
Camp Davis reported Tuesday
quite bit of flu at the post.
The hospitals are not full of flu
patients, but there are more cases
on record than is usual.
The sickness does not appear
severe, and most of the Camp Da-
Wis patients are confined for only
a few days.
1--WE have had more this year
than we did last year." the office
declared.
James Walker Memorial hospital
reported no substantial increase in
the number of influenza cases on
its records.
The county Board of Education
declined comment on the prevail
ence, or lack of it, among school
children.
The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company infirmary reported "a
number of cases. of flu among
workers at the yard, and conse-
ouent loss of time on account OF
the disease.
Dr.. Elliot, musing on the posi-
bility of serious epidemic, said
| if such reached the proportions
experienced in the epidemic that
ragged during the last war, all the
schools and churches would have
to be drafted for hospital service.
Information on how to treat the in
fluenza would have to be dissemin-
ated by press and radio. There
would not be enough doctors to go
around.
! DR.. Elliot is hopeful, of course,
that such will not occur. There
would have to be tremendous in
crease in the number of cases, and
in the virulence of the disease, be-
fore the community would be sui
fering as acutely from the influen-
"a siege as it did in 1918.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Cloudy and cold
er Wednesday forenoon with occasional
light snow west and central portions.
and occasional light rain along the
coast; clearing and colder Wednesday
afternoon and night, with Temperature
IL to IL west and central portions, l3 to
"a IN east portion. Thursday partly clou-
dy and continued cold
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
30 am, 38, 80 am, "a, 1870 pm.
48, 7:30 pm, 46.
Maximum 40, Minimum SO, Mean 40.
Normal 49,
Humidity
80 am, -, 1880 am, 81, 80 pm, 50,
1880 pm, 81.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 80 pm.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month.
0.02 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
12:21p TAP
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 9:53a 3 :4oa
10:17p 4:17p
Sunrise, 7:l0 am, Sunset, :04 pm.
Moonrise. 8:48 pm, Moonset, 1900 a.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetts.
vile at am. 9.45 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

The precarious Nazi front in the
Dnieper bend cranked dangerous
~ with Russian recapture of Cher
kasy, last Nazi river-bank ram
part impending progress of t h e
northern jaw of the Red army
driving to entrap the Nazis south
east of Kiev.
Whether taken by storm, as Mos
COW indicates, or evacuated by the
Nazis without loss as Berlin claim.
ed, the result is the same for the
invaders. The Eazis are confront
ed with swift retreat from the
whole Dnieper plateau to save
some remnants of forces still de-
plcyed there or an equally swift
shift of forces from the Kiev bulge
to bolster the threatened front in
the bend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
Cold Weather Over
u. S. Is Continuing
by The Associated Press)

ny The Associated Press
Mldwesterners watched the
mercury in their frosty ther-
mometers rise and fall in a
narrow range around the zero
level yesterday and waited in
vain for forecast of quick,
general relief.
Many communities, in cold
1act, expected the weather to
get worse before it got better.
A cold wave, with tempera-
lures ranging down as far as
10 below, was predicted for
Missouri, Kansas and Nebras-
ka. The weather bureau look
ed for minimum of 5 in Chi
cago this morning, 5 to 10 in
northern Illinois, and an even
zero in northern Indiana. Con-
tinued cold was expected in the
other North Central states.
Readings of 20 were regis
Tered in Bemidji, Virginia and
Ely, MINI. Duluth, Mimi. had
II; Saint Ste, Marie, Mich,
10; Bismarck, N. D., g; Sioux,
iowa, .; and Green Bay, Wis,
3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
MORE NAILS SENT
TO YUC0SLAVIA
Yugoslavia Flames Into
Major Battlefield, Gen.
Tito Reports

LONDON. Dec. IA Up - Yugo-
slavia famed tonight into a major
battlefield as the Germans hurled
six divisions (perhaps 10000 mem
into one sector alone, and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed
that Britain was helping the Yugo-
slav army of liberation Gin every
possible way" with the Russians
also going to its aid.
Marshal Josip Broz cTito) de-
ciared in a broadcast communicate
that 1900 Nazis had been killed
as his partisan troops threw back
assaults in eastern Bosnia, where
the bulletin said the Germans had
concentrated six divisions for a
great battle against the partisans'
third corps.
The Berlin radio said '1mpor-
tant German reinforcements have
reached the Balkans. They are to
90 into action Immediately. All in
oications point to operations on a
large scale aiming at thorough
hopping up of the Balkans. -
On the political side, Eden de-
clared that both the provisional
government of Tito and govern
rnent-in-exile of King Peter would
give the Yugoslav people fr e
choice of leade, ship after the war,
while Tito's radio announced plans
to reconstitute the country on a
slx-nation federal basis.
saluting Moscow's decision to
send a military mission to Tito
new government. Eden told the
House of Commons that British
mission had been in Yugoslavia
since last spring. and would work
as team vita the Russians.
He disclosed this joint action had
been agreed to as far back as
tie first Moscow meeting OF the
t,i-power foreign ministers, b
cid not touch upon Russia's open
attack on Gen. Draja Mihailovic,
Cketnik leader and war minister
Under King Feter.
He added that the British hoped
not only greatly to strengthen the
Yugoslav war against the Nazis,
but also to unit almost alP' the
rival Greek hands against the Ger
INNS.
On the battlefront, the action
was heaviest in Bosnia where the
Germans struck furiously seeking
to secure the approaches to the
main railway running the length
Of Yugoslavia through Belgrade,
but it also was erupting in the
Neutrality-suspicious. border area of
Sanjak and in Dalmatia.
Heavy fighting is going on,
Tlto's radio said, listing four bat
tie areas where 1880 Germans
were killed and many more wound
ed. One German tank : supported
column captured Plevlje in COM
bat in Sanjak, it added
Three towns-Duvno, I-ivno, and
lost in heavy fight
irg on the Dalmation-Bosnian bor-
der, the commpnique said, b u t
Livno was recaptured by the par
tisans in a counterblow.
Continued on Page Five, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15
DAVIS SUPPORTS
SUBSIDY MEASURE
Chairman OF WLB Saws
Congress Must Con-
tinue Payments

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. -(P-
William H. Davis, chairman Of
the War Labor Board, appealed
to Congress today to continue food
subsidies, declaring that passage
of bill to ban them would cine.
vitality renew the tragic race be.
tween wages and prices"
IF the Congress should now
desert the policy as to the control
of prices it would, in my opinion,
be making a decision that would
disastrously affect the daily life
of every American" Davis wrote
in letter to Chairman Wagner
D-NY) of the Senate banking
committee.
Davis said there was a grow.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-15

tll1C1y COllCGd1Su III tIlS ILLS, IL
was announced today.
The Nazi command resorted to
this costly measure in futile eff
fort to prevent the reinforced Ca
nadians from closing in on the
road junction of Ortona, II miles
below Pescara on the Adriatic
coast.
The result was the same as that
experienced by bot, sides on pre-
vioUs occasions both in Africa and
Italy when tanks ventured within
range Of well-placed heavy guns.
Burning n'4lks Of tanks marked
the point WheI e the enemy's ar
NOR came under pointblank fire.
Shaking off this and similarly
fierce Nazl coanterassaults, h e
Canadians continued doggedly to
win the heights overlooking Orto-
ma. The whole current thrust of
the Eighth Army up the Adriatic
success in taking Ortona.
The desperate nature of the en-
emy's resistance was emphasized
by the fact thai for nearly a week
heavy fighting hs. teen in pro-
gress on a two-mile wide strip be-
tween the Moro river and lat
eral road leading inland from Or
tona IL miles to Orsogna.
British Foreign Secretary Eden
disclosed IN Commons Tuesday
that Canadian troops engaged in
the present crucial battle replaced
the 18th British division which sue
cessfully stcrmed the enemy's San
gro river defenses)
A New Zealand division was re-
ported alta, king Nazi positions on
high ground on the left flank of
the Canadi ans in all effort to re-
lieve some enemy pressure in the
coastal sector.
On snoW-covereo hills farther in
land, wnere Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's Eighth Army is
pressing toward the provincial cap