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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09

washington, Oct. 9 - Cup =
congressional scrutiny Of lend-lease
operations to assure protection Of
American interests may be one Of
the first results Of the world tour
of five senators.
This likelihood arose after yester-
days executive senate session at
q statement by one Of the five trav-
elers that the use Of Russian Pacific
base would save 100000 merican
lives was sharply contradicted BY
others Of the grounp.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, r.,
Mass, was author Of the statement
and the senator's who disagreed.
said they heard no such estimate
from high military commanders.
Lodge was not present.
Senators discussed the need for q
check on lend-leasI after hearing
members Of the committee Of five
report that operations to date sp-
pear 70 have failed r. keeping
American interests foremost.
One veteran senator called yester-
days closed session a ainly anti
Allied" meeting, and predicted that
a vote nov on postwar collaboration
would not get the tWo-thirds vote
necessary Cor treaty ratification.
Ealne ~HFemenaausR
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Conn. Man Is
Killed By Car

Southington. Conn. Oct. oseUE9
james r. Anderson, 81, vas kzIlG1
by O hit-and-run driver Last naal1l
while walking home from work. -
lice said his body had bean draes
Al feet along the highway after h4a
ing struck. An automobile headlIsi1
rim and fragments Of . hsa0lia1a
lens furnished the only clues IN Ira
search for the operator q the ea2.
The fatality was the third viaasnl
death reported n The state auEln
the day.
George OBrisn, AaaEidan "a
killed by . train at The south zzsrr
walk railroad station. anG oazazzza@
cey Benedict, IS. Thoznast0n, slAea
cumbed to burns suffered walle ~
ing to extinguish Q grass 1lso -
his home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Voticon Fears
German Fury

Bern, Switzerland, Oct. 9.-(UP)-
Frontier reports indicated today that
the Vatican Is preparing for q Ger.
man sack Of Rome, following the
flight of Mussolini's puppet Fascist
government.
(The free italian agency Justice
and Liberty" reported rumors have
spread throughout italy that Benito
MusSolini Is dead and that his body
has been taken to Germany, a Cairo
dispatch said. The rumors arose
from the fact that the voice in his
only purported radio appearance
Sept. ~ "had nothing In common"
with that Of the former duce, while
supposed pictures OF him were so
blurred identity was uncertain.)
With onrushing Allied armies
within 100 miles, the hurried evac-
uation Of the Fascist leaders was be-
lieved to have aroused fear in the
Vatican that the Nazis are planning
to wreck the city before retreating
to their northern defense lines.
Information reaching Swiss sources
said the papal authorities have be-
gun construction of a water reser-
Voir inside Vatican City in order to
assure a water supply in the event
that the Germans dynamite the
Rome waterworks. Until now. the
Vatican has depended upon Rome
for water, although a small power
house inside Vatican City furnishes
gas and electricity.
CO. s. Navy Secretary Frank Knox,
returning from tour of the Medi-
terranean battle area, said in Puerto
Rico Thursday that he believed the
Germans would turn Rome into q
shambles, as they did NapleS.)
The situation within Rome was
said to be increasingly tense. with
the Understanding Italian hatred of
the Nazis increased by the critical
food situation in the capital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Bus Drivers
Widow Gets
Big Award

An award OF $500, the maximum
allowed under the state compensa-
ton law, has been approved for the
widow OF Louis Deschenes, c. r. &
l.. Co. bus driver, who was killed
with an oil truck on Cheshire road,
according to a finding handed
down today, by Compensation Com
missioner John J. O'ConnelI. The
financial settlement IS the first aris-
ing out Of the accident which took
two lives and caused injuries to
II high school students.
The widow, Cecile Deschesnes of
437 South Main street, will receive
$25 weekly for period Of $40 weeks,
the award provides, with a modifi-
cation to be made in case Of death
or re-marriage. Payment Of all hos
pitaly and medical bills and Of $500
toward funeral expenses also was
ordered. The driver died at st.
Mary's hospital several hours after
the accident,
Commissioner O'Connells finding
states that the bus was struck by
the truck and that the drivers
death resulted from the injuries
sustained in the course Of his en-
ploymcnt. His weekly pay averaged
$56.70, the commissioner points out
In approving payment Of the max.
mum weekly sum allowed.
Hearing Regarding Children
+, The award papers state that no
finding was made regarding depend
ency Of the couples two children,
but that a hearing on that aspect
may be hel dafter the expiration of
the $40 week period.
Hearing Of the compensation
claim was held September "a in ac-
cordance with emergency provisions
Of the law. Payments to the widow
will start from September IA.
One other legal action has al
ready been instituted as the result
Of the accident, a 100000 damage
suit filed by Doris Garrigus against
the bus company, the owner Of the
oil truck, and two oil concerns
which contracted for transporting
Of oil.
The accident occurred at 2:15
p. m, when a tire blowout spar
emily sent the oil truck headon
into the bus which was taking a
group of high school children to-
ward Cheshire. The State Utilities
Commission as well as the coroner
undertook Investigations of the ac-
cident but no official finding has
been released as yet. The driver of
the oil truck died instantly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Portuguese,
Jops At Odds

Madrid, oct. e.--(Up)-Reliable
sources said today that Japanese
Portuguese relations have become
severely strained and an uncon-
firmed report reached Spain that
the Japanese legation in Lisbon he
begun burning secret papers. "
CThe swiss radio reported from
Lisbon that the Portuguese national
assembly met today to hear a gov
eminent declaration.)
Speculation grew In Madrid that
Portugal Is on the point OF sever
ing diplomatic relations with Japan,
declaring war on Japan or entering
into q defensive alliance with Bri"
tain.
Portugal was said to be demand
ing that Japan Immediately with
draw troops from the Portuguese
half Of the Timor island, one Of the
Japanese island strongholds north
east Of Australia ard cease pressure
against Macau Island, In the South
China Sea near Hong Kong.
Portuguese Premier DR.. Antonio
De Oliveria Salazar and Japanese
azinister Morito Morishima were
saaMnrytood 70 have exchanged
aharp, pertinent words during a
two-hour conference Thursday and
10 have parted without shaking
hands.
An unconfirmed rumor said Mari
shima burned some papers and for
warded others to the Madrid le-
CATION for safe-keeping.
There was no further news OF the
special session of the Portuguese
National Parliament which was to
have been held yesterday to hear an
important government statement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Jugos Wreck
Bridge;He
In OguIin

London, october o. - CUP -
Jugoslav partisans have blown up
the biggest bridge on the zagreb-
Susak railroad and surrounded the
important junction town Of Ogulin,
SO miles southwest Of zagreb, exile
sources said today as the Allied
controlled Bari radio reported an
Italian naval bombardment Of the
Daltnatlan coast.
Violent fighting was reported y
progressNaaeap Susak, opposite the
italian city Of Fiurne, with the Ger
mans hurting q whole division
against partisans holding heights
dominating the town.
German forces are trying to ad-
vance Of the harbor at Bakar south
Of Sausak, the Jugoslav commulli-
que said, while several attacks by
more than 200 Germans tanks have
been repulsed In the vicinity OF the
important Ljubljana-Trieste railway
near Goriza.
The communique also reported
violent fighting" In the suburbs
OF Trieste itself and south OF the
city and said that guerrilla forces
were advancing toward cara.
The Bari broadcast said the 1tal-
ian naval bombardment Of the Dali
matian coast was undertaken In sup
port Of Jugoslav partisan operations.
Destruction Of the railway bridge
between st. Peter and Dubravk and
enlightenment of Ogulin, from which
branch line runs southeast to
Split, strengthened the partisans'
hold on large segment Of one OF
the principal Nazi supply and REIN
frocement routes between the IN
terror and the Dalmatian and
Croatian coast.
Exile sources said q communi-
que from the headquarters OF the
Jugoslav National Liberation
Army's headquarters disclosed that
the Seventh Partisan Division was
conducting o large scale offensive
along the railway with one colum
advancing toward Karlovac, nearly
Is miles northeast Of Ogulin.
More than $50 German and pro-
Nazi Ustachi troops have been killed
and another 200 wounded, the COM
munique said.
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u. S. Proposes World Bank
To Aid Reconstruction

productive resources of member
countries.
Loans would be restricted to re-
construction rather than rehabili-
tation. They would be made by the
bank itself. or by the bank in con-
junction with private agencies.
Loans made by private capital also
would be guaranteed.
Sl0,000. 000,0o0 Capital
White would not estimate the
share of the United States in the
$40. 900. 900 900 capital. He said 1t
would be q substantial" amount,
but would not run to nifty per cent
Of the total.
One Of the banks chief purposes
would be 10 prevent an overlapping
Of loans by private agencies such
as caused many nations 20 borrow
more than they could pay after the
last war.
All loans made by the bank or by
private capital under its authority
would have 70 be guaranteed By the
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Red Mass Is
Celebrated

Boston, Oct. 9.-(UPj-Nearly 1900
members Of the bench and bar and
their friends, including Catholics.
Protestants and Jews. today attend
ed New England's third annual Red
Mass, which Is additionally cele-
brated at the beginning Of the judi
cial year.
Gov. Leverett Saltonstall. Mayor
Maurice J. Tobin and other state.
municipal and federal ofilcials were
among those who gathered In the
Church OF the Immaculate Concep-
ton for the Mass.
Charles 8. O'Connor, clerk OF the
Massachusetts supreme court. was
marshal Of the procession. The cele-
brant was the Very Rev. James II.
Dolan, 3. j., provincial Of the So
ciety Of Jesus IN New England. The
REV. John J. Wright. d. D.. recently
appointed secretary % william Car
dlnal 0'Conneil. gave the sermon.
MnSic was hy The lltuFRlcal choir
Of men and hoyN Of the immaculate
Conception church, directed by pgol
Leonard 8. Whelen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09
Two Confess
SIoyins Three
On Pa. Farm

Chardoi, O., Oct. 9.-(Up)-Wil-
liam Morell, 20, gangling, dull-witted
farm youth, confessed early today
that he had killed two women and
o man on the Pennsylvania farm
where he was employed as q field
hand.
He tried to absolve Janice Ora
ham, 20, the hired girl, who fled
with him after he had slain Mrs.
Everett Wilson, 4s, wife Of his en-
ployer, Mrs. Catherine Wilson. 70,
his mother, and Robert Mckay,
81, another hired hand, Thursday
morning.
But Pennsylvania authorities were
enroute here to return them to Mer-
Ger, Pa, and It was announced that
both would face first degree MUIR
der charges.
Morell and Miss Graham were
arrested last night In the farm
house Of Charles Cobb, seven miles
southeast Of here. They had repre-
Sented themselves as q young mar
ried couple in straited circumstances
and the Cobbs put them up for the
night.
Weeping and near collapse, Miss
Graham insisted to authorities that
she had had nothing to do with the
slayings. Morell had bound her hand
and foot, she said, before he stran-
gled the younger Mrs. Wilson in
the Wilson dairy barn and then
went to the house and killed the
older Mrs. Wilson and Mckay with
blasts from his shotgun.
"EIe had to have me. That's why
he did It," Miss Graham said.
That they were lovers was ap-
parent and authorities were work
ing on the theory that he sequence
Of homicide began when the younger
Mrs. Wilson surprised them in low
ers' intimacy behind the dairy barn.
They were caught because Morell
was wearing wading boots rolled
down to his knees which made him
a distinctive figure along the eastern
Ohio highways leading into Penn
sylvania, under close watch since
the slayings we're discovered Thurs
day afternoon.
They hitched q ride from Cobb
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DESTROYERS
SINK 3, MAYBE
a WARSH|PS

UNITED Press staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, October g.
(UP) - A heavily Out-gul1-
ned and Outnumbered Ameri-
can Destroyer force blasted
three and probably four
japanese warships in a furi-
Gus night action in the CEN
trail SOlOmons and sent the
rest Of a big enemy evacua-
ton fleet limping northward
in retreat, it was disclosed
today.
Two or three more Of the
nine enemy warships en-
gagged, mostly destrOyers,
were damaged badly against
ls'mOderate" but unannOunced
losses to the American flOtilla.
Jap Admission
(The Japanese radio tacitly adj
mltted today that Its forces have
admitted today that Its forces have
abandoned their three-month bat
tie to hold the Central Solomons,
announcing that Japanese garrisons
have evacuated Kolombangara and
Hyal1a Tavalla TSlands The adrnigs
mission raised the possibility that
the Japanese may have abandoned
their troops remaining on those
Islands.)
Aerial reconnaissance revealed the
new Japanese attempt to evacuate
cornered garrisons from the Central
Solomons, and the American de-
stroyers took up their battle sta
lions IS miles north Of Vella Lavel-
Ia Island shortly before midnight
Wednesday, Enemy scout planes
Fcircled overhead, radioing their po-
sition to the oncoming armada.
Speedy Attack
Both sides moved in quickly to
the attack, and within q few min
utes O Japanese light cruiser or de-
stroyer leader blew up and sank, its
flaming wreckage lighting up the
battle area.
Two enemy destroyers followed 1t
down and q third was hit so badly
that It was believed to have sunk,
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Reds Push
Axis BockIn
3 Key Sectors
(NEA Radiophoto)

MOSCOW, OCT. g.-(UP)-SuSSia
forces, bolstered by an almost cease.
less flow Of troops and tanks across
the Daieper, were reported today to
have seized O number Of German
strongholds and strategic highways
on the west bank In O developing
pincers drive against Kiev, Russia
third City and capital Of the
Ukraine.
Front dispatches said the soviets
were hammering the Germans back
In three key sectors north and south
Of Kiev despite mounting counter
attacks. Nearly 5000 Germans were
killed yesterday alone.
Elsewhere along the embattled
1,000-mile front from Lenigrad to
the Black Sea, the Russians drove
deeper into the German salient
southeast Of Leningrad, pounded to
within 20 miles Of the strategic
highway linking the White Russian,
strongholds Of Mogilev, Orsha and
VitebSk, and continued the mop-up
Of the Taman peninsula In the Cau-
casuS.
CThe German news agency DNB,
In Q Berlin broadcast, said Nail
troops had evacuated the Taman
peninsula, their last toehold In the
Caucasus.)
More than $50 towns and villages
were engulfed In advances Of up
to IN miles toward Vitebsk, in
GLIDING zaolsha, 81 miles to the
southeast on the railroad from
Smolensk, and Lyubavichi, 10 miles
south Of Zaolsha and 20 miles north
east Of OrSha.
sixty localities fell to Gen. Andrei
I. Yeremenkos armies pushing
through Newell, 50 miles north OF
Vitehsk, toward the Baltic states.
The Latvian border Is only 90 miles
west Of Newell.
Reds Across Dnieper
The Communist organ PravdA e.
timated that the Russians already
have put several divisions across the
Dnieper on ferries, barges and
RATS and over pontoon bridges un-
der q curtain Of shells from artil-
lery batteries massed on the east
bank.
ff9ovNsr,,aa m RawA a
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BERLIN HIT,
HE rub R,
OTHER TARGETS
BY WALTER CRoNKITE

BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, October 9.-(UP)
Hundreds of Raj heavy
b0mbers cascaded tons Of
bombs onto the f:.ctOry city
Of Hanover last night and
heaped new destruction upon
the ruins Of Bremen which
still famed from an Ameri-
can Flying Fortress assault a
few hours earlier.
Rounding out one of Ger
many's blacklist nights Of
the war, lightning-fast Mos
quito bOmbers gave Berlin its
Send bombing Of the war and
attacked targets in the Ruhr,
while other raiders strewed
mines in enemy waters.
Thirty-one bOmbers were
lost in the widespread opera
lions.
5Oth Attack
Hanover, site Of one OF the great
est synthetic rubber plants in all
Europe and a key center Of the
German railroad system, bore the
bruno Of the Raj night attack. 1t
was It's 50th attack Of the war and
preliminary reports indicated the
cumulative damage and laid more
than go per cent Of its industrial
facilities In ruins.
ThN great bombers struck In al
most perfect flying weather to COM
plete the devastation wrought In
Hanover by their last attack on
Sept. ~ when q very heavy raiding
force dumped .l,7O0 tons Of block
busters and incendiaries.
A smaller force lashed out against
Bremen one Of Cermany's main
U-boat construction centerS In q
quick follow-up TO the flying fort
reAs daylight assault that helped
draw off German fighter strength
from the main attack on Hanover.
The American precision bombers
set the pattern for the British night
attacks with twin daylight bomb
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SUICIDE VERDICT

birmingham, Mass. Oct. 9.-UP)
"A verdict Of suicide was reported
by medical-examiner today in the
death of Mrs. Alma L. Phillips, 49,
Of Chillicothe, O., wife of a soldier
stationed here. whose body was
found yesterday in their gas-filled
apartment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09

Boston, Oct. Q - (UP0 = One
woman was killed and another seri-
ously hurt early today when IRE
swept a room in their Roxbury
apartment.
The dead woman was unidenti-
fed. Police described her as elder
ly". Hospitalized was Mrs. Caroline
Surman, about IS. who suffered Sec
ond-degree face burns and smoke
inhalation.
The blaze, which caused about
81 600 damage was attributed to
the careless use Of matches.
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AZ LIES ADVANCE AT KEY POINTS
Hanover, Bremen Blasted BY r. A. +.
take CASERIk,
ROAD JUNCTION
above naples.
BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN

BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN Il
UNITED Press Staff Correspondence
Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, October 8. - Cup -
Allied patrols have crossed
the VOlturnO River, the Gers
mans first line Of defense
below Rome and the Fifth
and Eighth armies have aiaal
vanced two to three miles at
key points all the way across
the italian peninsula, Il wan
COserta, q highway junction.
Is miles northeast Of Naples
and seven miles southeast O.
Capua on the vOlturn0, was
captured by the Fifth Arnays
il was announced today.
Disclosure that Fifth Army
patrols had forced the Vol
turnO, 81 miles southwest a
Rome, indicated that q fun.
scale offensive to reach the
north bank was imminent ~
not under way. Allied artiAn
lery on the south bank wan
softening the enemy line.
volturno Thruga
The thrust across the VultsR9n
took place somewhere along the IT,
mile stretch Of the river between
Capua and the west coast. OtheR
fifth army forces mopped up scat
tered points south Of the Voltsarn@
and Galore rivers In . lne-stra0gsi1s
ening operation.
A front dispatch from the olansf
army front said the Germans hn0
abandoned their costly attempt -
halt the British Eighth Army "a
Termoli and were failing back aI0nI1
the italian east coast toward Res4
cara and the lateral road to Rome.
The Germans Lost IS Of the 81
tanks with which they Rtternptad 81
re-capture TermoM. They had
been under orders 10 re-take TIE
town at eli costs TO prevent o flank
ing threat to Rome. The Eighth
Army already was slightly north ok
. line due east from the ItAllan
capital.
Offensive Extended
The Northwest African cir forces
again extended their offensive 60
Greece, hitting m airfield 90 Eleus
sis near Athens, ana for the first
time also raided Crete and Rhodes
In support Of Allied operations "A
the Aegean Sea, where the British
are battling to maintain q foot.
hold In the Dodecanese Islands.
Both Crete and Rhodes wex4
brought under twO-way aerial e.
tack with heavy bombers from tle
middle-eastern command Joining
the Raj In day and night assaults.
Il Is from these two islands that
the Germans launched their fnRA~
slons Of British-held Cos and xeE01
In the Dodecanese and @ano4.
farther north.
Bad weather continued - hanap-
er ground operations on both tho
Fifth and Eighth Army fronts. n
front dispatch from Reynolds rao&-
ard, United Press War C0Eregp1sa.
dent with the Fifth Army, said the
British and Americans on the Vol
turno River front donned xaincoAte
as they slogged through xloode0
Lowlands on inopping-up operations
along the south bank.
Mines And Trays
Packard said the Germans A&ND
planted mines and BOBBY trap9 -
the river at al possible cr0sain8
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Al yoIson Spends
Restless MIGHT

New York, Oct - (U.P) - AL
Jolson. stricken Wednesday with
pneumonia complicated by Malaria,
spent another restless night and his
condition shows no improvement,
nurses at his hotel suite said today.
The comedian returned recently
from North Africa and Sicily where
he entertained American troops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-09

Cambridge. Mass. Oct. e-(UPl--
Albert v. Smith, Is. Of Cambridge.
superintendent OF Power Adminis-
tration and Buildings at Massachu-
sttts Institute OF Technology since
1919. collapsed and died Of heart
disease while e work Yesterday.
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BUS DRIVER DIES SUDDENLY

Boston, Oct. 9.-(UP)--After halt
ing his bus to avoid injury to his
passengers, Edward J. Harkins, So,
Of Jamaica Plain collapsed at the
wheel and died Of heart disease.
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YA0RANT KILLS SELF

Worcester. Mass. Oct. p.-(UP)-
Arrested as q vagFanl. Harold Foote,
%. Of Spencer killed himself In the
Worcester County iail last night hy
cutting his throat with & ragor.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-07
BY RAY PEACOCK
Alp Features Writer

NEW YORK, April Three
years ago round-faced Charlie
Spivak gambled sure thing; his
81 ,000-a-week job against the un-
certain future of a dance-orches-
ira leader. And he won.
Today. Charlie, who plays what
is modestly billed as "the sweet
est trumpet in the world is caus-
ing a major shake-up sef ethe Big
Ten jn the -daHeeabandqfiesd. sp.
The well stablishesSneMartin
Block make Believe Baldpoom. /"
semi-annuai Popuiarieppoi ranks
him sixth. He rated ninth in Bill
boards nightly indicative 1912 poll
of college students. Downbeat
styled him as the band which
made the most progress in 1912.
The real payoff will come in Bill
boards l943 collegiate poll, soon
to get under way.
Spivak frankly caters to the
youngsters. Jitterbugs-right now
a lot of them are wearing service
uniforms-turn up wherever he
appears.
Keeps Quality
The band has a personnel of %
brass, including Charlie;
five saxes, four rhythm, and five
vocalists. Since last summer Char
lie has had to make dozen
changes because of the draft, but
he kept up his quality by taking
over Glen Miller's entire from
bone section when Miller went in
to the service. His vocalists in
clude the Stardusters, one of whom
Is pretty June Hutton, sister of
Ina Ray. coz =
While Charlie has accomplished
all this in three years, becoming
an orchestra leader was just a pro-
cess of evolution.
The broad-shouldered leader
has blue eyes and brown hair, was
born 30-odd years ago in New
Haven, Conn. His parents were
Russian, his father grocer. Char
lie began playing a trumpet in
bands as soon as he finished high
school, and by 1925 was with Paul
Specht. He played for Ben Pol
lack, the Dorsey Brothers, and Ray