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Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02
NO COMPLAINT,

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even a little better is fine, and not
even the most suffering complain.
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pitfalls for l will know in the future
what lies behind every boy in a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
HEDY TO BECOME
 MRS. JOHN LODER

Hollywood. May 26 6-(UP)-Hedy Lamar, the lady with the curves, the eyelashes and the body that was seen in the nude in her motion pie ture debut, headed for her third matrimonial try today with John Loder as the lucky man.
 Miss LaMarr, who has spent the last five years in Hollywood wear ing on the screen more clothes than an eskimo in her efforts to forget her birthday-Suit performance in Ecstasy" appeared with Loder late yesterday at the Santa Monica mar riage license bureau.
 They said that as soon as their respective studios gave them time out of other peoples arms on the sound stages, they would marry as quietly as possible. Miss LaMarr is working now in love story with William Powell; Loder is function ing in ditto with Bette Davis.
 Miss LaMarr said she was 29. Loder, son of a British nobleman, reported he was 43.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
DEPUTY SHERIFF
 TO BE DROPPED
Hayes "Uninterested" in disappointment; CalO to
 Be Replaced

George F. Hayes will not be reappointed as deputy sheriff in Waterbury and Albert lar rapino, employe of a local bot ting company, may replace Jo- seph Calo, it was reliably reported to The Democrat LoGay. Announce ment of appointments, which has been expected here for many days, is believed to be held up by con- troversy in ItalianDemocratic cir cles of the city.
 High Sheriff J. Edward Slavin said today the names of appointees will be released Friday or Saturday and it is believed all terms will be for a period of a year instead of for four years as in the past.
 Sheriff Hayes, who is also em- ployed as a guard in local factory, is said to be uninterested' in re- appointment and since the present staff is said to be "oVer- crowded" it is believed his duties will termin- ate at the end of the present term, June l.
 The bottling works employe has the support of the Waterbury Ital- ian-Democratic Club, it was learned today, and efforts are in progress to place him in the post.
 Those who appear definitely scheduled for another term are: Albert Francis, James E. OLeary, George A. Hynes, George Burns, Bernard Blick and Frank J. Brickel.
 A cut in the volume of duties here due to generally improved financial conditions, has made it unnecessary to continue with the same-Sized staff, it has been indicated, and one sheriff will be dropped to give the others more work" A large drop in foreclosure suits has been noted here, and with attachments for debts and other considerations decraasing some of the sheritfs are said to have much free time"
 Sheriff SlaVin has conferred with local Democratic leaders and it is believed the differences on the one appointment will be cleared shortly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
RUBBER STRIKERS
 CHALLENGE VILE
Army Jeeps Production in Akron Paralyzed as ST.
 900 Remain Out
(By United PreSSl

More than 57,000 striking wal workers, protesting the policies ot the War Labor Board, paralyzed the Akron, O., rubber industry Wednesday and halted the manu- facture of army jeeps in the most serious threat to var production since Pearl Harbor
 WLB, faced with a growing chal- lenge to it's authority, urged the workers to honor their mo strike pledge and return to work. Mean while, the VILE denied the wage in- crease demands of John l.. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, but approved suggestions for compro- mise.
 VILE Chairman William H. Davis told the rubber workers the board would not reconsider their wage petition while the rubber strike is in progress The rubber workers struck to protest a WLB decision granting them three-cent hourly wage increase, instead of the eight cents they demanded.
 Production at Akron, the nation s rubber capital, was brought to a standstill last night when for the second time within a week employees of the General Tire and Rubber Co.,,
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SOLDIER KILLED
 IN ARMY TRUCK

Chicopee, Mass, May 26-(UP)- One soldier was killed, six were in- jured critically and nine others were less seriously hurt today when an army truck crashed into an abut- ment and overturned while they were eproute for maneuvers in Am herst.
 The accident occurred at Willi- mansett soon ofter the soldiers had left Westover Field, two miles dis tant.
 As the truck hit the concrete abutment, the soldiers were spilled over the highway. The vehicle somersaulted and landed right side up.
 Ambulances were summoned from the field and all were taken to the base hospital.
 Twelve Chicopee police responded but the army took complete charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
, MAJOR POLICIES
 ON FOOD REACHED
Joint Action of A Nations May Follow on Im=
 pOrtant Issues

Hot Springs, Va, May 26-(UP)- food conference here have reached agreement on five major policies, it was reported today by authoritative sources.
 Proceeding with unusual speed for an international conference of this kind, the representative of A nations appeared to have decided on the necessity for joint action in:
 l. Setting up an interim commiS- sion to prepare the way for a per manent world organization to deal with problems of food and agri- culture.
 2. Expanding production during the period between the end of the war and the return to more normal conditions, despite the unavoidable dislocationS.
 3. Continuing expanded produc- ton in the ''permannt period" after the war.
 4. Organizing and improving dis tribution methods to facilitate the expansion of production.
 5. International governmental ac- tion to coordinate production and consumption.
 The committees charged with drafting conference recommenda- tionS were understood to be taking those points of agreement and draft ing specific declaI ations to be put before the conference.
 Delegates from the United States, who offered the first official plan for world organization to deal with food problems, were on record with assurances that this countryS interests would be fully protected,
 The assurances were regarded as a reply to some critics who have expressed fear that schemes detri- mental to the United States were being worked out at this first Allied effort to solve postwar problems.
 Delegates of the A countries rep resented here were in apparent
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MILK FARMERS
 STRIKE FEARED
Conn. Dairymen Want In= creased Return on
 Product

Hartford, Conn.,, May 26-(UP)- Ken E. Geyer, general manager of the Connecticut Milk Producers As sibility of a milk strike unless dairy farmers were given an increased re- turn on their product.
 Geyer said that strike talk was heard "eVen among normally con- servative dairy farmers" who felt Apparently our government wants munitions above all ther things and not particularly interested in wheth- CT the people of Connecticut get fluid milk or not"
 Geyer testified at a hearing held by State Mi, Administrator Don- aid O. Hammerberg, to supply evil dence to the OPA that an increase was necessary to the dairy farmers in view of rising costs of living, feed, replacements and the labor shortage.
 Dairy farmers, said Geyer, were protesting" the fact that industrial labor was on a 40-hour work sched- ule, while farmers were laboring 48 hours week.
 Testimony at the hearing was a reiteration of statements made re- gently by CMPA officials and others that some dairy farmers were being forced out of business because Of increased living costs.
 c. Warden Bacon, MiddletoWn, president of the CMPA, told the hearing that milk prices must be raised to bring them to the levels of other foodstuffs.
 Bacon said the milk supply would reach its peak by June and then would decrease at more than nor nal rate unless something was done to correct the unfavorable price re- lationship for fluid milk with prices of other food products"
 Gov. Baldwin recently asked the National OPA to set higher price
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N|AGARA' SUNK BY JAP PANESE IN SOUTH PACIFIC Small U. s. Auxiliary Ves= sel's Crew Rescued By
 Naval Units
 ONE ATTU RESISTANCE
 POCKET WIPED OUT Americans Now Fighting Second Pocket Around
 ChickagOf HarbOr

Washington, May 26. - CUP One of tn e three pockets of Japanese resistance on Attu has been wiped out and the assault is continuing against a second, the Navy announced today. A communique said that the Japanese forces trapped in the area around the Chi chagof Pass was cleaned up by the combined northern and southern American landing forces Monday.
 Army bombers and fighters aided our ground forces in the battle.
 The same American forces are now fighting the Japanese pocketed in the area to the north around Chichagof harbor.
 Planes Sink Ship
 At the same time, the Navy an- nounced that the small U. s. Auxil- iary vessel Niagara was sunk by Japanese planes in the South Pa cific.
 Text of Navy Department con- munique No. 390: South Pacific Gall dates east longitude):
 Il. On May 23, the small U. s auxiliary vessel Niagara was attack ed by Japanese planes east of Cape Surville, San Cristobal Island. Con- siderable damage was inflicted on the vessel, which was subsequently, sunk by U. s. forces after members of the crew were taken aboard ac- companying naval units.
 "2. On May 24, Avenger (Grum- man TIED torpedo bombers and Wildcat (Grumman F4F fighters bombed and strafed Japanese install lations at Ringi Cove, west of Villa on Kolombangara Island.
 "3. On May 25, dauntless Doug- las SBD) dive bombers, Avenger tor pedo bombers and Wildcat Fighters bombed and strafed Japanese. in- stallations at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel Island. Ammunition dumps were exploded and large fires were started.
 North Pacific:
 A. On May "A, U. s. Army ground troops cleaned out both
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DUSSELDORF RAID
 COSTS 27 PLANES
RAF Also Hammers Mes= sina, Sicily, Sardinia,
 and Pantelleria
By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff COrreSDOnden


 London, May 26.-(UP)-Allied aerial fleets about 1000 planes strong boosted the invasion of- fensive against Axis Europe to a new pitch in the last "A hours when more than 500 RAF block buster bombers struck at the NaZi arms city of Dusseldorf and almost 400 aircraft hammered Messina and other Italian outpoSts on Sicily, Sar- dinia and Pantelleria.
 Allied planes in strong formation carried on the assault in daylight forayS across the English Channel this afternoon.
 TWenty-seven British bombers were lost in the raids on Dusseldorf and other unlisted targets in Ger many last night, the air ministry announced. The assault came only 48 hours after another British force dumped 2,000 tons of bombs on the Ruhr Valley industrial center of Dortmund in the heaviest raid of the war
 The African-base planes destroy NN ~-o AAAOIN CliSlIlJ dllCI d1U SCoOC1 = day to boost their bag for the week of 357, Eleven Allied planes were lost for weeks total of 33.
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower $ North African headquarters an- nonced that strong force of Fly ing Fortresses made the days main attack on Messina at the north eastern tip of Sicily, touching off a big explosion in the naval base and shattering dock, railroad and power station installations.
 A communique from the middle eastern command in Cairo also an nounced that American heavy bomberS raided Messina yesterday but it was not clear whether this was the same raid as that reported by Eisenhower or a second attack.
 Other Allied planes bombed and Strafed ports and airdromes on Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria, principal island outposts guarding the approaches to Italy. The raids came only d few hours before Prime Minister Churchill called on the Italian people to throw out their Fascist rulers and make peace with (Continued on Page 4)
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 were not going to lose any sleep about that. We hope it will be ac- ceptable."
 The new plan, adopted by a vote of II to by the conferees late yes- terday, would divide taxpayers into two groups-those who owe more than $50 tax on 1942 income and those who owe $50 or less.
 For those who owe more than $50, it provides 75 per cent forgiveness and collection of the remaining 25 per cent in two years.
 For those who owe not more than $50, it provides complete forgiveness, or for all practical purposes the Ruml plan.
 Treasury officials declined to es- tablish the number of persons who would get one years taxes con- pletely forgiven. They said that un- der the plan approved by the con- ference committee, the following would be forgiven a years taxes:
 Single persons with no dependents making less than $788 year; mar ried persons with no dependents with an income of less than $1,510; married persons with one dependent with an income of less than $1 1895; ; married persons with two depend- ents with an income of less than $2,233.
 The agreement ended a week of discussions by seven senators and seven representative who at times had seemed hopelessly deadlocked, and appeared to presage an end of months of pickering in congress over plan for putting taxpayers on a -aS-you-go basis,
 Later this week, possibly Friday, the new plan will be offered for a vote in the house which once failed by a vote of 2O6 to POP to adopt the Ruml plan and later passed a bill
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They are Henry Ford II, 26, a Naval lieutenant who is a mathe- maticS instructor at Great Lakes Training station, and Benson, 23, a private in the Army Administra- tion school at Fargo, N. D., both of whom are directors Of the company, and William, IT, who recently was sworn in as a Naval Air cadet. Only Benson has worked extensively for the company,
 Besides SorenSen and Bennett, only B. J. Craig, secretary and treasurer, remain of the top execu- tives who helped Ford develop his fabulous empire. SorenSen has been with Ford since 1905, year after its founding. Bennett, Ford'S closest advisor, has been with the automo- bile pioneer since 1916.
 Edsel Ford became president of the Ford company in 1941, acquiring fl 1-2 per cent of the stock-nearly all of the outstanding shares not already held by his father. It has not been revealed whether any re- distribution of stock ever was made subsequently,. The firm, incorporated in 1903 with an actual cash invest ment of only $28,000, 25 per cent of which was held by Henry Ford, was valued at $718,00O,0O0 on Dec. 31, 1941-latest official figure available.
 Quietly and effectively, Edsel Ford exercised the leadership of the firm which built more than 30,000 pas senger cars and trucks before it con- verted it's facilities to a $4,500,000,- 900 war production program in 194l and 1942. He worked tireleSsly on the war program, but looked ahead eagerly to day when his firm could resume production of peacetime products.
 Edsel Ford shared his fathers in terest in production of airplanes as well as passenger cars and trucks after the war. Only last week his father indicated the Ford company would build cargo planes after he war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
MURDER CHARGE
 FACES YOUTH, 25

Buffalo, May 26-CUP)-Curment Traylor, 25, who protested he did not intend to kill the boy, just to make him sick" was charged with first degree murder last night in connection with the death Sunday by poison of his seven-year-old brother Jaw, Charles Heard.
 According to police, Traylor said he had hoped the child's illness would bring his estranged wife, Mary, 20, back home, and that an opportunity to settle their domestic trouble would present itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
DOUBLE-BARRELED
 DIVORCE RESUMES
Photographer Describes All=Night Party in Mrs. Dempsey's Apartment
BY MARTIN KANE

United Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 White Plains, N. Y, May 26- CUP)-A prizefight photographer testified today how he peered blear fly through a hangover haze into the bedroom of Mrs. Hannah Will liams Dempsey, and saw her in bed with a prizefight manager.
 It was the aftermath of an all- night party in Mrs. Dempsey's cen Sral Park west apartment, the pho tographer, Harry Goldman, testi- fled at the double -barreled divorce trial brought by Mrs. Dempsey and her husband, Lieut.. Comdr. William H. (Jack) Dempsey. The other oc- cupant of the bed, he said, was Benny Woodall, manager of Lew Jenkins, former lightweight boxing champion, who also has been named as correspondent by Dempsey.
 Mrs. Dempsey, former musical comedy and night club singer, was not in the courtroom to hear Gold mans story. But her husband, trim in his Coast Guard uniform, arrived early and sat at counsel's table. His ears reddened from time to time during Goldman's testimony.
 Goldman, who lived with Woodall from time to time and said he saw Mrs. Dempsey and Woodall fre- ouently kissing in automobiles and restaurant booths, testified that others at the party were Madeline Webb, since convicted of murder and serving a life sentence, Jenkins Mrs. Dorothy w. Gomez, sister of Mrs. Dempsey, a dressmaker named Sarah, last name unknown, and a character known as Denny, the sail or. who was not sailor, and whose name was Denny Carol.
 P Na6 the third such party he Asd attended, Goldman said, and in the course of the evening he passed out cozily On an easy chaiI in the apartment foyer. When he awoke it was daybreak and he groped about the apartment seeking hangover relief. By error, he said Goldman opened the door Of Mrs Dempsey's bedroom.
 He saw two persons in the bed he testified.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
No. Main Woman
 Suffers Asphyxia

Mrs. Mabel Phillips of 1051 North Main street was rushed to St. Mary's hospital at 2:15 a. m. today, the victim of carbon mOnOxide. Hospital authorities said treatments revived her af- ter which she was discharged. Police said her two children, LeOnore and Mae, four and one respectively, had to be treated similarly, but hospital author ities have no such record. Near suffOcation from the carbon monOxide fumes was the result of having no chimney fue at tached to their gas heater, pol ice said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
RAILWAY WORKERS SEEK PAY RAISES
Increase Recommended to Roosevelt; Union Shop
 Request Denied

Washington, May z6. - (UP) - A general wage increase of eight cents an hour for more than 1,000,- 900 non- operating railroad employees was recommended to President Roosevelt today by an emergency board of the National Railway Labor Panel.
 Fifteen operating railroad unions had asked for a union shop and a wage raise of 20 cents an hour. The board turned down the union shop request.
 The recommendations of the board become effective in 30 days unless changes are ordered by eco homie Stabilization Director James F. ByneS.
 Although the increase approved by the board would add about $204,- 100000 to the payrolls of the rail- roads, the board said its considered judgment was that the increase would not under prevailing circum- stances, provided a basis for in- creases in railroad rates or for re- sistance to justifiable reductions in such rates"
 The eight cents all hour wage in crease was described by the board in its report to the President as a minimum, -inflationary" ad iustment necessary to correct gross inequities and to aid in the effective prosecution of the war;
 The board said it's action con- formed with the general economic stabilization program and that the increases were within existing price structures.
 The wage raise would be retro active to last February l, meaning that back pay estimated at $85 ,o00,-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
FLOOD EMERGENCY
 MEASURES MAPPED
Midwestern Death Toll 20; Engineers Encourage
 Weary Workers
BY UNITED PRESS

Thousands of flood victims re- turned to their water logged homes in the North Central States We'd nesday but farther south the Illinois and Mississippi rivers spilled over a dozen barriers protecting Missouri and Southern Illinois towns and farmland.
 More than 15,O00 troops and thou sands of civilians toiled to bolster crumbling levees along the two re- maining critical flood Zones-a 90- mile stretch of Illinois river basin land from Beardstown to Grafton, Ill, and a 1OO-mile reach north of Cape Girardeau, Mo, on the Mis- SlSSippi.
 While the high waters poured over new farm and industrial areas hourly, U. s. Army engineers en- couraged the weary orkers with a prediction that the flood crest, al ready passed on the Illinois, would leave Cape Girardeau late Wednes- day.
 At St. Louis, governors of six midWeStern states met to map em- ergency measures to aid flood stricken farmers in the inundated Illinois, Wabash, Missouri, Mississip- pi and Arkansas river valleys. The meeting was called by Food Admin istrator Chester H. Davis to bring the flooded areas under cultivation at the earliest possible moment.
 At Washington, President Roose- welt announced that 38,00O troops equipped with planes, and amphibi- ian jeeps were on duty in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kan sas and Arkansas.
 The Red Cross announced ofti- cially that 164,248 persons were homeless and 2,756,000 acres were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
CLAIM NINE
 U. s. SHIPS SUNK
By United Press

A Japanese communique said to- day that naval units had sunk 17 enemy submarines presumably American - in recent weeks in the south Pacific and that the Japanese sub campaign in the same area had taken toll of nine vessels.
 The communique said two tank CTS aggregating 30,000 tons, six freighters totaling 65000 tons and a transport of 15,000 tons had been sunk by Japanese submarines.
 In addition, Japanese naval air craft were credited with sinking four transports totaling 9,400 tons.
 The Japanese claims were not confirmed by any Allied source,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
SPECIAL FURLOUGH
 RATIONS OFFERED

Washington, May 26-(UP)-Mem- bers of the armed services on a three-day furlough or who eat at least nine meals month at place where rationed roods are acquired by ration stamps, henceforth will be eligible for special rurlough ration.
 The new program eliminates red tape of the old method which pro vided extra rations only for those on seven-day leave, and eliminates the requirement. of Servicemen ap- bearing personally before ration board.
 From now on, the serviceman will supply the food-provider with an application form. signed by himself and his commanding officer, which the food-provider may present to a ration board for extra certificates within IS days of the end of the fur tough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-26
Revolt, Bombings, Even Invasion May Be T ried To Break Italian Morale
Death Of Edsel
 Ford Bad Loss To Motor Firm
By ANTHONY G. DE LORENZO United Press Staff Correspondent

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75 Per Cent Plan AppearsDestined For Passage Soon
By JOHN L. CUTTER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington 26(UPIoue leaders decided today to
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