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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-31
Berlin Is
|AImostUn-
Recognizable
-NEA Radiophoto

Stockholm, Dec. 31-(UP)-Mayor
Ludwig Steed of Berlin told foreign
correspondents that British bombs
have left the German capital cal
most unrecognizable", the Nazi-con-
trolled Scandinavian telegraph bur
eau said today while Berlin still
burned from its second heaviest raid
of the war.
"a London broadcast said travel
ers reaching Sweden from Berlin
described Inter Den Linden as a
street of skeleton buildings" with
only Adolf Hitler's Reich chancel-
lery and the air ministry standing.
Industrial districts south and south
east of the city appeared hardest hit,
the broadcast said, and damage at
Tempelhof was reported to be
colossal"
Steed said the huge number of
persons bombed out of their homes
had created a serious housing Short
age, but promised all feasible mea-
sures" would be taken to cope with
the situation.
The Berlin Schwarzekorps, in an
editorial quoted by the Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter, reported millions
of Germans" now were soldiers lin
the sense they possess no more than
they can carry in knapsacks.'
"They demand from life as little
as do the Russians, which is prere-
quisite for effective total war;" the
publication said.
Travellers reaching Sweden from
Germany said worst damage in
Wednesday nights 2,24O-tc-' Raj
raid appeared concentrated in the
southern and southwestern industri-
al outskirts rather than in the CEN
ter of the city.
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Flyers Start ISoftening Up Offensive
Pre- -Invasion Torrent Of
Terrorism Sweeps France

London, December 81.
(UP) - Vichy police pre-
pared to impose an early
curfew throughout France
tonight in the hope of avert
ing an upsurge in the pre-
invasion wave of terrorism
which is sweeping the coun-
try with unprecedented in
tensity.
The Vichy government, openly ap-
prehensive over the gathering
strength Of the organized under
ground movement, ordered the clos
ing of all public meeting places by
1920 tonight throughout the coun-
try, the Vichy radio reported. No
vehiclur traffic will be permitted be-
tween II p. m. and a. m.
Long after a number of French
broadcasts had referred to the cur
few as applying all of France, the
Paris radio said it would be imposed
only in the south part OF the coun-
try. 1t did not define the line of
embarka ton.
Earlier, Premier Laval was report
ed to have reshuffled and reinforced
his cabinet police force in an effort
to deal more effectively with the
French organization, which, accord
ing to a United Press source, has
completed a master sabotage plan
for use the day Gen. Dwight D.
Esenhower's invasion armies land
on the continent.
Under the new cabinet setup Mar
eel Lemoine, former project of Mar
settles, will serve in the newly Great
ed post of secretary of ste tie for the
interior, the Vichy broadcast said.
Joseph Darnan, chief of the Vichy
militia, will ,scome secretary Of
state for maintenance of order, and
Leon Parmentier, regional project of
Rouen, will be director-general of
the national police force.
London quarters noted that OAR
nan, cited by Laval only for his
qualities of leadership was a men,
Der of the notorious Cagoulards who
participated in an abortive Axis-in-
stigated revolution plot in 1896.
French headquarters in London
reported that bands Of patriots, arm
ed with machineguns, repeatedly
were stepping up the tempo of sab
otage daily, reaching a point where
an average of 40 hostile acts" per
day were acknowledged by French
authorities.
Assassinations of Axis officials
and collaborat tors have reached such
pitch that the German-dominated
Paris radio, which previously had
ignored such acts, admitted at least
10 daily.
The underground movement has
been organized to new peak OF
efficiency, operating under the di-
rection of a central committee Of 16,
all of whom are not known even to
each other, a patriot source said.
The saboteurs were reported con-
centrating principally on the Ger
man power plants and factories
where skilled engineers are blow
ing up generating and other ma
chinery which takes months to re-
pair" he said.
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3 Major War
Developments

London, Dec. 81 - (UP) - The
virtual destruction of nine of Ger
manys 81 major industrial cities.
the increasing role of the British
Navy in the Pacific and Allied ship
building were listed today as three
of the major war developments of
the year end by British naval and
air authorities.
The nine German cities, each
with population of more than
250,000 were devastated so seriously
that for the time being they prob
ably will consume more than they
produce" the review said.
Five other smaller cities with a
total population of more than 300
900 were reported equally damaged.
Naval authorities said the Brit
ish Navy dominated the Mediter-
ranean and its strength was being
brought increasingly to bear"
against the Japanese.
Disclosing for the first time that
the Allied armada in the invasion
of Sicily totaled record 1926 ships
Of al TYPES, both British and Amer
lean, the review said Allied ship
building during the first half Of
l943 exceeded German sinkings by
more than 100000 tons.
The battle Of the Atlantic is not
won, the review said. but it has
reached the point where the Ger
mans are losing more submarines
than the Allies are losing ships.
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SWEEP
FORWARD ON
+. WIDE front

Moscow, December 81. =
(UP) Russian mobile units
which by-passed the be-
leaguered Ukranian rail hub
of Zhitomir to the north
were reported advancing
swiftly today toward Novo-
grad Volynski, only 20 miles
from the pre-war frontier OF
Poland.
Soviet field dispatches said
General Nikolai F. Vatutin's
first Ukraine army had
broken the German defense
front in all sectors and was
sweeping triumphantly west
ward on an arc of nearly 200
miles.
Fierce fighting was reported at
the gates of semi-enveloped zhito-
mir, where the Germans fought
desperately to delay the greatest
single Red Army advance Of the
war.
Field reports specifically mention
ing Novograd Volynski as In the
path of the Russian vanguard stam-
peding northwestward beyond Zhit-
omir said advanced elements were
within 40 miles" of the Old Polish
border.
(The British radio, reporting the
flanking of Zhitomir, said that "1f
the town has no tfallen yet, 1t can
not hold out much longer" A
Stockholm dispatch to London said
the Germans were abandoning
Zhitomir)
GA German communique acknoW-
lodged heavy fighting "of mdim-
inished ferocity" in the areas OF
zhitomir and the White Russian
bastion of Vitebsk, and claimed that
24O Soviet tanks were destroyed IN
the last two days.
Right Wing
Vatutin'S right wing now was ad-
vancing west of the Zhitomir-Kor-
osten-O vruch Railroad on an I'M
broken front while foremost spear
heads drove through the retreating
German units.
One spearhead has scored deep
penetration beyond Chervonoar-
meisk, % miles northwest of zhito-
mir, and had paralyzed the highway
ae,d railrnad between zhitomir and
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Big Decisions
Coming Soon

miral Halsey's Headquarters.
South Pacific, Dec. S1.-OP)-Wal-
ter Nash, Minister to the United
States from New Zealand, who stop
ped here enroute to Washington.
said today that "big decisions" may
be due in the Pacific war council
soon.
Nash told press conference that
I'VE are going forward in the Pacific
today at fair speed He said there
was vast difference in the outlook
for the Pacific war, recalling that
when he went to Washington In
March. 1912, he constantly feared
Japanese planes and saw scarcely
ship in Pearl Harbor.
Nash said that "our job Is to his
Hitler so hard during the next f~s'
months he will never recover.
Then we can concentrate in the
Pacific" he said.
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1I1e FOTtTcSSeS 1dSI dt-
tackled Paris on September
3, and since then had con-
centrated the main weight
of their daylight offensive
on enemy industrial and
shipping targets in north
western and western Ger
many.
Allied military spokesman
maintained a tight silence
about the objective of the ter
rifle cross-channel bombing
assault, which brought OUT
one of the most impressive
displays of Allied aerial might
ever paraded over the occu-
pied continent.
There was every indication. how
ever. that the long-expected BON
bardment to soften up Germany's
Atlantic wall in preparation for tho
opening Of a second front had be-
gun.
Five hundred British and Ameri-
can medium and tighter-bombers
set the pace for the intensified as
sault yesterday, Raj raiders fol
lowed through last night and big
formations of mediums picked up
the attack soon after dawn today
Reports from the English south
east coast told of heavy cross
channel traffic under a clear sky
during the first three hours of day
light. The raiders flew at all alti-
tudes, some fighters barely clearing
the waves while other bombers were
so high that only their vapor trails
could be distinguished.
The weight of the bolnbardment Of
Gernany's network of guns, pill
boxes and other installations along
the French channel coast already
had surpassed that launched by the
Luftwaffe against southeast Erg-
land August 8, 1910, in preparation
for an invasion of Britain that never
came Off
While Allied air fleets devoted in
creasing attention to the invasion
coast, 1900 American heavy bomb
ers and fighters hit southwest Ger
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Doctor Tells How
To Avoid Hangover

Boston, Dec. 31-UP)-TO
New Years Eve merrymakers
who wish to avoid hangovers, a
Boston City hospital doctor to-
day offered this advice:
Limit your drinks to one
every Is minutes.
2.-Don't take them Feat.
8, - Eat heavily between
drinks-steak if you can get it
because it contains vitamin b
and absOrbs the alcohol.
To those who ignore these
precautions the doctor, who
preferred to remain anonymous,
suggested this mOrning-after
remedy:
Take aspirin for the head
ache and tomato juice because
it's kind to your stomach.
2.-Drink lots of water.
3.-Eat all the solid food you
can.
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Nation All i
Set For Big !
Celebration

Reservations in night clubs and
amusement centerS for tonights
making were sold out from
coast to coast today as the Amer.
lean public, it's income tax paid and
its supply of ready cash replenished
after early Christmas shopping,
prepared to ring in the New Year.
The record holiday spending
splurge continued from Earl Car
rolls Hollywood night club, which
was sold out with a SIS per person
cover charge, to the SWank New
York clubs where the top was $17.50
per person.
Entertainment prices were held
about in line with last year by
Office of Price Administration regu-
lationS. Business was much better,
however, and some spots hiked their
prices to cover new entertainment
features.
Chicago, night club top was $25 a
couple but that was only the start
of the nights spending. Supper OF
unration fowl ranged from $6.25 to
$12. Liquor was IS cents drink,
domestic wines ana champaign 80
a quart and imported vintages $40
a quart.
There were more people willing to
pay the top price than could be
accommodated.
New Workers expected to throw a
$3O,0OO,OOO hinge in what may be its
greatest New Years Eve celebra-
ticn. A crowd of over a million will
jam into Times Square and another
million is anticipated in night
clubs and restaurants
The atmosphere of the New
Years Eve parties will be changed
" TIE war. Paper hats were caught
=. the paper shortage. Some nighs
spots advised that paper hats would
=. .>Eailable for women only. But
what they lacked in quantity, they
made up in inventiveness. Some OF
the feminine wood pulp chapeaux
resembled millinery. Some places
stock up on cotton hats, a Substi-
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Jops Bombed
On MorshoIIs

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 31-(UP)-U.
S. Army and Navy bomberS and
fighters, pounding at japanese
strength in the Marshalls Tuesday,
destroyed or probably destroyed Is
Japanese planes in air battles over
three atolls and brought Japanese
air losses during the As days of a
continuing American offensive to
more than 300 planes lost or dam
aged.
During that period, in which the
Gilberts were conquered and the
Marshalls brought within range of
daily raiding, an announcement by
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said, 13
land based American planes were
lost.
The enemy losses were exclusive
of carrier operations, on which few
announcements have been made.
American Iiberatoi bombers car
ried out one Tuesdays raids and en-
countered stiff Japanese fighter op-
position in an attack on Maleolap.
Two Japanese fighters were destroy
ed and 10 others listed as probables.
Three Liberators were shot down.
South of Maleolap, army light
bombers, escorted by Airacobras,
made low altitude attacks on Mile,
apparently hitting at airstrips and
the camp area in bombing and
strafing t.tta ks. Several OF the
American planes received minor
damage.
Navy search LibCrators over Kwa-
ialeir were intercepted by 10 jap
anese fighters. They shot down three
of them. One of the American planes
was lost.
The Japanese struck back Monday
and Tuesday, with nuisance raids"
at Tarawa and Maxim in the Gill
berts, but caused no damage, the
communiQue said.
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Esquire Loses
Malls Case

Washington, December 81. -
(UP) - If there was 10 JOY today in
the House of Esquire, no provoca-
tive smile from the shapely Varga
girl or no wicked Leer from ESky,
that pop-eyed cover man, you could
blame it all on Postmaster General
Frank C. Walker.
Walker last night reversed the
recommendations of his three man
trial board and banned Esquire mag
azine from the second class mails
as of February %, 1914. The order
was the outgroTth of lengthy hear
mgs on Walkers charges that the
magazine was obscene, leWd and
lascivious.
He said he had made the order
effective after go Gay period to
give the publishers ample opportun-
ity to take the case to court for
review step that the publishers
announced they will take.
Revocation OF second class mail
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COPPETO IN
PAROLE MOVE

Freedom early in the new
year may be in store for
Philip Coppeto and Frank
Burns" Santalucia, who
were sentenced to terms of
4 and 8 years at the States
Prison IN Wethersfield in the
Waterbury conspiracy trial,
if the State Board Of Paroles
looks with favor on their
applications for release next
Wednesday.
Both prisoners have served their
minimum sentences, with time off
for good behavior, and have asked
the prison board to consider their
cases, it. was reported by Warden
Walker at the state institution to-
day. The prison official commented
that both men have been Every good
prisoners, indicating that recon-
mendation may be made for their
immediate release.
The hearing will take place We'd
nesday morning, Jan. S, at the
prison rooms. No other person in
volved in the famous Waterbury
trial is scheduled to appear at that
time.
Coppeto, who was 80 years old at
the time Of the sentence, was fined
$500. A similar penalty was imposed
ON SantaLucia, now A. Both men
were sentenced Aug. is. 1889 to-
gether with 81 other accused, but
did not start their sentences until
several months later after the Su-
preme Court of Errors denied their
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change in their stand when they
called their general chairman to a
conference here next Thursday.
At the same time. the War De-
partment made it clear that the
Army did not intend to release the
seized lines until the dispute was
settled and until there no longer
existed possibility that the strike
orders might be reinstated. In call
ing off the walkout scheduled for
6 a. m. yesterday, some of the unions
used the word cancelled" and
others postponed" Union officials
explained they actually could not
wipe out strike vote. which re-
mains alive until the issues in dis
pute are settled.
Fears of a railway wage freeze
were raised In a provision of Mr..
Roosevelt's arbitration award to the
srainmen and engineers which held
that increases shall be paid until
proclamation by the president or
declaration by the Congress of the
cessation of hostilities." A high adj
ministration official was understood
to have told union leaders that this
was a definite freeze provision.
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Mayor TO Be
omorr0W

Formal Inauguration ceremonies
will be held tomorrow morning in
the city aldermanic chambers when
Atty. Walter E. Monagan will ad-
minister the oath of office to his
nephew Mayor John S. Monagan.
A full color guard comprised Of
Waterbury policemen and firemen
headed by Fire Marshal Dennis
Lahey will be present throughout
the ceremonies which will see the in
duction into office of all elective
city officials.
Plans for the ceremony call for
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San Vittore
Falls Allies
RumorSoys

The Bari radio reported today
that the Fifth Army had captured
San .Vittore, key village six miles
southeast Of Cessino, junction on
the inland road to Rome.
The reported capture Of San
Vittore apparently was an Ameri-
can victory, since Algiers and front
dispatches had told of United
States troops attacking the town
and sending patrol forces inside 1t.
The Bari radio, controlled by the
italian government of Pietro Ba-
doglio, said in a. broadcast reported
by the Federal Communications
Commission that San Vittore had
fallen after being defended "for
several days with particular stub
bornness."
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec.
31-(UP)-Allied troops have car
ried out raid in force across the
Garigliano river in a thrust toward
the key junction of Minturno, it
was announced today, and Ameri-
can bombers smashed anew at Ger
man communications in the most
sustained aerial assault of the
italian campaign.
The raid across the Garigliano, In
the long dormant Tyrrhenian
coastal sector, apparently was car
ried out after the Germans launched
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Plenty Of Fun
For Servicemen

New York, Dec. 81. (UP)--Service
men and women everywhere in the
United States will greet the New
Year tonight at dances OF the
United Service Organizations 1,700
clubs where entertainment will
range from quiz broadcasts to roller
skating and prospecting for real
gold.
In addition to club parties, many
USO units will send junior hostesses
to dances at camps and naval bases
tonight. Parties and open house will
be held by many clubs tomorrow.
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the nomination of a temporary pres
ident of the board of aldermen to
conduct the formal organization
proceedings as the new board takes
office and its permanent president
Is sworn in.
Following this procedure the lat
ter board will choose committee
to act as an escort of the Mayors
as the city's chief executive enters
the chambers preparatory to his
taking the oath of office. With the
color guard at attention and all city
officials, board memt ers and public
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SPAIN DENIES REPORT

Madrid, Dec. 31-(UP)-Author-
itative sources today described as
completely false" German Trans
ocean news agency report earlier
this week that Spain had recognized
the puppet Fascist Republican gov
eminent of deposed italian Premier
BenitO MuSSolini.
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500 Bombers Set
Pace For Stepped-Up
Assault On Defenses

L.
the
armies
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Start Monday, Jan. 3rd. Day or
Night School. Post Jr. College Of
Commerce, "a Central Ave.
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Hours later, a big formation OF American heaVy
bombers supported by u S. and Raj fighters Numbered
out the continent to batter target officially dent
fled only as in France.
The Paris RADIO however, reported that Allied planes
raded detectives in the Paris shortly before noo
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The Weather

Fair and Slightly
Warmer
FUN Weather Report Page q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-06
LITER Summons Catoe
In False Conviction Case

Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt Catoe,
81, colored. who is scheduled to die
in the electric chair at District Jail
January IS for the Staying of Mrs.
Rose Abramowitz in March. 1941
will be summoned to testify in Dis
trict Court Friday in the legal fight
of another colored man now serv-
ing life term for crime which
Catoe rs said to have confessed to
police.
A writ has been issued by the
court ordering Catoe's appearance
on a motion in behalf of James
Matthew Smith. 40, colored, now
imprisoned for life for second
degree murder conviction in Feb
ruary. 1887, in the case of Mrs
Florence Dancy. 81, colored. Smith
is asking the court to set aside his
conviction.
During an investigation In 1941
leading to his conviction as Mrs
Abramowitz's slayer, Catoe is al
legged to have told police he MUIR
dered Mrs. Dancy. wife of the for
mer recorder of deeds for the Dis
trict. in her home at 2l39 L street
NV. in April, 1885.
Smith also was sentenced to from
five to seven years on November 6
1896. for criminal assault on Rock
vile Md woman on March 10,
1885.
Smith ;e mn, copfrad IL, an IN
stitution in Missouri.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-06
War Alcohol Plant Swept
By Fire in Philadelphia
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. GA
three-alarm fire swept through the
flve-story distilling plant of the
Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co
on the Delaware River waterfront
last night. destroying large guam
titles of alcohol produced for the
war effort.
More than 500 firemen fought the
blaze for nearly two hours while
Gordon of police and Coast
Guardsmen kept spectators and
newsmen from the area.
For many months the company
has been experimenting with a
secret process developed by Waclow
Szukiewicz, Polish refugee scientist,
for manufacturing synthetic rubber
The cause of the fire was not
established definitely, but Fire Chief
William F. CoWden said "Appar-
emily still caught fire and the
flames simply swept over" a tank
containing alcohol.
The full extent of the damage
was not estimated A company Of
f1cial, however, said the plant pier
was unaffected. About 100000 gal
Ions of alcohol were lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-06
Army, Navy Planes
Join Efforts 10 Save
81 in 5hipwreck
Cargo Vessel Directed
To Scene After Airmen
Drop Food and Clothing
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6-The Army
Navy and Coast Guard disclosed
today that brilliant combined
rescue effort had saved the lives of
81 survivors of a ship which sank in
a storm rs miles off the East Coast
recently and left a damned small
lifeboat at the mercy of noun
famous seas.
The lifeboat. tossing about like a
cork. was sighted by 1t. Norman E
Purdy of Hamilton. Ohio from an
Army Air Force bomber.
1t. Purdy Immediately radioed
for aid,
A Navy Catalina patrol plane
piloted by 1t. Comdr. Delos E. Wait
u S. NJ, of Ell Dorado. Ark, dropped
food, water and clothing close to
the survivors boat.
Comdr. Wait said he could not
land his seaplane in the pounding
seas. Then Coast Guard patrol
bomber piloted by 1t, Edwin B.
Ing of Elizabeth. N. j., arrived after
being ordered to the scene.
1t. Ing few off on a scouting ex-
petition and a few minutes later
found a cargo vessel IS miles from
the survivors boat.
The freighter was directed to the
scene of the shipwrecked group and
all 81 were taken aboard without
mishap.