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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-23
French Agree
On New Plan
BY DONALD COE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

- w.
Algiers, June % - (U.P) - The
task of forging all French military
units into single army to fight the
Axis began today with the arrival
from Tunisia of General Alphonse
JUN and General Edgard De Lar
minat, newly-appointed army chiefs
of stats.
JUN was named chief aide to
General Henry Giraud and De Lar
minat to General Charles De Gaulle
under the compromise agreement
reached by French Committee for
National Liberation yesterday, Civ
ing Giraud command of the French
forces in North and West Africa
and De Gaulle command of Empire
forces elsewhere.
The four military leaders, were
expected to confer today or tomor-
row. Joint chiefs of staff for air and
nary probably will be appointed by
Friday.
Success or failure of the agree
ment on a joint command appeared
10 depend upon permanent mill
tary committee to be appointed. 1t
will consist of Giraud, De Gaulle
and the six chiefs of staff.
One of the most difficult tasks
confronting the new command will
be unification of French naval
forces.
Henri Bonnet arrived from the
United States last night and form
! ally took over his portfolio as min
lister of information for the ma
tional committee. Jean Monnet had
| been acting for him.
De Gaulle late yesterday aban-
doned his demands for the post of
national defense minister and for
| an immediate purge of defeatists
and collaborationistS in Girauds
! armies and consented to continue
| in command solely of French forces
in liberated French territory else
! where in the world.
He accepted the compromise,
worked out by other members of
the French committee of national
! liberation, following Anglo-Ameri-
can intervention based on the
grounds that the prolonged struggle
for power between De Gaulle and
Giraud was hampering Allied mill
tary plans.
The compromise calls for the
merging of ali French land, sea and
air forces under permanent mill
tary committee, but with command
divided between De Gaulle and
Giraud. The two generals, together
with the chiefs of their army, navy
and air stats, will comprise the
military committee.
Gen. Alphonse JUN was approved
as chief OF staff of Giraud'S armies
i'll Algeria, TuniSia, Morocco and
West Africa and Gen. Edouard De
Launinat was made chief of staff
of De E1auiles armies in Syria,
FyeIch Equatorial Africa, French
Sorlaliland, Madagascar, New Gale
donna and other liberated French
territories. Chiefs of the naval and
air stats will be chosen later.
Jean Monnet, spokesman for the
national committee, said the mill
cary committee would endeavor to
assure the smooth running of the
Two armies as they overlap or con-
ilict in any way and also deal with
other military problems as they
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$27,O65,258 SPENT
HERE FOR WAR BONDS

The monthly War Bond report
for the city of Waterbury was re-
leased today revealing that this
city's purchase to date have totaled
$27 ,O65 .258.60. The total amount OF
War Bonds purchased by Water
burians in May exceeded one mil
lion dollars worth in the amount OF
ST ,638. 903.50
The following official War Bond
selling centers sold up through the
month of May: Post Office, 1854
1880; banks; 699,975.50; Indus
trial Issuers. $4,462 ,943.75; Federal
Reserve, $2,140,510; Credit Union,
$685., 574.5O; Rowland Hughes, SAT-
OBJ; Radio Station WBRY, ST.
1850; State T'heater, SIT, 1850;
Loews Poll, 68,928.50.
The following are official indus
trial issuers: American Brass Com
pany, $3,944850; Bristol Company,
$311 ,725; Lux Clock Manufacturing
Company, Sic, 106.25; Mattatuck
Manufacturing Company, $72125;
Oakville Pin Company, $32, 943.75;
Patent Button Company, $62, 1877 so;
Waterbury Clock Company, $43,-
1875.
The following include the banks
of the city of Waterbury: Citizens
and Manufacturers National Bank,
So 1924, 1875; Colonial Trust Com
pany, $4,9O9, 230.75; First Federal
Savings and Loan Association, $312,-
262.5O; Morris Plan Bank, $17,512.50;
Waterbury Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION, $10,725; Waterbury Ma
tional Bank, $2,721 ,28O.50; Water
bury Savings. Bank, 1896, 839.75;
Waterbury Trust Company, $685.
93075.
The following are 100 per centers
under the mercantile classification:
Agasta Shoppe, Anne's Style Shop,
Army and Navy Store, ]. r. Clayton
Company, Friendly Greeting Card
Shop, w. T. Grant Company, Hicks
Inc, John Irving Shoe Store, K. and
D. JeWelry Company, Leopold Fur
niture Company, Leopold Morse,
Lorraine Specially Shop, Mary
Oliver Candy Shops, Inc, MvAnn
Shoe Company, ,McCoy's Inc, Mich
aers Inc, Modern Curtain Shop,
Mohill Furniture Company, Nor
mandie Hosiery Shop, Radio Shop,
Service Shoe store, Tops, Inc,
Wilhelm, Inc, Windsor Curtain
Shop, Inc.
The following are 100 percenters
under the industrial classification
Bar Work Manufacturing Company,
Bunker Hill Plating Company, But
Ter Printing Company, Cashin's
Dairy Products, Cohen and Lundin
Company, I. Dibner Brothers, Do
mestic Appliance Company, Empire
Plating Company, Formatic Com
pany, General Ice Cream Corp,
General Manufacturing Company,
Keeler and Long, Inc, Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, Platt Bro
theirs and Company, Prudential In
surance Company, Puritan Manu-
featuring Company, Quality Liquors,
Inc, Risdon Manufacturing Com
pany, Simonsville Manufacturing
Company, Shoe Hardware, st. Louis
Service, Inc, T'hinsheet Metals, Y.
M. G. A.
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Rome Raid S
Hinted Again

London, June % - (U.P) - A
military commentator limited today
at possible air raids on Rome, say
ing the Allies had no Scruples
against the bombardment of indus
trial and military objectives in the
city, as distinguished from religious
shrine which would not be attack
ed.
The long standing issue of bomb
way aerial offensive against the
way areial offensive against the
continent from Britain and North
Africa achieved record or near-rec-
ord proportions.
The commentator said there was
a distinction between the Vatican
area, on which the Allies desired
no bombs to fall, and the modern
industrial and military establish
ments of Rome which contribute to
the Italian war effort.
There also is a distinction, he
added, between Christian shrines
and the ancient Roman monuments
such as the coliseum.
Allied planes flew over Rome re-
Gently and bombed a nearby sea-
plane base, and Axis sources said
they dropped leaflets warning that
NE eternal city" and headquarters
q Fdscism was listed for future at
tack.
The commentator pointed out
there are "a number of industrial
and military sites in Rome which
are legitimate military detectives. "
He said that if Rome were declared
an open city and all military &C
tivity halted, such as troop move
ments, war manufacturing and
freight movement, the Allies would
gladly" spare the city.
Meanwhile, he added, it would be
a pity to shed crocodile tears re-
garding Rome. The Allies will at
tack the source of Axis weapons
wherever they may be produced, he
said.
The same applies to Germany's
Ruhr Valley, the spokesman con-
tinued. The Allies are not going to
hold back on their attacks simply
because cultural monuments are
situated near military targets.
He said this policy was like that
OF an army when it brings a city
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Will Benefits
P. w. White

The will of the late Mrs. Bidora
H. White, 80, of 366 Chase Parkway.
who died February Is at her winter
home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
was filed in probate court today. The
will names her son, Paul w. White
of Waterbury, as eXecutir.
All interests in the Parva Products
Company of this city are bequeathed
to her son, Paul, as trustee. In the
event of the demise of her son, Paul,
the trusteeship with all powers men
toned shall be vested in her son,
Holman H. White of Philadelphia.
The trustee is fully authorized and
empowered to hold and control the
stock and interest in the Parva
Products Company and is to receive
and collect all income derived from
the estate. The trustee shall not
have the right to sell or transfer any
of the Parva stock in this trust I'M
der any consideration unless the en-
tirke company is sold, it expressly
provides that this be done only with
the written consent of three quarters
or more of the votes.
In the event that the trustee
should sell the Parva Products
Company, as provided, the proceeds
from the sale up to an including
$15O,OOO, shall be divided equally
among her three children, Paul,
Holman and Helen. One-half OF
said income shall go to son, Paul,
for remainder of his life, the re-
manning one-half, up to and includ-
ing $4,000 be divided equally be-
tween Helen w. Miller and Holman
H. White.
The balance of the income in ex-
cess of $4,000 each year, is be-
queathed to the Board of Directors
of the First Church of Christ
Scientist, Boston, for assisting in
the building of new Christian Sci
ence Churches in various commun1-
ties
The residue of the estate, real,
personal and mixed property will go
to Helen w. Miller and Holman H.
White.
Mrs. White was member OF the
First Church of Christ Scientist in
this city. She invented the ParVa
overall buckle and several other
types of buckles. She was also we'll
known for her oil paintings, having
held several exhibitions.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-23

1t met with UNIV president, John
L. Lewis last night and instructed
the $4,000 striking miners to call
off their tWo-day strike.
The order was effective immedi-
ately, but reports from the coal
fields indicated the mines could not
be returned to full production for
two or three days. Only a few Of
the small mines were expected to
resume production today.
The miners were instructed to
work until Oct. 81 under the direc-
ton of Solid Fuels Administrator
Harold L. Ickes, custodian of the
mines since they were seized by the
government May /. No explanation
was given for the Oct. 81 limit. The
miners will work under the terms of
the 1941-43 coal wage contract as
modified by the War Labor board
to give the miners wage gains total
ing about 20 cents daily.
Union officials were authorized to
continue pressing miners claims for
underground travel pay, the major
issue in the dispute in which the
coal operators and the WLB have
been involved for three months.
The only apparent hitch to gen.
eral acceptance of Lewis terms lay
in the effectiveness of protests that
the miners should not be permitted
to insist that the government oper-
ate the mines. The unions refusal
to accept last weeks WIiB order
represented continued defiance of
the board.
There was also speculation on
what effect the agreement to end
the strike may have on presidential
action on the Connally- Harness.
Smith anti-strike bill. 1t becomes
law automatically at 1901 a. m.
Saturday unless the president We
toes or signs it before then.
Although the order to end the
strike-the third in two months
came too late to prevent some cuts
in steel production, it forestalled
threats of serious curtailment. Only
a few hours before it was issued,
War Production Board Chairman
Donald M. Nelson warned that cur
tailed steel production would have
disastrous effect" on the arma-
ment program and essential civilian
economy.
Tho union action came shortly
after the WLB referred the strike
to the president and urged him to
use his full powers to enforce COM
pliance with the WLB wage order,
which was rejected by the union as
a yellow dog contract"
Lewis, announcing the policy COM
mittec action after he had conferred
for two days with Ickes, said the
move was based on the unions de-
Continued on Page A.
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SuIerno Rail
Yards SheIIed
By RAFFIyers
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North Africa
June 23.-British wellington bomb
ers, making the third Allied raid on
the Naples area in SO hours, set
many fires in a block-buster assault
Monday night on the railway yards
at Salerno athwart the supply route
to southern Italy and Sicily, 1t was
announced today.
TWo-ton bombs were seen to hit
the marshalling yards near barracks
at Salerno. In addition to a num-
Der of large fires, several smaller
blazes spring up. Only light anti
aircraft fire was encountered and no
fighters rose to challenge the raid
ers, all of which returned safely.
The twin-engined British plane:
from the northwest African Air
Force struck in the wake of Ameri-
can aircraft that pounded railway
airfield and industrial targets in and
around Naples in daylight Monday
and other formations of Wellingtons
that bombed Naples Sunday night.
Salerno, 30 miles southeast OF
Naples, is an important railroad
junction.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
daily communique also reported
that Beauf1ghters of the northwest
Africa coastal air force sank medi-
um-sized merchant vessels with two
direct hits 30 miles off the Sandman
coast Monday night and later at
tackled escort vessels and six toWed
barges. The results of the last at
tack were not observed.
Light bombers of the Royal Air
force middle eastern command &C
counted for a second vessel, a small
sailing ship sent to the bottom off
Scarpanto island in the Aegean
sea, Monday, Cairo communique
reported.
No planes were lost in the Middle
East commands operations and only
one plane in the Northwest African
commands flights.
Reconnaissance photographs dis
closed that American Flying Fort
resSeS in Mondays daylight raid on
Naples destroyed approximately 40
per cent of the royal arsenal, scored
three direct hits on a torpedo fac
tory and several hits among artillery
emplacements, barracks and motor
transport depot, and severely dam
aged an airplane plant.
At least Is hits were counted on
sidings at the central station, 10
hits on locomotive sheds and the
railway depot and two hits on the
round-house turntable. Bombs also
destroyed or damaged many freight
cars.
Nearly the entire motor transport
stores depot area was devastated
by the Flying Fortresses at nearby
Cancello, where at least 16 buildings
were destroyed. Fires still were
burning at Canello Is hours after
the raid.
Reconnaissance over Salerno and
Battipaglia, both south of Naples,
was said to have revealed that
Mitchell medium bombers on Mon
day destroyed or damaged at least
40 railway cars and halted all train
movements at Battipaglia. Salvage
works nd railway sidings were dam
aged severely at Salerno.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-23
World War |
Ace In Russia

Moscow, June 23-UP)- Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker, famous Amer
lean flyer, arrived in Moscow sew
eral days ago on an undisclosed
mission, it was revealed today.
The Russian news agency, Tass
said Rickenbacker was in the So
Wet capital as Representative of
the war department"
Tass disclosed Rickenbacker's
presence by including his name
among those who attended a pres
entation ceremony yesterday in the
office of Foreign Minister v. M.
Molotov when 60 American medals
were awarded to Russian army and
navy men.
The last official mission in which
Rickenbacker was reported engaged
was the South Pacific inspection
tour conducted for Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson in October, 1912.
Rickenbacker's plane was forced
down and the World War 1 ace, to-
gether with all but one member of
his crew, was rescued after 81 days
adrift on life RATS.
Observation Tour?
Washington, June % - CUP -
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, presum-
ably is on another observation tour
for Secretary of War Henry L.
StimSon.
The World War I ace has made
several to find out for the secretary
how effectively American air power
is being applied to the task of de-
feating the Axis.
The War Department was silent.
But it was recalled that he carried
out an observation mission in Brit
ain almost year ago and reported
to StimSon that there was excellent
cooperation between the British and
Americans, that the American air
forces displayed high morale and
excellent quality, that American
planes were performing well, and
that day and night bombing was
essential.
He was on a similar mission in the
Pacific last fall when his plane
crashed at sea and he and his COM
panionS were lost for three weeks.
He later completed his mission but
his report was not made public.
1t is noteworthy that he is in
Moscow at a time when the Russian
air forces are employing strategic
bombing such as practised by the
British and Americans to a greater
extent than ever before.
20 Planes Destroyed
Moscow, June % - CUP - Red
Army planes, methodically smash
ing German air power on the west
ern front, destroyed 20 grounded
Nazi planes in raid on an air
drome in the Leningrad area today.
The attack was part Of a syste-
matte assault by Soviet bombers up
and down the long battle line as
ground action dwindled off to ar
tillery dueling and reconnaissance
thruStS.
Tuesday night the Nazis lost II
aircraft in what Soviet announce
ments described as random bombing
attacks by long-range Soviet bomb
ers that touched off explosions and
fires at several Nazi airdromes,
Nine other German planes were
shot down in air combatS west OF
Rostov, the Soviet mi i-day commu-
nique said.
German news agency dispatches
last night described strong" Luft-
waffle attacks on the Soviet rear,
and said AZ Soviet planes were de-
stroyed during assaults on commu-
nications, arms plants and air.
drOmeS0
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-23
U. Repulse
Jops' Attack
BY DON CASWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Australia,
June 23.-(UP)-Allied jungle fight
ers have hurled back the first jap
aneSe ground attack of any size in
New Guinea in nearly year, killing
or wounding 100 enemy troops, a
communique revealed today.
The engagement took place Mon
day in the Mubo sector, up the
northeast New Guinea coast, and a
spokesman said it was considerable
more than patrol skirmishing."
1t followed series of aerial blows
by both sides in support OF the
ground troops. After the ground
battle in which the Allied forces
suffered only light losses, Allied at
tack planes bombed and strafed the
enemy positions in 20 attacks.
The spokesman said the Japanese
ground force, largest seen in the
Mubo area in recent months, moved
! down from the north on the Allied
troops on Lababia ridge, a mile east
of the enemy base at Mubo.
RepulSed by fire of the Allied
troops - probably Australians who
nave DGcIl IIlIcdlCIllllS CllC odP1AlCoS
supply lines In the Mubo-Lae-Sala-
maua area for weeks - the japanese
fell back toward Pimple Hill, a mile
northeast of Lababia.
1t marked the first effort by the
Japanese to take the initiative in
New Guinea since their major drive
almost a year ago that reached
across New Guinea to within 81
miles of Port Moresby. There they
were stopped and Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthurs troops later drove them
back across the Owen Stanley noun
| talns.
The enemy attempt was not unex-
pected. For weeks Allied planes had
battered barge shipments from en-
envy bases up the coast trying tc
cut off reinforcement for the Lac
Salamaua area.
The enemy had been forced by
slow but steady Allied ground gains
to act to relieve a threat to its jungle
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DETROIT RIOTING DEATH TOLL 30
CITY EMERGENCY RULES EASED
BY JERRY RIDEOUT

Detroit, June 23-Negro workers
returned to factories and boosted
tagging war production to near nor
malcy today as federal and state
troops and city police patrolled
streets in the wake of Detroit's tur-
bulent race riots.
Tension diminished considerably
in the Negro district as Gov. Harry
F. Kelly abolished two of six restric-
lions included in his state of emerg-
ency order issued Monday during
rioting which left 20 persons-25 of
them Negroes-dead and more than
600 injured.
Kelly said after conference with
state police and military officials
today that other restrictions may be
lifted tomorrow, "if we get through
today without incident" He added,
however, that the 10 p. m. curfew
will remain in effect at least one
more day. W
Brig. Gen. William e. Guthner, in
charge of federal troops in the area,
announced there now are $500 fed
eral soldiers in the city, including
2,1OO infantry and 1900 military po-
lice. In addition, 2,700 state home
guard troops are here and another
$500 have been alerted in event Of
further trouble.
A brighter production picture was
reported by all major automotive
concerns, which yesterday said Ne
gro absenteeism ranged as high as
rs per cent.
General Motors said all but a
Small percentage" of its Negro
workers returned to their jobs today.
The Ford Motor Co. reported
everything normal" at the River
Rouge plant except in the aluminium
and steel foundries where Negro
absences we're about 20 per cent.
Chrysler reported Negro absen-
teeism at its Dodge main foundry
down 10 per cent from Yesterdays
high of SO percent. Briggs man
ufacturing Co. said its absenteeism
rate had dropped since yesterday
but that sit still is high.'
Kelly, describing the 1900 arrests
made since the outbreak of fighting,
said lat least rs per cent OF the
trouble" was caused by boys 15 to
q years of age and that three
fourths of all persons arrested are
under 81.
Police reported that a number OF
homes in the wrecked districts on
the "borderline" between Negro ana
white residential sections We're un-
molested because they bore placards
saying: This is colored home-'-oo
not break in"
A number of minor disturbances
broke last nights calm. The latest
and most violent came shortly al
ter midnight when police surround
ed a lodging house from which
someone shot at a patrol car. Off
GERS shot one man in the leg and
arrested four others i-iven from
the building by tear gas.
Although Kelly announced that
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Half Billion
Limit Urged
BY JOHN l.. CUTTER
limited Press Staff CORRESPONDENCE

UNITED Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
washington, June -(UP)-The
senate banking committee today rec
commended limit of $500, 900 900 on
payment of food subsidies.
The limitation was fixed at
slightly more than the $450,000, 900
Price Administrator Prentiss M,
Brown has estimated as the annual
cost of the present OPA program to
roll back retail prices of butter, meat
and coffee.
The committee, however, added a
provision that mo commitments eX-
cept those already made, shall be
entered into with any producer, dis
tributor, professor or manufacturer
which cannot be fulfilled out of the
sum herein authorized
The limitation was offered as an
amendment to a bill, pending before
the senate, which would extend the
life of the Commodity Credit corpor-
alton for two years.
The amendment would authorize
the Reconstruction Finance corpor-
alton to borrow up to $500,000,0 0C
''to pay subsidies or purchase COM
modities for the purpose of selling
them at loss, in order to obtain the
maximum production or such COM
modities or to prevent price in
creases thereof"
In addition, however, the amend
ment would authorize the Commod.
Continued on Page a
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IS Germans Killed
By French Patriots

Algiers, June 23-(UP)-Fench
newspaper reports of intensified I'M
derground activity in France said
today that SO German soldiers were
killed and $50 injured serious when
PATRIOTS derailed a train between
Nevers and Chagny.
The Nazis were reported TO have
arrested more than 80 French police
inspectors and commissioners at Ly-
ons, charging them with aiding anti
German sabotage.
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Hit
By B O m b S

New Delhi, June 23.-(UP)-Lib-
orator bomSerS of the tenth United
States Air Force dropped eight tons
of bombs on japanese installations
at MonyWa, SO miles west of Man
dalay, communique announcing at
lacks On %hree bases in Burma said
today.
Pilots reported bomb hits on the
MonyWA railroad station and adj
joining trackage and highways.
Warehouses also we're damaged.
Flying through severe storm, a
force of American medium bomberS
attacked engine sheds at Thai in
lower Burma 65 miles southwest
of Rangoon, and new japanese In
stallations being built at Myingyan,
on the Irrawaddy 100 miles south
west OF Mandalay.