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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
KAH|L| BOMBED
BY U. S. FLYERS
Japs Retaliate By Smelling
American=Held Qua
dalcanal

Washington, June 16-(UP)-U. S.
flyers in the Solomons again have
blasted the Japanese bases at Ka-
hill, Shorthand Island and Villa while
the enemy retaliated by bombing
American-held Guadalcanal, the
Navy announced today.
A communique said no damage
was done either to American troops
or materiel by the attack on Qua
dalcanal, which was the second
within three days.
Text of Navy communique No.
413:
South Pacific Gall dates east lon
gitude):
Il. During the evenings of June l3
and IA, Flying Fortress (Boeing
BID and Liberator (Consolidated)
heavy bombers attacked japanese
installations at Kahili ard on Short
land Island in the BUN area.
20. On the evening of June H.
Army Mitchell North American
BPS medium bombers escorted by
Navy Corsair (Vought F4U) fighters
bombed the runway and anti-air-
craft positions of the airfield at Villa,
Kolombangara Island.
"3. On June Is, in the early morn
ing, Japanese planes dropped bombs
on Guadalcanal Island. No person.
mel or materiel damage has been
reported"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

The potato shortage, still serious
in many cities, appeared to be cas-
ing somewhat. Shortages of butter
EGGS and onions were reported, but
they were due principally to local
conditions.
A severe shortage of poultry in
many areas aggravated the meat
situation.
At Chicago, the newly War
Meat board disclosed after an all
day meeting TUESDAY that Army
purchasing agents are buying beef
in some instances carcass at
time, because they are unable to
obtain sufficient supplies through
customary large-scale buying.
Board members said they were
concerned principally with obtain
ing adequate meat supplies for the
armed forces. They discussed meth
DDS of obtaining strict compliance
with their recent order to packers,
who were asked to set aside As per-
cent of their weekly slaughter of
steers and heifers for military con-
sumption.
A survey of the nations principal
cities showed the following:
New York-Meat supply low and
beef scarce; shortages of mutton
and veal, with fairly ample supplies
of pork. Vegetables generally plen-
tiful. Butter scarce but improvement
expected next week
Chicago-Beef scarce but sufficient
supplies of other meats available
No other pronounced shortages.
San FranciSco-Shortages of vary
ing degrees in about tWo-thirds of
81 standard grocery items. Potatoes
and onions growing Scarcer, con-
siderable beef but trade slow because
of high point value. Marginal sup
plies of pork and lamb.
Detroit-Definite shortage of
poultry and beef
elphia-Meat packers pre-
dict worst famine of the war"
Local slaughterers killing only 60
per cent of 1941 production of which
Army will take As per cent. Vege-
table supplies increasing.
er-Government food au-
thorities say Denver is better sup
piled than any comparable city in
the United States"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Boy IS, On Trial For Life,
Press Barred From Hearing

NeWburyport, Mass, June Is
CUP - Thirteen year-old Edward
Dow, alleged hammer slayer of Miss
Lydia S. Cook, 70, went on trial for
his life today in a courtroom from
which the press and public were
barred because of his extreme youth.
An apple checked, understood
school boy, Dow is the youngest de-
PENDANT TO face the death penalty
in Massachusetts history. If con-
victed of first-degree murder, as
charged. he would receive . manda-
tory sentence of death In the cleo
trio chair.
The notorious Jesse Pomeroy was
Is when in l847 he was sentenced to
hang for numbering two children in
Boston. The sentence was committed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Allies Making Plans For
Manv Months More Of War
SOv|ETS CROSS
RIVER BARRIER
Battle of Indeterminate
Scope Raging Northeast
of OreI
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


Moscow, June Is. - CUP - Rus
sian attacks north of Orel have car
ried across strategic river barrier
and penetrated German defenSes
to considerable depth in some of
the heaviest fighting Of the sum
mer on the Russian front, field dis
patches said today.
A battle of indeterminate scope
and possibilities was reported rag
ing through its third day near
Mtsensk, 80 miles northeast of Orel.
Russian assault forces which wedged
deep into the German positions were
said to have held all their gains
against determined counter attacks.
CT'he dispatch gave the first Rus
sian confirmation to Berlin radio
reports of the last several days that
the Red Army was attacking in
some strength in the Orel sector and
conceding it some measure of sue
ceSs.)
The battle-ground lay between Orel
and lula, the region from which
the Germans launched their unsuc-
ceSsful effort to break through and
flank Moscow to the south in the
autumn of 1941.
The Russians broke the lull in
the strategic sector where German
salient embraces Orel, vital base
hinging the central and southern
fronts. Their initial blows ouSted
the Nazis from posts dominating the
approaches to an unidentified river
CT'he Okla and its tributaries flow
through the region north Of Orel,
the Masensk is on one of the arms
of the river0
The army organ, Red Star, said
the attacking Soviet forces drove
across the river and sliced into the
German defenses, then engaged the
Mis- inside their own Notifications.
-Four German counter attacks were
futile, Red Star said.
The high command said German
troops drove back into the out
skirts of one Of four towns captured
recently by the Red Army north
east of Orel, but were thrown back
with loss of 400 men and six tanks.
Altogether the Germans launched
four attacks against the Siviet lines
just northwest Of Mtsensk, some 80
miles northeast OF Orel, the COM
munique said.
(Radio Leningrad was heard
broadcasting that eheir army was
preparing crushing blow" on the
eastern front to coincide with an
allied invasion of western Europe)
The destruction of four German
planes, three of them In aerial COM
bat and one by anti-aircraft fire,
((,optinuad m Dam Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
CHINESE CHARGE
JAPS USING GAS
Casualties Reported in
Both Suiyuan and Shansi
Provinces

Chungking, June 16-CUP)-A
Chinese military spokesman charged
today that the Japanese had again
used poison gas in China.
He asserted that japanese plane
dropped gas bombs on a village in
Suiyuan province May 81 and that
gas shells were fired into Chinese
positions in Shansi province on
June /. Casualties were caused in
both instances.
president Roosevelt has repeat
edly pledged the United States to
retaliate in kind the instant any Of
the Axis nations used poison gas
against any of Americas allies)
A japanese ship unloaded so tons
of gas shells and 100 cases of gas
containers near Shanghai on Mon
day, the spokesman said.
1t was the fourth time this year
that the Chinese had charged Jap
anese with using poison gas.
The spokesman reported that be-
tween June and IA, about 100000
Japenese troops we're routed from
the Yangtze river front in Hupeh
province.
Chinese forces are massing for an
assault on Hwajung, key japanese
base in the Tung Ting lake area,
Chinese dispatches said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
WHITE men MOB
TEXAS NEGROES
Attack By Negro on White
Women Believed Cause
of Beaumont Disorder

Beaumont, Tex, June 16-CUP)-
Texas state guardsmen surrounded
the police station today with fixed
bayonets and Sub5machine guns
after Texas Rangers had arrested
approximately rs white men who
had been attacking Negroes and
destroying property in the Negro
residential sections.
Approximately 100 men, most of
them shipyard workers, were on the
first floor of the History courthouse
building, demanding that the sher-
if hand over to them a Negro al
LEGGED to have assaulted white
woman. The sheriff had permitted
SiX-man committee to go through
his Jail and see that the Negro was
not in custody, but the men were
not convinced.
There had been night-long riot
ing, fighting and arson by mobs of
white men in the Negro districts.
Police sent to nearby Port Arthur
and Orange for ammunition replen-
ishments and called on the Texas
Rangers, Texas highway police,
Office of Civilian Defense auxiliary
police and Texas state guardsmen
for help.
Chief of Police Ross Dickey de-
scribed the situation as tense.
No Negroes could be seen in the
downton section. All cafes were
closed.
Only one liquor store was open.
Fire Chief Steve O'Conor an
nounced that the fire department
had answered 16 alarmfs in the Ne
gro section since midnight. He said
there was extensive property dam
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
KING INSPECTS
ALLIED FORCES
Majesty's Mediterranean
Visit Increases Invasion
Time Speculation
BY WILLIAM h. DICKINSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

lDHlteu fTeSS StaH correspondent
London, June 10 CUP king
George vi flew to the North African
war front in big four engined
plane and is inspecting Allied land,
sea and air forces that are expected
to launch against southern Europe
what Prime Minister Winston
Churchill called force In its most
intense and violent form"
The king, commissioned pilot
since 1919 and veteran Of many
fights, landed at the Algiers air
field at 8 a. m. Saturday when there
were only a few officers and sur
priSed mechanics on the field, &C
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch, which said his majesty
stepped from the plane wearing the
uniform Of field marshal.
King George, accompanied by
high cabinet officers, visited Ameri-
can and British forces training for
commando operations on the beach,
on warshipS, in hospitals and else
where. He was greeted by enthu-
SldoGlC CllttIS do Ilc IlIlilSlCN WIN
the soldiers, sailors and airmen
and heard them sing: For He's
a Jolly Good Fellow"
The visit of his majesty 10 the
Mediterranean theater served to
increase speculation that has been
rampant in Axis broadcasts regard
ing the time and place of the ex-
pected Allied invasion thrust
Even as Buckingham Palase dis
closed that the king had left Brit
ain for the second time in four years
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Parking Meters Legal; City Wins
Supreme Court Decision On Issue
Cassidy's September Com=
mon Pleas Verdict Is
Unanimously Reversed

In unanimous decision handed
down today the State Supreme
Court of Errors reversed the COM
mon pleas court judgment made
Sept. 4 for Attorney John H. Cas-
sidy in his parking meter action.
Holding that neither his pleadings
nor his proof furnished basis for
according him relief as taxpayer"
Justice Ellis in his memorandum
over-rules Mr.. Cassidy's claim, and
directs the trial court to enter a
judgment for the City of Water
bury, thereby bringing the long
drawn out fight to an end.
Mr.. Cassidy today affirmed re-
ports the battle is over, stating
there is no reason for further ap-
peal. Il feel I did the city favor
by testing the legality of the
meters" he said, pointing out that
numerous property owners had
questioned the citys rights to in
stall meters and obtain remunera-
ton II went further than the other
Taxpayers, he said, land tested the
legality. The lower court said l was
right. The Supreme Court over
ruled that decision. 1t ends there"
Corporation Counsel Maurice IT.
Healey today drew up motion ask
ing, the common pleas court to enter
a judgment for the defendant in &C
cordance with the mandate of the
higher court. The court also
will be requested to tax the
costs of the case, estimated at
about $500, against Mr.. Cassidy.
The common pleas court judg-
ment handed down by Judge Thorn
as J. Wall awarded Mr. Cassidy $500
damages and granted an injunction
restraining the city from operating
meters on the plaintiffs property on
Leavenworth street and on West
Main street. A stay of execution was
ordered, howev-r, pending the ap-
peal to the Hartford court.
Operation of parking meters is a
new method of regulating traffic
and supervising the use of the
streets, a power granted to the city
by the legislature, the Supreme
SOuIU llclu. IL lOullll l vi VliCA oAAlU WIZ
profit from the operation was not
large enough to constitute a tax, as
claimed by the plaintiff. The con-
tract for the project was legally
made, and the plaintiff did not
suffer a direct loss when it was APP
piled.
The memorandum which is filled
with citations from other cases and
contains numerous case references,
reads in part as follows:
THE City of Waterbury has IN
stalled and is operating more than
one thousand parking meters on
it's business streets. Thirteen OF
them are in front Of premises owned
by the plaintiff. Operators desir-
ing to park their vehicles must de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
BROWN TAKES OPA
ROW TO CONGRESS
F.D.R. Backs Price Admin
istrator; Defends Roll
Back Food Prices
BY FRED BAILEY
YJnited Press Staff Correspondent


Washington, June 16 - (U.P0 -
Price Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown told the Senate Banking
Committee today that 1t is impos-
sible to carry out the price stabiliz-
alton Act of October 2, 1912, with
out subsidies to roll back food
prices.
Brown appeared before the com
mittee to defend his program to roll
back food prices by means OF sub
sides to professors. President
Roosevelt said yesterday that the
rollback-subsidy program would go
ahead despite mounting congress
sional opposition.
Brown argued with Senator Ro-
bert A. Taft, r., O., that there is
specific authority for such subsidies
in the two price control acts thus
far passed by congress, and insist
ed that they must be exercised If
the sterilization control law Is to be
effective.
There are three major milestones
or checks in the sterilization pro-
gram" Brown said. They specify:
Il. Prices at the farm level shall
be mt less than parity.
20. Prices at the retail level
shall be stabilized at the Septem-
Der IA, 1912, level.
80. A fair and equitable margin
shall be maintained for professors
between the price to the producer
and the consumer.
1T would be impossible to stabil-
ize on that basis without some other
weapon. Section three of the origin
al price control act of June 80, 1912,
provides for teh use of subsidies
through funds of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation. The sta
oilization act of October 2, retains
the original provisions of the June
30 act"
Brown said War Food Admins
traitor Chester c. Davis found 1t
necessary to promise livestock pro-
ducers higher than the parity price
10 get adequate production. Hence,
the only way to hold meat prices at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Sicily Bombed Day and
Night; Allies Lose
Seven Planes
King GEORGE VISITS
TENSE WAR THEATER
5leve.l Axis Planes Are
Downed; Enemy Install
latiOnS Wrecked
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, June 16. - CUP) -
Allied aerial fleets smashed
through stiff Axis opposition
to turn the shattering power
of day and night lombard
ment against the big invas-
ion stepping stone island OF
Sicily, a communicate dis
closed today as King George
VI paid surprise visit to the tense
Mediterranean war theater.
The tour of the King and other
officials to British and American
troop centers after a secret journey
from London was disclosed at the
same time officials revealed the in
auguration of concentrated big-scale
onslaughts against five airdromes IN
western Sicily.
(Axis broadcasts for several days
have reported Allied warships and
landing barges massing in the Pan
telleria and North African ports,
presumably for invasion of Sicily
or Sardinia. The italian press said
that Hateful hours" were at hand
and that Italy must fight imminent
invasion ito victory or death" Lon
don dispatches referred to the Kings
visit to North Africa as preliminary
to Prime Minister Winston Church
Ills promise that force in its most
intense and violent form" would be
loosed against the Axis)
The king was loudly cheered by
American and British troops with
whom he mingled on the beach and
elsewhere, watching United States
Commando units go through their
PAGES and talking to men in hospit-
ais, on Warships, and in the field.
Everything from Flying Fortresses
to Spitf1res took part in the re-
newed pasting of Sicilian airdromes,
which usually are the first targets
in a big scale offensive designed to
eliminate enemy air strength and
soften up the defenses generally.
Bocca di Falco, Castelvetrano, Ira
pani-Milo, Borizzo and Sciacca were
hammered and Marsha radio sta
ton was heavily bombed.
Eleven Axis planes were shot
down as the Allied forces encoun-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
So JAP PLANES
HIT IN 2 WEEKS
Total Destroyed Since
July 81, 1912, Is 1887,
Authorities Claim

Advanced South Pacific Base,
June 16.-(UP)-Military authorities
announced today that SO japanese
planes were destroyed in this area
in the fist two weeks of June, rails
ing the total bag SINCE July 81, 1912,
to 1897.
The figures were based on official
reports, this drastic reduction o:
Japanese aerial strength was Gre
ated to land and carrier based
planes plus ship and shore anti
aircraft batteries.
United States and Allied losses
were not mentioned in the state
ment, which dealt with the period
beginning just before the invasion
of the Solomons up to the pres
ent.
On general average, however,
our losses usually have been about
one-fifth those of the Japanese.
The highest total for any single
month was for last October, when
$40 japanese planes were shot
down The biggest score for a
oLlI6lC ddy wac oll N<NOoDSA AO' SAAS
day of the Battle of Santa Cruz,
when lis were bagged.
The monthly totals have decreased
noticeably since October. when the
Battle OF Guadalcanal reached its
highest pitch.
The figures by months follow:
August 229, September, 1l9, October
$40, November 1873, December, 81,
January, Ill, February, 104, March
Is, April 10; May 81, June, so far,
SO.
Fighter planes proved to be the
deadliest weapons against the Jap
anese, accounting for about 900 OF
the total. while heavy bombers in
Guiding flying fortresses and Liber-
ators shop down about 200.
Navy bombers and anti-aircraft
fire destroyed about 100 each, While
the balance went to the credit OF
night fighters, observation planes
and ground guns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Tough Land Fighting, Per.
sistent Aerial BOmbard-
ment FOreSeen
MANY BELIEVE DEFEAT
WILL OCCUR IN 1914
Axis Troops Pulled 0u'
From Front Embittered
and Heartless
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
UNITED Press Staff Corresponding

NCiCu AACSS swan SoAASoP"p
London, June 16. - (UP)
- The German home FROM
might-just possibly might
- collapse with the sudden
ness of a pricked balloon one
of these days. It might, but
too much emphasis cannot
be placed on the assurance
that no Allied plans are based
on the possibility. If such a
collapse comes, it will be a special
dividend, gratefully received but not
expected.
Amidst the optimistic news from
all fronts, it should be noted that
there is no belief among Allied au-
thoritieS in the best position to know
that the European war can be won
without the toughest fighting on
land, as well as long and persistent
aerial bombardment of constantly
increasing weight.
Allied quarters, however, agreed
that there are symptoms comparable
to those first noted in the German
morale in late 1917.
German commanders such as
Ludendorf and Hindenburg at that
time first recognized the signs Of war
WEAKNESS both in the home front
and among the troops. Ludendorf
noted with increasing concern that
the new classes being called up for
military service were far inferior.
both physically and in morale.
But the Allied plans are being
made and put into force with the
expectation that many months more
vii lbe required for the defeat OF
Germany.
Authoritative sources willing to
hazard a guess as to when that de-
feat will occur are much more likely
to pick some date in the spring OF
1914 rather than the autumn of 1943.
Prime Minister Winston Church
ills comment regarding German
morale in Tunisia, as we'll as the
Italian foldup at Pantelleria, has
drawn considerable attention.
1t also has been noted that Axis
troops being pulled out from the
front were embittered, and had no
heart for further fighting.
No doubt the German high COM
mand now is receiving the first similar
reports of that nature from field
officers, especially those who escaped
from Tunisia and undoubtedly from
commanders on the eastern front.
But it must be remembered that
it took nearly year for the symp-
toms which first were detected in
late 1917 to flower into the armistice
of November IL, 1918.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

to life imprisonment, however, and
Pomeroy served about SIS years out
living all II members of the jury
that condemned him to death.
Superior Judge John V. Spalding
presiding at BOWS trial, ruled that
only persons directly concerned with
the case would be admitted to the
courtroom. Dist. ATTY. Hugh A
Gregg summoned Is state witness
eS. Former city solicitor T. Francis
Kelleher. defense counsel, did not
disclose how many he would call.
The body of Miss Cook was found
April 5 in the home here where she
lived alone. The prosecution con-
tends that Dow, who had donG
chores for the woman, beat her to
death with a machinist's hammer,
and that robbery was the motive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
COFFEE RATIONS
TO Be INCREASED

Washington, June l6.-(UP)-
Coffee stocks have returned to nor
NAL for the first ime in year, Of
flee of Price Administration officials
disclosed today, and every indica-
ton points to an increas in sum-
mer coffee rations.
Rationing officials are studying
the prospects for continued imports
with a view of determining how
large to make the new individual
ration, which begin July l.
Price Administrator PrentiSs M.
Brown, in announcing the current
ration. the most generous since the
advent OF the program last Novem-
Der, assured the public that 1t would
receive the benefit OF supply in
creases whenever they exist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
POSTWAR POLICY
SHOWDOWN LOOMS
House May Force Congress
SiOnal Disclosure of
Definite Facts
BY LYLE c. WILSON
nited Press Staff Correspondent

lOnlLeu ETtSS 0LdII OOTTcSpOnueDtD
Washington, June 16.-(UP)-
House advocates of United States
world collaboration in peace and
other matters believed today they
had begun a maneuver that would
force the Senate to a showdown
on broad questions of postwar pol
Icy.
The Senate will politely receive
House proposals and probably file
them in a pigeon hole marked do
not disturb.
The issue was raised by the House
foreign relations committee which
unanimously approved a resolution
on the subject by Rep. William J,
Fulbright, D.. Ark, The resolution
will be reported to the House to-
day. House Democratic Leader
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Severe Shortage
In Beef Noted
Around Nation
BY UNITED PRESS

finding increasingly difficult their
Wednesday, the
Chicago feeling
o a beef shortage.
the widespread
of immediate improvement.
In Of
their ration vegetable supplies
plentiful although localities
we're forced ia on garden
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

New classes begin Wednesday, June
SOth. Register now. Post Junior Col
lege Of Commerce.
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Showers Tonight

DimOut-s:sI p. m. 70 t:ts .. m.
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