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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Litchf;ed Boy
Wins Decoration

Allied Headquarters, Australia,
July 6. (UP)-AWard of nine Oak
Leaf Clusters and 81 air medals to
American air corps members serV-
ing in this area was announced to-
day by Southwest Pacific headquar-
tiers.
Those given Oak Leafs Clusters
included Staff Sgt. Edward P. Wei
come, Canada Hills, Turner'S Falls,
Mass
Those given air medals incldued:
Connecticut--Sg ESteWart d
Nisbet, IS Martin St, West Haven;
staff SGT. Paul c. Derby, Jr, Itch
field and Sgt. Gerard Gregoire, 80
Putnam Heights, Hartford
Maine-lst Lieut.. David A. Adams,
7l2 South Main ST, South Grewer
Massachusetts, Tech. Sgt, Joseph
Di Silveio, 296 Maverick St, oBston;
Corp Arthur Jingozian, 7l9 Harvard
St, East Bridgewater.
Verfont- staff SGT. Reginald E.
Tatro, Enosburg Falls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Drowning axe
Death 4onors
lEY United Press

The safest and sanest July 4th
holiday weekend in two decades
was recorded Tuesday as the ma
tons celebrants, subdued by scar
city of gasoline and fireworks,
counted but 145 fatalities.
The toll was meager compared
with the record figure of 500 deaths
recorded in 1941. Gas rationing and
low speed limits reduced traffic Ia
talities from 300 to SO.
Curtailment of highway traffic
drove travel-minded Americans to
the railroads and bus lines. Trans
continental lines reported that traf-
fic was up almost 100 per cent IN
the greatest mass exodus since the
start Of the war.
Thousands of Sunburned vacation
lists poured into swarming terminals
late Monday clamoring for standing
room on buses and trains.
A state by state survey showed
that 81 drownings rivaled traffic &C
ciderts as the major cause of death
during the three-day period. The
remaining 80 fatalities resulted from
home accidents, shootings and sui
cides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Axis rooPs
In Norway
DESERVING
BY HUBERT UXKULL
,;fed prnSS Staff COrreSnond

tUnlteQ fTcSS Stdll SoIIcSPohuCiit
Stockholm, July 6.-CUP)-The
Germans admitted today that Nazi
officers and soldiers were deserving
in rapidly increasing numbers.
The AXis-controlled Scandinavian
telegraph bureau said in an Oslo
dispatch that Gen. Nikolaus Won
Falkenhorst. commander OF the
German army of occupation in
Norway had posted proclamations
decrying the assertions in all Nor
wegian garrisons.
The proclamation, the STB said,
acknowledged that the men were
slipping across the border to safety
in neutral Sweden and that the
numbers recently had shown a
shameful increase
Falkenhorst was the first German
general to express openly his con-
Germ over the assertions.
The proclamation specifically men
toned not only private soldiers but
officers as well.
THE Swedish government has
turned back from a hitherto valid
agreement with the German gov
eminent regarding the eXtradition
of deserters," STB quoted the proc
lamation.
THE right of asylum is now be-
ing granted deserterS from the Ger
man armed forces even if they cross
the border in uniform. | trust this
attitude OF the Swedish government
does not constitute excitement for
honor loving German soldiers to be
come guilty of a shameful crime"
Some observers considered this
statement remarkable in that II APP
peared certain to encourage rather
than stop the assertions
Swedish authorities withheld COM
ment pending receipt Of Official
notification Of the proclamation
The only known case where de-
serter actually was sent back oc-
CURED in the winter of lo4l-42 He
was an Austrian who came through
Finland, II was explained Officially
that he was not eXtradited but was
refused the right 10 enter Sweden,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Prosecu
Promised Cor
Tax Evoders

o. s. Internal Revenue agents
took to the road today in a search
for violators of the car-use tax law
bringing to a sudden end rumors
that no enforcement program will
be undertaken here. Members of
the staff at the local LeavenWorth
street office started their canvass
of local streets early this morning
and two of the deputy collectors
were sent to Watertown later in
the day for similar work there,
Although prosecution is promised
for deliberate violations, the govern
ment agents today merely issued
printed warning sheets to all driv-
ers whose cars did not display the
tax stamp. Law provides a $25 fine,
or a 3O-day Jail sentence, or both,
for persons violating the regulation.
Meanwhile large lines of prospec-
tive purchasers of the S. stamp con-
tinued to form at the local postof-
flee, with sales reported to be hea-
Wy. Latest compilation of figures
disclosed 17,420 stamps have been
sold so far. Although the number
is still 5000 under that of last year
at the same time, it is believed most
of the city's motorists are comply
ing. The decrease is accredited to
storage of many cars due to war
travel restrictions.
The warning sheets distributed to-
day state the terms of the law and
the penalty for violations, and di-
rect the driver to report at the post
office at once and purchase the re-
quired sticker. Violators who con-
tinue to drive without the stamp are
warned that prosecution will result.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Allies Dump Big Bomb Loads
On Sicily And Sardinia Islands
By REYNOLDS PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa
July 6-(UP)-Allied aircraft of all
types teamed up Monday to smash
nine Axis invasion base targets in
Sicily and Cardinal and to shoot
down as more enemy fighters in one
of the biggest aerial onslaughts in
the Mediterranean theater.
Striking a series Of devastating
blows at Axis air power, U. S. Fly
ing Fortresses fighting against three
to one odds bombed the Gerbini air
drome in Sicily into ruins, while
more than 60 Liberator bombers
from the Middle East dumped al
most $4,000 pounds of explosives
on the Socilian terminal of Messina,
causing vast damage.
Thirty enemy aircraft were de-
stroyed in Is minutes of fighting
when less than 30 unescorted U. S.
Flying Fortresses were attacked by
about 100 enemy fighters over the
Sicilian airfield of Gerbini.
Three FOrtresses Were Lost
Axis air power was crippled at the
rate of two planes per minute as a
double record was set by one Fort
ress, which knocked down ID Axis
fighters, including an unprecedent-
ed seven destroyed by Staff Sgt.
Benjamin Warmer. of San Fran
cisco
The 24-hour period Of huge-scale
attack centered on Sicily, although
Villacidro airdrome on Sardinia
also was hammered as the day and
night offensive from northwest
Africa and the Middle East gained
momentum.
Crushing blows were dealt to air
field installations, shipping and ra-
dio stations at Gerbini, Marsala Lii
cata, Comisso, Biskara and Messina,
all on Sicily and in the main in
weston path toward Italy.
Huge explosions were reported at
Comisso, where workshops and
grounded aircraft were destroyed.
The blows against enemy air power
and air bases were described as
"paralyzing."
American daylight bombers also
blasted enemy shipping and motor
transport at Sciacca, in southwest
ern Sicily
The effect of the air battle over
Gerbini appeared to be a heavy
blow to the enemy as Allied bomb
ers which flew over Sicily later en-
countered very little opposition
Once, U. S. Lightnings encountered
10 enemy fighters, but shot down
five.
The latest toll of enemy aircraft,
scored yesterday and Sunday night,
boosted the number of planes de-
stroyed in three days of intensive
raids on Sicily and Sardinia past
the 100 mark with air battles reach
ing a pitch unsurpassed since the
height of the Tunisian campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
TraveI Record
Set BY State
(By United Press

Connecticut set record for long
holiday Weekends this year as In
dependence Day observance passed
without an automobile fatality, a
serious accident or a fireworks mis-
hap.
Rail and bus travel was the heavi-
est in history, however, as thous-
ands made their ways to beaches
and other resorts. Also, the OPA
announced that several hundred mo-
florists who took a chance" on
pleasure driving had been handed
summonses to appear before hear
ings commissioners later in the week
to explain their junkets.
Transportation officials were
fearful yesterday that thousands OF
travellers might be stranded be-
cause of overtaXed facilities, but
showers during the day started
homeWard traffic moving earlier
than anticipated, and shortly be-
fore midnight the big trek was
over.
One suffocation and suicide
were reported during the three-day
holiday.
The five-months-old daughter OF
Mrs. Victor c. Ericsson of Portland
suffocated in her crib. A few hours
earlier the child's father, a private
at Camp Shelby, Miss, died OF a
heart attack.
At Manchester, Pvt. Walter E,
Brandt, home on turlough from Fort
Devens, Mass, committed suicide
by inhaling carbon monoXide gas
fumes in a sealed automobile. His
brother, Paul, 20, apparently de-
pressed by Walters entrance into
the army month ago, killed HIM
self with a shotgun June %.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Koi-Shek Predicts
Defeat OF Enemy

Chungking, July 6.-(UP)-Gen-
eralissimo Chang Kai-Shek said to-
day that the Allies would strike
crushing blows against the Axis
in the forthcoming year and pre-
dicted the utter defeat of the en-
envy" within two years.
Chiang's confident forecast was
made in broadcast to the nation
on the eve of China'S sixth ami
versary of war with Japan.
"Of our final victory there admits
not the slightest doubt" the Chin
ese leader told his people.
He said that within the year
IAN offensive that will deal crushing
blows against the enemy will be
started in the various war theaters
of the world, and there will be an
unending stream of victories"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06

More than $500 Axis troops were
slain and 152 tanks wrecked in the
past IL hours alone, but nowhere
had the Germans achieved more
than temporary success in their
long-anticipated summer offensive,
backed by the bulk of the 100 Nazl
and % satellite divisions - 3,27OO0O
men - inRussia.
The Russian lines everywhere
were intact after fierce night bat
ties, the midday communique said,
and front reports asserted that a
German detachment which had
wedged Soviet positions to depth
of nearly a third of a mile yester-
day was being annihilated in bat
tie Of determination.
However, battles were continuing
at frenzied pitch as the Germans
threw tens of thousands of troops
and hundreds of tanks against the
Soviet lines all the way from the
salient just north of Orel 200 miles
south southwest of Moscow, to Bel
gorod, so miles above Kharkov.
(The Berlin radio still remained
silent on the offensive, more than
"a hours after it's forces attacked.
A morning broadcast merely re-
ported "livelier activity ON the
Russian front with the Soviets at
tacking in the strength of a COM
pany GOO men)0
One hundred German tanks blast
ed their way through the Soviet for
ward defense line between Orel and
Kursk. IS miles to the south, during
the night, but ran into heavy depth
defense fire that wrecked 38 of them
and sent the survivors scurrying
back to their own lines, the Soviet
mid day communique said.
Altogether so enemy tanks, in
Guiding 10 of the Mark VI ''Tiger"
class, were destroyed in this one
sector alone.
Germany infantry units which
tried to exploit the initial tank
break-through were hurled back and
the forward defense line was re-
stored.
In another sector on the Orel-
Kursk front, one Soviet detach-
ment damaged or set fire to II
German tanks and, according to IN
complete data, wiped out 1000 Ger
man officers and men.
1t was on the Orel-Kursk front
that the Germans hammered out
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06

eastern sea approaches to the area.
Kula Gulf lies between New Geor-
gia and Kolombangara, next island
to the northeast. Cutting Of Japan
csc routes between the two islands
would leave the enemy forces in
the New Georgia group below Kolom-
bangara at the mercy of Allied
ground and air forces.
Reports from the South Pacific
said that American ground troops,
working across New Georgia appar-
entity from Viru harbor, were using
infiltration tactics similar to Jap
anese jungle methods and were cut
ting their way slowly toward Mum
da. The Allies already controlled
the western and southern approach
es to the island.
Frank Tremaine, United Press
correspondent at Allied headquar-
tiers of the southern Pacific forces.
quoted informed sources there as
declaring that the Allies now con-
troll the WESTERN and southern ap-
proaches to the New Georgia area
and that UNITED States infiltration
forces are pushing toward Munda,"
presumably from the southeast
where they have captured Viru
harbor.
U. S. forces have gained control
of Vanguni Island, off the southern
tip of New Georgia, Tremaine re-
ported, adding that an official an
nouncement said american casu-
alties in the New Georgia area have
been light thus far and the often
sive continl es according to plan"
The northern and eastern sea ap-
proaches to New Georgia were de-
scribed reliably as "the sea area in
dispute" Tremaine's dispatch add
ed
CA japanese imperial headquar-
tiers communique, broadcast by Tok-
70 radio and recorded by the United
Press in San Francisco, said Jap
anese army and navy units sank
five Allied transports and shot down
% planes at Hendova on July 4.
(Nine Japanese planes blasted
themselves" against enemy objec-
tives, the communique said, AIDING
that 10 smaller vessels were sunk
and munitions dumps set afire. In
the Renodova fighting from June 30
through July 4, the communlque
said, Allied losses included 118
planes, eight transports, one B class
cruiser, four large-sized destroyers,
one medium size destroyer, one tor
pedo boat and large numbers Of
smaller vessels sunk; four tran
ports, a large-sized cruiser, one
medium sized destroyer and a tor
pedo boat heavily damagedD
Gen. Douglass MacArthur's noon
communicate issued at Allied head
quarters in Australia few hours
after the Washington communique
did not mention the naval battle.
But it did cite the Smelling of Bal
roko Harbor, on the north shore
of New Georgia Island, and Villa.
on the south side of Kolombangara
Island across the gulf, by naval
surface units and Allied planes, &C
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Miners Are Back
To Work In Force

The rank and file rebellion against
k-to-work order of the United
Mine Workers ended today among
Pennsylvania $4,000 soft coal dig
gers and operations were expected
to be normal tomorrow,
The major break in the opposition
came yesterday when thousands
observed independence Day holiday
by returning the pits, 1t was esti-
ated that $4,000 miners We're idle
yesterday in contract to $4,000,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
british CRETE
RAID KE|GHTENS
INVASION Fears
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


London, July 6. - CUP -
All leave has been cancelled
for Italian armed forces in
Italy and its Mediterranean
Islands, the Berlin radio said
today as the British Com
mando-like raid on Crete
heightened invasion fears
throughout southern Europe.
German Marshal Wolfram
Baron Won Richtofen, a specialist
in air and land force collaboration
was reported in another German
broadcast to have shifted his head
quarters to southern Italy, appar-
emily in the belief that the Allies
will strike their first blow in the
European offensive against Sicily,
Sardinia or Italy itself.
The intensified Allied aerial as
sault on Axis airdromes in Sicily,
as well as the increased resistance
encountered, also pointed up the
threat to that sector of the Mediter-
rean front.
The Nazi- controlled Vichy radio
said that every Allied port from
Gibraltar to Cyprus was crowded
with naval craft ranging from bat
tleships to invasion barges.
The question of a separate peace
whereby Italy could withdraw from
the war was being openly discussed
in Premier Mussolini's domain, the
Algiers newspaper Echo D'Alger re-
ported.
A European underground station
Gustave Siegfried Ems, was hearc
broadcasting a report that Musso-
lini himself was considering a sepa-
rate peace whereby Italy could re-
gain her lost African colonies.
The British commando raid on
Crete, Axis base guarding the
Aegean Sea invasion route to the
Balkans, again focused attention on
the eastern Mediterranean at a time
when reliable reports reaching
Madrid from France said that the
Italian general staff acknowledged
it cannot dispatch sufficient forces
to the interior of Greece to TEND
off an Allied landing.
If Italian garrisons deployed
along the coast of Grece should be
attacked by Allied invasion forces,
these reports said, coordinated
blow from the rear by organized
Guerrilla forces would place them
in a desperate position.
The threat from the rear was en-
phasized anew by the British mid
die eastern commands disclosure
that it had taken over direction OF
the patriot armies, an indication
that air-borne war material and
adm ammunition were reaching the
guerrillas in large quantities.
A Londonn broadcast reported
that riots have broken out in sew
eral of the Italian arrisoned Dode-
canese Islands with the governor OF
Rhodes, the largest, being as
sassinated.
The British raid on Crete Sunday
night demonstrated the Allies abil-
itv to penetrate minefields and
other outer defenses which the
Germans have boasted would pre-
vent any enemy landing on the
island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
jAPS REPORTED
SHIFTING men
TO MANCHUkUO
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff COrrespondent)

BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, July 6. - (UP( -
Reports that Japan is shift
ing fresh divisions to Man
chukuo were received with
interest in Allied quarters
today since it generally is
believed that if the Japanese
plan to attack Siberia, the
operation will start within
four months.
Informed sources disagree sharp
ly on whether Japan actually con-
templates such an attack or desires
merely to build up its Manchukuo
Army against the time when Russia
might enter the Pacific war.
This much is known: Previous
uncertainty about Russia's partici-
patton in the Pacific war recently
has been replaced by confidence in
a limited circle which might be ex-
pected to know Russia's intentions.
This circle feels that Russia can
not afford to stand aside while the
fate of the Pacific is being decided.
This attitude has led to the belief
that when Russia feels herself Sc
cure in the west and feels the AL
lies are strong enough to cope with
Japan on their side, the Soviet
Union will enter the Pacific war.
The question mark remains as to
what Japan proposes to do. If the
Japanese believe Russia eventually
will join in, they naturally would
have no conjunction against at
lacking first at the most favorable
moment. But military experts think
that most favorable moment long
since has passed.
The japanese really lost their best
chance the experts believe, when
the Nazis failed to break through
at Stalingrad. When the Russians
stopped the Germans there, it is
thought the japanese high COM
mand undertook realistic reassess-
ment of Germanys chances OF win
ming the war in the west. If the
japanese concluded Germany faced
defeat, then Tokyo must prepare for
the day when the full Allied
strength is going to be thrust
against it.
1t still is possible that Japan &C
tually plans to mount a Siberian
offensive coordinated with the new
German offensive on the eastern
front. If so, however, it would be
the first indication of any coordl-
6taa4;,..al IN, Dora d
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Allied Worship
Leave Gibraltar

Madrid, July 6.-(UP) Dispatches
from La Linea said today that all
Allied warships had left Gibraltar
The warships included two air.
craft carriers, four battleships, two
cruisers and eight destroyers. The
directions of departure and not re-
ported but Allied warships recently
had been reported moving into the
Mediterranean for what the Axis
radio described as preparations FOL
AN invasion of southern Europe.
Forty-one Allied merchantmen
and six hospital ships now are st
Gibraltar, the dispatches said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Allies Well On Way
To Driving Enemy Out
OF Strong Munda Base
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, July Cup American war.
ships have inflicted heavy damage Japanese
naval force they engaged in the narrow confines OF
KuIa Gulf in the Central Solomons the Navy an
nounced today.
The Navy reported the loss of the U. s. destroyer
Strong in a previous action
Our forces suffered "some damage" in the Kula
Gulf engagement which began early Tuesday morn
ing (Soomons time) but considerable damage" was
done to the enemy warships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
So Full Time NJ. Y. A.
Employees Dropped

Hartford, Conn, July Cup
The National Youth Administration
was beng liquidated today IN Con-
necticut, and 30 full-tme employees
were dropped at Hartford, New Ha'
ven, Bridgeport, Danhury and New
London,
state Manager Thomas A, Casey
said am additional ~ would be let
so later in the week, and Ia other
workers would be retained temporily
for inventory purposes
Bows and girls enrolled IN NYA
activities, he said, would be found
places IN industry through the u, g.
Employment Servlee,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
Pilot Is Killed
In R. |. Collision

New York, July -. (UP)-One
pilot was killed and another was
seriously injured when two army
fighter planes collided in take-off
at Greenfield, Hillsgrove, r. l., to-
day, public relations Office of the
eastern defense command an
nounced today.
The name of the dead pilot is be-
ing withheld pending notification OF
next of kin. A board Of inquiry is
investigating the cause of the acct
tient,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
BOMBS HIT OKLAHOMA TOWN

Boise City, Okla, July 6-tUP)-
A church and a garage were dam
aged when four bombs were drop
ped accidentally from plane over
this small Oklahoma. panhandle
town about ! a. IN. today. There
were no casualties.
1t could not be learned immedi-
ately from whore the nlane came or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
FURTHER NEWSPRINT CUT

Washingto July 6. (UP)-The
war production board today ordered
newspaper publishes tc make fur
ther reductions ranging up to five
per cent for large consumers in
their consumption of newsprint dur
ing the third quarter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
WORKERS GET FARM LEAVES

Syracuse, N. Y, CUP)-At least 40
plants in this war production center
are helping solve acute manpower
shortages on famrs by granting
temporary leaves of absences to in
dustrial employees skilled in farm
work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06

Washington, July 6. - (UP) "A sea battle that may
open the Japanese base at Munda for quick seizure ragged
today in Kua Gulf off northeast New Georgia the Allies
piled power to drive the enemy from the Central Solo
at close range determine control of the northern and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
u. S. DAMAGES JAP FLEET SEVERELY
REDS REPULSE
AXIS IN GREAT
SUMMER DRIVE
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Moscow, July 6. = CUP - The Germans hurled huge
reserves into battle along 165e segment of the eastern
front toda yafter losing 10000 men, 1888 tanks and 203
planes in first SO hours of what probably their final
effort to crush Russia before the opening of second
front in E11rnn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
MUST ENDORSE GAS COUPON

Washington, July Cup The
office 10 Price Administration an
nounocd today that, beginning July
- holders OF gasoline ration books
must endorse all their coupons i'm.
mediatclN ON receipt OF new ration
books, and also endorse all coupons
they now have before that date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06

Attention, What plans are YOU MAX.
InR for Your future. Post Junior
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