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Evening star., 1943-05-02

And died i'm their wrecked machine.
Oh they didn't do bad with what they had,
But they few through he'll to do it;
They had smashed Berlin and 4 dozen '<one-ten's,
But their number up and they knew it.
They were full Of l,oles, with controls,
And their ship was 4 comet Of fame;
But they stuck their guns and the useless stick
And battlod On just the same.
What did you do for Freedom today?
"Au that you co..ld.'' OK;
But if those nine boys in the BIZ
We're to ask you, ,ckat could you aay:
What did you do for Freedom today:
1 think they've q right to ask.
You're in this fight just much rs they,
And with just as important a task.
We're you at your desk, or bench, or press,
And at work at the starting bell?
Did every minute Of this day count:
And the job did you do it we'll?
Did you buy a Bond Stamp today?
Or collect any scrap for the pile?
Did you save your grease or throw it away!
Did you dri*e just extra mile?
Have you been down to the Red Cross Bank
And given pint of your bloods
Did you send that V-maiI letter today!
Did you hoard any rationod food:
Before you begin to complain and gnpe
That life is all work and no fun
Would you trade your dinner for Ration X?
Or your overtime pay for a gun?
Just stop epery once IN a sOlaile today
When your lot seems hard and lean,
And think Of a Cob, and a Leatberneck,
And nine boys in BIZ.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

the employees bulletin distributed to the
workers of the Wolf Creek plant. Since It
has a message for Americans everywhere on
the home front, We take pleasure in publish
ing it on this page.
ADDITION. WAAC stories are now part
of Amy lore. For example:
One officer We know, stationed in Washing
ton, was leaving building with noncom-
missioned WAAC and had to make an instant
decision as to whether to treat her as lady
or as soldier of inferior rank. He oompro-
missed - rather neatly, We think - by oom-
teously holding one door for her to go through
first, then preceding her through the next
ANOTHER WAAc wrote US that, after
weeks of training by lady officers, she finally
met regular Army officer. and, of course.
addressed him as '1ma'am." M.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
SICILY SUPPLY
CENTER PASTED
CONTINUED from Page u


fighter planes.
The daylight attack yesterday by
U. S. heavy bombers of the 9th Air
Force on Reggie Calabria, at the
toe of Italy, plaStered ferry in the
Straits of Messina, blanketed rail-
road siding and demolished large
area in the harbor. The ferry
was seen capsized later.
Bombs also fell on targets in the
town of Reggie Calabria.
Raj heavy bombers also attacked
the same targets Sunday night,
causing fires but visibility was poor
and results were not fully observed.
Two schooners and two sailing
vessels anchored at Kyllene Harbor
off the west coast of Greece were
attacked by long range fighters on
June goth and burst into smoke.
From these operations all Allied
planes returned.
British Wellingtons of the north
west African Air Forces opened the
around-the- clock assault Sunday
night and American flying fortresses
followed in daylight yesterday.
considerable damage was done
in the railway yards and to indus
trial facilities and bombs were seen
to burst on the arsenal" General
Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters
reported.
1.-The air depot and several indus
trial buildings at Cancello, near
Naples, were damaged severely
Factories Shelled
Mitchell medium bombers, with an
escort of Lockheed Lightnings, 81
simultaneously bombed factories and
marshalling yards at Salerno and
Battipaglia, both south of Naples.
Direct hits we're observed on the
target areas.
Three intercepting enemy aircraft
we're destroyed and two Allied planes
were lost.
The communique also raised to a.
the number of enemy planes shot
down last Friday during heavy raids
on Sicily and Sardinia. The addi-
tional five enemy aircraft were
credited to a flying fortress DAM
aged in flight and delayed in re-
turning to base.
Naples, Italy's second largest port.
is one of the most-bombed cities
on the Italian mainland. 1t formerly
served as a base for a major part
of the Italina fleet, but the re-
peated attacks by bombers from both
the northwest African and middle
eastern commands forced the war
ships to seek safer haven farther
north.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

year. However, most OF the force
which attacked Kraefeld was be-
heved TO be four-engined Strings,
Halifaxes and Lancasters, whereas
The Cologne formations included a
large proportion of two-engined
planes.
Every type bomb from two-pound
Ore bombs to 8000-pound super
block busters was unloaded on Kre-
field, which was one of the first
, cities in Germany to fell the i'm
pact Of the four-ton missiles
Reconnaissance photographs showed
that one Of the four-ton super block
busters devastated six acres in the
eenter of Krefeld on October 2, 1912
IN wha twas regarded as an Opera
sional test" since the blast was so
terrific that this type bomb not be
tested in England.
Only a few hours after the big
force Of night raiders returned to its
bases, two waves OF bombers tenta-
lively identified by ground watchers
as Flying Fortresses swept across
the English channel at extreme
height, rnescorted, at breakfast
time today.
The air ministry said the Krefeld
raiding force was Of great strength"
Some clouds were encountered over
the city at the start of the attack,
but they cleared later.
Railway Targets Hit
British fighters joined in the
nights offensive with intruder
patrols over France and Belgium.
Railway targets and an airfeld at
Polk, near Abbeville in northern
France, were attacked and one
! enemy plane was destroyed. One
. fighter was lost.
! German planes again struck back
? feebly last night and early today,
scattering few bombs in eastern
southeastern and southern England.
Some fell in the London area, where
two air raid alarms we're sounded,
but damage both in London and the
other areas was reported slight and
there were only few casualties.
At least one German plane was
shot down over Britain.
The air ministry's announcement
that the attack on Krefeld was
very heavy and concentrated in
dicated that the raid probably
ranked among the heaviest of the
war with the tonnage of bombs
dropped somewhere between 1900
to 1000.
The loss of "A planes exceeded
by one the number sacrificed in
twin attacks the night of June II
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

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ner came as German dispatch
promised aid to Italy lin case of de-
cisive battles ON European soil"
Germany has not squandered her
manpower in offensive thrusts," a
DNB (German) news agency dis
patch from Rome broadcast by Ber-
lin said. Fresh divisions are at her
disposal in order TO beat of attacks
on the inner line"
The elmer line" was not identi-
fed. The same dispatch, describing
large Allied troop and shipping con-
centrations in the Mediterranean,
specialized that the invasion of Eu-
rope may have been postponed for
this summer because Of insufficient
strength.
Military circles believed that re-
ports of seven German divisions,
los, 900 troops, being stationed on
Sicily, probably were exaggerated
but it was believed the reinforce
ments may have come from Ger
many's strategic reserve at home.
There were no indications of large
scale Withdrawals from the eastern
front. The fact that ground forces
in Italy we're strengthened and in
dications that fresh fighter squad
rons had been sent southwark by
the Nazis were taken to mean Hitler
plans to defend Italy strongly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

cars whose machine guns were
trained upon second story windows
from which there had been sniping
earlier in the evening. Within a
few minutes streets were cleared
and peace was restored. However
the streets still bore violence of the
rioting - overturned and demolish-
ed cars and trucks, looted shops
broken glass and bloody remnants
of clothing scattered almost every
where.
Brig Gen. William E. Guthner, in
charge of federal troops here, said
1000 additional soldiers were be-
ing held in reserve at Fort Wayne
and Selfridge Field, Mich. Detroit's
$500 weary city police also were to
be joined today by 1900 state troop
ers from as far north as the upper
peninsula of Michigan and by Michi-
gan guardsmen modified by the
governor.
The death toll reached 25-22
negroes and three whites at 4:25 a.
m. today with at least Is of the
victims repeatedly slain by police.
DR.. Austin z. Howard, chief sur
geon at Receiving hospital which
alone treated more than 500 of the
injured, describe dthe rioting as the
worst calamity" in Detroit's his
tory.
The fighting began Sunday night
on the bridge to Belle Isle Park
an island off the East Side of the
city-With a fist fight between
negro and a white man. The riot
ing continued until it reached full
battle proportions yesterday.
Kelly's state of emergency proc
lamation ordered everyone, except
those going to and from work in
Detroit's busy war plants, to OBJ
serve a 10 p. m. curfew. Bar rooms
and places of amusement, including
theaters, were closed until further
notice." However, thousands of per-
sons-whites and Negroes-ignored
the curfew until federal troops ar
rived.
There were pitched battles every
where despite police efforts to dis
perse rioters with tear gas and gun
fire. Houses we're burned, automo-
biles and trucks overturned, store
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
''Waterbury's Dependable Store"

in the administration of convic-
ton that some effective machinery
for dealing with vital production
stoppages must be worked out quick
ly, probably in the form of compul-
sorry arbitration legislation. Organ
lied labor consistently has opposed
compulsory arbitration.
1t, has been suggested, however
by some administration advisers that
the coal crisis has proven that the
government lacks adequate machin-
cry to deal with war time labor prob
lens. A suggested pattern for gen.
eral legislation Is the national rail
way mediation act with some war
time trimmings such as clause
which would vest the War Labor
Board with authority to initiate
compulsory arbitration when all
other means of preventing strike
has failed.
Some persons believe it likely
therefore, that Mr.. Roosevelt will
propose that congress set up a pro-
cedure for dealing with wartime dis
putes which would not provide ma
chinery for taking a strike vote. II
the Connally Harness Smith
bill is vetoed, the explanation will
be that it provides strike proceed
ure and that Mr.. Roosevelt doubts
that the bill would obtain maximum
coal production.
If the President also asks congress
for some kind of compulsory arbi-
tration machinery or other restric-
tive legislation, it will be the first
such request by an administration
notable for it's pro-labor legislative
record and former close politica
collaboration with John L. Lewis
whose United Mine Workers have
created the present situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
REDS DEMAND
SECOND FRONT
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the anti-Hitler coalition"
The statement said that the alli-
ance among Russia, Britain and the
United States was growing stronger
as the war progressed.
THE armies of the freedom -lov-
ing nations have grown in numbers
and power and their fighting soil
darity has been strengthened.
"Our allies are giving ever-in-
creasing assistance in armament
and SUI plies. powerful blows by
the Red army in the east are
merged with the blows of our allies
for the rout of the alo-Germar
armies in North Africa. At the same
time, the Allied air force is inf1ict-
ing ever more telling blows on Ger
many and Italy"
The might of the Red Army itsel1
has grown into a dread power tenn
pered in battle" the statement said
and is burning with desire to fin
ish off the Fascist beast"
BY contrast, Germany has deter
iorated sharply both militarily anc
politically, the Soviets said.
Militarily, the statement said, the
Germans have lost the greater par
of their cadre division and most o.
their high-ranking officers as vel
as the greater part of the equipment
on which they were counting tt
seize the sovereignty of the world.
These losses fundamentally
weakened the German war machine
and Hitlers power" the statement
said. "In this way, the plans Of
the Fascist adventures which were
TO reduce the Soviet failed. :"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
Nazis Ruhr Targets
Hard Hit By Bombs
Continued from Page u

on Dusseldorf and Munster, previ-
ously considered the heaviest nights
operation Of the war. Considerably
more than 1000 tons OF bombs were
dropped on the two cities and recon-
naissance revealed that more than
1000 acres Of Dusseldorf alone was
devastated.
Krefeld has a population Of ITO, 900
persons and its main industries
are crankshafts, steel armor plating
for airplanes, coal mines, chemical
works and textile concerns turning
out parachuteS. 1t also is an i'm
portant railroad center for trafic
moving west from the Ruhr.
Last nights raid was the 22nd Of
the war on Krefeld, which last was
attacked in October, 1912.
The Vichy radio said air raid
alarms were sounded in several
Swiss towns during the night, but
there was no continuation from AL
lied sources of any new raids on
southwestern Germany or northern
Italy. 1t was possible that the
British sent reconnaissance planes
across the Alps to photograph dam
age done in Sunday nights raids
on Friedrichshafen where bombs hit
every building at an important radio
location equipment manufacturing
works.
NaZis on Defensive
Germany today is on the defen-
Sive," the broadcast said, "but the
day will come when Germany will
seize the offensive and then the
lish areas"
In daylight yesterday British Spit
fires damaged an escort vessel az.
two mineSweepers off Texel, Hol-
land, and TyphoonS attacked rail-
way engines in northern France.
Two fighters were lost.
An air ministry communique de-
sCribed as untrue and absurd" Ger
man propaganda assertions that the
Schneider Arms Works at Le-
Creusot, ITO miles south Of Paris,
were not damaged seriously in Sat-
urday nights Raj raid.
Reconnaissance photographs TAX
en- after the raid, the ministry said,
showed that the following workshops
were severely damaged:
Processing works-Rolling mills,
heavy forging and plate
bending shop, turbine building shop,
locomotive erecting shop and loco
motive machine shop.
Breuil Steel Works Light forg-
ing departments, steel works, and
two boiler and locomotive shops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

lCOnClDueO from rage ~
villa to watch committee members
drive up in their cars.
1t was noted that committee men,
bers who did not show up for the
mornings scheduled meeting were
Giraud followers-Jean Monnet and
Rene Mayer.
1t was reported that Gen. Georges
Catroux, leader in the attempt to
prevent an irreparable split, had
urged de Gaulle to give up his re-
quests for the time being to prevent
hampering the Allied war effort.
Extent of the Allied intervention
was not clear but authoritative
sources said it was done In such a
way that the United States and
Great Britain shouldered the re-
sponsibility jointly.
How strongly the Allied sugges-
tons were put to the French COM
mittee members was not indicated.
They were said to include the sug-
gestion that Giraud should be left
alone regardless of what position
de Gaulle assumes in the set-up.
Some observers felt that ma
pority of the committee had swung
around to the same feeling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
Pearson Exposed Oil Deal

ago. public
remarkable lease Of the Elk
IL arOaded through the Navy
md Ickes
departments Public Land Division;
smeed the it, also Justice
Department preparing vigorous dissent
Following expose the Elk Hills
in the of North Dakota hearings
were committee hOus
climax a Secretary Navy
promising to cancel the Eks Hills contract.
Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
SNAIL HUNT

Paramount prop men have taken
to prowling Hollywood victory gar
dens. They're gathering snails for
use in C. B. De Miles STORY OF
DR.. Wassell," starring Gary Cooper.
Seems that the real-life DR.. Was
sell did some medical research with
snails, and DeMille has ordered IA
varieties for Cooper to act with in
the picture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

Continued from Page -
danger of bomb failure.
Arrested by special FBI agents,
were Amerigo Ontonelli, So, an Ital-.
ian born naturalized American.
president and treasurer of the com4
pany; Bonnie Piteo, 81, foreman
John Deritis, %, a plant superin'
tendent; Joseph Deritis, 80, also d
plant superintendent; and thret'
other foremen, Dominick Barbollo:
20, Angelo CostanZa, "a, native O.;
Italy, and Frank Bianchi, 81.
Established in 1919 to produces,
fireworks, the company has been en- !,
gagged on government work sine
April, 1912. /
Hoover said that Gin spite of pre-.
vious warnings by government ON !.
Gals the company persisted in TAG
illegal practices" and company emf
ployes admitted "they were instruct
ed by some of the persons arrested
to load the munitions properly onl]i Il
when under the direct observation ol
government inspectors"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
CLEVELAND ON GUARD

Cleveland, June %. - (UP) - Five
police squad cars patroled outside
the Republic Steel Corporation. Last
night after a threat of trouble be-
tween white and Negro employees.
Police said tension developed when
white employees protested the shar-
ing of locker and wash room facilities
with two Negro laborers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
FROM AFRICA TO SPAIN

Duncan Renaldo, who is seen as
the insurgent officer, Lieutenant
Berrendo, in Paramount's For
Whom the Bell Tolls" made his
Hollywood debut as the romantic
lead in Trader Horn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22

In Britain, about 10000 tons of
timber, salvaged from bombed
buildings, have been refinished and
made into crates and boxes for i'm
portant war uses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
FAULTY CRENADES
LEAD TO ARRESTS

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
ICKES, LEWIS
CONFER AGAIN

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
FRENCH POSTPONE
ANOTHER FARLEY

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-22
GERMANS OCCUPY
SICILY, SARDINIA

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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. IA.
-(P)-Germany is now manutac-
turing a rocket-driven four-engined
bombing plane patterned along the
lines of American Flying Fortress
es and Liberators, a Berlin dis
patch to the Swedish press said
today.
A new twin-engined long-range
fighter also has been developed
and is now being used by the Ger
man air force in defending Ger
many, the dispatches said.
The new multiengined rocket
bomber was said in the dispatches
to have been designed to make
dlvebcmbing or level bombing at
tacks on invasion fleets and con-
voys and is being saved until 1914.
Reichsmarshal Goering was said
tr have talked to Nazi party mem
bers at Munich for two hours or
November 9 disclosing Information
ON the air forces new planes, ano
to have predicted that the next
veal would be the most destructive
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
laps Add New Damage
To American Fleets
In Radio Broadcast
BY The Associated Pr q
The Japanese radio, broad

BY The Associated Pr q
The Japanese radio, broad
stantiated report of heavy AL
lied naval losses, declared
yesterday Sunday that naval
planes had sunk two cruisers
out of an Allied task force
south of Bougainville island
Saturday, and damaged a de-
stroyer, battleship, and a
medium-sized aircraft carrier.
This alleged engagement
was the Fourth air battle Of
Bougainville island,' said the
broadcast.
Berlin relayed a Tokyo dis
patch giving this total of Al
lied losses since October ~ in
the Solomons are: 81 war
ships and transports sunk, in
Guiding four battleships, two
airplane carriers, and IL CRUZ
sers. Damaged, said the Jap
anese, were 80 warships and
transports. including two bat
tleships, three aircraft car
riers, and IL cruises.
But despite these wholesale
sInkings, "the Anglo-Amei-
cans have such large reserves
IN this area that they could
Immediately form a further
large fOrma ton of their fleet"
said a second Tokyo-via-Ber-
lin broadcast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
By VERN HAUGI.AND

TOROKINA, CAPE. Bougainville
Island, Nov. 9.-(DelayeO -4Ao)-
How the japanese attacked a Uni
ted States Navy field hospital last
Sunday during a battle near the
Kc- omokina river on the Marines
eft flank was described here TO-
day by Lieut.. Comm. Gordon Bruce
New York City and Eng1ewood,
N: j.
The commander in charge Of the
medical unit. told this story to
Tech. Sgt Ted Link. former St.
Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and
now a Marine Corps combat cor
respondent.
I'VE set up our tents near the
beach on the left flank. At noon
Marine casualties from that sector
began coming in and att O. clock
we had 80 patients. The Japs began
their attack ON the hospital then
MY surgeons were operating Or
a Marine when shots rippec
through the tent. ran to the beach
with a couple of corpsmen and un
screwed three machine guns from
Higgins boats which were smash
ed in the heavy surf i'll the origina
landings.
1--WE brought the guns back te
the hospital and / drafted few
Marines to operate them and sci
up a defense line. A sniper's bull
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Japs Attack Navy H ospital Unit

let smacked through the top OF
the tent and went into the, lung
of a chief pharmacists mate. We
evacuated him at once.
r 1T began to rain ana water fill
I'd up our foxhole operating rooms.
At 2 o'clock the firing increased
and | sent a--runner to ask Ma
rine infantry commander on the
beach for help. He had only 10
!ren and couldn spare them. Then
got two Marines Flooding up a
7lngle trail to take up guard posi-
tons in the jungle 80 feet, from
the tent. The corpsmen helped IN
operations and piled sandbags
around tents as the firing increas-
3D. Finally a platoon OF Marines
came to our aid and set up a de-
tensive position. My surgeons con-
1inued operating until 9 O'Clock.
Only then did we evacuate the pat
tents, now numbering so, No one
died during the day despite the
confusion. Once during the fight
ing I was told we had better eva
cuate, but we couldn't because
some Marine patients required de-
licate surgery for brain injuries be-
fore they could be moved. y
Bruce said Capt. Gordon Warn
er. Long Beach, Calf. one of the
heroes of the original Marine land
ing at Cape Torokina. was brought
IN with his knee shattered by ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
HUNTERS FLOCK
TO DEER CHASE
Michigan Nimrods Show
That War Hasn't
Dimmed Test

MACKINAW CITY, Mich, Nov.
il. --F- If ever proof is needed
Of a sportsman's love- for his sport,
Michigan supplied it today in sui
f;cient measure to convince any
court.
At a cost in gasoline which O1-
flee of Price Administration ex-
perts haven't tried to guess at,
Michigan's deer hunters hit for the
rorth by the thousands for the sea-
sens opening tomorrow.
Despite rationing, and the OPA,s
adamant refusal to permit hunt
ers to pool their AZ card sup
plies, the northward rush was such
that at one time the lineup OF auto
mobiles waiting passage over the
Straits of Mackinac was seven
miles long. This afternoon, now
ever, the queque was shortened 10
about one mile.
From 100000 to 100000 hunters
are expected to go after deer over
the 16-day period during Whlch
the bucks may be shot. The inquire
compares favorably with any oth-
err season. including the Novem-
bers of peace time.
Crisp weather and snow promls-
ed all high time, and indications
we're that the season might be one
Ct the most successful in years.
Snow ranged from three to ten
inches deep in the upper peninsula
end from one to five inches in the
lower peninsula. Temperatures
were low enough to assure preser-
walton of meat.
Ferries on the straits, which
separate the southern and northern
peninsulas. worked overtime to
handle the great annual mlgratlol
If wood-lovers eager for the Tor
ests' pine carpets as a change from
city pavements.
One difference was evident THIS
time in the move north. There
were more full-load automobile
PARTIES with hunters conserving en-
tires if not gasoline.
OPA agents were around ana
about. Field men were checking
On possible violations of gasoline
quota limitations, mainly, it was
believed, by hunters from neigh
boring states. They lack authority
to make arrests, they explained,
but were empowered to cite sus-
pected offenders to revocation
hearings.