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Evening star., 1943-10-31
Allied Worships Sink
Nuzi- i-ControIIed Vessel
BY the Associated Press.

BY N5SUCTaUtd PffSS.
LONDON, Oct. 30.-Two light
Allied Warships, one British and one
Norwegian, sank German-con-
trolled vessel of 300 tons off the
Norwegian Coast last Sunday, but
the British vessel was lost. She had
to be sunk as a result of a subse-
quent encounter with German
planes, a communique announced
today.
The clash occurred 300 miles north
of Bergen. One German-controlled
Ship-nationality not further speci-
fled-loaded with potatoes was al
lowed to proceed but the other,
carrying cement, was sunk after its
crew was allowed To take to boats
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Mrs. de Tuscan, Fencing Star,
Files Suit for Divorce

A strikingly handsome couple, the
De Tuscans are widely known. Be
fore the war they toured the cap
itals of Europe with their fencing
act AS a member of the American
team, Mrs. de Tuscan was voted
the most beautiful athlete" in the
1886 Olympic Games ut Berlin.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 30.-Joanna de
Tuscan, beauteous fencing star who
won international fame for her skill
with the foils, filed suit for divorce
today from her partner and former
tutor In the sport, Bella de Tuscan.
The charges were not made public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
GiIberts' Loss
i Ship Only

Washington, Dec. 2.-(UP- The
Navy announced today that the es-
cort aircraft carrier Liscome Bay
was sunk by a japanese submarine
in the Gilbert Islands and that this
was the only American ship lost In
the conquest of the islands.
The skipper Of the carrier, Capt.
Irving D. Ziltsie, of New York city,
and Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullin-
nix, who was aboard as commander
of a task force, were reported miss
ing in action.
1t was the first escort carrier lost
by the Navy in this war and the
first u. 8. carrier OF any type to be
sunk since the Hornet went down
in the South Pacific In October,
1912.
The Navy gave no details on the
sinking except to say that the Lis
come Bay went down after being
torpedoed by a submarine on Nov.
"a.
Denying grossly exaggerated Jap
anese claims of American ship loss
es in the Gilberts, the Navy stated:
This Is the only ship lost in the
Gilbert Islands operations.
The Liscombe Bay was the 13lst
q. S. Naval vessel lost in this war
Escort carriers, comparatively
small craft built on merchant ship
hulls, normally provide air protec-
ton for conveys against submarines
and planes, but they have been used
for combat purposes as well.
The Navy gave no details OF the
size of the ship or its complement.
Because these are a newly developed
type of craft, the Navy felt 1t wiser
to continue to withhold any data on
the escort carriers.
The Liscombe Bay was built at
the Kaiser Companys Vancouver.
Wash, plant. The ship was launched
on April 10 this year and was COM
missioned on Aug. 7.
The craft was one Of more than
40 carriers of all types which Sec
rotary of the Navy Frank Knox re-
Gently said were completed during
the first II months of this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Foe Tells Of
Allied Meet

Jittery Nad propagandists, specu-
lating on Stain Roosevelt
Churchill meeting at Tehran, said
today the Allies were expected to
couple demand for Germany s
unconditional surrender with an
intensification of the bombing Of
fensive against the Reich.
A German domestic broadcaster
identified as DR.. Scharping said the
Cairo conference between Mr.. RooSe-
welt, Churchill, and Chang Kai- shek,
was preliminary to meeting with
Stain and asked:
Are they going to talk about the
collapse of Germany?"
DR.. Scharping fastened to assure
his Nazi listeners that "if such a
collapse were possible, the enemy
would not need any conference.
1t can never happen, despite the
batteries of bluff guns"
The Berlin correspondent Of the
Stockholm newspaper Dagbladet
said Wilhelnstrasse quarters ex-
pected a general offensive in the
war of nerves" against Germany
and her Allies as result Of the
Tehran meeting.
Generally the Axis propaganda
took the line that Allied meetings
had the two-fold purpose of start
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Lands Okoys
judge Bromhom

New York, Dec. q CUP - High
Commissioner of Baseball Judge
Kenesaw M. Lands overruled revolt
ing minor league executives today
disallowing their protest that yes
terday's reelection of Judge Will
liam G. Bramham as president OF
the National Association of pro-
feSSional baseball leagues, was In
valid.
After comforting In closed seS-
sion with representatives Of the
Trump" group, Lands announced
that the annual meeting Of the as
ISOLATION would continue In session
with Bramham presiding.
Today's session was recessed for
two and a half hours while exc
cutives awaited Lands decision on
the legality of yesterdays open
ing session at which Bramham was
reelected for a term Of five years
at a salary of $4,000 annually.
The anti-Bramham faction pro-
tested because he permitted 16 sus-
pended leagus to vot along with
the nine leagues which operated
through the 1943 season. They said
Bramham would not have been re-
elected had only operating leagues
voted.
Lands had asked for q copy OF
the minutes of the meeting and
called six minor league officials to
his hotel suite for q conference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
MeetWos
Held In Camp

Cairo, Dec. 2-(UP)-President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
held their historic conference in an
armed camp.
The conference headquarters was
described as "a complete defense
unit" Within its barbed wire peri
meter, were air raid shelters, slit
trenches, ack-ack batteries, barbed
wire enclosures, military guards and
fire watchers.
It was built to Withstand surprise
assault by land or air. 1t bristled
with arms and mystery.
Only the conferees and their
guards were allowed inside. Core
spondents were outside the barbeo
wire.
President Roosevelt motored To
the scene through lane Of Amerf.
can soldiers spaced 20 yards apart.
The presidential autocade was led
by trooper on motorcycle. Then
came four jeeps, each bearing four
tough-looking soldiers carrying tom
my guns at ready" position.
Then came a briStling command
car.
Next was the presidential limousine
with curtained windows.
And. for very short time, an auto
mobile containing an unidentified
correspondent brought up in the
rear. He managed to scuttle along .
fair distance in the wake of the off,
cial cars before he was nabbed.
Prime Minister Churchill cams
part Of the way to the conferense
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
u. S. Protests
News Leaks

London, Dec. 2-CUP)-The pre-
mature disclosure by the British
news agency, Reuter-, of the North
African conference of Allied leaders
has evoked a strong protest from
the United States government and
may result in the imposition Of alb
so1ute secrecy on all such meetings
in the future, government spokes-
man said in Commons today.
The Reuter- dispatch, disclosing
the meeting purportedly from Lis
bon, cleared through British GEN.
sorship here for transmission over
seas full day before the official
release time, was the center of a
heated debate and threatened to pro-
duce drastic changes in censorship
regulations.
Brendan Bracken, minister Of In
formation. told the House that the
United States had made "the
strongest possible representations
but disclaimed all responsibility.
Anything published in a foreign
capital is not censored when pass
ing through London" he explained.
That's the nsorship rule.
Whether 1t is wise rule or not, I
don't know
Bracken said the government
could not assume responsibility for
Reuters action, but he acknowl-
edged that on several occasions the
machinery set up for handling i'm
portant news developments affect
ing the United States and Britain
had broken down.
II will do all I can to get abSo-
lutte concurrence from the authori-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Press Get


Washington, Dec. 2. (UP)-Gov-
eminent officials, angered by re-
peated premature British disclo-
sures Of Allied news involving the
United States, promised today to
exert every effort to insure Amer
lean newspapers and news services
an even break from now on.
Reuters, a British News agency,
broke the news of the three power
Cairo conference Tuesday, some 80
hours ahead Of the official please
time. Officials charged this was in
violation of an Allied agreement not
to publish the news until 1880 p. m.
EWT Wednesday night to protect
the safety Of the conferees.
American editors, 1t was pointed
out, had the official communique on
their desks and were holding it in
confidence at the time the Reuters
dispatch was circulated.
Elmer Davis, director Of the Office
Of war information, placed partial
blame on British censorship which
allowed the Reuters story to be sent
out from London although 1t did
forbid its publication In the British
Isles.
British censorship might have
stopped it," Davis declared. He said
he would make every effort to see
that such a breach did not occur
again. This isn't the first time it's
happened" he added.
Director Byron Price of the U. S.
Office Of censorship said he would
back Davis to the hilt. Asserting
that censorship is doing all it can
and is anxious to see American
newspapers and radio stations get
at least an even break on such
stories in the future"
In addition to Davis and Price,
other officials interested themselves
in the situation, although they de-
clined comment for publication.
Once Reuters sent the story-and
the German radio picked 1t up dur
ing ranSrnission-the Office Of CEN
sorship in this country approved
publication of the Reuters dispatch
in American newspapers. But this
was roundabout, foreign stuff, while
all the time American newspapers
were honoring their pledge and
keeping the official White House
announcement in confidence.
M nouo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Privote Killed
In Auto Wreck

Revere, Mass, Dec. 2 - (U.P0 -
A. U. S. Army private and wo-
man were killed instantly and six
companions were injured critically
early today when their automobile
crashed into an oil truck while en-
route to Boston where the soldier
was to entrain for his Tennessee
army camp.
The dead were Private Joseph S.
Colella, 10, and Mrs. Ruth Doug
willow. SO. both of Lynn.
Hospitalized with serious injuries
were Angelo Colella, "a. brother OF
the victim and the driver, facing
nanslaughter and dangerous driv-
ing charges; Miss Hazel Dunifer, 10.
Antonio Di Prizto, 81. Nick Khan
COS. %, Joseph Di Clerico, 49, all
Of Lynn and Christian Weitzel, %.
a New Jersey sailor stationed at
Salem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Worship s
Blast Madame
And Cosmetic

Allied Headquarters. Southwest
Pacific, Dec. 2. (UP)-American
warvaiupS bombarded Madang, New
Guinea, and Gasmata, New Britain,
for the first time aMondy night,
serving notice on the Japanese that
the Allies now control the south
western invasion route toward Ra-
baul, a communique revealed today.
In their deepest penetration of
waters once controlled by the Jap
anese in the southwest Pacific, the
vessels steamed through the seas
between the two islands to carry
out the attacks which, in effect, cut
vital enemy supply lines.
The attacks conceded with a
night Smelling of $40, Japanese sup
ply point on the north New Guinea
coast, announced yesterday. Strong
air assaults provided a follow-up,
including raids that hammered a
100-mile stretch of the New Britain
shoreline.
The vessels, which were identified
only as light naval forces but prob
ally WC1C OCoV1OJCAo, oWCPo WAAOdSAA
Vitiaz Straits into the sea to get
at Sio and Madang-the latter 1865
miles bewond FfnSchhafen-and
went across the north end Of the
Coral Sea to hit Gasmata, only 200
miles. from the strong enemy base
at Rabaul.
Their paths law over routes
where the Japanese once shuttled
conveys unmolested except by
planes. At Madang, they were
within 200 miles of the Wewak air
base. The communique did not in
dictate whether the ships were OPP
posed. 1t described results as "ac-
curate" and effective" An uniden-
titled enemy ship was sunk near
Madang.
Liberators followed up the she'll
ing Of Madang, the objective of
Australian ground forces working
through the Ramu River Valley,
with lotion attack on Alexshafen,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
NAzIS never
AGAIN TO BE
MAD SCOURGE

Washington, December 2.
- (UP) - President ROose-
welt, Prime Minister Church
ill and Premier Stain now
are preparing plans to crush
Germany finally and prevent
her from ever again scOurg-
ing the world with war, Con-
gressiOnal leaders predicted
today in the wake of the
Anglo American Chineses
conference.
Reports of a Roosevelt
Churchill meeting with Sta
lin were accepted in Con-
gresGonal circles as COM
pletely factual. This meeting
was presumed to follow the
announced session in North
Africa at which the Presi-
dent, Churchill and Chinese
Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek worked out plans for
the conquest and dismember-
ment of the Japanese Empire.
News Of the North African con-
ference last night found most mem
bers Of Congress prepared, and re-
ceptive. Many knew for weeks that
such o meeting was to take place
and now looked forward to news
from a long sought Roosevelt
Churchill Stain conference.
It was learned officially that Mr..
Roosevelt and Churchill had LETT
Cairo for a new rendezvous and
continued conferences.
This meant only one thing: The
time had come for the long-awa1ted
conference with Stain and the Red
Army general staff to map plans
for joint operations to finish OF
Germany and permit greater con-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Return Blows
Slow Up Reds
Forward Push

Moscow, Dec. 2 CU.P0 -
Mounting German counter attacks
fslowed or stopped Russian advances
along mile front from Gomel
to the Dnieper Bend today, but the
heavy toll of men and machines
exacted by the Russians pointed to
early collapse of the Nazi effort
The Germans were throwing their
main strength against the Soviet
bulge west of Kiev, hinge of the en-
tire front. in an attempt to pro-
tect their remaining communica-
tons in the Western Ukraine and
perhaps re-capture Kiev, the big
gest Soviet city they ever seized or
lost.
Front dispatches said tens of
thousands of German troops and
hundreds of tanks ceaselessly were
assaulting the Russian lines in the
Korosten, zhitomir and Brusilov
areas over the bodies of their own
dead and the twisted metal of their
wrecked tanks and guns.
Dozens" of German infantry and
tank divisions were reported at
lacking east of abandoned Koros-
ten, 81 miles northwest of Kiev,
news estimated at least eight tank
divisions were attacking in the
Chernyakhov- Brusilov sector to the
southeast.
However, German casualties
around the rim of the Kiev Bulge
already were placed high in the
Nazi reserves were believed about
exhausted.
The Soviet high command also
reported stubborn German resist
ance and increasing counter attacks
along the whole length of the &C
continual On Pare AZ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
koi-sheks Are
Back In Chino

Chungking, Dec. 2-(UP)-Gen-
eralissimo and Nine. Chang Kai
shek have returned from the Cairo
conference in a 42-hour flight OF
two long hops, 1t was announce
officially today.
(The announcement Of Chang S
"eturn to China spiked some spec
,lation in connection with a re-
'orted Stain Roosevelt Churchill
Getting at Tehran that he might
, attending0
The Generalissimo and Nine
Hang arrived Tuesday, a day
fter the other members of the
,hinese DELEGATION to Cairo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Campaign Opens To Sell
Subsidy Program To Senate

Wagner, D., N. Y, said Bowles and
his associates would be asked to de-
tail the administrations plans for
use of subsidies, how much the pro-
gram would cost and how much 1t
would save the public. Administra-
ton forces in the Senate hoped
some of the subsidy program at
least could be salvaged.
The National Lawyers Guild de-
manded in a statement that the
subsidy ban be removed from the
bill, saying its retention would al
low the disaster of initiation to
create chaotic conditions on our
home 'front.'"
The Guild cited repeated warnings
by Bowles that failure to provide
subsidies would cost the country at
least 5000 100000 In form OF
higher prices and war costs. 1t said
the public must be assured of an
adequate food supply at prices 1t
could pay.
Organized Labor and the National
League of Women Voters urged con-
tinuation Of subsidies yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Big 3 Talked
Mony-Sided
Drive On Jops

Washington, Dec. 2.-(UP)-The
three-power conference in North
Africa was believed today to have
resulted in a new, closely integrated
strategic plan for a many sided
drive on Japan in which Anglo
American air-sea power and China's
vast land army will play the DOM
inant roles.
The military missions that met
with President Roosevelt, Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek and Prime
Minister Churchill, the tri-partite
statement said, "have agreed upon
future military operations against
Japan"
But the announcement contained
a sober note of warning that Japan
cannot be beaten without long,
hard struggle.
1t said that the three Allied powers
in the Pacific will continue to per-
severe in the serious and prolonged
operations necessary to procure the
unconditional surrender of Japan"
The purpose of the military dis
cusSions obviously was designed to
coordinate the military resources
and strategy of the three countries
now being applied in widely -sepa-
rated zones of activity. At present,
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek is in
command in China; Gen. Douglas
Macarthur in the Australia South
west Pacific area; Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz in the Central and North
Pacific and Lord Louis Mountbatten
in the Southeast Asia sector.
Although conferences, such as
those just concluded, can determine
plans of strategy for the widely
dispersed Pacific-Asiatic battle
fronts, 1t was believed that as the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
BIG Three Believed IRAN
Rumor Says Conferences Have Begun
BITTER four
DAY BATTLE
BEATS NAILS

Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, December 2. - (UP)-
German troops, beaten in a
bitter four-day battle, are
retreating on the Adriatic
wing of the Italian front be-
fore General Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's advancing
Eifhth Army, Allied Head
quarters announced today.
Losing more than 1000 prisoners
and hundreds of notwithstanding
reserves rushed from north Italy
the Germans fell back hurriedly as
the veteran British troops drove
forward three miles in their march
toward Rome.
While the British rolled on, the
pace of fighting increased on the
Fifth Army front in western Italy,
where American troops repulsed
several determined German count
er-attacks. The U. S. 34th Division,
veteran of North Africa, was re-
vealed to be in Italy.
A bitter fight still was in pro-
greSS against German rear guards
on the Eighth AI1ny's front but a
communique said: Our Advance Is
continuing"
Capture Town
Montgomery's men captured the
town of Rocca San Giovanni, four
miles north of the Sangro river and
two miles inland from the Adriatic,
and fought their way to the out
skirts of the village Of Castelfren-
tano.
The Eighth's struggle was COM
pared at headquarters to the bat
tie through which the Fifth Army
went in the landings on the Sal
emo beachhead Of the eastern Italy
coast. - -
But the Eighth suffering heavy
losses itself--had shattered the
German winter line for a distance
of Is miles, completing the con-
quest of the Fossacesia- Romagnoli
ridge, beating off Nazi counter-at-
tacks by fresh forces and driving
on in pursuit of the enemy.
Heavy rain hampered the attack
and the Germans used all types OF
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02

Washington, Dec. 2.-(UP)-Price
Administrator Chester Bowles and
other OPA experts, all experienced
businessmen, today opened the adj
ministrations campaign to sell its
food subsidy program to the Senate
Banking Committee.
Bowles was scheduled to be ac-
companied to the committees third
day of hearings on the subsidy issue
by Deputy OPA Administrator
James F. Brownlee; Jean F. Carroll,
head of the food price division; and
Clarence w. Slocum, an assistant
to Bowles. AS business men, all OF
the officials fell out Of the class
of Economists and college profess
sors" who have consistently been
denounced by congress.
The subsidy fight centers on a
bill to extend the life of the Com
modify Credit Corporation for an
other IS months. In passing the
measure, the House specifically pro-
hibited use Of subsidies as a price
control measure after Dec. 81.
Committee Chairman Robert F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Jugos Hit
Nozis Heavily

London, Dec. 2.-(UP)-Jugoslav
partisans inflicted more than 5000
casualties on the Germans between
Nov. Z and 81 and succeeded in oc-
cupying fortified points on the Ital-
ian border, a liberation army COM
1nunique said today
More than 1900 of the Nazi loss
es were in men killed, the commune
que said.
In operations near the italian
border, the communique reported
heavy fighting took place at Rakak,
30 miles northeast of Trieste, and
at Ijdovac and Bielagora. 1t told
of successful offensive operations in
the Sandjak area and said that
Molsragora, 20 miles west of Uzice
on the rail line to Sarajevo, had
been occupied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
FortfeSSeS
Bomb Milan

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec
2-(UP)-American Flying Fort
resses, attacking in two waves As
minutes apart, probably crippled
the biggest ball bearing plant in
Italy at Turin yesterday, 1t was
announced today.
British based bombers engaged
only In mine-laying operations last
night. American Flying FortreSses
and Liberators of the 9th Air Force
yesterday raided the Rhineland
steel city of Solingen for the second
straight day..
Crews reported the works, which
turn out large proportion Of ball
bearings used by the German armies
and air force. were well covered with
bombs. Huge. orange explosions
were observed throughout the tar
get area.
The Fortresses also scored direct
hits on the nearby Fiat motor
works and railway yards, while q
supplementary force raided the
neighboring Villanova airfield. hit
ting the main hangers and parked
aircraft.
The ball bearing works at Turin
third most important in German
occupied Europe, previously was
knocked out Of production by Fort
resses November 8, but had been
repaired
All F'ortresses, including one
group completing its 200th mission
and their Lightning escorts re-
turned safely despite intense anti
aircraft fire and some fighter op-
position.
The attack on the Villanova air.
field apparently confused the enemy
defenses and only eight to II Ger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-02
Powers Planning To Crush
Might Of Germany And All
Foes Opposed to Democracy
japan ToBe Shorn
OfAU War Gains

Washington, Dec. 1-(UP)-The
White House announced tonight
that President Roosevelt, General
issimo Chang Kai-Shek and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, with
their respective diplomatic and mill
tary advisers, have completed con-
ference in North Africa and agreed
upon future military operations
against Japan"
The American British Chinese
conferences have concluded and the
principals have left for unan-
nounced destinations.
The text of the communique is
sued at the completion Of their con-
ference said:
1.-THE following several military
missions have agreed upon future
military operations against Japan.
The three great Allies expressed
their resolve to bring lnrelenting
pressure against their brutal enc
mics by sea, land and air. This
great pressure Is already rising.
'"rhe three great Allies are fight
ing this war to restrain and punish
the aggression of Japan. They
covet no gain for themselves and
have no thought of territorial ex-
pansion. It is their purpose that
Japan shall be stripped Of all the
islands In the Pacific which she has
seized or occupied since the begin.
ming of the first World War in 1914
and that all the territories Japan
has stolen from the Chinese, such
as Manchuria, For1nosa. and the
PescadorSen shall be restored to the
republic of China.
Japan will also be expelled from
all other territories which she has
taken by violence and greed. The
aforesaid three great powers mind
full of the enslavement Of the people
Of Korea, are determined that In
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