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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-20


nounced today.
Other American mountain fight
ers to the northeast stormed and
took the 2,000-foot village of San
Cerasuola. three miles northwest
of Filignano, after hard fighting.
The Fifth Army drive to pinch
Off a considerable section of the
Casino Rome road continued,
with heavy fighting going on where
the other arm of an Allied pincer
movement is seeking to knock the
Nazis out of their strong positions
On Mount Lungo, south of the
Rome road.
Serious fighting also continued
undated on the British Eighth
Army front on the Adriatic end of
the line. where headquarters an
nounced the capture of Poggio Flo
rito, eight miles southwest of Or
tona and four miles northeast of
Orsogna.
In the words of an Allied mill
tary commentator, Gen. Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery's men ''im-
proved their positions all along
the Orsogna-Ortona road"
Bad weather grounded most air.
craft but American B-26 Marau-
ders took up the pounding of Nor
thern Italy and French Riviera
communications where their big
brothers, the Fortresses and Lib
orators had left off.
The capture of San Pietro open
ed the way to the Liri valley, al
ready partly opened 10 days ago
by the capture of Mt. Canine and
Mt. Maggiore in the Mignano area
and the Americans Immediately
pushed forward to threaten San
Vittorio, 2 10 miles down the
Rome road and but six miles from
Casino.
1t was announced that Italian
units, badly rnauled in their first
fighting with Allied forces against
the Germans, again were optrating
with the Americans and attacking
Mt. Lungo, just south of the Rome
road where the met their first de-
feat.
Despite the desperate three days
of fighting in the capture OF San
Pietro, a headquarters commenta-
tor said the Fifth Army had advis-
ed that American casualties were
moderate" while German losses
were heavy.
Front line dispatches said, how
ever, that the victory cost the Am
orleans, dearly, and that some
companies lost all their: officers in
killed or wounded in the battle, de-.
scribed as one of the bitterest IN
Italy. San Pietro was said to be-
heap of dust.
The Germans had run their de-
lenses around and through the
town and dug themselves deeply
in caves and cellars. The Amerl-
can soldiers had no choice. but to
reduce the town to Gust.
Mud spattered doughboys fight
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Soviiets Open
'New0ffensiive
In The North
German Posi-
Mile F, q
By 80 ~
GERi,. - .&ERNED
London Hans Drive As 1t
Is Most Direct One
Towards Germany

LONDON, Monday, Dec. 20-A-
Russia's first Baltic front army
has cracked German positions on
a 50-mile front to depth of near.
ly 20 miles, killing 10000 Germans
in a powerful five-day surge to-
ward Polotsk, key rail junction
near the old Polish and Latvian
frontiers, Moscow announced last
night.
The Red army troops under Gen.
Ivan Bagramiar were believed to
he within 40 miles of Polotsk,
hacking their way forward over
frozen land in triangular area
formed by Polotsk, Nevel and Vite-
bsk. They were less than 70 miles
from the Latvian frontier wher
they began this offensive which
has Melted them gains of 1876 miles,
the bulletin disclosed.
1000 Prisoners Taken
Five hundred villa es and ham
lets fell TO the Russians, who also
captured 1000 prisoners and inflict.
ed staggering losses on the enemy
in men and equipment, said the
communique recorded by the Sow
let monitor from broadcast.
Among the towns listed as cap
tured in the new break-through to.
ward the Baltic states was Obol.
A town Of that name on available
maps is 50 miles southwest OF
Newell, and only 20 miles east of
Polotsk. If that is the one referred
to by Moscow then the Russians
have cut the Vltebsk-Polotsk rail-
way at a point 40 miles northwest
of Vitebsk, and are only about 80
miles from the pre-war Polish
frontier.
Other villages captured were
Yezerishe, Il miles south of Newell,
Bichikha. % miles south of New
ell, and Virovlya, "A miles south.
All these are either on or near
the Newell Vilebsk railway, a
large part of which now is in Rus
sian hands.
Germans Withdraw
The German-controlled Paris ra-
do said 1.-The German command
has proceeded to withdraw its fore
es to take Up new positions in or
der to reutralize tie gaps" Axis
from Berlin and Rome
also showed German concern over
the news development.
London mllitarists hailed the
new drive because it is the most
direct toward Germany proper.
East Prussia is a little less than
300 miles west of the blazing Newell
sector.
The drive through frozen lake
country between Vitebsk and Len
ingrad apparently was Russia's
first big winter offensive in the
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gin a three-weeks recess ending
Jan. 10, is senate session Tues
day to receive the 1924 1000, 900
new revenue bill.
Numerically, the democrats were
in control throughout the session
but actually coalition of Repub-
icans and ant1-neW deal Demo-
Gratis shaped congressional action.
In the House, where the cleavage
was sharpest, the Democrats suf-
fered net loss of four seats DUR
ing the year, starting with 222
and finishing with 218. The Repub-
Ican minority Of 200 was the par.
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Group Urges
Governmental
Belt lightning
Bvrd Committee Outlines
10 Specific Steps 1t
Wants Taken
'sS,OOO,OOO AN HOUR
Wants To Shunt Back To
Treasury Some OF
Extra Funds

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-tP-
r5o Byrd economy committee ex
,rpssed determination today tt
,s,,nt back to the Treasury some
If the s186, OOo, 900, 900 in unexpend,
al balances of the Army, Navy,
Maritime Commission and War
Shipping Administration.
Calling for a general govern
mental belt Tightening to meet di-
rect war expenditures running
well over 100000 an hour" the
committee outlined 10 specific
Gems it said would be taken to cut
IA 4 minimum all expenditures not
implicitly furthering successful
prosecution Of the war.
Large Appropriations
Foremost was an investigation of
"tbe large appropriatlo1s for the
continuance of normal peacetime
and non-war activities, which have
beel placed in the category of war
activities.
The group, known formally as
the Joint committee on reduction
Of nonessential federal expendi-
lures declared in its report that
Of the total s106, 785, $780, 1877 in un-
expended balances lying to the
credit of the four big war agen-
Ges last September, some $92,000,-
N0OO0 was entirely unobligated
md available for further expendi-
Ee The committee chairman is
sator Byrd D-Va.
he War Department had by far
tie largest unspent balance, S118,-
sos, 963. 1877. 1t was followed by the
Navy Department with $50, 500, 475,-
565, the Maritime Commission with
Sc SIS, 595, O38 and the War Ship
ping Administration with $780,
350,007.
Streamlining W: nted
The report declared:
The committee will urge an in
vestigation Of these huge mobli-
gated balances by the appropria-
tons committee to determine whe-
Their additional appropriations will
be needed until such time as all
tae outstanding unobligated bahan-
eeS have been encumbered."
Asserting it is imperative that
effort be made to stream
line the Federal government" the
t-..-.dttee set these other tasks
Ice itself:
Continued efforts to eliminate
4GeOOO Or more nonessential en-
ployes from the Federal civilian
payroll which reached a peak of
5,O92 1853 last June;
Needless Travel Expense
Examination of government
owned corporations to ascertain
Whether their loan policies IRE adj
Vsable under existing conditions;
Renewed attempts to reduce
needless travel and communica-
lion expenses;
Elimination of duplication and
useless functions within the De-
partment of Agriculture" especial
y the separate functioning of some
" agricultural lending agencies
ana allied groups.
Careful examination Of all new
adventures and commitments IN
public works and similar costly
soyernmental programs;
Scrutiny of what the committee
asserted was the failure of the
ClVI Service Commission to exc
cute a sufficiently intensive fed
eTal manpoWer utilization pro-
gram
Investigation of the free mailing
System allowed government de-
ailments and bureaus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03


 
 despite the worst fogs in more than a year and were waiting only for a favorable weather to loose their heaviest bombardment of the war on Germany.
 13,O00 Tons of Bombs
 The Royal Air Fonce Bomber Command alone dropped 13,000 tons of bombs on Germany in only nine major attacks, while Eighth Air Force Flying Fortresses and Liberators unloaded 4,698 tons on Germany and occupied countries Together, the RAF and USAAF in Britain shot down at least BIO German planes, probably destroyed l30 more and damaged 347. Allied losses totalled 403 planes, compris- ing i76 American and 227 RAF.
 Fortresses and Liberators in the Mediterranean theater made their first raid under their new designa- ton of the 18th Air Force yester- day when they attacked the Mes- serschmitt factory at Wierner Neu- stadt, Austria, 28 miles southwest of Vienna. The factory turned out one-quarter of all Germany's single-engined fighters.
 The new air force, formerly the strategic section of the Northwest African Air Forces, will concentrate on long-range bombing of German military targets in the Reich and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
MRS. BUE., D.A.R.,
 LEADER, SUCCUMBS
Two Weeks Illness Takes Former President of Ma.
 tiOnaI Society

Litchfield, Nov. 3-Mrs. Elizabeth Cynthia Barney Buel, honorary vice president general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and former national president of the national society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. died yesterday at her home here after being i'll for two weeks She was the widow of pr. John Laidlaw Buel, leader in State medical circles.
 Mrs. Buel, daughter of Newcomb 0. and Elizabeth Sturgis Barney, was born in New York on Feb. 16, 1868. She was the only woman in the class of 1891 at Columbia Col lege and the fourth woman to re- ceive a degree from 1t before the founding of Barnard College. She wrote articles on English women's colleges for Harper's Bazaar. For fifty years Mrs. Buel was associat- ed with the OAR.
 Surviving are daughter, Mrs. Stewart W. Tompkins, and a grand son. Henry Tompkins, both of Litchfield,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
OBITUARY

KVESELIS-stanley Kveselis of 424 Baldwin street died last night at St. Mary's hospital following Q lingering illness. A native of Ras- enius, Lithuania, he came to this country and Waterbury about 32 years ago. He had been employed as an annealer at the American Brass Go. MT. Kveselis was 6 mem- Der of the Lithuanian Alliance of America and the Lithuanian Inde- pendent Political club. He Is sur- vived by his wife, Frances; two daughters, Mrs. Josephine Urban and Miss Monica Kveselis; and one son, Albert, all of Waterbury; and one brother. Walter of Bridgeport. The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 8:30 from the Mazaika funeral home, 10 Porter street, to St. Joseph's church, where high Mass of requiem will be celebrated at 9:l5. Burial will be in the fam fly plot in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call ct the funeral home today from to 10 p. m. and Thursday and Friday from 2 to 10 ?. m.
 ARCHAMBAULT-Mrs. Josephine Courtemanche) Archambault, wife of Jean B. Archambault of 9 Glen ridge street died at Waterbury Hospital last night after Q brief illness.
 She was born In Unionville, the daughter of the late Tousaint and Julie Courtemanche, and had been e resident of Waterbury for the past 50 years. She attended Notre Dame Academy an was 6 lifelong communicant of St. Ann's Church. Her parents were pioneer members of the French Church.
 She leaves four sons, Jean L. of Middlebury, Paul L., and Thomas D. and Francis J. of Waterbury; three daughters, Vivian A, Marie J. and Mrs. Robert W. Bradley; two brothers, Louis and Joseph Courte- manche; four sisters, Miss Della Courtemanche, Mrs. Rose Bari- beault, Miss Valere Chouinard and Mrs. Leon P. Cinq-Mars; two grandchildren, Thomas B. and David c. Archambault. all of Waterbury,
 The funeral will be held from the Bergin funeral home, 200 East Main street at 8:30 Q. m., Friday, to St. Ann's Church, at 9, where Q requiem high Mass will be celebrated. Burial will be in Middlebury cemetery. Friends may call ct the funeral home this evening and tomorrow afternoon and evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
DELLA VALE, 76,
 DIES IN TWISTED

Winsted, Nov. 3-Frank Della valle, 76, of 35 Prospect street, died Tuesday night at Litchfield County hospital. He was born in Venice, Italy, and came to this country 50 years ago.
 He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Thomas Giannataslo, Rose Della Vale and Ann Della Valle; five sons, Eugene of Naugatuck, George of the Army, Dante, Frank and Joe seph, all of Winsted and seven grandchildren.
 The funeral will be held at the home Friday at 8'30 a. m. and at St. Joseph's church at g. Burial will be in new St. Joseph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

Hallinan asked.
 We were frightfully upset" she replied, her face very pale. But VIC had to make the best of a bad situ- ation. After all, she was our daugh- ter" Her eyes filled with tears when she said that Nancy and De Ma rigny had visited the Oakes sum- mer home at Bar Harbor, Me-, a few days after the wedding.
 How did the accused act during his visit at liar Harbor?" the at- torney general inffuired,
 "rhe children liked him very much and he played with them great deal"
 Her daughter and De Marigny left Bar Harbor after two weeks and went to Mexico, where Nancy was stricken with Typhoid.
 Rush to Mexico City
 She said she and Sir Harry rushed to Mexico City when they learned their daughter needed blood trans fusions.
 She said they arrived there the middle of August and remained un- til the latter part of October.
 Was the accused there?' Hall- nan asked.
 "Yes, and he was extremely ate tentive. He was always at the hos pital with Nancy"
 "Who gave the blood transfus- sions2"
 Alfred gave two, I three and nurse, two"
 How were the expenses de- frayedp"
 T gave Alfred money to pay all the bills, although he did offer to return about fourt thousand pounds t$ls,ooO which I didm not acc cept."
 why did you not accept the money?"
 Because I did not think 1t was his to give"
 Whose money did you think he might be using2" Judge Sir Oscar Daly asked.
 T thought 1t might belong to his former wife, Ruth Fahnestock.'
 Lady Oakes said that after her marriage, Sir Harry bought some property in Nassau and gave 1t to Nancy and De Marigny "so that Alfred might put to use his knowl- edge of agriculture.'
 Once in her testimony, Lady Oakes referred to Dc Marigny as "the accused" then corrected 1t to Al fred"
 I don't like that word accused, she explained.
 She said her daughter went to Palm Beach from Nassau last Jan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

down yesterday fell to flying for- tresses and Liberators which car- ried out what was described of- ficially as "one of the most suc- cessful and devastating" attacks ever staged in this theater on Wien CT Neustadt, near Vienna.
 Six BOmbers Lost
 Six of the heavy bombers were lost.
 The operation, involving a 1,4o0- mile round trip, was the largest Allied Mediterranean air action since the landings at Salerno and was &C., complished by the new 18th air force set up to bomb German and European targets from this theater.
 The communique said preliminary reports showed severe damage" to the Nazi Messerschmitt factory at Wiener Neustadt, which was the pri- mary target.
 Along with raiding ahead of the ground troops in the battle area, Allied planes hit the Ancona freight yards on the Adriatic coast for the second straight day, raided Aquila and bombed the harbor at Civitavecchia, 40 miles above Rome. Monday night the Isernia area was hit and last night an airfield at F'iano Romano was attacked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
Enemy Begins Orderly
 Retreat Northward
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troops won q second bridgehead NF1r the Trigo at an undesignated 4pot. had been established in the san Galvo and in the face of heavy enemy gunfre.
 Improved Weather
 The Eighth benefited from im- proved weather. Nazi tanks were in action only on the American flank of the Fifth Army front. ap- parently trying to stall off seizure Of the vital coastal and inland main roads northward to Rome long enough to get set for a new battle.
 An official communique said only that "enemy opposition was stiff" and that accurate Allied artillery and bombing helped smash out some of the advances.
 Clinton B. Conger, United Press correspondent on the Eighth Army front, said the front line had been Subjected to a murder target rou- tine" by Nazi guns SO that all move- inent near the battle areas was re- etricted in daylight.
 Thirty of the enemy planes shot
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CContlnued from Page D I had seen it before tha, in the Philippines, where I was interned after being captured by the Japan ese at Manila in December, lo4l.
 This scientific pillaging is the principal phenomenon of the con- Quered areas. The masses are being reduced to starvation, not by a sin- gle clean-cut stroke, but by cruel. painful progression. A little is taken and then a little more.
 First go to the food reserves, then the manufactured goods, then the machinery. Some goes to the military on the scene but most of 1t flows in an intending stream back to the home island.
 The relentless efficiency of this program had already left many peo- pie totally bereft by the time left. In Shanghai the gutting of the city has continued without Interruption for almost two years. At the outbreak of war, the factories and warehouses along the river were jampacked with finished goods and machinery.
 Skyrocket Prices
 As these flowed to Japan, the cost of living skyrocketed, first to 500 and then to 5000 per cent of the Decem- Der, l94l, figures.
 Here is an illustration of what the Japanese footing did to the cost of living in Shanghai:
 Rec. 194l Sept. 1943
 Price Price Soap (per cake) .. : .72 $34.T5 Meat (per lb) ... 300 5000 Fruit (ea.) ........ 30 goo Cigarettes (carton) .65 500 Sugar Ob.) ....... .25 5000 Cotton Goods (yd.) 100 350.00 Queues stretch for blocks from all the stores in Shanghai. The Yangtze Valley, which used to supply Europe and the United States with thou- sands of tons of eggs yearly, now produces mainly for Japan. What eggs are available to Shanghai sell for $40 each. Their pre-war price was a penny apiece.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WooDBURY, ss. PRO- BATE COURT. October 30th. 4. D., t943. ESTATE of OSCAR fEcoMTE late of soUTHBURY. in said district, dcceasod.
 Tho Court of Probate for the and allowed six months from date hereof, for tho creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts. properly nttested, within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted Co said Estate are request cd to make immediate paym0nt to
 EDMUND J. GOULET,
 Administrator
 10S East Lako Street,
 ii-2.3t Winsted, Connecticut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
FUEL DIRECTOR
 TO BE SELECTED

An area fuel director will be ap- pointed shortly to supervise opera tions at state fuel emergency offices, including one to be set up in Water bury shortly, 1t was reported today. Plans are said to have been com- pleted to open the local office next week, probably on Monday.
 Consumers who run out of coal or oil will be served by the emergency office, which will be headquarters for administering to distribution and delivery problems. It will be operated similarly to tn fuel oil office set up here last winter when oil supplies diminished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
BLACKOUT SLATED
 FOR CONNECTICUT

Hartford, Conn, Nov. 3 = U.P9 State War Administrator Harold F. Woodcock said there would be statewide blackout sometime in mid November and 1t would be the last until spring.
 The date of the blackout, he said, would be announced beforehand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

CTS "a few days ago"
 Strong was quoted as saying that his listeners could stake every cent they ever saved" that the war would not be over by Christmas and possi- bly not before another Christmas.
 "The sooner the United Nations know this the better" he was said to have added.
 Iddon said the generals also as- serted that (D-without Russia, the odds against the United States and Britain would be four or five to one; and (2)-There is not the slightest shortage of fuel rubber, vehicles or war materials as a whole inside either Germany or Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
GRIPsHoLM IN AFRICA

Port Elizabeth. South Africa, Nov. 3--(UP)-The diplomatic exchange ship oripsholn, carrying more than 1900 persons released from Japan csc internment, docked at 7:30 Q. m. today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

in occupied and Satellite countries.
 Though Major General James H. Doolittle, leader of the American raid on Tokyo, formerly commanded the NWAAF strategic air force. the identity of the commander of the 18th Air Force has not been aI1- nounced.
 Both the 18th and 18th Air Forces are under the supreme command Of Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz. who has been named by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to command all American air forces in the Med- iterarnean.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
LANDING PARTY BOMBED

London. Nov. g. -(UP)--American and British planes have bombed German landing parties on the Pel- jeshac peninsula along the Jugoslav coast and attacked enemy concen- trations at the harbor of Dubrovnik, q Jugoslav Partisan communique said today.
 Mexico has new company tc produce documentary films exclu. Siyely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

KVEsELIs- h this city: Nov NO, snd, win St.
 Funeral Saturday morning, at S;3o o'clock, from Mazaika Funeral Home, 10 Porter St., to St. Joseph's Church, at 9.l5 o'clock. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
Full Weather Report

Boston, Nov. 3 (UP)-weather forecast
 MASSACHUSETTS R HO ID F ISLAND and CONNECTICUT- - Fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03

DIED ARCHA this city, Nov End, 1943, Mrs. Josephine (Courte- manche) Archambault, of 9 Glen ridge St.
 Funeral Friday morning, at S:30 o'clock, from Bergin Funeral Home, 200 East Main St., to St. Ann's Church, at 800 o'clock. Burial in Mlddlebury cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
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 Beaten Foes

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LodyOokes Testifies

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Bombers Hit E. Of Paris

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MASS MAHONEY-Flrst anniversary Mass of requiem will be celebrated Thursday morning, Nov. 4th, at 7:30 o'clock, at tho Saint Francis Xavier Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Frances Ma honey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
Long Wor
 Soys Arnold

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The Questions

/. How many countries have a
larger population than the United
States?
2. Why does an owl stare?
3. What gives the color to the
so-called red snow?
4. What is the average life of a
dollar bill?
5. What is the Oldest living thing
In Florida?
6. Is Sirius, the dog star, bright
er than our own sun?
7. What continent receives the
most rainfall?
8. If the hairs of your head are
very fiat you have what, curly or
straight hair?
9. How many countries occupy
the Iberian peninsula?
10. Which river empties the most
water into any ocean?