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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16

Private First Class Lawrence Volvski of Thomaston is serving with the Marine Corps in the South Pacific with a telephone section.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Cop Unable
 Arrest Son

Flake Laval, Que, Sept. l-(UP) Police Chief Rene Bolduc, confess sing his inability to arrest his own son on a warrant charging dis turbance of the peace, was ordered today to take him into custody even if he had to obtain the assistance of provincial and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
 Bolduc claimed his son had dis appeared.
 Young Bolduc is wanted as an alleged participant in a recent Sat- urday night anti-semitic brawl in a dance hall in which Moe Hersco- witch, Montreal, & well known ath- lete, was knocked down and kicked on the head. t
 Recorder Rene Dubois, in order ing Bolduc to bring his son into court, said ne was satisfied the as- Sault had been deliberate and planned. Several witnesses testified they had gone to the hall ito get the Jews" Pending Bolduc's arrest. Dubois postponed judgment on An- dre Bigras. another defendant, un- til Sept. IA.
 Marscovitch still is in a hospital. He is to undergo an operation that may save the sight of an eye in- jured by a kick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Probe Train Wreck Cause

Buffalo, N. r., September l. - (UP) - Federal and state agencies opened a hearing today to determ- inc the cause of the wreck of the Lackawanna Limited near Wayland, N. Y, Monday, in which 2S persons were killed and 75 injured.
 The toll was raised by one early today by the death of Paul King, 30, of Williamsville, N. Y, of in- juries.
 Crews of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western passenger train and a freight locomotive involved in the crash were subpoenaed to the hearing called jointly by the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the New York Public Service Com mission.
 The railroad said the cause of the wreck would not be determined officially until the investigation had been completed.
 A spokesman for the railroad however, blamed the crew of the freight locomotive which was hit by the limited as 1t backed onto the main tracks. The limited, making up for lost time, was travelling at 70 miles an hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Hopkins Says
 |Wor rToLust

Washington. Sept. 1. (Url-Harry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's closest adviser. predicted today that the war will last two more years ''at least" and enigmatically added that If we lose Russia" the con- siict will drag out i've years or longer.
 Writing in the October Issue of the American Magazine, Hopkins said the Axis "still holds the uaill- tary championship of the world and still is an undefeated enemy, with industry stu funetionlng and with submarine and airplane pro. duetlon not yet diminished
 He warned that we should not assume that China scan flght fer ever" and said. that Russia, the Keystone of tho war. is stu lighting
 'sff we lose her gRalaalal," Hop. kine said without further elahoga- ton, " do not believe for a no ment that we will lose the war. but ! would change my prediction about the Gime of victory. Then, indeed we would have a lnng war ahead M usp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Berlin Smashed In Another
 Huge Roid
By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Stan Correspondent

London, Sept. 1. (UP)-British four-engined bombers, hundreds strong, smashed another huge sec ton of Berlin into blazing ruins last night in a 45-minute thunder bolt assault that marked the end of the fourth year of the war.
 Great, billowing fires were left burning in the German capital and the air ministry said all indications pointed to great damage"
 Swarms of German night fighters rose to intercept the bomber fleet, but failed to halt the attack, the second heavy raid on Berlin in eigh nights. Forty-seven bombers were lost. Many of the intercepting fighters were destroyed.
 While the tonnage of bombs dropped was not announced imme- diately, the attack was believed on scale comparable to that of Aug. g, when 1900 tons of explosives devastated an estimated one tenth some 30 square miles-of Berlin.
 The raid also probably boosted the bomb tonnage for August over the RATS all-time high of 16.000 set in July.
 Waves of Allied Planes
 Waves of Allied planes also swept across the English southeast coast in daylight today by carry a non- stop Anglo American aerial offen-
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|Nips Pull
 Air Bases
BY BRYDON TAvES United Press Stan Correspondent

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 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Sept. l.-(UP)-A decisive allied triumph has forced Japanese aerial fleets to shift their base tc Dutch New Guinea. leaving nearly 400 wrecked planes behind and lay. ing open their advanced coast bases to unhampered assault, 1t was re- vealed today.
 The victory was announced in a communique reporting that 6 strong liberator force Monday de- stroyed between 20 and 25 more planes in the Wewak area of New Guinea to which the enemy haC brought achievements from the East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa.
 Ceaseless air blows that started on Aug. IT forced the Japanese tc withdraw their planes to safer fields as far back as Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 200 miles west of We wax and nearly 600 miles from Sal- amaua, threatened by Allied ground forces.
 The enemy's air power in New Guinea now is dangerously re- moved from ground garrisons which this force is designed to support, ? it was announced. The garrisons in- cluded those at Salamaua, Lac Madang and Wewak, besides small-
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.Yonk Planes
 Roid Pisa
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Stan Correspondent

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 Allied Headquarters, North Africa Sept. 1.-(UP)-A strong force oi Flying Fortresses swept more than 400 miles north of Sicily to raid the Italian rail and aircraft center of Pisa yesterday as British war ships bombarded tine Italian rnain- land, 1t was revealed today.
 Hits were scored on railroad yards and an aircraft factory at Pisa which is l65 miles northwest ot Rome, while other planes from the northwest African and middle east air forces continued the sweeps breaking up enemy communications in southern Italy.
 Two British battleships with an escort of destroyers and a cruiser thrust into the straits between Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot to lombard the Reggie Calabria coastal Notifications with round after round of shells, a dispatch from a United Press correspondent with the fleet reported.
 The days score of enemy planes shot down was IS, including 10 de- stroyed by U. s. bombers from the middle east command that attacked Pescara on the Italian east coast. Three Allied planes were missing from all operations.
 (An Italian communique broadcast by Rome radio said Pisa suffered considerable damage" along with other places hit by the Allied air- craft.)
 Wellington bombers kept the at- tacks on a day and night basis by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Shoots Down Tenth Plane

Allied Headquarters. North Africa, Sept. 1.-(UP)-Staff Sgt. Benja- min F. Warner of San Francisco, Cal, ace of the North African Air Forces, shot down his 10th enemy plane during the flying iotress raid on Pisa in northern Italy yester- day.
 On Saturday Warner was deco- rated with the Distinguished Serv- ice Gross for shooting down seven Axis planes in a single day when the flying fortress in which he was riding got i3.
 Otlaer fortress gunners credited with victories at Pisa included Sgt Edward 0. Davis, Birmingham. Mass. and Sgt. Robert N. Carlin0 Stamford. Conn. All the victims were German Messerschmltt I0e's except that shot down by Carlinn, which was an unidentified trans port plane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
BeIlhop Held Tn WAC Case

Indianapolis, Sept. l-(UP)-Po- lice held Robert Wellington, 22, Claypool Hotel bellboy. for Ques- tioning today in connection with the assult-slaying of WAC Corporal Maoma L. Ridings, Warm Springs, Ga, one time nurse for President Roosevelt.
 Lieut.. Noel Jones of the city homicide squad ordered Wellington arrested and held on a vagancy charge last night until certain dis crepancies in his story can be checked"
 Jones said Wellington has been unable to account satisfactorily for his actions Saturday night at the time of the slaying.. The bellboy is the last person known to have been in Corp. Ridings' room at the hotel before the pretty 32-year-old WAC's half-nude and mutilated body was found by a maid.
 Wellington, married but separated from his wife, was one of two bell boys who took refreshments to Corp Ridings' room after she checked in from Camp Atterbury Saturday. He said he did not see her on his last trip, but was directed by "a voice which came from the bathroom" to set down the tray and take quar- ter from the dresser.
 A 25-cent piece found on the fiool of the room led police to believe Corp. Ridings might have called foi a bellboy again before she was killed.
 Jones said only 46 cents were found in the room. indicating that robbery may have been a motive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
U. $. BattIesI1ips
 Raid Marcus Isle
JAP OUTPOST LIDO MILES
 FROM TOKYO

Washington, Sept. 1.-- UP) Arranging and presumably powerful U. s. naval task force of war ships and planes blasted Japanese-held Marcu s Island today in what ob- servers believed may be the prelude to large scale fighting in the central Pacific. Marcus Island is HOO miles southeast of Tokyo.
 Radio Tokyo reported and the Navy here in ef- feet confirmed - that American ships and planes showered the tiny
 le with shells and bombs ia a daring raid far from known U. s. bases.
 Marcus sland is 88O miles west northwest of Wake Is- land which the Japanese cap- tured December g, 1941, after a heroic 15-day defense by 400 U. s. Marines. With its airfield and depots, it lies athwart the most direct sup ply line between the Japan ese home islands and their bases in the Marshall Archi- peligo.
 Tokyo said that wave after wave of American planes bombed the island while war ships hurled shells at its in- stallations. The Japanese broadcast noted that if Amer jeans could raid Marcus
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Runnor 5000 Danes Killed In One Town
BY JACK FLEIsCHER

(Un1ted Press Stan Correspondent Stockholm, Sept. 1--(UP)-- Ger man troops touring Danish streets in armored cars are firing indis- criminately on all groups of more than five persons, even those gath- cred at street car stops, the refugee Danish press service said today.
 GA British radio broadcast quot ing advices from Stockholm said the Germans had set up guns in Copenhagen streets to quell the continued disturbances and that Nazi SS troops and the Gestapo had seized all police barracks after Danish officers refused to aid them.)
 (Radio Algiers said Nazi troops killed 5000 Danish civilians and 460 soldiers in one Danish town alone.)
 Despite the ruthless Nazi en- forcement of martial law, however, the Danes were reported defying their new overlords at every op- portunity with King Christian x himself setting the keynote.
 Escorted by German troops, King Christian drove from his Sorgenfri castle to the Copenhagen suburb of Lyngby, where thousands oi Danes enthusiastically hailed him despite the Nazi ban on gatherings of more than five persons.
 Christian, responding, gave taci' approval to his subjects resistance lin the f0llawlng brief speech: M I T am happy that the panist language ir still spoken in my olt Fatherland. Continuel'
 Three Danes were reported tt have been shot and killed because one of them cracked 0 joke while 6 German soldier was passing. German elite storm troops anc GeStapo agents occupied all police stations in Copenhagen after Dan- ish police officers refused to swear loyalty to Gen. Hermann Won Han. neken, the German military com mander.
 Sweeping arrests were reported under way as the Germans sough to put down any inclpient flftl column. Prince Knud, 43-year-olC son of King Christian, and Price Axel, a cousin of Knud, were intecn' ed with Danish officers at Hote D'Angleterre.
 Labor leaders, editors, professors politicians and military and maya fN0ntin,iad 0Y1 Pace 1l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Jop Big Shot transferred
(By United Press)

The Tokyo radio anonunced todax that the chief of stan Uf the Chins Sea fiete and the chief of stan and chief of personnel of the Yokosuk naval base guarding Tokyo Bay hsH been replaced and "transferred f6 important sea duties.
 The changes in command, as an nounced in broadcast reported 1a the Federal Communication Com . mission, established Vice Admiral ! Kanja Ugaki as chief of the China Sea fleet, Rear Admiral Katsuzo Akiyama as personnel chief and Read Admiral Tadayulki Matsunasa as chief of stan at Yokosuka.
 Akiyalna succeeded Rear Admi1al Masatsugo Hoshino and Matsuna succeeded Vice Admiral Mincf Karui, but Ueaki's predecessor Nss not mentioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
Hatred Against Total
 War Grows, He Says As. Hostilities Near Climax
By J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press stan CorFsspondsnsl
 London, Sept. 1.(UP Pope Plus XII broadcast to the warning world to- day an appeal for . just peace this year, declaring that the hostiIities now are "reaching . climax and the peoples are pleading more clamorously than ever for peace, for bread and for work.
 Speaking by radio on the anniversary of the Ger man invasion of PoIan. the pontiG sounded . caAs which responsible quar- ters believed would spur whatever Italian peace ef. forts may be under way.
 Manifestly throwing his| whole influence behind ef- forts to restore worldwide peace in 1943, the Pope resorted to the foIIowina' denunciation:
 ''Woe To Those''
 Woe to those who arc building their power on on,- precision, on torture .of tlae in. r1ocents, on injustice and those who interfere with klis building of a just and lasting peace"
 Hatred against total war | IS mounting in all nations. the Pope declared, as erery., where the peoples look at ruins and observe the war operations reaching a climax
 Hope must be given I0 the oppressed peoples that this year will be the begin ming of a new era of recon. struction and peace" he s1ss..
 Against the background of tliA Papal pronounciamento, compstsnE quarters here doubted that fhe Italian regime of Marshall pietr6 Badoglio would be able to maintain power unless 1t publicly and eslls phatically makes plain to tho Italian people that all possible nov is being done to get Italy out Of the war.
 Early in his speech the Pope ena- phasized that his love fer all hu-
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By AfERRIMAN SMITH

GUnlted Preas EtaS COFvesp0ndentl
 Washington. Sept. l--lUP)-Prime Minister Winston Churchill was en- route to the White House today for new conferences with President Roosevelt and to arrange a meet ing soon Of British, American and Soviet politlcaisexperts.
 The President and the prime mln- isler had no announced plans for observing the staFt Of another year Of combat that began on Sept. | leee. when Germany went into Poe land. Mr. nooeevelt's schedule wa1 8 day cf conferences with iop-ra1lk- Ing ofacialG. Churchill left euebee late yesterday after hls gAdlo ad. dFeaa.
 When Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill meet they are expected Co devise plalaa for speeding up a thfee.uAfaen meeting ~ fofelan minisfefs whe presumably win tackle political ellel1na and prepake llae May faE a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
FOR Locks Horns With Pearson OUer Sec. Hull

gerous impasse."
 President Roosevelt left for the future an announcement on the resignation Of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. who is re- ported to have resigned because ol ill health and differences with Hull over policies.
 Welles' ReSlgnation
 Welles. resignation was first re. ported more than a week ago. and later was confirmed through foreign ambassadors who received letter. from Welles telling them that the President had accepted hk reelsna- ton.
 But ar. Roosevelt told his newl conference yesterday that he hAf no KeWB on tio subject and that I sad when thHFe was news, FepnFtRFi Aould be informed We added lhal he would decide when tala MnalE he.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
POPE PLEADS FOR JUST PEACE BRITISH WARSHIPS BLAST ITALY BASES
 BATTERIES IN
 DARING RAID
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

Bx REYNOLDS PACKARD
 United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, September 1. - (UP) - Giant guns of the British battleshipS Nelson and Rod ney bombarded the Italian invasion coast yesterday while a strong force of Fly ing Fortresses swept far northward to raid the rail- air center of Pisa, it was an- nounced today.
 Accompanied by a cruiser and destroyer escort, the battleships leveled their 16- inch guns at Reggie Calabria on the Strait of Messina and poured shells into enemy guns at Cape Pellaro, six miles to the south, that in- effectively answered the bornbardment.
 A cofnmunique reported fires were touched off on shore by the war ships. The escort for the 33,900-ton battle wagons included the cruiser Orion and nine destroyers, among them the Polish Navy's Piorun.
 Carefully avoiding the famous leaning tower at Pisa, the Fortresses dropped Q trail of bombs across the railroad narshalling yards which connect Genoa and Rome and scored hits on the nearby Piaggio Air. craft factory and the San Guisto Airdrome.
 Fires visible GO miles were started at Pisa, which is l6S miles north of Rome, and an explosion was seen in AWcE sA " U U sllzlat' ienging enemy planes were shot down. It was the longest flight i1i weeks for the bombers.
 Other planes from the northwest African and Middle Eastern air forces continued the sweeps break
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Winnie On Way For FOR Talk Re 3-Nation Farley

Roosevelt Churchill -stalin conter- ence.
 3.Mation Conference
 Churchill spoke yesterday Of the necessary and urgent's need for "a conference Of British, United states and Russian foreign ministers og their responsible representatives not merely to explore the various inc portant questions connected with the future arrangemens for world secur- ity. but to carry their diseussions to a peint where the heads el states and governments may be abis io he tergene."
 The arrangements for a tri-paF. tiis meeting 0f foreign saeEetagses however. dld not bring particularly eioseF q meeting 0g the three iead- era themseivas. Washington uhssFV- ega doubt that a nrillnh~ American Soviet military conference wilg be held uatli Joint military operations
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|Nuzis Reel
 Back On 700 Mile Front
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespOnden


 Moscow, Sept. - (UP) Victor ious Red Armies sent the Germans reeling back along a 700-nile front from Smolensk to the sea of Azov today in series of coordinated of. fensiveS.
 New Soviet advances posed a grave threat to the central front bastion of Smolensk, one of Adolf Hitler'S headquarters; outflanked the companion fortress of Bryansk: brought the key Bryansk-K -Konotop railway supply line within artillery range; drove closer to the Dnieper river bend west Of Kharkov, and ground up the remnants of the trap- ped garrison of Taganrog,
 Russian forces now were liberat- ing towns and villages at the rate of 100 every 24 hours. Some i2,o0o German officers and men were kill ed yesterday and 87 Nazi tanks and 67 guns destroyed.
 At some points, including the northern Ukraine, the German re- treat showed signs of becoming Q rout with tanks and guns beSag abandoned intact. Eight hundred German prisoners were taken in one sector alone southwest of Sevsk, 90 miles south of Bryansk. Threat To Smolensk
 The threat to Smolensk arose lfrorn a Soviet 4hreakthrough of .nins to 1Bls miles on a 3i-mile-wide sec, tor of the central front that engulf. ed 1T0 localities, including Yelnya 50 miles to the east and the most important stronghold guardins smolensk. Dorogobuzh, 50 miles southeast of Smolensk, also was captured.
 Five thousand Germans were kill- ed on the smolensk front and at least 56 tanks, 60 guns and more than 200 trucks were destroyed Many prisoners and much booty
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
By JOHN A. REICHMANN United Press Stan Correspondent

Washington, Sept. 1. (UP)-The controversy over state department policy remained unciarified today except for evidence that if and when President Roosevelt decides to discuss it in detail he will stand unequivocaily behind his secretary of state.
 He backed up Cordell Hull yes. teFday at hls press and radio eor- ference by calling columnist Drew Pearson a chronic liar. Hull had accused Pearson of ''monstrcus and dlahollcal falsehoods" in reporting that Hull and hts assistants were anti. Russian.
 Pearson TetoFted that he was wills ing 70 be the pre6identh "seape- eoat" if ono was needed, and ve~ ileTaaed hss charges that Hnllh anu. Soviet attitude had allowed United Ntaies-9oViet relations Co reach slheiE nge1snt danleEable sna aanr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
COP Busyon lo44 Plank
nY JOHN .. oUTTER

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 Washington, Sept. 1-(UP)-Re- publican party policy-makers set out today for Mackinac Island, Mich, to begin drafting the foreign policy plank for their 1914 platform.
 Only the broadest general outlines win result from the meeting Sept. e-7 to which five senators. 12 con- gressmen, 24 governors and eight national committee members were invited as members of the Republi- can postwar advisory council ap- pointed last May by National Chair man Harrison E. SpangIer.
 Subcommittees will be appointed to explore individual problems out Of which spangler hopes will come the final draft of the platform to be adopted by the Republican Na- tional Convention year hence.
 There is no set program for the two-day meetings. 6pangler said his ccsDclI was chosen with an eye to gathering the thoughts of party members who have had the most rec cent contact with voters of heir areas. He considers his position as chairman as one of moderator" for the meeting.
 The council of elective officials inc cludes some of the leading possibil- ilies for the Republican nomination for president next year. Among them gre Gov. Thomas F. Dewey of New York, Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio. Gov. Leyerett SaltonstalI of Massachusetts, and Gov. Earl War ren Of California.
 Two contenders for the preslden- fial nomination in I9t0-- Sens. Ar- thur F. Vandenherg. R.. Mich, and Robert A. Taft, D.. o.-Also are
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EeTthquoke Noted YesteFdoy

Weston, Mass, Sept. i-(UPl-A strong" earthquake somewhere near Central Ameriea's west coast. which caused heavy damage if it occurred on land, Was reported today by the Weston college seismologieal station.
 The Rev 5aniel Nnehan. 6. q. selsEa0l0gist Rt the station. aaid that the quake occurred yesterday at iasiT ?. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01
BRITIsH LANpNa Eon1E

London. Sept. i-(UP) 'Ihe oes man Transocean News EE claimed today that British Iazzz force of a00 men said 10 have i&nA on the coast of southern Ifa1g. N now been completely liQuldatel
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TREASURY BALANCE

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