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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Sen. Guy Gillette
 Denies He's Candidate

Cherokee, Ia, July 14-(UP)- Sen. Guy M. Gillette, D., Ia., as- serted emphatically today that he is mot candate for anything" es- pecially the presidency of the United States.
 His statement was made in reply to a suggestion by Sen. George D.. Aiken, R., Vermont, that the Iowa Democrat seek the Republican pres idential nomination in 1944.
 Describing himself as lacking the cultural qualifications and the tenn peramental background that in my opinion are required in president" Gillette said he could not take such suggestions seriously.
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beginning.
 The British Eighth Army on the Catania Plains sector was believed to be engaging strong German and Italian forces rushed there from central concentration points.
 With General Sir Harold Alexan- der visiting the Sicilian front, it was believed likely that there would be a repetition of his strategy in Tunisia where number of slicing drives were made between the main enemy forces.
 Force of Air Power
 "A swiftly moving curtain of fire power and bombs" hit the enemy in Sicily all day as the round- the clock aerial attack was pressed, it was stated at hadquarters.
 "'The Navys main task of support ing the Army by commanding the sea and disembarking troops and their supplies continues" the con- munique from headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said.
 Throughout the oper ations American warships have rendered valuable support to the troops on shore by engaging surrounding for nations and tank columns behind Gela and, among other targets, the airfleld at Pone Olivo and enemy positions at Porto Empedocle.
 "A British and Greek destroyer raided the port of August at 4 D. m. July 12. These ships with the cruis- CTS and monitors outside assisted materially in the capture. The naval bombardment was described by the Army as both accurate and timely.
 "Catania airfield was bombarded from the sea in the early hours of July 13. It is reported that the swell on some of the more exposed beaches has subsided. Thore were some bombing attacks on certain of the beaches and the vessels lying of shore. These did not interrupt the work nprogress. The disem- barkation proceeded smoothly.
 U-Boat Activity
 There are signs of increased U- boat activity throughout the area but counter-measures have been
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EIGHTH ARMY
 DRIVING ON
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area.
 Makeshift Line
 The Axis, it appeared to these experts, may be trying to set up a loose, makeshift line running east and west between Agrigento, Gerbini and Catania with the probable in- tention of retiring northward onto a defense line based in the noun tainous spine running across north ern Sicily.
 It was established that reports of British landings in the Catania area were untrue but experts be- lieved the Eighth was going all-out to capture the town and plain which has an important system of airfields reaching to the Gerbini area.
 oi'di?etaoinshrdlu
 Allied fleets are landing large quantities of stores and equipment on Sicily, the observers said. and confirmed the seizure of the port of Syracuse intact, with facilities for 10 ships between 5000 and 1000 tons each.
 Pachino airfield is being used at least for landing and refueling, It was established, although air ob- servers expected it would be some time before captured fields could be turned into bases. On the other hand, it was known that no Axis bombers were based on Sicilian air fields now and that they can use them only for refuelins purposes.
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Allies Push On In
 South Sicily Area
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1 highly successful and disheartening to the enemy.
 ''The activity on the part of mine sWeepers, and light coastal forces continued and the efforts have been successful.
 "The work of administrative units is of particular importance in oper- ations of this nature as a flow of vehicles, ammunition and stores is being maintained through the ports and over the beaches"
 (AXis broadcasts acknowledged the fall of Augusta and told of raids on Allied shipping in Augusta har- bor. Reports reaching Madrid said Augusta was captured by the Allies after severe sea and air attacks. From Stockholm came a report at tributed to Axis sources that Mont- gomery's main forces were within seven miles of Catania with advance guards even nearer.)
 (Madrid also said British landing parties had appeared near Porto Empedocle, on the Sicilian south coast 26 miles northwest of Amer ican-held Licata)
 German Broadcast
 GA German broadcast quoted Spanish dispatch as saying that 60 landing barges with an escort of deStroyers steamed into the Mediter- ranean from Gibraltar yesterday and convoy of nine vessels entered Gibraltar harbor shortly afterward.)
 American and Anglo-C Canadian forces who joined hands in the out skirts of Ragusa, a small oil center B miles west southwest of Syracuse, were reported unofficially to have captured the city, but this also was unconfirmed. Enemy lines were stiff fening all along the front.
 The fall of RaguSa was expected to be followed by the capture of Comiso and Biscari, two airfeld towns to the west.
 The bulk of the American Seventh Army under Lieut.. Gen. George s. Patton, Jr., was reported advancing toward Arigento, 25 miles to the northwest, and Caltanissetta, 28 miles to the north, two points at which the Italo- German high com mand were reported concentrating troops for large-scale counter-at- tacks.
 Patton's forces already have beaten off number of Axis attacks, one of them with the aid of de- stroyers which shelled German tanks on land for the first time in history, but no large Axis formations have been encountered yet.
 Montgomery's Message
 Montgomery's message to his troops on the eve of the invasion was revealed belatedly to have pro- claimed that the time now had come to carry the war into Italy and into the continent of Europe"
 "The Italian overseas empire has been exterminated," Montgomery said. "We will now deal with the home country :. We will set about the Italians in their own country in no uncertain way. They came into this war to suit themselves and they must take the consequences They asked for it and now they'll get it.
 T have complete confidence in the successful outcome of this oper- ation. Therefore, with faith in God and enthusiasm for our cause and for the day of battle, let us enter into this contest with stout hearts and determination to conquer"
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GREATEST N0N-
 STOP AIR RAID
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Continued from Page D bombs on the Cotrone and Vibo Vel entia airdromes in southern Italy. Three hangars were wrecked at Vibo Valentia.
 Significantly, the Liberators met no fighter opposition over Cotrone, supposedly a fighter base.
 Utilizing virtually every unit in their command, the Northwest Afri- can forces sank two more enemy merchant ships, heavily damaged two destroyers, wrecked 160 trucks, damaged an equal number and "re- duced to scrap" six locomotives and 45 freight cars.
 42 Axis Planes Hit
 Forty-tWo Axis aircraft were shot out of the skies, while Allied losses totalled only seven, ratio of six to-one. Uncounted other enemy planes were wrecked on their air. dromes
 The two heavily-laden merchant ships were sunk north of Sicily by torpedo-carrying Beaufighters.
 American A-36 Mustangs damaged two destroyers, also near Sicily.s
 Mitchells and Martin Marauders joined fortresses in attacks on air fields, where hangars and admin istratio nbuildings were set afire, and night intruder planes hammered MesSina and Palermo and other communications centers throughout Sicily.
 Twin-tailed Lightnings ranged the Sicilian skies at will, concentrating their fire power and the bombs tucked underneath their wings on trains, road transport and troops.
 Even light and medium bombers joined in the many missions which wrought havoc among Axis concen- trationS, making it hard for the Germans and Italians to get set or start throwing punches.
 The attacks on shipping boosted or damaged in 48 hours to seven and the number of Italian destroy CTS hit to four. A Royal Air Force statement asserted that the con- centrated attacks on enemy ship ping were frustrating desperate Axis attempts to reinforce its Sicilian garrisons.
 Only seven Allied planes were lost in the latest series of attacks, a ration of 1-6 under enemy losses. < Fighters carried out daWn-to-
 sweeps over the invasion area, peaches and shipping an ddrove off enemy aircraft attempting to inter- fere with the steady progress of ground forces.
 Fighter -bombers swept low over the enemy rear, smelling and ma chine-gunning troop columns, trans port and communications. Wrecks of tanks and armored vehicles lit tered the winding Sicilian roads.
 Heavy bomberS smashed at the Milo and Catania airdromes and medium bombers dropped their car- goes of explosives on Inna, a com- municationS center.
 Torpedo planes caught the two merchant vessels and two destroyers off the north coast of Sicily in the same area where seven enemy ves- sels were sunk or damaged only "A hours earlier.
 Avis airfields and communications also were attacked by bombers on Monday night and Intruder planes struck at targets in both Sicily and southern Italy.
 Night fighters accounted for II of the AZ enemy planes shot down dur ing the 24-hour period.
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T0DAY'S WAR
 MOVES
 (Reg. U. s. Pat. Office) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Japan evidently regards American operations in the central Solomons and New Guinea a bid for mastery of the seas in the southwest Pacific and apparently is prepared to take considerable risks to forestall it.
 Japans concern over the United States offensive northeast of Austra- lia is indicated by dispatch to Tokyo from the Domei News Agen- cy correspondent in that area, who predicts that "this present engage ment in the Solomons is bound to lead to decisive naval battles"
 The dispatch was filed shortly af- ter the second surface engagement in Kula Gulf. Of New Georgia, in which the Americans sank at least four more Japanese warshipS for total of 13 or more.
 Tho two engagements apparently prevented the Japanese from effec- lively reinforcing their beleaguered garrison at the air base of Munda on New Georgia, and as the Ameri- can land forces close in its fall ap- pears probable.
 Curtain Raiser
 The Japanese have determination to preserve their foothold in the area. And the battle for Munda is obviously only a curtain-raiser to the real struggle ahead. The Ameri- can objective is Rabaul. The Japa- nese key base northwest of the Solomons, which the Japanese can- not afford to lose without weaken Ing their entire position seriously.
 The decisive battles" of which the Domei correspondent speaks are not likely to occur in the restricted waters of the Solomons, where the Americans already have the advan- tage of land-based planes.
 When the action gets beyond Bougainyille and close to Rabaul on New Britain - which may take months - the Japanese would be in 8 far more advantageous position and are quite likely to expose a con- siderable part of their fleet.
 Domei's dispatch is revealing when 1t declares that mastery of the sea is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of supply lines" There in lies Japan's real concern. The most vulnerable feature of her ex- tensive island conquests is her long sea supply lines.
 If the Japanese navy loses the fight to keep them operating, one of the various routes to Tokyo would be wide open.
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 5. STRAFE AACHEN
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wrecked.
 Anti-aircraft guns in London fired on a German plane which streaked across the city but no alarm was sounded. And no bombs were dropped.
 Two Shot Down
 Two German planes were shot down over Britain and third was destroyed over its base in Holland.
 British Mosquitoes, Beaufighters and Typhoons roamed over France, Belgium and Holland on intruder patrols during the night, attacking eisAelds, railroad targets and ground defenses. Some airflelds were bombed twice within few hours. German ground crews were forced to douse flare path lights as German aircraft were going in to land.
 Reports from the raided British coast town said German planes dived on it, dropping explosive, in- cendiary and phosphorous bombs. Two shelters were demolished and the wreckage of one was jacked up to permit the recovery of bodies and the rescue of injured. Numerous fires were started. At least 12 per sons were killed.
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base period in obtaining meat quo- tas, which assured increased SUD- plies in the future. Hereafter, quo- tas will be based on October and November business, instead of De- cember
 The Connecticut Poultry Associa- tion adopted new program to in- crease poultry and eggs supplies by cuiling flocks and, if necessary, by diverting feed from meat cattle. No Producer Strike Chairman Robert s. Clark of the Milk Producers Council promised that there would be no Ga among producers who are demand ing price increase of one cent a quart to meet mounting costs of feed, labor and equipment. State Milk Administrator Donald o. Hammerberg, meantime, went to Washington to try and convince the OPA that the price ceiling should be revised to allow producers the increase.
 Producers feared that unless the increase was allowed, milk short age would be inevitable in the fall, and that rationing would be neces- Sary.
 Supplies of fish dWindled in all markets as the fleet of the Eastern Fishermen's Association kept to port in protest of an OPA ceiling of four cents a pound. The Association de- manded higher ceiling to provide decent" profit.
 Meanwhile, there was no imme- diate indication when greater SUD- plies of meat would be available for houeeholders, and the state food distribution administrator feared the shortage would continue at least another week.
 Harold Senior of the Connecticut State Industrial Council (CIO) wrote Governor Baldwin that the shortage was impairing the health of war workers which soon will be reflected in loss to production"
 Reports to the council" he said, show that the majority of war workers have in recent weeks found their meat ration coupons to be practically valueless'
 In a telegram to Brown, inviting him to the governors conference, Governor Baldwin said:
 "New England governors have many questions concerning price administration to discuss with you and believe that we can be most helpful if you could possibly sit down with six New England gover- nors we can arrange our plans to suit yours any time for Thurs day evening or Friday morning."
 The governor said he understood Brown was to be in Boston Friday.
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struct the agencies involved to keep them on the payroll.
 It then would be up to congress to prove that he was acting other than within his constitutional powers in so doing. Or, it would be possible for the executive de- partment, itself, to seek judicial interpretation of the status of the rider. One way or the other, MT. Roosevelt may be depended on to fight the issue to the end.
 A decision will have to be made on the first payday after Nov. 15, if the men still are employed, whether government funds may be paid to them. That decision will be made by Lindsay Warren, the controller general, who is Roose- welt appointee. However, if he de- cided against the three employees, they could sue and the issue would go before the courts.
 One of the three, Dodd, figured in Congressional News when he at tempted in 1888 to beat Rep. How ard w. Smith, R., Va, in the Demo- cratic primaries. Dodd's candidacy was judged at the time to have White House backing. Smith has been a leader of the southern Dem ocratic opposition to New Deal labor and reform, policies.
 MT. Roosevelt explained that he would have vetoed the rider if it had reached him as a separate piece of legislation. But he felt obliged to approve the bill to which it was attached because it carried funds.
 He remarked that the process by which congress sought to remove Lovett, Watson and Dodd could be directed equally, for instance, against a member of the supreme court or of the cabinet. He thought that was very interesting idea. And he evidently does not intend to permit congress to establish any such precedent.
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associates into Martinique to set up a new administration, has assured the American government that the facilities and resources of the French Antilles will be devoted to the fullest extent to the prosecution of the war against the Axis.
 The nearly $3O0,0OO,OOO in gold rushed to Martinique at the time of the fall of France in 1940 still is intact and vii lbe held in trustee ship until it can be turned over to a government representing France as designated by the free choice of the people of a liberated France.
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PIGEONS SEEK LEARNING

Albany, N. Y, (UP)-The capital of New York state is widely konwn for it's educational institutions, so it's educational institutions, so it is small wonder that it serves to attract erudite pigeons. Last fall, one visited Albany Academy and spent two hours touring the cam pus before it was captured. Re- gently one flew into the office of Dr. Floyd Cheney in the education building and moved about the legal files before he was seized.
 Peru's food shortage is acute.
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BASTILLE DAY
 BRINGS HOPE
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(COllClIluGQ lTOIU rage l) food shipments, and when it became apparent that the men under his command were at the point of open mutiny in their desire to join other Frenchmen in the fight against the Axis.
 The aircraft carrier Bearn prob ably will be one of little use in this war but will be reconditioned as rapidly as possible. The three cruisers, the Jeanne dArc, Emile Bertin and Barfeur, need recondi- tioning but can be utilized. Seven tankers and four merchantmen can be put into service after overhaul ings.
 The future of Admiral Robert is uncertain. He may come to the United States in sort of protec- tive custody until arrangements are made for his transfer to some des- tination of his own choosing. Robert is regarded as the victim of mis- placed loyalty to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and is the last French commander outside the sphere of German domination to shake off the Vichy shackles.
 Hoppenot, who is taking French
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gram can go off outdoors but in case of indictment weather, the con- mittee will have plans to take care of the party just the same.
 Sister M. Remigus of Halifax, N. S., Sisters of Charity Order and Sister Alicia of the same order, but stationed in British Vancouver, are visiting in Waterbury, and can re- ceive visitors at St. Francis Xavier's convent. Sister Remigus is sis- ter of Mrs. Josephine Richardson and has many nieces and nephews living in this section of the city. Sister Alicia is the daughter of Mrs. A. Cameron of Laval street.
 Tonight Washington Park Com munity club baseball "Oletimers" will take over the diamond at Wash ington park at 6:30 o'clock. The men all have a good time every Wednes- day night, when they get out the baseballs and bats to bring them selves back to take up little game for relaxation and real good run.
 At Washington Park tomorrow night at 7:30 an "On Wheels Con- test" will be held. Anyone up to age 13 is eligible to enter. Decorate and bring your carriages, wagons, scooters and bicycles on Thursday to the park. Prizes will be award ed for most original, most attrac- tive, funniest, and prettiest en- tries.
 A story hour for the little folks is being held every Monday and Friday regularly at 2 o'clock. It is conducted by Mrs. Christinat.
 Active games and sports such as dodge ball, bat ball and races are conducted on Tuesdays and Thurs days at 3 o'clock by Eleanor Leahy.
 Miss Lucy Russo of the Water bury Girls club is conducting marching and military drill class for boys from 230 to 3:30 on Thursdays at the Community House.
 Also from 3:30 to 430 Miss Russo will teach dancing for girls. All girls are urged to enroll. Both boys and girls should read the playground bulletin board for further informa- tiOn.
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FTREPROOFED?

Clothes or other inflammable materials, soaked in a solution of two pounds of ammonium phos- ,phate and two quarts of water, ,wil lbecome fireproof, according to -a Brooklyn scientist.
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en radio transmitters were captured.
 Three hundred Germans were killed and II tanks destroyed dur ing 12 futile German attacks on Soviet-held farm near Belgorod.
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the offensive in one sector and pressed back Axis forces that had Wedged their lines, the Soviet high command reported.
 In another sector, the communi- qu, said, the Germans occupied a village at heavy cost, but were driv- en out again by counter attack. Some 400 Germans were killed in street fighting and 10 guns and sev-
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RED ARMIES
 CLIP AXIS

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Earbenders To Hold
 Outing Next Sunday

Members, Guests to Assemble for Annual Affair at
 Own Grove; Contests at Park Tomorrow Night
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BUY WAR BONDS, STAMPS
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BETTER DAYS
 BUS RIDERS!

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FOR HOPES TO
 MAKE BILLSTICK

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U. 5. FIGHTERS
 POUND MUNDA

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WASHINGTON HILL

gram can go off outdoors but in case of indictment weather, the con- mittee will have plans to take care of the party just the same.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-16

shortage in steel, if the steel powers
win but allow that state to build
modern sponge iron plants.
Representative R. J. Weleh of Cali
fornia has strongly attacked the "sel-
fish interests, well intrenched in high
government Offices" demanding de-
velopment of the iron industry of the
area west of the Missouri river.
Representative Frank W. Boykin of
Alabama appealed to congress to force
utilization of the sponge iron process,
naming Montana as one Of the states
which can produce sponge iron. The
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries of congress demanded that
new iron ore deposits be opened up by
use of the sponge iron process, stating
Who will inform mining men regarding
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-16

States Bureau Of Mines will appear
before the miners convention at Helena
Tuesday.
with august senators and representa-
tives Of the legislature at dinner at
the Consistory Shrine temple.
While there will be no formal pro
gram Of speeches, mining men are ex-
pected to elict more information from
the afternoon session than is usually
provided by the twoday convention.
seated at a ground table" before the
convention win be an assemblage of
representatives of various + e eral
agencies, and mining men win be al
lowed to fire questions of all kinds,
with assurance that one of the group
viii be qualified to answer
Questions of priorities, taxation,
labor, RFC loans, mine roads and kind
red subjects will be opened for com
plete airing. Philip j. Shannon, Spo-
kane, regional geologist for four states
for the L. S. G. s., viii be one of
those who will answer questions. He
has done much work in Montana and
formerly was member of the staff of
Montana School of Mines. Another will
be Marshal W Newman, Helena, head
Of the Montana division of the U. S.
b. NJ, who passes on applications for
government roads to mining properties.
o. c. Lamport, formerly connected with
number of commercial projects in
Montana, now head of the u. S. En-
ployment Service, will answer questions