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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
GERMANS ADMIT
 FALL OF WANNA
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kept staiingrad out of Mas! hands
 But soon after the communique was issued, tho United PreSs Mos. COW coFrespondent wirelesged that the fall of Vyauna had been con. iirmed by unofacial Russian sources.
 Radio Berlin, broAdcasting Q diS- patch of the os5acial German news agency, said Vyasyna had been eyac: usted "aecording to plan" after NaEi troops had destroyed water wofks' Workshops, railway installations. airdroines and on automobile park. Tho action, 1t claimed, had been Q ''dlSengaglng" one end !ts purpose was to "shorten the front" This hes been the unfalllng alibi Of the Naxis h announcing their Russian setbacks.
 The Soviet communique contra. dicted this according to plan" claim by reporting desperate Ger man counter.attacks In the area which were thrown back without In. terrupting the steady advance of the Red Army men who took % to 60 more inhabited localities. Most of them were noFkhwAet oe VyazlnR where the soviets were threatening to outfiank the town and cut S@ only railroad to the west.
 Tn announcing the fall of vyasina before the Russians could announce 1t, the Naxls were following their new technique of assuring the Ger. man people that c defeat had been c mere military operations, before Q Russian announcement could make their defeat evident.
 Vyasma, e2 miles east northwest of smolenSk, had served aS tho southeastern anchor for the Ger" man salient that has i1ienaced Mos. COW since the autumn of ie4i.
 The other two anchors of the sAl. lent weS' of Moscow, Rzhev and 0Rhatsky, were c@ptured by the Russians last week.
 The DND dispatch said the "dis. engagement movements" were aimed ct shcrtening the front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
ADJOURNMENT IN
 ATCHISON CASE

Hearing of the Atchison will case adjourned in superior court ycster. day afternoon until Tuesday morn- ing. Highlightipg yesterday after- noon's testimony was introduction of letters written by the late Law renc0 J. Atchison and his wife re. wardlng their pending divorce suit. Mir. Atchlson died last Oct, i2, leav- ing bequests of Sl00 each to his threa children and the bulk of the large estate Co Q brother,
 Tho two children, who are appeal- tho probatlng of the will, claim their father was governed by prejudiceS toward their mother when he drew up tho document. The couple was divorced in 1887. A Jury of nine men end three women was lmpanel- cd to hear the trial, with Judge grAnk P. MeIcvoy presiding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
CITY TO RECEIVE
 236O GAS MASKS

Continued from Page D cal intelligence ofilcer, waterworlks, officer and assistants, health officers and assistants, messengers, drivers and -medlcal members of the staff, This amount Is l25% Of the total.
 The Fire service which consists of the regular and auxiliary fire- men receives 248 gas masks, l0.6Ps. Public Works receives 2l2 masks which are to be distributed among decontamination personnel and other regular and emergency per- Sonnel required in gaSsed areas, 99S.
 Public utilities receives i30 gas masks, to be distributed among all municipal and private utility per- Sonnel whose services arc essential for emergency repairs in gassed areas or maintenance of operation of utilities during gas attacks.
 The 2360 gas masks are made up of 220 large adult-siHed masks, i780 medium adult-siSed masks, and 300 for children,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
GERMANS BOMB
 LONDON BY DAY
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Among the principal targets in Stuttgart are Bosch ignition works, the DaiYller-BenE factories. which make engines for Me@erschitt and Heinkel planes, and numerous other key war factories.
 The German radio acknowledged damage and casualties in the Stutt. Rart area and claimed that bombs hit several hospitals, churches and monuments of cultural value"
 The daylight raid on London was the SharpeSt of the thre 60 far this year. The German raiders swept In over the coast at low.level and bombed and Tnachine.gunned the suburban area at Q time when mil. lions of LondonerS were on their way home.
 At least four trains and A trolley bue were Faked with bullets. Tho bus was set afire and the driver burned to death in his cab. No other casualties were reported among the bus and train passengers.
 Several streets, among them . shopping thofoughfare, also were nachine.gunned. Bullets spattered against Q Catholic church in one area.
 Five planes swooped to Toof.top level to bomb another greater Lons don area, where at least six persons were killed. Five persons weTe killed in another section where bombs fell.
 Commuters dropped to the ground when raiders lnachiFlo-gunne tho entrance to Q railroad station.
 One German plane flew straight toward Q hospital with it's guns blazing, but It's aim was bad and only c few bullets pierced the roof, Q nurse reported.
 PasSengers ct on East Anglican station witnessed Q thrilling low. level duel as c German fighter, barely clearing the roof, f0hred overhead pursued by two spitsire fighters only 200 to 300 yards away, their cannons and n1achine.gunS chatteTing.
 The raiders oil were speedy Ger. man fighters or fighter.bombeFs Some were twin.engined Tocke' Most of the five shot down were bagged over the Thames estuary. The loss constItuted % per cent Of the attacking force -coSnideTed Q very favorable percentage for the defenders.
 The whole raid lasted less than half hour.
 German planes also were active on . small scale over northern Eng" land last night and four of the night raiders were shot down.
 Bombs, which were dropped n several places, caused some damage and there were casualties, including Q small number of people Killed" Q British cosTlmunique said.
 One boy was killed and two other persons injured when 2 bomb nit the roof Of . village hall where there had been Q dance.
 The German radio claimed that major damage was caused in c raid on the rortheagternr England port Of Newcastle.
 The night also was enlivened by Q duel between British and German Iogn-range guns across the Straits of Dover. The Germans fired . number of fiye-gun galvoes and the flashes from the guns 1t Up 6 wide area.
 Meantime, the Swedish Telegraph Bureau reported that fiyes in Mu- nich were still burning two days after the British raid Tuesday night, New fires were reported swinging |~p as phosphorus bombs suddenly iGnited.
 From Zurich came s report from
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 On the central front the Rus. slams enveioped another 60 to 6O towns and hamlets in Q continuing advance through cTumbling Axis de. lenses before VyaMna and northeast of tho key stronghold Of smolensk'
 MOst Of the re.captused coMmuni. ties were northwest of VyaSIna, where a Soviet thrust 8 threatening to outiiank the city and cut It's only railroad to the west. Among the nOWlyso occupied towns was Andre. y0yskoye 3O miles to the northwest.
 East os Vyaxlna, the sovlets ais ready were within 10 miles os the city.
 The high command said In It's m!d-day communlque that the Ger. mans on the KhaFkov front were bringing up more and moro fresh battalionS and throwing them Into battle In ayl attempt to wfest back the city they welded to the Rus. slams on Feb. i6.
 lighting is fierce and our troops are staunchiy repulS!ng one enemy attack after another" the commit nlque said.
 "A battalion of German infantry with the support Of 20 tanks ad. vance into one township led hy . platoon commanded by senior lieu. tenant eheronin.
 Tn the unequal struggle, our men with an antistafik gun destroyed seven tanks and annihilated 100 IIltlerites. When the gun was put out of action, our men disabled three more tanks with hand gre. SaadeB."
 in another sector, the comfnunl- que said, one unit killed more than 700 0ermanSand destroyed il tanks, four seif-propeiling guns and 20 trucks.
 The Germans also were counter attacking on the central front, the high command said, but were being hurled back by the relentless Rus slan advance.
 n one sector near Isakcva, i2 miles east oe Vyazma. Soviet tgoope
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
PATENTS AWARDED
 TO WATERBURlAN

According to a list compiled by the of4iee Of Harold c. Manning, lawyer, of Waterbury, three patents have been issued to Jesse E. stareck of Waterbury and Detroit, The pat- eritS have all been assigned to Kan. sas City Testing Laboratory and are for tho following inventions:
 Electro.deposltion of cuprous oxs ideS and baths therefor.
 Decoratively coloring articles in gold eolors and the product thereof.
 Decorative coatings exhibiting patterns or designs, and product.
 A patent was also issued to Paul White Of 30e Chase Parkway for c game assigned to Parva Products Go, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
USES OF RATCHET
 SHOWN TO SCOUTS

Various uses of the hatehet and axe and demonstrations relative to building several types of cooking fires were presented by A. 2. Hirscfi, assistant scout executive, ct the March meeting of tho Waterbury District Boy Scout leaders held last night in the scout house, Other topics discussed were tho new merit badge procedures, war victory gar- denS and nelghborhood eamporeeS
 It was announced that Water. bury Boy Scouts would distribute tin can salvage leaflets for the Wa. terbury salvage committee on Sat- urday, March 20th,
 Approximately 20 scout leaders were present and Scout Executive David F, BabSon presided.
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Stormod Q strongly.s fortified Axis position, wiped out 200 enemy of- llces and men and captured an in. habited locality, as well as eight antl.tank rifles and seven trench mortars. A large convoy of war materials was captured In Q neigh- boring sector.
 More than i,e00 enemy troops were killed in the fighting that led to the capture of AndreyVskoye and the other localities northwest Of VyaSnia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
INCREASED WAGES
 ALLOWED s. B. co.

payAraiseS from i2 to i8 per cent for ii7 employees of the Waterbury steel Ball O., have been authorized by the regional War Labor Board in Boston. The raises are retroactive 60 Dec. Q, io42, and according to tho boards report are intended to scorroct manifest injuSticeS and ex. lstlng inequalities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
BOYS IN
 THE SERVICE

member of the aviation ordnance at Quantico, Va.
 Frederick A. Green, Jr., l7.year- old son of MT. and Mrs. Frederick A. Green of 43 Southwick avenue, was enlisted in the Marine Corps ct the local ofiice yesterday.
 The local Marine Recruiting and Induction Station will be closed all day Saturday, March i4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
You lvomen Who SusseT From HOT FLASHES the.
 CHILLY FEELINGS

xf Nou-iiko 60 many women between the ages os 60 and Bo-suffer from not hashea, weak, dizzy, nervous feels fngs, uisttem os "iErOguiaFlties'', are blue At eiiaeB-dua Go the functional Tnidale age pariod in 6 weman's llfo- tly taking lydia E. pinkhaFa's Vegos cable Compound at once. 1t's the best knewn medicine you can buy thAts maaQ especially for tpomens
 RiFikham's Compound is famous to Eallevo such distress. Taken regularly s-at helps build up resistance againat such annoying symptoms. 70 also is c nne ntomaehio tonic.
 Thousands upon thousands os women--gieh and poor Aiike-havo reported ben0ilts. Time and agaln RVaiA PinkhaEn'a Compound has Dfoved some wem0n's hApplest days often can Do during their "4o'G'. yellow label directlonS, Worth tTyIHei
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
Manning Boards May
 Defeat Absenteeisln
Manufacturers Placed on Honor to Report NOn'
 Essential Employees to Draft Boards

Establishment of manning tables" through which the tys Industries provide draft boards with lists of men tbe for service and the importance of their work to he factory will not only to eliminate deferments of put Of state workers but may be an effective check against
 tn of abSenteesm observers believed today This should by no means be construed to mean that the system Nl he used as general corrective measure, but there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
HOSPITAL BULLETINS

Numclo simone, S0, of eOe YIam- lltOn avenue, was Admitted Co Wa teFbury hospital at neon today with . lnansled Left hand as the Fesult eg an accident while at his wort at the WaterbuEy Rolling Mills, Inc. Hospital authorities said he caught hls hand in . bal. ing machine, and that an opera ton weuld bo necessary. His eon' dltlom was described ns fair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
MEAT, CAN FISH
 WILLIE RATIONED
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 The new meat.fats-cheese ration. ing program will leave only Q few Items Of food unretioned--such a fresh and frozen Ash. poultry and game, breads, cereals and four, fresh fruits and fresh veRetahles.
 AS directed by Wickard, the new program-which will use the red stamps in the new ration book will include:
 All fresh, frozen, cured, smoked and canned meats and meat prod. ucts derived from beef, veal, lamb. mutton and pork, as well as "va. riety meats" sausages, hot dogs, etc.
 Canned fish and canned shellfsh.
 The most important natural and proceSsed cheeses, and most of their derivatives, but not cottage type and cream cheeSes.
 Most edible fats and oils. includ- ing butter, lard, margarine, short. ening, salad oils and cooking oils (excludlng mayonnaise and salad dressings).
 The i6 red stamps available Go each consumer each week will be interchangeable and may be used for any of the items included in the program. For instance, Q house. wife may spend more points on meat and less on chese, or more on cooking oils and less on margarine. Family shopping may be done with the ration books of all mem- bers.
 During the first five weekly pe- riods, red stamps from ration book No. 2 will become valid and expire as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12

an "unimpeachabie source" tltWe Berlin authorities were compelled to shelter i0i 900 homeless after tho British raid the night Of March
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
BUILDING PERMITS

The following bulIding permit was issued today by BulI6ihg xm- speetor Jehn q. MaFtlsy'
 RaysnerA AzsAEullsn, yey ssae te sseet oKiEa Esonh cass eles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12

The University of Chile, Santiago recently celebrated it's tooth appA- vergafy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-12
SOVIETS ADMIT
 ENORMOUS LOSS

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down to September, 1912, levels,
OPA figures it must roll prices
back At per cent. The new $780,
900. 900 program will get it about
half way down, Bowles said, and
improved enforcement measures.
he added, will bring about de-
cline of about one per cent leav-
ing a gap of about 1.3 per cent
still to be eliminated.
The long-heralded reorganization
of OPA's enforcement program
was revealed as rather sweep
ing matter. The legal department
was abolished, as such, and its
members who worked on p + C e
problems will be assigned to the
price department handed by
James Brownlee, formerly gener-
al sales manager of the American
Sugar Refining company.
Brownlee, Bowles said, will be
finally responsible for regulations
which are clearly understandable
as well as legally sound"
Compliance with OPA regula-
tons hereafter will be pl d
on a voluntary educa-
tionaP' basis. Bowles said, leav-
ing enforcement agents free to
concentrate on the elimination of
black markets and the pursuit of
habitual price chiselers.
Nearly 300 industry and trade
advisory committees have b n
set up to assist in the educational
program and to foster self-polic-
ing within industries.
The generally optimistic tone of
the OPA report was echoed in the
cost-of-living bulletin is
sued by Secretary of Labor Per-
Sins. 1t said that food prices were
down 1.3 per cent and that this
resulted in the third consecutive
decline in living costs for civ
workers. This drop, of .O5 per
cent was attributed by Miss Per-
zins, however, more to seasonal
declines than to OPA's efforts.
Her report, covering the period
rom mid-July to mid-August, no.
ed that food prices are high,
Notwithstanding these summer de-
,lines."
They averaged about per cent
above last year and nearly AZ per
cent above the low levels prevail
ing just before the outbreak of
war in Europe in August, 1885,"
It said.
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D0decanese Background

make the islands center of con-
tention.
Coded to the Allies by the terms
of the armistice between the Al
lies and Marshal .Pietro Badoglio,
the islands seemed in reality open
to whatever power got there first
in sufficient force to hold them.
At present, the Germans appear
t. have over-powered their for
mer Italian allies.
Although their ancient n m
means IL, there are now Is prin-
cipal islands in the Dodecanese or
southern Sporades group, the Ma
tional Geographic Society S a i d.
Most of them lie within visible
distance of the shore of Asia Mi
nor, while satellite islets, reaching
southwestward from the main is
land of Carpathos, extend to with
in 80 miles of Crete.
Rhodes, southeastern anchor OF
the archipelago, is the largest and
best known. It contains m
monuments to t he medieval
knights of St. John while the cap
ital city at Rhodes has been mod
ernized under Italian rule.
No trace remains of the Colos.
sus of Rhodes, a state of the sun
god which lowered 100 feet high
at the entrance to the harbor and
was one of the seven wonders Of
the world. 1t was levelled by an
earthquake in 224 BIC.
The Fascists made Rhodes ano
the much smaller island of Leros,
rear the opposite end of the group
/ into military strongholdS. T h {
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Mrs. Roosevelt Inspects
Australian Women's Unit

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 10.
-lPLMrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
inspected an Australian service.
women's unit today ard told her
listeners how much she appre-
ciated what the Australians were
doing for American boys at the
Army hospital.
She met Sgt. Tom Carter, 1902
Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga,
and Lieut.. Gordon L. Richey, 1902
Hill street, Alexandria, La.
Among the nurses who greeted
Mrs. Roosevelt was Grace Penn
Der, New Bern, N. c.
The first patient she met at the
hospital was Col. Carl Bennett,
Raleigh Apartments, Raleigh, N.
Carolina.
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AWARDED CLUSTER

Major Leonidas Baker, 20, Of
Raleigh, son of H. T. Baker and
the late Mrs. Baker of Wilmington,
has been awarded an Oak Leaf
Cluster, in lieu of a second award
of the Distinguished Flying Cross,
for extraordinary achievement
while participating in so operation
al flight missions in the Southwest
Pacific, during which hostile con-
tact was probable and expected.
These operations consisted Of
dropping supplies and transporting
troops to advanced positions in the
course of General Macarthur Of
fensive against the Japanese in
New Guinea and northward. The
flights involved flying at low alti-
tudes over mountainous terrain,
under adverse weather conditions,
in transport plane, and often
necessitated landing near enemy
bases
Throughout these flights he dem
onstrated outstanding skill, cour-
age and devotion to duty. He is on
active duty with a troop carrier
squadron with the Fifth Air Force.
Major Baker, who was gradual
ed from New Hanover High school
and N. C. State college, was pro-
NOTED from captain to major in
July. His wife, the former Vir-
ginia Caps, lives at 304 Polk
street, Raleigh.
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launchln2 OF new compliance
program which bans shopping
and coercion.
"a new OPA program which is
now in the final stages will de-
crease the cost of living an addi-
tional 2.3 per cent" Bowles' re-
port said. The program w
mean lower prices to American
housewives on apples, oranges, on
ions, potatoes, lard, vegetable oils
and peanut butter"
The cost to the government of
the new program which is de-
signed to carry the country al
most halfway back to the Septem-
Der 1912, cost-of-living level-will
be approximately s100,0O0,0OO in
funds already available. BoWles
said this will be spent in transport
tation subsidies and government
purchase-and-resale operations. On
peanut butter and perhaps lard,
rollback subsidies will be used to
the extent allowed by Congress.
The new apple ceilings, d e
within week or so, will average
II per cent under present retail
prices, Bowles said; orange cell
ings, due by the end of the month,
will effect a 9.7-cents-a-p gu d
yearly average price, instead of
lip cents. Later are to come on
ions, to be cut from cents to
about s, and then the other foods,
with proportionate reductions.
Two other major food policies
were listed by Bowles in his re-
port and at press conference
accompanying its issuance:
l. An appeal to Congress for
sterilization of milk prices through
subsidy or the payment of pro-
duction bonuses to dairy farmers.
2. A new ceiling control over
winter fruits and vegetables, de-
signed to hold prices IS per cent
below the levels paid last winter.
In order to accomplish its man.
date to bring the cost : of living
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Office Of Price Administration Tries To Red

modern naval base on the Bay OF
Iekki and other naval Installations
m Ieros have been frequent tar
gets for the Raj.
Other islands that claim distinc-
ton are: Patmos, isle of Danish
ment of St John the Evangelist;
Co.'S birthplace of Hippocrates;
svmi and stampalia, famous for
their sponges; Kasos, butter; Ka-
lymnos, honey. All are rich agrl-
culturally, producing excellent
grapes, melons, oranges, lemons,
figs. olives, grains, tobacco and
other market produce.
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New Program HReduce
Prices About 2 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-QF9-A effort by the Of
Gerry bill announced tonight along with report saying
that the cost of city living has been whitfield down IL to
per cent for the third straight monthly decline.
In progress report" his reorganization of OPA,
General Manager Chester Bowles announced also the abo
tion of OPAs oft-criticzed legal department and the
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(By he Associated Press)

The island of Rhodes, bombed
by American planes over the
weekend in a continuation Of a
softening-up campaign begun by
the British last week. is the capt.
tai of the Dodecanese group in
the Aegean Sea.
Geographically close to Turkey
some of the islands lie just a
mile or two off the Turkish coast
the Dodecanese are overwhelm-
ingly Greek in population a n d
tradition.
They were captured by Italy in
1912 and coded to Greece by a
1919 treaty later denounced in 1922.
Since last weeks Italian capitu-
lation, the Greek government-in-
exile has demanded the return of
the group.
Those are the bare facts which
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RETURNS TO CAMP

Cpl. Lewis S. Todd has returned
to his post at Camp Beale, Cal,
after spending a furlough with his
mother. He is the son Of Mrs. L.
B. Todd and the late Mr.. Todd of
Masonboro. He formerly served
with the 252nd coast Artillery at
Trinidad, B.W.I.
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Field, Fla. After coming to Will
mington in 194l, he was employed
at Macmillan and Cameron COM
pany as a metal worker and paint
er. He enlisted in the Army Air
Corps September Is, 1912 and was
indicted through Camp Croft, S.
c., later training at Fort Jackson,
S. c., and Maxwell Field, Ala. He
arrived at Mariana Air Field Oc-
tober %, 1912.
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COMPLETES TRAINING

Cpl. Henry bruce Lee, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Lee of 113
North Ninth street, has completed
the prescribed factory training
course for first and second echelon
maintenance as prescribed for the
CAT air plane given at Douglas
Aircraft Co., Inc, Long Beach,
Cal. He is now enrolled in an aerial
gunnery course at Camp Curey.
Salt Lake City, Utah.