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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Legion of Merit Given Koi-Shek

Chungking. July 7.-(UP)-Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell. command CT in chief of U. s. forces in China Burma and India, today conferred the new American Order of Legion of Merit in the degree of chief com- mander on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
 The ceremony. held in the small reception room at the Chinese mill tary councils headquarters in the heart of be-fagged Chungking, came on the sixth anniversary of the outbreak of war in China.
 Chinese War Minister Ho Ying- Chin ard Shang Chen, chief of the foreign affairs bureau of the Ma tional Military Council, received the Legion of Merit in the degrees of commander, while Gen. Yu Ta-Wei chief of ordnance, was awarded the order in the general degree of of- ficer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
WING CHeods Give Worninq

Warning was issued by the area War ManpoWer Commission dlrec- tor today to employers who are re- ported to be acquiring new workers though illegal hiring" methods, and action against them was prom ised. Mrs. Mary M. Dewey, local WING head, said she is investlgat- ing cases of several employers In the "non-essential" field who are turing away workers from essential war jobs.
 Several of the alleged violations involve local construction contrac- tors, store managers, and restau- rant operators. In all of the cases called to attention of the WING, the employers have hired the work CTS without acquiring the required statement of availability, the direc- tor stated.
 Under the terms of the area stabilization plan worker who IS unable to obtain job-transfer statement can not change his job without first taking the penalty ot a 3O-day vacation" from employ ment of any kind. The new viola tions are said to involve this pay ment severance" clause of the plan.
 All employees who are found to have taken new jobs without fol- lowing through the required pro- cedure will be ordered back to their old employment as first step in enforcing the job regulations it was disclosed.
 Although the violations have ere ated drawback to the stabiliza- tion efforts, Mrs. Dewey said they are not many and that most en- ployers of the area are cooperating fully with the WING.
 The director said one more state ment of availability has been granted to an area employe who ap- pealed to the WING after failing to secure it from his employer and the review unit of the USES. Only one had been granted previously since the stabilization plan took effect. The second case involved personal compelling reasons" which were deemed sufficient after thor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
FDR Expected Enter Jones'
 WoIlace Row
BY LYLE C. WILSON

Washington, July ' - (UP) = Speedy presidential intervention in the Wallace Jones dispute was fore seen today on the basis of reports that war mobilization Director James F. Byrnes and others were urging action.
 This development was accompan- jed by reports from the grass roots of popular indignation over the pub lie accusations exchanged by Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones. Recommendations for President Roosevelt to intervene were under stood to emphasize the urgent de- sirability of demonstrating that he is handling affairs within his own administrative family as firmly as he disposes of foreign phases of the war effort.
 The dispute has widened from the matter of procurement of strategic materials to raise questions regard ing administration spending policies through the board of economic war fare and Wallace's alleged preoccu- patton with postwar ideologies. With those factors involved, any congressional investigation would bear, ultimately, on controversies which go near the bottom of the cleavage between considerable bloc of conservatives and a substan- tlal group of New Dealers.
 Whether MT. Roosevelt will un- dertake to arbitrate the dispute ap- parently has not been decided since the decision must be his own and no word yet has come from him. But his advisers were pressing for action on the theory that the controversy between two such highly placed of ficials has of itself damaged the war effort more than could have all the fumbling of strategic materials pro- curement with which they accuse each other.
 MT. Roosevelt's intervention, also, might have the added advantage of helping stave off congressional in- vestigation, assuming that the pres ident agrees with his congressional leaders that such an inquiry should
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
U. s. NAVY SCORES IN KULA BAY BATTLE
ALLIES KEEP
 UP SLASH|NG
 SIC|L|AN RAIDS
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent)

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, July '. - (UP) - Wave after wave of Allied bombers attacked airdromes in Sicily against diminishing opposition yesterday in the fourth straight day of an of- fensive to smash Axis air strength along the invasion route to southern Europe, it was announced today.
 Heavy, medium and light bomb CTS streaked across the Mediterran- can from both northwest Africa and Middle Eastern bases to blast parked planes, hangars and other ground installations.
 The decreased opposition encount- cred, presumably result of the terrific around-t -the-clock lombard ment of the Axis air bases, was re- flected in the announcement that only three intercepting enemy air craft were destroyed in the 24 hours ended last night compared with 45 each during the two previous 24- hour periods.
 Five Allied planes were lost but this was less than half the losses sustained during each of the two previous days.
 (An Italian communique broadcast by the Bore radio said 19 Allied planes were shot down yesterdayD
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower S headquarters indicated that every type plane in the northwest Afri- can air forces-from flying fortress to warhawk fighter bomber ipated in yesterdays attacks on airfields at Bascari at the southwest corner of Sicily, Trapani, western Sicily, and nearby Milo.
 Many bombs were seen to burst in the target areas and numerous fires were started," the communi- que said.
 ApPI oo 1Ou1 -CIlS l4lCO liberators from the Ninth U. $. Air Force in the middle east joined in the daylight assault, dropping more than 235 0O0 pounds of explosive and Augmentation bombs on the Ger bini airdrome, 15 miles west of the Sicilian East Coast Port of Catainia, a Cairo communique reported.
 Runways and dispersal areas at the north, east and south ends of the field were well covered with bomb bursts and damaged badly. Large fires were observed at the northwest end of the airdrome.
 Enemy fighters unsuccessfully at tempted to intercept the liberators and one German Messerschmitt was destroyed, another probably de- stroyed and two damaged.
 The northwest African air forces also accounted for one enemy plane yesterday and another the previous night.
 The daylight raids followed a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
FOR Sends Message To WQr-torn China
of fighting.
BY JEWEL SPANGLER United Press Staff Correspondent

(Unlted Press Sta11 COfreSpOnuent)
 Washington, July 7-(UP)-Presi- dent Roosevelt sent the heartfelt greetings" of America to War-torn China today on the sixth anniver- sary of the start of her conflict with Japan, and declared that the United States is redeeming it's pledges to neglect none of the roads to Tokyo"
 The Presidents message, broad cast from San Francisco by short wave to Chungking, said:
 'To the people of China:
 "This day marks the end of the sixth year of the heroic defense of yorr soil under the leadership of the great Generalissimo Chiang Kai-S -Shek. I send you, the people of China, the heartfelt greetings your partners, the people of the United States.
 "Our friends have long known what our enemies are learning to- day, that the promises of the United States are always kept and our pledges are always redeemed. The statements which follow have been made by me at various times since we joined hands with you in this war. It is good to know that the hopes and the promises I expressed on these former occasions are all being borne out today"
 The president quoted former speeches in which he had spoken of the gallant fighting effort of the Chinese nation anG repeated what he had said one month after Pearl Harbor, that powerful and offen-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Greece Now In 'State or Revolution
By JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

London, July 7.-(UP)-Invasion- jittery German military authorities have proclaimed all Greece in a state of revolution and ordered the death penalty for even minor in- fractions of Nazi regulations, the Hellenic News Service in Cairo re- ported today.
 Simultaneously, King Peter of Jugoslavia revealed in an interview that he has asked United States au- thorities in London to send military missions to his occupied land to aid Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, patriot leader, in laying the ground work for cooperation of his guerrilla army with Allied invasion forces when they land in the Balkans.
 The degree proclaiming all Greece in a state of revolution was issued July 1 by the German military gov ernor of northern Greece following pitched battles between Greek guer- rillas and occupation forces, strikes and sabotage, Cairo dispatch re- ported.
 Mandatory death was ordered for instigators of disorders, saboteurs and any who attempt to interfere with Nazi regulations.
 Reports seeping in from Greece said that guerrillas had demolished the Asopos river viaduct - an im- portant communication link - and left it in such a state that it could not be fixed for months.
 Envisaging further coordination among resisting forces in the Bal kans, King Peter said he planned to ask Russia as well as the United States to send military missions to work with Gen. Mikhailovitch.
 "The time has come when every effort should be made to take ad- vantage of the Jugoslav resistance movement" King Peter said.
 The kings British military advls- CTS approved the idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Post-Wor Plane Routes Planned

Boston, July 7-(UP)-Greatly- expanded postwar piane service to Southern New England cities was foreshadoWed today with the filing of applications for new routes and extensions by American Airlines, Inc
 The applications, filed with the civil aeronautics board, are designed to increase the lines national route mileage by 50 per cent. They will provide air service to Worcester, Fall River, New Bedford. Attleboro Taunton, and Brockton as well as Waterbury, Meriden. Bristol New Britain and New London Conn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

CA London radio broadcast said the remainder of the Japanese fleet defeated in the Kula Gulf battle had been trapped In the narrows south of Kula Gulf)
 Gen Douglas Macarthur, Su- preme Commander of the coordinat- ed offenSives in the South and Southwest Pacific. said in his conn- munique that the toll of enemy ships was based only on "prelimi- nary dispatches'- hint that the final count of Japanese losses may be even greater.
 CA Japanese communique said the battle involved several Japanese squadrons and 10 to 20 Allied cruis- CTS and destroyers but claimed only that one Allied cruiser was sunk and another set afire Three Allied war. ships were sunk by planes and tor pedo boats just prior to the battle, Tokyo said. A British broadcast add ed that the Japanese ships broke off the fight and scattered)
 The victory, achieved at cost of one American cruiser sunk. threat ened, if not cut, the supply line from the secondary base of Villa across the 1O-mile- wide Kula Gulf to New Georgia, on which Munda is situated.
 The Navy, revealing that the cruiser sunk was 9,700 ton light cruiser Helena, announced today that the Arranging U. s. fleet al- so had struck blow in the North Pacific by bombarding the enemy's base at Kiska.
 With the danger of interception by Japanese naval forces lessened. American combat units encamped on Rendova Island, south of New Georgia. may sweep across the five mile wide Blanche channel oppos- ite Munday in assault boast for 8 direct attack on the base.
 Macarthur reported that Army and Marine units on Rendova have been reinforced and are consoli- dating their positions. American batteries on Rendova alreday are shelling Munda in conjunction with Allied air raids on the enemy base.
 American warships steamed into narrow Kula gulf, off the north western shore of New Georgia, and intercepted an enemy force of cruis- CTS and destroyers Monday night, MacArthur's communique said.
 "Details are not available and final assessment cannot be made, but it is indicated that six enemy probably were sunk and four dam aged" the communique said. We lost one cruiser"
 This raised the Japanese losses since the start of the war to at last 337 ships sunk, 58 probably sunk and 259 damaged. The American cruiser sunk was the 103rd Warship lost, including the destroyer Strong sunk in Kula gulf A hours before the main battle Monday night.
 The battle was the largest clash between two surface forces since the battle of Lunga Point in the south ern SolomonS last Nov. 30-Dec. l, when six Japanese destroyers, two troop transports and a cargo ship and one American cruiser were sunk.
 Following up the latest victory, Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger medium bombers scored seven direct hits with 5O0-pound bombs on a damaged Japanese destroyer which had been beached after the battle near Bambera Harbor, north of Villa on Kolombangara Island, which lies
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
FIERCE RED
 COUNTER BLOW
 BACKS UP AXIS
BY M. s. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent


 Moscow, July r. (UP) - A fierce Russian counter attack has pushed back slightly German armored 1egions that captured two Soviet-held villages near Bel gorod, the Army organ Red Star said today as Nazi losses reached 1,271 tanks, 314 planes and 13,O00 men in the 48-hour old Axis offensive.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans were battling along the 165- mile front between Oreland Bel gorod with a ferocity and inten- sity unmatched since the start ot the war and Red Army communiques indicated that large-scale fighting soon may spread to the Smolensk and Kalinin fronts.
 Only at the Belgorod end of the embattled southern front were the Germans able to dent the Soviet lines despite their reckless eXpen- diture of men and machines in what appeared to be supreme bid to cripple the Red Army before an Allied invasion of western Eu- rope.
 GA roundabout report from Mos COW published in the London Daily Mail said that the Germans had 4OOO tanks available for the south ern front offensive, but apparently already had lost more than 25 per cent of them.
 I,ondon sources estimated Rus sian strength between Orel and Bel gorod at 20 armored brlgades, equipped with Russian Kim Voro- shiloY heavy and TEA medium tanks, American Shermans and British Churchills)
 Tn all other sectors of the Kursk- Orel front. all German attempts to break through the forward Soviet defense line also failed" the mid night communique said. Soviet SOL dierS and their commanders are dlS- playing steadfaStness and Valor ln the fight against the enemy"
 The Germans also attacked in ceaseless waves without avail dur ing the morning hours in the Bel gorod area, but in the afternoon with endorsements of 100 tanks and large infantry units, stormed into the two villages, the communi- que said.
 Rallying in their new defense po- sitions. the Russians halted the ad- vance and then swung over to the counter attack. In another sector
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
New Excess Profits Tax "HiqhIy Improbable"

Washington July 7-UP)-Ad- ministrative difficulties makes the imposition of an individual excess profits tax to level off swollen war incomes highly improbable" accord ing to some members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
 The proposal is one of number which the committee yesterday or dered its staff and the treasury to investigate preparatory to the for maj congressional search for SIP 00O,OOO,00O in new revenue for 1944.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
BOMBS WERE NAVIGATION
 ERROR"

Boise City, Okla, July 7-(UP)- Army Air Corps authorities said to- day that the bombing of this little Oklahoma panhandle town early yesterday resulted from "a mistake in navigation"
 Maj. c. E. Lancaster, command ing officer of the Dalhart, Tex, Army air field, said the bombs weri dropped by student flyers who mis. took the town for a practice bomb ing range. The flyers believed the lights of the Cimarron county court house square here were those of the Conlen, Tex, bombing range 30 miles to the south, he saiS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Big Surplus In State Treasury

Hartford, Conn.,, July 7-(UP)- The State of Connecticut had enough surplus money in the treas ury today to wipe out its bonded indebtedness and to make a con- tribution of $2,0OO,000 or $3,O0O,O00 to the new postwar reserve fund.
 The surplus at the close of the fiscal year July approximated $l2,- 5OO,0O0. Added to thi- was about s3,50O,OOO carried over from the pre- vious year.
 The law requires that all surplus syer $1,O00,Oo0 be put into the bond retirement fund, ana when the in- debtedness was cleare>, the money be turned over to the postwar re- sevve fund
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
So THAT Is When We Went To War
(BY UNITED PRESS)

Berlin radio propagandists claim ed today, two years after the pur- ported event, that United States submarines were operating with the Royal navy in the Mediterranean early in 1941, taking part in attacks on Italian shipping.
 The revelation was made in a broadcast credited to Rome and quoting the Giornale D Italia, and concluded that the United States thus became an active belligerent long before officially entering the conflict"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
MILD LOCAL QUAKE REPORTED

Weston, Mass, July 7.-(UP) - A local earthquake of moderate in tensity occurred at 6:19:59 p. m. (EWT) yesterday in the vicinity of northern Vermont or eastern New York state, it was reported today by the Rev. Daniel Linehan. S. J., Weston College seismologist.
 The quake lasted about three minutes, and instruments at the seismological station indicated 1t occurred about 195 miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
187,86O Casualties Is Chinese Jap Total

Chungking, July 7-(UP)-A mil itary spokesman said today that the Chinese had inflicted 187 ,860 cas- ualties on the Japanese in the last year.
 The Chinese took 2,809 prisoners and considerable spoils, including 8 field guns. 5,23T rifles, 316 tanks f trurcks, and 1893 horses, the spokesman Saia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
OWl Seeks Newspope, Editors As Advisors

Washington, July 7-(UP)-The office of War Information, moving to operate within it's sharply reduced budget for the current fiscal year, today invited nine outstanding news paper editors to serve as an advisory group on OWI domestic policies and operations.
 Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian and director of OWI's domestic branch, said the committee of editors was not a front" group. He pointed out many of them have been extremely critical of owl, and emphasized that he welcomed all suggestions and ad- vice which the group can supply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Bishop Of Zogreb
 Sermon Broadcast
(By United Press)

The Vatican radio broadcast to the German people a sermon by Archbishop pr. L. Stepinac of Za- greb attacking persecution of Jews and other religious groups opposed by the Nazis, the Office of War h. formation said today.
 The sermon was delivered on March IA, after the Croat govern ment ordered Nazi decreesS imposed in the treatment of Jews.
 The broadcast was in the German language, OWI said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
PLASTIC INsOLEs FOR ARMY

Boston, July 7-UCP)- Purchase of a large number of new plastic insoles for army jungle boots to help reduce fungus foot disease among American soldiers in the tropics has been announced by the Boston quar- termaster depot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Loses Light Cruiser
 Helena But Chalks Up Proud Victory
BY BRYDON c. TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Australia July T. (UP) X S. warsps probably sunk damaged 10 Japanesd cruisers and destroyers in Kula Gulf conmunlqus today to win the biggest naval battle in more than seven months and perhaps doom Munda, the mann enemy base in the central Solomons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

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LONDON --AP- Executives OF
two more American newspapers
have Joined the lengthening list OF
United States publishers. editors
and writer's who have come to
England 10 inspect this air. sea
and land invasion base. Latest to
arrive are Ralph McGlll. editor OF
the Atlanta Ca constitution and
Oliver Keller OF the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette who flew here from
America TO inspect the British
American offensive effort as guests
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WASHINGToN-AP- House
Agriculture Committee Saturday
had asked quick consideration OF
measure 10 put all food problems
under one man. saying that
dangerous food situation confront.
ed the country. The committee
approved tho food czar" bill last
week before Chester C.. Davis re.
signed as War Food Administrator.
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