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a Italian invasion will be carried out with maximum forces or whether 1t merely is diversion to be followed up by large scale invasion at some other point in Europe"
 sertorius speculated that the American 7th Army, which did not take part in the assault, twill not long be idle"
 Earlier broadcasts by Berlin re- ported that Italian security forces" were fighting the British Eighth Army invasion troops.
 A German DINE news agency dis- patch estimated only one division was used by the Allies and Sertorius said the Axis command was pre- pared for the attack.
 "The OWI said that Axis radios did not admit the attack until 2 a. m. EWT, eight and ope-half hours after the landing was made.
 A German broadcast acknowl- edged that strong contingents of the British Eighth Army had land ed south of Reggie Calabria.
 Action "NO Surprise"
 "The landing forces encountered Italian security forces" the broad- cast said. ''The action was no sur- prise since commando thrustS against the Calabrian coast have been undertaken several times in the last few days"
 The broadcast described the scene of the landing as "very noun tainous" and with bad communities tions. Roads and railways exist only near the coast, 1t said.
 Today's Italian comrnunique, as broadcast by Radio Rome, devoted only one sentence to the invasion. It said:
 During the night, the enemy, who in the last few days has at- tempted disolated landing actions which promptly were repulsed, started operations on a larger scale against the Calabrian coast of the Messina Straits"
 The first Axis broadcast referring to the invasion came from Berlin and quoted a London commentator i as saying that the attack would be anything but pleasant walkover."
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TODAY'S WAR
 MOVES
(Reg. U. s. Pat. Ofiice)
 BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The Allied invasion of Continen- tai Italy is only the start of a mil itary campaign which promises to be a long and hard one.
 The fact that the first bridgehead was established on the toe of the Italian boot indicates that the clean ing up of Southern Italy is the first order of the day and the Allied command is prepared for the same kind of methodical job as was neces- sary in Sicily.
 When the lower half of the benin. sula-roughly from Rome to the boot has been completely occupied, the greater task lies ahead. That is to wrest the more important northern half from the Germans who have occupied 1t in force.
 It is impossible to estimate how long the first phase of the conquest of Italy will take because of several unpredictable factors. The uncondi- tional surrender of the Italian gov- ernment would make 1t merely a matter of occupation, since the Ger mans do not have enough force south of Rome to- resist for any length of time if the Italians lay down their arms.
 Surrender Always Possible
 While such a surrender is always possible, presumably the Allies dc not count on 1t. The delay between the conquest of Sicily and the inva. sion of the mainland was partly due to the necessity of resting and re- plenishing the Allied forces after the hard Stcilian campaign, and to al. low time for the aerial reduction oi Axis communications and air bases in Southern Italy.
 It is probable, however, that the British and American governments wanted to give Italy every chance tc surrender. Prime Minister Churchill in his address to parliament on July 27, two days after Mussolinis fall said the Allies would let Italy "steW in her own juice" for a time, but fl equalization were not forthcoming the country would be scared and scared and blackened" from end to end. The period of waiting is evi- dently over.
 The scarring and blackening pro- cess meanwhile continues from the extreme north to the south of the peninsula. Today's raids on enemy rail lines south of the Brenner Pass indicate that all effort is not being concentrated on the southern inva- sion.-
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North Africa and in Sicily-there was no announcement here. The war and navy departments indicated that there would be no announce ment at least until later in the day, if then.
 Although MT. Roosevelt cancelled his press and radio conference to- day, he and Churchill may have some statement to issue as a result of the new military events.
 The White House was silent on the identity of the experts who were to meet with the president and Churchill today. The only official announcement was that the neces- sity of MT. Roosevelt's presence in the conferences precluded his at- tendance at his regular Friday morn- ing news conference.
 Problems Discussed
 One of the problems which must be decided is the administration of Italy once the Allies have chased the German army out of the pen- insula. One of the final phases of the Roosevelt Churchill talks at Quebec dealt with the general prob- lem of administering liberated coun- tries.
 Because most of the prime mil- itary questions were decided in Quebec with the Anglo-American staff chiefs, discussions here were believed to concern largely political and postwar matters. A meeting of British American and Soviet foreign ministers or high represen- tatives was among these questions.
 New attention was focused on Italy for reasons other than the presence of Churchill in Washing ton. One reason was the trip o1 Enrico Gaelszzi, Governor General of Vatican city, to Washington. He last was reported in Lisbon await ing clipper passage and there was widespread speculation that he was bringing a personal message from Pope Plus XII to MT. Roosevelt. Galeazzi accompanied the Pope then Cardinal Pacelli, to the United States in 1886 when the present head of the Roman Catholic church visited the president at his home in Hyde Park, N. Y.
 If Galeazzi comes to the United States primarily to see the presi- dent or bring message from the Pope. he undoubtedly will report firSt-hand on conditions inside Italy-a report that might have an important bearing on future Allied operations affecting the country.
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Query BoyAs ToFtuFeF

Boston, Sept. 3.-(UP)-Accon1- panied by his father and grand mother, a 7-year-old South Boston boy was brought into juvenile court today on a complaint charging him with being delinquent child in connection with the torturing of Harold P. Fuller, Jr., 5, a playmate last Saturday.
 District Judge David c. Nagle cleared the regular courtroom dur ing the proceedings and after a brief discussion of the case ordered the lad released without bail in custody of his parents pending a further hearing Tuesday. The sus- pected lad was charged with being a delinquent child resulting from an assault and battery.
 The defendants name was with. held and he was unseen by persons in the court corridor but police who had seen him said he was "a like able boy and seems very intelligent.
 Meanwhile. Fuller was reported in 'sfair' condition at the hospital ir which he has been confined since the attack and attaches expected he would recover.
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BANKS REPORT ON
 LIFE INSURANCE
53% Increase in Last Months Application
 Compared to l042

Applications for Savings Bank Life Insurance received through the 18 mutual savings banks during the month of August, 1943, totaled $l53,- 050. This represents 30 per cent increase in applications over the previous month of July and is 8 53 per cent increase over applications received during August of 1922.
 The amount of Savings Bank Life Insurance now in force through the issuing banks is S1,886593. Despite the retarding effect of the war, ap- plications continue to show an in- crease and is due to large number of working women applying for life insurance.
 The Bridgeport Peoples Bank has the largest amount in force of all Connecticut Banks, with 729 policies at 036,1Sl. Waterbury Savings Bank is third in the state with 342 policies at $313,923.
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escorted by strong formations of American, British and Allied fight CTS, had struck at northern France but did not identify the targets irn- mediately.
 While the Paris broadcast made no estimate of the size of the at tacking force, long processions of Allied aircraft crossed and recross- ed the southeast English coast at several points through morning.
 Night Attack
 Light bombers and fighter craft attacked the low countries and north France last night to keep the offensive against the continen- tai areas nearest the invasion coast on a round-the- -clock basis. One plane was missing from last nights operations.
 The bombers crossed the Dover Straits in bright sunshine headed for France after RAF fighters had been active for more than two hours Some of the bombers returned from the Calais direction while Spitfires carried out sweeps over northern France.
 While Britain's fleets of big bolnbers apparently remained idle
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pose. The original approximation came to S1,50O, when added to $6,- 900 brings 1t to the amount $7,500, the estimated cost of the ound. The pound will include an office, gar- age, showers, kennels for the dogs an da death chamber for unclaimed dogs.
 Ample fundin shrdlu otinotluete
 Ample funds are on hand for the construction of storm water drains on the grounds of the Webster school, the board reported. Under the charter such report must be made by the finance board before the board of education can let out the contract which amounts to about $S,500. The board also voted tc transfer $500 from the contingency fund to the salary appropriation in the budget of the department oi health.
 Still another transfer from the contingency fund, in the amount oi $l,032, was made to the appropria- tion in the office of registrar oi voters for printing primary and voting lists. The reason given is that the lowest contract for print ing submitted this year was more than $1,000 higher than last years contract.
 The board also transferred $l,26C from the contingency fund to pay the remainder of this yet,''s salary to the new clerk of the small claims court, Patrick DeCicco. His annual salary is $2,500. He took office on July 1.
 The board also made transfer of $500 to the municipal court expense account, said MT. Olsen.
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 food price problem into two parts. farm prices and distribution mar gins. With regard to farm prices, Bowles wrote Sabath that Congress had imposed certain important re- straints upon the power of OPA to impose ceilings and that any change in basic policy in this respect must come from the Congress itself.
 But he was optimistic about the results of the administration new price stabilization program and the new food program.
 Altogether" Bowles wrote, i've expect that measures already in operation will eliminate well over half of the rise in the cost of liv. ing which took place between Sept. IS, 1942-the base date for wage and price stabilization named in the stabilization act-and May ie43.
 '"The food program, the details of which are now being worked out, will, we believe complete the job and restore the cost of living to the September, 1942 levels.
 "Once that objective has been ac. complished. our policy will be to maintain the cost of living at that level for the duration"
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City's Heart Struck
 For First Time
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last night. a Berlin broadcast said single raiders had dropped bombs in scattered areas of western Ger many.
 The air ministry reported that the RAF fighter command carried out its biggest single operation of the war yesterday in attacking targets in northern France and escorting American and British bombing planes.
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(Conttnued from Page D dresses hit the northern industrial center and railway hub of Bologna, 200 miles north of Rome.
 Thirty-four enemy planes were shot down during 24 hours of heavy air attacks on railway and other targets the length of Italy.
 The raids on Bolzano and Trento obviously were timed to deprive the Axis high command of its most iiTl- portant route of reinforcement and supply between Germany and Italy at moment when the greatest de- mands were about to be made upon it to combat the Allied invasion.
 Bridge Smashed
 The Bolzano railroad bridge carry ing the hne from the Brenner Pass has been hit and broken" the Northfest African air force corn- munique said. Hits also were made on the yards and adjacent tracks.
 "At Trento, also on the route from the Brenner Pass, the railway also was blocked and a road bridge broken"
 Fires and explosions were touched off in warehouses and railway yards at Bologna.
 The FortresSes flew the entire dis tance to the three railway centerS unescofted, but only one plane out of the three formations was lost.
 (An Italian communique broad cast by the Rome radio said damage was caused in all three cities, par ticularly in Bologna)
 Other Allied air fleets ripped rail- way communications and airdromes throughout southern Italy and as far north as the Naples area.
 Medium bombers, with an escort of long range fighters. concentrated a heavy attack on railway yeards at Cancello. near Naples. blocking lines radiating from the yard.
 Strong fighter opposition was enc countered. but 2s enemy aircraft were shot down. The escorting Allied fighters were lost.
 Medium, light and tighteT-bomb- CTS hit railway communications and enemy positions ct many points in southern Italy. An ammunition dump was blown up and one Of . number of baFges attacked vas ses afiFe.
 Prom all Of these operations and in the course Of patrols and Feeon- naisaanee missions, Q total Of sl enemy aircraft were destroyed the eommunique said. "plfteen Of cur aircraft are missing"
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|shelIing Vila and tts gaFEison ot 6 neslimated 5000 men seven miles away aeross Kula Gulf. On Tues day bombing planes wrecked the iiVia Eadlo station and several aFtil- leFy positions in c heavy Faid.
 (Tokge radio said ibt American hombefs and nghters attacked kolombangeTa Island, on which Vila C located, yesterday and t1at is of the planes Wero shot down hy ground fTo. Ihe Japanese earFleon Wae nald e heyo suffered "a lev
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 complicated by the near-impcssibil- ity of getting German troops out.
 Besides, he said, food was scarce in Rome and tine two bombings on the capital had so upset its essential services that water had to be bought.
 Another passenger identified sirn- ply as Father Roses" said a popu- lar front was in the making in Italy which would create an even more complicated political problem than the downfall of Mussolini. He said tanks had been moved into Rome streets three days ago in anticipation of strike in response to unsigned leaflets dropped on the city but that no incidents developed.
 Vatican Advisor
 Enrico Pietro Galeazzi. economic and technical adviser to Vatican City, was waiting c clipper at Lisbon for New York but he denied his mission was diplomatic. 4 dispatch quoted him as saying he vas going to buy Vatican supplies to De ship- ped by neutral Swiss vessels. He AG&HHE4 " Ak9Stg1 Ak3AkA@ AA&@A&@s &tsN Italian press atfache in Lisbon ae- nied foreign reports that Count Utae drandi was in Portugal with a niis" sion.
 While eli these reports added up to no bolsteEing Of the asserted hope Of Italy to withdraw from the war, observers did not believe they meant the reports should be diseEedited.
 It Was pointed out here that n nee gotiations actually he'd eyeF been started, it would be 6 military secret Of tIae highest importance end scarcely would be admitted,
 There was 6 general belief ln London that Italian troops weuld not put up mnsh Of g flelt agasnsi the Allies an1 thak the Italian in- Vaaion. in part at least. Welil6 6upll- cate and eIeilian anrEen6eFs,
 TheEe also was 6 pellet that tlle Germans woHId not saeFiilee a major number ol divisions of planes If ll appeared they WeTe houna io he eNampe6 nno surrounded hF IIaI- lana Wlose onlg aeeiFe wa4 e klge lheHsalFes go aulsIsly la eaa the Nag.
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west and south of Yelnya on the Smolensk front alone.
 London, Sept. 3-(UP)-The Ger man DNB News Agency reported today that the Red Army had launched a powerful offensive on the Middle Donets front southeast of Kharkov.
 A broadcast DN4 dispatch said the anticipated" attack of the Sov- jets had been under way since early morning. It evidently was being pressed In concert with the Red
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NCOnLLuUeu rom FaBG ID confirmation even of the attack on Marcus and had only the Japanese say so for it. Ofiicials doubted that any information might be available for several days at least.
 There was feeling here that one or more additional enemy bases were attacked by the task force but that the Japanese were reluctant to tell about them yet. The Japanese an- nouncement of the Marcus raid was believed prompted by the fact that the island is only HOO miles from Tokyo and the necessity for putting the homelands defenses on the alert.
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Army below Kharkov and above the sea of Azov, which bracketed the area.
 The Russians used hundreds of batteries of heavy artillery and strong air support in an effort to wear down the German front be- fore the infantry struck, DN1 said.
 Detailed reports on the progress of this new, large scale battle are not yet available" the Agency add
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tive attacks on American positions op Vella Lavella island. The ehell- Ing of Via, sanaWiehed betWeen tWo American forces, had started three oays ago, c apokaaman reported,
 Elsewhere in the southern Pacific ares there were ave ether smaller alg operations InoN1ay and Weoness 6ay, including nliaeka o1 New Nfil= aln and New SFnsand north of Neg 0nlnqn lH which from aa e @ small eNnmN knFNM nE1a rI|af FN NfNiE NM A N
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EPILE PSY-
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Detroit lady finds relief for husband. She win tell you how. All letters an- awered. Mrs. Geo. Dempster. Apt. GAo. 5000 W. Lafayette Blvd. Detroit.
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The next lime you're asked te Buy . War Bona-and you think "this is getting otonous"-Fememher--so gre the Casualty Llsts-only Death . mere peFmanentg
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HORSE, DOG, PIG
 IN NEWS OF DAY

It was be kind to animals day at police headquarters for Desk Cap tain John Leary this morning. Pa- trolman Frank Vitorelli reported that he had captured a horse on Thomaston Ave. which had strayed away from Robert Shaw, Whitman Rd. Patrolman Michael Karpel- man brought in stray dog found wandering on Bank St. Mrs. Car rasa White, 229 Citizens Ave. called to report her l00-ib pig had strayed oil on Hill St.
 on the northwest African air forces, assisted by aircraft from the Allied middle eastern command.
 Almost without respite, fouY-en- gtned flying fortTegses, iiberators and Halifaxes, Mitchell. MaraudeF and Baltimore medium bombeEs and lightning, WarhaWk and epitflEe fighter. .bombers and fighters had bombed and strafed Italy from Reg. eio CalabFia as far north as Ba- iogna during the past month.
 Transportation Disrupted
 The thousands Of tons Of Allied bombs were believed to have dis. Tupted completely all troop move ments by railway in Southern Italy. Traffic ln the Italian tee was thrown into such chaos that the German end Italian commands were forced lo resort to the uee Of harees fo move troops and equipment around bIoeke1 Eail lines.
 Allied commanders had hlnted ct the impending invafion on e least tHe oeeaeions in recent weeks.
 oen. niF Bernard .. Montgomery told llle Canadian members ef his eishfh army last month that they eoon WealG be an the march aaain eHa kleel. Gen. haafeW Mel1allalls teu, eommeHfeF ag fAe oanaeian faEeee ng4Feeas. nAaa nala II1eg MeFn He|Ns NHnNFNa faF NfAiiHa opera
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Organization for military hospitals, S-56O, reveals the following: "25 Bed Unit - 34 cots, folding comes 1 per per indiv. (dOes not include pa. tients).' Guess you can't go wrong there!
 Columnist Curling claims when a man writes T love you' and the l is three times as large as the let- ters of the other two words, 1t re- veals he is selfish. If three words are written close together he's a little tight. If the handwriting leans backward 1t indicates his head rules his heart. Personally there are three reasons why I use a type- writerl
 Out in Arizona 8 group of instruc- tors decided on a certain day to hold a picnic. The picnic was washed out by rain. What makes this an item is the fact that the instruc- tors were teaching at an Army weather fOrecaster's school.
 Mayor LaGuardia's angry mien these days has lot of citizens who haven't hay fever suffering because they're allergic to one Little Flow CT.
 Jack Earle of San Diego, Cal, is . travelling salesman who tells tall tales instead of dirty ones. He leaves calling cards inches by 55s inches Oh, yes, the cards look normal size by comparison, MT. Earle is eight foot six in his stocking conveys. Honny Xoungman, riding in the Chief a few hours out of Hollywood pulled beautiful rib on Harry Brandt, the 2Oh Century Fox public ity head. Eating in the diner the train stopped for & few moments, a Western Union boy stepped aboard and paged Brandt. The latter stood up. nervously signed for the tele- gram, returned to the table opposite Youngman and tore open the en- velope. Suddenly he let out shriek flor the wire read: Please pass the salt-(signed) Henny Youngman!" The German Ministry of Trans port has forbidden pleasure driving in hoFse-dFawn vehicles. They must believe some of those talking horse gags.
 Lesson in Maturity: At 2S Mark Twain thought his father was the dumbest man he knew. At 20 he was amazed how much his father learned in four years.
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Lesson in Maturity: At 2S Mark Twain thought his father was the dumbest man he knew. At 20 he was amazed how much his father learned tn four years.
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l943 Scene in Central Park: A horse and buggy stalled with high hated hacle1nan trying to fix a loose shoe on his horse - with a passerby shouting: Get car-get a carl"
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Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS

Ironical that it took the British blitz to make a concentration camp out of Berlin. ....
 Herr Goebbels has inaugurated a "Bc Polite" Week in Germany. Re- minding us of the husband who said he never beat his wife without first removing his hat!
 Mrs. Vivian Eggers of Columbus, Ohio, admits she's married to seven soldiers, making 8 in all-because you must be a WACK to go into wholesale blgamy. =.
 Odd that racketeer Frank Costello, who made all his dough in nickel slot machines is tripped up by a nickel phone cal from Judge Thomas A. AureliO.
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The book outlining the Table of Organization for military hospitals, 8-56O, reveals the following: "25 Bed Unit - 34 cots, folding comes 1 per per indiv. (d0es not include pa tients).' Guess you cant 90 wrong there!
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The German Ministry of Trans port has forbidden pleasure driving in horse-drawn vehicles. They must believe some of these talking horse gags.