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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Funeral Of
WI Phelps

New Haven, Conn, August %. -
CUP - The funeral of William Lyon
Phelps, noted author, critic ana
lecturer, was held today at yale S
Battell Chapel, attended by proml-
rent educators and scores of alumni.
Hundreds of tributes mourning the
passing of Yale's professor emeritus
of English literature poured into the
Pehelps home over the weekend.
Phelps died Saturday at the age Oh
rs after suffering relapse following
apparent recovery from a cerebral
hemorrhage two months ago.
Rev. Sidney Lovett, university
chaplain, and Rev. Frank M. Swaf-
field, pastor of Calvary Baptlst
church officiated at the services.
Burial was in historic Grove Street
cemetery, near Woolsey Hall where
for so many years Phelps served as
orator and presented distinguished
personages, including President
Roosevelt, with honorary Yale de-
grees.
Phelps frequently remarked that
he was happier than most men ana
attributed this to his religious falth:
He summoned up his philosophy OF
life in the quatrain:
IT strove with none. I always
strife.
Mature I loved, and God. ard
man and art.
II warmed both hands before
the fires Of life,
at sinks, vet I'm not ready to
depart"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Y. S. Troops
In England
BY ROBERT DOWSON
United Press Staff Corresponds

NOHIIcu ITcSS StdH Correspondent
London, Aug. 23-CUP) -Thou-
sands of additional American troops
have arrived in England to swell
the Allied invasion armies, it was
revealed today as reports of new
asSassinations and execu tions
reached London from jittery Europe.
The American reinforcements, in
Guiding air force personnel and
Negro troops, crossed to Britain in
convoy without incident. No adj
ditional details were given.
An Algiers dispatch quoted the
French afternoon newspaper, Der
nieres Nouvelles, as specializing that
Gen. Sir Harold r. L. G. Alexander,
ground forces commander In the
Mediterranean theater and victor of
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sicily,
might be given command of the Al
lied armies that invade western
Europe.
Reports reaching the French Com
mittee of National Liberation at Al
gierS said French patriots, respond
ing to an underground call To ter
rorize occupation troops. had as
sassinated or wounded more Than
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Father-Draft
Middle Still
BY FRED MULLEN

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 23-UP)-Sel-
ective Service officials said a picture
of the full effect of the october
draft call is unavailable today. but
it appeared likely that quotas would
be filled from available single and
childless married men, plus those
fathers who remain in non-defer-
rable activities.
Despite the terSe warning of War
ManpoWer commission officials to
draft-age men filling designated
non-deferrable jobs that they no
longer could be deferred from the
draft-regardless of family ties
there has been no rush by those
men to jobs in war and other essen
tial activities. That was one point
stressed by those officials who are
confident that the non-deferrables
will provide sufficient numbers to
meet October'S call-roughly 100000
men-after the available single and
childless married men are exhaust
ed.
Two-Fold Objective
The week-old revisions of the
manpoWer program had tWo-fold
objective-to drive fathers from
non-essential to essential jobs and
to set the pattern by which fathers
would be called.
A new inventory of Selective Serv-
ice registrants is now underway,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Air Fighting
Stepped Up
In Chino
By ROBERT P. MARTIN
United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Chungking, Aug. % = CUP -
American air victories which cost
the Japanese 40 to so planes, a
bombing assault on HankoWg, and
the first enemy raid on the Chung
king area in two years marked a
sudden outburst of aerial warfare in
China today.
Thirty-three Japanese planes at
tackled the Chungking section but
were intercepted by Chinese fighters
and no bombs hit the city.
A dispatch from a forward base
of the 14th U. S. Air Force reported
that Liberator gunners destroyed IS
Japanese planes, got nine probabies
and damaged two more in an in
tense 45-minute attack Saturday on
the Hankow docks and airfield.
The big bombers, followed 20 min
utess later by Mitchells, touched off
several fires on the field in their
surprise raid. which hit at enemy
reinforcements brought up for an
offensive against budding American
air strength In this theater.
Earlier Saturday, a japanese
fighter sweep over an advanced U.
S. base of Maj. Gen. Claire Chen
nauult's 14th air forcs was met by
P-40s, which got i've zeros certain
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Two Shot In
luke Box Row

New London, Conn, Aug %
(UP)-Restaurant proprietor Frank
"Goldie" MCGEE, Is, was held to-
day on charge of assault with in
tent to kill in connection with the
wounding of two sailors last night
during an argument over a juke
box.
Steward Mate Frank Knowlton
was shot in the foot, and Stewart
Mate Gus Robinson was wounded
in the side, and was operated on in
the sick bay at the submarine base.
His condition was not regarded as
critical.
Police said the shooting took
place when the sailors claimed they
dropped a nickel in the juke box
and the musical instrument failed
to play.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Master Allied Plans
Are Nearing Completion
BY HERMAN SMITH
fnited Press staff CORRESPONDENT

Quebec, Que, Aug. 23.-(UP)-
The master Allied war plans which
soon will be translated into bombs
and bullets virtually had been COM
pleted by President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
today and an Important announce
ment, possibly involving Italy, was
expected soon.
But Japan was high on the con-
ference agenda, indicating the Paci-
fic will soon he a major theater.
This impression was heightened by
the arrival of Chinese Foreign Min
lister T. V. Soong who arrived by
special plane from Washington to
hear from Mr.. Roosevelt and the
prime minister what surprises are
planned for the Japanese.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
arrives today and Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson arrived yesterday.
While official sources cautioned
against excluding any war theater
from speculation, there were in
creasing indications that an intensi-
fication of the aerial offensive
against Italy was near. The plan,
it was believed, called for such
cities as Naples, Brindisi and laramie
to be "hamburged' from the air, and
then, if the italian government still
refused to capitulate, an invasion.
Statement by Early
Soong's arrival was followed by
statement from White House press
secretary Stephen T. Early.
1.-THE President expects to confer
as soon as possible with Doctor
Soong. Mr.. Churchill will partici-
pate in these discussions which have
to do with the plans for the war on
Japan the emphasis being given
to that and all points pertaining to
the war on Japan"
This blunt indication of the scope
Of the plans for Japan fitted with
official guidance" that there was
no tie-up between the Quebec con-
ferences and the Russian govern
ment announcement that Maxim
Litvinov had been withdrawn as am
bassador to Washington. The source
from whence this guidance came
said the American government had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
WeIIes Is
'OutOf1own

Washington, August %. = (UP)-
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles cancelled his press conference
today, and a statement by his office
that he will he "out of town for a
few days, started speculations that
he may be on some diplomatic mis-
sion.
Welles' office refused to ampllfy
its brief statement. 1t could not be
ascertained whether Welles had gone
to Quebec to participate in the
Roosevelt Churchill discussions or
on some other official journey.
The position of Acting Secretary
of State, which Welles had held
since Secretary Cordell Hulls de-
parture for Quebec last week, will
be filled by the next highest ranking
official in the department, Assistant
Secretary A. A. Berle, Jr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
RUSSIANS RECAPTuRE KHARk0v
Way Is Opened For Thrust To Dnieper
Axis Retires" According
To Plan," Berlin Says
BY ROBERT MUsEL

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, Aug. Pup
German troops have
evacuated Kharkov, RUS
sia's fourth largest city, a
Nazi broadcast said today,
throwing open the Ukraine
for a Russian thrust to the
Dnieper.
The German high COM
mand, acknowledging the
loss of Kharkov in a
b r o a beast communique,
said:
Kharkov, which in the
course of the campaign in
the east repeatedly chang
ed hands and which today
is merely a heap of ruins,
was again evacuated ac-
cording to plan in the
course of a detaching
movement"
An official DNB News
Agency broadcast quoted the
international Information
Bureau, a Nazi propaganda
agency, that Axis forces had
withdrawn from Kharkov
according to plan after de-
Stroying all war-impOrtant
installations"
The evacuation was COM
pleted last night, it said.
Thought the Russians nave
been engaged in some of the
fiercest fighting of the whole
summer campaign in the
northern and northeastern
OUTSKIRTS OF KharkOV during
the past 10 days, the German
broadcast asserted that the
evacuating forces were mot
pressed by the SovietS.'
Minimize Value
Since the city several times has
changed hands it no longer is a CEN
ter of traffic and supply in its pres
ent condition. the broadcast con-
tinued in an effort to minimize the
loss of the most important Axis
base between Bryansk and the sea
of AZov
by this disengaging movement,
German positions have been consid-
erably shortened and improved
1t was expected that Russia would
announce the re-capture of Kharkov
in special communique tonight.
The German evacuation came only
a little more than two weeks after
the start of the Soviet summer Of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
New Recipe
For Clear Glass

Southbridge, Mass, Aug. 23-(UP)
Lead mixed with a little soda and
sand is the recipe for a new clear
glass. heavy as cast-iron which
possesses remarkable" optical
properties researcher r. J. Ziegler
of the American Optical Co. re-
vealed today.
He said the glass may be used for
protection against deadly X-rays
employed during scientific and
medical research, and for the man
ufacture OF the reading part of BIZ
focal or double vision lenses worn
by personso with defective vision.
Ziegler explained that glass hav-
ing lead oxide content as high as
90 per cent by weight already has
been made. and added that the lead
in the new glass was responsible for
its unusual effectiveness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
SALERN0 AND
CROTONE ARE
BOMB TARGETS
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, August %. - (UP)-
Allied planes loosed a hurri-
cane day and night aerial
bombardment on Salerno, big
Italian communications cen
ter 80 miles southeast of
Naples, yeste, day and shot
down 33 more intercepting
fighters to boost their four
day bag to ia, it was an
nounced today.
While the northwest Afri-
can Air Forces turned the
main weight of their assault
against Salerno on the Ital-
ian west coast, British four
engined Liberators and Hall
faxes from the middle-east-
ern command blasted railway
yards at Crotone on the sole
of the Italian boot Saturday
night, touching off fires and
explosives, some of them near
a chemical factory.
Tones of Explosives
American Martin Marauder bomb
ers, escorted for the first time by
A-36 Invaders, sent scores of tons
of explosives and fire bombs crash
ing down on the sprawling railroad
yards of Salerno in daylight and
British Wellingtons followed through
with Block Buster night attack.
The hard-hitting Marauder me-
dunn bombers hung up a new rec
ord for the second straight day by
shooting down 81 Axis fighters
among the 80 to 100 that bounced
on the American formation over
Salerno. The escorting leatVrs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Yonks Pound
Jap Defenses
In SoIamau
BY BRYDON TAVES
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

NOuuttu ICSo Ctdli correspondent
Allied Headquarters Southwest
Pacific, Aug. 23-(UP) Allied
troops held heights overlooking the
Salamaua airdrome on the New
Guinea coast today after two
nile advance.
American artillery pounded the
main defenses of the enemy coastal
base with increasing fury as the
Yank and Australia jungle troops
frightened lines hernming the Sala-
maua Peninsula preliminary to the
final assault.
A communique announced that
the Aussies seized the ridge COM
manding the airdrome from the
south yesterday. 1t brought them to
within a little more than a mile of
Salamaua town. which has been de-
stroyed byb Allied bombing, and
practically against the main de-
tense works behind which the en-
envy had taken hasty refuge.
New Skirmishes
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spokes-
man said American troops across
the Francisco river from Salamaua
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Jops Report
Landing Try
lBy United Pressl

Tokyo radio said today that Al
lied forces tried to land on Ko-
lombarga Island, north of New
Georgia in the central Solomons,
yesterday but were repulused with
reavy losses.
Kolombangara is 8 miles from
New Guinea across narrow Kula
Gulf and Is the site of the Villa
Airdrome, last MAJOR Japanese
stronghold in the central Solomons
area. Americans already have dap
tured Vella Lavella island northwest
of Kolombangara.
If the Tokyo report Is true, the
troops probably are Americans from
the forces that conquered Mundda,
Is airline miles to the south of
New Georgia.
Tokyo broadcast ])omei Jap
anese) news agency dispatch from d
Japanese South Pacific base which
said the landing was attempted
early yesterday and was Immediate
repulsed" by Japanese troops.
They approached our gun posi-
tons with about IS large and small
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
IL New EngIonders
Commended By Navy

Boston, Aug. 81. (UP)-The Navy
today commended - New England
ers for 'intrepidity and courageous
devotion to duty during the assault
of Arzew, Algiers, on Nov 8, 1912"
The group, members of the naval
advance party, participated in the
consolidation of the port and the
seizure Of three hostile merchant
vessels and one patrol craft with
cool initiative and skill"
Those who were commended in
cluded Ensign Frank Olender. hus-
band of Mrs. Be.ie Olender, of New
port, r. l., and Edward w. Soroka,
gunner's mate, son of Mrs. Joseph
Inc Mary Bellous Of Conimicut, R. 1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Easy Relaxing OF Kiska
Surprise To u. S. Troops

Allied bloodless victory in driving
the Japanese finally from American
soil, concluded today that the evac-
uation had started July 10 when
planes sighted four small craft in
the Kiska area. 1t was thought then
that they were attempting to supply
the garrison. 1t now appears they
were the first of the evacuees.
The barge-loads and submarine
loads of fleeing Japanese were COM
PEELED to cross 10 miles of sea, 1t
was believed, to Buldir island, where
they made rendezvous with small
ships. The barges were believed
those with which they had occupied
Kiska--16 to 20. Lieut.. Col. Jean
K. Fogel, an intelligence officer of
the Air Forces Field headquarters,
revealed that the Japanese on Kiska
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z Good Soldiers"
Discharqed By U. S.

Camp Edwards, Mass. Aug rs.
CUP Two first class privates Will
return to civilian life after nearly
six months in the Army despite the
fact that they are good soldiers
and In excellent physical condition.
The pair are 17-year-old Edward
j. Dutton of Salisbury, Md, and 10
year-old Edward j. Slade OF Steel
ton, Pa, who told their draft boards
they were 10 years old because we
wanted to do our part for our
county"
Dutton will go back to work as
tractor operator. Slade will re-
turn to high school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
lEvERkUSEN =
GETS R. AT.
PlASTER|NG
BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, August 23.-UP)
- B ri Il S h four motored
bombers attacked Germany's
torn Rhineland for the first
time in two weeks last night
and more Allied planes put
the renewed offensive on a
continuous basis with as
saults on the continent by
daylight today.
Plunging through b a d
weather that had kept them
grounded four nights, the
bombers centered their heavy
black-buster explosives. on
the chemical works at Lever
kusen, four miles north of
Cologne, where war gas COM
ponentS are made.
Stormy Weather
Five planes were missing. The
stormy weather obscured results
of the Rhineland raids. Two enemy
fighters were shot down by the
bombers, which had hit Leverkusen
only twice since the war started,
although Cologne has been raided
120 times.
Bomber formations protected by
tightly packed fighter squadrons
passed over Dover Straits at break
fast time, returning As minutes later
from the direction of France.
Tho air ministry said Mitchell
medium bombers of the Royal Air
Forco attacked the st. Omer rail-
way yards by daylight but met no
German fighter opposition.
Spitfire fighter squadrons were
out IN force. A Canadian wing ran
into more than Is Messerschmitts.
Wing Commander J. E. Johnson
shot down one--his 23rd-to be-
come the second high SCORER still
serving in the fighter command.
Group Captain A. G. Malan is first
with 80.
The Rhineland assault was COM
bined with mine-laying operations
and intruders attacks in which di-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
By FRANK III. BARTHOLOMEW
UNITED Press Vice President in
Charne af Pacific Arca

o
An Advanced Alaskan Base, Aug.
81 Delayed Japanese
evacuated Kiska because 1t had been
made untenable by more than A.
100000 pounds of bombs dropped
onto its SO targets in seven months
plus innumerable shellings by Amer
lean warships.
Moreover, American control of
the waters around the far Aleutians
was so tight that the evacuation was
by submarine and barges, some Of
them constructed by the garrison
itself with what materials 1t had
available.
Exodus Began July 10
American Air Force intelligence
officers assembling the facts Of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. Aug. % (UP)-Gov-
srment expenses anr receipts for
HE current fiscal year through Aug.
10th, compared with a year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Year
sl2.239, 451, 364.66 $8,479, 500, l66 80
War Spending
Il. 500, 1877, 540.76 $7,608,2l4, 1867
Receipts
: ar, 205, 1884 $l,129. 308. 406.96
Net Deficit
6 t,iU2, 245, 540.72 $7348. 423 359.43
Cash Balance
s8.oo4,5ss.B6o.77 t4.254,Sse.ss7.S6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23

(Threc United Press war cOrrc-
spondents at the scene of the action
herewith tell the story of the recap
turc of KiSka.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23

Time To Register. Collegiate Stand
ards in Business Education. Fall
Term, Sept. 8th. Post Junior College.
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space
housing
right II. Chief U. Air
Dill the joint staff mission
Washington; General Marshall Chief Staff the u
British
and
Charles Portal of Staff for
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Dimout: Sat p. m. to $3.50 a. m.
Full Weather Report Page 2.
La gaceta., 1943-08-04

Ministro de Agriculture, de acuer
do con las 6rdenes nazis, trans
forme este estricto anuncio en-
una privaci6n total que no pueda
expresarse o describirse con pala-
bras? 81 hemos de juzgar a ira
yes de las experiencias tenidas
hasta ahora, la orden para la tor
tura final ha debido va darse, Y
los secuaces del verdugo solo es-
peran instrucciones mas detalla-
das para actuar. Nuevamente nos
vemos obligados a decir que ell
hombre, que Sc dice creado q j.
magen y semejanza de Dios, no
solo es capaz de ser supremamen-
tie humane, sine plenamente sa-
dico Y, dentro de su dilacerante
fantasia, pervertido e insensible.
FL anuncio de la muerte por
hambre, que parece sci la suer-
tie reservada a los judios checos,
tiene todavia un caracter mas a
tanico por la circumstance de q.
este tormento sera seguido por
la deportation a regiones en- que
los nazis han %preparado una gil
gantesca fosa comIn para la CO.
munidad judfa de Europa. SegGn
las dltimas noticias, todos los ju-
dos checos van a ser depOrtados
a Polonia, donde va han hallado
su muerte a manos de los nazis
cientos de miles y quiza millones
de judios. Sc dice que la juderia
de Varsovia, donde hasta hace
POGO arrastraban 100000 perso-
mas una vida miserable esta ahora
cast vacia. iEstan llamados los
judios checos a ser los ocupantes
temporales de esta camara de tor
tura 1nica en- ell mundo? 10 van
a ser transportados directamente
a la region de Lublin, donde pelo-
tones escogidos de verdugos ma
zis dan rienda suelta a sus ferO-
La gaceta., 1943-08-04

tr~abajadores Y con sus dirigen-
ties. Deseo examinar ell verdadero
espfritu del ciudadano estadouni-
dense de la clase media; no como
aparece en- la pantalla y en- las
paginas de los libros, sinO como
Ger realmente esa gran parte
media que constituye la verda-
dera poblaci6n de este pals, Y
descubrir 10 que es su verdadera
fuerza moral. Quiero averiguar
como un pals undo Sc ha creado
de tanta variedad de gentes, de
culturas tan diversas, de tan dis
tintas classes de education y de
tantas religiones."
La ciudad de Nueva York a la
cual llama eel gran observatorio
sociol6gico", 10 atrae.
Y a la Argentina la llama "pais
de gran promesa", diciendo que
mas del 90 por ciento de sus habi-
tantes es profundamente demo-
cratico.
Como testimonio del trabajo de
toda su vida en- la obra democrat
tica, desde las columnas de LA
Naci6n" Y de muchas revistas IL
terarias, asi como en- su labor de
antano en- Gel Mundo" fue obse-
ouiado o un banquete de despe-
dida en- Buenos Aires, en- ell Cir
culo de la Prensa, pOr sus cole
gas, intelectuales Y diplomaticos
de las Naciones midas en- nombre
dc la Ayuda PeriOdistica Demo-
cratica. En- esta OCCASION, Ell Presi-
dente de la Ayuda, Don Segundo
B. Gauna, puso de relieve ell he
cho de que Ell senior Gerchunoff
lIevaba a los Estados Unidos un
mensaje autentico del modo de
pensar argentine con respecto a
la libertad.
Ell DR.. Adolfo Lemus, presiden-
La gaceta., 1943-08-04
LOS M EN- PARIS
NEcESITAN PROTECTION

Seg1n Ell p~eri6dico car
tontidningen" ciertas Gales de Pa
rfs, ocupadas por Oficinas alema-
mas, han sido cerradas al trafico
automovilista. Entire estas Was fl
guran los Campos Eliseos, la Rue
Royale, los viejos bulevares, des-
de Ia Magdalena hasta Ia Rue
Drouot, Ia Avenida de la Opera,
la Rue RivOli, etc. Ell peri6dico de
clara explicitamente que esta me-
dida ha sido aconseiada por ell de-
SEQ de impedir atentados contra
las oficinas alemanas concentra-
das en- dichas zonas de la capital.
La gaceta., 1943-08-04
IA ARGENTINE DE
LOS


GTON, agosto s. La
los que de las otras
mericanas vienen a vi
stadOs Unidos, estan
! presenciar directa-
AN production indus
se pals. Exception de
IS Alberto Gerchunoff,
| jefe de la Nacion",
Aires.
entino, ~periodista, no
nferencista, al negar a
en- su primera vista
Dos Unidos, dijo: LA
no me ~interesa; sc 10
J hacer las m~aquinas.
he interesa es ell espi-
B que hace que Sc niue
! Gerchunoff vino a
Unidos a enterarse de
vida de hoy. Ell distin-
Jed de la Secretaria de
,res6 su deseo de ha-
a juventud y conocer
De amino Y la actitud
! hacia los tremendos
han surgido de la
hacia los que Sc plan
"a postguerra.
dijO, con los