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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Talk BoIkon Offensive

London, Sept. 14 - (U.P) - A major attack on the Balkans was predicted by the Germans today CO., incident with reports of closer AL lied contact with Jugoslav guerrilla forces.
 A trans-ocean German news agency dispatch broadcast by Ber- lin radio quoted British news agencies" as the source for news that naval and air forces were be- ing readied for blows at the Greek and Albanian coasts.
 The Exchange Telegraph report ed from Cairo that Allied senior officers of the Middle East Com mand had joined forces with Jugo- slav patriot groups in recent weeks and that activities of the guerrilla troops would be coordinated with Allied strategic plans" shortly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Triple Probe Expected On FotaI Crash

Triple investigation of yesterdays Cheshire road bus.truck collision appeared in store today as local police, the coroner's oftlce and the State Public Utilities Commission sought details on the head-on crash which resulted in the death of two persons and injuries to IT others. A preliminary investigation revealed a tire blowout sent the Esso oil truck across the road and into the path of the o. R. 6 L. bus.
 The dead are: Harry Hemstock. 20, of 66 South Front street, New Haven, driver of the truck who was killed instantly; and Louis Des- chenes,, 34, of 437 South Main street, driver of the bus, who died at St. Mary's hospital at 9:5S last night.
 Condition of Martha Wilkenbach, IS, Wilby high school student and daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles Wilkenbach of 3l64 East Main street, was described as 'very poor" at the hospital this afternoon and her name remains on the danger list. Three of the other school chil- dren are reported critically injured but their names are not on the danger list. Only three of the l7 students admitted to the hospital shortly after the crash at 2:i5 were dismissed after treatment for minor injuries.
 Fire Hazard
 With danger of a fire looming from the oil-laden truck owned by the Elm City Filling Stations of New Haven, firernen and volunteers poured sand and gravel on the oil- bedecked roadway as Standard oil Go. workers hurried to take the es- timated 22,0o0 gallons of industrial oil from the huge tank.
 Civilian defense emergency forces, police squads, auxiliary policemen, Red Cross volunteers, flremen, and hospital attendants were on the scene within IS minutes of the crash as effort was made to rush the victims to the hospital for treatment. All available aInbu- lances were put to use, with Q shortage reported in the first few minutes after the crash because several of the hospital cars were out on local calls.
 Crowds numbering several thou sands of persons hurried to the scene and by 6 o'clock last night patrolmen were still on hand all along the Cheshire road directing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Mark Grain
 1st For Milk

Boston, Sept. 14-(UP)-Massa- chusetts farmers complain that be- cause of the distribution of grain to beer and ale manufacturers they are unable to obtain enough feed for their cattle.
 The complaint was made yester- day at session of the special leg islation recess committee studying rationing and Allied problems. How ard s. Russell, secretary of the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Feder- ation, charged that production of milk should take precedence over manufacture of alcoholic beverages" !" He also proposed that ceilings on grains be removed to facilitate the shipment of corn to maintain east ern livestock.
 Farmers also said that OPA reg ulatious governing the sale and dis- tribution of lettuce and other per- ishable farm crops must be removed to prevent farm produce from going to waste.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
New Type
 Romoncinq

Hollywood, Sept. I4.-(UP)-It was all right when the pretty secre- taFy had a few drinks and woke up in bed with the millionaire camera manufactures, because they had known each other 2,300 years.
 The secretary said the millionaire's wife was not at all perturbed by the occurrence, because she had known her husband only 300 years and lacked seniority.
 Perturbed or not, the wife got c divorce shortly after the incident, and the secretary married the Ynil- lionaire. Now she is divorcing him She is Mrs. Ralph Gordon Fear the second. formerly Airline Peak, and she told of her romance with Fear while wandering through the cen- turies.
 Airline said sine really is Mrs. Fear the first, because 2,300 years ago Fear was her warrior husband in ancient Rome. Thereafter, she said, they meandered through etern- ity with Mrs. Fear the first tagging along as a chaperone.
 Tn her present incarnation, how ever, Airline admitted she first met Fear one day In 1889, when, clutch- ing a classified ad, she walked into his offlce and applied for a job. She was 20, she said, and he was over 50.
 She was hired and Fear took her to his cozy desert home with his wife, Grace. There, over cocktails, they discussed philosophy, she said and Fear told her of their marriage in Rome. Grace, she said, admitted that she had married Fear only 800 years ago when he was a fisherman on the coast of Normandy.
 'It seems that after their mar riage 300 years ago I turned up again and he left her for me, but made him go back to her." the for nler secretary testified. "Then killed myself and he mourned un- til he died, according to his story"
 At the Fears cottage, she said, i've died again, time rolled on and l passed out from too many drinks. ?
 When she awoke the next morn-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Moratorium, On Drafting Fathers Seems Calming

who will try to defeat such moves.
 Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky will try to- day so persuade Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. D.. Mont, to delay calling up his bill. which would grant blanket deferments to Pre- Pearl Harbor fathers until January 1, 60 that Army and Navy chiefs can be heard.
 Congressional comment indicated that tt would take 0en. George c. Marshall. Army chief Of stan. and Admiral Ernest [. King, comman- der-ln-chief of the u. 6. neet rather than war manpoNef conls mission Chairman Paul V. NcMntI CT eelectivs Service Director LeMii D. Herrhey Co convince congEes that Army and Navy needs fasnEf1
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Mystery In
 Star Murder
By FREDERICK 0. OTHMAN

" = 8ANe4A@esAeANAe Se VI . AAAAAtA&N United Press Stan COrrespondent)
 Hollywood, Sept. 14.-(UP)-The masked marvel murder mystery, in- volving the death of David c. C. Bacon, Jr., movie actor, Boston so- cialte and s:hoolmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Is Q case for Ellery Queen, police admitted today.
 The workaday cops were baffled. Wryly they said only Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, heroes of the mystery story fans, could solve satisfactorily the handsome actors murder, Bacon staggered out of his undersized automobile into cabbage patch, half clad, to bleed to death from stiletto wound in his back.
 A medical examination, intensive work with finger print powder and questioning of Bacon's widow, the former Gretta Keller of light opera fame, provided none of the answers to the classic questions of detec- tive novels: Who9 Where? When1 Why?
 Only surmise of the police was that Bacon may have picked up a hitchhiker, who stabbed him when he leaned forward, possibly to re- lease the parking brake. This the ory sounded phoney, even to the officers who propounded it, and they urged reporters to think up bet ter one-or page Inspector Queen.
 Two weeks ago Bacon finished his role as t',e Masked Marvel in a 15- chapter movie serial at Republic Studios. Sunday he got into his midget automobile, presumably to drive to the Bacon front home of the sugar heiress, Geraldine Spreckles, for swim. He never got there.
 Mrs. B. Watterson, housewife sit- ting on her front porch on a lonely road through the cabbage fields near Venice,. Cal, saw two men in the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Enemy's Famous .88 Guns Hammer Troops.
 British Capture Bari
BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Allied Headquarters North Africa, September l4 (UP) = The American 5th Army gave ground south eI ar1ored units made "dOOr-de" counter-attack agalNsl the Salerno bridgehead British said the has comparable only to the bloody struggle at Galn in World War l.
 While the British 9th Army in southern Italy dre< northward through Bari a 1OO-mile to join ts Americans the NaZi high command threw tanks troops W artillery that swept the beaches from strong hiIIs4 supplements into great effort to destroy the All6 24-Inile bridgehead on the Gulf of SaIerno.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Germons Say U. s. Retreats
 At SoIerno
BY PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent)

NSaAsSSeA AaS1e SeeSee SSaASeROeANASS@S|
 London Sept. l4-(UP)-Informed observers said today that the bit- ter battle for the Allied bridgehead at Salerno might decide the irnme. diate course of the invasion of Italy but were inclined to believe Nazi reports of evacuation of Allied troops of Allied troops were greatly over-drawn.
 Dispatches emphasized that pow erful German counter blows had se- verely punished the invading forces but 1t was believed the Allies still were firmly entrencied at strategci points. It was recalled that the Germans made c similar counter attack against the Americans ct 0ela duuring the invasion of Sicily but were stopped when they seemed to have success almost within their grasp. The Germans suffered heav- fly In that battle.
 The Germans had claimed that Allied troops were evacuatsng after losing whole divisions"
 4AtS OkAtGA8A &hOkAstoAA &NOW0 Se9SAA- cy DINE said five large transports and 30 to 70 landing craft began to embark retyeating Allied troops at the southern end of the Salerno Gulf bridgehead after German tanks and mechanized forces had broken through American artillery positions south of EboM on 6 wide front yesterday noon and took a number of batteries by storm.
 A Swiss radio quoted Berlin sources that a number of Allied transports had arrived at Policastro, S6 miles southeast of Cape Licosa at the southern end of the Salerno bridgehead. presumably for new landing roughly half way between Naples and the British Eighth ar. my's bridgehead in Southern Italy.
 The broadcast asserted the trans ports scarried troops evacuated from Salerno Gulf, but unofficial British
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Bloody Battle Comparable To GaIIip0Ii Bryansk Captured By Advancing Red;
DRIVE LAPS TOWARDDEATH
 TRAP IN LAB
BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, September IA. = (UP) = Allied troops chased a disorganized Japan csc force up the New Guinea coast today toward a death trap at Lac after capturing Salamaua in one of the major triumphs of General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pa cific offensive,
 A communique announced that American and Austral- ian forces occupied Sala- maua, once a strong enemy naval and air base, on Sun day as the remnants of the enemy garrison fled up the coastal route.
 Australian units from inland posi- tions drove toward the coast, seek ing to cut off at least some of the enemy troops, and turned north ward to herd them into the tighten ing moose at Lac. At least 10000 enemy tropos were believed caught in the narrowing Allied lines.
 The enemy's only sanctuary wat Lac, approximately 25 miles north east of Salamaua, and that coule be only, temporary since Allied forceI ringing that stronghold were pre- pairing for an assault on its inner defenses while allied planes kept ur 6 poundin gattack to weaken the Japanese garrison's ability to resist
 Allied aircraft began using the bomb. .pitted l25o-yard- long Sala-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Ndzis Mope SlUiftLy
 70 Put DotCr, ReDoH
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON YInikad prasa SkaR rorra~nn,,Aan

NSeeS~SeS @SSS9 VIVA SOeASS1s~asSSAAV
 London, Sept. 14.-(UP)-The Germans have moved swiftly to smash revolt against their rule in Rome, Milan and other cities in northern Italy, 1t was reported to. day, and Berlin broadcastS said for. ner Premier Benito Mussolini soon will announce Q new Fascist govern ment.
 Continued resistance in Turin was implied in a Berlin broadcast which told of how Mussolini's Liberation" was greeted lin those parts of Turin which have been liberated"
 Berlin asserted 500,000 Italians had been disarmed by the Nazis and that many of the Italian troops, especially the Fascist militia" had joined the German troops to be ein- ployed against armed bands.
 GA Tokyo broadcast reported by NBC said Mussolini already has assumed the position of premier of the Fascist National government of Italy, hut this was not confirmed by any other source.)
 Numerous German divisions were entering Italy through little St. Bernard Pass between Bourg St. Maurice in French Savoy and Aosta,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Children Get Roid Test

Boston, Sept. 14.-(UP)-A 5O- minute surprise air raid test es- peciaIly planned to test the effec- tiveness of preparations to safe guard school children was held to- day in Region 5 governing 4l conn., munities of Metropolitan Boston.
 Nearly 100000 persons in the area were affected and approxi- mately 100000 wardens, auxiliary firemen and policemen and other civilian defense personnel patroled the streets.
 The yellow practice alert was sounded at 10:20 a. m. and the all clear came at 11:l0.
 Special instructions for the pro- tection of school children had been issued last Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
'AII Normal At tVoticon

Radio Vatican said today that all Vatican cfilces were flinctlonine regularly the latter part Of last week when Rome capitalized to the Ger mans.
 "st. Peters waG closed for a few days for reasons of prudence but was reopened to the public Sunday. '' it added: For prudential reasons, Q cunlodiai watch has been instituted over parsona entering Vatican City on hsislneas' 4ho German radio announced the SIa1I1 h4a taken 0ftf rKoEa4lien Ql NaIiENH ElsH
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
BY JOHN l.. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, September i4. - CUp) - Congress, which reconvenes ct noon after . summer recess, ap- peared today to be in no hurry to tackle a new general revenue bill and in no mood to shoot for the ei3. .000. .000. 900 goal set by the ad- ministFatlon for additional revenue for leal.
 Democratic and Republican lead- CTS agreed with rank and file uaem- bers that considerable doubt exists whether c neW tax blll can be sent to the President by the end Of the year.
 Estimates cn the amount of new revenue that Congress win vote tor the new fiscal period ranged from e1SQos 600 t0 el0Qoo e90 loQQ, but few niomherr rpulnred 2 prediction that ths I4|' Hf1 a1 lfQ a 4SkGH tE 'sa Xf&sfHfT eeE'f bg 1T'ase
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
BY TONY SMITH United Press Stan Correspe

Washington. Sept. l4. CUP)-A Congressional proposal for mora torium on the drafting of fathers until Congress conducts new man. power survey appeared to be gain- ing strength today amid reports that President Roosevelt shortly will recommend a National Labor Draft.
 Chairman Andrew ]. May, D., Ky- of the House Military Affairs com nittee proposed a sKentlemen's agreement between Congress and manpower ofElcials to stop drafting Of pre-peaEl HaFbor fatheFs-now scheduled to begin generally on October i--until Congress can de- tegmine whether such a move i1 necessary,
 Such a plan might be 6 conapFo- misc between those seeking a Ucn- gfaegleuaI hHn on t1sa GFail,N8 oI kAhnaIa end aalnl1E 1ion iasfsra
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Furious Fire

EuTlOUS HlE0
 The battle was rep0f raging with utmost fury the enemy's famous 1888 guns hammered the Allied pc tions at Salerno -- which he repeatedly changed hand and on the Sele River, W miles south of the town British sources compared the struggle to the battle oE Gallipoli, where the Brltls failed in a long and CcEz.y struggle to force tho Da danelleS.
 (The German radio claim that Nazi tanks had brOl through U. s. artillery re tions, wiping out "whoIe e visions" south Of Salexfo and that Allied evacuatIa1 of the Salerno bridgehe4 had started.)
 Position Brolsen
 CThe main American positions HiS the Sele river were broken in HIiH prise attack late Monday, the Na DINE News Agency claimed, md American troops there were tt* to reach rescue ships, thus uaa6iNE 1t impossible for the British uaIzN at Salerno to hold out. The Nazls claimed 5000 to 10000 Allied kro6l.N were casualties and Eimilar ukIil5t Der had been taken prisoner.
 GA Swiss broadcast, appnrcafIN inspired by Berlin, said that nN# Allied landing may have been uaH.'H
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
NyIon Stockings Put GoI tn Jam;
 Pull Her Out
By United Press

New York, Sept. 1l.-(UP)- A pair of nylOn stockings caused plenty of excitement In Brooklyn last night. When 19- year-old Angelina Glballdi stopped to tie . shoelace, she lost her balance. Fearful of her nylOns, she grabbed the near- est thing-the handle on Q fire box. In . few minutes, 10 pieces of apparatus were there. 4 magistrate was 50 impressed with her story, he suspended sentence on . false alarm charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Germans Lose Last Neutral Defense Line Ahead Of Iput
BY ROBERT MUsEL United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

London September IA. (UP) - Germany acknowledged today the loss of Byans great railroad hub linking the central and southern fronts in Russia and Moscow said Red Army column racing in against the Maxi flank to cut of fthe routed garrison
 Berlin in its familiar manner of backing into adrnis- Bton major defeat the Russian Front said the Ger garrison evacuated Bryansk last night according to pan after had destroyed all the installations thor Oughy that the SOvets putting their hands in eNnntV nOcket"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

Key City
 Confirmation of the Soviet capture of the key city anchoring the now unhinged ends of the fronts was ex- pected during the day from Moscow, which reported that Soviet troops had forced the Desna River at Bryansk and were storming the town itself.
 The fall of BryanSk, from which railroads radiate to Moscow, Kharkov, Gomel, Kiev and Smolensk, was fore shadowed by Russian reports that the Red Army had surged in against the city, capturing two outlying rail functions and laying siege Co the town across the DeSna from them.
 Seized in l0ll
 The Germans seized Bryansk in their first invasion sweep which iEa- periled the left wing of the Moscow defenaes in October, i94i, and had held it ever since.
 Tacitly admitting that they evac- uated Bryansk to avoid encircle~ ment and annihilation. the Ger. mans drew . propaganda parallel between their withdrawal and the Soviet loss of the city. They claimed several Soviet armies with all their
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
TREASURY BALANCE

washington, Sept. I4 (uP)LGov- ernment expenses and receipts for current fiscal year through Sept. 11th, compared with a year ago: Sl7,Ss6, ,7l4,ese.52 e12,4s3,61s,643.45
 War Spending
 e1e,stl, l,ss0,es9.el s11.31s.274.4sO.s5
 Receipts
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
Facts vs. Boasts

Hardly hau 1910 finished spNai.,.
10 the Japanese diet. givin. OF
Il proracted harangue oi his custom
any boaStful pgopaganda than n.
NipS seat something like one lu.d.vu
or more planes uut to attack 81:
American convoy in the vicinity q.
GuadaIcana!. In the aerial dogI.sat.
that enSl.SQ. the Americans IAN. OF
much the better. with the loss Oh.
half dozen planes and suIl g..
i've. while Sevc1ty-Sevcu OF H. L..
planes were shot into the ga.
Old TOTO dIdu'; boast OF ;aaj ue.u.g
the imperial parliament. no. c.ilr.
10 his people. Cha-ccS are TIA, n.
Was silent III forty dcrr.rn; .amg-
uageS, or IN as many as nc iu,"
how 10 speak. other than his OWE
50 tina, thrrv Is a vast d,,trrcnce
between ;ac,S and boasts.
Progress Of ;!!c W." In the pa,i...
since Pearl iurour has ,huw. ru.-
>lStcn;ly that thv Anlvr.cuu iIa:.'.m.
mIn l., ~ every Way superior - I'm,
enemy there. Even -: Pear NutuD.
mach tn" same story might HAY.
been possible !, relate .Ld pv.s,.
nc! not been ashore on Il wvvE-vuG
cylu"Sal, ana but "a. ;Ir gruss p"r
hG,ncr that LET, American sh.n, ald
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
Stock Trend
Is Irregular

New York. June lg.-(Apl-Tnc
Shghtl y irregular pattern continued
III today'S stock market with deal
IngS among the sluwrSi 10Y the past
wear.
Ragged tendencies prevailed at the
start but selling never assumed any
real Importance. Thee were seat
Tered rcCuNCrIc$ Il MINOR amounts
near the close of the brlci proceed
InGS although declines of fractions
to point or more We're widespread
Bonds and commodities were :c-
latIVcly narrow.
Intermittent resistance was shown
by Standard OIL / y. j.. General
Motors. Genera! Electric. Grudvra.
arI E.I>,H,an Kodak
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
Motives and Methods

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
5000 TAR HEELS
NOW IN SERVICE

Raleigh. June ~. -(AP)-Adit.
Gen. j. Van +. Nett said today that
'l5.oUO Tar Heels wee nDw serving
III the various branches ui Inc ann
&C services. including approximately
+i.5Oo members / The States Ma
uouI! Guard.
irnrra! Mctts. vino j. the States
sc!cctlvr service officer. said that
!36.21' of the total had entered the
Army through Srlrctlyc service. and
that 'i.l5u others were serving in
the ARMY. Navy. Marines. C"lS:
Guard aHd special service branches.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
NOTICE.

! have this day qualified before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance
C-unty. North Carolina. as Executrix
of the Estate of my father. the late
Dr.. j. y. Cotton. and tins is to notify
all persons holding claims against
SAID estate - present the same Ia
tie undersigned on or before one
year from this date or tins notice
will be pleaded i'll bar # any re-
cuvcry. Persons indebted la said rs.
tate are requested 10 make prompt
settlement.
This The 10Th day Of June. 1915.
CAROL b. COTTON.
EXCculriX, Estate of j. y.
Cotton.
J. p & j. II. ZollicUffcr.
Attorneys.
1865 lO-l7-24
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
mR&-
mAR&
French Reach
Compromise

Continued from H..Sc OucO
Philippe as commissioner OF inter-
l"r and resistance in France. and
e!,hC: General AlphomSc Georges or
General Georges CatrouX.
An indication that allied represen-
;al!vos believe committee harmony
IS near was seen IN reports that the
T. v!>iuna! government expects Ell
Noys from many ui the United Ma
IONS. including Soviet Russia. to
take NJ residence in AlgicyS shortly.