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Evening star., 1943-09-04
Raids
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'COHtlnueQ from FlfSt PdRe.)
that some damage and fires re-
suited.
'Bombers dropped bombs over the
city and the suburbs" DN1 said.
"Once again it was beyond doubt
terror attack, as residential quar-
tiers, hospitals. churches and other
cultural monuments we're hit and
destroyed.
While combating the fires the
Berlin population showed them
selves capable of effective and ex-
emplary behavior
The Germans also reported that
British planes had attacked ship
ping during the night in the Ijssel-
meer in Holland. sinking one ship
and notwithstanding several others.
Meanwhile, Associated Press dis
patches from Stockholm said that
large numbers of foreign war
planes-presumably Raj bombers
returning from the attack on Ber-
lin-had passed over the southern
tip Of Sweden during the night.
drawing the heaviest barrage of the
war from Swedish antiaircraft bat
terieS.
One plane was said to have
crashed in flames near the summer
residence OF the Crown Prince lust
across the strait from Denmark.
Meanwhile, the British Air Min
lstry said today in monthly review
that British bombers, although re-
stricted by weather dumped more
than 10000 tons of bombs on Ger
! many and italy during August
5000 tons more than in July.
CThese tons in the Raj announce
| ment are long tons. 240 pounds
heavier than the standard 2,O0O-
/ pound American tom
/ Germany alone was the target
last month for $4,000 tons-as much
AS British planes hurled on the en-
tire Axis in July The bulk of the
! deadly loads was concentrated on
Hamburg. Nuremberg and Berlin.
Milan was hit four times during
the month. Turin three times and
Genoa once.
Although weather conditions were
good for only IA nights of the month,
the Allied air offensive was kept at
a high pitch with medium and light
bombers and fighters hammering
away at the Axis transport system,
air bases and sea traffic.
With the bombing fleets and their
unprecedented loads steadily in
creasing and the smaller planes out
every possible day. the RAF lost 38l
planes during the month, compared
with 258 in July.
The enemy also lost more heavily
with total of 16l planes over Eu-
rope and Britain. The July total
was l29.
BY contrast, the ministry said that
not a single bomb fell on Britain
during daylight in August, and only
on eight nights were bombs dropped
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Churchill Turns Aside
From Roosevelt Talks
To See Own Officials

Prime Minister Churchill TODAY
turned aside from his conferences
with President Roosevelt and rank
ing American military and naval
officials for consultation with rep
resentatives of the British govern
ment.
At noon, the Prime Minister met
Sir Owen Dixon, Australian Minis
ter to the United States, at the
White House, while tonight at the
Embassy he will see the Dominion
ministers, the British Supply Coun-
Gil and the chiefs of staffs. and
other British officials.
Mr.. Roosevelt's only visitor today
was Arthur Hays Sulzberger. presi-
dent and publisher of the New York
Times, who recently returned from
Moscow.
Earlier this week as the Prime
Minister and Mr.. Roosevelt we're
starting their post-Quebec talks. Mr..
Churchill saw members of the Brit
ish military staff and missions.
At 7:30 pm. Mr.. Churchill was
oA'S hNhiNAiSOii SdSoO Va Vic oNCiSCdS
Writers at the Statler.
Mrs. Churchill and Subaltern
Mary Churchill had planned a trip
to Williamsburg today, but were
kept in Washington by the weather.
That the subject of supplies was
being discussed by the Prime Min
lister was indicated yesterday when
he conferred with 1t. Gen. Brehon
B. Somervell. chief of the Army
Service Forces. He also saw Ad-
miral Ernest j. King, commander
in chief of the United States Fleet.
1t had been believed possible that
the Allied invasion of the Italian
mainland might bring a joint state
ment from the two leaders, but there
was no immediate reaction from the
White House on the new campaign.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
More Allied Aircraft
Available Over |ta|v
Than Could Be Used
BY BILL WELSON.
Representing the Combined Canadian Pre-,
Distributed by the Associated Press.

Representing the Combined Canadian Press
Distributed by the Associated Press.
ON THE SICILIAN COAST OP-
POSITE CALABRIA, Sept. 8 de
layed) Canadian and British
troops invading Southern Italy
today sent back word that the
beaches had been secured within
two and one-half hours after
the initial landings.
Allied artillery concentrated on
the northeast tip of Sicily had bonn
barded enemy batteries on the Ital-
ian mainland for 20 minutes before
the landings started.
Forty minutes before the first
landing barges reached their objec-
tives, the barrage was shifted to
the beaches, which we're hammered
steadily for Is minutes.
Then the Allied big guns lifted
their fire inland to blast the enemy
gun positions again.
All the artillery engaged in the
bombardment was British except for
some American heavies.
A high-ranking Canadian officer
said the trip across Messina Strait
was almost like crossing river"
The attack proceeded with great
confidence on the part of the COM
manders. The air and sea battle
already had been won and the guns
had to cover only short distance
each during the barrage. There was
tremendous air support available,
OF which Maj. Gen. Guy G. Simonds,
commander OF the Canadian lst
Division, said. there is more air
support available than we can pos
sibly use"
During the barrage it was i'm
possible to hear anything in Italy
except the crumping shell bursts,
but when the barrage stopped COM
pletely at 6 am. only a single burst
of machine gun fire could be heard.
Here are few notes I jotted down
as l watched the barrage from the
beach:
3:35 am. - The main barrage
started. with the guns firing all
along the coast with flashes that
show up the straits.
$50 a.m.-Six of our .searchlights
formed a cone to guide our landing
craft. There is no enemy counter
fire. Steady shell bursts are visible
from Italy. There is the constant
drone from the landing craft motors
and the craft are clearly visible.
1853 ANA lull except when fir
ing was resumed.
4:10 a.m.-Several fires on the op-
posite side of the straits.
AIS a.m.-Intermittent firing.
Alb a a.m.-Heavy firing is resumed
4:20 A a.m.-Large. regular explo-
sions with a heavy pail of smoke
apparently ammunition dumps
blowing up.
4:25 a.m.-Very intense firing
much the heaviest yet. More ships
are visible on the coast. Naval ships
supported the landing, with many
Canadians among the crews. The
Navy provided the covering force
against the possibility that the
Italian Navy might put to sea.
AT dawn long line of barges
passed us and few moments later
the first of string which stretched
two or three miles down the coast
drew up with naval escort behind
A group of Spitfires, flying at high
altitude, were the only planes I
have seen this morning. Crowds OF
smiling Sicilians waved their hand
kerchiefs at Canadian and British
soldiers driving along the coastal
road as they watched the barges and
realized the invasion had started
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Arlington Tax Office
To Stoy Open Monday

Offices of the Arlington County
commissioner of revenue will re-
main open Monday to assist tax
payers in the preparation of Federal
income tax declarations, Harry X.
Green, commissioner, announced
today.
Mr.. Green said that failure of tax
payers to bring in necessary data
was slowing down work of the five
deputy collectors from Richmond.
Information required includes
Estimated income for 1943, amount
Of Victory tax withheld from Janu-
arY to July, estimated amount of
Withholding tax from July to Janu-
ary, amount of installments made on
1912 income tax return.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Invasion Troops Find
Beaches Unmined and
Little Barbed Wire
BY ROSS MUNRO.

Representing combined Canadian Press)
distributed by the Associated Press.)
WITH THE CANADIANS IN
ITALY, Sept. 4-Coastal defenses
here were negligible. The beaches
were unmined and there was only
little barbed wire. A handful of
italian soldiers on the shoreline sur
rendered Immediately.
A few civilians greeted the troops
with hand waves and smiles. some
of them parading around with white
flags. They said the Germans had
withdrawn to the hills.
So far, ! haven't seen a single
German, although I saw one batch
of 20 Italians rounded up near the
beach
British troops shared with the Ca
nadians the honor of making the
first bridgehead on the European
mainland. The Royal Navy and
f1otilla of the Royal Canadian Navy
ferried the Canadians over the Mes
sllld Oh dlb III NdIlOuS types VI as
sault craft under two-hour thun-
dering barrage from 9th Army gun
,ners on Sicily.
Occasionally enemy guns winked
back, but on the Canadian sector
the whole operation was complete
success. as it was at Pachino.
Sailing in under the tremendous
British barrage, which lighted the
smooth waters of Messina Strait
with thousand flashes as the guns
pounded from $50 am. until day
light, was one of the most thrilling
sights this war has produced.
We could see the whole Sicilian
coast a flaming mass of gunflre
Shells whined overhead and ears
were dinned by the crash of artillery
Searchlights on steady beam
pitted the starlit sky over the strait
like kleig lights at gigantic
premiere. Tracer shells fired on
fixed lines from the Sicilian coast
right to our beach guided the Ca
nadians to their land point.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Air Arm Only Defense.


ger operations, everywhere believed
to be in preparation.
Air Arm Only Defense.
Loss of the batteries along the
upper shore of the strait left the
enemy with no weapon to use
against these continued landings
save his air arm, and neither the
German nor Italian communiuue
laid any claim to effective air at
tack on Allied transports, although
German propaganda reports said
fighter bomber scored hits on one
vessel.
Politically, as we'll as militarily,
things seemed to be going we'll.
The italian press and radio took
a note close to despair and the
people are making no secret of their
fearful expectation of Allied attacks
elsewhere on the Italian coast.
Reuters reported that the Rome
radio declared in an English Ian
guage broadcast to Britain that
Italy would accept any Allied de-
mands that could possibly sound
just and practicable.
The report was not confirmed by
any other source. The Associated
Press listening post could not con-
firm the Reuters version of the
broadcast, but quoted a Rome an
nouncer as saying 'the Italians are
the most reasonable people in the
world"
Montgomery Confident.
In a personal message to his
British. and Canadian troops as they
left Sicily before daylight yesterday,
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.
commander of the 9th Army, urged
his men into the fight ito knock
Italy out of the war" and declared: +:
I'VE have a good plan and air
support on greater scale than we
ever had before"
What strength the enemy has
massed in Southern Italy is some
thing only the Axis, and probably
the Allied, leaders know, but it can
be safely assumed that the Ger
mans rushed Teinforcements to swell
the ranks of the two Nazi divisions
known to have, escaped from Sicily.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Briefly of VISA Named
Manager of Seized Plant

By the Associated Press.
Daniel S. Briefly, director of for
eign repairs and salvage for the
War Shipping Administration, to-
day was named operating manager
of the Atlantic Basin Iron Works
of Brooklyn, N. Y. ordered seized
Yesterday by President Roosevelt.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, war
shipping administrator, also ap-
pointed his special assistant, Will
liam H. Lalley, as industrial rela-
tions adviser at the plant
Evening star., 1943-09-04
) Factories in Burmo
Damaged in RAF Raid

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, Sept. 4.-Three fac
tories in the Prone district of
Burma were damaged yesterday by
Raj fighters and other aircraft
dive bombed targets at Kyauktaw
on the Kaladan River to the north,
starting fires in three buildings. a
British communique said today.
In Southwestern Burma the fight
ers also shot up variety of other
targets, including more than 80
sampans on the Ira waddy, loco
motive and several army trucks. A
Wellington bomber demolished sew
eral buildings in Ramree village
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Woman Killed, IA Injured
By Cleveland Sfreetcar
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ihe ASSocisted Press,
CLEVELAND. Sept. 4.-One wom-
an was fatally injured, another lost
her right foot and 13 other persons
suffered less serious injuries last
night when a Cedar-Taylor street.
car swerved off it's tracks and
plunged into group waiting near
another car.
Mrs. Fern E. Christmann, a.,
Cleveland Heights, was pinned un-
der the car and later died. Another
Cleveland Heights woman, Mrs.
Helen Milmine, AZ, also was pinned
under the car and it was she who
lost a foot
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Third Steel Safe
Is Stolen From
Sofewoy Stores

Police today are looking for
strong-armed thieves who stole a
steel safe weighing about TOO pounds
from a Safeway Store at 419 Thir-
teenth street NE. sometime during
the night.
The safe contained $500 in cash
and $500 in checks, the manager.
Brook R. Hendrick, lit Twelfth
street Sc, reported.
Police said this brings to three the
number OF safes stolen from Safe
way stores in the last month.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Baldwin
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soon as a successor has been picked
VIA sources said.
A protege of Vice President Wal
lace, Mr.. Baldwin came to Washing
ton IN 1888 as secretary to Mr.. Wal
lace, then Secretary of Agriculture.
When the old Resettlement Ad-
ministration was set up under Rex
ford Guy Tugwell in 1885, Mr.. Bald
win was appointed an assistant to
Mr. Tugwell now Governor of
Puerto Rico.
With the formation of FSA in
1887, Mr.. Baldwin was named as
sistant administrator to Will w.
Alexander. Mr.. Baldwin assumed
the top post in the agency on July
l, 1910.
The State Department said plans
were we'll underway for the or
ganization of trained staff of ex-
perts to accompany Mr.. Baldwin
abroad, and definite program of
operation is in preparation.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
More Toxic Bombines
Promised by Peterson

By the Associated Press.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept.
4.-American Undersecretary of War
Robert Patterson declared yester-
day at press conference that "the
bombing Of Toxic is coming again,
just as sure as you are born"
Mr.. Patterson and 1t. Gen. Will
liam S. Knudsen arrived here yes
terday from Australia to.visit United
States troops and military installa-
tions. They plan to confer with
New Zealand military and political
leaders during their visit.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Suicide Verdict Issued

A certificate of suicide was issued
today by Coronel A. Magruder Mac
Donald in the death of Miss Violet
Thorwarth, so, who was killed yes
terday in a plunge from the second
story window of her home at 1920
Park road NV.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Strange Strangers

WINSLOW, Ariz. (P).-A woman
tourist from California drove into
a service station and asked Bert
Hawkins, manager, to change a tire.
When the job was finished he
asked her to sign the sales slip.
The name was Mrs. Bert Haw-
kins"-rlo relative.
Evening star., 1943-09-04

lied supply problems for much big
ger operations, everywhere believed
to be in preparation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Toke Several Key Towns
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the Germans were retreating was such that time would be required for reducing it. The line was re- warded as particularly strong on the Adriatic end at Vasto, where three hills must be crossed.
 Easy to defend, the line can be cut only in hard, costly fighting against determined resistance, Q commentator said.
 Fifth Army patrols are being pushed forward with vigor and position were generally advanced all along the front" Gen. Dwight D. Eiscnhowers communicate said.
 Across the Matese Mountains rrn- ming down the spine of the Italian Peninsula, the British Eighth Army captured Bojano, four miles west of Vinchiaturo, on the main road to 1sernie, key stronghold on the next uateral highway to the north.
 Spillete Seized
 Anglo Canadian forces also seiz- ed Spinete, six miles northwest of Vinchiaturo, and Petrella, eight miles north of Campobasso on i'm portant high ground.
 The Eighth Army's advance was being hampered by rugged terrain, which made the movement of troops and supplies difficult.
 Medium bombers and long-range fighters from the northwest African air forces attacked the Podgorica airfield in southern Jugoslavia yes- terday In support of patriot units resistance, and in some sectors at- tacking, the Germans.
 Medium, light and fighter bomb CTS, blasted and strafed road and railway targets north of the Italian bttle are nd long the est and west coasts. The Tarquinia airfield north of Rome also was attacked.
 Two Allied planes were lost in all operations. N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
BoIIAnd N .PePPerQuiz
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tions" exclude participation by any of the United Nations now joined in active prosecution of the war and subscribing to the Atlantic charters pledges of the four free- domsp
 3. Does international authority with power to prevent aggression" mean multllateral power alliances or Q league of all nations, big and sSnallq
 3. Does it exclude international cooperation except to prevent ag- gression2
 {. Having outlawed aggressive warfare, does 1t offer Q tribunal for peaceful settlements of internation- al disputes, such as Q world court9
 s. Does power" mean joint use of military force to suppress future attempts of aggression?
 Ball and his group late yesterday dismissed as unsatisfactory the ten. tatlve answers they had received to the first two questions in the re- marks of Barkley and Senators Guy M. Gillette, D., Ta., and Ebert D. Thomas, D., Utah.
 Gillette conceded the free and sovereign nations" might exclude such British dolninions as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Gillette and Barkley said international au- thority" was broad enough to cover 0 league of nations but Thomas said 1t also could mean an alliance of as few as three nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

to the assault that is expected to throw the Germans back at least to the borders of old Poland and per- haps to the Upper Reaches of the Bug river.
 Front reports said the German retreat from Dnepropetrovsk and corner of the Dnieper Bulge at some places had taken on the appearance of rout. The Eussians seized the two cities by storm after forcing the Dnieper to the west and south and posing a threat of encirclement.
 Enormous booty of guns, tanks and other supplies were captured intact. Dnepropetrovsk, whose pre- war population totaled 100000, was little more than 0 ruined shell. Only a few walls remained of the city's 58 metallurgical buildings.
 A handful of civilians was all that remained to cheer the conquering Red Army troops. Most of the able bodied civilians had been carried off to Germany for slave labor Others hao been killed, or had starved to death. A Soviet writer estimated re- gently that 10,000000 to 15,000,000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Powerful Forces
 Crumple Axis Arms
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more Ukrainians were doomed un- less the tempo of the Soviet advance can be accelerated materially.
 70 Towns
 Forty other towns and villages, including Krasnopole, eight miles southwest of Dnepropetrovsk, also were liberated by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's armies.
 Southeast of the Dnieper bend other Red armies crashed through a second Nazi defense line below Melitopol on the approaches to the Crimea and killed more than 2,000 Germans. Front reports placed the Soviet vanguard of hard riding Cos sacks within 80 miles of the Crirnea itself with raiding patrols already at It's approaches.
 The Russians destroyed or dis abled 53 German tanks, eight big self propelled guns, 46 field guns and 43 trench mortars yesterday alone, while booty included 62 freight cars loaded with arms and ammunition.
 The Russian column cutting dir- ectly across the Dnieper bend be. hind Dneproptrovsk steadily was driving through the suburbs of Krivoi Rog, mining center and rail- way junction.
 "rhe enemy is constantly bring ing up new forces and attempting to stem the advance of Soviet units," the Soviet midnight communique said. Tn one sector, the Germans launched eight counter attacks, but sustained heavy losses and under the blows of our troops, retreated in disorder. Twenty-two burned-out tanks and hundreds of enemy dead were left on the battlefield"
 A regiment of German motorized infantry was routed in @ neighbor- ing sector and several towns and villages captured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

"SAtAA1uSQ 4EO1N GdbS ~ cd by $2,000. The court accepted the security offered after the States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald said he would not object to the diffe.- ence of $500.
 Judge Cornell said he approved the bond with confidence that the defense attorney would report any indication of @ foreclosure suit or other proceeding which would les- sen the security. The states at- torney had spoken of the possibility that the property involved might be forecolsed.
 Bondsmen were George Elian, who holds their title to the Church. elow farm in Wolcott, Mrs. Marion Churchelow, wife of the accused, who owns Q home in Naugatuck. and Nita Kellogg, Litchfield court stenographer, who was witness for the defense in the trial.
 Judge Cornell also approved de- fense motion to extend the time for filing of transcript to Dec. IS. It was pointed out the trial attorney is out of the state and has much of the transcribed evidence, and that the new counsel needs additional time to prepare the appeal. The errors claim states the judgment was contrary to law and evidence in the case.
 Churchelow began his sentence last Wednesday at Wethersfield. Papers for his release are expected to be drawn up today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

(Continued from Page D was also a delinquent with @ Selec- tive Service Board at Willoughby, Ohio, where he resided for a time.
 Both brothers were reported as fugitives on August 27, 1942 when no traces of them were found in Connecticut.
 The FBI obtained a lead on VII liams whereabouts when he wrote a letter to the Watertown Draft Board from Philadelphia informing them that he was aware of the fact that the officials were looking for him, but he regretted his inability to accept the invitation to report for induction. He also admitted that he knew another board was en- deavorlng to obtain . priority" on his services.
 ''In closing" he wrote in his let- ter. 'T wish that you gentlemen will not think of me as a alacker. as I am giving my utmost in help ing to win this war. I could do no more, I swear, but I wish my eir- cumstances would permit me to let you gentlemen judge"
 Whatever his circumstances were may become known when he and his brother are aFfaignod tn v. 6. Court.