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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
wenty-Six Bldgs Are Designated As Air Raid Shelters
City Engineer Complies List to Be Used in Event of Bombings Many Schools Included in List;
 To Be Augmented Later

list of 26 buildings which will serve public air raid shelters in the event of bombing raids announced today by City Engineer Charles Root chairman of the air raid shelter committee of the Waterbury Defense Cou c The list which will be augmented from time to time includes the city ha number of schools churches and office buildings Mr. Root suggests that this list of shelters be clipped from the newspaper and placed con- venientlv in the home for reference
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02

actual surplus, which will run from $50 000 to $200, 900, will be available as g basic fund for this years sur- plus.
 Tax collections for 1942 will, it appears, prove to have been about $3S0, ,000 greated than the estimate in last years budget, making that sum available for the surplus. Unex- pended appropriations are estimated to total in the neighborhood of $600,000. Another factor in the 1922 city surplus is the $108,0 balance remaining from 194l. However, part of this grand total of $709,000 will be lost through the fact that some sources of estimated revenue brought in considerably less than had been expected.
 With delayed bills and speciai charges due to be received this month, the exact amount of the 1942 operating surplus will not be known until some time in February.
 The lowest tax rate in over 20 years, 50 mills, has been set for 1943. In spite of this drop in taxa ton, pay raises costing $450,O0O will be given city employees this year. The grand list, estimated at $751; 100000, vii. be by far the greatest the city has ever had. 6
 Appropriations for Capital im- provements have been sharply cur- tailed in the budget for the new year, since materials can be secured only with the greatest difficulty. Regular city services will. however. will be carried on as usual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
fcnntinued % Raee a
COFFEE sTAMP NO. ss

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
City Surplus May Reach $500, ,OOO
(NEA Radiophoto)

The City Waterbury closed 942 with probably the s0OO mark and enters 1s4S with prospects the best Financial its history final tabuated reported today that collections hit mark of fraction This Is the greatest compiled
 Thanks provision, last surplus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
Three Jap Supply Ships, Sub Hit
(NEA Plloto)
By BRYDON c. TAVES Xjnited Press Staff COrreSpOndent


 Gen. Headquarters Australia, Jan 2P)mercan three big Japanese while lines reach the north New at a point it announced today.
 b0mbers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02

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Evening star., 1943-09-04
Alexandria Man Is Held
In Attack on Girl, Is

Russell z. Wright, 25, of Belle
Haven road, Alexandria, was being
held by Fairfax County police today
on charge of attempted criminal
assault on the 16-year-old daughter
of an Army captain.
1t. Henry Magarity of the Fairfax
police force, said Wright was traced
by the license number of the car he
was driving. He was arrested yes
terday at his home by Its. Magarity
and Russell Howes of Fairfax and
Sergt. j. w. Baber of the Alexandria
police.
Police quoted the girl as saying the
had been forced into car by Wright,
who is employed at the Fairlington
housing development in Arlington.
as she was walking past the project.
She said he drove her about mile
out the old Leesburg road and there
beat her, but fled after she resisted
his attacks
The girl memorized the car license
number, and check disclosed that
the vehicle had been borrowed by
Wright from a fellow worker. Po-
lice said the girl lives near Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
1rombetta Sentenced
As Enemy Agent

Domenico Trombetta. So. former
editor of defunct Italian language
newspaper in New York. today was
given suspended sentence of eight
months to two years for violation of
the Foreign Agents Registration Act
after Justice F. Dickinson Let's had
accepted the interned publishers
plea of noio contendere.
Indicted here in May on a charge
OF being an agent for the Italian
government prior to this country s
entrance into the war, Trombetta
pleaded not guilty to the charge
when arraigned last month. Today
in District Court, however, he asked
to withdraw his original plea and to
file the plea of nolo contendere. in
dicating he did not wish to contest
the charge.
Attorney Howard Boyd, appointed
to represent Trombetta. pointed out
to the jurlSt that the defendant al
ready had been interned for approx
imately year and that he faced
internment for the duration of the
| war.
According to the Justice Depart
ment, the defendant was the first
Italian to be prosecuted under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act. He
was denaturalized September, 1912
| Carl Guenther Bosnian Orgell, 43
German-born engineer of Staten Is
land, N. Y, pleaded not guilty yes
terday in District Court when ar
raigned before Justice Let's on a
! similar charge.
The indictment alleges Orgell
failed to inform the State Depart
ment, between October, 1888, and
June, l941, that his foreign princi-
pals included the German Foreign
Office. Orgell, according to the JUS
tice Department, listed the Volks-
bund Fuer das Deutschum in Aus
lande as his foreign principal.
Orgell described the organizat tior
as private membership society en-
gagged in strictly private cultural ac-
tivities.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
41,5OO More Tons
OF Jap Shipping Sunk
In Pacific Operations
BY the Associated preSx

by the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Sept. 4.-Blasting a seven-ship
supply convoy at Wewak, New
Guinea, Allied bombers have
added $1,000 tons of merchant
shipping to the 2,500,000 tons
which Secretary of the Navy
Knox said in Washington the
japanese have lost to planes and
submarines since the war opened.
Today's communique from Gen.
Douglas Macarthur also reported
damage to 2o,5OO additional tons in
far-ranging operations.
Three freighter transports, each
OF 1000 tons, were sent to the bot
tom of Wewak's harbor Thursday
morning by Mitchell bombers which
braved balloon barrage, antiair-
craft fire and enemy fighter planes
to drop 1000 pound bombs.
Destroyer Left in Flames.
An enemy destroyer was left en-
veloped in flames and the stern was
blown off a 1,000-ton cargo ship.
That left only one cargo ship and a
destroyer unreported as hit in the
furious assault.
CA delayed dispatch from Vern
Haugland, Associated Press war
correspondent in New Guinea,
said the convoy probably had dis
embarked the troops it carried
and unloaded much of the cargo,
intended for garrisons at Madang,
Lac and Salamau, before the
Mitchells attacked)
He said the Japanese had tried
something new in the South Pacific
War-12 barrage balloons strung on
1,000-foot cables from the ships
| Flyers reported the cables were
| good and thick" but that the bal
looms were no larger than weather
balloons.
-Four hundred miles west OF Dar-
cargo ship was damaged in raid by
four r-engined Allied bombers on the
harbor of Waincapoe, Soemba Island.
Another 7,000-ton supply ship was
damaged off Cape ST. George and a
5,000-ton ship bombed near Mussau
Island, both In the New Ireland
sector, by patrolling Liberators and
Catalinas.
Troopship Hit Squarely.
Off Timika, Dutch New Guinea, a
500-ton vessel, loaded with Japanese
troops, was hit squarely by bomb
from two-engined Allied plane on
reconnaissance.
Rounding out the days report
numerous small enemy craft in the
Wewak harbor were strafed, four
barges were sunk in Auhhansa Bay
Evening star., 1943-09-04

New Guinea; three more in Borgon
Bay, New Britain, and four barges
and two launches in the Solomons.
Losses also were piled up against
the japanese air force.
The Mitchells and escorting Light
nings which raided Wewak, grave
yard since mid-August for more
than $50 enemy planes, shot down
at least IL of IS japanese fight
ers which tried to protect the con-
voy. The raiders probably destroyed
8 others and damaged 5. Three
Allied bombers and one fighter were
lost.
II Jap Planes Shot Down.
During Cotton bombing raid by
Mitchells and Liberators on the air
drome at Cape Gloucester, Southern
New Britain, out Of IL intercept
ing japanese planes were shot down
for certain and two others probably
destroyed at cost Of one allied
bomber.
Two japanese bombers on recon
nafssance were shot down near Ma
dang, New Guinea, by Allied P-38s
In the Solomons, four enemy
planes were wrecked on the ground
during raid by American Corsairs
on the Kahili Airdrome near BUM
Bougainville Island, and a fifth
Japanese plane was shot down neal
American occupied Vella Lavella
Island.
That added up to 26 enemy plane.
definitely destroyed and IS others
probably destroyed or damaged.
Evening star., 1943-09-04

without due regard to the will oi
Congress or the official commit
ments of the department"
"The obstructions placed in our
way, with few exceptions, have been
caused by Washington officials OF
the department. Most of the State
Departments Ambassadors in the
nine countries where we are now
operating have in fact been CO.
operative and have approved
heartily of our operations"
He said that these Washington
officials have recently forbidden us
to discuss possible operations or to
offer our services to the govern
ments of several countries where in
creased food production is greatly
needed (notably Bolivia and
Ecuador, though budgets for oper-
atlons in these countries were ap-
proved by Congress.
They have now undertaken to tell
us how many and what sort of agri-
cultural experts We may send to
countries with which we have agree
ments and hence obligations, with
out having the slightest idea what
personnel is needed to carry out
the terms of those agreements"
Mr.. LIE Cron also said that while
his personal associations with Mr..
Rockefeller and most of the officials
OF the o-ordinator Office had been
most pleasant and agreeable, he did
not care to work under the further
handicaps and still more divided
authority which he considered re-
suited from Mr.. Rockefeller's having
surrendered" some of the functions
of the food supply division to the
Agriculture Departments Office of
Foreign Agricultural Relations last
July.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Drowning Of Woman
AT Chesfertown, Md,
Under Investigation
BY the Associated Press,

CHESTERTOWN, Md, Sept. A.
H. w. Vickers, States attorney for
Kent County, reported today that
Maryland and county police had re-
quested police at Laureldale, Pa, to
aid in investigating the death last
Saturday of Mrs. Mary Stuber, 80,
of Laureldale.
Nothing at present indicates foul
play Mr.. Vickers said, but there
are some battling, questionable and
unexplainable things" about the
death of the woman. whose body
was recovered from the Sassafras
River on Monday.
Mr.. Vickers said that Mrs. Stuber
and her husband were guests aboard
a yacht owned by the wife of DR..
H. R. Hartman of Laureldale on the
week end Mrs. Stuber died. He
said Mrs. Stuber and her husband
Richard, both were reported to have
been in the river Saturday night
and that Mr.. Stuber apparently
jumped overheard in an attempt to
rescue his wife. Mr.. Vickers said
that Mrs. Stuber never came up and
there were no bubbles" to indicate
where she went under.
The woman's head and face were
cut and bruised. whether from fall
ing from the top deck of the boat
or from other causes is undeter-
mined" the attorney reported. He
added that there were no bruises on
other nartS Of hor h0Gy
Mr.. Vickers said he understood
the AUTOPSY report to be submitted
by DR.. Howard J. Maldeis, State
medical examiner. would state "the
body was found drowned"
DR.. Maldeis declined to comment
on the report, except to state that
the death certificate listed cause of
death as "the body was found
drowned" Whether she actually
drowned or not was too important"
for him to say, DR.. Maldeis added.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Six Of 16C Citations
In Sicily Are Won by
Medical Corps Men
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star staff Correspondent.


SICILY (by MaiD.-Of 16 in
stances of heroism in the Siciliar
campaign cited by 45th Division
Headquarters six were performed by
members of the small medical de-
tachments with the field regiments
Seldom before have the Army
Medical Corps men been called
upon for such dangerous and
arduous service as in this campaign
When two soldiers were knocked
out by mortar fire Pvts. John Slovak
of Bellmore, Long Island, and
Homer Matthew of Springfield
Mass, crawled to them under a rain
of shells and bandaged their injuries
while they were lying fiat on their
Stomachs.
Wounded German Saved.
On another occasion Pvt. Slovak
together with Pvts. Morris Hanson
of Hanska. Mimi, and Paul Hodges
and Helmuth Gutersloh of New York
City, found a wounded German near
a mine field. They picked him up
and started their way back toward
the firSt-aid station, carefully fol-
lowing a path they knew to be free
OF mines through the bushes. A
bridge had been blown out over
a deep gully. Pvt. Hanson, a man
of about 130 pounds, used fire.
mans hold to get the 180-pound
German through bypass. Alto
gether they carried the man 6 miles,
3 to the first-aid station and then
3 to the ambulance.
Pvt. Fred Beard of Forest CITY.
Long Island wriggled his way I'D to
two soldiers, one of whom had been
hit. With the mwounded man
helping him, Pvt. Beard started to
work. A bullet killed the volunteer.
Pvt. Beard calmly finished the lob,
pulled the man out of the line of
fire and returned to cover.
Many wounded men owe their
lives to Capt. Peter C. Graffagnino
OF New Orleans, who picked his way
through a mine field to give first
aid to 10 casualties. Sappers later
removed 54 mines from the area in
which he was working.
Helmet Is Clipped.
Pvt. Arthur Bauman of Cincin-
natl was crawling to the aid of a.
wounded infantryman when an
artillery shell clipped the front part
OF his helmet. Hell" he muttered
as he continued on his way, "at least
they left me most of It,"
Curious was the experience of
members of litter squad-Pvts.
John Szerwieniec, Cleveland; Cecil
Fink, Lewisburg, w. Va; J. w.
Lang, Denver, and Thomas Oriel,
Muncie, Ind. A Sicilian housewife
had given them half dozen hard
boiled eggs. Just as they sat down
to eat them the Germans opened
up with a barrage OF 88s. They
laid the eggs in the sand, open side
up, and sought shelter. The bar
rage let up and they rescued the
eggs from the dirt thrown over
them. A shell burst nearby and
again they found shelter in a ditch
after carefully placing the eggs in a
row, shell sides in the dirt. Again
the precious eggs were covered with
debris, but this time the soldiers ate
them.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
.0PA Personnel Told
Il Must Not Engage
In Political Activity
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
General Manager Chester Bowles
told all persons affiliated with the
Office of Price Administration today
that there must be no political ac-
tivity" in the organization which in
cludes $4,000 volunteer and unsal-
aried ration board members.
The agency must remain nom
PARTISAN he added in a notice
which left no doubt that rationing
officers would have to give up their
jobs If they want to take part in
next years campaigns. OPAs thou
sands Of salaried employees are
barred from politics by the Hatch
Act.
Strict enforcement of the rule,
however, poses new personnel prob
lens for many of the 5000 local ra-
tioning boards which already are
having trouble keeping stated be-
cause of military and industrial
drains.
Old Order Recalled.
With 1914 politics already SIM
mering in many sections, an OPA
official recalled year-old admin
istrative order that no political
candidate, party officer or campaign
worker can serve on a rationing
board, even though the jobholders
are unsalaried volunteers.
There had been conjecture that
the directive might be modified suf-
ficiently to let rationing officers re-
tain their jobs as long as they are
not actual candidates or campaign
strategists. But Mr. Bowles stopped
1t with the statement, eve can have
no political activity"
l.. w. Herzog, district OPA di-
rotor in Albany, N. Y, notified
members of the Is local rationing
boards under his supervision yes
terday that they would have to
resign of they ran for office. His
action was taken without any new
specific order from Washington, but
an OPA official pointed out that a
New York election will be held
soon.
Directive Issued.
Although the Hatch Act. does not
apply specifically to the volunteer
ration board members, OPA noti-
| fled them in a directive issued July
IA, 1912, that ANY person Gncluding
volunteers who engages in any po-
litical activities within the spirit OF
the Hatch Act, even though the
act may not be applicable, will be
subject to prompt dismissal"
When rationing boards first were
established the members were Sc
lected by the Governors of the
States. Few Of those original ap-
pointees remain, however, and va
cancies now are filled by persons
! nominated by local defense councils
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Usual Weekend Jam
Turns Back WouId-Be
Labor Day Travellers

Union Station was more thronged
than usual today as Labor Day
weekend travellers clamored for
places on crowded trains and incom-
Ing holiday crowds got off.
In an era when wartime travel has
become extremely heavy, especially
on week ends, Labor Day was re-
ported putting special burden on
the railroads, despite the appeal of
Joseph B. Eastman, director of the
Office of Defense Transportation, for
people to stay at home.
1t is hard these days, the station
master explained, to discern travel
peaks, since Union Station is jam
med at certain hours every day, but
it looked like a tough week end for
trainmen, conductors, ticket sellers
and all concerned with journeys.
While some railroads reported lust
about the usual week end demand
for reservations, others were expert
encing what seemed the heaviest
travel of the year.
The Atlantic Coast Line, which
runs along the Southeastern sea-
board to Florida, reported all its
trains sold out for a week. But
still people came in the ticket office
hoping for space and not getting it.
A similar report came from the
Southern Railway.
The Pennsylvania and the Balti-
more & Ohio, while also besieged for
such non-existent luxuries as berths
ana Pullman seats, predicted a
normal wartime week end, since the
trains could carry only so many
people and they would be filled as
usual.
All the railroads put on as much
extra equipment as they had, but
that is limited by military require
ments, and only the usual weekend
extra sections of through trains
were run.
The airplane lines said thev
always were booked up every dav
and, since it was impossible for
them to put on extra planes, they
could carry only natural compile
ments this week end. Compare
lively few holiday travellers were
standing in line for plane tickets
because the situation appeared to
be understood generally.
An airline official pointed out that
the Army had taken over 49 per
cent OF commercial plane equipment.
making space extremely limited and
confined largely to priority pas
Sengers.
Greyhound reported crowds try
Ing to get on buses Somewhat
larger than usual for Saturday
Fear was expressed that a good
many wouldn't be able to board
buses, though every effort was being
made to maintain normal service.
While easing of the pleasure ban
was expected to put more people
on the road, most of them were
not expected to have enough gaso-
line to go far.
Few Government workers were
included in the Labor Day exodus.
BY presidential decree, Monday is
Just another work day in Federal
departments.
Retail stores, banks and most
other business houses will be closed
however.
Incoming and outgoing service
men on furlough made up a large
part of the crowds milling through
railroad and bus terminals.
Evening star., 1943-09-04

Napt' TrItcHaru' TOM COIIege III
June, 1941, and went to Fort Ben
ming, Ga. Later he moved to
Camp Gordon, Ga. He is men,
ber of Phi Sigma Kappa. Scabbard
and Blade, national ROTC honor
society and a former Eagle Scout.
Capt. Pritchard was born in 1905
in Indianapolis, Ind. He later moved
to Memphis, Tenn, where he went
to school, He attended Georgia
School of Technology and Cornell
University. Later he went to Beau
mont, Tex, as an architect and
he developed rural communities for
the State, He later returned to
Washington, holding Government
administrative posts.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Base at Rekoto Bay
Abandoned by Jops,
| Allied official Saws
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC, Sept. 4.-The Jap
anese have abandoned their
once important seaplane base
at Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel,
l45 miles northwest of Guadal-
canal, a South Pacific head
quarters spokesman said today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
communique for Thursday
spoke of heavy United States
bomber units striking enemy
installations at Rekata Bay
without meeting opposition
Unoficially, it was thought
here the Japanese had evacu-
ated the entire island as we'll
as Rekata Bay, but there was
no intimation that United States
forces have occupied Santa
Isabel.
Small barges could have re-
moved the enemy to Choiseul
and other nearby islands In an
attempt to reach Japanese-held
| Bougainville.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
MRS. Roosevelt Quotes Letter
To Show Defeutismin Reich

end to this, because things cannot
last if air raids are permitted to
continue"
The tide has turned in the favor
OF United Nations, Mrs. Roosevelt
continued, but she warned that this
should not mean relaxation of war
effort or reduction in production.
Prime Minister John Curtin intro
duced Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt visited all sections
OF the Australian capital today
winding up by automobile through
lane after lane of beautiful waffle
blossoms, the national flower.
Accompanied by Lady Gowrie,
wife of the Governor-G General. she
planted a tree on the grounds of
the American Legation and visited
an American naval establishment,
where she spoke before a crowd of
sailors.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
Jap Troops Are Repulsed
In Landing Above Foochow
By the Associated Press


CHUNGKING, Aug. 80 Delayed). i.
japanese troops attempted to
land Sunday on Santuao Island, As
miles north of Foochow, in Fukien
Province, but were repulsed by shore
batteries, Chinese dispatches an
nounced today.
The attempt was made under
cover of barrage from japanese
warships which pounded the Chinese
shore positions from comparatively
close range, the dispatch said.
The exact purpose of the at
tempted landing was not known but
might have been either for the
purpose of foraging supplies or to
establish base for drive inland
The japanese are known to fear
the establishment of air bases in
Fukien from which attacks on Japan
could be launched.
Evening star., 1943-09-04

Visitors to the Army exhibit,
Back the Attack" will be shown
miniature theater of operations,
complete to the last detail, of a
2,oO0-mile fighting front squeezed
into an area $50 feet long and 40
feet wide.
All the elements of modern sup
ply warfare are emphasized from
the point Of embarkation through
all stages until finally the materiel
reaches fighter crouched in fox-
hole at the front.
Evening star., 1943-09-04
BY the Associated Press,


CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. A.
Defeatism is widespread and grow
ing in Germany, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt declared in an address
today, and, as example, she read the
uncensored advice of German
mother to her soldier son to sur
render that he might stay alive.
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at a lunch
con given in her honor by the COM
monwealth government in Parlia-
ment House. She read from a letter
which she said was found on a Ger
man prisoner during the Tunisian
campaign. 1t said:
TRY to hold out. dear son. This
war will come to an end some day.
When you cannot do so (hold out)
any longer, arrange to be captured,
because the important thing is to
remain alive. There must be an