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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
By REYNOLDS PACKARD

u. S. FLYING FORTRESS BASE,
North Africa. May 10 tUP)-Photo-
graphs today showed that the big
geSt all-American bombing raid in
history had taken tremendous
toll of Axis war works at the Sicil-
ian port of Palermo on Sunday
Snd knocked out at least l3 enemy
fighting planes.
Heavy damage 10 the Fiat fac
tory, the iron and steel works. ar
scnals where shell caSeS are made
and to chemical works was shown
in photographs taken during sew
eral reconnaissance flights.
Officers said that the targets had
been hit as planned" with tre-
mcndous effect. And photographs
showed the oil storage depot still
burning with smoke rising more
tran 5000 feet.
saw four MeSSer5chmittS shot
down by the Fortress in which |
flew during the Palermo raid, and
later, talks with members of other
crows showed that total Of at
least 13 enemy planes we're Knocked
out. The final score may be larger
USE 400 PLANES
More than 400 Flying FOrtrCSseS,
Billy Mitchells and Martin Marau-
dcrs carrying enormous loads of
explosives droncd across the
Mediterranean to this important
italian base Sunday noon, follow
ing ND the Axis rout in TuniSia.
The entire harhor of Palermo was
Shrouded in billoWing clouds OF dust
and smoke. Here and there tongues
Of flame broke through. Visibility
W9G good and VIC could sec the
WEOlc show clearly.
The American formation was
protected by many twin tailed
Lightning fighters,
Hundreds and hundreds of bombs
were dropped. There was a flash
and flames from the center Of town
leapcd 900 feet into the air, 1t
probably was an important oil
dump.
MANY BLACK PUEFS
There Werc black pGfiS which
mu5brOomed ana exploded around
Is as the planes passed through
flak fields. The big bombeIs shook.
-Four German MeSserschmlttS at
tackled 4 Fortress. The P-38 Light
nings darted in and one MoSSer-
Schmitt burst into flames. The
others peeled off and disappeared
The bomberS approached theil
target from the sea, striking across
the city from the harbOr. They
left trail of destruction right into
the heart of the industrial quarter
At times there were SO MesSer-
gunncrs and the Lightning pilots
went into action effectively. -Four
Of the enemy planes plunged into
The Straits of Sicil".
Mai. Robert Kimmel an Ohio
llier, commanded the entire For
trcSs group. one of the four-en-
gircd bombcr5, the Yankee Queen
in which | was riding, had been on
35 missions during the TuniSian
campaign and had shot down six
German planes.
SALT LAKE PILOT
The pilot of our crew was Jst
Lieut.. Galph Kecle of Salt Lake
City Utah
The crew had autographed the
bombs. A typical sentiment eX-
pressed was: "To the duck and his
comic opera cohorts from Pilot
Keelc."
On the way from Bizerte to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10

drawn from former RAF American
Eagle squadrons, finally got its
chance to challenge the LuftWaife
after weeks of disheartening delays
The original fighter squadronS
intended to support the FortrcsseS
came To England with P-38 Light
nings late last year. hut before they
could make even one sweep. they
we're transferred hastily TO another
theater The nucleus of their or
ganizationS remained in England
but only weeks later did the
Thundcrbo!t equipment arrive.
Then more weeks of familiarlzing
the pilots with the new machines
The Fortress gunnerS also had to
learn to identify the Thunderholt
which looks like the Fockc-Wull
100
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
French Get Honor
OF Taking 1unis

TUNIS. May Q 'Delayed1 ,tUPl--
The tricolor of France was borne
back in triumph to TuniS this
morning after six months of Nazi
occupation.
To the stirring blare of military
bands, French troops with their
long bayonets glinting in the early
morning sun. marched into the city
in tight columns to take over
formal possession.
British troops had taken TuniS
BY storm Saturday. But this was
the first official entry into the city
and the French who for months
hao Dattled the uitadera on the
Jagged mountain heights down
around Bou Arada were accorded
the honor of making it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Bissesty yank Raid
T okes Heavy Toll

Palermo, Kttlc Sald'
This is the first time that VIC
cont need to worry about MeSser-
schmittS bucking in on us from
North Africa. From today on, the
bombardment of Europe from North
African bases will be a simple
matter. This raid should be the
forerunner of many to come"
Keele, who was in RAID on
Naples, said that it could not COM
pare with today's attack
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
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BOMBERS ATTACK

Seven Japanese bOrnber5 hit at
Millm9irnbi, east of Darwin on
CaStlereagh bay Yesterday, causing
light casualties and damage. One
raider was damaged by a single
intercepting Allied plane.
In an attack on ManokWari, in
Dutch New Guinea, Liberators shot
down one Of three intercepting Zeros
that met them over the Kai islands.
The hit store buildings, the town
area and other targets, starting
fires but not doing as much dam
age as they did in q previous raid
May 6.
A dispatch from somewhere in
Australia said Lieut.. Lowell john
son OF Santa Ana. Cal, was a pilot
on the raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Ground Fighting
Flares I'm Guinea

G E N. . MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Austria
liza, May 10. (UP) = Allied
bombers and attack planes
pounded the New Guinea
northeast coastline in raids follow
ing a renewal of ground skirmiShing
near Salamaua, communique said
today.
Five enemy New Guinea strong
holds were bombed while other craft
ranged far over the Dutch New
Guinea japanese bases and seven
enemy bombers raided o settlement
near Darwin on the Australian
coast.
Bombing and Strafing passes we're
leVeled at trenches and trails in
the Koniatllm area, southeast of
Allied-held village of Bobduri, near
which 20 japanese soldiers were
killed and many others wounded
Saturday when Allied patrols am
pushed an enemy group on a jungle
trail
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
$50 PLANES DESTROYED

| IDc RUSSIAN aerial offensive has
been in high gear for several days
| at scattered points along the whole
Ifront An earlier announcement re-
vcaled that 930 German planes had
been destroyed from May 9 to B
while The Russians we're losing only
235 aircraft.
Tho air attacks were directed
largely against enemy rail points.
The Germans were believed to
have poured heavy reinforCement5
| in men and planes into the CaucaS-
us to keep their lOothOld on the
Taman peninsula. The enemy re-
ported clinglng to every height and
| rock before NovorosSisk.
The communiquc said Red army
| |detachmentS repulSed several COun-
tcrattackS in the LissichanSk sector
of the Donets Basin, southeast of
Kharkov Three enemy tanks were
destroyed and zoo prisoners taken.
|AYENPT CROSSING
In the ChugueV area, southeast
+ of Kharkov, German infantry tried
to cross water barrier and so
NaZis we're killed. Russian SniperS
killed 80 of the enemy in ono days
/ lighting west Of Rostov. Another 100
Germans were wiped out on the
northwestern front.
Soviet pilots forced n Fockc Wulf-
189 to land in Russian territory and
the crew was taken prisoner.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10

m lea r


MOSCOW, May 10. (UP)
Russian forces driving u
breach into the new Nazi de
fense lire nine miles north
east Of the Black Sea port
of Novorossisk wiped out two Ger
man companies of 400 men with
trench and mortar fire today.
Tho Soviet mid day communiquc
also announced that the Red army
which steadily has been pushing The
Axis back in their narrow Kuban
IbrSdgehead in the Caucasus destroy
ed six enemy artillery and trench
mortar batteries, 81 machine gun
nests and smashed eight dugouts.
Russian artillery accounted for these
successes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
ARREST TWO
 CONNECTICUT
 SLACKERS

FBI caught up with two long-sought draft dodgers last evening in a surprise visit to a farmhouse at Marshf1eld, vt., where they apprehended Ulrich Royal Brasche, 34, and William George Brasche, 37, brothers. They will be returned to Connecticut for arraignment in the U. s. Federal court, it was announced today by Special Agent Roger F. Glea- son of the New Haven office of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation.
 The two alleged draft de- linquents are wanted in Watertown and Hartford. In view of criminal charges pending against both in other cities it is possible that Fed eral authorities may waive charges to permit immediate trial. No statement will be made until the facts of the cases are studied.
 Ulrich Brasche was @ registrant of the Watertown board and has been missing since August, 1941. He gave his address as R. F. D. No. 8, Thomaston Conn.,, and stated that he was married and employed at the Pratt & Whitney plant. The Hart- ford police have been on the look. out for him, alleging violation of the conditional sales act in connec- ton with the purchase of an auto and the additional complaint of support.
 William Brasche's last known res- idence was 20 Spring street, Hart ford. TIe has been missing since August, 1o4l. He is wanted in New York State for violation of his par- ole. He had served e term in the Walkill, N. Y. prison on a statutory charge. He was employed ct the Parker Appliance Company.
 When the FBI started an investi- gation they discovered that William
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Eerie Scene ByChurch

Washington, Oct. 26-(UP)-1n the church the worshippers were chanting a hymn. :.
 In the street outside. with cold rain slanting through the trees, a man dragged the gunshot-riddled body of a red-haired woman from a car, threw her in the gutter near an open manhole, snarled: What the hell are you Joking at2" at a woman passerby, and drove away.
 The red-haired woman, uniden- tified but well dressed with the label of Carson, Pirie and Scott, a Chicago department store, inside her coat, died in Casualty hospital at S:55 o'clock last night with five bullets in her head. She was 3O-35 years of age, wore ring with a blue stone, and had a gold-capped lower tooth and a gold bridge on her upper teeth.
 The passerby, Mrs. Grace Lucas, was walking home from mailing a letter when she saw a man lifting the lid from a manhole cover. She saw him go over to a dark sedan, drag . bleeding figure from it, and throw it into the gutter. He snarled at her and drove of.
 Mrs. Lucas ran to a neighbor who called police.
 Inside the church the congrega- ton finished the last strains of an- other hymn, and filed out after the police had removed the body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Lad Admits Killing Girl
 Sister-In-LoW

North Dartmouth, Mass, Oct. 26 .-(UP)-Albert Lessa, 19-year-olt merchant seaman, broke down after three hours of questioning early to- day and allegedly confessed to the shotgun killing of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Shirley Mae Wilcox, but insisted 1t was an accident.
 Dist. Atty. William 0. Crossley announced the confession after a three-day investigation in which Lessa had been the chief suspect and had been questioned and re-ques- toined. The girls body, a gunshot wound in the abdomen, was dis- covered near a couch in the living room of her isolated home here Sat- urday.
 "Yes, I did 1t, but 1t was an acci- dent.," Lessa was quoted. "She was a swell kid"
 While a stenographer took down his statement, the slight, boyish- appearing suspect frequently buried his face in his manacled hands. He had been brought for the ques- tioning from the Bristol County jail where he was remanded yesterday after being sentenced to three months on an old automobile lar- ceny charge.
 After signing the confession, Les- So was booked on 0 murder charge.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Toio Counts On Nazi Aid

Emperor Hirohito told a special session of the Japanese diet today that the empires war situation is truly grave" but Premier Hideki Tojo assured the members that Ger many is planning new blows in Eur ope to help ''bring the United States and Britain to their knees"
 Hirohito's sober appraisal of the situation, one of his rare statements on the course of the war, and Tojo's address were broadcast by the radio Tokyo and recorded by the office of war information.
 Tojo expressed confidence in the outcome of the war and told the diet that Germany is planning new military operations fin all direc- tions."
 Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada told the diet that Japanese armed forces and IT Allied cruisers, 18 destroyers, 9 submarines and 70 transports between June IS and Oct. 20. along with 70 other war vessels he also claimed that American plane losses totaled i.6i3 during that per- iod.
 He placed Japanese losses at six destroyers, l2 otLer warships and 4i5 planes.
 HirohIto's statement emphasized the need for . greater effort by the Japanese people to destroy the evil ambition Of the enemy nations"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
U. s. Scores Great Aerial Triumph M s. ". Pacific

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Oct. 26. (UP)-Allied war planes have destroyed 131 and prob ably 203 enemy aircraft in a three day series of raids that temporarily knocked out the main Japanese air base in the Northern Eolomons and crippled a new enemy attempt to reinforce his shattered aerial squad rons at Rabaul. New Britain.
 The victories. revealed today in front reports from the Solomons and in a communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, were scored at e cost of only five of the hundreds of Allied fighters and bombers sent into action.
 A Japanese destroyer and five coastal vessels were added to the enemy toll during the battles. which ragged from Friday to Sunday, and two cargo ships and e number Of barges were damaged.
 Enemy ground installations at a half-dozen points from New Guinea to the 6oiomQns were blasted heavily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Seek Peace Via Vatican

Lisbon, Oct. 26 = (U.P0 - Ger man forces in Rome are trying to put pressure on the Vatican to help arrange a negotiated peace that would circumvent the Anglo-Amer- ican demand for unconditional surrender and spare Axis leaders from punishment for their war crimes, a well-informed neutral source said today.
 The German envoy to the Vatican this source said, preached the sub ject at a recent visit with Pope Plus XII, suggesting that the Pon- tiff use his position to sound out the American and British governments on the question of a negotiated peace.
 German attempts to intimidate the Vatican by their so-called pro lection" and their battle to delay the Allied March on Rome also were said to be connected with the peace move.
 This source said the Pope's recent statement that he will remain in Rome was intended to inform the the world that if he does leave his papal seat it will only be because he was forced to do so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
RommeI Gets Top Spot In ItaIy

London, Oct. 26.--(UP)--MarShal Erwin Rommel, erstwhile "desert fox", has been given supreme com. mand over Axis forces in Italy and the Balkans following 6 clash that resulted in the recall of Mar shal Albert Kesselring, former Ger man commander in southern Italy, iti was learned today.
 Reliable sources in London said KeSselring'S command on the south- ern Italian front was taken over by a virtually-unknown officer, identi- fled only as Lieut.. Gen. Witting- hoff.
 Kesselring, who for sometime had been reported quarreling with Rom- mel over their divided command in Italy, was believed to have been as- signed to an air force command on the Russian front.
 The busted 'Nazi general command ed German armies in Sicily and southern Italy, before the Italian collaps. Subsequently, the high command in Berlin established 0 separate army in northern Italy un- der Rommel, with the divisions drawn from France and Germany.
 The divided command in one bat tie zone created such friction be- tween Kesselring and Rommel, who had been antagonistic since the North African campaign, that Ber- lin apparently stepped in to settle the dispute 10 days ago when Ronl- mel was reported to have been giv. en the supreme command. Around that time 1t was announced that Rommel had been placed in conl- mand of German forces in the Bal-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Ball And Pepper Heckle Post War Peace Planners

Washington, Oct. 26 - (U.P) - The group of young senators who seek a more specific committal by the United States on postwar peace collaboration plans than con- tained in the pending resolution promised today to continue ''reck- ling" its sponsor for definitions of their terms.
 Chairman Tom Connally. D., Tex. of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, leading sponsor of the resolution which he admits is vague, complained near the close of the first day of debate that those seek ing to strengthen the language of the declaration were trying to ''heckle" him by demanding deiini- tons of nearly every word.
 Senator Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., pTopounded the questions and Sen- ator Claude Pepper. D., Fla, said he would renew them today when he ia scheduled Co debate the for elgn policy issue with Senate Demo cratic Leader Alben ". Bafkley of Kentucky and Senator Walter Y.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
GoIIows For .U. s. Soldier

London, Oct, 26- -(UP)- P)--PrlvAtA Lee A. Davis of Temple, Texas. was found guilty by q United states court martial today of murdering a 19-year-old British girl and criim- inally attacking her 22-year-old friend, and was sentenced to die on the gallows.
 Davis told the military court sit- ting at Marlborough that he was only IS years old. He testified that he was pretty intoxicated from beer. aspirins and scotch" at the time ana he knew he had committed a crim6 but hadn't intended killing any- body.
 The murdered girl, Cynthia June Lay, was shot to death on a lonely road at the edge of Savernake f0r= est near Marlborough on the night of Sept. 28. She was returning witl1 Muriel Fawden to the Savernake hospital, where both were employed. after an evening at the movies.
 Miss Fawden was attacked by soldier who kept her in the wnods several hours and finally permitted her to return to the hospital.
 The principal witness at the trial. Miss Fawden told of a night Of t&4 TOT after her friend was killed. e submitted to the soldier fearknN death if she refused, she said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Firemon Sued For Neglect

Boston, Oct. 26-(UP)-The state opens its case today against Fire It. Prank J. Linney of Boston. charged with wilful neglect of duty in connection with the Cocoanut Grove Holocaust of last Nov. 20 which claimed 402 lives.
 Linney. city employe since 1909, inspected the club and reported conditions good" eight days before the fire. He also faces three charges of being an accessory after the fact of manslaughter.
 Yesterday. the jurors viewed the scene Of the night club fire. A motion to quash the indictment again Lln- ney on the grounds that he was not a public officer and was not charged wilh inspecting the Cocoa nut Grove for any conditions which might he contrary io law e ogdi- nance was not acted upon hy Super for Judge kEmnela 2. Good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Mature To
 Wed Shirley

Hollywood, Oct. 26-(UP)-victor Mature, who lost one movie red- head to Orson Welles, scurried around today for Q license to marry Anne Shirley, another red-haired star of the films.
 Miss Shirley announced the en- gagement late last night, then went to the Mocambo with Mature, now on leave from the Coast Guard, who said:
 "All I can say is that since I re- turned to Hollywood I found out the way to a woman's heart is not by saving her in half"
 This was an oblique reference to his engagement last winter to Rita Hayworth. Hardly had Miss H. an- nounced she would marry Mature before she turned up in the magic show of Welles, who sawed" her in half nightly. Shortly thereafter the Man from Mars married Miss Hay worth and Mature, in Chicago. an- nounced via long distance telephone that he had suffered a jolt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
NAYS FLEE FROM THE DN|EPER
 Fifth Army Gains On 9O-N1iIe Front
Powerful Forces
 Crurnple Axis Arms

Moscow, October %. (UP) = Tens of thousands of Germans fled for their lives from the Dnieper bend to- day as powerful Russian arm ies crumbled the whole Axis southern Ukranian front and smashed forward at a pace that gave promise of rolling the enemy back to Rumania and Poland by the end of the year.
 The German retreat in some sectors became paniclxy as demoralized troops aball- doned tanks, guns and other arms in wholesale lots in their haste to escape through the steadily-closing jaws of g Soviet pincers that already was slashing through the mining center of Krivoi Rog in the north and probing the approaches to the Crimea iil the south.
 (Military experts in London be- lieved the Germans have Q b0-Du chance of saving at least half Of their 600000 men in the Dniepex Bend if they launch . major coun- ter-attack. If they are unable to muster sufficient reserves for Buell large-scale counter-effort, their chances of extricating even 50O,000 men were regarded as considerably less than even.)
 Great Violence
 (The NaA Paris radio said that all fronts in Russia had hared Into battles of almost unparalleled yio- lence with the Dnieper battle ns- suming "colossal proportions.'1
 The Red Arny's Ukrainian offon- sive already has exceeded in propor- ton the offensive of last winter that carried the Russians to the east bank of the Dnieper and nnll- | lLaTY ODBtTVSTB pGAfCyG VkAMt At &1Al4N develop into a final drive to ouak the enemy from the entire Ukraina before 1o44.
 The capture of the twin naetais lurgical centers of Dnepropetrovsk. Russia's "Pittsburgh", and Dnepfo- dzerzhinsk yesterday collapsed tho defense keystone in the Dnieper Bend and gave the soviets urlchal. lenged possession of Q 600-rniic stretch of the Dnieper river from a point below 0onel to one oppoeile zaporozhe with the sole exception of Kiev.
 The strengthening Soviet driye across the Dnieper Bend, coupled with the preaching of another Ger man defense line south of Melltopol to the southeast, brought the entire Crimea and Mikolaev, ct the mouth of the Bug river, under threat of imminent capture.
 Liberation
 Liberation of Kiev, capital Of the Ukraine and Russia's third city, was considered e foregone conclusion in Soviet military circles. It would cx- pose the rest of the fiat steppelands
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Moscow Meet Going We'll

Moscow, Oct. 26 = (U.P) = The conference of American, British and Russian foreign ministers entered its second week today with observers indicating that important progress ilas been made toward a satisfac- tory agreement on war and post war problems affecting the three Allies.
 The cordiality of the meetings was accentuated yesterday by @ 65- minute conference between U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin = their first since Hull's arrival more than week ago.
 Hull went immediately from the Kremlin to his seventh meeting with British Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden, Soviet Foreign Com missar viacheslaw M. Molotov and their advisers in the Spiridonovka Palace.
 Details of the negotiations re-- mained a closely-guarded secret, but observers were optimistic over the prospects for speedy agree- ment and said that satisfactory pro- gress has been made so far.