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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Post War Planning
In N. E. Advocated

Swampscott, Mass, June 26-(UP)
Energetic postwar planning is es-
sential if New England is to main
tain it's business leadership, 200 bus
mess men and industrialists were
told today at the New England
Councils list quarterly meeting.
Henry P. Kendall, president of the
Kendall Mills of Boston and New
England regional chairman of the
Committee for Economic Develop
ment, asserted that after the war
New England industries will face
greater competition than ever from
other parts of the country
IT feel very strongly that unless
free enterprise can provide a high
level of production and employment
after the war it will not survive the
political demand for made work, "
Kendall said.
DR.. Lawrence W. Bass, director OF
the New England Industrial Re-
search foundation, said that II in
dustries in this area are to retain
their leadership "they must foster
and use the research agencies which
alone make progress possible.
Business must begin the prepara-
ton now of programs to meet the
impact of improved new products
developed more slowly through re-
search procedure" DR.. Bass said.
A flve-point program for lmproV-
ing the postwar economic situation
was presented to the conference by
Prof. Sumner Slichter of the Har-
ward business school.
The program was as follows:
1.-Government taxation policies
should be directed so as not to inter-
fere with business incentive.
2.-Small business should be con-
sistently and continuously encour-
aged.
3.-The fiscal policies of the gov
eminent should not be so restrictive
that the flow of private investments
into business capital is discouraged,
"A continuing attempt should
be made to improve relations be-
tween labor and capital. Especially
important is the removal of condi-
lions that make labor feel sorry for
itself and cause it to regard itself
as badly exploited underdog.
5.-The arbitrary handling OF
economic issues by politicians should
be ended by the restoration OF due
process of law, allowing authorized
government agencies and the courts
to carry out their prescribed func-
lions without interference.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Fuel Oil Demands
Unusually Heavy

Replenishing of local consumers
empty fuel oil tanks Is officially
scheduled to start next week when
the first of the new rations are is
sued, but survey today disclosed
the available supply of oil is so
small only small percentage of APP
plicants will receive benefit In the
next few weeks from the early lsSu-
ance of coupons.
Although all oil dealers con-
tacted said they are still receiving
shipments, most of them said they
are light and several dealers re-
vealed they must send their own
trucks to New Haven headquarters
in order to get oil here.
With approximately $4,000 OF the
city's estimated $4,000 fuel Oil users
expected to be eligible for the ra-
lions to be distributed next week,
the immediate demand upon local
dealers is expected to be heavy. De-
spite the current sweltering In the
hot summer weather, consumers are
said to remember wildly the Short
age of oil that hit the city last Win
ter and are anxious to get thelr
coupons and replenish tanks for a
head start next fall.
The early rationing was planned
to enable dealers to get out oil Tor
the first periods issuance and then
store up stocks for the subsequent
periods.
Dealers reported purchasing now
is very light, and consequently the
small stocks are sufficient to meet
current demands. The majority OF
consumers are believed to have al
ready used the current coupon which
has a value of 10 gallons, and are
waiting for the new coupons and
start of the new validity period.
What the situation will be next
week when the new coupons take Ell
feet remained problematical.
1t is believed consumers Will be
allowed first rations to correspond
with the size of the storage tanks,
with the amount varying for all OF
the applicants. The expected short
age, however, may result in furth-
er limitation in the amount OF the
first purchase, it is believed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26

make more supplies available or the
shortage must be made up by hold
ers of a." "B" and &C" ration
cards-Perhaps by additional limita-
lions on gasoline use for commercial
trucks.
Some officials predicted that OPA
might make an immediate request
for additional supplies. But a PAW
spokesman pointed significantly to
disclosure by Lieut.. Gen. Brehon
Somervell, commander of the army
service forces, that the American
military program will require 1000
90 barrels daily of petroleum pro-
ducts during the remaining months
of 1943. This, it was said, excludes
airplane needs.
That revelation came in an inter-
view given by Somervell TO William
J. Maddox, staff writer of the Ma
tional Petroleum News and printed
in the current issue of that maya
zine. IN addition to estimating army
needs, Somervell also disclosed that
of supplies going overseas, half the
tonnage is petroleum products, not
including initial equipment such as
tanks and artillery.
This is a petroleum war" SOM
ervell said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Bill Veto Nav
See Rebellion
On Home Soil
BY LYLE c. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, June 26.-CUP)-
Congressional rejection of President
Roosevelt's anti-strike bill veto
fitted today into a pattern of angry
legislative rebellion on the domestic
front.
But, specifically, it was con-
gressional mandate to Mr.. Roosevelt
to put John L. Lewis in jail if he
calls another coal strike.
Congress has been trying to crack
down on Lewis since 1887 when
there was a series of sit-doWn
strikes for which his Congress OF
Industrial Organizations members
were charged with responsibility.
Each time, until yesterday, the ad-
ministration prevented congressional
action. Labor leaders other than
Lewis and unions other than those
led by him have contributed on &C.
casion since 1887 to the frustrated
enlightenment of congress.
But there would have been no
war labor disputes bill in the first
place if Lewis had not licked Mr..
Roosevelt in settlement of the cap
tive men strike on Pearl Harbor day,
1941, and ignored the War Labor
Board through almost three months
of off-and-on coal strike crises this
year.
Director Elmer Davis of the Office
of War Information predicted the
law eventually would go down in
history as the Lewis anti-strike
act"
In rejecting the veto, Congress
in effect voted no confidence in
the Presidents handling of Lewis,
and nominated itself to handle him.
The vote was coincident with re-
ports of banked furnaces in the
steel mills, hints that citizens might
be colder next winter because OF
the series of strikes and realization
of the fact that about half the min
ers still were idle.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his morning
press conference that he rejected
Lewis Oct. 81 deadline in calling
off the latest Walkout. There Is a
good deal of feeling all around, es-
pecially between Lewis and the
President. In Congress there is
recollection that Lewis contributed
nearly 100000 in loans and gifts
to various New Deal campaigns IN
1936-and some of the legislators in
sist that such never shall happen
again. The new war labor disputes
act forbids it.
There is speculation now whether
labor members of the War Labor
Board will resign in protest against
a bill which gives their board great
new powers. President Philip
Murray of the Congress OF Indus
trial Organizations, issued a state
ment congratulating Mr. Roosevelt
for Ibis sound understanding OF
Continued on Page b
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Allies Attack
Small Convoy

Allied Headquarters, Australia,
June 26--UP)-..The japanese still
have force of ITO planes gathered
at Rabaul. New Britain, despite
damaging raids in recent weeks by
Allied bombers trying to knock out
the enemy striking power, a spokes-
man said today.
He said the latest reconnaissance
showed small converted japanese
aircraft carrier in the Rabaul har-
Dor and shipping moving in and out
at an about normal pace-presum-
ably meaning the base still was re-
ceiving achievements.
Yesterdays air activity in the
SOUTHWEST Pacific was confined to
an attack by Beaufort on small
convoy off Cape Saint George, New
Ireland.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
GuerriIIos
AskU.S.H:eIp
By ELEANOR PACKARD


United Press Staff Correspondent
Istanbul, June 24-(DelayeO-A
captain in Jugoslavia's guerrilla
army urged the United States to-
day to assume the job of supplying
Gen. Ddaja Mikhailovitch's irregu-
lars on grounds that lack OF Brit
ish aid is curtailing their fighting
power.
Mikhailovitch is backed by a force
of 10000, this officer told American
correspondents, but could put 2OO,-
600 men in the field with adequate
aid in arms and munitions. From
the way the captain talked, he ap-
peared to be in Mikhailovitch's con-
fidence.
The British, he said, were with
holding aid at the behest OF Russia
The Soviet is backing Serbian Com
munists with the idea OF fostering
Separation among JugoslaVia's min
gled peoples, he added.
The officer slipped across the
Turkish border last night latter
leaving Belgrade on April q and
hiding several weeks in Bulgaria.
His name was kept secret because
he has a family within Axis reach
in occupied Serbia.
The captain said the United
States offered to help the Chetniks
step up their sniping at German
and Italian forces but was warned
off by the British. The usual way
of supplying the guerrillas has been
by plane or secret shipment.
Russian influence on the Serb
Croat problem has been further
complicated, he said. by Soviet at
tempts to work for postwar crea-
ton of a separate Croait under Rus
sian domination.
Pushing this movement, he as
serted, the Russians persuaded
Louis Adamic, Croat-American au-
thor, to help them and financed
trips to the United States by former
Jugoslav ministers. He identified
these ex-ministers, all CroatS, as
Bojidar Maximovitch. Bosko JET
itch and Petar Jivokivitch.
Mikhailovitch, war minister OF the
Jugoslav government, has been try
ing to solve the problem but is being
DISTRACTED by the British, the cap
tain said, adding that he felt Serb
Croat relations could be smoothed
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Soviets Smash
Maxi Reginnnt
of3,000 Men
BY Nj. S. HANDLER

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, June 26-(UP) - Red
army troops smashed the strongest
German attempt in recent weeks to
force the northern Donets and
hurled back enemy forces in bitter
local fighting northwest of Moscow,
the Soviet high command an
nounced today.
A Nazi infantry regiment-about
5000 men-ran into concentrated
Soviet fire and suffered heavy loss
es when it tried TO push across the
Donets in boats near the Balaklaya
sector southeast of Kharkov.
Throwing up .asmoke screen, the
Germans retreated to their embark
ing points. Two smaller attempts
to cross the Donets in the Lisich-
ansk sector % miles to the south
east earlier this week met similar
reversals.
Six hundred Germans died in
three futile counter attacks to re-
capture an inhabited place north
west of Moscow in the general area
of Kholm, the midnight commune
que said the locality was seized by
Soviet push after a softening-up
artillery barrage.
The midday communique de-
scribed an unsuccessful German
fighting reconnaissance" in which
the Nazis lost 40 men in the Sevsk
area of the Kursk Salient. To the
north on the Kareliah front COM
pany of 200 Fins was wiped out
when Sovut Scrouts broke into en-
envy trenches.
CThe renewed fighting on the
Russian front followed Berlin radio
reports of the massing of very
strong" Soviet forces all along the
mile line and evident Ger
man preparations to face assault
(For several days Berlin had de-
scribed hard fighting in the Velikie
Luki sector, which is northwest OF
Moscow. The reference may have
been to the area near Kholm de-
scribed by the Soviet report)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Bridgeport Man
German Prisoner

Washington. June 26 -U.Po -
The War Department made public
today the names of 292 United
States soldiers who are held as pris-
oners of war by the enemy: 81 by
Germany; two by Italy and 1875 by
japan.
TIE prisoners and their next Of
kin include:
Qnterned by Germany
Connecticut:
Mcdonald, Second Lieutenant
James TINS. Jennie v. McDon-
old (mother) 100 Whitney avenue,
Bridgeport.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
New Law May
Upset Lewis
by RAYMOND LAIR
n:t.d D.acc StaH CntreSnnud nj

UnlLeO fTeSS CLdn Correspondent
Washington, June 26.-(UP)-The
new anti-strike law appeared today
to have upset John l.. Lewis plan
to have the government retain con-
troll of the bituminouS and anthra-
cite mines
The new law provides that any
seized plant or mine must revert to
private ownership within so days
after production returns to normal
Putting that section into effect,
however, will depend upon how
quickly the miners return to work
a step they have taken reluctantly
despite Lewis order.
There has been mounting evidence
that the administration would try
to force Lewis to sign the contract
drawn by the War Labor Board and
return the mines to the owners.
Lewis rejection of the WLB con-
tract and Coal Administrator Harold
l.. Ickes' plan to continue operation
of the mines indefinitely have drawn
vigorous protests from the operators
who claim that it has rewarded"
LEWIS lOI Ills vi bllC DOelANA'
The WLB has supported the oper-
ators' stand. 1t has asked the presi-
dent to compel Lewis to accept its
contract on grounds that its decision
should be enforced equally against
all unions and employers. 1t defined
its position again at conference
Yesterday with War Mobilization Di-
rector James F. ByrneS.
The new law also offers the ad-
ministration a powerful weapon for
speeding the reopening of the coal
mines. A rank-and-file revolt has
kept many pits closed and resultt<
in steel furnaces being banked
No more than half of the miners
we're working three days after the
UNIV ordered them back to their
jobs. But the new law threatens
pickets and union members who &C
lively have resisted the back-to-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
TimiIty Wants
Chorqe Quoshed

;on, June 26. CUP)--Police
commissioner Joseph r. Trinity
and six of his aides will ask at their
superior court arraignment Monday
that new Indictment charging
them with gambling-conspiracy be
quashed because it allegedly is
illegal.
Timilty and six other police Oh
ficials were re-indicted by the SUI
folk County grand jury yesterday
which had received certain evil
dence from Atty.-Gen. Robert T.
Bushnell who sought to show they
had permitted Illegal gambling In
Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
RATS NEW GERMAN RAID COSTS 80 PLANES
MESS|NA Rail
Center, SICILY
FERRY BOMBED
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY hEHNOLDS FAOhhND
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, June 26. - More than
100 American Flying For
tresses - the largest forma-
ton of the big four-engined
bombers ever sent against a
single target from North
Africa - blasted Sicily's
ferry and rail center at Mes
sina for Is minutes yester-
dav., it was announced today.
The raid was one of the heaviest
on the much bombed city facing the
Italian mainland across the straits
of Messina.
The Fortresses kept in tight for
nation, encouraging swarms OF
German and italian fighter planes
and exceptionally heavy anti-alr-
craft fire. This was taken as an in
dication that the Axis was strength
ening it's air defenses OF the vital
supply link between Italy's large
Mediterranean possession and the
home soil.
Reggie Calabria Hit
An Italian communique reported
that in addition to the Mesina raid,
Allied planes dropped explosive and
incendiary bombs on Reggie Gala
bria, italian terminus of the Slcllan
TRANSFORMATION lines. Bombs also
we're said to have been dropped at
San N.candro, Bari province, ana
Vizzini, Catalina purovince, causing
civilian casualties. The death toll
at all three places was said to totai
SO persons and the NUMBER Oh
wounded was placed at 80.
(The communique claimed that
u Allied bombers were shot down
by Axis planes and six by anti
aircraft guns, against loss OF TWO
Axis aircraft.
The Allied communique stated
that 10 enemy fighters were shot
down during the Mesina raid: Ihe
number of Fortresses lost, II any,
jWdS IaOu ICNcdlCd'
American planes also participated
lin patrol work.
British Wellingtons raided Olbla
in northeastern Sardinia THURSDAY
hight. Beaufghters of the Raj lett
q medium sized Axis merchant YES
sci burning off Sardinia yesterday
after a torpedo attack during Whicn
an escorting destroyer was stra1ed
and a German float plane destroyed.
one fight of the Fortresses was
chased by enemy planes to within
eight of the African coast. some Oh
fhe fighters penetrated their own
AJAX to attack the bombers.
"Thick as Gnats"
Tech. Sergt. Andrew Poczik OF
columbus, O., said that the AXIS
lighters we're chick as gnats IN tne
states He said it was the highest
Eituation he ever wanted to be IN:
FIRST Lieut.. William G. Rogers OF
Mount Vernon, Ia, said 1t seemed
bs though they were celepraCll'g
Ahe Fourth of July a week early.
Photographs showed two nitS ana a
,vo damaging misses on a 4oo-loo'
merchant vessel in the Meslna mar
,or and one hit on a 500-foot ship.
Hits also were made on buildings
Warehouse, railroad tracks ana sta-
ion facilities. A large fire was
started at the railway station.
In all, Allied planes shot Gown
b1 Avis aircraft in a 24-hour perloo
bqainst a loss of three of their own.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
ZERO HOUR FOR
Allies ATTACK.
RAPIDLY NEARS.
BY JOHN A. PARIS
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

London, June 26. - (UP)
- Field Marshal Jan C.
SHUTS, prime minister of
South Africa, said today that
the zero hour for an Allied
offensive was approaching as
a Nazi broadcaster was heard
acknowledging for the first
time that an Axis defeat is
possible.
SHUTS, sepaking at johannesburg
in conjunction with the biggest mil
itary parade ever staged in South
Africa, predicted that the main bat
tie in Europe would be joined this
year and perhaps be concluded
next year."
Though he did not indicate where
the Allies would strike next, all
signs continued to point to impend-
ing landing operations in the Medi-
terranean.
Radio London estimated that the
Germans and Italians have deployed
$50 divisions 2,250,000 men
through western and southern Eu-
rope to meet the threat of an Allied
invasion.
Reserves Transferred
Strategic reserves gathered for q
summer offensive in Russia were
said to have been sent instead to
the Balkans, Italy and the Italian
islands. The broadcast reported
that one German division was stated
on the Italian mainland and one
each in Sicily and Sardinia, while
the Balkan garrisons have been re-
inforced by II divisions,
The Fascist Federation at Pal
ermo, Sicily, issued manifesto call
ing on all Sicilians to defend that
island stepping stone with their
lives and to fight with plough and
rifle, hoe and bomb"
Gunther Weber German Trans
ocean Agency war correspondent,
reported in a dispatch from Sicily
that he had seen sufficient recon-
naissance photographs of the North
African coast to justify belief that
an Allied invasion of southern Eu-
rope was impending.
Weber, whose dispatch was broad
cast by the German radio, acknoWl-
edged that the Axis air forces alone
probably could not prevent an Allied
landing in Sicily, but said he doubt
ed the Allies could occupy the island
in view of the crack German and
italian units installed in key noun
tain positions there.
Another Berlin broadcast said that
Allied concentrations in the Near
East were believed completed.
1.-THE nerve war is approaching an
end and will soon be replaced by
stronger language from cannons,"
the station said.
SHUTS said 9TH great hour is ap-
preaching"
There is high expectancy in
mems hearts," he said. 1.-THE Allies
now have developed their full re-
sources for the fight and the enemy
has passed this zenith and is on
the downgrade.
But Nazi and Fascist leaders are
desperate men with an awful fate
staring them in the face. Even If
they have lost as they probably
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Irving Cobb, "a.
Killed By Cop

Boston, June 20 - CUP - Irving
Cobb, "a, Roslindale painter and
seaman, was shot and killed BY
policeman early today afttr he al
legedly attempted to attack the Of
ficer with an iron bar.
Patrolman Edward Vail Of Ron
bury croSsinU division said Cobb was
acting suspiciously on Columbus
avenue. The policeman said Gosh
threw a missile at him when he o.
tempted to question him. The W.
tim died two hours later at hospa-
tai of a bullet wound in the back
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Minister'S
OPA Dictator

Hartford. Conn.,, June 26-CUPl-
asserting that the OPA was Trying
% dictate the personal lives OF our
Deople," the Rev. Fletcher D. PARK
X nastor of Emanuel Congrega-
|ional Church today challenged an
s pency ruling denying him the
ioht to use his basic a gasoline ra-
ions to drive 140 miles to his VIC
DRY garden. H. .ostor
Earlier in the week, the pastor
|ppealed state OPA order re1us-
ng him driving permission to the
Rational authorities, and received a
|eIepram from John r. Richards
rhich said that driving to cult
ate victory garden is permlssaple
Sc Of basic ration"
A few days later this permission
yas revoked by Charles F. Philips
irector of automotive supply ra-
ioning division, who notified the
aston he had been incorrectly al
ised." .,. s,r,
v had departed for their summer
ome. and the pastor told Phillips
ndav at have no choice but to fol-
NV them with the baggage In an
ther car. If there is trouble, 1t Will
lst have to come.
He said he planned to leave I'M
hediately after giving his Sunday
ermon. .,,..
richards telegram of permission,
lid the pastor, ALREADY settled our
,mmer and any withdrawal now
too late"
The Rev. Parker suggested that
hillins "talk this over" with OPA
director Prentiss M. Brown "and
ire me your decision at once. Nat
rally this is a test case and l
+ould be glad for you to so con-
der it. There is ntohing personal
secret about it.
The pastor, pointing out that ne
as not using extra gasoline, put
asic rations accumulated for the
no declared IL his letter to Phil
rs that 1.-THE real issue is whether
hi have the right to authorize the
iditional provision for going back
nd forth to a nearby victory gar
IN and to refuse to allow the same
asic rations to travel a similar
tai distance to and from a bona
de- garden which will be operated
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