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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Allies Sinking Submarines Faster Than Avis Builds
By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff CorrespOndent

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, Aug. 16.-(UP)- Naval experts said today that the Allies are sinking submarines twice as fast as Germany can build them.
 This was revealed in comment on statement issued by President and Prime Minister Winston Churchill disclosing that the Allies sank more than 90 submarines in May, June and July.
 The loss of nearly one submarine a day during May. June and July a period that should have been fa- vorable for the operation of under sea raiders-undoubtedly has forced the Germans to draw on their sub marine reserves to a considerable extent.
 Germany's submarine building ca- pacity has been estimated at be- tween IS and 25 month. The eX- perts doubt that it is more than IS a month now and believe 1t may be less.
 At the height of the battle of the Atlantic last year, it was believed that Germany had a fleet of be- tween 400 and and 800 submarines. A few months ago, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox estimated it at between 300 and 400.
 As a result of losses in the three months ending July, 1t was believed that U-boat reserve is now less than 300.
 Menace Not Eliminated
 MT. Roosevelt and Churchill warn ed that Allied successes did not mean the submarine menace had been eliminated. But naval experts here who have practical knowledge
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Discharged WAC In Jam

Wampsville, N. r., Aug. 19-fUP) State police were Investigating the complicated affairs today of 16- year-old ex-WAC who subsequently, posed as sergeant in the WAC and married an army private who was AWOL in Chicago.
 Police said she presented a mar riage certificate stating that as Miss Britton ChicKerlng she was wed to Pvt. Raymond Lanahan on August 10. But it was under the name of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Pfeiffer, authorities added, that she was re- ported missing from Schenectady, N. Y.- August g by her mother.
 Sergt. Charles J. Manning of the state police bureau of criminal Identification, Oneida, said an eff fort was being made to determine if the girl had been married earlier this year to sailor named Pfeiffer, as her mother reportedly said she was.
 The girl was arrested yesterday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16

Lieutenant General George s. Paton's flying column had struck 14 miles eastward to the Milazzo area, isolating that Axis evacuation port 16 miles from Messina and plunging on toward the last Sicilian stronghold in Axis hands. General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Imperials seized Taormina, 25 miles be- low Messina, and joined in the swift pincers movement against the, last -tottering. Axis toehold on the island.
 Mopping Up
 The battle of Sicily was finished except for the mopup of the ragtag Axis clements covering the panicky evacuation of the island, and Allied big guns now were in positions to shell the mainland of Italy.
 Captured documents indicated that in the Taomina sector the Ger mans left two Italian coastal regt- ments behind for a delaying action while they scurried up the coast and across the narrow straits of Messina.
 The Axis evacuation, pale shadow of a Dunkirk, continued under the day and night assault of Allied land, sea, and air guns and bombs.
 Seventh Army reports revealed that large number of Germans
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
S|c|L IAN CAMPAIGN WEARS END: Reds Surge Toward Bastion Of Bryansk; Milan Wrecked Again In Heavy Raid
STIPULATION BLOW CAUSES
 GREAT HARM
BY WALTER CEONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent)

(United Press Staff COrreSpondent)
 London, August 16.-(UP) - Britain's biggest bombers rocked panic stricken, peace clamoring Milan last night with the third ck-buSter saturation raid in 72 hours and a Swiss frontier dispatch said a daylight air alert was sounded in the devastated city at g a. m. today. British Mosquito bombers, also for the third time in 72 hours, bombed Berlin.
 And maintaining the round the clock pace of the aerial offensive, American Flying Fortresses with an escort of Thunderbolts roared out over the English southeast coast this morning for new raids on Hitler's European fortress.
 Only few hours after the For tresses returned to their bases, medi- um bombers and fighters took over the assault and swept out across the Channel. One formation flew south while another headed southeast.
 Today rounded out exactly year for the F'ortruesses in the European theater. On August IT, 1942, they made their first attack, with railroad yards at Rouen in northern France as their objective.
 Heavy Blows Italy, caught in an aerial pincers designed to squeeze 1t out of the war, was being subjected to increas- ingly heavy blows.
 Last nights raid on Milan fol- lowed by only about 12 hours, new daylight attacks by African-based bombers against southern and cen- tral Italy featured by the bombing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Gas For East  
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL limited Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 16 - (UP) - Eastern motorists, even though they abide strictly by the pleasure driv- ing ban the rest of this month, could hope today for only another half gallon of gasoline week. possibly sometime early in Septem- Der.
 The prospect of the limited in crease in the value of "A" ration cards only one- third of the hoped- for boost back to the former A-card value of three gallons per week. was advanced last night in radio address by acting price administra- tor Chester Bowles.
 Bowles said the one-gallon de- crease in the gasoline rations of mid western motorists now in ei- feet should save about 50,000 gall Ions a week which it is hoped can be moved east to end the pleasure driving ban September 1. He added, It is further hoped that eastern supplies will be increased to a point that will allow us to increase the "A" ration in the east from 1ls gal Ions & week to two gallons -early in September.
 Inventories Down 30 Percent
 However, there is one big if In this program as far as you easterns are concerned" he said. T want to put it squarely on the table. At the present time east coast gasoline in- ventories are only about 30 per cent of the 1941 level. The fact is that we cannot eliminate the ban on non- essential driving and we cannot l. crease the "A" ratio in the east un- less we are mighty careful during the next two weeks.
 we've got to step up our ship ments of gasoline east according to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
.Arroisn Lad
 For Murder

Waterville, Me. Aug. l6.-(UP)- Fifteen-year old Charles Richard Garrand of Harvard, Mass, and East Haven, Conn.,, was brought here from Augusta jail today for arraignment on murder charge in the hitch-hike staying Of Bar nard w. Jordan, 26, Waterville flying instructor.
 Farrand was seized at Concord, Mass. Friday and allegedly eun- fessed that he shot Jordan to deatvl and robbed him of his automobile here Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Report Heavy Raid Damage

Zurich, Aug. 16.--(UP)-An eye witness report of the air raids on Hamburg, published by the news paper Volksrecht. said today that 160.00O persons were killed in the bomb-wrecked city.
 The Argentine legation in Bern announced that the chancellor of the Argentine general consulate in Hamburg, Ugo Lenoir, and his wife were killed during a raid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Troops Busy Mopping Up
 Rear Guard
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent)

Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Aug. l6.-- (UP)-The American Seventh and British Eighth Armies drove forward along the north and east coasts of Sicily to within artillery range of Messina today. and the triumphant end of the campaign reported officially to be at hand.
 (An American artillery expert said the Seventh Army probably was using 155-mmeter guns with range of 1000 yards, which the basis of the head quarters report would put United States troops within a little more than 10 miles of Messina.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Newspapers Face 3O@d Paper Cut M 19M

Both countries should and, feel will, do something about the short age," Boren said.It should not be another instance of too little too late, but of enough on time"
 Both Sides of Picture
 Boren was asked to give the best possible and the darkest picture of the pulpwood shortage, in the light of the Montreal study.
 The most optimistic picture, he said, was the maintenance of pres ent supplies the 10 per cent cut still in effect-through the use of draft deferred farmers and woodsmen and war prisoners.
 Asserting that if the possible shortage should b taken solely from newsprint, a 60 per cent re- duction in that commodity would follow, Boren said the worst pos sible" condition likely to occur would be a cut of 30 per cent.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Blue Stamps U V W Will Be Valid Sept. l

Washington, Aug. 16.-CUP)-The Office of Price Administration an- nounced today that blue stamps U, V, and w in war rtaion book two will become valid Sept. and may be redeemed for processed foods through October 20. Stamps R, S., and T, valid since Aug. l, will be good thorugh Sept. 20.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
BY RICHARD G. HARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

OuIcU ITcSS 0tdA SVAACSPo
 Montreal, Aug. 16. (UP)-A cut Of 30 per cent in newsprint in 1914 is in prospect unless the pulpwood in- dustry and the governments of the United States and Canada are suc- cessful in efforts to increase produc- ton, it was agreed today by the Boren- -Halleck house subcommittee Investigating the shortage of pulp wood.
 The reduction would be in addi- ton to the 10 per cent cut in sup plies already imposed on publishers in the United States.
 The prediction was made today by Rep. Lyle H. Boren, D., Okla, chairman of the committee, as the group ended its conferences with manufacturers here and moved on to Three Rivers and Quebec on a tour which will take them through a large part of Canada's pulpwood producing areas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
LANDSCAPE ARTIST DIES

Cataumet, Mass, Aug. 16.-(UP) Noel Chamberlin, about 62. land scape architect of New York city, died here yesterday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Horace c. Fisher He was graduate of Massachu- sets Institute of Technology.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. IS (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Aug. 18th, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $10,3s0, 0,615,349.42 $7,S0s,65s,975.76
 War Spending : 9,514,491, ,001.07 $6,500,324,S51.54
 Receipts : 3,5s2, 2,4s0. 50e.46 s. 997,so4,275.07
 Net Deficit : s.s1s,154,s42.ss $s.sos, ,sss. .s5o.ss Cash Balance . s,71s,s7l. .ssS.is Ss.352.so4. .sso.2a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16

54th Fall Term Begins Sept. Sth. Register Now. Post Junior College of Commerce.
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Showers

Dimout: $50 p. m. to 5:s2 a. m
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
| 0 EN- f N Y
BASES ARE
B0MBARDED
Allied Planes Make New
Attacks on Conlentra-
lions in So|omons

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, April 6. - Allied
planes carried new assaults on jar
concentrations in the southwest
Pacific yesterday with blows at 10
enemy bases. The attacks included a
three-hour raid on Buka Island
at the northern tip of the Solomons
while bombers continued blasting
many bases daily as possible.
The High Command announces
reconnaissance revealed the Japs
still had shipping, including war;
ships at Kavieng, New Ireland, de-
spite terrific blows there last week
which cost heavily in warships and
merchantmen.
The Allied planes spotted 1900
Jap merchantmen off Dutch New
Guinea and pounded it until il
went down.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
SHIPPING OFF
FRENCH COAST
.uNDERATTA(k
RAFand Royal Navy Planes
Swoop Over Craft Dur
ing Night Raid

LONDON, April GRAF fighters
and Royal Navy planes attacked
enemy shipping off the French
cast last night, damaging three
aree merchant vessels and two
mall escorting craft, the Air Min
istry announced this afternoon, but
Germany and occupied Europe APP
parently were given respite after
70 hours of terrific pounding by
Allied airmen.
One Navy plane last night
swooped low and bombed one me-
dunn and two small ships about
10 miles north of Dieppe and hit
targets, one of the bombs setting
the leading craft afire.
Raj fighter planes returned over
he channel in the direction of
France early today, indicating new
attacks on the German occupied
continent.
U. s. Army Headquarters an
nounced today that photographs
showed Fortresses and Liberators
made many direct hits on the Erla
pane engine works during the raid
on Antwerp yesterday resulting in
fires that burned out the main
and also Gervaert Pro-
ducts plant in the northwest SUI
hurbs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
American Lighinings Spot
Supply Aircraft and
Bomb Them Down
AXIS CONVOY ALSO
SMASHED IN ATTACK
One Destroyer Blown Up
Other Ships Hit and
Set Attire

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, April 6.-Thirty-
one enemy planes, Is of them big
Junker transports, believed bearing
gasoline supplies to Rommel's Tuni-
sian Army, were sent crashing in
to the sea by American Lightniffgs
Yesterday during one of the great
est air fights in this theatre OF the
war and in the course of battle
which began by an Allied attack on
sea convoy in which an enemy
destroyer was blown up and several
other ships hit and set ablaze.
communique from Eisenhower's
Headquarters announced that while
land activities consisted Of intense
1atrol operations, no major engage
ments are developing but the air
war continues with fiery pace
and has resulted in the shooting
down of as German and Italian
planes, in air battles over land, the
biggest bag the Allies have scored
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
REDS START
new ACTION
SOUTH FRONT
Growing Offensive Report.
ed on Kubdn Delta,
Caucasus Sector

MOSCOW, April 6.--The Red
Armys growing offensive on the
Kuban delta, southern Russia, to-
day continued new successes against
the Germans who are fighting back
stubbornly in an attempt to hold
the bridgehead along the Black Sea
coast.
The North Caucasus midday COM
munique said that the Russians
have shelled large German defense
positions, while the Russians big
Soviet guns we're destroying more
than go enemy firing points.
An earlier dispatch said that the
Red Army had fought its way "in-
to strip of territory strongly for
titled by the enemy"
Another reference regarding the
major objective is that the Ger
mans now hold no more than 1900
square miles of the Kuban and are
daily losing more, shown by So
Wet map OF the entire front pub
lished last week, which showed the
Russian line beginning at Noyor-
ossisk.
This, plus current dispatches,
show it is. possible that the Red
Army might already be giving the
Nazis at the Black Sea port added
worries. A German communique
discounted the Russians attacks on
the Kuban bridgehead, saying, con
sequent losses suffered the day be-
fore during fighting activity are of
local Importance only. as reported
on the remaining front sectors"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
War Labor Board Will
Alaska FiShermen's
Pay in Seattle (onfab

SEATTLE. April 6-The 12-man
Little War Labor Board for Wash
ington, Oregon and Alaska today
was given the assignment by the
National War Labor Board Of set
ting the pay for 27,9O0 hardy men
who will brave the perils of the
North Pacific as far up as the
Aleutians submarine infested wat
ers to reap 5000 900 harvest
from the sea in Washington, Ore
gon and Alaska, it was announced
by DR.. George Bernard Noble,
chairman.
The regional War Labor Board
holding its third meeting since its
formation as a tribunal to handle
all labor disputes arising in the
Pacific Northwest, will have be-
fore it the naming of a five-man
panel to rush immediate hearing
On the pay Of northwest fishermen
and cannery workers, DR.. Noble
said.
Approve Wages
The hearings will be held in Sc
attic. The regional War Labor
Board, DR.. Noble explained, must
approve all wage increases sought
by either employees or employers
before they can go into effect I'M
der orders of congressional enact
ment and President Roosevelt's di-
receive on wage sterilization, aimed
at preventing initiation
Members of the regional War
Labor Board who will meet Mon
day at the WLB'S headquarters in
Seattle are DR., Noble, chairman
DR. Clark Kerr, Seattle, yice-chair-
man, John B. McCourt, Portland
the Rev. Francis e. Cookery, Sc
attic, Keith j. Middlaon and Eirzil
HALEY. Seattle, Hal Dixon, Spo-
kane, Harry l.. Corbett, Portland
Leo Flynn and Capt. John Fox, Sc
attic, f. e. Benedict and Dell E.
Nickerson. Portland.
The five-man panel to be named
by the regional War Labor Board
will pass on the pay of $4,000 Alas
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06

PACKERS IN
indictment
Seven Companies, Eleven
Persons Face Black
Market Rdps

NEWARK, New Jersey, April o.
New Jersey headquarters of the
! OPA announced that seven corpor-
ations and II individuals have been
indicted on charges of conspiracy
to violate on a nation wide scale
regulations governing meat prices
land quotas.
The Government, in an indict-
ment returned by a Federal grand
jury, charges the defendants are
responsible in bringing into New
Jersey. New York and Pennsylvania
and Connecticut more than 10000
900 pounds of black market beef
and veal' between December 16 and
January 81.
The defendants are the Enkay
Packing Company and Nathan
Krupnick and George Moran of
Patterson, N. j.; the Superb Pack
ing Co., the State Packing Co., and
Peter Golas, Morris Freund of
Chicago; Sam and Albert Olson
and Jackob Schmidt of the u. S.
Packing Co. of Kansas City; the
Dressed Beef Co. and Leo Waxen-
burg Samuel Jacobs and Jacob
Coin; the Nebraska Beef Co., and
the Herbert Liebmen Packing Co.
of Green Bay Wisconsin.
The OPA described the indict-
ments as the biggest hammer blow
we have dealt yet at the black
markets." in the words of Admin
istrator Prentiss Brown.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
NAPLES HIT
BLOWS TWO
TIMES, | DAY
Harbor al PaImero Also Is
Attacked by Combin-
ed Air Forces

CAIRO, April 6. = Liberator
Bombers of the Ninth United States
Air Force, striking from the Mid
die East, struck Naples at dusk last
Sunday in the wake Of a l00-plane
assault earlier in the day by u. S.
Flying Fortresses based in French
North Africa.
Hits were observed on oil storage
facilities.
The Ninth Air Force Liberators
also teamed with Raj aircraft at
dusk yesterday on an attack on
the harbor at Palmero, Sicily and
hits were observed on the quays,
followed by large fire and at
least one explosion"
All attacking aircraft returned
safely to bases.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
ALLIES HIT
JAP BASES IN
BURMA WAR
Oil RefineryNe Rdngoon
Blasted by Amer
lean Pilots

NEW DELHI, India, April g.
The British and American Air
Forces, exhibiting increased aerial
superiority over Burma. continued
to raid and bomb Jap supply lines
in this area today, particularly
along the railway from Rangoon
on the southern coast to Mandalay.
The Raj raided the railroad sta
ton at Rangoon, dropping thou
sand-ton bombs and lighter ex-
plosives, leaving fires blazing that
were visible so miles away.
This raid came "a hours after
Liberators manned by U. S. pilots
blasted the Thilawa Oil Refining
Works just south of Rangoon.
Neither of the Allies announced
the bases from which the opera
lions began but the raids probably
involved round trip flights of a
thousand miles or more.
A communique from u S, head
quarters said photographs of the
raid showed heavy destruction on
the oil refinery below Rangoon,
with the powerhouse, distillation
building and oil tanks hit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
KNOX WONT
CONFIRM
Such REPORT
Says That We Are Not
Telling Anybody" as
an Answer

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Secre-
tary of the Navy Frank Knox said
today that the Japs on Kiska are
being hammered pretty regular
ly" but whether they were in bad
shape on the Aleutian island was
something he didn't know.
In a press conference, one re-
porter suggested that the much
heavier bombing offensive against
Kiska seemed to indicate our posi-
tons in the Andreanof Islands were
being extended or advanced toward
Kiska. Asked if this was true, Knox
replied that I'VE aren't telling any
body"
Asked whether the Navy is hold
ing back good news about the war
in the Pacific, Knox said that was
somebody's pipe dream"
Questioned specifically about de-
velopments in the North Pacific,
the Secretary of the Navy said the
situation is about status quo"
Turning to the Atlantic, Knox
said Allied ship losses were consid-
erably worse in March than in
February due to intensified opera
tons by German submarines. Feb
ruary was one of the best months
of the war.
Knoxs comment was not regard
ed as indicating new peak in
sinkings but simply that the bat
tie in the Atlantic has taken a
turn for the worse.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
REPORT ON
5HIpWRE(k5
OFF ALASKA
Navy Finally Releases
News Of Accident
in December
(By Associated Press

Three merchant ships have run
aground off the North Pacific coast
the Navy disclosed today, but cas-
ualties were few because of coura-
geous rescue operations.
From Washington, the Navy an
nounced that two small Russian
merchant vessels were run aground
in the North Pacific. The announce
ment said heavy seas made rescue
operations difficult, and added, re-
ports indicated there may have
been some casualties"
In Seattle, survivors of one Rus
sian ship said it was wrecked in
a 60-mile gale last Thursday night
with one woman crew member
drowned when she was swept from
the ship in heavy sea.
The other ship mentioned in the
Navy announcement was not fur
Their identified
The third ship involved was
wrecked last December and hao
been on the rocks for SO days when
the salvage ship arrived.
Survivors at Seattle disclosed that
under the direction of Capt. w. j
Maloney, veteran Seattle ship ano
salvage expert, a breaches buoy
was ribbed in a terrific storm anc
all crewmen except the captain
we're rescued from the freighter.
The third mate of the salvage
ship also lost his life. The nation
atty Of the third ship was not dis
closed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
MONTGOMERY
DEALS K. 0.
IN 4TH ROUND

PHILADELPHIA, April g. Bob
Montgomery of Philadelphia, the
No. lightweight, tuned up for
the Beau Jack fight next month
by knocking out Roman Alvarez OF
New York after q seconds OF the
Fourth Round before 10000 spec
tators. Alvarez collapsed under a
left hook followed by right to the
jaw and never stirred.
Montgomery weighed in at l37
pounds and Alvarez at l35 III.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-06
u. ). AIRMEN
ARE RAIDERS
IN DAYLIGHT
Attack Antwerp, Score Di.
rect Hits on AirpIdne
Repair Works

LONDON, April 6. = American
filters, participating in the ra d
yesterday on Antwerp, declared on
their return that the skies were
clear over their target and they
saw hits register squarely on the
Erla airplane repairs works, two
and one-half miles south of Ant
werp, as well as the city itself.
Anti-aircraft fire was mot too
BAD the raiders said.
The Spitfire escort beat off Ger
man fighter opposition.