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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
C. C. L|zAUSKAS
NAz| PRISONER
Park Terrace Corporal,
Reported Missing, Con-
CentratiOn Internee

Corporal Charles G.. LizauskaS of
112 Park terrace, reported missing
in action in North Africa since Feb
ruary IA by the War Department,
is a prisoner in Germany, according
to a letter received by his family
from the young soldier himself.
The communication, which bears
German insignia and notations,
came as complete surprise to his
parents who daily awaited a second
message from Washington.
Military authorities have been
contacted by the youths parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lizauskas,
and further details of the intern
ment are sought, but meanwhile
the family, after two months of
waiting and hope, is rejoicing that
their son is alive.
Apparently cognizant of the strict
censorship rules. the corporal
writes briefly and simply: II am
well as you can see by receipt of
this letter and by my request for
cigarettes" The soldier asks for a
PGlChd5C 1lOIll
chocolate candy and warm sweat
er as his greatest desires in addition
to the Smokes"
The stationery is marked with
the words prisoner of war; in Ger
man, and the form for the soldiers
name and address is printed in the
foreign language. No indication is
made of the date of writing.
Making brief reference to the
battle which preceded his capture.
Corporal Lizauskas asks about his
soldier friends from home. The
names, as we'll as his favorite nick
name for his sister, Nellie, are be-
lieved to have been inserted to con-
vince his family that the letter and
information Is authentic.
The previous letter from the SOL
der came in the early part of Feb
ruary from the African battlefront
and it was followed on March S
with a communication from the
War Department. The prisoner"
letter came through Red Cross
channels in Switzerland, and no
clue was given as to the location of
the German camp where the cor
poral is held. The local Red Cross
chapter will assist the family in
sending the much-awaited package
from home"
Corporal Lizauskas entered the
Army February 10, l941, and re-
ceived training in camps in Massa-
chusetts, North Carolina, and Flor
nda before he received an assign
ment to England last August. He
had been N Africa Tor two months
when he was reported missing.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
AXIS INVASION
FEARS ADVANCE
Neutral Turkeys Position
Factor in Military Plans
of Both Sides
BY JOHN A. PARIS
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENT,

London, May 10 -CUP)- Axis
fears of an early Allied invasion
OF southern Europe increased to-
day as result of the conquest of
Tunisia and the position of neu-
trail Turkey again became a highly
important factor in the military
plans of both sides.
Dispatches from Ankara indi-
Gated that far-reaching changes in
Turkeys foreign policy might be
expected because of the Allied vic
tory IN North Africa. The United
Press correspondent cabled that
"the political effects on Turkeys
foreign policy after this smashing
Allied victory are tremendous
The Turkish policy has been one
of neutrality plus an alliance with
the British, so any changes prob
ably would call for abandonment
of neutrality in favor of a more
pro-Allied stand.
1t was considered significant that
President Ismet Inonu Of Turkey
conferred over the week END with
the German ambassador, Franz Won
Papen, and that the Turkish For
eign Minister human Menemen-
cioglu received the British ambas-
sador.
There were reports in Ankara
that Adolf Hitler might try to prod
Bulgaria into Selling Turkish Thrace
which forms a ready made bridge
head between Europe and Asia
Minor should Turkey decide to
abandon her active neutrality.
Tension was reported mounting
daily in the Balkans and German
reports showed increasing concern
over word that Allied military in
structors we're reported enroute to
Turkey and that Turkish staff Of
f1cers were visiting the middle east
ern theater.
Nazi preparations against inva-
sion appeared to center on Bulgar-
ia, Greece and the Dodecanese Is
lands between Turkey and southern
Greece. Greek and Turkish resi-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
NAZI COMPANIES
ARE WIPED OUT
Break Driven Into New
Defense Line North of
NOVOrOSSisk

IoscoW, May UP)-Russian
orces driving a breach into the new
Nazi defense line nine miles north
EAST Of the Black Sea Port of Novo-
'osSisk wiped out two German COM
oanies of 400 men with trench and
mortar fire today.
A Russian aerial offensive has
been in high gear for several days
at scattered points along the whole
front. An earlier announcement re-
vealed that $50 German planes had
been destroyed from May 2 to 8
while Russians were losing only 235
aircraft.
The air attacks were directed
largely against enemy rail points.
The Germans were believed to
have poured heavy reinforcements
in men and planes into the
Caucacus to keep foothold ON the
Taman Peninsula. The enemy was
reported clinging TO every height
and rock before NovorosSisk.
The communique said Red Army
attachments repulsed Several coun-
ter-attacks in the Lissichansk sector
of the Donets Basin, southeast OF
Kharkov. Three enemy tanks were
destroyed and 200 prisoners were
taken.
The council OF Peoples Com
missars announced that 1t had "ac-
ceded" to a request of the union of
Polish patriots OF Russia to form
q Polish division to fight beside the
Red Army. It's organization was said
20 have been started. Leaders of
the Polish Union are opposed to
Polands refugee government.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
TAX WAIVER
is DUE TODAY
Passage of New Pay=as=
YOu=GO Measure Expect
ed This Week
-NEA Telephoto
BY JOHN l.. CUTTER

Washington, May 10.-(UP)-The
Senate finance committee today re-
ports its recommendation for waiv-
ing years tax collections and put
ting taxpayers on pay-as-you-go
basis.
1t was hoped that congressional
action, including final passage by
the Senate and concurrence by the
House, could be completed this
week.
If so, the Treasury will start COL
Letting taxes on 1943 income, through
deductions from paychecks, on July
l instead of waiting until the end
of the year.
Here's what the bill approved by
the finance committee provides:
Foregiveness-the entire 1912 tax
bill for nearly every individual is
wiped out. If the individual made
more in 1912 than he will in 1943
however, it is the 1943 bill that
would be waived and he would pay
on the basis of the higher 1912
income. If the income for both
years is $4,000 or more higher than
for 1888, 80 or 40, reflecting exceed
ingly high war profits, he must
still pay a tax, at current rates, on
the difference.
Collecc~n-Payments made by
individuals during the first months
OF 1943 (the March IS and June Is
installments on the 1912 taxi would
be credited against the amount such
individual would have to pay next
year under the present system. That
should equal roughly one-half of
the individuals tax bill for this year.
The remaining one-half would be
deducted from paychecks received by
the individual during the last half
of this year.
The tax rate would remain I'M
changed. Exemptions would con-
tinue on the present scale of $500
for single person. $1,000 for mar
ried persons and $3.50 for each de-
pendent. Members of the armed
forces would get an additional ST.
500 exemption to be added to the
regular civilian allowance for their
marital and dependencWy status.
Despite the -aS-you-go title, it
will be Impossible to put all tax
payers on 100 per cent current
basis. The payroll deductions
would be made on the basis of 20
per cent of all wages and salaries
over 1924 a year for a single person
(rpT finnaH m pann A.
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years in state prison or 2ta years
in jail or a 81 900 fine.
Mrs. Bouvier's husband Rudolph,
80, was killed by shotgun blast
as he lay in bed at their Ware home
last Dec 8. Testifying In her own
defense, she commended that the gun
exploded accidentally In her hands,
She also claimed she had not been
overly friendly with Joseph r. Hare,
40-year-old Ware millworker, who
testified he was her lover
Hare said Mrs. Bowler had told
him he was the father of her baby
born the day after her husband was
killed. He also said she once asked
him to buy her some arsenic.
Under the law, Mrs. Bowler will
be permitted to keep her baby with
her until he Is 10 months old. Her
two older sons will be cared for by
their grand parents,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
New Price Ceilings Should Make
Consumers Dollar Go Further
OPA Trying to Roll Back
Prices to Last Septem-
Der Levels
BY ALTON B. PARKER
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

Washington, May TO- CUP)-The
Office of Price Administrations ad-
mission that effective enforcement
of retail food regulations would re-
duce consumers food budgets some
five per cent conceded today with
the opening of OPA's campaign to
roll back prices to last September's
levels.
AS prelude to the scheduled
June 1 roll-back-10 per cent reduce
tons in seven major food items
community dollars and -cents prices
went into effect today in small re-
tail stores in more than 1870 cities.
The roll-bacl; will be accomplished
June l with the aid of ,,overnma---
subsidies at the professors levels.
But from two sources-ard for
two different reasons-came loud
dissents. One organized labor
spokesman described OPA's roll
back progress as peanuts" The
chairman of the House Committee
which holds the governments purse
strings cried "unsound and unAmer-
lean" to the subsidy proposal.
OPA admitted for the first time
that effective price control never
has existed in report on recent
survey of prices in 23O coal mining
communities. The survey revealed
that the opinion of 200 OPA inves-
tigators was unanimous that food
price costs in mining communities
was approximately the same as
those in comparable communities,
but that substantial price violations
were found. The report by Thomas
I. Emerson, OPAs Associate Cen
eral Counsel, however, listed five
point enforcement program on
which it based it's estimate of pos
sible five per cent reduction in
prices.
AS OPA's latest campaign to stop
the spiraling cost of living began,
there were these developments
l. Price Administrator Prentiss
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
BOSTON DOCTOR
SUICIDE VICTIM

Belmont, Mass, May 10-(UP)-A
verdict of suicide has been returned
in the death of Dr. Seth F. Arnold,
prominent Boston physician, who
was found fatally shot in the bed
room of his home yesterday.
Medical Examiner David Dow said
the 64-year-old physician shot him
self through the head with a rifle.
Belmont police reported that the
shot was heard by the doctors wife,
Bessie, who rushed into the bed
room to discover her husband lying
on the floor. She said her husband
had been in poor health for some
time.
A native of Westminster, Vt, DR..
Arnold was a graduate Of Tufts
Medical school, He served as a
member of the Boston City Council
and of the Massachusetts House Of
Representatives.
He leaves lis wife, daughter
Constance, and son Corp. Richard
F. Arnold.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
Mayor to Open Ceremonies
Tomorrow at City
Hall
WAR BOND PURCHASES
ADMISSION TICKETS
Eight Booths Being Erect
ed Today; Entire Section
to Be ROped Off

Arrangements have been
completed for the showing of
the Japanese sub tomorrow.
Mayor John Monagan will
open the ceremonies, which
will begin Immediately after
the arrival of the sub. State
Chairman John Hurley of
Hartford and Mrs. Robert w.
Harvey, who is the Water
bury co-chariman, will lead
the parade with other digni-
taries. Led by Scovills Girls Drum
Corps the parade will form on
South Main Street near Piedmont
proceeding up South Main street
near Piedmont, proceeding up
South Main street to the Green,
counter marching down West Main
street, past the Elton Hotel, around
the 9oldiers' and Sailors Monument,
then back up West Main street to
LeaVenworth, and up Leavenworth
20 Grand and to the City Hall.
The entire section on Grand street
surrounding the City Hall will be
roped off, under the direction OF
Superintendent of Police Daniel j.
Carson.
Advance purchasers of Bonds to-
day and tomorrow will receive
tickets of admission emitting them
to enter the enclosed area and in
6pect the sub Tie submarine will
be on exhibition from 10000 a. m.
to 1000 p. M, and during this time
entertainment viii lbe furnished by
local people. Many thousands of
Waterbury school children are pur-
chasing War Stamps which will en-
title them to special viewing of the
sub.
Complete records are not yet in
but Chairman J. Francis Smith has
announced that local banks and
sales agencies for War Bonds have
reported greatly increased sales dur
ing the past few days, as a result of
purchases made by those who plan
to inspect the submarine. With each
bond purchased a ticket has been
given, emitting the holder to inspect
the submarine at close rang, and
to spend as much time examining it
as they wish.
Treasury officials estimate that
$4,000 people will view the sub
marine in its 12-hour visit to Wa
terbury. Co-chairman Mrs. Harvey
has arranged a group Of efficient
Bond and Stamp salesWomen who
will preside at the booths which
Superintendent of Parks James j.
Curtin Is erecting today.
Mayor John Monagan, in spe-
cial proclamation, urged all local
citizens to attend the sub showing,
thus indicating to the Treasury Of
ficials Waterbury's keen interest in
the present War Bond and War
Stamp drive.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
Inebriate Fined
$40 For Being Lit
Up After Sunset

One brazen defendant ap-
peared before Judge John Gaff-
ney in municipal court today
and demanded to be released.
Judge Gaffney requested to
know the charge.
Before the prosecutor replied,
the accused snarled, "I'm new in
dis tOwn-came in last night. /
was all lit up! Now let me go!"
ooh, you were all lit up in
this town last night-after sun
set?" inquired the Judge.
YEAH"
Judge Gaffney motioned to
the court clerk and said,
Change the charge to dimout
violation and fine him $40
without costs"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
HOUSING CENTER
MANAGER NAMED
Joseph Sullivan in Charge
of New Federal Agency
in City

Establishment of War Housing
Center in Waterbury was assured
today with announcement from the
Office of the National Housing
Agency in Hartford that Joseph
Sullivan of this city had been certi-
fled as manager. The appointment
came from William D. McCue, man
ager of the War Housing branch of
the MIA for Connecticut.
1t is expected that Mr.. Sullivan,
who has been affiliated with the
real estate Office of D. T. harrington
for the past few years, will assume
his new duties Immediately, al
though quarters for the new agency
have not yet been opened, Mr.. Nc
Cue stated in his official announce
ment to the city's War Housing
Unit Committee.
Opening of a War Housing Cen
ter in Waterbury will, it is believed
coordinate many housing activities
now going on here. The Office is
planned as a clearing house through
which applications for housing of
various types will be received, filed,
and acted upon. In addition the
center will have charge of all pub
lie relations dealing with public
housing in the Waterbury area.
Mr.. Sullivan is familiar with the
work as his real estate duties of late
months have been concerned mainly
with the private home conversion
program of the MIA. which entails
creation of 300 units of additional
housing in Waterbury by making
over large private homes and Office
building space. Mr.. Sullivan also
had considerable experience with
the Home Owners Loan Corporation
here in Waterbury.
One of the activities of the new
War Housing Center will be to re-
ceive applications from Immigrant
and resident war workers for the
various types of public housing that
will be available here during the
next six or seven months. Apphca-
tons will be received for the new
units to be built at the federal pro-
ject on Long Hill, as well as a
Rooms Registry being maintained
which will enable single men and
women TO obtain temporary shelter.
When talked with today Mr.. Sui
Ivan stated that he hoped to open
the Center some day this week and
planned to confer today with City
Controller Cornelius F.. Maloney,
chairman of the War Housing Unit
Committee. which has been active
in the establishment of the War
Housing Center.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
Francois Peace Feelers
Receive Cool Reception

Madrid, May 10 up Gen.
Francisco Franco said today that
Spain had united herself with the
efforts of Pope Plus to re-establish
world peace.
Franco, in a speech Almeria, be-
sought the Allies and the tripartite
powers-Germany, Italy and Japan
to cease fire and make peace i'm
mediately.
The Spanish leader thus put the
official stamp on similar pro-
nouncement last month by Count
Francisco Gomez Jordana, his for
eign minister, on the occasion OF
Columbus day celebrations.
Franco said he believed Spain was
especially qualified to initiate peace
efforts because Of her singular posi-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10

ton of living serenely united and
strong.
He emphasized what he called the
urgency of a return to peace, assert
ing that Communism" Is bent on
destroying European and western
civilization"
Washington, May 10-(UP)-The
peace suggestions of Generalissimo
Francisco Franco today met the
same cool reception which has
greeted earlier peace feelers from
Europe.
Officials again called attention TO
the Casablanca pledge that the
United Nations intend TO prosecute
the war until the Axis Surrenders
Internationally.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
SECOND FRONT
PROMISE SOON
TOBE REALITY
War Department Intimates
Fulfillment OF European
ENEMY STRUCK BY
INVASION JITTERS
Italy or Greece Likely Tar
gets; Seizure of Sicily
Now Contemplated
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, May 10. -
The Axis has been STRUCK by
the invasion jitters," the War
Department said today init
mating that the promise of a
European second front is
about to be fulfilled. 1.-THE
Nazis," the department said
in a review of strategy, "are
said to have declared martial
law in Holland, violated three years
ago but still unconquered. We are
one step forward on the long march
to victory"
Coupling of the idea of "invasion
filters" with a reference to martial
law III Holland may be a not too
subtle war department effort to
direct attention away from the in
tended point of attack.
Smashing Allied air blows at Axis
islands lying nearest to Tunisia indi-
Gated that the next major step to-
ward Europe will be into Sicily. But
the second front may come any
where, with some heavy betting here
on either Italy or Greece.
Seizure of Sicily, 30 miles from
the nearest Tunisian coastal point,
and of two much smaller and even
nearer Islands, may be the next sec
ond front development. Their seiz-
ure merely would be move toward
a European bridgehead. The two
smaller islands are Pantelleria and
Lampedusa, both Italian, lying 35
and 80 miles, respectively, from the
TuniSian coast. Sicily is 80 miles
from Cap Bon, at the extremity of
the TuniSian peninsula
1t evidently is the Allied inten-
ton to control the Sicilian Straits
by taking Sicily and making the
90-mile narroWs a safe thorough
fare for shortened supply line
to the middle east. Heretofore, sup
plies to the middle east have had
to go all the way around Africa.
Shortening the line by opening the
Mediterranean will increase the
merchant marine tonnage and ma
val escort vessels available for con-
voy service.
Washington was full of week END
rumors that the second front was
only matter of hourS--today or
tonight. 1t may be. But more eau
tious speculation took into con-
sideration the probability that the
British. French and American fore
es which finally drove the Axis
armies toward Cap Bon must pause
for a while to reform.
The drive on the Mediterranean
islands, however, need not be de-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
ONE NAVY FLYER
REPORTED MISSING

Quincy Mass, May 10 CUP
One Navy flyer was rescued and an
other still is missing after their
plane crashed off Provincetown, off,
Gals of the Squantlm naval air sta
ton disclosed today.
1t. (JG) j. G. Woodward, of Lutz,
Fla, was rescued shortly after he
bailed out of the plane last night
by crew members of the Gloucester
fishing craft Rosie g. Oracle. He
was transferred to a Coast Guard
plane and flown here.
A search is continuing for the
second flyer whose name was with
held
officials said the plane was on a
routine flight and that all investi-
cation would be held to determine
cause of the accident.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10
Entire Tunisian
Drive Nets Over
100000 Prisoners
Allies Move Swiftly to Put Final Seal on Smashing
Victory; BottIeneck Being Corked for Final Anni-
hiIatiOn Evacuation Attempts Seem Impossible
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters North Africa, May TO- - CUP -
Allied forced the unconditional surrender of Germans
to the Americans in North TunSia, camped tight land
and sea blockade on resisting Axis Armies Cap Bon
PeninSula and shot up nnunerable small boats in which
enemy soldiers attempted "Dunkrk evacuation
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-10

Summer Term for College Women
Begins June LIST. Special Bulletin.
Post Junior College of Commerce
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-06
Warren War Fund
Total: $4S,66S.N
Roose, TolImon, Isbister
Score Top-Heovy Record

The Big Three of Warren
townships Red Cross War Fund
campaign today basked in the
we'll earned glory of having put
across more than 81 per cent of
the entire county's $93, $40 total
in contributions.
The Warren township figure
was made possible through the
untiring efforts of Mark Roose,
chapter vice-chairman, +
Tallman, township War Fund
chairman, and Russell Isbister,
who headed the industrial dona-
tons section.
Roose, in particular, has a
long record of civic activities
which, in recent months, have
embraced an active part in Sc
curing USO accommodations,
War Chest solicitations and di-
rection of the Crippled Child
ren's drive. All three have won
high recognition for their part
in directing and making possible
the areas splendid War Fund
record. Each, today, expressed
his thanks to the several cooper
ating workers and to the public
and the corporations upon which
the success of the drive depend
ed.
Warren's contributions alone
totaled SAB, 668.49.