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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Marines Lond On Noum'|ea

Pearl Harbor, T. H., Sept. D. (UP)-United States Marines have landed without opposition on the Coral Island of Nanumea, extending American striking power to within 525 miles of Tarawa, Japan's main base in the Gilbert Islands of the central Pacific.
 Three pictures of the landing op- erations, released by the Navy last night, disclosed that the Marines went ashore on the island, also known as St. Augustine Island, on Sept. {.
 The new American base is the northernmoSt of the Ellice Islands, lying 275 miles north of Funafuti Islands, which was taken by United States forces last October, also without opposition.
 Funafuti itself has been bombed by the Japanese several times, ap- parently because of its proximity to Tarawa, target of 8 heavy 36- hour raid by American Army and Navy planes il days ago.
 The official pictures of the Nanu- mea landing showed Marines disem- barking from a landing ship and hauling heavy equipment ashore on the crescent shaped coral reef. It is about six miles long divided into two principal islets-Nanumea and Lakina.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
May Up 20% Tox To 3O%

Washington, Sept. 29.-CUP)-A unified plan to raise income with holding taxes to at least 30 per cent, corporation normal and Sur- tax rates to 50 per cent and to boost liquor, cigarette and luxury taxes still higher'appeared today to be the Treasury,s idea for raising $l2.0O0,- O,000 in new taxes.
 It originally was expected that the Treasury would submit several ale formative proposals to congress, inc cluding compulsory savings and an increase in Social Security taxes.
 However, Chairman Walter P. George, D.. Ga, of the senate fi- nance committe said yesterday af- ter meeting of congressional and treasury tax officials with the Presi- dent that 1t was his understanding the treasury would submit Q single unified plan.
 George said administration leaders had not agreed on final details of the plan, but reliable sources rec vealed thath 1t would probably urge an increase of eT.O00. 100000 to ee.- 900 900 900 in income taxes, about eI 800, ,000. 900 more in corporate tax ss and another ts,SOo.ooooOo in luxury taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Jones Fights For Farm Subsidies

washington, Sept. 29.-(UP)- War Food Administrator Marvin Jones opened the administration drive for expanded farm subsidies today bT requesting congress to inc crease the VITA price Support and subsidy authorization by $500, 0O0,. GOO, which would make q, ,00O, ,00O, 900 available for the program.
 He said at House banking and currency committee hearing that farm production costs are rising and the government should stand ready to absorb whatever loss may be necessary.
 The additional authorization re- quested by Jones would give the WFA autohrity to spend more than $1, 900 900 900, including present com- modity credit corporation funds, for subsidies and price supports during an indefinite period starting Jan. l, 1914. The hearing at which Jones testified were on a bill to extend the life of the eco beyond the pres- ent Dec. 31 expiration date.
 In requesting blanket authority to make loans and absorb losses onV 1944 food and feed production Jones faced strong opposition from farm organizations and from size- able block of congressman who de- mand higher consumer prices in- stead.
 Jones asked Congress for auth orization to purchase perishable commodities and resell at least less than parity whenever necessary to prevent waste. The present eco
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Am. Brass
 Renews Pact With Union

The Mine, Mil and Shelter Workers Union announced today renewal of its contract with the American Brass Company covering over 11,000 hourly paid employees in the Torrington, Waterbury and An sonia branches, pending negotiation of a new contract.
 The present contract would have expired on September 30, but the union and the company agreed on an extension of the status quo while collective bargaining negotiations continue on the proposals made by the union last month.
 Representative of the union and company management agreed to the extension because of the urgency ot continuing production of war ma terials in all the campany's Connec- ticut branches.
 Under the renewal agreement, all terms of the present contract are continued in full force and effect until December 31, 1943, unless a new agreement is negotiated before that time.
 The union committee met with management representatives yester- day in Waterbury and discussed various phases of the unions pro posals for new agreement. Serv- ing on the union committee are five workers each from the Torrington, Waterbury and Ansonia operations, together wath representatives of the International Union and CTO.
 The Torrington committeeman are Peter Higgins, Clarence Denegre, Joseph Neri, Charles Baccei and Thomas Baccel. s,IS,..
 From Waterbury are John Mama, James Quilter, John Rossi, William J. Stanton and Peter Oates.
 The Ansonia committee consists of John Walkinstaw, Eugene Smith,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Saga Of
 ShrapneI Row
By REYNOLDS PACKARD

With Fifth Army, Italy, Sept. % -(UP)-A German 88 shell helped introduce me today to ''shrapnel row" where American soldiers on the road from Salerno have devel- oped something new in the business of making foxholes sem like home.
 Just as the shell exploded. I dived. Then I heard Q polite voice.
 If you'll get of my face" the voice said, I'll be glad to show you around the place"
 We untangled. The voice was that of Pvt. Daniel Quinn of Gil Huron street). Brooklyn, N. r.. one of the men sitting out the shellfire on the march to Naples in row on row of foxholes scooped out of sheer cliffsides like rabbit warrens.
 Shrapnel row had three layers of them, dug into the side of the cliff and then slanted downward. Quinn's was so big that we had room enough to sit down and share some c rations while the shells exploded outside.
 we call this place shrapnel row because the enemy never lets up smelling and mortaring us" said Quinn. Mot that we care now we've made these new dugoutS."
 His looked almost like an attic bedroom. The dirt walls had pie lures taken from old italian calen- dars, a mirror and wooden shelf mounte don their sides. Blanket covered hay made a bed in cor- ner. An ammunition box served for a table. And above the entrance the hole was labeled Huron" in embedded stones.
 The Shelling stopped and Quinn's neighbors poked their heads from the make-shift tenements.
 They were covered with dust from constantly diving for the foxholes as signals came back from an ob- servation post that shells were coming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
NuzhEuFb' ItoIion Life
By PHIL AULT

(UnIte0 Press Stan C0rreSpOnuentJ
 London, Sept. % (U.PJ - Madrid dispatches reported today that the Germans were tightening their control over all phases of Italian life and hastily erecting for tifications along the shores of the LiguriAn Sea to forestall an Allied invasion of Northern Italy.
 Anti-aircraft batteries and heavy coastal guns were being rushed to the western beaches of the top of the Italian boot along @ 20O-mile arc from Leghorn through the Spe- zia naval base and the big port of Genoa to the French border, the dispatches said.
 Leghorn is only 60 miles from Corsica where French invasion forces are mopping up the last rem- nants of the Nazi garrison.
 Madrid said Italian civilians were feeling more and more of the Naz heel as the population continued to hamper the Wehrmacht with strikes. sabotage and even formation of guerrilla bands. The Nazis have been forced to disarm civilians as well as Italian troops, it was said.
 Severe punishment has been threatened against strikers and German price ceilings have been applied to all consumer goods, Mad rid said. Factories were reported tied up by labor troubles and Allied bombings. Farmers, around Naples particularly, were allowing their crops to rot.
 Peasants in northern Italy were re- ported smashing Fascist emblsms and to have defaced the word 'Duce" carved in solid marble edi- eces along the Lake Garda highway.
 Vatican City was reported still ez6er vital Nazi Imprisonment. Wis., @Crs must pass strict inspection by 0eEsnAn sentries. The Pope still is prevented free use Of communica-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Wheeler Calls Many GoDt Men 18-38 Years .SLackers

thousands of "slackers" are hiding in government jobs. He was chal- ienged by administration leaders to name names. but declined to do SO, adding that he knew that there were i0T. .000 single men between the ages of ie and 30 in government service.
 One senator who normally is an administration supporter said WheeleT's 'slaekeT" charge appeared Co arouse greater interest ln a bill which Sens. Josiah W. Bailey. D.. V. C., and Bennett c. Clark, D., Mo, propose to substitute fof Wlaeeiar's. The Bailey Clark hill would prevent retention on goVern- ment payrolls of any man i8-3e un- Less be was a pre.wnr father. Phys ieally exempt from the draft e ceF- tiaod hy his department head as lns dlspanaahle to lhe war effort
 Another section. hoNese1, would
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
R0oseUeIt Goes Silent
 On Plans Re Gen. Marshall

cause about 10 per cent of govern ment personnel constitute news leaks.
 First report that Marshall would be transferred to London to com. mand the European theater ap- peared here on September 6. It has been current since, accompanied by implications that pressure Of some kind was being exeFted to oust him.
 The chief Of staff. himself. now ls on record with an indirect plea to the congress and the press soF fair. ness in dealing with reports that the personal ambltlens of other officers or pressure from British or other souces have any bearing on his 0wn future. Marshall denounced eagaesilons of dlsunily in the high command and, ln particular. spoke of his confidence ln Lieut.. General
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Churchill Sees War For fzU6 Years More
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Sept, 29.- (UP)-Prime Minister Churchill said in e speech yesterday that huge Allied armies and more powerful air forces will be hurled against the enemy in the next 12 months, but warned that the war may continue into Septem- Der l945.
 He spoke at Royal Albert Hall at Q closed meeting of 5000 women delegates representing several mill lion British women engaged in the war effort. The text of the speech was not released until early today.
 Apparently referring to the prom ised opening of a front in western Europe, Churchill said:
 Tn the forthcoming year, you will see larger armies fighting and you will see more powerful air forces striking at the heart of the enemy country"
 Labor minister Ernest Bevin, in a companion speech, also made cautious reference to the coming of- fensives, asserting that the wars most intense period" is being reach ed.
 Tt will be touch and go this win ter and early spring." he said. we cannot reveal to you all that lies in store during that period, but 1t does represent possibly the greatest task Britain has ever had to face"
 Though Churchill did not elab- crate on the Allied plans, he said they must be supported by continu- ed total effort on the home front.
 We are fully extended now and what we have to do is to hold it," Churchill said. What we have to do
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
By JOHN Q. CUTTER

Limited Press Stan C0FrespOndentl
 Washington, Sept. % - lUP) - Plans of Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. D., Mont. to speak for Q couple Of more days on his bill to defer fath- CTS until January today precluded almost any possibility that the seri- ate will Teacil . vote on eny phase of the issue this week.
 seleetiye Service will start draft ing pre-pearl EiarboF fathers on Friday. Approximately 4A6, 900 must he called by the end of the year.
 In additional to Wheeler's speak ing plans, there wlll be speeches by Senate Democratic Leader Alben w. Baykley of Kentucky and by nera. Lister Hlll, D., Ala, and Sheridan poWney, D. califs and perhaps q host of othors.
 Wheeler held the flooE most ef yesterday and created a ctr near the end ol tha daT hE charelng that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Noxon Held; No Bail

Pittsfeld, Mass, Sept. 29-(UP)- Stoically mute, socially prominent Atty. John F. Noxon, Jr., was con- fined to @ county jail cell today while authorities welded 6 chain of circumstantial evidence in an effort to prove he electrocuted his men, tally sub normal 6-months-old son.
 Though he denied his guilty of the mercy" killing, the 46-year-old Harvard graduate and civic leader, was ordered held without bail pend- ing hearing of evidence Friday in district court.
 Reluctant to discuss the case, po- lice revealed a few details of the child's death a week ago and dis closed that certain electrical equip ment in the NoXon home had been confiscated.
 The prosecution, directed by Asst. Dist.-Atty. Walmore o. Cote, was expected to present as principal points these contentious:
 l. That Lawrence s. Noxon, the victim, appeared mentally deficient.
 2. That careful examination of the infant at the Boston Children's Hospital late last month confirmed this.
 3. That this had caused extreme mental anguish for the parents and breeding by the father.
 4. That immediately prior to the child's death, the father said, he seated the child on 8 metal tray in the living room while he repaired radio.
 5. That when Medical Examiner Albert c. England arrived at the Noxon home he found Baby Law renee dead with third-degree burns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
BY LYLE Q. WILSON

lUnited Press Staff C0rFesp0ndent)
 Washington. Sept. 20-(UP)- President Roosevelt, Tor the time be- ing. today left further reports re. garding the future of General George c. Marshall to the 10 per cent Of government personnel whom he believes talk too much.
 He did not confirm or deny at yesterdays news conference reports that the chief Of staff would have Q new command. But he said noth- Ing Co foFeel0se such a develop nloHt which, lG it e0fnes. wlll be re- yealed at . time determined 10 be appropriate ln its relation to war strategy,
 The President said he would not be stampened hy press reports into making annonaeomenf@ about tfanas fefa ol general officers, Mnt he conceded that information 6oIae- lllies gains premature currency bes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Hitler Talks Of Victory

London, Sept. 29- (UP)-Adolf Hitler marked the third anniver- sary of the Axis pact last Monday with messages to Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito of Japan re- affirming his belief in Axis victory however great the resistance may be-" Berlin broadcastS said today.
 "It is my firm conviction" Hitler told his Axis partner, 'that the huge struggle for freedom and the future life of the nations of Europe and east Asia will be crowned by victory in the end. however great the resistance may be-"
 He expressed his "most ardent wishes for the happiness" of Italy under it's 'regained honorable freedom" Mussolini and the Jap- anese monarch were said to have replied in similar vein.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
5th Army Cracks NaZi Defense Lines

BY RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondert,l Allied Headquarters, North Africa, September 29. -( (uF) - The Fifth Army cracked the German mountain de fense line in southern Italy surged onto Naples plain and began the march on Italy'S third city and largest port today. The fall of Naples was believed imminent.
 The Americans and British reached the Gulf of Naples with the capture of the naval base town of Castellamare Di Stabia, 15 mics south Of Naples itself and swept on ila pursuit of retreating German troops.
 (Information reached Lon don that the Allies had eEl@ tered Pompei, on the lowek slope of Vesuvius three mile above Castellammare Nl Stabia.)
 German resistance in the noun tains above Naples plain broke y2At terday after six days and nl8nA& of an Allied offensive rivailinE Nl intensity and since the start Of the war in the Mediterranean.
 Battered by massed artillery that fired until the barrels were hot. pai.4 the big guns of Allied warships, thu Germans finally turned and xle& down through the defiles onto tAle Naples plain.
 Front reports indicated the Ger mans were in full retreat toward Naples, whose outskirts already were within range of American Lcxx Tom artillery.
 The Allied advance swept up tns entire Sorrento peninsula on f'ls south side of the Gulf of Napaes. tas railway and highway junrtinn Nocera, five miles northwest tz Salerno and nine miles northwest of CasteIlammare Di Gtabla, and at least 30 other towns and villages
 Thus the fate of Naples was sealca and the port, sacked, burned and possibly already abandoned by tle Germans, was expected Co fan into Allied hands in a matter Of days.
 Farther inland, other Allied foEea4 were advancing due east Of Naples and threatening to outflank tli4 city.
 Among the townships or hamlG&4 captured by the Fifth Army were Montemarano, three miles north uk Cassano, five miles north of Cop- pozano.
 Drive Our Enemy
 "The Fifth Army has driven the enemy out of his strong defensive positions in the mountains north and west and of Salerno and fore@ ed an appreciable withdrawal" tho ground forces communique said.
 The Allied break through to Caa4 tellammare Di Stabia at the south eastern end of the Bay of Naples sealed off the Sorrento Peninsula and occupation of the entire peniu- sula opposite Naples followed quick ly.
 Castellammare Di Stabia, I5 miles south of Naples, is the site of a7l Italian naval repair yard that WIS shelled by Allied warships during the sicilian campaign.
 The Germans withdrew from their mountain defenses in orderly fashion, 8 spokesman reported. in the face of repeated bayonet and grenade attacks by Allied infantry
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
ALLIES WRECK
 ! JAP SHIPS, 60 AIRCRAFT
BY DON CASWELL Limited Press Staff Correspondentl

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, September 29. - (UP) - More than 200 Allied warplanes virtually wrecked the big Japanese air and sea base at Wewak, New Guinea, destroying 58 and probably 61 enemy aircraft and seven vessels out of a newly-arrived supply convoy In the harbor, a communique' revealed today.
 Another Allied victory ap- peared near $50 miles to the southwest where Australian riflemen and artillery were hammering at the Japanese held seaport of Flnschhafen, and piling up heavy casual ties among the trapped enemy garrison.
 The i,enemy battled desperately from foxholes and Ynachine-gun nests along the western and north. ern approaches to the port and Japanese planes struck at the AL lied rear lines, but casualties were Eescribed as relatively light.
 The raid on Wewak, one of the heaviest of the New Guinea caIn- paign, caught the Japanese ground and air defenses by surprise.
 Two formations of Liberators swept in over the base at high altitude early Monday and pounded two Of the feur Wewak airlelds with ex- plosives and incendiaries that drove the Japanese anti-aircraft gunners to cover and left the fields filtered with burning enemy planes.
 Ten groups of Mitchell attack bomberS followed the Liberators, laying their bombs from three-top level ssquarely across all four fields
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
U. s. Planes
 Bed deviIHuns
BY c. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 American f!ghter-bomber base in Italy, Sept. 27.-(UP)-The United States Army Air Force has gone in- to action from this Italian base, sending its raiders out on daily for- avs against German targets within 30 miles of Rome, 1t can be revealed today.
 Despite the nuggy weather of the last few days, fighters and fighter bombers of the United States tacti- cal airforce have been rising from makeshift fields to challenge the Nazis in the skies over the Rome area and rake their units and fa- cilities aground.
 One squadron of the hottest" planes in the U. S. A. A. F. - the swift and deadly A36 invader assault planes-have gone out each day to take a crack at the German air. dromes just south of Rome.
 The invaders bomb and gun the German fields, and attack railroads and conveys of enemy armor and supplies moving southward, appar- ently to 8 defensive point slightly north of Naples.
 ''When we get onto these good fields at Goffia, there will be no stopping us," said Captain Arthur Hilmo of Everett, Wash, who piloted a warhawk in TImisia last winter when the going was tough.
 ''The invader is the most destruc- tive weapon in the air force. Ger tainly it is the best fighter -momber we have ever produced, considering that we can fly along at an alti- tude of say 10000 or 12OO0 feet and then a few seconds later hit the tar- get right on the button and scoot away from 1.50O feet while pumping all kinds of lead into the ground troops who are trying to shoot us down.
 We pilots nicknamed this plane
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
NoNew Peoce Bid By Films
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Stockholm, Sept. 29 - Up) - Finland will make no further nloVe toward separate peace with Rrssia until the Soviets deliver a reply to the Films previous peace overtuKes press dispatches from Helsinki 1nNl cated today.
 The Stockholm Aftonhladetas H1I4 sinki correspondent reported that Premier Edwin Linkomies and NAne ance Minister Vaino Tanner already have made clear what Klnian# means by an honorable peace.s @lH4 that the initiative now is in 8lf4 sian hands.
 "The Kremlin can find chamNsl to convey its thought to EinlaN the dispatch quoted an authors tive Finnish spokesman as sagln6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
British Bomb Greek, Aegoen AiFdFomeS

Cairo, Sept. 2e.-lUP)-nTitlsh bombers attacked German aiTdFomes ia Greece and the Aegean islands Monday night and yesterday Faided shipping in the Aegean, c Royal Air Force eommunique revealed today.
 German b0lnbeFs and fighters a. tackled the Island og Cos gKoal ln the D0decanese, which the Allies recently occupied, Che eommuniqne
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
Gov To Probe Food Status
RY ARTHUR "a. DEGREYE

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 United Press Staff C0rrespOndent)
 Washington, Sept. 29.-(UP)-The War Food Administration and the Ofilce of Civilian Requirements will survey wholesalers and retailers in 20 cities next month to determine whether distribution bpttlenecks are causing shortages of food and other products, it was learned today.
 Four groups will conduct the ia- terviews which will be limited to IS minutes each. Oniy merchants &C., lively engaged in business or ex- ecutives representing their stores will be questioned.
 These tentative dates have been set: Springfield, Mass, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and Richmond, Va. on Oct. II. i2 and i3: Dallas. Oct. B, i4 and IS; Harrisburg, Penn, an6 Des Moines, Ia.. Oct. i4. IS, le; Los Angeles. Oct. IS, i6, iT; Vicksburg. Miss. Cincinnati. O., and @t. Louis, Oct. i8, tD and 20. sac- TaInento, Oct. 20. 2i, a; Memphis, Springfield, H.. Kansas City, Oct. 2i, a. a; Fort Wayne Ind, Den- yer, Seattle, Atlanta, Oct. 25, 26, 27 and 6yFlaeuse. Oct. %. % and 90. obtained would help dFdluoet0inet
 Oiiclals said the information ob- taineA would help decide whether further governmental action is need- cd to assure effective distribution Of civilian food end supplies.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Sept. 29 (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Sept. 27th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Lasf Year S2I, 1908, ,0s0, 0,S35.99 $l5,596,046, eos. .54
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
CEILING FOR STUDS

Washington, Sept. % - CUP) - The once of Price Administration today extended to the late fall crop of white potatoes the ceiling prices set last May for the early crop.