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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Fodder For
Propaganda
(By United Press

Axis broadcasters, manufacturing
propaganda fodder from the two
and one-half hour Allied raid on
Rome claimed tssdAy tziht isomos
were dropped on some religiuos.
cultural and civilian objects and
areas.
The italian Stefani News Agency
said bombs fell on the San Lorenzo
Fuori bascilica, on the Campo
Verano cemetery, on University
City, and in residential districts in
GLIDING Campo Verana, San Lorenzo,
Prenestino and Tiburtino.
The points named by Stefani are
either on or near the main railroad
routes leading into Romes central
station, Stazione Termini.
The Prenestino and Tiburtino
going northwestward to the Ter
areas are adjacent to the rail lines
mini, and the Prenestino in partic-
ular is in the district where the
lines diverge to lead in all directions
away from the city.
The San Lorenzo Fuori baSilica
is probably a church, near one OF the
old Roman gates just off the rail
road lines. University City Is on
the same side of the city.
Berlin broadcasters found slim
pickings in their first go at the
bombing. The Transocean News
Agency failed to blast single Rome
church, getting no closer than an
explosion 300 yards from the
Lateran basilica. The agency saio
the bombers were over Rome for two
and one-half hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Barker Made
TredsurerOf
Salvage Unit

j. Warren Epson, chairman OF
the mayors War Salvage commit
tee, today appointed Arthur B. Bar
ker of 1853 FairlaWn Avenue treasur-
er of the Tin Can Salvage fund.
Mr.. Barker, native of Brook
Ign, New York, has resided in Wa
terbury during the past II years
and has been employed as an &C
countant with the auditing depart
ment of the Chase Brass & Cop
per Company for the past 30 years.
His civilian defense activity in
fluenced Mr.. Upson to bestow the
honor upon him. Mr.. Barker has
been actively engaged on the food
panel, fuel oil panel during its
critical period early this year, a
member of the auxiliary police and
sector warden of sector So.
No report is available at the pres
ent time to disclose the facts and
figures pertaining to the contribu-
ton Waterbury and the surround
ing area has made to the tin can
salvaging effort, during the past
two months said Mr.. Barker, "be-
cause saw the miscellaneous re-
ports for the first time last night
and it will take some time to COM
pile a complete report"
The late Francis T. Phillips held
Mr.. Barker's present appointment.
While we can't determine Just
where the bottleneck is that has
caused Waterbury's meagre tin can
contributions, we'll soon try to put
map where it belongs, he declared.
Past reports indicate that we've
been doing poorly he added, and
while this may be due to ratlonlng'
tn piles of discarded cans on the
sanitation grounds reveal that the
local housewives are ignoring their
responsibilities.
Mr.. Barker's son, Corporal Ed
ward H. Barker, is with the United
States Marines, somewhere in the
Southwest Pacific" He was among
the first to land with the Marines
on Henderson Field at Guadalcanal
on August 7, 1912.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

ForMore Food

Clarkia, Idaho, July 20-(UP)-
Sixty-four members of a logging
crew laid down their axes yesterday
and went on a new kind of hunger
strike. They want more to eat.
They weren't getting enough beef
steak, they told officials of Potlatch
Forests, Inc. Without meat, they
claimed, they just didn't have
enough energy to cut trees.
Union officials predicted the strike
would spread to other camps in the
Spokane, Wash, area.
"These loggers are Paul Bunyan's
men. They can't get along on the
meatless fare under rationing," a
Spokesman said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
|Le1uis WdntsHisUMW
Back In The AH Fold
BY RAYMOND LAIR
United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, July 20 - CUP -
John L. Lewis, who split the organ
lied labor movement in 1885 by
forming the Congress of industrial.
Organizations, today tries to per-
suade American Federation of La
Dor leaders to readmit his United
Mine Workers to the AFL fold.
The UNIV, which originally was
the backbone of the fledgling CLIO,
withdrew from the organization last
fall after Lewis made good his prom
Use to quit as CLIO president If Wen
dell l.. Willkie was defeated for
president in 1910.
In the midst of the recent coal
crisis, Lewis applied for readmis-
sion to the AFL. If allowed, the
move foreshadoWs significant read
justments in labor politics.
Six Man Committee
A six-man UNIV committee Will
meet with three AFL vice presidents
Daniel j. Tobin of the Teamsters
Union, George M. Harrison of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and
Matthew VOL of the Photo-En-
graVerS Union.
Spokesman for both the miners
and the AFL doubted there would
be any obstacle to reaffiliation ex-
cept UNIV District SO, "catch-all'
union which has units overlapping
in jurisdiction with some AFL
crafts. A UNIV spokesman said,
however, that few of the district 30
members would fall within the Jur'
isdiction of existing AFL unions.
The Progressive Mine Workers, a
rebel offshoot of the UNIV and now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Rome CityO
Monuments
BY UNITED PRESS

Rome, seat of the Roman Catholic
church and center of christianity
almost from it's beginning, is city
with many ancient monuments.
The modern city had population
of about 100000 at start of the
war.
The seat of the Catholic church,
Vatican city, which was spared by
Allied airmen, occupies hill on the
right bank of the Tiber at the
northwest end of the city.
Never bombed before. Rome has
had several air alerts since the war
started. Several occurred during the
latter months of 1941 when several
persons were killed by anti-aircraft
shell fragments.
The Vatican is city within a
city, maintaining itself separate
from the rest of Rome. 1t is tie
residence of the Pope, location OF
the churches syn,bolizing the center
of Catholicism and repository OF a
wealth of ancient art.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Ickes Decries
Optimism

Washington, July 20.-(UP)-Sec-
rotary of Navy Frank Knox today
described public optimism over our
minor military successes" as "just
silly.
Vice Admiral Frederick j. Horne,
who attended Knox's press confer
ence, added that the Navy is max
ing plans for war in the Pacific
lasting "at least until 1949"
Horne, vice chief of naval opera
lions, said his statement was biased
on the distance we yet have to CO.
zone of the biggest difficulties
facing us is the wave Of optimism
every time we have slight mill
tary success" Horne continued. 1.-THE
public, thinking the war is nearly
ended, becomes complacent and our
production program suffers"
Knox declared that nothing is
worse for ultimate victory than to
promote the idea that the end OF
the war is near at every minor Sue
cess we have.
Do Not Overestimate
at is obvious to any thinking man
that it is much wiser to overestl-
mate than to underestimate the
enemy" Knox said.
1--WE haven't even begun to dig
into the enemy's main defenses yet
It's true that things look better than
they have, but just look at the
Pacific-the amount we have taken
and the amount we still have tt
take.
These waves of optimistic think
ing are producing slow-downs in pro-
duction. When a man thinks the
war is nearly won he lets up ano
imagines he can go fishing instead
of staying with his job.
But remember, Sicily is only an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Rome Gets
End Alarm
BY DOUGLAS WERNER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

(Ollltcu IICSS Otdh contemporary
London, July 2O.-(UP)-Another
air raid alarm was sounded in Rome
last night less than IL hours after
American bombers attacked military
detectives in the city for the first
time, but the German Transocean
Agency said no new raid developed.
There was a possibility that the
alarm was sounded when planes at
tackled other detectives in the vicin-
ity of Rome, the Transocean Agency
said, but this was not confirmed. The
alarm also may have been caused by
the appearance of an Allied recon-
Nuisance plane.
A German DNB dispatch reported
that whole professions of Italian
residents were moving from the
bombed suburbs to Rome to the in
ner city in the hope that the proxim-
ity of Vatican City would save them
from future raids.
Water Pipes Broken
Many quarters of Rome were left
without water because of bomb-frac-
tured pipes, and damage to the
milk centrale halted milk deliveries,
DNB said.
The Stockholm newspaper Dagens
Nyheter said the all-clear was given
in Rome at 1915 a. m. today after
an alarm of undetermined length
While there was no confirmation
that the city actually was attacked
by night raiders, the newspaper said
a telephone call put through nightly
from Stockholm between and 8
p. m. was not accepted by Rome I'M
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Watson Group Worr,
To Republican Heads
BY LYLE c. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

kOQltcu IICSS SCdh contemporary
New York, July 20-(UP)-The
Republican Postwar Policy Asso-
citation today directed its pressure
group" batteries toward Republican
congressman and the Republican
National committee in an effort to
obtain a speedy party commitment
in favor of world collaboration to
guarantee peace.
The northeastern conference of
the association adjourned yesterday
after a one day session at which
were represented the New England
States, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
and West Virginia. Gov. William H.
Wills, of Vermont, was named
northeastern chairman and Mrs.
Robert Low Bacon, of New York,
vice chairman.
Committee Is Restive
The Republican National commit
tee evidently is FESTIVE under the
pressure of the infant policy asso-
citation. National Chairman Deneen
A. Watson, of the association,
frankly describes his organization
as a pressure group. Operating on
that principle, the conference adopt
ed resolutions calling for a vote as
soon as congress convenes on the
question of United States collabor-
alton with other powers after the
war. Republican congressman were
urged" to obtain an immediate vote
and to support world cooperation.
The conferees authorized Watson
to request Chairman Harrison E.
Spangler of the Republican National
committee to obtain immediate &C
ton on postwar policy by the
party's council of forty nine. The
council, composed of Republican
governors and members of congress,
was named by Spangler about six
weeks ago to study postwar prob
lens. 1t is scheduled to hold its first
meeting in late August or early
September somewhere in the mid
west.
National committee anxiety or in
terest in the Watson organization
(Contin11aS m paua A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Maine Has
Costly Fire

Damariscotta, Me, July 20-(UP)
Five dwellings, a garage and a
hotel used as army barracks were
destroyed and the Baptist church
and several other houses were dam
aged today by wind-swept fire
that spread through this river town.
Loss was expected to total more than
100000.
The blaze apparently started be-
hind a garage spread to the bar
racks in the former Fiske house
hotel and then swept through five
houses along the banks of the Dam
ariscotta river.
Included in the loss were the en-
tire records of the towns ration
ing board whose offices were locat-
ed in a section of the garage Also
destroyed was the Lincoln county
(weekly) news office.
Firemen from Damarlscotta,
Thomaston, Wiscasset and friend
ship battled the flames and man
aged to beat out small fires started
by sparks on the church roof.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
CAPTURE OF
BIG BAST|0N
OF |L|NSKOYE
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, July 20. - (UP)
Russian troops have
seized Ilinskoye, only seven
miles north of the Orel-
Bryansk railroad, in a drive
to cut that last supply line
to the beleaguered German
garrison at Orel, front dis
patches reported today. Ilins-
koye lies midway between
Orel and B-'ysnak, rs miles
to the west, main German
defense bastion at the lower end OF
the central front. If this column
succeeds in cutting the Railroad
between the the two bases, it prob
ably will strike farther southwark
in an effort to link up with other
forces driving northWard and en-
circle German troops around Orel.
Only 10 miles southwest of Ilins-
koye is Karachev, which controls
network of important highways ra-
dating in all directions. Red Air
Force bombers have been raiding
the railway yards at Karachev
nightly in an attempt to halt the
movement of troop and munitions
trains to Orel.
Threat to Bryansk
The concerted Soviet advances on
Orel from the north, east and south
also posed a new threat to Bryansk,
which has been protected partially
by the exposed Orel salient. More
than 100 villages fell to the Rus
slams in their latest series of adj
vances on Orel from all three sides.
Russian forces operating north OF
the Orel- Bryansk railroad have
occupied three fourths of the Ger
man-held territory between the
Orel-Tula and Bryansk-Sukhinchl
railroads with their northernmost
arm extending 30 miles west of the
Orel-Tula line to Moilovo. Moil-
ovo Is only IL miles cas- tot the
Bryansk- Sukhnichi railroad.
South of Orel other Soviet troops
pounded their way to within artil-
lery range of the city, which the
Germans have held since the first
winter of the war in Russia.
Fighting was raging among the
rolling hills and in vast fields fol-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Surprise Air
Raid COMING

Boston, July 20.-(UP)-A "sur-
prise" air raid drill or blackout is
expected shortly in undesignated
sections Of New England.
1t will be the first test in New
England for which the approximate
time of day has not been an
nounced.
The drill will be sporadic, covering
only parts of New England. The
start of the raid will be signalled by
the approach of army planes and
the areas over which the planes fly
will be warned of the simulated at
tack by district warning centers.
Military authorities said some
areas may not take part in the raid
at all, while in others the alarms
may be sounded more than once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Rues Rush From
School To Jobs

Hartford, Conn.,, July 20-CUPo-
The state department Of education
viewed with alarm today the exodus
of thousands of Connecticut school
children from classroom to their
first jobs on farms, in factories and
other industries, with little hope
that they would return to school IN
the fall.
DR.. Alonzo G. Grace, state COM
missioner of education, expressed
concern chiefly over children be-
tween IA and 16 who have left
school to take jobs. He termed this
great tragedy"
officials said the issuance OF work
ing certificates has risen steadily
the past several months, reaching
its peak in June, and thus far this
month thousands already have been
issued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Mundo Hard
Nut Crack
BY BRYDON TAVES
United Press Staff Correspondent

Ol1tCu ACSS otbA4 SOlA
Allied headquarters Southwest
Pacific, July 20-(UP)-Allied forces
attacked relentlessly under cover OF
supporting aircraft on both ends of
the southern Pacific front today,
breaking up stiffened japanese re-
sistance in small but fierce actions
that took a toll of 261 enemy dead
in "a hours.
A Washington bulletin said that
American heavy bombers yester-
day morning struck at the import
ant Japanese North Pacific base of
Paramushiru, succeeded in starting
fires. A japanese ship in Paramus-
hiru Straits were also bombed and
a number of near hits on them were
observed.
10 Killed
Widening the Lilo beachhead
east of Munda on New Georgia Is
land, American jungle fighters &C
counted for 179 Japanese killed,
driving back the enemy outposts
preparatory to storming the Munda
airbase.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique described the action as a
limited advance. 1t occurred about
two and half miles from Munda.
Patrols previously had slipp d
through to within a mile of Munda
in the Lambeth area.
Yesterday Avenger and Dauntless
bombers kindled fires in a raid
north of Munda airdrome and drop
ped % tons of bombs on Japanese
positions around Bairoko Harbor to
the north. Later a light Mitchell
force strafed the Bairoko area.
Reports of the ground situation
around Munda, main enemy base
in the central Solomons, showed a
confused situation, spokesman re-
ported.
20 Planes Attack
To the west OH the New Guinea
end of the 750-mile front, American
and Australian forces engaged the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Much Damage In
,Domoriscotto Fire

Damariscotta, Me-, July 20. -
Cup A newspaper plant, hotel,
a garage and five dwellings were in
ruins today after 100000 fire
swept through the town.
The century old Baptist church
and several other structures were
damaged before it was controlled by
firemen from a dozen communities.
Two volunteer firemen were hurt.
Among the buildings destroyed was
that housing the Lincoln County
(weekly) News.
Starting in the Week-WaltS
garage, :.iie fire spread swiftly as
result Of a series Of gasoline ex-
plosionA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Pope Prayed
As Bombs Fell
By ALDO FORTE
United Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Bern, July 2O.-UP)-Pope Plus
XII, scorning suggestions that he
retire to Vatican bomb shelter,
PRAYED in the private chapel ad-
Joining his bedroom while Rome un-
der went its first air raid yesterday,
according to information reaching
Bern.
One of the first bombs to hit the
city landed within 500 yards OF Villa
Torlonia, Premier Mussolini's pala-
tial residence. The duce was be-
lieved to have been at his Office IN
Palazzo Venezia, several miles away,
at the time.
(The London Daily Express re-
ported from "an Axis frontier" that
Mussolini was just opening a spe-
cial cabinet session when the air
raid alarm sounded. He was said
to have proceeded Immediately to
an air raid shelter with Crown
Prince Umberto and Marshal Pletro
Badoglio)
"a Madrid dispatch reported
sharp, litter comment from many
continental sources over Premier
Mussolinis failure to declare Rome
an open city. 1t generally was real
lied, Madrid said, that Rome could
not continue immune from bombs
and at the same time contain mill
tary detectives, especially since the
Allied offensive against Italy Is ap-
preaching its decisive stage.o
Basilica Wrecked
One or more other bombs, an Ital-
ian announcement said, wrecked the
Basilica San Lorenzo, built in the
fourth and fifth centuries and the
extraterritorial property of the Vat
lean. The remains of Pope Plus TX
are buried in special chapel there
The Pope was informed Of the
royatiy,yvaH m po0o A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Morieny Hearing On
Murder Next Monday

Nassau, Bahamas, July 20-(UP)
The hearing of Alfred De Marigny
36-year-old French nobleman &C
cused Of the bludgeon killing of Sir
Harry Cakes, his wealthy father
in-law, will be resumed in magis-
trate's court next Monday.
1t was adjourned yesterday at
the request Of A. F. Adderley, negro
prosecutor, after witnesses had es-
tablished the cause, place and time
of Cakes death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
AXIS IN LAST
DITCH STAND
BATTLEGR|MLY
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, July 20. -. (UP) -
The see-saw battle for Ca
tania ragged more bitterly
than ever today, with the
British 9th Army Tightening
a strangle-hold on the east
coast port, while an Allied
communique reported signs
Of mutiny among Italian
troops elsewhere in Sicily.
The U. S. 7th Army surged
northward through the middle OF
Sicily, closing in on Emma and seek
ing to cut the island in two. Re
ports indicated that opposition in
that sector was crumbling to little
more than token resistance.
But there was furious fighting at
Catania, where attack and counter
attack followed in rapid succession
and the German threw paratroops
into action as infantry in their des-
perate efforts to hold off the forces
of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
at Catania and westward around
the Qerbini airdromes.
Gen Guilo Cesare Gotti Porcinari
commanding the 54th Naples di-
vision, was captured-the fourth
Italian divisional commander to be
taken prisoner.
Counter Attack
The main Axis elements involved
in the Battle of Catania were units
of the Hermann Goering tank d.
vision, but German and Italian
forces operating as infantry also
were taking part in the counter-at-
tacks against the British. The 9th
Army had established a number OF
bridgeheads north of the Simeto
river, which runs just south of Ca
tania, and have held them against
many fierce thrusts by Nazi tanks.
The line held by Montgomery
men starts on the sea and runs
inland about % miles to Rammacca
passing south of the Gerbini air.
drome area which had been re-
ported gravely threatened by the Al
lied troops.
The Americans who took Caltanis-
setta were pushing on northWard IN
mid Sicily toward the important
road junction of Emma and had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Propaganda
OfAxis Weak
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

-
Washington, July 2O-(UP)-The
United States government was con-
fident today that the Axis will make
little Roadway in it's propaganda
campaign to capitalize on the bomb
ing of Rome.
Officials pointed out that in con-
trast to the Axis bombing of Allied
capitals the position of the Allies
had been made clear beforehand
thai military detectives in Rome
would be bombed.
Two Catholic Senator's Joseph G.
OMahoney, D., Wyo., and James E.
Murray, D., Mont, --deplored the
necessity of bombing the Italian
capital but supported the Allied pos
ition.
Only a few Catholic authorities In
this country would comment--Bi
hop Joseph P. Lynch of Dallas re.
GREETED the bombing exceedingly
Bishop Gerald P. O'Hara of Atlanta
describing it as "ereat sadness and
disappointment"
No Comment
There was no comment from the
Apostolic delegate, the Pope's per.
sonal representative in Washington.
The Allies were banking on their
determination to refrain from indis-
eliminate bombing of cities such as
Rome to counterfeit Axis propaganda
lists who already were screaming
that the only detectives of the Rome
bOmberS were churches, museums
and hospitals.
Officials here pointed out that in
an ancient city like Rome the mill
tary detectives are scrambled indis-
criminately among non military
buildings. In the leaflets dropped on
Rome before the bombing. the Al
lies admitted that it would be i'm
possible to avoid entirely destruction
(CpptipIaI On DoCo AZ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Pope Suspends
Usual Audience
By UNITED PRESS

The Vatica Radio announced to-
day that Pope Plus XII had sus-
pended his customary public audi
ence tomorrow Sin view of the pres
emit circumstances and to avoid
crowding and the removal to great
distances with dangers to those who
take part in the audiences" The
broadcast was recorded by CHS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Cont Hold Out
Much Longer
By PHIL AULT
rnited Press staff Correspondent

United Press STAN Correspondent
London, July 20. (UP)-Invasion-
menaced Italy proclaimed 81 more
provinces war zones today and a
Madrid dispatch reported that GIN.
Alfredo Gubboni, Axis commander
in Sicily, has sent memorandum
to King Victor Emmanuel reporting
that he cannot stave off Allied &C.
cupation of the island much longer.
The new war zones surround, but
do not include, Rome and extend
from Naples up the west coast to
Genoa, across Central Italy and
from Venice around the east coast
to the Jugoslavian border. Two big
naval bases are encompassed in the
new zones, La Spezia on the north
west coast and Pola, to the east.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
LIBERTY SHIP LAUNCHED

South Portland, Me-, July 20. -
(UP) - The Liberty ship Nelson
Dingley was launched today at the
New England Shipbuilding Corpor-
alton yard.
The craft will be sponsored by Mrs.
Gilmore Bye Smith, widow of Ellstad
Smith, former employe who died
while In the Army.