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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

In yesterdays operations, a total of 16 enemy planes were shot down against loss of three Allied aircraft. An additional six Allied planes were lost the day before, 1t was an- nounced.
 The northwest African Air Forces played an important part in the capture of Catania. American War hawks and fighter bombers softened up the enemy from the air with heavy attacks against forward po- sitions An Allied spokesman said the bombing had been directed only at military targets and that most of Catania was undamaged.
 Other Allied planes attacked oil depots, road traffic and other tar gets in Sicily. British and South African Bostons and Baltimores and American Mitchells made continu- ous bombing attacks on the areas of Adrano, Bronte, Milazzo and Ripos- to.
 General Sir Bernard L. Montgom- cry stepped up the pressure on the whole forward line this morning and the German defenses began collapsing after about two weeks of Stalemate.
 The main action was in the Re galbuto and Centuripe sectors, which were keys to the Axis defense of Catania and guarded the escape roads leading northward on the west side of mount Etna.
 The Allied forces on the Catania plain felt their way forward cautiously behind hard-hitting pa- trols. American and British fighter planes slugged continually at the enemy roads and communication centers.
 Yesterday the fighters reported they had knocked out 78 enemy trucks and fired 40 others in their most successful day of the campaign in Sicily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
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Little Opposition

The Americans encountered little opposition during the last three days of the advance. Munda finally fell almost as an afterthought to the heartbreaking grind through muddy jungle trails and sWamps.
 The Japanese evidently were de- moralized by the continued artillery and aerial assaults. They left huge stores of rice, damaged field pieces, clothing and blankets.
 Americans easily took the domi- mating Bibilo Hill, 400 yards north east of the airport where it had been anticipated the Japs would at tempt to block our entrance into Munda.
 Instead enemy remnants retreat ed farther westward behind Koken- golo, where they proved unable to halt our coastal advance into the airport.
 Last night we were 20 yards from our goal. With mortars and one or two IT millimeter dual purpose field pieces of the type fondly called Pistol Petes," American artillery was instructed to shell the Japanese Smoke Bombs A few minutes later smoke bombs were dropped on enemy positions Batteries then began to lay in Salvo after salvo of explosives. The bar rage lasted all morning. Pistol Pete was silent this after noon, his work done.
 The airport was in reasonably good shape considering the continu- ous shellacking it had taken since last December. The runway was pock-marked with bomb and shell hits, and the revetments were in dis repair. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be long before the airport is being used by American planes.
 I have examined pillboxes ir which the Japs chose to die rather than surrender. Some were eight feet deep, reinforced with coral and divided into compartments by thick coconut logs. They dotted the hilk sides and hilltops, since throughout the campaign the Japs held domin. ating positions.
 Direct Hits Needsd
 Only a direct hit could destroy such defenses. Blanket artillery fire and bombings often destroyed the personnel, but. the Japs either re: placed casualties or left one ma chine gunner in each pillbox.
 It was in the latter stages of thu campaign that we found the an sWer: flame throwers, which poured in streams of fire and fumes through the apertures of the pillboxes iron 50 feet. Flame throwers were cred.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

5. Damage to the basic economic and social structure will be avoided; full utilization will be made of small business.
 6. The needs of new families, in fantS and children, workers with special requirements and rapidly growing communities will receive particular consideration.
 2. Every effort will be made to economize the use of resources and to conserve the goods now in civilian hands.
 8. Civilians will not be called upon to make unnecessary sacrifices.
 g. Public information will be furnished promptly to enable the civilian population to understand reasons for limiting civilian goods and services.
 Principal Problems
 The report listed as the principal problems facing OCR:
 Shortage of manpower, particular ly in the service trades
 Inadequate distribution of scarce goods.
 Lack of materials, particularly metals, for civilian manufacture.
 The report stated that the civilian standard of living has been high during the past three years. Total civilian consumer expenditures on goods and services, it said, rose to unprecedented heights in 1941, even after allowances for price increases, and have fallen but little since then.
 "It would be easy to conclude that the overall civilian economy had felt virtually nothing of the impact of war, and that the prospects for it's future are good" Whiteside said. This is not the case"
 Inventories are falling, manpower available for civilian production and distribution will be seriously re- duced and peak war schedules plus heavy exports to rehabilitate areas freed from Axis control will result in additional lcaims on the national economy.
 Other storm signals, he said, in cluded the fact that many civilian goods which bulked large in 1889 are no longer produced; that there has been a general tendency toward lowering the quality of products, mad that some of the increases in consumer expenditures are trace able directly to increased civilian needs arising from the war program.
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(Continued from Page D they would have to return the amount they had been overpaid, roughly about $5,o00 in the aggre- gate.
 The Treasury, however, decided to make the restitution as easy as possible on the women, who, de- pending on how long they had been working, owed the governments amounts ranging from about $50 b $100. The Treasury ruled that the overpayments would be liqui- dated through paycheck deductions of $8 to $9 month.
 The story got into the news papers. Several persons sent small gifts of money to the Washington Post with requests that they be placed in fund to help reimburse the charWomen for the deductions. The United Federal Workers of America (CIO) made representation to the Treasury, asserting that the Supreme Court had once ruled that persons affected by misinterpreta- tion of legislation should not be made to suffer for it.
 Stop Deductions
 Alvin w. Hall, director of the Bureau of Engraving, said the de- cisio nto cease deductions from the charWomen's checks was reached at a meeting of executives of the Bureau and approved by Under secretary of Treasury Daniel Bell.
 Hall also disclosed that legislat- tion is being drafted and will be pre- sented to Congress under which the overpayments would be forgiven.
 Comment among the charWomen, many of whom have no other means of support for themselves and their children, ranged from fits a big relief" to thank God".
 The Post, meanwhile, had about $130 in contributions on its hands. The money, except for $2 sent anonymously, will be returned to those who gave it. The $2, the Post said, will go to the Treasury along with other contributions the newspaper has been receiving to a Warplane fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Drive On To
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AiOih o6O ~ slummy and squalid with few, If any modern conveniences.
 I spent the night through a pre- liminary barrage at a Canadian camp. Several hours before the bar rage an ominous quiet reigned. You might think it was a camping party in the mountains in peacetime.
 Like Firecrackers
 Then suddenly away over to the left, lights began twinkling furious ly but nothing could be heard. An officer remarked, that's the Amer jeans. They're starting first" I heard others say, "there go the Tanks" A few minutes later just over the hill from the next camp came a noise like tremendous bundle of giant firecrackers explod- ing. It resembled rapidly cracking punches of Chinese firecrackers on the Fourth of July in the old days, only magnified to ear-whacking proportions. immediately followed by the sound of shells going over head.
 Then onward for hours the bar rage never ceased. The shells had various music. Some seemed like squadron of 12 or IS of the heaviest bombers, flying low in tight form ation but incredibly fast, traversing the whole celestial arc before you could gulp twice. Others resembled a gale roaring through a forest or train going fast through sta ton. Some had a mixed alto-so- prano mournful banShee vail Others made you think of a bowling horde of witches broom sticking to- ward the enemy. Gunflashes illum- mated the landscape like distant summer lightning. Sometimes it was possible to distinguish faces in the light.
 Independent Is The Word
 Feeling your way around the hill- side, always with the password on your lips ready to utter If sentry challenged, you sometimes awaited the next surge of flashes to find your way.
 The German reply was puny. An occasional nearby thump made a sour note in the Allied artillery symphony and somebody would re- mark, that's him."
 saw one member of gun team sporting high silk hat while his gun was firing furiouSly. An occa- sional independent thinker wears wild western Sombrero.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Late Realty
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The following realty documents were recorded today at the office of the town clerk:
 Mortgage Deeds
 Rocco and Frances Arcovio to Louis DelPo, property on Carver and Hutchinson streets, $2,200. Elizabeth c. Sheehan to the Colonial Trust Company, trustee for Trinity parish property on Johnson street, $3,000.
 Rudolph Blau and Edith Blau, Cooke street $7,498.
 Warranty Deeds Louis DelPO to Rocco and Frances Arvocio, property on Car yer and Hutchinson streets. Assunta D. Pettine to Sherman Griner, property on Bishop street.
 Quit Claim Deed
 George A. Baronian, trustee of Nosahogan Lodge, Odd Fellows, to Waterbury Land Company, Inc, property on Highlawn street. Waterbury Savings Bank to Rudolph and Edith Blau, Cooke street.
 Mortgage Releases
 Francis Mcdonald to James M. Kefford.
 Joseph Mollica, administrator of the estate of Sebastian Mollica, to Michael and Palmina Solomito. Citizens and Manufacturers Na- tional Bank, administrator of the estate of Elizabeth A. Wolff, to Joseph A. Brennan and others.
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Continued from Page D Middle East.
 The American bombers flew in at heights from 100 to 500 feet, assuring pin point accuracy in bombing al- though this submitted the raiders to the maximum enemy resistance. The opposition was vigorous, since the enemy apparently had been warned.
 Stimson hailed Russian capture of Orel as major victory and said that as result the Russians now threaten Bryansk and other German positions in the Smolensk area. He called the Russian success even more noteworthy because it came after the Germans launched what was believed to have been their long, awaited summer offensive.
 Likewise, he said, the capture of Catania by the British Eighth Army in Sicily. will oblige the enemy to withdraw into northern Sicily in the direction of Taormina and Messina. This narrow corridor along the east coast is highly vulnerable to attack by air and sea.
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tleneck at Adrano, only eight miles north of Paterno.
 The British Eighth Army under General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery crashed into Sicily's second city at S:30 a. m. After the sun Drowned Northumbrians of the 50th Division who cracked the Mareth Line in Tunisia the 51st Highlanders. and the veterans of the 78th Division who fought at Dunkirk, had slug ged their way through the strongest enemy defenses on the island.
 Yn London observers suggested that all organized resistance in Sicily might be overwhelmed in three days. The German radio said Catania had been evacuated in the most successful maneuvers" yet car ried out in Sicily ito mislead the enemy" The Na1s broadcast said the Germans had retired to much stronger line behind Catania)
 Allied Aerial Assault
 While increasing Allied aerial aS- saults swept over Sicily's roads and rocked the mainland port of Naples for the fourth time in four days, the Americans and Canadians support cd the drive into Catania by steady advances against the crumbling Axis line extending from Mount Etna to the Caronia sector on the north coast.
 American and British warships supported land forces by lombard ing northern and eastern coastal roads over which the enemy must retire If he can escape threatened entrapment. specially in the Mount Etna sector.
 The best Axis troops, including remnants of the reformed 9th army which was liquidated at Stalingrad, the Hermann Goering armored div ision, the 18th Panzer division, the 18th Motorized division and units of praatroops who were sworn to fight to the death vainly attempted to check the Allied advance.
 Tried To Hold Catania
 The Axis had committed large part of its best forces to holding the Catania anchor at the southern end of the defense line and 1t is believ- ed they may now be trapped by the Allied advance from the west and stady aerial bombardment of the narrow eaSt coast mountain roads. The vital importance of Catania was Illustrated by the large number of mobile guns, hedgehog defense positions, mine fields and troops thrown into the battle by the en- emy.
 The 9th Army, which had met it's stiffest resistance on the Catania plain, crossed the Dittaino river and closed in on Catania, an announce ment at 1902 D. m. said. Four min utes later came the flash to head quarters: "Catania was captured at
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Continued from Page D offensive that swept nearly 400 miles from Stalingrad to the ap- breaches to the Dnieper river.
 The Russians broke into Orel yes- terdayg on the 23rd day of an of- fensive launched July 12 from the north east and south. The initial assault took the enemy completely by surprise and pulverized his first defenses but subsequent advances work of Notifications spotted were slowed by an elaborate net through wooded terrain.
 Nazis Pull Out
 Once their main highways to the west and southwest had been cut, however, the Germans began to pull out of the southern sector be- hind bitter rear guard resistance in the hope of averting another Stall ingrad.
 GA German communique said 123 Russian tanks were destroyed and 161 Soviet pjlanes shot down yes- terday).
 once was picturesque city of 150,-
 Blasting their way through what 900 inhabitants, the Russians found Orel to be little more than mass of flaming ruins. The Germans had begun their scorched-earth prepa- rations for withdrawal more than a week ago by blowing up factories and public buildings. Sivilians were moved to the German rear presum- ably for deportation to the Reich as slave labor.
 Front dispatches said the wreckage of Orel resembled the devastation found in Stalingrad, Rzhev and Vor- oneZh.
 Escape Corridor
 The government newspaper Iz- vestia said the Germans were striv- ing to the utmost to keep open their escape corridor from the melting Orel bulge, but added that the Sov- jet columns advancing from all sides except the west were gathering mo- mentum, overrunning dozens of sec- ondary garrisons and threatening to encircle the bulk of the enemy forces southeast of Bry&nsk.
 Large numbers of Soviet tanks and tommy gunners slashed deep into the enemy rear in daring man. euvers aimed at completing the en- circlement.
 Russian advances yesterday en- gulfed some 80 towns and villages including Stalnoy Kon, less than four miles north of Orel, and Svet- laya Zhizn, 1-2 miles to the south. Indicative of the terrific casualties inflicted on the Germans, prisoners were quoted that the 211th infantry division lost 70 per cent of its ini- tial strength in the last few days.
 Reds On March
 The Russians also were on the march at key points along a front angling nearly 300 miles to the southeast.
 Resuming their offensive at Bel gorod, 165 miles south of Orel, the Req Army advanced 6.2 miles and seized considerably better positions, then beat off German counter-at- tacks. Ten German tanks and a great number of vehicles were de- stroyed and A planes shot down.
 South of Izyum, 100 miles below Belgorod, another Russian force cleared a forest of Germans and advanced their forward lines. Sev- eral hundred Germans were killed and four tanks destroyed in futile enemy counter-attacks
 Southwest of Voroshilovgrad, an- other 100 miles to the southeast, the Russians widened and deepened their Mius river bridgehead.
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(Continued from Page D had obtained clothing immediately after he disappeared while bathing with other prisoners at the camp.
 It was believed that he travelled to North Bay on a train from To- ronto. heading north in contrast to the southerly direction he took when he escaped from prison camp at Bowmanville, Ont, last year.
 Assisted at that time by Stephan, the Detroit restaurant owner, he managed to reach point in Texas near the Mexican border before he was captured. Stephan, convicted of treason, was sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was commuted by President Roosevelt to life imprison- ment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

8. 30 a. m. today.
 Allied pilots returning from Cat ania said military targets there were pitted with bombs, especially in the railroad yards south of the town where tracks and sheds were directly hit.
 The Dacino De Ponente customs house was badly damaged and port of the central station was destroyed. The northern part of the town was gutted by fire. all airdromes were hard hit and the Fascist party headquarters damaged but much of the residential section was only slightly damaged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Continued from Page D plicants to report after three months on the effect of the plan upon average earnings and unit labor cost and stated that the board, at that time, would reconsid- CT its tentative approval.
 A spokesman for the local com- pany stated this morning the re- vised plan does not change rates, that only the system of determining bonuses is revised. The main diff ference lies in the removal of tn present ceilings, it was reportd.
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Bovingdon Is Disgruntled
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NCOnCulueQ ITOlll rage U of achievements regarded as valua- ble to the war effort He has doc tor of philosophy degree in econom- ics and sociology, has travelled ex- tensively throughout the Far East Russia and other countries. and speaks and reads Russian, French and German.
 His custer came shortly after he himself revealed that Crowley had asked him to resign and he had re- fused. He said he could not con scientiously resign since it would encourage every government agency ito retreat before the Dies unAmer- ican committee"
 Chairman Martin Dies, p Tey. had threatened to take up the ques- ton of Bovingdon's appointment with congress if Crowley did not dismiss him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Allies Plan
 Rome Attack

Continued rom Page D shalling yards at Paola on the 1n- step of the Italian boot. Mitchells hit an important rail bridge in a folloW-up raid.
 2,000th Ton
 Wellingtons set a record in the Marina Di Catanzaro raid by drop ping their 2,000th ton of explosives since the beginning of the Sicilian campaign almost month ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
WIPE 9-Point 'Yordstick'
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(Continued from Page D considered at the minimum essential level for any product or service when further reduction would i'm pair civilian health, morale or work ing efficiency of the economic struc- ture.'
 3. Adequate repair parts, replace ments. parts and labor will be made available to maintain existing es- sential equipment.
 4. The distributive and service trades will be maintained to the extent necessary to make essential goods and services available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Munda Airfield Taken, Enemy In Utter Rout
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tied with destroying B pillboxes in the past seven days.
 The campaign in it's last stages was fluid, with small American forces advancing far ahead and pocketing the Japanese strong points while themselves under sub-ma- chine gun fire from the rear.
 Sometimes they would have to fight their way through Japanese. Thus while several gains were can- celled by nightfall, they usually as- sured a permanent advance for the next day.
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(Continued from Page D ished apartment buildings, one sees the remaining occupants setting food on brick ovens they have built on the lawns or in the gardens. Feo- pie share linens and bedclothine f one has more than one pair a shoes he shares the rest with s:S friends and neighbors."
 The Danes added that later raids against small towns in the Hamburg area destroyed what the evacuees had salvaged as well as their new places of refuge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
BUILDING PERMITS

The following permits were is- sued today by Building Inspector John T. Hartley:
 A. N. Errichetti, lost 40 and 59 on Dougherty street, two one- family houses, cost $4,OOO each.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

The zuni Indians of New Mexico are the only American Indians who have developed @ complete religion based upon the ,ise of fetishes, or carved animal forms.
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Casualties
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Kodiak mirror., 1943-04-17

The Wayfarers' Club, Mason ic organization, is sponsoring a dinner Wednesday at 6:30 at the Club Montmartre. Tickets must be purchased Tn advance from Frank Hermann, and are limited in number.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-04-17

MT. and Mrs. Maurice Briggs celebrated there 25th wedding anniversary with a dinner at Sis's on April Eth.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-04-17

Harry Howe owner of the Ku- preaDoff Lumber company on Kupreanoff straits, was a busi- ness visitor in town this week.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-04-17
ISN'T HE WORTH IT?

This message is written to you mothers from your Government.
 Ii concerns the most precious thing in all the world to you your child. It asks you to help protect that child from fear, from starvation, from death-- the fate that has beGas3en millions of children under the rule of Nazi and Jap tyrants.
 It asks you to urge your husband to join the Pay-RoH Savings Plan the easy way to buy War Bonds that will furnish the ships and guns and tanks and planes so desperately needed to guard you and yours from the horrors of defeat. Or, if your husband is already buying War Bonds through the Pay-Roll Saw ings Plant asks you to urge him to buy more, to increase his savings to at least 10 percent of his salary or wages, Remember, millions of your brothers, husbands, sons, friends are risl1ing every thing. You are asked to risk nothing, War Bonds are the worlds safest invest ment.
 As you buy them through the Pay-Rol Savings Plan today, you are doing your