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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
EDITORS MUST
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Guild Told Further Dras=
tic Curtailment of News
print Likely

Boston, June 15.-CUP)-PubliSh
ers must reduce the newspapers or
suffer a further drastic curtailment
of newsprint, delegates were told
today at the 10th annual conven-
ton of the American Newspaper
Guild (CIO).
The statement was made by War;
rem Morgan, assistant to the asso-
ciate director of the labor produc-
ton division of the war production
board.
Morgan said that the present rate
of newsprint consumption, based on
the first quarter figures for 1913
was 100000 tons a year or 100000
tons more than was being produced.
He said that 400 publishers had
been granted permission to draw
from inventories for additional sup
plies but that they should cut down
the size of their newspapers so that
the standards will be maintained
by having a proportionate amount
of advertising, news and man
power"
Guild President Milton M. Muir
ray of Detroit said that publishers
will not curtail newsprint consump-
ton "if we do not press for 1t. They
will go on their own merry way"
Morgan said, however, that the
trouble could be attributed to the
fact that circulation was on the in
crease. He said that with few ex-
ceptions, publishers were trying to
comply by cutting newsprint con-
sumption.
Morgan said that Quebec's pulp
mills were going out of business and
he foresaW a rs per cent decrease in
Canadian neWsprint manufacture
He believed that labor being used
to cut lumber should be diverted
toward winning the war"
publishers, he said, Should go
ahead now and In an orderly way
cut down on the consumption of
newsprint and at the same time
give labor an opportunity to provide
for itself"
CLIO President Philip Murray was
unable to get here and his sched-
uled spec :h was cancelled. In ad-
dition, the convention postponed
until tomorrow the giving of the
Haywood Broun Memorial award for
outstanding newspaper work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
TWO ESCAPED NAZI
PRISONERS CAUGHT

Austin, Tex, June 15-(UP)--
Two young German prisoners OF
war, refreshed after a night in the
county Jail, we're returned by mill
tary police today to Camp Hood
from which they escaped with five
companions a week ago,
The prisoners, Inwig Jung and
Harold StelieiCken, were captured
last night 10 miles northwest of
Austin after they had tried unsuc-
cessfully to hail a ride with school
teacher Mrs. Halsey Streed. who
recognized them, She drove past a
nearby community and told Roscoe
Faubion, postmaster, The Germans
gave up without a struggle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
LOCAL CLAIMS
PAID BY CITY
Aldermanic Board Law
Committee Recommends
"a Reimbursement

The Law Committee of the Board
of Aldermen authorized the board
to reimburse the following persons
with the stipulated claims which
are full settlements for all claims
for loss, cost or damage aris-
ing out Of alleged defective streets
and sidewalks in the city of Water
bury.
This is the smallest number OF
claims to be awarded during the
past several years, said Corporation
Counsel Maurice T. Healey today
perhaps a sign the condition of our
streets are greatly improving, he
added.
The following were awarded
claims:
Louis c. Chieffo, for damage to
automobile due to defective high
way on Joseph street on May II
1912, $25.
Mary Schell, for personal injuries
due to a defective walk at the cor
ner of Central Ave. and West Main
street, on May 16, 1912, $25.
Josephine DeMatteo, for personal
injuries due to a defective sidewalk
at $50 North Main street, on May
%, 1912, $500.
Grace Napoli for personal injuries
due to a defective sidewalk on East
Main street, near the cemetery on
July 10, 1912, $3.50.
Mary G.. Culleton, for personal in
juries and damage to her clothing
due to defective walk on West
Main street, on August 4, 1912, $50.
Mrs. Pililomena Cocchiola, for
personal injuries received by being
struck b va piece of iron on city
property. $40.
Mrs. John Carey, for damage to
automobile due to defective high
way on LedgeSide avenue, on Nov.
5, 1912. 500.
James T. Calvin, for personal in
juries due to a defective curb on
Field ST., on Nov. 81, 1912, $125.
Anne Bogush, for personal injur-
les and damage to her clothing due
to a defective sidewalk on North
Elm street, on Oct. 10, 1912. $25.
Mary Harty, for personal injuries
due to defective sidewalk at the
Continued on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
FRENCH CRISIS
HITS new SNAG
Compromise Plan to Make
DeGaulIe War Minister
Holds Up Settlement
BY GEORGE PALMER
United Press Staff Correspondent


Algiers, June IS - (U.PD Six
new members of the French COM
mittee for national liberation asked
Generals Charles De Gaulle and
Henri Honore Giraud today 10 sub
NIT their differences directly to the
committe to settle the crisis in
committee to settle the crisis in
AS an alternative, the group sug-
gested that the leaders, who are di-
vided over De Gaulle's proposed re-
forms in the army, make a strong
effort to iron out their problems
prior to a regular committee meet
ing on Thursday.
General Georges Catroux tried to
bring DeGaulle and Giraud together
for a luncheon conference today
but failed, even though both were
understood to have accepted the in
vitation last night. The latest Snag
in the negotiations was believed to
have developed from a compromise
plan for making De Gaulle minister
of war or national defense while
continuing Giraud as commander
in-chief of the army Giraud was
said to have rejected this plan and
the luncheon.
The petition proposed that an
agenda be drawn up for committee
action, listing four questions to be
decided. These include whether Gil
raud is to have complete control of
the army or whether he will share
it with De Gaulle.
The other questions were; /. If
Army power is shared, would the
naming of De Gaulle as war minis
ter be acceptable? 2. Are so-called
defeatiSts and Vichyites to be re-
moved from the upper ranks of the
army, and g. Are the aviation and
navy portfolios to be placed under
the war ministry?
DE GaullistS continued Il empha-
size that De Gaulle must have a
definite role in military affairs since
he owes it to his followers inside and
outside France.
De Gaulle, Gen. Georges CatrouX
and Jean Monnet, committee mem
Der, we're trying to reach some
agreement. Monnet was reported
acting as a go-between with Gen,
Continued on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15

Putting the attacks on Adolf Hit
ler'S European fortress back on an
around the-clock schedule after a
lull in daylight operations yesterday.
British Spitfire Fighters dashed out
across the Fecamp area of north
ern France on an offensive sWe }
early today and destroyed three
German Focke- Wulfe 100 Fighters
Other enemy fighters were damaged
A German broadcast acknowl-
edged heavy damage at Oberhausen
and claimed that 20 raiders were
Shot down. Residential districts of
other western German towns also
were bombed, the broadcast said.
Besides Oberhausen, the western
Ruhr also includes such important
targets as Duisburg and Mulheim,
and other arms cities.
Oberhausen has been raided only
twice previously by the Raj, on
Oct. II and Nov. 7, 1910. Situated
six miles northwest of Essen, its
principal industries are blast fur
naces and steel works.
British medium and fighter
bomberS carried the offensive last
night to France, Belgium and Hol-
land, bombing and Strafing German
communities. Six barges were hit on
the Seine near Rouen, France, and
a nearby locomotive was strafed
Other bargeS were hit near Dixmude
and RoubaiX and airfieldS we're at
tackled at Abbeville and Polk.
Two enemy planes were destroyed
over their bases in Holland.
Mine-laying operations completed
the nights offensive.
The assault on the western Ruhr
was believed heavier than Sunday
nights raid on the Rhineland, but
far smaller than the record at
tacks Friday night on Dusseldorf
and Munster, when considerably
more than 1000 tons of bombs were
dropped in the heaviest raid of the
war, or even that of Saturday night
on Boochum.
A few German nuisance raiders
filtered through London's heavy an
i-aircraft barrage last night for the
third straight night and touched off
two air raid alarms. Seven persons
were killed by bombs in one district,
but communique said damage was
light.
Other German raiders scattered a
bombs over southeastern Englar1w
and East Anglia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
257 JAP SHIPS
HIT TO DATE BY
AMERICAN SUBS
Even Greater Toll to Be
Taken in Future Says
Secretary Knox
PRODUCTION HERE
VERY SATISFACTORY
20 More DestrOyer=EsCOrt
Ships to Be Completed
This Month

Washington, June IS -
(UP-American submarines,
which already have destroyed
or damaged 257 Japanese
ships, will take an even
greater toll henceforth of
craft plying the enemy's far
flung sea communications
routes, Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox asserted today.
Knox told a press conference
that the latest reported bag
of U. S. undersea fighters - II
more japanese ships sunk or dam
aged - was significant of steady
growth of attacks" He added that
the United States has replaced
many times over the eight sub
marines lost since Pearl Harbor and
that new submarine construction
lis moving along smoothly"
Tho secretary appeared elated by
the large score announced by the
Navy yesterday for American sub
marines preying on enemy vessels IN
Far Eastern waters.
The report disclosed that IL
enemy ships, including a destroyer,
had been sunk in recent forays;
one was probably sunk, and three,
including another destroyer, were
damaged. In addition, the Navy dis
closed in a separate release, a U. S.
submarine damaged and probably
sunk Japanese submarine in a gun
duel on the surface.
Knox said that American submar-
the production sis very satisfactory
and reported that I'VE are building
n small number of submarines
month by month and they are a
steady addition to our Navy"
Immediately before Pearl Harbor
the Navy had Ill submarines in
service and 10 building. Knox did
not give any new figures, but pre-
sumably the pre-Pearl Harbor total
has been considerably increased.
The secretary also paid tribute to
submarine crews.
THE men," he said, "are learning
their trade"
Knox said that, meanwhile, the
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
Los Angeles Ban
Lifted By Navy

Los Angeles, June 15-UP)-
The Navy today officially rec
Ognized the end of zoOt-suit ri
citing here by lifting its out-of-
bounds order.
Rear-Admiral ID. w. Bagley,
cOmmandant of the 18th Naval
district, said the ban was lifted
after message was received
from Mayor Fletcher Bowron
assuring the commandment
that the police department was
prepared to handle the situa-
ton to the satisfaction Of all
concerned"
The Navy closed the entire
metropolitan area to Naval
men following the riots between
its members and reat- pleeted
hOOdlums.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
BOMBERS PASTE
ITALY SICILY
Hits Scored on Factory,
Power Plant and Rail-
road Station

Allied Headquarters, North Africa,
June 15-(UP)-RAF spedey mos
quito bombers pasted italian and
lowing q two-ton block buster raid
Sicilian targets again last night fol-
by Wellington bomberS on the Mes
sina harbor and railroad terminal
Sunday night.
The mosquito strafed the island
the toe of the Italian boot hitting
railroad stations, freight yards and
sidings at Licata in southern Sicily,
and scoring hits on factory, a
power plant and a railroad station
in the toe of the italian boot.
The Sunday night attacks started
two large fires and hit big target
area on the Italian island outpost.
British Wellington bombers car
ried out the raid, a communique
said today. 1t reported that mod
crate flax was encountered and that
enemy searchlights vainly searched
the sky for the attackers.
Other Allied airplanes carried out
patrol operations, attacking unSpec-
flied targets.
Meanwhile, 1t was disclosed by
aerial photographs that one Italian
battleship of the 35,000-ton Littorio
class suffered a direct hit on the
forward deck during the U. S. Fly
ing Fortress raid Of June on SpeZia
naval base, when three battleShipS
were attacked.
The pictures showed the deck plat
ings had buckled under the blast
and it was believed that the forward
gun turret suffered damage, A
cruiser and another ship also had
been reported hit previously.
Both incendiary and high explo-
sive bombs were used in the night
attack by the Raj on Messina.
Messina is the terminus of the
principal ferry line from the Italian
mainland to Sicily.
The communique said other IN
identified targets in Sicily also were
bombed by the Wellingtons.
Allied daylight operations were
confined to aerial reconnaissance
and patrolling yesterday for the
second straight day. All planes re-
turned safely from both day and
night operations.
The communique said four add
tional enemy aircraft now were
known to have been destroyed last
Friday, boosting the days bag to
10. Most were shot down during
raids that led to the capitulation of
Pantelleria.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
British Seal Frontier Be-
tween Syria and Turkey
Guarding Plans
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
STRAIN ENEMY FEARS
JugOslav GuerriIIas Unit
ing for Common Action
Against Axis
BY JOHN A. PARIS
UNITED Press Staff COrreSnonden,

NOliVeu fTeSS otaI1 correspondent
London, June Is. - (UP)
- British authorities sealed
the frontier between Syria
and Turkey to guard Allied
invasion plans today, Jugo-
Slav guerrillas were believed
uniting for common action
against the Axis and the
Germans repeatedly ordered
evacuation of civilians from
outlying Greek and Norwegian is
lands.
These developments, linked with
the Allied aerial offensive against
Sicily and the Nazi Rhineland, in
tenSified Axis fears - repeatedly
voiced by the Berlin and Rome
radios that major assault was
being prepared against some one
point or several points which they
obviously could only guess.
Both Rome and Berlin in the last
week have repeatedly sought to re-
assure their people that Axis forces
would be able to turn back any in
vasion but at the same time the
enemy high command appeared to
be desperately trying to find clue
to Allied plans.
The British action in closing the
Syrian side of the Turkish Syrian
frontier appeared to be linked to
these Axis efforts and presumably
was designed to prevent leakage OF
information.
(The eastern end of the Mediter-
ranean, where there are American
forces as we'll as the British 9th and
10th Armies, has often been men,
toned as potential invasion area.)
Today's italian communique
claimed the sinking of a ship from
a strong" Allied convoy in the
eastern Mediterranean.
Dispatches from Ankara said the
frontier was closed at 6 a. m. and
the Turkish government was Off
cially notified of the action later.
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
UNDERGROUND PAY
ISSUE UNSETTLED
War Labor Board Ex=
pected to Release Deci=
sion Today, Tomorrow
BY RAYMOND LAIR
United Press Staff Correspondent


Washington, June 15.-UP)-The
War Labor Board decision in the
United Mine Workers wage dispute
may leave the underground travel
pay issue unsettled informed sources
indicated today.
These sources pointed out that
Chairman william H. Davis regards
the controversy over the union de-
mand for portal portal (under-
ground traveD pay as an attempt to
settle legal claim out of court,
An out-of-court settlement pre-
sumes willingness to accept by both
parties, but observers doubt that
UNIV President John l.. Lewis
would accept any settlement in line
with the publicly expressed views OF
the board. He repeatedly has
fiouted the board and refused to
recognize its jurisdiction.
The union based its claim for
portal-to-portal pay on a federal
court decision interpreting the wage
hour law. Davis said he thought
the union could claim nothing I'M
Ger the law unless tne average min
ers' travel time exceeded five hours
weekly the difference between
the miners basic 35-hour week and
the basic 40-hour week of the wage
hour act.
The UNIV originally claimed
travel time averaged 80 minutes a
day, but Lewis agreed to a figure
of one hour in reaching tentative
agreement with Central PennSyl-
vania operators last week for $1.30
daily in portal-to-portal pay.
If the WLB accepted the one-hour
figure and allowed no payment for
travel time under 40 hours week,
it would award no portal-to-portal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
CRACK-UP LOOMS
AMONG FASCISTS
HOme=FrOnt Morale Weak
ening; MussOlini's
Photo Kicked

London, June Is. - CUP - Axis
dispatches indicated today that
Italy's Fascist party has been forced
to take emergency steps to prevent
a crack-up in the Italian home
front.
Carlo Scorza, party secretary, was
reported to have sent Premier Benz
to Mussolini long message from
the party grand council urging
strong measures to avoid weaken
ing of the morale" of the Italian
people.
A Rome dispatch TO Stockholm by
the Axis-controlled Scandinavian
Telegraph Bureau said IAN eX-
tremely rigorous cleansing of the
italian home front appears immi-
nent." According to the dispatch,
Scorza's message was regarded as a
sure sign the authorities would take
drastic measures"
A transocean German dispatch
broadcast by Berlin said ScorZa
urged MusSolini to issue new DEGREES
If present laws were not broad
enough to obtain results.
Tass (Russian) News Agency, IN
Bern dispatch, reported an Ital-
Ian cabinet decree under which fur
Their designations from administra-
tive and economic departments
would be regarded as attempts to
desert.
The Tass dispatch said IAN in
cessant flow" of designations had
been handed in by invasion con-
scious Italian officials and that
many city employees at Milan were
sentenced to prison terms for leav-
ing work without permission.
London radio reported new re-
shuffling of the Fascist Grand Coun-
Gil in Ttich ON minister, unnamed,
was let out.
1.-THE seriousness of the moment
iustifies the decision not to allow
anybody to waste energy Or relax
at work" Stefani Qtalian News
Agency story from Rome said.
The British radio said that Nazi
General Albert Kesselring. German
air force chief in Italy. had been
ordered from Sicily to the Italian
mainland. The same source said
that an italian prisoner on Pantel-
leria kicked picture OF MuSsolinl
while his comrades cheered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
Sabotage Hinted In Fire
On Railroad DralUbridge

ton, A preliminary inspection in
dicated that the drawbridge would
be out of service from II to "a
hours.
The whole south shore was isolat-
ed last night while the fire ap-
parently of incendiary origin, swept
along the bridge eating through
railroad ties and other infiamma-
bic material
Railroad officials said that the
bridge was under guard as usual
last night by three railroad employees
when the fire started.
Fire Chief William J. Sands OF
Quincy said there was evidence that
the fire broke out in two separate
places. Sands added that he had
notified the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and the state fire mar
Shals oeTce
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
RUSSIANS SEIZE
TOWN NEAR sunny
200 Germans Killed in
Beating Off Enemy
COunter=AttaCks
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENCE

| (Umteu freSS stan correspondent
Moscow, June Is - P)-RuS-
sian troops have captured village
near Sunny 80 miles northwest of
Kharkov, and have killed 200 Ger
mans in one sector alone in beat
ing off strong counter attacks on
newly-Won Soviet positions north
east Of Orel, the Red Army an
nounced today.
(Finance Commissar Arseni I've
rev said in a Moscow broadcast, ac-
cording to London, that the Rus
slams are preparing crushing blows
against the enemy" A Berlin broad
cast reported that Soviet troops had
broken into German positions at
two places near Belev, 65 miles
north of Orel, but claimed that the
breecheS later were sealed.
Twenty Germans were slain in
hand-to-hand fighting during the
occupation of the village near Sunny,
where little fighting has been re-
ported in recent weeks. A machine
gun and several rifles were cap
tured.
The Germans counter attacked in
strength with air and tank support
northwest of Mtsensk, some 30 miles
northeast of Orel, the hinge of the
southern and central fronts, the
midday communique said, but were
thrown back in confusion with
heavy losses. Three planes were des-
troyed by anti-aircraft fire.
Three more enemy planes were
destroyed, two of them in aerial
combat, northwest of Mtsensk yes
terday. The capture of four villages
by the Red Army in this area was
announced yesterday.
The ground fighting followed a
heavy raid Sunday on Orel itself,
where a number of military trains
were demolished and fires and eX-
ploSions were observed. Three
planes were lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15

Boston. June l5.-lUP)-The FB1
today investigated possible sabotage
in connection with last night S
Neponset drawbridge fire on the New
Haven railroad that tied up vast
amounts of war production and
threatened to delay thousands Of
war workers enroute to their jobs
Emergency shuttle train service
was operated to accommodate pas
sengers travelling between Brockton,
Plymouth. Greenbush, other south
shore points and Norfolk Downs
Buses provided service from Nor
folk Downs to the Columbia sta
ton of the Boston Elevated Rail
way.
The cause of the fire which broke
out on the Quincy END OF the
Neponset drawbridge shortly before
II o. u. still was under mvestiga-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
JAPS DROP BOMBS
ON CUADALCANAL
Navy Claims No Damage
Done; Enemy Salvages
American Destroyer

Washington, June 15.-(UP)-
Japanese planes succeeded in drop
ping a small number of bombs OF
Guadalcanal in a night raid but nc
damage was done to American troops
or material, the navy announced to-
day.
A communique also said that navy
fighter planes in the South Pacific
damaged a japanese reconnaissance
bomber.
Text of navy communique No 412
South Pacific Gall dates east Ion
gitude):
81. On June 10:
"(A During the day navy fight
err planes in the South Pacific DAM
aged a japanese reconnaissance
bomber.
"CB) During the night, japanese
bombers we're over Guadalcana
island. A small number of bombs
were dropped. No personnel or ma
terial casualties occurred
Somewhere in Australia, June ID
Delayed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
pictures made by American flyers
over Surabaya. Java, on some OF the
longest camera flights OF the val
revealed today that the japanese
apparently have salvaged one Amcri-
can destroyer at that former Dutch
lCnnLinuad ON PAGE y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15

Chicago, June IS - (UP) - The
Greyhound Corp. announced today
that it has applied to the civil aero
nautics board for permission to
operate helicopters over present
bus routes covering some 10000 miles
of highway. using present bus ter
minals as landing ports.
Under the plan, helicopters would
follow established bus routes to pro-
vide air bus service to some 10000
900 persons In cities and towns not
served by existing airlines, c. E.
Wickman, president. said. The pro-
posed lines also would serve as feed
ers to present air lines.
While lack of available equipment
may make the Greyhound plan a
post war project. company officials
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
Heicopter Over Bus Routes
Aim OF Greyhound Corp.

said there is possibility that sew
eral helicopters of the type needed
may be available for experimental
use in the near future.
IF these aircraft can be obtained,
authority is being sought to put
them in service on routes between
Detroit and Flint Mich, and inter-
mediate points between Detroit. Gin
cinnati and Louisville Wickman
said
The largest helicopter yet demon
strated carries only four persons in
Guiding the pilot, Greyhound said,
but it is understood that craft car
rying eight to 10 persons are under
construction for the army and may
be completed for trial flights in the
near future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-15
100000 WAR BONDS
STILL UNDELIVERED

New York, June 15-CUP)-The
New York World Telegram said o.
day that 100000 war bonds pur-
chased by service men and civilian
employees of the war department "as
far back as August, 1912, are still
undelivered and are clogging up
the departments Chicago central
distribution office"
The number of inquiries concern
ing non-deiivery Of the bonds has
reached 1000 per day and although
the war department bond division
assures purchasers their investment
will be paid in full it is admitted
that several months will lapse be-
fore the vouchers can be 'processed )"
the World Telegram said.