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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Cor Use ak
Enforcement
Is Promised

Enforcement of the car use tax
law will be undertaken here short
ly, it was disclosed today, and mo-
florists who operate their cars with
out first obtaining the required
stamps for the car windshield will
be prosecuted, it was indicated.
Gabriel Price, senior zone deputy
at the local U. S. Internal Revenue
office, commented today 1.-The law is
still in effect and until Congress
rescinds it we will continue to re-
quire purchase of the stamps" He
said his office has received no in
dication of the rumored change in
requirements, and the planned en-
forcement work will start very
Soon.'
Reports that the federal govern
ment has been acting illegally by re-
quiring purchase of the stamps have
side-tracked many local car owners
who were about to pay the govern
ment s., and others who already
made the required purchase Wond-
cred if something was put over
on them. Motor vehicle officials in
several parts of the country were
reported to have objected to the
tax on the ground it illegally charg-
es for use of the state highways.
Workers of the local tax office will
be sent out to canvass city streets
and take license numbers of cars
which do not display the required
sticker. A similar Enforcement
method was used here last year,
with a printed warning sheet dis
tributed to violatorS during the first
week, however.
Under law all cars in operation
after July 1 must have the new
stamp glued on the windshield. Cars
which are temporarily in storage
are not subject to the taxation, but
motorists must secure the stamp as
soon as the cars are put on the
road again. The price of the stamp
will be reduced approximately AZ
cents each month the tax is in
force with the price Aug. 1 to be
$4.58 instead OF SIS as at the present
time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Shipyord Worker
Held For Robbery

Boston, July - UP) - John
j. Bank, SO, of the south end. a
Bethlehem bingham Shipyard
worker, was under $4,000 bail today
pending a hearing Thursday on
armed robbery and assault and bat
terry charges in connection with a
$198 holdup at an Allston liquor
store Tuesday.
Bank pleaded innocent to the
charges when arraigned yesterday
in Brighton district court. Earlier,
two witnesses had identified him in
police lineup as the gunman who,
wearing an adhesive tape mask,
robbed their store of cash and mer-
chandiSe.
Bank denied all knowledge of the
holdup.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
rench Indies
Change Seen

San 11ap % D J,,1,- . IT'D
Vice Afmira1 1obn II Eoo,or ~,
mander of Tho Corilhoa,, g. f,.o,,t
ier was sche5uled ~ moet Wy,
Admiral GEORGES Robert TODAY to
discuss Roberts request for a
change of authority" in the French
West indies.
A naval enoLeen,a, d;d ,,o+ m
veal whara tbe ITnitad sto+es .O aroie
sarv would meet Rohert VEN
French high commissioner in Mar
tiniuue.
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Inlollilee sources mere oe1eVeo
lliaI rene veper' former soVerliol
u FRENCH Guiana ana lollo"el
o. deH' ClialleS ne Hae4ie' hllsiiO
tiio'gh Iile fIel!cil lacIiol ioiioW7
ing Gen hehrl o1,lauo was .iiouShI
10 nave d caholda'e III Aoiil'lai
ROBERT b"V'e''
Robert had asked that there be
no intervention by United States
forces i'll island affairs. He was be-
lieved to have been faced with
residents of the island resentful OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Fish Strike O;
WLB Gets Case

Boston, July ) (U.P) - A
threatened fish strike was tempo
rarily averted today after the fish
ermen agreed to carry on while
the war labor board considers et-
fects of recent fresh-fish price CELL
ingS.
The fishermen had threatened to
cease operations and obtain higher
paying shore jobs as results of CELL
ing prices which they claim prohibit
a living wage.
The agreement to defer action
was signed yesterday by represen-
tatives of the Atlantic Fishermen's
Union (AFL0, the Federated Fish
ing Boats of New England and New
York, Inc, and the Seafood Pro-
ducers' Association of New Bedford
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(Continued on Page D
HoIf-Cent Jump
In Boston Milk

Boston July - (U.PD Re-
tail milk prices were increased a
half-cent per quart today in move
designed to avert possible milk
shortage in the greater Boston and
Lowell Lawrence areas.
Home delivered milk is now IL
cents per quart while milk bought
at stores remains at IA IL cents per
quart but with the butter fat con-
tent Slightly lowered.
OPA Regional Administrator Ken
meth B. Backman said that if the
milk price rise had not been au-
thorized many email dealers who
distribute about 25 per cent of the
milk consumed in the two areas
would be forced out OF business.
They could not reasonably be ex-
pected to operate at the IS IL
cents price" he added.
Meanwhile, at Springfield, it was
reported that milk dealers would
resort to an informal rationing sys-
TEN next month. A milk dealers
spokesman said that supplies are
rapidly diminishing and that some
sort OF rstioning would be newt
able.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Insane Cases
May Get New
PostWorCore

! Boston, July 3-(UP)-State Cor
| rection Commissioner Arthur T. Ly
man today recommended a series o
postwar changes in dealing with
the criminally insane in Massachu.
sets which would include tht
building of new institution tt
handle such cases and a possible re-
vision of pay scales for guards.
The recommendations were con-
tanned in report to Gov. Leverett
Saltonstall after an investigation oil
charges made by Donald Willard
10, of Nashua, N. H.. Just before he
and two other murderers died in the
Massachusetts electric chair last
week.
Willard charged that "intolerable'
conditions prevailed at the Bridge
water state farm where he and an
other inmates slew three guards on
New Years day, 1912, in futile
attempt to escape.
This man Millard is not only a
murderer of three of our officers at
the state farm but is also, from my
observation, SeX-perverted paran-
oiac individual, whose paranoiac ten
denotes showed long before he came
to the state farm at Bridgewater," "
Lyman wrote. tParanoia is mental
disorder characterized by decisions
of persecution and Of ones own
greatness. The same sort of &C
cusations were made against an Off
Ger at the Shirley school and also
at the New Hampshire Industrial!
school.
In direct reference to Millard'S
charges Mr.. Warren, superintentd-
ent of the state Farm, Mr.. O Brien,
master of the defective delinquent
department, or I are not able to
find one single word of truth.
Lyman said that the charges were
notably untrue in regards to Off
GERS at the institution.
AS a matter of fact" he con-
tinued, while many of these off,
GERS are not with us at present be-
cause they have gone into the arm
ed services of the country, by and
large they represent distinctly the
cream of the officer personnel.
IN reference to some of his re-
marks about inmates, without doubt
they are true as many of these in
dividuals are distinctly vicious in
their habits
Lyman said that at the time the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Job Adjustment Is
Achieved By USES

Expansion into an Occupatlonal
adjustment service has been effect
ed by the vocational rehabilitation
division of the local U. S. Employ
ment service, which lad been ham
ding placement of physically han
dicapped persons, and additional
types of employment problems are
now cleared by the unit under the
new organizational set-up, it was
disclosed today. Prospective employ
es with any special type of problem
are now aided by the same bureau.
Miss Ruth MitkoWSky, who has
been in charge of the vocational re-
Mobilization service and has as
sumed supervision of the added
tasks, said the bureau has cleared
cases of many persons who need a
special type of employment because
of advanced age. Numerous persons
over 10 and several over 80 have
come before it and secured jobs
which best fit their special needs,
she said.
Citizenship Determined
| Citizenship status has been
cleared by the unit for many pro-
spective workers, with USES work
ers contracting the local superior
court for naturalization records and
making other necessary investlga-
ton required by employers before
the new employe will be accepted.
disqualification records are Sc
cured by the unit when necessary
and all desired information is sup
piled, the USES official explained.
Medical case histories are secured
for the applicants wherever they
are necessary. Likewise persons who
may have prison records pass
through investigation by the dlvl-
sion and queries on reputation are
cleared, it was disclosed.
Also handled are draft status
questions, and the division is IN
charge of placement of men in the
AZ classification. Placement of men
who are discharged from the service
because of physical incapaclty also
is undertaken by the bureau in CO.
operation with the veterans division
of the USES.
Handle All Problems
Miss MitkoWSky said the unit WILL
handle the placement of any person
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
|JAPS PUT Up
TRONG FIGHT
AROUND MUNDA
BY BRYDON C. TAVES
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Aus
tralia, July 8. - (UP) -
U. S. jungle troops pressing
an offensive against Munda
in the SolomonS have run
into bitter enemy resistance,
front dispatches indicated to-
day, but Allied Forces at the
opposite end of the 700-mile
South Pacific front reported
new gains in their drives to-
ward Salamaua and Lac.
washington sources reported the
japanese were rushing aerial rein
forcements into the battle area.
Details were lacking on the prog
ress of the American push up the
southeastern arm of New Georgia
Island toward the japanese air base
at Munda, 80 miles away, but it was
known that American guns mounted
on Rendova Island, five miles across
shallow channel from Munda, were
Subjecting the enemy to heavy
bambardment.
Strong Resistance
Reports OF strong enemy resist
ance indicated the japanese may
have diverted some Of their garri-
son from the Munda area in an at
tempt to halt the American jungle
drive from Viru harbor at the south
eastern end of New Georgia. There
was no immediate indication OF
whether American troops on Rem
doya were planning direct attack
by assault boats on Munda.
The daily communique of Gen
Douglas Macarthur. in supreme
command Of the neWly-launched Of
fensives, reported that the ground
situation in the Solomons was ''un-
changed" The destruction BY Allied
fighters of IA enemy fighters and
eight dive bombers over RendoVa
Island was reported, bolstering the
tWo-day toll Of Japanese aircraft to
1913.
At Airoke Anchorage, north OF
Munda, the communique said, Allied
medium bombers with fighter escort
sank an enemy cargo vessel of 1900
tons.
Close In On Salamaua
A spokesman for Macarthur said
Allied patrols were gradually creep
ing in from all sides on Salamaua
one of the principal japanese bases
on the north shore of New Guinea
presumably in preparation for 9
general offensive on that island. The
spokesman cautioned, however
against assuming that Salamaua al
ready had been surrounded and sale
that fighting still was on a small
scale.
Australian ground forces, advanc-
| ing overland from Mubo, 10 miles
southwest Of Salamaua, to the
sea in the first important move il
this area in recent months, captured
and consolidated the area at the
mouth of the south arm of the Bito
river, and thus joined hands with
American troops who landed two
days ago at Nassau Bay.
The Japanese retreated in disor-
(Continued on PAGE q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Greeks Ready
For Invasion

London July 3-CUP)-The Allied
Middle Eastern command as part of
the general Anglo-American prep
arations for an invasion of Europe
has taken over direct supervision
of well-armed guerrilla armies in
Greece Cairo dispatch reported to-
day.
Axis broadcasts continued TO in
sist that the zero hour" for inva-
sion was sometime today or tonight
and the Nazi Paris radio was heard
broadcasting that lit is no longer a
question of days or hours, nor even
perhaps a question of minutes"
To be first with the news Of in
vasion," the Paris station said, it
had sent reporters to AL points
where the Anglo Saxons are likely
to try to land in France
Allied sources were inclined to
dismiss the broadcasts as propa-
ganda stunt to enable the Axis to
claim that there has been a hitch
in the Allied plans if no landing
actually is attempted.
fCSppILS IedClllllS hllieu du W.
servers indicated that Germany is
completing the re-grouping of its
waning aerial strength for show
down fight when Allied troops set
foot in Europe.
The plan calls for the concentra-
ton of 1900 fighters and 100
bombers of Germany's entire first
line strength of 5000 to 5000 COM
bat planes along the invasion coast
from the northern tip of Norway,
through occupied western Europe,
to eastern Greece. Upwards OF
$4,000 other planes, varying in quail
ityq, are being held in reserve, these
dispatches said.
A Cairo dispatch, telling of the
inclusion of Greek guerrillas into
the organized forces of the United
Nations, said the patriot armies
have received adequate supplies of
modern arms and have pledged
themselves to carry out every mill
Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Travellers J a m
Bus, R. r. Stations

Hartford, Conn, July 3.-(UP)-
Thousands of travellers jammed
railroad and bus terminals today,
bent on spending the Independence
Day weekend at resorts, despite
pleas of the Office of Defense
Transportation to stay at home.
The exodus began late yesterday
and extra buses were pressed into
service, and trains were so crowded
that late commuters were forced to
miss connections.
Peak travel was expected late to-
day, inasmuch as some war plants
were closing for the three days, and
business generally would be sus-
pended Sunday and Monday.
Police reported there had been no
noticeable increase in automobile
travel, presumably due to the close
check on motorists by OPA inspec-
tors and state police.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Boys Caught After
Escape From School

Meriden, Conn, July 3.-(UP)-
Two 'teen-age boys who escaped
from the Meriden School for Boys
after turning a revolver on guard,
we're back today following their cap
ture by state police at Danbury.
During their few hours of Liberty
they stole and damaged an auto
mobile, and robbed New Britain
girl Of Sl.20.
Through teletype warnings sent
throughout the state, the youths
we're trailed to Danbury, where one
of the boys lived, and state police
picked them up. One Of the boys
was carrying As calihre automatic.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Htfd. Pastor
TO Let Public
Be Ills Judge
BY BETTY ROURKE


Hartford, July 3-(UP)-The Rev.
Fletcher D. Parker, stripped of his
gasoline rations until Oct. l for
driving 14O miles to his war garden
at Sunapee, N. H. in defiance Of the
OPA, sat back today and waited tor
public reaction to tell him whether
to continue his crusade against the
pleasure driving ban.
OPA Hearing Commissioner j..
Richard Steele, who suspended the
55-year-old Congregational minis
ters "a" and "C'' rations for three
months, refused to believe that the
Rev. Mr.. Parker made the trip solely
for the purpose or cultivating his
garden.
IT dislike speaking to you in this
way as a member of the church, F"
the commissioner told the clergy
man, but I feel that you would
have gone anyway. The only reason
you had to attempt to Justify the
trip was the Victory garden
Steele said that while The pastor
had been going to his summer place
at Sunapee for the past 10 years,
this was the first year he had a
garden.
Il fail to see where you have es-
tablished any reason for essential
driving" said the commissioner, in
ordering suspension of the ration
privileges.
The Rev. Parker was told he had
IS days in which to appeal the de-
cision with the regional OPA, and
the pastor thanked the commits
sioner, gathered up his notes and
left the hearing room.
Later he said he thought Judge
Steele's handling Of the case was
dignified and fair" and that he
would wait for general public re-
Spouse" before determining whether
to further press the dispute.
Meantime, fan mail' and tele-
phone calls continued to stream into
the pastors home. Most of them,
he said, were encouraging" al
though in one letter he was called
"a Hitler" and in another a "theo-
logically inclined person called me
satin"
One anonymous telephone caller
Continued on Page y
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
Scrap Of Paper
Clue To Identity

Southington, Conn, July 3.-(UP)
"A piece of paper bearing the
name, Mrs. Alfred Brownell of 274
Davis street. Oklahoma City, Okla,
was the only clue police had today
to help solve the identity of a young
man about 25 who claimed he didn't
know his name or where he came
from.
The man, five feet II inches tall.
weighing about $50 pounds, rudy
complexion and believed to be a
painter, walked into police head
quarters late yesterday and asked
officers to help him. There was
nothing in his clothing except the
paper containing the Oklahoma
mama and "dyese
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
PROVOST MARSHAL DEAD

Arlington, Mass, July 3. - Cup
Captain Thomas R. White, 49,
assistant provost marshal OF the
First Service Command, died of
cerebral hemmorrhage at his home
here today. A native of Arlington,
he was sergeant inspector of police
for several years. He was veteran
of the AEF Of World War I. Cap
tain White leaves a wife, a son and
a daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
200 Tons Of Bombs Fall On
Southeastern Italy Friday;
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS fAChAhD !
UNITED Press Staff Correspondence
Allied Headquarters, NORTH
Africa, July 3. - CUP =
Nearly 100 American Liberas
tors, pacing Allied bomber4
on a Furnishing new series OF
raids designed to smash Axis
defenses, dropped more than
200 tons of explosives ON
three of the main airdromeS
in southeastern Italy yester-
day, it was announced today.
A communique from 9th US.
Air Force at Cairo said that ths
Liberators sent more than 400,OO
pounds of high explosive, fragmenta-
ton and incendiary bombs hurting
down on the air bases at Lecce, on
the heel of the italian boot, at Grot-
taglie, the principal airf1eld for the
protection of the laramie Naval base,
and San Pancrazio.
NAll 1ldlldlI DIUdNtCdSl SNAA 49,
persons were killed and "a Woundeo
at Lecce, 10 killed and "a wounded
at Grottaglie, and 20 killed and 70
wounded at two neighboring towns.
Eight persons were killed and "a
wounded in a raid on Castlevetrano,
Sicily, yesterday, and 80 killed ana
68 wounded in an attack on Paler-
mo. Sicily, Thursday night, the
broadcast SaidD
First Real Opposition
The Lecce raiders ran into the
first sizeable opposition reported
over Italy in several days, shooting
down u out of a force OF more
than 40 enemy fighters, including
Messerschmitt 1905 and HOS.
Allied bombers from Maj. Gen
James H. Doolittle's Northwest Afri-
can strategic air forces, pushing an
offensive to cripple supply ports on
Italey's Island outposts, propped
ock-busters on Palermo, Sicily, and
Cagliari, Sardinia's largest port,
Thursday night.
Simultaneously, Raj bomberS
from the middle eastern command
blasted the railway yards at Catanla.
Sicilian east coast port. Bursts were
seen all over the sidings and indus
trial area and four small fires were
started.
Mitchell Medium bombers, also
from the Northwest African forces,
raided Castelvetrano airdrome I'M
Southwestern Sicily in daylight yes
terday. Escorting Warhawks shot
down an intercepting enemy fighter.
Casualties Admitted
Can Italian communique reported
damage and casualties from Allied
bombs in Sicily, Sardinia and South
ern Italy).
All planes returned safely from Tie
raids undertaken by the Northwest
African air forces, but five were lost
in the operating OF the middle-east-
ern command.
In the raid on Leccc airGrone,
Liperators scored hits Oh runNays
and hangers and started fires IN
aircraft dispersal areas. Fuel dumps
were set afire in the southeastern
portion of the airdrome and other
hits were scored to the north.
Direct hits on hangers and dlS-
persal areas at Grottaglie Airdrome
also were reported.
Raj long-range fighters from the
Middle Eastern Command straied
a schooner in Kyllene harbor OF
the west coast of Greece yesterday
and two dredges in the Levkas chan~
mel, also off the west coast of Greece.
Thursday. Gunposts on the canal
bank opposite the Levkas channel
were Silenced
British Spittire fighters shot down
Junkers S6 dive bomber into the
Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
STANDS IN LINE FOR 10c

London -- P)-NoW that new
coupon ration books are being is
sued by local authorities, it means
a lot of queueing up by people to
get their new books. Most people
are too busy, these days. to waste
time in queue, so one London
woman with apparently more time
than others to spare, volunteered to
do 1t for her friends, charging 10c
time. She made 50 one day.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-03
PLEASURE TRIP!

Hudson, Mass, July 3-(UP)-A
local funeral director was puzzled
today by a summons from the OPA
which charged him with pleasure
driving June pa day on which
his only automobile trip was from
Maine to Hudson in hearse carry
ing two bodies