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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-24

Against the need for 1878 900 men
during the six-month period, he ex-
planned to the boards. there were
only 1927, 900 men available. leaving
deficit of 100000 available, leaving
out that this number could not be
obtained from the occupationally
deferred without upsettins food and
war production. nor from the physi-
cally deferred unless standards were
lowered by the Army and Navy,
Hershey said
Fathers Number 6,559,000
ut. therefore. appears that the
only large deferred pool remaining
from which men can be called is
the group of fathers, numbering
$3.50 ,O00."
There was growing concern in the
aircraft industry as to the affect
of draft calls on their production
schedules. Top war production
board officials are studying the sit
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italy GETS
PRE.|NvAS|ON
BOMBING
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Al1.l H. j Il Ane,.4 l.


UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, August "a. - (UP) -
Allied bombers have smashed
three more railroad hubs in
the crippled transport system
of south Italy, it was an
nounced today, and General
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
said that eve shall very soon
be attacking"
American Liberators from
the Middle East, Mitchell
medium bombers of the
northwest African force, and
British Wellingtons teamed
in a synchronized assault on
Bari, Battipaglia and Bag
noli, leaving the rail juno
tons Wreathed in smoke and
flame.
Puncturing the intense
aerial assault ripping apart
the communications of lower
Italy, Montgomery was re-
vealed to have told Canadian
troops of his Eighth Army
that action could be expected
at any time.
- Lose ia Planes
After losing ia fighter planes in
four days, the Axis gave up attempts
to interfere with the operations by
the northwest African forces yeSter-
day. The Liberators striking at Bari
at the base of the italian heel, how
ever, ran into stiff resistance and
downed IA enemy fighters.
The attacks on Bagnoli, in the
Naples suburbs, and Battipaglia, 40
miles to the southeast, added new
devastation to the network of COM
munications radiating from the city.
BY the light Of a waning moon
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Vote To Ease
Father Draft

Revere, Mass, Aug. 24-(UP)-
The Revere, Winthrop and Chelsea
draft boards have outlined plans to
reduce the necessity for drafting
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
officials of the three boards said
last night that the plan would be
sent to selective service headquar-
tiers in Washington.
Chairman Carl I. Nelson of the
Winthrop board, sponsor of the pro-
posal, said that Redistribution Of
men in class At would result in
the addition of a half million sim
gle men into the Army by Novem-
Der /,
The group voted to seek Congress
sional action to lower physical re-
quirements for registrants.
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Civic Leader
"A. PheIan
Dies At II

James A. Phelan, whose promi-
nence and popularity in various So
cial and civic affairs in this city had
won for him a host of friends and
admirers, died this morning at his
home, SCI Highland avenue, after a
lingering illness.
A native of this city, Mr.. Phelan
was born May 8, 1871, the son of
William and Mary (Phelan Phelan,
former residents of his birthplace.
Following an apprenticeship in
various departments Of the Water
bury Manufacturing Company, Mr..
Phelans initiative and ambition
there won for him a position of
responsibility at an early age. He
was identified later with the Mat
theWs and Willard Manufacturing
Company as foreman for eleven
years, after which time he
resigned this position to &C
cept another with the American
Brass Company. He was asso-
ciated with this organization for
seven years before place was made
for his abilities in the John Byron
Coal Company in 1912. Eleven years
later, he advanced to the presidency
of the company.
Mr.. Phelan unselfishly devoted a
greater part of his leisure time
to civic causes, having been
elected to several important
public Offices. He was a men,
Der of the Board of Public
Charities of the City of Waterbury
from 1914 to 1918, and was a men,
Der of the Board of Public Works
and the Addition Water Supply
Commission from 1922 until his
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Big Reinforcements Hint
Italy muasion Hour Nears

according to the Eighth Army news,
which is published in Catania, Sic
lily.
I'VE shall very soon be attacking,
I expect" he said. Wherever ! go.
would like to have you with me"
The plan of Allied attack against
Italy naturally has not been dis
closed. but 1t is assumed 1t will fol-
low the general lines OF the assault
against Sicily. though on consid-
erably larger scale. Likewise, strate-
gists agree that it probably will not
be confined solely to the narrow
Messina Strait, where the Axis has
massed huge concentration of ar
tillery,
Considerable Speculation
There has n considerable specu-
lation that the Allies may strike
directly for the mouth OF the Tiber
for smash at Rome. only 80 miles
upstream, possibly accompanied by
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FDR And Churchill Will
Tell Public OF Parleys
BY MERRMAN SMITH
United Pres sStaff Correspondent

United Pres SStaff correspondent
Quebec, Que, Aug. 24(UP-
President Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Churchill will give the World
a general idea today of what has
happened in their conferences here
but without giving the Axis any
tangible information of the next Al
lied move which is believed to be
near.
Their declaration of Quebec
may be made either at a press con-
ference, or in formal statement OF
both. Then both will enlarge upon
the declaration in speeches Mr.
Roosevelt at Ottawa tomorrow and
the Prime Minister on Saturday at
a place still to be disclosed. Church
i'll, a fishing enthusiast, meanwhile
will try his luck in this vicinity. La
ter they probably will continue their
talks in Washington.
Talk of plans for a smashing Of
fensive in the Pacific was white
hot here, due to the encouragement
of official spokesman. There had
been a series of indications of in
tensive planning for the destruction
of Japan and while Japan undoubt-
eddy was the point of emphasis in
the concluding phase of the con-
ferences, the weller of highly dra-
matte reports Of Pacific decisions
would be a fine screen for an Allied
thrust in some other part of the
world.
Long Luncheon Conference
The president, the prime minister
Chinese Foreign Minister T. "
Soong and Harry l.. Hopkins, Mr..
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Gen. n. Drum
To New Post

Washington, Aug. 24-,UP)-The
army today announced the transfer
of Lieut.. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, COM
mander of the eastern defense COM
mand and first army, to the chair
man ship of the Inter-American de
tense board with temporary duty in
Washington, D. G.
Drum Is switched fror one of the
most responsible defense commands
in the country to an equally impor-
tant post dealing with the defense
of the hemisphere. His successor has
not been named but Maj. Gen.
George Grunert, who has been
serving as deputy chief of staff for
service commands at the headquart-
ers of the army service forces, has
been named deputy commander OF
the EDCFA.
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Shake Up In
kazi Ranks
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

London, Aug. "a - (U.P0 - The
Berlin radio today announced the
appointment of Heinrich Himmler,
chief of the secret police, as min
lister of interior in Nazi govern
ment shakeup that London experts
believed virtually would place all OF
Germany under direct gestapo rule.
The major reorganization in the
Nazi leadership was revealed Jew
hours after the heaviest raid OF the
war on Berlin. Competent observ-
ers here saw it as a desperate gam
bic by Adolf Hitler to prevent a
German internal collapse under the
impact of intensified air attacks and
mounting military defeats.
Himmler, chief of the dreaded
gestapo, after his appointment as
interior minister now had complete
control not only of the entire Ger
man police and armed IS, but the
country's whole internal life.
The way was cleared for Hitler to
put more power in Himmler's hands
by the removal of DR.. Wilhelm
Prick, long time minister of the in
terror
Protector" OF Bohemia
Prick was shunted to the post of
protector" of Bohemia and Mora
via, which was opened up by the
relieving of Baron Konstantin Won
Neurath. A number of lesser Offices
were affected, and there was an i'm
plicit though unexpressed hint that
Robert Ley had been ousted from
the Nazi labor front leadership.
The shuttle obviously strengthen
ed enormously Hirnm]er's personal
prestige ana power, ana apparently
brought him into a close race with
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering,
ranked officially as the No. 2 Nazi.
The announcement was regarded
as particularly significant at a time
when Goering - for years Hmm
ler's rival in the upper ranks of
the Nazis-clearly had suffered a
loss of prestige through his inabil-
ity to save the Reich from destruc-
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Greatest Loss

Fifty-eight bombers were
lost, the greatest number
ever lost in a single British
raid on the continent.
The huge four-engined
Strings, Halifaxes and Lam
casters, each capable of carry
up to eight tons of bombs,
loosed destruction on four
square miles of the city and
left smoke rising $4,000 feet
into the sky.
Flames leaped hundreds of
feet, Illuminating Berlin,
though the fierce glare of the
fires made it almost impossi-
BILE to distinguish individual
buildings from the air. One
pilot reported monster ex-
plosions in the center of the
city that looked as though
SOmeJhlng really Dig 1IluSI
have gone up"
Less Than An Hour
The whole assault took little less
than an hour, but, nevertheless, was
twice as heavy as any of the "
previous raids on Berlin and per-
haps four times as heavy as any
single German raid on London.
CThe London Evening Standard
quoted a German broadcast that
American planes participated in the
raid, but the broadcast was not re-
ported by any other listening post
and the 9th U. S. Air Force denied
any of its planes were out last
night0
Subsequently an official announce
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BY HARRISON SALISBURY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

London. Aug. "a - CU.P) - The
zero hour for the Allied invasion OF
Italy appeared at hand today fol-
lowing the arrival OF huge REIN
forcements at Mediterranean bases
and a prediction by General Sir
Bernard l.. Montgomery that his
Eighth Army would attack very
soon"
Mighty Allied aerial armadas soft
ened southern Italy's deienses and
communications and Premier Mar
shall Badoelio apparently had de-
cided to fight instead OF accepting
an Allied offer OF an honorable"
though unconditional. peace.
A dispatch from Algiers report
ed Allied conveys pouring a steady
stream of men and materials into
the Mediterranean.
Montgomery's prediction OF an
imminent attack was made In the
course of a talk TO Canadian troops.
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BRITISH FLYERS PASTE BERLIN
Drop Great Four-Ton Block Busters;
FIJI Arrests n On Espionage Charge
DEATH IS TOP
PENALTY ON
CONVICTION

Washington, August "a. -
(UP) - Director j. Edgar
Hoover of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation announced
today the arrest of four per-
sons including two Detroit
women, on wartime espionage
charges which carry a maxi
mum penalty of death.
The alleged spies were &C
cused, in the first case of its
kind since this country en-
tered the war, of sending in
formation to Germany about
U. S. naval bases and con-
voys, the dispatch of war
planes to battle theaters, and
production of arms in De-
troit, Ohio and Illinois war
plants.
Center OF Ring
Tho rings activities, Hoover said,
cente9ed about beautiful Toronto
born Grace Buchanan-Dineen, "a
year-old brunette descendant of
French nobility. She was described
as the daughter of wealthy Can
adian family and was said to be
we'll. TODD in her own right. She
was especially trained for her role
by German espionage experts, the
FBI chief said.
The FBI obtained full information
about her activities, Hoover said.
Confronting her with their evidence,
the FBI persuaded Miss Buchanan
froyot},,,,oI ~, Dooa C>
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Man Who Set Fire
To Be Released

Bangor, Me-, Aug. 24-UP)-Nor-
man S. Moore, "a, of Ellsworth who
was indicted on an arson charge in
connection with a 100000 fire that
wiped out Ellsworths business sec
ton in 1888, soon will be released
from the Bangor State (mentaD
hospital.
Under present plans, Moore will
remain at the institution as an en-
ploye.
A jury acquitted Moore of arson
by reason of insanity.
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Fifty-Eight Bombers
Lost In Heaviest Aerial
Attack On Nazi Capital

London, Aug. 24.-(UP)-A huge British air
armada, opening what may be Hamburg offensive
dropped 800 to 1000 tons of bombs Berlin last
night in the heaviest raid of the the German
capital.
Great four-ton super block-busters and hundreds
of thousands of incendiaries turned Adolf Hiter's
capital into raging inferno visible for ESQ miles,
returning crewmen said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-24
Golf Is q New
Name for
Liquor

Francis Mctirath, ~, l0l7
So. Main st., who ran afoul
Of the law two months ago
when he mist00k a case Of IL
quor for prcstone and tried 10
appropriate some for his car.
again faced city court Judge
Charles Summa this morning
ON a charge Of intoxication.
"Too much golf. that's my
trouble Judge" sale McGrath.
Ten dollars said Judge SUM-
ma.
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MRS. PAYNE DIES

Greenfield, Mass, Aug. 24.-(UP)
Mrs. Mary Blake Payne. 81, wife
OF Col. Frederick II. Payne, assistant
secretery Of war during President
Hoover's administration. died at her
home here last uight.
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. Aug. ~ (UP)-Gov-
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year through Aug.
'2ist, compared with year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Year
SI2.4sO.S49,274.77 1855, 173. 649.72
War Spending
SIl.52s,S75.7if.t3 si.i5s.7ss.7Si.:7
Receipts
al. bss.s7s,7l<.42 s7.77s.7s5.sse.t0
Net Defcit
ss27s.7as.iss.4s s7,49s.H2.sis.45
Cash Balance
4 IsSi.oas,t7i.ss jI.I5s.24s,sss.os
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Anemia Treatments Require
Doctors Advice And Care
HEMOGLOBIN IMPORTANT

The hemoglobin is important be-
cause it is the chemical that COM
bines with oxygen in the lungs
and carries this essential substance
to the cells, where it is used, then
with carbondioXide given off by the
cells. 1t carries this waste to the
lungs, where it is eliminated.
The bone marrow must be sup
piled with the materials out of
which the blood cells are made.
These materials-protein, iron, vi
tamin B complex and others-are
stored in the liver, and the liver
gets them from the food after they
have been absorbed through the in
testinal wall.
The causes of anemia are sew
eral. Obviously, failure to supply
the proper proteins, iron or vitamin
B complex will hinder the marrow
in its production of cells or hem
oglobin. The foodstuffs may be in
adequate, but the ability to absorb
it may be impaired, as in chronic
diarrhea. If the loss of blood from
the body is excessive, as in pro-
fuse hemorrhage, or if the loss Is
slight but long continued, the rate
of loss may exceed the rate of pro-
duction. and anemia is the result.
CAUSES AND TYPES
The so-called pernicious anemia,
which is no longer able to live up
to its formidable name, depends
upon a failure of the stomach to
secrete substance that reacts with
the protein in the food to stimulate
the marrow that produces the blood
cells. This material is stored in the
liver and from that source may be
obtained to replace the deficiency.
Such replacement makes the anemia
disappear and the symptoms at
tendant on it as we'll. Liver is of
little or doubtful value in the
treatment of any anemia other
than this type.
Iron deficiency anemias are
common during pregnancy because
the baby must store a quantity
sufficient to last until he is able
to take more than milk, which
lacks sufficient iron, and because
the need for oxygen is increased
and a greater demand is placed
on the cells that carry the oxygen
This type of anemia, as well as
the other types associated with
reduced hemoglobin, respond eff
fectively to iron taken by mouth
in the form of ferrous sulphate.
There are many other kinds and
causes of anemia, and both these
factors should be worked out COM
pletely by physician before any
treatment is instituted.
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PENALTIES FOLLOW
OPA ALLEGATIONS
Licenses OF Three Local
Gasoline Stations Are
Ordered Suspended

Closing of three local gasoline
stations for periods ranging from
three weeks to month was ordered
by the OPA yesterday after Chief
Hearing Commissioner Arthur L..
Brown found the operator violated
rationing regulations.
The right to purchase, acquire,
receive, sell, transfer or deliver gas
oline" was taken from the Cherry
street station of the Leader Oil &
Coal Company for a month, start
ing tomorrow, and from it's Baldwin
street establishment from Aug. l. to
Sept. /. A suspension of business
from tomorrow through July % was
ordered in the case of the Eagle Oil
Company's station on East Main
street.
Domenic Riscucci and Theodore
Sciota, who do business at the Lead
err Company, we're accused of SELL
ing gasoline without coupons. 1t was
revealed an inspector observed ID
sale TRANSACTIONS and noted that
three were made without any cou-
pom exchange. A check of the Bald
win station disclosed an inventory
shortage of 1,151 gallons, and fur
thermore unindorsed coupons were
found, the OPA charged. A discrep-
ancy of 1853 gallons was found at
the Cherry street station.
The OPA also said the two sta
tons operated as one and trans
ferred stamps with an averge over
ge of 80 gallons. The operators,
however, claimed they were unaware
the coupon credit system was in vi
olation of regulations and agreed
to discontinue the illegal practice
The Eagle Oil company station
was found to have an inventory
shortage of 1,436 gallons at its East
Main street and shortages also were
found at two other stations oper-
ated by the concern, of which Hen
nv Carroll is president. Unindors9d
coupons also were found during the
check, it was revealed.
A hearing also was conducted re-
Gently in the case of the Merit Oil
company of this city and Meriden,
and finding is expected to be
handed down by the commissioner
shortly.
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RULING GIVEN ON
DRIVERS LICENSE
Holder Entitled to Free
Privileges on Entering
Armed Forces

Connecticut law Goes not provide
for a free drivers license for a menu
Der Of the United States armed
forces unless he lelc a Connecticut
license at the tine of his induc-
ton, according t. an opinion by
Attorney General Francis A. Pal
lotti expressed today in letter
to Motor Vehicles Commissioner
John T. Mccarthy.
Commissioner Mccarthy said that
although the law seemed clear in
this regard, the attorney generals
opinion was sought to clear up a
misunderstanding on the part of
many applicants who felt that be-
cause they had held a license at
some time previous to being induct-
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eminent. are mkaing towards the
winning OF the war.
I'm normal times. you could reach
the most remote points IN Connecti-
cut from where you might be in this
state, in about two hours or two
and one-half hours driving Now,
you can't drive at all, for pleasure,
which means for recreation and va
cation. But that is no reason why
it should interfere with your en-
joyment of a vacation in Connecti-
cut, because you still can get to
practically every point in this state,
by means of public conveyance
The governor offered to SEND to
ever yone who writes to him, map
prepared by the State Development
Commission, showing 254 commu-
mites in the state which are di-
rectly touched by railroad or bus
lines, making regular trips.
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Connecticut Abounds
In Recreational Sites
Governor Baldwin in Final Broadcast of Season Urges
Residents to Spend Vacations in Own State

Travelled many miles to see or en-
joy"
Not only that, but our state is
so strategically situated, so rich in
recreational resources, so accessible
from every point of the compass,
that you will find it convenient to
go to the vacation spots in your
own state, in spite of restrictions
upon the use Of motor vehicles.
"Non-essential driving of auto
mobiles has been eliminated in Con-
necticut. Our shrinking revenues at
the parkway and bridge toll gates,
and the dwindling gasoline taxes
prove that. 1t is part of the con-
tribution which the people of Con-
necticut, through their state gov
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80 BALLOONS SOAR
OVER N. Y. TODAY

Somewhere on Long Island, N. Y,
June 29-(Delayed)- CUP = The
first balloon barrage in the New
York Metropolitan area was unveil-
ed by the Army today as a group of
Army and Navy officers and civil
ians watched more than 80 of the
silvery gas-bags soar into the sky.
Maj Gen. Sderford Jarman,
whose anti aircraft units extend
from Maine to Florida, gave the
command which sent the barrage
on its baptismal flight, raise all
balloons to R. o. H." (ruling oper-
ational height)
This unit, with operating head
quarters in a clubhouse just off the
first tee, protects an important OBJ
jective.
There are some so balloons in the
entire unit, scattered for several
miles over the area, each manned
by a crew of Is men. The balloons
are not up permanently but go aloft
only during afraid alerts.
The balloons themselves are of
the English type, about the size of
a small blimp, filled with hydrogen
and tethered by steel cables one
quarter inch in diameter.