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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

(Continued from Page D sick and wounded were adjusted In filters above the water-line in the cabin.
 All hands shared a gallon and a half of fresh water and rations from the life rafts.
 Try To Reach Land
 On the fifth day. a party was sent out in a raft to try to reach land but was forced to turn back after making l2 miles. On the eighth day, work at the emergency radio transmitter was rewarded when an Army transport and a bomber dropped food, blankets and cigar cites. More food was dropped on the ninth day and later three PBY Navy patrol bombers landed in a heavy sea and strong wind to at- tempt a rescue.
 Two unsuccessful attempts were followed by success on the third and two of the PBY's were filled. The third -an aground on the reef while maneuvering closer to the wrecked transport.
 The planes drifted through the 10th and 11th days, held down by bad weather, until radio calls brought the destroyer, which already carried 235 survivors of the aircraft carrier Hornet.
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Check Story Of kidnop per

Albany, Oregon, August Il. - (UP) - Police today awaited con- firnation from Honolulu of Mrs. Katherine WrightS assertion that she suffered a severe brain 1n- jury during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, one and one-halt years before she stole the day old infant, Judith Gurney, from an Albany hospital.
 District Attorney Harolow Wein- rich said available evidence ap- peared to support the story of the 24-year-od woman whose frustrated desire for motherhood drove her to steal a newborn child.
 She told her story to the officers who took the blonde, blue-eyed baby from her Tuesday, eight ounces heavier and none the worse for her six-day sojourn in Mrs. Wright's home.
 She said she had been teletype operator at Hickman Field during the Japanese bombing and suffered a brain concussion, a broken neck and three broken ribs. She was hospitalized for three months, she said.
 She said her second husband Woodrow Morgan, was killed in the bombing. She married Morgan ir 1889 at Honolulu.
 Her present husband, Sergeant Jesse Wright, held as a materia. witness at Camp Adair, told police she had told him substantially the same story at the time of their marriage at Reno, New, last October Since then, he said, she had dis played occasional mental quirki which he attributed to her injuries
 Albany police, tipped off by sus- picious neighbors, arrested Mrs | Wright.
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More Meot
 For Homes

Boston, Aug. II (U.P) - New England housewives were assured today by the OPA that more meat would be shipped into the six-state region immediately in an effort to correct the unprecedented shortages the past month.
 Correction of the shortages was promised by Regional Food Ration ing Ofiicer Ivan w. Burdick after a four-day survey of the meat prob lem in the region by George F. Las well. assistant chief of the OPA meat rationing division at Wash ington.
 The regional OPA office said that Laswell reported that the major packers recognized a unique short age in New England and promised to give this area first preference on a general improvement in slaugh- tering that is expected"
 The statement said that most of the increased supplies would be red beef.
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(Continued from Page D bat correspondent who returned to South Pacific headquarters from the Bairoko sector. Our patrols fan out daily to within shooting distance of Bairoko. Bombing and smelling apparently has done real damage to the Japs."
 Complete development of Munda airfield, where from 30 to 40 wrecked enemy aircraft were captured, ap- parently must await Wiping out of the Bairoko Harbor resistance, which will pave the way for a crossing of Kula Gulf to Kolomban- gara Island, northwest of New Georgia in the central Solomons and site of the enemy's villa airdrome.
 Barges Sunk
 The enemy still tried to reinforce his position in the Solomons and struck back vainly. In Vella Gulf above Kolombangara, light U. S.. Naval craft, probably torpedo boats, sunk two of the four barges at tackled Monday night.
 Next day the Japanese sent a force of 40 to 50 fighters and bomb- CTS over Rendova, just off Munda. About 15 Aircobras, Kittyhawks and Warhawks intercepted them, shot down two and dispersed the rest. One Allied plane was lost but the pilot was saved.
 CA Tokyo radio broadcast quoted Rear Admiral Hideo Yana, chief of the Japanese Navy press section as claiming 78 American ships were sunk or damaged in the Redonva Island area between June 30 and August 6. The broadcast admitted loss of two destroyers and special service ship plus a cruiser and a destroyer damaged.
 Totals of Shipping
 According to Yana's unverified statement, American ships sunk in cluded seven cruisers, nine destroy CTS, g landing boats and 24 trans ports while three criusers and a destroyer were damaged)
 The move against Bairoko harbor coincided with record aerial blows against Salamaua, enemy base on the New Guinea northeast coast, laying open that stronghold for ground attack.
 Late reports raised the bomb ton mage dropped on Salamaua Monday to 142 while Liberators unloaded an additional S5 tons yesterday, blow ing up two ammunition dumps, de- stroying man buildings and touch- ing off several fires.
 New Record
 The Monday total set new rec ord and the tWo-day mark was an- other night for the southwest Pa cific area.
 Ranging northWard into the Sol omons sea, medium bomber dam aged an enemy cargo vessel west of Buka while other planes hit at barges and island positions at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, and the nearby Vitu group. Spitfires shot down two enemy float planes ven- turing over shipping lanes of Aus tralia.
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ExpressCo. Men Strike

F (Continued from Page D Truck Drivers (AFL with which the employees are affiliated, since their contract expired in April.
 John J. Allen, financial secretary of the IBT, charged in Bridgeport that the company had locked out" the drivers Monday night and con- tended that only about 100 drivers were affected.
 Adley said other companies af- fected by the strike are the Sea board Freight Lines, Inc, Connec- ticut Motor Lines and the Runyard Express Company.
 The Waterbury branch of the company is not operating today as the strike threatened to spread along the coast from Boston to Philadelphia, said local spokes- man. Nor are any of the Adley companies operating throughout the state, he added.
 He predicted the strike will be over by tonight, according to word he has received from headquarters.
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rumors ran the gamut from an Anglo-Amerian-Soviet meeting tc the arrival of the Pope and even to a arraignment of Mussolini for his war crimes in the Chateau From tenac.
 Monday night, as six-foot red coated Royal Mounted police cleared all entrances to the Chateau, the aurora borealie played across the sky, giving the weird effect of mili- tary searchlights.
 Citadel Hill, where Churchill will make his headquarters during his stay here, is at the very top of Cape Diamond. It is ivy-grown and sur rounded by an ancient moat, but is comfortable.
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Practice Low Level Attack
BY ROBERT VERMILLION

\OH1tcu TTcSS StdIl NOEICSpOHuCiitI
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Aug. 11.-UP)-Daring Allied fighter pilots have used Sicily as a final testing ground for perfecting of low leved attack technique before the battle of Europe bigns, it was revealed today, after "A hours in ! which light bombers and fighters covered almost every mile of enemy territory remaining on the island.
 Cooperation between air and land forces has reached its highest ef- ficiency during the Sicilian cam- paign, with long lines of burnde- out Axs vehicles along the roads and sunken barges along the coasts testifying to the effectiveness Of Allied fighter bombers.
 In Sicily, Allied flyers have had the air almost to themselves. An official announcement disclosed that 422 Axis planes had been destroyed since the start of the battle of Sicily, against Allied losses of 18l planes. These figures do no in clude planes wrecked or damaged on the ground.
 Lack of opposition has enabled the Allies to perfect Zero-level bombing and strafing, first de- veloped in the African desert and improved in Tunisia.
 For this kind of fighting, the AL lies have been using two familiar P-40 types of attack plane-the American WarhaWk and its British counterpart, the Kittyhawk. Re- gently new American creation, the A-36 Invader, a variation of the P-5l Mustang, has been used.
 These small, swift planes are ideal for twisted Sicilian roads hacked out of the mountainside from high alitlde. Fighter bombers can follow the curving roads through valleys and canyons, peppering them with machine gun and cannon fire. They are good for "pin-poitning a diff ficult target.
 British Wellingtons were the only heavy bombers in action over Sicily during the last "A hours. They dropped block busters on the beach, es and the narrow Straits of Mes- sina for the sixth successive night
 The light bombers and fighters made their heaviest assault on he Randazzo bottleneck.
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Arrest Man
 As Deserter

Boston, Aug. II - (U.PD An alleged army deserter was lodged in the provost marshal's office today after being recognized by a service club hostess and turned over to military officials.
 Mrs. Alice Keefe, hostess at the Quincy Knights of Columbus service center, spotted Edward R. Dentry of Boston as the alleged deserter dur ing dance last night from pictures shown her by the FBI. She said Dentry was wearing a private's summer uniform.
 Officials said Dentry deserted from Fort Hamilton, N Y., last November and came to Boston where he gained sympathy and aid by representing that his wife had died in the Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire which claimed 492 lives. Ofhcials said his wife was alive.
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Plan Farm Progrom-'44
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port planned by the administration.
 Present food plans, subject to eco extension, call for support prices high enough to encourage needed production of vital fruits, vegetables and oil crops. On crops where sup port prices are higher than the OPA ceiling, the eco would purchase at the support level and sell to pro- cessors at price that would per- init them to market at the ceiling.
 Purchases and resales at loss now are being made on California prunes and raisins. milk In six east ern cities, cheese, peanuts. canned corn, beans, peas and tomatoes. Food administration officials said sim liar program on meats and the ma jor crops would present such "enor- nous difficulties" as to make opera tion extremely difficult, if not im- practical.
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Soviets Try To Turn
 Retreat Into Debacle
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the Soviet onrush. In still other sec- tors they were scrambling westward in disorganized flight.
 Groups Annihilated
 Yesterday the Russians were re- ported to have annihilated to the last man and machine several Ger man groups trapped earlier by sud- den thrusts from the rear.
 Russian forces overran village after village in converging drives on Kharkov from the northwest, north and northwest while other Soviet columns smashed to within 13 1-2 miles of Sunny, 12 miles of Aktak and 45 miles of Poltava, three of the main German strongholds north west and west of Kharkov.
 More than 70 towns and villages
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Nuremberg Is Bombed
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communique said.
 Formation After Formation
 Formation after formation of four-engined Stirlings, Halifaxes, and Wellingtons flew some HOO miles round trip to drop their car- goes of high explosive bombs, rang ing up to four-ton super block busters, and tens of thousands of incendiaries.
 A number of German night fight CTS were encountered and at least three were sho tdown, the air min- istry said.
 The raid came on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Reichsmar- shall Hermann Gering's famous re- mark that not single enemy plane ever would bomb Germany's Ruhr Valley.
 An official air ministry summary disclosed, by contrast. that the RAF bomber command alone dropped 136,100 tons of bombs on Germany between September 3. 1889, and last July 31, including 68,700 tons on the Ruhr.
 68,600 Tons of Bombs
 Indicative of the growing momen- tum of tn eair offensive against Ger many, the RAF dropped more than half of the grand total - 68,600 tons on Germany in the first seven months of this year, includ- ing A, 700 tons on the Ruhr.
 A Zurich dispatch published in the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter said a traveller from Ger many reported taht the Nazis were preparing to evacuate the govern ment from Berlin to 8 secret deS- tination" because of Allied hints that the German capital is marked for destruction from the air.
 Civil servants remaining in Der lin would be given special anti-raid equipment, possibly including anti shrapnel masks, the dispatch said.
 To Evacuate 10,000,0OO (An NEG broadcast from Bern, Switzerland, said 10,000,00o civilians will be evacuated Immediately from Berlin, Bremen, Essen and other heavily bombed cities to safer re- gions')
 Radio London interpreted Ger man broadcast depreciating Berlin as of mo greater importance to Germany than London is to Britain" as plea to the RAF to spare the capital.
 A few German planes flew over east Anglia last night and bombs fell at ore place. An alert was sounded in an outer London area, but neither gunfire nor bombs were ,heard.
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Man Plays Dual Role

Boston, Aug. Il - (U.Po Miles E. Ryan, Jr, 32, of the South Bend, described by ploice as a cripple by day and a soldier by night, was held in $6,000 bail today for disposition of his case after he pleaded guilty in U. s. District Court to charges of draft evasion and unlawfully wearing an army uniform.
 Authorities said that Ryan, who appeared in court in uniform yes- terday, posed as paralytic cripple by day and accordingly was placed in class 4-F by his draft board. However, police claimed he dressed in an army uniform by night and mingled with servicemen.
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fell to Russian forces that advanced up to 2 l-2 miles on the Kharkov front yesterday. At one point they stormed across the northern Donets and captured two district centers, including Stary Saltov, 25 miles east of Kharkov, and killed over l. 900 fo the fleeing enemy troops.
 Other columns captured Liptsi, 12 1-2 miles northeast of Kharkov, and Rogodyanka 13 1-2 miles to the northwest, and drove southWard along the Belgorod railroad from a point only II miles north of Khar- kov.
 Sunny Threatened
 The threat to Sunny, 87 miles northwest of Moscow, was height ened by the capture of Bolshoy Be- brik, 13 1-2 miles to the southwest and Boromlya, 20 miles to the south. while the seizure of Kirikov- ka, 50 miles northwest of Kharkov put another column only 12 miles east of Akturka.
 Altogether the Soviets captured six railway stations between Pol tava and Sunny on the Kharkov front.
 GA London Daily Telegraph dis patch said the German retreat in the Kharkov area had lost all sem- blance of order and a Moscow broadcast pictured German troops throwing away their arms and equipment as they fell back vest WarO.
 Some 25O miles to the north other Russian forces sweeping along the railroad from Orel toward Bryansk main German central front stronghold broke enemy resistance at Khotynets A miles east of Bryansk and pushed on in hot pur- suit of retreating Axis troops.
 Futile Attempt
 The Germans threw two armored trains and large infantry and tank forces into battle in futile attempt to halt the Russians east of Khoty- nets but were routed after one So- viet detachment executed flank ing movement and attacked the town from the rear.
 One German armored train was knocked out by Soviet gunners the high command communique said.
 In another sector west of Orel. the Russians captured several Ger man air fields and with them, 9 planes, five tanks. 15 guns, fuel depot and 30,000 air bombs.
 More than 30 towns and villages were liberated by the Russians yes- terday on che Bryansk front, in- cluding IA west of Kromy. 60 miles southeast of Bryansk, where some 4,OOO enemy troops were killed in two days of fighting.
 Air Support
 The Red air force supported Rus sian ground offensives on both the Kharkov and Bryansk fronts bomb- ing and strafing retreating enemy columns and blasting German bases in the rear. Forty six German planes were shot down in aerial combat over the Kharkov front.
 Particularly heavy raids were dl- rected against key railroad stations on the railroad line extending south of Kharkov and the eaSt-WeSt Kiev- -Donets basin line connecting it. Seven military trains were de- stroyed at Loaovaya.
 In the northwest Caucasus, Rus sian troops broke into German po- sitions northeast of the Black Sea naval base of NovorossiSk ano routed the headquarters staff of ar enemy unit
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 Decorated

U. s. bobmer base, somewhere in England, Aug. 11-(UP)-Staff Sgt. Michael Arooth of Springfield, Mass. who has averaged an enemy plane and decoration per week since he started combat flying, was rated to- day as the top scoring gunner in the Army Air Force in the Euro pean theater.
 Arooth ran up score of seven before injuries put him in the hos pital. But he is recovering rapidly from leg wounds and should be out soon to get his medals and have another try.
 Arooth, (whose family lives at 2 Lorenco St., Springfield) used to make cooling devices for anti-air- craft guns. He came over as tail gunner in flying fortress and went on his first flight June 11.--up to July 30--day before his 24th birth day--he had three planes. Then on that day he went on the raid on Kassel, Germany.
 There he on a recommendation for distinguished service cross, by shooting down three German planes before a 20 millimeter shell got him in the leg. His oxygen supply was shot out, his phone communications shattered and his guns jammed by bullets but he stayed in the isolated gunner's post and alone cleaned out one gun to get fourth German and keep off others so the disabled plane could ret home.
 When Bombardier Lieut.. Robert Henry checkey up on the rest of the plane he found the waist gunners had parachuted during violent eva sive action when they thought the fortress was crashing but Arooth, weak from loss of blood. was at his post, delirious from lack of oxygen and still looking for Germans. Arooth's decorations or recom- mended medals range from the air medal to the DSC and he still has no decoration for three of the planes to his credit His record even outranks that of any American fighter pilot in this theater.
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Skewered
 Mon Improves

Haverhill, Mass, Aug. 1l-UP)- A slight improvement was reported by hospital attaches today in the condition of John F. Barrett, 66 who was critically injured Sunday when struck by an automobile and skewered by 52-inch-long rod that had become entangled in the cars chassis.
 The road penetrated the city highway emlpoye's body near the inside of his thigh. Thirty inches of it passed through his body and protruded from his shoulder blades
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Sicilian east and north coasts.
 GA British broadcast heard by CBS placed the Americans within two miles of Randazzo, but empha- sized that the report had not been confirmed.
 Progress continues to be made whilst our troops overcome enemy resistance and deal with obstacles he is leaving,' Gen. Dwighmt D. EisenhoWer's communique said.
 Of the 10000 prisoners announced yesterday as in Allied hands, the American Seventh Army captured 92,000 and the British Eighth Army 28,000. It has not been specified who took the 5000 prisoners who since have been taken.
 Command of the Sea
 A strong force of British cruisers and destroyers boldly asserted the Allies command of the sea and air around Italy by steaming up the west coast to the Gulf of Naples Monday night and sending stream of shells into the Castellammare di Stabia naval shipbuilding and repair yard only 20 miles southeast of Naples.
 It marked the deepest penetration yet of Italian waters since the start of the Sicilian campaign and car ried the British naval forces more than 200 miles north of Palermo.
 Simultaneously, another Allied naval force shelled railway bridges at Cape Vaticano on the instep of the Italian boot below the Gulf of Eufemia over which Italian mili- tary trains for southern Italy must move.
 Advance on RandaZZO
 The Allied advance toward Ran dazzo on the northwestern slope of Mt. Etna was in the face of fierce resistance including murderous mor- tar bombardments from German guns mounted on heights command ing the roads from Bronte and CeSaro.
 The British and Americans also were slowed by extensive enemy demolitions. Blasted roads and bridges enforced halts of several hours while sappes and bulldozers filled In the craters and built make shift bridges.
 The fall of Randazzo would put Italo-G German armies in their worst predicament since the Allies blasted through the Tunis plain and swarmed onto the Cape Bon penin- sula in May.
 Concentrate on Transport
 British and American bombers continued to concentrate their car goes on Axis transport clogging the roads running north and northeast from Rardazzo toward the evacua- ton ports of Mesina and Milazzo.
 ther planes kept up constant patrols over Messina Strait to break up evacuation attempts.
 (An Italian communique reported that Mesina was Intensely and re- peatedly' bombedD.
 n the north coast the U. s. Sev- enth Army consolidated the posi- tions reached in the successful landing at the mouth of the river Rosmarino some 45 miles west of Messina.
 CA German broadcast said that a violent Axis artillery barrag thwarted fresh American landing attempts east of San Agata on the north coasN.
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N. Smith of Shaddock road, Mid- dlebury, who claimed that cottage master had abused his 16 year old son who is an inmate of the school. Prosecutor Warner denied accusa- tions made by Smith last night that officials are trying to cover up the case, and said that any state ment made by Smith was made on his own. He said that his office will continue its investigation un- til either sufficient evidence is un- covered to bring the case to CO.,. t, or 1t is found that the charges are without foundation.
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NCOIltlllucQ AIOIn rage U said Dianne was stricken seven weeks ago.
 Dickie became i'll eight months ago. His doctor, David M. Mccarthy said he had done everything he could to save the 40-pound boy.
 Lying helpless in the hospital Dickie has waged his own war on the Japanese. He received gifts of money totaling $2,137 from his friends from all over" Service men as far away as Kiska sent him his weapons. Dickie was buy ing war bonds to lick the Japs'
 Stein, who said he read of the case in United Press dispatch ap. bearing in the New York Times, de. scribed the proposed treatment as oral mediation, calling for no sur. gery, blood transfusions, injection, or x-rays.