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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
100000 MORE
TOBE INDICTED
Draft This Year to Meet
10000, 900; Man Goal
Set for December 81

Washington, June 1--(UP)-War
ManpoWer Chief Paul V. McNutt
disclosed today that 100000 more
men will be drafted this year to
meet the 10000, GOODMAN goal set by
the armed forces for Dec. 81, 1943.
He said this will permit indus
trial deferment OF only 100000
men and that employers, to insure
industry against disorderly with
draWal o. men, must file manning
tables and replacement schedules
promptly.
Approximately 100000 men now
are occupatlonally deferred, Of
whom 100000 have 10 dependents.
McNutt stressed that the estimate
OF 100000 men who can be given
industrial deferments includes men
with dependents.
The pool Of physically TT men OF
draft age as Of May !, McNutt said,
was about 100000 including 100000
deferred as necessary men In Agri-
culture. He added:
This leaves 100000 from whom
approximately 2,700,000 must be in
Quoted into the armed forces by the
end Of this year.
There then remains about 2,400-
900 Of whom 1t Is estimated approx
imately 100000 will be men de-
ferred for dependency reasons, leay-
Ing 1900, 900 as the maximum num-
Der of men who can be deferred for
occupatioral reasons other than ag-
riculture at the end OF this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
OIL HEIRESS, %,
BELIEVED SUICIDE

New York, June ! up. The
nude body Of Mrs. Janet Snowden
Gill %, Santa Barbara, Calf, oil
heiress, who police said jumped or
fell from a 10th floor window of
the Savoy Plaza Hotel, was found
early today on an extension roof
Police said her husband, Capt.
William S. Gill, who was divorced
from the late motion picture &C
tress, Renee Adoree, In 1929, COL
lapsed when he learned her body
had been found.
Gill told detectives he and his
wife came here May 26 from Wash
ington, where he had been sta
toned with the Army.
Detectives said Gill told them
he awakened from nap and dis
covered his wife missing from the
next room where she had been
sleeping.
Detectives said he reported find
ing the window open, but called
his wife's relatives in the belief she
might be visiting them. The body
was Identified by Mrs GINS cousin
George G.. SnoWden, Jr,
Gill told them police said, lhat
his wife had been depressed and
nervous and had been consulting a
physician at Santa Barbara He
said their three children were with
his relatives in Minneapolis,
Mrs. Gill. daughter OF the late
James II. Snowden, oil producer
and sister OF Mrs. Bradley Dresser
and James II. Snowden, Jr. Of
Newport, r. l., was married to Gill
in Mexico in 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
Three American Columns
Unite On Chichagof Shores
NOTORIOUS TRIO
To FACE CHAIR
Supreme Court Affirms
BuchaIter, Weiss and
CapOne Death Sentence

Washington. June - CUP)-The
supreme court today affirmed the
murder convictions and death SEN
fences Of three members Of Brook
lyn's Murder, Inc. Louis Gepke)
Buchalter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis
Capone.
Barring further action by state
courts, the notorious trio now faces
the electric chair for the machine
gun Staying Of Joseph Rosen, eX-
member Of the murder syndicate.
Lepke, Weiss and Capone were
convicted in Kings County N. Y,
in trial which approached sensa-
tioral proportions.
New York Attorneys 7. Maurice
Wormser, Sydney Rosenthal and Ar
thur Garfield Hays asked the su-
preme court for new trial, charg-
ing that the trio had been framed"
Stephan's Plea Rejected
Washington, June l--(UP)-The
supreme court today for the third
time refused to intervene In the
treason conviction of Max Stephan.
Detroit restaurant keeper, and
withdrew It's stay which has held up
his execution.
In an unanimous decision, the
court rejected the latest plea Of
Stephars lawyers that undre the
1889 law he was entitled to a direct
appeal to the supreme court from
the federal district court which
sentenced him TO be hanged for har-
boring an escaped German prisoner
Stephan was convicted in Detroit
Of aiding Peter Krug, an oberlieute-
nant in the Nazi luftwaTe who eS-
capped from a Canadian prison camp
Krug subsequently was arrested In
Texas by Federal Bureau Of Inves-
tigation agents.
Stephans attorneys contendeo
that the direct appeal law still was
on the statute books. but the high
court held that 1t had been re-
pealed by 1911 law
The opinion -- brief, informal
ruling-did not go into details 60
discuss Stephan's claims that he
acted on the advice Of prominent
Detroit citizens. 1t merely dealt With
the legal questions of the right OF
appeal and ruled against him.
Accordingly the application fol
leave TO appeal Is deried and the
stay heretofore granted Is vacated"
the court said
The district court in Detroit now
will set new execution date. The
execution then will be carried out
unless Stephan can obtain presiden-
tial clemency or some new appeal Is
brought that would result in fur
ther stay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
GERMANS SUFFER
GREAT LOSSES
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

'Cn'te" rTeSS StaH correspondent
MOSCOW, June 1-CUP)-The Red
army hurled back two German
counter-attacks on newly-won So
Wet positions near Lisichansk in
the Ukraine today, inflicting what
were officially described as great
losses" on the enemy.
Joining the fighting on the Lisi =
chansk front. Soviet aircraft shot
down four German planes in dog
fights and destroyed 10 others
parked on an enemy airdrome, the
Russian midday communique said.
Continued fighting was reported
by the midnight communique in
the Kuban area northeast Of the
Black Sea naval base of Novoros-
sisk, but no details were given. The
Germans have been battling des-
perately to retain their bridgehead
there.
German broadcasts said the
Russians lost IS tanks, l73 planes
and large number of infantry
men in the first five days of the
Kuban battle. which they claimed
still was continuing
(The Germans also reported that
their rtoops forced back the Rus
slams In violent attack southeast
OF Velizh above SmolenSk on the
central front and beat off four So
Wet counter attacksD
The mid day communique said
thirty -one German planes were
shot down during attempts TO raid
villages near Leningrad Sunday,
Three Soviet aircraft we're lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
BUTTER REDUCTION
TO START JUNE 10

Washington. June /. CUP -
The Office of Price Administration
today extended its butter subsidy
program TO include small professors
producing less than 1000 pounds
monthly, provided they band to-
gether and sell on a joint basis
through one outlet.
The program. which subsidies
creameries to the amount OF five
cents a pound, is designed to roll
back the prices of butter to con-
sumers five to six cents pound.
The reduction in retail prices will
become effective June 10.
OPA said that the small process
sors were not included in the orig
inal draft Of the program, since ii
would be administratively impossible
to subSidize a large number of small
units. However, on a cooperative
basis, which will add up TO 1000
pounds month, small professors
will be eligible for the five cent
payment.
OPA said that in 1912 more than
100000 pounds were produced by
both large and small professors.
during l,43 the estimated produce
ton is about the same.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
JAP ship LOSSES
HIT 446 TO DATE

Melbourne, Australia, June !
CUP Japan since the start of the
war has lost 446 ships and about
1000 aircraft destroyer damaged or
probably destroyed, Air Minister
Arthur Drakeford said in a speech
today
Drakeford estimated Japans
as follows.
Aircraft destroyed-More than
100.
Aircraft probably deStroyed-392.
Aircraft damagcd-480
The euemy's shipping losses were
said to aggregate 2,224,500 tons, in
cluding two battleships six aircraft
carriers, nine heavy cruisers, eight
ligl cruisers, 20 destroye;s. % sub
maincs. one scaplapc tender %
tankcrS. and 300 merchantmen to-
falling 100000 tons
"Air supremacy has been wrcsted
from the japanese In the southwest
Pacific and there Is every indca-
ton that the enlightenment OF Japan
Is being brought about gradually
but ineXorably.' he said. Japan Is
doomed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
Mine Workers Defy Government
By Hating Work For Second Time
Contract Negotiations Are
Resumed; Soft, Hard
Coal Fields Closed
BY RAYMOND LAIR

kOnlteu FTcSS OLaH correspondent
Washington, June l-(UP)--
Chairman william II. Davis and two
other public members of the War
Labor Board conferred for more
than two hours today with Economic
Sterilization Director Fred M. Vim
son as the United Mine Workers
In defiance Of the government, again
tied up the nations hard and soft
coal fields.
Accompanied by Wayne L. Morse
and DR.. George w, Taylor, Davis
called on Vinson at $50 a. N. and
remained In his Office until nearly
noon. 1t was assumed they laid
before him the history OF stalemated
Wage-hour negotiations between the
miners and operators and discussed
with him the governments attitude
toward the walkout which followed
expiration OF working truce last
midnight.
The boards position, 1t was under
stood, Is that UNIV President John
L. Lewis mo contract, no work. rule
Is invalid In the present case be-
cause the WLB had ordered extern
sion Of the old contract pending
completion Of a new agreement.
But the miners, refusing TO rec
ognize the boards rulings, have
walked out and the strike Is on.
Whether or not they acted OF valid
grounds, the bulk of the UMW's
miners quit their Jobs IN the absence
OF any order by Lewis extending the
truce.
Because Of Its long-standing rule
against considering labor dispu%s
during % work stoppagc, there APP
peared TO be some possibility that
the board may order suspension of
negotiations between the miners and
operators 1t appeared probable,
however, that the board would take
such q step only In the eventually
That the government was prepared
to take positive action to reopen the
mines.
Despite the fact that the conferces
appeared to be nowhere near an
agreement on Lewis demand FOR 81
daily portal-to-portal pay, the con-
tract negotiators resumed their dis
Continued on Page d
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
FIVE JAP UNITS
CAUGHT IN TRAP
Chinese Roll Back For
ward PrOnges of Enemy
Drive in COunterattack
BY GEORGE WANG
United Press Staff Correspondent

Chungkng, June -- CUP --
Chinese troops hammerlng five trap
ped Japanese divisions In Western
Hupeh Province completely ami
hilated' the enemy's 116th Regi-
ment and other units covering the
retreat Of the japanese 18th Divis-
ion, a communique said today.
The 10th Regiment (about 1000
mem as well as men from a calvary
and an engineering unit we're cover
ing the retreat of enemy forces
That had been stabbing into the
outer defenses Of Chungking until
general Chinese counter attack
routed them and trapped perhaps
$4,000 men,
"On the south shore OF the
Yangt2c, in Western Hupeh the
cnemy's 11Gth Regiment covering
the retreat Of the japanese 18th
Division from YuyangkWan, 40 miles
southwest Of Ichang. was surround
cd by our troops at Lishutang, SIX
miles east OF Yuyan2kwan, and
completely annhilatcd, the com
muniqe said,
"ChireSc troops captured n ire
mendous quantity Of war supplies. -
The japanese troops So possibly
numbering $4,000 men -- apparently
were threatened with destruction iii
a narrowing battle area south Of the
Yangtze river opposite Ichang, big
river port in western Hupeh prov
incc
Aerial support which resulted In
destruction OF at least % and pos
sibly 81 enemy planes yesterday at
Ichang aided GeneralisSimo Chang
Kai-Shek's army in throwing back
the deepest westward penetration
ever made by japanese armies.
Chinese communicates said the
counter attack which began Satur-
day at YuyankWan, 40 miles south
west of Ichang, TUNED into broad,
coordlnated offensive on all fronts
by Sunday.
Advancing past Yuyankwan to
Changyane, Is miles south of
Ichang, the Chinese troops routed
the five divisions, hemmed them into
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
MILK DELIVERIES
TO Be CURTAILED

New York, June 1-(UP)-The
Metropolitan area today was threat
ened with curtailed milk supplies
as dealers agreed to COT ply with an
office OF defense transportation Or
der curtailing deliveries to conserve
gasoline.
Deliveries were being made today
and will be made Thursday, but UNI
less members of the milk wagon
drivers union (AFL) agree to take
out double loads to make up for the
day to be skipped, ii was estimated
consumers will be short 100000
quarts.
Decision of the dealers TO conf
ply with the ODT skip-ad day deliv-
cry plan ended one phase of the
dispute. In the other phase, union
members have opposed the order on
the grounds 1t wo' y result III a
Wholesale loss OF jobs.
Meanwhile, federal authorities
sought more workers and trucks to
relieve q labo. and transportation
shortage in New York State and
New England which has resulted in
the dumping OF milk producers we're
unable TO move.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
ALLIED FLEET
AT GIBRALTAR
Biggest Shipping Concen-
tratiOn OF War Anchored:
Nazis Name Date
BY ROBERT RICHARDS
Omitted Press STAFF Correspondent

London, June 1--(UP)-The larg.
est concentration of Allied shipping
at Gibraltar since the start Of the
War-104 transports. tankers ant
supply ships-was reported at an
Choir today rs a German broadcast
speculated that the Allies may In.
wade Europe this month, perhaps
on June 90.
The bulk OF the huge fleet was
transports and tankers which ar
rived at Gibraltar Yesterday, a dis
patch from the Spanish border
town OF La Linea said
Taking cognizance Of growing AL
lied strength In the Mediterranean
theater the Rome radio told It's
listeners to take their cue from the
way Britain, "beaten and aban-
doned and faced with invasion
amid ruins" rallied In 1910 and
n responsible italian spokesman
acknowledged by implication that
several hundred thousand Allied
troops could open q second front
successfully In Italy.
The total number Of Allied troops
In North Africa and the middle
east never has been disclosed but
probably exceeds 100000. Prime
Minister Churchill In speech
soon after the Allied landing IN
North Africa said more than 100000
men had been put ashore In north =
west Africa during the first month
alone.
These were In addition TO the
British Eighth Army, then IN Lib
va, and British armies in Egypt
Syria, Iran, Iraq and Cyprus. The
number since has been swollen by
the dispatch Of huge endorsements
to Africa.
Apart from Allied invasion prep
arations IN the southern theater,
u. S. Army headquarters In Lon
don announced the appointment Of
Brig. Gen. Daniel Noce, one Of the
outstanding American specialists In
landing operations, to the Euro
pean general staff. Only last week
Brig. Gen. James c. Crockett, the
u. S. Army's outstanding authority
on the German army, Joined the
staff.
A German tranSocean broadcast
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
Weekend hopping Up
Operations Successful
Reports Navy
RAVAGED VILLAGE AT
HARBOR'S HEAD TAKEN
Process of S0ftening Up
Kiska in AIeutians Con-
tinued By U. S.

Washington, June /. -.
CUP Three American
troop columns, moving swift
ly to destroy the last Vestiges
of japanese opposition on
Attu Island, have united on
the shores Of Chichagof
harbor after killing 400
enemy soldiers in weekend
hopping up operations, the
Navy announced today. The
triumphant Yanks effected
the juncturc on Sunday after ad-
vancing in the face Of weak resist
ance from small groups Of Japanese.
A navy spokesman, confirming
previous disclosures, said there was
now no organized resistance any
where on Attu.
The three columns pushed for
ward from the west, the south and
Southwest and occupied ravaged At
III village at the head OF Chichagof
harbor
The column that came in from
south advanced down the floor Of
Chichagof Valley. The southwest
ern force moved over southwest peal
on the eastern tip Of Fish-HocR
Ridge. The western group can't
in from the eastern arm OF HolA
Bay and advanced over the north
ern flank OF Fish-Hook ridge.
Installations Hit
I Meanwhile, the process OF soften
! Ing up Kiska, main Japanese basa
in the Aleutians, continued. Sum
day force OF army Liberator heavy
bombers and Mitchell medium
bombel%, accompanied by WarhawA
fighters, 2lashed at japanese install
lationS. Fires were started on
beached ship, Oh the plane runway,
in the camp area and at Gertrude
Cove.
Text OF Navy communiquc No
1877:
North Pacific:
Il. On May 80 on Attu Island:
"(A Three separate columns OF u,
a. army troops coming In from
the south, southwest and west re-
spectively, effected a junction on
the shores OF Chichagof Harbor.
"(B) In the forward movements
Of the U. S, army troops, small jap
anese groups offered weak resist
ance. Over 400 of the enemy wers
killed In the operations during thS
night Of May 1890.
%. On May &c. Army Liberator
Consolidated B-24 heavy bombcrS
mitchell North American B-25)
medium bombers and WarhaWk
Curtis P-40) fighters attacked ths
Japanese installations at Kiska.
Fires we're started in Gertrude Cove,
the camp area, and on beached
ship and on the runway"
Tokyo radio today raised Its esti-
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
ASV|OLATORS
BEING CHECKED
Special Hearing Board to
Be Formed to Prosecute
Waterbury Cases

AS the State OPA at noon today
began an official check OF violators
Of the pleasure driving ban with
promises Of prosecution, plans were
disclosed for formation of a spe-
cial hearing board" which will
try cases Of those not complying
Although official announcement has
not been made it was learned today
special officers will be appointed to
conduct hearings IN each area,
thereby removing enforcement work
from the local gasoline panels.
With widespread violation of the
end, wrath of Trustworthy" citi-
end, wrath 70 Trustworthy" citi-
zens has been aroused, with move
ment underfoot to bring penalties
upon those who violate the honor
system. Police authorities are said
to be perturbed by the bold non
compliance, as seen by scores Of
cars at pleasure resorts, taverns,
and sports grounds, and decry lack
Of authorization TO take enforce
ment steps into their hands.
Plans Not Completed
The State OPA Office in Hartford
this morning notified the local dis
trict Office to hold back until plans
now under consideration are COM
pleted. Meanwhile scores of tele-
phone calls, personal complaints
and inquiries continued to pour into
the district office.
In inspection trips made 10 this
city over the weekend by OPA in
spectors from Hartford scores OF
violations were noted Driving to
golf courses, wayside inns, and
other pleasure spots, the investiga-
tors found hundreds OF cars, most
Of them there In violation Of the
driving ban. Although license num-
bers were not taken, as the honor
system approved by Governor Ray
mond Il. Baldwin prevailed, a close
study Of the complying con-
ditions was made and a report sub
mitted to headquarters.
1t Is believed the clearing Off
GERS" TO be named under the pro-
posed enforcement set-up may be
lawyers or prominent citizens Of
the community. A system Of rotat-
Ing out OF the community to an
other section OF the state may be
devised, 1t has been indicated.
Appointment Of special officials to
hear cases Of alleged Violators was
urged by investigators after it be-
came apparent local boards are too
loaded with ration work 10 under
take a vast program OF prosecution.
Aid from local police forces like
wise Is under consideration.
Governor On Air
Hartford, June 1-(UP)-State
OPA Director Chester Bowlcs,
brushing aside Coy. Baldwin's eX-
pertinent with an Honor system"
OF compliance with ban on pleas
ure driving, said that at noonc to-
ay his inspectors would begin a
check Of motorists without resorting
TO shopping or spying"
"Fhise who are clearly in violation.
those who are beyond Il question Of
a doubt using their cars for unnc-
cessary pleasure purposes he said
will be penalized."
Bowles said the question now &,
how best to deal with the very few
who apparent yare thoughtlcssly or
sellishly, or both, refusing to &c
along with the vast majority Of their
fellow citizens"
Meantime he announced that local
rationing boards had reported the
withdrawal Of many B and C gaso-
Continued on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
DEMPSEY DIVORCE
HEARING PUT OFF
Hannah Williams Lawyer
Claims Client Suffers
Complete Collapse

White Plains, N. Y, June 1-(UP)
Trial Of the double -barrelcd
Dempsey divorce suit was recessed
for several hours today TO permit
counsel to produce a physician TO
affirm the complete nervous col
lapse" Of Mrs. Hannah williams
Dempsey, who failed to appear when
The case resumed this morning.
Supreme Court Referee J. Addison
Young denied a motion by Mrs.
Dempsey's attorney, Gerald Dono-
van, for an adjournment of one
week, but said he would allow the
attorney time to produce her ply
sician, DR.. William Friedman OF
New York.
Donovan told the court Mrs.
Dempsey had suffered "a complete
nervous collapse and if anything
her condition is worse than it was
week ago" He said her physician
had informed him it would be a
week at least before she would be
able to resume the trial, which was
postponed last Thursday because of
her illness.
Arthur F. Driscoll, attorney for
Lieut.. Comdr. William H. Jack)
Dempsey, objected to the adjourna-
ment on the ground that he has
witnesses here from California who
are anxious to return home and,
further, trat mo legal evidence"
had been offered the court con-
firming Mrs. Dempseys illness.
Il assume these witnesses from
California cannot remain here in
definitely" Referee Young said.
You should have presented proof
OF the defendants position this
morning Your motion is denied"
Donovan then renewed his plea
that lie could not proceed without
his client and Referee Young said
Your motion now is to recess the
case until your physician can ar
rive and I viii grant that motion
] was then agreed thai the ply
stefan could come to White Plains
by p. m and the trial was re-
cesSed to that hour.
The former heavyweight cham
pion arrived in court at 9:35 a m.
a half hour before Referee Young
convened the session
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
italian AirdrOme Also Is
Blasted; Enemy Loses
337 Planes in May
ATTACKS RESUMED ON
SARDINIA, PANTELLERIA
Power Station at Guspini
in Flames; Two Hangers
Heavily Damaged
BY G. II. CUNNINGHAM
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

'SNN'A SOsA ~SPO''N~s'V
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, June /. - (UP) -
More than 100 U. S. Flying
Fortresses battered the Ital-
ian airdromc and railroad
junction at Foggia, smashed
a large number Of Axis planes
aground and shot down four
more for an officially an
nounced total of 1877 enemy
craft Knocked out Of the air IN May
The total OF 1877 included only
AXIS planes shot down by the north
west Africa Air Forces, which lost
l08 craft In the same period for
ratio OF about one to threc. In adj
dition, many enemy planes were de-
stroyed on the ground or shot down
by the Allied Middle East planes for
an unofficial grand total of 42l, es-
tablishing a strong margin OF air
superiority over the Axis on the in
vasion route to Italy.
Inc third heavy raid In four DAYS
on Foggia, 30 miles northeast OF
naples, was accompanied by re-
neWGd attacks on the stepping
STONE islands Of Sardinia and Pan
telleria.
The American planes hammered
Guspini, In southwest Sardinia, hit
ting a power station which burst
INTO flames and nearby factory
and barracks area.
Two Lightnings Lost
One OF eight ME 1895 which
dived on the Lightnings was des-
troyed and another probably des-
troyed. Two Lightnings we're lost.
Other planes attacked the power
stations at Acntarina, on Sardinia,
where 1t was believed the station
was demolished.
a 400-foot motor ship was dam
aged at Calasetta, where rail
road bridge also was bombed and
n ferryboat strafed.
The Fortresses flew 1900 miles
over water in the attack Oh Fog
sia, which felt the weight Of their
bombs just an hour after American
bombers from the middle east COM
nland had battered the same tar
get IN a stiff "one-two" punch.
There wasn't much opposition
for my squadron and our bombing
was accurate" said Lieut.. Marion
D. Jones, Memphis, Tenn. "Old
Musso can't use that airdrome for
much any more" Jones formerly
vas In the advertising department
(CopIi nuoJ pn Doun A.