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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
City Pays On
Bond Issues

During the remainder OF 1943 the
City of Waterbury will only have
to pay out $250,777.25 in bond re-
demption and interest, according to
figures obtained at the office Of City
Controller Cornelius F. Moloney to-
day.
The total bond redemption and
interest item for 1913 is 81, 400, 1875.
The heaviest payments, however,
were completed dutng July. No fur
ther redemption payments on bonds
have to be made until November
when the city pays off $4,000, re-
presented by $151,000 in general
bonds and $4,000, water bonds.
Interest payments, however, will
be made in August, September, Nov
ember and December, total OF
$87,7712 5 to be met.
Decreased payments on bonded
debt throughout the remainder OF
1913 will allow the comptroller, Gen
eral Financial, item of the budget to
readjust itself. Expenditures for the
first six months in this department
were more than SO per cent, but Will
be less in the last half of the year,
according to the controller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Jap SeopIone
TenderSunk
BY BRYDON TAVES

United Press Sta Correspondent
Allied headquarters, southwest
Pacific, July "a (UP) - Allied
planes sank a 9000-ton japanese
seaplane tender, damaged Destroy
er and wrecked or damaged % en-
envy planes and q barges in wide
ranging operations in the southern
Pacific, a communique said today.
The action covered 36-hour period.
GA Japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo radio acknowledged
loss of a special service ship" in
the Solomons Thursday but said
nine of 80 planes which attacked it
were shot down. The communicate
said that Japanese navy planes
sank or demolished an American de-
stroyer, three transports and 10
landing barges near Rendova Island
in the central Solomons Wednes-
day.
Static On Ground
While the ground situation on
New Georgia Island and New
Guinea fronts apparently remained
static, Lockhecd lightnings decisive
ly defeated 60 japanese zeros that
tried vainly to stop 61-ton bomb
ing assault on the Bogadjim supply
base of the New Guinea northwest
coast.
Protecting a strong force of fly
ing fortresses and liberators, he
lightnings shot down 10 of the
zeros, got five probables and sent
five others out of action damaged.
Two Allied planes were lost in the
dogfights and only four others in
the operations ranging over a 24O0-
mile front from Timor to the north
ern Solomons.
Big Fire Set
The bombers set big fires in the
Bogadjim area, 20 miles south OF
Adang and one of the bases through
which supplies move toward embat-
tied Japanese troops facing an
American and Australia drive in
the Salamaua area to the southeast.
American dive-bombers and tor
pedo planes, strongly escorted, sank
the tender late Thursday four miles
off the coast of Baugainville but
failed to prevent it from salvaging
the IA planes it carried. One of four
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Roll Back Plan May
Not Be Needed NoU

on Mr.. Roosevelt that unless he
moved at once to roll back prices
to the Sept Is, 1912, level they
would begin campaign to break
the Little Steel wage formula and
to Dust Price Administrator Prem
tiss M. Brown.
OPA OPTIMISTIC
OPA officials were more optimis-
tic than Mr.. Roosevelt. They point
ed out that figures released today
by the labor departments bureau
of labor statistics showed that drops
in fresh vegetable and butter prices
cut the cost of living for city work
ers by OF per cent from May Is
to June Is. 1t was the first time
that the bureaus cost Of living in
dex has dropped since a year be-
fore Pearl Harbor.
OPA officials believe they have
halted the upward spiral In food
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Says BoIoano
Was Bombed

An Italian communique said today
that Allied planes had attacked
Bologna, In northern Italy. TINS
morning in what was believed TO oe
the wars first raid on that import
ant center. The communique also
acknowledged the fall of Palermo,
largest city in Sicily.
Besides loss of Palermo, which
was captured by Americans. the
communique said that increased
Allied pressure. especially IRON
tank forces, had forced a regroupiny
of Axis troops on Sicily. Palermo
was evacuated in the course OF this
operation, it was said.
No details of the attack on Bolo5-
ma were given but the commuters
broadcast by radio Rome. appencea
to it's report Of Allied air attacks
the statement that damage was
done and there were casualties to
an as vet unknown extent"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Funds Aid
Cityin Buying
Five TroiIers

The City of Waterbury will buy
five Chryslers trailers with money
recently made available for civilian
defense purposes by the Waterbury
Safety Committee of World War I,
it was announced today by City
Controller Cornelius F. Maloney.
These trailers will be used for
mounting five OCD skid pumps that
the city now has in storage at the
Brooklyn firehouse.
The city already has placed in va
rious parts of the city nine trailer
pump outfits. Equipping of these
outfits is now going on and is ex-
pected to be completed within a
short time as Mr.. Maloney stated
today that another shipment of
equipment is due in this city next
week.
The city also received within the
past ten days eighteen rubber-tired
wheels which were used to replace
the steel wheels which came on the
trailerS.
One of the six vskid pumps origi-
nally assigned to Waterbury by the
OCD was recently placed at the
American Brass company which Sc
cured its own trailer for the outfit.
OF the remaining five units 1t Is
expected that one will be placed at
the Scovill company and the others
will be distributed by Fire Chief
Thomas j. Cavanaugh.
When Mayor John S. Monagan
was recently advised of the presence
of funds dating back to 1918 in the
treasury of the World War I safety
committee he pointed out to the
committee chairman and treasur-
er, John H. Goss, president of the
Scovill Mfg. Co., the need of trail
ers for the fire-fighting pumps the
city had on hand. In addition to
these trailers sufficient funds were
in the committee treasury with
which to buy large quanaity OF
ammunition and emergency equip
ment for the police department.
In view of manufacturing and
shipping delays city officials did not
believe that the trailers would ar
rive in Waterbury until late IN the
summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24


the island is all that remains to the
Axis" General Dwight D. Eisen-
hower's communique reported. Brit
ish warships shelled the German
troops holding off the British at
Catania.
The seizure of MARSHA sealed the
doom of Trapani, big west coast
port IS miles to the north and the
only remaining enemy base of i'm
portance in western Sicily. Trapanl
has a good harbor and controls
network of airfields.
(AxiS broadcasts already have re-
ported the evacuation of both Ira
PAM and MARSHA, as we'll as Pa
lermo which was captured by the
Americans on Thursday
Thousands Surrender
All that remained for the seventh
army in western Sicily was a mop
ping up operation. Italian troops
were surrendering by the thousands
and at some places whole divisions
laid down their arms.
American troops alone have cap
tured 10000 prisoners and the clean
up in the west may net them an
other $4,000
MARSHA, a commercial town OF
80, 000 fell to the American spear
head that slashed around the south
western corner of Sicily from the
airfield town Of Castelvetrano and
its capture netted the Americans
vast quantities of equipment and
thousands of prisoners.
A special Allied announcement
said that all airfields in Sicily now
had been captured or neutralized
with enemy air resistance now "in-
effective"
Allied torpedo bombers joined in
the parade o successes, sinking one
enemy merchant ship, heavily dam
aging two others and leaving de-
stroyer in flames.
Torpedo Boats Damaged
Two Allied destroyers. one OF
them Greek, damaged three Ger
man torpedo boats Tuesday night.
two of them severely.
British planes have wiped OUT
an entire convoy of small barges
ferrying supplies to Sicily, radio
London said today
British warships steamed up the
east coast of Sicily and turned their
big guns on German troops holding
off Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery's British Eighth Army on tbs
approaches to Catania, Slllcy's sec
ond largest port, where the blooc-
lest fighting Of the entire campaign
was under way
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower COM
munique spoke OF fierce resistance
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Goldman Is
Found Guilty

Hartford, July "a up Louis
Goldman OF New Haven, found
guilty by federal court jury OF %
counts Of OPA rent control viola
lions, will be sentenced July 80 with
his partner, Isadore Miller, also OF
New Haven.
The jury required only one hour
and As minutes yesterday to decide
that Goldman was guilty of Is
counts of exceeding OPA rent CELL
ings and four counts of making false
registrations. He was deemed inno-
cent of one charge of overcharging
tenant, Lucy Marinuzzi of New
Haven.
Miller had pleaded nolo conten-
dere to Is of the counts. He was one
of the governments chief witnesses
against his partner in the first case
involving rent control violations to
be tried in this state.
Although Goldman testified he
was pauper, evidence was offered
designed to prove he had a broker
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Perkins Says
He. /. Lower

Washington, July "a. - CUP -
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
reported today that the drop in
fresh vegetable and butter prices
cut the cost of living for city dwell
lers by OF per cent in the month
ending June Is.
1t was the first month since a
year before Pearl Harbor that the
Bureau of Labor Statistics cost OF
living index has dropped.
"This small decrease" Miss Per-
kins said, compares with increases
of O.8 per cent for the month end
ing May Is, IL per cent in the
month ending April 49, and is per
cent for the month ending March Is"
Despite the small drop in June,
the whole cost of living index now
stands at 1248 per cent of the 1885
80 average - 23.8 per cent above
January, 1941, base date Of the
Little Steel Formula which permits
wage increases of Is per cent, and
rs per cent above May, 1912, when
the office of Price Administration
started retail price control.
Clothing, Rent, High
Miss Perkins report revealed that
food prices still are the major fac
tor in the cost of living index, cloth
irg, rent, fuel, electricity, ice, house
furnishings and other items having
remained relatively stable since My,
1912.
Food prices now are As per cent
above January, 1941, and over 16
per cent above May, 1912.
Food prices make up over 40
per cent of the index. They de-
clined 0.8 per cent during the month
ending June Is.
Led by potatoes, which dropped
nine per cent. ;" Miss Perkins
said, ''fresh vegetables showed more
than seasonal declines of eight to
10 per cent from their previous alb
normal levels as new crops came
onto the market and as victory gar
dens began to produce.
Butter dropped above five cents
a pound to a national average OF
sos cents under the subsidy pro-
gram. Butter and potatoes together
make up about nine per cent OF
the cost of food and about four per
cent of the total cost OF living In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Fears Milk


Hartford, Conn, July "a - (U.P0
Refusal by the Office of Price Ad-
ministration in Washington to in
crease the price of milk one cent
quart in Connecticut will cause a
reduction in the states milk supply,
is the belief of G. MarSden Bacon,
president of the Connecticut Milk
Producers Association.
Bacon, in a statement last night,
said the OPA decision was ter
rife blow" to him and the asso-
cations board of directories which
was in session here yesterday when
word of the Washington action ar
rived. He said the association men,
bers did not intend to strike, that
possibility having been discussed
and rejected this week.
Declaring that production costs
have been continually increasing,
Bacon said:
I'VE have ben telling our men,
bers to hang on and make every
quart of milk they possibly could
until the OPA had a chance TO
make its decision. Now we will have
to tell them to make whatever ad-
justments they must to meet their
costs.
IF they cannot afford to pay
these high feed prices and hire this
high priced labor, there is no alter
native but to buy less feed and hire
less help. This can mean only one
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Meat Shortage
Remains Acute

Hartford, July "a up The
state OPA said today the outlook
for increased supplies Of butter In
Connecticut during August depended
upon production.
The statement was made in con-
nection with the governments ac-
ton in reducing from so to 40 pt$
cent its "set aside" order of total
production of butter for the month.
The cheese allotment will be reduced
from 10 to 60 per cent for the same
period.
Meanwhile, the state OPA said
there was no improvement in the
meat shortage situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Divorced,I In
Rage Spouse
Murders Five
BY DAVE BELNAP
limited Press Staff Correspondent

Ogden, Utah, July "a. - CUP =
Austin Cox, 38, apparently enraged
because judge graz ted his wife a
divorce, borrowed a shotgun last
night, shot five persons, including
the judge, to death and critically
wounded two others.
Then, while state and local police
barricaded highways and searched
the streets of Ogden with their guns
drawn, Cox stormed police station
and fired fusillade of shots before
he was captured. Overpowered by
policemen, he demanded that he be
executed Immediately.
The dead: District Judge Lewis
v. Trueman, Mrs. Jane Stauffer, 20,
Mrs. Burton of Rigby, Idaho, Mrs.
Betty A. Brooks, Sam Nelson
Shot and not expected to live were
Bert Stauffer, 35, and F. Dale
Brooks, husbands of two of the VIC
tins.
Cox's wife was granted divorce
recently by Judge Trueman on
grounds Cox had beaten her and
tried to tear her tongue out
Divorce Enraged
Sheriff John R. Watson SAID COX
apparently became enraged because
of the divorce--and a subsequent
Jail sentence for harming Mrs. Cox
SO "set out to kill any officer or
judge he found
AS police reconstructed the chain
of events, Cox telephoned friend,
who told him where his former wife
could be found.
Cox drove to the address IN his
old car, got out and strobe to the
door of small cottage. Mrs. Burton
answered a knock and Cox, without
saving a word, shot her, killing her
instantly with a blast from IL
guage shotgun.
Mrs. Jane Stauffer, Mrs. Burton's
daughter, ran out--and was killed
next. Her husband, Bert Stau11er,
followed and was wounded.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks, living near
bv, heard the shots and came out
side. Cox turned the gun on them,
killing Mrs. Brooks and blowing
Brooks hand off.
Fireworks
Ascertaining his former wife was
not in the cottage, Cox strobe across
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Clean Sweep
In w. Sicily
By JOSEPH w, GRIG(

UNITED Press Stan COrreSpOndentJ
London, July 24-(UP)-Military
observers reported today that mill
tary operations in western Sicily
"can be considered at an end" and
indicated a general assault on the
last-ditch Axis defense line in the
east was imminent.
Fall of Palermo and collapse OF
italian resistance on the American
7th Army front closed out opera
tions on that side of the island, the
observers said.
Reports reaching here said the
Americans were rounding up from
10000 to $4,000 Italian prisoners, in
Guiding the 202nd and the 208th
coastal divisions and the 28th Aosta
division.
Italian Generalization in the final
stages of the American drive re-
portedly was so great that a black
shirt legion entrusted with the &C
tual defense of Palermo folded up
and capitulated en- masse.
The Cairo radio said the Axis la
ready had begun evacuation of the
northeastern part OF Sicily and that
American troops were advancing
eastward from Palermo along the
northern moastal road.
$4,000 Await Capture
At least 5000 Italians and small
Gusnber of Germans are on the
western corner of Sicily awaiting
capture, Cairo said, and Berlin al
ready has admitted evacuation of
Trapani and MARSHA, although this
has not been confirmed by any other
source.
The 18th German Panzer and
remnants of the 26th italian Assietta
division are retreating eastward in
sEont of the Canadians along the
road from Nicosia to Leonforte,
fighting a staff rearguard action to
cover withdrawal to main Axis de-
Tense lines at the foot Of Mt. Etna,
the observers said.
On the Catania plain, the Nazi
Hermann Goering divisions cOntin-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Judge Mead
To Resiqn

New Canaan, Conn.,, July N-tUP)
Juvenile court Judge Stanley P.
Mead plans to resign Every shortly"
as State Senator and already has
discussed the matter with Gov. Ray
mond E. Baldwin.
This was his reaction last night
to a letter to Baldwin from Level
Ign G. Ross, chairman of the Demo-
cratic town committee, requesting
that the governor demand that
Mead relinquish his senate post.
Mead explained he had held off
submitting his resignation solely be-
cause he questioned whether 1t
would be feasible to force a special
election in his district to name
successor,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Axis Is Squeezed Into Tip Of Island;
Russians Advance Steadily On OreI
ALLIED PLANES
Rain BOMBS,
STRAFE CRETE
BY LEON KAY
United Press Staff Correspondent

NChltcu ITcSS StdIl COTTCSpohuchV
Cairo, July "a. - (UP) -
Allied bombers launched a
large-scale aerial offensive
against Crete yesterday, it
was announced today, losing
II planes in what a German
broadcast asserted was a test
of Axis defenses, presumably
in advance of major opera
tons in the eastern Mediter-
ranean. British and Greek
light and fighter bombers
blew up an ammunition dump,
scored direct hits on factories at
Erakleion, the capital, and Hiera-
petra, and strafed with shells and
machine-gun bullets wireless and
power stations, German troops en-
campments, gun positions and trans
port, a Royal Air Force commune
que reported.
200 Mile Trip
Formation after formation of
Hurricanes, Beaufighters, and Bait
imores swept more than 200 miles
across the Mediterranean from
Middle Eastern bases to give Crete
its hardest pounding since the is
land was captured by German para
troops in the spring of 1941.
A German transocean broadcast
recorded in London and relayed
here, said that German air bases
and three of the largest cities on
Crete were attacked. 1t implied that
at least 70 planes participated in the
raids, though it was possible the
forces was even larger.
Less than a month ago, British
troops landed on the island and de-
stroyed German airdrome installa-
tons in a communicable raid, after
which they withdrew.
Axis Guessing
Axis broadcasts have been specu-
lating on Allied action in the east
ern Mediterranean ever since the
fall of Tunisia. The British ninth
and tenth armies are known to have
undergone invasion training in the
middle east and in addition, large
French and Polish forces are sta
toned there.
Crete is natural invasion step
ping stone for Greece and the rest
of the Balkans and a landing there
would be supported by patriot forces
including large numbers of British
soldiers left behind when the bulk
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24

breaches in the axis lines re-SealedD
With muddy roads impeding
armored forces, the Russians ad-
vanced three to four miles yester-
day toward Orel from the north,
east and south, the smallest gains
reported since the Red Army be-
gan its offensive IL days ago.
However, the Russians already
were through the last defenses out
side Orel and were attacking the
city itself from the east and north
east, front dispatches said.
More than $500 German officers
and men were killed in bloody fight
ing around Orel yesterday, boosting
the 11-day toll of Axis dead to near
ly 10000. Tanks losses for the per-
iod jumped to 1,249 and aircraft
losses to 1,012.
Most of the German dead were
sacrificed in futile counter-attacks.
Nearly 5000 fell in vain attempt to
re-Gapture Bolkhov, a stronghold IS
miles north of Orel. Forty-three
German tanks were knocked out
In thus engagement.
The German counter attacks ap-
peared to be without a coordinated
general plan and consequently were
being crushed Systematically. The
Axis reverses also were attributed to
failure to anticipate with sufficient
forces the points from which the
Red Army next would attack.
Mud Shows Movements
The muddy terrain also slowed
the Russian advance in the Bel
gorod area, 165 miles south of Orel,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL
United Press staff Correspondent


Washington, July "a. (UP)-Otilce
of price administration officials to-
day expected such good result from
their plans to cut back the cost OF
living in the next two months that
President Roosevetlt's substitute
plan for holding the line against
imitation will not be necessary. :,
Congress returns Sept. IA ana
OPA spokesman were confident that
the full-and true-effects Of their
program would be felt by them.
President Roosevelt admitted at
his press conference yesterday that
the cast of living has risen since
he issued his hold-the Line order
on April and that the government
has an alternative Sterilization
plan for presentation to Congress
when 1t returns from its summer
recess. That revelation came the
day after labor leaders served notice
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Hope Hangs High For
Unity Among French

Rumblings Of possible new crisis
in North Africa came while Giraud
was in London when De Gaulle
eliminated an estimated 20 French
generals from the armed forces In
North Africa. The next few days
should determine whether Giraud
intends to seek the reinstatement
of the generals, whose retirement
he has opposed for reasons of mo-
rale among French troops, or
whether the incident can be re-
solved through negotiation and dis
cussion.
Allied recognition of the French
committee as the temporary trust OF
French interests is expected to fol-
low a consistent demonstration that
the committee has achieved a real
measure of unity. Renewal of dis
putes and discord would retard all
plans for recognition by the United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
BY H. o. THOMPSON

Omitted Press Staff correspondent
Washington, July 24-(UP)-Gen.
Henri Honore Giraud's return to
Algiers prompted the hope among
officials today that differences still
existing among French factions
could be settled amicably now that
the spot light has shifted toward
more active theaters of war.
Recent reports from Algiers have
indicated that the French commit
tee Of national liberation, Of which
Giraud is co-president, appears to
have settled down to constructive
work which gives promise OF a real
unified organization Of Frenchmen
fighting the Axis.
If new cleavages between Giraud
and Gen. Charles De Gaulle, the
other co-president, fail to develop.
officials believe the cause OF French
unity will have real chance Of
success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
Continued on Page o
Gov. Baldwin
Is Home iii

Stratford, Conn.,, July 24-UP)-
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin, Ill at his
home the past few days, probably
will return to his offices In Hartford
sometime next week.
He suffered an intestinal disor-
der Thursday in his office and was
ordered to bed yesterday by his ply
sicia1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
OVER 10000
PRISONERS
CAPTURED
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa, July a. - CUP -
The u S. Seventh Army has captured Marsha, SclyS
esernmost port and Allied Forces swiftly are squeezing
the Axis into northereasen tip of the island after
boosting grand total of prisoners to $4,000 it was an
nounced today the campaign entered its third week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
MATTRESS FIRE

A cigaret butt yesterday afternoon
caused o blaze in a mattress at
the apartment of Arthur Frappier,
1872 Easton avenue. Firemen extin-
gllished It
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24
RAIN AND MUD
SLOWSACTION;
8 800 KILLED
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Moscow, July a. - CUP - Heavy rains and ntensi-
fled German counter-attacks in some of which 5000
infantrymen and $50 tanks assaulted single point slowed
but failed to halt convergng Russian advances on the Axis
stronghold of Orel today. CA German broadcast said
Soviet advances on Ore had been stopped and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-24


Shrinking omn corner is nh o he T"nsa
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