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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
CHINESE CAPTURE
IMPORTANT TOWNS
DemOralized Jap Army Is
Driven Back All Along
Yangtze River
BY GEORGE WANG

(OnlCSu ITcSS SIdlI SOTTtSpOuutHtJ
Chungking, June 3-(UP)-Vic-
torious Chinese forces, led by two
of Generalissimo Chang KaiSheks
ablest commanders and aided by the
14th U. S. Air Force, drove demor-
allied Japanese army back all along
the Yangtze river front today after
capturing two important cities.
A military spokesman revealed
that the Chinese had recaptured
Changyang, Is miles southwest of
the big enemy base of 1chang along
the Yangtze, and Chikiang. on the
south bank of the river some 80
miles southeast Of Ichang.
Thus, major japanese offensive
that began more than three weeks
ago which brought the enemy
closer to Chungking than at any
time in six years Of war, had been
turned back completely and the in
vading army was partly cut off and
threatened with military disaster
Gen. Ii Tsung -Jen, commander
of the Yangtze valley area, directed
the Chinese forces in the decisive
engagements south of the river.
The task of defending the Yang
TIE Gorges--the gateway to Chung
king--was borne by Gen, Chen
Cheng, who coaxed the Japanese in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
LABOR RACKETEER
KILLED IN West

Pevely, Mo, June 3-CUPl-State
police searched this vicinity today
for three men and the missing auto
mobile of Joseph (BucN Newell, st
Louis labor racketeer whose bullet
riddled body was found last night
in his country home near here.
Newells body was found after his
wife returned from a shopping trip
to st. Louis and found the doors
and windows of the house locked.
One window was broken. Mrs.
Newell summoned Sheriff Amos
Lee, who climbed through the
broken window and found Newells
body in the front bedroom.
He had been shot in the back five
times with a .38 caliber revolver.
Police were investigating the pos
sibility that Newell was shot to
death by one of the numerous
enemies he made in a career of
labor violence and racketeering in
the St. Louis area. AS business
agent for the local AFL Hosting
Engineers Union, he engaged in bit
ter jurisdictional disputes with rival
unions and his activities led to sew
eral violent strikes.
Only last month Gov Forest c.
Donnell called out the state militia
to suppress violence resulting from
Newell's organizational activities
among workers building pipeline
TO transmit high-octane aircraft
fuel to the east.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
FDR AWAITING
STAIN REPLY
May Have Effect on Wars
Progress; Davies Ex=
pected Back Today
(NEA Telephoto)
BY MERRIMAN SMITH
limited Press Staff COrresnOndentl

Washington, June 3. - CUP)-
President Roosevelt receives a mes
sage from Soviet Premier Josef Sta
lin today that may have an impor-
tant effect on the progress of the
war.
Joseph E. Davies, former Ambas-
sadcr to Russia, is scheduled to
return here late today, bearing the
secret message from the Soviet
leader to Mr.. Roosevelt. The presi-
dent last month sent Davies to
Moscow with special letter for
Stain.
The Stain reply may set the time
and place for face to-face meet
ing with the president. 1t may be
aSsent-or dissent-to Allied plans
for meeting a standing Soviet
request for a second front in Eu-
rope.
There were dispatches from Mos
COW when Davies delivered Mr..
Roosevelt's original note that Stain
was pleased by its contents. Indica-
tons here were that the Roosevelt
letter was more than simple invi-
tation to a conference; that it may
have contained an outline of Brit
ish- American plans for new blow
against Germany.
While few doubted that a Roose-
velt-Stalin conference was desired
by the president, informed quarters
here pointed out the difficulties of
arranging it. Stain is represented
as being unenthusiastic about leav-
ing his country during such criti-
cal period. Then there is the diff
Guilty involved in getting Mr. Roose-
welt to Moscow, trip that would
require his absence from Washing
ton for three to four weeks, perhaps
longer,
During the summer, however, the
difficulties on both sides might be
adjusted so as to permit the two to
get together, possibly with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill.
OF more immediate prospect, how
ever, was the probability that the
president had given Stain new as
surances about Allied plans for the
future in Europe and in the Pacific.
Both the president and Churchill
have promised strong measures to
divert German strength from Rus
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
SKIP-A-DAY MILK
ORDER HURTS N. Y. G.

New York, June 3.-(UP) Mayor
F. H. LaGuardia today was con-
sidering setting up special delivery
stations to help ease the milk
problem in New York city where
100000 homes failed TO receive
milk because OF the ODT skip day
delivery order.
Under the contemplated plan, re-
tail stores would be able to obtain
additional supplies for consumers
unable to receive home deliveries.
The mayor indicated that he
would start the new program if
members of the milk drivers union
continued to refuse to carry double
loads on the days deliveries are
permitted by the ODT.
Meantime. William J. Clark, re-
gional manager of the ODT motor
transport division, issued warn
ing to seven northern New Jersey
milk firms accused of making daily
deliveries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
FORD'S ESTATE
HITS 9 FIGURES
Bulk Left to Charitable
Organization; Wife, 3
Children Remembered

Mt. Clemens, Mich, June 3. -
(UP) - The bulk of the estate of
the late Edsel B. Ford has been left
to the Ford Foundation, chart
table organization, and thus is not
subject to taxation, it was dis
closed today.
The will was filed before Macomb
County Probate Judge Edward V,
Trombley by Attorneys Clifford B.
Longley and Henry I. Armstrong
The court set bond at $1,000 and a
hearing for July II.
The estate was estimated at
about 100000, including Al l-2
per cent of shares In the Ford Motor
Company, which Ford headed as
president from 1919 until his death
May 81, and a majority of stock in
the Manufacturers National Bank
of Detroit.
The will is dated November 4,
1885
That part OF the bequest not
willed to the Ford Foundation Is
divided equally among Ford's wife,
Eleanor, and four children Ben
son, Henry II, William Clay and
Mrs. Walter Bull Ford II.
Ford's widow is left family homes
in Maine, Now Hampshire and Flor
ida, with the family estate at Mil
ford, Mich, and other property go
ing to the Foundation. Mrs. Ford
also is named administrative of the
estate and receives his personal eff
fects and his stock in the Manu-
facturers Bank.
In addition, the will sets up trust
funds of $250,000 for each of the
children, although Henry Ford IFS
has been terminated because he Is
more than 25 years of age.
In explaining the will, Longley
said all Glass A non voting stock
goes to the Ford Foundation, save
such as is necessary to pay obliga-
tons of my estate" and all Glass B
voting stock goes to the five men,
bers of the immediate family.
Longley promised to give an in
ventory of the estates specific value
"as soon as possible.
The Ford Foundation, founded in
January, 1886, exists, according to
its charter, to receive and admin
lister funds for scientific, educational
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
FOUR AXIS SHIPS
SUNK OFF CAPE
Allied Airmen Meet Nc
Opposition in Sweep
Over Italian Islands
BY GEORGE PALMER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa
June 3-(UP)- Allied Air and Naval
superiority in the Mediterranean
mounted today when headquar-
tiers communique disclosed that de-
stroyers had knocked out four Axis
ships, including destroyer, off
Cape Spartivento and warplanes
met no enemy opposition in renewed
sweeps over the Italian stepping
stone Islands.
(AXis breakfasts and reports
from Madrid today emphasized
enemy belief that an invasion of
Pantelleria, Sicily and Sardinia was
near and said Pantelleria was iso-
lated as a result of daily air and
naval attackS0
Americn airplanes swooped to
within 60 feet of the rooftops OF
Italian barracks and air fields while
British and Greek naval units sank
tw, supply ships anG torpedo boat
and drove destroyer ashore in
flames in an attack on an enemy
convoy off Cape Spartivento, at the
southern tip of Sardinia Tuesday
night.
Returning pilots said no enemy
fighters were seen on their sweeps
Wednesday. All planes returned
safely despite low altitude attacks
on military targets on Sardinia and
Pantelleria.
Allied naval units also escaped
serious opposition, according to the
communique, which disclosed that
Greek units we're operating in the
Mediterranean area.
The Allied force. described as
Small" suffered neither casualties
nor damage.
Can italian communique reported
without elaboration that the Allies
had renewed their aerial and naval
bombardment of the Mediterranean
Island of Pantelleria, which pre-
viously had been shclled by Allied
warshipS Sunday night and Tues
day..
Medium and fighter bombers OF
the northwest African Air Force
bombed and strafed Pantelleria,
strategic Italian Island midway be-
tween Sicily and Sardinia, yester-
day for the 26th time, the commu
nique said.
The Allied naval force engaged
the enemy "nvoy off Cape Sparti-
vento. One Workmanship was set
afire and blew up. Another also
was sunk, as was an escorting tor
pedo boat.
Warhawk fighter bombers attack
ed targets on the Island of st. An
tioco, off southwest Sardinia.
All planes returned safely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
1871 NAZI PLANES
DOWNED BY REDS
Russians Seize 3 Towns
in Surprise Attack West
of KurSk
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
,ited Press Staff COrreSpOndentl


Moscow, June 3-(UP)-The Red
army has seized three towns in a
surprise attack west of Kursk,
where the Germans lost 1913 planes
in five mass air raids yesterday,
the Soviet high command an
nounced today.
Altogether, 191 German planes
were shot down on all fronts yes
terday.
Symbolizing the quickening tenn
DO of fighting all along the vast
Russian front, Soviet troops also
killed 1000 enemy officers and men
in fierce two-day battle that re-
suited In the re-capture of territory
Welded in the face of strong Ger
man assault on the Kalinin front
northwest Of Moscow.
(Radlo Berlin said the Russians
threw fresh achievements into
heavy attacks on the eastern sector
or the Kuban front in the north
west Caucasus, but claimed that the
"nlain Axis fighting line remained
intact Fifty-eight out of 100 Rus
sian tanks we're said to have been
DESTROYED west of Krymskaya).
Tie newly-captured towns west
Of Kursk we're in the Sevsk area,
the Soviet midday communique
said. The Russians attacked after
s strong artillery harrage softened
no the enemy defenses. Two hun
dred Germans were killed and
others were taken prisoner.
The Germans later brought up
reinforcements in an attempt to
dislodge the Soviets, but we're
thrown back.
The Germans hurled 500 planes
nto their five raids against Kursk
IN the south central front yesterday
believed the largest number used
.painst a single objective In a single
iay since the Luftwaffe's 1904
attacks on Britain.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
Police To Crack Down
On City Gas Cheaters
Two PatroImen to Be Taken Off Regular Beats to
Assist OPA Inspectors; Local Streets Cam
vassed Today; Drivers to Be Stopped

Waterburys police department
will cooperate in the pleasure driv-
ing ban enforcement program it
was revealed tothy With an an
pouncement from Deputy Police
Superintendent Frederick Hickey
that two policemen will be named
this afternoon to assist OPA inspec-
tors in their search for violators.
Help of police was sought by the
state OPA which this morning sent
special investigators to canvass local
streets.
Superintendent Hickey said at
noon today final selection of the
assistants has not been made, but
they will be regular patrolmen who
will be taken from their regular
beats to handle the new task. Ar
rival of inspectors at the headquar-
tiers was awaited and final choice
will be made at that time, he said,
adding that the department will
give every possible assistance" at
the OPA in cracking down on VIOLA
lions.
Although the police department
has not yet been notified of proce-
dure to be used in the enforcement
program, spokesman for the OPA
told the Democrat the policemen
will stop drivers and then the in
vestigators will step in to question
them. All cases which indicate pos
sible violation will be reported to
the state OPA enforcement division
which will notify drivers to appear
for hearings.
The superintendent indicated the
two policemen will work regularly
at the task and he may appoint adj
ditional policemen if conditions
warrant. 1t is believed all officers
will be on their guard. however, and
will report suspected violations.
The OPA spokesman said first
hearings may be assigned here in
y few days. Although choice Of a
local hearings officer has not yet
been announced it is understood
several candidates are under con-
sideration and a. decision may be
reached momentarily. The officer
will serve as a Judge, while laWy-
ers and other enforcement officials
of the OPA will prosecute the cases,
it was indicated
Unlike procedure in the previous
pleasure driving ban enforcement
program drivers will not receive
surprise" notices to appear for
hearings. it was indicated. Most of
the cases will involve persons who
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
SPAIN PRESSED
FOR FR|ENDLESS
ALLIED FEELING
Movement AfOOt for Re-
turn of Monarchy Under
Don Juan
TANGIER INCIDENT
is NOW RECALLED
Allied Action in Tunisia
Changes Spanish Nor
Deco Position
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent

BY HARRISON SALISBURY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, June 3. - (UP) -
Pressure on SPANS General
iSSimo Francisco Franco for
a friendlier and more pro-
Allied attitude is believed to
be increasing steadily. This
pressure may have some con-
nection with increased mon
archist activity on behalf of
Don Juan, pretender of the
Spanish throne. There are some
who think that this ACTIVITY may
reach its climax within a few weeks.
The British government is be-
lieved to be increasingly loath to
permit Franco to continue condi-
tons such as those in Tangier. Tan
gier, still theoretically an interna-
tional zone, was taken over by the
Spaniards at time when Allied
fortunes were at low ebb.
Whether formal representations
have been made to Franco demand
ing re- establishment of international
control of Tangier is not known but
a sudden furry of dispatches from
Tangiers in the British press sug
gests one is Forthcoming if not
already delivered. ~
These dispatches uniformly en-
phasize that the Germans have not
yet been cleared from Africa as
long as they are allowed to operate
from Spanish Morocco and Tan
gier. They also point out that the
Spaniards are making mass arrests,
particularly among the Moorish
Yolving Spanish control of commu-
nications and mails have aroused
Allied resentment.
The Allied clearance of Tunisia
radically changed the military posi-
ton regarding Spanish Morocco.
The Allies need no longer fear a
possible blow from the rear by large
numbers of Spanish best troops
concentrated there as there are suf-
ficient Allied troops available to
deal with anything of that nature.
1t is felt that Franco still favors
the Axis in many small ways
although it generally is agreed that
he is working to keep Spain neutral.
In this connection, it has been
pointed out that he probably would
not be able to retain his power with
out the aid which the Americans
and British permit in the form of
oil, gasoline and food stuffs. There
are many who think that the time
has come for him to recognize these
factors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03

been a patient since his discharge
from the Army last fall.
Neighbors reported that since the
boy was paroled two months ego
his behavior had become so eccen-
trio that his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Raynor left the home and went to
live with relatives. Another son.
Stanley, who oWnes a home down
the road from the Raynors. He told
reporters that at one time his bro
ther had dragged his mother into
the woods and accused her OF being
a spy and a saboteur and had stop
ped motorists passing his house to
tell them similar stories.
Found BY Mrs. Raynor
The tragedy was dicovered by Mrs
Raynor at $50 this morning, when
she came to make one of her visits
to the house She noticed stream
Of blood coming from beneath the
closed door to her husbands room,
which was In the northeast corner
on the second floor. Becoming
alarmed, she brought her son Stan
ley over to the house. Stanley
opened the door, found a pool Of
blood on the floor, shotgun holes in
the wall. and his father lying on
the bed with a gaping hole beneath
his ear and another in his chest.
Police Called
Stanley Immediately called the
police, and started to look for his
brother. The boy was not down.
stairs, so Stanley went up to his
room. On the way there, he found
the trap door to the attic open, and
ladder placed against it. The
boys father had hidden the gun
there since he became aware of
Buells condition. Stanley cautious
ly opened his brothers door, which
was in the northeast corner, and
saw the boy lying face doWnwards,
his chest on the bed and his knees
on the floor. The shotgun, an an
Cient II gauge double barreled af-
fair, was in the boys arms. Next to
him on the bed YVES a bible, a flash
light and some heavy tools.
Police were of the opinion that
the boy had pushed the trigger OF
the gun with his toe. since the boy
was barefoot. The blast struck him
in the forehead, killing him instant
ly, according to Coroner Miles Nc
Milf. Jr.
The elder Raynor was employed
as a foreman at the French Manu-
featuring Company,
Detective Lieutenants William
Pollard, Henry Johnson, William
Foley. and Sergeant Joseph Reilly,
conducted the investigation for the
Waterbury Police Department,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
FOOD CONFERENCE
WINDS UP TODAY
Blueprint Produced to
Eliminate Hunger in
Postwar World
BY II. o. THOMPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
Hot Springs, Va, June 3.-UP)-
The United Nations food conference
first effort of the Allied powers
toward a better postwar world -
ended today with program de-
signed to provide more and better
nourishment for all mankind.
The final plenary session was held
in the Empire Room of the Home
stead Hotel where delegates from
A nations worked for II days TO pro-
duce o blueprint for future world
which they believe will eliminate
much of the hunger and suffering
so common in the past.
Judge Marvin Jones, president of
the conference, summing up the
work of the conference in a closing
speech today before the plenary
session, declared that mankind IN
the future will have mot only the
will but the means for freedom from
want"
by winning security from hunger
for all men we shall win security for
free men from the rise and agrees
sions of tyrants," Jones said.
"By winning freedom from want
we shall make al men strong enough
to be free"
Richard K. Law, chairman of the
British delegation, made the motion
for adoption of the resolutions
placed before the plenary session by
the drafting committees. Law re-
viewed the work of the conference
and declared It's spirit OF harmony
and collaboration was a happy augu-
ry for continued unity among Allied
nations.
Resolution thanking President
Roosevelt "for his initiative in con-
vening the present conference" and
praising Jones for "the admirable
manner In which he has guided the
conference" were adopted after mo-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
ARMY MANEUVERS
HIT BY GAS BAN

Boston, June 8 CUP - Army
maneuvers scheduled for Sunday in
Maine, New Hampshire and YER
mont have been postponed indefi-
nitely due to the gasoline shortage,
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles of the
First Service Command announced
today.
Owing to the vast distances and
the relative fewness of men taking
part over such large area, 1t would
be unwise to use so much vitaily-
needed gasoline and rubber as these
maneuvers would take" Gen Miles
said. IF the gasoline situation per-
mits, the maneuvers will be arranged
at some later date"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-03
Howard Given Fair
Chance Of Survival
British Air Liner, Shot Down By Nazis in Atlantic
Carried Self=Inflating Rubber LifebOats Capable
of Carrying All II Passengers
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, June 3.-UP) British
ships and planes searched the Bay
of Biscay and the Atlantic ocean
beyond today for trace OF Leslie
Howard, stage and screen actor, and
16 other persons who were aboard
a British air liner shot down by
German aircraft within two hours
flying time of Britain Tuesday.
A spokesman for the British Over
seas Always, operators of the Doug
las tWin-engined air liner, said
the 10 passengers, including at least
three women and two children, and
four creWmen would have a fair
chance of survival if they were
able to make a reasonably good
landing in the water
However, Lisbon reports said
rough weather in the Bay of Bis
cay was hampering the search and
presumably increasing the hard
ships of any survivors.
The plane carried two rubber self
Initiating lifeboats, capable of carry
ing all II persons and equipped with
flares, water, food, compass and
paddles.
IF the pilot was able and the
plane was not shot to pieces, then
am sure the plane would remain
afloat long enough for the crew
members to launch dinghies,' the
BOA spokesman said.
THE dinghieS are inflatable by a
simple apparatus and it seems rea-
sonable that those not wounded or
injured in landing could get into
dinghies, but of course this all de-
ponds on whether the plane got
down safely and that is what we do
not know"
The last word received from the
plane, on regular flight from Lis
bon to England, was that it was
under attack by enemy planes. That
was five hours after the plane had
left Lisbon and the flight normally
requires about seven hours.
The BOA spokesman said Royal
Air Force pilots and crewmen forced
down at sea frequently have sur
vived four to five days in rubber
dinghies identical to those with
which the missing air liner was
equipped. However, the Raj men
were more warmly dressed and in
better physical condition to with
stand storms than the missing pas
Sengers.
The spokesman declined to COM
ment on a radio Berlin report that
service between Lisbon and Britain
had been suspended because of the
attack, the first on a British air
liner on this service since it was
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