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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Cabaret Tex
May BeCut

Washington, June 5. tUP)-House
conferees today agreed to accept q
senate rider to the debt limit bill
which would reduce the cabaret tax
from 80 per cent TO 20 per cent.
The conferees eliminated the
senate provision which would have
exempted members Of the armed
forces from the tax.
At the same time. the House
spokesmen agreed to accept the sem
ate's decision 10 increase the debt
limit TO 5000 100000 (Bl from
the present ceiling OF $4,000. OO0.-
900. As originally passed by the
House, the bill would have in
creased the limit 10 SEQ O00. 900 900
Tax leaders said action would be
speeded In both the Senate and
House.
Acceptance Of the Senate amend
nent reducing the cabaret tax viii
make unnecessary action on several
pending bills which called for size
Ing Of the tax. Sponsors OF the
measures had commended that the
tax was driving some eabarets Into
bankruptcy and causing widespread
Unemployment among entertainers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05

MOSCOW. June 5-(UP)-Red Army
troops filled more than 1000 enemy
soldiers In bitter hand-to- hand bat
ties as they repulsed strong Ger
many tank and infantry attacks yes
terday north and northwest OF Iasi
In Eastern Romania. II was an
nOunced today.
The enemy losses In the new at
tacks brought their total casualties
TO over 6.7O0 dead In the last six
days OF fighting. q period In which
the Russians also knocked out 272
tanks and $50 planes.
The Germans made i've determine
ed assaults on the Soviet positions.
but all were turned back. the COM
munique said. An entire enemy bat
TALON Of approximately 1000 men
was wiped out In one Of the hand
fought engagements.
The other enemy casualties we're
inflicted as the Germans made four
successive but futile stahs az one
point Of the Soviet lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Ladies' Garment
Union Prosperous

Boston, June 5.-(UP)-One o.
the most detailed and elaborate re-
ports ever made public by a labor
union. indicating a balance Of $l6,-
1873 .692. was released today at the
convention of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union
(AFL).
In releasing the report. President
David Dubinsky urged unions every
where to reveal their financial al
fairs to prevent any suspicion OF
racketeering.
II do not believe" said Dubinsky'
that even a weak union should at
tempt to hide it's weakness from an
employer by keeping its financial
affairs a secret" He added. the
report will tend to silence criticism
that the union Is corrupt"
The financial statement disclosed
today represents 81 increase OF 3d.
33O 273 over Ic|" hen the last
convention was held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Steel Workers
Back On Jobs

Worcester. Mass, June Sup
Nearly 5000 striking steel workers
were back on their Jobs today af-
ter an official of the United Steel
Workers of America (CIO) warned
that their unauthorized six-day
walkout was illegal.
The men we're protesting the al-
legged discharge of II leaders.
Martin ]. Walsh, New England
director OF the USWA, was cheered
by the strikers at a mass meeting
yesterday when he demanded that
the work stoppage end.
IF anybody interferes with your
going back to work." he warned, Il
win do everything in my power to
see that he is discharged from the
union,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Noxon Trial
Moves Along
BY JOSEPH NOLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Pittsfield, Mass, June 5. - CUP
- The prosecution in the murder
retrial of John F. Noxon, Jr., plan
ned to call an undertaken as a wit
ness today in an effort to establish
the identity of the imbecile son the
socially prominent attorney Is
charged with electrocuting.
The defense charged that the
identity of mentally defective six
months-old Lawrence Noxon had
not been proved until the former
trial was almost two weeks old.
Walter P. Sine, Pittsf1eld under
taker, will be asked to identify State
Police photographs of the baby when
the trial is resumed at 2 p. m. He
will be followed on the stand by
police photographer Richard L..
Norton and DR.. George P. Hunt,
the child's physician.
Saturdays line of cross-examina-
ton indicated the defense would
contend that an unidentified black
mark on a photograph of the baby's
finger showed he touched the cleo
trio wire in the accidental manner
which his father maintains he met
his death.
The mark, clearly visible on a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
BY United Press

A false Associated Press dispatch
that the Allies had landed IN
France was disseminated In North
and South America by that news
agency Saturday afternoon and the
girl teletype operator whom the
Associated Press said was respon-
sible for It's erroneous report was
confined In her London home to-
day by nervous exhaustion.
Five minutes after carrying the
dispatch, the Associated Press can.
eelled II, but by that time II had
been broadcast over hundreds OF
radio stations. Baseball games In
the United States were halted, spe-
claI prayers were said and the tele-
phone sWitchboards OF newspapers
and radio stations were flooded
with calls.
Immediately upon receipt Of the
KIN order, the four major radio
networks In the United States which
had interrupted programs 10 broad
cast tie false report. began broad
casting denlals. Some Of the news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
BY LYLE C. WILSON

United Press stan Correspondent
washington, June s = CU.PD =
Submission OF James A. Farley's
name TO the Democratic National
Convention for the presidential
nomination in opposition to Pres
ident Rooseyelt's fourth term can
didacy was under consideration to-
day By conservative Democrats.
Farleys permission still has 10 be
obtained. None expects the proposed
menuyer TO prevent the presidents
denomination but II would prevent
unanimous action, II Is the only
method by which anti Roosevelt
Democrats can show the voters the
extent OF fourth term opposition
within the party-be II large or
small.
Convention spectators win see
real political drama II Farley Is
placed IN nomination. Among some
OF the big and little convention
delegations already selected there Is
q scattering Of anti-F0urth term
sentiment which never viii have an
opportunity 70 express itself unless
there Il AZ least one name put up
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Pursue German Forces Fleeing
In Disorder Toward Probable
Defense $50 Miles To North

BY ROBERT v. VERMILLION
UNITED Press War Correspondence
Allied H e a d q uarters
Naples, June S. - UP) -
The Fifth Army completed
the occupation Of Rome, first
Axis-held capital in Europe
to be liberated, and swept on
without pause across the
Tiber river today in close
pursuit of German forces
fleeing in disorder toward a
new defense line, possibly $50
miles to the north.
American tank and i'm
fantry vanguardS already
were streaming north Of
Rome under orders to ami
hilate the enemy armies
when Allied headquarters
announced the triumphant
liberation of the religious
capital of the world in a spe-
cial communique on the
271st day of the Italian CAM
paign.
Troops of the Fifth Army Occur
pied Rome on the night of June -
S." the communique said. Leading
elements have passed through the
city are across the Tiber in some
places"
adolf Hitler was reported by the
official German News Agency due
to have ordered his forces to withJ
draw northwest Of Rome to ayoi0
drawing the ancient capital into the
battle area. The clandestine radio
Atlantic said the Germans were
rushing three divisions from souths
ern France and two others from
northern Italy in an attempt to
stem the Allied tide)
cit. Gen. Mark w. Clark, cons
mander of the Fifth army. called
the fall of Rome stepping stone
toward the complete surrender %
Germany" in a message to a savings
group committee in Jondon).
Despite the Nazi declaration Ue
Rome as an open city, Germaat
tanks, machine-gunners and sniperB
offered sporadic resistance through
out the ancient capital yesterday
and last night in an attempt to de-
lay the Allied advance, which COW
cred more than Is miles in the final
"a hours.
A few enemy demolitions were re-
ported, but Reynolds Packard.
United Press War Corresponding
said in dispatch from the city that
Rome appeared about IS per cent
intact apart from the railway yards
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
General Assembly In Special
Hartford Session June 19

Hartford, Conn, June 5.-(UP)-
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin today
ordered the General Assembly con-
vened in special session June 10 to
legalize use of the federal absentee
war ballot, and to set legal speed
limits on state highways.
The governor said he regarded
both of these matters as special
emergencies" confronting the state.
Concerning the federal absentee
ballot for persons in the armed
forces, the governor said that a
special legislative session last Janu-
airy passed what believe the most
liberal absentee law in the country"
but failed to provide for use of the
federal ballot.
The federal act, he said. "stipu-
lates that the governor must certify
before July IS whether or not the
use of such ballot is authorized by
the laws of Connecticut" and 1t is
for this purpose principally that
the general assembly Is to be re-
convened.
The setting up of legal speed lin
Is necessary, the governor said, be
cause of recent decisions of our SUI
perior court which proved the in
adequaices Of our present speed laws.
Conservation of essential war ma
terials the safety of the travelling
public and the enactment of a prop
err law concerning the speed Of OPP
Grafton of motor vehicles on our
highways demand Qualification OF
the statutes
Governor Baldwin today an
nounced two appointments to I'LL
vacancies on state boards.
Shepard B. Palmer, Norwich, re-
plyaces Clarence M. Blair, New Ha-
en-. on the state board for the
supervision of dams and reservoirs,
until July /, 1913.
DR.. Kenneth w. Thompson, New
Haven, was named to the state
board of examiners for physiother-
apy technicians until July l, 1947.
succeeding DR.. Alexander L. Basin
of New Haven who now is in the
armed forces. DR.. Thompson is as
sistant professor of surgery at the
Yale School of Medicine. and at
tending physician to New Haven
hospital
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
FDR On Air
Tonight, $3.50
BY MERRIfAN SMITH

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, June 5-UP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will proclaim the fall
of Rome to the nation and the world
tonight in a 15-mlnute fireside chat
expected to warn the Axis satellites
perhaps for the last time, that they
must get out of the war now or face
the same certain destruction await
ing Germany.
He will speak from $50 to S:45
p. m, EWT. The address will be
broadcast by all major networks and
shortwaved to Europe and the rest
of the world.
A White House announcement,
saying simply that the chief execu-
tive would speak on the fall of
Rome, came as members of Congress
and other high officials hailed the
fall Of the first Axis capital to Al
lied armies aiming at Berlin.
Mr.. Roosevelt was expected to take
occasion in his ADDRESS to express
his qualification for preservation of
Rome's historic and religious shrines
and to resaaure Pope Plus XII that
the Allies would observe the SOW
ereignty and sanctity of the Vatican.
Congressional leaders read great
significance into the fall Of Rome.
1T will have great psychological
effect, especially in the Balkans"
said Sen. Joseph @. O'Mahoney, D.,
Wyo. The news Of the fall of the
first Axis capital cannot fail to
strengthen the morale of the people
Of the occupied nations and certain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Voticon City
Misses Bombs
BY ELEANOR PACKARD
United Press staff Correspondent

(OHItCU EICSS Stakk NVEECopVAhuCAAV
Vatican City, June Sup
Vatican City has not been damaged
in any way by the extensive bomb
ing that the Allies have delivered
to railroad yards in Rome.
That fact was confirmed today by
Harold Tittmann, U. S. envoy to the
Vatican, who gave me an interview
after I had made my way into Vati-
can City territory.
Tittmann said he understood that
the German and Japanese ambassa-
doris to the Holy See planned to
remain in Vatican City.
The attitude of the Pope toward
Allied occupation forces will be the
same as it was toward German
forces, Tittmann said-strict neu-
arality.
THE Pope is always willing to
work for peace" Tittmann said,
But I doubt that the fall of Rome
will necessarily cause him to make
any special remark at the present
time. The attitude of the Pope is
one of strict neutrality. During
the German occupation Of Rome.
uniformed Germans were not per-
mitted to go boynd the gates guard
ed by the Swiss guards. Nor are
uniformed Americans going to be
permitted to do So"
Although I was permitted to en-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05

1850 PLANES
BLAST FRENCH
CHANNEL COAST

London, June 5. (UP) -
Continuous waves of Allied
warplane, spearheaded by
1880 American heavy bomb
ers and fighters, blasted the
French Channel coast and
the chain of Nazi radar sta
lions strung across northern
France early today, swelling
to more than $4,000 tons the
weight of explosives dropped
upon Hitler'S west wall in
100 hours of nonstop as
Sault.
laundering in the wake of
a British night Armada that
splattered tons of demolition
bombs across the steel and
concrete channel forts, an
estimated $50 Flying For
tresses and Liberators, es-
corted by about 500 fighters,
raked the Boulogne and
Calais areas with bombs and
gunfire.
A smaller force Of American Ma
RAIDERS and Ninth Air Force fight
bombers followed through with a
one-two blow at other enemy in
stallations in the same INVASION
marked area. . Radio Paris said U.
S. bombers raided the outskirts Of
Paris at midday.
The fighter-bombers drive bombed
anti-aircraft emplacements sur
rounding the unidentified targets
clearing the way for the heavier
Marauder attack.
simultaneously, rocket-firing Raj
Typhoons sped across northern
France at tree-top levedl in an at
tehmpt to know out the radar sta
tions used by the Nazis to spit ap-
preaching Allied planes.
Radio Paris said the Paris area
was bombed.
On the basis OF officially an
nounced operations, well over 1000
Allied planes were on the attack
over northern France between duck
last night and noon today, dumping
almost 5000 tons Of bombs on en-
envy installations ..-.-r-.-.s- -s.s.-as-,
he British night attacks, inclu-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
BusySenote
Session Seen

Washington, June o-(OF)
Congressional hopes for a long sum-
mer recess dwindled today in the
face of growing backlog OF import
ant legislation and reluctance by
members to be absent on the day OF
the European invasion.
House and Senate entered a week
that promised to be one Of the busi-
est of the current session with
leaders in both chambers increas-
ingly dubious whether they could
recess for any prolonged period, If
at all.
The Senate's plans probably will
be drawn tonight when Democratic
Leader Alben w. Barley, KY, and
Republican Leader Wallace H.
White, Jr., of Maine confer after
Barkley's return from his Kentucky
home. White acknowledged that
original hopes for an extensive re-
cess were fading.
House leaders were inclined to
hold up their plans for another two
weeks, or until one week before
the Republican National Conven-
ton opens in Chicago. BY that
time, they hope to have better
idea of how much work remains to
be done.
Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb.,
Republican whip, said that with
the invasion imminent and import
ant legislation piled up. this is
not the time to adjourn for the
summer"
The must" legislation awaiting
enactment includes II appropria-
ton bills. and measures providing
for extension of tie life of the Of
flee Of Price Administration, Flood
Control and Navigation projects,
postwar industrial rehabilitation,
and extension of the period In which
Rear Admiral Husband e. Kimmel
and Maj. Gen. Walter G. Short,
former Pearl Harbor commander,
may be court martialed in connec-
ton with the Japanese attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Girl Who Sent Erroneous
Lnvasion Report Collapses

papers subscribing 70 the ASsociageu
Press Service were preparing extfs
editions when the kill order came
through.
The Associated Press in q state
ment from Its New York headquar-
tiers, said the dispatch was due TO
a transmission error In its London
bureau. An hour later, the news
agency issued supplementary
statement saying that 22-year.olo
Joan Ellis. q British subject. had
transmitted the flash while prac'
ticlng without authorization, on
a teletype machine.
The London Daily Mail reported
that Miss Ellis sister. Alice, O
WAAP subsection leader, was grant,
ed q special leave TO be with her.
The newspaper quoted Alice as say
ing that her sister was worried TO
death"
CONTINUED on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Left
$1,000 Will
OfPhysician
NEA Radiophoto from Signal Corps.

The will of the late DR.. Charles
Engelke, prominent local physician,
has been placed on file at the Of
flee of Probate Judge Patrick Hea-
ley. The will leaves the principal
residue Of the estate to two daught-
ers.
According to terms of the will fol-
lowing the payment Of all just debts
and funeral expenses, the sum of
$4,000 is left to the Waterbury Hos
pital for use in the Florence Night
ingale Cot Fund as established by
-stl4e gVats6a5 hospital Training
School Alumnae Association.
The rest, residue and remainder,
both real and personal, Is left to
the Colonial Trust Co., in trust, to
hold, manage, sell, exchange, in
vest and reinvest for the benefit of
the children herein mentioned"
One part for daughter Christine
Engelke Perrin and one part for
daughter Jean Engelke Herr.
Under terms Of the will the trus-
tee is to pay to each, quarterly or
as may be mutually agreed upon,
the entire net income deriving from
the fund held in trust for her ben
eft until that period when she be-
comes IS years of age at which time
the trustee will transfer one-third
Of the principal of the trust fund.
The remainder will be held in trust
until the beneficiary attainS the age
of 40 at which time she shall re-
ceive one-half of her share of the
principal. Upon attaining the age
of As she shall receive the rest of
the principal and the trust, herein
established, shall be discharged.
The will of the late physician
then provides that if either daught-
er dies her share should go to her
lawful issue, and being none, should
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
King Slated
ToTrunsfer
Royal Powers
BY CLINTON b. CONGER
UNITED Press taft Correspondent

\Onlteu GEcSS tdh correspondent
Naples, June 5-UP)-King Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy was sched-
uled to sign today certain docu-
mentS of state believed to transfer
his Royal powers to Crown Prince
Humbert.
All signs indicated that before
nightfall the King would have for
mally yielded his Royal power, as he
promised April IL to do when the
Allies occupied Rome.
Victor Emmanuel was prepared
to sign the documents at his close
ly guarded Royal villa this after
noon, 1t was learned a few hours
before the ceremonial procedure
was scheduled.
A formal announcement of the
Kings action was not expected be-
fore this evening, when Gen. Nelson
MacFarlane, head Of the Allied LA
ison mission to the Badoglio govern
ment returns to Rome from the
Royal villa.
The documents were understood
to constitute the formal creation of
Lieutenant Generally for Hum
bert, in whom the Kings royal pow
ers would be vested, thus CONSTITUTE
ing the retirement" to which Vic
tor Emmanuel committed himself.
Some sources had expected the
pressure ridden head of the House
of Savoy to insist that the transfer
of power be made from the throne
he left so hurriedly nine months
ago.
However, the expected consti-
tuted an implementation of the
letter and spirit Of the April pledge
Of formal transfer of power on
the day on which Allied troops en-
ter Rome"
The 74-year-old Victor Emman-
uel, who stands only five feet three,
became king in 1900 after the assas-
sination of his father at Monza near
Milan. For a brief time last July he
was reported to have asserted him
self to the extent of informing Ben
ito Mussolini that he had been re-
placed as premier.
One of his first acts after heb be-
camexing was to oppose severe
measures against the movement be-
lieved to have led to the death of
his father. The parliament was
weak, but the new King did not take
advantage of the opportunity to
dominate the government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05

New York, June 5. (UP)-The Ma
tional Fathers Day committee an
nounced today it had named 1t:
Gen. Mark w. Clark. commander OF
the Fifth Army. Father OF the
Year" in recognition of the capture
of Rome two weeks before National
Fathers Day. Sunday. June 10.
In a cable to Gen. Clark. the COM
mittee congratulated him on the
eantiire
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
Hiring Of Women
Causes WGIkout

Providence. n. l.. June 5-(UP)-
Some 1000 employees Of the Brown
a. Sharpe Manufacturing Co. man.
ufacturers Of vital machine tools.
returned 10 work today after an
eight-day strike In protest against
the hiring Of q woman for a mans
Job.
The strikers had voted Friday 70
return pending arbitration OF their
grievances. They are members OF
the international Association Of
Machinlsls (AFL).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
City Pays Off Tex
Notes In n. 7. Today

The City of Waterbury paid off
$700. 900 in tax anticipation notes at
The First Boston Corporation of
New York City today. Issued last
December for a term of 100 days at
an interest rate of As per cent the
notes became due and payable on
June 5th. ~as---@-----sr ~7.rr+
City Controller Cornelius F. Ma
1oney last week forwarded a check
in the amount of $701 400 to the
First Boston Corporation, represent
ing the face value of the notes plus
interest. He stated today that the
cancelled notes will be returned to
the city this week.
The First Boston Corporation was
one of an unusually large number of
banks, investment houses. and bank
ing syndicates which bid for the
right to purchase the city's tax an
ticipation notes last year. Its offer
of $700,005 with an interest rate of
As per cent was the lowest submit
ted and the sale was awarded to the
New York firm with the approval of
the Boards of Finance and Alder
men.
The amount loaned to the city
was the lowest in many years, being
100000 less than last years tax an
ticipation borrowing. The AS per
cent interest rate also was excep-
tionally low, but, as Controller Ma
loney pointed out. was consistent
with rates being asked and given in
such transactions in the money
markets.
Need of further borrowing by the
city during 1914 is not expected, ac-
cording to the controller, as there
are ample funds on hand now to
carry the city past the next tax in
stallment date. Budgetary operations
of recent years have been conduct
ed in such a manner that unusual
ing.
ly large SURPRISES have been accru-
AS pointed out, however, in the
recent financial report of the Con-
troller the worst time of the year
for the city is just prior to payment
of the first installment of taxes. The
recommendation has been made that
the city make its tax due dates and
fiscal year opening conform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
QuodrupIets Born
Saturday Evening

Lewisham, England, June 5
-(UP)-England's fifth set OF
quadrulpets within year, born
Saturday night to aircraftsman
X. Robinson and his wife
Edith, were reported prosper
ing" today in specially
heated room at Lewisham hos
pital.
The couple had wanted a
girl. They got three Of them
and q boy.
Three OF the babies weighed
slightly under three pounds
and the fourth under two
pounds.
Mrs. Robinson, 30, was re-
ported well"
The father, a travelling sales
man before the war, Is a driver
for an Raj ground staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
AVIATOR KILLED

New York. June 5-(UP)-Flight
Oficer Joseph r. Harvey of Round
Hill street, Jamaica Plain. Mass,
was killed today when his fighter
plane crashed and burned during
landing at the Suffolk county army
air base, the First Air Force an
nounced. Harvey was returning
from a combat training mission
when the accident occurred.