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Evening star., 1944-02-23

troops impose the same handicaps
lon the opposing troops. Secondly
bad weather tends to release cur
sea power, enabling us to move sup
plies by water and to land rein
forcements without excessive inter-
ference from the Luftwaffe. Ger
many has been sending wave after
wave of airplanes to attack our
forces and our Chipping in Nettuno.
Unfavorable visibility cancels out
the effective use of our air power,
but 1t also stalls such enemy at
tacks from the air.
In the writer's view, we have not
yet attained control of the skies. or
even superiority, in Europe-and
that includes the Italian segment
of the continent.
German fighter -bombers are still
Evening star., 1944-02-23
Raids on Reich Prevent Nozis
From Aiding FORCES Below Rome

overhead are In our own hands.
Allied naval forces in the Mediter-
ranean can no more approach hos
tile shores in Italy than they can
approach the shores of France,
Norway or Northern Germany.
Weather Factor Exaggerated.
The weather factor in that battle
has been generally exaggerated. In
the first place, rain, mud and other
conditions which may handicap our
Evening star., 1944-02-23

IN the AnZlo-
Nettuno sector
b e ! o W Rome.
Every effort evi-
IDENTIFY is being
made by the
Allied leader :
ship to keep
maximum Nazi
a ir strength
pinned down in
side Germany
to prevent re-
inforcement of
air forces in the
Italian theater
of action.
Evening star., 1944-02-23

striking almost at will. The geo
graphical situation is such that Hit
Ter can reinforce his air power on
any European battle front more rap
idly and more effectively than we
can. To permit a temporary su-
|periority in any segment of the skies
to mislead us on the overall pic
ture is dangerous illusion. What
ever the outcome below Rome, the
main battle is being fought in the
skies over all of Europe, its OBJ
jectiye being to weaken and, If pos
sible, eliminate the Luftwaffe's de-
fensive aviation.
AS long as there is indecision in
the skies, there will continue to be
indecision on the surface Of the
earth.
(Dictrihutod hv HKcNopchx e,ns.~~x.
Evening star., 1944-02-23

the Presidents Committee, on Fair
Employment Practice.
Mr.. Young, member Of the COM
mittee since July l, 1913, said 80
many members Of his newspaper
staff had gone into the armed forces
that he no longer had time or energy
to devote to the committees work.
Evening star., 1944-02-23
A Million Dollars
TO Relieve Piles

1t is estimated that over a million
dollars annually is spent for various
remedies for relieving piles. Yet any
druggist will tell you that soothing,
lcooling, astringent Peterson's Oint-
Iment will allay pile torture in a few
minutes. 35c box. 60c in tube with
lapplicator. Peterson's Ointment
lbrings prompt, joyful relief from
litching. Money back if not delighted
Evening star., 1944-02-23
BY MAI. ALEXANDER p.
DE SEVERSKY.

The intensified aerial attacks on
Berlin and other German centers
are related directly to the desperate
struggle that has been under way
Evening star., 1944-02-23
Young, Norfolk Editor,
Resigns From FEPC

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-P. B.
Young, president and editor in chief
of the Norfolk Journal and Guide,
has announced his resignation from
Evening star., 1944-02-23
Why Thousands Of Doctors
have prescribed
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fcAUSED BY cOlDSl

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Rowing Reporters

before he finished the final lap
to Iquitos. Slim came out of
that with loads of prestige,
hailed as King Of the Air by the
Peruvians, but his prize money
was tied up for years. lie re-
turned to Lima, famous but
penniiess.
When 1t. Gen. Jimmy Doolit-
tic, hero of the Tokyo a!r-ra!ds,
in those days a CurtiSs demon
strator pilot, as an intrepid pas
senger, Slim tried night-flight
that ended up with his being
ground-looped by a burro on a
dark landing-field.
That was in 1923. 1t was his
last flight in the Oriole, and it
put him out Of business as a
barn stormer. But within four
months he'd gathered the cash
$4,000 worth of Peruvian
money!, and the momentum TO
start the airline which took up
where llama-trains, burros and
horses lett off, carrying passen-
gers and freight 10 keep Peru's
mines, cattle-ranches and rubber
projects going.
Slim fought his way through
a deadly ten-year rate war
aginst foreign and U. S. COM
petitors, kept in the air his small
planes special-built for altitude
flying. He came out winner, and
found that even this major
struggle turned into good
break. The Peruvian populace
had become minded during
the cut-rate days, and customers
had multiplied many times.
Before the war Faucet air
lines, now so per cent Peruvian,
40 per cent US. owned, had ten
planes with US. pilots on daily
flights up and down the 1400-
mile Peruvian coast and over the
mountains. His planes made spe-
cial trips on hundreds of miles
of other air-routes. Wartime
scarcities have cut his planes to
seven, and brought in Peruvian
pilots to replace u. S. filters now
doing war jobs. He expects some
postwar expansion, but does not
predict clear sailing ahead for
South American aviatio on.
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BY ANN STEVICK
NEA slam CorTtspondt nj

WASHINGTON, Slim" Eau
cett ELMER j., but not out loud),
one-man air-peddler to Peru, is
in Washington on trouble
shooting errand vital 10 the flu
ture Of his airline.
This 53-year-old, six-f o I
lrishman has built out of trou-
bles the only subSidy-iree air
line business in the Western
Hemisphere, may be in the
world. 1t takes all corners in the
way of cargo-prize bull calves
done up in burlap, rubber and
monkeys from the jungle.
Slim Faucet has been max
ing a good thing out of trou-
bles since he left his farm home
in Savona, N. Y, TO get into the
aircraft business with CurtlsS
Aviation. Promoted to chief
service man for Curtiss in Peru,
he started in the airline business
when an American engineer APP
preached him one day with an
urgent crosS-country errand and
cash to pay for it.
IN BUSINESS
No flier was around to do the
job, so Slim, now a veteran OF
less than six hours solo flying,
took it over. He put his passen-
ger down at the destination in
an old training ship, and put
himself in business as charter
pilot doing odd-jobS for cash
flying customers.
Slim got into some real trou-
bic the next year because he
couldn't pass up the chance to
make the first flight across the
four Andean ranges from Lima
to Iquitos in his Curtiss Oriole,
and collect the $4,000 prize Of
fered by the Peruvian govern
ment. Without air maps or in
struments Slim found his way
through the Andean passes, and
steered himself by the Maranon
River almost to Iquitos. He was
downed within 40 minutes of his
final stop by a tropical storm
which masked the country side.
The soft Sandbar he landed on
toppled the plane. The propeller
broke and it was eight months
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Mi Clemens
Commission
PrOceedings
BOARD OF EDUCATION

The regular meeting OF the Board OF
Education was held Tuesday, Nov.
"a. 's4I, AZ 1880 o'clock in the offices
of William T. Kelly.
All members present.
The meeting was called 20 order by
the president and the minutes of the
previous meeting were approved.
The report of the Librarian was
read and ordered spread upon the min
u'Cs.
The following report OF the Treas
uTcr was read and ordered spread
upon the minutes:
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There'll still be ups and downs,
and Slim will probably still be
making the most Of them.
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On motion by Harry Donaldson, sup
ported by Paul Schanher, the follow
ing bills against the various funds were
allowed:
On motion the meeting was adjourn
ed.
PAUL scHANHER. Secretary.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Churchill
Keeps Mum

London, March 28-(UP)-Prime
Minister Churchill refused to make
a statement in Commons today on
the battle stalemate In Casino, but
again acknowledged his ,disappoint-
ment that progress has mot been
quicker" on the italian front.
With front dispatches reporting
that the latest Allied assault on
Casino has ended In failure, Edgar
Granville, independent, asked Chur-
chill for q statement on the citua-
ton. He reminded the Prime Minis
ter that "the British people can
take 1t and want to be told our set
backs as we'll as our successes"
II think they are not to be de-
MED q clear view of the position
which exists in ITALY," Churchill
said, but I do not think there Is
any particular advantage in going
into all details because that would
be very helpful to the enemy.
II have certainly not concealed
my disappointment that progress
has not been quicker. I hope that
admission will give you satisfaction"
Churchill added that 1t was pos
sible operations at Casino had not
progressed sufficiently for u state
ment at this time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Black Markets
Rife In Sicily

Boston, March %. UP)--Black
market practices flourish in Sicily
and Southern Italy even under the
Allied military government, accord
ing to Adlai E. Stevenson, special
assistant to the secretary of navy
who returned recently from an in
spection tour.
Stevenson told the Beacon Society
of Boston last night that black
market operators control both food
and ration cards. The legal price
of bread, he said, Is three and one
half cents a kilo, but black market
dealer demand from 80 cents to
$3.50.
Attempted law enforcement
against the racketeers has beer
complicated by the "unreliability
Of italian police, Stevenson de-
clared.
MANY police officers, in spite of
their larger rations, patronized the
black market for extra food for
their families or took brides from
black market operators" sale
Stevenson. The Allied military
government did not have sufficient
personnel to enforce the law itseil
when practically everyone was 4
violator. Among people who nevei
have been passionately fond o.
work, many soon found that they
could do better In the black market
than they could working"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Bride Loses
Mate Bylaw

Cambridge, Mass, March % -(U,
P.) = A 17-year-old bride today lost
her legal battle to force her father
in-laW to restore her 16-yearold
husband to her.
Probate Judge Joseph W. Mona
han dismissed the petition of the
former Mary Ann Bridges OF SOM
eryille, who had commended that her
husband, Joseph P. Mulligan, Jr., OF
Somerville, had been held incom-
municado since their New YORK
honeymoon a month ago.
At the same time. Judge Mona
han set April "a for hearing Of an
annulment petition filed by Multi
gan's father: The petition contend
ed that the marriage was obtained
through fraud and that the couple
never had lived together as man
and wife in Massachusetts.
Judge Monahan said he was al
lowing Mr.. and Mrs. Mulltgan, ST.,
to retain custody of their son pend
ing outcome of the annulment pro-
ceedings since they had had such
custody for 16 years. The court
added that the boy would have to
obtain his fathers permission for
Ill of his acts.
The newlyweds attended the court
proceedings.
The brides petition charged that
her husband was seized by his par
ents March II at South Station as
they were returning from New
York. She said that the youth was
being confined behind padlocked
door in deprivation of his right OF
personal liberty. She added that she
was an expectant mother.
The couple were married last Feb.
26 in upstate New York.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Guns Duel

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
F,ltnd PPAaa War G0FPARnAndAnf

United Press War Correspondent \
Allied Headquarters, Naples
March 20. UP)-The big guns Of tho
Allied 5th Army continued to pound
German StrongpointS inside Casino
today while ground fighting all
along the italian battlefront sub.
sided into q series Of Small-scal0
patrol actions.
A terse communicate made no
mention Of the weeks-old caTnpajgu
TO reduce Casino which American
and Canadian Army newspApSIA
said yesterday had ended In failure,
but headquarters spokesmen In
dicated that street fighting In the
town had halted momentarily while
Allied artilleiymen took over the
Job OF battering the enemy's de"
lenses.
Allied shelIhre was concentrated
again on the Continental Hotel ard
the Hotel Des Roses, the two main
German Notifications in Casino,
Nazi guns countered with q heavy
and sustained bombardmert %
Allied positions inside the town ard
In the surrounding hills.
The communicate revealed t"ae
German units north Of Cas'i'tC
launched a minor attack agt .,je
French troops along the Ca"s.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Widest Raid
On England
In 3 Years
BY ROBERT DOWSON
Inited Press War COrreSDOndefltl

\
London, March 20 - (U.P) -
German planes made their most
widespread raids on England and
Wales In nearly three years last
night In what appeared TO be an at
tempt to spy out and bomb Allied
troops and arlnor massing for an
invasion Of western Europe.
The raiders appeared to have con-
centrated their main weight OF
bombs on western England, with
slighter activity being reported from
souht, southwest, southeast and
east England and South Wales
though no sizeable force Of planes
appeared over any single Target.
The German DNB agency said
Nail bombers strongly attacked the
western England port OF Bristol
dropping large number Of heavy
explosives and thousands OF new
type Of fire bomb.
The attack lasted over half hour
and caused large fires, DNB said
Some damage was reported from a
west country town, but the Ger
man report appeared to have been
exaggerated as we're those OF re-
cent "heavy" Nazi raids on London.
At least II German planes were
shot down.
Allied observers believed the Ger
mans chief mission was an armed
reconnaissance tour OF the English
coasts and some inland areas IN an
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
BATTLE STRONG
BRITISH UNITS
ON FRONTIER

New Delhi, March %. -
(UP) = Japanese invasion
forces have broken across the
SOmra hills tract into the
IkhruI area of eastern India
and are battling strong Brit
ish units defending the FROM
tier, a communique disclosed
today.
Striking sOuthwestward to-
ward the Manipur valley
highway and the provincial
capital of Imphal, the Japan
csc apparently had driven a
dozen miles or more across
the Burmese border to reach
the Ukhrul area.
Japanese pressure has in
creased" the communique
said, "heavy fighting is in
progress, in which the Japan
csc are making determined
attacks"
Crhe German DNB News
Agency broadcast a sensa-
tional and apparently un-
founded Tokyo report that
Japanese troops had reached
the Silchar area of India, 10
miles west of Imphal, and
smashed a powerful British
armored force.
The broadcast, recorded by the
United Press in New York, said
the "routed" British units included
Several hundred tanks" and 70 to
80 field guns. There was no con-
flrmation Of the enemy report nor
had threre been any indication that
the Japanese had succeeded IN driv-
ing as far west as the Silchar area) E.
British units farther south were
reported making satisfactory prog
ress in clearing Japanese raiding
parties from the Tiddim- Imphal
highway and 1t was indicated that
the main enemy force in that area
had been stalled at least temporar-
lily about Is miles south of the
fC0nkin11a6 M po0a A.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Heir 49, Is
Arrested For
Draft Dodge

washington, March 28-(UP)-
william Camamck, 18-year-old CO.
heir to a $2,329, 900 fortune, was ar
rested yesterday for draft evasion
by u. s. deputy marshals who broke
into his home through window
and pulled him out Of bed.
An aunt stood behind the locked
front door and dared them to try
to break in.
The dramatic arrest followed
nearly two months of attempts by
selective service officials to get
Camamck to register. He became
10 on January 25. Officials even
came to his home to register him
but were told he was sleeping and
couldn't be disturbed.
Finally warrant was sworn out.
Repeated attempts to deliver 1t were
blocked by his aunt, Miss Helen
Newman, who has cared for william
and his fouh brothers since the
death of their parents.
When the officers finally decided
to break into the house, they did so
despite insistence by Miss Newman
that William is Ill. They took along
a casualty hospital staff physician
who said the youth was we'll enough
to dress. He dressed but was car
ried to prison on a stretcher in an
ambulance.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Spare Rome,
CIergyProy

Melbourne, March 27-(UP)--
Catholic archbishops and bishops OF
Australia addressed "joint APP
peal Of formal protest" to the bel
ligerents today to spare Rome from
dissertation and destruction.
The 500-word statement said that
Pope Plus and Rome were "in I'M
minent peril,
I'VE detest and abhor policy
which in this war has brought de-
struction, especially from the air,
to so many historic cities and death
to so many unoffending civilians"
1t continued.
I'VE deplore these outrages where
they occur, but Rome and Vati-
can City stand apart. Yet bombs
are falling on Rome and the holy
ground of Vatican City.
I'VE are said to be fighting for
freedom of small states and ma
lions. Yet we are in danger OF wip-
ing out the smallest and greatest
of them all.
I'VE claim to be fighting for
Christianity. Yet we are threaten
ing sacrilegiously to pierce the
heart of Christendom.
I'm this critical hour, we join
our humble voices with that
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
S0vIETS SWARM THROUGH BESSARABIA
Germans Slaughtered BY Thousands;
Jap Forces Break Across S0mra Hills
2 Armed Bandits Hold-Up
Ne1uHauen Firm For $1,000

New Haven, Conn, March
90. = (UP) = Two armed
bandits wearing m o k e d
glasses robbed the Connect
cut News Company of $4,000
in cash today after locking
the manager and nine clerks
and deliverymen in the cellar
of the building.
The manager, Frank An
derson, said the men entered
the office, displayed guns
and ordered everyone to
throw up his hands.
Anderson, four women and six
men were herded into a cellar room
and locked in.
The bandits then rifled the office
safe, taking all of the cash but
leaving large sums in checks.
Anderson escaped in freight ele-
vator and released the others and
then called police.
A passerby said he saw the two
men run to nearby parked auto
mobile and speed away, but 1t hap
pened so quickly he was unable to
obtain the registration numbers.
Authorities broadcast O nine-state
alarm for apprehension Of the hold
up men. Employees of the company,
wholesale distributor of newspapers
and periodicals, furnished investi-
gators with a description Of the
bandits.
Anderson said that no one was
threatened by the men and no re-
sistence was offered when they
covered the office with their guns
and ordered everyone in the palce
down the cellar stairway. 1t was a
matter Of minutes, he said, before
the bandits completed their work
and left.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Wayne Cut
From Will
BY RICHARD G. HARRIS
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT,

New York, March 28-(UP)-
Wayne Lonergan received $700 a
month from the heiress wife he Is
charged with numbering and was
the sole beneficiary in her will I'M
til they separated two months before
her death, his unsigned confession
revealed today.
The story told by the penniless
RCAF aircraftsman who married
into the Burton brewery millions
was concluded In the courtroom Of
Judge James G.. Wallace when
district attorneys stenographer fl
nished reading the lengthy state
ment to the jury that Is trying Lon
ergan for first degree murder.
1t was story Of youth living
on his wife's fortune, of the at
tempts to purchase poison for sui
cide-not murder-and a story that
ended in the death of Patricia Bur-
ton Lonergan at the hands of her
husband as she lay In bed in her
Beekman place home, Oct. "a, 1943.
The questions put to Lonergan by
hSoIoIullG QAoILACI dVtOAASJ OoSOD
Grumet and his replies revealed
that some time before the Staying
he had attempted to purchase both
arsenic and strychnine. Grumet
asked him why.
For the purpose of suicide" Lon
ergan replied.
you're sure it wasn't to poison
your wife?"
ut was not"
did you try to obtain other
poison?"
Eyes, Strychnine."
did you ever attempt suicide?"
Eyes, about a year ago, but I got
cold feet and I backed out"
did you ever threaten to kill your
wife?"
mo"
Defense Counsel Edward v. Brod-
erick briefly questioned Henry Vac
caro-, stenographer who read the
confession. Vaccaro said Lonergan
did not say when he attempted to
obtain the poison.
Financial Arrangements
In detailing his financial arrange
ments with his wealthy wife, Loner-
gan emphasized that her payments
to him ceased when they separated
by mutual consent in July 1943.
Lonergan said his wife possessed
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