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Soviet Offensives
On Two More Fronts
iJt' .
(Continued from Phge 1)
formation broke and turned
Front dispatches reported that
he Red air force had wrested mas*
of the air from the Germans
and was hammering enemy front
lines and communications day and
Sight.
Twenty-eight German planes were
bagged in 48 hours on this front
•lone, it was reported. Including
new model HeinJccl-113s and Mes
•erschmitUlOSFs.
Far to the north, It was reported
that a powerful fresh Russian army
tinder Gen. K. A. Mcretsov was de
veloping a major offensive in the
Sake Ilmen area south of Lenin
«rad.
This news was followed by dis
patches reporting that on the
Kalinin front between Lake Ilmen
and Moscow the Russians were at
tacking heavily and with Increasing
Weight, in what bade to be a third
major offensive.
Red army troops In the Kalinin
area have fought through stubborn
resistance to take a scries of vitally
Important positions, it was as
serted.
It was admitted that the Germans
■till made gains, though at frightful
cost, In their relatively unimportant
offensive In the Kerch Peninsula of
the Crimea.
Russians Are In Lead
•There was no doubt that at every
riblnt along the 1.800 mile line north
<2 the Crimea, the Red Army, with
jjundreds of thousands of freshly
gained men and using up-to-the
minute Russian, American and Brit
ish equipment, Including United
mates three-turreted tanks, held
Be initiative.
• Sturdy soldiers drawn from all 11
republics of the Soviet Union, were
feeling; out the German strength In
local attacks which foretold early
offensive movements.
Intrepid guerrillas, who In normal
times would now be thinking of
their crops, were surging through
forests over a vast area all the way
from the Crimea to Leningrad, mov
ing silently and springing with tig
erish ferocity by night -on isolated
Oerman outposts, garrisons and ad
vanced airdromes.
Russia's midnight communique,
reporting that the Kharkov advance
continued, said the Red Army had
taken or destroyed at least ISO tanks
in 48 hours on that front and had
captured many prisoners and large
quantities of war materials of all
sorts.
Strong as were the Oerman de
fenses there, consisting of thousands
of individual strongpoints, there
seemed no doubt that now the en
tire position was endangered, and
their right flank, extending south
to the Crimea, might soon be Im
periled.
Taking advanttage of their first
break through the German lines,
the Russians fanned out and were
reported today to be constantly wid
ening the breach.
Front dispatches reported that at
some points the Germans were run
ning like rabbits from their strong
points before the Russian attack.
It was Indicated that Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko, by his sudden
blow had forestalled a German of
fensive from Kharkov, and that the
war material which his men were
taking, had been assembled for the
German attack.
Germans Threaten Kirch
Russia admitted that Red forces
in the Kerch Peninsula had ' made
further withdrawals, fighting stub
bornly, before the pressure of nu
merically superior German forces.
Russian military quarters said the
German Kerch Peninsula offensive
had been greatly exaggerated, and
certainly It was indicated that Tim
oshenko's offensive on Kharkov was
far larger and potentially more Im
portant.
Even if the Germans took the en
tire Kerch Peninsula they would
then Just have started their trou
bles, because across the four-mile
Strait opposite the Caucasus, were
the powerful lines of Russian de
fense.
General Meretskov was reported
to be developing his offensive on
| both sides of Lake Ilmen, 100 miles
south of Leningrad. The Novgorod
sector is on the north side and
Staraya Russa, where the 16th Ger
man army is trapped, is on the
south side.
Local Russian offensive activities
were reported both in the Lenin
grad area to the north and in the
Kalinin area to the southeast, on
the way to Moscow. More than 4,
000 Germans have been killed by
one Russian unit In the Kalinin
area In 10 days, Russia said.
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FLORAL TRIBUTES
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payroll and tabulating department
of the U. S. Rubber footwear plant
here. He will succeed the late Proc
tor Milne.
Floral tributes tvere presented Mr.
Baxter yesterday by members of the
department. He has been employed
at the local plant since 1927.
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already has two brothers, Francis
and Joseph, in the service. Another
brother, Rev. Patrick Donnelly, is
an assistant pastor at New Haven.
Joseph Lovallo, popular bowler,
was another inductee. One of those
on hand to see him off was his
brother, Salvatore, who is already in
the Army and who secured a 48
hour leave to come home to bid
him gocd-bye.
William Kenny, another induc
tee, lias had previous military ex
perience. His brother, Joseph, was
also in the group.
Another, Rocco Rosa, already has
two brothers in the service. Also
leaving were John Galvin, well
known East End athlete; and David
Carroll, prominent member of the
truck drivers' union.
Francis Brick, local newspaper
photographer, was another induc
tee. While another cameraman
was taking his pictui% at the sta
tion, something went wrong with
his apparatus.
Names On List
The list of those leaving was as
follows:
David Francis Carroll, 43 Orange
street; Angelo Vito Carriere, 48
Crown street; Nicholas LaCapra, 133
Chase avenue; Chester Edward
Adamski, 37 Albert Place; Kenneth
Arthur Moody, 118 Bymeside ave
pue; Joseph W. Mosgrove, 101
Brown street; Herman John Lane,
Front street, Oakville; Michael
Francis Cantillon, 98 Giles street;
John Joseph Rinaldi, 461 Walnut
street extension; Francis Edward
Barrett, Jr., 327 Walnut street;
Domenlc Anthony Verno, 75 HiU
view avenue; Francis Joseph Mor
iarty, 49 Catherine Avenue; Arthur
Ciccarelli, 70 Sumac street; Maur
ice Patrick Horan, 373 East Main
street; Peter Lushlnsky, 3 Berkley
avenue; William Francis Kenney,
38 Rose street; James Joseph Reilly,
148 Grand street; Edward Joseph
LaChance, 176 Boyden street; Fran
cis Joseph Brick, 32 State street;
Frank Kolakeski, 37 Vine street;
Theodore Peter Worytke, 243 Hope
Arthur Antonieli, ‘28 Hill street^
Anthony Philip Pelegano, 2 Win
chester street; Daniel Matthew Sul
livan, 39 Homer street; John Spino,
228 Platt street; James Chauncey
Carethers, 132 Platt street; William
Samela, 131 Fulton Park avenue;
John Johnson, Macauley avenue;
Christopher John Quinlan, 247 North
Main street; John Valerio, 247 North
bell avenue, Oakville; Joseph Henry
Carroll, 461 West Main street; Pas
quale Mancini, 47 Wood street;
John Domenlc Balkus, Bucks Hill
road; Frank Joseph Peceskl, 895
Huntingdon avenue; George Percy
Wicks, 523 North Main street; John
Lester Donnelly, 100 Cherry street;
Jeremiah Francis Joyce, 35 Bellevue
street.
Rocco Rosa, 30 Crown street, Ed
ward Thomas McVerry, 38 Walnut
avenue; Joseph John Lawson, 54
Wildemere avenue; George Mathi
son Pfurr; 3 Vermont street; John
Robert Newie, 111 Dikeman street;
Michael Joseph Flinter, 440 North
Main street; Edson Rowland Miller,
17 Irion street; Endee Joseph Belle
mare, 30 Cherry street; Hayward
Hill Gatling, 7 Pearl street; Theo
dore Kazimir Wiatr, 134 Hill street;
John George Mannello, 165 Benefit
street; Xaxier Joseph Dempsey, 384
North Main street; John James
Brennan. 38 Beacon street; Harry
John Bovino, 19 Crown street.
Joseph Ignatius Barzdevlclus,
Chestnut Hill road; Timothy Fran
cis O'Leary, 51 Field street; John
James Galvin, 46 William street;
EUsworth Julius Johnson, 235 Wood
tick road; Irving Isadore Kunofsky,
445 North Main street; Arthur Lau
rence Vibbert, 19 Manville street;
Anthony Alfred Mastrantuone. 64
Garden Hill road; Michael Charles
DeLeon, 153 East Farm street; Clar
ence stolfi, 2 Hazel street; Francis
Robert Marinara, 47 Hopkins street;
Joseph Edward Kenny. 38 Rose
street; Bartholomew Joseph Bhea.
60 Lone Oak avenue; John Edward
Pryzbylok, 30 Catherine avenue;
Daniel Pinto. 36 Brewster street;
Joseph Lovallo, 13 Hopkins street;
Charles Bares, Central avenue, RED
No. 1; Peter O'Lear, 35 Barnes
street; Ferris Williams, Bo* 335.
Domenlc Frank Lombardo. 354
Woodtick road; Wallace Stephen
Cypress, 16 Pearl street; Domenlc
Daniel Martinelll, 5 Fleet street;
Vincent Vitolo, 36 Hill street; Joseph
Gugllottl, 780 Njprth Main street;
Charles Leonard Smith. 130 Locust
street; Cornelius Johnson, Jr„ 68
Abbott avenue; Harold Joseph Dorr,
51 Center street; George William
Reynolds, 63 Ashley street; Richard
Dillon, 134 Locust street; Miguel
Juan Mafus Areg, 133 Savings
street.
Arthur Louis Cotter, Hod son
Hotel; Harold James Griffin, 83
Ashley street; Leonard FetruaN. Jr.,
416 Pine etreet; Frank Anthony AU
zensky, 80 Wood atreet; Frank Fran
cis Retells, 183 Oak street; Presley
Jones (Joinee), 141 North Elm street;
Canie Martoinelll, 333 Bishop street;
William E. Olsen, 1041 North Main
street; Joseph Thomas Akchan. 34
Adame rtreet: (Merge Joseph Mill
ville, jr„ 166 Orange street.
Miles Cowles Lee, 22 Spencer ave
nue (Norfolk, Conn.); Anthony
Domenic Dalimonte, 180 Citizens
avenue (Webster, Mass.); Bernard
Ginsberg, 126 Plaza avenue (Brook
lyn, N. Y.); John James Dergan,
30 Garden Circle (Bronx, New
York).
GAS RATIONING
BEGINS TO WORK
(Continued from Page 1)
with existing gasoline stocks If at
least one-third of the east coast's
8,500,000 motorists were “non-essen
tials." Many large cities were re
porting that only 25 per cent of
their cads were “A” cards. If the
ratio Is less than one-third, It was
Indicated, the OPA would have to
lower the basic amount or check
“B” and “X” card holders to elim
inate chlselers.
Could Check Them Up
While the OPA refused to commit
itself it was pointed out that the
school teacher-registrars could
check, registrants to see if they were
actually entitled to “essential”
amounts. During the registration
the “honor system” was used.
Persons who gave false informa
tion could be prosecuted and if
convicted would face 10 years in pri
son, a (10,000 fine, or both.
It was the first rationing of gaso
line in the nation’s history although
curtailment orders in recent weeks
had put an informal system of ra
tioning into operation. To the 17
states and the District of Columbia
now affected, the states of Wash
ington and Oregon on the west
coast will be added June 1.
The present system will last until
July 1, when a permanent system
will be put into effect. West coast
motorists will receive fewer total
gallons because of the shorter per
iod rationing will be in effect there.
The cut in gasoline usage was ex
pected also to conserve other vital
war materials—cars and tires. The
government may be forced event
ually to requisition civilians' tires
for the armed forces and legislation
is already being considered to make
that possible.
Not Much Good
Boston, May 15. — (UP) — Even
the coveted “X” cards were not
much good in> some sections of New
England as gasoline rationing began
today because many filling stations
were sold out.
A last-minute rush by motorists
to “fill up” depleted supplies in
many stations and, as one official
said, “made a Joke out of one of the
most important phases of the do
mestic war effort.”
It was believed state ar.d local
police would be asked to take action
against persons using their auto
mobiles for other than esnestlal
driving as state rationing adminis
trator, Henry Parkman, Jr., warned
that the “regulations only call for
use of gasoline for essential pur
poses.”
“It is the opinion of the rationing
authorities,” he said, “that no part
of any gasoline issued under ‘A’, ‘B’
or 'X' cards may be used for pleas
ure driving."
A total of 660,055 Massachusetts
motorists obtained cards during the
three day registration period that
ended yesterday and Walter Dow
ney, director of rationing, an
nounced the following breakdown:
“A” cards, 31 per cent; "B-l”,
10 per cent; "B-3”, 10 per cent;
“B-3’\ 38 per cent and “X”, 11
per cent.
Downey praised the public and
school teachers for their coopera
tion during the registration and
said the citizens of the common
wealth responded in a “thorough
ly patriotic manner”. He also re
ported that many motorists who
obtained “X” cards were return
ing them for lower rations.
The motor vehicle registry said
many holders of “A" cards, dis
satisfied with the small ration al
lowed, were turning in their li
cense {Hates and putting up their
cars for the duration. Durir* the
first three days of this week 2,281
seta of pates were returned,
Inspector* On Job
Hartford, Conn.. May 15. — <UP)
— State Price Administrator Ches
ter Bowles announced today that
10 Inspectors have begun an inves
tigation into ail “X” and "B-3” gas
oline ration cards issued in Connec
ticut.
"They will determine,” he said,
"whether the applicants have been
guilty of false statements, The
penalty for a false statement to any
government agency is a fine of |10,*
000 and 10 years In prison.”
At the same time, Bowles said
hundreds of motorists in the state
have returned “X" end ”B3” cards
“issued to them through error”.
Beginning today, Bowies said, all
touring through the state will have
to be dose on the bails of an “A"
card.
boards lor enough gasoline to get
home.
Railway Gains
New Haver., Conn., May 15. —
(UP) — The “New Haven” Railroad
announced today it was increasing
Its service between Boston and
points on the South Shore May 24
because of the gasoline and tire ra
tioning.
In a statement, Howard 8■ Palmer,
president and trustee of the sys
tem, said;
“Our traffic and operating offi
cials are giving intensified attention
to war-time passenger requirements
throughout our territory, particu
larly the requirements of war
workers."
Palmer sal other new trains
would begin service on May 24, but
didn't identify the locations.
Should Be Public
Washington, May i5-(UP)-Pres
Ident Roosevelt thinks that the
names of persons who hold “X"
gasoline ration cards should be a
matter of public record, and not
kept secret.
He expressed this belief at •
press conference, at which he ex
plumed how lie is attempting to
save use of gasoline and tire rub
ber by White House cars.
As an example of his gas and
rubber economy pSiii, Mr, Roose
velt said lie had ordered one White
House car and one Bee ret Her vice
car to be left at his home in Hyde
Park, N. V., instead of being driv
en up from Washington every time
the President goes to Hyde Park.
Everybody knows, he said, that he
expects to go to Hyde Park occa
sionally in the next few months and
that by leaving the two cars in
Hyde Park all the time, he will ef
fect a saving of 1.000 miles of gas
oline and tire usage each time he
goes to his home.
Asked whether he favored a sug
gestion that holders of gasoline ra
tion cards be required to designate
the type of card they hold by using
a windshield sticker, the President
replied that thU was a new one on
him and he begged t» be excused
*,:V.
AMERICAN SHIPS
WERE SENT DOWN
(Continued from Page 1)
and one of them was bombed to
destruction during the fierce fight
ing between the anti-aircraft guns
of the ships and the * bombs and
cannon of the attacking planes of
the Luftwaffe.
The running fight started Thurs
day afternoon when the Luftwaffe
pilots sighted the American for
mation betwen the islands of Spitz
bergen and Norway’s North Cape,
the high command said, Bombs set
the cruiser afire and it sank about
midnight.
An ice breaker of 3,000 tons and
a merchant ship of 2,000 tons later
were spotted in fjords of Spltzber
gen, bombed and sunk.
A 10,000 merchant ship was at
tacked off the coast of Murmansk
and German bombs left it burning
at both the stem and the bow.
(The German radio did not make
clear whether the attacks on the
ice breaker and the two merchant
ships were part of the attack on
the warships).
(The Pensacola class comprises
two ships, the Pensacola and the
Salt Lake City. Both were laid down
in 1929 and are heavy cruisers of
9,100 tons and normal complements
of 663 men. They were well armed,
carrying 10 eight inch 55 calibre
rifles, four five inch 25 calibre anti
aircraft guns and two three
pounders.
(The cruisers also carried four
planes, launchable by catapult.
Berlin did not give the name of
the destroyer reported sunk.
(Today’s Berlin communique re
called the battle between ttye Brit
ish convoy and German planes and
destroyers 15 days ago on the Mur
mansk route in which the British
cruiser Edinburgh was sunk and
four merchant ships were lost. Sur
vivors of that fight, in which the
Germans used both destroyers and
pianes, said that convoys to Mur
mansk had to fight off air attacks
virtually the entire distance as the
German planes based in Norway
made repeated forays).
A supplementary announcement
said that German submarine at
tacks in the Atlantic and off the
American coasts between May 1 and
14 sank 65 merchant ships totalling
376,000 tons. During the same pe
riod, it was said, German planes
sank eight merchant ships totalling
33,800 tons.
“Today’s special communique
from the Fuehrer’s headquarters
might have advised the United
States that more sinkings are to be
expected during the month of
May," the statement said.
Battle for Kerch
Berlin, May 15—(German broad
cast recorded by United Press in
New York)—German and Ruman
ian forces have driven “close to
Kerch” on the Crimean battlefront
after breaking Russian resistance on
heights outside the town, the high
command reported today in a com
munique.
On the Kharkov battlefront, 320
miles north of the Kerch Peninsula,
heavy fighting continues, with the
Red Army attacking in strong force,
the communique said.
In the Kharkov fighting, it was
stated, 145 Russian tanks have been
destroyed thus far and strong Luft
waffe units of dive-bombers and
fighters are “smashing” concentra
tions of Russian tanks, artillery and
supply columns as well as enemy
positions.
On the Volkhov front in the
north, south of Leningrad and
North of Lake Ilmen, sharp fight
ing which lasted several days was
said to have resulted in the en
circlement and annihilation of Rus
sian forces by German units which
included “CC” storm troopers.
The Soviets were said to have
suffered the loss of 3,500 dead, 1,000
prisoners, ' six tanks, lid shell
throwers, 202 machine guns and
other war materials in the Volkhov
A brigade of Soviet marines
made a landing on the Arctic coast
in an unidentified sector but was
said to have been dispersed in fight
ing waged in a heavy snowstorm
and retreated across the sea.
Describing the battles along the
1,800-mile Eastern front, the high
command said that 65 Russian
planes were destroyed yesterday.
A transocean news agency dis
patch said the Russian marines
made their landing on the Arctic
const near the Russian supply port
of Murmansk, which has been un
der recent heavy German aerial at
tacks.
The marines suffered heavy casu
alties before retreating, it was
stated.
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UNDER $10,000
(Continued from Page 1)
of Mary Kasputas, Sterling.
May M, attempted arson on the
land of Leo Maynard, Sterling.
May 10 attempted arson on prop
erty of Oared Hill, Sterling.
May 10, attempted arson on the
property of the Town of Plain
Held.
Connecticut State Police said
there w&3 no sabotage associated
with and of the fires, and character
ised Lacasse as a pyromaniae.
police said an investigation was
being continued in the case, and
Indicated Lacasse’s possible con
nection with past fires in Massa
chusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island was being looked into.
Lacasse, police said, is married
and has a child. He has no police
record.
He was picked up after two week's
investigation by Rhode Island and
Connecticut State Police, Tire case
was turned over to police by forest
fire author it lee of both states who
claimed almost slmultlnoously that
the disastrous series of fires were
of a “suspicious" nature,
R. I,, Cenn, Benlers
The series of fires was concen
trated along the Rhode Is and
Connecticut border, and several, ac
cording to authorities, seemed to
spring up at the same time, as if
someone in an automobile had
moved from place to place.
State forester Austin P Hawes
of Connecticut said at the time
that U. S. Army Intelligence and
the federal Bureau of Investiga
tion were aiding th estate police
In probing the origin of the firm.
The fire situation was far more
serious in Rhode Island than in
this state. There, Oov, 1. Howard
McGrath declared martial law in
the stricken areas. Several scores
of casualties were suffered In the
Rhode Island biases.
The Connecticut fires were con
centrated at Killingly and Sterl
ing, along the Rhode Island border,
and burned fleercely for several
days.
Announcement of Lacasse’s de
tention was made simultaneously
by State Police Commissioner
Hickey and Superintendent Edward
J. Kelly of the Rhode Island State
Police.
YANKEE PLANES
HIT JAPS AGAIN
(Continued from Page 1)
themselves.
In a second attack, MacArthur’a
planes sank a seaplane and set fire
to ground installations at the im
portant new Japanese seaplane base
at Deboyne Island, in the Louisiade
group off the southeast tip of New
Guinea, 450 miles south of Rabaul.
Desperately but vainly trying to
stop the punishing aerial offensive
against their bases, the Japanese
sent 48 planes in all against Port
Moresby. New Guinea, yesterday,
and lost two of them in the process
without doing any damage.
Jape Used Many Planes
Thirteen fighter planes tried to
machine gun the airdrome in the
first attack and 26 heavy bombers,
escorted by nine fighters, tried to
attack shipping in their harbor in
a second attack.
MacArthur's communique report
ing the activities said:
“New Britain—Rabaul: Our ait
forces attacked shipping in Rabaul
Harbor, damaging one transport.
Our planes were intercepted by II
enemy fighters, of which seven were
shot down. All our planes returned.
New Guinea — Port Moresby was
attacked twice by Japanese planes.
Thirteen fighters strafed the air
drome in the first attack. Twenty
six heavy bombers, escorted by niru
fighters, attacked shipping in harbor
in the second raid. No damage was
reported from either raid. We shot
down two fighters.
“Deboyne Island — Our air fores
attacked the seaplane base, sinking
one seaplane and starting fires
among ground installations.'’
Australian Air Minister Arthur 8
Drakeford announced that thd Roy
al Australian Air Force would in
crease three-fold In MacArthur's
behalf, the Australian volunteer air
observer corps. The corps hence
forth is to work in close liaison
with MacArthur's united nations air
fores. Special planes win be detail
ed to make test flights over the
continent to test the observers and
give them experience in identifying
types of aircraft.
APPLICATION FILED
FOR NEW BUS ROUTE
The New Bngland Traneporta
tion Co., has filed application with
the public utilities company foe
permission to run Its 7 a. »,
Watorbury-to-Hartford bf way oi
of Wolcott and Bristol instead of
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