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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
QUICK KNOCKOUT
 AIM AT BRITAIN
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Continued from Page D Filipino Bataan lines, against which Wainwrisht's few $40 fighters are no match, the defenders were more than holding their own and taking a mounting toll of the enemy.
 Every "feeler" thrust along the Bataan front was thrown back be- fore the snarled wire barricades of Wainwright's forces and the attack CTS suffered considerable" casualties under the sure aim of American 75 and 155 nm. artillery.
 On Mindanao island, southern most of the Philippine archipelago, a force composed mostly of Filipino soldiers took the initiative and struck at a Japanese motor column presumably 8 truck convoy which suffered "heavy losses" Only one of the Filipino soldiers was killed.
 It was tine second successful thrust in guerilla-like attacks in that area which the Japanese oc- cupied on March 3. zambalanga and Davao are the two chief points of Japanese occupation in Mindanao. Until Mindanao and the other islands are "mopped up" the Japa- neSe cannot be sure that reinforce ments or other aid will not reach Wainwright through the narrow waters of the islands.
 A war department communioue late yesterday disclosed that the Japanese apparently have been sowing mines in Philippine waters in an effort to disrupt inter-island communications and completely iso- late the defenders of Bataan and the island forts in Manila bay.
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WITNESS AT TRIAL POINTS OUT BRIDGE
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But, Arthur c. Beaulieu, HamdeTl, structural engineer for WeStcott and Mapes, Q firm assisting Pal lotti, testified the bridge decking as constructed was not capable of car- rying an H-2O loading, or a 20-ton truck with 30 per cent of the weight on the rear wheels.
 Qualifications Challenged
 Beaulieu's qualifications as an ex- pert on bridge grid floorings was challenged by chief defense counsel Joseph F. Berry.
 Earlier, Berry brought out in cross examining Sumner that he had designed many major bridges in Connecticut, including the New Hartford East Hartford structure over the Connecticut river.
 But, despite Berry'S challenge of Beaulieu as an expert on grid floor ings, State Referee George E. Hin- man, who is Gov. Hurley'S deputy in the hearing; permitted examination of the witness to continue.
 Beaulieu was on the stand when the second days hearing concluded. The examination of the witness was being conducted by Assistant Att torney General Richard F. -Corkey, New London, who assisted Attorney General Pallotti in the preliminary investigation of the case.
 Earlier in the day, Sumner teSti- fled that the central file in the high way department had been "cleaned out" by either the attorney general or Acting CommiSsioner Frank Up- man, Jr., in January. He said he was unable to find certain letters which he needed to conduct depart ment business.
 However, the attorney general turned over his file for Summers examination, and the witness was unable to identify any of the alleg- edly missing letters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

The following marriage inten- tiOns were filed today in the Bu- reau of Vital Statistics at the Health Department:
 John Joseph Ladden, 8 Pleasant street, and Mary Cecelia Bern hardt, 15 Camp street.
 John w. Holmes, 231 South mayd road, and Helen c. Brick, SO0 Hamilton avenue.
 Anthony Kulpinskis, 13 South Prospect street, Hartford, and Claire Elizabeth COffey, 1O5 Hunt inEt0n street, Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
BUILDING PERMITS

The following permits were is- sued today at the office of the Building Inspector, John T. Hartley:
 M. E. COyIe, three One-family dwellings on BateSwoOd road, two for $4,OOO each and the other for SA,70O.
 Ann Mcdonald Miller, altera- tiOn to . family dwelling at 246 Robbins street, $1,6OO.
 Joseph and Mary Elinskas, three dormer windows sOn dwelling Ut 12O Sheffield street, S125.
 Nicholas Ventresco, addition to dwelling on 1O4 Beach street, $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
APPRAISAL FILED
 ON GAESS ESTATE

An inventory on the estate of the late Albert GaesS who died on Feb ruary 2, was filed in probate court today. The deceased listed prop erty on. Easton avenue valued at $4,350 in addition to deposits at the Waterbury Savings Bank, $2,252.90; 84 shares of Scovill Mfg. Co.,, stock, valued at $2,016; and "A shares of stock in the American General Corp. total value of $684.
 The total value of the estate was given as $9,3O2.0O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
MALTA IS MOST
 BOMBED PLACE
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 and go to shelters when the raid sirens shriek, but the boys and men have become so accustomed to the attacks that most of them watch the dog fights and cheer when a trail of black smoke shows that an- other Axis plane has been downed.
 Farmers, hurrying their spring blowing, stay in the fields unless the bombs drop too close. Cattle, long familiar with the explosions, hardly look up from their grazing.
 Night raids present wonderful spectacle. The roaring ark-ack guns mke the horizon one red glare. The skies are swept by giant searchlights, reaching out for the bulky Nad bombers. These, as a rule, dump their bombs and race for home when the great beam of light makes them 8 target for the guns, for the Axis airmen know the accuracy of the gunners.
 Since Dec. 19, the luftwaffe alone has lost "A planes, including 43 DOInDeTS, over MHlCd. InuIy nave been hit so badly they probably never got home, and at least 95 more have been damaged.
 There has been damage here. of course, and casualties, but most of Malta's 270,000 population has only contempt for the attackers. Safety measures include 6,000 shelters cut deep in the rocky cliffe. More than 1,500 more are being built, each 100 feet below the surface, with beds for thousands.
 Nearly every shelter has electric lights, radios and washing and cooking facilities. Some have small altars where services are conducted. reminiscent of when the Maltest cataccmbs were used by the early Christians.
 The ANis says it is starving Malta bat ths food situation is good. There aIe only two meatleSs days week and Lgh abounds Each child has milk daily and there are soup kitchens for the homeless.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
JAP PLANES ARE
 RAlDINC MORESBY
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(Continued from Page D Katharine, the Japanese had ranged into the interior of Australia for the second time, with an eye to the railroad which extends from Dar- win southward through Katharine to Birdum. The last time the Japanese bombed Katherine.
 First reports made no mention of casualties or damage and indi- cated that the flight was 8 recon naissance one, possibly with view to a raid ill force intended to cut the railroad by which Darwin, the great Allied north coast base, gets its supplies.
 Allied fighter plane pilots and anti-aircraft gunners were put on a "A hour day alert in the belief that the Japanese were concentrat- ing their main strength on Port Moresby, in nope of taking all of New Guinea to make it the base for an attack on the Australian main- land,
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Whitehall or Mayfair.
 It was an exclusive interview which I obtained with Sir Stafford on the eve of his departure for New Delhi, entrusted with the delicate task of presenting Britain's pro- posals answering Indian demands for independence.
 Nobody wants another war in 10 years time," he continued. "Yet this is what anything but complete wholehearted cooperation between the United States, Great Britain and Russia would mean.
 "Recriminations never won a war yet. The time has now come when both our countries must strain every nerve, give every ounce of energy to produce more and more war material for Russia. That is the key to victory"
 GIVES UP $1OO,OOO
 LAW PRACTICE
 Russia, he is convinced, has no interest in determining the forms of government which other coun- tries may adopt. He said he was not prepared to forecast what form of government England would eventually adopt, but he sees a possible disappearance of the party system. Whatever formula is adopted will always be tempered by the British way of living and thinking, he believes, but he does think that state control is bound to replace private interests in many branches of public activity.
 Sir Stafford's taste for state ownership is a heritage from his father, a peer who turned Social ist when well along in his sixties. From his father he also inherited the independence of mind which led him not to Oxford or Cambridge and the classics, but to London University and the study of science.
 Sir Stafford entered the House 1f Commons as 8 Socialist at Al.
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countryS most able ana CTuSLe0 ea- voy.
 WARNS U. s.
 OF HER JOB
 As devoted to public service as her husband is Lady Cripps, who acts as Sir Stafford's secretary. The few weeks of private life that they have enjoyed since the war began have been spent at a small house in the CotswoldS, whence they moved when they gave up their ancestral manor house in Worcestershire. Their daughter Diana lives with them. Another daughter is with the British Legation at Teheran, and @ third is in the Women's Royal Naval Ser- vice.
 Their only san, a Quaker, is doing agricultural work after being ex- cused from military service as a conscientious objector.
 When I talked with Sir Stafford he faced what may be the most important assignment that even
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40 JAP PLANES
 LITTER AIRPORT
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Newkirk's plane apparently was hit by a stray bullet from Japanese ground defenders and crashed near the Chienmai airdrome, his fellow flyers reported. The crash, they said, came at the end of low dive.
 Dispatches and reports from the pilots described the raid as among the most damaging" of the war. In their first dive, the Americans set fire to seven Japanese planes, prob- ably killing their pilots. Thirty
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confronted a British diplomat. Yet already he was thinking ahead to the problems of peace.
 He left this message for the United States:
 "Kmerica is to play . very im- portant part in deciding the terms of peace and in postwar reconstruc- ton. There is no backing out this time. Her interest," are too involved with ours to permit her to embark on any kind of isolationtSt policy once the fighting is over."
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two dirt runWays; hangarS; fuel depot; gasoline storage: oil tanks; water tower; machine shops; mii- tary barracks; settlement on south shore; radio station; anti-aircraft ana shore batte1ceS Of light and heavy machine guns.
 No Japanese planes were seen on the ground at Marcus and none was encountered
 No Estimate of Casualties
 Losses of Japanese personnel in both attacks could not be estimated, but were presumed to be "propor- tionately high"
 Wake Island was converted into a "no-man'S land of the mid Pacific and marked thousand mile Savance of the Amel 'can frontier to the west. Destruction of its mili- tary establishments removed, at least temporarily, spearhead for direct Japanese aerial action against Midway or even Hawaii.
 Our colors once again have flown over this island, rich in tra- ditions of liber.y through the gall lant stand of that hardy band of marines who defended 1t early in the war" high-ranking navy officer said, land they shall return again and again, if necessary. We have given the Japanese good cause to remember Wake and Pearl Harbor, and we shall remind them again, many times"
 Both raids found the Japanese forces on partial alert.
 GunbGat Flashed Warning ' A Japanese gunboat discovered American surface craft within seven miles of Wake at dawn, and flashed warning to the island be- fore it was sunk by a broadside from the American destroyer Lead CT, which subsequently, rescued the Japanese crew.
 In both cases, anti-aircraft bar rages were heavy but inaccurate, bringing down one attacking plane in each raid. Nor was fire by shore batteries accurate. Tn the two raids, no damage was done to sur- face ships.
 In the 82-minute attack on Wake, the force of U. s. cruisers, destroy CTS, and planes blasted the island with 100 tons of high explosives. Smelling by the warships' heavy guns began at 7:05 a. m. Three divisions of bombers opened their attack from the opposite (south- vest side of the island at 7:55 a. m.
 Direct Hits Start Fires
 Direct hits on gasoline, oil and ammunition dumps started huge fires. Then airfields were bombed heavily, and some shore batteries of both light and heavy guns were destroyed. More than 200 bombs were dropped on Wake in addition to thousands of pounds of high ex- plosiveS tossed in from surface ships.
 At Marcus island, carrier launched group of bombing planes with light fighter escort before dawn for moonlight raid in which flares were used to locate objec- tives. After the initial blow, three huge fires provided ample light for bombing and strafing.
 Damage Admitted
 The attack was greeted by heavy anti-aircraft fire, but it did not deter the raiders from carrying out their missions thoroughly and con- pletely. The island was bombed for 28 minutes and even Tokyo radio dispatches intercepted later admit
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today except for Churchill him self.
 "To' most peo- pie in America, the idea tha t anything happen ing in rem o t e places like India, Russia or China could affect their lives is beyond comprehension Yet Russia holds the winning hand in Eprope even now"
 Russia he knows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
OFFICIAL MOURNING

When official mourning is ordered in the U. s. Marine Corps, officers place crepe on their sword hiltS. This has occurred often in honor of Leatherneck heroes,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE
Wilhsus caIsmel-And You'Il Jump Out of
 Bed in the Morning RariH to Go

The liver should pour pints of bile juice into your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing freely. your food may not di- gest. It may just decay in the bowels. Then gas hloats up your stomach. You get con-p Htipated. You feel gours sunk and the world lookB punk.
 It takes those good, old Carter's Little Livsr PiIls to get these pintB of bile low. ing freely to make you feel ''up and up." Get c package today. Take ag directed. Effective in making bile flow freely. Ask for cartar's xdttle LiFer Pill1. 1ot and 2fjs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-25
HACK OF DMAGINATION'' IS ANGLO-U.S.
 WEAKNESS, WARNS SIR STAFFORD GRIPS

CIR CRIPPS, Privy Seal famed for his Out
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The union times., 1942-04-18
N. H. Building
 Trades Name New Officers
Mccormack, Nesdale, and Zuckerman Are President,
 Vice-President, Secretary

With its election of new officers the New Haven Building Trades Council will seek full cooperation among the building trades unions.
 David ''Sport'' Mccormack, bus. mess agent of Local 424, New Haven X Bridgeport Structural Iron Workers, succeeds Michael Sola, Bricklayers, Masons & Plast. erers, as president and John Mes. dale, New Haven Plumbers & Steam-ftters was elected to fill the office of vice-president.
 Harmony is needed now more than ever if the building trades are to provide for their mem bership and make their full con tribution to the war effort,' Will liam Zuckerman, business agent of Local l86, Painters Union and the new secretary-treasurer of the Council, declared this week.
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Production
 Conference
 Again Asked
Mayor Expects to Bring A.F.L., CLIO. and Manu-
 lecturers Together

The need for city-wide produc- tion conference with both the AZ. of L. and the C.I.O. parti- cipating with management and the public was stressed Tuesday night by Harold V. Feinmark, president of the New Haven Central Labor Council in a talk at the Public Meeting on Production held in the Y.W.C.A. assembly. Michael Jim enez, organizer for the United Elec- trical, Radio and Machine Workers, C.I.O. also spoke.
 Feinmark compared the joint ap- pearance of Jimenez and himself or the same platform to the Pittsburgh rally where William Green, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor and Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O. had shared the rostrum last week.
 T sincerely hope that I and other
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The union times., 1942-04-18
Plumbers Of
 State Gather InTorriington
Marked Variation In Elm. ployment Conditions Is
 Reported To Meeting

The semi-annual convention of the State Association of Plumbers X Steamfitters, held this week in Torrington, proved that the de- pressed condition of the craft in New Haven doesn't hold for the rest of the State. Delegates from the northern end of Connecticut reported they lacked sufficient help to supply the demand. Wage increases ranging from $l to $2 a day were reported in a number of localities. Business Agent James H. Higgins and Executive Board Member Ed Mooney were the delegates from. Local 349, New Haven.
 John Lynch, president and presid- ing officer from Norwich, was named the Associations delegate to the na- tional convention of the United Association of Plumbers & Steam filters to be held in Atlantic City in the Fall. International Organizer Archie Gillis spoke on conditions throughout the country. The next convention of the State Association will be held in Norwich in Septem, Der.
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"WorkersAre Doing Their Full Share"
Gov. Says This Is No Time To Drive Wedge Into
 Economies of America

Gov. Robert A. Hurley, in a statement issued this week. flatly comes out in opposition to changes in labor legislation, which the enemies of labor and of national unity are now trying to jam through Con- gress.
 Taking his stand 1OO9o on the side of organized labor, the Governor says that this is no time to drive a wedge into the economic body of Amer ica, and says that those who don't realize this fact will have ''ample time to contemplate their mistakes in cOncentra- ton camps"
 STATEMENT
 The full text of the Cover nOr's statement follows:
 The working people of Con- necticut, to our everlasting pride. voluntarily relinquished their right to strike so that uninterrupted production would be guaranteed. They gave up, because they had faith in our leaders, in our pur- pose and in our Country, the only weapon at their command s,yiah which they could guard their rights against economic usurpers. The working people of America have followed their leadership. There were some, perhaps those same persons who now sponsor the anti-IabOr bill pending in Congress, who thought, to their shame that legislation would be necessary to make our working people squarely face the issue be- fore the Country, the issue of un- interrupted prediction.
 DRIVING A WEDGE
 ''LabOr understands its role in the war. It is time that those peO-
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Price Scale Is Adopted
 By Barbers
Local 215 To Present De tails to N. H. Proprietors
 For New Contract

A new price scale with a base charge of COG for haircuts and BOG for slaves was unanimously adopted this week by the trade in New Haven and vicinity. A suc- cessful mass meeting Sunday in the N. H. Labor Temple sponsored jointly by the Master Barbers, the United Barbers and Local 215 of the International Union of Journey men Barbers laid the base for the protection of living standards of all practitioners of the trade. A later meeting of the joint com mittee representing the three or ganizations worked out the details of the new scale.
 As soon as the new prices are put into effect Local 215 will pre- sent its demands for the new con- tract to the New Haven proprietors.
 2@~a SPEAKERS, 1 sar
 Speakers at Sundays rally in- cluded Thomas Shea, assistant secretary of the Connecticut Feder- ation of Labor; Anthony Merlino, third vice-president of the Inter national Union; Barber Commits sioner Joseph DePaola, Deputy Commissioners Tony Comalleri and V. A. Durso; Harold V. Feinmark, president of the N. H. Central Labor Council; C. J. Cartellano, president of the State Master Bar bers Association; D. COscinO of the same body, Joseph Tone, labor advisor to Secy. of Labor Frances Perkins and Joseph Summa, presi- dent of the State Journeymen Barbers Association.
 P. A. Wilson, representing the Negro barbers in the City, spoke Sunday in favor of the proposed price scale. Local 215's Organiza- ton drive will include the Negro practitioners.
The union times., 1942-04-18
Defense Council
 Holds Meeting

The New Haven Defense Council this week passed a resolution in- troduced by Joseph T. Rourke, sec retary of the N. H. Central Labor Council, asking the officers of the American Newspaper Publishers As sociation to use the Association $ influence to have the "New Haven Register" publish daily the sched- ule of local radio programs which deal with the activities of the New Haven and Connecticut Defense Councils.
 The Council at the same time named Director Thomas w. Farnam as its allocation officer and gave the C.I.O. representation with the ap- pointment of Raymond T. Hussey of the Steel Workers Organizing Com mittee. Harold V. Feinmark, presi- dent of the N. H. Central Labor Council, is also member of the Citys defense body, and is serving on its executive board.
 Mayor John w. Murphy notified the Defense Council that the due notice clause on practice blackouts had been deleted from the city ord nance. John M. Golden has been ap. pointed Director of Public Work. for the body, the same position h' holds for the City.
The union times., 1942-04-18
WUEmplOyes
 Help Of FederalBOard
McCue, President Of New Haven Local, Asks For
 Government Mediation

After one month of negotia- tiOns with the Eastern Division of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Telegraph Employees Federation of New Haven together with the FederatiOns of PrOvi- dence, R. I. and Springfield, WOr. cester and Boston in Massachu- setts have called in the U. s. Con. ciliation Board to mediate. Wage increases, and for which em- plOyes, are the two points the Unions and the Company have failed to agree upon.
 BLANKET INCREASE
 The Unions have asked for blanket increase for all telegraph workers in these cities with the Company insisting on wage increases only for some of its employees. The size of the increase is also being disputed.
 Kenneth McCue, president of the Elm City Local, received a telegram this week from Dr. J. R. Steelman, Consolidation Director in- forming him that Commissioner Rye of Steelman's office would contact McCue to arrange for the date of the next hearing. Vice. President Kimbau of the Com pany's Eastern Division is out of town now and the date depends on his return. The five AFL federal locals are determined to negotiate together while the Company is att tempting to isolate them.
The union times., 1942-04-18
To
 Hold Banquet

Christopher Gaffney, former pres ident of Local 6. New Haven Brick layers, Mason & Plasterers will be the guest of honor at testimonial dinner sponsored by the Local Sat urday evening, April IS in the hotel Garde.
 Joseph Tone, labor adviser to Secy. of Labor Frances Perkins, and Nathan Sherman, editor of THE UNION TIMES, will be the guest speakers. Martin Finn of Danbury, president of. the State Conference of Bricklayers, Masons & Plasterers will be the toastmaster. Frank Fer rucci, chairman of the arrangements committee, will make the presenta- tion. Admission is $2.20.