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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
LABOR CABINET
 AGREED ON PLAN
Total ManpOwer MObiliza- ton for War Effort Under
 Paul V. McNutt
By JAMES SHEPLEY Limited Press Staff COFrespOndentl


 Washington, April 2.-(UP)- President Roosevelt's labor cab- inet" was reported by congressional sources today to be tentatively agreed upon a plan to total mobili- zation of manpower for the war effort under the direction of Fed- eral Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt.
 Labor spokesmen would not com- ment, but MT. Roosevelt meets with the 'labor cabinet" tomorrow and a final determination is expected to be made then. The cabinet" consists of organized labor repre- sentatives, headed by President William Green of the American 1sration of Labor and President
 z.p Murray of the Congress of
 ntF1Ml Organizations.
 Gnee me subject was first d4s- enssed by the President and his labor advisers, one source told the United Press, the selection of a man to head the manpower organization has been on a touch-and-go basis. ''A9cNutt has had the job at least seven times" this source said.
 Two other men have been con- sidered, 1t was revealed-S Sidney Hillman, labor director of the war production board and John c.. Winant, American ambassador to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
TROLLEY RAIL
 REMOVAL PLAN
Will Be Discussed Today at Meeting to Be Held in
 City Hall

Detailed plans for removal of abandoned trolley rails in Water bury's streets were to be discussed at city hall meeting this after noon in which members of the board of works, other city officials, and representatives of state WPA headquarters were scheduled to take part.
 The works board, meeting in an adjourned meeting, planned to dis cuss the project with State WPA Administrator Howard Staub and his aides. Also to take part were City Engineer Charles A. Root, Sue perintendent of Public Works Her. bert Scott-Smith, and Corporation Counsel J. Gregory Lynch.
 Since the project was proposed some weeks ago, some works board members have raised questions as to how much the work will cost the city, how long 1t will take, how much trafilc congestion and detour- ing 1t will cause, and how the nec- essary materials can be secured. Answers to these questions were ex- pected this afternoon.
 Rail removal here has been pro- posed as part of Q statewide proj- ect which would yield, 1t is estima- ted, thousands of tons of salvage steel for war production purposes. The WPA would provide the labor and part of the materials and
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(. P. KENWORTHY
 ESTATE $24,O2S
Inventory Was Filed With Judge HeaIey in Probate
 Court Today

The late Charles P Kenworthy, president and treasurer of Charles r Kenworthy, Inc, and president and treasurer of The Barlow Co.,, left an estate of $24,09892, accord- ing to an inventory filed with Judge Patrick Heasey in probate court today.
 Real estate owned by him is valued at $1O,70I while personal ysgSss&ty 6 .eSs.raRteS Sr be worth 9lS, ,507 %. MT. Kenwortny. whose business headquarters were on Pied- mont street, died several months ago. Property on Piedmont stret is valu- ed at $iO,7O1. Holdings in Pine Grove cemetery are given a value of $1.
 The inventory estimates the value of 238 shares of Charles F. Ken worthy, Inc, at $1l,9 300. Fifty-on shares of The Barlow Co., are listed at $1O2, and 100 shares in the SaIli- tary Corp. at SIS.
 Other items in the estate include a deposit at the Woodbury Savings Bank, s592: furniture, $500; jewelry. S25; clothing. $100; Q diamond ring, S2O0 and a caf $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
Allied Burma Troops May Fall In Jap Trap
Thousands of Japanese Forces, Escorted By l2 War ships Have Landed at Burmese West Coast,
 in Rear of Allied Troops
BY ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Stan Correspondent

Chungking, China, April a. (UP) - Thousands of Japanese troops, protected by at least 12 war ships, have landed at the Burmese west coast port of Akyab, only 75 miles from India's border, in an at- tempt to entrap allied troops in southern Burma, a Chinese spokes- man said today.
 The landing gave the Japanese possession of Burma's last port, through which supplies for the British Chinese forces in central Burma have ben moving.
 An estimated 5000 Japanese troops were disembarked in the first landings, made on March 27 from four large transports, the military spokesman said. At least sixteen enemy ships were involved in the operation.
 The surprise landing constitutes not only a new threat to the al- ready serious allied positions on the Prone and Toungoo fronts in Bur ma but to nearby India at time when British and Indian national ist leaders are striving to avert a breakdown in negotiations on 1n- dia's defense.
 The spokesman said the Japanese warShips protecting the landing forces included two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, five destroyers and two auxiliary ships.
 Chief Port On Bay
 Akyab is Burma'S chief port on Bay of Bengal about 75 miles from India's Bengal border and less than $50 miles by direct lines across the Bay of Bengal from Calcutta.
 The British some time ago aban- doned this sector of southern Bur- ma.
 AlIyab is approximately 185 miles southwest of Prone on the Irra- waddy river, key allied defense point on the western flank in Bur- yG& where British forces are digging in. to meet an anticipated strong Japanese assault aimed at Yenan- gyaung.
 The Japanese occupied port lies about 300 miles northwest of Ram goon around which Japanese naval forces previously have been report ed after seizing the Andaman Islands astride the Bay of Bengal approaches to India.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
Axis Paying Heavy Price In Submarine Campaign On Atlantic Coast Shipping

until it is certain that publication of the information will not be of value to the enemy. A breakdown of last nights report showed that 21 of the subs were sunk in the Atlantic and seven in the Pacific. In addition, two Japanese midget submarines were captured during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 The navy's share of the total was 24. with army airmen being credited with four. Earlier yesterday the navy announced the destruction of three of the raiders. two by naval flyers and one by the army. One of the naval pilots was Donald Francis Mason, 2S, enlisted man from Rochester, Mir1n., who got his sec ond submarine, his second decora- ton and a commission as ensign. He won fame, the Distinguished Flying Gross, and a higher rating after his first triumph last Eebra1- ary when he radioed hls base this .ierse report: sighted sub. sank snme.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02

A further intensification of the campaign against underseas raiders, which already have sunk more ships along the Atlantic Seaboard than they did during the last war. was indicated by Capt. Charles E. Rosen- dahl, pioneer exponent of lighter than-air craft, Speaking at Eliza beth City, N. C., Capt. Rosendahl said new blimp bases are being planned in the Florida, Puget Sound, and southern California areas to provide an unbroken patrol line down both coasts.
 He did not disclose how many blimps are now in service, but said they aare very definitely on the job. z The original air program called for 48 patrol hlimps, and Rosendahl said an increase in these craft can lick the submarine menace.
 The navy already has three bilmp bases along the Atlantic and win son take over the Stlnnyvale, Calif. base for the first patrol ca the Pacine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
Their Own Assaults on Jap Positions Met With
 Great Success
BY MACK JOHNSON

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 washington, April 2-tUP)-Jap- 5anese patrols, artillery and bombers renewed their efforts today to feel out and soften up" Lieut.. Gen. Jon- athan M. Wainwright's defenses on Bataan.
 But the enemy made no attempt to renew in force the assault that was halted yesterday.
 Continuing offensive operations for the ninth successive day, the Japanese combined land and air forces made occasionally sharp raids against American and Filipino posi- tions on Bataan Peninsula and the fortresses in Manila Bay.
 There were 8 number of sharp skirmishes," the war department re- ported, "but no general action"
 Enemy artillery and dive bomb CTS were active throughout the past 24 hours. The guns of Corregidor and the other forts in Manila Bay forced Japanese raiders to fly so high that their bombing was "in- accurate and ineffective"
 Japs Made No Hits
 Japanese batteries on the south shore of Manila Bay shelled Corregi- dor but made no hits on military in- stallations, according to the com muniQue. The American forts replied salvoes of htgh-caliber shells.
 The comnnunique said aggressive patrol activity on both sides" marked the 24 hour period following failure of a Japanese mass attack Monday night to penetrate Wainrgiht's main defense line.
 Several waves of Japanese dive bombers raided Wainwright's beach defenses, which the enemy has re- peatedly attempted to destroy with out success, as well as American in- stallations in the rear. The com- munique also reported dive -bomb- ing attacks on Americana Filipino troops in forward areas.
 The defenders, 1t appeared, were standing their ground after beating off some of the fiercest land, air and sea assaults in the Philippine campaign.
 Japanese forces, consisting of at
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Sea Baby, With Mother Is Doing Very Nicely
Son to JugOsIav Consular Official Was Born Some where in Atlantic; Wife Was En Route Here
 to Join Husband
BY ALTON B. PARKER United Press Staff Correspondent

Norfolk, Va, April 2.-(UP)-The four-day old son of a Jugoslav con- sular official cried Justify today, showing little evidence of the fact that he was born somewhere in the Atlantic" in an open hfeboat nearly filled with water.
 "Tt wasn't so bad" said the mother, Mrs. Desanka Mohorovicic, in the little English at her com mand.
 The mother, sturdily built and 28 years old, showed how little ef- feet the ordeal had had upon her when she climbed virtually unassist- ed up the side of the rescue vessel on a cargo net.
 Mrs. Mohorovicic was en route to this country<to join her husband who is attached to the Jugoslav consulate in New York when the medium sized vessel aboard which she was travelling with her two year old daughter Visna was torpedoed by a German submarine.
 She, Visna, the baby and 86 other survivors were rescued at sea by units of the navy. Of the 122 seamen and passengers aboard when two torpedos crashed into the side ns the ahip. 30 were missing. including Gen. M. Djoukanovitch of the Jugoslav legation in Wash ington. Three members of the gun crew, which stayed aboard the vessel until the last minute to fire at the submarine, were knuown to be dead. One survivor said he thought the crew had hit the sub marine with one Of the shells.
 Missing May Be Saved
 There was a possibility that some of the missing may be aboard other rescue vessels that have not yet arrived in port.
 The story of Mrs. Mohorovicic's $ experience $ one of the epics of the
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Hundreds Of Planes Deliver Furnishing Blows At Plants
Gen. Wainwright's Men Beat Back All Attacks Made In Philippines
Longest Strike In New York,
 Over Three Years, Is Ended

New York April 2-UP-The longest New York City yesterday picket line which three months before the Brass Ra
 
 John Roland chairman of the State Labor Relations
  signed agreement providing strikes OkOu for three years and renstating certain employees"
 grim aspects The first day the buffet lunch Another time the picket society The union agent Beach. When the strike day birthday served pckets the sidewalk.
 statscan estimated that the picke had pairs marched 72S miles route only 40 feet long,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02

Department approved Of 0 claim of 5000 made by the Gammino Company to compenate 1t for idle equipment, although the department kept no record as to whether the equipment was used or not used from day to day.
 The state based it's contention on the diary of department junior en- gineeer Roland D. Brown, who was assigned to the job as state in- spector.
 One of the charges against Cox was that the Highway Department and the construction company got together after the job was completed and drew up an agreement from naen,Gry and the contractors records as to what idle machinery should be listed. Three Trucks were idle, but Brown said he didn't know how that was determined.
 His diary for the 18th and 18th, he testified, shows the three trucks were operating on the job"
 Also, on the 16th he said his Diary showed a shovel in operation whereas the agreement sheet listed 1t as not being used. A compensa- ton price of S45 was set for use of the shovel that day, he said.
 On July 27 Brown said his dairy showed Q bulldozer was used on the bridge project, and the agree ment sheet showed 1t idle.
 Also, he testified, two hammers were available and only one of them was operated. Aug. s. The sheet, he said, listed both idle that date.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
By SANDOR s. KLEIN

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, April g. (UP)-A navy announcement that at least 28 enemy submarines have been de- stroyed indicated today that the Axis is paying an increasingly heavier price for its campaign against Allied shipping of the At lantic coast.
 Nevertheless, merchant ship sink ings continued at the costly average of better than one a day, with an unofficial count of 110 vessels sent to the bottom along the Canadian and U. S. Atlantic coasts and In the Caribbean since the submarine drive started January IA. Eight sinlxings have been announced in the last five days.
 The navy indicated the total of 2e submarines was Q conservative summary, adding thAk there in usi- dence Of additional Axis losses which are being withheld until e~Frulate rapnzis ere gaeienad snd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
EX-CONVICT KILLS
 THREE FARMERS
DOminiCk PiccOne Sits in His Cell, Tells Police All
 About It

Pontiac, Mich, April 2.-(UP)- Dominick Piccone, 20-year-old ex- convict calmly told police today that he had killed three Michigan farm ers-one for revenge and two others because they got in my way"
 Piccone, from a cell in Oakland County Jail, described to Sheriff Spencer Howarth and Prosecutor Charles Wilson his two-day crime wave which ended with his arrest by State Troopers early today on a highway three miles north of Otis- ville.s
 With Piccone when he com- mandeered automobile was forced off the highway was Roy Thorpe, Ee, friend of two of the slain men, who had been Kidnapped by the youthful slayer and held as hostage during a 900-mile drive.
 Piccone, released from Marquette State prison only two weeks ago after serving 1-2 year term for felon-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
VonR Ribbentrop Was toH Have Been Killed With Won Papen

lov asked that he be given a seat separate from those of the two Turks who, he said, were .just two intriguiers attempting to Envenom relations between Turkey and Rus- sia."
 Sayman testified that he had been perverted" to Communism and forced" into the service of the Russian embassy after he had bor- rowed money from Pavlov.
 He said he and Sayol had acted as g0-betweens for correspond dence for one Petko Miiiditch at Belgrade and his brother PotchkO Miliditch at Moscow.
 Eayman asserted that Pavlov put him in touch with 0user Tolgat, who was blown up by the bomb which. according to the prosecution. Tokat had hnkaz-.s~a ss 'sne sA tNl Papen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02

Ankara, Turkey, April 2 (UP)- Abdurrahman Sayman, one of four men put on trial today on the charge of trying to Kill Franz voa- Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey, asserted that the conspira- tors had intended to kill Joachim von- Ribbentrops German foreign minister too.
 He said Ribbentrop had been ex- pected to visit Turkey.
 On trial are Sayman. medical student at Istanbul University: suleynan Sagol, an Ankara barber's assistant: xeonld KarlinoV, employ cd by tho Russian consulate at fstanhul, and uiorei raglov, trans lAs1t a6fiStx Cor the consulate. Say lnan aNa SAg0l Turks " national f. were born ln I oslaVla
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
AUSTRALIA VERY
 QUIET AT PRESENT
American, Australian Air Forces Unified; Now
 Fight in Unison
By BRYDoN c. TAvEs

United Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, April a. (UP)-United States and Australian air forces, first line of offense and defense of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's south- west Pacific command, have conl- pleted their unification and are now fighting together in complete har- mony, Air Minister Arthur s. Drake ford announced today.
 A force of seven Japanese bomb CTS escorted by fighter planes raided Darwin for the 11th time this after noon, but caused neither damage nor casualties, Premier John Curtis announced.
 "The temporary halt to which the Japanese advance has been brought is proof that Australian American cooperation truly has an iron ring about it." Drakeford said.
 A headquarters spokesman said MacArthur expected to announce soon the completion of his supreme command staff organization for the defense of Australia and an offen- sive against Japan.
 Macarthur is still conferring with Australian army and air force lead- CTS and the cabinet defense minis ters on organizatlonal problems, in- volving a shake-up from top to bottom in the Australian army and air force so they can be worked into MacArthur's United Nations forces
 Australian American air force cooperation is no longer a high sounding aspiration but a cold hard fact" Drakeford said.
 He said facts had diSproved the validity of skepticism that effective cooperation could be effected, partly because the American air corps is
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
MYSTERY DEATH
 OF YOUNG BRIDE Medical Examiners to Hold Autopsy to Discover
 Cause of Death

New York, April 2-(UP)-Medi- cal examiners perform an autopsy today to determine what killed a pretty, 19 year old bride, who, dressed in pajamas, was found in her bathroom with her head dan- gling in tub half filled with water.
 She was Mrs. Sylvia stern, wife since last June of Bernard Stern, a dental technician.
 The circumstances of her death were mysterious.
 There was blood in her bathroom and bedroom. pr. Louis Lefkowitz, assistant medical examiner, said Q preliminary examination showed a hruise inside the lower lip and an- other 0n the chin. both of which she had suffered before she died.
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BOVeEnment. The German people and their offspring we got SO ten- der about in lhe last war are the ones who are directing and fight ing eflis one. And the yaps are the same ones t0 whom we gave millions of dollars when they had sHfeir disAstrous q earthquakes. We've already done our necessity good deeds for uiF ememaiea. Ngag'B the time so be loush.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
BRITAIN OFFERS
 NEW INDIA PLAN
Compromise Was Sug- gested By Cripps; But
 There Is Little Hope
BY JOHN R. MORRIS

kOMASGW EECSS 8T E6StCTM W&AA1SGEl
 New Delhi, India, April ?. - (UP) Great Britain was understood to- day to be willing to offer India an immediate voice in home defense in and effort to offset the adverse re- ply of the all-India congress (ma- jority) party on proposals for post I'sS 3xl2epc:.HC=ra
 Sir Stafford Cripps, representing the British war cabinet, was said to have suggested the compromise when he conferred again with PreSi- dent Maulana Abul Kalan AZad and Jawaharlal Nehru of the congress.
 Cripps indicated confidence that negotiations could be continued with hope of success and said that he hoped ito do something useful next
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
Contractor Paid For Idle Trucks
 Under Cox Regime
State Produced Testimony Today to Show That Machinery of Gammino Co.,, Although Doing
 No Work, Cost State Sum of $7,OOO ]
Hartford, Conn,

Hartford Conn, April ?. - (UP) = The state pro- duced testimony today during the removal trial of suspended Highway Commissioner William J. Cox to show that machinery used by the Gammino Construction Com pany Providence r. on two Ledyard bridge jobs in 1888 highway department-company stipulation listed it as idle It was part of the states allegations that the Highway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02

SWW &AM Wh1A
 any ideas as to h 70 " we are High ting the m n gov.
 ernment, b q t
 not the German people. That's .asweet thought,
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 mans and Japs are fighting us,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
May Have Crippled Some of Supply Centers That
 Are Helping Hitler AERIAL ATTACKS WERE
 BIGGEST YET TRIED Paris Suburbs, Belgium Holland Hit; Norway
 Fails in Ship Escape
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor)

An armada of British bomberS = probably several hundred - struck across Nazi-held western Europe during the night. The heavy attack extended from the suburbs of Paris across Bel gium and Holland and deep into western Germany. The assault evidently was aimed at crippling and disrupting the sup ply centers of Germany's anticipated spring drive on the Russian front and at preventing Germany naval forces from interfering with the flow of British-American aid to Russia'S Arctic ports.
 The aerial attack. which appears to have been one of the biggest yet undertaken by the RAF, coincided with a continuation of the naval- air struggle for control of the Arc- tic route of supply to Russia and mounting signs that Adolf Hitler may be ready to start his spring offensive on the southern Russian front.
 Attacked by the, British armada which included long-range bomb CTS of the latest type some Of them undoubtedly from the United States-were Nazi-operated war face tories in the Paris suburbs, targets in Belgium and Holland, ports, air. dromeS, railroad centers and docks and shipping at Le Havre, biz French port.
 Bottle Up U-Boats
 Some of the planes dropped mines in waters to bottle up German U-boats and naval units from ate tackS on Allied conveys along the northern supply route, similar to one last weekend in which five Nazi warships and submarines were either sunk or damaged along the route to MurmanSk by British war; ships guarding a large convoy.
 Indicating the size of the attack ing British aerial force, the Brit- iSh air ministry admitted that IS of it's planes had failed to retutrn. The Germans claimed to have brought down only 10 of the planes particle pating in what they called a 'sriuisa ance" attack.
 One of the chief targets was inc big Matford factory, 10 miles north- east of Paris, which makes motor trucks needed by the Germans for their armies on the Russian fronts.
 Under the light of a full moon the raiders were said to have drop ped large demolition bombs "of new type" on the Matford plants. pre- viously bombed by the RAT on March 8.
 A Vichy report said the British planes also attacked factories in the western Paris suburb of Reuil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS HYv.a&A.z mwaa- Ck0N fT.s.-.-....,..N. .N {.

United Press Staff COfresp0ndenty
 London, April 2.-(UP)-B British planes in one of their greatest raids. attacked objectives over western and northwestern Germany Belgium and northern France, including tho Paris suburbs, and laid mines fn enemy waters during the night, tho air ministry said today.
 It was admitted that l5 oornbinE planes were missing and reports in dicated that hundreds of planes. f1e cluding the newest, biggest long range bomberS, had taken part. dropping gigantic demolition bomEa of new type.
 The British planes were aided nS the light of the full moon in ra~ suming ferociously over Thousands oz square miles their spring offengsve.
 The Matford factory outssa1 Paris was bombed.
 Industrial objectiyes and comns
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The Weather

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