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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
Senate Still
Pans Patton

Washington, Dec. IA - (U.P) -
Members of the Senate Military At
fairs Committee said today that the
door still was open for further in
vestigation of the field conduct of
Lieutenant General George s. Pat
ton, already the subject of two spe-
cial reports by Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson.
Senators were wondering whether
there were three or four incidents"
on the official books following Slim
sons second report yesterday in
which he referred to two slapping
cases ard the severe dressing down
of a sceiier who failed to wear leg
gings. Another 'bawling out" had
been reported at the time the first
slapping incident became known.
Commenting on his report, Slim
son said, "these incidents are the
only ones disclosed by a thorough
investigation by the theater inspec-
tor on the general subject of Gen.
eral Pattons treatment of enlisted
men,"
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Potion Tour
middle East
Makes Talk

London, Dec. 14.-(UP)-Lt Gen.
George S. Patton has made three
day tour of strategic military zones
in the Middle East. Cairo an
nouncement revealed today, tanning
speculation on the likelihood Of
brewing or imminent action in the
jittery Balkan theater.
Patton, who commanded the
United States Seventh Army cam
paign through Sicily, was revealed
to have made sweep through the
Middle East as the guest of Gen.
Sir Henry Maitlan Wilson, British
commander.
Accompanied by his staff, the
general known as "old blood and
CUTS" appeared unheralded in Cairo,
and the demands Of military secrecy
shrouded the intents Of his trip so
far from Sicily, where the most re-
cent advices said his Seventh Army
still was stationed.
Coincident with the disclosure Of
Patton's visit, United Press dis
patch from Zurich quoted reliable
sources as reporting that Germany
was rushing all available reinforce
ments to the Balkans. Several air
squadrons earmarked for use In
Italy and material for the Russian
front were reported diverted to the
Balkans.
The Zurich report said the re-
servers moved into the Balkans were
estimated at 10000 men, adding that
units were on the way from as far
distant as the Arctic front in Rus
STA. ...
Though the Cairo report said only
that Patton and his staff had visited
various areas" in the Middle East,
with a specific mention of Palestine,
it was assumed that he examined the
key defenses ana dispositions
throughout the vital section, po-
tential springboard for the drive
against Europe from the south as
agreed upon the Teheran confer
ence.
Authorities we're silent regarding
fNzxksn,xnA 49, Y0o~o
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It's Cold In
New England

Boston, Dec. 14.-(UP)-NeW Eng
lands pre-winter cold wave. which
already has cost IS lives, will con-
tinue for at least SO hours with only
a brief respite during the day, the
weather bureau said today.
AS the frigid spell entered Its
fourth day, a minimum temQera-
ture might climb to 20 here during
the day but that the relief would be
short-lived.
Meanwhile, Montpelier. VT, re-
ported-6 during the night; Presque
Isle, Me.,-4, Portland, Me, 2 above,
Westfield above and Lexington S
above.
State Coal Conservator Richard
L. Bowditch reported that there was
enough coal on hand to tide New
England through the cold spell.
State Fuel Oil Conservator Richard
P. Doherty said that the oil picture
was not critical.
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Advance In


Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Dec. 14.-(UP)-A two-mile
advance by Australian troops in New
Guinea and resumption of the
American aerial pounding of Bou-
granville were reported today in the
laborious Allied campaigns on the
approaches to Rabaul.
Paced by Matilda tanks, Austral-
ian infantry forced the Sowi River
on the coast of New Guinea's Huon
peninsula and advanced two miles
against japanese rear-guards to the
out skirts of Lakona village, four
miles northeast of captured Bonga.
The advance was made Saturday,
"a hours after a Japanese force
was routed at the mouth of the SoWi.
Inland other troops were pressing
the Japanese near Wareo.
Grounded four days by bad
weather. American planes renewed
their attacks on Japanese bases on
Bougainville, northernmost of the
Solomons. Nearly 100 aircraft
dropped 81 tons of bombs on the
Bum area, DIV Illc SOutil Sllu VI
the island, destroyed three ground
guns, jetty and several buildings.
Five attacks were made in the
BUN area and on nearby Choiseul
Island while other planes wrecked
nine buildings at Kieta, on the east
coast, and hit Buka, on the north.
U. S. troops suffered minor casual
ties in light ground action on the
Empress Augusta Bay west coast
beachhead.
A dispatch from Admiral William
F. Halsey's South Pacific headquar-
tiers said a destroyer aided the
ground forces by bombarding the
Jaba River mouth southeast of the
bridgehead. Saturdays air raids in
cluded ITS Sorties. Reconnaissance
reports indicated the enemy had
not made use of the weather-caused
lull to attempt repair on his dam
aged Bougainville airfieldS.
Completion of the campaigns on
the New Guinea coast and on Bou-
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Selected Items To Be
Read By Men Overseas

Hollywood, Dec. IA. (UP)-
Deanna Durbin, singing child star
Of the movies who grew up into one
Of Hoollywood'S most beautiful
actressse, was awarded a divorce to-
day from Navy 1t. Vaughn Paul.
Her husbands continual criticism
of her work caused her extreme
mental anguish, she testified before
Judge Ingall w. Bull.
II worked very hard when I made
a picture because only that way can
I make a good picture" she ex-
planned. But no matter how it
turned out, Vaughn was always
ready to criticize. It was the same
with my radio programs, and 1t was
very discouraging."
ibid all this cause you mental
anguish?" Judge Bull asked.
eyes Miss Lurbin replied, adding
that they had few mutual interests
and that he would turn off the radio
whenever she tuned in on SYM
phony program.
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Action On Po1ver Strikes
Raises Query Re Leluis

Wayne l.. Morse, public member
and compliance officer, notified the
union officials last night that the
case would be referred to President
Roosevelt for action unless the
strikers returned Wednesday. He
said the board would not consider
the merits of the case while the
stoppage continued.
1.-THE welfare of labor as well as
Of the country demands that the
War Labor board establish no prec-
edent in this case which will war
rant other unions in assuming that
they can get what they want out
of the War Labor board by strik-
ing" Morse said.
He sent copy Of his telegram to
CLIO President Philip Murray with
this additional remark: 1--WE do not
intend to permit this growing pat
tern of striking against the WLB
in order to gain union demands to
continue"
Morse, who dissented from WLB
approval of the Ickes-Lewis agree
ment because 1t was negotiated
during strike, accused UWOC OH
cials at O hearing yesterday OF
adopting the technique shat the
United Mine Workers were allowed
lconkin,,ad On Fsuna A.
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Rain and MUD
SLOW ALLIED
0RTONA PUSH

Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, December IA. - CUP
- Canadian troops battled
forward drought Nazi tank
forces toward the German
Adriatic coastal anchor at
Ortona as winter rains and
mud returned today to
harass the Allies in Italy.
Front reports said overcast skies
showers and nire slowed action on
both the British Eighth ard Anglo
American fifty army sectors. Indian
troops on the Canadian inland flank
advanced slightly. Only patrolling
and artillery duels occurred in the
Fifth's lines.
(Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
speaking to commons IN London,
predicted a new &c; man withdraw
al in Italy. He said the Nazis were
putting up a "skillful defense" in
the narrowest part of the Peninsu-
la and seas of mud and showers
added to Allied burdens.)
Despite the weather, Allied air.
craft increased the pace Of their at
tacks in advance of the Fifth Army,
where British ant American troops
were facing fire of German SELF
propelled guns.
The extent of the advance by the
Canadian coastal wing toward Or
tona was not specified. Yesterday
they were only two mhes from Or
tona, holding heights that gave them
command Of the tow.
Indian troops thanking the Can
adams on the inland side made
limited advances, taking SO prison.
ers and broadening the Eighth's po-
sition south and southwest OF Or
tona.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's COM
muniuue said the Canadians knock
ed out several German tanks IN
beating off the futile Nazi counter
attacks.
On Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
Fifth Army front activity was linn
tied to artillery exchanges and pa
trolling, with the Germans main
tanning an incessa:,t mortar fire on
American and British positions atop
the Canine Maggiore heights above
the lnaiE road towar:. Rome.
Frontline reports q.lcted German
prisoners as saying their ranks had
loe heavily in the recent nine-day
battle which ended with the Fifth
Army In full control Of heights
commanding long stretch OF the
road leading into the 2o-mile Cassi
no plain.
Invader and Warhawk planes
stepped up their assaults ahead OF
the Fifth's front, knocking out two
important bridges and nine guns IN
the Portecorve and Casello areas
near Casino. They met little Luft-
waite opposition.
While the weather q ~anded hea-
wv bombers, Mitchells attacked the
oil depot at Split, on the Jugoslav
coast, setting off big explosion,
and kindled fires in warehouses and
railroad yards at Sibernik.
Terracina, rail ccntel So miles
southeast Of Rome was attacked Tor
the second straight day. Two AL
lied planes were missing from all
operations.
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CHERkASI MAJOR BASE FALLS TO REDS
IT Would Seem
There Were 8
Men on do Beor..

Brockway, Pa, Dec. 14-(UP)
Three shamefaced hunters
from Br00kville, Pa, admitted
today they had had enough
bear hunting for the season.
They were driving home from
a hunting expedition when
their automobile struck a bear
crossing the road. They tossed
the unconscious animal in the
back seat.
But the bear revived and the
hunters stopped their car and
fled. The bear pursued them.
They fired at him, puncturing
the bear, their gasoline tank
and a rear tire.
A game warden charged the
three with killing a bear out of
season. And the insurance COM
pany refused to pay for dam
ages to the car.
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New York, Dec. 14.-(UP)-The
Broadway night club boxing season
officially open today.
Addison (Jack) Randall, cowboy
star. nursed a stitched head and
Morton Downey, singer, was &C
claimed the winner of a night club
smuggling match in Ell Morocco with
no holds barred.
Who did what and when remained
anyone's guess but it was no secret
that the feud between Randall. pres
ent husband of actress Barbara Ben
nett, and Downey, ex-husband of
Miss Bennett, was one of long
standing. DoWney divorced Barbara
in June, 1941 and gained custody
of the children. Barbara was mar
ried to Randall soon after.
According to Randall, the bout
opened when a member of the
Downey party tsipped him and
called me a vile name He was
not, he said, going to stand for such
things, and he swung - at Downey.
IT don't know much of what hap
pened after that. Someone - and
I'll bet it was Downey - hit me
with bottle he said after sew
eraI stitches had been taken in his
head.
While friends of Downey's said
he was unhurt but disclaimed knowl-
edge of who swung at whom and
with what, Downey himself was not
available.
Seated at ringside table, Joan
Bennett, sister of Barbasa, sat ant
watched. At another table, for
mer fiancee of Randall's, was a spec
tator.
Barbara herself, recently hospital
lied for a major operation, also was
Sin there swinging" Randall said.
But anyone who says she told
Joan she'd slap her face is all wet.
They don't speak," he said.
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NAz|S LOSE
IMPORTANT
DN|EPER POST

London, December IA. -
CUP - General Ivan S. Ko-
news Ukrainian army has
stormed and captured Cher
kasi, the last major German
base on the west bank of the
lower Dnieper River, Premier
Josef Stain announced to-
day in a special order of the
day.
Official Moscow announcement OF
the capture of Cherkasi was borne
out by German high command
acknowledgement that the town hac
been evacuated. Supplementary
Nazi reports said it had been com
pletely destroyed"
Stain, hailing the victors AT
Cherkasi, described the town as "aD
important center of German de-
Tense on the right bank of the
Dnieper" and said it fell today as
result of stubborn fighting.
Military quarters here believed
Cherkasi signalized the crumbling
of the entire German position IN
the northern section of the Dnieper
Bend, since it gave the Russians Q
firm grip on an extensive and stra-
tegic rail and highway network.
The capture Of the town also
cleared the way for a Russian adj
vance westward to threaten the
southern flank of the Germans
counter-attacking the Kiev Salient.
Cherkasi, town Of some $4,000
inhabitants important for its
Dnieper river crossing and its indus
tries, lies some 100 miles below Kiev
and was the main German strong
hold anchoring the defenses along
the upper rim of the Dnieper bend.
A Berlin communique concedine
the loss of Cherkad reported "em-
Uttered fighting and increased
Russian pressure both in that sec.
tor and around Kirovograd to the
south.
1.-THE enemy was able to gain
grounds at some places" the Nazis
admitted.
Three infantry divisions, one air.
borne division and other auxiliary
units distinguished themselves in
the capture of Cherkasi, Stain said,
and henceforth will add the name
of the town to their designations,
The German DNB news agency
said Cherkasi was evacuated last
night 'in full order without loss Of
men or material
Though the city was the scene Of
bitter fighting for several weeks, the
agency added, "the Soviets were
able to penetrate the completely
mined ruins" only in the final few
hours.
Soviet front dispatches first re-
ported the enlightenment of Cher
kasi more than week ago and told
of the defeat of all German at
tempts to break through the Soviet
ring both from within and without.
Russian spearheads fought their
way into the city, the dispatches
said, and the Germans acknowl-
edged several days ago that the So
VETS had penetrated to the Cherkasi
railway station.
The fall of Cherkaso was expected
to pave the way for full-scale So
Wet smash at Smela, key railway
junction Is miles to the south,
whose capture would complete the
collapse of German railway COM
munications in the northern half
of the Dnieper bend.
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Northampton, Mass, Dec. IA
(UP)-Smith College will award
diplomas to $50 members of the class
of 1914 at brief commencement ex-
ercises next Tuesday, President Her
bert j. Davis announced today.
The graduates attended summer
sessions under the voluntary accel-
Grafton plan of the college. Regular
commencement will be held as usual
in Nav
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END TO A SHOWER

Brockton, Mass, Dec. l4.-(UP)-
While taking a shower at the Y. M
C. A. here last night, Pvt. stephen
Barcal Of Chicago was seized by po-
lice on charges of stealing three dia-
mond rings valued at $500 from Jew
airy stores.
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NO FDR MEET

Madrid, Dec. 14-(UP)-Reliable
sources today denied roundabout
report printed in Sweden that Pres
ident Roosevelt had conferred with
GeneraliSSimo Francisco Franco OF
Spain and Premier DR.. Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar of Portugal at
GihTaltag Sunday.
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In Italy

London, Dec. 14-(UP)-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden announced
in Commons today that Allied forces
in Italy have suffered 26.723 cas-
ualties and captured more than
5000 German prisoners.
Allied casualties from the start OF
the Italian campaign through Mo-
vember %, he said, were as follows:
United States Britain
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Someone Should
Coll Diogenes

New York, Dec. 14.-UP)-
Ralph D. Puett, a merchant
seaman from Orange, Texas,
had charged up to profit and
loss" the $1,163.64 he left in a
Tavern Sept. I. When his ship
docked again, he was directed
to police, who gave him the ST.
1854 the tavern proprietor
and bartender had turned In
to them. -
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The Weather

Fair, Colder Tonight
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Evening star., 1943-04-04
New Red Cross Gifts
To Be Reported al
Meeting Wednesday
Employees Of Southern
Railway Present $1,525
To District Campaign

Additional gifts to the District
Red Cross War Fund will be re-
ported at Wednesdays victory lunch
con meeting.
Cleanup squads in the Federal
and District governments are ex-
pected to turn in contributions.
Progress reports from the Junior
Red Cross drive among District
school children, collections in local
theaters and the booth division also
will be received Through April l,
total of $1,672, 300 was reported.
exceeding the quota by SLIT, 400, and
making the drive the most success
full in District history.
Dixie-bound travellers halted their
ticket buying for a moment yester-
day at the Southern Railways city
ticket Office, Fifteenth and K streets
NV, to wat IN Mrs. Harold Baetjer,
Red Cross staff assistant, accept
$1,525.15 from Miss Mary Brooks
Folger, Southern Railway hostess.
This check is from all of U.S." she
told Mrs Baetjer. Every one of
our employees here has contributed.
We set our goal at 100 per cent and
we made it"
Mrs. Baetjer is the wife Of the
registrar of Georgetown University's
School of Foreign Service. Miss
Folger in 1898 was chosen by Nc
Clelland Barclay and in 1910 by Fred
Waring as the most beautiful girl at
Queens College, Charlotte, N. c.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

planned have, not yet been COM
piled.
Fats Collection Below Quota.
Collection of household fats and
grease must continue efficiently, Mr..
Walker said. While February fig
ures show 51,122 pounds OF house
hold fats and grease collected dur
ing the month, that amount Is only
slightly above half the monthly
quota of 100,5O0 pounds set for the
District, it was pointed out. The
Districts average, however, is bet
ter than the average for the Nation
for February.
Grease collections throughout the
United States amounted to little
more than 40 per cent of the quota
of 1857 900 pounds per month. The
amount collected, however, has in
creased each month. An additional
$4,000 pounds of garbage greases
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Boy Scouts Prepare
1000 Lbs. Of Tin Cans
For Salvage Shipment
Drive for JoIopies
Extended in District;
Donations Reach 191

One hundred and three District
Boy Scouts yesterday lent a hand
to the District Salvage Committee
by flattening 1000 pounds of large
tin cans to prepare them for ship
ment to a New Jersey detinning
plant.
The boys worked under direction
Of Linn c. Drake, Scout executive
Of the National Capital Area Coun-
Gil, Boy Scouts OF America, at the
Districts transfer station at New
Jersey avenue and K street Sc.
The cans are part of about $1,000
pounds damaged in a fire last month
at the Coca-Cola bottling works,
400 Seventh street S.W. While the
fire destroyed usefulness OF the
cans as containers, it was not suf-
flcent to make salvage of the tin
impossible, officials pointed out.
Boys paid" With War Stamps.
The Scouts used hammers, their
feet and large brick tamper to
f1etten the cans. Each boy was
given lunch and a 25-cent War saw
ings stamp by the District Salvage
Committee, under direction of Hor-
ace Walker, executive secretary of
the committee
Mr.. Walker decided yesterday to
continue indefinitely the jalopy
campaign.
The intensive" campaign for old
cans. scheduled to run two weeks,
was to have ended today. Mr. Walk
er, however, said the drive had
served simply to start the ball
rolling" and emphasized there are
still hundreds of the cars to be
rounded up.
Yesterday, the number of ja-
lopies donated in the campaign
reached 19l. This number, Mr..
Walker estimated. will yield ap-
proximately $4,000 pounds of scrap
iron and steel
Meanwhile, Mr.. Walker said titles
have been cleared on a number of
other old cars and still others are
being rounded up for donation. He
urged all who own old and useless
automobiles and truck to contribute
them for scrap.
Greater Public Effort Urged.
At the same time Mr.. Walker
urged increased public effort to
speed the salvage drive.
The District is still behind its
quota of 100000 pounds of scrap
metal for the first six months of
this year. Figures recently compiled
for February showed a total Of
nearly 100000 pounds of scrap
metal collected here during January
and February. About AS 900 pounds
OF this was nonferrous, exclusive of
tin cans, it was said.
Estimating that the collections Of
scrap metal for March will show
an increase of approximately 10
per cent over the earlier monthly
average, Mr.. Walker believes that
from January through March ap-
proximately 15,2O0,0OO pounds of
scrap metal have been collected
here. The March figures, he ex-
Evening star., 1943-04-04

cludes a portable lifeboat radio
equipped to float, with an automatic
lever for sending sos messages:
complete breeches buoy equipment
and materials for teaching rope
tying and splicing, compass reading,
bos'n chair rigging, fire fighting and
rules of the sea.
The courses will be from three
to four weeks and will prepare men
for examinations for lifeboat Ger
tiflcates. Ordinary seamen with
nine months experience are eligible
to attend.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

were collected in the District in
February.
Other local salvage figures show a
total Of SAL, $50 pounds of tin cans
collected In the District during jan
uary and February, with the figures
for March yet to be compiled.
Total District salvage collections
Of all materials for February alone,
the last month for which figures
have been compiled, was 10,389, ,753
pounds. Included, besides metals,
were such items as 249, ,6S8 pounds of
rubber and 1852 pounds Of
paper.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
School Designed as Ships Deck
To Train 800 Seumen q Month

ant of the Coast Guard, would pre-
side at the formal opening cere-
monies.
The school will be conducted by
Second Mate Thomas Fitzsimmons
OF Lowell, Mass, who was torpedoed
last year on the South Atlantic and
was rescued after 10 days adrift.
The equipment Mr.. Fitsinmons
has assembled includes new
standard-type steel lifeboat, % feet
long, able to hold 40 persons. 1t
is the type which now is being
placed on all American ships.
The schools other equipment in
Evening star., 1943-04-04
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April "a school
which virtually has been trans
formed into a ships deck, the only
one OF its kind in the country, will
begin Monday its task of turning
900 ordinary seamen into able sea-
men every month.
The National Maritime Union
(CIO), which is sponsor of the up
grading and safety school designed
to relieve the shortage of skilled
sailors, announced that Vice Ad-
miral Russell r. Waesche, command
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Hebrew Congregation
Holds Open House Toduy

Open house will be held for serv-
icemen from 2:30 to $50 pm. to-
day at the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation, 816 Eighth street NV.
An orchestra, composed of men in
the service, will be featured.
Supper will be served later. All
servicemen are welcome.