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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-12
AMERICANS CLOSE
 IN ON JAPANESE
.MacArthur Plans Final Drive to Throw Enemy
 From Papuan Hold
By DON CAsWELL

(Unite0 Press Stan COrreSpOnnenC)
 General MacArthur's Headquar- ters, Australia, Jan 12 = (UP) - United States and Australian troops developed new flanking attacks to- day on the Japanese troops at San- amanda Point in preparation for 8 final drive to throw the enemy forces out of their last stronghold in Papuan New Guinea.
 General Douglas MacArthur' communique said the Allied troops including men of the 32d and 41st American Army Divisions were clos Ing steadily on the Japanese pinned to a small beach head around San- 0nAnda Point on the north New Guinea coast.
 American soldiers had captured Tarakena village, only 1-2 miles southeast of the Point; patrols were within 1 1-2 miles of the main enemy positions along the inland trail, and the Allies held the beach northwest of the point.
 Artillery newly emplaced around Tarakena Village and the machine guns. opened bombardment ot Japanese positions and within a short time reduced a fortification which the enemy troops were builu- ing hurriedly in readiness for a death stand in the final Allied att tack. Some Japanese troops were killed.
 Along the inland trail. strong Al- lied combat patrols closed in and during . slight advance captured machine guns, rifles and grenades.
 Beaufort torpedo planes of the Royal Australian Air Force, in use for the first time in this area, wrecked and almost undoubtedly sank a Japanese cruiser or large destroyer in Q sun down attack Sat- urday, MacArthurs c0mmunique rec vealed. off 0asmata, New Britain Island.
 A direct torpedo hit caused . heavy explosion on the warship as the Beauforts caught it outside Qasmata Harb0r. The torpedo struck alnidships and soon the ship was enveloped Id smoke. Next morn ing it vas not Co be seen and it was believed to have sunk during the night.
 A spokesman here said it was pos- slble that this ship was part of the convoy which Allied planes shat tered while moving Q landing force to Lae, ir mCrthenstern New Guinea up the coast from Rapun. At least It was ln the ncishhogho0d toward whinh tha convnH Fonanauf4 Hen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-12
DYNAMITE BLASTS
 RIVERS ICE PACK

East Haddam, Conn, Jan. i2.- (UP)-Army engineers and crews from the state Highway Depart ment today began blasting with dynamite at a huge ice pack which has piled up in the Connecticut river near here. blocking delivery of fuel oil to northern Connecticut communities.
 Barges carrying more than 5000 900 gallons Of fuel were unable 10 proceed up the river past this point, and Gov. Baldwin arranged with the Highway Department and Army personnel to clear uu the waterway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-12
JAMES JOHNSON PASSES

wiillmantlc. Conn, Jan. i2-(wP) James c. Johnson, 60, Hartford, died last night of injuries suffered In a truck accident at Mansfield depot Friday night. Johnson, . route foremen for Q Hartford Milk Compaliy, was injured critically when hts truck left the road and struck a boulder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-12
By CHARLES P. ARNOT United Press Staff Correspondent
HeadouarterS.

Headquarters United States Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, January 12 = (UP) - seaman, lying on the bserng deck of the crippled aircraft carrier Hornet enemy planes reked down. tried to climb off stretcher ito have another shot at the Japs One of his legs had treated first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-12
Eleven Sunken Ships Make U. s. History
UP Writer Witnesses Death of Aircraft Carrier, Hornet - Best Story of Pacific War Since
 October % Suppressed Until Now

CThe United Press correspondent following dispatch been military security by naval censorship since Oct 26 On that date witnessed death craft carrier Hornet and with official permission
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The sub., 1943-05-20
SPORTSLIGHT
By GORT WILBUR

Putting one little word after the other and how that CIO organ grinder can believe half what he tells the boys in the yard is be- yond me. Showing their disregard for humanity in general, two weeks ago one of these CIO beetle browed calliopes stood passing out his strike doctrines at the main yard gate. Tn back of him, in a furry of the torn-up papers, was an old man with one leg selling shoe strings and pencils, and try ing to make dollar. What sweet bunch the grandsons of The Wise Old Owl are.
 Lou Menendez, last years
 Diesel shOrtstOp, and forced
 out of the lineup this year by
 illness, will or already has re-
 turned from his home in New
 York -. If boxing really
 catches on this year, Jim Mum
 dell may match Al Valez with
 Joe GilIis at Mercer Field.
 Gillis defeated the sailor boy
 at HolyOke a month ago, for
 Valez' first defeat since he
 took up the manly art.
 Joe Rafferty's letter to ye ed had quite lot of food for thought. It was to my wonderment why double header wasn't made out of the opening of the Morgan season. What an afternoon of diamond dusting! Coast Guard Dolphins vs. Coast Guard Bears in the first game and TrojanS vs. Ockfords in the night cap As to the Nor gan League, think that tte brand of ball that will be played up there this year will be by far the best ever played at Morgan Park. Dan Donovan is in the saddle for his greatest year.
 Baseball BOswels: Bill Greig,
 the ScOtty machinist, who
The sub., 1943-05-20

the bespectacled MT. Five-by-Five.
 It goes without saying that be- hind the plate will be Jim LaPiet- ra, who has guided more wins for the Diesels than most people think. There isn't a better receiver in the Nutmeg aggregation than this Westerly boy.
 In the Mitchell Field team the Diesels will find fairly formidable opposition. Led by Les Burge, MitchePs catcher, the visitors will be out to spank the offerings of Pavlok.
 The invaders two weeks ago dropped a free hitting session to Fordham 12-10, but the very fact that they can hit should make it interesting to watch.
The sub., 1943-05-20
Ask Me Another

J. F., Pipefitter, First Shift: The pole vault is one track event that developed from mans inherent de- sire for easier, speedier travel. Its origin was in England, where for centuries squireS and yeomen used poles to skip over brooks, ditches, dikes and fences. As sport, it began at English fairs and we read "that in the 1880's all the cham pions came from the village of Ul- vershire." No mention is made of the heights accomplished with poles of ash or other light wood, but the vault was climb rather than the swing we know today. So Johnny, that's it.
 T. R., Shipfitter, First Shift: The Galloping Gaels of the Morgan Valley, better known as St. Mary's, pulled the neatest one when they signed your Jimmy Phelan, to serve as head coach last spring. This was in lieu of Norman Strader, who joined the navy's flight condi-. tioners immediately after the April tuneupS. Phelan and the GaelS are a ham-egg combination.
 c. A. l.. IT,, Welder, Second Shift: No. sir, Rube Waddelrs greatest strikeout total-343 in 1904 with the As-was just 30 better than Walter Johnson'S greatest number -313 in 1910. As to your second, the Philadelphia As led the Ameri- can League in home runs in 1885 with 112 and finished in the cellar.
 ID. C., Shipfitter, First Shift: Your last years Brave did it. The new all-time high for front-line short stop in the fielding averages was hung up. by Eddie Miller, .983, which pushed out of tGae book Jim- mic Cooney's .978 as of 1927. The ancestral derivations of your fav- orites are as follows: Workman. German Irish; Ross, German Scotch; Gomez. Irish-Spanish; Jaw cry, French; Kluttz, German; Holmes, Irish and Cuccinello, It. alian
 F. L., Welder, First Shift: Ma tional Leagues 1940 batting cham pion, former Brave and Pirate. back now with your Cards after hitting .314 and driving in 96 runs for Sac ramento4 last year. Speedy Texan from Howard Payne College, his first big league career was with St. Louis Browns 1892. His bat, however, won't take the place of the one swung by Country Slaugh- ter.-
The sub., 1943-05-20
More Players Needed For Tennis Benefit

The huge American Red Cross singles and doubles ben eft matches that will be held at Mitchell Woods courts May 29, 30 and 31, are still very much in need of men in order to make the series a success.
 With a yard the size of the Electric Boat and employees both with white collar and ov- erals, there should be a bet ter response than that which has trickled in so far. Let's get going and make this ten his show a success.
 If anybody is interested, contact John Angeles, at once. John is around the main yard most of the time and if you can't find him in the yard, get in touch with him in shop 331, or phone the superintendent of Mitchell Woods Tennis court.
 It is expected that all semi final matches will be out of the way by Sunday afternoon, thus paving the way for the finals in the women's singles and the mems singles and doubles on Monday afternoon.
The sub., 1943-05-20

knows more about the game
 than most ball players do, has
 come out with his yearly
 climb out on the diamond limb
 to pick the league champs.
 Says Bill, Dodgers and Tanks.
 The rest should play twilight
 baIp Our good friend, Bob
 Foley, the baseball Albert,
 claims the St. Louis Cards are
 the best in the National and
 the Tanks i'm the A. l..
 Sights and Sounds Along The
 RialtO: The main yard doesn't
 seem the same without Slim
 Furlong around. With those
 long arms, he could have
 helped Charlie Pinch out at
 first base with the Tr0jans
 Jimmy McKenna feels proud
 and justly so, for the visit of
 Sir Stork as does the Fred
 GrippO's.
 Our buddy, Jackson Cruise, was home on short furlough and what with so many. of his friends want- ing him to drop around and say hello, that long awaited tennis match didn't come off What with Tom Bolles, in the service. and Ed Leader on the shelf at Old Eli. it's just as well the blue and red navies didn't get together this year. doubt very much If any coach can quite come up to the greatness that Bolles made of the crimson shells Our deep regrets to Bill Haase for the loss of his father If we had more time and more hours in which to accomplish what we would like to do. that would be Utopia. In this case, we have ref- erence to Lefty Tracey's stag, which we had to pass up. Nice boy. Lefty. He played hard in all his sports. Always clean, he fought to win and the right way, be it hard. America could use more of his kind.
The sub., 1943-05-20
Caruey's Club
 SOftbaU Axme1u

The SOftbalI season is opened, Come listen to the bOOs and
 cheers,
 Come see the air field and
 Coast Guard,
 And Garvey's mighty Racket
 eerS.
 The boys from Eastern Point
 fire house,
 BabcOck's and the E. B.,
 Spicers and the Tigers,
 All fighting for victory.
 Joe Sanferda When that linguistic bard begins to spout the above, all and sundry had better take to their tornado eel lars, or really, would it do them much good? Why, that gang up in the north yard on the first shift sparked by His Royal Highness Joseph Juniper Garvey. will vow to a man that their Racketeers will meet the finest softball team any, where at any time and with dis couraging regularity Ed Benski and Miner would now 'em down. For instance, just roam over the following names and try to imagine the trials and tribulationS that the other members of the Groton Soft ball league have got to endure: Pitchers, Benski and Miner; Catch CTS, Facchini and Rothen, inield Londregan. Golart, Ruffo, Tank, and K. Perkins; outfield, Gabby. O'Neill, R. Perkins; Subs, Jones, w. Lewis and Waterman.
 Yes, the above mentioned are enough to make the old older and the young, a hell of a lot older. They are to softball what the Key stone cops were to Max Sennetts films, only more needling to an easy going adversary.
 The team wins the games but back of their wins is the now al- most fabled board of strategy. Manager Joseph Saferda,. Field Manager Mike Halasey, President Joseph Juniper Garvey. Vice-Presi- dent William Spada, Sponsor George the Greek, and Team Trail CT for '43, William Heating. So, you still wonder why the opposition Is licked before they start, huh?
The sub., 1943-05-20

1NOC gwen du OuLS1UG Cl1d1lCS OA even parading under the colors of the DieSels in '43 when the hot stovers were batting it back and forth, the Boatmen will put on dis play this Sabbath apreS-midi, a combination of both power and fielding finesse. All things point to a double dose of both.
 Babe Young May Play
 As The Sub has an early dead line, it isn't clear whether it will be Joe Murphy or Babe Young guarding the initial sack. Many overtures have been made for the use of the former Giant first sack CT but as yet nothing is definite on his playing. Young is by far and away the greatest first baSemen since Bill, the Terrible Terry, roamed that section of the Polo Grounds and what the effect his presence would mean to the Dies els, is best exemplified by the shot in the arm Clark Hinkle gave the men of Cawley.
 Another luminary that might be in Diesel uniform by the time this gets into print, is Hank Majewski, former infield slugger for Newark and one of the top men in the h. ternational League last year. Moth ing of course is final on this score, either, but what racket that sil- yer would make and the thunder ous plunk the bills would make at Mercer Field if, and when they do play.
 Otherwise the champs will bring before the camera the same crowd that helped to bring them the state championship for the last three years. with the exception of Ray Smith and Jimmy McKenna, two of Chapman Techs greatest base ball and football athletes.
 Both McKenna and Smith will play the outfeld, along side old faithful, Danny Czekala, the Polish Pulverizer. If anything should happen to Jim LaPietra behind the plate, Smith would move into catch and Freddie Mitchell would swing out into right field.
 Aside from the possibility of Young and Majewski playing first and short, respectively, Tony Osin- ski, the greyhound of the sacks. will be at second base, and MT. Baseball himself, Johnny Golart. will be hugging the hot corner. If Majewski doesn't play then Coach Steve Tuneski plans on using Bucky Yauilla at short. The same "if'' holds at first. If Young isn't available then Joe Murphy will be at first.
 Chet PavIOk to Pitch
 The Diesels will start Chet Paw lok, who throws ball faster than a Central Vermont locomotive cin- der can make you blink. If Chet is right and pitches them to where Piet wants them, the invaders should find the going tough.
 For reserves Tuneski can use an- other right handler, Bill Cluzeski, and also a portsider, Dig Morgan,
The sub., 1943-05-20
Diesels Play Strong Mitchell Field Team In Opener Sunday

The 1943 diamond top of the Electric Boat Dieses will be bated off this Sunday afternoon at Mercer Field when the Diese will bats with the powerful Mitchell Field service team in contest that will begin at 3:30 p.
The sub., 1943-05-20

Uncle Sam needs your eyes. Pro- tect them by wearing your gog- gles.
, 1943-04-14

Nazi Germany and the other Axis
powers into unconditional surren-
der" Their attitude regarding
American war aims and postwar
plans has seriously hindered full
consolidation of the United Nations
coalition and the development of
its offensive military struggles.
American imperialists by their per-
sistent anti British campaign; their
widespread hostility to the U. S.
S. r.; their patronizing attitude
toward China; their sniping at
the Lend Lease Act, are all calcu-
lated to sow divisions among the
allied democratic nations. Their
effect Is distinctly disruptive and
jeopardizes our wal effort, thus
encouraging attack against our
country from within. All this de-
featist opposition totals up to a
serious lessening of our country's
organization for war in every
sphere, political, social, economic
and military.
When the United States became
directly involved in this war it
should have been accepted as an
imperative signal for the trade
union movement to unite its ranks,
to adopt a joint win-the-war pro-
gram. This has not been done,
however, let us mobilize our forces
behind the government to a sue
cessful conclusion of the Casa
blanca Decision" in 1913.
, 1943-04-14

The Pepper-Kilgore bill, if adopt
ed would provide this needed ma
tional coordination of our eco
nomic system. What happens in
stead of a balanced win-the-war
economic system, Congressional re-
dictionaries are actually creating
a situation in which the workers
are to be chained to their jobs
with their wages frozen, while the
industrialists free of all produc-
ton and profit controls continue to
send the cost of living skyward.
Labor Research Association, Mar.
1943) says: after all taxes, in
GLIDING excess profits taxes, the
corporations of the United States
showed net profits Of $40 billions
in 1899 $6.8 billions in 1912.
The rise in net profits was thus
62 per cent between 1889 and
1912"
In consequence of this general
course by the reactionary opposi-
ton in congress our national econ
omy Is now in a state of partial
chaos. The workers are suffering
from soaring costs of living and
tagging wages; the industrial and
agricultural labor supply is dis
organized; the capitalists r reap
ing unprecedented profits; the
workers and poor farmers are
bearing a disproportionate share
of the financial load; a dangerous
initiation is creeping over the coun-
try and production suffers as a
consequence, nov repeatedly only
so per cent per man of what it is
in Great Britain. All of which is
very helpful to Hitler, who can
thank the defeatist opposition in
Congress for it.
Obviously these fifth-column
forces would like to end this war
by a negotiated peace. They would
give up without hesitation our
professed war aims and save what
is possible of fascism. One senator
even rose to propose that the
Nazi agent Viereck, recently re-
leased by an infantile decision of
the u. S. Supreme Court, should
be compensated for the time he
spent in jail
Naturally these reactionaries do
not support the Atlantic Charter
or the Four Freedoms. They have
nothing in common with the avow-
ed aim of our country to smash
, 1943-04-14

One of the most menacing fea-
lures of the reactionaries offensive
is their violent attack upon the
trade unions. The open shoppers
are in arms against organized
labor, putting the war into second
place or leaving it out of the pic
ture altogether. The press and
radio are full of vile accusations
against the workers and the
Unions, charging them with prof.
teering, cultivating absenteeism,
etc., by the Peglers, Kaltenborns,
Rickenbackers, and other spokes-
men of the NAM and the so-called
Farm Bloc.
Congress and many state legis-
latures, as never before, are
jammed with rabid anti-labor leg
islation. There is the Hobbs bill,
which would put labor unions
pretty much in the category of
organized gangsters. The proposals
for a vicious labor draft bill, aimed
to regiment the workers and freeze
them to their jobs. The johnson
involuntary servitude" bill, to
combat absenteeism by work or
fight orders,
Other schemes are in the making
to incorporate trade unions by the
Coxes, Wilson's, Rankins, Hoff-
mans, O'Daniels, and other motor
ious labor baiters. These anti
labor measures which are in vari-
Gus stages of preparation would
deny the workers the legal right
to strike. To force the registra-
ton of all trade union members,
to prevent the use of union funds
for election purposes, to abolish
picketing, to halt the collection of
union dues payments during the
war, to exempt returned soldiers
from union shop regulations, to
outlaw the closed shop and finally,
to emasculate the Wagner Labor
Relations Act. This has been char
acterized by President Green of the
A. F. of L as a "Hitlerian control
of labor"
Another field of congressional
obstruction has to do with the
country's general economy. What
is required in the United States in
order to bring production up to its
maximum and to avoid the danger
of initiation is the adoption of a
centralized war economy, much
along the lines of Great Britain.
, 1943-04-14
At The

With Russ Richesorl

If the American people are to prosecute the war to the "uncondi-
surrender" of the Axis powers, as called for by Casablanca con-
ference, then it is imperative to smash the defeatst reactonary often
which is increasingly taking shape In this country. Especially, the
defeatsts seek more boldly to prevent the defeat of the Axis,
to block the consolidation of the United Nations coalition, and if pos
sible to direct the war against the u. S. S. R.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16
tigers Trim Senators, 8 to I, as BLood1uorth Homer

EYE ON HONORS -
Mrs. Margaret Nye prac-
ticing at the City of Detroit
Parks and Recreation Gun
Club at ElmwOOd Center for
the TIMES-HEARST Rifle
shoot at Olympia, May
1890. She took it up Il
year ago, her husband fol-
lowed her six months later.
ElmwOOd Range was made
from material salvaged by
General Superintendent
John COnsidine at slight
cost to city. Rife shooting
has become one of leading
activities in his department.
Many high class junior
and senior marksmen have
been developed. Range is
crowded daily. City plans
more ranges. Purpose: To
help Uncle Sam train
draftees. (See Story Page 81
Evening star., 1943-12-10
THE EVENING STAR, w..ha..sa ?

holding Of meetings, purchase o1
radio time or other means of for.
warding the candidacy of any per.
son.
The CIO chieftain said his grour
now was interested mainly in the
programs presented by the candi.
dates for postwar employment. HI
said If the national income is per.
mitted to drop as low as 100000.
100000 after the war from the pres.
ent high of nearly 5000, 600, 900 900
the result would be widespread un.
employment.
New Committee Members.
Named to the committee under
Mr.. Hillman were:
c. B. Baldwin, former State De-
partment director of economic op.
erations in Italy, assistant to the
chairman; John Abt, counsel to the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America, and Lee Pressman, GIG
counsel, both named as counsel tc
the committee; George Rettingel
of the United Steel Workers OF
America, controller.
Regional directors are: Maryland
New Jersey, Delaware-Irvin Abram-
son, president of the New Jersey
State CIO Council; Indiana, Illinois
Wisconsin - Raymond McKeough
former Democratic Congressman
from Illinois and now OPA regional
director in Chicago; Ohio and Ken
tucky-Jack Kroll, vice president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Hi||man Adds Eiqht
Members 10 Clio Unit
For Political Action

The CIO Political Action Commit.
tee. under the craftsmanship of Sid
ney Hillman, went into full swing
In its campaign to organize the
votes of labor for the 1914 presiden-
tial campaign.
Appointment of eight additional
members Of the committee was an
nounced by Mr.. Hillman at a press
conference. At the same time, he
issued statement calling on all
groups affiliated with the commit
tee to continue pressing for congress
sional action to guarantee service
men a vote and released letter
sent to regional directors of the
committee reminding them to re-
main within the provisions Of ma
tional and State laws in connection
with political expenditures.
ITO deprive our service men and
women of their votes" Mr.. Hillman
said, lis scandalous. We still hope
to prevail upon Congress to give
them the vote"
Cynical and Brutal"
He described the Senate action
killing the Green Lucas bill as
cynical and brutal" and said the
right Of soldiers to vote should not
be the principal issue of the 1914
campaign.
But If it has to be, so be it," he
added.
In his circular letter to regional
chairmen, Mr. Hillman pointed out
that the Smith Connally act pro-
hibits the committee from making
direct financial contributions to can
didates for Federal Office or to their
parties, but that the law does not
forbid the distribution of leaflets,