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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-01
NAILS INCREASE
OCCUPATION ARMY
Conditional State OF Tmer-
gency' in Norway Coastal
Areas Proclaimed
BY JOHN A. PARIS
United Press staff Correspondent

London, June 1--CUP) German
authorities have proclaimed Con
ditional state Of emergency" in
coastal areas of Norway and have
increased the occupation army to
100000 men, Norwegian govern
ment spokesman reported today.
New clashes between patriots and
Quisling storm troopers have
brought about the emergency meas
ures which include a roundup of
men of military age in an apparent
effort to weaken the underground
organization so it cannot aid Allied
invasion, it was said.
Battles between patriots and storm
troopers was reported at Trondheim
and Drammen, where sabotage has
increased sharply, the spokesman
asserted. Trondheims 100000 popu-
lation was reported to now include
some $4,000 Germans.
German guards were said to have
fired on Norwegians at Bergen who
refused to obey orders.
The best information reaching the
Norwegian exile government was
that the Nazis now have 10 divisions
In Norway and 100000 civilians.
Reports stated that the Germans
were ntensifying fertilization OF the
coastline and air fields. The num-
Der of mounted coastal batteries was
estimated at almost 1000, including
heavy defenses at Oslofpord, Ber
gen. lrondheim Narvik and Varan-
gerfiord. The Nazis were said to
have 80 air bases.
Saboteurs have cut German pro-
duction OF war weapons In occupied
countries at least AZ per cent. Allied
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CRITICAL PERIOD
OF WAR AT HAND
Byrnes Claims Future Pro-
ductiOn Will Be But One
Part of Broad Picture
BY MERRIMAN SMITH
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENCE

Washington, June - CUP -
James F. Byrnes, the man President
Roosevelt selected to direct the
American war effort and the civil
ian economy, served notice today
that the critical period OF war had
arrived and that Americans hence
forth must assume a major role in
military operations against the Axis.
In a speech last night before a
hometown audience at Spartanburg,
S. c., Byrnes showed the full au-
thority of his new post as director
of the Office of War Mobilization
by making disclosures about the
wars progress which usually would
have been reserved for an import
ant fireside chat by Mr.. Roosevelt.
He tempered his optimistic re-
port on the progress of production.
however, by warning that in the
future production will be but one
part OF the broad picture.
I'VE must keep up our about
production at the same time that
millions of our men are engaged
in about attacks" he said. This
will put stresses and strains on our
military machine. on our civilian
economy, on our private lives
I'VE must act with greater dis
patch and greater efficiency than
ever. We must learn to work. to
fight, to sacrifice together as we
have never done before, We must
accept willingly and gladly a self
discipline to which we are not by
tradition accustomed"
AS bad news for Adolf Hitler and
his Axis partners, Byrncs an
nounced that the l0O,0o0th airplane
of the three year building program
rolled Off the assembly lines yes
terday: that 100 fighting ships had
heen built r. the firt tive months
of this year and that during the
wear the size of the fleet will be
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Evening star., 1943-04-25

tion of this character is demanded
the supporters of that bill will be
ready to act without delay. The
hearings before the Senate Military
Affairs Committee already consti-
tute a very strong record in support
of such legislation.
Congress, under the Constitution,
is the law-making body. But no law
has yet been enacted which gives to
the President, the Manpower Com
mission or any other agency the
power to deal adequately with the
war demands upon industry and
labor. The air is filled with threats
and rumors of industrial strife. The
Congress, if it will, can strengthen
the hand of the Executive enor-
mously.
The time for softneSs in this coun-
try has passed. We are at grips with
enemies both powerful and desper-
ate. Congress has acted to draft
the youth Of the country, and some
who are not so young for military
service. It is the duty of Congress
to see that these men are not left to
defeat and death anywhere because
OF lack of arms and supplies result
ing from nlismanagement and mis-
direction at home.
Evening star., 1943-04-25

tudeS have looked to Him as to no other
for the fullest and completest interpre-
tation of life the world has ever known
This Easter comes to us at time of
grave crisis. Thousands upon thousands
of our sons have gone from us to defend,
if need be with their lives, the high
principles for which we as a people stand.
1t is inevitable that many of them will
make the supreme sacrifice, giving all
that they have to a great cause. Can We
believe that to them this means the end
of life? Shall we erect over their graves
a symbol that suggests the unfulfllment
of happy hopes and large expectations?
Shall we think of those whom we have
loved and lost awhile as sleeping the
iron sleep" from which none awakSneth?
Can we, as we forecast the certainty of
our own departure, believe that the grave
is marked by the one word, terminus?
We cannot believe this to be true as we
contemplate again the story of the first
Easter morning. Upon the evidence so
fully given by the risen Christ. the Chris
tian church has based its hopes and
the great apostle, st. Paul, cries out: IF
Christ be not risen, then is our preach
ing vain, and your faith is also vain"
The poet is right where he says:
otis life, 1chereof our nerUes are
Scant,
Oh, life. not death, for 1Uhich ne pant;
More life, and fuller, that I aUant."
And Tennyson in his I'm Memoriam"
gives eloquent expression to his belief in
the timelessness of life. So it is that
Easter, above all other days in the CAL
endar, comes to us with its mighty af-
frmation. So it is that men and women
the world over come to their Easter serv-
ices with faces aglow, with high hopes
and expectation. Because I live ye
shall live Also Il am the resurrection
and the life, he that ,believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live"
These are the immortal words that give
to Easter its true meaning and interpre-
tation.
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life
By The Right Rev JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d. LII. d. D. c. L.,
Bishop OF Washington.

Easter, more than any day in the year,
speaks of life. The very fact that it falls
in the season of spring, when the earth
is being renewed, where the devastation
of winter is replaced by the evidences of
the renewal of nature, makes this day
the glowing symbol of a new beginning.
Men and women respond to it more than
to any day in the calendar. There is
something in our nature that answers to
its mighty appeal. Even those who have
little of faith respond to its call. Down
through the long ages, in every place and
CLINE, men have recognized in the Easter
message something that appeals to the
deepest yearnings of their hearts Even
the old and enfeebled, the sick and the
weary, respond to it. While the risen
Christ did not seek to interpret the life
that Is to be, still His spoken word, Be
cause I live, ye shall live also" stirs
within us hopes and expectations unlike
any message that has ever fallen from
the lips of man.
1t is true that the great philosophers
have reasoned and speculated about life
beyond the veil None of them has done
more than guess, but they give no affir-
nation concerning the future. While
their message is a hopeful one, it lacks
the element of certitude. Jesus Christ
interpreted life in larger, fuller terms.
He gave to it meaning it had never had
before. He made men feel that life was
not limited, and that death meant full
fillment; the realization of mans highest
and holiest hopes and expectations. He
linked life here with the life beyond, and
made them one. He made today but
preparation for tomorrow In doing this,
He made life in the present world part
of the fuller, more satisfying life that is
to be. He saw in every man and woman
capacities for something better than they
had ever known. Even to those whose
lives seemed to witness to misfortune and
failure, He gave the promise of better
things to come. Eternal hope was the
substance of His message.
Little wonder is it that countless multi
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Labor Abuses Upheld

The succession of Supreme Court
decisions immunizing labor unions
from prosecution for commercial
restraints continues to block the
efforts of the Government to end
these abuses.
The latest evidence in this con-
nection Is furnished in California,
where Federal District Judge has
held that the American Federa.io
of Labor painters union was within
its rights in forbidding the use OF
spray guns for painting on Govern
ment housing project because the
devices would permit the employ
ment of fewer workmen. The Justice
Department had obtained an injunc-
ton under the antitrust law against
78 persons, including contractors and
labor chiefs, charging conspiracy in
restraint of trade. The lower court
quashed the indictment, however,
falling back on the recent ruling of
the Supreme Court in the Petrillo
case, where the high tribunal, con-
forming to a familiar pattern, said
the Norris-La Guardia Act stood in
the way of an injunction to restrain
the American Federation of Mu-
sicians from preventing the produc-
ton of musical recordings by union
members
1t is unsound, even under ordinary
conditions, to make unnecessary
employment mandatory because of a
principle read into the law, but at a
time like this, when the labor short
age is so severe. such doctrine be-
comes thoroughly indefensible.
The Supreme Court now Is con-
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Government Poy Bill

In rejecting the new omnibus pay
bill when it was too late to get other
legislation through before the tenn
porary pay bill expires April 80, the
House is responsible for a waste of
time and money by large group of
agencies which will be forced to re-
wise their May rolls 1t also is seri-
ously lnconveniencing thousands of
Government workers, who, at least
for the present, will take pay cut.
The proposed new measure does not
differ substantially from the old, re-
tanning the principal provision for
2l.6 increase on the basis of a forty
eight-hour week. However, it would
lift the $4,000 ceiling" which here
tofore has prevented employees
around that level and above from
participating in the emergency pay
benefits.
Presumably it was because of this
change, which would affect some
$4,000 employees out of 2,7OO,OOO, that
the House rejected the conference
report on the measure which already
had received Senate approval. The
merit of this action may best be
judged in the light of the earlier pas
sage by an almost unanimous vote
in the House Of a far more liberal
pay bill for postal employees.
Legislation no doubt will be passed,
and made retroactive, after the House
recess ends, but that does not alter
the fact that an entirely uncalled-
for hardShin has been created
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Read On

The thorns, the cross, the gray death
agony,
The anguished cry too terrible to
bear,
ooh, Father, Uhy hast Thou forsaken
ne!'
Read on. The story Is not ended
there.
A space of darkness over all the
earth
Before the splendor of the Easter
daW71,
The open tomb, the radiant rebirth
And all the shado,Dy shapes OF fear
1DithdraUn.
oh, mystic symbol: Darkness, da1Dn;
release
From long captivity of grief and
pain,
Life after DEATH; after ,Dar's tunult,
peace;
White lilies blotDing ,ohere the dead
haze lain.
And man so long bewildered and
astray,
Setting his feet upon the heauenly
U1y.
1NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
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South Sea War IdyII

A corner of the veil of secrecy
which enshrouds the far-fung Pa
ciflc war has just been lifted to reveal
another advance there by our armed
forces. The first intimation was con-
tanned in a Navy conlmunique an
nouncing a japanese air raid on
Funafuti, largest coral atoll of the
group known as the Ellice Islands.
This was news, because it has been
assumed that the Ellice Islands were
in full possession of the Japanese,
along with the kindred Gilbert group
some 500 miles to the northWard and
the island of Nauru still farther to
the northwestward When our occu-
patton of Funafuti occurred has not
yet been officially disclosed. Perhaps
1t took place last October, when the
Navy announced operations in the
Gllbert-Elllce area. At any rate,
news stories by correspondents with
the fleet describing the landing on
Funafuti now have been belatedly
ASASe~oSo, pAlod5l1 Will liz udUt 1lllC.
These accounts depict a colorful cpl
sode, more like film scenario than
a warlike operation. We read of
transports threading their way eau
tlously through a narrow channel
between jagged coral reefs into a
mirror-smooth lagoon, where the
marines disembarked on palm
fringed beaches dotted with smiling,
bronzed Polynesians, who at once
began bartering coconuts and woven
baskets. Warships offshore and an
umbrella of planes in the tropic skies
overhead watched vigilantly for pos
sible japanese interference, but none
appeared and the operation was con-
cluded without a shot being fired.
The most interesting fact in the
Ellice occupation is that the japanese
had not extended their effective hold
to this group, whose strategic impor-
tance is considerable, since they lie
only about 600 miles north of Fiji,
which is one of the major links in
the island chain that guards our line
OF communications across the Pa
ciflc to Australia. In japanese hands
these coral atolls could have been
used as bases for airplanes and sub
marines raiding conveys on that
route. Conversely, in our hands, the
Ellice Islands might be made the
base for an offensive northward
through the Gilberts to the Japa-
nese-mandated Marshall Islands.
The main japanese base of Jaluit in
that group is less than 500 miles from
the Glberts
Ihe japanese air raid on Funafuti
last Thursday may betoken the be-
ginning of an attempt to recover the
lost ground, made possible by the
heavy reinforcing of all the Japa.
nese positions in the South Pacific,
which is known to have been going
on for some time. If this be so they
are likely to run into a marine re-
ception committee that will give
them warm welcome, for the news
stories just released describe the
landing OF men and equipment on
considerable scale, and since Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox says they have
been ashore "for some time" ade-
quate defensive measures undoubt-
edly have beer completed. What
ever may occur, we can be sure that
our marines will acquit themselves
as splendidly as they have elsewhere
in the Pacific war, which has added
many fresh pages Of glory to the
records Of the corps.
Evening star., 1943-04-25
Order Under Law

The difficulties involved in "di-
recting" the American people with
out specific laws fixing the direction
and imposing penalties are becoming
self-evident. And this is so even
though the Nation is at war, when,
if ever, the American people are in
clined to submit to direction.
On the basis of more or less tenu-
Gus interpretations of the price con-
troll and other acts of Congress
granting the Chief Executive war
powers, the War Manpower Commits
sion has issued a series of orders,
the latest of which is the so-called
job-freeze order However important
the objectives at which these orders
are aimed, the reaction on the part
of some labor leaders and some
unions stands as a serious threat to
the whole industrial war program.
For example, the United Automobile
Workers Executive Board has order
ed all its members on the War Man.
power Commission regional and area
mana cement labor board committees
to hand in their designations. A
spirit of resentment is manifesting
itself-a resistance to the Govern
ments directives-which sets bad
example to the country, leading to
further disunity and public apathy
toward the paramount Importance OF
fighting the war.
Without order in this country and
in industry, the vital war program
will falter. without order, work
stoppages, which did serious enough
damage before this country actually
was in the war-and which have done
damage since-may become wide
spread. And any delay or Interrupt
ton in the essential war plants GER
tainly will cost the lives of American
soldiers and sailors.
Eventually the American people
will insist upon order. They will in
sist upon order under law. Congress
and the administration have backed
and fllled-but mostly backed-in
the matter of passing real manpower
legislation. The Wadsworth-Austin
manpower bill introduced in both
houses months ago, has been strongly
sponsored. II and when public opin-
ion becomes so aroused that legisla-
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Easter

LdOIIl Ia 10IO lIeto q DAoiAAAtSeNAASS
unparalleled in modern times. Mil
lions of people in every quarter of the
globe dimly, perhaps, yet none the
less truly, feel the impact of the
Resurrection as never before. The
reality of death is demonstrated to
them in their day o-day experience
under the blood red cloud of univer-
sal war. So, too, by grace of the sac
rifce of the Son of God, they
comprehend the greater truth of
Immortality. The paradox does not
disturb them. Be they however in
articulate, the very beat of their
hearts assures them that they are
neither lost nor wasted in the vast
disaster of prevailing strife.
Golgotha might have been on
Guadalcanal; the Cross might have
been raised upon desert hilltop in
Tunisia; the Carpenter of Galilee,
who also was Prince of the
House Of David, might have been
brought to judgment before tyrant's
court in Lidice or Toxic. Only the
accident of nineteen centuries sepa-
rates His generation from that cur
rently struggling with the powers of
evil He defled. He was an Apostle OF
Peace, yet necessarily He welded the
spiritual sword. The agents of sin
against which He campaigned are
not different from those which are
represented by the Axis partners.
Hence it follows that the United
Nations are engaged in crusade in
the most accurate meaning of the
phrase. They march because God
wills it, and the victory they are de-
termined to win is pledged to Him.
If it be doubted that Christ is in
volved in this contemporary conflict,
let it be remembered that He spe-
ciacally gave up His life for His
brothers. He sought the freedom of
the human soul. Had He been salts
fed with less, He might have COM
promised with His enemies. Instead,
He chose His missions complete
fulfllment. Thus He attained the
purpose for which He came into the
world: The conquest of the grave.
Multitudes now celebrate His tri-
umph, not merely as an historic
event, but, in the language of the
Collect. as the opening Of the gate
OF an illimita BILE future unto US
Cicero, a pagan philosopher, yet
wise in earthly logic, declared: With
out hope of immortality no one
would ever face death for his coun-
try" The thought so phrased was
familiar to John Adams when he tes-
tilted: IF I did not believe in flu
ture state l should believe in no
God" and to Thomas Jefferson when
he witnessed: The term is not very
distant at which we are to deposit in
the same cerement our sorrows and
suffering bodies, and to ascend in
essence to an ecstatic meeting with
the friends we have loved and lost
and whom we shall still love and
never lose again" All the most COM
pelling motivations. the loftiest as
pirations, the bravest dreams, the
most glorious visions of men for
nearly 1000 years have derived from
one single circumstance: The rela-
ton of humanity to its Creator and
its Savior. If only a single declara-
tion of the faith of the race in its
destiny is permitted, let it be: Re-
surgam! We live again!
Evening star., 1943-04-25
War Within War

War Within War
John L. Lewis has taken the first
step in outright defiance of the War
Labor Board and that agency has
acted promptly to accept the chal-
lenge. Thus, difficult though it is
to believe that Mr. Lewis intends to
go through with this implied threat
to further his own ambitions and
those of the United Mine Workers at
the expense of the Nations war ef-
fort, there is at least strong posi-
bility that this is precisely what he
intends to do.
From the beginning Of the con-
tract negotiations with the operators
of the bituminous coal mines, Mr..
Lewis has said that he would never
submit his case to the WLB. When
that agency called upon representa-
tives Of the operators and the union
to appear before it yesterday, the
operators responded. But MIR. Lewis
remained in New York and accused
the operators of breaking faith be-
cause they had complied with the
boards request Yesterday morning,
when the time came for appearance
before the board, Mr.. Lewis still was
in New York and had sent no word
to WLB.
In these circumstances the board
directed that mining be continued
under the existing contract pending
a settlement, served notice that it
would proceed with its hearing even
though the union should persist in
its refusal to appear, and announced
that three-man panel would begin
holding closed sessions Wednesday,
unless there should be a work stop
page in the meantime. And that is
where the controversy stood over the
week end.
At this stage there is little point in
attempting to anticipate what Mr..
Lewis next move will be. He has
three days in which to think the
matter over and a meeting of the
unions Policy Committee is sched
uled for Tuesday afternoon. In that
period, no doubt, decision will be
made, and it is to be hoped that Mr..
Lewis and his associates will recog-
nize their duty to submit to the au-
thority of Government, as all other
groups have done.
In view of the definite possibility
that they may continue their defiant
attitude, however, it is to be pre-
sumed that the administration is
preparing to deal with a shutdown
of the mines. Should strike in this
vital industry be the end result of
the maneuverings and negotiations
of the past few weeks, the effect on
the war program could be calamitous.
In this respect Mr.. Lewis holds high
cards. But the Presidents hand is
not an empty one. Throughout the
whole of the war period he has gone
to extreme lengths to conciliate or
ganized labor and to protect the
legitimate rights of workers. There
are, in fact, many who think he has
gone too far, that there has been too
much "appeasement," and it cannot
be said that there Is no support for
this view. Nevertheless, the fact
remains that Mr. Roosevelt, because
of this record, is in strong position
for test of strength with Mr.. Lewis.
In showdown of this kind the force
of public opinion ultimately would
be the decisive factor, and no rea-
sonable person can doubt that the
vast majority of the people would be
100 per cent behind the President
in whatever measures he might take
to deal with the grave threat to the
security of the Nation which would
be involved in a coal strike at this
time.
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fronted with a case designed to
determine If railroads have recourse
under the Railway Labor Act, against
feather bedding" as the forced en-
ployment of surplus help is known.
The result of that litigation will be
awaited with interest,
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Dancer Exists

From the Providence (R. ~ journal:
In his review of the activities of the
Rockefeller Foundation for the year 1912,
President Raymond Fosdick says: "It is
possible to lose civilization even while
armies and navies are triumphant" That
is one of the most profoundly disturbing
lessons of history
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-03
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NOTICE SEWER ASSESSMENTS

The Board of Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Water bury at a meeting held November 3Oth, 1943, made assessment for sewer purposes on property and against property owners on Warner Street, from Long Hill Road to 485 feet north of Arlington Avenue, in the amounts set to their respective