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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
WORK TOGETHER

AS tho President and Churchill
worked in almost constant con-
ference at the White House. Ameri-
can and British sources here agreed
generally that Japan : the point
Of emphasis in the present talks
7 And now is the time to plan for a
Burma offensive, because 1t takes
about six months to effecuate plans
for big military operations.
The fact that London dispatches
continue TO emphasize the coming
! European Offensives as the major
/ point Of discussion was explained
here IS reflecting tie pre-occupa
ton of people in the British Isles
with battles III their own arena.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
and supply trucks.
DOWN BOMBER

A German bomber was brougl
down near Leningrad by anti-ail
craft fire.
(The Moscow radio earlier report
ed that large Russian air forma
tionS Tuesday night attacked fol
railway centers on a 320-mi
stretch of the Kharkov-C Crime
railroad, three in the Dnieper basil
one in the Donets basin, two in I'll
Bryansk area and one northeast {
SmolenSk)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
GETS NOMINATION

WASHINGTON, May 13 CUP)-
Charles H. Carr was nominated by
! President Roosevelt today to be U.
S. Attorney for the southern dis
trict of California, succeeding the
| late William Fleet Palmer
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
VOLUNTEER FOR KIP.

CAMP ELLIS, Ill, May 13-
CUP)-SoldierS at Camp Ellis ac-
tually volunteered for permanent
kitchen police duty The reason:
liberal passes, excuse from drill,
and plenty to cat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
DIRECT INTEREST

The Pacific war council. composed
OF representatives of all countries
having a direct interest in the
Asiatic war. was called to meet at
noon at the White House.
White House press secretary
Stephen T. Early said he did not
think Churchill would sit in the
council meeting because of other
appointments But it was a fore
gone conclusion that Mr.. Roosevelt
would take up with the council
members the general plans he and
the prime minister are developing
for new and heavy blows against
the japanese.
House Speaker Sam RaTburn saw
Churchill today at the White House.
The prime minister accepted his
invitation to address congress next
Wednesday. The speech probably
will be broadcast throughout the
world.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
Gre ote st Roid'
Hits Duisburg

LONDON, May 13. (UP)-Britains big bombcrs celeb
rated the Allied victory in nisa by heaping the heaviest
tonnage of explosives dropped in single raid the
important steel railway and waterway center of DuiSburg
in western Germany last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13

WASHINGTON, May l3 ,UP'-
Belief that President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
are mapping q full-scale offensive
against Japan. probably opening in
the fall with a big push through
Burma. was further strengthened
today when MI. Roosevelt called q
meeting Of the Pacific war council.
The White House disclosed that
Churchill Will address a Joint SeS-
sion of congress next "Wednesday.
The Prime Minister also will
make a broadcast tomorrow after
noon This speech, Oh the Ami
verSary of the British home guards,
will be designed almost entirely for
British consumption.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
FDR and Churchill
Believed PLANNING
Biz Burma Drive

WASHINGTON, May Is up
The White House today annOunc-
cd cancellation of the Pacific war
council meeting which had been
scheduled for noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13

The air ministry announced that
1t was the heaviest raid of the war
FEWER THAN 1000
The number of planes flown in
the attack was fewer than the 1000
aircraft that raided Cologne on May
80, 1942. but the weight OF bombs
exceeded the $500 tons dropped in
the Cologne attack, it was under
stood. The tonnage in the Duisburg
raid probably approached 1000 tons.
Duisburg is concentrated in an
area five miles square. much small
er than Cologne, SO il was assumed
that the damage was greater.
Key targets in the DuisberC raid
were the main locks of the Rhine
Herne canal. the main line railway
bridge over t%-e Rhine, the dock
area. the industrial section includ-
ing the vast Demag iron and steel
works which make submarine and
plane engines, and the Hochfcldt
railway junction.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13
COPPER WORKS

Other targets included the copper
and tin works, sulphur plants and
storage dumps.
Duisburg has been raided very
heavily" three other times since
March 26.
An idea OF the magnitude of a
2,000-ton bomb load is indicated by
a comparison with the heaviest ton
age the German air force ever drop
ped on London-450 tons.
The number of planes announced
as missing from the Duisburg raid
-34-was not considered extremely
costl- considering the number of
planes involved. Nine of the planes
missing were of a Canadian bomber
group.
ca German communiQue admitted
that Duisburg had suffered CON
siderable" damage
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-13

CORPS" Eisenhower said after dis
closing that a sudden, mass shift
ing of Eighth Army troops from
the south had enabled Alexander
to fool the Nazi high command and
sweep in behind the enemy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
StaIin Wins Front Plea

London, Dec. 6-CUP)-Informed observers believed today that one of the major results of the Teheran conference was that Marshal Josef Stalin had won his argument for a full-scale second front" in western Europe and that Gen. George c. Marshall, U. s. chief of staff, soon will come here to direct the opera ton.
 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were believed to have accepted Stalin's thesis that air power was not in itself capable of bringing Germany to its knees within a desirable time.
 The Soviet high command report edly held that a reduction of the fighting on the eastern front to 150 was necessary before break through can be accomplished. With the Germans now fighting in Italy with eight to Is divisions and prob- ably less than half that number in the Balkans, the Anglo-Ameri- can effort in the west must draw more than 50 divisions from the eastern front.
 AS if to point up the argument repeatedly raised by Russia since the Quebec meeting, Radio Moscow's military commentator, Colonel Yermachov emphasized last night that the Germans still are trans
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06

in food prices while subsidy -oppoS- ing farm leaders contended con- sumers could well afford to pay any increase and that subsidies discouraged production at time large quantities of food were needed,
 Jones, charged with bringing about maximum wartime food out put, has asked for an increase in eco borrowing authority by $500 000,00 to match similar fund on hand for the 1944 food program. The House turned him down but the Senate was expected to sub stitute a bill by Sen. John H. Bank head, D., Ala, whic hwould gi' . Jones half his request but still in- clude the subsidy ban.
 While hearings were scheduled to be concluded this week, both Committee Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D., N Y, and Adminis- tration Leader Alber w. Barkley of Kentucky acknowledged there had been talk of delaying the floor battle until after the holidays.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Troops Mass In Bulgaria

London, Dec. 6CUPJ-German troops are massing in Bulgaria near the Turkish frontier, a Stockholm dispatch said today as speculation m u mt d that the Roosevelt Churchill -Staltn conference may bring Balkan invasion and draw Turkey into the war.
 The German movement toward the Turkish border began during the weekend and continued at a rapid rate, Hungarian circles in Stock holm said. A large troop concentra- ton was reported at Khaskovo in southeastern Bulgaria, while Nazi motorized detachment and two cars of officers continued on to Svilen- grad, only six miles west of border, yesterday.
 The purported shifting of Ger man troops coincided with a Ger man radio report that President Ismet Inonu, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu and Mar shal Chukmak of Turkey had gone to Ciaro to meet President Roose- welt and Prime Minister Churchill, presumably to discuss their cour- try's position ill the light of the Teheran conference.
 Allied and neutraol sources have speculated ever since the tri-power conference at Moscow month ago that the Allies might prevail upon Turkey at least to provide bases under the terms of her mutual aid pact with Britain for an Allied of fensive in the Balkans, even if not actively entering the war.
 Speculation increased following
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Medal Saves Priests s Life

With the fighting 69th, Maxim Gilberts, Nov. g - (UP) - Capt, Stephen J. Meany, successor in this war to Father Duffy of World War I fame as Catholic chaplain of New Yolk's fighting 69th, owed his life today to a Catholic medal that broke the force of 8 Japanese bullet.
 The bullet went through Father Meany'S chest and into this right arm.
 The incident occurred during the first day invasion thrust near a three-foot- thick tree close to the lagoon on the north shore of Butar- itari island on Maxim Atoll.
 Right at that same spot beside 8 one-track coral road lay the bod ies of Col Gardiner Conroy, of New York, Regiment L. Commander, and @ lieutenant when I slipped out there this morning while sniper and machine gun bullets Whistled around It.
 Lieut.. Col. James Roosevelt was with Conroy when the Colonel was killed and the Presidents son had 10 duck to safety behind a tree stump as gunfire nicked the wood above him.
 Across the road from the tree during the first fighting a soldier was hit in the shoulder by a sniper's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
NEW TALKS HUNDRED
 WITH |N0NU

London, December 6. - (UP)-PreSident Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stain were expected to proclaim Nazi Germany's doom today.
 Morning newspapers prom ised offical announcements of their conferences at Tehran and the German radio reported new meetings at Cairo between Roosevelt, Churchill and President Inonu of Turkey on Satur- day.
 The Germans broadcast Trans ocean News agency dispatches say ing Inonu had gone to Cairo with his foreign minister, Numen Meme mencioglu, and Marshall Chakmak. Transocean's correspondent at 1s- tanbul said the meeting had little significant because Turkeys attitude had not changed since its statement to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden some weeks ago at Cairo that 1t has no reason for entering the war Ee4 Newspapers said a joint con- murique on the Tehran conference would be published "almoSt inllned- lately" (An official comntlnlque on the conference was anticipated for l D. m. EWT) There has been no Allied confirmation of the Tur- kish talks and there was no Specu- lation when an announcement could be expected-if such talks were talk ing place as the Axis said.
 The Sketch claimed to have in- side information that Turkey is to close number of consulateS and vice consulates in Germany and the occupied territory. The official req son given is that there is little work for them owing to trade slackness. There may be more to this move
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Meeting Was At 3:15 P. M.

Tehran, Dec. 6.-(UP)-The mo ment which President Roosevelt had said would be tine realization of his fondest hope-his meeting face to face with Josef Stalin - occurred at about 3:15 p. m. on Sunday Nov. 28.
 MT Roosevelt, who had driven on his arrival Saturday to the Ameri- can legation, had just moved over to the handsome Russian embassy, a former palace located in a com pound guarded by Russian secret service men, Russian officers bear ing tommy guns, British army Sikhs and TommieS
 Stalin strode up the gravel path from his villa within the grounds, wearing the dark blue uniform of a Soviet marshal and a long coat to match. Behind him a few steps came V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister. Behind Molotov were sey- eral generals
 They vanished from view through the handsome portal, surnounted by a striking Russian emblem a blue globe Surmounted by hammer and sickle, stacked all around with golden sheafs of wheat and tied together with a red ribbon.
 Eye Witnesses
 Eye witnesses to the historic handclasp are not available. It oc- cured in a building closely packed with guards. Almost every few feet within the building was a Soviet secret service man. They were de- scribed as standing for hours with out moving, never exchanging greet
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
RAF Jobs At SoIniko Yards

Cairo, Dec. 6,-(UP)-RAF heavy bombers raided German railway fa- cilities at Salnika, Greece, last night, starting large fires in the freight yards, communique an- nounced today.
 The attack followed a daylight sweep of the Aegean by American bombers, during which an enemy vessel was attacked and left sink ing off Lero Island. Two other Nazi shops were damaged in the raid.
 The communique reported also that Allied raiders bombed Silni harbor in the Aegean Saturday scoring direct hits on docks and buildings in the target area.
 All Allied planes returned safely from these operations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Govt. Rene1Os Fight To Saue Food Subsidy Program

Washington, Dec. 6-(UP)-The administration renewed its fight to save its food subsidy program to- day amid signs that the critical Senate test on further use of sub sidieS as a means of holding down prices may be postponed until after Christmas.
 Two high administration officials Director Marvin Jones Of the War Food Administration and J. B. Hutson, president of the Com modity Credit Corporation - were scheduled to go before the Senate Banking Committee to take up where other proponents left off the weekend recess.
 The hearings center around bill to extend the life of the Com modity Credit Corporation by an- other 18 months, into which the House by overwhelming vote wrote a ban against use of subsidies after Dec. 31. Price Chief Chester Bowles and others warned last week that to ban payments would bring . rise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06

Washington, Dec. 6. (UP)-Gov- ernment officials were counting on the new corn price ceilings which go into effect today to induce mid western farmers to sell more of their grain to eastern dairymen and poultrymen faced with serious feed shortages.
 The office of price administration, with concurrence of the war food administration, boosted the ceiling price for corn on the Chicago mar ket from $1.07 to $1.16 bushel, put a temporary ceiling on grain sorghums and froze prices of oats and barley.
 WFA officials expected two re- suits from the orders: Firstly, in- creased corn shipments from the corn belt and, second, a reduction in the number of hogs raised.
 Despite this years bumper corn crop of more than 3.000,000 900 busiaeis-second largest on record
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
|Yonks Bomb Jap Forts,
 Seq Lanes >

Pearl Haribor, Dec. G. (UP) = American bombers, striking beyong the captured Gilberts, continued their attacks on Japanese central Pacific strongholds by going deep into the sea lanes between the strong bases at Trllk and Rahaul, Pacific fleet headquarters disclosed today. ...
 (Tokyo radio broadcast a Japan csc communique reporting that 100 carrier-based aircraft bombed the Marshalls yesterday, causing some damage to ground facilities, and claiming that 20 of the attacking planes were shot down.
 (Tokyo, in the broadcast recorded by the FCC, said a task force north east of the Marshalls had been at- tackled by Japanese naval planes and a medium sized aircraft carrier and a large cruiser were sunk and a large carrier and cruiser dmaged so badly they probably sank.
 Loss of six planes was acknow- ledged.)
 A single reconnaissance Liberator flying from the Sonth Pacific hit at Kapingamarangi Atoll on Thurs day, statring several fires, in foray which took it 450 miles north of Rataul on New Britain Island and within that distance of Truk, in the Carolines.
 Seventh U. s. airforce LiberatorS dropped 50 tons of bombs on Mili- atoll, in the Marsllalls, Saturday. An enemy medium bomber was wrecked aground. Five of the att tackers were slightly damaged by anti-aircraft fire and three men were wounded in their crews.
 Nauru, 400 miles west of Tarawa in the Gilberts, was hit the same day, an oil dump being set afire on the isolated phosphate mining islet. One attacker was damaged by ground fire.
 Admiral Chested W. Nimitz head quarters said nine Japanese planes honbed Tarawa airdrome on Friday night, causing some damage. and an enemy plane dropped four small bombs on Maxim the next morning, without any damage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Corn Ceilings May Induce Farmers ToSeUMore Grain

and despite the 5O0,C00,00 bushels of 1942 corn still on farms, corn in recent months has been moving out of producing areas only in driblets.
 Eastern dairymen and poultry men, unable to get corn for feed, have bid up the price of grain sor- ghums, oats and barley in an at tempt to meet feed needs. And they have placed the blame on the low corn ceiling and high hog prices of around $14 a hundrd pounds under which mid-western growers have found it more probable to feed corn to hogs than to sell it at the SLOT bushel ceiling estab- lished last month by OPA.
 With hog prices stabilized by 8 floor of $13.75 and ceiling of $14.75, Chicago basis, farmers will find it less profitable to use corn for feed at the new ceiling price. This will fit in with goals of the WFA, which has asked farmers to grow 20.000.000 fewer hogs in iS44.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
 PEACE MAPPED
 AT FARLEY

Tehran, Iran, December 6. - CUP) - Prime Minister Churchill, president ROOse- welt, and Premier Stalin have agreed on a master plan to crush Germany by powerful offensives on three fronts including invasions of west ern Europe and possibly the Balkans-and have mapped a peace that should endure for ''man generation.
 The Big Three" of the Allied Nations announced their decisions in broad terms in a declaration is sued today after 100 hours of un- paralled conferences that embraced military, diplomatic and political questions both of the war and the peace to follow.
 After concluding their four-day sesison last Wednesday, Stalin re- turned to Moscow and Roosevelt and Churchill to Cairo to translate speedily into action the decisions that their joint declaration said guaranteed victory will be ours"
 Joint Declaration
 Specifically, the three of states proclaimed in theil int declaration:
 l. "We have reached complete understanding as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the east west and south"
 3. "No power on earth can pre- vent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea and their war paints from the air. Our attacks vii lbe relentless in increasing"
 3. we recognize fully the re- sponsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make peace which will command good will from the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many genrationS"
 4. eve will welcome as they may choose to come into the world family of democratic nations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
odWeother Slows Down Red Drives

Moscow, Dec. 6.-(UP)-The Red Army frightened its grip on the White Russian bases of Zhlobin Rogachev and Mogilev today and in the Ukraine beat off mounting Ger man counter attacks aimed at re- storing the NaA winter line along the Dnieper.
 Front dispatches said the Germans were taking advantage of bad weather hampering the Soviet SUD- ply system to regroup, pour in re- Inducements, and improve their defenses for determined effort to reclaim the initiative on the southern front.
 The weather showed no sign of improvement. The armies in White Russian and the Ukraine were wal lowing in mud and the air forces were grounded
 Winter was coming unusually late, in contrast with two years ago when bitter cold and deep snows enabled the Red Army to launch it's first great offensive, fighting the Germans back from the gates of Moscow.
 Nothing spectacular can be ex- pected until the present weather changes, freezing the steppes, marshes and rivers so the Russians can use their winter equipment. During the transitional period the Quartermasters are undecided whether to issue winter supplies.
 Ukrainian reports said the Rus sians had encircled Cherkasi, big gest German held stronghold on the west bank of the Dnieper between Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, and fight ing was going on in the streets of the burning city.
 Fierce German counter attacks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
FDR And we Are EIated

Cairo. Dec. 6 - (UP) - Pres ident Roosevelt, described as elated and confident that the Teaeran conference with Premier Josef Sta lin had shortened the war, began a series of new conferences with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other leaders immediately upon their return from Iran.
 There appeared little doubt that they were following up the Teheran decisions with specific action. The range of discussions among the AL lied leaders was as broad as the world.
 1 While the communiques have fail- ed to mention any specific areas such as Finland, Poland, the Bal kans or the Dardanelles, there was no question that the talks, which are continuing dealt with such spe- cific areas.
 Speculation regarding the nature of possible action centered on the military phase, particularly the statement in the Teheran con- munique about attacks upon Ger many from the east, South and west.
 The attack from the east already was developed fully. The attack from the west is still to come-pre- sumably on g. date set by the three Allied leaders in Iran. The attack from the south thus far has been confined to Italy. Any expansion from the south inevitably would in clude the Balkans, where Turkish participation would be most help full.
 (The German news agency DNB
 (Cnrfis,r1ad ny, Dora
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-06
Problems Of Future Not
 Fixed at Meet

Washington, Dec. 6 - U.P0 - The brief and general nature of the Teheran declaration published to- day left unrevea led all details re- garding the problems of the fu- ture' surveyed by President Roose- welt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin.
 Congressional requests for fuller explanation of conference discus sionS, agreements and commitments if any-were considered inevt- able. On the face of the declara- ton, it would appear that the con- ferees were more concerned with immediate military than future po- litical questions. But from the standpoint of postwar politics, ob- servers found most significance in the formal commitment of the three conferees to world democracy.
 The Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting was regarded as a triumph of Anglo-American diplomacy. The President and Prime Minister had attempted for months to meet the Russian 1edaer and his failures to accept urgent invitations had, from time to time, causer some anxiety here. Although the declaration proved to be wholly general, it's cor dial tenor indicated that the three men had found common ground for their joint enterprises.
 There was no reference in the declaration to postwar territorial boundaries, notably those of the Soviet Union, and well informed ob- servers had not expected that such questions would be dealt with in any major way at the conference. But the declaration did eXpalin that there had ben a survey of the fu- ture.
 There was some surprise here that the declaration did not in some way indicate what political and geo. graphic future defeated Germany might expect at the hands of the victors. A semi official Soviet Union proposal of last summer invited the German people to repudiate their masters.
 This Moscow Manifesto called upon German peasants, craftsmen and workers-the' people-to over throw Hitler and under "democra- tic' regime obtain more lenient peace terms. MT. Roosevelt's own ideas for postwar Germany begin with sufficient dismemberment of