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Of mutual god WI AID aasastance,
looking toward the common vel.
fare Of Ill the II republics Of this
hemisphere.
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participated In operations directed
toward these results In 1t least
three administrations prior to the
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FORT KNOX,
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Of Mrs. NJ. L.
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missioned q sec
ond lieutenant
up on gradua-
ton from this
Army air field.
He entered pilot
training last
January.
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present one. I believe that the
policy viii b permanent and that
It Is steadily growing more and
more useful towards the weldine
together Of the cultural and eco
nomic interests Of the republics Of
this hemisphere and their union In
. sound system Of common defense"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
WLB Strike
OrderHit

Washington, Dec. 28.-(UP)-The
War Labor Board order under which
the steel strike was called off last
night was criticized by the WILLIS
four industry members today as re-
flecting a policy that would destroy
collective bargaining at its source.
The board, reversing an earlier
action, last night voted to 4-the
industry members dissenting - to
direct that the steel workers stay
ON the job under an extension OF
their old contracts with the under
standing that any new wage adjust
ments made in continued negotia-
tons be retroactive to the eXpira-
ton date of the old agreements.
The board also stipulated In ac-
cord with President Roosevelt's
Geographic back-to-work appeal to
the United Steel Workers (CIO)
that retroactivity would be limited
to adjustments within the present
sterilization program. The union
had asked retroactivity guarantees
without restrictions.
In a previous vote on similar
proposal, labor and industry men,
berS combined to defeat the board S
public members. But last night the
labor members swung over with the
public representatives for the 8 to 4
decision. The industry members
stood firm in their opposition and
issued a statement denouncing the
administration labor policy as one
that would eventually destroy all
honest collective bargaining at the
source"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
u. s. Would Bar As Good
Neighbor Pro-Axis Nations

Washington, Dec % - (U.P) -
The United States today led a con-
certed move by the good neighbor'
family of American Republics to eX-
clude from its ranks those govern
ments whose rise might be traced
to Axis inrtigue-a classification be-
lieved by some to apply to the new
revolutionary regime of Bolivia.
Clearly motivated by the coup
d'etat that ousted the strongly pro
Allied Penaranda government OF
Bolivia, Secretary of State Cordell
Hull yesterday endorsed an inter-
American plan whereby all western
hemisphere nations except Argen-
tina would refuse to recognize with
out consultation among themselves
any "new government instituted by
force"
The exclusion Of Argentina, which
steadfastly has refused to make a
complete break with the Axis. was
the most forceful move yet taken to
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
FDR CALLS
MOVE ONLY
TEMPORARY

Washington, December %.
- CUP - The Federal Gov
eminent appeared today to
have averted the danger of
Gripping general strike in
the steel and rail industries
at a time when tremendous
new Allied military ventures
are in the making.
Three opera in g rail
unions, whose refusal to &C
cept presidential arbitration
of their wage dispute precipi-
tated federal seizure of the
roads, were still standing on
their December 80 strike call.
Observers here, however,
doubted they would strike
against the Government.
Steel workers, meanwhile. were
order from the Government and CLIO
ending a week work stoppage under
President Philip Murray to get back
on the job while negotiations for a
retroactive new contract proceed.
The three holdout rail unions, who
alone Of 20 operating and nom
operating brotherhoods refused Pres
ident Roosevelt's offer of arbitration,
we're summoned to meeting at the
War Department with Lieutenant
General Brahon B. Somervell, Fed
eral Operator Of the Roads, but the
conference subsequently, was post
poned. There was possibility that
it might be held later today.
The rail seizure applied to all OF
the nations rail carrier systems.
President Roosevelt said the
seizure was temporary. Last
time government operation con-
tinued for 26 months during and
after World War /.
Executive committees of the three
recalcitrant operating unions which
rejected Mr.. Roosevelt's arbitration
offer were scheduled to meet here
at 10 a. m, and we're expected to
rescind their strike order. They
represent about 100000 employees.
Present management of the roads
can continue under government con-
CONTINUED on Page A.
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Eisenhower Appointees
Are Censor;s Secret

Africa, directed the landing Of forces
in Morocco, Algeria, Sicily and Italy,
so far the largest amphibious OPP
erations ever attempted but due to
be dwarfed by the invasion of west
ern Europe.
With Eisenhower about to estab-
fish his headquarters in England,
Cunningham would be able to Co
operate fully with him and still
maintain his Office at the admiralty.
Earlier reports have indicated that
Lieut.. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, present
commander of American forces in
the European theater, may be given
the command of all American
ground troops for the invasion. just
as Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry has been placed at the head OF
British ground forces.
Other Appointments
Other appointments that may be
made known soon include that OF
commander or commanders of the
tactical air forces. Lieut.. Gen. Carl
A. SpaatZ has been named COM
mander Of American strategic air
forces bombing Germany from the
west and south.
The London Daily Mail said
Churchill may elaborate on the
Continued on Page a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

London, Dec. 28-(UP)-Further
appointments to Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's second front command
were revealed today to be impending
but censorship prevented speculation
over specific nominees.
The naming of Air Chief Marshal
Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53-year-
old Allied air commander In the
Mediterranean, to the post of deputy
supreme commander for the 1nva-
sion of western Europe left vacant
only two top commands on Essen
hower's staff-the overall sea COM
mand and the command of the
American invasion forces.
While censorship forbid CORE
spondents to cable the name OF the
most likely appointee to the sea
command, they were permitted to
write that Admiral Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham, first sea lord
probably would have the most I'M
portant voice in arranging and SUI
pervising the landing OF the vast
second front armies.
(This may indicate that Cunning
ham himself will be named sea
commander).
Cunningham. as former COM
mander in chief of the British
Mediterranean fleet and sea COM
mander under Eisenhower IN North
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

OF ORTONA
REPORTED

Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, December %. - (UP)
= American troops have
completed the consolidation
of their positions on the
4,O0O-foot Sammucro noun
tain range commanding the
approaches to the Rome
plain, it was announced to-
day, and on the Adriatic
the Canadians scored new
gains in the bitter battle of
Ortona.
(The Berlin radio reported that
German troops evacuated Ortona,
coastal anchor of their line across
Italy, last night after "a skilfull de-
Tense by a small unit, which has
gone over to a prepared position
just northwest of the town.
Canadian units of the British
Eighth Army were reported slugging
their way house by house through
the last German toehold in Ortona.
The Germans Waging the "little
Stalingrad' stand in defense Of their
Adriatic keystone brought out
flame throWers in the town and to
the west. They were in the hands of
small infantry units rather than
operated from tanks.
Entrenching themselves firmly on
the Sammucro range by the seizure
of two more strategic heights, the
Americans of the Fifth Army front
won the last Of the dominating
heights overlooking San Vittore, key
to the vital Casino junction six
miles to the northwest.
The United States vanguard
pushed down the Sammucro slopes
and sent patrols stabbing at the i'm
mediate defenses Of San Vittore,
where the next big battle for anoth-
er section Of the Rome road was
shaping up.
Farther North
Farther north, other American
units were battling for the lower
slopes of the towering 6,800-foot
Mainarde range. They captured Mt.
Marrone, two miles southwest of
Castel San Vincenzo, and bitter
fighting still was going on In that
sector.
Across the Apennines, commando
like Canadian units cleaning out
Ortona faced the German flame
throwers to batter down one base
ment citadel after another in the
outskirts of the wrecked town.
Slightly inland other Eighth
Army forces captured Villa Bacili,
half mile south of Crecchio, while
just west of Ortona the British
seized two groups of prisoners to-
falling 10 men.
Clearing weather on the Fifth
Army front facilitated the slow but
steady drive through the difficult
mountain Terrain, but sharp cold
which replaced the drenching rain
kept the discomfort of the troops at
a high pitch.
To the right of the Americans
French Moroccan troops were re-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
filters For
The Germons

London, Dec. 28-(UP)-German
radio broadcasts and reports from
neutral capitals indicated today
that new attack of invasion jit-
tiers has gripped Naz military
commanders defending the coastal
outposts OF Hitler's European
fortress.
Apparently alarmed by intensified
allied invasion preparations and the
appointment Of supreme Anglo
American command to direct the
final assault on Europe, the Ger
mans were said to be hurriedly rein
forcing their defenses from Norway
to the DodecaneSe Islands.
London newspapers reported that
Gen. KikolauS Won Falkenhorst,
German commander in Norway,
said in a radio broadcast that his
anti-invasion preparations have
been inspected thoroughly be Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel and are
read to meet the allied attack.
"If the British try to invade"
Won Falkenhorst was quoted as
saying, "they should remember the
fate of the Scottish landing at
tempt in the 18th century when
their whole force was wiped out
and their leaders captured. The
same fate would befall them again.
Even If the invading force should
succeed In establishing bridge
head and thrusting inland into one
of the mountain valleys. they would
find us prepared for any eventual
ity," the German commander added.
The Nazi DNB News Agency an
nounced that an allied warship
tried to enter Pigadia harbor on
the Dodecanese Island of Scarpanto
Sunday night, but was driven of
by the German shore batteries.
DNB said it was assumed the
warship intended to land 'saboteurs'
on the island, which lies almost
midway between the Nazi island
strongholds of Crete and Rhodes.
10000 Men
A United Press dispatch from
Ankara said press reports reaching
the Turkish capital indicated the
Germans have reinforced their
number of electives there up to
10000 men who are being supplied
by regular air conveys.
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Army Ready
cooperate
Railroads

Washington, Dec. 28-(UP)-The
Army is prepared to operate the rail-
roads with soldiers in event OF strike
and impose penalties against strikers
under the Smith Connally Labor Act
and other laws, Secretary OF War
Henry L. Stimson and 1t. Gen. Bre-
hon B. Somervell declared today.
These statements were made at a
news conference while three rail I'M
ions still were standing, technically
at least, on strike call for Dec. 30.
It was generally believed, however,
that the three holdout unions would
rescind the strike call as II other
rail unions already have done.
Me awhile, general steel strike
appeared to have been averted as
workers responded to government
and union orders that they end a
week end stoppage and go back to the
mills.
Stimson and Somervell said their
sole objective was to keep the rail-
roads running so the war effort
would not be interrupted. Somervell,
commander of the Army Service
Forces, was placed In charge OF the
railroads when the government took
them over last night.
Conditions Frozen
Wages and working conditions
that existed as of p. VI. last night
will be frozen for the duration of
the aImys control, they said. These
included awards of wages to the
Brotherhoods of Railway Trainmen
and Locomotive Engineers under the
presidents arbitration.
Stimson quoted from letter by
80, raooo
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exclude her present government, IT.
self established by force, from
hemisphere considerations Of a po-
litical nature. Argentina was not
invited to the United Nations food
and relief conferences at Hot
Springs. Va. and Atlantic City, N.
j., despite her interest in the prob
lens considered.
The new inter- American agree
ment tended to emphasize the slls-
picion that the Bolivian coup may
have been engineered by Axis SYM
pahtizers in Argentina, which thus
far has failed to make good on her
pledge at the 1912 Rio De Janeiro
conference to break with the Axis.
The group of youthful Bolivian
miltarists eight days ago over
threw the regime Of President En-
rique Penaranda, who had signed
the United Nations declaration and
had gone to war at the side Of the
United States.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Boy Keeps
Lonely Vigil

Ludlow, VT Dec. 70. - (UP)-
Crouched on the ice covering tur-
bulent Black river, a shaggy mon
grel dog kept mute vigil today near
the murky hole where his master
and infant mistress drowned when
their automobile skidded from the
highway.
Head pillowed on a pink blanket
which once covered the dead child,
faithful boy" had remained
throughout near-zero night watch
ing the spot from which the bodies
of Elmer Jones, Al, and his year
old daughter Eileen were recovered
soon after yesterdays tragedy.
"Boy" was in the car with Mrs.
Jones and tire eother children when
it slithered across the ice-glazed
highway onto the river ice as the
family was returned to their SPRING
field, VT, LONE after a Christmas
visit to Granville, N. Y.
The dog, of mixed shepherd and
police ancestry, dragged himself on
to the ice while passing truck
QI1tCI IldulCO MID. OOAiCo tSAAN OAAA w
of the children to safety. Jones,
and the infant Eileen, were trapped
and drowned.
While rescuerS tugged to free
their bodies from the car, boy" saw
a moving object in the freezing wa
tiers. He plunged in and returned
with the baby's ball.
Again he saw an object being
carried under the ice and, appar-
emily thinking it was the baby,
plunged in. Rescuers could see
him swimming under the ice, saw
his grasp the object in his power
full jaws and come painting back
to the open hole. In his teeth he
held the pink blanket that had
floated from the wreckage.
Exhausted, boy" dragged himself
back on the ice, tugged the blan-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Labor SURVEY
ere Soon

A labor survey will open here jan
uary to determine the needs of the
Waterbury a.ea and to serve as q
basis for possible reclassification
from the No. critical" designation,
1t was reported today.
Area War Manpower Director
Mary M. Dewey, commenting today
on Bridgeport's Reconsideration from
a No. to a No. 2 rating stated
Waterbury's standing may remain
unchanged for two or three more
months. She said the survey is ex-
pected to disclose the changes which
occurred here within recent months
and may result in change of des-
ignation.
In Bridgeport, which will become
a No. locality Jan. 1, close to 1000
workers have been laid off within
recent weeks, it was pointed out.
Changes in the employment picture
- New Haven are expected to re-
move the current classification there
very shortly likewise.
With the Critical designation
removed the city's industries would
be able to obtain additional con-
tracts and procure new orders. The
sterilization regulations would con-
tinue to operate, however.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Pope Decries
Rome Bombs
BY UNITED PRESS

The Vatican radio, in a broadcast
reported to the owl, last night
quoted Pope Plus XII as declaring
that the bombing Of the Vatican
City on Nov. had been deliver
ately planned and dishonorably and
unsuccessfully screened behind the
anonymity Of the pilot"
The Pope. speaking III response to
Christmas greetings by the College
Of CerS,nels did not r.apae the per.
petratcrs of the bombing. but de-
clared it was q symptom, hard 20
explain away, Of the depth Of the
spiritual Discrimination and moral
decadence Of conscience to which
some erring minds have sunk"
Berlin propaganda services fol-
lowed up the bombing with an in
tensive campaign designed to prove
German innocence and Allied guilt,
Warning of the results II inter-
ruption and paralysis Of normal
production of the neceSsaries Of life
were to continue at the present
rate, the Pope recommended TO al
and especially to the inhabitants Of
Rome, to preserve calm and mc&-
Grafton and to refrain from any
hasty act that would provoke 80
graver disasters
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Marines Close In From 7luo
Sides on 7luin Jap AirEelds
(NEA Telephoto)

Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, Dec. 28-(UP)
Jungle wise U. S. Marines, expand
ing their main invasion beachhead
to a width of at least two miles, were
reported closing in rapidly from two
sides today on twin Japanese air
fields behind Cape Gloucester at the
northwestern tip of New Britain.
There was possibility that the
Americans already had captured the
airfields, since late reports told only
of scattered opposition and dis
patches were trailing "a to Sc hours
behind the action.
Throwing tanks and artillery into
action, the Marines captured Target
Hill. dominating the east coast
beaches on Cape Gloucester, and
began Smelling the airfields only a
few hours after they swarmed ashore
from a vast invasion armada early
Sunday.
CA japanese communique reported
fierce" fighting on Cape Gloucester
and claimed that japanese planes
had sunk two large cruisers and two
and probably five large transports
Twenty to Is Allied planes were shot
down, the communique said, while
Japanese losses totaled IT planes.
Allied authorities have disclosed
that American losses actually were
one ship sunk and three slightly
damaged, while 81 Japanese planes
were shot down against a loss of
seven Allied aircraft).
Patrols, schooled at Guadalcanal,
famed out through the thick,
matted jungle from steadily-ex-
panding beachheads near Point
Silimati. five miles southeast of the
top Of Cape Gloucester, and on the
southwest coast of the cape.
The main force, which captured
Target Hill, 800 yards inland near
Silimati Point, passed through the
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
First Sub To
Sink U-Boat

Pearl Harbor Dec. %. (UP)--Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz has pre-
sented a Presidential citation to
officers and men of the United
States submarine Gudgeon, the
first Pacific fleet submarine to sink
an enemy submarine in combat.
The citation, sixth of it's kind to
a United States submarine during
the war, was accompanied by
awards of medals to six officers, two
Of whom served as the Gudgeon S
commanders.
The action in which the Gudgeon
sank the enemy submarine took
place during a duel off Midway in
January, 1912.
"In the face of constant dangers
and continuous contact with the
enemy" Nimitz said, 1.-The Gudgeon
fought boldly and courageously. She
is especially adept in use of guns.
Her officers and men again proved
that Navy men in this generation
are as intrepid and bold as any who
fought under the American flag"
NimitZ. pointing out that the sub
marine had been under attack by
depth charges, aerial bombs and
surface gunfire, said the vessel had
made an outstanding record In
sinking japanese shipping.
Commanding officer of the Gud-
geon when it sank the enemy sub
marine was Cmdr. E. w. Grenfell
who was awarded the silver star
for gallantry and whose citation
said "by his aggressive and deter
mined action he succeeded in sink
ing an importnt amount of enemy
shipping.
despite enemy counter-measures
he brought the ship safely to port,
the citation added.
Others honored included 1t. Cmdr
Josepht w. Williams, 81 KOO12
Ocean Ave.) New London, Conn.
who was awarded the legion OF
merit for outstanding record as
commander of another submarine
whose name was not revealed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Fl Injured In Conn.
Trailer, Bus Smash

! Union, Conn, Dec. 28-(UP)-
Twenty-one passengers were in
jured, eight of them seriously, when
Trailway of New England Boston,
bound bus, rammed a parked trailer
truck on the Wilbur Cross parkway
today.
OF the injured, 18 were taken to
johnson Memorial hospital at Stat
ford, and three to a hospital at
Southbridge, Mass.
The accident occurred near the
Massachusetts state line. The driver
of the trailer truck, Wilfred NJ.
Graustein g Silvey place.. Somer-
vile, Mass, employed by the D. &
M. Transportation Co., South Bos-
ton, said he was asleep in the cab
of the truck when the crash came.
He was unable to say how many
passengers were in the bus, and the
bus driver was among those hos
pitalized and being question: by
police.
The drivers name was withheld
at the hospital and by police, and
he was listed among those seriously
injured.
Others whose injuries were SER
ious, but whose names were not on
the danger list were:
Mrs. Gertrude Weiner, as Wild
wood street, Dorchester, Mass;
Miss Jeanette Jameson, SO
Pleasant street, Cambridge, Mass;
George Richardson, 10 Oakburn
avenue, Roxbury, Mass;
William Ford, 81 Gregg street,
Cambridge, Mass;
Rose Gill, z Stone place, Somer-
vile, Mass;
Edward Fowler, GLIB Main street,
Laconia, N. H.
Treated and discharged were:
Selma and Norman GroSsman, 35
Lawrence street, birmingham,
Mass;
Angelina and Peter Scozzari, 81