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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
54-Yeor Open
Shop Reign Ends

ENDICOTT, N. Y. (FP)The En-
dicott-Johnson Shoe Co. signed the
first union contract in its 54-year
open shop history with Local 2S5,
International Fur and Leather
Workers (CIO), March %, cover
ing $500 tannery workers in Endi-
colt.
The IFLWU won labor board
election at the plant three months
ago after a long, intensive CAM
paign.
The contract grants the union
exclusive collective bargaining
right; grievance procedure and ar
bitration; job seniority with top
seniority for department and shop
stewards; free boots, aprons, gloves,
and sanitary conditions in the shop;l
and no discrimination against any
worker for union activities.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02

1--WE AND LET LIVE: Give
and let live" must be the worlds
motto fcl the future, Nine. Chang
kar rehek told $4,000 people in Chi.
ago's stadium. Alth hough the
League Of Nations failed, she said,
coacerted action will be necessary
fer the reconstruction and pres ar-
vation of peace in the pos. war
period. Nine. Kai-shek called wsr
the "acme Of human folly"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
RATIONING:
Juggling Act

Almost all the items that go into
the American market basket are
now regulated under the rationing
system and the job of Juggling
points to insure proper diet is as
an important job for the house
wife as is Juggling the dollars in
the family's grocery budget.
W hen meat, butter, cheese,
shortening, lard and margarine
joined the foods brought under the
point system the full force of war
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
$50 JAP PLANES:
Blasted at RabduL

The Japanese base at Rabaul,
New Britain, shuddered under its
third heaviest raid Of the war
when a strong force of Flying
Fortresses dropped 54 tons of
bombs on more than $50 Jap planes
trapped on the ground.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur report
ed that "a substantial proportion
of the grounded enemy planes
were destroyed or damaged. The
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
G II l. G II T S -. in the meek's necs

FISHY TREATY: Russia and
Japan are still haggling over re-
newal Of the 1912 fishing treaty,
giving the Japs free movement in
the waters off Siberia. The treaty
is IF military inheritance TO Japan
since it allows her to operate a
weather station on the Kamchaika
peninsrls, which allows an ac;ur-
ate gauge Of atmospheric condi-
ticns in the Bering sea.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02

cussion of Americas policy toward
the republic.
Citizens of Argentina realize
that their government is being
handled this way because of its
policy of failing to cast in com
/ pletely with the United Nations in
! political and military action against
! the Axis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02

it, we discovered that she had been
masking an escort destroyer. He
was on her opposite side; we ca
not hope for more favorabl%
portunity. Without delay, we I
bow torpedo. 1t had barely left
the tube when the destroyer swung
sharply and came charging toward
us. We fired another torpedo into
his path.
What followed was submarinera
dream.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

US. and British Teamwork in Tunisia
Forces Definite Shift of Nazi Strategy;
Moscow-BryanskDriveEn Ended: Russia;
Fortresses Smash Jap Base at Rabaul
EDITORS NOTE when opinions um; they those
Released by Newspaper Union
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
YeorAnd Doy Fore. .Cassino

New York, Dec. 27-(UP)-Carlos De Vejarano Y Cassina Spanish nobleman, who pleaded guilty last week to acting as 8 foreign gent without registering with the state department, was sentenced to year and a Jay in federal prison by fed eral Judge John w. Clancy, today.
 De Vejarano, who claims relation ship to the Duke of Alba and was 8 Lieutenant in Francisco Franco'S army during the Spanish Civil War, admitted he had contacted German intelligence officers in St. Jean De Luz, occupied France, before coming to the United States in 1940. He said he agreed to supply his father with information on American public opinion regarding the war and the possibility of United States partici- patinc in it for relay to German army intelligence.
 The complaint against De Vejar- ano charged that German repres- entatives in Havana, Cuba, pad him $1,0OO for his activities, which were carried on between Nov. 1940 and Jan. l941. De Vejarano's counsel claimed that the payment was ar ranged yb his father, Spanish Vice Consul at St. Jean De Lux, as a meats of transferring family funds.
 De Vejarano is suffering from a spinal ailment and because his con- dition necessitates a spinal opera tions, he avs continued on bail for surrender January 3, at which time medical opinion will be presented to determine, when he will begin sen tence,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
'Commondos Roid'-Nozis

London. Dec. 2.-(UP)-A Ger man communique suggested today that Allied commandos may have begun a series of reconnaissance landings on the French invasion coast to gather information on en- emy dispositions in preparation for the opening of second front.
 The communique claimed that a British and French landing party was wiped out" Friday when it at tempted to approach barbed wire entanglements along the channel coast.
 While there was no confirmation of this specific report in official circles here. it was known general ly that commandos have made many unannounced reconnaissance land- ings along the coasts of occupied Europe.
 Such landings obviously would take on new importance as the zero hours for an invasion of west ern Europe approaches, since the second front command must have & clear picture of German defenses and troop dispositions all along the Axis coast. Similar landings pre- ceded the British Canadian recon naissance in force" attack on Dieppe in August. 1922, and many more were anticipated before the second front is opened.
 The area In which the German communique said a landing was at- tempted presumably was in or near Pas De Calais, where the Germans were reported to have batteries of rocket guns with which to lombard England. particularly London.
 The communique also coincided with neutral reports that the Ger mans have been reinforcing their coastal forces hurriedly following the designation of Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower as supreme Allied con- mander of invasion forces.
 Troop trains throughout the con- tinent were said to be damned as the German command carried out a mass re-grouping of their forces.
 Most responsible observers be- lieved the invasion still was months. rather than weeks or days away, however, especially since Eisenhower has yet to arrive in London and announce his staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
FDR Tries To Solve Labor
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J
 leaving Hyde Park last night with telegrams to three steel companies and to c 10 and UNIV President Philip Murray. He asked work con- tinue byb extending existing terms and conditions and promised that any wage adjustments would be made retroactive.
 The steel workers union had pe- ttt1oned the War Labor Board for unqualified assurances on retro activity. Public board members agreed that wage adjustments with m the Stabilization program would be retroactive but refused commit ments on thy increases resulting from a modification of that pro- gram.
 No Change Contemplated
 In making his guarantee on re- troactivity, the President indicated that he contemplated no change in the policy enunciated by the VILE public members, saying in the tele- grams that steel wage increases must of course be made" in accord with the stabilization program. The program limits wage adjustments within the Little Steel Formula = no more than IS per cent above levels of January l, 1941 - Except to correct gross inequities and sub standard pay.
 Thus, the President in effect of- fered the steel workers little or no hope that their demands for a gen. eral wage increase of IT cents an hour would be granted because such a boost admittedly would shatter the Little Steel wage ceiling. He did, however, leave the way open for other adjustments.
 On the railroad front, leaders of l 100000 incorporating railway em- ployeS were set for new White House conferences with MT. Roosevelt. They were unable to reach an agree ment with management representa- tives after their conference with him Thursday.
 Before the Christmas Day halt in negotiations, however, two of the largest of the five operating unions accepted the Presidents offer to ar- bitrate their wage dispute, but the other three clung to their rejections. The 15 incorporating unions gave no answer but asked that settlement efforts te continued.
 YieIdinr fn ne,nand
 Yielding on their demand for general increase of eight cents an hour, the incorporating group agreed to accept a sliding scale of increases ranging from four to 10 cents in exchange for flat six cents an hour as overtime pay. The administration has expressed will ingness to allow them overtime pay to eliminate the inequality between railway labor, from whom overtime begins after 48 hours a week, and other industries in which workers receive premium pay for more than 40 hours.
 Management spokesmen reported ly offered overtime pay of four cents an hour, the amount which MT. Roosevelt had suggested for the $50, - 900 operating employees. Negotia- tions became deadlocked as in the operating case and the non-operat- ing union officials marked time awaiting the Presidents return.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Burglars Get $500, Pass Up Much More
MaIIer's Hardware Store Safe Broke Open; Envelopes
 With Larger Sums Untouched

Burgiays who broke into Mahlers Hardware store at 8i0 North Main street last night walked of with more than $500, but missed a con- eidernbly larger sum of money. Breaking open a safe, the unidenti- fled intruders removed more than e2O0 in bills, the exact sum not yet 2 determined. Envelopes containing larger sums were fouynd untouched in the disarray.
 Lieutenant William Foleys and Detective Raymond Grady are in- Restigating.
 Two other breaks-one at the lunch cart owned by Louis 8. Hick- cox at l705 East Main street, and the other at the Tower Grill on Meadow street, also occurred last night. At the East Main street es- tablishment S worth of pennies .Were stolen and. for an unexplained reason, 8 number of eggs were taken and broken about the back
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
We Will Win Wor In 1944'
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with virtually every correspondent in Algiers present.
 He apologized for being few min utes late, then praised the corres- pondents in this theater. saying he had received the grandest coopera- ton any commander ever had in the field. The compliment was paid sin cerely, he added, and was no eye wash.
 Swinging quickly to the subject of his new task, announced only Friday by President Roosevelt, Eisenhower said:
 My own and personal job immed- lately, of course, will be to do what we have done here. That is to weld the directing teams together in such way that no real friction ever de- velops, that the people trust each other, work in unison and go into this thing with their full weight.
 "I believe that we have got here sence of partnership which has come as nearly as 1t is humanly possible to the Animation of the friction that has been so typical of Allied actions in the past"
 Eisenhower, talking with the cor respondents for an hour defined war as an extension of politics into force. He said time is what we fight for, and morale ranks next in i'm portance to time.
 He expressed amazement over the ability of American and British front line troops to accommodate themselves to the conditions on the Italian front, where they fight in knee-deep mud.
 Eisenhower said that if the sur rendering Italian armies had done their utmost the Allies could have had all of Italy. He conceded that the surrender did not net all that had been hoped for, but what the Allies got made it well worth while.
 The surrender of the Italian fleet permitted the withdrawal of heavy units of the British fleet from the Mediterranean, he said, and enabled he speedy occupation of Taranto and Brindisi ahead of the Germans who were attempting to take over the "heel' of Italy.
 Explaining that the French had been rearmed to fight the Germans. he said any planes which excluded them would be silly. He praised Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, and said from his observation he judged the French commander belonged near the front lines, where Eisen- hover had seen him twice. Eisenhower said the north African campaign was won last January when Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery began receiving supplies through captured Tripoli. From that day German Marshal Erwin Rommel was done, he said.
 Eisenhower described the Ameri- can defeat at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia as an incident-a regrettable incident, but only an incident.
 He chided the all-knowing who discuss campaign schedules, and said the original north African plans called for the capture of only Gran. Algiers and Casablanca for use as air bases to protect conveys through the Mediterranean.
 The approach to hills within sight of Tunis in the original landing was bold stroke which failed. Thereafter the normal campaign continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Tobacco Men Rop Red Tape

Washington, Dec. 27-CUP)-Rep- reSentatives of Shade .'obacco grow CTS from Now England, Florida and Georgia charged today that bureau cratic muddlin3' has broken down fertilizer allocations and as result the supply of cigars for 15,O00, 900 Amer'ccn smokers is threatened.
 Ralph c. Lasbury Jr., East Wind sor Hill Conn.,, said that immediate remedial action assuring growers of cottonseed meal fertilizer was nec- es5ary. He is chairman of 8 com- mittee of growers which. met here this weekend.
 Lasbury said the committee had been unable to obtain from commod- ity cred4. corporation officials any flat assurance that 10000 tons of cottonseed meal, the minimum re- quired amount, would be allocated.
 The Shade Tobacco Growers Ag- r;cultural Association said in a statement that unless the official bottleneck involving 1914 planting of wrapper leaf tobacco is eliminated, practically no cigars Of the type for which America is famous will be manufactured in the United States in the near future"
 War food administration said to- day it was doubtful if the tonnage of cotton seed meal required by the Connecticut river valley growers could be obtained because of the shortage of livestock feed.
 The supply 0. cottenseed meal, an important dairy feed, is limited. Of- ficials said that every effort will be made to supply the needs of both tobacco growers and dairymen but they indicated dairymen will receive preference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
StoIin Forced FDR s Hand
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would be the man.
 It is no secret that the British steadily resisted U. s. Western Flu rope invasion arguments over a period of months and in June of 1942 vetoed Mir Roosevelt's commit ment to the Russians that the in- vasion would begin in that year. Prime Minister Winston Churchill had to hurry of to visit Stalin in Moscow to explain why the British would not approve an invasion in 1942. The alternative invasion actu- ally undertaken was in North Africa "a a strategy dear to Churchill.
 But by the time MT. Roosevelt and Churchill met Stalin this month at Teheran, western Eu- ropean invasion plans were all set, except in one respect, and the en- tire program was laid on the table before the Russian leader. He list ened and evidently liked the ar engagements as far as they went. But he bluntly inquired who was to command. Neither MT. Roosevelt nor Churchill could tell him. They sought to put the question aside. Stalin would not budge. He said that plans meant little without the name of the responsible man.
 That was why the President and the Prime Minister on returning to Cairo had to make an immediate decision.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
SIeet and Rain PIoyHovoc
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tCOIlulIlueQ IrOIn FdBG II their apartments at Plainville, and razed two small buildings at Naug- atuck after train severed hoselines laid across the nearby railroad tracks.
 Meantime, the Coast Guard at New London assigned it's heaviest ice breaker to blow a channel in Connecticut river from Saybrook to Hartford. Ice had formed as thick as ten inches because of the sub zero temperatures preceding the ice storm, and Gov. Baldwin was fear full that oil parges would be unable to navigate the river.
 The weatherman predicted the storm would end during the day.
 While transportation was seriously delayed because of road conditions, communications did not suffer from the sleet, nor were power lines af- fected.
 Some bus lines were compelled to cancel scheduled trips until travel conditions improved. More than 70 sailors enroute to their base at New port, R. l., were stranded in Hart ford and another 75 person. heading for Winsted and Bristol also were without transportation.
 The state highway department pressed all crews into service, sand ing the roads.
 A freezing rain which coated eastern highways with ice, last night and early today resulted in hundreds of automobile accidents, disrupted bus service and added to the burden of railroads already taxed with holiday travel.
 AS sections of Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, PennSyl- vania, New Jersey. New York and Southern New England counted hundreds of injured from accidents and falls, the Weather Bureau warned that the freezing rain would make travel hazardous today in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine and would endanger power service.
 Storm warnings predicting rising winds were issued by the weather bureau for the Atlantic coast south of Brook Island and including Del aware Bay yesterday forty nine air. plane flights were cancelled at La Guardia Field, New York.
 In Washington police estimated that 700 persons were injured on icy streets. In nearby Maryland and Virginia motorists reported driving was dangerous. Capital bus service was disrupted for an hour.
 New York City escaped the freez- ing rain but disrupted bus and air. plane service resulted in hundreds of passengers being shifted to rail- roads. Trains were running only a few minutes behind schedule, how ever.
 At least POI persons lost their lives through accidents and vio- lence over the Christmas week end as the nation took its first full holi- day since the war began, a United Press survey showed today.
 Traffic fatalities accounted for 109 of the deaths, but A lives were lost in fires, including a Christmas Eve fire in a New York City room- ing house which claimed 18 victims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
% Much Good Cheer

With American Infantry, Beyond San Pietro, Dec. 26 - tUP) v Two Germans who had had too much Christmas cheer lost their bearings in No Mans Land and as result joined the prisoners in the stockade today.
 One, from Munich and about 35, said he had been give.l an extra ra- tion of Christmas ersatz WI iskey be- cause he waj member of a burying party. He lost his way after the bur- ials and blundered into the Ameri- can front lines.
 A German abLu 25 from Berlin -zagegd into a frontline post where there happened to be both c ,rman and Italian-speaking Amer jeans. When he called out to them in German they replied in that lan- guage but he was suspicious and ad- dressed them ir Italian. The Ital- ian speakers answered. By tie time he realized he was not in his own lines. he was e prisoner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27

 ToWord Kiev
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(Continued from Page D
 Radomisl, 55 miles west of Kiev, were liberated in the initial ad- vance and the stage was set for a pincers attack on Zhitomir, key railway and highway junction 28 miles to the southwest.
 General Nikolai F. Vatutin's First Ukrainian army, credited with the victory, routed four German tank and six infantry divisions-a total Of 135,000 men-and killed 15,000 officers and men. The Germans also lost PIT tanks, 60 self-propelled guns destroyed or captured.
 The new offensive probably ended for good the German threat against Kiev. German Marshal Fritz Erich Won Mannstein threw the cream of his forces and all available reserves into 8 desperate counter offensive in the past six weeks in an at tempt to throw the Russians back across the Dnieper and re-capture the Ukrainian capital.
 Withdrew 90 Miles
 The Russians withdrew nearly 30 miles. yielding both Zhitomir and Korosten, 45 miles to the north, before they could bring up rein forcementS and finally halt the enemy east of Radomisl, highwater mark of the Nazi advance.
 Bounding back, the Russians re- captured not only Radomisl, but also Kornin, 29 miles southeast of zhitomir and Krivoie, 40 miles southeast of Zhitomir and only 15 1-2 miles northwest of the Russian defense bastion of Fastov.
 Some $40 miles to the north, the Soviets' first Baltic army frightened its siege arc around the White Rus sian stronghold of Vitebsk, guard ing the approaches to the Baltic states, by driving to within five miles east of the city, IA miles to the northeast and 13 miles to the north.
 The Russians already had cut the Viltebsk-Polotsk segment of the MoScow-Riga highway and momen- tarily were expected to sever the parallel railroad, a few miles to the south, but other supply lines to the south still were in German hands.
 Vichy Broadcast
 CA Vichy broadcast said light So- viet units had reached the Vitebsk- Polotsk railway, but were repulsed by German reserves. Other Russian forces attacked strongly toward Rogachev, to the north, presumably as a diversion, the broadcast said.)
 Sixty towns and villages were nb- erated around Vitebsk and 4000 enemy troops were killed as the German defenses slowly crumbled under massive Soviet blows.
 At the extreme southern end of the Russian front, Soviet troops have seized several islands in the middle of the Dnieper Estuary pre- liminary to a crossing in force aim- ed at the Port of KherSon, field dispatches said.
 Other dispatches reported large scale guerrilla warfare in the Cri- mea, where Partisans were said to control 45 towns and villages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Vital Steel Production
 Paralyzed By Strike
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However, another 12O0O were still working at Republics plants at Warren, O., Buffalo, N. Y, and Gadsden, Ala.
 The first shifts returning to work after the holiday were met at most plants by union shop stewards and told to go home.
 In promising the steel workers tkat the new contract would be re- troactive, the Presidents telegram to the union and to officials of the major steel companies appeared to preclude the granting of the workers demands for a 17-cents- an-hour wage increase.
 He stated unequivocally that any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Modern Plumbing For Buckinqhom

London, Dec. 27-(UP)-Modern plumbing is being installed for the first time in the servants quar- ters of Buckingham Palace.
 AS in most British mansions bathrooms have been few and far between in the Palace of the King, and central heating has been con- fined to only a few rooms.
 Now a wing damaged by German bombs is being repaired and mod ernized.