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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Heavy Loss
In Ne Fires

Boston, Dec. 22-'(UP)-Thlrteek
fires whipped by high winds have
caused more than a quarter million
dollars damage in New England
during the last "a hours.
A grass fire at Derry, N. H., yes
terday resulted in $4,000 blaze
which destroyed a cider mill and
three dwellings and damaged a
lumber plant and three other
houses.
Fire in Worcester business block
caused $4,000 damage and de-
stroyed the Blue Goose cafe and
several retail shops.
Flames destroyed the Heights
House hotel in Lunenburg, VT, cauS-
ing $4,000 loss and damaging four
nearby homes.
Two Lowell war plants were dam
aged and two firemen injured In q
$4,000 fire that also threatened the
neighborhood.
Meanwhile, at Riverside, r. /,
fire destroyed house, three cot
tages and variety store. The
blaze also damaged two other
dwellings and endangered the lives
of five persons.
A general alarm was sounled as
flames raced through the Harvey
Motor Sales Co. plant in Everett
and damaged rs automobiles. OFF,
Gals said damage was at leest
$4,000. Less serious fires occurred
at Woburn, Canton, Jamaica PlaaR,
Beverly, Saxonville, Stoneham and
Milton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Planes FlyTo
Harry Nozis

London, Dec. % - (U.P) -Four
motored bombers of the United
States Eighth Air Force attacked
northwest Germany by daylight
again today, returning to the area
where they dropped more than l.
200 tons of explosives on Bremen
two days ago.
The new American daylight raid
carrying on the record offensive
from British bases, followed night
raid on western Germany by mos
quito bombers of the Royal Air
Force.
Lieutenant General IRA c. FAX
er's fighter planes, now capable OF
escorting the big bombers to almost
any target and lowering over it for
sometime, supported the bomber
feet.
The first reports released by the
Eighth Air Force did not name to-
days target.
The followed speculation that
Eaker had marked Bremen. Ger
many's second port, for destruction
by daylight attack on the general
Allied pattern of the concentrated
bombardment which knocked out
Hamburg.
The Monday attack on Bremen
was carried out by more than 500
American bombers, escorted by the
biggest fighter escort ever dispatch
ed in this theater.
Crowds of Christmas shoppers in
southeast England watched the
outbound bomber parade through
bright sunshine over the Channel
V several minutes.
The bombers followed In the wake
of British fighter planes which
struck out toward the continent In
dawn patrol amidst clouds which
melted under the rising sun.
The speedy Mosquito Bombers re-
turned without loss from the night
foray over Germany.
Tentative indications were that
Allied bombers had attacked mill
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
6 Accused In
Liquor Deal

New York, Dec. 22.-(UP)-Six
men accused Of operating a million
dollar black market in offering
case lots of liquor to hotels and
night clubs at above ceiling prices
were scheduled to be arraigned be-
fore a U. S. commissioner today.
A seventh man, arrested with the
others yesterday on tip from the
Hotel Aston, was held at his hotel
room where he was suffering from
pneumonia.
william E. DUNCAN, assistant
supervisor Of the enforcement di-
vision of the alcohol tax units of
the U. s. Treasury, said evidence
against the men was obtained by
planting a federal agent in the AS
tor as an assistant buyer. The agent
men who offered to provide any
was reported approached by two
amounts Of liquor at black market
prices.
The men, charged with conspir-
acy to violate OPA regulations on
ceiling prices of liquor, gave their
names as:
Harry Novick, 48, Of Jackson
vile, Fla; Arthur lombard, As. of
New Haven, Conn; Edward Turner,
about SO, said by DUNCAN to be the
owner of the Quarterback, a Miami
night club; ]. G. Hearty of New
York: william j. Regain, about SO,
described as a Detroit banker;
Philip Peters, %. of Detroit, and
Morris Schoenfeld, 38, Of New York.
Turner was under arrest at his
hotel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22

that the presence of police outside
the consulate reflected a general
Anti-American feeling in Spain
since it was customary to guard for
eign buildings throughout Europe.
Some quarters here believed that
the two Falangists, rather than re-
flecting Frances views, simply were
venting their anger at Anglo Amer
lean activity which appears to have
reduced the Falange's influence in
Spain.
This theory was supported by the
fact that other Falangists recently
attacked the British consulate in
Saragossa. The Spanish government
issued an apology but Britain re-
jected 1t as unsatisfactory, contend
the Spain sought to divorce herself
from responsibility for the action
of Falangists. London maintained
that the Spanish government must
be responsible since the Falange was
the only official party in the coun-
try.
The United States, it was believed
will take the same position but II
appeared the move would be chiefly
aimed at encouraging more liberal
regime under Franco. There have
been signs recently that the Falange
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Work Cut Out For FDR To
Avert General K. K. Strike

that he had proposed compromise
settlement in the operating case al
lowing a four-cent hourly raise, as
payment for overtime. This would be
in addition to the four cents already
approved by sterilization Director
Fred NJ. Vinson as the maximum al
lowable under the little steel form
ula.
Management representatives have
submitted an offer based on that
proposal but the brotherhoods plan
ned to submit today counter pro-
posal or greater concessions.
The President did not explain the
basis of the four cents that he pro-
posed for overtime. Approximately
so per cent of the operating en-
ployes are yardmen who receive an
hurry rate and wouli es m about
81 more weekly If they received time
and half for the sixth day instead
of the $1.92 of the proposal en-
dorscd by the President. The yard
men now receive overtime pay after
eight hours in one day or AZ in one
week. The other half of the operat-
ing employees are paid on a mileage
basis.
Generally, the big five operating
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
LiberotoFS
BIost MorshoIIs

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 22-UP)-
Liberator bombers of the Seventh U
S. Airforce, carrying their offensive
against the Marshall Islands, into
the ninth consecutive day against
increasing japanese air strength,
pounded Maleolap. atoll with Is tons
of bombs Monday and shot down
four of 80 intercepting planes.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced that many fires and ex-
blossoms" were caused In the hangar
and storage areas and that five
other japanese planes probably were
downed.
The raid cost three liberators, the
highest lost in single raid since
the stepped-up U. S. operations be-
gan in the area in mid-November.
Other liberatorS, pounCing the
atoll Sunday ran into Is Japanese
fighters, and probably destroyed sew
an of them and damaged five others.
Two liberatorS were damaged anc
;hree men were wounded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Reds Step
Up Advance
On Vitebsk

Moscow, Dec. 22-(UP)-The Red
army broke desperate German
counter-attacks below Newell and
swept southwark with renewed i'm
petus toward the key junction of
Vitebsk today, liberating more than
100 villages.
(The London Daily Express re-
ported from Stockholm that the
Russians at one point were only Is
miles north of VitebSk).
The Germans threw large num-
bers of tanks and thousands of in
fantrymen into counter-attacks in
futile attempt to halt the first
of the Soviet winter offensives,
which fast was crumpling their de-
tense belt guarding the Baltic
states.
Driving to within less than 20
miles of VitebSk on a broad front,
the Russians killed 1000 Germans
and knocked out IA tanks and 10
self-propelled guns in "a hours of
fighting advances.
(The Stockholm newspaper
Svenski Dagbladet reported from
Bern that that tens of thousands
of German and foreign workers
were building a defense line from
Riga, Latvia, southwark through
Poland. The dispatch, quoting a
diplomat from Berlin. said German
officers estimated that 100000
Russian troops were available for
winter battles.
In one sector, German artillery
put up a powerful artillery barrage,
but a Soviet counter-barrage 81
fenced the guns and Russian troops
drove the enemy from 40 localities.
Sixty additional villages were cap
tured in neighboring sector, where
defense works and minefelds were
overwhelmed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Lawyer Raps State
Lack Of Institutions

Declaring that the State of Con-
necticut has utterly failed to pro-
vide any sort of an institution for
young persons who are not delin-
Quent, but neglected and in need OF
mental care, Atty. william p. Wer-
theimer this morning appealed to
common pleas court the case OF an
18-year-old girl found guilty by City
Court Judge Charles R. Summa of
being in manifest danger of falling
into habits of vice, and committed
to the House of Good Shepherd in
Hartford.
The girl was taken to New Haven
county all in lieu of $1,000 bonds
to await retrial.
Charles DePinna, 81, 65 Phoenix
avenue, was fined Sis and costs on
charges of assault and breach of
the peace, and Otto S. Stoppani, 81,
1924 Oak avenue, $40 and costs on
charge of breach Of the peace be-
fore Judge Summa this morning as
result of fight between them
two weeks ago which sent Stoppani
10 st. MaryS hospital.
Stoppani said he hit DePinna at
his home at a. m. when DePinna
reached in his pocket because he
thought he was reaching for gun.
DePinna then knocked him down a
flight of stairs.
Other cases: Harry McCluskey,
40, SO Cherry street, reckless driv-
ing. continued to Dec. "a; Michael
Raimo, 80 Wolcott street, embezzle-
ment, nolled; Edward Miller, 43, 236
Cherry street, non-support, contin-
ued to Dec. %; Adolph Hansen, SO,
West Cheshire, reckless driving,
continued to Jan. 5; Frank dag
ostini, "a, 10 Oak avenue, non-sup-
port, continued to Dec. "a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
NAILS talk REPRISALS FOR EXECUTIONS
Marshall Back From Pacific Meeting
ALLIES GAIN
over SNOW
SWEPT PEAKS

Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, December %. - (UP)
: (UP) - American and
French troops have fought
ahead two miles on a four
mile front in the snow-swept
peaks above the Rome road
junction of Casino, it was
announced today, and a
fierce tank battle is reducing
the Adriatic port of Ortona to
a shambleS.
Slow but steady Allied gains in
violent battles on both wings Of the
Italian front intensified the threat
to both Casino and Pescara, pros
pective anchors of the next main
German defense line.
The British Eighth Army, spear
headed by tank concentration,
was grinding down German armor-
ed resistance in the streets Of
wrecked and burning Ortona, and
the anticipated announcement of its
capture will be an anti-climax.
Eleven miles beyond Ortona lies
Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the
best road across Central Italy to
Rome. The way to the key port was
being blasted open In the Ortona
battle and complementary strug-
giles inland to Orsonga
Striking westward another two
miles in the Lagone sector above
Casino, American troops at Acked
Acquafondata, five miles due west
of Filignano, six miles northwest of
Venafro and three and a half miles
beyond Lagone.
CarditO Assaulted
-Four miles due north of Acqua-
fondata, other elements of the Fifth
Army including French units were
assaulting the village of Cardito.
Between Cardito and Acquafondata
savage struggles were in progress
among the heights which command
the left wing of the German de-
lenses before Casino.
A dominant height in the Mount
Casale mass between the villages
fell to the Americans.
The French had been engaged in
a bitter struggle for three days and
nights for 3,000-foot mountain
pass and finally wrested the south
ern shoulders from the stubbornly
resisting Germans.
Another threat to Casino was
posed by American forces pressing
an attack on San Vittore. six miles
to the southeast. Its defenses were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
!CC Plan For
New Haven

New Haven, Conn, Zee. 22-(UP)
The plan Of the Interstate Com
merce Commissio-l to reorganize the
New Haven" Railroad system and
return it to independent control
after eight years c. receivership, had
the approval today Of federal Judge
Carroll @. Hincks in amended form.
The court accepted the ICC rec
ommendation declaring the common
and preferred stocks of the road
worthless, but granting secured
creditors new fixed interest and in
come bonds and preferred stock, and
the general creditors new common
stock.
And stock equities of the old Col
ony Railroad, held by the New
Haven under a 99-year lease, also
were eliminated.
Principal corrections in the ICC
plan included:
Approval of an offer to acquire
the Boston & Providence railroad.
Acquisition of the old Colony lat
a price corrected to in 'lude an addi-
tional maximum allotment of ST.
631 1927 in ney fixed interest bonds
and ST ,223, 495 in new concongent in
terest bonds"
Disapproval of provisions of the
ICC plan "for the treatment of the
secured SKIES and of the bank group
(Chase National, First National,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
". S. AirIines
Praised For
War Work

Washington. December %, -
CUP - The nations domestic air.
lines were given credit today for
playing highly strategic" part in
helping the Army and Navy build
an air transport network that has
speeded military operations by
bridging the Seven Seas and
reaching into every continent.
In a special report on U. S. Civil
Airlines in war, the Office of War
Information said that the lines, con-
verted almost wholly to military and
commercial war activities, were
making more than twice as much
money today as they did before
Pearl Harbor and with considerably
less equipment.
The report, based on records of
the industry and of the Army, Navy
and other government agencies, re-
lated how planes and pilots of the
commercial firm helped the Army's
air transport command and the
Navy air transport service set up
system of aerial highways now
carrying material by "airline to
anywhere"
Navy officials reported that the
re-conquest of the Aleutians would
have been delayed for months If air
transport had not been able to fly
in men and cargo quickly and in
great quantity. That job was done
in an area where flying, according to
men who do it, is of the seat of the
pants" variety and where pilots
swear their NEGOTIATIONS include
anti-freeze shots.
Owl said the system of world air.
ways developed by the war - a net
work which one pilot called Buck
Rogers stuff on sound Engineering
basis" - was made up of four prin-
cipal routes followed by the ACT
and the MATS. These were:
/. The North Atlantic run, which
can be covered either nonstop or in
several stages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Allied Flyers
Wreak Havoc
At RobuuI

Advance Allied Headquarters, New
Guinea, Dec. %. CAPITALIZED heavy
and medium bombers sank 5000
ton supply ship, damaged severely
two others and kindled fires visible
for so miles in a one-two day-and-
night blow at the big Japanese naval
base at Rabaul, it was revealed to-
day.
Another ship probably was sunk
and two others left aflre in a series
of night attacks near Kavieng, New
Ireland, north Of New Britain, and
6,000-ton freighter was damaged
in a day attack.
The intensified raids on enemy
shipping, together with 189-ton
raid on Cape Gloucester, 275 miles
southwest of Rabaul, were an
nounced in a communique as ground
action northeast Of the Arawe
beachhead on the southwest coast
Of New Britain dwindled.
CA japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo radio said that Jap
anese navy planes had sunk nine
transports, two cruisers and large
number Of landing craft in two
raids on Allied conveys Of Arawe
Tuesday,
Ninety miles southwest of Arawe
across Dampier Strait, Australian
jungle troops on New Guinea's Huon
Peninsula captured a strongly
defended hill with the support OF
tanks and artillery and drove on a
heavily fortified Japanese position
in a two-mile push beyond the
Maseweng river. Patrols already
were reported to have penetrated
the fertilization.
Other Allied ground units driving
up the Ramu river valley of New
Guinea captured enemy positions
near Kesawai, 20 miles southwest OF
Bogadjim, gateway to the japanese
base of Madang on the northeastern
coast.
Forty to SO Japanese planes at
tackled an empty allied convoy off
the Huon Peninsula Friday, 1t was
disclosed, and sank a 200-ton YES
sci, but anti-aircraft guns on ships
in the convoy shot down IA to 20
of the attacking aircraft.
American heavy boinbers, taking
off from South Pacific bases with
fighter escort, opened the new as
sault on Rabaul with daylight raid
that sank one cargo ship and set
two others aflre. Four enemy planes
were shot down, but four American
planes were lost.
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Simultaneous announce
ments here and MacArthur's
headquarters in New Guinea
disclosed that Marshall had
passed through India, Cey-
lon, northern Australia, New
Guinea, the Solomons, Ha-
waii and other Pacific islands
by plane after leaving the
Cairo and Tehran confer
ences in the Middle-East.
Marshall since has arrived in
California, it was revealed, on the
final lap of a $4,000 mile round =
the-world trip. He left Washing
ton Nov. II, the announcements
were the first official word of
Marshall'S whereabouts since he left
Teheran.
disclosure of Marshalls Pacific
tour, during which the campaign
against Japan was discussed in
some detail, appeared to confirm
reports that President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill had
decided to retain him as U. S. of
staff and entrust the second front"
command to some other general,
possibly Dwight D. Eisenhower, now
in the Mediterranean.
Marshall held his first wartime
conference with Macarthur at Sixth
Army headquarters on an island
north of Australia Dec. Is, the day
that American troops landed on the
Araws Peninsula on the southwest
coast of New Britain.
Details Not Disclosed
Though details of the meeting
we're not disclosed, discussions pre-
sunlably centered on the coordina-
ton of mighty Pacific oflensives
with particular reference to the
part Macarthur will play.
Southwest Pacific sources believed
the meeting was second only in
significance and Importance to the
Roosevelt Churchill Chang confer
ence at Cairo and the Roosevelt
Churchill conference at Quebec.
These quarters also pointed out
that Marshall had an excellent
opportunity to judge how Mac
Arthur was exploiting his tactical
opportunities in the Southwest Pa
cif1c and to assess the merits Of
MacArthur's repeated appeals for
additional supplies and reinforce
ments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22

A government spokesman
was quoted by the official
DNB News Agency as an
nouncing the impending
action against Allied cap
tives, evidently arm e n
against whom the Nazis have
ranted with increasing in-
tensity as the weight of the
aerial offensive mounted.
London officials refused for the
time being to comment on the Man
report. 1t appeared to be a safe
assumption that the governments
would give the announcement its
close attention, since it constitutes
the most drastic German action or
threat of action against Allied pris-
oners since the Stacking incident q
year ago.
The courts will IDEAL with British
and American prisoners who were
involved in serious violations of In
ternational law without legal pros
ceilings so far being taken against
them" the spokesman was quoted.
Linking his assertions directly
with the war guilt trial at Kharkovs
the spokesman put up the propa-
ganda defense that the charges
there "were so crazy and ridiculous
that they could only have originate
ed in the brains of those perverted
creatures who before this have used
similar proceedings as propaganda
trials"
According to the broadcast DNB
version, the WilhelmstrasSe SpokeS-
man said German prisoners were
being tortured TO extort confessions
to non existent crimes.
1--WE are not surprised that the
criminals Of the Soviet governmenT
carry out their propaganda with
such bestial methods" he said. I'VE
know them as murderers OF Katyn
and Vinnitsa, (where the Nazis &C
cused the Russians of mass muir
ders), and have no doubt that all
prisoners who fal lin their hands
sooner or7later are lost"
Then he reported the forthcom-
ing proceedings against the British
and Americans.
A Berlin broadcast quoting q
transocean dispatch carried the i'm
plicit threat of drastic action against
American and British airmen in re-
taliation for the hanging Of three
German officers at Kharkov after
they were convicted of war guilt.
The Nazis had been working up
to such climax for more than "a
hours, ranting against the "crimi-
nall actions or United States Avia-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Bad Weather
Lies Ahead

Boston. Dec. 22-(UP)--The win
ter which begins today will be "a
mean one" according to Mete-
orologist E. B. Rideout.
In long-range forecast pre-
pared for the United Press, the
weather prophet Of Station WEEP
predicted:
That there will be a considerable
number Of storms, many of them
of the coastal type.
That southern New England will
have a lot of sleet and freezing
rain.
That February will be unusually
stormy.
That December and January
temperatures will be about normal,
but that February will be the
coolest month of. the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Rep. james CurIey
Recuperotes From Flu

Washington, Dec. 22-(UP)-Rep.
James M. Curley, D., Mass, i'll with
influenza at the Bethesda, Md,
naval hospital had a restful night
and "is getting along fine" it was
announced today
Hospital attaches said that Curley
who was taken to the hospital yes
terday when he developed fever,
had a temperature only one degree
above normal this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
NEW CHAPLIN CO-STARS

Hollywood, Dec. 22.-(UP)-Alice
Ealand, 24-year old Manhattan
model said today she had been
signed by Charlie Chaplin to co-star
in his next film.
She was the third to sign for the
part. The first, Joan Barry, sued
Chaplin for support of child she
says Is his. The second, Oona o..
Neill, married the actor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Khorkov Trio
Set Pattern
For Repeat

Editors Note: Nj. S. Handler
has returned to Moscow from
KharkOv, where he covered the
war criminal trial. Herewith he
reports the far-reaching implica-
lions Of that trial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22

Why Not Use Your Spare Time
Probably? Attend Post Junior Col
lege Of Commerce. Enter Jan. 3rd.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Conferred With
Ninitz, Macarthur
On New Strategy

Pearl Harbor, December o. - CUP) = General George
C. Marshall, U. S. Chief of Staff back in the United
States today after comforting in the Pacific with General
Douglas Macarthur and Admiral Chester w Nitz the
strategy agreed upon at Cairo for the crushing of Japan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-22
Threaten To Deal
Drastically With
Airmen Prisoners

London December %. - CUP - Germany proclaimed
today that in retaliation for the hanging of three Nat
officers convicted of guilt at Kharkov German milf
tary courts soon will IDEAL with American and British
prisoners accused of violating International Law.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-19
.Boot|eggiing
10
SID Stores
BY FRANK NORRIS

Declaring that Detroit SDD's
have been sidetracking the pub
lies liquor and bootlegging it to
saloon keepers, Chairman r. Glen
Dunn of the Michigan Liquor Con-
troll Commission today announced
new rationing rules designed 10
prevent chiSeling.
Preliminary investigation by the
commission has shown that some
druggists and other specially des-
ignated liquor dealers are ped
ding their whisky. intended for
the public. 20 saloons at profits
al from So 10 $50 d case, Dunn
said.
If they obey the law and sell
10 Individual customers at the
fixed retail price. the SDD'S can
make only from So TO $3.50 a
case, he pointed out [