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 the manpower problem particularly as 1t affects food production, re- vealed that Hershey in' February said "this month will finish up the source of single men not in eSsen- tial occupations or otherwise de- ferred or exempt"
 Virtually the only single men now available are some 100000 high school students who will become el- igible for induction this summer Hershey added.
 Publication of Hershey's testi- mony followed disclosure that Pres ident Roosevelt has established an informal fiye-man committee head ed by Economic Stabiliaztion Direc. tor James P. Byrnes to explore the manpower situation and to advise him on a course of action. The other members are Admiral Will liam D. Leahy, MT. Roosevelt's per sonal. chief of staff; Bernard M Barucll, New York financier; liar. " L. Hopkins' contidante and spe- Clal assistant to the president: anc Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, New Deal trouble shooter No. 1.
 The shortage of civilian manpow- CT is not expected to be relieved materially by q war department plan to release approximately 546,- 900 men this year for service in industry and agriculture.
 The Senate hearings also dls- closed that War Manpower Commis- sioner Paul V. McNutt estimated that only half of the 22,000, 900 metl in the 18-38 draft age bracket are physically 1t. After allowing for essential services in industry, agri- culture and for other reasons, he added, $500 ,000 more of this group may expect induction.
 Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard said that we are "ap- preaching pretty rapidly a level of nutrition in this country" compar- able to, though not yet equal to, Canada and Great Britain.
 Wickard said he has sent inves- tigators to Great Britain to study food utilization programs there
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FISH CANCELS
 BOSTON SPEECH

Boston, March e--(UP)-The cons troversy over U. s. Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y. as Bostons Evacua- ton day speaker--a sort of tempest in Q beanpot--ended today when Fish cancelled his speech.
 ".. It will be extremely dificult for me to leave congress at this time and to spend two nights on the train in order to make the speech" Fish wrote in . letter to Chief Marshal William B. Gallagher of the Evacuation Day parade.
 Historical societies and Mayor Maurice J. Tobin had protested against the appearance of the isola-i tionist aS chief speaker at tho March l7 celebration.
 Discussing the invitation on ti9 floor of the house, Fish said New- burgh, N. Y, not Boston. was the true "cradle of American liberty Tn his letter to Gallagher. however. t. Fish explained that this was merely q "facetious" remark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-08
REDS GET 100
 TOWNS IN DAY
Germans Transfer 34O,. 900 Men From France to
 Russian Front
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press StafI Correspondent)

Moscow, March 8 --- (U.P) The Red Army captured more than 100 towns and hamlets in three con- vergtng drives on NSfnolenSk in the past 24 hours, the Soviets an- nounced today.
 (1'he official German news agency DINE announced in Berlin broad- cast that Axis troops have evacu- ated Sychevka, 42 miles north of VyaNna on the railroad from Rzhev, according to plan." Sychevka is li0 miles northeast of Smolensk and 8 miles northwest of GzhatSk0
 GA Rome dispatch to a Swedish newspaper reported that the Ger man high command has transferred three panzer and nine infantry d. visions, totalling 340,000 men and 1000 tanks. from France to tho Rus- sian front in Q neffort to stem the Soviet advanceS)
 The Russians were smashing through crumbling Axis defenses from newly-recaptured GzhatSk. 100 miles west of Moscow and l25 miles northeast of Smolensk; from OSuga, i6 miles south of Rzhev on the rail. road to Vyaznla, and from Olenino, 32 miles west of Rzhev.
 The capture of "A villages west of Gzhatsk and in the general Osuga area were reported in the Soviet midnight communique and tho mid- day bulletin announced that 0 num- Der of additional settlements had been seized.
 These two forces we're expected to join in an assault on Vyazma. 35 miles west southwest of Gzhatsk, 54 miles south of Osuga and 93 miles east of SmolenSk.
 Russian forces composing the third arm of the offensive seized 20 hamlets and six strongly fortified points in a thrust south from Ole. nino aimed at the Vyazma -Smol- ensk railroad In an effort to cut off the Vyazma garrison from the rear the high command said.
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ARMY TO TAKE MEN OVER 38
Limited Service Planned, Enabling Draft to Force
 Others Into Farm Work
BY FRED MULLEN al Press Staff C0rreRn0ndentl


 Washington, March 8.--(UP)--A Selective Service directive ordering reclassification of over-age men ill. dicated today that the present draft age maximum of 37 may later be lifted to obtain men for limited service and to force others into essential occupations and agricul- ture.
 The broadest hint was found in the order that all All registrants who have no claim to deferment other than age are to be classified IA so that they will be "the first men over 3S inducted If and when the armied forces determine they can be used in the military estab- lishments."
 By using the term military es- tablishment," Selective Service gave the inference that the present line of thinking is that these men could be used at desk jobs and for types of service other than fighting. That would release younger men for con- bat:
 Selective service and war man. power commission officials would not comment on the full meaning of the move, but one said 1t sfirst objective was to help ease the farm labor problem. It also weS said that the move would service to at- tract men in non-deferable jobs to jobs contributing to the war effort.
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Eighth Army Pursues Ger mans Attempting to Save
 Equipment NO U. s. PLANES LOST
 IN EITHER OFFENSIVE Six Axis Threats Fail as Allies Hope to Drive
 Afrikans Into Sea
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff CorrespOndentl

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 Allied Headquarters, Nortfl Africa, March 8. --- (UP) - Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, repulsed by the British Eight Army, Is re- treating toward the hills north and northwest of Medenine, and off the Tul1iss ian coast American bombers have smashed a convoy carrying supplies to the Germans Italian forces.
 The German retreat in the south began yesterday afternoon, all Allie0 Headquarters communiuue said tRommel had thrust at the Eighth Army's enemy tanks were destroyed in Saturdays fighting without the loss of single British tank, th@ colnmunique said.
 Lieutenant General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery'S Eighth Army ysas trols, veterans at chasing RoriinelB men across Africa, took Up the pure suit of the Germans in the Mede4 nine area and were giving them no rest aS they attempted to save their arnor and other equipment.
 Seven of the ships in tho Axia convoy were hit by American bomb- CTS in two-wave attack. Tn tho first wave, B-25 Billy Mitchell bonlb- CTS, escorted by P-38 Lightnlngs, made loW-leVel attack. One ship was sunk. another was left sink ing and two more were set on fire. Five enemy planes, seeking to pros tect the supply ships, were shot down.
 Three and half hours later, heavy bombers attacked the convoy. which was circling a burning ship. One ship blew Up immediately and two others were set on fire. No American plane was lost in either operation.
 The Eighth Army won a clean. cut victory In the opening phase ot the battle which the Allies hope will drive Rommel'S forces northward into the sea. The Axis made six separate attacks on Saturday, and after all of them failed the retreat toward the hills began, With an mercan-Britlsh army advancing from the west and the Eighth Army
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JAPANESE THREAT
 STILL PREVALENT
Convoy Destruction Does Not Remove Possibility
 of Assault on Australia
BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Gen MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, March 8-(UP)-Austra- lia was gripped today with appre- hension lest the brilliant Allied vic- tory in the battle of the Bismarck Sea grippe her demands for in- creased aid in the southwest Pacific area.
 The utter destruction of the 22- ship Japanese convoy did not re- move the threat of enemy occupa- tiun of New Guinea or the posstbil- ity of assault upon Australia, author itative quarters said as Gen. Doug las MacArthUr's communique told of 6 double blow early Sunday by Royal Australian Air Force Hudsonf and Dutch-manned B-25 Mitchell me4ium bombers on Focal, in the Kai Islands between Dutch New Guinea and Australia.
 Hudsons led the raid, blasting buildings and leaving flames anc smoke in the harbor area. The B. 25's came over 30 minutes later bombing and strafing in low-leve attacks.
 Revenge hungry Dutch pilots many of whom saw their homes de stroyed by the Japanese in Javs said that all bombs hit in the target area.
 An authoritative spokesman de- clared that numerous appeals fol increased aid were not intended tt enable MacArthur to launch a large scale offensive but were for minimum achievements and supplies neces' sary to hold Australia in the fact of threatened attack.
 He supported Premier John Cur tins request for a larger share O. the United Nations production be-
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THIRD WORLD WAR COULD BE REALITY
Wallace Sees It If Reds Embrace Idea of FOment-
 ing World Revolution

Delaware, Ohio, March 8.-(UP) Vice President Henry A. Wallace today declared that third World war would be probable if the Allies double cross" the Soviet Union and inevitable if the Soviets again enl- brace the idea of fomenting world revolution. Another war also would be certain, he said. if the United Na- lions permitted Germany to rearm again.
 Unless there is a close and trust ing understanding between Russia and the United States, he said, there is a grave probability of Rus la and Germany sooner or later making common cause" after this war.
 Wallace expressed these views in an address entitled practical re- ligion in the world of tomorrow" '" delivered at Ohio Wesleyan Univer- over the Blue network.
 Analyzing causes of the present conflict and ways to avoid another struggle, Walalce sid the future well being of the world depends on
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Not Even One Man Lost Though Italians Outnufl1-
 bered Patrol
CONSIDERABLE ENEMY
 EQUIPMENT DESTROYED
Two New Guns, With Wrapping Paper Still on
 Them, Annexed
BY PHIL AULT

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 With American Forces in Central Tunisia, March IT. (Delayed) = (UP) = An American armored patrol, badly outnumbered, charged into an Italian position with machine guns clattering last night and took 84 prisoners without losing a man. The action occurred in a pass 10 miles west of Gafsa where a force of Italian military police had taken up their position. The attack upset the Italians so badly that they thought the Americans were maK" ing q general assault on Gafsa, and early today 70 enemy tanks appeared in the pass ready to defend the town. They found that the Ameri- can patrol had withdrawn with its prisoners after destroying consider able enemy equipment.
 The presence of the Italians in the pass was discovered by a de- tachment commanded by Lieutenant John P. Souther of Gainesville, Ga. Souther ordered his men to open up at 1,50O yards with 75-assallt gun mounted on a half track.
 The sound of the firing attracted two other American detachments commanded by Lieutenant Robert Howard of Muskogee, Okla, and Lieuteinant o. B. William of Anna rillo, Texas.
 The order was given to charge and halftracks carrying machine guns waded into the Italians.
 The Italian guns began spouting, but the fury of the American at- tack appeared to disorganize the enemy whose aim was bad.
 A platoon of light tanks, com manded by Lieutenant Wendell c. Sharp of New York City, followed the scout cars into action and began banging away at Italian trucks and equipment.
 The Italians broke and fled and the Americans stcrmed into the camp. They found that the Italian captain commanding the unit had been killed in his tent by the ire from the .75 assault gun.
 Tn addition to their 84 prisoners, the Americans captured two 47-MM. guns so new that the wrapping paper still was on them. A final tabulation showed that 12 trucks, 8 motorcycle, six 20-MM. guns, one aeld piece and several machine guns were destroyed.
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ARMY TO RELEASE
 MEN TO INDUSTRY
146,OOO Total Planned as Roosevelt Intervenes in
 Complex ManpOwer
RY LYLE C. WILS0N

Limited Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, March 8 -(UP)- War Department plans to release approximately 546,O00 men this year for service in industry and agri- culture were revealed to congress today coincident with an abrupt president intervention in the con- plex problem of manpower.
 President Roosevelt has estab- lished an informal five-man com nittee headed by Economic Stabil- ization Director James F. Byrres to explore the manpower situation and advise him what to do. The other members are: Admiral Wil- Ham D. Leehy, MT. Roogevelt's per- scnal chief of staff, Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier; Harry l.. Hopkins, confidante and special assistant to the president; and Judge Samuel I. RosenmaIi, New Deal trouble shooter No. 1.
 This group has been meeting for several days and has heard War ManpOwer Chairman Paul V. Mo Mutt, Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard. War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service direc- tor, and others. The question is whether the armed services can ex- pand to 100000 persons this year without dislocating agricul- tiiral and munitions production and the civilian economy. There Is bit ter protest from congress that the flg1re Is too high and must be low cred to enable harvesting of ample
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BRITISH BOMBERS
 SOW ENEMY MINES
Allies End To-Day Air Off, fensive in Germany Due
 to Bad Weather
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)


 London, March 8-(UP)-British bombers sowed mines in enemy waters last night while London's fierce anti-aircraft barrage thwart- ed a weak German attempt at re- taliation for the devastation wrought by allied planes in their shattering lO-day offensive against Axis Eur ope.
 It was the second straight night the Royal Air Forces big four engined bombers had rested from their bombardment of Germany, presumably because of bad weather over the continent. In the 10 days and nights ended Saturday, British and American planes dumped 10000 tons of demolition and fire bombs on Germany and occupied Western Europe.
 Two bombers were lost in last nights mining operations. A Swed- ish broadcast indicated that some of the planes planted their cargoes in the Baltic. It said three uniden- tiled planes flew over Malmoe at the southern tip of Sweden during the night, drawing anti-aircraft fire.
 Only one German plane pene- trated London's aircraft barrage last night and 1t sooted across the center of the city without dropping a single bomb. Bombs were drop ped, however, at widely-separated points in Southeastern England and the home counties.
 Three German planes were shot down, including Heinkel 177 with four engines, mounted in tandem, driving it's two propellers. The plane was said to be the first German aircraft specifically designed as a four-engined bomber and first ap- peared over Britain last August. The other two planes were twin-engined Dornier 217's.
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TWO STATE LAWS
 NOW SUSPENDED
Governors Act Directed to Relieve Critical Man.
 power Shortages

Hartford, Conn, March s.-(UP) Exercising his emergency war powers for the first time, Gov. Bald win today suspended two state laws, relating to the employment of wo- men and the retirement of state employees.
 Both suspensions, he said were directed to relieve the critical man. power shortages.
 The law prohibiting the employ ment of women after 10 p. m. and limiting their work to 9 hours a day and 48 hours 6 week, was sus- pended, the governor said, for four reasons:
 The need of increased production for the armed forces.
 To counteract the withdrawal of men into the armed services.
 To meet critical labor shortages in four areas of the state where employment of women is considered vital.
 To equalize the working hours of men and women who work in teams.
 The governor said that pay scales would not be affected by the sus- pensions. and that the order ape
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WOOL MARKET

Boston, March S-(UP)-Sales of secured wools and noils were made for future delivery at ceilings. the U. s. agriculture department report ed today.
 There was a demand for Austra- Han 64's and GAS to 70's good to super wools at unchanged prices. Contracting was reported in Wyo- ming at around 70 cents with an cc- caslonal lot at 40 1-2 cents, and itI oregon at 80 to 70 cents for mixed lots grease basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-08
BAKERY OWNER
 GETS $50 FINE
Louis NapOlitanO Found Guilty of Violating Bread
 Sales Law

Louis Napolitano, 56, owner of the Napolitano Bakery at A Meadow street, was fined $50 and costs on a charge of selling bread in viola tion of section 2454 of the statutes by Judge T. E. Conway in city court today despite the plea of his coun- sel, Attorney Frank Mcdonald that wartime conditions were responsi- ble for the situation.
 In answer to Attorney McDonald's contention that a shortage of help kept Napolitano from getting his bread delivered until 1t had oXi- dized with resultant loss of weight, Judge Conway declared that the food laws were passed for the public protection, and that if the accused could put out a legal loaf of bread before he should be able to do it now."
 Napolitano was gwen a court summons February "A after City Sealer of Weights and Measures William Dunlavey and State Police man Francis Wha1en of the state police department of weights and measures had purchased Il loaves of bread baked by Napolitano in wrappers marked three pounds. Both testified in court today that the bread actually weighed three pounds, and in answer to questions by Prosecuting Attorney William K I.awlor said that one of the loaves had been purchased in the city.
 Attorney Mcdonald, questioning Napolitano. brought out the fact that the bread weighs three pounds immediately after baking, but through evaporation loses five ounces in nine hours. Napolitano said that he Is compelled to do all of the work at the bakery himself since he has lost all his help. and
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Stores May Stay
 Open 1 Night To Cor1aplyWithLaw

Waterbury remain night requirements of the minimum week order meeting the executive committee of the building Further study group which will Wednesday at another meeting Marry Dewey, deputy director of the War Commission
 extending employees hours made fol-
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Seven Ships Bombed,
 Five Airplanes Downed In Two-Way Attack
Single Mems Pool
 About Exhausted Hershey Reveals
By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Stan Correspondent

Washington 8-UP-aj B. Hershey director Senate appropriations subcommittee that military service practically hausted February million" married face call to ColOrS, 1t disclosed today
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
I'D Rather Be Right
First-Rote System of Social Security
In Eoch of United Nations Vito TO Peace

ratlons-hungry merely because of
some twist in their own characters;
they weren't big" enough, we say,
nor wise" enough. Under this the
DRY, the whole history of the world
might have been changed had not
M. Clemenceau climbed out of the
wrong side of his bed on the morn
ing the peace conference opened.
This is incredibly naive. States
men sometimes say what they want
to say, but more often they say what
they must.
Give national leader a defiow-
cred treasury, unemployment and
fear at home, and no way out, and
he will reach for what he can get,
or he will lose his job to another
leader with fewer scruples.
Social security in each of the
United Nations will improve the
political climate and give each ma
tional leader a license to be virtuous.
Credits and Trade Quotas.
There is still a fourth propulsion
toward planning for social security.
1t will give the peace conference
programmatic reality. If each of the
United Nations has sharply defined
plan for minimum subsistence for
each of its citizens, then the confer
ence can devote itself to so arrang-
ing credits and granting trade quotas
as to make 1t possible for each plan
to work. 1t will be a conference
about something.
A frame of reference will have
been shackled on the conferees.
from which they cannot easily es-
cape.
A device will have been found
whereby the plain people of the
world can control the peace con-
ference, breaking the tradition that
these meetings must be carnivals of
irrelevancy. There will be a set Job
instead, understandable, measurable.
We can guess what vague CROP
ings, sudden lunches and bizarre
inspirations may otherwise be the
order Of the day.
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Wife Of Sergeant
Convicted on Charge
OF kidnapping Baby
Minimum Penalty Of
Year in Prison Fixed;
New TrioI Asked
BY Tho Associated Press.

BY nc Associated Press.
WAUKEGAN, Ill, Jan. ia Cir
cult Court jury today convicted
Mrs. Anne Tyrrell Lussier, %, wife
Of an Army sergeant, on a charge
of kidnapping 3-month-old Wauke-
gan CHILD last November and fixed
minimum penalty Of one year IN
prison.
The jury of eight women and
four men, empowered TO fix PEN
atty of from one year to life, delib-
Grated for about 10 hours.
The pretty defendant, awakened
and taken from her cell to the court
room at $3.50 am, heard the verdict
without any visible emotion. Her
attorney, Paul M. La Rose, entered
a motion for new trial
The defendant testified yesterday
that her love for children had
prompted her to pick up and keep
for "a hours Mr. and Mrs Stewart
Botsford's son, Gary. The baby dis
appeared November "a after his
mother left him in his buggy in
front of a downtown store while she
shOpped
Mrs. Lussier, who said she never
had a child of her own, told the jury
that she now is an eXpectant mother.
AS her husband, Sergt. Alfred Lus-
Sier of Fort Knox, KY, listened, the
defendant told how she heard the
baby crying, stopped to comfort it
and then took it away with her on
an impulse. The child, unframed,
was recovered at her sisters home.