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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
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ON WIDE FRONT
BELOW NEvEL

Moscow, December 20. -
(UP) - General Ivan x.
Bagraman'S Baltic front
army of Siberian veterans
swung southwestward and
outflanked Vitebsk today af-
ter crashing the German
"Iron Wall" line below Newell
in a great break-through
touching of fthe long delayed
Russian winter offensive.
Paced by powerful armored unitx
and ski detachments, tough Red
shock troops who fought at Stalin-
grad, before Moscow and on the
Don chopped hole SO miles wide
and 10 miles deep in the thick net-
| work Of defenses in which the Ger
mans had set themselves up for the
winter.
The first five days of fierce fight
ing the Russians overran more than
500 communities, killed 10000 Ger
man troops and captured 1000.
NDGL LII Acknowledgment C11C 4Ooso IN
the German bridgehead across the
Dnieper estuary from Kherson at
the other end of the front, which ap-
parently meant that the Nazis had
given up the entire eastern bank OF
the lower Dnieper except for a toe.
hold opposite Nikopol.
"a Nazi conmunique reported de.
termined Red Army attacks in half
a dozen sectors of the front. It said
the Russians were trying to break
through east of Bitebsk, in an au-
parent extension Of the Newell Of
fenSiVe, and both south and north-
west of Newell strong Soviet attacks
continued. "a number of enemy
groups which broke through were
annihilated or captured" it added.)
First accounts of the Baltic 'front.'
offensive said that after smashing
formidable German defenses on q
wide front south Of Newell, the main
weight sung down in wheeling
maneuver aimed at cutting the Vite-
bsk-P olotsk railroad and isolating
Vitebsk, vital junction of the Mos
cow-riga and Leningrad-Odessa rail.
roads.
To the south Gen. Konstantin
Rokossovky's army of White Russia
was poised to strike at German
communications along the Mogilev-
orSha-Zhlobin line.
A Pravda military dispatch said
Begraman pulverized a verital
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
Revolution
In Bolivia

La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 20.-(UP)-
A revolutionary nationalist coup
marked by brief burst of violence
which caused some deaths over-
threw President Enrique Penaranda
today.
The rattle Of machine gun fire
awakened the city at 3 a. m, a
tense uncertainty prevailed until Z
a. M, when the national radio an
nounced that revolution directed
by nationalist leaders and young
army officials had bene affected.
A proclamation signed by General
Penaranda, who was elected presi-
dent on March 10, 1949, was broda-
cast. 1t said:
II have resigned the presidency
in obedience to the will OF the peo-
pie and the army, which is resolved
to remove me from the leadership
of the nation"
At 8 a. m. the revolutionary COM
mittee took possession of the presi-
dental place. Groups of demon
strators paraded the stretes, cheer
ing the revolutionaries.
In a brief manifesto the revolu-
tionaries affirmed that regime or
political and economic oppression,
had ended and the succeeding
movement constituted the "eco-
nomic redemption of the Bolivian
people.
Augusta Cespedes, secretary gen.
eral of the revolutionary commit
tee, announced that Penaranda had
resigned in favor of a committee
comprising Victor Paz EstenS5ro,
described as the chief of the rev.
olution: Maj. Arturo Taborga, ana
Major jose Pinto.
Estensoro broadcast over the Ma
tional Radio the announcement that
the revolution had triumphed.
In La PaZ the revolutionarieS
suffered some deaths in taking the
Calama garrison" Estensoro said.
1t added that all the garrisons
of interior Bolivia had fallen in line
with the revolution. E,
Bolivia declared war on the Axis
Dec. A. Penaranda signed Unit
ed Nations pact in Washington last
May in the presence of President
Roosevelt. On Sept. 16 he created
a new Bolivian cabinet.
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New And More Stringent
Ration Rules For Hotels

they buy food and refreshments, or
refreshments alone. But after
March /, quotas will be based only
on the number of persons to whom
food Is served.
BoWles said that under the new
plan for commercial eating places,
operators will be required after jan
uary to keep separate accountingS
of their servings of food and re-
freshments and to report to local
ration boards by January Is for
computation of allowances. Rations
for coffee, milk and other drinks
also will be based on the number of
persons actually served such re-
freShments.
The price chief said the only al
ternatiyes to the new plan were
standardization of meals and collec-
ton Of coupons for meals eaten out.
Both of these, he said, were turned
down in discussions with industry
representatives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
Executor Of
Atchinson
Will Must Paw

Stating the court has mot only
the power but the duty to see to it
that the interest of minor appel
lants is protected" Superior Court
Judge Frank McEvoy has ordered
the executor of the will of the late
Lawrence Achison of Midd1ebury
to pay $3.50 for counsel fees so Alden
and Margaret Atchison could carry
on their fight to share in their
fathers $4,000 estate.
The decision on the question of
expenses in the children's appeal
to the State Supreme Court of Err
rors was awaited with interest in
legal circles here since a similar
problem has not arisen in local
courts in many years.
Judge McEvoys memorandum
followed filing of special motions by
Attorney Michael V. Blansfield,
counsel for the children, who point
ed out his clients were without
funds to protect themselves and to
pay for expenses of an appeal.
Bequeathed only 500 each in
their fathers will the children took
their case to superior court and
April 8 received a jury. verdict in
their favor, but last Nov. 6 Judge
McEvoy set it aside on the ground
the jury was carried away by pre-
JUDGES. Next they filed the appeal
to the high court and asked Judge
McEvoy to over-rule certain ex-
penses involved in the appeal.
In the decision on the special
motions Judge McEvoy ordered APP
pointment of their mother, Mrs.
Marion Atchison, as their guardian
ad Item, and extended the time for
perfecting the appeal to Jan. IA.
Share Transcript
The jurist specified further that
the executor is to share the use of q
transcript of evidence with the
counsel for the guardian. He
pointed out that a transcript of
evidence was left in superior court
by the executor when the motion
to set aside the jury verdict was
pending, and he states further that
it would be unfortunate if the es-
tate were subjected to produce two
transcripts. The document cost
approximately 5000, it was pointed
out.
Numerous other cases involving
wills and appeal expenses are cited
in Judge McEvoy's lengthy memoir
andum of decision. Protection given
by the courts, in accordance with
statutory provisions, to persons who
are unable to defend themselves Is
pointed out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20

Washington, Dec. 20 49, (UP) -
New and more stringent methods
of determining quotas of rationed
foods such establishments as hotels
and restaurants were announced by
the Office of Price Administration
today in a move presaging larger
supplies of meat and procesSed
foods for those who eat at home.
Price Chief Chester Bowles said
the new program would 60 into eff
feet March and would add to the
supply of foods for householderS by
trimming down on the rations of
soda fountains, roadside stands,
night clubs and similar establish
ments which in some instances have
been receiving larger allotments
than restaurants and cafes dealing
solely in food.
At the present time, food quotas
for commercial and institutional es-
Establishments are determined by the
total number of customers, whether
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
.Anti-Nuzi
Unrest Grows
On Continent

London, Dec. 20.---(UP}-Reports
reaching London from the occupied
continent Indicated today that the
prospects of an imminent Allied in
vasion has greatly increased anti
NaI unrest and armed violence
throughout the enslaved nations.
Reliable information from neu-
trail and underground sources said
hatred of the conquerors has been
famed to a fever pitch by news of
the increasingly-poWerful land and
air blows being struck against the
Germans from the east, west and
south, and the open admission that
invasion preparations in the British
Isles nave reached the ready stage
Here is the cream of the scores
of reports seeping into London from
Norway to the Balkans that indi-
cate the patient European under
grounds may be ready to go into
action:
Italy-35O,O00 Italians, led by es-
capped Allied war prisoners, are
massed in the mountains of north
ern italy, many of them battling
the Germans actively, the rest pre-
pairing for large-s scale action; aSsas
sinations of Fascist officials spread
ing in defiance of the most drastic
Axis reprisal measures.
F'rance--SWiSs observers report
heavy fighting underway along the
Franco Swiss frontier, where Or
ganized bands of French patriots
are said to be striking repeatedly
from their mountain hideouts
against Nazi garrison towns. French
underground sources also say guer-
rillas have attacked and damaged
Nazi invasion defenses along the
channel coast.
Denmark-A new wave of sabotage
is reported in full swing in iHtlers
'model protectorate," and Swedish
sources say reich commissar Arthur
Seyss-Inquart has set up headquar-
tiers in Copenhagen to stamp out the
resistance movement.
Norway-Stockholm reports that
series of heavy explosions shook
Oslo harbor for five hours yester-
day, when a German ammunition
ship was blown up in the harbor.
Poland ladyslaw Bielak, leader
of the Polish peasant party and one
of the Polish underground COM
manders, arrived in London yester-
day with an urgent appeal for arms
and ammunition for patriot bands
that are ready to strike against
the NaziS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
YANK TROOPS
GAIN z Miles
IN ITALY

Allied Headquarters, AL
giers, December 20. - (UP)
= American troops struck
down the Liri valley toward
the plain before Rome today,
advancing two miles after
capturing San Pietro in their
toughest fight since Salerno
and laying siege to the noun
tain village of San Vittore.
New gains against weakening Ger
man resistance brought the United
States vanguard within about six
miles OF Casino, key milestone on
The Via Casilina to Rome. and gave
promise Of an early advance in
strength onto the lakeland between
them and the capital.
Behind the Americans lay the
desolate rubble of what was the vii
lage of San Pietro, from which the
bloodiest struggles since the United
States invasion of Italy drove the
Germans. 1t fell Saturday, and the
strategic victory was announced yes
tarday.
Beleaguered San Vittore lies two
miles west of San Pietro on a slope
a mile north of the highroad north.
Six miles to the northeast is Cas-
Sino which the Germans were re-
potred to BIS using as an anchor OF
their next winter line"
After the Germans were broken at
San Pietro, the Fifth Army moved
up in what amounted to general
advance on its front. West of Ven
afro another two miles eyre gained
against stubborn German resistance
in the mountains in the sector where
the French were fighting their first
battles of the war on the continent
alongside the Allies.
In their advance, the Fifth Army
units found many unburied German
who had been killed by American ar
tillery The situation was tipoff to
the speed of the Allied advance
since the Germans usually bury
their dead before pulling out.
Heavy Casualties
Oll IIl5 All ldClC lLoilV, 1Cli. oil
Bernard l.. Montgomery's Eighth
Army overran enemy positions, in
flicting what q communique saio
were ''heavy casualties" and
strengthened its hold on the Orsog-
na-Ortona lateral road with the
capture of onsalvi, six miles north
east of Orsogna.
French troops on the central sec
tor of the Fifth Army front also
hammered out a tWo-mile gain in
the mountains north of Venafro
where they were attempting to
break through pass.
The capture Of San Pietro, three
miles southeast of Vittore, late Sat
urday after three-day battle threw
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.Yonks Widen
New Guinea
Beochheods

Advances Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, Dec 20 - (U.PD -
American troops, widening their
invasion beachheads on both sides
of the Japanese bastion of Rabaul,
are approaching the airstrip four
miles east of New Britain's PENN
sula and have forced the Torokina
river in strength on Bougainville, it
was announced today.
Disclosure by an official spokes-
man at General Douglas MacAr
thurs headquarters that Sixth
Army vanguards were nearing the
Arawe airstrip indicated that the
Americans were stepping up their
advance through the New Britain
jungle $50 miles southwest of Ra-
baul.
Though intense Allied raids in
the weeks preceding last Wednes-
days invasion of the AraWe PENN
sula had rendered the airstrip I'M
disable for the Japanese, American
domination of the air was expected
to permit its quick repair and con-
version into an Allied base.
The Sixth Army already had
passed through the jungle village of
Umtingalu, one mile from the neck
of the AraWe Peninsula, and the
Spokesmans announcement implied
that it had advanced another two
to three miles to the east.
On Bougainville 260 miles south
east of Rabaul, American troops
swept across the mouth of the To-
rokina river in the wake of heavy
artillery barrage and found that the
rain of explosives had forced the
enemy to evacuate the whole area.
Pushing cautiously up to more
than a quarter mile beyond the
river mouth on the west coast of
the island, the Americans found
only dead japanese and score of
wrecked pillboxes.
The gain extended the American
beachhead to a total Of eight miles
along the coast of Empress Augusta
Bay, a dispatch from Frank Tire
maine, United Press Staff Core
spondent at Admiral William F.
Halsey's South Pacific headquar-
tiers, reported.
While ground forces on both is
lands enlarged their offensive
springboards, nearly 80 American
fighters, apparently from the New
EmpressAugusta Bay airield,
swept over Rabaul in a defiant
show of strength. Forty Japanese
fighters accepted the challenge and
six and probably eight were shot
down, while two American planes
were lost.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
More Cuts
In Newsprint

Washington, Dec. 20. (UP)-
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the
War Production Board today for
mally announced further reductions
in the use Of paper for newspapers,
magazines, books and commercial
printing in q full scale attempt" to
adjust the supply situation with re-
quirementS.
The new reductions, which will be-
come effective Jan. l, are expected
to save more than 1,350,000 tons of
the curtailments are in accordance
with recommendation submitted to
WPB by industry advisory commit
tees representing the respective in
oustrieS.
Nelson said the new regulations
will bring consumption in the four
industries substantially into balance
whit the pulp supplies which will
be made avaabe to them under the
new alocation program. He said it
would arrest the shardply declin-
Ing inventories in these industries.
Under the new orders large pub
cseta,S and printers will have their
consumption reduced about 25 per
sssot from their base period usage,
With a sliding scale of proportion
Ately lighter cuts for the smaller
business units.
Nelson said that producers, con-
verters and users of non printing
papers will also receive less pulp
and paper With these curtailments
the printing and publishing orders
will make it possible-Without risk
ing interruptions In operations be-
cause of inadequate inventories-to
satisfy the pulp requirements for
war items.
Harold Boeschenstein, head of the
WPB forest products bureau, said
WPB Is carrying forward drive to
increase the rate of pulp wood po-
duction.
"Evey effort has been made and
will be made to maintain the rela-
tice position of all branches Of the
graphic arts industries and to i'm
pose necessary restriction on an
equitable basis, consistent with the
unique problems faced by each seq
ment," he said.
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Congress To
Ad iourn

Washington, Dec. 20-CUP)
$50 days of political rebellion, the
first session of the 18th Congress
will adjourn tomorrow having sub
stantially repudiated administra-
ton leadership on domestic issues.
Legislators will have three
weeks holiday with the voters back
home. The second division will con-
vene January 10 to continue the
domestic front bottle into the presi-
Dental election year. President
Roosevelt, likewise, is taking a hol-
iday to be at his Hyde Park estate
for Christmas.
The Congress adjourning tomor-
row was elected on November 5,
1912. Its successor will be elected
next November. Republicans insist
and some other agree that the next
Congress will be Republican, at
least in the House and possibly in
the Senate.
There also is strong support for
the belief that unless Mr.. Roosevelt
is a fourth term candidate there is
not much chance of the White
House rem aiming Democratic.
Whether Mr.. Roosevelt himself can
win again is a matter of almost I'M
interrupted discussion and dispute
here. Republican leaders, for the
first time since 1928, believe they
will win the presidency next year
regardless of the Democratic candi-
date. Their victory talk in 1926
40 largely was campaign oratory.
Although MI. Roosevelt's votes
steadily increased through three
successive presidential elections, the
electorate htas been weaking since
1886 on Democratic congressional
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
Two Dogs Steel
Clothes From Lines

Investigating complaints from a
Highland Ave, woman that several
articles of clothing, including a coat
and some rugs had been stolen from
clotheslines in the vicinity, Detec-
tive Sergt, Joseph Reilly yesterday
recovered the loot and literally col
Jared the thieves. The culprits
were a pair of dogs who had cached
the clothes in the brush near by.
Acting Chief Detective William F..
Pollard said that one of the dogs
used to live in the vicinity until his
owner joined the army. The mans
wife then moved away, but the dog
picked up stray friend ana began
periodic revisits to the scenes of his
youth.
The case was turned over to Dog
Warden Thomas Farrell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
CAPT. KELLOGG
USN RETIRED
DIES AT 86

Captain Frank w. Kellogg,
U.S.N., retired, died this
morning at 5 a. m. at his
family home, 83 Prospect
street. One of Waterways
most prominent military
figures, Captain Kellogg had
been in Ii health for some
time. He was sc years OF
age.
Full military funeral rites will
be accorded the late Navy officer
when services are conducted from
the home at 2:30 p. m. Thursday.
Burial will be. in the family plot at
Riverside cemetery.
Survivors include one son, Lieut..
Stephen w. Kellogg, U.S.N. now sta
toned on sea duty in the Pacific
war area; a sister, Mrs. Irving H.
Chase and a brother Charles P.
Kellogg.
Born July 26, 1857 in Waterbury,
the son of Stephen w. and Lucia
H. (Andrews) Kellogg, the late
Captain attended Hopkins Gram
mar school at. New Haven, Willis
ton Academy in Massachusetts, and
graduated from Annapolis Naval
Academy in 1879.
Captain Kellogg's long service
with the U. S. Navy dating from the
time of his graduation from the
Academy included the command of
various cruisers and battleships and
participation in the battle of Ma
Mia Bay in command of the am
mllnition division of the battleship,
U. S. S. Baltimore, under Admiral
Dewey. 1t was during this latter
engagement that he received a Sc
we're wound as result of an enemy
shell exploding on the deck of the
ship near a box of ammunition.
Captain Kellogg was a lieutenant
at the time.
Commissioner a midshipman in
1881; an ensign in 1884; a lieuten-
ant in 1896; lieut-commander, 1902;
commander, 1907 and Captain in
1911, he was retired June 30, 1914.
During his long career Captain KEEL
logg, besides commanding various
cruisers, was in command of the
battleships, U. S. S. Indiana; U. S.
S. Maine, U. S. S. New Jersey and
U. S. S. North Carolina.
Served in Rf0
Captain Kellogg served with Adj
miral A. E. K. Benham at Rio de
Janerio, during the Brazilian rebel
lion of 1894 and participated in the
battle of Manila in 1899. Upon re-
turn from Manila in 1899, the then
Lieutenant Kellogg was presented
with q testimonial sword, engraved
with his name and his deed, by the
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SOVIET WINTER Push GETS UNDER way
Cold Snop Is
IOn the Way

Boston, Dec. 30 (UP)-- A
cold snap will move in on New
England today with tempera-
lures dipping as low as 2 de-
grees above zero tonight in ex-
treme northern points, the
weather bureau said.
However, bureau officials said
il would not be nearly so cold
as last week when frigid wealth
er took IL lives in New England.
According to the weather bu-
reau, the thermometer will drop
from the morning 33 in Boston
to % tonight and from 25 in
Presque Isle, Me, to 2 degrees
above zero. Officials added that
the cold snap will last several
days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-20
Airmon Hos
Lucky Escape

TOpsfield, Mass, Dec. 90
(UP)-When a twin-mOtOred
AmphibiOus Coast Guard plane
crashed in swamp here, a
live bomb it was carrying failed
to explode and 1t. T. f. Pop
pier of Grand Forks, N. d., and
Chief RadiOman v. l.. Killpack
escaped injury.
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Never was there greater need for
Trained Accountants and Secretar-
les. Post Jr. College. Enter Jan. Srd.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-21
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