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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-22
Removal Of
koyorA Asked

New York, Nov. %. CUP)-The re-
moval of Mayor F. H. LaGuardia
on charges of misfeasance because
of crime conditions in the Little
Harlem" section of Brooklyn, was
sought today in resolution adopted
at a mass meeting of nearly 500
residents of the district.
The resolution called upon Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey to rmove the
mayor from Office, charging that
LaGuardia and Police Commissioner
Lewis j. Valentine had admitted to
a grand jury that they were unable
to cope with the crime conditions.
A grand jury last week described
the Little Harlem" district as RAM
pant with prostitution and vandal-
ism.
The mass meeting, sponsored by
the Midtown Civic League, was held
last night, several hours after Ea-
Guardia in weekly broadcast de-
Tended his administration against
charges of laxity in dealing with
crime
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Chang, but at some other time and
place.
Setting a Roosevelt Churchill con-
ference with Chang for a place
a time different from any meeting
with Stain would be out of courtesy
to the Russian leader. Stain might
prefer to avoid a full dress confer
ence with representatives of the
three nations now committed to de-
feat Japan, with whom the Soviet
Union is in a state of more or less
precarious peace. No one here wants
to do anything that would disturb
Japanese Russian relations at a
time when the Red Army has its
hands full on the eastern front.
The expected Roosevelt Churchill
Stain meeting would be of greater
military than political significance.
1t was remarked here at public
occasion earlier in the month that
several of the highest ranking U. S.
Army and Navy officers were not in
their accustomed places. The Vichy
radio shortly afterward reported
them to be en- route to staff meet
ings preliminary to a conference
among the Russian, British and
United States heads of state.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-22
Seek To
Curb Strike

Boston, Nov. 22-(UP)-Members
of the Atlantic Fishermens union
(AFL) were hopeful today that OPA
action on fish ceilings would prevent
spread Of the three-day strike
which threatens to affect 1900 men
and 100 boats in Boston, New York
and New Bedford.
Union Secretary-Treasurer Pat
rick J. McHugh who conferred with
OPA Administrator Chester Bowles
in Washington Friday. said he ex-
pected that new uniform dollars
and cents ceilings would be set at
the retail level. State OPA officials
said that although they had re-
ceived no word from the national
headquarters, they were expecting
an important announcement later
today.
Meanwhile three more trawlers
pulled into the Boston fish pier
with some 100000 pounds of fish
and tied up alongside the three
vessels already idle as result of the
strike. Other fishing boats arriving
in the three harbors during the
week will be tied up pending set
Element Of the price dispute.
Gloucester fishermen have refused
to cast their lot with the strikers,
yeportedly on grounds they are
making too much money" Repre-
sentatives of the Gloucester union
nave Informed McHugh, however,
that they will not allow any Of their
$50 boats to dock at the three ports
now on strike.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-22
roubIe In
Lebanon

Alg1erS NOV. % (U.PD -
French efforts to restore peace to
troubled Lebanon by releasing Pres
ident Beshara El-Khoury and four
cabinet members from imprison-
ment may snag on their failure to
reinstate all five in Office, observers
said today.
Under a formula announced late
yesterday by the French Committee
of National liberation, only Khoury
was restored to his former post
though all five government leaders
were released after nearly two weeks
of Imprisonment for attempting to
throw off French control.
Lebanese leaders had demanded
the reinstatement of the entire gov
eminent under the threat of renew
ed rioting and tEare was no imme-
date word from Beirut as to whe-
ther they would accept a comprom-
Use settlement.
There remained a possibility, how
ever, that the four cabinet men,
beers could be reinstated as result OF
negotiations between Lebanese Lead
erS and General Georges Catroux
The Lebanese had refused even to
negotiate with the French while
their president and ministers were
imprisoned.
On London, British diplomatic
quarters adopted an attitude of
wait and see" as to whether the
Lebanese crisis actually had been
solved, and the informed press as
sociations diplomatic correspondent
said the Lebanese were not likely to
be satisfied with the mere release of
the minister's.
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Slovenia, and the guerrillas claimed
some initial successes.
Meanwhile, speculation about the
prospect of an imminent Allied
thrust into the Balkans increased.
With meeting of President Roose-
welt, Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain reported imminent,
the Semi-official Russian magazine
War and the Working Glasses" as
serted that there is reason to be-
lieve the long-awaited opening of
the second front is mot far Off"
That speculation conceded with
the arrival in Istanbul of Turkeys
ambassador to Germany and Axis
reports of new Allied ampllibious
concentrations in Gibraltar.
Unrest inside Germany appeared
to have reached serious proportions.
Turkish reports said a Croat divis-
ion had been rushed to Vienna to
put down disorders in the former
Austrian capital, marking the first
use of foreign troops for police
duties in Greater Germany since
the beginning of the war.
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8 Navy Men
Die In Crash

Washington, Nov. 22-(UP)-
Eight naval officers were among the
II Americans killed in the crash e
a U. S. Navy transport plane dur.
ing dense fog near Rio De Janeiro.
a Navy announcement disclosed To-
day.
The ship, with 10 persons aboard
and repeatedly carrying important
documents and correspondence for
the U. S. Embassy at Rio De Janeiro
crashed into mountain Saturday
afternoon when only five minutes
flying time from its destination. The
other victim was Brazilian civilian.
The American victims-16 service
men and one civilian-were buried
with full military honors yesterday
in Mauri cemetery, in the suburb of
Niteroi, capital of the state of Rio
De Janeiro. High Brazilian and
American officials attended the GER
emony, including Brazilian Chief of
Staff Viera De Melo; Capt. Harold
Dodd, head of the U. S. Naval OPP
Grating base at Rio De Janeiro;
Captain Walter Macaulay, head of
the U. S. Naval mission, and Capt.
Charles Rend, Naval attache.
Among the American victims
were:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-22
Is Mlwaukee's USES Face Red?
By DREW PEARSON
tAuthor of Washington merry Round'D
BY DREW PEARSC

Washington, D. c., Nov. 22-U. S.
Employment Service officials. who
have been trying to recruit civilian
defense workers for full or part
time jobs in war plants, are red
faced about an experience at USES
regional headquarters in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
A young lady in the Milwaukee
office who was contracting a list of
OCD workers by phone finally
reached woman whom we will call
Mrs. Smith, and suggested that she
take an industrial job in the Mil
Waukee area.
I'm sorry, but my husband won't
let me work" was the reply.
do you mind giving us the bust
ness address of your husband?" re-
quested the Employment Service
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CONTINUED from Page u
the Commodity Credit Corporation
for 10 months after it's scheduled
expiration Dec. 81. The CCC has
been supplying the funds from
which the administration has been
paying out professor subsidies to
keep down food prices and curb In
hation. Steagall's legislation would
ban such subsidies after Jan. /.
Because Steagall was the bills
floor manager, his death may delay
the vote by more than just day.
AS a result Of Differs death and
before Steagall's death became
known, house leaders had planned
to call for an adjournment until
tomorrow after hearing eulogies for
the Republican.
Rep. Brent Spence, Dr., KY, rank
ing majority member of the bank
ing and currency committee, pre-
sumably will succeed Steagan.
Whenever it comes, the subsidy
vote is expected to result in a re-
sounding mo" from the house de-
spite 18th hour administration
warnings that a ban on food SUBJ
sides would force those fighting
giving cost increases to make a
consistent retreat" before rising
prices.
The showdown, climaxing heated
debate both in and out Of Congress,
will come on a bill to extend the
life of the commodity credit cor
poration for IS months beyond the
scheduled expiration date of Dec.
81. Into the measure has been
written a provision prohibiting use
of subsidies - favored anti-infla-
ton weapon Of the administration
after the first of the year.
Speaker Sam Rayburn said a de-
cisive vote virtually was certain not
consideration of nu-
merous amendments. They include
a proposal for compromise and one
outright effort to kill the anti-sub-
sidy provision.
In spite of weekend appeals for
subsidies by Price Administrator
Bowles, War Production
Chief Donald NJ. Nelson, and Navy
Frank Knox, the House
appeared ready to swamp the SUBJ
sidy program by a majority esti-
mated at two to one. 1t was ex-
pected to meet the same fate in
the Senate.
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rors, including the mispell:ng of his
own name, Russell said.
Affirmative
The boy answered affirmatiyely
when he was asked if he believed in
God and If he knew what happened
to persons who told falsehoods, Rus
sell said. He then initiated each
page of the manuscript and signed
the last page, the attorney testified.
Under cross examination Russell
could not remember whether he had
warned the boy as they went to the
scene of the crime whether anything
he might say could be used against
him.
Schwartz informed the court he
would introduce the whole state
ment except for certain paragraphs
which he admitted may be legally
questionable. Court was recessed
while defense attorney Dow read
the transcript.
AS he entered the courtroom the
boy smiled at his mother, Mrs. Irene
Bishop, New York city waitress, who
kept her eyes on him throughout
the testimony.
Fermentation
In prosecuting Codarre under
common law, the state has attempt
ed to prove generalization in the
Staying, which Codarre is accused of
committing because he was afraid
the girl would tell her parents that
he attempted to assault her.
A number of witnesses testified
at the trial last week that the boy,
one of the youngest first degree muir
der defendants in New York history,
gave that explanation TO- the killing.
Defense attorneys declined to
comment on whether Codarre will
be called to testify in his own de-
Tense. They have indicated the
youths defense will be based on the
premise that he was suffering from
mental disorder.
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Hand -To-Hand
Blows With Japs
Continued from Page H.

Army Liberators started the pre-
invasion blasting of the Gilberts and
the adjacent Marshall Islands -
both north of the American-held
Ellice Islands week ago last
Saturday. In the last stages of the
softening up process the fleet joined,
sending planes to dump 80 tons of
bombs ON Nauru, phosphate Island
to the west.
After raids Friday, a front dis
patch said that on Tarawa, site of
an airstrip, the runways were re-
duced and barracks ruined. Only
two planes, both wrecked, were
sighted on the ground. The only
sign of life was few Japanese run
ming from machinegun fire.
The troops, believed to include
Marine veterans of the Solomons,
were aboard vessels plying toward
the pin-point detectives in the vast
Pacific as the fleet, challenging the
japanese to protect their empires
outer defenses, went into action.
AS the troops wadto ashore, Lib
orators ranged over the Marshalls
to knock out any Japanese attempt
to send harac-ing planes southwark
fro mbases there.
The communicates report that
units of "all types" were included
in the U. S. battle fleet indicated
battleships, carriers cruisers and
destroyers took part and presum-
ably pumped shells into the tiny is
lands to loosen the enemy's en-
trenchments on the coconut three
lined beaches.
Nimitz inferred some time ago in
a speech that strong resistance was
expected, announcing the Japanes
would be dug OUT of their island
strongholds. Since he abides by the
rule of sending in enough strength
to carry out any assigned job, it was
safe to assume strong force capa-
BILE of taking and holding the islands
against whatever resistance was Of
fered went in.
Success of that practice was re-
Elected on the wording of the COM
munique which said the troops
have established beachheads," pre-
sumably in the face of enemy ma
chine gun fire from pillboxes and
log fortresses of the familiar jap
anese type.
1t was believed the troops con-
centrated on Betio island in the
22-mile long series of Tarawa islets
which surround a lagoon with a
good anchorage. At the Bakin
atoll, which includes little Maxim,
only az miles long, and Butaritari,
II miles long, the latter island
was thought to be the prime objec-
tive.
Col. Evan Carlson's raiders who
swept the Maxim group on Aug. IT,
1912, reported Butaritari, which is
less than 1000 yards wide its en-
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The War Or
Many ronts

-Four great tank and infantry
battles swirled across the western
Ukraine today as powerful Russian
and German forces smashed head
on in climatic fight for the
Dnieper bend, while British 9th
Army troops drove forward four
miles over the rain drenched italian
battlefront.
More than 100000 German troops
were reported attacking in waves
against the Zhitomir salient at the
northern end of the Dnieper bend,
but Soviet communicates indicated
that the Red Army had broken the
momentum of the German counter
drive.
Piling up hundreds of German
dead and scores of burned-out en-
envy tanks, the Russians plunged
forward below Zhitomir to regain a
number of heavily -defended points
captured by the Nazis in their now
stalled attack.
Further to the south, the Ger
mans faced a new threat to their
all-but encircled positions in the
bulge of the Dnieper as Russian
tanks and assault troops dashed out
below Kremenchug toward the key
communications center of Ina
menka.
The new thrust, which German
reports said had been launched by
10000 Russian troops, widened the
already huge Soviet bridgehead on
the west bank of the Dnieper and
carried to within 20 miles of Ana
menka, despite repeated Nazi coun-
ter-attacks.
Another savage battle ragged in
decisively on the west bank Of the
Dnieper around Cherkasi, while deep
inside the river bend the Russians
squeezed the Germans out of eight
more strongly fortified towns east of
Krivoi Rog. killing nearly 1000 en-
envy troops.
To the north, Red armies adj
vanced in all directions from cap
tured Rechitsa, further Tightening
their ring around German-held Co.
mel, Is miles west of Rechitsa.
In Italy, Gen. Sir Bernard L..
Montgomery's 9th army veterans
continued on the attack for the
third straight day, despite mud and
rain-Swollen rivers.
The Fifth Army's front on the
west flank of the Allied line re-
manned practically unchanged, al
though fierce artillery duels BOOM
ed continuously as both sides pre-
pared for the expected Anglo-Am-
erican assault.
9Th Army Gains
The 9th Army fought its way into
Vasto Girardi and San Pietro, at
the inland end of the Sangro river,
showing their forward positions
closer to the stream, which repre-
sents the western anchor of the
Germans winter line.
Other British units won new high
ground southeast of Alfedenda, near
the center of the italian battlefront,
and the Germans were reported
buring installations in Alfedena and
Cahtel Di Sangro in apparent pre-
paration for a new withdrawal.
British-based bombing forces ap-
parently were grounded by bad
weather during the night. London
observers said. however, that the
American and British air forces
have tanned" the Germans fighter
defenses.
In Jugoslavia, partisan troops
were reported launching new
offensive against the Nazis In
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thought 1t would have required ex-
penditure OF less specialized labor
and critical materials to supply oil
to the armed forces In Alaska by
transporting 1t via boat through the
inland passage from California.
Ickes, in his prepared statement,
said:
Testifying before the Senate Tru-
man committee investigating the So
called Canol project, Ickes said:
IN return for the enormous in
vestments and risks which we alone
have assumed from the very begin
ming, the United States ought to be
accorded permanent peacetime
share Of the oil and products to be
produced upon terms commensurate
with the magnitude of the contribu-
ton which this government has
made"
Not Consulted
The hearing developed that Ickes,
responsible for wartime petroleum
production and distribution, was not
consulted before the army launched
the Canadian oil program, and still
hasn't seen q copy of the contracts.
Ickes said he believed he should
have been consulted but added that
he was not too critical in view of
the fact that the army undertook
the project as an emergency at the
time it feared q Japanese invasion
through Alaska. Committee mem
bers said the contracts made no pro-
vision for American postwar rights
for petroleum in the newly opened
fields.
1ckes said that the United States
undertook all the financial risks in
volved in sinking new wells at Nor
man Wells, construction of 500
mile pipeline across difficult and un-
explored mountainous terrain and
building of refinery at White
horse, Yukon territory.
Il am told that this exploration
has resulted in the discovery of sub
stantial reserves Ickes said. 'In
view of my own concern over the
prospective shortages of oil in the
continental United States, I am de-
lighted that this is so. I would only
suggest, and have no doubt the
War Department will concur, that
these contracts should be re-exam-
ined now in the light of present con-
ditions and future possibilities in or
der that expenditures of this gov
eminent with respect to these pro-
jectS may be repaid"
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Reds Take Initiative
In Ukraine Area
Continued from Page ~

further.
Three successive German counter
attacks were halted in one sector
east of abandoned zhitomir alone
and 38 enemy tanks were wrecked,
while in an adjoining sector, the
Germans lost 1000 men and IL
tanks in futile effort to roll back
the Soviets.
Germany's shrinking foothold in
the Dnieper bend, saved temporarily
by stonewan stand at Krivoi Rog,
faced new threat as the Russians
struck out below Kremenchug to-
ward the key communications hub
of Znamenka.
Widening their already huge
bridgehead OH the west bank of the
Lower Dnieper. the Soviets overran
eight towns and hamlets including
Baidokovo, 80 miles southwest of
Kremenchug and only "a miles east
Of Znamenka, which controls the
main escape route for tens of thou
sands of Nazi troops all but trapped
south and east of Krivoi Rog.
Large Tank Forces
The Germans threw in large forces
of tanks and infantry in frantic
attempt to seal off the latest Soviet
penetration, but yielded further
ground after losing 5000 men, 60
tanks and 10 self propelled guns
in what communique called "em-
FILTERED fighting"
The new drive not only threat
ense znamenka, whose loss would
cut the main escape and reinforce
ment route for the Germans in the
eastern Dnieper bend, but holds a
long-range threat of thanking Krivoi
Rog, IS miles southeast of Znam-
enka.
Deep inside the bend, the Rus
slams squeezed the Germans out of
eight more heavily-fortified towns
east of Krivoi Rog and killed nearly
1000 of them.
The Soviets also enlarged a new
bridgehead on the west bank of the
Dnieper 60 miles upstream from
Kremenchug with battles on the ap-
proaches to Cherkasi
Germans said the Russians were
attacking in the Dnieper bend
presumably both below Kremenchug
and Cherkasi-with so divisions or
10000 men,
Some ITO miles northeast of Zhito-
mir. the Russians advanced in all
directions from Rechitsa, Is miles
west OF the enemy bastion at Gomel.
One column captured Gorval, 16
miles to the northwest and another
seized Saspa, six miles to the south
east. Altogether 20 communities
were liberated on the Rechitsa front.
In one sector, Russian guerillas
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tire length, had four wharves, a
tWo-lane asphalt road, seaplane
landing and supply dumps.
Because of the exposed sea ap-
proaches and beaches, landing prob
ably would necessitate Drawing en-
envy fire out In the open on such
small islands.
1t was considered possible the in
vasion would expand, soon if not
concurrently with the Gilberts at
tacks, into the Marshalls which
would have to be reduced to pro-
tect the holdings. Maxim is less
than 200 miles from the nearest
part of the Marshalls.
Other islands to the south in the
Gilberts would be neutralized by the
conquest of Maxim and TaraWa.
They are in the northern section,
just above the equator, in the string
of 16 main atolls which stretch 400
miles from four degrees north to
three degrees south of the equator.
Their total land area is 166 square
miles. The islands were seized by
the Japanese from the British early
in 1912. They formerly were a
crown colony with population of
about $4,000, mostly natives Jap
anese population was not known.
The islands have been hit inter
mittently by naval or air forces
since they were taken.
Most of the islands have eight feet
or less of beach and are coral rock
with scanty topsoil in which CO.
coanut groves are planted.
They formed the mid-Pacific out
er line of the Japanese outposts
nou crushed in the Aleutians to the
north, running southwark through
Wake Island - where positions may
be neutralized by this attack
through the Marshalls, the Gilberts,
the Solomons, New Guinea and on
into the Indies.