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Evening star., 1943-05-08
ALesson for the Week
BoIdness, and More BoIdness
A Need for Crisis Hour
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

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The Rev. James L. White Will
preach at 10:H An. on The Value
Of Good Mother; $50 pm, the
Rev. David @. Lynch Of the Metro
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politan A. M. E. Zion Church will
preach.
On May II the pastor will speak
at the Union Wesley A. M. E. Zion
Church and May 13 at the Third
Baptist Church.
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Union.

DR.. Selwyn K. Cockrell, will preach
at II am. on "The influence of a
Cody Mother" and at 8 pm. on
More Is Expected of Christians. +"
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Free Methodist.

"Forsake Not the Ancient Land
marks" will be the subject of Evan
gelist A. E. Wachtel at the East
Washington Park Church at II IN
and "The Sojourn in the Land OF
Sin" at pm. At 9:45 a special
Mothers Day program will be rem
dered.
Evening star., 1943-05-08
News of the Bible Glasses
Activities of Interest to
LocoI Organizations
BY PAGE Nick. ETCHISON.

ass
Knnear Glass of will
at Calvary Baptist Church
teach the lesson Clyde Crouch and Arthur williams will participate
in the and President J. Sanders will
guest Sunday" Mothers
William Abernehy speak
will devotional
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Class. The class
m o t her, Mrs.
w / ! ! i a m P.
Blake, ST., will
attend. Al Riser
will read the les
S on, C al er t
c n n e lily will
lead in prayer
and President G.
Watson Lambert
will preside.
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Mount Zion (Colored) .

Sermon at II am. by the Rev.
E. Adolph Haynes on Clothed With
Christ; 8 pm, pastors closing
message for the conference year.
Metropolitan Wesley A. M. E. Z.
The Rev. David Cecil Lynch will
preach on "Our Weapon of Strength
at II am. The Progressive Club will
sponsor a Mothers Day program at
pm.
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Methodist
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Eldbr00ke.

The Rev. E. A. Lambert has
selected for his Mothers Day SER
mon, Mother and Child"
On Friday the w. S. c. S. will
begin seven-day rummage sale in
the recreation room of the church.
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DR.. Ch arl e S
B. c a m p b e ii,
charter member
OF the Organ
lied Bible Glass
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Presbyterian

lexington.
At II am. the Rev. Irving w.
Ketcham will preach. The Chris
tian Endeavor Society will present
a Mothers Day program ia. 8 pm.
Armenian.
On Sunday in Pierce Hall, Fiji
teenth and Harvard streets NV,
the young people will take part in
the morning service with contribu-
tions appropriate for Mothers Day.
The Rev. Charles Y. Aznakian will
bring a brief message on Mothers:
the Pillars of Society"
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Poladian will
entertain the young people in their
home at 7:30 pm.
Knox Orthodox.
Observation-Disclosures In the
Beloved" is the morning message of
the Rev. Mr.. Phillips. A series Of
four messages on Philippians will be
started in the evening. The theme
is LET This Mind Be in You Which
Was Also in Christ Jesus" The
congregational meeting will be held
after the morning service at 1916
Vermont avenue NV.
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The Sunday school lesson for May
is "Peter and John Leaders in the
Early Church" Acts ii.37-41; Ills;
iv.13, 1921. -, -
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dIIQ CIIe carly CIuIC1l. IneSe COIn.
monplace men had been rather
pusillanimous. They were just ordi-
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VIII Iead the deVOt1OnaI service.
Linn C. Drake will speak at the
Mothers Day service at the Vaughn
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Hull Backs
 Eisenho

Washington, December 27. - (UP)
 - Secretary of State Cordell Hull asserted today that the war in Eu- rope can be ended in 1914 provided all peoples of the United Nations redouble their efforts and work in greater unity.
 Hull made the statement at his daily news conference. It came as a surprise to correspondents, inas- much as it was the first time he had discussed future military operations.
 The comment was noticeable in that it was virtually reiteration ot a statement made a few hours ear Her by General Dwight D. EiSen- hover at Algiers. The newly-oes- ignated commander of Allied armies now massing for the invasion ot Western Europe told correspondents that i've will win the war in 1914"
 Hull's statement was in response to a request for comment on what Eisenhower had said.
 The secretary tempered his pre- diction with the warning that peo- pie should not be too optimistic. But he said he believed it possible to win the war at some stage such as Eisen- hover had predicted, provided all people in the United Nations, both those behind the lines and on the battlefronts, but especially those be- hind the lines, redouble their effort and give every effort to obtaining greater unity in support of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Loss or Scharnhorst Is
 HeauyBLolu To Nazi NaUy

and Britain in the coming naval showdown with Japan in the Pacific,
 Through all these long years our main fleet has had to be ready at a moments notice when in harbor and has been at sea whenever con- voys have been within striking dis tance of German ships in northern Norway" he said.
 The Arctic naval victory probably doomed any German hope of ever engaging the Allies in full-scale naval battle and reduced the Nazi threat to the northern lifeline be- tween Russia and her western allies.
 A brief admiralty communique last night disclosed that the home fleet, covering bound con- voy, had engaged the ScharnhorSt off North Cape yesterday afternoon and blasted it to the bottom several hours later, possibly with loss of 1,400 officers and men aboard.
 The Germans quickly confirmed the sinking in a broadcast which said the four year-old battleship went down firing to the last after a heroic fight" in which "heavy Damage was inflicted on the Allied convoy and its escort.
 British authorities could not con- firm or deny the Nazi report of damage to Allied vessels, since the home fleet resumed radio silence
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27

London, Dec. 27.-UP)-A naval spokesman revealed today that the destruction of the 26,000-ton Nazi battleship Scharnhorst in running battle with British warshipS on the Murmansk convoy route, cut the striking power of Germany's once formidable surface fleet to two pocket battleships and some small cruisers.
 Confirming unofficial reports that both the Al ,0O0-ton Tirpitz and the 26,OO0-t ton Gneisenau had been knocked out by previous British at tacks, Adm. Sir William James, chief of British naval information, said the loss of the Scharnhorst left the Germans without single capital ship in fighting trim.
 Only the thinly- -armored and rela- lively slow lO,OO0-ton pocket bat tleships Lutzow and Admiral Scheer are now left to oppose the Allied navies, James said. The elusive Graf Zeppelin is the only known aircraft carrier from which the NaZis can provide air cover for their puny surface fleet.
 James said the sinking Of the Scharnhorst would ease the task of the British home fleet-to contain the GerO1an fleet and prevent 1t from raiding Allied convoy routes md it was expected that the victory would tip the scales even more strongly toward the United States
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Police Seek Mon's Slayer

Old Lyme, Conn. Dec. 27.-(UP) State police today intensified their investigation into the staying of James Streeto, 50, East Haven, a caretaker at the summer hotel BoxWood Manner, who was clubbed stabbed and shot to death Christ mas eve.
 Their only clues came from Del phine Bertrand, Clinton, who said she was visiting Streeto when three men came into the house, tied her up in one room, and then fought with Streeto in another room. She said she heard sounds of furi- ous fight and several shots and af- ter she had managed to ire her. self of her bonds, found Strceto dead and notified police.
 She gave Investigators descrip- tion of the thre men who she said, took $2O from her purse. Po- lice said Streeto was known to have carried large sums of money on his person.
 Miss Bertrand, held on a coron- CTS warrant, was still in custody to- day and it was reported several other persons had been questioned in connection with the case.
 Streeto had been caretaker at the hotel for the past 12 years, and also operated truck garden busl- ness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
SIeet and Roin Play Havoc
tBY UNITED PREsS)

A severe sleet and rainstorm pelted Connecticut throughout Sum- day night, glazing highways with ice, delaying transportation, and ,- conditions of the season.
 It was a hazardous. climax to tho long Christmas holiday weekend during which 13 persons lost their lives through various forms of viol- ence. and series of fires piled up damage exceeding $500, GOO and talk ing one life.
 None of the traffic deaths wac due to the storm, although numerous ac- cidents resulted from the slippery highways.
 Among the accident victims were Clayton Edwards, 19, Old Saybrook. and Apthony z E.iyC ,,sSscc,,oS, =, Chester, who were killed when their car rammed tree tt Deep River: Walter Perkins. Bristol war worker: Cpl. Lewis G. Stewart, 28, hit by an automobile at Hartford.
 Additionally, Mrs. Margaret Dug- gan, died in fall at Bloomfield: Mrs. Stina Gelhar, 79, burned to death when a cleaning polish eX- ploded in the kitchen of her New Haven homc.
 Fires caused a $750,OO0 loss to the Persky block in New Haven; $25, coo to the Hotel Garde at Hartford; 6@- stroyed the home of Mrs. Mary Alice Brown James at East Granby; lev eled the home of Herman Mooz cg Haddam; drove four families trcsss
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27

Washington, Dec. 27 - (U.P0 Premier Josef Stalin was credited authoritatively today with forcing at the Teheran conference a deci- sion on leader of the Allied Ex. peditionary Force for the "secono front'' invasion of Europe.
 The Russian leader also promised that when the western front be- comes tough and bloody, the Allies can be sure that the Red Army Will keep large part of the German army busy in slugging match on the Eastern front.
 President Roosevelt announced Tn his Christmas Eve message to the armed services that the western front leader would be General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 The story of the selection of second front leader began at last August's Quebec conference when General George c. Marshall, chief of staff, was informed that he would be given that command Ill due course. By September 6 the story had leaked and appeared here. On the following day MT. Roosevelt was asked at his new conference whe- ther Marshall was to have the iI1- vasion command. He replied that he had not the foggiest notion about that report. By September 2O' Washington was teeming with dis turbing charges that powerful
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
"We eWilW Win The War In 1914" Eisenhower
By c. K. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent )

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 27-UP)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover, newly appointed commander of the Allied Armies massing for in- vasion of western Europe, declared confidently today that we will win the European war in 1914"
 It was in effect pledge to do his job within a year that Eisenhower gave the American and British cor respondents at farewell press con- ference preparatory to his departure for Britain to take over his new post.
 Eisenhower's soberly assured words startled the correspondents after one of them asked the departing com- mander-in-chief of the Mediterran- can theater for a New Years predic- ton.
 we will win the European war in 1944," he answered abruptly.
 After the conference he author ized the additional quotation:
 ''Ihe only thing needed for us to win the European war is for every man and woman all the way from the front lines to the remotest Hamlet of our two countries to do his or her full duty"
 Smiling and unusually genial, Eis- erlhower gave quick answers to most of the questions, but pondered a few with his customary gestures of head-rubbing and leaning forward with clenched fists, finally to pound home his points. It was the biggest press conference here in months,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
roop Exodus Accelerated

Washington, Dec. 27-(UP)-The nation received today from official quarters the news that American troops are moving overseas faster than new fighting men are being inducted and prediction that German military power can be de- stroyed a few months after the start of second front in western Europe.
 Together with President Roose- velt's announcement that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had been named to lead the assault on west ern Europe, these new developments underscored the riisng tempo of preparations for gigantic new Allied blows against Germany and her Axis partner in the Pacific.
 Vice President Henry A. Wallace predicted in a radio address last night that Germany's power would be destroyed few months after the opening of a successful second front, provided there were no "let downs, no overconfidence" among CLlc AlllcS dLlu tlldI SfCLuldily 0OCo not unveil a really effective secret weapon.
 And "once the Germans are out of the way" he said, the United Nations should make rapid prog ress" against Japan.
 The report on the rapid move ment of American troops to stations abroad was made by the War De- partment in a statement warning that now. more than ever before, there must be no letdown in pro duction.
 The report said that continued large scale movements of troops be- gan to exceed inductions in July of this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
U. s. Troops Toke More
 ItaIion Hills

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 27-UP)-American troops have captured two more strategic Italian heights and today were reported pouring down the Apennine slopes toward the Cassino plain in pursuit of German forces falling back along the road to Rome.
 The tide of a bitter battle in the Mount Sammucro region of the Fifth Army front had turned in favor of the hard fighting Ameri- cans, and they now were pressing down the mountainside overlooking San Vittor,e six miles southeast of Casino.
 Across the Apennine spine in the Adriatic sector, Canadian assault forces wrested two more city blocks from the Germans putting up a Little Stalingrad" fight in the out skirts of Ortona, while Indian troops captured the village of Villa Grande, two miles to the southwest.
 The Imperials smashed two tank supported German columns prepar- ing to counter attack in the Adri- atic area, where the fighting blazed up along a Emile front inland to Orsogna.
 The Canadians moved in tanks to batter down German strong points in the northwest edge of Ortona into the southwest section of the and beat off Nazi attempt to filter city.
 Columns of smoke were rising from Tollo, southwest of Ortona, in- dicating that the Germans were raging the village preparatory to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
NEW OFFENSIVE PRESSED IN
 K|Ev SALIENT

Moscow, December 27. = (UP) = General NikOlai F. Vatutin's army of Ukraine swept westward on a 5O-mile front against the Zhitomir- KcrOsten railroad today, pressing a new offensive in the Kiev salient which in. three days had regained almost twO-thirds of the ter ritOry lost in five weeks.
 Vatutin'S drive had ended a German threat to Kiev, and had set the Russian forces of the northwest Ukraine again striking out toward the pre- war Polish border some 75 miles beyond their battle line.
 At some points on the rim of the new expanding Kiev salient Soviet forces had driven beyond their most ad- vanced positions before the Nazi command flung it's best forces against the bulge in a desperate bid to stem the Russian drive westward.
 Frcnt dispatches said that on the fourth s;ay of the new Soviet of- fensive, Vatutin's veterans were ap- preaching the Korosten-Zhitomir stretch of the Leningrad-Odessa trunk railway.
 The towns of Zhitomir and Koro- sten themselves again were threat ened by Russian forces driving to tcpple the last German strongholds between them and old Poland.
 The Russians reported that the abortive German counter offensive had cost Nazs more than 10 Panzer divisions or in excess of 1000 tanks. along with at least six infantry di- visions which at full strength would approach 100000 men.
 A Pravda dispatch said the path of the advancing Russians was lit tered with heaps of bodies, knocked out tanks and vehicles, and aban- doned German weapons.
 Ukraine Offensive
 The Ukraine offensive shaped up as the second of the Red Arn1y's winter drive. Foreign military ob- servers confidently predicted that Vatutin would reach the Rumanian border this winter. They believed the White Russian drive might car ry through the Baltic.
 Seizing the initiative after ab- sorbing the strongest German coun- ter-attacks in more than five months, the Russians pushed 25 miles in the first three days Of their assault to within 75 miles of the pre-war Polish border, a con- munique disclosed last night.
 More than 150 towns and vil- lages, including the defense hub of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27

Vital steel production was paralyzed by the refusal of 122, ,OO0 workers in six states to return to work without a wage agreement to replace the one which expired Christ~ mas eve. The 15 nOn-Operata ing railroad unions and three operating unions stood firm in their threat to strike De- cember 30, if their wage de- mands are not met.
 Government seizure of the railroads appeared imminent. and the President was exs pected to take drastic action if the steel strike is not Set- tied quickly.
 The steel workers, lacking D back o-Work order from union ofA ficials, ignored the Presidents &p. peal for uninterrupted production" made before he left his Hyde Park home last night. He promised the workers that any wage adjustnea1 reached ill new contracts would pa retroactive to midnight Dec. 24s when the contracts governing 350,A 900 members of the CLOS United Steel Workers Union expired. The number Of strikers was ex, pected to grow aS additional shifts fail to return to work. The steel workers took Saturday and Sunday off as regular Christmas holiday and the fuil effects of the striGS were not apparent until today.
 The steel picture at glance:
 Pittsburgh area-3O0O0 wcrke-9 out at 14 companies.
 Canton. O.-17,000 out at ti.0 Timkea Roller Bearing companyS Canton, Columbus and Mt. Vernon plants.
 Newport Cincinnati area-3,j0O out at three plants
 Youngstown, O.-38,000 out at 2I plants.
 Chciago Area-7,900 out at fouH companies.
 New York-20O out at Republic Steel.
 Cleveland, O.-More than 1000 out at seven plants.
 The Republic Steel Corp, an. nounced that 31 ,000 of its workers were idle at Youngstown, Canton, Massillon, Cleveland and South Cili- cago
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
Stali1 Forced FOR to Name
 2nd Front Inuasion Leader

forces were trying to oust Marshall. III concealed was the implication that Marshall's firm manner had aroused the British press for his removal from the post of chief Of staff where he has much to say about allocation of American men and material.
 These implications were under lined on September 20 by an edi- torial in the well informed Army and Navy Journal. It said:
 Thinking only of winning the war in the shortest time. and of saving every American life possible, General Marshall, of course, has come into conflict with powerful forces which would like to elimin- ate him from the Washington pie ture and place in his stead an affi- cer more amendable to their will"
 FDR Urged
 The Journal said 1t did not be- lieve MT. Roosevelt would move him. Meantime, Marshall's joint chiefs of staff colleagues-Admiral Ernest J. King, Admiral William D. Leahy and General Henry H. Ar mold were urging MT. Roosevelt to keep Marshall on the job here. Marshall was saying nothing. Both here and in London 1t became the consensus that when the invasion commander was named, Marshall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
RobouI Blockade
 Frightened

Advanced Allied Headquarters. New Guinea, December. 27. = CUP) - Strong forces of U. s. Marines, tightening the Allied blockade of Rabaul, swept ashore unopposed at the northwestern tip of New Britain at 7:45 .. m. Sunday and seized beachheads on both sides of Cape Gloucester. special communique announced today.
 Other Marines, like the main | forces veterans of Guadalcanal, occupied Long Island, 30 miles west of Cape Gloucester and 30 miles east of the big Japanese base of Madang on the northern shore of New Guinea.
 The twin invaSions, coming only II days after elements of the sixth U. s. Army landed on the south west coast of New Britain completed the Allied control of the southwest ern approaches to Rabaul, 275 miles northeast of Cape Gloucester. Swarms of Japanese planes roared in to attack soon after the Marines had established beachheads on both sides of a network of airfields on Cape Gloucester, but protecting Allied fighters shot down 61 of them - 36 bonbers and 25 fighters-for a los sof only seven of their own. A small escort vessel sunk by a direct bomb hit and the damaging of other craft were the only Allied shipping losses from the raids and General Douglas MacArthur's spe- cial communique jubilantly pro claimed:
 "The landing was made with prac- tically no loss of ships, planes or men,"
 MacArthurs comrnunique lndi- cated that some American casualties were suffered in the landing or Ill ill the subsequent enemy air raids, but these losses were regarded as very slight in view of the import ance of the Cape Gloucester Air fields and other Japanese installa- tions.
 (Imperial Japanese headquarters claimed in communique today that Japanese naval warplanes attacked the American carrier task force Sat urday evening following the Kavieng raid 'in waters north of Bouga1n-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-27
WORST LABOR CRISIS |N GETTING
 Reds Sweep Forward On 50-MiIe Front
. OVERCOME BYGASFUMES
 FROM STOVE

Coal gas fumes seeping from a kitchen stove in a sec ond floor tenement at 20 Jewelry street partially as- phixiated a mother and her three small children shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. All were taken to St. Mary's Hospital after receiving oxy- gen from inhalators of the fire and police departments.
 The victims were Mrs. Florence Perreault, 29, Lorraine, 6, Richard 8 and 1-2, and Donald, three months old, occupants of an east side apart ment on the second floor of the six-family house. Their condition Is believed not to be serious. but all were confined for observation.
 A police ambulance was sum- moned to the scene by Mrs. Annette St. Germaith, third floor tenant. after she heard distress call from CIlS IllOtIlcT dI1U olSCOVCACN CA1C Ee'No' A St. Mary's hospital ambulance and an emergency fire vehicle like wise were called. Oxygen was ad- ministered to the victims at the scene and in the ambulances.
 The mother, who was near the stove, was most severely overcome, it was reported. None of the vic- tins lost consciousness, however.
 Fire Chief Thomas F. Cavanaugh and Deputy Martin J. Campion were in charge of the fire department staff, while Lieutenant Henry John son responded tor the police depart ment. Other members of the po- lice department on the scene 1n- cluded Sergeant Joseph Reilly, Lieu tenant Patrick Hobart Supernumer- ary Vito Mole, Officers Edward Class, Raymond Grady and Frank Deeley.
 Fire Marshal Dennis Lahey and Lieutenant Eugene Legge investi- gated the accident.