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Says War
Cabinet Is
Nj IN
Badly Needed
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was not given full authority To sat
isfy labor. Sidney Hillman, president
of the Amaleamated Clothing Work
ers. was given concurrent powers
with knudson, SO in all matters in
volving labor-which was practical
" every thing-there was divided
authority and the President had TO
decide Then came Leon Henderson
to control prices, and Donald M
Nelson to control production
through priorities, not supplanting
any existing agencies. but in effect
superimposed on them.
For a while Henderson seemed
King of the Roost His technique
was to run to the President with a
program and get decision before
any Cabinet member or head of
any independent division had been
consulted, SO he usually had his
case won before the battle opened
This and other activities led to such
complete confusion that Justice
Byrnes was brought in to head a
new overall organization known as
the Office of Economic Stabiliza-
ton, with authority over almost
everyone else.
Thus there have been many men
in places of major responsibility but
they have failed to coordinate our
various activities. 1t is not their
fault. for they have been some of
the ablest and most sincere men in
the whole nation The trouble has
been in the limited authority under
which they worked.
Divided authority had resulted in
placing restrictive price ceilings
over foods which the Food Admin
lstrator was trying to get produced
in abundance. Congress had tried
to give the Secretary of Agriculture
authority to approve ceilings, but
technical rulings prevented such op-
GRAFTON, and the Secretary was left
with insufficient authority to match
his responsibilities Finally the Of
flee of War Board Administration
was set up under Chester Davis, to
be responsible directly to the Presi-
dent. One OF the first basic decisions
made in cooperation with OPA Ad-
mlnlstrator Brown was to use ra-
tioning instead of ceilings to control
meat supply and prices The de-
cision had hardly been made when
still another reorganization took
place, creating the War Moboliza-
ton Board under Justice Byrnes,
which is another overall authority
board, and the meat decision was
reversed.
ms last overall authority has
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Neighbor Island 10 GuadaIcanaI

Rakata bay, Japanese base on the
island of Santa Isabel in the Solo
mons group where United States
bonbers flew from Henderson Field
on Guadalcanal to drop bombs on
enemy seaplanes and bases, is
bay seven miles long and approx
mately three miles wide. 1t lies on
the densely wooded northwest coast
between the main shore of Santa
Isabel and the small offshore islands
of Gijunabena, says bulletin from
the National Geographic society. 1t
is little short of eco miles from
Henderson Field
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-08-05

Cheese is a concentrated food full
of protein, calcium, fat, and vita
minis A and BE-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-08-05

Fresh green peas hold protein,
minerals, and vitamins A, Bl,
and c.
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Full Speed for the Elbow

aThere was nothing for it but u
60 full speed ahead and to try 70
make the channel at the left of the
rocks where the bulk of the water
was going gave the signal to the
adding one OF my own
that ran, Give her all that you
have, but we didn't make it quite.
Her head went past but she struck
amidship partly on the rock and
partly on the foredeck of the Ruth
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Misplaced Light

Coming to long, shallow
stretch the Ruth had TO take all
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the current. we carried up alongside
and gradually drew ahead. The ex-
citement was intense. We were
gradually getting ahead in the mat
Ter of language. as we'll as in the
race. when one of the ladies on the
Ruth yelled out to me, Captain,
you've got your red light on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15

Washington, Dec. 15.-CUP)-
Farm senator's pressed for a show
down vote on subsidies IN the SEN
ate banking and currency commit
tee today as Chairman William H.
Davis of the War Labor Board as
serted that abandonment OF food
subsidies would be 1.-The first act Of a
national tragedy
Spurning attempts to reach a
compromise, the farm group whipped
up its forces in hopes OF pushing
through the committee the bill ex-
tending the Commodity Credit Cor
poration but banning subsidies after
Jan. I.
It was believed, however, that
Sens. Robert A. Taft, r.. O., and
Joseph c. Ball, r., MINI, two mem
beers of the subcommittee which
broke up last night after failing
to reach a compromise, would try
to win committee approval for q
modified subsidy plan on which they
have been working with q Republic
can compromise bloc
Davis strong warning to con-
gress- was contained In letter to
Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D.,
N. Y, Of the banking and cur
rency committee. The WI.B chair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Farmers Hope To Push
Through Commodity Bill

man said the appalling effect" Of
the proposed legislation was the
Implication "that congress has de-
serted or is about to desert the
anti-inf1ationary program"
He said the measure would 'in-
evitably renew the tragic race be-
tween wages and prices" adding
that it Is fear of the future that
even now is causing labor to de-
mand higher wages.
Davis asserted that the WLB eff
fectively had held the line on wages,
stating that wage rates for factory
workers increased only 1.6 per cent
between September, 1912, and Sep
TENDER, 1913. This was done, he
said, ION the assumption that con-
gress was determined to stabilize
also the prices of things which
wage and salary earners buy"
He defended the recent increase
of $3.50 a day granted the coal
miners as non infiationary," as
serting that it was given merely
for another hour of work a day at
their regular rate of pay.
Abandonment OF the sterilization
policy, he concluded, would disas-
trously affect the life Of every
American
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
OPA CHANCES
Rent Rules

Washington, Dec. 15-(UP)-The
Office Of Price Administrator today
amended its rent regulations for
hotels and rooming houses in New
York city, Burlington, VT, McCook,
Neb., Burlington, N. c., and Brady
Tex, so that landlords may not re-
Quire a tenant to take meals as a
condition of renting a room unless
the room was rented or offered for
rental on that basis on March /,
1913.
Other amendments affecting the
same areas, in which the maximum
rent date is March l, 1943, were:
/. Proprietors of hotels or room
ing houses must continue to offer
rooms FOR rent on a weekly or
monthly basis if they did so during
June, they are not required to rent
more rooms on that basis than the
highest number actually rented that
way in June.
2. Persons who operated tourist
camps and automobile courts and
rented accommodations to the same
tenant for 60 days or longer on a
daily or weekly basis after March /,
1943, must offer those accommodate
tons at a monthly rate. Tenants
occupying such Accommodations can
request that the term of occupancy
be changed from daily Or weekly to
a monthly basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
City Budget Surplus
ReachesH igh Standard
BY JAMES MOORE

An uneXpended balance OF
the city's 1943 budget appro-
priation remains in the
amount of $877,212.39 as of
November 30th. The balance
is equivalent to a monthly
expenditure of a little less
than 8 per cent for the past
II months. AS it is estimated
that no greater percentage
will be expended in De-
cember, with a possibility of
less, the city will stand to
realize an unexpended bal
ance comparable with early
year estimates.
! las imported at the time, Thor
valid Olsen, city budget director, In
letter transmitted to the Board
of Finance on Oct. 81, estimated
that the city would have a surplus
at the end TO 1913 of $474,e39, APP
proximately. He then based his
estimate on the computation that
the excess of the actual receipts
over the estimated receipts would
amount to 1901 ,063 and the unex-
pended balance of appropriations
for the year would amount to $173,-
875.
Olsen then advised the board
against over estimating on the
foregoing figures and suggested that
consideration be given to a margin
of safety, and recommended as a
practical measure that the board
resort to a figure not in excess OF
$400, 900.
However, last month, the city
budget director again in summation
of new receipts returned since the
previous report stated figures COM
piled revealed the city could expect
surplus of $474,938, but should
adhere to the conservative figure.
Other figures reported today re-
veal that as of November 80, over
81 per cent of the city's taxes have
UeeIl COl1cCUGu. IcecA dAAASbAAo
collected to date equals SIS, 430, 1902, as
compared against the total tax levy
of $5,599,8 The foregoing figures
are without the discount,
Ninety-two per cent of the cur
rent appropriations in the Water
Fund have been expended as of the
latter date while 95 per cent of the
current water rents have been col
lected. Final figures reveal that
1853, 781.42 has been collected in
this source of revenue as against
the current budget estimate OF
1892. 45013.
Although no budget estimate for
revenue to be realized from the sale
of foreclosed property owned by the
city, was set up for the current
year, $10,34066. has been accrued
from this source as of November
30th. The budget estimate set up
for 1874 covering this source of
revenue has been determined at a
figure of $500, which is considered
a conservative one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Washington Tries For
Showdown On Whisky

would either have to put this
whiskey on the market or pay more
than $1,O00,O0O,000 in advance tax
in order to hold it. The intention is
to force a large quantity of the four
year-old stock on the market and
thus relieve the shortage.
Late yesterday, the committee
voted to repeal the second wind
fall provision in the pay-as-you-go
tax law written in to capture the
steep increases in individual incomes
from war business. It's repeal would
make these incomes subject only to
curretn rates without further pen
atty levies.
This second anti-windfaA provi-
sion of the present law applies only
to incomes which were appreciably
higher than in pre-War years. Its
repeal would not affect another
provision under which taxpayers
viii lhave to pay the unforgiven 25
per cent Of 1912 income taxes. This
unforgiven part of the 1912 taxes
will have to be paid in equal In
stallmentS on March IS, 1914, and
March IS, las in addition to cur
rent taxes for those years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
GERMANS GO
ALL OUT TO
take K|Ev

Moscow, December IS. -
(UP) = Marshal Fritz Won
Mannstein threw the cream
of his German army into an
all or nothing gamble for
Kiev today after the strong
est blow Of his month-long
counteroffensive threw the
Russian defenders out of Ra-
domisl, 48 miles west of the
Ukrainian capital.
Two days after reporting that the
German onslaught against the Kiev
salient might have been Stified, the
Russians acknowledged q serious
setback in the loss of Radomisl, key
communications hub from which
seven highways radiate like the
spokes of wheel.
German troops some 10000 strong,
paced by $50 tanks, won Radomisl
in the greatest single attack Of the
entire counter-offe The victory
increased greatly the German abil-
Ivy w AIdllCQ1A1FCl UdLlho el4lA 4AA4s
try for continued assaults.
Military sources expected Mann
stein to move quickly to capitalize
on the seizure of the focal road CEN
ter in hope of wiping out the Soviet
salient looping westward from the
Drieper and recapturing Kiev by
the end of the year.
nwnI;moV EwwandsA,,rn
His prodigal expenditure of men
and machines was regarded as a su-
preme effort to reduce the ignominy
of his retreat through the Ukraine
and restore the Nazi winter line
along the middle Dnieper.
Apparently realizing that he no
longer could rely solely on his in
fantry and artillery to repulse Rus
sian blows, Mannstein was reported
to have introduced new variations
Of tank tactics west of Kiev.
Formerly he threw all his tanks
into the attack, leaving few If any
in reserve. Recently he has been
= using only part Of hfs armor for the
assault, leaving a considerable pro-
portion in reserve, and burying some
near the front lines for use as fir
ing costs.
Tho army organ Red Star said the
Germans also were sending out
small units of tanks to decoy larger
Russian armored groups into the
path of fire from tanks buried near
the Infantry lines.
New details of the capture OF
CherEasi, Dnieper river stronghold,
indicated that sizeable German
garrison had been enveloped for
som time and was wiped out in the
fillai storlni1g Of the town.
Bitter street fighting marked the
last ytage of the Cherkasi battle,
front reports said. Stiff resistance
by Germans entrenched in symmet-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Balkans In
Jitters As
Bombs Drop

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec.
15.-(UP)-More than 300 Allied
warplanes, the strongest feet ever
sent against the invasion-j ittery
Balkans, made smashing attack
on the Athens area yesterday while
British troops slowly gained the
upper hand in a bloody battle on
the italian Adriatic coast, it was dis
closed today.
Destructive bomb loads were
rained down on three Athens air.
fields and on shipping in nearby
Piraeus Harbor. The attackers were
fighter escorted Flying Fortresses
and Liberators which fought their
way through some 35 German in
tercepting planes.
Never before had such big fleet
struck at four separate targets in
Greece in single, coordinated as
sault. Among the raiders was the
376th American bombardment group,
veteran of 10 months of combat.
The fortresses concentrated on
Elusi and Kalamaki airfields and
the harbor while the LiberatorS bat
tered Tatoi airf1eld - all ringing
! Athens where the Germans were re-
ported sending new luftwaffe
| strength.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Civilian Gas
Cut Eoreseen

washington, Dec. Is. (UP)-New
cuts in civilian allotments of gaso-
line, with possible Tightening up OF
rations, were foreseen today follow
ing a warning by Price Administra-
tor Chester Bowies that civilian
supplies were critically short"
Bowles declared in his weekly
radio broadcast last night that the
demands on existing supplies were
becoming constantly greater.
More than three out OF every 10
gallons produced east of the Rocky
Mountains go to our armed forces"
he said. "Th:S may be increased to
four out of every 10 gallons.
ALREADY four out of every 10 gal
Ions produced on the Pacific coast
is going to war. AS soon as the Of
fensive against Japan is increased
in scope and intensity, it will take
half of all the west coast gas
Thus it appeared Bowles was
warming of a possible IA to Is per
cent cut In civilian gas east Of the
Rockies and II per cent cut on
the west coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
World War Is
Doys Old

The European war entered its
i,567tl1 day tod9y ara SO outlasted
World War One-at a cost in blood
and human misery and national
wealth that already has dwarfed
the catastrophe of generation ago.
On July %, 1914, the Austro- Hun
garian Empire declared war on Ser
bia and four days later Germany
handed similar declaration to
Russia, committing the world to its
then greatest war in history.
Four years and LOG days after
ward, at II a. m. French standard
time, Z a. m. EWT., World War
One ended in an armistice. Wilhelm
Hohenzollern was in exile and the
beaten German and Austrian
armies were stumbling homeward,
leaving 2,973000 of their dead on
the battleflelds with 5,152,115 Allied
victims.
World War II began at dawn on
September I, 1889, when Adolf Hit
Ter hurled his armored legions and
bombing fleets across the Polish
frontier and the late Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain an
nounced to the British Empire that
Britain would honor her pledge to
Poland and.
In the intervening four years and
106 days, the world witnessed the
brief period of the "phoney war"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
TOTO Ain
So Sure Now

Japanese Premier Hideki TOTO be-
lieves the war will be decided in the
coming year and expects "mauny
mounting difficulties" Tokyo radio
said last night.
TOTO expressed his beliefs in a
speech to leaders of the Imperial
Rule Assistance Political society
and three cabinet ministers called
to his official residence for con-
ference.
1.-THE third year of the fighting is
truly the period that will decide
the structure of victory or defeat,
TOTO was quoted. ''It can be ex-
pected that there will be many SER
ious ups and downs and many
mounting difficulties in the future
war situation"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15

Washington, Dec Is - (U.P0 -
The Senate Finance Committee ap-
preached showdown today on a
plant to force millions of gallons of
aged whiskey onto the market by
making it subject to immediate
taxation when it is four years old.
A group of Kentucky distillers was
scheduled to testify against the
proposal of Chairman Walter F.
George, D., Ga. that the new tax
rate of SO e gallon be applied to all
four year-old stock now being held
in bond.
Work on individual income taxes
also was expected to begin today,
George was dubious, though still.
hopeful, that the committee could
report out a tax bill by Friday as
he originally had intended.
Under present law, Whiskey is
not taxed until it is withdraw.
from warehouses or becomes eight
years old. Testimony before the Var
Mugs committee investigating the
liquor situation showed that thert
were 117,OOO, 900 gallons now in stor.
age that are four years old or older
Under Georges plan, owners
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Death Mutes
Fats Waller
And Songs

Kansas City. MO-, Dec. 15-(UP)
Thomas w. (Fats) Waller, 39-
year-old negro orchestra leader,
song writer and movie actor, died
today, apparently of heart attack,
on the Santa Fee passenger train,
The Chief, as it rolled into the
Union Station yards.
Wallace T. (EO Kirkeby, Wal
ler's business manager, was aroused
by Walters heavy breathing. He
said the negro star seemed to be
having a CONFUSION.
II asked him what's the matter?'
Kirkeby said. He couldn't answer"
Kirkeby, who occupied the state
room with Waller, ran into the
corridor and called the porter. A
doctor, boarding the train to at
tend another patient. was too late
to aid the stricken musician.
Krigeby said Waller was going to
his Long Island home for the holi-
days. He is survived by his widow
and three sons.
Kirgeby said the Negro pianist
has Just completed the motion pic
ture, "Sotrmy Weather" and COM
posed the current Broadway stage
hit, early To Bed"
Kirkeby said Waller had been
feeling well prior to his death. He
had been Ill with the flu for 10 days
but had been back at work for two
weeks before he left on the vaca-
ton trip to his home.
Waller had travelled all over the
country and Europe and was one
of the nations most widely known
musicians and actors.
I'VE went to bed about 4:30
o'clock this morning" Kirkeby
said" Fats complained about
these aWfU. cold Sheets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Firms Talk
Peace Again

The British radio reported today
that the president Of the Finnish
foreign relations commute broad
cast last night "a strong public bid
for peace between Finland and Sow
let Russia"
Our country must do everything
in its power to conclude a rapid
peace" the committee chairman,
unidentified by name, was quoted.
Certain great powers have often
affirmed that several years will have
to elapse before definite peace
treaty will be signed If this should
be true, the situation of a small
country still at war will be quite
different from the position of a
country which already has con-
Guided its own peace treaty and
whose frontier can be protected by
its entire army"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Hull Smocks
Back At
.Criticizer

Washington, Dec. Is - (U.P) -
Senator Hugh A. Butler, r., Neb.,
said today he had no difference
with Secretary of State Cordeu Hull
on this nations good neighbor pol
icy toward Latin but that
he did not believe 1--WE should f.
nance a WPA program abroad when
we have decided we could not af-
ford one at home"
Buffers statement was made to
the United Press after Hull, in an
$50 word statement containing some
of the strongest language he has
used in public, accused Butler of "a
most unfair and unfounded at
tack" on U. S. policies toward CEN
trail and South America.
Hull, his Tennessee temper near
the boiling point, recognized But
ler's protest that he hid no inten-
ton of injuring the good neighbor
policy when he charged that $6,0OO,-
100000 had been spent in boon
doggling" in Latin America, but
said:
Whatever HIS 1IlCS1lGlO14S LIldS
have been, the effects of what he
said, its manner and implications,
were such as to constitute an I'M
fair and unfounded attack calcu-
lated to injure the whole policy"
While Hull does not as a general
practice criticize members of con-
gress or comment on their remarks,
his statement ON Buffers charges
plainly was aimed at lessening their
unfavorable effect below the Rio
Grande.
THE attack :" Hull said,
was a matter of general astonish-
ment throughout the western
hemisphere. 1t was imperative in
our national interest that these
charges be answered g. so COM
pletely that there would be no &C.
casion for reiteration."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
Big Bombing
Blasts JoDs

Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Dec. 15--(UP)-The great
est bombing beet ever sent against
the New Britain invasion coast be-
Nv Rabaul tore a broad gap in
spanese defenses around Gasmata
-donday with 248 tons of explo-
sives, it was disclosed today.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur threw
more than 100 Liberators and
Mitchells into the three hour at
tack which marked the high point
of campaign begun last Nov. 20
to smash open the approaches to
the big enemy base.
1t ives the second heaviest raid
of the war in tht southwest Pacific,
topped only by a 350-ton blow at
Rabaul itself last October.
The bombers concentrated on Lin
Gen Harbor and Ringring planta-
ton, some 20 miles east of Gasmata
on the south shore of New Britain
across from the Allied-held New
Guinea coastline, and on off -shcee
islands.
MacArthur's communique describ-
ed the damage as "heavy and wide
spread"with accompanying fires and
explosions.
OF 10 enemy fighters encountered
-vrst opposition in many days Of
steady raids-two were shot down
and not an Allied plane was lost.
Meanwhile. Rabaul was attacked
for the first time since Dec. when
night bombers kindled fires visible
SO miles in the Yakunai airdrome.
Rabaul-Long-range objective Of
MacArthur's campaign through New
Guinea and the Solomons-lies so:os
200 miles northeast of GasmAtA
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-15
100 Portent
Days Ahead

London, Dec. 15.-(UP)-Milita1y
and political developments indi-
Gated today that the next 100 days
will see the Allies and Germany
poised COR, if not engaged in, the
battles that will decide the Euro
pean war.
Both sides appeared equally in
tent on clearing away all obsta-
cles barring the way to the titanic
clashes that will be touched off
by the climactic Allied offensives
promised by the Telleran confer
ence from the east, west and
south"
Among the developments were:
1.-Germany was replacing Junk
ers generals with political generals
pledged to support Adolf Hitler to
the end to guard against any repeti-
ton of the Prussian military clique's
surrender of 1918.
2. Germany repeatedly dispatch
ed 10000 reserves from Austria anG
Finland and an air squadron in
tended for Italy to the Balkans in
attempt to wipe out partisan forces
in advance of an Allied invasion.
3. The Bulgarian cabinet held
2 seven-hour meeting on current
affairs' yesterday.
4. Radio Vichy said the Ru-
rnanian government was consider
ing moving from Bucharest to Bra
SOY, 80 miles to the north, because
of the growing danger of air raids.
5.-King Peter of Jugoslavia was
reported ready to make peace with
Marshal Josip (Tito) Brozovich,
partisan leader.
6.-British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden was believed about to
take over the job of convincing the
Polish exile government Of the wis
dom of resuming relations with Rus
STA