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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

0COnclnueQ from rage ~
approval Of the Kilday bill which
would grant deferment to fathers.
He said he did mot know anything
about 1t. Then he added that the
problem Is to get physically ut men
for the armed services and said that
most men over IS are not very good
for combat service. (The services
have stopped drafting men over
SD.
A reporter asked II the president
was concerned over farm bloc OPP
position to an Army of the project
ed size. He said he was.
Then he told q story which he
said had been related to him about
how the Russians at Moscow utilized
some 100000 school children during
1912 to produce food and cut wood
for fuel for the ciyt.
He said he thought the young
people In villages In this country
could help the farmers with their
crops. He told Of how whole town
In California had turned out to help
farmers take In q prune crop IN
q week. There ought 10 be more such
actions. he said.
The board Of economic stahiliza"
ton, Of which James p. ByFnes Is
director, met today and one Of the
topics reported to be under discus
sion was the manpower problem.
Chairman Paul v. McNutt OF the
war ManpoWer Commission u .
member OF the board.
Rebellions conGresslnen nave
thrown their full support behind
legislation 70 overhaul the seleetlve
Service Act. They seek 70 defer
farm labor and put fathers on the
bottom OF the draft list.
The men trying 70 Te-deaign ne
eeieetlye Service sfatlie--eea. John
s.. nankhead, u. Ala, and Rep.
Paul Kildny, D., Tex, Teks-'clalmed
enough support 70 Assure RppgoVnl
q thelF bins BY both the House ana
senate.
nankhsad dronpee tWo bills into
Tie senate hopper sno explalnee
fhal ihev would halt eonecFlDllen 6
warm WORKERS and fnflonah tlla4a
alrHaeV " lul1apm. FhlElg~els esaaF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

Senators appeared as co-sponsors Of
the deferment bill and % for the
Through measure.
Kildays bill, like Bankhead's faces
vigorous opposition Of the Army and
Navy. It won approval by the
House Military Affairs committee by
a vote Of % to 2.
Kildays bill, which would reck
the war manpower commission
policy Of granting deferments on
the basis Of the mans Importance
to the war effort, rather than de-
tendency, would provide for draft
ing men In this order: Single men
with no dependents: single men with
collateral dependents; married men
with no children; married men with
children. sR
The house measure Is supported
by the same group which endorses
the firm stand Of Bankhead and
other Senators who charge that the
United States faces Of food short
age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

Nine. Chang sat between the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. She
was dressed in long Chinese gown
Of blue flower material, and wore
ornate gold earrings.
Nine. Chang explained that
China has the rnanpower but urg-
emily needs the machines Of war In
Guiding planes and ammunition.
4 Mr.. Roosevelt, she added, has
solved so many serious crises that
she felt sure she could leave with
him the problem Of meeting China's
urgent supply problem.
The president then reiterated the
intention Of the army and navy
leaders to cut Japan's lengthening
supply line near the top, using
China itself as base Of operations
more and more as the war progress
ses.
This means, the president added,
hitting Japan in the Japanese Is
land themselves.
AS to the time element of these
new offensive blows against Japan,
the president said he joined with
Chinese goveT1a,aaent officials in ask
ing how soon that will occur.
Everybody in Washington, he said,
Is pledged to the definite policy Of
making one Of the most important
If not the most important-bases
Of operations against Japan just as
soon as the Lord viii let US.
Mr.. Roosevelt emphasized that
this statement did not represent a
change in policy, but was the result
of greater emphasis on trying to get
the policy operating as soon as pos
sible. He said the program OF In
creasing aid to China already was
underway.
She was lavish In her praise OF
American air forces in China, tell
ing in simple language q story OF
how the American Volunteer Group
saved Chungking from many terri"
BILE bombings.
The presence Of American airmen
In China she said, made her people
feel that they were not fighting and
bleeding alone.
She also disclosed that Russia
sent substantial aid 10 China, IN.
GLIDING planes, before the Soviet
Army was 50 pressed BY the Ger
mans IN the west.
. Nine. Chlang was riding q wave
VI popularity seldom peFalleied In
Washington's history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

six-barreled mortars and 10 trucks
loaded with supplies and prisoners"
Several additional towns also fell
to Russian troops gradually wiping
out the Axis salient below Vorosh-
ilovgrad, 1856 miles southeast Of
Kharkov. The towns were In the
vicinity Of Rovenki, 35 miles south
Of Voroshilovgrad, and brought the
Russians as booty seven tractors, II
trucks and IS carts loaded with sup
plies.
In another sector around Rovenki,
two German infantry companies
were surrounded and annihilated.
Counter Attack Repulsed
At the northwestern end Of the
salient, a German counter-attack
was repulsed near Kramatorsk, 10
miles south Of SlavyanSk, with en-
envy losses including 200 officers and
men killed and six tanks destroyed.
Red armies smashing against an
other Axis salient along the north
eastern coast Of the Sea Of Azov
captured Matveyev Kurgan.
The fall Of Mateyev Kurgan cut
the Taganrog-Donts basin railroad
and all but isolated Taganrog itself,
anchor Of the German 1941-42 win
ter defense line.
The midday communique also re.
ported Soviet rtoops forging ahead
west Of Rostov for a frontal smash
at Taganrog. A number Of villages
we're overrun in the advance, 1t said.
Among the Axis troops falling
back in disorder from Rostov are
the remnants of the German 403rd
division, the communiQue said. Pris-
oners captured at Rostov said the
division had only recently been
brought up to full strength by the
addition Of police troops.
In the northwest Caucasus, the
Russians were tightening their arc
Of enlightenment against German
forces penned against the Black Sea
on the Taman peninsula.
The midnight communique re-
ported the capture Of Smolenskoye,
IS miles west of Krasnodar, Staro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
GERMAN PEOPLES
SPIRIT FLACCINC
CONTINUED from Page y

1--WE shall minate"-then COR
rected himself-"exclude them"
A Stockholm dispatch said Swed-
dish observers believed that Goeb-
bells thus unwittingly revealed Nazi
plans for the Jews remaining in
Germany.
Almost overshadowed by Goeb-
bells warnings Of the dangers con-
fronting Germany were his prom
ises Of coming Axis counter blows.
Decisive readiness for war;" he
said, means drastic regulations in
the Hinterland in order to offer
to the fuehrer an operative re-
serve enabling him to resume Of
fensive action by the coming spring
and summer.
"That blow will be all the more
devastating, the more power we give
to the fuehrer we must re.
sumo the offensive in the east. The
time for this has now arrived when
the shirkers must be set to work."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
BRITISH CAPTURE
FOUM TATAHOUINE
Continued from Page y

Having withdrawn from Feriana,
Kasserine and Sbeitha, below the
Dorsal, the Americans now held po-
sitionS running from a point near
Pichon, southwest to below Tebessa,
the big Allied base just inside AL
geria. Pichon is 80 miles southwest
Of Tunis; Tebessa is So miles from
Pichoa1.
All day yesterday, a dispatch from
Allied North African headquarters
said, husky doughboys swung picks
and shovels along the Dorsal, dig
ging trenches and emplacing guns
on heights that dominate German
positions on the plains below.
Occasional Snow
American field guns and mortars
concealed among the evergreen trees
on the slopes pointed down toward
the barren valley, where the Ger
mans dug slit trenches with q min
inurn Of natural cover. The weather
was raw and rainy, with an occa-
siona1 snow furry.
The Dorsal rises to 1000 feet in
some places and offers an excellent
defensive position. The road north
Of Feriana, near the southwestern
end Of the new American line, twists
and turns around the steep slopes.
A frontal assault along the road
would be extremely costly, since
American artillery dominates the
plain for 10 miles out.
A second road runs through a pass
northwest of Kasterine, northwest to
Hairda.
At its narrowest, the pass is three
miles wide. Guns on the heights
dominate 1t, and If the Germans
elect to continue their defensive,
| they undoubtedly would send 4heir
tank columns through the pass.
Both Allied and German reports
indicated that the attack had run
its course, and the French reported
that their ill-equipped but gallant
forces, falling back with the Ameri-
cans, had beaten back and inflicted
severe losses on German infantry
and 80 tanks attacking west of Had
jebel, Aioun. Hadjebel Aioun Is Is
miles southwest Of Pichon.
A communique said the French
were now taking up positions along
the Dorsal without enemy pressure.
1t was believed at Allied head
quarters that Rommel could not af-
ford to risk further attacks, because
he would weaken his southern flank
in the face Of the advancing Eighth
Army. And 1t was also thought that
Rommel could not afford to lose any
more of his armored forces in Sec
ondary actions. with the final Allied
campaign to throw him out of Africa
impending.
Decisive Defeat
Although the Americans had suf-
fered heavy casualties and a de-
cisive defeat. German propagandists
were not inclined to make over
much Of their victory. Radio Ber-
lin broadcast a dispatch about Ger
man dive bombers killing retreating
American troops, but said: 'Desnite
the great success of the last few
days, the entire North African pic
ture shows great enemy superiority
in men and material. 1t is obvious
that hard fighting is impending"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

Mr.. E1irschfeld emphasized that
factories would be the chief source
of scrap during 1913. All other
sources are almost exhausted, he
stated. Since fifty million tons will
be needed by war industry in 1913,
every plant must do Its utmost to
get its scrap metal back into the
fight, he told the Bristol Co. group.
The special two week scrap cam
paign is a project Of the Plants
War Production committee. ]. A. H.
Peterson is chairman Of the COM
mittee. The War Production Scrap
committee includes: j. M. Lutte,
chairman, G. T. Evans, L. s. Chase,
F. Helming, A. G. Sandin, L. L.
Brandmeyer, G.. B. Lewis, @. v: Erik,
L. Wander Eyk and E. H. Mark
G. B. Lewis, plant engineer, is in
charge of the scrap campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
F.D.R. TO RUSH
AID TO CHINA

Continued from Page u
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
DEFINITE BREAK"
IN COLD WEATHER

Speculation upon the possibility
Of return Of the phenomenal cold
wave was dropped as a topic of
weather conversation today as the
temperature rose to q mild 80 de-
grees above zero. This was the
reading this noon at the office of
City Plumbing Inspector James
Walker, who reported a steady rise
during the morning. The low point
for the past 24-hour period was at
noon yesterday. when it was IA
above.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
1913 ARMY GOAL
TO STAND AS IS

CONTINUED from Page y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19
INSPECTOR OPENS .
SCRAP CAMPAIGN
Cleanup Drive Starts at
Bristol Company; Peter.
son Heads Committee
(U. s. Navy Photo from NEA)

Robert l.. Hirschfleld, q. s. Army
Ordnance Inspector for the Spring.
field district, offlcially opened the
Bristol Scrap Cleanup campaign
this week, by addressing super
visory group on the importance Of
scrap in the total war effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-19

Placed in a bottle thrown into
the sea of South Africa by her hus-
band on February %, 1912. letter
has been received by Mrs. Jack
Ashton Of Bangor, Wales, the bottle
having been picked UP at Kerry.
Fire, and the letter forwarded to
her.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
.0rder for Greater Use
OF Capital Garage
Reported Drawn Up

An executive order that would
compel greater use of the Capital
Garage by Federal agencies was be-
lieved today to be in preparation,
but there was doubt that it would
be sent to the White House for
approval until after Congress had
disposed of the pending Byrd car
pooling bill.
Under the terms of the measure
introduced by Senator Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, all Government
agencies would be required to pool
their cars. which would then be
handled under a centralized control.
The executive order. if it is issued.
would merely call on Federal
agencies to make full use of the
parking, servicing and repair facil-
tiles of the half-empty Capital
Garage which was leased by the
Federal Works Agency on August l.
Last night, 2S6 cars were parked
IN the garage as compared with a
capacity of 521. Under private own
ership. the garage could accommo-
date upward of 1900 automobiles
at one time. but FWA has pointed
out that three floors of the eight
story structure at Thirteenth street
and New York avenue NV. are
now used for storing files and ad-
ditional space has been set aside
for servicing and repair work,
An FWA spokesman said today
that occupancy OF the garage was
gaining. "but it is still slow"
Some agencies are reluctant to
change their habits" he said.
He pointed out that FWA is not
anxious to exercise control over the
cars of other agencies.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
lIewe||in Says British
Need Food From u, :,
By a Staff Correspondent of The s..r

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Nov. II
Great Britain will continue until
the wars end to rely on the United
States and other portions of the
American continent for most of it S
imported food, Col. John j. Llev-
ellin. newly appointed minister of
food in the British government, told
a press conference here today. Col
Llewellin has been here as British
delegate to the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Confer
ence
Col. LleWellin reported that war;
time agricultural intensifcation has
made it possible for Britain to pro-
duce at home all but 80 per cent
of its food requirements, where as
preWar imports ran up to so or
so per cent. He said an interna-
tlonal agreement on currency and
co1allary efforts to erase trade bar
riers, would be essential to Britain S
reducing from its -sufhciency to
the preWar level.
IF you want to give me a hearty
goodby,' Col. Llewellin said, you
can give me assurance of a contin-
uance OF the supplies from here
He has been resident minister for
supply for Britain in Washington
for 10 months and director of the
British Supply Council in North
America He goes to London to sue
ceed Lord Woolton as Food Minister,
but he said he has received no in
structions about when to depart.
Meanwhile, he is staying on for the
conference.
Col. LleWellin said lie was en-
couraged by the intimate working
partnership which has been estab-
lished betNe cen Britain, the countries
of the British Commonwealth and
Empire and the United States
Evening star., 1943-11-12
Judge Casey Bonishes Bomb
In rial of 'One-Mun Arsenal

The most important piece OF
evidence with which police hope to
convict Gentlo Ransom, "a, colored,
on deadly weapon charge will be
missing today in Municipal Court
when the defendant goes to trial.
The Government exhibit No. l.
talcum powder can containing q
stick of dynamite, complete with
fuse and detonator cap-will not be
on display at the specific request OF
Judge Walter j. Casey, who knows
dynamite when he sees it.
The, jurist, unnerved by a police
man who thoughtlessly juggled the
can containing the dynamite at yes
terday's arraignment, said he would
take the officers word for it that the
defendant had the dynamite in his
possession.
Police. said they arrested Ramson
Wednesday evening when they saw
him brandishing Q revolver In q
Seventh street tap room. Furthe,
Evening star., 1943-11-12
Marines Ruise Larsen
To Major General
ny the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Promotion of Brig. Gen. Henry L.
Larsen to the rank of ma jor general
and Col. Graves B. Erskine to
brigadier general was announced by
the Marine Corps yesterday.
Gen. Larsen, So, veteran Of 30
years service in the marines. has
been commanding general OF Camp
Lejeune, New River, N. c., since
June.
At one time he served as first
military governor of American
Samoa. Gen. Larsen is a native of
Chicago
Gen. Erskine, 46. a native of Co.
lumbia, La, now is serving in the
field
Evening star., 1943-11-12

search revealed the dynamite plus a
switchblade knife, they said.
Ransom pleaded not guilty when
arraigned yesterday. His attorney
Wesley Williams, said his client
carried the "one-man arsenal" for
protection. He explained that Ram
son, caretaker of a Groverton (Va.)
farm, planned to blow up trouble
some tree stump on the farm. The
other weapons were carried, he said
to afford Ransom protection against
"city slickers" who might harm the
country boy"
Anyway" said Mr.. williams
"Ramson is going into the Army
soon"
THE ordnance branch, I pre-
sume?" Judge Casey responded.
The case will be the first tried
under the November 4 amendment
to the Deadly Weapons Act, which
makes 1t an offense to carry uncon.
cealed, as well as concealed, weapons
without license.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGo, Noy; T. (P tWFA,.-salabls
hogs, 5000: total. $4,000; good and
weights, over go pounds and sows steady
to strong; weights under 200 pounds,
STEADY steady oso to - cents higher; sood and
pounds. 12.75-13,40: 150-17O pounds,
l225-75: market closing dull with indiI
cation of incomplete clearance.
Salable cattle. 1900; salable calves.
200; general fat cattle market under Sc
we're buyer pressure; cows predomi1Atine
in run; this class uneven steady. 25 cents
lowe ron hit-and-miss basis; sprinklifr
good grade steers steady; nothing choice
mere; here, oda iots and few loads good grade
go and below; peddling market on me-
eessive run COWS being peddled at 700
down on cutters with most beef cows
7.o0-1O.00: only strictly good kind, l. .O0
and better; practical top heavy sausage
kind, s;so;1o so; vealers stead, ct N:So
on catch-as-catch-can basis.
salable sheep. $1,000; total, 1880;
lished:. bidding lower on fat lambs; load
around lo5.pound Western ewes. little
changed at 5.75.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
Continued From First Page.


unless action is taken to alleviate the
crisis.
The Maronite Archbishop of Leb-
anon predicted a revolt unless the
British intervene
The strong Egyptian protest,
lodged by Premier Mustapha Naha :,
Pasha, declared that unless French
policy was blished looically," "
Egypt would lie bound to consider
her position yis-a-vis France in the
light of events
British Position Firm.
King Farou.s also personally
messaged the Lebanese President,
saying that "Lebanese people can
always count on our friendship"
The British protested both the
action taken by the French author
tiles and the French failure to con-
suit Sir Edward Spears, British
Minister. British interest in the
Lebanese situation was described
authoritatively as arising fro~' two
considerations:
l. Lebanon is in STRAIT -gic area
where British forces have response
bility and the British pr .ernment
cannot permit situation of dis
order to develop.
2. In 1941 the British Ambassador
to Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, de-
clared his government supported
and associated itself with the assur-
ance of independence given Syria
and Lebanon by Gen. Georges
Catroux on behalf of Gen. Charles
de Gaulle. Gen. Catroux was then
Fighting French commissioner.
The British government stands
firmly by that declaration, it was
announced in ofiicial quarters.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
7 oxes
Continued From First Page.)

money orders. No change is made in
second class rates or in special de-
livery charges.
g. 1t would raise the excess profits
tax on corporations and readjust the
method of computing excess profies.
to pick up $6l6,000,000 additional
revenue.
4. 1t would add $4,000 1000 by
disallowing as deductions in per-
sonal income tax returns sums paid
on excises, such as gasoline, Gig
arctic and liquor taxes.
Renegotiation Revised.
s. The law governing renegotia-
ton of war contracts for recovery
of excessive profits would be revised
draStically. The committee pro-
vided that contractors dissatisfied
with excess profits findings of Gov
ernment renegotiation boards have
the right to appeal to the Tax Court
Of the United States, affecting re
negotiations had after April 28
1912"
The measure would reduce the
area of renegotiation by increasing
the existing exemption of $100, ,0Oo
to $50o,000, exempting agricultural
products, and by providing discre-
tionary exemption of standard COM
mercial articles. in cases where COM
petitive conditions have been re-
stored.
Although the committee approved
the $2,142, 100000 bill in detail, there
still is a possibility it may make
some changes before tossing it on
the House floor. Moreover. there is
chance it may be rewritten in the
Senate, when the administration
may present its case for still higher
taxes again.
Evening star., 1943-11-12
Peace Pledge Drive
Opened Here by
Justice Roberts

A Nationwide campaign for sig
natures on pledge for peace" was
launched here yesterday with a
warning by Supreme Court Justice
Owen J. Roberts that the fate of
humanity is in the hands of us
common men and women"
+. Already signed by thousands of
prominent Americans, the pledge
was written by members of the
Writer'S War Board.
The eight-point pledge calls for
a world organization consisting of
the United Nations and such neutral
countries as they may be admitted
with the Axis powers, their allies
and sympathizers given the status
of territories on probation until the
world organization admits them to
membership.
Provisions Of Pledge.
The pledge provides that no men,
Der nation can secede from the
world organization and that each
member nation shall give up for
ever the sovereign right to commit
acts of war against other nations" {"
The pledge also calls for all inter-
national police force, gradual aboli-
ton OF economic and political i'm
perialism, and whatever measures
may be deemed necessary" to pre-
vent Germany and Japan from pre-
pairing for third world war.
Justice Roberts told group of
writer's and others at a meeting in
the Willard Hotel yesterday that
ne was signing the pledge first, as
declaration to my fellow men of
my mind and purpose; secondly, as
reminder to myself that 1 must
not forget my duty to play my little
part, as an infinitesimal bit of the
Government of the United States
which, in its totality, is we the
people in forming the corporate
purpose and will of the Nation"
The outstanding duty of the hour
Is to our children and our childrens
children said Justice Roberts, who
Is honorary chairman of the Writer'S
War Board Pledge for Peace Com
mittee.
Will to Peace is FIRST Step.
They will rightly hold us ac-
countable if We. the citizens and
sovereigns of this democracy, will
fully reject, or supinely neglect, our
opportunity to promote sound public
opinion in favor of future peaceful
cooperation of all races and peo-
Piles. The first step to that end is
the public declaration of our will to
peace"
Carl GARNER, president of the
Authors Guild of America and
chairman of the Pledge for Peace
Committee, said the writer's tried to
express in the pledge the will of the
majority of American citizens, be-
lieving that "the people of this |
country are far ahead of their po-
litical representatives in their think
Ing on postwar problems.
Clifton Fadiman read the pledge
at the meeting. Others who attended
were Russel Grouse. Librarian of
Congress Archibald MacLeish. Mark |.
Van Doren and Mrs. j. Borden Har-
riman. Signers of the document
range from Albert Eistein to Dale
Carnegie.