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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
BIG BATTLE I5
 DEVELOPING,
 BURkAAREA
Japanese, Sung by SiiI- wells Victories, Mass.
 for New Attack

NEW DELHI, March 20. - The biggest battle fought in Burma since the Allies were driven out two years ago is apparently developing along the Chin Hills on the from tier of India where the Japs have crossed the Chidwin river in force at several points.
 Sung by the loss of Huwang Val ley with 4,000 casualties as the re : suit of It. Gen. Joseph w. Still wells victorious four. months cam paign in north Burma, the Japs are obviously attempting to break through the jungle to reach the supply line that feeds not only Stil- wells forces but elso those of Maj. Gen. Claire Chenault in China.
 The Japs are advancing in two main directions northward along the west side of the Chidwin River toward the British base at Imphal and westward from a point farther north between Homalin and Timan- Uni.
 The American and Chinese forces ere mopping up the Hukwang Val ley and outflanked Jap unit east of Jambu Bum on the Magaung Valley border forcing the enemy forces to resume their southward retreat
 Stilwell's headquarters estimated 4,000 Japs have died i'll the Hu- kwank Valley where Allied forces have occupied about 1900 square miles of territory in four and one half months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
kURILE5 ARE UNDER IN SIX RAIDS

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Am- erican planes struck the Kuriles last Thursday and Friday, dump ing bombs on three positions in a series of six raids.
 Tn one raid, an Army bomber flew as far south toward the main- land of Japan and let loose bombs on Maisuma Island, l50 miles south of the big enemy base at Paramu- shiro, which was hit twice by other bombing planes.
 Two attacks were made on Shi- musnu by Navy bombers which en- countered no fighter opposition and only light antiaircraft fire.
 Army bombers also attacked an other island in the Jap homeland island chain on Friday.
 All planes returned to their bases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
HARD FIGHT CONTINUING
 AT CASINO

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 20.--The Germans have succeeded in reinforcing their remaining strong points in Cassino and regained hill to the west from the Fifth Army troops.
 There is heavy fighting on the southwestern fringes of the town.
 Allied infantry and armor con- tinue to attack the enemy forces in the holed-up ruins around the Con- tinental Hotel. About 100 German prisoners have been taken in the battle for the wreckage of the hotel. The Germans installed two tanks in the wreckage and then the Allied armor moved in against the hotel stronghold.
 The Fifth Army has firm hold on the railway station one mile south of the town although the Germans shelled it with both mor- tars and artillery.
 Fortresses and Liberators biased several Austrian targets and two in Yugoslavia. Reaching across the Alps the American bombers with fighter escorts knocked down 30 out of 80 enemy fighters.
 The British cruiser Orion shelled the Germans in the Littoria area Of the AnziO beachhead in conillnc- tion with Allied artillery fire. Tine German guns there continued to lay down harrassing fire over the beachhead but Allied artillery fire drove off small group of enemy troops who thrust forward on the beachhead by western flank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
Stork Shower Is
 Given Saturday

Teachers in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church Sunday School entertained Saturday afternoon with a stork shower in honor of two of the instructors, Mrs. Delbert Dixon and Mrs. George A. Baker.
 Twelve members of the staff and the guests of honor enjoyed lunch con in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel. Later in the afternoon they adjourned to the Northern Light Presbyterian manse and were pres ent for the arrival of baby gifts in twin doll carriages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
PARAMUSHIRO BOMBED
 THIRD SUCCESSIVE DAY

UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, March 20--The third bombing strike in three days on Paramu- shiro, Japan's northern Kurile Is- land. is reported by Admiral Ches- ter w. Nimitz
 The Island base was hit Satur- day by Ventura search planes of the Navy's fleet Air Wing Four, based in the Aleutians.
 Several fires were started but re- turning airmen reported they en- countered light antiaircraft fire. None of the Venturas were damaged and all returned safely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
L0RENGAU TAKEN BY
 AMERICANS
U. 5. Force Overcome Pill box Defense-Entire
 Area Occupied

ALLIE D HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 20. American troops overcame still more Japanese pillbox defenses and captured Lorengau, enemy head quarters in the Admiralty Islands, last Saturday.
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur an- nounces: This completes occupa- tion of all vital areas of the Ad- miralties."
 Gen. MacArthur says that in the First Cavalry's latest triumph on Manus Island, 75 enemy bunkers were destroyed, much enemy mater ial was taken and the enemy aban- doned several hundred dead in the town. The remnants of the Japan csc scattered to the hills.
 Allied bombers continued wide spread attacks, 200 tons of bombs were dropped on Wewak and other Allied raids were made on Rabaul and Kavieng, and the former Dutch
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
NIGHT LETTER
 SERVICE AGAIN 
 REE5TABLISHED

Effective today, March 20, the Alaska Communication System will re-establish the night letter service under the same conditions which they were accepted prior to the discontinuance at the outbreak of the present war, according to Clar- ence L. Lovgren, Major, Signal Corps area, Officer in Charge.
 The night letter rate will be 50 words minimum, costing the same as a l0-word fast day message, plus tax.
 The night message service is not being reestablished at this time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20

Mrs. David Nichols was discharged from St. Anns Hospital during the weekend.
 Mrs. William Hixson and baby girl left St. Anns for their home on Saturday.
 Walter Kleweno, medical pa tient, was discharged from St. Ann's Hospital yesterday.
 A baby girl was born to Mrs. Alice James of Angoon at the Government Hospital during the weekend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
DOUBLE ATTACK
 MADE ON MILL,
 JAPANESE BASE

WASHINGTON. March 20.-U. S. battleships heavily shelled Milf Island, base to which the Japanese cling to in the southeast coast of the Marshalls.
 The bombardment synchronized with the attack by carrier-based aircraft of the Navy.
 No further details were given but the weight of the attack often means a step in softening up operations preceding landing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
Killed While
 Celebrating His leave, Alaska Post

SEATTLE, March 20.-Chicf Petty Officer Ray Erwin Coyle. 26, of Los Angeles, was killed by an automobile Sunday when crossing street with his wife, with whom he was celebrating his first leave in several months after service at Dutch Harbor. Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
VINNIT5A IS
 EVACUATED
 BY GERMANS
Pravda Says Time Is Ripe Now for Invasion
 from West

MOSCOW. March 20.-Red Army troops, driving west through the Ukraine and south through Bessa- rabia, have advanced to within sight of the Carpathian Mountains, the great eastern European chain between Russia and the Balkans, Pravda said.
 The newspaper said the Germans have been driven to the verge of chaos and the time is ripe for de- cisive blows from east, west, and south,' meaning an Allied invasion of Europe.
 After smashing the German fort ress of Kremenet5 in the west and crossing the Dniester River in the south, the Soviet forces are faced with the mediate objectives of clearing the Germans out of the Ukraine.
 The Russians three Ukrainian armies wheeled in a southwesterly direction along a 500-mile front from the high hills of the western Ukraine to the coast of the Black Sea, and are gradually folding back the entire German force from southern Russia.
 Kremenets, where the Germans converted the ancient fort into a modern base, was taken yesterday by quick encircling maneuver, and the Russians are pressing on to- ward Lwow 70 miles to the west.
 At the eastern end the Soviets swept on toward Odessa, where only a single line of retreat to Ru- mania is left to the Germans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 20.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6A, American Can 85%, Anaconda 26a4, Beech Air craft 8ai, Bethlehem Steel 60h Curtiss Wright 5si, International Harvester 71A, Kennecott 31A North American Aviation 8s, New York Central 1914, Northern Pacific l6ls, United States Steel 531a, Nor- thern Pacific 1872, Pound $404.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials l3995 rails 39.66, utilities 23.7l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
yINNITsA EVACUATED

LONDON, March 20.-The Ger man Command announced the eva cuation of the outflanked defense bastion of Vinnitsa in the north. The German withdrawal widened the Red Army break-through on the middle Bug River sector, chop ping off a part of the Nazi line east of Proskurov.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
REBEKAH DRILL TEAM
 WILL MEET TONIGHT

The Rebekah drill team will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall All members are ur- gently requested to be present.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
CANNERY MAN HERE

Anton Berg, foreman for the Hood Bay cannery, has arrived here from Seattle and is at the Cas- tineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
ANDERSEN, SON HERE

M. A. Andresen and son are reg istered at the Baranof Hotel from Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-20
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON other day, the White House called WIPES pro- duction wizard Charlie Wilson, to come to see the President. Wilson went, not knowing what it was about and not knowing he was to stay to lunch When he got there, he found himself lunching with FDR, all alone.
 The conversation ranged over everything under the sun, from the problems of business management to Far Eastern trade to Latin Am- erican relations to war plant re- conversion When the President asked for Wilson's views on world trade, the former General Electric executive replied:
 MT. President, I'm a manufac- turer, not merchandiser.
 The luncheon lasted more than two hours and, after it was over, Wilson didn't know quite what to make of it, because no very import ant problems regarding war produc- tion had been discussed. When he expressed bewilderment to close friends later, they replied:
 Why Charlie, you're just a po- litical neophyte! Don't you know what he was doing? Looking you over to see how you would do as second man on the ticket"
 Embarrassed, Wilson replied People don't seem to know that I'm Republican"
 NOTE Some politicoes figure that the President is now look ing for conservative running mate with Republican background who would swing votes from busi- ness. Undersecretary of State Ed Stettinius is an active bidder fol the job. Some conservative groups also figure that, if they can pick the Vice President, FDR will resign shortly after the war and they will be in the saddle.
 PEARL HARBOR PHONE CALL
 Testimony of EGG Chairman Larry Fly that the Japs had nc secret short-wave radio stations or Hawaii before Pearl Harbor but that, under international law, they could not be stopped from using regular commercial cables and ra- dlo, recalls an important experience of J. Edgar Hoover's alert G-mer in Hawaii.
 They had been carefully watching the Jap Consulate's messages and on the morning before Pearl liar bor, listened in on an 18-minut, telephone conversation with Tokyo which, although full of code words sounded significant.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Or fexIzg H3
 REAL PERSON BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Don't Let Vindictiveness and Hatred Become Chronic

When we plant war, we raise hell"-that in any system of ethics pugnacity gets bad name, and its elimination sometimes seems the only cure.
 Pugnacity. in the general sense of conduct progressively main tained in the face of opposition, cannot be eliminated. and if it could be we should be ruined by its loss. There are evils in this world that must be fought, and when war has been outlawed and its mass murder has become a horrid memory, combativeness will still be necessary to the con- tinuance and advance of human life. The fighting spirit expresses itself not only in unreasoning an- ger and violence, but in competi- tive sports. in hard work, in the brace facing of personal hazards and handicaps, and in the whole range of attack on entrenched social evils. When Martin Luther, having nailed his theses to the church door at Wittenberg, walked into the imperial council hall of Charles V to face the charge of heresy, an old knight touched him on the shoulder with his gauntlet saying, Little monk. you are talk ing a step the like of which neither l nor many 8 commander in our fiercest battles, would take"
 Let person become overfa- tigued until he is nervously ragged, and almost inevitably he becomes the prey of contentious thoughts and feelings. He imagines con- troversies with other people; he magnifies disputes that may be real, or creates out of whole cloth quarrels that have no basis in fact; he makes up angry conversa- tions with those whom he does not like, and writes imaginary letters full of indictment and indignation.
 The reason for this is that a tatigued body craves stimulant, that a fight. real or imagined, calls out the stimulant from the adrenal glands, and that when the tired organism has no actual fight on hand 1t can always make one up.
 If, however. we give this indis- pensable emotional drive gang way, the results are shattering. A chronic hatred or even a cher- ished grudge tears to pieces the one who harbors 1t. "A strong feeling of resentment is just as likely to cause disease as is germ" Jesus admonition, Love your enemies" commonly taken as almost impossibly Ideal. Is, upon the contrary, Indispensable prac- tical psychology. If one is so un- fortunate as to have an enemy, the worst thing one can do. not to the enemy but to oneself, is to let resentment dig in. vindicitiveness get control, and hatred become chronic.
 The only thing that healthily can be done in dealing with an enemy is to rise above such ire and anger into positive good will. This does not involve softness: 1t does not mean that a man should ever become a suplne door-mat for others tp wipe their feet upon:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DoNNELLY

!, equality but also fair economic and educational opportunities, a just share in the public welfare projects, good housing without exploitation. and Q full chance for the social ad- vancement of their race.
 When given their rights in fact as well as in law, they will prize with us their national heritage and not lend ears to agitators whose real ob- jective Is not to improve but to destroy our way of living
 A PRACTICAL APPROACH
 How can we practically approach our obligation? Work" the organ of the Catholic Labor Alliance of Chi cago offers these suggestions.
 We can build a better future by training our children.
 We can all begin now to train our children to be, not little Nazis, but democratic Christian citizens. We can train them in good racial man. ners to respect all people regardless of race or economic status.
 We can give them 6 sensitive ap- prectation of human personality. We can insist that our schools teach courses that tell of the Negros con- tribution to America culture. We can stop using the word mig ger,' "darkie," "coon." Stop telling 'nigger jokes" Little things? Yes But the little things do as much as the big things to wear out the Ne- gro'S nerves.
 We can quietly show dLsapproyal Of segregation. Whenever you have chance of not being segregated, quietly take it-such as sitting by a Negro on bus or street car. or stand ing by Negro in an elevator. A gesture? Yes, but a gracious one. ECONOMIC AND
 CULTURAL AIDS
 Write to your newspaper and sug- gest that photographs of Negros be published; not Negro criminals as often happens, but Negro heroes in the armed forces, Negro artists and scientists, educators and others who have achieved a newsworthy level.
 There are 55,00O Negro college graduates in America. Yet few white people have ever heard an educated Negro speak a word. Negro speak CTS at forums, debates and alumni meetings are very practical aid.
 We can pay equal and just wages to Negro workers. We can equal wages for equal services. We can protest against racial qualifications on employment blanks.
 We can talk to our friends about the economic needs Of the Negroes, their lack of equal opportunity. These and the many other means they suggest are not only practical but they must be recognized as the moral obligations of democratic Christian citizens.
 AT LEAST A BEGINNING The end of segregation, social equality, political equanty-all of these are obJectives that we must have ever in mind. We are fully conscious of the fact that they will be achieved only after long years of effort and education. But the effort, and one far greater than any of the past, must be made. And Catholics who are faithful to the teachings of the Master, who is the God of all the races of man, must be anxious to destroy an evil that SO contra diets the teachings of Christ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

One way or another we must do something with all our native emo- tional drives. Fearfulness, curiosity, relf-regard. sexual desire. pugnacity such emotional urges are an essen- tial part of us. We can eitker be ignobly enslaved by them or master them for the enrichment Of our personality.
 Curiosity is a normal emotional urge. The Peeping Toms, prying gossipS, inquisitive bores, open minded truth-seekers, daring ex- plorers, research scientists are all illustrations of curiosity. Some uses of it produce the most des- picable, while others produce the most admirable persons. but one way or another there is no escap- ing l.. Able neither to expel, neglect, nor with impunity suppress it, we must do something with 1t. good, bad, or indifferent. From this fact, which holds true of all our native drives, a double lesson comes: first, no basic emotional factor in human nature is to be despised; and second. each of them can be ennobled by its use.
 Pugnacity is one of the most deeply rooted emotional drives in human nature. Its i'll effects are so obvious. 1t so ravages the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

Rev. J. D0nmekly The mentality of much of our Negro citizenry has been so charged with long experi- enced discrimination that much of the violence of past months has been but the eruption of pent-up emotions.
 With a consciousness of guilt Catholics in America must admit that while the Catholic effort in behalf of this problem has been wise and good, 1t has been thus far 50 limited in scope that it has counted for little in the mass. Now he seriousness of our effort must De proportionate to the seriousness of the problem. True there has been an official Catholic stand on he one proper and moral attitude ,oward the problem but for too many Catholics and two many Americans the proper stand has 2een too easily clipped of its moral obligations.
 Nevertheless they are obligations. The human race is human fam ly. Men are brothers in the Faith .rhood of God, and love of God i'm plies practical recognition of the eharity due to all the children of God.
 GOLFERS CONIMENDS
 A few weeks ago Golfers Weekly quoted from a statement of the es- sentials of good peace made pub ic by the Administrative Board of he National Catholic Welfare Con- terence. that portion which had to 10 with the treatment of the Negro ace with the comment: we do not see how it could be improved upon or how all of us could do ourselves bigger single favor than to take that statement to heart and strive to put 1t into practice all over the United States
 TTe statement of the Bishops of- cred the following suggestions:
 Tn the Providence of God there ue among us millions of our fellow :itizens of the Negro race.
 We owe 1t to these fellow citiz- ms who have contributed so large y to the development of our coun- ry, and for whose welfare history imposes upon us a special obliga- ion of justice, to see that they nave in fact the rights that are giv- en to them in our Constitution.
 This means not only political
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

Local merchants numbering 1900 have pledged themselves to a quota of Sl,ItO.O00 in the sale of series "E" bonds. Each retailer will feat ure Q colorful placard in the store window upon which will be Q pie ture of former employe now in the armed service. Every bond sold within that store will then be con- Sldered as a tribute to that employe. Plans for participation of the local merchants will be drawn up at a meeting to be held Thursday morn- ing at 10 a. m. at the Connecticut Light and Power Company auditor ium. Owners and store managers are urged to attend or send a qual- flied representative.
 Plans laid out by the Women's division calls for the canvassirg, on their part, of every retail store not centrally located. By this means it Is assured that almost every small merchant and retailer in the city
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

1t does not deny the necessity of coercion in dealing with certain types O. social enemies: but 1t does ct least say, as Lincoln said to c man possessed by vengeful- ness, ''You have more of that feel- ing of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps 1 have too little of 1t; but I never thought 1t paid"
 A woman sought the minister's help or Q comparatively trivial matter, but he discovered a serious nervous disorder, based on 8 hatred of her sister. The woman had suppressed her animosity, min- istering daily to her sister, but for all that a bitter, chronic hatred, &C., culnulating across many years, had increasingly obsessed her. The harm 1t did her sister, who was largely unaware of it, was negligible com pared with the harm it did herself. She explained and justified her an- mostly so as to make it seem ethi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
STEWART CHOSEN
 BY COP. GROUP

The reelection of Hampton stew art as president of the Young Col ored Republican club took piace last night at the annual election meeting held in the rooms of thr Wilson Post, American Legion. Other officers elected at the session were:
 First vice-president, Ernest Bush; second vice-president. Genevieye Williams; secretary, Coriey Har- vey; assistant secretary. Janey Louis: treasurer, Lathey Names.
 A membership drive to enroll many more into the local club was planned last night under the leadership of President Stewart. Coming activi- ties for 1o44 were also considered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

will be contacted.
 Waterbury's bond quota has not yet been announced according to James M. Moran, chairman of the Fourth War Loan Drive. but it has been revealed that the total Con- necticut quota is e426 million of which Se0 million is to be in the purchase of ''E" bonds. A national quota of $l4 billion has been set of which @ billion is to be in the pur- chase of ''E'' bonds.
 About 60 members of the Women's division attended yesterdays meet ing but 1t was announced by Miss Nancy Delaney that at least 20 more volunteers are needed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
ARRANGE TRIBUTES IN BOND CAMPAIGN
Merchants to Honor Em- plOyes Now Serving in
 Armed Forces

The initial campaign of the Women's division of Civilian De- fense for participation in the Fourth War Loan Drive as an auxiliary of the local retail merchants was laid out yesterday at 6 meeting held in the city's aldernanic chambers. with Clyde Jennings, chairman of the merchants division in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
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