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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-17
Edna Ferber Visiting
WaterburyNextMonth

Four prominent authors and writ
ers will appear in Waterbury Feb. IL
at the giant bond rally conducted by
the Book q Author division Of the
Fourth War Loan Drive. S. j. Perel-
man, noted American humorist
famed as one OF the champion ex-
ponents of "screw-ball literature"
will act as master Of ceremonies and
will introduce his fellow travellers
the famed authoress, Edna Ferber,
Christopher LaFarge noted poet, and
Henry Seidel Candy, prominent es-
sayist and lecturer.
Attempts will be made to secure
an original manuscript Of one Of the
famous literary guests which suhse-
quently will be donated to the Bron-
son Library. Admission to the rally
will be through the medium Of a
bond purchase.
Perelman whose humorous and
fantastic writings are currently
found in the New Yorker magazine
and the Saturday Evening Post as
well as other similar outlets, is also
noted as a playwright and musical
comedy collaboration and movie
screnarist. Among some Of his best
known compiled works are 'Parlor,
Bedlam and Bath, Strictly From
Hunger Look Who's Talking, and
Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge"
Miss Ferber is best known for her
many line works that have been
popularized by the movies and stage.
Among her best known efforts are
Show Boat" which became an his
torical musical show; Saratoga
Trunk, one OF the most recent works
which is now being made into a
movie starring Ingrid Bergman;
stage Door, hit play on which she
f(oafia,,ad nv, Dana A.
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BY DONALD @. CoE


Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Jan.
l7-(UP)-Gen. Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson, Allied Commander in Chief
In the Mediterranean, said today
that the European war can be won
In 1914 and limited that his armies
may strike into southern France
when Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower's
British-based forces invade the con-
tinent.
I'VE are reaching the eliminating
decisive period Of the war" Wilson
said, Il have no doubt that he (The
Germans) already feeling strain or
the eastern front. Our objective ;f
10 tighten that strain and intensif,
1t, so that when the weakest liz.
snaps the collapse OF the whole fab
rio will be rapid and thorough"
Intimating that Bulgaria Rlimanls
and Hungary may be the 'weakes
Ink, Wilson said.
The Germans have three very
uneasy Allies IN southeast and CEN
trail Europe. They see their fate and
thau would uIillinnAH "a inkn uazaid-
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new RUSSIAN
PUSH TOWARD
BALTIC seen
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent


Moscow, January II. -
CUP "A new Red Army of
fenSive which had knocked a
10-mile gap in the German
lines less than 70 miles east
of Latvia was reported de-
veloping today with a speed
and scope presaging a full
scale push toward the Baltic
Sea.
Smashing through the
densely forested lake area
north of Novosokolniki, So
Wet Mobile and Armored
Forces cut the trunk railway
south from Leningrad and
now were driving westward
toward the Leningrad Po-
lotSk line, one of the two last
longitudinal supply arteries
below the old capital.
"a German communique reported
that the Russians were attacking
with increasing fierceness" north Of
Lake linen and in the area of Ora
nienbaum, 10 miles west of Lenin-
grad on the Gulf of Finland. Fresh
Soviet formations were thrown into
battle north and northwest Of Newell,
1t said, while to the south, the Red
army mounted an offensive west of
Rechitsa in lower White Russia,
where several penetrations were
sealed OFF,
The new Russian drive north OF
Novosokolniki was coordinated with
Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's campaign
on a broad front from Vitebsk to
Novosokolniki. 1t was designed to
win important German communica-
ton lines and eventually clear the
way for a synchronized push toward
the Baltic.
A Pravda dispatch said hard
pressed German forces above Nov
osokolnlki were fleeing under Rus
sian fire, devastating every village
in their path.
THE straw matched roofs of pea
SAINT huts in this area are blazing
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Allies Annex
Hill $50, Sio
Via Air Drive
BY DON CASWELL
UNITED Press staff Correspondent

Advanced Allied Headquarters
New Guinea, Jan. 17-(UP)-Allied
forces, stepping UP their offensive
captured key Japanese points on
New Britain and New Guinea and
pounded Rabaul, the enemy's main
southwest Pacific base, with crush
ing air attack, 1t was announced to-
day.
U. S. Marines, climaXing bitter
seven-day struggle, seized Hill geo,
vitality strategic point on the Bor-
gen Bay front of western New Brit
ain. Gen. Douglas MacArthurs COM
Eunique said, while Australian
troops, captured Sio, last major Jap
anese base on the Huon Peninsula
of New Guinea,
The Marines, who took Hill $50
Friday against strongly entrenched
Japanese troops, advanced down the
eastern slopes Saturday, to break
the anchor Of the enemy defense
line and open the way for a final
drive on the eneny's Bergen Bay
positions.
AS the Allied ground forces were
scoring their successes, 100 Navy and
Marine torpedo planes, dive bomb
ers and fighters battled their way
into Simpson Harbor at Rabaul, in
daylight and scored direct hits on
seven cargo ships, a light cruiser and
one destroyer.
The American planes, in their
first land-based torpedo and dive
bombing operation against Rabaul
shipping, downed 81 OF approximate
ly 100 intercepting Japanese fight
ers in carrying out one of the bold
est blows yet dealt the japanese
base.
Australians, who had advanced so
miles up the auon Peninsula, cap
tured the Japanese barge center of
Sio Saturday and drove three miles
past the enemy base from which the
Japanese had ben evacuating forces
trapped between the Australians and
the Americans In the Saidor area.
The two Allied forces still were
more than 40 miles apart, but the
Australian advance was speeding up
after meeting no organized jap
anese resistance at Sio.
Two bombers and eight fighters
Of the American force of SO avenger
Torpedo planes and Dauntless dive
bombers and 10 fighters were lost in
the Rabaul raid, with four pilots
saved.
The Japanese threw in outmoded
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7JopCorso
Vessels Hit
BY JAMES LOWERY

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Munda Airfield, New Georgia. Jan.
II. - Cup - Prevented by bad
weather from carrying out original
raiding plans, q force Of 40 Navy
and Marine planes today shifted
its attack to Simpson harbor and
scored direct hits on seven japanese
cargo vessels, Light cruiser and q
destroyer.
The American planes - 50 tore
pedo planes and dive bombers es@
corted by 70 fighters - set cut To
bomb the airfields ringing Rahaul,
major japanese base in the Soukts
west Pacific.
They had passed over Simpson
harbor at Rabaul, despite a battle
with some 80 Zeroes, and decided
to go back and bomb the shipping
when the weather prevented them
from carrying out their original
plans.
AS they returned, an additional
10 fighters intercepted them, with
the Japanese using out-noded
zeros which had not been seen IA
the area for months, attempting 70
drop phosphorus bombs on the
waterraiders.
Diving to within 100 feet Of The
water, through a heavy anti-air~
craft barrage, the torpedo planes
dropped their 2000-pound bombs ana
the dive bombers drop.osd their H.
900 pound bombs with effectiveness.
Two Of the dive bombers bagged 4
Zero each and the fighters account
ed for 20, and probably IL cthezA
Two OF the dive bombers and tar
pedo planes and eight fighters WeI0
lost, but four pilots were saved.
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FBIMoyGive
Lepke to n. 7.

Washington, Jan. II - (UPO -
The Justice Department has offer
ed to surrender Louis Gepke)
Buchalter, convicted leader Of
Murder, Inc, to the State of New
York, the ONCE of Attorney Gen.
eral Francis Biddle announced to-
day.
Buchalter is wanted by New York
State where he Is under death SEN
tence for murder. Governor
Thomas E. Dewey charged that the
attorney general had been circum-
venting justice by retaining him in
federal custody.
Biddle's ONCE said Attorney Gen.
eral Nathan Goldstein, of New
York, had been notified that Buch-
alter Is available whenever New
York authorities come and get him.
Buchalter Is serving a IA years
federal narcotics sentence. He is
now at federal detention headquar-
tiers in New York City.
The procedure for surrendering
Lepke will follow that in the FAM
Gus Gerald Chapman case back in
1925 when the Justice Department
released Chapman, killer. bandit
and prison. breaker, to Connecticut
which executed him for murder.
There will be no presidential
Communication of Buchalter's federal
sentence, Biddle's Office said. He
will simply be given to New York's
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u. S. Output
TotoI Louded
BY JOSEPH LATIN
United Press Staff Correspondent


Washington, Jan. II - (U.PO -
Donald M. Nelson, beginning his
third year as head of the nations
vast armament program, said todAy
that the staggering production rec
ord set by American industry and
labor had established "once ano
for all" the virility Of the system
Of free enterprise.
Nelson, appointed chairman OF
the War Production Board by
President Roosevelt just two years
ago, said the job already done
must be surpassed for the new mil
itary operations soon to come.
THE greatest single task facing
us now is to produce the neces-
sary equipment for the invasion OF
Europe-not just on time, but
ahead of time" he said in an in
terview.
Nelson made clear that never in
his two years as head of the WPB
did he doubt the ability of Amer
lean labor and industry to do the
job assigned them and thereby
meet the challenge of some critics
Of free enterprise system.
1T was never on trial so far as
I was concerned" he said. But
there were some people who had
lost faith in free enterprise. I be-
lieve it has now been redeemed in
their eyes,"
While this is no time to sit back
and relax in the light of a job well
done, Nelson said, the American
people some day will be able to
"look back and gasp at the magni-
tude of the job we have done.
I'VE don't have any idea of what
this country. through teamwork,
has done in the past two years. We
can't get a clear picture of it be-
cause we're too close to 1t. 1t was
the greatest job this nation ever
dreamed of taking on-and it came
through with flying colors."
Nelson said one Of the greatest
single accomplishments after the
period of conversion was develop
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OMAR BRADLEY
WILL COMMAND
INVASION JOB
BY EDWARD w. BEATTTE
Hunted Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD w. BEATTTE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, January II. -
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
today was named a senior
commander of American
ground forces for the invaS-
ion of western Europe, prep
arationS for which were en-
tering the final stage follow
ing the arrival of General
Dwight D. Eisenhower at the
supreme headquarters of the
Allied Expeditionary Force.
The announcement of the
appointment of Bra dley,
United States Army corps
commander in the Tunisian
and Sicilian campaigns,
made clear that he was not
necessarily the chief of all
American Ground Forces, a
position still subject to specu-
lation.
The announcement meant that
Bradley Is the senior OF all other
American field commanders now in
the q. s. Army's European theater
of operations. He long had been
regarded as a likely candidate for
the post of field commander Of all
American forces. But no such APP
pointment had been announced, and
1t was possible that the final de-
cision had not been reached.
The emergence of Bradley as a
ranking commander of the invasion
forces followed by few hours the
disclosure that Eisenhower, the AL
lied generalissimo, had arrived here.
Speculation released by the swift
developments revolved around the
probability that the Allied armies
would open the final assault on Ger
many within three and one-half
months.
Eisenhower held his first press
conference today, frankly discussing
with 30 American and British cor
respondents the problems facing the
Allied command He asked them
to cooperate with him as they did
in the Mediterranean theater to
make the coming invasion total
effort.
Eisenhower, talking against the
backdrop Of a huge wall map OF
Adolf Hitler's fortress Europe"
strobe about the floor of the ONCE
he orce occupied as commander-in-
chief Of Americans in the European
theater.
Throughout his conference It was
apparent that Eisenhower values
above everything the development
of the sort Of teamwork between
the British and Americans for which
his command Of the Mediterranean
was noted.
Eisenhower, fresh from confer
ences with the commanders who will
serve under him, was understood to
be delighted with the talent selected
to carry out his orders.
He had conferred in North Africa
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and In Washington with
President Roosevelt, as well as rank
ing officers already at headquarters
here.
The British Press association said
It learned that Bradley was appoint
ed commander Of the United States
army in the field under Eisenhower
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Army Vet, 20.
Kills Nephew

Cambridge, Mass. Jan. l7-(UP)
Edward Devine. 20, of Cambridge,
a medically discharged army veter-
an Of the North African campaign,
was confined to Boston Psychopath-
ic hospital today after allegedly as
phyxiating his 7-month-old nephew
because could not stand the child's
crying.
Police said the shell-shocked sol
iier held his hand over the mouth
If Joseph F Pizzuto, son Of an army
private who lives In the Devine
louse, until the child died.
Devine was caring for the young
ter yesterday while his mother was
ihopping. The child's father, Jo-
eph, is stationed at Fort Bragg,
Y. @.
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Yanks Bomb Austrian Alps;
9Th One Mile From Casino;
Reds 20 Miles From Latvia
NAz| FIGHTER
PLANEPLANTS
FORTS target
BY C. r. CUNNINGHAM
UNITED Press Staff COrresponden1ll

BY G. r. CUNNINGHAM
UNITED Press Staff Correspondence
Allied Headquarters, AL
giers, January II. - (UP) -
American Flying FortreSsea
struck a devastating blow al
German fighter plane pro-
duction in the Austrian Alps,
a communique disclosed to-
day, as American 5th Army
troops cracked through tha
outer defenses of Casino to
within a mile of that fortress
town straddling the inland
road to Rome.
AS the Americans struck,
French mountain troops
slashed deep into the left
flank of the German line in
an enveloping move that
threatened to rip up the
northern anchor Of the Cas-
Sino defenSes.
The American spearhead. plunge
ing directly into the heart Of th0
Nazis' Gnustav Line, reached the
east bank Of the Rapido River
which flows along the outskirts oE
Casino.
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
In his first press conference since
assuming the Mediterranean coma
mand, asserted that the prime obs
pective Of the Italian campaign II
the capture Of Rome.
''If we get through the Rapido.@
he said, "the terrain becomes more
adaptable to attack"
AS the opposing land armies
braced for the climactic battle for
Casino, powerful Allied raiding fors
nations struck heavily at the Nazia
all along the central Mediterranean
theater.
U. s. Flying Fortresses and Lights
ming fighters swept across the Carr
pathian Alps to batter an impnrtazz6
aircraft parts factory In KlagenfuFk
where the Nazis had been turning
out components for their Messer~
schmitt 100 assembly plants In
Wiener Neustadt and Regensburg.
1t was the first attack Of the war
on Klagenfurst factory and the ape
parently-surprised Nazis were able
to throw only 10 or II fighters into
the air against the raiding forma~
ton, although heavy anti-aircraft
fire was encountered.
Some of the Nad fighters fired
rocket shells at the Fortress formae
tons, but the raiders broke through
to score direct hits on workshops,
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3 Found Dead
In Parked Car

Lexington, Mass, Jan. 17-(UP)-
The frozen bodies Of two brothers
and a girl were found in parked
automobile on a lonely woods road
near here early today after another
girl member of the foursome had
hitch hiked to nearby Cambridge
and directed police to the scene of
their three-day tryst.
Although police said the victims
were frozen to death, there was O
possibility that they died of carbon
monoxide fumes, and Medical EX-
aminer John M. Wilcox Of Woburn
withheld his finding pending fur
the investigation.
Police identified the dead as Miss
Ruth Place, is, James Keefe, "a,
and his brother John, II, all of WAL
than. The sole survivor, Miss Grace
Saunders, Is. was hoSpitalized for
exposure and froStbitten legs after
returning to her Cambridge home
last night and telling her story.
Miss Saunders knew only that the
car containing the bodies Of her
companions was parked on q side
road leading into woods" some
where Off the Concord Turnpike,
and police of Arlington, Belmont
and Lexington searched for hours
before they finally located the
machine. Police were puzzled by the
fact that the trio had remained in
the car, and died, though a 10
minute walk would have brought
them to the nearest house.
Miss Saunders told police she went
to Waltham Thursday to meet her
friend, Miss Place, and that night
they went riding with the two
brothers. After they parked on the
side road, she said, they discovered
the car was out of gasoline.
All Thursday night. through FRI
day and Saturday, they remained in
the car, Miss Saunders, said, but
yesterday she decided to go for aid.
Her companions, she added, APP
peared to be sleeping" when she
departed. She did not explain why
no one attempted to get aid earlier.
Miss Saunders said she walked to
the Concord pike, thumbed ride
to Cambridge, and took a taxicab to
her home, where she was treated by
q physician and then hospitalized.
Sub-freedng weather prevailed
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Fishermen End
2-konth Strike

Boston, Jan. 17.-(UP)-Ten
Srawlers sailed for the fishing banks
today, ending a two-month walkout
of 1900 Boston, New Belford and
New York fishermen which cost
IN estimated 100000 pounds OF
fresh fish.
BY the middle of the week, most
Of the fishing boats viii be In serv-
ce but 1t will be another week be-
fore any sizeable catch viii be
landed In the three ports, accord
ing 10 officials Of the Atlantic Fish
srmen's Union (AFL). Fishermen
voted last week to resume operations
after . dispute over OPA ceiling
nrinaa.
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Reject Poles
Border Setup
BY JOHN A. PARIS
United Press Staff Correspondent

NOnltcu EEeSS SbdIL OOrTcSpOuuentJ
London, Jan. 17.-CUP)-RuEsia
toady bluntly rejected the Polish ex-
lie governments proposal they ne
gotiate new common border and
limited that only the establishment
of a new Polish government can
bring solution of the crisis.
The Russian reply took British
quarters by surprise and a Polish
spokesman, recalling that the exile
government had suggested the two
western Allies as mediators, said 1t
was slap in the face, not only to
Poland, but to America and Bril-
tain.
THE statement does not seem to
indicate much understanding be-
tween the bly, there at Teheran,
the Polish spokesman said. 1T in
dictates, rather, that the Russian
want to produce a Polish govern
metn Of their own. The statement
leaves the Polish government with
out course of action"
Russia on January suggested
the Curzon Line of 1919 as its
western frontier and the exile gov
eminent replied last Friday with an
announcement that it was asking
the United States and Britain to
arrange for Soviet-Polish discus
Sions, with British and American
participation. of "all outstanding
questions" between the two coun-
tries.
The Russian statement. distribut-
ed early today by the official TaSs
agency, said the Polish declaration
completely avoided and ignored"
the question OF the Curzon Line
and therefore lit cannot be con-
sidered otherwise than a rejection
of the Curzon Line. Establish
ment of the Curzon Line as a post
war frontier would result in Russia
giving up more than 1000 Of the
77,700 square miles occupied by
the Red army in September 1889.
las the proposal OF the Polish
government Oh the opening Of or
fetal negotiations between 1t and
the Soviet government, the Soviet
government believes this proposal
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Thief Leaves
Name, Address

Boston, Jan. IL (UP)-At a
Jamaica Plain wedding reception, a
thief took a $3.50 leopard skin coat
belonging to Mrs. Hiram Harlan OF
Quincy and her husbands $50
camel hair coat. but thoughtfully
left his own $40 jacket containing
his name and address. Police today
recovered the two coats as well as
the Jackets owner.
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Jones Income Tax Course. Glass
starts Wednesday Evening, Jan. 10.
Post Junior College Of Commerce.
Rhnna A-6zz2.
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Laurel outlook., 1944-02-09
The OUTLOOK SAYS:

Mrs. r. F. Lamb was a guest
when Mrs. O. c. Jordahl entertain
ed her bridge club Wednesday eve
ming of last week. Mrs. Robert
Fry was the winner of high score
award and Mrs. W. p. Sexton wOn
second.
Rev. M. j. Wilcox of the Laurel
Methodist church will attend a meet
ing of the Summer Institute COM
mission of the state at Great Falls,
Saturday. The commission makes
all plans for dates, faculty MEM
bers, courses and policies for the
three summer institutes held dur
ing July. Rev. Mr.. Wilcox is as
sistant dean of the three institutes.
Entertaining for her five hun
dred club, Mrs. Jack Romeo was
hostess Thursday evening. Mrs. F.
n. Barney received the high score
prize, Mrs. j. o. Speare, second and
Mrs. c. f. Rodgers, the travel prize.
Mrs. Ira Rodgers was a guest of
the club.
Laurel outlook., 1944-02-09
LaureT's Own Store Since 1908

day evening Mr.. Wilcox was guest
speaker of the Fromberg, Edgar
and Bridger Methodist mems meet
ing, which was followed by a service
for the officers of the newly formed
Methodist Youth Fellowship group,
comprising youth from the Edgar
and Fromberg churches. The eve
ming closed with recreation and re-
freshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Larson were
hosts at bridge Saturday evening.
High score award for the women
went to Mrs. C. A. Duncan and
Russell Barr who won high for the
men. The consolation prize went
to Mrs. r. G.. Fuller.
Laurel outlook., 1944-02-09
CALENDAR
looming Events.

Friday, Feb. IL.
The meeting of the Theta Rho
Girls club has been called for 6
o'clock at the l.. l.. club. After
the basketball games, the girls and
their sponsors will entertain at
student dancing at the hall.
The Episcopal guild will meet in
the evening with Mrs. o. C. Jor-
dahl.
Saturday, Feb. IL.
The Theta Rios will sponsor n
food sale, beginning at 10 o'clock
at the Barney & Hartley market.
Sunday, Feb. 10.
Episcopal communion will be con-
Quoted by Rev. Henry L.. Evan at
5 o'clock at Our Savior's Lutheran
church.
Monday, Feb. IA.
A 2 o'clock dessert luncheon will
Laurel outlook., 1944-02-09

Workers are notified that the
Red Cross room will not be open
Wednesday evenings until further
notice.
Workers in the surgical dressing
room with most number of hours
for January are Mrs. Mary Horn
inc with 80 hours, first; Mrs. May
Buford with 271a hours, second;
Mrs. H. T. Smart with "a hours,
third.