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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-19
Price Control
Asked Held

Washington, April 10 - (UP) :
Senate and House Banking Commit
tees moved today toward the final
stages Of exhaustive hearings on
legislation for extension of the
Price Control Act.
In the Senate, President William
Green Of the American Federation
Of Labor and Representatives Of AFL
affiliateS told the banking commit
tee that the act should be extended
without Gripping amendments that
might hamper an OPA in its battle
against imitation.
In the House Rep. Thomas e.
Scanlon, D., Pa, headed an informal
group of House members meeting
with several hundred representa-
tiveS of farm groups. labor, white
collar workers, veterans, churches
and women's organizations to urge
continuation Of the present pro-
gram.
Scanlon said the delegates be-
lieve THAT the people are over
whelmingly behind the presidents
homefront sterilization program,
and we want to give them a chance
to make themselves heard"
Also on the House side, War Food
Administrator. Marvin Jones ap-
peared before the House Banking
and Currency Committee to urge
renewal of the Price Control Act.
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KeIIems Still
Fiqhts Back

Washington, April 19-(UP)-Th0
senate post Office committee Will
meet Friday to consider whether to
investigate how letters written by
Vivien Kellems, Connecticut manus
facturer, got into the hands Of q
congressman and a news and radio
commentator.
Chairman Kenneth Mcclellan, p.s
Tenn, called the meeting after an
inquiry was demanded by Sen.
Clyde, r., Kan, and endorsed by
Censorship director Byron Price.
Price said he was more con.
cerned than any senate COMMITTEES"
to find out who was "faithles9
enough" to violate censorShip'S
strict rules prohibiting the RELEASE
of censored letters.
Reed said the committee would
discuss this whole thing" at Fris
days meeting and then decide
what it will do about it."
The letters IN question linked Miss
Kellems to a German agent in Ar
gentina. Excerpts were READ m tAe
house by Rep. John M. Coffee, d.
Wash, and broadcast By cCmmeAe
tator Drew Pearson.
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Berlin Soys
Rome Open

London, April 10 -(UP)- The
German DNB News agency, in a
broadcast from Berlin, said today
that the German government had
completely demilitarized Rome and
added there was no need for the
British American air attacks on the
city.
The statement was a reply to
Prime Minister canon De Valera Of
Fire, who had expressed concern
over the possible destruction OF
Rome.
DNB, claiming that the demilitar-
ization was accomplished through
measures adopted a long time ago
by the Nazis, said that If the Allied
attitude toward Rome Is not
changed, the British and American
high commands would be fully re-
sponsible In case the German COM
mand has cause to revise its plans
for military reasons.
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Cops Seek
Matt Copone

Chicago, April 19.-(UP)-Matt
Capone, 35-year old brother of
"Scarface AL" and Walter Sanders,
As, a bartender employed at his Ci-
cero tavern were sought by police
today after the murder of an old
time Capone mobster was traced to
tibet avern owned by the good boy"
of the family of infamous sons.
James Larkin, 81, former race
horse owner, trainer, tout, gambling
house employee and member of the
Capone prohibition era gang, was
found with bullet hole between
his eyes in dark alley on the west
side early yesterday.
Police traced the murder to Ca
PONIES '"House of Fame" tavern,
where bullet holes were found on
a wall and shots had broken win
dow. One part of the floor had been
freshly scrubbed and officers said
a blood stain apparently had been
removed.
Two persons, who said they were
in the tavern last night at the
time of the shooting, Jerry Bren-
nan, 81, and his 18-year old wife,
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MORE ALLIED
TROOPS SHOT
YOWN GUNS

Washing on, April 10. =
CUP - Drew Pearson,
newspaper columnist, report
ed today that Allied naval
gunners shot down 81 U. S.
troop-carrying planes carry
ing nearly 400 soldiers over
Sicily last August IA, only
three days after a similar in
cident when % transport
planes were shot down by
friendly gunners with a loss
of more than 400 men.
The War Department de-
clined immediate comment
on this second incident. The
first incident was confirmed
officially after it was revealed
by a returned Army combat
Correspondent in a speech
at San Francisco.
Pearson said in his washington
Merry Go-Round" column that the
planes shot down Aug. IA were in
a formation bearing paratroopers to
aid the British operations at Cat
ania. He said that whereas enemy
guns probably accounted for some
of the craft destroyed Aug. II, the
second group were shot down by
naval gunners-probably combi-
nation of U. S. and British ships.
Declaring no steps have been
taken in the intervening eight
months to provide anything but Or
binary transport planes to carry
paratroopers in the forthcoming
western European invasion. he said:
1.-THE inside story of what hap
pened over Sicily and the failures
since is set forth here only with
the hope that it may still move the
high command to side with the
younger officers who have fought a
losing battle to give better protec-
ton to paratroop-carrying trans
ports"
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Snub To
Head
BY r. H. SHACKFORD
lited Press Staff COrreSnOndentl

UNITED Press Stair Correspondent
Washington, April 10. = CUP -
The United States is not expected
to make any change in its policy to-
ward the battling factions within
Yugoslavia - at least until the Brit
ish change their mind-deSpite a
new plea from General Draja Mi
khailovitch.
Mikhailovitch, rejected by London
as an un1mportant military force in
Yugoslavia, now is by-passing the
British and appealing directly to the
United States for modification of
the British policy which has cut
him from Allied supplies.
The most the United States could
be expected to do, If convinced that
Mikhailovitch's forces effectively
are fighting the Axis, would be to
suggest that the British review their
policy.
That policy was stated firmly by
Prime Minister winston Churchill
in February when he said that the
military supplies that could be
spared and shipped to Yugoslavia
were gong to the forces dong the
most fighting against the Germans.
Those forces, he sad, were those led
by Marshall Josip (Tito Broz.
The United States policy never
has been SO clearly defined. But
authoritative sources have revealed
that this country considers the Yu-
goslavian problem a British one,
and that the United States will con-
tinue to follow it under present cir
cumstanceS. The most specific
declaration on Yugoslavia was made
last week by Assistant Secretary OF
State Breckenridge Long who said,
I'VE are cooperating in furnishing
arms and supplies to all Yugoslavs
who are fighting the Germans"
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VOTER TOLL
IN WATERBURY
MAY Be Low

Estimates as to the num-
Der of Democratic electors in
the city's 10th senatorial dis
trict who will go to the polls
today between 1870 p. m. and
8 p. m. range from 2,100 to
1900 out of the total of 5000
voters listed in that district
on the Democratic primary
list. Two years ago a similar
contest in which both pres
ent candidates Patrick ].
Wallace and Senator John F.
Tobin opposed each other a
total of 2,434 votes was cast.
Senator Tobin won at the
time by a majority of 426.
Supporters of both candidates
have worked diligently throughout
the campaign Of the past week or
more and both camps today ex-
pressed confidence as to the out
come. Mr.. Wallace has received
the endorsement and active support
Of the administration and the Demo-
ocratic party while Senator Tobin
has received the support of promin-
ent residents of the 10Th district.
In the cases Of both supporters
much contact and field work has
been engaged in, particularly on
the part of the party forces in
support Of Mr.. Wallace who have
INDUCED in an concerted effort to
bring victory to their candidate.
Two years ago when the latter was
defeated blame. was placed princi-
pally on the fact that the candi-
date did not announce his plan to
run until the last few days before
the primary.
The general belief today was that
a heavier vote than that of two
years ago would be forthcoming
which experts" on both sides de-
clare would favor Wallace, who
would be more inclined to pick up
votes on such a basis, particularly
if these added voters were former
ones who failed to cast vote in
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Old Captain
Gets Surprise

New York, April 10 - CUP - A
fishing boat captain who said he
believed prosecutions under the pro-
hibition act were suspended after
repeal was held today to await a
federal court decision on whether
he must serve a Jail sentence for
landing 2,760 sacks of champagne
and rye on Long Island in $50.
Moyle G. Randall of Nova Scotia
was sentenced to 20 months in jail
and in 1882 a circuit court of APP
peals affirmed the conviction. Free
in $4,000 bail, Randall returned to
Nova Scotia.
Taken into custody In Gloucester,
Mass, Friday, Randall asked fed
eral Judge Grover NJ. Moscowitz
yesterday to suspend sentence. He
said he did not know of the cir
cult court ruling and said he believ-
ed prohibition prosecutions were
suspended with repeal Of the act.
Moscowitz reserved decision until
April Is.
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May
TAKE STRIKE
BREAK STEP

Army intervention ap-
peared imminent this morn
ing as a deadlock continued
in the strike of drivers of
nine New England trucking
companies, including two
Waterbury concerns, which
has tied up vast amounts of
critical war materials.
Army and Navy "trouble
shooters" who attended a
meeting of operators in
Hartford last night were re-
ported to have stated that
they intended to get the
goods moving at all costs,
including the furnishing of
armed guards if need be.
H. j. Koran, Vice Present of the
Grove & Co. in Waterbury, said he
intended to drive truck himself
today to return some Of the vital
goods which are stranded in the To-
cal terminal to the shippers, so that
they could make other arrange
ments for transferring them to their
destinations.
Among the goods awaiting ship
ment here are parts for aeroplanes
and landing barges, top priority
war goods.
Mr.. Koran said a shipment OF
badly needed roller bearings got
moving yesterday when the Federal
Bearings Co. in Poughkeepsie, fol
whom they were destined, sent their
own truck for them. Meanwhile, the
local offices have been swamped
with calls from other war factories.
The Transport Division, New Eng
land Conference Of Transfers, AL
was to meet at Worcester, Mass,
during the day to go over the situa-
ton. 1t was understood the confer
ence would comply with an army
order to cancel the strike, provided
the WLB would compel the opera
tors to obey its wage directive, fail
ure to comply with which provoked
the walkout.
The union was reported to have
indicated their willingness to move
government freight under army or
der. However, Mr.. Koran, Spokes-
man for the operators, said the
union seemed to consider as gov
eminent freight, only that with a
government bill of lading, whereas
much war material was not so
shipped. He said there had been no
movement of goods by the men In
any of the struck companies.
Comment was still unavailable
from Timothy Collins. secretary
treasurer of the AFL Transfers To-
cal 677 or Raymond Gallagher, the
locals business agent.
The situation was reported worse
in Bridgeport, where, Mr.. Koran
said, Army and Navy officials spent
several hours yesterday in a vain
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Reds HitAt
Sevostop pol
By M. s. HANDLER

United PreSS starr correspondent
Moscow, April 19-(UP)-Soviet
tanks and infantry stormed Sevas-
topol from the southeast today after
turning the main Axis defense lines
to the north in brilliant thanking
drive that promised early liberation
of the big Black Sea naval base.
Not a single natural obstacle re-
manned in the path Of Gen. Andrei
Yeremenkos maritime army as it
swept over the back door" plain
toward burning Sevastopol after
capturing the coastal stronghold of
Balaklava and driving on to within
five miles OF the Crimean base yes
terday.
The fall of Sevastopol to the Ger
mans at the end of a 250-day siege
in 1912 followed by only "a hours
that of Balaklava, and Yeremenko's
forces were advancing over the
same highway and inter urban
tramline that the then victorious
enemy followed.
The maritime arrny's capture of
Balaklava, scene of the immortal
Charge of the Light Brigade in the
Crimean war of 1854, turned tn
enemy's principal defenses alor
the Belbek and Chernaya rivers
Sevastopols eastern and northeas
ern suburbs, where Gen. Feodor
Tolbukhin's 4tll Ukrainian army h
been stalled since the weekend.
Faced with the new and ey
more potent threat from the Soutl
east, the Germans and Romanial
were expected to draw off men fror
the Belbek and Chernaya lines, pay
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Britain Puts Further Ban
On All Fire Movements
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press Staff Correspondent
London, April b. (UPy Three
further precautionary steps, includ-
ing the suspension Of steamer serv-
ice between Cork and Britain, to
clear the way for the opening of a
Western front were reported today
amid growing signs of German jit-
tiers over the possible imminence Of
invasion.
The British and Irish steam packet
and Clyde shipping companies in
formed shippers that service be-
tween Britain and Cork in Southern
Fire had been cancelled until furth-
er notice, leaving skeleton tGrvice
from Dublin Fires only link with
the mother country.
The move, like the curb on all
kinds of travel between the two
countries and the suspension of air
service, had the objective of pre-
venting the leakage of information
regarding western front prepara-
lions to the Axis. Germany and
Japan both maintain diplomatic
stats in neutral Fire.
Britain followed up its ban on
foreign diplomats travel and code
communications with an announce
ment that defense regulations had
been amended to permit the govern
ment to treat diplomats and their
households as ordinary aliens "if the
need should arise"
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Nazi Shock Troops
Beaten Back At
Anzio Beachhead
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press War Correspondent

BY REYNOLDS fAChAhD
UNITED Press War Correspondent
Allied H e a dquarterS s,
Naples, April 10. = (UP) =
German shock troops at
tackled the west flarg of the
Anzio beachhead yesterday,
but were beaten back with
heavy losses in a series of as
saults on a narrow sector OF
he.Allied front, a communi-
que disclosed today.
Sporadic fighting flared along the
beachhead front throughout the
day, rising to its highest pitch
shortly before dusk when the Nazls
launched two relatively strong at
tacks against an Allied forward po-
sition 2 1-2 miles southwest OF
Aprilia.
The Germans, apparently crying
to force a breakthrough down the
Aprilia- Anzio highway, opened their
assault with two diversionary
thruSts early Tuesday. Allied rifle
men broke up the enemy forma-
tons in short order.
At $50 p. M, the Nazi troopers
came on again, striking this time
in company strength - possibly 200
to 300 men-only to be swept back
by rifle, machine gun, mortar and
shell fire.
An hour later, the enemy attempt
ed second strong attack, but the
Allied Infantrymen held their
ground and forced the NaIs to
break off the action.
The Allied communique said
enemy losses in the four attacks
were "heavy."
Allied and German patrols and
artillery were active on other sec
tors of the beachhead as well as on
the main 5th Army front further
south and on the British 9Th Army's
Adriatic line, but there were no
important changes in position. One
aAllied artillery barrage on the
beachhead exploded an enemy am
munition dump.
Bad weather and poor visibility
curtsiled all major aerial activity
yesterday, but Allied fighters and
fighter-bombers in force again at
tackled Nazi railroad lines above
Rome and airf1elds in northern
Italy. :.
Low-flying attack planes raked
bridges in the Arezzo area, 38 miles
south of Florence, and at Narni,
eight miles west of TERM, and
bombed and machine-gunned enemy
targets along the main f1fhtihg
fronts.
Other Allied fighters swept enemy
airf1elds around Udine, go miles
northeast Of Venice.
Nine enemy airplanes were shot
down in combat and the Allied Air
Forces flying almost 1000 Sorties
last eight planes.
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Bishop
Dedicated
(Navy photo from NEA)

Washington, April 19.-(UP)-The
Rev. Angus Dun was consecrated as
Episcopal bishop of Washington to-
day in a colorful, two-hour cere-
mony during which high church
spokesman called for "A world fam
lily of nations" to maintain peace
and order after the war.
The conservation ceremony, the
most impressive religious pageant
of the Episcopal church here in q
quarter of century, was held in
the mammoth but still unfinished
Cathedral of st. Peter and st. Paul
(national cathedraD over which Dun
will preside and which he may
see completed during his incum-
bency.
Nearly SO members of the house
of bishops of the American branch
of the Anglican church partici-
pated in the ceremony. Among the
distinguished visitors from overseas
was the Most Rev. and Right Hon.
Cyril Forster Garbett, archbishop
of York and primate of England
Some 1000 persons attended the con-
secration.
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Zone 1t By.Lond
And Two By Sea"

Boston, April 19-(UP)-Paul Re-
vere'S lanterns-"One If by land and
two If by sea"-again have CLAIMED
from the belfry of old North
Church, hung there by 6-year-old
descendant of the famed equestrian
patriot.
In Patriots Day eve celebra-
ton, Nancy Pettis of Stoneham car
ried the laterns into the Belly last
night and hung them in the. same
position as did Robert Newman 16o
years ago signaling Revere to start
his famous ride to Lexington to
warn farmers of the approach OF
the British.
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BY PHIL AULT
UNITED Press War COrrespOndentH

(Unlte0 freSS war corresponding
London, April 19.-UPO.
- American bomberS and
fighters nearly 1000 strong
capped a pre-invasion parade
of 5000 Allied warplaneS
over Adolf Hitler's European
fortress within "a hours with
a six-pronged assault today
on Nazi air force lairS deep in1
Germany. \
For the second straight day up
to 1000 flying fortresses and Lbers
ators thanked by fighters in like
strength smashed at Germany q few
hours after 1000 British bomberS
dashed the continent from burning
Berlin to the French coast.
Again, as in yesterdays assaults
on Berlin, the United States aerial !
fleet battled through interceptingS
German fighter SquadronS to drive
home the heavy blows on aircraft
factories at Kassel and five plane
parking grounds to the southeast
and northwest.
Strong formations Of American
and British light and mediumi
bombers joined in the daylight att ,
tack, peppering bombs and bullets
on transport and other targets be-
hind the invasion coast which the
Royal air force hit in one of the
heaviest night assaults of the war.
Authoritative sources, estimating
that 5000 planes had been over
Europe in "a hours, SHE'D away from
statistics on the weight of bombs
they dropped. Unofficially the ton-
mage appeared to be around $500.
The Raj carried more than 4,O00
tons in previous bombardment
comparable to that of last night.
The list of American targets to-
day reflected the possibility that 1t.
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was shifting
the pre-invasion bombardment to
the storage sites Of the German ain
force. Among them were some Of
the biggest known NaI pools where
new and repaired fighters are as>
sembled before operational assignp
ments.
All of the targets lay in belt
roughly 275 miles behind the coast
of the low countries.
Three waves Of United States
bombers which flew over Eschweges
three miles outside Kassel, reported
that German Messerschmitts and
black-painted night fighters tried to
intercept them.
IT saw between 100 and $50 fight.
ers," Staff Sgt. Paul C. Bara OF
Newcastle, Pa, a fortress tail gun.
ner, said. "They attacked us in
the target area, coming in IL at
a time. After they attacked. they |
peeled off and made a circle as ID
to come back again, but our Mus
tangs were down on them before
they had chance, and they ran
away" /
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Bombs Hit Hospitals But
And Doctors Work On
BY JAMES c. McGLINCY
United Press War Correspondent

united FreSS war correspondent
London, April 49, CUP -Four
Ca-Ro9n heavy explosive bombs fell
into the male ward of a large NUM-
cipal hospital during the German
air raid on London early today,
burying patients under debris, SOW
ing fires among the ruined CORR
doris but failing to halt an operation
in shattered operating room.
Everything seemed to collapse on
u.s." a nurse told me. "F'ires sprang
up everywhere. Some of the patients
got up and walked out. Others were
pinned under rafters and had to be
helped. One 15-year-old boy who
had been recovering from meningi-
It's was trapped and we couldn't get
him out"
Casualties were described as Sur
prisingly low because nurses and
patients were cool and assisted one
another. Nurses told me how brave
ly the patients had gathered up
their blankets and helped one an
other to safety, how rheumatic pa
tients and men suffering heart all
ments had picked up children and
carried them out, how one old man
stopped to empty his seltzer syphon
at the flames licking through the
wreckage near him.
The patients likewise spoke Of the
bravery of the nurses-"great girls. ;"
In the operating room a grim
drama was enacted at the height Of
the air raid. Doctors were perform
ing delicate surgery upon a mans
stomach while the sirens walled out
side and the German bombers
droned overhead.
Suddenly explosions rocked the
operating theater. The glass win
dows crashed In and splinters flew
across the operating theater.
The surgeon never paused, only
fastened his pace scalpel
sutures, cause. His assistants quick
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Republican Committee
Plans June Convention

pointed out that the choice need
not necessarily be limited to a con-
vention delegate.
The convention will be conducted
under the rules of the national
House Of Representatives which
will permit it to go outside its own
membership to select a speaker.
Harrison E. Spangler, national
chairman, still remained silent on
his choice for keynoter and tempor-
airy chairman and insisted that the
field was wide open"
Rep. Glare Boothe Luce, Conn.,
practically was ruled out as q pos
sible keynoter by the possibility
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senator
Takes Stand

Washington, April 19.-CUP)-
Sen. Allen j. Ellender, 3D., La.,)
preparing to join southern colleagues
in a f1libuster, promised today to
give the senate an education" on
the history of suffrage when the
administration brings up its bill to
outlaw poll taxes.
Although Louisiana is not one of
the eight southern states which
assess poll tax, as prerequisite
to voting, Ellender Joined other
southern senators in their plan to
filibuster the administration meas
ure.
Before the debate Is over Ellen
der said, 1.-THE senate will have
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