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Denies Reds otCruiser

Washington, May 24-(Up)--Whita House Secretary Stephen q. Eaflys although not directly confirming 1ho reported transfer of one or mora .. S. warslaipg to Russia, said today that the statement of Sen. Ntgle2 Bridges, R., N. H., about the repQE8 constituted an evasion Of ceneoEsIiI2 restrictions regarding military h. formation.
 Tt is 6 development of the etate~ ment the president gave you 6nEaa time ago, in any event." Early eaid.
 That vas . reference tQ e p7ese conference statement by REeslaEn4 Roosevelt . few months ago that h6 had been exchanging messages #llH Soviet Premier Josef Staliu EeEeEf ing q plan to transfeF f0 the Nsfs= sian navy for war usage roughly one-third Of the surrendered xtaiIN8 fleet or its equivalent in Allied teas mage.
 Bridges. discussing the txauaEez s7inlars in the Senate Vaasag&AX said the Congress and the ne&D4 were aentitled ko knoW the xs9s and he called on the adlnluiEssa z
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Yonks Extend Brid geheod Across Tor
BY DON CASWELL

United Press War CorrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, May "A. - (UP) - Ameri- can troops have reinforced and ex- tended their bridgehead across the Tor river on the Dutch New Guinea mainland, after crossing the river under vigorous Japanese mortar and machinegun resistance, a spokesman for General Douglas Macarthur announced today.
 The Americans apparently were driving for the Maffin Airdrome southwest of Sarmi and about five miles west of the Tor.
 Sarmi is about 20 miles west of the Wakde Islands, where American troops took over the airstrip on In- soemoar Island, after killing 833 Japanese.
 A third air base is the Sawar air. field, about three miles southwest of Sarmi.
 Completion of the conquest of all three would provide air bases for the drive to recapture the Philip pines, MacArthur's announced ob- jective. The Philippines lie l.025 air miles from the newly captured Wakde airstrip, which was put into operation Sunday.
 American Liberator bombers dumped l50 tons of explosives Mon- day on Japanese-held Biak Islands two airdromes, destroying a fuel dump and leaving heavy clouds of smoke over large areas, the regular communique said.
 It was the llth straight attack on Biak. in Geelvink Bay. 470 miles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Denmark Coup Feared
BY ,. ExaWARD MURRAY

United Press Staff correspondent
 London, May 24-(UP)-Reports from StockhoJzs said today that Germany. convinced that the Allies will attempt a landing in Denmark. have divided Jutland and the islands of Fyn into four invasion admin istrative zones."
 Other Nazi preparations to meet what the German command appar- ently believes is an imminent at- tack included the destruction of two villages in lengthening the runways for an airfield on the east coast of Jutland. Stockholm dispatches said.
 GA German army announcement reported to the office of war in- formation said Nazi military auth critics have established control over all traffic crossing the bridges over the Oddesund, the Agersund and 6torstroms Bay in Denmark. Ciyii- ian traffic was prohibited at night and all goods will be searched by day, the announcement saidl
 The Germans have sent frequent reconnaissance planes over the Scot- tigh coasts in quest of signs of any Allied preparations for a thrust across the North Sea to Denmark, which offers one Of the shortest in-
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Good News
 ForAutoists
By kULALEE MeD0WEf.L

Limited Press sfaN CeFFeepenaent)
 Washington, May 2t luPl-There will in all likelihood be new tires for everybody next year. and "B" gasoline ratl0ns may possibly be ln- creased in the east and in the mld- west sometime after July 1 Of this year, it was learned today.
 It also was expected that ration ing Of new synthetic rubber tires to "A" motorists would get under way during the last three months of this year.
 The information came from Charles P. Phillips. new office cf price Naturalization Fatloning chief, and from authoritative Der director.
 Phlllips said new tiren would be
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
ExpIoins Leok In KeIIenas Neil

Washington. May 24-(UPl-The office of censorship intercepted let- ters from Miss Vlvlen Kellems, Con- nectieut Manufacturer, to Count FFedeFlck Von Zedlitz, German in. dustFlal representative in Argen- tina, and gave copies of them t0 six war agencies because edits he'd been listed as a Mazi agent. aeeogd- ing to Censorship Director Byron Price.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
RoiIw0y Men Set
 Retroactive Bonus

Boston, May 2l -. (uP)-A slide ing -scale bonus payment totaling about es5O,OOO retroactive to July i043 and which will become a perm anent wage increase after the war. soon will be paid with War Labor Board approval to 5000 Boston Ele- vated Railway employees.
 The plan for payment was sub- nitted by the Railways manage ment and the Amalgagnated Asso- ciation Of Street and Electric Rall. way Employes of America lAfL) and was based on q sliding scale de- termined by the company's month"; ly revenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Jops Pushed From Bases
BY WALTER LOGAN

Limited Press War Correspondent
 Southeast Asia Headquarters, Randy. Ceylon, May 2a-lUP)- Chinese infantrymen have cleared the Japanese from the railway and road junction on the western edge of Myitkyine, a communique said today. as bloody fighting ragged through the cityis barTieaded streets for the sixth straight day.
 The eOmmunique revealed that the eoFnefed Japanese were e0un- teF-attaeking repeatedly from Myit- ktna's western and southern out- skirts in . desperate attempt to break out of the tightening Allied trap.
 Chinese units beat the enemy steadily back into the city, hows ever, despite toFrentiaI rains that hempered their aerial support and slowed eli ground operations.
 No important changes were re- ported tn the opposing positions in- side the enemy stronghold, where the Japanese dug in behind log bar Ficades for a battle to the death. Allied forces last were reported holding about one third Of the city, and pushing the enemy slowly back toward the lFFawaddy river, which flows along the eastern edge ef Myilkyina.
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Nozis Build 
BY ROBERT DOWSON

 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, May 24-UP)-Germany, plagued by mounting chaos in her railway network, was reported to have warned that Allied airmen shot down while attacking trains and other communication hence- forth will be placed on trial before her infamous Peoples Courts.
 The Nazi warning was broadcast by a German radio station. the Stockholm newspaper Syenska Dag- bladet said. However, the broad- cast was not reported by any other source.
 The purported broadcast followed recent intensification of American and British air attacks on railway centers and military trains through out France. Belgium and western
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" WANHAR1 Gs WWAA A"1&VE (Unlted Press Stan coFFespondentl
 Washington, May 24- (UP) - Chief Justice Harlan FiEke Stone. n, only Supreme Court Justice now eligible to retire, was expected to. day to stay on the job at least an- other year despite reports to the contrary.
 The approaching end Of the courts current term - scheduled tentatively for next Monday - brought on recuFTent reports that stone, originally appointed to the tribunal by President Calvin CoolldRe in 1928. planned to retire. But the heat available opinion, iEr ciuding thaI ol some ak h'a ealr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
RY JOHN .. CUTTER

Washington, May 2l. (UP)-sen. Walter y. George, D., Ga, chairman 0f the senate finance committee and the special postwar planning committee contemplated today the possibility of . % per cent tax reduction for individuals and cor- porati0ns in the postwar period.
 George, in an interview, aald the reduction depended to . large ex. tent on the elze og the federal budget after the immediate var eosta have been a6inalea.
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Atty. Riddle Admits Point
BY EDWARD c. EIsENHART United Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD q. EASENHAACT
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, May 24-(UP)-At- torney general Francis Riddle con- ceded today that "there is room for disagreement on the legal aspects" of the governments seizure of Mont gomery Ward and Company's Chi- cago properties last month.
 But" he told a House committee investigating the case, mo attorney general in advising the President can do more than interpret the law as he sees it, trusting to the courts to correct him if he is wrong and to Congress to make any changes in the law which 1t deems wise"
 Riddle, third witness before the committee, emphasized that he be. Iieyed he was right in telling Presi-
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Chief Justice Stone, 71, Not Expected To Retire

leagues, was that the reports were unf0unded,
 Stones friends expected him to continue in the nations No. 1 judl- clal post as long as he remains suf- felently active to carry out the arduous duties.
 To show that he still was in working trim, they pointed out that in addition to performing the ad- minlstYative duties attached to the chief iustieeship, he has delivered i3 formal majority opinions thus fer lhis aeaal0n-~only Eix less than the mott pgollfe e his colleagues, gugtlce william o. Douglas gho
 
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Sen. George Niet0s 40 Per
 Cent Post-War Tax Cut

ought 70 be abIe 70 reduce EAo faR burden by about % per cent" George said.
 re estimated that Q e20lOo0. CO., OO0 annual budget would allow eB,- 600, GOO 900 for carrying charges on the national debt, e5e00 ,oe1 eco fes current expenseas ess0Do. .0eo 600 for such wnr-Telated items as veterans bensits and ea.k0ol lo000Q0 sor pub- iie works.
 George said he did not eugleage such budget reductions. hcwePeR, untii a full gear after the eN6 ~ tho war.
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Churchill Gives Commons
 His Post War Program To Prevent Future Conflicts
BY JOsEPH w. GRIGG

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 London, May 24. = (UP) - Prime Minister Churchill warned today that the Allies will accept only uncondi- tional surrender from Ger many and Japan and called for a new postwar world or ganization - with United States participation armed with overwhelming military power" to prevent future aggression.
 Churchill reviewed the world situ- ation in an 85-minute speech before 8 crowded Commons virtually on the eve of the greatest air and sea-borne invasion the world ever has known, but he avoided all mention of the coming assault.
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coast to the Alps today, cIimaxed by an all-Ameri- can triple blow at Berlin and the suburbs of Paris and Vienna.
 London, May "A. = (UP) = About 5000 Allied war planes blazed a trail of ruin across Axis Europe from the Channel coast to the Aus trian Alps today, spearhead- ed by two big American air fleets that blasted Berlin and Paris from the west and the suburbs of Vienna from the south.
 In the most widespread American daylight attack of the war, some $500 heavy bombers and fighters from the U. S. 9th, 9th and 18th Air Forces smashed at the three vital Axis nerve centers, while about 1,500 other Allied planes swarmed over the French invasion coast.
 The British-based American heavies, almost 1000 strong, fought through heavy enemy fighter oppo- sition to pound Berlin and the net work of Nazi from the Mediter- raneau lashed. targets around Vien- na, in northern Italy. and in Yligo' slavia.
 Axis broadcasts and reports from the first returning crewmen indi- cated the big raids had stung the Luftwaffe into battle.
 Hundreds of enemy fighters swarmed up to challenge the Berlin raiders, whirling head-on through the bomber formations in groups running up to 100 planes.
 Similar opposition was encount- cred on the Vienna sweep, accord ing to German radio accounts which told of violent air battles raging all the way from the Alps to the taget area and back.
 Fortress pilots back from the Der lin assault reported that they drop ped their high explosives and fire bombs through a thick overcast that permitted only occasional glimpses of the city.
 Radio Berlin indicated, however, that the raid had inflicted heavy damage on the battered city, de- nouncing it as another terror att tack
 The Vienna raiders struck their main blow at the Atzgersdorf Air. craft factory five miles south southwest of the old Austrian capi- tai and the nearby Muchendorf and Wollersdorf airdromes.
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PARIS VIENNA AND
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BULLETIN BY WALTER CRONKITE

United Press War CorrespOndent)
 London, May 24.-(UP) . An estimated $500 Allied warplanes from Britain and Italy poured bombs and bullets into Axis Europe from the Channel coast to the Alps today, cIimaxed by an all-Ameri- can triple blow at Berlin and the suburbs of Paris and Vienna.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-03
Fur|ough Plan
Is Attempted
Two Yeors Service
Moy Merit Leove

WASHINGTON, Feb. s. lP.
- American veterans Of long
bitches in World War II, may
soon be coming home on fur
Tough under a troop rotation
plan 10 be inaugurated by the
War Department.
Lieut.. Gen. Willard F. Har-
mon, commanding general Of
Army forces in the South Pa
cific, disclosed yesterday that
such a program will begin with
men who have been in the area
two years or longer. But he
warned that il would be temp
cred by combat requirements
and transportation facilities,
and that il could not be con-
strued as promising a furlough
for all men Of two years service
in the South Pacific.
"A program of rotation has
been initiated - he said,
ION a scale considered common
surate with the means available,
as those means increase, the
program will be expanded.
Harmon made the announce
ment al news conference. In
Washington for staff confer
ences, he also disclosed that APP
proximately 60 per cent Of the
pilots and crews shot down over
enemy territory in the South
Pacific have been rescued. some
with the help of friendly ma
tives, some by Navy ply patrol
bombers which have even land
ed in enemy harbors under
fighter cover and picked up air
men under the noses of the Jap
anese.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-03
.U50 Birthday
Is Celebrated
Public Urged
TO Participate

Residents Of the Mount Glenn
ems area this week END are in
vited TO join with the rest Of the
nation in celebrating the third
anniversary of the establishment
Of United Service Organizations
where American soldiers and
sailors may be cheered and
benefited.
This week marks the second
anniversary of the Mount Glenn
ems USO establishments, which
came into being when only 554
Of the present 5000 units had
been founded.
Chairman Charles V. Titus
and members Of the USO Coun-
Gil have extended an invitation
TO the public TO visit the Broad
way, CaSs avenue or Cherry
street USO units Friday, Satur-
day or Sunday. Staff members
will assist in conducting visitors
through I he Establishments,
where the we'll balanced pro-
gram comforting men and
women in the armed forces will
be revealed.
Once only hope in the
harts OF handful of men and
women. the USO's present roll
call a formidable array of units
serving the forces behind the
lines IN the western hemisphere,
and USO-Camp Show units
travelling all over the world,
right 10 the very battlefronts.
To millions of men and
wonderland TO thousands who
have visited Mount Clemens
the USO units have been the
next thing TO home sweet home. ="
lnformallty and friendliness
characterize the clubs. There are
rooms for recreation and amuse-
ment and boisterous fun. There
are quiet rooms for letter-Writ-
ing, reading and just plain
visiting Many activities are
entWined in the program, in
Guiding dances, trips TO events of
interest and hobby classes.
For those who seek the solace
and comfort of their DELICIOUS
faith, the USO furnishes the op-
portunity, through local clergy
men.
The USO is the symbol of
Americas hospitality towards
its own.
When men and women in the
armed forces travel, often in
crowded coaches and buses with
many weary stop-overs, the
welcome USO sign is every
where. Under its friendly roof
they can "freshen up" stretch
out in comfortab bic chairs and
catch up on sleep, have snack,
or take book along to help
make the miles go by the rest
of their journey.
Mount Clemens has contribu-
ted most of these facilities TO
the armed forces. Local resi-
dents are urged to visit the USO
units this weekend and learn to
appreciate the service offered.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-03
Secret Film Depicting
Jap Cruelty is Ready

the United States had changed
its policy on making japanese
atrocities public" Zanuck said.
Zanuck, while on active duty
as signal corps Colonel in Eng
land, North Africa and the
Aleutians, decided that if he got
the chance he'd make a film
hammering home TO Americans
the immensely Of the Pacific
war task.
when | came home there
was a certain complacency
about the Pacific situation" he
declared. People seemed TO
think it would be easy to knock
over the Jap after Hitler had
been Wrung out and hung up
TO dry
He started the picture last
June |, the day he returned
from the wars TO the Studio.
ITS designed to appeal to
the intelligence, not the emo
tons" he explained. mo atroc-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-03
BY JAMES LINDSLEY

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3-(P)-
Daryl Zanuck disclosed plans
today for releasing a picture
based on what he considers the
greatest story of the war but
which he never has been sure
would reach the screen until
the war was over.
The picture is Purple Heart, ;"
which Zanuck, production chief
at Goth Century-Fox, frankly
hopes will harden American
hatred of the Japanese soldier
into applicability while instill-
ing a heightened respect for the
little brown mans fighting
proves.
The sccretly-made film con-
Germs Gen. James Doolittle's
bombing raid on Tokyo, and the
fate Of the eight American fiji
ers made captive. 1t will be re-
leased by the end of this month.
1t couldn't be released until
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-03
Radio TechnicianS
Sought by Navy

The Navy is now accepting II
year old boys for radio techni-
clan training. They must have
some basic mathematics, funda-
mental electricity and elemen-
tary physics and be able to pass
the Eddy test.
The length Of the course av-
erages nine months and ad-
vancement is fast in this branch
of the Navy.
Full particulars may be had
by writing TO or applying at the
u. S. Navy Recruiting Station,
303 Post Office Building, Port
Huron and w. B. Carr, Navy Re-
cruiter will be at the Mount
Clemens Post Office an Fridays
10 conduct interviews.
Women interested in existing
in the WAVES, betW-.n 20 and
SO, will also be interviewed on
Fridays.
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because you mean we'll toward
Europe. But you lack genera
tons of the knowledge neces-
sary even to recognize European
pitfalls"
OUR FRENCH POLICY FAILS
The answer is clear TO all
Americans who stand here. As
General Maitland Wilson takes
over this theater, it is obvious
that we have lost out all around
in our effort to make North
Africa showcase for Liberation.
We have been here with an
enormous expedition for Ia
months, and we have been chop
ping down political and ideol-
ogical fences which we should
have been building if we ever
are going to build them on the
continent in accord with our
declared purposes in this war.
A real and intelligent Euro
pean policy for North Africa and
Europe is not being displayed by
us or by England, but by Rus
STA. II is clear to the highest
quarters here that Russia has
forgotten more about what to
do ina situation of this sort than
we in our immaturity will have
time 10 learn.
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plenty Of talk. but the results
are pitiably small.
Most Allied and French lead
ers with whom ! have discussed
the situation admit frankly that
they do not know who is most
TO blame, and both groups differ
in their analyses But all agree
on two things / Anglo Ameri-
can prestige now is at an all
time low. 2 Confusions in our
so-called French policy have
persisted so long that it may be
difficult TO 20 into France with
moral weight on our side. Our
greatest mistakes could have
been overlooked on the grounds
Of war emergencies, il they had
been corrected promptly. But
time has run out on our moral
prestige.
First we took Admiral Darlan
as a military eXpedient. Then
we kept Darlan's henchmen I'M
til Gen. Charles DeGaulle threw
them out.
Next we backed Gen. Henri
Giraud as a non-political mill
tary man to lead the French
army in Frances participation
IN the war and, through his mill
tary successes, TO inspire and re-
unite his country. Giraud
proved to be an honest man, but
one widely regarded as incom-
petent to boss a modern mill
tary job.
We badly underestimated the
strength of DeGaulle inside
France. But when he finally
was invited here, as he insisted,
he proceeded to run off with the
show in a Graustarkian opera
ton, half-blessed, half-cursed
and totally unreliable. He's like
Pickwick's fat boy-noW we see
him; now we don't.
Whether DeGaulle's group
would have been all right if the
Anglo American policymakers
IN Washington and London had
trusted him, nobody knows. But
entrusted, he has become UNI
practicable, and now America
and Great Britain alike are
stuck with man who feels he
owes them nothing, and yet who
can produce nothing good with
out their support.
DeGaulle seems TO become
more pompous and difficult ev-
cry day. When our leaders try
to put him in his place-wher-
ever that is--he flares with re-
sentiment and embarks suddenly
upon some such adventure into
French nationalism as the Leb-
anon affair.
Immediately rivulet of dis
pute becomes a flood OF contro-
versy. Invariably there is big
pow-wow at Allied headquarters
or in DeGaulle's palace, with
DeGaulle asking full recogni-
ton and lots of other things. So
the situation is right back where
it started in London and Wash
ington.
Meanwhile the underground
clements now coming here from
France in increasing numbers
are proclaiming all over town
that DeGaulle is just plain OPP
portuniSt, and that Giraud must
be succeeded by the recently es-
capped Gen. Jean de Lattre dc
Tassigncy.
II is an obvious fact, demon
strated early and emphatically.
that we are simply out over our
heads in trying TO deal with
European politics such as this.
You Americans are children in
Of this kind. one most
and un-nameable
Frenchman told me today with
m the walls Of DeGaulle's own
house, II you have policy
md we cannot find that you
1ave--it is an American policy
md not a European one. You
think you understand Europe
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Anglo American Prestige Hits Low Ebb, Writer Find:

Q-When were automobile
radio sets first put into general
use?
Ain 1881. when 100000 sets
were sold. Within 10 years the
number had increased to $780,
900 sold in one year.