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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
Gen. StiIweII Asks More sss-' For Chinese
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Chungking, Feb. IA = (U.P) - Lieutenant General Joseph w. Stil- well called today for an immediate and continuing increase in supplies flown into China and promised the United States Nays trans that they would be used to support Pacific drive to gain Chinese main- land bases for the final defeat of Japana.
 Citing Admiral Chester w. Nim- it's statement from Pearl Harbor last week that the Navy intends to drive straight acres the Pacific to China, he said that ito accomplish such a mission, naval action must be supported heavily by an aggres- sive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior of China"
 "This we intend to do, in spite of the existing blockade" Stilwell said.
 China based air operations against the Japanese cannot wait for pen etration of the enerny's blockade by land and sea, Stilwell added, urg- ing great increase in the present tonnage of supplies brought into this country by air.
 ''To accomplish this end, we will have the largest and newest cargo carriers available and in anticipation of such aircraft, every facility for accommodation is being prepared" he said.
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 The commanding general of U. s.
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|U. s. Planes
 Sink 2 Subs

Recife, Brazil, Feb. IA - (U.P)- Unitd States Navy airmen re- gently sank two submarines in the South Atlantic in operations which involved no American losses, Vice Admiral Jonas H. Ingram's head quarters announced today.
 Lieutenant Marion V. DawkinS was on patrol near Ascension when his co-pilot spotted a submarine. Dawkins dived almost a mile and planted his bombs squarely on the target.
 Dawkins was preparing to photo graph the stricken submarine with its crewmen on deck when an ex- plosion shattered the vessel, throw ing debris 200 feet in the air.
 Six American planes attacked for five and one-half hours before the other submarine was destroyed. Lieutenant William Ford went tc base, refueled and returned to bat tie the submarine which was sight ed by Lieutenant Charles Baldwin. Lieutenant Samuel Taylor was credited with the final sinking of the submarine. Lieutenant William Hill was another participant on the battle.
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Nuzi Planes
 Raid Britain

London, Feb. IA = (U.P0 = Off, cial reports today listed six German planes shot down during the night, but the Nazis reported they lost eight in the course of "concen- trated attack by strong formations" on London.
 Actually about IS German planes penetrated the London area, in contrast with the fantastic Nazi propaganda claims evidently aimed at convincing the home front that NaZi air forces are giving the Brit ish heavy beating.
 The German DINE news agency said several hundred German planes took part in last nights raid on London and dropped thou sands of high explosive and incen- diary bombs"
 Heavy clouds and fog over the continent were believed to have grounded British based bombers following yesterdays near-record assault on mystery targets in the Pas De Calais area of northern France.
 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 9th U. s. Air Force threw their full weight into yesterdays attack. boosting the bomb tonnage to one of the highest totals in re-
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barding the monastery soon if they had not already done so.
 The Germans first established an artillery observation post in the monastery, then placed artillery pieces within the shadows of its walls and finally were reported to have begun firing on American troops in Cassino from the abbey itself.
 Standing atop an 1.800-foot' hill the monastery commands the entire Casino battlefield and as a mili- tary objective is considered even more important than Casino itself where street fighting has been rag ing for IS days.
 Protest
 A front dispatch said an Ameri- can artillery battery commander q week ago protested against Tt. Gen Mark W. Clark's jrevious orders that
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More PIone
 Dead Found

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. IA - (U.Po The quicksand bottom of the Mis- sissippi river has yielded bodies and parts of bodies of the "A persons killed when an American Airliner crashed 15 miles south of here Thursday night.
 Workmen aboard U. s. En- gineers' dredge recovered the bodies of three persons, and the partial remains of two others, one of them a woman.
 Bodies identified were:
 Captain Edgar F. Zarr, Dallas Tex.
 Lieutenant Victor L. Ramsey, Fifth Ferry Command, Dallas.
 Lieutenant Herbert s. Sudmeler' 2Oth Ferrying Group, Nashville, Tenn.
 Lieutenant Charles S. Spring, En- gineering School, Camp Young Calf.
 E. c. Miller, chief Estimator Con- solidated Steel Corporation, Los Angeles and Whittier, Calf.
 An official investigation was started in Memphis to determine why the plane plunged into the river.
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$16, 900, 900 Worth
 OF Bonds Sold Here

Waterburys Back The Attack" campaign figures scared to over s16,000,000 today, but owing to the fact that banks were on holiday schedule Saturday and no official checkup on ''E" bonds was avail able, directors of the war bond drive are withholding any Over the Top" comments.
 Today's sales were paced by an investment of $4,O00,000 by the Wa terbury Savings Bank. Saturday, it was announced that the Scovill Manufacturing Company as a corp oration had invested $5,000,000. It is presumed that both of these in- veStments are included in the city's presnt total of $16000,000.
 Sales continued briskly among employees of the various industrial plants. The Unico Club took over the Victory House" with lively campaign mapped out. The drive will come to tn official close tomorl row night and there is every reason to believe now that Waterbury has again more than measured up to expectations. AS the government gauges the success of the drive by the number of ''E" bonds sold no Victory chants will be heard until official facts are available.
 Waterbury needs approximately $1 400, ,O00 more in "E" bonds sales before the campaign here will be officially recorded as a successful Back the Attack" drive.
 In the third area which includes Waterbury, Naugatuck and Litch- field County, the figures show sales of $22 100000. The quota is 25,810,- GOO.
 Chairman James E. Moran is well pleased with the situation to-date. He has received assurance from the American Brass Company, Chase Brass an dCopper Company, Sco- wills and scores of other industrial plants that all quotas assigned will be realized and peter by substan- tial margins.
 Starting at noon today the Unico Club started a spirited drive to set new record for sales. Mayor John s. Monagan headed the list of speakers at the opening rally. Dur ing the day it was planned to auc- tion of butter, nylon stockings. candy, liquor, basckets of flowers
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Washington, Feb. 14(UP)- Prospects of a hopeless deadlock between house-senate conferees on the soldier vote issue today revived interest in a compromise plan-al- ready rejected three times by the senate-placing the emphasis on state absentee ballots.
 The conferees were expected to begin Wednesday their attempts to compromise the state and federal ballot plans. But hopeless stale mate appeared in the making be- cause five of the 10 house-senate conferees were strong supporters of the state ballot while the other five were equally ardent packers of the federal plan.
 With a compromise the only ap- parent solution, the conferees in- dlcated that they would take an- other look at the thrice-rejected plan Of sen. Robert A. Taft. R.. O., allowing use of a federal ballot by
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Seen In Poland

London, Feb. 14.-UP)-Russia armies driving closer to the dis puted Curzon line were expected to- day to bring to a crisis this week British efforts to mediate between Poland and the Soviet Union.
 The obvious danger was that when the Russians reach territory the recognize as Polish, they may create a trump government in Moscow in opposition to the present Polish gov ernment-in-eXile here, an arrange ment that would be unsatisfactory for both Britain and the United | States.
 MoScoW's patience with Poland, and with Germany's satellites-Fin- land, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hun gary-seen1ed to be running out on the basis of evidence which accumu- lated during the past week and the Soviets were leaving the impression that these countries would be well to settle their scores with Russia at once.
 If Prime Minister Winston Churchill'S exchange with Premier Josef Stalin produced any real hope for a solution of the Polish question it was not apparent here. In fact the Russians appeared less likely than ever either to treat with the present Polish government or tc agree to any concessions which might make a settle more palatable
 The Soviet drive toward the Cur. bon line made the need for media. tion more urgent than ever anC every effort was being made by Downing street and the foreign of ,ce to find a last minute formula for agreement.
 Russia still was willing to accepi a modified Curzon line boundary but no longer agreed to cede Lwov to Poland and now wants to share in the partition of East Prussia
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Films Send Peace Envoy To Russia

Stockholm, Feb. 14.-(UP)-Relia- ble sources said today that the Finnish government sent Juho K. Paasikivi, former premier, to Stock holm for the express purpose of contracting Soviet officials and at tempting to negotiate separate peace.
 Finland was understood to have informed the United States officially of Paasikivi's status as peace en- voy before he left Helsinki.
 The United States earlier this month formally suggested to Fin land that she get out of the war as soon as possible if she hoped to avoid the harsh final terms that await Germany and her satellites.
 It was Paasikivi who negotiated the treaty that ended the 1939-1940 RusSo-Finnish war.
 The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported from Stockholm that two air raid alarms were wounded in the Finnish capital during the night Some anti-aircraft fire from the suburbs was audible during the first hour-long alarm, the dispatch said, but no bombs fell during either alert.
 So far as was known, however, he had made no attempt yet to con- tact Mime. Alexandra Kollontay, So- viet envoy with whom he negotiated the peace pact nearly four years ago, or any other Russian diplomat since his arrival Saturday at the Grand Hotel, scene of the prelim- mary takls which brought an end to the earlier war.
 A usually well-informed source reported that the Soviet legation here had displayed considerable in- terest in Finnish activities and had sought definite information through indirect channels.
 Sitler Orders
 GA London Dail Express dispatch from Stockholm reported that Adolf Hitler sent a note to Finland yes- terday ordering the government to halt all attempts to reach sepa- rate peace and threatening "neces- sary measure" by 100000 German troops in that country if the order was not obeyed. The express said German troops were reported in a state of alert at strategic disposl- tions throughout Finland)
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Browder Airs Victory Views

Boston, fep. 14.-\OEl-calA Browder, secretary of the Commun- ist Party in America, believes that reelection of President Roosevelt and strict enforcement of the Teheran program are the only ways of achieving permanent victory.
 Browder told a Communist mass meeting last night at Sym- phony hall that patriotic men and women of all parties must unite to convince MT. Roosevelt that the country demands his continued leadership" The Presidents re- tirement would cause the United States to embark upon uncharted seas of uncontrolled factionalism," " Browder asserted.
 The Communist leader assailed some newspapers which, he said have deliberately campaigned tc hide, distort and Inisrepresent the Teheran program"
 This failure of the chief instru- ment of public intelligence to func- ton in support of our nations wal war policy" he said, Ifs the great est threat against our war effort the greatest obstacle ot victory"
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Do Vinci MuroI, Lost Supper,
 Reported Ruined

London, Feb. IA. - (UP) - A German transOcean news agency dispatch from Rome reported today that the church of Santa Maria DelIe Grazie at Milan, which houses Leon ardO Da Vinci's world famous mural. "The Last Supper" was destroyed during an air raid last Aug. 13.
 Leonardo began the mural in the refectory of the convent church in 1494 on a joint com- mission of Prince LudovicO Sforza, his patron at the time, and the Monks themselves, completing it four years later. The work was painted in tenn pera and flaking and scaling over the century has robbed it of much of it's original beauty although in recent eyars it was restored by Cavaliere Cav- enghi. Despite it's injuries, LeOnardo's mural became from the first, for all christendOm, the typical representation of t he scene.
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RobouIAir
 Fields Nearly NeutroIiized

| Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Feb. IA - OP) The four airfields protecting Rabaul vir- tually have been neutralize.., it was indicated today after a communique announced that Allied planes had dropped 134 tons of bombs in new attack on Japan'S big New Britain base.
 All types of bompers, flying from Solomons bases with fighter escort, hit the Vunapope, Tobera and Yum akanau airdromes in a concentrat- ed midday attack Friday and shot down eight Japanese planes. Lakunai, the fourth Rabaul air field, was reported temporarily knocked out January 29 and was heavily bombed again a week ago.
 Damage was heavy and numer- ous fires and explosions were caused at the three airdromes." the communique said.
 Only a few Japanese fighters att tempted to intercept in contrast to Thursday when 140 enemy planes were in the air over the base. Three of Fridays intercepting planes were shot down, five others probably were shot down and six barges were de- Stroyed in Simpson harbor. Two Allied planes were lost.
 The attack brought to 569 tons the total weight of explosives poured on the Rabaul airfields during the week by Solomons based planes. It was the third day that the Yuma kanau field, one of the Allies prin- ciple objectives at Rabaul, had been hit. The field was hit with 272 tons of explosives on Wednesday and Thursday and each time returning flyers reported the airdrome un- serviceable.
 Heavier Blows Possibility of still heavier blows against Rabaul came with disclosure that American heavy Liberator bombers now were based closer to the base than ever before.
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Interest Reuiues M
 Taft Soldier-Vote Plan

to ask for state ballots, but if they overseas service personnel only if they are unable to get their own state voting blanks.
 Sen. Theodore F. Green, D., R. l., co-author of the senate-approved federal plan and chairman of the senate conferees, said the Taft plan wasn't acceptable to him but con- ceaed that something similar to it nigh, form the basis of a workable solution.
 Taft's plan was in the form of middle ground between the house. approved states rights plan, which calls only for use of state ballots; and the senate's Lucas Green bill, which provides that federal ballots for president vice president and members of congress be used gen erally overseas. The latter plan, however, would permit servicemen
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Toxpoyers Will Get Small Break

Washington, Feb. 14 4- (UP) - Some 50,000,000 income taxpayers who were originally supposed to have filed estimates ot 1944 incomes by March IS were advised today ito keep their shirts on until they hear more about it."
 Treasury officials said taxpayers probably will have an added 30 days in which t0 file the estimates of current income because printing of the 1944 forms is awaiting presiden- tial approval of the new tax bill. The new form entails some changes from the form used in lS44.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
REDS POUND. TOWARD PSKOv
 LATv|A GATE.

Moscow, February IA. = (UP) - Russian troops con- verged today on PskOv, gate way to Latvia, at a pace limited only by their ability to negotiate difficult marshes and swamps, while the Nazis reported exacuating key per sonnel from Pskov, Minsk, Tallinn and Kowel.
 Red Army columns were ap- preaching Pskov from three direc- tions under forced march after Ger man resistance collapsed on broad front coincident with the capture of Luga and the clearing of the Lake Peipus shore.
 Delayed field dispatches said the Soviet vanguard was less than 40 miles from Pskoy, and reports of a virtually unimpeded advance indi- cated the distance was now much less.
 GA British broadcast quoted Mos COW advices that Soviet cavalry and light tanks pursuing the Nazis were within 30 miles of Pskov and the German garrison of the city was hurrying road blocks and defenses on its outskirts)
 Meanwhile Ilya Ehrenbourg, lead ing Soviet journalist, reported that Gestapo offices and Nazi civil ad- min.stratorS were pulling out of Pskov and the big White Russian base of Minsk to the south; Tallinrl, capital of Estonia; and Kowel, in the pre-war sector of old Poland where the Soyiets had captured Royno and Luck.
 Ehrenbourg said the Nazis had ordered 150 German newspapermen editing papers in the Russian, Ukrainian and White Russian lan- guages to return to Germany.
 Guerella Warfare
 Behind the northern front, guer- rilla warfare was raging on an un- precedented scale as Partisans broke down doors in the German defenSeS for the advancing Red Army.
 The victory at Luga and the claring of Lake Peipus was credited largely to Partisan detachments who cut all German communications, smashed the enemy positions in at tacks from the rear, then led Soviet infantry through the maze of forests to the primary objectives.
 Last week the guerrillas blew up several trainloads of German rein frocements moving up to the north- ern front, cut railroads at several
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Wallace Bids To Hold Job

Washington, Feb. IA - (U.P) )- Vice President Henry A. Wallace's active campaigning for renomina- tion on his transcontinental tour today foreshadowed bitter contest at the forthcoming Democratic ria- tional convention.
 It appeared that conservative Democrats, finding themselves un- able to block or even to impede momentarily the fourth term re. nomination of President Roosevelt, VsR De reminded next July in Chi e4go to wreak their vengeance on selIace - if they can. They want . patty stalwart on the ticket
 Whether the question of Wal sAce'S renomination reaches a con vention floor showdown will depend entirely on MT. Roosevelt. If MT. Roosevelt wants him again, he will have to lick the party regulars to put Wallace over.
 Many observers believe the pres ident decided last summer to dis card his 1940 running mate That was when Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones and Wallace dis puted conduct of foreign economy policy. Wallace then was head of the board of economic warfare and an important figure in MT. Roose- velt's war councils.
 The president adjusted the dis pute by relieving Jones of certain duties under circumstances entirely satisfactory to Jones and by strip ping Wallace of every shred of power and authority except his elective office and the trivial ex- oficio duties pertaining to it.
 But Nle vice president came up smiling and undertook. a series of speaking engagements, frequently before labor or left wing audiences, in which he undoubtedly has made himself solid politically with the new deal wing of the political coali- tion which put MT. Roosevelt in office in 1882 and has kept him there since. Meantime. Mir. Roose- welt has been under occasional and scattered fire from the left. Wall lace may be attempting to establish his own political prestige with the MT. Roosevelt to keep him on the left wiiigers sufficiently to persuade 1944 ticket.
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Army Releases
 Materials

Washington, Feb. 14-UP)-The Army has released materials and facilities for manufacture of large quantities of ammunition for civil ians, chiefly for use in protection of livestock and crops from preda- tory animals and to some extent in the coming hunting season, it was learned today.
 None of the cartridges will reach shooting galleries or sportsmen who indulge in skeet-shooting this off, cial said. Hunters in the east will receive enough for their needs, how ever
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BRITISH REGAIN AN z|0 INITIATIVE Smash Forward To Take Vital Bridge;
 ToppIe Waves Of Enemy Into Stream
Outmatch Crack Units of 715th
 Infantry Rushed From France

Allied Headquarters Naples Feb 14-(UP)-Brsh initiative Ano-Apria bridge after toppng after attacking Ger mansin the stream
  the 715t which had rushed France
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Orange, Mass, Feb. 14.-(UP)-A Boston man was injured critically earliy today when he apparently dozed at the wheel and his truck loaded with thousands of eggs crashed through a fence and plunged over 8 12-foot embank- ment at a curve three miles west of here.
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Special announcement = Afternoon classes, Shorthand, typing, book keeping, compt0meter, Feb, "A. Post Junior College Of cOmneTce.
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House Plus For Rent

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 14- ] -WP)-A homeowner adver- tised today:
 "T'Il lease you my home, lend you my maid, and introduce you to my butcher about March l."
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The Valley settler., 1944-01-28
FONFTN,S ARTICLE CONTINUED
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 onced help makes hospital sorvic Hess t3sfoctorT: but everyone : g ' trying to 10 his best un2or the circurls tances. For q short time | I visited the meoiccl school fromv' ;:rl I graduated cn6 found that clmos :" ! Cni on collars have been spent Tn bl,i l6ings ond equip pment since I l-ftI The service flag hengtnC in the chapel hes almost 500 stars on i Foni liar faces are roro, and I felu
 Utmost like 2 stranger In my own Alro Mater.
 1t the Governor rcQuest,I woa given q high air travel pri ority, because of the Infontile Paralysis S leases here, onG possibility of on epi idemic.
 Now that I am back In Ialmer, can say that while there are man nice things in the States, Alosl;" Is till holds first place in my ho -'tl ond I an glat to be home again. 4ncl Advantages of Alaska far surpess nd socvontages enc life is more nd land peaceful than it Is OutsiCe. DaviG Hoohn, M. |.