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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
 Says StoIin Controls FDR
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Washington, May 23-UP)- Henry H. Klein, attorney for Eugene N. Sanctuary in the mass sedition trial, told the jury today he would prove that President Roosevelt is under the absolute control" of Josef Stalin "and his death ray.'
 He also promised to prove that "the United States is now on the verge of becoming a Communist country and that the trial was un- dertaken ito protect communism. !"
 He said in his opening statement tLat Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, CIO leader Sidney Hill- man and British professor Harold Laski "are the chief instruments of Communism in the United States"
 Sanctuary has been accused of anti-Semitism, Klein said, but "he condemns the bad Jews and praised the good Jews" Klein, himself a Jew, said "the anti -Semitism charg- ed in this indictment is a racket run by racketeers for graft pur- poses" He said that the hyleaf of one of Sanctuary's books bears this dedication: "To the Good Jews of America"
 Not that good Jews'," Klein told the jury.
 He depicted Rabbi Stephen S.. Wise as political rabbi" who be- gan anti-Nad campaigns because he was Jealous" of the personal glory" obtained by the late Samuel Untermeyer.
 Klein. who was fined $20O for arguing with the judge yesterday, promised that Sanctuary would sing to the jury one of the patriotic songs he has composed.
 Another defense attorney said the defendants merely yielded to the spirit of the times" in an era when (cOntinued On pa0a Al
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Retoke Town For 3rd Time
BY JOHN A. PARRTs


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, May g. = (UP) - Mar~ shal JoSip (Tito) Broz's YugoslaV Partisan Forces have recaptured for the third time the Slovene town of Trebnj, vital railway junction on the Lubljana-Zagreb line killing i5G enemy officers and men, 1t was am nounced today.
 A Yugoslav communique said that all enemy operations in eastern Bosnia had collapsed and that more than 5000 Germans had been killed and wounded in two months flght~ ing.
 The German offensive in Lak6 province also has been halted. fhe communique said.
 Partisan headquarters announced that all German attempts to keeN Partisan units cse the xaafn eoan~ munications lines had failed, indis eating that Titos forces had Gs1p~ ceeded in preventing continuouE enemy use Of the rail lines.
 With the recapture of TrebnI. Tito reported, the Partisans slowly were gaining the initiative in SloVenia.
 The communique said that fhat the Germans were burning down alI villages through which they passed.
 Tn Gandjak and HerzegoVinR units of the 25th division Of the Yus0slaV liberation army engaged in . 1pnf4 day pitched battle with more than 5000 German, EeteGk. &ssd GlasAaaIK troops.
 The enemy sustained heavy znKe2s and was repelled, the communiNsH said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
U. s. Conciliator Here
 On Scovill Go. Dispute

Representatives of management and labor in the Scovill Company c. I. O. dispute today met with James Hayes of the state labor com- missioner's office and Robert Cos grove, New York, of the U. s. Con- ciliation Service in an attempt to determine the nature of the dis agreement now in effect.
 Meanwhile, Mrs. Mary E. Dewey, area director of the War Manpower Commission today notified the Sco- will Company that no more em- ployment referrals would be made to the plant until the matter was determined.
 Robert Walkinshaw, representa- tive of the c. I. O. today stated that the action of the company in barring the workers from return ing to the plant following their un- authorized walk-out last Saturday constituted a lockout on the part of the Scovill Company. Mean while Alan Curtiss personal rela- tionS director of the company con- tended that the management took the view that the actions of the men constituted strike and in ef- feet they had quit their jobs" and therefore were no longer employees of the company.
 Yesterday afternoon workers at the plant making up the second shift of the tube mill division of the plant, who heretofore had not been effected by the company's action, walked out of the plant shortly after beginning work and company officials classified them in accord ance with the procedure used in the case of the first shift which had conducted itself in this manner last Saturday.
 Spokesmen for the workers stated that the actions of the men came about as result of accumulated grievances such as on work assign (Continued on Page 2)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Iceland Sewers
 FinuI Dane Tie

Washington, May 23-(UP)-The people Of Iceland today completed a referendum on severance of the last remaining tie which has bound that tiny north Atlantic Island to Denmark for 563 years.
 Iceland, which celebrated the lI000th anniversary of its parliament in 1880, has been a sovereign state since 1918. but united with Denmark through a common King, Christian x of Denmark. The referendum formally will dissolve that union and on June IT Iceland plans to proclaim itself a free and indepen- dent Republic.
 Icelandic officials here said the results of the referendum, held May 20-23, were inevitable, ali political parties and the government support ing the plan to establish Republic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Wildcat Strike Over

Detroit, May 23-(UP)-A wildcat strike caused by union rivalry over soft drink truckers which slowed production of vital war material at six Chrysler corporation plants was called of today by local union lead- CTS at the demand of United Auto mobile Workers (cIo) International executives.
 End of the week-long walkout was announced publicly by JAW -CIO headquarters, which said the deci- sion had been confirmed by William Jenkins, president of Local 4eO UAW-CIO who had led a rebellion in which members employed at the Chrysler Highland Park plant deiied international union and War Labor Board orders to go back to work.
 The strike was called off as the international unions executive board prepared to sit in judgment of Jen- kins and other local officers accused of placing loyalty to union members before the war effort.
 The local union had been holding out for reinstatement on the Chrys- Ter payroll of i6 members who were discharged for ousting an American Federation of Labor truck driver and Chrysler supervisors from the Highland Park plant.
 Violence hared at the plant a week ago as the union members elected the supervisors, and order was restored by closing the gates. Local union leaders subsequently, claimed they were locked out. de-
 
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FightSurees
 Bock,Forth At AtMyitkyino
Ry WALTER LOGAN

United Press War Correspondent Southeast Asia .-s- Headquarters Randy, Ceylon, May g - (U.P) = The bitter house-to-house battle for Myitkyina continued today for the fifth straight day and official reports acknowledged that driving rainstorms and fierce Japanese re- sistance had prevented the attack ing Americans and Chinese from expanding their foothold inside the city.
 A communique in Chunking said there were no substantial changes in the opposing lines inside Myitky- ina yesterday, although Brigadier General Frank Merrill's Marauders seized new positions along the ap- breaches to the enemy's Burma stronghold and sealed of the last loopholes in their siege lines to the north.
 Allied planes dominated the bat tlefield throughout the day, racing in unopposed to bomb and strafe the doomed Japanese garrison, while American heavy artillery pounded their defenses relentlessly.
 Headquarters spokesmen admitted however, tht the torrential monsoon rains had turned the streets into quagmire, and that the Chinese and American infantrymen were meet ing desperate resistance from the entrenched Japanese.
 Simultaneously, it was disclosed that Chinese forces driving on Burma from Western China had cut the old Burma road at Chefang, 50 miles west of the Salween river and 16 miles north of the Burma China border on the highway to Lashio. ,
 A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Frank Hewlett said an enemy counter-at- tack recaptured the Myitakyina railway station near the center of the city Sunday night. marking the fourth time the station changed hands in AS hours.
 The heaviest fighting continued to center just north of the station
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2O-1 JopL-oss AtWokde
BY DON CASWELL

United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, May g. - (UP) - Nearly 20 Japanese were killed for every American infantrymen who fell in the conquest of the Wakde Islands. and American transports were land- ing on the airstrip there 48 hours after it was taken from the enemy, General Douglas MacArthur aIl- nounced today.
 A total of 833 bitterly-resisting Japanese were killed - virtually no prisoners were taken - when Amer ican troops took over the Wakde Islands, 4,000 yards off the Dutch New Guinea coast, l25 miles west of HolIandia and 1923 air miles from the Philippine Islands.
 Macarthur previously had ar- nounced that the defending Japan ese force was annihilated.
 Against this number, 4l Ameri- cans were killed, l35 were wounded and two were listed as missing, a headquarters spokesman said, in revealing the extent of American casualties.
 The speed with which American engineers repaired the 4,70O-foot long Wakde airstrip, situated on Insoemoar. the larger of the two islands. was indicated by the an- nouncement that transports bring ing supplies began landings on the strip Sunday, two days after Ameri- can ground forces had fought the Japanese across the strip and trap ped them in a corner of the island.
 The communique said that mop ping up operations continued in the Wakde-Sarmi area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Rogers Body
 In New Crypt

Claremore, Okla, May 23-(UP)- The body of Will Rogers, Okla homa's friendly pilgrim of the long trail" was back on his beloved range today, reposing in a stone crypt at the $30O, 1000 memorial mu- scum.
 The body was returned yesterday from Los Angeles, where it had been held in a crypt since Rogers and Wiley Post were killed Aug. IS, 1885, in a plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska.
 Simple private services were held in the museum foyer at the base of a statue of the famous pit, rep- lica of his likeness which stands in the Hall of Fame in Washington.
 The crypt which will be his per- manent resting place is almost with in sight of the oologah ranch home where Rogers was born and which still is a part of his estate.
 The casket was accompany by James Rogers, son of the humorist; his wife, and Lew WentZ and Ewing Haisell. representing the State Of Oklahoma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
WATERBURY
 GREETSLAT|N AMERICANS

A delegation of nine promi- nent representatives of Latin-American countries were today welcomed to Wa terbury by city officials and prominent representatives of industry, banking, retail and civic organizations of the city.
 Arriving at the Scovill Mfg. Company shortly after II a. m. this morning this delegation which was a sec tion of a larger group which is being toured through Con- necticut under the sponsor ship of Governor Baldwin, was welcomed by William M. Goss, vice-president of the company and by Carl A. Alfero export manager of the company who addressed the delegation in Spanish.
 The delegation was part of that group visiting this country to share in a more basic, mutual under standing and cooperativeness be- tween the peoples of this America and those of Latin America. They were accompanied this morning by representatives of the United States office of co-ordinator of Inter-Am- erican Affairs and other interests.
 A luncheon was served to the group at the Waterbury Country Club where the greetings of the city were extended by Mayor John s. Monagan, William T. Jebb pres ident of the Chamber of Commerce, Frank Green secretary of the cham Der and others.
 Upon arrival this morning the gathering was met at the Scovill Company by MT. Goss who in ex- tending welcome to them spoke on the close alliance between the Sco- will Company as common repre- sentative of industries in Water bury and New England and the field of foreign trade located in South American.
 In addressing the delegation MT. Goss stated, From the very in- ception of the Scovill Company we
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
It. SWoncutt TrioI Goes On

Camp Anza, Cal, May 23-(UP) -Court-martial of End It. Meaufort Swancutt on four counts of murder was to resume today after being ad- journed yesterday when the con- valescing killer appeared near col- lapse.
 Unable to walk and trembling, he was led from the hurriedly- con- structed courtroom where officers defending him are attempting to establish his insanity the night of March 5, when he went Berserk in the camp officers club. In few blazing moments, Swan cutt had shot to death two 'teen- age girl friends. fatally wounded his commanding officer, killed a police man, and wounded four others.
 Felled by policeman's bullet, the former La Crosse, Wis, shoe sale man lay near death for weeks and still was far from recovered.
 Principal witness at the opening session was 2nd It. Harry Light of Bridgeport, Conn, Swancutt's best friend at the camp, also dropped by OWaAANubb D gun, Oub odtC0 WAACAl Swancutt, his gun aimed for arl- other shot. changed his mind and darted from the club.
 Light and Swancutt were at a table in the club with two Long Beach, Cal, girls, Lourdine Liver more, and Dorothy Douglas, both l9, Light said.
 The conversation was casual Swancutt. 3l, and with a long record of criminal charges as 6 civilian, was quiet.
 T noticed nothing peculiar. Light said.
 Do you want to go overseasT Swancutt asked Light.
 "I'll go where they send me- Light replied.
 "Well. I don't think you're going overseas. and I don't think Tn going over seas either" Swancuti replied.
 Tn fact, I don't think either oi us will leave here alive tonight, Swancutt said. He jumped up whipped out his .45 caliber service (Continued on Page 9
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Nozis Deploy
 Troop ps, Work On Defenses
By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent,

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 London, May 23-(UP)-German 'spy" planes again searched the British coasts for invasion secrets during the night and NaA broad cast said the main force attacked Portsmouth, one of the principal ports at which the enemy has claimed Allied ships and troops were massing for the opening of a western fro tn
 Bombs were dropped both along the south coast and in East Anglia, lying oposite the French, Belgian and Dutch invasion coasts. German planes also were over parts of East Scotland, from which the Germans believe an invasion of Denmark or Norway may be launched.
 About 100 German planes took part in attacks on south coast dis tricts and parts of East Anglia. A small number of persons were killed in a coast town. A church and mis- sion hall were damaged at one place. Altogether six raiders were shot down during the night
 Anti-aircraft batteries on the south coast put up heavy barrage and at laest four raiders were shot down. The shopping area of one town was damaged and there were a few casualties.
 The official German DINE news agency said the Luftwaffe attacked Portsmouth on the south coast in considerable strength" at 12:30 a. rn. today. Harbor installations were hit with great quantities" of explosives and incendiaries and large fires were started, DINE said.
 A German Transocean Agency commentator yesterday said $500 900
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Workers Wage Stand Would ConscriptIncon,e- Voorhees

Washington. May 23-(UP)-En- ders M. Voorhees, chairman of the finance committee of the United State Steel Corporation. said today the wage demands of the United Steel Workers (CI0) were in effect a demand for the right 10 "con- script" the income Of the owners of the corporation.
 He told the War Labor Board steel panel that the union demands would cost U. s. Steel on estimated s2e6 900 GOO annually and that the company could not meet that figure even i1 the uSW'S request for Q guaranteed annual wage should be granted.
 VooEhsss said that the tools of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Steel Corp. Is Acquitted

Pittsburgh. May 23-(UPl-A fed. eral court jury today acquitted Car- negie- e-IIlinois Steel Corp. on charges of falsifying tests of steel ship plates delivered to the navy, maritime commission and the treasury de- pertinent.
 The jury of six men and six wom- en delivered its sealed verdict, reached last night after six and q half hours of deliberation, to Judge Robert N. Gibson. At the same time. the jury, acting on instructions of Judge Gibson, also acquitted the corporation on charges of destroying records of steel tests and analyses.
 The verdict came in Q case which began in the spring Of iel3 when an investigation by the Truman sem ate committee led to indictments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

industry must be provided out of savings and that any move to de- pFive owners Of 6 wage for the use of those tools was similar to cons scripting men to work without wages.
 "rhe union leaders. in spite of their protestations to the contrary, are really urging you to grant to them the right to eonscgipt the wages of the owners Of the United states Steel Corporation, leaving to the owners the empty shell ol legal ownership" he said.
 Turning to the union demand for a guaranteed annual Nn8e. VooEhecs
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Allies Launch Powerful Offensive From AnZiO
BOLD BID TO
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 DIVISIONS
By REYNOLDS PACKARD

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Correspondenf1
 Allied H e a d q uarters Naples, May 23. - (UP) Allied troops launched an alia out offensive from the Anzi0 beachhead today undcx cover of a three-way bonn bardment by American bat tleships, heavy bOmbers ana artillery, clamping 17 Ger man divisions between thein fire and the main Italian battlefront 2O-odd miles t0 the southeast.
 Allied H e a d q u artersl Naples, May 23 - (UP) Allied troops struck out irons the AnziO beachhead today in an offensive cO-Ordinated with the campaign on the main Italian front in a bold bid to trap the 17 German divisions south of Rome.
 The Fifth Army forces in the long dormant beachhead attacked the German perimeter early this morks~ ing, and were fighting under cover of heavy bombardment by masseo Allied planes pounding 60-mii@ radius around Rome. American warships supported the drive by shelling enemy positions. An official announcement of tho beachhead offensive said no details of the days fighting were availabla yet.
 Reports of airmen flying over the new battle zone indicated that tha beachhead forces were pushing ou1 southeastward toward the German swing line' on the main front squeezing the Nazis between their fire and Allied artillery in action tu the south.
 \ Twenty-three miles below ths forces assaulted Terracina, constH2 I dktCI1OI OI C1le NxcEuldu uc4cA41Sos 0t@# were halted by explosives dropped from cliffs towering over the Ap@ plan Way. U. S. infantry however. was closing in on the town fr0uS the north.
 | New Phase
 The announcement of the beacl1~ head offensive said that with It's launching the battle of Italy enterr ed 8 new phase as the Fifth and Eighth armies pressed their canl~ paign designed to crush the Ger= man forces on the peninsula.
 Lieutenant General Mark w. Clark, commander of the Fifth Army. watched the start Of taa Anzio offensive from an observation post overlooking the battlefront, but | (COntinfied 0n Pa0e Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
ArmyMoy
 Burn Records

Washington, May 2S-(UP)-The Senate Military Affaris Committee, considering promotions for IA U. &. army generals, was understood to- day to be studying reports that the War Department plans to destroy its intelligence records of inquiries into espionage, sabotage and other subversive activities.
 Members declined to comment yesterday on what took place at a highly secret meeting at which they again postponed action on the pro- motion list. which has been pending since Oct. 1.
 Earlier delays were occasioned by investigations into the Sicilian slap ping incident involving Gen. George S. Patton, IT,, and move by some committeeman to peg It. Gen. Bre- hon D. Someryell, chief of the serv- ices of supply, at rank low enough to keep him from becoming Chief of Staff.
 It was reported, without confirm ation, that much of the discussion was about the reported plan to de-
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Oil Man Rops Cartel Bill

Washington, May g. (UP)-Presi- dnet Ralph Gallagher of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey de- clared today that a bill by Sen Joseph c. OMahoney, D., Wyo., to require government registration of Cartel contracts would create "a mountain of paperwork" and sev- erely handicap American firms in competition for international busi- ness.
 In testimony prepared for his ap- subcommittee, Gallagher said he was in full agreement with the bills general purpose ito promote the foreign trade and commerce of the United States"
 However. he said, the bill as it now stands is drawn so loosely as to impose an almost impossible bur- den on both government and irl- dustry.
 Gallagher pointed out that Amer ican businss in competition abroad is under the sets of restrictions, American antitrust laws and the trade restrictions of the foreign countries in which it operates.
 kThe United States practices a system of free and open competi- ton in business. Most other coun- tries operate, to greater or lesser degree, under controlled economies" he said. "As result, when Amer jeans have done business in those countries they have had to work under such systems of control. For doing this, many of them have been severely and widely criticized"
 Gallagher proposed that the bill be amended to limit filing provi- sions to foreign trade agreements by American firms which restrict production and allocate territories, fields or markets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Resumed Bombing of w, Europe Nears Record
BY WALTER CRONKITE

United Press War C0rreSpOn0ent)
 London, May 23-(UP)-A 1,750- plane American task force lashed Germany and occupied France to- day after 1000 British bombers dropped about 4,480 tons of ex- plosives on Dortmund, Brunswick and other targets in three countries along and behind the invasion coast.
 The resumed bombardment of western Europe scared to record or near-record heights On its 5th straight day. In the first 12 hours, more than 5000 Allied planes ranged over Germany and anti-in- vasion buffer areas, delivering at least $500 tons of bombs.
 British fighters and fighter bombers supporJed the heavy bomb- CT assaults wtih diversionary sweeps on military objectiveS and trans port targets in France and the Low countries.
 (The National Broadcasting Com pany reported from London that the largest air fleets ever assem- bled are out over the continent today, and before the day is over air history will be made.")
 About 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators headed the daylight pa- rade against the continent, smash ing at German airdromes and rail yards in France and targets in western Germany which were not identified immediately.
 More Than 1000
 More than 1000 U. s. Thunder bolts, Lightnings and Mustangs es- corted the big bombers, which also were supported by RAF Mustangs sweeping nearby areas. It was the greatest fighter fleet ever dis patched in any theater on a single operation.
 The RAF opened the day with its heaviest blows in month soon after midnight. At cost of 35 planes its heavy bombers hammered Germany's Ruhr steel center of Dortmund and the aircraft center of Brunswick, 120 miles west of Der lin.
 Other British bombers hit the French rail centers of Orleans and Lemans southwest of Paris, and speedy Mosquitos jabbed at the Ger man chemical center of Ludwig shafen an dan air field in Belgium.
 Although Dortmund and BrunS-
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