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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
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land we have not heard anybody
saying very much), II has failed
completely to furnish any lead
on the problems brought on by
the war. The Mayor has spoken
against black marketers, but has
failed TO take any action against
them or against other proved
Indicators who still do business
under municipal license.
On the question of the soldier
vote, the Mayor has taken a stand
that is contrary TO the sentiments
of the big majority of Cumberland's
citizens. The city administration
has taken no steps TO dam the ris-
ing tide of juvenile delinquency.
Price control in Cumberland Is
only partly effective. member OF
the Price Panel of the War Price
and Rationing Board said at the
Md.-D.C. CIO conventions special
Women's Auxiliary session. When
merchants have been accused OF
violating price ceilings, responsible
enforcement officers have resisted
efforts 10 have the suspects hailed
before the panel.
The regulations Of the OPA are
extremely mild so that most black
marketers cannot be penalized UNI
iii the second or third offense. But
the enforcement in Cumberland
has leaned over backwards in its
effort TO be fair to merchants.
Suspected black marketers have
been called by their first names at
hearings TO determine their guilt.
II sometimes seems as IL OPA Is
on trial rather than the law VIC
lators who have brought us to the
very verge of imitation.
1t may be said. what has this to
do with the city government? Is
not the enforcement OF price con-
'trol a federal and state affair?
There are IA city administrations
in nine states which have passed
municipal ordinances making VIC
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
Marie Shank Is
Elected
NEW KEYSER HEAD ;.
(By Special Correspondent

IBy SpeCIHI OOETeSp0HucV
At the Jan. 8 meeting of the
Keyser sub-local Of 1874, held in
I. o. o. F Hall with very good
attendance, Mrs. Marie Shank was
elected to fill the unexpired term
of Mrs. Irene Golden as President.
John C. Thomas, Business Man.
ager Of Local 1874, attended and
gave some very interesting points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Yanks Complete Third Air Strip On BougainUiLLe

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea. Jan. 12.-(UP)-U. s. forces were revealed today to have completed a third airstrip on Bou- gainville for intensification of the aerial blockade and bombardment of Rabaul, 260 miles to the north west, Japan's little Pearl Har- bor" of the southwest Pacific.
 A dispatch from duadalcanal dis- closed that American light and me- dium planes already were operating from the new airstrip in the Em- press Augusta Bay area of the west coast of Bougainville. Other Al- lied aircraft participating in the aerial offensive against Rabaul are based in western New Britain, New Guinea and the central Solomon Islands.
 Tn their latest forays against Rabaul, Solomons- based heavy, tor- pedo and dive-bombers shot down l6 to 70 intercepting Japanese planes while blasting VunakanasI md Tobera airfields. Gen. Douglas MacArthurs communique said to- day. The xunways and anti-air- craft positions were hit and one parked enemy plane was destroyed. Four Allied planes were lost
 Night air patrons scored ai= rect hit ansldshlpe on g sarauere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Men h War BelieOe Home Folks Are Selling Then, Out
(U. s. Marine Corps Photo From NEA)

Washington, Jan. 12 - (UP) - Somewhere out in the Pacific today there is a young Naval lieutenant who believes the American people are selling out" servicemen by such actions as the threatened railroad and steel strikes and the order ban- ming Esquire magazine from the mails.
 American soldiers and sailors are working and dying for what must be called an 'ungrateful America" !" It. w. F. James charged in letter made public today by Rep. Ranulf Compton. R., Conn. The letter will be inserted in the Congressional Record.
 Compton called attention to the letters feeling of futility" and de- scribed its message as "an indict- ment that can be quashed only by complete change of attitude and policy on the homefront."
 James and Compton are not &C., quainted. The officer read the con- gressman's name in 8 dispatch in his ships newspaper-an issue that told also of strikes, strike threats and the Esquire case-So he wrote the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Labor Leaders Squa1Ok At FOR Labor-Draft Proposal

Washington, January 12.- (UP) = The American Fed eration of Labor today joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations in vigorous opposition to National Labor Draft as requested by Presi- dent Roosevelt.
 AFL President William Green, a few hours before he and CIO President Philip Murray were expected to call on the President for a discus sion of the subject, issued an attack in which he declared a labor draft would neither prevent strikes nor solve manpower problems.
 Murray had asserted that the labor draft was "quack medicine" proposed by officials frustrated by their own failures. Green denounced it as a threat to basic concepts of democracy.
 Meanwhile. the Senate military affairs heard an exposition of re- vised national service Qabor drafO bill by its co-autnor, Sen. Warren R. Austin, R., Vt
 Austin said a national service act would provide a vast labor pool to
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Fishmen Moy Aqoin

Boston, Jan. 12-(UP)-Idle Bos- ton fishermen were expected to fa- vor a return to work in their secret ballot tonight, ending a two-month strike in protest against OPA cell ing prices which has cost an esti- timated 35,O0O. GOO pounds of fresh fish.
 Even if the 800 Boston fishermen vote to resume operations they have pledged to await the decision of 300 striking members of the Atlantic Fishermens Union (AFL) in New York. Eight hundred New Bedford fishermen already have signified willingness to work.
 U. s. fish and wildlife service fig ures showed that the Boston market received 44.OO0,0O0 pounds of fresh fish less in the first II months of 1943 than during 8 corresponding period in l942. A report on the full years operations was expected to show a still further decrease.
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letter, aware that he might be sticking my neck out"
 James related how battle-hard- ened soldiers cried at news of the threatened railroad and steel strikes, and told of a 20-year-old youth dy- ing in his foxhole with picture of Esquire's varga girl in his hand.
 "We are out here not fighting for a new idealistic world, we are fight ing for the world we knew, the life we lived in the past" James wrote.
 He told of tears filling the eyes of linen who have fought and killed" when they read of the strike threats and of their asking Whats the elsewhere are we getting.?"
 The news dispatches in question reached James fellow fighters as they breakfasted following a night made wakeful by four raids. He described their "damnable discour- aging look" as they read of the strike threats and recounted how the young father of two children cursed the persons responsible.
 There was no reply to his words just a silent echo throughout the mess hall," James added. "One by one the boys quietly left"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Opium Brineer
 Held For Court

Boston. Jan. l2-(UP)-An Indo- Chinese and Boston Filipino, crew members of a freighter docked here, was held in $l0.00O bail each today for a hearing Tuesday after being arraigned before a U. s. commission CT on charges of smuggling opium into the United States from South Africa.
 The defendants were Vincent D. Van Hien of Indo-C China and Gra- cino Fabilia of Boston who were ar- rested yesterday by customs officials. Authorities said 27 ounces of pure opium worth $lS,000 when processed- were found beneath a bunk.
 The government claimed that Fa- hilia. who signed on ship a few days ago. had attempted to peddle the opium in Chinatown Monday night v;.:,,4dS sus1ess Aas6 had returned it to the ship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
BOWL ALLEY
 PROPR|ETORS
 GET SUMMONS

ProprietOrS of three local bowling alleys were arraigned in City Court this morning on charges of employing minors under the age of 16 as part of a statewide drive against the employment of child labor in unauthorized establishments.
 Albert Poliodro, AT, of 46 Nelson avenue, proprietor of the Paramount Bowling Alleys, was fined $100, pay ment of $40 suspended for one year after he pleaded guilty to three counts of employing boys under the age of 16 to set Up pins. Domenic Fiorte, 35, of 18 Bennett avenue, proprietor of the Tuxedo Bowling alleys, 358 West Main strete, was fined $20 after he entered 8 plea of guilty to two counts.
 Eleven counts against Eugene Casey. 5S, 18 Hosey Place, proprietor of the Mattatuck Recreation com pany, 110 East Main street, were continued until tomorrow after Att torney John F. Tobin explained that MT. Casey was attending the fu- neral of a close relative this morn ing.
 Prosecuting Attorney Fredreick W. Palomba said the arrests were made after an investigation by Leo Alex, factory inspector for the Con- necticut Department of Labor.
 Mir. Alex said he began his 1nves- tigation on December q after his office had received numerous com- plaintS from local schools of ex- ceSS1ve abSenteeiSm among certain students, and of students falling asleep in class.
 George H. Lynch, attorney for Mir Folklore, pointed out to the court that employment of boys under IA was perl fitted under certain condi- tions in various industries through out the state, as result of the sus- pension of the statute in these cases by Governor Raymond Bald win under his emergency war pow CTS.
 Attorney Lynch said that repre- SentativeS of bowling alley proprie- tors had recently asked State Sen- ator John A. Danaher to request the governor to extend the sus- pension of the statute to include
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Senate Group Ignores FOR
 Tax Plea; Demands Cut

but do look on every employer in the country in the hope that hell be left with enough meat on his bones to provide jobs for all these boys when they come home from the war"
 He added there was mo use cut ting down the tree to get the fruit
 Tn the house, Representative Harold Knutson, R.. Minn,, de- clares that the president could ex- pect congress to vote additional taxes only after pairing government expenditures and demonstrating a ned for new revenue.
 Describing Mir. Roosevelt's mess age as the opening gun for a fourth term" Knutson sad the president had overlooked golden oportunity to strike a golden chord" when he failed to recom- mend tax simpification. Although MT. Roosevelt did not mention sim plification In his message. he de- viated' from the p ..ared text of his radio address last night to call for a realistic and simpliaed tax law"
 Knutson declared that with the exception of war industry workers. many of whom are earning three and four times as much as ever be- fore thanks to Mfr. Roosevelt's hb- erality with money" the majority of the nations wage earaaers aI- ready were paying as much as pos- slhle ln taxes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

Washington, Jan. l2 - (U.P) - Ignoring President Rooseveits new request for more taxes, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Wal ter P. George, D., Ga, arranged to continue senate consideration today of his committees $2,275, 500, GOO measure -one- fifth of what the ad- ministration wanted.
 Shortly after hearing the pres | ident's message, the senate took a rap at administration fiscal policy when 1t voted 48 to IT to freeze So- cial secmurity taxes ct one per cent for the balance of 1894. The admin istration wanted to increase them to two per cent.
 Mir Roosevelt yesterday called for Q realistic tax law" He was ex- pected to outline what he means by such . law in his budget message tomorrow.
 T see no signs of any effort to increase the committees tax bill, . George said" and we'll go through our measure item by item.'' eApAcu IT Ac Acehkucu tuc CVaAlAaAt- tee bill as "a realistic tax law" George. who had declined comment on the presidential message, smiled and said:
 well you know. I don't always Rgree with other persons. I still
 hink taxes can be too high. Ii that's wrong, then of course we caF get more money. I'm not 90 con- sevned about saxpeyekz as such.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Mountbatten In 5. E. Asia
 Re-takes Maungdau, Burma

London, Jan. 12 -(UP)- Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's south east Asia forces in a strong thrust west ward into Burma have recaptured the strategic port of Maungdaw, front dispatches said today, in what was regarded here as the opening move to clear the Arakan area for a large-scale Allied ground offensive.
 Units of the 14th Army were re- ported battling through the jungles several miles south and west Of Maungdaw on the Mayu peninsula and their immediate objective was believed to be the port of Akyab, 55 miles distant and goal of the abort i've British offensive of 1922.
 If Mountbatten's forces can push down to the tip of the Mayu pepin- sula before the start of the reainy season, several months hence. their advance would bring the western shores of Akyab island within range of heavy British artillery.
 Military observers here empha- sized, however, that seizure of Maungdaw, advance base for the unsuccessful Wavell campaign, did not mean the opening of the awaitde Allied grand offensive to drive the Japanese from southeastern Asia.
 That all-out offensive when 1t comes probably will be a sweeping amphibious drive across the Bay of Bengal, aimed at the capture of Rangoon. Singapore, or both, these observers said.
 Front reports indicated that the Allies occupied Maugdaw after an advance of about IS miles in bitter jungle fighting. The village was seized when Allied troops forced a crossing of the Bengal-Burma bor- der stream, the Mai, just west of the town, to climax several weeks of ridge-to-ridge, bunker to . bunker combat.
 The Japanese apparently were de- termined to hold the little fishing village, composed mostly of houses on stilts, not only because of its ocation on a strategic highway, but also because its capture now will enable the Allies to ship supplies
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PortiSunS Ground In BoSnio

London, Jan. 12 -(UP) - Strong German tank units have broken through partisan defenses in Bosnia, a Jugoslav communiQue acknowledg- ed today. and a Hungarian broad cast reported the Nazi forces had captured Jajce, seat of the partisanS' headquarters and provisional gov- ernment.
 German Panzers, striving to wipe out patriot resistance in advance of any Allied invasion of the Balkans, drove through partisan positions be- low Banja Inka and headed for Jajce, 5 miles to the south, and nearby Mrkonicgrad with constant ly-increasing momentum" Q parti- san communique announced.
 The Hungarian report that Jajce already had fallen was not confirm ed in Jugoslav quarters.
 Middle-eastern dispatches have reported that the Allies were rush- ing arms and ammunition to Mar shal JoSip (Tito) Brozovich's forces by ship across the Adriatic and by plane in an attempt to brace them for just such German attacks.
 GA Hungarian broadcast reported by the U. S. Foreign Broadcast in- telligence service said Allied planes were sighted over Croatia between 1O:1O and 10:3S p. m. last night. Their objective, the broadcast said, was to supply partisans with arms and ammunition"
 However, the partiSans still were comparatively ill-armed and had only a few captured tanks and linn tied artillery with which to resist the Nad armored forces. Allied observ- CTS speculated that the partisans may be forced to retire to the moun- tains of central Jugoslavia to reor- ganize their forces.
 Brozovich set up headquarters and established provisional government at Jajce last month. Dr. Ivan Ribar, 64, a leader of the Democratic party of Ljuba Davidovic, was named pres ident of the provisional government
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Allies Strike At Piroeus

Allied Headquarters. Algiers, Jan. 12-(UP)-Allied day and night bombers struck heav, double blow at the Greek harbor of Piraeus, main supply port for the German armies in the eastern Mediter- ranean, a communique disclosed to- day, as the Anglo-American Fifth Army in central Italy closed in slowly on the Nazi mountain strong hold of Casino.
 Spearheading a widespread Allied aerial assault on Nad positions all along the Mediterranean front, a strong force of American flying for- dresses and Lightning fighters struck Piraeus by daylight yester- day, ripping up harbor facilities and touching off great fires in the port area.
 Thirty-fiye German fighters rose to challenge the raiders. but the fortress glnners and their fighter escorts shot down eight of them.
 Hours later, the RATS speedy
 Wellington night bomberS raced back to Piraeus and heaped new destruction on the enemy's vital port-the seaport for Athens through which German supplies and troops have been streaming mot the De- decanese and the invasion threat ened Grecial Islands.
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And Sure, Now
 There Was No Hord FeeIin's

White Plains, N. Y, Jan. I2. (UP) There's nothing like an old fashioned feud between the Me- Intyre and Mitchels of Chicken Island in Yonkers, and members of the two clans wondered today why the law was so excited over their little private shooting match.
 The leaders of the Clans Sweeney Mcintyre, 73 and bit limp from an old injury, and John Nit chell, 35, said there were no hard feelings when they lined up 60 paces apart, last October, and let go with their shotguns.
 Mitchell and Mcintyre spent about 10 days in a hospital while physicians picked the pellets out of their bodies.
 Neighbors said the shots flew thick and fast around Chicken Island as the two clansmen loaded and re- loaded their guns, firing at each other. But while 1t resembled 8 good old Kentucky feud. Mcintyre and Mitchell merely were settling a neighborly argument about Mc1n- tyres daughter, they told a West chester country grand jury yester- day.
 Both had been charged with first degree assault for shooting each other but neither would testify against the other and the grand jury dismissed the charges.
 When the grand juiy's decision was announced. Mcintyre and Nit chell walked arm-in-arm out of the courthouse, protesting the greatest affection for each other.
 The events left Assistant District Attorney Frederick E. Weeks, IT,, a little bewildered.
 Tt would seen," he said, "that the defendants think we should anolnalga for intervaninRs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

While the German higAl command was claiming 136| raiders dOwned and 'sthe del StructiOn of further enemy planes probable" authOritiea were checking official reports from air bases i'm Britain and were expected to issue a cOnal munique at any time.
 Speculation that the toIE of German planes IaighA exceed 300 revOlved around the record figure of 305s destroyed in the double raid on Schweinfurt and Regens- burg last August 17.
 Sergeant Edward D. Bald-l win, of Hollywood, Calif., told about the smoke screen tac-| tics:
 "The enemy planes Hned up so that they made a trall right in front of IS. Just bel fore they started Co attack the leading plane let out q plume of smoke, attempting to hide the others. At f1rst I| thought it was an accidental backf1re from the leaders, ship, but it happened four times"
 Sergeant Ernest W. ClaussE. Dszzs-I cannon, Pa, 8 ball turret gunnsEs } told about the Germans maneaveTNl ing into 6 broadside line:
 "On our first run over the tarsstI we were all by ourselves. There wasn't even any flax. Then. off inl the distance. we saw 18 ships. They were stacked in a neat fortress type formation and for . moment we were relieved because we thought some achievements were on the way.
 'They circled in formation and then we saw that they were Messer- schmitts-110. They got around tol the side of us and then they didl the neatest .right-into-li line move ment you ever saw. When all ok them were facing us. they let 90 a broadside of rockets. The roc- kets seemed to burst in Q great line of red and yellow fire. The whole mass of the rockets flew into GIT formation, most of them missed but some of them got lucky hits. We felt like we were fighting from 1ly- ing pill boxes and those Mezser- schmitts were infantry coming over the top.
 Going from base to base today in a jeep. United Press Correspondent Douglas Werner and I interviewed scores of flyers in an attempt to find out what the battle of Hell in the Heavens" was like yesterday. The experience of Lieutenant C0l@ onel Louis c. Thor1p of Saik Lake City was fairly typical.
 Worried ThOughkw
 Many of the boys in ThaWuph formation of % Flying EortEesssa admitted there were times when
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destroyer of1 Oyual Island, 1oz09 IS miles northwest of Rabsul sssAanW aa afire.
 Ceaselew Reun4lng
 Other Allied planes o0ntimua& their ceaseless pounding of 1aRAss~ csc transportation facilities ard D. s. naval units bambarded enemy communications, supplies md nun emplacements in ChoiseuI Dav, tl<1s across Bougainville Straits from BOugainville.
 The bombardment wns eaxrze6 ouk by destroyers. indicating t vas not as heavy as the raid on Shorthand Island, off the southern tlp If Bougainviiie. Saturday in which both cruisers and destrUyezn took part.
 Q. 6. Marines rspulgsd tWe moz@ Japanese counter r-ntkacax on AnaNfi. can positions surrounding the tNt Cape Gloucester air strips in n1zA's. western New Britain and 1aN6 some advances around Hi1 ES8 the communique Aaid. xAt#kA1tK bOmbeEs joined in hanazneTIug Imp anese positions southeast E Alnekican~heId areas. zE NIaH 4E4 gen Bay aNea, Marines eeu preHuEe azaiu4| enemy Nnes g
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Sergeant Is Killed
 By Hit-Run Driver

Cranston, R. T., Jan. 12. UP)-A sergeant in the armed guard at a local war plant was dragged 2O12 feet to his death today on the bumper of a hit-run automobile.
 Sgt. Joseph P. McLynch, 4S, of East Providence was helping push stalled car at the gate of the Uni- versal Wire and Supply Co. Plant when he was struck by a black coupe. The victims overcoat re- mained entangled in the machines bumper after his body was thrown clear.
 Previously, McLynch had ordered several plant employees to the side walk because of the traffic hazard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
MANY REQUESTS CONTAINED IN
 KELLOGG WILL

The will of the late Captain Frank Woodruff Kellogg, local SpaniSh-American and World War veteran was today placed on file at the Probate Court. Containing 8 specific clauses the original will, which has four additional codicils attached to it, places the greater share of the estate of the late prominent Navy veteran, in trust to the Colonial Trust Company in behalf of the testator'S son, Stephen Wright Kellogg, now a lieutenant in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific war area.
 One specific c1ause of the will provides for $10,000 being held in trust by the Colonial Trust com pany to be held by the latter for investment and reinveStment and from which the net income is to be paid to the Waterbury hospital to be used by the latter "in provid- ing care and treatment of poor and suffering patients otherwise unable to pay" AS a requisite to this be- quest the clause states that the care and treatment Is to be ad- ministered in 8 private room to be known as the Frank Woodruff Kel- logg Room.
 All personal property and effects are willed to the son Stephen Wright Kellogg and include items such as jewelry, clothing, portraits, books, sword collection, knives curios and butterfly collection.
 A nephew Frank Kellogg Eng fish is bequeathed $1,000 and to each other nephew and nieceS, chil- dren of the testator's brothers John and Charles and sisters Sarah, Lucy and Elizabeth who may survive, the sum of $l00 each.
 The rest. residue and remainder of the estate is left in trust for the use and benefit of the son Ste phen Wright Kellogg, provided the testators share of the residence known as 83 Prospect street, the sllare being one-fourth of the said land and buildings, be sold during the lifetime of the lattcr's sisters Sarah K. Plume, Elizabeth K. Chase
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