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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
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Steel Workers to Seek
Collective Bargaining
Agency at Farrell Fdy.

The War Labor Board regional
branch Of Boston has been petit
toned by the G. I. o. United Steel
workers union for the right to hold
election among the employees Of the
Waterbury Farrell Foundry g. Ma
chine Co., to determine a bargain
ing agent for the plant.
Edward j. Lavery, president OF the
state G. I. o. council made an
nouncement Of the union move to-
day and stated that nomination for
officers for a company union will
take place tonight at meteing at
G. I. o. headquarters, 95 Bank
street.
Mr.. Lavery stated that "big
majority" of the Farrell company
workers had signed up with the
union. However, no official figures
as to the actual number were dis
closed by the labor official.
If the union is successful in OBJ
tanning entrance as bargaining
agent it will be the first of the
Steelworker's organization to bt
active here. All the large indus.
trial concerns here coming undel
the union Jurisdiction of the c. I
o. Mine. Mill g. Smelter Workers
union,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

Kunsschner, Conrad, Kronvall,
Lewis.
Thursday: Bowyer, Browne, Stro-
bel, Van Horsten, Soule.
Friday: Barbiere, Schwenterly,
Evenson, Barnhardt, Tchakirides.
Saturday: Winters, Skipp, Dodge,
Archer, Webster.
The services are held at 7:25 a.
m. every day except Wednesday
when they are held at 1000 a. m.
Sunday, May IA at the 10:45 serv-
Ice there win be a Festival Of Les
sons and Music somewhat similar
to the one at Christmas time. In
addition to the regular Choir and
the Junior Choir. the Choirs Of the
two schools will participate, with the
st. Margaret's Choir in one balcony
and the Westover choir in the other.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
ADJOURNMENT IN
LABOR DISCUSSION

Points Of dispute in the current
contract controversy between the
c. I. o. and the Scovill Mfg. Co.
were conferred upon yesterday by
representatives of management and
labor. The meeting was presided
over by william H. TruaX, commits
sioner of the U. s. labor depart
ment. Following the failure yester-
day of both parties to reach an
agreement the meeting was adj
journed until Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
EVAPORATED MILK
BEING ANALYZED

Use Of evaporated milk received
from the War Food Administration
has been discontinued by. Water
bury schools and hospitals pending
an inspection of supplies by state
and federal food officials. Stomach
disorders were reported to have re-
suited in several New York insti-
buttons following use of the milk.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
FINDS MINK MEAT TASTY

Lansing, Mich. (UP) - Hunting
for new ways to use wild game as
food, saving precious ration points
the Michigan conservation depart
ment has come up with the story
of a Kalamazoo trapper who re-
ports mink meat palatable. The
same trapper rates skunk tastier
dish than poultry.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
THAT SHOULD STOP 'EM

Carmel, CaI.-lUP)-Mrs. Joseph
w. stilwell. wife of the American
general commanding the China
Burma-India war theater. wearied
recently Of warning guests not to
sit in q particularly weak occasional
chair and roped the seat OF with
q bright red sash. An alert friend.
noting the change, followed up the
move by placing q carefully written
card ON the chair bearing the In
scription. General stilwell sat
herel"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
HAY ON COLUMBUS

Vanceburg, KY. (UP).-The Rev.
Ira Stout, local clergyman, taught
a grade school class for a teacher
who was Ill. When the teacher re-
turned to school, she asked her class
how they liked their substitute. "Oh,
fine" one little girl said. But he
knew a lot more about God than
he did about Columbus.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

Al least 100000 tires are con.
sidered necessary 10 meet essential
wartime driving.
The 1874 produeti0n Of the auto.
motive industry viii exceed 10 IL
billion dollars.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
STREET CLEANING HITCH

Boston CUP - Boston's spring
street cleaning campaign struck a
temporary snag when an automat-
ic broom became ignited as it
picked up a lighted cigarette. The
mishap cost the city SIS.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Lana Turner Files Suit
For Divorce From Crane

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 8.-Actress
Lana Turner filed suit for divorce
from Stephen Crane, former broker
whose marriage to the blond film
player was annulled. only to be re-
sumed again. She charged extreme
cruelty.
The actress on February 4. 1943
shortly after announcing she ex-
pected to become mother. obtained
annulment of their marriage on the
ground that Nj Cranes divorce
from his first wife was not final
But before the child was born, The
following July 25, they reconciled
and were remarked.
Miss Turner in her suit today
asked custody Of their child, Cherry
Christina Crane but she sought nc
allmOnN
Miss Turner and MI Crane were
first married in Las Vegas, Nev., July
IT. 1912 She was the former wife
OF Bandleader Artie Shaw. Mr.
Cranes first wife was Carol Hunt
Crane Indianapolis social figure He
recently was honorably discharged
from the Army.
Mr.. Crane, told of the suit, com
mented:
Il don't know yet what I'm going
TO do. My main thought is for the
best interests of our child"
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Buff DoneIIi 10 Seek !:
Steel Strike SefiIemenki |
BY the Associated Press.


BRECKENRIDGE, Pa, April g.
A strike precipitated by the dis
charge of four workmen last Thurs
day made more than $500 employees
idle today, virtually closing the
Breckenridge plant OF the Alle-
gheny Ludlum Steel Corp.
Aldo Buff Donelli, former coach
at Duquesne University, was as
signed to the case as his first since
becoming a conciliator for the Labor
Department. Army and Navy
ordnance men joined in seeking a
settlement.
Michael Petrak, CIO representa-
tive, said the wslkout was not au-
thorized by the United Steelwork-
ers of which the strikers are men,
bers, and said the CIO is trying to
get the men to return to work.
H. G. Batcheller, president of the
company, said that production OF
500 tons daily of high alloy steel
vitally necessary to the war effort
was stopped" by the strike, which
he stated was the 18th in the plant
since January l.
Strikes during 1914 at the Brack-
enridge plant have resulted in the
loss of 165, 900 man-hours of labor
and cost the community 1925 900 in
payrolls, Mr.. Bachelor asserted.
The company said the four work
ers were discharged after a hearing
"for conduct interfering with the
war effort" and that the union con-
tract provides for handling Of griey-
ances.
Evening star., 1944-04-09

alone a battalion of 800 to 900 Axis
trops was wiped out during the
day.
In the Razdelnaya pocket the
Russian slaughter of trapped Ger
man troops ended when they tried
to fee across the Kuchurgan River
the communique said. When these
were moved down by machine gun
fire or drowned the Russians chalked
up a final total of 1000 Axis troops
killed and 5000 captured in "or-
ganized group surrenders," in three
days.
Killing about $500 more Ger
mans In the Skala trap yesterday
the Russians boosted their toll of
enemy troops in that sector to 1880
in five days. Scores of tanks, hun
dreds of trucks and other valuable
booty were destroyed or captured
as Soviet airmen joined the battles
of annihilation, Moscow said.
Despite heavy rains and mud
bogs the invasion of Rumania was
so swift that Red Army units yes
terday overhauled and crushed Axis
troops trying to flee across the
Siret River west of Botosani, the
late communique said.
Evening star., 1944-04-09

side and I know they don't take
care of them (meaning war vet
erans) like they do here"
Tavern damned to Capacity.
After some one dashed in and
cried: Don has three more planes, ~
the Gentle tavern (also known as
Patsy's place, was jammed to ca
pacity all afternoon and Patsy was
answering questions most of the
time about his son. A lot of stories
were told at the bar, such as the
time that Don flew a plane under
the Miami River Bridge In Piqua,
which his father vehemently de-
MED.
Patsy always fostered, rather than
condemned, Dons interest in avia-
ton. He has lived, breathed,
dreamed and slept airplanes," his
father said.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Press Restrictions
Denied by British
BY the Associated Press.

os Tue ASbOCl&teQ STeSS.
A Congress members comment
that everything British newspapers
print is censored brought a reply
from the British Information Serv-
ice last night that the British press
is as free of government control as
the American press.
Representative Michener, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, commenting
Friday night on an editorial in the
London News Chronicle relative to
United States politics, said the
article appeared there with British
government knowledge and ap-
proval." Everything they print is
censored" he added.
A spokesman for the British In
Iterm alton Service declared: eThe
British government exercises nc
censorship over the press of Great
Britain other than in matters af-
fecting military security, where q
system OF voluntary censorship
identical with that practiced in the
United States is in use.
The British government cannot
censor expressions of opinion on
domestic or foreign affairs. In every
respect the British press is as free
OF government control as the Amer
lean press"
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Mother of Flyer Weeps
With Joy Over Victories

PIQUA. Ohio, April 8 (P).-The
mother of Capt. Don S. Gentle
Wept with joy and concern today
after learning her son had shot
down three more Nazi planes and
had been formally recognized as the
top American ace of two world wars,
oh, God bless my boy" Mrs.
Patrick Gentle sohbed, Then she
asked almost pleadfngly, "Oh, can't
my boy come home!"
While she was happy to hear of
Capt. Gentile,s latest exploits; she
was happier to learn that he was
still safe. She has been worried
about Dominic Salvatore since he
began flying. and hasn't seen him
in three years.
Don's father, who operates a tav-
Iern, was SO elated to hear his son
.had run his string of Nazi planes
70 80 that he exclaimed:
Maybe III just close the place
and go out and celebrate myself
tonight
The elder Gentle, a short, stocky
man. who came to the United States
from Italy when he was Is, nat
urallv wants to see his son, but
remarked:
When Don comes back, we want
every one to come back"
Joe Brunette, Don's cousin. re-
Gently received a letter in which
Don related he had FABRICATED in
l44 sortleS, a figure he said was ex-
ceeded by only one flyer in England
I'm not trying to blow off in
saying how much I've done" the
letter said, "but instead l want to
make my parents proud of me. I'll
come home pretty soon, but not
just yet"
Capt. Gentle, who is 6 feet 2
inches and weighs about 1870, plaved
football and basketball and did
some swimming at Piqua High
School His father bought an air.
plane for him when he was l8. then
in high school.
Aviation Chief Interest.
Before joining the Royal Air
Force in l941 he worked at several
jobs here, but had little interest in
anything but aviation, his father
said.
When he was home after COM
pleting his training course at Glen
dale, Calf he sat here and talked
with me" his father said.
I told him I thought it would
have been better for him to take his
two years IN college and then ioin
the American Air Force. but he
said I haven't got much, but III
bet YOU I'm in the American Air
Force in II months
In Just II months and d DAYS he
was IN the American Air Force"
The elder Gentle laughed as he
said that, but he was serious when
he added: I've lived on the other
Evening star., 1944-04-09

United States Army Air Force
September 9, 1912, and flew Thun-
derboltS until he changed recently
to Mustangs. He has lost none OF
his relish for buzzing. and when he
roarS in low after mission an in
telligence officer Invariably remarks
here comes Gentle flying like he's
had a good day"
Beerdower Bags Two.
In todays fighter battles Capt
Don M. BeerdoWer of Hill City
Mimi, bagged two Focke- -Wulf 1905
and Messerschmitt 109 to bring
his total to 1871.
Capt. Jack T. Bardley of Brown
wood, Tex. got three Focke- -Wult
1905 to make his total 81.
Both Capt. Beerdower and Capt
Bardley are members of a Mustang
group commanded by Col. James
Howard of ST. Louis, which claimed
a total of 20 enemy planes. This
bag surpassed this groups previous
high of 18 made in the January 5
Kiel attack.
Col. Howard, who came to this
theater from the Pacific, where he
had Ga Japanese planes to his
credit, got his sixth German plane
to run his total to 121s.
Other pilots who scored triple
victories today were 1t: Willard w
Millikan of Malvern, Iowa, and 1t
Louis H. Morley of Conrad, Mont.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
London Reports Allies
Agreed on Principles
Ito Deal With Poles

LONDON, April 9 Sunday The
Sunday Times said today that Rus
sia, Great Britain and the United
States are agreed on the basic prin-
ciples for dealing with the Polish
people as soon as the Red Army
crosses the Curzon Line and enters
what Russia considers Poland
proper.
Premier Stain will issue a mani
festo to the Polish people as soon
as the crossing is effected, the paper
said, and in the future the basic
principles contained therein will be
followed in manifestos issued BY
Russian British American forces
advancing in pursuit of the Ger
mans into enemy-occupied terri
tory"
tWaS gton diplomatic
sources, we'll informed on Russo
Polish political problems. pro-
feSsed complete ignorance last
night of any such Russian
Brltish-American agreement on
basic principles for dealing with
the Polish people when the Red
Army crosses the boundary into
territory which Russia recognizes
as Polish.
Competent officials here said
the only basic agreement of three
powers on Poland is that all three
expressly want a strong. demo-
cratic Poland. How that aim is
to be attained, by what means
and when remains unsettled. it
was said.D
The Times story said:
While final wording of the mani
festo to the Poles will depend upon
circumstances at the time of issue
these basic principles provide for a
solemn declaration by the Soviet
government announcing the liberia
ton OF Poland and the creation of a
sovereign Polish State guaranteeine
political freedom to all democratic
forces and assuring full religious
freedom to all denominations.
1t Is understood the advancing
Soviet military authorities also will
announce their readiness to hand
over civil administration as far as
1t is consistent with military opera
tions to properly constituted local
civil authorities.
Political complications may of
course arise If by that time rela-
t1onS have not been restored be-
tween the Polish government in Lon
don and the Soviet Union.
1T is hoped, however, that free
ing OF Polish territory and the en-
suing close contacts between the
Red Army and the Polish under
ground forces will assist in clearing
up the dispute, and influence both
parties to accept a more realistic
and more moderate attitude"
Evening star., 1944-04-09

INTO the United States some 800
African plants. many of which have
contributed materially to American
agriculture.
DR.. Shantz returned to Africa in
1924 as member of an educational
commission sponsored by the British
Colonial Office, the Phelps Stokes
Fund and the International Educa-
tlonal Board He attended the In
ternational Soil Science Conference
at Leningrad in 1884 and afterWard
toured the major agricultural re-
glons OF Russia
He has served variously as profess
sor and department head at Colo
rado College and the Universities of
Nebraska, Missouri and Louisiana
He has been head of the division of
wildlite management in the Forest
Service for eight wears.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
u. 5. Ambulance Unit
Sees Heavy Fighting
On Burma Front
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI. April 8.-Seventy
members of the American Field
Service are serving under fire as
ambulancerS with the British on the
Burma India border-on the Tamu-
Palel road-and are making a fight
ing withdrawal up the Tiddim road
with the 17th division to the edge of
the Imphal plain
Seven, cut off and losing three am
balances. one water wagon, one jeep
and perhaps a weapon carrier, eS-
capped to besieged 1mphal through
the jungle and along the Tiddim
road under Unit Comdr 1t. Hugh
Parker of Marblehead, Mass Nine
vehicles reached Imphal and 13 9TH
ers were isolated
Include Publishers Son.
Among those with the 17th Divi-
sion is Mark Ethridge, ir., of Pros
pect, KY, son of the publisher of
The Louisville Courier journal
The second unit. on the Tamu-
Palel road. comprises Is ambulances
and so men under Second 1t. Feen,
the 23-year-old son of Berea Col
lege ky professor. 1t is moving
along the strongly route
that extends from Tamu on to I'm
phal. According TO their reports to
headquarters Capt. Jack Pemberton
of Rochster, Mimi, a veteran of the
Middle East, they are operating un-
der severe enemy pressure.
Those who reached Imphal with
1t. Parker after perilous journey
against the jungle and the enemy
are Volunteers James Reppert of
Upper Montclair, N, j., Michael
Cheney of Palo Alto, Calf, Gayle
Smith of Graymont, H., Berlin Du-
val of Montclair, N. j., and Allan
Block of Oshkosh. Wis. Louis Korn-
brodt of Portland, Greg, who
strayed from the group, reached
headquarters later.
Patrick at Headquarters.
The headquarters staff in sur
rounded Imphal is composed of
around 25, including Capt. John Pat
rick of New York, a Hollywood
scenario writer and playwright and
author of the recent The Willow
and l."
The ambulancers have seen the
most vicious type of fighting during
the last three weeks and were
forced to dig in like all the rest in
the most rugged kind of country.
Volunteer Kornbrodt. who got out
with a group of Tommies, once dug
a foxhole SO deep he couldn't get
out of it unaSsisted.
Volunteer Adrian Whyte of New
York, former star skier and diver
saw five Indian soldiers blown up
on the roadside between the Tamu
sector and 1mphal while they were
eating lunch, He helped with the
burial.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Missing Soldier Writes
Mother From Beuchheod

Pvt. Dexter R. Reed, 19, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Reed, 735 An
derson Lane. Rockville, who re-
Gently was reported missing in ac-
tion by the War Department, is
well somewhere near the Anzio
oeachhead' in Italy, according to
a letter received from him, his
mother said yesterday. His mother
said he apparently was not a pris-
oner.
Pvt. Reed, who is in the infan-
try, has been overseas about 18
months. He has four brothers in the
armed forces
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Chinese UNRRA Official
To Address Librurions

DR.. T. F. Tsiang, Chinese represen-
tative In the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration.
VIII speak on "China's New Age"
before the District Library Associa-
ton at $50 pm. Tuesday In the
Coolidge Auditorium of the Library
OF Congress, it was announced today.
A graduate of Oberlin College and
Columbia University, DR.. Tsiang was
formerly Chinese Minister to Russia
chlef political secretary to President
Chlang Kai-shek and head of the
history department of Using Hua
University.
Evening star., 1944-04-09

NAt1A, " Al I IAl Z
I ON Govern
ment service e
Saturday after
nearly 80 years
with he de-
partment.
Also a we'll
known explorer
DR.. Shantz went
to Africa with
t he Smithson-
Ian Institution
in 1919 a n d
spent Is months
in the interior
On his return,
he introduced
Evening star., 1944-04-09
War Finance Committee
To Meet Tomorrow

Reports of War Bond sales dur
ing March, discussion of the April
quota, and announcement of de-
tailed plans and procedure to be
followed in the Fifth War Loan
Campaign, which opens June IL.
will feature the April meeting OF
the District War Finance Commit
tee
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Russia
Continued From First Page. }

northwest of Iasi, indicating the
Russians were outfianking that key
rail city.
Three District Centers Fall.
zhukov's troops took three district
centers of the Stanisulau area.
In addition to zhabye, the nearest
to the Transylvanian border, they
were Pechinezyn and Yablonov, re-
spectively % and 40 miles southeast
of Stanislau Also seized were four
district centers of the Czernowitz
region, including Voskovtsy (Vas-
cautD, 20 miles northwest of Czern-
owitz, and Vizhanitsa (Vijnita), 80
miles west of Czernowitz.
The capture of Seletin, 80 miles
west of the town of Siret, put one
Russian column only II miles from
the border of Northern Transyl-
vania, taken from Rumania by Ger
many and Italy in 1910 and given
to Hungary.
In the fight around Odessa Gen.
Malinovsky's forces, besides captur-
ing Gildendorf, also took Alexan-
drovka, nine miles on the northeast
of Odessa; Ilyinka, IL miles on the
north between the two big lagoons
which are part of Odessas s defenses,
and Ostradovka, II miles on the
northwest.
A number Of other villages on the
east bank of the lower Dniester in
a 25-mile area above captured Ma
yaki, which was taken Friday, also
were seized No further progress
was reported beyond Mayaki, where
the Russians were only 13 miles from
Ovidiopol, through which runs the
last escape route from Odessa across
the four-mile- wide Dniester mouth
into Rumania.
Heavy Axis Casualties.
The midnight Soviet bulletin said
mobile Russian units cutting behind
German and Rumanian units out
side Odessa were inflicting heavy
casualties, and that in one sector
Evening star., 1944-04-09
DR.. Shantz Will Retire
From Agriculture Unit

DR.. Homer L. ShantZ. head of the
Agriculture Departments division of
wildGfe management and interna-
tional authority on soils and vegeta-
Evening star., 1944-04-09

RUSSIANS REACH CZECH BORDER-Arrows locate major
Red Army gains including the reaching pre-
Czechosovakan border in the Tata
forces drove to the Sret River Rumana capturing the towns
Of Siret and BotoSan Around Odessa the in
and above the city cleared pocket Germans Heavy
broken line is approximate battlefront "A Wirephoo
Evening star., 1944-04-09
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Evening star., 1944-04-09
Heavy Axis Casualties.

The midnight Soviet bulletin said
mobile Russian units cutting behind
German and Rumanian units out
side Odessa were infiicting heavy
casualties, and that in one sector
Evening star., 1944-04-09

northwest of Iasi, indicating the
Russians were outfianking that key
rail city
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-02
Wanted To Rent
Business Property

FOR RENT-Large business cor
ner. Five room modern house
and store building on East
Michigan Avenue. H. Peet,
Realtor, ll9 Pearl ST. Phone 1871
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Wings

1t. and Mrs. Eddy McEnnan flew
to Grand Rapids, MINI. Monday.
making the trip In seven hours
18th the help OF q tail wind. They
will spend a week al Otis Lodge.
Grand Rapids, a vacation spot
unique because It has an airport on
the grounds and the fliers come
in and park their airplanes beside
cottages as motorists would their
cars.
While they are gone SIR. and Mrs..
Delbert Pom and Beverley are stay.
ing al the airport with Jimmy No
Enuan and Miss Muriel Rumsey. in
structor. Is taking charge.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Holiday
flew 10 Duluth. MINI, Sunday. and
will visit Mr., and Mrs. McEnnan 1t
Otis Lodge.
Olin Ring. Lorenzo Wells and
Mildred Robinson flew TO Bay City
sunday.
New students al McEnnan Air
port are Harold Ford, Ypsilanti;
Frank Lucas. BelleUlle: and Char
les Joseph DeLana. Willow Lodge.
Chuck Farnum and Jack Slotnik
few in Saturday in a Monocoupe
from Springfield. Ill. Their desu.
nation was Lapeer Sunday Phil
Palmer and c. Robinson flew In
with a cruiser and trainer. respec-
lively. from Triangle Airport.