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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

said.
 Referring to Americans who are anti-B British, he said:
 They don't like us. They don't trust us. They want Co have nothing to do with us. Maybe they are still living in the days of your historic tea party, or in 1872, or in the bad years of the Irish troubles.
 "One hears talk that Britain ought to be more grateful for Amer ican lend-lease. Of course the Bris tish people are and always will be grateful for all the help you have given under lend-lease, as they will never forget all you have done for the children you took Into your homes and the help you sent our people who have been bombed.
 But they remember too that the lend-lease act was most truly term. cd by its authors an act to promote the defense of the United States and that while you were doing all that, they themselves were being bombed and killed and had the whole German might concentrated on them only 20 miles away.
 If the British Commonwealth had not stood firm in lo40, there would be no Allied cause today and your freedom with ours would have disappeared n the British people will never understand an argument that we are more indebted to you or that you can run @ great cause on the strict basis of an acc counting firm"
 Halifax said the Germans and Japanese, now knowing they face certain defeat, would try to make Q 'compromise peace" In that way, he declared flies disaster"
 Stating that the peace offensive had already started with German broadcasts attempting to split the British, Russians and Americans, he said he thought tour people will see this, for they have learned too much to be taken by smooth words"
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FOR ToAssaY M0n Power
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 Local draft boards for 10 days have been reviewing industrial and agricultural deferments, especially for men under %, at the presldent't request and manufacturers have ex. pressed fear that indiscriminate drafting of heretofore deferred workers would cripple arms output
 A first result of the frightened de- ferment policy was revealed last week when WIPE got only seven out of some 250 deferments requested for key employees.
 It was reported after yesterdays meeting that Nelson and McNutt told the president that draft boare miSinterpretation of his review order was causing a grave threat to pro- ductlon. Local boards were said to have interpreted 1t to mean they should push workers out ahead of fathers, and to have ordered whole- sale and indlscriminate cancella- tions of occupational deferments.
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 Government agencies have joined in the drive to free more men for the armed services by limiting re- guests for deferlnents. The War De- partment was understood to have decided to end all deferments for male employees in the l8-2l age cat- egory and all but u few hundred in the 22-25 bracket. which includes $500 men.
 The acute stage of the military manpower problem was reflected two weeks ago when MT. Roosevelt disclosed that the Army alone was more thaA 100000 men behind its authorized goal because draft boards were not meeting quotas.
 The difficulties have been multi piled by the fact that the boards TOW are calling up men in the higher age brackets where the re- jecuon rate Is considerably higher. Hopes of easing the father draft by inducting large numbers of men now in AZ were dashed by a spe- cial presidential medical commls- sion which found that physical standards cannot be lowered with out hurting efficiency of the armed forces.
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quarters at Guadalcanal described the Japanese attacks on Bougain- vile Saturday as "fanatical" charges which at times carried the enemy troops to within ten feet of the muZ- zles of U. s. machine guns.
 Tn one attack, nearly 800 Japanese were killed as they attempted to break through the American Toro- kina perimeter on Express Augusta Bay. A spokesman at Guadalcanal said the enemy made three attacks on Saturday, but 0ll were repulsed and the American lines restored to original positions.
 Dispatches from Bougainville said, however, that some Japanese had intiltrated through the mined and barbed-wire lines and were keeping U. s. forces occupied with persist ent fire.
 At MacArthur's headquarters, c spokesman estimated that between 3, 1000 and 1000 Japanese took part in the attacks in an apparent des- perate attempt to relieve the enemy force of 22,o00 stranded on Bougain- vile.
 Allied air and naval units also took part In the Bougainville fight ing, with torpedo and dive.bomb- CTS hitting enemy positions around the ToroSina perimeter while heavy bomhers raided Kieta and Kahill on the east coast and air and naval patrols attacked targets on the southwest coast at Buka aud Tin. puts harbor.
 Elsewhere throughout the south west Pacific, American airmen coil- tinued their daily attacks, dumping li7 tons of bombs on Rabaul, New Britain, and 1l2 tons on Wewak, New Guinea.
 At least six barges were destroy cd around Rabaui, and possibly three others together with two coastal vessels of Warangoi.
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Knox estimated the present strength of the Navy at 2,5l0,000 officers and enlisted personnel, ia- cluding Waves.
 Knox noted that draft boards re- gently have encountered much ditn- culty in meeting their quotas.
 Tt is my personal view, and that of the secretary of war and the chairman of the maritime commits sion, that we are bound to have to face the large phase of the whole problem and enact some kind of national service law" Knox said. That will check and halt the most serious faeture of the whole man. power problem-turnover in eEn- ployment."
 Knox cited the scheduled con- struction of 00,000 landing craft by the end of 1914 as one of the req sons for the continuing need for young seagoing officers under 35. The shore establishments of the Navy have been combed for youth- ful officers physically it for sea duty he said, and the capacities of naval reserve 1nidshipmen schools have been increased and Q new school opened. The November l graduating date of naval reserve officer training corps students in the 27 colleges has been advanced. On top of that the Navy plans to continue the Navy college program aS originally conceived,
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NContlnleu rom Page D other supplies for German forces manning defenSeS on the Brittany and Bay of Biscay coasts.
 The assault was made by Q force comprised entirely of four.engined Halifaxes and was one of the heov- fest yet directed against communi. cations in France, which presum- ably must be paraly2ed in advance of the opening of Q western front in Europe.
 It was the fifth raid by the RATS heavyweightS in eight nights on France, including an attack 0 week ago on Le Mans.
 Other British planes rounded out the nights offensive with mine- laying sorties over enemy waters and intruder patrols over Europe, Three planes, including two from the bomber command, were lost in all operations.
 Several formations of American planes, paced by Flying Tortresses, bombed the French invasion coast in daylight yesterday.
 Fast, low-dying German planes bombed open land in a southern, England district early this morn ing. One outer London area had a brief alarm, but no bombs were dropped.
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new gains thruogh crumbling en- erny defenses all the way from Pol- and to the Black sea as the three Russian Ukrainian armies intensi- fed what appeared to be their su- preme effort to clear southern Rus sin of the invaders.
 Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st Army, striking out suddenly in a new offensive between embattled Tarnopol and Proskurov at the western end of the front, captured Skalat, only 52 miles north of the Dniester river border of old Ru- mania and l06 miles northeast of the former boundary Ot Czechoslo- vakia.
 The advance also brought Zhu- kov's forces 68 miles northeast Of the Lwow-Cernauti railroad, one of three remaining German escape routes from the southern Ukraine and 77 miles from Cernauti itself. Some 8,200 Germans were killed in bitter battle on the approaches to Skalat, while 20 enemy tanks and nine self-propelled guns were de- stroyed. Booty included more than 1000 trucks.
 Far to the southeast, Gen. RodIon Y. Malinovsky's 3rd Ukrainian army set the stage for Q pincers assault on Nikolaev att he mouth of the Bug and Ingul rivers with the cap- ture of the Dnieper Estuary port of Kherson 37 miles to the southeast and 90 miles east of Odessa.
 Malinovsky'B veterans of Stalin. grad seized Kherson, q city of 07,000 held by the Germans since Aug. 2i, l04l, after Q smashing 20-fnile ad. vance that sent the enemy reeling back in panic. A large amount of arms and other supplies were cap- tured.
 Another 3rd Army column was driving down on Nikolaev from Uly- anovka, 20 miles north of the port.
 At the base Of the enemy salient stretching back east of Nikolaev, the Russians killed 800 Germans in repulSing Q number of counter-at- tacks launched by drunken" Of. ncerS and men, the Soviet high com. mand reported in It's midnight com. munique.
 The End Ukrainian army under Gen. Ivan s. Konev also began Q new offensive, routing the 18th Ger man artillery division in breaking through enemy defenses on the east ern approaches to Vinnitga and ] zhmeTtnka, the latter on the odSSAa-
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telling the Films and the world what stage the peace negotiations have reached, would be announced today.
 Until the government has broken It's silence 1t iS not possible for for eign correspondents to discuss the subject of peace between Russia and Finland in the way they would like.
 Parliament met today in regular open session, and members of the government were believed to be de- voting intense attention to the suh- ject of the peace negotiations,
 Thus Q state of expectancy ob. tains among the public as well as among Finnish and foreign corres- pondents. The reporters are waiting for Q development they can write about.
 The arrival Sunday of three American newspaper men from Stockholm, including this correspon- dent, aroused considerable interest here. There had been no American correspondent here for six months, and many Films of all classes con- tinue to look to the nited States for salvation in thesc troubled times recognized of the fact that official American Finnish relations have been extremely tenuous for more than Q year.
 The Films have met casually immediately want to know what Americans think of Finland. They seemed disappointed when I said that my personal opinion was of no value.
 When I pointed out that the American viewpoint has been ex- pressed officially by Secretary of State Hull in his note warning Fin. land to quit the r, the Films seemed downcaSt.
 leSSnish press comment has sub" sided considerably for lack of ana nounce developments. What come ment there is adds nothing to the situation,
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Walter WiHaCIaeIl
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large Q following. Few are quoted and nlisquoted as extensively as he. It is common to hear people say: Did you hear what Winchell said last night3' And for that reason he should take extreme care not to broadcast anything that can be used as enemy propa Nnda. The other Sunday night he startled the nation with Q report of rioting In Albuquerque, New Mex. He gave the impression that the rioting had been serious; that knives and blackjacss had to be used, but that 1t had been brought under control. If . street fight involving some zoot-suiters and pugnacious kids can be termed a riot, then his broadcast is correct. |. Unfortunately, such O broadcast leads many people in this country to believe there was serious rioting in Albuquerque Street fights between gangs of kids are not un- common. When Winchell was a kid, he probably, as most of us have, took part in more than one fight. Not by any stretch of the imagination would he term such fights as riots. Then why give the Axis radio some- thing to shout about2"
 My dear Editor. It was not who exaggerated. The flash was handed me right off the teletypes in the Blue Network news room. The word riot was in the flash tele- graphed by established news services straight from Albuquerque.
 A newspaperman and radio rec porter is as much part of our po- litical scheme a3 the statesman, politician and the dime-a- dozen mis- fits who make the news As such the reporter should be subjected to just as many brlckbats, islanders and innuendos It is all part of the game, and anybody who can't take 1t should not have entered into 1t in the first place. But by the same American code by which you are obliged to take 1t, you are also en- titled to dish 1t out !. Currently l am being vilified by being called a vilifier =. welcome the attack be- cause 1t comes from the people l regard as the most contemptiblc that ever disgraced American citizenship. They believe that their own miser- able self-interest is the destiny of this Republic. They think that free dom of speech is the right to lie about the President, that free enter- prise means pre-war profits from Government money and that the only thing the matter with Hitler Is that he doesn't pay cash ... I re. peat, welcome their attacks, They cannot be expected to stick to the rules because they can never afford to stick to the facts.
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cause of the Kings general bassos of Naples who have been saying we must support the King because Communism is Italy's greatest dan- ger will now be completely con- fused and bewlldered by this new Russian move" (Gen. 3asso of the Italian army is known for his un- critical devotion to the King)
 Meanwhile, other Italian sources predicted that the United States and Britain could be expected also to exchange diplomatic representatives with the Badoglio government.
 An official Italian communique announcing that the Soviets had agreed to exchange diplomatic rep resentatives with Italy came only a day after a mass meeting of Com- munists and two other Leftlst part les here demanded addiction of King Victor Emmanuel and 0 new Democratic government on tn c ground that the Badoglio regime did not represent the Italian people.
 Russia was the first of the Ale lied powers to recognize Italy, which has had diplomatic relations only with neutral nations since 1t sur- rendered. The announcement made 1t clear that the Italian government had taken the initiative in asking for establishment of reIations.
 (The British broadcasting corpor- ation said a Naples dispatch report- cd that similar requests had been addressed to the United States and Britain. There was no confirmation that such request had been re- ceived in London
 Diplomatic sources in London to recognize the Badogllo govern ment was made without previous consultation with the other Allied governments although the latter were informed unofficially that the Soviet action was coming.
 The Italian communique left some doubt whether the 1tNlo- So- viet relations will be on the basis normal between two independent countries or more In the nature Of RussiaS relations with the French Committee of National Liberation, but a statement that the two na- tions will "eXchange representatives enjoying the usual diplomatic status" indicated that full relations will exist, de facto If not de jure.
 Some observers saw in the action an effort by the Badoglio govern ment to appease the leftiSt parties which have been fighting 1t. I'm. portance was attached to the fact that the agreement came at 0 time when there was much ado about the question Of ope-third of the Italian Navy reinforcing the Rus- sian fleet.
 Presumption of direct ofilcial re. lations between Italy and the U. s. s. R. represents the closing of Q chapter and the opening of e new phase of Italian international life" an official government spokesman said.
 Badoglio, In a personal message to Premier Josef Stalin, said:
 "At the moment in which our two countries decide to exchange ofii- clal representatives, particularly wish to underline to you, Marshal Stalin, that all of the Italian na- ton is fully conscious of the impos- ing and victorious Soviet war effort and Is more than ever convinced of the necessity of bringing back Italo- Russian relations to that basis of constructive and friendly coopera- ton which was temporarily and tragically abandoned by the regime which we are today fighting to- gether.'
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 Ireland on the other which even generations wouldn't bridge.
 We for some time past have taken Q number of measures to minimize dangers arising from the substantial desservice to the Allied cause involved in the retention by MT. (prime Minister Eamon) De Valera's government of the German minister and the Japanese consul and their staffs in Dublin,
 "T'he time has come when these measures must be strengthened and the restrictions on travel to Ireland announced yesterday are the first step in Q policy designed to Isolate Great Britain from Southern Ire- land and also isolate Southern 1re- land from the outer world during the critical period now approach. ing"
 Churchill said the United States took the initiative in approaching Fire with q suggestion that the DeValera government seek the re. call of Axis diplomatic and con- sular representatives because of the danger to American forces from the presence of Axis missions in Dublin" Fire rejected the sug- gestion.
 "The British government were :. consulted throughout by the United States government and gave the American approach full sup. port" he said.
 Churchill said 1t was painful for Britain to take restrictive measures against Fire because of the "large numbers of 1rishmen who are fight ing so bravely in our armed forces and the many deeds of personal heroism by which they have kept alive the martial honor of the Irish race"
 No one, I think, can reproach us for precipitancy," Churchill said. No nation in the world would have been 50 patient. In view, however, of the fact that both British and dominion lives and the lives of the soldiers of our Allies are iinperilled, we are bound to do our utmost to obtain effective security for forth. coming operations
 The British government would also be held accountable to the peo- pie of the United States if 1t could be shown that we had in any way failed to do everything in our power to safeguard their troops"
 Prof. Douglas l.. Savory of Bel- fast, conservative, called attention to the fact that Fire still legally was member of the British Com. monwealth of Nations and asked whether it's toleration of Axis rep. resentativeg in Dublin was con. Jlstent with such membership.
 "The whole question of the posi-. ton of Southern Ireland Is aronal- ous from various points of view and I can conceive that lawyers and high legal authorities might have veyr great difficulty in defining the factual relationship which prevails" !" Churchill said. "At any rate, I shall not attempt to do go."
 Ulster sources earlier had pre- dicted tighter restrictions on travel between Northern Ireland and Fire, especially in the vicinity of the American naval base at London. derry, but cast doubt on the Sug. gestion the border would be closed 0onnlstsly.
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We of management will try to repress monopolistic practices, un- fair treatment of competitors, and business racketeers. You Qabor) will try to repress monopolitic prac- tices, unfair treatment of fellow workers, and labor racketeers.
 We will tell you the financial facts of life about us. You will tell us the financial facts of life about you.
 We will try to reduce the num- Der of our strikes which withhold inventions and products. You will try to reduce the number of your strikes which withhold labor and service.
 We will try to give you job se- curity and basic income security. You will try to give & full honest days work every day.
 We will recognize you and re- frain from trying to cripple you with unfair regulatory laws. But you will recognize us and refrf..l from trying to destroy us by unfair and ruinous laws.
 "The United States can be strong only by acts of popular free will. That is why I saw just two things to you of management and to you of labor.
 "One. Go ahead and turn thls country into a continuous brawl, and government will chain you both.
 TWO. Make Q better choice. Work together and stay free.
 If you stay free, I have no doubt of the result-a strong America, m America unlimited
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en diplomatic relations with Ger many and Japan.
 Allies Hope
 Hull made clear to the Vatican and the world yesterday that the Allies hope that Rome will be spared but that military anl not sentl- mental grounds would provide the final answer.
 Naturally" Hull said in a state- ment, i've are as much interested as any government or individual in the preservation of religious shrines, historic structures and human lives.
 T am sure that our military peo- pie have that same view. It is my understanding that the Allied mill tary authorities are pursuing Q pol icy of avoiding damage to such Shrines and monuments to the ex- tent humanly possible in modern warfare and in the circumstances which face them.
 "If the Germans were not en- trenched in these places or were they aS interested as we are In pros tecting rehgllious shrines and mon- uments and preserving the lives of innocent civilians and refugees, no question would rise.
 Tn the Irish question, 1t appear ed certain that every available means would be used to induce the government of Ramon De Valera to drive Axis agents out Of Fire, though only strangling economic squeeze would at first be used.
 In Spain, negotiations to stop all aid to the Axis, including Tuns- Sten ore shiopments, have hit ape parent snags, blasting hopes for an early settlement.
 The Argentine situation was con- fused and the state department was assembling to decide whether 1t will recognize the new regime of Edel- miro Farrell, successor to President Pedro Ramirez
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FIRST AID CLASS
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4 Standard First Aid class is be- ing held on Tuesday evenings at the Red Cross Chapter Rouse, l06 Grove street.
 Any person who wishes to register for this class may do 50 at the ses. slSn tonight ct 7:30. Registrations for this particular class will close on this date.
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(Continued from Page 1) tack, which threatened to cut across their line of retreat from the Hukwang valley.
 American warplanes were IIlain- taining Q savage bombardment of Japanese supply centers throughout the northern area, causing particu- larly heavy damage at Wuntho and Manywet.
 At the same time, RAF dive bombers and fighters bombed and machine-gunned enemy positions along the upper Chindwin to clear the way for the Imperial columns.
 Other British 18th Army forc0 made further progress yesterday in their attack on the Japanese Ara- kan defenses along the Buthidaung- Maungdaw highway, the cofamuni- que said.
 The communique reported with out amplification that e Japanese force had been located moving northward through the Chin hills west of the Manipur river, apparent ly headed toward the Assam from tier.
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They reported that numerous flak shells failed to explode in the air perhaps because of poor material, and dropped and exploded inside the city, adding to the general dam- age and confusion.
 Describing one of the American daylight raids e traveller said the weather was SO clear the homhers could be seen approaching at 5000 feet.
 "Once over the capital" he said, they apparently dispersed. 0sY southwards, reformed into units Ga 20 machines each, and returned oven the city to rain havoc below"
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