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Evening star., 1944-04-05

tween the Polish underground and
the Russian Army, it was announced
yesterday.
The Poles issued communique
they had asked assistance
of the two governments in "preven-
ton of incidents which may hinder
further the coming into the open
of the Polish underground army
and render impossible concerted mil
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low" for all officers and unfair to
elementary school teachers who re-
ceive 10 additional compensation for
obteinlI0 a masters degree.
Present rates, starting at $l,400
for elementary school teachers.
81 600 for junior and 81 300 for senior
high school teachers, have been in
effect since 1924. The proposed rates
would start at $1,000 in both ele-
mentary and junior high schools
and $4,000 in senior high schools.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Education Board Plans
To Resume Discussion
On Teachers Pay

The Board of Education plans fur
ther discussion of raises for District
teachers, after the proposed scale
was attacked yesterday by presidents
of the two teachers colleges as
unfair.
DR.. E. A. Clark of Miners Teachers
College and DR.. Walter Hager o.
Wilson Teachers College, said the
proposed scale reduced them in rank
and gave them only a s40O increase
instead of the $1,000 increase given
to men of similar position.
Robert L. Haycock. superintend-
ent of schools, explained that the
apparent inequity in the salary in
crease is the result of an attempt
to reconstruct a long standing flaw
in the organization of authority in
the school system. DR.. Garnet C.
Wilkinson, superintendent of divi-
sionS 10 to 13, is ranked above DR..
Clark and yet has been receiving
the same salary of $4,000 DR..
Hager, at $5,400, has been receiving
more than his superior in rank, DR..
Chester w. Holmes, at $4,7O0.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith also
criticized proposed scales as "too
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Observation-Disclosures
Resignation of McNutt Is Suggested
In National Service Act Tangle

suggestion implies such degraded dou-
BILE dealing upon the part of the
President that it must be rejected.
A more palatable suggestion is that
Mr.. Roosevelt not having been too
well lately and always heavily bur-
|dened, has not grasped the full i'm
plication of the McNutt attitude.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
British Announce Loss
Of All on Penelope
BY the Associated Press

LONDON. April 5.-~The British
admiralty disclosed last night that
4II men were killed or are missing
ana presumed killed in the sinking
OF the British cruiser Penelope off
the Nettuno beachhead. The normal
complement of ship of the Pencil
ope class is about $50 men.
Loss Of the cruiser, known as the
"Pepperpot" because it had heo1
peppered by so many shells in ac-
ton, was announced March 7
Evening star., 1944-04-05
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKINS.

Q. How many women are serv-
ing as postmasterS?-O. B. D.
A. There are now more than
1880.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

". how many women are SerV.
ing as postmasters?-O. B. D.
A. There are now more thar
1880.
@. Is Somerset Maughams novel
"Of Human Bondage" the story o1
the authors life?-A. N. E.
A. Twentieth Century Authors
says that this novel, except for its
ending, is almost entirely auto
biographical.
@. How many breaths does q
person take in a minute?-D. G. I
A. An adult normally takes about
l6 breaths a minute when awake
and 6 to 8 when asleep.
@. What general ranks next in
authority to the Secretary of War?
e. L. H.
A. The chief of staff of the
Army. In matters of policy he has
supreme authority so far as Army
officers are concerned.
Q. Why is it that mail from men
overseas often is received in the
United States more rapidly and
regularly than mail from home
reaches them?-S. E. N.
A. This is possible because
planes and ships returning to the
United States are less crowded and
have more room for mail.
@. Did King George v of Eng
land ever receive in private audi
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Poles Ask U. S.-British Aid
In Collaborating With Reds

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 5.-Poland's ex-
lied government has appealed in
directly to the United States and
Great Britain to support its con-
troll over that country's civilian af-
fairs and to insure collaboration be-
Evening star., 1944-04-05

ness within the
a d m | nistration
that those who
insist that this is
this worst mud
die since the war
began do not ap-
pear to eXag-
gerate. Actually,
the situation is
without prece-
dent-a n d al
most b e. yon d
belief.
II e r etofore it
has been accept
ed that when the
oiin af a Droei
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itary operations with the Russians)
against the Germans"
The Polish government said its
army commanders have been Or
dered to advise Soviet officers that
I'VE expect that in accordance with
international law the Soviet Army
will enable Polish authorities during
military operations on Polish soil to
assure the social and economic well
fare Of the population"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Power Plant Projected

Bulgaria is to build a thermo-
electric plant at the Pernik coal
mines to supply power to Sofa and
the northwest part of the coIntrv
Evening star., 1944-04-05
By FRANK r.. KENT.

The state of affairs which has
arisen over the vital question of
manpower reveals such vacillation,
contradiction, confusion and feeble
Evening star., 1944-04-05
.Huskin's
Answers to


A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau Frederic j.
Haskfn, director, WASHINGTON, d. c,
Please incloSe stamp for return postage.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

A. Compton Mackenzie says that
his majesty did not receive any
representative of the u. S. S. r.
Q. Have medals been awarded to
any dogs in the current warp
T. F. B.
A. Chips, a A..year-old mongrel,
that displayed courageous action
in single-handedly eliminating a
machine gun nest" in Italy, was
awarded the Purple Heart, the Sill
yer Star and the Distinguished
Service Cross. The War Depart
ment announced on February 8,
1914, that "the award of War De-
partment decorations to other than
persons-that is, human beings, is
prohibited"
@. In what language was the
Magma Carta written?-E. M. E.
A. The Magma Carta was writ
ten in Latin. 1t was addressed ITO
the archbishops, bishops, abbots,
earls, barons, justices, foresters,
sheriffs, reeves, ministers, and to all
bailiffs and faithful subjects"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Dies Offered
 Time On Radio

New York, March 18-(UP)-The Blue network today offered Rep Martin Dies O.. Tex), chairman of the house committee on un- American activities IS minutes oi radio time to elaborate on his charge that Walter Winchell had spread falsehoods about Dies and his committee.
 The offer was made by Mark Wood, president of the Blue net work, and Philip W. Lennen, presi- dent of the advertising agency which represents the Jergens com- pany, Winchells radio sponsor.
 Woods telegram to Dies said:
 "The Andrew Jergens company has advised me that 1t Is pleased to offer you its time from 9:15 to 9:30 D. m. over the entire Blue net work this Sunday, March l9, or the Sunday of the following week, whichever may be most convenient to you"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Early Enactment Of 1914 Tax
 Simplification Program Seen
BY FRED MULLEN
Inlted Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrreSpOndenO
 Washington, March ls-(UP)- Early enactment was seen today for the House Ways and Means Com mittee's tax Simpliflcatlon plan which would relieve S0,000,00o indiv- idual income taxpayers of the nec- essity of computing their taxes and simplify the task for the other 2o,- 100000.
 There was virtually no immediate opposition to the plan, which would not materially change the amount of taxes due from any taxpayer. It already has the backing of tho treasury, the Internal Revenue Bur eau and the joint congressional committee on internal revenue tax ation, all of which helped draft 1t.
 The plan actually would not be felt by taxpayers until next Jan. 1, when the proposed new with holding schedule-designed to cover the entire tax burden, rather than just the initial bracket surtaxes as under present Schedules-would go into effect. The first time the new Simplified computation methods would be used would be next March i6, when taxpayers must file final returns covering their lo44 income,
 Ways and Means Committee Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. O., said that the plan actually would add to the roll of Income taxpayers an estimated l90,000 per- sons whose income Is between $500 and $624. But their obligation would not exceed $ie6 . year, the amount which would be due on an income of S624.
 In effect, the plan would combine the present normal and surtaX schedules In a new schedule of grad uated surtaxes ranging from 20 to 9l per cent and substitute for the present victory tax new 3 per cent normal tax.
 The plan provides for a ''presump- tive" deduction of 10 per cent of gross income up to 5000, to cover
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Two Boys Hove 0,336 "A Coupons

Boston, March lS-(UP)- Two Detroit youths today were held in $50, 900 total bail for . hearing April ! after pleading innocent before . U. S. COm- missioner to charges of Illegal possession of sSS6 A gasoline ration coupons worth about S25,0OO.
 Gus J. Skartslvas, 22, of t6SS3 Kercatlel st. and Henry Cat lnella, 2S, Of (2043 Benson SE) Detroit were aFralgned last night after being seized aboard Q train at Worcester by FBT agents. Police said Al6S A cou. pons each were found sewn In the Things of their oveFcOats.
 The government claimed the men were members of Q Crlm- inal ring with headquarters ln Detroit that was operating In eastern cities.
 The high bail-S25, 900 each- was asked to serve warning on ration law vlOlatOFs that Illegal activities would not be t0ler- Ated here and also to protect the pair from possible gang vengeance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Win the War' Says Donoher

New Haven, March iS-(UP)-U. s. Sen. John A. Danaher today called for "the preservation of con- stitutional government against the creeping collectivism which has paralyzed Democratic political &C., ton since the president came into power"
 Addressing Connecticut Republi- can Women's clubs. the senator de- clared that American citizens course was clear on five points.
 First we must win the war;" he said. Second, we must strive to set our own house in order, preserv- ing our own resources for the tre- mendous postwar reconstruction job ahead"
 Thirdly, we must learn to live within our means" Preservation Of the constitutional form of gov- ernment, and postwar collaboration with the peoples of battle-ravaged countries were the other two object ives which Sen. Danaher urged his listeners to insure through exercise of our franchise" next November.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Taft Fovors
 EuroDeon Aid

Boston, March 18.-(UP)-Drec- tor Charles P. Taft of the State Department's Office of Economic Affairs says that the United States is safeguarding it's future prosperity by extending financial aid to Eu- rope.
 He told the Charitable Irish so- cietv last night that relief measures constitute foreign investment needed to rebuild in Europe a source Of raw materials and a market for Amer1- can products.
 Taft told the Charitable Irish so- ciety last night that relief meas ures constitute foreign investment needed to rebuild in Europe a source of raw materials and a market Tor American products.
 we have to rebuild if only to re: store our own markets, he said, ana the restoration of those markets will pay us many times over for the money we put in for the rebuild ing"
 "Our natural resources are going fast. and we shall have to buy more and more of our raw materials abroad in the next 50 years. When we buy abroad. we have to pay with our exports"
 Denuying that relief will become an "international dole or a scheme of the international bankers to fleece our investors. he said:
 "Foreign investment Is an escsen- tial part of our foreign trade. We can't live without foreign trade In the long run. It is part. of the essential life of any great nation"
 He recommended that relief pro fleets emphasize machinery and tools with which impoverished nations may effect their own reconstruc' Hon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Three Horse
 Cookies Nabbed

Hartford, March 18-(UP)- Three men were under arrest to- day, charged with conspiracy to vio- late tte statute forbidding pool sell ing, following Q raid on what States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., de- scribed as the largest horse bock- making establishment in the Hart ford area.
 Rufus Michae: Keegan. w. Ray Whitney, Windsor, and Stanley P. Pikul were arrested on bench war rants. and police seized a ticker machine which was In operation and five unlisted telephones. Direct wire connections to Tropical Park In Miami and Oaklawn Park in Ar kansas were found. Alcorn said. and he added, the telephon ecompanI and the wire company which in- stalled the ticker machine were being investigated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Boy,19,HeId As Alleged
 Torch Slayer
British Official Photo, from NEA)

Boston, March IS -- (UP) - A l9-year.old freight handler was seized by police early today in con- nectlon with the torch staying oi an elderly Charlestown widow, after two surprise confessions had solved the staying of q second woman whose nude body was found in the widows backyard,
 Authorities said the suspect whose name was withheld, would be questioned concerning the death of Mrs. Catherine McGinley, 85 whose Slashed, buldgeoned and burned body was found in her home November 23, 1922.
 His arrest followed closely an- nouncement by police that Samuel w. Gilmore, . Charlestown father of seven children, had signed a de- tailed confession of the staying oi Mrs. Alice D. Sheridan, 40 estfanged wife of a New York policeman. Police said John L. Will son, 27, of Charleston had con- fessed that he aided his friend Gilmore, in disposing of the wo- mans body. Police said the pair probably would be arraigned in Charlestown district court Monday Gilmore on a murder charge and Wilson as an accessory.
 According to Gilmore's confession, he met Mrs. Sheridan on the after noon of March 6 and, with Wilson's permission, took her to the cellar Of the latter's home. When she re- sisted his advances, Gilmore said, he grabbed her by the throat and struck her with his fist. Two days later, he said, he and Wilson car ried the body into a nearby back yard,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
.MuniucOiVes
 Up To Priest

Brunswick, Me, March IS - O.. P9 -- An l9-year-old flrebug sur rendered to police early today at the beheSt Of a Catholic priest to end 0 tour of terror with gun and torch during which he set seven fires and blasted at two pursuers with a shotgun.
 Culminating a 27-hour hunt dur ing which vigllantes patroled the streets of this old college town to protect their homes, Jean L. Ga- mache was taken by police in his home and lodged in jail pending arraignment on arson charges.
 The youthful war worker was un- armed when police arrived and was suffering from a cold that was so severe that 1t was feared he might have contracted pneumonia. The gun was found in the house.
 Gamache told authorities that throughout yesterdays rain he had hidden in vacant buildings and alleys or crept to safety over fac- tory rooftops while a l0o-man posse of police, sheriff's deputies sum- moned from Portland, and aroused citizens made a building to-build- ing search for him.
 Gamache talked freely of his cx- ploitS and told how he nearly was trapped by one fire he set. However he merely shrugged his shoulders when asked the reason for his eSca- pade.
 At times during the manhunt, the youth listened from barn rafters or a building roof as huntsmen and terrified citizens passed beneath him discussing the case.
 Five of his fires-the first Of those set-were in a neighborhood near the Brunswick-Lewiston line of the Boston & Maine Railroad.
 Tn each case, he said, he set the blaze and then dashed to a bridge over which the tracks pass and watched unohserved as the towns four regular firemen' and some of the 50 call men battled the flames.
 After the fifth fire, police began a search along the tracks and Ga mache sped through backwards and alleys to another section of the city where he set two more fires.
 As the hunt was intensified, he
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Fire SoIidIy
 Behind Pope

Dublin, March 18 - (U.PO Minister Ramon De Valera, in a St PatrickS Day broadcast aimed al strengthening national unity, last night urged the Irish to preserve the liberty which they have had the good fortunte to inherit"
 "Eire exists today as separate nation because We have not been willing to yield to pressure in ex- ternal affairs" he declared.
 We are no newcomer among na- tions. Our nationhood is no status recently conferred on Us from out side but is something peculiarly our own with origins deep in the past and our development a significant portion of the worlds history"
 De Valera said Fire has endured much and has many crises but he added that these times of emer- gency have found our nation, in other days, with qualities which ] feel we can call upon unreservedly today.
 Danger on many former occa- sions served to make more firm the resolve of our people, to knit them more closely together and to bring strength and resource that matched the pressure put upon them
 When external affairs succeeded and our people were overborne phy-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Deferred Men Not 27 Now
 Facing Draft
By MERRIMAN SMITH

United Press StaiT CorrespOndent)
 Washington, March IS - (UPO-- The government prepared today to speed up the induction of deferred single men under 26, using both them and fathers to close the gap between the present draft rate and tEe growing manpower needs of the armed services.
 The accent, on the authority of President Roosevelt, was on youth, The army recently has been getting too many older men who 1t claims are unfit for combat duty.
 MT. Roosevelt laid down the latest official draft policy at his news conference yesterday when he said that the chief shortage of the arm- cd services was for men under 26 When you are over 26, the president said, you are much too old-mean- ing a man over 26 is not the physi- cal specimen needed for the heavy going days of war ahead.
 The chief executive went on Co say that few people have reached the status of being indispensable by the time they arc 26 years old. In turn, he added, those under 26 are indispensable on the battlefront,
 This all added Up to this basic picture of the draft situation as of today:
 The government is going to dip heavily into the ranks of the S48,- 900 men who have occupational de- ferments: who are under 26 and who are non-fathers. At the same time, to meet growing manpower needs of the armed services, older men and fathers will be used to bridge the remaining gap between supply and demand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Connecticut
 Firm Given War Contract

Washington, March 10. - tUP) - Early House action - probably the middle of next week - was seen today for Q bill authorizing an ap- propriatIon of $l,e44,S7s.o .o24 for the construction of additional naval shore facilities, including $i,ol9,- 100000 for advance bases.
 The House Rules Committed unanimously approved the measure for floor consideration yesterday Gf- ter Chairman CaSl Vinson, Demo- crat, Ga, of the House Naval Af- fairs Committee said certain of the funds urgently were needed by the Navy. He said the funds for ad- vance bases were necessary for "bases in the Pacific and else where"
 Other items in the bill include: @4l, ,7i6,600 for fleet facilities, $22S,- S75,00O for aviation facilities, $90, . 335,000 for naval storage facilities, $26,375, ,0o0 for Marine Corps hous- ing and training and other funds for ordnance, personnel training and housing. hospital, shore radio facili- ties and the naval research labora- tory.
 In a report accompanying the bill the committee said, It should be noted that Secretary of the Navy may eliminate any part or all of any item and that he may vary the amounts to be spent on each item within the total authorized amount in this bill"
 Among the individual authoriZa- tons, based on estimated costs, the bill calls for the following:
 Fleet facilities:
 Fleet and Cargo piers- total $6,o0o,- 900. including: Portland. Me, and Boston Navy Yard, each $250, 900.
 Expansion of operational group training facilities - total SIG, 1000, 900, Newport, R. l.. $4,00O,0 900; Hyannis, Mass. tnwedo training, $S0O,OOO.
 EIAxsor improvements. in connec- ton with the fleet operating facili- ties, SIG. 400, 900, including work at section bases as follows: Portland, Me, Boston, and Newport, R. l., each '$50,000.
 Convoy and escort bases - total $, 400 900, including Boston, $500, 900
 Aviation shore facilities, $22S. .375,- 900. including:
 North. Atlantic Area -Spnford, Me, q. 100000; Beverly. Mass, $l, ,0O0, 900; Quonset Point, R. T., $5,000, 900; Hy- anniS, Mass, and Nantucket, Mass, each Sl.600, 900; CharleStown. R. l., $2yOO0. 600; Otis Field, Mass, $l.- 10000; Trumbull Field, Conn, ST. 0,000. and South Weymouth, Mass, s2,500,00o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Tanks Annex
 Jap pAirdrome
BY DON CASWEIL
United Press War Corresnonde,

United Press War COrresp0ndentl
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March l8-(UP)-American forces neared complete control of the Admiralties today following cap ture of the important airdrome on Manus Island in a drive which car- ried them to within 600 yards of the Japanese headquarters town of Lorengau.
 Six hundred miles to the east, the enemy's offensive against the U. S. beachhead on Bougainville has completely broken down." while 2,400 miles to the west, Al- lied heavy bomberS raided the big Japanese naval base at Soerabata. Java, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique announced.
 Units of the First U. s. Cavalry Division (dismounted) captured the strategic Lorengau airstrip Thurs day morning. within 24 hours after landing on Manus, largest islands in the group, and by noon of that day were at the outskirts of the town itself, the last major enemy base in the strategic Admiralties.
 Under a cover of naval fire from deStroyers, the cavalrymen pushed through disorganized Japanese re- sistance from their landing point ct Lugos Mission, a mile and Q half northwest of Lorengau. to capture the airfield which gives Allied bomberS Q new base for attacks on Truk in the Carolines. only 72S miles to the north. Rahaul. New Britain, 27O miles east and 1adans and Weak, New Guinea, less than 300 miles to the south.
 Adm. William r. Halsey, SS.6 aA- vanced headquarters reported that U. s. troops, supported by tanks. restored their defense perimeter On the northeastern sector of their Bougainville beachhead in the 9Ol. omons Wednesday after units o6 the crack Japanese sixth divlSion had effected "a slight penetration"
 MacArthur reported thet eAO enemy offensive which began 4agoh 8 had broken down completely.
 His formations have bean 61s- persed and decimated." the com- munique said. "Over HOO @ hAa dead lie within our lines alono. H8 total casualties are many times thAA Our losses are approximately ush&~
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