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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
PROCLAMATION


 Where the following special emergencA >ufront the State of Connecticut:
 l. Many M aur people are absent from their homes and from the State in the service of our country who will be unable to be made voters or to cast their bal- lots in the coming national, state and municipal elections unless our existing laws concerning the making of voters and the exercise of the voting franchise be a-nend- ed.
 2. Many of our voters will be engaged in the war effort and away from their homes, on the coming national, state and munich pal election days and, unless our existing laws concerning the hours for the opening and closing of the polls may be extended or other wise changed, many qualified vot- CTS will be put to undue hardship or find it impossible to vote.
 3. The stated session of the General Assembly which convened on the sixth day of January, 1943, by legislative enactment gave en- ergency war powers to the Cover nor, which, by the terms of this legislative enactment expire on the first day of February, 1944. The war being still in progress and the emergency war powers being essential to the speedy and effective conduct of the state government in war time, legisla- tion is required to continue these special emergency powers.
 4. An adequate and continuous supply of milk is essential to the health and welfare of our people. War conditions have created a spe- cial emergency which threatens the adequate and continuous supply of milk and requires that the Milk Administrator to be given the ne- cessary power and authority to take sound measures to protect the health and welfare of our people and to assure an adequate and continuous supply of this vital food.
 5. The stated session of the 1943 General Assembly enacted a law which repealed the nine days period of grace allowed before the termination of a verbal lease for the non-payment of rent. Housing conditions in this time of war cre- ate special emergency where by this law llnwittingly works an injustice and requires legislative attention.
 6. The tremendous develop ment of aviation and the part which aeronautics will play in the postwar world has created a spe- cial emergency which requires that the state, or a city or town or two or more cities or towns jointly or separately, be empow- cred to acquire and adequately maintain airports, thus making it necessary to consider legislation to meet this special situation.
 2. Because of the growth of the city of Bristol and the tre- mendous expansion of a vital war industry there, that city was faced
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so Believed Blast Dead
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 Fears that the death toll may be high were based on survivors stories of seeing their comrades burned and hurled into the water as the first blast rocked the ship as sine prepared to set out on a mission.
 AS nearly as the rescued seamen, who were taken ashore by the Coast Guard, could make out, the blast killed all or most of the officers.
 The first explosion came few minutes after most of the crew had left the forward mess, thus spar ing the lives of many, who might have been killed when the blast wrecked the forward part of the ship.
 Bridge Smashed
 It toppled the mast, smashed the bridge and radio room, sent & five inch gun hurtling end over end into the air and tore huge hole in the ships port side near the bow.
 Survivors said the first explosion, which caused vibrations as far as 35 miles from the unidentified de- AtrNver, may have heep fOllNINd hV 0Ee and possibly two nAcsN
 They also said the ship appeared to break in two near the number 2 gun turret before she sank.
 The Navy last night identified three more survivors. They were Radioman 1/C David E. Merrill, Henrietta, Tex; Watertender HC John Bankowski, Bayonne, N. J., and Machinists Mate 1/C J. w. Showers, Martinsburg, w. Va.
 Four previously identified were Chief Machinists Mate Rene H. Pin cetl, 32, San Diego. Calf; Bos'n's Mate 10 E. P. Norman, 24, of Brooklyn, N. r.; Machinists Mate 1/C Charles George Wobst. 24, of Mt. Vernon, N. r., and Coxswain Raymond Otto Pomp. 30, of Pater- son, N. J.
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No Hope For Japanese
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NOAeAAAaCA &AOAA A obC ~ what is, by today's standards, aerial guerrilla warfare"
 He said that supplies were reach- ing GeneraliSsimo Chiang Kali shek's forces via the India China air route ell right, but the cost of delivery vas high. A C-87 transport he said, can deliver four tons of 100 octane gasoline over the route in single trip but ito do so the airplane must consume 3 1-2 tons of the same precious commodity"
 Washington, Jan. 4 - UP) - General H. H. Arnold disclosed to- day that of 526 army combat planes strategically placed on December 2, 1941, to meet possible attacks on the Philippines and Hawaii, $50 were destroyed within few hours" leaving only 176.
 Out of a force of 35 BITS. 30 medium and eight light bombers, POO fighters and g other airplaneS on Luzon. he said, l4 Flying Fort resSes escaped to Australia but all of the fighters finally were destroy ed.
 Even so, he added, "our last two worn-out P-40's sank a couple of Japanese ships with 500-pound bombs that had been hitched to the wings
 This was the origin of our fighter bombers," he said.
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the start a labor relations policy for the duration.
 Labor is entitled to the same pol icy across the board. So far we've been on a day-to-day basis, accord ing to what the president, Byrnes (Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes) and Vinson Economic stabilized Fred Vinson) have decid- ed.
 "As a result, the organizations with the least regard for the na- tional welfare are the ones who get the most. The others are forced to follow suit"
 Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga, recalled that he also proposed wage legislation at the same time the price control acts were passed "but I was given to understand that la bor policy was an executive mat ter"
 Senators virtually were unanimous in criticizing the fact that the high official source chose to make the statement without revealing his identity.
 Sen. Edwin o. Johnson, D., Colo called 1t 'cowardly," and interpreted the weekend statement on labor and an earlier anonymous warning by a "high government official" oi heavy new American casualties as having the way for national service lagialation.
 m uay cpiniOn it ie ths prelude to drive for labor draft legislatiOn which the American people would not accept Johnson said.
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coastal highway junction of Pescara, and were preparing for last ditch stand inside Tollo.
 (The Allied Controlled Bari radio said Eighth Army units, presumably Canadian troops moving north along the coastal highway, had driven to within less than five miles of Pes cara and the main lateral highway to Rome.)
 On the Fifth Army front heavy patrol fighting was reported at a number of points after three-day lull imposed by one of the worst winter storms to hit Italy in years.
 Patrol Clashes
 Strong American, British and French patrols clashed with Ger man reconnaissance parties, the communique said.
 The American patrols probed into the Nazi defenses around San Vit- tore and Acqua Fondala, outer bas- tions of Casino and the inland road to Rome. Acqua Fondala was
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GoUernor Issues Call
 For General Assembly

with an acute water shortage in the summer of 1943. This special emergency requires legislation to permit the city of Bristol to &C., Quire additional water supply.
 Therefore, by authority vested in me under the Constitution of Connecticut, I hereby convene the l943 General Assembly in special session at Hartford on the 2lth day of January, A. D. 1924, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, Eastern War Time. for the sole purpose of considering and acting upon the special emergencies here- inbefore stated.
 Given under my hand and seal of the State at the City of Hart ford, this fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou sand nine hundred and forty-folIr, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and sixty-eighth.
 RAYMOND E. BALDWIN,
 Governor. By His Excellency's Command: FRANCES BURKE REDTCK,
 Secretary.
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 The indictment charged that the conspirators sought to cooperate with leaders and members of the Nazi party which had the avowed objectives of destroying democracy throughout the world and establish ing National Socialist or Fascist forms of government in the United States and elsewhere.
 Pvt. Prescott F. Bennett of Wash ington, D. C., named with his for mer associate, George Sylvester Viereck, in each indictment, said in statement last night that he would continue his fight for a mil litary trial-"the fairest in the world"
 Dennett, woh has been in the army for two years. was said by Justice Department officials to have aided Viereck and others in organizing the make Europe pay war debts committee" allegedly su- versive Viereck is serving a sen- tence for violating the foreign agents registration act.
 Dcnnett said 1t was a "sad com me1tary" on civil justice that sol- dier would rather put his faith in military justice.
 The women named in the indict- inert named in the indictment were Elizabeth DilIing, Chicago, author of 'The Red Eetwork," and Lois de Laytayetie Wasl!burn, Chicago and Tacoma, Wash, organizer of the National Liberty Party.
 Tn addition to Kwlze and K,apr- r1lt. those rUt named in the pre- Yioils indictssient were Joseph E.. McWillians, New York and Chicago organizer of the Christian Mobiliz- CTS; Lawrence Dennis, New York, publisher of 'The Weekly Foreign Letter." E. J. Parker Sage and Gar land L. Alderman. Detroit, officer of the National Workers League: Ernest Frederik Elmhurst, New York, author of "The World Hoax" and Peter Stahrenberg, new pub fisher of ''The National American"
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lowed up the daylight attack with night raid on Kavieng that touched of explosions and fires at the airdrome, dispersal and supply areas.
 -engined Liberators raided LalSunai Airdrome. Rabaul, starting fires, and with their escorting fight CTS shot down IS out of 80 enemy fighters which sought futilely to break up the Allied formations.
 Other heavy and attack planes supported Sixth Army clements who captured Saidor, Japanese barge base on New Guinea, Sunday by dropping 126 tons of bombs on enemy coastal installations on either side of the American beach, head. Here, too, fires were started.
 At Madang, one of the main Jap anese bases in northern New Guinea, medium bombers pounded supply dumps with 52 tons of ex- plosives.
 No details were available of the progress of invasion forces at Sai- dor, but patrols were believed prob- ing the jungle for a considerable distance on either side of the beachhead. Light enemy resist ance" has been overcome, con- munique reported.
 Australian Forces
 Some 75 miles to the southeast. Australian ground forces drove three-fourths of Q mile up the Huon Peninsula heyond Nuzen toward WaId Bay. tightening the pinceEs trap on several thousand Japanese caught in the jungles between Nu- zen and Saidor.
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Pro-AIIied Coup D'Etot
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Internal opposition to Bulgaria's continued cooperation with Ger many has been reported increasing markedly with the mounting mill tary successes of Russia, with whom the country has strong Slavic ties.
 The Teheran and Cairo confer ences with the implied possibility that Turkey eventually will join the Allies, perhaps to provide bases for @ thrust into the Balkans, strengthened the hand of anti-Axis clements in Bulgaria, recent Balkan dispatches have reported.
 Apparently recognizing that Bul- garia might attempt to extricate herself from the war, Germany re- gently sent troop achievements to strategic points, especially along the Turkish frontier.
 Mushanov and his cabinet were overthrown in 1884 by a coup d'etat led by military men and politicians and backed by the army. He iB Q member of the democratic party, composed of moderate iaiddle-class clements and tntellectuals.
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 ress at Salerno and the beginning of Allied offensive. j the Pacific, Arnold summed up the essence of aerial warfare in one word: "of- fense."
 Since 1889. Arnold said, America has done what Adolf Hitler was sure that an unregimented people could not do: out-think, outwork and out-build his robots" As a re- suit, he asserted, the Luftwaffe was on the way out.
 "In view of the high rate of at- tribution of German fighter aircraft on the western front" he said, "the ner future appears likely to be cru- cial period which may determine the survival of destruction of the Luftwaffe as an effective air force.
 "The United Nations have mount ed and are about to mount greater crushing aerial offensives on every front. The army air forces are now in the process of fulfilling an his- toric and decisive mission"
 In view of the obvious fate in store for them, the Germans con- ceivably might folloS the suit of those picked Nazi troops in Tunisia who. Arnold said, ''gaye up at once" when 1t became "clear to them that they would lose the battle" This, he said, might yell hold dgnificance for the not too distant future"
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tContlnued from Page D New Years day on Japanese naval forces just outside of Kavieng, New Ireland"
 He said that two Japanese heavy cruisers were hit b yl000 pound bombs and torpedoes and set afire at Kavieng. Both of these, he added, were believed sunk or beached.
 In addition, two enemy destroyers were bombed and Strafed. One of these was set afire and probably sunk and the other was badly dam aged. A force of from 20 to 30 enemy fighters sought to intercept and Il of them were shot down and four probably destroyed, Knox said. A Japanese medium bomber also was down. The whole cost for American force, he said, was two fighters and one dive bomber.
 Meanwhile, Knox continued, PIT boats and planes were raising havoc with Japanese barges, a type of craft on which the enemy has been forced to place heavy reliance for transport because Of their heavy merchant shipping losses.
 Knox described the American air raid on Paramushiru on New Years Eve as successful" He said he un- derstood bombs landed on designated target areas.
 Japanese radio alarms that Amer ican bombers and ships were being assembled for attack on the Kurile Islands, which stretch 1000 miles north of the Japanese homeland, Knox said, constituted an enemy fishing expedition" for information.
 He observed that the Germans were now initiating the Japanese in putting out extravagant claims of successes. He said the Germans had claimed sinking 2l American destroyers in the past month. Ac- tually, Knox said, only one was sunk - the one announced yester- day.
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 Attack
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NAOAAtAAACA Ag destrucotin of essentially installa- tions in Berlin by bombs at more than 40 per cent and other quar- ters estimated that the population of the battered city has been re- duced from 5000 900 to 100000 by evacuation and casualties.
 Some l6,000 tons of explosives have dropped on Berlin in the II mass raids to date, climaxed by Monday mornings l,00-ton effort in which Adolf Hitler's Reichschan- celery was reported to have been three-quarterS destroyed.
 Stockholm Dispatches
 Stockholm dispatches said the front of the Reichschancellery was in ruins and rescue squads were dig ging frantically in the rubble, lead ing to speculation that hundreds of Naz officials and others may have been trapped in the buildings ultra modern shelter. Hitler hirnselfself was reported out of town.
 The Foreign Press club on the Liepzigerplatz was damaged. Stock holm quoted travellers from Berlin as saying. The Stockholm Alton tigningen reported that 2,760 per- sons had been killed and 10000 left homeless by Sunday nights raid.
 Reports from France through Spain asserted that most of the city's communications were at a standstill and only a few districts still had water, gas and lighting.
 Many government services were known to have been evacuated to other parts of the Reich recently and informed observers here be- lieved that dozens of important Berlin factories have been obliter- ated and production in others re- duced to a fraction of their former output.
 "The Germans are trying to keep the remainder of their fac tories going, but it is unlikely that Berlin will be factor in the war by the time the Allied attack strikes the coast of Europe" one wen-in formed source said.
 Intensity Raid
 Reliable estimates have placed the intensity of the RATS pres ent night raids at 75 times that achieved by the Lutfwaffe over Lon- don during the height of the 194o-l blitZ.
 On May 10, 194l, when the Ger mans dropped 450 tons fo bombs over a five-hour period in their last heavy attack on the British capital, they achieved an intensity of only a ton and a half per sluar mile per hour over densely-populated area.
 In some recent raids on Germany the RAF has approached in inten- sity of 120 tons per square mile per hour.
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 When Russian troops moved into Poland from the east in 1889 while German invaders moved in from the west, were correcting an injustice of 25 years duration, in Moscow's view. The Russians contend that for 25 years after Poland acquired the territory at the end of the last World war, 1t was one of the most depressed areas in the world. They maintain that the population is almost entirely Russian.
 The Russians recognize the big line as their rightful border and therefore will not be tripped into any discussion of Polish questions based on the penetration of the ''old" frontier west of Olevsk, they made clear.
 Disputed Territory
 Meanwhile the disputed territory was becoming an actual battle ground. A little under 150 miles ahead was the Bug, at which the Germans were expected to attempt another concerted stand behind the Qualifications thrown up by the Todt organization. The nearest town in Germany itself was linden burg in Silesia, 370 airline miles dis tant. To reach this the Russians had come 400 milse since July l3 without a single serious check-400 miles of forest, plan and swamp be- tween Kursk and the bleak obrder- line beyond Olevsk.
 Soon after Germany attacked Russia In 1941, the Soviet govern ment and the Polish-government.. in-exile signed treaty reaffirming the pre-1939 boundry and provid- ing for the organization of Polish army on Russian soil from the Po- fish army men who had fled Into Russia ahead of the German in- vaderS to be interned. Then Ger man propaganda claimed that Rus sian troops hcd massacred several thousand Polish army officers and men in easetrn Poland soon after their invasion. The Polish-govern- ment-in-exile asked the Interna- tional Red Cross to investigate this allegation and Russia abruptly sev- cred diplomatic relations charging the Poles were permitting them selves to be instruments of German propaganda. Despite every effort by Great Britain and the United States Sovie Russia and the Polish government-in-exile have remained estranged.
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(Continued from Page D agreed upon by the legislativst council and majority leaders had consented to introducing bills on the opening day, assigning ther1 for hearing on Wednesday Jan. 26.l and taking action beginning Fri- day. Jan. 28.
 No disputes from a political standpoint" was expected on any of the proposed measures, he said.
 The governor pointed out that under the constitution only meas-. ures to meet specific emergencies" could be considered at the extra- ordinary session-the second to be called in Connecticut in time of war-and that any other business suggested would be ''out of order"
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Planes Wreck 4 Jop Ships
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 ican aircraft carriers Saturday soon after the Japanese cruisers and des- troyers had entered the harbor.
 One cruiser as hit with three bombs and at least one torpedo and the second was hit by two bombs and Q torpedo. Both were left hlaz- ing fiercely. One of u two destroy CTS was hit by a 1,000-pound bomb. but damage to the other was not det- fled.
 Thirty enemy fighters attempted to intercept the raiders and il to IS of the Japanese planes were shot down. A Japanese bomber and fighter on reconnaissance were shot down by the carrier task force later.
 Land Based Bombers
 Land based medium hombers fol-
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Axis Targets Crippled
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 from Novograd Volynski stretches a plateau with usable roads.
 Vatutin was developing another thrust against Shepatevka, the last big rail junction on the Berdichev line east of the old border.
 A full dress push across the from tier was expected to require com- plete control of the rail lines pene- trating the western Ukraine, and Vatutin obviously was inplementing that objective preparatory to his next move.
 Stockholm reports quoting Ger man sources said the Red Army os tho Nogaisk eteppes along ths Black Sea was expected to attack in force along the lower Dnieper ct any moment.
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moArEsrCK SOLDIER
With an orchid to Harry varley
 via Hl Phillips "Sun Dial,o

tWith an orchid to Harry Varley
 via Hl Phillips "Sun Dial.D
 -
 saw Oreenlands icy mountains
 and old Indias coral strand, linen they sent me into Egypt with
 its scorching sun and sand. on Q camel's back wandered where
 old Cleopatra rode went to mosque one Sunday morn-
 ing but the service left me
 cold.
 Az for that almighty sphinx xt etinks.
 I would rather smell a weed plot
 in Ohio any day Than the finest flower that grows
 here on their perfumes from q Cathay.
 And our old red barn and Silo I . would never sell or swap For the fancy marble palaces where
 queens and sultans stop.
 beiong-I hate to roam-BaclS
 home.
 < Foreign women may be turing in
 their lace and satin stuff, With their eyes as black as coal at
 night and beautiful enough. But they leave me sort of aching
 for my Mary's corn-gold head, aAnd her cheeks like milk and roses z with her lips so ruddy red. need COWS, farm dairy
 And Mary. A group of midtowners were discussing the banning of Esquire from the mails because of alleg- edly lewd stuff. Its all pretty Illy," said a gal-about-town, be eause the country is crowded with sex maniacs who will get their < leelthy peectures somewhere" sa "As a matter of fact" she added, "do you realize what the percentage of sex maniacs is? 1t is one out of every manl' se George Macdonald, who just sold ' the Roney-Plaza Hotel, says he read 1t here, but don't recall it. The difference between Palm Beach and z Miami Beach--is the difference be- .s tween the social register and the < cash register.
 ' At the Newspaper Guild Canteen hostess was dancing with 8 e Coast Guardsman. When the mu- < sic stopped, he pulled out routine .77B and said: Now let's sit down ' and talk about you' They sat and he put an arm around her. ' q get it." she said T see you s talk with your hands, a Honey" he grinned, I'm only ' whispering now"
 Mrs. Albert Einstein visited the { astronomical observatory atop Mt. wilson and asked about the giant telescope. We use it." she was told, to discover the shape of the uni- < ' erse."
 s My husband" said the famed scientists wife, docs the same thing Z on the back of an envelope" . When I'm with him he makes me
 
 s Bus when we're apart, I'm blue; @Pd rather be nervous than lOne- some
 Wouldn't you? ' SIS WTLLNER.
 A Major told this one to the cadets at Yale the other day. He ~said General Giraud and It. Gen z Clark were discussing the best ' possible places for setting up z staff headquarters in combat zones The youthful Clark rec x commended a certain distance < from the firing lines, but the older 2 Giraud shook his head and said: Too far back. I like to be right up there on the line" < But, sir" said Clark, you were Q -captured twice" 2 Love Letter: Some day you ought to come to the Dist of Columbia and earn an honest dollar debunk- ,s ing Washintgon.-Regards, Drew 2 Pearson"
 Shortly after the Sullivan parents . of Waterloo (Iowa) learned of the < loss of their five sons aboard the cruiser "Juneau," they visited Wash 4intgon, where they volunteered to