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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
Aero News Coils
For Labor Unity
Division In Labor Movement
Greatest Evil Facing
Workers Today

San Diego, Calf. FP)-"Unions
have another foe, more powerful than
the others. That foe is not man, not
an organization or Il law, but ii con
dition. 1t is the condition that or
ganized labor is in today-divided. 1t
,iS labor's greatest enemy"
This warning appeared in Aero
News, official newspaper of the Inter
national Association of MachiniStS
(AEL) in this area At Il time when
and relentless pressure by individuals
and organizations which despise work
ingmen as II WHOLE the editorial said,
unity is utterly imperative" 1t con-
tinued:
The NatiOnalE \ ssociation of Manu-
facturers, the dasly press and poll tax
congressman, backed by billions of
dollars, are now launched in Il great
smear-Iabor drive, with the ultimate
Objective being To reduce unions to i'm
potency.
1T is significant that they, as part
of their Hnti-labOr campaign, are ham
mcring wed geS between different
groups Of working people, playing the
NaZi game to divide and conquer. They
know what they have to gain when
labor groups miStrust and fight each
other"
Let the division in the labor move.
mcnt end, the paper pleaded, before
unions are spill wide open and chop
ped I" pieces even as they chop them
selves"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
Tickets Going Fast
(C0ntinusd From Page One)

Remember, those who do not write are
wrong.
\ canvass is being made on the
plant for the Red Cross Drive and
Judging by reports the members Of
Local Union 10 will do their part To
support this worthy organization.
Organizer James Solon was Il visitor
at the meeting and gave us some very
sound adyiCp-Ot 40
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16

Buying War Bonds is Il wartime
with peacc-time dividends.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
Jap Labor Druft Extended

Washington, ID. &. Japan
has extended the age limits for con
SCriptiun for war work 10 - 10 60 for
men, and - to 10 for women, II Domci
dispatch reported to the Office of War
Information by government monitors
reveals Previously the age limits were
lG to Ia for males, rs 40 - for
females
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
Sounds Like the Old Duys

Indianapolis (FPO-AttemptS to or.
ganize drivers for the Red Cab Co
here into Sales Drivers Union No. 1873
International brotherhood of Teams
ters (AFL), brought instant response
-liringS and bloody heads.
Eighteen drivers who attended d
meeting were fired next morning
Three who passed out leaflets at cal
stand were Slugged by six men whC
fled in Il Red cab. When four of the
attackers We're arrested company at
torney showed up to defend them. The
cases are pending.
A new riveting machine rivetS 10.
90 rivetS an hour. You can easily
figure manhourS saved
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
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NOTICE LINERS

:. A special meeting for all liners
: has been called for Sunday after
:. noon at 800 p. m. in the Brother
|: hood hall. 1t is important that all
!. liners i'm this district be present.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
N O OTICE!
Important Announcements of Local
Unions are to be found in this
Column
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+ NOTICE LOCAL UNION So :!

< Business OF vita! Importance
X will be transacted at CIR next
= regular meeting on Thursday eve
= ming, March 23rd. Every member
\ is urged to be present.
4 BY Order of President
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16
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NOTICE

:. Local Union No. 1870 has slis-
= pended the following members:
< Del Watson, Tracy Adams, Alvin
X Grow. Mike Cooper and Frank
= Greatfouse.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-03-16

Charles T.. nedauN, who showed
employers how to cut corners, ended
his career efficiently with an overdose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
MistrioI In Sedition

Washington, Dec. 7-(UP)-The mass Sedition case ended in a mis- trial today.
 Federal District Judge James M. Proctor formally declared mistrial in the seven month old proceedings after a poll of defendants revealed that they would not consent to con- tinuing with another judge preSid- ing.
 The special session was held to determine disposition of the case resulting from the death of Judge Edward c. EIcher a week ago.
 The jury was called in after the coll of the defendants and told that In view of the death of Chief Jus ice Richer in the midst of the trial d this case and the circumstances bat have been developed here, the ourt feels compelled to discontinue ae trial and formally declare mi-s rial of this case"
 Only one of the % remaining de- .ndants was wiling to continue e wasch Prescott F. Dennett, whose ttorney Prank Kelly announced is answer. Two attorneys declined aswr and one defendant, Peter tahrenberg. withheld his reply be- ,use his attorney was not in court, Four defendants were absent as ie C/se ended. Mrs. Elizabeth Dill.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
B-29s Auenge Pearl Harbor By Jap War Plant Raids
BY FRED sCHERFF

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Washington, Dec. 7-UP)-A big task force of Superfortresses usher ed in the third anniversary of Pearl Harbor today with raid on Jap anese war factories in Southern Manchuria, and enemy broadcasts said another formation of B-29s started at least one fire in an at- tack on Tokyo itself.
 Tokyo, following its usual policy of belittling American raids, said three or four SuperfortreSses drop ped a small number of incendiary bombs in a nuisance raid" on the apanese capital about 2 a. m. q p. m. Wednesday EWT). The lone fire started was immediately ex- tinguished", Tokyo asserted.
 Tokyo identified the Superfort- ress targets in Manchuria as the industrial city of Mukden and the port of Darien. About 70 of the B29's carried out the two-way at tack; a broadcast reported by the FCC said, and Tokyo claimed II were shot down and four mort probably destroyed.
 We suffered some damage in the city of Mukden and the port O. Darien," an official Japanese an- nouncement said. However, dam. age to important installations was slight"
 The Japanese Domei Agency also
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Five American Divisions Storm Last Approaches To Saarbrucken; British Fire On Athens Leftists.
RAF Makes Its Biggest
 RaidOfWar
BY LEO DISHER
United Press War Correspondent

United Press War Correspondent
 London Dec. 7-CUP)-The Royal Air Force hurled 1850 heavy bomb CTS into it's greatest strike of the war last night, spreading fire and de- struction through Berlin, two vest ern railway centers and the giant Leuna oil works where American raiders only few hours earlier had dropped their blockbusters by day. light.
 Swarms of British intruders and night fighters ranged out over the Reich on the Hanks of the massive bombing fleet, bombing and strafing the Luftwaffes fighter fields in an attempt to soften up the opposition.
 Nevertheless, the Nazis managed to throw powerful fighter screens into. the air and the air ministry re- ported that all four targets were strong defended by aircraft and flax.
 The ecord-breaking raid centered on Leuna, with diversionary forces switching off to hit objectives in Berlin and the big freight yards at Osnabruck and Giessen in the west.
 The attack rounded out 72 hours of crescendoing aerial bombardment during which scarcely an hour passed without Allie bombs crash ing down on some corner of Hitler'S Reich.
 Dense cloud formations blanketed the continent, but the British raid- CTS were guided to their main tar- get-the Leuna plant-by the light of fires set in daylight by the heavy weights of the U. s. 9th Air Force.
 It was the biggest raiding force ever dispatched on single night mission by the RAF, and the Air Ministry announced that 21 planes were lost in the triple attack.
 Indicating that the Luftwaffe had come up in strength to challenge he raiders, it was revealed that IT Ger man planes were destroyed by the bomber gunners.
 The Leuna Works, sprawled over a 40-Suuaree mile area of central Ger 1 many, more than 120 miles south west of Berlin. comprise one of the most important oil targets remain ing in the Reich.
 The Germans were believed last September when their oil production slumped to only about one-quarter of it's wartime peak and desperate attempt was being made to step up the Lellna output
 Some 800 American heavieS and another 800 fighters struck by day. light at the Jeuna Works and the Bielefeld rail yards in western Ger many yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Divergent In Viewpoint
BY ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Staff COrrespOndent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Dec. 7-CUP)-Di- plomatic quarters said today that the difference in views by the Unit ed States and Britain on interven- tion in politics of liberated coun- tries was too fundamental in na- ture to be solved except by a meet- ing of the heads of the two gov ernments.
 Thus, although negotiations al- ready were believed underway to remedy the breach between Wash. tngton and London. the sharply clashing views ol the United States, Britain and Russia appeared dee Stined to become . top subject at the next Roosevelt. .Churchill-Stalin conference.
 The split was brought to the fore by Secretary of State Edward R, atettinius Jr.'s clear assertion that this government is opposed to "out- side" meddling in the affairs Of flo. erated countries--a reference to British intervention in the Italian cabinet crIAis--and by Britlsh For. olgn Secretary Anthony Eden's equally firm declaration that he has nc intention Of backing down.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
E Bond SoIes Lag Here As Others Gain

The Securities Division of the War Finance Committee has surpassed its Sixth War Loan Drive quotas for both the city proper and Region No. comprising Waterbury, Naugatuck and Litchfield County, it was an- nounced today by co-chairman Aus tin L. Adams.
 To date, $l9,952,714 in bonds have been sold in Waterbury, by this di- vision, surpass;Slg the original quota of S14,2S6 ,OOO, while a total of $26,- 840,000 has been sold throughout Region 4 exceeding a quota of $24,- 12O,000.
 MT. Adams, who is co-chairman of the Securities Division with G., Horace Baldwin, today deplored however the lack of sufficient indiv- idual purchases of war bonds dur ing the drive, 70 date. MT Adams cited the fact that of the $19,952, TIA scld here ST million was purchased by the Waterbury Savings Bank.
 E" bond sales generally today were tagging rather badly it was declared with but approximately $1,964,309 of the quota of $4,250, 900 solo so far. War Finance commit tee members have urged the pur- chase of individual bonds citing them as the real backbone of all drives. Sales to individuals in other than E" Bonds amounts to $l,509,- TIE.
 AS reported here yesterday local retailers striving toward a quota of $l l,3000O0 in bonds have attained sales, to date, of $1,097 $50 Of which $773, ,450 was in ''E" bonds.
 Meanwhile continuous support was being given to Waterburys drive toward an overall quota of $18,636,000 by all industrial, civic and fraternal groups.
 The Scovill Company whistle was blown nine times this morning to make a total of $2lS,000 in 1000 bonds purchased by employees, there. Striving toward $l million volun-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
D. s. Casualties In 3 Yeors Of Wor: 552,OlS

Washington, Dec. 7-(UPl- U. s. combat casualties for three years of war have reachced 552,OlS, including l2l,S63 killed. incomplete Of- ficial tabulatlOns disclosed to- day on the anniversary of Pearl HarbOr.
 The total was l5.OO8 greater than that announced . week ago,
 Secretary of War Henry l.. StimsOn said army casualties through Nov. 2. tOtaled 474,s9s, including Dl,g25 killed, 20s.O99 wounded. 6B.D20 missing. and B6.2as prisoners Of war. Of the wounded, i20,4iO have returned Co duty.
 Navy casualty figures 70. leased today for the Navy, Ma. rlne Corps and Coast Guard totaled 77,ia0, including 2e,ISB dead, a3.A6D wounded, e.ee5 missing, and i.ass prisoners et war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
9th Occupies Mezzuno

Rome, Dec. 7.-(UP)-BritlSn 9th Army Forces, pursuing German troops withdrawing from the Adrl- atic coastal sector, advanced seven miles northwest of Ravenna to oe- cupy the town of Mezzano on the Rimiri- -Ferrara railway, headquar- ters announcedt oday.
 The Germans blew up the main bridge over the Lamone river at Mezzano but the British units con- tinued in contact with the enemy holding the far bank.
 Headquarters said capture of Mezzano virtually ended all enemy resistance east of the Lamone.
 South of Faenza other British units increased their bridgeheao over the Lamone against strong re- sistance while Polish troops on their left captured the important hill feature of Mount San Rinald and occupied the town of Brisig- hella, 28 miles southwest of Da- venna.
 American troops of the Fifth Army on the eastern sector of their front below Boogna hammered out small gains north of Casola-Val- senio, nine miles southeast of Imola while patrols made contact with en- emy forward positions in the cen- tral and west sectors.
 Historical Ravenna, captured earlier this week, escaped without much damage from artillery fire, it was announced.
 The world famous Mosaics in the San Appolianare church were re- ported intact butt he church had bene damaged outside by bomb explosion. Dante's tomb escaped damage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Churchill Faces Big '----'C Crisis Over Policy
Coast Guard photo from NEA Telephoto)
By PHIL AULT

United Press Staff Correspondent L ondon, Dec. '. (UP)-Thet Brit ish government. it was reported to- day, has instructed Lord Halifax, British ambassador to Washington, to report to Secretary of State Ed ward Stettinius the ''unfavorable rBitish action" to the Stettinius' hands of" reclamation on Italy and liberated allied countries.
 The Foreign office would neither confirm nor deny that such in structionS had been given Halifax but the Yorkshire Post, published by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's family, said the directive had already gone forward.
 The barrage of criticism against Prime Minister Winston Churchill's policy in Italy, Greece and Belgium was joined by influential elements of the British press including both the conservative London Times and the liberal Manchester Guardian.
 The Yorkshire Post, however, came to the defense of the govern ment with stinging attack on the Stettinius' statment, particularly the manner in which it was made pub lie instead of being conveyed to Britain through normal diplomatic channels.
 The Post said some Americans in Britain were attempting to apologize for the Stettinius state ment.
 MT Stettinius,' the Post quoted the Americans as saying, might not have expressed himself we'll But he meant what he said. With him the state department has turned is back on Darlnism."
 The Manchester Guardian said the foreign office had brought the protest on itself by following a pol icy without consultation with the state department.
 Times Editorial
 In an editorial more than a col- umn long, the Times contended that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
.Yanks Crack .Leyte Lines
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

bY WILLIAM b. OACAANSON United Press War Corresp0ndent)
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines. Dec. 7-(UP)-American infantry men battled up the west coast of Leyte within ten miles of Orrno0 today after cracking through a strong Japanese line along the Palanas river, and a communiqua announced that U. S. Naval and Air Forces have completely isolated the enemy garrison from all sea- borne reinforcement or supply.
 (There was no confirmation 0l enemy reports that Japanese para troops landed on four major Amer ican air fields on Leyte Island last night in what Tokyo described as an "all-out offensive to knock out Gen. Douglas MacArthur'f island-based air power.
 CTokyo said the paratroops at tackled Blrauen. San Pablo. Dulaa and Tacloban fields and that 1ighk- ing was in progress on the air strips early today. The enemy acc counts also reported . great up~
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Report Reds
 At Budapest
BY ROBERT MUSEL

United Press War Correspondent
 London, December '. - '(UP) - Russian armored spearheads drove deep into the southern Balaton gap 40 miles from Austria today and Berlin reported that other Red Army forces were battering against the outer defenses of Budapest from two sides in a climactic attempt to take the Hungarian capital by storm.
 The entire 200-mile battlefront eX- tending across Hungary from north east to southwest exploded into fur ious action as the Germans poured reserves into the Austrian gate be- low Balaton and the new danger zone southwest of Buoapest.
 Enemy reports said Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin'S Third Ukraln- ian Army, without slowing the tempo of its drive for Austria, had Wheeled its right flank northward to join Marshal Rodion Y. Mali novsky's second Ukrainian Army in a great pincers assault on the Hun garian capital.
 Moscow's early morning war bull letin partially confirmed the Berlin
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
U s Begins 4th Year Of World War
By JOSEPH L. MYLER

tUESted Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington Dec. 7.-(UP)-The United States began it's fourth year of war today
 It was confident that gigantic offensives now in progress or prep aration will produce victory, but it still did not know when that vic- tory will come in either major thea ter or how much more it will cost in blood and money.
 The blood cost thus far has been nearly 125,O0 Americans killed and a total of approximately 5500O0 U. s. combat eaSuaities. The cost has been $229, 1888, ,000, 900. the sum of de- fense and war spending from July l, 1940, through Nov 30, 1944.
 United States war leaders are agreed that 1945 should see Germany crushed But they do not know when in 1945 the triumph will come; all they are certain of is that the United Nations face still deadly and fanatically determined foe in Europe.
 Across the Pacific. on battle lines 13,000 miles from the western front. is an enemy even more fanatical. The consensus among military men is that Japan cannot be conquered sooner than one and one-half to two years after defeat of Germany and it may be even longer.
 However long 1t takes to beat Japan after Germany falls, it will cost this country alone $7l ,000, ,000,- 900 year to do the job, according to an estimate by It. Gen. Brehon or Somervell, chief of the Army supply services.
 Ultimate victory is inevitable, " President Roosevelt said in marking this day, but in the meantime the American people must not relax for a moment their inflexible determ- ination. v. everybody on war job must stick to that job"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
BY ELMER (. WALZER United Press Financial EdltOrI

New York, Dec. 7-(uP)-The United States Navy Is counting on rockets to provide large part of the climaetic punch to knock out both the Nazis and the Japs, Capt. q. D. Linke, bureau of ordnance. Navy Department, told the war and reconyersion Congress of American industry,
 When the navy's rocket program reaches itS peak, Llnke said. it win cost Si0000O,O00 c montli-a figure eQualing the total monthly pros curement Of all naval ammunition at the present time.
 Linke revealed that the navy laid down its first rocket barrage at Ta- rnwa, and since that time had set the pace for development Of rock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Senate BoIks .At1New FDR Candidates
(NEA Telephoto)
By JOHN L. CUTTER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Dec. 7-(UP)-Presi- dent Roosevelt's nominations for four top state department jobs were back in the senate foreign relations committee today for an inquiry into the views of the ap- pointees on political and economic matters.
 Committee Chairman Tom Con- nally, D., Tex, promised reluct- antly that inquiry would be made although he questioned it's need. He took the position that individual views were .unimportapt because foreign policy of the United States will be dominated by President Roosevelt.
 Despite Connallys contention, the senate voted 37 to 27 late yesterday to send back to the committee for the inquiry the nominations of Joseph c. Grew as undersecretary of state and William L. Clayton, Nelson A. Rockefeller and Archi- bald MacLeish as assistant Secre- taries
 IlC dCIAOll do dAAAACA PA AAAOARo4AJ at Clayton mad MacLeiSh. But be- cause all four names were before the senate for confirmation simul- taneously, the nominations of Grew and Rockefeller went back to the committee with the others. There was no criticism about Grew and Rockefeller in the debate which preceded the vote
 The opposition to Clayton and MacIeish came from widely diver gent quarters In the case of Clay ton it was a question of how the wealthy Dallas, Tex, cotton broker stands on the matter of interna- tional cartels. AS for MacLeish. 1t was a question of his qualifications and his extreme liberal views.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
3 Dead In
 Binqo Fire

Baltimore. Md. December '. - UP) Fire swept through the crowded parish hall of St. Ambrose Church early today, panicking a crowd of more than POO persons at tending bingo and card party.
 Three persons were trampled or burned to death in the hall. A spec tator died of a heart attack in the excitement.
 Origin of the blaze was not de- termined. Witnesses said the flames first appeared in the roof of the ST. year-old frame building and licked their way rapidly down the walls,
 At least 34 persons were treated in Baltimore hospitals for burns and other injuries.
 The dead were:
 Mrs. Oda Nixon, 53.
 An unidentified man.
 An unidentified woman.
 Mrs. Mary A. Wise, 65, specta- tor, who suffered a heart attack while watching the fire and died at her home shortly afterward.
 The bodies of the three fire vic- tims were found near the doorway of the parish hall.
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