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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
 Moy Radio
BY PHIL AULT


 United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 London, Dec. 16.-(UP)-Prime Minister Winston Churchill under heavy fire from many quarters for his international policy, probably will broadcast to the world this weekend, perhaps Sunday night.
 No. 10 Downing street sources said Churchill was inclined favor ably toward broadcast, but had not yet decided definitely.
 If he should broadcast, Churchill was expected to appeal for a Greek armiStice, urge an immediate tri-power conference and reiterate his invitation to the United States to make public its attitude on the Polish problem.
 Otherwise, Churchill probably will speak in Commons Tuesday on his governments policy in Greece, in answer to demands already on file.
 The gravity of the crisis in United Nations relations was reflected in a statement of the Manchester Guardian today that Britain was confronted with dilemma which might force. her to abandon her al- liance with either the United States or Russia, smashing the tri-power concept and opening the way for a third World War.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Droft Boards Get Tough

Washington, Dec. 16 - (UP) - Draft boards throughout the nation today prepared to step up induc- tions of men 26 years of age and over.
 This isn't a young mems war. it's everybody's war;" draft Director Lewis B. Hershey said last night as he ordered local boards to review all classificationS of men in the 26- 37 age group with view to send ing increasing numbers of them into the armed forces.
 The action terminated the "ac- cent on youth period which began lazA April when selective service virtually halted inductions of men 26 and over, asserting repeatedly that youth and vigor were then the prime requisites of the U. S. fore eS.
 Today, Hershey said, stepped-up combat requirements together with expanded needs for war supplies made it plain that "the situation calls for an ever-increaSing war eff fort" in the 26-36 age group.
 To insure that men now deferred because of the essential nature of their work stay on their jobs. Her shey ordered regiStrantS with 2-A or 2-B occupational deferments to obtain permission from their local boards before changing jobs hence forth. If they change jobs with out permission local boards will re- classify them as IA, LAO or 4-E- all available for immediate induc- tion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
w M C Drives To Recruit War Workers

With public places throughout the city posted with "go-to-work" handbills, and three U. s. Employ ment Service workers out three days week on a house-to-houSe re- cruiting drive, the Work Manpower Commission is accelerating it's pleas for additional workers to aid the prosecution of the war.
 A total of 87O families have been visited already at their homes by the WING recruiting staff, composed of Area WING Director John M. Cianci, and Mrs. Katherine Nixon, Miss Adele Wallach, Mis- Pauline Stoll, and Mis- Gertrude Shanney Of the U. E. Employment Service, it was revealed today. The drive at the present time is being conducted in the Robbins street section and will be extended into Bunker Hill next week.
 Raymond J. Titterington, special recruiter assigned to the Waterbury area, will start an on-the-spot re- cruiting drive shortly, but mean while is sounding out" the views of the public while distributing the 'go-to-work" signs.
 MT Titterington said today the recruiting staff is constantly running into the erroneous sentiment that war production is slowing down and thatt he need for workers is not what it was year or so ago. The manufacturing concerns and the government are facing considerable expense in search for more war
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16

GA Japanese con1munlque claimed that Japanese planes had sunk or damaged 25 American warshipS and transports in a series of at- tackS on the Mindoro inVaS- ion Armada Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Listed as sunk were four transports, while eight transports were heavily damaged and set afire" and six unidentified vessels were damaged.
 (Another Tokyo broadcast said a violent" sea and air battle was in progress in the Sulu sea south of Mindoro)
 (Another Tokyo broadcast said violent" sea and air battle was in progress in the Sulu sea south of Mindoro Japanese planes were said to have sunk four American trans ports in crash-diving attacks on conveys moving north toward Min- doro Thursday and Friday.) The doughboys, veterans of the bitter Leyte campaign, stOrmsd ashore on the southwest coast of Mindoro from a 150-Ship invasion Armada at dawn yesterday in the wake of a whitening, 20-minute rocket and gun bombardment. Quickly consolidating their beach, heads without encountering even so much as an enemy rifle shot. the assault forces drove more than mile inland through sugar cane and rice fields and had seized all initial objectives within an hour and half of H?hour-7:30 8. m.
 Though exact landing sites were not disclosed, San Jose, four miles inland, is the largest town in south west Mindoro and the site of the biggest of two airfields in the area. A plantation railway links San Jose with two points on the coast, Cam inawit Point and St. Augustin Wharf.
 Scanty Opposition
 Only scanty opposition was re- ported in the first hours of the as- sault and American losses were de- scribed officially as slight, but au- thorities warned that violent Jap anese land, air and possibly naval | (COntniued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16

 But Worth It
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, December 16. = tUP) - The invasion of Mindoro in the western Philippines was regarded today as the most hazardous but potentially most profitable under taking by American Armed Forces since the Pacific war began.
 Military observers believed that success of the Minodoro operation is the key to eventual reconquest of Luzon and the control of the strategically vital Philippines. The Philippines are absolutely necessary for the lcng-term plan to invade the Japanese homeland itself.
 The landings were of such great significance and so fraught with possibilities that the Japanese may be forced to commit the remnants of their fleet to another battle with the U. S. Navy. No doubt the U. s. Pacific fleet commanders are alert to this possibility.
 The fact that General Douglas Macarthur has dared embark on the Mindoro venture even while engaged in tough fight on Leyte was acc cepted here as an indication that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Police Guard M-W Tickets
BY HERBERT K. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

(Onlteu EEcSS StdII OOTTeSpOlucltJ
 Detroit, Dec. 16-CUP)-State police instructed by Gov. Harry F. Kelly to enforce order, stood watch today over reinforced picket lines ringing Montgomery Ward & Co., S retail store in nearby Royal Oak, Mich, where a flareup in week long strike injured three company officials.
 The Royal Oak store, with three other struck outlets in Detroit and suburban Dearborn, were expected to reopen today after the company closed them to holiday shoppers last night until the air is cleared of trouble"
 Detroit police anticipated no fur Cher violence, but were alerted for possible renewal of a clash between picketS and store executives at Royal Oak, which came as leaders of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store EmployeS, CIO, attended War Labor Board hear ing in Washington.
 State police were ordered to the scene after Robert Barden, man. ager of Wards Royal Oak store, charged that pickets were barricad- ing entrances of the four struck stores and manhandling everyone who tried to enter"
 Barden said that pickets attacked J. J. Patrick, his assistant man. ager, inflicting 8 gash over his right eye and injuring his leg. L. A. Montgomery, another official. suffered a punctured ear drum and Henry Paulsgrove received a Drok-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
BISHOP OF
 CONNECTICUT
 PASSES AWAY

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 16.- (UP) - The Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut today mourned the loss of it's first native son bishop, the most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe, whose death at St. Francis Hospital last night climaxed a grave illness of two weeks.
 Bishop McAuliffe, head Of the Diocese for a little more than ten years, had been ad- mitted to the hospital De- cember 3, following a virtual collapse brought on by his rigorous wartime schedule. His condition became so critical Monday that he was placed in an oxygen tent, but his resistence was gone and yesterday his physicians said that death might come at any time.
 He died at 8:30 p. m, conscious to the end, and faintly answering the prayers for the dying which were being recited by officers of the Church, priests, nuns, and his only immediate relative, his sister, Miss Mary McAuliffe, who had been sum- moned to the hospital only a few hours before.
 The body will remain at the hos pital until Sunday, when it will be taken to St. Thomas Seminary, to lie in state and receive the last re- Spects of members of the Diocese whom he served during his ten years as titular head of the Church.
 Bishop McAuliffe was native of Hartford, and the first native of Connecticut to be appointed to this See. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he had served as auxiliary bishop to the late Bishop John J.. Milan, whom he succeeded upon the latter's death in April, 1884.
 Born June IT, 1875, and educated in the Hartford parochial and high schools, he studied for the priest hood at Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md and because of his high scholastic standing, was sent by the late Bishop Michael Tierney to continue his theological and philosophical studies in Europe. He enrolled at the Grand Seminary of St. Sulpice, Issy, France, and later at University of Eichstatt, Germany, where he was ordained July 29, 1900, by Bishop Von Leon- rod.
 Appointment
 He returned to Hartford the same year, joining the faculty of St. Thomas Seminary. Five years later
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Fire Destroys War Factory

Providence, R. T., Dec. 16-UP)- Damage was estimated at $l50,000 today after a general alarm fire destroyed one war plant and dam aged to other manufacturing estab- lishmentS.
 The F. H. Buffinton Go. Paper Manufacturing plant was destroyed in last nights fire which also dam aged the adjoining plants of the Everett & Barron Co, Shoe Polish makers, and the Edward J. Hughes CO. sheet metal works. Officials said the fire started in the Buffin- ton Co. structure. Firemen from 26 units fought three hours to control the blaze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Jops Give Up To Chinese
BY HUGH CRUMPLER

United Press War Correspondent
 Bhamo, Dec. 16-CUP)-The last organized Japanese resistance in North-C Central Burma collapsed to- day as Chinese troop smopped up enemy stragglers in the captured Irrawaddy river stronghold of Bhamo, ending a 28-day battle that reopened all but a 40 to 50-mile stretch of the Burma road lifeline to China.
 Bhamo fell to American-trained veterans of the Chinese 38th divis- ion yesterday afternoon after wild Banzai charge by the trapped Jap anese garrison broke under 8 hail of gunfire, leaving the river beaches Uttered with enemy dead.
 Hemmed into a series of narrow pockets along the river shore under murderous Chinese cross-fire' and almost incessant attack by American dive -bonbers, the Japanese had held out for four weeks in positions from which they could have been dislodged only by 2 costly frontal attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Britain Puts
 Pressure On Greek Govt.
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By JAMES E. ROPER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Athens, Dec. 16 - (U.PD - Great Britain was reported putting press ure on the Greek government today in an effort to arrange a compromise settlement of the two-week civil war that has resulted in at least l. 900 casualties among the Leftist Elas forces alone.
 Violent street fighting continued unabated in the center of the cap ital, where the British government forces were being squeezed slowly back into pocket less than a mile deep. It was learned that British ef- forts to arrange an armistice had been intensified.
 It was understood that the British were seeking to persuade Premier George Papandreou to accept the appointment of regency commis- sion which would draw up a new cabinet list acceptable to both fac- tionS.
 While there was no official an- nouncement on the progress of the peace moves, it was understood that Papandreou's government was CO., operating insofar as it could. Pros- poets for an early settlement ap- peared considerably brighter than in some time, despite a gloomy state ment by Greek General Nicholas PlaStiras that peace could be re- stored no only by military means.
 If there had been any possibility of compromise it would have been reached by now" said PlaStiras, who flew here from Nice earlier in the week in an effort to bring the two factions together.
 The form of the British Pres sure" was not made public but it was known that Harold MacMillan, British Mediterranean minister, had been in urgent conference with Archbishop DamaSkinos, orthodox primate of Greece, Liberty party leader ThemistocleS SophouliS, and PlasttiraS, all of whom have been suggested as members of the pro- posed regency.
 PlaStiraS also conferred last night with British Ambassador Reginald
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
fluffy Solons Stoy On Job In Capitol
By JOHN L. GUTTER nited Press Stan COrrespOndentl

Washington, Dec, 16 - UP) - Congressional rebellions against the White House - a factor throughout the two years of the 18th Congress kept congress in session today be- yond it's deadline for Christmas ad- journment.
 Both houses of congress met in unusual Saturday sessions in an effort to clear away at least a opr- tion of their unfinished business.
 Instead of the December Is goal which leaders set for adjournment a month ago they have now set a tentative new deadline for Wednes- day of next week.
 Even that schedule was jeoardized by the possibility of f1libuster on confirmation of six top state depart partment nominations comprised one of three major points on which the closing days found the 18th Congress in vigorous disagreement with the White House.
 The others were:
 l. The nominations of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Heller of California and former Governor Robert A. Hurley of Connecticut as members of the surplus war property disposal board.
 2. The question of freezing for another year the Social Security payroll tax at one per cent each on employers and employees.
 The nominations, both State De- partment and Surplus Property Board. were waiting confirmation votes in the senate. Both houses ex- pected momentarily a presidential veto on the Social Security freeze legislation.
 Thre other matters, not involving a CongresS-White House dispute, also were on the must" calendar. They are:
 l. Legislation to resume a federal crop insurance program, now in conference to iron out differences between senate and house versions.
 2. A $564, 100000 deficiency ap- propriation bill, also in conference.
 3. A $500, 1000, 900 postwar rivers and harborS improvement measure, awaiting senate agreement on a pro- viso to exempt the Central Valley project in California from the limi- tation preventing farms larger than 160 acres from receiving irrigation water from reclamation projects.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
LuPe Funeral On Tuesday

Hollywood, Dec. 16.-(UP)-Fu- neral services for Lupe Velez, fiery Mexican film, star who took her life rather than face the shame of bearing an illegitimate child, probably will be held Tuesday, it was reported today.
 Charles E. Trezona, Jr., who had helped Miss Velez in her financial affairs, said present plans were subject to change, however, pend- ing arrival of sister, Mrs. Jo- sefina Anderson, from San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Anderson was in Fl Paso last night and is expected here tomorrow.
 Trezona said he did not know what type of services would be held for the dynamic actress, but that they probably will be non- denominational".
 Whether burial will be in Holly wood, the city where she achieved both fame and heartbreak, or her native Mexico, had not been de- cided, but Manuel Aguilar, Mexican consul, said there was a possibility of the latter"
 The stars mother, Mrs. Jose fina Vinalobos, was ill in Mexico and would not be able to attend the services here.
 Authorities closed their investiga- tions and marked the case simply suicide. She had left two notes explaining that she was taking her own life in preferenCe to becoming an unwed mother.
 Examinations disc oSed that she was four months pregnant.
 Death was from an overdose of sleeping pills.
 Police announced that their in veStigations were over after set- aaN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
TANKS HIT DEEP INTO M|ND0R0 llAzIS RUSH PANzERS TO STEM DRIVE
Pour Into Three Bridgeheads After 6OO- Mile Jump FromL Leyte
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrrespOndent)

Allied Headquarters, Philippines, December 16. - UP) American invasion forces pouring into at least three beachheads after 6OOmile amphibous jump from the western Philippines island of Mindoro today in developing offensive threatening two of the islands main airfeldS
 The Japanese Domei Agency admitted that about one division - Is 900 men of American troops was debark ing San Jose four miles inland from the southwest coast of Mindoro and site of aired The broadcast claimed that Japanese garrison units intercepted the invaders and said fighting "iS in progresS.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Churchill
 Pushes FDR
BY LYLE c. WILSON

Limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, Dec. 16-(UP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt's secret Polish pol icy, on which Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill is attempting to smoke him out, goes today at least as far as the use of moral force to obtain a free choice of government in Po- land at the earliest opportunity.
 The gap between MT. Roosevelt and Churchill appears to relate to the events leading up to the choice of government and the practical methods of shaping those events.
 Churchill complains gently that MT. Roosevelt has not made any public announcement of this gov- efnment's attitude toward what the Prime Minister endorses as the practical" realignment of Polish borders on the east and west as de- sired by Russia.
 On Oct. II, about one month be- fore the presidential electiono MT. Roosevelt told politically potent delegation of Polish Americans that Poland must be reconStituted as a great nation" since it is very im- portant that the new Poland be one of the bulwarks of the struc- ture upon which we hope to build permanent peace"
 Polish-American reaction to any American endorsement of the re- alignment of Polish frontiers prob ably would be instant and pro- longed.
 Polish and other problems con- fronting the anti-Axis leaders ap- parently will force an early meet ing of Churchill, Marshal Josef Sta- lin and MT. Roosevelt soon after the htter's inauguration on Jan. 20 for s fourth term.
 Some persons suggestt hat one objective of an early meeting should be creation of machinery which would enable future political prob- Ierls to be disposed of as they de- Velop with less occasion for the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
|IPoriS Bans
 Public Dancing

Paris, December 16. - (UP) - Public dancing was barred through out Paris today under police order which said it had bad effect on public morale while 5000, 900 Frenchmen still are prisoners of war in Germany and thousands are dying on the battlefield"
 Paris Prefect of Police Charles Luizet warned that any bar, night club, cabaret or dance hall violating the order would be closed imme- diately.
 The ban hit hundreds of American soldiers and their Parisian girl friends who prefer the night spots, but they still will be permitted to dance in the Red Cross and other Allied service clubs.