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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Italian
 Alters Mind

Naples, April 15-CUP)-Count Carlo Sforza. former Italian foreign minister, indicated today he would become a member of a new Italian government If the majority of a six-party junta agrees to enter the cabinet at a meeting this afternoon.
 While he declined to give deti- mite answer in the belief that dis cussion of members of a new gov ernment was premature" Sforza said.
 "In my opinion, two questions supersede all others-prosecution of the war against Germany and purging liberated Italy of its Fascist clements. If these will be the two principal concerns of the new gov- ernment, I should consider 1t my duty not to withhold by name"
 It was generally believed that Sforza will be offered the post of minister of foreign affairs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Admiral King Tells Story
(NEA Telephoto)
BY SANDOR s. KLEIN United Press Staff COrrespondent)

NOhAVCu ASoo OVSSAA AUA ASoPVAANNASS(
 Washington, April 15-<UP)-Ad- miral Ernest J. King, acusing the Japanese of Hack of cooperation" in staging major sea battle with the United States Navy, said today that poWerflf1' new blows will be de- livered during the next few months against Japanese bases and against the enemy fleet if it is found.
 Addressing the graduating class z the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tionS National Police Academy, the commander chief of the U. S. fleet said:
 T think we could rightly define a major part of our policy with re- spect to the Pacific as seizure of opportunity So far it has been impossible, for lack of Japanese CO., operation, to stage a major sea bat tie.
 We are willing, but the Japs do not seem to want to gamble with that type of battle. So we are seeking opportunities to strike whenever we an get within range of their warships or bases, and I think you will find, within the next few months to come that we shall create more of these opportunities"
 For example," he said, T have only to cite the recent successful attacks on Palau, Yap and Woleai Islands" Palau is $50 miles from the Philippines.
 Reminding that to date more than 600 Japanese merchant ships have been sunk, probably sunk or dam aged by submarine action alone, King added that Japan cannot stand such rate of loss for any length of time and keep her empire together"
 He said that well over 100000 tons of Japanese cargo tonnage has been sunk to reduce Japan's mer- chant fleet to not more than two thirds of pre-war tonnage. Jap ans warship fleet, he added, has been so seriously damaged, that she can never hope to make up losses by building new fighting ships or repairing those that we have damaged"
 He reiterated that the American objective in the Pacific was Tokyo.
 But" he added. i've do not un- derestimate our enemies. We give them credit for determination and tenacity, skill and ingenuity, as well as a savage disregard for humanity and for liveS-even their own." King declared that as time goes on, the Japanese will learn that the United States is not relying on so-called orthodox methods of warfare.
 We are meeting each situation as 1t arises or as we can create sit- uations," he said, 'and our ene- mics are finding that when We
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Primary Lists Filed Tonight

Official Democratic town commit tee party rules will supersede, dur ing the next few days, the activities of senatorial candidates from the 18th district. Tonight all primary lists of delegates must be filed with the town committee.
 The latter will hold filing sessions between and g p. m. at party head quarters at North Main street, when both Patrick J. Wallace and Sen. John F. Tobin will file their slate of delegates. previously announced. However, it is pointed out that any, one, with the proper fee, can file a slate of tickets tonight.
 On Monday night the registrar of voters office will be open from 2 p. m. to g p. m. to enroll all voters not registered on the Democratic primary list and who wish to be so registered. This will be the only night that this service will be of- fered although a prospective prim- ary registrant may enroll during the day between now and the close of Tuesday from a. m. to p. m.
 Tuesday night all moderators for the Wednesday primary will meet at party headquarters to receive instructions from town committee chairman Maurice F. Tangney and others as to their official duties during the next days contest.
 Senatorial candidacy opponents from the 18th district have been &C., tive of the last few days while their supporters have engaged in the usual field work" in an endeavor to clinch the election. Last night Mayor Monagan, MT. Tangney, Sec'y of town committee Neil Ma loney and alderman Martin F. Tehan, chairman of the Wallace For Senator headquarters in the Ma tional Bank Building.
 Workers were urged to canvass all the district to assure a full vote on April 19 the day of the election.
 Senator Tobin and his supporters likewise have been active of the last few days. /.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Poramushiro BIitzed Anew
BY WILLIM F THREE Limited Press War COrreSp0ndent)

(Un1CeO tTeSS war OUEECSpVAAuCAAN|
 Pearl Harbor, April 15.-(UP)- U. s. bombers hit the big enemy naval base of ParamuShiro twice in one night as they brought the aerial offensive against Japan's northern defense anchor to a new peak of in tensity, it was revealed last night.
 Carrying attacks on the Kurile Islands into the fourth straight day, Army LiberatorS and Navy Venturas flew from the AleutianS in sub-Zero weather to hit Paramushiro in sep arate raids, one of them without op- position.
 A comnunique from Adm. Chester w. Nimitz's headquarters said the Navy planes drew intense heavy calibre anti-aircraft fire in the assault before dawn Thursday, al- though no opposition was encoun- tered by the Army planes, which also bombed two other islands in the chain-Shashikotan and Mat suwa, 1869 miles north of Tokyo.
 In the four days since the new offensive started, ParamuShiro has been attacked four times: Matsuwa four; Shashikotan and Shimushu twice each and Onnekotan once.
 Central Pacific forces also con- tinued their offensive against the enemy'S battered defenses in the Carolines and the Marshalls, hitting four of the protective bases around Truk on Thursday after carrying out heavy dair on the enemy baS- tion itself the preceding day.
 In the new attacks in the Caro- lines, Army, Navy and Marine pilots raided Ponape, 437 miles east of Truk, for the 22nd time in two weeks; Pakin, near Ponape; Ulul, 15O miles northwest of Truk, and Kusaiie, the eaSternmost Carolines base, 348 miles southeast of the American-held Kwapalein.
 American bombers, in the 11th raid by the Seventh Air Force on Truk, encountered only meager anti fire Wednesday as they attacked five of the atoll's main
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Senator John Tobin Replies
 To Administrations Charges

Stating that "all these bills tntro- duced by me were so introduced at the request of the members of the several groups Sen. John F. Tobin, candidate for renomination from the 16th senatorial district today issued 8 statement in answer to charges that leigsilation sponsored by him last year in the General Assembly had been f personal ized nature"
 Sen. Tobin, ill the statement, cites instances of what he says are proof "of my support of the city and state Democratic parties"
 The senator was replying to the recent statement of Mayor John & Monagan who threw the full sup port of the administration and local Democratic party behind Patrick J. Wallace opponent of MT. Tobin in next Wednesdays primary contest. Ill his statement the Mayor had said, in opposing MT. Tobin: "This administration cannot countenance the program of Legislation for 1n- dividuals sponsored by Senator Tobin in the 1943 General Assembly when he nearly succeeded in a plan for superseding the duly elected city government"
 Senator Tobins statement Of to- day, in full, is as follows:
 On April 18th. Mayor John S, Monagan, issued a statement Ill support of my opponent, MT. Pa trick Wallace. In his statement, MT. Monagan said and I quote; 'This administration cannot count enance the program of legislation for individuals sponsored by Sen- ator Tobin in the 194 General As sembly when he nearly succeeded in plan for superseding the duly elected city government"
 It is true that I introduced and sponsored the following bills to suc- cessful passage by both the Senate and the House.
 l. A bill for the benefit of all members of the police. department
 ?. A bill for the benefit of all members of the fire department.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Railroads Hit In.
 NewMove Smashes'
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD = United Press War COrrespOndentlN
 Allied H e adqua erS,, Naples, April IS. = (UP) - RAF Wellingtons and Libera~ tors bombed the Italian west coast harbors of Livorn0 Geghorn), San Etefano and PiombinO for seven hours early today in an attempt to disrupt German efforts to, move supplies by sea follow-'' ing the wrecking of railwayt lines.
 The ground fronts remained quiet except for continued patrol and artillery activity. Front reports said the Germans apparently had begun bombarding the Allied beachheaGi below Rome with a fiiant new gunI that his range of about 30 miles.
 The pre-dawn air attacks on the: three west coast harbors roundedl out A hours of widespread raids oni German communications drought out Italy by 1,400 Allied aircraft, during which four German planess were shot down and five Allie6 planes lost.
 A large fire was kindled at Livor~{ no. Four similar blaZeS were Starte0y at Piombino, some 45 miles to thel south, and a hit was scored neaTH steel works.
 The Germans have been usinRi all three ports to an increasing ex-S tent to move supplies and shift troops since Allied bomberS cuSy their principal Longitudinal raill lines last month.
 Mitchell Medium bombers Hyf1s railway yards at Livorno in daylight yesterday and also dropped frag~s mentation and domilition bombs onI the Viterbo Airfeld, 40 miles north~ i; west of Rome, with good results,"S } an Allied communique reported. Marauder medium bombers re. ported successful attacks on rail- way bridges at Certaldo, Bucine. Arezzo and Cecina, while Thunder bolt fighter -bombers blasted other; bridges, supply dumps, gun positions and airfields. The Thunderbolts de- !, stroyed three and probably four out !! of 30 German fighters which inter- { cepte them near Orbetello.
 German planes struck back with half-hour attack on Naples just 1; before dawn today. Anti-aircraft guns were in action. Six German 1 planes also attacked the Ando . beachhead yesterday, but at least ! two of them were believed to have i been shot down.
 Considerable German ground traf- f1c was reported from the areai southeast of Aprilia on the left flank of the beachhead and 50 Ger !! mans were shelled and mortared three miles inland from the coast, suffering casualties. |
 Unfavorable weather restricted patrolling in the CasSino sector of the main 5th Army front, but Ger man movements there, too, were shelled and mortared successfully. 2
 On the Upper Garigliano sector i southwest of Casino, German att ] tempt to inflltrate northeast of San l Ambrogio was broken up and other patrols south of San Andrew repuls- 1 ed after some fighting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
New Threat In Cool

Washington, April l5-(UP)-A new threat of unrest in the coal fields was raised today by demand from President John L. Lewis of The United Mine Workers for im- mediate payment of a retroactive wage claim to 450,00O bituminous coal miners.
 Lewis demand was made in a letter to Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes. He charged there was a conspiracy to detraud" the miners of $18,0O0.000 and accused the War Labor Board and groups of south ern operators of conspiring to "de- lay and void the payment of this guaranteed back wage claim"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
ELMER DAVIS WINS POINT
 ON WAR NEWS
BY JOSEPH LATIN United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, April IS. - (UP) - Elmer Davis, direc- tor of the Office of War In- formation, today won a two year fight to share with the Army and Navy the power to make decisions on the release of war news which he said would be large and hot" during the remainder of 1944.
 Under a new Setup an- nounced today, Davis will sit in with Army and Navy of ficials in reviewing future decisions of theater com manders to suppress tenn porarily military develop ments on the grounds of security.
 Theater commanders, who hereto fore were virtually sole arblterS III these matters, now must promptly submit their decisions to withhold news to Washington for review by the Army or Navy and OWI.
 Davis fight to publish bad news along with good has been carried on with some degree of success since he was appointed to the OWI post by President Roosevelt in 1942.
 Not until today, however, was he elevated from what amounted to a consultant to a member of a board which will determine when military security warrants withhold ing news from the public.
 A formal statement on the new policy said that demands of secur- ity are not always immediately ob- vious to the public at home TO the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Wild Plum Still Wild
By EDMUND D'MOCH Limited Press Staff Correspondent

Richardton, N. D., April 15-UP) Mrs. Pauline Rebel, the pretty 22- year-old blonde school teacher of the Wild Plum district, said today she wasn't as concerned about the supernatural activities going on in her school, where the coal danced out of the scuttle, as she was about the notes which warned her to '1eave or be shot,"
 T am bothered about the IS notes threatening my life," she said. "I've only taught here seven months, and I certainly never expected anything like this"
 when the ignite leaped out of the scuttle," she explained, T calmed my pupils by getting them to pick up the trembling pieces of coal. It was all I could think of to keep them busy and help them to overcome their fright.
 Perhaps the whole thing was spontaneous combustion"
 While farmers in the area eX- pressed concern over the threaten ing notes received by the pretty schoolteacher, they were relieved to have a "big, six-footer" injected into the picture. It gave them some thing concrete to go on and explod- ed the theory the school was be witched"
 The six-foot suspect was brought into the mystery by Mrs. Rebel who said he knocked on the schoolhouse door one day and then fled. Author ities at Bismarck believe he may have been the author of the threat ening notes and a search was being made for him.
 Mrs. Rebel, who lives near the school with her farm-Worker hus- band, said she began receiving the threatening notes, barely legible and crudely printed on tablet paper, last January. A few days before March 28, when the coal staged its jitter- bug act, the window shades smould- cred and the dictionary smoked, she said a masked man was seen near the little white, one-room school house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
FRIGIDTY
 IS SWEDE
 STAND TOU. 5.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

London, April IS. = (UP) - Stockholm dispatches said today Sweden probably would reject American and British notes demanding that she cease exporting ball bearings, tools and special steels to Germany, but Tur- key, in the face of similar demands, pledged all aid possible to the Allies.
 Though Sweden was not expected to reply formally to the two notes until late next week, the tenor of editorials in Stockholm newspapers indicated the answers would be neg ative.
 Aftonbladet said that if Sweden acceded to the Allied requests, Ger many undoubtedly would retalitete with reduction of vital exports, such as coal to Sweden. With the Allies unable to break Germany's blockade of the Baltic, Sweden would run short of supplies and eventually face unemployment, the newspaper said. Nya Daglit All, and
 Nya Dagligt Allehanda, another Stockholm newspaper, contended that Sweden always had stood for free trade with all countries and could not break her contracts.
 Dispatches from Ankara said the American and British ambassadors had handed notes yesterday to Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu demanding that Turkey halt deliveries of chrome to Germany.
 Menemencioglu told Allied news men at a press conference that he and the ambassadors had "ex- changed views in the most amicable spirit, namely the spirit of mutual collaboration which characterizes our relations"
 While he did not disclose what Turkeys reply would be, Menemen- cioglu added:
 We shall. within the framework of our foreign policy, give within the limit of our material poSsibil- ities all aid to our Allies"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
GEN. VATUT|N GREAT SOVIET
 LEADER DIES
BY BRUCE MUNN United Press Staff COrrespondent)

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 London, April 15. - (UP) General Nikolai F. Vatutin, who commanded the 1St Ukrainian Army in the Liber- ation of Kiev and it's march into pre-war Poland, died last night at Kiev after a serious operation.
 Radio Moscow, in announcing the death, called Vatutin lone of the most gifted of the young military leaders who came to the fore in the course of the way for the father land" It was Vatutin's attacks in the Belgorod sector last August that launched the Russians on their great 1943-1944 southern front of- fensive which since has carried into Cechoslovakia and Romainia, as well as Poland.
 Funeral rites will be held at Kiev, Radio Moscow said, and 8 monument will be erected there ito immirtalie the memory of Comrade N. F. Catutin."
 Vatutin, about 45 years old, be- came ill and was relieved of his command early in March. Premier Josef Stalin announced March 5 that Marshal Gregory K. zhukov, assistant commissar of defense, had taken active command of the First Army which only the day before had started new drive in the southwestern Ukraine. No further word was released regarding Catu- tins illness until today.
 The broad-faced, stocky General Vatutin was a typical Red Army commander in that litle ever was revealed about his personal life. Five months before the Germans invaded Russia he was a lieutenant general and had received the Soviet Unions highest non-combat decora- tion, the Order of Lenin; in recog- milton of the state of preparedness to which he had brought his troops"
 He was born in the mid-Volga region and had ben a member of the Red Army since the revolution.
 During the retreat in 1941, he held his rank when other officers, unable to cope with the German "Blitzkrieg", were being pulled back to desk jobs.
 Vatutin received the order of Suravov, first degree, in December. 1942 for his brilliant generalShip in the 1942 winter drive. AS com mander of the North Don army he drove across the Steppes from a point above Stalingrad, while other Soviet troops were encircling Ger mans in that city, to capture Khar- kov in February, 1943. He was forced to relinquish the city later.
 Raised to a five-star general, he aided in halting the German 1943 summer offensive at Orel, Kursk and Belgorod. When the Russian offensive began July F, 1943 around Orel his army drove forward to capture Belogorod in August.
 After that he assumed command of the First Army and, continuing westward climaxed a drive by cap turing Kiev, third city in Russia and capital of the Ukraine.
 His men went into action Decem- Der A cn 50 mile front which soon extended several hundred miles and put the Germans in full retreat. On January 6 the First Army crossed the pre-war Polish border in a drive that carried to luck, Poland, 230 miles beyond Kiev.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Britain SIops Fire
By JAMES McGLINCY

(Unlted Press StaH COrreSpOndent)
 London, April IS = (U.P) Air plane service between Dublin and Liverpool was suspended today and Fire ordered a drastic reduction in its rail transport as a result of British decision to halt coal exports.
 The Sharpened policy of cracking down on neutralS which might give direvt or indirect support to the Axis was closing in fast on Fire.
 Rail services linking Dublin with provicial centerS were cut to the bone. Authorities reported that main line passenger service would be reduced to two days a week and freight trains would operate only four days a week beginning April 24. Eleven branch lines of the Great Southern Railway were to be closed completely.
 Fire was the first of the European neutrals to feel the pinch of the economic pressure which Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced Sunday would be applied. Early in March Dublin rejected an American request to close the German and Japanese legations on grounds that their functioning jeopardized the military security of forces in north ern Ireland and gave the Axis a vantage point for spying on activity in the United Kingdom.
 Experts said the restrictions on transport were bound to affect Fires entire economy, although the Irish tried to foreStall such ar eventuality by dispersing their food stocks throughout the country.
 Nevertheless food in one form or another constitutes Fires biggest industry, and the latest develop mentS meant flatter pocketbooks for producers and f1atter stomachS for consumers as a result of the lack of means to transport foodStuffS.
 Whether the situation would in- f1uence Dublin to moderate its stand on neutrality seemed to be a matter of extreme doubt
 The racing so dear to the hearts of most Irishmen was expected to be limited to the places where the horses were trained because no train space would be available for horses or racegoers.
 Fires coal reserves were reported low. Electric lighting was cut in half two weeks ago to conserve sup plies. Dublin has been trying for some time to persuade the people to dig enough turf to supplant coal imports. But the turf burns badly, and takes at least tlIree times the space required by coal to produce like amount of power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
DISTRIBUTORS SUED

New Haven, April 15--(UP)-Per- feet Theaters, Inc, of Greenwich. lost its $5,450,00O suit against eight motion picture distributors today or direction of Federal Judge Carroll c. Hincks to the jury to bring in verdict for the defendants.
 The corporation brought the &C., tion, charging it had been subjected to large financial losses through be- ing deprived of first-run pictures which were permitted to be shown in adjoining towns.
 The suit charged conspiracy to discriminate against Perfect Pic lures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
(Bv United Press)

A Romanian high command com- munique transmitted by the Ger man Trans-ocean Agency said to- day that 2,942 persons were killed and 2,126 wounded in the American air raid on Bucharest Tuesday.
 The casualties were the highest ever reported by an authorized source for a single air raid.
 The Germans never have re- leased the number of casualties suffered in Allied raids on their cities, and the largest toll in a German raid on Britain was 1,436 killed and 1,792 injured in the last heavy blitz attack on LOndon May 10. l94l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-15
Bucharest Air Raid One
 Of Toughest Euer Reported

The Romanian communique also reported that 9O5 houses were de- stroyed and 1873 others damaged in the Bucharest attack. At Ploesti, raided Wednesday by American planes, 262 persons were killed, 361 wounded, and 197 houses destroyed or damaged, the communique said.
 "The enemy air force formations, moreover, dropped bombs on 42 inhabited places in Romanian rural communities from where casualties and damage are reported" the communique added.
 The trarsocean dispatch was re- ported by the federal communica- tionS commission.