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Evening star., 1944-02-17
Public Not Getting
Full, Rapid Coveroge,
owl Chief Asserts
BY the Associated Press.


Director Elmer Davis of the
Office of War Information sale
today he was making representa-
tionS to the Army against
the stoppage of direct filing of
press dispatches from the Anzio
beachhead in Italy.
Later, after White House con.
ference, Mr.. Davies said that Presi-
dent Roosevelt SIS anxious to SET
that there be adequate news cover
age both as to volume and to speed
on forthcoming operations in Eu-
rope, and AS a matter of fact, in
other theaters as well.
The Owl director said the Presi-
dent impressed this on him when
he called 'for information we need
for our operations abroad" and that
he told the President what arrange
ments were being made with the
Army.
I'VE want to try and make sure
that the news be speeded up as
much as possible" he said. He
added that the President seemed sat-
isfied with what was being done.
Feels Curb Went Too Far.
In his earlier statement to re-
porters the OWL director indicated
plainly that he felt the curb on di-
rect dispatches from the Anzio
Beachhead went beyond the ac-
Evening star., 1944-02-17
kovieng Base PIostered
With IS Tons of Bombs

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb.
IL (P1.-Alied planes flying low
through heavy antiaircraft fire plas-
tered the japanese base at Kavieng
New Ireland. with 65 tons of
bombs, setting the town ablaze and
smashing cargo vessels in the har-
Dor, Gen. Douglas Macarthur re-
ported today
The ack-ack knocked down eight
Allied aircraft, more than ever be-
fore lost on missions over this base
but IS airmen were snatched from
the fate which the japanese re-
serve for American prisoners when
the crew of lone Navy Catalina
flying boat put their plane down
four times under the nose of enemv
shore batteries to rescue the flyers
from the water.
Gen. MacArthur's communioue
said that United States and New
Zealand troops, who swarmed onto
the Green Islands at the northern
edge of the Solomon archipelago
Monday night and Tuesday, have
consolidated their positions without
incident. The invaders met onlv
mild resistance.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Floods Halt Rail Traffic
Between Chile, Bolivia
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 17.-Min-
lister of Public Works Abraham AL
caino announced today that railway
traffic between the port of africa in
Northern Chile, and Lapaz, capital
of Bolivia, had been halted by floods
which washed out the roadbed for
about one-quarter of mile.
Damage to the railroad was esti-
mated at 10000, 900 pesos (approxi-
mately $400,000, and it was esti-
mated that repair work would take
from one to two months. Mean
while ships which formerly used
Aricas facilities must discharge
their cargoes at Antofagasta, Chile
or at the Peruvian port Of 1follendo
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Irish Wit Finds Quick Response
To Mrs. Shuw's Jibe at Manners

not apt to pay much attention to
the will of Mrs. George Bernard
Shaw"
John McCaffery, fiction editor,
American Magazine: ANY person
who thinks the Irish are inarticulate
is probably stone deaf"
John j. Sheehan, chairman of New
York's st. Patrick's Day Parade
Committee: To-day there is higher
culture there tEire) than in any
place in England"
And from Boston, veritable seat
of Irish culture in America, came
these pithy comments on the matter:
John F. Fitzgerald, former Mayor:
I'm sorry Mrs. Shaw wasn't sue
cessful in improving her husbands s
manners.
The Rev. John F. x. Murphy, pro-
lessor OF history at Boston College:
Mrs. Bernard Shaw's reputed will
may represent her own mind on the
matter or it may be a reflex of her
husbands sardonic humor. Despite
all Shaw's trifling nonsense about the
Irish Republic and It's English resi-
(see SHAW, mage A-45
Evening star., 1944-02-17
100000 U. 5. Troops
Return From Fronts;
New Policy Outlined
Rotation Plan Will
Provide Rest Period
After Struin of War
BY NELSON NJ. SHEPARD.

More than 100000 overseas
Army troops, exclusive of sick
and wounded, have been sent
back to the United States for va
rious reasons since the start of
the war, Secretary Of War Stim-
son disclosed at press confer
ence today in discussing the new
policy of troop rotation under
which a steady flow Of men
returning from overseas will be
maintained.
The new rotation policy providing
for exchange of overseas veteran!
for men in training over here ha.
accounted for some of the 200 ,O0t
already returned and will account
for the greater proportion in the
future. he explained.
Some of the 100000 were sent
back as returned" personnel for
whom no specific replacements were
required.
Mr.. Stinison said each overseas
theater of operation is fixing its
own minimum rules of eligibility
under the rotation policy. Periods Of
eligible service range from 18
months in the North african thea
ter to two years in the Alaskan and
Caribbean commands. Prescriptions
for eligibility in other theaters, in
cluding the Southwest Pacific, are
now being formulated, he said.
Length of Service Considered.
In restatement of the War De-
partment's rotation policy for men
other than air crew personnel, Mr..
Stimson emphasized that those sent
back to the United States will be
those with the longest service in
their particular overseas command
or those with longest service over
seas"
The purpose of rotation as set
forth in the new policy statement
is threefold:
l. To insure efficiency of a COM
mand by replacing those who do not
require disqualification, but whose
morale or health has been adversely
affected by prolonged periods OF
duty under severe conditions, and
whose effectiveness cannot be re-
stored by rotation within the theater
2. To return to the continental
United States experienced personnel
for use in training and in the forma-
ton OF new units and other pur-
poses.
3. To return by replacement per-
sonnel considered by the theater
commander as deserving of such
return. Men who have been wounded
more than once but are fit for duty
are to receive consideration in this
connection.
Will Be Given Leaves.
Men arriving in this country from
overseas under the rotation policy
first will be granted sufficient leave
to enable them to spend three
weeks wherever they choose" Mr..
Stimson explained Then they will
not be ordered to overseas COM
mands again until they have per-
formed period of duty of unspeci-
fled length within the United States.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Subsidy Measure May
Reach President Today

Congress Is expected to toss the
antlsubsidy bill to the White House
today, then wait for it to bounce
back.
Administration leaders said Presi-
dent Roosevelt is certain to veto the
legislation, which strikes at what he
considers the heart of his wartime
economic stabilization program.
They voiced confidence that the
veto will be sustained. 80.
On the other hand Senator Bank
head. Democrat. of Alabama. and
Representative Wolcott, Republican,
OF Michigan, antisubsidy leaders in
the Senate and House, respectively,
said they believed they had a good
| chance of overriding a veto.
The Senate quickly gave final ap-
proval yesterday to the subsidy re-
pealer. hitched to measure eX-
tending the life of the Commodity
Credit Corp, and sent it to the
House, where prompt acceptance to-
day is expected.
Credit Extension Retroactive.
Senate action followed agreement
OF conferees on the Senate version
Of legislation to end the subsidy pay
ments June 80 and continue the
CCC, which pays most Of the sub
sides until June 30, l945. The House
had favored immediate termination
of the payments.
The CCC legally expires today,
but to forestall any legal tangle
that might arise from its technical
lapse conferees wrote into the bill
a provision making its extension
retroactive to February II. This
permits the agency to continue nor
NAL operations pending final dispo-
sition of the legislation. Both sub
sidy advocates and foes favor
continuing the CCC.
Conferees struck out Senate
provision giving the CCC $250,O00,-
900 more borrowing authority to
carry out its crop loans, price sup
port and other transactions.
The CCC, which now has borrow
ing power up to $4,000 ,000, 900, mean
while prepared to carry on. regard
less of its impending lapse as an
agent of the Government.
AAAS oiiS PloSl GILL pldCtu III all
uncertain status is that of a $780,
600 ,000-a-year milk and butterfat
subsidy program, under which dairy
men are offered subsidies on their
milk production.
Expect to Uphold Veto.
Although none would specifically
promise it, most officials expressed
the opinion that dairymen would get
subsidies for the period between to-
night and the time that new legisla-
ton is finally approved extending
the Gees authority. They said
administrative orders undoubtedly
would be issued directing payments
retroactive for that period.
Chester Bowles, price administra-
tor, contends that elimination OF
consumer food subsidies will break
the line against wartime imitation,
resulting in an immediate per cent
rise in food COSTS Subsidies have
been used to reduce prices of butter
by 5 cents pound, depress meat
prices as much as 3 or 4 cents a
pound and to hold down retail prices
of other foods.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Spanish Radio AssoiIs
Jops in Philippines
BY the Asssciateu Press.

@-o"OSf"IeU
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Span
lsh radio yesterday denounced JAP
anese treatment of Spanish ma
tlonals in the Philippines and "the
attitude adopted by the Japanese
authorities against everything that
is or represents Spanish and Chris
|tian value"
The Spanish people and press in
the past, the broadcast reported by
the Once Of War Information said
had maintained '.in regard to the
military enterprise of the Japanese
an attitude Of which Japan could
not have the slightest complaint. y
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Draft Review Faces
100000 on Farms
Rated as Essential
Selective Service Plans
To Eliminate Dependency
Classification

Selective service headquarters
today directed draft boards to
begin a sweeping review of the
l 100000 men classified as essen
tial farm workers with a view to
eliminating the dependency clas-
sification and canceling the de-
ferments OF farm workers who
are not contributing through
their own personal efforts their
share of labor and production
to agriculture's intense war
effort"
Ofdcials said the action was taken
''in the light of increased crop
production goals for 1914 and be-
cause of sharp curtailment OF avail
able manpower for the armed
forces"
Hershey Makes No Estimate.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Sc
lective service director, refused to
estimate how many farm workers
might be drafted under the new
policy.
Asked at news conference
whether the new regulations would
slow drafting OF fathers outside of
agricultural work, Gen. Hershey re-
piled that the demands are so great
that I wouldn't even want to make
an estimate of a minutes difference
in induction of fathers"
He reported that between $4,000
and 10000 prewar fathers were in
Quoted in January, the largest num-
Der in any one month. This
brought the total number of fathers
drafted since such inductions began
October l to between 100000 and
10000, as of February l.
Total inductions in January, Gen
Hershey said. ran about 100000, or
about 100000 below the January
quota. Thus. he pointed out, in each
of the last four months, draft
boards have failed by about 100000
to meet their calls.
Under the Tydings amendment
to the Selective Service Act men
found by local boards to be "neces-
sary to and regularly engaged in
essential agricultural occupations
must be deferred as long as nc
requirements can be obtained.
Boards Instructions.
Draft boards were ordered to pro-
ceed at once to reopen the CLASH
flcation of all registrants in &C
deferred solely by reason of their
agricultural activity. If it deter
mined that the registrant qualities
under the minimum 16 war units a
year "a plan of measuring agricul-
tural endeavor and labor, then
he will be continued in &c for six
months, at the end of which his
case will be reconsidered.
At the conclusion of reclassifica-
ton of men in &c, boards will begin
reconsideration of men deferred in
class sc, for essential farm workers
with dependents.
Selective service said this CLASH
fication will be eliminated and men
in this category will have their cases
considered in the same manner as
registrants in &c.
Selective service estimated that
of the approximately 100000 men
classified &c and sc January /,
more than 100000 were nonfathers.
In addition, it was estimated that
5000 were single men and below %
years of age.
The agency pointed out that fewer
than 125,000 nonfathers below the
age of % were deferred in all
war production and war-supporting
agencies on January /.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Late Bulletin
Two Die in Air Crash

Two men were reported
killed and four others seri.
Ously injured this afternoon
when a plane identified as a
Navy ship crashed on the
Hatt0n Water farm, 8 miles
west of Rockville, Md. Two
of the injured were reported
near death. First reports
were that the plane struck q
clump of trees and crashed
in an open fiald.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
30 Billions for NAVY
Asked by President;
Fiqure Sets Record
BY the Associated Press

BY tne Associated Press.
President Roosevelt TODAY
asked the largest naval appro-
prlation in history-S30, 789 ,000,- =
900 for the 1945 fiscal year.
The outlay, subject to con-
gressional approval, would COM
pare with s27,435 ,037,19 appro-
priated for the 1914 fiscal year
and s23 ,808,852 SAT for the pre-
ceding year.
The tentative 1945 estimate
for the war program of the War
Department is $4,000, ,45l ,840,
compared with a 1914 appro-
priation of s59,036, ,297,571.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
|liberators Blast
e400Mi|es
East Of 1ruk
Ponope Fortified
Like Gibraltar, but
Sends Up No Planes
MAP on Page Az
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor
Feb. 17.-Ranging into the Caro-
lines to within 400 miles O:
mighty Truk, big land-basee
Army Liberators have delivered
the first attack of the war or
Ponape, Japans "Gibraltar Of
the Pacific"
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an.
nounced yesterday that a consider.
able force of the 7th Air Force heav,
bombers dropped IS tons of explo.
sives Monday on Ponape, sinking 9
cargo ship and blasting shore in.
stallations. Meeting no air oppo.
sition, all the four-engined raiders
got home.
tThere was no official indica-
ton as to the bases from which
the big bombers few. They per-
haps took off from the Tarawa
airbase in the Gilberts, which
would mean round-trip fight of
more than 1000 miles. Newly
won Kwajalein in the Marshalls
is less than 600 miles east of
Ponape, and American airbases
are being developed there, but
those bases are said to be only
large enough for medium bomb
ers)
Ponape's excellent harbor is over
looked by heavily fortified rock
like Gibraltar. 1t recently was
photographed by a marine plane
disclosing IS ships in the lagoon
and showing the location Of ex-
tensive facilities.
The Monday noon raid represented
the deepest westward penetration
OF Japan's island defenses by land
based bombers.
Admiral Nimitz also announced
that five atolls in the Marshalls were
raided Monday and Tuesday by Lib
orators. Mitchells, Dauntless dive
bombers and Warhawk fighters OF
the 7th Air Force and search planes
of Fleet Air Wing 2. On Monday
a Navy search plane made the first
officially reported raid on Mejit
Island in the Eastern Marshalls.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Rommel Tours Coost

sLONDON. Feb. II R).-DNB an.
nounced in a German broadcast to.
day that Marshal Erwin Rommel
Adolf Hitler's anti-invasion com.
mander, is making tour Of Ger.
man Mediterranean fortification.
from the Gulf Of Lyon to the Span.
1sh frontier In Southern France,
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Commons Plans Debate
ION War Situation
BY the Associate,l presx

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE House of
Commons will hold a debate after
Prime Minister Churchill's state
ment on the war and international
situation at the next series of sit
tlngs, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eien announced today.
The Prime Minister will speak an
hour or more and cover considerable
ground.
Evening star., 1944-02-17
Germans Forced Back
Toward Knin, Tito Saws
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 17.-Yugoslav Pa
triots declared yesterday they had
forced back the Germans in the di-
rection of Knin in Dalmatia, but
acknowledged the loss of Bugojno,
an important town near the border
of Bosnia.
Evening star., 1944-02-17

tSee STIMSON, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1944-02-17

(See DAVIS, Page A-4.D
The messenger., 1944-12-01
CHARTER APPROVED
(Continued from Page 1)

(Continued from Page 1) providing for the countersigna- ture of the treasurer on all checks drawn by the clerks. Many of the duties of the clerk of the council, it is explained, would normally be ascribed to controller.
 The Charter definitely desig- mates the Town Manager as the chief executive officer of the town making him the Purchasing agent of the town (except in the case of supplies and equipment used by the School Board) and empowers him to appoint the chief and mem bers of the Police Department and all other officers and employees of the town not otherwise specific ally provided.
 Besides the members of the council, the board of assessors, board of tax review, Town Plan and Coming Board, town clerk, reg istrar of voters, the town treas urer the selectmen, constables and members of the board of education and directors of the Prosser Library.
 The Charter directs no change in the set-up of the present school system or the operations of the Town Plan and Coming Commis- sion or Town Court nor does it eliminate occasion for the town meeting.
The messenger., 1944-12-01
Is OF SOCCER TAAM ARE GIVEN LETTERS

Fifteen members of the Bloom field High School Soccer Team were given their letters at an as- sembly held late last month in the school auditorium.
 Following short talks by J. Sen for Washington, secretary of the Board of Education and Town Manager w. T. Williamson, the letters were awarded by Coach John P. Paterno to Captain Don aid Reid, Amos Bedding, Jack Lagan, Frank LaPenna, William Clark, George Ventres, William Ventres, Milton Krantz, Andrew Backman, Clifford Stark, Burr Powers, Fred Prosiatowski, Tony Russo, Allan Tull and Richard Reid.
 The following evening members of the team were entertained at supper by the Bloomfield Lions Club in the Sacred Heart Church Hall, during which event it was an- nounced that William Clark of the junior class had been elected cap tain of next seasons team.
The messenger., 1944-12-01
CPL. WARREN HAWORTH MISSING IN ACTION

Cpl. Warren (Ash) Haworth, a resident of Bloomfield during many of his school years is re- ported missing in action in Italy.
 Haworth has been in the service since March, 1942 and overseas in an engineering division for the past nineteen months. He was re- gently awarded the Bronze Star for the heroic rescue of a group of engineers who had been cut off from their outfit by heavy Nazi fire.
 Corporal Haworth is the son of MT. and Mrs. w. A. Haworth who now reside at 72 Crescent Street, Hartford.
The messenger., 1944-12-01
DORIS BERCENHOLTZ LICENSED HYCENIST

The Connecticut State Dental Commission has announced that Doris c. Bergenholtz of. 2 Wade Avenue, has successfully passed the examination for a license to practice dental hygiene in the state.
 Miss Bergenholtz graduated from the local high school in 1942 and attended the University of Pennsylvania. She is sister of Warren Bergenholtz, of the Navy.
The messenger., 1944-12-01
Subscription $1 per year
DECEMBER 1914
CHRISTMAS IN 1914

CHRISTMAS IN 1914
 How shall we celebrate Christ mas this year? The festival IS associated with Peace and there is no peace. The holiday centers around the holy family, but fam flies are broken and sons and daughters, husbands and fathers are far away on the battle fronts of the world. "Good will among seems to have little chance against the hatred rampant among the warning nations. "Joy to the world'' can hardly be sung by men in the jungle of the Pacific or the mud of Europe.
 How shall we celebrate Christ mas this year? In the first place we shall remember that Christmas commentaries hope that was born in one of the darkest nights of the worlds history. It began with comparative insignificance in a Western World that was under the dictatorship of Augustus Caesar. It's message grew in ln- fluence as the power of Rome de- clined. In the second place, we shall remember that each recurring war carries it's own evidence that the real victories are not won through the clash of arms, but through the success of great ideas that the real leaders of the world are men of spiritual insight who proclaimed such simple truths as "Do unto others as ye would that men should do unto you" In the third place we shall remember that the true spirit of Christmas is one of hope and without hope we dare not look beyond these dark days. Hope for victory, hope for peace, hope for better world makes it possible for us to meet the challenge of each day, and make endurable the sacrifices men must make in the centers of con- flict.
 How shall we celebrate Christ mas this year? We shall celebrate it with awareness that our desire for peace on earth grows increas- ingly urgent. We are heartsick about war-war that takes our best beloved from us-war that shocks us with it's devastating cru ilities- s-war that blights the lives of millions. We want peace on earth. Not a truce but peace based on good will, peace that warns our hearts like an angels song, peace that is the golden dawning of a new day following the dark night of conflict, peace that makes the spirit of Christmas a universal and enduring reality.
 ONE MORE INDIICTEE
The messenger., 1944-12-01
ONE MORE INDUCTEE

There has been only one registrant inducted in Bloom field during the past sixty days Walter Stanley Roska. 28A Cottage Grove Road. He is now in the Army.
The messenger., 1944-12-01

Captain Harry J. Burke, who was at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for a while following an overseas as- signment, now advises that he has a Los Angeles APO.
 Richard Sparks has been moved from San Antonio, Texas to Amarillo, Texas.