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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Lamb Points Cut In HoIf For Nav

Washington, April q. (UP)-The office of price administration an- nounced today that ration values of lamb would be cut in half next month, but declined comment on reports of 50 per cent slash in butter point values and sharp cuts in other meat points.
 An OPA spokesman said cut in lamb points was necessitated by drought conditions forcing the mar keting of spring lamb.
 Regarding the reported cuts in butter and other ration value, an official said. "our monthly ration tables are announced according to schedule and those for May will be ready next week. Other than that we're not commenting"
 Meanwhile the OPA announced that removal of points on lard, shortening and salad and cooking oils would not affect the fat salvag- ing program. but that dealers would continue to pay two red points and four cents for every pound of used kitchen fats turned in.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
.Jops Using Poison Gas
 On Chinese
(Army Air Force photo from NEA)

Chungking, April 21-(UP)-Jap- anese troops, supported by planes and tanks, have driven to within nine miles of Chengsien in the southern prong of pincers attack on the vital railway junction in eastern Honan province, a military spokesman said today.
 The Chinese central news agen- cy reported that the Japanese had used poison gas in their attacks on the Chinese lines, seven miles northwest of Chenghsien, where they were stopped and suffered heavy casualties when the Chinese countered-attacked.
 The spokesman said there was considerable Japanese military movement all along the north shore of the Yellow River, and disclosed that an enemy column had crossed an uptorn railroad bed 30 miles south of Chenghsien in an appar- ent attempt to encircle the city.
 The principal aim of the Jap anese thruSts, according to the spokesman, appeared to be the 1924 mile Chenghsien- -Hsinyang section of the Peiping- -Hankow railway which has been torn up, in order to have an additional retreat line in case of an Allied counter-offensive in South China.
 Allied bombing of the Yangtse River shipping has forced the Jap anese to attempt an open overland route in Honan where the Terrain is almost entirely flat, the spokes- man added.
 Central News said the Japanese
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
14,o00 Strike Afford Shop

Windsor, Ont, April q. - (UP) - War production in four plants of the Ford Motor Company of Can- ada, Ltd, was stalled for the second day today and work in several feeder industries threatened, by a protest walkout of an estimated 14,OOO United Automobile Workers (CIO).
 Work in the four plants, produc- ing gun carriers and trucks, stopped at noon yesterday when 7,500 day. shift workers responded to a call from UAW-CIO Local 200 for a mass meeting to discuss problems with management which have become ir- tolerable.'
 The company countered the unions call for a "half-holiday" wit ha statement terminating the Union Company contract, effective since January IS, 1922, and the union replied by throwing picket lines around the four plants, which have three shifts and 14.000 workers.
 Management charged that the Ildll UdN ldUO1 1lOAIddy COAAoIILuCCO general strike" and a breach of the company's contract with the CIO."
 Union officials interpreted the company statement as breaking the contract, and held that workers were not required to return to their jobs.
 Union President R. J. Thomas charged that arrangements "arbi- trary discharge of union stewards and Its attempted abrogation of duly-signed collective agreement amount to a declaration of war against employees and the JAW CIO."
 The walkout eliminated a dispute of long standing over grievance pro cedure. The company charged the union violated procedure set up whereby shop stewards and com (COntinued on Pags D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
N.Y.ToDroft Men 26 To29

New York, April 21-(UP)-Major Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective service, told a New York Times forum last night that military manpower needs, after the under 26-year-old group is exhausted, will be filled first from men 26 through 29-then from men 30 and over. He said, however, the formula would apply particularly to those who are not in war work or who engage in such activity "half heatedly'' when the over-30 reservoir is tapped.
 Tt is over optimistic" he said, ''to plan for induction of less than 150,0O0 men a month to bring the army and navy to a combined peak strength of 11,300,00O men. The army already has reached its top of 100000 but the navy still is 100000 short of its goal.'
 Undersecretary of War Robert F. Patterson told the forum that war time income has miSled some into thinking that peace can be bought without sacrifice, but warned that ''this snug assumption of victory can make the nations fighting men a class apart, separated from us by the feeling that they alone took the rap."
 Boom prosperity and too much postwar planning" Patterson said, ''are dulling civilian awareneSs to the real danger of this wara, and the home front must accept it's obli- gationS if victory is to be hastened and the cost in lives reduced.
 The Undersecretary of War said he had no comfort for those who 'grumble about war manpower prob- lems' and said he believed the man. power problem would become worse before the war is won.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Truck Strike MoyEndHe Late Tonight

The four day old strike of drivers of II New England trucking con- panies approached the showdown stage today, as Harold Horan, man. ager of the Grove Co.,, Waterbury, predicted that by tonight the dis pute would either be settled or things would get a lot worse."
 Although MT. Horan declined to amplify his remark, it was taken to indicate that by tonight the op- orators would either capitulate to the unions demands that they con- ply with the retroactive pay in- creases ordered by the War Labor Board, or the 50 to 75 companies of the Highway Transport Association of New England would answer the strike in Il of the companies by general lockout.
 While some of the operators were believed inclined to give in to the unions demands, in New York last night, Joseph M. Adelizze, manager director of the Transport Associa- ton, promised that members of the association would refuse to move freight if the strike were not ended by midnight tonight.
 If a union can strike with i'm punity during war. why can't an employer" he was reported to have asked a meeting of the Middle AL lantic Motor Carriers conference.
 He asserted that the nations trucking industry is facing labor mass and stated that the problem could not be solved until the in- dustry's labor questions were han dled on nationwide instead of local basis.
 In Hartford, Fred T. Honeyman, district manager for the Office of Defense Transportation, anticipated the drivers would go back to work pending negotiations of their de- mandS.
 Although war materials were not being held up, MT. Honeyman said he had received numerous complaints from consignees that other ship ments were not getting through.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Germans Reinforce Against Invasion
ATLANTIC WALL FORCE ALL SET
 TO STOP TANKS
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY TInikAd prerz Staff CoEre~mandeue'

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff CoErespendentN
 London, April 21. = CUP1 - The German radio said to. day that the greatest concel1- tration of shipping since the Dunkerque evacuation has been assembled in British waters, presumably for an in vaSion of western Europe.
 The Royal Navy is being concentrated in home waters, along with units of the Ameri- can, French and Italian fleets, the broadcast said.
 Troops are leaving Lol1- don," it added. "Every day now, troops trains are leavs ing London stations taking men to ports."
 Another Berlin broadcast said the Germans across the channel and North Sea have concluded all preparations to counter the in. vasion" with all defenses ready for the enemy.
 Achievements of crack SS Elite Guards, considerably more disci- plined and much better equipped than other line troops, have reirle forced German garrisons in the Att lantic wall defenSes, the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen reported from Berlin.
 More than 3O0OOO men now stand ready to repel an Allied invasicns Berlin sources said. s
 European reports indicated that all was not well behind Hitler'a invasion defenses, however.
 A Swedish Telegraph agency dlss patch from Oslo said a small vessel obviously an ammunition Ship-p blew up opposite the so-called fore tress quay at Bergen on the west coast of Norway and destroyed Q number of buildings in a military area near the shore, including Haakon's Hall, one of Norway's olds est historic monuments.
 The explosions, presumably toucF d off by saboteurS, killed at least 43 persons and injured hrn- dreds of others. A tugboat was blown out of the water onto pier and fires ragged uncontrolled for several hours.
 Another Swedish Telegraph Agency dispatch, this one from Copenhagen, said Gestapo agents had arrested hundreds of Danish patriots in surprise roundup that covered the entire country. Pracs tically the entire executive of the Conservative Youth Organization was taken into custody.
 The Danish Press Service said the German command held hume Der of realistic anti-invasion ma. neuvers recently in Denmark. A few days ago, the Germans sounded a practice alarm in Copenhagen and occupied all roads and important buildings, the agency said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Rononio Gets Soviet Offer
BY EDWARD W. BEATTTE

 United Press Staff COrrespOndent) London, April 21.-(UP)-All signs indicated today that Russia has held out to Romania an offer to restore all Pennsylvania to her if she will break with the Axis and make peace with the Allies now.
 Informed circles in London be- lieved that Prince Barbu Stirbey, former premier of Romania, de- livered RuSSia's terms to his gov- ernment at Bucharest after contact ing British and probably American authorities in the middle east.
 While the Soviet terms could not be learned definitely, 1t was be- lieved they included a guarantee of Romania's right to Pennsylvania, half of which was taken by Hun- gary with Adolf Hitler;s blessing in 194O.
 The Russians possibly also were lenient with Romaria with regard to reparations, which apparently have bene chief stumbling block in Russia's peace negotiations with Finland.
 The Russians seemed inclined to deal much more leniently with Ro- mania than Hungary, whose regime always has been anss-Soviet. Ro- mania probably could write her own ticket, so far as her internal or- ganiZation wkere concerned, provid- ed she recognized Russia's claim on Bessarabia and Bpcovina, ceded to the Soviets in 1941.
 Stirbey was understood to have reported the Russian terms to the Antonescu government "very fav- orably." presumably tantamoint to a recommendation that they be ac- cepted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
More T rust In Press
 By F.D.R. Advocated

Washington, April 21-(UP)-Roy A. Roberts, president of the Amer ican Society of Newspaper editors, charged the American Press today with the three-fold wartime respon- sibility of keeping "the home front Sound," demonstrating that a dem- ocracy can function in wartime and offering constructive guidance to the public on foreign policy.
 At the same time, while express ing sympathy and understanding of the terrible burden of war" be- ing carried by President Roosevelt, he urged upon him a "policy of more trust and confidence in the American people and the press.
 In report prepared for delivery at the Asne's 22nd annual meeting, Roberts told the assembled editors that the theme of the conference was responsible journalism" He said these immediate three prob lems were facing American news papers:
 l. We must win the war and newspapers must contribute everything they can to winning the war our first job as American newspapers is to keep the home front sound, be constructive rather than destructive in criticism and stand for the one goal of complete victory terrific losses may carry tragedy to countless homes. Then is the time American newspapers should be at their best in courage and understanding"
 2. ". We are in an election year let us demonstrate that democracy can function even in wartime. Newspapers can be tremendous factor in keeping the campaign on an American basis not in the sefer. fight for what we believe in, but don't hit below hte belt"
 3. ". If we ever are to take the place in the world, to realize the destiny that should be ours, If there is to be peace in the lifetime of our children, then these United
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
9 Poir of NyIons
 Promised Annually

New York, April 21. - (UP) - Nylon- starved women can look for- ward to at least nine pairs of those stockings a year as soon as war production ceases, the eighth annual hosiery industry conference was told today.
 Yarn sufficient for nine pairs per woman per year can be produced under existing facilities, Robert A. Ramsdell, director of sales of the Nylon Division of E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company said, and projected expansion should raise that production to 22,000.000 to 23,- 100000, or enough for Il pairs per woman year. Yarn prices, he said, will be considerably lower than be- fore the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Foundry Men MoyJoin CIO

UnioniZation of employees of the Waterbury F'arrel Foundry and Machine Company under the spon- sorship of the c. I. O. was pending to6ay prior to an organizational meeting scheduled, between en- ployes and c. I. o. authorities. for 8 D. m. tonight at union headquar- ters, 95 Bank street.
 John J. Driscoll, executive secre- tary of the c. I. O. today stated that the meeting was proposed fol- lowing a request made last week by employees of the company, to the union, asking that the latter act as bargaining agent. MT. Driscoll dis closed that several hundreds of the company'S approximately $50 enl- ployes have already signed with the c. I. O. It was expected that a ma- jority of the employees would sign tonight, he said.
 The meeting, which is of an open nature, will be conducted by MT. DriScoll and Edward J. Lavery of Bridgeport, president of the State c. l. o. Council and organizer ot LIIC OA1AtC0 0tCC1 WOI hNAos AOAh6AA" V session, the union official stated. will be for the purpose of outlining to the employees the general opera tions of the c. I. O. and the type program it would follow as bargain. ing agents. Various phases of union management procedure as conducted by the union will be ex- pIaffled in detail.
 It was stated that reasons for the employees approach to the union were based on prevailing low wages" at the machine company. It is understood that the majority of the employees at the company have never been unionized pre- viously although many of the older ones are members of a machinist'S union, not Of CIO afi1liation.
 If majority of the employees to- night express the desire to have the CIO act as bargaining agent. hereafter, union officials will sub- sequently contact the management (Conttnued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
 ANz|O MAY BE
 NEARING END
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War COrrespOndent)

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
 United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Allied H e a dquarte e r s, Naples, April 21. = (UP) = Allied bombing fleets, spear headed by American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, carried out a heavy bridge busting assault on the net work of German-operated railway lines in central and northern Italy, a communi- que announced today.
 Fighting on the major ground fronts again was con- fined to patrol clashes and artillery and mortar ex- charges, but reports of in- creased German activity on the Anzio beachhead and in the Cassino sector suggested that the long stalemate may be nearing an end.
 Nazi mortar and artillery fire was intensified in the Casino area yesterday, and German engineers were reported working feverishly on the Anzio beachhead, sweeping up their own and Allied mines on the right flank of the Allied line.
 The Allied aerial offensive against the German railroad supply system mounted in fury as Lieutenant General Ira c. Baker switched his heavy bomber formations back from the Balkans to Italian targets.
 Flying more than 2,O00 sorties, the Allied raiders concentrated their attack on quadrangular area of North-Centra Italy, hammering eight enemy targets across sector marked roughly by Ancona and Venice on the east and Livorno Neghorn) and Rome on the west.
 Clouds obscured the original primary targets of the American heavies, so they diverted their as- sault to secondary objectives, hit ting Venice harbor and the rail yards at Ancona and Fano, on the aset coast. Other heavy formations bombed the Monfalcone shipyards, 16 miles northwest of Trieste, and .s (Continued on Pare O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Paris 'BIuebeord' Nobbed in Flight

London, April 21.-WP)- Dr. Marcel PetiOt, the alleged 'Bluebeard" of Paris who has been accused of killing and diSsecting more than a score of persons in an abandoned house at 21 Rue Lesuer, was reported under arrest today after a vain flight across the French frontier into Spain.
 The Nazi Transocean News Agency said PetiOt was ar- rested by Spanish authorities and handed over to the French police at Bordeaux.
 Axis broadcasts for weeks had been giving lurid accounts of the crimes charged to Peti0t, who was said to have poisoned his victims-mOstly women and buried their dismembered bodies in a lime pit in the rear of the murder house.
 PetiOt, who had 8 flourish ing medical practicae in a fashionable district of Paris, was identified by the Axis brOadcasters as a former may or of Villeneuve- ur-YOnne, 50 miles southeast of the old French capital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
Nozis Aiminq ToDeloyR Offensive
BY M. S. HANDLER Tnitnf1 Proco C&aff CnrrnSnopnHoSnfl 1

(Umted Press Stair COrreSpOn0entJ
 Moscow, April 21.-(UP)-Tht German command hurled hordes o1 tanks and tens of thousands of in- fantrymen today against Soviet forces massing in Estonia and old Poland for spring and summer of- fensives, but the Russians held firm and were reported officially to be ''slaughtering" the attackers.
 The increasingly heavy German preventive" attacks indicated that Red armies may be preparing to strike next in the Narva sector of Estonia in the Baltic States and on the Stanislawow front in the Carpathians as soon as they com- plete the liberation of Sevastopol, last Nazi toehold in the Crimea.
 The German stand in Sevastopol, Russia's biggest naval base, was be- lieved in it's final hours as two Russian armies slowly pressed the doomed garrison back through the streets of the city. Soviet planes blockading the approaches to the port in A hours alone sank an en- emy destroyer and four transports totalling 15,000 tons, some of them loaded to capacity with fleeing Ger man and Romanian troops.
 GA British broadcast recorded by CBS said heavy Russian cruiser, standing off Sevastopol harbor, was shelling the docks in the German held cityD
 The Soviet high command, in its midnight communique, failed to mention ground fighting in the Crimea for the first time since the Soviet offensive there began April 8 and it was possible that there would be no further announcement until Sevastopol is captured.
 The Germans launched their heavy attack against the Soviet bridgehead on the west bank of the Narva river southwest of the Es- tonian railway junction of the same name after a fierce 90-minute artillery barrage.
 AS the curtain of fire lifted, large forces of tanks, self propelled guns and infantry moved forward, ap- parently counting on routing our
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
STEWART ROWE DIES

Portsmouth. N. H., April 21. -s UP) - Former Mayor Stewart E Rowe, GA, of Portsmouth died at his home today.
 A native of Kensington, he vas c graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Boston University Law echO0l He had served in various county offices in Rockingham County b0s fore coming here. He served e mayor from 1940 o1942.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-21
17,.OOO TONS OF BOMBS HIT
 GERMAN TOWNS
BY PHIL AULT United Press War COrrespondent)

BY PHIL AULT
 United Press War COrreSpondent)
 London, April 21. - (UP) = The Royal Air Force sent it's strongest fleet of the war against Europe last night, boosting to nearly 17,00O tons the weight of bombs dropped on the continent in four days of pre-invasion by about 5000 Allied planes.
 More than 1,1000 British bombers hit Cologne, the out skirts of Paris and two rail centers serving the invasion coast, and jabbed lightly at Berlin in what appeared to be the most powerful bomb ing broadside of all time.
 Amreican Marauder medium bombers and Havoc assault planes, supported by Spitf1res of the British tactical air force, carried the record offensive against the continent into its fifth day with daylight blows on northern France.
 The Nad-controlled Paris radio said this afternoon that delayed &C., tion bombs dropped during the night still were exploding almost every moment" and asked:
 How many more of these nights of terror shall we have to endure before the invasion starts?"
 The main weight of the more than 4,000 tons of explosives drop ped by the RAF crashed on Cologne industrial capital of the Rhineland and first city of the war to rock under the impact of 1,0oO-plane raid.
 The other British targets were La Chapelle, in the outskirts of Paris, Ottignies, IS miles southeast of Brussels, and Lens, in northern France, with a supporting nuisance attack on Berlin by Mosquito bombers. Sixteen planes were lost
 Following in the wake of the night bombers and the nearly 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators which hit the French invasion coast late yesterday, American and Bri- tish bombers and fighters carried on by daylight. First reports said the attacks were concentrated on northern France.
 The Evening News said that about 5000 Allied planes had been SSN fhA 1nef fN1YTs dave and that the combined bomb ton- mage was about 16,800.
 Coastal reports that large forma- tions of Allied bombers were cross- ing she Channel in daylight today indicated that the offensive design ed to soften Germany's defenSes for an Allied landing now was on an around the clock basis.
 The night raiders hit western Eu- rope only few hours after nearly 1000 American Flying Fortresses and LiberatorS, plus SwarIns of fighter bombers and medium and light bombers, made the heaviest daylight attack of the war on northern France.
 With the RAF believed to have exceeded it's previous record one- night bombload of 4,400 tons drop ped only two nights earlier, the weight of explosives unloaded on Germany's Atlantic wall defenses and the railway communications supplying and reinforcing them scared to nearly 12,000 tons in the past four days and nights alone.
 The Allied command long has been expected to order the crippling of Germany's intricate system of military railways in advance of the opening of western front, which Nazi sources have been predicting will come within the next five weeks.
 In observance of Adolf Hitler's 55th birthday, a force consisting entirely of four -engined RAP Lan- casters delivered the main weight of bombs last night to Cologne,
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