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down with Stain and Churchill and
hold his own
Committeeman F. Harold Dubord,
Maine, said he was for fourth term
and predicted that Mr.. Roosevelt
could carry Maine this time. He
lost it in his first three tries.
Committeeman Culbert Olson,
California, said he and many other
members were for the President
again. Committeeman Howard La
tourette, Oregon, said his state would
send Roosevelt delegation to the
Democratic National convention.
Committeeman David G. Kelly,
North Dakota, said the administra-
tons farm policies were okay so
long as there was price control on
things the farmer had to buy but
he said Quigley's opinion of Wickard
and Black was shared generally by
Democrats.
Reports of midwest rumbling
against Hopkins and Niles have
been interpreted as rejecting con-
siderable farm sentiment against a
fourth term for Mr.. Roosevelt. Hop
kins was the actual ringmaster of
the 1910 Democratic National Con-
vention at which the President was
nominated for a third term. Until
the war began to absorb his interest,
Hopkins generally was regarded as
the administration most active
political figure, next to Mr.. Roose-
welt.
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HOUSING PROBLEM
THEME OF FARLEY
Need for Utilization OF
Long Hill Projects After
Completion Cited

Members of the local War HouS-
ing Advisory committee last evening
met with representatives of the fed
eral bureau Of the National Hous-
ing Agency, Boston, for the purpose
Of a general discussion relative to
the local housing situation. Edwin
Munson, Connecticut representative
for the MIA, and Joseph E. Moran
from the MIA Boston office were
in attendance at the meeting.
Final result of the general discus
sion was the cooperative agreement
by all present as to the need for i'm
mediate utilization of the housing
projects at Long Hill following their
completion. The latter project has
met with many obstacles relative
to its completion.
Figures released by the local MIA
office staff as listed in the report
covering the period from Dec. 81,
1943 to Jan. 20, 1914 reveal that dur
ing the latter period, 3 buildings
containing SO units were prepared
for occupancy with 10 already rent
ed.
Also revealed within the report
was the listing of 38 completed pub
lie conversions within Waterbury of
whichc "a have already been rented
Seventy-three new applications for
housing rents were filed at the local
office during the period while 1854
re-applicationS were filed Single
room listings were filed at the local
office in the number of 1893.
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Anticip oted
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The British government, mean
while, appeared determined to make
every effort to avert a situation
which might weaken United States
cooperation in Europe on the eve
of the opening Of western front.
Prime Minister Churchill, taking
personal charge of the British eff
forts to solve the crisis, conferred
yesterday with Polish Premier STAN
islaw Mikolajczk, Foreign Minister
TadeuSz Romer and Polish London
Ambassador County Edward Raj
cynsh.
It was believed Churchill would
exert his personal influence to the
utmost in an effort to restore dip
lomatic relations between the two
countries and settle their differ
ences.
The semi-official Polish newspa-
per Dsiennik Polskl hailed Chur-
chill's return from Morocco as CIV
ing the Poles renewed hope for a
settlement favorable to them, as
serting that the Polish cause sis
founded on the same moral prin-
cipleS which Mr.. Churchill never
ceases to demand in international
life"
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To Defenses
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Feeling the strength Of the lat
est Allied attacks, the communique
said, were the Boram airfield Of
the Wewak area, 375 miles above
Madang, chief objective Of Allied
ground forces advancing up the
New Guinea coast, and Rabaul,
where eight cargo ships were hit
by Allied planes Monday
Fighter escorter medium bombers
from Solomons bases carried out the
third attack on Rabaul In four days
Tuesday, and shot down 81 enemy
fighters and probably one other.
One japanese pla was destroyed
on the ground and II others were
damaged as the bombers rained
explosives on the Tobera airdrome
from low altitude.
Only two Allied planes were lost
in the attack as compared with
the near-record loss Of IL in Mon
days raid.
On New Guinea, Liberator bomb
ers, escorted by fighters ran into
more than so japanese fighters on
Wednesday when they dropped 1873
tons Of bombs on the Boram air.
field and destroyed many planes on
the ground.
Escorting fighters shot down IL
and probably IA enemy planes, and
three Allied fighters were lost. All
the Allied bombers returned.
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20 minutes after Mrs. Williams and
her daughter, Mrs. Patricia Good
body, %, wife of a Bombay, India,
exchange broker, had returned
from dreSSmaker.
The woman, Mrs. Goodbody said,
fired twice at her as she ducked
out Of line Of the bullets, and then
entered the bedroom to fire at her
mother.
Front Royal, Va, Jan. 81 - %.
P0 - Mrs, Mary Burrus, operator
of a convalescent home here, said
today that Mrs Mary Macher Will
liams former wife of Frank Starr
Williams, has been at her home for
the past week.
Mrs. Burrus said she was brought
to her home a week ago by Mrs.
Herbert Green, of Baltimore, a sis
ter of Mrs. Mabel Williams.
Gouis Schaeffer, operator of a
convalescent home in Baltimore,
told Baltimore Police Captain John
A. Cooney that Mrs. Williams had
left his home on January IL, osten-
Sibly to attend the funeral of a
relative in Florida.)
Mrs. Burrus said Mrs. Williams
was unable to read newspapers, and
therefore knew nothing about the
Chicago Staying.
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One OF War To Date
NOvOsOkOIniki.
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defenses, since recent raids have
been in the early morning hours.
Berlin, as usual, called the raid
terror attack and said first re-
ports showed large number of
bombers had been shot down.
1t was the first raid by the RATS
heavy bombers since they dropped
2,240 short tons of explosives on the
Baltic port of Stettin the night of
Jan. S. They last raided Berlin the
night of Jan. 2, but twin-engined
Mosquitoes have made four nuisance
attacks on the capital since then.
In the Italian theater, headquar-
tiers of the 18th air force announced
that American four engined bomb
ers, with fighter escort attacked the
two airfields at Ciampino and a
third at Centocelle, all in the south
ern suburbs of Rome, and the air
base at Guidonia, IL miles northeast
of Rome.
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The main weight of the 5th Army
offensive, however, appeared to be
conferred for the moment on the
Minturno area where the Nazis had
concentrated their strongest de-
lenses along the Appian Way, some
rs miles below Rome.
There were indications that the
fury and speed of the British at
tack in the Minturno area had
thrown the Germans off balance.
Front reports said the Nazis
massed tanks and infantry on the
Appian way above Minturno in
preparation for a full-scale coun-
ter-attack, only to be spotted and
smashed by Allied dive-bombers and
British heavy artillery that rolled
swiftly forward in the wake of the
attacking infantrymen.
The enemy concentrations scat
tered in confusion, and the British
extended their forward lines be-
yond the town.
Several localized and apparently
minor German counter-attacks were
repulsed with little difficulty.
Headquarters spokesman said the
British had won a number of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-21
COAL INDUSTRY
FACES HURDLES
Main One Drafting Of
Miners Into Service Re.
ducing ManpOwer

Seven major hurdles set up by
Government agencies now confront
the bituminous coal industry while
it Is being asked to mine and de-
liver a new world-record production
goal of $40 000,O00 tons for 1914, ac-
cording to a statement made today
by the BiturninouS Coal Institute.
The distractions were listed as:
reduced manpower mainly
through the continued drafting of
miners into the armed services,
2-restrictions on the replacement
of worn out mining machinery,
3-the absence of a ruling by the
War Labor Board on the present
tentative contract with the coal
miners,
4-the absence of q report by the
Presidents Committee stud VI n 6
portal to portal travel time,
5-the approval of new coal prices
by OPA in keeping with the miners
wage increase,
6-approval by Economic Stabili-
cation Director Fred M. Vinson OF
the coal and wage increases, and
redistribution regulations.
The bituminous coal industry has
started the new year by breaking
its previous world record" Harry M.
Vawter, Director of the Institute
stated. 1.-THE output from the mines
Is UP 10 per cent over the compar-
able period last year. But recession
looms ahead for the mining Of the
mountains of coal essential for two
thirds of the nations production I'M
less the unnecessary hurdles ahead
are removed.
1--WE have plenty of coal, nearly
one-half of the worlds supply, and
we have had almost enough miners.
But day by day the industry is be-
ing drained of the necessary man
power. over $4,000 coal miners are
already in the armed services. If
the industry Is to meet the gov
ernment's production goal, certainly
no more coal miners can be drafted.
provision will have to be made
too for manpower to deliver the coal
after it is mined. Coal in railway
cars or barges won't keep factory
fires flaming or homes as snug and
warm as they can be.
"Then, the coal industry has been
machinery orphan. It hasn't been
able to get ample requirements for
worn out mining machines, let
alone enough new machines. Some
one in authority will soon have to
realize that 80 per cent of the ma
tons bituminous coal is cut by ma
chimes and 40 per cent is loaded by
machines underground. OF the huge
array of equipment used there is al
ways some that is ready for the
scrap heap.
Officials have stated that coal
miners are happier and work better
when they have regular contract.
They haven't now, nor can they
have until three separate agencies
of the government dispose of the
issues of portal to portal travel time,
wage and price increases.
"a new worlds record of output
can and will be hung up for 1914
only if the coal industry Is not
tripped by needless restrictions"
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heights on the northern slopes of
the Garigliano valley.
Since the start of the British Of
fensive Monday night, at least 300
German prisoners were reported to
have been captured.
In all of yesterdays aerial oper-
tons which included heavy BOMB
er attacks on enemy airfields i'll
the Rome area and around Viterbo,
only two Allied planes were lost,
against five enemy planes shot
down.
1t was revealed that British cruis-
ers and destroyers Joined in the
early stages of the 5th Army often
sive across the Garigliano. hurting
tons of high explosive shells into
the German lines north Of the river
Tuesday and Wednesday.
NaI batteries emplaced along the
Tyrrhenian seacoast offered only
feeble resistance. One British
warship was damaged slightly in
the exchange but there were no
casualties.
British destroyers struck across
the Adriatic at German positions
along the Jugoslav coast again on
Tuesday night, bombarding Vela
Luka harbor on the island of Kur-
cula.
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been sunk by American planes or
naval units. Each had a normal
complement Of 439 officers and men.
The admiralty said the cruiser
was sighted in company with a de-
stroyer, presumably between Malaga
and Sumatra on the northern ap-
proaches to the Malacca Straits.
Proceeding at maximum speed
his majesty's submarine closed to
within a mile of the enemy, when a
salvo Of torpedoes was fred, the
communique said.
1.-TWO hits were observed on the
cruiser, which sank. An ineffective
counter attack by the escorting Jap
anese destroyer then developed"
The communique gave no details
Of the sinking of the three Japanese
supply ships. 1t said the victorious
submarine was commanded by 1t.
Cmdr. L. w. A. Bennington, holder
Of the Distinguished Service Cross
and Distinguished Service Order.
Naval sources said the sinkings
marked a comeback for the Royal
Navy in the Far East, where British
naval fortunes reached a low ebb
following the sinking Of the IS, 600
ton Prince of Wales and other units.
1t was only with the greatest eff
fort that Admiral Sir James F.
Somerville, commander in the Far
East scraped together a small force
when the Japanese threatened to
invade India in 1912.
The Allied conquest of the Medi-
terranean, plus the sinking of the
26,000-ton ScharnhorSt in the Arctic
ocean, reduced the German sea
menace in the west and permitted
a further shift of naval strength to
the eastern theater.
With the acquisition Of italian
and French warships and the con-
slant building of new vessels, Britain
can be expected to expand her
striking forces in the east rapidly,
informants said.
Though its composition remains a
secret, it was assumed that the east
ern fleet already includes battle
ships, carriers, cruisers and all types
OF smaller warShips.
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weights, ending Berlin's 17-night re-
spite from block-buSter attacks,
touched off large conflagrations
that sent smoke mushrooming high
into the night sky, the air ministry
announced.
IS BOmbers Lost
Thirty-five bombers were lost in
the Berlin assault, and Mosquito
nuisance raids on northwest Ger
many and mine-laying operations,
the communique said.
The Air Ministry described the
Berlin raid as very heavy" and
other reports indicated it may have
exceeded in tonnage the 2,576-plus-
ton raid of last November %, the
heaviest ever made on Berlin.
Rested its long weather-enforced
rest, the RATS bomber command
apparently mustered its full strength
for the assault in an effort to hast
en- the knockout Of Europe's biggest
industrial city and communications
center before Anglo American in
vasion forces open western front.
A Berlin dispatch to the Stock
holm Aftonbladet said the raiders
appeared to have concentrated their
main weight of bombs on the out
skirts Of the capital, site of scores
of arms and ammunitionS plants.
The bomberS obviously hit Berlin
just as thousands of salvage and
repair workers, including troops and
slave labor from occuIEd countries,
were completing the restoration of
communications and the clearing of
streets from the devastation of the
10 previous block-buster raids since
Nov. /.
The clandestine radio station At
lantic said, around-the-clock work
had begun on hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of apartments in Berlin
to house those bombed out of their
homes. An estimated 2,0OO, 900 per-
sons have been evacuated from the
capital, but there still were insuffi-
Gent quarters to house essential gov
eminent workers and members of
the armed forces, according to neu-
trail reports.
45-Minute Streak
The big British bombers streamed
across the British east coast for As
minutes last night in what appeared
to be an attempt to confuse enemy
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Had BY All
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refused to bulge from her seat.
The theater explained the error
as a "regrettable but understand
able mistake" PAU Groll, manager,
took the stage shortly after the
police and fire squads were called
in to beg the patrons to give way
to the benefit in the interest of
charity.
No one budged. Some patrons
booed.
1T paid for that seat--and more
than you did" woman screamed
at bland unyielding customer.
An usher shouted: HE struck
me, he struck me-" as an irate
husband from New Jersey charged
her with being uncooperative.
A woman sat down on a mans
lap and yelled at baffled police
man: Move me, go on, move me-
The raising of the curtain finally
saved the day--or rather the night.
Automatically, the hubbub died away
as the jazz version of the opera
Carmen" enacted by an all-Negro
cast.
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Walter WillclleIl
In NezV York

in your-egg- threading exhibition in
regards the newsreel ax-grinding
Your column has always been an
oasis, but what happened? This
beating around the bush Is all right
for the others ESQ is beating
around the head, but for Winchell
1t just amt natural. I go to the
movies a let and would like to be
put wise, since the matters you
speak of seem to have escaped me.
AS an ancient reporter, habitu-
ally demand to know, and 1 do
so now, what was said and who
said it? Pussyfooting is okay for
others, maybe, but you'll have been
led to expect-can be as specific
as the jab of bayonet. SO? S. K"
To S. K: The chief offender Is
called NewSreel Forum, which gives
the hint 1t Spleases pressure out
fits. Maybe not I have never been
1t in the neighborhood theaters,
usually in the newSreel houses at
Radio City and near the Palace.
They are usually violently anti
Administration. One commentator
attacks the 4 Freedoms, ridiculing
them as unavoidable and tranSlating
them as hostile to business, etc. He
attacks subsidies with phony figures
arguing taxes would balloon even If
the subsidized put out more than
they took in. A number of news
reels are playing pretty tame, though
now and then Paramount shows
the old needle, but timidly. I'll
watch them henceforth. More anon.
From Cong. Hoffman's charges In
Congress: "Winchell is a warmong-
er. May God forgive you Win
chell, and may you sometime still
your vile and slanderouS tongue.
You are dirty boy, a harl You
are untruthful and not smart. You
are a very terrible American"
From the Bristol Herald Courier,
Bristol, Va: There's only one Win
chell. We used to think him
an alarmist, but time has shown
that he knew more about the subtle
and sinister influences working
against this country than anyone
in it. And he has done more about
it. At the risk of his personal
safety, he has dragged them into
the open, and with them those
Americans who should have known
better than to have associated with
them. Winchell has proclaimed
Americanism over the radio as no
other voice or influence. He has
championed the F. B. I. as no other
person. To him goes much of the
credit for awakening America to its
very real danger from within. AS
Winchell has repeatedly warned us.
Hitler calculated upon his organiza-
ton in America to keep us so deep
ly embroiled in our own domestic
discord that we could not have the
will or strength to combat his claim
of world empire. But Winchell I'M
masked them and it Is he and j.
Edgar Hoover who are most reSpon-
sible for the utter failure of their
conspiracy against the country
whose hospitality they now so gross
ly violate"
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louS' gold shipments; negotiations
with other South American coun-
tries towards adoption of similar
policies and the construction OF
bomber bases in friendly Uruguay,
so miles across the river from Ar
gentina, as a psychological ex-
pedient."
If those actions fail, the World
Telegram quoted the report as urg-
ing the United States to break dip
lomatic relations with the South
American country, and, as a last re-
sort, initiate naval blockade or in
tervene militarily.
Describing the recent Bolivian
revolution as haging been maneu-
vered by Axis plotters with "dia-
bolical cleverness. the report de-
clared that by merely claiming that
this was an uprising of the Bolivian
tin miners, they expected New Deal
erS to fall for the new regime"
Paraguay Is next" the World
Telegram quoted the report as
warning.
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arrived at the local office, having
never been opened. From the post
marks on the missive it is revealed
that it had followed the soldier,
through the mails, as he advanced
further into Europe proper. However
after third forwarding it was re-
turned here by Army authorities.
either because the individual could
not be located or it was assumed
that it would be too late for cleo
lions to give it to him at that date.
Plans for Connecticut's participa-
ton as to absentee ballots being
sent to men overseas will be de-
cided upon at the meeting Of the
special session of the legislature next
week in Hartford. 1t has been stated
that a single page ballot may be
adopted which can be forwarded
via the now famous V-mail.
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The Red Army's superiority in
fire power was increasing steadily
as a result Of the enormous Ger
man losses Of guns in the first five
days of the offensive.
Hundreds of long range guns on
fixed emplacements, constituting
the backbone of the German de-
lenses, fell intact into Russian
hands. In their precipitate retreat
the Nads abandoned hundreds of
cannon.
Thousands of Germans, cut off
from their main forces in the snow
covered forests by the speed of the
Soviet thrusts, surrendered rather
than face certain death. More than
5000 submitted to capture around
Novogorod, which fell yesterday.
The toll Of enemy dead on the
two fronts already was approach
ing $4,000. More than 10000 were
slain in the first six days of the
coordinated offensives, all but 49,
600 of them south and southwest
of Leningrad.
SwarmS of Red Air Force bomb
erS, fighters and attack planes join
ed in the campaign of humiliation,
blasting and strafing strong points,
transport, and columns of rein
forcements ahead of the advancing
Siberian, Ural, Volge and Central
Russian divisions.
Gen Leonid A. Govoroy's two
Leningrad columns joined forces
south of Krasnoye Selo, booming
enemy troops remaining in the gulf
OF Finland beachhead west of Len
1ngrad, and smashed southwark in
a drive that threatened momentar-
lily to engulf Krasnogvardeisk, five
way railway junction controlling all
lines running into Russia's second
city from the southwest.
The two columns presumably met
at Mikhailovka. nine miles south of
Leningrad, and also captured the
railroad junction of Uritsk, three
miles west of Leningrad; Strelna,
seven miles southwest, and Nikko-
rovo, SO miles west southwest.
Front dispatches said the Russians
had cleared the entire Gulf Of Fin
land coast from Oranienbaum, is
miles west of Leningrad, to a point
only couple of miles from the larg-
er city.
(Radio Berlin said the Germans
also had evacuated 17-mile salient
reaching east of Leningrad from
Kolpino, completing the lifting of
the siege that began Aug. 81, 1941.)
Disrupted and isolated groups of
Germans are being liquidated," the
Soviet high comand said in its mid
night communique. Many German
soldiers and officers have laid down
their arms and surrendered. Enor-
nous quantities Of various equip
ment and war materials were cap
tured."
Gen. Kyril A. Meretskov's army
ripping into the German eastern
flank swept six miles beyond Nov
gorod, 100 miles south of Leningrad,
and captured Naschi on the railroad
west of Batetsk. Dolgovo, IS miles
northwest Of Leningrad, also was
captured.
Prodigious booty was being seized
by the Russians in the wake of the
demoralized enemy. The Leningrad
and Novgorod armies together in the
past six days have seized AT guns,
including IS super-siege artillery
that have been Smelling Leningrad:
270 mortars and 80 tanks, while the
Novgorod forces alone destroyed 178
guns, 10 tanks and $50 trucks.
The only activity reported In the
Soviet communique firm the Uk-
raine was the Staying of 1900 Ger
mans and the wrecking Of 80 tanks
in the repulse of counter attacks
north Of the Khristinovka railroad
junction.
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DAVE GOLDSTETN
LOSES BLANKET

A chair, quilt, and blanket were
stolen from the back porch of Da-
vid Goldstein's home at BAT North
Main street. between S and Z D. m.
last night, Detective Lieutenant Jo-
seph r. Bender reported. Detec-
tive SergtS. Charles McWeeney and
Joseph Reilly are investigating.