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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Govt.Opens PorIeysOn
 Ward Seize
BY RAYMOND LAHR

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, May 22-(UP) - Chairman William H. Davis of the War Labor Board told a House Committee Investigating the federal seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co.'S Chicago properties today that if the WLB should be held to lack jurisdiction in the case some 15,- 50O000 workers in the nation would be released from labor's no-strike pledge.
 Testifying as the first witness in the investigation, Davis said that without board jurisdiction, the Montgomery Ward case would lead finally to a complete disintegratior of the existing machinery set up by Congress to preserve industrial peace"
 Critics of the governments action in taking over and briefly operat- ing Montgomery Ward facilities in Chicago have asserted that the DLB, whose orders the company re- fused to obey, lacked jurisdiction because the mail order house is not primarily war industry.
 This contention, if upheld, would leave a total of 15,500,000 workers in industries not actually engaged in producing war material free to strike" to enforce their demands, Davis said.
 The only way to have an effec- tive no strike policy. he added, is to ban all strikes, land the only way to ban all strikes is to have
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BuIgorions In Bad Spot

London, May 9 = (UPO -Swed- ish press dispatches said today that Prince Cyril, regent of Bulgaria has refused an invitation" to con- fer with Adolf Hitler at the Fueh- rer's Berchtesgaden mountain re- treat.
 The Stockholms- -Tdningen said in a dispatch from Bern that Cyril and his entire regency council turn ed down Hitler's virtual order on the grounds that they were needed urgently in Sofia in view of the still unsolved government crisis there.
 The blunt refusal has resulted in Ia considerable deterioration in German-Bulgarian relations" the dispatch said.
 Meanwhile, Bulgaria remained without a cabinet for the third straight day as Cyril and the coun- cil strove to replace Premier Dobri Bojilov, who resigned Saturday fol- lowing a sharp warning from Russia against further Bulgarian military cooperation with Germany.
 Faced with virtual ultimatum from Germany for more help and a demand fro mRussia to cease aid- ing the Nazis, the Bulgars were re- ported to have completed mobiliza- ton of their entier army-20 divi- sions totalling possibly S00.0Oo men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Underground Asked ToAid

London. May 22-UP)-Aa stads member of Allied supreme head- quarters asked the people of oc~i cupied Europe today to keep them selves fully informed on conditions in their communities so they would be prepared to guide the invasion forces.
 The request was made in the second broadcast on behalf of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the un- derground armies being instructed on their procedure when the Allies strike.
 The spokesman emphasized that it was vitally important for every~ one to be ready to help the Allies armies and to have the fullest knowledge of his or her own sur roundings," whether rural or Me- tropolitan.
 'sThe Allied forces or individnals will repeatedly want information '' he said. often they Will want guides. It is very important that this information should be accurate, and that the guide should De quite certain of the way by. day or bY night"
 The broAdcaster repeated the s,.- nouncement in the first such hrof - cast Saturday that Eisenhower pg e soDajly wnlild give .nagice and 'ss stTlictlons" to the hh1ex@rou 4 armies of Europe "in due courss
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
PreIote Rails At Bombines

London, May 22 - lU.P,) = The German DNB news agency today broadcast what 1t said was the text of 6 pastoral letter Issued by Joseph Cardinal Van Roey, Archbishop of Malines and Roman Catholic Prl- mate of Belgium. protesting the Al- lied bombing Of Belgium.
 The puFp0rted letter was read in all Belgian churches yesterday DINE said. asserting that the Card. inal denounced the brutality Of Anglo American terror boiibers" and appealed to the British and American governments, as well ai to public opinion in those countries, for an end Of the bombing.
 For one month Belgium hai been, day and night without inter- ruption. exposed to air attaekl which pretended to be aimed at des- trcying railway functions and tracks" DINE quoted the Cardinal as saying.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

New York, May 22-(UP)-The Communist Political Association, formerly the Communist Party, yes- terday adopted a constitution con- taining an anti-subversive provi- sion.
 The provision, voted on by dele gates from A states, attending the national convention, provided for expulsion of members parttcipat- ing in subversive activities against American Democracy, and was in sharp contrast to U. s. Attorney General Francis Biddle's description of the Communist party in 1922 as an agency which advocated over- throw of the United States Govern ment.
 The anti-subversiye provision stipulated that adherence to or participation in the activities of any clique, group, circle, faction or party which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken or overthrow any or all institutions of American Democracy" shall be pun ished by immediate expulsion.
 The new constitution for the po- litical association, created when the Communists Saturday dropped their party Identification for the dura- tion of the war, stated that the pur- pose of the organization was to se- cure for its members organized participation in the political life of our country in cooperation with other Americans for advancement and protection of the interests oi the nation and protection of the interest of the nation and its peo- ple."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
NovyPIones es Marcus

London. May 22-(UP)-An Am- erican naval task force sailed deep into the southeastern approaches to Japan and made two-day air at- tack on Marcus Island, i.i50 miles southeast of Tokyo. Saturday and yesterday, Japanese communique said today.
 The communique, recorded by the United Press in London, said the attack was launched from the wa- ters ito the east of the Bonin Is- lands" an indication that the task force penetrated to within less than 1000 miles of Japan. The Bonins lie only 600 miles south of Japan and 750 miles west of Marcus.
 Damage to Marcus was "neglig- ible," the communique said. while more than 32 American aircraft were shot down by the garrison.
 The attack. coming close on the
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InSoene ear Is. Jops Killed
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By DON CAsWELL


 United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, May 22-(UP)-American infantrymen. supported by fighter planes, have annihilated the trapped Japanese on Insoemear Island, site Of the Wakde Islands airstrip, l,25O miles from the Philippines. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique announced today.
 The troops, repulsing savage coun- ter-attacks in the Wakde- -SaFmi area of Dutch New Guinea. killed III Japanese Saturday to bring the total of enemy dead in the three- day-old operation to SIS. Other enc emy dead still were to be reported. the eommunlque said.
 The Japanese resisted bitterly in the final stages of their annihila- ton, even using guns mounted on disabled airplanes, the communique said. They also used concrete and coconut log bunkers. The eglemy's forces ''are completely destroyed. |" the eommunique said.
 4 spokesman previously had ar- nounced that U. s. Army engineers were rushing repairs on the captured Insoemear airstTsp. completion of which would put American bombeFs well in range Of Palau. less than TOO miles away. and the Philippines.
 Along the Dutch New Guinea coast in the Hollandia- Altape area. Allied ground patrols killed an ad- diiionai lso Japanese and captured es, bringing the total enemy casual. ties Co 3.o42.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Soviets Turn Back Nazis At Dnester

Moscow, May 22 (U.P) - Eight hundreds Germans were kill ed when Soviet army forces turned back Na1 assaults yesterday and 28 German planes weer shot down in ir battles, 1t was announced to- day.
 A total of 52 German planes was shot down the day before on the eastern front.
 The Russians turned back strong German infantry and tank attacks yesterday along the lower Dne5ter river northwest of Tiraspol, killing 600 officers and men.
 (The Berlin radio said that Ger man troops had encircled strong Soviet unit west of Grigoriopol, 26 miles northwest of Tiraspol on the east bank of the Dnester, and had captured 5000 prisoners)
 Two German night attacks were repelled southeast of Stanislawow, 70 miles southeast of Lwow in southeastern Poland, and troops of the First Ukrainian Army killed ap- proximately 200 men.
 For the 30th successive day, no important changes were reported on the major sectors of the eastern front.
 Russian fliers shown down the 28 German planes on the third Ukrainian front, which includes the Tiraspol sector.
 Soviet Baltic fleet planes attack ed a group of German vessels in the Narva Bay area of Northern Estonia, sinking two patrol ships and two trawlers and damaging
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
TANKS GIVE GROUND AT TERRACINA
 Planes Drop 1000 Tons Or 2 Cities
MANAGEMENT LABOR |NF|RST
 ,SCOv|LL RIFT

The first serious rift in labor-management relations at the Scovill Mfg, O., since the outbreak of war became a fact this morning as ern- ployes of the first shift of the company's tube mill draw bench division were refused admittance to the plant on contention of the manage ment that "these men are no longer employees of the Scovill Company" as result of their unauthorized walk out last Saturday.
 The men were met at the gates this morning as they attempted to return to work when foremen of the division insisted that they turn in their Identification badges and refused them admittance to the plant.
 The issue evolved from the unau- thorized walk out by these men last Saturday for reasons based on what they termed were accumulated grievances" At the time the second shift of this same division which also planned to walk out was con- tacted by union authorities and persuaded to remain on the job until the dispute could be negotiated formally.
 Yesterday a joint meeting of both shifts and the union officials was held at which time 1t was generally agreed that the men would return this morning. However, in the meantime Alan c. Curtiss director of industrial relations at the Sco- will Company stated thta the com pany would stand firm on its con- tention that these men are nc longer employees having terminated their jobs last Saturday in viola ton of contract" As the second shift. had remained the job last Saturday It is not expected that they will be refused admittance this afternoon.
 4l Men Involved
 Mir. Curtiss today told the Dem- ocrat that about fl men were in- volved while Robert J. Walkinshaw, official of the Scovill Brass Work CTS union, 0. I. O. contended that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Sedition TrioI, Storm
BY ANN HICKS

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington. May 9 - CUP - Judge Edward E. Richer today de- nied six mistrial motions in the mass sedition case, then cracked dA.Sl on defense attorneys and arl- nounced he would jail the next per- son who creates 8 disturbance dur ing the trial.
 He began his new tough" policy by summarily imposing contempt fines of $200 and $100, respectively, on Attorney Henry Klein and de- fendant Ellis O. Jones.
 Klein, counsel for Eugene Nelson Sanctuary. first was fined $50 When he continued to protest and shouted T think that's an insult" to a re- mark by Richer, the judge boosted the fine until it totalled $200.
 Klein's outburst was precipitated by Eicher's ruling that each of the 29 defendants would be allowed only one-half hour for their open- ing statements. He jumped to his feet and began to shout.
 MT. Klein," Richer thundered, you are fined $50 for contempt"
 That isn't fair" Klein shouted back. T have no $50, and I have no money"
 Richer pounded his gavel.
 For persistent talking" he in- terrupted. "the court fines you an additional 425."
 T will appeal" Klein said. still shouting.
 'srhe bond on appeal will be $50"
 That's an insult"
 For your last remark, the court increases the fine to eiO0-bond on appeal to be s200."
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
AIexei New Pofriorch

Moscow, May 22-UP)-Alexei, metropolitan of Leningrad and Nov gorod, became acting patriarch of the Orthodox church in Russia yes- terday with a pledge of "unfailing fidelity" to the church, the country and the government.
 A personal letter which he ad- dressed to Premier Josef Stalin as "a wise leader placed by the Lord over our great nation," was pub- lished in all of Moscow's newspa- pers.
 Alexei announced the Holy Synod, in naming him as acting patriarch. had accepted the last will and tes- lament of Patriarch Segei" who died earlier this month.
 Alexeiis formal election as pa- triarch appeared certain but there was no indication when the church council would meet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Patrols Forced
 Back From 4,OOO To 5000 Yards

Allied H e a d quarters1 Naples, May 22. = (UP) -s The Nazi command has thrown into battle its last reserves south of Rome al1ds by pouring reinfOrcementa into the coastal sector, has thrown the American van- guard back two to three miles from Terracina, it was an. nOunced today.
 Marshal Albert Kesselring turned on the Allies with everything ha had for what appeared to be tho showdown battle of southern Italy.
 The concentration of German forces produced the first Allied set- back of the ll-day offensive when the Americans were pushed back from Terracina, coastal anchor of the enemy line, after advanced pat rols attempted to enter the strategic town this morning.
 The seventh German Panzer gren- adler regiment of the 29th division rushed into Terracina, forcing the forward clements of Maj. Gen. Geof- frey Reyes forces back two or three miles.
 Although the Americans withdrew from the Terracina area, they wer0 consolidating their positions north of the historic Appain way and were advancing on Monte Calvo and Monte Marine.
 Kesselring threw IT divisions into, furious counter attacks in a bid tu! stem the Allied offensive. He strip-l ped all the garrisons north of tha fighting front and weakened his ring around the Anzio beachhead lesm than 90 miles ahead of the Allies.
 The immediate result was th@ stopping of the Fifth Army offens, sive at Terracina and the Polisll| push into Piedimonte, northern ans. chor of the enemy line, where bloody street fighting was goin on.
 Fierce fighting was in prugreaA between Pico and PontQecorvo from the middle to the northeastern seed tors of the switch line" through the mountains.
 General Alphonse Juin's French troops took Mt. Leucio. three milea' west of Pontecorvo, lost it yesterday afternoon, and took 1t again this morning in violent struggles surgingl back and forth among the rugged fastneSSeS.
 To bolster the fighting in the Picu region the Germans had drawn tha' 20th Panzer reserve division frona) the region of the Anzio battle and hurled it against the French.
 The Germans have lost more than; 5000 prisoners in the current caln-, paign and also have suffered '.m0sn' severe casualties in killed and wounded, high military authority said today.
 Allied casualties also were Icons, siderable" he said. but not unrea-' sonably heavy in proportion to tho
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FDR ToHove Check-Up
By MERRIMAN SMITH

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Washington, May 22-(UP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt will go to the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md, this week for a complete physical checkup.
 MT. Roosevelt's physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, felt sure that the examination would show that the chief executive is back in good physical shape following a months vacation in South Carolina and as the result of a new, easier work routine at the White House.
 Despite the apparent physical re- bound by the chief executive, Mo- Intire. charged with responsibility for keeping the President healthy. wanted to be scientifically certain of his diagnosis.
 Results of the cfeckup were ex- pected by many of MT. Roosevelt's political supporters to cinch his decision to seek reelection. Many Democratic leaders, at least, were planning in that direction and the final physical answer from the Naval hospital this week was ex- pected to remove from many of their minds all doubt as to his plans. Anything except what seemed ob- yious to McIntire at the end of the Presidents recent four weeks of sun bathing and fishing: that MT. Roosevelt had thrown of all traces of his winter bronchitis and was feeling at physical par again.
 The medical checkup itself will be brief. probably not requiring more than a couple of hours of the Presidents time because MeIntire already has much of the tnforma- ton that goes into such an examina-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
RY ROBRRT DOWRON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London. May 72-(UPl-derman "Epys raiders secuted the British coasts from the northern tip Of Scotland to the English Channel last night in their widest-ranging effort yet to find q clue to the im- minence of an Allied invasion Of Western Europe.
 The NaxI pilots disclosed that re- eonnaissance was their main as- alenment by dropping only flares except at one place in Kent, where bombs caused some casualties but little damage. Though cnly a few planes participated ln tho fllgfts, raidbFB were reported oser eoulh-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Allies ToHit New Blows
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By R. H. Shackford

Washington, May 9 - (U.P0 - United Nations forces "are now about to strike new and mightier blow" at occupied Europe from the south, east and west with lend- lease aid that reached $24, PA, ,806,- 900 on April, 1, President Roosevelt told congress today.
 On the eastern front, he said, lend-lease supplies will continue to strengthen the Soviet armies "for the new blows that will be timed to our advances"
 MT. Roosevelt gave general re- view of the forthcoming offensives in transmitting to congress his 18th report on lend-lease operations. It reported that aid extended-goods and services-reached a record- breaking $4,239, ,o00,0 ,000 during the first three months of 1944. It showed that exports to the United Kingdom continued at a high rate; that those to the Soviet Union have dropped after hitting peak in December, and that those to the Middle East, Africa and the Far East have drop PCa oAAd4 RAy'
 Reverse lend-lease from British Commonwealth Nations alone now totals ovxer $2,000, 900 900 since the program began and the rate of aid is approaching $2,000, ,000, 900 year" the report said.
 Several times in Mir. Roosevelt's letter of transmittal and in the re- port itself, the forthcoming attack was referred to in the plural-"in- vasions."
 Our American forces will go into battle side by side with the men of Britain, France, Norway, Poland, Czechoslocakia, Netherlands, and our other Allies" MT. Rooseevlt said.
 Escort of Many
 At sea. warshipS flying many United Nations flags will escort the fleets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Plan FeederAir Lines EorN. E.

Norwood, Mass. May 22 - U.P9 Mine feeder airline routes in New England. radiating from Boston and Providence, R. l., and serving more than 60 cities and towns, are plan- ned by the E. ". Wiggins Airways. Inc, of Norwood and Providence, 1t was announced today.
 The company has filed petitions with the Civil Aeronauties Board at Washington for authorization to fiy passengers. mail and property with twin-engined aircraft over the routes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
OUISDURG,
 KIEL,COAsT
 ARE TARGETS
BY WALTER CRoNKITE United Press War Correspondent)


 United Press War Correspondent
 London, May p. = (UP) - About 2,000 American and British planes dropped more than 4,000 tons of bombs on the German war centers of Kiel and Duisburg, French coastal Qualifications and other targets today as the new pre-invasion offens- i've roared unabated through it's fourth straight day.
 Flying Fortresses struck at Kiel, big German port and U-boat base. and Liberators hit the bomb-pocked Pas de Calais invasion coast of France in the wake of 8 major ARF fleet which made a saturation as- sault on the German rail and indus trial center ofg Duisburg.
 Afternoon estimates of 2,000 AL lied planes in action since midnight and better than 4,000 otns of explo- sives delivered to the continent were expected to soar when official announcements confirmed coastal reports of big scale fighter opera tions.
 Enemy broadcasts reported large formations of American planes over northwest, northern and central Germany and said they were en- gagged in heavy air battles by NaI defense squadrons. The Berlin re- ports lacked early substantiation, however.
 Lieut.Gen James H. Doolittle split his Eighth Air Force heavy bomb CTS to send about 250 Fortresses against the Pas de Calais area. Each formmation was accompanied by fighter escorts of about the same number.
 Other Formations
 Other formations of lighter Allied planes Swarmed in relays across the channel to harass the Nazs massed along and behind the Atlantic wall. Kiel, a city of 250,0 command ing the western end of the Baltic Sea, formerly was second only to Hamburg as a center of submarine building. It is the main base for the German fleet and the most impor- tant pjort left to the Nazis for re- pairing and overhauling capital ships.
 The last American daylight raid on Germany was made last Friday, when l,500 U. s. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters struck at Ber- lin and Brunswick.
 Hundreds of Alulied fighters criss- crossed the channel early today to launch the fourth day of the new offensive against Hitler's west wall, striking out only few hours after the return of the big RAF night armada.
 RAF Raiders
 The black winged RAF raiders attacked through 22,000-foot cloud layer that blanketed western Ger many, striking so swiftly that most of their 2,000-ton load of block busters were ripping throungh Duis-
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 On Foe In Moaouna
BY WALTER LOGAN United Press War Correspondent

Southeast Asia Headquarters, Randy, Ceylon, May 22-(UP)- The first heavy monsoon rains del- uged the north Burma battlefront today as overwhelming Allied forces closed in from all sides on a doomed Japanese army cornered in the Myitkyina -Mogaung-Kamaing tri- angle.
 Torrential rainstorms hampered ground and air operations through out the northern sector, but off, ficial reports said Chinese, Amer ican and Britinsh troops were strik- ing with redoubled fury and herd ing thousands of Japanase of Jap anese back into a rapidly-narrow- ing detah pocket.
 All reports indicated that the Al- lied armies were on the verge of their greatest victory of the 2e- month southeast Asia campaign with superior numbers and equip ment on every sector of the north- ern front.
 American and Chinese infantry men fought their way through the streets of Myitkyina against strong Japanese resistance, forcing the enemy garrison slowly back against the Irrawaddy river on the eastern edge of the city.
 Simultaneously, Chinese ant British troops frightened Q noos' around the enemy's main forces II northern Burma in Kamaing, 4 miles northwest of Myitkyina, ant Bogaung, 20 miles southeast of Ka maing.
 Headquarters spokesmen revealed that more than 25,000 Japanes' battle casualties have been counted since the beginning of the offen' sive in January, and thousands more faced imminent death or sur render in the Myitkyina and Mo- gaung valley sectors.
 United Press War Correspondent Frank Hewlett reported in Q dis
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