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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
Legal Notices
NOTICE

 STATE of CONNECTICUT, DIS TRICT of WATERBURY, ss. PRO- BATE COURT, July 3rd, 1944. ESTATE of FRED GORMAN, late of the town of Waterbury, in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis; trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to testsS' within said time, viii be debarred A recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are request ed to make immediate payment to
 GERGE RAYMOND,
 Administrator. HD Newell Place,
 Waterbury, Conn.
 ger Order of Court
 Attest:
 S,S-3t Asst. Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
Merchandise

SPECIALTIES-Ca apes, party sandwiches, cupcakes, made to or der. Helen Carroll, l25 Park Road Phone 4-7040.
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Democrat Wan-Ads-Dial 42121
Real Estate For Sale
Suburban For Sale

PLYMOUTH = Two family house with modern improvements. Nine acres of land. Located at Hillside Avenue, Plymouth, Conn.,, one Enile of Route 6. Has 3-car garage and barn. Excellent possibilities for large poultry farm. Also added 20 acres of grazing and woodland. if desired. A good buy. Stanley Soko- lowski. Inquire at Hillside Avenue, Plymouth, Conn, Tel. Thomaston 62-5. or Kasimer F. Dzielensd, 35 Mills Street, Bristol, Conn.,, Tel. 9735.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
Real Estate For Sale
Farms For Sale

89 ACRE-Dairy farm, seven room house, improvements large barn, two silos; l7 COWS and equipment; milk retailed; also several others. Connecticut Realty Co.,, Southing- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
Merchandise
Machinery. EleC. A Tools

ONE = Gould and Eberhardt Gear cutter 48" X 10" single Pulley drive, extra arbors and parts. One Potter & Johnson Chucking m h ne, model GA, motorized, no motor. Five foot Reed Prentice Radlal Drill single pulley drive thru Gear Box. Eight Davenport Double spindle form and cutoff Machines, Cap. 3-l6'' l-2," Three Henry & Wright 50 ton cap. Dieing ma chimes with 10 H. P. Reeves Motor Drive. Double roll Feed and scrap cutter. New 1940, One 3 spindle Allen B. B. Drill press. One four spindle Henry & Wright with table 4s' X 28." One single spindle Henry & Wright drill press.
 For information call or write The B. & M. Machinery Co.,, IS New Haven Ave, Milford, Conn. Phone 3l6l; after six p. m., 2S2l.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Postwar Competition

The shoe is on more than one foot.
The misgivings some Americans
have regarding Britains commercial
ambitions in the postwar world are
not a one-way proposition, for there
are British businessmen who feel
exactly the same way about us.
Thus, just as we hear rumors and
reports of the British preparing to
take competitive advantage of us in
such regions as the Middle East, the
public in Britain is treated to gossip
about how great numbers of Amer
lean trade agents, disguised as
Army officers, have f1ocked to Paris
to grab up whatever business can
be found there.
On both sides of the water, both
in the United States and Britain,
these and similar stories must be
read with some sense of perspective,
the indications being that neither
the British nor ourselves are asleep.
Actually, such competition can be
good for the world. international
trade cannot be a one country mo-
nopoly and be wholesome at the
same time. It is inconceivable that
all peoples with things to buy and
sell will not enjoy reasonably equal
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Elf Night

Said the calendar maker, troiUninu deep
As he planned the year and the spe-
cial days,
Here's the date for the groundhog to
,odke from sleep,
Here's midsummer night for the dane
ing fays.
But What shall do ,rith the cnomes
and elpes?
Such trouble-ntakers must neper run
Scot-tree. They must haze a time to
themselves,
or think of the mischief that may be
done!" ~
He scanned the year and his face ,oas
sober,
But at last his ,ohiskers began to
t,Ditch,
And he marked the last long night OF
October
As the date for the piry and ghost and
Ditch.
So there wiu be jeorsome deeds tonight,
When clouds rush BY and the moon
is loD.
your blood wiu freeze ,phen an eeris
spritc
Moans IN the soood as the bleak sOinds
But though you shiper and shake with
fright,
you must let him icail. for he has the
W right. NEz BARCLAY KIRBY,
Evening star., 1944-10-30

Mr.. Kefauver, written to q personal
friend, saying fatty that "the sug-
gestion (for the club came from the
President himself" The President,
he added, would like to counsel and
advise" with members of the club
throughout the rest of his term.
Five very pleasant" meetings be-
tween members of the club and the
President already have been held at
the White House. Finally, Mr.. Ke-
fauver pointed out, there are many
matters coming up in which men,
bership in the One Thousand Club
would not do any HARM" and hold
ers of the clubs copper-p plated GER
tificate of membership will find that
"it is all the pass they need here in
Washington to go anywhere"
In all the circumstances, the
White House decision to rest on Mr..
Hannegan's denial that he had dis
cussed the organization of the club
with the President is something less
than satisfactory. Mr.. Roosevelt
has not been at all reluctant to deny
other statements by Governor
Dewey which he regards as distor-
tions or falsif1cations. That being
the case, and If Governor Dewey is
suspected of another Justification,
IRE surprising that the
President has been unwilling to
say so.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Stadium for Washington

A special committee of the Board
of Trade has been formed to work
for the construction of great sta
dium, or coliseum, in Washington
capable of seating crowds OF 100, 1000
or more and designed to become a
center for outstanding events of a
national as we'll as local character.
One thought behind this idea is that
some form of universal service for
young men and women is apt to be
adopted after the war and that
more attention than ever before will
be given to the physical fitness of
American youth. There should be
a plan developed now for a place in
the Nations Capital for demonstra-
tions, drills, and competitive sports
Of all kinds.
The idea for stadium in Wash
ington is not new. It has been a
project of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, in con-
nection with the development of
East Capitol street, for many years.
The commission has already ac-
quired an area OF some $50 acres
on which the National Guard
Armory now stands-for eventual
use as great recreation center,
of which a stadium would be one
feature. Whether or not the COM
MISSIONS original plans contemplate
stadium as large as the one Wis
ualized by the Board of Trade Com
mittee, there should be no difficulty
in reaching full agreement on the
undertaking considered most de-
sirable. For the site proposed by
the Park and Planning Commission
is an excellent one, accessible to rail
and vehicular transportation and
already improved, over a large area,
by grading and fills.
Construction of this stadium
should be marked down as one of
the important postwar projects in
Washington and it is gratifying to
note the Board of Trades prepara-
tions to assume leadership in the
community and TO work with the
Park and Planning Commission for
development that should not be
longer postponed.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomson

For months there has been popular
anxiety that the Pacific war was being
neglected in favor of the European
theater. But the great battle in the
Philippine waters, one of the greatest
naval victories of history, is both the
curtain raiser on the definitive stage
of the war and the elimination of a
great strategical effort. stretched out
over years.
The layman finds 1t difficult to under
stand the great differences between
naval and land warfare. Any land cam
paign Is continual and highly visible
effort, with battles and sieges, advances
and retreats, shiftings of troops and con-
tinuous tensions and expectations. The
shifting OF troops cannot be concealed.
When 1t occurs even the layman knows
that something big is in the making.
The movements in the European land
war are indicated by red, blue and yell
low pins on maps put up on thousands
of American walls.
But wars on the high seas are con-
Quoted in the widest empty spaces of
this globe where the only eyes that can
always observe movements are the neu-
tral stars Even reconnaissance planes
have to depend, to a great extent, on
luck. In some ways it has the char
acteristics of more antique form of
war-even of land war. For in the an
tique land wars, the troop leader could
choose his battlefield without being
hampered by continuous fronts In
modern war the commander is often
forced to accept battle, If he does not
want to evacuate his strong points, and
fortified lines.
But naval warfare carries its forts, its
heavy artillery. its man power and even
its air power under its own steam. 1t
can join battle or refuse battle at choice
The old slogan that 1t takes two to make
a battle is only true of naval warfare
A land offensive must be met; a naval
offensive need not be. For there is
amplitude of uninhabited space.
\ 4
This has been demonstrated time and
again in this war After the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor we were chal-
lenged by the Japanese feet to come
out and fight for the communication
lines between Japan and Southeastern
Asia. But we did not accept this chal-
lenge. And now for many months,
We have been challenging the Japanese
feet and they have refused the chal-'
lenge
Only when We invaded the Philip
Evening star., 1944-10-30

pines, did the japanese realize so strong
ly the challenge and the danger that
they had to risk their fleet.
When such a moment occurs-and
contrary to land campaigns-the result
Is immediate. One side wins or loses,
right of. That is why the Navy and
naval warfare have always appealed to
romantic spirits and individualists. 1t
is the blitzkrieg par excellence. A sin
gle engagement, employing what in land
terms would be considered only hand
ful OF men. can go down as one of the
decisive battles of the world
Such a battle was fought a few DAYS
ago. and adds the names of Halsey,
Kinkaid and Macarthur to the rosters
which immortalize Nelson 1t is a Ira
falgar of the east. Trafalgar cut off
the rear communications of Napoleon
in Egypt. anc the Philippine battle
disconnects the Southeast Pacific from
Japan.
Superficially this looks like the re-
suit of a single battle. Actually it is
a elimination of grand strategy which
has involved slow, costly. exhausting,
polnt-by- y-point conquest of insignificant
islands.
Britain did not become. prior to our
selves, the worlds greatest naval power
because of her island position-there are
many islands-nor even because of her
sea-going habits, for other peoples have
those, but because she could add to
these things the greatest industrial
strength of the 10th century.
The honor to defeat the japanese
Navy has gone to the power with the
strongest industry and Navy, and that
is ourselves. 1t is poetic justice that it
should be so, since it was America whom
Japan attacked. But it demonstrates
that the sea power situation of the world
has changed.
For more than century the United
States was dependent on British naval
protection. Since last week we are es-
tablished as the leading naval power
in the Pacific. I am sure that the Brit
ish. for whom the Grand Fleet has ever
been the very national symbol, would
prefer this evolution from supremacy to
any other that could be conceived Un-
der other circumstances what happened
last week would be challenge to Britain
and blow. But as things have de-
veloped, it brings our two nations closer
together. Our victory is British victory
as well.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1944-10-30
One Thousand Club

The letter. in behalf of the One
Thousand Club which Representa-
tive Kefauver of Tennessee has ac-
knowledged writing tends to confirm
Governor Dewey's charge that men,
berShip in the club confers some
degree of special privilege" Either
that, or the solicitation for the ST 900
contributors was misleading, to say
the least.
Mr.. Dewey's charge was based on
a letter sent out by two prominent
Arkansas Democrats which stated
openly that members of the One
Thousand Club undoubtedly will be
granted special privilege and pres
tige by party leaders," This letter
also stated that the idea of such a
club originated at a White House
meeting between the President and
Democratic National Chairman Ham
negan, and held forth the induce
ment implicit in the promise that
members of the club will be called
into conference from time to time
to discuss matters of national i'm
portance and to assist in the formu-
lation of administration policies"
This provoked a storm of denials
and explanations-Some of them
self self-contradictory-from the Demo-
cratic high command. 1t was said
the Arkansas letter was unauthor-
lied. It's authors, while not denying
It's authenticity, said their inter-
probation of its meaning differed
from that of Governor Dewey. Mr..
Hannegan denied he had ever dis
cussed the matter of the club with
the President. Representative He
bert, Democrat, OF Louisiana, and
an executive director of the One
Thousand Club, said it was his un-
derstanding that Mr.. Roosevelt did
suggest the formation of the club.
Gaping all Of this is the letter by
Evening star., 1944-10-30

bled waters have an excellent oppor-
tunity to show their skill.
The dangers to the De Gaulle regime
are likely to be considerably increased
within the next few months when the
French population, because Of the COM
plete collapse of the transportation
system, is going to suffer severe priva-
tions. Many American observers who
have returned from Paris beliGye that
the food and fuel situation in the large
French cities will be even worse this
winter than during the NaN occupa-
tion.
President Roosevelt may have changed
his attitude toward De Gaulle because
OF suggestions from Gen. Eisenhower
that 1t would be better to have a for
mally recognized government in France
to assist us in handling the many COM
plex situations which arise behind the
fighting front
Earlier, the United States had pledged
itself to France not to assist any indi-
yidual to become the head of the goY-
ernment until the French people could
express their wishes in free elections
The recognition of a government such
as that OF De Gaulle was considered by
the White House as possible handicap
to free elections. These were not
considered possible until the 5000, 900
French prisoners of war and workers
who are now in the Reich return to
their homeland and can vote. More
over, reports from American special
observers in Paris did not indicate
clearly that the former head of the
Fighting French had the Endorsement
OF even a slight majority Of his fellow
countrymen
But Gen. Eisenhower's desire to hand
over to the French government the con-
troll of the liberated areas and Londons
insistence that unless we recognized De
Gaulle's government we might face seri-
GUS communist" trouble contributed to
a change of attitude
If the political restlessness Which is
apparent in France now becomes really
active, the American forces in France
may be compelled to intervene in order
to safeguard their vital lines of COM
munications. This might be interpreted
by politically minded Frenchmen as
foreign intervention in favor of the
government which the United States
has recognized after two years of
hesitation.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Russian Supply Problem
BY Maj. George Fielding Eliot

A great deal of importance must be
attached to Russian operations now in
progress in the Carpatho- Ukraine and
Northeastern Hungary. The object of
these battles Is to clear the railway
leading southwest from Lwow so that
the Russian armies in Southern Hun
gary and Yugoslavia can have direct
line of supply from Russia.
It Is clear that the Russian drive on
Budapest, the mopping up of the re-
naming German resistance in Hungary
and the swinging forward of the Rus
sian left flank to the frontiers of Ger
many and Austria are making rather
slow progress. This is due almost al
together to the enormous difficulties of
supply. At present the Russian armies
in Southern Hungary and in Yugoslavia
must be supplied by roundabout routes
through Romania.
The Romanian railways are standard
gauge lines. requiring transhipment
from the Russian broad gauge: they
are in bad condition and the Germans
destroyed or carried OF most of the
locomotives and rolling stock. If the
Russians could concentrate their rather
limited amounts of standard-gauge To-
comotives and cars on lines affording a
shorter haul to the fighting fronts,
their supply problem would be i'm
mensely eased.
That appears to be what they are
now trying to do--to get hold of the
lines of railway which run southwest
from Lwow, cross the Carpathians by
the Uzhok and volocz passes respec-
lively, join at Cop, in Northeastern
Hungary, and then diverge to join again
at Debrecen, where they connect with
the whole railway net of Southern Hun
gary.
II the Russians can accomplish this,
the effect on their operations farther
south will be little short Of revolution
ary
The key to this situation is the rail-
way junction Of Cop, which was occupied
by the Russians Sunday. 1t is on the only
stretch of the main Lemberg Debrecen
line which Is not In Russian hands
the short stretch between Uzhorod and
Kisvarda. The Russians are advancing
toward this area from the east, south
east and northeast. They reported in
Saturdays communique the capture OF
Batovo, 4 rail junction only about Is
miles from Cop. and very useful point
because It controls branch line which
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gives somewhat roundabout connec-
ton from the main line into Transyl-
vania. This will be useful to the Rus
slams but the possession of the main
line will be far more useful.
Once this whole line is In Russian
hands, we must think of their front as
being Strengthened along the line East
Prussia-the middle Vistula-Debrecen
-Szeged and SO to the Danube above
Belgrade, where they join with the
forces of Marshal Tito In other words,
the Russians have advanced their left
flank in vast wheel round through
Rumania and Transylvania, until they
stand on a front right across Central
Europe, and it now appears that their
left flank will be secured not on the
Black Sea as it used to be, but on the
Adriatic. ct is not likely that Russian
troops will actually reach the Adriatic,
but the consolidation of that flank will
be left to the Yugoslavs, assisted by Brit
ish and American forces and materially
This is fact of the most tremendous
strategical Importance. The Russian
flank is still wheeling. 1t is swinging
almost full circle. Once 1t was going
south and southwest, toward the Bug
and the Dnieper, then it drove south
to the Danube. Then it turned west,
and smashed into Pennsylvania Now
it turns northwest into Hungary Pres
emily, 1t will close upon the eastern
frontier of Austria, and will sweep across
Czechoslovakia as 1t moves northward
on Germany. The Russian center will
doubtless conform, swinging westward
across the plains of Poland.
The military barrier Of the Carpa-
thians, the southern bastion of the Ger
man defenses against Russia, has vir-
tually ceased to exist as far as grand
strategy is concerned. It is now no more
than an obstacle to the functioning of
the Russian supply system.
Now that Cop has been taken, the
Russians will have a short line of rail-
way direct from their own supply CEN
ters all the way behind their front clear
down to the Danube, and from this
base they will certainly advance NORTH
west and north in the final and decisive
stages Of the great wheeling movement
which has brought them from the
Dnieper to the Tisza and the middle
Danube and which seems likely to sweep
on In the direction Of Vienna and Berlin.
tcopyrtght 1914. New York Tribune, Ine.l
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Ernie Stops

Prom the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Ernie Pyle says he has given out" as
war correspondent, that he has "just
got to stop" that his spirit is wobbly"
and his mind is confused" that he Ii
coming home for long rest.
1t was three days after his 44th BIRTH
day that he made the announcement in
his column in a wireless dispatch from
Paris. He referred to himself as "the
old man. and was not kidding, either.
This is sadnews to his millions of read
ers all over the world.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
StiIweII's Recall

General StllWell is said to be not
the most plant or tactful man in
the world, and so it may be true
as high but anonymous Chinese
official declares-that he and Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai-Shek came
TO a "SWordS-point" relationship
and that he has been relieved of his
duties and recalled to Washington
at the generalissimo's request.
Such an explanation, however,
will remain purely speculative unless
and until it is supported by much
more authoritative and detailed evi-
dence. For there is at least as much
reason to believe-on the basis of
the information available now-that
the move foreShadowS an American
invasion of the Chinese coast and
that that invasion will be led by the
man whose troops in the vast China
Burma India theater came to know
him, affectionately, both as Vinegar
Joe" and Uncle Joe," one of the
ablest and "fightingest" commanders
In the whole war.
Actually, speculation on this sub
1ect may logically be carried so far
afield that almost any theory can
be made to seem more or less
plausible. Accordingly-for the time
being, at any rate-perhaps the best
explanation of all, and certainly the
most authoritative, is the one put
out by the White House and the
War Department.: General Stilwell
has been relieved as chief of staff
to Generalissimo Chang, as deputy
to Admiral Mountbatten (head of
the Southeast Asia commando and
as leader of all American forces in
the China-Burma-I India theater be-
cause it has been decided to divide
that theater into two smaller COM
mands and because he is to receive
"a new and important, but at pres
ent undisclosed, assignment"
Only last August-less than three
months ago-President Roosevelt
raised Vinegar Joe" from the rank
OF lieutenant general to that of full
general, putting him in the select
company of Marshall, Eisenhower,
Macarthur, Arnold and Craig as a
reward for past performances and,
presumably, too, in preparation for
work still to be done. Moreover,
whether or not he had difficulties
with the generalissimo or with
others, it is well to remember that
he is foremost among American
commanders as student and friend
of China and that just about two
years ago the official publication of
the Chinese Army said that his pres
ence at Chiang's side was equivalent
to adding 100000 men to the forces
fighting in the field against Japan.
1t is difficult to believe, in the
circumstances, that General Still
wells recall means that he will be
out of the Far Eastern picture from
now on; it is much easier to believe
that he is being groomed to play
perhaps even larger part in it. In
any event, we may reasonably as
sumo that our high command knows
what it is doing and that this move
dividing Vinegar Joe's" duties
between two other able American
commanders, Generals Wedemeyer
and Sultan-is designed to improve
our Allied war organization in East
Asia