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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
LARGER PLANE SEEN

Commercially, Col. Gregory said,
il might be ready for professional
plotting by the end of the war.
He pointed out that the military
version Of the machine would lend
itself admirably for such use.
Slkorsky went a little further,
stating that ii could be made
larger and larger. starting with
about 90 to SO passengers and
working up 10 perhaps 100 to 200
by the judicIous use of jet power.
I'm a reasonable time" the
Russian scientist said, 1.-The hell
copter will become another
means of recognized transporta-
ton"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
rnIrnn CASH CRAZY

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16

Biographical sketches of De-
troiters killed or wounded in
action. according to official army
and navy releases and next-of-kin:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
CHICAGO CASH GRAN

CHICAGO CASH GRAIN
CHICAGO. Dec. Is Inns Cash grain
close
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No / red. special heavy. 73isc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
WOUNDED

PFC. EDWIN T.. JESCHKE. 81,
Sept 16. in France. He worked
for the Morris Chain Co, entered
service in March, 1912. and went
overseas last, February with the
infantry. According IN his sister,
Mrs. Martha Cook. 6416 Belfast,
with whom he made his home, Pfc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
.He|ilopters
Gain Bakers
~ slLER FREEMAN

Detroit today has many more
helicopter enthusiasts, all be-
cause of Michigan Aviation Week
and the visit of Igor Sikorsky and
Col. II. Frank Gregory.
The two, with l.. M. Homer,
president, and Bernard Whelan,
general manager, of United Air
craft. yesterday were the guests
of honor on Helicopter Day OF
the Aviation Week program.
The earnest Sikorsky, who built
his first hehcopter in 1909 and
flew il successfully in 1910, and
boyiSh-looking Col. Gregory, the
army's leading exponent of the
machine. addressed 400 high
school students at Cass Tech and
showed them a movie on what the
helicopter can do. The youthful
audience was enthusiastic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
Livestock Market

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
SEE ARMY STUNTS

Later a selected group of guests
gathered at Observation-Disclosures and
saw three of the arny's Re ma
chimes do stunts. They went up
singly- and in formation. They
dashed through the skies and how
cred over the ground, moved for
ward and back. And another
group of converts was made.
But. in the evening, AT a dinner
given by George Mason, president
of Nash, for Sikorsky. Col Greg
DRY. Horner and others the en-
thusiaSm was little dashed by
both the Russian inventor and the
army officer. Both predicted that
IL would be FIVE 10 10 years be-
fore the helicopter could come
into its Own as private vehicle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
PFC. RAYMOND L. SCHOR-

MAX, %, Oct. l, in Italy. He
worked for Ex-Cello, entered serv-
ice in April, 1871, and had been
overseas seven months. Surviving
are his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Schornak. sos Cooper
two sisters, and two brothers in
service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
PVT. AUGUSTINE ROTUNDA,

q, Oct. 3, in Italy. A former Ford
employee, he entered service in
February, 1914, and went over
seas last August. He leaves his
father. Mr.. Santo Rotunda. 5273
Reuter-, Dearborn, four sisters, and
two brothers overseas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
s/SGT. HOWARD w. RILEY

%, Dec. %, 1913. over Holland.
Previously reported missing, Sgt.
Riley had been overseas since
October, 1943, as Flying Fortress
radio gunner. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Riley, 1170S
Whithorn, one sister, and one
brother, Pfc. Earl, survive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
PVT. CHARLES II. WALTER.

20, June 81, on Biak Island. He
attended Michigan State Normal
College, entered service in Febru-
airy. 1913, and went overseas the
following July. He leaves his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James II.
Walter, 22Sl3 Mona, Dearborn,
and one sister.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
T/SGT. JAMES +. WOOD

GATE, z, Aug. "a, over Germany.
He worked for the Thomas f.
Lane Co. Joined the AAF in Feb
ruary. 1871, and went overseas
last March as a BIZ engineer
Sgt. Woodgate had been awarded
the Air Medal. three Clusters, and
the Purple Heart He leaves his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Woodgate, u f. Margaret, three
sisters, and two brothers, one of
whom is serving with the RCAF.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
PFC. EVAN s. McMONIGLE.

80, Aug. 20, in France. In service
since September, 1943, he went
overseas the following November
He leaves his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee McMonigle, 590S Bald
win. one sister and. one brother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16
PFC. ROWLAND c. MAS, 20

IN German. Previously reported
wounded, Pfc. Mas parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Rowland Mas. 5466 Iro-
quois, were notified last Wednes-
day of his death. He had been in
service since May. 1943, and over
seas three months.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-16

Nov. Is, in Germany. He worked
for Dodge, entered service in No
vember, 1912, and went overseas
last September. He leaves his
mother, Mrs. Amelia Lienard.
1926 Marcus, four brothers and
one sister.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
MocArthur
 Speoks Out

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Feb. 16-(UP)-Gen. Doug las Macarthur, in an apparent at- tempt to discourage over-confidence, said today that conquest of Japan's outlying Pacific Islands no longer could be considered decisive" and warned that the Allies must defeat the Japanese army before victory can be assured.
 ''It's useless and misleading to talk of short cuts,' MacArthur said in a formal statement released by his Southwest Pacific headquarters. 'They do not exist"
 He asserted that the old concept that Japan was predominantly mar itime nation based upon her island empire ''is no longer factual"
 With her immense holdings on the ASiatic continent, Manchuria, Korea, and northern China, to say nothing of her southern mainland conquestS, she has become intrinsi- cally continental power with her greatest potential inland" MacAr- thur said.
 Her outlying islands of the Pa cific represent an outpost position important, it is true, but no long CT decisive"
 MacArthur's statement was re- leased to the press without com ment or explanation. However, it followed the occupation by his forces against negligible resistance of Rooke Island, between New Guinea and New Britain, and the Green Islands in the Northern Sol omons, as well as the speedy con- quest by other American units of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshalls
 The statement recalled a recent Washington utterance, precipitated byb disclosure of Japanese atroci- ties against American war prisoners that i've ought to stream straight into Tokyo and blast the place off he face of the earth"
 Chairman Andrew J. May fo the House Military Affiars Committee made the assertion that American warships ought to blast Tokyo off the map immediately
 MacArthur specifically said he was discussing operations in his own theater. Assuming that he im- piled no criticism of other theaters, the only remaining interpretation was that he was seeking to counter act any undue optimism to the ef- feet that Japan will collapse once her exterior defense shell in the Pa- cific has been broken and her navy neutralized.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
MoyDewey Names New
 Control PIon

Estab1ishmento hiring controls over "non-essetnial" jobs in the Waterbury area was approved today by the area labor-management com- mittee in accordance with plans made Monday night, and official notifica Ion of the action was made by Area War Manpower Director Mary M. Dewey to the state WING office.
 Actual operation of the new con- trols will not start, however, until signal is given by the state of- flee, which is expected also to is- sue 8 similar directive for all other central Connecticut areas.
 The manpower situation and new controls for the critical areas of the state will be discussed by labor rep resentatives and government off cials at conference with Governor Raymond E. Baldwin in Hartford tomorrow morning, and directives of the state office will be held off pending the outcome of the meeting it has been indicated.
 The new hiring controls here will affect all "non-essential" establish mentS which employ more than a specified number of persons. The local committee has not yet set the minimum number of workers a firm must have in order to be af- fected, but it is believed the num- Der will be 9. Determination o1 that issue will come from the state office.
 Among the matters to be dis cussed in Hartford tomorrow will be be the proposal to channel 10 pel cent of the employees of all non-es- sential firms which employ more than 25 persons into essential work The proposal is aimed at getting additional manpower for war indus tries in Hartford and New Britain but it was reported today that ii the proposal is approved it will ir all likelihood apply to the Water bury area as well.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
 .Okoys Move

Washington, Feb. 16.--(UP} A parsonage in the Catholic church agreed with President Roosevelt to-. day that Germany must bear the responsibility for the destruction of the ancient Benedictine Monastery at Mount Casino.
 The Most Rev. Michael J. CurIess Archbishop of Washington ans Baltimore, said he was sure thae every Catholic throughout tho world" would understand fha4 American forces had no desire ka destroy the abbey but that 1t waa made necessary because the Ger mans violated its Sanctity to caT1N out "their nefarious warfare',.
 MT. Roosevelt told his news con ference yesterday that the attact on the monastery carried out az@ ter its occupants were given 24s hour warning to leave -- was jasGi= fled since the Germans had used its grounds to slow down the dxiNe on Casino.
 The President revealed that Nla December 29 last Gen. Dwight H. Eisenhower, then Mediter1au commander, had issued orden 11< Allied troops to spare Ttelyjs ae
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
U. s. Lieutenonts
 .TuIk To Kinq

London, Feb. 16-(UP)-Lt. Roy Ellis Brown, Townsend, Mass, and End It. William Maxwell, Detroit, Mich, had a lengthy talk with King George during recent investiture at Buckingham Palace when they were decorated with Distinguished Flying Crosses.
 Maxwell told the king he had been on 32 bombing missions, including seven over Berlin, in Wellington and Lancaster bombers. He formerly served in the RCAF as 8 pilot of- ficer before transferring to the U. s. Army Air Force.
 Brown, who was decorated as a flight lieutenant in the RAF Vol- unteer Service, participated in 54 raids over enemy territory.
 At another recent inveStiture, Godfrey De Havilland, director of the De Havilland Aircraft O., and designer of the Mosquito bombers, was among 42 persons knighted by the king.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Conquest or Solon1ons Is Completed byNe1U Captures

Allied Headuarters, South. west Pacific, February 16. = (UP) - American and New Zealand troops, under the cover of naval and air forces seized the Green Islands off the northern tip of Bougain- vile at dawn yesterday, it was announced today, thus completing the conquest ot the Solomon Islands and leaving 22,000 Japanese sol diers faced with death or surrender.
 The quickly-exeuted invasion thrust, coming only three days af- ter occupation of Rooke Island, be- tween New Guinea and New Britain met little opposition from enemy ground or air forces.
 For all strategic military pur- poses" a communique said, "This completes the campaign for the Sol- OmOnS."
 An Allied spokesman said the American and New Zealand troops Swarmed under cover of air and naval forces, including cruisers, and caught the defending forces com pletely by surprise.
 "There has been no report of any casualties so far" he said, although adding that one landing craft load CT with infantry in the northern flank was attacked by enemy ma chine-gunners.
 American Seabees spearheaded the attack, commanded by Rear Adm. Theodore s. Wilkinson, USN. United Press War Correspondent Frank Tremaine reported from Adm. William F. Haisey's advance headquarters. The strong force oi New Zealand troops was under com mand of Gen. Harold E. Barrow clough.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

The efficacy of the OIl- slaught was reflected in Ber- lin radio reports of a ''terrOr attack" by British Air Huns." They said damage was particularly heavy" in residential districts, adding the hoary propaganda conn plaint that several churches and hospitals were hit by bombs plummeting through a thick cloud cover.
 s'The brave Berlin pOpilIaz ton which once more stood up to the enemy terror with fir m determination, sus~ tained casualties" the Trans Ocean New Agency said.
 A Berlin communique said the RAF dropped Ca great number" of high explosive and incendiary bombs in var ious parts of the capital and scattered other explosives through the Rhine and Vest phalian regions.
 Advices reached Stockholm that the attack broke the Berlin subway system at sev- eral places. They said 2 Swedish church in the Wil-| mersdorf area was hit by three incendiarieS and ex- plosives caused further dam age, while two buildings
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Russian Armies Close In For Kill Of 10 German Divisions

Moscow, Feb. 16-(UP)-The Red army closed in for the kill today on the survivors of 10 German divi- sions packed into 35-square- mile Ukrainian pocket and far to the north encircled a number of Nazi rear guard units on the approaches to Pskov.
 As the bitter battle to the death ragged toward a Russian victory along the middle Dnieper, Soviet forces of the northern front raced in converging columns for Pskov, the gateway to Latvia, and de- ployed before Narva for an assault on the Estonian stronghold.
 Front dispatches indicated that the Red army was stepping up the intensity of its widespread blows against the Nazis and an imposing array of triumphs might be in the making.
 GA German communique reported that the Russians were attacking repeatedly and fierce fighting was in progress southwest of Krivoi Rog, Ukrainian mining center, which ap- peared to have been by-passed to the south and set up for attack from three sides. Several breaches" in the German positions were acknowledged by the NaziS, who claimed they had been sealed by counter-blows).
 GA Moscow report quoted by the British radio and recorded by CBS said the Germans had begun "the mass evacuation of civilians from Estonia," the northernmost of the Baltic states into which the Rus sians had poured between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Finland).
 Russian detachments driving over the approaches to Pskov were re- ported to have swung around a number of laggard German units falling. behind the general Nazi re- treat on that front, cutting them of in the swamps and forests for eventual extermination.
 Assault Delayed
 To the north, the Soyiets occupied the entire east bank of the Narva river and strong forcese faced Narva itself. The assault on the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Charlie Chaplin Gets
 Break m Dirty Suit

Hollywood, Feb. 16-(UP)-Deci- sion of three physicians that Charlie Chaplin could not possibly have been the father of Joan Barry's baby threw a medical monkey wrench today into plans for prose- cuSion of the multi-millionaire com- edian.
 Chaplin's attorneys were jubilant. Miss Barry's were glum. John Irwin, who had represented her through out her travails in the Beverly Hills jail, hte birth of her child, and the indictments issued against Chaplin by a federal grand jury, ment.
 q believed all along that my client was telling the truth" he said. T feel very sorry for her."
 The doctors ruling halted auto matically Miss Barry's projected paternity suit against the man who once groomed her to be a movie star. It also halted the $10O weekly payments Chaplin had been giving her under stipulations of . temper ary settlement reached last summer.
 The blood tests. however. did not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Films All A-Dither
 As Peace Founders
-U. s. Navy photo from NEA Telephoto.

Stockholm, Feb. 16-(UP)-Fin- lands official silence in the face of a flood of foreign reports that she is seeking basis for peace with Rus sia has brought increasing uneasi- ness to the Finnish people during the past "A hours, reliable private reports from Helsinki said today.
 Juho K. Paasikivi, former Fin nish Premier who negotiated the peace ending the Russo Finnish winter war of 1939-40, was still in Stockholm, but there was no indi- cation that he has made direct con- tact with Russian diplomats here.
 Obviously observers said, it will not be easy for Finland to break of ficial silence because she still is AL lied with Germany, with strong Ger man military forces inside the coun- try, and she must be careful not to say anything which could jeopar- dize her peace attempts as far as the Russians are concerned.
 Berlin dispatches quoted a Ger man foreign office organ as saying that the Finnish peace move were being treated with "the reservedness which German diplomacy always has observed when other sovereign coun- tries freedom to decide their own fate is concerned
 The Nazi-controlled Scandinavian telegraph quoted a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman as declaring that "the time has passed when propagandis- tic maneuvers are able to influence the outcome of the war" Observers were curious whether the statement was a thoughtless phrase or the first
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Catholic Soldiers Approve Demolition or Old Shrine

With the Fifth Army in Italy, Feb. 16. CUP)-Catholic soldiers who had watched waves of Amer ican bombers batter the Monte Gas sino monastery, agreed unanimously today that the life of one American Doughboy was worth all the churches in Europe.
 While they deplored loss of a historic shrine, they complained that the air and artillery attacks on the ancient structure had not been started soon enough.
 Tt has been there for centuries, but that was three weeks too long, because we've lost lots of American lives in the last 21 days" said one sad-faced Catholic private, Vincent zavada, of Bayonne, N. J.
 Among hundreds of soldiers who stood on the slopes on the eastern aide Of the Rapido river and watched
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Japs Snub Moue For Repatriation

Washington, Feb. 16 r. CUP)- Japan has refused to resume nego- tiattons for a third exchange o1 nationals even though her pretext for halting them-alleged bad con- ditionS in Japanese relocation camps here-has been founo groundleSs by neutral Investigators it was revealed today.
 The disclosure was made in State Department testimony re- leased by the House appropriations committee in recommending total of $231 ,3O4, 700, or $5,987, ,00O less tan requested by President Roose- welt, to finance the state, justice and commerce departments for the 1945 fiscal year.
 Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long, according to the testimony, told the committee that disturbances at the Tule Lake, Cal, relocation camp led Tokyo to break off indirect talks for the pris- oner exchange and to ask the Span ish embassy in Washington to in- vestigate. The Spanish diplomats reported favorably. Long said.
 The state departments share of the appropriations was $44, ,234, 500, or $3,218,000 less than requested by the president. For the justice de- partment, the committee voted $116,477, 200, a reduction of $1,429,- 900 from requests, and for the com- merce department, $70,593, 900 or a slash of $1,34O0O0.
 State department plans for im- portant international conferences possibly in anticipation of an early end of the war, were reflected in g request for $2,500, 900 for emergency conferences in the fiscal year begin- ming July 1.
 The committee cut the request down to $500, 0,000-stin enough to finance American participation in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
Ship Sinks In Bad Storm
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Nortsmouth, N. H., Feb. 16.-(UP) Split aSunder by mountainous waves that lashed her for IS hours after she ran aground on Boon Island ledge, a 7,244-ton British freighter sank Saturday in raging North Atlantic storm that brought death to 25 of her 45-man crew, the Navy revealed today. Of the 20 members of the crew known to have survived, seven were landed at Portsmouth and 13 at Portland, Me. Thirteen bodies were recovered, but F stil are missing.
 The vessel, carrying a general cargo, struck the ledge nine miles off York Beach, Me, at 2:23 p. m. (EWT) Friday during bowling snowstorm which greatly limited visibility. At a. m. the ship mes saged she could not last much longer, and an hour and a half later the order to abandon ship was given.
 "Al efforts to free the ship proved fruitless," said Chief En- gineer Svend Haagensen. Noun tainouS seas poured over the ship Friday afternoon and all through the night. Saturday morning at about 8:30 the ship broke up with the bow still agorund on the reef.
 "An of our crew of 45 remained aboard until Saturday morning when the craft split in two at a point between the saloon and the number three hath" he cadded. we lost one raft Friday afternoon and a ifeboat Saturday morning. Three men were in the hfeboat when it capSized, but they came to the sur face and may have bene rescued. Approximately 25 of the crew who were in the stern section took to the icy waters"
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