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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Jops Quit Nissan Isle

With Allied Occupation Forces, Green Island, Feb. 15.-(UP)- Spearheaded by several thousand crack New Zealand assault troops, Allied forces swarmed ashore the tiny but strategic Miss na(Green Islands today, firing only two shots pistol signals-that the landing was unopposed.
 The signals were for warships, which stood at alert off shore, ready to shell the island if the Japanese attempted to resist the landings on two sides of the horseshoe shaped atoll.
 Our forces, by-passing northern Bougainville and Buka Islands, passed through the entrance of the narrow lagoon in the grey light of early morning. Then, with clock like precision, they completed the initial landings within five minutes of the schedule plotted by Rear Adm. T. S. Wilkinson, commander of the amphibious operation, and Mai. Gen. H. R. Barrowclough, com- manding New Zealand and other ground troops.
 There were no Japanese on the teach when we landed, and the commander, New Zealand Maj. B. H. t..nEAn. Aucklnad, fired at colored Npcket to signal lack of opposition.
 The landings were made without a single casualty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Carolines Are Dominated
 Bv Land-Based Liberat0rs

Pearl Harbor, Feb. 17.-(UP)-A thrust by land-based Army Libera- tors at the Caroline Island base of Ponape served notice on Japan to- day that American forces in the central Pacific have extended their their striking range 5000 miles west of Pearl Harbor-nearly two-th1rds of the way from the United States to China.
 With the Marshall and Gilbert Island groups dominated by Army and Navy forces under Adm. Ches- ter Nimitz, the Japanese-mandated Caronnes-lying almost in direct line westward to the Philippines and the China coast-have been laid open for direct attacks. -'
 Four -engined bombers of Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force made the deepest penetration Of the war into Japan's mandated enl- pire Monday to drop 55 tons of high explosives on shore installations at Ponape, $50 land miles southwest of newly y-conquered Kwajalein in the Marshalls and only 4S7 miles from the great Japanese Caroline base of Truk.
 The strong Liberator formations sank small cargo ship in the har- bor of Ponape, one of the most im- portant enemy naval and air strong holds in the sprawling Carolines, and blasted shore installations with out meeting fighter opposition. The blow was struck at noon Monday.
 Active Protection
 With the U. s. fleet probably still actively protecting the United States newly won positions in the Marshalls and American airpower reaching a peak of effectiveness, the Liberator attack on Ponape served a final notice on the Japanese that Nimitz' forces inexorably and not oversloW- ly are neutra1izing enemy bases to the west.
 Pacific fleet headquarters also arl- nounced that in other Monday raids, LiberatorS, Mitchells, dauntless dive bombers and Warhawk fighters of the Seventh Air Force and search Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Argentina Still QuibbIes

BuenoS Aires, Feb. 17-UP)- President Pedro Ramirez was report ed today to have scheduled a con- ference with Gen. Arturo Rawson, his co-1eader in last June's revolu- tion. and informed sources said they might reshuffle the entire cabinet, call elections and return Argentina to constitutional government.
 Ramirez staved off a cabinet crisis temporarily yesterday by accepting the resignations of four leaders of his revolutionary regime.
 Two of them-Gen. Alberto Gill bert, foreign minister, and Col. En- rigue P. Gonzalez, secretary to the presidency-were forced out at the insistence of a group of younger of- ficers of the army because they had attempted to force declaration of war against the Axis.
 RawSon served as president for three days following the revolution of last June in which the so-called "Colonel's group" of the army over threw the government of President Ramon Castillo. Ramirez took Law sons place when the latter was un- able to form a government.
 Although he has held himself in the background in the present crisis Rawson is powerful national lead- CT and is expected to be prominent in reorganization of the government.
 Named Ambassador to Brazil after he resigned as president, Rawson quit that post last month because of rebuke from Ramirez after Ar- gentina broke diplomatic relations with the Axis. The Ambassador, congratulating the president on the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Censorship
 Rifles British

London, Feb. IT - (U.P0 = Con- servative Beverly Baxter told War Minister Sir James Grigg in Con- mons today that the house and the nation would not tolerate military censorship of war correspondents dispatches beyond the bounds of security.
 Baxter made the assertion during debate on the censorship situation in the Mediterranean. Grigg said he was investigating 1t.
 Four newspapers protested vigor- ously against the withdrawal of radio U ansmlssion facilities from war correspondents on the Anzio beachhead and new censorship reg ulations for policy" as well as mil- itary security.
 For what reason art. our news paper correspondents dispatches in Italy to be held up by sending them to Naples for censorship" Baxter asked Grigg, adding 6 request that he expalin what is meant by cen sorship for policy"
 Gr1gg repueQ that ne nau uo further information but was mak- ing quiries. Baxter then asked whe- ther Grigg, "in sending these in- quiries to military authorities would express to them the very strong feeling of this house (here he was interrupted by cries of mo, no') that for military authorities to go beyond security and dictate to cor respondents their interpretation of events is something which neither this house nor the nation will tol- crate"
 T do not think military com- manders on the spot are unaware of the modern form of the old tag 'Ruat Coelum Fiat Publicas' (When the Heavens Fall, it Makes 8
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Pope Protests Bombing

London, Feb. 17.-CUP)-The Ger man TranSocean News Agency today broadcast a report from Rome al- leging that Pope Plus XII had con- demned the American destruction of the Monte Casino monastery.
 Transocean said the Pope, when informed that American planes and artillery had destroyed the ancient Benedictine monastery, told his pri- vate secretary:
 Monte CaSsino would have been saved if they wanted to. Only kind intention was required and respect, not toward my person, but toward the Catholic world".
 The NaI agency said the United States has offered to make a finan- cial contribution toward rebuilding the monastery. Harold H. Tittman, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, made the offer to Luigi Cardinal Maglione, papal sec- retary of state, Transocean said.
 The German DNB News Agency today broadcast 8 lengthy propa- ganda statement by Field Marshal Albert von Kesselring, NaI com- mander in central Italy, condemn
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Allied Planes Hit Kovieng, New IreIond

Allied HeaQQuarUerS, SouInWeSC Pacific, Feb. 17-(UP) - Allied planes, braving intense anti-aircraft fire, smashed the big Japanese base at Kavieng, New Ireland, Tuesday, it was announced today, in the fo- cal attack of widespread aerial as- saults that caused heavy damage to enemy installations and equipment throughout the Southwest Pacific.
 The Allied raiders, flying bomb CTS and attactk planes, during the day shot down or destroyed 20 en- emy planes; destroyed or severely damaged 30 others; sank seven en- emy ships and several small Craft and damaged submarine chaser.
 The Kavieng attack, aimed at crippling the enemy's Bismarck bases, was carried out in force at comparatively low level and left the town a mass of flames and smoke The Kavieng airdrome was damaged heavily, and the Allied fliers sank a 3,000-ton cargo ship, three coastal vessels and several smaller craft in the harbor. Two float-planes were destroyed and three others dam aged.
 Eight Allied planes were shot down by intense anti-aircraft fire, although there was no air intercep- ton over the target area. Daring pilots of U. s. flying boats, however, brayed heavy fire from shore guns and rescued 8 number of the fliers. Other bomber forces continued their attacks throughout New Brit ain, while ground troops cleared the Borgen Bay and Cape Mensing area of enemy soldiers and continued their advance. which has carried them some 21 miles up the coast.
 Twenty-three tons of bombs were dropped on supply areas and build- ings at Wunung plantation on Jac- quinot Bay, causing large explosions and fires visible for 30 miles. Am munition dumps were destroyed at Rano plantation, in the same area, and also at Cape Hoskins, on Will aumez Peninsula. One enemy fight CT was shot down at Talasea.
 The communique only briefly mentioned activity at the newly cap- tr1red Green Islands, in the north ern SolomonS, noting that American (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Helsinki Bombed
 In Peace Threat
(coast Guard Photo from NEA Telephotol

Stockholm, Feb. 17-(UP)-Four hundred Red air force bomberS raided Helsinski during the night in what may have been an attempt to hasten Finland's decision to get out of the the war, and the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen indicated that former Finnish Premier Juho K. PaasilSiyi may have begun peace dis cussfufiS with the Soviet envoy to Sweden, Mime. Alexander Kollontay.
 The newspapers said that many signs pointed in the direction" of more tangible contacts between the Films and the Russians here "and that the first real peace talks oc cured between Mime. Killontay and PaaSikivi'. Tidningen said it also was rumored that Passikivi had met M. Semjonov, chancellor of the Rus sian legation.
 (The London Daily Mail quoted vichy broadcast as saying that Paasikivi had left for Moscow. CBS heard radio Berlin broadcasting that Helsinki had confirmed Paasikivi's departure and also had announced "an official exchange of notes {. between Finland and Germany.~
 Mime. Kollontay arrived in Stock holm yesterday from Saltsjoebaden, where she had been recovering from slight illness. Paasikivi could not be reached at his hotel during most of yesterday.
 
 First reports indicated last nights two raids by forces totaling 400 planes were the heaviest ever made on Helsinki. The first attack be- gan at 8 p. m. and lasted little more than an hour, but later waves pounded the capital from 2:30 a. m. until 8:3O a. m., 8 United Press dis patch from Helsinki said.
 Finnish censorship clamped down on details of damage, but the Stock holm Svenska Dagbladet's core spondent reported that more fires were set than in the two Russian raids the night of Feb. 6.
 The Finnish legation in Stockholm said that Helsinki's defenses shot down "some" of the raiders. Other Finnish sources said Russian planes also had raided ABbo (Turku), 95 miles west of Helsinki, thrice dur ing the night.
 Swedish observers discounted sug- geStionS that renewal of Russian air fNAV1ffvNIInj nPN Do0a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
1t Seems Thot
 Berlin Had Roid

Stockholm, Feb. 17.-(UP)-Ber- liners, many still dazed" from the impact of Tuesdays heaviest air raid in history, were reported dig ging in the ruins of hundreds of buildings today for the dead and trapped. Thousands were reported killed.
 Fires continued to burn in the center of the city and it's outskirts. though they gradually were being controlled.
 The Stockholm Morgontidningen reported from Bern that so many persons were killed in the RATS g. 8OO-ton attack that mass emergency graves" were prepared for some of the victims.
 A Stockholm resident who was in Berlin during the raid told the Swedish Telegraph Agency that damage couldn't have been great er."
 The traveller said the widely known hotel Bristol on the Unter Den Linden, previously hit but re- paired and reopened, was struck by a land mine. One report, he said, was that 200 persons were buried in the debris, but this was not con- firmed.
 The Henkel Chemical factory ale so was understood to have been damaged. s
 German censorship appeared much more rigid than after previous raids on the capital and the full story of destruction still remained to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Shaw Will
 Arouses Irish

London, Feb. 16-(UP)-The late Mrs. George Bernard Shaw, wife of the Irish playwright, left the bulk of her fortune to alleviate the "vul- garity" and improve the manners of the Irish, her will filed for probate revealed today.
 Mrs. Shaw left the bulk of her $600,000 estate to Irish educational institutions to teach the people of Ireland self control, department, elocution and fine arts.
 She died last Sept. F, leaving in- structions that her ashes were to be taken to Ireland, and no black clothing was to be worn at her funeral.
 Tn the course of a long life," she said in her will, q have had many opportunities for observing the ex- tent to which most highly instructed and capable persons have their effl- ciency defeated and their influence limited for want of any organized instruction and training for per- sonal contacts, whether with indi- vidualS or popular audiences '. and how the authority which their abilities should give them is made deriSory by their awkward manners and how their employment in posi- tions for which they have valuable qualifications is made socially im- possible by vulgarities of speech and other defects"
 She added that observation con- vinced her that the lack of such training creates grave pathological
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
War Dodgers Go All Out

Shoreacres, B. C., February IT. - (UP) The Sons of Freedom, !" and some daughters, tool who have kept this district in an uproar with mass meetings and disrobing cere- monies in protest against Selective Service for conscientious objectors, left Shoreacres for Glade, a mile and half away.
 They were fully clothed when they made the trip across the Kootenay River to Glade, where they planned to continue the undist ceremonies enacted yesterday at small con- munity hall where some 1000 of them were meeting.
 While speakers exhorted the crowd inside the building, members would come bounding out, sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs or little broups. and would strip naked, unmindful of police or curious spectators. Both sexes stripped in matter of sec- onds, and the below-freezng tenn perature did not seem to bother them.
 The men usually removed their coats first. then shirts. Next they unbottoned their underwear and trousers and let them fall to the round. The women removed every
 hing except their shoes and stock ngs. Few of the younger girls dis robed. but the older ones stripped without embarrassment,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
WING CHARGES , EMPLOYERS
 W|THEvAS|ON

Intensive investigation of reported noncompliance to the 48-hour work week schedule has been started in the Waterbury area by the War Manpower Commission, as state authorities continue efforts to find means for ale viating the manpower short age in critical war industries in the central area of the state, it was learned today.
 Area WING Director Mary M. Dewey stated that five employers in locally needed" establishments have been notified to appear before the WING and answer charges of violat- ing their compliance statements, and that the study has been extended into establishments in the "esser- tial" category.
 Meanwhile reports are circulating on possible adoption by the State WING office of voluntary system of obtaining workers from essential plants and sending them to the ball-bearing industry which is in critical need of additional workers. Sanction of such action would prob ably have to come from unions, which are worried about the senior ity status of employees who might consent to voluntary shifting.
 It Is believed no such plan to shift volunteers from one concern to aI- other will be adopted unless the War Labor Board should consent to payment of 8 bonus to the employees who take such new employment. The matter is expected to be one of those discussed by WING officials, labor representatives and industrial officials at meeting with Governor Raymond E. Baldwin in Hartford to- day.
 Discovery of the violations on the work-week schedule here were made in preliminary investigation by the local WING staff which is now pre- pairing to extend its investigations to cover the whole area. The viola tionS have been uncovered in dry cleaning establishments, laundries, and food distribution businesses, all in the "locally-needed" classified ton, and noncompliance also has been found in several meat indus tries, all essential, it was re- ported.
 Mrs. Dewey stated violators may be penalized through cancellation o1 the privileges that have been ex- (Continued on Page N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Stimson Soys Keep Shirton In ltuIy War

Washington, Feb. 17-(UP)-Re- ports from the AnIo beachhead in Italy in recent days have been overly pessimistic, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today.
 'rThe situation in Italy is now an illustration to point up the old say ing keep your shirt on'," Stimson said at news conference.
 He said, however, that in the midst of battle there is always danger. Heavy attacks from the enemy must be met.
 "The enemy tried hard to cut up our beachhead forces during the past week but was unable to do SC" he added.
 The enemy has sent heavy rein- forcements into southern Italy and reports indicate that IT German divisions are now gathered there.
 On the main line in southern Italy the Allies hold the initiative and are slowly fighting ahead in the Casino area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17

Putting an end to the three-day Hull that followed the collapse of their first counter-offenSive last week. the Germans hurled their full striking force against 2 narrow sector on the north ern flank of the beachhead yesterday morning.
 Under cover of a terrific rolling barrage laid down by their massed artillery and fighter-bombers, waves of Nazi troops charged against the British positions astride the Aprilia-Anzio highway. Big German tanks lunged in behind the infantry, prob ing for a weak spot in the Allied lines, and came to grips with American and British armored forces.
 Hundreds of Allied fighters and fighter -bombers streamed into th@ battle, tangling with the low-flyr ing enemy planes and ripping up the charging German troops Witn bombs and gunfre.
 Front reports said the enemy o1e fensive was met everywhere by de- termined resistance and it was ixl> dicated that the British lines vera holding fast.
 The German attacks continued throughout the day and all last night, however, an dat daybreak this morning they were increasing in fury as the Germans fought fa- natically to achieve break-throz1ga1
 CThe German high command tac- idly acknowledged that its offensive had not yet succeeded in bre4ks ing the Allied lines. The Maxi cuE1- muniue this morning reported that British troops and tanks coumter- attacked in the Aprilia sector, and made no reference to German gains).
 GA British radio broadcast heard by NEG in New York said the Ger- man attack was preceded by Q 24s hour artillery barrage. and radio Rome said that never before ln Italy has there been such Q power- full deployment Of artillery as in tl1a beachhead.O
 The full fury of the German as- sault again centered on 8 narrow sector of the beachhead in the Aprilia area, where the Nazis open ed their first 1arge-Scale offensive last week in an effort to break out their armored forces onto the main highway leading to Anzio and the sea.
 The first enemy offensive col- lapsed Saturday after i've days Ok furious fighting, and General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander declared confidently that the beachhead would be held.
 In the intervening three days, however. the Germans were be- neved to have reinforced their wearied divisions and 1t appeared l that the new offensive was on an even greater scale than their flrst drive.
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 Clear weather this time favored the Allies, however, and reports from the battle area said hundreds of American and British planes were raking the charging Nad cci- umns with gunt1re and ripping up their supporting lines of colmmuni- l (Continued on PaGe A1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
Lite Men Retreat

Boston, Feb. 17-(UP)-Maj. Gen. Albert w. Waldron, former division artillery officer in the southwest Pacific, predicted today that heavy artillery would blast the Japanese from their strongly fortified posi- tions in the Pacific
 we are hitting the Japs with artillery and field pieces and find that when the heavyweight roar into action the little men retreat if they car," Gen. Waldron said in statement released by the Bos- ton ordnance district
 "The enemy has prepared long and thoroughly for jungle warfare, , he said. Their weapons are light and especially adapted to jungle fighting, but they are no match for a heavy artillery unit"
 Gen. Waldron, recently returned to the United States for hospital treatment, praised hte new equip- ment such as carbines, landing barges and special artillery for air transport. The Garand rifle is a special favorite with the soldiers. he said.