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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31

Leak Found
BY HELENE MONBERG
UNITED Press staff COrresnOndeI

UNITED Press Stan Correspondent
Washington, May 81 - tUP A
senate post office subcommittee has
discovered the leak" in censored
civilian mail circulated by the office
of censorship to several government
agencies, 1t was revealed today.
The subcommittee began an in
vestigation of censorship following
publication by Columnist Drew
Pearson and Rep. John M. Coffee,
D., Wash, of excerpts from CORE
spondence between Miss Vivien
Kellems, Connecticut industrialist,
and Count Frederick Karl Won
Zedlitz, German steel trust repre-
sentative in Argentina.
Sen. James o. Eastland, D.. Miss,
told the United Press that the
committee knows where the leak is,
but it would be violating a conf
dence to reveal it."
81 expect some very interesting
developments when the committee
goes into action again." he added.
While Eastland declined to reveal
the agency responsible for the leak,
Censorship Director Byron Price
told the committee earlier that cop
les of all six of the Kellems letters
quoted by Pearson had been sent to
the State Department ond office OF
Strategic Services. In addition, cop
les of some also were sent to the
fHavaka,avsaA an noRa ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31
Reds Fight
Nuzi Thrust
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press stan Correspondent

tUulkeN EFEh6 BNaH GNSfNhEgAUtuti
Moscow, May 3l.-(UP)-The Ger
mans hurled massed tanks and In
fantry against the Red Army north
of Iasi today In an attempt to widen
their wedge In the Soviet line and
wipe out q possible springboard for
q Russian summer drive toward
Bucharest.
NaA forces drive an insignificant
wedge" into the Russian defenses
north OF the Romanian stronghold
OF Iasi yesterday at heavy cost the
Soviet high command reported IN
its midnight communique, but At
last reports the Red army was hold
ing Arm IN is new positions despite
continuing attacks.
Fifty enemy tanks were knocked
out and 80 planes shot down IN the
lirst day OF the German attack.
which broke q 4e-day luli IN large
fighting on the Romanlan front.
The Soviet 'communiqae reported
Germans had concentrated tanks IN
great numerical superiority" a.
last for an attempt 70 break Rus
alan resistance 1t zone blow"
Though the attack obviously fall
ed IN this purpose. the Germans
we're expected 70 continue their e..
forts % force q Soviet withdrawal
from positions curving some eishi
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31

Hershey, Pa. May 3i-lUPl-
Four Republican governors chal-
lenged the Roosevelt administration
today on such varied subjects as
foreign policy, farm program, west
ern water control and taxation.
They were speakers before the IL
nal session OF the seth annual goy-
errors conference which last night
heard Gov. John w. Bricker, OF
Ohio. q candidate for the Republic
can presidential nomination. ac-
clse the Roosevelt administration
OF q spend. waste. borrow and tax
policy which would wreck Amer
lean economy II continued In the
post war period"
Broker called for q balanced fed.
eral budget and reduced federal
taxee.
THE federal government should
balance its budget at the earliest
possible date ne said. THAT would
eve more Jobs than eli the made
work the government can possibly
Mar.
ARaorecysr. iaeTs u q vital need
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31
Ceaseless Raids Knock Out Nazis
Important Transportation Routes
BY PHILIP AULT

UNITED Press War correspondent
London, May 81. - (UP) = Allied
Air Forces blasting out a path Ter
invasion have cut or disrupted all
OF Germany's railways and principal
highways behind a 4OO-mile
stretch OF the Atlantic wall from the
Dutch Belgian border TO the Bay
of Biscay. the air ministry an"
nounced last night.
The Nazi-controlled Vichy radio
acknowledged communications had
become so dislocated that the Vichy
cabinet met yesterday afternoon
under chief Of government Pierre
Laval 10 consider urgent problems
Of transportation and food supplies
arising from the bombing OF French
towns"
German broadcasts reported that
railway flying squadrons had been
formed 10 do nothing except bomb"
repair work, but Madrid said the
destruction was outpacing the re-.
pairs. some lines have been out OF
service for as long rs q week ana
then were bombed again as soon rs
service was restored. Madrid.
An air ministry news service sum.
mary OF the $4,000 sortles flown IN
the last 10 days by the tactical air
forces under air chief Marshal Sir
TFnfford Lelgh-Mailory. invasion
air commander. disclosed that the
Allies have been hitting highways
as well rs railways, and animated
that waterways Win b ne8t on tne
list Of western front targets.
',6erious hoottIenecka have been
CCouflnued an Pare q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31
Yusos Bottle
Nozis FierceIY

London, May 81. CUP)-Marshal
Tito was reported throwing thou
sands of his Yugoslav troops against
strong German forces in Western
Bosnia today, fighting OF an at
tempt to break up concentrations OF
partisans waiting to join Russian
forces in an offensive against Hun
gary.
German Field Marshal Maxi
milan Won WEIGHS, Balkan COM
szandey IN chief, was directing his
forces against Yugoslav troops
guarding liberated territory, and
partisan headquarters said that all
attempts to break through had been
repulsed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-31
COP Heads Are Cautious
On FDR International Plea

=. Dewey of New York. the most
likely candidate at this time for the
Republican Presidential nomination,
told the governors conference Mon
day night:
I'VE must not again sit on the
side lines as mere observers the
American people are united IN their
determination 10 be completely coll
cerned about what concerns as,
and with positive determination "a
Join In preventing future wars"
Mr.. Roosevelt made his appeal for
non -paFtisanshlp 81 his news e0n-
ference yesterday at which he re-
Vealed that the Uniter States WA
presenting for discussion with dreal
Britain, the Soviet Union and Chlne
the first draft Of q concrete Amer
lean plan for an international or.
ganization.
He had been preceded By 9ecre.
tary OF state Cordeli Hull. who en-.
phasized the bipartisan nature q
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u. s. Altman Is
By Nazis
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
London, May 81 - (UPo = A
Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm
newspaper Dagens Nyheter, said to-
day that official German circles had
confirmed the mob lynching of an
American airman shot down in Gen.
trail Germany.
The dispatch also quoted Ger
man authorities, in the first official
comment on the reported shooting
of AZ British and Allied airmen at a
German prison camp as denying
that any airman was lynched after
once becoming officially prisoner
of the German government.
The dispatch said that an i'm
furiated crowd killed the one sur
viving crew member of an Amer
lean plane which crashed at an I'M
specified German village. 1t added
that official German circles claimed
the lynched American had been
aboard a plane which machine
gunned a crowd of church-goers,
killing several women, old men and
children.
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Get thls Fres lluIlelln.v Careers In
Business" summer Term 1uly SIN.
Pest yunisr College - csmmrF,s.
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Evening star., 1944-12-19
Injunction Is Denied
In Trust Fund Suit

Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue Of
District Court yesterday denied Mrs.
Ruth L. Buchanan, 1700 block OF
Massachusetts avenue NV, an in
junction through which she sought
to prevent her divorced husband,
John r. Buchanan, from receiving
income from trust fund pending
determination of suit through
which she claims about 100000.
Through the suit, filed in l942,
Mrs. Buchanan seeks to obtain q
judgment in District Court for the
sum, which she claims was awarded
her as alimony and maintenance for
herself and son, John r. Buchanan,
jr, by Virginia court. Justice
ODonoghue denied the injunction,
pending trial on the claim for the
money in District Court
Mrs. Buchanan Is seeking to pre-
vent the National Savings & Trust
Co. from paying Mr.. Buchanan his
share of income from a trust fund
set up. by his father, the late Brig
Gen. James A. Buchanan. The trust
company is trustee of the fund, 1t
was stated by Walter M. Bastian,
attorney for the company.
The trust fund amounts to some
So, ,750,0 and Mr.. Buchanan's share
is one-third OF the income from 1t,
1t was said. Mr.. Buchanan was
awarded divorce in Nevada in 1881.
Sometime afterwards Mrs Buchan-
an obtained a judgment for the
maintenance and alimony in Vir-
ginia court. Mr.. Buchanan now lives
in Florida, it was said.
The son, in whose behalf Mrs.
Buchanan says she also brought the
suit, is now an ensign in the Navy
Air Corps.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
LSU Student Kissing Case
To Have Hearing Today
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La, Dec. 10
The case of Gloria Jeanne Heller,
coed champion of campus kissing
whose dismissal from Louisiana
State University brought threats OF
a student strike, comes up today for
an official hearing.
University President w. B. Hatch
er, who asked for Miss Heller's res
ignation last week, and student
leaders agreed to meet this after
noon and study student demands for
the reinstatement of the comely, 18-
year-old daughter of a Havana
(Cuba hotel manager.
Mr.. Hatcher requested Miss He'll
er's resignation after she wrote and
distributed a leaflet in which uni
versity officials said she advocated
"promiscuous kissing" and free
love-" The author said she intended
only to show that university Off
cials over-emphasized sex"
Evening star., 1944-12-19
President Of 6. j.
Breaks Ground for
4OO-Bed HOSPITAL

The Very Rev. Lawrence c. Cor
man, S. j., president of Georgetown
University, yesterday broke ground
for the universitys new 400-bed
hospital at 5000 Reservoir road NV,
which is expected to be completed
a year from now.
DR.. German said the ceremony
initiated 1.-The erection of an up-to-
date hospital complete in all its
details which we hope will be a great
benefit both for the sick of Wash
ington and for the training of the
doctors and nurses in our schools"
Expresses Appreciation.
He expressed appreciation to
President Roosevelt. Gen. Philip H.
Fleming, Federal Works administra-
tor; Baird Snyder, assistant admin
istrator of FWA; Henry Sullivan,
FWA regional director, and to Com
missioner w. E. Reynolds Of Public
Buildings, for making available the
Lanham Act funds which largely
finance the project.
DR.. German said the plans for
the building, after long and extern
sive revision, now are in pretty
good shape" through the efforts of
the doctors. sisters and nurses OF
the university.
The site is bounded on one side
by the university medical school
and on the other by Georgetown
Vista tion Convent.
Will Cost S2,420,000.
DR.. German was assisted in the
ground breaking by the Rev. David
V. McCauley, S. j., dean of the
medical school. The ceremony was
attended by groups Of cadet nurses
from the collegiate nursing school,
Sisters of st. Francis, who conduct
the hospital now at Thirty fifth and
N streets; faculty members and
medical students under the Army
Specialized Training Program and
Navy Via training courses at the
university.
Representing the Government
were Mr.. Snyder, Mr.. Sullivan and
Commissioner Reynolds.
The cost of the hospital will be
approximately $2.420,000. Its 400
beds will be available to patients
without regard to color or religion.
John McShain, Inc, is general con-
tractor for the building.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Green and Murray
Clash Over Methods
For Unity Of Labor
By the Associated Press,

CIO President Philip Murray and
AFL President William Green
clashed today over the type of unity
their big labor groups could support
in war or in peace.
Both organizations in their recent
conventions flirted with the subject
of labor unity, and Mr. Murray re-
opened 1t last night with letter to
Mr.. Green urging a meeting to work
out broad program of action.
Mr.. Murray's plan definitely
omitted the possibility Of merger
the point on which Mr.. Green and
AFL Convention delegates felt
strongest. The AFL wants the CIO
and John L. Lewis United Mine
Workers to come back to the Fed
Grafton, from which they departed
seven years ago.
1T is too late in the day merely to
talk of labor unity" Mr.. Murray
said in his letter 1T is no longer q
question Of the prodigal son return
ing to the fold, nor of the disgraced
daughter being sent forth into the
winter SHOWS"
Murray Leaves on Vacation.
The alacrity with which Mr..
Murray's offer, which he termed
the same sort of phony functional
unity which the CIO has often
prated about in the past evoked
no comment from Mr. Murray as he
left on a vacation.
Mr.. Murray had taken the precau-
ton, however, to send copies of his
letter to Mr.. Green to every preSi-
dent of AFL. international unions
and to every AFL State and council
head throughout the Nation. ~
This was in keeping with his con-
vention action, when he hurdled the
AFL leadership, which he described
As frustrated and corroded," with
direct appeal to the rank and file
Of the AFL and the Mine Workers
to join with the CIO in its program
Mr.. Green's group, on the other
hand, adopted resolutions authoriz-
ing its idling committees on peace
negotiations with the CIO and Mr.
Lewis to resume discussions, when
ever that seemed feasible.
Letter Called Refusal.
Mr.. Green said he interpreted Mr..
Murray's letter as fiat refusal on
the part OF the CIO to accept the
American Federation of Labors ap-
peals for resumption of conferences
seeking a united labor movement in
America"
THE only way to achieve unity is
to unite organically," the AFL leader
said. This Is labor's greatest need
now and in the postwar period, yet
Mr.. Murray turns a deaf ear toward
it."
Mr.. Green expressed regret that
Mr.. Murray and his CIO associates
do not yet realize the dangers that
face labor and are content with
shadow boxing and pretense"
The unalterable fact remains that
two national labor organizations
cannot co-exist in America without
serious injury to the workers and
the cause of progress" he declared.
There Is room for only one united
labor movement in our country. The
inevitable shock of postwar economic
readjustment will make this clear"
Evening star., 1944-12-19
1914 Crop Production
Near 1912 Peak, Says
Agricultural Report
BY the Associated Press.

Ds the ASSoclaIeC fTeSS.
Crop production in the United
States in 1914, in spite of severe
difficulties, about equals the all-time
record set in 1912. the Agriculture
Department said yesterday in It's
annual summary.
The aggregate production Of all
crops, now estimated at about 124
per cent of the 1923-32 or predrought
average, was per cent above 1943
production and II per cent above
production in any season prior to
1912.
All previous records Of corn and
wheat production were shattered
this year.
Although the corn crop was l per
cent below the November l forecast
production as now estimated-3,228,-
36l 900 bushels-is about $1,000 900
bushels above the previous record of
1912.
This years corn crop for all pur-
poses-grain, silage, forage, hogging,
etc.-is 6 per cent above the large
l943 crop and So per cent larger
than the 10-year average of l933-42
Wheat production, at LOTS, SAT 900
bushels, Is 10000 900 bushels larger
than the previous record set in 1915.
Wheat farmers responded to re-
.moval of acreage, restrictions and
the urge for increased production
by growing the largest acreage of
all wheat since 1888
The large production of all crops
resulted from harvesting near-rec-
ord yields frprn near-record aver
age-With yields per acre averaging
higher than in any year except 1912.
In most OF the country, growing
conditions were much less favorable
than in 1912 and there were fewer
skilled men on the farms, the report
stated.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Yu|e Message Of Soldier
Finds Both Parents Dead
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. Dec. ia
telegram from 1t. Franklin Hitch
cock, serving overseas in italy, was
delivered to his home here Sunday
night to wish his parents merry
Christmas.
But no one signed for the tele-
gram.
Police. who investigated after
neighbors reported groceries had
been left on the doorstep since Sat-
'urday, found Frank Hitchcock, 50,
dead In an upstairs bedroom, the
victim OF q heart attack. His wife,
Irene. was found dead in the kitchen
where the gas jet was on. Rags
were stuffed under the door.
Police believed she took her own
life after finding her husband dead.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Were Stomach Ulcer Pains
kapoIeon's Waterloo?

The great Napoleon who conquered ma
Itions was himself a victim of after eating
ipains Those. who are distressed with
lpainS, heartburn, burning sensation, bloat
land other conditions caused BY excess
Iscid should try Udga. Get a @5c box of
lUdga Tablets from your druggist. First
Idose must convince or return box to us
land get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Fingerprints Studied
In Hunt for Slayer
OF Marine Wife
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANSDOWNE, Pa, Dec. ia
hammer, razor blade and q set of
bloody f1ngerprints were under
police scrutiny today. the only con-
crete clues in the brutal Staying of
Mrs. Loretta Bayers Cleveland, 80,
attractive red-haired wife Of q
Marine Corps sergeant.
Mrs. Cleveland was found in the
gas-filled kitchen Of her apartment
yesterday, her head crushed, her
jugular vein cut and her body par
TALLY stuffed in the stove oven.
Her 2-year-old daughter, Elba, was
in her crib in another room, semi
conscious from the gas. -
The slain woman's husband. Staff
Sergt. Oren E. Cleveland, 38, who
had been visiting his mother in
Lebanon, Tenn, was informed sof
the tragedy last night by Delaware
County District Attorney c.. w.
Craft and was expected here today.
The couple moved here from
Arlington, Va, in September.
Chief of Police Pierce L. Richards
said that either the skull crushing
blow. the razor slash or the gas
would have caused death. There
was no evidence of forced entry to
the apartment, he said, and police
believe that the slayer was known
to Mrs. Cleveland.
The body was dicovered by Mrs.
c. E. Parker, %, a neighbor. and
A. C. Smith, superintendent of the
apartment building, after the baby's
crying and failure of Mrs. Cleve-
land to answer the ringing of boy
with telegram from her husband
aroused their concern.
Mr. Craft said that Mrs. Cleveland
evidently was killed sometime Sum
day.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Danger Believed Past
For Quantico Baby

The 23-day-old son of a marine
sergeant at Quantico, suffering from
an unusual type of anemia, was
thought to be out of danger today
following TRANSMISSION Saturday Of
a rare type B blood with an r. H.
negative factor, according to off,
cials at the Quantico Naval Hospital.
Hospital officials said the child,
the son of Tech. Sergt. and Mrs.
Eben A. Burrows, was back to his
birth weight of. 8 pounds, ounces,
and was eating we'll They said the
child showed no adverse reactions
from the TRANSMISSION.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Munitions Minister
Resigns in Jopun
2v the ASsoriatad praes

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. ia Tokyo
broadcast today said Ginjiro Fuji-
wara, munitions minister, had re-
signed for health reasons" and had
been succeeded by Shigeru Yoshida,
former welfare minister.
An Admiral Kowayshi, otherwise
unidentified, was named minister
without portfolio.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Party for Putients

Patients at Freedmen's Hospital
Annex were to be guests of the hos
pital staff at a Christmas party to-
day. Visitors at the hospital in the
past few weeks have made contribu-
tions which will provide a gift for
each patient. Miss Ruth Adams of
the District tuberculosis Associa-
ton, doing medical and social work
at Freedmen's, has been in charge
OF arrangements for the party.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Death Sentence Decreed
For French Novelist

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 19.-Paul Chack, g.
year-old former officer in the French
Navy and the author of Is romantic
novels, was condemned to death yes
terday for collaborating with the
enemy.
Chack admitted he had headed
anti-Russian and anti-Jewish or
ganizations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-27

Union men, no more than inde- pendent voters, can be fooled by these self-appolnted dietatorS,
 I know Joe Talbot, and 1t has been with pride thNt I have fol- lowed his career, He is the son of Qod-feNring parents, educated the hard way, actually having to earn it, not having it forced on hlm.-honoSt, capable, and sincere The type of man who realizes he has Q job to do for hts constituents, not for certain cllques, or indivi- dualS, He Is not Q rubber stamp; ho cannot Do bought or pulled, A man deserving the vote of every vot- CT in our district, because he is Q public servant who has proven he Is true blue,
 Every voter in tho sth District who knows Joe Talbot owes 1t to himself and to his nelghbor who has not been fortunate enough to know him, to aeQuNint them with Joe T0lhot's value to this district,
 Preach Joe TNlhot--praise him tell eveFyone-it most certainly x nothing to be ashamed ot-and vote for him, us in the next two years we need him moro than ever, Re. gardlesS of who is president, We want Q man that Is experienced and qualified to see that our rights are respected"
 JOHN McHuoH,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-27

Francis Xavier church at Q. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Satur. day and Sunday from S to 10 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-27
FUNERALS -:-

mo fnnetal ok Aeautene oaslAr man, ae Rnae street. WIS held from tha Nulville funeral home, today at e:lR a. ln. to the church ok the eaefed Heart at Q for . so'amn hleh NAas. Rev. Franklin Corflgen WIS celOhrant, Rev. John Dial, deacon and Rev. Henry Quinn. subedeacoil, The musical program was under the direction of Edward Wolfe with Mrs. Mildred Roach I,exotte oe eololst,
 Burial was in Calvary cemetery with Father Corrigan conducting tho colnnittal services, Bearers were James Horrlean, David Kelly, Den. his Mc0rath, Joseph Rafferty, Wil- liam Noonan and Emmett Carroll.
 The funeral of John R wood, former Waterbury resident who died at his home in Bridgeport Tuesday, was held ct 2 p. m, today at the Newfaeld Methodist church, Bridgeport, Burial yes In that city.
 Funeral services for Mrs. sarah (Katamanl MeyOrs, 90 WyInaa street, active member of numerous Jewish organizations in the city, were held yesterday afternoon from tho Alderson funeral home, 70 Ceta- tral avenue, Rabbi William P, Greenfield of the 1eth.El sYnas gogue, ofnciatings. Burial was in the Star Benevolent Association cemetery.
 Mrs, Meyers, wife of Frank Mey-