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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
rut Valley,
Blast Iasi Rail Junction
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

BY HARRISON SALISBURY
UNITED Press staff Correspondent
Moscow, March 2S.-(UPO
- Russian mobile forces
famed southwark through
BeSsarabia today seizing the
Prut River crossing before
Iasi, German defense bastiOm
of northeast Rumania and
former headquarters of Mar
shall Fritz Won Mannstein. u
Marshal lyon s. Konev'S
drive down the Prut valley
brought the rail junction Of
Iasi under artillery fire and
cut one of the few remain.
ing roundabout rail lines OF
retreat for 100000 Germans
in the 2OO.miIe long enemy
salient along the Black Sea-
Storming in against the
Prut crossing six miles east
OF Iasi, the Soviet vanguard
of tanks, mobile artillery and
infantry slaughtered thou-
sands Of German troops aSl
they scrambled In pants forl
the Rumanian band Of the
river.
"a Turkish broadcast quote
ed by the British radio said
Rumania had "taken meas~
ures for the immediate evacual
alton Of Bucharest" ACCORDED
ing to CBS.)
To the northwest, other Red army
units massed along the upper Prut
across from Cernauti, biggest city Oh
Bucovina Province, after Spectactis |
lar advance Of "a miles at speed !
OF one mile an hour.
Pounding forward In concert 70
clean up the entire bank Of the ups :
per Prut and clear the way for q
grand scale surge into Rumania, the
first and second armies OF the Tx
raine drove spearheads within ~
miles Of junction which would
close the neck Of German Salient
looping northeastward from captlir.
ed Kamenets Podolsk, trapping
thousands OF enemy troops.
There was no word here to indiS
cate that the Russians had crossed
the Prut. But front dispatches de-
scrIbing extreme German demoraliz~
alton and the probable Sc"iet com.
mand OF river crossings suggested
that they could ford the river 40
Will.
All signs indicated that the RUS
SLAMS had paused deliberately ct the
Prut to Straighten their Saw-tooth
lines through the Ukraine and old
Poland and perhaps TO deal with,
the menaced German salient alonaI
lHaV,tlouod an pa0A A.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
DECISION ON
KAT CASE HELD
UP BY JUDGE

After listening to state
ments by States Attorney
William B. Fitzgerald and
Public Defender Edward T.
Carmody, Superior Court
Judge Frank P. McEvoy to-
day reserved decision on dis
position of bigamy charges
brought against Herman
Katz, 80, of Prospect street,
a disbarred New York lawyer.
KATE pleaded guilty to the charge
Jan. II and sentence was deferred
at that time until March 81. A fur
Their extension until today was later
given when the accused indicated
through the public defender that he
wanted more time TO secure infor-
baton which would be pertinent to
disposition Of the case.
The prosecutor said that KATE was
married in 1884 to Sadie Weisberg
and lived with her in Kingston, N.
Y, until a short time after he was
disbarred In 1910 from practiclng
law. 1t was revealed the former
lawyer made illegal use Of sum Of
money left in trust by client and
was disbarred by the New York SUI
preme court as consequence,
It was related that a short time
after he was indicted into the Army
in November, 1912, he married Ber-
tina Wright, whom he met while
working In Rhode Island. After he
obtained an honorable discharge
from the service the couple came to
Waterbury to work In a defense inS
dustry, and last Nov. 8 Katz was
arrested on q fugitive warrant
charging abandonment Of his wife
and two children, 1t vas disclosed
The accused, who was In jail for
three and a half months before he
raised $1,000 bail, sent $500 to his
legal wife In January, and has made
provision for payment of SIS weekly
for support, the states attorney
stated. He revealed that q bond
has been furnished to insure the
payment and 1t involves execution
Of mortgage on property owned
In Rhode Island by the Wright
woman.
Attorney Carmody, who represents
KatZ, said both the legal wife and
the Wright woman have filed d.
vorce actions against KATE He said
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New Man Po1uer Pool Seer,
As Answer To Shortage

ing while others go to war.
Chairman John M. Costello, D.,
CAL, said the plan to induct 4-F's,
armed forces MISUNDERSTANDING
as 1-C-or men over the present
top draft age of 38 would be prefer
able to any new manpower legis-
lation because passing a new bill
would require a couple of months
and we want to solve this problem
within another month"
He said another plan would be to
bring all draft deferments within
the purview of the government in
teragency committee now studying
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New Dealers Blamed
For AirIines Decline

Worcester, Mass, March 28-(UP)
Vice President Ralph Damon OF
the American Airlines, Inc, charges
that the transportation industry has
become the whipping boy OF the
administration and that aviation
has been receiving more than its
share of "kicking around.
In an address before the Worces-
ter Traffic Associat i here last
night, Damon called on President
Roosevelt for a program to keep
rapid transportation alive during
the war;" Airlines have been forced
to refuse even priority passengers
because of inadequate facilities, ne
said.
The present crisis In air transpor-
tation has resulted. according to
Damon, from sloppy administration
policies during the 10 years prior
to Pearl Harbor."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Aiken Wants
RFC Audited
BY JOHN L. CUTTER

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, March 20 - (UPo-
Senator George D. Aiken, R., VT,
charged today that the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, was using
Army, Navy and Maritime Commits
sion funds to bail Its subsidiaries
out OF financial losses.
Aiken said he would sponsor leg
islation to force an audit Of RFC
and its subsidiaries by Comptroller
General Lindsay S. Warren.
I'VE already have testimony that
one RFC subsidiary, the Rubber Re-
serve Corporation, takes q II 1-2
cents a pound markup on rubber 1t
sells to government agencies" Aiken
said. '"This came out in the Agricul-
tural subcommittee hearings on the
synthetic rubber program.
There Is every reason to believe
that the same is true of other sub
salaries, such as Metals Reserves
Company, and the Defense Plant
Evaporation. I believe that RIG
.SaOuld be audited by the general
wScCASnting Office and true picture
e tks affairs reported to congress.
He said that Under Secretary OF
War Robert P. Patterson told the
senate committee on expenditures
in executive departments that the
War Department had arrange
ments with defense plants to bail
them out and take over their prop
erty."
Aiken recalled the RFC asked
congress last November to increase
It's borrowing authorizations by S.
OOO,O0O,O00 with representations
that RF'C would fold up unless 1t
was forthcoming.
Congress never gave such an au-
thorization but RFC still is in bus
iness," Aiken said. Il believe 1t is
being bailed out by juggling OF
funds and think the truth should
be brought out"
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German Grab
OF Finland
Believed Near
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

(UnIteu KTeSS StuH correspondent
London, March % (U.P) -
Stockholm dispatches said today
that German reinforcements have
arrived at Turku (Abo) and Hango
In southwestern Finland and Swed-
ish quarters feared Germany may
be contemplating occupation OF he's
northern partner.
Supporting the belief that n new
crisis was brewing In Finland, the
Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dag
bladet carried q heavily censored
dispatch from Helsinki predicting
that events which will interest thu
whole world" were likely shortly,
causing domestic problems TO re-
cede In tn background
The dispatch guardedly MENTION
ed growing diplomatic and military
activity" behind official taciturnity.
In addition to sending reinforce
ments to Turku and Hango, the
Germans were said to have massed
large concentrations Of troops and
materials at Stettin and other Bal
tic ports for impending operations
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Fl Dead In
Fire
ThouqhfSet

San Francisco, March 28-(UP)-.
Fire, believed to have been set by q
pyromaniac, sped through the So
room new Amsterdam hotel last
night killing at least 81 persons
most Of them sleeping shipyard
workers, and injuring % others.
The blaze, which climaxed SER
les Of fires last night In cheap hotels
and rooming houses In the area
south of Market street, spread with
lightning rapidity through all four
floors of the building, trapping many
of the occupants and burning others
to death as they slept. The fire
broke out about midnight and fire
men fought for two hours before the
flames were brought under control.
Four hours after the fire had been
discovered, ambulance crews and
rescue squads still were carrying
out the bodies Of the dead and the
unconscious forms Of those over
come by smoke.
Three times last night, firemen
were summoned to fires in other
small hotels and rooming houses in
the same district, each case they
reported detecting definite odor OF
gasoline or kerosene. All these fires
were extinguished before any serious
damage was done.
Police said they believed all the
fires were the work of an arsonist
and southern station patrolmen on
the scene said witnesses reported
seeing two men fleeing from the
building minutes before the flames
were discovered.
The blaze was one of the most
severe in the last 10 years, police
said. The district in which the
Amsterdam Is situated is one OF
pawn shops, saloons and cheap
rooming houses, nearly all OF wood
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-28
Joan Takes
Stand Again
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press HOLLYWOOD
COrreSDOndent)

Hollywood, March % CUP y
Charlie Chaplin's lawyer called Joan
Barry to answer some more and ap-
parently mysterious questions to-
day about her transcontinental love
affair with the multi-millionaire
comic.
That word, transcontinental. was
the important one. The govern
ment charges that the 54-year-old
Chaplin took his 23-year-old red
haired protege from one coast to
the other and back again for i'm
moral purposes, thereby violating
the Mann Act.
Chaplin's attorney, Jerry Giesler,
who left Miss Barry in tears when
court adjourned with his cross eX-
animation last Friday, wouldn't say
what he intended to ask her today.
Prosecutor Charles H. Carr prom
ised to have the curvaceous Miss
Barry in court and said, with more
questioning now in store for his
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Washington, March 28.-(UP)-
Civilians will get 100000 pounds
more butter and 100000 pounds
more cheddar cheese in April, May
and June than they did during JAN
lary, February and March. bus their
neat allotment will be reduced 606,-
200 pounds, the war food admins
ration announced today.
The extra portion of butter was
aade possible, VIA said, because
he government still has enough OF
asst years butter to meet lend
case and military requirements
However, rationing officials said the
Increase was not enough to change
the present high point value OF
butter.
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More Butter Cheese For
Civilians But Less Meat

Cheddar cheese Is due for a big
Jump, due to a boom In production
which Is expected to reach a total
Of 10000, 900 pounds for the entire
year. In view Of this big boost,
The civilian ALLEGATION will jump
from 100000 during the first quar-
ter Of the year to l20,00O,00O dur
ing the second quarter.
The quota Of other cheeses, such
as Swiss, Italian and limburger, will
go down from 100000 to 44,2OO,-
900 pounds.
Meat ALLEGATIONS will 60 down
from their pork-swollen first quar-
ter high Of 5,0ol, 800 pounds to e.
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Bombers Hit
French Bases
BY PHIL AULT


UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, March 20 - (U,P) --
Hundreds OF American Flying Fort
resses struck at German air bases In
France for the second straight day
today. bombing four big fields As
to 1865 miles from Paris In three d.
rectionS.
Up to 500 fortresses protected by
a like number OF United States
fighter planes famed out over
northern, central and eastern
France to attack Nail airdromes at
Charities, Chateaudun, Rheims and
Dion.
The new attacks carried forward
Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz's
campaign OF attrition against the
German air force a day after 49,
900 American planes had blasted
nine German bases strung from the
regions Of Paris to the Pyrenees.
CONTINUED on Page 4
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By ROBERT ]. MANNING

United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, March 28-(UP)-A
vast new war manpower pool-the
1000, 900 present and potential Az
draft registrants and discharged
servicemen-emerged today as a
probable solution to the critical
manpower shortage facing the
armed forces and war industry.
With the problem intensified by
the decision to draft most able-bod-
led men under 26 now deferred in
war jobs, officials and many con-
gressmen looked upon men unfit Tor
military service as the ones who
must keep essential production go
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-05-11
Warrensville News

Mrs. L. H. Deese and Miss Mar
gn1erite Johnson we're business
vassitors in N. Wilkesboro, Satur-
Saay,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. johnson Wis
gHad friends : at Ashley's Chapel,
sunday.
Mrs. Robt. Glen1 Johnson was
a patient in the iAshe hospital this
: week end.
Mss Lucille Lee returned Sat-
urday from a weeks visit in Bait
im4Ce-
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burkett and
daughter, and Mrs. c. r Latham
and daughter, attended the BAG
calaureate sermon at Riverview
Sunday morning.
MIR. and Mrs. Vance Ashley en-
feftained at dinner Sunday, hon
aoring Ralph Ashley, who leaves
for Fort Bragg, Wednesday
.Arsong those present were Mr.
and Mrs. James H. Ashley anc
family, all of Gina; Mr.. and MRS
Ed Ashley and son, Mr.. and Mrs
r. G. Ashley, Miss Mary Ashley
and Ralph Ashley, and Mr.. ane
Mrs. Vance Combs.
Miss Melba Corvette, who il
attending school at Cove Creek
!: spent the week end at home.
Pvt. r. Ebert Johnson return
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WAC Recruiting Group Is
Coming To West Jefferson

First team of its kind to tour
western North Carolina in the in
terest of recruiting eligible women
for the Woman's Army Corps, a
caravan of recruiting personnel
from Ashville will arrive in West
Jefferson Tuesday, May %, for
a one-day stay.
The team, which includes 1t.
Lucy @. Page, Sgt. H. Lloyd Col
son, and Private First Class Wilma
e Hartung, is now on an extend
ed tour through the towns of
western North Carolina. While in
West Jefferson, the members of
the staff will be ready to supply
information to those interested
and will interview applicants for
the corps.
General George c. Marshall.
Chief of the Staff of the United
States Army, in a recent report
emphasizing the need for more
women to fill the ranks of the
Women's Army Corps, poined out
that there are now 239 jobs open
to members of the WAC. Require
-ments for the corps state that the
applicant must be between the
:age of 20 and so, a citizen of the
United States, of good health and
character, and must have COM
pleted two years of high school or
equivalent training such as bust
ness, vocational, or trade school.
The WAC caravan will be open
to all interested eligible women,
their families and friends, who
wish to find out more about how
patriotic American women can
help shorten the war by joining
the Wclhen's Army Corps.
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THE sKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. c.

sisted in these services by Rev.
Gilbert Osborne, of North Wilkes
boro. It is expected that special
singing will be featured at most
of the services.
Mrs. H. H. Burgess, who has
been ill for sometime, is improv-
ing, her many friends will be glad
to learn.
Miss Violet Parsons, of Airing
ton, Va, recently spent few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hege Parsons.
Several people from here at
tended the graduation exercises at
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-05-11
WANTS At LABOR
TO BE DRAFTED NOW

Washington - Draft Director
Lewis B. Hershey and high mill
tary officials urged enactment OF
a bill to induct into armed service
labor battalions 4-Fs who refuse
to accept essential war jobs.
Hershey's endorsement, made
before the Senate Military Affairs
Committee, was echoed by Under
secretary of War Robert P. Patter-
son, Undersecretary of the Navy
Ralph Board, Chairman Andrew
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w. j. H. S. last Friday night.

w. j. H. S. last Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crawford,
of N. Wilkesboro, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Crawford and Mr.. and
Mrs. H. H. Burgess, Sunday.
Mrs. Ollie Burgess and Mrs
Minnie Miller visited Mr.. and Mrs
Reeves Parsons and family in
Wilkes county the past week end
Miss Lenna Parsons has return
ed home from the Ashe hospital
where she had been undergoing
treatment for few days.
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ed to Camp Butner, Sunday.
Mrs. David Bluefield was the
overnight guest of Mrs. Claudia
Johnson and family, Monday.
Misses Darrell and Marguerite
Johnson were business visitors in
West Jefferson, Tuesday.
w. A. Johnson and family visit
ed relatives at Scottville, Sunday.
Misses Helen and Dorothy Ash
ley were guests of Miss Mary
Ashley Saturday night.
Mrs. K. L. Eller and Mrs. E. V.
Eller were callers at the Ashe
hospital, Sunday afternoon.
Smith Leek, of Smethport, was
business visitor here, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Perkins and
family, of Baltimore, Nd, and Mr..
and Mrs. Webb Perkins and fam
lily, of Kingsport, Tenn, are spend
ing their vacation in Warrensville.
There will be a Mothers Day
service at the Methodist church,
Sunday.
Rev. H. B. Corvette will have
special message for his congrega-
ton at that time. Special music
by the girls quartette will also be
heard. Everyone is invited to at
| tend.
Misses Janet Carter and Mary
Johnson were calling on friends,
Friday.
Mrs. L. H. Deese and Mrs. David
Bluefield were shopping in West
jefferson, Tuesday.
The hail storm of Saturday did
considerable damage. to gardens,
here.
Mrs, PAUL Ashley is convalesc-
ing from an operation performed
at the Ashe hospital, last week.
Mrs. w. o. Ashley and Miss
Maude James were visiting in JEFF
ferson, last Friday.
Miss Mayola Roland was the
guest of Marguerite Johnson, on
Monday night.
Mrs. R. T. Johnson received a
$500 war bond, Monday, that had
been sent her as a Mothers Day
gift from Pfc. Mathew Mccormick,
who is stationed in England.
Gordon G. Whitner left for Fort
Bragg Wednesday, where he will
be indicted into the army.
School closed at Warrensville
last Friday. We have had spen-
did school this year.
The teaching staff which con-
sisted of Prof. w. L. Jones and
Mrs. Lenna Burkett, has done ex-
cellent work. The attendance has
been very good and much interest
has been shown by the pupils. We
hope to have the same teachers
back with us next year.
Those from here attending the
baccalureate sermon at Lansing,
Sunday evening, were as follows:
Misses Wylene, Helen, Mary, and
Dorothy Ashley, Marguerite, OAR
rell and Ellinor Johnson, Marilyn
and Lucille Lee, Mayola Roland,
Bobbie Faw, MIR. and Mrs. A. S.
Sharpe and son Beryl, Mrs. Effie
Lice, MIR. and Mrs. Roy Ashley,
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Harold and Billy Ashley, Mrs. L.
H. Deese, ]. Paul Jones, Robert
Warren Faw and Miss Sally Bur-
kett.
Mrs. Roy Campbell and son,
Buford, and Mrs. nellie Ashley,
were business visitors in West
Jefferson, Tuesday.
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Obids News

A revival will begin at the
Obids Baptist church the third
Sunday night, May 81. The pas
tor, Rev. Ralph Miller, will be as
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and with definite ideas to policies and plans for
successful government
Gregg Cherry no exception list of states
proposed and then carried ou the progressive
nolcs that have great State Presented below are
excerns from his 2Opoint program legislation will affect
every home These policies as outlined n Cneiy
in this people continuation OF the progressive
tvpe of government Carolina has always had
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-05-11

j. May, (D-Ky), of the House
Military Affairs Committee, Rep.
John M. Costello, (D-Calif), and
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-Conn),
author of similar measure.
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The people of North Carolina have always been careful in the
selection Of their officials Their interest in the affairs Of govern
ment has been contributing factor in placing North Carolina in
the list the leading States of the Nation and their continued
interest reflect itself the ahead when vital prob
resulting decided.
Down through the have been blessed with Governors
trustworthy progressive the knowledge OF
business and government interested in the problems Of people,
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uRraldi be provided.
r. Every highway fund covered ~ q
required TO
made lateral roads must be improved.
IS The highway system which state
operated
1s Auditing should be increased In order g
expenditures
q should be
all State oeanne
labor In any way
public building
helpful providing
blaming from time basis
70 for
10 Benefits should include:
"a, Opportunity they
len off when
which
yin prepare livelihood
construction aid veterans gnG
jobs.
Cd that TECH
ment
State should collect
needed stable prudent progressive
predict with certainty what
schools
authorizing bring fnanca
activities neSitate to
continues levers Gen
Assembly should adopt all possible tax reduction"
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Fay General 100000 Of TIE sAp 70
emergencies
Eand the public program better financial support
Of Mtacy: building textbooks through
discussed campaign peeeaeS
educational institutional reVenae due 70
armed services
Educational veterans case
the Federal provision for then
education
Increase benefits teachers and State employees
Extension and January 1875 for
State employees Sae S0 W. 'N' "~
humanitarian employer"
including AID oepenoans
build great state or MT the
public well as private ASSISTANCE
ngn IN coopexaSon
the homes churches. and the schools"
The Pubic program expanded The general plan
the University Is approved
children which the state must
incidence pnyS oe1ecS
in " prevent institutional in Old age
development OF natural
to obge the poouc OF
10 aoeQasey
working with the Better
marketing facltleS increase
of must nave packing
maintain highest prices for THESE crops
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GREGG CHERRY SAYS

rue ~ Cove
question
this State apmgh
pun@ which
yd citizenship will
be 10 tai
~
1hd ntewNa
CF1errVS 20 Point Program Tor PrOSFe'
~
~au uu nu.h better financial