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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

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Fife SKETCHES
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
The Pilot
 Rops Reds

Boston, Feb. 3 - UP0 = Tho Pilot, official organ Cf the Cath olic Archdiocese of Boston, will say editorially tomorrow that Stalin knows the recent Fascist charges made against the church by the So- viet government paper IzveStia are untrue in all parts"
 The editorial charges the Soviet premier with seeking to offer his people all the kingdoms of the earth, but in exchange for their immortal souls," and deplores the attitude of Americans who would refuse Catholics the privilege even of reply"
 The Pilot asserts that the at. tack on the Vatican's war Hzsicy came direct from Stalin because Russian newspapers say what they have been. instructed to say" The Russian allegations against both the British and the Vatican are des cribed as ''rlnblushing lies"
 Stalin alone is to blame for the current suspicion and fear of Com munist Russia, according to the editorial.
 Catholics everywhere love tho Russian people. And it Is because they love Russians that Catholics reprobate the system-C Communism which robs Russia of liberty, which has tried to drive God aaA his Mother from Russian soil. lk @ because they love Russia that Cath olics distrust this man Stalin."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03

members representing congress, bus mess and labor, the public, and in- cluding tax experts and accountants, probably will be named by the com- mittee to make the major study of simplification.
 If such commission were named now, Knutson declared. it should be able to report back to the com- mittee by September, making 1t pos sible for congress to enact necessary simplification by October.
 The basis for the study probably will be the bill offered by Rep. Frank Carlson, R., Kan. It called for simp- lification of the entire tax law: Pro visions that would make it unnec- essary for about 30,000,O0 taxpay- CTS to file reports on the resumption that their obligation was fully met through taxes withheld from theiI wages and salaries: and for simp- lification of both the short and long forms of income tax reports.
 Carlson also would make it pos sible for taxpayers to use the short form for income up to 6. .O0O, instead og the present top Of ss9Q00s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
OnceB Big Jap Army Runs Before McArthur's Men

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Feb. 3-(UP)-The last disorganized and starving survivors of a once powerful Japanese army were reported fleeing into the Fi- nisterre mountains of northern New Guinea today following an Austra- Han break through to within 30 miles of junction with the Amer jeans at Saidor
 Walled against the sea on nar- row coastal plain between the clos ing jaws of the Australian -Ameri- can trap, Japanese units appeared to have "disintegrated into noun tainous passes and trails in an es- cape endeavor, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's communique announced.
 Enemy dead were being found In increasing numbers as the Aus tralians stepped up their advance and overran a strong -and perhaps last--enemy pocket of resistance in a break through that carried. them past ReisS point, some 30 miles east of the American beachhead at Sai- dor.
 Most of the dead Japanese showed signs of extreme starvation and ex- haustion, evidence of the effective ness of the Allied blockade and bombing and strafing patrols.
 Even those Japanese who escape over the towering, 12,OO0-foot Finis-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Soldier Vote Still angles

Washington, Feb. 3.-(UP)--Ad- ministration foes in the senate to- day threw their strength behind a new soldier vote plan permitting a federal ballot only where states fail to exact adequate absentee voting laws.
 The proposal, in form of an amendment to the administration baked Lucas-Green federal ballot bill before the senate, was injected into the soldier vote dispute as both the house and senate continued de- bate on their respective bills un- der limitations which may bring a decision Friday on the federal vs. state ballot fight.
 The senate was to meet at II a. m. again with an agreement that after 2 D. m. no senator may speak more than once nor longer than 20 minutes on the Green-LucaS bill or any proposed amendment.
 The house retained it's customary noon meeting hour under rule lim- iting each member to five minutes debate on each proposed amendment to the pending state ballot meas ure. Even with the limitation, how ever, debate was expected to carry over into Friday.
 House members contemplated many amendments, many of them designed to force consideration of a compromise to authorize both fed eral and state ballots for absentee voting next November by members of the armed forces.
 A coalition of six Republicans and nine southern Democrats sponsored the new senate plan which would place the emphasis on state ballots and allow federal ballot only for residents of states which fail to enact adequate absentee voting laws.
 Sen. Scott w. Lucas, D., H., lead- ing the administration fight for the Green-Lucas federal ballot which provides 8 vote only for President, Vice President and mem bers of congress, said the coalition amendment was not acceptable.
 Principal features of the coalition plan included:
 1. The federal ballot would be authorized only to Dec. 31, 1945.
 2. The federal ballot would not be allowed for the resident of any state which prior to June 1 provided an absentee voter law which waived registration and set up machinery to have ready 46 days before Nov. ' ballots, envelopes and voting in- structions weighing not more than 1.2 ounces.
 3. Voters would have to write in the name of their choice for Presi- dent senator and congressman, and would be forbidden to write in only the name of the party they favored.
 4. No absentee voter would re- ceive either the federal or state ballot, however, without applying for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Cheer Up! Strean,lined Tax BiH May Be On Way

Washington, Feb. B. (UP) The House Ways and Means Committee was ready today to take up the tax simplification problem and optimis- tic members predicted that 8 streamlined bill and income tax re- turn will be ready for 1945.
 Rep. Harold Knutson, R., Minn., high ranking minority member of the committee, said 1t took England only six months to simplify her tax system and that the American sys- tenn, thoue more expansive, could be shaken down and streamlined in the same time.
 He pointed out that IT tax bills had been enacted during the present administration and that each time the new bill was written as an addi- tion to the previous law. The result. he said, is that the code now is in a terrible mess"
 Knutson was critical of the trea- sury'S failure to initiate the rewrit- ing of the law, but agreed that they, like we, have had an extraordinary amount of work to do"
 He said a commission ce about E
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
War Veterans Ponder FOR Promotions ofLowerRanks

Roosevelt may intend to give all chiefs of service bureaus higher rank hereafter.
 . He sent to the Senate yesterday nominations of three bureau chiefs to be promoted from rear admiral to vice admiral. They are Ross T. McIntire. surgeon general and the presidents physician, Randolph Jacobs, chief of personnel, and Ben Moreell, chief of the bureau of yards and docks.
 Some high ranking naval officers were hopeful that MT. Roosevelt will not make that a permanent precedent so that all succeeding service bureau chiefs shall have vice admiral rank. A vice admiral is three star officer corresponding to lieutenant general in the Army. There is no personal objection to Jacobs, Moreell or McIntire. But some Navy veterans feel that under ordinary conditions two star rank as 8 rear admiral is adequate for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Yank Tanks And Men Butt Cassino

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Feb. 3 - CU.P.) - American tanks and infantrymen have all but encircled the fortress town of Casino at the center of the Germans shattered Gustav line, 1t was disclosed today, as other Allied 5th Army forces ex- tended their beachheads below Rome in the face off increasingly heavy enemy counter attacks.
 Striking swiftly to implement Tuesdays break through along a four-mile segment of the Gustav Line above Casino, the Americans filtered into the outskirts of the town late yesterday. while other armored forces broke into the forti- fled village of Terrele, five miles to the northwest.
 Front reports indicated the Amer jeans already may have cut across the Via CaSilina above Casino and closed death trap around the Nazis remaining in the town.
 German forces north of Casino threw themselves in repeated coun- ter attacks against the advancing Americans and French in an effort to relieve the pressure on the town, but headquarters communique said all the assaults were crushed.
 French and American troops have moved so far through the mountains north of Cassino that this enemy stronghold. is threat ened seriously" the communique said.
 A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent James E. Roper revealed that a suicide band of Nad gunners held out inside Casino late last night, under a murderous fire from American ar tillery, mortars and riflemen drawn up on the northern and northeast ern sides of the town.
 American infantrymen smashed the last German resistance outside Cassino Tuesday night, driving the Nazis from a heavily fortified bar racks mile to the north. Attempts to break into the town early yester- day, were repulsed, however, by a hail of crosS-f1re from we'll placed enemy batteries and pillboxes.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Rouno Falls As Triumphant Red Forces R0Ulnt0 Poland

London, Feb. 3.-(UP)-The Ger mans today acknowledged the loss of Rovno, administrative center of the Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and the railway town of Luck, 43 miles to the west, to Red Armies that swept up to 55 miles inside old Poland along the ancient invasion route to Warsaw.
 The German announcement of the evacuation of the two cities dis closed that Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin'S forces had broken two-week stale mate on the southern Polish front and unleashed a powerful new of fensive also the Warsaw-Kazatin railroad.
 As Russian tanks rolled across the plains of southern Poland, other Soviet armies to the north poured into Estonia in a developing offen- Sixe against the strategic railway and highway junction of Narva and began a drive toward Latvia from NovoSokolniki.
 The great Red Army break through on the southern front, as indicated by the German loss of the two key bases "in the course of embittered defensive fighting" |" carried the Russian vanguard more than half way across the eastern strip of old Poland occupied by the Soviets in 1889.
 At Luck the Russians were about 50 miles from the Nad-dominated section of Poland called the gov- ernment general, its boundary de- lineated by the northern Bug river probably comprising the most for midable German defense line across east-central Europe.
 The Red Army advance on the southern front-not yet reported by Scow-highlighted violent strug-' gle along the whole curving line through the Ukraine and old Po- land, according to persistent Nazi accounts.
 A German communique admitting the loss of Rovno and Luck said the Russians also were attacking Shepetovka, major rail junction 70 miles west of zhitomjr and 25 miles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03

Washington, Feb. 3-(UP)-The situation of ranks in the Army and Navy was in somewhat of mess today partly because of the gaudy titles possessed by senior British officers and partly owing to Con- gressional suspicion that too many stars were being sewed permanent ly on military shoulders.
 No overall adjustment of the Navy conflicting factors was likely unless MT. Roosevelt intervenes with a thorough inquiry ::ato the question of military rank and follows that up with some forceful and persua- sive recommendations to the House and Senate.
 The United Press was informed that unless that is done, problems of rank will be disposed of on more or less haphazard basis and in some instances with questionable legal authority.
 There were half a dozen conflict ing factors in the rank situation. One of them was the fears of some top Navy line officers that MT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Old Timer ForeteIIs

Jamesto VII, Tenn, Feb. 3.-(UP) Sgt. Alvin o. York, Americas number one hero of World War I, took one look at battle front de- velopments today and predicted "an- other 1918 in the cards for Germany and the Axis satellite nations in Europe this year."
 'sThe big push will be well under way by midsummer" he forecast, land when 1t starts. the German lines will bend, then break just like they did in the last war"
 York is still remembered for hay ing captured a German machine gun battalion of 1S2 men single handed in the first world war after killing IS of the enemy with IS shots, declared that Hitler's troops were Ion the toboggan and tslst haven't become aware of 1t yet"
 When our invasion armies begin to roll in Europe, believe the NaNs will call 1t curtains, in short order, !" he said. They never were good when they lost the offensive in the last war and I don't think the .leop- ard can change its spots over night"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Motive For Girls Death

New Haven, Conn, Feb. 3-(UP) A motive for the cremation -slay- mig of Miss Rose M. Brancato, news paper society reporter, was revealed today by an official spokesman who said Walter William Law, the al- legedly confessed killer, had made 39improper advances toward the girl and beat and choked her to death when she attempted to defend her self. Law was said to have burned the body in a furnace.
 Law, who was being held on a cor oner's warrant, was superintendent of downtown building at the time of Miss Brancato's disappearance last July 5. According to the alleged confession. Law lured the reporter ta the ksiilding on a pretext and persuaded her to accompany him to the basement, where the killing oc- cured.
 Today's disclosure exploded un- founded rumorS in circulation that Miss Brancato had more than a nodding acquaintance with Law.
 It was believed that Law called the young woman at the newspaper
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03

The Mosquito targets in western Germany were not announced.
 Probably 600 four -motored bomb CTS of the United States strategic air force smashed at Wilhelms- haven, naval city of 26,000 packed with U-boat yards repair and fitting depots, barracks, ammunition and fuel stores.
 An estimated 500 long range fighters of the United States Eighth Air Force escorted the bombers in their round trip flight of TOO miles or more.
 The size of the raiding fleet ap- preached that of the record force which pounded Frankfurt last Sat- urday, when 102 German planes were shot down. The Americans were back over the Reich the next day, attacking Brunswick and Han mover and downing 91 more enemy fighters.
 The night operations followed heavy American attacks yesterday on the Pas de Calais area of the French invasion coast, spearheaded by four-engined Liberators. No enemy fighters were encountered, but there was considerable anti aircraft fire and two Liberators were lost.
 The Stockholm newspaper Morgon Tidningen reported from Bern that 200, 900 workers were thrown out of work by damage to factories in the latest series of RAF raids on Berlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
u.S.T TROOPS SMASH MARSHAL LS Heaviest Navy Cunning And Air Blasts Of Pacific War ParaIyZeS C0Wed Enemy
Mop Up, Wipe Out Battle
 To Destroy Japs Rages Now

Pearl Harbor, T. H., Febs ruary 3. = UP) = U. S Marines and Infantr.ye backed by tank and the heav. jest air and naval bOmbard- ment of the Pacific war, have seized half of last enemy-held airfield in KwajaIein atoH in the heart of the MarshalIs and begun battles of exterm- ination against Japanese remnants, front dispatches said today.
 With the only enemy op- position in strength confined to a shrinking pocket at either end of the 66-mile-long atoll, complete conquest of Kwajalein, first pre-war Japanese territory invaded by the Americans, was in sight and perhaps only a matter of hours away.
 The capture of Roi Is1and, nortln@ ern hinge of the atoll and site of it's main airfield, was announced yes- terday and other sources revealed that the invasion forces were oc- cupying most of the remainder of the 90 islands and islets in the at0u as fast as they can get ashore.
 The bulk of the Japanese defend- CTS were being squeezed back into narrow corners in the only two re- maining strategically- important iS- lands in the atoll, Kwajalein and Namur, where they were hammered mercileSsly by land artillery, naval batteries ranging JIp~to' 46-tnch guns and block busters aerial bombs.
 (Rear Adm. Tanetsugu Sosa, h Tokyo propaganda broadcast appar- ently designed to explain away the lack of effective opposition to tl1S American landings, said Japan does not mind if Americas invasiin force move further because in that case it can severely thounce them at one stroke at the right moment.'D
 Percy Finch, representing the combined Allied press aboard the joint expeditionary force flagship reported that the army's 7th infan- try division had captured one third of Kwajalein island. at the southern tip of the atoll of the same names by midday yesterday and driven the surviving enemy troops to stronger defense positions in the narrow eastern end.
 At last reports, Finch said, the in- vaderS had advanced half way across
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Spain No Like SIurs
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Madrid, Feb. 3.-(UP)-Spanish commentators took note of Allied diplomatic and economic pressure today with a counter charge of es- pionage against Britain and an as- sertion that Spain was ready to de- fend its sovereign neutrality.
 The government-controlled morn ing newspaper A. B. c. discounted American and British charges that Spain had violated that neutrality.
 Tt is impossible to take into ser- ious account the list of petty charges made by the Allies against Spain, because Spain colud present a list herself containing really important accusations-including espionage against Britain, the Madrid morning paper A. 3. c. asserted.
 Earlier, SpainS diplomatic stale mate with Great Britain and Amer ica was made known to the Span iSh people for the first time with publication of brief news agency dispatch datelined Washington and announcing the suspension of oil shipments for February.
 Two government commentators
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
News Writer
 Ray Clopper
 Dies In Crash
By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff COrrespcndent)

NO1htcu 1EcSS StAu NOTICSpCuuCAbI
 Washington, Feb. 3 - (U.P) - Raymond Clapper, Kansas-born newspaperman who rose to distin- guished position in his profession, was killed in an airplane accident in the Marshall Islands invasion, the Navy Department announced today.
 Clapper. 51, was a political col umnlSt for the ScrippS- Howard newspapers and for many others which used his syndicated daily piece. But when he died Clapper was on the job he loved best-re- porting. He left last month after the year-end holidays to see how the war was going in the Pacific. He had spent part of last year in the Mediterranean theater and was aboard one of the American planes in the first bombing of Rome.
 The Navy advised Clapper's col leagues today that word of his death was received in a dispatch dated February 3 saying that the accident involved two planes which collided over one of the Marshall Islands. Both planes crashed in a lagoon. There were no survivors. The announcement said:
 '"The commander-in-c chief of the Pacific fleet has reported that a plane, in which MT. Raymond Clap per was passenger, engaged in covering the Marshall invasions collided with another plane while forming up. MT. Clapper was in the plane with the squadron con- mander. Both planes crashed in the lagoon. There were no survivors" |"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Higher Taxes
 WiIIkie Urges

New York, Feb. 3-(UP)-Wendell L. Willkie, candidate for the Repub- lican presidential nomination last night said that Americans must submit to ruthless" taxation and lower their standard of living or else i've shall lose in debt the vic- tory we have gained in blood"
 Predicting postwar public debt of more than $300. .0O0, 900, 900, at an interest cost of $6,000, ,000, 900 8 year, Willkie told 8 meeting in the New York Times hall that i've should pay now for as much of the war as we possibly can"
 He assailed the administrations tax program as "unrealistic" and said President Roosevelt's request
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03
Du Bois In
 Line For New 

Arthur DuBois, former Repub- lican alderman and official of the Scovill Mfg. Go. may today be ap- pointed chairman of the city pen sion committee which will meet this afternoon at 4 D. m. in the city court chambers for its first meet ing. It is expected that today's meeting will be mainly an organ national one.
 The committee instituted by the General Assembly last year and ap- pointed by the Governor is to re- view the merits and alleged defects of Waterbury-s present pension sys- tenn as contained in the city charter and is to file its recommendation with the Mayor before Jan. l, 1945.
 The committee was created by the General Assembly following the strong controversy that ragged last year when many pension bills and attempts to adjust alleged inequities in the city's pension system were presented before the State Legis- lature on Waterbury Day. Although the majority of the appeals were successfully opposed by the local administration one phase of the outcome was the proposed and adopted formation of the pension committee.
 The committee has been empow- cred with unusual authority in that it has the right to subphoena any elector in the ssate, call in official records and books and has the priv ilege of holding private or public sessions.
 No appropriation to defray the costs of the committees expenses has been provided for in the city's 1944 budget appropriation and it has been expressed that some difficulty may be encountered in setting up a special appropriation. The city must foot all bills for the committee which