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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Further Peace Talks
Unlikely After Soviet
Warning 10 Firms

| Ey the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. %. - Further
peace conversations between Mos
COW and Helsinki appeared unlikely
today in the wake of an Official
Soviet announcement warning Fin
land that she must bear RESPONSE
bility for whatever may happen as
a result of her failure to accept
Russian armistice proposals.
The Finnish governments deci-
sion to reject a Soviet six-point
plan was announced to the Russian
people last night by the Moscow
radio, which said "a negative reply
had been received from Helsinki on
March II.
Responsibility on Firms.
Thereby the Finnish government
has taken upon itself entire re-
sponsibility for the consequences,
declared the announcement, which
was issued by the Soviet Foreign
|Ofice.
There was no indication what
those consequences would be, but
they could take the form of an all
out Russian offensive against Fin
land, coupled with air and sea
action, now that the Baltic feet at
Leningrad is freed from blockade.
The statement by the Foreign
Office reviewed the diplomatic ex-
change with Finland starting with
the publication March l of the
Soviet terms, which are regarded
here as generous.
Minimum" Terms.
On March 5, the statement said.
the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm
was advised by the Finnish govern
ment that it could not accept the
Russian terms without preliminary
discussions and was told in turn that
this reply was unsatisfactory.
The Soviet government empha-
sized at that time the armistice
terms proposed by Moscow were "the
minimum and elementary ones and
that only acceptance of these terms
by the Finnish government would
make possible Soviet Finnish dis
cussions for cessation of hostilities,"
the statement added. Finland was
given until March Is to accept.
Dispatches from Stockholm quoted
Swedish press correspondents in
Berlin as saying the Germans pre-
dicted the Russian announcement
would be followed by a new Red
Army offensive in Estonia designed
to clean up the Baltic states, which
If successful-would place Finland
in a hopeless military situation.
These advices said the Russians we're
reported to have concentrated 100
divisions on the Narva front in
for such a drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22

when the present regime tries to
check the increasing ambitions of
army circles.
Il would want to be mistaken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22

civil war looms as likely very soon, -
Castillo, who was unseated In the
June revolution of l943, was quoted.
Asked why he had chosen Gen.
Pedro Ramirez who ousted him as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Costello Is Reported
Fearing Civil War

BY lhe Assoclated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Mar. GA re-
sponsible traveller from Buenos Aires
said yesterday that former Argen-
tine President Ramon Castillo de-
clared at his Saturday press con-
ference that civil war may develop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22

President, as Minister of War in
his cabinet, Castillo was said to have
commented: Il am an old man
but it seems I have not yet learned
to know my fellow men"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
little Inch "Line Opening
Delayed By Defective Pipe

in this seam. They have been so
frequent in one part Of the eastern
leg OF the 20-inch line that many
miles have been dug up and re-laid
Most of the welded pipe used in
the 20-inch line was supplied by the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.. as
well as all of the welded pipe in
volved in the two extensions from
Phoenixville, Pa, to New York and
Philadelphia--of the big inch line.
Petroleum Administrator Harold
L. Ickes, interviewed by the United
Press concerning the pipeline diff
culties, said that my understanding
is that it was the pipe furnished by
Youngstown in both hte extensions
Of big inch and the bulk Of the 90
inch line that caused the trouble
and delays which have resulted"
Blames Manufacturer
II can't see how so much defective
pipe could have been turned out, y
Ickes said, "if the company which
furnished the pipe had exercised a
reasonable amount Of care"
Otbr sources said the pipe had
been put through tests BY lone Of
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Mrs. DonieI
c. Roper Dies

washington, Jan. 8-(UP)-Mrs.
Daniel C. Roper, widow Of the for
mer secretary Of commerce, died at
her home here last night. She was
70.
She had been Ill several months.
Her husband, who was Familiarity
known in the capital as Uncle
Dam, died last April.
She is survived by one sister,
seven children, IL grandchildren
and two eat-grandchildren. Tne
children are Mrs. David r. Cokers
Huntsville, s. c.: James II. Roper
Los Angeles; Daniel @. Roper. Jr.:
New Orleans: Mrs. Grace Roper
Bohn, Washington; Capt. ]. w.
Roper, Navy Bureau Of Personnel
washington; Col. Harry M. Roper.
U. s. Army, whose home Is WASH
ington but who now is stationed In
Texas; and Sgt. Richard r. Roper.
also from Washington and also N
Texas.
Her husband was secretary o.
commerce under President Roose-
welt from 1888 to 1898 and later y.
s. minister to Canada in 1888. He
was born in South Carolina en-
married Lou Mckenzie Of Scot
land county, N. O., in 1889. Ma
Roper's funeral will be held Mon-
day at 2 o. M, EWT.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Loneliness
Causes Death

Boston, Jan. .-CUP)-Loneliness
and the outside world were too
much for 84-yaer, old Catherine
Clancy.
Miss Clancy died yesterday at a
hospital where she was taken We'd
nesday after her blind sister Min
ME, So, was found dead in the
musty old house which neither had
left in so years.
Hospital attaches said an exam
inatoin showed Miss Catherine was
suffering no illness and apparent
ly died of a broken heart because
of her sisters death.
Miss Minnie died Tuesday and
tn esisterS' plight was not discov-
cred for "a hours because Miss
Catherine was too weak from cold
and hunger to notify a neighbor
who had conducted their business
affairs and purchased their sup
plies.
Only after long persuasion would
Miss Catherine consent to leave the
house for the hospital. The third
occupant of the house--the sisters
cat Peek-a-Boo-stayed after the
others had gone.
1t still was there, refusing al
food and apparently pining for 1t:
mistresses. Neighbors said it toe
might soon die.
Funeral services were held today
for Miss Minnie at the Catholic
4 church Of st. Catherine OF Genof
from which Miss Catherine win bs
buried Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Building In
CityIn 1913

A grand total Of $l,55O,486 of
building work was done in Water
bury during 1913 according to the
annual report Of building inspector
John T. Hartley. Seven hundred and
seventeen permits were issued COW
ering the work with total of So, 682
In fees paid into the city authorities.
Since Jan, /, 1913 to Dec. 81, 1913
total Of 1872 one-family houses at
an approximate total building cost
Of $516,500 and housing 1872 families
were erected. Fourteen two family
houses were erected, for housing %
families, at a total building cost Of
$40,
Seven permits for repairs after
fires were issued for work costing
$43, 900 the report states. while "a
permits for the addition and altera-
ton to dwellings for additional fam
lilies were issued for latter type con-
struction costing 1852, Ito and plan
ned for the housing of So families.
Other additions and alterations to
residential dwellings were erected at
a total cost of $42,877 on issuance of
1875 relative permits.
The total residential figures re-
leased in the annual report reveal
that BIS permits were issued for this
type building covering a total APP
proximate building cost of $825, TAT.
Housing facilities for 256 families
Continued on Page p
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Federal Patronage For
Hague Called FDR Politics

Washington, Jan. 8 - Cup -
Charges that the Roosevelt admin
istration was keeping the Hague
machine alive in New Jersey with
feelings of federal patronage were
assayed today in terms Of presi-
Dental year politics.
Gov. Charles EDISON, retiring
Democrat. who formerly was
member of President RooSeveits
cabinet, made tho charges yester-
day in citing the appointment Of
Dr.. Edward j. Jennings, a Hague
man, to be postmaste, at TrenGoa
despite opposition by the montague
elements of the State Democratic
organization.
Earlier this year, MT. Roosevelt
similarly nominated to the federal
bench defeated in the 1912 elections
and who was backcG by Hague for
the post. Edison appeared before
Senate committee in opposition to
the nomination which. nevertheless,
was confirmed.
At O Trenton press conference
Edison said that without such fed
eral patronage, Hague would have
been q dead duck long ago-in fact
/ that IS all he Is living on now"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08

Washington, Jan. 8-(UP)-Oper-
alton of the 1,476-mile '1ittle inch"
pipeline, originally scheduled to start
carrying gasoline and fuel oil to the
East Dec !, has been delayed at
least two months by a series Of go
to 10 breaks in the pipe, 1t was
learned today.
This 20-inch line runs from Texas
refineries to the Philadelphia-New
York area. 1t is a companion to the
24-inch big inch" line which car
ries crude petroleum. The smaller
line is to carry gasoline, fuel oil and
other refined products, The new line.
originally estimated to cost SIS, 0O0,-
900, is being built by war emergency
pipeline. inc. financed by defense
plants corp.
While the big inch line was
constructed largely Of so-called
seamless pipe, the little inch" line
and two extensions of its big brother
were made of so-called welded pipe
The welded pipe is made from steel
sheets rolled and welded ct the
seam.
The breaks in the little inch" line
and earlier breaks in the two +bie
incn extensions have been mostly
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Mayor .Nomes
Health Board

Appointments to fill the vacancies
on the board of health created by
the designations Of two of Water
burys prominent physicians and a
similar vacancy resulting from the
shifting of another member to the
police board were today announced
by Mayor John S. Monagan.
DR.. Richard Hinchey, 673 Willow
st. and ]. Chester Little, sales man
ager of the Waterbury Buckle Co.
have been appointed to succeed DR..
Andrew J. Jackson and DR.. Nelson
Eomeroy both of whom resigned be-
cause of the press of private prac-
tice.
Murray GroSSman, prominent
local retailer has also been appoint
ed to succeed Raymond j. Tanning
former member of the board who
last week was appointed a member
of the Police Board.
No chairman has been appointed
as yet to succeed Dr.. Jackson and
it is believed that one will be chosen
from within the new board at the
first meeting to be held some time
next week.
Personnel of the new board now
comprises the following members;
Michael Grout, q Sarsfield Ave-;
John Kopcha, aldermanic member
of the board; DR.. Edward Kirsch-
baum and DR.. William Borchardt
plus the aforementioned new ap-
pointees.
The majority Of the other boards
already fully created by past ap-
pointments by the Mayor will meet
during the coming week at which
time such meetings will merely be
for the sake of organizing.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08

Dead At65

New York Jan. 8-(UP)-William
K. Vanderbilt, IS, millionaire ex-
plorer, yachtsman and railroad Of
fetal, died at his home early today
Of heart ailment.
Vanderbilt, grandson of the foun-
der of the New York Central rail-
road and a present director Of the
system, had returned here before
Christmas and was believed recup-
Grating.
He suffered a relapse yesterday
and died at 1882 O'Clock this morn
ing. With him at the time were his
wife, Rosamond, and a daughter,
Mrs. william j. Warburton. An
other daughter Mrs. Muriel Wander
bilt Phelps. was notified at her San
Francisco home.
Vanderbilt probably was best
known as a yachtsman, having or
iginated the famous Vanderbilt cup
competition. He also was one Of the
early pioneers in automobile racing.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08

Edison Is the son of the late
Thomas A. Edison. He entered the
Roosevelt administration as an Of
ficial Of the federal housing author
ity and from 1899 to 1910 he served
as assistant secretary and acting
secretary of navy. He challenged
Hague's machine soon after h. was
elected governor of New Jersey In
1910. The Hague-Edison battle has
continued undated with every EVIL
dence that the administration was
determined to maintain cordial re-
lations with the mayor Of Jersey
City.
Appeasement Policy
The policy of apreasing Hague
has been cited by anti-Roosevelt
Democrats and Republicans as an
indication that the president in
tended to seek a fourth term since
it is to be expected that the mayor
will conrol the New Jersey delega-
ton to the Democratic National
Convention this year. Edison's
pointed complaint gives Republi-
cans scne useful presidential year
arguments IN supp t Of their fire.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Ghosts And
BeoSties, And

Halifax. N. S., Jan. 8-(UP)-The
Hilchie family didn't believe in
ghosts before the thing" invaded
their home Christmas eve.
Mrs. Ethel Hilchie and her two
daughters, bedridden Rita, 20, and
Catherine, IS. have been haunted"
since they first heard loud knocking
outside the house. they said today.
Then a washing machine moved
across the floor by itself. A table
tipped and had to be held on its
legs. A pair Of scissors on the shelf
opened and closed. A bowl of soup
tipped into GATHERINGS lap. An
alarm clock hurled itself off a dress
er and narrowly missed her. A ket-
tie of boiling water raised itself off
the stove and spilled onto the floor.
A hammer and a box Of soap flew
down flight Of stairs.
Mrs. Hilchie, walking down the
cellar stairs, fell, "as If someone
grabbed my heel and tripped me-"
A few days later, she said. she was
tripped on the stairs again. She
broke q bone in her ankle, wrench
ed her shoulder and hurt her head.
Now she Is in bed.
Meanwhile the mysterious knock
ings continued.
The family has been forced out Of
their one and one-half story home
several times. Royal Canadian
mounted police investigated but
found nothing. Once when the
knockings were heard. officials Of a
nearby airport turned searchlights
on the house, but they revealed
nothing.
A Halifax newspaper camerman
went to the house to try to photo
graph the antics Of the furniture.
Nothing happened until he was leav-
ing then, he said, flash bulb jump
ed out Of his bag and smashed its
self on the floor.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Meet PracticalyNo'
Resistance From.
Cowed, Beaten Foe.
By HENRY sHAPIRO

United Press Staff COrrespOndensg
Moscow, January 8.-UPl
- Triumphant r us sian
mobile columns raced west
ward virtually unimpeded
today over the old Polish
plains and the approaches to
Rumania through puIverized
defenSeS marking the great
est German disaster since
Stalingrad.
The government organ
Izvestia said great process
Sions of singing, high spirited
Soviet troops were streaming
forward through scenes OF
terrible carnage and destruc-
ton, the remains of the once
vaunted Wehrmacht.
. The Red Army advance
was like a big door swinging
down against the German
pocket in the Dnieper Bend,
squeezing the demoralized
enemy back against the Gug
River Notifications.
While Gen. Nikolai r. Vatutin's
advanced elements pushed more
than "a miles in old Poland, Gen.
Ivan S. Konev's End Ukrainian army
in a concerted drive poured down
into the Dnieper bend through g.
GO-mile breach in the German de-.
lenses and frightened the iron ring
thrown around the keystone base
of Kirovgrad.
(The Moscow radio reported that
important German forces were sur
rounded in the Kirovograd area
and the Nazis around Krivoi Rog
and along the lower course OF the
Dnieper were threatened with q
like fate)
Izvestia reported that massive
columns Of Soviet motorized infan-
try. tanks, tractor draS1l artillery
and self-propelled guns were speed
ing along the roads OF the western
ukraine.
Special Detachments
Special attachments ranged on
ahead, clearing the roads OF
smashed German tanks, guns and
vehicles. and brushing aside thou
sands Of corpses carpeting the wake
of the Nagi flight.
In some sectors Russian units
were engaged in comradely races
between themselves for the honor
of setting the pace westward, lives
tia said, the tank drivers shouting
jubilant greetings as they passed
slower moving attachments.
The official newspaper said the
Russians sensed the tremendous sig
nificance of Vatutin's break-through
and knew they wer etaking part IN
one of the most significant stra-
tegic battles of history.
Motorized units were hogging the
(COpfinuad on Pare y
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Airmen Shell
jap Shipping

Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, jan 8 - (U.P0 -
Ranging from the Solomons to New
Ireland, New Britain and New
Guinea, Allied airmen demonstrated
their aerial superiority in the
Southwest Pacific by heavily dam
aging japanese shipping, installa-
lions and airdromes, it was an
nounced today.
General Douglas MacArthur'S
communique, reporting that fight
ing had died down on the south
eastern front of the American
beachhead at Cape Gloucester, said
the raids included an attack We'd
nesday night on Kavieng by med
ium units which pounded the air.
drome and other installations.
Kavieng, located at the northern
tip of New Ireland, only $50 miles
northwest of Rabaul, New Britain,
is a strategic enemy harbor and
supply base.
The raid was the 18th successive
night of attack at Kavieng.
Night patrol bomberS attacked an
enemy cargo ship and a destroyer
above Cape Matanalemn, New Ire
land, and SolomonS- base aircraft
damaged an inter-island steamer
near NASSAU Island, 100 miles
northwest of Kavieng.
Other planes from Solomons
bases swept over Rabaul, strafing
gun positions and dock installations
near Raluana Point and destroying
two troop-loaded barges in Blanche
Bay.
The communique said Australians
driving north along the Huon Pen
insula coast of New Guinea, occu-
pied Kelanoa Village, II miles be-
low the japanese barge center OF
Sio.
American patrols moving on Sic
from their Saidor beachhead were
reported to be in light contact with
Japanese forces near Sci, nine miles
below Saidor, and air patrols sup
porting the Australian drive des-
troyed or put Is japanese barges
out of service.
Navy Catalinas strafed eight
troop-laden barges Wednesday al
Sarang Harbor, north Of Madane
on the New Guinea coast and thun-
derbolt fighters started eight barges
Continued m Page D
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Scheduling Of las
F or Exams Begins

Washington, Jan. 8-(UP)-Draft
boards today began scheduling their
la registrants for pre- induction
physical examinations which were
ordered by selective service yester-
day as a elimination to long fight
by congressman to eliminate the
hardships that accompanied induc-
tion-day physicals.
CThe Washington Times Herald
said selective service would an
nounce tomorrow cancellation of oc-
cupational draft deferments for men
in lower age brackets. Draft officials
were quoted as saying the order
temporarily will slow the induction
of fathers but will not materially
alter the father-draft program).
Under the new ruling, LAS will
be given the official army-navy
medical examination at least 81 days
before they are called for induction.
The period might be as long as three
months or more.
Under. the previous set-up, regis
trant who was called up for induc-
ton did not know until the day he
reported whether he would be physi-
cally acceptable. Many men quit
their jobs and wound up their af-
fairs only to discover that they were
physically ineligible and had to undo
all the preparations they had made
to leave civilian life.
Many congressman have been out
spoken in demands to rectify that
situation, and a provision was writ
ten into the recent so-caled father
draft law requiring draft boards tc
grant physical examinations to men
near the induction stage who re-
quested it.
The new ruling not only puts thi:
=
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Bitterest Of
All Bottles
In All ItoIy
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

united Press staff COrreSp0ndent)
With American Troops. San Wit
tore, Italy, Jan. 8.-UP)-Battle-
weary American doughboys lay in
the litter filled streets of bloody
ravaged San Vittore today and rue
fully watched the frightened ma
tives inspect the shambles of ashes
crumpled walls and bodies that
marked their once-peaceful noun
tain village.
1t was as If the entire town had
been turned inside out by the saw
agely determined Americans ano
the fiercely resisting Germans, en-
gagged in the bitterest hand -to-hand
house toulouse fighting of the wal
In Italy.
Most of the houses were com
pletely demolished, with their walls
sagging open, dropping their broken
contents into the street, the streets
were SO clogged with bricks, pieces
Of roofs, and broken furniture that
walking in the ordinary sense al
most was impossible.
The only establishment in town
left more or less intact was a wine
shop in the cellar of a building
whose upper stories had been clipped
off by the shells of the combat
tants. Five large casks of wine
stood on its shelves unchanged
The wine seemed cool and re-
freshing to the Americans, almost
out on their feet after three days
OF Sleepless fighting. The old
italian dealer, twisted with fear
from three weeks Smelling, gave the
wine to the Americans for nothing
Continued on PAGE 81
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-08
Mrs. Herbert
Hoover Dies;
HeortAttock

New York, Jan. 8 U.PO -
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 68year-old
wife of the former president, died
of a heart attack in their fashion
able Waldorf Towers suite last
night while dressing for dinner.
Mr.. Hoover, 3lst president OF the
United States, was with her at the
time. They came here December 13
from their home at Palo Alto, Cal,
to spend the holidays.
Mrs. Hoover, noted for her gra-
ciousness while at the White House
had attended a concert with friends
during the afternoon and then
went for an automobile drive. When
she returned she was said to be
feeling fine"
Shortly after 7 p. m, while pre-
pairing to leave for dinner, Mrs
Hoover suffered an acute heart at
tack. The former president sum-
moned their personal physician and
also the house doctor, but Mrs
Hoover died within 10 minutes.
Their two sons, Herbert, Jr., ra-
do engineer and Allan, rancher,
were notified in California and left
Immediately for New York.
Mrs. Hoover, the former Lou
Henry, was born in Waterloo, Iowa
in 1875 and would have been SO or
March 90.
Although the tall, white-haired
former First Lady was content tc
remain in the background, she bad
been a constant companion of Mr.
Hoover ever since they met in 1896
on the campus of Leland Stanford
University, where both were study
ing geology. They were married the
following year and spent their
honeymoon in China, where Mr.
Hoover, as a young engineer, had
been appointed an adviser on min
ing to the Chinese government.
BY the time their first son was
four years old, they had travelled
around the world three times, some
times living in tents, and were in
Teintsin, China, during the Boxer
Rebellion.
Outside of her activities with the
Girl Scouts, of which she was Ma
tional president in 1922, Mrs
Hoover never was in the limelight
while she was the first lady Of the
land. indicative of her retiring ma
ture, who's who gave only nine
lines to her biography. describing
her as a translator and "a men,
Der, officer and honorary officer Of
many educational and philan-
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