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Evening star., 1944-01-28
Germans Claim Sinkinq
Of Four Destroyers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-The Ber-
lin radio asserted today that Ger
man submarines had sunk seven
ships totaling 1000 tons and four
destroyers in the last few days in at
tacks on Allied conveys.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated PRESS. asserted that a
Murmansk-bound convoy of Liberty
ships bearing planes and tanks to
Russia had been particularly hard
hit"
There have been no recent Allied
reports of attacks on conveys On
the Murmansk supply route and the
German claims of Allied losses were
without confirmation.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Palmer Hoyt Demands
Daily Facts on War,
Atrocity by Atrocity
Says japanese Murdered
Most Of SO. 1000 Prisoners
Taken at Botuun
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Charg-
ing that the full -blooded story
OF this war is not being properly
presented to the people," Palmer
Hoyt, former director Of Owls
domestic branch, says that II
japanese bestiality is disclosed
frankly and boldly and as a part
of each days news" the Japa-
nese will treat prisoners better,
In an article to be published in
next weeks edition of the American
Magazine, Mr.. Hoyt declares that
with the war going against them
they (the Japanese) will fear to do
otherwise" The article was written
before the Army and Navy disclosed
last night the horror story of
Bataan.
I'VE haven't known for two years
that the Japanese brutally mur-
dered most of the $4,000 prisoners
taken at Bataan," Mr.. Hoyt writes.
They marched them through
deadly heat without water, although
they had thousands of available We
hicles. And they crushed thousands
OF men who did not die from ex-
haustion and thirst by running
trucks through their columns"
Calls for Facts Day by Day.
Mr.. Hoyt, who now has returned
to his post as publisher of the Port
land Oregonian after six months
with the owl, says he is mot
charging malicious obstructionism
or a sinister conspiracy to withhold
the truth from the people of this
Nation"
1T is simply that there are too
many men in the Army and Navy,
sustained by too many like men in
civil life. who do not think it is
necessary to keep the people in
formed he says. They do not un-
derstand the nature and PSYCHOLOGY
OF Americans. Democracy is built on
the solid foundation of news-givine
the truth to the people as it hap
pens.
why shouldn't we get the facts
through the news, day by day, atroc-
ity by atrocity? What If it does up-
set our comfort?
This war has not yet become
personal with us at home. It car
never be personal without the scar.
ing flame of battle and the cry o1
wounded in our ears. But If W.
hear the truth day by day by radio
read it in our newspapers anc
magazines, hear it from the rostrun
and the housetops. we'll silence the
babble, sober the feather minded
and we'll fight like hell
Tarawa An Exception.
Mr.. Hoyt says the kind of new.
we got out of Tarawa is an excep.
tion," adding that when the Aleu-.
tian Islands were seized by the Jap.
anese, official communicates "wavec
our loss aside as if 1t were trivial.
ity" and that when Germans at.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
U. 5. Ballot Proposed
For Troops Whose
States Fail 10 Act
Boil Compromise Would
Allow Legislatures to
Perfect Own Lows
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

A new solution to the soldier
vote controversy that would give
the States until June / to perfect
their absentee ballot laws before
the Federal ballot plan would
take effect was put forward to-
day by Senator Ball, Republican,
OF Minnesota as both branches
OF Congress put OF action until
next week.
The Ball compromise would make
the controversial Federal ballot
available to any seryiceman whose
home State failed by June to take
these three steps:
u) Eliminate registration for men
in the armed forreE l21smaks GER
tain that the State ballot would be
ready for mailing As days before the
election, and CD limit the weight of
the ballot and envelope to IL ounces.
The War Ballot Commission would
prepare list of the States that COM
piled with these standards and ia
cilitate the transmittal of ballots to
and from service men and women
from those States. If State failed
to take advantage of this opportu-
nifty, the simplified Federal ballot
would be distributed to all Of its
servicemen.
Ball Expects Support.
Two Of the main objections raised
by the State rights advocates against
the administration bill are that the
Federal ballot is confined to voting
for President. Vice President and
members Of Congress, and that it
would not carry the names Of any
candidates.
Senator Ball believes his proposal
will gain considerable support on
both sides Of the political aisle, and
that 1t would give servicemen a
chance to vote for candidates, both
Federal and State, by name, If their
States take advantage of the five
months allowed for revision Of State
laws.
Meanwhile, Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan, who voted
against the Eastland- Rankin States
rights bill in December, made known
today he will vote for the admin
istration supported Federal ballot
plan. but will offer an amendment
to facilitate the handling of both
Federal and State ballots.
Lucas Against Compromise.
Some Republicans also were dis
cussing revival of the Austin
Lodge substitute, to make the Fed
eral ballot available to men over
seas. but requiring those in camps
in this country to get State alb
sentee ballot. -.,.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, of
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Jap Envoy Reported Jailed
For Radio Link With Reds
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 28.-The
japanese military attache in Bu-
charest has been jailed by Ruma-
MAN authorities on q charge of
maintaining Illicit radio commune
cation with Moscow, according to a
report from Bucharest.
The report said the Japanese
diplomat attempted suicide when his
residence was raided, but was cap
tured too quickly. Two Japanese
soldiers, who assisted in the opera
ton OF the secret radio link with
Russia. with which Rumania Is at
war, were reported to have been ar
rested with him.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Ruwson Quits
Argentine Post
After Rebuke
By the Associated Press.


MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan.
28.-Gen. Arturo Rawson has re-
signed as Argentina's Ambas-
sador to Brazil as part of the up
heaval in the Argentine govern
ment which already had result
ed in the resignation Of three
cabinet ministers and three other
officials since the severance of
diplomatic relations with the
Axis Wednesday.
Gen. Rawson, who was president
of Argentina for three days after
the revolution last June and then
gave way to Gen. Pedro Ramirez,
split with the government because
his sympathies were too pro-Allied.
The other designations resulted from
extreme nationalist leanings.
An open break between President
Ramirez and Gen. Rawson became
Co.. AD~rNy0rVNIa
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Raj Bombers Hit Berlin Aqoin,
Fires Roging in Foctory Areas;
German Blows in Italy Repu|sed
Roid Is Regarded as
One of Decisive
Finishing Strokes
~ the Associatsd Press.

LONDON, Jan. Z0.-dundreoS
Of Raj heavy night bombers
last night touched of fields OF
flame in Berlin, which Gen. H
H. Arnold previously has said
was three-quarters destroyed.
American bombers shortly after
daybreak today resumed their at
tacks on the Nazis' Atlantic wall,
and United States headquarters
announcement said "a military tar
get in Northern France" had beer
blasted. The raid, in the same gen.
eral area where mystery targets
have been hit heavily several times
in the last six weeks, was the Ameri-
cans eighth this month and the
second of the week.
The British announcement on
the Berlin raid described the 18th
heavy assault of the obliteration
campaign as ''very strong" state
ment borne out in the loss of "a air.
craft in all the nights operations.
Other Raj bombers hit at Helgo-
land, the Nazi's mighty North Sea
island fortress, while still others
struck at unidentified targets in
Western Germany and Northern
France and laid mines in enemy
waters.
"Mopping- Up Operations"
For all practical purposes, this
latest attack in the campaign
launched last November 1S to knock
Berlin from the war might be de-
scribed as "mopping-up operation. "
1t certainly was not considered here
rs the last assault planned against
the German capital, but was looked
on rather as one of the decisive fin
ishing strokes.
The bombers dropped $500 tons
OF explosives in 20 minutes last
night, the Air Ministry announced
today. This was 800 less than
Berlin received in the record raid
OF January 20. The concentration
IS tons minute, was some 10 tons
under the record.
Early Swedish reports said the
raid left great fires burning in the
outer districts of Berlin where most
Of the capitals heavy industry is
concentrated. The center of the city,
heavily pulverized in previous at
tacks, apparently escaped further
damage.
One of Worst Raids.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said
the first of last nights bombs fell
about o'clock, with the full force
Of the attack concentrated into
about q half hour. He said the raid
vas considered lone of the worst"
OF the u blows, but was not on the
scale Of the first attacks.
Berlin, making its usual claim
that the raid was terror attack" !"
said great damage was done, es-
pecially in residential quarters"
Four-engined Lancasters making
last nights attack left Britain early
enough to be watched for three
quarters of an hour as they streamed
out across the east coast in the dusk
The Aftonbladet's correspondent
said they tented in several direc-
tions over Helgoland to confuse the
German defenders.
Inccndiaries LOosed.
Berlin broadcasts confirmed the
feint tactics used by the Raj over
Helgoland, but asserted that neither
that nor the thick cloud covering
over the capital prevented the Nazi
fighters from closing in.
A Berlin correspondent Of the
German controlled Scandinavian
Telegraph Bureau said he received
the impression that the bombers
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Russians HurI Back
Nazis After Takinu
Two Rail functions
Soviet Paper Indicates
Isolation of Force
Above Lake linen
By the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Jan. %. Maule,
German forces in Northwes
Russia were being hurled bacl
today toward a line extendin,
through Narva Tin Estonia)
Luga and Staraya Russa by
charging Red Armies which hae
ripped to pieces their siege lines
around Leningrad and captured
the strategic railway functions Of
Volosovo and Tosno.
The Germans were fighting tt
keep Soviet troops from the streets
of Lyuban and Chudovo, their only
two remaining towns on the double
tracked Leningrad-Moscow trunk
line. All but 80 miles of the railway
is in Russian hands.
At the lower end of the northwes,
front, the Nazis were battling
frantically to keep the Russians west
of Novgorod and Lake linen from
rushing on the Leningrad-Pskov ant
Leningrad-vitebsk railways. Ski.
men were only 2 miles from the
Vitebsk line at midnight.
(Along the Baltic the Russians
were reported within 80 miles of
the Estonian border driving west
ward in the direction Of YAM
burg.
(The Germans reported heavy
fighting near Kerch in the East
ern Crimea and around Perekop
at the north entrance to the
Nazi-held Black Sea peninsula.
The Berlin communique claimed
German gains in the Western
Ukraine southwest of Pogre-
bishche and said 234 Russian
tanks had been destroyed yes
terdayD
Win Excellent Base.
The capture Of Volosovo, Al mile
southwest of Leningrad, gave tn,
Red Army an excellent base for {
| two-way operation west to Narva o.
southwark down spur line con.
Meeting with the Leningrad-Psko'
railway.
Red Star, the army newspaper
said the Germans were concen'
trating remnants of their defeated
divisions in the Viritsa sector, in
dicating that a large force of Ger.
mans-probably up to 100,000-hat
been isolated northwest Of Lake
linen.
Frontline reports said the Nazi.
drove their soldiers into a hopeles.
battle along their segment Of tn,
Leningrad Moscow railway, ane
that a great number were bein,
killed or captured. Those surviving
Evening star., 1944-01-28
BULLETIN,

Secretary OF State Hull said
today the United States has
been gathering all possible
information about treatment.
OF American war prisoners
held by the japanese so war
criminals may be punished
when the war ends.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
legislators Demand
Swift Vengeance on
japan for Atrocities
Clark and Moy Coll
For Destruction
OF Toxic

SECRETARY EDEN
tells Commons Japs commit at
rocities on British soldiers. Story
on page A-3.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Controlled Stoekpi|ine
Of Raw Materials
Approved by WPB
Would Avoid Danger
Of OversuppIy and
Economic Disruption
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

A plan lOT COnJIOlleQ SLOCkpll- =
ing OF raw materials to avoid the
possibility of oversupply and con-
sequent disruption of the post
war economy has been approved
by the War Production Board, it
was learned today.
Oficials would limit stores of
war-necessary materials to a size
considered sufficient from a military
standpoint. The program was ap-
proved by WPB members, including
onicials Of the armed services, in a
meeting this week. 1t must be In
dorsed by the Joint Chiefs Of STAFF.
however, before it Is placed in
effect.
VI Industrial leaders have expressed
fear that American supplies Of ma
terials at the wars end would be so
large as to cause serious economic
dislocation. Assurance that the
Government does not intend to un-
load large holdings of materials
when peace comes will lend conf
dence to industry and prove a popu-
lar move, 1t is believed.
Imports Stressed.
Larger stockpiles will be main
tanned OF those materials which the
United States imports in large
quantities. This will be especially
true in the case of materials pro-
duced In areas which might be
over-run by the enemy or materials
brought in over precarious shipping
routes.
For materials produced domestic
ally in quantity or easily procured,
the board approved the following
general formula for the size of stock
piles: Three months total wartime
requirements, or a years require
ments less the amount of annual
production in North America.
AS a guarantee that the materials
will remain in Government control
until called for by the military and
not dumped In commercial channels
the officials held that the stockpiles
Of metals should be "sterilized" by
congressional action. The stores of
materials will be held as a safeguard
against possible increased military
demand, while the day. needs
of war contractors will be met by
satisfactory working inventories and
current supplies.
Announcement Withheld.
WPB is Withholding announce
ment of the plan until it has been
approved by the top military officials
It could not be learned whether the
program would include metals only
or all of the hundreds of materials
which are not produced IN this eoun-
try in sufficient quantity to support
the war effort.
A large number of metals presum-
ably would be involved, including
copper, aluminium, tin, manganese
chrome and tungsten, and possibly
such nonmetalic materials as quartz
crystals, mica, cork, jute and wood
Officials said current supplies OF
some materials exceed limits pro-
vided by the formula. In almost
every category the present stockpile
Is regarded as safe" This has been
made possible by the improved ship
ping situation.
Some Government officials pri-
vately have discussed the practica.
bility of storing strategic materials
in short supply in this country
against the possibility of another
war. The idea calls for repayment
in strategic materials after the wal
for American help in rehabilitating
war-torn nations. The new WIPE
plan does not include that idea.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See HOYT, Page AID
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See ITALY. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-01-28

%(See WAR BONDS, Page A-2)a
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See RAIDS, Page AID
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(See ARGENTINA, Page Al
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See RUSSIA, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(see SOLDIER VOTE, Page AID
Evening star., 1944-01-28

(See ATROCITIES, Page AID
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
CREDITORS
 HEARING JUNE 2l
Loser in $2,00O Breach of Promise Suit Adjudged
 Bankrupt

Frank Mota of Waterbury, who lost c breach of promise suit brought against him last December in the amount of $2,000, has been adjudged a bankrupt and a first hearing of creditors has been set for June 2l at the local county court house build- ing. The hearing will be held before Saul Berlnan, state bankruptcy re- fierce.
 MT. Mota was defendant in a civil action brought in common pleas court by Emilia Lopes. also of this city, and the jury last December 2 awarded $2,oo0 damages to the wo. man, who claimed the defendant failed to keep a promise to marry her.
 Recently an order for payment of $l0 weekly to the plaintiff was is- sued in the court, after a com plaint was made that the award had not been satisfied. A further hear ing will be held this Friday when the plaintiff will ask for execution of that judgment and the defend- ant will present a motion asking for stay of execution in the proceed ingS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
OBITUARY

ST. JOHN-Harry Morse St. John, 72, Belmont street, Manchester, c conductor for the New Haven rail- road, died suddenly at the Hart. ford railroad station Sunday after noon.
 Stricken while he was completing a run from Maybrook to New Ha- ven, he continued through Hartford, MT. St. John had been with the company 54 years.
 Among the survivors Is a brother, Robert St. John, Waterbury.
 Funeral arrangements are in charge of Mark Holmes funeral home, 2S Woodbridge street. Man chester.
 DEAN-Mrs. Alice Dean, wife of Earl Dean of l39 Elm street, Win. sted, died at Ltchfield County hos pital yesterday afternoon after an illness of six weeks. Born in Salis- bury, she was a daughter of the late John and Emma Gregory.
 Besides her husband, she is sur- viewed by daughter, Virginia, a student at Gilbert school, and a son, Robert, a Fourth school stu dent; a sister, Mrs. Paul Welch of Waterbury; three brothers. John Gregory of Rocky Hill, Percival Gregory of Springfield, Mass, and Hardie Gregory of Wisconsin.
 Funeral arrangements are in- complete.
 PALOMBO-Mrs. Flora (Con- stanza) Palombo, 38S Hill street, widow of Angelo Paiombo, died yes- terday afternoon in Waterbury hos pital. 4 native of Italy, she came to the United States 65 years ago and was a resident of Boston for 45 years before moving to Water bury. She was a communicant of St. Lucy's church.
 Survivors include three sons,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
BIzzOzERO IN ROME SECTOR Local Doctor Reports High Percentage of Cases of
 Tuberculosis

Lieutenant Colonel Orpheus J. Bizzozero, former practicing physi- clan here, disclosed a phenomenally high tuberculosis rate of 200 per 1000 in Rome, que ne said, to over- crowding and malnutrition. It. Col. BiSzozero is an Allied Military Gov- ernment health official in the Holy City.
 A recent survey there showed that the number of German soldiers there in hospitals, reportedly 5000, actually was 17. The Nazis in Rome issued only 100000 ration cards, leaving half a million others with out rations.
 To curb tuberculosis the A. M. G. will attempt an ambitious depopu- lation program, sending thousands of refugees to southern Italy and barring Rome to refugees from the battle zone.
 Yesterday Vatican soup-kitchens, iEnplemented by the American Red Cross, fed 279,000 Romans. Bizzo- zero said the Vatican is doing an excellent job of feeding not only the masses but white collar workers able to pay only two or three lire for meal.
 Except for the appalling tuber- culosis rate, Rome's health is good, with no typhus or smallpox. The surprising absence of typhus Is due largely to fine sunny weather. Lack of soap, however, Is producing a high incidence of scabies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13

Tn addition to being the local winner of the $50 offered for the best essay. Miss Horan has also been acclaimed the winner of state honors. Formal announcements of her achievement was made Sunday at the closing session of the state convention of the Ladies Auxiliary, V. F. W. For this unusual distinc- ton Miss Horan will be the guest shortly of Lieutenant Shea Auxil- iary and in addition to receiving the local prize will be presented with a gold medal donated by the state de- partment and cash award of ST.
 Local judges in the contest ar- ranged by a V. F. w. committee headed by Miss Helen Shanahan, past president, included Miss Mol lie Cullen, editor of the Sunday Re- publican; Edward Fay, city editor of the Waterbury American and Ed ward Leanly, telegraph editor of the Waterbury Democrat.
 Honorable mention was accorded by the judges to Miss Anne Brophy, Waterbury Catholic High School; John Schweizer, Crosby High School and Miss Mary K. Leary, Sacred Heart High School.
 Miss Horan, 1914 winner, is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harold J. Horan of 292 Bunker Hill avenue. She is @ junior at the Waterbury Catholic High School and a gradu- ate of the Hopeville Grammar school
 Tn the five years the local V. F. w. auxiliary has participated in the national essay contests, Water bury has produced three state win ners. Miss Adla Shaker, a Crosby High School student won the local contest twice and the state honors once. Miss Joan Neagle of the Wa terbury Catholic High School was the Iast state winner prior to Miss Horan. The five contests have been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
MILITARY MASS
 MUSIC ARRANGED
Prof. Harmon to Direct Special Program at Sun.
 days Services

Professor P. r. Harmon, organist at the Immaculate Conception church, will be in charge of the n1u- sical program for the Military Mass which is being held Sunday, June 18th at 8 o'clock at the Immaculate Conception in conjunction with aH1- nual Communion Services of the Police and Fire Departments, Knights of Columbus. Postal Enn- ployes, Veterans Organizations, and men teachers.
 The services will be followed by Q breakfast at the Hotel Elton at g o'clock at which William J. OBrlen, well-known local tenor, will be the guest soloist.
 Raymond Walker of the American Legion will sound Church Call as the procession enters the Immacu- late Conception Sunday morning and will also sound Taps at the con- clusion of Mass. Following this the entire congregation will join in the singing of the Star Spangled Ban- ner, accompanied by Professor Har- mon on the organ.
 Each detail will have a parade marshal and church aide who will be in charge of arrangements for assembly, line of march and seating in the church. All groups are rec quested to meet at their respective assembly places not later than 7:30 Q. m.
 In view of the fact that American soldiers are participating in the invasion of Europe the Mass and Communion have taken on unusual significance this year. The event is dedicated to men and women in the service and 1t is expected that an unusually large number of repre- sentatives of the several organiza- tions will participate in the Mass demonstration.
 The Rev. Richard J. Bowling, S. J., Dean of Education at Holy Cross College, will be the guest speaker at the breakfast Father Bowling is Q native of Waterbury and we'll known throughout the New England Province of the Jesuit Order as a forcetul and eloquent speaker.
 Members of the Boards of Fire, Police and Education have accepted invitations to attend the event, as in past years. All board chairmen will be seated at the head table. It Is also expected that Mayor John s. Monagan will be among those pres ent, as he has indicated to the com- mittee in charge his intention of attending,
 Final plans for the Mass and breakfast are to be discussed at a meeting of the general committeee in the Columbus Club, 70 North Main street, tonight.