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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Anti-Trust Suit Filed

New York. May i.-(UP)-The Department of Justice filed an anti- trust suit in federal court today against an international cartel of Swedish, British, American and Canadian match manufacturers Nh0 allegedly have caused a match shortage and have seriously inter- fered with production of chlorate of potash.
 chiorate Of potash is used in au- munition and in flares.
 The cartel had it's beginnings in 1901 and subsequent Agreements continued to divide EoTid markets among it's members SO that the sales of American matches oFeEseaG were seriously curtailed, Wendell BeTge, assistant attesaey general iga charge of the sherman anti-irnst division. said.
 Berge. who came to NeW YoEk to file suit. declared the cartel hes hin6ered the u. s, ''eood neIahhoF policy" in Latin America because f turned that market oyer fo the sEedes for the sale of their esiall wooden safety match and prevented the exploitation of AmeFiea's cheap CT paper match.
 The defendants gre; Diamon1 Match company. MeW York: William A. Fairburn. Of 0iai. Calf, HTeEi~ dent; HoRaEd 2. Holman, of Matte yah, N. y, yiee-pFaEidenf.
 Rerst- F0rsteFv f9lxaaid eQmpanR. New York: Robert q phiFbNfn. New York, president,
 William Gordon coEpoEsfzna. @ New York,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Folk Probe Of M-W Seize
BY JOHN L. CUTTER limited Press. Staff COrrespOndent

luhlbe0 Press, btaht Corresp0noehU
 Washington. May l. - (UP) - Some members of the House Rules Committee mapped out a campaign today to force House action on a committee-approved resolution for a special investigation of the gov- eFnments seizure Of Montgomery Ward and conpany's Chicago prop critics.
 One member Of the rules group charged that committee chairman Adolph Sabath, D.. Illinois - who fought unsuccessfully to block con- niittee action on the resolution last week - had deliberately tried to keep the resolution away from the floor.
 This member. who refused the use of his name, said that under the House rules sabath could keep the resolution in his pocket for a week but added that 1t wAs because Of the urgency of the resolution that the committee gave it an immediate hearing and approved 1t for House consideration.
 'gf we can get . meeting of the committee this week" he said. "then the chairman will lose juris- dleilon over the resolution and We can send fl to the floor"
 Representative Eugene Cox, D, Georgia, another member of the committee, said "the resolution should 90 to the House as soon as
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LOGO HEAVY DOMDEUS KEEP
 UP ATTACK
BY PHILIP AULT CUnited Press War Correspondent

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 London, May 1. = (UP) - Unchallenged by German fighters, up to 1000 Ameri- can planes opened a new month and the third un- broken week of the unprece- dented offensive against western Europe today with a smash at the French invas- ion coast across the Straits of Dover.
 All the Flying Fortresses, LiberatorS and escorting fighters returned from the dawn assault. on the Pas De Calais coastal notifications. They set up such a din that crowds Swarmed to chalk cliffs of Dover in the belief that the invasion was begin ming.
 Hundreds of medium bombers. fighter bombers and fighters fol- lowed the U. s. heavyweights across Adolf Hitier's Atlantic wall, strik- ing at railway yards and air fields in France and Belgium.
 Marauder medium bombers and havoc assault planes of the ninth air force attacked rail yards h France and Belgium in considerable strength. They were covered by A. lied Spitfires and Mustangs.
 The ninth announced that its Marauders and Havocs dropped more than $500 tons of bombs on Europe in 5.lO0 Sorties last month. The attacks were concentrated on a marrow area of North France and Belgium.
 The U. s. Eighth air force's lsth operation in l5 days. the attack on the Pas De Calais. was impeded by a ground haze and poor yisibilitys but a communique said inc results were good" Some of the heavy bomber squa6r0ns were unable to l find breakeS in the overcast, all4 turned back without dropping their explosives.
 Anti-aircraft fire from German guns studding the coastal defenses threw up 6 heavy barrage. the only opposition encountered. but it was ineffective and not a plane vas loss in the attack.
 Among the numerous Allied form~ ations striking at the continent were Mustagn and ThundeFboit fighter-bombers which attacked raIl yards at Namur and Hatne 6t. Pierre. Belgium.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Guy TugweIl A'Dictutor'
 Poeon Soys
BY D. ". nTTTMER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, May l. (UP)-Resi- dent Commissioner Bolivar Pagan of Puerto Rica denounced today as ''scandalous" the administration of the islands governor. Rexford Guy Tugwell, and said the people would have revolted long ago If the American flag had not been waving" there.
 Pagan, who warned earlier that Puerto Ricans were almost on the verge of revolution" made his att tack after a house insular sub committee had reported that ex- cessive government control over the islands food industry must be rec turned to normal commercial chan nels "to perpetuate the American way of life"
 Tugwell, a member of the brain trust of the early New Deal, has made himself, so unpopular, acc cording to Pagan, that he is afraid to go anywhere without an armed guard and This attitude is nothing short of dictatorial-it can be matched only by Hitler and Musso- iini."
 "When he goes down the street in an automobile, two or three armed motorcycle police clear the way, then his car is followed by two automobiles filled with armed guards and after them come more armed motorcycle police" he conn missioner said.
 He declared that much of the governors unpopularity was based on his efforts to control insular politics and because the islanders, many of whom live in abject poy- erty, were obliged to support Tug well in regal splendor."
 "Only a week ago." Pagan said. 'Tugwell appointed an election commission and failed to name a representative of one of the isiands
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Workers Foil
 In Flood Areo

St, Louis, May l --tUP)- More than 10000 soldiers, aided by hun- dreds of Civilian Defense and yol- unteer workers and prisoners or war, worked in the rain today to strengthen and repair Mississippi river leyees as the flood crest swept past st. Louis, leaving more than 5000 families homeless and almost 2,O00, 900 acres of devastated farm land in its wake.
 The 3e.3-foot crest recorder at st. Louis was the highest ofiieial reading ever taken at that hydr0lie survey post, breaking the record established a year ago by several inches. The unofficial crest record at St. Louis of Sl.t feet was set in le4a.
 4 light rain fell in the inundated areas as workers, tTaYeltng in trucks and boats between leyees weakened by Q week Of pounding, piled sand- bags in breaches in the seawalls to keep the water from coming through, and on top of the leyees to hold the rising river.
 Numerous hTeak-thT0nghs were reported and Civil Air Patrol crews
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Judge Hears FinoI Pleas
 In M-W Case
By JAYNE MILLER limited Press CorresnOndef

Chicago, May l-CUP)-Adminis- tration faced a legal battle that may test its program for settlement of wartime labor disputes today with Federal Judge William H. Holly scheduled to hear final arguments on a petition to dissolve a tempor- ary injunction restraining Mont- gomery Ward officials from inter- ference with government operation of the firms Chicago plant, seized last Wednesday.
 The injunction was issued Thurs day night at the request of Attorney General Francis Riddle. and the following day attorneys for Mont gomery War petitioned for a dis solution of the writ. Judge Holly said he would hear final arguments on the petition today and would issue a decision at 2 p. m, tomor- row.
 Riddle and U. s. Attorney J. AL bert Woll mapped their strategy yesterday at a conference with Francis M. Shea, head of the civil section department of the attorney generals office. Shea came here yes terday to engage in the court fight.
 The hearing will test for the first time the presidents right to seize a retail store. if it is determined af- ter investigation that 1t is neces- sary to prevent serious interference with the nations war effort.
 Company attorneys, headed by Harold Smith. were expected to continue their argument that President Roosevelt exceeded his authority when he ordered seizure of the plant after the firm had re- fused to obey a War Labor Board directive to extend the union con- tract pending negotiation of new pact.
 Smith contended that the Smith, Connally antl-strike law. under which the president ordered the plant seized, makes on provision for the seizure Of distribution eenters" such as Wards.
 Riddle claimed the law provides for seizure of any plant where an interruption threatens to impede the war effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Wakde Areo Air Pounded
CNEA Telephoto)
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War C0Fresp0ndent

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, May i-(UP1-U. S. planes swept over l500-miles of the northern New Guinea coast during the weekend, centering the attacks on the Wakde area, no miles west of Hollandia, where American war ships joined in bombarding two air- fields and the mainland. it was an- nouneed today.
 Tn the raids. the fifth air force planes destroyed i8 enemy planes and probably three others while air and naval patrols sank seven troop filled Japanese bombex carried out the attacks on the Wakde area where with U. s. naval units they pounded the two airfieids on Wakde Island and installations on the Sarmi coastal sector. They dropped l26 tons of bombs on the enemy pos- itions.
 4 number of buildings were de- stroyed in the joint attack. gun pos- itions were silenced and large fires started, a communlque said.
 Allied heavy bombeFs also made a new attack on the Sorong area, at the far western end of New Guinea and approximately 800 miles southeast of the Philippines. Three enemy planes were damaged on the ground at Jefman airdrome and an- other probably destroyed in combat,
 The biggest toll of enemy aircraft was taken by long-range LiberatOFs. which made the longest air strike ever launched from c New Guinea base to hit Mokmer aiFdfonle on Blak Island in 0eelyink Bay, only l20 miles east Of ManokWafi, form CT Dutch New Guinea capital,
 The T7-ton raid destroyed ib en- emy planes parked on Mokmer air- dFone and the LiberatoFs shot down three and probably two others of i2 Japanese fighter planes which ats tempted to intercept the attack,
 Enemy troop harges were sung along the British New Guinea coast, below Hollandia, as the Allies ate tempted ie cut off the escape routes of the isolated Japanese troops on the Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Knox BuriaI Occurs Today
by sANDOR s. KLEIN

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 Washington, May i.-(UP)-- Prank Knox. who served his country as soldier in tgo wars and as See- retaIy of Navy in a third. will be buried beside many of his former conFades-in-aFns today beneath the veFdant slopes of Arlington National cemetery.
 The body Of the 5O-year-old Navy secretary, who died Friday Of heart disease. gtl be borne to the shrine of the nations hero dead upon Q horse drawn Army eaisson. Then. while . detachment of blue Jackets fires Q v0lley at the gFavesl6e Of their chief and . bugler sounds taps. he will be inferred with all tine honors reserved for one who dies fighting for his country,
 Tie service wlll not be the only one. Wherever conditions Of war permit, men Of the U. s, fleet will pause to pay homage to the memory of the man whose role it was to help build the fleet to its present stature as the worlds mightlest, Flags wlll be flown at half mast by every American. British and Canadian garship on the seven seas,
 The service here will start at 2 D. fn. in the Mt. Pleasant coneresa- tlonaI church where the secretary and Mrs. Knox were paFishioneFs-
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Invasion Doy
 Drows Nearer NeutruIs Say
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By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Stan Correspondent


 Lonudon, May 1-(UP)-Invasion fever mounted to-day amid official Allied asurances that the day of liberation for occupied Europe is mot far distant"
 Europe's vast underground army, estimated in the millions, was told by the new American broadcasting station in Europe in its opening broadcast last night that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme AL lied commander, will give the signal to rise up against the Germans when the zero hour arrives.
 Until then, be cautions, be dis erect" Robert E. Sherwood, over- seas director for OWI, said in in- augurating the new station in Brit ain. Do not be tricked into pre- mature action by Naz lies or de- ception."
 Underlining Sherwood's words of caution, the London Daily Express reported from Geneva that the Ger mans already have put into effect plan No. 1" in France to counter the impending invasion, Suspended members of the underground were being rounded up and travel has been restricted. the dispatch said.
 Another Daily Express dispatch said Swedish sources believed the invasion would come this week, probably within the next 4S hours or not until May IF because channel tides would be at low ebb during the interim.
 The Swedes expect Denmark to play "one of the leading roles in the invasion." the dispatch said. with diversionary operations against Norway. Radio Ankara speculated the Anglo-American armies would land in northern France and Bel gium.
 Tn Britain itself. the troops car- rier command of the 9th U. S. Air
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
StiIIweII Pushes On

Advanced Allied Headquarters, Randy, Ceylon. May i.-(UP)-The second anniversary of It. Gen. Jo- seph w. Stilwell's retreat from Burma today found his. Chinese and Americans continuing their steady advance down the Mogaung Valley toward Myitkyina. the biggest Japa- nese base in North Central Burma above Mandalay.
 Within the past month. the Allied forces have wrested one-third of the 80-miie front in the Mogaung Valley and pushed the Japanese back to within 10 airiniles of Kamaing and 20 miles from Mogaung, two enemy key points protecting the western flank of Myitkyina.
 The Chinese and Americans were driving toward Kamaing from two sides. The tank-supported Chinese units were fighting in the Inkang- hatagung area. northwest of Kama ing and approximately i2 miles be- low Warazup which StilWell revealed had bsen in Aii,ed hhElAs for 10 days, To the east. the Americans were driving on Warong, north of Kama ing.
 A communiqne said Allied opera tions were continuing against strong enemy positions in the difficult coup- try around Kohima, while just north of Kanglatongbi. IS miles above In- phag, British troops were meeting stiffer resistance by the Japanese
 Enemy eounter-attaeks were re- pulsed in the Bisheppur sector southwest of Inphal. the eoIlamunl- que said. while to the northeast, an Allied unit carried out a suc- eessful raid on tile Japanese lines In the Ukhrul sector. although no details were given, |,
 Allied planes continued attacks on Japanese communication lines throughout Burma, concentrating on those leading toward Imphal, lt was disclosed that Amrelean Mitchell squadr0ns demolished il bridges deep iTl Burma last week, bringing the total for the campaign to 35.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Allied Nonstop Air War Keeps BHtzing
Nazi Railroad Targets And
 Ports Hit Heavily In Italy
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press War Correspondent)
 Allied Headquarters, Naples, May 1.-(UP)-Naxi railroad targets and supply ports in northern Italy were hit in heavy day and night assault by more than 1000 American and British war planes yesterday, while hundreds of other Allied raiders pounded the enemy's lines of com. munication across the center of the peninsula, communique an- nounced today.
 More than 500 1'ly;ng Fortresses and Liberators, covered by strong fighter escort, paced the daylight offensive, striking at the Milan, Castel Maggiore and Allessandria railway yards, aircraft factories at Milan Bresso and Varese, and the Reggie Nell 'Emili airdrome. Anoth- CT Flying Fortress group hit the already-battered Fano bridge on the East Coast railraod line.
 The raiders encountered only weak German fighter and Flax op- position. Five heavy bombers were lost in the widespread attacks, while l2 enemy planes were shot down. II by the fortress and Liberator gunners.
 RAF Wellingtons, Liberators and Halifaxes followed up the daylight offensive with a series of heavy night attacks on Genoa, Spezia, and Livorno Heghorn) on the west coast, and the Monfalcone ship yards IS miles northwest of Trieste.
 Extensive Damage
 First reports on the day and night attacks indicated that the bombers inflicted extensive damage on the vital ports and railway cen- ters through which the Germans have been funnelling supplies and endorsements tot heir armies in southern Italy.
 American Maranuders and Mitch els also were on the attack by daylight, scoring damaging hits on the Arezzo, Corona. Ficula. Orvieto and Marsciano railway bridges, all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
Jurors Out In Sedition Case
Ry ANN HICKS

lunited Press Stan Correspondent
 Washington, May i-(uPl-Two weeks of efforts to get the mass edition trial underway went into the discard today when Judge Edward 0, Eicher discharged all prospective jurors, postponed resumption of the case until Wedesday and called a hearing for tomorrow on a possible contempt citation Of one Of the de- fense attorneys,
 EleheT announced the contempt hearing on arrival this morning. His action touched Of an upr0aF among the nearly 20 defense attorneys and 0ne-Maximilllan St. George, e0un- eel for defendant Joe MeWillleEls- was fined e20 for contempt because he stood ID and argued against Eieheris ruling after he had been ordered 10 st down,
 TomoFrog's hearing will be before Judge Jennings Bailey on the goy- eFngnent's motion to find ln con- tempt James J. Laughlin, attorney for Edward James Gmythe, who vas two days late iIl arriving here for the trial and was arrested by G. men at Au Sable chasni, N, Y.
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Submarine Thveot Checked For Now

Ottaga. May l - U.Pl Navy Minister Angus b. Macdonald said today that the submarine menace has been checked but warned '1t cannot be guaranteed that subEnef- ines will not Teappear in the st Lawrence river this year"
 Macdonald called for redoublen cooperation Q ffhe public in com baElng the submarine menace. He appealed for the dimming of ail lights shining directly on the 80, Lawrence nov that the navigation season hes reopened.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
MacArthur May Be Sent Home For Military ParLeys

had not been summoned home ber cause there was no desire 10 give him an opportunity fo become the center of political dem0nGlratlons here. others have suggested that there was military opposition 10 his return on the ground that he might say something which would enc courage pressure groups to demand greater ail0cafi0las 0f men ard munitions ko the soupthWest Pacific at the expense Of the European theateF. Glill others believed mac- Arthur could have returned any
 time at hfs c0nvenience but simply wanted t0 remain ulfh his eNr fConfinund on Raes a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
StoIin Calls For Joint
 Allied Blow
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff CorrespOndentD
 Moscow, May l-(UP)-Premier Josef Stalin's call for combined Russian, American and British blows to crush Germany was re- garded in Moscow today as having put down any lingering thoughts of Allied diyergencies regarding a vest ern front.
 In his May day order of the day. Stalin did not mention the words second front" His statement was considered most important, especial ly within the Soviet Union, where previous disappointments have inc clined many persons to believe that repetition of past history might be possible.
 Stalin's emphasis on the necessity of concerted Allied operations to break Germany answered the ques- ton raised in the minds of many Russians as to whether the Red army was capable of carrying out the task single handed.
 To rid OUT country and the colin- tries Allied with us from the dan- ger of achievement, he said, the wounded German beast must be pursued close on it's heels and fin- ished off in it's own lair. ..
 This task . can be accom- plished only on the basis of joint efforts of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States of North America by joint blows from the east dealt by our troops and from the west dealt by the troops of our Allies"
 underlining Stalin's words, the third major Russian air attack on a German base on the central front within 72 hours indicated that the Red Army shortly may break the
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BY LYLE . 2; w%ILs0N %

Washington. May 1. luPl-The apltal speculated today on whether Gen. Douglas AaeArthur's un- qualified disayowal of presidential aspirations would put him iH line for Q return to the United States Cor military conferences.
 He Is the only 0fficer 0f com parable rank or commend respoIl- abilities who has not been on hls own motion or for lack of an in- vitatlon from the War department, Some of MaeAFthur's top euh0rdir- ates have been back. UnfFiendly critics 0g the Roosevelt admlnlslra- ton have suggested ttat AsacAFthus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
By R. H. sHAcKFORD

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 Washington. May 1 - tu.po - The religious Issue was pr0jectea into the Russian Polish dispute to- day amid signs 0f . new Anglo American attempt 10 nntangie the territorial and political issues al- ready eOmplicating the controversy,
 Megr. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Cathode Welfare Conference, raised the re- llelOus note yesterday when he de. n0unced the unauthorized visit to Moscow of Father stanislaus OEle- manskl of Springfield. Mass. Ready said it vas a political bnFlesque" and .'ife pllonieHt propaganda that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-01
F.. Orlen,anski's Visit To
 StaLin Assaulted By Priest

the usually clever Idea men in Rus. Ela have palmed of on the United States"
 His dennneiation came Q few hours after the State Department announced that UndersecretaTy Of State Edward B. stttinills, IT,, had arrived at MarFakeeh. Morocco 10 confer with W. Avertil Hartman American Ambassador to Moscow and Robert D. Murphy, American representative on the Allied Council ln Italy,
 Gtetfinius just has completed q month of conferences in London and among the flrst and last per- fconiinpcd on Page O
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The L0dy Was a Little PFemotuFe

Boston, May 1-tUP)--NTrs. Ruth Fleisher. 29, of Back Bay opened a neighbours war de. partment telegram announcing a soldiers death, thought it re- ferred to her husband in Italy, and turned on the gas. She will recover.