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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
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LONDON, Feb. 3-tR-Russim
troops have completely cleared the
Germans from the east coast of
Lake Peipus which forms the 'front.'
Ter of Estonia, and have reached
a point 3miles from Pskov, Axis
pivot for all of northwestern Rus
STA, Moscow announced tonight.
More than 300 localities were
captured by Gen. Leonid A. Govo-
rows troops in a five-day plunge
down the 50-mile length of Lake
Peipus, which begins 80 miles in
land from the Gulf of Finland, a
broadcast-communique recorded by
the Soviet monitor disclosed.
The announcement that Soviet
troops were nearing Pskov, gate
way to southern Estonia and La
tavia, came short time after
Premier Marshal Stain issued an
order of the day announcing the
capture of Luga, rail junction on
the Leningrad-P skov-Warsaw rail-
way 80 miles northeast of Pskov.
In the Ukraine the Russians took
four more localities, battering back
the exhausted remnants of 100,-
600 German troops trapped near
Korsun, and pinning them down
to an eight-mile-long corridor ex-
tending from just south of Korsun
along a railway to Sotniki on the
north.
Sotniki itself was captured, the
communique said, and Soviet ar
tillery was reported laying down
a whitening fire over the remain
ing Axis positions.
German counter-attacks north
west of Zvenigorodka, 81 miles
southeast of Korsun, again were
declared beaten down with heavy
losses on the enemy in manpower
and equipment as the Nazis out
side the ring continued their at
tempts to bring relief to their dy-
ing companions.
The Berlin high command also
announced that Gen. Nikolai F.
Vatutin's western Ukraine forces
again were attacking heavily in
old Poland near Dubno, 80 miles
northeast of the German strong
hold of Lwow. A break-through to
Lwow would cut the main supply
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
Money Bills
Are Eyed By
Republicans
CUTTING DRIVE SEEN
Measures Supply Funds
FIR State, Justice And
Commerce Agencies

wasHINGTON, Feb. 13- Up -
rro new appropriation bills carry.
Nv: wv funds for four agencies offer
nls united House Republican bloc
q q fresh opportunity this week to
a lrv m a money-slashing drive
u us,lJ its leaders would like to
Seve1op into major political is
'" providing appropriations for the
state Justice and Commerce De-
S Sortments and for the civil func-
IONS in, of the War Department in
fiSra1 l945, they are expected to
rasch the House floor Wednesday
or Thursday.
Rep Taber N.Y. ranking Re-
,,,hIcan on the appropriations
committee, indicated he would
carrv on the curtailment drive
started last week when the House
considered the Treasury-Postoffice
s1nplv bill. Taber and fellow-Re-
nubljcans chopped nearly $500, 900
from the Treasury-Postoffice bill.
Their attempts to slash an addi-
tional 81 .O25,OOo were unsuccessful.
What Taber referred to as his
ECONOMY drive was stopped by
onlv one vote. The balloting was
along party lines.
Democratic legislators commended
that the Republican efforts to cut
the appropriations constituted
false economy
81 can see no better issue to
take before the people than the
issue of trying to save taxpayers
money through elimination of I'M
necessary expenditures of public
funds" the New Yorker said in
an interview.
a hink some of our Demo-
cratic colleagues are beginning to
realize that and l wouldn't be
to see some of them vot-
ing with us in the future on these
cuts"
Taber said he did now know what
specific items he would make the
target of his drive on the forth
coming bills but observed that
there are some items in there that
,an stand reduction.
The most likely target is the
'und in the State Department bill
or cooperation with other Amer
can republics. Some legislators
nave claimed that the United States
las spent money recklessly in its
5ood-neighbor program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
Strikes, Laxness At Home
Assailed By Local Soldier

A vitriolic letter written from
somewhere in the South Pacific"
scoring strikes and general lax
ness on the home front has been
received by L. H. Hobbs of 214 N.
22nd Street from his son, Corporal
Walter L. Hobbs.
The soldier writes that his senti-
ments are his ''honest opinion,
and, I feel free to say, also that
OF SO per cent of the boys over
here.
'There is a large group of loyal
citizens at home who have not yet
realized that there is a war on, -
he writes. Without the support
Of the home front. the armed
forces are absolutely helpless. This
business of strikes is one example
of the failure of the home front
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14

1.-The main issue is this: We
tie strikers, because of the rising
cost of living, are forced to lower
our standard of living. We must
have higher wages to live as we
used to- Then there are some
who strike for no good reason at
ell. Can't they realize that the
ten million men in the Army had
10 lower their standard of living?
That the families of men whose
earnings were cut from $50 a
week to $50 a month almost over
right, are having to lower their
standards of living?
"Any normal person will tell
YOU that the life of one American
boy cannot be valued in dollars
and cents. But that is what they
Continued on Page Two; Col. s..
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Views Of COP Candidates VARY
Widely On Different Problems
All Are Agreed That FRS
Administration Must
Come To End
By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS -(RH
Three potential Republican presi-
dental candidates appeared in ac-
cord today on the partisan con-
tention that the Roosevelt admin
istration must come to an end if
American liberties are to be pre-
served, but the pattern of their
thinking ON many other issues
varies widely.
A survey of recent speeches and
other utterances of the trio-Wen-
dell L. Willkie, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York and Gov.
John W. Bricker of Ohio-indi-
Gates that if the Republicans
choose any among them the party
also will be committed to some
form of international cooperation
to preserve future peace.
Beyond that point their positions
often differ, with their views rang
ing all the way from Wilkes
lnsistence that congress ought to
raise 16 billions in additional taxes
to Bricker's contention that gov
eminent economy is more impor-
tant now than higher taxation.
The three agree, however, that
the time has come for the Re-
publicans to return to power, and
they all say the Republicans are
better equipped to guide the post
war transition to civilian pursuits
with Dewey observing that there
are few thinking Americans who
wish to risk the peacetime chaos
of continued new deal govern
ment."
Dewey, who has said he is not
a candidate for the presidential
nomination but who is mentioned
as draft possibility, has not
committed himself recently on
some pressing issues.
However, he is on record with
the statement that the proposed
Federal war ballot for service
men would conflict with the New
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14

that sector now become one of the
worlds most battered strips of
land.
Operating together for the first
time since Feb. 5, the big four
engined types plastered mystery
targets in an intensification of the
assault previously handled chiefly
by lighter Raj craft.
The American heavy bombers
were escorted by American Thun-
derbolts and Mustangs. American
Marauders, escorted and support
ed by Raj dominion and Allied
fighters, and other Allied fighters
and British Typhoons also attack
ed military detectives in northern
France during the afternoon, a
joint British-American communi-
que said.
Seven German aircraft were
brought down during the day, six
by escorting American fighter
planes, while four of the heavy
bombers and two fighters from
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
COMPROMISE VOTE
BILL UP AGAIN

WASHINGTON. Feb. 13- Up =
A thrice rejected measure to make
state absentee ballots the first
choice in voting by servicemen and
women overseas bobbed up again
today as compromise measure
10 end Congressional wrangle
on the subject.
The bill, sponsored by Senator
Taft (R-Ohio), would allow use OF
a Federal ballot by members OF
the armed services only if they
fail to get a state ticket. 1t is
backed by most Republicans and
Southern States Rights" Demo
Gratis in the senate.
Apparently it is due for another
scrutiny by Senate and House con-
ferees who meet this week to seek
some common ground between the
Senate's insistence on a uniform
Federal ballot and the House de-
termination to let the States take
care of votes for the armed forces.
The Taft proposal was knocked
down three times by the Senate
In the administrations nal drive
to put through it's Federal ballot
bill. But Senate conferees indlcat-
ed tonight that the substance Of
the Taft PROPOSAL might make ur
the ultimate compromise.
Senator Green OR co-autho1
OF the administrations Federal
ballot bill and chairman OF the
Senate conferees, said the Tar
amendment couldn't be consider
ed in its original form but added;
The conference could settle
On something like it because the
conferees have the entire scope
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
STILWELL PLEDGES
AGGRESSIVE DRIVE

CHUNGKING, Feb. -lR-An
aggressive China-based land and
air offensive in support of an Am
erican thrust across the Pacific
to land ground and air forces on
the Chinese mainland was pledged
today by 1t. Gen. Joseph W. Still
well, communicative of Unit
ed States forces in India, China
and Burma.
Stilwell, now in the Ledo sector
of northern Burma with Chinese
and American forces, said every
facility and accommodation is be-
ing prepared for the largest new
cargo carriers available. These
will fly far greater tonnages than
do the present historic air trans
ports which have made records
in this theater.
Stilwell's statement took note of
the recent declaration of Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-
chief of the Pacific fleet, that
the Navy intends a drive to break
the japanese blockade and land
American forces on the mainland
of China.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
z Trim DE's, Honoring
War Heroes, Launched
AT Tampa, Fla. Yard

TAMPA. Fla, Feb. 13.-F'-
two Trim destroyer escorts were
:2anahed TO- the Ns2y today ~ the
4smps Shipbuilding Co. ysr5, one
q them completing ajs:n the ros-
Ter q n. Nays five Fighting
"'ssns,' AMI me other dedicated
70 m Alabama seaman ,.*no died
fsroleaay Is .nor:hs ago On the
cruiser San Francisco.
They we're The 'JSS Earl i. o.
sen snd me USS Slater. a0th ana
'!'t vsss:'s hvilt for the Navy By
lie +anra v1::G, AMI were chris
.ened By tie mothers OF the Navy
heroes for whnnn fhev gro nared
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
German Intelligence
Agents In lstanbul
Surrender To British

ITANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 13.--
R-Two more Nazi intelli-
gence agents operating in Is
tanbul have gone over to the
British, it was learned today.
They are Karl Alois Won
KIeckowski, second in charge
of cOunter-espionage for the
Germans here, and Capt. Will
helm Hamburger, a Gestapo
agent. Both are Austrians.
Last week a German clerk
to the military attache, identi-
fled by an Allied spokesman
as Erich Vermehren gave him
self up to the British.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
Exploding Glass
Bothers Drinkers

LONDON, Feb. 13.-R-
Beer drinkers in Britain are
being bothered by exploding
glasses.
1t seemed like a gag at first
when the glasses, filled with
beer, began falling apart in
the hands of pub customers.
But r. H. Poske, an expert on
tumblers, explained they APP
parently were defective.
If new glasses are over
toughened, he said, "a strain
is set up and they could ex-
plode if put on a warm table.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
MOTHER DIES

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l3-lR-
Mrs. Virginia Brown, IS, died to-
day vi 5u.ns suffered while she
tossed he: five children from a
,econd story window of her burn
Ing nome into tie arms at neigh
bo.s. None of the children, who
range from 10 months to seven
wear old. was injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
PROMOTED

HICKORY, Feb. 13-R-Phil L.
Barringer, son of Mrs. Perry L.
Barringer of Hickory, has been
promoted to the rank of captain
in the Medical Corps of the Ar
nv. He is stationed at Camp Hood,
Texas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14

Yak State Constitution, but prom
Using State aid in getting ballots
to the armed forces.
Bricker said he favored state
absentee ballots but Willkie OBJ
served he did not believe it is
practical under State statutes for
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14

every member of the armed SER
vice to be given the opportunity
to vote and was therefore in favor
of a Federal statute.
Willkie and Bricker are on rec
ord as pledging no change in the
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-14
French Mystery Targets
Pounded By u. S., Raj

LONDON Feb. 13.-lF5-F1ying Fortresses and LIB
orators in strong formations teamed with American Ma
RAIDERS and Raj Typhoons today in unprecedented Of
fensve against the invasion coast of northern France
dealing out probably the heaviest blow of weeks
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
Federal Subsidization of Education

We can think of no move which should
arouse more opposition to itself by the
people of Waterbury and other communi-
ties throughout the country than that
proposed by various federal agencies and
bureaus that certain phases of our
national, state and municipal educa-
sional program, following the conclusion
of the war, be subsidized by federal
funds.
It has aptly been stated that local
school systems and their relative educa-
tional programs are today truly last
bulwark of home rule. We should be
ever vigilant that they remain as such.
It is easy to present many arguments
in favor of the allotment of federal funds
to "bolster" our nations educational
program as there is no question in the
minds of most of us that many phases
of our educational system need recon-
Struction. However, advocates of federal
SubSidization are reSorting to blind logic
by twisting the situation around so as to
make it appear that federal subsidization
is the only means of correcting and de-
veloping our educational program. The
situation can best be done within our own
communities and states Just as aptly as
our present system has attained its ma
NOAAVy UAAOOSA oAA0 Ny O44C WA0SAOAAA ~"AAA
foresight of "home leaders.
Education has always been of prime
Importance to the people of Connecticut
as witnessed by the fact that they spend
some $30,000O00 year of their own
money for its support. The subSidization
of our educational program by the gov
eminent even in small part, at first means
another "foot in our own door,"
Although the recent Congressional
proposal known as Senate Bill 637 drawn
up by Senators Thomas and Hill and call
ing for the expenditure of huge sums of
money by the government for our local
and state educational program has been
referred back to the committee by the
Senate, its supporters have promised con-
tinued effort towards its passage.
We are wary of any federal Subsidiza-
Eion for our local needs, for we firmly
believe that no government plans to pour
money into any community without de-
manding some Jurisdiction over its ex-
penditure within that community. Fed
eral subsidies - particularly of education
- should be given careful, long and serl-
Gus thought by every citizen who has the
welfare Of his country and its youth at
heart.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
Final Farewell

We read with a twinge of wistful sad
ness President RooSevelts denial of the
Teheran banquet incident" Premier
Stain did not, it seems, conk Marshal Tt
moShenko on the skull with an empty
vodka bottle to halt lengthy and per-
haps undiplomatic after-dinner speech.
Marshal Timoshenko wasn't even there.
After that, we might just as well face
the fact that there is no room in this grim
world for slapstick. Ben Turpin is gone,
Harold Lloyd is retired, and Charlie Chap
lin is in the tolls of the law. And now a
story reviving the custard-pie technique
in its purest manifestation turns out to
have been the basest canard.
The Keystone Hops, alas, have entered
into Valhalla.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
More Paper Work

A friend in Washington writes of stand
ing in line for hours in the Internal Rev
enue building waiting for some expert
assistance in filling out his income tax
form. He says that some 5000 Wash
ingtonians have been doing the same
every day, and that it takes the experts
an average of 20 minutes to fill out each
form.
Now that you've filled out your form,
perhaps you would like to tackle a little
more paper work and try to guess how
many man-days of work have been lost
through people all over the country wait
ing around on the bossS time for help in
this simple little task. Or maybe you'd
Just like to take an aspirin.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25

one company which has invested more
than 81, 100000 mechanizing its proper
ties Instead of mule and hand labor,
machinery prevails. installations include
electrified mobile leaders, conveyor belts
and shuttle cars. The coal is mechanic
ally cut and pulled by mechanical
"arrns" to within reach Of mechanical
leaders.
OF course the mechanization of one
more mine is not headline news Neither
will it be news when another mine in
stalls drudgery-saving equipment. And
yet, through just such scattered instances
of progressive action continuing over
the years without halt, this country has
become great, its workers the envy of the
world. American industries, such as coal,
developed with the needs of the nation.
The inspiration for their growth was the
compelling invitation of individual OPP
portunity-the most powerful stimulant
to progress in the world, stmulant that
can exist only where personal liberty and
private property are secure, not where
government ownership stops reward for
enterprise.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
THE "GREEK EXPERIMENT.
(Hartford Courant)

With the passage OF a resolution
that is merely an expression of SEN
timent, the Senate has asked the
State Department to obtain the CO.
operation of the British and other
nationals in extending the Greek
experiment to other starving popu-
lations of Axis-occupied countries.
The resolution sets forth that
after a trial period of six months
the plan to feed the Greeks has
been found satisfactory. To fortify
that argument the Senate cites the
State Departments own certifica-
ton that the plan is successful and
that it has not worked to the bene-
fit of the Germans. Mr.. Hull, 1t
would seem, will find it difficult not
to comply with the request.
Although this plan is in nowise
related to the UNRRA, which asks
a billion and a third dollars for its
program to aid liberated peoples,
the facts should he emphasized that
relief is needed now, probably as
urgently as after the war, and that
the small nations have funds avail
able that they are ready and will
ing to spend for food. Worthy of re-
iteration is the argument that IN
no other way can we so easily and
so effectively build good will among
the people of Europe as by helping
the starving children and mothers
now existing or dying in misery.
What has worked in Greece is GER
tainly worth trying elsewhere. A
life saved now is as valuable as one
saved after the war is over.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
Chronic Kickers Not Liberals

Many who call themselves liberals have
one outstanding trait. They are always
kicking. The latest victim of this par
+icular brand of liberalism has been the
@edical profession.
Doctors have struggled in laboratories
and at bedsides for centuries to learn the
secrets of keeping the human body alive
and healthy. Dread diseases have been
nearly eliminated. The span of life has
been doubled in a few decades. Pain and
suffering have been reduced mirac-
ulously. Since the war, the perform
Rnce of the doctors has been supreme.
THEY have carried their hard earned
knowledge into the front lines with the
result that hundreds of thousands of men
will return to their families after this war,
who would otherwise be rotting in foreign
graves. The doctors at home are work.
ing night and day, literally without rest.
10 care for the sick and injured among
the civilian population.
A lot of cockeyed schemerS, whose blood
pressure would have felled them long ago
e. few competent physicians had not
been at hand, are now telling the coun-
try that the medical men have got to do
much better at once or Uncle Sam will
step in and take care of our medical
needs. But Uncle Sam never saw the in
tide of medical school. After the shouting
dies down it will still be up to the doctors
20 keep us healthy. Socialized medicine
would do no more than make the govern
ment bill collector for the doctors, pay
able in advance, with large part of the
money retained for bureaucratic activi-
lies. Medical advancement will be
echieved by the doctors in the future, as
N the past.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
Views OF The Press

Vermont project. Army engineers
engaged in the $29,O0O,000 proposal
to erect a 300-foot dam at West
Dummerston on the West River say,
1.-THE plans will undoubtedly include
facilities for fishing, boating, bath
ing, winter sports, picnicking and
camping Fine! Even if the be-
nighted Vermonters don't want
these things they'll have them
forced upon them Just the same. SO,
too, will they be provided with
hydroelectric power of which they
already have an abundance, and in
this lies the crux of the entire
matter.
Seven villages will be destroyed
an entire river valley inundated
the wishes of citizens ignored, their
feelings outraged, to provide some
thing that the folks at home don't
want. 1t just doesn't make sense ex-
cept, perhaps, to those who have
lived too long in the miasn1a OF
feverish Washington.
A bill introduced in Congress by
Representative Charles A. Plumley
of Vermont would repeal the exist
ing law that gives such arbitrary
power to the Federal Government
1t would substitute instead pro-
vision requiring the Secretary OF
War to carry on such projects as
food control only in cooperation
with the States affected. This Is
entirely in accord with the conSti-
tutional government under which
we are supposed to be living. Let
there be no mistake about it: YER
mont is standing for something
mighty important to us all.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25

Progress is hard to kill. The coal in-
llustry has been subjected to every con-
ceivable disruptive influence. Strikes,
bureaucratic restrictions by the carload,
and finally government seizure have
worked to discourage the initiative OF
1nanagements. But in spite OF handicaps,
the coal mine operators are making plans
for the future and are spending money
expanding productive capacity N the
hope that better days lie ahead. Press
reports recently carried an account OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25
Changing World

If you don't think that the world is
changing, reflect that it wasn't long ago
a ana Dot w MSge zn afs en0 p d0t e
selves on dressing dress each night for dinner,
post.
Today, the Russian diplomatic corps
has dress uniforms with more gold braid
than the village bandmaster's uniform.
While wartime London took its dinner
jackets out of moth-balls for the first
time the other night-to attend an aid
to-RusSian banquet.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-25

Leo Hendrix Baekland, inventor of
bakelite, was born in Belgium. In 1882
he received his degree from the Univers-
ity of Client. He began early in life to
do smart things in the scientific field.
Among his greatest achievements was the
creation of modern beke1ite which has
been the greatest impetus of any other
His death occurred this week at the age
of eighty years in Beacon, N. Y. Bakelite
was one of the many materials he worked
on and which today is one of the most
popular materials in the manufacture
of many articles in daily use.