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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Early Plans
 Europe Trip

Paris, Jan. 13.-(UP)-Stephen T. Early, President Roosevelt's press secretary, will come to Europe early in February to confer flor several weeks" with public relations officials at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's su- preme Allied headquarters, 1t was announced today.
 Earlys visit will be made at the invitation of Brig. Gen. Frank s Allen, Jr., director of the SHAEF public relations divisions.
 The purpose of Earlys scheduled trip to Parin was not divulged, but it was recalled that the public rela- tions division at EiSenhoWer's head quarters has bene criticized severe ly for it's handling of news on the German offensive in the Ardennes.
 War correspondents at headquar- ters protested bitterly against the 48-hour time lag imposed on all front news in the opening stage of the German drive, as well as other phases of the censorship. George Lyons, Of1ice of War representative backed up the correspondents pro- tests and characterized the SHAEF policy as stupid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Moore Hurt In Germany

Pfc. William c. Moore, 19 son of MT. and Mrs. Thomas F. Moore of 103 Concord Street, was wounded in action in Germany Dec. 28, ac- cording to a telegram received by his parents from the War Depart. ment last night. The nature of the wound was not detailed other than it was not believed to be of 6 ser- iouS nature.
 Pfc. Moore, Q member of Patch's Seventh Army, in his last letter home told of capturing a few Ger man prisoners and described the general terrain in that area. His last letter also told of receiving special radio training.
 Eentering the service July 194S he attended the Army ASTP school until the latter'S dissolution at which time he was transferred to Camp Fannin, Texas, for further training before leaving for ths European theatre of war. He is q graduate of Cheshire Academy class of 1043.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13

Forty-SiX Japanese fre1ghters and coastal vessels attempting to land endorsements and supplies at San Fernando Thursday were intercept ed by American naval units. Gen. eral Douglas MacArthur's commit nique reported. and when the smoke of furious Shellfire cleared, all 46 had been sunk or damaged heavily. (Radio Tokyo said two American conveys already have landed troops and supplies on the Lingayen Gulf and third or more than 100 trans ports. 100-odd landing craft and 10 escorting aircraft carriers had ar rived in the gulf, Tokyo also spec ulated that other American landings were impending at Batangas, south west of Manila, and Lamon Bay, southeast of the capital.
 (The Jaapnese Domei Agency as- serted that the American Forces on the southern flank of the beach, head are moving on Aguitor (posSi- bly, Aguilar,, 10 and l-2 miles in- lanO on the Agno river and that major ground clash on the north central Luzon plain is imminent.
 12 Miles Advance
 At the center of the -beachhead. strength through Malasiqui. F miles inland, to within six miles of the Agno river line on the main high way from the Lingyen Gulf to the Agno river, along which the Japan- ese may attempt their first stand 90 miles north of Manila
 Japanese resistance continued feeble at the center of the beach, head, but sharp fighting was raging along the eastern perimeter rough ly midway between Malasiqui and Rabon. Fairly strong enemy forces were encountered along the Mana oag -Pozorrubio road eight miles in land from San Fabian and the hills to the north.
 Increasing enemy contacts indi- cate that our forward units are en- tering the zone of enemy concen- tration,' MacArthur's communique said
 On the western flank of the beach, head, O other American columns | brushed back small enemy groups near Umanday, six miles below Lirgayen Gulf, and pushed on to the south in a drive that holds potential threat of outflanking the Agno river line. Umanday is west of the Agno, which turns sharply east some 20 miles inland.
 The main advance through Mala- siqui brought 13 miles of tn eLinga- yen Gulf Manila narrow gauge rail-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Boston Raps Life Photos; MavBarSaIes n Hub- TolUn

asked to step outside of commun- ity boys club where they were play ing to pose and Hook tough.
 Of the series. John E. Flaherty, a Democrat and house minority leader, said:
 Life magazine has reached an all-time low for cheap circulation tactics in a futile attempt to ridi- cule the Irish people of Boston,"
 State Sen. Joseph L. Murphy, 8 Boston Democrat. asked that the magazine he banned because it was "derog bigoted. un-American and will stir up class hatred" Act ing Mayor John E. Kerrigan. a Democrat and resident of South Boston, described the pictures as distorted" and perverted" In answer to the criticism, vice. president Eric Hodgins of Life said the article was printed in a spirit of constructive appreciation of the city's problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
TANKS WIDEN bEAcHHEAD TO 26 MIL ES JapS Mobilize AM Available Manp0Wer
GROWING CRISIS IN !!! PACIFIC WAR WORRIES E::MEEM!!!Y E::! !E!!!

London, January 13. = (UP) = Axis broadcasts said today that the Japanese gov ernment had ordered the mobilization of all available manpoWer and extended mil itary control over the civilian population to meet a grow ing crisis in the Pacific war.
 With American armies rapidly expanding their foot hold in Luzon and Super fortresses roaming at will over the Japanese homeland, a German transocean dis patch from Tokyo said the Japanese cabinet had ap- proved a broad program ln- tensifying it's war effort.
 The program called for the i'm mediate mobilization of all avail able manpcwer into the armed froces and war production. Further steps toward sufficiency in food production were ordered.
 The cabinet also was said to have extended military authority over additional sections of the civilian administration to control the popu- lation during air raids, perhaps be- cause of apprehension over the re- action of the Japanese people when the raids increase in frequency and intensity.
 Radio Tokyo said the further decentralization" of school chil- dren also had been voted by the cabinet. More than 100000 chll- dren also had been voted by the cabinet. More than 100000 chll- dren previously had been ordered evacuated from the Tokyo o-Yokoha- man Osakakobe, Nagoya and north- ern NkyuShu areas. =. | Premier Gen. Kuniawi KolSo will discuss the new war measure Ill the Japanese parliament session opening January 21, Transocean said.
 Superfortresses made three more reconnaissance flight over the Tokyo Yokohama and Nogoya areas of central Japan this afternoon without dropping bombs, Tokyo domestic broadcast said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
8 Bremen FeIIed In Boston BIoze

Boston, Jan. 31 - (U.PO - Eight firemen were felled by smoke and fumes early today when a four alarm fire swept fve-story brick building containing stores of paints and chemicals and spread quickly with two explosions that blew out Q score of windows.
 Paints and chemicals stored in the basement of the Bedford street building fed the blaze and caused sheets of flame to shoot from the windows.
 Hospitalized were Acting Captain William Hart and Fireman John Burke, both of Boston. Three others who were overcome at the scene were released after hospital treat- !. ment. The fire, which started in the cel- lar and worked its way into the up- per stories, was of undetermined origin. Damage is approximately Al6,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13

Boston, Jan. l3-(UP)-A Life magazine pictorial "takeout" on Boston was described as "fiippant" by civic leaders today and one leg islator urged Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan to bar its sale in the city. There was no immed- fate comment from Sullivan.
 In a nine-page series of pictures titled "Boston-An Old City Looks Ahead" the magazine showed a group of photographs ranging from those of political figures to some poorer sections and their inhabi- tants.
 Particularly criticized were pie lures of a section of the city known as South Boston. one of the earliest portions settled and now the home of many old Irish families.
 The pictures showed so-called "slum" areas and three boys who, Legionnaire Prank Wiley said, were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
|Nuzi Losses Heovy After AIsoce Fight
J. EDWARD MURRAY

Paris, Jan. 13-CUP)-Three AL lied armies fought into the Ar dennes pocket today in a bid 10 prevent the Nazis from turning their salient into a barrier that would block a rev Allied march on the Ruhr and Rhineland.
 In the Alsace corner of north eastern France, the Germans threw a heavy armored attack into the American Seventh Army's Maginot line defenSes on the edge of the Hagenau forest and were thrown back with heavy losses. Hard fight ing was continuing there early to- day, however, and long range Ger man guns across the Rhine opened a drumf1re barrage on, the American lines.
 The battle of the Ardennes was developing into race by the con- verging American and British forces to overrun the entire salient before the Germans could dig in on a semi-permanent line along the wooded ridges extending northeast ward from Houffalize to St. With.
 Field dispatches said the Germans were back-pedaling at top speed from the western end of the pocket and fighting savagely farther east against the American armored di- visions battering into their Hanks from the north and south.
 Everywhere the German were fighting a Skilful rear guard action that seemed likely to nullify the Allies efforts to envelop the bulk of the enemys armor The Ameri- cans and British apparently were concentrating on driving the NaZis back into the Reich to clear the way for resumption of their east bound offensive.
 The biggest gains around the shrinking German pocket today were registered at the western end where the British Second Army linked up its front with It. Gen. George s. Patton's forces and chopped of practically all of the enemy lines west of the Ourthe river.
 British outriderS were cutting swiftly through Nazl minefields and scattered rear guards on 13-mile front looping northeast from St. Hubert to the Ourthe line at Ortho, four miles southeast of La Roche.
 Dozens of Belgian towns were overrun with little or no opposition
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Reds Launch East Prussia Winter Drive
(NEA Telephoto)
By BRUCE w. MUNN

LonCOn, Jan. l3-(UP)-Berlin said today that the Red Army has unleashed two more winter offers- ives-its second and third in "A hours-With powerful attacks in East Prussia and along the Hungar- an-CzechoSloVak border.
 The German DNB agency also re- ported that the Soviets had thrown at least three armies, two tank corps and other independent units into the first of its long-aWaited winter offensiveS, which admittedly already had preached the outer Nazi de- lenses before Krakow iii southern Poland.
 DNB said Russian forces at the northern end of the front had swung over to the offensive this morning along a 20-mile sector in East Prussia between Pillkallen. 28 miles northeast of Isterburg and 10 miles from Lithuania, and Eydtkau, on the East Prussia Lithuanian border.
 The offensive got under way from the narrow eastern salient of East Prussia which the Red Army seized in a brief spurt last October. The attack was focused along the north ern side of the Konigsberg-Kaunas railway.
 Simultaneously, the Berlin radio said, Soviet forces 500 miles to the south attacked along an 80-mile front on the Hungarian -Czechoslo- yak border between LoSonc (Lu- cenec) and point south of Kassa (Kosnice) with seven to eight divi- SionS.
 The southern offensive appeared designed to crumple the German salient in eastern Czechoslovakia. The front had been relatively quiet for nearly a month while the Rus sians threw their main strength against Budapest, to the southwest.
 Jittery Berlin broadcasts said very heavy fighting" had developed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
No NoMonpower
 Draft Vital
 Asserts CIO
(NEA Telephoto)
By DEAN w. DITTMER

Washington, Jan. 13 - CU.PO - President Roosevelt's request for work or fight" legislation to force 4-Fs into war work ran into tough obstacles today. as the following de- VelopmentS were reported:
 l. The Congress of Industrial Or ganizations said such law would be thoroughly unavoidable" that no form of manpoWer draft was needed but that manpoWer problems should be worked out by manage ment and labor conferences with the goverdnment
 2. Members of the House Military Affairs Committee, currently con- Sidering the May ork-or-fight bill, asked if such law would force new war workers to join unions against their will.
 3. War Production officials said the manpower crisis in industry would be greatly eased anyaway if the currently reported trend of 4-Fs into war work continued.
 The House Committee has been holding hearings all week on the bill introduced by Chairman Andrew J. May, D.. Ky, to set up special army units for men Is to 45 who refuse to do essential war work. Army, Navy, manpower and produc- tion officials have told the commit tee of the need for legislation to force men into war work.
 But the committee has not yet heard from labor, which is scheduled to present its side of the case next week.
 Last night CIO President Philip Murray told Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes in letter that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Legislators Asked To Bar Lobbyists From Sessions

Boston, Jan. 13.-(UP)-A bill that would raise the annual salaries of members of the Massachusetts legislature from $2,000 to $3,500 plus a $l,5O0 allowance for home office and secretarial service has been filed filed by Sen. Charles w. Olson (R) Ashland.
 The bill, one of 1887 filed before the closing hour for new legislat tion last night, provides that traveling expenses would be additioal.
 Other bills would:-
 1. Raise the annual salaries of attorney-general from 5000 to $l2,- GOO; the Acknowledgements from $4, GOO to $6,0OO;l and the eight members of the executive council from 42,0OO to $4.0O0 each.
 2. Provide free medical service by doctor assigned by the state public health department to mem-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Prociewicz Hearing Set

Habeas corpus proceedings started by Emil ProcieWicz, 16-year-old Torrington youth, in an effort to obtain release from the Cheshire reformatory, will be continued here next Thursday at 3 p. m.. when a special hearing will be held before Common Pleas Court Judge Miles F. McNiff.
 Last week Judge McNiff ruled the Winchester town court acted within it's Jurisdiction when it sentenced the youth to the institution Dec. Il on charge of taking a motor ve- hicle without permission.
 In papers on file in the court to- day, the youth claims his father was not a proper guardian and did not fulfill the constitutional guar antee to the accused. The allega- tion has been deneid by Assistant States Attorney Walter w. Smyth, and arguments on the claim will be presented Thursday.
 It is understood that George Frs kine, superintendent of the Chesh- ire institution, and Judge Raleigh How'd, who imposed the sentence, may be here for the hearing. The boy was brought here once pre- viously in connection with the pro- ceedings and may be brought here again next week.
 The new petition, filed by Attor- ney Hyman Silver of Torrington, states the guardian, Kiprian Prota- sevich (also known as Cyprian Pro- ciewicz) does not speak English well and has difficulty in understanding ordinary conversation. It is alleged the father believed the boy would be placed on probation and did not understand a reformatory sentence was pending.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
3-Hour Earthquake In Jopon Reported

Weston, Mass. Jan. 13-(UP)- A severe, three-hour earthquake has occurred in or near Japan, the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.'J Weston College seismologist. reported to- day
 The quake was recorded here at 2:52:l3 p. m. yesterday. Father Lipehan estimated the epicenter to be about $500 miles from Boston. He said it probably occurred either On the mainland of HonShu, on which Tokyo is situated, or close by.
 Though not so severe as the temblor that rocked Japan in De- cember, yesterdays quake would have done considerable damage if 1t occurred on land, Father Linehan said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
38 Japanese Ships,
 .39 Planes Wrecked
By MAC R. JOHNSON

Pearl Harbor, Jan. 13 - (U.P0 - Carrier planes of the Third Fleet struck powerful new blows along a 250-mile stretch of the French Indo- China coast today after Wrecking 38 Japanese ships in the first phase of an assault that apparently has smashed a major enemy attempt tc reinforce embattled Luzon.
 Carrying the attack into it's Sec- ond day, hundreds of divebombers, torpedo planes and fighters ham mered at shipping, airdromes and other enemy installations from Sai- gon in the south to Quinhon in the north.
 GA Tokyo broadcast heard in Lon don said some 90 B-29 Superfort- resses also attacked Saigon last night, but there was no confirmation from American sources that land based bombers had joined in the attack. The Tokyo broadcast said 20 SuperfortreSSeS were shot down by Japanese fighters and ground de- fenSeS)
 A Pacific fleet communique dis closed that 25 ships, including six and possibly l2 transports. 5,800- ton Katori class light cruiser and several destroyers or destroyer es- corts, were sunk and 13 other ves- sells damaged heavily in the initial attacks yesterday Gndo-China time). Thirty-nine Japanese planes also were destroyed.
 At last reports, our service forces have suffered no damage and were continuing their attacks" Admiral Chester w. Nimitz announced,
 At least four Japanese conveys were hit in yesterdays strikes and it was theorized that some, if not all had embarked on an attempt to move additional troops and supplies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
POWER co.
 MOVECR|PPLES WARFACTOR|ES

Cleveland, January 13. - (UP) - The Army seized control of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Con- pany early today, terminat- ing a 16-hour wildcat strike, and ordered the strikers to return to work immediately or be discharged.
 In the fastest strike action to date, President Roosevelt ordered the Army to take over before the power strike hampered production in ad- ditional war plants.
 At least 40 plants depending on CEI for power had been forced to curtail production before the army took over.
 Col. E. A. Lynn of tie army ord nance department. accompanied by a staff of eight officers and carry ing United States flag, entered the GETS downtown office and took pos- session of the struck facilities at 4:15 .. m.
 Lynn said norma, power service could not be expected until mtd- morning, and appealed t. homeown- CTS and industrial users to conserve electricity.
 Lynn immediately called on all employees to return to work.
 Any employe who does not re- port at the beginning of his next regular shift will be subject to inn mediate discharge" Lynn said. Any who hesitated, he said would be "im- mediateo referred to the state di- rector of selective service for re- classification in event he holds an occupational deferment."
 Acting Secretary of War John J. McCloy in Washington called for every striker to resume his post at once" in a statement announcing the presidents early morning seizure order.
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 ThA wildcat strike of 400 main- tenance workers reportedly started ovev q union stewards resentment of the ccmpany's refusal to substitute 8 day shift for the overnight shift to which he had been Ssigned.
 Power was cut from 50 to 75 per
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500 Sailors Lost At Seq
Rv LLOYD TUPLINC

| With Admiral HalSey'S Third Fleet. Dec. 20 CUP) A SWirllng tropical typhoon caught a group Of third fleet vessels attempting to refuel from tankers at sea after eX- tensive operations swept 800 men to their death, sank three destroy CTS and damaged three craft.
 Goss of the destroyers was an- nounced by the Navy Department in Washington Wednesday,.
 Only 91 officers and men survived the sinking of the destroyers, the U. s. s. Hull and the U. s. S. Monaghan, 1900 ton vessels of the Farragut class, and the U. s. s. Spence, 2100 ton ship of the Fletcher class.
 Three officers and "A men of the Hull, whose bodies or Identification tags were recovered, were listed as dead. The remainder of the com- plements of more than 600 abroad the three vessels, except for 23 survivors from the Spence, 62 from the Hull and six from the Mona khan, were listed officially as miss ing.
 Eleven men were swept overheard from other ships and two men per- ished in the intense heat of des- troyer's engine room when the mountainous waves knocked out the ventilating system.
 For two days the typhoon had buffeted the ships, following an cratic, unpredictable course which the formation was unable to evade.
 The destroyers lost steering con- trol while attempting to get clear of the storm area. First the Hull, then the Monaghan and the Spence overturned and were swallowed by the boiling seas.
 The capsizing was followed by 50- horror filled hours for most of the survivors in storm-tossed. shark infested waters and by days of un- ceasing toll by rescuerS.
 Chief Machinist Henry J. Deeters, 28, of (56 Mt. Vernon St. Boston | (CA1tinupd on Page 2)
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bers of the legislature.
 3. Bar all lobbyists from the state house while the legislature is in progress.
 The legislature .las also been asked to belatedly exonerate six persons who were hanged during the witchcraft delusion at Salem in 1892.
 Sen. J. Elmer Callahan, (R) Sa- lem filed the petition in the Sem ate yesterday in behalf of H. Vance Greenslit of New Orleans, La a descendant of the family of Ann Pudeator. one of those hanged.
 GreenSlit sought to clear the name of Mrs. Pudeator but Calla- han decided to include the names of five other victims of the witch craft delusion. Susanna Martin Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Mar garet Scott and Wilmot Read.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Germons to Execute 5 French Prisoners

London, January 13. - (UP) - Berlin reported toda ythat five Frenchmen in German hands had been sentenced to death "by regular court procedure" because of the persecution of so-called collabora- tionistS" in France.
 The executions by the Germans in direct reprisal for the action against pro-Nazi clements in France was reported in a broadcast DINE dispatch quoting a ferign office spokesman.
 Nazi government authorities threatened some weeks ago to inc yoke the reprisalS against French men in Germans hands If the trials of persons suspected of collaboration in France continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Big Ground Fight
 On North Central Luzon Plain Seen
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

General MacArthur's Headquarters, Luzon, January 13 (UP) - Sixth Army Forces have driven six miles into the eneny fortified flank the eastern shore ot Lngayen Gulf under supporting fire of American warshps widening the beachhead to at least 26 miles, front dispatch disclosed today
 The thrust from San Fabian former northeastern anchor the beachhead carried to the coastal town of Rabon four and half miles southwest of Rosario Areld 8 miles from Baguo and 29 miles south of San Fernando the latter the center of strong Japanese concentration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13
Rev. Motthew Brody Ordoins Candidates

St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 13 = U.P0 - As one of his last Pontiflcal acts as Catholic Bishop of Burlington, the Most Rev. Matthew F. Brady, native of Waterbury, Conn, who soon be- comes Bishop of Manchester, N. H., today ordained two candidates to the priesthood.
 The candidates were the Rev. Ed ward Desrosiers of Burlington and the Rev. Paul Orzech of West Rut- land. They were assigned to par ishes in the Burlington Diocese.
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