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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-03

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-03

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-03
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-03

Sgt. Vincent tDuke) Sullivan. A Nelson avenue, is now serving with the military police in the European theatre. Sullivan was employed at Harmon's Grill, Baldwin street, at the time he entered the Army in March, lo44. His wife. the former Helen O'Connor. and two children. Timothy. and Maureen, reside ct the Nelson avenue address. He Is the brother of Martin Sullivan. al- dernien and police commissioner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

General Macarthur (right) studies maps
with aides on Luzon.
ing Yank stepped ashore below
the Philippine capital itself, threat
ening any enemy effort to bring
up reenforcements from the south.
AS long as Macarthur still appeared
to be holding back some of his
strength, Jap commanders were re-
luctant to commit sizeable forces
into the battle in the Manila region.
In one Of the most dramatic cpl
sodes of the Philippine invasion,
picked men Of the 9Th Ranger bat
talon and Filipino guerrillas made
surprise attack on a Japanese pris-
on compound behind enemy lines on
Luzon, freeing 486 Americans, %
British, three Dutchmen and Nor
wegian. Although over 100 were so
weak from malnutrition, disease and
old battlewounds that they had to
be carried off on husky Ranger
backs or in carabao carts, only two
failed to survive the 25-mile jour
ney to safety.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
MEAT:
u. S. to Take More

With smaller slaughter in federal
ly inspected plants reducing alloca-
tons of meat for military and lend
lease purposes, the government
moved to channel more stock into
these packing houses from non-fed-
orally inspected establishments.
To trim slaughter at the $1,000
non-federally inspected plants, whose
entire output goes to civilians, the
government reported that they will
receive cattle subsidies ranging from
so cents to 81 per hundredweight
only for the same amount of stock
that they butchered a year ago,
while payments Of $3.50 per hundred
weight on hogs will be made on only
70 per cent Of the volume of 1914.
Effect of the regulation will be to
make less meat available for civil
ians in centers served by non-fed-
orally inspected plants, but only
slightly more for consumers supplied
by federally inspected houses. Pres
ent government acquisition of half
of the beef and As per cent Of the
pork output of federally inspected
plants will be increased, it was said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
EUROPE:
Berlin Coal

Berlin was their goal as the
First White Russian and the First
Ukranian armies plunged to the
winding ice-packed Oder river on
wide front, with German resistance
growing stronger as columns of re-
endorsements rushed to the front
and took up their positions in the
flaming battle line.
With the two Russian armies
drawing up to the Oder on an al
most solid front from above Berlin
clear down to the Czechoslovakian
border, Berlin was inperilled by
powerful outflanking maneuver by
Marshal Zhukov from the north and
Marshal Konev from the south.
The great thrust on Berlin prom
Used to put the Germans Wanted
Oder river defense line, over two
years in the making, to the test,
and further strain -Nazi strength,
already outnumbered by about three
to four in the east. In early assaults
on the Oder in the Silesian area,
German regulars, REINFORCED by
fanatical 16 to 65-year-old home front
troops, stubbornly held their ground
against the powerhouse attacks Of
the First Ukranian army, which
had been the first to reach the de-
tense line from central Poland.
Finish Fight
Long the hallowed center of Prus-
sianism, Berlin, it appeared, was not
to be spared the fate of other great
European capitals as the Nazis
made strong points of its public
buildings and institutions for a des-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
sHANGRI-LA IN PACIFIC

The army air force has discovered
new nation, tiny little COM
munity, high up in the mountains of
New Guinea. No white man is
known to have visited it before, and
not even neighboring natives had
been there. Surrounded on two sides
by mountains rising to the height
Of IS or 16 thousand feet, the third
side by an impossible swamp, the
valley is cut off on the fourth side
by jungle-like forest several miles
wide. The river runs through the
valley, which Is about 5 by 20 miles,
and then disappears, apparently
into the earth. The lost tribe living
In the valley has developed an ex-
tensive irrigation system, army OBJ
servers report. At first they were
frightened by planes now they
wave at our airmen, who come quite
low and are able to report that the
native clothing consists entirely Of
strings of beads worn around the
neck.
Because the land is so extensively
cultivated, there is no large stretch
suitable for a landing, and the air
force has enough to do these days
to prevent it from landing troops
by parachutes. But ethnologists and
other scientists win make q bee
line for New Guinea as soon as the
war Is over.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
Terrified Soldier Vas Well
On Way to Being AWOL

A number of soldiers home on
furlough in the states met and
were relating their experiences.
Each one tried to Guido the
other In expressing his early fears.
"The way l dug my foxhole,"
said one of them, who had been
at Guadalcanal, twas something
for you to see. Each time shell
burst ! dug deeper and deeper
into that hole.
''Finally / heard a voice above
me. It was my lieutenant yelling
down at me:
Thompson! Hey you, Thomp-
son! II you dig two inches deep
er, I'm going to charge you with
desertionl'"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
CONGRESS-:
Busy Session

With publication of President
Roosevelt's agreement to the sepa-
ration of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation with it's vast loaning
powers from the U. S. department
Of commerce, the senate passed the
George bill authorizing the action
by IA to IL vote and thereby paved
the way for the confirmation of
Henry A. Wallace as the department
secretary.
Although Wallace's confirmation
was postponed to March /, it was
considered likely at that time, since
principal objection to his appoint
ment had been based on the fact
that he would have controlled the
vast resources of the RFC in the
postwar period, with fear of their
use on government projects to pro-
vide full employment. House ap-
prevail of the bill to separate the
RFC from the commerce depart
ment was expected to meet speedy
approval.
At the same time, the house
passed, and then sent to a none too
sympathetic senate, a work or fight
bill, under which all men between
Is and As would be frozen in essen
tial occupations or asked to take
jobs designated by their local draft
boards under penalty of induction or
fine and Imprisonment in case Of re-
fusal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
ACCIDENTS:
High Toll

Ninety-four thousand people killed,
$3.50, 900 injured and material losses
Of 81, $50, 900, 000-that was the ma
TONS accident toll in 1914, the Ma
tional Safety council revealed.
AS a result of mishaps, lost time
equalled one years production of
1,000,000 workers, it was pointed out,
or the manufacture of $4,000 heavy
bombers.
Although the death toll showed
drop Of 5000 over the previous year,
with the greatest reduction shown in
home accidents, authorities were
alarmed by the increasing fatalities
among children. More than 1000
toddlers under five were killed, more
than in 1941, the Safety council said,
while accidental deaths of young
sters from to IA in the home were
high. $3.50
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
GRAIN MARKETS:
Get Boost

With brokers interpreting the SEN
ate banking committees approval of
bill increasing the Commodity
Credit corporations borrowing pow
er from to Az billion dollars as
means of maintaining major farm
prices at 80 per cent of parity for
two years after the war, grain prices
firmed.
Also adding to the markets
strength was the expectation of an
increase in the government subsidy
to wheat millers, and reports of CCC
purchases in Minneapolis, Mimi,
with CCC acknowledgements it had
given large quantities of high pro-
tein wheat to millers in exchange
for inferior grades.
In approving the increase in the
Gees borrowing power, the senate
banking committee limited food SUBJ
sidy expenditures to $845, Zoo, 900 for
the year beginning next July l, and
also permitted sale of more than
1906, 900 bales of cotton year from
CCC stocks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

A headline says the Japanese Inn
perial Diet is to be strengthened.
But where viii they get the ricef
German Volkssturm troops are
now wearing museum uniforms.
There is shortage Of telephone
operators at the capitol. The time
has come for all good men to come
to the aid Of the party line.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
BARBS. by Baukhags

A man has to be pretty fiat tire
II his girl doesn't even wave her
hair when he leaves.
The political tots wha' haze VII
Wallace bled at the Democratic ma
tional convention IN Chicago, seem
to be growing up rapidly and they
are still loyal to him. Better to be
the head o. the commons than the
tail o. the gentry"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
On Nations Honor Roll

To Pvt. John Hartman of Exeter,
Calf, went the Silver Star for gallantry
In action. During fierce enemy coun-
terattack In Italy, seeing that two ma
chine guns 200 yards to the front and
right front were causing considerable
trouble, he moved forward into the face
of these firing machine guns on his own
initiative. Edging his way forward with
enemy bullets landing within inches of
him. and In spite of the fact that he had
received serious wound in his arm, he
fred till he had silenced both machine
guns.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
ARMY PURCHASES

The army quartermaster corps In
1914 placed more than IS per cent Of
its prime contracts. representing
16 per cent Of the dollar value of all
ONO depot contracts, with smaller
business organizations. the war de-
partment said.
Total purchases Of subsistence and
other supplies for the army and
military services BY the quarter
master corps amounted to $6.0s7,-
b71.000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

Declaring ''theye is no evil
dence yet of any rout in the Ger
man retreat" Navy Secretary
FOrrestal said: "They are with
drawing to the great line of de-
lenses on the Oder river
where they may fight with
the same tenacity and ferocity
they have shown in the west. ).
All that will beat Germany is
power, sheer, crude power"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
Luckiest Man

In rear base hospital
in Pacific recovering
from, frost bite, Sgt.
James B. Krantz OF Hick-
DRY Point, Tenn, might
yell consider himself the
luckiest man in the World.
Blos0n from, gunnery in
s0aist OF B-29 during raid
over Japan, one Of
Krantz's legs ,Uas mirac.
ulously held by a safety
strap ,0hile the rest OF his
body dangled in the air
at 10000 feet before bud
dies nuIIed hin, hack I'M
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
FARM MACHINERY:
Pinch to Persist

Stating that ". as long as the
war continues, farmers will not be
able to buy as much new farm ma
chinery as they need" the Office of
War Information said that the pro-
duction of equipment for the year
ending July will fall short of heavy
demand despite the fact that it
should approximate peak prewar
output.
Although expecting quotas to be
generally met despite slow start
in production, Owl warned g.. no
more new tractors, side delivery
rakes, combines or other haying and
harvesting machinery will be avail
able during f. 1915 than were
available during 1914"
Indicating that farmers will have
to fall back on the same methods
this year to meet food goals, owl
said that 1944's high production re-
suited from intensive use of existing
machinery, increased use of fertiliz-
er, greater acreage and harder work
and longer hours, with output per
hand % per cent above 1910. Re-
processing Of some 365,000 young
farmers between IS and Is for the
draft, however, may further COM
plicate the already pressing man.
power problem, owl said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
FARM FORECLOSURES

With more and more farmers re-
covering from the drouth years,
and with present high incomes max
ing it possible to reduce debts, farm
foreclosures totalled $500 in 1913
compared with 1000 in 1912 and
$1,000 during 1884, the Farm Credit
administration reported. These fig
ures are equivalent to 81 fore
closures for every 1000 farms mort
gagged in 1913, 5.3 in 1912 and 1913
in 1884, when farm activity still was
at q low ebb. the FCA said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
COP stays
To Ri1hf

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There was q significant develop
ment at the Republican committee
meeting, too. The single challenge
to Mr.. Brownell dealt with the ques-
ton of thunder from the left and II
apparently fell on entirely deaf
ears. The one unfriendly voice at the
meeting came from a supporter Of
Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the
prospective liberal candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination.
The revolter arose to charge that
Mr.. Brownen had alienated the
labor vote because of his connection
with law firm which handled the
business Of large corporations. Mo-
body in the committee denied the
soft impeachment publicly.
1t is whispered that the Republi-
cans are not worrying about an APP
peal to labor for they have theory
that they can attract the vote of the
returned soldier because they say
he will lean to the right. This is the
way one Of the regulars" expressed
it to me.
"There Is something about uni
FORM" he said, "that makes man
patriotic and conservative. He Is
anxious to settle down and raise a
family. He wants to have property
of his own. He's tired of being
housed and fed and clothed on gov
eminent issue. Also he is through
taking chances; over there he
thought Of America as home and
home means something solid, sane
and safe. The Republican party is
the natural place for him." the big
wig concluded.
I am not saying that the reason
ing Of either party is correct but I
am reporting what appears to be
the general atmosphere both on
Capitol hill and elsewhere where
the politicians gather to null over
affairs.
AS to the temper Of congress as a
whole as illustrated in both the
Wallace and the national service
controversies we can see that the
former southern Democrat-Republi-
can coalition is working as smoothly
as ever and keen observers predict
that its hand will be shown when
ever similar questions are at issue
in the future.
Just where the President stands is
not yet discernible. But there
again, there is a strong feeling on
Capitol hill that when he replaced
'Dr. New Deal" with "Dr. Win-the-
War;" as he himself put it, he had
no intention of placing the country
under the care of the former medico
when peace returned. This is the way
one old timer who has supported the
administration on most issues for
the last IL years put it to me:
"The President says he is still
steering a little left of center. He
may think so. But I can tell you
that whether he knows it or not the
old ship Of state is going to nose
to starboard this session."
And that would seem to be what Is
happening IL we judge from the first
leg of the voyage. In any case there
Is going to be fight to keep a con-
sentative hand on the old ships
tiller.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

perate stand and prepared to blow
up all factories and installations
In the district.
mot one stone atop another /.
will be left when the Russians
enter" proclaimed Propaganda
Minister Goebbels.
Meanwhile, as thousands of Ger
man refugees streamed into the
Reich from the east and Hitler called
upon all able-bodied men for a last
ditch fight and all others for indus
try, Nazi leaders threatened 90. i.
cowardly creatures who try to de-
sert the fatherland in its hour of
need" Said they: 1--WE shall not
permit them to throw a wrench in
the works. Germany will fight
on no matter where or under what
conditions. :"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Russians Strike for Berlin As
Nazis Plan Last-Ditch Defense;
New Landings Aid Manila Drive

Released by Western Newspaper Union
western Nwspaper
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16
Fear Yank Drive

Attacking in snow and slush in
strength along an expanding front
below Aachen, Yanks put the en-
emy's Wanted Siegfried defenses to
the test again even as Berlin feared
an about drive to break the dead
lock In the west.
At the same time, the Germans
began to slowly break ground in Al
SAGE TO the south, where mixed
u. S. and French forces increased
heavy pressure on their huge pocket
below Strasbourg and threatened
the enemy's escape roads eastward
TO the Rhine.
No less than 100.0 U. s. troops
repeatedly burrowed their way into
Tie outer defenses Of the Siegfried
line along the sector from which Won
Rundstedt had burst into Belgium
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

and Luxembourg in his great De-
cember drive. As the Yanks plowed
through heavy snowdrifts, they met
bitter opposition at Nazi strong
points.
PACIFIC:
Strategic Moves
Strategist and tactician, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur scored two
more landings in Luzon, directly
aiding his triumphant march on
Manila, while far to the north, u. S.
forces continued to drive to the east
ward in bitter hand-to-hand fighting,
which threatened to cut the island
in two.
In one of the landings, U. S. troops
overran the Subic Bay area, which
opened up a big harbor for naval
use and supply Of American forces
above Manila, while the other land
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-16

at 10000 feet before bud SGT. KRANTz
dies pulled hin, back into the plane.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-10
IOWA GIRL wins $3.50
EDDIE CANTOR AWARDS

DES MONIES, Ia, May 10
(ANP)-Dolores Fields, an East
High school student, placed second
in a national high school essay on
Juvenile Delinquency: Its causes
and Solution" She is II, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William R..
Fields, and expects to use the award
to further her education. Dolores
chose the following verse from
Proverbs as the theme of her es-
say: "Train up a child in the way
he should go; and when he is old
he will not depart from it." The
three main cures she offered in
cluded the following:
1. Parents should not put their
own pleasures and pastimes be-
fore the welfare of their children
because they are responsible fo1
rearing the Americans of tomor-
row.
2. Parents should be "buddies'
to their children.
3. Parents should send then
children to church and Sunday
school and teach them the father
hood of God and the brotherhood
of man. "a good home is the basis
of it ALL" she summarized.
Dolores ambitions is to be /;
music teacher and she prefers clas
sical music, particularly Sibebliu
composition Her mother, presiden
of the Logan arent-Teacher as
sociation, persuaded Dolores to en-
ter the contest.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-10
UNCLE SAM EYES
CABBIE5' INCOMES

WASHINGTON, May 10 (ANP)
States tax experts are
looking into the returns filed in this
city by taxi drivers, scenting viola
tions and evasions, it is said. With
the average taxi driver earning
around s75 per week without try
ing hard, the internal revenue de-
partment is not satisfied with the
returns which most Of the drivers
have submitted. Independent opera
tors especially are under surveil-
lance. One driver told the treasury
department he and his wife lived on
an income Of s25 per week. When
the wife was questioned, she said
there must have been some mis-
take.
Incomes for these drivers is esti-
mated at approximately S100 per
week in most cases, with hard work
ers driving that figure up to half as
much again. Associations report
their drivers doing very well and
hitting the higher brackets in earn
ings. Cab renters usually pay about
S. per day for their cabs and $1.50
per day for gasoline. All above this
they pocket and $25 day is usual
ly expected.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-10
REV. MARCUS JAMES
RECEIVES MASTER OF
THEOLOGY DEGREE

BOSTON, May 10 (ANP)-Rev.
Marcus James of the All Souls
church, New York City, youngest
man ever to be ordained in the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
was recently awarded the degree
of master of sacred theology by
Union Theological seminary, New
York.
James is a graduate of Harvard
college, and holds the master of
arts degree from Columbia univers-
ity and the bachelor of divinity
degree from Union, receiving the
latter less than nine months ago
when he was the first student to
complete in two and one-half years
the intensive four-year course OF
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-10
new SERVICE GROUP
TRAINS With 447TH
BOMBER GROUP

SEYMOUR, Ind, May 10 (ANP)
Satisfaction with the impressive
record that Negro Units Of the
army air forces are making on bat
tlefronts throughout the world has
been indicated by the activation and
specialized training of recently
activated Negro service group. The
group, is composed of the head
quarters and base services squad
ron, the 590th Air Material squad
ron, and the 602nd Air Engineering
squadron. Comprised of Negro en-
listed personnel, it was activated
and received its initial training at
Daniel Field, August, Ga, a re-
placement depot of the AAF Air
Technical Service command.
Upon completion of training at
Daniel Field, the unit was trans
ferred under command of the first
air force to Goldman field, Fort
Knox, KY, for combined training
with the 477th Bomber group, first
Negro organization of its kind,
which is now plotting B-25s and is
commanded by Col. Robert R. Sol
way Jr. From Kentucky both units
moved to their present location at
Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind, for
combined training with view to an
overseas assignment.
The principal function Of the
service group is to operate, main
tain, and supply services for the
bomber group. 1t includes such
services as administration, finance,
communications, medical, aircraft
maintenance, guard, utilities, fire
fighting and transportation. Dis
tinguished from the service person
mel serving with the famed 99th
Pursit squadron in Italy, this serv-
ice group is capable of functioning
independently of the combat unit
it serves.
Personnel were trained in the va
rious technical phases to which they
are presently assigned at various
schools throughout the country
From many of these schools came
Communications for outstanding
achievement at AAF specialists. Ir
February of this year the medical
section of the 387th Service group
received a commentator for out
standing accomplishments as stu
dents in medical work from the
commanding officer of Fort Knox
Regional hospital, Fort Knox, KY.
Activation of such a unit is consid-
cred to be a grand opportunity fol-
men with various technical skills
A great deal of enthusiasm is be.
ing shown and an effort being
made by officers and enlisted per
sonnel alike to insure success Of
| the unit