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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
ItoIion Workers Enjoy Pope Plus

Vatican City, March l2. (UP)- Pope Plus XII believes the social. ization of some enterprises may be necessary under specific circum- stances"
 owing to the abornaml present moment. labor questions can no longer be considered solvable by mere accord to two parties, namely employers and workers" he told 200 delegates of Italian workers asso- citations yesterday.
 Above the interests of these two parties," he said, it is now neces- sary to keep in mind the general interests of collectivity. Tn specific circumstances it is also passible to imaging new forms of socialization which provide interests common to all people. not only their material interests but also their moral and religious life.
 "All this, however, must be reached through indemnity provid- ing what is just and equal for all uart:as cnncarned." he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Coal Farley
 Put off Day

Washington, March 12- (UP) - Soft coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers cancelled to- days joint wage negotiating con- ference to permit the producers to prepare an answer to all lS union contract demands.
 Ezra Van Horn, conference chairman, announced that UNIV President John l.. Lewis had agreed to concel the session. The next meeting will be at 10 a. m. to- morrow.
 Van Horn said the operators would hold an all-day meeting to "give consideration to the various proposals of the UNIV"
 The National Labor Relations Board meanwhile took under ad- viscement the petition of Edward R. Burke, president of the South ern Coal Producers association, to dismiss the UNIV request for a strike ballot on March 28.
 Formal NLRB action was expect ed today or tomorrow. Staff mem bers continued preparations for talk ing the poll of the 400 900 soft coal miners.
 Burke, chairman of the Southern Coal Producers association. chal- lenged the strike vote at the clos ing session last week. He asked the National Labor Relations Board to concel the vote on grounds Lewis requested it before dispute eX- isted.
 Lewis left the meeting in an angry mood. Asked If the challenge threatened success of the negotia- tions, he replied:
 Draw your own conclusions.
 An NLRB spokesman said the board probably would turn down Burke's petition. Burke said he would appeal immediately to the federal courts but an operators spokesman said "other considera-- tions' probably would forestall court action immediately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
2,1O0 Planes She'll Baltic
BY LEO S. DISHER

London, March 12. (UP) - American warplanes 2,100 strong struck in support of Allied armies on both the eastern and western fronts today, smashing at German targets on the Baltic coast and east of the Rhine.
 Some 1850 Flying FortreSses and Liberators escorted by 750 Mustangs and Thunderbolts attacked military and naval targets along the Baltic and six rail hubs controlling most of the transport behind the Rhine front.
 About $50 of the United States Eighth Air Force heavy bombers went to the Baltic area. The others hit the rail yards at Siegen, Betz- dorf, Dillenburg, Wetzlar, Fried burg and Marburg. between the Ruhr and Frankfurt on the Main.
 The Baltic bombing supported the Russian forces hammering at the lower Oder line north of Berlin. Early reports indicated some of the bombers were over Stattin, Baltic port against which the Red Army was closing.
 A great parade of heavy bomoers and fighters streamed out of Bri- tain by daylight. The U. s. Eighth Air Force announced that 1t was
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Two Conquest .NeorAtHond
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 12.-(UP)-Con1~ plete conquest of Two appeared d hand today. Weary Marines wera driving the last Japanese defendera into the sea in a final battle alon0 the north coast.
 GA Japanese broadcast reported by the EGG said Japanese troops on Two had lost most of their heavy arms and were fighting with small arms, hand grenades, swords and bayonets. It said the Two battle waA growing in ferocity daily"
 Pacific fleet headquarters was ex- pected to announce the collapse Of organized resistance momentarily a9 the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific war entered its fourth week on Japan's front doorstep.
 A communique this morning said the Fifth Division had whittled down the enemys last sizeable pocket to half square mile along the north coast by p. m. yesterday in heavy fighting. The Marines were making slow but steady pro- gress with support of heavy artillery and the big guns of warships off- shore
 The Third and Fourth Divisions crashed through the last Japaneso lines in eastern Two over the weeks end and captured most of the rock- ledged east coast, the communiqu@ said. One small enemy pocket was by-passed for later annihilation.
 The advance along the north coaSe was 8 slow and tedious business. The last few thousand 5aparese sliy~ vivors of a garrison originally to- taling 10000 crack troops were fighte ing to the death from pillboxess blockhouses and caves.
 (The Tokyo Domei Agency said the Japanese commander on Two had telegraphed the Japanese house of representatives that the situation on the island was becoming more and more grim and sanguinary1s but added that the garrison was pledged to crush the enemy~
 Army fighters bombed Chichi aira field and harbor installations and strafed targets on Hal1a in the Bonin Islands, just north of Iwos Army Liberators also bombed Chiefs airfie,d.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Increase M City's
 Borrolui11g Ability

Waterbury's borrowing ability could be increased by four or five millions, The Democrat learned to- day, after a study of local bond authorizations granted by the Gen. eral Assembly during the past twenty years. The Democrat also learned that recent survey made of city finance by the State Tax department will reflect this increas- ed borrowing ability when presented to the Legislature this month.
 According to the figures obtained by The Democrat at least $5,000,- 900 in bonds issued by the City of Waterbury might be considered as exempt from the five per cent bond debt limitation due to inser- ton of a clause to this effect in the act of authorization. This clause specifically states that all bonds is sued under the authorization are not to be included in figuring the total amount of bonds subject to debt limitation.
 (Under the law a municipality may bond itself only as high as 5 per cent of its grand list, after cer- tain deductions, such as federal and state owned property, have been made).
 The special acts giving Water bury the right to issue certain bonds, particularly during the years 1883 -34-36- -37, stated that such bonds as were issued would not be included among general obligations subject to debt limitation. These included funding, street and general im- provement, school, abbatoir, bridge, and sewerage bonds.
 In making it's local survey the State Tax office was motivated by desire to present to the Legisla-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

San Francisco, March l2. UP)-' Admiral Chester w. Nimitz says the U. S. Navy would welcome a show down engagement with the remnants of the Japanese Navy as a means to destroy the now inferior enemy force and shorten the war.
 At a press conference yesterday, the 60-year-old commander of the Pacific fleet and Pacific acean areas said the damage the Nipponese fleet suffered in the October naval battles of the Philippines has been re- paired. He said by now 1t was prob- ably ready to go out again.
 Nimitz said the American fleet was extending it's power constantly westward and it would soon be hm- possible for Japanese shipping to move in the Netherlands east Indies area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

Returning pilots said the rain BFO bombs, more concentrated even than the 2,300 tons which burned out 15 square miles of Tokyo Saturday, kindled "hellish fires" that threatened to spread far be- vond the original target area. A Japanese communique indicated that a number of fires still were out of control at 4:30 p. m. CTokyo time), more than 16 hours after the start of the raid.
 It said a fire has been started in the precincts of the Atsuta shrine, one of 10 large Shinto or religious shrines in Japan, but added that the main and detached shrines were safe"
 Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, com- mander of the Fist bomber com- mand in the Marianas, reserved judgment until all reports were in, but said "so far the attack appears very successful"
 From Washington came word that B-29s of the 20th bomber command in India also were in action today. A medium force - probably 50 strong-bombed industrial targets in the Singapore area for the sixth time. The 20th command attacked Kuala Lumpur, 200 miles north of Singapore, Saturday.
 A Tokyo Domei agency dispatch said 40 B-29s participated in the attack on Singapore and caused only extremely slight" damage, Two Superfortresses were shot down and a third damaged, Tokyo said.
 Superfortresses which struck at Nagoya, Japan's third largest city with 100000 inhabitants, caught the defenders offguard by bombing from 5000 instead of the customary 10000 feet. LeMay said the Japanese lacked automatic weapons for de- fense against low-altitude raiders
 No fighter opposition was re- ported. Anti-aircraft fire was weak at first, but increased as the raid wore on. Losses were not announced immediately. Tokyo claimed 9 of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Jane KiIduff Resigns City Tox Position
(By JAMES M. MOORE)

Miss Jane E. Kilduff, Democratic member of the city's board of tax commissioners has rendered her resignation effective the first of the month, it was reported to The Dem- ocrat today. Miss Kilduff who re- sides at 60 Gaffney Place has been associated with the city for the past 40 years.
 Miss Kilduff entered the employe of the city March 1, 1905 and has been associated with the assessors office since. During her aff1liation she has been credited with a vast and intimate knowledge of the city's valuation structure.
 It seemed doubtful today if Q successor would be appointed to replace Miss Kilduff in view of the impending legislation introduced by the city into the Legislature stip- ulating the abolishment of the five posts of tax commissioners with re- placement by one chief assessor and two assistants. The proposed bill is to come before the committee on March 2l, Tor nearing.
 Terms of the bill call for ap- pointment of chief assessor at salary of $7,500 annually within three months following adoption of the bill. Should adoption become fact the entire board of comission- CTS will be abolished. The bill like- wise calls for appointment of e board of tax review instead of elec- tion of the threeman board as has been customary.
 Miss Kilduff mas served the city during the past 40 years both under Democratic and Republican admin istrations despite the fact her party utilization has always been strongly that of a Democrat. She is sister of the late Mayor Edward G. Kil- duff CD, who served two terms from 1894-1897 and again from 1900 1903.
 She is one of the city's oldest em- ployees from the standpoint of years of service. Others who have been associated a few years longer and are still associated include city engineer Charles A. Root whose service dates from May 1897; School Superintendent Dr. T. J. Condon, 1899 and James Walker, city plumb ing inspector, September, 1900
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Dispute May Paralyze
 Motion Picture Trade

Producers said the IATSE, repre- senting l2,OOO studio writers includ- ing cameramen and sound techni- clans, had threatened to strike If they followed the WLB order. They added that they were awaiting ap- proval of the arbitration award by the full War Labor Board.
 Conference President Herbert Sor- rell said he expected the picket lines would b respected by more than IS 900 workers in the highly union- ized industry. Production would be virtually stopped, he said, since con. ference unions include vital car penters, machinisls and electrical workers.
 The Independent Screen Players Union, including all motion picture extras, said its members were asked not cross the picket lines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
4 Mindonoo Villages In
 Yonks Hands
BY H. W. QUIGG

Manila, March 12 - CUP)-U. $. invasion forces neared the heart of Zamboanga on the southwestern tip of Mindanao today after quickly seizing four villages and two afr fields on the island, second largest of the Philippines.
 Battle seasoned units of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Does 41st division of the Eighth army landed on Mindanao's coral-studded beaches Saturday morning against light opposition.
 A cluster of four villages and two airstrips, west of Zamboanga'S ad- ministrative center, were rapidly overrun and Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur announced that American re- connaissance planes already were operating from the island.
 GA Tokyo broadcast, recorded by EGG, said American forces also had landed Thursday on Basilan Island. across the 10-mile Basilan Strait from Zamboanga. Tokyo claimed that the troops which stormed min danao were accompanied by tanks)
 The landing on Mindanao ,21st Philippines Island invaded by Amer fear amphibious forces, sealed the entire western side of the 800-mile lcng Philippines archipelago. It also brought MacArthur's forces within l80 miles of oil-rich Borneo.
 A heavy air and naval lombard ment from heavy and light cruisers preceded the landing from Basilan Strait, which had been swept for mines since Wednesday.
 Planes from both the Fifth and 18th airforces covered the landing so completely that no Japanese planes were sighted. The 18th Air fierce had softened up the invasion points with more tha n1 900 tons of bcmbs during the past weeks.
 Does forces went ashore in am- phibious vehicles at g a. m. Saturday hitting the beaches at San Mateo, three miles west of Zamboanga's ad- ministrative center.
 The Japanese were caught off guard by the landing. While rear guards put some scattered machine gun fire, the bulk of the enemy gar- rison fled across the two mile-wide plain into the hill region.
 The Americans quickly captured Wolfe airdrome, three quarters of a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Loetore Medal
 Given To Shaw

South Bend, Ind, March 12.- CUP)-Gardiner Rowland Shaw, former assistant secretary of state, has been named the 63rd winner of Notre Dame Universitys laetare medal, one of the highest honors bestoyed on American Catholics.
 The Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell president of Notre Dame, said the nationally known diplomat was chosen because "he has always found time to bring solace and com- fortt 0 the poor and afflicted, and especially to the underprivilcged boy"
 A native of Boston, Shaw is known for his Social Service work, particularly in the field of penology.
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Poison Gas Use Hinted
By CHARLES ARNOT

London, March 12-(UP)-Des- perate new Nazi measures to avert Germany's defeat were expected to- day in the wake of fight talks by Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Min ister Paul Joseph Goebbels.
 The speeches, broadcast by Berlin radio, pointed to a swift purge of German defeatists and the further scrapping of the rules of war at the front, possibly including the use of poison gas.
 Hitler himself hinted at the new blood purge. In proclamation to the German army commenorating the 10th anniversary of conscription in Germany, he called upon all Ger mans to "do with dogged determina- ton everything we can to bring about the turn of the tide"
 We must be no less fanatical in annihilating all those who are try ing to oppose this command" he said. We are already witnessing today in large areas of the east and in many parts of the west what our whole people might go through.
 It is quite clear to everybody what We have to do-namely, to offer resistance and to hit our en- emieS until in the end they grow tired and break Up there will be no repetition of 1918.
 The Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that travellers from Berlin said Hitler had set up headquarters near Berlin and was working with a big staff of engineers and industrial experts on what were believed the final preparations for the battle of the capital
 From Basel, Switzerland, came word of insistent rumors in German border districts that Hitler had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

Hollywood. March 12. (UP)-A jurisdictional dispute between two American Federation of Labor Unions involving 72 Hollywood set designers threatened today to par alyze the motion picture industry.
 The powerful AFL conference of studio unions, embracing nine unions with 5000 members. threw picket lines around all major studios i'll an effort to force recognition Of the painters International Union, AFL. Local 142l, as bargaining agent Tor the set designers.
 A War Labor Board arbitrator'S directive had granted Jurisdiction to the painters pending National Labor Relations Board election. The other union involved is the Inter- national Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. AFL.. Local A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

It. Gen. James H. DoolittleS Eighth Air Force laid a carpet ot bombs on six key rail jubs east f the Rhine through which the Ger mans could move against the First Army bridgehead opposite Remas gen.
 Fighter -bombers of the U. s. Ninth Air Force raked the German lines before the swelling bridge head, and maintained constant patrol over the Ludendorf bridge.
 Nazi broadcasts acknowledged that the Americans were pouring endorsements into the Rhine foot- hold. They said shock troops pushed across the Rhine north of the Remagen bridge in assault boats for two new crossings. The Nazis estimated that upwards of 50O00 men were maSsed i1 tfa bridgehead ready for big push against the southern flank of the Ruhr.
 Supreme Headquarters said It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges troops firmly held the initiative in the Remagen bridgehead. The Ger mans still were smelling it, desits the acquisition of hign ground on which some enemy observation posts were situated.
 Because of the nature of th0 operations and the precario1a plight of the enemy, SHAEF re- ports were purposely vague. For security reasons time lag was im- posed in many sectors. A bald announcement at SHAE1s said the German pocket around Laacher See, 13 miles northwest ot Coblenz, had been cleared. The units fighting there were not iden~ tified, and there was no indicatiou of the size of the prisoner bag Laacher See Is 8 resort lake meas Aldernach.
 Headquarters sources reporte9 patrol activity and counter-attack on the long dormant Seventh Army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Nauy Welcomes SholUdolUn Struggle With Japanese

Nothing would suit our plans better than to have them come out and interfere with our operations, Nimitz said, It would mean an early end to the war and destruc- tion of what is left of the Japanese fleet"
 Our strategy is to have our fleet massed so that We will have a very large reception committee ready.
 He warned that although the Jap anese navy has been crippled the Nipponese army still is strong.
 He estimated that only 10 per cent of the enemy army has been lost or passed.
 Nimitz was in San Francisco to watch his 13-year-old daughter Mary, christen the destroyer. U. s. Buck in launching ceremonies at the Bethlehem ShipS Yards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

Sgt. Theodore P. Olschefski, combat engineer, was wounded in action on February "A while serv- ing in Germany, according to a War Department telegram re- ceived by his parents, MT. and Mrs. "Ted" Olschefski, Oak street.
 Within a few hours of the de- livery of the dispatch, a letter ar- rived from the serviceman stating he was hOspitalized and doing well.'
 After training with a destroyer outfit at Camp Hood, Texas. Sgt. Olschefski qualified for appoint ment under the Army Specialized Training program and was as- signed as a student in engineering at the North Texas State Teach ers' college at Denton, Texas. La ter, he completed his training at Camp Swift, Texas, going Overeas last October.
 Sgt. Olschefski is a graduate of Crosby high school and a former emplOye of the Farrel Foundry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
8 Foundries Strike,
 LIDO EmpIoyes Out

St. Louis, March 12-(UP)- More than HOO foundrymen were on strike at eight fOund- ries today, stopping production of Diesel engines for the Navy and engine castings for B-29 SuperfOrtresses.
 The men, members of the MOlders and Foundry Workers Union (RFL), voted Friday to strike in protest against the War Labor Boards refusal to grant a five-cent hourly wage increase. The eight firms had agreed on the increased wage last summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Germans Fear Breokthrouqh
By ROBERT MUSEL

London, March 12-(UP)-Amer- ican bombers were reported swarm ing into the battle of the Oder to- day, and Moscow dispatch said a decisive Russian breakthrough on a 10O-mile front before Berlin was expected soon.
 Powerful U. s. Air Forces att tackled Germany by daylight. Der lin said raiders were over Stettin, apparently to strike a crushing blow in the closest support yet given the Red Army by Allied bombers from the west.
 Soviet dispatches said Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's army was storming the Oder estuary north and south of Stettin, and a great battle for river crossings was in full swing.
 The German high command said three Russian armies were hammer ingf the Nazi bridgehead across the Oder from Stettin, counter-blows knocked out 28 Soviet tanks, 1t added
 Relentless Attack
 A Nazi communique said ZhukoV'S first White Russian army continued relentless attack in the Oder valley before Berlin, where Soviet bridge head earlier reached within 26 miles Of the capital.
 United Press correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that the Soviet news blackout on the Berlin front continued, pending decisive breakthrough which is ex- pected in the near future" He de- fined the blacked out front as ex- tending from the area of Kupestrin, 38 miles east of Berlin, to Goerlitz, on the Neisse river 100 miles south of Kuestrin, 105 southeast of eBrlin, apu 54 east of Dresden. This Sug- gested that the whole defense sys- teln east and southeast of Berlin was about to fall apart.
 The German broadcasts suggested that the American planes were at tacking Stettin and Swinemuende,
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PATTON'S 3RD ONE MILE FROM CObLENz
First Army Makes 2 Rhine Crossings
 North Of Remagen
BY BRUCE MUNN

Paris, March 12- (UP) - Tank led and air supported American troops drove steadily deeper into Germanys inner fortress the Remagen Bridgehead today and Berlin said the First Army had made two more crossings o the Rhine nearby
 Joint blows of the U S. First and Third Armies wped out German pocket northwest of Coolenz. MeageI reports did not make clear whether the destroyed pocket was the big one formed by the American rction on the Rhine in which some 1000 Germans were trapped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12
Fires Remain Out Of Control After Attack On Nagoya
BY 2. G. XALENS

Guam March 12. - CUP) - Fires visible nearly 100 miles at raced uncontrolled today through Nagoya Japans greatest aircraft manufacturing center after 300 SuperfortreSSeS Sowed 2000 tons of ncendary bombs through the center of the city
 Swinging 165 miles west from still-burning Tokyo the giant armada unloaded death and destruction five square miles of plants, business blocks government buildings and imsy dwellings in the tnderbox center of Nagoya for two hours under of darkness early today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-12

Secretaryship Fascinating Ca- reer for Women. Good pay, con- genial associates. Post Jr. College of Commerce.
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Not So Cold Tonight Fun weather Report Page .
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