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Evening star., 1945-11-14
Short Milk Supply
For Weeks Seen as
|0PA Holds CeiIinq

Milk dealers in the Washington
area today looked forward to at least
several more weeks of short supplies
after the OPA late yesterday blasted
the last hope of increasing milk
shipments by denying request for
a higher price ceiling.
Milk distributors had asked that
they be permitted to buy up to $4,000
gallons a day from Ohio and In
diana sources by paying $685. a
hundredweight instead of the OPA
maximum of $286.
Rules Boost Wouldn't Help.
The pricing agency, in denying
the request, pointed out that there
was a seasonal shortage of fluid
milk all over the country and that
it would not help the overall situa-
ton to transport milk from one
section to another.
OPA predicted the local situation
would improve by December /.
Producers were more pessimistic,
however. Bruce B. Derrick, man
ager of the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association, said he
believed the Washington area will
be "out of luck until after Christ
mas" The shortage may even run
into February and March, he said
Supply 10 to Is Per Cent Short.
The local supply is estimated to
be from 10 to Is per cent short
of the demand. Mr.. Derrick said
about $4,000 gallons of milk day
are used here normally. About
100000 gallons are now being sup
piled by Maryland and Virginia
farmers and about $4,000 gallons
are coming in from various outside
sources.
Mr.. Derrick said he had spent
some time contracting sources all
over the country in an effort to find
more milk but had been unsuccess-
full.
He denied the OPA contention
that tapping the Indiana and Ohio
supply would upset the balance in
some other part of the country.
We've been short of milk here for
three years and have been importing
It," he said. They're about as short
now as we were three years ago
when we were buying about one
fifth the outside milk we now are
buying"
He said the milk from the Middle
West was not now being used to add
to the fluid supply but was going
into condensed milk and other dairy
products.
Be as determined to help put the
Victory Loan Bond drive over the
top as were the men who made vic.
tory possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Imminent JunctureWith Reds Apparent As Ninth Army Troops Cross Elbe
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, April IT. = (UP) - American armies closed swiftly on the Elbe river valley for an apparently inn mineht juncture with the Red Army today and stormed Leipzig and Nuremberg in a powerful bid to block a Nazi death stand in the Bavarian Alps.
 The American and Russian battle lines already were barely 70 miles apart on the blazing Berlin front where U. s. Ninth Army troops were up to and across the Elbe on an 8O-mile front racing with in 45 miles of the city limits.
 Red Army forces there were only r miles northeast of the capital and the two converging armies planes and artillery were batterirg the same targets at the core o1 HlC- ler's dying Third Reich.
 American First Army units on the Ninth Army's left flank were on the Elbe some 70 miles from the center of Berlin and were only 24 miles west of the river line in the Cold.tz area beyond encircled Leipzig.
 Patton Advances
 Still further south, Lieutenant General George s. Patton's Amer ican Third Army rainmed ahead within 30 miles of the Elbe fortress of Dresden which, with Leipzig, represented the main escape route into Bavaria for the remaining German forces south of Berlin.
 Both the First and Third Armies were only 80-odd miles from link up with the oncoming Russians and their tactical air forces were work ing over the enemy lines in close coordination with rile Soviets.
 Field dispatches gave these high- lights of the western battle:
 U. s. Ninth Army = deepened its Elbe river bridgehead to more than five miles against fierce enemy counter-a attacks.
 U. s. First Army stormed the central German military base of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
J. Shonahon, 25, Casualty

An official message from the War Department, received last night by Mrs. Elizabeth Shananan of l12 South street, carried the tragic news that her son, James Franci1 Shanahan, 25, Army Air Forces crew member of B-17 Liberator bomber, was killed in action when his plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea, 45 miles from the Ger man coast, after it's eighth mis- sion had been accomplished. Ac- cording to the War Departments in- vestigation, three ol the ten mem bers of the crew were seen to para chute out of the plane when 1t was headed for the sea. No trace of either crew or plane was found. The first word concerning the youth was a missing in action report received fast April 16, the same day on which the aerial engineer was advanced to the rank of technical sergeant He entered the service in January, 1943, and had been overseas since January, 1944.
 The youth was an alumnus of Leavenworth high school and for- mer employe of the Dunphy drug Go. Besides his mother, he is sur- vived by brother, Tech. Sgt. John L. Shanahan, a radio instructor at Scott Field, H., who also served Tn the European war theater; and two sisters, Mrs. John Eichman of New Mexico and Miss Loretta shan ahan of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
England Pays FDR Tributes
 As WIG Cries
By EDWARD V, ROBERTS

London, April 17-(UP) = Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today that he noticed President Roosevelt was ailing at Yalta, and left him at Alexandria with an 'indefinable sense of fear that his health and strength were on the ebb."
 At the Crimea conference, Chur- chill said in tribute to MT. Roosevelt, This captivating smile and his gay, charming manner had not deserted him, but his face had a transparency, an air of puriflc- ation even. There was a faraway look in his eyes,"
 Churchill spoke in Commons of his personal regard and affection beyond my power to express" for MT. Roosevelt after attending mem- orial services at St. Paul's where he wept openly.
 Churchill said he received his last messages from MT. Roosevelt last Thursday. They showed no falling off in. his accustomed clear vision and vigor up on perplexing and complicated matters Altogether, he said, he and MT. Roosevelt had exchanged more than 1,700 messages. On the basis of these and his personal association with the president, he conceived an admiration for him as a statesman man of affairs, and as a war leader. felt the utmost confidence in his upright, inspiring character and outlook"
 Tt is loss. indeed bitter loss, to humanity that these heartbeats are stilled forever" he said. There is no doubt thes president foresaw that great danger closing in upon the preWar world with far more pre- i science than most well informed people on either side of the Att lantic."
 ] Churchill moved a resolution ex- pressing the dep sorrow with which Commons learned of MT. Roosevelt's death.
 For us it remains enough to say that if Franklin Roosevelt died the greatest American friend we have ever known, and the greatest cham pion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the I new world to the old," Churchill said.
 The services were attended by King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, high British officials and many Americans, led by Ambassador John | Winant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Aerial Drive Aqainst JaPs
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, April 17-A large force of American SuperfortresSes blasted six airflelds throughout Kyushu today in an attempt to knock out the staging bases for Japanese aerial attacks on U. s. forces around Okinawa.
 In hitting KyuShu, southern most of the enemy home islands the B-20's sent the rapidly mount ing aerial offensive against Japan into the sixth straight day.
 Splitting into six groups, the Marianas-based superf o dresses plastered a half dozen airf1elds in northern and southern Kyushu with demolition bombs rather than incendiaries which were heaped on Tokyo twice in the last 72 hours.
 The targets were the airfields al Kanoya, east Kanoya, Izumi, Ko- kubu and Nittaoahara, all in south ern Kyushu, and Tachiarai in the northwestern section of the island Kanoya airfiield also was hit yes- terday by P-5l Mustangs of the Seventh Fighter command from newly-won bases on Two island Tachiarai was bombed twice pre- viously by B-29's during the past month and East Kanoya was raided only 10 days ago.
 Suicide Planes Hit
 All the airfields were known to have held planes which have been hitting at the U. s. sea, land and air forces in the Okinawa area some of them in suicide attack.
 The raid, which was carried out ct about 4:30 ?. m. today, was the tContinued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Navy Commissions
 Sharply Criticized
By RAYMOND LAIR

Washington, April 17.-(UP)-A tentative Navy plan for a postwar fleet of 1,1s1 combat ships-almost three times the size of the pre-war fighting fleet-Was presented to con- gresS today.
 The public was given its first glimpse of the Navy's postwar blue print as the house appropriations committe recommended a $24,879,- 51O,546 Navy Department budget for the 1946 fiscal year starting next July 1. This was a slash of $452,- 655, ,104 from estimates previously approved by the budget bureau.
 Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne, vice chief of naval operations, was revealed to have told the appropria- tions committee that the Navy ex- poets to end the war with 1928 com- bat ships, ranging down in size to destroyer escorts and submarines. Of these, 337 obsolescent craft would be scrapped or used as tar get vessels.
 Of the combat ships remaining in the postwar fleet, 482 will be on active status and 709 in an inactive
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Name Snyder
 ToHeod FLA

Washington, April IT. UP) - John w. Snyder, St. Louis banker, was nominated by President Tru- man today to be federal loan ad- ministrator.
 This was the first major appoint ment made by MT. Truman since he became president last Thursday
 Snyder, Wce-president of the First National Bank of St. Louis has been friend of the president for more than 25 years.
 As head of the multi-billion Re- construction Finance Corporation and other lending agencies, Snyder will fill the place left vacant by Fred M. Vinson's transfer to the post of war mobilization director
 Vinson served as loan admins trator for few weeks after Presl- dent Roosevelt removed Jesse H Jones from the dual posts of loan administrator and commerce secre- tary. Henry A. Wallace was put in the commerce post.
 Snyder has been in the banking business since the last war. From 193O to 1887 he acted as liquidatol of national banks in the insolvent division of the United States comp troller of the currnecy.
 From 1887 to 194O he was man. ager of the St. Louis agency of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and in 194O became executive vice. president and director of the De- fense Plant Corp. and assistant to the directors of the REC.
 He went back to private banking in St. Louis on Jan. 1, 1943.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
City Reduces Bonded Debt On Schedule

Waterbury's total bonded indebt- edness as of Dec; 31, 1914 was $14,- sos, 900 1t has been revealed by City Budget Director Arnold E. Furlong who today stated that the city was preparing to meet its May principal and interest payments on the bond ed debt.
 A total of $97, ,341 in principal and interest will be paid out in pay ments to be made May 1 and IS. Total payments on principal, for the month will equal $62,500 while in- terest payments will total $34,847.
 A sum of $870,500 was retired on the total indebtedness in 1944 it was revealed by MT. Furlong. The total indebtedness, as of 1943, was $l5,- 479,500. To date in 1945 a total of $456, ,690 has been paid off in prin- cipal and interest.
 The following is the summary for 1914 relative to the various bond series as to amount outstanding at the beginning of the year total prin- cipal retired during the. year, total interest paid and amount outstand- ing for each series at the close of 1914:
 Bridge Bonds, $688,000; $126,O00; $26.900 and outstanding $562,000 Bldg. & Equipment bonds, $522, ,O00; !; 5000; $23,158 and outstanding at close of year, $484,00O. Funding bonds, $2,598, ,O00; $102,000; $87,961 and outstanding, $2,496, 900. Rscrea- ton Bonds for golf course and parks $165 500: $17,500; $6,442 and out standing $148,000.
 Also: Relief Bonds, 5000, 900; $125 ,00O; $18,750 and outstanding, $875, 900. School Series, $730,000; $1O3,O00; $28,7O0 and outstanding, $627 ,OOO. Sewerage Bonds, $962, 2,000; $47,000; $4l,092 and outstanding, $915,0OO. Street anC General Im- provement Bonds, $2,025, 900; $85,- 900; $54,40O; and outstanding, $1,- 94O,00O. Total general bond series from the aforementioned series is summarized as follows: outstanding as of 1943, $8,690 500; retired during the year 1914, $643.500; interest pay ments during year, $287,406 and amount outstanding as of Dec. 1944, $8,047, 900.
 Total water bonds not included within the general series in the same summarization is as follows; $6, ,78o. 900; s227, GOO; $250,635 and outstanding as of Dec, 1944, $6,562,. GOO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17


 He also voiced full support for the reciprocal trade program, with its accompanying export-import bank. He disclosed that he planned to see Soviet Foreign CopmiSsar V. M. Molotov while the Russian leader is enroute to the United Nations meet ing in San Francisco. MT. Truman said Molotov was going to stop in Washington to pay his respects to the President of the United States. And, MT. Truman added, he should. The President would not discuss any official appointments involving the cabinet or other top government personnel.
 He said, under questioning, that James F. Byrnes, former War Mo- biliMtion Director, was not going to the San Francisco conference.
 He's going back to South Caro- lima, MT. Truman said of Byrnes, adding that when he needed Byrnes advice he would send for it. In response to further question, MT. Truman said he had no plans for bringing Byrnes into the govern meDt.
 Leaders Meeting Welcomed
 Mr. Truman said he would be very happy to meet the leaders of the fighting Allies, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Pre- mier Josef Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and General Charles DeGaulle. He said, however that he had not initiated any steps toward any meetings with them. His conference drew an all-time high number of reporters - 348 - into the circular president oflce. The crowd overflowed out onto a side terrace and the room within 20 minutes became alnostS unbear- ably hot.
 MT. Truman stood up during the conference and answered the ques- tionS with straightforward di- rectneSs that twice moved a number of the reporters to applaud loudly = a rare occurrence in a White House news conference.
 MT. Truman said that he had asked MT. Roosevelt,s three secre- taries - Stephen T. Barley, William D. Hassett and Jonathan Daniels and Judge Samuel I. Roseman tc stay at their posts and help train Truman's White House team.
 Discussing the United Nations conference, MT. Truman said he tac no plans to attend the conference at any time. He said he would stay at his desk here where he belonged He caid he planned, however, tc welcome the delegates through 6
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Patton, Hodges To Be Promoted

Washington, April IT - U.P0 - Lieutenant Generals George S. Pat ton and Courtney H. Hodges, res- pective commanders of the spear heading Third and First Armies in Germany, were nominated today to be full generals in the first list of nominations sent to the Senate by President Truman.
 They were the First Army com- manders to be promoted to four star rank. The rank heretofore has been reserved for army group com- manders and highest staff officers.
 Mir Truman also nominated nine major generals to be lieutenant gen. erals: Joseph L. Collins, Oscar w. Griswold, Lucious Clay, Godfrey Reyes, Edmund B. Gregory, Wal ton H. Walker, Levin H. Campbell, Wade H. Haislip and Eugene Rey- bold.
 All of these ranks were tempo rary wartime promotions.
 He nominated two Navy captains, William w. Warlick and Ruthven E. Libby, to be commodoreS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
AMERICANS STORM LEIPZIG, NUERNbERC
 President Favors CurfeW, Racing Ban
NEW DIOCESE
 HEAD CHOSEN BY POPE PLUS

Local Catholic clergy today forwarded messages of con- gratulations and best wishes to the Most Rev. Henry j.. O'Brien, who has been ap- pointed the ninth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford. Bishop O'Brien has been auxiliary Bishop since the death of Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe, De- cember 15, 1914.
 We'll known among local clergy men, Bishop O'Brien is the second Connecticut-born priest to be ele- vated to the office-the other be- ing his predecessor. The appointment was released last night by Apos- tolic Delegate, in Washington fol- lowing word received from Pope Plus XII.
 Born July 21, 1896 in New Ha- ven, Bishop O'Brien graduated from St. Thomas seminary and St. Ber- nard's Seminary following which he went to the American College at Louvain, Belgium. He was ordained there by Cardinal Mercier July, 1923. He served pastorates at Wino- sor Locks and Fairfield until 1926 when he jointed the faculty of St.. Thomas Seminary at Hartford. he became vice president of the sem- mary August 31, 1882 and president Sept. 8, 1884.
 In 1897, Bishop O'Brien headed the fifth annual Hartford Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome, the itinerary incsuding besides Ita4y, France, England, Germany, Switz- erland and Holland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Berlin Front
 Now " Miles From Soviets
Rv ROBERT MUSEL

London, Feb. IT - U.PO - NaZi military sources said today that a big Russian offensive gained up to five miles on the Berlin front yes- terday and violent fighting now ragged IT miles from the imperiled capital near Eberswalde.
 The German high command said the Russians attacked with a tre- mendous deployment of men and material" all day yesterday before Berlin. The "brave attitude of Ger man troops and their flexible lead- ership" prevented a breakthrough, it said, and gaps which were torn in the German positions were cloSeu by spirited counter attacks"
 Seventy-five miles southeast of Berlin, another Soviet onslaught crashed through the Neisse river de- fense line for gains of two and a half miles in the Muskau-F -Forst sec- tor, 43 miles northeast of Dresden, on which the U. s. Third Army was driving.
 North of Berlin, the NaZis indi- cated, Soviet assault forces stormed across the Oder below Stettin and near zehden in the river elbow Berlin said they attacked "to gain bridgeheads on the western bank o1 the Oder to be used as springboards for their general offensive" Momentum Speeded Up A German military spokesman said the battle in the Oder area was gaining momentum hourly. Other Nazi reports made 1t plain that the whole eastern front was blazing in general offensive chopping into the hour-glass waist of unoccoupied Germany.
 The spokesman said the heaviest fighting on the Berlin front was going on in the area of WrieZen, g miles northeast of the city and IA miles southeast of Eberswalde.
 On the Neisse front, the spokes- man said, the Russians wedged two and a half miles into the German positions around Muskau, IS miles south of Forst. They were reported moving toward Spremberg, 13 miles south of the Cottbus turntable of the southeastern defenSes of Berlin and 85 miles northeast of Leipzig. While armored forces fought near Eberswalde, IT miles northeast of Berlin, two more tank-support- ed Soviet divisions plunged through the Nazi line east of Letschin, 26 miles to the southeast and 30 miles from the capital, the Germans said. Another German broadcast said the Soviet attack at the southern end of the new assault front had assumed the character of 8 large scale offensive" in itself, apparently INonfin1,nd on, Pana Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Mutiny Hits
 German Now
BY w. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, April IT. = CUP) =. Stockholm dispatches today carried the first authentic reports of mutiny in the German navy, whose revolt in World War led to the Reich's ca pitulation.
 The mutiny apparently was on 6 comparatively small scale for the moment, but observers believed it may spread as Allied armies move to cut of fthe Baltic coast from the rest of the country.
 The Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter said 12 German sailors ar- rived at the Swedish port of Stroemstad on the Kattegat aboard a naval patrol vessel and surrend- cred for internment.
 The sailors told Swedish authori- ties they had overwhelmed their two officers. locked them up and fled from Norwegian harbor, Dagens Nyheter said.
 The Swedish Telegraph Agency said another German naval vessel, a minesweeper, had arrived at . Swedish south coast harbor and it's crew of IT also asked to be interued.
 There have been several previous reports in the past year of mutiny in German naval bases. but none could be confirmed. The arrival of mutineers in neutral Sweden pro- vided concrete evidence of ebbing morale in the navy, however.
 Swiss sources, meantime, reported a growing wave of suicides among minor Nazi party leaders in Ger many. A Zurich dispatch said Ger. trude Scholz-Link, leader of the Nazi women'S organization and sometimes called Adolf Hitlers perfect woman. killed herBek aS Constance Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17

losses were 19 fighters and three bombers. Most were destroyed on the ground in raids from Munich to Prague.
 Hundreds of RAF planes opened the new all-tactical phase of the air war last night and early today with series of raids on German targets all the way from the Baltic to the Czechoslovak border.
 RAF Lancasters with an escort of Mustangs attacked German naval units at Swinemuende at the Baltic entrance to Stettin bay tn support of the Red Army. Other bombers hit railway targets on ei- ther side of the German Czechoslo- yak border in support of the Amer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17

ican First and Third armies.
 Flying 1,400 miles round trip from Britain, the bombers hit freight yards at Pilsen in CzechoSlocakis and at Schwandorf in southern Ger many. The Pilsen yards handle the output of the great Skoda arsenal and arms plant.
 Still third force hit Berlin itself, caught in an American British pin cerS.
 RAF Mustangs shot down six Ger man night fighters near Berlin. Only one Lancaster was lost in all the night raids.
 Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of the strategic American Air Forces in Europe. announced the victorious conclusion of the strategic bombard-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17
Fifth 8 From, Bologna

Rome, April 17-(UP)-American Fifth Army troops smashed within eight miles of Bologna today and long range artillery began shelling the outskirts of the transport hub and keystone base of the German defense line across Italy.
 The U. S. Fifth and British Eighth Armies had forged an as- sault arc almost half way around Bologna. They were closing in from the southwest and northeast and all intermediate sectors.
 Fifth Army forces captured sev- eral peaks dominating roads into Bologna in a bitter battle south and southwest of the threatened city.
 A front dispatch said big guns were wheled into position and be- gan lobbing shells into the out skirts of Bologna. German anti aircraft batteries were the main targets of the artillerymen. A number ere Knocked out. Other tactical targets near the city were bombarded, but no shells were fired into the city itself.
 Troops of the Fifth Army's Tenth. Division captured Mount Mosca, F miles southwest of Bo- logna, and the hamlet of Tole, l. southwest of the city, The Ger mans countersttacked 10 times 1 Mosca, but were repulsed.
 Other units took Mt. Abelle. l4 southwest of Bologna, after heavy fighting. The 34th Division made the closest approach to Bologna 1T a fierce battle near Gorgnano northeast of Belmonte and about eight miles south of Bolcgna.
 Eighth Army. troops, advancing rapidly from a Sillaro oridgeheac on . wide from, were threatening Medicina ana Castel San Pietro both IA miles from Bologna.
 PoIE d units of the. Eighth 'ap- tured Castel Guelfo. IS miles easl Of Bologna, yesterday. They alst cleared enemy positions east oi Castel San pietro. 12 miles south east Of nologpas sss .,ss-