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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
$500 Planes; Rake Reich
 From Z Sides

London, March 2-(UP) More than 2,200 American and British heavy bombers swarmed into the battle of Germany today.
 Massive fleets of flying Actresses. Liberators, Lancasters and Hali- faxes threaded the skies all across Germany. They spearheaded the Allied planes giving direct support to the Allied armies fighting into the Reich from the west and the east.
 In all, probably more than $500 bombers and fighters flew from Britain against Germany. The British carted around 5000 tons of bombs to Cologne, the American some 3,600 tons to their targets total weight of 8,600 tons.
 A thousand or more Royal Air Force heavies cascaded thousands of tons of explosives into she'll scared Cologne. They struck di- rectly ahead of the American troops storming the Rhinelard Citadel's defenSes.
 Multiple striking forces of U. s, Eighth Air Force bombers swept across Germany to blast and burn targets lying ahead of the Red Army. The Russian command, now revealed to be in daily contact with the Allied commanders in the west, appeared to be ready to light the fuse of a new offensive designed to overrun Berlin.
 Upwards of 1900 flying fortresses
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Japan koyCroek Any Doy--McCoin

San Diego, Cal, March ? - (U.P) Vice Admiral John s. Mccain, commander of a famed carried task force, was home today with the pre- dIctlon that Japan may crack up any day. He warned however that capture of the Japanese home is- lands would not mean necessarily the end of the war.
 Japan proper may be taken faster than even the joint chiefs of staff now believe" he said, but 1t will be a 'ong time before the war ends if tre Japs are able to move to Manckuria"
 Mccain said the Japanese are preparing for such an emergency by moving large production units to the China mainland across the China Sea.
 Expressing salty contempt for the enemy, Mccain told press con- ference yesterday that his task force had so successfully cut the Jap ship ping lanes that the enemy was forced to hug the China coast, sneak ing to and fro mostly at night.
 "They are just a sub-human peo- ple," he said.
 Mccain was home on 30-day leave,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Two Fight May End 3 To 4 Days
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 2.-UP)-U. s. Marine broke thorugh the enemy's main defense belt on Two in a hot ly-contested advance to within l. POO yards of the north coast today.
 '"The Two campaign is moving into its last phases" United Press War Correspondent Mac R. John son reported from the invasion flag ship off Japan's tiny front doorstep island.
 "The end of the campaign may come within three to four days if the Marine tempo of 400 to 600-yard daily average advance is main- tained" he said.
 The third Marine division at the center of the front preached the enemy's main defense line in an 800-yard advance that carried across the western end of Iwo's third and last airfield.
 The breakthrough at the center threatened to split the surviving garrison of probably fewer than 10000 Japanese in two for piece meal annihilation.
 Both the eastern and western Hanks of the enemy line also were under attack, but the fourth and fifth Marine Divisions in these sec- tors still have as much as 2,500 yards to 90 to reach the northern beaches.
 In the west, however, Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey's Fifth Division seized Hill 362, one of the highest observation posts in the northern area.
 Maj. Gen. Greaves B. Erskine, commander of the Third Division, reported the central breakthrough to It. Gen. Holland M. Smith, in- vasion commander, aboard Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner's flagship.
 Erskine said his veterans of the Guam and Saipan campaigns had nattled through belt of blockhous- es and pillboxes on high ground from which the Japanese swept the advancing marines with mur- derous crossfire.
 A Marine spokesman aboard Turn CTS flagship sal dthe fighting for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Forts Hit Singop pore

Washington, March 2 -- U.P0 -- B-20 Superfortresses bombed war factories and the great naval base at Singapore, crossroads of the Jap- anese empire, today.
 A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by EGG, said 54 B-29's took part in the raid and admitted that some dam age was caused by Singapore's in- Stallations.
 The fifth B-29 daylight attack on Singapore was revealed in a brief War Department announcement that promised details after the giant raiders have returned to their goth bomber command bases in India.
 Designation of the naval base as among the prime targets indicated tht the Superfortresses may have been searching for units of Japans elusive fleet. Tn q raid February l, the B-29s sank a naval dry dock, largest of It's kind in the world.
 Singapore lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is the main defense and communications link between Japan and her stolen empire to the south and southeast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Jops Empire Cut In Half
BY H. ID. QUIGG

Manila, March 2-UP)-Ameri- can troops, landing unopposed on Palawan Island in the Philippines, virtually cut Japan's stolen empire in two today.
 Elements of the veteran fist Divi- sion seized control of the 275-mile long island, fifth largest and vest ernmost of the Philippines, with the capture of Puerto Princesa and three nearby airfields on the east coast.
 The successful invasion was the l7tn by American forces in the Phil ippines. It enabled the Americans to throw an air and naval blockade across Japan's shipping lanes to the south and opened the way for two- way aerial assault on the Malaya Peninsula. Allied heavy bombers, in- cluding B-29's, already have been attacking the peninsula from Burma and India in the west.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur'S com- munique noted significantly that progressive seizure of Philippines bases tends to cut the enemy in two and condemn all his conquests to the south to recapture."
 The troops, commanded by Brig. Gen. Harold J. Haney, Brazil, Ind. landed Wednesday on the beaches cast of Puerto Princesa after a heavy bombardment by cruisers and de- stroyers laid waste to the islands s capital and largest city.
 Amphibious tractors carried the initial waves ashore, but later heav- fer landing craft moved into the abandoned Puerto Princesa harbor and unloaded at freight pier.
 The Japanese had installed pill- boxes and emplacements in the town and around the airfields, but aban- doned them. Filipinos, warned by guerrilas, had completely evacuated the area.
 American bombers hammered the capital city and the surrounding area for two days before the land- ing and the airstrips were found severely scared.
 The two alrstrips. each with s. 0O0-foot runways. north of Puerto Princesa and an emergency landing field west of the harbor, formed an air base within easy bomber dis tance from the Japanese bases on
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02

the company charged them with loaflng and failure to maintain pro- duction schedules. The strikers said the schedules were impossible.
 The Briggs employees struck yes- terday when the company fired seven union committeeman and stewards. The company charged that the men were leaders of a walkout last month.
 Chrysler officials said that if the Dodge strike, which caused the lay off of 5000 workers at other plants for lack of parts, was not ended soon Chrysler's entire 100 000-man war production system would have to close down.
 Included in the Chrysler network is the Dodge plant in Chicago where the 2,300-horse-power B-29 engines are assembled.
 Chrysler said production on B-29 parts, rockets, tanks, guns and oth- CT war materials has been curtailed because all the corporations inter- plant truck drivers as well as the main Dodge plant production work CTS were on strike.
 Briggs officials said continuance of the Mack plant strike would force a shutdown of the company's seven plants, employing l6,500.
 Railroad lines were pressed into service between some Chrysler plants, but company spokesmen said the inter-plant assembly system would crack without truck transpor- tation.
 As a result Of the strikes, pickett ing and layoffs the entire main Dodge plant G3,e00) was closed; entire Dodge truck plant (3,000) closed; entire Chrysler tank arsenal
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Congress Backs Roosevelt
 On Crimea Farley Actions
BY LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, March - (UP)- President Roosevelt seemed today to have the support of substantial majority of House and Senate for his Crimea conference actions and the ultimate international security organization.
 His conference report to Q joint session of Congress yesterday was received with more attention than applause. But subsequent congress sional comment indicated that he could expect strong Republican as well as Democratic support for his general objectives.
 The president will report again on the conference today when he meets reporters in regularly sched- uled press conference. But he is expected to tell them little beyond what already mas been published. One thing he may clear up is the matter of his conference in AleXan- dria, Egypt, with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
 There have been so many and such conflicting official versions of what they discussed that MT. Roose- Welt may wish to tell about 1t in his own words. The confusion arises over the question whether the two statesmen did or did not discuss the Pacific war at Alexandria.
 The president was unable to ob- tain from Congress a unanimous vote of confidence such as Church i'll got in the House of Commons Some Republicans and some Demo- cratS were critical of the Crimea re- port. But experienced congression- al observers believe there Is def mite trend toward forceful postwar peace guarantees such as Marshal Josef V. Stalin, Churchill and MT. Roosevelt have been discussing.
 There is some congressional dis appointment that the president does not take the legislative branch further into his confidence. There is fear that some of the secrets withheld from Congress are of greater political than military sig nificance. But aside from tho question of Poland there has not developed any direct challenge to the Crimea agreements.
 Thre was both Republican and Democratic objection to the Polish
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Wallace Gets New Position

Washington, March 2-UPo- Henry A. Wallace became Secretary of Commerce today and immediate Iy went to work on the problem of postwar jobs.
 .The former Vice President, talk ing his third oath of office under the New Deal, stepped into job divorced by Congress of the gigan- tic financial powers exercised by his predecessors, Jesse II. Jones of Houston, Tex.
 In the first statement since the Senate confirmed his nomination yesterday, Wallace said he was ap- pointing a committee to plan means for small business to do its full share in furnishing maximum em- ployment" after the war.
 Wallace's overall goal is O,O00yO00 jobs.
 The one-time Secretary of Agri- culture was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black.
 Tn 6 written statement, Wallace promised to do what he can to de- velop the fullest use of inanpower, money, credit. and science toward 6 better peacetirne world. Of the committee on small business, he said:
 Tt is hoped that the committee will give especial attention to the problem of making available to small business adequate supplies of equity financing as well as long term loans at reasonable rates"
 He said the committee members would include Ralph E. Flanders, President, Jones &5 Lamson Ma- chine Co.,, Springfield, Vt; and Eric A. Johnson, President, United States Chamber of Commerce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
TANKS REACH RHINE NEAR DUSSEL DORF Detroit Faces War Production Shutdown
NWLb ACTION
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Detroit, March ?. - CUP) = National War Labor Board action to end strikes which have closed six Detroit arma- ment plants was anticipated today after a United Automo- bile Workers (C1O) Union leader warned that this arsenal city faced a complete war production shutdown.
 At least 30,000 workers were affected by the walk outs, resulting from dis charge of 19 employees.
 A regional VILE spokesman said the Detroit situation now was under consideration nt Washington. He said that union leaders and manage ment representatives probably would be summoned to Washington tomor- row to find means of ending dis- putes over disciplinary discharges
 Richard T. Frankensteen, JAW International president, told the WLB that the policy of firing workers was the same for the str1ges at the Chrysler Corporation and Briggs Manufacturing Company.
 Latest plant to close was the Briggs Milwaukee avenue unit, were 900 employees failed to report for work.
 "Unless your policy in handling disciplinary discharges Is changed Frankensteen told the VILE In telegram, "a general shut down will occur in the Detroit production area"
 Frankensteen and other JAW officials were rebuffed by union members last night when they urged the strikers to return to work. A mass meeting of the l3,600 Dodge plant strikers booed the JAW of- ficers from the platform, and tho meeting broke up In noisy confusion.
 Both Dodge strikers and $500 strikers at the Briggs Mack plant said they would not return to work until discharged workers were re- instated.
 Eight workers at the Dodge plant were discharged last Friday when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Nazis h Pornerania
 Cut Of By Souiets
(From NEA Telephoto)
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, March 2.-CUP)-The German high command said today that the Red Army had plunged a spearhead through Pomerania to the Danzig -Stettin coastal railroad the last land line of escape for an estimated 100000 German troops.
 A Navi Communique reported that Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos- sovsky's Red army cut the road be. tween Koeslin and Schlawe. That 28-mile stretch of the trunk line runs along the Baltic seven to l2 miles from the coast.
 The drive cut off all the Ger. man troops in northeastern Pom. erania, the northern end of the old Polish Corridor, and the Dan- zig Free State. Their only exit from these and Baltic pockets was Q Dunkerque retreat by sea.
 The German command said Soviet tank spearheads, striking on nar- row front, advanced to the 1orth- west in Pomerania and reached the Koeslin- -Schlaw road.
 Near KOeslln
 Earlier reports said the Russians were in sight of Koeslin, a junction on the railroad. Rokossovsky's forces appeared to be moving against 1t in force and on the verge of throwing strong barrier across Pomerania to the sea.
 The NaA communique also ac- knowledged a penetration of "our main defense system" north of an Arnswalde in the sector some 40 miles southeast of Stettin. The wedges were driven in from bridge heads the Russians seized the day before across the lima river, the Germans said.
 It was in this same sector that a Berlin broadcast said Soviet breakthrough drive aimed at Stettin had penetrated more than three miles into the German positions north of Reetz, some 10 miles north east of Arnswalde.
 Nazi broadcasts said Marshal Ivan s. Konevs army opened major at tack in the area of Schweidnitz,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Ration Stamp Counterfeiting Racket Inuolves
 200 Boston Butchers And Horse Race Gamblers

to make black market sales to cus- toners who bought without having to give ration points for their purchases.
 Though secret hearings were scheduled by the OPA for yesterday and today, it was said that these had been postponed pending further investigation.
 OPA enforcement Attorney Fred erick J. Hansberry was said to be preparing evidence to be used in prosecution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Tin Collection Tomorrow, ' A. M.

All streets north of East and West Main streets will be can- vassed tomorrow starting at ] Q. m. In collection of scrap tin. Street department trucks and employees under direction of Street Supt. Herbert Scott Smith will canvass the streets, providing the weather Is fair.
 Residents have been asked to leave their tin contributions out on the street in front of their homes before , Q. m. to- morrow. Kindly cleanse and flatten all tin cans as has been prescribed. Do not place tins in front of home if weather Is unsettled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02

Boston, March 2 -- (U.P) - A vast meat and butter ration stamp counterfeiting racket involving per- haps 200 Boston butchers and garb- iers connected with horse and dog racing rings was disclosed today by OPA officials here.
 Concluding three-week investi- gatIon in conjunction with the ofilce of District Attorney William J. Foley the OPA said that prosecutions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02

would follow shortly and that a number Of duration sIspensions' would be meted out to meat dealers in the Faneuil Hall Market section Of Boston.
 Cornelius J. Moynihan. regional enforcement executive of the OPA, said that though no arrests had as yet been made several hundred per- sons had been questioned.
 According to Moynihan. racket mon" who allegedly had been affili- ated with horse and dog racing in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02

New York and Chicago had been operating a counterfeit ration stamp ring for several months.
 Representatives of this group, it was said, visited meat dealers in the Faneuil Hall market district who had insufficient red ration stamps to make up deficits.
 The racketeers sold the dealers stamps ct the rate of $6 per 1000 ration points. It was believed that several million points had been sold to these dealers who then were able
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
Trier And Venlo
 Taken By Allies
 In New Assaults
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris March ?. - (UP) = American Ninth Army crashed through to the Rhine today and opened bggun duel the river with the German defenders of Dusseldorf key Rhur stronghold of than 000000 inhabitants
 The ancient city of Trier citadel of the westernnost German bulge against Luxembourg fell to the American Third Army manning the right wing of Gen. Dwight D. Esenhower grand offensive aimed at destroying all Ger. man forces west of the Rhine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-02
DIR. DAY LIBERATED

Washington, March D. W.P) = The War Department announced to- day additional names of civilians liberated in the Philippines, includ- ing:
 Day, Kenneth B. and Alice Dr Hilbert s. Day, H Kirkland street. Cambridge, Mas.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-28
n Euu>u,u u~uurS> By Bob
i A11LE SAA1EAAlSy11AS - Gensidne

THE national anthem wasn't played at the
i opening days session. probably because
the state department felt that, if it played
ours it would have to play the As others, and
that would have taken a couple of hours and
plague of fallen arches.
But the congregation got the exercise OF
standing up nonetheess The first bars OF
music to emerge from behind the blue back
ground and golden pillared stage were militant
in mood.
The delegates and all others in the huge
opera house rose as man. But what fol-
lowed after the trumpet and drum flare was
only kind of Sousa march. Nevertheless,
there was much uncertainty, with many dee|
gates afraid of sitting down because there
was chance that they might be offending
some nation whose anthem it was.
THE heavy thinking set among the journal
i lists had a nasty turn at breakfast.
Pundit Walter Lippman and his wife were
awaiting their eggs with the kind of stoicism
that is needed here.
Reflective quiet reigned over the dining
room. Then. all hell broke loose and a grave
crisis was met and overcome only by the
quickest kind of thinking
Suddenly, Mrs. Lippman jumped up with
gasp of dismay and raced few yards down
the corridor of tables. She had espied
waitress opening Lippman's soft boiled eggs!
mo no." the wife said a little fran
tically, giving an additional case of the shakes
to nearby gentlemen who were trying 10 get
down cup of coffee without spilling any.
She rescued two eggs still tastefully dene'
in their untrammeled shells and bore them
tenderly down the lane to her husband.
He likes to do them himself" she ex-
planned to the slightly startled waitress.
Lippman smiled wanly at the waitress
Just an idiOsyncrasy,' he said
He didn't say whose.
TWO fisted Maj. Gen. Julian c. Smith, the
top marine out this way, was disturbed.
the other day, by wildly janging telephone
in his hotel room.
He picked ii up expecting at least new
landing.
rs this Gen. Smuts OF South Africa"
a voice demanded sharply
"NO, by God" our hero roared "This IL
Gen. Smith of North America" and hung up.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-28

GAN FRANCISCO. April 27-Conferencs
- sidelights:
II is something like the World Series. with
spade boards. and something like the turbaned
circus, without the fun. II is something like
richly hung stage tableau having to do
with the meeting of strange and in the past
hostile tribes and peoples, but it is too serious
to be stage struck.
Ii has its smoke-filled rooms, as does
political conference, but you feel that there
is to be al pure minimum of sharp dealing.
II is something like fantastic jury, with
the fate of world instead of one human to
weigh 1t is a streamlined Tower of Babel.
able to be completed because an interpreter
was found in time.
II is cross section Of bloody world that
has made war for 93 per cent of its last 1000
years, world that. at long, long last. has
sickened of what it has done-and what it
might do generation from now-and wants
done with horror.
ENLSA MAXWELL worlds heavyweight
IL champion for giving parties, appeared
AT the opening session at which President
Truman spoke by direct wire from the White
House.
girl secretary and heartily dictated portions
of her column as the delegates took their
historic places.
When V. NJ. Mootov. the round headed
bespectaced, vigorous little spokesman for
Uncle Joe Stain, thumped down the red car
peted aisle at the head of the determined
looking Russian delegation, an excited whisper
went through the crowd.
Necks craned in the orchestra. Reporters
and radio people hung like bats over the lip
of the press boxes. Four very tough looking
men-Mootov bodyguard- that he was
seated and marched back up the aisle. Pen
ellis of reporters igged over notebooks Radio
people whispered tensely into the she-pink
ear of the land
Elsa remained unmoved. a rugged Gibral-
tar, refusing to yield an inch from carefully
arranged life.
'. .. And you will be interested to know"
she dictated to the hand maiden at her knee,
that will have ehOpy-s,ey with the gentle
man. tomorrow night"
Gave us kind of comfortable feeling.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-28

But while the reporters are
covering every angle you should
see the way the radio Commen-
tatorS are following this thing.
Lord Halifax looked up in his
bath this morning and found a
network correspondent giving
the nation play-by-play ac-
count of how he was handling
the soap.
| ATER. a Mexican delegate
IL got annoyed. He d ordered
enchladaS and ice cream and.
before he could start eating
kaltCnhorn was on the air
analyZing what this might mean
south Of his border the dele
gates ! mean.
Couldn't find my goose Quill
pen so ! was forced 10 write
my stuff with an ostrich plume.
II works swell too, except. for
some reason. whenever | read
a column. l feel like hiding my
head IN the sand. And, after
fereadlng this one. IL doesn't
seem like a bad idea.