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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-11-10

Mrs. Grace OUTLAW. American
Red Cross social worker in Aus
tralia and New Guinea for two
years, was presented during the
dedication week programs OF the
Metropolitan Baptist church, Tues
day evening.
The program was sponsored by
the Fleming beauty school, with
Mrs. Beatrice Fleming, founder, as
mistress Of ceremonies,
MRS. OUTLAW Is a former resi-
dent Of Chicago. now living In
New York City and presently writ
Ing q book on her experiences in
Australia and New Guinea. The
skit presented at the end OF the
lecture was written by Mrs. Out
law.
Challenging the church In the
opening OF her fast-moving story
OF life in this war. Mrs. Outlaw
said, Never before in our time
has the church had such a re-
sponsibility as it faces in the post
war era. We find ourselves as
unprepared for peace as we were
for war. and il is the duty OF the
church TO help us make up this
unpreparedness"
THE SPEAKER traced at great
length the segregation policies OF
the u. S. Army as manifested in
treatment of colored troops. Scor-
ing the American Army, she said,
There is no organization in the
country as lousy with prejudice as
the u. S. Army. Intolerance, big
otry and prejudice board every
ship leaving these shores. Let
no one deceive you. despite their
much publicized white policy,
Australia knows no such prejudice
as the Americans took there. Our
colored boys in the South West
Pacific have four enemies to fight
% the Japs: ~ the climate; t3)
disease and az white Americans.
the last by far the most treacher-
GUS"
Outlining briefly the social or
ganization Of Australia. the speak
er said. australians are not pre-
tentious. they have low wage scales
and low educational standards as
compared with ours A college
woman is rarity in that country.
THE PEOPLE are white. half
castles or aborigines. Although the
Australians claim the aborigines
cannot learn, they are kept in con-
fines and do beautiful pottery and
needlework."
Expressing very great respect
for the 96th Engineers. the speaker
warned friends and relatives that
they would be the last group COM
ing home. These boys did not 20
over there looking for trouble, but
neither did they 90 over there 20
crawl on their bellies. Bat 20 walk
as men should! One company Of
the 96th had some tough white
officers who set out 10 make il as
miserable as they could for the
fellows. When these same officers
came UP missing no one knew any
thing about H." She said the fel-
lows have stoutly maintained
their silence rs 20 who killed the
officers and have foregone the pos
sibility OF coming home sooner.
out OF loyalty TO each other The
army has promised they will not
return 10 the states until the last
American troop has returned.
THE PROGRAM was concluded
with d skit employing some OF the
terms used by the boys Down
Under During the signing O!
Il Had a Little Talk With TIE
LORD a pantomiTe was enacted
Mr.. Luberta c. WoodforK was
the solo.st. Service men partici-
ps;iuI in the program were veter-
ans OF overseas service. They were
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-11-10
Legion Post To
Honor Comrades

Tom Phillips Post No. 1874
American Legion. will pay homage
to departed comrades and will re-
dedicate themselves TO God and
country Sunday, Nov. II.
ALL VETERANS, families and
friends are invited to attend the
service at Ebenezer church, Will
lis and Brush, at 1890 am.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-11-10
Suit Dismissed
Against Driver
In Auto Mishup

The case against Allyne Law
son and Walter Lawson was dis
missed at the hearing Wednes-
day for lack of progress. Eu-
gene Reid. four-year-old. had
sued through his next friend.
Blossom Wilson. for $4,000 in
an auto accident in which his
left leg was broken. The hear
ing was in the courtroom Of Cir
cult Judge Joseph Moynihan.
The accident took place In
1912 and the child was in a hos
pital for 90 days. The Lawsons
said the child emerged from be-
tween two parked cars.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-11-10
William Allen,
Radio Speaker

William Allen, vice chairman Of
the Michigan Communist party,
who has just been discharged from
the army, after three years of serv-
ice in the Pacific, will be the speak
er Saturday night. Nov. 10, at ILLS
over radio station WWJ.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
FAVOR WAGE BOOST FOR 27OO WORKERS
SINE. Telephone Company Operators, Office Em-
 plOyes to Benefit

New Haven, March 14-Following the conclusion of wage negotiations here last night, officials of Tho Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers, Inc, and The Southern New England Telephone Company annuonced they would jointly peti. ton the Telephone Panel of the National War Labor Board for ap- proval of wage increases for tho company's 2,70O operators and other central office female employees in the traffic department. The pro- posed increases range from $1 per week off employees with less than one years service to $3.80 per week for those with three years or more service.
 To avoid intra- plant inequities the union and company will also request permission to increase the wages of all other non-management female employees, numbering about 1000. These proposed increases are $1 per week for employees with less than one year of service, and $l .8( for those with one year or more service.
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Apologies
 To Churchill
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(Continued from Page D observed that the whole matter was an unfortunate incident, and If the members descend to unparliamen- tary language the house would be- come something like beer garden, After a brief exchange between Laborite Aneurin Bevan and Churchill regarding the latitude the chair had granted the Prime Minister, Stokes unequivocally with drew the word "lie" from his last nights statement, and Churchill accepted the withdrawal. Laborite Richard Stokes told Commons that Britain had nothing comparable to Germany's Panther and Tiger tanks.
 "The House should insist upon a proper inquiry" he said. Thousands of lives have been lost and tens of thousands of young men have been wounded and injured.
 "The ministers primarily respon- sible are the Prime Minister and the Minister of Production and the people who have suffered should know they repeatedly came to thl house and lied"
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Germans Say Tanks
 In Koenigswinter
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delaying action to protect the super highway.
 The drive into KalenSorn was made by infantry forces stabbing directly eastward from the Remagen bridge. Other supporting riflemen cleared the nearby village of Saint Katharinen and pushed northward along secondary road Laralleling the eight-lane military highway.
 There was no confirmP ton early today of enemy reports that Ameri- car shock troops crossed the Rhine in assault boats yesterday and broke into Koenigswinter, 7ls miles north ot Remagen.
 Honnef, three miles south of Koenigswinter, was in American hands, although stiff fighting still was in progress in the towns northeastern outskirts, and van- guards of the first army were ad. vancing slowly through rugged hill country a mile to the northeast.
 Two miles east of Honnef, the Tanks finally cleared 1OOO-foot hilltop after a sharp, close-quarters fight, eliminating another German artillery threat to the Remagen bridges.
 Tank-led German infantrymen counterattacked weakly in the area northeast of Honnef yesterday but they were beaten off in short or der. Three similar counter-thrusts farther to the south also were re- pulsed, one in the Hargarten area. four miles east of Remagen and less than four miles from the su- per-highway, and two others at Hoenningen, 5 1-2 miles south oi Remagen.
 The Germans threw six tanks into the Hargarten attack and all six were destroyed by American gunfire.
 Meanwhile, Patton's armored and infantry divisions were Wneeine down through the corner Of the Saar Valley in what appeared te be a powerful drive to squeeze the remnants of the German seventh army against the guns of the Am erican seventh Army massed or
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meter of the bridgehead in the ad- vance into Kalenborn, i've miles northeast of the Remagen bridge, and pushed out one to almost nve miles on the northeastern flank. The latter advances, however, were principally strengthening oper- ations that added little to the over all size of the Rhine Salient.
 Far to the southwest, Lieutenant George s. Patton's veteran Thlro Army troops wedged in from three sides on four mile-square Ger man pocket on the north bank of the Mosel river. Only few scat tered units of the 23000 Nazis or iginally caught in the Eifel Noun tains north of the Mosel were be- lieyed left in the pocket and they were expected to be liquidated in matter of hours.
 Other third Army forces south of the Mosel Valley were across the Suwer river line in considerable strength and driving east and southeast across the northern cor ner of Germany's industrial Saar region.
 There were no reports of major fighting on the blacked-out Amer ican Ninth Army front along the Rhine on the First Army's north ern ank. German and American patrols crossed the Rhine repeated ly in assault boats to reconnoitel the opposing positions and direct artillery fire, and the Germans con. centrated heavy shellfire on the Homberg sector opposite Duisblrg.
 yAe Canadian First Army from !c the north and the phantom British Second Army which Ber' lin said was massing for a cross ing of the Rhine at Emmerich - also were marking time before Germany's last great rampant II the west.
 A tremendous build-up of mel and armor was in full swing on tn American First Army front acros the Rhine, however. Front dis patches said 8 pontoon bridge hal beer thrown over tke river near tn Remagen railway span and tha enormous supply conveys were roll ing through day and night. despit
 incessant attacks by Na1 div bonlbers and fighters.
 The advance into Kalenborr where hard fighting was reporte continuing this morning, and sup
 porting gains on either flank shove
 the German artillery back behin
 the super highway eight miles Q
 more from the Rhine and put tn
 two bridges beyond the range Of a . but the heaviest enemy guns. Attacks RedOubled
 ] German warplanes redoubled thei
 attacks on the First my life line
 however, throwing scores Of plane . against the two bridges from daw ] to dark yesterday. At least 43 Of t attacking planes counted were sht t down by anti-aircraft gunners an
 the swarms of American fightel . patrolling the bridgehead area. . Other Nazi planes ranged up an 1. down the river to bomb ard stral '- American and Allied petitions alor l. the west bank, aided by low clot d cover that ham. cred the defendir
 Allied air forces.
 d German ground resistance WI Is stiffening all along the bridgehei d perimeter, although the enemy st
 appeared to be fighting only maj
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(Continued from Page D fringing the northern outskirts of Wolfe and Sap Roque airlields, a communique said the Japanese were increasing their resistance with mortarS and machine guns.
 The Japanese, rapidly being com- pressed throughout the Philippines by U. s. troops and guerrillas, also were fighting Stubbornly but fu- tilely on Luzon.
 Elements of the U. s. Sixth Division, behind an 8O0-pound ar tillery bombardment and under an aerial cover, punched one-mlle hole through the strongly defended Japanese line east of Manila. The thrust near Mount Mataba, l2 1-2 miles northeast of the capi- tai. cut the enemys main north south communication and supply route running through the honey combed hills of the Marakina wa tershed.
 First Calvary division units simul- taneously nipped off the end of the Japanese line by completely occup- ping Antipolo, 10 miles to the south, almost without opposition after a 16-day battle.
 In the southwestern corner of Luzon, the l58th Regimental com bat team cleared Calumpan Penin- sula, captured the provincial capi- tai of Batangas and a nearby air strip and reopened Batanges Bay to American shipping.
 Front reports said the Japanese were smelling the Americans in Batangas with 14-inch naval guns from Mount Macolod near the southeast coast of Lake Taal north of Cuenca.
 The drive around BatangaS Bay was rapidly converging with a thrust from the north by elements of the 11th Airborn division, which was pushing down from Laguna Bay.
 One force from the Airborne division advanced to Los Banos site of Japanese prison camp al the southern tip of Laguna Bay from which more than 2,000 Allied prisoners were liberated recently Another unit at the same time ad vanced to Santo Tomas, seven ant a half miles to the southwest. At Santo Tomas the 11th division men were less than 25 miles iron the 158th Regiment at Batangas
 Tn advancing to Santo Tomas one Airborne outfit ran into king size" super Japanese pillbo1 at the approaches to Tanauan.
 It was composed of four huge command posts, each 18-feet deer and each having more than 60 con- kcrete pillboxes and spiderhOles. h.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
WOMEN'S GROUP
 PLANNING TEA
Social Event to Be Held in Church ParlOrs
 March P
WATERVILLE Correspondents PhOne-S-GS1l

Waterville, March 14 - The Wo- mems Society for Christian Service of Grace Methodist church will hold Silver Tea on Thursday evening, March 22nd in the church parlors. Mrs. R. L. Wood of Waterbury will discuss the Dumbarton Oaks Con- ference. Hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Bertha Platt, Mrs. J. M. E. Johnson, Mrs. N. E. Honnold and Mrs. Harry Lattimer. Anyone Is welcome to attend. The proceeds will be donated to the Crusade For Christ"
 The Swedish Weaving Club met last night at the home of Mrs. Bertha Platt on Parker street. Fol- lowing the sewing meeting social hour was enjoyed. Those present were: Miss Ruth Norton, Mrs. Harry | Lattimer, Mrs. Bertha Platt, Mrs. Ralph Benson, Mrs. J. M. E. John son and Mrs. John w. Platt, Jr.
 William McKelvey of Thomaston avenue is resting comfortably at St. Marys hospital following his re- cent appendectomy.
 Mrs. Ida Deslauriers of 1877 ThomaSton avenue was hostess re- gently at 8 shower in honor of Mrs. Cecelia Beaulieu. Mrs. Beaulieu was the recipient of many lovely gifts. A buffet lunch was served. Those present were: Mrs. Katherine Gangloff, Mrs. Louis Arsenault, Mrs Frederick Levesque, Mrs. Joseph Boisclair, Mrs. Patrick Moriarty, Mrs. Lucielle Labreque, Miss Ceceil Labreque, Miss Pauline Rainslow, Mrs. Chariotte Rood, Mrs. Pauline Sears, Miss Louella Underwood, Mrs Fitzgerald, Mrs. Ida Deslauriers and Mrs. Beaulieu.
 The Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at 6:30 tomorrow evening at the church parlors.
 The mid-week Prayer Meeting of the Waterville Union church will be held tomorrow evening at 7:45 at the home of Miss Elizabeth Weeks on Wheeler street.
 Henry Wagner, son of MT. and Mrs. Henry Wagner of Cornwall avenue has been promoted to pri- vate first class with the 82nd Air borne Division in Germany accord- ing to word received by the boys parents. Henry went overseas last July.
 Private First Glass Wilfred Arsen- ault who was wounded in Germany, is spending 20-day furlough with his mother and his brother and sister-in-laW MT. and Mrs. Louis Arsenault of Essex avenue. Wilfred Is spending a few days visiting friends and relatives in Massachu- sets.
 George Strever of 132 Boyden street has enlisted in the U. s. Navy and will report for induction in the near future.
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(Continued from Page D last few sets today. When they fin- ish shooting scenes with them they'll have to close up shop, producers said.
 The crews said they had no in- tention of coming back to work un- til the war labor board enforced its order giving the designers to the Painters union.
 "The board refused to enforce a settlement we won last fall" said Herbert Sorrell, president of the Conference of Studio Unions. wen stay out on strike until they do something about It."
 He brushed aside a WLB warn ing that their case would be shelved until the stage crews returned to work. .
 Tt can just stay on the shelf and we'll stay of the job," he de- clared. we say to hell with 'em. By the end of the week not . camera will be turning in any studio in town"
 The studios were inclined to agree with him. Skeleton shooting sched- ules were eked out today, with IATSE electricians on hand to WorK the high-powered lamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Russians Drive
 Down Final Lap
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fl1e Soviet onslaught. Spring thaws forced the Oder and its tributaries opel their bombs and Maxi troops Increased the inundations by open ang the sluice gates of numerous canals.
 Masses of Soviet infantry and arr tlliefy were reported streaming across German Pomerania toward Che Oder in endless columns. All vehicles were emblazoned with, "to Berlin and Ito Stettin."
 "Never have the snow-covered fields and forests of Pomerania seen such quantities of machines, tanks and guns. such a great, de- terlmined, well-organized army moving an avalanche of troops, Pravda said.
 Ernst Won Hammer, German DINE commentator, said the Rus eians had launched a new offen- sive on both sides of Zinten on the perimeter of the German pocket southwest of Koenigsberg in East Prussia.
 He added the customery claim that the offensive had failed In German barrage fire
 Bridgeheads Enlarged
 Berlin reports also conceded that the Russians enlarged their bridge heads across the Oder at Lebus and Goeritz, B and 37 miles respective iy east of Berlin. in attacks in reg mental strength yesterday one Soviet battle group seized high ground north of Frankfurt, but was driven off, the NaZi account said
 The Soviet high command re- mained silent on the progress oi the fighting east of Berlin, but re- ported that the second White Rus sian army had damned l0O,OOC Germans into 500-square- mile pocket around Danzig and Gdynia on Danzg Bay.
 Moscow dispatches said the Red Army was fighting in the north and northwest outskirts of Gdynia and in the suburbs of Danzig. Both ports were reported in flames from Soviet bombing and smelling.
 The second army cleared lOO- suuare-mile enemy pocket at the top of the Polish corridor and drove to the sea on either side of the Hela Peninsula, Gdynia's natural breakwater, yesterday.
 Among towns and villages seized fin the advance were Hallerowo, at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Two Battle
 End In Sight

Continued from Page D render. Creeping up to the cave entrances. the marines hurled in demolition charges that collapsed the walls.
 During yesterday alone, 1l5 en- emy caves were sealed up. Pacific fleet headquarters communique re- ported
 Army fighters, presumably from the captured southern airfield on Iwo bombed airfield and harbor in- stallations on Chichi in the Bonins Tuesday. The island also was hit by Lberator bombers on the two pre- ceding days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
S.H.H.S, STUDENTS
 TO PRESENT REVUE

A gala program of Irish entertain ment will feature dance to be held at Buckingham Hall tomorrow night under the auspices of Sacred Heart High school.
 Veteran director, Joseph H. Le- Zotte will lead the chorus and solo, ists in a medley of Irish airs. Spe- cialty dance numbers and xylo- phone solo are also on the pro- gram, which is unusually decorated with students autographs.
 Music will be furnished by Ferd Bredice and his orchestra. Francis OBrien is master of ceremonies and Al Daddis pianist.
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he southern edge of the Saar.
 AHnaAl N1Aa PAM

the southern edge of the Saar.
 MOsel Cleared
 With the Mosel Valley virtually cleared all the way from Trier to Coblenz, Patton sent his S4th ln- fantry division and other uniden- tified units crashing across the Ruwer River southeast of Trier on a nine-mne front.
 The Americans gained up to 2 l-2 miles, pushing their advanced spearheads more than mile Deo yond the Ruwer and almost lo miles east of Saarburg. Creme rath, seven miles southeast ol Saarburg, was taken, along With Burg Held, Bonerath and Hinzen- burg, six to eight miles southeast of Trier.
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the base of the Hela Peninsula, and Rheda, eight miles northwest of Gdynia.
 At the southern end of the Gdy- nia-Danzig pocket. the Russians pushed up the east bank of the Vistula and captured Palschau, IA miles south of Danzig and five miles north Of Tczew.
 A Soviet communique said the Russians were advancing stead fly" on both DanZig and Gdynia in fierce fighting. More than 5000 Germans were killed around the perimeter of the pocket yesterday and 700 trucks wrecked. Twenty two tanks were captured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
UNCLE SAM TO HAND OUT 32,OOO,OOO EXTRA RED POINTS

The greatest windfall of extra rsd points ever is going this Nonth, and each month follow ing, to American housewives throughout the country.
 g million extra red points, ap. proximately. will be handed out hy meat dealers to customers who turn in used fats In great Victory drive for this essential of naedicines, gunpowder, synthetic rubber, soaps, paints and a hun dred other necessities on the battlefield and home front. For each pound of fats turned in, every housewife is entitled to 2 1ed points.
 The need for used fats is still argent. Women are urged to save every drop, every spoonful of grease possible and keep saving, until final Victory over both Germany and Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
5 Miles Of Osako Afire
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of control 10 hours after the start of the raid. It said the B-29s bomb- ed blindly from above clouds and damaged various places in the city area"
 The giant raiders ran into stiff anti aircraft fire and a binding network of searchlights, but fighter opposition was meager. Only one plane was lost to enemy action. An- other was lost over Nagoya Monday and two went down over Tokyo Sat- urday.
 The Japanese claimed that II Superfortresses had been shot down and about 60 damaged in the raid on Osaka.
 Three planes landed on newly captured airstrips on Two Jima, 750 miles south of Tokyo, en route home from the three raids, the Fist bomber command reported.
 The Osaka raid marked the third major step in the commands an- nounced campaign to destroy Jap ans industrial cities and thus strike body-blow to the enemy's war making potential.
 Posaka, 245 miles west of Tokyo and 80 miles west of Nagoya, has B. 250 ,000 inhabitants, 600,000 of them in the l0-square-mile target area of the B-29s. It Is the most densely. populated city in Japan.
 Among the $500 airmen who bombed Osaka were many who also
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 slumped on the ground under the tree, a closeline moose about the neck. The skull was nearby. About five fet of rope remained suspend ed from the tree.
 The boys notified Detective James Stock who lived nearby, and he mo- tified the medical examiner and Coroner Stephen A. Homick. Deputy Police Superintendent Frederick Hickey, Captain Patrick Foley, and Detective George McElligott also went to the scene.
 Coroner Homick said he had nc plans for an inquest, at least until identification of the body is made. The remains were taken to Lun- nys Funeral Home last night.
 New South Wales, Australia, re. ports that during the war it has ha< practically every kind of strike ex cept gold strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14

Mexico, which normally exports rice, may have to import this com modity as the result of crop fail ure in Sonora.
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cluded in the heavily fortified em- placements were 8 deeply cut mess hall and medical aid station. The elaborately staggered network had foxholes for crossfire covering each pillbOx.
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had participated in the Nagoya and Tokyo strikes. When they landed at their Marianas bases today, they had completed AS hours in the air out of the last 110
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