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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Norris Keeps Lookout
 For Last Weary Robin

ing his years. This, Norris said checks with real life.
 Norris began surveying the robin situation 10 years ago on his reg ular Sunday strolls in the park Friends who accompanied him on such jaunts said he'd lean against tree, rest his chin in his hand and frown at robins perched near by.
 Norris soon drew the interest of park police, so he added the pouch, notebook and field glasses to his accessories to convince the curious that he was a bona fide bird lov- CT, which he isn't. Cops no long CT look at him over their should CTS. he Ssjd.
 He didn't intend to make notes. originally, just to pretend. But rather than scribble the ABC's in the notebook when policeman began eyeing him suspiciously, he jotted observations on robins which Jagged behind the advance guard and looked shopworn.
 The gunpowder pouch, he ex- plained, is 1illed with fig newtons because 8 guy gets hungry in the fresh air of New York's wilder ness. Robins are too fat any, way" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
BY JACK ROWLEs

New York, March 22-UP)- James Sanford Norris filled his fountain pen, strapped on a gum powder pouch filled with fig new tons and set out in Central Park today to find the last robin of spring.
 First robins never interest Nor- ris, 33-year-old advertising exe- cutive. He figures anybody can see the first robin. His diary is filled with entries like this:
 "1937: Saw a rnousy male robin sitting on top the lioEs cage in Central Park Zoo. He looked tired. Probably wintered in New Orleans and stuffed himself on French cooking. Seemed to be asleep, with one wing feather out of line. Also seemed to have sore feet. Kept shifting from one foot to the other in his sleep. Nerves :"
 Norris denied he was cynical about nature, but claimed senti- mentalists go overheard on the rapture divine" theme of spring, especially about first robins. He said he merely liked to note that there always was a last robin, and that such a, bird was late because he overslept, overate or was feel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
New U. s. Fuse
 Pounds Germans

Boston, March 22.-CUP)-Ameri- can artillery pounding the eastern Rhineland> and Japanese positions in the Philippines are using new concrete-piercing fuse made by z Rhode Island company, Col. H. B Sheets of the Boston ordnance dis. trict reported today.
 Sheets said that the new fuse made by the American Wringer Co.,. of Woonsocket, R. l., can be screwed on the nose of every artillery shell from 75 nm gun shell to a mas sive 240 nm Howitzer shell.
 He explained that inside the pointed metal fuse is placed a sensitive high explosive which sets off a booster mechanism containing slightly less sensitive explosive The booster, he added, then sets off the explosive in the shell.
 Sheets said that the new fuse is strong enough to permit the shell to pierce certain types of pillboxes or other concrete Qualifications be- fore the explosion occurs. At the same time, he added, it is also suf- ficiently accurate to permit frac- tion of a seconds delay before the shell, embedded in the concrete, blows the fertilization up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Military Commentators
 Indicate Eisenhower's s 'Win-The-War' Push On
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, March 9. - (UP) - The U. s. First Army drove from it's Rhine bridgehead d today against the southern flank of the Rhur under an aerial barrage laid down by more than 2,000 American WarplaneS.
 One of the wars biggest tactical air offensives was in full swing along the Rhine front from the Swiss border to the North Sea. German and Allied military commen- tators indicated that General Dwight D. Eisenhower "Win the War" offensive might already have begun.
 Field dispatches said 66-mile pail of artificial smoke blanketed the entire northern end of the bat tlefront southward from NiJmegen.
 Behind that smoke screen Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom- cry was deploying the massive arm. ored and infantry forces of his Britt ish Second, Canadian First and American Ninth Armies for what both sides agreed would be the de- cisive assault on the Rhine barrier.
 It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges U. s. First Army already was on the move northward from its salient east of the Rhine. It battered with tanks and infantry against the nar- row Sieg river barely 10 miles from the southern flank of the Ruhr. The offensive was coordinated with crippling air strike by more than 1900 American heavy bomb CTS and 700 fighters against chain of German military encampments and air fields in and behind the imperilled Ruhr basin.
 Decisive Victory
 Simultaneously, the American Third and Seventh armies to the south clinched their most decisive victory of the war with the destruc- tion of all but handful of an es- timated 80000 to 100000 Germans in the Saar-Palatinate.
 The two armies merged into a solid front west of the Rhine and closed against the river with a rush that threatened to eliminate the few thousand surviving Germans before the weeks end.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton,s Third Army troops were mopping up iso- lated German pockets inside the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, March 22.-(UP)- Chester (Red Points, BoWleS wants to regulate the cost of shave and haircut. He is, as you shall see, a brave man.
 He told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the price of barbering has increased 29 pel cent. He rubbed his Well-scraped chin and said he thought his OPA ought to shave these tonsorial prof it's.
 But the barberS have one of the most powerful Hobbies of all" e claimed Senator Glen H. Taylor ol Idaho. They're hanging on the coat tails of the doctors. They say if you regulate the price of a hair cut you've got to regulate the price of an appendicitis operation"
 "Uh," began Bowles.
 And you don't think" said Sen- ator Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado that so long as barbers shave men with razors, anybody is going to vote against 'em, do you9"
 "Uh," Bowles began again.
 And isn't 1t a fact" asked Ser- ator Burke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, "that some barbers are better bar bers than others and can charge more?"
 The senators sat back then and waited for an answer from the husky Bowles, who was wearing shirt that was no good example of what he was about to say.
 'Oh," he begaE once more. "Yes, gentlemen I suppose barbers are like laundries. Some give you fine service and finish your shirts ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
IIoiIo Taken
 ByAmericons
BY H. D. QUIGG

Manila, March 22-(UP)-Ameri- can troops and Filipino guerrillas tracked down scattered Japanese remnants on Panay today after crushing the last organized resist ance with the capture of Iloilo, cap- ital of the island.
 Virgual completion of the Panay campaign came as American bomb- CTS from the Philippines stepped up their aerial offensive to severely pound the Japanese shipping re- sources from the eastern Philippines to the coast of China.
 Thirteen Japanese vessels, includ- ing five small warships, were de- stroyed or damaged in the wire spread attacks carried out by almost every svpe of iarcraft, from fighters to heavy Liberator bombers.
 The rapid campaign on Panay, sixth largest of the Philippines, overwhelmed the main Japanese forces in 52 hours and left only s m all scattered pockets to be mopped up bq the American troops and the Filipino guerrillas.
 The last organized resistance was broken when Maj. Gen. Rap Brush's veteran 40th division forces stormed into Iloilo under cover of low-fly. ing Mitchell medium bombers.
 Approximately 70 per cent of the capital city was burned or blasted by the Japanese, although the docks and fine anchorage facilities were found undamaged. Iloilo's harbor, fronting on the Iloilo river and the strait, is one of the best in the cen.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Plane Saves Wounded GI's
By JOHN McDERMOTT

Somewhere in Germany, March g --UP)-A big American transport plane dipped low over an airstrip in the Remagen bridgehead today and snatched up motorless glider laden with 12 wounded soldiers.
 Nine minutes later the glider came to rest less than 20 yards from the entrance of an evacuation hos pital some 50 miles behind the lines. Thus began the U. s. Army's first glider-ambulance service in Europe
 Col. William H. Amspacher of Norman, Okla, an Army surgeon, hailed the successful feat as the beginning of new and important phase of Army medical history.
 Ten of the patients were Ameri- cans. Two were Germans. Most were wounded this morning in the fighting on the rim of the U. S.. First Army's bridgehead east of the Rhine.
 This is the swellest break any CT ever got," said a soldier from Elgin, Ill. T got nailed by a jerry bullet about o'clock this morning, and here I am at the hospital for lunch.
 If had come by ambulance, wouldn't have gotten here before nightfall, and it would have been a horrible ride over those rough roads"
 Amspacher estimated that when in full operation the gliders could
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Fleet Neors Okinowa Isle
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 22.-(UP)-The Fifth Fleet today was reported ap- preaching the Okinawa Islands, 300 miles southwest of Japan. possibly for new blows at Japan's waning sea and air power.
 GA Tokyo broadcast said 120 American Superfortresses, Libera- tor bombers and Lightning fighters raided Japanese-held Hainan Island off the South China coast yester- day. The broadcast, recorded by the FOG, said the Japanese garrison caused considerable damage" to the planes)
 Pacific Fleet headquarters has screened the fleets activities with 8 security blackout since its planes crippled IT enemy warships and wrecked 600 aircraft in Japan's ir- land sea Sunday and Monday.
 But radio Tokyo said the task force with its dozen or more carriers last night was Fleeing at full speed" southward toward waters east of the Okinawa Islands, site of an important naval base and several airfields midway between Japan and FormoSa.
 With yapan's inland sea naval bases still smouldering from Sum- day and Mondays attacks, Okinawa might offer 8 tempting target to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's fast carriers and their escort of battleships and other warships un- der Admiral Raymond A. Spru- ance.
 The naval base is situated on Ok lnawa, largest island in the group nf the same name, about midway h the Ryukyu chain running souEh- Rest from KyuShu, southernmost of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Catholic Priests Appeals Rejected

Peabody Mass, March 22-(UP) About two-thirds of the leather workers in 72 Peabody and Woburn tanneries have chosen the Interna- tional Fur & Leather Workers Union (CIO) as their bargaining agent despite appeals of Catholic priests for selection of the Chris tian AFL Union.
 In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations board, the United Leather Workers Union (AFL) captured only five plants in the Woburn- Winchester Whining ton area yesterday while the vote in three other plants was inconclu- sive.
 In sermons last Sunday, Cath olic priests throughout the tanneRJ area called on their parishioners to defeat the "anti- Christian and Communistic CIO Union.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
City Subpoenas 3
 GI's As Witnesses
(Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto)

Three local servicemen will be re- turned to this city from their re- spective camps as witnesses for the city in the hit-and-run case involy- ing Paul Schepis, fl Sheffield street. charged with evasion of responsibil- tty and reckless driving as the result of an accident last Christnastime when his car struck and severely in- 1ured one of the servicemen.
 The board of finance, at a spe- cial meeting this noon, approved defraying the costs of travel and witness fees for the three service men in amount of $555. 40, to return them to the city.
 The three concerned are Cpl, Charles E. Hosier, U. s. Army now stationed at Langley Field, Va, the victim of the accident, his brother Sgt. Robert Hosier, USING, and Pfc. Alan A. Osgood, USING, the lat ter two stationed at Camp LeJeune, N. 0. and both witnesses to the &C., cident.
 City prosecutor Albert Hummel appeared before the board today to explain the need of issuing sub- poenaes on the three servicemen so they might be returned here as state witnesses. Numerous delays in prosecution of the case have oc- cured so far because of the inabil- ity to present witnesses, MT. Hum- mel pointed out.
 The men are to be given, accord
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
AMERICANS BIGGEST AIR OFFENSIVE
 IN FULL SWING ALONG RHINE FRONT
BARS BACK TO MIDN|GHTLAW
 IN NEW YORK

New York, March 9. - (UP) - New York's night entertainment spots rejoined the rest of the nation today in observance of the Federal midnight curfew as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia prepared a post-mortem over his short lived one-hour curfew exten- sion.
 LaGuardia said he would explain in a nationwide radio broadcast (Blue Network) at 2 p. m. (EWT) today why the curfew was unfair to New York, center of the nations night life industry.
 LaGuardia said his address would be desinged for those outside New York and would contain little news for citizens of his own city He scheduled the broadcast, however, before entertainment leaders de- cided at a meeting last night to re- spect the midnight curfew set by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes rather than the 1 a. m. clos ing set by LaGuardia.
 The nightclub, theater. cafe and saloon owners did not desert La Guardia, however. They said they would ask for a hearing in Wash ington on the wisdom of a midnight curfew for the city.
 Some neighborhood bars and small clubs continued to take advantage of the extra-hour offered them last Sunday by LaGuardia in his weekly radio broadcast, pending new de- velopments in the controversy.
 The decision to ignore the one hour extension followed an Army Navy crackdown on after midnight drinking and entertainment by all military personnel. The two servic- es ordered full and immediate ob- Servance of the original curfew re- quest of War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. The gist of the owners decision was that if they couldn't serve service men during the extra hour they wouldn't serve civilians.
 The Army crackdown came first, hitting New York with lightning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Deferment Plans Set Up For Cops

Hartfordf, Conn, March g -U. P) - State Selective Service Head quarters today announced new policy concerning deferment of fire men, policemen, industrial and transportation workers.
 Director John F. Robinson said that 30 per cent of all flremen and policemen under 30 years of age with draft status of PA or 2-B would be certified for deferment, and 15 per cent of industrial and transportation workers. However, said Robinson, local draft boards would have the final say-so whether the registrantS would be reclassified.
 The affected registrants, Robinson said, would be considered as indis- pensible employees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Lord HoIifox Delegated To Coast Farley

London, March 9. UP)-Prime Minister Churchill announced ir commons today that Lord Halifax British Ambassador to Washington will be & member of the British delegation to the San Francisco con- ference.
 The other principal British dele gate0 will be Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee, and Do1ninions Secretary Lord Cranborne.
 It will be nine-member delega- ton, headed by Eden, and including two women.
 Churchill was questioned sharply in Commons as to why Eden was picked to head 1t instead of Attlee. Churchill said Eden headed the delegation in his capacity of foreign secretary and that Attlee agreed to this.
 Laborite Emmanuel Shinwell and Aneurin Bevan charged Churchill named Eden to head the delegation as a conservative party scheme to grab power.
 Any fair minded man." Church. i'll snapped, would say the Labor Party thave had fair representation. I must say I think 1t is churlish manner to receive my statement in this way"
 Other delegates include George Tomlinson, joint parliamentary sec retary of the ministry of labor; El- len Wilson, parliamentary secre- tary of home ministry; Florence Horsbrugh, parliamentary secretary of the ministry of health; and Dingle Foot, parliamentary secre- tary of the ministry of economic warfare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Senate Asks War Surplus Rules Draft
By JOHN L. CUTTER

Washington, March 22.-(UP)- The senate war investigating com mittee called today for the hnme- diate drafting of regulations to pre- vent repetition of "the chaotic con- ditions, ineff1ciency and dishonesty in handling war SurpluSes that fol- lowed World War One.
 Reporting on nearly two years of investigation, the committee said there was considerable delay and confusion in disposing of war sur- pluses. It said there were oppor- tunities for dishonesty in the present method of handling them.
 The committee gave detailed reports on some of it's major investigations. It criticized the part played by the Defense Plant Corp. In auc- tion sales by Jacob Goldberg's Sur plus Liquidators. Inc, New York. It also hit the quick, easy prof" motive behind the Worldwide Mer- cantiles Corp, in which the New York racketeer, Irving (Waxey Cor don Wexler, was involved
 The committee said the first thing needed was a statement of policy from the newly created surplus property boards adding-"this is long overdue"
 The committee recommended four principles to guide the disposal pro- gram: CD Speed, because large quantities on hand are a threat to the market: (2) Simplicity, because a multiplicity of agencies makes 1t easier for insiders" with spe- cial privileges to operate; (3) Ex- trerne care in selection of personnel to prevent leakage of information; and (4 Immediate and wide pub- ncity for impending and concluded sales.
 The Reconstruction Finance Corp, parent organization of the DPC, immediately issued a statement com- plaining that the committee failed to list any of the recent steps 1t had taken to improve surplus sales.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
Chester Bowles Aims To Shave Cost or Haircuts

actly the way you want 'em
 MT. Bowles,' interrupted Sen Charles w. Tobey of New Hamp- shire, what laundry is that?"
 Bowles changed the subject. can't say that I blame him. He took up the price of movie tickets He said they ought to cut and that he was the boy to do it.
 T think you are absolutely right" agreed Senator Tobey. T have been going to the movies and I can say that the cost of pictures must have gone down. There are more mediocre actors now and fewer good pictures. They couldn't cost as much as they used to-"
 Bowles didn't want to say yes and he didn't want to say no. So he didn't say anything.
 But you must cover baseball games if you cover movies," said Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Bowles said he supposed he must.
 And Broadway shows,' Taft snapped.
 'Oh, now Senator" Bowles cried. You're putting us in the position of having to decide how good a Broadway show is, before we price 1t. We wouldn't want to do that"
 Perhaps some member of this body could help you," suggested Senator Tobey.
 That is," amended Senator Taft, If Mayor LaGuardia would Jet you
 "Uh, Said BoWleS.
 I didn't hear what else he had to say. I got out of there. give you one guess, why.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
German People Face Staruati0n In 1916
(From NEA Telephoto)

London, March p - (UP) - A spokesman for the ministry of eco- homie warfare said today that only immediate surrender to the Allies can save the German people from starvation in 1946.
 His statement, made to the United Press, followed an admis- sion over the Berlin radio by Reich Agricultural Minister Dr. Jose1 Stock that plans for feeding tht German people had collapsed as the result of Allied advances anc the arrival of refugee hordes.
 Capt. L. D. Gammans, conserv. ative member of parliament, saic at an American Chamber of Com. merce luncheon gathering that un- less food supplies to Europe can immediately be increased i've shall fact the tragedy malnutrition and disease of the worst order"
 Gammans blamed the European food shortage on shipping, much of which he said had been diverted to the Pacific as the Allied general staff gambled on the European war being over in 1944.
 The British spokesman said that Germany, never self-sufficient, had bankrupted its agriculture to aid total war. Unless immediate steps are taken to rebuild food produc- tion mot even kindly enemy can save them," he said.
 ''The Allies cannot feed them" he said. "The world food short age is such that we will have all we can do to feed liberated areas. The only thing for Germany to do is to stop fighting and look after her agriculture"
 He added that the average Ger man diet today provided 1850 ca lories-"a about enough for man in 8 hospital bed" and about 1000 be- low the meager wartime British diet.
 His remarks bore out stocks ad- mission that drastic cuts in food supplies have already been an- nounced by recent decrees and more stringent measures are doubtless to follow presently"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22
1900 Planes
 She'll German ArmyCenters
BY LEO s. DISHER

London, March 22.-(UP)-More than 1900 American heavy bombers dropped knockout quantities ot bombs upon nine German command stations in the Ruhr Valley and five Rhine river airfields today in an attack designed to demoralize the German command already jittery over an Allied Ruhr offensive. The attack was aimed squarely at the nerve centers of the German army at the north end of the front and came after days of repeated bombing attacks which alreday had the Nal command groggy.
 The daylight attack, protected by more than 700 Mustang fighters, sent the day and night total of attacking Allied warplanes on the west front over the 5000 mark
 It appeared that the Allied Air Forces were out to match or top II possible yesterdays figure of 10000 Sorties.
 Targets of today's attacks includ- ed some of the crack German jet plane fields just back of the Ruhr- Rhine front.
 Among the points struck were German army encampment and military centers near Bottrop, Clad beck, Barmingholten, Dorsten, Wes- terollt, Mulheim, Hinsbeck, Hat tingen and Geresheim-all in the Ruhr.
 These points are in the heart of the area where the Nazis most fear attack. They are prevented from observing Allied preparations by what was described as the worlds greatest smoke-screen.
 Airfields attacked included at Kitzengen, Gielbelstadt, Rheinmain, Echwabish-Hall and Ahlhorn.
 The heaviest sustained air offen- sive of the war against the Reich roared through the night with two Mosquito attacks on Berlin and Lam caster heavy bombers assaults on an oil refinery at Hamburg and Ben- zol plant between Bochum and Dortmund.
 One of the two Mosquito forces which crashed blockbusters and other explosives on Berlin was the biggest formtaion of the speedy ply wood bombers ever to hit the capi-
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