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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08

station, firing his gthi, as Tho
ship went down.
II just hope he wasn't think
ing at that time that II didn't
make any difference what hap
pened To him since none Of us
at home seemed 10 CAGE any
more" Mrs. Haitian said.
II was grief-stricken when
the letters started coming back
To me-"
Mrs. Haitian displayed some
letters she had received from hei
husband while he was not get
ting any of hers. One letter said
"The boys got mail today 1--WE
usually receive IL every four
days. and l thought I'd have
some. too, but l guess maybe
the next time I will. IL sure
makes a fellow feel bad when
others get some and you don't;
hut there's always the next
time 10 hope for"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08

Women Past so Urged
as Stripteasers

LONDON. March z (UP)-
Britain'S womanpower shortage
finally hit the strip-tease profess
sion today, evoktng a proposal
from one member of Commons
that the bubble-and-feather art
be restricted 10 women over so.
Comdr. Oliver Locker-LampSon
who is nearing 65 himself, told
fellow members OF Commons that
the current wartime crop OF
young and shapcfy- stripteHses- is
being wasted" on "bald-headed
row at time when girls are
needed in war work, and asked
I'm view Of the shortage of
young men at war and on the
factory front and the wastage
when misused i'm the theatrical
procession, will the secretary
allow only women over so 20
strip tease ." --..
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08
Pub|iCtoHedr
Transit P Ian

A public meeting for discussion
Of Detroits new transportation
plan will be held at 8 p. m. next
Tuesday in the main auditorium
OF the Rackham Bldg, Woodward
and Farnsworth, under the aus
pices OF the Detroit Engineering
TSociety's Civic Affairs Committee.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08
Driver Killed

Milton =. Moser, 1896 Jim
DAILY. was killed today when his
car skidded into a cattle truck
driven by Leslie r. Rogers of Te-
konSka, on the Dix road bridge
over River Rouge IN Dearborn.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08
Wife'S 300 Letters
Fail fO Reach Sailor

CLEVELAND March tuPl-The wife of Cleveland sailor
missing action the Pacific complained today that her
husband Ieceixed the than 800 letle and ia gift
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-08

KdtkdgcN SIC hdu mdIIeu 10 MN
curing the last year.
The husband, S/2c Joseph F.
Haitian. was aboard the u. S. S.
Johnson. a destroyer sunk in the
Ale of the Philippine Sea last
bier. He was at his battle
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
135 Ne1v E1,gland Firms
 .StiU Behind Schedule

ManpoWer commissions placement bureau at Washington. Revealing that a manpower inventory of top priority industries had been under way in the nation for better than two weeks, Collins said that the next steps were:
 l. Let community businessmen know what the manpower need IS.
 2. Ask, and if necessary, force employers Gin less essential busi- nesses) to surrender thier help.
 The requirements of the coun- try's ammunition program are going up and there1l be all increase in the future" Collins said during press conference. We have to reduce the number of non-essential workers.
 Any employer out of conformity with the WING regulation will be referred to the War Production Board. Naturally, we anticipate CO., operation but if we don't get 1t the War Production Board will step in. v
 Supporting Collins statement was Regional WING Director Arthur c. Gernes who disclosed that l35 New England firms were behind sched- ule on critical production because of nanpower."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08

Boston, Jan. 8-(UP)-Facing a virtual "manpower draft" New England makes the ititial attack on the nations critical production problems tomorrow when labor and industry leaders in the textile city of New Bedford meet to determine what less essential business can spare workers for top priority jobs.
 Scheduled to sit in on the con- ference-the first to recruit l8,50O needed workers in the siX-state area-are officials of the Army. Navy, War Production board and War Manpower commission.
 While the recruiting" will be car ried out on a friendly basis, indus trialists were warned that unless they released workers onA request for critical war jobs they would be forced" to comply.
 The forcing. 1t was said, would be effected by denying materials or fa- cilities to any concern that declined to comply with WING requests.
 The plans to recruit 100000 work CTS who are needed in the nation 8 critical war plants was disclosed by John K. Collins. chief of the War
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08

 Dunne View Senate Jobs
By Democrat Stan Writer

Atty. Gordon T. Hutchinson and Thomas Dunne, insurance agent, this city, are expected to be ap- pointed to a Clerkship and mes- senger respectively of the state sen ate at tomorrow's reconvening of the legislature in recess since last Wednesday, organization day.
 Attorney Hutchinson is expected to receive the clerkship relative to one of the committees while MT. Dunne is said to be scheduled for appointment as messenger in the senate. The positions pay $2,500 and $500 respectively,
 Waterbury's four legislators, as reported here previously are all said to be scheduled for appointment to the more important committees of the senate and house.
 Senator Edward Egan CD will likely receive a place on the appro- priations committee and is said to be slated for the safety and health committee. Senator Patrick Wallace CD seems slated for the penal in- stitutional committee and the cities and boroughS committee.
 Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney CD long time member of the house will re- ceive the chairmanship of the vet
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Storm Causes Four Deaths

Boston, Jan. B. CUP) Colder weather was scheduled for New England tonight after the season worst snowstorm ragged throughout Sunday, causing four deaths and leaving the six-state region blanket ed with snow that ranged from six to l6 inches in depth.
 A dozen persons were injured in the northeast storm which brought cold winds, snow and hail. Air planes were grounded and train and bus trips to northern points were cancelled. Absenteeism increased in war plants.
 Three persons collapsed and died while shoverling snow They were Donald w. Mackenzie. 68, of Lowell; i; Abraham Zimmon, 79, of RoXbury; and David w. Merrill, 76, of Brook line. Philip Farley. 75, of Norwood died of injuries suffered when his truck skidded and struck an elec- trio light pole.
 Snowfall measurements included:
 Montpelier, Vt.. 16 inches; Bos- ton, 8: Portland, Me, 2; Greenville, Me. 14; Bangor, Me. Providence, R. l., 5; Concord, N. H., 8; and PittSfield. 5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Leory TrioI .Neors Actual .Heorine Here

Attorney w. w. Gager and Attor- ney Irving D. Johnson have been assigned by the City of Waterbury and the Good Government asSoci- ation as special counsel in the $600,- 900 civil action brought against Daniel J. Leary, it was learned to- day when the lawyers filed a more specific statement in the action in compliance with court order made in 1888,
 It was disclosed today Attorney George II. Cohen of Hartford, who was originally named as special counsel for the plaintiffs, has been unable to continue his duties be- cause of personal illness, and the two Waterbury lawyers were named to carry on the task. It was report ed the two lawyers have commit ments" from the city. but that the Hartford lawyer has not bee elim- mated and may give assistance later.
 Filing of the specific statement brings the case nearer an actual hearing with reports made today that an early trial Is anticipated.
 The more specific statement was ordered by the court, July IA, l938 The city last year made an effort to have the court order modified so that a more specific statement would not be required, but Judge Frank P. McEvoy on March 50 ruled the city must comply with
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Conn. Given $4.769.1O3

Washington. January 8. - CUP) - = Major General Philip B. Elem ing, Federal Works administrator, today announced apportionment of the first $500,000, GOO of the $500 100000 authorized by Congress for postwar rehabilitation of the na- tion's highway system.
 He said 100, 900, 900 will be set aside for surveys, plans and purchases Of rights-of-way as soon as Congress appropriates the funds. The re- mainder cannot be allocated until the President proclaims termination of the war emergency or Congress authorizes the expenditure by joint resolution.
 The Federal-Aid Highway Act provides that $5O0,000,000 will be apportioned annual for three years, with $225 ,OOO. 900 for the Federal-Aid Highway System, $l50,OO0,OOO for secondary or feeder roads and $l25.- 100000 for roads in urban areas.
 Aportions for states include:
 Connecticut $4.760,013; Maine kSol3, ,509; Massachusetts $l0,342,- 266: New Hampshire $2.30S, ,l25; 7 Rhode Island $2,95l,l74 and Ver- mont $2,04O.0Oo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
British Kill 200 Men
By JAMES E. ROPER

United Press War Correspondent
 Athens, Jan. 8 -- (U.PJ - British armored forces cleared the entire Athens Peninsula southeast of the caiptal today and battled to reduce an ELIAS strong point in mountain defile 25 miles to the northwest.
 Tanks and infantry made rapid progress through Eleusis, Magoula Mandra, Aspropirgos and RIos west and northwest of Athens, but came to a temporary halt in tho Carikaza defile under fire from ELIAS -millimeter guns, mortar! and rifles in the heights.
 The British fell back last night from the Carikaza Pass l5 airline miles south of Thebes. but resumed the push today. Tn fog-shrolded battle of several hours yesterday the British were reported to have killed between 50 and 100 ELIAS men 1T that area.
 Other British armo:ed columns ranged from southern Athens to the tipe of the Athens Ptniusula, 25 aiI miles 10 the southeast, without cp position.
 The advances put the British well across the line ove! which I.ieuten ant General Ronald Scobie previous
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
TANKS EASE THREAT TO STRASB0URC
 Tokyo Fears Allied Landing At LuZ0n
American Armies Cave In North Side Of Ardennes Salient -Japs
 Beach Defenses At Lingayen Hit
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War COrrespOndentH
 Paris, January 8 - (UP)' - American Armies caved in the north side of the Ar denneS salient today and 150 miles to the southeast seized the initiative north of Stras- bourg, easing a German threat to that French fort- ress city on the Rhine.
 A 15-mile stretch of the German defense line at the waist of the Belgian-Luxem- bourg salient fell apart un- der American blows, and the Nazis were reported drop ping back to the center of the constructing pocket for a last ditch fight with the U. s. troops driving in from north and south.
 U. S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers swarmed into the battle or the bulge, pounding German con- centrations and transport l5 miles northeast of Bastogne, at two points in easternmost Belgian, and a third to the south just across the Lux embourg border.
 Supreme headquarters announced that a sudden shift in the tloe or battle in AlSace greatly reduced the threat to StraSbourg, on eitner slue Of which the Germans held bridge heads across the Rhine. It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch'S 7th Army cleared the neighboring towns of Stattmaten and Senheim, 20 miles northeast of Strasbourg. and a part of Drusenhemi, 3 miles to the south, in compressing the Ger man foothold in that area. Patchs forces -ailso struck for ward half mile on a three mile front and reduced the Bitche bulge by two miles from it's high water mark:
 10 Divisions Busy Ten American divisions and all ulSClOStu HuHlDGL VI 0AA0hsH AAtAeS were crushing down into the Ger man salient with increasing speed after five days of slow, uphill bat tie through the stiffest of the en- emy's northern defenses.
 At the same time, field dispatches said German resistance was wiiting on the southern flank above Mas togne, indicating that the waist of he enemy pocket had been nar- rowed to less than ten miles by the converging Allied forces.
 A heavy snowfall hampered the Allied advance somewhat this morn ing and again prevented the Ameri- can and British tactical air forces from joining the offensive.
 The Allied advances in the Ar dennes. their biggest since Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery launched his offensive from the north last Wednesday. were partial ly balanced, however, by bleak news from the 7th Army front on the Rhine.
 Late dispatches revealed that the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Boy, 13. Admits MuTderinq Girl

Scranton, Pa. Jan. SUP A 13-year-old boy. Myron Semund- chick, has confessed staying Mae Barrett. g, whose badly beaten body waS found in an abandoned house in the mining town of Vandling last Wednesday. the district attorneys office announced today.
 District Attorney James F. Brady said the boy was arrested early to- day.
 The girls body was found in the cellar of vacant house near her home after she had attended church social in Forest City, Pa. last Tuesday.
 Police said evidence showed the girl first was struck with heavy metal object and carried to rear yard of the vacant house. They said she apparently was beaten to death with a heavy piece of wood when she resisted assault.
 The girl had last been seen in . Forest City sweet shop where she purchased three ice cream cones to take home t6 c sister and cousin. who live with her grandparents where she made her home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Scotland Whisky Being Made Again

London, Jan. 8-(UP)-Whiskey flowed from stills in more than 30 distilleries of Scotland's Spey val ley today for the first time since the war began.
 Full pressure operations began with the night shift last night un- der permission to produce up to third of their pre-war output.
 One distillery began operation in Ulster province, Ireland few weeks ago and others were expected to start there soon.
 In Scotland 1t was estimated that approximately 250,00O gallons of whiskey a week would be produced for the next five months, resulting in additional supplies being released to the United States.
 Irish whskey distillers recently announced they planned to make a strong bid for the American mar ket,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
BY MAC R. JOHNSON United Press War COrrespOndent)


 Pearl Harbor, January 8. - (UP) - Tokyo reported today that one of four power full American invasion arma- das converging on Luzon in the Philippines has carried an unparalleled lombard ment of beach defenses in the Lingayen Gulf north of Manila into its third day and said a landing appeared i'm minent.
 Some 400 to 450 American vessels are bound for "Some not too clearly definable point on or near Luzon," Tokyo said, but warned that the American maneuverS were so complicated that false conclusions might be drawn.
 Japanese broadcasts said Ameri- can battleShips and other warshlps, escorting 70 to 30 landing cra1t' penetrated Lingayen Gulf to within few thousand yards of the coast and were hurllng shells into a 2l- mile stretch between San Fernanoo and Damortis, the latter about llo miles north of Manila.
 Fighters, bolnccrs and dive-bomo- CTS from 10 aircraft carriers sup ported the bombardment with tree top strafing and bombing attacks Tokyo said.
 This is the enemy'S usual tactics preceding a landing a Japanese Domei disp.:ch from Luzon said Our men are Stralnlng tnelr ears for the sound of landing craft for the enemy may approach the shores at any time.
 American headquarters here ana in the Philippines remained silent on the enemy reports Of impending landings, but announced new neu- tralization raids against Luzon and the capture of Paluan, in the north west corner of Mindoro Island ana 90 miles southwest of Manila.
 The expanding American hold on Mindoro, coupled with the occupa- tion of Martinique, to the east, and Japanese reports of operations i'll Lingayen Gulf, appeared to be set ting the stage for an amphibious pincers assault against Manila.
 Landings on Luzon both north and south of Manila would follow the Japanese pattern for the con- quest of the island in December
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
JohnH.GossLeaves Estate Of $742,416

An estate of $742.4l6 as been be- uueathed by the late John H. Goss, former president and chairman of the board of directors of the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, according to an inventory of the estate filed in the office of Probate Judge Patrick Healey. MT GosS died Oct l6, 1914 just few weeks following his retirement as president of the local concern.
 Appraisers of the estate were Dan- !el r. Harrington Jr, Walter w. Smyth and Bertram B. Bailey.
 The bulk of the estate was con- tained in stock holdings of the de- ceased amounting to approximately S663. All of which the principal hold ings were lS,500 shares of the Scovlll Mfg. Co., appraised at $428, l25'
 Property inventories consisted of that at Hillside avenue. the deceas- eds residence, valued at $30,00O and property at Pine Orchard known as "Sunnyledge" appraised at $l4,5OO,
 Miscellaneous holdings principally WtIG lIlOoC Ol q NllSNhAAAto eSNDNa'S "ee the Citizens & Manufacturers Ma tional Bank in amount oi $lO,36l; notes receivable amounting to $8,333 and current salary due in amount Of $2,224. Other holdings consisted of personal effects.
 Stocks owned by the late MT. Goss. as inventoried consisted Of the fol- lowing: 52 shares of Bridgeport Fly draulic G., I,644; 50 share Of the Citizens and Manufacturer Ma tional Bank, $7.750; l,500 shares of the Clifford Mfg. Co.,, $l9,5O0; 10 shares of Colonial Trust Co, $500; 290 shares of Consolidated Edison, $7,358; l20 shares of Eastern Mall cable Iron Co.,. $4,2l5: 9 Electric Bond and Share Co.,, $2,437; 20 or International Silver Co.,, $2,695
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Nazi Prisoners Say Germany "Nation Of Cornered Rats"

ians and Poles turn up.
 Many of the prisoners are younger than l8 or older than 35. And many of them tell you that they are sick of the war, but iron discipline and Nazi terroristic agents kept them fighting.
 A shortage of confidence in the outcome of the war is evident among the prisoners. That shortage perhaps can be explained in part by such things as this letter taken from the pocket of a young SS trooper from his mother in Duisburg:
 We have had hell here. Our town is destroyed. Our little house. hold, too. Dear child. Gon't be sad. Up to. now We still have our home. It's 10 o'clock now -- for how long
 "Nosel street and other side streets are rubble. Everything elss is, too. Aunt Gussie was in Em- merich Friday and loked all ove: but there was no trace of Aunt Marie and Uncle John. They had not evacuated. and their house was only a heap of stones"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Obstacle Facing FDR
Continued on Page 4

Washington. Jan 8.-(UP)-Fail- ure of the big three to solve the Polish problem at their forthcom- ing meeting would place a major and perhaps inSurmountable obsta- cle--in the path of President Roose- velt's desire to create a world peace organization this year. informed sources said today.
 These quarters pointed out that 1t would be highly embarrassing to call a United Nations conference on the peace issue while the Soviet Union recognized the Lublin pro- visional government of liberated Poland and the United States and Great Britain recognize the Polish government in exile in London.
 The United States expects to be the host to the conference for con sidering the Dulnbarton Oaks pro- posals. As such it would have to invite the Polish government in eX- ile as the regime 1t recognizes and as member of the United Nations. But Soviet Russia might insist upon an invitation for the Lublin group which 1t recognizes as the Polish government.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
Bombers Roid Targets

London. Jan. 8CUP)-More than 700 American heavy bomberS to- day hammered rail and road lines from Frankfurt to the western front in Germany and struck at Nazi po- sitions in Luxembourg and Belgium within the Ardennes bulge.
 The Eighth Air Force bombers. with a cover of about 200 mustang fighters, also attacked rail centers supplying Nazi troops on the Saar front in the 18th assault in IT days on German communication lines.
 The American raid followed a double night strike on Munich, Ger man industrial and railway center by 750 or more British planes.
 The U. s. strategic air force, in announcing the new attacks on Germany, disclosed that six bomb- CTS previously reported missing from Sundays operations had been found safe, making total of three bomb- CTS and one fighter missing.
 In the first raid in any strength inside Marshal Karl Von Rund- stedts salient, one segment of the American force delivered a one hour assault within Is miles ncrth- east of Bastogne while other for nations hit two points in the Bel gium tip near the German frontier and a third farther south Just across the Luxembourg border.
 It was only the second time since the German offensive began that heavy bomuers had struck so close to American troops.
 An estimated 1,500 hundred tons of explosives were dropped as the bombers struck through extremely low temperatures and a cloud GOV" ering ranging from partial to solid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-08
FDR Proposes Ten Billions
 Spending Cut
BY LYLE C. WILSON Limited Press Staff COrreSpOndentD

(Un1ted Press Stair COrrcSpOndenLD Washington, Jan. 8.--(UP)-Pres- ident RooseVelts 1946 budget which was expected to propose $l0,000,- 100000 cut in expenditures was in final form today and will be sub mittedt o Congress shortly before noon tomorrow. No new tax pro- posalS were foreSeen.
 If the SIG, 100000 reduction is made, the l946 budget will call for expenditures of approximately $90.- COG, O,C00,00 in the l946 fiscal period in comparison with the $l00,000,- 100000 being spent in the current fiscal year.
 This will be MT. Roosevelt's fourth war time budget. It will be his thirteenth consecutive deficit budget since his first election in l932.
 Most of the reduction in eXpendi- lures would be in war spending and if effected that item would aggre- gate about $78, ,000 000, ,000 in the new budget. The president will report to Congress, also, that for the l946 fiscal year interest on the pupl!c debt will increase by $275, 100000 to an annual charge of approximately $4 ,000 000,00
 Interest or the public debt is the foremost item among the big an- nual drains on treasury revenue that cannot be reduced by so much as a dime, except by retiring the obligations on which the interest is being paid. The public debt now is approximately $232, 2,500, ,000,G0O - sum so large as to be almost in- comprehensible.
 The comparative size of the an- nual $4,O00, 000,00 interest charge is indicated by the fact that during the 10 years, l930-l940, the average annual government expenditures for