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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

active organizer of the Catholic Youth Movement and became vice. president of that organization" Today M. Bidault in the opinion of MT. Hauser is one of the most important statesmen in Europe one who can bring new and dynamic thinking to the rebuilding of Europe. During the days of the occupation of France and the Resistance move- ment Bidault as president of the council twas the brains of the un- derground and he was available for consultation 24 hours a day"
 MOLOTOv MISBEHAvES
 'The Russians insisted that the U. s. Government provide a bullet proof automobile-for MT. Molotov. The Russians evaded the crowds by entering and leaving the hotel from private elevators. The Russian Government provided its own food for its delegates, it supplied also Russian Chambermaids and walters for them. A bodyguard of Rus sians formed a flying wedge com- pletely surrounding MT. Molotov as he moved about. ."
 Thus does the New York Times describe the manner in which the people of San Francisco and Ameri- ca saw Communism in the person of our Russian conference guests in San Francisco.
 Tn contrast: MT. Stettinius and MT. Eden were often pushed around by a curious and eager crowd who filled the lobby" They needed no bodyguards, no bullet protection and they were not afraid of being pois- oned.
 However suppose that these problems are minor difficulties in shaping a favorable public opinion towards the Russian delegation in San Francisco. Many other prob lens raised in fast-moving sequence by MT. Molotov have dangerously shaken the unsteady confidence that many Americans have worked hard to develope in the intentions and sincerity of the Russian dele gation.
 ONE OPINION
 David J. Dallin, former deputy Of the Soviet and the author of 'The Real Soviet Russia" published this year and perhaps the best objective discussion of the Soviet written in recent years, writes in the current "New Leader" as follows:
 Among the worlds nations, large or small, there is nowhere so much faith in the ability of the new or- ganization to prevent wars as in America. And there is nowhere so little faith in it as in the Russian capitol. But since the USA is so much attached to this idea, Moscow believes. the United States will prob ably be prepared to make sacrifices and to ignore certain facts, when necessary, in order to have Russia in the league.
 "The USA will be prepared to pass in silence the Baltic problem, to accept the state of affairs in the Balkans, to bear insolence, to look for every compromise, i'll order not to endanger the Soviet's rarticipat- ing in the new organization.
 Dallin is an able and experienced observer. We must hope and pray, however. that he is wrong.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

Editors Note: This is the 8th in . series of dispatches written by United Press War CorrespOn- dent Edward w. Beattie. IT,, who was . prisoner of the Germans from last September until early this month. Today he tells how he almost escaped from his cap- tors.
 BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE, JR. United Press War Correspondent
 Gerardmer, France-UP)-This new dateline represents the biggest single days progress since start ed moving at the dictates of the German army.
 made a tentative effort to es- cape last night after hearing Ameri- can shells falling al afteTnotn in the woods just a couple of thou sands yards away.
 We had been taken to the outdoor Lstrine by ons guard and as we came back into the dark room Of crr jail I stepped quickly to one side and waited until the rest had passed.
 It was so dark inside the room that in contrast to the faint light outside 1t might have been several hours before the Germans discov- cred my absence from the pile of straw I had been occupying.
 But another guard turned up, armed with a tommygun, and told me not to show myself in the open air again without an escort. l re- turned to the jail.
 We had reached this resort town high in the Vosges by ride in luxurious Buick sedan-just about the only decent automobile had seen on this front-and had been turned over to the Field Genamerie post for temporary custody.
 Nobody here had heard about the army headquarters supposedly To- cated at Gerardmer and I doobt that anyone in the German armies on this front or farther north was apt to know at any given time these days just where headquarters was. It was like the Allies own retreat four years ago.
 Through large part of the aft ernoon we watched a regiment of Russian infantry move up through the thick woods into the high Vos- ges.
 The Russians all travelled in the strangest collection of horsedrawn vehicles-from Victorias to some-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

Mussolini had opened the drive to secure this control by invading Greece from Albania in October. 1940. But Il Duce had caught 6 tartar in the courageous Greeks By the end of that winter, his of- fensive was laundering backward through the Albanian hills. He had no choice but to accept Hit ler's aid.
 It came on April 6. A full-dres ess German blitZkrieg roared from Bulgaria down the Dragoman Pass and the Stuma valley into eastern Jugoslavia. The oxen-drawn Jugo- slav army could put up little more than a token fight. The principal Jugoslav cities fell in matter of days, and the main German force swung southward toward strategic MonaStir pass, at the junction point of Jugoslavia, Albania and Greece.
 British Send Army A British rescue army - force of 60,000 Australians and New Zealanders hastily shipped from North Africa-had moved up to the pass, but flanking German vanguards made its position un- tenable. It fell back first to line near Mt. Olympus and then to Thermopylae. There it braced ola April IA and held for 10 desperate days against an overwhelming weight of German arms.
 The props finally were knocked from under the British line the last week in April when two sup porting Greek armies collapsed One fell to German force which drove down the Vardar valley, seized the key port of Salonika and cut the Greeks off to the east. The other deployed to the west,
 surrendered to German columns which had by-passed the British and streamed into Greece from the north.
 Tn British, nearly surrounded and subjected to merciless aerial assault, were forced to begin a costly retreat to the coast. There the Allied Balkans campaign fiz- zled out in an inglorious evacua- tion, mostly from the ancient port of Niagara. Some 45,000 Imperial troops escaped to the island of Crete. Nine thousand were cap- tured by the Germans.
 Suez Within Range Suez and important oil ports in Syria and Palestine now were within bombing range of the Luft- waffle. The break-through also enabled the Reich to bring sharply increased pressure on Turkey and the Middle East-to such an ex- tent that Allied troops were forced to invade Syria, Iraq and Iran later in the summer to end Axis influence in those states.
 Crete, directly athwart the Bri- tish lifeline, now beckoned to the Germans, but the British navy controlled the seas. The Nazis de- cided to attempt an unprecedented aerial leap.
 For three weeks they assembled transport planes and gliders at fields in Greece and the Aegean islands, while the Luftwaffe pounded key targets on Crete. The British posted strong garrisons at the vital Malemi airfieid and Suda Bay naval base at the cast end of the island, and also at the Retimo and Candia feilds on the north coast, 40 and 30 miles to the west. Paratroopers Attack
 The attack began early in the morning of May 20. Under cover of a smashing aerial bombardment more than 5000 German para troopers descended near Malemi. A ! concentrated assault took the field
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
Beattie Almost
 Escaped Captors

thing close to prairie schooner that I have ever seen. They sat hunched up, apathetic in the rain, a few of them munching on chunks of bread and cheese or sausage. The remainder stared duly ahead.
 I didn't think they were the best quality of Russian troops. They were not the type of men who preached the Mannerheim line and certainly not the type who de- tended Stalingrad.
 I suspect they were prisoners from the green troops overwhelmed by the Germans at the start of the great offensive in 1941 and had finally been forced by privation into signing up with the German army. We took thousands of that sort of prisoner in Normandy.
 The Russians served as object lessons for the overstuffed German Gendarmerie captain who strode into the little cafe room where we were waiting, glowered when we failed to return the Hitler salute and then began featuring in bad English and bad French about the evils of Communism and the foul designs of the Democracies for the dismemberment of Germany.
 He said as far as he was con- cerned that prisoners were use- less appendage at this stage and might just as well be put in the hands of the headsman.
 In view of the fact the Field Gen darmerie-the famous green police had an unenviable reputation for exactly that sort of thing in Rus sia I decided to keep quiet.
 A little later we were thrown into the inky blackness of a room on the fourth floor of an old chas- seurs barrack with what at first appeared to be lot of renegade Arabs from North Africa.
 In whispered conversation with figure which came clutching it's way along my arm from out of the blackness, discovered my fellow in- mates were seven sikns from the Fourth Indian Division who had been taken prisoner in the western desert more than two and one-half years ago.
 When they discovered saw a lot of the Fourth Division only IS months ago in the final phases of the battle for Tunisia they began showing little packages into my hands. The first one I opened proved to be English cigarets.
 Once, when I persuaded the Ger mans to put the lights on for few minutes for completion of my diary entries. I found the remainder of the oigarets, chocolate and sardines which the sikhs had hoarded prior to an abortive escape attempt that carried them to within two miles of the American lines.
 For the night, between nine of us there were eight stretches of floor and one bedspring which I dubiously accepted as due to rank, being the closest thing to an ofilcer present
 Our prison was dramatically seal ed and there was half bucket for the use of all emergency purposes for the night. I could see 1t was going to be a fine night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

by noon, and additional troops, plus motorcycles and light artillery, were flown in. A drive started vest ward toward Retimo and Candid where the British were repulsing other aerial invaders with heavy casualties.
 Attempts to land more troops from transport vessels, meanwhile were smashed by the British fleet The next day, however, the Luft- waffle switched its attack to the British warships and smashed two cruisers and four destroyers. The Royal Navy withdrew from Crete.
 Retimo and Candid now fell tc better equipped and organized enemy forces, and Axis victory was assured. The British, lacking air or naval support, were herded through the mountains toward the southern coast. There, the main British force finally fought its way to the porto f Spahio on May 30 and made its escape by sea The rest, mostly in isolated pock- cts, were left for eventual moppins up.
 This spectacular German vic. tory, handing the Luftwaffe lanc base commanding the entire east. ern Mediterranean, struck doubly cruel blow at the British, coming as 1t did after the Royal Nav, virtually had eliminated the Ital. ian fleet.
 Threatened Sea Gains For the British fleet had seizec the initiative after some month. of jockeying on Nov. 10, 1940 witt a daring torpedo-plane attack or the Taranto naval base inside Italy's heel. British torpedoes hat sunk or damaged seven Italian warships, including three battle ships.
 Then Britain's vessels hac ranged far and wide to retain ane extend this advantage even ir the face of a severe setback two months later, when enemy bomb. CTS had surprised and crippled tht cruiser Southampton" beyond re- pair and damaged the aircraft car r1er "1lluStriouS".
 On Feb. g, 1941, the British tar. had paraded their contempt fol the Italians by steaming boldly northward into Axis controlled waters to shell the Genoa maya base. And on March 28, they hat erased the Italians as a maya factor by sinking three of thei cruisers and two destroyers ant severely damaging the battleshil "Vittorio Veneto" in the Ioniar Sea.
 Now the loss of Crete threatened to wipe out these gains and adt to the problems of merchan marine already gravely menacet in the Atlantic, where the U-boat were going long tway toward win ming control of the sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
MANHATTAN CLUB
 PLEDGES SUPPORT

Meeting at the home of Mrs. John Candy, Woodland avenue, members of the Manhattan club voted last night to assist nj packing and sort ing clothes at the Armory for the United National Clothing Drive and to purchase a $100 war bond during the Seventh War Loan campaign. Mrs. Raymond Pulver presided at the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
STATE COP. OFFICIAL
 TO BE GUEST SPEAKER

Albert Schiavone, this city, presi- dent of the New Haven County League of Young Republican clubs, will preside at meeting of the lat ter on Thursday at the Seymour Young Republican club, 133 East Main street. Harold Mitchell, chair man of the State COP party, will be principal speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
HOPEVILLE CLUB
 MEETING TONIGHT

The Hopeville Community club will meet this evening at the South Congregational parish hall on Baldwin street at 8 o'clock sharp.
 Reports will be presented by the Activities, Building, Membership, and Welfare Committees. All members of the Welfare are asked to attend this meeting.
 Entertainment will be furnished after the meeting. All residents o1 the Hopevlile section are cordially invited to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

S&AAA04 Ch VI bklG State of Tow a have been allowed the free use of public busses go- ing to and from school. Now the Iowa Legislature has passed a law forbidding chil- d T e n of private schools to use the busses.
 The former Att tolney-General of Iowa. Edward l.. OConnor, writing to the newspapers in protest s aid that if childrer,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

Yellowstone National Park (U. P) = This beautiful national park was first known as Golfers Hell be- cause the first white man to enter what Is now the park returned from the exploration with wild tales of the "weirdv land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
COWS HAVE TO WAIT

Columbia, Pa. (UP)-The alibi that he was "hurrying home to milk the COWS" didn't keep state po- lice from arresting Roy Merle Hess on speeding charges. Hess, clocked at 80 miles an hour. was committed to jail for five days in default of bail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
CUTS FLASH BURNER DANGER

General J. E. Barzynski. command ing the Chicago Quartermaster De- pot. reports that a protective cream has been provided by the Quarter master Corps to reduce the chance of flash burns from ba1oolkas and flame throwers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
Nazis' Capture Of Crete Posed Menace To Allied Life-Lines
By MALCOLM MUIR, JR. United Press Stan Correspondent

The fall of placed
 Africa from Morocco to Egypt Axis hands giving tive control Of the central Mediterranean without firing area But He strategy called for control of wel-to the British lifeline
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
BARRING CATHOLIC CHILDREN

Another item on the subject of aid to private school children has moved into the press since our dis cussion last week.
 For the past nine years all of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

More than 1000 civilians are en- ployed in the rebuilding of War saw.
The sub., 1945-05-19
"T Am Smarter Than You Are"

having Discussions these days
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 hope pull like that somebody throws some" thing at
 than know things that you don tell something will know how much smarter than you are.'
 I lots important than have important they told will know how important friends?"
 
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The sub., 1945-05-19

This is the day of organization in every line. The bankers are organ- ized for the protection of their riches. The great employers are orr ganized. Professional men in all lines are organized.
 Shipyard workers should take 8 lesson from them. The union is their organization. Only by intel ligent organized effort can we pro- tect our interests.
 As long as there are employers there will be some who are grasp- ing and unscrupulous. When busi- ness is not good (after the war, for example), the selfish employer will immediately begin to think of wage reduction.
 Such employer will find it easy to cut the wages of unorganized workers, but he will have tough time doing so if his workers are united.
 Don't let the postwar days catch you unOrganixed. Join the A. F. st l.. today.
The sub., 1945-05-19
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners Of America
 LODGE 1902
LODGE 1902

All brothers of the Carpenters and Joners of Local 1902 especially urged to attend next meeting on May 23rd, 1945, at Carpenters Hall, New London.
 We must complete plans for participation in the big AZ of l. beach day May 26th.
 Of especial interest to all brothers will be final plans for the WLB election on June 5th.
 Another issue of interest to all brothers Is the coming of nomination of officers for the beginning July st
 Only by attendance at local meetings interests and desires become known.
 Financial Secretary Ernest Lamb may be found during the day shift in the main yard carpenter shop by those brothers who wish to transact any union business.
The sub., 1945-05-19
Landing Craft = Mule

This war has brought about many changes = we've seen land-lubberly trucks take to the water like the "ducks" they've come to be called ; we've seen the Navy travel ing hundreds of miles over land to provide assault boats for the Rhine crossing; but now comes the pay-off. Army mules now are sea-going!
 The mules we're speaking of aren't new mechanical con- trivances, but the real Mccoy -four-legged, tough Missouri
The sub., 1945-05-19
It Robert BarrOWs, Formerly of E. B.,
 Helps Gain V-EDay

Driving forward to VIE Day, First Lieut.. Robert E. Barrows, 24, of Groton, for merly an employee of the Electric Boat Company, who was serving as a PAY Thur derbolt pilot in the Germany based 377rd Fighter Bomber Group of the Ninth Air Force, destroyed a Junkers 88 in a strafng attack on an enemy airfield near Magdeburg.
 The mission started out as a group show, but the 373rd first Allied fighter-bomber organization to be based on German seil-split into squad rons when the ThunderboEs neared Magdeburg.
 Barrows' squadron dov e first on Magdeburg itself, dumping 50O-pound bombs in- to the heart of the city. The flyers later claimed over 50 buildings destroyed and dam aged. They also exploded an ammunition dump and de- stroyed a factory.
 Then the Thunderbolts strafed a nearby airfeld, knocking out eight Junkers, damaging three, destroying seven gliders and damaging two, and finally riddling two picaback planes, damaging four.
 For Barrows and the rest of the squadron it was a full mission. Aside from playing havoc with buildings in Mag deburg and parked aircraft in the nearby field, the flyers silenced two light flax posi- tions and destroyed a steam roller.
 Barrows is the son of MT. and Mrs. Stanwood R. Bar rows of AZ Monument Street, GrOtOn.
The sub., 1945-05-19

products that are the back bone of the Army's transpor- tation system wherever the terrain is mountainous or muddy.
 Army mules have always gone to war, but now they're going in style. Thousands of them are being transported overseas in ships that have been expensively and especi- ally converted for. their use. A total of seventeen ships have been so converted, thir- teen Liberty ships and four cargo ships, at a cost of sev- eral hundred thousand dollars each.
 So now we're likely to have a new term in craft nomen- clature = Landing Craft Mulp"
The sub., 1945-05-19
Shipyard Workers Need Union Protection
 End of War Will Be Signal for Wage Cutting Unless Employees Are Organized
 In Strong AFOfL Affiliates

You know how easy it is to break a toothpick with your fingers? Bind fifty or a hundred toothpicks to- gether and then try to break them. If they are well tied you won't be able to budge them.
 An individual shipyard worker is like single toothpick. He can be broken by the boss. But a I've, strong union is composed of indi- viduals tied together by the bond of common interests. No employ CT can smash them!
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-09
(IGARET COMPANY GIVES
$1,000 TO COLLEGE FUND

NEW YORK, May 9 (ANP)-l
A gift Of $1,000 from Philip Nor
ris & Company, Ltd, Inc. to the
United Negro College fund was an
nounced by fund headquarters.
The United Negro College fund
is now seeking $1,550,000 for the
wartime needs of 80 accredited
private Negro colleges located in
IL states. and the District of Col
umbia.
Alfred E. Lyon, president Of
Philip Morris said that his COM
pany takes pride in the fact that it
was the major cigaret company to
employ Negro statesmen, and was
also the first to advertise in the
Negro Press. The company has
also given periodicals to Negro
colleges, and Mr.. Lyon has urged
establishment of a free bed in
every hospital in the United States
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-09
information

government information |
service here.
Two young women had applied
by telephone for the job of file
clerk for the mission. They were
answering newspaper advertise
ment. Venturing the information
that they were Negroes, the appli-
cants were told by the person an
swering the phone that the mission
could not employ them because IA
cilities were not large enough to
allow them to be segregated from
other workers. Only one of the wo-
men, Miss Natalie Norman, was
willing to have herself identified
publicly.
Jan Van Beven, secretary of the
mission, explained that 1--WE have
no discrimination whatsoever here.
The Dutch policy" he added, "is
one of fairness to everyone in the
territory. We have never made any
differences because of race or
color"
An unofficial spokesman for the
information service was able to
name three Negro employees now
working for the mission. They are
Irving Hunter, clerical worker
William Baker, a messenger, and
Miss Margaret Mcpherson, tea
hostess. This spokesman referred
also to Mohammed Maesa, first sec.
retary of the Netherlands embassy
a native Of Java, who is now part
of the Netherlands delegation tx
San Francisco.
AS further refutation to tn,
charge of discrimination, thi.
spokesman said that Elise de Mir
anda of Surinam is Highly re
garded" translator in the head
quarters here Of the Royal Neither
lands Marines, and number O
men from the Dutch West Indies
are serving here, too.
An explanation given for the in
cident was that a subordinate EN-
ploye had taken it upon herself Il
make determination that is ICON
trary to Dutch policy"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-09
jim CROW CHARGED
DENIED BY DUTCH MISSION

WASHINGTON, May 9 (ANP)
The charge of racial discrimina-
tlon in it's employment policy was
levelled against the Netherlands
Economic and War Shipping mis-
sion, and just as promptly was re-
funted by the mission and the Meth
Evening star., 1945-08-12

Mansfield, England, will have a
training college for disabled men.