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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Stocks and Roosts
 Goinq Out of Style

Chicago, March 14-UP)- Better get Q good mental pie ture of those steaks and rOasts that used to line the butchers counters, because they won't be in style again for B long, long time.
 Producers, wholesalers and retailers agreed gloOmily today that civilians might just as well resign themselves to emp ty meat counters. It may be months, they predicted before fresh meats return to the mar ket.
 The current meat shortage, they said, is the worst since the war began and Is wide spread as 1t is acute.
 A United Press survey re- vealed that in nearly every section of the country the bet ter grades of meat-beef, pork, veal and lamb-virtually had disappeared. Even cold cuts and canned meats were almost non-existent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
5 Miles Of Osoku Afire After Raid
By E. G. VALENS

Guam, March l4-(UP)--A Sollt sea of flame visible l25 miles away burned out five square miles oi Osaka, Japan's biggest war produc. tion center, today in the third great Superfortress raid in five days or the enemy homeland.
 A 2lst Bomber Command an- nouncement also increased the areas leveled in the two previous man. moth fire raids to IT square miles in Tokyo and two square miles in Nagoya.
 That made grand total of 24 square miles of Japan's three larg- est cities destroyed in the past 9t hours-an area greater than all New York's Manhattan island or third of Boston,
 Tn the latest attack, more thar 300 SuperfortresseS converted the center of Osaka, second largest city in Japan, into Q holocaust with more than 2,300 tons of fire bombs Bombs rained down at the rate oi 400 tons an hour for three hours in the pre- dawn darkness.
 The flames enveloped war plants turning out guns, tanks, explosives and other vital weapons, as well as business blocks, city buildings anc thousands of himsy dwellings Ninety per cent of the buildings in the lO-square- mile target area were of wood and plaster construction.
 Brigadier General Thomas s. Power of Ft. Worth, Tex, com- mander of the Guam-based contin- gent said the fires were very con- centrated.'
 Men in an observation plane got the impression of solid mass of flames" he said.
 A Japanese communique acknow- ledged that some fires still were out fFyav1kit,nad nn paUa Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Theater Employees May Enter Strike
By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON

Hollywood, March l4.-(UP)- Three thousand office workers early today joined the spreading motion picture industry strike which pro- ducers said would stop all movie making within the next day or two.
 The unhappy producers, caught in jurisdictional fight between two American Federation of Labor unions. faced new threat-the possibility that theater employees throughout the nation might be or dered into the dispute.
 The strike, called in support of 79 set designers by Local l42l of the International Brotherhood of Paint CTS, had spread to 10000 set dress CTS, plumbers, carpenters, electri- clans, clerks and typists.
 The office workers, scheduled to discuss the strike at a hotel ball. room, adjourned to a woman's club when they found wet paint" signs on the ballroom walls. They voted to respect picket lines around studios because of fear of bodily harm"
 Richard Walsh, president of the Powerful International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the other union involved in the dispute over who should represent the set designers, was reported en route to Hollywood by plane.
 Members of the New York City Motion Picture Operators union, Local 30, and Stage Hands union, Local 1, affiliates of the IATSE, said they had received telegram from Walsh which said:
 Because of coercive methods of the Painters local and tolerant sub mission to such methods by various government agencies, and for the protection of the IATSE as whole, you are instructed to have your members stand by for an order to stop handling or exhibiting any motion pictures made by any west coast producers"
 Carl G. Cooper, local spokesman for the alliance, said he knew noth- ing of the telegram and could add no details.
 Movie studios were down to their
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Two Battle
 End In Siqht
Bv FRANK TREMATNE

Guam, March 14-(UP)-Three Marine divisions were mopping up Japanese remnants on Two today. The end of the campaign was at hand
 Other units landed unoppoSed on Kama and Kangko rocks west of Two to knock out emplacements from which the Japanese had been she'll ing and mortaring American posi- tions throughout the 24-day battle.
 Only two major enemy pockets remained on Two, and both gradual ly were being whittled down. The Japanese had lost all their artillery, but still were fighting back with small arms, machine-guns and mor- tars.
 The biggest pocket at Kitano Point, northern tip Of Two, was un- der assault by the Fifth Division. The Fourth Division was hammer ing away at the other pocket near Higashi on the east side of the Is- land.
 The Marines were burying alive any Japanese who refused to come out of the fortified caves and sur
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
President ProcIoims April 6 As Army Doy

Washington. (UP) - President Roosevelt, proclaiming April 6 as Army Day, to day called on American civilians for gerater war production efforts.
 He issued proclamation asking special honors for soldiers on Army Day.
 T also urge the civilians of this nation 1t said, ito renew their energies for the task of supplying our Army with every necessary irl- plement of war to the end that final victory may be attained as speedily as possible. and to resolve that the peace which follows victory shall be firmly sustained"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
GerEnony Hit Again Rv 0th Air Force

London, March l4 = U.P) = U. s. Eighth Air Force planes attacked Germany today. The first an- nouncement did not identify the targets.
 British bombers made heavy at- tack last night on two benzol plants near Gelsenkirchen and Herne in the RsSAr.
 German broadcasts said bombers Were approaching southern Germany from Italy in daylight today.
 RAF Mosquitoes dropped block busters on Berlin and Frankfurt-on Main during the night. Night fight sfs supported the British b0mbers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14

The Americans also were threat. ening momentarily to break their armored power loose on the broad, hieh-speed military highway paral- leling the Rhine farther to the east,
 Vanguards of the First Army broke into the village of Kalenborn. slightly more than mile west of the highway and five miles northS east of Remagen. The Germans were reported falling back slowly behind screen of armor and self" propelled guns.
 A German military spokesman admitted that the Americans had widened and deepened their Rema~ gen bridgehead. He said German planes in repeated bombing attacks had damaged the Ludendorf bridge and pontoon bridges in the Rema- gen sector.
 Censored field dispatches said the bridgehead extended more than II miles along the Rhine bank and at least six miles east of the river at some points.
 German military commentators. however, asserted the Americans held a l5-mile stretch of the river bank between Koenigswinter and Hoennningen and had throw more than 50,0OO crack troops and several hundred tanks into the salient.
 Hodges Moves Up
 Lieutenant General Courtney II. Hodges First Army forces ham, mered out gains of as much as 1,- 900 yards along the eastern peri-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
H0NNEF FALLS TO AMERICANS 100, 1000 Nazis Caught In Danzig Trap
GermansSayOther Yank Troops Now In Koenigswinter
BY BRUCE W. MUNN

Paris, March IA. (UP) - American First Army Forces drove through heavy German fire little more than mile west of the Rhine Ruhr Berlin sperhghway today and butreSsed the northern flank of their Rhine salient with the capture of Honnef five miles north of the Remagen bridge.
 Heavy fighting was reported raging in the northern outskirts of Honnef but the river town itself firmly in American hands, clearing the way for thrust into the open tank country six miles to the north Other American forces by German account Koenigswinter three
 miles north of Honnef threatening to envelop the Naz forces around the latter town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Parents Mailed Blood-Stained Captain $ Uniform or Son Killed Ln NeW Guinea

ceedings most unusual" adding that usually We keep such things pretty well under control"
 When questioned about the usual procedure in such cases, It. Col. John R. Murphy of the personal eff fleets bureau said the report, if true, represented an apparent violation of regulations-"unless to have cleaned the garments would have destroyed them."
 In such cases, he said. the army attempts to contact the father of the casualty for instructions re- garding disposal of the clothing.
 At Washington, Rep. Louis Lud- low, D.. Ind. said he had received e formal protest to the incident but was awaiting the parents consent before making their names public
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14

His shirt had long bloodstain running down the right side and on the sleeve" the mother was quoted as saying.
 Tt was the most horrible. inhu- man, brutal act in the world" she said. Tt was the worst time we ever went through"
 At first the mother did not real ize the brown stain was her sons blood. T could not believe anyone could be so heartless as to send home blood-smeared shirt" she said. However, a laboratory analy- sis showed the stains to be from human blood.
 Col. c. J. Blake, depot command CT, said that checkback of the in- cident was impossible without the name of the fallen soldier. How ever, he termed the entire pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14

ouEJCl -LllSIIWdy dIlO AuAl Wuy'
 Far to the south the Czechoslovak rail Junction Of Zvolen on the Hron river, seventy miles north of Buda- pest, was reported by Berlin to have fallen to the Russians.
 135,OOO Men Active
 Nazl reports said Marshal Gregory K. zhukov has poured nine divisions --l3E 900 troops of his First White Russian Army into bridgeheads across the Oder between Kuestrin and Frankfurt-oh-Oder, l8 miles to the south, for the climatic assault toward Berlin. Frankfurt lies B miles east of Berlin.
 (TCC monitors said German broadcasts placed the Soviets within 25 miles Of Berlin. A German trans ocean dispatch said the German commander of the Berlin defense zone had ordered resistance to the last'' and was training Berliners in the use of machlne-gunS for the capitals biggest hour"
 (1ransocean said the commander ordered Berlin defended with fanati- clsm, imagination, "and every de- ceptaon and trick" Bomb craters and debris left by Allied air raids may well become & classic ground for close combat with . foreign irl- vader," the dispatch said)
 Pravda,s front correspondent said Russian forces streaming down the road from Kuestrin to Berlin were cheered by the sight of Allied war planes bombing the Nazi capital.
 The dispatch said the Germans had flooded vast area west or Kuegtrin in e vain attempt to stem
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14

Kansas City, Mo, March IA (UP)-Army quartermaster author ities today were unable to explain a report that the blood-stained clothing of an officer killed in ac- ton had been mailed to his be- reaved parents.
 According to a report published yesterday by the Indianapolis Times, the clothing of an uniden- tified artillery captain in New Gui- nea was sent to his parents from the personal effects bureau of the quartermaster depot here.
 Eight months ago, the Times said. the parents were notified that their son had been killed in action. Last week, they received package containing his clothes and the bowie knife he carried when he met his death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
7 USO Entertainers Lose Life in Crash

Washington, March 14-UP) Seven USO entertainers were killed overseas March 3 In the crash of an Army transport plane, 1t was reported today.
 Details on the location or cir cumstances of the crash were not immediately available. Names were withheld pending formal notification of the next of kin.
 It was learned, however, that one victim was Mrs. Ruth Donor, 47, of Neptune City, N. J., a portrait painter and mag azine illustrator. Her husband was notified of her death by National Headquarters of USO camp shows which in turn was notified by the War Depart. ment.
 The other six victims were understood to be men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Roosevelt On Air Tuesday, March 20

Washington, March IA. - (UP) - President Roosevelt will make a brief radio appeal for the Red Gross next Tuesday night, March 20. the White House announced today.
 MT. Roosevelt will speak over all networks. from 9 to 9:05 p. Tn.. EWT. He will be introduced by Basil O'Connor, head of the American Red Gross.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Extro Gasoline For Victory Gardeners

Washington. March IA. - CUP1-- Victory gardeners will again be eii- gible for extra gasoline rations this year. Applications will be accepted by local rationing boards, beginning March 26.
 Conditions for getting the addi- tional gas are the same as they have been for the past two years except for the new restriction that the garden must be within l5 miles ct the kardener's home or place of work
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
Russians Driving Down Last Lap Of NewSuperhighway
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, March 14. - (UP) - A front dispatch to the Moscow newspaper Pravda said today that the Red Army has smashed the Oder river beyond captured Kues trn the direct road to Berlin less than 37 miles to the west.
 Bern's famous defense quadrilateral based on Kues- trn lies in ruins and its picked SS defenders fleeing west in dsorganized retreat Pravda said
 The dispatch the first report from Soviet source that the Russians have forced the Oder at Kuesrn and driving down the last lap of the main Berlin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-14
DIR. LAWRENCE DIES

Franconia. N. IT., March IA - GU. P.) - pr. Charles H, Lawrence, 62. of Brookline, Mass. chief physician of the New England Medical Gen. ter Endocrine Clinic and an aSso- ciate professor at Tufts Medical school, died here yesterday.
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Secretaryship - A Fascinating Ca. Feer for Women. Good pay. cOn- genial associates. Post Jr. College 0e Commerce.
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-11-24

A great asset for any person to have is thankful
heart-a heart that thankful for life for the enjoyment
Of countless daily blessings and the opportunity to
serve God and humanity
Thursday November D. Will be Thanksgiving Day.
The msiory Of Americans OF both have much for
which to giye thanks. when contrast condition
with that OF peoples nations During the
recent conflict blasted BY enemy bombs our
homes parned and pilaged and We were not az
flcted Win starvation and pestence
All n Us herefores have cause thank God that
we were spared from these mistorunes We also have
cause to give thanks for me opportunity Of having help
ed to win victory over Hiter and his Fascist partners.
victories not without sacrifices, however;
for thousands q coored and white Americans who help
ed TIE victory made the supreme sacrifice They Will
not be here with families this Thanksgiving Day
but the heaft aof IS win always be thankful 10 those
heroes who gave their lives defense Of the nation.
One Thanssphn g Day in year is enough Hearts
that are truly grateful make every day day Of thanks
giving
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-11-24
The Bob-Lo Decision

The Bob-Lo decision handed'down last Friday by Re-
eorders Judge John j. Maher the case Of Mrs Sarah
Ray, versus Manager Robert Devereaux and the BobLo
Excursion company deserves commentator although
the fire assessed against the company was only $500
The decision called for courage for it was ruling
favor Of coored Detroit woman against an influential
white company that had violated her civil rights
This has aroused keen public interest both in
Detroit and Canada Bob-Lo island, which IS owned by
Canada. leased the Boo-lo Excursion company. Of
Detroit and is used as an amusement spot The company
transports patrons and from the island by boat and
its policy for years has been 70 bar accommodations to
colored citizens.
Previous attempts have been made to break down
this Discriminatory practice bur the efforts have been
fruitless. Ire fight reopened BY Mrs. Rays suit and
Judge Mahers fa'orsble decision encouraging.
The Bob-Lo Exclusion company has made motion
for appea The higher courts Of Michigan where
the decision may be upheld reversed The case may
even the y s. supreme for basic democratic
issue is involved. If the civil rights Of one American
citizen violated with impunty the civil rights of
all Americans threatened
Shortly after Mrs. Ray was elected from the Bob
Lo boat June FL 1915, when in company with several
Windsor Ont side the Detroit river. A little coored
Windsor boy who was with three white lads was elected
from the prevent him from going from
Windsor 10 Bob-Lo Canadian Dominion Day. The in
cident prompted prominent Windsor official to suggest
that Canada cancel Bob-Lo lease the Bob-Lo
pany continues bar colored Canadians from the island
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-11-24
About The Common Man
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the impression that he would agree. Each time,
however. superintendent Louis Berg. the -perma-
nent" head OF the force, would take the Commits
sioner aside and tell him that II was contrary TO
the police rules to carry out the delegations pro.
posal.
Each time. then. witherspoon brushed aside his
impulse 10 do as he requested and turned down
the suggestion
don't know the inside story of what has hap
pened in the Police Department since that time
1t Is my impression that the changes in attitude
displayed by many policemen are 10 the credit Of
witherspoon's successor John Ballenger who
eventually got rid OF superintendent Berg.
SOME APPLAUSE
I'm bit over the bobby sox age and despite the
ambiguity that people see In my name I'm
OF the wrong to appreciate Frank sinara in his
professional capacity.
But in his efforts TO bring a message OF tolerance
10 the bobby sox generation he deserves plenty OF
admiration and applause.
lie may not be doing things the right way Prob
ably the notion that you can preach people into the
democratic attitude is all wrong
But it is refreshing to see some prominent per-
son taking his career into his hands and trying TO
do something" about an intolerable situation.
l am sick unto death Of the lectures that get
from -decent' people about how this Is problem
that only thousand years solve. II viii never
he solved unless lot Of people get to work on II
right now.
am equally sick OF the lectures about how we
must wait till We change the economic system be-
fore doing anything My entire adult life has been
devoted to trying TO change the economic system
but am convinced that as long as racial and re-
ligious groups be played against each other
we won't be able to achieve decent living cond-
lions.
That's why II is so swell 10 see a person OF Sina-
tras standing trying to do something among the
people he most influence
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-11-24
A Southern Girl Tells Who
Lynched Her Father
Copyright 1916, by New South Features)
BY Harold Preece

time"
The police are still on duty and never we're ar
rested. My father is survived by a wife jamie Lue
Green. four children Jonathan s. Ernestine g. and
Edna Mae 8. also myself a. by his first wife and
my is Beatrice Singleton. I am married and
live at the above address but my stepmother lives
at the address you wrote to in Ellenton with the
three small kids. She the letter to me- Ny
father is also survived by Oliver Green brother
Minnie stallngs sister. both Of Jax Florida
Isaac Green, a brother OF Meyers Mil s C. Frances
Ingram OF Meyers Mill. SC. sister and Angelina
Davis. sister OF Clearwater s c., and several
neces nephews and friends.
Since my fathers death. I have learned that two
more men have been killed In Florida by Iynchers
and that in each case. officers OF the law we're in
volved a. was true when by father died
] don't know the families OF Sam McFadden and
Jesse James Payne there In Florida Bus know
how they feel and I want 10 extend my deepest
sympathy through your column 10 them.
GRIEFF WON'T STOP TT
But I'd like to tell them and 10 tell every other
American OF every other that grieving won't
stop lynchng.
Ny father IL dead. but John Stephen IL still paid
by Aiken County 10 pack a gun 70 kill more Ne
groes chief Of Police Tom Crews Al Branford
Frorlda who Il accused Of helping Kill Sam Nc
Fadden also carries p gun So does Sheriff Tonnle
Davis over at Madison County although he eft
the door unlocked for the lynchcrs or Jesse James
Payne
It's M to our President and our members OF Con-
eress 10 use all Of their executive and legislative
movers ~ proteci ~ ci,izers n he South IN All
their rights its 3" ~e ere NJ al races
and coIors Nor them do It
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-11-24
The Abb Habit

We met young man not long who is endowed
with real ability. but who does not able succeed
He received college degree years ago and has had
several good Jobs since that time but he still Of
work. We asked him why. and he promptly gave num-
her Of albis.
This misguided young blamed his failure on
others He said he held back of his color
and because this that business organization
did appreciate his ability The is he alone was
responsible for his predcament although he blamed
everybody and everything but himself.
Success always from within an Individual not
from outside Ones outlook life and the attitude one
manifess toward others and toward his work these
the elements that bring success failure.
Too many Of content to make for our
shortcomings, but excuses have little market value The
world wants performance-rssults. 1t easy to form
the abb habit and too many Of US have acquired this
habit. bat can't abb way to success.