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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-16

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
HiIImon Plan Wins Support

London, Feb. 13.-(UP)-RuSSian and Australian delegations to the World Trade Union Conference to- day strongly endorsed Sidney Hill- mans plan for a new International Federation of Trade unions. His plan was made on behalf of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- ton.
 The endorsement however, was countered by plea from P. Schev- enels, for many years secretary of the old international body, for a reformation and continuance of the Amsterdam International" with its 40 years of experience in work ing for working class unity"
 Sir Walter Citrine, general secre- ,tary of the British Trade Unions Congress, also was expected to make a last-ditch fight for preserving the old IFTU.
 The chairman of the Russian delegation, V P. KuznetSky, said that now is the time" to act in forming a new international as sug- geSted by Hillman, who Is head of the CLOS political activity commit tee.
 This is the body to lay the foundation of a new unity, embrac- ing trade unions of all types in all countries" KuznetSky added.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
More Snow
 Due Tonite

Boston, Feb. 13.-(UP)-NeW Eng land faced more snow tonight only five years after its most severe bliz- gard in 30 years.
 Snow changing to rain and sleet was predicted for southern New England where four days of mild weather have transformed the heavy snow into SluSh and water and in- creased the danger of floods.
 Maine, New Hampshire and Ver- mont were expected to receive snow tonight and ran tomorrow.
 The Hartford, Conn.,, weather bu- reau said continuing danger of floods existed because of deep drifts in the upper Connecticut river val ley.
 The Maine state public utilities commisson, however, beloved there was no immediate possibility of floods down east.
 At Boston, fishermen waited for favorable weather to return to the Grand Banks to supply what they termed the greatest civilian de- mand for fish the market has ever experienced"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
GernnonySoys Big 3's News
 Record Crime

London, Feb. I3 v (UP.) = The German radio screamed to the world today that the Big Three had coln- mitted the greatest political crime of all times but was strangely tongue-tied in it's broadcasts for home consumption apparently be- cause Propaganda Minister Paul Jo- seph Goebbels had been caught of base again.
 Ever since the Big Three confer ence had been rumored Goebbels had turned loose the full propa- ganda facilities inside Germany to warn the Reich against a big three appeal to the German people.
 The Goebbels line was that the big three would issue honeyed plea to Germany which would make the unconditional surrender" doctrine sound more palatable. Goebbels warned the Nazis to beware of any such new "Wilsonian" tactics.
 But when the Big Three cotn- munique failed to bear out this build-up, the NaZi propagandists apparently were at a loss how to pre- sent the grim news to the NaZl public. For hours after the news had been announced and Allied radios were blaring 1t into Germany on all available wave-lengths the do- mestic Nazi radio made no mention of the Crimea conference.
 The fiat Big Three assertion that Germany Is doomed appeared to have thrown monkey wrench into the usually wel-oiled Nazi propa- ganda machinery.
 For foreign consumption the Nazi propaganda displayed equal uncer- tainty.
 Initial broadcaSts merely gave the gist of the Crimea communique.
 Later, NaZ commentators said the Big Three had confirmed their
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13

Fort Knox, Ky. Feb. B - U.P0 Wolf Won Otterstedt, nephew of a major general in the German army, today is a second lieutenant in the United States Army - a re- cent graduate of the armored of11- cers candidate school at Fort Knox.
 Won Otterstedt tried to enlist in the U. s. army in 194O, but had to wait until 1043 to be accepted after thorough investigation by the FBI. the Department of Justice and War Department.
 He has not heard from his father "a captain in the German army since 1942. His brother is mem Der of the British Eighth Army and his mother Is 8 Red Gross nurse in London.
 Tn 1888 Won Otterstedt was in- ducted into the German labor serv- ice. Later his detachment was sent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Twin Suicide Hits HoIyoke

Holyoke, Mass, Feb. 13.-UP)- For months 67-year-old Mrs. Emily Potvin had been an invalid.
 Her husband Leonard, 67, a re- tired steamfitter, had waited on her hand and foot in their neat little house next door to that of her siS- ter, Mrs. Archie Goodchild.
 Finally the childless couple were told that Mrs. Potvin must enter 8 hospital for a serious operation. For days she and her husband had been depressed by his decision, fear full that 1t might ultimately cost her life.
 Mrs. Goodchild came in every morning and tried to cheer them up without much success. Often they'd sit late at night talking to- gether of their troubles. Last night they came to decision.
 Early this St. Valentines day eve they woke. Potvin went down stairs and carried two comfortable chairs from the living room to the Kitchen.
 Next he went up stairs where his wife waited, fully dressed. She had a note in her hand and little bag of jewelry and other valuables.
 Picking her up in his arms, Pot win returned to the kitchen and helped her get comfortable in one of the chairs. The note and the jewels were placed on the kitchen table. Potvin then sat down in the other chair and turned on four jets of the gas stove.
 That was the way Mrs. Goodchild found them dead an hour later when she came over to make her regular cheery morning call.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Coscio TrioI
 Not To Start Until Moy 22

.Trialsof BoEnenics Coscia, 50, of A19 Washington avenue, on first de- gree murder charge for the staying of his brother-in-law, Adolph Cyr, 35, Sept. 28, was postponed by Su- perior Court Judge Frank P. Mo- Evoy today until May p. The case originally had been scheduled for a jury trial next Tuesday, Feb. 20.
 Arguments on the postponement motion, which was opposed by State Attorney William B. Fitzger- old, were presented at private ses- sion before Judge McEvoy today. Attorney Edward Mascolo, who asked for the postponement, ap- peared in behalf of Coscia. The pro- ceedings were closed to the public.
 The delay in the trial will result in a change of presiding judge for the hearing. Judge McEvoy will complete his winter assignment here March 29, and Judge John A. Cornell of Bridgeport will serve here from April to June 29.
 From the list of ITS jurors drawn for the Coscia trial, 40 names will be retained for civil case service, James E. Mcknight, superior court clerk, disclosed. A new panel of prospective veniremen will be drawn before the murder trial starts.
 Coscia is confined to the New Ha- ven County jail without bond. He is accused of fatally shooting his brother-in-law, following an argu- ment in the cellar of the home which is owned jointly by their wives, who are sisters. The shooting took place in the kitchen of the first floor tenement occupied by Cyr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Cigaret Shortage Probably WiU Crow Worse During 45

The ETC sad 1t had found no evidence of law-breaking by makers or distributors of cigaretS, but that certain undesirable practices" had developed.
 It said manufacturers who were forced to ration limited supplies sometimes favored customers.
 Jobbers, who buy cgarets from manufacturers and sell them to re- tailers, also have shown some fav- oritism, the report said.
 And so on down to the retail store, where the ETC found many instances of keeping cigarets under the counter" for sale to favorite or regular customers.
 As to prospects. the ETC said there was little chance of more cigaret production n 1945, and every likelihood that civilians would get less of those actually manufactured
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Al Dead In 2 Tornddoes

Montgomery. Ala, Feb. 13.- (UP)-Forty-one dead were count ed today from two tornadoes that hit western and central Alabama and eastern Mississippi.
 The Red Cross reported 1900 per- sons homeless in Montgomery More than 15O were in hospital here.
 Gov. Chauncey Sparks mobilized the Alabama State Guard to as- sist in the emergency. Churches set up emergency first aid stations to care for many of the wounded and the American Legion installed 300 cots in the Montgomery city auditorium. Communication lines were crippled thorughout the storm area. Rail traffic between Miami, Fla. and Chicago was hled Up un- til crewmen cleared the tracks of debris in ths area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Atty.Asks State To Pay

A motion for payment Of expenses by the state in the appeal of Fran cis ZukauSkas, who was sentenced to death last Thu Sday for the slay- ing of Mrs. Stephanie Plungis, was filed in superior court today by Pub Nc Defender Edward T. Carmody.
 The three judges who handed down the decision, Judge Frank P. McEyoy, Judge John H. King, and Judge Howard w. AlcOrn, will rule on the motion.
 Attorney Carmody points out that ZukauSkas was without sufficient funds to employ counsel to defend him and as a consequence was rep resented at the trial by the public defender and by special assistant appointed by the court.
 Pointing out that the defendant is now with funds o defray the costs and expenses of an appeal from the decision of superior court to the State Supreme Court of Errors, the defense attorney asks the court to authorize the perfecting and pros- ecuting of such appeal by the pub lie defender d his special assistant and direct that al necessary and proper costs and expenses in con- nection therewith be borne by the State of Connecticut"
 It is believed a pubic hearing may be assigned on the motion.
 Attorney Carnody stated today the filing of the appeal would be held off until Q ruling is made on the motion. Zukauskas has two weeks from the day of the decision tr. which to appeal tc the high court.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
House Awaits Views

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 13-(UP)- Connecticut's new United States Senator-Admiral Thomas o. Hart of Sharon-ma disclose to the general assembly today his view on domestic and international issues.
 Admiral Hart, appointed last week by Gov. Baldwin as interim success sor to the late Francis T. Maloney. was scheduled to address a joint session of the Senate and House. Up to now he had declined to comment on his appointment until he had an opportunity to confer with state of- ficials.
 The naval officer expects to wind up his duties with the general board at Washington in few days ana take his seat in Congress.
 Following his appearance in the Legislature, he will be a luncheon guest of Gov. Baldwin at the Hart ford club, and will hold a confer ence for press and radio represen- tatives. Tonight, he will make brief radio talk over Hartford sta- tion WT1C.
 As the legislature vent into itS seventh week, its most immediate concern was the deadlock over re- newal of the Governors emergency war powers. These powers, granted by the 1943 session, were permit ted to expire Feb. 1, restoring aA least three suspended laws to the stature books. The House has ap- proved a bill to renew the powers immediately. The Senate passed its own bill making the renewal ef- fective after legislative adjourn ment.
 Gov. Baldwin, in a radio talk last night, urged the law-makers to act quickly to relieve two situations which had been covered previOuslT
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Poland May Reject Big Three's Bid
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London, Feb. 13--(UP)-Thc Pc. fish exile cabinet was expected tC defy the Allied Big Three today anc reject their invitation to join the provisional government in liberated Poland.
 The exile cabinet probably will make known it's stand in formal statement following a special meet ing today, but its repeated anti Russian declarations made rejec- tions of the Crimean conferences s formula for solution of the Polish question a foregone conclusion.
 It was likely, however, that Sta- nislaw Mikolajczyk, who resigned as exile premier last November after failing to bring about rapproch- ment with the Russians, would hasten to Poland to join coalition government.
 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill doomed the exile government by promising at Yalta to recognize the Soviet-supported Polish provisional government once it has been reorganiZed on a broad CT democratic basis with the inclu- sion of democratic leaders from Po- land itself and from the Poles abroad"
 MT. Roosevelt, Churchill and Pre- mier Stalin also gave their bles- sing to a coalition government al- ready in the process of formation in Yugoslavia under an agreement negotiated by Marshal Tito and Premier Ivan Subasic of the Royal Yugoslav exile government.
 The Big Three recognized the ob- jectionS of King Peter to a one- party (CommunisD parliament, however, by recommending that the anti Fascist assembly of national liberation be extended to include members of the last pre-occupation parliament who had not collabor- ated with the NaZiS.
 The Crimean declaration also proposed that legislative acts pas sed by this temporary parliament be subject to ratification by con- stituent assembly once general elec- tions have been held.
 Subasic announced yesterday that his cabinet was proceeding to Bel grade without delay to complete formation of the coalition govern ment.
 The Big Three said they also made a general review of other Balkan questions" These preSum- ably included the Greek crisis.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13

Washington, Feb. 13.-iUP)-The cigaret shortage will probably grow worse during 1945. Apparently all that can be done is to see that avail able smokes are spread around.
 The Federal Trade Commission arrived at that conclusion today after an extensive investigation. Re- uuested by Chairman Burton K. Wheeler. D.. Mont. of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee.
 Wheeler told the ETC he had re- ceived complaints from retailers who were unable to get cigarets to supply their customers.
 The ETC said the shortage is "di- rectly traceable" to the huge num- bers Of cigarets going to the armed forces and to our Allies. The big drain, it added. was "magnified' by increased smoking here at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Patt0n's Men Get
 3 Rhine GatewavS
By JACK FLEISCHER

Paris, Feb. 13. CUP)-Lt. Gen. George s. Patton's troops punched two new holes in the Siegfried pill- box belt north of Echternach today, giving them three possible gateways to the Rhineland. Canadian First Army units beat down brisk German counter attacks and suddenly stiffened resistance to score new gains in the offensive against the northern end of the WsetWall.
 Units of seven German divisions had been counted in the forces brac- ing against Gen. H. D. C.. Crerar's gain toward the Ruhr and Rhine land. The Germans appeared to be throwing in endorsements at the expense of other portions of the western front.
 Heavy fighting now was going on along an arc of 12 to Is miles south westward from the Rhine above the village of Griethausen, three miles northeast of Kleve. The village fell to Canadian troops who crossed the railway northeastward from Kleve.
 The 80th and Fifth divisions of Patton's U. s. Third Army should cred past the concrete forts of the Siegfried belt at points northwest of Echernach. Farther to the north Patton had a break through the Westwall in the Pruem area.
 The Fourth Division rooted out the last sniper in Pruem and re- pulsed two severe counter attacks across the Pruem river northeast of the town.
 To the south other Third Army troops erased one of the last memo rieS of the Ardennes bulge when they captured Vianden, lower an- chor of the old St. Vith-Vianden line across the base of the salient.
 Field dispatches said the Gers mans were throwing crack tank and panzer grenadier divisions into the threatened Rhineland front to reinforce the second-rate fortress troops cheWed up in the first rush of the Canadian First Army of1en- Sive.
 The Germans, after losing more than 5000 captives in the opening five days of the Ruhr-bound at tack, were trying with partial suc- cess to establish a new defense line just east of the Reich. Swald forest, extending southward from the Rhine to the Goch area.
 Fierce tank and infantry battles were reported raging all along the makeshift Nazi defense line early today, although tthe flooded terrain prevented both sides from bring ing their full armored strength to bear.
 Farther to the south, the British second and American First and Ninth Armies were moving into po- sition for a general offensive across the swollen Roer river into the Col
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13

There Is every indication that the German front in Silesia is crumbling, and the roads to Dresden and Leipzig seem wide open to Ko- news army" a Moscow dispatch said.
 The Nazi command in its daily war communique succinctly &C., knoWledged the steady Soviet gains west and northeast of BreSlau. or that sector 1t said:
 Battle Extended
 "The battle has extended in its further course to the area around Goldberg and to the Queis and the Bober sector north of Sagan."
 The QueiS, a tributary of the Bober, flows seven miles west of 1t in the area of Soviet-captured Bnuz- lau and 10 miles separate the rivers little farther north.
 The fighting around Goldberg was more than 10 miles southwest of Liegnitz, and represented a spread to the south and west. The Nazi admission that the Soviets had reached the Hober north of Sagan reflected Russian gains northwest ward.
 The German communique claimed that Konevs efforts to complete the encirclement of Breslau were frus- tarted.
 Other Soviet forces to the north resumed their march toward the Baltic coast along a 200-mile front between the Vistula and Oder rivers, advancing within 30 miles of Stettin and about 50 miles of Danzig.
 The drive was aimed at cutting off the Pomeranian bases between the two Baltic ports that might serve as springboards for German counter-offensive against the north ern flank of the Russian Army massed along the Oder directly east of the Nal capital.
 Unconfirmed reports broadcast Dy the Paris radio said more than l. 100000 Soviet shock troops and a great armored host were deployed along 50-mile stretch of the OderS east bank directly before Berlin, waiting only for the isolation of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Nazi Generals sNephelUNouU v. s. Second Lieutenant

to the Saar area to work on vest wall Notifications. When he return ed to Berlin and was ordered to re- port for two years of compulsory military training, Won Otterstedt fled the country.
 T saw no distinction in having to give my life or part of it for Nazi Germany" he said. 'nor for any principle for which German mili- tarism stood.'
 In New York he was lucky. An alumnus of Heidelberg College. in Ohio, selected him for a scholarship.
 Tn 1940 Major General Wolfang Won Otterstedt. his uncle. wrote him an ofiicial letter urging his return. After graduating from Heidelberg. he taught school for year at the Grand River Academy for boys and was inducted into the army in No- vember, 1043.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Way Cleared For Push On Correqidor
By FRANCIS MCCARTHY

Manila, Feb. 13.-(UP)-Three American divisions linked up in- side southern Manila today and blasted the Japanese garrison back into the burning waterfront in the deadliest. close-in fighting of the entire Pacific war.
 The decisive juncture, sealing off the last avenue of escape for the trapped Japanese in Manila, came as Bataan and Corregidor across Manila Bay were rocking under a tremendous bombardment by hun dreds of American planes.
 More than POO tons of high ex- plosives were showered down on Corregidor Saturday and Sunday, while & big fleet of Army and Ma rine warplanes ripped up the south ern corner of Bataan with another 500 tons.
 It was the greatest aerial blow ever struck in the Pacific, and ap- parently was intended to clear the way for an amphibious assault on Corregidor. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's con1munique reported that the giant guns on 'T'he Rock" ap- peared to have been knocked out of action.
 At the same time. a force of American Thunderbolt fighters caught 3 troop-laden Japanese barges of the east coast of Bataar in daylight Saturday and blew them out of the water, killing an esti- mated 2,500 enemy troops.
 There was no indication whether the bargeS were evacuating troops from Bataan, Corregidor or Manila. There was even remote possibility they may have been trying to sneak endorsements into the capital to aid the Japanese garrison in its fin ish fight
 Inside Manila, meanwhile, the survivors of several thousand enemy troops compressed into narrow pocket south of the Pasig river were fighting with redoubled ferocity as the Americans herded them slow ly back to the bay
 Macarthur revealed that virtual ly every street in the capital had been sown with mines and booby traps and that his troops were moving slowly to hold down casual ties and spare the city from de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
cERMANS' SILESIAN FRONT CRUMBL ING
BALTIC COAST INVASION MAY
 BE A REALITY
BY W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, February 13. - (UP) - Military observers said today the Allied Big Three may have planned in- vasionS of southern Norway, Denmark and even the Ger man Baltic coast to speed victory in Europe.
 Speculation was touched off by the big three's prom ise in the Crimean declara- tion that Allied Armies and Air Forces would strike "new and even more powerful blows. Into the heart of Germany" from the east, west, north and south.
 The timing and scope of opera tions from all four directions "have been fully agreed and planned in de- tail," President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin said in the declaration.
 Full Partnership
 Our combined military plans will be made known only as we execute them, but we believe that the very close working partnership among the three staffS attained at this con- ference will es'llt in shortening the war" the declarstiov said.
 The declaration marked the first authoritative Allied word regarding the possibility of offensives against Germany from the north.
 A Moscow dispatch said military circles in the Russian capital att tached especial importance to the contemplated blows from the north It was assumed, Moscow said, that these would supplement those from the Soviet bridgehead in northern Norway.
 The big three's plan may enviss SC Anglo-American landings on the coats of South Norway and Den- mark and forcing the Na2i command to disperse further their already limited forces.
 Any landings on the Baltic coast of Germany presumably would be made by Soviet amphibious forces. but there remained remote pos sibility of an attempt by Anglo American fleets to force the Skager- rak and Kattegat into the Baltic.
 Significantly, Vice Admiral Sir Harold Burrough, Supreme Naval Commander in western Europe, said at a press conference several weeks ago that other amphibious landings probably would be made under his command.
 New blows against Germany from the north also raised the possibility
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-13
Repatriation For Prisoners Assured

London, Feb. 13.-(UP) Russia has promised food. clothing. medical attention and speedy repatriation for all American and British war prisoners freed in the Red armys drive into eastern Germany.
 The promise was contained in Q supplemental agreement reached by the Allied Big Three at Yalta. The United States and Britain promised similar treatment for Soviet pris- onars freed in western Europe.