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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Unconditional Surrender
 Will Not Be Reconsidered
(Signal Corps photo from NEA Telephoto)
BY w. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, Jan. 16-(UP) - Prime Minister Churchill told commons to- day that the Allies will fight on until Germany surrenders uncondi- tionally, even If such a policy stiff fens NaZi resistance and prolongS the war.
 Churchill reaffirmed the Allies inSiStence on unconditional sur render in answer to persistent ques- tions from labor members at the reopening of parliament after the Christmas recess.
 But by coincidence his reply came less than "A hours after Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, charged in the U. s. Senate that uncondition- al surrender was brutal, asinine slogan" which was costing thous- ands of American lives, splitting Allied unity and threatening third World War"
 Churchill also:
 l. - Endorsed President RooSe- velt's views that the objectives of the Atlantic Charter were as valid as they were in 1o41 though all were not likely to be attained immediate ly and the Charter lis not law"
 2.-Assured the House that Brit ain would continue to recognize the Polish Exile Government in Lon don as the legal government of Po- land despite Russia'S recognition of the rival provisional regime at Lublin.
 3.-Revealed British casualties in Greece from Dec. to Jan. 6 to- tailed 2,101, including 237 dead, but put off all questions on Greece un- til after he has made his statement and debate begins on the Greek Sit uation Thursday.
 Churchill's remarks on the Allan tic Charter clearly showed that he had joined common cause with President Roosevelt in public ex- pressions on the matter as an i'm portant step in avoiding Anglo American pickering and in present. ing A more united front at the com ing meeting of the Allied Big Three"
 He also sought to allay criticism
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
AnotherSnoW Storm Likely

Boston, Jan. 16-(UP)-The third heavy snowstorm within 10 days was forecast for New England in spec ial g a. m. bulleting today with eX- pected accumulltionS of eight to 10 inches in interior southern sections and somewhat less in the northern area.
 The weather bureaus bulletin said the heavy snow in southern New England would become mixed with sleet along the south shore and over southeastern Massachusetts with some rain in the Cape Cod area. The storm will result in only moderate snow in the south portion of north ern New England and light snow in extreme northern New England, the bulletin said.
 The area already is blanketed with five to 10 inches of snow from two previous Sunday storms. The wealth CT bureau said todays storm would end tonight and would be followed by much colder weather and in creasing winds. A temperature low of eight degrees was forecast for greater Boston tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
German War Plants Hit

London, Jan. I6-UP)-War in- dustries in Western Germany were attacked today by 600 liberators and fortresseS, escorted by some $50 mustang and thunderbolt fighters. The American planes concentrated their daylight assaults on the Ruhr- land synthetic oil plant, the big Krupp tank and airplane plant at Magdeburg and rail yards at Dres- den.
 Strategic air force headquarters announced that simultaneous at tacks were directed against rail and marshalling yards at Dessau and other unspecified targets in Vest ern Germany.
 The Krupp plant a tHagdeburg produces Mark " tanks. The big Ruhrland Synthetic Oil plant lies northeast of Dresden and Dessau is 30 miles north of Leipzig.
 GA German broadcast recorded by the EGG said bomber formation flew in from the northwest over the North Central coastal area of Ger many while a fighter formation penetrated the skies over Mark Brandenburg)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
SOVIET UNITS NOW 45 MILES
 FROM S|LES|A
BY BRUCE w. MUNN

London, January 16. - (UP) - The Red Army has captured the East Prussian fortress of Schlossberg, Der lin reported today, in the first big victory on German soil of it's winter offensive which already was beating within 45 miles of Silesia and threatening the old Polish capital of Krakow.
 The German high com mand reported the loss ot Schlossberg, 28 miles north east of Insterburg and IA miles inside East Prussia, in violent fighting at the north ern end of the 60O-mile Soviet offensive front.
 Schlossberg, transport junction and Hedgehog base in the network OI NTeTIIldIl IlOILlC4dlAu OCACAAoCo' ANAA to the Russians despite a grim defense by our troops" a Berlin communique said, giving weight to it's earlier reports that massed So- viet forces were hammering the whole border belt of East Prussia.
 To the southwest, Marshal Ivan s. Konev's first Ukrainian army was driving 8 solid 4O-mile wedge across southern Poland, and Moscow re- ports suggested that the Germans were falling back rapidly in hope of catching a foothold for resolute stand on the Silesian border.
 New Nazi Reverses
 Ernst von Hammer, Nazi military commentator, acknowledged new German reverseS along the front aimed at Krakow and Silesia, and said the fighting in that sector was "the hardest yet experienced on the eastern front" which produced the fury of Stalingrad and the success ful defense of Warsaw
 Konev's Steamroller was moving westward along a broad front in the face of what Moscow called poorly organized resistance. His vanguard was only 8 score of miles from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Overtime Pay Test Case On

Boston, Jan. 16-CUP)--A test case involving overtime pay for ex- ecutive employees, which may deter mine whether the government must pay millions of dollars in back wages, continued today before a Master with two Philadelphia firms as respondents.
 Brought by Walter Dolan and others employed in executive posi- tions at the precision manufactur- ing Co.'S Fall River plant, the ac- ton seeks overtime pay for work in excess of a 4O-hour week under the federal wage and hours act
 Since the Philadelphia firm held cost t-plus navy contracts, the gov- ernment is appearing as intervenor beforde Judge Thomas F Quinn of Natick who is sitting as master for the U. s. District court.
 Co-defendant in the case is the Philadelphia firm of Way and Zim- merman, consulting engineers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Restoration
 Rights Asked By Local Men
(By Democrat Legislative RepOrter)

Separate bills were introduced at the General Assembly today by Sen- ators Patrick J. Wallace and Ed ward P. Egan to seek the reStora- tion of forfeited rights for Thomas A. Shanahan and John H. Crary of Waterbury, both of whom were convicted in the conspiracy case and sentenced to two months imprison- ment and $500 fine and loss of rights.
 Senator Wallace represented MT. Shanahan and Senator Egan repre- Sented MT. Crary. Also introduced with the city's proposed pension bill as recommened by the pension con- mission with both senators intro ducing the bill jointly. Members of the appropriation committees of the Senate and House of which Sen. Egan and Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney, this city, are members were schedule to convene this af- ternoon. Other committees likewise were slated for caucus after today'S adjournment.
 (By United Press)
 The general assembly, marking time until the February deadline for introduction of business, began its third week today with heavy flow of proposed laws and amendments anticipated.
 One of the most significant bills yet to be introduced came from State Liquor Control Commissioner Francis P. Rohrmayer, who submit ted 39 amendments to the liquor control act aimed at restoring teeth" to the regulations.
 Introduced through State Demo- cratic Leader Leon Ris CaSSi, Hart ford the bill forbids Sunday sales entirely. stops all sales at Il p. m., instead of 1 a. m., and forbidS wo- men from patronizing taveXrns and hotel and restaurant dining rooms where liquor is sold at bars.
 One of the amendments would prevent distilleries from paying divi- dends in the form of liquor.
 The bill further proposes that liquor fees be denied communities which in the opinion of the com
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Middle East Farley Site
BY PHIL AULT

London, Jan. l6 6-(UT)-BeSt ln- formed sources said today that Pres ident Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premie' Stalin prob ably will meet in the Middle Feat within the next two weeks.
 Both time and place for the con- ference have been fixed definitely it was learned, and an advance party of high British officials was preparing to depart 1n short notice. Churchill probably will remain in London until the last moment, how ever, then make quick air journey to the scene.
 Harry Hopkins, confidential adviS- CT MT. Roosevelt, was expected to arrive in London within the next few days to confer with Churchill and British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden on outstanding Anglo American problems and the agenda for the "big three" meeting.
 Stephen E ar l, the Presidents press secretary, also may visit Lon don to participate in the preliminary discussions, but it was emphasized that his main work will be the i'm provement of press relations at su- preme headquarters in Paris.
 Designation of the Middle East as the most likely site of the Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting suggested that the three leaders might con- vene again at the Iranian capital ot Tehran, where they first conferred late in 1943, or perhaps Cairo.
 The official Soviet News Agency Tass denied published reports that Russia, at the request of France had asked that Gen. Charles De Gaulle be invited to participate ir the meeting
 A Paris dispatch said, however French hopes were rising that De Gaull, would be invited to the next "big three" session as result of re- ports MT. Roosevelt may visit Paris in February and the meeting may be held there.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
IA Deod In Hotel Fire

Chicago, January 16. = (UP) - Fourteen persons were killed early today and eight others were injured when fire swept through the six story General Clark Hotel on the northern edge of the loop.
 Thirteen of the victims were men and the other was an unidentified woman who died of injuries received when she jumped from a three story window to escape the flames. All the dead were permanent guests at the hotel.
 Police said an examination of the bodies of 12 of the victims at the morgue showed eight were burned to death and the other four died of suffocation.
 All of the bodies were found on the upper floors. Some of them were trapped in hallways and others were found in their rooms.
 Nearly all the guests fled in their nightclothes. Mrs. Frances Willis, 45, waitress, ran down the fire escape in her pajamas and turned in the alarm. A soldier lent her his coat.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Steel Strike
 In Worcester

Worcester, Mass, Jan. 16 (U. P) - A wildcat walkout of ap- proximately $500 of the 5000 em- ployes at the American Steel and Wire Company'S south works virtu- ally halted war production at the plant today.
 A vanguard of 375 employees walk ed out yesterday in protest against the alleged discharge of a union grievance committee member, and an additional 3,125 workers joined them this morning.
 Both company officials and repre- sentatives of the United Steel Work CTS of America (C1O) emphasized that the strike was unauthorized. The union called meeting for this afternoon to discuss the strike is- sues and to determine whether work will be resumed.
 A union representative said the strike followed the unjust firing" of grievance committeeman Stephen D. Leahy. Accoring to the union, Leahy sent several workers home aftr they had agreed to work over time on jobs paying less than their regular job-c,assitlcation. The union said the com/any then fired Leahy for his int, ference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Smoke Rotion Cards Issued

Chicago, Jan. 16.-(UP)--Cigaret ration cards-good for a pack a punch-were ready for distribution to 100000 retailers today under an industry-sponsored program.
 The plan, approved yesterday by distributors attending wartime conference here, would assure 8 more equitable distribution of pres ent supplies through local outlets according to Joseph Kolodny, eX- ecutive secretary of the asSocia- tion.
 Kolodny admitted the system would be unfeasible for chain stores and the so-called transient outlets such as hotel and railroad stands which distribute 15 per cent of the supply, but predicted that 1t would prevent raids by hoarders who Shol at every possible outlet.
 Within the next two weeks, he said, numbered cards would be dis Jributed to consumers, who will be requested to sign @ declaration thai they hold only one card. The card will be distributed by retailers, pre- sumably only to their regular GUS toners and will be honored only by the issuing dealer. The cards will be punched each time the holder purchases a pack of cigarettes and when all the punches have been used up, new one will be issued
 The card won't be worth any spe- cified number of cigarets-or for that matter, any at all-Kolodny emphasized. However, he said, the program was expected to enable dealers to apportion their current supplies fairly and eventually limit smokers to @ single source of SUD- ply.
 The Offlce of Price Administra- ton has expressed no disapproval to the proposal, he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
By RALPH c. TEATSORTH

Aboard Admiral Kinkaid's Flag ship, off Philippines, Jan. 16 - (UP)-A fantastic Japanese plan to destroy the American invasion ships in Lingayen Gulf by hurling at them fleet of suicide boats can be revealed today.
 The plan Topped because the Japanese failed to exploit their weapon to the maximum advantage and because American troops Gd- vanced so fast that the suicide base became untenable.
 The Japanese made feeble ef- fort to sink our ships on the night of the landing on the Lingayen Gulf coast, but caused only slight damage and did not repeat the at tack.
 I accompanied a U. s. Seventh Fleet party that discovered the hideout of the Japanese suicide boats yesterday. An LCI skippered by It. Jg) w. Craw of New York city, took us intd Sual Bay on the west side of the gulf, where the boats had been abandoned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Tanks Aim At Manila
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

General MacArthur's Headquar~ ters ,Luzon, Jan. 16-(UP)-Ameri~ can tanks, mobile guns and infan~ try swept on unchecked and ap~ parently unchallenged across the great central Luzon plains less than 75 air miles north of Manila to- day
 The biggest invasion of the Pacific war entered its second week with American spearheads nearly 36 air and 40 road miles inland from tine Lingayen Gulf beachhead-almost 6 third of the way to the Philippines capital.
 Stiff fighting was under way along the Rosario-P -Pozorrubio line at the northeastern corner of the beach, head but the unoppoSed frontal advance already had carried to within nearly 30 miles of the great Clark Field air center and per. haps a dozen miles of the provinS cial capital of Tarlac.
 Camiling, 28 road miles inland from Lingayen and five miles inside Tarlac province, fell Sunday to two converg1ng columns which advanced nine miles from Bayambang, to the northeast, and Mangatarem, to the northwest, and merged into single powerful army aimed straight at Manila.
 May Be Engulfed
 Tarlac lies p road miles and 1y air miles south of Camiling and may be engulfed by the advancing Americans within the next 24 hours if 1t has not already fallen.
 For the first time since Gen, Douglas MacArthur'S men began the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
SEVENTH ARMY SEIzES RHINE INITIATIVE
Tanks Gain Almost
 ? Miles In Woods N. Of Gambshein1
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, January 16. - (UP) - The American Seventh Army seized the initiative on the upper Rhine today, stormed the German bridge head north of Strasbourg. and advanced almost two miles to the outskirts of Gambsheim, nine miles above the Alsatian capital.
 It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's forces attacked at the south end of the western front while other American Forces were occupying Houf- falize, one-time anchor base of the ArdenneS salient, and driving over the approaches of St. With, last major Ger man stronghold in Belgium.
 The doughboys found Hou1alize abandoned by the Germans who were withdrawing eastward to the St. With Ridge on which Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt apparently tn- tended to experiment with an at- tempted stand outside the Siegfried Line.
 Seventh Army troops and tanks charged the German bridgeheao above StraSbourg this morning after artillery preparation before dawn. They ran into violent fire from small arms and artillery, including guns on the east bank of the Rhine across from Offendorf.
 In a thrust of more than . miles one section of the attacking forces crossed the Zorn river running north from Herrlisheim, 8 mile ana a half north of Offendorf.
 Other units struck straight Tor Gambsheim, main anchor base os the brideghead. They advanced al~ most two miles and by mid-after~ noon were fighting in the woods in1~ mediately north of Gambsheirn- Below this key town the attack cara ried to Bettenhoffen, e southweSt~ ern suburb of Gambsheim.
 North of HerrliSheim, some forces reached the rail line running north~ eastward parallel with the Rhine.
 On the Belgian front the Amer ican First and Third Armies and units of the British Second Army were fighting the combination oG numbing winter weather and brisk German resistance along the Hanks of the salient whose nose had col- lapSed.
 The Germans were making the orderly eastward withdrawal under cover of 8 fog which prevented air activity, while ice-glazed roads iIn- peded the Allied effort to slash in (Continued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
CI0 Opposes Pending Bill

Washington, Jan. l6-(UP) - President Roosevelt conferred today with high military officials and congressional advisers on the out look for obtaining national service legislation in view of the renewed opposition that the proposal has met.
 The president was considering sending a special message to Con- gress on the subject.
 In his annual message to Con- gress on Jan. 6 MT. Roosevelt re- neWed last years plea for universal service legislation, asserting that it was necessary to provide the arms to win the war.
 He also asked for work or fight" legislation to make more effective use of 4-F's. This is the subject of current hearings by the House Mil- itary Affairs Committee, and 1t has run into considerable opposition.
 Only today, both the National AS- sociation of manufacturers and the Congress of industrial organizations went on record against the pending work or fight" bill, as well as the more stringent national service plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Japs Hurled Suicide Boats m Vain At Muasion Ships

The hideout was just norCh of the town of Sual in a coconut grove that made it difficult to spot from the air. The Japanese apparently fled two or three days ago as the Americans approached the bast.
 We found g boats measuring l8 feet and seven inches in length. They had been equipped to carry two depth charges and two spares on the rear. They could be dropped in the normal manner or set of as the boat crashed into the side of a ship.
 They had places for two men, but also rigged so that one could carry out mission. The device for re- leasing the depth charges was crudely made of two long steel rods joined together near the bow.
 The boats were operated by a special squadron of the Japanese army. They were built as dispatch or communication boats, and the suicide equipment obviously was added just before the Americans landed here. We found evidence 1t was installed at the Sual base.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
69 Jop Ships
 Damaged Off China Coast
BY MAC R. JOHNSON


 Pearl Harbor, Jan. 16-(UP)--Car- rier planes of the Third fleet turn ing north after wrecking 69 ships off French Indo- China, lasned the China coast from Hong Kong to SWatoW with bombs and bullets yes terday for the second straight day, Tokyo broadcastS revealed today.
 A Pearl Harbor communique re- ported without elaboration that Ad- miral William F. Halsey's air strik- ing forces had opened the attack Sunday along 350-mile stretch of the coast from Hong Kong north through SwatoW to Annoy
 Following through Monday, Tokyo sad, about 70 carrier planes bombed and machine -gunned Hong Kong, Canton and Swatow, the latter mld- way between Hong Kong and Annoy Five planes were shot down and three damaged, Tokyo sait;.
 "The damage to our side was neg lipjble," the bruadcaSts added.
 Furmosa, Japanese island bastio1 Athwart the sea approaches to the Chlna coast, also apparently was n1t D ltt. days. Pearl Harbor confirmed Sundays attack and Tokyo broad cast yesterday said 200 carrier planes raided the island net day,
 I1or.g Kong, Canton, Annoy and Swatow all were busy Japanese oc' ct pied ports on the imperial lifeline to the enemy's shrinking southern empire. The Japanese have bcen re- lylng more and more on water trans port as their land lines i'll Chins have come under increasing guerilla and air attack
 Al Ships Sunk
 Tie third fleet moved neai'J &I rlileS north for it's latest attacks or on the China coast after scoring tt: largest one-day toll of the var of French Indo China Friday the sinking of 3l ships totalling 27O0( tons and damaging of 28 others
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
Attorney Denies Lorceny Charges

Salem, Mass, Jan. 16-(UP)-Ac- cused of withholding legacies from the $12,120 estate of Saugus widow 15 years ago, Atty. Henry w. Pack CT, 60, of Boston was held in $5,0O0 bail today after pleading innocent to a larceny charge.
 Packer, arraigned in superior court here yesterday, allegedly did not notify Mrs. Addie s. Armitage'S widely scattered heirs Of their be- quests in 1880 and later took possess sion of the estate he was admins tering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
SNOW LENDERS ACTION

Rome, Jan. 16-(UP)-Patrol clashes at the east -end of the Fifth Army front in Italy were reported by headquarters today, but deep snow drifts south of Bologna in the central sector confined action to arr tillery and mortar exchanges.
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Evening star., 1945-12-23

Don't you remember about that, Scott?"
1T looks - NICE" he said. ''The pin, l
mean. like it." He was controlling himself
very carefully, and there was something in
his voice which was new to her; it was not
the hardness which is supposed to come out of
war but almost softness, an urge to be gentle,
to understand. Il find it rather pleasant, Pix
being back where people wear pretty things in
their hair"
do you?" She smiled If he was going to
try hard to be decent, there was no reason
for her to snap at him. She could try too.
Where have you been? she asked.
England. Then Belgium, and Germany,
back to Belgium, and Germany. again. I'll
be out soon",
Good"
"Pix, you look marvellous" He was really
means to me to be able to find you like this
hadn't heard anything about you, hadn't
seen you, or your family for so long ="
He hadn't heard anything about her. He'd
been away and he didn't know. ''How did you
locate me, tonight?" she asked, cautiously.
did you simply bee-line for the towns
fiossiest Canteen?'
He smiled at that Il did not called your
home; Molly answered, and told me where
you WERE"
Molly had answered. Not Mother or Dad
or talkative Aunt En-, but Molly, 1.-The worlds
most conservative maid. Molly would have
told him nothing but her whereabouts.
$50 came down here" !" he went on. II had
to see you. Then, the minute came in the
door and looked at you he dropped his
hands to his knees and his voice broke off -
But was afraid for minute you weren't
even going to speak to me. After all, we
hardly parted on the best of terms, last time"
Last time," said Pix, 'as l recall, you
told me all the things that were the matter
with me-"
Il also asked you to marry me, Pix"