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The Weather •? Warmer Tonight (Foil Weather Report Pm* X) We Macwrlliimg Demokrat F.T»ry gyaning at »> oraaq iirnt, wiufftirf Enured it »•©* d Claaa Mauir at Koat Office at watarbury. Conn, under lha Act of March a. 1179) Home, Final Edition Late Sport Newe Late News Flashes ESTABLISHED 1881 VOL. LXIII, NO. 16 WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE 4 CENTS GERMAN FRONT COLLAPSES IN POLAND; REDS TAKE KRAKOW, ANCIENT CAPITAL Senator's Final Visit To Parish Church wmmmmz. •tw % * a — Photo by MatiUa. This morning in Meriden, people of all walks of life paid Anal tribute to the late U. S. Senator Francis T. Maloney. Pictured here is his casket Mn| borne Into St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic church. His age, SO, was tolled on Meriden's Are alarm system as the casket was borne into the church. Stettinius Will Attend Big 3 Parley Washington, Jan. 19.—(UP)—Sec retary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., announced today that he will accompany President Roosevelt to the forthcoming meeting of the big three. Stettinius made ills statement at a press conference after President Roosevelt permitted him to discuss the matter. The British previously had an nounced that Foreign Secretary An thony Eden would accompany Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the meeting. •'The President invited me several weeks ago to accompany him on his forthcoming trip," Stettinius said. “Did you accept the Invitation?" he was asked. There was no answer but a roar of laughter by the correspondents and the secretary. Stettinius then .specifically said that he would go with the Presi dent and that he also would be present at the forthcoming meeting of American foreign ministers in Melco City, now scheduled to begin on Feb. 15. Stettinius brushed aside further questions on the timing of the two meetings and the possibility of him being able to attend the opening session of the Mexico City meeting. He cautioned correspondents that such questions involved the security of the President und suggested that the subject be changed. The Mexico City meeting Is ex pected to last until sometime Into March. Stettinius said he was unable to say whether Soviet Foreign Com missar V. M .Molotov would bo pres ent, but It has been assumed that he •rould accompany Premier Josef •Min. Forts Bomb Osaka, Kobe By FRED HCHERFF Washington, Jan. 19.—(UP)—A strong fleet of B-29 Superfortresses bombed industrial targets at Osaka, Japan's greatest manufacturing ! center. Kobe, her largest port, and elsewhere on the main enemy home Island of Honshu in daylight today. The giant four-engined bombers struck at Honshu for the fourth time this month while Admiral Wll- , llam F. Halsey’s hard-hitting Third fleet remained for a third day un der radio silent - that screened preparations for new carrier-based raids on Japanese bases south of the homeland. t ! A brief War Department an- ; tiouncement disclosed that Brig, j Gen. Haywood S. Hansell's 21st ] bomber command had hit Honshu c from bases in the Marianas and t promised additional delulla follow- i lug the return of raiders. Tokyo radio said HO B-?9s partlcl- i pated in the attack, nlh ig mainly ] at the Osnka-Kobe area and Ham- i amatxu, 130 miles to the east. < "Borne damage" was raused, A Jap- 1 anese communique said. < Osaka, 250 miles west of Tokyo, 1 Is Japan's second largest city and ] greatest war production center. Us ,'uctorles turn out iron, steel, ships, I tanks, planes, guns and exposlves. t Kobe, a few miles to the west, han- 1 lies more shipping than any other tingle Japanese port and also is a 1 (Continued on Page 4j ( j V Thousands Pay Last Tribute to Maloney Nazis Annex Three Towns By BOYI) LEWIS Paris, Jan. 19—<UP)~ Lt. Oen. George 8. Pnt,ton's Third Army to day struck haid at the Sure river hinge of the German Luxembourg lines today, driving the Nazis back toward the Siegfried line, but to the south on the front east, of Stras bourg the Germans overran three towns east of Hagenau in a menac ing threat o the Alsatian capital. The German threat to Strasbourg has been building up slowly for sev eral weeks. Today the Nazis rammed forward to establish a continuous line from tlie Muglnot line positions north of the forest of Hngennu down to Gambshelni, seven miles north of Strasbourg's city limits. In the process the Germans over in the Rhineslde villages of Dal unden, Sitattmatten and Denglo iheim. The Germans had three divisions srammlng down on the Hagenau ■oadnet, including the 21st Panzer md the 25th Panzer Grenadiers and ,t, wus estimated they have 10 to 12 llvisions massed against Lt. Gen, Alexander M. Patch's Seventh American Army between Gumshelm ind Bltche. The Nazis were continuously re nforcing the Gamshelm sector by ise of pontoon bridges and ferries icross the Rhine which were pro moted from Allied air assault by steadily falling rain. Pat ton launched his veterans in a mdden thrust at selected points, ln iludlng a six-mile front from Die drch, 18 miles due north of the Luxembourg capital, to the Luxem x)urg-Oerman frontier due east of Jlckirch. The Americans surged through Dleklrch, lcuvlng mopping-up par ies to deal with remnants of the 4azi garison, slashed across the Sure •Ivor and rolled the Oermuns up igainst the Our river which is the Ltixembourg-German border at, that (Continued on Pago 4) (By Democrat Staff Writer) Meriden, Jan. 19 —A pontifical high Mass of requiem celebrated here this morning at SI, Joseph's church for the lute United States Senator Francis T. Maloney, native of Merldeft, was attended by thou sands of persons comprised of ec clesiastical dignitaries, high offl clals of national, state and muni cipal governments and friends and admirers of the late solon. The Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien' administrator ol the Hartford Diocese celebrated the Mass as sisted by tile following; Archpriest, Rev. William Flynn, assistant chan cellor of the diocese; Deacon, the Rev, John P. O'Neill, pastor of St. Joseph's church, Meriden; Sub Deacon, Rev. Thomas J. O'Connell, St. Joseph's church; Mustcr-of-the Ccremonies, Rev. Joseph Cleary; Assistant MC, Rev. Joseph Cun ningham of Si. Francis hospital. Hai l lord and Chaplain of the Sen ate; Alcolyte, Rev. Francis B, Hul leck, of Southington, and others. This city today mourned the lost of one qf its most prominent and highly respected citizens, ns schools, municipal buildings, the postofflce and all federal activities were clos ed for the morning that his thou sands of associates and acquain tances might attend the final serv ices in ills memory. Six uniformed members of the Fourth Degree, Knights of Colum bus, of which the senator had been a member accompanied the casket into the church as the city’s fire alarm sounded 50 times, each denoting n year of the late official’s life. Hundreds stood outside the church under a canopy of clear blue-sky and sparkling sunlight and waited in the crisp cold air for the cortege to reach the church. Inside more than 1,500 sat and stood in the body of the church proper while an over flow of hundreds more were seated In the church busement where am plifiers were set up to relay the cre inony propr. The body was borne by the follow ing personul friends ol the late Sen ator Maloney; Frank Kraemcr, Mer iden, Connecticut collector of Inter nal Revenue; Stephen L. Smith, (Continued on Puge 4i Decent Living Standard Advocated By Blackhall Boston, Jail. 10— <UP>—Frederick l. Blackull, Jr., of Woonsoekot, R, ,, president of the New England Council, warned today thnt govern nent by the people faces a greater hallenge In the years Immediately iliead than It faces today on Eu opeun an<l Pacific battle fronts. Blackhall told some 200 commun ty representatives assembled at the ■lew England community develop nent conference sponsored by the ounrll that the Immediate future will be fraught with a greater hullengo to our Institutions, to our alth In government by the peo ilc . . . " Than ever before. Blackall said thnt If the United Itaten Is not to be taken over In a nomcnt of stress by Communists or 'ascists, tnere must oe: Pull employment and a decent Ivlng standard for all. The development of a great moral onsclence In government. Increased efficiency In the con duct of public affairs, A genuine effort to diunpen the swings of the business cycle. Executive Director C. Scott Fletcli er of the National Committee for Economic Development said the freedom for which Americans are fighting Is based on a sound eco nomy. He listed a four-point pro gram whereby business might achieve this economy 1. Complete Individual postwar expansion plans now. 2. Allotment of more lime to de velop programs which help all local 1 business. 3. Assumption of the lead In un derstanding serious economic und I social programs. 4. Joint establishment of a per manent overall organization to Im prove the community, both econom ically and socially. Board Okays Half Million In City Bills Approximately one-half million dollars In city expenditures were approved by the finance board yes terday at its regular meeting. Of this amount $364,543 was In vouchers comprised on end-of-the year (1944) bills owed by the city and made up In great measure by commitments of the school depart ment for repairs, slock, etc. Insur ance and general items also were Included. The remainder was com prised of $65,000 for the teacher’s payroll and $45,000 for general em ployes salary. The city’s 1944 fis cal year will close officially on Jan. 31 The board also approved a recent suggestion of city budget director Arnold E. Furlong, reported here last week, that cuch di pertinent be committed to deposit all sums of money exceeding $10 each day. However, receipts under $10 may be accumulated for a three week pe riod after which they must be de posited, even though not equaling the aforementioned amount. Mr. Furlong pointed out that the city 1ms been criticized by public auditors for not adhering to such a system, and has been told by the corporation counsel that such a procedure is within the jurisdiction of the finance board to rule upon rather than necessitating a chnrter change. The board transferred $0(KJ in the welfare department budget to cover the expense of four soldier burials and that of a pauper. Mr. Furlong said that the city will be reim bursed by the state which under writes requests for aid from sur vivors of veterans. Hotel Bloze Kills Doctor Now Haven. Conn.. Jun. 10—'UP) —A guest, tentatively Identified 11s Dr. Mnyo R. Purple of East, Hump ton, a captain In the Army Medical corps, was burned to death today when fire destroyed the hotel Bishop and forced the rescue of many of more than 30 other guests in the four-tsory brick building across from the Vale campus. Dr. Purple was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Purple, who claimed the remains. He was com missioned In the Medical corps In September 1942. was a graduate of Dartmouth and of Yale Medical school, and a former resident as t Is taut In medicine at New Haven hospital. Navy V-12 enrollces helped fire men rescue many of the guests who were carried down ladders from t lie iipner floors of the four-story brick building. The lire reportedly started In Dr. Purple's room on the third floor and was discovered by another guest who telephoned the desk clerk. The third and fourth floors were en gulfed in flames when apparatus arrived and the physician's charred body was found in the ruins of his room. Guests, most, of them women, and clad only In ntghtclothing, were ac commodated in a nearby garage un til other quarters could be found for them, Although the Are was confined to (Continued on Page 4) Top salaries. Bookkeepers, stenog raphers typists. Day A Night school, Post Jr. College of Commerce. i Further Resistance Useless Says Moscow Radio — Speedy Surrender Only Way Out Now Jap Forces Sealed Off At Rosario BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON General MacArthur's Headquar ters, Luzon, January 19, •— <UPi — American Invasion troops seized almost complete control of Rosario in the northeast corner of their Luzon beachhead today, scaling off strong Japanese forces entrenched in the mountains around the Philip pine summer capital of Baguio, 14 miles away. Other American units massing strength on the central plains 37 miles south of the Llngayen Gulf were believed awaiting the fall of Rosario, five miles inland from the eastern rim of the gulf, before re suming their frontal smash toward Manila. (A Japanese communique re corded by the FCC conceded that the Americans had awvaticed as far as the Agno river, 30 miles south of the Llngayen Gulf, but claimed Japanese counter-attacks had halted an American advance two and a half miles Inland from San Fabian in the northeastern sector. The capture of Rosario would ef fectively block the only practical highway along which Japanese troops in the Gagulo area to the northeast could mount a counter attack against the eastern flunk of the American beachhead and en danger the rear of spearheads point ed toward Manila. Strong Resistance tiuported by the big guns of war ships in the Llngayen Gulf, Amer ican doughboys broke Into the out skirts of Rosario Wednesday despite what Oeneral Douglas MacArthur's communique called "strong enemy resistance.” Field reports said the opposition came principally from artillery and mortar batteries. Little hand-to hand skirmishing was reported. Only a lew miles east of Rosario lies an excellent airstrip. Undaneta, a road junction 19 miles south of Rosario, was captured by American units, while other troops fought In the outskirts of (Continued on Page 4i Inauguration To Be Brief By MKKUIMAN SMITH Washington, Jan. 19 — iu.p.i — The White House today was like the oillce of a ticket broker Intimate ly Involved with a Broadway hit. Almost everybody who works In the executive mansion was being bombarded with last minute re quests for tickets to President Roosevelt’s fourth Inauguration to morrow. Judging by the Invariable response to these requests, the president is surrounded by no-men and no-wo men. They turned down literally thou sands of ticket bids. This year's In auguration, unlike the gaudy affairs of the past, Is going to be as simple and brief os possible. Mr. Roosevelt feels that tills Is no time for a costly spectacle that would draw swarms of spectators to the capital and further strain al ready overburdeneded war transpor tation facilities. Ho only about 7,000 persons received Invitations to stand in the back yard of the White House and watch the ceremony. The plans call for a simple swear ing-in ceremony on the south por tico of the White House, starting at noon Huturday and lasting no more than 15 or 20 minutes. The President will try to keep his lunurgural ad dress to 500 words. The ceremony and accompanying While House functions, Mr. Roose (Continued on Pugc 4> New Plastic Eye Going On Market Southbrldge, Moss., Jun. lO—iUP) —A new all-plastic eye, virtually Identical In appearance to the hu man eye, Is In production on a large scale for both civilian and military use, the American Optical Co, an nounced today. Expected to replace the large quantity of glass eyes Imported from Germany before the war, the new plastic eye Is made entirely of non irritating materials. Its Ills Is re produced by a photographic print Implanted In the eye. The new syn thetic model, molded from acrylic, can be dro|>ped without breaking, and can be reshaped to provide an exact fit. previously, Army and Navy doc tor* and artist* have fashioned plas tic eye* by hand, but this la the first mass-pnxtuctton venture. The company ha* an order for 50,000 plastic eye* for Ru**la. New Allied Gains ' NEA Telephoto) Map shows where Allied troops have pressed the tiermans into a nar rowing strip of their Ardennes salient near the Siegfried Line. Mean while, the U. 8. 7th Army In Alsace made substantial gains north of Straabourg, other uniat staged a comeback at Hatten, and British 2nd Army opened a new offensive In the north. Protestant Heads Favor Peace Plan BY I-EE LINDER Cleveland, Jan. 19.—(UP;—The Dumbarton Oaks peace plan today received the support of American and Cunudian Protestant leaders "as an Important steps in the di rection of world cooperation" but the national study conference on the churches and a Just and dur able peace urged adoption of eight points for its improvement. An estimated 450 delegates rep resenting more than 25,000,000 Pro testants in the U. S. and Canada, adopted the findings of u 15-man committee headed by Bishop C>. Bromley Oxnain, Methodist bishop of New York, who recommended 'strengthening'' of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals by: 1. Restating the principles ol Justice und human welfare set forth in the Atlantic Charier "because they reflect the aspirations of peoples everywhere.” 2. Anticipating and providing for the development and codification oi I International law. 3. Not permitting a nation (which will always have the right to dis cuss Its own case to vote when its case Is being Judged according to predetermined international law. 4. Liberalizing amendment pro cedure so its not to require concur rence by all members. 5. Establishing a special commis sion which will make eventual autonomy of colonial and dependent areas an international responsibil ity. 6. Creating a special commission to deal with human rights and lun datneninl freedoms, T iioi tiiin i, win: New York, Jan. 19 — tU.P.i — Mrs. Patricia Dixon, mindful of her light-sleeping husband, didn’t want to wake him at 2:30 a. m. when she returned to their apartment <at 31 West 89th street). Trying to enter by a third floor window she fell to the rear yard, breaking both legs and several ribs. Her husband was awakened by the commotion. Kirk Favors Nurse Draft Bv DEAN W. D1TTMER Washington, Jan. 19 — Oi P.t — Ttie House Military Affairs Com mittee temporarily side-tracked Die pending work-or-be drafted bill to day to hear Army Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk urge prompt ap proval of legislation to induct nurses into the armed forces. Strongly endorsed by President Roosevelt, tin* nurse draft bill v.as introduced with Army and Navy ap proval as the most effective means of getting the 20,000 new nurses needed to Insure the best treatment for wounded American servicemen, Committee Chairman Andrew J. May, D„ Ky, said that as soon as Kirk completed ids testimony Die committee would return to its work of attempting to write a i 11 that would force men between 18 and 45 years, Including 4-K'.s into essential Industry if and when (hey were needed Tlie nurse bill would provide for the registration of uii registered | nurses between Die ages ol 18 and 45, and make them available for in duction under the same procedures j followed in drafting men into the armed forces. Tlie 1)111 would not a fl eet voiun- | tary recruitment of qualified women i Into tlie Army and Navy Nurse Dorps, but would give selective sen - j Ice authority to induct others as | they were needed. May told reporters at the close of it short committee session laic yes terday that progress was being made and thut he hoped the committee would be able to approve a bill by tonight. Tlie committee rejected, 14 to six, a proposal by Representative Waltet fl Andrews, H , New York, to sub stitute a modified version of the I (Continued on Page 4i War With Japan Will Last Four More Years—Yamell New Bedford, Muss, Jan. 19— (UPi—Admiral Harry E. Yarncll, re tired, former commander of flip U 8. Asiutic Fleet, predicted today, that the war with Japan will last | four more years and that American; casualties will be between 1.000,(KH* and 2,000,000. In un exclusive interview pub-, lUlicd in the New Bedford Stan-! dard Times, Admiral Yarnell also was quoted as predicting: That it may take six months to u year to defeat Germany. That before the war la over, the i Germans may fire rocket bombs, from submarines at some of the larger coastal cities. “These bomb ings would be of little value to the enemy,” he said. “They should, however, arouse the home front." That the east of the war to the United Slates muy run from $400 - [ 000.000,000 to $500,000,000,000. Retired for the third time last Monday ufter 45 years' naval service, the 69-year-old admiral was Inter viewed at Ills Newport, R. I„ home. Rated us one of the best-Informed authorities on Japan, the admiral commended the present strategy of . U S. forces "Island-hopping” In I the Pacific as "a necessary and Im portant requirement In our eventual' ])lan to lay Japan low." "Island-hopping is necessary be-1 cause we've got to have baser, be hind the lines," Admiral Yarnell j was quoted. We've got to get the Philippines and we’ve got to get to China. Manila Bay will be a boon for us. There Is no possibility of taking a fleet up to the door of Japan now. BY BRI CE W. MINN London, January 19. — (UP) — Krakow, ancient capital of Poland and admin istrative seat of the Ger man occupation forces, fell today to Red Army offensive which Moscow said iiad col lapsed the entire Nazi front across Poland. The First Ukrainian Army stormed Krakow successfully today while other Russiar forces were driving into Lodz Poland's second largest city and biggest industrial center and were reported unoffi cially to be probing into Gcr many beyond the Silesiar. border. A fourth Red Army was revealei to have Joint'd the great Russian of fensive. The Fourth Ukranlnn Arm; went into action Monday in tin Carpathian border area of South Poland, broke through on a broad front, and advanced tip to at) miles The German high command ac knowledged Muii "on the entire from from life northern slopes of tin Carpathians to the Niemrn tver, the winter battle for the Gernii n eastern provinces continues with greatest fierceness." As the Red Army .smashed through Poland, a United Press dis patch from Moscow said it was storming the old capital ol Krakow and the country's second city and greatest industrial center of Uod/ and both were expected to fall at any time. Eight Nearly Over The Moscow radio broadcast on« of the most Jubilant Soviet, pro nouncements of the entire war, plainly indicating that the Soviet command believed its fight of tout' and a. half yenrs was nearly over. It said "The catastrophe which has be lalien tile German armies in Poland is greater than that whiclt befell their central group of armies last summer. The entire German front in Poland has collapsed. Any fur ther resistance on the part of the German people is useless, ■‘The time now has come for the German people to refuse further (Continued on Page 4> Jap Aircraft Plant Bombed By I.ISI.r: SHOEMAKER Headquarters, 21st Bomber Com mand, (iiuim, Jan, 19—iUPi—tVia Navy Radiol A strong force of U s. Superfortresses hit the Import:,nt Kawn.sakl air: nilt plant at Akad’l on .Japan's main island of Honshu today in an effort to destroy tills hitherto untouched factory , B-29 bombardiers, armed with extraordinarily dear photographs of ihr factory 10 miles west of Kobe bombed the target in almost perfect veather Returning pilots said large explo sions and fires were se:'n and that the Superforts bombed from a con siderably lower altitude than usual imm an upwind direction. This Indicated that Brig. G<n. Haywood Hanscll’s pilots were engaged In an all-out effort to knock out the lac tor,v which is known U produce single and twin-engined fighter,.; as well as other aircraft. Pilot; reported that fighter oppo sition was slight to medium wilt flak "slight to moderate," indicat ing thiii the Japanese may haw been as surprised bj the attack or this new target as they were bj the first Superfort raid on Tokyo. Early reports Indicated no B-29» wore li st on the raid The Kawasaki pin nt is one of 111 most modern of Japan's plan a Pictures taken yesterday by a B-'Jf >11 reconnaissance clearly showed in ilrfleld adjacent to the plant, lead ng to the belief that the plane: vere flown to the war fronts. The photographs shoved small;] mlldiiigs, which concel- ably emtlf louse engine and parts niiimtfae itrlng equipment, besldc< the burn' ike structures where the Japanew lghter planes were assembled. la! o /REOnrturp us jzJf#renr Office 5TlTCH,TMEl^ OH, A TAIf-^R1 , TJOuBLE ul.MA »■ iORT V BREA'STEt OF POjUi- 1 ONE <SHAt_- ; UJtLL YOU , vOj Me' STITCH if* Ui£ A *