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Italy GI’s Demanding
.To Know ‘Right Score’
By CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
I (Written for the Combined
American Press)
Allied Headquarters. In Italy,
April 10—(UP)—The foremost ques
tion of OI’s hew even of the com
bat soldier—is not "How will the
battle In Italy turn out” but “How
aoon do I get home when It’s over.”
For he realizes that the destruc
tion of the Nazi armies In the
Valley of the Po probably will mark
the real end of organized German
effort
One thing seems certain to me.
St’s going to be much longer than
the average man here thinks. It will
probably be from 12 to 18 months
after the occupation armies have
reached Germany before the last
American troops embark from Ital
ian soil for home.
And in the meanwhile, thousands
of men will have marked time In
Italy awaiting deployment to the
Pacific. If this is a hard fact, as I
believe It to be after a number
of talks with military authorities
here. It seems of vital importance
to the morale of the men of this
theater—and everywhere else in Eu
rope—that they be told It at the
earliest possible moment.
The American soldier stands Irre
vocably on his right to gripe. But
he will always accept any hardship
that’s laid upon him provided he
plainly understands the patriotic
and practical reasons for its impo
sition and provided that hardship
isn’t discriminatory.
He only asks that his leadership
tell him the “real score”. It was
1 a most serious mistake in the past
from a moral viewpoint to give an
overseas soldier—particularly in
the Italian theater—a much too
optimistic view of his real chances
for getting home on rotation.
This mistake must not be made
again when the shooting stops here
or very troublesome morale and
disciplinary problems will develop
Which will be bitterly aggravated by
political pressure and demagoguery
on the home front.
Congress should encourage the
(War Department soon to lay down
a precise and just policy for the
(return or deployment of the thou
«ands upon thousands of men and
women in uniform in this theater.
That policy should include the rea
sons behind it and an honest esti
mate of how long it will take to
Effectuate.
Above all, once announced, the
(entire policy must tirelessly and
ceaselessly be explained and pub
licized among the men themselves
1,500 Return
From Prisons
By STANTON BERENS
Boston, April 10—(UP)—The first
1 1,500 doughboys to be freed from
hateful Nazi prison camps trod
American soil today — cheered by
the knowledge that within perhaps
two weeks they once again would
be with their loved ones.
War-worn and1 in many cases
shaken by their months of near
starvation in the iilthy German
camps, they caught their first glim
pse of an American steeped in the
lush green of a mild spring twi
light.
With them abroad the gTeat
transport that was warped into a
pier here were 3,000 other soldiers
coming home on rotation furloughs.
Pittifully, the freed prisoners
milled around the newsmen—first
Americans they load seen in nearly
three years. Gleefully, they whistled
and called to three girl reporters
among the group. Some there were
whose eyes dimmed a bit with tears
as an Army band rattled off tunes
from several wars — "Dixie,” "Over
There” and "There’ll Be a Hot Time
tn the Town of Berlin.”
"It may sound corny, but the first
thing I’m going to do when I get
off this tug is to fall down and
Jciss good old American ground,”
said Sgt. George P. McNeil of (2199
South Drive) Willimansett who was
captured by the Germans last July.
! MicNell, like most of the other
prisoners, was interned at Stalag
HE, situated- on the Oder river some
07 miles east of Berlin. Some of
the men escaped to the Russian
lines while others were freed by
advancing Soviet tank units the lat
ter part of January.
The soldiers told of deplorable
living conditions in the rat-infested
camp* where the daily food ration
consisted of a bowl of weak horse
meat broth and two slices of mouldy
black bread.
> “If it weren’t for the Red Cross
parcels we got, we probably would
have starved,” said Cpl. Joseph Dc
Oocco of (337 Pine street) Schenec
tady, N. Y., who served as a camp
cook. «
Do Cocco, imprisoned for five
months after his capture in France,
said the horsemeat used for soup
“generally was rotten. Once when
we got some peas and beans, they
were full of bugs, but I had to
cook them or be punished,” De
Cocco added.
He said 40 men slept in small
shacks and that drinking water was
drawn from a spring situated near
camp latrines.
“Those Germans were b-s
and treated us worse than dogs,” De
Cooco, a former garage mechanic,
saidi
, Sgt. Cecil Hutt of Broken Bow,
Neb., a rancher in civilian life,
said he lost nearly 40 pounds in
eight months of internment
Describing treatment of Jewish
prisoners at Stalag III, Sgt. Mer
tr t Oppenlwimer of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., said a buddy was severely
beaten when he objected to foul
oath* directed at him by Nazi
guards.
“I wasn't beaten myself,” Oppen
heimer said, “but it was all I could
do to control myself when the
guards oajfed Jewish boys filthy
names." OHfcer prisoners corrobo
rated Oppimfener’s remarks.
DRIVING LICENSES
EXPIRE APRIL 30
i ‘ -
1 Present drivtjg licences expire
April 30, Mrs. Alice E. Bradley, su
pervisor of the local motor vehicle
office reminded motorists today.
The deadline for renewal by mall Is
Sunday. Application blanks for
the 1943 license are attached to the
1944 license, Mrs. Bradley explain
ed, adding that In addition to
printing the full name on applica
tions, applicant# must also sign the
(=r_..Trw^ - -
tor selling It to the men who have
already served and (ought long hard
years overseas Is going to be the
toughest Job of public relations that
the Army will (ace.
It is not only in the War De
partment and in congress where
this problem must be faced but in
the theaters themselves great lead
ership will have to be shown.
Army commanders will have to
exercise considerable tact, patience
and imagination in handling the
masses of soldiers who will have
ceased to be potential combat ma
terial and who have already, un
avoidably, begun to think of them
selves again as civilians—civilians
anxious to get out of uniform and
eager to rejoin their wives and
children or acquire them—and des
perately impatient to enter the race
which has begun on the home front
for post war jobs.
Moreover as the average GI tends
to think of himself as a civilian he’ll
begin to judge his officers as civil
ians too—and no American citizen
takes kindly to other men in po
sition and authority who shove him
around unfairly.
For these reasons towards the end
of every war in rear areas increas
ing antagonism develops between
the GI and “The Army”. This nat
ural antagonism of an American
who finds himself still in uniform
while the battle rolls past and dies
down is always vocalized in the
general complaint that officers are
treated better than they should be
solely on the grounds of their com
missioned status.
This situation has been particu
larly true in the past in the Italian
theater which has had a larger rear
area and a smaller and less active
front proportionately than i any
other theater. Here from a GI one
hears the frequent charge that “the
brass hats get the best of every
thing.”
For example, that officers’ requisi
tion all the best hotels and living
quarters; have the first and some
times the sole access to rear post
exchange items; get liquor rations
which even combat infantrymen
don’t, and above all move freely
in jeeps and cars,' using gasoline and
transportation for recreational pur
poses which are denied the GI.
As overall charges, the GI’s com
plaints are greatly exaggerated,
though all of them still stick in
many individual cases.
But the point is that while a
crucial battle is in progress every
where such charges never seriously
impair morale or discipline. But if
peace should come to Europe leav
ing in the wake of the Allied oc
cupation armies thousands of Amer
ican service combat troops waiting
long months for trefnsfer home or
deployment to the Pacific these
charges if true even in isolated in
stances can become dynamite that
will not only damage the prestige
of the American Army leadership
as a whole but will create plenty
of local trouble.
Our high ranking military author
ities here are keenly aware of the
situation and today are making
every effort to meet it. In partic
ular they are pushing plans to make
the GI’s life more comfortable and
a fruitful as passible during the
waiting period.
They point out the Red Cross and
rest camp facilities here will have
to be greatly Increased with partic
ular emphasis put on recreational
and vocational education services,
for the GI will revolt at the idea of
long days of drill for a war that
has come to an end.
Plans are being made to open
schools and shops that will help him
fit himself for postwar jobs or a
profession but even with the utmost
skill and tact with the end of the
European phase of the war, men and
officers overseas will have entered
tlie most difficult and trying period
which will call on them for the ut
most self restraint, discipline and
scrupulous observance of the work
ings of democracy.
The consensus over here, both in
the ranks and among officers, Is
that the passage of a national uni
versal military training act by con
gress would do more than anything
that can be done in or out of over
seas theaters to dissipate the deep
discontent and feeling of frustra
tion that is bound to overtake men
who are kept long months overseas
after V-E day
BUILDING
PERMITS
Building Inspector John T.
Hartley has issued permits to the
following:
Herbert Ryder two dormer win
dows 113 Capital avenue, $50.
Waterbury Steel Ball Company,
two vestibules, Aurora street,
$350.
Waterbury Steel Ball Company,
storage building, Aurora street,
$5,000.
Karl Sporbcrt, et al, demolish
one story frame building, 1335
East Main street.
Richard Kenney, alteration to
attic for storage room, 29 Giles
street, $150.
Joaquin Nobrega, enclose rear
porch 37 Dougherty street, $100.
Joseph B. Veillette, alteration to
apartments, 86 Hillside avenue,
$200.
Albert F. Mulvaney, 1 car gar
age, 18 Welles street, $200.
Francis Mikaitis, chicken coop,
MacArthur Drive, $50.
Anhtony A. Rossi, hatchway to
cellar, 95-97 Sunnyside avenue,
$100.
COLORED G.O.P. IN
DRIVE FOR VOTERS
Enrollment of new voters in the
primary lists lor the Fall election
was planned by the Young Colored
Republican Club at a meeting last
night at the Wilson Post rooms on
Bishop street. Ernest Rush pre
sided at the session.
The uhlt also made plans to re
quest Connecticut legislators to
back the Fair Employment Prac
tices bill.
The organlaztion has scheduled a
social popularity contest for May 5.
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on the screen for over two years,
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plan is said to be of long standing, but decision to put it in operation, with a zero hour set, was made
at a meeting of Hitler, Himmler and Wehrmacht generals at Berchtesgaden on March 29.
Plenary Session
Lasts 19 Minutes
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
Washington, April 10 — (U.P.i —
Having been sunburned by the arc
lights and dazzled by the golden
turbans of three delegates (one with
horn-rimmed eyeglasses) I now can
report what a plenary session of a
peace conference is.
The boys held one here, as a kind
of prelude to the San Francisco
meeting, and I hate to disillusion
you, but it didn’t amount to much.
It lasted 19 minutes, long enough
for the international big-wigs to say
howjado. Then the United Nations
committee of jurists adjourned for
lunch at the supreme court.
The plenary session was exactly
that (I looked it up in the diction
ary): All hands were there and the
visiting firemen, too, to hear grace
ful little speeches by Secretary of
State Edward R. Stcttinius, Jr.; Sir
Michael Myers of New Zealand, and
Dr. Wang Chung-Hui of China.
Later on they got together in the
well-known smoke-filled room to
start the real work.
As I understand it (from listening
to some language de luxe) they are
trying to cook up plans for a new
world court and thereby save the
San Francisco conferences consid
NAM Splits
With C Of C
BY LEE NICHOLS
Washington, April 10.—(UP) —
American industry appeared today
to be a House divided on the sub
ject of postwar relations with La
bor.
The split, between the powerful
National Association of Manufac
turers and the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, appeared
to be along two lines:
1. The so-called “charter" for
Labor-Management peace, put out
jointly by Chamber President Eric
A. Johnston and Preisdents William
Green of the APL and Philip Mui
ray of the CIO. The NAM has re
fused to sign, calling the charter
‘‘ambiguous”.
2. The question of legislation to
outlaw certain types of strikes.
B. E. Hutchinson, vice president
of Chrysler Corp., and adireotur
of the NAM, renewed the attack on
the charter yesterday and proposed
instead a legislative program to
outlaw certain types of strikes.
He said the NAM was working
in a joint committee with the
Chamber on this program and that
neither the NAM nor the Cham
ber’s board of directors had been
consulted on the charter before
Johnston, Green and Murray made
it public.
Almost immediately a Chamber
of Commerce spokesman Issued a
reply stating that Hutchinson “has
his facts wrong.” He said thei e
was no joint cominitee, and that
the proposals* had merely been pre
sented to the chamber by the NAM.
Hutchinson, addressing a press
luncheon held by the automotive
council, charged that the charter
was “so loosely drawn it will prob
ably sow the seeds of greater fer
ment.”
The charter, dated March 28,
called for a guarantee both of la
bor’s right of collective bargaining
and of management’s right to di
rect the operations of industry.
Hutchinson said the NAM and
the council were apprehensive be
cause It failed to emphasize the
need for increased productivity of
the individual worker, and also ap
peared to bind management not to
seek changes in present labor laws.
His anti-strike suggestions in
cluded proposals for legislation to
(1) prevent strikes designed to
coerce government agencies to act
on dispute or wage cases'; (2) pro
hibit unions from using their eco
nomic power to block improve
ments in Industry such as increased
mechanization; and (3) guarantee
individuals the right to work free
from molestation, Injury or threats.
Shortly after publication of
Hutchinson’s remarks, Armand
May, president of Associated In
dustries of Atlanta, Ga., resigned
from the NAM.
In a letter to NAN- President Ira
Mosher, May said that body’s re
fusal to endorse the labor-manage
ment charter “is further proof that
present leadership of the NAM
does not represent the rank and
file of American manufacturers
m4 members ot the NAM.”
erable bother. So much for the in
ternational issue; now for that
plenary conference:
It opened at 11:04 a. m. in the
inter - departmental auditorium,
which is a kind of federal improve
ment on the Roxy theater in New
York. The baby blue ceiling is four
stories high, the drapes are gold,
the seats are soft and the potted
palms around the stage are beauti
ful.
Secretary Stettinius' teeth glisten
ed in the blue-white glare of the
flood lights, which simultaneously
heated the top of my head. A babel
of many tongues subsided as he wel
comed the leading judges from the
United Nations and recommended
peaceful methods for settling inter
national squabbles.
In three minutes flat he had com
pleted his speech and introduced
Dr. Wang, a former member of the
original world court. Tile doctor
was a wisp little citizen with horn
rimmed eyeglasses, a Charlie Chan
mustache and a voice barely audi
ble over the whir of a dozen movie
cameras.
With a spirit of cooperation and
a singleness of purpose we shall not
fail,” he said.
Then came Sir Michael, the chief
justice of New England, in striped
pants, a black coat, and a bat
wing collar. His accent was clipped,
like this: "Mr. Seck-try, failure
would be a world trag-dy.”
By now it was 11:23 a. m. End
plenary session. Stettinius said he’d
appreciate it if the delegates would
stay seated for one minute while
the movie makers made a pano
rama. Tlie lads with the cameras
went crazy, the international judges
looked startled (as you doubtless
will notice in the newsreels later
this week) and all but three of the
members filed outside
These were from Saudi Arabia;
they wore robes of black and white
wool and white turbans with gold
filigree. They would have gone,
too, but the cameraman wouldn’t
let ’em. They had their pictures
taken from every conceivable angle;
then they hurried out with skirts
flying and hopped into their limous
ine.
Most of the other peace-makers
boarded four busses of the Capitol
Transit Co., for their journey to
the high court lunch. They looked
like four loads of tourists.
POST OFFICE DOORS
TO BE REALIGNED
Several recommendations were
made yesterday for the realignment
of the heavy bronze doors at the
Watcrbury Post Office by a Federal
Works Agency engineer.
Many complaints have been voiced
by local residents because of the
difficulty in opening the doors, and
the inspection was made at the
request of Postmaster Charles A.
Babin.
The Federal Works Agency engi
neer suggested that the size of the
steel pins holding the doors in place
be increased, and that extra hinges
be installed on each door.
Tlie projects awaits approvals by
the Post Office department before
funds will be made available.
Sweden To Ban
War Criminals
London, April 10—(UP)—Sweden
shut her doors to fleeing Germans
today In a move obviously designed
to prevent Nazi war criminals from
slipping into the country in th«
guise of refugees.
German refugees who have ar
rived in the past few days will be
deported unless they are found to
genuine deserters from the German
armed forces or in poor health, the
Swedish government’s decree said.
The action left Switzerland the
only neutral haven adjoining Ger-,
man yor German-occupied countries
for German refugees. A*Bern broad
cast last night said Switzerland
would continue to welcome 'the un
fortunate and Innocent victims of
this war,” but added bluntly:
"She is firmly determined not to
accept on her territory any foreign
ers who have trespassed the ele
I mentary laws of human rights.”
ARGUMENTSSTART
IN CIVIL ACTIONS
Jury to Debate Evidence
in Claims Totaling $47,
500 Damages
Closing arguments to the Jury
in the two companion suits brought
against Rocco Lcograjide and Eileen
McDonald, both of Watcrbury, will
be concluded in superior court this
afternoon, and Judge John A. Cor
nell will give his charge to the jury
tomorrow morning.
Plaintiffs are Nicholas Catapano
and Carmella Catapano. each of
whom seeks $15,000, Theresa Leo
grande, who asks for $10,000, and
Marguerite Atkinson, who seeks
$7,500. The litigation is based on
injuries sustained in a collision last
Dec. 3 on Plank road.
Miss Atkinson was a passenger
in the McDonald car, while the
other plaintiffs were occupants of
a car operated by Leogrande.
The closing arguments opened
late this morning.
'Brass Hits'
Hit By Gl's
By JACK ROWLES
New York, April 10— CUP)— Prom
jungle huts along the Ledo road,
plain Gl’s of the China-Burma-In
dia theater struck a blow today for
the right to view Toni 7’s legs on
walls where pinups bloom.
Some were angry, some were calm,
but 150 of them so far have writ
ten Miss 7, budding screen star, to
tell her the "brass hats” who or
dered her photographs ripped from
barracks walls in England were off
the beam. One said they "must be
crazy.”
Letters poured into the New York
office of United Press at the rate of
50 a day, addressed to a staff writer
recently returned from the CBI
theater. The CBI newspaper, round
up, printed the story of Miss 7’s fate
in England along with the sugges
tion that the United Press men
would see that she got their re
quests.
Honey-haired Miss 7 potshot the
brass hats herself by saying "They
can’t do that to the boys. If they
(the boys) want more leg pictures
I’ll have a new photo made tomor
row'. I’d rather be court-martialed
than stop sending the boys any
thing they want.”
One GI took her literally. He
asked for a special pose "different
from all the rest.” But the others
stuck to requests for Toni in a
bathing suit, legs and all.
Excerpts from their sentiments:
• If and when I do get your pho
tograph I know this one will stay
on the wall.”
“You sure arc the girl I would
like to be stranded with, so please
forward some pictures. They’re
about all I really live for ”
“I would like to receive a photo
of you that would make me jump
straight up in the air if it ain’t
too much trouble.”
"We don’t care what the brass
hats say. We’re doing the job.”
“It has been published in the CBI
roundup that the brass hats in Eng
land have ordered pinups of your
legs ripped off the walls. Well, in
north Burma you’re the tops. So
I’ll risk court-martial for one! Just
put more legs into it and not so
much clothes.” (He enclosed an
airmail stamp).
“They (the brass hats) must be
crazy! A picture of Miss 7 would
certainly be a bright spot in this
hole.”
"Somewhere in India. Please
make it a full picture, including the
legs.”
“One thing I can say for our of
ficers. They go for pinups also.”
Toni 7, born June Millards, 21,
five feet four and a half, 108 pounds
legs and all, said she would oblige
every GI who wants her in black
and white, glossy, eight by ten and
autographed across the knees.
TWO FALSE ALARMS
TURNED IN YESTERDAY
Firemen last night extinguished
a minor fire at the home of Henry
Rinaldi, 48 Manhnn street, caused
by an overflow in a range burner.
Firemen also responded to eight
brush fires and 2 false alarms turned
in from Boxes 816 and 741.
BRAKE CHECKUP
STARTS SUNDAY
Supt. of Police Daniel J.
Carson Announces Plans
for Intensive Drive
Superintendent of Police Daniel
J. Carson announced today that
the local department will start an
Intensive mechanical Inspection
Sunday, April 15th, of all motor
vehicles involved in traffic accidents,
detected in traffic violations or
when operators are noticed reaching
for the emergency brake to ensure
stopping the vehicle.
‘‘This activity,” states Superin
tendent Carson, ‘‘is a nation-wide
project, devised by the Safety Di
vision of the International Associa
tion of Chiefs of Police. Our own
Connecticut Chiefs of Police Asso
ciation has (i.dorsed it and accepted
sponsorship. Connecticut will join
with the other 47 states of the Union
in this national campaign to reduce
a definite upward trend in traffic
accidents.”
The chief says that the Highway
Safety Commission is authority for
the statement that mechanical de
fects have increased substantially
as a causation of accidennts and
that inefficient brakes looms as the
most serious fault. Therefore, the
police of the nation have united in
the first campaign of its kind, ne
cessitated by the imperative need
of conserving transportation, to in
sist on improved mechanical con
dition of motor vehicles operated
on public traffieways.
Chief Carson states that warn
ing slips will be given operators of
cars failing to pass tests and a copy
filed with the Department of Motor
Vehicles which will insist that vehi
cles be immediately and property
serviced or car registration will be
suspended. The campaign will start
Sunday, April 15th and run six
weks up to June 1st.
Compensation
Agreements
Compensation Commissioner
John J. O’Connell today approved
the following agreements for
weekly payments during disabil
ity or for specific payment in ease
of permanent injury:
Frederick Beardsley of Nauga
tuck against U. S. Rubber Co., of
Naugatuck, $30 beginning March
5, injury to groin.
Stanley Lubesky of 206 Jersey
street against Lombard Bros., Inc.
of Waterbury, $27.27 beginning
March 1, injury to right shoulder.
William Ziems of 562 Hunting
ton avenue against Rowbottom
Machine Co., of Waterbury, $22.09
for 37 and »,i weeks, 50 per cent
loss of left thumb.
John Zembrowski of Union city
against Falcon Baking Co. Inc., of
Union City, $22.5 beginning Feb.
18, fracture of right arm.
Paul Ciotti of 63 Union street
against Waterbury Tool, division
of Vickers, Inc., $30 for two and
% weeks, 10 per cent loss of right
ring finger.
Carl Rogers of 260 Walnut street
against Somers Brass Co., Inc., of
94 Baldwin avenue, $17 beginning
March 29, abdominal injuries.
YOUNG VANDALS
FACING ARREST
Police are on the lookout for
young vandals who have caused
considerable damage recently to
government property on two local
housing projects, Warner Gardens,
and Porter Homes.
Although the latter propect has
not yet been open for rental, there
have been windows and stonn-sash
es and glass mail boxes smashed so
that approximately $75 will have
to be spent for repairs, Timothy S.
Sullivan, resident housing manager,
reported.
Cooperation of neighbors is asked
in reporting to the housing office
names of all persons whom they
may see, or know that are causing
this damage.
War Prisoner
Enjoys Tryst
Ded Norte, Colo., April 10—(UP) —
A nightly tryst between a German
prisoner of war and a 45-year-old
Del Norte woman was brought to
to an abrupt end today.
Army and Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents stepped in last
night to curtail the activities of a
prisoner at the nearby Monte Vista
Camp who, they said, had been slip
pyg away at night for a rendevvous
with the woman.
Every night, they reported, the
German managed' to escape. He
spent tlie nights at the woman’s
home and was back in camp before
daylight.
The meetings were interrupted
when officers found the prisoner at
the womans home. Deputy Sheriff
Harry Wells said that the army
and the FBI would continue inves
tigations in the case.
The woman, whose name was
withheld, was taken to the Bio
Grande county jail. Monte Vista
authorities, meanwhile, said they
would see that the prisoner stayed
honw nights.
TRAINING PROJECT
HIGHLY COMMENDED
A recent edition of the Sunday
Call of Newark, N. J., has publiciz
ed a nurse training project of Miss
A. Louise Smyth, Waterbury, dean
of girls at Newark High school, and
sister 0f Asst. State's Atty. Walter
W. Smyith of 106 Country Club
road. Miss Smyth organized the
activities of junior nurses at the
Kearny high school in Newark,
which have been filmed by the
Army Signal Corps for national
publicity for the Junior American
Nurse Corps.
Mexico expects a record number
of tourists visitors this year.
ft.
Shirley Temple Is Engaged
(NEA Telephoto)
Shirley Temple and her fiance, Sgt. John George Agar, 24, are shown
after announcing their engagement. The 16-year-old film star does not
intend to marry for two or three years. Agar is an Army Air Forces
physical instructor stationed at March Field, Calif.
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT
New Haven, April 10—(UP)—A
four-year grievance of 430 main
tenance workers at Yale university
was ended today with the signing
of a two-year contract calling for
pay increases, holidays and annual
three-weeks' vacation with pay.
The contract was signed with the
CIO local 142 of the United Con
struction Workers of the United
Mine Workers of America, and pro
vided for retroactive pay to Febru
ary 1, 1944. In addition it estab
lished a union-management com
mittee to arbitrate future differ
ences.
The controversy started in 1941
when the maintenance workers
staged a one-day walk-out. Since
then they have served two strike
notices on the corporation, charg ■
ing unnecessary delay in settlement
negotiations.
Announcement of the settlement
was made by union local president
Roy Case. The amount of pay in
crease was not disclosed.
Hartford, April 10—(UP)—The
compromise State Labor Relations
act, approved by the Republican
controlled house, went before the
Democratic-dominated senate today
with the possibility it would be
amended and again become a con
troversial issue.
Some house factions contended
that amending action might mean
the death of the bill this session.
The bill was brought out of com
mittee a week ago with the under
standing it would go through both
house and senate unchanged, inas
much as it represented a comprom
ise of Republican and Democratic
measure on which neither side
would make concessions.
The house approved the com
promise, which included a typo
graphical error and was prepared
to accept a senate amendment cov
ering this mistake. Beyond that,
Republican house leaders declare
they will adhere to their original
action.
Democratic objections reportedly
concern failure of the bill to in
clude state, county and municipal
employes, and a provision for a
four-year appointment of an inves
tigating agent.
Hartford, Conn., April 10.—(UP)
—The Last Man Brotherhood, or
ganized in 1902 witli more than 30
members, held its 44th annual din
ner last night with only six of its
surviving 15 members attending.
They elected Thomas A. Curry,
New York, as president, and Charles
J. Johnson, Providence, R. I., as
vice president.
There were places at the table
for the full membership, with a
lighted candle in front of each
plate. As the roll was called, the
candles in front of the plates of
deceased members were extin
guished, andn their memory was
toasted with wine.
A bottle of wine, set aside in
1902, is being saved for the last
member, and the final toast.
Hartford, Conn., April 10.—(UP)
—Opening Connecticut's observance
of Pan-American Week last night,
Gov. Baldwin declared that trade
relations with South and Latin
America was the solution of the
state's post-war employment and
production problems.
"After the war,” he said, ‘‘we
will have thousands of trained and
skilled workers and millions of
square feet of industrial spare that
may be idle unless we can get new
markets for our products. It seems
to me that thhe answer is not to
cut our production capacity. It
seems to me the problem is to find
new markets. South and Latin
American countries are one market
that will be available and open to
us . . . It must be two-way proposi
tion. We cannot expect to find
markets for our finished products
unless we buy our raw materials
from these same markets.”
Hartford, Conn., April 10.—(UP)
—A proclamation of Gov. Baldwin
today designated the week of Apnl
15 as "Be Kind to Animals Week',
and April 15th as “Humane Sun
day”.
Noting that dogs and other ani
mals were being utilized in the war
effort, the governor said “at this
time it is proper and fitting that
we recognize the services and the
friendship of our animal friends.”
Middletown. Conn., April 10. (UP)
Police, firemen and civilian defense
workers searched throughout the
night without finding a trace of
four-year-old David Mederlous who
disappeared from near his home
yesterday afternoon.
The boy, son of a serviceman in
the South Pacific, last was seen
about 4 p. m„ playing with an
other boy in the neighborhood. An
alarm was broadcast khen he failco'
to return home for supper.
Police said that throughout the
night automobiles, back yard;*
stairways and cellars within a wide
range of his home were searched,
and the banks of Connecticut rive*
also were combed, but without suc
cess.
Because of the youngster’s habit
of climbing into parked cars it was
believed he may have fallen asleep
on the rear seat of some car and
was driven home unknowningly by
the motorist.
More Trucks
Europe Bound
Washington, April 10. — (UP) —
Two hundred fifty Allied and Red
Cross trucks are undertaking to
keep Allied prisoners of war in Ger
many supplied with regular Red
Cross food parcels.
Another 100 trucks are being sent
to Europe, according to American
Red Cross sources, in an effort to
alleviate further the food position of
the Allied prisoners.
Some trucks are driven by Inter
national Red Cross personnel and
others by Allied prisoners under
German guard. Reports indicate
generally that these trucks are per
mitted to operate throughout Ger
many insofar as military exigencies
permit.
The trucks now operating include
100 provided by Shaef, SO each by!
U. S., Canadian and British Red
Cross organizations, and 10 furn
ished by the Y.M.C.A. They are
attemptin especially to serve
Allied troops who . are being
marched away from areas being
liberated by the Allies.
Exact figures are not available
but it is estimated that well over
5.000 American prisoners of war
have been Liberated in Germany
to date on both fronts. About
50.000 American prisoners all told
are in German hands.
Handling liberated prisoners has
proved a growing problem of sup
ply and organization. Three re
ception camps have been estab
lished in western Europe, includ
ing one giant camp capable of
housing 75,000, and two others with
a capacity of several thousand
each.
As soon as transport is available,
the liberated Americans will b«
sent home directly without going
to Britain first.
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