The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-26

tA1C NACl 1lAesAA GuAtWdAAV oSA 0Nn on a Sunday morning in Alp except that an earthquake ls bombing of Belgrade went on hour after hour.
 Houses fell. People died and were inutilated. They fought with their fists for precious automobile tires and gasoline that was more val- uabIe than liquid gold. They saw their business quarters blown to pieces and watched fortunes varl- dsh in pillows of gray dust from ruined Buildings.
 There had been an alert at 3 0. m., but 1t turned out to be prac- ticp alarm no one really thought the Germans would bomb Belgrade for it had been declared an open city. Mott Of them went back to sleep after the practice alarm, but I stay ed up to try to put through an ur- gent telephone call to Zurich. I was sitting on a chair with my typewrit- CT on 6 small table when suddenly n basket of artificial glass grapes flew off the top of piano and crashed on the floor in front of me. Then Q pile of Terra Gotta ash trays bounced to the floor and broke.
 First He Knew Of It
 That was the first thing I knew about the raid.
 got out of the chair and my typewriter crashed off the small table. Then heard the bombs whis- tie and I knew 1t was the real thing this time. The first thing I thought Of was that each plane usually drops four bombs. so held my breath waiting for four whistles.
 was in my pajamas. The door burst open and three wildly fright ened women ran into the room. They were the landlady, her sister and the landlady's daughter. told them they had better go downstairs, for we were on the fourth floor of a 6ive-story apartment house-not a very safe place. They got halfway down q circular staircase that wound around the elevator shaft, but there they got frightened and stood.
 grabbed for my clothes and the building began to rock. There was wardrobe door in my room and 1t vibrated SO fast that 1t sounded like someone was playing snare drum. decided not to walt to finish dressing. 50 I just grabbed my money, shirt. shoes, socks, vest, a topcoat and a bottle of rum and started out of the room. had on pair of golf knickers. Outside the room I saw that the steel frame- work of the elevator shaft was Bhuddering from top to bottom every time 6 bomb burst.
 Downstairs the glass door in the westibule had been broken and glass ley all over the floor 50 thick that you couldn't close the door. I went to get the door closed because that would give some protection to the men and women huddled in the vestibule. asked them to help me push the glass out into the street, but at first they refused. Then I began to shove the glass out with my feet and one man cai:is over and helped me.
 First Bomber Wave Over
 By this time the first wave of bombers had come over. We didn't know 1t then but four more were on their way. People ran out into the street, many of them carrying chil- dren. Nobody seemed to know where he was going, and all of them were covered with thick gray dust. That dust was ono of the strangest things I ever saw. It came from ruined buildings and the air was full of it, as though clouds had de- scended and were moving along the ground. sat down on the bot tom step of the apartment building and started to put on my socks and shoes.
 Then the second wave came over.
 With some sort of animal instinct .-as though were trying to avoid danger by hiding--t pulled my top- coat over my head. The lobby of the apartment house was made out of black and white tiles about three inches square. remember