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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
BOSTON WOMANTS
MURDER VICTIM
Mrs. Helen D. Cullen Is
Found Dead on Quarry
Ledge in Quincy

quincy, Mass, April 6.-(UP)--A
25-year- old Quincy shipyard worker
was booked as a suspicious person
early today in connection with the
Staying of Mrs. Helen D. Cullen, As,
of Boston, whose nude and battered
body was found on a quarry ledge
here Saturday after she had been
strangled.
Seized at his home near midnight,
the suspect was taken to police
headquarters, questioned and booked.
He. then was permitted to return
home, but police said he would be
re-questioned later in the day. A
married man, the suspect is en-
ployed as a welder at the Bethlehem
Steel Co.'S Fore River shipyard. His
name was withheld.
Police said the suspect resembled
the tall, dark man with whom Mrs.
Cullen was seen arguing on street
near her home in Boston's West
End Friday at 8 p. m, about two
hours before her death.
Mrs. Cullen, whose body was
crouched grotesquely on quarry
ledge with the head wedged tightly
between rocks, may have been slain
in Boston, investigators believed.
Supporting this theory was the fact
that the body and the victims scat
tered clothing were dry when found,
although 1t had rained as late as Z
a. m. Saturday.
Estranged wife Of former insur-
ance broker, Mrs. Cullen had two
children, Charles Jr., Is, who lived
with her, and Rita, IA, who lived
with a Quincy family.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
AZ Holm M. MECKLIN
United Press STAFF CorrespOndent)

hunted Press Stan correspondent
Washington, April 6 - CUP -
arades, speeches, open houses at
army camps and display of air pow
b marked today's celebration of
Army Day-the 25th anniversary OF
the United States entrance into
World War I.
High army leaders set the key
mote by declaring that America
thousands of fighting men eagerly
await the day when they may take
the offensive-an offensive that will
not end until freedom and peace
Hre made safe throughout the
world"
Twenty-Five years ago Congress
declared war against Germany. Four
months ago tomorrow Japan at
. tackled Pearl Harbor and put this
/ nation into the second World War.
Already American men are fight
J ing in the jungles of Bataan, in
, furious air battles over New Guinea
and on the India Burmese-C Chinese
front elsewhere at dozen or more
key posts, her soldiers are on guard.
Already past the 100000 mark,
the army is growing fast toward its
1912 goal of 100000. And behind
these men are roaring furnaces and
whirring machines and millions Of
workers building the weapons of
war.
100000 25 Years Ago
Twenty-Five years ago the United
States army totaled 100000.
President Roosevelt, in his Army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
FOUR INJURED in
TWO-ALARM FIRE
Fifty Others Forced to Flee
From Apartment Blaze
in Springfield

Springfield, Mass, April 6-(UP)
-Four persons were injured and
about SO others were forced to flee
In scanty attire last midnight when
a two-alarm fire swept the Hya-
cinth apartments, a five-story brick
structure in the north end.
The injured were Mrs. Mary
Richards, as, her son, Walter, 10
and Fireman John T. Murphy, all
suffering from smoke inhalation
and Fireman Michael Grove, who
sustained a possible leg fracture
when he fell while battling the
blaze.
Mrs. Richards and her son were
rescued over ladders from their
fourth-hoor apartment. Miss Louise
Pair also was taken over ladders
from her third-floor apartment.
The fire started in the basement
and was confined mostly to the first
floor. Damage was about $4,000
including a cellar gas heater that
exploded. The building is owned by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Witkowsky.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06

in the Rhineland.
The Gnome-Rhone motor works,
10 miles outside Paris, were making
airplane motor parts and other ma
terials for the Germans.
Vichy reported that an air raid
alert was sounded in Paris at 4 a.
m. and that the all clear did not
come until $50.
It said that one British bomber
was reported to have fallen In
flames in the Bots de Boulogne, the
woods in the western suburbs OF
Paris.
Berlin itself first reported the
British raids.
It said British bombers attacked
residential quarters" in western
Germany and did material dam
age" Some" losses among civilians
were admitted. 1t was said that
three British planes were shot down.
Berlin said British planes at
tackled paris" but were driven of
from all industrial installations OF
military Importance" 1t was added
that only small" damage had been
done in the raid.
A few German planes appeared
over the British east coast early in
the night, and one was shot down,
Similarly, single German planes
bombed south England city by
daylight yesterday and caused some
damage.
Raid On Narvik Zone
London, April 6-(UP)-British
military quarters refused all COM
ment today on persistent reports
that British Commando. troops, in
a combined navy, army and air
force operation, had made a raid In
force on the Narvik zone Of the
Norwegian coast Saturday.
Stockholm was authority for the
reports, which were unconfirmed,
According to these reports as re-
ceived here, British Commands
supported by naval and air forces
attacked Narvik, a big German
base, for the second time and eff
fected a landing south of the port.
The rlmors were buttressed by
the fact that British planes had
been seen inland of Narvik by OBJ
servers on the Swedish frontier,
who had heard explosions both in
the direction of Narvik ard further
south.
An exchange telegraph Stock
holm dispatch said the Germans
had been collecting large stores at
Narvik, the best harbor in northern
Norway and a possible base for
German fleet units which might
make an attack in force on the
United States British supply line to
Russian Arctic ports.
Thnaa stnras. Evrhanaa said. u'arS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
Waterbury Is Told
News Is Years Ago
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Day proclamation, set the theme Of
today's celebration:
Il most strongly urge that the
people of the United States can best
observe Army Day by honoring our
citizen soldiers and giving special
thought to the great responsibility
for contributing unstintedly Of their
effort and of their means In order
that our armed forces may be ade-
quately equipped for victory"
Tonight in Washington, high gov
eminent officials and officers Of the
class of 1908 at West Point, gather
to unveil a bust of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur.
Created by Nison Tregor Of New
York, a native of Russia, the bust
will be presented to West Point by
Howard Hoeffer, a New York busi-
nessman. 1t will be unveiled by Mrs.
Arthur Macarthur, the generals
siSter-in law, with Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt and Vice President and
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace heading the
patrons.
The ceremony will be followed by
a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel
under the auspices of the Military
Order of the World War Lieut.. Gen.
Brehon B. Somervell, commander
of the army services of supply, will
deliver the principal address.
Among the dignitaries on the
speakers dais will be Sergt. Carl
E. Pitt, Jr., of the 228th ield Ar
tillery, "a, native of Baltimore, who
was selected as "a representative
American soldier" He was a tele-
phone company branch Office mana
ger in civilian life and now is sta
toned at ort George G. Meade, Md.
Parades, Celebrations
The war department ordered
parades, exhibitions and demonstra=
tons of modern weapons wherever
Arnold, air force commander, Or
possible" and Lieut.. Gen. Henry H.
dered air shows and exhibitions at
several cities.
"Cavalrymen will gallop through
intricate drills" the army announce
ment said. Smoke screens will be
laid; coast artillerymen will fire at
towed targets both night and day.
Engineers will exhibit bridges,
and men of the armored force and
infantry will simulate attacks.
There will be carrier pigeon exhibit
tons by signal corps units. Medical
corps men will demonstrate care for
the wounded under simulated bat
tie conditions, The quartermaster
corps will display laundries and
field bakeries in action"
But the army emphasized that the
days program will be designed not
to interfere with actual war opera
tons nor in any way divulge mill
tary secrets"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06

they fought their way across an i'm
portant but unnamed river and
that 161 inhabited localities had
been recaptured. These localities
villages, towns and sometimes
merely farm buildings-are the for
titled points which the Germans set
up around their main winter bases.
On the Ukraine front, the Red
Star reported the main action in
the Barvenkova sector, about 80
miles southeast of the great indus
trial city of Kharkov. The newspa-
per said that the German reserves
moved into that area in prepara-
ton for the spring drive toward the
Caucasus oil fields had been briken
up with heavy losses and that Hit
Ter had been forced to move addi-
tional shock troops up to the front
intsead of holding them back for
key roles in the expected offensive.
The Allied victory over eCylon
was highly encouraging in the Far
East and may strongly influence
the political struggle over Indian
independence, but on the Burma
and Philippines land fronts the
japanese forces were making prog
reSS.
The American and Filipino forces
on Bataan peninsula gave some
ground in the face of a strong en-
envy attack along the shores Of
Manila Bay but a report from
Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan M. wainwright
said that the Japanese paid for the
advance with severe casualties.
Japs Ahead In Burma
In central Burma, the Japanese
pushed northward from the town
of Prone about IS miles to Nyaung-
binzeik and the British under Gen.
Harold Alexander apparently were
attempting to set up a new defense
line about so miles north of Prone
and a similar distance south Of the
main oil fields. These fields will be
defended to the last, a British
spokesman said, and 1t was indi-
Gated that reinforcements - pre-
sumably American-were expected
soon in Burma.
There, was less severe fighting
north of Toungoo, on the Allied
eastern flank in Burma. where the
Chinese under Lieut.. Gen. Joseph
w. Stillwell were holding the Nav.
shi sector after l7-mile enemy
advance from Toungoo to Yedashe.
Dispatches said that some 3,700
Japanese had been killed around
Toungoo but that from 1000 to g.
90 had died in Japanese air at
lacks on the ancient city of Man.
dalay, some 200 miles to the north.
was reported to have suf-
fered another 5000 wounded and
two-thirds of the city was said to
have been destroyed. Big fires are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
Two Hundred Planes
Downed In Weekend
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still burning there, according to dis.
patches to London.
On the Bay of Bengal front, the
Axis propaganda broadcasts APP
parently were trying to confuse the
situation by new reports that the
Japanese had landed in the region
of Akyab, on the west ocast of Bur-
ma and only rs miles from India
These reports we're put out over the
weekend and again today by Axis
controlled radios, such as Saigon
There was no responsible report
that such landing had been made,
although Allied sources acknow-
lodged that it is to be expected.
Allied Air Strength Mounts
Allied air strength over the Bay
of Bengal and the Indian area gen.
orally was mounting, however, with
American flying fortreSses under d.
rection of Major General Lewis H
Brereton playing leading role. The
big U. s. bombers attacked Ran
COON over the weekend and appar-
entity did widespread damage to thai
important base, where enemy war
ships had been reported concentrat.
ing for operations against India.
Southwark, at the tip Of India
the Japanese suffered. one of the
most severe aerial defeats Of the
war when they attempted to attack
the strategically important port Of
Colombo on Ceylon Island. British
fighter planes roared into the all
against about rs japanese fighters
that came from aircraft carriers in
the Bay of Bengal. When the bat
tie was over at least 81 enemy
craft were downed and five more
probably were destroyed, while 25
others were badly damaged and
many probably did not reach base.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
|2S NEWSP APERS|
i'm U. P. SERVICE
South African Papers Sign
With United Press HaiI-
ed BY Jan SHUTS

Capetown, South Africa, April
--(UP) ~ Extension Of United Press
Service to 30 newspapers throughout
the Union Of South Africa was
hailed by Premier Jan Christian
SHUTS today as another link in the
chain which leads to victory" for the
United Nations.
In message to Hugh Baillie,
president Of the United Press, SHUTS
said:
II cordially welcome the extension
of the United Press News Service to
all daily newspapers Of South Africa.
The exchange Of more news and in
formation between the United States
of America and South Africa can
only lead to wider and better under
standing and closer cooperation
between our two peoples. 1t is par
ticularly desirable at the present
time that America and South Africa
each should know how united we are
in our efforts to safeguard the fu-
ture Of liberty and democratic insti-
tutions. This new service will forge
another link in the chain which
leads to victory. All good wishes for
its success"
Message From Baillie
The premiers message was in re-
ply to one sent to him from New
York by the head of the United
Press. Baillie's message read:
ION the occasion of the Inaugural
ton of United Press News Service
to the 20 newspapers of the South
African Press Association may take
the opportunity of extending cordial
greetings to you. This increased flow
of news between us will strengthen
the ties of good will and mutual I'M
derstanding which already exist be-
tween our countries and will help
us know each other better at time
when all lovers of liberty and demo-
cratic institutions must stick to-
gether."
The South African Press Associa-
ton embraces all the daily and Sun
day newspapers in this country. IN
der the terms of the contract, which
was negotiated here by Virgil Pink
ley of the New York Executive Staff
of the United Press, the World Wide
news reports of American agency
flow direct from New York and Lon
don into all the large centers of
population in South Africa includ-
ing Capetown, Johannesburg, Dur
ban, Pretoria and Kimberley.
Some Of Newspapers
Among the publications which
have acquired this service are the
Times and Argus of Capetown; the
Star and the Rand Daily Mail of
Johannesburg; the Natal Mercury
and the Daily News of Durham; the
Diamond Fields Advertiser of KIM
berley; and the. News of Pretoria,
The main part of the service is re-
ceived by the papers in this country
by wireless from New York. Thus,
johannesburg and Capetown become
the southern terminus of vast
United Press News distribution arc
that stretches all the way from Ice
land on the north, through Sweden,
the British Isles, Switzerland,
France, Portugal and Egypt to South
Africa.
In addition to the wireless file
from New York the papers here have
access to the United Press news pool
in London.
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ter of wainwright's front line. This
presumably would be not far from
the Manila Bay shore of the Pen
insula, where the enemy has at
empted-without successful land
troops behind the U. S. lines the last
two nights.
The department reported that last
nights effort to land troops on
this shore twas frustrated by light
artillery fire from our beach de-
lenses"
The communicate said that for the
second consecutive day Corregidor
Island, guardian fortress of Manila
Bay, was free from Japanese air
raids. However, two japanese dive
bombers attacked Forts Frank and
Drum, Manila Bay forts closest to
the Japanese-held Cavite shore, but
caused no damage or casualties.
From another sector, India. the
communique said that a delayed
message confirmed previous reports
of successful raid. by American
army flying fortresses bombers on
japanese shipping April 2 in the
Japanese-occupied Andaman Is
lands in the Bay of Bengal. Direct
hits were scored on a cruiser and
a transport.
Both ships were left in flames
and heavy explosions were observ-
ed" the communique said.
The attack was led by Major
General Lewis H. Brereton, COM
mander of American Air Forces in
India. During the raid, three U. s.
planes were damaged slightly BY
Japanese fighters and anti-air-craft
FIRE, but ali we're able to return to
iirasr aase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06
Chinese Troops Should Like
Their American Commander
He "Speaks Their Language
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service staff COrrespOndeI

NEA service StaM correspondent
II mouths cape and eyebrows
raise In surprise on the placid faces
Of Chinese soldiers battling the
Japs In northern Burma when they
hear an American officer intoning
commands in Chinese, 1t Is only be-
cause they don't know Lieutenant
General Joseph w. Stilwell, U. S. A.
For General Stilwell, Chief OF
Staff for his old friend, Generals
simo Chang Kai-Shek, Is quite ct
home in China and with the Chin
csc language. In fact, so fiuently
does he speak Chinese, that some
who know him hint that he can
cuss as well as discuss in 1t. First
American army general to hold such
q post, he commands China's Fifth
and Sixth Armies, as well as all
American forces In India, China
and Burma.
General StilwelEs pro- Chinese
and anti-Japanese sentiments are
not Of recent vintage. He has been
that way ever since he served In
the Orient and studied its peoples
and policies. In fact, one Of his
friends told this writer that years
ago, the General foresaw fresh con-
flict between China and Japan and
Stoutly maintained that, given pro-
per arms, the Chinese would be
more than a match for the much
Wanted Nipponese.
INTEREST IN CHINA
LAUNCHED IN 1919
General Stilwell became a serious
student Of Chinese in 1919, when,
after Service in France (where he
won the Distinguished Service
Service Cross, he returned to the
United States as a Captain and
elected to study the language.
His interest in the Orient stem
med from several years OF Philip
pine service before World War /.
He spent a year at the University
Of California, and then, from 1920
to 1928, polished up his Chinese In
Peiping. Assignments in China al
ternated with ones in the u. S.
through the years, during which the
captains bars on his shoulder
straps changed to d Colonel's silver
eagle, which in turn gave way to
the stars of O generals on and on,
General Stilwell totaled up over o
decade Of service In China.
Born in Palataka, Fla, In 1883,
he approaches his Goth year with
just the barest tinge Of gray in
his dark hair. His smooth-shaven
face is thin-lipped, tight-miouthed,
direct-eyed.
To those who have served with
him, the General Is known as "a
soldiers soldier" One division
he commanded nicknamed him
Uncle joe" He was often seen
wearing an army field jacket with
no insignia to indicate his rank.
He loathes carrying a sword.
Most times he carries the shaft Of
camel drivers whip--a habit he
acquired In China. II the camel
whip-shaft is not handy, he Is
just as apt to break of a crooked
stick from nearby tree and go
swinging along with 1t.
SHUNS COMFORT
TO BE WITH MEN
About his sole recreation and
hobby is training soldiers. He's q
great advocate Of the platoon.
holding that II you get enough
disciplined platoonss which know
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NATIONAL LABOR
BOARD HAS LOST
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care. Everyone and everything de.
pend on him. He must command
and the crew must obey.
I'm any event, a sweeping re-
quirement of obedience throughout
the course of a voyage Is certainly
not without basis in reason.
The maintenance of authority
hinges upon a delicate complex OF
human factors, and congress may
very sensibly have concluded that
a master whose orders are subject
to the crews veto in port cannot
enforce them at sea.
Moreover, it Is by no means
clear that ship moored to a dock
Is safe If the crew refuses to tend
1t, as the strikers did at Houston
At the very least, steam must be
maintained to provide light and
fire protection. The damage to the
Norlmandie Is grim enough proof
that the hazard Of fire is ever pres
ent."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-06

lieved to be on chance that any
damaged plane got him.
Must Capture Crews
Layton ordered every effort to
capture the Japanese crews which
managed-as If 1t was known some
did-to parachute from their broken
Capture them and bring them
planes.
to the nearest police station or mill
tary headquarters" he broadcast to
the people.
He offered rewards for all Japan
csc captured or for information
which would lead the military po-
lice, and European and Singha-
lese patrols to their hiding places.
Ceylon had a preliminary warning
Of attack Saturday when air raid
sirens sounded for the third time
since March 80. No planes were
reported.
Then on Easter morning. the great
enemy fleet Of IS planes came roar
ing in from the sea.
Confident Of easy victory because
Of surprise, they swept over the
harbor. Dive bombers screamed
down and other formations swept IN
with machine guns rafting.
It was evident that the Japanese
did not know that for months the
British had been strengthening their
defense In expectation Of just such
an attack.
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jungles and mountins. The Dutch
were reported well supplied with
food and munitions.
American and Australian planes
raided the japanese invasion base Of
Koepang on the Dutch land OF
Timor northwest of Port Darwin for
the second time in "a hours yester-
day to climax the weekend of Allied
aerial successes, Prime Minister John
Curtin announced.
British planes were credited with
destroying or damaging Is or 10 en-
envy planes in dramatic and bril-
liant hit-and-run" attack late Sat-
urday on the Japanese held Lac air
drome on the New Guinea coast.
Other Japanese fighters were dam
aged or destroyed when Raj fight
er patrol planes swept down and ma
chine-gunned the airdrome at Oft
bombed Salamaua, near Lac.
Cost Japs Seven Planes
An enemy attack on Port Darwin
Saturday cost the Japanese seven
planes. five of them bombers, Cur
tin announced.
At Koepang six Japanese planes
were reported destroyed or dam
aged.
The new raid on Koepang, $50
miles West-northwest of Australia,
was a relatively light one.
But the Allied aviators rained
bomb on wharves and on grounded
planes at the big Japanese airdrome
in face OF the most intensive anti
aircraft fire they had yet met, and
at the end as they flew home
great smoke column was rising from
their target area.
The Allied airplanes, believed to
include flying fortressees raided
Koepang Saturday and ais graded
Lac, the great invasion base on the
Huon Gulf Of New Guinea north
east of the continent.
In turn the japanese had raided
Darwin, the big Allied north coast
base, Saturday and Sunday and Port
Moresby, on the New Guinea coast
$50 miles from Australia, Saturday
and Sunday.
1t was a costly weekend for the
enemy.
Prime Minister Curtin said in a
communique that the Japanese had
lost at least II planes for certain and
10 damaged Saturday against an
Allied loss Of three planes.
But later reports showed that one
additional japanese plane had been
doWned over Darwin Saturday and
that one enemy bombing plane had
been shot down for certain, another
damaged and a third and probably
more downed in raid on Port
Moresby Sunday.
One Of the three Allied fighter
pilots shot down parachuted to safe
ty.
The week end bag brought the to-
tai Japanese plane losses for one
week to at least GA downed or dam
aged.
Japs on Solomon Islands
New York, April 6-(UP)-Jap-
anese forces have landed on the Sol
onion Islands off northeast Austral-
la, the all-India radio reported to-
day.
The broadcast. recorded by CHS
in New York. said that reports from
Sydney, Australia, told of further
Japanese landings in the Solomon
Islands area" from destroyers
(There have been other uncon-
firmed reports of Japanese landings
In the Solomons which lie southeast
Of Japanese-seized New Britain ISL
and to the east Of New Guinea)
The Japanese landing forces were
said to be small and the all-India
radio said that the Japanese prob
ably viii use the Solomon Islands
''in their advance against New CAL
endonia and the Hebrides."
Gen. Charles De Gaulle last week
announced that the Free French had
turned over to the United STATES
command Of the defense of New
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