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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Tornado Kills
3,Moims 100

Little Rock, Ark, April 11.-(UP)
AT east three persons were killed
and 100 injured when a tornado
twisted through five Arkansas towns
last night, disrupting communica-
lions and razing buildings.
Telephone lines between Little
Rock and the affected communities
Camden, Pine Bluff, Woodson, Har-
rison and Redheld, were down and
Red Cross disaster crews were sent
into the area from nearby cities to
aid in caring for injured who crowd
ed into local hospitals.
The mother Of an hour-old infant
was killed when the twister struck
their home at Harrison. The child
was uninjured and was taken to a
hospital for care.
Two persons were killed at Cam
den when a string of houses from
one end of the. town to the other
was flattened by the tornado.
At least 80 persons were injured
at Camden, Is at Pine Bluff. IL at
Harrison and is each at Woodson
and Redfeld. All of the towns
are within 1875 miles Of Little Rock
Ten homes were completely de-
stroyed and Is others were damaged
at Pine Bluff, and eight homes were
destroyed and II damaged at Har-
rison. Scores Of homes were de-
molished at Camden.
The tornado did not strike Little
Rock, where severe electrical storm
disrupted communications tempo.
rariY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
High Child
Delinquency

Washington, April 11-(UP)-
Thirty-one per cent more cases OF
juvenile delinquency were handled
in juvenile courts during 1943 than
in 1912, Katherine Lenroot, chief OF
the children's bureau of the labor
department, reported. The figures
were $4,000 for 1943 against 10000
for 1912.
The findings, based on records OF
las courts throughout the country
showed a slightly greater increase in
cases involving boys. This was a
reversal of the trend during the two
previous years. Boys cases repre-
sented 80 per cent of the total.
Miss Lenrott emphasized that the
sharp rise in the number of cases
handled did not necessarily mean
an equally sharp rise in delinquency
itself. In some cases, she said, shifts
in court procedure resulted In a
heavy Jump in the recorded figure
for leases disposed Of" In addition
she said, the current interest In de-
l'>quency has brought many boys
and girls to the courts that would
in other years have been ignored
or dealt with through some other
agency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
32Morooned
By Snow

Idaho Springs Colo, April Ii
(UP)-Thirty-two persons, including
three babies, were marooned today
in a lodge on Berthoud Pass, 10000
feet above sea level, while rescue
crews fought through deep drifts Of
snow, confident they would reach the
group within few hours.
The stranded persons were motor
lists caught on the Transcontinental
Divide Highway, west of Denver, by
the worst snowStorm in more than
half a century. All available high
way equipment was pressed into
service to clear the pass as well as
other mountain roads clogged by the
late spring blizzard.
A lodge atop the mountain pass
has provided shelter for the stranded
motorists, one of whom was seri-
ously injured when a snowslide
swept her car off the road. The
vehicle overturned six times, finally
coming to rest against a tree rs
yards down the canyon at the Ber-
ttoud Pass area.
Ski troopers from the Arctic Train
ing station at Echo Lake succeeded
in reaching the lodge yesterday
with medicine and supplies, and 1t
Helen Durfee Of the Denver WAVES
Office, was wrapped in blankets, TIED
to a tobaggan and pushed down
the heavy drifts to the east edge
of the slid which blocked the road
The Arctic-trained soldiers carried
the toboggan across the slide to 9
waiting ambulance.
Occupants of four cars which were
buried by the slide late Sunday
night have been rescued with only
minor injuries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Some Local Draftees
Now "V0Lunteers -

Local draftees over 26 years of
age previously scheduled to leave
this week and next but whose in
duction has been temporarily post
poned by the latest selective service
directives now will be classified as
volunteers" if the individual, des-
pite the fact that his occupation
lists him a deferrable, insists that
he be indicted as scheduled.
There have been many instances
of individuals of local boards in
sisting that they leave on schedule
for reasons entailing such facts as
their having broken up their homes,
resigned from employment and in
many instances resigned themselves
to departing from their families.
The majority of this group vehe-
mently state that they want to get
the initial break over with now and
not have to repeat the unpleasant
departure ceremonies one month
from now"
Local boards are now re-proceSs-
ing their lists of draftees over the
Is year limit and ny the close of
the week all men in that age
bracket will have been notified by
mail as to their status dependent
upon the essentially" of their
jobs.
Board 16-B met last night and
re-classified all the men in this lat
ter category and today clerks be-
gan the forwarding of notices as to
the present status Of those conSid-
cred. A few inductees from this
board personally appeared last
night and yesterday and insisted
upon leaving as scheduled. Board
15-B which met last night will also
meet again tonight for the purpose
Of further re-processir1g. 1t is un-
derstood that this latter board last
night reclassif1ed the men over rs
who are working directly in war in
duStries and tonight will take under
consideration those who are to be
categorical as being in war sup
porting activities" as authorized by
the Selective service directive.
Boards 15-A and 16-A will meet to-
night and tomorrow night to con-
slider the matter.
Formal Notices
Formal and more detailed notices
relative to the kilograms received
by all boards yesterday in regards
the latest service directive wre re-
ceived this morning by all local
boards from state selective service
headquarters.
In essence these notices direct all
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6JopAir.
Bases Hit

Pearl Harbor, April 1E-(UP)-s
American bombers and fighters
continuing the Seventh Air Forces
campaign to neutralize enemy bases
in the Marshalls and Carolines, att
tackled six bases In the central Pa
cific Saturday night. 1t was ana
nounced yesterday.
Mitchell medium bonIbers ana
Marine fighters hit the airfield on
Ponape island for the ninth straight
day, Admiral Chester Nimit1 an
nounced.
At the same time a fleet Of me-
dunn, light bombers and fighters
dropped 48 tons og bombs on fouA
enemy positions in the MarshallS.
scoring hits on airfield rInwayS ana
starting fires.
A lone Navy search plane droppeA
incendiaries on Oroluk island be-
tween Truk and Ponape.
All of the American planes res
turned from these operations, th@
communique said. ~
Medium bombers from General
Douglas MacArthur's command als9
bombed Woleai, 500 miles &eSt a
Truk, in the CarolineS,I and ate
tackled shipping northwest Of tt
island, Vscoring near misses on &
large merchant vessel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
SoIons Plan
June Recess

Washington, April 11-(UP)-
Congressional leaders said today
they expect all major pending leg
ts)atjon to be cleaned up by mid
June so that Congress may recess
for the National Republican and
Democratic conventions.
Aside from appropriations meas
ures, they said, Congress has but
few major bills to consider. These
include extension of the price stab
ilization and lend-lease programs,
and the Senate-approved &c. l."
bill to authorize education and 9TH
er rehabilitation benefits for veter-
ans Of this war.
A Today Easter recess ends to-
mo, ,ow and the House begins
Thursday consideration of the naval
supply bill for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /. The bill will be
reported tomorrow by the appro-
oriations committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
ShooterOf
.Comocho
May Be Dead
BY DENNIS LANDRY
United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

(Un1te0 FfeSS stan correspondent
Mexico City, April II - (UP0 -
Mexico newspapers said today it
was "rumored strongly" that Lieu
tenant Antonio De La Lama Rojas,
32-year old army officer, had died
of a wound suffered as he tried to
escape from custody last night
after an unsuccessful attempt to
assassinate President Manuel Avila
Camacho.
The rumor was not confirmed by
other sources, although it was
printed in Ell Nacional, government
official organ which is close to res
ponsible quarters and in a position
to know the facts. An official state
nent was not expected until later
in the day.
Lama Rojas, who apparently had
connections with pro-Nazi sympa-
thizers, was shot in the back last
night as he attempted to flee from
Etchegaray military barracks fol-
lowing his incarceration on
charges of high treason for his eff
fort to assassinate the president.
The artillery officer, a long time
friend of the chief executive and a
member of the palace staff, fired a
automatic revolver point blank at
Avila Camacho in the presidential
palace yesterday morning, but the
bullet passed harmlessly through
the presidents coat just above the
heart.
After being subdued Lama Rojas
was taken to Etchegaray barracks
in the State of Mexico and held on
charges of high treason and assault
on his commander-in-chief. Facing
possible death penalty if convict
ed of either charge, the officer at
tempted to escape last night.
Commander Antonio Lozano Ruiz
of the 9Th Regiment Of Cavalry at
Etchegaray said Lama RojaS was
"gravely wounded" in the attempt.
"Rojas tried to get away" the
commander said, land there was
nothing for the guards to do but
shoot. One shot entered Rojas' back
and came out through his stomach. :"
The artillery officer dived into a
group of women in the yard the
commander explained, apparently
hoping to keep the guards from
shooting.
Shots Fired
Seven shots were fired at the fug-
tive, he said, with six of them aimed
into the air, before shorpshooter
brought him down with one bullet
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2, 600 PLANES HIT PRE-|NvASI0N BLOW
Bomb Bernburs, OschersIeben Plants;
Soviets Skater Nazi "Dunkerque" Try
Backs Up Heaviest
Day Raid Of War
BY PHIL AULT
UNITED Press War COrrespondentN

UNITED Press War COrrespOndentN
London, April 11.-(UP)-
every strong" forces Of
American planes, up to 1000
heavy bOmbers and fighters
struck one of the heaviest
blows of the pre-invasiOn of
fensive against Germany to-
day, blasting aircraft plants
at Bernburg and OscherSle-
ben on the approaches tO
Berlin. !
The daylight attack fOl-l
lowed by a few hours the
heaviest air assault of the
war in which British night
raiders battered French and
Belgian railway functions
with more than 4,O32 short
tons of bombs, an all-time'
record.
One of the biggest United!
States aerial fleets in action
recently plunged deep into
Germany to smash anew att
plants supplying the German
air force and break up repairI
work on previously shattered
factories.
United States headquart~|
erS described the force Of Fly.|
ing Fortresses and Liberators
as Every strong" indicating
it numbered well up toward
1000 heavy bombers. The
shepherding formations OF
fighters were in comparable
strength. =
Among the targets attacked werAl
Bernburg, IS miles southwest OF
Berlin, and Oschers1eben, Is miles:
| to the northwest and 95 miles from
the German capital.
The weather was clear over Ger~l
many, permitting visual pin-point;
bombing, and the massed raiders
left towering columns Of smoke to
mark the sites where the targets
had stood.
Resistance Feeble
Crewmen of the first Liberator1I
returning from Germany said resist |
ance was feeble. NaN fighters stab J
bed sporadically att he Americans
over a long section Of their fight
but each pass was brief.
The German airmen seemed moro
anxious to find safety from the
swarms of escorting fighters than to
mix with the bombers, the laboratory
crews reported.
German ground gunners threw up
heavy barrage through which the
big bombers flew in perfect forma~
ton five miles above the reich.
Nad radio propagandists reporter
violent air battles between Ameri~
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Allies Bomb German
Supply Lines In Italy
BY REYNOLDS. PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
! UNITED Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Naples, April
IL. - (UP) = Allied bombing fleets
struck heavily today at the rail and
sea lines of supply for the Nazi
armies in southern Italy, while, 5th
Army ground forces repulsed small
scale German attacks on the Anzio
beachhead and in the mountains
above Casino.
Waves of Raj Wellington bomb
ers hit the west coast supply ports
of Plombino and San Stefano before
dawn today in the wake Of a series
of heavy American daylight raids
on the network Of railroad lines
feeding into Rome from Florence
and the Adriatic coast.
The British raiders opened their
attack late Monday night and con-
tinued to pound the enemy ports for
five hours, dropping block busters
and fire bombs on harbor installa-
tons, railroad yards and industrial
targets.
German ant1-alrcraft batteries
threw up a heavy barrage and two
formations on Nazi night fighters
attempted to intercept the raiders,
but all the WellingtonS returned
safely.
Returning pilots said extensive
damage was inflicted on both har-
borS, which the Nazis had been us
ing as terminals for small blockade
runners bringing in supplies from
southern France.
Weather conditions again ground
ed the Allied heavy bombers yester-
day, but swarms of medium bomb
ers. fighter-bombers and fighters
picked up the offensive, centering
their attacks on railroad targets
above Rome.
Flying more than 900 sorties, the
daylight raiders hit Orvieto, Attig-
liano, Poggibonsi, Terni, Popoli,
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IA Deferments Listed For
Men In 1926 Age Group
BY PAUL HARRISON

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, April II. =
(UP) - Major General Lewis
B. Hershey, Selective Service
director, today authorized
state directors to recommend
deferments for certain regis
trants under 26 who are en-
ployed in IA vital industrial
categories..
All other men under &c
employed in industry are
subject to immediate draft
Under present regulations, only
state directors and national head
quarters are authorized to recon-
mend deferment in the 1926 age
group. Hershey, however, has
authorized blanket deferment fol-
personnel of the merchant marine
and the army transportation corps
The new list included registrants
sin certain coal producing areas
whose induction would result In
serious curtailment," but the an
nouncement did not specify the
areas.
Hershey listed the following non
agricultural activities which are
deemed critical enough to warrant
continued deferment of relatively
small number of men in the 1926
age group:
/. Synthetic rubber production
and certain rubber programs.
2. Army service forces programs
including the production Of amphi-
bious ducks,( rockets, radar, critica,
componentS for trucks and Specia
research and development work
8. SPECIFIED aircraft items for the
Army air forces.
4. Landing craft, rockets, sub
marines, aircraft carriers, high
capacity ammunition, radar, speci-
fed aircraft, ships and aircraft
maintenance and modification
deemed critical by the Navy de-
partment.
S. Critical programs under the
war production board which are not
under the direct supervision Of the
armed forces or other claimant
agencies.
6. Maritime commission combat
loaded transports, cargo vessels and
tankers.
7. Liquid fuels production under
the petroleum administration for
war, including aviation gasoline
production, synthetic rubber COM
ponents and special technical serv-
ices vital to the program.
g. Transportation personnel under
the Office of defense transportation
including only captains and chief
engineers on Great Lakes and in
land Waterways: other licensed Of
f1cers for the 1914 navigation sea-
son; flight and ground airline per-
sonnet outside the continental
United States; railroad personnel in
activities directly related to the
movement of war freight vital to
immediate war detectives; certain
other railway personnel and motor
freight personnel.
9. Under the War Shipping Ad-
ministration, Pharmacists Mates
and active seagoing personnel and
ren now in training for sea duty.
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SHELLS BLAST
men FLEEING
FROM ODESSA
BY WILLIAM F. TYREE
UNITED Press Staff Corresponding

SS-0@---e~~'2
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, April II. = (UP)
- Russian bOmberS and ar
tillery shattered an attempt
ed Black Sea dunkerque
evacuation of doomed Odes-
sa, killing thousands of Ger
man and Romanian troops
scrambling in wild disorder
to escape, front dispatches
revealed today.
Meanwhile in the last
hours of the battle for Odes-
sa, another Red Army opened
a two-way offensive against
the 100000 to 10000 Axis
troops stranded in the Cri-
mea, smashing across the
northern plains of the Black
Sea peninsula into the Ishun
hills controlling the trans
port to all major Crimean
cities.
Far to the northwest, Soviet mo-
bile forces swarmed 62 miles into
Rumania, forcing the Siret and
Suceava rivers on a 45-mile front
in drive aimed at the Galati bot
tleneck guarding the approaches to
Bucharest
First reports on the fate of Odes-
sa garrison disclosed that desper-
ate attempt to flee by sea was
hwaPted by a Soviet land and air
bombardment of the makeshift eva
cuation fleet and the speed with
which Gen. Rodion Y Malinovsky'S
army broke into the city.
Dispatches from ODESSA said that
in the last 48 hours of Axis resist
ance the Black Sea port was like
a naadhouse.'' The waterfront
seethed as panicky Germans and
Rumanians made a made a mad
rush to board barges, tugs, ships,
rowboats and RATS.
Rumania Boats
Most of the shipping collected for
the flight was Rumanian, but the
Nazis refused to let their Rumanian
Allies board the vessels, showing
them from the quays and beating
them back with rifle butts, dispatch
es reported.
The Germans looted Odessa, re-
ports from the city said, but the
speed of the Soviet breakin left
them no time to raze what was left
of the city.
There were no estimates of the
number of troops in Odessa when
the Russians made their triumph
ant entry. but only a handful of the
invasion army in the Ukraine re-
Gently numbering up to 100000
managed to escape by sea.
Soviet planes lowered over the
port and seaway night and day,
bombing and cunning every ship
which emerged. They also blasted
trains and columns trying to make
their way westward to the ferry
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c. E.Hughes
81 Yrs. Old

Washington, April II - (UP9 =
Charles Ev MS Hughes, who retired
in 1871 as chief justice of the
supreme court, celebrated his 82no
birthday anniversary today.
Received newspapermen but re-
fusing to comment on public affairs
Hughes issued one paragraph
statement which read:
II am as well as can be reason
ably expected at my time of life. ]
still cherish the privileges of ole
agfe. I am living quietly and try
ing to be as cheerful as possible II!
this War-torn world"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
By LYLE C. WILSON

UNITED Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
Washington, April 11.-UP)-
Senate foreign relations committee
records showed today that the lin
ternational court" portion of Secre-
tary of Sttae Cordell Hull's postwar
peace program could be considered
Immediately if there was any de-
sire to urge the issue before hos
tilitieS cease.
The last action on the question
Of the international court was senate
rejection of a proposal that the
United States adhere to the organi-
zation set up after World War
as a permanent court Of interna-
tional justice-the so-caled world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
BRITISH HOLD
ON F|ERCELY
AT HOMINA
BY DARRELL BERRIGAN
UNITED Press War Correspondent

O<AAeANA1AlAI 1OAANAUANNEA4N
UNITED Press War Correspondent
New Delhi, April 11.-UP)
- British Imperial Forces
were reported holding grimly
to their Indian supply base
at HomimG under increas-
ingly heavy japanese attack
today, while other Allied
units battled advanced ele-
ments of three invading col
umns closing in on Imphal,
so miles to the south.
Almost u hours after Tokyo prop
agandistS claimed the capture of
Kohima, a communique from Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten's head
quarters revealed that the British
defenders still held the town and
were beating off all enemy thrusts.
mo important change has been
reported" the communique said.
A brief reference to Japanese
pressure north and south Of the
Maniper road, however, intimated
that enemy forces had driven on
west of Kohima toward the Assam
Bengal railway station at Dninpur,
Is miles away.
Meanwhile, fierce preliminary
fighting was in progress in the hills
overlooking 1mphal as British skir-
mishers sta bbed out against enemy
flying columns southwest, southeast
and northeast of the town. 1t was
indicated that the main japanese
forces were moving up through the
hill country in preparation for a
concerted assault on the British de-
lenses.
One Japanese force was ambushed
near the main highway south of
Imphal, and second enemy column
was beaten off after attempting a
small scale attack on British posi-
tions in the Palel area, 20 miles
southeast of the town.
(Axis broadcasts limited that the
Japanese invasion of India might be
begging down, complaining that the
rainy season now setting | is i'm
peding operations considerably" A
Berlin broadcast heard by CHS said
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Portion of HILLS Plar,
Could Be Considered No1U

court. That was on Jan. %, 1885
when adherence obtained a favor
able vote of SO to 36-seven short
of the two-thirds majority neces-
sary to ratify treaty.
The world court has preserved It's
identity in World War II but is not
functionig. After German occupa-
ton of Holland the court STAFF was
transferred from The Hague to
Geneva and judges were continued
in Office but without salary. Con-
t!nuatien Of the world court In the
cost war period with such modifica
lion of its statutes as may be neces-
sary to adapt 1t to new conditions
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BY JOSEPH LATIN
United Press Staff Corresponder

UNITED Press StAII COEEesPOLueMSJ
washington, April 11--(UP)-The
War Production Board has author
lied an overriding priority placing
heavy artillery on par with In
yasion landing craft as the most
urgent items in the entire war pro-
duction program. it was revealed
The action was believed by many
observers to reflect high command
RECONCILIATION of the effectiveness OF
! artillery as result Of battle expert
ence in italy where air power failed
to live UP to predictions Of its most
ardent proponents as a means Of
preparing the way for ground Of
fensiVes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Gen. Assembly
Nay Convene
SpecioI Session

Hartford, Conn.,, April IL
(UP)-G0v. Baldwin said today
that a subcommittee Of the
legislative council will meet
Friday and probably recon-
mend q special session Of the
General Assembly be convened
to make possible the use Of
Federal ballots in Connecticut
In the November elections.
A special session in january
approved an absentee ballot
for persons In the armed forces,
but did not provide for accept
ance Of q Federal ballot. Only
q slight change In the law VIII
be necessary 50 the Federal
ballot may be counted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
TRAwLER SCORES RECORD

Boston, April 11.-(UP)-The
trawler Cormorant has established
a new record for fish tonnage land
ed in a single trip at any Atlantic
coast port. The record catch-445,-
687 pounds-was announced last
night by the General Seafoods Corp
owner Of the vessel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Heavy Guns Share Priority
No1U With Inuasion Craft

Declaring "recent developments
have made imperative a sharp &C
celeration in the army's havy artil-
lery program" in the next 80 days,
the WPB advised manufacturers
that artillery-cannon, ammunition
and motive power units for 1856 nm
gun, 8 inch Howitzers, 8 inch guns
and 240 nm Howitzers-now has
the right of way over all other
ornaments except landing craft.
Landing craft ranked heretofore
as the. unchallenged No. ! item.
Artillery, used heavily in World
War I to prepare the way for in
fantry advances, played secondary
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