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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
Scovill Bond Drive
Goes Well Over Top

The first Of the city's industrial
big Three" the Scovil. Mar.ufac-
turing Company, today announced
that It's employees had exceeded
their Fifth War Loan Drive quota
of $3.50, 900, and at 10 a. m. this nlorr.
ing had reached mark of 1881 $40
In war bond purchases. Employees Of
the company, who yesterday made
extra cash purchases of $4,000 IN
bonds, have pledged themselves to a
million dollar goal before the close
Of July. The Fifth War Loan Drive
closes offlcially today but all sales
during the current month will be
credited to it.
Meanwhile the Bristol Company
employees continued skyrocketing
over the-top drive with total pur-
chaseS this morning reaching the
SIS, 900 mark over an original Fifth
War Loan Drive quota of $l35, 900
exclusive of payroll deductions. The
second star will be added to the
treasury pennant, now flying over
plant, on Monday. Employees Of the
concern have contributed over ten
per cent Of their pay for the past 81
months and over II per cent for the
past eight months.
The city's overall war bond quota
was not officially attained this
morning as the official closing hour.
Of midnight, drew near. It is ex-
pected by war. bond Officials however
that the city will have little trou-
BILE exceeding Its quota by the close
Of July.
Sales Of bonds other than the az
type had reached the $l4.86l ,254
mark today toward quota Of $l6.-
100000. Series ''E'' bond sales to-
tailed $3.l75.0OO toward a quota Of
IS, ESQ., 900. The city's overall quota
was set at SCI, $50. 900.
Ninety-five percent Of the SEQ
will Co.'s, bond mark of today was
made In purchases of "E" type
bonds. OF the total $44l.000 is in
extra bond purchases with the re-
mainder made up Of payroll deduc-
tons.
The company Is planning many
added attractions to help stimulate
the new goal Of one million dollars
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2 Tots Lost,
Mother Dying

lUnited Press Staff Correspondent
Hartford, Conn. July e-(UP)-
Louise 10th took her four children
to the circus.
Funeral services will be held today
for two OF her little girls, burned
to death In flames which climbed
the big top" where the 10th fam
lily was sitting-in the reserve Sec
ton, because II was the first time
they had seen Q circus.
Louise will not go TO the funeral,
She Is stretched on q hospital cot,
her body covered with burns, Her
little boy. Albert 4, Is on . cot beside
her, and physicians are not sure
he'll live. He has burns on his face,
head and arms,
The bodies OF Regina Dianne, II
and Joan Francis .. lie IN white
handcaTved collins at q funeral par
Tor. Their mother does not know
they are dead.
Allen, her husband, concealed hlE
gTief and horror TO relieve his wife,
and little Louise. 7. who escaped
from the blaze, lied"
~ got out ell right M0mmy."
Louise told her mother. u ran when
the fire shined on the tent, and .
nice soldier picked me W and car
Red me home"
She iet her mother believe that
the same soldier helped her two
sisters.
Physicians told LOuise's family
that she may live, with the help Of
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B-29's Bomb
Chino Coast

Washington, July 8-(UP)-Am-
erican B 20 Super-Fortresses at
tackled targets on the coast Of oc-
cupied China as well as vital war
industries on Kyushu, southernmost
of the Japanese homeland islands,
and inflicted damage on all targets
in yesterdays raid, the Goth air
force announced today.
The Super-Fortresses hit Hankow,
on the Yangtzs river, a principal
supply base for japanese operations
in Eastern China.
Also hit was Laoyao, q coal and
supply shipping port on the North
China coast.
The third communique on the
Super Fortresses attack carried out
on the seventh anniversary of ia
pans war with China revealed that
previous designation of T'obata,
Japan, as one of the targets was
In error.
Instead. the mighty American
bombers struck at Omura, a vital
war industry center south OF 6aso-
DO. Japan's third largest naval base,
which received the heaviest bomb
load of the raid.
YaWata, center of q large part OF
JapanIs steel industry, was the third
japanese homeland target.
Damage to all targets was re-
ported by the returned flyers" the
communicate said.
Naval installations at Sasebo re-
ceiyed the heaviest bomb load. Also
attacked were vital war industries
at Yawata and Omura, both on
Kyushu island, and port facilities
at Laoyao. q coal and supply ship
ping port on the North China coast,
and Hankow. on the Yangtze River.
earlier reports that Tobata, Ja'
pan, was o target were IN error"
Hankow is about $50 miles inland
on the Yangtze. L0ayao Is on the
North China coast almost due west
of the southern top Of Korea.
Omura, south and east OF the naval
base at GaeebO, Is q center o. Ja-
panesee war industries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08
Violent Fight
Near WiIno,
Lith Capital
By ROBERT MUsEL

UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, July 8.-(UP)-Berlin
reported today that the Germans
had evacuated Baranowicze, central
keystone base of the wrecked Nazi
defense line across Poland and gate
way of the historic invasion route
westward to Warsaw and Germany.
The Nazi-acknowledged fall Of
Barnowicze, rail hub rs miles south
west of Minsk, opened the way to
the Red Army for a westward push
through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk
which would turn the German for
tications both north and south Of
the Baranowicze gap above the Pri-
pet marshes. -,
Nazi broadcasts called the loss Of
Baranowicze an evacuation" but
both German and Russian sources
had reported the Soviets storming
the town.
North Of Baranowicze 100 miles,
the Nazis reported violent fighting
in the outer fringes of Wilno, capt.
tai city of Soviet Lithuania, indi-
eating that fast moving Russian
assault forces had laid siege to the
city some IS miles from East Prus-
STA.
Russian sources here said the
Germans had imposed rigid restric-
lions that amounted to martial law
on Wilno after a wave of sabotage
and attacks on German soldiers.
Soon after reporting fierce fight
ing in the suburbs of Baranowihi,
Nazi broadcasts said that the Ger
man garrison had pulled out of the
town but heavy fighting continued
on both sides Of the town through
which Napoleon fled on his disas-
trouS retreat from Moscow.
Soviet dispatches bore out the
Nazi accounts of savage battles in
the outskirts Of Baranowicze, 225
miles northeast of Warsaw, as the
Germans counter-attacked furiously
in futile attempts to drive the Rus
slams back from the city's wall.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos-
sovsky's first army of White Russia
closed in on the city, into which the
Nazis had moved a fresh tank div
ision few days ago in a desperate
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Reds Near
BoronoWicze

Moscow, July 6-(uP)-Russiaa
flying columns broke into the south
eastern outskirts OF Baranowicze on
the historic invasion route to War.
saw and Berlin today as other Red
Army troops to the north ap'
preached and probably crossed the
border into Soviet Lithuania 10 miles
from WiIno. its capital.
(soviet sources in London said
German puppet authorities had in
Voked drastic degrees tantamount
TO martial law In Wilno following
q wave Of sabotage and terroristlc
attacks on German soldiers. An ar
ticIe In the Soviet government news.
paper Izvestla, London said, charged
that the Germans had killed 20O. 900
Lithuanians and enslsved hundreds
Of thousands Of Others)
Marshal Konstaptin X. ROkoSsov'
slyis list White Russian Army
st0Fmed the defenses OF Berano-
Wlcse, 226 miles northeast OF War
saw, after . preliminary lombard
ment by heavy field guns and with
II the first few hours sEJlashed IN
to the outskirts Of the key town
guarding the northern gap through
the PTtpet marshes,
The fall OF BaFanowicze would
pave the way for q Soviet drive west
10 Bialystok and southwest toward
Brest Atvosk, the twin cltadels
guarding the approaches TO Warsaw
Litvs and Rusiny. four miles
southeast Of BaFanowieze. were
seized yesterday BY R0kossevsky's
forces, along with LIkl, eight miles
south. and @avicbl. 10 miles north.
east, IN outglanklng drives,
Stubborn enemy opposition was
encountered on taan appFoehes 70
BaFanowlcse, tho EoUt high COM
lnand announced IN It's midnight
e0mmunlque, but the vietorys flushed
Red Army pressed Oh and recorded
advances Of up " five Males, A.
EAakl, the eoVleis were only seven
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London, July B,-(UP)-FIfteen
thousand more school children were
scheduled to be evacuated from
robot-besieged London today as The
Daily Herald reported the Germans
have begun launching their flying
torpedoes from belgian as well rs
French bases.
Robot be.nbs continued TO crash
In LONDON and surrounding coun-
try at intervals throughout last
night, but most of the capitals g.
10000 nighttime inhabitants slept
In comparative safety In subway or
home shelters. or behind baTFicad-
ed windows.
Some damage and casualties were
reported, however.
RAP fighters claimed 70 have
taken 3 heavy toll OF the robots dur
ing the night, exploding them In
the aid before they could crash 10
earth with their 2.2oo pounds OF
explosives.
Altogether, coco unaecompanied
school children have been evacuated
from London since Voluntary regis
tration began last sunday.
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Salem, ". H., July e-lUP)-He.
leased from q state mental hospital
only slx weeks ago, Laurence Foley,
So, ran anaok with en- axe on hia
lonely farm here, killed his wife and
three pet dogs and then attempted
suicide, police reported today.
Weak from loss Of blood which
flowed from his slaslled throat ard
wrists, Foley ives found this morn
Ing By Officers who were summoned
10 his farm BY nelghbOgs.
Police Chief Frederick y, ChFyg-
Ter OF Salem said Foley killed his
wife, Doris. 80. and the dogs yesteF-
lay morning, ne remained AZ the
Ieene all day, the chief said. end u
gas not until last night that he at-
tempted suicide.
When death failed 10 come. Eoley
vent b 3 neighbog's home and told
1is story. The neighbors called 20.
Zee, who teak him 10 q hospital ~
Derry, where doctors believed ne
would KeeoVers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-08

area WORKERS
Jobs
new PROBLEM

Increasing numbers of Wa
terbury area workers are
leaving employment, with the
situation serious enough for
a special survey by the Vic
tory War Manpower Commit
tee, it was disclosed today.
The demand for workers was re-
ported to be increasing last month,
and on July / the War Manpower
Commission in Hartford disclosed
2,l00 vacancies existed in the Wa
terbury area. Paul Parsons, man.
ager of the U. s. Employment Serv-
ice, today stated that demand for
workers has increased since that
figure was set. Quitting Of Jobs
has been given as a main cause OF
the increase in demands.
The Victory committee has I'M
dertaken to determine what hap
pens to the people who quit their
jobs, why they quit, and where they
60. Details on the survey is being
conducted in cooperation with sew
eral large Arms Of the area have not
yet been publicly released, but an
unique type Of report Is anticipated
by labor and management circles
who are anxiously awaiting the
completion Of the special study.
Mr.. Parsons said the most serious
shortage is for able-bodied men.
The vacancies for heavy labor have
been many since the outbreak Of
war, and the U. s. E. s. continues to
find 1t difficult to make replace
ments In that category, 1t has been
indicated.
Demands by stores and other
establishments in the less essen
tial" classifications was reported to
be not too heavy, with the employ
ers filling their present needs by
using students as summer help.
Summer jobs were secured by the
u. s. E. S. for about 450 persons last
month, Mr.. Parsons disclosed, most
of them going to students and
teachers. Total placements during
the month were 1,677 as compared
to 878 in May, an increase Of 81
per cent. .,--,---.------.....--
A jump Of rs per cent in trafic
was noted last month and IS per
cent more referrals were made, the
monthly report revealed. The in
creases were attributed to the new
hiring controls regulations which re-
quire referrals for all jobs from the
U. S. E. S., and also to the summer
work applications.
Although the number Of actual
placements made by the U. S. e. s..
In June was 1,677, the office in re-
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3 Gern1on
Outposts In .
u. S. Hands
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press War Correspondent

(UmktcU ETeSS war OOEfeSpOuuCutD
Rome, July 8-(UP)-American
and French troops of the Fifth
Army have captured Rosignano,
Castellina and Cole di Val DElsa,
three key outposts of the German
Gothic defense line across Italy,
In drives to within II and % miles
Of Livorno and Florence, 1t was an
nounced today.
German resistance stiffened as
the Allies battered into the APP
proaches Of the Gothic line. Vio-
lent battles were fought for all
three Of the newly captured towns.
They were taken in bitter street
fighting at close quarters, and cas-
ualties were high on both sides.
Driving on beyond the overrun
stron gpoints, which the Nazis de-
Tended to the last house, the Allied
forces were meeting vicious oppo-
sition which slowed their progress
to q walk.
United States units Of Lieut.. Gen.
Mark w. Clark'S Fifth Army adj
vanced the left flank of the Allied
line through Rosignano, IL miles
below Livorno, and CaStelltna, five
miles to the east. To their right,
the French took Cole di Val D'Elsa
and pushed on within two and q
half miles Of Poggibonsi, last trans
port center below Florence.
Volterra, last remaining strong
point In the region Of the newly
captured towns, still was In German
hands last night, but it was under
heavy assault.
American shock troops stormed
Rosignano and Castellina and drove
out the Germans with grenades,
small arms and hand to hand blows.
Within "A hours the troops battling
for the two towns fired 2l,477
rounds from weapons above the
small arms class.
The troops pressed on north OF
Rosignano into the high ground
commanding the coastal road to the
west and a valley to the northeast.
Both there and north Of Castel-
lima. where the American advanced
three and q half miles along the
road to the important highway town
Of Chianni six miles to the north
east, the German counter-fire was
intense and steady.
The French took Cole di Val
d'Else after destroying two Of six
attacking tiger tanks. Farther east
other French forces scored appre-
ciable gains.
The u. s. forces In the coastal
sector encountered another regiment
Of the German 18th Schutzstaffel.
indicating that the entire division
IflnsakssaVaaA an Oa0a n
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Savage Resistance
Being Encountered
At Caen Defenses
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
UNITED Press War Correspondent

Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, July 8-(UP)-s
The British End Army stormed the defenses Of Caen az
dawn today in about offensive designed to clear the road
to Paris 100 miles to the east and two hours later were
reported battling deep in the eneys line against savage
resistance.
"a London broadcast said the End Army reached its
initial detectives and captured four villages in the first
hours of the offenSive)
At the center of the Normandy 'front.' field dispatches
said American forces occupied St Jean-De Daye, eight
miles north of St. Lo and Gouchere, mile and half to
the northeast without opposition and knocked out four
tanks in armored engagement south of ST. JEAN The
enemy appeared to be wavering, the dispatches said.
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Strong forces of thunderbolts,
mustangs and lightningS escorted
the heavy U. 8. bombers as they
pounded at least seven bomb sites
in northern France. Most Of the
targets were visible, although some
formations encountered bad weather
over the area.
The British bombers, which, car
ried out the night raid on Robot
bomb bases at st. Leu D'Esserent,
north Of Paris, encountered strong
aerial opposition from German
fighters and intense ground fire.
50 Bombers Missing
Although the individual losses
were not listed, the air ministry an
nounced that IS bombers were miss
ing from the raids on st. Leu DIES
serent, the Ruhr and Berlin.
AS the weather cleared over the
channel, more than 1000 planes
headed across the coast after hun
dreds of four-engined Lancasters
struck into the outskirts Of Paris
before dawn in another attack on
German communication lines.
(ESazi broadcasts, heard by FEC
monitors, reported Allied bombers
over the lower Danube this morning
and flying in a southerly direction)
The railyard at Vaires in. the
eastern outskirts Of Paris was sim
gled out by the Lancasters for the
pre-dawn operations and return
ing pilots said the whole target area
was covered with thick smoke.
A few hours before o force Of $50
Lancasters and Halifaxes unIoaded
$500 tons Of bombs on German troop
concentrations and strong points
north Of Caen.
Another Raj contingent hit fly
ing bomb installations in northern
France last night. as the Germans
continued sending the robot weap-
ons into southern England. Al
though Allied aerial attacks on the
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Circus Death
Toll Now152
BY WILLIAM ID. CLARK
UNITED Press Satff CORRESPONDENT

Hartford, Conn, July 8-(UP)-
Additional warrants charging man
slaughter were issued by investigat-
ing officials today as the death toll
from the worst fire in circus history
reached 152 with Is of the bodies
still unidentified. Most Of the vic
Tins were children.
Police Commissioner James r.
Kennedy said no arrests had been
made under the new warrants but
States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn,
Jr., disclosed that evidence had
been uncovered which he believed
indicated criminal negligence.
Five circus officials already have
been arrested on technical charges
Of manslaughter and were released
on bail.
AS the death toll from the fam
ing "big top" mounted almost
hourly, State War Administrator
Henry B. Noise announced that %
persons were listed as missing. The
is unidentified victims, he said,
may be among them.
identification experts were called
In to assist in establishing the iden-
THY Of the is as state, county and
city officials continued three par
allel Investigations into the FIRE
which turned Thursdays matinee
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Army Orders Col.
Back To Stotes

Algiers July 8--(UP)-Col. Egg
bert White, chief publication officer
Of the Mediterranean Stars and
Stripes. repeatedly has been ordered
to return to the United States after
differences with his superiors about
the type Of world news to be pub
lished by army newspapers.
White, who was business manager
of the Stars mad Stripes in France
during the first World War, is re-
ported to have wanted regular Press
Association news insteod Of new
filtered through the Arrnys branch
Of psychological warfare.
He Is expected to remain on duty
clearing up financial and other
affairs of the newspaper before re-
turning to the United States In
mid-July.
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New RoidsOn
japan Likely
BY Sander S. KLEIN

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, July Sup
American B-2o superfortresses, the
worlds mightiest bombers, iriflict-
ed severe damage on Japanis steel
industry and struck serious blows
at the enemy,s vital Sasebo naval
basC in their triple-smash yester-
day at the japanese homeland, first
repOrts indicated today.
The entire raiding force Of B-29's
returned safely to their bases in
China after dumping their cargoes
Of destruction on the twin steel
cities Of Yawata and Tobata, and
on sasebo, big naval shipbuilding
anc fleet repair center. All are on
Kyushu, southernmost island Of
Japan proper.
The assault was the second made
by these aerial battleships on Japan
itself. Yawata was the target
Of the first attack last June Is.
Yesterdays attack. fulfillment Of
. promised succession Of progress
sively more frequent B-20 vista
tons 10 Nippon, came seven years
ago TO the day since japanese ag-
gression forced China to so TO war
with them.
It was clear from the Japanese
reaction to the latest American
aerial thrust that the enemy had
been dealt hard blows. Their first
broadcast announcement Of the at
tack did not come until four hours
and S. minutes after the initial re-
port was issued by the War De-
partment here at midday yester-
day. The broadcast made no mem
ton Of damage inflicted on the
targets, although usually the en-
envy Il quick TO report lack OF sue
cess BY American raiders,
"Our alrfoFce," said Tokyo,
promptly intercepted and Fepulsed
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$50 Flying Forts
Rake Nazi Robot
Bomb installations
BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press War Correspondent

London July 8-(UP) than $50 flying fortresses
and erators of the Eighth Air Force attacked German
robot bomb installations in the Pas De Calais Of
Northern France today and Lancaster bombers re-
veaed to have smashed of the eneys largest flying
bomb bases within 80 miles of Paris
The daylight strikes into the Pas De Calais fol-
lowed widespread night attacks during which Raj mosqui
to bombers hit Berlin with twoton bockbusters and
SYNTHETIC oil plant in GermanY's Ruhr Valley
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-01
Germans Attempt
To Use Robots
In Holland Fight
BY BOYD LEWIS

WITH ADVANCED CANADIAN
UNITS IN EASTERN BEVELAND,
Oct. 30 Delayed tUP)-The Ger
mans attempted to use robot tanks
along with acres of tricky minefields
today in a desperate effort to slow
up Canadian troops advancing west
after liberating Goes, chief city OF
the south Beveland peninsula.
The robots were a complete fizzle
but the mines, planted thickly along
cobblestone and brick roads, were
making the going hazardous as the
Canadians drove to reach a cause
way leading to Walcheren, last Ger
man stronghold before the great
port of Antwerp.
Most of the lcw-quality German
garrison troops had scrambled to
safety, leaving a handful OF "eX-
pendables" behind to man the de-
fenSeS.
The attempted use of robots was
described by Lieutenant d a VI q
Smith of London, Ontario, and Pr1-
vate Gordon DrandCw of Montreal,
who were with pioneer troops which
led a spearhead into Goes.
TRACE DEADLY BOMBS
Near the eastern outskirts they
had stopped to clean out pockets OF
Nazis from an orchard. They OBJ
served electrical wires leading 1rcm
the orchard to two odd-shaped
havstacks between the orchard ana
the highway.
They tore away the hay and dis
covered two robot craWlers Loaded
with 300 to 500 pounds of explosives
each.
Two more robots were found In
the road ahead but the Germans
evidently fled before they had time
to charge them with explosives.
A youthful lieutenant colonel
from Montreal told me mines of
every type were sewn thlcKly on
every highway and by-road.
Many of them were in wooden
containers, like long a tie d shoe
boxes. They were ctacked along the
roadsides where tn e Canadians
painstakingly had dug them out
with bayonets. The mines hardly
cost more than few marks but
they were capable of blasting the
tread and immobilizing a giant tank
or smashing jeep.
The ferries had removed bricks
and cobblestones to fit in che OF
these mines every few yards in some
sections and then had replaced the
paving over them.
My jeep was compelled to halt a
half hour once while engineers
cleared a road-block which had
erupted, wrecking a jeep and a
bulldozer a short time before.
MENACE REFUGEES
The mines menaced swarmS of
Eevelanders returning toward Goes
pushing baby carriages, carts and
bicycles loaded with household be-
longingS.
Goes went wild over its liberation
Small boys and girls wearing orange
crepe sashes clambered over the
ieep in which Jon Glare of the
Toronto Star and I were the first
Allied newspapermen to arrive in
the town.
Everyone knocked off work and
pretty girls collected a fund for
Dutch prisoners in Germany.
Near the public square hung two
laportraits of Hitler. similar to
those hanging in virtually every
German headquarters. There was
one new touch here-each had
knife through the heart.