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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Focal Jap
 Base Falls

Chungking. June 27-UP)-Allied troops have completed the occupa- tion of Mogaung, former Japanese stronghold on the Myitkyina- Man dalay railway in northern Burma, a communique announced today.
 The town, second Japanese Mo- gaung valley base to fall in week, was captured yesterday by Chinese troops and Gurhka and British units of Maj. Gen. w. D. A. Lem taigne's air-borne Chindits.
 Occupation of Mogaung, 36 miles east of embattled Myitkyina, cli- maxed a bitter three-day battle in which the Allied forces, supported by American fighter r-bombers. cir cled the Japanese forces and at- tackled from the south and east.
 The communique described the town as Q focal Japanese base which had served as the supply center for the entire enemy caln- paigns in the Mogaung and Hulk awng valleys.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Nazi General Surrenders
BY HENRY n. GORRELL

 Limited Press War COrresp0ndenkl
 Field Headquarters, U. s. Troops Cherbourg Area, June 26-CUPl TT Gen. Carl Wilhelm Schlieben, Nazl commander of the Cherbourg for@ tress, stepped out of an American jeep and flinched as a battery o2 photographers recorded his arrigal at American headquarters as Q prts- oner.
 He stood for a moment before the door-a huiking figure Of a man, over six feet tall, with gorilla-lIke shoulders-the strain of days of de- fensive fighting written on his fea~ lures. Then he strode rapidly up the stairs to meet the American general who had forced his sax~ render.
 The American general sat in shirtsleeves at his desk. Ee shook hands formally but allowed Won Schleiben to stand while he quez~ tioned him through an interpreter
 Was he ready to surrender the rest of his troops?
 The German said emphatically {: ''nein." He acknowledged that he was out of contact with most of his troops, who were fighting in isolate ed groups.
 From a moral standpoint. the American general asked. how could he justify surrendering hInasef< while permitting his men to flzhs on hopelessly.
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Dewey Win Is Conceded
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BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Stan Correspondent


 Chicago Stadium, June 27.-(UP) With Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's nomination for president conceded by all but a Fecalcitran handful of delegates, the Republican Nation al conventoin began its third session today involved in. a platform battle over foreign feiStions.
 Adoption of the platform Is scheduled for today.
 From a pillbox on the 23rd floor of No. IS Broad street, New York, Wendell L. Willkie Is sniping the platform makers. His first shot landed spank in the middle of the stadium last night about the time Gov. Earl Warren of California was keynoting the party to unity against President Roosevelt and the New Deal.
 Already somewhat weary of ora tory and eager for the excitement of Dewey's appearance, the dele. gates are set for two more speeches tonight-by former President Her. bert c. Hoover and Rep. Clare Booth Luce, R., Conn. Most of the Republicans here have seen or
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Lord LosceIIes
 Reported Wounded

London, June 27 -(UP)- Lord Lascelles, 21, nephew of the king, reported missing in action in Italy. was believed today to have been wounded and captured by the Ger mans.
 Harewood House announced last night that his father, Lord Hare wood, had received 'ofacial intima- ton that It. Viscount Lascelles is reported wounded and missing and believed to be a prisoner of war"
 Lord Lascelles Is the elder son and heir of Lord Harewood. His mother, the princess royal, is eighth in succession to the throne and he is ninth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Noxon Calls Expert
Rv JOSEPH NOLAN
Lrn,..A Pre.. staff Correspondentl

uJnited Press Stan CorrespOndent)
 Pittsfield, Mass, June 27-(uP)- An electrical expert was recalled to the stand for testimony at John F. Noxon, Jr.'s murder trial today as the defense continued its attempt to prove that the socially prominent lawyers imbecile son died by acci- dental electrocution.
 Aston A. Tillou, a research engi- neer, was to describe for Superior Judge Abraham E. Pinanski and the jury various cases of electrical shock which he encountered during 20 years experience at the General Electric company's Pitstfield plant. He was to outline the results of tests made with household electric current at the $45,000 suburban home where, the state charges, Soxon deliberately killed his son ssss September a. Tillou is the sec- ond of six specialists to be sum- moned by the defense.
 In his two-day cross-examination of pr. Milton Helpern, assistant medical examiner of New York, Dis trict Attorney Charles R. Alberti served notice that he would attack the experts testimony point-by- point whenever 1t proved contrary to state contentious of the events surrounding 6-month-old Lawrence Noxon's death. The district attor- ney forced Dr.. Helpern to concede that the defense explanation of the fatal shock was merely one of many possible explanations, and to &C., knowledge that the states case, as outlined by pathologist and two pediatricians, was medically sound.
 The high-ceilinged courtroom has been crowded to its 200-seat capa- city every day since the defense opened, and the gallery includes many of the Berkshire summer set with whom the wealthy defendant was intimately acquainted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Chiusi Surrenders
 To British Eighth
BY ROBERT V. VERMILLION United Press War Correspondent

United Press War Correspondent
 Rome, June 27. (UP)-British sth Army forces captured the fortress town of Chiusi and pushed north ward through strong enemy resist ance along a 25-n1ile front in cen- tral Italy today as American tanks and infantry advanced six miles up Tyrrhenian coastal road to within 30 miles of Livorno Oeghorn).
 Official reports said the Germans were falling back in good order all along the front from the Chiusi sector to the hills northeast of Peru gia in a fighting retreat that limited the British advances everywhere to about three miles.
 The American coastal columns ap- peared to be meeting only sporadic rear guard opposition but other American and French units of the Allied 5th Army were reported fight ing some of the bloodiest tank and infantry battles of the Italian cam paign in pincers drive on Siena, 40 miles inland.
 (Prime Minister Winston Church. i'll reported in the House of Com mons this morning that British casualties from the landing in Italy last September to the fall of Rome
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Smoke Filled Quarters
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood
 COrrespOndent


 Convention Headquarters, Chi cago, June N-(UP)-The tradi- tional smoke-filled rooms of this Republican convention are air-con- ditioned lounges in comparison to the original where Warren G. Hard ing was chosen by his party's bosses in 1920.
 Bill Horner, the veteran bellboy who shagged ice water and cigars to the politicos all that memorable night of June twenty-four years ago in room 805 of the Blackstone Hotel, still is shagging the same ar- ticles in the same hotel.
 "Only I do not know what is wrong with these new G. o. P. guys" Bill said. Mostly they smoke cigarettes and the aftermath has got no body, no body at all. It was not that way in so5 that night in 1920"
 He wrinkled his nose delicately (the Blackstone being highclass hostelry) at the memory.
 You never smelled such a smell" Bill continued. Those guys were senators, mostly, and they came rushing in here the afternoon of June 8 at about 3:30 p. m. from the coliseum. It was hot and it was muggy, like today.
 'They went into that room and they stayed there and they kept on staying. Boise Penrose had an open line into the room from his bedside in the east and all those senators like Lodge and Shoot and McCor- mick and Wadsworth and I don't know who all were there"
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NEW BRITISH OFFENSIVE |N NORMANDY Soviet Armies Battle Way To MogiIev
DEM. PARTY IS NEW DEAL
 PRISONER

Chicago Stadium, June 27 - (UP) = Representative Joseph w. Martin, IT,, Mass, taking over his duties as permanent chairman of the Republican National conven- ton, asserted today that the Democratic party has lost control over it's own destiny and has become "a prisoner of the New Deal"
 Addressing the convention immediately after his cleo tion as permanent chairman, Martin asserted that the con- ing Presidential election is not merely a fight to put Re- publicans in office but also to "emancipate the Demo- cratS."
 '@rhe Democratic party has been captured by minority whose philo- sophy it despies," he said. Thank God, some of its leaders realize this ord have had the courage to re- volt. v
 He said that in addition to the war overseas, another war is being waged at llome-a war between two eternal hostile ideologies."
 "One idea" Martin said "is that of the free society-the society of free men creating their wealth with the instrumentalities of free enter prise under the protection of a rep- resentative republic.
 "The other is the conception of the regimented and planned society, living upon vast streams of gov- ernment debt and taking its shape and destiny from the directives of bureaucratic elite under the corn- Inand of a self inspired leader.
 You may call that anything you wish. Tn Europe they call 1t Fascisn1. Here we call it the New Deal"
 Admitting that 1t was difficult to believe that anyone would want to substitute" other forms of govern ment for the American way, Martin said i've cannot be blind to what has been attempted"
 There is," he said, "a deliberate intention on the part of some to re- make America in way which would destroy opportunity and initiative. They would put an end to private 
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Yanks Step Up Can1paign For Capture or Mananas
BY FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent)

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 Pearl Harbor, Jr" -- (UP)- American forces ped up their campaign in t..y Ma.ianas, 1t was disclosed today, with a land artillery bombardment of Tinian, across a narrow strait from embat- tied Saipan, and new U. s. carrier plane attacks on Guam and Rota in the southern island chain.
 The land and sea attacks on Japanese positions in the islands south of Saipan came as U. s. Marines and Army troops squeezed off an estimated 10000 enemy men in the northern half of Saipan.
 The American line was anchored on the west coast at Garapan, where fierce battles were raging in the city's outskirts, across towering Mt. Topotchau to Kagman peninsula, which the troops seized Saturday to acquire complete control of Magi- cienne Bay.
 (Tokyo radio tacitly admitted that occupation of Saipan would provide vital springboard for Anglo American domination of all Asia" Tokyo said, however, that the Japanese forces on Saipan now were set to deal knockout blow" to 10000 American troops on the is- land. It said that LILO Americans had been killed in the fighting there from June g to June 26)
 United Press War Correspondent Malcolm R. Johnson reported from an advanced command post on Sai- pan that American artillery in southern part of the island bom- barded Tinian, two and half miles across the strait, Friday night.
 The barrage was directed at two airports and town in Tinian, John son said, although results of the ground shelling were not disclosed. The artillery also was shelling Mar pi airport at the northern tip of Saipan and Johnson said it was be- lieved that the field had been rend- cred in operative.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
By HENRY T. GORRELL

United Press War Correspondent
 Fort du Poule. Overlooking Cher bourg, June 26-(UP)-The Ger mans inside Fort du Roule sealed themselves within a lying tomb, determined to fight to the last bullet.
 Officially the fort has been cap- tured, but actually the huge coastal tured, but actually the huge coastal guns still were belching smoke and flame to hurl shells at every pos sible target.
 1. The guns are manned by die- hard Germans hidden in subter- ranean passages where some of them really mean to commit suicide
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
JoPs Build
 Resistance
By HOWARD HANDLEMAN (Writtn for Combined American
 Press)
lDistributed by United Press

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 Aboard Joint Expeditionary Force Flagship. Saipan, June 27.--(East Longitude Time)-(Via Navy Ra- dio)-Japanese infantry resistance stiffened all along an island-wide front this morning as Marine army forces reached a sector possibly chosen for the beginning of last ditch defense of Saipan.
 Five heavily defended Japanese pockets have been by-passed OH Mt. Tanotchau, from whose peak the American line pivots northward to beaches on both sides of the Island.
 The pocketed Japs are defending caves from which they harass the American and retard the advance.
 Americans who wondered at the Jap abandonment of strong defens- eS of the southern slopes of Tapot- chau are beginning to believe even stronger defenses are ahead as Jap anese resistance gives every evi- dence that the enemy is ready to stap his delaying tactics and begin the battle with masses of infantry.
 The enemy defense line bends back from the north slopes of Ta- potchau and down into Garapan town on the west and through Don- nay Village on the east shore, snip CTS and machine gunners hiding in Grapan'S houses and cellars fought patrol venturing beyond the Amer ican line 10 blocks into the south ern outskirts of the town.
 The American advance Is spilling over the lightly defended areas ane slowing in the heavily defended sec tors, conforming with the Japanese defense lines.
 The Japanese line roughly cuts the island center. indicating the Japanese defense in depth and pos- eN~..
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EarlWarren Makes Stirring Address

Chicago Stadium, June 27-(UP) Gov. Earl Warren of California, who likely will be the Republican vice presidential nominee, last night keynoted his party's national con- vention by calling for election of Republicans in November ito get our boys home again" and to assure through international cooperation that they need never fight again.
 That was the theme of Warren's address before a cheering audience of 1057 delegates. their alternates and thousands of spectators. The Republicans, warren declared. mean business and their program embraces the desires of the Amer ican people as a whole.
 The newspapers and programs which had been fashioned into fans in an effort to alleviate the discom- fort in the huge humid stadium, still holding the heat of Chicagos hottest day of the year, were al- most stilled as Warren spoke.
 But the audience stomped and whistled when he shouted:
 Tn Washington, where the bu- reaucrats live, there is still a Demo crat in the White House. But out where the people live, the country is predominately Republican"
 They gave vent to their biggest demonstration when Warren de- clared:
 For Il long years we have been in the middle of the stream. We are not amphibious. We want to get across"
 Warren said the COP did not propose to deny that progress has been made in the l2 years of the Roosevelt administration. What
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CUT IMPORTANT
 RAILROAD SW OF GAIN
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEX

BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY United Press War COrrespondsnt)
 Allied Supreme Headquar- ters, London, June 27.(URl American troops have com pIeted the conquest of Cher bourg, it was announced off ficially today, while on the opposite flank of the NOr- mandy beachhead a New British offensive has swept forward more than six miles and cut a vital railroad southwest of Caen.
 Coincident with the Offi- cial announcement of the capture of Cherbourg, open ing a great port for the de- velopment of the Allied of rensive on the western front, field dispatches revealed that British forces were forging ahead in what appeared to be a wide-Swinging envelop- ment push against Caen, most stubbornly defended German base yet encoullt- cred in Normandy.
 United Press war correspondent Richard D. McMillan reported from the new offensive zone that the ate tack was progressing steadily and had over-run several villages south- west of Caen.
 While McMillan reported the cut~ ting of the railroad at an unspeci- fled point southwest of Caen-prob- ably in the Brettevillette ares where the British were within mile or so of 1t earlier-anotlher front dis patch said the foremost elements were within a mile of the Odnu river, which flows between tne Caen and Villers-B Bocagesi areas roughly parallel to the railway and high~ way bu tsoutheast of them.
 The 1rOuI peioW Caeu uU# SAo@8zt'A over several miles, McMillan rep0rt~ ed, and can be expected to spread still more.
 Many hundred guns took part in the barrage which opened the as~ Sault," McNGillan said. That meant a gun every few yards. The barrage crept forward 100 yards every three minutes
 "Our advance covered some miles and we still are punching our way through German bunkers and trenches"
 Torrential rains drenched the bat tlefield during the night, and part of the Normandy lowlards were de- scribed as rivaling the mud oz Flanders in the first World War.
 While America ntanks and infan~ try famed out east and west to crush the few remaining enemy pockets at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula, Allied engineers
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Robot Bombs Smash Again
BY WALTER CRONKITE

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 London, June 26.-(UP)-Nazi robot bombs, speaking through a cloud-banked cover over the chan nel, hit southern England last night and still were dropping in the area during daylight today.
 Some casualties and damage were reported in the new attacks, which came as unfavorable weather re- stricted Allied aerial operations from Britain.
 While the weather was proving an even more stubborn foe than the Nazis themselves in the western European theater, the German Transocean News agency broadcast from Berlin that 80 American heavy bombers had carried out a shuttle raid from Russia to Italy. The tar- gets hit in the raid were not dis closed.
 Despite heavy weather over the Normandy front, reports from the Dover Straits at noon indicated the weather was clearing in the Pas De Calais area, perhaps giving Allied planes a chance to combat the pilot less planes and also bomb the launching platforms in France.
 The robot bombs attacks have been confined mostly to darkness or during bad flying weather in the past four days, indicating that a toll of them had been taken by fast Allied fighters under favorable con ditions. A number are believed to have been shot down harmlessly over the sea or in rural areas.
 Although fighter patrols are meeting increasing success in com- batting the Nazi weapons, Che Luft- waffle has diverted portion of the
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BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Bx HARHtSON SALISBURY
 United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 Moscow, June 27. = (UP) Red Armies surrounded Orsha and were battling their way into Mogilev, 40 miles to the south, today and those last two bastionS on the enemy's so-called "Fatherland Line" in White Russia appeared on the point of capture.
 Even as Soviet tanks, guns and infantry stepped up their assault on the crumbling center of the White Russian Line, two other Russian armies slashed deep intot he north ern and southern Hanks of the 285- mile front in vast enveloping movement aimed at the ancient cita- del of Minsk on the north-central invasion route to Warsaw and Ber- lin.
 The 3rd White Russian Army. al- ready 55 miles beyond newly-cap- tured Vitebsk, was speeding toward Minsk from the northeast at pace of nearly a mile an hour and at last reports was 30 to 85 miles away, while the lst White Russian army was a similar distance away from the southeast, though meeting heavier enemy rsiStance.
 Front dispatches disclosed that the 3rd army also had cut all high ways and railways radiating from OrSha, an air base and strategic junction on the Moscow-Minsk- Warsaw Line, surrounded the city and broken into It's suburbs in heavy fighting.
 Col. Gen. Georgi D. Zakharov's 2d White Russian Army drove into the suburbs of Mogilev after cutting all its communication except the rail- way to Slnizk and the highway to Bobruisk. dispatches said.
 Bobruisk, 70 miles southwest of Mogilev and Poltosk, on the Vi- tebsk- Riga railway, also appeared in imminent peril as the Soviets sys- tematically crushed enemy resist. ance at either end of the embattled White Russian front.
 The last surviving remnants oi five encircled German divisions west of Vitebsk were being dive bombed and shelled to destruction in two narrowing pockets. The troops had fled Vitebsk in a futile effort to
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By RICHARD D. McNdilIan

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 Outside the Cherbourg Arsenal. June 25 -(Correct = (UP) - The mighty Cherbourg arsenal roared like a vast inferno as savage bat- tie ragged all afternoon around the 30 foot high concrete bastion which the Germans had turned into bar racks.
 From an advance observation post 25O yards away, I watched towering flames shoot from the arsenal while the German defenders sought des- perately to check the American as- sault.
 American troops had moved Into Cherbourg from the western out-
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Fanatic Nazis Seal SeLDes In Big Suicide Bastion

for der fuehrer. Several passages to their hideouts have been found sealed with barely dry concrete from the inside, indicating the men have entombed themselves so they can fire to the last shot.
 U. s. infantrymen repeatedly have tried to find a way to reach the Germans holding out in the great fort. They have descended three stories underground, blasting a path with charges of TINT on poles.
 Hundreds of prisoners have come out of the fort. including goo guardians of a big tunnel packed
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Correspondent Eats NoUel Meal As Big Guns Roar

skirts throughout the morning. The fight for the arsenal was not so much to gain possession of 1t. As it was to eject the Germans from one of their last strongholds.
 Advance parties of tanks and in- fantry, moving against the arsenal, met a shattering fire from 47 milli- meter cannon mounted on the 10 feet wide solid easements.
 I could see the Nazis buSily at work but already bands of them who had found the blistering American fire beyond their endurance were sVrrendering.
 As the battle continued and
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British Casualties
 In ItoIy Are High

London, June 27-UP)- British casualties in Italy from the initial landing until the falI of Rome totaIIed 7s,- s22 killed. wounded and miss ins, Prime Minister Churchill announced ln Commons today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
FATHERLAND LINE NEAR
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 London, June 27.-(UP) - The German DNB News Agency reported today that German positions had been withdrawn to "the fringe of the city of Mo- gilev" in White Russia.
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