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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
InapevieI Farley Follows Shckeup
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Premier General Kuniaki kols0 reported to Emperor HtfOhlto on Japans political situation today in their first announced e0nferenee since the government shakeup that resulted in the fall Of General HlS dekj Toj0's cabinet last week,
 The Japanese DOmel New Agency, lD . wireless dispatch Teeorded by WCC monitors, gave no details Of the Imperial conference,
 Radio Tokyo earlier reported that General N0hOyuki Abe, outgoing president of the Imperial Rule Ass sIstanee Society, JapaD's only pollE teal party had been named g0yeFT nor Of Korea 10 succeed kois0,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
New Polish Crisis Seen

London, July 2a-(UP)-A new Polish crisis was preeipitated today by a Polish committee of National Liberation which issued a manifest from Polish soil liberated by the Red Army repudiating the Polish government In London and setting itself up as a provisional govern ment for liberated Poland,
 The committee was an Outgroyth Of Polish National Council, a pro- Soviet group,
 The manifesto, drawn mp on the day the Red Army eapsured kholGl, first town beyond the pemareatloD line in Polish territory, was brondv east by the Moscow radio last night, which indicated t had at least taeii Russian backing,
 It charged the L0nd a refugee government was illegal and ans n0nneed that an 'uDtsed" Polish army had been organllet by fusing the peoples army Underground fnTeesl with the Polish army n Russia and a hign command was Leing established,
 The broadcast said Edward 0sus- ka- MoraWski, a Polish underground
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Army Criticised Fer
 penpegiWe Prisoners

Boston, Suly 2t - (up1 - 4 resolution eFlfieizing the NfWy for ''eodelipg end psnppeTtDg' gteDleD Waf prisoners WAs eoroiite fo the Yer Department today following tlle alleged vfeTciDgs 0f womep lFam flpe weteFang ef WeTelgD WeFs AAiKiliafy ko entertain Efallaps,
 fhe woiNeD FapeFtedlK vent % Camp MyIeb etspdlsh hospital lD TaMTtan yesterday te entertelD weunaed American soldiers, but Rls leeAdig were told t0 ellteFtalD f0FnleT ftaliail plfs0negs instead Ak tbe sane time, . group of k ttalleD members of ieil0g battalion illltfe from Camp MeIEay iI South Boston weEe euesle6 of the city q eomeFs Vlsle wIleFe they attended Mees, sent plenleking and plaga9 bell,
 AColsld f9Ree conditions eHist Co oaTmaDy aF Efaiy," the resolution asks. 'Tbev have been e01Gle1 and pan1peFe9 bg citizens as vel as army authorities,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Eight Billion Fund OKed
/ By ELMER c. WALLER lEJniied Press Finineial Edisa

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 New York, July 2s-tuPl-peles gates to the United Nations moEeS tary conference at Breton Woods, ", H,, described the nleetlFng as 2 complete success teddy after apT proving ap es.a00 000,0 GOO lnternaF uonal monetary fund calculated 70 stabilize postwar enTFeneles eno q e9, 100 O00 900 bank for internatlonal development and reconstruction
 The United states would become the center of world trade operations and the bank director for postwar rehabilitation If the plans are Talls fled by Congress and enoneh el ule other 43 United Nations 10 make up 65 per cent Of the guota total set for each of the pew mslsuT tons,
 Undeg the constitution Of the fund the bank headquarters would go to the nation holding the largest number of 6hRFes. The lnlleg States, according to the blueprint drawn up, had aggregate quotas N the tW0 units of nearly 30 per cent of the overall total af sl1,b00 0OQ,F v 000, and the main office may De here,
 The thVaer week meeting ended On A note of international harmony Saturday night, Russian delegates, after reaejYlDg 2 lastsmlnute cable from Moscow, agreed t0 increase lls subscription 70 the bank Dy ssOpiE 000 900 from te000Oe0O0 t0 sl,So0,F 009,000,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
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lUnltaa pFasg Staff C0FVasRenaenf)
 Vatican City, July 2l,-lUPl- Pope Plhs discussed Witb AFehs bishop FFapeis 2, spellmen of Ney YeFk yesterday Q pr0gFanD which fhe p9ptiff hopes llligbt bTlng lbe war ln Europe to an end soon, ls was learned t0daY,
 Authoritative sources also revealed ibat two assistant VatleaD seeFes taftas 0f state held s l0ne e0DfeTs epee saturday wjtb Baron Ernst Ven weIEsaeker, German RmbaRsad0g f0 the EEoly See. Tbelr talk was 70, deFst0ed te hRVe FeYolyed around what kind of government likely Would be established in Germany lf Ae0lf Hitler sllould be 0veFtbF0wD, and wilat lts altitude toward peaee might be,
 Reports circulated today ln Tes Hp0nstble quarters that the Pope sent elt peace feeders during the WAek end,
 piMs Wag represented e feeling that the crisis lllselde Germany was alieh as to present the oppors tmnltv 0pening up fhe poesl'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24

Bombs were sent crashing down on Kiel. headquarters Of the Ger man Navy. and its naval dockyards. barracks. supply stores. fnel tanks. and toher installations at the rate of l5O tons a minute a gigantic explosion which gsowed for five or six seconds indicated that the are senal may have been hit.
 Returning pilots said huge fires spring up in the wake of the raid- CTS. turning the clond-filled sky a rose hue. The Germans put up a heavy anti-aircraGt bagraee. but it apparently was swamped by the weight of the atatck and died out in tase final minutes.
 A naval mutiny at Kiel in the that brought Germanyls equalization to the Allies within two weeks. SKfss reports said naval units at Kiei and at the sister Baltic port of Etettin revoled last seek, but the rep0se had not been confirmed.
 Another BFitish-based force Of heagw bombers attacked tw0 large oil storage depDts at D0nges. near Gt. mnxaiEe. France. Two depOts to- gether contain % storage tanks which normally would hold strategic oil reserves for German armies on the westeEn front.
 Raids on an unidentified mystery objective iD the RgabT and flying bomb launching platforms tp northern France rounded out the nights offensive from Britain from whilae Gig bombers were making.
 UD to 2sO American Ltberators gttb an escort of Mustangs attacked the Berat Knoove oil refinery near Berat, Albania. 55 miles south of Tiirana, from Italy bases yesterday.
 Indictment weather limited air o2- erationg Oger western Europe during the seek end.
 Radio Moscow disclosed that for- nations of Italy-ba6ed Lightning tighter -bonbeEg with an escort Of Mustangs raided Germna aiEdromes an the PI0seti area of Ropapta on Saturday and flew on to bases ip Russia,
 At least q enemy planes and six locomotives were destroyed, the broadcast said, Faiel dumps and other installations were set efire. Fifteep enemy planes were shot down d0wp. FSye AHler,esp planes were lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24

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 The P0ntiGf yesterday granted Archbishop BpellMaD his second private alldlenee, since hls agHlYal from New York last week, V took place lD the P0Dllff's apartment From lisS to 6 D, m,-0Be Of the longest private audiences ever gganted by the Pope,
 The ehleg subject 0f theiF cons VeTsati0n was said 10 have been aD exposition Of a program f0Fmps lated by the Pope looking t0 the possibility Of as early peace in knF rope, It was pointed out that the Holy RatlleT, lhF0ngh the German Gathelle clergy, probably was better informed 0D the situation ill the Reich than any other neutral, and therefore perhaps was ln . better position 70 weigh the chances Of antl.waT elements Co Germany
 MsgTs, Giovanni M0nttni and D0menIoo TaFGlni met with Welss aaeEer Saturday, They asked him feF hls opinion on the possibility Of results from Rny attempt by the Holy See to Initiate peace talks ln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Jops Trapped ByU. $. Units On Peninsula
By FRANK TREMATNE

United Press War Correspondent
 Pearl Harbor. July 24.-UPD-- Marine assault forces. tightening their stranglehold on the Southern Marianas in preparation for thrusts toward the Philippines and Japan. gtormed inland from newly-won beachheads on Tinian against light opposition today in their second am- phibious invasion in three days.
 Troops of the 2nd and ath Ma rine divisions pushed ashore on Tin ian, an island two and one half miles south of Saipan and some 1900 miles south Of Tokyo. yesterday and quickly consolidated their beach, heads under cover of a tremendous land. naval and air bomhardment, q communique announced last night.
 "The landings are being contin- ued against light ground opposi- tions." the communique said.
 Even as the Tinian invaders struck out in a bid for quick cons quest of the 3s-square-mile island, other American forces on Guam, l20 miles to the south. sealed of the last escape corridor for an un- known number of Japanese trapped on the Orote peninsula, front dis patches said.
 Marine patrols effectively cut of the peninsula with it's Port of Apra and a big airsleld within B-29 bomb- ing range ot Japan by pushing south along the foresh0re of Apra harbor toward a junction with a brigade whose northern line cuts deep across the neck of the penin- sula.
 The landing on Tipian followed by only two days that one Guam southernmost and largest Of the AaFianas and a former American naval station, and came six weeks after the invasion of Saipaa. which was finally conquered July 8 at a cost of i5.O53 Americans killed, wounded or missing.
 Hundreds of earrier-hased planes joined the big guns of battleship, cruisers and destroyers in softening Tinian for invasion with an almost constant hombardment since the start of the MaTianas campaigp. Tn the final stages, artillery ems placed on Saipan pounded the island.
 The rain Of steel and explosives reached its peak just before the first wave of assault craft, amphl' hi0us tanks and other landing yes- sels nosed ashore on the beaches and spilled out their eaTgoes of bat- tle-hardened American jungle light ers,
 Though initial opposition was light, the Americans expected to e1l'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
sesbee Seriously Wounded es Picnic
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WbalRly, Mass, July 24wiuPlw An Easthampt0n man was held foF questioning today lD eanneell0n glth the shooting Of Q seebee dnrlne a picnic at Easkag's grounds here,
 Henry w, RakeF, at attached 70 tha naval base . DaVisVllle, h b was critically injured when an hIs Identified assallant fired four shots into the neFpyEmaklng crowd yess lRrday, The man held 0n suspicion allegedly Is the husband Of . woman who accompanied Baker to the pies ne,
 An emergency operation late last night 10 remove the bullet lodged in Bakers lnne pFovea ullsueeesInL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
1000 RAF Planes Drop 4,5OO Tons On Kiel, Berlin
BY WALTER cRONKETE gUnllea Press war csEsespsnaent

London, July 2A - (UPD - One thousand more RkE bombers blasted the great Kiel Naval Base Berlin Bucharest and military installations in France with some 4OO tons of bombs last night in of the heaviest night assaults in recent months.
 Other bombers rOared out from Britain above clouds in daylight today and German broadcastS reported Allied formations southwest and south Germany single enemy plane flew Danzg and West Prussia the broad casts said.
 While nght-raiding RAF Halifaxes, Lberators and WeingOns from Italy hit Bucharest capital of Romania strong force of British based Ourengned bombs dropped 260O tons of explosives Kie and at least 100 twin engned Mosquitoes cascaded twOton block busters Berlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Nevy New Hes 1,IN Vessels

Washington, gujy N,-tUPl-the steadily increasing pace of the waT against Sapap was nDdeFseored to' Asy by Navy announcement ef It'- ereases ip its sbiDbuilding program and naRpower requirements,
 The Navy said the ', s, fleet tp- eiNding RlI classes 0f ships. has sWelled iD Bts Gbipbnilding proeFaD aHd NeppoWer Teqtiirelnepts,
 The Nayg said tlae v, s, fleet lpT eluding alD classes 0f ships, has sWelled more tllap te,lstold since tlae start ef the 1efenRe program lD 1HJy, s9l0 and the coming I2 months NiN see additional expansion of ail oper' ati0ns,
 When the destroyer escort grade is completed 0p August le, z said, inc vast fleet wtil include llee eoipS bet sainswtaEee times the RhWeer all0at four years age
 Navy Secretary 5amas Rogestel said Nlat the strength of the eavy will he increased 4es 0Qe blen eb0Ye its present ailfb0TiTAC strength q a005. .000 by July, ae, ,lb, Sto keep pace giib bls seeelerstloe ef epefss ki0ns,p
 sWe have moyad faster ttsp .we had expseiss b the Pseifse,' / be ssss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Jops lnvode D. s. In Thouoht Only

Boston, yuly 24-Thousands ef misguided Japanese soldiers actually thought tbey were fighting ia California during Che battle fer New Guinea.
 This reyeaeld yesterday by two army men home on fur- lough. Gel. Richard ,. lIavessey of Newton and Cpl. Winston C. Briggs. Col. Havessey said the Japanese fleet circled Pacific Islands for weeks to give Che soldiers Che impression thai they were making che long voy- age te the western shores Of she Uaised States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Jop0nese In Bitter Fight With Chinese

Cbungking, July 2e-lUP)-hin. ese and Japanese lorces have fought a series of bitter battles during the past 4e hours ip and around the beseiged city Of Hepgyaupg while Allies aircraft, maintaining air supremacy in virtually all battle areas, continued widespread and destructive attacks on the enemy. a e0mmunique said today.
 Front dispatches said Chinese forces within Hengyang. together witb those beyond the cTumbling enemy ring around the city. car1 Fied out . series Of two-pr0nged at- taclks against still-resistlng Japanese.
 Enemy positions around the city gere bombed and strafed by AmeFis can and Chinese Air Forces,
 4 eommupigue from the istb U,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
50,549 Held As Prisoners In Normcndy
BY VIRGIL FINLEY

United Press War Correspondent
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, July 2a-(UP)-A German counter-at- tack has wiped out a day-old Amer icGn bridgehead across the Seyea river above the Periers transport hub, it was announced today. and Gen. Sepp Dietrich. old line Naz who took part in the Munich beer hall Putseh, was revealed to have taken over command Of the SS Pan ger Corps in Normandy.
 The British First army hammer ed out small gains below caen, caps turing a forest a few hundred yards south of Etayaux. in the only gains reported by supreme headquarters as clearing weather promised a break in the three-day stalemate caused by . drenching dowppouT.
 Dietrich. 52-year-Old Bavarian. street braKler in the Nazi party's infancy and personal friend Of Adolf Hitler, took over the 6S Pan- ger Corps command in what ap' peaned to be a move to put the reins in the hands of a genedal whose loyalty was above question.
 The appointment of Dietrich was seer at headquarters as another ip- dichtion that the German army
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Circus Fire Toll
 Reeehes I64 Tedey

Hartford, Com, Sgly st.-lUPl-- Miss Grace Clark, ae, died today at Hartford Municipal hospital from burns suffered ill the circus fire 0n July 6, Her death brought the total fire fatiliteis t0 l6t,
 Miss GlaTk's parents, Edward Ralps Clark and Emily Clark, both 9l, were EJund dead lp the circus tent RfteT the fire,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Catholic Communist
 Members Condemned

Vatican City, Judy st-lUPl- Pope Plus today attacked the Catlps allc Communist Party of Italy de- elaFing that Ssogle Of 0ar sons, als though they continue to call them. selves Catholics, follow theories that heVe been formally e0naemped' by the church,
 Supporting aD edii0Flal iD 0sser. Vat0Fe Romano which e0lldemned the CatID0lie Communist group, hls Holiness said that this organization appeared t0 have Forgotten the more llpp0vtaglt and aaeFed teaellS ingg Of the church"
 The Pope made bls comments during agl audience granted memv bers 0f the st Peters club, 2 relief organization,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Excise Taxes On Cos Urged
by ALBO D GBEoOHK

lUnite1 Press Gialf ceFTespeRAentl
 Washington, July 2s-iUPl-A postwar economy based on private enterprise but with reduced govern mental controls was proposed by the National Planning association today tp a report also urging abolition Of federal income taxes op corpora tons,
 The NPA, q private organization, said its ain was et national income of $40 O0o 600 900 produced by 6S., 0000l0 600 persons working @ hours e week, The report wag prepared by BeaEdsley Riinll, sponsor 0f the payg ag-you go tax plan and treasurer Of B, E. Macy ssld Co., new York, h GhristAap Some, president Of Ans einek, E0nDe k CO, and Leon HetS deTsoD, f0gmer price administrator, nov yitb the Research Institute of America,
 ED order to ey0id mass upempl0yv illept and the uncertain Fluctuations 0f competition, the report said, the goye1nment must coordinate the economy through 2 wellvplanned budget and Fact as Impartial referee iH elEaeting fiscal policies thet will mesh BJtbD private undertakings"
 Et eaid that abolition Of corporate tFlaolne taxes would permit aD eEv pansi0n of activity which g0uld lover the cost Of goods and services and paye the wey for wage itleEeasS es, Ae . substitute f0g the corporate taE tt recommended 2 frepehlse tag 0f Gye per cent t0 represent stAe value of eelng business ln corporate form"
 The report recommended as chief a0nfee 0f revenue for the gOVeFnv nleDt graduated individual Income
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
NOzis Resist
 British Army On Piso Front
BY ELEANOR PACKARD

lUniteA Press War CeTrespondentl
 Rome. July 24, - (UP( - Amer lean troops reached the south bank of the Arno river on a 30-mile front before Pisa today while British 8th Army Forces knifed forward against stubborn German rear guard resist- anee to within i2 miles of Florence.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans were blowing up bridges across the Arno on both sides of Pisa, leay- iEg only a few troops to fight de" laying action east Of the city.
 Fast-rolling Yankee columns smashed into Pisa early Sunday morning, cleared out isolated enemy pockets in the southern third Of the city and drove the Nazis back across the Arno into the city proper,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
Soldier Vote

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-24
RED TROOPS CAPTURE S|EDL LCE
Germans Lose Big Rail Junction As Reds Race Toward Polish Capital
BY JOSEPH ~. GRlOO

 Limited Press War Correspondentl
 London, July 24. = (UPl - Berlin reported today that the German army had lost Siedlce, big rail junction 90 miles due east of Warsaw, to Russian mobile forces racing toward the martyred Polish capital at an unprecedented pace.
 Nazi broadcasts indicating that the German defenses across Poland had fallen completely apart also said the Nazis had evacuated Jar> oslaw, rail hub, TO miles southeast of Warsaw and 90 miles northwest of Lwow.
 The Nazi admission that Siedlco had fallen, laying open the way Tor A Soviet spurt across the Poilan plains to warsaw, represented one Of the most sensationual advances scored by the Red army in it's sum" mer offensive.
 siedlce is 60 miles west Of Brese L.itovsk and about 35 miles beyond that last Russian position in thaE sector as reported by Moscow yes. terday. indicating an advance ok approximately that distance in ' single day.
 Nazis Entrapped
 A Berlin military commeniafeg reported that the German garfiso& of Lwow, greatest base in lower POI land. was 'conapressed in the cent4 of the city"--an apparent acknoSl. edgement that the Red Army hae encircled the big fortress ana trapped the Nazis who tried to holo out too long.
 A Moscow dispatch of the United Press said that from all fronts Sos yiet correspondents reported that the Red Army was stepping up IFS advance, without the slightest sign that the ever more desperate oers mans were even able to tmpeoe sts momentum.
 Tn vain the Germans wait feM the Russian offensive to slow dow;l'~ the newspaper PTayda said 0hs blows follow one on another witw steadily increasing strength.
 '"rhe Tout of the German army continues, mad desperate resistance does not save it, One after anothe1 the strong points protecting the roa0 to Germany are falling.
 'The Germans in East Prussia hear the Soviet guns. Revenge is moving on HltleTite Germany, The iron step of the Soviet hattallons shakes all Germany"
 The Berlin acknowledgement tllas Giedlce was lost came without wagn~ ing, since the latest Moscow adylees placed the Vanguard of the Red Army well eastward of that ralk and highway hub. the junction oe the Rrest Litoysk-Warsaw Polofsk~
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-08
Millions Rescued By
 Creek Relief Program
Officials Reviewing Achievements on Second Anni-
 versary Report S7S,OOO,OOO Spent in Saving Nation

soap Altogether said Mir skouras, in the years during which the associations program has been in operation. hslf a million tons of food have reached the Greek people.
 Supplementing the food shipments considerable quantities Of codliver oil and medical supplies and complete clothing outfits and shoes for 3Oo.- 900 children and 50,00o adults have teen forwarded to Greece. Most Of the clothing has been distributed Co the inhabitants Of the burned and bombed villages. whose devastation at the hands of Axis troops has left over 75O,OOO people homeless and ut- terly destitute.
 The monetary value of the relief consipnmentS for Greece since the inauguration of the program two years ago is in excess of S75 900 900.
 The success of the Greek relief program is due to the combined ef- forts of the Greek War Relief Asso- ciation; the United States. British Canadian, Swedish and Swiss Gov crnments; the American, Canadian Swedish and Greek Red Gross So- cieties: and the Greek War Relief
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Spyros P. Skouras. national pres. ident of the Greek War Relief asso. clation reported on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Greek Relief program. that since August ., i942. supplies sent to Greece have literally saved the Greek nation, providing daily food rations for to 5000 900, 900 people.
 In August. l942. 8 Swedish ships were chartered to carry l5.OO0 tons of wheat every month to Greece. other items were added later. By January. lo43, these vessels were transporting l8.o00 tons of food monthly. by April 2l.0o0 tons. By March. le44. the relief fleet totaled l6 ships. and the allotment of wheat and other foodstuffs reahced 24.0O0 tons. This amount has now been increased to 34.476 tons. In May alone . ships left the Canadian har- Dor of St. John carrying over 52.0O0 tons Of varied foodstuffs. sufficient to distribute l4 ibs per person to every inhabitant of Greece. Tn ad- dition to 34000 tons of wheat the cargoes included quantities of fish. dried vegetables. dehydrated soups. rice, spaghetti. milk, sugar. jam and