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Evening star., 1944-05-22
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Copt. Lusher
 Left S16,48o

An estate of $16, ,489.51 was left by the late Captain Albert O. Lusher former executive at the Scovill Manufacturing Company, according to an inventory of the estate now on file at the office of Probate Judge Patrick Healey.
 Made up principally of real-estate and stocks, the estate as appraised, is as follows: lots on Tower road, valued at $15,800 and containing a mortgage in the amount of $5 300 for an appraised equity of S10,000.
 Stock holdings of the deceased consisting of IA shares of Scovill Manufacturing Company at s, APO and an Investors Syndicate certi- ficate valued at $465. Miscellaneous holdings as appraised consisted of accrued salary in amount of $974, an automobile valued at $200 and a one-half interest in U. S. bonds valued at $1,428.
 Captain Lusher who died Feb ruary 9, 1914 was associated with the Scovill Company for a quarter of a century. He was commissioned a captain in the U. s. Army during World War I.
 Appraisers of the estate were: Francis T. Reeves and Chauncey P. GoSs. The Citizens and Manufac- turers National Bank was named administrator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Bombers Hit Ronn0nio

Eastern Command USSIAF, Rus sia, June 12. = (UP) - A coordl- mated force, comprising more than 1000 American heavy bomhers and fighters from Russian and Italian bases smashed four enemy air and communications centers in Eonannia and Yugoslavia yesterday in the path of an anticipated Red Army land drive into the Balkans.
 With some of the planes using fhG rev shuttle system between Italy and Russia, the American aerial forces battered the German com- munication points at Constalltas Romanian Black Sea port: Giurglii, south of Bucharest on the Bul9ar- ian border: Focsani, 90 miles north- west of R0manian capital, and the rail center of Smederovc, southeast of Belgrade. Yugoslayia.
 One plane from the entire xaiding force was lost and returning crew members reported they obtained ex- ccilent bombing results in the raid. carried out in excellent weather.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Danger Seen In JopGoins

Chungking, June 12.-(UP)-Twc powerful Japanese armies were re- ported beating down desperate Chi nese resistance at both ends of g 250-mile gap in the Canton -Hankow railway today and Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the U. s. 14th Air Force, warned that an enemy victory might cut China off from her western Allies and pro- long the war against Jaapn foi years.
 The northern wing of the two pronged Japanese drive, spearhead- ed by 80O00 veteran enemy troops broke into the outskirts of China's main Human province base al Changsha over the weekend ano late dispatches indicated the city may already have fallen.
 Another 10000 Japanese, support ed by hundreds of tanks and mo- bile guns, famed out thorugh the marshy rice fields northeast and northwest of Changsha in an ef- fort to split the Chinese defenses
 Simultaneously, strong enemy ar mored columns raced northwarc from Canton toward the railway junction of Kukong, no miles above Denton and about 250 miles south of Changsha.
 Military spokesmen described tht enemy offensive as the heaviest un- dertaken by the Japanese since they overyhelmed Canton and Hankow ir 1888.
 Channault told United Press Wal Correspondent Albert Ravenholt al his 14th Air Force headquarters
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Father Held In Shooting Of His Son
otelephoto from NEA Telephoto)

Judson Sprouse, 23, 251 Porter St.. Watertown, shot in the chest during an altercation with his father in front of his home last night, con- tinued in poor condition at Water bury hospital this morning. His name is on the danger list.
 Meanwhile State Troopers Angelo Bussa and William Towne of Litch- field barracks began an tnvestiga- ton in the incident on direction from States Atty. Howard Roberts
 The vistim's fatehr, Stephen Sprouse, 56, Atwood Ct., Watertown Is being held, in the Watertowr lockupp in lieu of $5,OO0 bonds set by Town Court Judge Giiertn B Carmody on charges Of breach ot the peace and assault with @ dan- gerous weapon.
 Police said the shooting climaxed quarrels between the father and son for the past five years, several of which had to be settled in the town court.
 Watertown police Officers Louis Jordan and Columbo Godio said the incident began as a fist fight be- tween the two men. Then the father drew a gun from his pocket, and as the son attempted to wrench 1t from him, 1t went off. The boy staggered away and entered his
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Nothing But Words and Words

Washington. June l2-UPl- Rep. Alvin F. Weichel. R., Ohio, charged today that ''to save time and equipment" the Office of Price Administration answered an Ohio farmers query about poultry prices by sending him "a mass of print cd matter" totaling s0.00O words.
 He inserted into the Gen. gressiOnaI Record a letter from farmers wife asking the OPA for prices on live and dressed turkeys.
 In reply, he said, the farm- CT received printed slip stat ing that OPA was adopting new methods to ''savc tiEie and equipment" and "3s pages of printed matter covering nearly s0.ooo words, but no answer tO the farmer and his wife who had requested a simple answer on the price they could sell their turheys.H
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Noxon Wins First Point

Pittsfield, Mass, June 12.-(UP)- The defense attorney John F. NoX- on's murder trial drew from a state witness today the admission that an electric wire with which the defendants iInbecile infant son was electrocuted might have been de- fecitve when purchased.
 Testifying before Superior Judge Abraham E. Pinanski and a jury, Clifford O. Hull of Bridgeport, Conn, an expert from the General Electric O., plant there, acknowl- edged under cross examination that,
 l., The trouble cord" wire with which 6-months old Lawrence Noxon was electrocuated last Sept. 22 might have been passed by inspec- tors though poorly constructed.
 2. The wire might have been damaged in shipping accident.
 3. The covering of the wire might have been weakened by oil, acid or heat while stored in Noxon's gar- age and later broken by unusual pressure.
 Hull designer of the wire, had testified Friday ana was minutely inspecting a strand of wire in the courtroom. <
 The defense already has indicated that it will seek to show the weak ened insulation was broken by be- ing slammed in door. The state contends that the 47-year old so- cialite defendant removed the tn- sulation with a knife, wrapped it around his sons bare arm and plugged 1t into a household light socket.
 Few spectators were in the court during the tedious testimony and even Noxon's attractive wife Mar garet was absent.
 Socially-prominent summer resi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Red Armies Up The karelian Isthmus

Moscow, June 12-(pU)-Karel!a front dispatches said today that milet-long columns of Russian tanks guns and troops were boring through the broken ManManhaina line Abuve Leningrad in hot pursuit of Fin nish forces retreating so fast they were unable to blow up roads and bridges.
 The turn of the Finnish satellites has come" the newspaper Prayda said of the Red Army offensive to knock Finland out of the war. 'The Germans didn't help the Films. The Germans aren't going to save the Films. The same fate awaits Ger many and her other satellites"
 Reports from the first front blast- ed open by the Red Army in its summer offensive indicated that the Films manning the defenses across the Karelian Isthmus were beaten badly in the first few hours and now were in precipitate flight.
 The initial impact of Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's assault crashed through the Mannerheim line on 8 25-mile front and in 36 hours the Russians had advanced IS miles within 48 miles of Viipuri, first big objective in the Soviet push which broke a Hull of 3l months on the Finnish front.
 GA Finnish communique reported intense fighting all day and night on the western part of the Karelian 1sthnius. Tank-led Russian forces repeatedly. attacked Finnish forti- fications, 1t said. claiming that ls Soviet tanks were knocked out)
 Soviet editorial comment and front dispatches made 1t evident that the Red Army was bent on eliminating Finland from the war, perhaps to clear its right flank in preparation for the main campaign against Germany in concert with the Allied offensiyes in the west and south.
 "The Films were offered generous
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Attack In
 Philippines
BY WILLIAM Y. THREE.

United Press War Correspondent
 Pearl Harbor, June l2-(UP)-A two-day aerial offensive on enemy bases protecting the Philippines ap- peared under way today following the second attack by powerful U. s, Pacific fleet task force on the Marianas and the first land-based raid by. Liberator bombers on Palau Island.
 Virtually ali types of combat ships including -battleships, were believ- ed to have comprised the task forces which struck in the Marianas Sat- ssiay Q batter the Principal Is- lands of Saipan, Tinian and Guam A the second fleet attack in four months on the strategic group.
 The assault, which took the Pac- file fleet units within 800 miles of the big Japanese base at Truk, came a day after long-range Liberator hombers from the southwest Pacific made their initial raid on Palau. 560 miles east of the Philippines and only $50 miles from Americanrheld Mokmer airdrome on Biak Island in Dutch New Guinea.
 A brief communique by Admiral Chester w. Nimits described the task force as powerful" indicating that hundreds and possibly thou sands of carrier -based planes were hurled against the Marianas. which are about 1900 miles from both the Philippines and Japan proper.
 After the attack, the fleet resunl- ed radio silence and Nimitz' com mnninue said that further details arc not now available z Results Of task force operations usually are not diSaInred until the fleet has ystIirnr Nd lo &Ase WakEEn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
OpticoI Units
 For Army Fronts

Southbridge, Mass, June l2-(UP) Establishment of portable. one man optical units to provide speedy spectacle service for front-line fighters who break or lose their glasses was announced today by the American Optical CO.
 First of their kind to be delivered to the army, the miniature optical shops will be transported by plane. jeep or truck close to the battle area where spectacle repairs and replacements can be made. the com- pany said in an army-approved an- nouncemeTt.
 Weighing about 400 pounds each, the portable units have been de- signed in accordance with army and medical department specified ton. Officials said that an army optical technician. working with tools and equipment the unit. can make : pair of spectacles in A to le minutes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
BY K. H. SHACKFORD Limited Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, June 12-(UP)-- Secretary of State Cordell Hull will return to the capital this week from a short vacation to plunge into manifold diplomatic problems. many of which are at critical stage.
 Military events have. of course, overshadowed diplomatic moves. but last week was one of the most ac- tive in the field for a long time. There was some good news and some not so good, indicating that Allied diplomats have as long and hard a road to go as do their nili- tary compatriots.
 Among things on Hull's sched- ule upon his return from Hershey, Pa, is a resumption of discussions on an international security organ ization to keep the peace. Great Britain and China already were understood to have sent their for- maj acceptances of Hull's invitation to confer here and Russia has sig nified that It's formal acceptance is forthcoming.
 A survey Of international prob- lens which ere current and on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE

Unlteu Press SteIk COkEespOhuens
 warshington, June l2. (UP)- Signs pointed today toward pos- sible battle among Republican plat form drafters over the party stand in its farm plank on such contro- versial issues as subsidies, support prices and benefit payments
 The resolutions committee will be- gin work on the l044 platform in Chicago on June 21. A special com- mtitee chosen by party leaders at the Mackinac Conference in Sep tember, l943, is scheduled to meet about June IS. and attempt to har- monize the various conflicting views into a united program.
 The decisions reached on the agricultural plank could influence the far mvote which will figure in- portantly in the November elections.
 Despite the insistence of one g o. D. spokesman ht at harmony reigns, disagreement over the farm program was apparent among coli- gressional- Republicans One faction was understood to favor a general plank which would, for example, skirt the question nf subsidies On thp ground that fheY arc wartime
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
FDR Faces
 NewMojor Veto Fight
BY D. W. DITTMER
lited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, June 12. - (UP) - President Roosevelt and Congress appeared headed today toward arl- other major veto battle, this time over an amerdment-studded Price Control Extension Bill denounced by the administration as a menace to the fight against imitation.
 Prospects that MT. Roosevelt would veto the measure threatened to upset congressional plans to re- cess June a or 24 for the .Republi- cas1 and Deii1ocratic Conventions The bill already has been passed by the Senate and now is before the House.
 The Senate approved the measure after writing in series of restrict i've provisions including the so-called Bankhead cotton amendments which the OPA said would add $350, ,000,- 900 a year to consumer clothing prices. The House was expected to complete work on the measure late today or tomorrow after putting in some changes of its own.
 The House tentatively has ap- proved amendments to boost the price of crude oil, eliminate the Office of Price Administrations highest price line" limitation order and to require processors of meat and flour to submit proof that they have passed subsidy benefits on to farmers before they would be en- titled to government subsidy pay ments.
 Congressional leaders conceded that hopes were only slim for com- pletion of measure that would be acceptable to both houses and to the president before the Repubh-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
U. s. Troops Have Driven IS Miles On 6O- Front
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY'

United Press War COrespOndentl
 Allied Supreme Headquars terS, London, June 12.-(UR)s = American troops have driven 18 miles inland from the French invasion beaches, the deepest penetration of a 60-mile-Iong Allied beach, head, it was announced Offi4 cially today, and last were reported fighting violent hand -to-hand battles in Carentan, the fall of which was reported by the German high command.
 The situation in Normandy was described officially as ia little better than satisfact- ory" as the Allied armies rounded out the first week of the invasion campaign with steady advances.
 A spokesman at General Dwight D. Eisenhower'S su- preme headquarters revealed that American troops had by passed Montebourg, IA miles southeast of Cherbourg, and were swinging up the penin- sula toward that great port which field dispatches had reported less than 2 miles ahead of them.
 Impressive gains by It Gen. Omar N. Bradley's army on both sides of the Carentan hinge" of the German defenses trimming the AL lied beachhead posed Q mounting threat to Nazis in the upper part Of the peninsula with being cut off be- fore they could be pulled out or re- lieved.
 Officials agreed that if Carentan, strongest German base in the de- lenses of the lower CherbOurg Pen- insula, had been occupied--as Ber- lin reported-it would be soon.
 Below Carentan the United States forces registered the biggest gains of the last 24 hours, they completed the occupation of the Cerisy Forest below Lison and drove almost to st. Lo, biggest rail and highway hub immediately south of the Cherbourg Peninsula. That was the deepest penetration of any Allied spearhead driven into France.
 The Germans were understood to be packing troops and armor into St. Lo, which they must try to hold at all costs if they are to remain on the stubby finger of Norman land tipped by Cherbourg. the richest prize of the invasion's early phase
 Thirty miles east of St. I.o. that NaZi anchor base of Caen Wos threatened with eIivelopment as British forces swung around 1t to the east, seizing a number of yil- lages and getting into position for forging an iron ring around the stubborn holdout town.
 A 1,750-plane force of Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighters spearheaded the daylight assault. Other American and British planes
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Air Armada Aids Men ha Normandy
elephoto from NEA Telephoto)
BY WALTER CRONKITE

O1 WALL EAS NAsQkNHAA4G United Press War Correspondent
 London, June 12-(UP)-A fleet of possibly 1,75O American heavy bombers and fighters struck the chain of German fighter bases be- hind the French invasion coast to- day, while more than 5000 other Allied warplanes swarrned over the Norman battlefields under rapidly clearing skies that promised the embattled ground forces their strongest aerial cover since D-Day.
 Striking furiously to deprive the hard-pressed German coastal arnl- les of their last vestiges of air SUD- port, almost 1000 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators ranged over vast arc ot northern France to bomb and burn many" of the encmy's vital advanced air bases.
 Up to 750 Tunderbolt, Lightning and Mustang fighters accompanied the Giant raiders and swooped in low to diye-bomb and machine gun the Nazi fighter nests.
 Among the major objectives blasted by the American heavies were airdromes at Lille -Nord, Mont didier, Evreux- -Fauville, Dreux, Cit- ry-En- -Artois and Beauyais- Tile, all within a 60-mile arc of the channel coast.
 Simultaneously, other American heavy bombers raced in behind the coastal battle lines to send tons of blockbusters crashing down on bridges and road lines over which the Nazis were rushing supplies and endorsements to the beach, heads.
 Some Opposition
 Some enemy fighter opposition was encountered in the American sweeps and early reports indicated that the. Luftwaffe, after a week of mysterious inactivity, might be ready to open its battle for the defense of Hitler's shaken west wall.
 A force of American thunderbolts that streaked down on German
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
New Risings In Fronce
By JOHN A. HARRIS
Initcd Press Staff Correspondent


 London. June l2. UP)-Un- precedented uprisings were reported throughout France today in Spanish dispatches from the French from tier as German controlled radio stations warned all patriots they would be shot and said that the big naval base of Toulon, on the south ern coast had been bombarded by Allied naval vessels.
 The reputed attack on Toulon and claims of a subsequent naval en- gagement in which a British war ship was set afire were broadcast by the Vichy radio, nut not con- drned by any other source.
 Travellers reaching the Spanish frontier said that approximately a half million French patriots were taking part in the uprisings, par ticularly in the Tarbes and Toulouse areas in southwestern France, and had engaged German troops and French militiamen in bloody fights
 The patriots were said to be well- armed, possibly with supplies and equipment dropped by parachute from the Allies. Sabotage was wide- spread, 1t was said, with main roads and railroads blocked or torn up.
 Reliable reports reaching Spain said all communication between aBrdeaux and Paris had been inter- rupted, with confusion on the seri- ously damaged roads worse than during the time France fell.
 Radio information obained in Algiers farom inside France said that Grenoble. near the Italian bor- der, had been isolated for the past two days by French resistance forces and Zurich dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph said the patriots were trying to storm the town.
 As reports of similar uprising in other areas, especially through Southern France, continued to come in from various sources. Vichy and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
CordeH Hull Returns To Many Diplomatic Problems

which Hull is expected to resume work at once:
 France-this is the most critical problem. Gen. Charles De Gaulle, chairman of the French Committee of National Liberation, now term- mig itself the provisional govern ment of the French Republic. has described Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower's plans for administration of liberated France as unacceptable That attitude throws a shadow over his expected visit to Washington late this month or early in July. If he declines to accept the temporary military administration set up by Eisenhower, there would appear to be little chance of his changing President Rooseyelt's adamant stand against recognizing him as head Oi a French provisional government.
 Poland-The outlook is more hope. fnl than that for France but it stll Is far from a rapprocnement witf Russia. Prime Minister stanislan Mikolajcza of the Polish govern. ment in exile will conclude hls con. feEences here this week Hope f0I
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-12
Nazis Still
 Jew Killers

Washington, June i2- (UP) - President Roosevelt reported to Con- gress today that the Nazs-despite the fact that they face certain military defeat-"are determined to complete their program of mass ex- termination" of minorities.
 In a report on steps taken by the government to provide refuge for victims of Nazi cruelty who have fled Europe. MT. Roosevelt said this nation was appalled, "by the systematic persecution of helpless minority groups by the Nazis."
 "As the hour of the final defeat of the Hitlerite forces draws closer. the theory of their insane desire to wipe out the Jewish race in Europe continues undiminished," the pres ident said.
 '"This is but one example: Many Christian groups also are being murdered. Knowing that they have lost the war, the Nazis are deter mined to complete their program of mass extermination. :;
 "This program is but one mani- festation of Hitler's aim to salvage
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