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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Patton Leads Men Glory

Supreme Headquarters. AEP, Aug, t5-fUP)-old blood and gnts Is on road back.
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower an- n0uneed at his advanced command post today that LA. Gen. George s, Patton. the blusteFy, T0ugh-E riding tank specialist with Q gift for get- ting himself in the d0g-h0use, Is leading the American motorized speaTheads in their race to trap the Germany army in western France,
 The appointment, kept seeTete by the Allied command until Patt0p's troops had damned the enemy into his present dilemma, showed ElseDs h0Wers confidence that old blood and guts Is an inspired leader Of motorized troops,
 Patton had been ip OhseuFity after tgO mistakes which caused him 70 be denounced lp Congress, First was when he TepTimanded Q patient ln Q military hospital iD Sicily as Q COW, ard and slapped his face, Patton did not know the man was Q victim Of battle fatigue-pog did the angry
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Order French
 To Rise Up

London. Aug. i5-(UP)IThe first call from the French committee of National Liberation for Q nation wide uprising against German oc- equation forces went out to the en- slaved millions of France today.
 The American Br0adcasting sta ton in Europe and the British Broadeasting Corporation broad casting station in Europe and the British Broadeasting Corporation broadcast detailed instructions from the national committee for the up- rising all last night and early to- 6ay.
 'sThe hour of liberation sounds, l" the broadcasts said, Follow the di- rections of your leaders. The pa- tional uprising vii be the prelude to !iheTati0D."
 Patriots in the various sections of France were urged to follow these instructions:
 'Brittany--all must cooperate with the French forces of the in- teTi0r, destroy enemy groups and isolate gaTTisons which may attempt to reach ports or escape to the east,
 Region north of the L0ire-atv tempts must be made to seize arms, Form small mobile groups and join the F'PI. Workers in factories pro, Ylding the enemy, must strike and strike again,
 Region between the Loire and the GaT0nne- patriots must join the FFg and haFTass enemy forma- ti0ns which may try to go from south to north in the direction of
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Hollywood, Aug, gh - tuFD - Mrs, Tommy lPat panel Dorsey has Q date this afternoon ybth the district attorney to tell him whether she was sitting with her hands lp her lap at the nov famous bFawl D the Dorsey apartment or whether she Whaeked of the end Of Jon Halls nose with an elsht-lneh butcher knife,
 The classic pT0b0sels has been patched up with sptuFes and plnk sticking plaster and Hall was baek at work making etnematie love io Maria M0nteE. He's not w0rFled about the nose, but t the snllFy' eyed Mrs, Dorsey so much as hlnn that he patted her any place but on the shoulder, he's going to sue tog el00. 900 That he has promised. 50 has hls lady lawyer,
 Daily since the battle royal 70 noFaey'a apartment at dawn Q Woek ago. District Attorney Pred N. How
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15

One observation plane flew 60 miles inland without sighting ony IoVse GeEmon troop com cemtVotions, but later reports said AmeTieon ThundeFboIts were dive-bOmbing Maxi tonks attempting 10 VeOeh inc eoost.
 First reports soid Amevieon and French infontTymen, inc pick of inc veteran armies messing in the Mediterranean theoter toE months, mode up inc bulk of the ossoult force put ashore by on oEmodo Of some 800 woFships end tTonspOTt craft.
 Amevicon and British poFotVoops and oiE- borne infantry speorheoded inc ottoek, but it wos indicoed thot the initioI British army poT- tieipotion wos limited to this phase of the in- vosion.
 Reports triclling back from the thousands of Allied Ayers who swept unchaIIenged the beaches said the invading Army striking swiftly nland in drive aimed to the northwest at the Rhone Valley, less than 90 miles west of Marseille. By id-mOrning aII the landings were proceeding successfully according to schedule against only light ground opposition and no air opposition" head- quarters communique announced.
 "The supporting air-bOrne operation also successfully executed"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Promotion For
 Blood And Cuts

Washington, Aug, l5 - lpel -- The Senate Military AtEaiFs com. naittee today unanimously approves the promotion Of Lieutenant 6ep' eTal George s, Patton, JFy 10 Uie permanent rank Of Major Denefal,
 The committees appfOyal came T few hours after General Dwight p' RisenhOWeF, supreme Allied eoW' mandeT, aDD0llneed that Patton was leading Allied m0t0FlSed speaF' heads that trapped fhe GeFhsb Seventh Army tD France,
 Eenat0g 4. B, fHappyl' Chandler D., Ky, ip announcing the eommltv tees action, said that membeFs lelt Patton had been 'dhelplllleg enough" for three s0ldlersslapplns incidents which occurred during the Hielllan campaign nearly Q year ago.
 Chandler said PattOD's leadership Of the Third American Army slTlk' ing toward Paris had prompted tDe committee to e0nfiFm the promo ton today,
 "Tbe committee did not feel v Chandler said, "that We should say t0 a man who is . great soldier, ail0 has done Q great job Cor the country ln Africa, Co Sicily, and n0W ] 2 France, that he could not have his promotion. We felt he he'd been disciplined enough"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Reds Forge Are Around
 East Prussi0

Moscow, Aug. IS. (UP)-Tgo powerful Soviet armies forged a huge arc around East Prussia from the Niemen river t0 the southern approaches Of the Masurian Lakes today with one salient within less than i5 miles of German soil.
 Driving rapidly northgard through the Biebraza marshlands in q move tO by-pass the Masurians, Gen. George Zakharov brought his 2nd White Russian Army into the fortress city of Osoyets in the closest thrust to German territory from the south.
 At the northern end of the tight ening l38-Inile semi-circle, Gen. Iyan D. cherniakhoysky's 3rd White Russian Army gas battling against strong enemy resistance around Raseiniai. ten miles northeast of the East PEllssian city Of Ttlsit,
 (Jhe Berlin Radio said Russian forces had forged across the Visiula River north of Warsaw and cap- tured an unidentified locality. The exact place of the crossing was not given. The Russians last were re- ported at Radzymin, i2 miles from the Vistula at the bend above war saW),
 Zahar0y has been moving swiftly northwest of BialystOk-Lyck for the past three days in a apparent at- tempt to flank the MasuItan Lakes, scene of the historic clash between Czagist and German armies almost exactly 30 years ago.
 At the northern end Of the Rus sian frontier, Col. Gen. Ivan l, Mas lenikOy's srd Baltic Army was Tae- ing across southern Estonia ln q drive that threatened to nip Of the northern end of the country,
 Striking l6 miles in one day, Mas lenikOV's forces vest of Lake Fskog drove to the town Of Antsla, V miles east Of the Riga-TallinD Fail' road.
 The thrust deepened the wedge into southeastern Estonia and ears riad the Soviet troops to wliblD Ss miles of the Gulf of Riga
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German 7th Army BeingSla2ghtered

Outside Argentan, Aug. la - tD. PnD - Field Marshal Gunther Won KlEge's Seventh German Army, Trapped between Argentan and Fa- lnisn, was being slaughtered relent- lessly today in what one American general described as the ''greatest infantry victory in centuries"
 Prom this village you can watch the Maxi army being ground to pieces through the wooded hills and grain fields fianking the river Orne.
 Powdery columns of smoke bii- low skyward marking the points where b0mbers were working on concentrations Of German tanks which tried unsucceSsfuily to break out of the death trap into which they have been jammed for the last 2s hours. It blends with dozens Of other great fires. each Q funeral pyre for some abortiye German at- tempt tO get free.
 Today the air corps and tie arttl- lery we're having their innings. slamming ton upon ton Of explosives into the German pocket. But this was purely an infantry victory. lt was the man with the rifle. march- four and five days without sleep, who closed the trap.
 For the first time iil days, eight heavy panzer tanks and 20 armored vehicles made a break for it. The still burning tanks and the undrIed blood of dead Kazis illustrated the futility of the attempt.
 Some Nazi tanks were so short Of fuel they ran out Of gasoline and Were blown up by their crews.
 The great slaughter was being carried out through a 20 mile gap between ATgentan and Falaise.
 You can't see exactly what is g0- ing on in the forests and along those dirt roads over the ridge but it is not difficult to imagine for just down the road is q forest where the Germans tried to battle their way through during the night,
 There is nothing left but a black ened forest of dead trees, eharred bodies and hulks Of wrecked Yehi- eles where one panzeT division came to an ingloFions end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
conannendo Kelly Gets In Dutch

Fort BenDlng, 6ap Aug, lb,--tuFl -JT-sgt, charles D, lCommand0l Kelly, the 0ne-man army from Pittsburgh, end one of the great American war heroes. was confined 10 the military reservation today pe' cause he 0VeFstayed 2 tnglough,
 A court martial fined him SEQ and ordered him to stay tn camp cons fines for 60 days for having been absent without leave,
 The 2S-yeaF old medal ot honor winner, whose heTolsm at Alatavllle Italy has become an army legend, testified at his e0nFtrmaFtial that he tried 10 return to camp on tlne, but everywhere he stopped nc was delayed by her0-w0FahlppeFs,
 It was one celebration after an' other ln his honor. Kelly said
 Hls sentence, regarded ns lelllenl for belng A. w. Q. L. ID wartime, called Cor a eib monthly reduction from his pay for e period of nlx Eaanths 10 addition lo eonslnenasnt'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Poles Seize Mt. Vecehio

Rome, Aug, Ib " fUPl " Polish troops Of the British Eighth Army have captured Monte Veechi0, tive miles due east Of FrOHt0ne, the bigbway junction 28 miles inland from the Italian Adriatic coast which they occupied the previous day, it was announced today,
 West Of the Polish units, Indian troops in the rugged mountain area north Of Arezz0 occupied several strategic positions evacuated by the retTeaijng Germans, The rest Of the Italian front was comparatively quiet except for palrollng and ag' tlllery dIels,
 British troops continued mOpplDg up snipeTs ln Emp0li, in the pocket Ol resistance south of the Arn0 river and west of Florence,
 German smelling Of the southern section of Florence had almost ceased, front dispatches reported, while enemy and Fascist snipipe within tie city had sbhslded sufns elently for Allied military g0Yerns aeDt officials to increase the flow Of food, water and medical supplied 10 the inhabitants,
 American and German patrols elashed around P0niedeTa and at Iar0tta, three miles southeast, but lhe western sector held by the U, b, Fifth Drmy generally was anlet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Mrs. Dorsey To Tell D. A. All About The Big BrnvL

ser has been hearing the stories Of the battleTs examining tbelr wounds and inspecting thelF ruined habegs dasheFy. Only trouble, according 10 the D, A., Is that the stories vary as much as do the shades 0f purple and green surrounding the eyes Of most 0g the participants,
 Dorsey, the genial gentleman Ot swing who seemed 70 have Invited everybody in CiFO's night club to hls h0nse for Q night cap, claimed Hall had been making passes-Wbat kind 0g passes he would not say-ail even ct Miss Dane, Dorsey added that he invited he-man Hall onto the balcony for . talk and said be probably hurt himself when he stumbled over . geFanlnm pot.
 Hall said how could he have been stabbed in the nose, the neck and the shoulder by geEanlum pot9 he
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War Of Humiliation
 Rages In Normandy

Supreme Headquarters, AEF, August IS. - (UPl - Allied planes, tanks and in- fantrymen opened the battle of annihilation on some 100000 cornered fighting Germans in the Normandy pocket today as veteran Canadian troopers and the Blood and Cuts" armor of It. Gen. George s. Patton's American 3rd Army virtually slammed shut the enemy'S last escape route to the east.
 Patton's slashing tank columns pounded up from the Argentan to within eight miles or less of Falaise ghile the Canadian list Army stormed southward to within about two miles of that town and out across one of the two main high ways eastward to Lisieux.
 Front reports suggested that the escape corridor might have been cut to Less than 70 miles. and the fiam- ing guns of the Canadian and American forces already had made that marrow life line impossible.
 Wave upon wave Of Allied war; planes shutiled necessarily over the doomed Nal army, bombing and strafing every moving target and turning the entire area into a burning charnel house.
 Headquarters reports indicated that Field Marshal Gunther yOn Kluge had abandoned all hope Of eytrieating the remnants of his l2 divisions from the pocket and was reforming his battle-wearied troops for q death fight aginst the Allied
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Cory Grant And BobsPOrt

Hollywood, Aug, lh. (UP)-Dtme store heiress Barbara Hutton, who inherited s40.000.000 and married a prince, Q count, and movie star, adv mitted today she has separated from Actor Cary Grant and said there was mo chance of a reconciliation" "
 Miss Hutton said she and Grant had planned 8 separation last June but postponed D ghen her former husband, Count Kurt Hauggitg- Re- ventl0w, refused to return her son to her custody,
 "CaFy Eeeided to stand by me" she said, But he Isn't happy and
 think it's best We part now, Res sides, It's unfair and dishonest to take advantage 0g his name and protection because ! am fighting to hold my ehild'
 The handsome Grant, who waived any rights to the el0, 900 f0F1 tune of his bride before their wed- ding In aal2 and the unhappy lit, tle rich girl who never hfiOFe had mR, sled . eomm0neT have agreed to go their separate ways, t was learned.
 Nobody was at home at either the big house on the hill which Miss Hutton maintains with two complete sets Of furniture to change with her mood, or at the snug beach house of actor Grant, where his stepa0n got asthmatie attacks from swimming in kis pool,
 The stepson was believed to have aggravated the Grants marital troubles,
 He Is Lance Hangwltz-R ReVenll0w, nlne- yeaTv0ld son Of Miss Hutton and Count Kurt Haugwitz- ReVent- low. nov vaeationing ln Vancouver, B. c. Tc avoid a suit the mother
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Dutch New Guineo Americans To Wed

An Allied Forward Base, Dutch New Guinea, Aug. l5. -(UPD-Llnnea Caroline Aim. gren, Red Cross worker eg W0r- chester, Mass, and Lt. gehn Murray Jenkins III ee Holly wood, Cal, sill be the first American couple to be married 0n liberated Netherlands soil, the Aneta News Agency an- n0uneed today.
 The ceremony will be per- formed by their commanding officer who has received eight pages 0f eabled instructions 0n the Netherlands lndles maT- Tiage laws.
 Under Dutch law, marriage by the local eivll administrator must pEeeede aBy religious rites.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
ALLIES OPEN 41H FRON II LAND ON SOUTHERN SHORE OF FRANCE
 Encounter Minimum Of Resistance

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Victory Certain

Victory is certain" he proclaimed in a ringing mes sage to the people of France. Remember 1913"
 Even as Wilson's armies Stormed ashore, General Charles De Gaulle's Branch Committee of National Lib- eration broadcast a call to arms to all of France. order ing patriots throughout the country to rise against the Nazi occupation armies.
 General Sir Henry Matt land Wilson, supreme com- mander in the Mediter. ranean, declared that his forces would sweep the Ger mans from their path. march nOrthward through the heart of France and join up with the Allied Armies closing in 0n Paris from Normandy.
 "The last hlOw is about 70 he stfuck," the eOmin'ttee declared
 The first special Allied eosnmuni, que ann0uncing the success Of ihe landing carefully masked the prlns clpal assault points in an obyioH attempt to spread further eonfll, sion among the German e0asta gaFrisons,
 Berlin bFoadeastS, however, Eaio the main weight Of the iDyasiOl fell upon . rocky, I6-mile stretch ol coast extending westward from Si Raphael, l5 miles southeast oi Cannes and 6R miles west Of Maj seille, 10 Cape Gamafat
 4 full battalion Of American par troops about 1000 men, landed Hl the 6t, Raphael area, the Nazi DhB News agency said, while anOtbtg landing attempt at Port pgamont, four miles te the east, was repulse
 Herman reports Of furious hgh
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RIyLLETT JOINS ARMY

AlglerS, Aug. Ik.(uPl-Willlam c, Bullltt, former U. 6. ambassador 70 France, has enlisted ln the French army, with the rank os major, tt was announced teddy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Strike HoIts Sub Building

Groton, Conn. Aug. l5-OUP)- Production of submarines at the huge Electric Eoat Company yards was halted completely today, com pany officials announced. when ITS to 80 per cent" Of the $500 employees on the day shift failed to report for work.
 Edward DaTrow. personnel mana ger, said the company was waiting for the Independent 6hipbuilding and Marine Engineers Union. which called the strike Monday after work CTS had voted against 1t Saturday, make . move" toward arbitration, The company is one of the worlds largest producers of submarines,
 Charles Sulsman. counsel for the union. said that 90 per cent of all workers both on the day and night shift have joined the strike.
 More than 50 state policemen guarded approaches to the plant, but there was no reports of violence,
 Efforts to RFhitrate the dispute yesterday ended in Q stalemate, ua- lon end company officials agreed, Chairman of the State Board of ATs bltration Burton Camp and Deputy state Labor Commissioner John T, Hayes were continuing today their attempts ln an effort to get work CTS back producing submarines
 0Fot0n, Conn. Aug, sS-luPl- The strike at the Electric Boat Com. pany, called by the Independent EhipbuildlnG and Marine Engineers Union, continued today after an aFs hltratlon meeting of company and union officials reached no eoneln'
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Evening star., 1944-03-24

Miss Sba1U Feted
At Tea T0dav

Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, curator of
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, will
be the guest of honor at tea this
afternoon in the Dennison School
lat Thirteenth and Allison streets,
when the Elementary Classroom
Teachers Association will entertain.
Miss Mary Dillon, president of the
hostess organization, will receive
and Lloyd Hinton, one of the young
Victory gardeners at the Children's
Museum of Washington, will make
| the introductions. Miss Shaw will
give a talk tomorrow afternoon at
the museum at $3.50 o'clock and will
show motion pictures in color of the
work of the Brooklyn children in
their Victory gardens.
Miss Shaw is distinguished
botanist and is a pioneer in the
making of Victory gardens, having
started one small greenhouse 80
years ago at the Brooklyn Garden
where city children were initiated
into vegetable and flower gardening
That was at the beginning of the
Great War and since then the prof.
ect has grown each year. until she
now has three greenhouses, any
number of vegetable garden plots
and a 250-foot flower garden de-
signed and cultivated by children
These young people do their gar
dening after school and on Satur-
days, giving an hour or more of
their time each day through the
spring and longer periods during
| the summer.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Miss Henderson Weds
ISergf. 4. s. Cooke

Miss Inetha r. Henderson and
Sergt. Arthur S. Cooke were mar
ried March Is in the First Baptist
Church in Alexandria. the Rev
DR.. Ernest Frederick Campbell Off
ciating. Sergt. and Mrs. Cooke are
making their home at King and
Queen Court House in Virginia
where the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William S. Cooke, also live
The bride is daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Henderson OF
Levelland. Tex, and she was at.
tended by Miss Iva Wade Cooke
and Miss Mildred Cooke sisters OF
the bridegroom and Mr.. Earle Ed
ward was best man.
Sergt. and Mrs. Cooke were ir
Washington for their honeymoon
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Mss Wheeler Wed
To 1t. Dnsiuberre

Announcement is made of the
marriage of Miss Margaret Ellen
Wheeler, daughter of Mrs. Arthur
L. Wheeler of Point Pleasant Beach,
N. j., and 1t. Peter D. Dusinberre
jr., A. U. s., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dusinberre of Washington
The wedding took place Sunday in
the First Presbyterian Church at
Point Pleasant Beach, the Rev. DR..
John Townley, pastor of the
church, officiating, and Miss Mary
Foster, organist, playing the nuptial
music.
Given in marriage by her grand
father, Mr.. Zebulon P. VanNote of
Point Pleasant Beach, the bride
wore her mothers wedding gown
of ivory charmeuse satin with an
embroidered lace tunic. high neck
line, -quarter-length sleeves
and short train. Her full-length
veil Of illusion fell from a halo
of white sweet peas, and she wore
long lace mitts and carried a
shower bouquet of white roses and
sweet peas. Her only ornament
was strand of pearls belonging to
her great-aunt, Mrs. Chester
Clayton.
The matron of honor was Mrs.
Theodore Hendrickson of Point
Pleasant Beach, and Susan Van
Culin, great-granddaughter OF Mr..
VanNote and cousin of the bride,
was the flower girl Cadet John
Dusinberre of Valley Forge Military
Academy acted as best man for his
brother, and the ushers were Mr..
David Young and Mr.. Richard
Burdge, both of Point Pleasant
Beach, cousins of the bride.
A reception at the home of the
brides parents followed the cere-
mony and the couple left later
for a wedding trip to New York.
They will reside at Fort Benning,
Ga. where the bridegroom is
stationed.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Song OF christina
Wins Poetry Prize
OF Pen Women

Miss Beatrice Raw has been
awarded first prize for her poem,
Song of Christina" in the poetry
contest sponsored by the District
branch of the National League Of
American Pen Women. The second
award went to Mrs. Ida Elaine
James for her Everywhere and
Wherever" and the third to Leila p.
King for Prayer" Poetry editor,
Kenton Kilmer, served as judge.
Mrs. James win direct the poetry
group at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
studio, 1851 Columbia road NV,
land Miss Raw will speak on Ste
lphen Vincent Benet." The Execu-
tive Committee will meet at pm.
tomorrow with the president, Mrs.
Harriet H. Chambers. A business
meeting will be held at g.. pm.
Monday in the studio. A lecture on
THE Quest of the Holy Grail" will
be presented by Alice H. Drake.
Announcement has been made by
Rosamond Gaydash, chairman OF
the camp and hospital services,
of branch contributions of music
and books. Approximately 1000
sheets of music. with lyrics written
by Marie o. Sprinkle, were con-
tributed by the composer and 400
copies of Treasure Book" COM
piled and donated by Mrs. Nell Van
D. Smith.
DR.. Esther Sanfrieda Anderson
has been elected to fill the re-
mainder of the Office of the former
treasurer, Mrs. Florine Maher, who
has left Washington.