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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
army TO STAGE
BERLIN RAID ON
OKLAHOMA CITY

Oklahoma City, June 8 CUP)-
Oklahoma will get a flrst-hand
grounds eye view Of the Berlin
bombing raids-withou the bombs
when formations of U. 8. heavy
bombers and fighter planes. al
noon, tomorrow. fly over an Amer
lean city for the first time in the
same manner as they appear almost
daily over the bombwracked Ger
man capital.
The occasion will be the parade
which will herald the opening Of
the 9th Service Command war show
to be given at Oklahoma City'S
huge Taft Stadium on the nights
Of June 8, 10 and II, and the ex
hibit Of war machines and weapons
at the municipal auditorium from
II a. m, to II p. m, on the same
dates.
The planes, many of which will
be piloted by fiiers who have par
ticipated in Berlin raids, will pro-
vide an air umbrella for the parade
and will come over in the same
tactical formation employed over
Berlin, with the exception that
they will fly at 5000 feet instead
Of 25,000-and will carry no bomb
loads.
More than 80 bombers and fight
er plans from the Second Air Force
will appear over Oklahoma City at
approximately 1910 p. m. Under
the direction Of Capt. Roger Carter,
air operations officer with the 9Th
Service Command war show and
exhibit, the air fleet will include
"a 'B-24's, "a Bits, 16 PATS and
16 P-40's.
The parade is one Of the number
Gus military activities scheduled
for the fortnight as q prelude to
the war show and exhibit, which
is being presented under the aus
pices of the Oklahoma county-city
war council to dramatic the need
for war workers and essential civil
ian service employees to "stay on
the job to finish the job"
Staged as tribute from the
Army to the citizens Of Oklahoma
City for outstanding productive eff
fort thus far, the show is also a
strong reminder that the increas-
AAaC' 'OCAApO VA WIG wei WALL Cdlk 1OI
even greater effort in months to
come. The theme of the show Is.
well done, Oklahoma City-Stay
on the Job to finish the job"
1000 Troops In Show
The huge free shooting" war
show, Oklahoma City attacks" at
the stadium will simulate actual
battle conditions as realistically as
possible within the concrete bowl,
One thousand highly specialized
troops, using 200 pieces OF war
equipment, will attack a Japanese
Strongpoint in the South Pacific"
employing the commando tactics
demonstrated at Anzio in Italy and
TaraTa in the Gilbert Islands.
The exhibit, $1,000 900 presenta-
ton, r. so vast that in addition to
the regular 1000 seat auditorium,
the spacious foyer and grounds sur
rounding the huge building will be
utilized for the displays.
Tho war show and exhibit Is be-
ing presented also in cooperation
with Che Oklahoma City fifth war
loan drive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
FIERCE ARMORED
FIGHT AT BAYEUX
Air Forces Give Invaluable
Support to Allied Ground
Troops

Allied Supreme Headquarters
London, June S-(UP)-Text Of
communique No. 5:
Bayeux has fallen to our troops
which have also crossed the Bayeux-
Caen road at several points. Pro-
gress continues despite determined
enemy resistance. Fierce armored
and infantry fighting has taken
place.
Contact has been established be-
tween our seaborne and airborne
troops. A steady build-up of our
force has continued. During the
night forces Of E-boats made un.
successful attempts to interfere
with the continual arrival Of sup.
plies.
Support fire from Allied warships
continued throughout yesterday.
Our air forces have given invaluable
support to ground troops on all sec
tors Of the front.
Advantage was taken of favor
able weather over Northern France
yesterday afternoon and evening to
attack enemy railroad centers, con-
centrations of men, material and
bomb airfieldS and other targets I'D
to 100 miles in advance Of our troops
More than 1900 sorties were flown
In tactical support Of land and
naval forces.
For the second time yesterday
heavy bombers with fighter escort
late in the afternoon attacked air
fields northwest Of Lorient and
railroad bridges and coal points in
the area from the Bay Of Biscay To
the Seine. The bombers encountered
no enemy fighter opposition, but
our fighters reported shooting down
"a enemy aircraft in combat and
destroying more than q score on
the ground.
After bombing rail and road OBJ
Jectives in the immediate zone of
operations, medium and light bomb
ers flying as low as 1000 feet Just
behind the enemy lines, strafed gun
emplacements and crews, staff cars
and trains.
Allied fighter bombers and fight.
ers also were extremely active fly.
ing armed reconnaissance over the
assault area, covering naval opera
tons and carrying out low-level at
tacks on bridges north of Carentan
and the Cherbourg peninsula.
Coastal aircraft attacked enemy
naval units in the Bay Of Biscay
and channel areas and at least
two E-boats were sunk.
Last night heavy bombers in
strong forces continued attacks on
the railroad centers Of Acheres, Ver-
sailles, Massypalaiseu and Juvisy
on the outskirts Of Paris and q con-
centration Of enemy troops and
transports some IL miles south OF
the assault area.
Anti-tank guns, motor transports
and considerable supplies were de.
livered to our ground troops by
very strong air transport and glider
forces. mall enemy air formations
attempt ATTACKS on the beaches and
night intruders appeared over East
Anglia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
SOFT BALL GAMES
| ON THIS EVENING
Indicated ScOviII Team
to Meet Main Plant
Girls at $50
WATERVILIE
Correspondents PhOne-3-6511

Waterville, June 8. - There will
be two exciting soft bali games at
Waterville Park this evening at $3.50
On Diamond No. ! the indicated
girls of Scovill Oakville Division will
meet the girls Of Scovill'S main
plant also an undefeated team.
On Diamond No. 2 the Chase
Office Girls will play the girls from
the U. s. Time Corp.
Briefs
Miss Vera Seifferson, a cadet
nurse at Waterbury Hospital, played
bass drum for the Casper Davis
Drum Corps in the competition held
at Anderson School last Sunday.
There will be a special meeting
Of the Casper Davis Drum Corps
at the club rooms tomorrow evening
at 1880. 1t Is urgent that every
member attend.
Rev. Edward Hanson, pastor Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08

Rev. Edward Hanson, pastor Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08

Emmanuel Gospel Church, New n1i-
tain, win be the speaker ~ TIE
evening service Of Waterville Uninm
Church Sunday night.
The Casper Davis Drum Corps e
planning to give . demonstration &C
Waterville Park, next Tuesday eye~
ming. With transportation problems
what they are, It would be good ~
have these concerts each week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Gift ana
daughter, Mrs. Janice Wills Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, are spending vacation
with Mr.. Gifts sister, Mrs. 8. N.
Butcher, Byron street. The Cliffs
are former residents Of the vile.
The junior choir Of Grace Meth
odist Church viii meet for rehearsal
at $3.50 tomorrow afternoon. The
senior choir win rehearse ct 1880
p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Cook Of
Stafford street have announced the
engagement Of their daughter Dor
othy to- Pfc. John Scheider, q. 8.
Marine Corps, serving in the South
Pacific, and son Of Mr.. and MRS.
Carl Schneider, Bronx, N. Y.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
PAYS $4,000 IN BOUNTTEs

Lansing, Mich. (UP)-Bounties
paid for killing predatory animals
in Michigan increased "a per cent
In the last 10 months, according 70
the state conservation commission.
Michigan trappers and hunters COLI
lected $38,205 In state premium pay
mentS for destruction Of unwantetl
animals in the 10 months period
ending April 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
LEARNS THE HARD WAY

Houston, Tex, (UP)-Edwar T.
Neal. q new deputy sheriff, received
a quick education in the ways of
criminals. One day after Neal
had donned his badge, someone
stripped his automobile of three
wheels and tires.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08
G.I.9os "s@Ma Il ten~ Of baggage

with the finest clothing 1t supplies him with the
most modern weapons-guns tanks ammuni-
ton, trucks. And it carries on vast research
program to insure still better equipment.
The ASST delivers soldiers mail, pays him,
provides religious services for him, and gives
him the best of medical care.
The ASST is the biggest business in history. It
supplies some half million different items,
ranging from aspirin tablets to steamboats,.
Without batting an eye, the ASF fills rush orders
from all over the world for stupendous quaint
ties of materials
Such orders as: 100 pneumatic drills, 20 pile
drivers, 30 rock ervshers, 100 tractors, 5000
prsfobrieuted houses, 10 miles Of 36-ineh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-08

Raising Of rabbits for meat Is
rapidly increasing in New Zealand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

thousands of conscripted foreign
workers were fighting back against
the Reich with their best weapon
sabotage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Mount Pleasant Citizens
Join in Rat determination

One hundred requests for poison
rat bait have been received through
the Mount Pleasant Citizens Asso-
citation, after a survey Of Is squares
in the area north of Park road be-
tween Sixteenth street and Rock
Creek Park, it was announced yes
terday by the Health Department.
G. H. hardwood, chairman of the
associations Committee on Rodent
Control, and 20 volunteers have been
conducting house-to-house canvass
during the past few months in CO.
operation with the Health Depart
ment's program to improve santa
ton conditions in the District.
In hope of improving conditions,
the department has devised ques-
tionnaire for use of citizens groups.
The aim, the department said, was
to cover the entire city by such
surveys. z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Coruso Died Holding
Rosary From Pope

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Sept. %
Pietro Caruso, Fascist police chief
of Rome, held a rosary sent him by
Pope Plus with a special benedic-
ton when he was executed by a
firing squad yesterday at Fort
Bravetta, the Vatican newspaper II
Osservatore Romano said today.
The official Vatican organ said
Caruso had sent the Jail chaplain
to the Holy Father beseeching
pardon for breaking into a church
to seize refugees and the pontiff
in granting his appeal, had sent
him the rosary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Birth Rate Increases
And Infant Mortality
Declines During War
BY the Associated Press.


More babies are being born In the
United States and fewer Of them are
dying.
Despite serious dislocation In
American family life caused by the
war, the Children's Bureau says in
FAINT mortality in the United States
has decreased by more than II per
cent in the past three years.
At the same time there has been
a phenomenal increase in the num-
DER of live births annually
However. DR.. Martha M. Eliot OF
the Children's Bureau warns against
relaxing efforts to bring about still
further reductions in the infant NOR
tally rate. She says:
The accumulated effects of wal
conditions may we'll be reflected in
rising curve if efforts to protect
infants from all the well-known
dangers are not redoubled"
She says that although the infant
mortality rate for 1913, according to
provisional figures, was the lowest
on record the rate of improvement
in saving the lives of infants has
slowed down.
This fact should put the whole
Nation on guard" she says. IF in
the next few years, as present re-
ports indicate, there is a rapid de-
cline in the number of births as the
result of the war and postwar condi-
tionS, all the more will need to be
done to make increasingly effective
cur knowledge of how to save in
fants' lives"
Mortality Rapidly Declines.
Out of every 1000 babies born
alive in 1941, As died during their
first year. The number dropped to
40 in 1912 and just under 40 in 1s43
For the first six months of 1914
provisional figures show a rate OF
80 per 1000.
The birth rate for 1913 was higher
than at any time since 1924 and in
actual numbers reached an all-time
high of over 100000.
DR.. Marjorie Gooch of the bureaus
statistical staff says that when cor.
rections are made for incomplete
registration the total number OF
births may reach 100000.
The Census Bureau points out
that down through the years Ameri.
lea has grown steadily despite wars
financial panics, epidemics anc
disasters.
In fact, this bureau reports, there
has been no marked falling-off ir
the gains noted by 10-year periods
until the span between 193O-194O
Then, for the first time since the
census Immediately following the
close OF the Civil War, this country
failed to add at least 10000, 900 new
names to the rolls through births
and immigration. The increase wa,
8,894,229. This was only ~ be,
cent gain over the previous decen.
NAL census and the lowest gain, il
terms of percentage, ever recorded
In census history.
Health Programs Effective,
Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief O,
the Children's Bureau, saws thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
German Report
| Shows Third of
Bullets Defective

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Sept. 23.-German docu-
ments captured by Allied troops on
the western front included a NUM-
tons report in which a German
oficer stated that Of 1872 rounds
Of ammunition he had checked, l.
312, almost one-third, were defec-
tive.
The report said a firing test
showed that out Of 1000 rounds
half the shells proved to be buds.
Allied headquarters officers an
nounced no conclusion from the
captured report, but the most OBJ
vious deduction is that Germany
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

marked decline in death rates of
babies during their first year COIN
cides with the extension of maternal
and child health programs in the
States.
DR.. Katherine Balm. specialist In
child development for the Children's
Bureau, declares that contrary te
general belief, the best place to be
born is IN a big city. Poor santa
ton IS no longer major problem
In most of them. Though crowd.
ing still exists, it has been counter
balanced by some other factor.
such as safer milk and water
supply, and the quantity and quail.
ity of medical care, she says.
Not only has improved santa.
ton over the years cut down the
infant mortality rate" she adds
but increased disqualification o.
mothers has helped to save babies
lies. Today SO per cent of all birth.
in this country take place in hos
pitfalls"
Premature Births Lead.
Premature birth, according to the
Chlldren's Bureau, seems to be re.
SpOnSible for more infant death!
than any other cause. In 1874.
more than 10000 of the total death
of infants under one year of ag'
were due to prematurity.
Respiratory diseases also claim
large number, although with thu
new and effective drugs at hand TO
the treatment of pneumonia tn,
prospect of success in reducing in
FAINT mortality from respiratory dis
eases is very good, the bureau says
Other causes include stomach
and intestinal diseases, from which
more than 10000 babies died IL
the first year Of their lives IL
l94l, and congenital malformatior
and injury at birth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Mechanic Held in Theft
Of Tools From NAVY Yard

Harrington Martin, 26, of 3138
Twenty-eighth street S.W., was held
in $500 bond yesterday by United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage on charge of stealing
tools valued at 5000 from the Navy
Yard, where he worked as a me-
chanics helper.
According to the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation, most of the tools
were recovered at Martins home
yesterday after he was arrested.
No date was set for the final hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

GERMANS IN MASS SUR
RENDER-Some of the 10000
Germans who surrendered to
the American 9th Army Sep
TENDER 16 are pictured in a
prisoner-o f-war Enclosure in
France as they awaited trans
portation. Surrender was
made to the SD Division on
the south bank of the Loire
after the Germans were cut
off while trying to escape from
Southern France. The Surren-
der was negotiated by 1t.
Samuel w. Magill of Ash
tabula, Ohio, with a patrol of
.18 men.-Signal Corps Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Dor Memorial Rites Set
The District Bar Association

The District Bar Association viii
have a memorial service November
II at the Court Of Appeals Build
ing for "a association members who
have died since April. 1943. A por-
trait Of the late Justice Joseph w.
Cox will be presented to District
/ Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Belgium and France
To Need Little HeIp,
Correspondent Finds
BY L. S. B. SHAPIRO,
North American Newspaper Alliance.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 20 Delayed -
It seems clear now that France and
Belgium will not require the full
extent of aid toward rehabilita ton
that was envisaged by America and
Great Britain before D-day.
Some revision must be made in
the popular notion that these coun-
tries would emerge from the four
year occupation desolate in spirit
and substance, rampant with disease
and starvation and utterly de-
pendent on America and Britain
for crutch with which to hobble
back into a world of normal exist
ence. The task of the UNRRA, at
least in these two countries, should
not be particularly heavy.
Completes Wide Tour.
This correspondent has just COM
pleted a l,O00-mile tour by auto
mobile from the Dutch frontier to
the Loire River, passing through
Paris and towns in Britanny and
Normandy via Rouen and lie Havre
to Pas-de-Calais and thence through
Belgium from Ypres to Antwerp
and Brussels. The tour included
many side trips to areas virtually
untouched by the war or the pas
sage of our troops.
The most obvious conclusion to
be gained from this tour is that
France and Belgium can be restored
to something approXimating their
preWar stations by intelligent ma
tional administration and limited
amount of essential material aid
from America and Britain. Farming
already proceeds along normal lines,
the bulk of industry awaits only
governmental decisions to resume
factory production, and transporta-
ton systems can function as soon
as rolling stock is replenished.
Need Wheat and Meat.
The essential material aid neces-
sary at present includes wheat,
packed meat, railroad rolling stock
and petroleum products. If these
are forthcoming and intelligently
distributed and administered, the
wheels of normal existence will be-
gin to turn smoothly and easily.
Neither France nor Belgium has
been destroyed in any sense of the
word. The road, rail and canal
systems still exist: big and small
businesses still function and often
prosper: and, except for large urban
districts where meat and bread are
severely rationed, the land yields an
adequate, though not diversified,
diet. On my long tour I saw signs
of discomfort in the diet, but Ger
tainly no signs of starvation.
Indeed, Brussels is much more a
normal capital than is London.
There are more amusements, more
living comforts, more well-stocked
shops and infinitely better clothes
here. When the black market is
broken there will be more and bet
ter food available for all.
Preserved for Hitler.
1t seems that German economic
control was haphazard and easily
clrcumvented. The manager of a
British banking concern in Brussels
told me, This bank conducted a
good business throughout the four
years of occupation. Every two or
three months German official
visited me to see that British &C
counts remained frozen, but other
wise didn't interfere. He was very
pleasant fellow, in fact"
| 1t was the German policy to pre-
serve Belgium and France for Hit
ler's European coalition. But the
speed Of our conquest preserved
these countries for their own
peoples,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
John Schmidt

EAST DETROIT - 20 h n
Schmidt, 50, of 22742 Gushing
avenue, East Detroit, died at
a. m. this morning after a two
weeks illness, He was resi-
dent of this city for the past 20
years.
Surviving Mr.. Schmidt are his
wife, Carrie; the following chill
dren, Mrs Marcia Burger, Mrs.
Viola Belcynski, Mrs. Inez Van
Drus, Mrs. Dorothy PetruCCi,
Gilbert, Louis, Robert. with the
Navy in the South Pacific and
Frank, with the Army, now
home on furlough; two brothers,
Herman and Mathew; one sis
ter, Mrs Elizabeth Schultz; and
26 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at the William D.
Clyne funeral home in East De-
troit at $50 a m. and at a. m.
at st. Veronica's church in East
Detroit with Father Edward J.
Stephens, officiating. Burial will
be in the Mount Olivet ceme-
terry in Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
Obituaries
Bernice Horton

RICHMOND Mrs. Bernice
Horton, AZ, died Wednesday al
her home in Memphis. She was
born in Memphis and has been
resident in that community
for four years.
She is survived by her hus-
band, Robert; two sons, Stanley
Russell, with the Army, and
Gordon Russell with the Army
in Florida; three sisters, Mrs.
Lillian LuSk, Detroit; Mrs. Jean
Manthcy, Detroit, and Miss Har-
rIct Russell, Of Detroit; and a
sister, Mrs. Della Collins, of
Port Huron.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at the Clifford D.
Hensch funeral home in Rich
mond Saturday, at 2;3O p. m,
with Rev. Walling of the Meth
odist Church of Memphis offic-
iatlng. Burial will be in the
Memphis Cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21

EAST DETROIT - Miss Rose
Horn, 65, former resident of
East Detroit, died at Grace Hos
pital in Detroit Wednesday at II
p. m. She had been a patient
there for the past four weeks,
Miss Horn, who moved to De-
troit two years ago, is survived
by a brother, George Horn, of
Saginaw; and three nieces, Mrs.
Hazel B. KOsloW, Mrs. Earl Pat
Crson and Mrs. Mary Sherwood,
all of Detroit.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at ! p. m. at the Will
liam d. Clyne funeral home in
East Detroit. Burial will be in
the Roseland Park MauSoleum
in Royal Oak.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21

of Mrs. Martha r. Logan, 60
year-old real estate agent, who
was believed TO have disappear
! ed about last June l. Mrs. Peete
was taken 20 view the body but
police said she refused TO look at
II and said she did not know il
was buried there.
Mrs. PcCte was paToled in 1889
after serving 10 years of a life
sentence on her conviction Of
numbering Jacob c. Denton,
wealthy Los Angeles mining and
oil man. whose body was found
m the basement Of his home
Sept %. 1920, with a gunshot
wound IN the head.
Police Capt Thad Brown said
Mrs. Pcctc was employed as Mrs.
Logan housekeepcr after Mrs.
Logan had sponsored her for pa
role.
Mrs. Pcctc was taken into
custody for questioning after the
victims body vas found buried
IS inches deep within two feet
of the house yesterday.
Walter H. Lcntz, chief of the
District Attorneys Bureau of
Investigation, said Mrs, Peete
and Lee Borden Judson, 67-year-
old bank messenger, were mar
ricd last May and had been liv-
ing at the Logan house. He said
Judson was being questioned.
The District Attorney said an
investigation of Mrs. Logan 5
disappearance was begun when
signatures 10 her letters during
recent months did not correspond
with earlier signatures.
Mrs. Logan's Widower, A. c.
Logan, died at the Patton state
insane asylum two weeks ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
DEPUTY INJURED

Cornelius Gudenau, Jr, 27,
of 22443 Boulder avenue, East
Detroit, was injured early this
morning, when the automobile
in which he was riding south on
Moravian drive in Sterling town
ship. overturned. He suffered
neck and shoulder injuries, sher-
ifs reports stated. George H.
Shaw, 20, of 22O34 Brittony ave-
nue., East Detroit, driver Of the
car, stated that the car started
TO spin on the ice, causing it to
overturn. He escaped injury.