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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
Death Meted Quito Pucheu

Algiers, March 20.-(UP)--Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy minister of Interior, died with great dignity" today and he gave the final com mand to a French firing squad which executed him as traitor to France.
 He stood proudly erect, without bandage on his eyes and with his hands united while he faced the 12 selected riflemen shortly before 6 a. m. at Hussein Dey rifle range on the outskirts of Algiers.
 Pucheu,S last request was that he be given the privilege of issuing the final commands to the firing squad. A brief communique said he "died courageously~
 Gen. Charles Dc Gaulle. president of the French committee of Nation al Liberation, presumably rejected Puchu's appeal for mercy last night and the execution was carried out secretly early this morning.
 Pucheu was convicted of treason by a French military tribunal last week on evidence stemming from his record of collaboration with the Germans while a member of the Vichy government.
 The prosecution held him respon- sible for the execution of number of French hostages and patriots whom he had turned over to the Germans on demand Puchu assert- cd that actually he had interceded for many patriots and demanded that his trial be delayed until after the war when documents now in Vichy would be available.
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WoyOPen In New Guinea
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 Augusta Bay on Bougainville in the Solomons, repulsed another Japa- nese attack Friday morning, @ dis patch from Adm. William F. Hal sey's advance headquarters report ed. The Japanese left 195 dead in- side the American lines, in addition to others on the outside of the perimtter as htey were thrown back by troops, tanks and artillery.
 Allied airment continued their heavy assaults throughout the southwest, ranging as far west as Soerabaja, Java, where they blasted the enemy naval base Friday night for the second time in three days without loss. The planes, flying a 2400-lnile roundtrip, left large ex- plosions and fires that were visible for 130 miles, the communique said.
 (Toyko radio said that American B-24 bombers also raided Soera- baja again on Saturday,.
 Weak was hit for the eighth straight day Saturday, when Allied bombers dropped more than 200 tons of bombs, while other aerial forces struck at Hollandia, 200 miles to the west on the Northern Guinea coast. where they sank q 3,000-ton freighter, seriously damaged & des- troyer and a 5,000-ton cargo ship.
 Solomons-based Medium bombers maintained their non-stop assaults on Rabaul, New Britain, dropping 27 tons of explosives on Vunapope township Friday.
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NSVAltAiuSu LIOIu Fube l) mother of the bride; Crown Prince Olaf of Norway; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Duchess of Kent, and various members of other royal families.
 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Great Britain headed the dis tinguished official guests. King George of Greece gave the bride away.
 Peter wore the uniform of the Ju- goslav Royal Air force, while Alex andra was dressed in e white satin gown with small train of old lace provided by the Duchess of Kent. Simple gold wedding bands were placed on the fingers of the bride and groom during the ceremony, performed by Serbian Archpriest Ristanivich and Greek Archbishop Germanos of Thiatyre.
 The couple left immediately for q short honeymoon somewhere m England,
 Peter and Alexandra met in March, l942, at an Allied officers ten. He proposed a month later while driving with her from Lon don to Cambridge, where she was attending school, and almost ran the car into a ditch when she ac- cepted.
 When Peter left London for Cal TO last autumn he planned to re- turn in November to be married, but state affairs prevented. He rec turned about two weeks ago, but his wedding plans were kept secret and only few intimate friends knew the date.
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On Trial Again
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27-year- Lonergan, wearing the same dark-blue, pin-striped suit and dark knit tie he wore during the earlier proceedings, sat attentively but without show of emotion at the defense table.
 His chin cupped in his hands and elbows resting on the table, Loner- gan turned infrequently to whisper a word to one of his attorneys. Co., casionally he jotted a note on Q yellow pad.
 The trial is before General ses- sions Judge James c. Wallace.
 Wallace, who has Q reputation as a tough judge will preside at the trial instead of Judge John J. Freschi, who was on the bench last month during the vain effort to pick a jury.
 After roll call, Wallace considered the excuses offered by about 75 members of the special jury panel.
 Edward V. Broderlck, whose ver- bal outburstS and frequent wrangles with the bench and Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Jacob Grumet spiced the first attempt to bring the case to trial, again will be Lonergan's chief counsel.
 There was speculation over whether the defense would claim Lonergan temporarily was insane when he allegedly beat and strangled his wife to death last Oct. 24 iIl her luxurious Beekman Place apartment.
 Dr. Thomas s. Cusak, psychiatrIst engaged by the defense, was with the defendant two and a half hours in the combs yesterday but said on leaving the prison that his exam ination of the 26-year- old Lonergan still was incomplete.
 Broderick also visited his client and described Lonergan as in "pret. ty good spirits"
 A new panel of 300 talesmen was summoned to appear before Judge Wallace.
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 Roid octics
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Continued from Page l) Eighth and Ninth air forces. in- cluding Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts, shepherded the bomb- CTS oger the continent and into southwest Germany, the section of the Reich which was rocked by the heaviest Allied blows last week.
 (The Frankfurt radio in Germany went off the air at 6:l4 a. m. EWT. after announcing that enemy planes had reached our warning area" federal communications commission monitors reported, adding that the Bremen, Hilvershum and Friesland transmitterS also went Silent)
 Wave after wave of planes swept out over the English southeast coast for a shuttle attack on the continent only a few hours after two-enginGd RAF Mosquito bombers returned from night raids on central and western Germany without loss. Though targets of the four-engined FortreSseS was not announced im- medlately. Marauders were revealed to have blasted the railway junction of Creil. 25 miles north of Paris on one of the main supply and reln- forcernent routes to the Pas de Call ais invasion coast.
 RAF Mitchell medium bombers. Bostons and Mosqultos also bombed objectives in northern France this morning.
 The Marauders were escorted by PAID Thunderbolt fighters, an an- nouncement said. It was the first oflcial mention of the late model fighters in this theater.
 The new raids were expected to boost the total tonnage of bombs dropped by Allied bombers based in Britain and Italy in the past six days to at least 22,500.
 German planes struck back weakly last night at the Britihs east and northeast coasts, and lost at
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least seven aircraft in the effort. A German DNB broadcast said Na2i planes started large fires in the dock area of hull.
 25O EortrcsseS
 While some 250 Flying Fortresses from Britain were attacking mill tary installations along the French invasion coast yesterday, other FortresSes and Liberators from the 1talian-b based 18th Air Force crossed the Austrian Alps tot hit the Klag- enfurt airdrome 150 miles southwest of Vienna and war factories at Graz, 62 miles to the northeas.
 The British -based FortresSeS ran into heavy anti-aircraft fire. includ- ing some rocket shells, over the Pas dc Calais area of northern France, but only two German fighters were sighted from a great distance and neither attacked. One Fortress was lost.
 In the Mediterranean theater, the American bombers blanketed the Klagenfurt airdrome, near a Mes- serchmitt component factory, with bombs and scored hits on hangars, repair shops, barracks, ammunition dumps and adjacent railway yards.
 Factory Hit
 A factory just outside the city liin- its at Graz was left in flames and hits were scored on other plants in the vicinity. The planes attacking Austria encountered considerable opposition from both intercepting aircraft and anti-aircraft fire.
 Liberators rounded out yester- days offensive from Italian bases with attacks on Jugoslav railway targets at Knin, 25 miles northeast of the Dalmatlan port of Sibenik, and Metkovic. 70 miles southeast of Split.
 Night bombers from the Mediter- ranean air forces raided the Bulgar- ian railway junction of Plodviv Sat- urday night, while the RAF sent more than 1000 bombers out from Britain the same night to attack the German chemical and engineering center of Frankfurt and an import ant French explosive works at Der. gerac. some 50 miles east of Bor- deaux. Al.
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Snow s polls Spring Debut
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hicle.
 The other of a more serious na- ture came abzout as result of Q car being driven by Edward Bradshaw, A Ward street, Naugatuck, Skidding on Elm street, there, crashing through a fence and hurtling down on embankment. Bradshaw was re ported in fair condition at noon to- day, just following the accident, al though examination revealed that he had suffered Q severe laceration of the forehead, a back injury and a possible skull fracture. He waS brought to the Waterbury hospital
 Boston, March 20--(UP)--A sur prise snowstorm swept New Englanc today on the first day Of Spring resulting indirectly in at least three deaths and piling up snow to \ depth expected to reach 10 inches.
 More than six inches of snow had fallen before noon, and the weather bureau said the storm would con- tinue until late tonight.
 One death was attributed to the storm, that of Telice Dc CaeSare, bO' of Milford, who collapsed from a heart attack induced by over.exer- tion upon his arrival at a Mlford shoe factory.
 The dead were:
 Felice Dc Caesare, 50. of Milford, who collapsed from a heart attack induced by over.exertion upon ar irving at a Milford shoe factory. Roger Danehy, 66, of Roxbury, who collapsed and died on 6 RoXpury street.
 Andrew Molloy. 62. of Roxbury' who collapsed and died on a street near his home.
 Emergency crews went into action as the surprise snowstorm. whipped by frigid winds, hampercd rail and highway traffic. Waste paper and scrap tin collections, which were to have started here this morning, had to be postponed.
 The weather bureau said colder weather would come in the wake or the storm tonight, with Q low oi | IS degrees above zero anticipated in Boston. Tomorrow will be fair and warmer, however, the bureau said,
 New York, March 20 - (U.P0 -| Snow, sleet and rain, accompanied by low temperatures and high Wino, swept the eastern states today to greet the official arrival of spring, due at l:49 D. m. (EWTO.
 Snow fell from New England and New York in the east, west to ln- dianapolis. tho New York Weather Bureau said. South to the northern fringe of Florida there was drizzl.. ing rain, West of the Mississippi clear weather prevailed.
 The forecast called for cold weather with strong winds in the east until nightfall, and continued precipitation.
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 their convention delegates last week and thereupon adopted Q resolution endorsing Dewey for the nomination,
 Free for All
 In free for all scramble such as that now underway for the Re- publican presidential nomination, the man who comes up with sub stantial southern support will have a big advantage. The delegations of southern Republicans usually are compact, easily nlaneuvered political troops.
 Although the expression of Dewey sentiment in North Carolina prob- ably disappointed his packers, Will kte is by far the most aggressive Republican calnpaigner in the field and sometimes the only one. In Wisconsin for instance, Dewey has repudiated his own delegates and both Stassen and Macarthur are away at the wars. A Willkie Suc- cess in Wisconsin seems to be in- dicated. Tn Nebraska he will be opposed by the state Republican organization, especially by tine states congressional delegation.
 Willkie consistently has recogniz- ed but mimimized the fact that congressional Republicans are cold to his candidacy. The fact that he came here last week to talk quietly with number of them sug- gested to some observers that Will kie hopes to improve his relations with Republicans in congress.
 Sen. Sinclair Weaks, R., Mass, a recently arrived industrialist who succeeded the resigned Henry Cabot Lodge, long has ben a Willkie ad- herent. Both he and John w. Hanes, former member of the securities and exchange commission and un- dersecretary of treasury in the Roosevelt administration, are named as luncheon hosts at the principal meeting between Willkie and Re- publican senators. But so far none here has revealed the names of others who lunched with Willkie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
DETAIL FOR TO-DAY
 StsGkGS

ETUKAS are what the Army calls mosquitoes. We all know the horrors of the pests, but to the soldier they assume a new form of torture. STUKAS seem eo attack . person in uniform
 with Q strange and horrible zest- Some soldiers believe they are or" kanized by some diabolica1 leader and sent in sQuadrons to strate poor G.l.'s. STUKAS grow to Unbelievable size and it's rs1Enored that some of them bring in the mail, one bag to a STUKA. When soldier puts up his mosquito betting. one ingenious STUKA inc variably manages to get through just when the soldier is almost asleep. Then comes a battle of nerves and . barrage of curses upon the netting and the quarter. MlaSeee. coIpR. ees1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
Sino-Yonk Troops Score in N. Burma

Chungking, March 20.-(UP)-.' Chinese and American forces have ashed Japanese resistance throughout the Hukawung Valley of Northern Burma, recapturing i,800 square miles of territory, an offi- cial Chinese announcement said to. night. Four thousand enemy troops were killed in hte four.lnonth cam paign.
 "The combined Chinese American forces nave completely SHiaSHe6 Ass resistance of the Japanese ia SAe Hukawng Valley" the communSgae said.
 Chinese forces in NorthAgn Burma captured Tasu Bum Friday and, with the support of the tactical air force of the Western Air Com mand, are attacking Jambu Bum Pass, which joins the Hukawng Val ley with the Mogaung Valley to the south, 1t was amounted.
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|Finns' Hopes
 For Peace
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remains that the Soviets will con- ttnue the peace talks. Far more likely. in the opinion even of Fin- nish government quarters, Russia will reply to the Finnish note of re- lection with a renewed bombing of- fensive against Helsinki.
 Both official and private Finnish circles generally expect that the breakdown in negotiations will be followed with a complete break in Finnish relations with the United States.
 Periodically, the average Finn wants peace and even government quarters appear to desire peace, but the government is opposed to any peace based on the original Russian, proposals, which included demands for internment of German troops and withdrawal of Finnish troops within Finland's 1940 borders in ad- vance of any armistice.
 The reason for Finland's adamart attitude toward the Soviet terms, which met wide approval in both the United States and Britain, ap- peared to lie in the deep-rooted Finnish mistrust of Russia.
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Hero Downed Over Berlin
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formation with the right wing on fire, while going through heavy flax
 There were no enemy fighters around us but the fax was terrific" 1st It. Walter M. Haynes, of San- ford. Fla, navigator of the Fortress flying on Morgan's right wing, said
 T could see Morgan's wing on fire and his plane came right up under us--so close we had to pull up to avoid collision. Three other ships were knocked down by flak almost simultaneously and that was about the time we dropped our bombs.
 "The fire on Morgan's ship either was from Q direct burst or from @ hit on the oil line. The last any one knows is that the plane still was under control when 1t slid into the haze"
 Haynes pilot, lst It. Lloyd Eyes, of Mount Vernon, N. r., and bomb- ardier lst It. Marion c. Hale, of Howard Kans., also saw Morgan'S plane slide out of formation.
 Capt. Robert Elking, of San Fran cisco, operations officer of Morgans squadron said:
 T think Red was the best liked fellow at this base. He didn't wear his medal very much, He just didn't like to have people ask him ques- tons about 1t. He was Q great guy"
 Morgan was flight officer on the mission over Hanover last July. German fighter planes attacked the pilot of his plane, ist It. Robert L. Campbell, of Liberty, Miss, was wounded fatally and for two hours Morgan fought to keep the plane under control with Campbell slump ed over the controls. He flew on to the target and came back.
 Morgan tried to enlist in the U. E. Air Force several times, but was turned down. He joined the Royal Canadian Ar force Aug. 1. i94l and on March g, l943 transferred.
 His missions included Bremen, Paris and Emden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
NATURALIST CLUB
 TO HEAR WILSON

A talk and exhibit pertaining to minerals and the old Bristol copper mines will be presented before the Waterbury Naturalist club tomorrow evening by Prank w. Wilson of West Cheshire. The event will be held at the Mattatuck Historical society building on West Main street.
 MT. Wilson. prominent in natur- allst work, has collection of the so.called glowing stones" which will be Q part Of tomorrow nights ex- hibit. Charles R. Hart. who was scheduled to be tomorrow's speak, CT will instead speak at the meeting on April 4th.
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Nazis Admit Loss Of Another Rail Junction
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MannStein's chance of saving any substantial part of his forces was reported glimmering as the Red Army swept across Bessarabia ill a race toward the Prut.
 Having expended the bulk of his South Ukraine armored forces in great battles, Mannstein now faced the seemingly hopeless task of find ing entire fresh armies to throw 1n the path of the onrushing Soviets.
 Moscow said that as the situation stood today, Mannsteln had lost the Ukraine and was losing Bessarabia, with the Red Army shouldering its way up to the base of the Car pathians. His disastrous defense threatened the Germans with the collapse of all their lines inside Russia proper, Soviet dispatches said, and raised grave doubts of the Nazi ability to re-established control of the situation anywhere east of Gen. tral Poland.
 Cavalry Advance
 Marshal Ivan KoneV'S advance Cavalry was reported 40 miles from the Rumanian frontier along the Prut on widening front between Mogilev Podolski and Soroki. More significant, spearheads were mov- ing toward the vital rail junction of Balti, the capture of which would virtually Make impossible the move ment of German troops in northern Bessarabia.
 The Russians held one Of three Dniester rail crossings and had a grip on the outskirts of Mogilev Pooolski, a second, leaving only the south Bessarabian junction of Tig- hina free for German troop move ments.
 The Dniester crossing obviously unhinged all German positions to the east, Moscow reports said. The
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Walter WincheII
 In NezC YOrk

six weeks old band will get &7.6OO at the Capitol. A record7 A staffer on Q New York newspaper is in Q jam for allegedly handling S6.- 500 in graft coin to fix oPA viola tions.
 Editorial from the California Le- gionnaire of March lst: "Walter Winchell, whether you like his col- umn or broadcasts, has, in this writ CTS opinion, done more to expose subversive influences in the U. s. than any other one private citizen. Quite Q number of American-born traitors and foreign-born fifth cole umnists are doing time in our Fed- eral hoosegows because MT. Win chell was the first person who dared to publicly bawl them out. That person. no matter his color or race, no matter his political affiliations, who is doing his best to aid our war effort, need never fear attack from MT. Wlnchell. But he's just plain dynamite to persons of the ilk of Gerald L. K. Smith, whose activities undoubtedly are helping to prolong the war through preaching diSunity and worse-at home."
 The editorial relates how Rankin (and others) attacked us "as a loathsome ghoul who invadeS the sacred precincts of the tomb, goes down into the grave of buried child with reeking fingers strips from it's lifeless form the jewels and memen- toes placed there by the trembling hands of a weeping mother" .. Continues the California Legionnaire editorialist: Pretty tough picture isn't it, of a person who's devoting most of his time smoking out the internal enemies of the country he loves, and who bears such a nexcel- lent character that he holds com- mission in the United States Naval Reserve (since May 5th, l93N Senators and Representative can throw harsh words about bravely on the floors of their respective chambers, for they are immune from prosecution of libel. Attacking af- fairs of State is hard work and util- izing such time to attack private citizens in good clean fun. War legislation is so boresome!"
 MT. Dies, in a statement to the newspapers, Is quoted as saying that when he and his committee probe our broadcast recordings and scripts, he will also summon thirty witnesses =. As we recently indicated-the campaign to discredit us is timed with the soon-due trials of the 30 alleged seditionists So that the headlines will create reason. able doubt.
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complete collapse of German de- lenses in the Nikolaev and Odessa areas was regarded as assured.
 Soviet dispatches said some Ger man troops were arriving in Bull gario from the Crimea, apparently signalizing the start of the evacua- ton of the Black Sea peninsula which was isolated save by sea.
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MRS. DEWEY TO MEET
 CHAIRMAN McNUTT

Mrs. Mary M. Dewey. area WHO director, will be in Meriden tonight to participate in the ceremonies planned in connecton with the city's selection as an ideal war industry community. All of tho area WING directors of the state have been invited to the exercises and will meet with Paul V. McNutt, national chairman Of tho WING, who win be q special guest Of the city. A dinner will be held at the new cafeteria Of tho New Departure plant
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TIMOTHY BYRNEs DIES

Bingham, Mass. March 2o--(uP) Timothy E. Byrnes, ol, former vice president of the New Haven Railroad and Boston attorney, died at his homo in St. Petersburg, Fla, according to word received here yesterday by relatives.
 A native of Bellows Falls, Vt., he
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 All available first aid workers were sent to the scene by the Pas- saic Chapter of the American Red Cross, and a canteen was set up nearby.
 Two bridge tenders reported that passengers screamed when the bus Swerved and plunged across foot walk and through the guard rail in- to the river.
 Carp Pipling of Passaic, told po- lice he was cleaning slush from the bridge when the bus skidded out of control. John Devries, of Clifton, said he was on duty in a shanty at the middle of the bridge and summoned police.
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5 Tiny SIoops Sink 6 Subs
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The German defeat inflicted on what A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. called the greatest cruise ever undertaken in this war by an escort group" came ct Q time when hundreds of ships carrying men and supplies to Britain for the invasion offered the most inviting target to undersea raiders since the battle of the Atlantic began.
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was c close friend Of President Wil- lyiam Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt and 1t was during his years as an executive that the New Haven Railroad made It's greatest expansion. He began his law prac- tice in Boston after leaving the railroad In 1913.
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Red Troops Sweep Ahead

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MonyDie
 As Bus Skids

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