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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14
He"Died Four Times arul ~

- VERY now and then science,
- or chance, SnatcheS someone
ks from the brink of the grave
and the rescued one records his
journey TO the dim and mystic
gates of death.
These travellers who come back
from the Beyond seldom get to
talk about more than one such
eXperience-but Britain boasts
man who has set out on no less
than four such eerie excursions.
He's still among the living. His
name is Sir Joseph Bancroft. And
he gambled with the Grim Reaper
for the good Of medical science
and his fellow men.
Just the other day Sir Joseph,
dignified and clipper old gentle
man Of II, modestly accepted
medal from the British Royal So
ciety for his Self.imposed brushes
with Oblivion. His state of health
and sparkling good humor belied
the grim and painful nature OF
his researches.
Jill was a
young and extraordinarily in
quisitive psychologist, the British
scientist has believed that the
mind works best when the blood
has a certain balance between its
physical and chemical elements.
And that when this delicate bal
ance is disturbed the brain is af-
fected
His experiments indicated that
low temperatures do something
10 the blood So he removed most
of his clothes and had himself
shut into a little room as cold as
the Arctic regions.
He shivered and shook and jot-
ted down his reactions. His col
leagues urged him to cut the test
short, but he stuck TO the job I'M
Ill his mind refused to function
normally. He was, literally, frozen
and almost unconscious before he
signaled TO the watchers outside
that he wanted TO come out.
Another time, when he was
ready 10 test the effect of poison
Gus gases on the blood stream, he
and a dog went into a chamber
taminated with prussic acid fumes
the end Of 10 minutes observers
cued him from what would have /
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14
Fell in Love witha Monkeu

FLOYD STEWARD, of San Pedro.
p Cal, a private in the United
States Army, is head-over.heels in
love with a monkey-and he doesn't
give a boot who knows it, The little
simian saved the soldiers life three
times.
During some of the most hectic
fighting in Tunisia and Algeria, the
little creature was Stewards constant
companion and the fighting man de-
clares that the monkey also saved Ii
of his buddies. The monkeys eau.
tioning chatter warned him and the
others of poisoned water they were
about TO drink from a desert water
hole.
On one occasion when Private Stew
ard had been knocked unconscious by
bomb blast and buried beneath a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14
England Stops looking for Napoleon

Gently, however, he died, and munich
pal authorities decided not 10 hire a
successor. 1t was agreed the JOB should
have been done away with long ago.
When the first watcher was hired
in 1903, France and England were
locked in a bitter war, and the threat
of a Napoleonic invasion was as real
as that of Hitler in 1910 The French
Emperor's defeat at Waterloo in 1915
ended that, but the citizens OF Rye
nevertheless decided 10 retain a look
out Barton, like his predecessors,
only kept a part-timc watch.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

TACK in 1910 when all Britain was
set for Hitler's threatened inva.
~ sion, thousands of watchers were
stationed along the English east coast.
Among the spoilers on duty near
the town of Rye was Chummy Barton.
But he wasn't looking for the NaZis.
Believe it or not he was keeping a
sharp watch for Napoleon
Barton wasn't a crackpot He was
only doing the job he was paid for.
Municipal authorities gave him an an
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

nual salary TO stand on the cliffs and
watch the waters for any sign Of
Bonaparte's army. For over 140 years,
Rye officials have been paying for a
Napoleon lookout. The job, some
thing of an honor, has been handed
down from man TO man.
AS the threat of a Hitler invasion
diminished, Channel watchers were
gradually withdrawn. But Barton, as
he had done long before World War
II broke out, stuck 10 his post. Re
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

wrecked building, he was rescued
from what looked like certain death
when the monkey, attracting the at
tention OF other soldiers. led them 10
the spot He was quickly dug out
with only few scratches and bruises
as mementoes OF the grim experience.
tiH4e,-after- parachute
mission, the soldier was Wandering~A
wild country almost starved
afraid TO eat wild fruit because ~
could not distinguish the good from
the poisonous. The monkey, who had
jumped with the paratrooper, picked
out the things that were safe for the
two OF them 10 eat.
Amy wonder love the little
mutt?" Steward asked recently when
he brought his pet home with him
on furlough.
THE AMERICAS WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

and a dog went into a chamber con
taminated with prussic acid fumes AT
the end of 10 minutes observers res
cued him from what would have been
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-14

- VERY now and then science,
~ or chance, snatches someone
- from the brink of the grave
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
.DietI's Death
 Is Reported
BY LACK FLEISCHER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Stockholm, June 29-(UP)-Con- fusion surrounding the Finnish pol itical and military situation was heightened today by reports of a crisis in the Helsinski government, and a mysterious Berlin dispatch limiting at the death of Col. Gen. Eduard Dietl, Nazi commander in northern Finland.
 CA BEG broadcast heard by the United Press in New York said field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German high command, had ar rived in Helsinski, presumably to or ganize the movement of German troops to the Russo Finnish front.)
 The Stockholm Aftontidningen published an undated dispatch claiming that Finnish finance min ister Vaino A. Tanner was about to resign because his social Democratic party was solidly opposed to the Finnish German deal.
 (BBC said the Swedish peoples party also would withdraw from the Finnish government, thus stripping President Risto Ryti of the support of the nations two biggest parties)
 There was no confirmation of the reports in Stockholm early today but United Press Correspondent Hu- bert Uxkull, who returned here from Helsinki last night, said Tanners resignation was definite possibl- ity.)
 Meanwhile. the Dagens Nyheter's
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
U. s. Losses Since 1041,
 25l,l5S

Washington, June 29. = (UP) - U. s. Army casualties since Pearl Harbor in all theaters except the Normandy Peninsula totalled l70.923 through June IS, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson disclosed today.
 American invasion losses in Nor- mandy, as reported yesterday at Supreme Allied Headquarters, totai- led 24,162 in the first IS days Of fighting, bringing the announced total of Army casualties to 204.O85.
 The overall total of 179.923 aza- nounced by Stimson which excludes Normandy casualties was 1, 246 above the same total through June 6.
 The Navy reported, meanwhile.N that it has suffered 47,073 casualties to date, making grand Army and Navy total of 15l, ,158.
 The 204,085 Army losses included 35,104 killed, 86,789 wounded. 45, ,725 missing and 36.467 prisoners of war. The total of Americans listed as prisoners does not include those taken prisoner in France. since no prisoners of war total was included in the headquarters breakdown.
 The Navy's losses comprised 20. l02 killed, 13.202 wounded, 9,30e missing and 4.46i prisoners of war. The total was S68 above the figure of ( week ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
GoIo Bond ShowAt PoIi

Tonight is the night! 8:30 Is the hourl For today is Premiere Day in Waterbury, and that is bad news for the AxiS-for each seat in the Loew- Poli theater tonight will be occupied by buyer of series E War Saving Bond, the only ticket that will get one by the box office for this gala show.
 Waterburys Bond Premiere is but one of thousands that are being staged all over the country during the 5th War Loan Drive period, as motion picture theaters and their staffs work together, hand in hand, to sell bonds-and more bonds.
 Night and day for weeks the man. agements and the employees of the local motion picture houses who are official issuing agents have been giving their time (and plenty of overtiine) for this great cause. Miss Julia Smith is Chairman of the Wa terbury Theaters Drive and Paul O. Klingler Is in charge of publicity. The task of presenting the Premiere tonight falls in the capable hands of Ed Fitzpatrick. veteran local theater manager. MT. Klingler today issued a statement gratefully ack- nowledging the untiring efforts on the part of the theater staffs and also acknowledged the complete cooperation of the employees of I. A. T. S. E. a M. P. O.. Locals ss
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
BRITISH BLAST NAzI REINFORCEME TS Russians Race Close To Minsk Bastion
 Dewey Takes Command Of COP Effort
WILL TRY TO FORGE FOR
 RETIREMENT
CUnlted Press Staff Correspondent)

CUnlted Press Staff Corespondent)
 Republican Ca mpaig n Headquarters, Chicago, June 29. = (UP) = Governor Thomas E. Dewey took com mand today of the Republi- can party's 1944 effort to re- tire President Roosevelt to Hyde Park by challenging the administration as too old, unsure in foreign policy and futile on the home front
 "fIe will make c hell of Q cam paign," his associates promised as Dewey came perspiring from the Chicago Stadium last night where he accepted the Republican nom. nation for president of the United States. COP hopes and enthusi- asm were high today.
 The National Convention, whose delegates sweated out some of Chi- cagos most unpleasant summer weather, adjourned sinde die Q mo- ment after Dewey had completed his i-do.
 Heads wagged approvingly aS Dewey spoke. Many delegates had their first closeup chance to see him and to compare his rich bari- tone with Mir. RooSevelt's easy voice. Whatever else happens in this cam psAgn year, the voters will hear some we'll spoken oratory from the Hadson valleys two most prominent residents. Dewey'S place is inland from the river at Pawling.
 The Republican nominee excluded dRection of the war from politics and the campaign In taking over here. But on every other count he challenged the administration for conditions as they are and as they
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
Underground Joins Forces
NEA Telephoto.

London, June 29-(UP)-Italian and French underground represen- tatives have agreed to coordinate their fight against the Germans 1t was announced in Rome today as French quarters here expressed belief that the assassination of Philippe Henriot would be made the excuse for a blood bath and civil war in France.
 An Italian underground state ment said the collaboration was de- veloping strategic importance with armed patriot bands checking and harassing German movements be- tween Normandy and Italy.
 Henriot's assassination in his Paris apartment yesterday was viewed as the start of an underground cam paign to kill high French traitors. French sources said they believed Joseph Darnand, Vichy secretary of home security, had been waiting for such an incident to justify turn ing his militia against all French men who were not outspokenly pro- German.
 They said they would not be sur prised if Darnand already had not
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
Jops Claim 

London, June 29 (UP) - A Japanese communique, broadcast by Tokyo radio, sad today that Jap anese troops in China's Human Province had occupied Hengyang. key junction point on the Canton Hankow railway.
 The communiqne described Heng- yang as the largest advanced Amer ican airforce base in China.
 Last Chinese reports of the fight ing around Hengyand said the Jap anese were attacking the city from all sides yesterday, with one force Storming the eastern suburb two miles from Hengyang.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
10000 SHELLS IN 4
 HOURS POUND
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondent

BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Supreme HeadquaH ters, London, June 2S. (UP) - Hundreds of BritisI cannon and swarms of plane opened a murderous bonn bardment on German rein fOrcement columns that wers racing up to the Normand, front southwest of Caen to day in an attempt to checl an armOred spearhead prob ing toward the Nazis' Orni river defense line.
 (The London radio saia British guns fired more than 10000 shells in four hour this morning to break uI break up what appeared ti be a major German counter attack in the Odon sect0 below Caen.)
 Front dispatches reported the thunderous lombard ment by land and air of tho c e m an reinforcementa speeding to the Odon-Orna corridor below Caen, where the British had beaten off all assaults by 150 Nazi tanks in the most furious armore6 battles of the invasion.
 Coincident with the arrival q field dispatches which said the Brt tish were 'slaughtering" the 17md relief units, coastal observers f@ ported grand scale air activity ov& the Channel. The Allies appeared to be taking advantage of improved weather to strike in force at th3 Germans, front and rear.
 A number of tank engagement were reported going on between th9 Orne and Odon this morning, witH the British containing all countert thrusts and edging forward witlal in striking distance of the Orne Line.
 An Exchange Telegraph dispatcn said heavy fighting was going cn this morning along the Hanks ol the British salient. A number oj German pockets were holding out in the salient, and they were beins hopped up.
 On the other prong of the assault arc being clamped against Caen Canadian troops were outflankina the German anchor base in strug- gles to the north and northeast.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
Tanks Advance 7
 Miles In Italy
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War COrrespOnden

Onlte0 Eres8 war COTTeSpOn0enS
 Rome, June 2o-(UP)-American armored forces crashed through bit- ter German resistance along the Italian west coast highway and drove forward more than seven miles to within 25 miles of Livorni Oeghorn), 8 communique reported today.
 Other Allied columns were on the march northward along broad front stretching more than 100 miles inland, shelling and bayoneting fam atical German rear guards from their makeshift defenses below Si- ena and in the hills around Perugia.
 Allied headquarters revealed that the number of prisoners captured since the beginning of the offensive on May Il has swelled to more than 32,000 men, of whom 25,000 were taken by the 5th army.
 Everywhere the Nazis were bat tling desperately to delay the march on their Pisa Florence Rimini line, now only 35 to 55 miles beyond the advancing Allied columns, but front dispatches indicated they were be- ginning to crack under the sustain ed fury of the 5th and 8th army drive.
 American tanks and infantrymen pounding northward on the war torn coastal highway met increas- ing evidence of confusion in the enemy ranks. The Germans were losing heavily in men and equip ment as a result of the devastating shell fire poured into them by fast moving American field guns. Stretches of the coast road were lit- tered with enemy dead and the wreckage of tanks, trucks and guns.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
1000 Heauy Q. s. Bon1bers Hit Plants Deep m Reich
By WALTER CRoNKITE

United Press War COrrespondent)
 London. June 29 - (UP.) - One thousand American heavy bombers attacked war plants deep in central Germany today and later an Allied bomber formation 20 miles wide streamed eastward against Nazi Eu- rope in Q half-hour procession.
 Ofiicial announcements and coast al reports indicated that massive Allied bomber fleets had taken ad- vantage of improving weather to strike some of the heaviest blows of the invasion campaign against the German battle lines and posi- tions stretching as far to the rear as the Reich itself.
 The Flying Fortress and Liberator assault was aimed at four aircraft factories, an oil refinery and other industrial targets scattered through @ broad reach of central Germany. The fleet. numbering perhaps 2,0o0 planes with its strong fighter escort flew as far as Leipzig,
 A coastal observer said & "very large formation of bombers escort ed by fighters passed over Dover Straits this afternoon. Flying high. they appeared to cover the whole width of the Straits" he said.
 Royal Air Force bombers in great strentgh-apparently the same force flew out in the direction of Bou- logne and Cap Gris Neg shortly after noon. The formation was des- crlbed as 20 miles wide and 30 min utes long.
 The attacks were centered on the aircraft factories at Leipzig, As- chersleben and Oshcersleben, an- other airplane plant at Fallerslsben, near Brunswick, and synthetic oil refinery at Bahlen, near Leipzig.
 All the vital war works previous ly had been damaged in Allied air attacks, but were believed to have
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
DriverHeId In Fatality

A Cooke street bus driver, Thomas Earl MacCasland, 28o Plank road, is held guilty of negligence in an accident on East Main street on May 3 which resulted in fatal in- juries to Mrs. Mary Stack, mother of Police Officer James Stack, in a finding handed down today by Cor oner stephen A. Hornick.
 The accident occurred in front of 621 East Main street at l0:20 p. m. According to the finding the bus was travelling east at about 20 miles per hour, when Mrs. Stack started to cross the street from north to south, walking diagonally towards the east. She was struck by the bus when she was slightly more than halfway across the street.
 "MacCasland testified" the find ing states that although the bus lights were lighted and he was watching the roadway prior to the accident, he observed the pedestrian for the first time at the instant of contact. He at no time prior to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
Lamb Back On Rotioninq

Washington, June 29-(UP)-The Office of Price Administration to- day ordered choice cuts of lamb re- stored to the ration list and in- creased the point values of most beefsteaks and beef roasts in an ef- fort to get better distribution of available meat supplies in July.
 Effective Sunday, lamb roasts, steaks and chops will require ration points ranging from 10 for loin chops and eight for leg chops and steaks, to seven for leg and sirloin roastS.
 All rationed cuts of beef will re- quire two additional points during the four-week ration period begin ming Sunday except l0-inch rib roasts and trump roasts, which were increased one point. This makes the highest point level for beef since
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DeweyTeIIs
 PIons,Hopes

Chicago Stadium, June 29.-(UP) -Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, accepting the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States, promised last night that if elected he will make sweeping changes in administration of non- military affairs but will leave the conduct of the war to military leaders.
 He roundly denounced the New Deal: gave assurance that he will stand on the party's foreign policy declaration for participation in CO., operative efforts to prevent future wars, and set out full employment as . first objective of national pol icy.
 The 42-year old New Yorker told cheering conventioneers that Gen George c. Marshall, U. s. Army chief Of staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, coinmander-in-chief of the U. s. fleet, "are doing a super job He promised that If there is not now any civilian interference with the military and naval commands, @ change in administration will not alter that status"
 If there Is any civilian inter- ference" he added, the new ad- ministration will put a stop to 1t forthwith"
 Dewey was vitriolic in his, casti- Ration of the administration-which he said "has grown old in office" and of New Dealers, who he said are telling the country that 1t ''has lost its capacity to grow" and is ''old and worn out.
 T say to you." Dewey said, "Our country is just fighting its way
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
GREAT AERIAL ARMADA AIDS
 RED ASSAULT
BY M. g. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent)

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 Moscow, June 29. - (UP) - Red Armies supported by the greatest aerial onslaught of the war in the east, raced to within 35 miles southeast and 40 miles northeast of the White Russian fortress of Minsk today and sent a new column spearing toward the BaranowicZe Gap, historical gateway to Warsaw.
 The Red air forces sturdy Storm ovik assault planes were revealed to have flown more than 5000 sorties alone in raining bombs and bullets on German armies fieeting in dis order through MinSk.
 Massed flights of American at- tack planes also joined in decimat- ing the enemy columns. Hundreds of smashed tanks, armored vehi- cles and trucks lined the road of retreat, testifying to the effective ness of the raids.
 Front dispatches reported that that the First White Russian army rapidly was outflanking Minsk from the south after breaking enemy re- sistance at Oapovichi. 26 miles northwest of encircled Bobruisk. All enemy supply dumps at Osipo- vichi fell into Russian hands and the enemy was reeling back in com- plete demoraliZation
 Another spearhead from the First Army struck west from Bobruisk, captured Start Dorogi, 36 miles away. and plunged on toward the Baranowic2e gap, 75 miles Southwest of Minsk and 220 miles east of Warsaw.
 On the northeastern approaches to Minsk, Gen. Ivan D. Cherniak- hovsks Third White Russian army presumably entered Borisov, last enemy stronghold on the Moscow Warsaw highway before the White Russian capital, or by-passed 1t in driving to within 70 miles of Minsk itself.
 The advance probably carried across the Berezina river, last nat ural defense line before Minsk.
 Front dispatches reported incred- ible scenes of carnage on either side of the Moscow-Warsaw highway be- tween Orsha and Borisov.
 At one point, 8 German artillery regiment escaping from Orsha fled over Peat Boss where Cherniakhov- skys tanks and tommy gunners lay
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
Democrats Are Captious About DelUey And Bncker

Washington, June 29.-(UP)- Congressmen here-Democrats and Republicans alike-received the news of the Dewey -Bricker nomination with smiles of satisfaction.
 But the reason for their smiles was different.
 The few Republicans still in town saw in New York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Gov. John w. Bricker a team that would lead their party to a long-sought victory in the fall election.
 The Democrats-also scarce but more in evidence than the Repub- licans- considered Dewey a weak candidate who would be . push-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
16 HospitoIized By Food Poisoning

Quonset Point, R. l., June 29 - (UP)-Sixteen sailors were hospital ized as result of food poisoning at the Quonset Point Naval Base today fater being taken from train en- route to Boston from Norfolk, Va.
 The train, equipped with two din- ing cars, continued after the men had been removed. Cause of the poisoning has not been determined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-29
FBI Hoover Is Honored

Worcester, Mass, June 29 - (U. p - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was among three honorary degree recipients at Holy Cross Colleges 96th commencement today.
 Hoover received an honorary doc- torate of laws as did Dennis O. Haley. assistant superintendent of schools in Boston. Dr. William E. Browne. surgery professor at Tufts Medical School, was awarded an honofary doctorate of science. Dr. Browne's son, Private Edward R. Browne, was a meber of the gradu- ating class.
 The college also awarded degrees in course to 27 civilian graduates and to @ senior now in the armed forces.