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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Jackson Go. Sells Leonard St. Property

Property owned by the Thomas F. Jackson Company prominent cut stone and monument firm located at 225 South Leonard street was today sold to The Scigliano Lumber Con- pany of Waterbury. Federal stamps, on deeds relating to the sale, in- dicated that the rurchase price ap- proXimately $55,000.
 The property on South Leonard street, consists of large tract of land about $50 by 600 feet and three connected buildings consisting of an office, mill and storage quarters. The company has been at its pres ent location since 1906. Previous to that it was established on old Beav- CT street now known as lower Freight street.
 The monument, firm will retain the present quarters until the first of next year, 1t was reported, after which they will establish quarters in a new location to be announced later.
 The firm is one of the oldest in the city having been incorporated in 1859 and remaining in the family since. Present officers are Charles D. Jackson, president; Wilfred A. and Andrew J. Jackson, assistant treasurer and Miss Catherine A.. Jackson, secretary.
 Atty. Maurice T. Healey acted as attorney for the Jackson interests, while the Citizens Manufacturers National Bank through whom the deal was consumated, represented
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Judge Hears .Lonergon Witnesses
By RICHARD G. HARRIS

United Press Staff COrreSpOndenO
 New York, March 23 - U.P0 - A small, gray-haired nursemaid, Elizabeth Black, testified today at Wayne Lonergan's murder trial that several times during the Sunday Mrs. Lonergan's body was found she tried to awaken her employer and at last became angry when she re- ceived no response.
 Miss Black, who cared for the 18- months-old Lonergan son, Wayne, Jr., said she spent the day in the apartment without knowing that on the other side of the locked bed- room door lay the body of her en- ployer.
 When, finally, a few minutes be- fore, D. m., the door was broken down, Miss Black said, the only per- son in the apartment were Mrs. Lu- cille Wolf Burton, the victims mother, and Captain Peter F. D. Elser, of the U. s. Marine Corps.
 Miss Black said that on Sunday, October "A, when, the state charges Lonergan beat and Strangled his wife to death at about g a. rn., she attended the Lonergan child and did not see Mrs. Lonergan. She knocked on the door, she testified at 2:30 p. m., and said:
 Young woman, are you going to sleep all day?"
 Receiving no response, she said she dressed young Lonergan anc took him to Mrs. Burtons home.
 Just before dark, she said she re- turned to the Lonergan apartment gave the child his supper and put him to bed. She started to prepare her own supper and then became worried about Mrs. Lonergan again and went to the bedroom and kick ed on the door. Again she received no response and then called Mrs Burton. While Miss Black was waiting Captain Elser telephoned and asked for Mrs. Lonergan. While Miss Black was talking to him, she said, Mrs. Burton arrived. They asked the Marine to wait and re- turned to the bedroom, where Mrs Burton called to her daughter with. out response.
 Elser arrived about 8 p. m., she said, and threw himself against the door, partially breaking 1t down. Miss Black said she found ham, mer and he forced off the hinges.
 Wayne Wakens
 The noise had awakened young Wayne, and Elser advised Mrs. Bur- ton to go to the nursery. Miss Black and Elser entered the darkened bedroom together. Elser at first said there was no one in the room she said, but moment later She heard him cry:
 Good God-good God Almighty.
 Miss Black said the Marine told
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Chaplin Trial Jury Ready
By FREDERICK 0. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Cores
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 Hollywood, March 23-(UP)-A jury of seven women and five men all old enough to remember when Charlie Chaplin was the funniest man ever to stumble across the si- lent screen, settled down today to hear the story of his adventures with Joan Barry in New York and to decide whether they justified sending him to prison as 8 white slayer.
 The red-haired Miss Barry insists they do; charges that Chaplin took her to the big city two years ago for sexual indulgence alone, and demands that he be put behind bars for the next 10 years.
 The White-haired Chaplin, who earned $8,000,000 entertaining just such people as those who are sitting on the jury, admits that he took Miss Barry to New York, but con- tends that he was only the picture producer looking out for the inter- eStS of his Starlet.
 He has subpoenaed among others J. Paul Getty, the oil millionaire and hotel proprietor, to testify that Miss Barry spent three weeks in October, 1942, at Getty's hotel Pierre, while Chaplin remained at the Waldorf Astoria. Chaplin and his lawyer, Jerry Giesler, insist that does not look like violation of the Mann act to them.
 Charles H. Carr, the prosecuting attorney whose hair is as fiery as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Lag Upsets Army
BY FRED SCHERFF

United Press Stan COrreSpOnuenCJ
 Washington, March 23.-(UP) - The army appeared today to be overcoming the lag in inductions by tightening up on its use Of unl- formed men in this country, there by releasing thousands of soldiers for combat duty overseas.
 The latest indication of this new policy came yesterday when Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, told the House Military A. fairs committee that 36,000 mem bers of the air force personnel were being reassigned to ground duty because the infantry and service forces need for them was "so se- vere."
 Arnold revealed the move in pleading for regular army commits SionS for women flyers. The com nittee approved legislation to SAaS effect
 A subsequent statement by Gen. George o. Marshall, army chief Of staff, declared that the air force could afford to release the 36,000 because U. s. flyers were approach ing complete air supremacy in prac- tically all war theaters at faster pace and with less losses than the army had dared to hope. He also re- vealed that enlistments of l7-year- old men in the air corps reserve had been temporarily suspended.
 At least three other recent moves have emphasized the army's deter imitation to put all possible troops into combat.
 One was curtailment of the army
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
US Casualties
 TotoI 168,292

Washington, March 23.-(UP)- Announced American casualties since the start of the war today totaled 168, 292-39,624 killed, 61,l17 wounded, 35,783 missing, and 31,768 prisoners of war.
 Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son said Army casualties as of Mar. were 126, 193-21, ,737 killed, 50,363 wounded, 26,747 missing and 27,- 346 prisoners of war. On Febru- ary 29 the army total was 123,- O54.
 The tottal announced Navy casu- alties-Navy, Coast Guard and Ma rine Corps-today are 42,099. They comprise 17,8S7 dead, l0,754 wound ed, 9,036 missing and 4,422 prisoners of war.
 Of the Army wounded, Stimson said 26,459 have been returned to duty. The International Red Cross has reported that 1,674 of the pris- oners died of diseases in prison camps mostly in Japanese held territory.
 The latest reports from Italy, he said, place total Army casualties there at 39,058-5,749 killed, 23,035 wounded and 10,274 missing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Nazis Strengthen
 E. Europe Hold

Reports circulated in Bern that German troops have occupied Slo- vakia, across the Carpathian noun tains from Russian troops converg- ing on Lwow in old Poland.
 The Nazi Vichy radio said that Premier Marshal Ion Antonescu and Vice Premier Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu of Rumania had left for Hitler's headquarters, in response to a German invitation, for important talks"
 German occupation of Hungary followed a similar summons from Hitler to Regent Adm. Nicholas Horthy. German troops were re- ported yesterday to have begun seizing strategic points in Rumania, but this has not been confirmed.
 Though he previously had been reported under arrest by the Ger mans, the German controlled Bud- apest radio told the Hungarian peo- pie that Horthy swore in the new the new pro-NaI cabinet yesterday
 (U. s. government monitors re- corded Hungarian broadcast say ing that the parliamentary "in-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
By JOHN A. PARRIS

Limited Press Stan COrreSpOn0ent)
 London, March 23-(UP)-Reports reached London today that Ger many, strengthening her hold on southeastern Europe in preparation for a desperate stand against the Red army, has sumomned the pre- mier and vice premier of Rumania to Adolf Hitler's headquarters for important talks" and may have occupied Slovakia.
 In German-occupied Hungary, new puppet government took office and prepared, in the words of an official communique, to muster all that country'S resources flor final victory of the common cause in the spirit of old friendship and com- radeship in arms between the Hun garian and German peoples
 A London Daily Mail dispatch from Madrid said German airborne troops were seizing railways and telephones throughout Bulgaria and had detained Soviet diplomats in Sofia after occupying the embassy. Bulgaria, alone of Germany's Bal kan satellites, maintains relations with Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
REDS SCYTHE
 WIDE SWATH
 NEAR RUMAN|A
BY M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

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 Moscow, March 23. - The Red Army cut a 60-mile- wide swath to the Bessara- bian approaches of Runaania today and POO miles to the southeast stormed the de- lenses of Nikolaev, big Black Sea port and eastern anchor base of the hard pressed Ger man salient in the Ukraine.
 GA Moscow broadcast re- corded in London said Soviet assault forces now were driv- ing the Germans out of Niko- lacy after overrunning many strong points in the Hedge hog system of defenSes rim ming the city.)
 Charging half way across Bessa- rabia, 8 broad phalanx of the sec- ond Ukrainian army was reported flaming out along the north-south railroad, its left wing probing in the direction of Balti, railway hub of all Northern Bessarabia.
 Front dispatches said the steam roller push had disrupted the ef- forts of German and Rumanian units to regroup for a stand on the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Destroyer,Z 
 Ships Sunk
Ry WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

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 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March g - (UP) - Allied bombers sank 8 destroyer and two small cargo ships of the northern New Guinea coast Monday night in smashing another Japanese attempt to reinforce their battered Wewak base, a communique announced to- day.
 Air patrols intercepted the three ships off Aitape, 90 miles northwest of Wewek, and sank them with di- rect hits, a communique said, bringing the destruction of Jap anese ships to eight in two days. A 1lve-ship convoy, including three armed corvettes, was sunk in the same area Sunday. The two cargo ships destroyed in Mondays opera tions totaled 2,500 tons.
 Heavy and medium bombers con- tinued their assaults on Wewak, dropping 160 tons of explosives on the base Tuesday in a raid which left smoke from large fires rising 4,000 feet into the air. Ground forces on New Guinea also were active, with Australian and Amer ican patrols joining in the Kabe- nau river area, seven miles south west of Bogadjim, and only 25 miles below the big enemy base at Madang.
 In the St. Matthias Islands, north or New Ireland, U. s. Marines were consolidating their positions on both Emirau and Elomusao Islands, which they seized Monday, the com munique said.
 Allied airmen maintained their constant attacks on the now-iso- lated Bismarck Archipelago, hitting enemy positions throughout New Ireland and New Britain.
 Night air patrols raided Kavieng and Namatanai airdromes in north- ern New Ireland and the Cape St. George area on the southern end of the island.
 The big enemy base at Rabaul on New Britain was hit for the 45th day since Feb. 3 by Solomons- based planes, which dropped 133 tons of bombs in a daylight att tack that silenced at least 10 Japa- nese guns.
 The communique said there again was no aerial interception and a spokesman deScribd the attacks on Rabaul and also on Wewak as rap idly becoming 'just another milk run" for Allied bombers.
 Units of the American division, charging with bayonetS, wiped out strong enemy outpost on the Toro- kina perimeter in southwestern Bou- gainville Monday, killing 48 Japanese Don Caswell, United Press war cor- respondent on Bougainville, re- ported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
 OfChorter Seen Needed
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

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 Washington, March g - (U.P) Diplomatic circles believed today that Undersecretary of State Ed ward Stettinius, Jr. may use his impending London visit to sound out the possibility of a Roosevelt Churchill -Stalin conference on clarification of the Atlantic Char ter.
 There were no indications of an early new meeting of the three big Allied leaders such as they held several months ago in Teheran. But the fact that such meeting is in order, especially in relation to questions of postwar territorial ad- justmentS, has been made clear in the past 48 hours by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
 Behind the question stands the Atlantic Charters pledge against territorial aggrandizement and the Soviet Unions decision to annex sections of Poland and the Baltic states.
 Possibly with the Russo-Polish issue in mind, Churchill told Com mons yesterday that the time was near for renewed consultations be- tween the principal Allies on the clariflcation of territorial questions under the charter.
 Only 8 day before, Hull issued a summary of America Foreign Policy which re-stated U. s. adherence to the principles of the Atlantic char ter. But he said at the same time that he would deliver an early radio address in which he would bear in mind questions relating to possible adjustment of the charter to international security.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
BRITISH RUSH TROOPS TO STEM LAPS
 1,500 Planes Hit Reich For 2nd Day
MoiI Carrier Has
 Problem on Honds

Springfield, Mass, March 23-UP)-Mr. Anthony had 8 problem of his own today.
 It seems that Mrs. Simon Posnick wrote to her army Sergeant husband overseas that every time letter carrier Fred Anthony brings a letter from lover there" she was so happy she could kiss him.
 Wrote Sgt. POsnick to letter carrier Anthony:
 "In the course of cOrreSpOn- dence with my wife, I have learned from her that she is blessed with perhaps the best mailman in the state of Massa- chusettS.
 "YOu see it has gotten to such a point that my wife says she could kiss you every time you deposit a letter from me in the box. You see what a dilemma I am i'm. If I write more it might be embarrassing to you. If I write less it might be curtains for both of us."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Japs Believed To. Have Considerable Force In Jungles
BY DANIEL BERRIGAN United Press Staff COrrespOndentl

BY DANIEL BEkK1GAN United Press Staff COrrespOndentI
 New Delhi, March g. - Strong British forces were reported moving up toward the Indo-Burmese frontier today to counter a "token invasion" of India by Japan csc columns converging from three directions on the mani pur state capital of 1mphal.
 All reports indicated the Japanese were across the frontier in considerable force, accompanied by renegade Indian Nationalists and driv- ing small Allied patrols through the mountainous jungles before them.
 Official Allied sources gave only scant information on the progress of the Japanese drive, but it was iri- dicated that the nearest invading column was still some 30 miles from Imphal, a major highway center through which supplies and troops had been funneling to the Allied forces inside Burma.
 Unofficial information indicated the main British defense forces in Manipur were marching towards the border and heavy fighting was trn- minent
 One Japanese column was known to have crossed the border in the Somra Hills tract northeast of 1nn- phal, while a second was moving up through the Kabaw valley 50 miles further south and apparently had entered India or was about to do s0a The third was on the attack in the Chin Hills north of Tiddim, less than 100 miles south of 1mphal and within score of miles of the fron- tier. -..
 Opinion Differs
 GA BEG dispatch from the front said the Japanese had penetrated only six to eight miles into India presumably in the Sonra tract - and asserted that only small forces had crossed. The British com- mander -444 -chief in India, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, however, said the invaders were in Considerable strength.")
 Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten,s communique gave no details on the Somra Hills fighting but disclosed that a British column was closing in on strong enemy hill position north of Tiddim.
 "In the Chin Hills, the position is unchanged with our troops still moving to oppose the main Japan- csc forces in this area" Mountbat- tens southeast Osia command con1~ munique said.
 The Chinese 22d Division, move ing southward from the Hukawng into the Mogaung Valley is meeting strong Japanese resistance South- east of the cillage of Shaduz1p, and heavy fighting Is in progress in the upper Mogaung, 1t was an. nounced.
 Japanese resistance is stiffening along the entire Burma front, the communique indicated, nothing that conditions particularly on the coastal plane south of Maungdaw and in the western foothills of the Mayu, on the southern end of the 500-mile Burma fine.
 Six Japanese attacks on British and Indian positions west and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Ask Fire To
 Produce More

London, March 23-tUP)-Prime Minister Ramon de Valera, in Q broadcast from Ireland, appealed to the people of Fire last night to produce more potatoes, wheat and peat to help offset the isolation of the island by the United Nations.
 Everyone knows city can De reduced by starvation no less than by a sword" he said, urging a nationwide campaign to alleviate decreased coal imports by cutting S,5OO,OOO tons of peat this year for fuel.
 The prime minister warned that electrical consumption would have to be drastically reduced and asked every person with a cultivatawAo patch of land to devote portlG@ of it to growing potatoes, vege- tables and fruits in addition Co wheat and grains for livestock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Huge New War Loan

Washington, March 2S. (UP)- Secretary of Treausry Henry Nor genthau, Jr., today set the goal o! the fifth war loan drive at $16,- 100000, 900, an increase of $2,000,- 100000 over the last drive's goal.
 Morgenthau said at press con- ference he would be unable to an- nounce the starting date of the new drive until next week when he also will outline the types of se- curities which will be available to buyers. Other sources yesterday re- ported the drive would begin In late May or early June.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
First Merit MedoI' Award

Washington, March 23.-(UP)- The first medal for merit" awarded by President Roosevelt will be con- ferred posthumously on Rudolph Forster, the veteran White House chief clerk who died last summer, it was learned today.
 The medal for merit" is decora- tion for civilians authorized by con- gress in 1942, but so far not awarded. Thus Forster, close friend and con- fldante, not only of MT. Roosevelt but seven other president, will be the first person to be honored with 1t.
 Regulations prescribed by execu- tive order specify that the medal be awarded for exceptionally mer- itorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" since the president proclaimed a national emergency on Sept. 8, 1889.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Reluctant German
 Air1nen Forced To Fight U. 5. Raiders
BY PHIL AULT

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, March 23.-(UP) Another great force of ap- proximately 1,500 American warplanes hit Germany for the second straight day to- day, raining precision blows on widely scattered air bases and forcing the reluctant Nazi air force to come up and fight.
 The broadside lombard ment of the Ruhr and Bruns- wick areas by the United States day shift followed by a few hours a 1,000-plane Royal Air Force assault in which a near record 3,36O tons of explosives were crashed on the war produc- tion center of Frankfurt while a light force stoked the big fires set by the Amer jeans in Berlin yesterday. .
 Up to 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U. s. Eighth AIT Force with very strong American fighter escort wheeled over north west Germany and pin-pointed thelr bombs on Keystone bases of the Luftwaffe through holes in the clouds.
 Among the targets were the Brunswick industrial area 120 miles west of Berlin, focal point of the Nad defenses of the skywards to the capital, the Handorf bomber base near Munster, the Achmer aviation station near Osnabruck, and the Werl aircraft park near Hamn.
 It. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, coln- mander of U. s. Strategic Air Forces over Europe, apparently gratified with the results of sustained att tacks on German aircraft factories, now was trying to destroy the Luft- waffe aground.
 An authoritative source said the Eighth Air Force heavy bombers famed out over Germany "like a railway traffic pattern" and picked out specialized targets.
 In contrast with yesterdays at tack on Berlin, when the Germans
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
New R. C. Church
 Tanned For N. Y.

New York, March g. (UP)-The Catholic Archdiocese of New York today planned for post-war con struction of a large chapel in the heart of New York's financial dis trict to provide thousands of of- flee workers with weekday services
 The site for the proposed chapel first major religious structure in the Wal St. area in 8 century, has been bought by the archdiocese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
FOR Assistant Reported Aiding "Oust Farley" "Moue

Early and Paul Porter, Democratic National Committee publicity direc- tor, said they had not heard of any activity by Niles toward Farley's removal. Others. however, pointed out that Thomas J. V. Cullen, who has been proposed as Farleys suc- cessor, is a long time friend of Niles and was associated with him last summer in an effort to break Far ley's grip on the New York State Democratic Convention which, in defiance of MT. Roosevelt, nominat- ed John J. Bennett for governor. Niles was not available today. His office said he was travelling, but did not disclose where or why.
 Niles is one of dozen secretaries,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Dig outof Volcanic Ash
By ELEANOR PACKARD

United Press Staff Correspondent
 On the Slopes of Mount VesuviuS, March g - (U.P) = Weary vil- lagers in the Pompeii-Salerno area today were digging out from a "bliz: zard' of volcanic ash that Swirled from Vesuvius in the last 12 hours.
 Layers of ash three to 18 inches thick blocked highway traftic ana threatened to cave in roofs.
 Eight streams of lava were pour ing down from the volcano. The main stream 1000 feet wide and DO let high, was on the southern slope and appeared headed halfway be- tween the towns of Torre Del Greco and Tore Annunziata. Sluggish during the early days of the erup- ton, the main stream has increased in volume and was expected to reach the sea within three days If 1t maintains its present rate of flow. The town of Boscotrecase was d. rectly in its path.
 The road circling Vesuvius was cut by ash so deep that army jeeps could not get through and had to be hauled out by trucks. Army
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